“Jamie, pull that up”

– The magic phrase of the Joe Rogan Experience.

Long before deep neural networks; better than Elon Musk’s AI; more powerful than Siri: Young Jamie is the brains of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Going by his real name, Jamie Vernon, he has been part of team Joe Rogan since 2013. Being the tech wiz of the show, Jamie remains largely in the background. For that reason, many JRE fans keep wondering about who Young Jamie really is.



Read on to find out about the contentious circumstances under which Jamie started his work; how he massively boosted the podcast’s popularity; how much Jamie talks per episode; and more…

Who is Young Jamie?

Long before Young Jamie was Young Jamie, well… he was an even younger Jamie, I suppose.

Born and raised in Ohio, he develops an interest in music early on. In high school his two big hobbies are basketball and bass guitar in a heavy metal band. As the band starts to become known locally, Jamie and his band got to play their biggest gig, opening for the progressive hard rock band Mudvayne. It was at this point that Jamie and his band had to decide whether they want to fully pursue their dream of becoming pros, or leave it be. Being asked in an interview if they were good enough, Jamie snickers: ‘I did think…now I laugh’.

Despite gaining local fame, Jamie decides to leave the band and get into audio recording as a way of staying closing to the band and to music. He goes on to do a 1 year audio engineering course at Ohio State, thinking he would later work for a big recording studio.

As we all know, it didn’t quite work out like that…

The origin story of Young Jamie on the JRE

When exactly Jamie started working on the show isn’t entirely clear. It all began during the early years of the Joe Rogan Experience. The podcast was starting to take off and had just won “Best Comedy Podcast of 2012” by iTunes. But below the surface things weren’t as happy as you might think…

Producer (and pretty much co-founder) of the JRE, Brian Redban, was bickering more and more with Joe Rogan on the podcast. What started as a comedic element of the show, started to visibly upset both comedians. Adding to the problems were Brian’s lack of technical know-how and the increasing workload imposed by Joe.

Possibly the first time Jamie is mentioned on the

podcast, making a mistake “like Brian”.

If Brian was fired by Joe is unknown. All we know is that around episode #400 Brian was less and less listed as a producer, but started appearing as a guest. Around the same time, Joe mentioned working with two producers – Brian and Jamie. Over the following weeks and months, Brian lost more of his standing, while Jamie took over most of the producing. The circumstances under which Brian left the JRE remain heavily debated by fans.

Conspiracy theories, rumoured to be started by none other than Alex Jones, allege that Young Jamie actually is a clone of Brian Redban, who got injected with AlphaBrain while still in his Petri dish.

Young Jamie on the Joe Rogan Experience

Jamie is the absolute tech-wiz on the show. Be it audio, video or photography – he’s got you covered.

Although Jamie is mostly busy with getting the perfect audio and video, he sometimes joins the discussion, engages with guests while Joe is peeing, or makes snide remarks. Considering what happened to chatty Brian, Jamie is probably best-advised to keep a low profile. If you needed more evidence for this, have a look at Joe’s stare of death directed at Jamie.

You goofed up, Jamie…

As part of our analysis of ‘Who talks more? Joe or his guests’, not only did we find out that he listens most to scientists (and the least to Brian Redban); we also found out that Jamie talks on average 2% of an episode, which equals 3 minutes.

To the fans of the Joe Rogan Experience, Jamie remains the hypebeast/google god that can pull up anything from the deep webs His biggest achievement to this day still is keeping up with Alex Jones on JRE #1234 Alex Jones Returns!

At this point Jamie has absolutely embraced the meme of himself as the quickest googler in the West.

No Title “Oh, you think Google is your ally. But you merely adopted Google; I was born in it, moulded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a “Young” man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING! The search results betray you, because they belong to me!”

How much does Joe pay Young Jamie?

It’s impossible to say how much Young Jamie is being paid for a gig many JRE fans would do for free. Considering that Senior Audio Engineers at companies like Apple or Amazon make up to $80K/year (according to glassdoor.com), it’s fair to assume that Jamie will be paid between $100K-$150K/year when factoring in the unique position he has. Surely, as the podcast continues to grow and Jamie continues to establish his own brand, his salary will be adjusted.

On top of his base salary, not many people know that Young Jamie sells merch in the form of apparel and photography. His ‘deaf Jack Russel’ was inspired by the hilarious Theo Von talking about conspiracy aficionado Eddie Bravo, who of course is a believer in the flat earth conspiracy.

Jamie’s access to a wide range of concerts and comedy shows produced some truly stunning photos. In an interview from a while back, he did however mention his concerns of profiting from these celebrity photos. As of now, the rights to these pictures can’t be bought.

Overall, Jamie genuinely seems like the nicest guy, who found that great job we’re all looking for. Although some listeners still miss Brian Redban’s humour, literally everybody is a Jamie fan.