Joe Rogan Experience #1925 - Sonny, from Best Ever Food Review Show

From Illegal Teacher To Global Food Explorer: Sonny’s Wild Journey

1. A.Sonny, host of Best Ever Food Review Show, recounts his trajectory from a poor, directionless kid in Minnesota who failed college three times to building one of the internet’s biggest travel food channels. He describes eight precarious years living in South Korea on tourist visas, teaching English under the table and self‑training as a filmmaker before moving to Vietnam to go all‑in on YouTube.
2. B.The conversation dives into extreme food and culture experiences: underground life in Seoul, eating fermented tofu and bile‑dipped raw liver, sharing monkey with hunter‑gatherers, zebra and buffalo hunts in Africa, and controversial whale and dolphin consumption in the Faroe Islands. Sonny explains how he approaches “bizarre” foods with empathy and curiosity rather than shock value.
3. C.They also explore uncomfortable ethical terrain: trophy hunting as conservation, traditional whaling, eating primates and dogs, and organ‑first meat cultures, constantly interrogating where personal moral lines come from. Sonny details his disastrous shoot in Egypt, where bureaucracy and paranoia led to gear seizures and censorship, and how his critical series helped push legal reform.
4. D.Throughout, Rogan and Sonny reflect on cultural arrogance, lost ancient civilizations, and how travel shows can preserve disappearing traditions, while sharing practical stories about content creation, risk, and building a team in Vietnam to produce TV‑level documentaries entirely for YouTube.