Joe Rogan shared why a podcast interview with Vice President Kamala Harris hasn’t materialized but, mere days after his viral “Joe Rogan Experience” interview with former President Donald Trump.
The Austin, Texas-based podcast host, who instructed Trump throughout Friday’s episode that he sincerely hoped an interview with the Democratic presidential nominee would occur, confirmed Tuesday on X, previously Twitter, that “the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast” but.
“They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour,” he wrote. “I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is to just have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being.”
Earlier this week, Harris’ marketing campaign confirmed that they’d mentioned a potential look with Rogan, but it surely didn’t work out due to her schedule.
Whereas Rogan concluded that he hopes that “we can make it happen” earlier than Election Day, his informal rejection of such a high-profile interview — one he has introduced up on his present earlier than — has left social media customers each baffled and pissed off.
Rogan was criticized for platforming Trump on the podcast Friday, but in addition praised for urgent the previous president about his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
Later in his interview, Rogan stated he might have “a fine conversation” with Harris if she got here on the present.
“I think I’d be able to talk to her,” he instructed Trump throughout their interview. “I wouldn’t try to interview her, I’d just try to have a conversation with her and hopefully get to know her as a human being. That was my goal having her on, to get her to express herself.”
The episode has since amassed greater than 37 million views on YouTube alone.
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Rogan, who rose to fame as a slapstick comedian and the host of NBC’s “Fear Factor,” has unwittingly turn out to be probably the most polarizing media figures of his time — and has had controversial figures like Elon Musk, Mel Gibson and Alex Jones on his present.
The New Jersey-born comic has additionally beforehand interviewed progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Andrew Yang, nonetheless. His present, beneath a reported $250 million Spotify contract, has turn out to be the preferred podcast on the earth since launching in 2010.
Harris lately helmed a media blitz of her personal, nonetheless, with appearances on “Late Night with Stephen Colbert,” “60 Minutes” and “The View” — and delivering a long-form interview on the favored “Call Her Daddy” podcast earlier this month.
