Joe Rogan issued a uncommon assertion in regards to the behind-the-scenes negotiations for a podcast visitor, posting a remark about why vice chairman Kamala Harris hasn’t appeared on his present.
Rogan says Harris’ staff needed Rogan to fly out to New York to interview the presidential candidate and that their interview could be restricted to 1 hour.
“For the document, the Harris marketing campaign has not handed on doing the podcast,” Rogan stated in a touch upon X. “They supplied a date for Tuesday, however I’d have needed to journey to her and so they solely needed to do an hour. I strongly really feel the easiest way to do it’s within the studio in Austin. My honest want is to simply have a pleasant dialog and get to know her as a human being. I actually hope we are able to make it occur.”
The replace comes per week earlier than the overall election amid polls exhibiting an especially shut race between Harris and Donald Trump, who appeared on The Joe Rogan Expertise final week. Harris has been lagging within the polls amongst younger males, a demo that makes up the most important bulk of Rogan’s viewers.
On Friday, Trump went to Rogan’s studio in Austin for an interview and sat for almost three hours. The episode has racked up an unbelievable 37 million views on YouTube, which doesn’t embody individuals who listened the episode through its residence on Spotify or on different platforms.
The episode at present ranks as Rogan’s third hottest on YouTube behind an episode interviewing UFO researchers Bob Lazar and Jeremy Corbell (61 million) and one other with surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden (38 million).
In the course of the present, Trump derided the concept of Harris showing on the podcasted and predicted she could be “laying on the ground” and it might “be a multitude.”
Rogan pushed again and stated, “I might think about her doing this present. She was imagined to do it and he or she may nonetheless do it … I’d attempt to have a dialog together with her … I wouldn’t attempt to interview her. I’d simply attempt to have a dialog together with her and hopefully get to know her as a human being.”