Podcast guru Joe Rogan mentioned Thursday he can be open to recording an episode of his wildly widespread present from Mar-a-Lago — after refusing to journey to interview Vice President Kamala Harris whereas she was on the 2024 marketing campaign path.
“Yeah, we have to. We helped Trump get elected,” Rogan blurted out after being requested by comic Ari Shaffir about heading to Trump’s West Palm Seashore, Fla., property throughout a thirteenth sit-down with different fan-favorite visitors and fellow comics Mark Normand and Shane Gillis.
Shaffir first floated the concept of recording one other session on the president-elect’s resort on Jan. 14 to coincide with the discharge of his Netflix comedy particular “America’s Sweetheart.”
“Can we get together?” Shaffir requested. “Trump’s obviously going to walk on.”
“100%,” Rogan agreed. “He’s gonna walk on if we do Mar-a-Lago.”
“If there’s a camera, then bro!” Gillis mentioned expectantly.
After they collect within the studio, the “Protect Our Parks” members — Rogan, Shaffir, Normand and Gillis — all the time get wrecked, leaving listeners to invest how the soon-to-be forty seventh president, who’s a lifelong tee-totaler, would deal with the debauchery.
Trump’s elder brother, Fred Trump Jr., died from a coronary heart assault in 1981 attributable to his descent into alcoholism.
Rogan, 57, mentioned he’d already spoken with Donald Trump Jr. concerning the risk — and the president-elect’s eldest son mentioned he may “make that happen.”
The “Joe Rogan Experience” podcaster recorded a wide-ranging, almost three-hour interview with the forty fifth president within the remaining stretch of the 2024 marketing campaign, during which they talked about Trump’s insurance policies, his views on his first time period within the White Home, expectations for a second time period and his private life.
The podcast had monster site visitors — with greater than 20 million views within the first 20 hours after it was posted — and Rogan endorsed Trump on the eve of Election Day, whereas additionally praising billionaire Elon Musk for getting Twitter, turning it into X and backing the previous president as nicely.
“If it wasn’t for him, we’d be f–ked,” Rogan mentioned about Musk. “He makes what I think is the most compelling case for Trump you’ll hear, and I agree with him every step of the way.”
“For the record, yes, that’s an endorsement of Trump,” the comic added.
Trump and his vice presidential choose JD Vance each traveled to Austin, Texas, to document podcasts with Rogan within the remaining stretch of the 2024 race — however Harris, 60, who was additionally seeking to go on the present, refused to journey attributable to her tight schedule regardless of visiting Houston for a rally with pop queen Beyonce in late October.
Critics took two sides on the time, with some praising Rogan for standing his floor and refusing to vary the format of his present for the vice chairman, whereas others panned him for not being prepared to journey for such an anticipated interview.
“She had an opportunity to come,” Rogan mentioned on his podcast on the time. “You could look at this and you can say, ‘Oh, you’re being a diva,’ but she had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas — and I literally gave them an open invitation.”
He additionally expressed frustration that Harris solely needed to go for an hour, whereas his reveals commonly host marathon classes like Thursday’s episode that includes Shaffir, Normand and Gillis, which stretched previous the four-hour mark.
“They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin,” Rogan had mentioned in an announcement on X.
Stefanie Cutter, a senior Harris marketing campaign adviser, claimed on a latest episode of the “Pod Save America” podcast that the vice chairman needed to be interviewed in entrance of Rogan’s huge viewers.
“We wanted to do it. I hate to repeat this over and over, but it was a very short race with a limited number of days and for a candidate to leave the battleground, to go to Houston, which is a day off the playing field in the battleground,” Cutter mentioned.
“So, we had discussions with Joe Rogan’s team. They were great. They wanted us to come on. We wanted to come on. We tried to get a date to make it work, and ultimately we just weren’t able to find a date,” she added.
Nonetheless, high marketing campaign aides had cowered after “progressive staff” threw a match figuring out Harris was contemplating an look on the raucous podcast, the Monetary Instances beforehand reported.
Rogan almost walked away from a $200 million take care of Spotify in 2022 after critics tried to cancel him for internet hosting far-right voices and platforming so-called “misinformation” about COVID-19 and vaccines.
