Joe Rogan is a podcast icon with 14.5 million Spotify followers and 17.5 million YouTube subscribers. He might spend three hours with a guest, or he might cut it down to two hours, but I don’t think I have ever seen a Rogan episode that was under the two-hour mark. My son’s appearance on Rogan’s show clocked in at a little under three hours.
(Yes, that’s a shameless pitch for my kid)
Rogan agreeing to a one-hour interview with Kamala Harris was a massive concession. The excuse from the Harris handlers was that she didn’t have three hours to devote to Rogan’s program. Well, Trump did, and he’s headed to the White House. Rogan was open to most of Harris’ demands.
“I just wanted to talk. I feel like you give someone a couple of hours and you start talking about anything, I’m going to see the pattern of the way you think, I’m going to see the way you process ideas, I’m going to see whether or not you’re calculated or whether you’re just free,” Rogan said.
Did Harris have other demands? Why yes. Rogan was pitched on not asking specific questions. Like don’t ask questions about Harris tossing people into a cell for smoking dope.
“There were a few restrictions of things they didn’t want to talk about, but I said, ‘I don’t give a f—, get her in here.’ Like, whatever you want to talk about,” Rogan said on a Friday episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
The comments come after Rogan made waves by endorsing President-elect Donald Trump the day before the election, a rare nod to a political candidate by a podcast host who has earned a legion of loyal followers.
Harris would not take the time to travel to Rogan; instead, she was perfectly obliged to throw money at celebrities and sit with them and seal-clap while celebrities put their hands out and Harris stuffed them with millions, but going on the Rogan Experience was anathema.
Harris was, by far, the worst candidate in modern history. She easily topped George McGovern and Walter Mondale. Those men were experienced in campaigning, just bad at being “people” and not blocks of wood.
“I bet there’s a person in there. I bet I can get to that person,” Rogan said. “I would love to talk to her about all kinds of s—.”
Yeah, I’m sure even Rogan could dig that deep.
Harris rose to her level of incompetency primarily because of her gender and ethnicity. She ran on several confusing, often in-conflict themes, but one that seemed laughable was her claim that she was representing a “new generation.” Yet she wouldn’t take the time to sit with the “new generation” podcaster with millions of viewers.
Even with questions taken off the table and with a limit of one hour, Harris would have run into the same problem she has always has. A lack of mental acuity. She is principally and fundamentally not bright. Once her mental cue cards were exhausted, she would have looked the fool. One demand Rogan would not bend to was traveling to her. He was insistent that she come to his studio because that’s where he does every interview.
Trump on the other hand often went into the lion’s den and sat for hostile interviews. He traveled to Rogan. He sat with Rogan – and nothing was off the table.
He won. She lost – bigly.
America, you dodged a bullet.
