Podcast guru Joe Rogan on Thursday suspended his popular show Mar-a-Lago after refusing to travel to interview Vice President Kamala Harris during her 2024 campaign. He said he was open to recording the episode.
“Yes, you have to,” comedian Ari Schaffer told Trump's West Florida star during his 13th roundtable with other fan-favorite guests and fellow comics Mark Normand and Shane Gillis. When asked about heading to his Palm Beach mansion, Mr. Logan blurted out:
Shafir first broached the idea of recording another session at the president-elect's resort on Jan. 14 to coincide with the release of his Netflix comedy special “America's Sweetheart.”
“Can we join?” Shafir asked. “Trump is clearly going to stay in office.”
“100%,” Logan agreed. “If you do Mar-a-Lago, he'll keep walking.”
“If you have a camera, bro!” Gillis said hopefully.
When gathered in the studio, Save the Park members Logan, Shafir, Normand, and Gillis always get a bad rap, leaving listeners to speculate what the lifelong T-Totaler and soon-to-be 47th president will do. I will do it. Deal with debauchery.
President Trump's older brother, Fred Trump Jr., died of a heart attack in 1981 due to his descent into alcoholism.
Mr. Rogan, 57, said he had already discussed the possibility with Donald Trump Jr., and the president-elect's eldest son also said “it could happen.”
The “Joe Rogan Experience” podcaster has recorded a wide range of content. Nearly 3 hours interview He met with the 45th president during the final stages of the 2024 election campaign and spoke about President Trump's policies, his views on his first term in the White House, his expectations for his second term, and his personal life.
The podcast has received incredible traffic, with more than 20 million views in the first 20 hours after posting, and while Rogan endorsed Trump on the eve of Election Day, billionaire Elon He praised Musk for buying Twitter, turning it into an X, and supporting the government. Former president too.
“If he wasn't there, we would be in a mess,” Rogan said of Musk. “He makes the most convincing case for Mr. Trump. I agree with him every step of the way.”
“For the record, yes, it's an endorsement of Mr. Trump,” the comedian added.
Mr. Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, traveled to Austin, Texas, to record a podcast with Mr. Rogan in the final round of the 2024 campaign, but Mr. Harris, 60, was also considering appearing on the show. refused to travel due to her wishes. Despite visiting Houston for a rally with pop queen Beyoncé at the end of October, the schedule was tight.
Critics at the time were two-sided, with some praising Rogan for standing his ground and refusing to change the show's format for the vice president; Some criticized Logan for not wanting to travel for interviews.
“She had an opportunity to come,” Rogan said on the podcast at the time. “You could look at this and say, 'Oh, you're a diva,' but she had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas, and I literally gave them an open invitation.”
Others complained that while Harris' show regularly features marathon sessions that exceed four hours, such as Thursday's episode starring Shafir, Normand and Gillis, Harris only wants to do an hour. expressed.
“They set us up for a date on Tuesday, but since I had to go to her place, they only wanted an hour to do it at a studio in Austin. We feel strongly that this is the best way forward,” Logan said in a statement regarding X.
Stephanie Cutter, senior Harris campaign adviser, claimed on a recent episode of the Pod Save America podcast that the vice president wanted to be interviewed in front of Rogan's large audience. .
“That's what we wanted to do. I hate to say it over and over again, but it's a very short race with a limited number of days, and candidates leaving the battlefield and going to Houston are very different from battlefield activities. You’ll be away for a day,” Cutter said. Said.
“So we talked to Joe Rogan's team. They were great. They wanted us to come. We wanted to come. We had a date to make it happen. , but in the end I couldn't find the date,” she added.
But campaign aides balked after “progressive staffers” threw a fit after learning Harris was considering appearing on the rowdy podcast, the Financial Times first reported. Reported.
Logan was suspended in 2022 after critics tried to terminate his contract for hosting far-right voices and platforming so-called “misinformation” about COVID-19 and vaccines. nearly canceled a $200 million contract with Spotify.
