Joe Rogan says he gave Vice President Kamala Harris an “open opportunity” to sit down down with him anytime in his Texas podcast studio — insisting, “I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up.”
The mega-popular podcaster on Wednesday defended his choice to reject a Harris interview primarily based on the bottom guidelines that the Democratic presidential candidate tried to impose — together with limiting the time and doubtlessly having her handlers within the room.
“She had an opportunity to come,” Rogan mentioned when the saga got here up throughout the newest episode of his “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.
“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.”
“I said anytime. I said if she’s done at 10, we’ll come back here at 10. I go, I’ll do it at 9 in the morning, I’ll do it at 10 p.m. I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up, if she wants to, you know, drink a Red Bull,” he added.
Rogan’s choice to snub Harris’ interview proposal — which included him touring to her and for the chat to final solely an hour — got here after former President Donald Trump’s three-hour look on “The Joe Rogan Experience” exploded on-line final week.
The podcaster additionally subsequently interviewed Trump’s operating mate, JD Vance, in his Austin studio on Wednesday, although it wasn’t instantly clear when that episode would air.
Requested in regards to the saga throughout his Wednesday podcast chat with Konstantin Kisin, Rogan mentioned he’d been negotiating with Harris’ crew after it initially reached out.
“She actually reached out when she found out that [Trump] was coming on. So their camp reached out to me. So I said, ‘Great, I would love to talk to her.’ But it was very difficult to tie it down,” Rogan mentioned.
“They wanted to travel and see the thing is … if I go somewhere, then there’s going to be other people in the room. And they want to control a lot of things, I’m sure,” he continued.
“My whole goal with her and with him is just talk. Just sit and have a conversation like a human being. You find out things about people. You get a sense of them, at least, a real sense. That was it. I don’t give a f–k what we talk about. I really don’t. I just want to talk to you. Who the f–k are you?”
Rogan’s extremely anticipated interview with Trump has racked up nicely over 41 million views on YouTube after it aired final Friday.
Along with going wildly viral, the previous commander-in-chief’s podcast episode made headlines after followers began accusing YouTube of attempting to censor the clip when it failed to come back up utilizing fundamental search phrases.
“For some searches on Monday the original 3-hour interview didn’t appear prominently. Short excerpts uploaded by the Joe Rogan channel appeared, but we know it was frustrating for users looking to find the full video,” YouTube mentioned in an announcement in a submit on X.
“We’ve worked to resolve this and viewers will begin seeing the full podcast in more YouTube search results soon.”
