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You heard it here first: Donald Trump is going to wind up on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast before we get too much closer to election day next year.
It has to happen in my mind. Let me explain my reasoning.
Sometimes, pop-culture forces are simply too massive to avoid one another. We've seen it before in history: Floyd Mayweather had to fight Conor McGregor, Tom Brady had to bring Rob Gronkowski with him to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jay Z had to marry Beyonce.
Such will be the case with Joe Rogan—host of the world's most popular podcast—and Donald Trump—the polarizing former president and hopeful once more for the nation's highest office.
In the past, Rogan has claimed that he's had opportunities to interview Donald Trump but has declined them all. Trump would undoubtedly relish the opportunity to boast about himself in front of Rogan's millions of listeners, many of whom support him.
Back in June 2023, when asked about the idea, Rogan said to Lex Fridman:
"I have had the opportunity to have him on my show, more than once, and I have said no every time. I don't want to help him, I'm not interested in helping him."
But then, knowing that it was only Rogan’s side of the equation that was preventing it from making it happen, Valuetainment’s Patrick Bet-David asked him again in August 2023:
"When are you having Trump on?"
This time, Rogan replied:
"I don't know. Maybe. At a certain point in time. Just like, it would be interesting to hear his perspective on a lot of things.”
He continued:
"I would like to know, what is it like when you actually get into office? I would like to know things like, what is it like versus perception? What is it actually like when you get in that building? Like what are you greeted with? When do you know that people are f***ing with you? When do you know that the intelligence agencies are lying to you, like when you decided to fire Comey? What was the thought? How much did you know? Like what's the machine like? What is the deep state really like? Really like?”
"We have all these, you know, smoky room perceptions like from the Bill Hicks joke, where they show you the Kennedy assassination from an angle you've never seen before," he added. "You know, what is the machine that runs his country? Because it's very clear that it's not as simple as elected representatives that are doing the will of the people
This alone represents a notable shift in Rogan’s attitude toward making it happen.
But there are other forces at play: namely, that Rogan, despite his occasional missteps, seems to have...(READ THIS FULL ARTICLE FREE HERE).
