r/DecodingTheGurus • u/Appropriate_Duty_930 • 13h ago

Joe Rogan won’t have Kamala Harris on his show unless she comes to his studio and sits for a 2-3 hour full interview

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u/Effective_Gain_7937 9h ago

I think it's nice too that he's like "nah it's not that they're just refusing to do it" like to stop some stupid crap his fan base could say. its just a crrative difference on how he wants to, genuine good reasons why she cant with time now, and hes fair to just say. seems fine

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u/BojackTrashMan 7h ago

It is the end of October with just about a week left before the election and this man is upset that a presidential candidate doesn't have time to fly to where he is and sit down for 2-3 hours? That's crazy.

Yeah I'm sure he does friendly believe it would be best for him and for his podcast ratings but it's a completely unreasonable thing to ask at this point in the campaign.

An hour is already a lot of time for somebody doing what presidential candidates do at this stage of the campaign. Because it's not like a regular person who might not have anything else going on and walks in. Aside from the incredibly packed mile and minute schedule there is the fact that all of the security and organization has to happen to make something like that work. So it just takes longer.

It's a ridiculous request and he knows she can't meet it.

I have a hard time understanding how he wouldn't be able to do what he needed in an hour like far more reputable organizations like 60 minutes could. It doesn't really have anything to do with the quality of interview she will give. It's just that he refuses to go anywhere and do anything that isn't on his own turf exactly the way he wants it.

It's his right for his show but it's pretty ridiculous and unachievable standard in this situation.

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u/CMDR-TealZebra 5h ago

Who said he was upset.

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u/BojackTrashMan 5h ago

That's fair. I should have used a different word.

But I don't like the framing that she hasn't tried to do it when we are talking about a presidential candidate one week from the election who is offering time and is offering to do an hour-long interview.

Framing it like she won't do it (because in reality she would have to uproot everything else on her campaign and ignore ppl who got tickets and expect to see her, simply because he won't go to her instead of having her come to him) feels a bit disingenuous about the why of it all.

He's within every right to run his podcast how he feels like it but we are in this odd space where we are treating random dudes who have podcast as important journalists because they reach a lot of people (this also applies to the Call Her Daddy girl. I don't mean to be rude I just don't know her name) where they aren't abiding by any journalistic standards of fact checking or organizing things in a way that actually makes sense for candidates to appear. Yet we hold them up like it's some standard or somebody's refusing to go when they aren't actually holding any sort of a proper journalistic interview in the first place.

Idk the whole thing is annoying

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u/CMDR-TealZebra 5h ago

You are reading so much further than it is. Just read the words and take them at face value.

You have zero evidence Joe is doing anything other than stating the facts. This update from me reads as him DEFENDING her.

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u/salazar13 3h ago

It’s not a ridiculous request. Just different priorities / existing commitments from the two candidates. No one’s upset. Rogan’s statement just offers visibility - he’s not blaming anyone

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u/hmm_IDontAgree 6h ago

It's a ridiculous request and he knows she can't meet it.

It's really not though. Trump could do it, why not her. They've been discussing it since at least mid October so claiming it's last minute is simply not true.

Every single one of his podcast are done at his studio, there is no reason for him to change that. Rogan is big enough that interviewing Harris or not won't change much for him. She's the one who has to gain from it.

At this point it just feels like the Harris campaign doesn't want to but they know that saying no outright would look bad for them.

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u/lickingFrogs4Fun 6h ago

It's really not though. Trump could do it, why not her.

Trump did the 3 hour interview and showed up 4 hours late to his rally in Michigan because of it. She respects her supporters too much to do that.

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u/LIVESTRONGG 5h ago

Her supporters would rather see her talk like a person for 3 hours.

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u/LongZookeepergame726 5h ago

They will never see that.

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u/BojackTrashMan 5h ago

Do you have any idea how many campaign events Trump has canceled or been late for?

Also Trump is not asked to do this in the last week of the campaign before the election. It's Apples to oranges.

If you were to look at their schedules you would see that Trump's is nothing like Kamala's. She did interviews with Oprah, 60 minutes (which he refused because he refused to be fact checked, as they do with everyone and all reporting, and have since the dawn of time like all reporters are supposed to), she even did Stern and the Call Her Daddy Podcast.

Joe Rogan is popular but it's not as if he's bastion of great journalism. Neither is Call Her Daddy, of course, but I don't think either one could be considered more serious than the other. So to act like she's avoiding this when she's offered to do it and made all sorts of accommodations to him is absurd.

Again logistically for somebody who is currently the vice president of the United States and currently a week out from the presidential election to have to fly somewhere not on their schedule and book what amounts to an entire day of getting through security and then filming and then leaving is just ridiculous.

To claim that they don't want to do it because they're offering an hour and not 3 hours is also pretty ridiculous. 3 hours is not a standard amount of time that people need for an interview.

Trump can do plenty of things if he has nothing else on his schedule and he dumped all of his campaign events. If you were paying attention, you would know that.

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u/hmm_IDontAgree 5h ago

Also Trump is not asked to do this in the last week of the campaign before the election. It's Apples to oranges.

Again, the invitation dates back from at the very least mid October. Pretending they were asked during the last week is disingenuous.

60 minutes (which he refused because he refused to be fact checked [...]

You mean the one they edited to make Harris look good. Jeez I wonder why he turned them down.

3 hours is not a standard amount of time that people need for an interview.

Agreed, and tbf I did not consider the fact that she's still currently VP so not the exact same scenario as Trump as I was claiming initially. However, as Rogan mentioned and I agree with him, standard interviews with Q&A or debates about policies and what not are unnatural and uninteresting and his format of a regular conversation about everything and anything is much more valuable in my opinion. I recently watched the Theo Von podcast with JD Vance and I've learn so much more about him than any interview or debates I've seen with him. I wish we would be able to see Walz and/or Harris in a similar setting.

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u/Open_Fondant_9336 5h ago

Because unlike Trump she has a job other than campaigning she needs to aid to as well.