Pod Save America Hosts Skewer Dems Calling For Their Own Joe Rogan: ‘He WAS Our Joe Rogan and Then Everyone Said, F**k You’
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The hosts of Pod Save America knocked many on the left for completely missing the mark when discussing the influence of podcasters like Joe Rogan.
Jon Favreau, Joe Lovett, and Tommy Vietor — all members of former President Barack Obama’s administration — released an episode of their Pod Save America podcast on Friday in which the took questions from their audience, most of which were tied to the presidential election results.
One question related to finding independent voices on the left that could be as influential as Rogan and other podcasters. Rogan has been the center of a lot of election talk as he tried getting both President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on his Joe Rogan Experience podcast before the election. He only managed to get Trump on, and he would go on to endorse the Republican after their three hour conversation.
Harris’s team has explained they could not manage to schedule the Rogan podcast while reports suggest there was also backlash from some younger staffers. Rogan said he agreed to a list of demands at one point, including no marijuana talk.
Favreau dismissed Democrats calling for their “our Joe Rogan,” arguing Rogan was plenty open to people on the left in the past, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
The left rejected Rogan, according to Favreau.
“You have to be open to them — when I say you, the left — has to be open to them not agreeing with us on everything, having some heterodox views on politics, making some jokes that we don’t like or even find offensive. I mean, everyone’s like, ‘Where’s our Joe Rogan?'” he said. “It’s like, well, we had Joe Rogan. He was our Joe Rogan and then everyone said, ‘Fuck you, no’ when they made a big fuss out of Bernie Sanders going on his show.”
Sanders appeared on Rogan’s podcast in 2019.
Lovett added that discussion about Democrats doing a better job reaching “men” is also getting lost in the fog of arguments for replicating Rogan.
“There’s something about Democrats being like, ‘How do we appeal to men? How do we reach the men?’ And none of the people that do ever ask that question — you’re not going to artificially create a bunch of apolitical, gigantic hits that are then receptive to having Democratic candidates on, you have to build a political movement and a culture on the left where you’re welcome in those spaces,” he said.
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