Joe Rogan Opens Up About Failed Efforts to Get Kamala Harris Interview: ‘They Want to Control a Lot of Things’

Joe Rogan went into detail about why his plan to have Vice President Kamala Harris on his podcast eventually fell through in an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience released on Wednesday.

Last week, Rogan hosted former President Donald Trump at his studio in Texas. The three-hour interview proved to be massively popular, attracting more than 40 million views on YouTube within the first week of its publication.

Days later, Rogan revealed on social media that an interview with the vice president had been in the works. Due to scheduling conflicts — and Rogan’s insistence that the interview be done at his studio  — it never came to fruition. Additionally, Rogan said Harris “only wanted to do an hour” — roughly a third of the length of Trump’s interview.

On Wednesday, the comedian provided more insight into his communication with Harris’s campaign.

“You could look at this and say, ‘Oh, you’re being a diva,'” Rogan said, “but she had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas. I literally gave them an open invitation. I said, ‘Any time.’ I said, ‘If she’s done at 10 o’clock, we’ll come back here at 10 o’clock.’ I go, ‘I’ll do it at nine 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 drink a Red Bull and fucking party on.'”

Rogan then revealed that Harris’s campaign reached out to him shortly after it was announced that Trump would be appearing on the show.

“But it was very difficult to tie it down,” Rogan continued, “and a lot of — they wanted to travel. See, the thing is, you can’t like — if I go somewhere, then there’s gonna be other people in the room. And they want to control a lot of things, I’m sure, according to the Bret Baier interview on Fox. Like, people are waving him off. That’s a distraction. My whole goal with her and with him is just talk. Just have a conversation like a human being. You find out things about people. You get a sense of them, at least. That was it. I don’t give a fuck what we talk about. I really don’t. I just wanna talk to you. Who the fuck are you?”