WASHINGTON (TNND) — Podcast host Joe Rogan on Wednesday said the Harris campaign asked to avoid talk of legalizing marijuana when negotiating a potential appearance on his show.
Rogan claimed last month he was working with Vice President Kamala Harris’s team to organize an appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, which boasts over 14 million listeners. Both President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance appeared on the show before the election.
The Harris campaign, he wrote, had asked to shorten the normally three-hour episode to just one hour. It also allegedly asked for Rogan to travel to Harris to record the episode, instead of doing so at his studio.
Recounting the negotiations Wednesday, Rogan revealed the campaign had also specifically asked to avoid talk of legalizing marijuana.
“I think they had requirements on things that she didn’t want to talk about, she didn’t want to talk about marijuana legalization, which I thought was hilarious,” Rogan said.
He went on to speculate the request may be due to Harris’s past as a California prosecutor, during which she earned convictions for marijuana possession. A representative of the Harris campaign did not respond to an email from The National News Desk asking to confirm Rogan’s claims.
Rogan also described the campaign as “kind of chaotic” and said it often acted indecisive while negotiating the appearance.
“No one could make a decision,” he said. “They had I don’t know how many conversations with my folks, multiple conversations, giving different dates, different times.”
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Tuesday said the decision for neither Harris nor Minnesota Gov. Walz to join the podcast was ultimately a bad one.
“For the record no matter what happens tonight I think the Kamala Harris campaign badly mishandled the Joe Rogan interview by not doing it,” he wrote via X. “Tim Walz would have been good too.”
“To people on the left Joe Rogan reaches millions of low propensity male voters – kind of the exact population you should be trying to get in front of,” Yang continued. “He is not a hostile interviewer – he’s curious and interested in why people believe what they do.”
In October, Harris joined the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast, where she discussed issues such as abortion.
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