“For the record, the Harris campaign has not stopped doing the podcast. They offered me a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel there and they only wanted to do it for one hour. I firmly believe the best way to do this is in the Austin studio,” Rogan wrote, adding that his “sincere desire is to have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being. “I really hope we can make it.”

With only a week left until Election Day and a schedule packed with rallies, interviews and campaign events, it appears Harris has no Rogan’s audience of young people, mostly Republicans and independents. But this tepid defense from Rogan makes it clear that he wants to put all the blame on Harris, when in reality it is also the fault of his stubbornness.

Perhaps Donald Trump set an impossible standard with his interview for He Joe Rogan Experience, as a republican candidate stepped back of several previously scheduled events to travel to the Austin podcast studio. During his three-hour interview with Trump, Rogan allowed the former president to lie to his millions of viewers about immigration, the economy and the 2020 election, with Trump stating, “I won that second election very easily.”