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The Joe Rogan Experience is continually ranked as the most popular podcast in the country. But Rogan thinks others are trying to replicate his success.
Podcasts played a big role in the 2024 election, with Donald Trump being featured on prominent shows, while Kamala Harris also made many appearances. But Harris never reached an agreement with sit down with Joe Rogan, which both Trump and Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance did.
And after the loss by the Democrats, Rogan believes they will have a strong interest in attempting to create their own version of his program.
“I think these Call Her Daddy shows and all these different shows that she went on, I mean, I’m sure they had an impact,” he said on a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with guest Marc Andreessen. “But I think that in the future, I’m sure they’re scrambling to try to create their own version of this show. This is one thing that keeps coming up, like, ‘We need our own Joe Rogan.’ But they had me. I was on their side.”
Rogan had continuously said he had no interest in helping Donald Trump ascend to the presidency, going as far as to signal his support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an independent candidate. He did, however, share several times that he had a strong interest in interviewing Harris, which never came to fruition.
