Joe Rogan has turned down his most requested podcast guest on multiple occasions despite the huge clamour to make it happen.
The 56-year-old’s mega-popular show ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ is one of the biggest podcasts in the world.
It has on average 11 million listens per episode and Rogan signed a lucrative deal with Spotify back in 2020 which is reportedly worth $100 million.
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Over the years, the likes of Francis Ngannou, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Elon Musk and Snoop Dogg have all appeared on the show.
However, there is one particular person that Rogan continues to reject.
It has previously been reported that Donald Trump’s circle have been lobbying for him to appear on The Joe Rogan Experience.
The 45th president is an avid listener of the podcast and wants to sit down with UFC commentator Rogan, with his camp regularly reaching out.
A good portion of his audience are Trump supporters but Rogan has distanced himself, once even calling him a "man-baby" on his podcast and revealing his refusal to talk with him on air.
I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form,” Rogan told Lex Fridman back in 2023.
“I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once. I’ve said no every time. I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”
Rogan and Trump did shake hands at UFC 290 in Las Vegas last year and his team have not given up on the idea of a podcast appearance, which they predict would be "incredible".
“The mere discussion of Donald Trump on a blockbuster podcast like Joe Rogan builds a remarkable audience,” a Trump adviser told The Daily Beast.
“Perhaps the only person bigger in the new media world than Joe Rogan is Donald Trump and the whole idea that the two of them would be together at long last — it would be an incredible audience.”
Incredibly, the report states one of Trump's closest long-time advisers, Roger Stone, wants to face Rogan in a UFC-style cage-match in a bid to make the episode happen.
He's even gone on record to say, "I can definitely take him", revealing he goes on the heavy bag every Saturday for 60 minutes.
Marcus Chan