Podcaster Joe Rogan weighed in on an insane rant from Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) boss Kim Williams, who claimed Rogan preys on “people’s vulnerabilities.”
“LOL WUT,” the host of “The Joe Rogan Podcast” wrote on Wednesday on X as he reacted to the clip of Williams’ tirade against him and the power he said he has in America following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
In the clip, a reporter asked Williams, “In the wake of the U.S. election, the Democrats have said that one of Kamala Harris’ mistakes was that she didn’t appear on his program. So I was just wondering if you had any observations what’s behind the Joe Rogan effect?”
“I think people like Mr. Rogan prey on people’s vulnerabilities,” Williams told the National Press Club. “They prey on fear. They prey on anxiety. They prey on all of the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society, and they entrepreneur fantasy outcomes and conspiracy outcomes as being a normal part of social narrative.”
“I personally find it deeply repulsive, and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at in disbelief,” he added. “I’m also absolutely in dismay that this can be a source of public entertainment when it’s really treating the public as plunder for purposes that are really quite malevolent.”
Ahead of the election, then-former President Donald Trump sat down with Rogan and had a wide-ranging conversation for three hours in a podcast that has since garnered more than 50 million views.
Rogan made it clear he had offered to sit down with Harris, too, and revealed that he had given her team an “open invitation” to appear on his show.
During “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, the host said that it was Harris’ team who first reached out to him about appearing on his show after her campaign learned that Trump was coming in for an interview.
“She [Harris] had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas and I literally gave them an open invitation,” Rogan said, hitting back at claims he was somehow being a “diva” about their interview.
“I said, ‘anytime, if she’s done at ten o’clock we’ll come back here at ten o’clock,’” he added. “I’ll do it at nine in the morning, I’ll do it at ten p.m. I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up and she wants to drink a Red Bull, f***ing party on.”
“So their camp reached out to me, so I said, ‘great. I would love to talk to her,’” Rogan continued. “But it was very difficult to tie it down. They wanted to travel and see, the thing is, if I go somewhere, then there’s going to 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. That’s a distraction.”
The podcast host said that his goal was to simply sit down across the table from Harris and have a conversation, to get to know the person who wants to become the President of the United States as a human being — as he did with Trump.
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