Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz Commiserate on Hosting Trump on Their Podcasts

There’s no way I can, in good faith, recommend to you the sprawling three-and-a-half-hour long conversation between Andrew Schulz and Joe Rogan. It was by and large, not very enlightening, as most conversations that run that long tend to be. But at nearly the three-hour mark, the duo finally get to talking about something significant: their decision to both interview Donald Trump during the 2024 presidential election. Both seem to be unhappy with the critical lens that’s come with such a monumental decision. 

“I do think in general like us just having politicians on and like even going to the rally when it’s like I think what’s happened is that we’ve politicized ourselves and like we’ve brought ourselves into the game of politics, which is the ugliest game,” Schulz told Rogan. 

“Like it is the ugliest game because it’s that zero-sum shit we were saying earlier,” Schulz continued. “It’s just like this, people really believe it’s life or death.”

And well, I don’t know how to explain this more simply: but who you endorse for president, as a person with a massive, massive audience of millions and millions of people, is life or death. The president’s whole job is life and death — and endorsing someone who has been signing executive orders on some of the most detrimental policies in U.S. history is pretty significant. 

But Rogan and Schulz are peeved that the general public might not take kindly to their sphere of influence. “Dude, I was pushing my daughter in a stroller, right? And a lady goes, ‘Hey, didn’t you have Trump on your podcast?’ And I was like, ‘I already know what's going on.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, yeah, he was. Yeah, he was on the podcast.’ And she’s like, ‘Well, I hope your daughter has a good life,’” Schulz recalled. “I’m like, ‘Bitch, you live in Tribeca.’ You know what I mean? Like, what do you think is happening over here?”

Schulz said he was genuinely shocked by the encounter, and that people would be so angry with his decision to interview Trump that they’d confront him in person about it. Both Rogan and Schulz don’t use this story to do any true introspective work, though. They aren’t capable of it. Instead, they categorize this angry response as just more internet-addled psychos who don’t have emotional regulation skills. 

“There’s insane people,” Schulz argued.

“Oh yeah,” Rogan responded. “And they’ve always been here.

“They’ve always been rooted in their insanity because it’s rewarded every time they go on their phone,” Schulz continued. 

“They’re dumb so they don’t realize what it’s doing to them. So, they’re on that fucking shit all day long getting aggravated,” Rogan surmised. 

I guess it’s nice to know that when these men are confronted with mirrors, they don’t see themselves.