Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is about to do the one of the biggest interviews of his presidential campaign - with America’s no. 1 podcaster, Joe Rogan. With 14.
5 million Spotify followers and 17.5 million YouTube subscribers, The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE for short) has built a massive, mostly male, audience since it first launched 15 years ago. Confirming media reports of the upcoming interview, set to be taped on Friday, Trump described his counterpart as "a nice guy" with whom he expected a "very interesting" conversation.
"I do a lot of shows,” he told Fox News Radio on Wednesday. “Good, bad or indifferent. I do a lot of shows and they come out good.
" That response makes light of Trump’s calculated media strategy, which has focused on podcasts popular with younger men over traditional media outlets like 60 Minutes. And it underplays just how big a deal this could be for the former president, long-time listeners say. "Rogan is about to have the most listened-to podcast in human history," says Matthew Foldi, a conservative journalist and self-styled JRE expert who has spent thousands of hours listening to the entire catalogue - in chronological order and at 3.
5x speed - since 2020. A New Jersey native, Rogan began his career as a stand-up comedian in the Boston area before relocating to California in the 1990s. He featured in two sitcoms - Hardball and NewsRadio - and gained national exposure as host of the US edition of the Fear Factor game show.
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