Podcaster Joe Rogan declares the vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris offered to sit down with him for an hour-long interview, but he declined to come to her house and wanted the conversation to take place in his Texas-based studio for the usual three hours.

While almost any other interviewer on the planet would have jumped at the chance to sit down with Harris for a full hour, the world’s most famous podcaster decided he wouldn’t compromise.

“They offered a meeting for Tuesday, but I would have had to go to her house and they only wanted to go an hour,” Rogan complained in a tweet Monday evening. “I’m convinced the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin. My sincere wish is just to have a nice conversation and get to know her as a human being.

With only a week before the elections, he does not rule out a new compromise that would suit both camps: “I really hope we can achieve it. »

Rogan, who election season has transformed into a sort of latter-day David Frost, interviewed Harris Republican rival, former president Donald TrumpFriday. Their three-hour one-on-one was released the following day and has since racked up over 37 million views on YouTube alone.

Among other things, Trump’s “weaving” — as the former president likes to describe his often incoherent ramblings — during the interview included a suspicious boast that while he admittedly ate fast food trucks, he had amazed doctors at Walter Reed Military Hospital with his alleged ability to run endlessly on a treadmill.

Episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience usually last several hours, which would explain Rogan’s problem with being offered a one-hour session.

The show also relies on the intimate setting, where the host sits opposite his guest and invites them to participate in a free conversation.

On the other hand, a busy campaign schedule just days before the election means it’s not unreasonable that Harris can’t offer a giant block of time to a podcaster without disrupting existing plans.

Trump, for example, left a Michigan crowd waiting for three hours in the cold, and according to attendees, up to half of those who showed up left, due to the length of his interview with Rogan.

Host of the world’s most-listened to podcast, Rogan has a massive audience that is overwhelmingly male and skewed young, a demographic the Trump campaign has worked to solidify amid the former’s history of sexist outbursts. president and the Republican Party’s position on abortion foundered. their perspectives among female voters.

The Harris campaign, meanwhile, has made a concerted effort in recent weeks to tap into Trump’s reservoir of support among men with an advertising blitz at sporting events and strategic media appearances, such as a meeting with Former NFL star Shannon Sharpe on her popular Shay Shay Club podcast.

Harris is scheduled to appear Tuesday on the popular morning radio show The Breakfast Club, co-hosted by Charlamagne tha God, DJ Envy and Loren LoRosa.

Trump tried to poke fun at the idea that Harris might make an appearance on Rogan’s show when he sat down for an interview with the host. “It would be a disaster,” Trump said. “She would be on the ground. Comatose.”

Rogan hit back and defended Harris: “I think we’d have a good conversation. I would just try to have a conversation with her and hopefully get to know her as a human being.