Every once in a while, I think politics and pop culture just can’t clash in any way, shape, or form and get any stranger than what I have seen in the past decade. However, on occasion, I’m reminded we are in the age of Donald Trump. This makes damn near anything that would seem impossible years ago quite possible today.

Of course, this odd mixture would have to involve Trump-confidante Roger Stone.

Most people that are reading the pages of RedState, I imagine, are at least somewhat familiar with podcaster Joe Rogan whose show is one of the most listened to in the country over on Spotify. Rogan’s popularity, I’m sure, is due to his easygoing interview style and the variety of guests he has on his show. A clear example of this is found in an article my colleague Bonchie wrote about a Rogan interview with Ice Cube the other day: Joe Rogan Roasts Dylan Mulvaney’s Response to the Bud Light Controversy.

This sampling from the above article shows why Rogan is so good at what he does.

“Who controls Bud Light? That’s the question. Why would they make a dumb decision like that. Are they trying to ruin Bud Light? And why would they want to ruin Bud Light? Are they trying to take down some of our most iconic American brands?” rapper O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson asked on The Joe Rogan Experience.

Rogan said that Americans are tired of woke politics taking over their lives.

“People are sick of this s–t. They’re sick of social things like that, that are controversial getting stuffed in your face, where you have to accept. People are like, ‘I don’t want to accept it.’”

“Politics really shouldn’t be in someone’s beer mug,” Ice Cube added.

When you get Ice Cube and other guests to open up and give solid quotes like that, people will listen.

So it was no surprise for me to learn that Donald Trump has wanted to be on the Rogan podcast for a while, but Rogan has so far rebuffed his attempts. When I read this story about Trump wanting to push to get on the show I learned a thing or two…

Joe Rogan has turned down numerous requests from Donald Trump’s camp to interview the former president on his popular Spotify podcast, according to a report.

Rogan has stated he is not a Trump supporter and that he has no desire to give the 45th president a platform — even though a large chunk of the podcaster’s 11 million listeners do support the Republican front-runner.

However, after the two were seen shaking hands during a recent UFC fight in Las Vegas, Trump urged his advisers to explore further avenues for a sit-down, The Daily Beast reported.

Here was the kicker in the story and the cherry on the reality tv show sundae for me…

One of Trump’s informal advisers, Roger Stone, has reportedly offered to engage Rogan in a UFC-style cage match in hopes of forcing the podcaster to interview the former president, according to the news site.

Please do not let this be on Pay-Per-View but on ABC’s Wide World of Sports.

Now, Stone is a Trump guy, but he is 70 years old, and Rogan is a 55-year-old martial art competitor. Unless Roger is keeping some sort of superpower hidden from us, he would be crushed in an instant. The fact, though, that he would even suggest something like this leads me to believe a couple of things.

*Stone is truly insane.

*We are living in a real-life version of “Punked,” and the gag on us is just one continuous stunt.

Now, I understand why Joe Rogan is gun-shy about interviewing Donald Trump.

Since he moved over to Spotify, he’s had a couple of mild stumbles and podcast boycotts that had some steam for a minute but eventually fizzled. Trump, though, is the ultimate lightning rod, and the attention and the scrutiny that Joe’s podcast would come under being one of the most listened to in the world and having the media carnival that follows Trump might be too much of a headache for Rogan to bear.

In my incredibly humble view, Joe Rogan is much more of a libertarian and, at the very least, a political independent, and his statement above of not wanting to give POTUS 45 a platform on his widely listened-to show, while disappointing to me personally, I understand professionally. Sometimes the damn heat in the kitchen is too much to bear, and if it’s 100° like it has been in Austin, you don’t really want to go into the political kitchen if you don’t have to.

So he chooses to just leave it alone.

As you can see in this brief clip on X (Twitter) of a chance meeting between the two earlier this month at a UFC event, Rogan was polite but seemed eager to pull away.

Video of Donald Trump shaking Joe Rogan's hand at UFC Fight goes viral https://t.co/F0vPZc1ihd

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) July 10, 2023

Yet if Roger Stone still wants to do this as one of the greatest political stunts ever, I’m all for it. The fight would be over in less than five minutes, and Trump’s eulogy of him at his funeral would be a barn burner of a speech, thus capping off one of the most reality tv moments ever.

Here’s to hoping it happens.

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