I hope that everyone is doing well.
I’d like to thank you all, again, for supporting this petition. It’s amazing to see how well-received it has been since its creation, earlier this year. Your comments and signatures have proven that there is a strong desire to see an intellectual defense of Christianity on The Joe Rogan Experience, however, there remains one challenge: How do we bring this to Joe’s attention?
In my initial write-up, I mentioned that he doesn’t read tweets, or other messages, sent to his social media accounts, due to the sheer volume that he receives, every day, thus, trying to persuade him to invite Dr. Craig onto his podcast by this means is not likely to be effective. Throughout the months, I’ve been trying to figure out the best strategy to achieve our goal.
I also previously mentioned that Joe’s website used to contain a contact form, whereby one could make guest requests, however, that feature was removed sometime within the last year or so. During the time that this method was available, one would send their recommendations to employee, Matt Staggs, but he doesn’t seem to be affiliated with the podcast any longer.
It eventually dawned on me that the best person to contact is the producer of The Joe Rogan Experience: Jamie Vernon (aka Young Jamie). If anyone has the ability to bring this endeavour before Joe for his consideration, I believe it is him. With that said, I would encourage you all to share the petition by contacting Jamie through his X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram accounts, which I have included in the links below. If you decide to include a personal message, please be respectful.
Jamie's personal email: jamievernon @ gmail dot com (remove the spaces and use a . in place of the word 'dot')
https://www.instagram.com/jamievernon
https://twitter.com/JamieVernon?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Jamie can also be contacted via his photography website: https://jamie-vernon-fn1e.squarespace.com/booking-1
One can also try to send private messages to Jamie and Joe through the following links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-vernon-215a5754/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/joe-rogan-experience/
Assistant to Jamie: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriots-fan-097993187/
In addition, it might be helpful to recommend Dr. Craig as a guest in the comments of Joe’s YouTube videos, but I would prioritize directly contacting Jamie through his socials.
https://www.youtube.com/@joerogan/videos
Merry Christmas and God bless.
Steven Bodrug
P.S. Some people have suggested contacting Bryan Callen and Stephen Meyer, both of whom I have already reached out to, but others might want to do the same. As many of you are aware, Bryan and Joe are really close friends, and Dr. Meyer appeared on Joe's podcast, a few months ago, thus, both men have a foot in the door, so to speak ― especially Bryan ― with regard to getting in touch with Joe and his personnel.
I have been periodically corresponding with Bryan through email, ever since Dr. Craig first appeared on his podcast, earlier this year. Through our exchanges, I have shared various Christian apologetics and theological resources with him, but I digress. A friend and I encouraged Bryan to share the petition with Joe. We also tried to coax him to use his relationship with Joe as leverage to try to persuade him (via a phone call, text, etc.) to invite Dr. Craig onto his podcast, to which Bryan vaguely responded. "I'm on it." Whether he actually did so, I am not entirely sure.
I also contacted Stephen Meyer through his social media accounts, as well as through The Discovery Institute, which he co-founded. I did not hear back from him, or any of his staff, however. Nevertheless, others might wish to contact Bryan and Stephen, as there is strength in numbers. Lastly, if anyone is aware of other people who are closely associated with Joe, with the ability to speak with him personally, consider sharing the petition with them, and a brief message of encouragement. Feel free to suggest some names in the comments.