#pod-save-america

#pod-save-america

According to Cutter: There's a lot of intrigue around this, a lot of theories, it's pretty simple. We wanted to do it. I hate to repeat this over and over, but it was a very short race with a limited number of days and for a candidate to leave the battleground to go to Houston, which is a day off the playing field in the battleground, getting that timing right is really important. So we had discussions with Joe Rogan's team, they were great, they wanted us to come on, we wanted to come on, we tried to get a date to make it work and ultimately we just weren't able to find a date.

Jon Lovett's discomfort with birthday attention contrasts with his public persona as a host. He enjoys gathering friends but feels uneasy under scrutiny.