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Colter Wall On Partly The Reason He Turned Down Joe Rogan: “I’m Just Not That Interesting”
Opening up about Joe Rogan.
For a long time, Joe Rogan had raved about the "Cowpoke" singer, Colter Wall.
From talking with Luke Combs and how cool of a guy he is to raving about his talent with Jelly Roll, if there is an opportunity for Joe Rogan to speak about his love for Colter Wall's music, he's going to.
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But since 2020, the longstanding question has been: When is Colter Wall coming on the podcast?
But whenever Rogan reached out to Colter Wall about having him on The Joe Rogan Experience, Colter turned him down. But why? Well, the answer is simple: he's ranching.
Outside of being a creator of honest-to-God country music, Colter Wall walks the walk with the subject matter he sings on. He spends his off time pushing cattle and working the land. Wall often creates his tour schedule around when he can be free of his duties on the ranch, which usually means limited shows and short tour runs. His schedule also means not going out of his way to appear or interview.
The ranch always comes first.
During a recent and rare interview with Dale Brisby for his podcast, Rodeo Time, Colter Wall speaks out for the first time about why he turned down sitting down for the largest podcast in the world.
"In music, the power of 'no' is pretty underrated. Just the power of being able to go, 'No, I'm not going to do that.' And I think, I'll be it, you do have to garner some kind of a following or climb the ladder to get to a certain point where you can say 'no' because you're getting offers for this and that and another. I think it generates some interest in people...
People give me a hard time about Rogan all the time, and it's nothing again. There's no cool story. That's why I was worried about coming on this podcast and partially why I don't do podcasts. You guys have ex-military cool people... What am I going to do? Talk about how I sit in a van for like five hours and then get to the venue."
While I think many people would beg to differ that we could sit and listen to Colter Wall talk all day, he does think the simple life he lives might not be interesting to some. Regardless, he goes on to detail why he has not gone on Rogan after all of these years of him asking.
"But that's partially why I never did try to go do the Rogan thing because it's like, what the hell am I going to say? I'm just not all that interesting. But people give me a hard time about it. 'Why don't you do this? How come you do this?' And my joke I usually tell, usually try to tell, is that I think he'll stop talking about me the second I go on there.
It's free publicity at this point for doing nothing."
Colter Wall then jokes that whenever he sends a link to Rogan talking about him on his show, he thinks that's basically an appearance in himself. The longer he goes without physically being there, the more name-dropping appearances he will make throughout his episodes.
Honestly respect.
Free press is good, and Joe Rogan gives him a lot of good press.
Wall rounds out his thoughts on saying "no" to Joe Rogan is because he likes the fact that his face isn't everywhere and he's not easily accessible. I agree with him wholeheartedly. I think a reason, outside of his music, why fans like him so much is that he is mysterious. He goes on the road in the winter when he does not have yearlings to feed, and the rest of the year, Colter Wall lives an everyday life ranching on his farm.
He confesses that someday he'll probably go on the podcast, and that the hilarious part is that he wasn't even in Canada when Joe asked him... he was actually in Bastrop, Texas, which is less than an hour from Joe's studio in Austin.
Sorry Joe...
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