On the big show this weekend, we'll be discovering some of the ways the media seem to be covering 2020 as a business-as-usual election,

even though we should all know by now that Donald Trump is unique in his approach to both business and usual.

One red flag caught Stephen Colbert's eye this week.

The first presidential debate is just two weeks away. So this year, you won't have to wait

until Thanksgiving to hear two grandpas argue about politics, but there may be a major

format change thanks to podcast host and Kewball being pulled out of a claw machine, Joe Rogan.

On a recent episode, Rogan's guest,

Tim Kennedy, proposed a different kind of debate. Would you do a debate? Would I? Like a Biden-Trump debate with Joe Rogan hosting. Your questions. We should have that. This is 2020. I mean, we have

the ability to have that. We're not talking about 1979. We're talking about 2020. If they wanted to do that, they both wanted to come here in

Austin, sit down and have a debate, I would 100% do it. My God. I would 100% do it.

Trump quickly agreed to Rogan's invitation. The Biden camp has not, at least publicly, as of this recording.

Traditionally, the debate monitor is a journalist, someone with a presumed familiarity with the

political issues at stake, who's also skillful at enforcing the rules when the sparring gets hot.

Rogan has no track record at either of those.

He is, undeniably, a new media star who grabs headlines, mainly for two reasons.

One, for surpassing expectations, is when last year he signed a hundred million dollar contract with Spotify.

And two, for his history of transphobic comments,

like this recent joke about Caitlin Jenner and the Kardashians.

People are saying he was born a woman.

He's always been a woman.

I was like, maybe.

Or maybe if you live with crazy bitches long enough,

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