While the counsel of her inner circle wanted to do interviews with either Bill Simmons or Paul Finebaum, another sports media giant has entered the fray to land a prized interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
First, it was Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s All The Smoke; now, it’s Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay.
According to CBS News political reporter Aaron Navarro, the Harris campaign has announced that she plans to tape an interview with Sharpe. Not only is this a massive score for Sharpe, who has taken his Club Shay Shay podcast to the moon, but it also represents one of Harris’s bigger interviews in recent days, especially with just under two weeks to go until the 2024 Presidential Election.
Per the campaign: VP Harris is taping an interview with Shannon Sharpe, three time Superbowl champion, for his podcast “Club Shay Shay.”
Interview airs on Monday.
— aaron navarro (@aaronlarnavarro) October 24, 2024
The interview will air Monday, Oct. 28, just eight days before Election Day.
There are perhaps few more prominent platforms in the current landscape than Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay. In less than 18 months since leaving FS1, Sharpe hosted the interview of the year with Katt Williams and has turned his Shay Shay Media into a cultural phenomenon and media empire.
Because of the podcast’s popularity—and the Williams episode—Sharpe has had to repeatedly emphasize to critics and detractors online that he is not a journalist.
“I’m an entertainer,” Sharpe said of the interview, which he would later claim made him more than $6 million. “If you want hard-hitting questions, 60 Minutes is the platform for you … go to somebody who does that.”
Harris has interviewed with 60 Minutes, and now she’ll reportedly tape one with Sharpe.
Her decision to go on Club Shay Shay is a significant moment in Sharpe’s transformation from sports media personality to cultural figurehead.
Since leaving FS1’s Undisputed, he’s turned Club Shay Shay into a destination not just for athletes but also for entertainers, comedians, rappers, and now political figures like Harris. Sharpe’s upcoming interview with the sitting Vice President could represent one of his biggest yet, further cementing his Club Shay Shay as a platform capable of shaping conversations far beyond sports.
It’s a testament to how quickly Sharpe’s Shay Shay Media empire has grown, with Club Shay Shay now a go-to space for guests seeking cultural relevance and massive exposure.
About Sam Neumann
Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. He also has a love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and Jets.