US Joe Rogan Apologizes for ‘Shameful’ Past Use of Racial Slur

His apology came as listeners said that as many as 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast had been quietly taken off Spotify; the company has yet to comment on the reported removals.

As pressure has intensified on Spotify and its star podcaster Joe Rogan, listeners reported that the company had quietly removed dozens of episodes of his show, while Rogan apologized early Saturday for his use of a racial slur in past episodes.

In an Instagram video, Rogan — whose talk show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” is Spotify’s most popular podcast, and has been available there exclusively for more than a year — addressed what he called “the most regretful and shameful thing that I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.” A compilation video showed Rogan using the slur numerous times in past episodes of his show; it had been shared by the singer India.Arie, who has removed her catalog from Spotify in protest of what she called Rogan’s “language around race.”

Rogan said the compilation was drawn from “12 years of conversations” on his show, and that it looked “horrible, even to me.” The clips, he said, had been taken out of context, which he said included discussions about how it had been used by comedians like Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx, who were Black, and Lenny Bruce, who was white.

When posting the clip compilation, Arie said that Rogan “shouldn’t even be uttering the word. Don’t say it, under any context.” In his video, Rogan said that he had come to agree with that view. “It’s not my word to use,” he said. “I’m well aware of that now.” He added that he had not spoken the slur “in years.”

This week, Arie joined a small but influential boycott of Spotify led by the musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, who cited complaints by health professionals that guests on Rogan’s show had spread misinformation about the coronavirus.

In his latest video, Rogan also discussed a clip from another podcast episode, which he said he had deleted, in which he described seeing “Planet of the Apes” at a theater in a Black neighborhood in Philadelphia. “I was trying to make the story entertaining and I said it was like we got out and we were in Africa. It’s like we were in ‘Planet of the Apes,’” he said, adding that it was an “idiotic” thing to say that “looks terrible even in context.”

Listeners noticed that as many as 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” had been quietly removed in recent days by Spotify. Neither Rogan nor Spotify has given an explanation, and representatives of the company did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday. Commenters on Reddit speculated that some of the missing episodes may have contained the slur, although that was unclear.

Rogan, a comedian and sports commentator, began his show in 2009 and built a huge following on YouTube before signing an exclusive licensing deal with Spotify in 2020, for a reported $100 million or more. According to the website JRE Missing, which tracks the show, the latest round of removals means that a total of 113 episodes — out of more than 1,700 since the podcast began — have been deleted from Spotify since Rogan’s show became an exclusive offering there.

Since Young called for his music to be removed from Spotify on Jan. 24, the company has come under growing pressure from musicians and other podcasters over Rogan’s show; the dispute has also resurfaced musicians’ longstanding complaints over low royalty payments.

Spotify responded by publishing its content policies and said that Rogan must abide by them. But Daniel Ek, the company’s chief executive, has resisted calls to drop Rogan, and also pushed back against arguments that Spotify acts as Rogan’s publisher, saying that Spotify is rather a “platform” that lacks any advance editorial control over Rogan’s show.

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From Keith Olbermann who ironically enough also has a thread
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he retweeted incel Fifty shades of whey
edit from probably one of the best journalists of all time
glenn greenwald
i think someone can provide defiantLs a lot of content for people complaining about the gaming word but use it as well
 
Glad I don’t listen to fags like Rogan. Don’t act for a second dude isn’t doing this under pressure. I’m sure he totally cares about using the word soooo much.
Fkn lol
 
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I hope this isn't the point where rogan bends a knee to the establishment and becomes an establishment drone
He sounds like a cuck at this point, its clear the video is being taken out of context and yet he is apologizing.

The weird thing about all of this, those words are publicly used as he was livestreaming his show on Youtube and saved for everyone to listen to on Youtube as well as back then, it was known as Google Music.

Joe Rogan is such a racist that he used that word publicly and got away with it, being the number 1 podcast who has had a shitload of black people on it.

This is like how Pewdiepie was condemned as a Nazi because some Siri Lankan dudes that he paid off, wrote a popular slogan in the Islamic word on a piece of cardboard paper, which he didn't not call for. And also wore a British WW2 officer hat and it was twisted into Pewds wearing a Nazi hat.

I wonder if Pewds has any input on this since number one Youtuber of all time was magically a nazi the whole time and now its the same with Rogan, except Rogan is cucking on this, and he knows way better than anyone else.
 
I assume Rogan is under some of great deal of pressure if he is apologizing to a mob that seeks nothing more then to see him gone altogether. The clips were clearly taken out of context. All I think this apology will really do is drive away some of his audience because he looks "weak" in their eyes now.
 
I assume Rogan is under some of great deal of pressure
Joe is really fucking dumb. I'd PL about how I've known him for decades, but anyone can see it. He cannot physically understand that an event confronting him at the present moment has any larger implications. That's why he always does the same thing.

This is his fourth own-shit-eating apology since he "joined" Spotify, for those keeping count.
 
I assume Rogan is under some of great deal of pressure if he is apologizing to a mob that seeks nothing more then to see him gone altogether. The clips were clearly taken out of context. All I think this apology will really do is drive away some of his audience because he looks "weak" in their eyes now.
I think we should do him a favor and repay those people back aka the people who want to destroy his life I’m just throwing that idea out there in the wild to anyone who cares
 
I think Rogan actually feels bad for Spotify and is doing this to help them. I'm sure he could very easily just ignore all this shit and let them deal with the backlash but he isn't. Spotify should just nut up and cancel their contract with him so they can both go their own way, even though they need him more than he needs them.
 
I think Rogan actually feels bad for Spotify and is doing this to help them. I'm sure he could very easily just ignore all this shit and let them deal with the backlash but he isn't. Spotify should just nut up and cancel their contract with him so they can both go their own way, even though they need him more than he needs them.
Joe could launch his own site and say fuck you to the people who hates him
 
Was this in response to the Obamas pulling their work from Spotify? Seems likely that it was the last straw.

But to be honest, I think my sympathy for Rogan is starting to wane at this point too. He didn't have to do anything while all these unliked has-been artists started dropping Spotify, but instead he decides to fold like a cheap suit instead of raising a stink when 70 of his podcast episodes got nuked for ambiguous reasons. As far as I'm concerned, he's going to lose out on this one and I'm gonna just move on by paying attention to more important matters. Matters like the Canadian Honkening.
 
With how much money he made from Spotify, would it be too detremental for him to try to do a Tom Green style thing?
I have no idea but considering the people behind the attacks on him are just hypocrites,liars, murderers, Far Left Racists, lunatics who believe in pseudo science,and back stabbers that remains to be seen
 
Never apologize to these retarded faggots, you nigger. They never forgive and never relent; you only encourage them to seek more apologies, and when you have nothing left to apologize for, they'll work to end your livelihood and make life so unlivable that you kill yourself.

The only answer that will silence the outrage mob is a bullet.
 
Joe could launch his own site and say fuck you to the people who hates him
Didn't he used to have one? I remember that his .net site had blogs, there were forums with culture too edgy for current climate, and I am pretty sure he had backups of each episode on there too. Eventually he set the site to redirect to the more professional joerogan.com and shut down his forums. From then on he had to rely on third parties like youtube and itunes to host his podcast episodes. Spotify deal shows that Joe is more interested in money than freedom to do what he wants at this point. Even if he is kicked out of Spotify, his contract likely has a clause that forbids him from putting podcasts elsewhere until it expires or for another set period of time.

If you want a taste of the old site and blogs you can check https://joerogan2006.wordpress.com/.
 
Didn't he used to have one? I remember that his .net site had blogs, there were forums with culture too edgy for current climate, and I am pretty sure he had backups of each episode on there too. Eventually he set the site to redirect to the more professional joerogan.com and shut down his forums. From then on he had to rely on third parties like youtube and itunes to host his podcast episodes.

If you want a taste of the old site and blogs you can check https://joerogan2006.wordpress.com/.
neat plus am I right in the joe rogan derangement thread should be made
 
It's sad to see Rogan cuck out, he seemed like one of the good guys and a big platform for breaking through Woke conditioning.

Woke commies really are taking over the world and it's only a matter of time until they have the power to put their political enemies in death camps I guess.

I mean who's left that could be described as a mainstream figure that doesn't cuck out to Woke now?
 
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