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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I don't have a lot of respect for Rogan these days but trawling 1700 podcasts looking for some out of context gotcha moments is hella gay.

Having said that, I don't see them giving up and he will either be fired from Spotify or quit in the next few months. They are relentless and apologizing was the wrong move.
 
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?
It's really a sad, sad reflection of how fucked up things are right now that Joe god damn Rogan, who is basically just an old school 90s/00s style liberal, is now considered "too extreme" for mainstream sensibilities and has to be censored.

Feels like the window of what's considered acceptable opinions to hold in mainstream society is narrowing more and more each year. Is there not going to be any backlash to this sort of thing?
 
Genuinely how big of a check would it take for you to do a fake apology. Rogans been a cuck bitch for a bit so may not be the case but how much would Spotify give to Rogan to force an apology and what would Rogan take. Main factory is how much of a idiot is Rogan to actually do it. Contrary to what some think lying is pretty fucking easy so I wonder.

Also as usual, lmao fuckin imagine being hurt by 2 syllables what a bunch of fucking bitch ass niggas
 
Why doesn't anyone with 100+ million dollars tell these people to fuck off instead of cucking? If I had that kind of money I'd call a press conference, whip my cock out as a power move and tell everyone to eat the shittiest part of my asshole. Then I'd retire to a life of leisure and luxury.
Because Joe Rogan is centre-Left.
That's the most ridiculous part of all of this - he's one of them.
 
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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?
Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson at this point.
 
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?

Well, don't look at Rogan to be anything else besides a Los Angles liberal. Yes, he doesn't sing the progressive gospel, and he doesn't like the takes of the main stream left media, but don't forget he was going to vote Bernie Sanders.

And yes, if put enough pressue, and these internet mobs will, Rogan will cuck out every now and then, besides this vaccine debacle, if you listen to Rogan podcast he is very much a "get along to go along" type of guy, and if the person he is talking is a leftie, he talks left, same with right.

So if you are a right winger, or have the policies and principles of the GOP, I would say to not try so hard to make Rogan one "of our guys", and because the left is trying to bury him now won't mean he will go right wing either.

Like I said, Rogan is a L.A liberal, to the point that he shit talks other L.A liberal, because they all do, but like other L.A Liberal, he would rather apologize for every single "sin" he made before coming out as a right wing guy.
 
They’ll have Joe Rogan apologize for trying to understand why people use the word ‘nigger’ but will never say anything about New Age gangster rap music and hypersexualized gay/female empowerment being mass marketed and blown up towards Spotify’s listeners.
 
He may be a faggot, but he's right. The left always wins.
Yeah they won’t in the long run but considering I got his address and there is a thread in the works about him We got another femcel take from inspeaking134923FA5E-7FF4-4C57-8544-86295EDD70F7.jpeg5BA107E4-4310-489E-89F2-B9F54295FF5F.jpeg
someone should show Kate the tyt clip of saying the n word
here it the tyt clip if anyone cares to send it to her
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