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 thought Rogan would have enough sense to realize that an apology is pointless. The only reason they dug this up on him is that they hate his guts and want to cancel him. They're not going to let him off the hook for an apology, the only way he'd ever redeem himself in their eyes is going full woke and turning his podcast into a vehicle to discuss the merits of gay communism. He should have just ignored it and let the wokesters burn themselves out trying to drum up some outrage that none of his viewers give a fuck about.
 
I thought Rogan would have enough sense to realize that an apology is pointless. The only reason they dug this up on him is that they hate his guts and want to cancel him. They're not going to let him off the hook for an apology, the only way he'd ever redeem himself in their eyes is going full woke and turning his podcast into a vehicle to discuss the merits of gay communism. He should have just ignored it and let the wokesters burn themselves out trying to drum up some outrage that none of his viewers give a fuck about.
The woke extremists just woke a sleeping giant
 
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I thought Rogan would have enough sense to realize that an apology is pointless. The only reason they dug this up on him is that they hate his guts and want to cancel him. They're not going to let him off the hook for an apology, the only way he'd ever redeem himself in their eyes is going full woke and turning his podcast into a vehicle to discuss the merits of gay communism. He should have just ignored it and let the wokesters burn themselves out trying to drum up some outrage that none of his viewers give a fuck about.
He platformed Berne Sanders of the 2020 woke shit style and Kyle Kulinski from Secular Talk, what more do they need lol.
 
He platformed Berne Sanders of the 2020 woke shit style and Kyle Kulinski from Secular Talk, what more do they need lol.
They are like hitler they can’t be until the monster they created blows up in Their faces or takes a couple cynaide pills or pistol to the head 4C4F9D66-A0A9-473C-A9F0-F0B7CEED88A6.jpeg
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I thought Rogan would have enough sense to realize that an apology is pointless. The only reason they dug this up on him is that they hate his guts and want to cancel him. They're not going to let him off the hook for an apology, the only way he'd ever redeem himself in their eyes is going full woke and turning his podcast into a vehicle to discuss the merits of gay communism. He should have just ignored it and let the wokesters burn themselves out trying to drum up some outrage that none of his viewers give a fuck about.
100% this. I knew while I was watching his apology video that this fight was over because he showed weakness. And all the niggers, troons, feminists, and cucked soyboy faggots took the opportunity to pounce on him like a pack of retarded hyenas.
 
There was a comforting vibe to some of Rogan's pdocasts, bros talking it out and the feeling that maybe, just maybe common sense will win out in the end.

But now with even Rogan falling the situation feels that much more bleak and that much closer to the gulags.

Aaron Rodgers and Gina freaking Carano that's who. Gina Carano has bigger balls than most men in the media. Props to her.
Gina Carano is awesome, but the list gets smaller by the day and Rogan is a big turning point.
 
There was a comforting vibe to some of Rogan's pdocasts, bros talking it out and the feeling that maybe, just maybe common sense will win out in the end.

But now with even Rogan falling the situation feels that much more bleak and that much closer to the gulags.


Gina Carano is awesome, but the list gets smaller by the day and Rogan is a big turning point.
We need to bring rogan back to the light and call out the people who want to destroy him
 
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but the list gets smaller by the day and Rogan is a big turning point.
On the contrary I disagree. I've been noticing that everytime someone cucks out a bigger figure comes out to the field. Joe Rogan seemed to get popular around the time after the fallout from from Tim Pool (someone who was popular with more than just right wing people) for showing how much of an extremely wimpy fence sitter he really was.

The way things are looking I think Elon Musk may most likely be the next big anti cancel culture guy after Rogan.

I wouldn't act like such a doomer about it. The average person is getting more and more fed up. Most normies probably don't even care if he apologizes for something stupid like that. I'm pretty sure most normies are noticing the reaction of leftists still not forgiving him.
 
I hate to be an optics sperg, but I dunno if circling the wagons around Rogan saying nigger a gazillion times, despite how funny and based it is, is gonna be a great look for normie, mainstream rightoid pundits. If your bread and butter is being employed by TPUSA and putting out Prager U videos about how the left are the real racists, this should probably be the jumping off point where you do a 180 and start declaring Rogan a stealth-leftist and posting videos of him chumming it up with Bernie and agreeing with him constantly.

Gotta play smart if you wanna win.
 
I hate to be an optics sperg, but I dunno if circling the wagons around Rogan saying nigger a gazillion times, despite how funny and based it is, is gonna be a great look for normie, mainstream rightoid pundits. If your bread and butter is being employed by TPUSA and putting out Prager U videos about how the left are the real racists, this should probably be the jumping off point where you do a 180 and start declaring Rogan a stealth-leftist and posting videos of him chumming it up with Bernie and agreeing with him constantly.

Gotta play smart if you wanna win.
It's really simple to combat these faggots. No need to wimp out and distance yourself, that's the old cuckservative mentality that has given the left so much power in the first place. It makes everyone look dumb and hypocritical.

The best course of action is to not care and show that your enemy is just as bad if not worse. That's why the left has won many situations. They double down on their crap and go "so what, your side is worse"
 
Joe fucked up by doing this. He didn't have to. Now Twitter knows they own him.
Never given in to digital abusers and terrorists on twatter its made by and use for terrorists like them. Since that is what they are and thats what they be always will be from then on out
 
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On the contrary I disagree. I've been noticing that everytime someone cucks out a bigger figure comes out to the field. Joe Rogan seemed to get popular around the time after the fallout from from Tim Pool (someone who was popular with more than just right wing people) for showing how much of an extremely wimpy fence sitter he really was.

The way things are looking I think Elon Musk may most likely be the next big anti cancel culture guy after Rogan.

I wouldn't act like such a doomer about it. The average person is getting more and more fed up. Most normies probably don't even care if he apologizes for something stupid like that. I'm pretty sure most normies are noticing the reaction of leftists still not forgiving him.
Average people definitely seem like they're getting more and more fed up, like the trucker convoy for example.

But the less people with a major platform speaking out about this stuff, the harder pushing against it will be, not saying all hope is lost yet, just that this is not a good thing.
 
He platformed Berne Sanders of the 2020 woke shit style and Kyle Kulinski from Secular Talk, what more do they need lol.
I would say I am disappointed but Joe's history has shown he is not a right-winger.

Still his cuckpitulation warrants a response.

 
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