Spotify Removes 70 Episodes of 'Joe Rogan Experience'; Podcast Host Apologizes for Using N-Word

[ItsjustMe]

https://www.yahoo.com/now/spotify-removes-70-episodes-joe-164944352.html

With its Joe Rogan deal in a white-hot spotlight, Spotify has pulled an additional 70 episodes of the popular podcaster’s show from the platform.

The 70 episodes removed Friday were originally recorded between 2009 and 2018 — before the COVID-19 pandemic. A controversy over coronavirus misinformation on Rogan’s podcast has boiled over in the last two weeks, spurring Neil Young and others to demand that their songs get pulled from Spotify.

But controversy attracted by Rogan has not been limited to COVID. Singer India Arie this week said she was pulling her music and podcasts off Spotify, saying that “I find Joe Rogan problematic for reasons other than COVID interviews… For me it’s also his language around race.” Arie subsequently posted a video clip on Instagram compiling 24 times Rogan used the N-word on his podcast. “He shouldn’t even be uttering the word,” Arie said in the post. “Don’t even say it, under any context. Don’t say it. That’s where I stand. I have always stood there.”

It’s unclear whether Spotify removed all 70 of the episodes Friday because of Rogan’s utterance of the racial slur. Reps for Spotify did not immediately respond to a request for more information.

[Turbineguy]

1. This is terrible!

Where will idiots get medical advice?

[BootinUp]

2. 70? only left the "good" ones I guess, lol. nt

[brush]

3. Spotify should remove Rogan, but that won't happen.

[onetexan]

6. Spotify's management apparently condones what rogan spews

And its ironic that despite the continuing fallout the company still has this ignorant racist on their platform

[BeckyDem]

4. They pulled 70 episodes now because they had NO idea

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before Young's protest. Uh-huh, ok.

They paid Rogan 100 million because he wasn't a huge influencer? lol

[dalton99a]

5. "Oops. Lemme erase all that"

[SeattleVet]

7. Were they removed by Spotify, or the idiot himself?

Need to try to hide the evidence, you know...

[Pinback]

8. Coverage on Ars Technica:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/spotify-removes-70-joe-rogan-episodes-as-he-faces-heat-over-use-of-n-word/

"Previously, Spotify had pruned 43 'JRE' episodes from the catalog after the company added Rogan's show in September 2020 under a $100 million exclusive distribution pact. Those included segments with right-wing figures such as Infowars' Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes and Milo Yiannopoulos and also episodes with comedians," according to Variety.

The episodes removed Friday "featured guests including podcaster, actor and comedian Marc Maron, LGBTQ activist and author Dan Savage, political commentator Kyle Kulinski, and comedians Bill Burr, Tom Segura, Iliza Shlesinger, Theo Von, Brian Redban, Rich Vos, and Pete Holmes," Variety wrote.

We contacted Spotify about the episode removals today and will update this article if we get a response. A website called JRE Missing uses the Spotify API to track which Joe Rogan Experience episodes that have been pulled. It says a total of 113 episodes are gone from Spotify, which would include the 70 pulled Friday and the 43 that were previously taken down.

Nothing to worry about, folks. I'm sure he's learned his lesson!