Those included segments with right-wing figures such as Infowars’ Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes and Milo Yiannopoulos and also episodes with various comedians. 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. Malice directed followers to a website that tracks Spotify’s removals of “Joe Rogan Experience” episodes Variety confirmed the ones listed are no longer available. Spotify’s mass removal of additional “JRE” episodes was spotted Friday by right-wing author and podcaster Michael Malice (real name Michael Krechmer), who noted in a tweet that the streamer had removed two episodes on which he was a guest. 31 statement, Rogan had apologized to Spotify over the COVID misinformation repercussions and said he would “try to balance things out” in future episodes. Rogan requested that the streaming service remove the 70 episodes in conjunction with his apology about using the N-word, a person familiar with the talks told Variety. In recent days, Spotify execs have met with Rogan and his team to discuss Spotify’s concerns about the ongoing backlash against the podcaster. Guests on the 70 episodes Spotify just purged included professor and YouTuber Gad Saad, who wrote on Twitter of the show he appeared on, “I believe that in that particular episode (if memory serves me right), Joe had uttered the n-word (I can’t remember the context but it was not in a racist manner notwithstanding the likely minefield).” “I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast, and I agree with that now,” acknowledging that “it’s not my word to use.” He also said, “I never used it to be racist, because I’m not racist, but whenever you’re in a situation where you have to say ‘I’m not racist,’ you fucked up - and I clearly have fucked up.” “It looks fucking horrible, even to me,” Rogan said about the video-clip montage. He said it was “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about publicly,” although he said he has not used the N-word in years.
Rogan, in an Instagram post early Saturday, responded to the supercut of him saying the N-word on the podcast. It’s unclear whether Spotify removed all 70 of the episodes Friday because of Rogan’s utterance of the racial slur.
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