At least 70 episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast disappear from Spotify
- The missing episodes include interviews with Amy Schumer, Marc Maron, Bill Burr, Andy Dick and Iliza Shlesinger, according to Rolling Stone magazine
- Popular podcaster Rogan has pushed back against allegations that he was intentionally spreading mis- and disinformation about Covid-19
Spotify has ignored calls to kick Joe Rogan off its platform, but dozens of the controversial podcaster’s episodes have vanished from the platform.
At least 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience have been pulled from Spotify over the weekend, including interviews with Amy Schumer, Marc Maron, Bill Burr, Andy Dick, Tool frontman Maynard J Keenan and Iliza Shlesinger, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
No explanation was given for the removal of the episodes, and a spokesperson for Spotify did not immediately return a request for comment from the New York Daily News.
The move comes amid yet another apology from Rogan, this time for his repeated use of the N-word after singer India Arie published a highlight reel with more than two dozen uses of the racial slur by the podcaster.
“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,” Rogan said in a video on Saturday. “I haven’t said it in years. Instead of saying ‘the N-word,’ I would just say the word. I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing.”
But the clips were “out of context,” Rogan said, and merely “snippets” of conversations.
“It’s a very unusual word, but it’s not my word to use,” he 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’ve f****d up, and I clearly have f****d up.”
He also said he used it only when talking about other people who used it, such as comedian Redd Foxx in the 1970s and the title of Richard Pryor’s 1982 album.