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Months after random, woke, and easily replaceable Spotify employees threatened to strike until Joe Rogan is censored, the podcast service quietly removed 42 — 42! — “controversial” episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience.
According to Digital Music News, which first noticed the removals, Spotify took down a recent episode with Dave Asprey, the founder of Bulletproof Coffee, who claims he will live to 180. I’m not sure if Asprey will make it to 180, but fans of JRE won’t get to hear his case anymore.
Other recently canceled episodes include interviews with Brian Redban, seven episodes with David Seaman, four episodes with comedian Chris D’Elia, Gavin McInnes, Milo Yiannopoulous, and Eddie Bravo.
Rogan seems okay with a “few” episodes losing distribution, recently saying “There were a few episodes [Spotify] didn’t want on their platform, and I was like, ‘Okay, I don’t care.'” It’s unclear, however, if Rogan knew that a “few” meant 42 and counting.
Rogan’s fan base, as expected, is furious. This is exactly what JRE listeners feared would happen after Rogan signed a $100 million agreement with Spotify last summer. Before moving his content exclusively to Spotify, Rogan was one of just a few media personalities who listened to no one, who had the freedom to dive into topics that no one else in media would touch.
What’s baffling is that Spotify knew what it was getting with Joe Rogan’s podcast, with both its library and future episodes. Spotify invested nine figures into the brand Rogan built, which in large part grew because he had conversations with personalities whom competing hosts wouldn’t dare talk to.
Did Spotify foolishly think it’d get a toned-down version of Joe Rogan?
Spotify has not addressed why certain episodes were removed or whether more will join the naughty list. At least as of this publication, Rogan’s top-downloaded episodes with Alex Jones are still available.
$100 million is great. This partnership? Not so much.
It’s his mess to clean-up.
I laughed when his defenders said he wouldn’t put up with censorship. He’s another left wing hack(yes he is before you even try and say he’s not he admits to social liberalism). He took the money and ran and has espoused his liberal views on air multiple times. I could never get behind him because while he may have given an Alex Jones air time, his views were far too left and he brought those pushing them as well on far too much. I happily cancelled Spotify not long after they brought him on.
Glad I didn’t give them a dime. They thought I’d be a sucker b/c they have Joe Rogan. Well nope. They can go fuck themselves.
Sell out.
Censorship of any kind is not good news. Big Tech is outta control and it’s only going to get worse because they – so far – got away with stealing the 2020 election.
Very curious to see what will be Rogans response…
Smoke a doobie and carry on as normal. He doesn’t care. He’s rich now, fam.
Yup, he got paid, he doesn’t care
Yep its all about the money Joe is just like all the rest just keep the cheddar coming and kick me in the nuts all you want smh
He leans left b/c it’s the best way to hide your guilt when you make too much on money
Crap, now I gotta find something else for music. So annoying.
Joe is actually a lefty. The left eats its own. wish they would go after howard stern.
Yep, me too. Stern turned out to be a sellout. His blue collar audience made him what he is and now he’d rather suck off liberal celebrities. Big Bird looking POS.
These responses are solid gold.
Soon they will have a pansexual tranz non binary POC w/ green hair determining what is and isn’t controversial.
Joe will have his $100M bag but it will be over for him and fun shows
It would be nice to see a few platforms that were just for Conservative minded people and would ban and delete any contradicting views! LOL….I say that tongue-in-cheek, but I can’t lie, it pleases me to no end to see and hear uneducated, uninformed, indoctrinated, judgemental, hypocritical, ignorant, victim/race card playing sheeple whine and cry about anything and everything. Their misery is my happy place
This doesn’t surprise me, he doesn’t have control of the show anymore. I haven’t listened/watched since the move.
Rogan is falling in line with the rest of the sheeple based on the whims of his corporate overlords.
Hoping Crowder and Matt Walsh never sell out. Those guys are hilarious.
After I cancelled Amazon music my free trial with Spotify ends on the 12th I cancelled. Told them I hope they go bankrupt. I’ll try Amazon music. I know all these companies suck but I’m going to try to support as few of them as I can personally. I’m planning to cancel Amazon Prime when it comes up this fall.
I mean try apply music.