Joe Rogan responds to racism allegations as Spotify podcast controversy grows YouTube\/PowerfulJREPodcast host and comedian Joe Rogan has released a lengthy statement to explain his actions as controversy surrounding his Spotify podcast \u2013 the Joe Rogan Experience \u2013 continues to grow. The Joe Rogan Experience is one of the most listened to podcasts on the planet, averaging upwards of 10 million listeners per episode. However, since signing an exclusivity deal with Spotify back in May of 2020, the podcast in its entirety has only been available on that particular platform. It has also become embroiled in controversy as some musicians, including Neil Young, asked the platform to remove their music because of what they deemed \u201cpublic misinformation\u201d stemming from Rogan\u2019s podcast. Now, though, Rogan has released a lengthy statement defending himself from allegations of racism after clips from past podcasts emerged. Posted to his Instagram account on February 5, Rogan describes it as the \u201cmost regretful and shameful thing that I\u2019ve ever had to talk about publicly\u201d. He explained that a compilation of him using a historically racist word has been published online, clips that he said have been \u201ctaken out of context\u201d from \u201c12 years of conversations\u201d on the JRE podcast. Rogan said that he has not used the language in years but that, in the past, he believed as long as it was being used \u201cin context, people would understand what I was doing\u201d. After discussing why the word is so contested, he concluded: \u201cIt\u2019s a very unusual word, but it\u2019s not my word to use. I\u2019m well aware of that now, but for years I used it in that manner. I never used it to be racist because I\u2019m not racist.\u201d View this post on Instagram Rogan then moved on to discuss a clip from 11 years ago, when he and some friends went to see a film in Philadelphia and Rogan made comments about the black neighbourhood they were in. \u201cI did not, nor would I ever, say that black people are apes, but it sure f**king sounded like that,\u201d he said. \u201cIt sounded terrible. You can have clunky stories about anything, but not about race\u2026 It was a f**king idiotic thing to say.\u201d He finished the video by expressing his apologies for things he has said: \u201cI do hope this can be a teachable moment for anybody who doesn\u2019t realise how offensive that word can be\u2026 my sincere and humble apologies. I wish there was more that I could say, but all of this is me just talking from the bottom of my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Rogan responds to racism allegations as Spotify podcast controversy grows YouTube\/PowerfulJREPodcast host and comedian Joe Rogan has released a lengthy statement to explain his actions as controversy surrounding his Spotify podcast \u2013 the Joe Rogan Experience \u2013 continues to grow. The Joe Rogan Experience is one of the most listened to podcasts on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}