Joe Rogan Podcast Episode Gets Deleted From Spotify

US podcaster Joe Rogan apologised Saturday for his previous use of racist language together with the “N word” and stated not less than one offensive episode of his present has been deleted from streaming big Spotify.

“My sincere and humble apologies,” Rogan stated in a nearly-six-minute Instagram publish addressing what he referred to as “the most regretful and shameful thing that I’ve ever had to talk about publicly.”

Rogan’s incendiary language is the newest explosive improvement to roil Spotify and its flagship star, who’ve each confronted a well-liked backlash over COVID-19 misinformation on his exhibits.

The 54-year-old acknowledged he had a selected podcast episode eliminated which referred to his seeing a film in a Black neighbourhood the place he stated “it was like we were in Planet of the Apes.”

The New York Times reported Saturday that as many as 70 episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience present had been quietly taken off Spotify. The streaming service had but to reply to queries from AFP.

Rogan stated his use of the “N word” over a 12-year interval – highlighted in a just lately uncovered compilation video of him utilizing the time period – seems to be “horrible, even to me.”

He stated he believed on the time that so long as he was utilizing the phrase in context that folks would perceive his actions.

“I never used it to be racist, because I’m not racist,” he stated.

But there’s “no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, nevermind publicly on a podcast,” he added.

“If a white person says that word it’s racist and toxic, but a Black person can use it and it can be a punchline, it can be a term of endearment, it could be lyrics to a rap song, it could be a positive affirmation.”

Rogan went on: “It’s a very unusual word, but it’s not my word to use. I’m well aware of that now.”

‘Teachable second’?

Spotify’s inventory fell sharply Thursday amid controversy over Rogan’s present, which garners as much as 11 million listeners per episode.

Music legends Neil Young and Joni Mitchell in addition to different artists requested that their songs be faraway from the platform in protest of Rogan, who has been accused of spouting misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccinations, both instantly or via the visitors he interviews on his present.

As for his racist language, Rogan stated he aimed to do higher.

“I can’t go back in time and change what I said…. but I do hope that this can be a teachable moment for anybody that doesn’t realise how offensive that word can be coming out of a white person’s mouth — in context or out of context,” he stated.

Rogan went into detailed description of his remarks on the eliminated episode from 11 years in the past wherein he spoke about seeing Planet of the Apes with associates in a neighborhood of Philadelphia.

“I did not, nor would I ever, say that Black people are apes, but it sure… sounded like that,” he stated on his Instagram publish which already racked up 3.6 million views.

“And I immediately afterward said that’s a racist thing to say. Planet of the Apes wasn’t even in Africa, I was just saying there were a lot of Black people there” within the neighborhood.

It sounded “terrible,” he acknowledged. “You can have clunky stories about anything, but not about race.”