“If you’re taking vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault? What dumb shit were you about to do when my stupid idea sounded better?” he said. “I talk shit for a living - that’s why this is so baffling to me,” he said. In addition, Spotify removed about 70 of Rogan’s past episodes and added an advisory to episodes that discussed COVID-19.Īfter the controversy, Rogan took the stage in Austin, Texas, and discussed the headlines in a set at Vulcan Gas Company.

The recent controversies had many pressuring Spotify to cancel the podcaster, and musicians such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their music from the streamer in protest. “Imagine the hubris of thinking that something that people don’t want for free … that you’re going to charge money for it.” “They spent $300 million dollars, they got 10,000 subscribers,” he marvels. (He took the formulation of ivermectin made for humans.) The podcaster also took the opportunity to mock CNN for the shuttering of its ultra-short-lived streaming service CNN+, which folded after just three weeks. By one recent estimate, Rogan typically averages 11 million listeners per episode.ĭuring the episode with Murray, Rogan mocked CNN in particular, which had inaccurately claimed that he took “horse dewormer” when he had COVID-19. But sources clarified the show has been consistently growing since the podcaster joined the streamer and hasn’t spiked due to any particular event. Spotify doesn’t publicly release its JRE subscriber numbers. Spotify Strikes Creator Video Deal With Jellysmack (Exclusive)

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