It’s almost certainly not a situation where the guests requested the episodes be taken down to avoid further association with Rogan, either - there are still seven episodes featuring Saad in Spotify’s archives, and a Twitter thread from Michael Malice seems to imply he didn’t have anything to do with the episodes he featured in being taken down. Given that the episodes were released years before the pandemic, they’re unlikely to contain any of the COVID misinformation that’s caused the recent controversy. The episodes removed on Friday aren’t new - the most recent one featured Gad Saad and aired in 2018, and the oldest was episode four of the show from 2010. Spotify didn’t immediately reply to The Verge’s request for comment on why the episodes were removed, and most of the explanations that immediately jump to mind don’t seem to hold water. (To be clear, the term “a bunch” is relative - the show has over 1,700 numbered episodes.) A spot check done by The Verge on the data from JRE Missing showed that the episodes were indeed no longer on Spotify, even though they had been available to subscribers as recently as last year. Why Spotify can’t afford to lose Joe Rogan Spotify finally responds to Joe Rogan controversy with a plan to label podcasts that discuss COVID-19Īll of that is why it’s just a bit weird that a bunch of episodes have gone missing with seemingly no explanation. The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) is Spotifys most popular podcast in 93 markets and lays Spotifys advertising growth in recent years at the foot of podcasts. Spotify has also addressed the controversy, making its content moderation policies public, and holding a tense town hall to defend the company’s relationship with Rogan to employees. Musicians like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and India Arie have pulled their music from the platform in protest, and Rogan himself has apologized to Spotify over the backlash it’s facing (while also defending his show). The show (and Spotify’s relationship to it) have faced heavy criticism over the past few weeks, but there’s no clear connection between that and the missing episodes, nor is there any immediately apparent link between the episodes that were removed.įor anyone who’s taken the sanity-preserving step of muting the phrase “Joe Rogan” on Twitter, here’s a brief recap of what’s been going on: Spotify, which has been the exclusive home of The Joe Rogan Experience since the streaming giant reportedly paid $100 million for the pleasure in 2020, has taken a lot of heat from people accusing Rogan’s show of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines (among many other things). Update February 5th, 1PM ET: Spotify has not addressed the missing episodes, but since this story was published, Joe Rogan posted a five-minute apology video to Instagram addressing his use of the n-word and a story from a past podcast that called “a racist thing to say.”Īround 70 episodes of Joe Rogan’s podcast mysteriously disappeared from Spotify on Friday, as spotted by, a web tool that tracks missing episodes.
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