Joe Rogan will not continue to podcast on Spotify if he feels as though he is “walking on eggshells.”
“I will quit. If it gets to a point that I can’t do it anymore, where I have to do it in some sort of weird way where I walk on eggshells and mind my p’s and q’s, f–k that!” Rogan said during a podcast with MMA fighter Josh Barnett.
Rogan was recently attacked for alleged COVID-19 “misinformation” despite conversing with a medical scientist who is at least partially responsible for the creation of technology used to create the COVID-19 vaccine. Doctor Robert Malone simply provided an alternate perspective.
This spectacle of free speech was seen as a form of heresy to the “trust the science crowd”. Rogan did not promote Malone’s ideas but rather allowed him to simply share his credible opinion.
A group consisting of 270 doctors called Rogan a “menace to public health” in a letter to Spotify. The platform however refused to remove the Joe Rogan Experience. Spotify did however place content advisory’s on some episodes.
Because of this Rogan was dragged through the mud by the mainstream media and the public. He explained that he does not want to be picked apart for every little thing. “If I become something different because it grew bigger, I will quit,” Rogan said.
Following media backlash, artists like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Stephen Stills, and David Crosby removed tracks from Spotify in protest.
