Recently, you may have seen Joe Rogan news of his podcast episodes removal from Spotify. If you don’t know the reason for it or want to know why this news is this hyped up, then you are at the right place.
So, we will get to the news of Joe Rogan being removed from Spotify, but first, let us tell you who Joe Rogan is?
Joseph James Rogan is an American based podcaster, comedian, actor, former host of Fear Factor, UFC colour commentator, and influential person. He is most famous for his standup comedy and comic timings. His show The Joe Rogan Experience, which he started in 2009, is the most popular podcast worldwide with millions of views per episode.
He started his career in kickboxing and never thought of taking standup comedy as his profession though he loves comedy. So, let’s see how he ended up as a comedian?
How did he become a stand-up comedy?
Initially, he started his career in taekwondo as he learned martial arts and taekwondo in his teenage. He even won the US open taekwondo championship at the age of 19. He has won many state championships, so he started his career in sports. But at the age of 21 due to frequent headaches, he retired from kickboxing.
At the same age, due to his humour and love for comedy, he started standup comedy to earn some extra bucks and performed his first routine at an open mic nightclub in Boston. He got a great response and was noticed by talent manager Sussman who offered him the post of his assistant.
Then in 1990, he came to New York and started his career as a comedian. He worked with famous comedians and later tried acting and did well there, but later due to Hatman’s death or him losing interest in playing the same character, he turned to NBC hosting.
He started as a UFC colour commentator and got famous due to his gigs and hosting style.
He did many things in his life comedy movies, hosting for television shows, only stand-up comedy infatuated him. So, after he left the show fear factor, he focussed on his standup routines and recorded comedy albums.
In 2009 he started the free podcast with his friend Brian Redban and later in 2010, the podcast was named The Joe Rogan Experience. The podcast received a great response from Americans and entered the list of Top 100 podcasts in iTunes.
The podcasts featured many celebrities and discussed current events, politics, philosophy, and other topics, which attracted many audiences, and the podcasts were successful not only in America but worldwide.
What is the relation between Joe Rogan and Spotify?
Joe Rogan’s podcast gained popularity worldwide, and millions of users were his audience. So, Spotify approached him and Joe Rogan signed a $100 million deal with them. Thus, Spotify becomes the streamer of The Joe Rogan Experience show. The short videos of podcasts are still released on YouTube for the audience. The feature of the show is the same where Joe Rogan discussed topics with celebrities and do stand-up comedy on certain topics.
Why does Spotify remove Joe Rogan episodes?
This year Spotify remove Joe Rogan episodes the reason is his conspiracies, though recently the CEO of Spotify cleared that Joe Rogan himself asked them to remove the episodes to reflect himself. So, let’s see what really happen?
Covid conspiracies
Earlier on Dec 20, Joe Rogan comment on the COVID-19 vaccination. He was accused of creating misconceptions about COVID vaccination, which made him the centre of criticism. Many doctors and health officials wrote an open letter to stream agent Spotify requesting to take action on the Joe Rogan podcast.
N-word Conspiracy
Recently, a compilation video of Joe Rogan using the N-word was released on social media platforms and has gone viral. He received many criticisms from people around the world.
It hurt the sentiment of black people.
Joe Rogan relations to controversies are not new and the N-word conspiracy is like the final nail on the coffin and the main reason for removing the episodes as many celebrities and people were criticizing the Spotify platform for keeping those episodes.
Did the show stop as well?
No, only the episodes will be removed from the show will resume in some time, as the CEO of Spotify cleared that he does not believe in shutting Joe Rogan’s voice.
Summary
Joe Rogan is a famous person, done many things in life, and now his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience episodes are removed by Spotify. The reasons are his conspiracies related to the Covid or N-word he used.
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