The Joe Rogan Experience is likely one of the greatest podcasts round due to a gradual stream of conspiracy theories, right-wing speaking factors, and the occasional humorous comic. Spotify desires to remain within the Rogan enterprise because it renewed its contract for rights to the podcast.
The streaming service signed a new licensing agreement price as much as $250 million, in keeping with the Wall Road Journal on Friday, however a Spotify spokesperson says that quantity is wrong however declined to develop on the phrases of the settlement. One huge change on this deal is that it’s non-exclusive which means that Rogan can put up his podcast on any platform together with placing the present again on YouTube. His YouTube channel was the house to new episodes, however because the Spotify deal, solely brief segments are uploaded in addition to stay streams of his Struggle Companion present the place he and others watch a UFC occasion.
Rogan’s podcast is popular it doesn’t matter what metric or demographic you have a look at, and it’s that reputation that’s a problem as Rogan has grow to be a purveyor of bullshit. The comic continues to parrot anti-vax speaking factors whereas platforming a who’s who of conspiracy theorists together with certainly one of his greatest buddies, Alex Jones.
Rogan first signed a deal with Spotify again in 2021, simply months earlier than he posted on social media that he had COVID and was taking ivermectin, which is an antiparasitic drug that hack docs claimed cured the illness however has time and time again proven to be ineffective.
The comic went all-in with COVID misinformation after being ridiculed for his taking of an unproven drug and has since introduced on each huge title within the anti-vax house. Well being specialists criticized Spotify for not doing enough to counter the health misinformation Rogan was platforming.
Even when Rogan is just not interviewing grifters who unfold misinformation, he’ll nonetheless carry up his nonsense as evident in his current episode with comic Bobby Lee the place the previous MADtv alum had to ask if they could talk about something else.