After a weeklong hiatus, Rogan interviews a wingsuit pilot as Spotify's CEO and Jon Stewart defend the podcaster.
Joe Rogan’s again — and the identical as he ever was.
The embattled podcaster posted his first new interview for the reason that controversy surrounding a few of his anti-vax company blew up.
Regardless of Rogan’s assertion that he’d look to have extra specialists with “differing opinions,” his first new interview after a weeklong absence of latest episodes was returning visitor Andy Stumpf, a retired Navy SEAL, wingsuit pilot and podcast host.
The duo largely averted something controversial — subjects included acquainted stuff like shadowbanning, army tradition, jiujitsu, sports activities accidents and lockdowns. Although, the Spotify scenario did come up.
“I put out a video a pair days in the past, aside from that, not a lot I can do,” Rogan stated. “If you’re listening to it from people who find themselves shedding the knowledge consideration sport — individuals like CNN — once they’re calling for different networks or exhibits to be censored or restricted, it’s like, ‘Simply do higher.'”
Rogan’s earlier podcast was an MMA battle breakdown on Jan. 27. On Sunday, he posted a nine-minute monologue discussing the controversy and declaring, amongst different issues, that what has been truthful sport to debate concerning COVID-19 has advanced over time (such because the lab leak idea and the effectiveness of masks).
To be truthful, Rogan didn’t pledge that his very subsequent visitor would counter the misinformation unfold by earlier anti-vax company, similar to Robert Malone, however relatively stated, “I wish to speak to some folks that have differing opinions on these podcasts sooner or later. We’ll see.”
Nonetheless, even Stumpf gently requested if Rogan has thought of having any individual on to instantly counter the earlier misinformation on his podcast and Rogan admitted, “There’s fairly just a few of those guys which can be extremely educated docs with totally different views [who could be future guests], however they’re extra fact-based than narrative-based,” however griped that such company have a tendency to simply echo typical speaking factors.
One choice who would appear to be proper up Rogan’s alley, nevertheless, is doctor and podcaster Dr. Zubin Damania, who has challenged the knowledge of many points of the federal government’s pandemic technique, and not too long ago did a point-by-point rebuttal of Malone’s Rogan interview on Dr. Peter Attia’s The Drive podcast (pay attention, beneath).
In the meantime, Jon Stewart, on his most up-to-date The Downside With Jon Stewart podcast, stated Rogan was being focused with “overblown rhetoric” and that he didn’t “see Rogan as an ideologue in any means.” He famous a Rogan interview the place a visitor corrected the podcaster on an anti-vax speaking level, and Rogan seemed it up on-line and admitted he was flawed.
“Tucker Carlson, in that scenario, by no means would have seemed it up and would have provided that look he offers like any individual is giving him a confusion enema, like they’re simply firing confusion up his ass,” Stewart stated. “Joe is like, ‘Oh, I didn’t get that,’ and, to me, that’s an individual that you may interact with. He has four-hour conversations which can be expansive and, he might say some issues which can be misinformation and should platform individuals that you simply assume are flawed, however to single that out as one thing so egregious — I feel there are dishonest dangerous actors on this planet and figuring out these is a lot extra necessary to me.”
Thus far, Neil Younger, Joni Mitchell, Crosby, Stills and Nash, India Arie, Brené Brown, Roxane Homosexual and Mary Trump have all left Spotify in protest of Rogan’s content material. Stewart stated such performative gestures had been a mistake.
“Eric Clapton is on platforms that [Rogan’s on] and he’s fucking psycho,” Stewart stated of the rock legend and vehement anti-vaxxer. “Don’t depart. Don’t abandon. Don’t censor. Interact.”
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— The Downside With Jon Stewart (@TheProblem) February 3, 2022
Spotify’s CEO additionally reportedly defended Rogan’s present at an organization city corridor this week.
“There are various issues that Joe Rogan says that I strongly disagree with and discover very offensive,” Daniel Ek stated, in accordance with a transcript revealed by The Verge. “If we wish even a shot at reaching our daring ambitions, it is going to imply having content material on Spotify that many people is probably not proud to be related to. Not, something goes. However there can be opinions, concepts and beliefs that we disagree with strongly and even makes us indignant or unhappy. I need to remind everybody of our mission. We need to get to 50 million creators and a billion customers. And to be a real platform and obtain this ambition, it’s actually essential that creators are ready to make use of their voice independently. And it’s additionally essential that we have now various voices on our platform. We’re not within the enterprise of dictating the discourse that these creators need to have on their exhibits.”
Through the firm’s earnings name this week, Ek acknowledged it was “too early to know” what sort of subscriber churn could possibly be attributed to customers dropping their subscriptions due to Rogan, who “has a large viewers” on the platform.