Rogan: I’m so sorry for N-word podcasts
CONTROVERSIAL US podcaster Joe Rogan last night offered a grovelling apology for repeatedly using the N-word on his show.
Rogan, 54, described a clip of him using the racial slur 22 times in episodes of his hit Spotify show The Joe Rogan Experience as ‘the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about publicly’, adding: ‘It looks f ****** horrible, even to me.’
He added: ‘To most people there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast.
‘Instead of saying the N-word, I would just say the word. I thought as long as it was in context people would understand.’
Rogan, who has a $100million deal with Spotify, also apologised for referring to a black neighbourhood as ‘Planet of the Apes’ but insisted he did not ‘ever say that black people are apes’. Musicians including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have removed their songs from Spotify in protest at vaccine misinformation spread on Rogan’s show, which attracts 11 million listeners per episode.
Michelle and Barack Obama are reportedly ‘seriously considering’ switching to another streaming company but the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who signed an £18million deal with Spotify, will continue to work with it.