When talking about the cancel culture campaign to remove his podcast 'The Joe Rogan Experience' from Spotify following the controversies, the host claims that the attempts backfired.
- Apr 26, 2022
AceShowbiz - Joe Rogan believes that the attempts to cancel him over his COVID-19 and N-Word controversies have backfired. "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast host has claimed that he gained 2 millions new subscribers following the dramas.
In the latest episode of his "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast, the 54-year-old spoke to his guest Douglas Murray about the cancel culture campaign to remove his podcast from Spotify. Douglas said, "You have been put through the ringer, Joe. Since we last met, [the controversies] did a number on you."
"They did," Joe responded. The former TV presenter went on noting that despite getting canceled for spreading COVID-19 "misinformation" and dropping the "N-Bomb" on his past podcast episodes, his "subscriptions went up massively." He told Douglas, "During the height of it all, I gained 2 million subscribers." He later gushed, "It's interesting. That's what crazy," before dubbing himself "cancel-proof."
However, a source squashed Joe's claims that his podcast show spiked due to the backlash. The so-called insider told The Hollywood Reporter that its audience has grown over the last year.
Elsewhere during the chat, the former UFC commentator also roasted CNN, which had incorrectly claimed that he'd taken "horse dewormer" for COVID-19 while he claimed that he took the human approved form of Ivermectin when he caught the virus. "Yeah, [the media] went for it. It's also fortunate that the people who went for it were CNN," he lamented. "They're so untrustworthy and people know how biased they are and socially weird their anchors are."
The martial arts enthusiast also took pot-shots at the media conglomerate's short-lived streaming service CNN+, which went belly up after three weeks. He scoffed, "They spent 300 million dollars, they get 10,000 subscribers. Imagine the hubris of thinking that something that people don't want for free … that you're going to charge money for it."
Joe garnered controversy after a December 31 podcast of "The Joe Rogan Experience", in which he chatted with Dr. Robert Malone, an anti-vaccine proponent who was previously banned from Twitter over the spread of COVID-19 misinformation. Then in February, Joe was called out by India.Arie for calling black people "apes" and using the N-word.
Though Spotify never acquiesced to the cancellation campaigns, it did delete over 100 episodes of Joe's podcast. Some of which featured well-known conservatives and conspiracy theorists, including Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, Michael Malice, Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos.
