{"id":1412980,"date":"2022-03-31T13:29:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412980"},"modified":"2022-03-31T13:29:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:29:56","slug":"joe-rogan-threatens-to-quit-spotify-if-he-has-to-walk-on-eggshells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-rogan-threatens-to-quit-spotify-if-he-has-to-walk-on-eggshells\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Rogan Threatens to Quit Spotify if He Has to &#039;Walk on Eggshells&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-rogan-threatens-to-quit-spotify-if-he-has-to-walk-on-eggshells%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412980&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Podcast giant Joe Rogan recently stated that he will happily leave Spotify, abandoning his $200 million deal with the woke tech company, if he has to censor his thoughts and \u201cwalk on eggshells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/30\/joe-rogan-i-will-quit-spotify-if-i-have-to-walk-on-eggshells\/amp\/\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that Joe Rogan, the popular UFC commentator, comedian, and host of the\u00a0<em>Joe Rogan Experience<\/em> podcast, has threatened to back out of the $200 million deal he made with Spotify to stream exclusively on their platform if he feels that he has to self-censor and \u201cwalk on eggshells.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>During a recent episode of his podcast with gues MMA fighter Josh Barnett, Rogan stated:\u00a0\u201cI will quit. If it gets to a point that I can\u2019t do it anymore, where I have to do it in some sort of weird way where I walk on eggshells and mind my p\u2019s and q\u2019s, fuck that!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17440194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/08\/roganjoe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot\/YouTube\/PowerfulJRE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12256827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Spotify-CEO-Daniel-Ek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12256827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Spotify-CEO-Daniel-Ek.jpg\" alt=\"Spotify CEO Daniel Ek\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spotify CEO Daniel Ek ( Andrew Burton \/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rogan discussed the massive popularity of his podcast and recent attempts to attack him over comments made on the show throughout the years, stating:\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s more people poring over it but it\u2019s the same thing. I do it the same way.\u201d He added:\u00a0\u201cIf I become something different because it grew bigger, I will quit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/05\/20\/joe-rogan-signs-exclusive-deal-with-spotify-worth-100-million\/\">signed<\/a> an exclusive deal with Spotify in 2020 for $100 million, since then the deal has reportedly doubled in valuation. Since signing exclusively to the platform, there have been repeated issues relating to censorship of the show.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Spotify has added content advisory labels on some episodes of Rogan\u2019s episodes that discussed the coronavirus. In February 2022, Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/02\/05\/spotify-censors-episodes-of-joe-rogans-podcast-again\/\">reported<\/a> that Spotify had removed at least 70 episodes of\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Joe Rogan Experience<\/em>\u00a0from its platform. Breitbart News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2022\/02\/05\/spotify-censors-episodes-of-joe-rogans-podcast-again\/\">reported extensively<\/a> on recent attempts to censor Joe Rogan from the Spotify platform, with musicians such as Neil Young demanding that the music streaming service remove Rogan or remove his music from the platform. Spotify promptly removed Young\u2019s music catalog from the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/04\/07\/spotify-has-censored-42-episodes-of-the-joe-rogan-experience-podcast\/\">previously removed\u00a0<em>JRE<\/em>\u00a0episodes<\/a>\u00a0that apparently contained content the tech giant didn\u2019t approve of. One of Rogan\u2019s former guests, author and podcaster Michael Malice, noted according to the website\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/jremissing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">JREMissing.com<\/a>, two of his episodes had been removed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spotify has deleted two of my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joerogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joerogan<\/a> appearances <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZjKu8TUgcO\">pic.twitter.com\/ZjKu8TUgcO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaelmalice\/status\/1489738086720356352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other removed episodes include those with\u00a0Gad Saad, a Lebanese-born Canadian Professor of Marketing at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, Theo Von, an extremely popular comedian with his own podcasts and online following, Tom Segura, another successful comedian and longtime friend of Rogans with specials on Netflix, and Kevin Smith, a comedian, writer, and film director known for the\u00a0<em>Clerks<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Jay and Silent Bob<\/em>\u00a0series of films.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <em>The New York Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/30\/joe-rogan-i-will-quit-spotify-if-i-have-to-walk-on-eggshells\/amp\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcast giant Joe Rogan recently stated that he will happily leave Spotify, abandoning his $200 million deal with the woke tech company, if he has to censor his thoughts and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}