joe rogan the scariest thing to come out
of the show fear factor
after a week of scandal surrounding his
anti-vaccine podcasts joe rogan is still
in the news which is rare in america
i mean in this country news cycles are
here today gone tomorrow breaking news
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and are destroying cities around the
globe
all right moving on kim and kanye are
fighting again
now if you if you remember the whole
reason that joe rogan got into trouble
in the first place was because rock
legend neil young said that he refused
to be on the same platform as joe rogan
if joe rogan was going to be spreading
lies about vaccines so then because of
the backlash joe rogan apologized and a
lot of people were like okay okay we're
moving in the right direction even the
rock was like great job joe rogan let's
grab a drink but just before joe rogan
could get that drink
another musician india re i am not my
hair well she put out her own video
online saying that there's a different
reason that she doesn't want to be on
the same platform as joe rogan and this
was it i want to leave a short message
here about why i decided to
why i decided to ask my music be pulled
off of spotify spotify is built on the
back of the music streaming so they take
this money that's built from streaming
and they pay this guy 100 million
dollars but they pay us
0.003 of a penny
just take me off
i don't want to generate money that pays
this this is why watch this
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this boy that he's a [ __ ] and starts
calling them [ __ ] bird [ __ ] there
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then our [ __ ] start saying [ __ ] how
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whoa
that's a lot of the n word
and with the hard er as well which is
never a good thing
if there's ever a video of you saying
the n word that many times you better
pray one of two things either you're a
black person or
you're a dead man from history
yeah because then the worst thing they
can do is take your statue down and move
it into a museum
and as bad as it was seeing a supercar
of joe rogan dropping the n-word like he
bought it in bulk at costco an even
worse part of the video i know yeah and
even worse part of the video is when joe
rogan again on his podcast told a story
about going to a movie
in a black neighborhood and this is what
he said
so i go you got to go to uh one where
there's planet of the apes man we're
gonna go see planet of the apes so i
look on the iphone app and it says okay
take me to this one and the guy goes
okay is that in a good neighborhood he's
like oh yeah yeah yeah yeah guy barely
speaks english he takes us there we get
out and we're giggling we're gonna see
plenty of names we walk into planet of
the apes we walked into africa dude we
we walked in the door and there was no
white people there was no white people
wow
that video's so bad it actually made me
miss the n-word video
ah the good old days
i mean you you walk into a cinema in a
black neighborhood and you call it
planet of the apes
i mean unless he means he was blown away
by the black neighborhood cinematography
and storytelling
although i doubt it
anyway because of this video right
and india ari
joe rogan was forced to make yet another
stop on his apology world tour and this
one was a lot more and i mean a lot more
apologetic than his vaccine video i'm
making this video to talk about the most
regretful and shameful thing that i've
ever had to talk about publicly
there's a video that's out that's a
compilation of me saying the n-word
it's a video that's made of clips taken
out of context of me of 12 years of
conversations on my podcast and it's all
smushed together and it looks [ __ ]
horrible even to me now i know that to
most people there is no context where a
white person is ever allowed to say that
word never mind publicly on a podcast
and i agree with that now i haven't said
it in years but for a long time
when i would bring that word up like if
it would come up in conversation instead
instead of saying the n word i would
just say the word like that context was
part of the clip we were talking about
red fox how red fox said that word on
television in the 1970s and how times
have changed so much since then or about
how richard pryor used it as one of the
titles of one of his albums but
for years i used it
in that manner i never used it to be
racist because i'm not racist
but whenever
you're in a situation where you have to
say
i'm not racist you [ __ ] up
and i clearly have [ __ ] up
yeah you can tell joe rogan knows he is
in trouble
because in the vaccine video if you
remember it like he's outside he's
enjoying a nice day here he was in the
library he's like look i'm learning see
the books
i'm learning [ __ ] is serious
and you can tell it's serious you can
tell because he's like guys my brain
used to think a certain way it does not
think that way anymore at
all i disavow that man i disavow him
you know this kind of reminded me of it
kind of reminded me of of of when my mom
used to get the belt and i was a little
kid and i'd be like mommy mommy old
trevor like cookies but new driver does
not think that way anymore new trevor
doesn't even know where the cookies are
on the top shelf and going forward i
only wanna eat vegetables
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now even though rogan apologized um this
was strange a lot of people were arguing
sort of against his apology saying that
the n-word with context is totally fine
for a white person to say yeah you know
and i i understand what they're saying
like you know maybe you're a professor
teaching history maybe you're a news
anchor reporting on a story about your
rogan maybe you're in a quentin
tarantino movie and you have to use the
n-word because if you don't then the
movie has no dialogue
but
for the most part as a white person
you never need to use the n-word it's
not like need for example i've gone this
entire story saying the n-word and
everyone has understood exactly what
i've meant right
nobody's sitting at home going nutella
neanderthal
nelly furtado why is trevor being so
vague what is the word in fact here's a
here's a life hack for white people
saying the actual n-word
puts you in unnecessary trouble
especially if you're not racist
it doesn't matter the context because
black people don't have the time to sit
down and sort out the racist who says
the n-word 70 times with the non-racist
who says the n-word 70 times black
people are dealing with too much [ __ ] no
no look look at how i was using it no
dude no one's got the time for that just
stop saying it or just be racist it's
easier for everyone that way
so look i'm glad i'm glad that joe rogan
has gone you know what i don't i didn't
need to use that word all those times
because people need to learn and i'm
glad that he has
right so joe rogan is saying that him
using the word in context wasn't racist
but it was ignorant and not cool okay
fine but don't forget
there's also the story
where joe rogan calls black people apes
and so for that part of the apology
joe rogan says this
i did not nor would i ever
say that black people are apes but it
sure [ __ ] sounded like that i was
just saying there's a lot of black
people there but then i went on to talk
about what a positive experience it was
and how much fun it was to go to see
this movie in a black neighborhood it
wasn't a racist story but it sounded
terrible it's a [ __ ] idiotic thing to
say
and i was just trying to be entertaining
i certainly wasn't trying to be racist
and i certainly
would never want to offend someone
for entertainment with something as
stupid as racism
all right i'm not gonna lie i have a few
issues with this part of the video first
of all he says he would never say black
people are apes but he said that
he that's literally what he said if you
said you walked into a black place and
it was planet of the apes then you've
said that you said you can't be like i
didn't say you did say it which is
racist right
and it's not just racist like let's
let's be honest about it's not just
right that's like og racism that's like
like the original old school like that's
on the mount rushmore of racism you know
black people are apes it's right next to
burning crosses and then like every bugs
bunny cartoon from the 1940s
what i found particularly illuminating
is is when he says
i wasn't being racist
i was just being entertaining
no joe i think
you were using racism to be entertaining
you understand what i'm saying i'm not
saying you were trying to offend black
people by the way but you knew that
offending black people would get a laugh
out of those white friends that you were
with and please understand this
understand this guy i'm a comedian
right which you would know if i had a
live audience right now yeah they would
be like oh trevor you're the greatest of
all time
yeah but i am a comedian and i love
making jokes and i love hearing jokes
and i love i love all kinds of jokes
right i love safe jokes i like dark
jokes i like jokes but just because
something is a joke
doesn't mean it can't be something else
as well because a joke can be racist
right in fact a joke can be racist and
funny if you're telling it to the right
crowd it's no joke it's never for yeah
someone can find it funny but the laughs
don't mean that there's no racism think
of it this way think of this way if i
rob a bank
and i get busted i can't defend myself
by saying no guys i did it as a joke
yeah but you pistol-whipped the bank
teller yeah but but i made a funny sound
when i did it i was like
give me the money [ __ ]
so do i get to go now so yeah joe rogan
is saying that he would never say
something racist
and now because of that obviously in the
video a lot of his fans are like yeah he
would never say something racist it's
just a joke you guys are uptight he
would never say something racist a joke
is not racist and you know what i can
have my opinion
and you can have your opinion fine
but you know whose opinion i think
matches more than most people
is joe rogan
and here's what joe rogan said about his
joke when he said it
we walk into planet of the apes
we walked into africa dude we we we
walked in the door and there was no
white people there was no white people
we planted them didn't take place in
africa that was a racist thing for me to
say
yeah exactly it is a racist thing for
you to say you're saying it's racist but
then in the video you're gonna be like
was just watching what's the driver he
said joe rogan said a racist thing and
then immediately acknowledged that it
was racist literally when he said it he
said it and then he's like oh that was
racist and now he's like i'd never never
say racist like you know this whole
thing makes me go like why are people so
adamant
that it wasn't racist
why like why do people people do a thing
that's racist and then they go like no
it's not race can i can i be honest with
you honestly i'm not a scholar i'm not
like the whatever this is my opinion i
think it's because people are just truly
petrified of having the label racist
branded on them for life that's what
people are really afraid of no one wants
to be called a racist because then
they're like how long am i a racist for
does it like am i racist for life am i
racist i can't get jobs am i right no no
i just want to be racist but i don't
want to be called a racist which is
understandable
but it also makes people unable to admit
when they say or do something racist
right they would rather down the hill of
them not being racist even if it means
giving convoluted excuses that don't
make any sense
so anyway after all those videos come
out
joe rogan got into even more hot water
yeah more artists spoke out the rock
pulled his support
and now because of that more of his
podcast videos are coming under scrutiny
right there's a video where rogan is
promoting the proud boys uh there's
these videos where he's laughing about
like female comedians being forced to
perform sexual favors in exchange for
stage time like the videos are horrible
and they just keep coming and if there's
something you you you shouldn't have
said in public basically rogan has said
it on his podcast which as you can
imagine is a pretty big problem for
spotify
because now they own 100 million dollars
worth of problems
so this weekend
after dealing with all the episodes with
vaccine information spotify was now
scrambling to take down all the
offensive episodes that they could find
in fact i think we have some footage of
spotify headquarters over the weekend
we are taking heavy fire i need you to
delete those podcasts we're deleting
them as fast as we can we're still
getting backlash from the vaccines i
can't make it stop new reports of
misogyny are popping up everywhere sir
incoming planet of the ape story
those bastards never stood a chance
no but for real though spotify is having
a hell of a time navigating the
situation um and you can tell
like how tough this is from the response
of their ceo
spotify and its ceo daniel eck
responding to the latest controversy
around the joe rogan experience in a
memo to staffs x said quote not only are
some of joe rogan's comments incredibly
hurtful i want to make clear that they
do not represent the values of the
company
adding he does not believe silencing
rogan is the answer except he is
committing a hundred million dollars the
same amount as rogan's reported contract
to license develop and market audio
content from creators from historically
marginalized groups ah man you got to
feel bad for spotify
you know
they just want to be a company that
screws over musicians and now they got
to deal with racism ah they just can't
catch a break
but yeah spotify
will spend joe rogan's exact salary on
amplifying the voices of marginalized
groups that's what they say they're
going to do which i guess is supposed to
make them look good but it's also kind
of an admission that rogan's podcast is
bad for those groups right
like otherwise you wouldn't need to
balance him out does that make sense
like there's a reason that spotify has
never been forced to give 100 million
dollars to marginalized groups because
of this american life
i mean whipping out your checkbook is
the classic sign that you know you
[ __ ] up it's not real accountability
it's how rich dudes get out of car
accidents when they know that it was
their fault you know it's just like wow
looks like i really wrecked you there
so how much does a new kid cost these
days two million three
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you see that was a that was a dog joke
and if i had an audience right now
they'd be like huh why are you saying
that about children trev boo
and smart if i can say that rogan's
comments don't represent the company's
values you know that's what they said
they said these podcasts do not
represent spotify's values
but
like when companies say that guys
clearly the company's values are making
money
like and no shade by the way those are
the values of every company
you know part of me actually wishes that
spotify would just drop the facade just
come out and be like we do not believe
in silencing joe rogan because he makes
us money
but if at some point he ends up costing
us money then we will drop him
because money
so
is joe rogan a racist because he said
these things i mean people are going to
go back and forth forever on this
it almost made me think maybe the
question we should be asking is at what
point is a person a racist
is it when they do a racist thing or is
it when they do
many racist things
or is it is it about the severity of the
racism and then how do you measure the
severity of racism
the truth is everyone is going to have
their own answer
you know spotify has chosen theirs
and as for joe rogan he says he's
learned his lesson
and i hope he has
but i will say if i were him
i wouldn't walk into a cinema in a black
neighborhood for a little while
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