Joe Rogan has apologized and pledged more balance on his podcast after a rush of rock legends quit Spotify and accused him of spreading COVID-19 misinformation.
,’ you’d be banned from many social media platforms. Now that’s on the cover of Newsweek,” he said.John Shearer/Invision/APCNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta“Do I get things wrong? Absolutely. I get things wrong, but I try to correct them,” he insisted.
“I think if there’s anything that I’ve done, that I could do better is have more experts with differing opinions right after I have the controversial ones. I would most certainly be open to doing that,” he said, calling it a “pledge” to his viewers. Rogan said it was not the first time he’d had to put out fires for Young — saying his last job as a 19-year-old concert security guard had been a show by the Canadian rocker where fans went so wild they started “raging fires on the lawn” which he was supposed to help put out.“I was not about to get beat up for 15 bucks an hour,” he recalled, saying that he drove home singing Young’s now-ironic classic tune “Rockin’ in the Free World.
“So no hard feelings towards Neil Young,” he repeated, while also thanking Spotify for sticking by him despite “taking so much heat.” by Spotify for exclusive rights to his record-breaking podcast. “It’s a strange responsibility to have this many viewers and listeners. It’s very strange and it’s nothing that I prepare for, and it’s nothing that I ever anticipated,” he said, thanking the “haters” for making him “reassess” his work.
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