

Rolling Stone reported that many of the deleted episodes appeared to include the use of racial slurs. His apology comes as Spotify users noticed that more than 70 episodes of Rogan's podcast had been quietly deleted, but neither Rogan nor Spotify has offered an explanation as to why. "I know that to most people, there's 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. "It's all smushed together and it looks fucking horrible, even to me," he said. In the video posted on his Instagram account, Rogan said the video clip was "taken out of context" and included conversations that he's had on the podcast over the course of 12 years. Rogan, whose podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, has recently received increased scrutiny over his spread of misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, was prompted to issue the apology Saturday after a video surfaced online with him repeatedly using the racial slur on air on nearly 20 different occasions.

Joe Rogan apologized for repeatedly saying the n-word on his podcast for years, calling it the "most regretful and shameful thing that I've ever had to talk about publicly," as Spotify quietly deleted at least 70 of his episodes.
