Rogan responds to Spotify staffer critics

Spotify recently acquired The Joe Rogan Experience for a reported $100 million. Shortly afterward, some Spotify employees apparently listened to it, and some team members threatened to go on strike or stage a walkout if they didn’t get direct editorial oversight of the JRE. During episode #1,544 comedian Tim Dillon asked about it and Rogan said Spotify management had not contacted him about it.

They have literally said nothing to me about it, said Rogan, referring to contact from executives about employees’ reported plans to strike. Zero. It’s never come up.

Rogan said the disapproval make have come from episode #1509, when he interviewed Abigail Shrier, author of Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters.

Now, is there someone at Spotify that’s complaining about the Abigail Shrier episode? I’m sure. I’m sure there’s someone who’s complaining about it,” he said. “Is it a transphobic episode? It’s not. They’re wrong. It’s nothing to do with that. It has to do with the fact that human beings are actually malleable. We all know that. That’s why cults exist.

There’s a thought process now, that if you’re talking at all about trans people, you have to be 100 percent supportive. You can never question whether or not children should be allowed to transition, babies, hormone blockers for prepubescent children. All this is madness.

What Abigail is talking about in her book, Irreversible Damage, is large clusters of kids who are mostly kids that are socially awkward, many of them are autistic, many of them have never had any praise at all in their life, and they transition and they get all this praise from people. Because it is, right now it’s in vogue.

I don’t know what the actual conversation has been from Spotify talking to these employees. But if these employees are listening, I would tell you, emphatically, I am not in any way anti-trans. … I am 100 percent for people being able to do whatever they want, as long as it doesn’t harm other people.

I’m talking off the top of my head. And a lot of times I’m saying s*** that I don’t even mean. Cus I’m saying it because this is a f***ing podcast. And if you have a problem with people saying terrible s*** and you work for Spotify, maybe you should listen to some of the lyrics. Okay, cus some of the lyrics and some of the f***ing music that you guys play over and over and over again makes my s*** pale in comparison.

But I get it, you’re a 23-year-old woke kid and you’re working for this company and you think you’re gonna put your foot down, I get it.