Joe Rogan claims former US presidents threw a lot of money at Spotify to remove his podcast

Joe Rogan has claimed that multiple former US presidents “threw a lot of money” at Spotify to remove his hit podcast over accusations he was spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine.Rogan, 58, made the remarks while speaking with behavior expert Chase Hughes during a discussion about social media and influence on Wednesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”“I’m not kissing your ass here, but you’re willing to say s–t that sounds preposterous at the beginning of something, and just make an observation that’s real,” Hughes told Rogan.“Well, the position that I was in during the COVID thing was very unique,” Rogan replied.“I had already — I’d gotten such a head start.I was so far ahead of them.

They didn’t realize my ability to say, ‘Wait, this is — this doesn’t make any sense.’ Like, none of this makes any sense,” he said.Rogan was accused of spreading COVID-19 misinformation during the pandemic after he suggested he would not take the vaccine if he were young and healthy.He also criticized COVID-era lockdowns.Rogan described the pushback he faced during that period, claiming, “They tried to crush my sponsors.

They organized campaigns.There was PACs (political action committees) involved.”“Thank God I was on Spotify.

And thank God Spotify is not an American company,” he added.“And also it helped that I was number one in, like, 90 countries and not number 90 in one country, you know? That helped.

That helped a lot.”“I can’t even talk about it.But there was presidents involved and former presidents involved that were contacting Spotify,” Rogan said.“Oh yeah,” he continued.

“Trying to get me removed for vaccine misinformation.Yeah.

And it turned out to be right.All of it.

Not a single [person] apologized.”“Not a not a single retraction, not a single, you know, mea culpa, not a single, ‘we were wrong.’”He revealed that he lost sponsorships during that time.“I lost a lo...