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2020-05-22 Cyber
Joe Rogan strikes a deal with Spotify worth more than $100million giving the streaming giant exclusive rights to his podcast
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 The story is much bigger than the headline suggests. Rogan is doing this as a huge f-you to Youtube and Google, which have been censoring his shows. He is especially pissed because he wanted to bring on medical experts to present different views on corona, and Youtube told him no. Remarkable, especially from a Bernie supporter!
Posted by Iblis 2020-05-22 11:26||   2020-05-22 11:26|| Front Page Top

#2 The only problem is that Spotify will start to censor him as well.

BTW, one of Spotify's biggest stockholders is TenCent, the Chinese global media hydra.

Sony, the people who brought you all those Last of Us 2-related takedown notices on YouTube, is also a significant stakeholder.

So it'll be fine.

Kudos to Rogan on getting paid though.
Posted by charger 2020-05-22 13:59||   2020-05-22 13:59|| Front Page Top

#3  Rogan is doing this as a huge f-you to Youtube and Google

Moved to Cyber.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-22 14:59||   2020-05-22 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh comon. Rogan makes his money by saying whatever. I don't have any more faith in this guy that the NYT, WaPo or WSJ. Or Jacobin.

A$$hole...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 15:49||   2020-05-22 15:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Who he? I thought "Joe Rogaine" = Plugz?
Now I'm confused ...
Posted by Lex 2020-05-22 16:59||   2020-05-22 16:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Murcek, he has an entertaining show with a wide range of guests. He's a pretty intelligent guy, seems to me.
Posted by KBK 2020-05-22 18:14||   2020-05-22 18:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I know who he is. What he is. He's just a guy trying to make a buck online. Oh, BTW. Whatever Spotify is paying him, they ain't getting any of it from me. Hokay?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 18:20||   2020-05-22 18:20|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ niceworkifyoucangetit

[Ella Fitzgerald sings] Ooooo! And if you get it, tell-ell me hooowwww
Posted by Lex 2020-05-22 18:39||   2020-05-22 18:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Rush Limbaugh for the Target shoppers.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 18:52||   2020-05-22 18:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Err, Maxine Sullivan - much sweeter:

Posted by Lex 2020-05-22 18:54||   2020-05-22 18:54|| Front Page Top

#11 MM - you made your opinion apparent earlier and way too often
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-22 19:03||   2020-05-22 19:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Oh, sob. I hurt somebody's feewings. This got me banned from instawhoever, so go for it.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 19:06||   2020-05-22 19:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Not my feelings, I don't think I've EVER listened to a Rogan podcast, so suck it. I don't ban, I do criticize childish behavior. Now who's hurt?
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-22 19:09||   2020-05-22 19:09|| Front Page Top

#14 Not me, Frank. I'm not hurt at all. And I stand by every word I said. I don't speak to hear my voice. Ever. Rogan is a product. A product some people apparently love. Sort of like Chunky Monkey ice cream. If you like it, fine. If you get upset when someone else says they don't like ice cream, WTF?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 19:18||   2020-05-22 19:18|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm here because I like to R E A D. There are a lot of very well read Commenters here who send links that reflect their appreciation of good writing. I've been turned on to good books here that Joe Rogan will never read. I can't do much with podcasts because the people on them think they are on TV or radio. They are neither. They are doing something else, but expect me to see Rod Serling or hear Ted Mack. And none of them know much if anything about either of those guys. I do respect what they are doing but please don't tell me it's some magical thing that's never been done before. Pant, pant.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 19:32||   2020-05-22 19:32|| Front Page Top

#16 The suck it part reminds me why I don't look at Ace of Spades for many years.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 19:37||   2020-05-22 19:37|| Front Page Top

#17 Just curious: How many sites have you been banned at?

I haven't seen anything ban-worthy from you to date, so actually...just curious
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-22 19:50||   2020-05-22 19:50|| Front Page Top

#18 Insta banned me five years ago for calling Tesla a cult. He's a lawyer so he'd never admit it being like that now.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 19:55||   2020-05-22 19:55|| Front Page Top

#19 I got the "this is my living room" bullshit. Uh, yeah.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 19:57||   2020-05-22 19:57|| Front Page Top

#20 Jordan Peterson. Mike Tyson. Elon Musk. Joel Salatin. Richard Dawkins. Brian Cox. Dan Crenshaw. Lawrence Krauss. Brian Greene. Jay Leno. Ed Snowden. Evander Holyfeld. Sean Carroll. Gary Taubes. Johnathan Haidt. Sir Roger Penrose. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Candace Owens.

He gets them on and they ramble for two hours.

Who else has anything like that?
Posted by KBK 2020-05-22 19:58||   2020-05-22 19:58|| Front Page Top

#21 If you haven't been banned at LGF, you're a kiddie.
Posted by KBK 2020-05-22 20:00||   2020-05-22 20:00|| Front Page Top

#22 ^ I have friends who rave about it, just never listened. I did see that Elon Musk clip smoking a blunt on the news
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-22 20:00||   2020-05-22 20:00|| Front Page Top

#23 re: #20
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-22 20:01||   2020-05-22 20:01|| Front Page Top

#24 LGF is a parallel universe. I used to read it every day. Then he melted down and I left. Didn't comment enough to get banned.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 20:02||   2020-05-22 20:02|| Front Page Top

#25 I miss the hell out of Babylonian Musings and Protien Wisdom.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 20:03||   2020-05-22 20:03|| Front Page Top

#26 And, hey, Frank. You went up my back and then asked me to explain myself. I respect you absurdly huge for that.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 20:11||   2020-05-22 20:11|| Front Page Top

#27 I think we can all agree: profanity has a place but don't be gratuitous about it. No ad hominem. At all, Ever. (Towards Commenters. Lay into muzz preachers, communists, sex freaks at will) Nobody has to respect your lousy opinion (or mine) but we never stop respecting each other. If we do, we are very, very lost.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 20:20||   2020-05-22 20:20|| Front Page Top

#28 Oh, and. Rantburg is the most intelligent online community you could hope to find. It's real, which means it isn't always pretty. But there's nowhere else I'd rather be.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 20:45||   2020-05-22 20:45|| Front Page Top

#29 Let's all remember what and who is important on Memorial Day.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-22 20:46||   2020-05-22 20:46|| Front Page Top

#30 Good to know you, M.
Have a fine weekend.
Here's to all Rantburgers -- and to all those whose sacrifices we remember with grateful tears and solemn joy on Memorial Day,
L.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-22 21:21||   2020-05-22 21:21|| Front Page Top

#31 Very well said, M. You articulated some things I hadn’t quite figured out — typical for the crowd around here — and said better some things I had.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-22 22:27||   2020-05-22 22:27|| Front Page Top

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