“I know that to most people, there is 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,” acknowledging that “it’s not my word to use.” He also said, “I never used it to be racist, because I’m not racist, but whenever you’re in a situation where you have to say ‘I’m not racist,’ you fucked up - and I clearly have fucked up.” “It looks fucking horrible, even to me,” Rogan said about the video-clip montage. He said it was “the most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about publicly,” although he said he has not used the N-word in years. Rogan, in an Instagram post early Saturday, responded to the supercut of him saying the N-word on the podcast.
It’s unclear whether Spotify removed all 70 of the episodes Friday because of Rogan’s utterance of the racial slur.