up you're beautiful bastards.

Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show,

more specifically a Monday show,

which is always interesting,

because I try to stay away from the internet

for three days when I'm not doing this show,

and then I come back Monday,

and I'm like, why is everything on fire again?

Oh, because it never stopped being on fire.

And so on that happy note, hit that like button,

otherwise we'll punch you in the throat.

And let's just jump into it.

Now, the first thing that we're going to talk about today

is this Joe Rogan controversy that has now morphed into this other thing. I mean it's still connected, but yeah, right? So oversimplified TLDR to kind of get you to this point. Neil Young asks for his music to be pulled from the platform due to misinformation on it specifically

citing Rogin. Spotify ends up pulling that music. Other artists start speaking up or

moving theirs. That leads to Spotify saying it will add content labels to

podcast discussing COVID along with a few other steps to address misinformation. And Rogin for his part at this time said, hey to the controversy has now gone past just the misinformation aspect.

And this because musician India R.E.

likewise said, hey, I want my music taken down from Spotify,

but in an Instagram story announcing this sharing a clip of Joe Rogin

appearing to use the N-word over 20 times.

But the clip, also including him talking about seeing the film

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