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No stranger to controversy, Joe Rogan this week offered the following generalization about Jews on his massively popular Spotify show: “The idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza.” Rogan was speaking to onetime MSNBC contributor…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent nearly three hours on The Joe Rogan Experience yesterday, mostly answering questions about virtual reality, content moderation, censorship and government oversight. Much of the media coverage has centered on communications between the FBI and Meta about the Hunter Biden laptop…

Meghan Markle’s new Archetypes is currently Spotify’s most-listened-to podcast in six countries, overtaking usual U.S. frontrunner The Joe Rogan Experience. On today’s U.S. Spotify chart, Archetypes outpaced both Rogan and the #3 entry The Official Game of Thrones Podcast: House of the Dragon. Markle’s series also…

Gene Lebell, who had an acting and stunt career that stretched from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet to 24 and who the WWE called today “a towering figure in the world of martial arts,” has died. He was 89. Lebell reportedly had more than 1,000 TV and movie credits, mostly as a stuntman, but…

Donald Trump is not welcome on The Joe Rogan Experience, says the host of the popular podcast — at least not yet. Still, Rogan, an avowed Ron DeSantis supporter, is no friend of Joe Biden's either. "By the way, I'm not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form," Rogan said Monday during an interview on Lex Fridman's…

Crosby, Stills and Nash apparently aren’t giving us just a song before they go. That’s because they’ve decided to return to Spotify, ending a boycott of the streamer that began in February in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan’s content. Billboard reported.the return of the group’s music as of Saturday. David Crosby…

Standing just a few feet away from the first President of the United States to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner since 2016, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah mixed the political with the pop culture to take an equal-opportunity dig at everyone tonight — including the people who pay him the big bucks. “I…

Spotify said it is not experiencing any negative effects from blowback over podcast hosts like Joe Rogan, with the company’s first-quarter results exceeding Wall Street forecasts. The Stockholm-based audio giant swung to earnings of 24 cents a share compared with a loss of 30 cents a year ago. Revenue inched up to…

He’s still just a Regular Joe, Joe Rogan seemed to be saying on his Spotify podcast Tuesday. Rogan was speaking with MMA fighter Josh Barnett who wondered, after his appearance on the massively popular show, “Is everyone going to pore over every single thing I say?” “They will,” the host responded, “but it’s the same…

Like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and India Arie, Ava DuVernay's Array is no longer doing business with Spotify. Just more than a year after the activist Oscar nominee's film collective inked a first-look deal with the music and podcast streamer, a spokesperson for Array has confirmed the plug has been pulled. Even…

In an episode-long interview with The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah last night, singer India Arie addressed the recent Joe Rogan-Spotify controversy, mentioning – among other things – that she believes Rogan is “consciously racist." But today Noah is calling out “clickbait” news accounts of the interview that he thinks…

Quiet since November, The Problem with Jon Stewart is set to start up again on AppleTV+ on March 3. After a rocky initial reception for the former The Daily Show host's fortnightly return to the small screen last fall, the one-hour long, single-issue show will now roll out weekly moving forward. Adding to the mix, the…