I Stand by Joe Rogan (Make YOUR Choice)
In this impassioned monologue, Rob Moore publicly declares his support for Joe Rogan and, to a lesser extent, Spotify, framing the controversy surrounding Rogan’s recent episode removals and an out‑of‑context N‑word mash‑up as part of a broader assault on free speech, decentralisation and democratic discourse. Moore argues that mainstream media and government entities are colluding to censor dissenting voices, using terms like “misinformation” and “disinformation” as weapons to force cancellations. He critiques artists who have issued ultimatums to Spotify to drop Rogan, contends that the disappearance of roughly 70‑100 Rogan episodes is suspicious, and calls the episode‑removal timing a smear campaign. Throughout, he urges listeners to choose a side—supporting Rogan, Spotify, and the podcasting medium as the last uncensored platform—while also promoting his own “Disruptors” podcast and offering anniversary gifts. The video repeatedly emphasizes that fear is loudest when media power wanes, urging mass sharing of the message to counter what he sees as a dying mainstream media empire.
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I officially stand by Joe Rogan. I somewhat stand by Spotify. And I urge you to make your choice, because your choice is not whether Joe Rogan should or shouldn't be canceled. Your choice is way, way deeper than that. Now, I want to start with a quote that for me summarizes where mainstream media is at. Fear screams the loudest when it's dying. Fear screams the loudest when it's dying. And mainstream media is dying. and a friend of mine was Michael Jackson's bodyguard for 10 straight years. Michael Jackson, the absolute master of managing mainstream media. I also know Simon Cowell, who was a master of mainstream media. And 10, 15 years ago, mainstream media would give you tens of millions of views. Now it struggles to give you a million views. Primetime TV gives you a few hundred thousand views, maybe 1.5 million views. Joe Rogan has hundreds of millions of downloads a month. Hmm, there's something behind this for sure. The timing of this smear campaign for me stinks. So I'm gonna quickly summarize what's been going on in the last 2 weeks. I urge you to make your choice. Who do you stand for? Because you know what, there are so many people who've been on Joe Rogan's podcast who've become millionaires or been given a platform by him, and now they're in the mainstream. They have unbelievable impact thanks to Joe Rogan. All of those people should come out and stand up for Joe Rogan, or if they stand for something else, then come out and stand for something else. So my question to you is Do you stand for Joe Rogan? Because if you do, you should go and freaking tell the world about it, right? So, um, oh, by the way, everyone's talking about these 70 or 100 episodes that have disappeared. I haven't talked about them because I don't know where they've gone, but I'm also waiting. So Spotify, where have those 100 episodes gone? Please do let us know where they've gone, because again, the timing of the disappearing of those Nearly 100 episodes that there was no announcement about. That was somewhat serendipitous, might we say. All right, let, let me just share with you what's been going on. This is really important. I've got about 8 or 9 points, so I'll be succinct. I encourage and urge you to share. And where do you stand? Please let me know where you stand. So the reason I stand for Joe Rogan is because it's not just Joe Rogan and Spotify against mainstream media, although that's what it's become. It's Joe Rogan and Spotify representing the people. Why? Because Joe Rogan is what most people want to happen in the world. Even if they don't like Joe Rogan, even if they think Joe Rogan's a racist, what most people want in the world is a fight against globalism. What most people want is decentralization. What most people want is true democracy. And there is There is no true democracy in mainstream media. There is a biased narrative and ulterior motive. In the UK, we have the BBC, and that used to be known as the, you know, one of the greatest unbiased institutions. The BBC is outrageously biased and controlled by governments, it seems, and that's my opinion. So, um, Joe Rogan and Spotify now represent free speech for you. Free speech for the people. Because if Joe Rogan or Spotify get forced to be canceled, whether it's by artists that are owned by mainstream media— like, look at who owns Neil Young's back catalog— whether it's artists or people that, you know, think he's a racist, or mainstream media, whoever it is that brings down the decentralized, for-the-people, free speech empire of Joe Rogan, whoever brings him down, we all fall. 'Cause then we can't run a clubhouse room, we can't run a podcast, we can't speak on a Facebook Live without the AIs canceling us and every single word, oh, shut down, oh, shut down. You can already not say C, V, L, or P on live. You say them, you get shut down by YouTube. You get shut down by other social media channels. This is war on freedom. And look at how it's— I knew this was coming. I was one of the first to break this and comment on this. And say we must protect Spotify and Joe Rogan. Even if you don't like the way Spotify treats its artists, even if you don't agree with Joe Rogan, this is going to become a beast that we can't control. I could see it. And some people are like, Rob, shut up about it, just talk about business, will you? Just stay in your lane. No, people are always saying, oh, you've got to use your platform for good. So I'm out of my lane, I'm in the central reservation, I'm in the hard shoulder, I'm on the grass verge, I'm way out of my fucking lane, and you should be too. So number 2, it's not just Joe Rogan and Spotify against mainstream media, it's now Joe Rogan and Spotify against the freaking government. Because the White House came out and they got their penis out and they laid it on the table and they said, this penis is big and powerful and we haven't slapped you with it yet, but we will. Because they said that Spotify should do more. Now Spotify had already published its policy for content and it's working with Joe Rogan and other content providers to create disclaimers. What more do you need other than a disclaimer? Hi, even though you're not stupid, we're going to make out that you are stupid. So all of this talk about CVLP, you should do your own research, and you know, blah blah blah. Oh, I mean, isn't that obvious? But now the government have waded in, the White House have waded in. So if, if the White House leverage Spotify to cancel Joe Rogan, how many other content creators go and get canceled? Oh, Dave from London's decided that, um, yeah, uh, this podcast needs to be canceled. Cancel him for misinformation and disinformation. Check your facts, not facts. I mean, honestly, you know, this is like a dam and there's cracks. And people like us should be filling in the cracks and holding the water back with our hands, because as soon as water starts to push through the cracks, the whole dam is smashed down. Okay, number 3 then. There are artists who are blackmailing, ultimatuming Spotify to get rid of Joe Rogan. Now look, if an artist wants to, um, protest By leaving Spotify, cool. I think that is their right, and I would never say to anyone what they can and can't do. But I do not believe it is the right of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and India Arie and all these other people. I do not believe it is their right to give an ultimatum to Spotify and platforms to get rid of Joe Rogan because they disagree with him, and to use the words misinformation and disinformation and racism. When actually the N-word saga was a mash-up video put out of context. So it's your right to go where you want to go and not go where you want to go and leave where you want to leave and say what you want to say, but it is not your right to force others to be cancelled because you disagree and then use words as weapons. You know, words like disinformation, misinformation, and fact-checking. Like, the BBC have their official fact-checker. No, that's the BBC's opinion based on whoever's pulling their puppet strings from the government. So it's not facts at all. And if I said to you, "Oh, you're misinformed, that's disinformation," no, what I really mean is, "I disagree with you and I wanna cancel you." So misinformation and disinformation is not about facts. It's, "I disagree with you and I wanna cancel you," and that needs to fucking stop. Okay, right. Number 4, no one has the right to cancel anyone because they disagree. Olivier has just said here, I'm sick of, uh, this Joe Rogan BS. If you want to get rid of this Joe Rogan BS, then stand up for Spotify and Joe Rogan because it ain't going away on its own. Every single day when I've woken up, I've thought it'd be nice to go and do a live about something else other than Spotify and Joe Rogan, but it's not going away until we push it away. So you have the right to disagree, but you don't have the right to try and cancel someone because you disagree, in my opinion, because that is not what free speech is about. Now, this big thing that's happening at the moment is this N-word mashup that was made about Joe Rogan's content from way back when. So Joe Rogan's content from years ago referring to people like Tarantino using the N-word a lot and Pryor using the N-word a lot, which was from way back, way back. This has been dug out. Now, by the way, this has been there for 12 years, and oh, all of a sudden it comes out now. Hmm, what does that smell of? Does that smell of a smear campaign? Because that N-word mashup video was an out-of-context video. Now, Joe Rogan stepped out and apologized. Do you know, do you know one of the most humble people in this whole process has been Joe Rogan? He's apologized twice to when Some would argue he shouldn't. And he said that, you know, he wants this to be a learning and a teaching experience for many of us. And he regrets saying some things he did. Now, he wanted to use the N-word rather than saying the N-word because, you know, he wanted to— he didn't want to dance around things. He's a comedian. So people are laying on him. He's a comedian. Now, where does free speech Where's the line with comedy? Because if you're not allowed to joke about A, B, and C, then you can't joke about D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P in comedy. Now, by the way, if you're cancelling Joe— if it is mainstream media and the government and whoever else who are behind this and they're cancelling Joe Rogan, then you have to cancel Jimmy Carr, did a Holocaust joke. Whoopi Goldberg, who said Holocaust wasn't about race. Then you have to cancel everyone. Because everyone said something stupid. I know I have plenty of times. You could absolutely ruin me if you just went and mashed up words. Did any of you see that Number 10 Downing Street mashup video? You gotta fight for your right to party. Based on the Number 10 parties. And that was a clever mashup. And they basically made a rhyme pretty much word for word tracking. Beastie Boys song. It's a— any— anyone could mash anyone up to be hate, racist, anything. What does it— a mashup counts for nothing. And by the way, Don Winslow slammed JR, Joe Rogan, for using the N-word, and he uses the N-word in his books, and yet he's coming out and trying to suppress and cancel Joe Rogan. And then people who support Joe Rogan, then they— people try and cancel them. So Don Winslow's trying to slam down Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson for supporting Joe Rogan. Holy shit, everyone get back in your fucking box! Hypocrites all over the place. Don't throw stones in glass houses. So everyone, if Joe Rogan gets canceled, everyone has to get canceled. And then mainstream media win. And remember, fear screams loudest when it's dying. Mainstream media is dying. I don't know who's behind this, but you know what? You can join the dots. What I hate about this now is language is being used as a weapon. So misinformation— misinformation doesn't mean misinformation anymore. Misinformation means I don't like your narrative, you're wrong and I'm right, and I want more power and I want you canceled. So you're misinformed. That's disinformation. That's what that word now means. You know, fact-checking. Fact-checking means my opinion is superior to yours and I want to shoot you down. That's the opposite of what we should be doing. What we should be doing is allowing and encouraging discussion and debate. And we're allowed to be passionate about our discussions and debates, and we're allowed to want to try and prove ourselves right. But we need to all be able to debate, and we need both sides and all extremes of the discussion and the debate. Because, you know, when you try and strike people down, it just makes them more angry. And all these people now disowning Joe Rogan, I'm sorry, most of them are hypocrites. That's why I stand by Joe Rogan and Spotify, although I'm waiting for Spotify to announce where these 100 episodes have gone, because maybe they're starting to cancel him already. Sorry if, um, When I'm moving, the mic's going in and out. I've plugged this one in, I've plugged the good one in. Thank you for the feedback. Right, so Joe Rogan has given so many people platforms, he's made so many millionaires. Why are they all staying quiet? Well, not all of them are. Some of them are standing for Joe Rogan. I've never been on Joe Rogan, I've never met Joe Rogan, but I've listened to loads of Joe Rogan shows and I've gained loads of value out of it, and I haven't had to pay a penny until Spotify came in. Then I only have to pay my Spotify subscription. I already subscribed to Spotify. So Joe Rogan's had a lot of value in my life. Some of my favorite podcast episodes have been with people who have been on Joe Rogan. And I used to love UFC back in the day, and he's a great commentator. And you should support the things and the people that you believe in. But you're not just standing up for Joe Rogan and Spotify, you're standing up for your own free speech. So please hit the share button. Please share this message far and wide and pick a side. Often you don't need to pick a side. There's no need to pick a side. But now you need to pick a side. Is your side free speech and decentralization and democracy and power for the people? Or is your side globalism, totalitarianism, and mainstream media control? Because that is what this is about, make no mistake. So unfortunately, right now I'm trying, and so many people, to protect one dying breed, and that is the podcast. So YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and Clubhouse and all the other social media channels, some are more censored than others, but essentially they're not uncensored platforms. They have censorship, and some of that censorship is right because we don't want to incite violence and abuse. Some of that censorship is wrong because it's just really, um, sponsors don't like against mainstream narrative for COVID and lockdowns, vaccines. But I always thought, well, do you know what, at least I've got my podcast Disruptors. At least I've still got that because I can say what I want on my podcast. I've got a week-long ban on my, um, YouTube channel because a 4-time guest of Joe Rogan said COVID has Only now my podcast— this is another reason why we must stand up for Spotify and Joe Rogan, because if we censor Joe Rogan, we now censor every podcast potentially. So now we have no democracy of information, no decentralization of information. We have only narrative of mainstream media. Now mainstream media was an empire that was falling, and like I said, fear screams loudest when it's dying. The mainstream media empire is dying now. It had a lot more power 10, 15 years ago, and it's been broken by social media and people like Joe Rogan. But it's fighting back because it wants to survive, and we need to push back against it. So, um, I have a podcast called Disruptors, and if you go to robmoore.com/pod, robmoore.com/pod, That is now the only place on the internet, and thankfully it's not yet on the dark web, it's the only place on the internet where you can get fully uncensored, unedited interviews and content and rants from me. RobMoore.com/pod. So please just pop over there right now, uh, and go and claim the links to my show Disruptors. Robmoore.com/pod. Uh, let me just type it in the— there you go. robmoore.com/pod, as in podcast. It's the only place now where I can post fully uncensored, unedited content. And it might end up being that that is the only place for everyone to post that now, though. If Spotify canceled Joe Rogan, then that's gonna end. And it's like the freaking dodo or the white tiger that's about to be extinct. We need to save the white saber-toothed tiger. We need to save the dodo. The podcast is becoming the— potentially, it's the only platform left where there is no censoring. And that's why we must fight and officially stand by Joe Rogan. Now, I can't tell you who to stand for, but I can encourage you to stand for someone. So just pop over to robmoore.com/pod, links in the comments. I've pinned it, uh, and, um, I've actually got some special anniversary gifts for you. So, um, it was my 6-year anniversary of my podcast, it was the 1,000-episode anniversary as well. So I've got some content creation, social media and brand building and management and scaling and monetization gifts for you there to celebrate my, uh, hmm, 6-year 1,000 anniversary. And I wish I wasn't talking about this, but this is more important now. So robmoore.com/pod, come and listen to some uncensored content from me. I've changed now the direction of my podcast. It would be more about entrepreneurs, change makers, and now it's about innovators, disruptors, rebels, and some of the people who are fighting for freedom and freedom of speech and against, you know, totalitarianism and globalization, which may or may not be what's going on behind the scenes. But if this— if it turns out that mainstream media and governmental control cancel Joe Rogan, then I'm going to become much more skeptical than I was, and I'm going to go further down this rabbit hole, which I'd rather not do. I'd rather just help you become a startup scale-up entrepreneur, make money making a difference, rather help you be a content creator, um, and, you know, build up digital assets and multiple streams of recurring income. And that's what my podcast has always been about, and it still is about that. But I'm interviewing bigger disruptors now, and I'm taking more bold risks on the people that I'm associating myself with on my podcast for the sake of having balanced narrative. Because if we don't have balanced narrative, then we submit to mainstream media control, because mainstream media is dying and fear screams the loudest when it's dying. Okay, so thanks for tuning in. Hit the share button. Quick summary: I officially stand by Joe Rogan. Who do you stand by? Share this content if you stand by Joe Rogan. Why have the 70 and the 100 episodes that have disappeared? Why is there no announcement on where that's gone? Um, 8 quick reasons why I stand by Joe Rogan. Number 1, it's now Joe Rogan and Spotify representing the people for the free speech of the people. That's what it's become. Because number 2, mainstream media have waded in trying to cancel Joe Rogan, and so have the government. Number 3, many of these artists have given ultimatums to Spotify. That's wrong. They're allowed to leave and they're allowed to protest. You just don't give ultimatums for censorship. And who owns a lot of the back catalogs of Neil Young, for example? Number 4, I don't believe anyone has the right to cancel someone just because they disagree, and I will fight for your right to disagree with me. Number 5, this N-word mashup is completely out of context, and oh, the timing of the smear campaign of Joe Rogan. And if you have to go for Joe Rogan, you have to go for Jimmy Carr— don't want you to do that. You have to go for Whoopi Goldberg— don't want you to do that. And you have to go for everyone, and I don't want you to do that. Don Winslow slammed Joe Rogan for the N-word. Yeah, he's written it all over his book. Slammed The Rock, Dwayne Johnson, for standing by Joe Rogan. Get back in your box, mate. Um, you know, don't throw stones in glass houses. Any one of us could be mashed up to look, you know, like we should be canceled. Stop judging everyone so much. Stop trying to make out to be who they're not. Everyone who seems to know Joe Rogan seems to think he's a straight-up guy. And if you cancel Joe Rogan, you have to cancel everyone. And then when you cancel everyone, you just give all the power back to the mainstream media, who've been losing the power. Because remember, fear screams loudest when it's dying. Language is now a weapon. Fact checks and misinformation are basically saying, I want to use that word as a weapon against you because I don't believe you and I'm right and you're wrong and you have no right to speak up and I do and I want you canceled. So it's misinformation and disinformation. Ironically, BBC have their own fact-checking department, but they are now not an unbiased media empire. Um, people are disowning Joe Rogan. Many of them are hypocrites. Uh, and, um, we need to stand up for the last dying breed platform for non-censorship, which is podcasting. Which is why I recommended you go to robmoore.com/pod, because that's where you can gain access to my 1,000 episodes, 6 years worth of podcasting. And I will now be stepping up the scale and the disruption and the changemakers, disruptors, and innovators that I'll be interviewing. Joe Rogan has given platforms to so many people. He has made many millionaires. Do not stay quiet on this. If you support Joe Rogan, share this content and go and stand up in support. So thanks for tuning in, everyone. I'm really grateful to you all. Thanks for following my work. Remember, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything. Please hit that share button right now. And, um, look, I'll keep shouting about this until it stops and until we make a difference.
