If you want my advice, don’t take my advice
“I used to say it if [I was talking about] a Richard Pryor bit or something, I would say it in context,” Rogan said by way of explanation, according to THR. “Somebody made a compilation of every time I said that word over 14 years and they put it on YouTube, and it turned out that was racist as fuck. Even to me! I’m me and I’m watching it saying, ‘Stop saying it!’ I put my cursor over the video and I’m like, ‘Four more minutes?!'”
Rogan went on to say that he hadn’t used that word “in years.”
“It’s kind of weird people will get really mad if you use that word and tweet about it on a phone that’s made by slaves,” he added, transitioning away from the slur for a riff about international labor conditions.
“I talk shit for a living—that’s why this is so baffling to me,” Rogan said. “If you’re taking vaccine advice from me, is that really my fault? What dumb shit were you about to do when my stupid idea sounded better? ‘You know that dude who made people people eat animal dicks on TV? How does he feel about medicine?’ If you want my advice, don’t take my advice.”
As is customary in stand-up comedy, Rogan ended his set with a Q&A, in which one fan asked Rogan if he had considered accepting a recent $100 million offer from Canadian right-wing video-sharing website Rumble to move his podcast to their platform.
“No, Spotify has hung in with me, inexplicably,” Rogan said. “Let’s see what happens.”