Nationally syndicated radio host Clay Travis said it would behoove Joe Rogan to get fired from Spotify. Travis made his comments during a segment in the second hour of the “Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” Monday.
On Sunday, Rogan responded to the ongoing drama involving former Spotify artists Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, who are part of a growing list of artists who have given the platform an ultimatum to fire Rogan for broadcasting COVID misinformation.
“I want to thank Spotify for being so supportive during this time, and I’m very sorry that this is happening to them and that they’re taking so much from it,” Rogan said.
Travis said if he was in Rogan’s position, he would not want to “grovel and beg” for someone to distribute his content. “Maybe in a counterintuitive way, what I mean by this, as soon as he gets fired by Spotify, they, first of all, would probably have to pay him out on the existing contract that he has now.”
Rogan said he was taken aback by musical artists coming out against him. He played down the significance of his conversations with newsmakers who sometimes share controversial views on the COVID pandemic.
“Oftentimes, I have no idea what I’m going to talk about until I sit down and talk to people,” Rogan said Sunday. “And that’s why some of my ideas are not that prepared or fleshed out because I’m literally having them in real-time, but I do my best, and they’re just conversations, and I think that’s also the appeal of the show.”
“I wonder what advice Joe Rogan is getting here?” Travis asked. “I think it would be the best thing that could possibly happen to his career [to be terminated]. “
Travis added that Rogan is in a unique position because if he leaves the platform, he will be approached by other media outlets.
“He (Rogan) does something that is remarkably rare these days, which is to have different points of view and ask questions,” Travis said.
“By the way, Clay and I would love to have some Democrats. I say this. We say this. We’d have Fauci on in a heartbeat, and I would be respectful and ask him real questions. I know I’ve been very critical of him publicly, but he’s a public figure. He should be able to take the heat. We would love to have people on.”