181 - Is Spotify Evil?

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Having 70 million songs at your fingertips has never been easier, but is Spotify evil when it comes to paying artists? There are various opinions floating around about the platform, but the opportunity for musicians to reach a larger audience and potentially get paid is surely a good thing? In this episode Scott and Ian set out to debunk the biggest myths about one of the world’s most successful streaming services.

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0:00.0	Yeah, like, hey, why didn't you just go close, like, by the way, if anybody's listening to this, hopefully you are, we would talk about closed school shopping, which we definitely did here in the UK, but Ian used to
0:21.8	drive nine hours to buy his school clothes. Was there no shops closer? Or was it like an excuse to go
0:31.8	to Seattle, do you think? Probably more of that. But yeah, I grew up in the northwestern corner,
0:36.1	Montana, a little town called Callis Bell. And there was, of course, there was stuff there. And there was a town two hour south called Missoula. But to get to a proper metro, you know, it was nine hour drive to Seattle. That was the nearest big city. And sometimes my parents would just be like, well, right, here we go. And that was
0:55.1	just sort of normal. We're just like, yep, nine hour drive, right? Right, right into, right into
1:01.1	the city. Calis Bell. Yeah, Calis Bell. I S-P-E-L-L. Yeah. I'm on, I'm on the big G. Oh,
1:09.4	wow. There's a beautiful place, man.
1:11.7	Oh, yeah, it's beautiful.
1:13.4	There is a lot of trees.
1:15.8	I can confirm lots of trees.
1:16.8	Yeah.
1:19.6	So was this place just in the middle of nowhere?
1:23.9	Well, it's in the Rocky Mountain.
1:27.7	It's in a mountain range called the Mission Mountains, which is a part of the Rocky Mountain Range. It comes down from Canada, right? And there's like BAMPF, which is a beautiful
1:32.6	park. Oh, yeah, jazz thing right now, right? BAMS. Yeah. And then it comes down and then once it
1:38.4	gets stateside, we call it Glacier Park. And it's unbelievable. I mean, Glacier glacier park is absolutely beautiful there's like active glaciers
1:48.0	big hikes crazy lakes like postcard stuff you know mountains yeah and so we're
1:54.3	callospell is in a valley it's called a flathead valley right in the midst of these beautiful mountains.
2:02.8	And it's my dad's still there, you know, and he said that when the pandemic happened, something like it increased in population by like 300%.
2:12.6	I could be totally getting that wrong.
2:14.8	Well, because people were just like, let's go there.
2:17.5	Yes, huge influx of people because now were just like, let's go there. Yes.
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