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Today, Explained

Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The podcast host built a massive audience by speaking to fringe figures in culture, business, and science. During the pandemic, that got him in trouble with Neil Young, among others. This episode was produced by Will Reid and Amina Al-Sadi, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Today explained, Ramos Verum. We talk a lot about powerful Joe's on the show lately. There's

1:13.0

obviously White House President Joe Biden. There's of course Senate President Joe Manchin.

1:18.6

And then there's the President of podcasts Joe Rogan.

1:21.9

Joe Rogan podcast check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience.

1:26.0

Join my day Joe Rogan podcast my night. All day. As you've surely heard by now,

1:31.2

an old man named Neil Young got very mad at Joe Rogan and the company that distributes his podcast

1:37.4

Spotify, which subsequently lost something like a couple billion dollars of its market value.

1:43.6

This past week, the situation kind of boiled over.

1:47.5

Ashley Carmen has been covering the story and breaking news about it for the merch.

1:52.6

Joe Rogan is signed exclusively to Spotify. And this past week, Neil Young,

1:57.3

Joni Mitchell and a bunch of others have started speaking out about them being uncomfortable

2:01.9

with Spotify distributing his show. And then Neil Young and Joni Mitchell specifically pulled their

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