Trust me, when you open the Spotify app you will know that they have podcasts. The entire top half of my Home Screen (where I used to find music recommendations) became nothing but podcasts.
And they really, really want you to know that they have Joe Rogan.
The actual software for spotify’s podcast is pretty awful, too. I tried to use it briefly (before Rogan) because it seems easy to sync between my PC and phone since I have the software on both, but it lacked so many basic features. A few months ago it didn’t even keep track of which episodes you had listened to and which you hadn’t! It’s just super annoying and lacking in features compared to every other podcast app I’ve tried.
I only use my iPhone’s built-in podcast app. If it’s not available there I won’t listen. I have a handful of podcasts I listen to regularly.
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I decided in 2001 that I couldn’t afford an iPod, so when podcasts became a thing, I decided that they were going to have to be a thing without me.
The decision hasn’t left any gaping holes in my life so far.
It was funny hearing the lead-ins as Gimlet stuff moved to Spotify “Try listening in the Spotify app, it doesn’t suck for podcasts nearly as much as it used to!”
Podcasts were open thing. An RSS feed is made publicly available. It contains links to audio files. As new episodes appear, new entries are added to the RSS feed, and people’s podcast players download the audio file. I guess it is kind of like if a show left broadcast TV (free with ads), and went (subscription) streaming only. That’s certainly happened. If the ads are to be believed, you can listen to Spotify podcasts with the free plan, but I’d have to really like one to bother.
There were some Gimlet shows I enjoyed, and when they went Spotify exclusive, I was sad to see them go, but whatever, I’ve already got more podcasts than I can listen to at 2x speed, and tons more good ones I haven’t even bothered to check out yet.
Back to the topic of the thread, I’ve had people try to explain to me how Joe Rogan is one of the smartest men alive, and he is so incredibly insightful in his interviews and ideas. I was always pretty skeptical, but never really payed attention to him either way.
Good to know this is one more “highly recommended podcast” that I can strike of my “try” list. Too bad for society it is so popular and he is such a willing chump.
So, like when you’re driving, do you listen to the radio? When you’re cutting the grass do you just listen to the mower? WHAT ENTERTAINS YOU WHILE YOU DO THE DISHES? I don’t get it!
I listen to NPR or the classical station when I drive, I haven’t needed to mow a lawn since 1978, and when I’m washing dishes, I listen to the Beatles Channel on the Amazon Echo.
Somebody got to him.
So is he just a meathead who says horrible racist things without knowing they’re racist, or is he actually a horrible racist?
And more importantly, is that actually a meaningful distinction?
It’s not. I’d wager that most racists don’t know that they’re racists; they justify their beliefs and prejudices to themselves as being rational and realistic, devoid of being “politically correct”. That doesn’t make them any less racist.
Don’t know if this was posted.
This “presenting both sides” bullshit has to stop.
Sometimes there are NOT “both sides”
If there is a lunatic who is calling for all red-haired people to be murdered because they eat Christian babies for lunch, and another person who says this is dangerous and entirely wrong…
You don’t present “both sides” of this discussion.
You don’t find a middle ground, where you only kill a few red-haired people.
Stop giving racists, the violent, the mentally ill, those who want to destroy our society “equal time”.
Yes yes, I know it’s all about the clicks, the entertainment, the eyeballs on screen… basically the money. I’m just so fucking tired of asswipes like Rogan using the excuse of “presenting both sides” when what they really mean is “I like money”
He says he doesn’t know what to do aside from bringing people on who have differing opinions.
He doesn’t get that the problem isn’t the opinions on his show. It’s the facts on his show.
Hey, maybe he will follow through with his pledge in trying to do research ahead of time, and maybe a miracle will happen, Ebeneezer Scrooge will learn the magic of Christmas, the Grinch’s heart will grow three times its size, and Joe Rogan will stop being a purveyor of dangerous and deadly misinformation. But I’ll believe it when I see/hear it.
I worry that he’ll “do his research”, read some BS blog by some nut pushing conspiracy theories, and give people air time as he always had, and insist that “tha interwebz sed so”.
When he starts off saying “I’m not a doctor, I’m not a scientist”, then you should not have shows on those subjects. You’re not qualified to. If you are personally making the decisions on what views to portray on your show, and you aren’t qualified to do so, just avoid them. Bring MMA fighters and comedians and such, and stay away from Covid crap.
I hear: “I’ll give the truth and nonsense equal time.”
I’m afraid that’s probably exactly what he’ll do. He probably thinks that if he brings in some quack who insists that rubbing mayonnaise and powdered ginger on your genitals will prevent Covid, and then if the following week he brings a real doctor that insists you need a vaccine, masks, and social distancing to protect yourself, he’s being fair and the criticism will stop.
I mean, I guess it’s sort of an improvement, but he just has to stop giving a bullhorn to the dangerous loonies. Maybe someone will listen to Rogan’s podcast and decide to get the vaccine, awesome. But that’s not enough. It’s not enough to wear your seat belt half the time, and the rest of the time drive intoxicated and blindfolded. Just stop the stupid altogether.
Long before COVID I used to enjoy Rogan’s podcast because he’d have on wackjobs like Graham Hancock who’d rant for two hours about ancient world-spanning civilizations who lived during the ice age while Joe Rogan nodded along. It was a fun way to kill some time and laugh about how wrong they both were. Now listening to that sort of things leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It’s clear that this wasn’t harmless nonsense after all - it primed hosts of idiots to buy lies about COVID or the Sandy Hook “crisis actors” hook, line, and sinker.
Without that kind of crap, there’s not much left for Rogan to talk about on his show.
He’s racist. There should be no question.
But of course there are.
There’s nothing wrong with having a guest who advises drinking your own urine to vanquish Covid-19, as long as you come back later to interview an infectious diseases doc who says not to. Even better, have them both on at the same time to debate*, and let the audience decide who’s right.
/sarcasm
Anyway, Spotify’s stock soared today and that’s all that counts, plus ratings.
*a lot of quacks are challenging scientists and public health experts to debates these days. If you’re a smooth-talking charlatan who’s talented at Gish galloping, you can “win”.