Joe Rogan
Six takeaways from Donald Trump’s three-hour podcast with Joe Rogan
In a long chat on The Joe Rogan Experience, Donald Trump courted the podcast’s young male listeners – an audience his campaign covets.
- by Michael Gold, Tim Balk and Simon J. Levien
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Opinion
US Votes 2024
From Call Her Daddy to Logan Paul: How podcasters became the vanguard of the US election
Even Donald Trump recently admitted he’s guided not by his dozens of staffers, but by his 18-year-old son, when it comes to who he should be speaking with.
- by Ava Kalinauskas
Opinion
Media & marketing
Why Spotify’s expensive bet on big names like Meghan unravelled
Spotify is scrambling to recover its losses after splashing out millions to lure celebrities.
- by James Warrington
Is the podcast bubble starting to burst?
A million podcasts started airing in 2020 alone. Two years on, 2023 is set to see a fraction of that number.
- by Nick Bonyhady
Spotify executive who signed Harry and Meghan exits as hundreds of jobs cut
Dawn Ostroff, who signed a multimillion-dollar podcast deal with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will leave Spotify.
- by Matthew Field
Opinion
Elon Musk
What Elon Musk’s texts tell us about men, money and power
Getting a glimpse at how billionaire tech bros and other high-profile men talk to each other reinforces the view that if you have enough money, shifting the world’s power levers is something of an exclusive game.
- by Monica Hesse
Joe Rogan says Donald Trump is not welcome on his podcast
The influential podcast host has been accused of promoting conspiracy theories but says there is one guest he won’t have on his show.
- by Timothy Bella
‘Do your own research’: What crypto investors and anti-vaxxers have in common
A common refrain in battles about COVID-19 and vaccination, politics and conspiracy theories, parenting, drugs, food, stock trading and media, it signals not just a rejection of authority but often trust in another kind.
- by John Herrman
Alex Volkanovski: ‘He’s all about the fight, and not the hype’
In this episode, hear how homegrown UFC world champ, children’s book writer and father of two Alex Volkanovski has survived – and thrived – in a brutal sport.
Analysis
Science
Which experts should we trust?
When it comes to expert scientific opinion, not all experts are created equal.
- by Liam Mannix
Opinion
Racism
Whoopi Goldberg, her racism whopper and other right royal fools
The television host, in denying the Holocaust was about race, has accidentally managed to flag that a black and white paradigm ends up making people more racist, not less.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
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