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<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Six Podcast Episodes to Stream This Weekend

Grab your headphones. Our staff suggests a few classic podcast episodes for this final weekend of January.
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You’ve heard of podcasts? Joe Rogan has one, and Neil Young is not a fan. This week, Young issued an ultimatum to Spotify, which carries Rogan’s controversial—and enormously popular—show, threatening to pull his music off the platform if it didn’t dump Rogan for promoting misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines. Rogan’s podcast remains on Spotify; Young’s music does not.

Podcasts may have opened up their own little front in the culture wars, but many provide

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