The Guide #20: Joe Rogan is just one rogue in podcasting’s wild west

In this week's newsletter: the beauty of podcasts is that anyone can start one and be successful. But that also means Rogan's is far from the first show to get out of hand

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Welcome to this week's edition of the Guide - I'm filling in for Gwilym Mumford with your roundup of recommendations for what to read, watch and listen to, and pop cultural conversation starters.

On that note, has there been a bigger cultural conversation starter this week than the beef between Neil Young and Joe Rogan (and by extension a little streaming service called Spotify)? Rogan, a man described by the New York Times as Oprah for the Creatine-taking set", sold the rights to his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience to the music/tech giants for $100m in 2020. Fast forward to 2022, and he has been accused by experts of spreading vaccine misinformation on his show - not least through an interview with a controversial vaccine scientist and sceptic, Dr Robert Malone, who claimed that the public had been hypnotised" into following Covid rules.