Are the Wheels Coming Off at Spotify? The Rise of YouTube, Rap Pod Gods & Holiday Listening For Y’all

It's the last episode for the year so Jules is drinking mulled wine and Stocks is singing carols, but it doesn't look like Spotify will be getting any presents this year. The friends unpack the recent stock sell-off by Spotify ex-CFO Paul Vogel and the future for 'big green', plus some predictions for YouTube and end of year recommendations.

[01:34] Spotify's CFO is out days after mass layoffs, Spotify's former podcast boss calls out the company for setting 'money on fire' with costly celeb deals, The casualties of the podcasting bloodbath

[11:35] Latest Features of YouTube Music

[17:39] How Rap’s Elder Statesmen Took Over Podcasting, TV, and Everything Else

[19:54] Tyler Goodson of ‘S-Town’ Podcast Is Shot Dead in Police Standoff

[21:07] Apple names Wiser than Me Podcast of the Year

Holiday Listening Recommendations

From Stocks: Marc Maron - Taika Waititi

From Jules: The Rest is Entertainment

From Producer Mandy: The New Gurus, Violation, Hooked on Freddie, Rupert: The Last Mogul

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