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Weekly Wrap: The Most Popular Podcasts of 2024 and a Few Internet Highlights
In Case You (Were Podcasting and) Missed It⬆️ Spotify released a list of the most popular podcasts, music and audiobooks in 2024. Spoiler alert, Joe Rogan made the list. 🤖 Spotify Wrapped offers an AI-generated podcast that has two (future bot overlord) "hosts" having a conversation that reviews your year in listening. Nope, not creepy at all. 🎧 Apple also has a list of its most popular podcasts of 2024. Rogan is here too. 📺 But wait, there's more. YouTube also has a list of global trends. 🌐 Bring out the 2024 lists! Mashable tackles the best internet moments of 2024. It's a rare space where Wicked, Raygun, and The Willy Wonka Experience (remember that?) all coexist. The Lighter SideWith all of these "best of" lists happening, we thought it would be interesting to run by AI what the most popular podcast in the universe looks like. This is the answer, and we have absolutely no idea why.
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