Spotify is taking down hundreds, I think, of our episodes.

I think the last time I checked, it was over 160 episodes in our back catalog

are basically being erased and not allowed up on the Spotify platform.

Now, I can't act like this is not something that I knew might come one day.

Since the very early days of Rev left, 2017 is when we started.

AI copyright scanning wasn't a thing.

We didn't think that we'd get this big at all in the early days.

And I had always infused the episodes with music, often, you know, independent,

underground music, sometimes bigger artists at the end of our free episodes only, right?

And my logic at the time was just that these episodes are free.

I'm not making money off them.

You know, you have an hour two hours three hours

of conversation and then you have a couple minutes of an outro song and if anything um it's just exposing

artists to new listeners right um and i know for a fact that that's occurred over the years people have

reached out and said you know i listen to bamboo because i heard them on your show or, you know, AJJ or Mount Erie or a million others. And so I figured, you know,

it's either neutral for an artist or benefits the artist just to have their song freely played

on the end of a free episode. Nobody's benefit, nobody's profiting off of anybody else's music

or pretending that it's their own, right?

There's not plagiarism or anything.

And it added a really cool, emotional, aesthetic vibe at the end of our episodes.

You know, just like the music itself could add a certain aesthetic vibe or the lyrics itself could be relevant to the content of the thing we had just discussed.

And so I always loved doing that.

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