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Ariel Shapiro

Ariel Shapiro

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    Of course James Corden has a podcast deal.

    It’s been six months since James Corden left The Late Late Show, and now he is joining SiriusXM to host weekly celebrity chat show This Life of Mine with James Corden. Like Trevor Noah and Conan O’Brien before him, Corden is the latest comedian to abandon the late-night grind for what is surely a lucrative, lower-lift podcast deal. The show will be exclusive to SiriusXM subscribers in car and on the app.

    Ariel Shapiro
    Ariel Shapiro
    Apple dips another toe into original podcasts.

    The tech giant will premiere original podcast “The Pirate of Prague” on November 13. While the show itself is hardly groundbreaking (another scammer pod!), the fact that Apple is doing an original at all signals a shift in its approach. Apple has produced about a dozen such shows as it has lost earshare to Spotify and YouTube.

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    Ariel Shapiro
    Report: Channel polls may be coming to WhatsApp

    Beta updates from over the weekend reveal that the Meta-owned messaging app may be working on a new feature that will allow users to create and share polls within channels. Votes in such polls will remain anonymous, according to Android Police.

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    Ariel Shapiro
    Spooky! Elon Musk returns to Joe Rogan’s podcast to talk nonsense.

    The boys are back in town, baby. Musk appeared on a special episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the first two hours of which are available on X (usually, the interview would be exclusive to Spotify, aside from clips). It’s mostly just bros being bros, but if you thought we were going to get out of this unscathed, Musk does throw in a little Soros conspiracy theorizing.