Of the thousands of podcasts I’ve subscribed to over the years, and the 230+ I subscribe to now, I listen to every episode of only a handful. Now Spotify has shuttered two of them of at once: Heavyweight and Stolen.

Coincidentally, Heavyweight was just listed in the NYT’s “Best Podcasts of 2023” (archive link). Oh, and did I mention that Stolen won a Pulitzer and a Peabody?

I’ve been a Spotify podcast refusenik since they started their attempted hostile takeover of the open ecosystem. I’ve never listened to a single episode of any show limited to the platform (including Heavyweight, while it was limited to the platform).

I moved my streaming music listening to Tidal. Though streaming is problematic for most musical artists, so I most often listen to music from my own collection, 750 gigs of digitized CDs and LPs I’ve been curating since the long ago days of digital yore.