'The Joe Rogan Experience' has been the number one most popular podcast on Spotify for four years, but a controversial new audio show has just usurped it. The new podcast, called 'The Telepathy Tapes,' is co-hosted by filmmaker Ky Dickens and psychiatrist Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell.
On the show, Dickens and Dr. Powell explore the 'profound abilities of non-speakers with autism,' according to The Telepathy Tapes' website. The hosts claim that those abilities include 'telepathy and otherworldly perceptions,' citing experiments involving nonverbal autistic children and others with similar disorders.
The podcast has become so popular that it pushed Joe Rogan's down to the number two spot on Spotify's podcasts charts, but not everyone is loving it. Its far-out claims have elicited skepticism from some listeners and experts who question the validity of the research Dickens and Dr. Powell reference, and the conclusions they draw from it.
That said, the show has to be doing something right to have dethroned Rogan, whose podcast has gripped Spotify listeners' attention since he sold the exclusivity rights to the streaming service in 2020. That $100 million deal reportedly brought 14 million new subscribers to Spotify.
'The Joe Rogan Experience' has been the number one most popular podcast on Spotify for four years. But a controversial new audio show has just usurped it. Since then, Rogan's podcast has largely maintained its stronghold at the top of the charts, aside from a few brief exceptions.
