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• Joe Rogan has plenty of fans - including one who, in 2017, asked a friend "Could you introduce me, I think he's funny". That person? Jeffrey Epstein. Today, Podnews looks at the Epstein podcast files - shows he listened to, that he was recommended, podcasts he was asked to help pay to make, and even the video podcasts filmed in his house.
• Cheap and relatively dumb flip phones are selling well, for people who want to quit their smartphone addiction: but they don't have a podcast app on them. Step forward PodLP, which has launched a version of its podcast app for so-called dumbphones. (From today, Podnews podcast pages link to PodLP, too - here's what our daily podcast looks like).
• The EarBuds Podcast Collective is nine years old today - and its founder and curator Arielle Nissenblatt is celebrating by launching a reader survey to help plot the next nine years.

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