Look, episodes getting “removed” from Spotify usually comes down to a few buckets: - Policy stuff / moderation calls. Either Spotify decides something violates their rules, or they get a flood of complaints and they review it. There was that whole wave where other platforms started yanking people and then everyone felt pressure to act. In one case like that, the platform basically said, “we checked our own rules and didn’t see a violation,” but then the outside pressure and mass-reporting ramps up and things change. That kind of domino effect is real. - Rights and licensing. Sometimes it’s not even “censorship,” it’s boring legal stuff—music clips, fight footage, TV audio, whatever—somebody claims it, and it gets pulled.

• Spotify exclusivity/availability changes. There was also the big shift where the show became Spotify-only after Dec 1 and they were telling people “it’ll be free, including video,” but only on Spotify. That didn’t “remove” episodes exactly, but it did make them disappear from other apps, and people experienced it like removal. If you tell me which episodes you mean—like specific guests or that time period—I can narrow it down, because the reason isn’t always the same.