Neal Veglio
speaker
2,822 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Neal Veglio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So they can't really do that, can they?
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And the exit runs through their help desk, not particularly publicly.
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A boycott only works as an event, so a thousand shows leaving on the same Tuesday becomes a news story.
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A thousand shows individually raising support tickets and waiting an unspecified number of days for any human at Spotify to get round to it.
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That's not an event.
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It's a temporary tech support challenge that only has
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To exist until they update their marketing to discourage it with yet more propaganda or a bribe.
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And no press means no pressure.
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And no pressure usually means nothing changes.
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So the mechanism defeats itself before anyone's even organized anything.
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Let's counter the argument that nobody could make this stick, because there are
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Lots of trade bodies that could technically facilitate a movement.
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You got Audio UK, which is a trade association for professional audio production companies.
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You got Podcasters United, that's a thing that exists.
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WGA East has genuinely unionized audio shops, but that's employees organizing against an employer, a completely different mechanism from independent business owners coordinating.
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And then you got the Podcast Academy, which
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seems very good at giving out awards and not much else.
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What none of these bodies has is the one thing that a union needs, the power to make members act together and then bear a cost.
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No strike fund, no binding vote, no mechanism.
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Advocacy and networking are both genuinely useful, but not with this.
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