Slow Burn

Spotify is growing its audio empire by signing deal with Warner Bros., DC for Slate of Exclusive Scripted Podcasts. There’s no information yet on how much the deal is worth or when the first projects will drop  but here’s some more info - Variety. 

Season four of SLOW BURN just came out, with the second episode dropping this past Wednesday! It is the story of how a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. It explores how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him. - Vulture.