Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's podcast <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2022/08/23/meghan-markle-reveals-son-archie-narrowly-escaped-bedroom-fire-in-archetypes-podcast/" target="_blank"><i>Archetypes</i></a> has overtaken <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2022/02/01/how-did-joe-rogan-spotifys-100-million-podcast-man-become-so-controversial/" target="_blank"><i>The Joe Rogan Experience</i></a> to become No 1 on <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2022/07/13/spotify-is-buying-heardle-heres-what-it-means-for-the-music-trivia-game/" target="_blank">Spotify’s </a>US podcast chart. The feat comes days after the duchess released the first episode, in which she discuses double standards towards “ambitious” women, with <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/serena-williams/" target="_blank">tennis great Serena Williams</a>. Titled <i>The Misconception of Ambition with Serena Williams</i>, the duchess also revealed how her son, Archie, narrowly escaped a fire in his bedroom, where he was supposed to be sleeping as she and husband <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-arrive-in-cape-town-1.913969" target="_blank">Prince Harry toured South Africa in 2019</a>. The couple dropped their son off, who was 4 months old at the time, with their nanny Lauren, before heading out on an official visit to the Nyanga township, where the duchess gave a speech. Although a fire broke out in the room Archie was due to sleep in, his nanny had earlier taken him downstairs. “There was this moment where I’m standing on a tree stump and I’m giving this speech to women and girls, and we finish the engagement, we get in the car and they say there’s been a fire at the residence. What? There’s been a fire in the baby’s room,” said the duchess, who rose to fame through her role in Netflix series <i>Suits</i>. “We came back. And, of course, as a mother, you go: ‘Oh, my God, what?’ Everyone’s in tears, everyone’s shaken. And what do we have to do? Go out and do another official engagement? I said: ‘This doesn’t make any sense’.” <i>Archetypes </i>also outperformed HBO Max’s <i>Official Game of Thrones Podcast</i>, focused on the new prequel series, <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/television/2022/08/19/house-of-the-dragon-fires-up-targaryens-matt-smith-and-emma-darcy-as-westeros-returns/" target="_blank"><i>House of the Dragon</i></a><i>,</i> which recently set viewing records for the company. Despite a number of controversies and <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/music/2022/02/03/spotify-boycott-whos-supporting-joe-rogan-and-whos-against-him/" target="_blank">calls for its boycott last year</a>, <i>The Joe Rogan Experience, </i>hosted by comedian and UFC commentator Joe Rogan, continues to be hugely popular. Some Twitter users reacted to the news with glee, with one writing: “It is supremely satisfying to know more people are listening to Meghan Markle than Joe Rogan.” Others questioned how long the duchess's podcast would be able to maintain the momentum: “For what, a week?” Rogan recently hosted Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to discuss the Facebook algorithm and the company’s approach to content moderation. Spotify is thought to have paid $100 million in 2019 for exclusive streaming rights to the podcast, which endured heightened publicity recently over its inclusion of guests with alternative views of Covid-19 vaccines. <b>Scroll through images of </b><a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/fashion/2021/08/04/meghan-markle-at-40-the-duchess-of-sussexs-40-best-fashion-moments/" target="_blank"><b>Meghan Markle through the years </b></a><b>below</b>