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Whether or not you like Joe Rogan, I think there’s something significant about how far they’ve come with so little. They don’t have many employees. They don’t
by thenerdhead 4y ago
Whether or not you like Joe Rogan, I think there’s something significant about how far they’ve come with so little.
They don’t have many employees. They don’t take much time to produce shows. They don’t have countless assistants to schedule logistics. They keep their operating costs modest. And yet their shows reach a mass audience.
I respect how a small team has kept onto their autonomy and continues to grow and be in the headlines constantly depending on what was discussed. They just push content into the world and the world reacts to it.
- koheripbal 4y agoThe real question is how he got such good guests in the beginning.
- mattwilsonn888 4y agoReread what you responded to. I'm sure it is a large component.
- hammock 4y agoUnless you consider Joey Diaz to be a “such good guest,” he didn’t
- notdarkyet 4y agoIt should be pretty clear if you look at Joes career outside of the podcast. For 30 years he has been in the entertainment industry with stand up comedy, television (News Radio and Fear Factor), to announcing UFC fights. He was one of the fist big podcasts and livestreamers before others started doing the same. Most of his initial (and repeat) guests are simply friends from these various industries.
- jjulius 4y agoHe was already a celebrity before he started his podcast.
- nomel 4y agoAnother question being, since those same guests have been present on many other podcasts (most do rounds for promotions), why does his podcast seem to be preferred?
- tharne 4y agoHe let his guests talk without trying to put words in their mouths. He respects his guests and takes a sincere interest in them. In other words, he's the exact opposite of most people in the media.
- threeseed 4y agoI don't think it's particularly impressive. He's not that different to a top-tier Youtuber or influencer of which there are hundreds who have managed to build successful content businesses with very small staff. They are all just standing on the shoulders of the platforms and content creation tools which allows them to affordably produce and distribute high quality content to billions. Something which has never previously been possible.
- adammarples 4y agoI remember Joe podcasting back when there were like 3 podcasts available. He came out shortly after the iphone, the first platform he was available on was probably iTunes. He's been doing it a long time where many have failed.
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- zimpenfish 4y ago> I remember Joe podcasting back when there were like 3 podcasts available. According to [1], JRE launched in late 2009. According to [2], podcasts took off spectacularly in 2004 and by 2005, every man and his dog had a podcast (paraphrasing, obvs.) Whilst he has been doing it a long time, he was relatively late to the party. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joe_Rogan_Experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joe_Rogan_Experience [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_podcasting#Timeline
- tomjakubowski 4y agoI have no evidence to back it, but it felt to me like there was a podcasting boom around 2004-2006, and then I stopped hearing about them until a revival circa 2014, when everyone and their mother was listening to Serial.
- golemotron 4y ago> Whether or not you like Joe Rogan, I think there’s something significant about how far they’ve come with so little. Joe identifies as a man.
- ssizn 4y agoI think he means the entire team.
- bavila 4y agoThe statement was clearly meant as a joke, albeit a flat and stale one.
- eachro 4y agothey as in him + his assistant(s) that produce the show
- bioemerl 4y agoIn addition to what some others are saying here, they is often used as a singular gender neutral pronoun and not a specific pronoun that excludes the others. I use singular they all the time, especially online where people are accounts and not people.
- akomtu 4y agoWell, in the context of this conversation, "singular gender neutral pronoun" is one of the things that doesn't belong to JRE's show.
- StrictDabbler 4y agoTruly, it is incredible that a sitcom star from the peak of network television and who hosted one of the first major reality television gameshows and the early years of the MMA rise has managed to parlay that tiny bit of fame into a podcast listenership of 12 million. If only the rest of us could do so much with so little.
- choxi 4y agoI think the overpolished and analytics-driven media personalities left a vacuum for an authentic voice to fill. Someone would have filled it, and it happened to be Joe. It’s not like someone sufficiently motivated could repeat his success trajectory, part of it is always being in the right place at the right time too.
- xwowsersx 4y agoHis prior fame undoubtedly helped him get off the ground, but if you think the show's success coasts purely on his earlier fame, I'm afraid to say this is a story you're telling yourself, seemingly in part, to make yourself feel better. A podcast doesn't stay relevant with a large and loyal audience unless it's actually good. To pretend like JRE is a continued success purely because he was on TV before 1) ignores the countless podcasts started by people far less famous than Rogan was when he started which have failed to take off and 2) sounds like a cynical, resentful thing you tell yourself feel better along the lines of "well, if I came from where Rogan did, I'd be just as successful." Whatever you want to say about the reasons anyone tuned in to begin with, it's transparently unfair (and betrays your own "issues") to not offer a balanced perspective which includes the need to acknowledge the obvious which is that Rogan's success just might be _also_ due to the fact that he is a good interviewer, that he has good guests on his show, that he's able to spark interesting conversations, etc. The idea that his TV stint and MMA fame makes a listenership of 12M an automatic thing is just laughable.
- guhidalg 4y agoUnreal this amount of effort is spent defending Joe Rogan.
- StanislavPetrov 4y agoThe same thing that attracts so many to his podcast is what drives so many away: his lack of a political agenda. Many people find it refreshing that Rogan can talk (mostly listen) to nearly anyone without pushing his (or anyone else's) agenda on them or acting as some sort of policeman to attack those with views that various groups of people don't like. Unfortunately in today's environment, many people (most of the ones who don't like Rogan) think it is incumbent on everyone to be a wokescold. They think that having a conversation with someone somehow grants them legitimacy or "normalizes" their views, while intelligent people with coherent, well-thought out principles understand that legitimacy is not something that is granted through proxy.
- givemeethekeys 4y agoIf by, "they", you mean the show, then the show's name is The Joe Rogan Experience. Joe Rogan is the host. The team behind the team started small and have managed to stay small despite the massive audience. Very cool indeed.