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Many people probably do not know that Joe Rogan has been doing his podcast for 10 years. He was doing a podcast when he was being told he was wasting his time. Now Rogan is laughing all the way to the bank. Because of his interview style, podcast listeners cannot get enough of Rogan. His podcast is consistently one of the most popular shows every time a new episode is released.
On Jordan B Peterson’s podcast, Rogan says he was told he was wasting his time doing a podcast during the early days of his show. Now they ask him how he made his podcast so popular. Rogan says he’s now getting about 200 million downloads per episode. He tells Peterson he tries to pay as little attention to the numbers as possible because he says he might lose his mind because it’s so many people. Rogan says the numbers are even higher when you factor in his YouTube viewers. He added YouTube about four years ago.
Most experts would tell you that podcasts that are longer than 30 minutes or an hour are not going to make it. Obviously Rogan does not fit into that category.
Rogan told Peterson that his best friend even tried to get him to edit his show down (some are three hours long). But Rogan says he likes talking to people for long periods of time and if people can only listen for an hour that’s fine with him. He says, in an interview setting, you really get cooking after the first half hour or forty minutes. “That’s where you get comfortable and into a groove.” He says often times the last hour of a three-hour podcast is his best hour.
Rogan says part of his “revolutionary” idea was that he didn’t care. “I wasn’t doing it for money. The only reason I was doing it was because I enjoy talking to people.”
Listen to the Rogan interview HERE. He starts talking about podcasting specifically about 50 minutes in.
Comments:
Are you positive it’s 200 million download? 20 million sounds more accurate