Podast w Paul about Podcasts

The speakers discuss the history and relevance of podcasting. They mention that podcasting started with Adam Curry and Dave Weiner who wanted to listen to radio shows whenever and wherever they wanted. The term "podcasting" was coined in 2004 by Ben Emerson. Over the past 20 years, podcasting has become popular in various genres such as hip hop, sports, cooking, and philosophy. The speakers mention popular podcasts like Joe Rogan's, which has evolved to feature a wide range of guests including scientists and celebrities. They also note that podcasts can now be watched on platforms like YouTube and Spotify. Overall, podcasting has become a popular medium for storytelling and sharing information. Hi everybody, this is Chris Shepard, I'm finishing senior year at the University of Tampa. I'm here with my friend Paul McLeod. What's going on? I'm also finishing my senior year at the University of Tampa and today we're going to be talking about podcasting and the history of its role in digital storytelling and it's relevance today. And so basically podcasts started with, Paul, their names again? So most people knew it was Adam Curry and Dave Weiner. So basically they wanted to listen to the radio but not just only in the car, lounging at home, wherever they wanted to, offline, whenever they can, whenever they could. So this was a few years after the iPod, the original iPod had come out, so people were able to access audio recordings with a device in their pocket which had never been accessible before. So they created, what was called back then was audio blogging, the term podcasting wasn't even relevant until Ben Emerson, he coined the term later in 2004, but most people agreed it was Adam Curry and Dave Weiner. And the 20 years following that, podcasting has absolutely blown up. A lot of times you'll hear somebody say, almost everybody has their own podcast now, you have a podcast in the hip hop world, in fighting, in sports, in almost every category you can think of. There's cooking podcasts, there's book podcasts, there's philosophy podcasts, there's pretty much any type of genre you can think of. And we found a great way for people to tell stories, people to grow fan bases in different industries, for people to promote new items, new brands and what not, and I think now it's about time for us to go into some of those specific genres, some of those people that we have already listened to ourselves and most people listen to. So for example, Joe Rogan, there's a pop culture partying type of podcast, the Nelf Boys, they are pretty popular, there's the Full Sun podcast, there's Logan Paul, popular internet sensation and wrestler, he has a podcast, there is, what else, there is, Jumper is great for hip hop, and yeah, I think we're going to get into Joe Rogan because he's a great example of how podcasting has been used to talk about, tell about, quite nearly anything. So Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan is interesting, it's a really good example of how podcasting has evolved over time, he was one of the early adopters of podcasting, he started his in 2009, I believe, and by 2015 it was one of the largest podcasts in the world, it's the number one podcast today, he just signed a $200 million deal in 2020 with Spotify to exclusively have his podcast. In the beginning of Joe Rogan's podcast, his background is fighting mixed martial arts and mainly his guests were, and comedy, his guests were comedians and mixed martial artists. Now he has guests like Neil deGrasse Tyson, who's one of the top astrophysicists in the world on, pretty consistently, filmatic science guy, like rappers like Kanye, yeah, it's absolutely about giving information to the people and he knows he has a massive platform to do so. Quite literally. And yeah, I mean, it's also an example of many podcasts in the newer, I guess, sphere Yeah, that has the visual effect to it. Podcasts don't only have to be audio, like, you can go on YouTube to watch, you can go on Spotify to watch it, and I'm pretty sure with the right Spotify subscription, you get to actually see them talking while they're recording, it's not literally just audio. So that just goes to show it became quite a popular mode of listening and getting information from people's favorite celebrities and online personas and whatnot. Came a long way since it was being called audio blogging. Yeah, I can say, I'm sure Paul can say, I listen to podcasts a lot and yeah, I think this has been a pretty good overview of it. Hope you enjoyed, have a good one.