Name: Joe Reflects on the Podcast & Moving to Spotify
Uploaded: 2021-02-08T18:53:06.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Reflects on the Podcast & Moving to Spotify' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-08. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Reflects on the Podcast & Moving to Spotify' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-08. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience one thing I will say about Spotify layout though like
as a fan you know I want to tune into the pod sometimes I find it hard to watch
on my TV yeah so that sucks mm-hmm yeah they're gonna it's eventually gonna be
on all platforms in terms of like television based platforms well right
now it's on Chromecast and it's gonna be on it's on Google Play and they're
working on Roku and Apple TV they're working on a bunch of different
platforms that'll eventually be but it's not as smooth as it probably should
have
been when it first when we first transferred over in December but they
just weren't ready for the volume they had never had a show first of all they
they created video because of the conversation we had about this podcast
yeah they wanted the podcast to be audio only and my manager was like think
about
the Elon Musk moment when Elon Musk is smoking weed it's huge
that is a viral moment that only happens with video where Elon's like it's
legal
right I'm like yeah it's totally legal I saw the painting yeah and then it's I
remember I was at the airport and I had sunglasses and a hat and I'm on my way
to
Vegas and I'm like looking at this CNN monitor it shows Elon smoking weed on my
podcast and I'm like oh no I was like what have I done but those moments those
crazy viral moments
they don't exist without video and my manager said that to Spotify and Spotify
is like you're right and
then they started working on the video platform and then you know there's been
a lot of weirdness like a lot of you know we're talking about like how people
get a sense of who a person is
without actually communicating with them without being there with them and you
could define someone or you know have this like distorted perception of who a
person is without actually communicating with them
that's one of the things that happened with Spotify with like some of their
staff or
they thought I was transphobic or thought I was like a bad per I saw one of
their
staff say that I was a shock jack shock jock like that I'm not even remotely
dude the
mic yeah I always tell people because sometimes I know he's a comic and stuff
so I
see you more as a comic than anything and you didn't intend on this becoming as
big as
become it's just organically grown and people tune in because they want to tune
in you're not you're not being force-fed down people's throat they're like
choosing to listen to you yeah but when I've actually on purpose never
advertised for
this show I've never asked people to watch it I've never gone on television
shows and
promoted it I've never taken out any billboards or ads Spotify did some of that
stuff when I switched over to them but I never did any of it so I always think
it's
so odd when people hold you to the same standards it's like CNBC or these
entities or
you're just like a guy with a mic you know what I mean they don't like it
because it
gets much more of an audience than them that's what freaks them out when you
have
these huge multinational corporations that have thousands of employees and they
can't
even touch the amount of reach that a guy with a podcast house yeah that's
madness for them I've
seen clips of your like first episode or whatever or pictures it's absurd it's
absurd you know it's
been an organic thing you can see yeah you can see how it grows but it's also a
lesson to all these other
comics too like what's the difference well the difference I grind I just keep
going yeah it's the same
thing with the that got you good at comedy what got you good at comedy stage
time what gets you good at
podcast podcast time you know what's doing it even just doing my podcast
because especially during the
pandemic what's it called dance time for he man or dance hour dance hour for he
men or dancer just uh when
the pandemic hit you lean into what is available to you so stand up wasn't
really there so I doubled down on the
podcast I got like a nicer space to film it in like a nice studio and and I've
been doing it for two years now and obviously I'm better at it now than I was
first three months or whatever it's a skill it's a skill and time is time and
anything that you do
and I've just found it's helped with my stand-up even uh because talking is
talking and even though
this is conversational it just wires your brain and you have certain pathways
where you are comfortable
formulating thought and it's conducive to podcasting and then also stand-up
yeah well the best example
that is bill burr yes with his monday morning podcast because he's brilliant
just him at a microphone
and he's so prolific with the stand-up because he's developed that muscle of
creation and also I'm kind
of an introvert like I don't really talk a lot just like if I'm at a party or
something I'm not like
life of the party or anything that's kind of laying the cut so having a weekly
podcast where I have to
expunge at length for an hour or two hours whatever it may be it forces you
have no guests uh sometimes I
do like I had Joe list on um I love Joe list I love Joe list too yeah yeah it's
hilarious so I'm gonna
I'm gonna use my network I've been doing stand-up for so I want to like get
Bobby on eventually and just
whoever wants to do it to like get some guests but I also like not having it be
so guest dependent
where the people just like me and my co-host yeah and yeah yeah so just like I've
just found that
podcasting has lent itself to elevating my stand-up even for sure it not just
elevated my stand-up but it
elevated who I like the way I think about things it elevated my ability to
communicate with people like
I'm way better at talking to people now um I'm critical about my ability to
talk to people like
if I um have a conversation that's clunky this is so weird like a just a dinner
conversation I say
something clunky or it bothers me like I'll wake up in the middle of the night
take a leak and it bothers
me I'm fucking I'm like if people think I'm like cocky I'm the most hypercritical
person that I know I
fucking hate everything I do yeah I have to accept that everything I like when
I release a special I
don't ever watch them I edit them and then I never watch them again I just
release it I don't want to
watch myself I hate myself I'm the same way doing that way yeah like sometimes
trolls will like write
some shit or whatever I think what trolls don't understand is I don't love
everything I do you're
probably right yeah for sure there's no other way to get good yeah hypercritical
yeah but the thing
about being an artist or whatever is is you have to put yourself out there good
or bad you have to put
yourself out there yeah and if you get that you get that some people like it
some people don't but I
took the swing and there it is and but I don't love everything that I've done
thing is they didn't
take the swing the trolls didn't take the swing and one of the things that they
have the ability to do is
they have the ability to criticize you and criticize everyone without looking
at themselves and that's
why they focus so much time on criticizing other people yeah I've almost found
though that I don't
get mad at that I understand for what it is but also I think that troll forum
or whatever like that's
their comedy store that's that's their outlet yeah for sure yeah and I get it
well that's why I think
comments are important I used to think that comments are like like I had a
friend reach out when I said
that um I want to figure out a way to for Spotify to put comments on the
episodes and they were like
don't fucking do that this friend reached out and he was like that is the worst
part of YouTube is the
comments I'm like I don't know if that's right I mean it's sometimes the worst
part of the comments
but also sometimes it gives people the ability and I can't read them and one of
the reasons why I can't
read them is I don't I don't have the time I don't have the time to engage with
all these different
ideas and opinions and I think that it is long look if I was being disingenuous
with my criticism on
myself I probably could use comments to keep me in line but I'm fucking
ruthless with myself like
I'm good and I don't want to hurt my feelings I'm the same way uh I kind of
create I put it out there
and I don't need to go it I always liken going into the comment section it's
like Lord of the Rings
you put a battle helmet on fight the orcs yeah you fight orcs yeah it's just
not emotional
as an artist there's no good there's no good in going into the comment section
it's not healthy
so it's not healthy to hear the good stuff either yeah praising you like but I
understand the value
and that it's community based and yeah that's great that they have a forum to
do that there's a value
in that there's a value in that that's where YouTube shines I don't have to be
privy to that
I can just create blast it out and just worry about me that's where YouTube
shines over all other
forums is that they have that comment section I think that Spotify needs to
recognize that I've tried
to talk to them about that and there's been some discussion about putting but
one of the things they
said was like if we put comments on your podcast we have to put comments on
everybody's podcast
yeah so I'm but I go why why just put them on mine I don't give a fuck just put
them on mine
it's like these people that are commenting even if they have criticism they're
fucking listening man
yeah like sometimes they hate me and sometimes they love me but that's they're
entitled to it but
that's just like me I don't like me all the time yeah I have this thought I go
sometimes like when
somebody writes something shitty I want to be like you think you can top what's
in my brain yeah it's
impossible you think you're a better troll in my brain you're not there when I
wake up at five
in the morning angry at myself and I go to the gym you have no idea yeah the
biggest trolls in my head
good luck yeah good luck good luck yeah there's fucking monsters in my head
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