Superfan Giovanni

And then they had to, of course, go over to Libsyn.

That was a whole confusing thing.

And the third episode aired with Therese and Brian.

That initial success essentially took Joe Rogan from posting, like, stick cam and Ustream videos and various stuff on his website.

It's really, like, interesting blogs he used to write.

and switching over to a dedicated podcast.

And it also had Marc Maron do the same thing.

Very few of the biggest podcasts you know existed before The Adam Carolla Show launched in February of 2009.

And most of them would come on the show and tell Adam about how essentially I saw what happened with your success and I wanted to replicate it.

And now in the narrative, a lot of that stuff has become lost over time and people forgot the actual older events that happened.

You'll see like social media comments where people just completely mix up these facts.

With all that said, let's travel back to 2010 with Marc Maron in studio, Adam Carolla Show 255.

Yeah, and they played the report for Howard.

and he said that you're a huge talent and that it was very flattering that you'd even want to do it.

She's a nice lady.

All right, that was episode 255.

I was actually there in studio that day pitching Adam Krul the podcast DVD idea to make back all the initial money he spent on bandwidth to kind of make things right.

I think we had like a $100,000 or $80,000 bandwidth bill still, and the DVDs actually went on to make over $300,000, so it paid everything back in full.

While I was there, I pitched the DVD idea to Mark Maron and explained it to him.

He's like, nobody buys DVDs anymore.