Marc Maron + Nick Offerman (Carolla Classics)
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Welcome to Cruel Classics. I'm your host, superfan Giovanni. This is the podcast where we play the best moments, highlights, and fan-selected clips from all 16 years of The Adam Carolla Show. We have a companion podcast titled Cruel Classics, available exclusively through PodcastOne.plus. Sign up and get the ad-free archives of every episode of the show, all the way back to when it was myself and Chris hosting for many years. And if you'd like to obtain the ad-free archives of The Adam Carolla Show, The Adam and Dr. Drew Show, and get exclusive access to the brand new podcast, Beated Out, featuring Adam Carolla, make sure to check out Adam's Substack, adamcarolla.substack.com. And if you'd like to request a clip, please email us, classics at adamcarolla.com.
All right, let's get to the clips. Come up first today, we have Adam Carolla Show 255 with Mark Maron in studio making his debut appearance on the Adam Carolla Show. Asterisk podcast format. Maron first appeared on air with Adam Carolla back in 2006 in May on the Adam Carolla Show. The same show, but when it was airing on radio, I know it's complicated. They did 715 episodes. They were also podcasted. Very complicated. He then appeared again in 2007 in November. At the time, I believe he was doing stuff with Air America, the liberal talk radio format that eventually died down, whose studios he used, I think, without permission, for the initial What the Fuck podcast, the WTF podcast he hosts. Both Mark Maron's podcast, WTF, which came to an end this year after an impressive 16-year run, and the Joe Rogan experience, which is currently still active, both started after Adam Carolla switched to podcasting.
So his radio show was podcasted. Never Not Funny was a comedy podcast that's super successful with a very dedicated listener base and fully independent. It started a few months after Adam Carolla's radio show and after Adam Carolla's radio show podcast. But it's probably the first independent comedy show, or at least the longest running one. Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo. He's been on many times. But in terms of podcast money, there wasn't really any money in the industry. Battlestar Galactica had done official podcasts instead of commentary tracks. iTunes back in the day before was Apple Podcasts and Apple Music. They promoted the hell out of the initial run of podcasts about five years after RSS feed technology was created to allow embedded MP3 and MP5, this whole thing.
So there really wasn't any money in the industry. Even Adam Kroll's morning show podcast wasn't really promoted. Behind the scenes, they would tell him about his streaming numbers. Like, oh, you had 5,000 streaming minutes today or something, but it wasn't actually helpful. The show was actually getting 40,000 unique downloads per file, and they released in really inconvenient 12-file formats. So there's 12 segments released individually each day. There was no complete files. So each of those segments was getting somebody to grab them 40,000 times on average, which is pretty big. And when the podcast started up, there was this initial idea that maybe 25,000 downloads was enough and like to cap bandwidth or downloading abilities because they didn't want an unlimited bill.
After some intense arguing by myself and Mike Chaffee, who I tried to convince we're going to need a bigger boat. Exact quote I used from Jaws. We then uncapped whatever bandwidth idea that people in charge had at the time. And the show hit, I don't know, 5 million downloads. And then we got almost as many for the second episode. 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.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:15–3:38
2
How did Marc Maron first get involved with Adam Carolla?
3:38–6:24
3
What challenges did early podcasters face in monetization?
6:24–11:22
4
How do comedians view the evolution of podcasting?
11:22–56:17
5
What residual feelings does Marc have about the Corolla family?
56:17–57:47
6
How does Nick Offerman relate his childhood experiences to his career?
57:47–59:22
7
What are the challenges of self-motivation discussed in the podcast?
59:22–1:00:12
8
How does Nick Offerman approach woodworking and furniture making?
1:00:12–2:07:40
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