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He left a void which is now being filled by Lex Friedman and others. Rogan doesn't even bother placing something about the podcast in title - he just names the guest which doesn't say anything to me so I dropped his show long time ago. Even went that far and send him an email regarding how frustrating it is to just listen to show after show until you find a subject that you like.

What he lost with YouTube is their algorithm which kept recommending bits and pieces aligned to what the user was already watching. With Spotify he's just there as an author/podcaster - nothing on the subject of what I am currently listening - he lost the context.

I placing his growth on YouTube and its recommendation engine more than anything else.

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There is a few sentence description of each guest. Not in the title but extremely visible for each episode in the app

Yup. We thought digital distribution would eliminate the editorial middlemen, but we just replaced them with algorithms. Being favored by the algorithm is a big part of most social media stars' success nowadays and it is not guaranteed if you follow their guidelines. And despite that, there are still human editors in the background who can push a button to make the algorithm ignore you from now henceforth, so the old boss is the same as the new boss in the end.

I've always been wondering why niche 2-people shows put elegant titles and detailed notes with chapter markets and the largest shows ever with huge production teams don't even bother.

I used to google "reddit best Joe rogan episodes" to figure out what to listen to, but it's mostly MMA fighters and comedians. I hate wasting 30m of my time fast forwarding through ads and drawn out banter to find that the two people on the show are halfwits that I don't want to hear for another 2 hours.

Didn't follow Rogan but have experienced a similar thing with other podcasts. I like a majority of the episodes, but I wouldn't go listening week after week powering through meh bits in hope to find the interesting nuggets.

Having an algorithm filtering the feed is a god send, hopefully both for me and for the author, who in theory gets more leeway to try different kind of stuff and see what sticks.

Since he moved to Spotify the number of guests that interest me has dropped. Not sure if his move to Houston precipitated that.

One of the few recent times I've tuned in was the other day with Lex who I tend to listen to more often as his guests are way more interesting.

And Spotify's recommendation engine sucks for podcasting, most of the time it only suggests ones I've already listened to.

While I love Lex Friedman -- jeasus christ does that guy talk so slow - I have to watch his podcasts on like 1.5x just to get his speech upto the speed which I can listen.

But other than that he is great.

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