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Apr 14, 2009 19:59
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Yeah, definitely a blow hard and the political poo poo was lame, but I really enjoyed today's show.
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Apr 14, 2009 20:09
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Blow hard for sure, but I'm glad someone finally came in and gave him real business reasons to not going the subscription route. Leo tried to give him the same message, but he was more friendly about it and didn't try to sell it. I guess he can't sign on any ads for the rest of the year because of his contract (though he might forfeit that if the sitcom gets picked up), but it seems possible to get a "bandwidth provided by" sponsor as long as they just provide the service for free.
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I'm fine with bringing in the Laporte's, Fickman's, Middlebrooks', Birbiglia's, and Calcanis' of the world, but dammit, still no Norm? Only one Mchale and DAG? I realize all the regulars we love aren't sitting by their phones waiting for Ace to call them in, they've got their own poo poo but I'd really love to get them in again soon. Having DFG do another with emails would be great too. VVVVV Yeah, but I was hoping that with the podcast recorded later in the day he might be more likely to show. Fledgling Gulps fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Apr 14, 2009 |
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Fledgling Gulps posted:I'm fine with bringing in the Laporte's, Fickman's, Middlebrooks', Birbiglia's, and Calcanis' of the world, but dammit, still no Norm? Only one Mchale and DAG? I realize all the regulars we love aren't sitting by their phones waiting for Ace to call them in, they've got their own poo poo but I'd really love to get them in again soon. Having DFG do another with emails would be great too. Norm is a notoriously big flake, and I think he was scheduled for the first week, so I assume Norm just bailed on it for whatever reason.
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Apr 14, 2009 22:48
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Yeah, Norm is....well, Norm is Norm!
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Wow that latest podcast was bad. Harland's faux disgust at Adam was grating after about 10 seconds.
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DrVenkman posted:Wow that latest podcast was bad. Harland's faux disgust at Adam was grating after about 10 seconds. I agree. He's a funny guy, but he was stepping on some good rants. Hell, the podcast is called home of the rant.
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Running far behind on the podcast, but Mike Birbiglia saying Adam without the radio would just be a crazy ranting homeless guy had me rolling.
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DrVenkman posted:Wow that latest podcast was bad. Harland's faux disgust at Adam was grating after about 10 seconds. UltraRed posted:I agree. He's a funny guy, but he was stepping on some good rants. Hell, the podcast is called home of the rant. Eb fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Apr 15, 2009 |
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Apr 15, 2009 23:45
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I think Harland is great, though the podcast was awkward (which really is his style). It had some funny moments, but his style really mesh with the podcast so far.
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Eb posted:Just posting to completely disagree with this, I think it was the funniest podcast yet and Harland Williams is hilarious. I don't even think he was stepping on them. Stepping on a rant implies someone cut Adam off to get their thoughts in, Harland was just throwing some stuff out in the background. If anything he added to it.
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Porn discussions are always hilarious to me. 'I'm there, with my pants around my ankles, and I'm watching this thing, and I yell out:"For the love of God it's not art, SUCK A loving DICK!!"...and about 15 minutes later I get a call from my landlord, saying "..can you keep it down up there?" '. I picture all this in my head and can't stop laughing.
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GobiasIndustries posted:Porn discussions are always hilarious to me. I just came to post this. I went back and listened to this several times and it never got any less funny.
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After the Pardo podcast, looks like Carolla will definitely decide to charge a fee for the podcast when he is able to. While it can be done successfully, looking at Carolla's current crew who are in charge of the podcast, I doubt it'll be done right
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ugh gently caress charging per podcast. do commercials you bastaaaaaarrrddddd
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He's soliciting for the advice he wants to hear. Depressing.
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UltraRed posted:He's soliciting for the advice he wants to hear. Depressing. Yeah, especially after the tech guy told him it was a bad idea, he needed a boost to his ego.
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Can't wait to hear him yelling when he finds out that every one of his podcasts is going to be on thepiratebay within 30 minutes of their release.
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I still listen to the podcast occasionally but I've pretty much given up on it. Adam's a funny enough dude and the podcast isn't bad per se but I really prefer him with Drew and drops and callers. Couldn't get into TACS and can't get into this. Welp, good luck charging for this Ace Man UltraRed posted:He's soliciting for the advice he wants to hear. Depressing. WDIIA fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Apr 16, 2009 |
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noone is going to pay for podcasts. I certainly won't. I'm not sure if I blame him considering the monthly bandwidth bills, however he's LITERALLY A MILLIONAIRE so it is probably chimp change to him. also having listened to all the podcasts id say harlan williams was the funniest yet
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slipped posted:noone is going to pay for podcasts. I certainly won't. I'm not sure if I blame him considering the monthly bandwidth bills, however he's LITERALLY A MILLIONAIRE so it is probably chimp change to him. If bandwidth is a problem couldn't he just get someone to set up a torrent tracker? Or use a public one, for that matter. Darth Nemesis fucked around with this message at 19:54 on Apr 16, 2009 |
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I get the feeling that Adam figured he'd just do this podcast for free since it wouldn't get over huge. Since it did he now probably figures that he can make a few bucks off it as well and charging for the podcasts is the best way he sees to do that. I guess he figures that since he can charge so little, he'll pull in more people who only want to download shows with people they know without having to pay for shows they don't want. If he just sold ad space I don't even know if he would make enough to cover bandwidth, and like I said, it seems clear to me that he sees an opportunity to make some money off this.
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I will say that I'm a subscriber to Jimmy Pardo's podcast, and for the $20 every 6 months, it's completely worth the cost. However, his guests tend to be far more hit than miss, as opposed to the Carolla show so far, which has ebbed and flowed in quality. Probably helps that Never Not Funny (Pardo's podcast) only really brings in comedians for guests, so they're more "on", so to say.
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PaybackJack posted:I get the feeling that Adam figured he'd just do this podcast for free since it wouldn't get over huge. Since it did he now probably figures that he can make a few bucks off it as well and charging for the podcasts is the best way he sees to do that. I guess he figures that since he can charge so little, he'll pull in more people who only want to download shows with people they know without having to pay for shows they don't want. If he just sold ad space I don't even know if he would make enough to cover bandwidth, and like I said, it seems clear to me that he sees an opportunity to make some money off this. There are a few ways he could do it. Charging per podcast would be retarded. People would pay only for shows that sound interesting, and after skipping a few days in a row, people are bound to just get disinterested and move on. So instead a flat monthly rate would probably be the best way to do it. It'd have to be real low though, like 10 bucks a month per head. But even then, as was pointed out earlier, the podcasts will still be pirated big time. His biggest concern with advertising is censorship, but there's plenty of companies out there that would sponsor him that wouldn't have an issue with what he says. He just has to find them. I also like the torrent idea. In fact I'm not sure why they just upload each podcast every night to mininova or something. I guess the audience would shrink quite a bit.
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PaybackJack posted:I get the feeling that Adam figured he'd just do this podcast for free since it wouldn't get over huge. And he's still getting paid by CBS through the end of the year. They'll be free until 2010.
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I don't know about other people, but if Adam were to start charging for his podcast, I would stop listening immediately. I like it, but not enough to pay for it. Hopefully he decides to go with advertising over subscriptions.
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JGdmn posted:And he's still getting paid by CBS through the end of the year. They'll be free until 2010. I think that if you went back in the past before he started doing the podcasts and told him how it would turn out, he'd rethink the idea a bit. I'm sure he loves doing them, but paying $3000 a month to do them is quite a bit. I expect that a couple months of this and he'll find a way to offset that cost without breaking his contract with CBS, or he'll scale down the podcasts to 3 a week. I have no doubt that Adam loves his fanbase, but I don't think he's willing to pay $36,000 over the course of a year for them.
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Didn't somebody tell him to get sponsorships to just offset the cost of the bandwidth? I mean poo poo, Leo Laporte has/had the "AOL Radio & Cachefly are providing bandwidth kthx" advertisement on his podcasts.
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This was posted on Twitter:adamcarolla posted:Alec Baldwin called me today, said he's been listening. He's in town shooting something and ready to get filthy on the podcast. I remember Adam in the past talking about how Alec called him and told him how much he loved Loveline. Would be nice hearing him on the podcast.
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Fledgling Gulps posted:I don't even think he was stepping on them. Stepping on a rant implies someone cut Adam off to get their thoughts in, Harland was just throwing some stuff out in the background. If anything he added to it.
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I subscribe to Jimmy's podcast, and I don't enjoy it as much as I enjoy Adam's, so I'll be paying for Adam's if he decides to charge. I don't think he'll have near as many listeners, but he'll probably cover the expenses. edit: I should say as well, if Adam does decide to charge, he should do what Jimmy did and at least make the shows a little longer. How Much Art fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Apr 16, 2009 |
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Phone posted:Didn't somebody tell him to get sponsorships to just offset the cost of the bandwidth? I mean poo poo, Leo Laporte has/had the "AOL Radio & Cachefly are providing bandwidth kthx" advertisement on his podcasts. Adam seems like the kinda boss that when he has something in his head as a plan, that's how it's going to be, no matter how many people say there are better ways. Once something doesn't work, I hope he's smart enough to realize it and change it to what people have been saying all along. I like the show but haven't finished the Bobcat show yet. I miss the callers and think this is something that'll have lowered the number of downloads by the end of the year, or at least he won't be doing it 5 days a week. It's just burning through the guests.
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Yeah at this point Adam is still treating it like a Radio show. And it's not going to be long before he ends up having his wife or something on there. I can see why Adam wants to make some money etc. At the end of the day I don't think there's that many people paying through the nose just to do a Podcast. 2 people now have told him to go with advertising, one of whom Adam wanted on to learn just how to make money from it, but you know full well he's going to go the chargeable route. I stopped listening to Gervais when he charged (A move that was pure greed on his part) and I'll probably stop listening to Adam too. Or as someone else said, just pick and choose the ones that sound interesting.
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DrVenkman posted:I stopped listening to Gervais when he charged (A move that was pure greed on his part) and I'll probably stop listening to Adam too. Or as someone else said, just pick and choose the ones that sound interesting. It's too bad. He still has a "podcast" that I subscribe to, but it's mostly just 10 minutes every couple of weeks where he hocks his crap. Still, 7 of the 10 minutes are hilarious. I would consider a sub to Carolla if it is really, really cheap, but I doubt that would happen.
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Given the size of his fanbase, he could charge $5 a year and easily cover all his expenses plus serious profit. I'd have no problem with that. If he gets greedy and wants $20 a month, I imagine the collapse in his audience might get him to tone it down.
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I would pay up to a dollar per month, on an annual basis. Anything more than that and I probably wouldn't bother. I have more than enough old Lovelines to listen to, and the magic mix of Adam plus Drew plus callers plus Anderson can't be beat, and for free.
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