#1032 - Colin Moriarty

Joe Rogan (0:04)

Three, two, one, hee-haw, hee-haw, Colin, how are you, buddy?

Colin Moriarty (0:09)

I'm good, man, how are you?

Joe Rogan (0:10)

Good, thanks. What's going on? What's cracking?

Colin Moriarty (0:12)

Not a lot. It's an honor for you to ask me back. I appreciate it.

Joe Rogan (0:14)

Oh, my pleasure, dude. I had a great time with you last time. It's good to see you, Ben.

Colin Moriarty (0:17)

Thank you. Good to see you, too. Congratulations, you were just showing me around the space.

Very cool.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Thank you.

Colin Moriarty (0:21)

I'm very excited for you.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

I'm excited, too.

Colin Moriarty (0:23)

I bet.

Joe Rogan (0:24)

Thanks, man. I appreciate it. Jamie's moving shit around. What happened?

Oh. I was out of line. So welcome, and how's Colin's Last Stand going?

Colin Moriarty (0:34)

It's good. It's fun. I always describe it. It's not big. It's just got its little slice of the internet, and it's attracted.

Videos do 20, 30, 40, 50,000 views. That's a good spot.

Joe Rogan (0:45)

That's a good place to be.

Colin Moriarty (0:46)

Yeah. I'm happy with it. I have like 4,500 people on Patreon supporting me, and I don't serve ads on anything I do, so I'm just trying to make it organic and see how far I can take it, and then go from there.

Joe Rogan (0:57)

Sam Harris does his entire podcast that way. He doesn't have any ads, which I think is amazing.

Colin Moriarty (1:04)

I worked at IGN for a long time, the video game site, and my old company, so we had ads, and I have no problem with them, but I was trying to just kind of say, I don't need more than what you're giving me. This is plenty, and I'm doing fine.

Maybe I'll do ads on future products, but not with this.

Joe Rogan (1:20)

Well, yeah. I mean, why not, right? I mean, just if you're enjoying it, I mean, yeah, dude, you could do different products, you could do, I mean, different projects, rather, you could do it different ways.

Colin Moriarty (1:29)

Yep.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

Yeah, it's interesting now to try to figure out, like, what's the best way for people to put their stuff out there. Like I know a lot of people, like, in the podcast world, some people use SoundCloud, some people use other things, some people just go straight to YouTube. I mean, it's, there's a lot of experimentation going on now.

Colin Moriarty (1:46)

Yeah, and I'm always fascinated by that particular thing about how I do a podcast now just on the side called Fireside Chats, where I just have random people in to talk about random things.

And, similar, but not nearly as good as your show. And I'm always amazed that people are like, why don't you put this on YouTube? And I'm like, you just want to stare at a static image on YouTube. There's like, I don't even have it on video. People just, it's just about how people consume the content. So maybe like a spreadsheet approach is probably the smartest idea.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

Well, if you could hire someone to do images that represent the conversation, maybe that would be a reason to have it on YouTube. But I hear you. Yeah, yeah, it's, people just get excited about a platform. They get locked into a platform, and then they just digest everything in that platform, whether it's Snapchat or Instagram or YouTube. They just, it's, it's weird with Jamie and I have been talking about this a lot lately about like what, what makes it through. Like how did YouTube become the only one where people upload videos? That seems insane. It seems like that seems so straightforward.

You have it so people can upload videos, you put ads on those videos, and that's it. I mean, it seems like there would be hundreds of those sites.

Colin Moriarty (2:56)

Yeah, I think they were just first and it was kind of like a, it was like ubiquitous quickly. So I find that with a lot of like social media too, like you think about, like Snapchat's really like faltering now because Instagram's basically stolen its entire platform and it's all about like kind of these little monopolies that exist, monopolies for pictures, monopolies for video, monopolies for interacting with friends and family on Facebook and stuff like that. There's no, think about it, there's no Facebook competitor, you know?

Joe Rogan (3:20)

No, no. I mean, Facebook seems to me to be a more indulgent medium though. It seems like, like I read some, like sometimes I'll see people's Facebook posts and I just see the first paragraph and then I'll see how long it goes. I'm like, fuck reading that. I just keep moving.