#1679 - Adam Curry

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Adam Curry (0:16)

Joe Rogan.

Joe Rogan (0:17)

The Podfather, you are the Podfather. There can be only one.

Adam Curry (0:20)

Joe Rogan, since you re-certified me as the Podfather, my life has been so enriched. Since March of 2020, you have given me just an incredible new lease on professional life. It's been fantastic.

Joe Rogan (0:35)

Well, I didn't have to re-certify you. Everybody knows. You're the original.

Without you, there are no podcasts.

Adam Curry (0:41)

But you know, there are a lot of podcast listeners who are on the scene now, and they're too young to even, this is 18 years ago when podcasting was first developed. 18 years ago.

So they know it may be from serial 2016 or so.

Joe Rogan (0:55)

Wow, we're 11 years, this shows in the neighborhood, it's getting close to 11 years old. It's like 10 and a half years old.

But you, like 18 years, that's crazy.

Adam Curry (1:07)

Yeah, and the way it's evolved has been pretty interesting.

Joe Rogan (1:11)

It is interesting, right? It's like, the way it's evolving on YouTube is very bizarre.

Like, cause there's folks that up until fairly recently, only did their show on YouTube. And now I think some of those folks are starting to branch out and they're doing them on other platforms as well.

Adam Curry (1:29)

Well, you know why.

Joe Rogan (1:30)

With the censorship.

Adam Curry (1:31)

Of course.

Joe Rogan (1:31)

Yeah, it's kind of spooky. And people think that, well, you have to do something to combat misinformation. We were talking the other day about Yuval Noah Haradi, the author who wrote Sapiens.

He had a segment on his Instagram where he was talking about misinformation on the internet and about how when books first came out, the most popular books weren't books on Galileo.

Adam Curry (2:03)

No, it was gossip. Gossip crap.

Joe Rogan (2:04)

Well, he was saying that it was about witches and how to spot witches.

Adam Curry (2:08)

Right, right, right.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

And then countless people were killed because people were convinced that these How to Spot Witches books were good. So they were going around trying to spot witches and kill them.

And so this was at the invention of the printing press. This was like one of the first early uses of it. I had not heard that, but when he said it, it was like, bing!

Adam Curry (2:27)

Oh, of course. Have you seen The Great, the Catherine the Great series?

Joe Rogan (2:32)

No.

Adam Curry (2:33)

And I think a lot of it may actually be historically true, although it's completely a comedy. Like, you know, she apparently had sex with her horse, and there's some historical evidence of that.

Joe Rogan (2:41)

Yes, she supposedly did, right?

Did she die having sex with the horse? Did the horse fall on her or something?

Adam Curry (2:48)

You know, that's possible. There's another series coming out, so it hasn't happened yet. Series two is coming.

Joe Rogan (2:53)

Did I spoil it?

Adam Curry (2:54)

But according to the Netflix series, she brought the printing press into the country, and then they started printing gossip stuff, which people like a lot more than anything else.

Joe Rogan (3:06)

Oh, yeah, for sure.

Adam Curry (3:07)

Yeah. And I think that still holds true.

Joe Rogan (3:09)

Oh, for sure.

Adam Curry (3:10)

Absolutely. Now, do you consider YouTube, you don't consider a podcast, do you?

Joe Rogan (3:14)

I mean, it's kind of a podcast. It's the same thing, right? I mean, this podcast for the longest time was on YouTube, and it's still on YouTube in clip form. But I mean, what is the difference between, like, what we do and, you know, maybe what, uh... Like, Tim Poole, does he have...

Jamie (3:28)

What? Sorry.

Joe Rogan (3:29)

What?

Jamie (3:30)

history.com says this is all misinformation people like talking shit about her. And they got printed.

Adam Curry (3:36)

And then they ran with it. And what source is telling me I'm full of shit?

Jamie (3:40)

history.com.

Adam Curry (3:41)

Oh, well, of course.

Joe Rogan (3:41)

No, no, no, no, no.

Adam Curry (3:42)

With a name like history.com.

Joe Rogan (3:43)

You're not full of shit. I'm full of shit. Because I said that she died fucking a horse.

Jamie (3:46)

Fucking a horse.

Joe Rogan (3:47)

That was... That's just people talking trash about her?

Jamie (3:50)

Yeah, it's like the vilified or...

Adam Curry (3:51)

Oh, well, well, there it is. There's the words on the screen. It must be true.

Joe Rogan (3:55)