Sometimes a talent has to take an old medium and repurpose it.
Very true.
It's not necessarily podcasting that I would cut out of the equation, it's need to be live that I am emphasizing. And podcasts are by definition an on demand, canned, pre-recorded medium. Useful for catching all the people who didn't hear your show when it was fresh and live. Not as useful for building hype.
Once again true. The situation I would propose is doing it live then releasing said shows as podcasts. I only say this because podcasts truly are
the medium right now. If anyone were trying to get famous in an audio based format they’d release it in a podcast format no matter how or when it was recorded. Because of the podcast saturation it does create the niche market we’re talking about: There is a demand for people to see a live show with live reactions to the news of the day where you could call in and shit because now NO shows are like this. It may not be popular anymore but it has a chance of succeeding for being different.
Some are willing to spend and lose money on their vanity projects so that they can play the role. I said it before, all you need is 1 loaded rich MAGA tard who convinces himself he wants his own 24 hour anti-woke network. Sound like anyone?
Side note, but this is what I figured Compound would be when it first started. LoS, Redbar, and even Gavin to an extent made you think “There will probably be politics to this but it’ll at least be funny”. That fantasy died not even a year into the network.
The trend soon becomes the target. When things fall out of fashion, they're mocked... until enough time passes, and then: What's old is new again.
Once again, very true. Like I said before, due to podcast saturation the “old” format of radio shows would be new and interesting today. Plus Gen Z faggots LOVE retro / nostalgic shit.
Now i think you're getting a little obtuse. I never said to emulate... That's destined to fail. Any good product would have to be simple and straightforward, not a contrived recreation that has to follow a code. It's a genre in itself that was built on provoking people into reacting. That's literally all you gotta do, and the time to do that? Right now. People are begging to be offended. The market is ripe. People are looking for the enemy. It'll happen when he decides he has the balls to not worry about the boat rocking. When someone with balls PUTS THEMSELVES OUT THERE. :dice:
I was being only half obtuse. Emulating the things I described like strippers in studio and blackface wouldn’t be a good way to get yourself success, but it would certainly get eyes on you. Like you said, people are hungry to be offended. This is sort of unrelated, but the key to it too is it has to be funny. The more “cancel culture wokeness” spreads, the funnier offensive humor will be and the more people will search for it due to its tabooness. Anthony is…unironically the prime candidate to emulate the shock jock we’re talking about. He’s done it before and has everything set up. The problem is he’s as dry as Egyptian pussy and he’s not trying to reinvent or even emulate the environment he worked in for 20 years. Well, he did get a video element. Anyway my point is is that there would even be a market for 90’s style shock jock radio, but because of the business / Hollywood culture we live in it would never be “successful.”
It's about the fear of one's own reputation. The quality that made Howard Stern a wonderful satirist is he wasn't afraid of his name being mud. Now? He's a pussy. Everyone is a pussy raised by social media. It doesn't happen because the conditions have made it so that it "shouldn't" happen. Meanwhile... 20 years ago, random untalented faggots were begging to get attention for their carbon copy fake-edge.
I think (?) I made this point about O&A earlier. Stern always had dreams of being a starfucker. O&A never gave a shit about that, even with Opie broadcasting since 18 you never got the vibe that either of them wanted to be bigger than their radio show. They didn’t give a fuck what was attached to their names. Going back to my point in the original post, there are no entertainers like that anymore. Even the people that try to be “anti woke” and offensive still give a fuck about their image and will stray from certain topics.
This comment I disagree with 100%. You're saying that throwing your hat into an already oversaturated market is going to payoff more than if you made a boutique or niche choice with your business. Having a specific (AND UNIQUE!!!) target is a bigger gamble that comes with a bigger prize.
Eh. What i’m saying is that entertainers / performers are like any other job but it’s also an art form. When you’re deciding how you want to make your art (humor), you also have to take into account the business aspects of it so you can continue to not starve to death. You can make a podcast like every other comedian has, and while the market is oversaturated, the method is tried and true and there is little risk. With trying something new…the risk is massive. There is no ingrained listeners and any potential listeners will be thrown off at hearing something new. The reason I make the comparison to art there is that I think about it the same as music. You want to be a musician: You can make boring shitty pop music like everyone else which is tried and true, but oversaturated, or you can take the risk, do your own thing, and the majority of the consuming market will be turned off simply because what they’re hearing is foreign.
However, you are right in that doing something unique WILL pay off if you hit your niche. I could point to countless bands that fit this example, and eventually, everybody follows behind the “trendsetter” because people are desperate to hear something new, even if they don’t consciously realize it.
