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Eric Siu argues that long-form interview podcasts like Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman waste time with repetitive guests and topics, stretching conversations thin and churning out conflicting or trivial advice.
Eric Siu argues that long-form interview podcasts like Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman waste time with repetitive guests and topics, stretching conversations thin and churning out conflicting or trivial advice.
I think this is a big problem. Like, you probably don't listen to 3-hour podcasts, right? 3-hour, 4-hour-long podcasts. So like, you know, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman, Chris Williamson, all these people, right? The problem with these podcasts now, and there's a couple of people talking about it, it's like they're interviewing this guy. This guy's 60 years old and this guy's like an astrophysicist or whatever. And then all of a sudden it's like, hey, what do you think about dating? It's like, what? This guy's like 60 years old. What do you know about dating? So the problem with these, like, you start to stretch them so long, you start to talk about a bunch of nonsense, right? It's pretty more or less. But there's also this— there's only so much talent, right? Because you want to interview people that have a large following too, right? Or like big authors. Yeah. But then like people start to contradict each other too. So like, you might say, oh, you should sleep 9 hours. I might say you should sleep 8 hours. I might say you should take this, you should take that. People just don't know what to listen to anymore. And it's like all the same guests over and over. The problem is if everyone's following a certain formula, then it's all going to be the same thing.
