Even the podcast about the Joe Rogan podcast is a smash hit now
For millions of people, 11 hours of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the controversial, immensely popular show on Spotify, just isn’t enough to get them through the week. To get more of their favorite podcast, they turn to Adam Thorne, the creator and host of “Joe Rogan Experience Review.” Every week, Thorne and his co-host Garrett Hess share their favorite moments from Rogan’s hit show, revisiting its funniest bits, debating its best interviews and chewing over its most outlandish ideas, while occasionally sprinkling in their own thoughts on related topics such as stand-up comedy, hunting and the state of the media.
In many ways, “Joe Rogan Experience Review” resembles the new genre of recap podcasts that cater to diehard fans of particular TV series by feverishly analyzing every, juicy new turn of drama. At the start of some episodes of “Joe Rogan Experience Review,” an announcer’s voice tells listeners that Thorne’s program is like “Talking Dead” to Joe Rogan’s “The Walking Dead.”
In an interview, Thorne says he’s been an avid fan of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” since it debuted in 2009. “I always found myself holding discussions about what was on his show and what we liked about it,” Thorne said. “I was fascinated by how he ran the whole show. So I thought, why not discuss that?”
Thorne’s podcast has no official affiliation with Rogan’s show but it is starting to put up Rogan-like numbers. Its audience has skyrocketed over the last year and now averages more than a million downloads per month. In early February, it peaked at No. 6 on the Apple podcast charts and briefly became one of the 100 most popular podcasts in the world, according to Chartable.
It’s a testament to the power of Rogan’s fanbase that a podcast about his
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