Joe Rogan Experience #1380 - Pete Dominick

... three, two. Uh, uh. (claps) Hello, Pete Domick. How are you, buddy?

Hey, Joe Rogan.

Good to see you, man.

Good to see you. Psyched to be here. Psyched to be in California, and psyched to be sitting across from you.

Psyched to have you. You're, you're a free man now.

I'm a, I'm-

You've escaped yourself-

(laughs)

... from the, the shackles of, uh, satellite radio.

The sha- the shackles of corporate media.

Yeah, man. That's, uh, see, that's the thing about dedicating so much time to a company like that, they can just (snaps fingers) get rid of you, and then you don't have a connection to all those fans. You have to reestablish a connection.

It's been an amazing experience in the last, what, four weeks since it happened to try to... First of all, I watched my funeral play out publicly, 'cause I had a huge community of listeners for 12 years that I created-

Right.

... that I was trying to respond to all of them, and I, you know, you can't say. I still can't share, like, certain details, right? And-

How much time did they give you before the show was ended?

The sh- the show basically, they told me after the show that, uh, that it was the last show, and then they let me have, like, a, uh... They said I could do a last show, but instead, I was just like, "Let me just record a message. I don't wanna, I don't wanna go-"

So you didn't know until the day of?

I had a pretty good idea. I had a pretty good idea.

Do they have ratings? Like do they-

I don't think so. If they did, I think I'd probably be in pretty good shape. I mean, like, it's a long story, but the show I was doing was pretty special. Like it was really helping people, and we were enlightening. It's kind of like what you do here. I mean, that's why I love what you do here. You people learn. They, uh, they get enlightened, they get entertained, they, uh... Uh, you make people a better, better people through this show. The, the contribution in, that you make, that's what I was doing. We worked three hours every day talking about issues, talking about, uh, struggles that people are having, and it was rewarding and challenging and satisfying, and I had total editorial control, so you know, I can't, I really can't complain. Twelve years is pretty-

Do they know, though, how many people are listening to any given show?

Not that I ever know. Not that I ever know.

Not that you ever know.

Not that it was ever shown to me, and-

See, that is a weird thing. That's a thing that you have with Netflix as well. You know, like if you do a special with Netflix, and, and-