Conrad Thompson and Jeff Jarrett on the process of creating a successful podcast

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Episode 161 of the Sports Media Podcast features a conversation with Conrad Thompson and Jeff Jarrett, the co-hosts of “My World’ with Jeff Jarrett,” which focuses on Jarrett’s Hall of Fame career as a main-event professional wrestler, promoter, and company owner. Jarrett has been a well-known figure in professional wrestling for decades including in-ring prominence in the WWE, WCW and NWA Total Nonstop Action wrestling. In this podcast Thompson and Jarrett discuss the process of forming a podcast; how they first met; whether Thompson’s success with his other six podcasts gave Jarrett proof of concept; the number of downloads they average weekly and what the realistic celling is for the podcast; how the podcast makes money and what the download number is to make money; how prep works for the podcast; Jarrett’s approach to nostalgia storytelling; how not to be duplicative with other wresting podcasts; navigating multiple podcasts as a host and much more You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.7	hey everybody this is richard dutch and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer is Patrick Antonetti.
0:42.3	Our guest this week, I'm pumped for this podcast. It was a lot of fun to talk to these guys.
0:48.2	Conrad Thompson and Jeff Jarrett. Conrad Thompson, of course, has become the, essentially the podfather of wrestling nostalgia podcast with all his, with all his people, Eric Bischoff, and Bruce Pritchard, Kurt Engel, and Tony Chivani, and the list goes, Arn Anderson, and it goes on and on and on.
1:11.3	And his latest edition is Jeff Jarrett, the Hall of Famer.
1:16.9	You know him, if you are a wrestling friend from WCW and TNA and the WWF slash WWE.
1:24.6	Of course, they are now the co-hosts of my world with Jeff Jarrett, which focuses on Jeff's
1:30.6	career as a pro wrestler, as a promoter, and a company owner. Jeff Jarrett, of course, multiple
1:37.5	generations of Jarrett's have been in pro wrestling. And this podcast takes listeners just,
1:43.8	you don't have to be a wrestling fan who enjoy it, takes listeners behind how do you start a podcast, how do you look at the marketplace and see what's out there and how do you differentiate yourself, what kind of downloads are they getting, how they can monetize those downloads, and some of the strategies that they used to try to create a little bit of a of a space in the marketplace.
2:02.0	And in Conrad's world, that marketplace is tight.
2:04.3	You know, he himself has a lot of wrestling podcasts.
2:07.3	But Jeff's podcast has done really, really well right off the bat.
2:11.5	It's a great listen.
2:12.8	And I appreciate those guys coming on to take me under the hood a little bit of how their podcast started.
2:18.6	So Conrad Thompson and Jeff Jarrett, co-hosts of My World with Jeff Jarrett coming up on the sports media podcast.
2:29.1	All right, as I said at the top, I mean, this is going to be the longest intro ever because of Conrad Thompson's
2:34.6	growing empire. He is the host of seven immensely popular wrestling podcast, something to wrestle
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