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Which is more difficult though? Establishing and maintaining a farm or a podcast?
I think it's the high barrier to entry (long days, hard work) that prevent more people from starting a podcast
Farming is far more demanding in startup capital, labor, skill, and hours.
Creating a podcast is easy. Creating a good podcast requires skill. Creating a successful podcast requires skill and luck.
Farming badly and unsuccessfully is comparatively easy as well. Anyone can throw seeds into dirt and wait for rain.
Absolutely. My point was that success in farming is determined by startup capital, skill, long hours, and hard labor, whereas success in podcasting requires connections and luck over effort.
No man, being a bad farmer takes way more work than being a bad podcaster.
I could just record myself talking to my cat and be a bad podcaster.
chokes way up on the mic, drops voice an octave Welcome back to the Aggravated Hour, I'm the Captain, and on this week's episode we're going to get right down to tonight's questions: Who's a good kitty? Are you a good kitty? Who's a kitty? Are you grey? I think you're grey. Let's examine the evidence.
Dirt and seeds are relatively expensive compared to a microphone and internet access
There are many incompetent farmers and many aspiring incompetent farmers out there. They don't stay that way for long unless they are independently wealthy.
I have no idea why anyone would down vote you...
Unless you're famous, wildly charismatic, or have some very specialized knowledge I'm not sure how you break into the podcasting game. I mean you could have a podcast, but it wouldn't earn you a living.
Farming you could have microgreens or mushrooms in customer hands in a few weeks and that could be done from a closet after watching some youtube videos.
Yep, just that easy to earn a living through farming!
That comment 🤣
I'm not saying working your way up to earning a living farming would be any way easy, but you could be earning something a lot sooner than a podcast if you're starting from zero in both scenarios.
You could also just Uber and make 4x as much for less effort.
Unfortunately yes, this is very true.
Fuckin' eggs come outta their arses!
There’s a lot you can do in the closet after watching some YouTube videos.
I spent all of my teenage years in the closet and I did indeed watch YouTube as a kid
There are only two real options:
Be part of an existing popular podcast. If you get to be a guest appearance and you're charismatic enough, you can get invited back more often until you're a regular. Get good enough to get your own following and then you can eventually break off and do your own thing with sponsorships from the get-go.
Be famous for something else first. If you're a celebrity, author, streamer, YouTube personality, etc., you can start a podcast from nothing and have your sponsors and listeners already lined up.
Ha ha ha ha. "It'll be easy they said! You'll be raking in the profits in weeks they said". LOL.
It took me three years of busting my ass to make a profit, and that's considered exceptionally good.