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A (0:00)
Tell me about TBPN and this acquirement by OpenAI because I have never heard about TBPN.
B (0:09)
Okay, so the quote podcast, unquote, TBPN. I've been reading a lot about this, by the way, and if you hadn't heard of that podcast folks.
A (0:18)
I hadn't.
B (0:18)
Yeah, I mean a lot of people haven't. So there was one article. There's a lot of articles that have come up on this and there was one article that started with this. OpenAI acquiring TBPN is the most significant news, in my opinion, we've seen in podcasting in years. Unquote. By the way, the IMO is not mine. That's the imo. I'm quoting the IMO from the guy that wrote that. That is not. You're gonna hear my opinion here is not the same as this person's opinion. So let me give some info on this and you can make up your own mind on how important this is or is not for podcasting. First, let's look at TVPN size. If you had not heard of TBN like we just said before April 1, 2026, if you hadn't heard of that podcast, don't feel out of it. Most people had not. While reports of their audience size are in the 70k range, what I could find is that their biggest audience was on X where it does a live three hour show daily. Which by the way, that's some commitment. Typically it looked like 12k viewers per episode, 10 to 12k, another 1500 to 2000 on YouTube views and around 500 per episode. As a podcast, that puts the typical audience around 15k per episode prior to April 1, 2026. Maybe stretch that to 20k. I don't see how you get past 20k given that their target is tech and more specifically tech Bros. Hence the original TB and tbpn. That's a valuable audience. This is by far though it is a much, much smaller audience than all in, for example, which is around 40 to 50 times its size. So I do want to put that in perspective.
A (2:05)
Isn't. But all in has been around for a lot longer than these guys.
B (2:10)
All in has been around a lot longer, but it's at least. At least 40 times larger. Probably at least 50 times larger. I'm being generous at 40x, but it's probably much larger than 50x the size of TBPN prior to April 1st. FYI, TBPN later said that the TB was tech business, but originally they did say it was tech Bros. No, so don't Email me about that. Yes, so don't email me saying rob. No, it's tech business. No, when they started they called it Tech Bros. It's Technology brothers podcast. And then they said, then they did a pivot to make it sound more professional and said oh no, no, it stands for Tech business.
A (2:51)
Okay.
