Joe Rogan Experience #2572 - Colum Tyrrell · Aired Oct 29, 2026
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Opie and Anthony was the first podcast.
The finding
What remains unresolved
The origin of the podcast format is a subject of debate, with various early audio blogging and RSS-based audio experiments predating widespread commercial podcasting. Determining the 'first' podcast depends on the specific technical definition used, such as the use of Enclosure tags in RSS, which Dave Winer and Adam Curry are often credited with popularizing in 2004. A definitive verdict would require analyzing technical archives from the early 2000s to see which program met all technical criteria for a podcast first.
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Quick answer & review status
Quick answer
Is it true that Opie and Anthony was the first podcast?
We can't say yet. The origin of the podcast format is a subject of debate, with various early audio blogging and RSS-based audio experiments predating widespread commercial podcasting. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2572 - Colum Tyrrell, aired Oct 29, 2026, at 2:53:19. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. We couldn't settle it from the evidence we captured, so it stays an open question, not a false claim. No supporting source was captured, so don't treat this as a sourced conclusion.
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