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10 years of True Crime Garage /// Off The Record

November 18, 2025 / 00:55

This episode discusses the origins of a podcast, the initial doubts about its potential audience, and the unexpected growth that followed.

The hosts reflect on their first thoughts about starting a podcast, noting that it began as an experiment rather than a serious endeavor. They mention how they recorded a few episodes without any expectations.

As they continued to record, they were surprised by the lack of initial listeners and their belief that no one would be interested in their content. However, they soon experienced a rapid increase in audience engagement.

The conversation highlights the journey from uncertainty to success, illustrating how their podcast evolved beyond their original expectations.

TLDR

The hosts share their podcast's unexpected journey from doubt to rapid growth.

Episode

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Our first thought was, hey, we should do a podcast, but it wasn't to even put out

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a podcast. It was just, can we do one? >> Mhm. >> And then we did one and recorded a

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couple more. And then it was like, then we started talking about, well, well, maybe this could be something and maybe

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we could put this out. But when we said maybe this could be something, we thought this could be something pretty

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small. Well, and we had no idea, we never thought going into this that people would listen to us [snorts] or

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want to listen to us. And then after recording a couple of episodes, we confirmed that. We we still shared that

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thought that, hey, nobody's going to want to listen to this. and and I don't think we had any listeners for uh for a

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good while, but then but once the garage ship took off, it really snowballed quickly into a

Episode Highlights

Unexpected Popularity
Initially doubting their audience, they were surprised by the podcast's rapid growth.
“We never thought people would listen to us.”
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November 18, 2025

Episode Quotes

We never thought people would listen to us.
10 years of True Crime Garage /// Off The Record

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Surprising Growth00:50