Why Do Men Podcast More Than Women?

“Why don’t women like podcasting—or is the industry just stacked against them?”On this hilarious and thought-provoking episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray tackle an NPR report revealing that podcasting is overwhelmingly dominated by men. The crew dives into the stats, the stereotypes, and the absurdity of gender gaps in broadcasting—while serving up their signature mix of humor and hot takes.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
Stay on top in the hoibby woot shovel shove.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
All right, uh so the story and uh it was
it from NPR and it said bros really are dominating podcasting. Hey,
it's like a a thing that's taken off a little bit.
It's like just much of bros dood podcast Yeah, and
maybe that comes from the rogan sphere. Yeah, and guys

(00:36):
like Shane Gillis are like loosely affiliated with that and
things like that.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
But this article is very interesting to me because I
never really thought about the data on this. They looked
at six hundred of the most popular podcast of twenty
twenty four using data from Spotify, and within the top
one hundred, nearly two thirds were hosted by men. Three
quarters of all guests were male. Two women were underrepresented

(01:03):
in the business, tech, sports, fitness, and comedy genres. Shocking
women were though dominating the true crime genre, which I've
said for years, women love true crime.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
And you know what, I am pissed that we're not
getting our fair shaken that genre.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Man. I feel like it's an area where men could
just really show what they've.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Got and there's no room for us. They're ballhog in
this thing. Let us in there.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
I mean, the men are the one creating the true
crimes in the first place.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Let us speak on it, right.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I know when I went to a Podfast it's a
podcast convention recently, and I pitched True.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Crime nerd well really.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, And I was pitching True Crime Turner as a
new podcast, and they were like, do you have a penis? Sir?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Get out?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, get out? Unwelcome sexist. He's right, that happened to him,
Reverse Cowgirl sexist.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
And I didn't go back to Podfast, No, And I
bought a four day pass.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
Ben went to Reverse Cowgirl Fest. It was awesome, had
a great time.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yep. Yeah, who was all there?

Speaker 3 (02:03):
You know, Sissy Lexus Lexus Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Sissy there, Siren de Murr. Come on, Sissy was there though? Right?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
No, I don't know, oh, Sissy from I can't coach
you no matter what, Sissy, I'm sorry when I punched you,
of heart.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
I'm prideful. Get back up on that mechanical bull Sissy.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
God across the one hundred most popular podcast of twenty
twenty four on Spotify. Yeah, sixty four percent of the
host for men, thirty six percent of the host were women.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
You know what, I I'd like to make a bold proclamation.
I bet that those numbers aren't even an accurate representation
of talk radio. I bet because that's what a podcast is.
It's the extension of talk radio. Now, you go turn
on talk radio right now and tell me how many
female voices you hear. I'm willing to bet the numbers

(02:55):
are more skewed on talk and I'm talking about news
and sports and political talk. If you took those three
talk formats and listen to them on radio, I'm willing
to bet that there's seventy five percent male voices on
that thing at minimum.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Christina, No, I agree.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
This is a male dominated industry and it still is
in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, Ben, So why don't women like broadcasting?

Speaker 5 (03:18):
We love it, It's just hard to get there. You
have podcasting, Oh I don't have time for a podcast.
I don't want to do that. I've got radio. I
don't need a podcast.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Oh yeah, how can they have time to do podcasting
if all the time they spend looking good for us,
getting the staches doed.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Making the bed pot pies, aren't going to cook themselves
so much.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Yeah, take care of you and got a cold, dude.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
We should do a podcast called pot Pies Aren't going
to cook themselves based on what it's like being a man.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Christina.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
We had that guy that we knew, who's uh every
if he got sick and he needed to know if
he had a fever, he would only use an anal thermometer.
And so anytime he got sick here sneezed, his wife
would leave, his girlfriend would.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
Leave the house. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, because
she didn't want to go. I don't want to deal
with that. Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 5 (04:09):
I've never had to do that before. I don't, so
I don't know how I would react.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
You've never administered the rectal thermometer not, no, give us
a call if you've ever administered or no, you know,
next let the general know two on four seven five three,
just hey, general, I have or have it received the rector.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
And then end it with go cowboys. Yeah, make sure
you put that in there. Yeah that was huge if
you could do that. Yeah, maybe clutch for us.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
I just want to say that, unlike KT and Skin,
I support women and I encourage them to chase their dreams, right, Christina.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Sounded very sincere Ben, thank you.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hey man to me if Gal wants to hoka ho cast,
I mean, what is the word podcast?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Or if there's a video element and they are naked,
it's a podcast.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Okay, Right, that's got some ideas.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Did y'all know that Twitter, Chat, GPT and Spotify all
went down for a while on Who the Internet?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah, So basically there's.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
A a company you're called cloudwear what or maybe it's
like a type of technology.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
That sounds like a company that Mike Judge would make
up in one of his shows.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
There is a website that if like something's down, you
can go to. It's called down Detector. I've gone to
a million times, me too, and I went to down detector. See, okay,
my Spotify is not working? What's going on here? And well,
the problem is is down Detector also went down because
it was on cloud flare as well. So the entire
Internet and the thing that tells you what's not working

(05:51):
on the Internet was also not working because of what
it was using. And I just wanted to say that
I love technology. I mean, what are we doing? So
much stuff is out there and can just go down
just like that. Yeah, you don't have it anymore.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
Do you have friends that know how to survive if
like electricity is off?

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Because I don't Are you serious?

Speaker 5 (06:13):
No, you light a candle.

Speaker 4 (06:15):
I'm just saying before, I'm just saying, like, you know,
you got a week?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Oh yeah, it sucks.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I don't know. I don't know what I did in
the summer, dude, it was tough. But I didn't stay
at a friend's house for a night. For one night.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
That sounds like hell yeah. I was like, we're just
gonna get a hotel, right, like, it's so hot, so hot.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Kevin, Thank you, Kevin. Uh coming up next, Skin, We're
gonna take some things. Skin is tracking.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Man. There's a whole really weird, wild world that Jeff
Bezos lives in, and I got some information about it
and I'll share it with you guys next