He was a first mover on podcasts, and already being a reality TV celebrity he got a lot of big guests early on.

At first, the internet was for nerds only and not “for the masses”. Then corporations realized there was a lot of money to be made, and they forced user-friendliness on it. And then the masses came.

Don’t worry, in two decades we’ll have Fediverse 3.0 which will just be a balkanized assortment of sites that don’t communicate with each other and are worth trillions, all owned by people who bafflingly support President Kid Rock.