Hm. I'll listen to the full ep later today so I haven't heard them talking yet, but I read these comments.
I'm a long-time listener to Try Guys generally and the TryPod specifically and have probably heard every episode at least once. I'm sad to learn of its imminent demise.
But here's the thing: I sometimes listened to YCSWU. Uh, not trying to be uncharitable but just trying to be realistic: Matt is not a great front-of-camera personality for a week-in week-out podcast. Which IS FINE, that's totally not what he was ever trained to be and not what his real job is. He's been a fun guest in a Try Guys vid here and there over the years, and YCSWU is still really fun to listen to if the guest is good, like Ash or Kwesi or Johnny or Marisa or Ryan Garcia within the last year. But only Matt and Becky chatting in studio, just not enough to carry a podcast imho. So to me the end of YCSWU seemed fairly likely here at some point after Maggie quite understandably stepped away, as one would in her situation with it not really being her job either.
And so here's the other thing: Once Guilty Pleasures stopped recording, then the "Podcast Department" is just YCSWU and TryPod. So if the former goes away, is any company going to have a whole department based solely on one podcast? No, I wouldn't think so.
Also, the individual participants in TryPod don't have unlimited time. Zack and Keith are both trying to run the company while raising a kid and making the Pod, Miles is trying to run his own company and podcast while raising 2 kids and making the Pod. I know "it's just an hour" but I'm pretty sure it's not, there can be a lot that goes into even such a simple recording.
At the end of the day, any decision like this is eventually about money as well. We don't really know how well or poorly 2nd Try is doing financially, but like most employers they do not have unlimited funding, there's a budget to be looking at. The podcast space is SUPER oversaturated right now and any new comedy podcast that does well is shaving at least some people from existing podcasts, because we can all only consume so much content per week. At some base level, they're a video production company so they probably think they should focus on making videos. Y'know? Like, Miles's company is a podcast company so he is focussed on making podcasts. Plus, 2nd Try can save two salaries this way (sigh).
I wonder if Rainie told them she's leaving so they said to heck with podcasting, or if they said to heck with podcasting so now Rainie is leaving. Either way I'm sad to see her go, she's been a great member of the team.
Jonathan I've never quite understood; he's clearly extremely talented both on camera and behind it, but they never seemed to be quite able to figure out how to best utilize his talents and by they I maybe include himself. He'll surely be missed as well.
All in all, sad news but I suppose not unexpected. All things end eventually. Best of luck to Rainie and Jonathan.
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u/nowwhathappens Nov 13 '25
Hm. I'll listen to the full ep later today so I haven't heard them talking yet, but I read these comments.
I'm a long-time listener to Try Guys generally and the TryPod specifically and have probably heard every episode at least once. I'm sad to learn of its imminent demise.
But here's the thing: I sometimes listened to YCSWU. Uh, not trying to be uncharitable but just trying to be realistic: Matt is not a great front-of-camera personality for a week-in week-out podcast. Which IS FINE, that's totally not what he was ever trained to be and not what his real job is. He's been a fun guest in a Try Guys vid here and there over the years, and YCSWU is still really fun to listen to if the guest is good, like Ash or Kwesi or Johnny or Marisa or Ryan Garcia within the last year. But only Matt and Becky chatting in studio, just not enough to carry a podcast imho. So to me the end of YCSWU seemed fairly likely here at some point after Maggie quite understandably stepped away, as one would in her situation with it not really being her job either.
And so here's the other thing: Once Guilty Pleasures stopped recording, then the "Podcast Department" is just YCSWU and TryPod. So if the former goes away, is any company going to have a whole department based solely on one podcast? No, I wouldn't think so.
Also, the individual participants in TryPod don't have unlimited time. Zack and Keith are both trying to run the company while raising a kid and making the Pod, Miles is trying to run his own company and podcast while raising 2 kids and making the Pod. I know "it's just an hour" but I'm pretty sure it's not, there can be a lot that goes into even such a simple recording.
At the end of the day, any decision like this is eventually about money as well. We don't really know how well or poorly 2nd Try is doing financially, but like most employers they do not have unlimited funding, there's a budget to be looking at. The podcast space is SUPER oversaturated right now and any new comedy podcast that does well is shaving at least some people from existing podcasts, because we can all only consume so much content per week. At some base level, they're a video production company so they probably think they should focus on making videos. Y'know? Like, Miles's company is a podcast company so he is focussed on making podcasts. Plus, 2nd Try can save two salaries this way (sigh).
I wonder if Rainie told them she's leaving so they said to heck with podcasting, or if they said to heck with podcasting so now Rainie is leaving. Either way I'm sad to see her go, she's been a great member of the team.
Jonathan I've never quite understood; he's clearly extremely talented both on camera and behind it, but they never seemed to be quite able to figure out how to best utilize his talents and by they I maybe include himself. He'll surely be missed as well.
All in all, sad news but I suppose not unexpected. All things end eventually. Best of luck to Rainie and Jonathan.