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Callaroga Shark Media.
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Hey, let me give you a loaded headline. Is Mark
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Maren ripping off George Carlin? No, of course he's not.
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But Hi, I'm Johnny Mack with your daily comedy news
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on Threads. Somebody surface this clip from nineteen ninety. Here
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is the great profit of the twenty first century, George
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Carlin back in nineteen ninety. The comedian he's discussing here,
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I assume is Andrew dice Clay, But boy, this could
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be Maren this morning, here's George Carlin.
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I would defend to the death his right to do
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everything he does. The thing that I find unusual and
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it's you know, it's not a criticism so much, but
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his targets are underdogs, and comedy traditionally has picked one
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people in power, people who abuse their power. Women and
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gays and immigrants are kind of, to my way of thinking, underdogs.
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And you know, he ought to be careful because he's Jewish,
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and a lot of the people who want to pick
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on these kind of groups, the Jews are on that list.
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A little further you women, gays, gypsies, the moment and
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suddenly you find Jews and yeah, so you know, I
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mean obviously he should do what he wants, and uh,
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why does.
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He get away with it? Do you think then he
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has never laughed that jokes about.
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Well, he's appealing. I think he's appealing largely. I think
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his core audience are young white males who are threatened
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by these groups. I think a lot of these guys
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aren't sure their manhood, because that's a problem when you're
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going in through adolescence. You know, am I really am? I?
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Could I be?
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I hope I'm not one of them? And the women
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who assert themselves and are competent are a threat to
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these men, and so are immigrants in terms of jobs
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and and and so that's why we as an audience
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then will laugh you say we I don't think you're me,
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but I think you're actively. I think that's what what
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is at the core of that experience that takes place
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in these arenas. There is a certain, uh you know,
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a sharing of anger and rage at these at these targets.
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And I'm sure Andrew isn't that angry at that. I'm
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sure he's playing it as a comic.
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What a great clip boy. I've said this before when
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George put out his last few albums, I at the
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time incorrectly was like, George just sounds angry and I
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feel like he's lost his way. Those albums, those last
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few have aged so so well and sound like George
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recorded them this morning. He is the great profit of
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our time. The Holly Reporter caught up with John Oliver,
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who was happy that HBO went back to letting Oliver
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release full segments of the show on YouTube the day
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after airing. There was a time when I didn't have
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HBO I now get it quote unquote free asterisk through
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my cell phone provider. But there was a time when
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I used to watch those segments there. Although I tend
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to bail on those segments, I actually liked the first segment,
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where Oliver is basically doing the daily show. Almost always
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the narrative segment loses me. About five seven minutes in,
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Oliver told The Holly Reporter, I think they wanted to
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see if moving it back on YouTube had an effect
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on our ratings. I didn't think it would, which is
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why I was against moving in the first place, and
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I was massively grateful of that. Upon looking at it,
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they realized it wasn't having a negative enough effect to
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be worth doing again. In the difficulty of the media
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environment that we're in. I try to be as cognizant
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as I can that HBO is still a fantastic place
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to work. The other reporter's like, and yeah, you make
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a lot of jokes about a Emmy stop you from
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getting canceled. Oliver said, I mean two things can be
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true at the same time. It's a fantastic place to
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work while we're insulated by golden armor. If that stops,
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we might be going away. It's not entirely a joke.
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I think it's objectively, very very helpful of one Emmy's
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with the show. I think it's helped us keep our
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independence and keep the show on the air. So yeah,
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I think there's a utility to it and something I
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know has always been important HBO. So I'm massively grateful
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that we've won them, and long may that continue. Please,
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I don't want my theory tested from OutKick. Comedian Gary
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Owen has an idea for the NBA All Star Game.
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Stay with me, I'm giving you Gary Owen's idea here.
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His idea is, rather than have captains choose the team,
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rather than splitting the rosters by East or West, rather
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than pitting the United States against the world. Comedian Gary
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Owen suggests the league have the black stars play the
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white stars. He told the would trip in podcast that
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would draw numbers. Podcast co host Richard Jefferson try to
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just ignore the idea, oh and double down white and black.
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That would draw more numbers than Europe VERSUS America. Then
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they started to take the idea somewhat seriously. What about
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people of mixed race? Gary Owen joked, Jason kid gets
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to coach one team. Jefferson proposed the thought that black
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versus white would separate US. Comedian Gary Owen said, no,
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black and white would bring everyone together. We get too
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caught up in people saying we can't do it. I
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say the numbers would do it. In the first half,
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we play nothing but jelly Roll. In the second half,
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we play nothing but Kendrick. You'd watch Don't Knock like
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you wouldn't watch, you would watch. Pete Davidson was on
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Hot Ones and he talked about the time a sketch
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with him and Jim Carrey bombed Too High Heavens. Pete recalled,
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my first real sketch on SNL was for an episode
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Jim Carrey was hosting. I was so excited because he's
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Jim Carrey, one of the legends, and we wrote the
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sketch where it's like a zombie apocalypse. I'm his son,
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I'm clearly a zombie. The sketch which bomb to high Heavens,
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and it's a long one. It's like six minutes on substack.
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Matt Ruby writes under the headline why Mark Marin versus
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the bro podcasters Matters. Good piece by Matt Ruby, who
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writes the thing about hack is it works. That's why
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comedians used to police hackness internally, would call each other out.
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At Mike's shows and in green rooms. There was a
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whisper network about your act. Andy Kindler would mock the
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worst offenders at his JFL State of the Industry addresses.
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The message it wasn't just about killing, it was how
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you killed. When social media took over, we lost a
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lot of that. This reminds me I meant to bring up.
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I noticed after the fact JFL Montreal resurrected version didn't
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do a state of the Industry address. Kidler had done
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that for years. I'm not sure. I mean, he would
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get a lot of industry attention once a year I'm
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not sure it helped his career at all. Jessica Curson
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did the last one. If my memory is not faulty,
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that one did not have any buzz on it. The
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Kindler one used to have buzz on it because he
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came out swinging anyway. Matt Ruby, who you can find
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on social at Matt Ruby Comedy, he says, of hacks,
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that's why it's nice to see Mark Marin resurfacing that ethos.
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And he's one of the few people that can do it,
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since one he's respected to stand up vet yes, and
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two he already has a massive platform. Plenty of other
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comedians feel the same, but don't have the audience or
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keep mum because they hope to guess it up on
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one of those shows he's attacking. After all, those shows
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are doing for a lot of comedians what the Tonight
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Show did for Stantems back in the eighties. There probably
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weren't many comedians attacking Jenny Carson publicly back then, either,
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you know, Matt Ruby continues. Industry gatekeepers used to play
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a role here too. They recognized and filtered out crappy comics.
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The collapse of quote unquote the industry has been great
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in a lot of ways. But it's also put a
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spotlight on how much those suits served as curators. They
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were remote between hacks and the masses. Is this all
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coming off as elitist? Fine, I'm sick of everyone crapping
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on the elites. Without elites, we're just idiocracy. Someone's got
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to stick up for taste, well, said Matt Ruby. Skipping ahead,
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Matt points out Luis had discussed why ck is okay
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with tackling hacked topics years ago, quoting Ck, I never
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thought of hack subjects as bad to talk about. If
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you think any subject is hacked, go to YouTube and
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watch j Leno's appearance on the Old Letterman Show. There
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are a ton of them and they're amazing. He was
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so effing good, and everything he talked about was quote
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unquote hack. He did airplane Humor and at least five
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different segments on the same show. He never let it go,
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just kept hammering and hammering at it. But with such
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beautiful precisions, such energy, gorgeously worded bits. To frown on
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them because of the subject matter is to be a
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self serving idiot, preach Louis c K Johnny Mack, are
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you on team Louis c K. I guess I am,
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because he's right about Jay Leno, who apparently is the
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worst person who ever lived, because last month he had
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an opinion on late night television, what a terrible guy.
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But go back, there's compilations on YouTube. Go back and
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watch Jay Leno's appearances on Letterman. He was fantastic. I
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used to really look forward to him. And as I've
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talked about with Jay and with Jimmy Fallon, please understand
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what the Tonight Show is. You're not guest hosting for
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Howard Stern. It's the Tonight Show. Do you think Jimmy
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Fallon is gonna come out tonight and be like, hey,
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you know, instead doing the monologue, I want to address
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Gaza for ten minutes. That's not what the Tonight Show is.
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We have other things. John Oliver does that, John Stewart
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does that. It's okay. Jimmy Fallon is just hosting the
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Tonight Show. Speak of Howard Stern. Larry O'Connor in The
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Spectator writes, Howard Stern disappeared years ago. He became the
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very thing he always raged against. I'm glad more people
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are saying this because I've said this, publicly for probably
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a year now on the Substack. I've said it on
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the podcast. I've definitely said it in real life for
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a long time, Howard writes, Larry O'Connor became the very
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thing he always raged against. For many of us, particularly
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those in jen X who came of age during his prime,
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the future started a long time ago because of the
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Howard Stern we grew up on. The one we admired, feared,
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laughed with, and sometimes fought with has been gone for
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you years. I was a teenager in the eighties and
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a driven, hard working young professional in the nineties. Same here.
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I didn't just listen to Stern. I studied him, his timing,
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his fearlessness, his command of the mic. He was chaos
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on order, raw instinct and precise control. Every segment was
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a masterclass in real, unscripted, unfiltered entertainment for anyone who
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dreamed of a life behind the microphone. He was the guy. Amen,
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preach brother. I have said this, Howard Stern's not a
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once in a generation talent. He's a once in two
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generation talents. He's been around for a while. But yes,
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he became everything he hated. Larry O'Connor, the Spectator writes,
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he wasn't trying to change the world. He was just
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trying to tell the truth in the most outrageous, hilarious,
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sometimes jaw dropping way possible. Then he changed what happened.
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The decline of Howard Stern tells us a lot about
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the larger cultural shift we're all living through. It's a
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story of rebellion traded for comfort, danger traded for safety,
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authenticity traded for approval. Boy, this is a good piece,
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and Larry gets it here. I don't want to steal
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his thunder. Let me tell you what he wrote. What
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made Stern so electric in the nineties in the early
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aughts was the tension. He was always pushing a line,
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towing the edge of what was allowed. Now, when I
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teach my college class about Howard Stern, I will act
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like I'm walking up to the edge of a cliff,
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and i will spin my arms like I'm trying to
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not fall over. Howard would walk up to the line. Now,
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ohpiing Anthony, they would drive past the line off the cliff,
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and that's why they got fired several times. But Howard
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watched that line, walked right up to it, didn't go over.
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Continuing with this piece, he was always pushing the line,
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towing the edge of what was allowed. Working within those
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boundaries and constantly fighting them gave his show its fire.
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There were consequences to his words which made them dangerous.
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The danger was thrilling, and when he went behind the
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cerrus XMPA wall, all that was gone. He wasn't risking
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anything anymore. The danger was gone, and so was the edge.
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Once he became the highest paid broadcaster in history, there
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was no more fight. He had won. He didn't have
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a boss anymore. He was the boss, and with no
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one to battle, there was no more friction, no more fire. Suddenly,
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the guy who once ranted about bureaucracy, bad management, and
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corporate nonsense was no longer punching up. He was the system,
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and a show, once anarchic and unpredictable, became safe, soft, comfortable. Worse,
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it became celebrity driven. The guy who once ridiculed Hollywood
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phoniness was now sipping wine with Jimmy Kimmel and kissing
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up talent degenerous. Then Trump broke his brain. The guy
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who made his name being the most politically incorrect man
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in media suddenly became a skold, a hall monitor, a
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voice of sanitized to lead approved opinion. The man who
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used to mock everyone and everything was now in lockstep
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with the Manhattan elite he used to detest. The King
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of media lost his crown, not because someone took it