Modern technology rapidly turns recent history into relics
“someone had taken a video with like a video camera of all the displays and now it looks like the footage I used to look at when I was a kid from the 1920s. And I realized, you know what I mean? Where people are riding around with wearing straw hats in funny looking... looking at a blockbuster now looks like oh that's a speak easy during 40 years ago. 40 years ago. And I know that young people now see that footage and think everyone looks crazy.”
Late-night humor fails to translate to daytime demographics
“for the reasons that Sona said, I think like I just can't imagine that that demographic sitting around on their, you know, watching in their kitchen watching. What is it? Explain that demographic, Adam. Say it. Say it. What's that demographic? Go ahead. Here's what I will say. Oh, you as you've aged, your audience has stayed very young. You have a very young mobile digital first audience.”
Production costs for simple bits are now astronomical
“I said, 'Really? Just getting a couple of golden retrievers?' And she said, 'Well, the rule is each dog has to be acclimated with the other dogs. So, they all have to live together for like 2 weeks before they can come on, before they can be on camera together. And if they're living together, all their pe their handlers have to live with them, too.' And she was going through all the things and how the cost got up to I think it was going to cost as much as like uh you know baseline sticker price for like a Porsche.”
Linear television time slots are now becoming real estate
“In other words, he he went to CBS. He's buying the time period. Okay. And he's producing his own show and selling the ads himself. I believe that's how it's working. I didn't know that. That's fascinating. Do that. We could just buy time on TV. Essentially CBS is like in profit because they just sold the time to him.”
American writers struggle as production shifts overseas
“All I know is that so many people I know aren't working. So many of the writers we know, it's very hard to get work now. Yet, I go home and all I see are thousands of new streaming shows. There's never been more product available to people, but my sense is that a lot of people aren't working. What's happening? I think a lot of them are made overseas.”
The podcast medium provides greater creative ownership
“But if if I had told you 32 years ago we're not even going to be working in television anymore. We're going to be basically doing a radio show that goes over the computer. Uh it's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. So that's your analysis. It's crazy. Well, it is crazy. I mean, we have our HBO show. Yeah, that's true. That's true. I didn't mean to discount HBO.”
