Unc and Phew talk about how hard it is to be a comic right now, big data and how it gives a small number of companies a massive competitive advantage, how certain members of the elite class suffer from Nietzsche’s “Übermensch” syndrome, and how ignoring history is a great way to repeat it…  Listen now!

Show Notes

Social Media Success

• Phew doesn’t understand social media as well as he would like to be
• With over 55,0000 followers, Unc used to be “Twitter famous” before he quit that platform, for all intents and purposes
• Too many social platforms now
• Best approach: focus on one platform and seek to dominate it

The need to have some real metrics

Hard to be a comic right now

• How the “line” of acceptable comedy has shifted so far
• Jim Jefferies talks about this on his current Netflix special
• Could not anticipate “social justice warrioring” as a sport

Big Data

• Tech companies testifying before congress
• The advent and monopolization of big data
• Peter Thiel has been critical of the lack of innovation coming from big data companies
• Goodthreads as an example of what these companies do
• How many companies never reached their potential because of the way the game is now being played?

Phew: obsessed with “community”

• Every major company contributes to every key politician
• What is real, and what is made-for-TV theatrics?
• Nietzsche’s Übermensch concept

Not that hard to understand things that some find shocking

• The slime that is Chris D’Elia
• The personality type drawn to today’s circus
• Not that hard to believe the seemingly incredible stories about gross misconduct among the elite

All we have to do is look back at history

• History disabuses us of not believing such things are possible
• 17% of the world’s population are descendants of Genghis Khan
• The atrocities committed were outrageous
• Germans outside a gas chamber having a good time
• Depending on historical context, that could have been any one of us
• Civil war in the Balkans in the 1990s: things got really bad really fast
• Minneapolis issues advice to citizens: if you are accosted, give up your wallet and your phone

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