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Netflix, Cable Deals, and the Political Middle Ground Dying
from Bay Ridge Boys · #133
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2 minRiff on getting a special on cable versus streaming, joking about diversity numbers, then a discussion of how there's no market left for moderate political voices, using writer Mickey Kaus as an example of an ignored centrist.
- 0:51Doing a Netflix special now means you have to sell cable packages house-to-house like a door-to-door salesman.
- 1:07Tim's special was up 43% amongst diverse people between the ages of 18 and 35.
- 1:19Tim is in talks with InfoWars after signing an overall deal elsewhere.
- 1:30There's no market for middle-ground rational reasonable people anymore—you have to go either alt-right conspiracy theorist or fully woke to the left.
- 1:56Mickey Kaus, a rational Democrat with immigration concerns, gets rejected by both sides—Democrats call him alt-right, Republicans call him a cuck.
- 2:11Tim saw Kaus alone in a Santa Monica diner at 2 AM on his computer, which is where the political center has ended up.
- 2:25The only way to survive in media is to go hard in one direction instead of trying to appeal to the vanishing middle ground.
Mickey KausInfowarsSanta Monica