Kyle Dunnigan, Rogan's Legitimacy, and Media Consolidation

• 4:30Every agent or manager is somebody's nephew or son, and most are rich kids who can't work in finance or tech.
• 5:05Kyle Dunnigan puts his comedy online and is one of the funniest people, but signed a deal with Comedy Central despite already having a large following.
• 5:40Rogan was always working on projects, but mainstream media treated him like a jock rather than recognizing his sophistication.
• 6:18The dismissals from rich kid cool clubs are a workaround that independent platforms like Rogan's podcast have solved.
• 6:32Tim believes the future belongs to creators who grew up with internet platforms, not people groomed by traditional networks like Comedy Central.
• 6:55He grew up sneaking downstairs to watch Letterman, when TV was everything and getting on television was the ultimate goal.
• 7:12Media consolidation means four or five companies own nearly everything, yet Rogan's podcast has become large enough that it makes news and can't be easily smeared.
• 7:46Lazy journalists regurgitate the same stories from each other online, leading to coordinated false narratives like the ones about Jussie Smollett.

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