rant · moment 14 of 16
Giving Up on Network TV and Just Making Your Own Stuff
from Mike Recine · #142
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4 minTim talks about being done fighting networks to make shows, referencing a conversation with Andrew Schulz about only controlling what you put out yourself, and making cheap iPhone-shot Instagram videos instead.
- 44:27Tim explains what he can control: putting out funny videos, doing podcasts, doing live stand-up—not fighting networks to make shows they'll fight him on every step of the way.
- 45:27Networks don't pick up the show anyway, so if you bend to their whims, you end up with a piece of shit you're embarrassed you made.
- 45:50Making videos on Instagram with an iPhone, with nobody telling him what he can say or what's inappropriate.
- 46:13The whole idea that you need fifteen people to make something funny is nonsense—they're trying to make people laugh, not Game of Thrones.
- 46:50Network people don't understand why what they put out doesn't thrive online—people are used to no censors.
- 47:08Tim told a network executive that the women in the restaurant could buy their network as a joke, and they did not like that.
- 47:30It's arrogant for entertainment to think it's the only place where women can be insane—women are overrepresented in real estate, publishing, fashion, finance.
- 47:50Tim would tell his daughter to go into sex work before entertainment, because it's a much more honest way to make a living.
- 48:04Network executives told him they were excited to get into podcasting last year, and Tim said they were eight years too late.
- 48:20We're in the wild west now, and it's terrifying for people not prepared for it—like being a blacksmith when nobody gives a fuck about what you do anymore.