Keeping Up with the Kardashians Ends: Fame Without Talent

• 1:02:44Keeping Up with the Kardashians is ending after 25 years as the blueprint for modern American fame.
• 1:02:59The show replaced talent with access—Caitlyn Jenner claiming no one called her at Trump rallies and tour dates.
• 1:03:51American fame now means selling access to your life; the cooler or richer you are, the more people want in.
• 1:04:35Judy Garland had an unexplainable, celestial talent like her voice on 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow,' a rare gift that can't be replicated.
• 1:05:21Modern culture rejects unexplainable amazing talent because people don't know how to become like that or fit into it.
• 1:06:29The Kardashians are the blueprint for fame now—AOC, the Hype House, Sway House, Trump, all functioning as Kardashians.
• 1:07:46Tim defends the Kardashians as hard workers and respects the hustle, though he criticizes the celebration of this route to fame.
• 1:08:09The rise of the Kardashian model says a lot about the wholesale destruction of American cultural beauty.
• 1:08:35America is the moment between rage at talentless fame and bobbing your head to it—the space where you survive without going insane.
• 1:10:20Tim gets angry for a moment that the beauty of American culture has been completely and totally destroyed.

Keeping Up with the KardashiansCaitlyn JennerKim KardashianJudy GarlandAmerican cultureDonald TrumpCandace Owens