How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult | Austin TX Comedy Scene (rogan kill tony etc)

I watched it while fast forwarding.

TL;DR: It's another example of what happens when people make so much money that they become "post economic". When the normal rules of society no longer apply to you and there are no real consequences for your actions, it's easy to make up your own story that's not in touch with reality anymore. Joe isn't any different than a lot of people who achieve huge success and wealth. It's just that he has this huge spotlight on him.


I work for a company that was started by a guy who came from a poor background. He made some really risky financial decisions during his 20's and just plain got lucky that they panned out and he became a multi-ten-millionaire by the time he was 30. Over the next 30 years, he played it more safe and listened to advice from other mega-millionaires. By the time he was around 60, he was worth over 200m. Our company was just one of a dozen businesses he had his hand in.

All of us at this company watched him start to make speeches and presentations in our staff meetings that seemed more and more "out there". We were a small company of about 60 people making 20-ish million in revenue per year. We loved our job, loved our place in our industry, and felt life was good. But the owner decided we needed to 10x the company, then 10x it again, then sell to some mega-corp so he could get on the cover of Forbes and be one of those crazy business success stories. The money he had made over the last 40 years, the multiple homes he had bought, the family he had established, all the money he had donated to charity and local institutions, etc. wasn't enough. He needed something that was bigger than he had accomplished to serve as his crowing achievement late in life.

He wound up putting his trust in some very dishonest professional people who came from one of the big management consulting firms. I didn't get it at the time, but my boss was part of the inner circle and she explained it to me: These professional managers go to top universities and get an MBA, they get into these management consulting firms and work for about ten years to establish a reputation as a big shot. Then they start looking for a businesses that contracts with their firm who have an owner or CEO that looks up to these managers. They butter them up the owner/CEO and convince them to hire the manager away from the firm and pay them outlandish salaries and benefits. The owner/CEO of the small company thinks these professional managers are going to come in and take their company to 10x the size because they're the experts. Occasionally that does happen, but when it does, it's not because of any leadership from those managers. It's because the company was in the right place at the right time, and/or the existing employees were going to get there without those managers coming in. Most of the time though, they just act like a parasite sucking money out of the company and not doing much work for 1-3 years. When the owner/CEO eventually figures out it's all a grift and fires them, they just go back to the management consulting firm and rinse/repeat for the rest of their career until they decide to retire early.

So that's basically what happened to our company. These grifters steered the business into a very risky direction, sold the owner on a bunch of bullshit that had no contact with reality, but sounded exactly like what he wanted to hear. It took my boss becoming very close with our owner and risking her own career by showing him how out of touch their message was with the accounting numbers and feedback from our customers. We were just a few months away from bankruptcy before he finally came back to reality and pulled the plug on those guys. He had to fire half the company, go into severe cost-cutting mode, and put more of his own money into the company to give us enough runway to turn things around. Meanwhile these managers wiped all of us from their LinkedIn and had a really impressive sounding summary of their time at our company. Two went back to the consulting firm and the other went to work with another former consultant at a different company. Our owner disappeared and put my former boss as the new CEO. We didn't see or hear from him anymore.

About a year later when we were on the path to recovery, our owner hung himself. I wasn't close to him so I don't know this for sure, but the impression I have is that he couldn't handle the embarrassment and shame of being so utterly wrong and being one of the "losers" who took his big shot and missed. And that's within the context of being "post economic" wealthy with a big family, every material object he could want, multiple successful companies, etc.

It was a good lesson for me to stop looking into the future so much and not build my identity around what I hope will happen in the future. It makes more sense to live in the moment and enjoy what I have by being self-aware. That's not to say I don't plan, but I'm not tying my sense of self worth to some future accomplishment that I may not actually achieve. I get that the value of doing that is you are trying to force yourself to manifest that reality, and if you don't tie your identity to it, you may not be sufficiently motivated to make it happen. But it's a Faustian bargain.
 
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DKehoe said:
I'll give this a watch later. But has comedy been destroyed? Doesn't seem like it has.
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it was definitely wounded by the cultural forces of the mid to late 2010s but seems to be making a comeback of sorts. Think of what happened when Dave Chappelle, by far the most famous and influential comedian, released a special that made fun of a special class.

I didn't watch the video.
 
The Elephant Graveyard is bloody fantastic. I've enjoyed several of his vids in the past. Thanks for sharing this one, I had missed it!
 
Watching that was cathartic. I feel like I have regained some sanity. Thank you

If only 2010 Rogan and Duncan could have shown this so we could avoid this timeline. Fuck me ತ⁠_⁠ʖ⁠ತ
 
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diffusionx said:
it was definitely wounded by the cultural forces of the mid to late 2010s but seems to be making a comeback of sorts. Think of what happened when Dave Chappelle, by far the most famous and influential comedian, released a special that made fun of a special class.

I didn't watch the video.
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Wasn't it really popular and hugely financially lucrative for him?
 
DKehoe said:
Wasn't it really popular and hugely financially lucrative for him?
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yes because people sided with him instead of the people going after him. But that's because he is Dave Chappelle. He has the clout, power, and fanbase to deal with that. Nobody else was allowed to joke about it. That's my point.
 
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I do agree to a certain extent but I'm not going to be the one to harp or knock Joe Rogan as he has been a pivotal figure. I think he is in it for the right reasons and he just loves talking to his friends and things like that and it is true that some comedians like Bert kreischer have definitely benefited from being his friend.

I don't think Joe would have moved out of California to Texas and started the comedy club with bad intentions. I don't think comedy is the right place for California at this time just like certain other places but that seems to be changing for the better and I definitely don't think comedy is that. As a matter of fact I've been following podcast and things like this for 15 years and it's definitely Rose the tide and unfortunately some of the boats don't deserve to be raised by that tide.
 
rm082e said:
I watched it while fast forwarding.

TL;DR: It's another example of what happens when people make so much money that they become "post economic". When the normal rules of society no longer apply to you and there are no real consequences for your actions, it's easy to make up your own story that's not in touch with reality anymore. Joe isn't any different than a lot of people who achieve huge success and wealth. It's just that he has this huge spotlight on him.


I work for a company that was started by a guy who came from a poor background. He made some really risky financial decisions when he was in his 20's and just plain got lucky that they panned out and he became a multi-ten-millionaire by the time he was 30. Over the next 30 years, he played it more safe and listened to decent advice from other mega-millionaires. By the time he was around 60, he was worth over 200m. Our company was just one of a dozen or so businesses he had his hand in.

All of us at this company watched him start to make speeches and presentations in our staff meetings that seemed more and more "out there". We were a small company of about 60 people making 20-ish million in revenue per year. We loved our job, loved our place in our industry, and felt life was good. But the owner decided we needed to 10x the company, then 10x it again, then sell to some mega-corp so he could get on the cover of Forbes and be one of those crazy business success stories. The money he had made over the last 40 years, the multiple homes he had bought, the family he had established, all the money he had donated to charity and local institutions, etc. wasn't enough. He needed something that was bigger than he had ever achieved to serve as his crowing achievement late in life.

He wound up putting his trust in some very dishonest professional people who came from one of the big management consulting firms. I didn't get it at the time, but my boss was part of the inner circle and she explained it to me: These people go to top universities and get an MBA, they get into these management consulting firms and work for them for about ten years to get established. Then they start looking for a businesses that contracts the firm who have an owner or CEO who looks up to these managers. They butter them up and convince them to hire the manager away from the firm and pay them outlandish salaries and benefits. The CEO of the small company thinks these professional managers are going to come in and take their company to 10x the size because they're the experts. Occasionally that does happen, but when it does, it's not because of any leadership from those managers. It's because the company was in the right place at the right time, and/or the existing employees were going to get there without those managers coming in. Most of the time though, they just act like a parasite sucking money out of the company and not doing much work for 1-3 years. When the CEO eventually figures out it's all a grift and fires them, they just go back to the management consulting firm and rinse/repeat for the rest of their career until they decide to retire early.

So that's basically what happened to our company. These grifters steered the business into a very risky direction, sold the owner on a bunch of bullshit that had no contact with reality, but sounded exactly like what he wanted to hear. It took my boss becoming very close with the CEO and risking her own career by showing him how out of touch their message was with the accounting numbers and feedback from our customers. We were just a few months away from bankruptcy before he finally came back to reality and pulled the plug on those guys. He had to fire half the company, go into severe cost-cutting mode, and put more of his own money into the company to give us enough runway to turn things around. Meanwhile these managers wiped all of us from their LinkedIn and had a really impressive sounding summary of their time at our company. Two went back to the consulting firm and the other went to work with another former consultant at a different company. Our owner disappeared and put my former boss as the new CEO. We didn't see or hear from him anymore.

About a year later when we were on the path to recovery, our owner hung himself. I wasn't close to him so I don't know this for sure, but the impression I have is that he couldn't handle the embarrassment and shame of being so utterly wrong and being one of the "losers" who took his big shot and missed. And that's within the context of being "post economic" wealthy with a big family, every material object he could want, multiple successful companies, etc.

It was a good lesson for me to stop looking into the future so much and not to build your identity around what you hope will happen in the future. It makes more sense to live in the moment and enjoy what you have by being self-aware. That's not to say I don't plan, but I'm not tying my sense of self worth to some future accomplishment that I may not actually achieve. I get that the value of doing that is you are trying to force yourself to manifest that reality and if you don't tie your idenity to it, you may not be sufficiently motivated to make it happen. But it's a Faustian bargain.
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This story reminds me of the study that found (at the time) that ~$75K was the 'ideal' amount of money to make. It covered your basic needs, gave you some spending money, but kept you from stuff that really just adds stress. I kinda believe it. I'm making exponentially more now that I was 20 years ago but am I exponentially happier? Is drinking more expensive scotch, banging hotter hookers, and driving faster cars really making me more happy? :P
 
jason10mm said:
This story reminds me of the study that found (at the time) that ~$75K was the 'ideal' amount of money to make. It covered your basic needs, gave you some spending money, but kept you from stuff that really just adds stress. I kinda believe it. I'm making exponentially more now that I was 20 years ago but am I exponentially happier? Is drinking more expensive scotch, banging hotter hookers, and driving faster cars really making me more happy? :P
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All the best things in life (existentially fulfilling) are free--ie connection, relationships, purpose, health, contribution, growth, presence, etc. Money drives us away from these values.
 
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The real problem with this group is they fucking stink.

The Opie and Anthony/ NYC cellar crew was a million times funnier. Patrice. Louis CK. Bill Burr. Jim Norton. Jim Florentine. Dave Attell. Collin Quinn. Vos. Etc.
 
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It's a brilliant video, truly. I watched it a couple days ago. Really well done, thoughtful and also fucking hilarious. Recommend all the Rogan videos from this guy's channel before you get to this one as this is his Magnum Opus. He also has a good one shitting on Seinfeld that is a must watch.
 
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30 minutes in and enjoying it for what it is, but almost everyone makes up their own story (interpretation of reality) and tries to will it into our shared reality. This dude just seems a little bitter because he doesn't like the story that the people with money and power are currently trying to will into reality.

Honestly, I don't think big C "Comedy" has ever been that special. Like most media, most people probably just gravitate to whatever they enjoyed in their formative years.
 
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Thing is, around that time, practically every comedian had a podcast. Marc Maron started doing it first I believe and his was huge and got huge guests (Obama was on it). All of them were relatively similar in that they were comedians bringing on other comedians to talk about their life and work and stuff. How did Joe Rogan's become the dominant one?
 
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Thing is, around that time, practically every comedian had a podcast. Marc Maron started doing it first I believe and his was huge and got huge guests (Obama was on it). All of them were relatively similar in that they were comedians bringing on other comedians to talk about their life and work and stuff. How did Joe Rogan's become the dominant one?
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Rogan just hit on cool guests, I think. Plus it was long form and he was prolific. And the ones with him and his friends were pretty damned funny, so when mixed in with nutrition, physics, and alien theorists it all kinda worked. The very raw, improvised nature (real or manufactured) of it helped. Compare a rogan show to the overly produced, vocal fry laden NPR type thing or the zany 'morning zoo' style and it just feels more welcoming.
 
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Rogan just hit on cool guests, I think. Plus it was long form and he was prolific. And the ones with him and his friends were pretty damned funny, so when mixed in with nutrition, physics, and alien theorists it all kinda worked. The very raw, improvised nature (real or manufactured) of it helped. Compare a rogan show to the overly produced, vocal fry laden NPR type thing or the zany 'morning zoo' style and it just feels more welcoming.
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But NPR vocal fry or morning zoo weren't the only options besides Joe Rogan, there were literally dozens of these and I do think most of them were pretty good.
 
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But NPR vocal fry or morning zoo weren't the only options besides Joe Rogan, there were literally dozens of these and I do think most of them were pretty good.
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Maybe. Folks also forget that Rogan had a bit of fame, from TV and the UFC. I certainly knew him far more than most comedians working at the time. Nowadays with all the instagram clips I'm familiar with a lot more comedians but in 2005-2010ish if you weren't on a TV show or fronting a lot of talk shows/SNL, it was hard to have visibility.
 
BennyBlanco said:
The real problem with this group is they fucking stink.

The Opie and Anthony/ NYC cellar crew was a million times funnier. Patrice. Louis CK. Bill Burr. Jim Norton. Jim Florentine. Dave Attell. Collin Quinn. Vos. Etc.
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That's it. These people are not funny, and his other folks like Fridman are boring as fuck. Rogan is a terrible comedian.

Part of it is Rogan filled a space. There weren't a ton of male role models seeking to fill male role model roles. We ended up with hack Rogan and his dumb ass crew, or adjacent dipshits like Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson.
 
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diffusionx said:
How did Joe Rogan's become the dominant one?
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Because he talked with interesting people and usually just let them talk without a filter. He asked a lot of dumb questions, too, which is good when you don't know a lot about a topic. Basically, it felt authentic.

This was not acceptable to the freaks and lunatics out there who felt that was irresponsible and a source of mIsInFoRmAtIoN or that he was "platforming" people who were supposed to be banned by the dominant polite society.
 
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That headline implies whoever wrote it is able to decipher the inscrutable nature of our existence to determine the true reality. Good for them! I'm still working on it, personally.

I listen to Rogan frequently. Funny is something he rarely is. Of his comedian crew, the ones that consistently make me laugh are Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliff. The rest kind of suck. And Tony is funny in how clever he is off the cuff on Kill Tony--haven't seen his standup.

Also: no matter how much they claim otherwise, Kill Tony's entire concept is not done in good faith, and I kind of feel like garbage after I watch it.
 
Grildon Tundy said:
Kill Tony's entire concept is not done in good faith, and I kind of feel like garbage after I watch it.
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I've only seen the Trump/Biden ep, which was good because of Shane Gillis and the guy playing Biden. Any other bits, it's always just purely mean-spirited for the sake of it toward vulnerable people up on stage, never saw the appeal.
 
BennyBlanco said:
The real problem with this group is they fucking stink.

The Opie and Anthony/ NYC cellar crew was a million times funnier. Patrice. Louis CK. Bill Burr. Jim Norton. Jim Florentine. Dave Attell. Collin Quinn. Vos. Etc.
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They're all hilarious, but they can't hold a candle to the prophetic, George Carlin. The Man was ahead of his damned time and he should have lasted until 200.
 
It does feel manufactured and unwarranted hype, the Spotify deal was a big story line, Trump endorsement etc. Joe Rogan I don't know what to expect from him in 2026, I think he counts too much on those knuckleheads (Ari, Duncan, Theo etc.), and occasionally he can sniff out a good story on the podcast (Bob Lazar) and so it will be interesting going forward.

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diffusionx said:
it was definitely wounded by the cultural forces of the mid to late 2010s but seems to be making a comeback of sorts. Think of what happened when Dave Chappelle, by far the most famous and influential comedian, released a special that made fun of a special class.

I didn't watch the video.
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He kept getting paid more and more money.
 
diffusionx said:
Thing is, around that time, practically every comedian had a podcast. Marc Maron started doing it first I believe and his was huge and got huge guests (Obama was on it). All of them were relatively similar in that they were comedians bringing on other comedians to talk about their life and work and stuff. How did Joe Rogan's become the dominant one?
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There was much more limited choice back then in the 'Casper' mattress ad days of podcasts. And most of it was pretty shit. Even back then Rogan's podcast was pushed pretty hard - I downloaded an episode not even knowing who he was - listened to him and some other people doing a fleshlight review/ad and pretty quickly deleted it.
 
I dislike these sort of videos.

Find a topic that revolves around someone a lot of folks dislike, twist the truth with out-of-context clips and music, and use sarcasm and be vague so you can't be held responsible or be taken serious. And find a long dramatic psuedo-title for the video.

As long as it's well edited, it's satisfying to watch, no matter what it is.
 
kpopSuperstar said:
I dislike these sort of videos.

Find a topic that revolves around someone a lot of folks dislike, twist the truth with out-of-context clips and music, and use sarcasm and be vague so you can't be held responsible or be taken serious. And find a long dramatic psuedo-title for the video.

As long as it's well edited, it's satisfying to watch, no matter what it is.
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Nobody is above criticism, but I can't imagine making a living leeching off of other folks success by taking absurdly curated potshots. I fully agree.
 
EviLore said:
I've only seen the Trump/Biden ep, which was good because of Shane Gillis and the guy playing Biden. Any other bits, it's always just purely mean-spirited for the sake of it toward vulnerable people up on stage, never saw the appeal.
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See I can enjoy that comedy it's just Tony is shit at it.
 
kpopSuperstar said:
I dislike these sort of videos.

Find a topic that revolves around someone a lot of folks dislike, twist the truth with out-of-context clips and music, and use sarcasm and be vague so you can't be held responsible or be taken serious. And find a long dramatic psuedo-title for the video.

As long as it's well edited, it's satisfying to watch, no matter what it is.
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If you know anything about any of the clips origins they are not taken out of context. This Austin scene thing has had a magnitude of shit talking going on for ages, but this video is quite special.
 
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If you know anything about any of the clips origins they are not taken out of context. This Austin scene thing has had a magnitude of shit talking going on for ages, but this video is quite special.
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Almost all of the Rogan, Peterson, and Weinstein clips are out of context.

At one point he uses a cult leader speech superimposed to Rogan.

Weinstein made a weird "theory of everything" paper, but people are allowed to make dumb papers and people should. Ragging on him for that is cheap. Peterson has some clips where he cries when he talks about something he cares about. Which is normal.

These stories are used in hundreds of videos on "Rogan and his friends", it's always the same out-of-context cheapshots. I have seen almost the exact same storylines he uses dozens of times.

These Rogan comedy people suck as comics and make their living off being featured on Rogan and working in his comedy club. It's weird and Rogan can be weird, but it's not as dystopian as he wants it to be.

He doesn't mention anything positive, he just drama dredges low-hanging fruit and has no centered takes.

These videos are like reality TV, very fun to watch, but also very cheap at their core. And they are sourced out of google searches and trust me bro information. It's just a matter of time before celebs start suing youtubers when they catch on to how popular these videos are.
 
I'm 15 mins in and this sounds like schizo rantings, the only relevant info I got was about the desperate comedians outside Rogan's comedy club, now he's rambling about fucking Elon, I don't think I can continue
 
diffusionx said:
it was definitely wounded by the cultural forces of the mid to late 2010s but seems to be making a comeback of sorts. Think of what happened when Dave Chappelle, by far the most famous and influential comedian, released a special that made fun of a special class.

I didn't watch the video.
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Save Chappelle regularly sells out shows. He got backlash but he's not really new to that either. Netflix defended him and refused to take down his stuff.

Hes 100% fine. Some people don't like him or his comments and thats well within their right. I wouldn't call him an example of comedy dying.

diffusionx said:
yes because people sided with him instead of the people going after him. But that's because he is Dave Chappelle. He has the clout, power, and fanbase to deal with that. Nobody else was allowed to joke about it. That's my point.
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Plenty of people have been and continue to be allowed to joke about it. Even non comedians can do it.

Some of em aren't joking either.
 
rm082e said:
I work for a company that was started by a guy who came from a poor background. He made some really risky financial decisions when he was in his 20's and just plain got lucky that they panned out and he became a multi-ten-millionaire by the time he was 30. Over the next 30 years, he played it more safe and listened to decent advice from other mega-millionaires. By the time he was around 60, he was worth over 200m. Our company was just one of a dozen or so businesses he had his hand in.

All of us at this company watched him start to make speeches and presentations in our staff meetings that seemed more and more "out there". We were a small company of about 60 people making 20-ish million in revenue per year. We loved our job, loved our place in our industry, and felt life was good. But the owner decided we needed to 10x the company, then 10x it again, then sell to some mega-corp so he could get on the cover of Forbes and be one of those crazy business success stories. The money he had made over the last 40 years, the multiple homes he had bought, the family he had established, all the money he had donated to charity and local institutions, etc. wasn't enough. He needed something that was bigger than he had ever achieved to serve as his crowing achievement late in life.

He wound up putting his trust in some very dishonest professional people who came from one of the big management consulting firms. I didn't get it at the time, but my boss was part of the inner circle and she explained it to me: These people go to top universities and get an MBA, they get into these management consulting firms and work for them for about ten years to get established. Then they start looking for a businesses that contracts the firm who have an owner or CEO who looks up to these managers. They butter them up and convince them to hire the manager away from the firm and pay them outlandish salaries and benefits. The CEO of the small company thinks these professional managers are going to come in and take their company to 10x the size because they're the experts. Occasionally that does happen, but when it does, it's not because of any leadership from those managers. It's because the company was in the right place at the right time, and/or the existing employees were going to get there without those managers coming in. Most of the time though, they just act like a parasite sucking money out of the company and not doing much work for 1-3 years. When the CEO eventually figures out it's all a grift and fires them, they just go back to the management consulting firm and rinse/repeat for the rest of their career until they decide to retire early.

So that's basically what happened to our company. These grifters steered the business into a very risky direction, sold the owner on a bunch of bullshit that had no contact with reality, but sounded exactly like what he wanted to hear. It took my boss becoming very close with the CEO and risking her own career by showing him how out of touch their message was with the accounting numbers and feedback from our customers. We were just a few months away from bankruptcy before he finally came back to reality and pulled the plug on those guys. He had to fire half the company, go into severe cost-cutting mode, and put more of his own money into the company to give us enough runway to turn things around. Meanwhile these managers wiped all of us from their LinkedIn and had a really impressive sounding summary of their time at our company. Two went back to the consulting firm and the other went to work with another former consultant at a different company. Our owner disappeared and put my former boss as the new CEO. We didn't see or hear from him anymore.

About a year later when we were on the path to recovery, our owner hung himself. I wasn't close to him so I don't know this for sure, but the impression I have is that he couldn't handle the embarrassment and shame of being so utterly wrong and being one of the "losers" who took his big shot and missed. And that's within the context of being "post economic" wealthy with a big family, every material object he could want, multiple successful companies, etc.

It was a good lesson for me to stop looking into the future so much and not to build your identity around what you hope will happen in the future. It makes more sense to live in the moment and enjoy what you have by being self-aware. That's not to say I don't plan, but I'm not tying my sense of self worth to some future accomplishment that I may not actually achieve. I get that the value of doing that is you are trying to force yourself to manifest that reality and if you don't tie your idenity to it, you may not be sufficiently motivated to make it happen. But it's a Faustian bargain.
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I think it's also because once you get to that level you start comparing yourself to even richer people. Even if you become a billionaire, with the same mindset you'll start comparing yourself to multi-billionaires instead. There will never be any form of contentment.
 
Wilhelm_85 said:
Honestly, I don't think big C "Comedy" has ever been that special. Like most media, most people probably just gravitate to whatever they enjoyed in their formative years.
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I think your right: i caught norm when he first started doing tv ("its me, Bob!") when i was circa 13 and now im gravitating towards death.
 
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Sonik said:
I'm 15 mins in and this sounds like schizo rantings, the only relevant info I got was about the desperate comedians outside Rogan's comedy club, now he's rambling about fucking Elon, I don't think I can continue
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I tried to watch more and his other video about Rogan being a Czar, but he just comes off as a deranged leftist who is seething with hatred over the entirety of the modern right wing influencer and media sphere and desperately wants to shut them down. Also, he seems to think that Joe Rogan "stole" his show format from Tom Green and that Tom Green is a true comedian who deserves fame and fortune.

I guess if you think Tom Green is genuinely funny, then yeah, you're going to hate most of the rest of the comedy scene.
 
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Wilhelm_85 said:
I tried to watch more and his other video about Rogan being a Czar, but he just comes off as a deranged leftist who is seething with hatred over the entirety of the modern right wing influencer and media sphere and desperately wants to shut them down. Also, he seems to think that Joe Rogan "stole" his show format from Tom Green and that Tom Green is a true comedia who deserves fame and fortune.

I guess if you think Tom Green is genuinely funny, then yeah, you're going to hate most of the rest of the comedy scene.
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I abandoned the video eventually because the dude likes the sound of his own voice a little too much for my taste but I bet he doesn't even address how Joe Rogan who is admittedly mid af as a comedian became this unstoppable force. By the mid to late 2010s his pretentious kind had alienated most comedians by trying to ban certain jokes they didn't like, cancel comedians that were too edgy for their strict standards while promoting shockingly unfunny comedians like Amy Schumer, so people like Joe Rogan saw a power vacuum and exploited it. Rogan would never become what he is now if liberals hadn't become so fucking insufferable and self-sabotaged all the institutions they had co-opted and tbh I'll take Joe Rogan and his buddies' mid comedy over the horrific Amy Schumer slop the other side was trying to promote

Of course because I couldn't watch the full video I'm making assumptions here and the video might address all that so please correct me if I'm wrong
 
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Sonik said:
I abandoned the video eventually because the dude likes the sound of his own voice a little too much for my taste but I bet he doesn't even address how Joe Rogan who is admittedly mid af as a comedian became this unstoppable force. By the mid to late 2010s his pretentious kind had alienated most comedians by trying to ban certain jokes they didn't like, cancel comedians that were too edgy for their strict standards while promoting shockingly unfunny comedians like Amy Schumer, so people like Joe Rogan saw a power vacuum and exploited it. Rogan would never become what he is now if liberals hadn't become so fucking insufferable and self-sabotaged all the institutions they had co-opted and tbh I'll take Joe Rogan and his buddies' mid comedy over the horrific Amy Schumer slop the other side was trying to promote

Of course because I couldn't watch the full video I'm making assumptions here and the video might address all that so please correct me if I'm wrong
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I think you're probably spot on. I didn't make it much past this point, but he does the typical leftist thing of basically complaining about how Rogan "platformed" undesirables and served a "PR washing machine."



Just insufferable wokescold rhetoric that dominated the 2010s like you say. These people cannot fade into obscurity fast enough.
 
This is just some unhinged ravings because Joe runs a popular podcast. I wouldn't even say he has much influence on comedy.

Oh this reminds me of that one guy that wanted to ban conservatives from horror because Wendigoon wore a Hawaiian shirt.
 
jason10mm said:
This story reminds me of the study that found (at the time) that ~$75K was the 'ideal' amount of money to make. It covered your basic needs, gave you some spending money, but kept you from stuff that really just adds stress. I kinda believe it. I'm making exponentially more now that I was 20 years ago but am I exponentially happier? Is drinking more expensive scotch, banging hotter hookers, and driving faster cars really making me more happy? :P
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Only when you brag about it it seems, which is kinda pathetic.
 
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