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00:08:21 ◼ ► time length on the monologue this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/501">TS</a>]
00:08:23 ◼ ► john gruber writer of daring fireball [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/503">TS</a>]
00:08:24 ◼ ► with the monologue Dave just embraced it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/504">TS</a>]
00:08:27 ◼ ► like the the monologue on I thinks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/507">TS</a>]
00:08:29 ◼ ► people who are only familiar with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/509">TS</a>]
00:08:30 ◼ ► modern Letterman showed the late show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/510">TS</a>]
00:08:33 ◼ ► with they went back and watched some of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/513">TS</a>]
00:08:36 ◼ ► the eighties ones with us like me and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/516">TS</a>]
00:08:38 ◼ ► you would be dying and just crying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/518">TS</a>]
00:08:40 ◼ ► laughing and they would be like wait a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/520">TS</a>]
00:08:42 ◼ ► minute that was the monologue like three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/522">TS</a>]
00:08:44 ◼ ► stupid jokes one of them which didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/524">TS</a>]
00:08:47 ◼ ► make any sense at all and David just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/527">TS</a>]
00:08:48 ◼ ► turn it and show his ass to America and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/528">TS</a>]
00:08:50 ◼ ► walk to his desk like three quick jokes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/530">TS</a>]
00:08:53 ◼ ► and be out and it was just sort of like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/533">TS</a>]
00:08:55 ◼ ► the way David's attitude was the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/535">TS</a>]
00:08:57 ◼ ► made it seem as though we are legally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/537">TS</a>]
00:08:59 ◼ ► obligated to have a monologue but so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/539">TS</a>]
00:09:01 ◼ ► here's here's your stupid monologue a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/541">TS</a>]
00:09:03 ◼ ► comedy of those early shows was that a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/543">TS</a>]
00:09:04 ◼ ► bunch of people who were aware of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/544">TS</a>]
00:09:06 ◼ ► rules of television simply couldn't or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/546">TS</a>]
00:09:10 ◼ ► acknowledge that fact explicitly and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/550">TS</a>]
00:09:13 ◼ ► believe that was how they opened the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/553">TS</a>]
00:09:15 ◼ ► morning show they had been Larry but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/555">TS</a>]
00:09:17 ◼ ► Melman come on and say oh this week we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/557">TS</a>]
00:09:19 ◼ ► don't know why we allowed this to happen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/559">TS</a>]
00:09:22 ◼ ► please look away this is phillip michael [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/562">TS</a>]
00:09:23 ◼ ► who I've known since college where we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/563">TS</a>]
00:09:25 ◼ ► both said and wrote a lot of things that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/565">TS</a>]
00:09:27 ◼ ► tried to be funny and a little hot to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/567">TS</a>]
00:09:30 ◼ ► the style of David Letterman because of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/570">TS</a>]
00:09:32 ◼ ► Letterman I I you know started watching [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/572">TS</a>]
00:09:34 ◼ ► Ernie Kovacs reruns and again it even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/574">TS</a>]
00:09:39 ◼ ► though that was a show that was on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/579">TS</a>]
00:09:40 ◼ ► decades earlier it looked like something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/580">TS</a>]
00:09:42 ◼ ► should not be allowed on television [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/582">TS</a>]
00:09:44 ◼ ► because if they would just do the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/584">TS</a>]
00:09:46 ◼ ► these ridiculous things and and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/586">TS</a>]
00:09:50 ◼ ► send them abruptly move on to something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/590">TS</a>]
00:09:51 ◼ ► else and and I think I think there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/591">TS</a>]
00:09:54 ◼ ► certain genre of a show that appeals to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/594">TS</a>]
00:09:57 ◼ ► that that mindset Merrill marco who is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/597">TS</a>]
00:10:01 ◼ ► his girlfriend and writer on the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/601">TS</a>]
00:10:03 ◼ ► said hallelujah i mean we're delighted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/603">TS</a>]
00:10:07 ◼ ► to have these rules and restrictions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/607">TS</a>]
00:10:08 ◼ ► because it means we don't have to do the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/608">TS</a>]
00:10:11 ◼ ► Johnny Carson show means we were free to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/611">TS</a>]
00:10:13 ◼ ► go off and turn everything on its head [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/613">TS</a>]
00:10:15 ◼ ► that's exactly what happened they may [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/615">TS</a>]
00:10:18 ◼ ► direction the Carson's edict that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/618">TS</a>]
00:10:20 ◼ ► Letterman Show not resemble his show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/620">TS</a>]
00:10:21 ◼ ► push them even further in the direction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/621">TS</a>]
00:10:24 ◼ ► of making this absurd unshown a talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/624">TS</a>]
00:10:29 ◼ ► anyone who grew up understanding the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/629">TS</a>]
00:10:31 ◼ ► rules of television that even with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/631">TS</a>]
00:10:32 ◼ ► comedy it was serious business to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/632">TS</a>]
00:10:35 ◼ ► undertaken by professionals would see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/635">TS</a>]
00:10:37 ◼ ► Letterman Show and not quite understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/637">TS</a>]
00:10:38 ◼ ► what they were watching the man at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/638">TS</a>]
00:10:40 ◼ ► desk was an affable Midwestern a blazer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/640">TS</a>]
00:10:43 ◼ ► tie and slacks but also tennis shoes and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/643">TS</a>]
00:10:46 ◼ ► his show was demolishing what we all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/646">TS</a>]
00:10:48 ◼ ► thought were the rules of american [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/648">TS</a>]
00:10:50 ◼ ► television it was a pretty slippery [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/650">TS</a>]
00:10:53 ◼ ► slope from 4-9 topical jokes in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/653">TS</a>]
00:10:57 ◼ ► Shaffers rant storming out the door in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/657">TS</a>]
00:11:00 ◼ ► and chris elliott coming out from behind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/660">TS</a>]
00:11:03 ◼ ► the seats and Dave puttin on a suit of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/663">TS</a>]
00:11:05 ◼ ► sponges and jumping in a giant bowl of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/665">TS</a>]
00:11:09 ◼ ► he decided he would raid everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/669">TS</a>]
00:11:11 ◼ ► else's talk show treasure chest first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/671">TS</a>]
00:11:14 ◼ ► and foremost Steve Allen but but also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/674">TS</a>]
00:11:17 ◼ ► you could definitely see Jack Paar and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/677">TS</a>]
00:11:20 ◼ ► of course his hero regis philbin all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/680">TS</a>]
00:11:23 ◼ ► wound up sort of on his stage because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/683">TS</a>]
00:11:27 ◼ ► was under strict orders to tend to not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/687">TS</a>]
00:11:29 ◼ ► be Johnny and opened it worked out great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/689">TS</a>]
00:11:30 ◼ ► for him it's a weird-sounding analogy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/690">TS</a>]
00:11:33 ◼ ► but to me it makes a lot of senses to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/693">TS</a>]
00:11:37 ◼ ► tarantino in a way that Letterman to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/697">TS</a>]
00:11:40 ◼ ► clearly internalized all those rules of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/700">TS</a>]
00:11:43 ◼ ► TV and he understood them specifically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/703">TS</a>]
00:11:45 ◼ ► as TV like he is just young enough that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/705">TS</a>]
00:11:49 ◼ ► he grew up with TV being the pervasive [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/709">TS</a>]
00:11:52 ◼ ► ubiquitous influence in American culture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/712">TS</a>]
00:11:55 ◼ ► has been for at least since the fifties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/715">TS</a>]
00:11:57 ◼ ► whereas those rules of TV and like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/717">TS</a>]
00:12:02 ◼ ► personified predate TV like the rules [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/722">TS</a>]
00:12:05 ◼ ► for a variety show or sort of the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/725">TS</a>]
00:12:07 ◼ ► as the rules for any kind of state show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/727">TS</a>]
00:12:09 ◼ ► like you know the Bonneville or anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/729">TS</a>]
00:12:12 ◼ ► like that it's it's like a theater [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/732">TS</a>]
00:12:15 ◼ ► production right the tonight show is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/735">TS</a>]
00:12:17 ◼ ► like it wouldn't be that different if it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/737">TS</a>]
00:12:20 ◼ ► wasn't being televised and it was just a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/740">TS</a>]
00:12:22 ◼ ► celebrity show that was put on for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/742">TS</a>]
00:12:29 ◼ ► understood all those rules and could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/749">TS</a>]
00:12:31 ◼ ► just play with dance within the lines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/751">TS</a>]
00:12:33 ◼ ► and to me that's like what Tarantino [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/753">TS</a>]
00:12:34 ◼ ► does with all of his genre movies where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/754">TS</a>]
00:12:36 ◼ ► he's internalized all these movies and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/756">TS</a>]
00:12:39 ◼ ► he makes his movies within the cracks of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/759">TS</a>]
00:12:43 ◼ ► overstate Letterman's influence here you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/763">TS</a>]
00:12:45 ◼ ► can point to plenty of rule-breaking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/765">TS</a>]
00:12:46 ◼ ► shows in the seventies and eighties [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/766">TS</a>]
00:12:49 ◼ ► Saturday Night Live being two great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/769">TS</a>]
00:12:51 ◼ ► examples but i'd argue what made the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/771">TS</a>]
00:12:53 ◼ ► Letterman Show more shocking was that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/773">TS</a>]
00:12:57 ◼ ► sketch-comedy show it looks like a talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/777">TS</a>]
00:12:59 ◼ ► show we understood what talk shows were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/779">TS</a>]
00:13:01 ◼ ► and this is what made it much more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/781">TS</a>]
00:13:03 ◼ ► subversive David Letterman didn't invent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/783">TS</a>]
00:13:06 ◼ ► irony and he he didn't even invented on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/786">TS</a>]
00:13:08 ◼ ► television that that was what is an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/788">TS</a>]
00:13:10 ◼ ► elder than the nineteen seventies what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/790">TS</a>]
00:13:11 ◼ ► was different about Letterman was that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/791">TS</a>]
00:13:13 ◼ ► he just made it so much more broadly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/793">TS</a>]
00:13:15 ◼ ► humorous and and accessible even though [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/795">TS</a>]
00:13:19 ◼ ► he he famously you know didn't smile or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/799">TS</a>]
00:13:22 ◼ ► laugh at his own jokes except the mock [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/802">TS</a>]
00:13:24 ◼ ► himself Letterman really was a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/804">TS</a>]
00:13:28 ◼ ► easier to take then you know mr. Mike or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/808">TS</a>]
00:13:32 ◼ ► or Eddie Murphy or any of the kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/812">TS</a>]
00:13:36 ◼ ► edgy or comics that grace the saturday [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/816">TS</a>]
00:13:39 ◼ ► night live arena but but there's no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/819">TS</a>]
00:13:41 ◼ ► doubt that the reception of SNL whose [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/821">TS</a>]
00:13:44 ◼ ► creator Lorne Michaels also never wanted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/824">TS</a>]
00:13:46 ◼ ► to be like Johnny Carson's show that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/826">TS</a>]
00:13:50 ◼ ► that really did set the stage for what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/830">TS</a>]
00:13:53 ◼ ► india not co-writes about technology for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/833">TS</a>]
00:13:55 ◼ ► the Chicago sun-times among other places [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/835">TS</a>]
00:13:59 ◼ ► letterman fans I know it's been said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/839">TS</a>]
00:14:01 ◼ ► very correctly that a lot of the things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/841">TS</a>]
00:14:04 ◼ ► that he brought to late-night had been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/844">TS</a>]
00:14:06 ◼ ► done by steve allen before the idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/846">TS</a>]
00:14:08 ◼ ► go on the street we're gonna do we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/848">TS</a>]
00:14:10 ◼ ► gonna be sooo teabags and dumped into a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/850">TS</a>]
00:14:14 ◼ ► everybody yes Steve Allen did that but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/854">TS</a>]
00:14:16 ◼ ► the fact remains though that it's like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/856">TS</a>]
00:14:18 ◼ ► looking at the the first Macintosh just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/858">TS</a>]
00:14:20 ◼ ► like looking at the first iphone you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/860">TS</a>]
00:14:21 ◼ ► see here is what everything looked like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/861">TS</a>]
00:14:23 ◼ ► to the before Letterman had a show and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/863">TS</a>]
00:14:26 ◼ ► then here's what everything looked like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/866">TS</a>]
00:14:27 ◼ ► after he had his first season uh late [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/867">TS</a>]
00:14:30 ◼ ► night with david letterman and then you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/870">TS</a>]
00:14:32 ◼ ► can't say that they were that in 1983 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/872">TS</a>]
00:14:34 ◼ ► 1984 people were suddenly discovering [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/874">TS</a>]
00:14:39 ◼ ► it really was Letterman who brought this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/879">TS</a>]
00:14:41 ◼ ► into a modern sensibility and I'm sure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/881">TS</a>]
00:14:44 ◼ ► there's a lot of other things about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/884">TS</a>]
00:14:45 ◼ ► going on a society of that time that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/885">TS</a>]
00:14:47 ◼ ► sort of beg for a skeptical no jaundiced [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/887">TS</a>]
00:14:50 ◼ ► eye on things that were big in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/890">TS</a>]
00:14:52 ◼ ► seventies this is the reagan-era this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/892">TS</a>]
00:14:55 ◼ ► was a factor era and so you're sort of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/895">TS</a>]
00:14:57 ◼ ► promoting the idea of let's just go with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/897">TS</a>]
00:15:00 ◼ ► the assumption that if if the previous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/900">TS</a>]
00:15:01 ◼ ► generation thought that was the coolest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/901">TS</a>]
00:15:04 ◼ ► maybe we can just sort of step back from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/904">TS</a>]
00:15:05 ◼ ► it and tear apart a little bit but again [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/905">TS</a>]
00:15:08 ◼ ► everything changed after Letterman and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/908">TS</a>]
00:15:10 ◼ ► it wasn't because of stood a delayed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/910">TS</a>]
00:15:12 ◼ ► fuse on Steve Allen tonight show all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/912">TS</a>]
00:15:14 ◼ ► right now I wish I could say that I got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/914">TS</a>]
00:15:16 ◼ ► in on the ground floor of this one but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/916">TS</a>]
00:15:17 ◼ ► didn't I was nine years old when the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/917">TS</a>]
00:15:19 ◼ ► morning shows on the air and 11-1 late [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/919">TS</a>]
00:15:21 ◼ ► night with david letterman premier now I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/921">TS</a>]
00:15:23 ◼ ► have a distinct memory a first seeing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/923">TS</a>]
00:15:28 ◼ ► mother's 25th highschool reunion and my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/928">TS</a>]
00:15:31 ◼ ► parents were downstairs the party late [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/931">TS</a>]
00:15:32 ◼ ► into the night I fell asleep i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/932">TS</a>]
00:15:36 ◼ ► I woke up maybe when they were coming [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/936">TS</a>]
00:15:37 ◼ ► back from the party i don't know but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/937">TS</a>]
00:15:39 ◼ ► there was this strange gap-toothed man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/939">TS</a>]
00:15:41 ◼ ► who was definitely not Johnny Carson [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/941">TS</a>]
00:15:44 ◼ ► doing strange things on television I did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/944">TS</a>]
00:15:46 ◼ ► not understand it it wasn't until about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/946">TS</a>]
00:15:48 ◼ ► three years later maybe 1985 when I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/948">TS</a>]
00:15:51 ◼ ► began to understand the appeal of David [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/951">TS</a>]
00:15:53 ◼ ► Letterman the thing is I have no clear [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/953">TS</a>]
00:15:57 ◼ ► understanding him to taping his show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/957">TS</a>]
00:15:58 ◼ ► every single night but John Gruber story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/958">TS</a>]
00:16:01 ◼ ► is probably not too far off from mine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/961">TS</a>]
00:16:03 ◼ ► i'll tell you what i remember there is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/963">TS</a>]
00:16:06 ◼ ► very vivid memories of this so i was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/966">TS</a>]
00:16:09 ◼ ► born in 1973 and at some point in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/969">TS</a>]
00:16:13 ◼ ► eighties there was a show hosted on it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/973">TS</a>]
00:16:17 ◼ ► was on NBC and was hosted by admin man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/977">TS</a>]
00:16:22 ◼ ► bloopers and practical jokes and for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/982">TS</a>]
00:16:26 ◼ ► whatever reason it you know it passed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/986">TS</a>]
00:16:28 ◼ ► the test in my household and sisters two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/988">TS</a>]
00:16:30 ◼ ► years younger than me and my mom were 33 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/990">TS</a>]
00:16:32 ◼ ► would watch TV together tonight because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/992">TS</a>]
00:16:34 ◼ ► my dad worked third shift so and we all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/994">TS</a>]
00:16:36 ◼ ► liked it and on this show they would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/996">TS</a>]
00:16:38 ◼ ► occasionally have bits from late night [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/998">TS</a>]
00:16:41 ◼ ► with david letterman they would just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1001">TS</a>]
00:16:43 ◼ ► like some of the remote bits that he did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1003">TS</a>]
00:16:45 ◼ ► would they would just show them on to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1005">TS</a>]
00:16:47 ◼ ► fill space on the the dick target at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1007">TS</a>]
00:16:49 ◼ ► mcmahon show NBC had like an hour to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1009">TS</a>]
00:16:51 ◼ ► fill and Dick Clark in a big man we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1011">TS</a>]
00:16:53 ◼ ► happy to do it and so they would fill it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1013">TS</a>]
00:16:55 ◼ ► with Letterman bit sometimes not every [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1015">TS</a>]
00:16:57 ◼ ► week but every once in awhile they have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1017">TS</a>]
00:16:58 ◼ ► a bit from the Letterman Show that would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1018">TS</a>]
00:17:00 ◼ ► make sense at eight o'clock and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1020">TS</a>]
00:17:02 ◼ ► were the best things in my opinion and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1022">TS</a>]
00:17:05 ◼ ► and part of what made it great was that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1025">TS</a>]
00:17:06 ◼ ► Letterman himself wasn't anywhere near [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1026">TS</a>]
00:17:08 ◼ ► his famous he had his own 1230 talk show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1028">TS</a>]
00:17:10 ◼ ► but he he could go out in public and not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1030">TS</a>]
00:17:12 ◼ ► be mobbed and it was Letterman and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1032">TS</a>]
00:17:14 ◼ ► camera crew going around Manhattan to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1034">TS</a>]
00:17:17 ◼ ► find diners and every one of these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1037">TS</a>]
00:17:20 ◼ ► places had a sign in the window that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1040">TS</a>]
00:17:22 ◼ ► said best coffee in New York it was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1042">TS</a>]
00:17:24 ◼ ► Letterman going in with a camera guy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1044">TS</a>]
00:17:27 ◼ ► telling them hey you know there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1047">TS</a>]
00:17:29 ◼ ► place two doors down down the street and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1049">TS</a>]
00:17:33 ◼ ► reactions were all across the board like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1053">TS</a>]
00:17:35 ◼ ► some people like to be like it just like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1055">TS</a>]
00:17:36 ◼ ► an old Greek guy ran the place and be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1056">TS</a>]
00:17:38 ◼ ► like no my coffee the best but he would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1058">TS</a>]
00:17:40 ◼ ► be insistent like it wasn't just that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1060">TS</a>]
00:17:42 ◼ ► put the sign up just you know like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1062">TS</a>]
00:17:44 ◼ ► instead of just saying hot coffee they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1064">TS</a>]
00:17:45 ◼ ► all there was just a thing and Letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1065">TS</a>]
00:17:48 ◼ ► made it hilarious and that is it made me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1068">TS</a>]
00:17:50 ◼ ► want to desperately made me want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1070">TS</a>]
00:17:52 ◼ ► watch his 1230 show which has like an 11 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1072">TS</a>]
00:17:57 ◼ ► to 12 year old was sort of a stretch it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1077">TS</a>]
00:17:59 ◼ ► would have had been after nineteen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1079">TS</a>]
00:18:01 ◼ ► eighty-four cuz that's when we got a VCR [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1081">TS</a>]
00:18:03 ◼ ► in our house and um I had seen you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1083">TS</a>]
00:18:07 ◼ ► the clips the wacky stunts and the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1087">TS</a>]
00:18:09 ◼ ► thrill cam and monkey cam and and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1089">TS</a>]
00:18:15 ◼ ► sensibility at the time and the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1095">TS</a>]
00:18:18 ◼ ► episode I remember taping I believe the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1098">TS</a>]
00:18:22 ◼ ► stump that night was they were following [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1102">TS</a>]
00:18:25 ◼ ► the Australian Stock Exchange throughout [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1105">TS</a>]
00:18:28 ◼ ► the program and and and so there was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1108">TS</a>]
00:18:31 ◼ ► australian stocks uh like running [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1111">TS</a>]
00:18:35 ◼ ► throughout the program and occasionally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1115">TS</a>]
00:18:37 ◼ ► Paul Shaffer they invested in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1117">TS</a>]
00:18:40 ◼ ► occasionally scream oh god were ruined [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1120">TS</a>]
00:18:43 ◼ ► whenever the the price drops so I i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1123">TS</a>]
00:18:46 ◼ ► remember that bit and you know that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1126">TS</a>]
00:18:48 ◼ ► worked for me I thought that was great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1128">TS</a>]
00:18:51 ◼ ► those bits what was so effective about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1131">TS</a>]
00:18:54 ◼ ► them of course was that a generation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1134">TS</a>]
00:18:56 ◼ ► could claim them as their own right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1136">TS</a>]
00:18:57 ◼ ► stupid pet tricks and Dave in the velcro [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1137">TS</a>]
00:19:05 ◼ ► Henderson and everybody Melman right and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1145">TS</a>]
00:19:08 ◼ ► Larry bud melman handing out hot towels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1148">TS</a>]
00:19:13 ◼ ► Authority Bus Terminal and showing it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1153">TS</a>]
00:19:14 ◼ ► amazingly bad microphone technique all I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1154">TS</a>]
00:19:17 ◼ ► found so endearing it yeah how long have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1157">TS</a>]
00:19:23 ◼ ► he was just priceless I must have seen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1163">TS</a>]
00:19:26 ◼ ► it before this one episode that sticks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1166">TS</a>]
00:19:30 ◼ ► out in my mind but the episode that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1170">TS</a>]
00:19:31 ◼ ► really sticks out was the was one in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1171">TS</a>]
00:19:33 ◼ ► which it's open the opening shot is of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1173">TS</a>]
00:19:36 ◼ ► the audience leaving this leaving the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1176">TS</a>]
00:19:38 ◼ ► studio and just a shot of letterman in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1178">TS</a>]
00:19:41 ◼ ► his office saying that look it's that at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1181">TS</a>]
00:19:44 ◼ ► the door of his office saying it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1184">TS</a>]
00:19:45 ◼ ► too hot to do a regular show so we we've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1185">TS</a>]
00:19:48 ◼ ► sent the audience home and they did the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1188">TS</a>]
00:19:50 ◼ ► entire thing legit inside his office [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1190">TS</a>]
00:19:52 ◼ ► where Paul Shaffer had a little pistol [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1192">TS</a>]
00:19:55 ◼ ► casio keyboard work on his lap that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1195">TS</a>]
00:19:58 ◼ ► Terry car was the cast and yet he had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1198">TS</a>]
00:20:01 ◼ ► her like basically older brother little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1201">TS</a>]
00:20:03 ◼ ► sister berated her into like taking a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1203">TS</a>]
00:20:06 ◼ ► you know even though like the shower [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1206">TS</a>]
00:20:08 ◼ ► doors had it in his office then cover up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1208">TS</a>]
00:20:10 ◼ ► towels you can see anything she clearly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1210">TS</a>]
00:20:12 ◼ ► was like not interested in doing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1212">TS</a>]
00:20:14 ◼ ► but was just so justjust attitude to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1214">TS</a>]
00:20:17 ◼ ► stop talking about it but this was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1217">TS</a>]
00:20:19 ◼ ► one that really made me into a letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1219">TS</a>]
00:20:21 ◼ ► fan just realizing that my god this is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1221">TS</a>]
00:20:25 ◼ ► nothing like anything I had seen on any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1225">TS</a>]
00:20:28 ◼ ► other show all kinds of respect for for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1228">TS</a>]
00:20:31 ◼ ► the Carson show but it was a format that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1231">TS</a>]
00:20:35 ◼ ► had been really locked in for at that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1235">TS</a>]
00:20:38 ◼ ► must be the early eighties mid 80 so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1238">TS</a>]
00:20:40 ◼ ► this has been like at least two decades [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1240">TS</a>]
00:20:41 ◼ ► and they they don't tamper with that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1241">TS</a>]
00:20:45 ◼ ► talk show where they would do something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1245">TS</a>]
00:20:46 ◼ ► as wild as this just got this block me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1246">TS</a>]
00:20:50 ◼ ► into becoming a lifelong Letterman fan I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1250">TS</a>]
00:20:52 ◼ ► remember the first time I actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1252">TS</a>]
00:20:53 ◼ ► watched late night with the actual show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1253">TS</a>]
00:20:55 ◼ ► and it was a similar type situation [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1255">TS</a>]
00:20:58 ◼ ► right you know still wasn't allowed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1258">TS</a>]
00:21:00 ◼ ► stay up that late at home i was on a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1260">TS</a>]
00:21:02 ◼ ► field trip to Washington DC and I was in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1262">TS</a>]
00:21:08 ◼ ► sixth grade so I must have been like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1268">TS</a>]
00:21:10 ◼ ► around 12 and you know like typical [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1270">TS</a>]
00:21:13 ◼ ► sixth-graders we were up we're wired you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1273">TS</a>]
00:21:15 ◼ ► know wide awake and it got to be 1230 I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1275">TS</a>]
00:21:18 ◼ ► think we're watching HBO I think well I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1278">TS</a>]
00:21:20 ◼ ► actually i think i actually specifically [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1280">TS</a>]
00:21:22 ◼ ► remember the HBO movie we watched it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1282">TS</a>]
00:21:25 ◼ ► a chuck norris Vietnam movie i think it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1285">TS</a>]
00:21:28 ◼ ► was missing in action it was an HBO [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1288">TS</a>]
00:21:29 ◼ ► movie it was rated R so it felt like we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1289">TS</a>]
00:21:32 ◼ ► were already getting away with something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1292">TS</a>]
00:21:33 ◼ ► in a bunch of sixth grade boys in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1293">TS</a>]
00:21:35 ◼ ► hotel room and then the the the movie [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1295">TS</a>]
00:21:38 ◼ ► was over and I realize holy shit it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1298">TS</a>]
00:21:41 ◼ ► 1230 we can watch shut the Letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1301">TS</a>]
00:21:43 ◼ ► Show and I've always wanted to watch it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1303">TS</a>]
00:21:44 ◼ ► and the show had already started it must [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1304">TS</a>]
00:21:46 ◼ ► have been about 10 minutes in and my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1306">TS</a>]
00:21:48 ◼ ► friends bed net didn't even had never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1308">TS</a>]
00:21:51 ◼ ► they didn't even know what it was they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1311">TS</a>]
00:21:52 ◼ ► they were you know more or less of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1312">TS</a>]
00:21:54 ◼ ► opinion that we should look for another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1314">TS</a>]
00:21:56 ◼ ► Chuck Norris movie because we've got HBO [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1316">TS</a>]
00:21:58 ◼ ► right where it is hotel room with HBO so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1318">TS</a>]
00:22:00 ◼ ► I flip to NBC and I remember exactly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1320">TS</a>]
00:22:03 ◼ ► what was on it was a monkey cam they had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1323">TS</a>]
00:22:07 ◼ ► a monkey strapped our camera strapped to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1327">TS</a>]
00:22:09 ◼ ► a monkey and he was running around the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1329">TS</a>]
00:22:12 ◼ ► studio and they were the footage was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1332">TS</a>]
00:22:14 ◼ ► first person perspective from this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1334">TS</a>]
00:22:15 ◼ ► monkey that they had set loose in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1335">TS</a>]
00:22:17 ◼ ► studio and I thought it was amazing i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1337">TS</a>]
00:22:21 ◼ ► was like this is the type of stuff I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1341">TS</a>]
00:22:22 ◼ ► thought would be on the show and my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1342">TS</a>]
00:22:23 ◼ ► friends were like what the hell is this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1343">TS</a>]
00:22:25 ◼ ► grouper we got it were turning this off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1345">TS</a>]
00:22:27 ◼ ► and I no no and I thought it was and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1347">TS</a>]
00:22:30 ◼ ► only good get let me have like three or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1350">TS</a>]
00:22:32 ◼ ► four minutes of it and then it would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1352">TS</a>]
00:22:33 ◼ ► Dave they were like this makes no sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1353">TS</a>]
00:22:36 ◼ ► we're switching whatever it was a monkey [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1356">TS</a>]
00:22:39 ◼ ► camp first time they don't like I saw [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1359">TS</a>]
00:22:41 ◼ ► the monkey cam doesn't i was like oh my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1361">TS</a>]
00:22:43 ◼ ► god that's not this gel yeah like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1363">TS</a>]
00:22:46 ◼ ► is great or or just like the idea that a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1366">TS</a>]
00:22:49 ◼ ► grown man says you know what what if we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1369">TS</a>]
00:22:51 ◼ ► dropped a bunch of stuff off a building [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1371">TS</a>]
00:22:52 ◼ ► let's just do it let's just shoot that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1372">TS</a>]
00:22:54 ◼ ► you learned that there was stuff in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1374">TS</a>]
00:22:56 ◼ ► past but he was he really did become the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1376">TS</a>]
00:22:58 ◼ ► sir of the tapes segment and I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1378">TS</a>]
00:23:01 ◼ ► more so than anybody think he's you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1381">TS</a>]
00:23:04 ◼ ► if he wasn't the original idea for it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1384">TS</a>]
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00:23:09 ◼ ► honed it and who mastered it and of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1389">TS</a>]
00:23:11 ◼ ► course now that's all we think about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1391">TS</a>]
00:23:13 ◼ ► with late night is that it's like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1393">TS</a>]
00:23:14 ◼ ► video bits that they're taped and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1394">TS</a>]
00:23:16 ◼ ► or not I guess sitting behind a desk or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1396">TS</a>]
00:23:20 ◼ ► even like a Carson moment at the desk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1400">TS</a>]
00:23:21 ◼ ► with karan tacker something like that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1401">TS</a>]
00:23:24 ◼ ► it's all Letterman's tape this everybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1404">TS</a>]
00:23:26 ◼ ► does those now so that and to be there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1406">TS</a>]
00:23:30 ◼ ► attaching a monkey to a camera and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1410">TS</a>]
00:23:32 ◼ ► having it run through the studio keeps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1412">TS</a>]
00:23:34 ◼ ► coming up I remember distinctly the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1414">TS</a>]
00:23:37 ◼ ► first time to show try this it didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1417">TS</a>]
00:23:39 ◼ ► work because they got a small monkey and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1419">TS</a>]
00:23:41 ◼ ► the camera was too heavy to get a bigger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1421">TS</a>]
00:23:43 ◼ ► monkey eventually ended up with a chimp [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1423">TS</a>]
00:23:45 ◼ ► named zippy anyway the comedy bits are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1425">TS</a>]
00:23:48 ◼ ► definitely what linger in the memory an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1428">TS</a>]
00:23:52 ◼ ► cresselia its various characters the guy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1432">TS</a>]
00:23:54 ◼ ► into the seats the suit of suet elevator [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1434">TS</a>]
00:23:58 ◼ ► races in 30 rock interrupting the live [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1438">TS</a>]
00:24:01 ◼ ► at five News set across the hall but the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1441">TS</a>]
00:24:03 ◼ ► core of the show of any talk show the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1443">TS</a>]
00:24:07 ◼ ► those were subversive to in their own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1447">TS</a>]
00:24:09 ◼ ► way you didn't suffer fools and that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1449">TS</a>]
00:24:11 ◼ ► really knew on late-night that's that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1451">TS</a>]
00:24:15 ◼ ► so to treat him to give you a look like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1455">TS</a>]
00:24:16 ◼ ► you just being the idiot now right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1456">TS</a>]
00:24:19 ◼ ► he would make people embarrassed if they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1459">TS</a>]
00:24:21 ◼ ► did something embarrassed in their life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1461">TS</a>]
00:24:23 ◼ ► he was like okay you're not going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1463">TS</a>]
00:24:25 ◼ ► actually walk onto my show and not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1465">TS</a>]
00:24:27 ◼ ► pretend you didn't make this book where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1467">TS</a>]
00:24:30 ◼ ► you know you're you're naked in it or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1470">TS</a>]
00:24:32 ◼ ► whatever you know you you can't come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1472">TS</a>]
00:24:35 ◼ ► here and pretend that this embarrassing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1475">TS</a>]
00:24:37 ◼ ► thing that it's been in the news didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1477">TS</a>]
00:24:39 ◼ ► happen i'm gonna ask you about it and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1479">TS</a>]
00:24:40 ◼ ► love that you know and so you know been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1480">TS</a>]
00:24:42 ◼ ► Billy Idol kaymar came out and he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1482">TS</a>]
00:24:44 ◼ ► like doing this whole thing about how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1484">TS</a>]
00:24:47 ◼ ► rock and roll in blood what he was and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1487">TS</a>]
00:24:49 ◼ ► then let us look at them like you just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1489">TS</a>]
00:24:51 ◼ ► absurd ass basically and then he says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1491">TS</a>]
00:24:54 ◼ ► that he sees oh yeah drugs running and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1494">TS</a>]
00:24:56 ◼ ► he's like your parents must be very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1496">TS</a>]
00:24:58 ◼ ► it's just really pleasant person is like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1498">TS</a>]
00:25:00 ◼ ► but you know i like that that you're the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1500">TS</a>]
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00:25:25 ◼ ► alka-seltzer suit and and or or a Velcro [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1525">TS</a>]
00:25:30 ◼ ► suit and put that on TV and sometimes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1530">TS</a>]
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00:25:42 ◼ ► and the network people didn't quite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1542">TS</a>]
00:25:46 ◼ ► understand it again another great bit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1546">TS</a>]
00:25:50 ◼ ► that I think really cemented that show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1550">TS</a>]
00:25:54 ◼ ► with me was when GE bought NBC and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1554">TS</a>]
00:25:57 ◼ ► they brought the fruit basket and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1557">TS</a>]
00:25:59 ◼ ► just went disastrously with the with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1559">TS</a>]
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00:26:12 ◼ ► be TV i think for people who are younger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1572">TS</a>]
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00:26:23 ◼ ► confusing to me because I was an old man [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1583">TS</a>]
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00:27:55 ◼ ► over here next May so you want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1675">TS</a>]
00:27:59 ◼ ► hello yang to address it's a it's a no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1679">TS</a>]
00:28:02 ◼ ► I'm not angry I'm not angry at NBC about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1682">TS</a>]
00:28:06 ◼ ► this night not angry at jay leno about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1686">TS</a>]
00:28:09 ◼ ► this not not angry at you or the tonight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1689">TS</a>]
00:28:11 ◼ ► show about this i mean realistically if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1691">TS</a>]
00:28:14 ◼ ► it were not for you I wouldn't wouldn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1694">TS</a>]
00:28:16 ◼ ► have a show then you know I wouldn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1696">TS</a>]
00:28:18 ◼ ► have socks actually 43 and now even if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1698">TS</a>]
00:28:23 ◼ ► the network and come to me and they say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1703">TS</a>]
00:28:24 ◼ ► Dave would like you to have this show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1704">TS</a>]
00:28:26 ◼ ► and then then a week later they said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1706">TS</a>]
00:28:29 ◼ ► Dave we don't want you to have the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1709">TS</a>]
00:28:31 ◼ ► then you could be angry about right but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1711">TS</a>]
00:28:34 ◼ ► I have a show if you do and an NBC can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1714">TS</a>]
00:28:38 ◼ ► can do whatever they want with the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1718">TS</a>]
00:28:39 ◼ ► so i was i was never never angry now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1719">TS</a>]
00:28:42 ◼ ► would I would I like to have the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1722">TS</a>]
00:28:47 ◼ ► Johnny Carson retired in 1992 and NBC [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1727">TS</a>]
00:28:52 ◼ ► jay leno had been Carson's permanent [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1732">TS</a>]
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00:29:12 ◼ ► appearances on Late Night with David [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1752">TS</a>]
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00:29:37 ◼ ► them up and said Jay I know you bombed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1777">TS</a>]
00:29:40 ◼ ► hosting the Tonight Show for Johnny but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1780">TS</a>]
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00:29:46 ◼ ► your wheel what's your beef on my show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1786">TS</a>]
00:29:48 ◼ ► and and folks love you and Jay was so so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1788">TS</a>]
00:29:53 ◼ ► grateful for this favor that Dave didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1793">TS</a>]
00:29:56 ◼ ► he began stabbing him in the back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1796">TS</a>]
00:29:59 ◼ ► I remember um liking window at one point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1799">TS</a>]
00:30:02 ◼ ► when he was a regular guest on later use [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1802">TS</a>]
00:30:05 ◼ ► a good levy was a really good Letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1805">TS</a>]
00:30:07 ◼ ► guests in fact I still um when my I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1807">TS</a>]
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00:30:22 ◼ ► your beef part of the program which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1822">TS</a>]
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00:30:27 ◼ ► was on the guest host on the the tonight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1827">TS</a>]
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00:30:39 ◼ ► then he became the the the host through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1839">TS</a>]
00:30:43 ◼ ► Makka nations we weren't privy to at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1843">TS</a>]
00:30:46 ◼ ► time but it just seemed some middle of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1846">TS</a>]
00:30:48 ◼ ► the road and and and watered down and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1848">TS</a>]
00:30:52 ◼ ► the end over the years you you just felt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1852">TS</a>]
00:30:57 ◼ ► take 10 being buffered off until he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1857">TS</a>]
00:31:00 ◼ ► a bowling ball basically i think the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1860">TS</a>]
00:31:03 ◼ ► transition from Carson Letterman would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1863">TS</a>]
00:31:05 ◼ ► have been fine from Carson's point of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1865">TS</a>]
00:31:10 ◼ ► impression from reading biographies to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1870">TS</a>]
00:31:13 ◼ ► to the extent that Carson he had a yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1873">TS</a>]
00:31:16 ◼ ► more of a a bond with with Letterman i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1876">TS</a>]
00:31:18 ◼ ► think but it would it's very hard to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1878">TS</a>]
00:31:22 ◼ ► replace Carson and it's very hard to as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1882">TS</a>]
00:31:25 ◼ ► Conan O'Brien found it's very hard to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1885">TS</a>]
00:31:27 ◼ ► step into this 1130 time slot where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1887">TS</a>]
00:31:31 ◼ ► you're entertaining my dad who has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1891">TS</a>]
00:31:35 ◼ ► stayed awake through the evening news [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1895">TS</a>]
00:31:36 ◼ ► and just want something not terribly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1896">TS</a>]
00:31:39 ◼ ► threatening or challenging to to come on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1899">TS</a>]
00:31:42 ◼ ► the air now my feeling about which I'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1902">TS</a>]
00:31:44 ◼ ► say more in a minute is that we all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1904">TS</a>]
00:31:47 ◼ ► dodged a bullet when NBC shows jay leno [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1907">TS</a>]
00:31:48 ◼ ► over David Letterman for the tonight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1908">TS</a>]
00:31:50 ◼ ► show with Erin Barnhart pointed out to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1910">TS</a>]
00:31:52 ◼ ► me that if we knew then what we know now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1912">TS</a>]
00:31:54 ◼ ► about the composition of TV audiences [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1914">TS</a>]
00:31:56 ◼ ► things might have actually turned out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1916">TS</a>]
00:31:58 ◼ ► much differently not just for Leno and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1918">TS</a>]
00:32:00 ◼ ► Letterman but maybe even for Johnny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1920">TS</a>]
00:32:03 ◼ ► demographics were not widely circulated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1923">TS</a>]
00:32:06 ◼ ► in the nineteen eighties they're not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1926">TS</a>]
00:32:09 ◼ ► even widely measured really until the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1929">TS</a>]
00:32:13 ◼ ► research that NBC did internally showed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1933">TS</a>]
00:32:16 ◼ ► that within a very short period of time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1936">TS</a>]
00:32:18 ◼ ► younger people were preferring Letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1938">TS</a>]
00:32:21 ◼ ► Carson and this was driving all kinds of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1941">TS</a>]
00:32:25 ◼ ► advertising sales and really whether it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1945">TS</a>]
00:32:30 ◼ ► was true in public or not there was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1950">TS</a>]
00:32:33 ◼ ► genuine business competition going on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1953">TS</a>]
00:32:36 ◼ ► now between the 1130 and 1230 shows on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1956">TS</a>]
00:32:39 ◼ ► NBC late-night and and this is the thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1959">TS</a>]
00:32:41 ◼ ► that people don't always think about but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1961">TS</a>]
00:32:44 ◼ ► had that kind of demographic research [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1964">TS</a>]
00:32:46 ◼ ► been done in 1990 1991 1992 the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1966">TS</a>]
00:32:52 ◼ ► when Jay Leno and his manager Helen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1972">TS</a>]
00:32:56 ◼ ► Kushnick we're making the big press for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1976">TS</a>]
00:32:58 ◼ ► him to succeed Johnny Carson as the host [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1978">TS</a>]
00:33:02 ◼ ► of the tonight show what if Dave's camp [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1982">TS</a>]
00:33:05 ◼ ► had been able to point to those sheets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1985">TS</a>]
00:33:08 ◼ ► of demographics and the news media had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1988">TS</a>]
00:33:11 ◼ ► access to that kind of research showing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1991">TS</a>]
00:33:13 ◼ ► that among 18 to 34 year old male [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1993">TS</a>]
00:33:16 ◼ ► viewers dave was beating the pants off a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1996">TS</a>]
00:33:19 ◼ ► book Johnny and Jay how would late-night [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/1999">TS</a>]
00:33:22 ◼ ► history have been different if if that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2002">TS</a>]
00:33:24 ◼ ► kind of data that we now take for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2004">TS</a>]
00:33:27 ◼ ► granted had been widely circulated that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2007">TS</a>]
00:33:33 ◼ ► Letterman went to CBS which at the time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2013">TS</a>]
00:33:35 ◼ ► was still looking its wounds from its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2015">TS</a>]
00:33:36 ◼ ► attempt to launch the Pat Sajak show ya [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2016">TS</a>]
00:33:38 ◼ ► the guy from wheel of fortune against [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2018">TS</a>]
00:33:40 ◼ ► Johnny Carson I remember the front page [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2020">TS</a>]
00:33:42 ◼ ► of the newspaper the day that David [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2022">TS</a>]
00:33:44 ◼ ► Letterman announced he was making the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2024">TS</a>]
00:33:46 ◼ ► here's a picture of david letterman and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2026">TS</a>]
00:33:48 ◼ ► behind him is the CBS logo the picture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2028">TS</a>]
00:33:50 ◼ ► said it all the classy blackrock CBS I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2030">TS</a>]
00:33:54 ◼ ► all in all an ivory yeah its iconic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2034">TS</a>]
00:33:57 ◼ ► picture and it was a great triumph it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2037">TS</a>]
00:33:59 ◼ ► was a great triumph for CBS it really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2039">TS</a>]
00:34:02 ◼ ► change the fortunes of the network in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2042">TS</a>]
00:34:04 ◼ ► hindsight I think it makes him it makes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2044">TS</a>]
00:34:07 ◼ ► his career seemed more accomplished [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2047">TS</a>]
00:34:08 ◼ ► because he was the first person to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2048">TS</a>]
00:34:11 ◼ ► successfully create a arrival to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2051">TS</a>]
00:34:14 ◼ ► tonight show when he moved to CBS he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2054">TS</a>]
00:34:17 ◼ ► desperately wanted him and was really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2057">TS</a>]
00:34:19 ◼ ► eager to make make it very clear how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2059">TS</a>]
00:34:21 ◼ ► much they wanted them wanted him more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2061">TS</a>]
00:34:23 ◼ ► than that they were giving him ownership [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2063">TS</a>]
00:34:25 ◼ ► of the show so at no point could the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2065">TS</a>]
00:34:28 ◼ ► network say we're doing it this way we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2068">TS</a>]
00:34:30 ◼ ► say we want you to do it that way they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2070">TS</a>]
00:34:32 ◼ ► can't fire him and replace them they can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2072">TS</a>]
00:34:33 ◼ ► cancel the show but that's certainly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2073">TS</a>]
00:34:34 ◼ ► something that the they certainly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2074">TS</a>]
00:34:36 ◼ ► understood at the time to BS had nothing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2076">TS</a>]
00:34:38 ◼ ► going on in late night and here came [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2078">TS</a>]
00:34:40 ◼ ► David Letterman with the chance to be a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2080">TS</a>]
00:34:41 ◼ ► hero he could create an entirely new and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2081">TS</a>]
00:34:44 ◼ ► hugely profitable business for CBS and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2084">TS</a>]
00:34:48 ◼ ► continuing to play the underdog and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2088">TS</a>]
00:34:50 ◼ ► righteously rage against NBC and all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2090">TS</a>]
00:34:53 ◼ ► while doing a version of his old show in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2093">TS</a>]
00:34:56 ◼ ► a new place instead of trying to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2096">TS</a>]
00:34:57 ◼ ► Johnny Carson under the eyes of some NBC [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2097">TS</a>]
00:35:00 ◼ ► executives with questionable judgment [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2100">TS</a>]
00:35:04 ◼ ► well I a 1000% agree with that because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2104">TS</a>]
00:35:06 ◼ ► look even when counting out the job it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2106">TS</a>]
00:35:09 ◼ ► like be careful what you wish for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2109">TS</a>]
00:35:10 ◼ ► and he always wanted to be in that chair [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2110">TS</a>]
00:35:12 ◼ ► do you want to be in that chair yet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2112">TS</a>]
00:35:14 ◼ ► there was only one Carson and then after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2114">TS</a>]
00:35:15 ◼ ► that you had to be Leno and and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2115">TS</a>]
00:35:18 ◼ ► couldn't have any sharp edges there was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2118">TS</a>]
00:35:20 ◼ ► no right angles and Letterman is alright [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2120">TS</a>]
00:35:22 ◼ ► giggles so it's like you're totally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2122">TS</a>]
00:35:24 ◼ ► right he got to stay in New York where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2124">TS</a>]
00:35:25 ◼ ► he belongs and he got to be bitter and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2125">TS</a>]
00:35:28 ◼ ► he did his stuff his stuff where he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2128">TS</a>]
00:35:31 ◼ ► made fun of the NBC when he was on NBC [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2131">TS</a>]
00:35:33 ◼ ► was great and even when he went to CBS [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2133">TS</a>]
00:35:34 ◼ ► making fun of me bc was even better so I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2134">TS</a>]
00:35:37 ◼ ► it definitely worked out for the best of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2137">TS</a>]
00:35:39 ◼ ► 44 late night I think and who knows how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2139">TS</a>]
00:35:42 ◼ ► it would have worked on a long run but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2142">TS</a>]
00:35:43 ◼ ► he's on the record i know as having said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2143">TS</a>]
00:35:46 ◼ ► that if he had gotten the tonight show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2146">TS</a>]
00:35:48 ◼ ► which he definitely wanted his plan was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2148">TS</a>]
00:35:50 ◼ ► definitely did you know keep it was go [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2150">TS</a>]
00:35:53 ◼ ► out to burbank and more or less do the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2153">TS</a>]
00:35:58 ◼ ► Tonight Show as it was no like he would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2158">TS</a>]
00:36:00 ◼ ► just be taking over and doing it and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2160">TS</a>]
00:36:03 ◼ ► know and he had guest-hosted before and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2163">TS</a>]
00:36:06 ◼ ► you know Jay Leno and guest I mean you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2166">TS</a>]
00:36:08 ◼ ► know more or less jay leno just turned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2168">TS</a>]
00:36:10 ◼ ► his weekly guest hosting gig into what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2170">TS</a>]
00:36:13 ◼ ► he did and let me know Letterman plan to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2173">TS</a>]
00:36:15 ◼ ► do the same as an institution that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2175">TS</a>]
00:36:16 ◼ ► just thought you couldn't you you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2176">TS</a>]
00:36:18 ◼ ► couldn't mess with that letter was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2178">TS</a>]
00:36:20 ◼ ► perfect choice for the tonight show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2180">TS</a>]
00:36:21 ◼ ► Jimmy Fallon also the perfect choice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2181">TS</a>]
00:36:23 ◼ ► with tonight show because this is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2183">TS</a>]
00:36:25 ◼ ► comfort food part of the time show after [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2185">TS</a>]
00:36:29 ◼ ► after Carson it was never going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2189">TS</a>]
00:36:32 ◼ ► the tonight show after that Jerry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2192">TS</a>]
00:36:34 ◼ ► Seinfeld had a very very smart thing to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2194">TS</a>]
00:36:36 ◼ ► say and I think Bill Carter second book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2196">TS</a>]
00:36:38 ◼ ► about the second NBC late-night crisis [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2198">TS</a>]
00:36:41 ◼ ► saying that what none of us understood [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2201">TS</a>]
00:36:44 ◼ ► was that when Carson left the tonight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2204">TS</a>]
00:36:46 ◼ ► show he took the tonight show with him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2206">TS</a>]
00:36:48 ◼ ► and so this beat stop becoming an iconic [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2208">TS</a>]
00:36:50 ◼ ► show and started becoming the deliverer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2210">TS</a>]
00:36:53 ◼ ► of ratings and the the golden arches [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2213">TS</a>]
00:36:56 ◼ ► that people would think of as a familiar [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2216">TS</a>]
00:36:58 ◼ ► and okay this is a safe place to stop [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2218">TS</a>]
00:37:00 ◼ ► from 1130-1230 to do really innovative [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2220">TS</a>]
00:37:03 ◼ ► stuff you're gonna have to go to comedy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2223">TS</a>]
00:37:04 ◼ ► central going to go to CBS you even have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2224">TS</a>]
00:37:06 ◼ ► to go to TBS because it's not going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2226">TS</a>]
00:37:08 ◼ ► happen that between eleven-thirty and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2228">TS</a>]
00:37:10 ◼ ► 1230 at NBC now looking back I can see [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2230">TS</a>]
00:37:14 ◼ ► why NBC gave the tonight show to jay [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2234">TS</a>]
00:37:18 ◼ ► Dave have an approach to television it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2238">TS</a>]
00:37:21 ◼ ► was a gorilla approach there was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2241">TS</a>]
00:37:24 ◼ ► take-no-prisoners of quality to it and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2244">TS</a>]
00:37:28 ◼ ► despite the fact that he always wanted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2248">TS</a>]
00:37:30 ◼ ► to be the next Johnny Carson he was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2250">TS</a>]
00:37:33 ◼ ► never able to effectively suppress that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2253">TS</a>]
00:37:36 ◼ ► really part of his humor it was part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2256">TS</a>]
00:37:38 ◼ ► his appeal and for better for worse it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2258">TS</a>]
00:37:40 ◼ ► it's what made him effective but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2260">TS</a>]
00:37:45 ◼ ► always meant that he wasn't going to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2265">TS</a>]
00:37:47 ◼ ► the NBC job and it probably didn't mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2267">TS</a>]
00:37:49 ◼ ► he was a better personality to launch a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2269">TS</a>]
00:37:53 ◼ ► late-night talk-show franchise and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2273">TS</a>]
00:37:56 ◼ ► another network which is a tremendous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2276">TS</a>]
00:37:59 ◼ ► legacy for him at CBS as much as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2279">TS</a>]
00:38:03 ◼ ► letterman sort of true in wasn't doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2283">TS</a>]
00:38:07 ◼ ► quite the late-night stuff once you got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2287">TS</a>]
00:38:10 ◼ ► he was still doing odd and unusual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2290">TS</a>]
00:38:12 ◼ ► things like will it float not on to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2292">TS</a>]
00:38:17 ◼ ► where I i don't think that would have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2297">TS</a>]
00:38:19 ◼ ► gone over like a led zep 144 the tonight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2299">TS</a>]
00:38:22 ◼ ► show's audience of my parents who are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2302">TS</a>]
00:38:26 ◼ ► yeah it's it's ridiculous we have no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2306">TS</a>]
00:38:28 ◼ ► right to feel any sense of ownership [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2308">TS</a>]
00:38:29 ◼ ► about that but it did feel great to know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2309">TS</a>]
00:38:32 ◼ ► that Letterman did not have to inherit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2312">TS</a>]
00:38:35 ◼ ► his dad's show he was able to create his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2315">TS</a>]
00:38:39 ◼ ► own business and his own business being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2319">TS</a>]
00:38:41 ◼ ► incredibly successful in and of itself i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2321">TS</a>]
00:38:43 ◼ ► think that I thought that was a great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2323">TS</a>]
00:38:44 ◼ ► validation that Leno or jimmy fallon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2324">TS</a>]
00:38:48 ◼ ► they really do need to have that name [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2328">TS</a>]
00:38:51 ◼ ► brand on their show they need to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2331">TS</a>]
00:38:55 ◼ ► successful show they need to have that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2335">TS</a>]
00:38:56 ◼ ► the power of that brand behind them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2336">TS</a>]
00:38:58 ◼ ► whereas Letterman is his own brand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2338">TS</a>]
00:39:00 ◼ ► he brings his own staff he brings its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2340">TS</a>]
00:39:05 ◼ ► editor-in-chief of his entire show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2345">TS</a>]
00:39:07 ◼ ► he takes his own sensibility with him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2347">TS</a>]
00:39:10 ◼ ► it's hard even to imagine the the kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2350">TS</a>]
00:39:13 ◼ ► of excitement but but even then you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2353">TS</a>]
00:39:15 ◼ ► we were in a 40-channel world with cable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2355">TS</a>]
00:39:18 ◼ ► TV but but most of what you saw on cable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2358">TS</a>]
00:39:20 ◼ ► TV was reruns in fact the e-channel at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2360">TS</a>]
00:39:22 ◼ ► that moment was on a nightly basis [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2362">TS</a>]
00:39:25 ◼ ► showing an old Letterman repeat from his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2365">TS</a>]
00:39:28 ◼ ► from his NBC late-night days so there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2368">TS</a>]
00:39:31 ◼ ► was still precious little original [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2371">TS</a>]
00:39:34 ◼ ► programming on TV especially in late [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2374">TS</a>]
00:39:37 ◼ ► night and so the idea that CBS was now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2377">TS</a>]
00:39:40 ◼ ► going to also do a late night program [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2380">TS</a>]
00:39:42 ◼ ► and the David Letterman was going to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2382">TS</a>]
00:39:44 ◼ ► hosting I mean my god the world almost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2384">TS</a>]
00:39:47 ◼ ► stopped on its axis for about an hour [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2387">TS</a>]
00:39:49 ◼ ► they're Letterman not getting the job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2389">TS</a>]
00:39:51 ◼ ► and and going out and just being himself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2391">TS</a>]
00:39:53 ◼ ► and being in New York that's when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2393">TS</a>]
00:39:55 ◼ ► you create your followers and that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2395">TS</a>]
00:39:58 ◼ ► when you he really showed that to true [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2398">TS</a>]
00:40:01 ◼ ► genius he was and it clearly rubbed off [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2401">TS</a>]
00:40:03 ◼ ► on so many so many other people for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2403">TS</a>]
00:40:05 ◼ ► late-night to me of course there'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2405">TS</a>]
00:40:07 ◼ ► never be anything quite as exciting as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2407">TS</a>]
00:40:10 ◼ ► as seen David Letterman take the stage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2410">TS</a>]
00:40:14 ◼ ► transform that you know rundown old [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2414">TS</a>]
00:40:17 ◼ ► theater into it into a television shrine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2417">TS</a>]
00:40:20 ◼ ► again and entertain America but but also [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2420">TS</a>]
00:40:26 ◼ ► entertain me to feel like almost like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2426">TS</a>]
00:40:29 ◼ ► victory or graduation or something that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2429">TS</a>]
00:40:30 ◼ ► moment of like what we knew it all along [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2430">TS</a>]
00:40:33 ◼ ► we knew it all along yes when David [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2433">TS</a>]
00:40:36 ◼ ► Letterman took over at CBS it really did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2436">TS</a>]
00:40:37 ◼ ► feel like that David Letterman got the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2437">TS</a>]
00:40:39 ◼ ► 1130 timeslot you got to keep doing his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2439">TS</a>]
00:40:41 ◼ ► show instead of moving to California to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2441">TS</a>]
00:40:43 ◼ ► stand in for Johnny Carson and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2443">TS</a>]
00:40:47 ◼ ► it felt like validation after all those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2447">TS</a>]
00:40:50 ◼ ► years of cult status but the late show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2450">TS</a>]
00:40:52 ◼ ► with david letterman wasn't late night [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2452">TS</a>]
00:40:54 ◼ ► it was something different something on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2454">TS</a>]
00:40:58 ◼ ► figuratively more about that after our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2458">TS</a>]
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00:41:39 ◼ ► of latex foam and memory foam if you've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2499">TS</a>]
00:41:41 ◼ ► had a bad memory foam experienced before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2501">TS</a>]
00:41:43 ◼ ► that's why the latex foam is there a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2503">TS</a>]
00:41:45 ◼ ► latex foam makes it feel really good but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2505">TS</a>]
00:41:48 ◼ ► you still get the support of the memory [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2508">TS</a>]
00:41:49 ◼ ► foam and here's the thing you don't need [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2509">TS</a>]
00:41:51 ◼ ► to listen to me you can try yourself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2511">TS</a>]
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00:42:00 ◼ ► you're not happy they will pick it back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2520">TS</a>]
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00:42:52 ◼ ► as some of you may know for the last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2572">TS</a>]
00:43:00 ◼ ► year and a half I've kind of been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2580">TS</a>]
00:43:03 ◼ ► interested in doing a show little [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2583">TS</a>]
00:43:05 ◼ ► earlier than the one I'm doing now and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2585">TS</a>]
00:43:07 ◼ ► that reality has come to pass for today [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2587">TS</a>]
00:43:10 ◼ ► settlement dinner in New York City [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2590">TS</a>]
00:43:16 ◼ ► so we win David Letterman is the new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2596">TS</a>]
00:43:20 ◼ ► vanquished all those people who love the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2600">TS</a>]
00:43:22 ◼ ► guy under the seats in the suit of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2602">TS</a>]
00:43:23 ◼ ► alka-seltzer in the GE handshake and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2603">TS</a>]
00:43:25 ◼ ► declare victory graduate from college [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2605">TS</a>]
00:43:32 ◼ ► I'll but life goes on there's no such [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2612">TS</a>]
00:43:34 ◼ ► thing as the end of history Letterman's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2614">TS</a>]
00:43:36 ◼ ► victory was just the start of two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2616">TS</a>]
00:43:38 ◼ ► decades at CBS and the show was not the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2618">TS</a>]
00:43:41 ◼ ► same similar but not the sentient being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2621">TS</a>]
00:43:44 ◼ ► a big Broadway theater made Dave play [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2624">TS</a>]
00:43:48 ◼ ► big to play to the audience and in a way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2628">TS</a>]
00:43:52 ◼ ► that the tiny little studio that late [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2632">TS</a>]
00:43:54 ◼ ► night was in in Rockefeller Center when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2634">TS</a>]
00:43:57 ◼ ► he was on NBC let him play small and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2637">TS</a>]
00:44:00 ◼ ► there is there's a definite difference [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2640">TS</a>]
00:44:02 ◼ ► in Dave's on-air persona both shows I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2642">TS</a>]
00:44:05 ◼ ► mean he talks about it as being one show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2645">TS</a>]
00:44:07 ◼ ► like and then when it and and in a sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2647">TS</a>]
00:44:10 ◼ ► it is it's like two halves to the show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2650">TS</a>]
00:44:12 ◼ ► there's the half that was when it was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2652">TS</a>]
00:44:14 ◼ ► 1230 at NBC in a tiny little studio and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2654">TS</a>]
00:44:17 ◼ ► then there's the modern half starting in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2657">TS</a>]
00:44:18 ◼ ► 93 where it's the flagship 1130 CBS show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2658">TS</a>]
00:44:22 ◼ ► in a big theater and he definitely has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2662">TS</a>]
00:44:25 ◼ ► his personality is the same but his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2665">TS</a>]
00:44:26 ◼ ► persona is different because he has to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2666">TS</a>]
00:44:28 ◼ ► have to play to the room I tend to think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2668">TS</a>]
00:44:31 ◼ ► of a letterman show a bit like John does [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2671">TS</a>]
00:44:33 ◼ ► two halves of a career late night on one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2673">TS</a>]
00:44:35 ◼ ► side the late show on the other but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2675">TS</a>]
00:44:37 ◼ ► David Letterman's actually been doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2677">TS</a>]
00:44:39 ◼ ► the late show on CBS for 22 years late [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2679">TS</a>]
00:44:41 ◼ ► night with david levin was only on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2681">TS</a>]
00:44:43 ◼ ► that's a third of the total the CBS [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2683">TS</a>]
00:44:46 ◼ ► years account for two-thirds of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2686">TS</a>]
00:44:47 ◼ ► output which is why sometimes i think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2687">TS</a>]
00:44:50 ◼ ► Letterman's career in thirds the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2690">TS</a>]
00:44:52 ◼ ► third with the crazy innovative years at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2692">TS</a>]
00:44:54 ◼ ► NBC then the first decade or so at CBS [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2694">TS</a>]
00:44:57 ◼ ► and finally the long slow fade now let's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2697">TS</a>]
00:45:02 ◼ ► it started with David number one in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2702">TS</a>]
00:45:04 ◼ ► ratings but a few years in the lady fell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2704">TS</a>]
00:45:06 ◼ ► behind Jay Leno and really never caught [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2706">TS</a>]
00:45:08 ◼ ► back up i have a talk with Donald Meyer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2708">TS</a>]
00:45:12 ◼ ► the NBC executive probably best known to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2712">TS</a>]
00:45:15 ◼ ► people of this podcast is the guy who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2715">TS</a>]
00:45:16 ◼ ► Yanks normal Donald off Weekend Update I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2716">TS</a>]
00:45:20 ◼ ► asked him I said this was after Leno had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2720">TS</a>]
00:45:22 ◼ ► taken back the lead in late night [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2722">TS</a>]
00:45:24 ◼ ► ratings from Letterman and I said how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2724">TS</a>]
00:45:27 ◼ ► did you know it was Jay I mean how dave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2727">TS</a>]
00:45:32 ◼ ► was dominating time period and here's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2732">TS</a>]
00:45:35 ◼ ► what Meyer said we had done some polling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2735">TS</a>]
00:45:37 ◼ ► and we found that the type of person who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2737">TS</a>]
00:45:39 ◼ ► watches Johnny Carson typically watch [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2739">TS</a>]
00:45:42 ◼ ► four nights a week which means you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2742">TS</a>]
00:45:45 ◼ ► they were watching Johnny and at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2745">TS</a>]
00:45:47 ◼ ► one guest host Jon never did more than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2747">TS</a>]
00:45:51 ◼ ► the typical late-night viewer watch two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2751">TS</a>]
00:45:57 ◼ ► inferred from this was that Dave's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2757">TS</a>]
00:45:59 ◼ ► personality was not sufficiently warm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2759">TS</a>]
00:46:03 ◼ ► and relatable enough to engender nightly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2763">TS</a>]
00:46:08 ◼ ► viewing that that his viewers other than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2768">TS</a>]
00:46:15 ◼ ► Letterman went a long way that was one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2775">TS</a>]
00:46:17 ◼ ► of the data points he used in deciding [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2777">TS</a>]
00:46:19 ◼ ► that jay leno who by that point had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2779">TS</a>]
00:46:22 ◼ ► really gotten himself back in the good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2782">TS</a>]
00:46:24 ◼ ► graces of tonight show and had learned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2784">TS</a>]
00:46:26 ◼ ► the routine would be the better host for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2786">TS</a>]
00:46:30 ◼ ► the long haul because people would tune [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2790">TS</a>]
00:46:32 ◼ ► into a night after night after night and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2792">TS</a>]
00:46:35 ◼ ► in fact what happened to daves ratings [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2795">TS</a>]
00:46:38 ◼ ► in the 24 months after he signed on to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2798">TS</a>]
00:46:42 ◼ ► CBS kinda bored that out he rocketed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2802">TS</a>]
00:46:47 ◼ ► number one that first sweeps he did in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2807">TS</a>]
00:46:50 ◼ ► November it was just off the charts and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2810">TS</a>]
00:46:53 ◼ ► then he went to LA and Johnny Carson I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2813">TS</a>]
00:46:55 ◼ ► think the news had already broken the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2815">TS</a>]
00:46:57 ◼ ► Johnny Carson was going to make an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2817">TS</a>]
00:46:58 ◼ ► appearance on that night show and he had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2818">TS</a>]
00:47:01 ◼ ► 10 million people watching 10 million [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2821">TS</a>]
00:47:03 ◼ ► people take you can't get 10 million [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2823">TS</a>]
00:47:05 ◼ ► people to watch a prime-time show these [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2825">TS</a>]
00:47:07 ◼ ► days it was off the charts and then it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2827">TS</a>]
00:47:12 ◼ ► started to turn and there's still no one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2832">TS</a>]
00:47:17 ◼ ► thing I can point to until about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2837">TS</a>]
00:47:19 ◼ ► spring of nineteen ninety-six he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2839">TS</a>]
00:47:21 ◼ ► already lost the lead in the ratings 22 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2841">TS</a>]
00:47:24 ◼ ► Leno and there's there's some comments [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2844">TS</a>]
00:47:30 ◼ ► this is a part of the lettermen story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2850">TS</a>]
00:47:31 ◼ ► that we don't talk about much he lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2851">TS</a>]
00:47:33 ◼ ► the ratings lead the show lost something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2853">TS</a>]
00:47:35 ◼ ► creatively Letterman himself talked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2855">TS</a>]
00:47:37 ◼ ► about this in a recent interview with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2857">TS</a>]
00:47:38 ◼ ► the new york times when he said and I'll [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2858">TS</a>]
00:47:40 ◼ ► quote before I felt pretty confident in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2860">TS</a>]
00:47:42 ◼ ► what we were up to because there was no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2862">TS</a>]
00:47:44 ◼ ► competition to speak up whatsoever in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2864">TS</a>]
00:47:46 ◼ ► the beginning at CBS we came out of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2866">TS</a>]
00:47:48 ◼ ► shoot going a million miles an hour and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2868">TS</a>]
00:47:50 ◼ ► then when that was all done we just sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2870">TS</a>]
00:47:52 ◼ ► of said really can we go a million miles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2872">TS</a>]
00:47:54 ◼ ► an hour again and we tried and we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2874">TS</a>]
00:47:56 ◼ ► couldn't I think we've gone way down the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2876">TS</a>]
00:47:58 ◼ ► maybe way down the wrong road I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2878">TS</a>]
00:48:01 ◼ ► know that we ever did get back the right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2881">TS</a>]
00:48:03 ◼ ► it didn't start to settle down until it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2883">TS</a>]
00:48:04 ◼ ► couldn't be more clear that Jay was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2884">TS</a>]
00:48:06 ◼ ► more popular show and when we all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2886">TS</a>]
00:48:08 ◼ ► realize that there's not much we can do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2888">TS</a>]
00:48:09 ◼ ► here you can't put toothpaste back in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2889">TS</a>]
00:48:11 ◼ ► the tube then we started going our own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2891">TS</a>]
00:48:14 ◼ ► inevitability the guy in the race who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2894">TS</a>]
00:48:16 ◼ ► spends more time looking over his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2896">TS</a>]
00:48:18 ◼ ► well that's the mistake for two years I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2898">TS</a>]
00:48:20 ◼ ► made that mistake we ran out of steam [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2900">TS</a>]
00:48:22 ◼ ► day that they had a plan and they said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2902">TS</a>]
00:48:28 ◼ ► one of their own Bernhardt's first major [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2908">TS</a>]
00:48:30 ◼ ► pieces was for the New York Observer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2910">TS</a>]
00:48:31 ◼ ► about the Letterman Show and what was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2911">TS</a>]
00:48:35 ◼ ► dissected an episode and you may recall [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2915">TS</a>]
00:48:37 ◼ ► I actually sat down and watched an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2917">TS</a>]
00:48:39 ◼ ► episode with Rob Burnett in their studio [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2919">TS</a>]
00:48:41 ◼ ► the only time I've ever met Letterman he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2921">TS</a>]
00:48:43 ◼ ► came in and shook my hand and we stared [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2923">TS</a>]
00:48:47 ◼ ► awkwardly to each other in any money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2927">TS</a>]
00:48:52 ◼ ► literally literally I've had that dream [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2932">TS</a>]
00:48:54 ◼ ► it's literally go David Letterman well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2934">TS</a>]
00:48:56 ◼ ► it all right it is it's it's not easy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2936">TS</a>]
00:49:00 ◼ ► being David it's not easy being a fan of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2940">TS</a>]
00:49:02 ◼ ► date but damn i sat down watched an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2942">TS</a>]
00:49:05 ◼ ► episode and even there there are moments [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2945">TS</a>]
00:49:07 ◼ ► that you like David and new director of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2947">TS</a>]
00:49:10 ◼ ► his longtime director hell gurney who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2950">TS</a>]
00:49:12 ◼ ► would produce Jack Paar and finally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2952">TS</a>]
00:49:15 ◼ ► retired and and so this guy Jerry fully [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2955">TS</a>]
00:49:18 ◼ ► had taken over Jerry had never really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2958">TS</a>]
00:49:20 ◼ ► done a talk show and they were there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2960">TS</a>]
00:49:22 ◼ ► these epic tapings that audience members [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2962">TS</a>]
00:49:26 ◼ ► would talk about where David barkat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2966">TS</a>]
00:49:28 ◼ ► Jerry and segments would be taped over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2968">TS</a>]
00:49:31 ◼ ► and over and and even on the episode [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2971">TS</a>]
00:49:34 ◼ ► that i had asked Rob Burnett the hand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2974">TS</a>]
00:49:36 ◼ ► pick that we sat down watched together [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2976">TS</a>]
00:49:38 ◼ ► there was evidence of tension between [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2978">TS</a>]
00:49:39 ◼ ► David the boot so anyway there was as it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2979">TS</a>]
00:49:41 ◼ ► all came to a head this episode where [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2981">TS</a>]
00:49:43 ◼ ► it's some sketch involved a david [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2983">TS</a>]
00:49:46 ◼ ► letterman dummy to be made a life-size [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2986">TS</a>]
00:49:48 ◼ ► dummy and i forget what the sketch was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2988">TS</a>]
00:49:51 ◼ ► but after the joke was over and he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2991">TS</a>]
00:49:55 ◼ ► supposed to move on to other jokes he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2995">TS</a>]
00:49:57 ◼ ► turned around for no reason it took a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/2997">TS</a>]
00:50:00 ◼ ► baseball bat and hit the David Letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3000">TS</a>]
00:50:02 ◼ ► dummy in the head and he kinda liked it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3002">TS</a>]
00:50:05 ◼ ► so he kept hitting at first the audience [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3005">TS</a>]
00:50:12 ◼ ► and this goes on for like half a minute [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3012">TS</a>]
00:50:13 ◼ ► and it's very awkward television but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3013">TS</a>]
00:50:17 ◼ ► Dave clearly that self-loathing side [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3017">TS</a>]
00:50:21 ◼ ► could not be contained it came out it is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3021">TS</a>]
00:50:24 ◼ ► never really gone back in that David [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3024">TS</a>]
00:50:28 ◼ ► Letterman that made a name for himself [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3028">TS</a>]
00:50:30 ◼ ► in the nineteen eighties turned out did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3030">TS</a>]
00:50:35 ◼ ► nineties and even though i think a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3035">TS</a>]
00:50:38 ◼ ► of people came back to him and view them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3038">TS</a>]
00:50:41 ◼ ► in a different way after his his heart [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3041">TS</a>]
00:50:43 ◼ ► surgery after some of the heartfelt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3043">TS</a>]
00:50:47 ◼ ► monologues he made including this post [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3047">TS</a>]
00:50:49 ◼ ► 9-11 you know we all age so Dave's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3049">TS</a>]
00:50:55 ◼ ► there's two moments from 9-11 that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3055">TS</a>]
00:50:57 ◼ ► remember vividly on TV I remember the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3057">TS</a>]
00:51:00 ◼ ► morning of when it was happening live [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3060">TS</a>]
00:51:02 ◼ ► I've just remembered the telecast [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3062">TS</a>]
00:51:04 ◼ ► vividly it was just astounding and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3064">TS</a>]
00:51:08 ◼ ► specifically was the first Letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3068">TS</a>]
00:51:09 ◼ ► episode afterwards I don't know if it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3069">TS</a>]
00:51:12 ◼ ► was a week I don't know if it was two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3072">TS</a>]
00:51:13 ◼ ► weeks I forget exactly when but within a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3073">TS</a>]
00:51:16 ◼ ► week or two it came back on that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3076">TS</a>]
00:51:17 ◼ ► remember this remember how dope yeah oh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3077">TS</a>]
00:51:19 ◼ ► yeah no music it was just silence and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3079">TS</a>]
00:51:22 ◼ ► then Dave at his desk and any it he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3082">TS</a>]
00:51:26 ◼ ► killed it right it was just amazing and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3086">TS</a>]
00:51:29 ◼ ► it really it just gave me the sense like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3089">TS</a>]
00:51:32 ◼ ► you know what we're gonna be alright [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3092">TS</a>]
00:51:33 ◼ ► which brings us to the last third of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3093">TS</a>]
00:51:35 ◼ ► story Letterman's not making headlines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3095">TS</a>]
00:51:37 ◼ ► every day now he's not leading leno in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3097">TS</a>]
00:51:39 ◼ ► the ratings NBC tries not to repeat its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3099">TS</a>]
00:51:41 ◼ ► disastrous handling of the Letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3101">TS</a>]
00:51:43 ◼ ► Leno thing and promises The Tonight Show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3103">TS</a>]
00:51:45 ◼ ► did Conan O'Brien in the end this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3105">TS</a>]
00:51:47 ◼ ► decision creates an even worse disaster [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3107">TS</a>]
00:51:49 ◼ ► as Conan replaces Leno and fairly soon [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3109">TS</a>]
00:51:52 ◼ ► thereafter leno replaces Conan all the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3112">TS</a>]
00:51:54 ◼ ► while Letterman just keeps on cranking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3114">TS</a>]
00:51:56 ◼ ► out shows the show's format this points [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3116">TS</a>]
00:51:59 ◼ ► dave has open heart surgery but comes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3119">TS</a>]
00:52:01 ◼ ► back someone plot to kidnap his young [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3121">TS</a>]
00:52:03 ◼ ► son it's revealed that over the decades [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3123">TS</a>]
00:52:05 ◼ ► has been having sex with young women on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3125">TS</a>]
00:52:06 ◼ ► his staff the show just keep plowing on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3126">TS</a>]
00:52:09 ◼ ► new starlets new politicians new rock [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3129">TS</a>]
00:52:11 ◼ ► bands just keep rolling on time flows on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3131">TS</a>]
00:52:15 ◼ ► and on and we watch it all or at least [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3135">TS</a>]
00:52:18 ◼ ► some of us do not me as a die-hard fan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3138">TS</a>]
00:52:23 ◼ ► letterman's career and a frequent viewer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3143">TS</a>]
00:52:25 ◼ ► in a final act of Letterman's career has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3145">TS</a>]
00:52:27 ◼ ► passed almost like background noise for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3147">TS</a>]
00:52:29 ◼ ► me I might watch a few times a year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3149">TS</a>]
00:52:33 ◼ ► every night I have for as long as i can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3153">TS</a>]
00:52:36 ◼ ► remember taped late show with david [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3156">TS</a>]
00:52:39 ◼ ► letterman and this morning was the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3159">TS</a>]
00:52:42 ◼ ► time in probably a year that I've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3162">TS</a>]
00:52:45 ◼ ► actually sat down and watched an episode [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3165">TS</a>]
00:52:47 ◼ ► of late show with david letterman and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3167">TS</a>]
00:52:50 ◼ ► the case of Carson as is the case with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3170">TS</a>]
00:52:53 ◼ ► Letterman right now it would be silly if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3173">TS</a>]
00:52:56 ◼ ► this person in late Middle it in middle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3176">TS</a>]
00:52:59 ◼ ► age or late middle age where to try to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3179">TS</a>]
00:53:01 ◼ ► reinvent himself when he that they've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3181">TS</a>]
00:53:03 ◼ ► got a machine that works perfectly at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3183">TS</a>]
00:53:05 ◼ ► this point had to bolt the rear spoiler [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3185">TS</a>]
00:53:07 ◼ ► and an afterburner onto it like and turn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3187">TS</a>]
00:53:09 ◼ ► into something that looks like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3189">TS</a>]
00:53:10 ◼ ► Batmobile but doesn't run like the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3190">TS</a>]
00:53:12 ◼ ► Batmobile that would be very very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3192">TS</a>]
00:53:13 ◼ ► embarrassing occasionally all be up at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3193">TS</a>]
00:53:16 ◼ ► that hour not watching sports if i'm up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3196">TS</a>]
00:53:19 ◼ ► at that hour it's generally because i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3199">TS</a>]
00:53:20 ◼ ► watching an old movie or i'm watching [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3200">TS</a>]
00:53:22 ◼ ► sports but i'll flip by CBS and CNN that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3202">TS</a>]
00:53:24 ◼ ► it's dave letterman and you know it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3204">TS</a>]
00:53:26 ◼ ► it's I think were you and I are also not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3206">TS</a>]
00:53:30 ◼ ► to be cranky old men but it's not what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3210">TS</a>]
00:53:32 ◼ ► it was in the old days it's not it's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3212">TS</a>]
00:53:35 ◼ ► young risk-taking david letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3215">TS</a>]
00:53:38 ◼ ► instead it's it's david letterman taking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3218">TS</a>]
00:53:40 ◼ ► his victory lap so you cannot pretend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3220">TS</a>]
00:53:43 ◼ ► that he's a forty-year-old or 35 year [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3223">TS</a>]
00:53:46 ◼ ► old guy know who is up-and-coming and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3226">TS</a>]
00:53:49 ◼ ► wants to stick it to the man he is a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3229">TS</a>]
00:53:51 ◼ ► multi multi-millionaire he is the man he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3231">TS</a>]
00:53:54 ◼ ► is the man to end Johnny Carson was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3234">TS</a>]
00:53:57 ◼ ► man and Johnny Carson could get away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3237">TS</a>]
00:53:58 ◼ ► with it a little bit more because he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3238">TS</a>]
00:53:59 ◼ ► would do jokes about out his wife took [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3239">TS</a>]
00:54:01 ◼ ► them to the cleaners the divorce hearing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3241">TS</a>]
00:54:03 ◼ ► or how he's playing tennis ER for all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3243">TS</a>]
00:54:06 ◼ ► that and that was never really part of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3246">TS</a>]
00:54:08 ◼ ► Letterman check i like the fact that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3248">TS</a>]
00:54:10 ◼ ► they have just he and his staff have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3250">TS</a>]
00:54:13 ◼ ► gently sort of shifted his role when he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3253">TS</a>]
00:54:16 ◼ ► started off in that chair he was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3256">TS</a>]
00:54:18 ◼ ► person who i'm going to have the remote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3258">TS</a>]
00:54:19 ◼ ► microphone i'm gonna try to deliver a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3259">TS</a>]
00:54:21 ◼ ► basket of fruit to NBC executives and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3261">TS</a>]
00:54:22 ◼ ► I'm gonna batter to the batter case i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3262">TS</a>]
00:54:24 ◼ ► know they're gonna throw me a plan to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3264">TS</a>]
00:54:26 ◼ ► get great shots of them being jerks and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3266">TS</a>]
00:54:28 ◼ ► me being calm and me trying to just do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3268">TS</a>]
00:54:30 ◼ ► something nice like deliver this basket [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3270">TS</a>]
00:54:33 ◼ ► opposite roll a lot of the humans they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3273">TS</a>]
00:54:38 ◼ ► in the middle of the stage and younger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3278">TS</a>]
00:54:40 ◼ ► staffers come up and he has no clue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3280">TS</a>]
00:54:41 ◼ ► what's going on you know and they can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3281">TS</a>]
00:54:43 ◼ ► actually even like the parading him [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3283">TS</a>]
00:54:45 ◼ ► because he is the establishment figure [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3285">TS</a>]
00:54:47 ◼ ► and that's absolutely appropriate for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3287">TS</a>]
00:54:50 ◼ ► him to be doing this kind of comedy at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3290">TS</a>]
00:54:55 ◼ ► it's absolutely ridiculous for him to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3295">TS</a>]
00:54:58 ◼ ► establishment at this point you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3298">TS</a>]
00:54:59 ◼ ► pretend that he doesn't have tens of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3299">TS</a>]
00:55:01 ◼ ► millions of dollars you can pretend that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3301">TS</a>]
00:55:05 ◼ ► economically one of the most successful [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3305">TS</a>]
00:55:07 ◼ ► people who has ever done that job [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3307">TS</a>]
00:55:09 ◼ ► it's kind of ridiculous to want to have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3309">TS</a>]
00:55:12 ◼ ► the exact same role in popular culture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3312">TS</a>]
00:55:14 ◼ ► in your sixties that you had when you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3314">TS</a>]
00:55:17 ◼ ► in your thirties it is so much more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3317">TS</a>]
00:55:19 ◼ ► satisfying to realize that I am I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3319">TS</a>]
00:55:22 ◼ ► delivering something that people count [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3322">TS</a>]
00:55:24 ◼ ► it's not that I'm bring something fresh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3324">TS</a>]
00:55:26 ◼ ► and new every single night it's that I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3326">TS</a>]
00:55:28 ◼ ► delivering something that's absolutely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3328">TS</a>]
00:55:30 ◼ ► reliable and that is the bedrock of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3330">TS</a>]
00:55:32 ◼ ► simple craftsmanship and reliability [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3332">TS</a>]
00:55:35 ◼ ► Letterman is that level of refinement he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3335">TS</a>]
00:55:38 ◼ ► can do more by simply stepping out and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3338">TS</a>]
00:55:40 ◼ ► saying forwards then a lot of other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3340">TS</a>]
00:55:43 ◼ ► material they spent an entire week [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3343">TS</a>]
00:55:45 ◼ ► developing and rehearsing i will give [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3345">TS</a>]
00:55:47 ◼ ► him this Johnny Carson was square even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3347">TS</a>]
00:55:52 ◼ ► when big portions of America thought he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3352">TS</a>]
00:55:54 ◼ ► was hip or he was square America's idea [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3354">TS</a>]
00:55:57 ◼ ► of hip and david letterman his flavor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3357">TS</a>]
00:56:01 ◼ ► lasted I think a lot longer than anyone [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3361">TS</a>]
00:56:11 ◼ ► by that time he felt like well he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3371">TS</a>]
00:56:13 ◼ ► just a good friend and and there were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3373">TS</a>]
00:56:16 ◼ ► all these other choices that I could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3376">TS</a>]
00:56:18 ◼ ► turn to and and so he just stuck around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3378">TS</a>]
00:56:20 ◼ ► and it worked out okay for everybody not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3380">TS</a>]
00:56:24 ◼ ► least of all david letterman so here's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3384">TS</a>]
00:56:26 ◼ ► true story from my life bear with me a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3386">TS</a>]
00:56:29 ◼ ► few weeks ago my childhood home burned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3389">TS</a>]
00:56:31 ◼ ► down nobody was hurt thank goodness but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3391">TS</a>]
00:56:33 ◼ ► when people ask me how I felt about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3393">TS</a>]
00:56:35 ◼ ► loss i realized that i had more net [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3395">TS</a>]
00:56:37 ◼ ► place long before nearly 18 years ago my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3397">TS</a>]
00:56:40 ◼ ► parents sold the place I grew up in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3400">TS</a>]
00:56:42 ◼ ► eighteen sixties era farmhouse and sort [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3402">TS</a>]
00:56:44 ◼ ► of barnes on 45 acres in the Northern [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3404">TS</a>]
00:56:46 ◼ ► California foothills they use the money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3406">TS</a>]
00:56:49 ◼ ► to retire the people who bought it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3409">TS</a>]
00:56:52 ◼ ► top wedding destinations in the region [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3412">TS</a>]
00:56:54 ◼ ► if not the country back to the old place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3414">TS</a>]
00:56:56 ◼ ► twice maybe 10 years ago and again a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3416">TS</a>]
00:56:58 ◼ ► couple years back had been completely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3418">TS</a>]
00:57:00 ◼ ► transformed part of the outer portion of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3420">TS</a>]
00:57:02 ◼ ► the house was unchanged the entire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3422">TS</a>]
00:57:04 ◼ ► inside had been ripped out and replaced [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3424">TS</a>]
00:57:05 ◼ ► with guest rooms a new building had been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3425">TS</a>]
00:57:07 ◼ ► grafted onto the side of the old one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3427">TS</a>]
00:57:09 ◼ ► trees and shrubs over grew this lawn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3429">TS</a>]
00:57:12 ◼ ► my point is when place burned down no I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3432">TS</a>]
00:57:16 ◼ ► felt sad for the people who owned the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3436">TS</a>]
00:57:17 ◼ ► place and that the structure itself is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3437">TS</a>]
00:57:20 ◼ ► now gone already mourned the house I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3440">TS</a>]
00:57:22 ◼ ► grew up in it was gone the minute they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3442">TS</a>]
00:57:24 ◼ ► ripped out the bedroom walls tore up the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3444">TS</a>]
00:57:26 ◼ ► ugly linoleum in the kitchen stuck a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3446">TS</a>]
00:57:30 ◼ ► you can't go home again but you can get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3450">TS</a>]
00:57:33 ◼ ► this is how i feel about this last week [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3453">TS</a>]
00:57:35 ◼ ► with david letterman he is meaningful to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3455">TS</a>]
00:57:37 ◼ ► me his comedy and tone and sense of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3457">TS</a>]
00:57:39 ◼ ► irony were immensely influential in my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3459">TS</a>]
00:57:41 ◼ ► development as a writer and viewer and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3461">TS</a>]
00:57:43 ◼ ► amateur joke teller and it's sad to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3463">TS</a>]
00:57:46 ◼ ► think that he will be on the air anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3466">TS</a>]
00:57:47 ◼ ► though he certainly has served his time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3467">TS</a>]
00:57:49 ◼ ► and deserves a happy retirement but i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3469">TS</a>]
00:57:54 ◼ ► I've been watching the past few weeks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3474">TS</a>]
00:57:56 ◼ ► for old times sake it's been a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3476">TS</a>]
00:58:00 ◼ ► sentimental visit to a place that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3480">TS</a>]
00:58:07 ◼ ► watching Letterman and I'm actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3487">TS</a>]
00:58:10 ◼ ► starting not worried about what happens [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3490">TS</a>]
00:58:12 ◼ ► when he goes away but realizing that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3492">TS</a>]
00:58:14 ◼ ► this has been a kid he's his show has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3494">TS</a>]
00:58:16 ◼ ► been a constant in my entire life and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3496">TS</a>]
00:58:19 ◼ ► it's always a little bit sad when a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3499">TS</a>]
00:58:20 ◼ ► constant goes away even if it's you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3500">TS</a>]
00:58:23 ◼ ► that day that you know you sell your mom [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3503">TS</a>]
00:58:25 ◼ ► and dad's house because they're both [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3505">TS</a>]
00:58:26 ◼ ► gone and now you can you can no longer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3506">TS</a>]
00:58:28 ◼ ► be going back to this address that has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3508">TS</a>]
00:58:30 ◼ ► been a big part of your life all of your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3510">TS</a>]
00:58:32 ◼ ► life or even if it's just that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3512">TS</a>]
00:58:35 ◼ ► stopped making a Brandis owed that you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3515">TS</a>]
00:58:37 ◼ ► really like it's that you attach so much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3517">TS</a>]
00:58:39 ◼ ► to these touchstones of your life that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3519">TS</a>]
00:58:41 ◼ ► when something goes away you don't feel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3521">TS</a>]
00:58:43 ◼ ► like you're lost but you realize it on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3523">TS</a>]
00:58:45 ◼ ► me that's gonna be I'm gonna miss that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3525">TS</a>]
00:58:47 ◼ ► he's always he's my guy so it's great to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3527">TS</a>]
00:58:50 ◼ ► hear like Kimmel who I love come out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3530">TS</a>]
00:58:53 ◼ ► flat out say look I'm in this business [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3533">TS</a>]
00:58:54 ◼ ► because of Letterman and Letterman was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3534">TS</a>]
00:58:56 ◼ ► the best and the correct of course [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3536">TS</a>]
00:58:58 ◼ ► Kimmel famous for not letting leno have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3538">TS</a>]
00:59:02 ◼ ► like do any of his hair just be friends [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3542">TS</a>]
00:59:05 ◼ ► giggles have none of that in and in some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3545">TS</a>]
00:59:08 ◼ ► ways he was more mad Atlanta than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3548">TS</a>]
00:59:11 ◼ ► Letterman grew up with three TV channels [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3551">TS</a>]
00:59:13 ◼ ► or five TV channels Johnny Carson grew [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3553">TS</a>]
00:59:16 ◼ ► up with just a couple TV channels he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3556">TS</a>]
00:59:18 ◼ ► grew up mostly with radio and this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3558">TS</a>]
00:59:20 ◼ ► generation of performers all grew up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3560">TS</a>]
00:59:23 ◼ ► with television and they grew up with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3563">TS</a>]
00:59:25 ◼ ► lots of television choices the closest [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3565">TS</a>]
00:59:27 ◼ ► analogue would probably be Jimmy Kimmel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3567">TS</a>]
00:59:29 ◼ ► who did morning radio before he made his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3569">TS</a>]
00:59:32 ◼ ► way over to television just as as David [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3572">TS</a>]
00:59:34 ◼ ► Letterman was a weatherman Indianapolis [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3574">TS</a>]
00:59:36 ◼ ► but i think david letterman will not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3576">TS</a>]
00:59:39 ◼ ► happen again in the sense that his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3579">TS</a>]
00:59:41 ◼ ► sensibilities are really formed around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3581">TS</a>]
00:59:45 ◼ ► post-war America and the idea that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3585">TS</a>]
00:59:49 ◼ ► television was this giant glowing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3589">TS</a>]
00:59:52 ◼ ► presence in the center of the house that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3592">TS</a>]
00:59:54 ◼ ► everybody gravitated to and what he did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3594">TS</a>]
01:00:00 ◼ ► teen eighties was positively daring he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3600">TS</a>]
01:00:05 ◼ ► split that Adam he said well actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3605">TS</a>]
01:00:09 ◼ ► there's going to be a late night talk [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3609">TS</a>]
01:00:10 ◼ ► show for mom and dad and then there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3610">TS</a>]
01:00:12 ◼ ► going to be one for the kids kids don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3612">TS</a>]
01:00:14 ◼ ► have to watch Johnny's monologue anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3614">TS</a>]
01:00:16 ◼ ► i used to tape Johnny Carson's monologue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3616">TS</a>]
01:00:19 ◼ ► on a cassette tape recorder and play it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3619">TS</a>]
01:00:22 ◼ ► back later because that was considered [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3622">TS</a>]
01:00:26 ◼ ► the kind of hip asst funniest most [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3626">TS</a>]
01:00:30 ◼ ► topical comedy anywhere and now really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3630">TS</a>]
01:00:33 ◼ ► going back to the dawn of the Internet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3633">TS</a>]
01:00:36 ◼ ► era which was a time of great expansion [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3636">TS</a>]
01:00:40 ◼ ► and cable TV offerings this whole [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3640">TS</a>]
01:00:42 ◼ ► generation is just accustomed to you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3642">TS</a>]
01:00:45 ◼ ► know laughs on demand and and so it Dave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3645">TS</a>]
01:00:49 ◼ ► really is is like Johnny Carson in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3649">TS</a>]
01:00:53 ◼ ► he goes back to a time when all this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3653">TS</a>]
01:00:56 ◼ ► entertainment was good was considered [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3656">TS</a>]
01:00:58 ◼ ► very very rare and and special and so it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3658">TS</a>]
01:01:05 ◼ ► it commanded top dollar and the entire [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3665">TS</a>]
01:01:08 ◼ ► nation sometimes seem to be paying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3668">TS</a>]
01:01:11 ◼ ► attention to what you said and nowadays [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3671">TS</a>]
01:01:13 ◼ ► people sit around and pray that their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3673">TS</a>]
01:01:15 ◼ ► you know a joke that they tell goes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3675">TS</a>]
01:01:17 ◼ ► viral or a bit on their show gets gets [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3677">TS</a>]
01:01:21 ◼ ► posted on social media so I i think with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3681">TS</a>]
01:01:27 ◼ ► you know it really is kind of the end of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3687">TS</a>]
01:01:29 ◼ ► an era that started with steve allen and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3689">TS</a>]
01:01:33 ◼ ► went through Jack Paar Johnny Carson and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3693">TS</a>]
01:01:36 ◼ ► and david letterman say what you want [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3696">TS</a>]
01:01:39 ◼ ► about Carson and and like the rules you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3699">TS</a>]
01:01:41 ◼ ► put Letterman under he wanted to always [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3701">TS</a>]
01:01:43 ◼ ► be the top he did he needed was you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3703">TS</a>]
01:01:46 ◼ ► its defensive enough and insecure enough [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3706">TS</a>]
01:01:48 ◼ ► that he would do little things to make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3708">TS</a>]
01:01:49 ◼ ► sure nobody supplanted him but he let [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3709">TS</a>]
01:01:52 ◼ ► Gary Shandling and jay leno and joan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3712">TS</a>]
01:01:55 ◼ ► rivers and david letterman host his show [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3715">TS</a>]
01:01:58 ◼ ► but he gave them this platform you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3718">TS</a>]
01:02:01 ◼ ► he gave this younger generation of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3721">TS</a>]
01:02:03 ◼ ► would-be successors this platform and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3723">TS</a>]
01:02:05 ◼ ► Letterman never did that for anybody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3725">TS</a>]
01:02:07 ◼ ► like he never picked a 1230 post who was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3727">TS</a>]
01:02:10 ◼ ► in any way a plausible replacement from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3730">TS</a>]
01:02:13 ◼ ► self and he never did guest host and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3733">TS</a>]
01:02:15 ◼ ► always wondered that Letterman works too [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3735">TS</a>]
01:02:17 ◼ ► hard that five shows a week is too many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3737">TS</a>]
01:02:19 ◼ ► and part of what made Carson seem fresh [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3739">TS</a>]
01:02:21 ◼ ► for so long as the only did three shows [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3741">TS</a>]
01:02:23 ◼ ► a week for 40 weeks here if there's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3743">TS</a>]
01:02:26 ◼ ► anything i wish that i could have seen [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3746">TS</a>]
01:02:28 ◼ ► maybe them tried differently would maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3748">TS</a>]
01:02:30 ◼ ► maybe starting like 10 years ago let [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3750">TS</a>]
01:02:32 ◼ ► somebody guest host every monday right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3752">TS</a>]
01:02:35 ◼ ► there from the you know the ad sullivan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3755">TS</a>]
01:02:38 ◼ ► theater and then have Letterman only do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3758">TS</a>]
01:02:40 ◼ ► four shows a week in my career as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3760">TS</a>]
01:02:43 ◼ ► critic two of the best things I ever got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3763">TS</a>]
01:02:46 ◼ ► well i got letters from david letterman [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3766">TS</a>]
01:02:48 ◼ ► and that that was amazing because the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3768">TS</a>]
01:02:51 ◼ ► he's just he's just somebody who doesn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3771">TS</a>]
01:02:52 ◼ ► really do that often and it you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3772">TS</a>]
01:02:56 ◼ ► they came years apart and but they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3776">TS</a>]
01:02:58 ◼ ► both in response to something that i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3778">TS</a>]
01:02:59 ◼ ► wrote about him one was really just an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3779">TS</a>]
01:03:02 ◼ ► appreciation uh uh how talented he was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3782">TS</a>]
01:03:04 ◼ ► and how great the show was and then that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3784">TS</a>]
01:03:06 ◼ ► was early on and then the other one was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3786">TS</a>]
01:03:08 ◼ ► a you know when people have certain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3788">TS</a>]
01:03:10 ◼ ► forgot about him for a long time and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3790">TS</a>]
01:03:13 ◼ ► he still had many many years left and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3793">TS</a>]
01:03:16 ◼ ► did a thing like 8i I don't know why I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3796">TS</a>]
01:03:19 ◼ ► everybody's talking about the new flavor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3799">TS</a>]
01:03:21 ◼ ► whether it's Lana or whoever but here's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3801">TS</a>]
01:03:24 ◼ ► here's the master and and I do this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3804">TS</a>]
01:03:26 ◼ ► whole thing he really really appreciate [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3806">TS</a>]
01:03:27 ◼ ► it and sent me letters are both those [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3807">TS</a>]
01:03:29 ◼ ► actually Framed one of them from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3809">TS</a>]
01:03:30 ◼ ► first one because i was like what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3810">TS</a>]
01:03:33 ◼ ► self-fulfilling prophecy he never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3813">TS</a>]
01:03:35 ◼ ► thought that he was the equal of Johnny [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3815">TS</a>]
01:03:37 ◼ ► Carson he always thought that Johnny was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3817">TS</a>]
01:03:40 ◼ ► always funnier better interviewer more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3820">TS</a>]
01:03:45 ◼ ► urbane quicker minded smoother more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3825">TS</a>]
01:03:50 ◼ ► gracious a talk show host than he could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3830">TS</a>]
01:03:53 ◼ ► ever be and yet at the same time he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3833">TS</a>]
01:03:56 ◼ ► wanted his job and so he has done [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3836">TS</a>]
01:04:00 ◼ ► everything where if it's possible for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3840">TS</a>]
01:04:03 ◼ ► him to emulate Johnny he has done that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3843">TS</a>]
01:04:05 ◼ ► and everything else he has done his own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3845">TS</a>]
01:04:08 ◼ ► way and so now he's going to go out in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3848">TS</a>]
01:04:12 ◼ ► his own way I can't remember you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3852">TS</a>]
01:04:15 ◼ ► like again I was I don't know 10 or 11 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3855">TS</a>]
01:04:17 ◼ ► when Letterman got on here so I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3857">TS</a>]
01:04:18 ◼ ► anything anywhere even vaguely close to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3858">TS</a>]
01:04:23 ◼ ► and awareness of American culture [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3863">TS</a>]
01:04:25 ◼ ► Letterman's been on it doesn't feel like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3865">TS</a>]
01:04:28 ◼ ► so what happens to David Letterman now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3868">TS</a>]
01:04:31 ◼ ► like I said he's earned his retirement [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3871">TS</a>]
01:04:33 ◼ ► when Carson signed off in 92 one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3873">TS</a>]
01:04:36 ◼ ► last things he said was he hoped the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3876">TS</a>]
01:04:38 ◼ ► audience would welcome him back if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3878">TS</a>]
01:04:40 ◼ ► ever came back with a project that he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3880">TS</a>]
01:04:41 ◼ ► thought they'd like he never came back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3881">TS</a>]
01:04:44 ◼ ► cameos on the Letterman Show where the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3884">TS</a>]
01:04:46 ◼ ► most that we ever got so is Dave going [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3886">TS</a>]
01:04:49 ◼ ► to emulate his idol one more time maybe [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3889">TS</a>]
01:04:52 ◼ ► but today is a very different media [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3892">TS</a>]
01:04:56 ◼ ► landscape then 1992 Jerry Seinfeld [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3896">TS</a>]
01:04:59 ◼ ► doesn't need to work but he was able to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3899">TS</a>]
01:05:01 ◼ ► create his web series comedians in cars [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3901">TS</a>]
01:05:04 ◼ ► getting coffee and do it at his own pace [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3904">TS</a>]
01:05:07 ◼ ► so it wouldn't surprise me at all if we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3907">TS</a>]
01:05:10 ◼ ► see Dave on the web somewhere doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3910">TS</a>]
01:05:12 ◼ ► stuff for the sheer fun of it with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3912">TS</a>]
01:05:14 ◼ ► burdens of 1130 and johnny carson and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3914">TS</a>]
01:05:18 ◼ ► The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3918">TS</a>]
01:05:23 ◼ ► I'd love to see that but if all we get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3923">TS</a>]
01:05:27 ◼ ► is the more than 6,000 episodes he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3927">TS</a>]
01:05:30 ◼ ► produced over 33 years i'll call it even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3930">TS</a>]
01:05:38 ◼ ► for the complete interviews with indian [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3938">TS</a>]
01:05:44 ◼ ► taco Erin Barnhart John Gruber Philip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3944">TS</a>]
01:05:46 ◼ ► Michaels and Tim Goodman go to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMbOi9xg/3946">TS</a>]