Episode Transcript: #635 - Jim Norton
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Broadcasting are we broadcasting how does this work? I think we are I think we are brothers in broadcasting
I like that. I think yeah, if you want to talk about the brothers in stand-up and broadcasting
Broadcasting is like isn't that like a signal though like doesn't that only
Does that like like when you're sending something through the air broadcast?
I don't know. I mean don't forget there what this didn't exist when that term came up
So this they probably would have encompassed this too I guess but broadcast for whatever reason to me
It feels like you're sending like a wired signal like the old school II TV signal yeah
Coming off the radio tower
Yeah, imagine what that must have been like when they the first TVs came about and you're sitting in your house and all this time
You've just been listening to the radio like an asshole
And then finally they have this box that you can sit in front of and you you get to see an actual image
And it's moving around and you know that the whole country's watching at the same time
They probably reacted to that the way we will react to holograms
Yeah, when there's like when you're eventually like say you're in a live-action movie say movies
You can be immersed in in holograms eventually. That's how
Like the way we look at that is how they probably look to TV because it's just the whole family would just sit around this shitty black and white box
Just stare at all the elections are coming fucking boring stuff
But that must have been amazing like magic in your house
Well even just the radio before that was magic where they could all sit around a broadcast like HG Wells war of the worlds
Remember when that that story from I guess it was like