I can’t underscore enough how fantastic this video is. I know it’s on the longer side, but it’s totally worth sitting through. Here’s some highlights you don’t want to miss:
- At 3:09 he uses Wikipedia, iTunes, and Google search to explain just some of the reasons for not taking the Internet too seriously.
- At 3:50 find out what is more important than people.
- At 7:30 he discusses the great TV tragedy of September 2001.
- At 8:10 he proves that the Internet has absorbed TV using “Breaking Bad” as an example.
- At 10:30 he talks about why it’s tempting to take the Internet seriously.
- At 12:20 he works in a nice burn on VH1.
- At 12:35 MONEY USED TO BE AWESOME.
- At 14:00 he explains why network TV is dying.
- At 16:57 BUT NOW MONEY RUINS EVERYTHING. SRSLY.
- At 19:30 learn why multi-camera sitcoms with laugh tracks will always work.
- At 20:32 he talks about why he moved away from TV networks and formed “Channel 101.”
- At 22:00 he talks about the one thing that has generated him more money than anything else he’s done.
- At 23:48 learn why NBC fired him from “Community.”
- At 25:00 MONEY WILL BE THE DEATH OF EVERYTHING GOOD IN YOUR LIFE.
- At 25:56 he shares words of wisdom from Joseph Campbell and his mom that might just save the Internet.
- At 27:23 he asks you to keep getting away with murder and wraps this whole thing up.
