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E446 Malcolm Gladwell

This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von

The Power of Television in the Age of Seinfeld

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"I'm old enough to remember when television was kind of a mass cultural form," he says. "When I was in my twenties, every single person I knew watched Marrow's Place." The only thing that's left now is the Super Bowl, but even that doesn't have the same shared experience as Seinfeld or Will and Grace. 'Can you have a society that works if there are no broad shared experiences? I don't know'

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