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It's Thursday July 2nd 2020 from slate. It's the Gisdai Mike Pesca. The great

Karl Reiner died yesterday 98. He was a comedy giant in different ways. He was an

essential part of the writing staff and cast of your show of shows which was the greatest

assemblage of talent in the history of comedy writing. Though maybe that's like crediting the 27

Yankees without acknowledging that turkey stirons and cool pop a bell of the Negro leagues could have

slotted right into murderers row. So of the people allowed to be comedy writers that was the greatest

assemblage of talent ever. His 2000 year old man I'd say it's the greatest long form two-hander

in comedy history and he created the Dick Van Dyke show which was one of the greatest sitcoms

of all time. Still is. When I was a kid I would always hear references to the Dick Van Dyke show.

It did go off the era of five or six years before it was born. But crucially and this is what I want

to talk about. My reaction to hearing older people, especially people I respected comedically,

was not to say oh that was before it was even born. It was to really want to seek it out. And that

does kind of annoy me. Oh that's from before it was born. Really? Did you get the polio vaccine?

Because that's from before you were born to Jenny McCarthy. Oh bad specific example. Anyway

things that predate us I think we should note they often have value. They inform the things we

like today. They aren't inherently worse because they're from before you. Two arguments are often

said by the same people we live in the worst timeline and that's from before it was born.

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