Sunday, October 19th, at the hall at Live Casino in Hanover, Maryland. I will be throwing it down. It's one of my favorite spots to go to. Get tickets now at tomscore.com slash tour, and I'll see you there. Wow, that 80s music is like people don't give it enough credit. Dude, and then like somebody throws on like a mixtape or something, you know, a playlist of that. And you're like, oh, this is like the best shit. And then, you know, the funny thing, I have kids, young kids.

And they love it. Like somebody throws on like a mixtape or something, you know, a playlist of that. And you're like, oh, this is like the best shit.

And then, you know what the funny thing?

I have kids, young kids.

And they love it.

Well, you're like, I want interest in the music. And then you realize everything that they're like, this is good. It's like 40 or 50 years old. Well, you know what? The interesting thing about that for me is there's a guy called Mark Fisher, who's like a theorist on music.

And his thing was culture is downstream of technology. So we don't see it like that because we sort of go, well, no, culture is just kind of naturally, it's a wellspring from somewhere. It just comes from the ether. But you go, no, it's downstream in technology. So someone invented a keyboard in the mid-70s in Germany. Right.

And then you get Daph Punk.

And then you get all of that 80s pop. So they were using this new music. So there's an amazing kind of flourishing because of this technology that came along. Or then the ability to loop causes like a lot of the R&B and rap stuff that we love is kind of what causes that. Right. And it's slightly, like, there's a weird theory now that the 21st century is just the 20th century on better screens. That's kind of a good theory. Like, what's new? Like, we're old dudes. So obviously, we're going to say that. We're going to say, there's nothing new. There's nothing going on. This is too good to waste this, though. Are we're probably taping, aren't we? 100%. Oh, okay. Then that's a good. I was like, what the fuck? Don't waste that. That's too good. It's an interesting. There's a Polish philosopher called Jujak that talks about it a lot. Just the idea the future has been canceled. Because you think about like Hollywood now,

what's the last movie that was like important? Global impact. That you could make a joke about on stage. And everybody. Everyone gets the joke. Because not everyone needs to have seen the sixth sense, but everyone got that that's what the movie was. I know. The Matrix, Fight Club, whatever those things were that people just went, yeah, that's... When we talk about... language. It's a common language. You know, like about comedy movies. It's like when you want to say a reference that everybody goes like, yeah, you realize that you're like the hangover. And then you're like, oh, that's like 20 years old now. You know what I mean? Like, what's the last comedy movie that if you say it and you go like everybody like you go borat

everyone's like oh yeah yeah and you're like that's 20 years old like it's not it's not a

recent thing well i wonder if it's that our technology has changed that we're not going to the movies

anymore to the cinema that's you know it's it's tailing off you know the oscars is becoming less relevant and if you see the numbers on it like yeah what's what's becoming more relevant so the idea that the phone is the technology now so people are consuming things on the phone so actually if you put up crowdwork all the time it suits people right because it's little bite-sized chunks it and And actually, it's not as good as the real experience.

Like coming out and seeing a comic live, there's nothing like that. Nothing like it. You don't laugh in the same way. You laugh. I think someone sent me the stats. It was like 30 times more at the same stimulus when you're in a crowd. Because it's like when you're performing. Obviously, the illusion is, I'm on stage in Dallas last night and had great fun.

And the illusion is, oh, he performed on stage. Yes. No, 1600 people

performed in the audience. Right. If you go, I suppose it's more obvious with music, but if you go

and see like Taylor Swift or Oasis or whatever your thing is, and you see the people in the

crowd singing along. And like Bruce Springsteen at the top of the show goes, how you doing? Everyone goes, yeah. Try that in Starbucks. See how far you get. You'd be escorted from the building. Yes. It's all performative. It's all performative. And people love play. Yeah. That's the thing that we're in. The thing that's missing from our lives is play.

Think about anything anyone gives a fuck about.

It's play. Mm-hmm. Sports. It's playing, right. Comedy's playing. Movies. We're watching our play. Yeah. It's all, we want more play in our lives. If you think about what a podcast is, it's play.

Yes.

It's kind of a conversation.

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