(preview) Late Night of the Long Knives
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🗓️ 19 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Rod Serling, the guy who created the X, uh, the, the Twilight Zone. |
| 0:04.8 | So he, he was like a, he's a Jew fleeing from Nazi Germany. So he had, uh, |
| 0:09.7 | rather like pronounced socialist politics and, and anti-fascist politics. He, uh, |
| 0:16.8 | were to tell a play called the judgment at Nuremberg about World War II. |
| 0:22.2 | And this company called the American Gas Company had intervened and made them, |
| 0:27.2 | he made them delete all the references to gas chambers in the play. |
| 0:31.2 | Even though the Nazi gas chambers didn't use gas, |
| 0:33.3 | they used fucking poison. |
| 0:35.0 | They just were like, |
| 0:35.9 | this is going to be bad for gas sales. |
| 0:37.3 | So this is like stuff that Nestoroff brings up in his book as They just were like, this is going to be bad for gas sales. |
| 0:46.2 | So this is like stuff that Nestoroff brings up in his book as like examples of like corporate interference in the content of television. |
| 0:48.7 | That I think is probably pretty relevant. |
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