Rulebreakers: David Letterman & Orson Welles
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The Motley Fool
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Chris Hill reflects on the longevity of David Letterman’s career, as well as his role in changing the landscape of late-night TV forever. Plus, in the wake of Orson Welles’ 100th birthday, Chris draws a parallel between Welles’ struggle to make “Citizen Kane” and the growing battle between traditional broadcasters and live-streaming video apps like Periscope.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 20th. |
| 0:03.4 | Welcome to Market Fullry. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm Chris Hill and it's just me in the studio today. |
| 0:08.6 | We've done more than 800 episodes of Market Fullry. |
| 0:11.6 | I think this is the fifth one that I've done |
| 0:14.2 | solo and as I say every time I do one of these, please feel free to skip this one. |
| 0:20.2 | This might be a good time to check out Industry Focus, our other daily |
| 0:24.6 | podcast at the Motley Fool, and I promise you we'll have a regular episode of |
| 0:29.1 | Market Foolery on Thursday. But it's just me because there were a couple of things I wanted to talk about. |
| 0:34.0 | And today is David Letterman's last show. |
| 0:38.0 | And this was one of those things that over the last couple of weeks I thought, |
| 0:42.0 | boy, there's really no way I'm going to be |
| 0:43.7 | able to not talk about this. So I'm going to talk about David Leningen in a minute and I will |
| 0:52.3 | make some points about business and investing, I promise you. |
| 0:56.0 | But first I'm going to talk about Orson Wells. |
| 0:59.0 | Orson Wells would have turned 100 years old on May 6th. I only know this because some of the people |
| 1:07.0 | I follow on Twitter were tweeting about it and putting up photos of him. And if you don't |
| 1:12.3 | know Orson Wells, if you're unfamiliar with that name he was the person who wrote |
| 1:16.8 | the person who wrote produced directed and starred in the classic film Citizen Kane. |
| 1:25.0 | And when I saw the stuff about him, oh he would have, and he died 30 years ago, |
| 1:31.0 | so it wasn't like he almost made it to 100. |
| 1:35.0 | He died in 1985, but I was thinking about Wells and his career, |
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