Secondhand Smoke Causes Secondhand Coolness | The Onion's Scott Dikkers

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Before there was "Fake News" there was the Fake News, and today's guest - The Onion co-founder Scott Dikkers - was the driving force behind the farce. Dikkers has been an editor-in-chief or General Manager of the newspaper and website for three spans between its founding in 1988 and 2014.Scott is also the bestselling author of over 20 humor books, including the lauded 3-book How to Write Funny series, and codified the '11 Funny Filters' that are used in almost every joke. ------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Have you ever read the newspaper, the onion?
0:08.4	I remember I was so impressed because I was introduced to it.
0:12.7	I started reading it online like in the 90s.
0:15.7	Then I saw that they were an actual paper.
0:17.4	I thought, oh, that's a pretty cool idea that a website became a newspaper.
0:21.2	I didn't know they were a newspaper before that.
0:24.5	Talk to the founder or a co-founder or a co-founding editor, Scott Dickers, all about humor, comedy, writing comedy, building up the onion.
0:35.5	How did the onion succeed?
0:37.3	It's an incredible story. Here it is.
0:39.7	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:47.1	This is the James Altiger show.
0:58.7	Scott, how would you take something as boring as microphones and make it an onion headline?
1:04.0	Well, that's the beauty of the onion and the onion headline is that you can make it about anything.
1:09.4	People always think that a restrictive format, like a news parity format, is going to restrict your creativity.
1:18.9	It actually expands it greatly because it allows a channel for it to go.
1:23.7	A creative person can just get unmoored if there's no structure for the joke.
1:30.3	If I had to brainstorm 10 onion headlines about microphones, I could do it if you gave me a few minutes.
1:38.1	But I can probably be able to do it off the top of my head.
1:40.7	I keep thinking of your recent headline, police chief yells at Herschel Walker for blowing cover in under cover Senate run operation.
1:49.4	That's great.
1:50.1	So maybe Herschel Walker thought microphone was a secret listening device for the scene.
1:57.6	I don't know.
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