SIO174: With Kristi Winters on Louis CK
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Recently, some audio leaked of a new Louis CK standup set and.... it wasn't good. It was so bad it led to Dennis Miller trending on Twitter. Lazy, unfunny, punching down using anti-trans punchlines that are at least a decade old. I wanted to do some solo commentary on this and so many of the thoughts I'm having and bad arguments and borderline harassment on Twitter I've seen over this, but then I remembered that Kristi also used to be a huge Louis CK fan and she was kind enough to join me! Kind of using each other as sounding boards, we share our thoughts and ideas and talk about the collateral damage to fans that can happen in the wake of #metoo. Maybe Louis wasn't your thing necessarily, but I think these same ideas and principles might be helpful when/if your fave goes down in a Ronan Farrow article or something.
Later on, Kristi gives us a bit of an update on Carl and how Sam Harris and Jordan B. Peterson are shutting off their Patreon accounts in protest of Carl not being able to use the n-word however he wants (yeah, really....)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to episode 174 of serious inquiries only. |
| 0:34.0 | So here's what's going on on today's show. |
| 0:37.0 | Recently you may have seen this on Twitter, I tweeted about it, |
| 0:40.0 | different social media, that there is Louis. doing some more stand-up and part of it |
| 0:45.8 | leaked and then the whole thing eventually leaked. The part that leaked was |
| 0:50.4 | really unfunny Dennis Miller anti-trans comedy essentially and there |
| 0:55.3 | was some other equally lazy unfunny stereotype comedy there. |
| 1:01.0 | I can't stop thinking about this, you know, about and again the wider conversation |
| 1:07.0 | that I always want to have about me too and about how we deal with it, how society |
| 1:10.9 | deals with it, all this stuff and there's also interesting components to this one for me as a |
| 1:16.7 | previously huge Louis-C-K fan and the fact that so many people seem to think that this was par for the course for Louis K is one interesting thing |
| 1:26.5 | like disregarding the sexual harassment and and exposing himself stuff like this was just normal Louis K comedy which I don't think is true |
| 1:35.6 | lots to think about anyway I really wanted to do a kind of a commentary about it and |
| 1:41.4 | just talk about it because I have so many thoughts. |
| 1:43.7 | But then I thought, you know, my friend Christie Winters was also a big Louis CK fan and I feel |
| 1:49.7 | like we're very similar in how we think about it oftentimes and maybe not maybe we won't be or we will and |
| 1:56.1 | either way it's interesting to talk about. So she was kind enough to hop on with me. I want to point |
| 2:01.7 | out just at the off the bat here |
| 2:04.3 | this isn't an interview so like don't don't be disappointed if I'm like not really |
| 2:09.0 | interviewing Christie this was a you know I have a lot of thoughts and I wanted a sounding board and I wanted to hear her thoughts back, you know, kind of thing. |
| 2:17.6 | So that's what this is. We're both very, very happy with it in terms of what it allowed us to do in helping our |
| 2:25.4 | thinking and and get our thoughts out there we also move on to some other |
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