The Future of Entertainment with Seth Meyers

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.6 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The ways we consume media have changed tremendously over the last decade. Shows with live audiences, perhaps more than any other type of program, had to pivot virtually almost overnight when the pandemic started. That certainly was the case with “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” As viewers have more sources for entertainment now than ever before, the show had to find creative ways to keep fans engaged and entertained. Lucky for us, Seth Meyers, the affable host of the show bearing his name, joins to discuss what he thinks about the future of entertainment and comedy, why he felt closer to the audience while hosting from home and more. Sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads. You'll also get exclusive bonus content from this and other shows. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	There was a whole year where we were putting in punchlines about the Mets
0:04.8	because it worked with the nine Mets fans who were running cables and working cameras and the security
0:10.5	guys. And I think that the audience at home, even for people in Europe who don't get Mets jokes,
0:17.4	they got that the joke wasn't the Mets joke. The joke was that I was a comedian who was pandering
0:23.0	to the only nine people in the room. Right. And the show just took on a new dimension because of that.
0:33.1	Hello and welcome to Wise is Happening with me, your host, Chris Aides.
0:42.3	Really big day today. We're excited to launch our first ever kind of thematic miniseries,
0:47.3	a special four part miniseries we're calling the future of and the idea of it goes like this.
0:54.8	For me, I have found it increasingly difficult to think about the future in a way that doesn't feel
1:03.2	bleak. I'm laughing because that's my coping mechanism for that fact. But
1:10.4	being kind of a rough few years, I'm speaking to you right now as there's a land we're on Europe
1:15.2	falling the once in a century pandemic and American democracy under assault and the IPCC report
1:21.6	issuing increasingly frenetic and dire warnings about our climate future. And so it's very
1:27.3	easy to get into a sort of dystopic frame of mind. But I also think that dystopia is
1:31.4	innovating. I think that dystopia makes us feel hopeless and glum and like we can't build a
1:36.0	better world. And I think that we can build a better world. And I think even if we can't build a
1:39.8	better world, we should think about how we would build a better world because that's the only way we
1:45.1	retain a possibility of building a better world. So let's think about what a better future would
1:50.4	look like. And we've got answers to that question and more with this really sort of interesting and
1:53.7	a collective line of the guests, including Kathy Wood, who's founder, CEO and CIO of ARC Invest,
1:59.4	authors and podcasters and Freeman and Ami Nato, so and Jonah Goldman, who's a managing director
2:05.4	of breakthrough energy. Now you may know breakthrough energy as the network that's backed by Bill
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