Why Did That Guy's Tie Point Upwards?
Armstrong & Getty One More Thing
Armstrong & Getty
4.8 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The creator of the popular Dilbert comic strip created an uproar with his unfiltered comments about a recent poll...is he a racist?
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| 0:00.0 | Why did that guy's tie point upwards? |
| 0:02.1 | It's one more thing. |
| 0:04.1 | Armstrong and Getty. |
| 0:05.3 | One more thing. |
| 0:12.5 | When was the peak of the popularity of the comic strip Dilbert? |
| 0:16.5 | I'm feeling like it was early 90s? |
| 0:19.5 | 90s? |
| 0:20.7 | It's been around for a while, though. I'd say definitely |
| 0:22.9 | through the 90s and how universally loved. Is there been anything as universally loved as |
| 0:30.4 | Dilbert? Oh, and it's still popular in calendars and posters and all that sort of stuff. Just, you know, cubicle life. |
| 0:41.0 | Mocking cubicle life. |
| 0:42.5 | That is what Scott Adams of Dilbert fame did. |
| 0:45.7 | Well, it's going to be hard to find now. |
| 0:48.8 | One network which operates hundreds of newspapers has pulled the plug on the long-running comic strip, |
| 0:54.3 | The Washington Post, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, among other newspapers that individually |
| 1:00.1 | used to Kerry Dilbert will no longer carry the comic. |
| 1:03.8 | By the way, that's a really good name for a newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. |
| 1:09.3 | I like that. |
| 1:10.2 | It's good. |
| 1:12.6 | So Scott Adams, who's, uh, he's been dipping his toe in controversy now for a while. |
| 1:18.1 | He did it all through the COVID, right? Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yep. And, you know, he was mostly a, |
| 1:27.4 | he was somebody who, he was somebody who wanted the contrarian point of view explored. |
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