CABLE-TV

A Rare Thoughts Podcast

Your life is your motion picture, and we're all watching.

A read on the culture from the guy who built the wire it runs on.

Cable didn't die. It became social media, and we climbed inside it.

Recent transmissions

EP 01

Cable charged us to watch television. The feed pays itself when we turn ourselves into television.

EP 02

A sitcom used to hand you the whole man. The feed hands you the version that performs best.

EP 03

Before it was a job, it was the thing in the room.

EP 04

I had every channel. And even that had an off switch.

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