Wyatt Cenac
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312 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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And I feel like even...
even to go a step further beyond monoculture, it's just that there aren't arbiters of culture in the same way that there used to be, that there was MTV, there was Johnny Carson or David Letterman as like late night people who were the arbiters of culture.
Like, you know, you look at even something like late night today and like,
What feels so different from the era of Johnny Carson that people always hold up in high regard is that Johnny Carson didn't seem to put on anyone he wasn't personally interested in talking to.
Whereas today, you look at late night shows and you don't necessarily get a sense that
these are the tastes of the late night hosts, that these are the people that, like, this is the music they listen to.
When I think about shows like Conan or Arsenio, what stands out to me is Conan was a fan of the White Stripes.
Conan was a fan of bands like that.
Those were the bands you saw in Conan.
Arsenio was a fan of R&B and hip-hop.
That's who you saw in Arsenio.
Today, you can see any number of music acts on any given... I gotta give Jimmy Kimmel credit here.
Not the saxophonist from the 70s.
That Tom Scott, though, interesting Tom Scott.
If you know the song, the Pete Rock and CL Smooth song, They Reminisce Over You, it features a Tom Scott sample.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So after after after this, go down.
Well, even as you're saying that, something that struck me is that TV, movies, all of entertainment...
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