Has Binge Watching Model Made it Harder to Follow New Shows? w/Bill Maher | Joe Rogan

Yeah, I would watch something like that except there's just too much. First of all, there's just too much. Too many things to watch. I mean, I put it on my list, but I'm going to get to that. And does everything have to be like a season? Does everything have to be so drawn back to our subject? Everything is either very condensed or way too drawn out. And you have to follow it. And you're not like an episode of Friends where you don't have to know what the fuck happened the week before. You can just tune in. The science is not dependent upon the week before. Right. Everything is an arc. And people binge. I don't binge. I've never binged anything. I have the opposite problem. I have watching ADD. I love to watch TV. It's the last thing I do before I sleep at night. But unless something is absolutely compelling, I don't watch more than 15 minutes of it. I'll watch 15 minutes of this and then 15 minutes of that and 15 minutes of something else thing and then go to sleep. You know, people are structuring their Netflix specials that way because of that. People are doing their closing bit first. I read that somewhere that you have to grab them. That's why every fucking drama is something and then six months earlier. You know, we have to go back because you have to grab them first. And then it's such a tired trope now. It's like now that we've seen it a hundred times, think of something else or just go really crazy and do something linear. Well, it's this whole thing that you were saying before, whether you have a seven second attention span or we have three hours. I would love to see someone try to make a movie like Steve McQueen's Le Mans. Because if you don't remember that movie. The old Steve McQueen. Kids, there was a Steve McQueen before the very talented director. Oh, I didn't know there was a director, Steve McQueen. Yes, you do. Who is he? Was he due? He directed, well, you know, right? You heard him? He directed, he's an African American. He directed 12 Years a Slave, I believe. Oh, okay. Are you using your magic light box to go to the bar? I can name you maybe four directors ever. Big director, he's a major, major guy. That's Steve McQueen. Oh, there he goes. I didn't know who he is. Shame, hunger, widows. Widows, yes, he just did widows. Never saw that. Widows 12 Years, yeah. Okay. Anyway, I remember the old Steve McQueen too. The actor, Steve McQueen. The one who died of cancer in 1980, I believe. I remember him chasing cures in Mexico, Puerto Rico. Oh, really? Yeah. Lung cancer? I think probably. I think he probably was a heavy smoker. But yeah, he was, what about him? The movie Le Mans is a really slow beginning. There's no talking for like the first, I don't know how many minutes. It's just, you know, people going about their life on the racetrack, like all preparing for things. There's no chat. Oh, you ever try to watch a Hitchcock movie? Oh, yeah, same thing, yeah. I mean, it just shows how different the audiences are and how we have developed or undeveloped. I don't know if it's that or if it's that there's an expectation that people have a short attention span so that everything is made for that expectation. No, they do. They do. I do think they really do. I mean, the more you, I do. I must say, as someone who grew up when Alfred Hitchcock was still, was he still making, yeah, he made a movie in 1972. I was 16. I saw it in the theater. It was one of his last. He was on his last legs, but Psycho was 1960. I was too young for that, but he was still very in vogue and a big director. And I tried to watch, I did watch the one he made in 1956, the year I was born, called The Man Who Knew Too Much, I think. It's a story he made three times. He liked that story about the innocent guy who's being chased by somebody, and he doesn't know why they're chasing him and the police are after him, but he's got to find the bad guys before the police find him. It's Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day. It is, I mean, they talked about it at the master of suspense. I mean, Jesus Christ, he was like the master of keeping me from falling asleep. It's really subtle, slow. I'm sorry, but I think they've improved on that. Maybe that sacrilege to the movie community and Martin Scorsese will write me a letter or something, but Jesus Christ, I'd much rather watch Salt. You know, there's a thriller that moves, or Jason Bourne, those movies. I feel like they took what Hitchcock was doing, and yes, they revved it up, and I'm glad they did. Hitchcock's hard to get through. Well, you also have to realize when Hitchcock was making films, they've been only making films for 50 years. Oh, even less. I mean, he started in the late 30s. I mean, talkies had only been around for like 10 years. He goes way back, yeah. So, I mean, there's something about that, like, even when you think about stand-up, like, have you ever tried listening to Lenny Bruce? I certainly have, good example. Yeah. I can't do it. It doesn't work anymore. It's just, contextually, we're in a different world.