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Thanks for listening, Scott. Yeah, that bothered me, too. The development is barely related to the premise.

re: being actionable, I wasn't even thinking about that. I knew a sci fi writer, Richard Matheson, a little bit. He wrote a story about a serial killer who would go through neighborhoods doing stuff that I won't mention here because this is a public forum. Turned out, somebody saw the story then did it. So, I get your point about not touching certain material for that reason.

On the other hand, there's black comedy, movies like Harold & Maude or Heathers...

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Hi Scott,

I just wrote a sketch — it’s topical, about the Budweiser boycott, titled, “This Bud’s for You.”

The whole thing uses shock, but no sex, drugs, gross out or swearing.

It escalates, but it seems to me that it’s one-dimesional in that it uses shock humor and nothing else. It’s just one shock line after another.

I just posted it on my Substack and I’m wondering, if you get a chance to listen to it, what you think. It’s 3 minutes long. It’s HERE:

https://chasholloway.substack.com/p/this-buds-for-you

A related question: The great headline (which I think you wrote) on the cover of Our Dumb Century, “World’s Largetst Metaphor Hits Ice-Berg” — what funny filter would you say it uses? I know it’s parody because it’s in the form of a news headline, but there’s more to it than that. Wordplay? Analogy?

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It's true. Don't compete where millions of people already are. That's why I'm doing multi media stuff on Substack. It's different from everybody else on the platform.

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One more point, just noticed I got 20 "unsubscribes." That's what I get for trying to be funny...

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