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Chuck Klosterman

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810 total appearances

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The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

You know, 1992 is a particularly strange case, though, because, okay, so Bush is popular prior to the runner of the election and actually becomes sort of more popular again after he loses it. It's just this window of time. He became extraordinarily unpopular. The third-party candidate of, you know, of Perot getting like 19% of the vote that way.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

Cause you know, it's not like, it's not like Clinton got a majority that time. Cause there were three candidates. I mean, that, that was a kind of a strange one. I mean, this is a strange one too, you know, but like, even the way we're talking about this, you said like, you know, these young men who are sort of moving in a different direction.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

Cause you know, it's not like, it's not like Clinton got a majority that time. Cause there were three candidates. I mean, that, that was a kind of a strange one. I mean, this is a strange one too, you know, but like, even the way we're talking about this, you said like, you know, these young men who are sort of moving in a different direction.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

Cause you know, it's not like, it's not like Clinton got a majority that time. Cause there were three candidates. I mean, that, that was a kind of a strange one. I mean, this is a strange one too, you know, but like, even the way we're talking about this, you said like, you know, these young men who are sort of moving in a different direction.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

That was the immediately the day after the election and two days after it was sort of like, why have these young men become radicalized? And then I was like, well, or is it, Is it the opposite? Is it that all of culture has moved away from young men and they have remained static? That they have actually changed the least? Because, you know, they're like,

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

That was the immediately the day after the election and two days after it was sort of like, why have these young men become radicalized? And then I was like, well, or is it, Is it the opposite? Is it that all of culture has moved away from young men and they have remained static? That they have actually changed the least? Because, you know, they're like,

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

That was the immediately the day after the election and two days after it was sort of like, why have these young men become radicalized? And then I was like, well, or is it, Is it the opposite? Is it that all of culture has moved away from young men and they have remained static? That they have actually changed the least? Because, you know, they're like,

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

I mean, they're sort of, you know, they know 55% of the electorate is women. You know, 60% of people in college now are women. So if you're a college-age student and you're a guy in a class and like you see someone wearing a T-shirt that says the future is female, maybe you conclude, I guess it is. Seems that way to me too.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

I mean, they're sort of, you know, they know 55% of the electorate is women. You know, 60% of people in college now are women. So if you're a college-age student and you're a guy in a class and like you see someone wearing a T-shirt that says the future is female, maybe you conclude, I guess it is. Seems that way to me too.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

I mean, they're sort of, you know, they know 55% of the electorate is women. You know, 60% of people in college now are women. So if you're a college-age student and you're a guy in a class and like you see someone wearing a T-shirt that says the future is female, maybe you conclude, I guess it is. Seems that way to me too.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

And they maybe just did not, they were like, we're just going to sort of check out in a sense. Not pay attention, but just we're not involved with the way culture is changing. And everything else in culture changed, sort of leaving them behind, maybe to some degree. And they were kind of like, well, I'll vote for Trump because he doesn't care either or whatever, however they thought.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

And they maybe just did not, they were like, we're just going to sort of check out in a sense. Not pay attention, but just we're not involved with the way culture is changing. And everything else in culture changed, sort of leaving them behind, maybe to some degree. And they were kind of like, well, I'll vote for Trump because he doesn't care either or whatever, however they thought.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

And they maybe just did not, they were like, we're just going to sort of check out in a sense. Not pay attention, but just we're not involved with the way culture is changing. And everything else in culture changed, sort of leaving them behind, maybe to some degree. And they were kind of like, well, I'll vote for Trump because he doesn't care either or whatever, however they thought.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

I don't want to say, I don't, I don't, here again, I feel very reluctant to even give this opinion because I feel less confident about any of these things now. I really have a sense that what is really happening in people's lives is the chasm between that and the way American life is projected through mass media now is so vast that the projection is actually giving us confusion over the realities.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

I don't want to say, I don't, I don't, here again, I feel very reluctant to even give this opinion because I feel less confident about any of these things now. I really have a sense that what is really happening in people's lives is the chasm between that and the way American life is projected through mass media now is so vast that the projection is actually giving us confusion over the realities.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

I don't want to say, I don't, I don't, here again, I feel very reluctant to even give this opinion because I feel less confident about any of these things now. I really have a sense that what is really happening in people's lives is the chasm between that and the way American life is projected through mass media now is so vast that the projection is actually giving us confusion over the realities.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

You know what I'm saying? Kind of it's like it's like so like what what we think the average American is like or what we think life is like or what we think people are thinking or how we think they feel about relationships or how they all of these things are no longer sort of looking at the reality and saying, well, OK, this is what's going on. Yeah, but you know what it's like?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

You know what I'm saying? Kind of it's like it's like so like what what we think the average American is like or what we think life is like or what we think people are thinking or how we think they feel about relationships or how they all of these things are no longer sort of looking at the reality and saying, well, OK, this is what's going on. Yeah, but you know what it's like?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

You know what I'm saying? Kind of it's like it's like so like what what we think the average American is like or what we think life is like or what we think people are thinking or how we think they feel about relationships or how they all of these things are no longer sort of looking at the reality and saying, well, OK, this is what's going on. Yeah, but you know what it's like?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
A Holiday Check-in on Anything and Everything With Chuck Klosterman

Well, it's hard to like who's in a position to tell the president to step down. That's that's one of the problems. It's like even if there's a bunch of people who think two years in, it's like it would be better to transition to something else. No one's in the he's the president. Right. So no one can really tell him.