No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. | | | | The greatest broadcaster of our time, Howard Stern inducts Bon Jovi on stage during the 33rd Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
(Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.”
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| | rantnrave:// I've listened to HOWARD STERN almost every day since I'm 15 years old. Asking his first wife to buy so much shrimp that it "goes bad." Asking about SAM KINISON's egg sandwich count. Interviewing PAUL MCCARTNEY about YOKO ONO. The many great ALEC BALDWIN interviews. No person that I've never met has had the influence and impact on me like Howard. Radio is familiar, like television. He was the friend you turned to each day before you had a cell phone. Or before social media. He was always honest. Vulnerable. Smart. And beyond funny. His crew was a family of misfits not unlike our own crews. They savage each other with love and make us laugh. And the interviews? He's the best there is. You don't come on THE HOWARD STERN SHOW unless you are going to share. It isn't a place for empty promotion. And if you came on the show, you were probably a fan anyway. His self-deprecation, honesty, vulnerability, and curiosity gave him an edge that others don't have. And that made him the best there is. I've met lots of people I admire. BONO. STEVE JOBS. OBAMA. Some people even became friends like KEN AULETTA, JEFFREY KATZENBERG, or RON HOWARD. But I've never met my biggest hero of all, Howard. I'd like that. And I'd like to learn more from him. Especially now as I plan the REDEF Podcast series. His prep is the best in the world. His work has brought me more happiness than any entertainer. We put together a REDEF MediaSET on his recent interviews around his career and book. Like any artist worth their salt, they are always changing. "Stern Evolving"... Fans pledged money. Artists pledged to bring fans inside the recording process. And then the money started disappearing. What happens when fans and artists make good on their pledges but the platform itself doesn't? MusicREDEF's MATTY KARAS takes a look in "When Crowdfunding Goes Bad: The Rise and Fall of PledgeMusic"... Friends doing well: When I was at MTV, VAN TOFFLER and MTV FILMS tried something natural to us running MTV, but sometimes a bit foreign to the movie industry at the time, which was to bet on new innovative breakthrough talent to tell stories in a novel way targeted exclusively to young people. Were they STAR WARS budget movies? Hell, no! But they had a point of view that was loud, youthful, and novel and never the same. From JARED HESS with NAPOLEON DYNAMITE to CRAIG BREWER with HUSTLE & FLOW to ALEXANDER PAYNE with ELECTION to BRIAN ROBBINS with VARSITY BLUES to RICK FAMUYIWA with THE WOOD to JUSTIN LIN with BETTER LUCK TOMORROW to SPIKE LEE with KINGS OF COMEDY. These movies grossed well over $1BN domestically and never subscribed to a formula of A+ stars and seasoned directors and writers, yet they broke thru and connected to young people. Happy to see that Toffler is getting the band back together with the hire of DAVID GALE. I'm hoping to see the same formula of betting on breakthrough talent and stories across all new platforms at GUNPOWDER & SKY... Happy Birthday to KAY MADATI, DMITRY SHAPIRO, PAUL BRICAULT, and JEFF NORDHAUS. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Frontline |
| As Senate Majority Mitch McConnell tallied votes on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, there were a handful of senators that couldn’t be pinned down so easily. | | |
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 | Longreads |
| Billie Jean King once tried to find a sustainable business model for feminist sports coverage. Then women’s fitness tried to revive the swimsuit model. | | |
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 | Reuters |
| For months, Australia warned the United States about the destructive capacity of 5G technology. Now, America is aggressively campaigning against Chinese telecom champion Huawei, fearful Beijing’s domination of 5G could be used for espionage and sabotage. | | |
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 | REDEF |
| Though it started small and with no original programming of its own, HBO grew to the point in which it dominated the last two decades of cable television. But to remain atop the Iron Throne, the company will need to change and grow. This isn't the War of Five Kings, but of dozens of would-be usurpers – many of whom are backed by untold billions and orthogonal business models. Here, REDEF covers where HBO is today and how it got there, who it now competes against, and the moves it needs to make. | | |
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 | Bloomberg Opinion |
| Forget car dealerships and real estate. | | |
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 | McKinsey & Company |
| Personalization at scale requires companies to take on the challenges of technology and business in tandem, starting in the C-suite. | | |
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 | Vox |
| Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Gates shouldn’t have an outsize say in how we run our country, Giridharadas says on the latest episode of Recode Decode. | | |
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 | The New Yorker |
| For Americans living through turbulent times, Canada can seem like a refuge. The Montreal chef David McMillan figures it doesn't hurt for Canadians to have a getaway plan, too. Since 2012, he's owned a lakeside cabin in the Laurentian Mountains, accessible only by boat. | | |
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 | Bloomberg |
| The world’s largest election has become something of a test case in how technology giants handle fake news after years of scandal. It’s not working out so well. | | |
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 | The Conversation |
| The link between empire, inequality -- and Brexit. | | |
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 | The Verge |
| One researcher wants to find out how the drug works -- to make other mental health treatments. | | |
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 | GQ |
| A slightly drunken afternoon with the most recognizable guy in Hollywood. | | |
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 | Earther |
| Billions of years ago when the world was still young, treasure began forming deep underground. As the edges of Earth’s tectonic plates plunged down into the upper mantle, bits of carbon, some likely hailing from long-dead life forms were melted and compressed into rigid lattices. Over millions of years, those lattices grew into the most durable, dazzling gems the planet had ever cooked up. | | |
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 | Wired |
| Former FBI agent and body language expert Joe Navarro breaks down the various ways we communicate non-verbally. What does it mean when we fold our arms? Why do we interlace our fingers? Can a poker player actually hide their body language? | | |
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 | The Startup |
| About my life with a mild form of prosopagnosia | | |
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 | ABC News |
| The story behind the making of "Star Wars: A New Hope", the 1977 epic film which launched one of the most successful sagas of all time. This TV special, the first ever Star Wars documentary, was hosted by C-3PO and R2-D2 and narrated by William Conrad, with appearances by George Lucas, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The US president had promised the Beach Boys that if they ever needed his help, he would be on hand. And when Dennis Wilson died, he started making some calls. | | |
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 | The Washington Post |
| Filthy rich and dominated by a tech monoculture, it’s gone from America’s great romantic city to “a train wreck.” | | |
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 | Conversations with Tyler |
| He’s worked at the highest levels of medicine, policy and academia. But the intense interest in jam and chocolate might be most impressive. | | |
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 | Pacific Standard |
| Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century. | | |
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 | Salon |
| But understanding sensuality as a mindset is an effective way to enjoy life on a daily basis. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Young people love socialism. Can a summer of indoctrination teach little Hermione and Khaleesi to love capitalism? | | |
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