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Ben Gilbert: belief

19 Dec 2022 Acquired Holiday Special 2022

“When you're at a sporting event, halftime quarters, you go get concessions, you whatever, so it makes the product different and I think worse for the 150,000+ people who are going to listen after the fact.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
19 Dec 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…I knew I should have brought my camera. Especially in shooting stuff live in person, there's a whole new web of things that could go wrong that just don't happen when it's you and I on Zoom. Now at a live audience, that massively compounds it. First of all, the sound quality is going to be way worse. That bothers me as a persnickety person. The audience gets antsy in their seats, because no one can sit still for four hours. No one wants to attend a four-hour. When you're at a sporting event, halftime quarters, you go get concessions, you whatever, so it makes the product different and I think worse for the 150,000+ people who are going to listen after the fact. It's an interesting compromise, where for all those people, it's a worse product. But for the people in the room, that's what we're optimizing for at the moment. I don't even know that we optimized for that. It's so funny. The Arena Show, let's just take a step back. It was so cool.…

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