On episode 88 of the Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast, I talked to Ross Benes about his new book, 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. Among the topics we discussed were how Jerry Springer helps explain Donald Trump, how “kayfabe” took over the world, how porn explains much of the internet, how video games became respectable, and whether it matters that the elite class watches completely different television from what most voters watch.

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