Daniel Falatko > Quotes

“If he didn’t have a brain for tech and the early internet, he would have been a proto-incel school shooter type.”
― Daniel Falatko, The Wayback Machine

“lot of things have been erased in order to fit a narrative,”
― Daniel Falatko, The Wayback Machine

“mean, think about it, all of the things that have ruined peoples’ current lives came from the 2000s: social media, smartphones, online dating and hookup apps, the gentrification of the last cool neighborhoods . . . and in their eyes you guys took it lying down.”
― Daniel Falatko, The Wayback Machine

“Your podcast is on the ‘00s, right? On the pioneers of early urban hipster culture? On the indie sleaze movement? Before it was all co-opted and trash-compacted into the mainstream? I’m sure you come across these roadblocks all the time in your research.”
― Daniel Falatko, The Wayback Machine

“How did all these podcasts even manage to coexist? Were people really so bored in life that all they can think of doing is listening in on the often-inane conversations of a multitude of relentless opportunists with grating voices?”
― Daniel Falatko, The Wayback Machine

“You have to conform in some way or you’ll be erased again. I highly suggest you learn this as well, my long-lost friend. Choose one of the sides and fake it. Let it work for you. That’s what everyone else is doing. Don’t let them fool you. None of this is sincere.”
― Daniel Falatko, The Wayback Machine

“My father is so well-off he can understand the secret codes embedded in New Yorker crosswords. Mic’s dad owns like the whole southeast corner of New Hampshire or some shit. We’ll be fine. You might not be. We’ll be doing a full episode on you, my man.”
― Daniel Falatko, The Wayback Machine

“I mean, music has always been a fraud and we all know it. nathan: Except for hip hop. We never did manage to get a handle on all that. Their audience is too genuinely grassroots to contain or be fully manipulated. Bless them.”
― Daniel Falatko, The Wayback Machine