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"PLAYBOY" MAGAZINE IS --
THE PRINT EDITION OF
"PLAYBOY" WILL NO LONGER
FEATURE FULLY NUDE WOMEN,
ALTHOUGH THEY WILL BE IN PRO
VALK TIFF POSE -- PROVOCATIVE
POSES, SO CALM DOWN.
THEY SAY THERE'S SO MUCH
*** ON THE INTERNET,
FULLY NUDE SHOTS ARE PASSE.
WHAT IS SOME OF THE MOST
POPULAR STUFF ON THE INTERNET?
***.
PEOPLE STILL LIKE SEEING NUDITY
BUT DON'T LIKE PAYING FOR IT.
THERE ARE SO MANY CHANGES
NOW.
TEENAGED BOYS, MEN, WHOEVER
WANTS TO LOOK AT IT, IT'S A
CLICK AWAY NOW AND IT IS FREE,
BUT I DON'T KNOW.
I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE
SAID HERE FOR "PLAYBOY," THAT
THERE'S STILL HOPE.
THEY HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO HAVE
PHENOMENAL INTERVIEWS IN THE
PAST.
IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE PEOPLE
WHO ACTUALLY READS THE
ARTICLES.
INTERVIEWS WITH MALCOLM X,
JIMMY CARTER, MARTIN LUTHER
KING, MAYBE THEY CAN GET BACK
TO THOSE GUYS.
SOME OF THE CONTENT IN THERE
IS GOOD BUT THE REASON THAT YOU
BOUGHT "PLAYBOY" WAS TO SEE THE
GIRLS IN THE BIG 10 OR TO SEE,
YOU KNOW, WHATEVER CELEBRITY,
WHAT HUGE NEWS IT WOULD BE WHEN
A CELEBRITY WOULD POSE NUDE FOR
"PLAYBOY," BUT NOW THE
CELEBRITIES ARE ALREADY NUDE.
ON INSTAGRAM, YEAH.
I KNOW.
YOU CAN SEE IT ANYWHERE NOW.
I DO THINK THAT'S A LITTLE
BIT OF A GENERATIONAL THING.
I DON'T THINK THAT PEOPLE
GROWING UP NOW HAVE THE SAME
KIND OF -- THEY ARE NOT GOING
GO AND GET A MAGAZINE.
THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE THEIR
PHONES AND --
FOR SURE.
I DON'T KNOW, SECRETLY
WHATEVER --
TABOO TO GET A MAGAZINE LIKE
THAT NOWADAYS, BUT I WONDER ARE
THEY 10 YEARS TOO LATE?
BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT THE
WAY THAT MAYBE SOME MAGAZINE
SALES ARE GOING, IT SEEMS A
LITTLE BIT GIMMICKY FOR THEM TO
COME OUT AND SAY NOW WE WANT TO
BE ARTSY AND REALLY CLASS
THINGS UP.
IT SEEMS LIKE A LAST STITCH
EFFORT TO SAVE THE MAGAZINE.
THE "PLAYBOY" BRAND IS NAKED
WOMEN, RIGHT?
ISN'T THAT WHAT PLAY PLAY IS --
"PLAYBOY" IS ABOUT?
I REMEMBER AS A KID WHEN I
DISCOVERED THE "PLAYBOY"
MAGAZINE IN MY DAD'S NIGHT
STAND.
MEMORY LANE, UH-OH.
MY DAD HAD A BIG STACK OF
MAGAZINES AND IT WAS POPULAR
MECHANICS.
UH-HUH.
CONSUMER REPORTS.
UH-HUH.
THEN YOU GET DOWN AND, YOU
KNOW, LITTLE, YOU KNOW, 12-YEAR-
OLD JASON, WOW!
HOW HAPPY IS YOUR DAD YOU
SHARED THAT?
DIDN'T YOU SAY IT WAS HIS
BIRTHDAY YESTERDAY?
IT WAS.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD.
I THINK THAT IS A RITE OF
PASSAGE FOR SO MANY TEENAGED
BOYS.
NOW THAT HAPPENS ON THE
INTERNET, THAT RITE OF PASSAGE.
BUT IT'S NOT REALITY
ANYMORE.
I DO THINK THIS SOUNDS SO
SILLY, YOU KNOW, THAT IS THE
"PLAYBOY" BRAND BUT YOU LOOK AT
WHAT THEY DID WITH THEIR
WEBSITE WHEN THEY TOOK NUDE
PICTURES OFF OF IT, THEIR WEB
TRAFFIC JUMPED JUST INSANE.
IT WENT FROM 47 TO FOUR-POINT
-- 4.7 TO 30 MILLION OR
SOMETHING, IF I HAVE THOSE
NUMBERS CORRECT.
YOU SAID HUGH HEFNER DOESN'T
MIND IT EITHER.
MAYBE HE'LL HAVE ONE GIRLFRIEND
BECAUSE THREE IS SO PASSE.
IT WILL BE INTERESTING.
WILL I SUBSCRIBE TO THE
"PLAYBOY" WITH NO NUDE PICTURES
IN IT.
WILL YOU?
MAYBE.