Street: Do you miss being on television every day like you were with TRL?
Carson Daly: Actually, I am on television every day. I have a television show called "Last Call With Carson Daly." It's sort of a talk show and an opinion show all rolled into one.
Street: Is that a recent thing?
CD: It's been on for five years, actually. But the ratings have really picked up in the last month.
Street: Why's that?
CD: Well, I'm the only thing on. I'm the only late-night talk show host to defy the Writers Guild strike. I actually opened up a joke hotline so that ordinary people could call in jokes and help me out. They just leave them at the beep, and I will play them on the air. [Note: This is actually true.]
Street: That's great, Carson. What ever happened to Tara Reid?
CD: She and I were going in different directions, our careers were really keeping us apart and there was that whole Christina Aguilera situation. But we're still good friends.
Street: Wait a moment. Wasn't it just some Eminem joke that you hooked up with Christina?
CD: I'm not going to say anything about a pregnant lady, but look at her husband. Then look at me. She obviously has a type.
Street: Some people have said that you were kicked off of MTV because you were too boring.
CD: No, you know, I don't really think so. It more had to do with the changing mores of the youth culture at the time. MTV develops sophisticated networks which impart an upward tension to recursively looped programs such that, like a spring compressed and suddenly released, the processes compromise the pattern of circular self-organization. It prevents us from comprehending technology and the human as contiguous, rather than in opposition, and from speculating upon the advent of a new mutuality of evolution. Such systems result in "emergence" whereby, appearing alone, surprising and unaccounted for properties arise from the intricate systems and develop in ways not yet anticipated. That's how I felt, at least. I think Gideon [Yago] agrees with me.
