Red herring

You know, yeah, that would be something to look into.

Now, what about what about this? Because you mentioned that there was a red herring that they used against you.

What was that?

Yeah, so that, it was, my wife told me that was one of the things she told me before the abduction.

And she told me this, like, she said Colt once or twice.

She said mind control once or twice.

She said red herring, like... 50 times probably.

Every night when we're in bed, my dad created a red herring, your drug psychological and criminal histories are going to be used against you and no one's going to believe you.

OK, from a news angle story, I'm always looking for and you probably hear me talk about this term a lot.

The red herring test in algorithm based news stories where algorithm driven news stories, the news is following the algorithm, what everyone is talking about.

So they want to jump in and talk about it as well.

I will get TV requests, but I'll also get network news blog requests.

And those blog requests will hit usually behind a paywall when it's an algorithm-heavy topic.

But algorithm-heavy is another way of saying opinion-heavy and opening the door for backlash, certainly.

So I'm looking for the red herring test and this is what it means.

If the frame produces the exact same argument with different names, then it's not the story.

vain.

And the Red Herrings, the back-end fetch error, 3-2-1 back-end fetch error, which happened the day of the Grammys back in 2024 when Taylor ended up announcing Torture Poets, but there was a lot of sus stuff that happened that day that made us think Rep was coming, and it tied into the Exile Ends in 3-2-1...

the chant from the reputation stadium tour, which carried into the errors tour of one, two, three, let's go.

Um, and, and let me go ahead and hit you with, with a little extra Easter egg that we weren't going to talk about yet, but Olivia, the freaking cat Benson, right? Okay.

Well, I've been thinking about it and I'm like, okay, like this would be dumb.

Like we've basically had the 23rd locked in for a while now.

Like this is probably the easiest, which is also makes me fear that I'm like, maybe it is all red herrings.

It's too easy.

Yeah, it really is.

And today we're doing a deep dive into the origin of that exact feeling, the red herring.

Right.

And we've got a fascinating stack of sources for this deep dive.

We rarely pause for that.

So before we figure out where the phrase came from, I think we need to look at how it successfully tricks us today.

Like I always thought of a red herring as being like a magician's sleight of hand.

OK. Yeah.

It definitely kept me engaged the whole time.

I think she threw in enough red herrings and enough twists to keep me guessing throughout about who the murderer actually was.

I kept expecting something truly horrific to happen to either one of the women or Beverly's kids.

And there was one scene in particular, which I found really disturbing that had to do with Beverly's son.

I don't know where I was going with this, but just because we were talking about Hollywood and movies.

Well, we were, I think, ramping up towards the whodunit.

So there were a few red herrings.

Beverly thought it was the neighbor.

Three of four doom.

Red herring, test book two.

This gets plus two difficulty if you control two or more clues.

If you fail, take a horror and place one of your clues on your location.

Child of Blood, two health, three fight, three evade.

Humanoid monster, hunter, praise most sealed blood tokens, which is me.

piercing eyes the bloody claws the chilling screech this creature is no longer human i drew analysis i've got two resources and an analysis we are at one of five doom the bat horror would have woken up and attached to me which gets me a thing on wolf mask loving how this works great and my encounter card is a red herring this gets plus two difficult to test book two gets plus or difficulty if i control two or more clues i do not control two or more clues really rather not fail this.

Zero.

or watch, I watched it twice.

The movie is kind of setting up Duke as a red herring, you know, because psycho movies are clever.

You know, the first one, it was like, we think it's the mom and it turns out it's Norman.

The second one was like a way more convoluted, but we think it's Norman and it's actually these two women or no, it's, we think it's Norman.

I got to go with Jeff Fahey.

I thought he had so many of the best lines.

I thought he was a terrific red herring.

And I think he just knows...

And then I got my first round of editing notes.

He's like, you need another red herring.

I want a red herring.

You want me to find a red herring? Have we got enough? He's like, nope.

So I had to create.

And then I was chatting to my friend.

definitely dead now.

But I created that character.