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Hello the Internet, and welcome

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to this episode of Zeitelander

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for trend Game. I don't think

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I ever finished the Highlander

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series of short show titles.

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That is courtesy of Come On, It's still good

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podcast. Um. Shout out

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to y'all. I am Jack. That

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is Joel Monique. Hello,

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Hello, Hello, hello, hello, thank

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you for joining us on

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this fine Friday afternoon,

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sending people into the weekend with six

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trends for them, six

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things that are trending. Uh, let's

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kick it off with Anthony Bourdain is

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trendling. So there's a new

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documentary that just hit Can that

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is about his life, and

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the filmmaker, in a recent New

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Yorker profile, talked about how he used

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AI to do some of the

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Anthony Bourdain voiceover stuff

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from the from the documentary,

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which I don't

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know. I don't know how I feel. I feel like Anthony

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wouldn't like it, and therefore I'm having trouble

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getting behind it. There's something about

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putting words in a person's mouth that's

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really like ringing alarm bells. And Anthony

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is so prolific on on radio shows

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and in his own like shows.

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I just feel like, as a documentary,

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unless I don't know what they're ai.

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Is it stuff they scripted or is

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it like things he wrote and

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maybe didn't get a chance to do like read

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or do voice over for it. So

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it's emails that he wrote, so

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he's it's if

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you're gonna do it, Like having him

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read some of his emails out loud

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feels like the way to what

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you would want it it being him

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reading something that he actually wrote. However,

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I don't know, like just from a filmmaking

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perspective, like if

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I was watching that, I'd be like, wait, why

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did he read his emails out loud before

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he died? Yeah, And I think there's

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something to be said about either find the footage

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or find someone to do the voice like U

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in I'm Not yourn Ego, Samuel Jackson

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does the voice for James Baldwin, and it's like

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so beautiful. It's it's definitely an interpretation

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of the person using their own words, but

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there's something that feels more authentic

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than here's an artificial

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voice we used to make it sound like that.

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On the other hand, we are so familiar

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with Anthony Bourdaine's voice, like I don't Tons

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of people me included, are constantly rewatch

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his show, uh, specifically CNN

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version, and it it I

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understand from a filmmaker point

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of wanting to be like, listen, we're intimately

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familiar with this voice. It

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we should hear it coming from him.

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But then there's like tone and inflection, and

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I feel really free about it. Well, I think it has

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the potential to be beautiful and

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great and really put the viewer

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in Anthony's headspace, which is the goal

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of a documentary anyway. Um,

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but it also has the possibility

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of being alienating and putting

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wrong inflections on an emphasis

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on words that maybe we're not his intention,

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and that makes me feel a little weird. Yeah,

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here, I think I have the

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audio right here. Let me just okay,

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let hello. My

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name is Anthony Borda. You're

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so wild that I was like, why

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is it happening? Yeah, hopefully I don't.

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Yeah, we'll shout out to one of the greatest to ever

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do it. And I hear the documentary is pretty good. So

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um, but again, like this is one of those things

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you didn't need to distract from it by using

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technology. But I do

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offer people, um,

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the complete freedom once I

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died to use the hundreds

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of thousands of hours of my voice, voice

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that I've recorded and released to make

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me say whatever they want. Use me as a

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human greeting card, whatever you want, not

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have my permission with my voice,

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don't. Let's

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see. Oh, we finally found out who the third

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person on Jeff Bezos is.

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Space flight this weekend is going to be um

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And I think this is gonna

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inspire lots of

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people whose dad's are millionaires

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bordering on billionaires, because

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it is eighteen year old Oliver Damon,

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who whose dad paid twenty

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eight million dollars to make him

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the youngest person ever in space. And

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yeah, I mean shout out to

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him. Very cool, well deserved.

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He's applying to colleges. This is really

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you know, he needs this right now. He really needs

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to get the advantage over

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the other kids so that he has a chance at life.

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Yes, flex, sir,

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flex on those college

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freshmen. As a parent, could

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you imagine sending your eighteen year old

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in what is essentially a space experiment

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from a price like I NASA

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gets it wrong sometimes I

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can't imagine. I can't imagine being my baby

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on a plane to space.

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No, like the first time

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flight three hundred and sixty maybe uh,

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right right, absolutely not. Yeah.

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I also can't imagine it's going to be like great

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for them. Also, I'm not impressed

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that he's the youngest person in space. That absolutely

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you do not learn this space prodigy.

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This is just ruining the

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record for youngest person in space. Now

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it's just like, okay, well technically, you

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know, yes,

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yes, I'm waiting for that seven year old prodigy

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you know who can do. I

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don't know what science is you need to get to space. I'm

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just gonna say rocket science, the bath

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you know that that kid who's like I'm ready

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and NASA like you know what, yes, yes,

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we need actually surprisingly easy, it's just

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like addition and subtraction. So

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uh the Yeah,

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this feels a little bit like for

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some reason, this just

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intellectually does not agree

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with me. Um. It reminds me of like when

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YouTube influencers right there autobiographies

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at the age of like nineteen. It's

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just like you haven't done ship, Like

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when when this kid gets up there, like the whole

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thing with going into space is supposed to be that

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like you have this amazing like pull

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perspective back and suddenly

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you realize that we're all just

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part of this human race together

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and we're just very insignificant.

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And this kid, what is this kid? Anna, He's gonna

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be like tight Jeff.

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That's pretty to right. Yeah,

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I mean maybe he'll turn out to be like Howard.

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He's esque in that. You know, he

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had a lot of money and dream and

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it started off sort of weird, you

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know, mostly just about athletes

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and getting out there. But then he found

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a passion and it blossomed into

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something unique. You know, maybe

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maybe

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now him

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a large company. Yeah,

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and then he almost tanked that company trying

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to launch his film career. A

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Um, that's that's awesome that I

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have like completely bought

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into the You know, America

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loves to erase any sort

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of hand hand me downs,

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let the rich get and make it a story

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of them pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

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Um just him and his millions of dollars

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and a fleet of airplanes. He had a larger airplanes

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in the Navy. I didn't mean to make a spot Howard

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he's but you don't give the drift. Young guy given

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money could maybe become something,

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but it just seems so

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silly. I really wish they had brought someone where

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it would have been significant to be like, oh wow, they're

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going to space. That's so yeah. They

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got a hundred year old eighteen

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year old ye Richie,

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like three gs. It

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just sucking powder against the back

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of the higher

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keep them on the ground. Um

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well uh down in

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Topeka, Kansas or up

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in Topeka, Kansas, depending on where

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you are spiritually. I

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am spiritually in the spacecraft

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with Jeff Bezos and this young

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man. But in Topeka,

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Kansas, Freedo lay

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workers are striking after

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being forced to work twelve hour

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days, seven days a week. Quote

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from one of the strikers. I think people are pushed

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to the edge. COVID created some of this. During

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COVID managers got to work from home.

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People see that and realize

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they have other options. I don't know.

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It's pretty dope. Collectives,

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Yes, get out there by

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for your rights. Five months off, five

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months with no day off unacceptable,

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exhausting. My guesses. Most of them

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are on their feet all the times. It's

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a factory, so twelve hours

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on your feet. We know what factory conditions

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are like. We've all read

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animal farm uh and we've seen the Amazon

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workers and their pea bottles. So I

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hope they get some respect. But my

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guess is, uh, they're gonna

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pull a similar thing that um is

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an abiscoe who owns Oreo and was just like,

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y'all are mad, We'll just take our jobs to Mexico. Piece.

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It's it's such a scary time for workers

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right now, particularly blue collar workers

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who don't have a lot of leverage in their

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ability to dictate their schedules

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or you know, make plans for their

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lives. They're just literally half

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at the will of their employer. So

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I don't know. Hopefully somebody can give them

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some ability to make better decisions

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for themselves, because that's wild. Well,

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my time at Amazon has taught me that unions

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are actually evil and we could learn we can figure

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this out on um. So

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yeah, alright, let's take a quick break. We'll

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be right back and

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we're back. Uh. And Netflix.

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First of all, Netflix just hired a

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head of podcast So

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really, Netflix coming to take the food out

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of my baby's mouth. Um.

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But also, uh, they are

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apparently aiming

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to do some video game and I'm

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excited about what did they launched like a video game

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section or what's what's happening? Super

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not clear, it's early stages.

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They hired Mike verdu who

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used to work for Facebook acquiring

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games for the Oculus heads set, So

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those guys clearly in the know. Ac Let's work

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with a bunch of different video game development

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companies, so it

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sounds like what they're gonna do is just put it

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right next to the movies

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and television shows. I don't

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know what kind of controller you'll need, if they're

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going to come out with their own specific kind,

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if you can buy any generic kind and connect

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it. Um. It's just not

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really clear yet. It's still very early days,

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but it's an exciting opportunity because I think

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they're looking to launch new release video

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games, so it'll be a great opportunity

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for indie developers. In my opinion, it will be your

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opportunity for indie developers to be like, hey,

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here's my game that most people would not normally

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buy, given on this very large platform.

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Uh. And it sounds like at this point

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in time they're not planning to increase. It's

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not like an additional package you'd have to buy. It

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would just calm with the rest of the stuff,

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so you wouldn't have to buy a

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console. You would just be able to play

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through Netflix. I don't know how that's gonna work because you can

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play so many different things, so

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I'm not sure how it's gonna all work. A big game

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change, totally. Absolutely, Yeah.

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I think it's exciting just to see again the

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potential for indie game developers, of which there

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are so many right now, to

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have a large platform to watch their games could

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be exciting. Um. Deadpool is trending. There

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is a new movie coming out called

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Save Guy. Is that? What? It's called? Free

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Guy? Free Guy? Uh?

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That is in which Ryan

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Reynolds plays a video game

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character who finds out he's a video

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game character. It's like a video

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game cross with Truman Show. Uh.

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And it's

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very meta. Continues with Ryan Reynolds

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is thing of being meta in meta

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movies. Um. And

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to complete the metaness of

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it all, uh, they released a

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Deadpool trailer for uh

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free Guy, which is

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Deadpool commenting on Ryan

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Reynolds in Ryan Reynolds the most

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surreal. It's

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so surreal and was confusing

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to me at first. It was like twentieth century

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Fox resins Free Guy, and then here's Deadpool,

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and I'm like it's not a Fox property,

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and then like suddenly dawned

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and be like, oh right, no, Disney purchased

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twenty century Fox or acquired it, and

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then they also put core again because Deadpool

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hasn't officially entered the Marvel universe yet,

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so this is technically his first appearance in the m

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c U maybe, but it's the trailer

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on YouTube, so it's not really the m c U.

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But he's interacting with m c U characters again

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sort of for the first time. In the first Deadpool

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movie, you get a bunch of m c U characters, but

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again not from Marvel's Disney

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from Fox. So the

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incest of studios

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and the overlap, and it

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also seems like a potentially like illegal

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hurdles head it was wild.

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It really blew my mind watching it. I still can't fully

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process what, if literally anything

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it means other than like

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Ryan Reynolds is just a g and can do whatever he wants.

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Now he's reached this sort of um

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superstar status of not

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having to adhere to the typical Disney

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rules. You know, a lot of these actors performers

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have to live like real strict, clean cut

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lives, like you do not want to upset the mouse,

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asked Gina. She knows, but

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but he also can reach out to these

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other companies and and do other things and

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still find a way to fold it back into Deadpool because

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that character has been designed to be like

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so meta and out of the box. Again,

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I don't know if it means anything long term or if this is just a

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weird, one off thing Ryan gets to do. And

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I just have to like Marvel at how bizarre

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it is. It was weird. I don't know,

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literally, Marvel, yes, literally, so

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so this is because Deadpool has

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not been in the Marvel universe. This is

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like a the first time that Deadpool

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has crossed over into the Marvel universe. And it's

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because of those two characters being and

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if you want to hear something crazy or someone pointed out

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like they were both in a DC property because

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Ryan played Green Lantern and Tica

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has a bit part in that Green Lantern

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movie. Because technically a reunion for those

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two guys, but for a different comic

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book company. It

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was wild all right. Well, Joel, it's

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been such a pleasure having you on

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t d ZY. We only got to five

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stories, but that's all the time

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we had. So where

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can people find you and follow you? Yeah? You

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guys, send me and Joel Monique, you can find me all over

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the internet. Actual moniqu gets j O E l

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l E m O win I q u E. There

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you go, and that's gonna do it for us

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for this week. We are back

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Monday with the whole last episode of the

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show. Until then, I have a good

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weekend. Be kind to each other

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and be kind to yourselves. Don't do nothing

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about white supremacy. We'll talk to you all on Monday.

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