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James Altucher
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and let's get started first there's oh I
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can't believe how much BS headlines
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there are every day it's almost not even
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worth summarizing them anymore at least
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in the beginning there was some
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interesting ones now I just read that
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HBO is HBO Max is not going to air some
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South Park episodes that that mention
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Mohammed you know so South Park has been
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making fun of Jesus Mohammed Satan side
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of the Seine for 25 years like I
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remember before South Park came out I
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actually watched the they they cobbled
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together a five minute episode to pitch
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Comedy Central that this should be show
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now Comedy Central was half owned by HBO
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and at the time I worked at HBO
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so I actually watched their pitch for a
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South Park and the entire pitch was was
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making fun of Jesus like Jesus was
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fighting Satan at Christmas there was
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some I forget now the exact story but
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South Park has forever been making fun
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of Muhammad so what does HBO IMAX do
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they pull the episodes of South Park
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they pull at least three episodes of
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South Park making fun of Mohammed this
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is just ridiculous
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like first off South Park made their
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entire brand by going beyond what people
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thought they should make fun of it's not
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like the Iranian Ayatollah has put out a
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fatwa on the South Park creators second
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HBO made their entire brand from oh well
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welcome Robin welcome to the podcast
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oh not too much not too much light they
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can is dark HBO built their entire brand
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on pushing the edge like let's just
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let's look at the history of HBO for
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just a second so it's very informative
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and it
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and it and if often in an industry there
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is some company that defines and changes
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the entire industry and then later on
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you see the executives in the entire
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industry all were previously employees
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in that initial company so for instance
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there's something called the PayPal
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mafia you know Peter Thiel Elon Musk the
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founders of YouTube the founder of Yelp
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all of these guys were originally
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employees of PayPal and went on to
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create multi billion or trillion dollar
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companies HBO was like that for TV
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so each video started off as a movie
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channel they just they bought the rights
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to movies that were in the theaters and
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they eventually aired them I remember in
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the late 70s early 80s I couldn't wait
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for like r-rated movies to get on HBO I
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would come home and we were the only one
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in the neighborhood with HBO so my
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friends would come over and then
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everybody would watch like I don't know
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some r-rated movie I can't even remember
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any of them but it was great it was
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fantastic but then HBO was smart they
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said hey eventually airing movies this
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is just a commodity anybody could do
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this let's produce our own original
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content and air that and they were
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geniuses they started they started
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airing oh you know I think the sound of
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the air conditioning is too loud okay
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the air conditioning can you hear the
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air conditioning J Omega CJ's response
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but uh yes choppy hi how's this I show
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you it's choppy so then HBO created Oh
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keep losing us I don't know why maybe we
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have a bad internet connection feed is
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glitchy uh on everybody's side is there
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anybody using the TV or well fix it
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we'll see what happens but HP I started
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doing shows like I don't know if
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remember dream on or if you remember the
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Larry Sanders show but then they started
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doing The Sopranos Sex in the City
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I did the websites for all these shows
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actually when I worked at HBO so Sex in