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two years ago a young producer who produced uh better late than never a series that went on
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went around the world run away with with some great guys and it was very successful but it was too expensive then
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it were canceled after two years so this guy Jason Ehrlich was the the producer of it so he says to me one day you know
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blue origin is going to send a spaceship up there and uh they're going to get uh
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passengers and you should go and I said Jason nobody why would I want to go I don't need to
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go I don't need to go I've got [ __ ] to do yeah exactly I got I got interviews to me he goes it's 12 minutes you're
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like okay everyone's got 12 somewhere so uh he says no they we really really would so he calls Seattle calls them and
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they say great idea come on up so we fly up to Seattle and we enter the lobby of
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of Amazon which is a giant room filled with Star Trek paraphernalia oh wow unbelievable number the spaceship itself
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the Enterprise itself is in a big glass globe and people flock there and men and
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there comes Jeff Bezos hey Jeff and we take pictures around the city the Enterprise then we sit down at the table
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and they say oh yeah that's you know it's a that's a really cool idea so we leave Seattle thinking Hmm and I'm
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thinking well I suppose uh you know go up in a space covid hits a year goes by and nothing
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happens and then they call and they said you know Jeff is going to go up uh that's what we hear
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so uh Jason Ehrlich says well maybe Jeff will pick you newbie is uh I don't know
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Sadie Hawkins a lovely lady and he picks a very young guy and that those so now they go up and I said to Jason you see
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somebody and then he cares about me nobody cares about it so now they announce the second
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vehicle is going to go up and Jesus in the second film and and I said listen that's like the vice president you know
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no you they want the president the president went up the vice president never appears you know I'm not going to
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go I don't need to go too much trouble around the desert I read with they call Chad or would you like to go
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I'm thinking you know space I like that I like it weightlessness what's this space yeah no no Pilots we
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don't you know press a button like a ride maybe they'll need a pilot yeah you were trying to take over if it sucks
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I could get voice commands all right uh I agree to go based on the thrill of going up it's purely and only yeah to my
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mind nobody's going to pay any attention they weren't going to obey any attention to
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begin with second shot forget about it just oh no is going into space it was so big I mean
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if who who knew I could have predicted it but I I know from your point of view yeah if I had called you if you just
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said call me I'll tell you what it's gonna be like but no you kept your silence and what and what did I know