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