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  1. “Yeah, and I love that. It's like it is a constant new source where I'll check into other newspapers along the day. Like, you know, I'll check in with the Times or like, you know, Talking Points memo or the New York Post or whatever, because the New York Post is spectacular and you have to. But the Twitter, on Twitter all day long, like 8, 9, 12 times.”

    2016-03-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #150: Morgan Spurlock: Inside the Mind of a Human Guinea Pig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “The interwe I'm on Twitter all the time because Twitter has become my newsfeed. Like, Twitter is my AP. Exactly. I'm on Twitter all day long and it's just constant updates.”

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  3. “Hello on social. Yeah, on Facebook, which is just me, it's Morgan Spurlock, then on Twitter at Morgan Spurlock, Instagrams at Morgan Spurlock, NYC, Snapchat. You'll be able to track me down. I'm all over. I'm all over the social media.”

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  4. “Speechless, but I feel like I'm in the middle of a reality show. You're watching this, how is this actually happening? I don't understand how this is happening.”

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  5. “Oh, I feel like right now it has to, it would have to be something Trump related right now. I would have to have something with his tiny little hands and remind people what that means when he gets to the White House. Do you want these little hands on the button? I feel like I want me to touch on this.”

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  6. “Correct, yeah, and so we just went through our kind of seed round. It's exciting. It's a cool thing. And it's like, I love having had my first startup, you know, which I started, you know, what was that 16 years ago and was going around and doing all the angel meetings back then. I mean, for me, it was exciting to kind of be back in that space. And it is a very similar hustle to raising money for movies. You're just talking to, I think, a lot smarter people. The people that live and breathe in that space.”

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  7. “But yeah, like I still have my original Darth Vader Carey case that's in my kids room that I wouldn't let him play with for years until like last year when I knew he wouldn't totally like junk all the toys. So now he can actually play with the action figures.”

    2016-03-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #150: Morgan Spurlock: Inside the Mind of a Human Guinea Pig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Oh my gosh, there's so much fan art. Like, there's so much stuff that people create on their own, which is awesome. And so I love seeing the stuff that people draw on their own posters they create. It's spectacular. So for me, I love seeing things like that. I love the people who have stuff that's still in the original packaging that's been on their shelves since like 19. So people have like original Star Wars toys from like when you and I were kids that's still in original packaging. I'm like, that is dedication. That's a lot of dedication. A lot of self-control, too. When I was a little kid, I still have all my old stuff.”

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  9. “Is one of the founders early on put money into the company. And it's one of those where I just believe in this, like of the, what is it? I think it's $18 billion a year that's spent on eBay, a third of that, $6 billion, is everything that lives within this geek space. So I think there's a great place to give people a better experience where you can actually have a geek-to-gek experience. So there's kind of a great social atmosphere to it. But then there's also the ability to buy, sell, to trade with fellow geeks and feel like you're actually getting something you love. So that's awesome.”

    2016-03-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #150: Morgan Spurlock: Inside the Mind of a Human Guinea Pig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “The whole genesis of this, and what it is, it's basically like a geek collectible marketplace. So anything that is geek, anything that you would imagine at Comic-Con that you love from Walking Dead to whatever, you know, posters to action figures, whatever those geeky things you love, vinyl, like I collect a lot of vinyl characters made by pop artists. So anything, no matter what it is, is that you can find it on collect. And so I was being chased by, I was finishing a movie in London, and the founder of the company, this guy Steve Brumwell, was chasing me, chasing me, chasing me. And he finally said, and I said, what is it? He goes, you're the only person that's going to get this. Like, you'll understand. And a couple years ago, I made a movie with Stanley and Joss Whedon about Comic-Con. And then two years before that, I made The Simpsons 20th anniversary special for Fox. So I'm like a geek into my core. And so I said, what is it? Show it to me. So he showed me just like a flip deck of what it was. And I was like, I love this. And so we sat down, we talked about the company. I came on board.”

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  11. “We had a company that had been in his incubator slash accelerator for the last four months called CLECT. And this is a company you can go to, you can go to collect.com where you can download the apps in the iTunes store, but it's a company that is spelled as a design. CLECT. Yeah. Yeah.”

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  12. “I tell you what, there was a, I gave the Bhagavad Gita to a lot of people. This was right after, I guess it would have been right after my son was born and then right after I got divorced, somebody gave it to me. But there was one in particular interpretation. I can't remember who the writer was, the guy who basically did this translation. But I gave that book to, I don't know, a couple dozen people who they're like, yeah, I'm just like, I'm having a hard time right now. I don't know what to do. And I was like, you should read this book. This is.”

    2016-03-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #150: Morgan Spurlock: Inside the Mind of a Human Guinea Pig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “As you come into my office, and there's like posters of the films that I've made in the wall. So it's like those are my, I guess, my Kanye moment there”

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  14. “Tori said to him, he goes, Kanye, why do you have a giant picture of you on the wall? And he goes, Well, I got to cheer for me before anyone else can cheer for me. And I was like, there's some fantastic logic in that.”

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  15. “I mean, I think, no, because part of me, it feels like you have to be so steadfast in your belief. Because if you don't drink the Kool-Aid, nobody drinks the Kool-Aid. I mean, it's got to be who's the other person that's probably in that same type of state, like Kanye is Kanye there? And I mean, Kanye's probably on even a different level than James Cameron, but comparable, I think, and kind of maybe a mega-maniacal way. But I think that you have to believe in you first. Torre, he's a great writer, commentator. He told me the story where he went to Kanye's house once. And so he's in Kanye's house. And inside Kanye's house, there's a big giant poster of Kanye, like right inside the living room.”

    2016-03-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #150: Morgan Spurlock: Inside the Mind of a Human Guinea Pig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  16. “And so I would go to this print shop, and Gene was one of those guys who would basically yell and scream at the top of his lungs and say terrible insulting things that I thought it was spectacularly funny and really entertaining. And so for me, but I also think he did it in jest, to be funny, even though he was mean about it, but he was also saying it in jest to also make other people laugh, which I feel like James Cameron's doing the same thing. But so Gene, you know, rest in peace. He was a phenomenal guy.”

    2016-03-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #150: Morgan Spurlock: Inside the Mind of a Human Guinea Pig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  17. “Yeah. So that's why, I mean, like James Cameron's one of those people that I really look at and admire because he will always bet on him. And he'll always bet on his ability. If you haven't read the New Yorker article about James Cameron when he was making avatar, not only is he a genius, but he also is a bit of a bully and says like some terrible things to people who work for him. There's some of the greatest lines that you'll ever hear him say to human beings, which there's a guy who's like rigging lights. He says to the guy and he goes, watching you lights, like watching a monkey fuck a football. And he yells to another guy. He's like, hiring you was like firing two good men. And it's like some of the whole lines are phenomenal. It's like, and I worked with, but here's the thing, but it's like, I mean, part of me is he may be saying this, and I worked with a guy years ago, a guy named Gene Licht, who ran a printing shop back when I was in college, and I worked for Gene through a friend of mine at NYU who worked there, ran the print shop.”

    2016-03-29 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #150: Morgan Spurlock: Inside the Mind of a Human Guinea Pig · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  18. “Yeah. And so, but I still had an office and I still had a business. And I was like, I'm not, I was like, you know, I'm still betting on us. And so that's when MTV Green lit the series and we did 53 episodes of that show. And during that time, I paid off like $50,000 worth of that debt. And then when they canceled it, I had another $50 grand in the bank. And I was like, well, I could either pour this $50,000 into that bottomless pit of debt, or we could make a movie because we owned all the equipment. Again, it was the same thing. We had the cameras, we had the computers. Let's make a film. And that film was supersized me. And it changed everything.”

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  19. “I didn't have a choice, and then I would come back to my office. And I still had people coming to work and to make sure that they could pay their rent and pay their bills. I took out credit cards. And so I was basically paying their rent with credit cards. I was paying their bills with credit cards. I was paying credit cards with credit cards. And I am asked about a quarter of a million dollars in credit card debt in about a year.”

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  20. “And it was out of that, yeah, because it was out of that where he got the idea of what could happen with this other character and what it could be. And he poured all his own money into making that a reality, which I love. I mean, I'm somebody who's a real believer that you should always bet on yourself first. And pre when we made supersize me, I remember I was because this was right when we sold our show to MTV. The first show we created online from the interactive consortium when we had that company. So here's the con. So when we created the first show we created under the con was a show called I Bet You Will. And so we sold that show to CBS and then to MTV and then 9-11 happened. So we had proof of concept. We proved that we could create programming online and springboarded off. So we created the first show to really go from the web to television as a series, sold it to MTV, then 9-11 happened. Everything stopped. Production just came to a standstill in New York City, so we had no money. I was evicted from my apartment. I was sleeping in a hammock in my office. So every morning I would get up and go to the gym around the corner, the New York Sports Club to like shower and work out. I was in great shape because it says.”

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  21. “James Cameron's phenomenal. I mean, James Cameron, I think, invented the camera that he used on the last movie. It was him and his partner created the Pace Cameron camera to use on Avatar. They changed the whole box that made that movie. It's bonkers. He invented the technology that created the, what was it, like the Chrome Cop in Terminator 2 because everybody's like, we can't do this. And he's like, I'll fund it myself.”

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  22. “Yeah, no, I was just at Google this past week and meeting with their VR guys and seeing some of the stuff they're working on. And it's like you're in the matrix. Like suddenly it's like it's the closest thing I could imagine to suddenly being NEO and taking the pill and being thrust into the machine that I could. And it's, I mean, what's coming is incredibly exciting. Yeah. And it just a content creator and as a storyteller, it just makes you realize we've barely begun to scratch the surface of what's”

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  23. “Or Paramount put out a movie in a movie theater, I could put it online. Now, anybody in the world could have access to my content via YouTube or via Vimeo, but now how do you get people to see it? That's the problem. So it's out there, but it's invisible. Now comes the next big step, which will be huge as the pipelines converge, which is almost like this democratization of curation, this democratization of marketing. How do now we point people towards what matters? And that's where it's going to be influencers, going to be people like you. It's going to be people like me who people trust. And those voices are going to be even more resonant as we move forward because people are going to trust in them even with even more, I think, importance.”

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  24. “Everything, whether it's on my TV at home, on my tablet, on my phone, it'll be everywhere. It's going to be one pipe that feeds everything. And that's going to be an exciting time for a couple reasons because now anything I want to see is suddenly going to be right at my fingertips, wherever, whenever, wherever I'll be able to watch anything. Awesome. But simultaneously, you're going to be to the point of still back to the YouTubificificification of our viewing habits where how do you now bring eyeballs? How do you let people know it's there? And I think that's the next step. You know, there were three stages of real shifts in entertainment that I think were big. And the first one really helped me because it made supersize me possible. And there was like this democratization of production, democratization of cinema where suddenly anyone with a camera and a computer and a good idea could make a movie. That was huge. So now suddenly everybody had access to the tools. You could put in the sweat equity. You could make something really cheaply and easily get it out for the world to see. Next was kind of this democratization of distribution where now I didn't need to have Sony or”

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  25. “I think we're about to start doing some really awesome VR projects. Like that'll be this year. We're going to be doing some incredible stuff. We've held back. I didn't want to kind of jump in early as everybody else was kind of jumping on this VR bandwagon. And we've been smart about what we've been navigating through and the projects that we want to make. And so that's going to be something that's going to be real. And I think that VR has the ability to become an empathy machine. I think it has the ability to put you in places and experience things and feelings in a way you never have before. So that's super exciting for me as somebody who believes that you can actually start to chip away and make the world a better place with entertainment. I think movies and TV shows have a profound impact on our belief system. And I think that there's just something we can do there. So for me, I think that's where we'll be. I think we'll be doing, I mean, in five years probably won't be exactly five, maybe closer to ten, but there's going to be one pipe that delivers everything. There's going to be one pipe where I watch.”

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  26. “In the making of the film. He is a deep researcher. And I really think he's fantastic. But it's one of those things that for people like us who've been kind of living in this space and making this type of content for a long time, it's fantastic because now it just opens up and broadens the spectrum. So for me, I feel like there's still a place to make movies. And then there's more places to make smarter TV, which I think is really exciting.”

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  27. “Another creepy one. Alex, he's a great person you should talk to on the podcast. He's an amazing filmmaker. Again, somebody I really look up to because I think he's incredibly cerebral, very smart.”

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  28. “It was fantastic. They said, let's show people that you can make smarter nonfiction. Dark, so dark. And so then there was that. There was making a murderer on Netflix. And now everybody's like, oh, people want to see smart nonfiction. We should be doing that, which is great for us. It's great for people like Alex Gibney, who's... Alex Gibney, who did Smartest Enron, smartest guys in the room. He did the Scientology movie. Going clear. Going clear. Oh, God.”

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  29. “Television, and that's what he created. He was the champion that made that and raised that bar for FX. And then Showtime did. And now if you look across the spectrum of TV, every network has at least one amazing show. USA has Mr. Robot, which is spectacular. You go down the line, everybody's got one big fiction show, but nobody had smart nonfiction. Everybody kind of left that down here. It was lowest common denominator. So while the rising tide lifted all the ships for fiction, it didn't happen for nonfiction. And now people are realizing as they're abandoning ship with these all these crappy TV shows that were missing the boat. There's higher expectations from our audience. And now they're starting to push that. You know, as HBO did with the Jinx, and again, HBO leading the charge of let's”

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  30. “Am I making that up? No, I mean, I think that what's happened, though, now is there have been a couple things that have happened. One, on the heels of HBO and Netflix and Showtime, and especially Netflix, where more people, I think, have seen things I've made on Netflix than anywhere else, which is fantastic. I think that they have created a larger audience for documentaries than ever before. And I think that type of hunger is what's also starting to drive this push into smarter nonfiction television, both from a Netflix standpoint and from a television standpoint. Because what happened in television is there were all of these people, all these networks, and it started with like FX first it was HBO who raised the bar for scripted television, started making scripted television beyond what any of us thought was possible for TV. I mean, they just started crushing it. And so then other people said, well, we should be creating that level of television. And when I was working with FX back in the day, John Langraff, brilliant guy, one of the smartest TV people you'll ever meet in your life, said that's what we like we want to be HBO for commercial.”

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  31. “It's so cool to see, but it's like I have mad respect for him. And then there's somebody like Steve James who I think Steve James is just a great storyteller. Steve James did hoop dreams. He did Stevie. He did life itself. Apart from Steve James just being an epic human being, like he's a magnificent human. Like I'd say all the time, like when I grow up, I want to be Steve James because he's just a great individual who treats people well return anybody's phone call, talks to anyone is the last guy to leave when students are asking him questions. I really admired that. And so things like that that I take from people, but he's also a great filmmaker. He really believes in what he does. And so I think when you look at his films, and he's one of those guys who makes movies over years, you know, like he'll make a movie for like five, seven, eight years. And that type of dedication, I really, I really look up to.”

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  32. “Because he saw it being from a first person standpoint, he didn't see me telling a first person story as being a documentary. Same thing. He didn't think Michael Moore made documentaries. And so that was kind of his idea. But like Errol Morris, back to this amazing craftsman, like his stuff is so beautiful. And if you go to his website, like how Errol Morris really pays the bills is he makes commercials. Because it's not like we're going out and buying boats making documentaries. Let's be honest. We don't have like a fleet of Ferraris outside. It's like you make these movies because you believe in them and what they represent. But if you go to his website, it's like, and I think it's Erlmorris.com. I'm not sure. If you go there, it's like, it has all these commercials that he's made and just experiments that he does with the cameras, which is awesome. Like, and you see how he will take somebody's crazy commercial money and do something he's never done. And then once he tries that, he starts to apply those tricks and transplant it to his movies. That's cool.”

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  33. “Arrow Morris did the thin blue line like years ago. Arrow Morse was one of the guys who started putting real dramatic produced recreations in movies. Like when he did Thin Blue Line, people attacked the film. And this is crazy to think about. Back when he made this in whatever 80-something, they're like, this isn't a documentary. It's like you got actors in there doing things. You got stuff that you staged. You staged things in a movie. That's not a documentary. And when you look at that, like the movie is gorgeous. But it set the tone. And it's like it basically changed what we think of, what a documentary could be. And so, you know, the same thing happened years later. I remember when I was on a panel with Al Mazels and Al Mazels, this was like right when Supersize Me came out, and Al Mazels told me he goes, he goes, yeah, what you do, he goes, what you do isn't documentary. He goes, you don't make documentaries. And again, it was like there was a transformational moment of, I think, what people's interpretation of what a dot could be was. Why?”

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  34. “Arrel Morris, who is like that guy, here's the thing about if you go to Arrel Morris's website, Arro Morris is such a craftsman.”

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  35. “Years later, when I got to meet Joe and Bruce, I just gushed over them. Like this movie, I was like, that movie changed my life. Like it is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen in my life. And to this day, I mean, I'm still such a fan. Like when I see people, I'm a little fanboy. When I see somebody that I look up to, it's like I will go over and just like cover them with fangirlness.”

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  36. “An earthquake, like all the glass is shaking, it'll stop in a second. This is New York. So it's a film called Brothers Keeper. And I saw it in a movie theater because I heard everybody talking about it. And I was like, I have to go see this film. And it was the first time I think I probably ever paid to see a movie, a documentary in a movie theater. And because I was in film school, so we were watching a lot of docs in school, but never in a, actually where I bought a ticket. And so I bought a ticket, went to see this film. And the film is so good. It's so dark and it's so creepy. And it's about these three brothers where one of them is accused. It's in upstate New York, so it's like these three country brothers where one of them is accused of murdering another one. And as it goes on in the trial of this guy being brought up for on murder charges, that there was like, there was like incest. And it's like, I mean, it gets dark and weird and so good. But that's one of those films where there were so many levels of emotion you feel when you're watching that. And it was so beautifully shot.”

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  37. “I mean, for me, the best resources are the movies themselves. I mean, I am such a movie freak for nonfiction movies. Like if you're watching nonfiction films, like my favorite nonfiction film of all time, which kind of pushed me to seeing documentaries as like a viable outlet for my creativity as I got older was it was when I was in college I saw the Joe Berlinger and Bruinowski film Brothers Keeper Brother's Keeper, which is one of the greatest films. This is like this is a New York City, as you guys can hear, this is what happens in New York. We get a train going by, you can hear everything rumbling in the office.”

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  38. “Yeah, it's true of audio. Like, you'll, so long as I can hear it, and it's not just the whole time, I will still be forgiving of it. And I think that's what I tell young filmmakers all the time is story first. It's all about the story. It's like everything else about what you want it to be or how long you want it to be. It should be as long as it needs to be ultimately, but it's all about the story. And if you've gotten a beginning and middle and an end and you've told your core in 40 minutes or 60 minutes, then don't stretch it out because now you're just putting, you're dressing up something that doesn't need it.”

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  39. “I think the biggest thing is we try to overcomplicate things when you start making movies or even TV shows, whatever it is. You have these grandiose ideas of everything that you need and everything that has to be done. And especially today, like the YouTubeification of content creation and content consumption has shifted our concept of what it means to make something good or palatable. We are infinitely more forgiving of stuff that looks dodgy for good story. You can sacrifice quality for great story. So for me, it's like it's all about the story. It doesn't matter. Like I'll watch shaky camera footage now. I'll watch somebody's like shitty thing on their phone so long as it's a great story and I'm engaged because we've gotten to the point now where we are past that. We're forgiving of all that.”

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  40. “Or whatever you want to call it, because there are places now to tell all these stories, whether it's 90 minutes or 30 minutes or 20 minutes or 10 minutes or three minutes. Like we made an amazing bunch of movies a few years ago called Focus Forward that GE paid for where we basically made these three-minute short films that were all about innovators around the world, people who were doing incredible things. And each one of these movies were three minutes long and they're powerful. They're so beautiful and inspiring. And now they've seen they've been seemed like 100 million people around the world because it's one of those where anybody will give you a round of boxing. Like anybody will give you three minutes. And once you watch one, then you watch two. You watch three. What we saw is if you made it through one, then you watched five.”

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  41. “You mean whether it was movie or TV? That's right. I think it's about, I think it's can it sustain one? Because there's some movies that are meant to be, some ideas that are meant to be movies. And you see this a lot of time when you watch documentaries when 45 minutes in, you're like, this should be done now, but everybody wants to make a feature movie. Like, no, no, I'm going to make it a feature. And it's like, no, this should have been about 40 minutes, 45 minutes, 50 minutes. But they end up making it 7580. And that last 30, you're just like, oh, it's just trudging along and it should have been over. So for us, we avoid that by never kind of putting ourselves there. And so we say this is this, there's things that are meant to be 90 minutes because they're big, big, deep explorations. But especially now, there's other ones that you can take to TV and I can have an even deeper exploration if I can do two to three episodes on it or four episodes on it that are hour long. And then you can have a real deep dive into these topics. I think that so for us, that's why it's great. Like I love being a storyteller right now. I love being a content creator, being a filmmaker, a director.”

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  42. “I think it's just being open and honest about your life. I think it's talking about the fact that I'm divorced, talking about the fact that what led to that and being open and honest about your life and the things you've experienced and not being afraid to talk about that, your upbringing and how that affected you. I think the more you can have that honesty in those relationships that you build with people, that creates a trust. And it creates a trust not only with the people who watch the show, but with the people that you're talking to.”

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  43. “And so long as I am open and honest with you, then you're willing to pay attention. And I think that's a big one. A friend of mine a few years ago gave me some good advice where he said, you can't be afraid to show your scars. He goes, that's who you are. And he goes, and you have to continue to stay true to that. And I think it was some of the best advice I ever got.”

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  44. “Yeah, that's a great question because it's like every day we feel like are we doing anything that actually are people paying attention? You hope that you make things that will make a difference or that people will listen to or will at least create some level of empathy and change a viewpoint for someone. And I think that the hardest thing is one getting people just to watch. So I think once you get them to watch, I think that the way that I hope people get affected is because when we tell these stories, I get affected by them. Once you get immersed in them, and I mean, you know this better than anyone, is once you kind of get into these worlds and see it, it's a part of you forever. Like that becomes a part of your life. And whether it's me going to a foreign country for medical tourism or me, as I was doing in this past season where I'm just like eliminating toxins from my house, all these like poisons and cleaning products and stuff that we use every day that we just don't even realize, I think that for me, it's taking people on this vicarious journey.”

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  45. “So dodgy. But it's like everything in one place. And part of the reason they said why we can do it so cheaply is because everything's under one roof. We're not kind of third partying anything. I'm there and I'm like, why can't we just do more of that here? Why can't that just happen here?”

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  46. “Lab Corp. Yeah, you go to like a lab corp where it's like a guy and like a basement with like, well, you feel like you're going to.”

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  47. “That's what I love when I was at Bummering Grad, you'd get a blood test. Everything's in one building. So you'd get a test done downstairs, and then I'd go upstairs to see my next doctor. And whether it was an MRI or a blood test or other panels they were doing of your blood test, I get it done downstairs. And by the time I got upstairs, the doctor already had all the results. Like in real time, they were getting the results done because they also processed the blood in the hospital. So it wasn't being sent out to a lab like they do here in the States. You didn't go down to the, what are those lab clinics that you always end up going through that are all pop-ups?”

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  48. “I mean, I would. I would go back. After being there, I had such a great experience. And depending on what I had to have done, like if I had to have surgery that had real serious recuperation where I was going to be laid up for like weeks going there and having the surgery done and then knowing that I'm going to be on a beach for like the next four weeks in a place that's going to cost me a fraction I think is worth it. And I've spoken to people who since that episode have gone there for medical procedures just because they saw that show and they're like it's half of what it was going to cost me in the States or less. It's remarkable.”

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  49. “Super strong. Such a good show. And it's like that guy, Steve D'Angelo, and what they're doing up at Harborside Medical in Oakland is phenomenal. Like, because you go there, you have these visions of what dispensaries are going to be and everybody thinks they're like dodgy and shady and it's going to bring crime to the neighborhoods. And this place is beautiful. It looks like a health clinic. And they run it like a health clinic. They have health instructors who are there. They have Reiki instructors. They have psychiatrists that you can meet with. Not to mention all the product that you can buy there. I mean, and it's run like a proper clinic and it's phenomenal. Like that's how every clinic in America should be, like every dispensary should be.”

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  50. “Amazing. So back to the original thing. So there's that movie Inside Man, there's so many episodes of Inside Man that I love. Season one of Inside Man, we do an episode about elder care, and this is on Netflix, all three seasons of Inside Man are on Netflix, all three seasons of 30 Days are on Netflix, season one of Inside Man, we do an episode about... For me, it's one of the most raw, honest, and powerful things I've ever made. Yeah.”

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