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Yannis Pappas

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first: 2021-04-12
most recent: 2021-04-12
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“So much for talking to it. It means so much to me to hear you say that. I really appreciate it. I'm a big fan of yours and have me on has been amazing. And just thank you, man. Thank you for having me on. If they want to watch my special, it's called Blowing the Light. It's on YouTube. And please come listen to Long Days of the Podcast.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Whether your possessions are a lot little, you know, it's like I have met some dormant, I have met some tax cappers that I lie to you not are more fascinating. Comedians are horrible people. I want to get away from all of it. I have very few friends, Paul Versey, Tim Dillon, who are comedians because they're awful, awful people. Some of the people who you know the most who are the most famous are not who they say they are. Usually that's the case. They're putting on that public facade because they're fucking sociopaths. Yeah. They're horrible people. And some of the most beautiful people I've met and the most interesting people I've met have regular jobs. There is no shame in any fucking job. We don't all have to be rappers with like rims. It's just a weird thing.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's awesome. That sounds like you're following what's doggedly you. And also, I think just to piggyback off it, I think that means no matter what it is, because I think the American dream is sold like, hey, if you're not Beyonce or if you're not famous, you're not worth it. I hate that. And that's what I love so much about certain countries like Sweden. It's like where everyone has healthcare and stuff like that because everyone's a little is valued more. It's like whatever, if you want to be a doorman dude, like it's all the same. Prince was not happy. There's no, just because you're rich or famous, you're still the same guy.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thank you, thank you, thank you. And the reason why I kept saying thank you is because I forgot my whole jokes. I was so scared. And then they laughed because of the amount of times I said thank you. And then once they laughed, I remembered the whole thing and I did the five minutes and I remember getting off. And for a person who never felt like he had a place anywhere, nothing ever felt right. That felt like, okay, I found it. This is what I'm supposed to do. This is it. It was the only time in my life I felt that. I haven't felt it since. Never felt it before. So that's the only thing I can do.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There was a moment after I graduated college, yeah, but I was thinking about all types of stuff that other people imposed on me. And I was honest with myself. And once I figured out it was an actual career path, I wasn't even aware. Back then, the internet wasn't huge, you know, late 99, 2000. It wasn't big yet. So I thought Robin Williams was just like an actor. I didn't know there was comedy clubs and all. So once I learned that, I was just like, I tried it. I suffered from massive anxiety. I remember the first time I did comedy. My arms went numb. I started having a massive panic attack. I have my first set. I can show it to you. It's like, I suggest, I just go.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm the black sheep. Yeah, my brother went to Oxford, Georgetown Law at Brown. You know, his master is, you know, law degrees. My mother has four law degrees. She was on the Human Rights Commission in New York up for a judgeship under Dinkins, wrote the editor of Unitar. She wrote a seminal piece on the human rights of children for the United Nations. And yeah, I was a comedian. I was always a fuck up. And the thing that I was best at, the only thing I was ever decent at was just like making people laugh. I don't know why. I don't know where that comes from.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, comedy is a hard thing to explain to an immigrant mother who came here under Nazi-occupied Crete and became a human rights lawyer and lawyer. And my brother's a lawyer and my father's a lawyer, you know, Claude his way up. His dad was a...”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tied to our immaturity and psychological issues and survival. But action, when you do things, when you act out of love and that's what it's about”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Be doggedly, you, I think the magic happens when you are stubbornly, doggedly you and you meet other people who are doing the same. And the real magic of life, the real true currency in this ephemeral life is sort of the communication that happens between people. That's the real currency. Friendships, love. It's cliche, but I think the meaning of life is to experience love. And I think people often mistake maybe it's because of Hollywood films and things like that, that love is feeling, but it's not. It's an action. So that took me a while to learn. And I think that's why I've made decisions since that I think have been good for me and healthy for me. Love is an action. People can say things. You can feel things. That doesn't mean they're necessarily real. It's all chemical reactions. It's all...”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She's a dictator. You know, she was queen. This is my thing I love about the feudal system that these fucking countries still have feudal systems. They're celebrating a horrible thing, divine right of kings, oppression kings were dictators, and now they have fucking ceremonial. Why don't we have a ceremonial fur? Why doesn't German? He doesn't do any of the bad stuff. He just rolls around and does. I mean, it's like, what the fuck? There's no difference between Hitler and a fucking king. They did the same horrible shit. Why not a fucking ceremonial conqueror? Alexander the Great walks in, rapes a little bit, but it's all fun. It's for ceremony. He represents the country. Macedonia is Greek.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Probably. Yeah. I think as a woman and you look at the length of the reign, I think it's like 70-something years or something like that, that she reigned. Success, man. Success. She used the church. She used public psychology. Shakespeare, the greatest playwright of all time under her reign. You know, people were going to plays. And it was a success front and she was marauding everywhere else, marauding and culling resources for the empire. Just say an absolute successful. It's even a token of her success. We don't consider her a dictator.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Intellectuals. I just sitting here with you. It's time to flex. But he's very good at that, right? Like controlling people with psychology. And even if you look at the way he sort of used the internet and has sort of been, you know, gotten into the citizens of other countries' opinions. And it's very KGB. He also looks great without a shirt on a pony.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think he's a, I don't think he's a relic from another era. I think his background, I think he is who you think he is because his background was an espionage. His background was in subterfusion espionage. I think I've said the word subterfuge maybe 10 times now. But he, uh, like.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's just fascinating to me because she was the great version queen. And can you think of there's no other woman who was that? I mean, Angela Merkel, I mean, come on. I mean, there's nobody who comes close and defeating the Spanish armada. I think that happened under her. I mean, I'm no professional historian. But I mean, the woman crushed.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, she was known as the Virgin Queen. And her thing was like I'm married to England. Like, I can't be distracted by, man, a woman, blah, blah, blah. She never had any kids. Nothing. I think she did that as a tool of manipulation. What you need rulers need to, you know, Obama made you feel good, and then he went and carpet bombed everywhere. You need to feel good about your guy, no matter how evil they are. And she was fucking a dictator. But when you look back at her, everyone's like, oh my God, she was so great. The horror and the shit that she had to do. She didn't put that in the history books, but that's what probably was part of what made her successful. And she's a fascinating character to pun her because she was so successful.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Astute at public relations. And imagine how strong you got to be as a woman to lead the greatest empire maybe known to man at the time and to do so so successfully how Machiavellian you have to be, how idealist you have to be, how much of a good marketer you have to be. Propaganda machine was on point. She was married to England. She was adored the way she adorned herself. You walked in, you're like, holy man, God just walked in here. And of course she got fucked. I mean, who doesn't fuck? We all fuck. Even robots one day will fuck. But she did that propaganda thing. And historians aren't, they haven't decided this, but I believe she fucked. And I believe she did that as a tool of propaganda. I'm married to England.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, she had a good run. I think it's like 70 years Shakespeare. Oh, I guess what's the word Pax Romana, a period of Rome that was that piece and they flourish like a couple of emperors like Trajan or some good ones and I think he was part of the Pax Romana that sort of just a piece and a comfortable flourishing time and England had sort of that in their empire under her successful reign. She murdered her cousin. You know, the movies Kate Blanche placed her and does so. And she didn't win the Oscar because fucking Gwyneth Paltro put a British accent on in Shakespeare and Love. It's a tragedy. Why do I know this? Because I'm not a full man. I'm a comedian, which means I do skits and I perform. And Kate Lanchett's incredible actress, a great movie. She was just so, and here's the thing. She never got married. She was so...”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um there's a few, but Queen Elizabeth, the Elizabethan era, you know, the sun never sets in the British Empire, very successful empire. What an absolute success story that is for a leader and a woman.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Progress. So we have to reconcile those two things and put them on a seesaw and figure out how to get two people who have the equal weight to keep it like that. And that's the goal. And it constantly vacillates according to the time. Sometimes you need a little more socialism. Sometimes you need a little more capitalism. You gotta, you gotta fly the plane, man. You got to fly the plane, dude.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's no end to up, which is you just keep going. It's never enough. Oh, never enough. It's never enough. No end to up. More, more, more. And, you know, you have to reconcile the fact that you're going to die. So like there's no end to up thing is that balance is just as valuable”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dude, good for the economy, stimulates the economy, right? More shifts. Creates more jobs, more people spending because they have more leisure time, boosts the leisure economy. Why are we still doing the five-day work week? That was tempered from the seven-day work week. So the seven, it used to be seven-day work week. It used to be like people who are just these libertarians, like, come on, dude. What is this fresh? Are we freshmen in college? We're going to talk about Ayn Rand next. Let's talk about reality, okay? And human nature. People are fucking greedy. They lie, you know, there's no end to up, which is one of my favorite expressions. No.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then you can have this burger. But right now you can. And that's where the state's important. Regulate our freedoms. No slurpees. I'm with you, Bloomberg.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I'm not voter issue, but I do, it's just a tough one. That's a tough one, but ultimately the Hippocratic Oath, it's like, how do you turn people away, man? How do you do that to people? It's like, it's a tough thing to reconcile helping people, curing people with the marketplace. It's just, I can understand why that one's so tough. And then you got hypochondriacs, of course, who drain the system, you know, like people who have anxiety like me, who had COVID and called 14, you know, I called 14 ambulances. So, and then, of course, we're fat in the free market made us fat because it played the marketing made us want all this junk food. And that's a burden on the healthcare system. So we got to do something about that. We got to get creative. We need new thinkers. I'll be one of them. When you go to a fast food restaurant, you stand on a scale. If you're over a certain thing, you can't be served. It's good for the healthcare system.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's why I say it. That's the reason. Think the free market is responsible for progress. I think it's the most natural thing, the thing that's most aligned with human nature, which is self-interest, which I believe, not to the extent that Ayn Rand would, but I do believe people are mostly self-interested, especially when gun to the head. Morals are out the window. You know, it's about survival. So, you know, create a system that respects that and acknowledges that, but socialism works very well, at least right now as a Czech to temper the excesses of capitalism and in certain scenarios is the more appropriate system in a vacuum, so one being prisons or governance, you know, parks.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Let's be honest robot. You might call one of your robots. Do you love your robot? Are you starting to love your? Is it going to be like that Pygmalion thing? You create them and then they kill you. But even while they're killing you, you got a tear roll. The tear.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Respect me now, Dad? MIT? Is it Fucking million people listening to this? I got 14 Rogans. Is that enough, Dadam Creighton Robots? Is it enough for you? That's what drives you probably.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I knew you were going to lose your train of thought on that one because that's a big one. There's a motion behind that one. A podcast with Dad's going to take you to a place. I took you to a place. Took you outside of the interviewer.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just so we could actually. You're right, the podcast does make, like I listen, I've been listening to every word you've been saying. And if we weren't doing a podcast, I might be looking at my phone or being self-conscious about something else or nervous or anxious.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“New York is a money town that needs a money guy and sort of more of a Republican. I have to say on the local level, as more of a guy who leans left, I'll just be honest. It's a tough city that needs a tough mayor, not some guy who's going, like, I understand we all need free money. Andrew Yang, I think, is right in the big picture because all the real jobs are somewhere else. You look at those Asian cities, you go like, oh, that's what our cities used to look like at the Industrial Revolution. You know, there was like there was jobs and people were making things here. And now you look at those cities in Asia and you're going like, wow. And then you go to Detroit and you're like, yeah, we're done. You go to Cleveland. You go, we're done.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's fun to watch him be just like Trump's lackey. Like, yeah, boss, whatever you want, boss. I'll just say whatever you want, boss.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Type of thing here. Bloomberg, Giuliani, when he was still sane and his hair wasn't melting off his face. Prosecutor, you need a tough. I mean, I don't know what's happened. That guy's lost it. But it's fun”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tech and they want to come here. Of course, you give them tax breaks. That's why companies go anywhere. She's so fucking utopian and that progressive wing is so utopian and that always ends in disaster because it's not rooted in reality. It doesn't accept the reality that people are self-interested. Now they're going to do this 14% 15% tax hike on people making a million dollars more. In New York City, a million dollars is not that much. So people are going to flee New York. The tax base is going to flee. New York's going to fall to shit like it did before.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, we need we need it's a money town. Let's be come on, man. I mean, New York is a money town. And Wall Street, and then when AOC and her cronies at the local level rejected that Amazon thing, you're going like, what do you think makes cities? What's going to create jobs in the 21st century? What do we need more nail salons, more pizza places? I mean, we're living in the tech revolution and, you know, whatever your opinions are about Jeff Bezos, that's the world.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“New Yorkers, we walk around everywhere and we go, this is just like New York, but not New York. But New York needs, and I'm a guy who leans.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, something is good. Let's be honest about New York. It's a very socially liberal place. It is the head of the snake. New York is the country. If New York, when New York's not doing good, country's not doing good, it's the most important city, DC, New York. It's really Rome, be honest. Maybe I'm biased. I don't know.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's no good. I like Andrew Yang, and it's no good. I'd be honest with you, I'm a lifelong New Yorker. I mean, I'm a New Yorker.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Building seven is weird. I mean, the way it kind of died. I'm just a neat, just a neat The physical, I mean, you're a scientist. Is that Their resistance from the steel Free fall”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And you start questioning everything, man. It's like the Vietnam War started. That was a lie. That was a false flag. And then next thing, you know, everything's a false flag. There are some strange things on 9-11 There's some strange things from a scientific perspective. I'm no scientist, but it's like, you know, yeah, three steel framed skyscrapers falling on the same day in the same way. A lot of people say, oh, it was they were hit by planes. It's like, yeah, but that's not why they fell. They fell because of fires and usually, not usually, all the time, except for three times. And there was buildings that have burned for longer than that.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm a I'm not necessarily conspiratorial nobody cares that much but they're but then you know what happens is you find out this one or this two”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't forget about the weather. That's a big one. That's a funny one that people created. Like, who gives a shit? What is the weather? Like, what's the importance of the weather? Jews made a rain outside. Good. You gotta fucking, you know, they made it snow. Okay, you get a day off. Thank the Jews.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it's like get over it, guys. I mean, it's like they killed Jesus. Get over it. Okay, it's a long time ago. I mean, move on.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Especially when people scapegoat. Nobody wants to look in, nobody wants to do the work to be better or look at where they messed up.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We don't know. We do know that the kid crushed. I mean, he was a headliner. He got up there and His hair would flop around. I mean, he crushed, dude.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Please, internet. I mean, put in Tarantino said it to bet, and it's grip, personality goes a long way, dude. I mean, personality can usurp common sense and reason of the smartest people, the absolute smartest people can be hypnotized. It's sort of like a sexy woman. It's like you can just, it just can be tricked because we have such a blind spot for flattery.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They're not burdened with that empathy or emotions and they just see things very calculatively. They play. They know that we're prey in their game. And they use that against us. And that is why someone who is not that intelligent like Hitler can probably convince a lot more intelligent people. And that's why we can't give Tim Dylan power. Because, you know, he already stands on a stage. I mean, if we let that guy, I mean, he will just take over a country and everyone who can't cook well will be eliminated. So it's like.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, look at Hitler Charisma is blinding. I think that's what Conman, speaking of Bernie Madoff, that's one of their major tools is flattery, just glib, superficial charm. It creates those blind spots. People want to hear how great they are. They want to be flattered. It takes your defenses down, plays to our ego, how much we're all just pieces of garbage and want to hear how great we are. We want that love from our mother and our father. It's Freud.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People are ridiculous when they think that, yeah, that's why people get into science for the money. The personalities again to science are obsessed with minutiae and they do the scientific method. You know how boring that is? Like you have to have a love for it in order to do it.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Way too loud for your listeners. There's going to be comments like, tell this guy to calm down. I'm sorry, I'm Greek apostles.”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He would win people over with the scheme because with that scheme, he was the only guy who could provide, who could guarantee like a 1% return, even during times of recession. And because he was such a good con man, he hijacked people's reasoning with his charm. And that's what Connors do. That's what psychopaths do. They're so charming. They get you in that Volkswagen beetle. Because if they use their reasoning for one second, they'd go, hey. Nobody can provide 1% returns during recessions. How the fuck is this guy doing it? I'll tell you how he's doing it. He's stealing from another guy to pay you. You fucking idiot”
2021-04-12 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because basically saying, like, you don't have the confidence giving me the watch because you don't, I don't know. You don't think I'm going to give it back. And he would just take it. So Bernie Manoff was a very sophisticated con man. And again, we were talking about people pretending to be the opposite of what they are. Bernie hid his thievery in how available he was to his clients, how he would show up at every bar mitz for every birthday. He was always available for their phone calls. And he played on their egos. He made it so people wanted to invest in him. Like they were competing. He made it very exclusive. He wouldn't just take anyone. And there was a method behind that madness because he wanted the whales that wouldn't notice that he has had this pyramid skeed going. And so what he would do is he would just rob from the richer and he just kept, it was like he'd pay back the richer with the guy who was a little, and it was a pyramid scheme. And he was able to do it for so long and steal so much money.”
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