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Chapter 1: What makes Michael Ian Black a notable comedian?
Oh yeah. That's crazy. But then you specifically go on to kind of, you know, This is like a springboard for you to then come into our heads and our hearts. Wet Hot American Summer. I am sure that everybody and their mother, this is like, because it's such a great, great movie. So many great lines, so many great moments in the movie. It's just one of those quotable, everything about it is great.
Did you guys realize that magic? Do you have like magic on set when you realize there's something magical going on here? We're making a really great, funny movie.
Ja und nein. Hier ist die Art, wie ich es erlebt habe. Ich wusste, Michael Showalter und David Wayne, die in der Stadt waren, die Sketch-Gruppe, sie haben den Film geschrieben und David hat ihn gedreht und dann haben wir alle, so viele von uns waren in dem Film, zusammen mit so vielen anderen coolen Leuten.
And I remember, I have a very specific memory of being on set and David and Michael expressing the opinion that they had finally figured out how to make something mainstream America was going to love. And I remember thinking, you're out of your goddamn mind. This thing is not going to do well in the theaters. Yeah. But I did believe that it would find a life after its theatrical release.
Because I did think people of a certain ilk would find it and really like it. And that has proven to be the case. Absolutely. Although it ended up being, I think, way more popular and enduring than any of us would have imagined. Yeah.
Ja, es ist wie in einem Film, wenn du es zum ersten Mal gesehen hast und es liebst, ist es wie ein Kult-Favorit, oder? Aber es ist wie ein Kult-Niche.
Ja, du wirst es immer noch sehen.
Aber dann fühlte ich mich genauso wie alle anderen, die ich kannte. Also dachte ich mir, es ist nicht so kultig. Oh mein Gott. Was ist die eine Liste, die du wünschst, oder die eine Sache, die du in deiner Karriere gesagt hast, dass Leute zu dir kommen und sie es zu dir sagen und du sagst, ich wünschte, du hättest das nie wieder sagen können.
Ich meine, ich bin sicher, dass es ein bisschen Anerkennung gibt.
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Chapter 2: What are Michael Ian Black's rules for gambling in Las Vegas?
And so I think this is a disease that we have got to, men have got to start communicating about and reaching out to the ones that are below us and the ones that are above us and saying, you know, you can go to the gym and you can work out and you can beat the bag and you can have a cool car and you can get the hot chicks and all that stuff is cool, right? But you can also... Ja, genau.
People around you that love you and you have to have the ability to express that, your fear and your pain and all that other stuff. And I think that that's, your way of putting it is brilliant. We have to expand the definition in either direction of what masculinity is or we're going to find ourselves in a real, I mean, a society full of lonely men. You know, that's troublesome.
That's troublesome. I think Professor Galloway, Prof. G, if you know who I'm talking about, talks about this a lot and I think he's spot on.
Ja, aber es ist wichtig zu schauen, wie wir hier hergekommen sind, weil es einen Zeitraum gab. Not that long ago, when men's roles and women's roles were more clearly delineated. And that worked to the great advantage of men. That was entirely to men's benefit.
And so what happened is, as the women's rights movement gained traction and people recognized that, oh yeah, women actually are human beings. Die Frauen fuhren in die Arbeitsgruppe in größeren und größeren Nummern. Und das hat, ich meine, lasst uns noch weiter gehen. Sie haben die Wahl bekommen. Okay. Dann fuhren sie in die Arbeitsgruppe in größeren und größeren Nummern.
Dann haben wir eine Checking-Account.
Oh, ich wusste nicht, dass das legal war. Du kannst das machen? Ja. Ich werde das anschauen. Ich bin eigentlich nicht sicher, dass das legal ist. Ja, ihr Mann ist progressiv. Er könnte Lagen brechen. Ich mag das nicht. Okay. Und so begannen Frauen Autonomie und Independence zu erzielen. Und dann, konkurrent damit, begann die Technologie zu verändern.
Wir sind also aus der Industrie-Revolution ausgegangen, als Männer Faktaure mannten und diese armen, schmutzigen Arbeiten machten. Und wir sind in diese Art von Informations-Welt eingegangen. Where the jobs that are now online and that people that are making money and are prestigious tend to be collaborative jobs, creative jobs. They tend to be jobs that require teamwork.
These are jobs that would traditionally have lived in a more feminine sphere and feminine space. And women are excelling in them. Women are excelling in school. And boys are falling further and further behind. There are all kinds of complicated sociological reasons for why this is happening, but we have to look at the root of it.
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