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What Had Happened Was
Reinvention and the Legendary Antics
Reflecting on the elusive guest's trickery and comparing it to Andy Kaufman's antics, the hosts explore how initial anger has transformed into recognition of the guest's legendary status and discuss the idea of reinvention.
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Speaker 2
Very p
Speaker 1
just transitioning to preserve
Speaker 2
all the web you do, or or juice. But yes, a future lo com is coming your way. So very, very important. Mark, thanks. Thanks for adding that. Your bad. We actually had to pay some money for itos,
Speaker 1
we might as well use it. Good point. Chris. I
Speaker 2
so i can't help myself, mark, this next one goes to you. But remember wheno wrote, of course, you remember, it's time to build. And then i went and tried to place this with mansre media, and no one would take it because all wrong. And like we had already had this plan to build future dot com, atho was not named. And but like that really confirmed for meus, like, fucket. We need to have a place of our own, but we can put the stuff so you wrote, technology saves the world. And we went straight into futureike sixten,
Speaker 1
the new site. So how
Speaker 2
was that received? And a, what what made you write and want me to write now?
Speaker 1
Yes, so it's, it's a pyou don't, it's a piece i've been assembling since, this technology saves the world. So it's been a piece, i've been kind of assembling the sort of points for the piece over the last, like, you know, 15 monthsah, i should remember when madurna first came out, and it was in, i january 20 20, and they busily had the vacci. I don't think they announced it publicly, but dn't you now, the word was they were making like, very fast progress. Ah, i remember thinking like, boy, wouldn't it be amazing, like, if they'd actually worked? Oh, you kow, ecause we, we knew, ou now, people in bitack and work were pretty active in bitack, like, we, we know, we knew the company, and we knew at the the technology platform they had. We knew how promising it was. But, you know, i don't think they had yetta. I don't think they ideaa actually released a, you know, drug base oni at that point. A, but we know, we knew how revolutionary the technology was and like, wow, like, you know, what if that works? And then, you know, loane tohold, it did. And then, of course, you know, in march and april, it was just this like, spectacular thing where, you know, knowledge workers of all kinds of stripes, we're able to go home and just continue, you know, just keep working. And all these, you know, all thes companies just a kept operating. And then the kind of deliveryt economy kicked in. Ah, and, you know, people, al of a sudden, who couldn't go to the grocery store or to unow restaurants, all of a sudden could get food at home. And, you know, our company, instecart, was hiring like just absolutey crazy to try to keep up, and it was actually working. And so you cold kind of see all these indicators. Ah, and they, know, my wife teaches that stamford, and, you know, she, she, she cut over to nline instruction basi in a week. Ah, you know, was with basically, you know, entirely by herself. And it was like wild, like that ar she works. Ah. And so you can kind of see this pattern. F mio once, like, you know, just tact solving all these, like, really fundamental issues and in ways that really matter in people's lives. Of course, that that was not the right time to talk about any f this a cause, youknow, the world was really suffering. Ad a ot of people were, you know, were were reallyng a lot of trouble. But, ah, you know, now that it turns out that, like, the vacians, relly did work, and that, you know, we really are coming out the other side of this. Ah, you know, it's deafully time to kind of take stock of what happened. Ah, it would happen. I just showed incredibly well, like, ii, basicaly thi almost ever they worked. Ah, so i think, i it's a great o what our industry can really do, and what all these new, amazing people who work it, all these companies owre ashy able to do under pressure. And it really delivered besies. I think's, it's one of the kind of best, good new stories, you knowof my life. And i think, wat, what was so stunning to me is, like, i fully expected that we would have
Speaker 2
much, much bigger unemployment.
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