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[patriotic music]
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Milton Bradley's like,
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hey, everybody, I got this new game.
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It's, like, American.
It's, like, [bleep] cool.
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Ugh!
[chuckles]
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We're gonna ban
[bleep] pinball, dude.
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Because pinball is a game of chance.
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[belches]
Jeez.
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Bobby Fischer would be like,
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bup, zow, poosh!
It's like, blaaah!
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[making guttural noises]
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[patriotic music]
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sync and correction by f1nc0
~ Addic7ed.com ~
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We've been playing games
as long as we've been
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telling stories, and even
before we were writing...
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like, writing, literally
scrawling things...
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we were playing games.
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You can kind of escape
when you play the game.
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You're in that world.
You're not in your world.
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- How many E3s is this for you?
- First E3. Virgin.
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- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
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This place kinda gives
me a panic attack.
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Are you drunk right now?
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No, I just... God just made
me look like this. [laughter]
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Let the games begin!
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? The name of the game
is Water or Vodka ?
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? Is it water or is it vodka? ?
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- Okay, three red.
- Three.
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That was vodka.
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Now you spin. I don't.
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? Bum-bum-bum-bum ?
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- 16 red.
- There it is.
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You can't not tell!
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- Hmm?
- You have to say!
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- What?
- Which one are you drinking?
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That one.
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I'm so mad at you!
I hate you.
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- Nice to see you.
- Ugh! [chuckles]
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Hello, today we're gonna talk
about Milton Bradley.
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All right, so it's 1860,
and this 24-year-old guy
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named Milton Bradley has
this lithography business,
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and his lithograph that he's selling
is of Abraham Lincoln.
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But at this time,
Abraham Lincoln doesn't have a beard.
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He's a shaved... beast.
[chuckles]
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And Milton Bradley's like,
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this is a good one to make,
'cause people will want it.
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So they're selling like hotcakes.
Everyone loves 'em.
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And then this little girl, Grace Bedell,
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writes to Abraham Lincoln and she says,
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if I were a woman, I would vote for...
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Wait, no, she says,
if I were a man, I would vote for you.
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But I'm a girl, and what
you need to do is you
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need to grow a beard,
because women love whiskers.
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So, if women tell their
husband that they like you,
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to vote for you, you'll get more
votes if you have a beard.
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So Abraham, like, gets this letter,
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and he's like, notice
anything different about me?
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I got a beard, baby.
Isn't that cute?
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So everyone in the whole
country gets newspapers
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with drawings of Lincoln,
and he's got a beard.
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And they're like,
I bought this lithograph
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for, like, a bunch of money,
and it's a joke now
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because he's got a blank face,
he's got a shaved face.
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And Milton Bradley's like,
I've spent all my ink
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on all these garbage lithographs.
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So he burns them all, and
he's completely done for.
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So he's like, I have
this lithograph machine.
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It's, like, this big hunk of junk.
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I don't even have a good picture
to print. What am I gonna do?
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So he goes to hang out with
his best friend, George Tapley,
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and they're playing
this, like, Puritan game.
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It's, like, really boring.
So he realized during the game,
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I could make a game better than this.
I could come up with a game
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that people who aren't all
Puritan-minded would enjoy,
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and he calls his game
The Checkered Game of Life.
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The Checkered Game of Life!
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And George was like, a new game to play.
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Like, they didn't have anything else
to entertain themselves, you know?
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And Milton Bradley's like, every
other square has, like, a thing on it.
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You know, and the goal is to
reach the ripe old age of 50.
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And the not goal is to reach ruin
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and have complete
destruction in your life.
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- And in the middle, there was suicide.
- Well, good night.
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So, he goes to New York with the game,
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and he's like,
hey, everybody, I got this new game.
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It's, like, American.
It's not just Puritan.
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It's, like, [bleep] cool.
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And everyone's buying it.
He sells 40,000 copies in one weekend.
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And then he's dumb because The Civil
War happened, like, the next day.
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Everyone's like, we're only doing war.
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We don't... We don't play games.
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And then because he's so
smart, Milton Bradley's like,
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soldiers have a lot of downtime.
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I'm gonna make these games really tiny
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so soldiers can have
them in their pocket,
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and then the second they're
bored, they can play it.
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And so he takes the game,
and he squishes it into, like, small.
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And on this board, you
can play checkers and chess
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and backgammon
and The Checkered Game of Life.
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And all these charities were like,
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we're gonna buy these for a
dollar, and we're gonna give
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them to soldiers, and the
soldiers will have something to do.
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And all the soldiers were like,
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this is so cool, like
someone thought of us.
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And they would play the
game in their downtime.
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That must have been nice.
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It was really fun for
them, and they were like,
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we're so happy we have a thing to do.
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It's not just look at each other
while we wait to shoot somebody.
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Milton Bradley's like,
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yes, I came up with a cool idea again.
Everyone likes it.
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And so the war ends,
and everyone was like,
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we have time now, we can play games.
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We want more games.
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So, he starts printing out
The Checkered Game of Life.
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And he made other games,
and he was selling them,
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and they were really popular.
And then Milton Bradley started
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the Milton Bradley Company,
and they make all the games.
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I mean, like, Candyland,
Jenga, Guess Who?,
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Battleship, Twister.
And board games are still 18x18 inches,
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because that's the size of
the cardboard that fit into
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the lithograph machine, and
we're all comfortable with it.
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And 100%, none of it would have happened
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if Abraham Lincoln didn't grow a beard.
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- Now is this where your mind explodes?
- Yeah.
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I lost my virginity on a Twister mat.
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- Penis, blue.
- Vagina, yellow. [laughs]
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Makes green.
[patriotic music]
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Yeah, pinball was illegal,
but Roger Sharpe,
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he's one of the best in the world.
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He's like, I will show you mother[bleep]
that this is a game of skill.
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I'm [bleep] up.
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- Let's do a shot, right?
- All right, let's cheers to...
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We haven't been drunk
together in a long time.
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This is very nice.
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What the [bleep]?
[laughs]
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- Come on, man!
- That's what makes a good friend.
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How many people can I
just slap in the face?
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Ugh. Yeah, that's what makes
a good friend for Derek.
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How many of his friends
can he slap in the face?
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Only one.
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Really?
Well, that makes me feel good.
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Hello.
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Today we're gonna talk about
the prohibition of pinball.
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Cheers.
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So, 1942,
Fiorello Henry La Guardia,
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Mayor of New York, goes,
you know what, this pinball thing is evil.
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We're gonna ban [bleep] pinball, dude.
Not gonna ball around.
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You know, just it's a game.
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- We're gonna ban it.
- Why pinball?
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Because pinball is a game of chance.
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- It's a [bleep] game, dude!
- Yeah.
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All right, so, the New York police
start raiding restaurants.
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Oh, you got a pinball machine here.
So, it's okay if we [ bleep] it up.
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The New York Police Department
confiscated the pinball machines.
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La Guardia smashed them,
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and then pushed them
into the Hudson River.
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A lot of smaller cities around America
would follow what New York did.
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So all around America,
yeah, pinball is illegal.
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Cut to decades later in the early '70s,
there's this guy Roger Sharpe.
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Roger Sharpe is this writer.
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But what he does in his off
time is he plays pinball.
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But he has to do it,
like, under the radar,
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because pinball is still illegal.
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You know, Roger Sharpe.
he's one of the best in the world.
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He's like,
hey, I'm good at this.
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I know how to make this pinball move,
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and it's not chance, it's not gambling.
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So, in the mist...
in the... in the midst...
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- in the midst... mist... mist...
- Mid...
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Midst. Is there a D in there?
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- Midst, right?
- Mm-hmm.
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- I'm serious. Midst?
- Mm-hmm.
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In the midst of all this,
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The American Music and Amusement
Association, which is kind of like
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The Pinball Manufacturers
of America, was like,
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all right, look, pinball
was declared illegal, right?
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That's crazy.
That's [bleep] crazy.
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We have to do something.
We have to save our industry.
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[belches]
Jeez.
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So, the American
Music and Music Association
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call Roger Sharpe and they're like,
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hey, we're [bleep] here.
You've gotta help us out.
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And he goes,
okay, I gotta do what I gotta do.
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So, they bring Roger
Sharpe in front of the New York
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City Council to try
to get pinball legalized.
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The news media is there.
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This is a big deal.
This is 1976.
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I'm [bleep] up.
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So there's kinda like this
moment where he's like,
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you know what, look,
if I'm good enough at pinball,
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I can succeed at pinball.
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I'm not just... this
isn't just gambling.
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This is like, you know, I'm having fun.
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This is... This is a game of skill.
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Does that make sense?
[belches]
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- Jeez.
- All right, so Roger Sharpe
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steps up to the El Dorado machine.
He's playing on it.
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He's just, you know,
banging the ball around
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on this El Dorado machine.
But then there's one prick
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on the [bleep] board of
the city council who's like,
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no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.
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You guys are trying to pull a fast one.
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This machine is probably set up
so he could try to impress us.
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I want him to play the backup
machine, which is Bank Shot.
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[dramatic music]
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Now, Roger Sharpe had never
played that other machine.
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He'd never even...
like, not even one quarter.
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He had never played it.
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But he's like, I'll play it.
I'll play Bank... Bank Shot?
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But I will show you mother[bleep]
that this is a game of skill.
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Roger Sharpe goes over
to the Bank Shot machine.
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He plays it for a few minutes,
and he's, like, mastering it, right?
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He's, you know, batting the ball around.
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Still nobody's impressed.
They're like, eh, whatever.
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He looks at everybody
in the city council
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and no [bleep],
straight out of Babe Ruth's book,
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he goes, listen up, I'm gonna
call my shot. See the ball?
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I'm gonna pull this plunger back
a certain distance,
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I'm gonna launch the ball,
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and that ball is gonna
go into that center slot.
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Everyone's like, yeah, whatever.
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So the pressure is on
this dude's shoulders.
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He pulls back the plunger
just enough, lets it go,
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and the pinball goes up the playfield
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and lands right in that middle slot
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where he says it's gonna go.
Right at that moment,
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one of the councilmen
just grabbed his gavel,
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smacked the... smacked the, you know...
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whatever he smacks and goes,
pinball is now legal.
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Across America, all the
cities who just kowtowed
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to whatever New York did were like,
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yeah, okay, pinball is legal
and blah, blah, blah, blah.
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So it really did all come down
to that one called shot.
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This is not a guy that's regularly...
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regul...
regulated to the anals of history.
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Roger Sharpe was a dude
who was asked to show off his skills
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in order to save an entire
industry, which he did.
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Two balls!
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- Nine ball.
- This is sad.
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All right, I'm gonna
shoot it from here
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- The four ball!
- to the middle. Ready?
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- Wow.
- I called it, dude.
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Roger Sharpe. Games.
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What would we do without games?
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We'd actually have to communicate.
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I think virtual reality
will be the biggest
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- thing starting next year.
- Okay.
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You can step into the device.
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- Your body will be completely tracked.
- Okay.
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[groans]
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[grunting]
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Can you do this move, like...
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Oh!
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Wait, now I can't...
Is anybody around me?
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[grunting]
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This is how you walk
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when you're trying not
to [bleep] in your pants.
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[laughs]
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- Stay on the path.
- I'm trying.
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Whoa-ah!
[yells]
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My life!
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- Let's cheers to Bobby Fischer, yeah?
- Here's the Bobby B... F.
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- Check.
- Mate. [chuckles]
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Hello. I'm Rich Fulcher,
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and today we're gonna
talk about Bobby Fischer,
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King of the Chess People.
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It's 1972. Bobby Fischer
is, like, 29 years old,
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and at the time, he had won
the U.S. Open Championship
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and was an International Grandmaster.
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But he wasn't just
a normal chess player.
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He was going, put, put,
put, put, put, check!
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Woot, woot, woot, checkmate!
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That was when he felt
most comfortable in life.
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And yet, Russia had won
the World Championship
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for the last 24 years.
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Like, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia,
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can... Russia!
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And Russia used that as
sort of a PR campaign,
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like, we are the kings.
We are not only Communists,
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but we are the intellectuals of
the world because we do chess.
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The World Championships are in Iceland,
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and Boris Spassky, backed
by the Russian government,
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was like, Bobby Fischer is
too young and inexperienced
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for someone like me,
the World Champion.
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Here's the thing,
Fischer hated Russians,
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and he called them filthy pigs.
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So it was much more
than just a chess match.
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The Cold War is happening.
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Life Magazine called it
the match of the century,
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and in the retrospect it was,
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because it was the match of the century.
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And then Fischer didn't show up.
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He was still in, uh,
New York, and he said,
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I don't want to play in this match
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'cause it's not enough prize money.
It's not enough!
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He was all talk.
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He wasn't, like, ready to perform
for, like, magic people.
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But he gets a phone call
from Henry [bleep] Kissinger,
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the Secretary of State, and he said,
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uhhhhh... hi, this is Ken...
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this is Henry Kissinger saying that you
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need to get your butt
over to Iceland now.
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So he finally shows up in Iceland,
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and Spassky's like, fine,
great, let's get started.
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But Fischer was like,
there's too many cameras.
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There's, uh... the
audience is too close.
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The chess board is too shiny.
The lights are shiny.
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But Fischer finally agreed
to play, and in America
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it was shown on bars
throughout the country.
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So you would go into a bar,
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you'd see chess and
not the New York Mets,
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not the... Klondike... Bars.
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But what would you do for a Klondike?
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I would do anything
for a Klondike Bar,
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except Wikipedia my dingus.
[laughs]
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And so, the World Championship
was a best out of 24 match.
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The first game was weird
because there's cameras everywhere.
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[whimpering gibberish]
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It was like, they're too close!
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And Fischer made a rookie move,
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like, he went and got an
outlier pawn with his bishop,
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and Spassky surrounded
it with his bishops.
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- Whoa.
- And he lost... big time.
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The second match came
around, and Spassky was there,
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and he goes, where is he?
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Fischer was staying
in his room and saying,
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I will not go out unless
the cameras change.
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And he was thinking
that they would do it,
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but they didn't. And then
Fischer forfeits the match.
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Hrrump!
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That's how they did it.
And he's down two-nothing,
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which is pretty [bleep] bad.
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Pfft-pfft-pfft.
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Why is all the ice gone?
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- Where did all the ice go?
- I just want some free flowers. What?
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All the ice was put into the cooler.
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Let me tell you about the ice.
You just gotta mix it up!
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- Jeez.
- Here's the thing.
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- The thing is...
- Here's the thing.
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No, but what the thing is, is, um,
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I have a flaming dick disease.
[laughter]
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No, I was trying to say
that to be behind two-nothing
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is a big deal in these matches.
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And then finally for the third game
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Fischer said,
look, let's go to a back room
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with no cameras, please.
And Spassky said yes.
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- Fischer felt comfortable and won.
- He won!
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The first time he'd ever
beaten Fas... Fassko...
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no, Spassky.
Once he won, it just changed.
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It's like a turnaround.
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It's like a blip, blah, aghhhh.
It's like a shhh.
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It's like a pup.
It's like a poosh.
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Like a pu-aaaa!
Like a put-chi-sha-sha-snoot!
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It happened.
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So Fischer won the third game,
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the fifth game, the sixth game,
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the eighth game, the tenth game.
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It was so brilliant,
Spassky actually stood up,
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- he gave a standing ovation.
- Thank you, thank you.
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And after the 13th game,
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the Soviets were like, what do we do?
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They went to the officials and said,
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Bobby Fischer is using
electronic devices
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to wane Spassky's energy
through electronic zappage.
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So the Reykjavik police from Iceland
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came in and took apart everything.
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They took apart Bobby Fischer's chair,
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Bobby Fischer's, uh...
peanuts.
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Peanuts.
And they were thinking,
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oh, this is gonna fluster Fischer,
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because Fischer's very,
you know, tumultuous.
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It didn't at all.
He loved it.
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And he won after that,
and won and won,
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and pretty much after the 21st match,
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it became mathematically
impossible for Spassky to win.
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And it was like, oh, my God!
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Fischer wins!
Fischer wins!
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And it's... he... he's, like,
the World Chess Champion,
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and he's from the U.S.
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He walks out in Reykjavik,
there's people everywhere.
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He's mobbed.
Fischer was huge,
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and he became a Cold War hero,
and he felt like...
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[making guttural noises]
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Tell me more,
you sucking pig! Suck!
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Suck!
[spits drink]
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That's it.
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This, I'm no expert,
is half the board.
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I've never played.
I'm not just saying that.
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A queen to bishop, king-4.
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Checkmate.
[laughs]
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All right, so that's
how chess is played.
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