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My name is Nathan Fielder,
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and I graduated from one of Canada's
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top business schools
with really good grades.
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Now, I'm using my knowledge
to help struggling
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small business owners make it
in this competitive world.
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This is "Nathan for You."
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From the outside,
this building may look boring,
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but there's actually
something pretty cool inside.
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Byrnes Logistics,
a shipping logistics company
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based in El Segundo, California,
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where customs broker
Christy Pratt works tirelessly
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to help her clients
export their products
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all around the world.
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But sending goods across
international borders
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can be expensive
because of import taxes
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known as "tariffs."
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Every product has
a different duty rate.
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Um, it can be from free to 35%.
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But when I learned she
was working with an exporter
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of smoke detectors, it gave me an idea
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that could save her client millions,
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and make Christy the hottest
shipping broker in town.
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Just looking it up on my phone,
it seems like there's
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a pretty high tariff for smoke
detectors in a lot of countries.
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Yeah, I mean a lot of countries charge
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high duty rates on smoke detectors.
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You know, it is what it is.
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I mean, you're not gonna get around it.
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Well, not so fast.
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Unlike smoke detectors,
musical instruments
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ship duty-free to most countries.
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So, if Christy were able
to convince Customs
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that the noise from her smoke alarms
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was actually intended to make music,
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the savings for her clients
would be astronomical.
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- Well...
- I mean, technically anything
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that makes a noise can be
a musical instrument, right?
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You know, if you can
convince Customs, go for it.
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Why are you so pessimistic?
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Because I've worked
in this business a long time.
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I know what Customs is going to say.
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You know I went
to business school, right?
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Yeah, no, I didn't. I don't know you.
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Oh, okay. I did go to business school.
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All right, well...
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Oh, you're done with your sentence?
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- I'm done.
- Okay.
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You said, "All right, well,"
and I thought you were
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gonna say something else.
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- No.
- Oh, okay.
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Christy was skeptical,
but I was determined
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to prove her wrong,
so I began the process
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of designing new packaging
for the smoke detector
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to rebrand it as a musical instrument.
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I then hired local
blues legend Harmonica Greg
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to help me create an instructional DVD
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that would be included in every box.
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Your instrument is pre-tuned to F#,
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and you don't want
to mess around with that.
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With our DVD and rebranded
packaging complete,
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I was hopeful this
would be enough for Customs
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to believe it was a real instrument.
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But since tariff laws
are incredibly complex,
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before moving forward,
I brought my product
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to retired California judge
Anthony Filosa
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to be sure I was meeting
all the requirements.
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It's a smoke detector.
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Right, but it's rebranded
as a musical instrument.
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And, of course, you're doing
that for what reason, to...
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To avoid the tariffs.
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After telling Judge Filosa my plan,
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he read over the tariff laws
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and told me that my work
was far from done.
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You've got to prove
to the satisfaction of a court
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that this particular thing is accepted
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by the general public
as a musical instrument.
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- Okay.
- This label proves nothing.
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So how would you make
it accepted by the public?
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If it's used in a song
that people really recognize,
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it's a #1 record, or, you know,
one of these singers...
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I knew that rebranding
a smoke detector would be tough,
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but I never thought I'd have
to create a hit song
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using one of the worst noises
imaginable.
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- [SHRILL TONE]
- And if I was going to do this,
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I'd need some serious musical talent.
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So I put up some fliers
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announcing open
auditions for a new band.
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And later that week, posing
as a big-time record producer,
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I opened my doors
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to the best of what L.A. had to offer.
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All right,
let's see what you got, my man.
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Sure.
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[CLEARS THROAT]
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♪ Don't look at the clock,
it's deceiving ♪
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♪ Everything you are so
dependent on perceiving ♪
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♪ The future, fickle
notions of your mind ♪
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♪ Dust, creatures of the surf ♪
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♪ Always contemplating time
to a saddening extreme ♪
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♪ Many of us travel,
sheep without shepherds ♪
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♪ And unprepared
for battle to unravel... ♪
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The turnout was better than I expected,
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and it was clear right away
I was drowning in talent.
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♪ Arise, the time is now ♪
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So after auditioning
a drummer named Chris
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who could really pound the skins
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and Jani,
a physically attractive singer,
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who had the right kind of ambition...
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I mean, on a wider perspective, like,
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I want the whole world
to hear what I have to say.
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My band was starting to take shape.
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This is freedom to me.
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But I still needed
to figure out which musician
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was best suited
to playing the smoke detector.
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So I organized the band's
first rehearsal,
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and after watching them jam...
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[TUNELESS JAMMING]
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♪ ♪
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It quickly became clear
the standout talent was Eddie.
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[PLAYING RAPID RIFFS]
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He was not only the best musician
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but also the best showman.
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If anyone could make the smoke
detector work, it was him.
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So after rehearsal was over,
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I kept Eddie behind
to show him his new instrument.
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I can sing, I can play the drums.
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This is not an instrument.
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It is. It's a blues smoke detector.
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[SMOKE ALARM SOUNDS]
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No, no.
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This is gonna be the thing
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that separates us from any other band.
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[LAUGHS] Okay.
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And that means the guy who plays it
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is going to be the most famous.
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You want to be famous, don't you?
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Um...
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maybe.
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- You do.
- Yeah.
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Dazzled by the promise of fame,
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Eddie agreed to learn
the blues smoke detector
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with the help of our instructional DVD.
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The best way to play it
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is simply by pressing
the "test" button on the front.
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[SMOKE ALARM SOUNDS]
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Okay.
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[SMOKE ALARM SOUNDS]
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So with Eddie on board,
I spent the next couple days
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writing lyrics for
what would hopefully be
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our breakthrough single.
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And then I called the band
back together
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to see what they thought.
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So you know when you
really like a girl,
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but she won't even
look at you in the eye?
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- You know?
- Mmhmm.
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This song's, uh, kind of about that.
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[EXHALES]
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Sorry, I'm just a little
nervous right now,
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because it's, you know, it's personal,
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and I'm not the best singer.
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But... [CLEARS THROAT]
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♪ When I talk to other
people about you ♪
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♪ I say "her" ♪
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♪ In my bed rests a pillow ♪
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♪ Where you once were ♪
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♪ My lips, my hair, my skin, my eyes ♪
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♪ When you left me,
it was a big surprise ♪
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♪ Maybe one day
I'll wake up on Jupiter ♪
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♪ An entire planet, just me and her ♪
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The band seemed to like my song...
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Thank you. But then Jani said
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that he had a song of his own
that he'd been working on.
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Through distancing ourselves
from nature,
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we've distanced
ourselves from each other,
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and the song's kind of based off that.
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I like that message.
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I mean, we need to respect
like the habitat we live in.
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♪ It's time to revolutionize ♪
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♪ It's time to revolutionize ♪
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♪ We're bringing on
on those orphaned skies ♪
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The song was called "Orphaned Skies,"
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and after taking a band vote,
they liked his song more.
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And that was great,
because the best song won,
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and that's what we wanted.
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So I told Jani to teach it
to the rest of the band,
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with one minor adjustment.
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Just so you guys know,
I took Eddie off guitar,
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and he's going to be
on smoke detector for this one.
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- Smoke detector?
- I know it's a bit weird,
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but it's really important this
band has a smoke detector in it.
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I think it could be the thing
that maybe makes us stand out.
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Do we have to have that one?
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- The smoke detector?
- Yes.
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I mean, no offense,
but if you guys are good enough,
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you should be able
to make it work, right?
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[SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
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[SMOKE DETECTOR BEEPS]
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♪ ♪
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[BEEP]
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♪ ♪
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[BEEP]
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♪ It's time to revolutionize ♪
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Despite some initial struggles
with the smoke detector,
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by the end of the day the song
was sounding surprisingly good.
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♪ We're bringing on ♪
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- ♪ Those orphaned skies ♪
- [SMOKE DETECTOR BEEPS]
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And that meant it was time
to take this band
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to the next level.
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So I hired a photographer
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to take some promotional photos
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and booked some time
in a recording studio
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to officially lay down the tracks.
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♪ We're bringing on
those orphaned skies ♪
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[BEEP]
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♪ Bringing on those orphaned skies ♪
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[JANI HOLDING NOTE]
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[SOFT KEYBOARD]
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Everyone in the studio was digging it,
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and I was hopeful "Orphaned
Skies" would become a hit.
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But first, our band would need a name.
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I have a few. The Banzai Predicament.
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What does that mean?
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Um... I don't know if it...
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it's just kind of like
a juxtaposition of words
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I came up with, it... it sounded good.
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Now that our band had a name,
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I uploaded our song
to iTunes as a digital single.
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And I was excited
to get this thing heard,
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so I set up a meeting
with the head of programming
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at KDAY 93.5 in the hopes
he would put it on the air.
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["ORPHANED SKIES"
BY THE BANZAI PREDICAMENT]
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[BEEP]
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♪ ♪
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[BEEP]
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I don't think
that'll make Top 40 Radio.
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I couldn't play it. I wouldn't play it.
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Is there anything I could do to
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if this could get like one play on air,
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and see what the response is?
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Take the beeping sound out of it.
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Okay, yeah. And in that moment,
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I realized what I should've
known from the start.
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That the music industry
would never accept a song
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with a smoke detector in it.
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I had failed everyone.
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Not only Christy at Byrnes Logistics
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but also Jani, whose beautiful song
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would never be heard.
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But in listening to it more,
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I was reminded of the message
behind "Orphaned Skies."
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Through distancing ourselves
from nature,
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we've distanced
ourselves from each other.
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It was about saving the environment.
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And that's when it occurred to me
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that if I couldn't get
this song on the radio,
257
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perhaps I could get it on the news.
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Not far from Los Angeles,
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the Shell Oil Company
recently got into trouble
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after one of their
pipelines sprung a leak.
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For the second time in less
than a year,
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a spill response unit
has responded to this
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Shell facility outside of Tracy.
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So if I could make it seem like
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Jani's environmental anthem
was callously stolen by Shell
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to use in a PR campaign
at the spill site,
267
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there's a chance the controversy
could ignite a media firestorm
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that would get "Orphaned Skies"
and the blues smoke detector
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- heard by millions.
- [BEEP]
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So to frame Shell for this theft,
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I headed five hours north to
the city of Tracy, California
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and put up fliers
saying that Shell would be
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holding a town hall meeting
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to address the community's concerns
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about their disastrous oil spills.
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And right away, people were interested.
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You can see light snacks
and beverages will be provided.
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Do you like snacks?
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Okay, great.
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Now all I needed
281
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was someone to speak at the event
282
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who the public would buy
as a real Shell representative.
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And who better to play the part
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than someone who actually
believed they worked for Shell?
285
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So I put a job posting on Monster.com
286
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advertising
a short-term position at Shell
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in their public relations department.
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Once I got a response,
I told the applicant
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to meet me on the street corner
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outside of Shell's corporate
headquarters
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in Carson, California,
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where I was waiting to intercept him,
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dressed as a Shell employee.
294
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So we're doing some
construction in the building,
295
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so the interview's actually
gonna take place
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on our South campus.
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Okay, so just hop in,
and I'll take you over.
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Then, I drove him around the corner
299
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to a portable I had installed
in a parking lot nearby.
300
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I told him I was
the Shell Vice President
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and that the cameras
were documenting us
302
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because, if he got the job,
303
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he would be
Shell's one millionth employee.
304
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So a big part of working in PR at Shell
305
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is dealing with oil spills,
and we have a lot of them.
306
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- Okay.
- And obviously, no one likes it
307
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when an oil spill happens,
but what most people don't get
308
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is that it's a necessary
and unavoidable part
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of doing business.
Yes, I get that totally.
310
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Victor was perfectly suited
to being a Shell employee,
311
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and he performed
extremely well under pressure.
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How do you feel when you see
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this image of a bird covered in oil?
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I feel okay.
315
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I feel all right. I don't feel nothing.
316
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No? That's a good answer.
317
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It looks like a fun day at the beach.
318
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So I offered him the job.
319
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Victor didn't know it,
320
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but his only real purpose
was to help me frame Shell
321
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for the theft of
The Banzai Predicament's music.
322
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So on the day of the town hall event,
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I set up in the Tracy Legion Hall,
324
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and before long,
concerned Tracy residents
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began to fill the room.
326
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So I checked in with Victor outside
327
00:13:53,733 --> 00:13:55,600
to be sure he was
ready to face the crowd.
328
00:13:55,667 --> 00:13:58,333
I mean, there's been two oil
spills in the past two years,
329
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so I'm sure the town
is a little nervous.
330
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- I'll make you proud.
- Okay.
331
00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:05,867
- I'll take care of everything.
- So with Victor prepared,
332
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he headed inside
to address the local community.
333
00:14:10,033 --> 00:14:11,166
I also want to point out
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that this spill right here,
335
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this spill was, like, relatively small.
336
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If you had to have a spill somewhere,
337
00:14:18,267 --> 00:14:20,867
you would want this spill
right here in your town.
338
00:14:20,933 --> 00:14:25,333
I know it's kind of hard for
you to grasp, but it's great.
339
00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,400
Yes, sir?
340
00:14:27,467 --> 00:14:29,200
The contaminated soil,
where did you dump that?
341
00:14:29,267 --> 00:14:31,067
From the spill site?
342
00:14:31,133 --> 00:14:34,067
Okay. Thank you, sir,
that was a great question.
343
00:14:34,133 --> 00:14:36,600
The information that I had
made available to me is that
344
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we dumped it in a country far,
far away from here.
345
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Victor did a pretty good job
346
00:14:42,533 --> 00:14:44,633
of answering the community's questions.
347
00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:46,200
And I'd like to conclude now,
348
00:14:46,267 --> 00:14:47,967
by showing you guys a short video.
349
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Thank you. But the only thing
350
00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:51,400
that really mattered for my plan
351
00:14:51,467 --> 00:14:53,467
was a fake Shell commercial I had made
352
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using "Orphaned Skies"
as its soundtrack.
353
00:14:55,867 --> 00:15:01,067
♪ It's time to revolutionize ♪
354
00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:04,067
♪ We're bringing on
those orphaned skies ♪
355
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- ♪ I-ies ♪
- [BEEP]
356
00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,061
Great, right? Good.
357
00:15:10,067 --> 00:15:13,067
I now had evidence of Shell
stealing the band's song.
358
00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:14,600
You guys have a great evening.
359
00:15:14,667 --> 00:15:16,067
and I'll see you at the pump.
360
00:15:16,133 --> 00:15:17,900
So I anonymously uploaded
361
00:15:17,967 --> 00:15:19,667
my cell phone footage to Youtube,
362
00:15:19,733 --> 00:15:21,833
and then I met up with Jani
363
00:15:21,900 --> 00:15:24,133
in the hopes it would make him
angry enough to fight back.
364
00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,067
Did they just take it,
or how did that happen?
365
00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:29,167
I guess they just took it.
366
00:15:29,233 --> 00:15:32,167
I... I don't know,
that's not what I envisioned,
367
00:15:32,233 --> 00:15:35,200
like, the song,
its purpose, you know, being.
368
00:15:35,267 --> 00:15:37,333
If it pisses you off, it pisses me off,
369
00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,133
you know what I mean?
370
00:15:40,267 --> 00:15:42,833
That's [BLEEP] up,
that's like plagiarism.
371
00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:44,900
I really admired Jani,
372
00:15:44,967 --> 00:15:47,367
so it was hard
for me to see him so upset.
373
00:15:47,433 --> 00:15:51,800
I guess artists must just
feel more than the rest of us.
374
00:15:51,867 --> 00:15:54,167
Regardless, I had to move forward.
375
00:15:54,233 --> 00:15:57,333
So I pitched him the idea
of doing a protest performance
376
00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:59,200
in front of a busy Shell gas station
377
00:15:59,267 --> 00:16:03,267
so the whole world could
become aware of this injustice.
378
00:16:03,333 --> 00:16:05,333
No, yeah, definitely.
379
00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:07,433
I think it's a good plan, if we
get it, like, well organized.
380
00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:08,933
And the next day, after
showing the rest of the band
381
00:16:09,067 --> 00:16:10,900
what Shell had done,
382
00:16:10,967 --> 00:16:13,533
it was up to Jani to get
them on board with our plan.
383
00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,533
It actually really upsets me
384
00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,733
that they would do something like that.
385
00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:21,200
If they're putting our names
on it, then they have to pay us.
386
00:16:21,267 --> 00:16:23,900
I mean personally, I agree with Jani.
387
00:16:23,967 --> 00:16:27,061
I think we gotta do something.
388
00:16:27,067 --> 00:16:30,100
I think we should play.
389
00:16:30,167 --> 00:16:33,600
With the band on board
for our protest performance,
390
00:16:33,667 --> 00:16:36,061
we began preparations for the
showdown with Shell
391
00:16:36,067 --> 00:16:38,733
that would hopefully bring
the blues smoke detector
392
00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,667
into the spotlight.
393
00:16:40,733 --> 00:16:43,767
To maximize our chances
of getting media attention,
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00:16:43,833 --> 00:16:46,333
I had a custom stage hitched
to the back of a tanker truck
395
00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:48,633
filled with gasoline
so the band could give away
396
00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:51,433
free gas throughout their performance,
397
00:16:51,500 --> 00:16:54,067
taking business from the
corporation that took from them.
398
00:16:54,133 --> 00:16:55,600
But the most vital part
of this operation
399
00:16:55,667 --> 00:16:57,882
was the smoke detector,
400
00:16:57,937 --> 00:17:00,300
so before heading out,
I had a quick word with Eddie.
401
00:17:00,367 --> 00:17:02,061
Really show off that baby, okay?
402
00:17:02,067 --> 00:17:03,967
- Okay, no worries.
- Yeah, I want to see
403
00:17:04,067 --> 00:17:06,133
that smoke detector featured.
Yeah, I'll be sure.
404
00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,700
Cool. Thanks, man.
405
00:17:07,767 --> 00:17:09,267
Let's do it.
406
00:17:09,333 --> 00:17:11,467
Great.
407
00:17:11,533 --> 00:17:16,267
And with that, our tanker
truck was on the move.
408
00:17:16,333 --> 00:17:18,733
Its destination was a busy
Shell station in Hollywood
409
00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:20,833
in the middle of rush hour traffic
410
00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:25,633
and just a block away from
the KTLA news headquarters.
411
00:17:25,700 --> 00:17:27,867
So once the tanker was in place,
412
00:17:27,933 --> 00:17:29,867
the members of The Banzai
Predicament took the stage
413
00:17:29,933 --> 00:17:33,300
and began to play.
414
00:17:33,367 --> 00:17:34,933
["ORPHANED SKIES" BY
THE BANZAI PREDICAMENT]
415
00:17:35,067 --> 00:17:37,633
- [BEEP]
- Whooo!
416
00:17:37,700 --> 00:17:40,800
- [BEEP]
- Free gas, brother!
417
00:17:40,867 --> 00:17:43,500
Within minutes, a line of cars
418
00:17:43,567 --> 00:17:46,067
- began to form around the block.
- Want a little bit of gas?
419
00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:47,833
And it wasn't long before
the news showed up
420
00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:51,267
to give us the coverage we needed.
421
00:17:51,333 --> 00:17:53,300
All right, the L.A.-based rock band
422
00:17:53,367 --> 00:17:57,333
Banzai Predicament protested
the petroleum giant Shell today
423
00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,200
by giving away
a tanker full of gasoline.
424
00:18:00,267 --> 00:18:05,067
♪ ♪
425
00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:07,367
The Banzai Predicament band
brought in a filled gas tanker
426
00:18:07,433 --> 00:18:09,800
and began dishing out
free gas to customers
427
00:18:09,867 --> 00:18:11,433
at the Shell gas station
428
00:18:11,500 --> 00:18:13,400
at Sunset Boulevard and Wilton Place
429
00:18:13,467 --> 00:18:16,467
in protest, they say, of
the company's recent oil spills
430
00:18:16,533 --> 00:18:18,667
and the use of their music.
431
00:18:18,733 --> 00:18:21,533
They stole one of our songs
and used it in a commercial,
432
00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:25,061
and so we're out here
giving away free gas.
433
00:18:25,067 --> 00:18:27,133
Free fuel goes a long way
434
00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:30,233
with customers
thankful to not have to pay.
435
00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:33,067
I'm gonna get my free gas,
and I will protest too.
436
00:18:33,133 --> 00:18:35,061
I'll bet you they'll
get a lot of downloads today.
437
00:18:35,067 --> 00:18:36,133
No doubt about that.
438
00:18:38,766 --> 00:18:40,422
Now that the blues smoke detector
439
00:18:40,453 --> 00:18:42,020
had been seen by millions
440
00:18:42,031 --> 00:18:43,747
in the hands of a real rock band,
441
00:18:43,832 --> 00:18:46,114
my instrument
had the legitimacy it needed.
442
00:18:46,333 --> 00:18:47,999
So I could finally return
to Byrnes Logistics
443
00:18:48,066 --> 00:18:50,673
to update Christy on what I had done.
444
00:18:50,825 --> 00:18:53,292
- I see he's using it.
- Yeah.
445
00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:55,565
- I do, yeah.
- Pretty good evidence, huh?
446
00:18:55,632 --> 00:18:59,199
Eh... well,
that's for Customs to decide.
447
00:18:59,265 --> 00:19:01,565
Are you impressed?
448
00:19:03,199 --> 00:19:04,632
No, not really. I mean, you know...
449
00:19:04,699 --> 00:19:06,632
What are you talking about?
450
00:19:06,699 --> 00:19:08,151
He picked up a smoke detector,
and he's using it in a band.
451
00:19:08,186 --> 00:19:09,862
- This was on TV.
- Well...
452
00:19:10,342 --> 00:19:13,875
that's not, you know...
You have to wait and see.
453
00:19:13,942 --> 00:19:17,042
After everything I had done,
Christy was still skeptical,
454
00:19:17,075 --> 00:19:18,415
so to prove her wrong,
455
00:19:18,454 --> 00:19:20,500
I packed up a dozen smoke detectors
456
00:19:20,626 --> 00:19:22,493
addressed
to a contact in South America,
457
00:19:22,795 --> 00:19:24,728
noting on the customs form
that we were sending
458
00:19:25,342 --> 00:19:26,875
musical instruments and nothing else.
459
00:19:26,942 --> 00:19:28,842
And a few days later,
460
00:19:28,908 --> 00:19:31,142
I returned to show her
the shipment had arrived.
461
00:19:31,208 --> 00:19:33,342
So the package arrived.
462
00:19:33,408 --> 00:19:34,808
There it is!
463
00:19:34,875 --> 00:19:36,642
And whether she liked it or not,
464
00:19:36,708 --> 00:19:39,075
Christy had to admit
that my plan had worked.
465
00:19:39,142 --> 00:19:42,275
Well, yeah, it's one
small package through FedEx.
466
00:19:42,342 --> 00:19:44,275
They usually get where they're going.
467
00:19:44,342 --> 00:19:47,142
My work with Byrnes Logistics was done,
468
00:19:47,208 --> 00:19:49,642
but there was still one thing
I had to take care of.
469
00:19:49,708 --> 00:19:52,408
Shell saw the protest on the news,
470
00:19:52,475 --> 00:19:55,642
and they feel awful
about what happened.
471
00:19:55,708 --> 00:19:57,808
In pursuing my goal,
472
00:19:57,875 --> 00:19:59,842
I had turned good people
against each other.
473
00:20:00,042 --> 00:20:01,608
The bottom line is, we messed up.
474
00:20:01,675 --> 00:20:03,408
We just wanna make things right,
you know what I mean?
475
00:20:03,475 --> 00:20:06,275
- Right.
- But now it was time
476
00:20:06,342 --> 00:20:08,642
to heal the wounds
and bring them together.
477
00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:10,742
- Hey, how's it going?
- Hello, how you doing?
478
00:20:10,808 --> 00:20:12,942
- Jani.
- My name is Victor Clark.
479
00:20:13,008 --> 00:20:14,675
- Nice to meet you.
- I'm from corporate Shell.
480
00:20:14,742 --> 00:20:16,308
We made a mistake, you know?
481
00:20:16,375 --> 00:20:18,842
We stole your song,
we're sorry we stole it,
482
00:20:18,908 --> 00:20:21,542
but, you know, how these
things happen, I don't know.
483
00:20:21,608 --> 00:20:24,308
Sometimes we just... usually
we hear what sounds the best,
484
00:20:24,375 --> 00:20:26,408
you know, what sounds
the best for our reasons,
485
00:20:26,475 --> 00:20:28,942
and we stole it, and we'd
like to apologize for that.
486
00:20:29,008 --> 00:20:30,675
Yeah, I don't know.
487
00:20:30,742 --> 00:20:32,808
That just doesn't seem like
a good thing,
488
00:20:32,875 --> 00:20:35,942
for a company to like steal something.
489
00:20:36,008 --> 00:20:38,108
Like, the song
was kind of in a different,
490
00:20:38,175 --> 00:20:40,842
like, ideologically, like
in a different realm than...
491
00:20:40,908 --> 00:20:44,208
- Well...
- I think what your company...
492
00:20:44,275 --> 00:20:46,142
Look. I'm a man, I apologize.
493
00:20:46,208 --> 00:20:48,408
Just be a man and accept my apology.
494
00:20:48,475 --> 00:20:50,075
No, yeah, I accept your apology.
495
00:20:50,142 --> 00:20:51,842
That's all I'm asking.
That's all I'm asking.
496
00:20:51,908 --> 00:20:53,675
Yeah, no, apology accepted.
497
00:20:53,742 --> 00:20:56,342
- Apology accepted?
- Yeah.
498
00:20:56,408 --> 00:20:58,442
Thank you. Appreciate you for that.
499
00:20:58,508 --> 00:21:00,075
- Yeah.
- Love your music.
500
00:21:00,142 --> 00:21:02,808
Just don't stop. Hey, thanks.
501
00:21:02,875 --> 00:21:04,742
How's that? You take care,
and have a great day.
502
00:21:04,808 --> 00:21:07,042
- Yeah. See ya.
- You keep that music going.
503
00:21:07,339 --> 00:21:11,917
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504
00:21:18,308 --> 00:21:19,608
[SMOKE ALARM BEEPING]
505
00:21:19,675 --> 00:21:20,842
And there, you get
506
00:21:20,908 --> 00:21:24,342
a consistent flow of notes.
507
00:21:24,408 --> 00:21:26,942
[BEEP BEEP]
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