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We're gonna call this
"Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."
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We got the puppets, we got
The Land of Make-Believe
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and he saved PBS.
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(Laughter)
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Ida Tarbell takes down the
richest man in the world.
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(Imitating typewriter)
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Now I'm really starting to feel wasted.
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Maya Lin designed the
Vietnam War Memorial.
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She's a young Asian woman?
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I'm not gonna give you any money.
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(Groans, laughs)
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(Patriotic music)
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... www.addic7ed.com ...
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No, I learned English
from a lot of PBS stuff.
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I came to America when I
was three, turning four,
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so it was those shows that were like,
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"This is how you say this.
This is the word of the day.
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This is the letter. This is the number."
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And you're like, okay, I'm catching on
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to how people saying things.
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What about Teletubbies?
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What the fuck were they teaching?
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Holy shit, I have no idea.
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(Imitating Teletubby)
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- (Laughs)
- That was a terrifying... I can't...
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That was just an acid dream.
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I don't do drugs, but now
I'm like, maybe I should
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just to watch the Teletubbies.
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Hello, this is Solomon Georgio
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and today we're gonna be
talking about Mr. Fred Rogers.
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Mmm!
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- Cheers.
- Won't you be my neighbor?
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? Won't you be my neighbor? ?
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- I would be your neighbor.
- Aww.
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So it starts in 1951.
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Fred McFeely Rogers, he
watches children's TV
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for the first time
and for the most part,
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it's just slapstick.
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Guys throwing pies in
each other's faces,
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just being pranked and whatever
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nonsense is happening.
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He was like, well this is just garbage.
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This is hot garbage,
what are we watching?
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And he's like, I wanna do this
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but I wanna do it for the kids.
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And he actually got a job at NBC.
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But they were like, we
gotta do commercials.
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Cigarettes, alcohol,
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alcohol made out of cigarettes.
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- Yeah.
- All that fun stuff.
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- Let's make the kids like this.
- Yeah. (Laughs)
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And he just got fed up,
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was like, this is not
good enough for me.
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I gotta fucking go back
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to PTburgh,
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fuck off Pennsylvania
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and see how I can... what I can do.
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I can't believe Mr. Rogers would swear.
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Oh, I'm pretty sure he was like,
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gosh darn, flim flarn, ding dang,
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goobly gock.
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We gotta go back to PTBurghy
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H-E double hockey sticks.
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(Laughs) Pennsyl-vania.
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They... they get back to Pittsburgh
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and he starts working with WQED.
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He gets an opportunity
to have his own show.
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And he's like, oh,
that sounds wonderful.
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Do you have any money?
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And they're like... (Laughs)
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No. So figure that out.
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And he's like, oh, great.
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We gotta do something with
this tight, tight budget.
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Maybe we should just do puppets.
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Puppets are tight.
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Everybody loves puppets.
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Then he's like, all right,
we're gonna call this
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"Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."
We got the puppets,
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we got The Land of Make-Believe,
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We got Mr. McFeely, the... ooh...
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the... the weird
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(laughs) postman that I
named after my middle name.
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And we're gonna make kids feel special.
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And he does that.
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And they started broadcasting
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on the Public Broadcasting Station.
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And guess what he deals with again?
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What?
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Financial problems.
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Shit.
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He can't hide from them.
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They're everywhere.
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He's like, all right,
I need to do a fund raiser.
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I... I guess I'll do
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a fundraiser in Boston.
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That's a good place for
fundraisers to happen.
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And surprisingly, out of nowhere,
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10,000 people just show up.
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10,000?
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10,000 people.
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And that piqued the interest
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of our president at the time,
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Mr. Lyndon B. Johnson,
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who, honestly, dope as hell.
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He goes, hey, I'm gonna set up
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the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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You get to have $20 million.
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So Lyndon B. Johnson's like, peace.
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And then Richard Nixon Showed up
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and he was like aww,
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the Vietnam War is happening.
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I'm gonna cut the funding.
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But... (clears throat)
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before Nixon could take
all that money away,
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they had to have a
Senate Committee hearing
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led by Rhode Island
Senator John Pastore.
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This is when Mr. Rogers slides in
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Like part of me is
like... likes to imagine
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Mr. Rogers just moonwalking
into the Committee.
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Mm-hmm.
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Right?
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(Both laughing)
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Mr. Rogers was like, this is what we do.
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We look at kids and go hey,
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you are legit a person
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and you have an
importance in this world.
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Also, your imagination
is a brilliant thing
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that you have going on in your head.
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And we should develop it
in this great, insane way.
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He... he spoke the words
of a song that he wrote.
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It's about what to do when you're mad.
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He's like, "Well, what do
you do when you're mad?
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"You wanna punch a wall?
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"You wanna rip your mama's hair out?
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"You wanna kick your
kid sister in the face?
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"Well, how about you just sing
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this precious, little song instead?"
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And John looked at him and was like,
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(Sighs) I am a rough, hard,
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armadillo of a human man
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but you gave me goose bumps.
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You gave me spine chills.
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They were like,
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we get it.
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What you do is wonderful.
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You deserve this $20 million.
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We were dumb for even
bringing you here, Mr. Rogers.
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That day, PBS was legit saved,
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they weren't losing any funding.
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They were like, you are legit
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the greatest thing to
ever happen to television.
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You're doing such a great job.
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Kids are the best and you're the best
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and never stop.
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If it wasn't for what
Mr. Rogers did that day,
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there would've been no "Sesame Street,"
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there would've been no
"Lamb Chop's Play-Along,"
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there would've been
no "Reading Rainbow."
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It just... the list goes
on and on and on and on.
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He left behind several decades
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of some of the best children's
television programming
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ever in the history
of not only television
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but the whole world.
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BOTH: Humanity.
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BOTH: To PBS!
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To Mr. Rogers.
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And the good of humanity.
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Amen.
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(Squeals)
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Well, cheers.
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Do you have a specific
cheers you wanna do?
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No. This is your cheers.
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Hey, this is to dogs.
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- No.
- No?
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Let's cheers to all the
underdogs that we ever knew
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to knowing that
they're gonna win. Right? Do we...
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I'm so glad we shit on my cheers.
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BOTH: To underdogs.
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Hello, I'm Jon Gabrus
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And today, we'll be
talking about Ida Tarbell.
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Cheers.
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Ida Tarbell's story begins in 1872.
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Her father Franklin
Tarbell was an oilman.
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And a young Ida Tarbell
is seeing her father
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being absolutely bullied by robber baron
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J. D. Rockefeller.
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So Rockefeller's going
through all of the Northeast,
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just buying out all these
small, little refineries
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until Franklin Tarbell's
like, not happening, bro.
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Ida is like, nah, nah.
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- Nah, she's like, nah.
- Nah.
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She's like, nah, son.
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And Rockefeller's like, Mr. Tarbell,
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I'm gonna make things
very difficult for you.
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But Franklin Tarbell,
he stood there proud.
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Oh I'm gonna get a fucking
belch on deck right now.
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Get on that.
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(Burps) Excuse me.
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There's gonna be plenty
more where that came from.
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Rockefeller's going to
all these railroad owners
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saying like, hey, man,
if you charge me less
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for more oil... which
I could bring you...
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all these little dudes are
gonna bring you less oil.
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Fuck them over, and in the long run,
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they sell to Uncle Rockefeller.
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He ends up owning 85% of the oil.
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This made Rockefeller the
richest man in the world.
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Franklin's like, fuckin' Rockefeller.
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He boned us all. We'll never eat again.
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My whole livelihood is
shot because of this guy.
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Poor Ida is watching this
all happen around her.
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And, like, if you're watching that,
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you're watching the
superhero origin story.
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Like, this is where young Ida Tarbell,
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holding in one hand a Barbie Doll
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and the other hand a pen.
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Well I know what I need to do.
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So... (Burps)
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She's hired as a staff writer
for "McClure's Magazine"
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and Mark... Mark Twain
was a fan of her writing.
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And Mark is like, look, I
think what you do is great.
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And she's like oh, thank you.
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She's like... I... I wanna do
something about Standard Oil.
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These motherfuckers have
been fucking with my family
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since the get-go, you know?
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Mark Twain is telling Ida Tarbell,
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let me introduce you
to some of these guys
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I've been talking to.
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Um, so Mark Twain introduces her
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to Henry Rogers.
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And she's like, I'd love to talk to him.
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He is high up at Standard Oil.
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And... (Laughs)
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Uh, Franklin Ro...
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Wait, hold on.
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So Rockefeller...
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All right, hold on. I'll back this up.
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I'll get this information out.
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Now I'm really starting to feel wasted.
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Mission accomplished, everyone.
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(Laughs)
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So Mark Twain is like...
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he's setting Ida Tarbell
up with an interview.
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Oh, hey, what are you doing, huh?
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Blah, blah, blah. And
Rogers is thinking,
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a woman is speaking to me.
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Even if her job is to
currently speak to me
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in this moment, I'm still gonna
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misread this as attraction.
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Let me put on the pussy show.
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And then he starts
over-revealing information.
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And he... he's telling her,
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uh, oh, hey, take a
look at these documents.
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Yeah, look at this,
huh? Isn't this cool?
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Look at all the kinda cool
stuff we're doing at Rockefe...
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Yeah, this is going on. Hey, yeah, uh,
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exclusive information
that not everyone has.
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Oh, you wanna take a look?
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Yeah, you can look at court documents.
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Take a look at this.
And then Ida's going,
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you know, nice try, shithead.
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You're dead, you're dead, you're dead.
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Now we're in... Now we're in, uh...
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Ida Tarbell's montage moment.
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You know, she spends the next two years
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organizing court... court documents,
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research, interviews, this...
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anything she can get her hands on
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to start building a narrative.
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Ida got down behind
her fucking typewriter
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at that moment, it was
just... (Imitating typewriter)
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Yes, uh, ohh
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(Imitating typewriter)
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Rockefeller is a... (Blows raspberry)
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(Imitating typewriter)
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A money monster.
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A hypocrite.
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Rockefeller is a L-I-V-I-N-G M-U-M-M-Y
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AKA, Rockefeller is a living mummy.
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A-K-L-I-I-V-G-N-Y... la, la, la.
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So she ends up publishing
a 19-piece article
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called "The History of Standard Oil."
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People are reading this
going, like, has anyone caught
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that McClure's thing about
that J. D. Rockefeller dude
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we were all worshipping for so long?
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Turns out, might be a bit of a scumbag.
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Upon further investigation,
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I think this dude is bad news.
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He's a bad hombre.
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Her little article... little article...
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well... that's the most
misogynistic thing you can do
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is call a woman's article
a little article. (Laughs)
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No, she writes a fucking article
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that President Teddy Roosevelt reads
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and he's like, has any
one else been reading
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this Ida Tarbell series?
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This fucking Rockefeller
guy is fucking me
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with his monopoly.
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Guys, I've been working on this thing
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called, like, the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Feel like it might work
in this situation.
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Teddy, you bring up a
couple of valid points.
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We could do something about this.
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So in 1911, the Supreme Court
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says that the monopoly of
Standard Oil is illegal
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and you must break down
into two companies.
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So a woman who was unable to even vote
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was able, via just writing
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to take down the richest
man in the world...
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Man, that is so cool.
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They fucking shut Standard Oil down.
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Well... they let Standard Oil turn into
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two small, bullshit companies
who would never make any money
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Called Exxon Mobile and Chevron.
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Two companies that didn't do anything.
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So looks like journalism
wins in the long run again.
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(Laughs)
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- Ready?
- Okay.
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Hi, I'm Jennie Pierson.
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Okay.
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Hi, I'm Jennie Pierson and today,
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we'll be talking about... today?
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Hi, I'm Jennie Pierson and today,
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we're talking about Maya Lin.
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Cheers.
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So it's 1980
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and the people at the
Vietnam War Memorial Fund
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are like, I got an idea,
let's have a competition
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to see who can design the
best Vietnam War Memorial.
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(Burps, laughs) Sorry.
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You're okay.
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So they get
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1,500 submissions to this contest.
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They're walking by, they're like,
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that one's too tall.
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I think this one is a
little too political,
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thank you very much.
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And this one is too disgusting.
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Then they... they walk up to one,
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wow, this is fucking beautiful.
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Right, guys? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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We're... we get this. We love it.
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We love it. Let's... this one.
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This is it! This is the one!
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We love this one!
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Whose is it? Reveal the winner.
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And they're like, okay,
are you ready for this?
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It is a 20-year-old college
student named Maya Lin.
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And they're like, what?
It's just a college student?
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That's crazy.
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Cut to Yale and Maya Lin is
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sitting in her architecture class.
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And they're like, sorry
to interrupt your class,
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but is Maya Lin here?
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We have something to tell her.
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And he's like, whatever, fine.
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Maya!
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Maya!
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And she's like, huh? I... I'm over here.
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Uhh!
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And they're like, you won the contest
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for the Vietnam War Memorial.
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We're making your sculpture.
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Can you imagine?
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Um... and Maya was
just like, guess what?
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I won. I won!
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I guess I'm drunker right
now than I thought I'd be.
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I'm sorry.
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You're... don't be sorry.
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- Okay.
- You're doing so good.
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I thought I would be
more normal at this point.
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You're fine.
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Okay.
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So all of these war veterans are saying
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this memorial has no military symbolism,
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there's no weaponry, we don't get it.
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It's a black gash of shame.
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And we are not on board with this.
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Ross Perot, he was gonna donate $160,000
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to the building of this memorial.
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He walks up to them
and he's like, hold on.
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This is a woman? And she's Asian?
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She's a young, Asian woman?
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I'm not gonna give you any
money to build this thing
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if you don't stop... (Laughs)
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I don't know...
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Hold on. You better pick someone else.
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00:15:54,180 --> 00:15:57,117
I'm pissed, I'm pissed, I'm pissed.
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I'm running for president in 12 years.
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Fuck you guys. I'm pulling my funding.
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The committee that had chosen her,
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they heard all of the... this backlash.
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And they went to Maya
and they were like,
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okay, so listen, a lot
of people are pissed off.
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We have a couple of compromises.
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We'd... we'd like to put more
military symbolism into it.
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We'd... we'd like to have
a bronze... a bronze statue
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of a solider carrying an American flag
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um, placed in the center of your...
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of your memorial.
403
00:16:33,253 --> 00:16:36,056
Uh, and then also,
404
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what if we paint the black marble white?
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How does that sound?
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00:16:43,097 --> 00:16:47,101
And Maya is like, hell no.
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00:16:47,133 --> 00:16:50,708
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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Not in a million years.
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00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,643
And they were like, fuck. (Laughs)
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00:16:55,676 --> 00:16:58,680
All right, you know what?
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Let's bring it to Congress, bitch.
412
00:17:02,016 --> 00:17:04,518
We're bringing it to
Co... no, that's dumb.
413
00:17:04,552 --> 00:17:06,855
(Laughs)
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00:17:09,990 --> 00:17:12,093
(Both laughing)
415
00:17:12,125 --> 00:17:14,962
Um, okay.
416
00:17:14,996 --> 00:17:16,331
What do I wanna say next?
417
00:17:16,364 --> 00:17:17,332
Okay.
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So at this Congressional hearing,
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politicians, veterans...
all testifying against her.
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00:17:23,486 --> 00:17:26,306
I don't like that it's the color black!
421
00:17:26,339 --> 00:17:29,376
I don't like that it's abstract!
422
00:17:29,410 --> 00:17:31,115
I don't get it!
423
00:17:31,145 --> 00:17:33,315
What is minimalism?
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00:17:33,347 --> 00:17:36,283
I don't like that it
looks like a pee sign...
425
00:17:36,317 --> 00:17:39,621
a pee sign? (Laughs)
426
00:17:39,654 --> 00:17:42,324
I don't like that this
looks like a peace sign
427
00:17:42,356 --> 00:17:45,059
because those damn hippies are always
428
00:17:45,093 --> 00:17:47,195
flashing a peace sign at me
429
00:17:47,228 --> 00:17:49,064
and I don't like it!
430
00:17:49,097 --> 00:17:50,632
The chairman is like, all right,
431
00:17:50,664 --> 00:17:52,634
we've heard all this shitty stuff.
432
00:17:52,666 --> 00:17:55,102
Maya, you wanna come up here?
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00:17:55,135 --> 00:17:56,937
Maya gets up there
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and she's like, okay, guys,
435
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this memorial should
rise up out of the earth
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like a wound that can be healed.
437
00:18:06,981 --> 00:18:09,350
This is supposed to feel personal
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00:18:09,384 --> 00:18:14,088
so families and friends
of people who have died
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can come to the memorial
and feel the loss
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of their loved ones as
if it was a gravesite.
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00:18:22,797 --> 00:18:24,312
It's not a political statement.
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00:18:24,342 --> 00:18:27,968
It's just a sense of
togetherness and community.
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And the chairman is like, I get it.
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I wanna feel sorrow, too.
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00:18:33,140 --> 00:18:35,910
Everybody just wants to feel something.
446
00:18:35,944 --> 00:18:39,714
And okay, we're gonna do
it. We're gonna do it.
447
00:18:39,746 --> 00:18:40,781
We're gonna do it.
448
00:18:40,814 --> 00:18:43,784
(Uplifting music)
449
00:18:43,818 --> 00:18:47,189
??
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So this memorial goes up.
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And when it went up, there was, like,
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this big celebration for it.
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And 10,000 veterans marched
to the wall in commemoration.
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But they were like, you know,
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this is gonna be shitty, right?
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This is gonna be crap.
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00:19:00,768 --> 00:19:02,403
This is gonna be, like,
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just dumb and we're not gonna care.
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And they get up to the memorial.
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The granite is sort of reflective.
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00:19:08,409 --> 00:19:10,712
So what happens is the
Veterans would walk up
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and they would see themselves
reflected in the names
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of the fallen soldiers.
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And it was a very emotional experience.
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And they were like, whoa.
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00:19:18,085 --> 00:19:20,733
This is beautiful.
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00:19:20,763 --> 00:19:24,561
Maya was, like, watching
all of this shit go down.
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And she was like, I fucking told you.
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I told you you would cry.
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00:19:29,930 --> 00:19:31,298
See all these people crying?
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00:19:31,332 --> 00:19:33,584
I told you they would cry.
472
00:19:33,614 --> 00:19:36,938
- Yeah.
- She probably wasn't that mad.
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00:19:36,970 --> 00:19:39,207
Maya was able to see this outcome
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00:19:39,239 --> 00:19:42,943
and say, oh, this really did
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have a really cool impact on everybody.
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00:19:46,147 --> 00:19:50,318
So Maya Lin goes from
this B student at Yale
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to one of the most prominent architects
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and artists of our time.
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00:19:55,723 --> 00:19:58,796
So Maya Lin's design
style made a difference.
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On all the memorials going forward.
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00:20:01,728 --> 00:20:04,231
It all became more abstract after that.
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00:20:04,265 --> 00:20:06,732
She really influenced a lot of designers
483
00:20:06,762 --> 00:20:09,036
and architects and artists.
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00:20:09,070 --> 00:20:11,673
So in 2016, President Obama
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00:20:11,706 --> 00:20:13,942
presented her with the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
486
00:20:13,975 --> 00:20:17,045
Obama was like, uhh,
487
00:20:17,077 --> 00:20:18,278
good job.
488
00:20:18,312 --> 00:20:20,081
I love your work.
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Hope to see more of it.
490
00:20:21,349 --> 00:20:22,917
And he kissed her on...
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right on the lips.
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(Both laugh)
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(Kissing sounds)
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I just made a fool of myself right now.
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(Patriotic music)
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