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1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,695 _ 2 00:00:04,248 --> 00:00:08,819 _ 3 00:00:09,339 --> 00:00:11,338 [patriotic music] 4 00:00:11,339 --> 00:00:12,338 Milton Bradley's like, 5 00:00:12,339 --> 00:00:13,739 hey, everybody, I got this new game. 6 00:00:13,740 --> 00:00:16,338 It's, like, American. It's, like, [bleep] cool.

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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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<i> sync & correction by f1nc0

~ Addic7ed.com ~</i>

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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!

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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

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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.

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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,

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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,

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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 & 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 & 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

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to the Bank Shot machine.

215

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He plays it for a few minutes,

and he's, like, mastering it, right?

216

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He's, you know, batting the ball around.

217

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Still nobody's impressed.

They're like, eh, whatever.

218

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He looks at everybody

in the city council

219

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and no [bleep],

straight out of Babe Ruth's book,

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220

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he goes, listen up, I'm gonna

call my shot. See the ball?

221

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I'm gonna pull this plunger back

a certain distance,

222

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I'm gonna launch the ball,

223

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and that ball is gonna

go into that center slot.

224

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Everyone's like, yeah, whatever.

225

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00:11:03,886 --> 00:11:06,885

So the pressure is on

this dude's shoulders.

226

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He pulls back the plunger

just enough, lets it go,

227

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and the pinball goes up the playfield

228

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and lands right in that middle slot

229

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where he says it's gonna go.

Right at that moment,

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one of the councilmen

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just grabbed his gavel,

231

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smacked the... smacked the, you know...

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whatever he smacks and goes,

pinball is now legal.

233

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Across America, all the

cities who just kowtowed

234

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to whatever New York did were like,

235

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yeah, okay, pinball is legal

and blah, blah, blah, blah.

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236

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So it really did all come down

to that one called shot.

237

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This is not a guy that's regularly...

238

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regul...

regulated to the anals of history.

239

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Roger Sharpe was a dude

who was asked to show off his skills

240

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in order to save an entire

industry, which he did.

241

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00:12:02,886 --> 00:12:04,886

Two balls!

242

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- Nine ball.

- This is sad.

243

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All right, I'm gonna

shoot it from here

244

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- The four ball!

- to the middle. Ready?

245

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- Wow.

- I called it, dude.

246

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Roger Sharpe. Games.

247

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What would we do without games?

248

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We'd actually have to communicate.

249

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I think virtual reality

will be the biggest

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- thing starting next year.

- Okay.

251

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You can step into the device.

252

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00:12:32,290 --> 00:12:35,289

- Your body will be completely tracked.

- Okay.

253

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[groans]

254

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[grunting]

255

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Can you do this move, like...

256

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Oh!

257

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Wait, now I can't...

Is anybody around me?

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258

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[grunting]

259

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This is how you walk

260

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when you're trying not

to [bleep] in your pants.

261

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[laughs]

262

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- Stay on the path.

- I'm trying.

263

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Whoa-ah!

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[yells]

264

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My life!

265

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- Let's cheers to Bobby Fischer, yeah?

- Here's the Bobby B... F.

266

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- Check.

- Mate. [chuckles]

267

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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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269

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King of the Chess People.

270

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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

272

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and was an International Grandmaster.

273

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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!

275

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Woot, woot, woot, checkmate!

276

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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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280

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can... Russia!

281

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And Russia used that as

sort of a PR campaign,

282

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like, we are the kings.

We are not only Communists,

283

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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,

285

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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.

288

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Here's the thing,

Fischer hated Russians,

289

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and he called them filthy pigs.

290

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So it was much more

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than just a chess match.

291

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The Cold War is happening.

292

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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.

295

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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

298

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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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302

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the Secretary of State, and he said,

303

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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,

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great, let's get started.

308

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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

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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,

315

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not the... Klondike... Bars.

316

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But what would you do for a Klondike?

317

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I would do anything

for a Klondike Bar,

318

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00:16:20,290 --> 00:16:27,632

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]

322

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It was like, they're too close!

323

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And Fischer made a rookie move,

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324

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like, he went and got an

outlier pawn with his bishop,

325

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and Spassky surrounded

it with his bishops.

326

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- Whoa.

- And he lost... big time.

327

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The second match came

around, and Spassky was there,

328

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and he goes, where is he?

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329

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Fischer was staying

in his room and saying,

330

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I will not go out unless

the cameras change.

331

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And he was thinking

that they would do it,

332

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but they didn't. And then

Fischer forfeits the match.

333

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Hrrump!

334

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00:17:24,290 --> 00:17:29,290

That's how they did it.

And he's down two-nothing,

335

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which is pretty [bleep] bad.

336

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Pfft-pfft-pfft.

337

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Why is all the ice gone?

338

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- Where did all the ice go?

- I just want some free flowers. What?

339

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All the ice was put into the cooler.

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340

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Let me tell you about the ice.

You just gotta mix it up!

341

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- Jeez.

- Here's the thing.

342

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- The thing is...

- Here's the thing.

343

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No, but what the thing is, is, um,

344

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I have a flaming dick disease.

[laughter]

345

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00:18:05,049 --> 00:18:09,071

No, I was trying to say

that to be behind two-nothing

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is a big deal in these matches.

347

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And then finally for the third game

348

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Fischer said,

look, let's go to a back room

349

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with no cameras, please.

And Spassky said yes.

350

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- Fischer felt comfortable and won.

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- He won!

351

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The first time he'd ever

beaten Fas... Fassko...

352

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no, Spassky.

Once he won, it just changed.

353

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It's like a turnaround.

354

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It's like a blip, blah, aghhhh.

It's like a shhh.

355

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It's like a pup.

It's like a poosh.

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356

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Like a pu-aaaa!

Like a put-chi-sha-sha-snoot!

357

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It happened.

358

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So Fischer won the third game,

359

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the fifth game, the sixth game,

360

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the eighth game, the tenth game.

361

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It was so brilliant,

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Spassky actually stood up,

362

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- he gave a standing ovation.

- Thank you, thank you.

363

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And after the 13th game,

364

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the Soviets were like, what do we do?

365

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They went to the officials and said,

366

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Bobby Fischer is using

electronic devices

367

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00:19:17,049 --> 00:19:23,102

to wane Spassky's energy

through electronic zappage.

368

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So the Reykjavik police from Iceland

369

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came in and took apart everything.

370

00:19:30,049 --> 00:19:33,048

They took apart Bobby Fischer's chair,

371

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Bobby Fischer's, uh...

peanuts.

372

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Peanuts.

And they were thinking,

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oh, this is gonna fluster Fischer,

374

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because Fischer's very,

you know, tumultuous.

375

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It didn't at all.

He loved it.

376

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And he won after that,

and won and won,

377

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and pretty much after the 21st match,

378

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00:19:58,049 --> 00:20:02,048

it became mathematically

impossible for Spassky to win.

379

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And it was like, oh, my God!

380

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Fischer wins!

Fischer wins!

381

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And it's... he... he's, like,

the World Chess Champion,

382

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and he's from the U.S.

383

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He walks out in Reykjavik,

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there's people everywhere.

384

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He's mobbed.

Fischer was huge,

385

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and he became a Cold War hero,

and he felt like...

386

00:20:25,049 --> 00:20:29,048

[making guttural noises]

387

00:20:29,049 --> 00:20:35,048

Tell me more,

you sucking pig! Suck!

388

00:20:35,049 --> 00:20:38,548

Suck!

[spits drink]

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389

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That's it.

390

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[patriotic music]

391

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<i> sync & correction by f1nc0

~ Addic7ed.com ~</i>

392

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This, I'm no expert,

is half the board.

393

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I've never played.

I'm not just saying that.

394

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00:21:05,564 --> 00:21:09,563

A queen to bishop, king-4.

395

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Checkmate.

[laughs]

396

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All right, so that's

how chess is played.