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Dune
Frank Herbert
“i'll be an obnoxious like evangelist for dune to anyone who'll listen ... i would strongly recommend it”
“i'll recommend dune i'll be an obnoxious like evangelist for dune to anyone who'll listen okay so i yeah i would strongly recommend it”— guest
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Star Wars: The Old Republic
BioWare (inferred)
“my favorite video game i think i've ever played”
“my favorite video game i think i've ever played was uh nicely the old republic um it was a star wars game”— guest
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The Mandalorian
Disney (inferred)
“i actually like mandalorian that was actually pretty good”
“i actually like mandalorian that was that was actually pretty good yeah”— guest
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Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis (inferred)
“one of my favorite movies ever”
“one of my favorite movies ever as far as gump and it's obviously it's it's just if you can't”— guest
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The Rock
Michael Bay (inferred)
“i love all those great”
“he was in the rock those i love all those great lame nicholas cage oh yeah conairs face off greatest movie of all time”— Jen Hall
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Con Air
Simon West (inferred)
“conair was so awesome”
“his accent and conair was so awesome i don't know where it's from alabama i guess or something”— Jen Hall
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Mel Brooks (inferred)
“robin was one of my favorites as a kid”
“robin who men and sites oh robin was one of my favorites as a kid half baked but rob yeah”— Jen Hall
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The Wire
David Simon (inferred)
“if you look at the tv show the wire um which was obviously you know widely everybody loves the wire um i thought that they were everyone”— guest
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Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
“orson scott card you know who's the writer of a great book called anders game um was this was a statement that the main character”— guest
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer (inferred)
“you mentioned hitler i've been reading uh the rise and fall of the third reich i'm really thinking about the 1930s”— Lex Fridman
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Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
“hitler wrote all about it in mineconf so i don't know if the evil he committed was there all along”— Lex Fridman
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The Foundation series
Isaac Asimov
“the books on my list are the foundation series by isaac asimov dune snow crash by neil stephenson and ender's game”— Lex Fridman
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Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
“the books on my list are the foundation series by isaac asimov dune snow crash by neil stephenson and ender's game”— Lex Fridman
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The Republic
Plato (inferred)
“through surface reading of things that like a book called the republic was written once”— guest
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Bethesda (inferred)
“in skyrim you steal stuff when people aren't around but um ultimately you go well this isn't the right thing to do”— Lex Fridman
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Whiplash
Damien Chazelle (inferred)
“have you seen the movie whiplash so it's uh i would say from an outsider's perspective people should watch it's a i guess jazz band”— Lex Fridman
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The Matrix
The Wachowskis (inferred)
“use an example of sci-fi movies let's say the matrix which of course the first one was amazing and then each subsequent movie made the series worse”— guest
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300
Zack Snyder (inferred)
“look at uh look at sparta for instance or at least what i understand sparta from the reading and also watching 300”— guest
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Good Will Hunting
Gus Van Sant (inferred)
“speaking to mit and being in boston is like good will hunting you know like again that's what he really want to do”— guest
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Kevin Smith (inferred)
“come out from all from all places like calling me a fraud or anything else i'm using a jain silent bob strike back”— Lex Fridman
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House of Cards
Netflix (inferred)
“uh kevin spacey show no house cards house of cards where you just flip the table or whatever you don't have to play by the rules”— Lex Fridman
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Face/Off
John Woo (inferred)
“oh yeah conairs face off greatest movie of all time dude his accent and conair was so awesome”— Jen Hall
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Blue Streak
Les Mayfield (inferred)
“dave chappelle also in blue streak with martin lawrence and then uh what do you call it uh robin who men and sites”— Jen Hall
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Half Baked
Tamra Davis (inferred)
“robin was one of my favorites as a kid half baked but rob yeah well that that's a good uh”— Jen Hall
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Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino (inferred)
“you've seen paul fiction you know the best character in the movie and in the best scene in the movies”— guest
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Hardcore History
Dan Carlin
“somebody that uh if you listen to hardcore history oh dan carlin uh who apparently elon musk is also a big fan of is the genghis khan episode”— Lex Fridman
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