I'm a star of a YouTube video with about 9 million views, where I'm pretending to believe some outrageous things to an interviewer (who thought I was being serious) just because I thought it would be funny. Never knew it would blow up, and now there's a good portion of the population who would recognise me as 'that insane guy from the YouTube video'. Unfortunately to give more info would be to dox myself.
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Are you Richard Hammond
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You're James May then
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Purdue Pharma?
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David Cronenberg knows me by name.
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I have no idea what that means, but it looks like this is the place to say that I know a guy who threw up on Derrida
It means: "Something that actually happened to me but is so weird/unbelievable no one would believe me"
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Lmao that is crazy. My Master's thesis advisor studied under Derrida and simply won't shut up about it, so I guess we have like 2 degrees of separation.
Nice, that means you're Derrida's grandstudent? I regret to inform you that Francis Fukuyama is your estranged uncle:
He initially pursued graduate studies in comparative literature at Yale University, going to Paris for six months to study under Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida but became disillusioned and switched to political science at Harvard University.
I can only imagine how hard Barthes must've bullied Fukuyama for being such a nerd. He had zero chill for goody two shoes types.
And yeah, i guess that makes me his grandstudent! I actually used some of his work on ethics and hospitality for my master's thesis, and it really stuck with me whenever I think about people sharing food, land, and work... hosting people or being a guest somewhere.
A lot of people I know have personally met Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, but I was late both times.
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I got lost in the snow on one of the most statistically dangerous mountains in the US and fell off a cliff and got out without having to call search and rescue
I have probably sat through more in-person pledges of allegiance than anyone else
I've simultaneously met more wallstreet oligarchs, high ranking members of JSOC and the intelligence community and high ranking government officials of the PRC than any normal person should in a life completely coincidentally by being in the right place at the right time - excluding one person who I actually heard about ahead of time and actively worked to meet. Like yeah this sounds super fucking suspect but every time it happened I was literally minding my own business going about life when coincidentally people that can shake the world to its foundations just cross paths with me and I go slightly wide-eyed recognizing them and immediately say "Oh hi."
one of the wall street oligarch meetings wasn't me meeting them and more like I was minding my own business enjoying a most sumptuous breakfast and was rudely dragged into meeting that cranky old fucking boomer who was arguing with some dipshit techbro over him throwing techno-buzzwords that few over the boomer's head on why the boomer should invest into his start up venture capitalist pump-and-dump scheme which lead to a multi-hour lecture on how the boomer oligarch takes inspiration from the greatest managers of history such as napoleon, alexander the great, and sun tzu, among other absolutely inane shit that made me want to lobotomize myself with my fork because the new generation doesn't know how to manage their assets anymore. Sitting through that really made me really question whether or not the world would be better or worse off with the oligarch boomers continuing their iron-fisted rule or the techbros supplanting them as the oligarchs that rule as the high priests of capitalism.
I'm so sorry you had to meet all these people. You work in finance right? I thankfully am able to avoid these types even though I'm also very close but it seems in finance you kind of have to socialize/network as part of the job
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You gotta elaborate on this
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