Ben Gilbert: belief

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…It's a very good way to go about it. I do the same thing. When I'm researching something, I don't know what the story is for the longest time. I'm holding everything very loosely. Almost all the relationships I have with people I'm interviewing is, hey, this is all in background, I just want to try to understand this. Can I hop on a call with you? They're usually pretty open to it and like, I just want to be educated kind of thing. It's a great way to say, what's the stupid thing people say, because everybody has an opinion. It's not a trick. This isn't, here's one cool trick to get people to talk to you. I think you mean it earnestly and we mean it earnestly of like, I want to make something. Everybody has different beliefs about the truth, but I want to make the story that most correctly approximates the average truth that exists from all these different truthy sources. Yeah. I don't think of it quite that way, but I do think it's like, I want to give it something that's good, pure, true, and is the thing that once it's said, there's nothing else to say, it's done.…

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