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Super Pumped (with Brian Koppelman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt)

22 Feb 2022 18 published claims 3 attributable people
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Brian KoppelmanBen GilbertDavid Rosenthal

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belief 7evaluation 7preference 2uncertainty 1recommendation 1

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18 published records

03 / belief

Is the benefit of having this new utility of changing this infrastructure is the convenience worth what's on the other side of the ledger? And then, I think twinned with that, is the question of what happens sometimes when revolutionaries unseat fascists.

“Is the benefit of having this new utility of changing this infrastructure is the convenience worth what's on the other side of the ledger? And then, I think twinned with that, is the question of what happens sometimes when revolutionaries unseat fascists.”
Speaker
Brian Koppelman
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04 / uncertainty

I don't think folks realize this, but when you and I had a couple of phone calls back when you were shooting this, you were like, can I call you at, I don't know what it was, like 8:00 PM.

“I don't think folks realize this, but when you and I had a couple of phone calls back when you were shooting this, you were like, can I call you at, I don't know what it was, like 8:00 PM.”
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Ben Gilbert
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06 / belief

There's an episode called A Problem Well-Stated is Half Solved and his guest is this scholar named Daniel Schmachtenberger, I think. It's relevant to what we're talking about because when he's saying the problem well-stated is half solved, I've never really heard a conversation that, to me, so sharply and comprehensively observed what's going wrong with the world and what it might take to fix it.

“There's an episode called A Problem Well-Stated is Half Solved and his guest is this scholar named Daniel Schmachtenberger, I think. It's relevant to what we're talking about because when he's saying the problem well-stated is half solved, I've never really heard a conversation that, to me, so sharply and comprehensively observed what's going wrong with the world and what it might take to fix it.”
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08 / belief

When you're talking about large audiences, all sorts of people are going to take any given movie or show all different ways. But I think because this show is so unflinching in shining light on the protagonists’ shortcomings and dark moments, I would hope (at least) that the majority of the audience will come away understanding this as a cautionary tale as opposed to a glorification of bad behavior.

“When you're talking about large audiences, all sorts of people are going to take any given movie or show all different ways. But I think because this show is so unflinching in shining light on the protagonists’ shortcomings and dark moments, I would hope (at least) that the majority of the audience will come away understanding this as a cautionary tale as opposed to a glorification of bad behavior.”
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12 / evaluation

There were all these things that we needed Travis to be because we also needed Travis to be somebody who you believed could enlist all these people in his world-changing vision, and we needed an actor who would try to protect himself at every turn.

“There were all these things that we needed Travis to be because we also needed Travis to be somebody who you believed could enlist all these people in his world-changing vision, and we needed an actor who would try to protect himself at every turn.”
Speaker
Brian Koppelman
Publisher
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15 / evaluation

What someone like Joe could do is go deep enough to express with his face, his body, and his voice, something that's so particular, personal, and private to him, and because he does it with such openness and truth, we see it and we're moved by it because he's reflecting back to us parts of ourselves that we don't have the courage to experience or loss that we've experienced.

“What someone like Joe could do is go deep enough to express with his face, his body, and his voice, something that's so particular, personal, and private to him, and because he does it with such openness and truth, we see it and we're moved by it because he's reflecting back to us parts of ourselves that we don't have the courage to experience or loss that we've experienced.”
Speaker
Brian Koppelman
Publisher
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18 / evaluation

If you get in the back of the Uber and you're like, that guy's cool, but for one moment, you think about the person in the office who maybe wasn't treated right, or the driver who thought he was going to have a fleet of cars because there were deals that encouraged him to buy those cars, and then suddenly those cars are being towed away, which we show, it's in the book and we show it.

“If you get in the back of the Uber and you're like, that guy's cool, but for one moment, you think about the person in the office who maybe wasn't treated right, or the driver who thought he was going to have a fleet of cars because there were deals that encouraged him to buy those cars, and then suddenly those cars are being towed away, which we show, it's in the book and we show it.”
Speaker
Brian Koppelman
Publisher
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