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Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #323

Will Sasso: Comedy, MADtv, AI, Friendship, Madness, and Pro Wrestling | Lex Fridman Podcast #323

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A Fish Called Wanda

Charles Crichton (inferred)

“one of my favorite movies back then and now”
“seeing him get an Academy Award for A Fish Called Wanda and it blew my mind because I was like he was hilarious I mean it was one of my favorite movies back then and now”— Will Sasso
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

John Hughes

“it's my favorite movie”
“it's been a nostalgic favorite of mine like it's my favorite movie uh but it's also uh it's just legit my favorite movie”— Will Sasso
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Casino

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

“probably my favorite gambling movie”
“I wonder also the interaction I wonder what the filming of um probably my favorite gambling movie is um casino with with Joe Pesci and De Niro”— Lex Fridman
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Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

“one of my favorite writers”
“the Hermann Hesse one of my favorite writers he's a Nobel Prize winner um in a book called Steppenwolf says learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest”— Lex Fridman

The guest's own work

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The Three Stooges

The Farrelly Brothers (inferred)

“The Three Stooges was hard for me to I found that I had uh some of Curly's mannerisms just automatically I could not stop them”— Will Sasso
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The Inside Game

Randall Batinkoff (inferred)

“I did this movie like four or five years ago called the inside game about the NBA gambling scandal... that character I played uh Jimmy Batista”— Will Sasso
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American Woman

Semi Chellas (inferred)

“this other movie I just did it was a little while ago called American woman that was very heavy”— Will Sasso
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MADtv

Fax Bahr (inferred)

“I've been actually a one-way friend of yours for many many years since Mad TV oh um when did you start on mentee so that was many I mean in 90s 97”— Will Sasso

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Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and It's All Small Stuff

Richard Carlson (inferred)

“she has a book I never read but I read the title and it's good words to live by which is uh don't sweat the small stuff and it's all small stuff”— Will Sasso
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Skyrim

Bethesda Game Studios (inferred)

“there's a there's a Skyrim uh video game that's part of the Elder Scroll series and for the longest time there's a legend that there's dragons”— Lex Fridman
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Daggerfall

Bethesda Game Studios (inferred)

“there's a legend that there's dragons I think it's starting in Daggerfall and so I always I grew up playing those video games”— Lex Fridman
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BurgerTime

Data East (inferred)

“burger time was an arcade game that later showed up on the in television... I believe it was made by Texas Instruments”— Will Sasso
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Donkey Kong

Nintendo (inferred)

“I'm more of a burger a burger time uh Donkey Kong dude”— Will Sasso
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Grand Theft Auto

Rockstar Games (inferred)

“I had finished uh the the Grand Theft Auto that was out and finished the Red Dead Redemption so I was doing that thing where you just drive around”— Will Sasso
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Red Dead Redemption

Rockstar Games (inferred)

“I had finished uh the the Grand Theft Auto that was out and finished the Red Dead Redemption so I was doing that thing”— Will Sasso
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Red Dead Redemption 2

Rockstar Games (inferred)

“you're describing the same thing that happened a decade later because it's now Red Dead Redemption 2 and there's still not a new Grand Theft Auto”— Lex Fridman
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Fight Club

David Fincher (inferred)

“we are climbing the Kudzu Vines uh that spiral up the Sears Tower like they say in Fight Club”— Will Sasso
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Goodfellas

Martin Scorsese (inferred)

“I said you ever seen Good Fellas he's like I fucking love that movie... you remember the scene where the neighbor Lorraine bracco's neighbor”— Will Sasso
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Curb Your Enthusiasm

Larry David

“I did it uh just an episode of curb a small part and it's crazy what he sees”— Will Sasso
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Black Mirror

Charlie Brooker (inferred)

“It's going to be like that Black Mirror episode where the gal brings her her guy back and then after a while he gets pretty creepy”— Will Sasso
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python (inferred)

“didn't they explain it at the end of meaning of life I think it was Michael Palin that said uh try to get a walk-in uh be nice to neighbors uh eat enough fiber”— Will Sasso
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

James Cameron (inferred)

“that uh fucking scene from T2 where uh Linda Hamilton's holding on to the the fence and getting all of her flesh blown off”— Will Sasso