Emmett Voss
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September 11, 2001. NYPD helicopters circled the Twin Towers searching for signs of survivors:
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George W. Bush on government secrets: "I'm not telling you nothing." Jimmy Kimmel asks Bush the question every person would ask if they had the chance. Did you go through the secret files? The UFO documents? Bush's response? "Maybe." Kimmel pushes further, pointing out that as a former president, Bush can do anything he wants now. "True," Bush replies. "But I'm not telling you." When Kimmel asks if he's not even telling him whether he looked at the files, Bush doubles down: "I'm not telling you nothing." Kimmel tries another angle. Are there really great secrets he knows that he can't share? "Yeah." Does he ever write about them? "No." Will he ever reveal them, maybe at 90? "No." Kimmel makes one last attempt, suggesting Bush might get "a little loopy" someday and let something slip. Bush's comeback is instant: "Start drinking again?" Even his own daughters asked the same question and got the same wall of silence. It's a fun exchange, but there's something genuinely fascinating underneath. Bush clearly enjoys the cat-and-mouse dynamic, and his comfort with the tension tells you something about how he carries the weight of classified knowledge. He's not defensive about it. He's not apologetic. He just draws the line and holds it, with a grin.
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President Obama explains how he solves problems he's not an expert on: When asked by Destin Sandlin (creator of Smarter Every Day) how he gets up to speed on unfamiliar topics, Obama reveals an approach rooted in the scientific method. "Over the years you accumulate knowledge and you test hypothesis and propositions. So how I think about it today is different than the first day I walked into the oval office." He explains that after years in office, he built a baseline of knowledge that changed how he consumed information. Instead of going deep into every briefing book, he began scanning for what was different, looking for anomalies against patterns he'd already seen. "I've learned to be pretty good at listening carefully to people who know a lot more than I do about a topic and making sure that any dissenting voices are in the room at the same time." Obama describes a deliberate structure: After an initial presentation, he makes sure to hear from everyone present. He asks whether anyone disagrees with the baseline facts. He asks whether there's any evidence that contradicts what was just said. If there is, he wants that argument made directly in front of him. "What I'm pretty good at is then asking questions, poking, prodding, testing propositions and seeing if they hold up." He draws a direct parallel between this approach and the scientific method. Accumulate knowledge, challenge assumptions, pressure-test conclusions. A powerful reminder that the best decision-makers aren't the ones with all the answers. They're the ones who know which questions to ask and who to listen to.
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Bertrand Russell was born in 1872. He remembered his grandfather (who had met Napoleon, introduced the Reform Bill of 1832, and served as Prime Minister) "quite well." In a remarkable interview, he reflected on the world of his youth: "The world where I was young was a solid world. A world where all kinds of things that have now disappeared were thought to be going to last forever." The British took naval supremacy not as a political reality but as a fact of nature. Germany wasn't feared — Bismarck was dismissed as "a rascal" and "a sort of uneducated farmer." The assumption was that Goethe and Schiller would eventually bring Germany back to civilisation. Bismarck himself compared Germany and England to an elephant and a whale — each formidable in its own element, no danger to each other. That was exactly how they felt. There was also a shared political assumption: that the entire world was gradually, inevitably moving toward parliamentary democracy. His grandmother once said cheerfully to the Russian ambassador: "Perhaps someday you will have a parliament in Russia." He replied: "God forbid." Russell notes, dryly, that a Russian ambassador today might give the same answer — "except for the first word." At home, life was shaped by Puritanical austerity. Family prayers at 8am. Half an hour of piano practice beforehand — which Russell hated. Eight servants, yet food of "the utmost simplicity." If apple tart appeared alongside rice pudding, the adults had the apple tart. Russell had the rice pudding. What Russell describes isn't just personal memoir. It's a civilisation that had mistaken its own moment for a permanent condition — that looked at the arrangements of the late 19th century and concluded: this is how things are, and how they will remain. They were wrong about almost everything.
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Jackie Gleason, the legendary American comedian and star of "The Honeymooners", on the time he got CBS to send him a private train to Miami: In the 1960s, Gleason decided he didn't want to shoot his show in New York anymore. He wanted to do it in Miami, and he wanted to get there in style. "When we're doing the Honeymooners, I had a big contract for that for two years. And after the first year, I said I didn't want to do it. And they didn't believe me. They thought I had a job somewhere else. And finally, they realized that I just didn't want to do it." When the network came back asking him to do another show, Gleason was in California making a picture. He said yes, but with one condition: "I said, 'All right.' I said, 'But I want a train that goes to Florida.' Because I had come down here and played golf and liked it and I figured might as well go to Florida and do the show. Play golf all the time and they went for it." They went for it. What followed was a rolling party across the country. Gleason describes what was on the train: "Everything. We had two Dixieland bands come from California and they would spell each other. I'd say to them, 'Take five miles,' and the parties went on 24 hours." Asked if there were girls on the train, he laughs: "Boy, there were girls. There certainly were. And they were very, very nice girls. Nothing on it happened. I know that sounds ridiculous, but it didn't. Might have been because the berths were too small, but regardless of that, nothing happened on that trip." Asked if there was a bar on the train, his answer is perfect: "A bar. The train was a bar. I guess that's a classic example of what clout is." Then he delivers the line that sums up the whole story: "'Send a train, please.' That's right. When you've got good ratings and you're one, two, or three in the ratings, there is nothing your little heart desires that they don't provide."
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Donald Trump in 1980, age 33, on why he bet big on New York City: At a time when most investors had written off America's inner cities, Trump was pouring money into them. "I had a great faith in New York," he says. "About 5 years ago, New York was not considered very hot and cities in general weren't considered too hot." That's when he bought the old Commodore Hotel and converted it into the Grand Hyatt, a $110 million project opening the week of the interview. His contrarian thesis: "I like the inner cities. I see the inner cities as being sort of a wave of the future now. I think with the problems of fuel and the gasoline shortages and everything else and the transportation, especially in the major cities such as New York and Los Angeles and Chicago, I see the inner cities as being probably in terms of a real estate sense probably the most viable investments." When the interviewer calls $650/month for a one-bedroom tough for the working class, Trump's response reveals where he saw the market heading: "That's actually now a very low price. In fact, if you have any of them available, I'd like to..." He points to Olympic Tower on 51st and Fifth, where condo owners were renting one and two-bedrooms for "$5 and $6,000 a month." But the most revealing moment comes at the end. Asked what's left in life for a 33-year-old already worth a fortune: "I just want to keep busy and keep active and be interested in what I do and that's all there is to life as far as I'm concerned. I really am not looking to make tremendous amounts of money. I'm looking to enjoy my life. And if that happens to go with it, that's fabulous."
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Jackie Chan on learning English with zero formal training: Jackie Chan arrived in the United States barely able to string a sentence together. "First time when I come to United States… I just Hello. My name is Jackie Chan. I really, I don't even know how to order food." When his assistant left him on his own, he found himself alone and hungry, but too intimidated to walk into a restaurant. So he spent an entire night practising a single order. "Bacon, toast, milk, sandwich." The next morning, jet-lagged and up at 6am, he waited in line, delivered his rehearsed line perfectly: "Milk, toast, bacon, and egg." Then the waitress asked a question he hadn't prepared for: "How would you like your egg?" He was stumped. He'd spent all night learning the words for what he wanted, but nobody warned him there'd be follow-up questions. Beyond food, even basic social interactions were overwhelming. Americans in elevators would casually ask where he was from, make small talk, and he had no idea how to keep up. "Very, very difficult to speak. I went, I came, she, he — difficult, difficult." Jackie never studied English in a classroom. He taught himself entirely through American TV, movies, and songs, learning one lyric and one movie line at a time. "Hello. Oh, hello ladies. Ladies, you are always on my mind."
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Barack Obama on the truth behind his speaking ability: Most people assume Obama has always been a gifted speaker. He hasn't. "I have flopped so many times. I think it's like being a comic." He reveals the trap every speaker falls into when a moment isn't landing: "The main mistake everybody makes is you just keep on talking. Because you think, well, eventually I'm going to come up with something that they like. And that makes it worse. Because what happens is not only are you bad, but you're long-winded." And at home? His oratory means nothing. He describes family dinners where his wife asks everyone about their day. When it's finally his turn, his four-year-old Sasha says: "Boring." When his wife explains that people actually come to listen to daddy speak, both daughters "fall out of their chairs. The notion that somebody would be interested in what their father has to say."
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Jordan Peterson on why Hitler's most irrational decisions reveal his true motivation: "We assume that Hitler wanted to win, but that's not a very intelligent assumption. Why would you assume that he wasn't exactly a good guy? So why should we assume that he was aiming at the good that he was promoting even in his own terms." Peterson lays out the strategic reality. As Germany began losing the war, Hitler had a clear choice: redirect resources toward the war effort or continue pouring them into extermination. He chose extermination. "What happened as the Germans started to lose the war? Did Hitler lose faith in his own ability? No, he believed that the Germans had betrayed him with weakness, and so he was perfectly willing to accelerate the rate at which Germany was losing the war." This is what makes Hitler even more evil than the standard narrative suggests. He wasn't a monster who went too far in pursuit of victory. Victory was never the real goal. "When Hitler and his minions had the choice... you can suspend your unnecessary demolition of people, win the damn war, and then pick it up afterwards, or while you're losing you can just accelerate the mayhem even though it's counterproductive... well, they picked to accelerate the mayhem." Peterson draws on a principle from Carl Jung to explain this: "If you can't figure out what someone is doing or why, look at the outcome and infer the motivation. If it produces mayhem, perhaps it was aiming at mayhem." The outcome of Hitler's decisions wasn't a failed utopia. It was the death of 6 million Jews, the obliteration of 120 million people, and Europe left in ruins. Peterson argues that wasn't a byproduct — it was the point. He also challenges the common explanation that wars are simply fought over territory and resources: "That's what the wretchedly simple-minded economists presume... but the idea that there are natural resources that we fight over because there's a shortage of them is a pretty oversimplified view of human beings." Peterson's deeper argument is about the nature of evil itself. Truly destructive people don't destroy as a means to an end. Destruction is the end. Everything else is a cover story. "Whatever pathologies you were carrying around in your destructive little soul, whatever element of Cain was deeply embedded in you, had the opportunity to be manifest fully at every moment of your waking existence." The noble mission, the thousand-year Reich, the promise of civilisational glory — all of it was a front. Peterson frames this as an archetypal manifestation of Cain: "He's going to put up a front that says, 'Well, I'm your savior.' It's like, well, destructive people think that Cain is their savior."
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J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, on why he built the entire world of Middle-earth before writing a single story in it: In a rare interview, Tolkien is asked why he spent 14 years building the world of The Lord of the Rings. His answer reveals a philosophy of creation rooted in something deeper than storytelling. When pressed on whether the hobbits and their world emerged from his unconscious, Tolkien pushes back. He describes himself as a "meticulous sort of bloke" who spent those years "finding time schemes and getting everything right." The appendices, the languages, the social customs, the histories, all of it existed before the story did. In fact, the world came first. The Hobbit itself was almost an accident: "It existed in posy and in large scale plan before The Hobbit was written. The Hobbit was intact originally an attempt to write something outside it and drew into it." The interviewer, stunned, asks why. Why invent an entire world before writing a single story in it? Tolkien's response gets to the heart of his creative philosophy: "Because being made by a creator, one of our natural factors is wishing to create. But since we aren't creators, we have to subcreate. Let's say we have to rearrange the primary material in some particular form which pleases us, which may it isn't necessarily a moral pleasing. It's partly aesthetic pleasing." This idea of subcreation is the key. Humans cannot make something from nothing, but we can rearrange what exists into forms that please us aesthetically, not just morally. When the interviewer suggests that moral concerns must outweigh aesthetic ones, Tolkien disagrees. He argues that an "aesthetic facet is as strongly to be predicated as a moral one in this world." On the question of good and evil in his world, Tolkien clarifies that the Dark Lord was not always dark. He fell, "several stages down of Lucifer." The one ring, he notes, represents "a power so enormous that even if a good man were to use it against a bad it would corrupt the good man." He emphasises this insight predates the atomic bomb. He was building these stories as an undergraduate, long before modern allegories could apply. Asked finally whether he would rather be remembered as a man who said something or a man who made something, Tolkien refuses the distinction: "I don't think you can distinguish. The made things unless it says something won't be remembered."
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Richard Nixon on what makes a great president (1982 CNN Crossfire interview): Nixon offers a striking framework for evaluating political talent, starting with a comparison of the Kennedy brothers: "Edward Kennedy was the best politician of the three; he is gregarious, loves it, and is warm." John Kennedy, by contrast, was "actually quite a shy and private person, though he performed the public duties of a politician very well." And Bobby? Nixon compares him to "a 17th-century Jesuit priest: passionate, intelligent, and someone who broke no opposition." But Nixon's real insight comes when he names the three greatest political operators of the 20th century: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson. In his view, "no other presidents were in their league as political operators." Then he reveals what he actually looks for in a president: "I don't want a president who is warm on both the outside and inside; I want one who is warm on the outside but cold and tough when making difficult decisions without fear of failure." Nixon then turns to the role of those serving the president, recounting a conversation with General Beetle Smith, widely regarded as perhaps the greatest chief of staff of World War II, and later Nixon's neighbor. Smith once told him in tears that he was just "Ike's Pratt boy," and told Nixon that was what he was as well, serving under Eisenhower. Nixon's response reveals his philosophy of service: "This did not bother me because it was my job. A vice president or cabinet member should consider themselves dispensable and do what the president wants to carry out policy. Otherwise, the president would have to 'get down there in the ring' himself." His reasoning was pragmatic to the point of self-effacement: "While what happened to me personally might not matter to the country, what happened to the president could be disastrous."
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Justin Bieber on how he actually got discovered: Most people assume Justin Bieber was "found" by a record label. The real story is messier, and it almost didn't happen at all. It started with an email from Maury Povich, of all people, who wanted Justin on his show for a competition. His mom shut it down immediately. "My mom was really like, she's a single mom, so she was really skeptical of the music business. She had no clue. We didn't have a lawyer. We didn't want to sign to anything." After that, managers started coming out of the woodwork. Justin's mom kept turning them away for the same reason: no lawyer, no trust, no deal. Then Scooter Braun entered the picture, and he didn't take no for an answer. "He basically stalked us a little bit, kind of got in contact with us. And finally my mom was calling him back to say, 'Listen, stop calling me.' And he was like, 'I really see a lot in your son. I can help you guys.'" What was meant to be a brush-off turned into an hours-long phone call. Scooter connected them with lawyers. Then he flew Justin and his mom to Atlanta, free of charge, just to get to know them. That Atlanta trip is where everything changed. Justin and Scooter were heading to the studio to meet some people when Usher happened to pull up at the same time. That chance encounter turned into a bidding war. Usher wanted to sign him. So did Justin Timberlake. Scooter had worked with him back in the NSYNC days. "Both Usher and Justin wanted to sign me. So it was pretty crazy." Justin was 13 years old.
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Steve Jobs called Bill Hewlett at 12 years old and got a job at HP. Most people never make that call. Jobs wanted to build a frequency counter but lacked the parts. So he looked up Bill Hewlett's number in the Palo Alto phone book and dialed. "Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school and I want to build a frequency counter. I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have." Hewlett laughed. Then he gave Jobs the parts and offered him a summer job at HP, building the very frequency counters he had called about. "I was in heaven." Jobs spent the rest of his life thinking about why that moment was possible. "I've never found anybody that didn't want to help me if I asked them for help. I just asked." The lesson he carried was simple but rare. Throughout history, the people who shaped the world were rarely the most talented or the most connected. They were the ones willing to make the ask that everyone else had already talked themselves out of. "Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask. And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them." "If you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far." The phone book that connected a 12-year-old to a Silicon Valley legend is long gone. The principle behind that call never changed.
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Alec Guinness on how he nearly turned down Star Wars: When asked how he came to be involved in a science fiction film, Guinness revealed his first reaction was far from enthusiastic. "A script arrived on my dressing table. And I heard that it had been delivered by George Lucas and I thought, well, that's rather impressive because he's an up-and-coming and very respected young director. So, and then when I opened it and found it was science fiction, I thought, 'Oh crumbs,' you know, 'this is simply not for me.'" But something kept him reading: "I started reading. And it seemed to me the dialogue was pretty ropey. Uh, but I had to go on turning the page and I mean that's an essential in any script. You've got to know what happens next or what's going to be said next." He eventually met Lucas, they got on well, and he signed on. Then came the contract negotiation that would become legendary. Guinness had never taken a percentage on a film before because, in his words, films "lose money like mad" when he takes a percentage. His agent suggested 2%. He agreed, expecting nothing. The day before Star Wars opened in San Francisco, Lucas called him personally: "He said, 'I think the movie is kind of going to be all right.' I said, 'I'm glad, George.' He said, 'Yeah, the press quite like it.' I said, 'Good.' He said, 'We're pleased with, you know, very grateful for little alterations you suggested, and so we'd like to offer you another half percent.'" Guinness thought he had 2.5%. But when he later asked the producer to put the offer in writing, he discovered the half-percent had quietly become a quarter-percent. He ended up with 2.25%. On why he thinks the film connected so deeply with audiences, Guinness offered a simple diagnosis: "A marvelous healthy innocence. Great pace, wonderful to look at, full of guts, nothing unpleasant. I mean, people go bang bang and people fall over and are dead. But, you know, no horrors, no sleazy sex… a sort of wonderful freshness about it, a kind of like a wonderful fresh air." He added that when he walked out of the cinema onto Tottenham Court Road, the real world suddenly felt "awfully sort of gritty and dirty and full of rubbish." It was, he said, "one of the few movies I've come out of recently where I really felt happy and uplifted." His warning to anyone looking for deeper meaning in it: "People are going to read too much into it. It's a simple, simple stuff for all ages." Though the letters he was already receiving suggested the reading-too-much-into-it had begun. One couple wrote asking if he'd come live with them for a few months to help fix their marriage.
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Bestselling historian, Yuval Noah Harari, explains why we may be one of the last generations of homo sapiens. The prediction: "We are one of the last generations of homo sapiens. Within a century or two, Earth will be dominated by entities that are more different from us than we are different from chimpanzees." The technologies driving the shift: Harari explains that we as humans will soon have the power to re-engineer our bodies and brains through genetic engineering, direct brain-to-computer connections, and completely non-organic artificial intelligence. These technologies are developing at breakneck speed. The unprecedented danger: Harari warns, "One of the dangers is that we will see in the coming decades, a process of greater inequality than in any previous time in history because for the first time it will be real biological inequality." If enhancement technologies are available only to the rich or only to people from certain countries: "Homo sapiens will split into different biological castes because they really have different bodies and different abilities." Why this matters: Throughout history, inequality has been social and economic, but humans remained biologically equal. We're now approaching a threshold where the enhanced and unenhanced could be as different as humans and chimpanzees. The question is... who gets access, and what happens when biological inequality becomes real?
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Steve Jobs on why the Beatles were his business model: In a 60 Minutes interview, Steve Jobs is asked about his approach to business. His answer? The Beatles. "My model of business is the Beatles. They were four very talented guys, four guys who kept each other's negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the sum was greater. The total was greater than the sum of the parts." Steve explains that this is how he sees business: "Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people." He points to what happened when the Beatles split up as evidence: "When the Beatles were together, they did truly brilliant, innovative work. And when they split up, they did good work, but it was never the same. And I see business that way, too. It's really always a team." When asked about his biggest strength as a person, Steve's answer reinforces this team-first philosophy: "I've been very lucky in meeting incredibly talented people and hanging out with them. And so that's been my greatest strength." But Steve also warns about what can undermine great teams — arrogance: "All of us need to be on guard against arrogance which knocks at the door whenever you're successful." When asked if he'd lived through that himself, Steve acknowledges he had. The interviewer points to Apple's initial success and the sobering reality of competitors catching up. Steve goes further: "As you may know, I was basically fired from Apple when I was 30 and was invited to come back 12 years later. So that was difficult when it happened, but maybe the best thing that ever happened to me. There wouldn't be a Pixar if that hadn't happened. And so you know, you just move on. Life goes on and you learn from it." Asked if returning to Apple at 42 felt like sweet vindication, Steve's response reveals his broader outlook: "No. I thought at that moment what a circle of life. Life is just always mysterious and surprising and you never know what's around the next corner."
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Morgan Freeman on how he developed the most iconic voice in Hollywood: Morgan Freeman's voice is so distinctive that someone once did commercials impersonating him. Larry King asks if there was a lawsuit. Freeman's response is classic: "Well, no, not a lawsuit, just a request to stand down." The transformation began in college, studying under an instructor named Robert Whitten at LACC who drilled diction and breath control into his students. The first lesson was one most people need to hear: "The first thing he does is he teaches you that your voice is too high. Most people speak with a tense throat; it's too high. So he gives you techniques on how to relax that, and your voice deepens. And then you just nailed diction." Freeman also arrived with a heavy Southern accent. He recalls the moment his instructor first heard him speak: "The first time I stood up in his class and opened my mouth, he said, 'Hold it, hold it. What's your name?'" The accent had to go. The voice that narrated March of the Penguins, that played God, that became one of the most recognisable sounds in entertainment? It was crafted. Deliberate practice, the right teacher, and a willingness to strip things back to the fundamentals.
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Michael Jackson, age 21, reflects on fame and family: In a 1979 interview, a young Michael Jackson was asked about his upbringing and the pressures of stardom. On his family's financial situation growing up, Michael pushes back gently on the premise: "We weren't wealthy, but we weren't poor. My father always prepared for the family and as well as my mother. Always wonderful." He credits his parents for laying the foundation: " They make sure we got the right things for ourselves. Strong parents are, I think, are very important, especially in our situation." But the conversation takes a revealing turn when the interviewer asks about discipline in the household. Michael's answer is disarmingly candid: "If she hit me, I would hit her back. Which was terrible. And they would… I would run around the house and hide and all that stuff. But I would really get it more than anybody." When asked directly whether his father was too strict, Michael's answer arrives in stages. First a reflexive "Yes," then a quick retreat ("No. He's going to kill me."), before finally settling back into honesty: "I'm glad he said it now. I'll say it. Yes." It's a small moment, but it captures something bigger: the tension between a grown performer and a son still wary of his father's reaction. Then the interviewer shifts to the other side of his life. The crowds, the screaming, the fame. Michael's answer reveals the psychological split that would define him: "I'm two different people on and off stage, but I formed a personality that's me and I can't get away from that." And finally, the weight beneath the spectacle: "It's hard to deal with. It really is. It's a hard situation and it's something I have to put up with."
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Stan Lee explains why making superheroes flawed made them beloved: Stan Lee spent 20 years writing conventional comic book scripts before he stumbled onto something that changed everything. He started giving his characters real, embarrassing, human problems. "We tried to make our characters have feet of clay. Now, poor Spider-Man. I mean, okay, he's pretty good at catching bad guys, but he's apt to get an allergy attack while he's fighting. He worries about dandruff. He'll have an ingrown toenail. Tears his costume. His aunt May won't let him go out to save the world cuz he's not wearing his galashes and it's snowing out." He did it to entertain himself. "I started doing that as a gag and really to keep myself awake, you know, and I found that the readers are as crazy as I am. They started enjoying this sort of thing." After two decades of what he called "writing pap," Stan realised he could actually enjoy his own work. And the more honest and messy he made his characters, the more people connected with them. "The more realistic we make our characters, the more the college kids who read them think that it's satire, which has taught me a very great lesson. The world is so crazy that if you present things the way they really are, it comes across as broad satire." To illustrate the point, Stan compared Spider-Man to Woody Allen: "I always thought if Woody Allen were a superhero, he'd be Spider-Man." Then he proved it by describing his own evening. He arrived 4 hours early, got dinner served 5 minutes before he was called to appear, managed one mouthful of food, then raced to wait backstage for an hour. "This is what would happen to Spider-Man or to Woody Allen. It's real."
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