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'''Eric Weinstein''': Hello, you found the portal. I'm your host, Eric Weinstein. And today we're here with a fabulous author who many of you will know? Bret Easton Ellis famous from less than zero and American psycho. And now the book white. | |||
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'''Bret Easton Ellis''': Welcome. Thank you for having me, Eric. | |||
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'''Eric Weinstein''': So, I don't know exactly, uh, how to approach this, but one of the, one of the frames that I have is that we're sitting here in a very unusual city, that many people don't understand how important it is and what makes it so unusual. And one way I might frame that is that because Los Angeles is the home of the entertainment industry, there's a weird way in which this is the only city in the world in which I could make the argument that everyone's some. Somehow partially lives here, whether they know it or not, they've consumed the street scenes, which are used as backdrops for movies and TV. And they have an idea of what the ethos of the places, which sort of seeps into the screen writers, uh, mindsets, no matter who they are and in any way that LA is different, it does broadcast itself to the world. Does that resonate with you? And can you add anything? | |||
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'''Bret Easton Ellis''': Well, I think it, it maybe resonated that way for me maybe 10 or 15 years ago, a lot more. Uh, I think, uh, the entertainment industry is not centralized just to Los Angeles anymore, or at least that's the way we look at entertainment. Uh, it seems to be this kind of global thing and not wholly concentrated in Los Angeles where it used to be though. Now you, you might have to, uh, say that it is because Disney is the entertainment. Business Disney now owns everything. That's the conglomerate that is going to produce an inordinate amount of content for the rest of the world. So maybe it actually has come back here and is centered here. Um, but you know, it's strange, there are so many. The entertainment business or the notion of the entertainment business is now this global thing, whether it's China, whether it's India has a massive, it has the biggest entertainment complex in the world. The highest grossing movies. I mean the biggest. You know, | |||
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'''Eric Weinstein''': but that's a diff the consumer base for, uh, Bollywood is very different. So if you're in Indonesia, for example, or if you're in East Africa, you'd be much more likely to run into somebody. I mean, famously, uh, Raj Kapoor and, you know, some of his songs are known by all Russians. Right. But that hasn't had the same impact. I think. I mean, I think you could take the biggest films, like a show lay and people in the U S have never even heard of they | |||
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'''Bret Easton Ellis''': haven't. That's correct. Um, but. Uh, I think it's because, uh, LA has been so central in our minds to the entertainment business since its inception, I guess, in the twenties or, or, or before that, that we, uh, that's where all of our associations are. They're all. When we think about the movie industry, when we think about the entertainment industry that is just been around for so long that we always think that LA uh, we, we connect LA with that. Um, and I also think that it's, um, Um, it has | |||
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