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Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.00,0:00:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.00,0:00:13.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not a person that reads obituaries
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.03,0:00:16.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but sometimes I came out in the New York Times especially
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.00,0:00:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with some headlines that I found very funny like
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.03,0:00:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Master of Light Bulbs" or
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.03,0:00:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, "Once Known as a Rival to Shirley Temple"
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.04,0:00:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or "The Pioneer in Frozen Juice."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.00,0:00:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.00,0:00:37.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I start to collect and get all the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.04,0:00:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obituaries possible and then select from them the headlines that I found most
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.04,0:00:46.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,provocative or intriguing or funny or banal.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.00,0:00:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.00,0:00:51.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a little bit like a mausoleum.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.05,0:00:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Normally when you...you see something commemorating the dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.00,0:00:56.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's a listing thing, you know?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.06,0:00:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have the list of the names.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.06,0:00:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.06,0:01:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this case you don't have the list of the names.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.06,0:01:05.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have these floating sentences of the memory of somebody.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.07,0:01:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That it doesn't matter who was, but it matters what they did.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.07,0:01:11.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.01,0:01:14.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think it's a very existential piece in a way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.07,0:01:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's like we are all language, in a way
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.02,0:01:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are all not just like an organism
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.08,0:01:21.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that eats...from the very beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.08,0:01:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are communicating with people...we are
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.08,0:01:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the way we behave and how we interact, we are language.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.09,0:01:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For me what is important is not
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.04,0:01:32.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much what you see in the show
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.10,0:01:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but what you see after,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.00,0:01:39.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how your perception of reality is changed.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.00,0:01:41.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then next time they open the newspaper
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.00,0:01:43.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are going to look for the obituary
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.01,0:01:47.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see if the sentence is funny or is intriguing or is original
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.02,0:01:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then the people who is connected with this work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.02,0:01:55.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they will be collecting these obituaries in their head
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.01,0:01:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, and maybe I'll do the same
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.04,0:02:01.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then my obituary is going to be
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.01,0:02:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The Most Important Collector of Obituaries in the World"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.09,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,