“And when like I read that book American Kingpin and I looked at some of the evidence and I'm like, "Yeah, there were some bad cops working on the case"”

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“you can like retell it retell the book basically as a podcast well that's what you're doing at the end of the day which is you're just reading 15 articles and you're telling the long story about it and what you could do is uh one of us is the more more researched and the other one listens and asks questions okay all right i'm down to try it if you have an idea am i wrong abrayu i mean it could work i'm just i don't know how you can make it that exciting like true crime there's suspense there's mystery you know what's gonna happen i don't i guess business maybe like big business scandals you could do that with no dude you do it exactly like you did the flesh the origin stories yeah i think origin stories are good right that's what i tried to do with the fleshlight guy was like basically you tell how this thing came to be um so i think you could do it that way it works i don't i but i agree with john i don't know how you get 60 to 90 minutes out of it i think you basically yeah forget the 69 minutes that doesn't matter it could be 20 minutes it's no issue but um it's like just a well-told story a well-researched and therefore well-told story about something that happened i honestly know like for me i started listening to this youtube channel that basically is like it's like book summaries but um actually done good i actually like it and what's it called it's a productivity game as a youtube it's a youtube channel with about half a million i think subscribers or something like that um i could be wrong on that but there's a lot of subscribers um but i've listened to probably 10 of their book summaries of just books i've had i bought i just haven't got to i'm like do i really want to go read like made to stick or can i just like watch this seven minute video and like oh those are the four principles i made to stick cool i still might read the book but now i know if it's like interesting or not and so similarly i'm reading like you know whether it's um like for example i read this book uh paypal whatever the paypal origin story or whatever if we just retold that it's like you know just take the book and then turn it into a 20-minute retelling of the story um i think that's pretty that could be pretty well i know that would work american kingpin would be great”

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