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- [Brad] It's lunchtime,
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and this is Brad Anderson's Lunch Break.
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(playful music)
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Two of my favorite things about Microsoft
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are the smart people that
constantly visit campus,
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and the great fleet of shuttles.
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Whenever I can, I try to
take advantage of both
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of these things, and grab lunch
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with some of the tech
industry's best and brightest.
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Today I'll drive around
with Microsoft's own
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Executive Vice President
of Business Development,
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Peggy Johnson.
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(jaunty music)
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Hello Peggy.
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- Hey Brad, how are you?
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- Really good, thank you
for making time today.
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- Sure.
- Awesome.
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- Nice wheels.
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- You know, nothin' but
the best for the SLT.
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(laughing)
- I didn't take you
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for a minivan guy.
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- Well you know, I wonder
if should actually get
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one of the security vans
to take you around in,
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you know, I mean this is
like precious cargo here.
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Three years at Microsoft now?
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- Almost three years.
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- And Sonti's first hire,
first new member of the SLT.
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- Yes, it's been fun.
- So three years,
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I mean, partnerships,
acquisitions, relationships,
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occasionally sleep, you know.
(laughing)
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You've accomplished lifetimes
worth of work in three years.
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So you and I both studied
engineering in college.
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- Yes.
- Okay.
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- Well, I lived in San
Diego, and it's a Navy town.
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So most of the dream jobs somehow were--
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- Military.
- Associated with
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the military, so I, my first
job was at General Electric,
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working on anti-submarine
warfare for surface ships.
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- Oh, so like light stuff.
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- Yeah.
(laughing)
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- So what was the most
intriguing part about that job?
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- Well it was at the time when that book,
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Hunt for Red October was out,
- Oh yeah, Clancy's first,
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second book I guess, right?
- Yes, exactly.
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And so it was very much like that.
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- Wow.
- We were building
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a system to listen in to
what they call the signatures
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of the submarines, and
you'd have to identify
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if they were a threat or friendly,
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and super exciting stuff,
because the book very much
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mimicked what we were doing at work.
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- So what was it called in
the movie, were you working on
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the Caterpillar Drive
or what was that called?
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(laughing)
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- Something along those lines, and,
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I should probably not talk any more
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since I had a Top Secret
- Oh it's classified!
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- clearance at that time.
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- I don't want you to
have to kill me, for sure.
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- But I do get right and left mixed up,
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and I get port and starboard mixed up,
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- Do you really?
- So hopefully,
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yeah all the time, and so
I'm hoping that no one ever
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has to launch those
missiles, I don't want 'em
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to go off the wrong side.
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- [Brad] Alright, so
let's play a little game
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of this or that.
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- [Peggy] Okay. (laughs)
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- So I'm gonna give you a
phrase and you're gonna tell me
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which one of the things applies.
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- Okay.
- So the two topics,
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or the two things you can select from are,
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being a new hire at Microsoft,
- Okay.
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- Or building a nuclear bomb.
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Okay, you have experience in both.
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(laughing)
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At first, everyone is way
busier than you expected.
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- Definitely a new employee at Microsoft.
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- Okay, yep.
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You don't wanna make a really
big mistake on your first day.
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- Nuclear bomb.
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- Okay.
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Everyone's using acronyms
that make no sense at all.
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- Definitely being a new
employee at Microsoft.
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I still, almost three years
in, I still don't know
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some of those acronyms.
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- The opportunity to change
the world is overwhelming.
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- Being a new employee at Microsoft.
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- The work then you do in
mergers and acquisitions,
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is that you're always looking ahead.
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What's a piece of technology right now
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that you know we're going
to be using in the future
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that maybe isn't on the
radar of people today?
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- Well certainly it is in the realm
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of artificial intelligence.
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But, specifically, I think this idea
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of machine reading comprehension,
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which is the focus of a
company that we just acquired
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called Maluuba.
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Basically, when I first met them,
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they showed us how they
can ingest a page of text,
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they happened to be a
page of Harry Potter,
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and not only read the
words and define the words,
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but comprehend what was going on.
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That is going to open up
all sorts of opportunities
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for us, when you have
tech that can comprehend
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what's going on in reams
and reams of documents.
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For instance, in the legal field,
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if you could just ask a question
about all of the contracts
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that you've ever done--
- So you said the first demo
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you saw of Maluuba was
a Harry Potter page?
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- Yes.
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- So you know what, I'm
dying to ask the question.
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Were they able to get the intent?
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Did they know Harry Potter was gonna die?
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(laughing)
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You know in book seven?
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- It wasn't that particular page,
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but it was amazing.
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- You spent a lot of
time in Silicon Valley.
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- Yes.
- And there's a lot
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of time there in, helping
Silicon Valley understand more
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about what Microsoft is doing,
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and I'm curious, what
have you seen in changes
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as you interact with Silicon Valley,
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and then how does that enable Microsoft
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to deliver better value?
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- Well, first and foremost,
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we're part of the conversation, again.
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We're at the table.
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They think of us when they have
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interesting new technologies.
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They know we might be interested.
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We're getting those calls.
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We also have our new
Microsoft Ventures arm,
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which has allowed us to
have a new fresh perspective
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of the startup community
in Silicon Valley.
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We're in there, we are keeping pace,
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we're exceeding them in many areas,
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so they're interested in us,
they're interested in our tech,
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and understanding where
they can take our tech,
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and vice versa.
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So, super exciting times just
to be back in the Valley.
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- Talking about startups here,
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we're talking about investments,
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I find that there's often some
really strange startup names.
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I wanna give you some names,
and some are real startups,
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and some are made up.
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- You tell me which is which.
- Okay.
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- Alright, the first one
is Jigglu, J-I-G-G-L-U.
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- No way, that's gotta be made up.
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- That is an accurate
name, it's an honest name
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of a startup.
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- Who would name their
startup that? (laughs)
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- I don't know, there's
gotta be a great backstory
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behind that somewhere.
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The next one is Fashism.
- Like facism?
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- Yep, exactly.
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- I would say no, that's gotta be made up.
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- That's a real one too.
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They're actually--
- How will they get funded?
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- Ashton Kutcher is one of the investors!
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(laughing)
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Alright, next one.
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PajamaZoom.
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(laughing)
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- Now it's a trick.
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I feel like I should
say that's a real one.
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- That one's a fake one.
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(laughing)
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- KoalaSafe, koala the animal, KoalaSafe.
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- That sounds real.
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- That's a real one, ding ding ding ding.
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- Yes, yes, whoo.
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One out of four.
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- And the next one is Wiggli, W-I-G-G-L-I.
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- That is a real one.
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- That's a fake.
- Oh!
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(laughing)
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- Homestar Runner
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- Homestar Runner.
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That's a real one.
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- Ding ding ding ding ding.
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Alright, last one.
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CreditDonkey.
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(laughing)
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That's fake.
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- It's a true one, who would
name their company that?
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But you know?
(laughing)
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CreditDonkey.
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Next time on Brad Anderson's Lunch Break,
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- Whenever I tried to
be something I wasn't,
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the outcome wasn't very good
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and so, I had a boss
at one point who said,
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why don't you just be yourself,
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and that was sort of like, the
turning point of my career.
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- Not just like as a skill,
but an endorsed skill.
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- Hamsters?
- How'd you know that?
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- I have, (laughing)
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- How good much you be
at paranormal romance
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for somebody else to endorse that?
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(jaunty music)
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