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IT STARTED THE BEAT GENERATION, A COUNTER CULTURAL VIEW OF THE WORLD. WHILE IT WAS THERE, HE MET ALLEN GINSBERG WHO WROTE AN IMPORTANT BOOK CALLED "WHOL,"...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
ME -- IT WAS FUN BRINGING THEM INTO THE GEORGETOWN RADIO STATION AND HAVING GINSBERG READ "HOWL," AND DOING SOME TRANSMITTAL AND ON-AIR. >> YOU WENT OUT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY AND WENT TO A PUBLISHED READING AND HUNG OUT AFTERWARDS AND INTRODUCED MYSELF. SOMETIMES YOU
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
NEVER KNOW UNLESS YOU ASK, YOU MIGHT GET A YES. OR WILL WE STUDIED AT GEORGETOWN? >> AMERICAN STUDIES AND FOREIGN SERVICE. >> HOW DID YOU END UP THERE?...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
GOING TO APPLY TO COLLEGE AND I SAID I DID NOT REALLY KNOW. HE WAS A MENTOR TO ME TO GET
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
INTO THE UNIVERSITY. >> DID YOU EVER MET THE GOAL TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY? >> I DID NOT. I DID NOT KNOW I WAS POOR UNTIL I WENT TO GEORGETOWN. MY MOM...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BOOKS IS THAT YOU WERE WITH AMERICA
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
ONLINE AND MADE A LOT OF MONEY. >> I WAS AN ENTREPRENEUR RIGHT OUT OF COLLEGE. I STARTED MY FIRST COMPANY, A PUBLISHING COMPANY, AND I RAISE SOME VENTURE-CAPITAL...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WAS LUCKY ENOUGH TO SELL TO REUTERS FOR $65 MILLION. AT A VERY YOUNG AGE, I CAME
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
INTO A LOT OF MONEY. I WAS PROGRAMMED IF YOU WORK REALLY HARD AND YOUR SUCCESS AND MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, THEN YOU WOULD FEEL SUCCESSFUL AND YOU WOULD...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IT WAS A PRECURSOR TO THE DAY A WEBSITE LIKE
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
A GUY WHO THAT HAD A DIRECTORY OF EVERYTHING TO FIND EVERYTHING EASILY ORGANIZE. >> WHAT DID YOU SELL THAT COMPANY FOR? $60 $5 MILLION. AFTER TAXES,...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
YOU'RE NOT REALLY PREPARED FOR WHAT NOTORIETY AND WHAT A BIG PAYCHECK WILL BRING TO YOU. WHAT I FOUND IS THAT I LOST MY WAY A LITTLE BIT AND THEN I GOT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HELP WRITING IT. IT IS ALSO ENDORSED BY MARIA SHRIVER AND CHRIS WALLACE AND SOME OTHERS. I WOULD GUESS THAT YOU WERE A LIBERAL. FILL IN THE BLANKS HERE....
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
PUBLIC. I HAVE DONE WELL AND I BELIEVE THAT THE ECONOMY AND CAPITALISM IS THAT PART OF WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I REALIZE THAT...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
THE FORMULA, OBAMA'S WAS A HIGH AS. HIGH LEVELS OF SELF EXPRESSION, HE WAS A COMMUNITY ACTIVIST, HE SHOWED GREAT EMPATHY, HE WAS ALWAYS LOOKING AT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE FUTURES, EDITORS ARE GOING TO BE BARTENDERS. I KNOW THAT IS A TERRIBLE THING. ROLE OF AN EDITOR WILL BE SOCIAL. I AM BRINGING YOU INTO A PLACE, INTO...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
UP FOR YOU. THAT IS A GREAT NEW POSITION IN JOB. >> ITS ALLOWS A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE SOCIETY WILL BE. BUT THAT THE PULITZER PRIZE IN WHAT THE SEATTLE...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
INDUSTRY IN TOWN, BOWLING, SAYING THAT HE IS NOT CREDIBLE, THE PAPERS ARE RESPONSIBLE. THEY PRODUCE WONDERFUL WORK THAT WILL HAVE MAJOR IMPACT ON US....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
JUST BELIEVE AND I WAS USING TERMINOLOGY 13 YEARS AGO WHICH IS VERY RELEVANT TODAY.
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK INTO WHETHER REALLY ARE THE PLATFORMS FOR THE NEW CONSUMER. I THINK THE NEWSPAPER THAT HE WAS REFERENCING IS NO LONGER IN BUSINESS....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE WASHINGTON WIZARD. >> THE MYSTICS ARE -- YOU DON >> THE WNBA BASKETBALL TEAM. WE HAVE A GOOD TEAM.
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
AND THEY ARE NOW GOING TO THE PLAYOFFS. >> LET ME GO TO THE DISCUSSION 30 YEARS AGO AND GET YOUR REACTION. >> THERE'S THE SENSITIVE AND NEWSPAPERS...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
NOT GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. TELEVISION DID NOT GO OUT OF BUSINESS WITH CABLE. BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT 10 YEARS AGO I SAT IN
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Lamb, Brian - Host
A CONFERENCE WHERE TED TURNER WAS ON AND THERE WERE BROADCAST EXECUTIVES SAYING THIS IS NOT JOURNALISM.
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
THIS IS CHICKEN NOODLE NETWORK. YOU'RE SPENDING TOO MUCH MONEY. AND TIME OFFERED $5 MILLION FOR. AND HE DID NOT DO IT. NOW THAT WOULD PAY $7 BILLION...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
EMBRACE THAT ALL OF THEIR CONSUMERS ARE NOT READING PRINTED PAPER. PRICES HAVE GONE UP FOR GAS. HUMANS CHARGE TOO MUCH MONEY. WHAT IS IRONIC IS THAT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THAT THE FIFTH TENET FOR HAPPINESS IS FINDING A HIGHER CALLING AND TELLING THE MISSION THAT YOUR COMPANY OR YOU PERSONALLY OR ON. AOL, WHEN WE WERE A...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
WAS BRAIN DEMOCRACY AROUND THE WORLD, INTRODUCING THE MAGIC OF INTERACTIVITY TO THE LARGEST AUDIENCE POSSIBLE. WE WANTED TO GET AMERICA ONLINE. AND...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
IN VIRGINIA AND TIME WARNER WAS BASED IN NEW YORK. WHAT IS MANAGING FOR WALL STREET? >> YOU LOOK AT THE FINANCIAL RAMIFICATIONS OF EVERY DECISION THAT...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
YOU START THIS CRUMPLED LITTLE BIT ON SERVICE. YOU START TO A SCRAMBLE -- SCRIPMP ON CONTENT -- MAYBE THIS IS A NICE THAT HAVE. ONCE EVERYTHING GOES TO...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THERE ARE 2 BILLION PEOPLE ON LINE OR AROUND THE WORLD. ONLY 10% OF THE WORLD'S INTERNET POPULATION IS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES.
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
EVEN THOUGH WE PERFECTED AND HELPED INVENT THE INTERNET, WE ARE A SMALL PIECE OF THE OVERALL PIE. I LAUD WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO DO RIGHT NOW...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
KARR REALIZE THAT
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
MOVIE MAKING HELPED EXORCISE THE CREATIVE PART OF MY PERSONALITY BUT ALSO A WAY OF GIVING BACK.
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Lamb, Brian - Host
I COINED THE TERM, FILMANTHROPY. MAY THOSE THAT WILL BE
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND DO WELL ENOUGH -- AND THEATERS AND GET PICKED UP BY HBO, BUT USE THE MEDIUM TO IGNITE A CHANGE, A PERCEPTION, OR ACTIVATE VOLUNTARISM...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
HAD NEVER SEEN THOSE TWO WORDS STRUNG TOGETHER, FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST. AND HER
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
PICTURE WAS SO WARM AND INVITING, AND THIS ARTICLE ABOUT HER, WHEN I CAME HOME, I GOOGLED HER AND ENDED UP BUYING THE BOOK. IF YOU LIKE THIS BOOK, YOU'LL...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THOSE ARE CHINESE GENTLEMAN TALKING ABOUT 1937, NANKING THE CAPITAL OF CHINA, THAT JAPANESE WERE BOMBING THEM AND THEN CAME IN AND DID WHAT? >> IT IS...
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CHINESE THAT COULD GET OUT OF THE CITY FLED. THERE WERE REFUGEES LEFT THE NANKING, AND THE JAPANESE OCCUPIED AND DURING A VERY SHORT
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
PERIOD OF TIME KILLED ALL LOT OF PEOPLE. THE RATE A LOT OF WOMEN. AND IT WAS NOT ACKNOWLEDGED UNTIL THE MOVIE CAME OUT, THERE WERE NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THAT...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
JUST ECONOMICALLY. >> IN 1998, IRIS CHANG SAT THERE AND WAS INTERVIEWED FOR HER BOOK. IN 2004 SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE. IN 2007 YOU MADE THIS FILM. I WANT...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THAT IS THE PHOTO OF A WOMAN , ARE RAPE WOMEN, WHO IS BEING FORCED TO OPPOSE IN FRONT OF A JAPANESE SOLDIER NAKED. THEY FOUND THESE PHOTOS AND THE WALLS...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
DEVELOPING WOULD MAKE COPIES. >> I STILL HAVE PROBLEMS LOOKING AT THAT. THAT IS A WOMAN BEING IMPALED AFTER SHE IS BEING RAPED. >> THAT IS DOWN HERE....
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
PICTURE OF A WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN GANG RAPED AND AS YOU CAN SEE, SHE HAS BEEN TIED TO THE CHAIR SO THAT SHE CAN BE
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
RAPED WHENEVER THE SOLDIERS WERE IN THE MOOD FOR IT.
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
AGAIN, I HAVE A HARD TIME LOOKING AT THESE PICTURES EVEN NOW. >> CAN
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
YOU GIVE US ANY INSIGHT HOW A HUMAN BEING COULD DO THIS TO ONE ANOTHER? >> IT IS REALLY MOVING TO SEE IRIS. I BECAME FRIENDS WITH HER MOTHER AND FATHER....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
AND SAID THAT IRIS HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
MAKE HIGH-QUALITY FILM BECAUSE YOU CANNOT TELL THIS STORY JUST IN FRANCE AND IN THE BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. I DID NOT KNOW. I DON'T THINK THERE'S...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
ENDED UP KILLING HERSELF WITH A GUN. SHE WROTE THIS ON THE DAY -- THE DAY BEFORE SHE SHOT HERSELF. AND SHE HAD HAD A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN THE TIME BEFORE...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
SHE WAS ABLE TO SAVE 15,000 YOUNG WOMEN. THIS GROUP OF WESTERNERS COMMANDED THE DEBTOR AND CREATED A SAFE ZONE AND ARE CREDITED WITH SAVING 100,000 PEOPLE....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WE LEARNED THE EXTENT OF THE DESTRUCTION. WE CAME ACROSS DEAD PEOPLE EVERY 100 YARDS. THE BODIES OF THE CIVILIANS HAD BULLET HOLES IN THE BACK. THESE...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
WERE YOU SURPRISED THAT THE JAPANESE PARTICIPATED? >> THOSE ARE SOME SOLDIERS WHO WERE ACTUALLY THERE AND SOME OF THEM HAVE SINCE PASSED ON. I THINK...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
MAKERS. WE JUST TALK TO SURVIVORS, THE SOLDIERS WHO WERE THERE, AND
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
READ VERBATIM FROM THE DIARIES AND BROUGHT ALL THAT TOGETHER WITH PICTURES AND VIDEOS. I WILL BE HONEST -- I HAD SOME THREATS AGAINST MADE BY SOME RIGHT-WING...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
BECAUSE IT WAS A HORRIBLE PART OF LIFE. MY MOVIE TRIED TO SHOW THAT EVEN IN THE DARKEST TIMES, THERE IS
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
LIGHT. EVEN IN THE MOST GRUESOME AND THE WESTERNERS WHO STAYED BEHIND WERE GREAT HEROES AS WELL AS MANY OF THE CHINESE TO STAY BEHIND AND BANDED TOGETHER....
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SENT VOTES AND TRAINS TO GET EVERYONE OUT AND THESE 12 PEOPLE STAYED BEHIND. HE WROTE THIS BEAUTIFUL LETTER HOME TO HIS WIFE SAYING...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
NOT LOVE ME KNOW WHEN I WAS LESS OF A MAN THAN YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD MARRIED. THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF EPISODES THAT WE WANT TO DWELL ON. IF YOU DO THE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
RATHER SHOW BATMAN AND SUPERMAN AND TRANSFORMERS. SO THESE
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
COULD WORK FILMS DO NOT REACH A WIDE AUDIENCE. KNOWING A LOT ABOUT THE INTERNET, AND USING THE CONCEPT OF FILMANTHROPY, THAT PEOPLE WANTED TO COULD,...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
MINE WAS AMERICA ONLINE. MARK OPENDOC TO AND MADE A LOT OF MONEY. -- OPENS
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
YAHOO AND MADE A LOT OF MONEY. NOTHING BRINGS THE CITY CLOSER TOGETHER THAN A SPORTS TEAMS. WE'VE SEEN NOW WITH THE WASHINGTON CAPITALS 3 WE SUPPORT SO...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
NOW. IT IS GROWING PRETTY FAST. ONE
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
OF THE FOUNDERS OF A A WELL AS ONE OF THE INVESTORS IN IT. OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE THIS THE ONE STOP SHOP FOR INDEPENDENT FILM AND DOCUMENTARY FILMS, AND...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
AND BRING THESE COULD WORK FOR HOMES TO THE WIDEST AUDIENCE POSSIBLE AROUND THE WORLD, WE THINK THAT WE WILL NOT ONLY BE CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY AS...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
YOUTUBE, A DOCUMENTARY AS A WAY OF EXPRESSING, IT IS BECOMING SECOND NATURE TO YOUNG ADULTS. I THINK YOU'LL
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
SEE LOTS OF STUDENTS. MY SON IS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA RIGHT NOW AND THEY TEACH YOU TO EXPRESS USING VIDEO, BECAUSE BANDWIDTH IS SO AVAILABLE...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
WE HAD FOUND
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
ABOUT HEALTH. WE HAD A MOVING ONE ABOUT A YOUNG MAN WHO GOES AWAY TO COLLEGE AND GETS INVOLVED IN A DRINKING GAME IN A FRATERNITY AND DIES, AND THE MOTHER...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
YOUTUBE VIDEO. THIS IS REAL, HOLLY PRODUCE, WITH PRODUCERS, ONE OF THE PRODUCERS OF "NANKING" WON AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR "TWINFLOWERS TOWERS." YOU'RE GOING...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
VIRTUAL MOVIE THEATERS OPENED. GETTING THAT DONATED BY CONSUMERS WERE THEY CAN DISTRIBUTE. WE HEAR A LOT IN THIS BUSINESS ABOUT USER-GENERATED CONTENT...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
CONSUMERS -- I AM ON FACEBOOK WITH 5000 FRIENDS. I CAN TAKE A MOVIE THAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME, PUT IT INTO NINE FACEBOOK NEWS FEED, MY FRIENDS WILL GET...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
I THOUGHT, WHY AND DID YOU WANT THIS? THEY WERE NOT SAYING NICE THINGS TO YOU BECAUSE YOU LOST. >> IT SHOWS HOW IMPORTANT SPORTS TEAM IS TO YOUR COMMUNITY....
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
I WANT TO MAKE MILLIONS OF MILLIONS OF LIFELONG MEMBERS BETWEEN FATHERS AND SONS AND MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS. I WANT IMMORTALITY FOR OUR TEAM. YOU GET YOUR...
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Lamb, Brian - Host
THE FUTURE -- THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT -- THE EFFECT ON POLITICS? >> I THINK THE
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
COUNTRY RIGHT NOW IS GROWING FURTHER AND FURTHER APART FROM ITS GOVERNMENT. THE OF SEEN NOW WITH THE T BACKERS -- TEABAGGERS, AND OUR PRESIDENT COMING...
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Leonsis, Ted - Founder and Chair
ALREADY FALLEN. THE IN THE MIDDLE AREAS -- THE MEDIA -- AND WHAT C-SPAN IS SO BRILLIANT ABOUT, YOU NOT NEED AN EDITOR OR A FILTER TO FORM YOUR OWN OPINION....
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Lamb, Brian - Host
PROGRAMS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE AS C-SPAN PODCASTS. [CAPTIONING PERFORMED BY NATIONAL CAPTIONING INSTITUTE] [CAPTIONS
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Lamb, Brian - Host
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TOMORROW, JACK COLEMAN, FOUNDING PARTNER OF ENERGY NORTH AMERICA AND SOMEONE ELSE DISCUSSES OFFSHORE DRILLING AND THE ENVIRONMENT. THE HISTORY OF BANKING...
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