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Ben Erwin

Ben Erwin

CEO of PSAV Presentation Services

Jul 21, 2026

6:35
How you feeling about it?
6:36
It's been an amazing opening weekend.
6:38
Over 900 showed up.
6:39
You know, the World Series just got over, and people around here were ready to play.
6:43
So it was great to see an amazing turnout.
6:44
They're playing for over $300,000.
6:47
Uh, but it's been a great start, and it's also just a great relationship.
8:18
I don't know, make it more fun even off the felt.
10:49
And so just curious to hear how you start to think about this and what is a potential future path that would be trying to achieve the same type of impulse of trying to make more accessible these technologies to the general public.
11:04
Well, I've looked into this a lot, and the public access story is very important, and that was done by Congress, as was C-SPAN.
11:13
And C-SPAN is still going and still delivering live congressional hearings and public interest content because it was baked into the rules when cable and satellite was originally regulated.
11:27
C-SPAN stands for Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, and it's still going.
11:32
Now, when we moved into the internet era, what made it different was that we have permissionless publishing at the protocol level.
11:40
And so that was an advent of freedom that we didn't have before.
11:43
And then Jimmy Wales came along and he created Wikipedia.

8 MINS LATER

19:59
So just curious to hear a little bit more reflection on this moment and this choice point that we have.

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