William Shakespeare

Marilyn Monroe, her personal library had about 400 books when she died.

She was extremely self-educated and her dreams were to play Lady Macbeth and Ophelia, which were Shakespeare plays.

And this was the woman that people called a dumb blonde.

No, no, she had beauty and brains.

Um, I'm starting to do that a tiny bit.

So this game Shakespeare, which is, I think a super fun game.

Like I really like it.

We designed it in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare library, but it's also really light and it's not making, that significant of an argument it's very educational right you learn about the time about the era you're and you know and you don't need to know anything about shakespeare going into it but you're going to pick it up but but is that like a super historical educational game no is it also going to buy me a yacht yes so i have to you know balance out

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a little bit of the you know the capitalist imperative to make sure we're selling enough games to then make peace 1905 which is a game i love that i'm gonna support as much as i can but really it's a peace treaty in 1905 Really, the only marketing hook for it is Teddy Roosevelt wins his Nobel Prize from that Peace Prize.

I'm like, so there's, you know, There's pockets of high interest in these kind of games.

So, you know, that's high hopes for Blood and Treasure and Peace 1905.

So he's got an extensive tattoo collection.

I think the, you know, the complete works of Shakespeare might be quicker to read than, uh, Some of them are simple words like he's got blessed.

He's obviously very religious.

He's got sort of picture and the date of birth of his daughter.

I just remembered things.

I'd write part of a line from Shakespeare on the wall in front of the house.

The next day, my father would sneak down and finish it.

We never told each other, but we knew.

Texas A&M.

Then there was Shakespeare.

I heard myself proclaimed by the happy hallow of a tree.

Escape the hunt.

Now, one thing that I'm struck by is the number of people who are in relationships with narcissists, with a narcissistic partner or family member or other family members calling the non-narcissistic people out.

as being the narcissist, right? As Shakespeare once wrote, even the devil can cite scripture for his purpose.

Well, so too can people, anyone take the lexicon of narcissism and apply it as a weapon to somebody else.

And that happens quite often.

Zoe Wanamaker travelled from the US with her parents to avoid prosecution from McCarthyism.

Her father built the Globe Theatre, a replica of Shakespeare's Playhouse in London.

Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein fled the Nazis to live in London.

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But it's not to say that there is no value in it.

I think humans for generations have been telling stories by campfire as cavemen in plays during William Shakespeare's time.

in movies and shows and books and writing, right? All we consume is stories.

Marketing as a whole and what makes you want to buy something and what the most powerful marketing is as a whole is a story.

Um, I, before Tuna Bomber directed a whole bunch of things, uh, Some musicals, some new works.

I acted in similar things, new works, Shakespeare.

If you could get nobody to come and see it, I did it.

And Tuna Bomber is the first thing that I've written with Michael.