Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central.
Speaker 2: America loves guns. Hell, I love guns, but I also
Speaker 2: hate guns.
Speaker 3: Another mass shooting in America.
Speaker 4: Shooting, Yet another mass shooting.
Speaker 2: So I was wondering, what if there was a world
Speaker 2: where people could keep their guns and have no mass shootings.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Switzerland, a neutral country most known for its
Speaker 2: cobblestone streets perfect for skipping, its clocks, sophisticated pocket knives,
Speaker 2: and guns. Turns out, peaceful Switzerland is one of the
Speaker 2: most heavily armed nations in the world, and like America,
Speaker 2: they love their guns. Yet they have almost zero gun violence.
Speaker 2: How the fuck is that possible? Luckily I ran into
Speaker 2: an expert.
Speaker 3: Is that a gun in your pocket? Or are you
Speaker 3: just oh no, that's a gun?
Speaker 2: Meet Miko for plus years he's been a firearms instructor
Speaker 2: for law enforcement, personnel, military and special forces. He also
Speaker 2: happens to be one hunk of a man.
Speaker 3: So thor tell me about Swiss gun culture.
Speaker 5: We respect the guns because we have a mandatory service.
Speaker 5: Every man goes to the army. They get a training
Speaker 5: in the rifle in case of the invasion.
Speaker 2: Which, to be fair, is a real threat since the
Speaker 2: last time Switzerland was invaded, was in seventeen ninety eight,
Speaker 2: before color was invented, so of course they have a militia.
Speaker 5: The culture is a little bit different compared to some
Speaker 5: other country.
Speaker 2: You're familiar that I'm American, right, you can just say
Speaker 2: these things to my face. You don't have to say
Speaker 2: other countries.
Speaker 5: I think the gun culture in America, eyes is getting
Speaker 5: out of hands is a joke. That should be common Sen's.
Speaker 3: Gun lost common sense. That's not our strength. Yeah, NEA's that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I can say that, but I don't like
Speaker 2: it when you say that. Okay, but what we do
Speaker 2: have is that good old American gun freedom. You know
Speaker 2: how easy it is to get a gun in the US.
Speaker 2: I just go to Walmart, give him the money gun.
Speaker 2: I know my uncle Paul out of his truck. He's
Speaker 2: got a bunch of guns. My brother Todd is a gun.
Speaker 2: You want to use it, borrow for the weekend. That's nice.
Speaker 5: Not really. In Switzerland, you can get a gun from
Speaker 5: your grandparents or from your father, but you still.
Speaker 3: Have to do the paperwork.
Speaker 2: Even if I get a gun from my grandpa, I
Speaker 2: still got to tell the cops about it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: crazy because in most states in America you can buy
Speaker 2: a gun almost immediately without any background check, but not
Speaker 2: in Switzerland.
Speaker 5: You applied the permit for the police, you provide clearance
Speaker 5: of your criminal record that you don't have any convictions.
Speaker 3: Wait for two weeks.
Speaker 2: What if it's a small crime. What if you got
Speaker 2: caught urinating in public? You got caught for sleeping with
Speaker 2: your cousin because you didn't know it was a cousin
Speaker 2: because it was at your family reunion and she.
Speaker 3: Looked like she worked at catering.
Speaker 2: What if it's like assaulting a police officer, but really
Speaker 2: you were just tickling.
Speaker 5: If you can't be responsible of following some other simple
Speaker 5: rules in society to behave why should you have a gun?
Speaker 3: You need to raise your voice over this.
Speaker 2: Was there even a payoff to all these rules?
Speaker 3: How many school shootings have there been?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: What about malls? People should know? What about like major holidays?
Speaker 3: People get shot up at major holidays here?
Speaker 2: Probably nothing come on with all those guns. They had
Speaker 2: to have at least one mass shooting somewhere. After weeks
Speaker 2: of research, I discovered there was in fact one mass
Speaker 2: shooting in the Swiss parliament in two thousand and one.
Speaker 2: But they haven't had one since you say, ab you
Speaker 2: had a mass shooting seventeen years ago, we have won
Speaker 2: every seventeen minutes. Yeah, yeah, for example Le Munis.
Speaker 3: Lisarma.
Speaker 2: This is something that I'm having a hard time comprehending.
Speaker 2: You learned from a mistake and you made an improvement
Speaker 2: in the law. That's so Europe. And while Switzerland's last
Speaker 2: mass shooting was in two thousand and one, America is
Speaker 2: at no keep going nope, more more.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There you go, over nineteen hundred mass shooting since twenty twelve,
Speaker 2: averaging to about one a day, which is why Miko
Speaker 2: felt I needed to be properly trained before I headed
Speaker 2: back to the States.
Speaker 5: We have to talk about safety first, Can I like,
Speaker 5: like with this one, Yeah, just leave it alone, don't
Speaker 5: touch it.
Speaker 3: How are we gonna shoot it if I can't touch it?
Speaker 3: Let me explain you the rules first.
Speaker 5: So number one thing that you have to remember is
Speaker 5: that you always treat the guns. Ask if they're loaded,
Speaker 5: because probably most of the accidents that happens happens with
Speaker 5: empty guns.
Speaker 3: All right, so this this one here, this, don't touch it.
Speaker 3: Don't touch it.
Speaker 5: I think you don't pay enough, you know, attention to
Speaker 5: what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm listening. So you just have to.
Speaker 5: Follow four simple rules. Number One, you treat the guns.
Speaker 5: Number You got a feeling that you're not paying attention?
Speaker 3: What no, I am do it. Let's blow some shit up, Miko.
Speaker 3: When you load these things. You ever get a little
Speaker 3: bit of a direction, do you exactly what I say? Okay?
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, pay attention to attention okay, and slowly
Speaker 5: press back until the gun goes off.
Speaker 3: Jesus, this scares the shit out of me. I'm glad
Speaker 3: we had that safety instruction.
Speaker 2: This is the dream, shooting guns without the fear of
Speaker 2: getting shot. This is where America should be. All we
Speaker 2: need to do is keep AMMO separate and have universal
Speaker 2: criminal and mental background checks, have extremely strict open carry laws,
Speaker 2: justification for ownership, send written request to authorities, and basically
Speaker 2: just change our entire gun culture. We can do that, right,
Speaker 2: It's not really that fun. When you keep shitting yourself,
Speaker 2: you get used to it.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: This isn't a green screen, this is real disgusting. Switzerland
Speaker 2: a neutral country full of non combative, chocolate eating yodelers,
Speaker 2: and they're also full of guns in my previous report,
Speaker 2: I trained with firearms expert Miko Mikah. Look, I shot
Speaker 2: some holes in the Swiss cheese.
Speaker 3: I put them.
Speaker 2: I learned that when it comes to gun culture, Switzerland
Speaker 2: has a few more regulations than America. And thanks to
Speaker 2: these gun regulations and strict ammunition control, Switzerland has a
Speaker 2: murder rate of nearly zero. Sure, that's a great statistic,
Speaker 2: but how safe can it really be. To learn more
Speaker 2: about their gun culture, I attended Chiosom, the world's largest
Speaker 2: annual shooting festival right here, and holy that's a lot
Speaker 2: of guns. Even that baby has a gun. There's not
Speaker 2: enough training in the world to prepare me for this.
Speaker 2: So I brought my two secret weapons, my translator Pierre
Speaker 2: and my supermanly rock hard American vest.
Speaker 3: Why are you wearing a pussy West? What did you say?
Speaker 3: Pussy best?
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's funny, pussy best. Why aren't you wearing
Speaker 2: a pussy best? People are walking around with guns.
Speaker 3: Because it's safe.
Speaker 6: What is that?
Speaker 3: What is that? Not shooting?
Speaker 2: No worries they're shooting, Yah, shooting over there? How many
Speaker 2: accidents have happened here? Nine nine accidents accident.
Speaker 3: No zero zero zero zero. I thought, you said nine nine. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's a German language, the German language.
Speaker 6: I know in the United American this is dangerous. But
Speaker 6: in the Switzerland we have we have rules and this
Speaker 6: we haven't rules.
Speaker 2: Rules? What kind of rules? Let little kids participate in
Speaker 2: this October fest?
Speaker 3: You love shooting?
Speaker 2: Why so it's like yoga? Yes, they also throw booze
Speaker 2: into the mix, because poor Kapa.
Speaker 3: It's a it's a national party. Oh, here comes the beer, everybody.
Speaker 3: Let's let the beer walk through. We've got rifles and
Speaker 3: the beers.
Speaker 6: We come in here to peepers with the friends. And
Speaker 6: la la la la the beer, La la la la
Speaker 6: la beer.
Speaker 2: We make the Yeah, it's finished, well said guns and beers.
Speaker 2: This was an American wet dream. But something was different
Speaker 2: in this country.
Speaker 7: We respect arms, and if you respect it, it's not
Speaker 7: the problem.
Speaker 2: Why should I listen to this drunk Swiss role?
Speaker 3: I was president for five years.
Speaker 2: You're telling me I'm having beer with the former president
Speaker 2: of Switzerland.
Speaker 3: Yes, cheers.
Speaker 2: Nowhere else could a former president be surrounded by thousands
Speaker 2: of firearms with no security. How can we get America
Speaker 2: to feel this safe?
Speaker 3: That's your problem, that's my problem.
Speaker 2: Well, that's as neutral as it gets. But he's right,
Speaker 2: it is our problem. I mean, here they can shoot guns,
Speaker 2: drink beer and no one gets hurt. In America, something
Speaker 2: like this could never happen. I decided to embrace this
Speaker 2: culture and hang with the only group that would let
Speaker 2: me in.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, you guys got air fifteens here Huh.
Speaker 2: Meet the Shooting Society of Press. It was time to
Speaker 2: show these Swiss fondues how Americans shoot guns.
Speaker 3: I missed, You're missed. Oh I miss What do you know?
Speaker 3: You're ten years old.
Speaker 2: You probably never even kissed the girl.
Speaker 3: Did you ever take your gun to school?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 3: No, we don't. You're not American. No.
Speaker 2: Okay, well I can say that, but he.
Speaker 3: Can't Swiss kids.
Speaker 2: Huh, even if it is true, because the fact is,
Speaker 2: for Swiss kids, life with guns is very different.
Speaker 9: It's nothing happens.
Speaker 2: It's not like like in the US, where you have
Speaker 2: too shootings to your science.
Speaker 3: When he goes to school, he just has to worry
Speaker 3: about school.
Speaker 2: Yeah, catching the pas sometime. Unlike America, Switzerland has found
Speaker 2: a way to peacefully coexist with firearms. Shot shot, shot whoa, whoa.
Speaker 2: And one of the main reasons is that while these
Speaker 2: gun owners may be loaded, it's actually illegal for their
Speaker 2: guns to be loaded when not in use. We got beer,
Speaker 2: we got guns, we got food. I feel like I
Speaker 2: brought another testicle down here. So America, if we're going
Speaker 2: to insist on being a nation of the gun nuts,
Speaker 2: we could at least try and swiss things up. Right now,
Speaker 2: I'm standing on top of Lake Erie. Well, I'm actually
Speaker 2: on a boat that's on Let you know how that works. Recently,
Speaker 2: the residents of Toledo, Ohio, voted to make Lake Erie
Speaker 2: a person.
Speaker 3: What does that even mean?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Can we go back? I think I'm gonnap pew.
Speaker 2: Local activist Marky Miller is one of the human people
Speaker 2: responsible for getting the Lake Erie personhood initiative past.
Speaker 7: Our premise was to change the notion that nature is
Speaker 7: merely property and that if you own the permit that
Speaker 7: you get to destroy it to harm it. So by
Speaker 7: giving Lake Erie its own set of rights, we have
Speaker 7: a better way of enforcing protections.
Speaker 3: How far can this go?
Speaker 8: A lake is a person, what's next, it's a swimming pool.
Speaker 3: A person is a dog, A person is a child,
Speaker 3: a person. Do you see how slippery the slope is well.
Speaker 7: Much like you know a child, we often have someone
Speaker 7: else speak on their behalf. And I think that tends
Speaker 7: to be our relationship with Lake Erie, that we become
Speaker 7: trustees of this lake.
Speaker 3: You can be honest here. I'm from Michigan.
Speaker 2: Anyone that's been down here knows that people here they
Speaker 2: kind of march to their own drummer.
Speaker 3: Sure, is this a sex thing?
Speaker 7: Definitely not at all.
Speaker 2: So making a lake into a person is clearly a
Speaker 2: weird sex thing. But and her fellow conservationists have even
Speaker 2: more selfish motivations.
Speaker 1: The toxic water situation in Ohio that prompted the governor
Speaker 1: to declare a state of emergency.
Speaker 2: Lake Erie, a major source of drinking water, serves four
Speaker 2: hundred thousand people.
Speaker 7: We lost access to our drinking water for three days.
Speaker 7: It impacted five hundred thousand people.
Speaker 3: They couldn't bathe.
Speaker 7: They couldn't touch the water, couldn't do your laundry, wash
Speaker 7: your dishes. Water became a really scarce commodity. It wasn't available.
Speaker 3: Oh god, damn, that's good.
Speaker 7: We realized how vulnerable we were and how precious the
Speaker 7: resource was. That it could be taken away just like that.
Speaker 3: It is something that we enjoy. Isn't its humans?
Speaker 2: Monif I just but as turning your lake into a
Speaker 2: person really the best way to protect it. Apparently so
Speaker 2: according to the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has
Speaker 2: successfully turned nature into persons in places as exotic as Ecuador,
Speaker 2: New Zealand and Sylvania.
Speaker 10: Well, we describe it more as the right to live,
Speaker 10: to flourish, exist, be healthy. But yeah, in our legal
Speaker 10: world we use personhood rights.
Speaker 2: I mean, what what is a personish?
Speaker 3: Is this lake a person?
Speaker 4: It's living, it's living.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's what about what about that river?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's living and there's life all around it and
Speaker 10: in it, and it's living.
Speaker 3: Is this a person?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Jesus sorry that was Why was that there?
Speaker 3: Why was that in there?
Speaker 2: What do you say to your critics that say this
Speaker 2: is absolutely batshit crazy?
Speaker 10: I don't find this crazy at all, because corporations have
Speaker 10: had personhood rights, so they're not even a living entity.
Speaker 10: And yet nature that we depend on is not considered
Speaker 10: having the same rights that we do or the corporations do.
Speaker 2: And there's tons of opposition to giving lake ear you
Speaker 2: the rights of a person, from farms, the state government,
Speaker 2: fishermen with ibs basically anyone else trying to get rid
Speaker 2: of their toxic dumps.
Speaker 7: We found out that BP was is basically the sole
Speaker 7: funder of the campaign against the Lakery Bill of Rights.
Speaker 4: They spent mep B, p.
Speaker 3: Yeap black people. You know I always knew.
Speaker 4: Is that British Petroleum.
Speaker 3: British petroleum. Can we cut that? Can we put that
Speaker 3: part out? British Petroleum.
Speaker 7: They do have a refinery not far off from Toledo.
Speaker 7: But I think that it was more about, you know,
Speaker 7: not wanting this idea of rights of nature to take off.
Speaker 7: But you know, we do live here and we're not
Speaker 7: going to sit back and be poisoned.
Speaker 2: You know, Marquie, I have to admit, when I came here,
Speaker 2: I thought I thought it was bullshit.
Speaker 3: Marquie.
Speaker 2: I kind of thought you were this crazy woman who
Speaker 2: decided to make Laky.
Speaker 3: Or a person.
Speaker 8: But here you are on the battlegrounds every day, fighting
Speaker 8: against big agriculture, fighting against the state of Ohio, fighting
Speaker 8: for this beautiful body of what the real hero here, Yeah,
Speaker 8: you a little bit, but even more so than that,
Speaker 8: I'm the one who's showcasing you. So if anything, I'm
Speaker 8: the hero, and that's why I love this story.
Speaker 2: So maybe a person can make a difference, and maybe
Speaker 2: a lake can become a person, and maybe you can
Speaker 2: even get married to the handsome, sensitive correspondent who saved her.
Speaker 2: Because true love is pure, it is deep, it is clear,
Speaker 2: it's perfect, and it tastes sweet.
Speaker 4: Ah ah.
Speaker 1: Lah.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you tell me there's something wrong with this water?
Speaker 3: Meet the alt right?
Speaker 2: Why a loosely connected group of right wing white nationalists
Speaker 2: known for chanting confusing conspiracy theories like all wild dressed
Speaker 2: like kids whose divorced dads made their Halloween costumes in
Speaker 2: These World War two inactive in rejects have one other
Speaker 2: thing in common. They are angry.
Speaker 11: But what do they have to be so angry about.
Speaker 3: I'm a white guy.
Speaker 4: Things are great.
Speaker 3: Cops don't pull me over.
Speaker 2: I pull them over.
Speaker 3: To ask for a bottle opener. Thanks, officer, No, you
Speaker 3: have a great day.
Speaker 2: There's no logical reason why the altright should be so angry.
Speaker 2: They're kind of winning. But what if there was a
Speaker 2: deeper reason for their frustration.
Speaker 4: Across the alt right movement, leaders are telling young men
Speaker 4: not to masturbate.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: What clinical psychologist doctor David Laye has a theory about
Speaker 2: why these young men are so angry. They're not strangling.
Speaker 2: They're pepees.
Speaker 3: They know how to masturbate.
Speaker 2: They're not going side to side, right, they know it's
Speaker 2: up and down.
Speaker 4: I don't think this is a technique issue. They are
Speaker 4: actually trying not to masturbate.
Speaker 3: You should take me hours now outside. Yeah, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 4: Well, I have one hand, so you know it gets
Speaker 4: lots of practice.
Speaker 2: This guy masturbates. Doctor Lay explained that the main proponents
Speaker 2: of this no wank philosophy were the Proud Boys. Masturbation
Speaker 2: is lack of impulse control. The Proud Boys believe that
Speaker 2: not masturbating increases their testosterone and makes them more desirable
Speaker 2: to women, which brings up one question.
Speaker 3: Is it working for the proud boys?
Speaker 4: Research actually finds that less masturbation reduces testosterone.
Speaker 2: So there's evidence that masturbating makes you a more masculine man.
Speaker 4: A lot of really good things happen in your body
Speaker 4: and your brain. But also research is finding that people
Speaker 4: who watch more pornography they are more feminist, and interestingly,
Speaker 4: they've develop more egalitarian values over time.
Speaker 2: You're right, I watch a lot of gangbangs and one
Speaker 2: day I thought, oh my god, women have it so hard.
Speaker 3: This isn't fair. Ninety five guys and one girl. We
Speaker 3: need some better representation.
Speaker 2: Here, and the proud Boys are just the tip. There
Speaker 2: are stroke shamers all over the alt right.
Speaker 4: So Canadian psychologist doctor Jordan Peterson, he's leader in the
Speaker 4: alt right movement in Canada, and he tells young men
Speaker 4: there's nothing noble about masturbating to pornography.
Speaker 3: That's terrible.
Speaker 2: I mean, what else are they going to do up
Speaker 2: there in between periods of hockey?
Speaker 4: That's noble, that's healthy, that's healthy. David Duke, who's a
Speaker 4: former Grand Wizard of the KKK, he believes that pornography
Speaker 4: is a Jewish conspiracy to get young white men to
Speaker 4: masturbate instead of procreating, and so the white race dies out.
Speaker 2: What is it about the Jews with these guys? And
Speaker 2: speaking of which, this far right moratorium on salami wrestling
Speaker 2: has been going on longer than you think.
Speaker 4: The Nazis taught young men not to masturbate.
Speaker 2: Nazis.
Speaker 4: Nazis used sexual suppression as a way to increase malleability
Speaker 4: in people. If we can get people to give up master,
Speaker 4: we can get them to do anything.
Speaker 3: First, they came for our flesh lights and I said nothing.
Speaker 2: So it's not just the insidious beliefs, mob violence and haircuts.
Speaker 2: The alt right jack this off. The Nazis too.
Speaker 4: They're teaching these kids to hate themselves, to be ashamed
Speaker 4: of themselves, and then they can exploit them. Wow, they
Speaker 4: go down this rabbit hole of these extreme dangerous beliefs
Speaker 4: and become radicalized.
Speaker 2: So what you're saying is masturbation can save lives, definitely.
Speaker 3: You know what, Let's do it right now. Let's show
Speaker 3: them all. Let's go.
Speaker 2: I love talking to you, man, Come on, take out
Speaker 2: your dad. We can't show you the rest of that interview,
Speaker 2: but I will say when I think about these young
Speaker 2: people being manipulated into joining hate groups.
Speaker 11: It makes me very angry and frustrated. And excuse me
Speaker 11: for one second. M anyway, if you or.
Speaker 2: Anyone you know seems to be getting drawn into the
Speaker 2: alt Right, before buying that tiki torch, try lighting the
Speaker 2: one inside your khakis first. I'm Michael Costa telling all
Speaker 2: you young angry men to stop Hayton and start baiton.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 2: I'm Michael Costa, And before I started covering the news,
Speaker 2: on cable TV. I was a successful professional athlete.
Speaker 3: What sport tennis? Duh?
Speaker 2: I was ranked eight hundred and sixty four in the world,
Speaker 2: So I was a natural to investigate the newest sport
Speaker 2: sweeping the nation, video games. Competitive video gaming known as
Speaker 2: esports is booming. There's even a training center with five
Speaker 2: training rooms and six locker rooms. The Olympics are considering
Speaker 2: adding esports. I went to California to a so called
Speaker 2: training center in someone's garage to talk with these athletes
Speaker 2: about why video games isn't a sport.
Speaker 3: What the hell is this?
Speaker 2: This was the Alienware training facility for esports Team Liquid,
Speaker 2: complete with scrimmage stations, a war room, pr department, a
Speaker 2: team coach, and even an in house chef. The team star,
Speaker 2: whose name is Taco, was acquired from Brazil's top team.
Speaker 7: This is a real sport.
Speaker 3: You call yourself an athlete?
Speaker 7: Yes, of course, to compete, we go to tournaments, we
Speaker 7: travel a lot, we got some money.
Speaker 2: What does an eest sport athlete, mister Taco do every day?
Speaker 3: Just practice?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have.
Speaker 2: A former professional tennis player. That's what I would call
Speaker 2: a real sport. There was an opponent and you would
Speaker 2: relish the opportunity to defeat them with your racket. What
Speaker 2: do you actually have to show for what you're doing?
Speaker 5: And come on, I have a real strong finger a finger, yes,
Speaker 5: this finger. I were killed at least one million people.
Speaker 2: That fingers killed one million people at least. Taco was
Speaker 2: referring to his kills and counter strike, a game where
Speaker 2: guys shoot other guys before a bomb goes off. Apparently,
Speaker 2: how is this a sport? I won the ann Arbor
Speaker 2: Junior Open at eleven years old. How hard going to
Speaker 2: be to pound on these dorks?
Speaker 3: What are you staring at?
Speaker 8: Huh?
Speaker 3: I'm go'na whoop your ass?
Speaker 2: Next to the left, to the left, to the left,
Speaker 2: you think, Oh Jesus Christ, I shot him four times,
Speaker 2: he shoots me once and I die. These games were
Speaker 2: clearly rigged against more muscular athletes.
Speaker 11: Oh Jesus, how if I keep dying?
Speaker 3: Taco?
Speaker 2: But who's paying for these cuts to sit around all
Speaker 2: day and mash buttons? Apparently guys like three time NBA
Speaker 2: champion Rick Fox, owner of esports franchise Echo Fox.
Speaker 3: What are you doing with these nerds? Man? You're a
Speaker 3: real athlete and so are they? What the shit are
Speaker 3: you talking about me and you.
Speaker 2: We played real sports. You know, you can see our
Speaker 2: balls in our pants when we played.
Speaker 1: Were you an athlete?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I played professional tennis. I was rank eight
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty four in the world.
Speaker 1: Okay, you win, you win a couple of tournaments.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't win the tournaments.
Speaker 1: But how much money did you make in your career?
Speaker 3: You made eleven thousand dollars?
Speaker 2: About But there's a whole system, and I was right
Speaker 2: in there playing as a pro athlete.
Speaker 1: Okay, in our era, I think there was no shame
Speaker 1: around pursuing a career in professional sports because you could
Speaker 1: get a scholarship to college, which, by the way, you
Speaker 1: can get as an esport player. Now there's a number
Speaker 1: of colleges that are building esports arenas on their campuses.
Speaker 2: This is all great, but let's get down to brass
Speaker 2: tacks here.
Speaker 3: How much do these athletes make.
Speaker 1: Probably the best top layer in the world in one
Speaker 1: of our games, he makes probably eight hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: What and while players like Taco made over eight hundred
Speaker 2: k last year, other top gamers earned upwards of four
Speaker 2: million dollars, and thanks to advertising and sponsorships, revenues will
Speaker 2: top one point four billion dollars this year. One point
Speaker 2: four billion? Are you kidding me? But what really makes
Speaker 2: it legit is Vegas sports books take bets on it.
Speaker 2: So I did what anyone would do, sold my dog
Speaker 2: for three thousand bucks and put it all on Team
Speaker 2: Liquid at the Barkley Center. I'll buy them back after
Speaker 2: I win Amsterdam, London, Cologne, Montreal. I don't gave a shit.
Speaker 1: You're in Brooklyn now, baby.
Speaker 3: This is the Barclay Center.
Speaker 2: This is where champions play and the Brooklyn Nets. We're
Speaker 2: gonna heal as a team or we're gonna die as individuals.
Speaker 3: Did I make myself Claire?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Come on, all right, ignore all that and we just
Speaker 3: follow the game. Pun Let's go, guys.
Speaker 2: It was time for Team Liquid to win in the
Speaker 2: semifinals and make me some money.
Speaker 3: Liqu go, baby, Let's go.
Speaker 2: It definitely felt like a real sport. These gaming gladiators
Speaker 2: were ready for bout ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 9: The moment you've are any waiting, fourteen Liquid bucks, says combat,
Speaker 9: click your mouth.
Speaker 2: They fletched their fingers, they clicked their buttons, they adjusted
Speaker 2: their headsets.
Speaker 9: Come on, click right click, d hey, let's talk the
Speaker 9: waves starting over here?
Speaker 2: Whoa rots u? Stairs?
Speaker 3: What all?
Speaker 2: They fought to out maneuver, evade, and shoot their opponents
Speaker 2: heads off, And just when it looked like Team Liquid
Speaker 2: was on the ropes, they.
Speaker 9: Rowed their next ground final said fifteen like quicks until
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