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I'm your host Eric Weinstein and this will be our second interview episode to be released.

I think we have something really remarkable for you today because we have a human being

who has led a life that, even though he makes movies that are fictional, I would say that

his actual nonfiction life is more interesting than any movie he's ever made.

This is a person who has been shot on camera, a person who has stolen, who has forged and

who's taught other filmmakers to steal and to forge.

The person I'm talking about is Werner Herzog.

Now, I first became aware of Werner Herzog when I was 16 and just entering the University

of Pennsylvania and a friend of mine said, you've got to see this movie Fitzgerald.

I said, what is Fitzgerald?

He says, if nothing else, it's a story about a man so possessed by an edy fix that

he drags a boat over a mountain in the jungle in order to somehow build an opera house.

The whole thing sounded incredibly mad and in fact, what was so interesting about this

film was that the director actually had to do in real life what the crazy fictional character

did inside of the storyline.

This led me to a fascination with today's interview subject Werner Herzog.

This is a man who has lived so richly and so profoundly that I actually started to

get a different idea about what he was doing as a filmmaker.

The idea that I could not shake was that Werner Herzog needed to live so deeply and

so profoundly that he had to make movies simply to justify what it meant to be Werner Herzog.

Now, I've often asked myself this question, what is it that great generals do between

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