Video Game Console Wars & Wrongthink at Facebook (Blake Harris Interview)

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Blake J. Harris (Writer, Filmmaker) about his first book 'Console Wars’ which covers the Nintendo vs Sega console wars of the 1980s; You’ll learn all the unbelievable behind the scenes stories during this important period in video game history, he discusses his new book ‘The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality’, his thoughts on Palmer Lucky (founder of Oculus) Mark Zuckerberg's strange request of Palmer, and the reasons behind him ultimately being fired by Facebook, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Dave Rubin and joining me on the Rubin Report today is the author of Console
0:08.4	Wars and the History of the Future.
0:11.1	Blake Harris, welcome to the Rubin Report.
0:12.9	Thank you for having me on Dave.
0:14.2	I have to say that it's nice to be here.
0:16.5	It's always nice, any place someone wants to talk about my books.
0:19.4	They both have several years of my life.
0:21.1	But I'm a big fan of your show and we'll get into it, I'm sure, but this most recent
0:26.3	book is very difficult.
0:27.3	And listening to your music was a comfort to me, seriously, like I remember taking a
0:31.1	lot of coffee walks and just having rational conversations.
0:33.3	I was like, this is what I'm missing for my life.
0:35.1	So thank you.
0:36.1	Wow, well, thank you very much.
0:37.1	I appreciate that.
0:38.1	I'm really happy that you're here.
0:39.1	Now, first off, today when we're taping this, although this will not air today, today
0:43.3	is hashtag national video game day.
0:46.3	So I feel it's a very fitting day to have a video game guy on.
0:50.3	So I'm going to be my video game best self here.
0:53.7	And I'm listening to some viewers who know that you have gamer crap.
0:57.5	In the green room, we have a Genesis emulator and you have your childhood NES.
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