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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Max More via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 11, 2021 12:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> Max More <max@maxmore.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] The Matrix: Resurrections trailer<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>One of the best versions of these "what if X battled Y?" is the series of Epic Rap Battles of History. Some are brilliant and hilarious and few are bad. Examples: <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Albert Einstein vs Stephen Hawking</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK, you’re on, Max. You and me pal, epic rap battle, we both hafta be dressed as cavemen.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fun aside: we were at Extro 4 in Berkeley in about… when? 1999? I had some fellers over at my house. The internet was new-ish then, but there was some fun stuff out there. For instance, there was a site which did text to speech of the kind Steven Hawking was using that that time. Being as he is the most famous person to use that, everyone associated that voice with Hawking. We don’t even know what the real Hawking sounded like, but rather associate him with that artificial voice. Max and Hawking are both from Great Britain, so the real Hawking probably likely sounded a lot more like More than like that artificial Hawking voice.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In any case, after E4, a bunch of guys came over, we found a site where they said Steven Hawking had taken up rap. They text-to-speeched the Hawking voice with actual rap lyrics. Use your imagination. We thought we were going to get a brain hemorrhage laughing at the silliness.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>