In the Field with Michael Kosta

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Speaker 2 America loves guns.

Speaker 4 Hell, I love guns, but I also hate guns.

Speaker 5 Another mass shooting in America.

Speaker 6 Another mass shooting.

Speaker 7 Yet another mass shooting.

Speaker 10 So I was wondering, what if there was a world where people could keep their guns and have no mass shootings?

Speaker 12 Welcome to Switzerland, a neutral country most known for its cobblestone streets perfect for skipping, its clocks, sophisticated pocket knives, and guns.

Speaker 14 Turns out peaceful Switzerland is one of the most heavily armed nations in the world.

Speaker 8 And like America, they love their guns.

Speaker 12 Yet they have almost zero gun violence.

Speaker 3 How the f ⁇ is that possible?

Speaker 15 Luckily, I ran into an expert.

Speaker 19 Is that a a gun in your pocket or are you just... Oh no, that's a gun.

Speaker 12 Meet Miko. For 20 plus years, he's been a firearms instructor for law enforcement personnel, military, and special forces.

Speaker 8 He also happens to be one hunk of a man.

Speaker 21 So, Thor, tell me about Swiss gun culture.

Speaker 23 We respect the guns because we have a mandatory service. Every man goes to the army, they get a training in the rifle in case of the invasion.

Speaker 7 Which, to be fair, is a real threat threat.

Speaker 24 since the last time Switzerland was invaded was in 1798 before color was invented.

Speaker 25 So, of course, they have a militia.

Speaker 23 The culture is a little bit different comparing to some other country.

Speaker 19 You're familiar that I'm American, right? Yeah. You can just say these things to my face.
You don't have to say other countries.

Speaker 23 I think the gun culture in America is getting out of hand. This is a joke.
There should be common sense, gun laws, common sense.

Speaker 17 That's not our strength.

Speaker 23 Yeah, nor is that.

Speaker 19 Yeah, well, I can say that, but I don't like it when you say that. Okay.

Speaker 12 But what we do have is that good old American gun freedom.

Speaker 19 You know how easy it is to get a gun in the U.S.

Speaker 19 I just go to Walmart, give them the money, gun.

Speaker 23 I know.

Speaker 19 My uncle Paul, out of his truck, he's got a bunch of guns. My brother Todd has a gun.
You want to use it? Boom, borrow for the weekend.

Speaker 6 That's nice.

Speaker 23 Not really. In Switzerland, you can get a gun from your grandparents or from your father, but you still have to do the paperwork.

Speaker 19 Even if I get a gun from my grandpa, I still gotta tell the cops about it.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 12 That's crazy, because in most states in America, you can buy a gun almost immediately without any background check.

Speaker 6 But not in Switzerland.

Speaker 23 You apply the permit from the police, you provide clearance of your criminal record that you don't have any convictions, wait for two weeks.

Speaker 6 What if it's a small crime?

Speaker 19 What if you got caught urinating in public?

Speaker 19 You got caught for sleeping with your cousin because you didn't know it was a cousin because it was at your family reunion and she looked like she worked at catering.

Speaker 19 What if it's like assaulting a police officer, but really you were just tickling them?

Speaker 23 If you can't be responsible of following some other simple rules in society to behave, why should you have a gun?

Speaker 5 You don't need to raise your voice over this.

Speaker 28 Was there even a payoff to all these rules?

Speaker 29 How many school shootings have there been?

Speaker 23 None.

Speaker 19 What about malls? Everybody, people shoot? None. What about like major holidays? People get shot up at major holidays here?

Speaker 23 Nothing.

Speaker 4 Come on, with all those guns, they had to have at least one mass shooting somewhere.

Speaker 10 After weeks of research I discovered there was in fact one mass shooting in the Swiss parliament in 2001 but they haven't had one since.

Speaker 5 You had a mass shooting 17 years ago. We have one every 17 minutes.

Speaker 30 Par example the munitions are

Speaker 30 important with

Speaker 30 arms.

Speaker 29 This is something that I'm having a hard time comprehending.

Speaker 19 You learned from a mistake and you made an improvement in the law. That's so Europe.

Speaker 14 And while Switzerland's last mass shooting was in 2001, America is at, nope, keep going.

Speaker 19 Nope.

Speaker 31 More.

Speaker 16 More. Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 12 Over 1,900 mass shootings since 2012, averaging to about one a day.

Speaker 7 Which is why Miko felt I needed to be properly trained before I headed back to the States.

Speaker 5 We have to talk about safety first. Can I like, like with this one? Yeah, just leave it alone.

Speaker 5 Don't touch it.

Speaker 19 How are we going to shoot it if I can't touch it?

Speaker 23 Let me explain you the rules first. So, number one thing that you have to remember is that you always treat the guns as if they're loaded.

Speaker 23 Because probably most of the accidents that happen happen with empty guns.

Speaker 5 Alright, so this one here, this...

Speaker 23 Don't touch it. Don't touch it.
I think you don't pay enough attention to what I'm saying. Okay.

Speaker 19 I'm listening.

Speaker 3 So you just have to follow four simple rules.

Speaker 24 Number one, you treat the guns always as if they're worth loading.

Speaker 32 Number two, never form anything that you're not covering.

Speaker 12 got a feeling that you're not paying attention what no I am let's do it let's blow some shit up Miko when you load these things you ever get a little bit of a erection

Speaker 5 do exactly what I say okay okay all right pay attention pay attention okay and slowly press back until the gun goes off

Speaker 21 Jesus this scares the shit out of me I'm glad we had that safety instruction.

Speaker 27 This is the dream.

Speaker 7 Shooting guns without the fear of getting shot? This is where America should be.

Speaker 15 All we need to do is keep ammo separate and have universal criminal and mental background checks.

Speaker 11 Have extremely strict open carry laws, justification for ownership, send written requests to authorities, and

Speaker 33 basically just change our entire gun culture.

Speaker 3 We can do that, right?

Speaker 34 It's not really that fun when you keep shitting yourself.

Speaker 5 You get used to it.

Speaker 34 No, this isn't a green screen.

Speaker 8 This is real, disgusting Switzerland, a neutral country full of non-combative chocolate-eating yodelers.

Speaker 3 And they're also full of guns.

Speaker 20 In my previous report, I trained with firearms expert Miko.

Speaker 35 Miko, look, I shot some holes in the Swiss cheese.

Speaker 24 You get, I put the...

Speaker 12 I learned that when it comes to gun culture, Switzerland has a few more regulations than America.

Speaker 12 And thanks to these gun regulations and strict ammunition control, Switzerland has a murder rate of nearly zero.

Speaker 18 Sure, that's a great statistic, but how safe can it really be?

Speaker 8 To learn more about their gun culture, I attended Independent,

Speaker 31 the world's largest annual shooting festival right here, and holy, that's a lot of guns.

Speaker 4 Even that baby has a gun.

Speaker 9 There's not enough training in the world to prepare me for this, so I brought my two secret weapons, my translator, Pierre, and my supermanly, rock-hard American vest.

Speaker 5 Why are you wearing a pussy vest?

Speaker 5 What did you say, Pierre?

Speaker 19 Pussy vest.

Speaker 5 Oh, that's that's funny. Pussy vest.
Why aren't you wearing a pussy vest?

Speaker 35 People are walking around with guns?

Speaker 36 Because it's safe.

Speaker 21 Oh my god, what is that?

Speaker 17 What is that? Hold. Get it.
Get it.

Speaker 37 Stop shooting.

Speaker 5 No worries. They're shooting.

Speaker 12 They are shooting over there, not there.

Speaker 5 How many accidents have happened here? Nine. Nine accidents? No.

Speaker 32 Nine accidents?

Speaker 38 No, no, no. Zero.
Accidents. Zero.
Zero. Zero.

Speaker 6 I thought you said nine.

Speaker 17 Nine. Okay.

Speaker 38 It's a German language.

Speaker 31 It's a German language. I know in the United States American, this is dangerous.

Speaker 5 But in Switzerland, we have tradition. Tradition.

Speaker 8 We have rules and this.

Speaker 40 We haven't rules.

Speaker 3 Rules? What kind of rules let little kids participate in this Glocktoberfest?

Speaker 27 You love shooting.

Speaker 16 Oh, yes. Why?

Speaker 30 Samme d'Éton en prontants recipients.

Speaker 7 So it's like yoga.

Speaker 38 Yes.

Speaker 7 They also throw booze into the mix because pour quapas!

Speaker 8 It's a national party.

Speaker 35 Oh here comes the beer everybody. Let's let the beer walk through.

Speaker 5 We've got rifles and then beers.

Speaker 19 We come in here with the peoples with the friends and la la la la. The beer.

Speaker 32 La la la la la la la beer.

Speaker 5 At the truck, we make the

Speaker 3 and it's finished. Well said.
Guns and beers.

Speaker 27 This was an American wet dream.

Speaker 8 But something was different in this country.

Speaker 42 We respect arms, and if we respect it, it's not the problem.

Speaker 3 Why should I listen to this drunk Swiss roll?

Speaker 42 I

Speaker 42 was president for five years.

Speaker 12 You're telling me I'm having beer with the former president of Switzerland.

Speaker 14 Yes.

Speaker 17 Cheers.

Speaker 7 Nowhere else could a former president be surrounded by thousands of firearms with no security.

Speaker 12 How can we get America to feel this safe?

Speaker 6 That's your problem. That's my problem.

Speaker 26 Well, that's as neutral as it gets.

Speaker 31 But he's right, it is our problem. I mean, here they can shoot guns, drink beer, and no one gets hurt.

Speaker 9 In America, something like this could never happen.

Speaker 31 I decided to embrace this culture and hang with the only group that would let me in.

Speaker 19 Wow, yeah, you guys got AR-15s here, huh?

Speaker 9 Meet the Shooting Society of Prez.

Speaker 7 It was time to show these Swiss fondus how Americans shoot guns.

Speaker 5 I missed.

Speaker 17 You missed, yes.

Speaker 17 What?

Speaker 41 What do you know?

Speaker 19 You're ten years old.

Speaker 9 You're not American.

Speaker 16 No.

Speaker 12 Okay, well, I can say that, but he can't.

Speaker 19 These fingers are Swiss kids, huh?

Speaker 3 Even if it is true.

Speaker 11 Because the fact is, for Swiss kids, life with guns is very different.

Speaker 43 Nothing happens. It's not like in the US where you have those mass shootings.

Speaker 17 So your son?

Speaker 7 When he goes to school, he just has to worry about school.

Speaker 17 Yeah, catching the bus sometime.

Speaker 10 Unlike America, Switzerland has found a way to peacefully coexist with firearms.

Speaker 22 And one of the main reasons is that while these gun owners may be loaded, it's actually illegal for their guns to be loaded when not in use.

Speaker 32 We got beer, we got guns, we got food. I feel like I'm throwing another testicle down here.

Speaker 24 So America, if we're going to insist on being a nation of gun nuts, we could at least try and swiss things up.

Speaker 35 Right now I'm standing on top of Lake Erie. Well I'm actually on a boat that's on, you know how that works.
Recently the residents of Toledo, Ohio voted to make Lake Erie a person.

Speaker 23 What does that even mean?

Speaker 40 All right, can we go back? I think I'm going to pew.

Speaker 13 Local activist Marky Miller is one of the human people responsible for getting the Lake Erie Personhood Initiative passed.

Speaker 1 Our premise was to change the notion that nature is merely property and that if you own the permit, that you get to destroy it to harm it.

Speaker 1 So by giving Lake Erie its own set of rights, we have a better way of enforcing protections.

Speaker 26 How far can this go?

Speaker 18 A lake is a person?

Speaker 26 What's What's next?

Speaker 8 It's a swimming pool a person?

Speaker 6 Is a dog a person?

Speaker 7 Is a child a person?

Speaker 6 Do you see how slippery this slope is?

Speaker 1 Well, much like, you know, a child, we often have someone else speak on their behalf. And I think that tends to be our relationship with Lake Erie, that we become trustees of this lake.

Speaker 6 You can be honest here. I'm from Michigan.
Anyone that's been down here knows that people here kind of march to their own drummer.

Speaker 16 Sure.

Speaker 6 Is this a sex thing?

Speaker 16 Definitely not at all.

Speaker 22 So making a lake into a person is clearly a weird sex thing, but Marky and her fellow conservationists have even more selfish motivations.

Speaker 44 The toxic water situation in Ohio that prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency. Lake Erie, a major source of drinking water, serves 400,000 people.

Speaker 1 We lost access to our drinking water for three days. It impacted 500,000 people.
They couldn't bathe, they couldn't touch the water, you couldn't do your laundry, wash your dishes.

Speaker 1 Water became a really scarce commodity.

Speaker 7 It wasn't available.

Speaker 17 Oh, god damn, that's good.

Speaker 1 We realized how vulnerable we were and how precious the resource was that it could be taken away just like that.

Speaker 31 It is something that we enjoy, isn't it, as humans?

Speaker 6 Mind if I just...

Speaker 27 But is turning your lake into a person really the best way to protect it?

Speaker 3 Apparently so.

Speaker 10 According to the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, which has successfully turned nature into persons in places as exotic as Ecuador, New Zealand, and Pennsylvania.

Speaker 36 Well, we describe it more as the right to live, to flourish, exist, be healthy. But yeah, in our legal world, we use personhood rights.

Speaker 34 I mean,

Speaker 5 what is a person, Tish?

Speaker 45 Is this lake a person?

Speaker 36 It's living.

Speaker 17 It's living, okay. Let's go.

Speaker 4 What about that river?

Speaker 36 Yeah, it's living, and there's life all around it and in it, and it's living.

Speaker 26 Is this a person?

Speaker 17 Oh my god, Jesus, sorry.

Speaker 26 That was...

Speaker 4 Why was that there? Why was that in there?

Speaker 22 What do you say to your critics that say, this is absolutely batshit crazy?

Speaker 36 I don't find this crazy at all because corporations have had personhood rights, so they're not even a living entity, and yet nature that we depend on is not considered having the same rights that we do or the corporations do.

Speaker 22 And there's tons of opposition to giving Lake Erie the rights of a person from farms, the state government, fishermen with IBS, basically anyone else trying to get rid of their toxic dumps.

Speaker 1 Found out that BP was basically the sole funder of the campaign against the Lake Erie Bill of Rights. They spent

Speaker 6 BP black people.

Speaker 5 You know, I always knew... Is that...

Speaker 28 British Petroleum.

Speaker 6 British Petroleum.

Speaker 5 Can we cut that? Can we cut that part out?

Speaker 6 British Petroleum.

Speaker 1 They do have a refinery not far out from Toledo, but I think that it was more about, you know, not wanting this idea of rights of nature to take off.

Speaker 6 But, you know we do live here and we're not going to sit back and be poisoned you know Marky I have to admit when I came here I thought I thought it was bullshit Marky I kind of thought you were this crazy woman who decided to make Lake Erie a person but here you are on the battlegrounds every day fighting against big agriculture fighting against the state of Ohio fighting for this beautiful body of water.

Speaker 44 The real hero here, yeah you a little bit, but even more so than that.

Speaker 6 I'm the one who's showcasing you. So, if anything, I'm the hero.
And that's why I love this story.

Speaker 27 So, maybe a person can make a difference.

Speaker 22 And maybe a lake can become a person. And maybe you can even get married to the handsome, sensitive correspondent who saved her.

Speaker 4 I do.

Speaker 18 Because true love is pure, it is deep, it is clear, it's perfect, and it tastes sweet.

Speaker 18 Ah, ach!

Speaker 18 Blach!

Speaker 5 Why didn't you tell me?

Speaker 20 There's something wrong with this water.

Speaker 3 Meet the alt-right.

Speaker 32 White lives better!

Speaker 32 White lives better!

Speaker 33 A loosely connected group of right-wing white nationalists known for chanting confusing conspiracy theories like,

Speaker 2 all while dressed like kids whose divorced dads made their Halloween costumes.

Speaker 45 And these World War II reenactment rejects have one other thing in common.

Speaker 16 They are angry.

Speaker 2 But what do they have to be so angry about?

Speaker 8 I'm a white guy.

Speaker 41 Things are great. Cops don't pull me over.

Speaker 3 I pull them over to ask for a bottle opener.

Speaker 5 Thanks, officer.

Speaker 16 No, you have a great day.

Speaker 2 There's no logical reason why the alt-right should be so angry.

Speaker 25 They're kind of winning.

Speaker 26 But what if there was a deeper reason for their frustration?

Speaker 46 Across the alt-right movement, leaders are telling young men not to masturbate.

Speaker 16 What?

Speaker 12 Clinical psychologist Dr. David Lay

Speaker 4 has a theory about why these young men are so angry.

Speaker 13 They're not strangling their pepes.

Speaker 6 They know how to masturbate.

Speaker 5 They're not going side to side, right?

Speaker 6 They know it's up and down.

Speaker 46 I don't think this is a technique issue. They are actually trying not to masturbate.

Speaker 26 Used to take me hours.

Speaker 8 Now it's like, you know what I mean?

Speaker 46 Well, I have one hand, so you know,

Speaker 12 it gets lots of practice.

Speaker 24 This guy masturbates.

Speaker 20 Dr.

Speaker 10 Lay explained that the main proponents of this no wank philosophy were the proud boys.

Speaker 26 Masturbation is lack of impulse control.

Speaker 12 The proud boys believe that not masturbating increases their testosterone and makes them more desirable to women. Which brings up one question.
Is it working for the proud boys?

Speaker 46 Research actually finds that less masturbation reduces testosterone.

Speaker 6 So there's evidence that masturbating makes you a more masculine man.

Speaker 46 A lot of really good things happen in your body and your brain, but also research is finding that people who watch more pornography are more feminist and interestingly they develop more egalitarian values over time.

Speaker 31 You're right.

Speaker 6 I watch a lot of gangbangs and one day I thought, oh my god, women have it so hard.

Speaker 28 This isn't fair.

Speaker 6 95 guys and one girl?

Speaker 5 We need some better representation here.

Speaker 25 And the Proud Boys are just the tip.

Speaker 11 There are stroke shamers all over the alt-right.

Speaker 46 So Canadian psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, he's leader in the alt-right movement in Canada.
And he tells young men there's nothing noble about masturbating to pornography.

Speaker 6 That's terrible. I mean, what else are they going to do up there? In between periods of hockey.

Speaker 5 That's noble. That's healthy.

Speaker 21 That's absolutely.

Speaker 46 David Duke, who is a former grand wizard of the KKK, he believes that pornography is a Jewish conspiracy to get young white men to masturbate instead of procreating, and so the white race dies out.

Speaker 2 What is it about the Jews with these guys?

Speaker 8 And speaking of which, this far-right moratorium on salami wrestling has been going on longer than you think.

Speaker 46 The Nazis taught young men not to masturbate. Nazis.
Nazis used sexual suppression as a way to increase malleability in people.

Speaker 46 If we can get people to give up masturbation, we can get them to do anything.

Speaker 6 First they came for our fleshlights, and I said nothing.

Speaker 8 So it's not just the insidious beliefs, mob violence, and haircuts, the alt-right jacked this off the Nazis too?

Speaker 46 They're teaching these kids to hate themselves, to be ashamed of themselves, and then they can exploit them. Wow.

Speaker 46 They go down this rabbit hole of these extreme, dangerous beliefs and become radicalized.

Speaker 22 So, what you're saying is masturbation can save lives.

Speaker 3 Definitely.

Speaker 6 You know what?

Speaker 6 Let's do it right now.

Speaker 5 Let's show them all.

Speaker 6 Let's go.

Speaker 3 I love talking to you, man.

Speaker 8 Come on.

Speaker 5 Take out your dick.

Speaker 26 We can't show you the rest of that interview, but I will say, when I think about these young people being manipulated into joining hate groups, it makes me very angry and

Speaker 17 frustrated. And

Speaker 6 excuse me for one second.

Speaker 37 Anyway,

Speaker 21 if you or anyone you know seems to be getting drawn into the alt-right, before buying that tiki torch, try lighting the one inside your khakis first.

Speaker 21 I'm Michael Costa telling all you young, angry men to stop hating

Speaker 7 and start baiting.

Speaker 16 Hi,

Speaker 31 I'm Michael Costa.

Speaker 12 And before I started covering the news on cable TV, I was a successful professional athlete.

Speaker 17 What sport?

Speaker 16 Tennis. Duh.

Speaker 31 I was ranked 864 in the world, so I was a natural to investigate the newest sport sweeping the nation.

Speaker 8 Video games.

Speaker 36 Competitive video gaming, known as esports, is booming.

Speaker 45 There's even a training center with five training rooms and six locker rooms.

Speaker 44 The Olympics are considering adding esports.

Speaker 25 I went to California to a so-called training center in someone's garage to talk with these athletes about why video games isn't a sport.

Speaker 3 What the hell is this?

Speaker 22 This was the Alienware training facility for esports Team Liquid, complete with scrimmage stations, a war room, PR department, a team coach, and even an in-house chef.

Speaker 12 The team star, whose name is Taco, was acquired from Brazil's top team.

Speaker 26 This is a real sport.

Speaker 7 You call yourself an athlete?

Speaker 47 Yes, of course. We compete, we go to tournaments, we travel a lot, we got some money.

Speaker 26 What does an esport athlete, Mr. Taco, do every day?

Speaker 47 Just practice. Yeah.

Speaker 26 I have a former professional tennis player.

Speaker 26 That's what I would call like a real sport. There is an opponent and you would relish the opportunity to defeat them with your racket.
What do you actually have to show for what you're doing?

Speaker 47 Come on, I have a really strong finger. A finger? Yes, this finger, I will kill at least one million people.

Speaker 34 That finger's killed one million people.

Speaker 47 At least.

Speaker 25 Taco is referring to his kills in Counter-Strike, a game where guys shoot other guys before a bomb goes off, apparently. How is this a sport?

Speaker 31 I won the Ann Arbor Junior Open at 11 years old. How hard could it be to pound on these dorks?

Speaker 7 What are you staring at, huh? I'm gonna whoop your ass next. To the left, to the left.
To the left?

Speaker 2 You think, oh, Jesus Christ.

Speaker 7 If I shot him four times, he shoots me once and I die.

Speaker 31 These games were clearly rigged against more muscular athletes.

Speaker 2 Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 16 How do they keep dying, Taco?

Speaker 25 But who's paying for these cucks to sit around all day and mash buttons?

Speaker 22 Apparently, guys like three-time NBA champion Rick Fox, owner of esports franchise Echo Fox.

Speaker 6 What are you doing with these nerds, man?

Speaker 3 You're a real athlete.

Speaker 16 And so are they.

Speaker 6 What the shit are you talking about?

Speaker 12 Me and you, we played real sports. You know, you can see our balls in our pants when we played.

Speaker 8 Were you an athlete?

Speaker 16 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah. I played professional tennis.
I was ranked 864 in the world. Oh, okay.

Speaker 16 You win a couple tournaments?

Speaker 6 No, I didn't win the tournaments, but

Speaker 48 how much money did you make in your career?

Speaker 6 I made $11,000 about. But there's a whole system, and I was right in there playing as a pro-athlete.

Speaker 48 In our era, I think there was no shame around pursuing a career in professional sports because you could get a scholarship to college, which by the way, you can get as an esport player now.

Speaker 48 There's a number of colleges that are building esports arenas on their campuses.

Speaker 6 This is all great, but let's get down to brass tacks here. How much do these athletes make?

Speaker 48 Probably the best top laner in the world in one of our games. He makes probably $800,000.

Speaker 17 What?

Speaker 11 And while players like Taco made over $800k last year, other top gamers earned upwards of $4 million.

Speaker 25 And thanks to advertising and sponsorships, revenues will top $1.4 billion

Speaker 45 this year.

Speaker 16 $1.4 billion?

Speaker 32 Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 But what really makes it legit is Vegas Sportsbooks take bets on it.

Speaker 24 So I did what anyone would do.

Speaker 9 Sold my dog for $3,000 and put it all on Team Liquid at the Barclays Barclays Center.

Speaker 26 I'll buy him back after I win.

Speaker 37 Amsterdam, London, Cologne, Montreal.

Speaker 14 I don't give a shit.

Speaker 32 You're in Brooklyn now, baby.

Speaker 12 This is the Barclay Center.

Speaker 37 This is where champions play and the Brooklyn Nets.

Speaker 14 We're gonna heal as a team or we're gonna die as individuals.

Speaker 7 Did I make myself clear?

Speaker 32 Yeah, I did. Come on!

Speaker 8 All right, ignore all that, and we just follow the game button. Let's go, guys.

Speaker 14 It was time for Team Liquid to win in the semifinals and make me some money.

Speaker 32 Team Liquid!

Speaker 37 Let's go, baby.

Speaker 41 Let's go.

Speaker 9 It definitely felt like a real sport.

Speaker 7 These gaming gladiators were ready for battle.

Speaker 32 Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for Team Liquid versus Gambit. Click your mouse.

Speaker 39 They flexed their fingers. They clicked their buttons.

Speaker 24 They adjusted their headsets. Come on!

Speaker 32 Liquid! According! Liquid! According! Hey, let's start the wave starting over here.

Speaker 9 They fought to outmaneuver, evade, and shoot their opponents' heads off. And just when it looked like Team Liquid was on the ropes, they rally.

Speaker 9 Yeah!

Speaker 9 Yeah!

Speaker 32 The next grand finalist is Team Liquid. That's what I'm talking about! That's what I'm talking about, baby!

Speaker 32 Woo!

Speaker 32 Team Liquid!

Speaker 9 Are video games a sport?

Speaker 25 Who cares? I'm rich.

Speaker 4 Time to try to buy my dog back.

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