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cocktailstraw replied to your video: Song made entirely of Mike Tyson quotes that will…

This is so interesting to me. Oddly, I find that it is easy to not think about Mike Tyson and imagine that some band just wrote this - which is, at once, hysterical and disturbing.

If there was a Venn diagram of hysterical and disturbing, the thought of someone randomly writing this song would be dead center in the overlap. 

While we’re on the subject of Mike, though, if you’ve never seen the 2008 documentary Tyson, I’d highly recommend it. You can find it on YouTube (at the link over there) in its entirety. 

My favorite story about the movie (which can be seen in this video starting at 1:06) is the unscientific, qualitative research the director (James Toback) performs during the editing. He approaches 35 random women and asks:

1. Do you like boxing?
2. Do you like Mike Tyson?
3. Do you want to see a movie about Mike Tyson?

If a woman answered “no” to all of those, he made them an offer. He asks them to screen the film with him. If they want to leave after five minutes, he’ll give them $100 for their time. If they want to stay, he gives them nothing, and they have to tell them what it was that fascinated them enough to stick around. 

None of the 35 women took the cash. It really is that good. (Disturbing, too. Though not in the way you might expect.)