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Josh Safdie

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529 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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And the number one player in the world goes up to him, gives him a gift.

The guy gives him a gift back.

And that made news.

And then Mao was invited the team to China.

And then that broke.

And then Nixon was like, all right.

And then it became known as ping pong diplomacy.

Nixon visited shortly after.

And I didn't know that story until I was doing research for this.

But you watch Forrest Gump and you assume all of that sequence when, you know, when he's like showing up like Zelig and all that world history.

But anyway, so how did I get on that?

Oh, Ping Pong with Diego, who did Forrest Gump.

When they met with him, Diego has this incredible- So Diego is helping to instruct Timothy.

Well, his wife is going to teach him how to play better because the mechanics had to be perfect.

And Diego is going to be the choreographer consultant.

And he has this incredible recorded like library of footage of going back to the 80s of these amazing games.

So we combed through all of those and built each point, the narratives of each point.

It's unbelievable.

And we, yeah, it was really, yeah.