Rizwan Virk
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Podcast Appearances
So, you know, there might have been a run where, let's say, you never moved to Austin.
And maybe you remember something from it.
But it brings up the possibility.
In fact, you may have seen the movie The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
So that was also based on a Philip K. Dick novel, right?
So Philip K. Dick keeps coming up in these discussions.
Ping Pong, for some reason, always keeps coming up in these discussions.
So he wrote a story called The Adjustment Team.
And in that story, there are these guys who are kind of there adjusting things while you're not looking.
And that made it into the movie.
They kind of look like angels in the movie, but they had like these little โ
these little books that showed what was going on and things were off track and they would like try to get them back on track.
So the movie was, you know, an adaptation.
It didn't have exactly the same storyline, but so Tessa, his wife told me, you know, this came from when he went into the bathroom and he tried to like pull the light, you know, they used to have chain lights back a lot in the sixties, seventies, somewhere in near LA, I think Fullerton or somewhere around there.
And he's like, well, I've, this has been a light switch for,
Like he went and he knew it was a chain because he'd done it hundreds of times, but it was a light switch.