:11:00
And there were a lot of downsizings
and, of course,
:11:03
the company I was with I thought
was gonna take care of me.
:11:06
And I realized
that the bottom line is the bottom line,
:11:09
and there really isn't any humanity
in corporate structures,
:11:13
so therefore I hope that maybe
being part of the Yes Men
:11:17
might, in some way, help raise issues
about global work issues
:11:22
and social issues that are being
brought about by globalization, etcetera.
:11:29
I grew up in the suburbs here,
:11:31
and then I moved to Troy six years ago
for a job at the university.
:11:37
There's a place there called Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, and I teach there.
:11:42
I was moving back home, really,
because I'd been away...
:11:44
I'd been on the West Coast
for about 12 years.
:11:47
Wait, what is this?
:11:48
This is-it's this...
:11:50
...SimCopter hack.
Here it is.
:11:54
I wanted to watch this tape
'cause this is the tape...
:11:57
I've been cleaning out the archives,
and I found this tape in there.
:12:01
I met Andy through a friend, actually.
A mutual friend.
:12:04
Actually, two people
that we both knew
:12:07
suggested that me and Andy
get in contact with one another
:12:10
because we'd both
done similar projects.
:12:12
One of the jobs that I had was
at this games company called Maxis
:12:16
that makes SimCity.
:12:18
One of the games they were making
at the time was SimCopter.
:12:22
I was in charge of the little people
that run around in the game.
:12:25
And I made them
wearing nothing but swim trunks.
:12:29
They'd all be boys, and they'd
be running around kissing each other.
:12:32
So all the people who ordered
this very popular video game
:12:35
suddenly were treated
to a completely different spectacle.
:12:39
So he got a lot
of press attention for it,
:12:42
and it was seen as a kind of-
an activist kind of statement
:12:45
about video games and the sort
of macho nature of them.
:12:48
It all involves
the unexpected appearance
:12:50
of some gay, kissing muscle men
every Friday the 13th.
:12:54
He's becoming a celebrity of sorts
in the computer world...
:12:56
especially the gay computer world.
:12:58
And then I had done a project
using Barbie dolls,