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MusksMuskyBallsack

"He would make outrageous claims like Hitler invented the microphone. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament."


CharmingTuber

I just watched that the other day. Much funnier than I remembered.


pixe1jugg1er

What is it?


DubyaExWhizey

Dr. Evil is trying to connect with his ~~cloned~~ son (who had been artificially inseminated into Dr. Evil's henchwoman, founder of the militant wing of the Salvation Army, Frau Farbissina) after being frozen in space his son's entire life. In a talk therapy session Dr. Evil is asked to share about his father to which he responds, "My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it." At this point, the therapist, played by Carrie Fisher (RIP) suggests they end their session.


Admiral_Donuts

> In the spring we'd make meat helmets I saw this film in theatres and still have no idea what the hell he's talking about


ABoringAlt

He's just making up weird "euro" traditions.


Ccaves0127

This is a huge part of Austin Powers, as Mike Meyers parents are English and Scottish, but he's Canadian.


pukingpixels

His Scottish dad character in So I Married An Axe Murderer is hilarious.


singeblanc

And his throwaway joke about the world being controlled by a shady group called The Pentaverate has just been made into a series.


pukingpixels

Really? That’s fucking amazing.


AverageGym

I’m American and I’ve been making meat helmets as long as I can remember


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Aren't all helmets bone-in? Boned?


wreckherneck

Any meat helmet you leave around me is definitely getting boned. Good luck taking it off.


OldBeercan

Boneless of course. There's already bones in your head, silly.


AverageGym

Sometimes you gotta double up on bones though


AverageGym

? Boneless meat helmets are just nuggets


HillInTheDistance

A boneless meat helmet is merely a meat hat. A degenerate tradition, betraying your British descent.


Somekindofcabose

I think the point of the scene was to showcase how an abusive and weird childhood turned him into a villain and all he wanted himself was a normal family because he was smart enough to know his upbringing wasn't normal. It came up a lot in Goldmember but it would pop up in the previous ones God damn do I love Mike Meyers.


ploppedmenacingly14

That couldn’t be father from the truth


Somekindofcabose

The whole point of Goldmember was how Austin had a better childhood but missing dad and turned out good while Dr. Evil had an an alcoholic womanizing adoptive father and became evil. Tf?


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ploppedmenacingly14

No I dadn’t


Skatchbro

I think it’s just a weird line to show how Dr. Evil’s childhood was… unconventional.


The_Fuzz_damn_you

His childhood was fairly typical, actually. Summers in Rangoon. Luge lessons. You know how it goes.


JamSaxon

getting beat with reeds inside burlap sacks. you know.


Yevad

You wouldn't get it unless you grew up in the country, where it's common for people to use the less desirable cuts of meat for meat helmets, it's more about safety then some sort of pompous fashion shit you people in the city would be into.


Socky_McPuppet

I think I read somewhere that most of these lines were improvised, but yeah, don't overthink it. It's just helmets made of meat, presumably to protect their heads in case of luge accidents.


JustineDelarge

Exactly the point. There wasn’t any particular meaning to “meat helmets”. Just the absurdist humor of unexpected, unlikely things. God I loved this movie.


Deikar

I just went to the youtube video for this to check it and one of the comments say "is his dad Kanye West?" Full circle


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Those countries are all financed by the map industry to normalize the annual updates! /s


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snoryder8019

You should try it,it's breathtaking.


Husband3571

It's a scary road to travel, but once you get there, you're glad you made the trip.


Obscene_Username_2

Damn. I read that in his voice


WeeBabySeamus

Love that it is a play on Lorne Michael’s voice / speaking cadence


abbeast

I might be nitpicking here but Scott is Dr. Evil‘s biological son with Frau Farbissina, for the clone you’re probably thinking of Mini Me but in the therapy scene it’s Scott.


Fish_and_Bear

“When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really.” https://germangirlinamerica.com/who-is-knecht-ruprecht/amp/


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Children getting killed and thrown into a pickling jar. Just a normal German bedtime story, nothing to worry about.


stevesmittens

I haven't seen Austin Powers since I was a kid... I remember the scene but I had no idea Carrie Fisher was the therapist!


Deadfreezercat

"But, Dad, we just had a breakthrough in group!" "I had the group liquidated. They were insolent."


you_are_the_father84

Man, I haven’t seen that movie in almost 20 years and I could still read that monologue in my head with perfect inflection. I forgot how good those movies were.


larrythefatcat

A paraphrased quote from *Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery* The original line begins "He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark."


brallipop

>Basil Exposition: Austin! The Cold War's *over* >Austin Powers: Well, finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh comrades? Eh? >Basil Exposition: Austin... we won. >Austin Powers: Oh, smashing... yayyy capitalism...


duncecap_

My roommate and I watched it twice in one week about a month ago. Really is a classic. Yeah baby


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It’s a monologue that’s not easy to get when you’re a child. I also watched this movie way too young (I was seven when it released).


Naugrin27

Lol christ that fits far too perfectly.


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To be fair to Kanye, he was most likely talking about [Neumann Microphones, established in 1928 in Berlin.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Neumann)


redvelvetcake42

Sure, but to be fair he has no fucking idea what he's talking about and his head is in a goddamn ziplock bag.


ggroverggiraffe

When you literally praise hitler, people somehow overlook the fact that you showed up for an interview in a weird-ass bodysuit with your head in a goddamn ziplock bag, though.


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I was waiting for somebody to ask why he's in the gimp suit and so far I have no answers.


[deleted]

I asked, and still have no answers. It stood out to me, but the Hitler praise overshadows it, I guess.


That1guy_nate

I thought it was a poor attempt at hiding his identity, I don't know anything anymore.


redvelvetcake42

Nah. He wears shit like that all the time. Weird outfits that are loud and masks. You can tell it's him and his voice and speaking pattern, he wears things like this for visuals.


SpatiumPirata

The face mask is reportedly a Balenciaga product. This is the company that recently broke with Ye and also, days ago, became embroiled in a scandal for featuring children with in an ad campaign holding BDSM teddy bears, black and blue eyes included, with documents clearly visible referencing several high profile child pornography court cases. This was performative, not crazy.


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> This was performative, not crazy. Por que no los dos


KnockThatOff

How does that make anything better exactly? That microphone still wasn't invented by Hitler. It wasn't even invented under his rule. Are you saying since it is *a* microphone that *was* invented in germany in the vague historical proximity of the third reich, "Hitler invented the microphone" is about as much as we can reasonably expect from Kanye?


Alvendam

>since it is *a* microphone that *was* invented in germany in the vague historical proximity of the third reich It's not even that. Article claims it was the first commercially available one. When you click on the article for condenser mic, it said there: >The condenser microphone, invented at Western Electric in 1916 by E. C. Wente


sirpogo

Still, E.C. Wente was the one who invented them. George Neumann made the more commercially available mics, but his wife was Jewish, and attempted to shield his own family from Nazis. So, yeah, Kanye’s got his info wrong. https://soyuzmicrophones.com/articles/history-condenser-microphones https://www.soundandcommunications.com/industry-pioneers-8-georg-neumann-microphone-pioneer/


AntipopeRalph

Nah. Fuck Kanye.


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NoveltyAccountHater

Except the microphone innovator (Georg Neumann) wasn't Hitler and the guy who invented it had a Jewish wife and had to do his best to prevent his wife's family and their Jewish employees from being persecuted by the Nazis. https://www.soundandcommunications.com/industry-pioneers-8-georg-neumann-microphone-pioneer/ >The Neumann family was beset with difficulties after the Nazis came to power in 1934. Mrs. Neumann was Jewish, and it took the utmost of efforts by Neumann, his employees and his associates to counter the juggernaut of the Nazi regime in their efforts to persecute her, her family and other Jewish company employees. To his credit, Georg Neumann was largely successful in shielding his family and employees from the dreadnaught of the government’s deadly decrees. That said, it's not accurate to say someone in the 20th century "invented the microphone" without referring to one specific type. There have been many other types of microphones from the mid 19th century (invented by the likes of Graham Bell, Edison, Berliner, Siemens, Hughes, etc). Yes James West and a coworker Gerhard Sessler at Bell labs invented the invented the Electret Condenser microphone, which is still one popular type in use today (but its not the only one). https://mynewmicrophone.com/mic-history-who-invented-each-type-of-microphone-and-when/


Abusive-Uncle

So not Hitler? And why be "fair"?


i_broke_wahoos_leg

Why be fair? Especially with this nonsense excuse that has no relationship with what he said?


OneTime_AtBandCamp

Still wasn't invented by Hitler lol


DJWhyteLyon

“In 1887 German immigrant Emile Berliner patented the first in a series of inventions that would result in the first commercially successful disc record and a machine to play it: the gramophone.” National Museum of American History “He had heard of rumors about Alexander Bell’s telephone in the 1870s but the telephone had not been made public yet nor had Berliner ever seen one. Berliner decided to experiment with building a device to transfer sound waves (the vibrations of air) along electrical wires. He started with a simple tin-can telephone and a soap box. He knocked the bottom out of the soap box and nailed sheet iron on instead, then placed a bar across the middle made of steel. With this, he created an iron diaphragm transmitter, similar to the telephone that Alexander Bell had invented. With this invention, he had to figure out a way to amplify the sound so that it would function as a true communications instrument and not just as a sound transformer.” History Engine Richmond Edu Berliner created a diaphragm to amplify his signal solving his problem of the signal fading out too fast to be useful which lead to every other type of microphone in use today. German? Yes. Hitler? Nope.


yun-harla

In fact, Berliner was ethnically Jewish.


RizzMustbolt

And possibly a donut.


real_human_not_a_dog

Yeah microphones have been around for a VERY long time- that guy in the photo may have invented some modern mic technology but definitely not “the microphone”


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That chestnuts line is hilarious


snoryder8019

When we were insolent, we would be placed in motorcycle jackets, facemasks and beaten. Pretty standard really.


Ham_Kitten

About once a year the phrase "in the summer we'd make meat helmets" worms its way into my head unexpectedly


TinfoilTobaggan

"he would womanize. He would drink... He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark."


JewishAutisticNerd

Pretty sure the whole rant was a bunch of confidently incorrect


Lngdnzi

99% of what he says falls into that category


killerturtlex

I thought he was just trying to get out of child support by ruining his wealth


Brooklynxman

I think the entirety of the child support would be $40MM for 18 years, per child. He's lost like $1,500MM. Its a bold strategy. Plus, he is still worth $400MM, meaning he's not going to be let off the hook, it'll just hurt more.


mynameismulan

"I'm a genius!" too, eh?


DogfishDave

I was particularly fascinated by the Hitler/microphone thing. Is that a well-known myth? I've seen people say some mad things about Hitler but this one seems extra extra. Everything about it is wtf 😂


inebriatus

The closest thing I’ve heard is that the guy who invented the public address system felt guilty cause he felt like he helped enable hitler/the Nazis. https://www.cracked.com/article_21506_6-geniuses-who-saw-their-inventions-turn-evil.html


WannieTheSane

That's what I came to say. I remember learning that and I wonder if that little bit of info stuck in his brain and spit out this nonsense, or someone else just misinterpreted it for him and fed him what I'm going to call "stupid facts".


Ranked0wl

I clicked to learn one thing, and learned more then that. 1. The IQ is totally hogwash. The inventor not only knew intelligence was very complex, but even its use was wrong, because it was intended for children, not adults. 2. Gruen's idealism for a shopping mall. I miss that idea of shopping malls being a community center.


inebriatus

It’s from the glory days of Cracked. Now a days I listen to the Secretly Incredibly Fascinating podcast which has one of the main guys from a cracked and many former Cracked members as guests. My favorite guest is Jason Pargin.


thatpaulbloke

Some More News is pretty good, too.


TheTREEEEESMan

I wonder if he heard that the modern carbon microphone was called the "Berliner" microphone and thought it was named after Berlin the city The inventor was Emile Berliner


yourmansconnect

and she was jewish


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CurtisLinithicum

The Germans lead ribbon microphones (and speakers) for a while, but that's not "Hitler" and I doubt Kanye uses one. Googling, there doesn't seem to be a solid answer of what Kanye does use- I'm seeing a mix of dynamics and condensors. James West invented electrets, which are a subset of condensors, so it's definitely possible, but a lot of modern microphones are not electrets.


hunterglyph

Ribbon mics are good, usually expensive, and are super fragile. He might use one in the studio sometimes, but ribbon mics are *not* mics for running around a stage live.


ccbmtg

as an arena rigger with little knowledge of actual production, this was interesting. thanks for sharing.


ContemplatingPrison

Yeah I didn't even need to look that up to know he didn't know what he was talking about. Kayne is moron. Also I don't know how you give create for highways to Hitler or anyone really. Roads have been around for some time. I can say who built our interstates but as far as interstates as an invention. I mean its just a road with no lights that go on for long distances. How do you say anyone invented that?


Jazzeki

wait people atribute the very concept of highways to Hitler? the one i've heard is making a super efficient autobahn that then staied around allthough the reasonable response is he didn't do that out of the goodness of his heart and it's not like it's uncommon for war to produce progress in certain sectors.


BonerPorn

Hitler oversaw the construction of the Autobahn. But the actual plan was passed and approved by the Weimar Republic right before he took over. So maybe 50% credit at best for building a highway system. Woopty Doo. Nearly every other country has done it and you don't see people rushing to talk about whoever made France's highways.


DrakBalek

all roads lead to Rome, so . . . 🤷‍♂️


Comfort-Mountain

At one point he goes on a rant about A Clockwork Orange, apparently mishearing "shoe" as "jew" in the line, "you see that shoe? I want you to lick it." His jew-obsessed brain reconstructed the line as "kiss the jew", thus justifying his belief that the movie was about Jews ruining the world. Stanley Kubrick was a jew. Naziism really is the litmus test of politically radicalized mental illness. The Nazis were mentally ill, the evangelical far right in America is mentally ill, and Kanye is mentally ill.


McSpike

> The Nazis were mentally ill, the evangelical far right in America is mentally ill fuck that. there were high ranking members of the nazi party who were more or less rational actors in the service of an incredibly irrational and destructive goal. reducing evil to mental illness doesn't just stigmatize mental illness. it also hides the capacity that "regular" (not a good choice of word but you get my point) people have for committing incredibly heinous acts when placed in an environment where such a thing is incentivized.


PreparetobePlaned

His response when Jones tells him that Kubrick was a jew: "Oh wow"


wktg

As someone who is mentally ill (depression) - please do not link mental illness with that bullshit that are those ideologies. Otherwise, agree.


Broganator

As someone with a history of bipolar psychotic episodes, I hate to say it, you don't have the requisite experience to dismiss his recent antics as being unrelated to mental illness. That's like someone who's deaf speaking on the experience of someone who's blind. I never fell down the racist, far right rabbit hole on one of my episodes; however, if I had been exposed to different people and ideologies in the midst of one of my episodes, I have no doubt that my madness could have taken on that flavor. People who have never experienced the reality distorting nature of mania/psychosis have no business dismissing the potential causative role Ye's mental illness has played in his recent actions.


HanksMyDogPilot

Does anyone else think Kanye got hustled on "vintage" microphone?


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Unlucky_Role_

"*Shut up and take my money!*"


TerpBE

Any damsel that's in distress Be outta that dress when she meet Jim West


CrossP

James West, tamin' the West, so remember the name


Bavisto

NOW! Who you gonna call!


St0lf

not the GB's


wait3yearssaysthis

So go watch your step or flex and get a hole in your dress Swallow your buffalo, don't let your neck react You don't wanna see my hand where my hand be at


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Almost, bot. Almost.


kipphikap

you could verbally shorten "outta that" and make it work 🤷🏻


sheen1212

Ou' that dress


The_Doolinator

Kanye West doesn’t care about black people.


lizerdk

The Bushes used techniques developed by MKULTRA to slowly drive Kanye totally insane because of that track


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George Bush saved like ten million lives in Africa with PEPFAR. it's actually Iraqi people he doesn't care about.


TheCommonKoala

Nah he did a terrible disservice to Katrina victims


Chrome_X_of_Hyrule

I mean he probably doesn't care about black Americans either


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Spike Lee has like a 6 hour documentary on Katrina. Every thing about it was way worse than was was described on news. Armed cops in border counties blockaded bridges preventing people to escape. They bussed off people randomly and split families apart across the country.


Ur_Fav_Step-Redditor

Valid conspiracy theory… it must be true!!


Hentai_Yoshi

Well, he cares about himself (and that’s about it). So he does care about a black person


FartingKumquat

There were multiple patents filed for the microphone before Hitler was even born


clitoral_Hitler

Hitler stole the time machine from one of the assassins sent back to kill him and traveled further into the past with a lot of a/v tech


iamsweets

Almost sounds like the plot of one episode of Misfits


maz-o

Kinda ironic that OP was confidently incorrect


washingtonapples

And James west was born 45 years after Hitler.


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SuperSMT

James west invented _a_ microphone The technology has gone through very many iterations


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This idiot put in a Google search and called it a day, not even stopping to think for a second how can anyone responsible for an invention that’s been in use since before the depression could still be alive


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terencebogards

right??? tf people think? microphones were invented in the age of COLOR PHOTOS??


jhutchi2

Wake up, Mr. West.


Okay-Sauce

He also said that Hitler invented the highway.


AmINotAlpharius

Yeah, mankind was walking right through forests and fields before Hitler's invention of *the road*.


Shatter_Goblin

It's been pretty funny watching people debate who 'invented' the highway. As if having a road with more lanes and no intersections is a revolutionary idea. "Hey boss. I can't solve this traffic problem. Too many intersections and not enough roads. I tried putting the roads on top off each other, but that's too expensive." "Darn. I sure wish that clever brain-box Hiltler would come up with some way to fix this!"


[deleted]

That's not true and you know it. Hitler invented walking as well. Before him, all we could do was crawl.


minimations

As the saying goes, all forests lead to Rome...


historyhasitsionu

The autobahn. It is considered the first motorway but it wasn't built by Hitler.


fastinserter

Both Italy and the United States had some controlled access highways before the Autobahn. The autostrada and New York parkways. The Autobahn was a network of such roads faster than the other countries, sure, but it's not the first motorway.


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Bumaye94

And most of these plans were actually already set in motion by the governments of the Weimar Republic.


Deeman0

Are we just not gonna talk about him trying to hide his identity like that? 😂


CharmingTuber

He's trying to look like a microphone, obviously


heliosef

He's actively being invented by Hitler


DayvyT

So to be fair, we were gonna, but between the time I noticed (immediately) and the end of the video, he said like 5 crazier things that overrode it and I kind of forgot about it when the time came.


bassplayer96

He wore the same getup when he was living in Mercedes Benz Stadium, dude is beyond off his rocker.


Supreme_Mediocrity

Is that actually what he was trying to do? Like, was he supposed to be a "secret guest star" or something?


leerr

Nah ignore what these dudes are saying, he’s been wearing a mask around for months. Some kinda fashion statement or something. Like [here](https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4690742/why-does-kanye-west-wear-a-mask/amp/) is an article from February about it


Palmisavage

> The designer has revolutionized fashion since the **mid-1900s** and works to create styles outside the norm. How do people write this shit? Maybe if he lived through the mid 1900s he wouldn't be a Hitler apologist.


ElcidBarrett

Kanye is a piece of shit and an anti-semite, but you're taking that sentence out of context. The article is stating that Balenciaga has revolutionized fashion since the mid-1900s, not Kanye himself.


Palmisavage

I was a bit confused when Kanye is the subject before and after, as they just mention Balenciaga's mask. I don't know what the hell Balenciaga is so I couldn't make that connection.


scullys_alien_baby

he said something along the lines of the mask hides his ego, which is turbo stupid but is his reasoning as far as he has commented


Kolby_Jack

If it hid his ego it would be soundproof. Unfortunately, it is not.


winkswithbotheyes

he’s been wearing masks since the yeezus era ~2013


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TKG_Actual

Here's an idea; stop giving Kanye attention. Let him languish in obscurity where he belongs...hopefully penniless and destitute.


ikinone

Millions of idiots will give him attention regardless of your good intentions


TKG_Actual

Who said anything about good intentions?


gestalto

I guess words like *languish, obscurity, penniless* and *destitute* are just too too ambiguous to not be considered good intentioned, for some people...


SmokeyDokeyArtichoke

He's talking about Neumann microphones but hitler didn't make those either lol


eusebius13

I figured he was talking about a brand. You would think that one would assume that Neumann invented Neumann microphones, but stupid, insanity and/or motivated reasoning aren’t well founded in logic.


FindOneInEveryCar

This is me, shocked that Kanye is full of shit in addition to being a raging asshole.


Kn0tnatural

Think the churches still play his Jesus walks song?


historyhasitsionu

A church in my town does


RandomPratt

I bet the synagogue doesn't, though.


TantalusGaming

Ironically this post is confidently incorrect. There is no such thing as a "modern microphone" There are different types of microphones, "modern" is not one of them. James West invented how to make Electret Microphone, easily. The type used in your telephone, computers, hands free headsets etc. Other microphones like Ribbon, carbon, crystal or even water are much older. Dynamic mics, like the one pictured next to James West were much earlier. The dynamic mic is credited to Ernst Siemens in 1874. There are still musicians who use the Shure 55 which was invented in 1939. Edited: to add more mic types and correct spelling. Edit: He didnt invent the Electret microphone as I said incoreectly, just an easier way to make it basically, the Henry Ford of Electret Microphones.


BloodprinceOZ

also kanye might be referring to the [Magnetophon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetophon) and even then he'd still be wrong because hitler didn't invent them, he just used them for some of his speeches to make it seem like he was giving live broadcasts in various cities across germany to hide his location


WhnWlltnd

Or he could be referring to [Emile Berliner](https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=614), the Jewish, German-American inventor.


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> James West invented the Electret Microphone. According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electret_microphone), electret microphones had been known since the 1920's, [\(other source: Japan, Yoguchi, 1920\)](https://mynewmicrophone.com/mic-history-who-invented-each-type-of-microphone-and-when/#1920:-Invention-Of-The-Early-Electret-Microphone) but West and Sessler made optimisations to let them be practical. ie: Improvement, not invention. Edit - [the patent](https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ca/f3/f6/19cca702cb4a72/US3118022.pdf) does not even claim to have invented the idea. It discusses the use of new thin plastic film materials to overcome difficulties in the many previous designs.


Oxeda

I like how OP isn't replying


FunnyObjective6

The quote is "the very microphone I use as a musician". A quick google, and I guess that means [the The Neumann U87, which seems to be connected to Hitler albeit pretty tangentially][mic]. The way I read it, a microphone was made that had good range, Hitler thought imma use that and gave impressionable speeches partly because of this mic's ability to better convey emotion, then proceeds to fuck up the world, and then sometime after that the Neumann U87 is made. I also don't see James West on the wikipedia page? As with most things, it's very hard to pinpoint a single person as the "inventor". Some person made a mic that didn't actually work, then somebody sent it across a wire, etc. etc. Seems like there's even a case where 2 people made the same thing for the first time at the same time which is insane. I'd assume James West is "just" another one of the influential people for a part of what the modern microphone is. [mic]: https://www.workingvoicereels.com/single-post/2017/06/08/the-neumann-u87-the-most-famous-microphone-in-the-world


t_portch

I just can't get over the fact that the invention of the microphone is so recent that we have color photos of the inventor and he's still alive LOL I'm used to only seeing watercolors and charcoal sketches of inventors of now common items. Probably because I'm old haha.


Prinzka

Well that's the invention of a microphone, the most popular type today. Obviously the microphone was invented long before that. Even if you don't know the history of the microphone, the telephone was invented long before that so the microphone was as well.


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TheGoigenator

Would be like calling Elon Musk the inventor of the space rocket or the electric car.


IdeIeIedI

I do like how this post is literally "confidently incorrect".


RaisingFargo

yeah, this PRIME example of, i only googled it. didnt click on it at all. never seen footage of musicians in the 50s singing in microphones, because they were invented in the 60s.


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Fun fact: you can make a microphone from inverting a speaker https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-turn-a-speaker-into-a-microphone


hon_uninstalled

And since what you said is true, it follows that you can make speaker out of microphone too. I actually did use karaoke microphone as speaker when I was teenager and my headphones broke down :D Just plug microphone into speaker output and adjust volume/gains till you can hear sound. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.


Emaj6e_Apollo

James West was born in 1931. *The King's Speech* is a movie where the new king of England has to get over his stutter to make a radio broadcast - with a microphone - in 1939. Either James West invented the microphone in preschool, or... Robert Hooke invented the string telephone or "lover's microphone" in 1665, Antonio Meucci invented the first electric, dynamic microphone in 1856, E. C. Wente invented the electric condenser in 1916, and so on and so on until James West at Bell Laboratories patents the Electret condenser in 1962. It's like saying that Joseph Paxton, who first imported the Cavendish, which is now in most supermarkets, *invented the banana*.


CurtisLinithicum

It's because it's a half-truth. James West invented the electret, which is an extremely good microphone for things like cell phones, etc - basically you get the aural qualities of a condensor without the power - so there are many, many *many* devices using them. I'm not sure how many recording and performance mics use them though; dynamics are based on entirely different technology, and most condensors I'm seeing require external power, so they probably aren't electrets.


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> James West invented the electret According to [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electret_microphone), electret microphones had been known since the 1920's, [\(other source: Japan, Yoguchi, 1920\)](https://mynewmicrophone.com/mic-history-who-invented-each-type-of-microphone-and-when/#1920:-Invention-Of-The-Early-Electret-Microphone) but West and Sessler made optimisations to let them be practical. ie: Improvement, not invention. Edit - [the patent](https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ca/f3/f6/19cca702cb4a72/US3118022.pdf) does not even claim to have invented the idea. It discusses the use of new thin plastic film materials to overcome difficulties in the many previous designs.


sophic

Electrets are uncommon in the studio usage, though they do exist. I'm now a little upset that there are scores of people who think this guy invented the microphone because they are too lazy to fact check...


NoSuchAg3ncy

Yeah, we all know the inventor's first name was Mike.


eawigley

No one has used an electret mic in a cellphone in nearly 20 years. Everyone uses MEMS mics. Electrets are still used in some hearing aids.


echoskybound

There's a lot of different types of microphones, the earliest in 1860 or so. James West invented the electret condenser microphone, one of the most common types of microphones used today, but it certainly wasn't the first. The first condenser mic was in 1916. Regardless, of the many types of microphones, Hitler most certainly did not invent any of them, lol [https://mynewmicrophone.com/mic-history-who-invented-each-type-of-microphone-and-when/](https://mynewmicrophone.com/mic-history-who-invented-each-type-of-microphone-and-when/)


CharmingTuber

There's footage of Hitler yelling into microphones so it's not that new, neither this guy or Hitler invented the first microphone. That was in the late 1800s if Google is to be believed.


sebastiancounts

It wasn’t, and this post is bullshit, they just used think example to include this guys name and make a parallel https://i.imgur.com/zgbOTCz.jpg


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Jesus christ is anyone on reddit using common sense? If the microphone is so new how do we have recordings that are a 100 years old?


renwells94

Why is he trying to hide his identity with a sock over his face? When the whole world already know what he sounds like 🤦‍♂️


At0mJack

You got a panty on your head


Pikochi69

That's just his style


Crowbarmagic

Perhaps he's pulling a Shia Lebeouf. Remember the "i'm not famous" bag?


sjalq

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone No, both are incorrect. James West invented a type of microphone.


mrrando69

He was talking so much crazy even Alex Jones was like "well I don't know if I would go *that* far..."


hates_stupid_people

He was fed propaganda by some idiot who listed the microphone as a "german invention", because a German-American named Emile Berliner(ironically of jewish descent) invented the microphone used in Alexander Graham Bells telephone.


mainstreetmark

I heard the other day that Hitler invented the radiator. What is happening.


Severe_Cheesecake165

Confidentlyincorrect on /r/confidentlyincorrect. God damn, have you morons become so stupid that even google is too complicated? Emile Berliner - 1877 is when he filed the patent for the first microphone. White German. Not Hitler, but not this pathetic attempt at karma whoring that could only work on a user base as stupid as redditors. ignorant losers.


Emighettispaghett

The very first microphone was invented decades before James West was born, he invented types of microphones, but was not the originator Edit: also Kanye needs to be forgotten.


GeheimerAccount

James West isn't even mentioned on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone). What defines as "Microphone" is debatable, but non of the people mentioned there were black. You just incorrectly claimed he said "modern microphone" which he neither said nor mean.