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title: Ben Affleck on Armageddon
date: 2026-01-06T17:11:30Z
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> I asked \[director Michael Bay\] why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and he told me to shut the fuck up. So that was the end of that talk.”