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Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, we are back. We're back. We're still here,
Speaker 3: and we are here to talk all things except one tree.
Speaker 4: Hell.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk all things SAG strike with you
Speaker 3: because it's really important to us and our community, and
Speaker 3: so are you and you as an audience showing up
Speaker 3: for us every week. We love you, guys, and we
Speaker 3: want you to know what's going on. We want your support,
Speaker 3: and so here we are. Let's talk about lots of things.
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, we had a text chain yesterday, so we
Speaker 4: record our episodes a couple of days in advance, and
Speaker 4: so for you, you guys at home, you're hearing this
Speaker 4: on Monday. But we're dealing with this over the course
Speaker 4: of you know, a Thursday, a Friday, a Saturday, and
Speaker 4: our union went on strike, which I think we all
Speaker 4: support and we're all fully backing that.
Speaker 5: But what that means is that.
Speaker 4: There is a lot of gray area about whether or
Speaker 4: not you can promote a show that was a SAG
Speaker 4: after a contract and one tree who was for us?
Speaker 4: I mean, this was the show that got all of us.
Speaker 4: I mean not all of us, but it got me
Speaker 4: into the Union. You know, were you in the Union already?
Speaker 6: I was, Yeah, because I had done a commercial early
Speaker 6: in high school and so I got into commercial. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that was how I got into SAG. And it was
Speaker 6: like such a cool thing. I remember my dad being like,
Speaker 6: you're going to have healthcare when you're eighteen, Like.
Speaker 5: Credit a commercial?
Speaker 3: What was the commercial?
Speaker 6: So I was in a KitKat commercial?
Speaker 4: Oh my god?
Speaker 5: Yeah, where is that on the internet?
Speaker 6: Oh my god, you guys. It was chic. It was
Speaker 6: like a full coffee paste of clueless. Me and my
Speaker 6: friend Keana from school. We're in it with this girl.
Speaker 6: I can't remember the other girl's name. We met her
Speaker 6: on set that day. I still can't eat caickut bars
Speaker 6: because I ate so many of them that weekend. But
Speaker 6: we were so cute, and yeah, that was how I
Speaker 6: got into the Union.
Speaker 3: I love it. I got mine from a commercial too.
Speaker 3: But I was twelve and the hospital where my dad
Speaker 3: worked was doing a commercial and they so I went
Speaker 3: and I had to walk a dog in a circle.
Speaker 5: Did that dog eat a heart?
Speaker 3: That was the dog? Later? No, but that was it.
Speaker 3: It was very exciting though, because the whole thing with
Speaker 3: the SAG card is you can't really get SAG work
Speaker 3: until you have a SAG card, and you can't get
Speaker 3: the you can't have a SAG card without getting the work.
Speaker 3: So it's really exciting when you get that one job
Speaker 3: that's going to get you in the door.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, people talk about your big break, you know, it
Speaker 4: really is the moment that you are able to join SAG.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh, I have a line, I have a
Speaker 4: job that is part of a union, and it's such
Speaker 4: a big deal to an actor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is a really big deal, and I think
Speaker 6: it's an important thing to touch on, you know, when
Speaker 6: we talk about being part of a union, when we
Speaker 6: talk about the fact that the union is how we
Speaker 6: have protections on set, it's how we have healthcare, it's
Speaker 6: how we have all these things. There's a lot of
Speaker 6: misnomers in the world about what we do, about what
Speaker 6: performers do about what our lives look like. You know,
Speaker 6: you hear the top line for like the five most
Speaker 6: famous people on earth and how much money they make,
Speaker 6: and you think everybody makes money like them, and it's
Speaker 6: just not true, unfortunately. And I think it's a really important,
Speaker 6: a really important way to frame it is to let
Speaker 6: you know our friends at home that if you are
Speaker 6: in sag Aftra, in order to qualify for healthcare, you
Speaker 6: have to make as a performer twenty six thousand dollars
Speaker 6: a year, and eighty seven percent of the sag after
Speaker 6: membership does not qualify for healthcare. That's eighty seven percent
Speaker 6: and not one cent less, not one cent less. Eighty
Speaker 6: seven percent of working actors do not make twenty six
Speaker 6: thousand dollars a year from acting or performing, so they
Speaker 6: don't even have access to the health benefits that our
Speaker 6: union helps us afford. And so this idea that it's like, oh,
Speaker 6: it's a bunch of whiny rich people who just want
Speaker 6: more money. Know the CEOs of the studios that make
Speaker 6: two hundred million dollars a year and are currently vacationing
Speaker 6: together on a super yacht while they're telling all of
Speaker 6: us that our protections that we're asking for our quote unrealistic.
Speaker 6: Those are the rich people who we should all be
Speaker 6: sort of fised out. Yeah, but I think it's really
Speaker 6: it's really important that we start to unpack some of
Speaker 6: the reality of this because look like you guys see
Speaker 6: us either on TV and shows that are edited and
Speaker 6: sound mixed and color timed beautifully, or you see people
Speaker 6: at award shows. But to be clear, award shows aren't
Speaker 6: actually parties, their work events, and everyone's wearing barge that
Speaker 6: they can't afford.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I could never afford anything I've ever
Speaker 4: worn anywhere.
Speaker 3: Never.
Speaker 4: It's important to us that, like, we have full transparency
Speaker 4: with you guys, because we have reached out to our
Speaker 4: union rep because what we've been told as actors is
Speaker 4: you're not allowed to promote anything that was a sag
Speaker 4: after job. And because our show currently is still streaming
Speaker 4: even though we filmed it twenty years ago, is doing
Speaker 4: a rewatch podcast considered promotion for a sag after job.
Speaker 4: So we've called our leadership and they're inundated with other
Speaker 4: people with similar questions, and so while we wait for
Speaker 4: a clear answer from them, uh huh, this actually like
Speaker 4: works in our fans' benefit because we're just going to
Speaker 4: answer like all the questions that you guys have been
Speaker 4: sending in because it is important to us that.
Speaker 5: We honor you.
Speaker 4: You've been along with us for this ride for two decades. Now,
Speaker 4: you know we're coming up on our twentieth anniversary. And
Speaker 4: it's also important that our show specifically, which was an
Speaker 4: ensemble show, is standing by and fighting the good fight,
Speaker 4: not just for like the core five kids on the show,
Speaker 4: but every single one of the actors that came and
Speaker 4: did guest spots.
Speaker 5: On our show.
Speaker 4: These are the people that we're fighting for. These are
Speaker 4: the people that really deserve all of our support.
Speaker 6: And just so you guys know, when we talk about
Speaker 6: what questions we have for our union reps, you know
Speaker 6: you probably have seen that there's been guidelines published. There's
Speaker 6: some stuff that, to Hillary's point, is just a gray area. Yeah,
Speaker 6: like they've said you can't promote past or present projects.
Speaker 6: But does that mean projects that have come out and
Speaker 6: are no longer airing new episodes, or does a past
Speaker 6: project mean you know, the Netflix show that you shot
Speaker 6: two and a half years ago that's premiering this November,
Speaker 6: so technically it's a past project, But it's still going
Speaker 6: to be new to streaming, like nobody really knows what
Speaker 6: it means yet, and we just don't want to air
Speaker 6: anything that could potentially go against our own union and
Speaker 6: our own support of them, So we won't have a
Speaker 6: new episode this week.
Speaker 4: But like we said, we're going to answer all your questions.
Speaker 3: What you're saying, Sophia is so true because a lot
Speaker 3: of the issue is with streaming and the fact that
Speaker 3: you know, we as actors, you used to be able
Speaker 3: to get syndication fees, so when your show was on
Speaker 3: and then it would re air like we were on
Speaker 3: soap Net.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, soap Net was a great great paychecks,
Speaker 4: isn't it great?
Speaker 3: Yes, And that was for years and years. Even commercial
Speaker 3: actors used to get residuals that people would put their
Speaker 3: kids through college and just doing one commercial. And so
Speaker 3: now what's different is the studios are just selling these
Speaker 3: properties off to the streaming networks, and the storytellers who
Speaker 3: poured their heart and souls into these shows, who showed
Speaker 3: up every day for work, they don't get anything from that.
Speaker 3: It's like a one and done and you invest years
Speaker 3: and years and years of your life and something like
Speaker 3: that and so that's been That's one of the things
Speaker 3: that's important that we are able to hold the line
Speaker 3: on with our union, and we just want to be
Speaker 3: respectful of that. That's one thing among many others.
Speaker 4: We've got a question from someone named Maria that ties
Speaker 4: into that Joy really well because she asks, she says,
Speaker 4: how are actors compensated for work done in the early
Speaker 4: two thousands prior to streaming? Do you get any benefits
Speaker 4: from your episodes on streaming? And I just want to
Speaker 4: point out that when our contracts were negotiated in two
Speaker 4: thousand and three, streaming wasn't even a feasibility.
Speaker 5: It was alien. You can't negotiate for something that doesn't exist.
Speaker 3: This is when Netflix was still mailing you DVDs in
Speaker 3: your actual post mailbox and you would pull the DVD
Speaker 3: out and watch it. That's all Netflix was.
Speaker 6: Yep, it's so crazy to think about, and it is interesting,
Speaker 6: you know, to the point of what Joy's saying, it's
Speaker 6: a weird feeling, guys, to have made something, to have
Speaker 6: dedicated your life to making something. Also, frankly, all of
Speaker 6: our first big jobs, so it's not like any of
Speaker 6: us had good quotes. We weren't making a bunch of
Speaker 6: money by any means. We were all like trying to
Speaker 6: figure out how to pay our rent. And your show
Speaker 6: goes on to become this hit, this cult classic, and
Speaker 6: it keeps getting sold.
Speaker 5: Oh, they make so much money off this show.
Speaker 6: They make so much money off the show, you guys,
Speaker 6: And we haven't seen a penny of it ever. And
Speaker 6: it's our faces and our stories and our bodies and
Speaker 6: our work that they're selling. And it feels it feels
Speaker 6: really bad. And I think part of the reason it
Speaker 6: feels bad is because people who were in better quote
Speaker 6: unquote power positions did get protections for eventual changes to
Speaker 6: things like Tom Cruise is making money every time his
Speaker 6: movies play on any network, you know, TV, streamer or whatever,
Speaker 6: but like, we don't. And that's that's a hard pill
Speaker 6: to swallow, to know that there is just not a
Speaker 6: fair standard. And that's that's why we're on strike.
Speaker 4: I mean, the AI thing is what breathes me out
Speaker 4: because we couldn't have negotiated for that, Like and do
Speaker 4: you guys remember we just had one one taste of
Speaker 4: what that was, like it was maybe second or third season,
Speaker 4: and they used our life.
Speaker 6: You gonna say caress.
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm so mad about it.
Speaker 6: Still remember that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Okay, tell everybody at home what happened.
Speaker 6: I still though, you guys. One of the ways that
Speaker 6: if you are on a show locked into a six
Speaker 6: year deal for very little money, as we all were,
Speaker 6: that you stand to maybe make some money if your
Speaker 6: show becomes a hit, is you might get an endorsement deal,
Speaker 6: so you might become the face of a brand.
Speaker 5: Like and like.
Speaker 4: But every girl on every other show had like Nutrigas
Speaker 4: was doing kids.
Speaker 6: Remember Kristen Bell when she was doing Cutie Veronica Mars
Speaker 6: and she was doing Nutrigina with her perfect little chin.
Speaker 3: Like.
Speaker 6: People had opportunities to do these things.
Speaker 5: I was begging for it. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Man, we were like cool, we were ready, let's go
Speaker 6: do something neat. And the WB sold the three of
Speaker 6: us photos.
Speaker 5: Of us to caress our likeness.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and they said, are you a Brook, a Paytent
Speaker 6: or a Haley And they said no, no, we sold Brooke,
Speaker 6: Peyton and Haley. They got the endorsement money, y'all. The
Speaker 6: network made the money and we didn't make a penny.
Speaker 6: So we were on billboards and in magazines as the
Speaker 6: faces of this you know, skincare brand, and we made nothing.
Speaker 5: And it knocked us out of the running for anything else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, yep.
Speaker 6: Because it ruins your exclusivity. So then we could never
Speaker 6: do another beauty deal.
Speaker 4: You'll remember driving by those billboards.
Speaker 5: Matter than deceiving.
Speaker 6: I had steam coming out of my ears, and it's
Speaker 6: like a It's a really crazy thing, especially as a
Speaker 6: young woman, when someone sells your face and body oof
Speaker 6: and doesn't have to ask you about it. And this
Speaker 6: is the new argument that we're having with AI. You know,
Speaker 6: if you're paying attention watching any of the videos we've
Speaker 6: all been sharing, our SAG president and some of our
Speaker 6: reps got up to talk about you know this quote
Speaker 6: unquote groundbreaking AI proposition from the studios, and the studios
Speaker 6: literally said, well, when background actors come in, we'll scan
Speaker 6: them and then we'll own their likeness to be reproduced
Speaker 6: in any manner we choose forever, forever. Imagine like they
Speaker 6: could put you in porn, they could put you in
Speaker 6: a movie about Nazis, they could put they could do
Speaker 6: anything that goes against your moral compass. They could recreate
Speaker 6: you ten thousand times and you would have made eighty
Speaker 6: dollars for one day working background and gotten a free lunch.
Speaker 6: Get theff out of here?
Speaker 5: Did they watched Terminator? I watched Terminator like every day
Speaker 5: growing up. Get out? Know how bad this is gonna go?
Speaker 6: We got to get out. Yeah, so they're taking advantage
Speaker 6: of old contracts. Well, they're taking advantage of old contracts.
Speaker 6: They're also taking advantage of the most powerless people in
Speaker 6: our union. But they're taking advantage of people all the
Speaker 6: way up the line.
Speaker 3: So much greed.
Speaker 6: It's so much greed. And I think, you know, people
Speaker 6: will say when they think about some of their favorite
Speaker 6: actors who you know, make the big ticket money that
Speaker 6: they read about in the trades, and they'll be like, well,
Speaker 6: you know, why are we supposed to listen to these people?
Speaker 6: They're not hurting for anything. I think it's really worth
Speaker 6: letting you guys know that part of the reason we
Speaker 6: fight for equity as actors is because that's how our
Speaker 6: livelihoods are made. When we eat, a whole team full
Speaker 6: of people eats if we make money. If we if
Speaker 6: we get a job for one hundred dollars, our agent
Speaker 6: gets ten dollars, our manager gets ten dollars, our lawyers
Speaker 6: get five dollars. Our publicists, depending on what their annual
Speaker 6: salary is, make from like three to five of that
Speaker 6: one hundred dollars, you're paying forty dollars in taxes you're
Speaker 6: paying you're paying another ten bucks to an accountant.
Speaker 3: Then you have rent and groceries and your family.
Speaker 6: But what I'm saying is, out of the one hundred
Speaker 6: dollars that you hear somebody's making, we probably keep twenty five, yeah,
Speaker 6: and the rest of the money goes to the government
Speaker 6: and goes to our team. Like I don't make much more.
Speaker 6: I don't make much more money than my agent makes
Speaker 6: at the end of the day because of how many
Speaker 6: people I pay. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud
Speaker 6: that when I book a job, an entire team of
Speaker 6: people and their families also book jobs. But this idea
Speaker 6: that people in our industry are like, you know, greedy
Speaker 6: or whatever is is simply not true. And it's really
Speaker 6: frustrating when again, executives at studios that are making one
Speaker 6: hundred million, two hundred million dollars a year and bonuses
Speaker 6: and are flying around on their private jets are saying
Speaker 6: that us asking to not be owned by AI machines
Speaker 6: is unrealistic. It's like, come on, what do we do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you guys watch a show that has a
Speaker 3: big star in it, for example, that person is getting
Speaker 3: a huge paycheck maybe eventually, like eventually, yes, but I
Speaker 3: mean in comparison, excuse me to what I'm trying to
Speaker 3: say here, is that basically every other person on the show.
Speaker 3: What the studios have started to try and do is
Speaker 3: find all these loopholes, like taking a seasoned actor who
Speaker 3: should be getting a series regular contract and saying, we're
Speaker 3: going to bring you in as a guest star. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for five thousand dollars an episode, but we want you
Speaker 3: for ten episodes. We want you for eight days an episode,
Speaker 3: and we want you for twelve hours a day. And
Speaker 3: that's what for five thousand dollars for.
Speaker 4: Guest star fee. You can't get a nanny to cover
Speaker 4: you for that much?
Speaker 3: Yeah what? And these are actors who are I mean,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. Anybody shouldn't be yeah, put in that position.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that's just not right. It's not right.
Speaker 6: Well, and again, when you think about the percentages that
Speaker 6: come out of that money, you might be like, I'd
Speaker 6: love a five thousand dollars paycheck for a week, and
Speaker 6: it's like, well, yeah, but when you're giving sixty eight
Speaker 6: percent of that money to other people, Yeah, like what
Speaker 6: are you what are you living on? How are you
Speaker 6: paying for your gas? How are you paying your mortgage
Speaker 6: if you're lucky enough to have one in the first place. Like,
Speaker 6: it's a it's it's really kind of wild, and it's
Speaker 6: it's frustrating. None of us is stupid. It's frustrating when
Speaker 6: studios are getting on their earnings calls with their shareholders
Speaker 6: boasting about record breaking quarterly profits and then they're.
Speaker 5: Telling us, ever you add of here?
Speaker 4: If there was ever a show to prep a fan
Speaker 4: base for, like a good fight, I feel like between
Speaker 4: Brooke Davis's fight with the Crab, Shack the.
Speaker 6: Lobster, I unionize those crabs still proud.
Speaker 4: Payton sort of like this record label bullshit you Like,
Speaker 4: I think that our fan base has been primed for
Speaker 4: a fight for like a long time now. So so
Speaker 4: this question from simone, what is one song that can
Speaker 4: immediately change your mood? I think to amend it, Like,
Speaker 4: what's our fight song?
Speaker 6: I was just gonna say, we need a fight song?
Speaker 4: Yeah, what is our fight so honestly, we're striking in
Speaker 4: this moment.
Speaker 6: I feel like the mood is very These boots were
Speaker 6: made for walking. Yeah, like I'm rocking right out of work.
Speaker 6: Call y'all, good guye bye bye?
Speaker 5: Who I mean you know that? I just go to
Speaker 5: lay Miz for everything.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: It's like the studio executives are like.
Speaker 4: You at the barricade, listen to this, no one is
Speaker 4: coming to help you to fight, and here comes sag
Speaker 4: and We're like, hey, bitches, let's ride.
Speaker 5: Yeah, love it.
Speaker 3: It was a TV show called The Unit on Ages
Speaker 3: ago and their theme song was like it was it
Speaker 3: was the Marines, but it was put to it was
Speaker 3: like a marine cadence, but it was put to some
Speaker 3: real cool beats. I'm feeling it. I'll find it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we need to find that. We can drop it
Speaker 6: in a story.
Speaker 3: I'm into it.
Speaker 5: We'll just play newsies.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 6: Well, I like Chrissy's question because now that school's out
Speaker 6: for summer, what are we doing?
Speaker 5: She's like, what are.
Speaker 6: Your favorite summer activities to do with your family and friends?
Speaker 6: And I'm like, well, I didn't think I was going
Speaker 6: to be home, but here we are, so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so here I mean, Jeff can't go to Comic
Speaker 4: Con and I can't film my show anymore, and so
Speaker 4: he and I are looking at each other this morning
Speaker 4: just like, oh my god, like we get to just
Speaker 4: be home with the kids, you know, like obvious, what
Speaker 4: are you guys going to do on the farm?
Speaker 5: Who knows?
Speaker 4: Like at this point, George is so all consuming and
Speaker 4: it's just like they had digit me. I think they
Speaker 4: were doing fishing last night. I was traveling to come
Speaker 4: home and they were all like fishing successfully. So I
Speaker 4: feel like that's going to be the rest of my summer.
Speaker 4: Is I love that baiting hooks, which that's fun.
Speaker 3: I've never really been fishing. I would love to go.
Speaker 3: I mean I've done it once or twice, but not
Speaker 3: like out the whole morning, get up early. That'd be fun.
Speaker 6: Honestly. Years ago, I set a goal for myself to
Speaker 6: learn to fly fish really and yeah.
Speaker 5: Remember her Instagram. We were all like where is she?
Speaker 6: You're like, what are you doing? I was like, I'm
Speaker 6: just in Alasta, you guys. I love it, Like I
Speaker 6: want to be the old lady and waiters who's just
Speaker 6: like on a river with no cell service fishing like
Speaker 6: that is my GM that is my future goal for myself.
Speaker 6: I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3: Sounds great.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I just love running around, especially with all these fireflies
Speaker 3: and the summer heat, just watching the kids. We got
Speaker 3: a little creek by our house, watching the kids run around.
Speaker 3: It's so nice to just relax and enjoy the simple,
Speaker 3: simple things in life. I feel those. I feel that
Speaker 3: more in the summer, I think than the winter.
Speaker 4: I clocked the summers like I dawned on me at
Speaker 4: the end of the school year that I was only
Speaker 4: going to have X amount of summers left with my
Speaker 4: son before he graduates and leaves, and it's not a
Speaker 4: big number. And I was just like, oh, I panicked.
Speaker 4: I totally panicked. And so now I'm overwhelming the out
Speaker 4: of Gus and I'm just like, do you want to
Speaker 4: watch a movie? Do you want to watch a movie?
Speaker 4: Do you want to hang out with me? Do you
Speaker 4: want to cook together? Do you want to go on
Speaker 4: a walk?
Speaker 5: What do you want to do? So pestering my teenager?
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's only so many summers left, Okay.
Speaker 6: Sarah wants to know what kind of toppics you put
Speaker 6: on your pizza, which might feel like a weird transition.
Speaker 6: But I actually think one of the things that I
Speaker 6: like to do in the summer is do like pizza
Speaker 6: nights with friends, you know, get all the dough and
Speaker 6: get all the things they.
Speaker 5: Wait, girl, you do work.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 6: I love it. I love it, And I'm like, that's
Speaker 6: the thing you could do with gus. You could be like, hey, kid,
Speaker 6: let's to make pizza dough and then we can make
Speaker 6: our own pizzas.
Speaker 3: Give one of those little hooney pizza of it, right, Yes,
Speaker 3: I have one of those little single ones and we
Speaker 3: just throw them in there for three minutes and turn
Speaker 3: them over.
Speaker 6: They're so cool.
Speaker 5: Well they just like gas powered.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, yeah, I'll send you a link. So I
Speaker 6: feel like we can answer Sarah's question, but we can
Speaker 6: also plot like ways for you guys to make your
Speaker 6: teenagers hang out with you guys.
Speaker 5: I feel like this question opens us.
Speaker 4: It opens me up because, okay, get I'm a Pineapple
Speaker 4: pizza person and I'm not even embarrassed about it, Like
Speaker 4: I just love it and I don't want to hear
Speaker 4: anything about it. And I've loved it since I was
Speaker 4: a little kid getting those little Caesars packages to tear
Speaker 4: the paper open, I love.
Speaker 3: Pineapple on pizza. It's wrong with that.
Speaker 5: Because people pick on you. People really do.
Speaker 3: That is true. I don't like the ham either. I
Speaker 3: don't want the ham. I just want the pineapple. Maybe
Speaker 3: a little mushroom. Maybe a little pineapple mushroom green pepper.
Speaker 5: That gives me like.
Speaker 6: College flashbacks to like the little pizza place off of
Speaker 6: Hoover Avenue in downtown at usc Oh my god, I
Speaker 6: I've turned into one of those people who likes I
Speaker 6: like like a weird, fancy Italian pizza. I ordered a
Speaker 6: pizza last night with like fennel sausage and fresh mozzarella
Speaker 6: and like caramelized onions.
Speaker 3: It was so good.
Speaker 5: We're going legit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pizza, Like, let's talk about a little more to Della.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about like calibri and chili with honey and
Speaker 3: that like pizza.
Speaker 6: Give it to me, yes, yeah. So but that's the thing.
Speaker 6: This is what I like about us is we can golices.
Speaker 5: Of pizza here.
Speaker 6: Yeah. It's like it's my it's my fantasy trip to Tuscany.
Speaker 6: Or it's like we're on the road in the RV
Speaker 6: and we got to pull over at the gas station.
Speaker 6: What kind of pizza. Are we getting at the gas
Speaker 6: station and we're down. We're down for the whole gamut.
Speaker 4: Remember Slice of Life in Wilmington and what a scene
Speaker 4: that was at the end of the night, Like there's
Speaker 4: no food at the end of the night. So you
Speaker 4: would roll out of bars at like one thirty two
Speaker 4: o'clock in the morning and Slice of Life Pizza is
Speaker 4: where look, if you couldn't pick someone up there, you
Speaker 4: were going home empty handed, like that was the last
Speaker 4: call for food and people to kiss.
Speaker 5: They still they stopped.
Speaker 3: They just stop at the end of the night there
Speaker 3: did they stop cooking, like twenty minutes before they even close,
Speaker 3: because everything's just they're they're sold out. Everybody is flooding
Speaker 3: their spot.
Speaker 5: I loved that place, such.
Speaker 6: A good memory of all the nights there.
Speaker 3: When I was still in California, there was a seven
Speaker 3: eleven all the way at the end of my all
Speaker 3: the end of my road, and I would go in
Speaker 3: there and there was a woman in there once who
Speaker 3: was picking up a pizza and I was like, seven
Speaker 3: eleven makes pizzas so gross, like no thanks, And she
Speaker 3: saw the look on my face and she goes, oh no, no,
Speaker 3: you don't know I'm like, I feel like I no.
Speaker 3: She goes, you don't know, So She's like, would you
Speaker 3: like to try a slice? And I'm thinking no, but okay,
Speaker 3: I mean I'll be nice. Guys, this was a really
Speaker 3: good pizza. You have the jewel Box seven eleven making
Speaker 3: good pizzas.
Speaker 5: I like a sneak attack.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you don't know who like the owner's owner
Speaker 4: of the franchise's mom is, you know, I franchise.
Speaker 5: She could have had a knack for that.
Speaker 3: Hey man, find the diamond on the rough. You gotta
Speaker 3: find it.
Speaker 4: I love pizza parlor loyalty when you can just like
Speaker 4: find your spot in a town, no matter how run
Speaker 4: down or you know, back alley it is, you just
Speaker 4: gotta stand by it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well this kind of goes well. This is a
Speaker 3: question from Quinn what's your favorite rom com? Which made
Speaker 3: me think of Mystic Pizza since we're talking about pizza.
Speaker 3: But I actually haven't seen that in a really long time.
Speaker 5: It's been a minute. We might need to watch that.
Speaker 3: You do, Let's do a nineties rom com rewatch?
Speaker 6: Oh man, I would love that.
Speaker 3: If you guys have your DVDs, go find your DVD.
Speaker 6: I just finally watched Before Sunset. Interesting, you guys that
Speaker 6: movie undid me really? Like, yeah, undid me in like
Speaker 6: such a beautiful way, And I just went, what are
Speaker 6: we doing? I just want to I just want to
Speaker 6: make things like this. I just want to make projects
Speaker 6: like this.
Speaker 3: It's so beautiful and simple.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so beautiful.
Speaker 4: I mean, I find boys like that totally irritating. But
Speaker 4: I think the fact that you can make a movie
Speaker 4: about two people connecting with each other is a lost art, Like, yes,
Speaker 4: we're not We're supposed to do big, huge superhero movies.
Speaker 6: Now you know, it was just two people having a conversation. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and and this this idea about you had this in
Speaker 6: credible encounter with someone you were meant to see again
Speaker 6: and then life got in the way and what happens
Speaker 6: if you never really got over it? Like, oh my god,
Speaker 6: it just I just thought it was so beautiful. And
Speaker 6: Julie Delpy is so incredible in it because she's so
Speaker 6: funny one minute and then she's totally freaking out the next,
Speaker 6: and then she's like, I don't know why I'm telling
Speaker 6: you any of this. It's just so present and fun
Speaker 6: and yeah, I mean, you know, Ethan Hawk's character is
Speaker 6: like a little annoying puppy dog.
Speaker 5: But at the time in the nineties, boy oh yeah,
Speaker 5: feely he was a writer. Oh my god, he was
Speaker 5: Lucas Scott.
Speaker 6: Got I loved the movie. I just loved it. So, yeah,
Speaker 6: take me back to a good rom com any day.
Speaker 4: We were really lucky that we came up in an
Speaker 4: era where like the rom com was the thing, Like now.
Speaker 5: I feel like scary movie.
Speaker 4: These are the things that people go see on dates
Speaker 4: and like highs go see.
Speaker 6: Can we say the thing like, are we lucky that
Speaker 6: we grew up in the rom came era? Because isn't
Speaker 6: that why we dated so many ding dongs for so long? Girl,
Speaker 6: I think I.
Speaker 5: Was destined to date ding dongs no matter what.
Speaker 4: Like I could have been Relection, I could have been
Speaker 4: Joy and I were watching black and white movies.
Speaker 3: Doris Day, all of that. Like, that's that's what my
Speaker 3: rom com problem was. Was was not Meg Ryan and
Speaker 3: Julia Robertson from.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I was in love with Rock Hudson. You
Speaker 4: know that was never going to work out. No, Sandra
Speaker 4: Bullock was from my hometown. She's from like the next
Speaker 4: county over, and so knowing that as a middle school
Speaker 4: girl and a high school girl, and just being so
Speaker 4: fixated on this person's ability to get out and create
Speaker 4: a life for herself.
Speaker 5: Like I was just so into it, and Hope Floats
Speaker 5: still to this day, I don't. I don't watch things
Speaker 5: over and over again.
Speaker 4: I'm not that kind of personality. I like new things,
Speaker 4: and I think that's why I like Doc Manory because
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm learning something constantly. Hope Floats is
Speaker 4: the only thing that I watch over and over and
Speaker 4: over again.
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 6: That's so sweet.
Speaker 3: I love that makes me want to go back and
Speaker 3: watch it. It's wonderful. Harry Connick Junior, what.
Speaker 4: A babe, and Forrest Whitaker directed it, Like that's the
Speaker 4: thing to people forget.
Speaker 5: Yes, I didn't know that. Yes, it's fantastic.
Speaker 3: Because it is time to go to the library and
Speaker 3: rent a DVD. We all need to go buy a
Speaker 3: new DVD player, new Slash old I french Man, French Kiss,
Speaker 3: I think is just always on the top of the
Speaker 3: list for me, Like I love the Proposal, I love
Speaker 3: Pretty Woman. You know those are all great, but it's
Speaker 3: just hits my personality, right, French Kiss. I love that one.
Speaker 4: Kevin Klein is so hot in that movie, really rgeous.
Speaker 4: That's the one with him and Meg Ryan and they
Speaker 4: have to like go and try to make her ex
Speaker 4: boyfriend mad because he's proposing to someone else.
Speaker 3: Right, yeah, exactly, But then he's stolen something and so
Speaker 3: then she's like in on this weird caper that she
Speaker 3: doesn't want to be a part of, and then they
Speaker 3: of course fall in love. It's wonderful.
Speaker 4: That's when her haircut was at its like most perfect.
Speaker 3: Oh so biggy, short, little haircut.
Speaker 6: It was so good.
Speaker 3: I wish I had a head for pixie cuts.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about? You do?
Speaker 3: No, I don't. My head's too small for a pixie cut.
Speaker 3: But also I have one of those dents you know
Speaker 3: when your doctor pulls you out and there's a thumb
Speaker 3: dent in the back of your head.
Speaker 6: I have a big one, you guys talking about.
Speaker 5: Wait, there's a thumb debt.
Speaker 6: Oh, I have a huge deck here, I.
Speaker 3: Have a big one. I definitely couldn't do that. Like
Speaker 3: when Natalie Borman shaved her head for v for vendett
Speaker 3: I was but I was.
Speaker 6: Just gonna say, I was like could have never done
Speaker 6: VI for Vendetta. Nope, absoluely not.
Speaker 4: My skull comes to a weird point in the back.
Speaker 4: Ah man, you guys insecure.
Speaker 3: Gold, What about this one? Where would you want to dream?
Speaker 3: Girls trip? You got a girl's trip? You got what
Speaker 3: you have? Five, six, seven, ten days? Ten days? It's
Speaker 3: a lot, maybe like ten days long time.
Speaker 5: I have Greece on my bucket list. I've never been.
Speaker 5: I really want to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too. It's great.
Speaker 5: I like history.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 5: Oh that's why I did. When you took Maria there?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did a couple of summers ago. I took
Speaker 3: her over there. We went to Paros, which is beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's just a tiny little island that not a lot
Speaker 3: of people know about, but it's stunning. I have a hole,
Speaker 3: I got a whole travel right up on it. I'll
Speaker 3: give it to you. Paros it's beautiful.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remember thinking like we were going to live there
Speaker 4: for a second because we're friends with a guy that
Speaker 4: runs the film commission in Greece, and Jeff and I
Speaker 4: are like, what.
Speaker 5: If we just go there? Like, what what does that
Speaker 5: look like?
Speaker 3: You look good with the tan? Hillary Man?
Speaker 6: We could go make some shows there.
Speaker 5: Why not? Yeah, if it worked for Meryl Streep and
Speaker 5: Mama Mia, like we.
Speaker 6: Could do this cute little expat rom coms. That's That's
Speaker 6: kind of what I fantasize about. Honestly, is like, oh,
Speaker 6: I if I was gonna say, let's go on a trip,
Speaker 6: I just want to go to Italy and go to
Speaker 6: I just want to go like take pasta classes with
Speaker 6: old nonahs and like travel through Olive Groves and wait.
Speaker 5: Is that why my algorithm?
Speaker 4: Every day I wake up with cheap Italian villas dot
Speaker 4: com email and me all these houses that are like
Speaker 4: a super cheap.
Speaker 6: That's probably for me sending you that house I was
Speaker 6: looking at in Deep twenty twenty when I was losing
Speaker 6: my mind and thinking we needed to evacuate right right?
Speaker 5: Where are we going to go?
Speaker 6: What if we just went here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I.
Speaker 4: Think that we're we're drawn to like romantic cultures. Joy,
Speaker 4: where do you want to go?
Speaker 3: I'm taking a girl's trip. I'm going in a few
Speaker 3: weeks to London just for fun, but oh fun, much
Speaker 3: like I want to go.
Speaker 5: Haven't I been?
Speaker 3: I haven't been to rock but I don't.
Speaker 6: Know Prog's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean everybody says it's amazing. I mean du
Speaker 3: Brevnika here is also amazing.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'm bouncing around the map, but I don't know.
Speaker 3: Probably Italy too, I probably. I think I'm on the
Speaker 3: same page. I probably would want to go to the
Speaker 3: Mofy coast and like get a boat.
Speaker 4: Does that make us basic girls? I don't care you
Speaker 4: make fun of our kids. You can make fun of
Speaker 4: our basic girl trip.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I could also see some like doing some Highlanders.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Scotland.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never been, guys, Honestly, I haven't been anywhere
Speaker 4: because we started work. I started working when I was
Speaker 4: right out of high school and then there was just
Speaker 4: never a break. And then I had kids and they're
Speaker 4: in school and shit, and so yeah, girls trip Scotland.
Speaker 6: Scotland's on my list. Maybe we should all go there.
Speaker 3: I'm down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll take some waistcoats.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, could it buy some waistcoats there? That's what
Speaker 3: we're gonna do.
Speaker 6: I'm ready.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Joy will be out translator fantastic. All right, summer
Speaker 4: cocktail of choice? Oh, Jack is asking, while we plot
Speaker 4: all these things, what is our summer cocktail?
Speaker 5: Of choice.
Speaker 3: I mean it's hard to beat a nice Negroni, like
Speaker 3: a nice refreshing negroni A on an afternoon the little pizza.
Speaker 6: You guys, I am such a lover of an aperol sprits,
Speaker 6: But have you had a Hugo sprits?
Speaker 5: What's Hugo sprits.
Speaker 6: It's basically like an apparol sprits, but instead of apparol
Speaker 6: you use elderflower liqueur.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, okay, with.
Speaker 6: Prosecco, seltzer, lime mint. It is good. And you know
Speaker 6: all I want to do all winter, Like the minute
Speaker 6: it gets called out, I just want a whiskey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, m But in the summer, yeah.
Speaker 6: Like sparkling citrus and prosecco. Get out of your all desk.
Speaker 3: It's not too sweet with a s Germain.
Speaker 6: No, there is no San Germain. It's just elderflower liqueur.
Speaker 3: That's Elderflower Liquors Aser Maine.
Speaker 5: Is it. Yeah, it's a brand of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh I guess yeah, there's other brands of course. Yeah.
Speaker 4: When we do promotional stuff for MF Libations, we did
Speaker 4: a we did a martini, but we traded out one
Speaker 4: of our ingredients for an elderflower liqueur. And we used
Speaker 4: our BlackBerry jin and it was like it's one of
Speaker 4: those things where you're like, how's that gonna work? Work?
Speaker 5: Great work, great flowers, fruit and liquor. That's my combo.
Speaker 5: That's what I want in any.
Speaker 3: Drink, Botanical cocktails, man like aviation with a little crime
Speaker 3: violette and some lemon. There's so many good things to drink.
Speaker 5: I'm so lazy.
Speaker 4: I just like finding those sodas that have like very
Speaker 4: low sugar. Like there's a brand called Gus Soda that
Speaker 4: I've always been partial to, obviously because the name. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and so finding like fancy Italian sodas and love putting
Speaker 4: gin in them is all I can handle.
Speaker 5: Right now. I'm just like, I already get out of
Speaker 5: my lab.
Speaker 6: I'm making my gin drake. Yeah, A two step cocktail
Speaker 6: that sounds like a fancy that tastes like it was
Speaker 6: done by a fancy mixologist is real nice.
Speaker 3: M hm. That's what I won't.
Speaker 5: That's what I want. Cheers, cheers, Well.
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Speaker 3: Are we gonna do another Q and A later? Are
Speaker 3: we gonna what's our plan for next week? Guys?
Speaker 4: Well, we're gonna hear from our union rep right like
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