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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to twenty four,

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Speaker 1: episode one of two Dailyshi Guys stay production of My

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio. It's a podcast, this one where we take

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Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's share consciousness. And it is Monday,

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Speaker 1: February four, Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day to one and all.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien a K. He makes his

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Speaker 1: money off tragedy. Yeah, he's a selling nine eleven tease.

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Speaker 1: Oh he's an old grifter, way out of line Julianni.

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Speaker 1: That is courtesy of Rumham McDuck, Rumham McDuck two a

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Speaker 1: Well done. Good call back to the great Rudy Giuliani

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Speaker 1: and his nine eleven T shirts that he was selling

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Speaker 1: for I believe seven dollars to try and raise to

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Speaker 1: try and raise money for his legal fees. Anyways, I'm

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Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined by today's special guest co host,

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Speaker 1: a producer behind shows like Fake Doctor's Real Friends, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to our show. You've heard her on Pop Culture Happy

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Speaker 1: Hour and read her at Vulture, The A V Club

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Speaker 1: teamboat Paste, many more. She is the brilliant and talented

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Speaker 1: Joe Alimony, the Purple Lipstick Don, the four Local Survivor,

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Speaker 1: and the Marble Defender. Yes, yes, yes, we're back. We're ready.

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Speaker 1: Entine's Day? Have you? Valentine's Day to you two? Speaking

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Speaker 1: of four Local, which is I think the traditional beverage

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Speaker 1: of Valentine's Day in this household, and you don't you

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Speaker 1: want to have a good time, you don't want to

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Speaker 1: remember it his money exact. Yeah, Joel, We're thrilled to

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Speaker 1: be joined in our third seat by a very funny

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Speaker 1: TV writer for animated shows such as Sonic Boom, you'n

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Speaker 1: a Kitty, the upcoming Transformers BOS and the award winning

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Speaker 1: short The Accomplice. Please welcome, the very funny, the very

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Speaker 1: talented great but hey, you guys, what's up? Man? Me?

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Speaker 1: A k A. I did not prepare and also known

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Speaker 1: as that's okay, you don't you don't have to do that.

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Speaker 1: I have had one and my brother is a producer

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Speaker 1: on the show, and he was like, do you make

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Speaker 1: was like, that's a good yeah, leave Joe alone. No, no,

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Speaker 1: he's he was like, they miss smiles. I was trying

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Speaker 1: so trying to discord, and I looked at the discord

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Speaker 1: them up myself. So that's how we got here. We're

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Speaker 1: all together now, Greg, are you coming from the Ninja

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Speaker 1: Turtles headquarters? That is my backdrop today. That's wonderful. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's uh, it's just a backdrop. It doesn't smell as

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Speaker 1: bad as I imagine it does normally for the Ninja Turtles.

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Speaker 1: Did they ever come aeremony in video game? Sweats perfect

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Speaker 1: and sewage? We don't talk about that. It just candles.

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Speaker 1: It's like Brewer notes over there. It's not in our

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Speaker 1: forefront of our heads. I love it. Good good hangout spot.

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Speaker 1: It's not bad. Yeah, yeah, it is a It is

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Speaker 1: a fun background. You're telling me. It's only a zoom background.

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Speaker 1: It's not an actual No. I don't live in a

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Speaker 1: sewer currently. At least I didn't know you work in animation.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know if you actually lived in an animated

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Speaker 1: world or what we were working with here. Roger Rabbit

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure we'll get to that. Let's talk, let

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Speaker 1: us know, yeah, yeah, what's what's happening in the world

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Speaker 1: of animation. Well, if you if you've been paying attention

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Speaker 1: and on Twitter or I guess you have, maybe you

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Speaker 1: have to be in the same circles as I. But

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Speaker 1: currently going on and starting again today, the Animation Guild

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Speaker 1: is going back into negotiations with the AMPTP, the Association

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Speaker 1: a good thing that gives us a chance to kind

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Speaker 1: of fight for more money and and and and you know,

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Speaker 1: just get a better deal overall. And you know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not negotiations team, I'm not you know, I'm not an

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Speaker 1: elected official in the guild. I'm just an engaged member,

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Speaker 1: active in the writer's community. And I was looking at

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Speaker 1: my paychecks, and I was looking around at my colleagues

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Speaker 1: spread the word. And that's just kind of part of

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Speaker 1: that's what I'm here to discuss. That's awesome, man, I

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Speaker 1: I think it's come up a couple of times on

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Speaker 1: Zeitgeist before, like just in passing, I think we talked

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Speaker 1: Lion King. Like I think they got paid in pizza,

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Speaker 1: like they did. They did not like they they are

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Speaker 1: I think it's Lion King you're talking about. And I

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Speaker 1: the Lion King has been remade practically shot for shot

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Speaker 1: in a live actor that's why it came up. And

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Speaker 1: it's wild to me that we have this problem in animation,

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Speaker 1: And you know, yeah, the I mean, the numbers are

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Speaker 1: Oh my Lloyd, it only makes sense for the purposes

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Speaker 1: one most binge show on Paramount Plus. Well, if they

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Speaker 1: would pick up my Remington's Steel reboot that I've been shopping,

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Speaker 1: a standard explanation for why the difference in price? Like,

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Speaker 1: parody between the two because it really just doesn't make sense.

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Speaker 1: You know, I always wanted to write. I mean, like

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Speaker 1: You know, a nine year old me would be ecstatic

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Speaker 1: But nine year old me also thought I'd own a

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Speaker 1: ship in the second act. That's gonna be fun. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna maybe get to what is happening at military bases

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Speaker 1: because very mysterious, like a bunch of crime, A very

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the fact that it is Valentine's Day, which,

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Speaker 1: according to Gordon Ramsey and me, after fourteen years of

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Speaker 1: being married and going out to dinner on bound, this

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Speaker 1: of the three hundred and sixty five options available to us.

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Speaker 1: So talking about why that is, why it's still sometimes fun,

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'd also like to get you guys thoughts on

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Speaker 1: the best non traditional romantic movies. Around Christmas, there's always

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Speaker 1: all right, you got me, Greg. They do not appear

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Speaker 1: I don't want to talk about toys all day, but

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Speaker 1: I totally respect that, and I would say that they

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Speaker 1: I love sauce, I love tomato salsa. But yeah, I've

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Speaker 1: never been into the buttered noodles because it tastes too

424
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Speaker 1: much like noodles to me and not not enough, Like

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I have associated pasta with, which

426
00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:28,159
Speaker 1: is the marinara sauce, But maybe that's the key to

427
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: the greatness of butter noodles. It's like this is the

428
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: base of the dish, right, Like technically you're showing up

429
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 1: for spaghetti and you've associated it with the marinera on

430
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,119
Speaker 1: top of the noodle should be the highlight of that dish.

431
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:45,959
Speaker 1: And as to get more into like like I've recently

432
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Speaker 1: really gotten into ramen and I'm like reading recipes on

433
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 1: how to make it from scratch and stuff, and like

434
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: there's so much technique in a noodle and create like

435
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: crafting it. You know, what kind of flower, what kind

436
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 1: of grind on that flower? How long are you mixing

437
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Speaker 1: it at? What to picture that? I think if you

438
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Speaker 1: get a quality noodle and you're just tasting which a

439
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 1: little bit of butter, you're really putting that noodle like

440
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,359
Speaker 1: on a pedestal and asking people to taste just that noodle,

441
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Speaker 1: And I can see I can see where that would be,

442
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 1: like you know, this is the highlight, Like really experience

443
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Speaker 1: and enjoy this part of the dish. I typically you're

444
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 1: just trying to get through. Okay, I see it. Are

445
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: you putting high quality like noodle in into a buttered

446
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: noodle dish? No, I'm saying you get you get some

447
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: egg noodles, and then you just you just get something

448
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 1: like grilled onions. You fix that and suddenly parmesan on top,

449
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: and you've got you've got something more than just butter noodle.

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Speaker 1: I think, okay, yeah, all right, I think I think, yeah, alright,

451
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Speaker 1: but controversial will be hearing from our listeners, maybe more

452
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Speaker 1: than any guest we've ever had. But all right, let's

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Speaker 1: take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: inflation and bountie stuff. Mh. And we're back, and yeah,

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00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: a lot on a record inflation these past couple of months.

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Speaker 1: And the standard media economist narrative seems to be that

457
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: it's a number of factors, but they always end up

458
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: pointing back to that the government just gave you guys

459
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,640
Speaker 1: too much dang money for your own good and now

460
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: we we have to just charge you all this, all

461
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 1: these high prices, and that that doesn't fully make sense

462
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 1: to me, because that's not how right like you're supposed

463
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be competition in a in a market,

464
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: if you will, like that that's supposed to be a

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Speaker 1: thing that you can't just do just because you you

466
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Speaker 1: want to, and that that appears to be what's happening.

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Speaker 1: So this Dr lindsay All Owns, executive director of Groundwork Collaborative,

468
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 1: which is dedicated to advancing progressive economic ideas, actually did

469
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Speaker 1: the work of going and listening to earnings calls, which,

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00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,040
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar, like every public company has to

471
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,359
Speaker 1: every quarter, you know, reveal their information to investors, and

472
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: then they have a call where people can then ask

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Speaker 1: them questions. And this is where you're going to get

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Speaker 1: some honesty, right because you know, people want to know

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Speaker 1: what's really going on, what's driving the numbers they're seeing,

476
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,160
Speaker 1: and whether they should stay invested, all that all that

477
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: fun stuff. And so she looked at these and she

478
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, they just decided to charge more money

479
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: and in in exchange got record profits. Like they're they're

480
00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: making more money than they've ever made at this time

481
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Speaker 1: when we're inflation is supposed to be out of control.

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Speaker 1: So some ample, she pulled the company three M, which

483
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: produces N nine masks and other things crowd on its

484
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: earnings called that the team has done a marvelous job

485
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Speaker 1: in driving price price has gone up from point one

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Speaker 1: percent to one point four to two point six percent.

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00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 1: We see that to be a tail wind. I'm gonna

488
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Speaker 1: just stop. I'm gonna look for my look elsewhere from

489
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: my double sided sticky tape mounting hooks or something. Right,

490
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to m yeah, I'm sure they like on

491
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: them too. That's the other problem is that, like, there's

492
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: so much consolidation that you can do this. If you

493
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 1: are just a massively powerful major corporation in a industry,

494
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: you can just be like, all right, we're going to

495
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: raise the prices, and that will either you know, put

496
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Speaker 1: pressure on our competitors to raise the prices so they

497
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Speaker 1: can keep up with our record breaking profits, or the

498
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: you know, the company will try and undercut us. But

499
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Speaker 1: somehow that's not happening. We don't know why. Weird Tyson

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00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,719
Speaker 1: one of the big four meat monopolies that Biden is

501
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: targeting for fixed price fixing, which is supposed to be illegal,

502
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure, but not not a huge scandal for

503
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Speaker 1: some reason, because it's a massive corporation doing the robbing

504
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 1: at a high level of people and so nobody like

505
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:35,600
Speaker 1: the American media and just like public is not it

506
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Speaker 1: feels incapable of having the story of meat monopolies price

507
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: fixing become like a craze, Like it just seems like

508
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Speaker 1: the sort of thing that the media will ignore the

509
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Speaker 1: ship out of because they it's just like they're they

510
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Speaker 1: don't do that, they don't give a fuck, Like, but

511
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Speaker 1: Tyson has us in such a chokehold, Like if you

512
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Speaker 1: think about if if you're on a low income, like

513
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: Tyson's probably the most affordable meat product that you can buy,

514
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Speaker 1: and it's every goddamn where, like including like I think

515
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: mcdonaldy's is Tyson Chicken as well, Like there's it's everywhere.

516
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 1: It's impossible to escape. On top of that, Tyson has

517
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Speaker 1: a lot of nerve like price gouging us when the

518
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: way it treats its workers has been on blast for

519
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: so long, just completely inhospitable conditions, long hours, horrible, egregious

520
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: like wounds and accidents happening on site that it's it

521
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: does seem like they're kind of moving in plain sight

522
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: and are just kind of gangsters about it. Not to

523
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,239
Speaker 1: give them any kind of flair, but they're just like

524
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: you just have to deal with this. You're gonna keep

525
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: paying us for this product, so just eff and deal

526
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: with it. I mean, that's the that seems to be

527
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,959
Speaker 1: the entire model though with every one of these is

528
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: that they are not you know, after the two Financial crisis,

529
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: like when the banking sector funked up as bad as

530
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: a sector can and got out of it with like

531
00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: still getting their annual bonuses while people were like being

532
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: driven into like not having homes, Like I they are

533
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,840
Speaker 1: not dumb. They paid attention to that, and now like

534
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: it's just it really feels like that part of the

535
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:26,680
Speaker 1: civilization is just out of control and knows that they

536
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 1: like don't don't have to do ship that they don't

537
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: want to do. And so in the case of Tyson,

538
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: they saw their profits nearly double after price hikes of

539
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: on beef and on chicken, which the CEO attributed to

540
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 1: the quote continued resilience of our multiprotein portfolio. I think

541
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: it is. But it's also like if you step back

542
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: to like so if you look at the corporateness of

543
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: it all, or look like these giant corporate monsters making

544
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: so much money and devaluing human life, and it's awful

545
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: if we look at the human condition of it, the

546
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: idea that there are individual people actively engaged in doing this, right,

547
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: I think there's something about like the corporate structure that

548
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: just has to be dismantled from the outside because all

549
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: they're doing is their job, right, It's such tunnel vision,

550
00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: Like my job is to figure out how much we

551
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: can make off this product. And if we can make

552
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: more than I'm rewarded for that and I keep my

553
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: family and money and we're good like and and because

554
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: these companies are so large and so just connected from

555
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: especially the higher up you go, the more you're disconnected

556
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: from the people at the bottom of your company, the

557
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: less like actively engaged you are in the pain that's

558
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: being caused. And I think having that emotional distance allows

559
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 1: you to keep like chucking along in this in this

560
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: way that allows you to abuse so many people. And

561
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 1: I think, like I've started to see it, yes, in

562
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: my own grocery bill, but also in like watching people

563
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: tweet out like previous grocery bills to their current grocery

564
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: bills has been like a little bit horrific, you know. Yeah, yeah,

565
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 1: especially see like single moms being like I'm not buying

566
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: anything else. There's no additional things being purchased. And I'm

567
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: paying fifty dollars more a week to feed my children.

568
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 1: That's money out of French or prescription pills or whatever

569
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: it happens to be that they need that week. Yeah,

570
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 1: I don't know what gets to them to make them

571
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: change that structure. Yeah, it makes you look at the

572
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: inflation that we're all seeing and going like, how much

573
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: of this is inflation? How much is of this is

574
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: based on you know, the problems going on with you know,

575
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 1: COVID and and you know that whole thing, and how

576
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: much of it is just some greedy ceo dragons sitting

577
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: at the top boarding the money and and and that

578
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: seems to be what's happening here. Ever since that one dude,

579
00:34:50,360 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: the prescription pill guy, got busted for raising prices like

580
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: I don't know d or whatever he decided to do,

581
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,440
Speaker 1: I feel like they've gotten craftier, Like they're really you know,

582
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: you just read Jack, They're like, oh, like that one

583
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: point four to two and a half percent, that's really

584
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: great for us, and we'll just if we keep doing it,

585
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 1: and that, you know, the frog in the boiling water style,

586
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 1: then maybe no, one will notice, or if they do notice,

587
00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: it'll be too little for them to care. But they're

588
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 1: no more greedy than CEOs from past decades. They they're

589
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: like they've been trying to do this sort of thing

590
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: for years, for century. They tried to overthrow FDR. They

591
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: like got a American general to like be part of

592
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: what was called the business plot, tried to overthrow FDR

593
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,919
Speaker 1: and it didn't work out. But like that's the sort

594
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: of like they just want as much money as they

595
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 1: can possibly get because that is sort of a corporate

596
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:51,680
Speaker 1: corporation working in its normal form, Like that that's what

597
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: they're built to do. But the system does has not

598
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: provided the pushback in any real way or decades now,

599
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: and yeah, they're they've realized like oh and we can

600
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: get away with just lying in the mainstream media or

601
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: because the mainstream media are all owned by massive corporations,

602
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: like they just nobody's gonna say ship, we can just

603
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 1: do like at a time when more people are in

604
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: a desperate situation than you know, in the last hundred years,

605
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: they've been priced couging because Americans got like a two

606
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: thousand dollar check like one time. They're they're like, well,

607
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: we're gonna just soak that money up real quick, which

608
00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 1: also saw families consolidating, you know, whether that met we're

609
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: all gonna go live under the same roof or you know,

610
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 1: or we're giving up our second homes and like whatever

611
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: it was leaving our apartments in New York to go

612
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: back to our our familial homes. I think that there

613
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: was a lot more for the first time Americans had

614
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: like a little bit of like a slush fund or

615
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: or at least a little bit more than they had

616
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: to spend before. It doesn't surprise me that they took

617
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,840
Speaker 1: advantage of that, and especially doesn't surprise me when we

618
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,959
Speaker 1: consider that these people are no longer and by these people,

619
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 1: I mean like government officials no longer need to work

620
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: for the individuals that vote for them. They just need

621
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: to work for the corporations that are paying them enough

622
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: money to create larger like visual campaigns. You know, can

623
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 1: I say the right the right things to get my side,

624
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: whether you're a Republican or Democrat, to to acknowledge me,

625
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: and then do I have enough money to outdo commercials?

626
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: And is my marketing team better than yours? Like there's

627
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: no they don't have to serve us directly. And while

628
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: I think that there are definitely some individuals, you know,

629
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: both in Congress hand and Senate who have their their

630
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: communities at heart and and are trying to make, you know,

631
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:46,719
Speaker 1: quality changes, I also think that the dollar is so insurmountable.

632
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: I just don't know if people will care over you know,

633
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: you need this dollar to survive, and having more dollars

634
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: needs you're more likely to survive. I just don't know

635
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: how we, you know, as a country, as a community,

636
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Speaker 1: get over that. You know, we're trying past it or

637
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: try to change that. Our money means everything to us.

638
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: It's the only way we're going to make it. Speaking

639
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: as someone who used to have no money at all,

640
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: it's just I think it's going to have to implode first.

641
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna have to emplode because I don't

642
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: see anyone giving that up. Yeah, And I mean, like

643
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: Biden has put the blame for inflation, like he has

644
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: said the things that we're saying now, and it's been ignored,

645
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: it's been you know, explained away by economists and by

646
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: the mainstream media, and it's just you know, there there's

647
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: like many examples of this. By the way, Johnson and

648
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: Johnson talked about raising prices despite breaking in billions from

649
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: the COVID vaccine, and their CEO specifically like talked about

650
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: their model being addressed suffering and death and that's why

651
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: jan J's optimism and opportunity for its future is so bright.

652
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: So se whoa that? Yeah, people are dying, So we've

653
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: got a very right feature. Sure if you can just

654
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: charge whatever the funk you want and nobody's gonna get

655
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: mad like that, it's not truly, he's not great. How

656
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: was that the dollar king the other day? Everything was

657
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: a dollar fifty one? Yeah, we gotta take down the

658
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: dollar king at Yeah, that's that's right. Yeah, But the

659
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: mainstream media is is willing to blame the stimulus being

660
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: too much supply disruption, which the supply chain problems, Like

661
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: we there were definitely like temporary supply chain problems. I

662
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: think the car cars, you're still seeing it, Like I

663
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: have friends who are trying to buy cars and like

664
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: that industry is still having major supply issues. But for

665
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: the most part, like there wasn't a significant period of

666
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: time where like grocery shelves were empty or anything like.

667
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: The to act like that is the reason that they

668
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: had to raise races. I mean, like, even regardless of that,

669
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: the fact that they're making record profits at this time

670
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: that we're all supposed to be kind of struggling and

671
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: scrapping is all you need to know. Really, like it's

672
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: right anyways, So no answers here, but it is very

673
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: frustrating and sorry listeners. Yeah we thought, but yeah, I

674
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: had a feeling. I thought we had this one. All right,

675
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and we'll come back and

676
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: talk Valentine's daff and we're back and okay. So something

677
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:51,760
Speaker 1: I had always suspected based on many years of going

678
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:56,239
Speaker 1: out to dinner on Valentine's Day and the food and

679
00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: service and every every aspect of it being bad was

680
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: confirmed for me by um Gordon Ramsey. So Gordon Ramsey

681
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: says Valentine's Day is the worst. He said this, like,

682
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: you know, not at Valentine's Day. Wasn't an interview about

683
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day. It was just him being like, oh, you

684
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: want to know the worst day, Well, that of course

685
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: is Valentine's Day's the worst day of the year. To

686
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: go out busy kitchens with tons of diners means you

687
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,239
Speaker 1: don't get the true feeling of the restaurant, and then

688
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: I think unnecessary adds this part you should be cooking

689
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: on Valentine's Oh yeah, maybe you should be cooking. That's

690
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: the height of romance. To Gordon, Ramsey has a lot

691
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: like you know, like have you ever seen his like

692
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: solo cooking show where he's just like showing you how

693
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 1: to cook basic dishes and a space that kind of

694
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: looks like his home. He loves that. He's like, no,

695
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: look at this fold in this egg. It's beautiful. He's

696
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: really you have to love it. He's just so passion

697
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: about it. And I think his that's this expression, that's

698
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: his love language. Jack is just let me just make

699
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: you something delicious. It takes me when I when I

700
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: do one of those recipes where it's like, okay and

701
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: this is a thirty minute prep time like that is

702
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: three and a half hours, and I am exhausted by

703
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: the end of it, Like I don't. It just does

704
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: not agree with me. My brain doesn't work in the

705
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: kitchen with that sort of thing. My wife ends up

706
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:22,280
Speaker 1: being annoyed because it takes so long and we eat,

707
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: Like by the time we're eating, it's not Valentine's Day anymore.

708
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 1: It's like two in the morning. Oh no. But according

709
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: to the National Restaurant Association, Ramsey is right that this

710
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: is the busiest day for restaurants of the American population

711
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: dines out on Valentine's Day. Thought, if you as long

712
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 1: as you're not putting pressure on the meal and the

713
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: experience to be anything but entertaining, Like, go for it,

714
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: but don't don't expect it to be a nice experience

715
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: other than like maybe a fun people watching experience. Yeah,

716
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:01,400
Speaker 1: because there is this this pressure on Valentine's Day, especially

717
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: if you know, if you don't make a reservation, I'm

718
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: sure you're you're kind of screwed over. But like, you know,

719
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: waiting around in the restaurant and there's like there's it's

720
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: just so crowded and there are people there and and

721
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: and it's louder than usual, and like I don't want

722
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: to be around that. I I gotta agree with Gordo here.

723
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,960
Speaker 1: I'm I'm happy to put on an apron and grill

724
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: up something nice, just a couple of days in advance,

725
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 1: by by something I normally wouldn't buy, and instead of

726
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: paying the sixty dollar price tag, on a filet and

727
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,840
Speaker 1: yonn I you know, I spent like fifteen twenty bucks

728
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: on two of them, and then I could grow them

729
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: up myself. Sante some a sparing against bing bang boom

730
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day dinner. Not if that's a stick. By the way,

731
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be if you're lucky. You just hear you

732
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: say that, and they were like, actually, gonna be much more. Yeah.

733
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: I think. Also you can avoid being around other people,

734
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: which to me is way more roundmantic waiting in line,

735
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: not romantic. Dealing with annoyed waiters. No romance. They're having

736
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 1: to watch like eighty people propose while you're like just

737
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,719
Speaker 1: trying to chilling for you people. It's like great, another one,

738
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah. And the food is definitely gonna be

739
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: sub part. It's it's there's you're gonna sacrifice speed for

740
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,879
Speaker 1: art in the kitchen, stay home. Yeah. Compare that with

741
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: putting on an apron and nothing else grag cats. Yeah.

742
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 1: So on the people watching front, my my favorite Valentine's

743
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: Day meal that we ever had, I got reservations well

744
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: in advance. Took my wife to a fancy restaurant on

745
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day out here in l A and got a

746
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 1: front row view of Kevin Nealon and his wife on

747
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: a date together, dressed very nicely with Adam Sandler tagging along,

748
00:44:55,800 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: and like it was just like yeah, come to oh

749
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 1: not third wheel on Valanche as a perpetually single lass,

750
00:45:09,719 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: I'm not vibing with it, Like you just see him,

751
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:17,879
Speaker 1: like what was happening that day? I don't know, he's

752
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,959
Speaker 1: like shoul I forgot. I would say maybe his gift

753
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 1: was to his wife to be like, listen, you can

754
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: call space for me today. Yeah, you just here's some

755
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: alone time. The kids have a babysitter. I'll be out.

756
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: You just relax, babe. That's romantic. But so, speaking of

757
00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 1: people watching and the view when you are eating a restaurants,

758
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 1: the takeout has a breakdown of weather. It's weird to

759
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 1: sit side by side on a date rather than across

760
00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: from one another. I am of the opinion that it

761
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: is weird. And also who gives a ship like I'm

762
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 1: those are those are both good takes it It is

763
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: strange for like who really cares? I guess there's this

764
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: weird you know, feeling off if there's an empty side

765
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: of the table like that doesn't that doesn't work. There's

766
00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: something missing there, right, it's not it's not even And

767
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: then what if what if someone you you know you

768
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: don't want to show up, shows up and pulls up

769
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: a chair because they've got a whole side of the

770
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 1: table too. You need to get the chairs out of there, right,

771
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: so it looks like you're at a like you're a

772
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: married couple at a wedding, you know, like, right, you're

773
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: getting married. Everyone's there to watch you, yeah, and you're

774
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: there to watch them. In turn. The problem with a

775
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,920
Speaker 1: side by side isn't so much for me the optics,

776
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: but when a couple is to feeling themselves, you know

777
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: what I mean, go home, don't be like making out

778
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: and I'll touch you under the tap. No, this is

779
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:53,839
Speaker 1: not the time. Replace we were in public. People are

780
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: trying to there's food literally everywhere. That's to me the

781
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: problem like when you're practically in each other's laps and

782
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: the like. If you it's just it's obnoxious. I'm not

783
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,279
Speaker 1: trying to kill your vibe. I'm just saying, if you

784
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,879
Speaker 1: could finish dinner, maybe take dessert home and get give

785
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: you that atmosphere and mode there, but leave it out

786
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: of the public domain. We don't need it. Yeah, I'm

787
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:16,080
Speaker 1: strictly in it for the people watching. What my wife

788
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: and I both like to be the one facing out

789
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: so you can see what's happening in the restaurant. Or

790
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: she likes to do the people watching. And I just

791
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: always wanna make sure if a hit man comes in

792
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,400
Speaker 1: the door, they don't get the drop on me. So

793
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's but what I do either one The

794
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: only thing don't do it if it's one of those

795
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:41,759
Speaker 1: like clearly made for sitting across from one another thing

796
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: where you like have to pour all your food in

797
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: a single bowl. But I say, if you're like in

798
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: a booth or something that could be two people sitting

799
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 1: side by side, go with God. You know that makes sense. Alright,

800
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: let's talk movies. The Diehard conversation around Christmas movies gets

801
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: shipped on a lot, but I do like watching Diehard

802
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,720
Speaker 1: at Christmas. Also the Lethal Weapons underrated Christmas Eve movies.

803
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,399
Speaker 1: No romance plot at the heart of Lethal Weapon, right

804
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: there is, But those are Christmas movies. I'm saying, what

805
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 1: is the equivalent to you know, die Heart is a

806
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: Christmas movie for Valentine's Day. Doesn't need to be about

807
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day? But what are like some movies to watch

808
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 1: on a date or in around a significant other. They'll

809
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: like get you in that sort of romantic mind space.

810
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:45,399
Speaker 1: I guess to go, Yeah, okay, I'll throw one out there.

811
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: What about Little Shop of Horrors? Pretty good one, got

812
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: some romantic songs suddenly seem but you know, it's still

813
00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: got some excessive comic violence and and uh, you know

814
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: you're still feeding people to a giant plan. So you

815
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: got that side of it, but there's still the romantic

816
00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: between Audrey and Seymour. Yes, yes, I was gonna say.

817
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: It's got up be like sixties poptoons in it. Some

818
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:20,319
Speaker 1: of your greatest late eighties early nineties comedic performers in there.

819
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: There's it's class act all the way. That is an

820
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: excellent Valentine's Days choice, as I've seen it before. I'm

821
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: a perpetually single lass and so these are a single

822
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: person's idea of romantic movies. I my dream is to

823
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: host a double feature of Phantom Thread and The Lobster.

824
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: It is because I think they're hyper romantic movies. But

825
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: nobody understand well, not nobody, but a lot of people

826
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: don't understand them. Like a lot of people walked out

827
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: of Antis. They're being like, what the fuck? Like, that's

828
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: a deeply deranged couple. Now there's a couple who have

829
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:58,360
Speaker 1: found each other. Okay, those two people live in a

830
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,240
Speaker 1: world of billions and out each other and they enjoy

831
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,399
Speaker 1: the weird as ship they do to each other. That's love.

832
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 1: So romantic. I love the lobster because listen, the world

833
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: is constantly trying to force relationships on us. It's so aggressive.

834
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: It's like, you're alone and you'll die alone and there'll

835
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: be no children to take care of you. How awful

836
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 1: for you. I really like and moving the challenges. What

837
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,200
Speaker 1: if it's terrible to be in a relationship? What if

838
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: it's just not fun for me? What if it's awful?

839
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:27,439
Speaker 1: Do I still have to do this? Do I still

840
00:50:27,440 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: have to harm myself in order to try to be

841
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: with the first thing to please other people? Again? Deeply romantic,

842
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: not a couple romantic, but that self love romance. Really

843
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: asking yourself these questions, Do I even want to be

844
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: in a relationship in the first place? You should we

845
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,920
Speaker 1: have a love relationship with yourself. I firmly believe that,

846
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Speaker 1: and Lobster invite you to do that. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think go for the weird routemances. Really invest in the

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Speaker 1: idea of what does it mean to be in a relationship.

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Speaker 1: And I think if you have found a solid partner

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Speaker 1: and you guys really love each other, you guys will

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Speaker 1: be able to cackle at your friends who are not

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Speaker 1: happy romances and be like, who just remind you of both?

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Speaker 1: Exactly exactly wild the lobster. The lobster of the premise

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Speaker 1: is that what now I forget, I forget the premise

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Speaker 1: of a lobster, but I remember it's very high concept, right, yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: so yes, it's very high concept, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's hard for people to understand. So it's here's what happens.

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Speaker 1: Single couples get to or the single couples look at me,

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Speaker 1: Oh god, okay. Single individuals go to this agency and

860
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Speaker 1: they're like, hey, I want to find a partner. They're like,

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Speaker 1: we have a great success right, we have that because

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Speaker 1: if you do not fall in love with the person

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Speaker 1: we pick for you after a week, we're going to

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Speaker 1: turn you into an animal. It can be an animal

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Speaker 1: of your choosing. Don't stress you wanna be a dog? Great,

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Speaker 1: you will be a lobster. Fine, your main guy, he

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Speaker 1: wants to be a lobster because lobster is the cold

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Speaker 1: claws with the people they love and it's very sweet

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Forever yeah, wherever, but they do live for

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Speaker 1: a long time. Great choice overs. Yeah, boil a lobster

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Speaker 1: alive and hear it scream boil two of them alive,

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Speaker 1: so they're with their loved one hand romantic comic side

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Speaker 1: but yeah, and something. As as the movie progresses, he

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Speaker 1: has to you know, am I going to conform and

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Speaker 1: commit to this woman who is cruel beyond measure a

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Speaker 1: spoiler alert from a movie from like or whatever. But

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Speaker 1: she his brother goes through the program, becomes a dog,

878
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Speaker 1: she kicks him to death so that he can prove

879
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Speaker 1: that he loves her the most super just awful, And

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Speaker 1: then he has to make some decisions. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna stay here and and be with this person. Am

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Speaker 1: I gonna run away with this woman I think I'm

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Speaker 1: in love with? But I'm still very confused about one

884
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Speaker 1: to figure it out. Secret society in the woods right

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Speaker 1: that tries to get out of there. It's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of people who tried to run away basically, and now

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Speaker 1: they're out in the woods trying not to be turned

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Speaker 1: into animals, but still really desperately seeking love. Oh man.

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Speaker 1: It really laughs at the idea that you have to

890
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Speaker 1: be in a relationship, and I found find it a

891
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Speaker 1: very cathartic watch. Thread is just it's so good, so funny,

892
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,880
Speaker 1: like a funny movie, and very gorgeously just gorgeously shot.

893
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Speaker 1: It's a wonderful rom com that it not trying to

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Speaker 1: be but just happens to fall into that category. And

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate it for its weirdness. Yeah, one of

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Speaker 1: the best times I ever had watching a movie with

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Speaker 1: my wife was Wet Hot American Summer, which, if you

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Speaker 1: haven't seen it, not quite as horny as the title

899
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Speaker 1: makes it sound, not very horny at all, But it's

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Speaker 1: just a it's a very silly comedy that we saw together,

901
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Speaker 1: not even like early in our relationship. But I was

902
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Speaker 1: surprised by how much she laughed at it too, and

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Speaker 1: that was just like, oh, wow, we really are the

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Speaker 1: same person. This is great. And yeah, there's also just

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00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: beautiful sex scene featuring Bradley Cooper. I think, amazing something

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Speaker 1: for everybody. Yeah, So anyways, any other movies we want

907
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Speaker 1: to call out. I think you could also watch um.

908
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Speaker 1: Any Miyazaki movie to me is a little bit of romance.

909
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Speaker 1: How's Moving Castle is my favorite Miyazaki movie, timeless epic

910
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Speaker 1: romance in there. But I mean, even if you wanted

911
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Speaker 1: to do something along of like My Neighbor Totoro, which

912
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Speaker 1: is much less of a romance movie but so much

913
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Speaker 1: about love and heart, Gosh just gets swept up in

914
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Speaker 1: the beauty of the animation, and then the sweet and

915
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: simplicity of his tales is really delightful. Is it weird

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Speaker 1: to be like movies like a Moonrise Kingdom and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that, where it's like about children's romance, but there's

918
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Speaker 1: like definitely something sweet about that. Is that? Yeah? I

919
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Speaker 1: don't think so. I think you should totally be able

920
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Speaker 1: to watch his movies. Uh, there's the philosophy that you're

921
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Speaker 1: always the person you were even today, there's still that

922
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Speaker 1: child inside, So why not, you know, engage your inner

923
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Speaker 1: child with the person you want to spend the rest

924
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Speaker 1: of your life with. Come on now, yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: you're not talking about like that would be quite that

926
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Speaker 1: would be very weird to have an actual conversation after that.

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Speaker 1: What another animated classics. Pretty pretty cute and romantic. One

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Speaker 1: of my favorite movies. Any old movie like The Shop

929
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Speaker 1: around the Corner. I mean, listen, we said not cliches,

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Speaker 1: but when Harry met Sally. It's a top It's a

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Speaker 1: top movie, guys. It's it's my favorite fall movie. I

932
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Speaker 1: like watching it in September because it's got those great

933
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Speaker 1: New York leaf changing scenes, always walking through the park

934
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Speaker 1: and everything is orange and golden. But you could literally

935
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Speaker 1: watch it any time, and why not pop it in

936
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Speaker 1: on Valentine's saying, get all those old couple of stories.

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Speaker 1: I realize that your love story is unique and it's

938
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Speaker 1: good no matter what it is. Yeah. Perfect, I'll throw

939
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Speaker 1: a bride of frank it Stein. I'm not sure she's

940
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Speaker 1: super receptive to him, now that I'm thinking about it,

941
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Speaker 1: But but there's the there, there's a there's a parallel,

942
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Speaker 1: and you could go, um, okay, what's mel Mel's version?

943
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Speaker 1: There you go, popping Young Frankenstein. Excellent, round com excellent,

944
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Speaker 1: there you go. I need to I need to watch that.

945
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Speaker 1: Actually I never I never watched that. Oh it's great, Jack, Jenny,

946
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Speaker 1: you've never seen Young Frankenstein, Joel, I have watched the

947
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Speaker 1: movie Jaws two thousand times. It didn't a lot of

948
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Speaker 1: a lot of times for other movies, but yeah, I

949
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Speaker 1: need to watch it is. I'm actually jealous of you.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually jellous. That's what I'm watching with my wife.

951
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 1: It's a good one. Perfect. Also, there's this movie that

952
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Speaker 1: I think influence Shop around the Corner a lot, called

953
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 1: You've Got Mail. If people want to check that one out,

954
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,919
Speaker 1: isn't that isn't You've Got Mail? Based on Shop around

955
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:02,399
Speaker 1: the Corner? Probably the other way around? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

956
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Speaker 1: ok yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, here we are great together.

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Speaker 1: I got it is language. Uh, such a pleasure having you. Yeah,

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00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:14,239
Speaker 1: thanks for having really wonderful Where can people find you?

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Speaker 1: Follow you and join in your campaign to get people

960
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Speaker 1: paid a fair wage? Sure? Yeah, you can follow me

961
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: on Twitter at It's Greg Han. And you should totally

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Speaker 1: follow the tag writer's Twitter account as well as the

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Speaker 1: Animation Guild Twitter account and follow the hashtags hashtag new

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Speaker 1: deal for animation and uh hashtag pay animation writers. Yeah yeah,

965
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Speaker 1: and is there a tweet or some other work of

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Speaker 1: social media that you've been enjoying? Sure? Well, you know,

967
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Speaker 1: while we're on it, I will share this one in particular,

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Speaker 1: Joey Cliff I believe he's a friend of the show.

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00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 1: He helped put together a video campaign with you know,

970
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 1: tons of animation workers and and other really talented people

971
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: speaking out. It features Adam Conover, Phil Lord, Raphael, Bob Waxburg,

972
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Speaker 1: Marrow Wilson, Ellie, council member, uh Nitya Ramen, tons of

973
00:58:12,120 --> 00:58:16,480
Speaker 1: other talented people all saying, hey, pay attention, let's get

974
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: a new deal for animation, and let's pay animation writers.

975
00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: So that is on the tag writer's Twitter account and

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Speaker 1: you should totally check it out. Nice ntthew Raman was

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Speaker 1: the city council representative for my neighborhood. And then they

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Speaker 1: you know, we've interviewed her here on the show, a

979
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Speaker 1: great leader with very progressive ideals, and they were like,

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Speaker 1: we're going to read district that she can't have that

981
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Speaker 1: much power, and like when nobody was looking to change

982
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Speaker 1: your district, So real function and local l A politics. Joel,

983
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: Such a pleasure having you uh today and these past

984
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: two weeks. Truly all star performance, one of the one

985
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Speaker 1: of the great where it can be people find you,

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Speaker 1: follow you. Yeah, thanks for having me, Like gang this

987
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Speaker 1: was fun. I love you all, You're so funny on Twitter.

988
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Speaker 1: First of all, you can find me. I know me

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Speaker 1: uh j O E L E M O N i Q.

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Speaker 1: I usually do that better, but that's fine. Perfect tweets

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Speaker 1: I like, thank you Jack at Dr Dan Schumacher on

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Speaker 1: Twitter posted a screenshot of North Carolina's online death certificate request.

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Speaker 1: In there, it says the person listed on the death

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Speaker 1: certificate is you can check a box myself or someone else,

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Speaker 1: and Dr Schumacher says, I have a few legicial questions

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Speaker 1: at Gabby d v J tweeted eavesdropping in the West Village.

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Speaker 1: Everything I wrote failed because it was too sophisticated and

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Speaker 1: I can relate random person in the West Village. No

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Speaker 1: one gets me far too sophisticated. And finally from Reductress

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Speaker 1: gross successful interview results in full time job and yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: like he's dropping on conversations in l A are way

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Speaker 1: way different in the cafe. Were all the writers right

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Speaker 1: and just enjoy? Yeah yeah, and then the occasional life

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Speaker 1: coach comes in and interesting things to say. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: can find me on Twitter at Jack Underscore O'Brien. Some

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Speaker 1: tweets I've been enjoying. Robin Lopez, NBA player tweeted, Salvador

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Speaker 1: Dolly died in nine, it's weird to think that he

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Speaker 1: may have seen the movie Predator. Very work, Robin and

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Speaker 1: then Ozrich the flap at Chris are Yates tweeted, was

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Speaker 1: reading about the silent film era and think about how

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Speaker 1: silly the word talkie is and was then forced to

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Speaker 1: really consider for the first time the word movie and

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Speaker 1: that fucked me up because that is where that word

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Speaker 1: comes from. Is them just being like, it's a picture

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Speaker 1: that that moves, it's a it's a day movie time.

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Speaker 1: The Last Airbender when they broached like the twenties calls

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Speaker 1: them movers, and I think it might be a better

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Speaker 1: word movers. Yeah, movies. I'm gonna go check out a mover.

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Speaker 1: Yeah amazing. All right, Well, you can find us on

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Speaker 1: notes where we're going off to the information that we

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Speaker 1: talked about in today's episode, as well as a song

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Speaker 1: that we think you might enjoy. Super Producer Justin what

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Speaker 1: is a song that you think people might enjoy. Oh, well,

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Speaker 1: today I'm since I think this is the last day

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna leave it with a

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Speaker 1: very black song, very black experience. When you're listening to this,

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Speaker 1: this kind of reminds me of how to up to uh,

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Speaker 1: my grandfather's barbershop to get my hair cut on Saturday mornings.

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Speaker 1: But my dad would always play jazz music in the

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Speaker 1: car on the way up there, and and it brings

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Speaker 1: me back to that time. This song called Afro Blue,

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Speaker 1: This is an Eric about Doo track featuring Fonte and

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Speaker 1: Ninth Wonder. If you ever heard Robert Glaster Experiment unbelievable band,

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Speaker 1: Robert Glasters the obviously the leader of that band, incredible musician,

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Speaker 1: So check this out. It's Afro Blue Robert Glaster Erika

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Speaker 1: about Fonte and Ninth Wonder. And you can find that

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Speaker 1: in the Foes Amazing well as justin Mabe reference to

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Speaker 1: Miles Gray should be back the next episode of the

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Speaker 1: show that you listen to. I think I'll be on

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Speaker 1: this Afternoons trending episode and then on the regular Epps

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Speaker 1: going forward. The Daily Zyka is a production of my

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Speaker 1: us this morning. We're back this afternoon to tell you

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