#287: Comfort Rewatch - Empire Records

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Elsie

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You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen. This week, we're watching the

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1995 classic Empire records. We're also doing a hot take debate about technological advances, and

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we're bringing back our segment guilty pleasure treasure. So Empire records is one of our formative

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movies that we watched a lot in high school. It's up there for me with Clueless as just probably one of

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my most re watched movies. And last year, my husband got the criterion channel and Empire Records

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was on there, so we re watched it actually, like last year, pretty recently.

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Emma

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I think we rewatched it last year too, because we were watching it this week, and we were both like,

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when did we watch this last because it was somewhat recent. So anyway, it was probably then.

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Elsie

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It is one of those movies that I think you can re-watch an indefinite amount of times, and it never gets

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old. It's just such a fun, cozy movie. And this is actually one of the movies that I would love to use for,

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like, a book like this, meets this premise, like, I think, like Empire records, meets, I don't know what else

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I love, like the cozy group project plot, where there's a lot of people working together, and, like, just how

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their stories weave together. I love it. I love, like, a big cast of an especially, like Coming of Age

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characters. I think it's great.

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Emma

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And some, some of them are kind of like unlikely friends, but they're forced, you know, they have forced

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proximity, because they all work at this record store, and you kind of watch them take care of one

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another in meaningful ways, and then also, like, make fun of each other at times, or like, be kind of

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mean to each other at times, yes, and that's pretty fun and interesting. Yeah.

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Elsie

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So my theory is you're always one character from Empire records. Which one do you think you are?

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Emma

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Oh, I mean, in high school, I was probably the sad girl. I never had suicide, but I was probably her, also

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she's just kind of like alternative, and I really wanted to be very punk rock.

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Elsie

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Emma did have an almost shaved head.

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Emma

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I did, and I had a button maker. So there you go.

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Elsie

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You did, probably after you saw this movie.

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Emma

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Yes, immediately after I saw this movie, I was like, I need a button maker.

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Elsie

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I would want to be Deb, but I think I am Corey because I would be like, trying to go for something and

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then getting scared at the last minute. I think is very relatable to me. So very relatable. Yeah, yes. Okay,

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so what cozy spaces or decor are you inspired by? Obviously, this isn't like as much of a movie inside

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of homes. It's mostly inside of a record store.

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Emma

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Yeah, but they have this break room where a lot of the scenes take place. Lucas has to sit on the couch

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for most of the movie, which is like a leopard print couch. And it feels kind of like a living room in a way,

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because it's a break room where people kind of hang out. It's a very esthetic set, still, yeah. It really is,

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yeah. And I just love that break room, everything about it that was like my teenage girl dream space for

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sure, of like what I would have wanted my bedroom to feel like. And every time I watch this movie, and

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this time included, I'm obsessed with the character AJ, when he's like gluing down the quarters. Yes,

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there's a scene where one character knocks this bucket of quarters out of another character's hands in

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anger, and the quarters go flying. And then AJ glues them all down. And he kind of like, calls it art, like,

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at another time another character's trying to pull them up, and he's like, who glued these down? And

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he's like, I don't need to explain my art to you. Everything about that just speaks to me as someone

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who's just like, wants to make my little heart, my little High School heart is like, yes, exactly. I just love

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it. And gluing down quarters on the floor is so impractical, and 1,000% something we would have done

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in high school, and our parents probably would have let us do for who knows why? Because they're

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nice. But yeah, that kind of thing was.

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Elsie

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Our parents did let me wallpaper my own bathroom with magazines and mod posh they did, and they

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had to deal with it later.

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Emma

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Yeah, so they're very nice parents. Yeah, too nice.

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Elsie

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Yeah, I agree. I would not probably let my kids do that. But yeah, it was, it was wonderful, wonderful

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way to grow up. It was okay. So, yeah, I think the cozy. So, I think a record store is just inherently cozy.

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It is beautiful. Like, do you remember that big, that big, giant record store in LA where we went, Oh, my

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God, like that record store.

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Emma

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I'm trying to remember what it was called. It was down the street from my apartment. I would go there.

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They would have concerts there, a lot.

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Elsie

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I think Amoeba.

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Emma

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Yeah, Amoeba is amoeba record,

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Elsie

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Yeah, it was really nice. In our town we don't really have, like, a full record store anymore, but we have,

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like, we have places that have shelves of records still. And I just, I'm always like, I love it. Whenever I

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see a record store anywhere, we'll always go into always buy records for all timed now too, because

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your girls are. Into it. That's true. CDs, our kids love CDs, and they think CDs are normal, which I think

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is very cool for them.

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Emma

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Very cool for them. I also loved in the movie they show a few times, like these booths where people are

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listening to music, and I remember listening to music like at borders growing up and like, that's how I

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would discover new bands. Like, just everything about that's very nostalgia, yeah, just anywhere that

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had CD you could put the little headphones on in the aisle and listen to something.

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Elsie

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I know, the part of Barnes and Noble that used to have music is now a toy store in our in our town, and

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that's cool, man, it's actually really bad. My kids are banned from that section, and they're not allowed

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back there anymore because it caused so many problems. Okay, I will say I love, like a checker floor. I

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think is a classic, so I will always have a checker floor, any chance I get. But yeah, I think for this movie,

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The another thing that I'm very inspired about is the outfits. Yeah, so the plaid skirts, I still wear those to

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this day, and I definitely kind of always have, I think, I think I kind of always will, yeah, Liv Tyler has on a

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plaid skirt, pleated plaid skirt, fuzzy blue sweater and combat boots, and that outfit still love it to this

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day. Loved it in high school. Everything. Love. It's just absolutely classic, classic. I love the red bra red.

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Red is definitely my favorite underwear color. It's just the best. Like, obviously you can't wear under

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every outfit, but you kind of can. And then the part where she shaved red, the head shaving scene was

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everything in the 1990s like, and I read on the the trivia we're about to read, that it was real, and she

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really, like, it seemed like she was really shaving her head in the scene. Like, I was like, I don't see how

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they would have done this. It really looked like she's doing it. So yes, it's very wonderful. And yeah, I

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think Liv, Liv Tyler is, like, one of my ultimate girl crushes, yeah. And one of the reasons why, with the

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color seasons, I the only color season that I'm so jealous of is winter, because they have this, like,

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Snow White thing about them, you know, where they have, like, the blue eyes and the red lips and the

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really white skin. And I just think that it's like, so pretty, so pretty it is, yeah, and I also love Renee

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Zellweger in this movie.

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Emma

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Yes, if you were trying to sell me a workout class, and you were like, do this class, and you will have

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Renee Zellweger legs from Empire records, I would buy that class so fast. She looks so great in this

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Yeah, and her performance, singing, her whole performance in this movie is amazing. But she does a

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singing scene at the end of the movie, and it's so good, yeah, like, later she does Chicago. Like, you

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know, we all know now that Renee Zell Oyer can sing, but it's just like a really good performance. Like,

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you're like, is she a singer? Is she a rock star? I think, yes, I still feel like not enough people in the world

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have watched down with love, and that is one of my top all time movies, yeah. So do watch it if you

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love, like, a mid century esthetic, and Renee Zellweger and Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor,

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yeah, my ultimate crush. Okay, so I also really love on the we're still talking about outfits, a little bit AJs

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outfit. He has, like, these jeans on that have, like a patch that's like checkered or something. It's, almost

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like a little bit granola, but it's very like, art kid outfit. And I love that outfit too. Like, that's definitely

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something I would have done in high school. Like, like, rip up jeans and, like, patch them with

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something kind of weird. Like, I love it.

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Elsie

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I would call the esthetic Kurt Cobain 90s, like, because there's different types of 90s, and there's, like,

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Backstreet Boys 90s, and Christina Aguilera 90s, Britney Spears 90s. And I think that that's what a lot

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of people think of when they think of 90s. And I think you need to think of empire records and Kurt

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Cobain 90s instead to, like, really get like, why fashion was so special. Yeah, I love it so much. Every

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chance I get for the rest of my life, I will, just like, look at old pictures of Kurt Cobain and his outfits. I

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think he's, he's the best. Yeah, he's a style icon, for sure. Yes, okay, is there anything else about Empire

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records? I feel like it's very quotable, yes, and it's, it's just such a big part of our youth. So if you have

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never watched it, we're giving you a wonderful, wonderful gift. Yeah, it's like, hotel room service with the

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silver dome on top. Just pull that dome off and enjoy.

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Emma

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Yeah, it's also just very wacky, like, it's a really wack like, there's a lot of times characters turn to the

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camera and they're like, Well, that didn't go well, or, you know, something, you know, they speed, they

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break the fourth wall, and they just really go there. There's a sequence where a character is eating, I

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believe, a pot brownie, or maybe just a brownie. They don't totally explain it, but I'm pretty sure he's no

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and he kind of like pictures himself in this music video, but then he gets killed. He dies in it, and he kind

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of just like, you see the character, kind of like, be sad, and then almost kind of laugh and accept it.

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There's just so many weird things going on in this movie, and it's really fun and good, but also very feels

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kind of like a first draft, in a way where you're like, okay, yeah.

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Elsie

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I agree. Yeah, we haven't talked about Ethan Embry yet. So he is definitely, I think, along with Seth

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Green, he's one of those 90s icons that should never be forgotten. No, and he is. He's very

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immortalized, but I do think this is one of his best performances. And, yeah, this as this character. He's

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so iconic. Yeah, Lucas, yeah. No, not Lucas. He's Lucas is the one with black hair.

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Emma

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Wait, who is this character. Oh, he's the silly, yeah, yeah. Oh, Mark. Mark. Okay, he plays mark, yes,

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yes. And Mark's so lovable. Even has this moment where he like, goes to almost kiss a girl while she

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has headphones on, which is, like, not, okay. Then it just kind of turns into him dancing with her, and

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she's into it. And it's, you know, it's very 90s, but it's just he's just so lovable in this movie, where you're

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like, he's adorable and sort of crazy and he's harmless, yeah, just he feels very much like a little

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brother, yes, yeah, I love it.

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Elsie

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Okay, let's read the trivia.

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Emma

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Let's see here we got Rex Manning, which we didn't even talk about Rex Manning, but Well, we could

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talk about Rex Manning. Okay, Rex Manning. Music Videos Say no more. Mona Moore was shot on

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Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina in one day. It was shot before principal photography, intended as a

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17 second dance movie piece for the main actors and actresses to make fun of. However, the music

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video director shot for the entire day and gave the producers a four minute 32nd music video. Love that

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he's like, I'm just gonna go ahead and make a real music video right now.

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Elsie

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It's such a funny video. Like, it the discomfort that you feel. And I thought that, like, yeah, like, his

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makeup up close, there's something like, about, like, like, kind of like the old Hollywood, like the 80s,

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like, there's something just so good bad in that makeup and that esthetic. Like, you really believe that

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he's, like, he used to be famous, and it, there's something so ick about it. It's funny too, because that

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actor is very handsome. He's in, like, grease too. You wouldn't know it, but in this movie they, and you

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still think he's handsome, but it's just the makeup. They give him an outfit. It's just, you're like, it's

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horrible.

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Emma

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It makes him look older, too.

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Elsie

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He's got the orange tan, the original orange tan. Yeah, he does. Celebrated annually on April 8. Rex

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Manning day commemorates the day that washed up 1980s Pop Idol. Rex Manning, played by Max

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Caulfield, visited the fictional Empire records on a previous Rex Manning day in 2018 Ethan Embry

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confirmed the deeper meaning behind the decision for Empire records to take place on April 8. The

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reason we picked April 8 as the day to have Rex Manning visit Empire records is because Nirvana

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frontman Kurt Cobain was found on the eighth day of April, the day the music of the 1990s lost its

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mascot. Oh, that's very sad. That's very sad. Kurt Cobain was found dead on April 8, 1994 Exactly a

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year before Empire records takes place. Wow, I didn't I would not have known that.

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Emma

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That's an interesting one. No, I didn't know what day that is very so I actually don't even think I

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registered in the movie. What day Rex Manning day was Me neither. They just keep saying it's Rex

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Manning day, yeah, yeah. And they're like, putting up signs and stuff, yeah. Okay. Next trivia. The

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movie was written by a former employee of tower record store, number 166, at the christown Mall in

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Phoenix, Arizona. Some of her former co workers still working there cited antidotes and other elements

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from this movie that related to the store for a long time after the movie's release, the store closed in

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early 2005.

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Elsie

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That's adorable. I love that. Yeah, I think you should always try to write a story about some kind of place

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you've been that was very specific.

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Emma

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And I'm just gonna go ahead, in my mind, be like Empire records based on a true story. I'm just gonna

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go ahead and just file that based on a true place.

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Elsie

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Yeah, I think so, yeah. Robin Tunney shaved off her real hair in the bathroom scene. She had to wear a

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wig for her next movie, The Craft worth it. I have actually never seen The Craft and that I feel like that's

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wrong.

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Emma

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You should definitely watch it. I want to. It's pretty fun. Okay, this movie was severely edited in post

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production, removing three significant characters, and it was up to 40 minutes of footage. The story was

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also condensed from. Occurring over two days to a single day. Okay, yeah, I want the whole thing. So

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we notice the credits are rolling. And my husband's one of those who's just like, constantly, like, kind of

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looking up actors ages while we're watching movies. Or he just notices, like, this B character who you

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barely even see. He's like, Oh, that person was in this he can just do that. So the credits are rolling, and

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we're just kind of talking about the movie, and he's like, Tobey Maguire was in this, and Tobey Maguire

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is credited in the credits as a character named Andre. And we were like, who was Andre? I don't know.

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So then we were like, Googling, and it was like, apparently Tobey Maguire had a fairly large role in this

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movie, but then he dropped out, and so this Andre character is not in the movie at all. So I'm thinking

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that's part of, like, what was severely edited was some kind of story with Tobey Maguire, who was

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playing a character named Andre.

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Elsie

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I don't know. I think that kind of thing is so fascinating when they change a story when you're trying to,

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like, fix a movie that's already been shot. Because, you know, obviously that sounds horrible. I think it's

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really interesting. I love the stories, and I would love to see more footage. I would love to hear, if

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anyone knows more. Okay, when filming the scene in which Warren runs away from the store, his stunt

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double ran into the card door so hard that he cracked a rip. Okay? I feel like that's probably a stunt

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doubles way of life. I know, right? And that's kind of what they're paid for, right? I guess so. But gosh,

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that's horrible.

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Emma

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I feel like I've never had a cracked rib, but it makes me think, like every time you laugh, every arrow it's

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probably just Yeah, okay, next trivia. AJ checks his pocket watch to see how much time he has left to

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tell Corey Mason he loves her at 1:37pm and the current time is shown as 130 Corey unwittingly joins

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him on the roof exactly seven minutes of runtime later at 137 Exactly.

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Elsie

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All right, the last one. This is Renee zellwegers On Screen singing debut. She sings sugar high with

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coyote shivers. Yeah, we've already discussed that the song at the end is a 10 out of 10, and obviously

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she went on to sing a lot more on camera, which I'm glad for.

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Emma

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Yeah, because she can sing Yes. But her performance here does it's so good because it's like she does

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a great job, but she also does give you the performance of, I'm nervous, and I don't, I don't know, and I

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have all this nervous energy.

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Elsie

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Yeah, like her confidence is building through the song, right?

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Emma

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Exactly, yeah, it's really, it's really great performance, and it's such a fun song to see someone sing. So

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yeah, and this movie is so fun. Damn the man, damn the man.

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Elsie

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All right. Well, please watch it if you've never seen it, but hopefully everyone has. You should so

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magical. It's very good. Yes, watch it with your kids. If they start saying they want y2k style, because

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they don't even know what that means.

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Emma

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Yeah, if they're like, we really want vintage y2k style, then don't get your feelings hurt, just pull out this

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movie. All right, now it's time for a hot take debate. This is from Willow. Yes, this is from Willow. They

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say. My hot take is that we've gone far enough with technological advances we can stop now. I don't

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need the Internet to be any faster, or my photos to be any more clear, or my phone to do anything else.

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Elsie

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I'm with you, Willow, I'm gonna say, okay, sure, fine. I agree with this. I'm fine with it, but I actually it

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actually made me think there's a few pieces of old technology, or old technology adjacent things that I

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would want to get back that. Oh yeah, you lost, you know, like film, photography, things like that. So I

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have a couple. Do you want to hear them?

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Emma

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Yes, okay. The first one is telegrams. Just kidding. That is the speed at which I would like to talk to

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people. No, yeah, okay.

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Elsie

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The first one is all one price cable, we talk about this all the time. Streaming, oh my god, at first,

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streaming was like a modern miracle, and now it's become like so many different it's just streampointed

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cable subscriptions that it feels like so much worse than cable, because you used to be able to just,

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like, sort of get everything and have you know, that access? So, yeah, we think that maybe we need to

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go back in the other direction to all one, which probably isn't realistic, but I'm still gonna say it anyway. It

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was gonna happen. It was nice when you could just get everything in one.

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Emma

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It was because we're constantly like, Okay, we haven't watched this in a long time. We should cancel it.

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And then the next thing you know, you cancel HBO. Everyone's talking about Heated Rivalry, and

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you're like, dang it, yeah, it's true. I'm like, just give it all to us with one big bill. Instead of thinking like,

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Oh, I'm only spending a little bit. But it's like, no, when you count them up, it's just all one big bill

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anyway.

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Elsie

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Yeah, we alternate them, but it's, it's still a bunch. Yeah, okay. The next thing is MTV. MTV, I don't know

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if you heard. Word that it like, officially had its last, oh, really broadcast, and it is over forever. And then

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Jeremy was like, I found this website, and it's like, MTV, and you can watch music news on it. But then

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he like, fast forward. And I was like, Okay, if you can fast forward, it's not MTV. Like it. The point is that

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you have to watch the whole Sheryl Crow video, even if you don't want to, yeah, you know what I mean

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is kind of the point to get to, like, the good ones that you're waiting for, you know, like, that's the beauty

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of it, yeah?

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Emma

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Or, like, you're over in another room, you're going pee, and then your sister screams the Gwen Stefani

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one side, and you're like, hurry up, so you get back in there so you could watch it, you know.

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Elsie

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Push record for sure, yeah, Gwen Stefani and the cardigans was our special someone's, yeah, in those

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days, okay. And then the last thing that I missed this is this one's actually, I think it kind of still exists, but

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it's not the same. Is I miss shows like 60 minutes, or like a Barbara Walters interview. It was like in the

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old days, if a celebrity was in the news, they would do this big interview that was an hour long, right?

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And they would ask them all the hard questions, and then everyone would watch it at the same time,

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and everyone would talk about it the next day, you know. And it was like, just all these big you know,

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yeah, we don't have as many cultural touchstones or whatever. Yeah, and like, now we still have, like,

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the presidential debates, but even with that, it's like, I don't feel, you know, in the award shows, but I

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wish we had more things where everyone was watching it together. I missed that. And, yeah, just the

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long form.

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Emma

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Have you considered getting into sports? Okay, well, I'm just putting out there that. It's one thing that

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people tend to still watch live.

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Elsie

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Oh, yeah, no, I think sports is good for you, not for me, yeah, but yeah, I think that maybe we do have

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enough technology.

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Emma

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Well, I don't know where Willow is coming from exactly on this, but I will say I don't want a new phone

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all the time. Yeah, that was one of the things that I was so happy whenever we didn't have our app

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company more after we sold it, that I didn't have to get a new phone every time they came out with a

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new phone, because I find that so tedious and annoying and like, it's always barely better. I'm like, you

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can wait five years. You can probably wait longer than five years. Yeah, I don't even know, hold my

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phone. Sometimes it's worse, and sometimes it's kind of worse, and then you had to transfer all your

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stuff over and all the things, and it's just ridiculous, because it's like, this isn't even really that much

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better. You're just selling me something. But for apps, we needed it. You had to know how things

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worked on the new devices. So whatever. But, yeah, but, and I sure Willow would agree with this too.

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Obviously, a lot of our technological advances are amazing and making people's lives way, way, way

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better, especially people with different abilities, people have different kinds of illnesses. So there's all

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sorts of things that I think we should keep moving forward with the technology.

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Elsie

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Yeah, no, we all still want to cure cancer. I just don't want a new phone every year.

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Emma

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Yeah, yeah. I just got some petty complaints here, but I'm still excited for the big things.

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Elsie

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Yeah, it is petty. I love it, yeah. Okay, well, next week we'll try to do a non petty episode to balance.

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Emma

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Oh, but I mean, we'll try. We'll try just, yeah.

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Elsie

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Okay, let's pass it over to a joke or a fact with Nova. Hey, Nova, what do you have for us this week?

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Nova

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Meditation.

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Elsie

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A meditation of what type?

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Nova

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A ramen meditation.

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Elsie

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Okay, I'm closing my eyes.

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Nova

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Take three deep breaths. Now that we're calm, let's begin. Imagine you walk into a ramen store

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entranced by its smell. You walk to a table where a smiling young waitress comes and gets your order.

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Then as you wait, you eat some appetizers that taste so good. Then when your ramen comes, you take

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one bite, and it tastes like joy just went into your mouth. You finish your meal, then leave an extra bake

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and thank every chef in the restaurant. Everyone is so happy, and everyone says goodbye to you, and

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when you leave, you're the happiest you could be as you get into your car and make sure to tell

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everyone you know how good that restaurant was. Before we open our eyes, let's take a few more

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deep breaths. All right, let's open our eyes. Let's come back, and I hope you all have a good day.

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Elsie

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Have a good day. All right, before we go, we have a guilty pleasure treasure, since we got a request to

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not let our old segment die, which, by the way, please do. Send us suggestions for what topics you

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would like for full episodes, listener questions, hot takes, anything you have podcasted, a beautiful

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mess, calm, any day, any time. We are always enjoying those emails. Okay, so my guilty pleasure

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treasure this week, I spent a while thinking about this longer than you would think I was thinking like,

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what is the greatest? Because, you know, when you, when you travel the world, everyone's like,

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American food is disgusting. American chocolate, ew, you know. And then like, and which is fine,

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because I can, to some extent, I can agree a lot of those things, like our croissants better in Paris is

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sushi better in Japan. Haven't been there, I'm assuming. So you know what I mean.

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Emma

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Yeah, I'll get, yeah, yeah, yeah, foods that's like, from their country of origin. I hope they're better there.

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Elsie

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And like, the British people with the chocolate, I'm not like, a milk chocolate person, so I can't really, I

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kind of hate them both personally. But I get I get it because I do think our chocolate is kind of waxy

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sometimes. But anyway, I was like, what American grocery store food would I die on this hill for? Oh,

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and I kind of had two and then, but then the end, I had to pick the top of the top. And I did this for my

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kids, because I was thinking of the pool. I think that the greatest American treasure, grocery store food

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is Funyuns.

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Emma

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Your kids do love fun.

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Elsie

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They just love they just love it.

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Emma

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Oh my gosh, love it. They eat them. And then they come talking right in my face, telling me whatever

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story I don't Oh my gosh, yeah, your breath smells just like a funyun? Yeah, Funyuns are pretty good.

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Yep.

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Elsie

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My second place was Snickers bar ice cream sandwiches. Snicker like, Snickers you know, like it looks

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like a Snickers bar, but it is an ice cream on the inside.

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Emma

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You know what's wild, because Elsie and I do the pool together with our kids, is you don't like, just the

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regular ice cream sandwich. You're like, against it, kind of like microwaves.

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Elsie

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The one that doesn't melt because it's ice cream foam.

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Emma

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Okay, well, here's the it does melt.

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Elsie

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It does not.

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Emma

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Yeah, it does. It's like, melting on your fingers while you eat it. So I don't know what you mean. I'm not

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saying it's healthy, but, like, I don't really know. I don't know. I feel like you saw some video and you're

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off them. Because I'm like, I like them. They're like, classic. They taste foam.

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Elsie

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I think a classic Ice Cream Sandwich is gross.

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Emma

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A lot of ice cream tastes foamy to me, though. So just like, I don't know, foamy, you know?

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Elsie

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Okay, no, whenever at the pool, if they don't have the Oreo ice cream sandwich or the Snickers bar. I'm

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kind of up the little cone. I can do the little cone a drum stick. Yeah, I don't know why it's called that, but

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that works too. Anyway, we're just talking about the pool now, okay, tell me your guilty pleasure.

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Emma

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I don't know if I have one. I gotta think of something.

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Elsie

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You can just not. Do you have a greatest American grocery store food?

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Emma

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I mean, Oreos. Oreos is a good one. And I've had Oreos in other countries. I think America's are the

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best, but they're probably the worst for you. I have no idea. I don't know what's I don't know so, but

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they're the best tasting.

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Elsie

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So, yeah, I love getting I love like, when you go to other countries and they have different versions of,

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like, lace potato chips, like different flavors and different flavors of Kit Kats. And I love all of that.

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Emma

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I love going to a grocery store when I'm traveling, especially internationally, because I just like seeing

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what everyone so, what are your guys's snacks? Yeah, you guys buy for, like, a quick lunch, you know,

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a takeaway lunch. What do you got? I'm interested.

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Elsie

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Yeah, I'm also obsessed with, like, if you're in a foreign country, what is the McDonald's in the

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Starbucks menu? Which is, like, not food. I'm like, that excited about in the US, obviously. But like, it's

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just fun to see, like, what different menu items they have. I think is cool.

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Emma

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And different packaging. It's just kind of interesting and fun. It's just silly. It's just silly and fun.

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Elsie

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It's joyful. Okay, we're leaving, we're we're going, Okay, see you next week.