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Are You Enjoying This? · Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

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  Speaker 1: Are you enjoying this? Is anyone enjoying this at all?
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  Speaker 1: It's one more thing. I'm strong and getty. One more thing.
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  Speaker 1: I took my son and two of his best friends
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  Speaker 1: on a little getaway Friday for my son's birthday. And
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  Speaker 1: because they're teenagers to fifteen year olds and a fourteen
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  Speaker 1: year old, I have no idea if they had a
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  Speaker 1: good time or not. I don't really know. What do
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  Speaker 1: you mean? Huh, you can't tell teenagers. You can't tell
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  Speaker 1: they just see, they got to act so aloof all
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  Speaker 1: the time, oh yeah, okay, now, a lot of laughing
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  Speaker 1: to themselves and everything like that. And I heard them
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  Speaker 1: in their hotel room and they seem to be having
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  Speaker 1: good time. But like in terms of just asking them questions, see, yeah, okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: right whatever. Just I don't know. It's that cool guy age,
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  Speaker 1: the cool guy age. Oh my god, the amount of
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  Speaker 1: time it takes to an effort to walk, dress, talk,
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  Speaker 1: the way you got to be to be cool. Look,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like a lot of work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm usually pretty good at sussing out why, you know,
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  Speaker 2: kids and teenagers act in certain ways developmentally speaking, the
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  Speaker 2: rest of it, but the whole I don't like anything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what that's all about. You want to
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  Speaker 2: seem in control. And do they associate and this is
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  Speaker 2: all I'm not saying this is insidious or anything, because
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  Speaker 2: it's practically universal. Yeah, but do they associate enthusiasm with childishness?
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  Speaker 1: I wonder that's a pretty good one right there. But
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  Speaker 1: I felt like the three of them together, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we did some pretty cool stuff, and they saw some
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool stuff, and I felt like they each had
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  Speaker 1: to pretend to the other two that they weren't impressed
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  Speaker 1: for some reason, which left me thinking, why are we
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  Speaker 1: doing this? Is anybody enjoying this?
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  Speaker 2: Feeling superior to things and people? It's really important to
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  Speaker 2: teens too. That's why the you know, the social ladder
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  Speaker 2: thing can be so brutal, because anybody you can put
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  Speaker 2: below you elevates you, like on the class rank of coolness,
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  Speaker 2: which is just savage and it's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Well, here's a perfect example to make my own point,
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  Speaker 1: I suppose. So we were at the Grove, which is
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  Speaker 1: a shopping area in Los Angeles for people who don't know,
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  Speaker 1: very cool, upscale, outdoor, beautiful day in LA. Tons of
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  Speaker 1: people there and everything like that, and I let them
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  Speaker 1: walk around and do stuff. They got some food the
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  Speaker 1: Farmer's market there, and they went around, shopped at some
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  Speaker 1: stores that they like and that sort of thing. I
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  Speaker 1: left them alone, and I thought, all I was walking around,
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  Speaker 1: I thought they have got to be noticing the female
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  Speaker 1: contingent here. I mean, because it was I mean between
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  Speaker 1: the ages of like fifteen and thirty, you know, hot
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  Speaker 1: and cold, running la tan well dressed attractive women, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought they got to be noticing with teenage boys. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I brought that up on the Uber ride to the airport.
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  Speaker 1: Some attractive woman there in place. Yeah, I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: so not. Okay, now I know you're having to put
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  Speaker 1: on a front, because that's ridiculous. I mean, you're in
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  Speaker 1: freaking loss upscale Los Angeles. Unless you're all three gay,
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  Speaker 1: you're really trying too hard.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and then at least say, I don't know about
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  Speaker 2: the chicks, but the dudes were pretty fresh or fly
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  Speaker 2: or whatever people say these days. Fly That one goes
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  Speaker 2: back like twenty five thirty years, doesn't it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that reminds me I've got to find that hang. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna make a note to myself even as we speak.
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  Speaker 2: NPR did a feature about dropping testosterone levels, and they
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  Speaker 2: had all the men at the NPR station test their testosterone.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had an erection in a decade and a
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  Speaker 1: half and they were all like, way sub average. Oh
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  Speaker 1: really like every.
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  Speaker 2: Dude using finger quotes who worked there. It was like, uh, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: but in the parlance of today's youth, a real beta male,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like a effeminate fella. And that does not
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  Speaker 2: shock It amuses me in a way, and it confirms
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  Speaker 2: what I've thought, Well, what you came first. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: is there something about working at NPR that drives down
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  Speaker 2: your just drivesterone levels that could happen or is that
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  Speaker 2: just a certain sort of person that.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a type and there's a lot Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: oh I would agree, Yeah, I know some.
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  Speaker 3: I hope it's nothing that these guys have been taught
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  Speaker 3: like in school, like, oh, we don't engage in toxic masculinity.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's not that. I don't think that. It was
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  Speaker 1: just a I got to be unimpressed. It makes me
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  Speaker 1: cooler to be unimpressed. I think that's what it was.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you are a normal, healthy young
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  Speaker 2: man and you see an attractive woman with whom your
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  Speaker 2: very biology cries out for you to couple and produce
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  Speaker 2: young They say, if you say she's really good looking,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna hit you with a bat. She's hot, pam
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  Speaker 2: ow ow ow, she's really cute, pam.
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  Speaker 1: Oh god stop. You can't help yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But I didn't think so. Although again, the teenage lads,
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  Speaker 2: I give so much latitude. Adolescence is so hard and complicated. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you're twenty six and you're the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Says I don't think she's good looking, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: that's pathetic.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it's so pathetic.
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  Speaker 1: I dated Okay, Oh, I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Because you're such a stud and could have any woman
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  Speaker 2: on earth. The top two percent of women isn't quite
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  Speaker 2: hot enough for you. I get the message you're trying
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  Speaker 2: to send, and it's sad.
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  Speaker 4: I dated a guy like that in high school and
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  Speaker 4: it was insufferable. He could not he could not be
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  Speaker 4: am used by anything, and I just remember it going like,
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  Speaker 4: are you are you too cool for everything? I'm not
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  Speaker 4: understanding this and he actually, I don't know that he's
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  Speaker 4: grown out of it, to be honest with you.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty six, Now I've.
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  Speaker 2: Got to be vague about this to protect the innocent,
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  Speaker 2: But there was somebody I know very very well who
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  Speaker 2: was dating a young man who was very attractive, very smart,
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  Speaker 2: great future ahead of him. But not to overstate it,
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  Speaker 2: but he definitely had a mister spockish personality where he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't like super delighted by much. Sure, he was just
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  Speaker 2: emotionally very flat, very cool, very reserved, I mean, like
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  Speaker 2: very and this is you know, this is beyond your teenagers,
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  Speaker 2: and I just I think that's probably just the way
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  Speaker 2: he was made.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I gotta believe in that case, since he was
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  Speaker 1: attractive and you said had a bright future. Most of
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  Speaker 1: the people have known past being a teenager, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: high school or high schoolers different. As you've said, it's
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  Speaker 1: just part of the thing for whatever reason. But like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're thirty years old and you're not impressed by
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  Speaker 1: anything or anyone. I've known a plenty of like real losers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, your dating prospects are not good, your financial
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  Speaker 1: prospects are not good. So obviously that's a protection mechanism
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  Speaker 1: if you pretend you're not interested in anybody in this
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  Speaker 1: bar because you know, you feel like none of them
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  Speaker 1: are interested in you. That is a help to protect you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Been said of bigotry, and I think it's right that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it springs from people who are desperate
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  Speaker 2: to feel superior to someone. Yeah yeah, I mean they
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  Speaker 2: don't have any rational basis on which to feel superior.
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  Speaker 2: They go with you know, skin color or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm picturing a particular person I know, and
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  Speaker 1: I've known several people like that, not impressed with anybody's
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  Speaker 1: car or house or anything like that because they are
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  Speaker 1: never going to have anything worth a crap. So it
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  Speaker 1: just makes it easier. I guess all the way pretty
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  Speaker 1: sad and transparent, so it doesn't bother me. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I feel bad for somebody who has to do that
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  Speaker 1: to get through the day, but yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's psychological self protection. I ran into somebody like
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  Speaker 2: that recently too, and it hurt my heart because you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're not a bad person, but it was definitely a
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  Speaker 2: rationalizing thing. It's similar to, you know, the only way
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  Speaker 2: you can be successful is because you're a cheating, you know,
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  Speaker 2: white person or whatever. And it's rare that you see
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's reached their full potential pitching that sort of nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: Uh oh, and one more thing on this, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just gonna have to accept this at a certain level.
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  Speaker 1: I fight it in my own home. I've talked about
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  Speaker 1: this a lot, like the stirring at your phone. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want you doing it in the car with me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understood the dinner table, but this was my
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  Speaker 1: son and his friends. This was kind of their weekend
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  Speaker 1: for his birthday. So I'm not going to tell them
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  Speaker 1: how to interact with each other. But it's amazing how
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  Speaker 1: much time they spent looking at their phones when the
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  Speaker 1: three of them are together. That's just I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's the way the world's going to be. And I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I can't change it. But I just thought, wow, it's.
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  Speaker 4: Like the main form of entertainment, even when you're in
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  Speaker 4: good company.
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  Speaker 1: Right and like, and we're riding around in these ubers
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  Speaker 1: through Los Angeles, and there's all kinds of freaking cool
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  Speaker 1: things everywhere you go, or unique things you've never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought, you know, I pointed out a couple
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  Speaker 1: of a couple of people and they glance up for
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  Speaker 1: their phone for a second, go back to their phone.
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  Speaker 1: I finally gave up on that and just not interested
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  Speaker 1: in observing anything in the world other than and they're
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  Speaker 1: playing games on their front then looking at the game
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  Speaker 1: on their phone. All right, I guess. Yeah, I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen the Hollywood sign before. Oh that's another thing. That's
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  Speaker 1: another thing I picked up at, and that makes perfectly
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  Speaker 1: good sense. The younger set has no interest in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: That thing is dead as soon as like forty five
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  Speaker 1: year olds grow old enough to be dead. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the cutoff is, but the younger generation, there's
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  Speaker 1: no such thing as that. I grew up with, like
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood movie stars being a thing, it's not with the
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  Speaker 1: younger generation. They don't even know what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Staying at a hotel right next to or right down
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  Speaker 2: the street from Warner Brothers studios, I'm thinking, oh, man,
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  Speaker 2: that's where, right, No, none of that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that doesn't mean anything to the younger crowd, which man,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if Hollywood's aware of that. They probably are,
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  Speaker 1: but I wonder what that is.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be.
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  Speaker 4: All the streaming services maybe lost in the I think
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  Speaker 4: it's just so diffuse, I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess in video gaming, and yeah, that's that's part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Plus there's more transparency in the world these days, so
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  Speaker 2: you just you don't think of movie actors as these distant,
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  Speaker 2: superior race of humans, beings that you will never know,
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  Speaker 2: you'll never touch, you'll never hear from. They just exist
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  Speaker 2: on the silver screen or it carefully orchestrated publicity events. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if some famous actor and his old lady are bitching
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  Speaker 2: at each other in the streets, you see the video
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  Speaker 2: on TMZ. Alrighty go out without makeup, or scene going
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  Speaker 2: into a public bathroom in a park or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You think Larry.
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  Speaker 2: Goes is Ben Affleck pooping. I'll be dad. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: get that with Bogey and Picall.
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  Speaker 1: No, you did not get their humbry bogar pooping. Yes, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: Now I just say.
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  Speaker 3: Younger people, they can film themselves, so it's nothing special
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  Speaker 3: to be on TV. It's like, well, geez, I do
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  Speaker 3: that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a bad point. Actually, oh, excellent point. I say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you win. That is the podcast observation of the day. Congratulations, Michael. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's it.