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What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Firms Represents Morning Show. Well, here we are gathered around
the festive table trying to smile and have a great day,
and we will, but we're also thinking thinking about the
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news that's breaking as we speak out of Las Vegas.
So we just did the four hour show this morning,
which was rough to do, but we needed to do it.
We did a great job, and now we got fifteen
more minutes. So where do you want to start? What
do you do if you have a fifteen minute morning
show podcast and it's a sad day, Well, you do
a podcast, David Brody, go let me turn on your microphone. Okay,
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thank you. Um. Last night I had an epiphany. You
guys have all watched TV shows and movies where you
see yourself on the screen, and so last night, Curb
your Enthusiasm returned to HBO after many years. There you are,
and I'm I'm laughing along at the show, going what
a loser? He's so neurotic and he complains, and then
I realized I had done some of those exact things
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in my life years ago or recently, like he had
a problem with a pump on a soap bottle, and
that's the first scene in the show. We couldn't get
it open, and he was and he cracked it open
and he poured it out. And I did that here
with the soap dispenser out by the front desk the
bathroom there the pump was the character on TV that
you're kind of feeling sorry for, is you? Yeah? So,
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I'm wondering, have you ever seen a either a neurotic
or romantic in a good or a bad way, a
character in your life depicted in the movie or a
TV show where you went, oh god, you already have
to do some deep soul searching too to admit that
you are that person. Yeah, I'm Larry David. I mean
really sorry without the money. Well, there was an article
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in the newspaper on Friday. They talked about him starting
out in comedy and how he treated his audience and
and his his anxieties and everything listed in an article
is exactly me without the money. So is anyone else
in the room thinking of that person, that character? Every
time I say something to the kids, I go, that's
my mom. That's fair. Yeah, that's like you know, certain
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thing and certain things I love, And then there are
certain things where I'm like no, no, no, no no no.
So yeah. The movie Mean Girls, the Tina Fey plays
one of their teachers, and she just has these really awkward,
like self unaware moments in front of her students, like
when she takes off her sweater and her shirt underneath
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comes with it and now she's just in her bra
Like that kind of stuff happens to me all the time.
Do you see a little of yourself? And yeah? Or
she says just like the most she says she kind
of overshares to her students, And I find myself doing
that where if the other person isn't really responding, I'll
just keep talking until I've given away too much information
about my personal life and then it makes it awkward
for everybody that I think it's weird when you see
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a character like that and you go, oh my god,
that's me. Or Danielle notices her mom she is her mom,
and like, oh, dear lord roundhead. I think I'm Kevin
James in Paul Blarton mall cop Um. When when when
Kevin James is like, you know, he's always falling down
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or gets hit by the car. That's That's why I
think I am I think I'm that guy that's just
klutzy and messy, and you know, falling down means well
and it just happens. So I I look at myself
like that. Other times I think I'm Tom Cruise in
Top Gun and I'm like, yeah, where's the last time
you had that fleeting thought? I tried. I try to
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have very often straight night. I'm like the police captain
in stereotypical buddy cop movies where the buddy cops go
out and like wreck a bunch of police cars and
then they go back to the captain and the captains like,
what do you do? You just wrecked all these cars.
Now I've got to fix this. It's my problem now
is that you? Yeah, that's me. You know, you're like
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the cop out there, you know, running around the rogue
You're the rogue cop. You're gonna take his badge? Yeah,
I'm gonna microphone. Seriously, that's me, and I gotta fix
up all your messages. Uh. It was weird. I don't
think about myself as characters, but like after seeing Bruno
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Mars last week, I walked out of the concert feeling
like I had Bruno Mars swag. So I kind of
felt like walking. I started walking like Bruno mars Or.
I tend to think after I see like a Ryan
Gosling movie or a rock movie. During the Rock Johnson,
I feel like I am them, even though I don't
look like them, but in my mind, I feel like
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i'm them. We see. I think that's really great about
that a movie or a character can movie that much.
Where For instance, if I leave um an action thriller,
when I leave the theater, I'm actually looking around corners
just you know, I'm waiting for someone to like try
trying to chase me down, you know, or trying to
kidnap me and throw me the van. Because I really
get into that. The tempo of the story, I'm like,
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I'm a part yeah, yeah, what about you Scary the
cartoon Peter Pan. I feel like I'm Peter pan Pan,
the boy who does not want to grow up I
guess what, And I'm tinker Bell, so you're the boy
who doesn't thank you. I don't want to do adult things.
I'm bad at it. I don't there's a lot of
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adult things that, uh that I've crossed my mind that like, yeah,
I don't ever want to do that, And I'm just
like living in this fantasy world right now, and I'm
happy I'm to live there, in that oblivious little world.
Speaking of movies, I was having a conversation with our
friend Lydia Malcolm this weekend. He said, you know what,
we don't have enough of these days. We used to
have him a lot during the nineties, in the early
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two thousands, romantic comedies like the simple just like Nora Ephron.
You know what I'm saying, like romantic comedies, Jennifer Aniston,
Vince Vaughan, Yeah, Hugh Grant, what happened to those? We
have romantic movies, but they're usually sad, like like me
before you. It's always just like you both fall in
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love and then one of you dies the end. Love
is real. But now romantic comedies are a little bit.
They become superhero films, and that's what's dominating. I think
technology really took over where the just simple romantic comedies
kind of went by the wayside because there's so much
technology out there that people want the crazy action, the
crazy graphics, and then the love story is just kind
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of like thrown to the side. Is it also because
it's not it's not real? Because unlike the superhero films
that are totally real, but they're always tied up into
a nice little bow at the end and everything. It's
the happily ever after thing, where as we know that
we live in imperfect society. So maybe people don't want
to see that. I don't know. I think I'm guess
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maybe people are just so aware that they're so unrealistic.
They've really set up some unrealistic standards for relationships. I've read,
I've read her I heard or something that if you
want to go on a romantic date, do not go
to a romantic comedy because it's going to set you
both up to fail. Well, yeah, it's like social media.
It's not as glamorous as we all filter it to be.
You should go to like a horror movie or a
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comedy so that you're both like brought together here by
laughing or brought together by fear. Hey, I didn't kill you.
I'm a good guy. That look better Elvis. What movie
besides Devils Products are you a character in? Is there
a movie? Well? I sometimes think of myself as Will
from Will and Grace. Oh yeah, I can see that
a little bit. Yeah, Okay, but in Bird cage. You
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are about Nathan Laney at times too well, thank you
for not saying I'm who am I Nathan Lane? Lathan,
I'm not Nathan Lane, Robin William. When you throw a
little when you get a little dramatic, either a little fit,
it is very funny. You get very funny, like when
you I wasn't paying enough attention to you because you
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wanted to make some sort of Italian dish and you
were just like paying attention to me, I need to
make whatever. You're also a lot more jack when you
get upset than you are will No, I'm not You're
making me up to be this big flamboy. There you go.
I am not nowhere as flamboyant as they are. No. No,
but in your anger you get very well, I think
it more. Karen, You know, I guess I am all
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four characters on Will and graz You do look a
good cocktail like Smartini. So all right, moving on. You know,
we made an announcement on our show today that we
are merging with our friends at Feeding America. And if
you're hearing this didn't hear it on the show, please
go to Feeding America dot org. Slash Elvis you can
actually punch in your zip code no matter where you
live in this great nation of ours, and you can
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donate directly to your neighborhood's food kitchen. It's such an
amazing thing they're doing. I like the fact that you
can keep it local, like you can actually help people
in your town or neighborhood and know where the food
is going, because so many of these places they say yeah, yeah,
we're going to donate it, and you don't know where
the hell the money is going. The fact that you
know where the money is that makes a huge difference.
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I went on a fact finding mission at the New
York City Food Bank, which is actually a massive warehouse
up in Hunts Point, and this is the part of
New York City where most majority of our food comes
into this area and then it's distributed into a region
from there, huge warehouses filled with fish and flowers and
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all these different food markets well, and and the Feeding
America Food Bank is a massive, massive structure and they
have food Fresh Prochace. We also have lots of canned
things here and there, and they the way they manage
it and how it's distributed in the area is just
mind boggling. So much goes into it on a scale
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of one to Costco. How big is it. It's beyond Costco.
Oh no, it's massive, beyond Super Costco. It's beyond Supercos.
I'm sure over here bread you didn't believe. And you know,
they and they know that the perishable items that are
coming through there are on a on a clock, you know,
and they make sure. I said, well, what do you
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do with food that spoils? They said, food doesn't spoil
here because we make sure it's in the hands of
the people who need it. They are so well organized
that they are, and they take donations from everyone from
a big corporate sponsors, from the from and I don't
want the big box stores, and also food companies, but
also restaurants and restaurant management companies. I mean everyone who
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can donate great food. They do and they they get
it and they send it out. I love hearing that
because there's so much food waste. I am guilty of it.
You know, when's last time you made a dinner and
actually paid attention to the amount of food that you
put in the trash can. This this past weekend, I
was out at the farm with our friend Lydia, and
I cooked a lot of meals, and I made for
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damn sure that every square inch of everything I used
was used somehow. Did we eat it all? Now? We tried,
I mean, but I made sure it was ready to go.
So you do that when you make your lunch today,
if you go home, or if you're making dinner tonight,
look at the amount of food that you go, Oh, well,
I can use it. One thing, one thing that I
sort of wish I could do living in the city
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is having a compost bin compost pile. They make them
for your inside your house, but I don't know how
great they are at like hiding the smell. Nothing about
composting that is so like you might as well have
a handhouse. No I know. But growing up we had
a compost heap our bract yard. Did you take a
crap in it? I never did, but it was amazing.
We would put all of our leftovers from dinner into
the compost heap. Anything that could be put in there
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was put in there. And then when you just like
dug into it, it was fresh, amazing dark soil, and
it would it would just become nutrition nutrient filled soil
that you do you're planting with the look on Scary's face.
He's superplexed trying to under what's a compost heap? You
tell us, I don't know, I think it is. What
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is it? What is it? What is comte? So my
neighbor has one? Actually, so well wait, hold on, hold on, no, no,
you know, then Scary tell us what a compost he pass.
I don't want to. I I want to see what he's
then we'll go to you. Okay, it sounds like the
stuff that ends up in a garbage disposal and and
then reused for fertilizer soil. That's my my educated or
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non educated cat. You're actually you're hitting around it. Okay,
so your neighbors. That's what he did was he had, um,
you know, a lot he had he had dug stuff up.
So he had a pile already of like just dirt
and grass and whatever, weeds or whatever, and then he
started adding in some like banana peels and other things
that are like he was gonna throw away, but instead
of throwing the way, he threw it into the soil.
And then he grounded up and he took out this
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this machine. He was going over back and forth, back
and forth, but it had a sit for a while.
Wasn't like he just didn't taking a weekend, right exactly,
there's a sit for a while. And then then he
took out some nice wood and he put a you know,
put great soil. Oh my god, he's growing really great
vegetables like green beans and tomatoes and whenever they keep
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it from bugs and stuff, and it's it's outside. It
is supposed to stink. Compost heaps are supposed to stinks.
You have those in the bronx. Not purpose exactly, that
was something else entirely there they are right now, there
is there's a I forget the exact DoD. You're having
a granam are. They are right now building compost sites
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in the urban areas of New York City, and they're
they're teaching people how to actually keep it growing, you know,
growing gardens. To that point. On Staten Island is a beautiful,
beautiful area called Snug Harbor. Back in the day it
was a retirement home for seamen for sailors. It's a
huge and on this gorgeous property that you can visit. Uh,
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they have a huge garden and they are they are
teaching people in the community how to garden, what what
kind of nutritius, nutritious vegetables you can grow and they'll
actually sell all the stuff that they grow there to
people in the community at a great prize. And more
and more community gardens are popping up and they are
so so important. It really is. When's the last time
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you actually sat down and you actually went to the store,
got some nutritiously nutritious vegetables whatever, took them home and
cook them, prepare them in a way that it's good
for you exactly. Is so great. I look, I know
I always go off on on chicken and stuff like that,
but if you really just don't, but if you, if
you forget about all that side, but but think about
growing your your own natural good foods for yourself or
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how much better it is for yourself. It really it's fantastic.
So the more compost, it's when it's in a compost
keeps situation, that's better, the better for your growing. Right.
And what you said it before, it's it's it's a fertilizer.
It's a natural fertilizer you put in your garden and
makes your garden grow. Tank is I'm tomorrow The Minute
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