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Speaker 2 We got so much to talk about tonight. The house throws an Epstein release party.
Leslie Jones stops by the Rose Air Travel.

Speaker 2 And American politics has finally gotten too crazy for even Marjorie Taylor Greene. So let's kick things off with another installment of the very normal and not shady handling of the Epstein files.

Speaker 2 It's pretty boring stuff.

Speaker 2 We've learned a lot in the last week about the monsters that Jeffrey Epstein surrounded himself with. But let's not forget he also surrounded himself with total f ⁇ ing losers.

Speaker 7 Harvard professor and former Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton, Larry Summers.

Speaker 7 On Monday night, Summers said he is stepping back from public commitments after messages between him and Epstein were released, where he asked the sex offender for advice about pursuing a young woman he described as his mentee.

Speaker 7 And Epstein described himself as Summers' wingman.

Speaker 2 Wow, really? I can't believe this guy needed help getting laid.

Speaker 2 Why are you asking Jeffrey Epstein to be your wingman? You are the president of Harvard. Larry Summers just asked Harvard to do a study on how to make you fable.

Speaker 2 And by the way, Larry Summers is married, but he's all over these emails asking Epstein about girls like he just got his first pube.

Speaker 8 On March 16th, 2019, Summers wrote, We talked on phone. I said, What are you up to? She said, I'm busy.

Speaker 2 I said, Awfully coy you are.

Speaker 8 Tone was not of good feeling.

Speaker 2 Tone was not of good feeling.

Speaker 4 Awfully coy, you are.

Speaker 2 Here's a tip on girls: they don't like guys who talk like Yoda.

Speaker 2 And if you're wondering, when did Larry Summers stop emailing Jeffrey Epstein about women? The answer is up until he couldn't.

Speaker 8 In June of 2019, Summers asked Epstein about the chances of getting, quote, horizontal with a woman. Epstein responded that Summers needed to play the long game.
Epstein was arrested soon after.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I kind of actually feel a little bad for Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, the walls are closing in on him at this point, and he still has to teach this f ⁇ ing dork game.

Speaker 2 He's like texting, it's hot to talk, hiding from feds.

Speaker 2 Keep nagging.

Speaker 2 But Epstein emails are just a gross appetizer here. Everyone is still waiting for the disgusting main course, the DOJ's Epstein files.

Speaker 2 For months, Trump has done everything he can to prevent the release of these files. He's tried persuading Republicans not to vote for it.
Then he tried threatening them.

Speaker 2 Then he tried pointing up at the sky and going, whoa, what's over there? What is that? But nobody looked except for Tommy Tuberville, who is actually still looking.

Speaker 2 But when it became clear that the House was going to ignore Trump and vote to release the Epstein files anyway, Trump backtracked and said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, do that.

Speaker 2 That's also what I want. Which is why today the vote passed unanimously.
Almost.

Speaker 9 In a rare show of unity, the vote was 427 to 1. Louisiana Republican Congressman Clay Higgins, the only member voting against this bill.

Speaker 2 Okay, does Clay Higgins represent the third congressional district of Epstein Island?

Speaker 2 Who even is this guy?

Speaker 4 Oh,

Speaker 2 okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 2 Now I believe this is a guy who would vote to block the Epstein files. I mean, he doesn't need the DOJ to release them.
He's just going to steal them from Indiana Jones later.

Speaker 2 But aside from him, all the House Republicans voted against Trump. Even his most ardent supporter, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia representative and woman who just started taking her meds.

Speaker 2 Trump was so mad, he called her a traitor this weekend. And I bet that got her back in line.

Speaker 5 I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for five, no, actually six years for. Let me tell you what a traitor is.
A traitor is an American that serves foreign countries and themselves.

Speaker 2 Okay, what the f ⁇ is happening

Speaker 2 with Marjorie Taylor Greene? Did she get the severance surgery?

Speaker 2 Was she bit by a radioactive Rachel Madow?

Speaker 4 Like...

Speaker 2 She's getting so liberal that a month from now she's going to be performing on NPR's tiny desk.

Speaker 2 I mean,

Speaker 2 and how dare she? How dare she imply that Trump serves foreign countries? Okay?

Speaker 2 The president is out here every day thinking about America first.

Speaker 5 President Trump rolled out the red carpet for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Speaker 10 Okay, look,

Speaker 2 sometimes America first means Saudi Arabia first.

Speaker 2 But so what? He rolled out a red carpet for MBS. It's not like Trump is endorsing everything he's done.

Speaker 5 Your Royal Highness, the U.S. intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journalist.

Speaker 11 You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about.

Speaker 11 Whether you like him him or didn't like him, things happened, but he knew nothing about it. And we can leave it at that.
You don't have to embarrass our guests by asking a question like that.

Speaker 4 Yeah, hey, hey, shut up.

Speaker 2 A little etiquette, please. This man is a guest in our country.
Why are you asking him about the journalists he bone-sawed? It's like no one has manners anymore.

Speaker 2 Trump is dealing with a lot of shit right now. Okay, he lost the Epstein vote being mean to his best friend.
One more reasonable question and he's going to f ⁇ ing lose it.

Speaker 5 Mr. President, one week for Congress to release the Epstein files.
Why not just do it now?

Speaker 12 Well,

Speaker 11 it's not the question that I mind, it's your attitude. I think you are a terrible reporter.

Speaker 11 It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected, asking him a horrible,

Speaker 11 insubordinate, and just a terrible question.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 11 you could even ask that same exact question nicely. You're all psyched.
Somebody psyches you over at ABC. You're going to psych it.

Speaker 11 You're a terrible person and a terrible reporter.

Speaker 2 Well, I hope you guys are happy.

Speaker 2 Would it have killed you to ask MBS about the murder nicely?

Speaker 2 Just a little, excuse me, Crown Prince, will you be so kind as to stop murdering my colleagues? Pretty please. Please.

Speaker 2 And as for releasing the Epstein files, Donald Trump's position has been very clear, kind of.

Speaker 13 I just want to be super clear on your position. Do you want to see that pass the Senate? Would you sign that bill if it gets to your desk?

Speaker 11 Sure, I would.

Speaker 11 Let the Senate look at it. Let anybody look at it.
But don't talk about it too much because, honestly, I don't want to take it away from us. It's really a Democrat problem.

Speaker 2 It's a Democrat problem.

Speaker 2 So you don't want to talk about it to help them?

Speaker 2 That's nice.

Speaker 2 For more on the release of these files, we go live to Washington, D.C. with Josh Johnson.

Speaker 2 Josh,

Speaker 2 seems like Trump can't figure out his position on the Epstein files.

Speaker 3 Wrong again, Ronnie. All right, I've been talking to President Trump, and he's always had one position.
The Epstein files will expose the sex crimes of the Democratic Party.

Speaker 3 It's the most explosive story of the century. So shut up and let's move on.

Speaker 2 Okay, but you just said it's the most explosive story of the century.

Speaker 3 You better believe it is. This shit is going to blow your mind.
They got photos of Bill Clinton and Larry Summers double teaming a goat.

Speaker 4 All right.

Speaker 3 So take a quick look and then forget about it so we can talk about how Trump's getting rid of pennies.

Speaker 2 Whoa, wait, are you serious?

Speaker 3 Yeah, you heard me. No more pennies.

Speaker 3 No more pennies. No more pennies.

Speaker 15 Why aren't y'all clapping?

Speaker 2 Okay, wait, wait, wait, stop. Wait, stop.

Speaker 4 Stop.

Speaker 2 Wait, go back to the Clinton and Larry Summers the goat thing. What was that?

Speaker 3 Well, Bill Clinton was, but Larry Summers couldn't close the deal with the go.

Speaker 3 This man has no game. It was sad to watch.
More sad than gross even.

Speaker 2 Okay, but still, this is juicy stuff.

Speaker 3 Oh, the juiciest. There's also 4K video of Chuck Schumer and Bill Clinton double teaming a go.
All right? Clinton had to get Larry Summers out of there.

Speaker 4 He was killing the whole vibe.

Speaker 2 Oh my god, this is all insane. I know.

Speaker 3 No goat is safe.

Speaker 15 But what's more insane,

Speaker 3 what's more insane is grocery prices. Did you know that under Donald Trump, free samples are now free?

Speaker 15 You're welcome, America. Okay.

Speaker 2 Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. If there's video of these sex crimes, can't Trump just release it?

Speaker 4 Hell yeah, he can.

Speaker 3 He wants it out there now.

Speaker 2 Okay, then why doesn't he just release it now?

Speaker 3 He is. Right after the House signs the petition, so the Senate can sign the petition, so that he can sign the petition to get it out there in like eight months.

Speaker 15 It's called suspense.

Speaker 2 Okay, but why wait if it will ruin the Democrats forever?

Speaker 3 Because that would be too fast. You ever bite an ice cream too quick and then you get a brain freeze? Do you want that to happen to the whole country? I see you, Ronnie.

Speaker 2 Josh, I'm more confused now than when we started.

Speaker 3 Then my work here is done.

Speaker 4 In fact.

Speaker 4 I got to head out.

Speaker 3 Larry Summers needs my help. He's at a petting zoo striking out right now.

Speaker 2 Help is on the way, Larry. More than I need to know.
Josh Johnson, everybody.

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Speaker 2 Happy Thanksgiving, America. Gobble, gobble.

Speaker 16 That's not a turkey. That's how Donald Trump sounded going down on Bubble Clinton.

Speaker 16 Personally, I don't know why people like Thanksgiving. It's just a meal where families argue over which race should be deported next.

Speaker 16 Ronnie, for the last time, albinos is not a race.

Speaker 4 But Thanksgiving.

Speaker 16 But Thanksgiving isn't just about racism. It's also the worst travel weekend of the year.
Just look at the goofy shit people are doing to make flying 1% less miserable.

Speaker 19 It's the travel hack that's supposed to make taking a snooze on a plane a lot easier. Fasten your seatbelt around your feet and you will sleep like an angel, says one passenger.

Speaker 19 Flying has never been this comfortable before, says another.

Speaker 10 Get your goddamn toes off the seat

Speaker 16 before I put your ass under the plane with the pets.

Speaker 16 That hack is dangerous as shit, and also it only works for tiny people.

Speaker 16 I can't do that. Why the you even on the plane? Just mail yourself,

Speaker 10 but But hey, I sympathize.

Speaker 16 Flying economy sucks. So I got a real travel hack for you.
Be rich, bitch.

Speaker 16 Because if you fly first class, like your girl, you get treated like a queen.

Speaker 16 Okay, now

Speaker 2 it really makes me feel bad when I say stuff like that.

Speaker 16 But it's true.

Speaker 16 They treat you so nice in first class. Hot towel, ma'am.

Speaker 16 May I take your coat, ma'am?

Speaker 4 Can you put that blunt out now, ma'am?

Speaker 16 Just so classy.

Speaker 16 And first class is getting nicer and nicer every day.

Speaker 20 Airlines are ordering more caviar and champagne, hiring Michelin chefs to design their menus, and teaming up with luxury designers to make custom in-flight pajamas.

Speaker 16 Now, I know what you're thinking. Champagne and caviar on a a flight, farts.

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 16 the farts are immediately

Speaker 16 vacuumed back to the economy class.

Speaker 4 Where do you think they get that air from the nozzle y'all be twisting on?

Speaker 4 Those are rich people farts.

Speaker 4 So classic.

Speaker 16 What else you got?

Speaker 5 New premium seats with doors, privacy wings, wireless charging, even showers to win over customers.

Speaker 4 Who takes a shower on the plane?

Speaker 16 And why is that okay?

Speaker 4 But when I take a whole bath on the C-train, all of a sudden it's a felony.

Speaker 16 But the rest of that stuff looks amazing. The only thing missing is the wireless vibrator charger that I'm going to need.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Yes, I bring my emotional support vibrator on the flight.

Speaker 16 Everybody knows the most important thing on the plane is the black box.

Speaker 16 But while it's fun to experience America's wealth gap in the sky,

Speaker 16 there's one thing missing that would really help me sleep better on the plane, knowing the guy in the tower is awake!

Speaker 5 A dire nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers is creating an increasingly dangerous situation in the skies.

Speaker 9 One big problem, controller fatigue.

Speaker 2 We're tired of working six days a week. We're tired of working 10-hour days.

Speaker 4 Give these people some rest.

Speaker 2 This isn't an ordinary job.

Speaker 16 They f ⁇ up at the Wendy's. All you get is the wrong drink.
They f up at air traffic control, and I'm in the Emmys Memorial Reel.

Speaker 4 And I better be in it.

Speaker 10 And when my name comes up, you motherfuckers better clap.

Speaker 4 Bet not.

Speaker 10 You better not treat me like some old editor from the 80s.

Speaker 16 If you can't give them time to sleep, at least give them some of the cocaine that the TSA finds.

Speaker 16 They won't be tired and no cocaine gets wasted recycling.

Speaker 16 And even if the workers are okay, the technology they're working with is not.

Speaker 21 The FAA is running on a copper wire system. I mean, it's crazy.
Every American home's got fiber into it now, and the FAA is running on 1950s technology.

Speaker 22 What you've ended up with is a system that was built essentially in the 1950s with spinning radars and people talking on radios, VHF radios, that really hasn't moved in to an age of the internet, to an age of computers, to an age of satellites.

Speaker 16 1950s technology? Bitch, my Tamagotchi is newer than that.

Speaker 4 Oh shit, my Tamagotchi. Oh,

Speaker 4 oh, oh, Lord is dead, Lord.

Speaker 4 I forgot to feed it, Father. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 4 Oh, well.

Speaker 16 None of this needs to be happening. The FAA has a budget of $21 billion.

Speaker 16 And if that's not enough, I know where they can get more. Because right now, almost all of it comes from the ticket fees and taxes.
That's stuff we, the consumer, are paying.

Speaker 16 What we need is the airlines to chip in more.

Speaker 16 They're focusing so much on luxury, they're forgetting the most important part of luxury: getting from A to B in one piece.

Speaker 16 It doesn't matter how much my seat reclines if I'm using it as a flotation device.

Speaker 16 And if you still want to splurge on luxury shit, don't put it on the plane. Give it to the people in the tower.
They should get the showers and the massage chair.

Speaker 4 Not us, an airline.

Speaker 4 That's right. Yeah.

Speaker 16 Airlines should be sending them caviar champages and blowjobs every morning.

Speaker 16 Send Trump's ass over there so they can get a little bit of that gump, gump.

Speaker 16 But that's just my opinion.

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Speaker 2 My guest tonight is an award-winning writer, director, and producer whose latest film is called Rental Family.

Speaker 7 So, what do you think we do?

Speaker 4 You...

Speaker 13 If I have to guess, you, um...

Speaker 11 you sell people.

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 4 No.

Speaker 11 We sell emotion.

Speaker 4 Oh.

Speaker 4 How?

Speaker 14 We play roles in a client's lives.

Speaker 4 Thanks.

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 4 you can't just

Speaker 15 replace someone in your life.

Speaker 18 Yes and no.

Speaker 7 But people are willing to take a leap.

Speaker 2 Please welcome Hikari.

Speaker 4 Thanks for coming on the show. Thank you.
The filmmaker is extraordinaire. What a triumph the film is.

Speaker 2 So you moved to America from Japan when you were 17.

Speaker 4 You moved to Utah. I moved to Utah, yep.
Right. Yep.
Wow.

Speaker 5 I told my

Speaker 5 counselor,

Speaker 5 she asked me where I wanted to go. I said, I want to go to a place where I don't see my people.
And they said, I have a perfect place for you.

Speaker 5 And I landed in Utah.

Speaker 2 Right. Yes.
So I am very lucky to visit Japan once a year.

Speaker 4 My wife and I love it. Oh wow, once a year.
We love it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's clean. Everyone's polite.

Speaker 2 Trains on time. Everything tastes amazing.
Why the f would you leave?

Speaker 2 Why did you leave?

Speaker 5 Well, I left for American Speaker. Go back.

Speaker 4 Well, now I feel like I should go back.

Speaker 5 But no, I moved because I wanted to get on the yellow school bus. You know, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies and I wanted to come to America and then just watch.

Speaker 2 You watch the movies, you didn't watch the news? I did not.

Speaker 4 I did not.

Speaker 5 I did not watch the movie. I just watched all the heartwarming, good, feeling, good movies.

Speaker 2 No, that's what made me come here.

Speaker 4 Yeah? Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 It was Back to the Future.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Back to the Future. And Goonies.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was RoboCop.

Speaker 5 Yeah, RoboCop, yeah.

Speaker 3 One and two.

Speaker 2 One and two.

Speaker 4 One and two. And three.

Speaker 2 Terminator. Terminator.

Speaker 4 One and two. Die Hard.
Die Hard. Yeah.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 2 When I saw Die Hard, I was like, I gotta go there.

Speaker 2 So you moved to Utah, and then you didn't, you came for show business, not filmmaking.

Speaker 5 So yeah, I was doing a theater. You know, that was kind of my passion back then.
I just became a photographer. I started shooting rap artists and then musicians.

Speaker 5 And then next thing I know, I was at the film school.

Speaker 2 You have a film school at USC? No, USC. So you came here for the arts?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I did.

Speaker 2 Essentially, American arts. And that's, I think sometimes Americans don't understand that outside of America when you grow up, you do come here for the arts.

Speaker 2 You know, and we don't think of it when you live here, you don't think of it as the arts, you think of it as, you know, TikTok. TikTok.

Speaker 4 But it was the arts. It was the arts to me, yeah.

Speaker 2 And so my question is, like, why didn't why was it something that you wanted to come here for instead of pursuing it in Japan?

Speaker 5 Well, I I felt like, you know, like as a kid, like my parents had this leg factory and it was doing a press work, like, you know, metal pressing metals and it felt like the life have to be better than pressing metals.

Speaker 5 I mean, you know, child labor didn't exist back then, so you know, you're doing whatever the parents tell you, you're my grandparents.

Speaker 5 And I just wanted to, I don't know, see the world, what else is out there. I felt like I just felt like in my gut, just felt like I had to get out of there.

Speaker 5 So I found an opportunity and I moved to Utah. Right.

Speaker 2 You just followed something inside. And it looks like it paid off because you did.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I did. First movie, The Rental Family.

Speaker 5 I did, I did. Yeah, my second movie.

Speaker 5 Thank you. Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 2 I appreciate that you guys understand how hard, like, making a movie is cool, but I don't think you fully understand how hard it is to make a movie. The number of hoops you have to go through.

Speaker 2 You have to get the script, you have to get the actor sound, you have to get financing, you have to get the cameras, you gotta get food, you gotta get coffee.

Speaker 5 You gotta people, you gotta, you know, free yourself.

Speaker 2 You gotta deal with all this. Yeah, so, and you managed to make this.

Speaker 2 Can you tell us a little bit about what Rento family is doing?

Speaker 5 Sure, the Rental Family follows this American token white guy.

Speaker 4 And he's Mr.

Speaker 5 Brendan Fraser. Mr.
Brendan Fraser.

Speaker 5 He's amazing in it.

Speaker 5 And yeah,

Speaker 5 he's an actor who's not really quite working actor. And we just follow him, how he navigates through Tokyo.
But he ran into this rental family business, the owner.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 what are rental families?

Speaker 4 This is a real thing. It's a real thing, yeah.

Speaker 5 So rental family is where people who basically rent out, well, the agency that rents out actors or people who wants to be the target of the people who needs

Speaker 5 to just be mom, dad, sister, brothers, whatever you want.

Speaker 5 You just walk in and they're going to play exactly what you ask them to do.

Speaker 5 And it's just kind of fulfilling the voice of emotional needs to sometimes people deal with the trauma or without any license because they're not licensed therapists, but that's what they kind of do.

Speaker 2 So you could literally go into the shop and go, I want to hire a dad who likes me.

Speaker 4 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 exactly and they'll find someone exactly and they were like and you can go through the pictures like you know going through the extra agency right and he's like oh he looked like that I was like I'm gonna pick him right tell him like as he walk in just grab my shoulder or just say I love you

Speaker 2 and then yeah I know exactly exactly how but there's no like when when you hire someone in in and this is all again this is a real thing

Speaker 2 when you hire a fake dad yeah when they enter the illusion starts there's no there's no pre-discussion there's no like okay I want you to come in here and then

Speaker 4 You can do that too.

Speaker 5 You can order exactly. You can talk to him directly, or you can talk through the agency.
But they'll do walk-in as if.

Speaker 5 So there's an option. There's no broken characters whatsoever.

Speaker 4 They just don't break characters.

Speaker 2 No, don't break characters. Just come in, just be a dad.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And is this very.

Speaker 2 Okay, so how fringe is this in Japan?

Speaker 2 Well,

Speaker 2 what do you mean, fringe is this?

Speaker 5 Like, sorry, I'm a foreigner.

Speaker 4 No, I meant like,

Speaker 2 you know, we obviously it's a very

Speaker 2 kind of

Speaker 2 out there concept in America.

Speaker 2 How much do Japanese people also think this is an out there concept?

Speaker 5 I think a lot of people, I mean, I'm Japanese, and when I find out about this business, I was just like, what the f?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you can say f.

Speaker 4 You can say f.

Speaker 5 Yeah, okay, cool.

Speaker 5 So, yeah, I was just like, what the f is happening?

Speaker 4 I have to stop. No, you're too polite.

Speaker 4 I'm Japanese now. Yeah, but you're American now.

Speaker 2 Just say to say it.

Speaker 4 No, seriously, say it. Okay, what the

Speaker 4 I love this. I love the audience.

Speaker 2 Way to break barriers.

Speaker 4 I was told not to say a horse on many things. Oh, who's going to say that? Okay, well, my.
Tomorrow.

Speaker 2 Yeah, so

Speaker 2 even in Japan, this is kind of like a, whoa, what is this?

Speaker 5 Yeah, what is this? And I'm Japanese, and I was just like, what the f is this? Yeah. Okay, I said it.

Speaker 5 And then I found out why this business exists, right? Yeah, I just started on why, like, what kind of people use services, like who gives the services? And as we just went through really

Speaker 5 intensive research,

Speaker 5 I found that those are really people who need to feeling lonely. And you know, it's kind of like epidemic loneliness.
People are needing somebody to be there for you.

Speaker 5 And I happen to be in Japan, there's a lot of people who need that.

Speaker 2 So people are hiring like grandmothers,

Speaker 2 hiring brothers, sisters.

Speaker 5 You can literally hire anybody. There's like now grandma, there's a group of grandmother that goes into some random people's house and make lunch.

Speaker 4 Oh. Yeah.

Speaker 5 And then they're like happy because they eat lunch together and she's like, okay, I'll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 4 And they walk away.

Speaker 5 And they have business like that. And then there's a guy called Mr.
Do Nothing.

Speaker 5 He absolutely do nothing.

Speaker 17 Like crazy.

Speaker 5 And his job is just sit next to you and just like eat ramen with you.

Speaker 5 You need salt.

Speaker 4 He was like, put the salt next to you.

Speaker 2 Oh, that's doing something.

Speaker 4 Yeah, well, yeah.

Speaker 5 If you ask, if you don't, you just just eat ramen.

Speaker 2 You can hire a useless man to come in. Exactly.

Speaker 5 And it's like, what? 30 bucks an hour? Oh, useless.

Speaker 2 Japanese people are looking for that. Come to America.
You can get that for free.

Speaker 2 And so this

Speaker 2 you made a movie about it instead of a documentary. Like,

Speaker 2 why do you choose a scripted narrative for this?

Speaker 5 I mean, I love cinema. I mean, that's always the bottom line.
I love watching...

Speaker 5 growing up watching Hollywood movies and behind my grandmother's tea shop and you know it just always felt like that's something that I maybe I didn't think about it then but now looking back that was kind of my practicing of learning what kind of movie I want to make so yeah

Speaker 2 I watched the film and it's it's beautifully made

Speaker 2 the editing is perfect the the story is perfect the acting is great everything feels very considered and and it's it's one of those movies where

Speaker 2 even though you don't know it's character driven right there's no big action set piece yeah but it's one of those movies that catches you from the start and you can't stop watching it okay every scene is very entertaining.

Speaker 2 Do you have any like commentary on like

Speaker 2 this? You know, there's some kind of like this back. Hollywood's kind of like in a little bit of a mess right now in terms of everyone's stuck either between big

Speaker 2 blockbusters that maybe aren't making money and small indie films that you know no one's watching tonight.

Speaker 4 But then

Speaker 2 you so I guess I'm saying that everyone's bitching about these big blockbusters. But when you make something small and character driven that's good, no one comes out to watch it anyway.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So

Speaker 2 what the f do people want?

Speaker 5 I mean seriously.

Speaker 4 Yeah, what the f do watch this

Speaker 2 it's a good movie. You don't watch it or stop bitching about it.

Speaker 4 So

Speaker 5 I mean you know you just kind of I mean I we you hope that people come and I hope you guys will come for this one.

Speaker 5 I uh

Speaker 5 yeah but this really this movie talks about connection.

Speaker 5 You know I feel like in just in general people are like always constantly talking through phones or computers There's always something between us, but this movie talks about the importance of having this true connection Even you're hiring people or you know, whatever the circumstances is so

Speaker 5 Yeah, talks about even though you're not related, you know, it's a found family that they create and then Benny Fraser does incredible job navigating individual character and then finding who he is really eventually no the message and theme is so relevant it comes comes through to it and one of the beautiful things about the film I feel was that I guess technically it's a foreign film, but when I was watching it, it didn't feel like a foreign film at all.

Speaker 2 It just felt like a well-made movie. How much did you consider,

Speaker 2 how much thought did you put into Japanese dialogue versus English dialogue? Or did you just let it be what?

Speaker 5 I just kinda let it be.

Speaker 5 Like I once I found you know who Philip was and you know Brandon being the Philip, I just kind of you know just wanted to be equal but then what is it like to be in Japan if you're the Philips character, you know, being there for seven years?

Speaker 5 It's like a half and a half, but I also wanted to s make this movie for the world, you know? If it's just all Japanese, it'll be a little bit difficult to understand.

Speaker 5 So yeah, we kind of find a fine balance in between.

Speaker 2 No, I think you got the balance right. Like when they speak English it doesn't feel weird.
Right.

Speaker 2 It feels like it fits in the and when they speak Japanese also obviously feels correct'cause they're insane Japan. And you got a chance to direct one of your acting heroes?

Speaker 5 Yes, yes, Akira Emoto and yeah, he's like a growing yeah, childhood dream.

Speaker 2 Sure, he's Japanese acting legend. And was it weird? How did you direct him? Was it weird to give him direction?

Speaker 5 Well, at first I was so nervous. I mean, he came to audition because he had to speak English.

Speaker 2 You auditioned him?

Speaker 4 I auditioned him. I was like,

Speaker 5 he was like, he's 77. He just turned 77.

Speaker 4 No, that's awful only. Yeah,

Speaker 5 he never auditioned ever in his.

Speaker 4 Right. And you f ⁇ ing.

Speaker 2 You made your 77, you're a hero audition for your indie film.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and so I was like, all of a sudden shitting my pants. And I was like, hey, excuse me, can you do this? And he's like, what do you want?

Speaker 4 And I was like, oh, okay.

Speaker 5 But anyway, working with him was great. We did a lot of new position.

Speaker 2 You told him to shut up and do it the way I tell you.

Speaker 4 Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 He took a role.

Speaker 2 No, he's great in the movie. He's awesome.
You see these actors who are at the top of their game.

Speaker 2 So thanks so much for making a movie. It's a beautiful movie.
Thank you. It's telling a real human story.
And I hope everyone out there can go watch it.

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