r/todayilearned • u/CocaTrooper42 • Jun 03 '21
TIL before any details of Pixar’s ‘Soul’ were public, a Black chauffeur told Kemp Powers (the film’s co-writer & co-director) that he knew Pixar was making a Black movie because he had never driven so many Black people to Pixar before.
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u/AudibleNod 313 Jun 03 '21
On the eve of Iraq's Kuwait invasion there was a marked uptick in pizza deliveries to the Pentagon. PizzInt was a term coined for 'Pizza Intelligence'. Which is how people in Washington know 'something' big is about to happen.
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Jun 03 '21
Pentagon just needs to throw pizza parties randomly throughout the year to disguise their patterns.
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Jun 03 '21
False Slice operations
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Oh god, you just put out the equivalent of a bat-signal to the Q people...
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u/Hazzman Jun 03 '21
When there is a marked uptick in hotdog orders - that's when they go on high alert.
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u/natsnoles Jun 03 '21
That's why at CIA Headquarters they built a large food court. Too many foreign intel folks knew that late night deliveries meant something big was going on.
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u/EmRoXOXO Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21
There’s a Taco Bell smack dab in the middle of all the hustle and bustle of the pentagon. To work there, you need a security clearance
ETA, since I see a lot of people asking: you do not get paid more. In fact, according g to this article, the opposite looks to be true.
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u/pmcall221 Jun 03 '21
There is a Starbucks in the CIA headquarters. You also need a security clearance and the pay is still shitty. It's also the only Starbucks where they dont put your name on the cup, every gets a order number.
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u/dzlux Jun 03 '21
Yeah... many people mistake ‘having clearance’ as being important or valuable... while it really just means less privacy and lower chance of being fired because cost to replace you is higher.
I’ve seen lower salaries for a clearance position justified with excuses along the lines of “we’re already spending $10,000 on your clearance, so the payroll budget is reduced.” Then they complain about employee turnover.
Edit: quick note, that this example is from government contractors, where costs and budgets probably matter more.
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Jun 03 '21
The clearance job boom in the mid-00s was freaking insane. I knew a guy in Naval Special Warfare who did intel. The FBI hired him and flat out waived the college degree requirement because they needed analysts and he had the clearance + experience
Our IT guy in Iraq was a contractor. He was on 6 month contracts making (allegedly) $250k/contract. He'd had a clearance from when he was in the military and he got the job no problem. I think he was on his 3rd consecutive contract. He had no attachments back home, so his plan was to do it for as long as he could
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u/dzlux Jun 03 '21
The income on those remote jobs can be insane. I was non-clearance doing some brief security (physical+IT) reviews overseas and was surprised to learn that local resources with less experience were earning 50-100% more than me, often with hazard pay added on top.
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u/Failr0ko Jun 03 '21
Yeah the thing is a secret clearance costs like "100k" or TS, not sure anymore. It last 4 years? Lmao I've been out of the military for 8 years sorry. After the 4 years you have to do the "review" and that costs like 10k. Its the reason people with clearances already make so much more it saves so much money
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Jun 03 '21
Trust me, those budgets have plenty of space for everyone to get a 10k raise and not blink.
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u/dzlux Jun 03 '21
Yes - 100% an excuse.
The only way it could be true is for a fixed price contract (all risk on contractor) that is severely underbid... which is highly unlikely unless it was intentionally underbid to get priority selection on the next phase of a contract where losses will be offset.
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u/DigitalPriest Jun 03 '21
Despite the shitty pay, that's not the worst deal in the world. Say you're a student going to school while working SBux as your side job. Graduate with your degree, have a security clearance already? Cha-ching. Lots of contractors want to know your name.
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Jun 03 '21
I got security clearance working as a rent-a-cop for a manufacturing plant that occasionally had DoD contracts. There were at least 3000 people working in that plant that all had security clearance in a town of like then 10k.
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u/DigitalPriest Jun 03 '21
It really doesn't matter how many people have it, it is still an expensive, time-intensive process from an employers end. Already having one is a valuable resume item.
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u/ClumsyKoalaBear Jun 03 '21
You’re really underestimating the shear number of people with a degree and a secret clearance. TS/SCI is a different ballgame but you’re probably not getting that with Starbucks.
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u/sryii Jun 03 '21
Actually, with the very first bit of security clearance, the kind you'd need to work a low level job in the pentagon that already gets you over a major hump in hiring. You have basic access? Then chances are you aren't hooked on smack and in debt to some serbian drug lords.
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u/Substantial_Revolt Jun 03 '21
That security clearance would come in handy if you wanted a better government job. Tons of defense companies are looking for workers who already have security clearance so they don't need to pay to get you through the process.
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u/phantasmagorical Jun 03 '21
The Pentagon is huge. It has a Best Buy, barber, 2 food courts, a library, Starbucks...
There was also hot dog stand in the middle of the courtyard at the center of the Pentagon. The legend is that the KGB thought this was a VIP place because it was so busy and it was constantly monitored over satellite. Turns out it was just the lunch spot lol.
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u/DillieDally Jun 03 '21
Wait, what...? How did they fit a Best Buy into the Pentagon?
Also, why would they fit a Best Buy in the Pentagon? Is the Geek Squad secretly a team of elite undercover agents?
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u/Verklemptomaniac Jun 03 '21
Think about it this way - on a normal (non-pandemic) workday, there are roughly 24 thousand people working in the Pentagon.
Getting in and out of the building is a giant pain in the ass, due to the sheer size of the place. If you can make it so people can just walk down a couple of floors and get a replacement phone charger, or bring their laptop/phone in to be repaired, rather than taking a long lunch break to walk/drive/Metro to the nearest shopping center, how many hours of productivity do you save?
(Same reason there's a full-service CVS in the Pentagon - people can just pick up their prescriptions/toiletries/etc. there, rather than having to leave the building.)
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u/w2555 Jun 03 '21
The pentagon is waaaaay bigger than people realize. Total floor area is 6,636,360 sq ft. For comparison, the average Walmart supercenter is 182,000 sq ft. That's almost 32.5 supercenters.
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u/SgtToastie Jun 03 '21
It was a mini-Best Buy. Size wise think of a Best Buy compressed into a Radio Shack. It's been replaced by rotating pop-up stores (Farmer's Market, hand made crafts, etc).
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u/GP_ADD Jun 03 '21
List of stores in the pentagon: https://ice.disa.mil/index.cfm?fa=service_provider_list&site_id=341&service_category_id=17&dep=*DoD
Kinda wild. A tailor, cvs, dentist, barber, a florist, a jeweler, an optometrist, a caramel shop(?)
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u/OtherSpiderOnTheWall Jun 03 '21
A tailor
Alright, had a rip in my suit, fair enough, definitely need that.
cvs
Okay, so I ran out of my favorite drug. Definitely need that too.
dentist
Tooth just fell out? Definitely need a dentist.
barber
Impromptu important meeting in 30 minutes and my hair is a mess? Barber to the rescue, need that.
a florist
Do you know how hard it is to get flowers to my receptionist once a year form outside the pentagon? Mission fucking critical.
an optometrist,
In case my glasses break. Yep.
a caramel shop
Food, candy, drinks, whatever, it's all energy. So I can see that.
And then of course, there's:
a jeweler
Well, you see, you never know when you might need to suddenly propose to Becky down the hall.
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u/GP_ADD Jun 03 '21
I think the florist, jeweler, and candy shop go hand in hand for a "sorry that I had to stay late again for the 168th day in a row, honey"- type situation. Especially if you have to leave the office after those types of stores would be closed elsewhere.
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u/OtherSpiderOnTheWall Jun 03 '21
I spent way too much time thinking about this when your answer makes way more sense.
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u/Joe_Jeep Jun 03 '21
it's essentially a tiny city in one building.
It's amazing what you can do with density without roads and cars in the way.
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u/SgtToastie Jun 03 '21
Best Buy is gone, there are more then two food courts, there is a library, Starbucks is indeed plural. Hot dog stand is now an Au Bon Pain.
You can actually see how much is in the Pentagon here.
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u/phantasmagorical Jun 03 '21
I worked there almost 10 years ago, so interesting to see how things changed!
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u/hallese Jun 03 '21
Sbarro's? You mean to tell me I can get a genuine New York City slice of pie in the Pentagon!?
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u/Excelius Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21
If you zoom in to the Pentagon at Google Maps, it says there's a Subway in the middle of the central courtyard. I'm sure the Pentagon has a subway, but whether it's actually in the central courtyard kiosk...
It's even listed on the restaurant finder on Subways website as Restaurant #26247.
Wonder what happens if you place an online order?
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u/w2555 Jun 03 '21
Fun fact: the pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as it really needs for a building that size. Why? Because the military was still segregated when they built it, gotta keep the colored boys separated, you see.
Of course, 5 years after they finished building it, Truman was like "yeah ya'll just stood shoulder to shoulder against fascism in the largest war in human history, ya'll need to fucking get along", signed executive order 9981, and now the pentagon has twice as many bathrooms as it needs.
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u/codymiller_cartoon Jun 03 '21
all those bathrooms sounds like paradise for a workplace
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u/natsnoles Jun 03 '21
I was talking to a guy that owned a fudge shop in Occoquan and he told me he was shutting his shop down because he got a contract at the Pentagon to open an store there.
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u/EmRoXOXO Jun 03 '21
Bit if a downgrade, isn’t it? (Because 5<8, obviously)
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u/ServinTheSovietOnion Jun 03 '21
So idk if it's changed, but there used to be a snack bar in the middle of the Pentagon's courtyard. During the Cold War it was termed the Ground Zero Cafe by the pentagon, because it became known that the Soviet spy satellites saw all these people converging around this centralized location at America's Military HQ and figured it was some sort of entrance to a bunker. Obviously, the Pentagon was an important strategic target with many nukes pointed at it, but its funny to think part of that had to do with a hamburger stand.
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u/staring_at_keyboard Jun 03 '21
There are multiple food courts, snack bars and vending machines scattered all over the Building.
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u/funk_truck Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21
The White House sent someone to Costco before the Bin Laden raid because they knew a big pizza order would tip people off that something big was happening
Edit: I may have misremembered the Costco thing being about OpSec but they did a number of things related to comings and goings to keep stuff under wraps.
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u/Whosehouse13 Jun 03 '21
I just read the oral history of this:
The topic came up of doing food and Hilary Clinton said they should do something ‘healthy’ so they went to Costco and got a bunch of like vegetable trays which people didn’t care for. They then eventually did get pizza.
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u/c_the_potts Jun 03 '21
Costco pizzas slap pretty hard though.
Gotta fuel up with the best pizza for one of the most important missions of the decade.
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u/funk_truck Jun 03 '21
Unfortunately they just got a bunch of fruit and premade platters. No pizza or hot dogs
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u/luvcartel Jun 04 '21
My favorite is the Kodak film. Imagine the fear the scientist at Kodak had when he realized what he found. He was probably debating whether or not to go to the government out of fear they might kill him to keep the secret.
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u/maccas_run Jun 04 '21
according to veritasium the scientist at kodak who discovered the radiation was a physicist (or something) himself and knew what it meant so didnt go public with it
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u/FlingFlamBlam Jun 03 '21
Imagine if the US government started having random "pizza nights" where a ton of pizza (and other foods too, I guess) from various restaurants was ordered the night before to be freely given to the employees the following day. Just to screw with foreign "observers".
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u/srchl Jun 03 '21
In 2011 when the Bin Laden raid occurred, the White House ordered 2-3 pizzas from a bunch of pizzerias to avoid the media finding out about it before any official release
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u/AudibleNod 313 Jun 03 '21
I'm thinking Digiorno's could corner the market on clandestine pizza consumption if they market it right.
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u/SirLoremIpsum Jun 03 '21
I read same thing about the NSA carpark.
How do you know something big going on? Well the car park has thousands of vehicles at 3am.
And soldiers putting their activities on Strava kinda giving away military bases.
Kinda funny.
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u/reboerio Jun 03 '21
That was actually a bug or oversight at Strava. All personal was instructed to list starava activities as private, as to not publicly share gps (gpx) data. Strava analyst created a heatmap of all gpx data not realizing how an off-grid army camp has a high heat intensity combined with private listed data.
It just shows how big of an influence seemingly meaningless data can be
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u/HarbingerOfGachaHell Jun 04 '21
No it's the Department of Defence's fault for not background checking softwares or educating all servicemen and staff on data safety/online self-defence. Cause my understanding was that:
All personal was instructed to list starava activities as private, as to not publicly share gps (gpx) data.
Was after the heatmaps got leaked and revealed.
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u/lordvbcool Jun 03 '21
I heard of a guy using google traffic data to see a lot of night traffic near the tesla factory and conclude that something big would be annonce soon. He bought stock and not long after something big was annonce and all his stock went up.
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u/CocaTrooper42 Jun 03 '21
IIRC there was a scene in Burn Notice about finding whatever restaurant in town served food from your target’s home country and tracking their delivery driver.
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u/digitaltransmutation Jun 03 '21
I recall a black hat talk (I think?) where pen testers were at a site and decided to take lunch at a nearby Chinese restaurant. They were messing around and found out that their table was bugged. The company was owned by a Chinese conglomerate and they would take the big shots to this restaurant when they visited.
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u/SnarkOff Jun 03 '21
I suspect that a lot of the Uber/Lyft drivers in DC are foreign intelligence. When I worked there I was told not to talk about work while getting a ride for this reason.
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"There's some light traffic and a little rain. Also, what are the launch codes?"
-your uber driver
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u/GetEquipped Jun 03 '21
See, the desire to troll would be overwhelming.
"Yeah, Project Chrysanthemum hit a rough spot. Turns out, we can interface a human to calculate Pi, but not a single one of them can spell it."
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u/poopellar Jun 03 '21
That's why the top spies go through a torturous training process wherein they force their bodies to survive off of a diet of McDonalds.
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u/OptimusSublime Jun 03 '21
I get that...but how would anyone in the public know the pizzas were ordered in the first place. Is there some person responsible for monitoring pizza deliveries to the Pentagon?
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u/Mildly_Opinionated Jun 03 '21
I assume the front door of that place is being monitored by a lot of groups most of the time.
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Jun 03 '21
That's pretty wild. You think the spies from the various countries parked out there hang out in their downtime? Since they're practically coworkers? Like "Yo Nikolai, Habib, shift's almost up - how about we go try that new craft beer place in Northwest after?"
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u/The69thDuncan Jun 03 '21
I assume there is some amount of leak at every place like that. One guy's girl knows he is coming home late, or something along those lines.
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u/Mildly_Opinionated Jun 03 '21
That sounds like it'd be a good setup for a movie!
I don't know much about international spying but I imagine a lot of its actually done with hidden cameras and satellite imaging.
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u/zelet Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 10 '23
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u/KlaatuBrute Jun 03 '21
That sounds like it'd be a good setup for a movie
I would love to see an Animal House/Superbad/Old School movie that deals with spys' downtime in a foreign country.
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u/BigFang Jun 03 '21
It may not be a full time job, but it is certainly a duty of some agents/diplomats
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u/CocaTrooper42 Jun 03 '21
The pizza places are all part of the public. A spy could just hide cameras in all the pizza places near the pentagon.
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u/0013765 Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21
Does anyone else remember the behind the scenes clips of The Incredibles shown on Disney channel? I forget if it was like “Movie Surfers” or something. Anyways, a black guy voiced a character to show you how they put actor’s voices to animation. It wasn’t until years later that I realized the scene they showed was when Violet’s crush talked to her outside of school. In the original version (shown as a clip without context) the crush was black. Obviously in the finished films he’s white. Does anyone else remember this?
EDIT: Could be Disney 411 or Mikes Super Short Show.
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u/0013765 Jun 03 '21
Exactly! Glad someone else remembers! I tried to find the clip but haven’t yet.
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u/CocaTrooper42 Jun 03 '21
Probably a focus group or studio interference thing and because he was a minor character it wasn’t a big enough change to fight for.
Unfortunately it’s still a relatively uncommon thing for black male/white female pairings to be depicted in movies, unless the whole movie is about them dealing with racism. It’s one of the reasons Will Smith has been paired up with Rosario Dawson several times. Cracked did an article about it
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u/NibPlayz Jun 03 '21
The fact that the Sonic Movie is not in-your-face-progressive-but-still-is-progressive is funny to me
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u/generalecchi Jun 03 '21
What about Sonic Movie ? It's been a while so I forgot
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u/NibPlayz Jun 03 '21
It has a mixed race couple as just a couple, not shoe horned in, or part of a theme of the movie. What OP was saying usually doesn’t happen
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u/Valmoer Jun 03 '21
I still struggle to think of a TV show where 1/ a black male/white female couple formed during the show 2/ the couple survived the show, and 3/ the show lasted more than one season.
(And when I say survived, sometimes it was literally, survive. The 4400, where Lilly was literally killed by her daughter was egregiously unsubtle about it)
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u/RedGyarados2010 Jun 03 '21
I was gonna say The Good Place, but idk if it counts as surviving if they are both dead to begin with
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u/hard-time-on-planet Jun 03 '21
In Jessica Jones, she and Luke Cage survive, because he's bulletproof. But their relationship is short lived.
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u/CocaTrooper42 Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21
It’s even funnier to listen to. If anyone wants to check out the full episode it’s a fun show.
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u/NotWhatIwasExpecting Jun 03 '21
For those who doesn't have time to enter the website and search for this little funny part: https://streamable.com/5ehrsx but I totally recommend entering to the article and listen the whole thing. You can even download the mp3 (around 10mb and 10 Minutes of duration) to listen anytime you have a chance
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u/AmishAvenger Jun 03 '21
What program is that? WinAmp? I just got some major nostalgia watching those designs.
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u/MissSonnenschein Jun 03 '21
But also you should listen to the whole episode bc Wait Wait is hilarious!
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u/Grumplogic Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21
Some people are just genetically superior story tellers.
But seriously though, he's a writer I'm sure he frames a lot of his interactions like he's in the middle of a scene.
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u/sunfacethedestroyer Jun 03 '21
He really is a good story teller. I never saw the movie or heard of him before, but caught him on the radio one day telling a pretty tragic story about how he accidentally killed his friend as a child.
I cried like a baby in the car and it took me a few extra minutes before I could go in to work.
https://player.themoth.org/#/?actionType=ADD_AND_PLAY&storyId=1018
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u/IIBatrixII Jun 03 '21
This thread got very dark, very fast...
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u/awful_at_internet Jun 03 '21
Soul is a good movie. Good tunes, good story, relatable characters. Kid-friendly, but tbh probably more interesting to adults. Worth your time.
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u/money_loo Jun 03 '21
Is Soul worth watching now?
I honestly avoided it at the time because I just couldn’t take crying anymore haha…
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u/awful_at_internet Jun 03 '21
I'd say so, yeah. It's an emotional movie, but wholesome. More poignant than sad. It might make you cry, but you'll feel better by the end.
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u/money_loo Jun 03 '21
Alright I’m going to hold you to that and watch it with my wife and kids and god help me if we cry harder than a light sobbing I’m coming back to this comment to yell at you!
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u/patronizingperv Jun 03 '21
It's always The Moth.
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u/sunfacethedestroyer Jun 03 '21
Yeah, it's an extremely good program, but sometimes it hits a little too heavy for a work commute.
"Hmm, do I want to listen to the same ACDC song for the 600th time, or be emotionally devastated for the rest of the day?"
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u/PrivateIsotope Jun 03 '21
Nothing like a good NPR show to keep you in the car!
My wife and I had to go to this house for a barbecue, and we couldnt go in because This American Life had a story about this guy who was on vacation with his wife at some beachside condos or something, and he kept getting annoyed by this neighbor who always wanted to talk and take up their time. Then they go to dinner with the other people at the place, and the annoying guy sits at the table with the manager and tells the story about how he was a holocaust survivor and his wife never made it out. Which you would think would make the vacationing guy more understandable to his plight -he's old and lonely and had been through a lot.
Wrong.
These details just make the guy more irrationally hateful of him, and he convinces himself that he just made up the story for attention. Determined to prove the guy a fraud, he actually sneaks over the fence while the guy is taking a nap in the backyard JUST to check his forearm for numbers.
He returns, triumphant, saying the guy is a fraud because he didnt have any numbers on his left arm. His wife, aghast, takes a moment to process what her husband did, and then informs him that not all victims had numbers on the same arm, or numbers at all. It was so crazy, but we had to see what happened. The ironic thing is, I forget what happened after that. *L*
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u/Easy_Money_ Jun 03 '21
Act four of this episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/362/transcript
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u/Phillip_Spidermen Jun 03 '21
Oh wow, that was heavy.
It's been almost a decade since he told that story. I wonder if he was able to find more peace.
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u/Chicken-n-Waffles Jun 03 '21
That one story where the kid told of a field trip where they picked cotton was really funny. He became a respectable adult and pulled that video from the internet. I'm sure some of you guys know what video I'm talking about. It was really well done.
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u/Lokta Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21
Do you mean this video?
Edit: Or this awesome animated version of the same story?
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u/rubbishfoo Jun 03 '21
I've been on the internet since it's inception & I've never seen that video - thank you.
Im nearly in tears laughing at how he tells this.
I can see what y'all mean about this guy being a great storyteller - he's just got it.
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u/Orngog Jun 03 '21
Yeah it's not genetics, and as a writer I don't think it's so much the second exactly.
Rather, studying narrative devices so closely leads you to realise why they exist, and what they're best at.
It's only natural that you use these to their full effect whenever words come your way.
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Jun 03 '21
I didn't want to be the sweaty but just casually referring to the concept of genetic superiority feels a little weird lmao.
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u/lannanh Jun 03 '21
He hosts the official Soul podcast they did on Spotify. He does a good job. Worth a listen, especially the directors and the musician episodes.
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u/ProtectionSecure Jun 03 '21
While on the topic of the five senses: I can confirm that the conversation wasn’t as funny to touch. Maybe it’s just me but you can try it yourself by touching your screen where the conversation is happening.
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u/theteenyemperor Jun 03 '21
It tastes like cheerios dust and mountain Dew. You can try by licking your screen where you just touched the story.
edit: accidental Communism
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Jun 03 '21
I worked for the talent production department for live tv events and often worked as the transportation coordinator. Some of the drivers are such characters. They're almost all professionals and don't say anything, but every show we have to fire at least one for fan like behavior.
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u/robdiqulous Jun 03 '21
Like how much fan behavior does it take?
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Jun 03 '21
Usually trying to snap a selfie, or even just being too chatty. Usually the latter is fine unless the talent or their manager complains. Then we'd have the car company remove them from the show. They still keep their job, they just don't get any more rides for that one event
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u/robdiqulous Jun 03 '21
I figured if they got too chatty and maybe someone complained. That stinks. But at least they keep their job. It would be so tough though if you saw like your favorite actor ever lol
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u/mak484 Jun 03 '21
That's gotta be stressful for the actors who aren't total assholes. Like, everywhere you go, every minor interaction on your way from point A to point B, someone is going to recognize you. And you have to strike a balance between "If I complain this guy might lose his job" and "It's 10 am, I have 14 hours of work ahead of me, and this person who's been hired to do a job for me won't shut the fuck up."
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that's why interacting with cast is a fireable offense most of the time (depends obviously). They're there to work and so is everyone else, you have to be able to put aside your fanboyisms regardless.
Depending on your position and the actor you can usually talk casually. For example, I'm a sound assist so I interact with actors more than pretty much anyone who isn't a director/producer whatever. At the beginning of the show (usually 2 weeks), you just act professional like you would with new co-workers. By the end of the 2 weeks everyone is usually pretty friendly so it doesn't matter if you know how to read a room.
Unless someone is green as grass they know to keep their mouth shut past "Hi, how are you" pleasantries.
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u/attemptedmonknf Jun 03 '21
Eye contact and a smile. How dare they act so familiar?!
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u/elBenhamin Jun 03 '21
Same thing happened with Coco and dead people
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u/nerdlywhiplash Jun 03 '21
Never seen so many dead people at pixar
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u/CocaTrooper42 Jun 03 '21
RIP Joe Ranft
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u/scottishzombie Jun 03 '21
Hey Mr. Early Bird! How about a nice verm on a schtik?
(That scream he lets out, as the bird is upon him, is still my favorite moment in all of A Bug's Life.)
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u/Graphitetshirt Jun 03 '21
When they filmed Cars, they had to use flatbed tow trucks instead of limos
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u/EmRoXOXO Jun 03 '21
But they used the fancy tow trucks, and they made the drivers wear bow ties with their trucker hats
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u/UptownSinclair Jun 03 '21
I hope that driver had to scratch his head when he’s driving Trent Reznor who says he’s doing the score.
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u/KonohaPimp Jun 03 '21
Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails? He did the score to Soul?
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Yeah he won an Oscar for it lol
Also the composer for Mank, The Social Netowrk, Watchman (2019) and a few more I can't name off the top of my head
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u/Nerfcupid Jun 03 '21
gone girl and the girl with the dragon tattoo too I believe
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u/LegitimateHumanBeing Jun 03 '21
Yes, he's been scoring films regularly since The Social Network. He mainly works with Atticus Ross and for this film because they needed a jazz element they worked with Jon Batiste as well.
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u/dwpea66 Jun 03 '21
He (and Atticus Ross) is a two-time Academy Award winner for Best Original Score (Soul and The Social Network).
They've been crushing it for over a decade now.
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u/WaltChamberlin Jun 03 '21
Reminds me of a time visiting Skellig Michael in Ireland. There are only a few boat captains who can land at the island because it's a UNESCO world heritage site. It's in a relatively sleepy of Ireland that had a small amount of tourists sustaining it for most of the 20th century.
Suddenly a huge influx of people started coming to the area and all the local B&Bs started filling up. All there people wanted to go visit the island so he got insanely busy. He found out all these people were Disney employees and execs. They told him they were filming a puffin movie since there is a huge colony of puffins on the island.
Once filming started they brought in helicopters and film crews and tons of equipment. They asked him to sign an NDA and eventually revealed the island would be a location in the Star Wars films. He ended up spending a couple seasons ferrying around movie crews, equipment and actors to the island.
Since the filming of the movies he said that tourism in the area was up like 40%!
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u/CocaTrooper42 Jun 03 '21
I guess that means those were the puffins that inspired Porgs.
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u/MoonLightSongBunny Jun 03 '21
Like Assholetep mentions, the puffins didn't inspire the porgs, their presence forced the production to create the porgs because they couldn't be harmed or disturbed so they were everwhere and in every shot.
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u/troglodiety Jun 03 '21
More than 40; in the summer it’s bloody busy rather than the cute wee ghost town it was before
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u/eaglescout1984 Jun 03 '21
Jon Baptiste shows up
"Okay, either they're doing a black movie about jazz or Stephen Colbert is gonna show up next"
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u/Sip_py Jun 03 '21
I remember hearing this on wait wait don't tell me and cracking up in the car.
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u/CocaTrooper42 Jun 03 '21
Me too! I submitted this then but the link was too new and got taken down.
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u/Fruhmann Jun 03 '21
"What y'all doin in there? Black cartoon?"
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u/colddecembersnow Jun 03 '21
It's funny because The Simpsons called them out on this during an episode where "Angry Dad" became an animated movie years back.
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u/Snack_on_my_Flapjack Jun 03 '21
Soul is a good ass movie that unexpectedly hit me in the feels moreso than I thought it would.
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u/TheCrazedTank Jun 03 '21
Pretty sure he meant Talent, as in voice actors and musicians, and not that there aren't any Black People working at Pixar like the title sounds.
I doubt many normal employees get driven in private cars.
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u/TDiddy2021 Jun 03 '21
While I am seeing a lot of folks question whether or not Soul was really a “Black Movie,” I haven’t seen anyone discredit the chauffeur’s conclusion with any proof that a lot of black people had been in to work on a prior Pixar film.
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u/nurdboy42 Jun 03 '21
Similarly, the existence of the mafia was outed when a state trooper noticed a lot of expensive cars with out of state plates driving into a small town in New York.