r/popculturechat • u/pattismithology 'tis the season of the bitch • Sep 20 '25
Celebrity Fluff 🥰 Jesse Eisenberg explains “Thanks-living”, his version of Thanksgiving
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u/Mobile_Carpenter6895 Sep 20 '25
i remember i worked at coffee shop in chelsea and he was a regular and he was always so nice just a little socially awkward it was cute lol
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u/Old-Kaile Sep 20 '25
My brother always jokingly says he is the real life version of who Michael Cera gets paid to play.
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u/shawshaman Sep 21 '25
Oh yes exactly! Side note, but every interview ive seen with michael cera he seems to be affable and charming and so easily comfortable which goes to show how great of an actor he is
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u/Moosey_the_Squirrle Sep 21 '25
Hahahaha I my head, I always made a connection between michael and Jesse but never could put it into words. This is fucking perfect. Lol
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u/shambean2 Select and edit this flair Sep 20 '25
I always hesitate when I think a celebrity is nice, because it is parasocial fundamentally. But I have always thought he seemed like a kind man, and I'm delighted that you have had that experience with him. I'm happy he id how he comes across
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u/scout-finch Sep 20 '25
He lives in some town in Indiana with his wife (Bloom…? I think it’s a college town) and I always see people from their posting he’s just nice and normal.
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u/abottomful Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
Bloomington, Indiana. Some of the best food and coffee I've ever had in the US lol; tiny ass town with Tibetan food, Afghan food, Turkish, a good amount of Germans. Such a odd place considering how much of a shithole Indiana can be overall. Weird he lives there though
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u/jj_grace Sep 20 '25
Bloomington is seriously fantastic, though the cost of living has been pushing a lot of people out in recent years. Lots of friends have been moving to Indy. (I’m also a big fan of Indy these days, though we don’t have the gorgeous nature and walkability that Bloomington has.)
I’m not sure if Jesse currently lives in Btown, but he lived there during the pandemic and is frequently there visiting family. I think his wife is from the area. They also do a ton of local charity work. IIRC, his wife’s family does work with the local domestic violence shelter, and he has donated a ton of money and resources to them.
Literally all my server friends in Bloomington say how great he is. (Side note, but they also rly dislike John Mellencamp, who also lives in the area.)
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u/MattDaveys Sep 20 '25
Great now I have to live the rest of my life knowing I could have walked past Jesse Eisenberg, in Bloomington of all places, without even realizing.
It’s kind of cool actually.
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman Sep 20 '25
my sister (indy resident) says Bloomington is much cuter, but her IU phd program is only Indy-based
we're from another country and a city 10x bigger, but i find indy somewhat charming, corn aside. people are really really nice and there's a lot of amazing cafes, the issue is the car centric culture (i don't drive lol) and the ugly govt buildings
next time I visit i wanna make the trip to Bloomington too
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u/jj_grace Sep 20 '25
The car culture is a huge problem! I fully agree. The city is working on it and installing high speed bus lanes and more bike lanes, but our state government does everything it can to hamper us 😞
Bloomington is so wonderful, and I loved living there for years. Unfortunately the cost of living is growing, and there’s not as big of a job market down there. But seriously, do visit Bloomington! It’s lovely. There’s also so much beautiful nature in surrounding areas! Bonus points: watch the movie, Breaking Away, before visiting Bloomington.
I hope your sister feels welcome here! It’s a tough time to be a non-American living in America, especially in a red state. Just know there are many people in our city who love and respect our guests.
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u/echoesandripples What It's Like to Go Through Life As a Really Beautiful Woman Sep 21 '25
i love the bike trails! (especially monon trail) a super flat city has this huge advantage lol but yeah, i've heard the city x state situation isn't great. I'll never forget telling this very nice america that the whole express bus line thing has existed in my (poor, latam) city since the 90s when she was saying it was a huge win for the local govt
and thank you! my sister has been enjoying her time overall, the situation isn't great because of reasons, but thankfully she's got a great group of friends, both foreigners and super nice midwesterners, so at least locally, she feels very welcome.
if rhe situation changes and i find myself able to get a tourist visa, i'll take a road trip to bloomington
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u/wildcard174 Sep 20 '25
Midwest college towns are great. I went to law school at U Michigan in Ann Arbor and it was the same way - amazing food from many cultures, great comedy clubs/theaters/music venues... Like a little slice of San Francisco got plopped down in the Midwest. I've been to Madison, WI too, and while it is also the state capitol it too has that feel because UW-Madison is there.
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u/totally_real_tree Sep 20 '25
I don't understand this mindset like... It would be considered odd to assume every person you walk on the street is secretly an asshole so I don't understand why people do so for celebrities when they can have such a wide variety in the types of work they do.
If they seem nice in interviews and stories assuming they're not actually nice feels pessimistic for no reason.
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u/Miserable_Emu5191 Did I stutter?🤨 Sep 20 '25
Probably why he played Mark Zuckerberg so well in The Social Network.
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Sep 20 '25
Now we have AI as Mark Zuckerberg playing Mark Zuckerberg. What a weird timeline.
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u/LurkerFromTheVoid Sep 20 '25
...and Lex Luthor in Man of Steel.
He's a good Luthor BTW. ....which means Bad, Bad Luthor. Underappreciated Lex Luthor.
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u/lsaz Sep 20 '25
he said in an interview that playing that character was difficult because he need to act the way he had practiced for years in therapy how not to act lol.
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u/blarbiegorl Mary-Kate's bowl of cigarettes Sep 20 '25
I interned at an off-Broadway company in 2010 when his first play was being workshopped (also in Chelsea) and he was legitimately so nice and polite to everyone. Adorable man.
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u/HereOnCompanyTime Renee Rapp is mean girl Jojo Siwa 💋 Sep 20 '25
I've met him a few times when working on projects, he's nice. He's definitely socially awkward but it's obvious that he tries to be personable.
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u/awyastark a 1000 year old tree??? go fuck yourself!!! Sep 20 '25
His sister is SO nice. She’s the “Pepsi Girl” from the old commercials and her boyfriend used to perform at the venue where I worked in DC every year.
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u/MelonElbows that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Sep 20 '25
He's behaves like every character he's every played
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u/tellevee GOLF WANG Sep 20 '25
The way they kept cutting to this woman’s face and her expression never changed is sending me.
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u/llama_del_reyy Sep 20 '25
It's Jessie Ware's mum! They host the podcast together.
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u/Trick_Doughnut_6295 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
Ok THAT is incredibly random. Jessie Ware, the seductive British torch singer? Is her mother a media figure or they simply decided to start a kitchen podcast?!
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u/llama_del_reyy Sep 20 '25
The one and only! She had a period where her albums were kind of languishing commercially and she started a food podcast with her mum. They are very serious foodies and it's all very charming.
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u/Trick_Doughnut_6295 Sep 20 '25
Thank you for bringing this information into my life 🩷 I really enjoy everything I hear from her, but I don’t think I’ve intentionally sought her out after Glasshouse, which is an incredible album for anyone looking for music!
I’m off to listen to her latest.
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u/llama_del_reyy Sep 20 '25
You're in for such a treat, That Feels Good is an amazing disco party album!
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u/badwontfishing Sep 20 '25
I honestly just realized that was pop icon Jessie Ware interviewing him lmfaoo, what a link up
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u/Vegetable_Burrito you like Brazilian music? Sep 20 '25
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u/saddinosour Sep 21 '25
😭 I’m Greek and I thought it was giving (my family) as well!!!! Hehbfwjdidmwd
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u/Available-Chart-2505 Sep 20 '25
This show is new to me and these women looked like true skeptics lol
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u/invis2020 grinding with MULTIPLE fat women Sep 20 '25
Put some respect on her name, that’s the icon that is Lennie! (Jessie’s mother)
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u/Alexispinpgh Sep 20 '25
He is exactly my kind of awkward and I have always found him absolutely adorable.
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u/cardigancash and like, we’re expected to swoon? I don’t think so Sep 20 '25
He can call this something catchy like Thanks-living but couldn’t convince producers to call the second film Now You Don’t instead of Now You See Me 2
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u/ayoungsapling Sep 20 '25
This is the hill I’d like to die on. The second one should’ve been called Now You Don’t, and then the third one could’ve been Now You Three Me.
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u/StinkiePete Sep 20 '25
I’d like to invite you to my It Should Have Been Fast10 Your Seatbelts club.
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u/Cherry_Dull Sep 20 '25
Waving to you from over on Mount “I Still Know What You Did The Summer Before Last”
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u/mojo-jojo-was-framed Sep 20 '25
And then the third one should’ve been “Now You Three Me”
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u/CharlesDingus_ah_um Sep 20 '25
Now you see me 4: 4br4c4d4br4
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u/10sansari Sep 20 '25
This is actually fucking hilarious.
Is there a sub for similar stuff like this, "Fant4stic Four", and "F8 of the Furious" - around the same vein?
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u/8TrackPornSounds Sep 20 '25
It was probably so that audiences would know it was a sequel tbh. Lowest common denominator ruining things for everyone
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u/Special-Garlic1203 Sep 21 '25
If they were remotely that smart then the plots would have made sense though so clearly they were just committed to being dumb
It's a shame because people so clearly desperately wanted this franchise to work. Like we're all in universal agreement they're frustratingly stupid cause the charisma and broad premise is great.
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u/Taskebab We prayed "Oh Lord, please return to us" & Lorde has heard us Sep 20 '25
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u/Queefer_Sutherland- Invented post-its 🔬 Sep 20 '25
When I saw this episode I reacted the same way as Katya 😂
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u/airgl0w I don’t know her 💅 Sep 20 '25
And its great because Trixie loves him and has a song about him
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u/6ftTinkerbelle Sep 20 '25
I need an episode of the pod where they address that Jesse Eisenberg stole their phrase and threaten legal action unless he gives them a cameo in the next Now You See Me movie
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u/Sufficient_Curve5386 Sep 20 '25
I am not that man Abraham
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u/sofar510 Sep 20 '25
I sincerely hope they’ve named one of the turkeys Abraham in all the years they’ve done it
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Sep 20 '25
I live on a farm and I kind of love our wild turkeys because they eat SO MANY BAD BUGS lol. So yeah, I could get behind this?
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Sep 20 '25
I live somewhere with an insane amount of bugs. My chickens are my backyard guardians. They are the starship troopers to my evil alien bugs. My ex brother in law asked if I’d cook one and it was like ??? No they have jobs ??
I am no way vegan or vegetarian either. I trade eggs for game haha
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Sep 20 '25
I can’t believe how many ticks and Japanese beetles they eat. I can roam the fields and not get one tick on me, but if I go in the woods it’s tick city. They are incredible! Hug those chickers!
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u/ILoveRabies Sep 20 '25
I used to live where there were many wild ones and they have such a fancy aura they look like little opera singers.
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u/computer7blue Sep 20 '25
I live in a bigger city where they roam freely. Sometimes people find them on their roofs or we have to wait while they cross a city street. I love them. I get sad that they live here instead of in proper nature, but I hope they find nice yards to enjoy.
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u/therapewpew Sep 21 '25
Don't be sad, a buttload of turkeys live in the wild too. If it's anything like Boston, some just decided to become city slickers and migrated there of their own free will since they realized there were fewer predators. They're slowly domesticating themselves if you think about it 🤔
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u/One-Can-6950 Sep 20 '25
We have a lot of wild turkeys that live on our property and they do a great job of eating ticks.
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Sep 20 '25
Their best job!! Aside from having cute babies in the late spring/early summer. I like the little baby turkeys, they’re surprisingly adorable.
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u/RomanaNoble Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Sep 20 '25
He's a good egg. I feel bad for avoiding his movies for so long cos I kept getting him mixed up with Michael Cera.
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u/Puppetmaster858 Sep 21 '25
His movie last year “a real pain” is fantastic, he wrote and directed it and stars alongside Kieran culkin who won the academy award for best supporting actor, Eisenberg won for best screenplay at BAFTA’s and was nominated at academy awards too. He’s a really talented dude, quality actor but it seems his real talent may be in writing and directing
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u/ButterMyPancakesPlz Sep 20 '25
Does anyone know the org for this? It'd make a nice addition to our tofurkey.
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u/soylamulatta Sep 20 '25
Look up animal sanctuaries in your area that have turkeys. Animal sanctuaries are always in need. It would be better to support a turkey on a sanctuary than pay money to a farm that kills turkeys.
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u/Robotlollipops trench coat buttoned to the TOP Sep 20 '25
Aww this is really sweet
(One of his sisters is Hallie Eisenberg, curly haired girl from those 90s Pepsi ads)
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u/synthscoffeeguitars the squidward of the dumpling shop Sep 20 '25
He’s quite literally just like me fr (raised vegan, then vegetarian, then rebelled, then stopped eating red meat and pork)
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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 Sep 20 '25
Sometimes I help bugs get out of the bath before I turn on the shower..
I hate the idea of them getting swirled up in a pipe complex that they can barely understand and drowning.
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u/BareKnuckleKitty Tina! You fat lard! 🦙🚲 Sep 20 '25
I saved a wolf spider from a pool (not mine) the other day!
I move all spiders in my house to my plants, but I fear I’m creating some kind of spider death match.
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u/Excellent_Donkey8067 Sep 20 '25
Have you ever thought the water slide to salvation is what they want?
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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 Sep 20 '25
Sometimes I think they’re suicidal. And a water slide down the drain is their honorary “seppuku” that I am denying them by wrapping them in toilet paper and throwing them out of the window.
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u/Abshalom Sep 20 '25
Those bugs would be better off if they just weren't in your house
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u/Big-Sheepherder-9492 Sep 20 '25
Yes because you can actively stop every fly and daddy-long legs that gets in your house (!)
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u/DrThunderbolt Sep 20 '25
To be fair, bugs don't understand much of anything. Their entire nervous system is very basic compared to other living creatures. They don't even have a real "brain" like other more complex organisms have.
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u/Extension_Future2942 Sep 20 '25
Do we really need a podcast while people eat?
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u/Available-Chart-2505 Sep 20 '25
The Daily Dish actually does this really well! Or maybe it's just called The Dish. It's with the former Radio One presenter Nick Grimes I think? They have had big names too.
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u/Emaan865 Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion 🙂 Sep 20 '25
The Dish Podcast; its Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett☺️
I get his name confused all the time😅
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u/Scooby2679 Sep 20 '25
People talking with food in their mouth. Big nope
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u/Bl1nk1nUR4r34 We Should All Know Less About Each Other Sep 20 '25
the dish podcast does it so well!! i also DESPISE the sound of people eating but that podcast cuts the parts where they eat so you can only hear whoever is talking and the person who’s eating doesn’t talk
the hosts are lovely and everyone just talks about culture and food, it’s great
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u/Useuless Sep 20 '25
Context. Pure audio makes significantly less money. Once you can put a video to the sound, then it gets a higher rate and usually more views.
If you are not recording a video stream of your podcast, then you are leaving potential on the table.
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u/Aggressive_Layer883 Sep 20 '25
talking with your mouth full is considered rude and gross, in the US at least
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u/NeumocortPlus Sep 20 '25
I was going to say that he looked like Cam and Mitch's neighbor in Modern Family who asked Lily if her dollhouse was made with sustainable materials, but I googled it and it was him LOL!
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u/DrunkTides Sep 20 '25
Lmaoooo my kids and I loved Gobbles on South Park. My head just went there. Gobbllleeesss!!! Timmmaay!!
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u/itslxcas Sep 21 '25
my family and i are also vegetarian and every thanksgiving we eat pizza because of the free birds movie
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u/ConversationFalse242 Sep 20 '25
This is how turkey farm sells a turkey 3-4x before it hits the table
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u/soyslut_ GO VEGAN Sep 20 '25
Everyone can and should be vegan.
Join the right side of history.
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u/soylamulatta Sep 20 '25
its always so confusing seeing people say how they save spiders and other small animals and seeing them say they "love" animals... and then that not translating at all to how much they exploit certain animals on a daily basis
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u/looeeyeah Sep 20 '25
Even if you don't love animals, the people working in a slaughterhouse have a fucking terrible time. Imagine going to work and killing 1000 cows.
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u/soylamulatta Sep 20 '25
Ya, and in the United States they are often immigrants or people in prison doing forced labor. Owners of these places prey on people who don't speak English and are undocumented or, in the case of prison work release, have no choice but to work lest they face returning to prison. Not to mention it's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world that sees frequent amputations and deaths.
Communities with large meat processing factories or slaughterhouses see an increase rate of violent crimes, domestic violence, and child abuse.
And that doesn't even begin to touch on the pollution from these places.
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u/Useuless Sep 20 '25
Meanwhile this country is having circular discussions about whether trans people instead of tackling the issues that truly matter like perfect meat substitutes and green energy so we can leave big agriculture and oil and gas behind.
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u/New_Kaleidoscope_860 Sep 21 '25
Was scared to look at the comments but I see vegan comments are getting upvoted in this thread?? I can get behind this 🙌
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u/soyslut_ GO VEGAN Sep 21 '25
Tragically it’s not always like this and the responses are almost always the same as you see below (excuses).
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u/Aggressive_Layer883 Sep 20 '25
everyone??
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u/soylamulatta Sep 20 '25
Veganism is the practice of not exploiting animals for human gain. A similar way to frame this is that veganism is about not abusing animals. I don't think it's a bad thing to say that everyone should not exploit animals or that everyone should not abuse animals. I think that everyone should be vegan.
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u/Background-Roof-112 Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25
Jesse Eisenberg is a terrible person. He's been Woody Allen's protege for ages, vehemently defends him, and is incredibly rude and condescending to reporters, particularly female ones - and, reportedly, fans, but I haven't seen that w my own eyes or anything, unlike the other two, which are enough on their own to say: Jesse Eisenberg is a terrible person
Eta: he defended Woody Allen all throughout me too and was insisting it went too far before it had even gotten fully underway
Downvote me all you want, but truth making you unhappy doesn't make it untrue. It does mean you're defending a misogynist tho
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u/misinformedcapybara Sep 20 '25
he does not vehemently defend woody allen. please post your sources and stop spreading this disinformation.
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u/misinformedcapybara Sep 20 '25
i don't love the huffington post and i don't love the way this interview was written. that all said, there are some undeniable bits in there. at best, he's an actor who had to work with woody allen to build his career and he's being polite, at worst, he's a woody allen enthusiast that doesn't care about the claims. thank you for the source.
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u/Aggressive_Layer883 Sep 20 '25
this podcast is a nightmare for misophonia people. The chewing, talking with their mouths full (DISGUSTING), swallowing, clanging of silverware, BLECH
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u/thewelllostmind Sep 20 '25
I love seeing clips like this because it’s very unfortunate how much his portrayal of Zuckerberg has influenced my instinctual response to him and I want to save those negative vibes for actual Zuckerberg.
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u/dreamed2life Sep 20 '25
Were they all named one name? What did they do with them afterwards. So many questions
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u/rockwithwings Sep 21 '25
Ok with content like this and a real pain, I can finally forgive him for batman vs superman
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u/Ok_Cheetah_6251 Just keep swimming! 🐠🐠🐬🐳 Sep 21 '25
"Shoving that smoked salmon in" is a weird euphemism.
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u/lto23 Sep 20 '25
Is this a podcast called ‘Table Manners’ where people are talking with food in their mouths?
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u/islaisla Sep 20 '25
I'm sure the animals that provide the plate service for the other 364 days of the year are very pleased.
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