Quentin Tarantino

And so we're roommates and there's this one night that he's kind of like all, he's kind of disgusted with his life. And he starts ranting and he and he's describing a situation that was very common.

If you were a kid growing up without a, you know, without a degree or anything in the 80s, especially in California, where it's like you can't get any really good jobs, but like you can work at a licorice pizza restaurant.

If you were a kid growing up without a, you know, without a degree or anything in the 80s, especially in California, where it's like you can't get any really good jobs, but like you can work at a licorice pizza restaurant.

If you were a kid growing up without a, you know, without a degree or anything in the 80s, especially in California, where it's like you can't get any really good jobs, but like you can work at a licorice pizza restaurant.

And if you're an okay employee, you could like work at Licorice Pizza for a couple of years and maybe you could even become assistant manager or a manager and maybe they send you to another store. And maybe you work there for three years and that's really great. But then, you know, all of a sudden the district manager doesn't like you. You run afoul of somebody higher up in corporate.

And if you're an okay employee, you could like work at Licorice Pizza for a couple of years and maybe you could even become assistant manager or a manager and maybe they send you to another store. And maybe you work there for three years and that's really great. But then, you know, all of a sudden the district manager doesn't like you. You run afoul of somebody higher up in corporate.

And if you're an okay employee, you could like work at Licorice Pizza for a couple of years and maybe you could even become assistant manager or a manager and maybe they send you to another store. And maybe you work there for three years and that's really great. But then, you know, all of a sudden the district manager doesn't like you. You run afoul of somebody higher up in corporate.

And all of a sudden, next thing you know, you're fired and you're out in the street.

And all of a sudden, next thing you know, you're fired and you're out in the street.

And all of a sudden, next thing you know, you're fired and you're out in the street.

Yeah. Okay. And so now you've just spent three years at Licorice Pizza. Now you could get a job at TRW or some place that's like a real job job. Or, well, those are kind of hard to get, but you can work at Warehouse Records and Tapes tomorrow because you just had three years at Licorice Pizza. Same thing with Wild West Clothier. Same thing with Miller's Outpost.

Yeah. Okay. And so now you've just spent three years at Licorice Pizza. Now you could get a job at TRW or some place that's like a real job job. Or, well, those are kind of hard to get, but you can work at Warehouse Records and Tapes tomorrow because you just had three years at Licorice Pizza. Same thing with Wild West Clothier. Same thing with Miller's Outpost.

Yeah. Okay. And so now you've just spent three years at Licorice Pizza. Now you could get a job at TRW or some place that's like a real job job. Or, well, those are kind of hard to get, but you can work at Warehouse Records and Tapes tomorrow because you just had three years at Licorice Pizza. Same thing with Wild West Clothier. Same thing with Miller's Outpost.

Same thing with any of these kind of stores. Next thing you know, you're 28 and the only jobs you've ever had are minimum wage jobs behind a counter that were designed for kids to pay for their gas.

Same thing with any of these kind of stores. Next thing you know, you're 28 and the only jobs you've ever had are minimum wage jobs behind a counter that were designed for kids to pay for their gas.

Same thing with any of these kind of stores. Next thing you know, you're 28 and the only jobs you've ever had are minimum wage jobs behind a counter that were designed for kids to pay for their gas.

And you've spent your entire 20s doing that. Right.

And you've spent your entire 20s doing that. Right.

And you've spent your entire 20s doing that. Right.

And you start getting bitter. But he was not just bitter about the job aspect of it. But I knew, oh, my God, he's telling me the truth. I'm learning something here. Because he goes, you know, Quentin, you think that we're this really great team. We're this really great crew. Well, we are.