Nic Romolini rants about the first year of his move from LA back to Philadelphia. The people are rude, the food is fattening, the drivers are crazy, no one has any boundaries.. and it's familiar and feels like home.

Nic Romolini rants about leaving Los Angeles.

Nic rants about mosquitoes in Los Angeles, mushroom accounts on Instagram, the SOYBUFF Range Rover, peculiarities of LA drivers, the rainy season and wildfires and droughts.

Nic Romolini returns to talk about bread, bagels, and pizza in Los Angeles, with a particularly long and drawn-out rant about hoagies here and what is wrong with everyone in LA that they can’t figure out the proper way to make a very simple Italian hoagie (/sub/hero/whatever the fuck you wanna call it). Lots of good stuff about the high quality of Los Angeles friendships. He also makes more promises he probably won’t keep.

Tony Tallarico joins Nic Romolini for a wide-ranging conversation covering all of the following: editing, mental health, trauma responses from childhood influencing adulthood, hoarding, Tony’s aspirations, gatekeeping in the film industry, Walter Murch, never stopping learning new sh*t, TikTok editors, the decentralization of the film and tv industry, Gary V, Unreal Engine compositing, AI actors, AI wiping out humanity, dinosaurs, my parents’ lawyer Pasquale J. Tallarico, Italian-Americans, how America strips immigrants of their culture, vomiting Spaghetti-Os, being a dad, the miracle that neither one of us is dead, how my wife grounded me, dying from Cirrhosis, the gratification of starting to take good care of yourself, my spiking blood pressure, the problem with the word “deserve” and what might be a better choice, “lucky” vs “fortunate,” privilege, meditation, saunas, inflammation, strip clubs and bachelor parties, how most dudes suck, obsessing on what’s gonna go wrong, Mr. Rogers, men’s ability to discuss vulnerable and emotional subjects, masculinity, Chet Hanks, Catholicism, divorce, minimum wage, the French Revolution, how American citizens have been made to hate each other, Andor, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and if it’s better somewhere other than America.

Tony takes us out with a Mister Rogers song.

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Tony’s website: http://www.tonytallarico.net

Nic Romolini tells a story about rodents in the garage, his landlord, housing in Los Angeles, and his dad’s war with the squirrels during Nic’s childhood (including sniping them out the second floor window of the house).

Nic Romolini rants about people complaining about the rain in LA, the success of wearing the “Italians Do It Better” shirt, and going to Wi Spa, the nude Korean spa, with his wife for her birthday. Social anxiety, awkward nudity, nearly fainting and possibly almost dying from the sweltering heat, and all of the dicks.

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Nic Romolini has a phone call with Jason Rodgers about life in Philadelphia, the value of leaving home and going to a big city and the merits of returning there, reminiscing about the 2000s, garage bands in basements in South Philly, trauma, ADHD, and more.

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