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We're Welcome to Free With Ads, the podcast that asked 90s kids the question, why pay Disney plus eight bucks a month to help you remember your childhood when you can go on YouTube for free and watch Empire Records.

The movie that reminds us that rock and roll peaked with the gin blossoms.

I'm Jordan Morris.

And I'm Emily Fleming.

Today's movie is Empire Records.

A flop in theaters.

This movie became a cult classic on VHS and DVD.

It tells the story of a group of slacker record store employees trying to save their store from a giant corporation during the most holy day of the year, Rex Manning Day.

That's right. You might notice that this podcast usually drops on a Tuesday, but it's dropped on a Monday this week because we saw the opportunity to release our Empire Records episode on the actual Rex Manning Day, April 8th.

Happy Rex Manning Day, everybody. We'll be back to Tuesdays next week, but this is a special Monday episode. and we will be talking about this movie, which is as of this recording, streaming free with ads.

But before that, we're going to talk about something else we saw on the internet for free this week.

Emily, I'll go first.

It's time for another edition of our segment we've never done before.

What's Matthew McConaughey talking about? And this segment will play something from Matthew McConaughey's social media and try to figure out what the fuck he's talking about. Okay. A little bit of a background. I was talking to our mutual buddy Alison Becker not too long ago. Oh, cool. I asked her what she was reading and she's like, okay, bear with me,

I'm reading Matthew McConaughey's autobiography. She's like, I'm listening to it on tape,

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