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News I knew in Tel Aviv president Tromso special counsel Robert Mueller shouldn't testify before Congress as requested by the House Judiciary Committee Trump tweeted today Bob Miller shouldn't testify no redos for the Dems This is a change from his position from Friday when he said whether or not what Muller testified was up to Attorney General William Barr are said last Wednesday during testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had no objection to Muller testifying as not have the authority though to prevent Miller from testifying before Congress and from today put more pressure on trade negotiations with China tweeting that tariffs on $200000000000.00 of Chinese imports will jump to 25 percent this Friday despite repeated claims from the White House that trade talks with Beijing were progressing Trump said the talks are moving too slowly he also threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on another $325000000000.00 worth of Chinese goods Chinese officials are expected in Washington Wednesday for trade talks in Venezuela authorities are investigating the cause of a helicopter crash that killed 7 military officers heading to a state where President Maduro was visiting troops there is unclear if that was part of the military delegation Meanwhile Secretary of State Mike Pompei o tells A.B.C.'s This Week the u.s. Is working with other organizations to push for a change in that country what we can do is provide support get support from the organization American States the entire region that understands the restoring democracy for the Venezuelan people is an imperative to get them all to work together so that we get the outcome we're looking for the u.s. And many other countries back opposition leader was who has been holding protests and demonstrations this week trying to get men Dural to step down he plans to meet Russian foreign minister Pompei Pompei or rather plans to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov soon to discuss u.s. Concerns that Russian support for Mr o. Is fueling the political and humanitarian crisis in that country Russia accuses the u.s. Of aggressively interfering in the internal affairs this is n.p.r. . A scientific experiment may be helping endangered fish in the Colorado River by increasing their insect food sources. Of member station k.u.n.c. Has more in an intensive sample taken last August from the Colorado River near the Grand Canyon it was found that the population of midges a name that encompasses many types of small flies had increased by more than 800 percent scientists have been releasing low steady flows of water from Arizona's Glen Canyon Dam to give the bugs a better chance for survival this process is what they're calling Bud flows these insects are the primary food source for fish including species like the endangered humpback job and also birds and bats in the canyon a 2nd blood flow experiment started this month to build on the success from last year and will run through August for n.p.r. News I'm Carly huckle in Greeley Colorado let it hop dancer choreographer and actress Norma Miller has died known as the queen of swing she was the last living member of the African-American troop that introduced swing dance to Europe in the 1930 s. For in Harlem she was discovered at the age of 12 dancing outside the Savoy Ballroom by the age of 15 she was performing in Paris she died at her home in Fort Myers Florida at the age of 99 the next leg of the Triple Crown is the Preakness May 18th but it is unclear if Kentucky Derby winner country house or maximum security will compete maximum security came in 1st in the Kentucky Derby yesterday but was disqualified for interference with other horses Cohen or Kerry West says he is considering an appeal of that decision I'm joining her post n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the Wallace Foundation fostering improvements in learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and the vitality of the arts for everyone ideas at wireless Foundation dot org and the listeners who support this n.p.r. Station. This is All Things Considered from n.p.r. News I'm Michel Martin is away the u.s. China trade deal may be approaching its final leg this past week u.s. Trade officials were in Beijing and Chinese delegation is headed to Washington to continue talks once a President Trump tweeted earlier today that quote the trade deal with China continues but too slowly as they attempt to renegotiate no exclamation point what issues are on the table and off the table I spoke about this with James Greene he's the former minister counselor for trade affairs at the u.s. Embassy in Beijing he began by unpacking tramp's tariff tweet Well I think one of the main sticking points in getting a final agreement will be which Turks will remain There's tariffs on $250000000000.00 worth of Chinese exports the United States and I think for some inside the administration they want to keep some tariffs on some amount of those trades exports and so I think the negotiations are probably getting around that issue what number should that be should be $50000000000.00 worth less or more and what tariff level should that be so I think this is going to be something that's a sticking point from the Chinese point of view they would like all tariffs to go away as a signal that u.s. China relations are back on track one issue that I've been paying attention to is cyber theft and whether that is or is not on the table according to The Financial Times it's off it's not expected that the u.s. Will accept it will reach an agreement with President Xi and his administration what's your understanding on it do you believe that cyber theft this lingering issue is going to have a breakthrough in these talks I don't think the administration went in to these trade talks with the expectation that cyber theft would be addressed through these trials other than highlighting it and telling companies they should be aware and giving a warning to the Chinese government of this something pay attention to I don't think there was an expectation that these terms would somehow make this issue go. I know that one thing that American technology companies have really wanted is to be allowed to bring the data they're collecting in China over to the u.s. For artificial intelligence data mining purposes and that's the thing they're going to be able to achieve in this round this area of data transfers is critical for how u.s. Companies operate globally and so yes I suspect this is an area that the 2 sides are looking at very closely and I know from my experience for the past 5 years the arms abuse or issues we've brought to the Chinese attention to say you know if you want your companies to be global companies then to flow across borders so I think this is something besides both sides are looking at very closely I want to switch gears for a moment to a human rights crisis in China according to u.s. Officials I'm talking about waiters Muslims I think minorities Randall Shriver who leads the Asia policy at the u.s. Defense Department he says that more than a 1000000 are in concentration camps his words China claims their reaction cation camps for terrorists is it peculiar or a given that this crisis is not part of the conversation that's off the table Well I think there's been any trade negotiations there is the background music that is playing and that sets some of the stage for what happens at the negotiation table the discussions now is trying to include conflict over the South China Sea and certainly Chinese treatment of We years and change on is one of those things that sets that sets the mood music but in terms of actually changing the negotiating text I don't think that's likely to enter into the conversation China's not just an economic issue it's political a way that Trump is signaling to his base that Granted it's not as strong of immigration but it's somewhere in the mix from what we know about what's shaping up doesn't look like the Trump administration is getting Americans a good deal here well I think you're right to point to it Mr Asians trying to focus says one of the specific political areas they've spent time on and particularly on the trade front I think whether or not this is. A good agreement for the United States will depend on some of the details trade agreements in the end are very much about the details and so well have to see what they what they come up with I think the longer term challenge for the u.s. And Italy and China is you know how we can craft a policy that advances u.s. Interests hopefully in concert with friends and allies and so that's a really I think the administration has come short on dealing with countries like China and trying to circle the wagons with the European Union and Japan and Australia and I know us your master White House are trying to bring all those folks on board because that's really what moves China is to unified front dealing with problems and so for instance Russian I think the jury's still out but I think that it's you know that's James Green senior research fellow at the initiative for us China dialogue on global issues at Georgetown University and former minister counselor for trade affairs at the u.s. Embassy in Beijing thank you thank you and now to another story we'll hear more about this week it starts with a number $90000000000.00 That's about how much is expected to be worth when it goes public that despite the fact the company has never actually turned a profit it's made plenty of money but never more than it spent its move to go public and consolidate power comes at a time when Americans are questioning the power of Silicon Valley and leading politicians are calling for the breakout of tech giants New York Times opinion columnist Farhad Manjoo recently called that a moral stain on Silicon Valley he admitted his once bright eyed take on the startup has dimmed dramatically he's here to talk with us about why and he joins us from Mountain View California welcome Hi Good to be here you say you used to be a naive baby tech pundit who bought into the uber hype a fanboy of sorts of these are your words but this past week in your column you lamented what's become of Hooper what exactly are you limiting Yeah I mean I once thought that Newburgh could be. A win for everyone you know we used to in cities we used to sort of have these taxi cartels which limited supply and didn't really offer a great service and seemed like a better version of the taxi and it also kind of offered these environmental promises we'd have you know people using cars more efficiently like promise that it could get as you know more people in cars get fewer cars on the road and also in promise that it could give all of its drivers a living and even a better than living wage and those promises really haven't materialized Instead we have this company that had this really reckless history and that is you know with the i.p.o. Rewarding many of the people who pushed it's kind of lawlessness and it's recklessness until now and so the law meant is that it's not a beacon for environmentalism it's not a beacon for and greater labor standards or labor protections by something else yeah I mean it is turned into this dystopian vision of Tech where you know a few people prosper and everyone else gets kind of poverty wages users of the service get pretty good service but. Kind of at the cost of all of these drivers getting very little from the service of getting very little equity. I think it is a patrol of what Silicon Valley you know said that it stood for which is creating new ideas that are good for the world at large not just you know a few 100 people on the west coast many would herald as a great American success story a testament to what capitalism can create right jobs for millions of people in the u.s. And around the world and its i.p.o. Will make a handful of people millionaires and even billionaires Isn't that a good thing. I mean it's perhaps better than not having it but I don't think it's fundamentally her sort of objective Lee a good thing what would be better is if was a smaller and less valuable company but that. Less value was were more equitably distributed is your concern about how has operated or is it also how the media how journalists in business and technology have covered growth you know it was not a secret in earlier years that was running circles around regulators flouting laws for example not having insurance to cover the rights refusing to pay livery taxes these were not secrets and even as they were happening there was still a celebration of this you know this started out yeah I mean I think that criticism of the press kind of applies. To the case and it also applies to Facebook and Google and Amazon and even Apple one of the things that we've learned over the past you know 2 or 3 years is that you know for the proceeding decade we kind of we in the press and just the media and society generally gave tech companies a pass because they were new and they were celebrated and they were they seemed to be giving us kind of the best of the future and America. You know building the American dream and. You know in some cases they were and I value and appreciate many of their services. But I think that they were kind of effect on the world wasn't you know looked at skeptically enough when you look meant where the company is do you feel there are steps that can be taken to bring it back to the loftier values that you know you 1st believed were true yeah I think there are steps but I don't think they're kind of what to do I think they're what regulators and lawmakers and through society should do I mean sort of a very easy step would be to. You know reexamine this independent contractor status of their drivers and see if there's some way to have them be employees or gain some money in the company. That would be one way so basically you're saying as we're about to who are the math a figure of possibly $100000000000.00 and worth. Regulators pay attention and protect the drivers in the little people in the game and I think actually you know going public. We are seeing strikes we are seeing protests from. Presidential candidates regulators are paying more attention to this industry and its effects on the world. Going to the end of the story. I think it's you know maybe the beginning of a new. Restrictive you know. A company that was Farhad Manjoo New York Times tech columnist thanks for coming on it's been great talking with you. Considered from n.p.r. News. 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When it comes to taking care of yourself there is no shortage of advice especially if you're a woman drink green juice go to spend class organize your house really organize it at work lean in not too far and feel like too much twin sister is Emily and Emilio agree they've written a new book that asks us all to step back and really look at how women are pushed to the breaking point it's called burnout the secret to unlocking the stress cycle the sisters told us why they decided to write this book it was after Emilia landed in the hospital twice I was in doctoral school getting my doctor to Musical Arts in conducting I was also working 2 part time jobs and I am the mother of 3 people who were teenagers at the time and I was commuting 65 miles each way and the stresses of my life were overwhelming and I was totally in denial about how hard I was working and how much challenge I was actually having I had no idea how much my body was suffering so it took me totally by surprise when the middle of one night I woke up in such pain that I had my husband drive me to the emergency room and I was in the hospital for 4 days and they didn't come up with a diagnosis they just said well it's stress you just need to relax and that is not an evidence based strategy for coping with stress it turns out so I spend about the next year I call them only of course who brings me a big stack of books because this is the way she shows her affection is peer reviewed science and yet so is very supportive and convenient to have a twin sister who has a Ph d. In public health so in the next year I started working on doing the actual things that the science says will combat burnout it was too late and a year later ended up back in the hospital and they removed my appendix which had been inflamed inflammation is a result of extreme stress so you know Emily when your sister is in and out of the hospital and you're bringing her books you talk. About teaching her about emotions can you just give an example of what you mean by that like what is the conversation you had with your sister well it mostly happened like your emotions are biological events that happen in your body it's physiological real emotions are not just in your head they are all over your body in your chemistry so she's reading these books and she sees the word rage on the page and spontaneously burst into sobs and she calls me on the phone and it's like your book here says that feelings are physical I was like You're a coral conductor who expresses a motion through your body you practice yoga and she still sort of had not put it together that just because you've dealt with the stress ors that doesn't mean that you've dealt with the physical event of the stress and your body wide of the lessons in your book is about completing the stress cycle I love this analogy of yours this idea of a lie and explain the concept of completing the stress cycle through the lion family so this is the foundation of it all our physiological stress response is very well designed to help us survive short term acute stress or is like being chased by a lion when you see the lion you your body floods with adrenalin and cortisol and glycogen all in preparation to help you engage in a behavior to help save your life in this case it's going to be running so here comes the lie and you start to run there's only 2 possible outcomes either you get eaten by the lion in which case none of the rest of this matters or you manage to make it all the way back to your village and somebody sees you running it opens the door and waves you in you both stand with your shoulder against the door until the lion finally gives up and when that happens you look at the person who just saved your life and you are flooded with a sense of gratitude connection and peace and that's biochemically the complete response cycle. Because we are alas almost never chased by lions No our stress or as tend to be things that are not actually going to threaten our lives the jerk at work traffic these things are not going to kill us but they do elevate our stress response in a similar way but they don't offer us the same opportunity to complete the stress response cycle so we were walking around with a couple decades of incomplete activated stress response cycles in our bodies that are just waiting for us to go ahead and do the thing we need to do physical activity is the most efficient affection is really powerful one of our favorite mendacious is the 22nd hug if you hold someone that long it communicates to your body that you have a person in your life whom you love and trust enough and who loves and trust you enough to stand this close together and your chemistry shifts into a state of I have come home which is the end of the stress response cycle. At the end of each chapter you have these little t.l.c. Our recaps as internet talk for too long didn't read so what is the t.l.c. Are for this conversation what's the one thing you really want people to take away Emily it's that wellness is not a state of being it is not a state of mind it is a state of action I mean what would you add that the cure for burnout is not self care it's all of us caring for each other Emilie enemy alien co-authors of burned out the Secrets Unlocking the stress cycle it's out now thank you both for joining me thank you. People who want to start businesses and lower income neighborhoods often have trouble getting bank loans but there are some investors looking to help Claire try to get there from member station k.p.s. And San Diego reports. The strip mall on the outskirts of San Diego has a Mexican restaurant a liquor store and a coffee shop. The coffee shop is called Project Rio collective it's filled with people working on laptops or hanging out drinking Mexican mochas and lavender lemonades project real collectors started out as 5 families. Got together from cleaning up the neighborhood here Tommy Walker is one of the owners of people in the neighborhood and we wish we had somewhere to hang out somewhere we grab a cup of coffee meet our neighbors here some pay study in a neighborhood called Paradise Hills is in a lower income part of town Walker says after a successful 1st year he went to a bank asking to borrow $4000.00 for an especial machine they said no you guys don't qualify because you haven't been around longer this experience is typical according to data compiled by the nonprofit Woodstock institute it shows that between 20122016 only about one in 5 businesses in low income areas across the country received bank loans or even business credit cards that's compared to almost 3 in 5 businesses in higher income areas you have a cycle that kind of perpetuates that neighborhood being less friendly to business Spencer Callen compiled the data gets started so employment stays depressed the job opportunities aren't there in the neighborhood businesses that are already there don't expand He says it can also drive businesses to predatory lending that's what happened with Natalie Gill after running her flower arranging business out of her home she wanted to expand to a flower shop and cafe and I had 2 years of experience where profit but I don't know what it was but it was just I got rejected for every loan I tried for a normal small business loan has 5 to 10 percent interest. But she took a loan from an online company it was at 18 percent interest and I had to pay it within 3 years which was the rest I was willing to take because I had no other option. Just so really like this person romantical forum has another going to be successful Carty Davis is an investment banker with a c. Squared advisors good business plan but if they don't have. To put into the deal or cash to clear. It's going to be very very difficult to get a loan or improve Davis says banks have certain criteria such as a good credit history he suggests that of potential borrowers don't have that they can go to the federal Small Business Administration but here's the issue for low income communities those loans still require a big cash down payment or home equity which business owners may not have There's always reasons to say no to a borrower we always are looking for reasons to say Yes Lauren Gratton is a founder of the investment company mission driven finance she says increasingly there are investors looking specifically for ways to address this inequality question given finance does not look at personal credit scores we instead look at the validity of the business and how well can you repay from the business Carney that allowed someone like Julie reader the publisher of small local newspapers in the outskirts of San Diego to get a $100000.00 loan over 18 months with a percent interest a typical business loan they were very concerned with what kind of job opportunities was this going to bring for the term unity how was the schooling to help nonprofits in the community but mission driven finance has only given out a few loans so far and there are many other investment companies like it which means there's still significant inequality in. Lending to businesses in lower income areas for n.p.r. News I'm Claire try guesser in San Diego we turn now to the ongoing crisis in Venezuela and the impact it's had on one emerging musician I mean. Singer songwriter an artist from. Last year. Made a hard decision she left her home country and fled north to Mexico City because of the move this alone was able to release her 1st album. She felt she had to leave. Her life was becoming impossible when you have a dictatorship. The 1st thing that goes away so. You need more food you need more basic stuff 1st. Today's event on the brink of collapse with President Nicolas Maduro refusing to give up power and the prospect of international intervention with millions of people leaving the country and others so desperate for food they are eating from the trash this is not the Venezuela. When I was little. Now I realize how. To grow up in the. It's beautiful. You have the mountain. Amazing food. And honestly. I. Flower this flower grows where nothing beautiful should grow this beautiful flower still grows and the. Chaos. It's really easy to. Actually be in the cracks because of. The pressure. Pressure doesn't know. Just there are dark side and dark feelings those feelings honestly they're horrible but they also make you stronger. For my country right now I hope. I hope for the best I really really hold and I wish that this. Have a solution that didn't include. War. Honestly after all these years. Really really scared for a really sad but I think that it's the only way. This. Military intervention happens I hope. That you know in a sense since. You. Say. That was meant as musician. And that. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News. She was named one of the New York Times' most memorable people of 2018 she's been photographed by the famed anyway by that her name is Sarah Zorn and she's the 1st woman to lead cadets at the Citadel the formerly all male military school in South Carolina founded in 1842 yesterday she graduated as an officer in the u.s. Army South Carolina Public Radio's Victoria Hanson has more from Charleston in the grade of 2nd lieutenant do solemnly swear that I will support heading in the back row right hand raised her blond Bond tightly wrapped at the nape of her neck Sarah Zorn takes an officer's own with nearly 100 other connects she's about to get pent commissioning her as a 2nd lieutenant but she has to wait it out that medically Zorn is used to going last but at this school she is very much a 1st the 1st female regimental commander and the Settles long storied history leaving 2400 mostly male cadets but Zorn says don't make a fuss about being 1st she just wants to be the best I told him I said sir I don't want to be the 1st female regional commander I want to be just like him and I pointed to Dillon Graham who was a correctional commander Lieutenant Sarah Zorn military intelligence branch detail in artillery is being done by her finally name is called She's accompanied on stage by her cousins her mother died when she was just 16 years old Zorn feels the loss and the weight of those small gold bars upon her shoulders there's a lot of responsibility that comes with being a lieutenant I'm in the business of taking care of soldiers Zoran believes she has been accepted by the Citadel but that wasn't always the case nearly 25 years ago when a federal court ruling forced the military college to open its doors to women the 1st Shannon Faulkner she left within a week Blamey dead. Threats and sexes slurs Since then more than $500.00 women have attended Zorn's roommate Cagney are feet admits there have been whispers among some male cadets who could lead as a woman she did it to her she always held her ground. Despite negative comments. That positive. It probably didn't hurt Zorn can do 70 pushups and just 2 minutes and has 3 black belt in martial arts she's also mentally tough losing her mother and then her aunt who died during her freshman year in high school Zorn found a mentor and her junior are o.t.c. Instructor Gary signed he helped her get a 4 year scholarship sign also gave 1st salute wiping tears behind his tented glasses. Zorn's cousin Allen and market have long cared for her as well. She has because she worked hard to get where she had now they're patiently trying to help her pack. Carefully hangs up her. Which will be donated displayed and archived at the Citadel she gazes one last time out the giant window overlooking the parade field women have never before been allowed to stay in this room still there's one more stop on the way down to that iconic field the 1st female regimental commander who often has to wait to go last and look. We survived female regimental commander to get the last word. For n.p.r. News I'm Victoria Hanson in Charleston. This is n.p.r. News. This is 90.3 Crested Butte 88.7. And translating at k 2358 k. Jack's cabinet 94.9. And heard around the world. Is listener supported volunteer powered community radio for the entire Gunnison Valley. 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News I'm Annie this evening marks the start of Ramadan the holy month in which observant Muslims don't eat or drink from sunrise to sunset many Muslims prepare for each day staffed with a horror pre-dawn meal meant to stick to the ribs and ward off hunger until night time and he said helluva is the author of the cookbook feast food of the Islamic world it's an impressive collection of recipes from Nigeria and uneasy China and of course the Middle East how did you go about selecting which recipes to include in this book I didn't want to be boring or repetitive so I had to kind of make a choice between leaving out some very common recipes that you find in lots of books and then I chose recipes recipes that were very typical of the countries that I was including And then personal favorites something that struck me as that. Food is often regional not religious in terms of how it's evolved it's true so is there something about food from the world the recipes you've picked that you think are specific to the religion Islam Yeah so let's take Muslim China you know the western part of China weaker country they they used which they don't use in the rest of China know very little and their noodles are made from wheat and they have bread so that region has this food because of its religion . And because of its proximity to Turkey the reason I called a nice ahead Lou is because of a dish I think meaning to make for a long time in her book she has 2 versions one from Egypt one from Syria and nutritious and simple meal made from being that's perfect for Ramadan or for any time really full Madonnas or simply full food is a very filling dish so yeah if you add food at whatever hour you could stay without eating anything or feeling very hungry for at least 56 hours join me in my kitchen here in d.c. Via video chat to teach me how to make both the Egyptian and Assyrian recipes food actually is the Arabic word for fabulous dried beans It depends it depends on who prepares it but let's say the Egyptian version is broad beans dried broad beans that are cooked for a very long time like overnight until they become pretty mushy and they're dressed with olive oil lemon juice and Gondek and then garnish you can have the gun issue that you want but usually tomatoes onion. Cumin So this is the Egyptian version and the typical Egyptian breakfast I say well I have some good news and bad news to report to you at the beginning of a full cooking session and I feel like a fall haha. I don't have any father being an option Ok. I waited too long to go grocery shopping and couldn't find fava beans so I did what everyone does I googled for substitutes and ended up with Lima and kidney beans and this gave him an idea what about doing the lima beans the Egyptian way and the kidney beans the Syrian way Oh Ok and that would that would work quite well her instructions are easy mash up your beings mixing in lemon oil fault and cumin then add the garnish through the magic of radio we'll fast forward to the important part now you can taste and see if the seasoning is. Right taste and say wow it's flavorful it should be so I want to try making out a Syrian version Ok Ok I'm going to grab. The red beans. Helu got this recipe from a vendor in Aleppo all he made was fool and always had a crowd that's how she 1st noticed the old man this was years before war broke out in Syria she says his shop and the whole neighborhood is gone now but back then locals absolutely raved about his cafe and while his full is typically Syrian it uses the sesame paste call to Hany up to have a special technique he doesn't match the beans Ok he puts it so he needs sauce on the bottom of the bowl Ok so that's the number one issue he had as I could not find any sauce so you have yogurt I do have yogurt take a bowl and spread a little bit of yogurt on the bottom of the bow. So now season Your be use with lemon juice. And a better boy. And salt. So the gun is on here is more talk in your own top. Based so you have a contrast of color. Kind of like a cherry on top and then if you have chucked the can garnish with chops the this fool has more texture and each ingredient especially the bits of garlic really hits the tongue Helou says this is her favorite full and while she was in Syria she became a regular at Cafe up to eventually move to Cairo to escape the Syrian civil war tried to find him and reconnect Well I asked to run because he set up his food stall their cafe there and by the time I found somebody who knew who where he was he had passed well his recipe lives in your cookbook that's for sure yeah it's one of those meals that is basically a Poker's meal but it is absolutely delicious and irresistible that was a nice ahead Lou teaching me how to make full you can find those recipes and many more in her cookbook feast food at the if. Someone great a movie that was recently released on Netflix is not your standard romantic comedy it's rom com for the modern woman the protagonist Johnny just got her dream job she's moving to San Francisco to work for Rolling Stone and made her boyfriend of 9 years dumpster the movie is partly Johnny played by 3 guys from Jane the version weeping over a failed love but it's mostly her hitting the town with her 2 best friends living their best lives Jennifer Kate and Robinson is the writer and director of the film we talked about the film's diverse cast and we asked her of having Gina's character a k. Generally speaking Spanish was in the script from the get go no that was honestly a collaboration between Gina and I were I came in and I was like listen I I wouldn't know where to put this in and make it feel organic and make it feel correct and that's just because it's not my experience and so I wanted I was like I hired you I love you you're amazing bring whatever you want to bring whatever flavor you want to bring to Johnny and like go nuts in terms of the dynamic between the 3 characters on the screen they're not precious with each other they're not earnest they're constantly poking they're going at each other they're ruthlessly funny but the euro caddied us yeah thank you for saying that it was that was important to me I feel like I especially about millennial women and young women I feel like time and time again I'm watching a show about women and I'm like I know you're telling me they're friends but I don't think they are. I think they hate each other and I really want to make sure that even in the moments where they are coming for each other and coming from one another and upset that is rooted in a place of like very deep love and that's how I am with my friends it's never I'm never like it's never malicious and I think that there can be malice in and competition in in movies about women where you know you need that moment where they all fall apart and they all they all yell at each other and they're really mad and I just didn't want that for this something that I thought was really interesting about each of them is that they didn't have standard sexual hangups you know she and her friends don't talk about the rules or wait till your 3rd date and these are women who are about to be 30 who many people would say hey you should be thinking about marriage tying the knot settling down what you did there with female sexuality or racing the hangups was that at the fantasy where you'd like to see women land eventually or is that what you think is really just happening I think both you know I think it's where I'd like to see women land in entertainment I. Think that we have we have so many shows about these dude's that you know they have sex and they have sex with like these and possibly hot women and they're like figuring ourselves out but like they're they're allowed to do all of these things and contemplate love but like they're doing it through the lens of you know kind of like making these sexual mistakes or you know going on the sexual adventures and no one ever talks and there's no rules there are like I'm just so tired of watching Sex through the mail lens especially the millennial male lens in that way and it's not that it's not Quaid i just like women have sex like that too and I also think that you know for me I think the idea of just like do you just do what you want like I think that these rules these you know wait and don't text and if you're too needy and you're too this and you do that it's like 2 blank like there's there's so many like you're either not enough or you're too and I think we I think entertainment kind of perpetuates that for women and it's and when women start to see that over and over again in film and television they start to take on that subconsciously and that's part of how they see themselves and how they see sex and how they see the world and all these things and I really wanted to shatter that because women should be out there and feeling like they can be as sexually fluid as they want to be and there should be no shame attached to that I don't much heavier note this has got to what I think you did really beautifully in the movie is mixing back kind of like you know fun thrilling Let's live our best lives with like real emotion and real pain there's this one scene where Johnny is having another one of her flashbacks to the time that she was with her man and they're sitting right beside each other her boyfriend Nate is there he's right next to her it's like 3rd knees are touching and you can just feel she wants him to like put his arms out around her and holder but he's just slumped there and side of himself for 8 a he's got his walls up and she's pleading with him. I know. So. Please don't let us. I don't want to. Hear you. I'm sorry San Francisco. I can't turn down this opportunity but we can try long distance. So what kind of a guy is need you know I think need is someone that. Doesn't know who he is and I think that he is Ok with fact. But I think the juxtaposition of not of kind of being you know someone that goes with the flow and like lives in the wind and all of that and Shanny's like a very very very specific you know driven nature it is very challenging as a woman who is has her own agency and knows what she wants to not make the men that she is with feel smaller and I think that Jenny is someone that was not going to make herself feel smaller to make him feel better and so it's not that need is a bad guy he's really not like I think it's just they were right at a time they grew up together and I think that you start to you know comfortability masks and overshadows kind of like deeper issues until something you know presents itself where you're like Ok we can't ignore this anymore Jennifer in your own life do you feel like you've had an experience where you try to make yourself smaller to make your partner feel bigger to salvage your relationship. Yeah I do I do I think that I've done it multiple times. I've recently been through something that you know has caused me to look into myself and to sit with myself and to be alone for the 1st time and to be you know to choose myself for the 1st time in I want to same most of my twenty's I was in relationships and so you know and this all happened after the movie was made and done so it was it's been a very interesting experience to be talking about this film and be you know having this film out in the world while you're going through a breakup because it's like you spend all day and you're like smiling and you're excited and you're talking about this thing in your life grade and then you know you're home and in bed and you have those quiet moments where you know you're crying and you're sitting with yourself and you know you're you're really thinking about you know I feel like I'm going through my own version of someone great where it's like you think about what were those moments and were there signs and it wasn't me was it him was it you know all of those things that I feel like. Especially women do and it's been it's been a very interesting time your rom com as an unconventional rom com Do you think it would have gotten made if you were stuck to the option of big Hollywood studios as opposed to Netflix now I don't I don't think I would have got made a big Hollywood studio definitely not with the cast that it has. I think that there I think Netflix was the only place that that would make the movie the way that you see it on screen I think that there is they you know the indie financing you know very low budget version of the movie that could have existed that would have been put together. And would have given me a similar amount of creative freedom but there is no place that was going to make a movie that looks like and feels like the you know the studio movies that we are that we're used to in the genre but that was going to let me tell the story that I was telling and in terms of your experience and actually finding the market opportunity for it via Netflix Do you believe that the markets open up the opportunities have opened up and there is more space for voices that want to depart from the standard script yes I hunters I do I feel like we are feeling like a real sea change and in the industry and in the stories that people are you know telling and want to tell and are being able to tell and the openness of the people at the top to you know want to open their doors and open their wallets to those stories that's a very optimistic note to end on Jennifer Katyn Robinson is the writer and director of someone great on Netflix thanks for joining us here thank you so much. 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