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Rina. we're comfortable at home and not going back. but i think the way people thought radio and television companies like nbc were going to destroy theater. they didn't destroy theater, they destroyed vaudeville. they destroyed theater nobody wanted to watch anymore. i wonder if this could end up being as a cleansing moment, where we finally have a reckoning for all the crap that ruins going to the movies for us. that gets washed away and the things serve us well might have a chance to stick around. >> listen, we were headed in this direction before the pandemic. people were going to see the ...

Has its been a long time since you saw one? can anyone remember the last movie they saw in a theater, a a theater-theater. >> "gone with the wind." >> i can't. >> "gone with the wind"? boy. i think my last one was -- i think my last one was "a beautiful day in the neighborhood," which was like late 2019. the tom hanks movie about mr. -- mister rogers, that made everybody cry, including me. i think it was my last one. rena, i promised i would start back with you. what do you think about the movie experience now? are you willing to go back to the movies? you know, what would it take to get you b...

>> joshua -- >> i'm losing respect. >> i got two kids, i got a dog. listen, i tell you one thing. i will tell you, listen, the movies you got to go see in the theaters are like "the fast and the furious"-type movies. but if they do a final fast and furious and call it "slow and pleasant," i'll go watch it in a theater. >> you want to talk about marketability. man, i'm through with you. tarika, what about you? what about the future of the movies? is there anything that they could do to draw you back? or are you eager to get back into seeing movies in the theater again? >> i actually used to wor...

I got dollar popcorn instead of $8 popcorn. there's no way i'm going back into a theater again. >> and you also probably have some of the stories of having worked in a movie theater and seeing everything behind the scenes. that's in there too. >> facts. that is totally facts. there are so many things that happen in a movie theater that i shall not share on msnbc. however, we are not going back to a movie theater. i'm not in a rush. >> see, now i want to know. >> i've got to say, i don't miss the sticky floors. those sticky floors are the worst. >> yes. >> definitely. >> you know what, there ar...