Lunch Academy Ep 005 - Amazon Brings Deathstar to Vancouver

What is going on, Everybody? It is May 4th Lunch Academy Episode 005 podcast we must do today. And as always, my co host, Princess Double S, right beside me here.

Hello. Hi, everyone. So, I mean, it's May 4th, Star Wars Day, so I am channeling my inner Princess Leia today. For all the people who are listening and don't have a clue what we're talking about, I am fully dressed up as Princess Leia right now.

Front to bottom.

Yep.

Version. Don't get any ideas, guys.

Yeah, it's the white robe. I pretty much look like a nun. But yeah, you know what? I can only wear this once a year. I gotta go for it.

Why don't you just wear it every Monday?

Make it a thing.

Yeah, it's like Star Wars Monday. I am. I am also dressed today for those wondering. Just. I'm dressed. That is it.

Oh, okay.

That's the whole. Oh, good.

You would hope.

Well, it's a podcast. You never know. Anyway, what's the. What's the weather going on like today? So.

So the weather, very important topic. It is gray out today. It's gray. Yeah. So, I mean, this is amazing. Have you ever gotten your weather forecast done by Princess Leia? All of you guys, this is a treat. So, yeah, gray. Cloudy all day today. No rain. Don't worry, it's gonna be fine. Oh, sunny this weekend and next week, so yay.

Which shade of gray are we at?

I think it's like a dark gray.

Dark.

Yeah, to be specific, I didn't bring.

A jacket or a raincoat.

Oh, you'll be fine. It's like. It's hot. It's like a hot gray.

That is not a color.

I'm the worst weather forecast. It is a hot gray outside, I think.

I think that's pretty good. And the thing is, like, by the time people actually listen to this, if you're listening on the actual podcast, not just watching two idiots ramble on on Facebook, it's gonna. The time will have passed. The weather report is no longer relevant.

No longer relevant.

So we should really be doing, like, weather forecasting. Right. So talking about the weekend, like, you got any plans this weekend?

Yeah, gonna go for a hike on Saturday.

Should we just skip the sun, skip the podcast, go right to the hike?

No, this is fun too.

Hiking. Hiking with Princess Leia. Cool. So anyway, we'd love to chat more Star wars, and we promise we'll get into that, but Vancouver had some big news this week, huh?

Yes. So, big announcement. A couple days ago, Amazon announced that they are Doing their expansion into Vancouver, which, I mean, comes with a lot of changes, a lot of cool projects for them. They're expanding and I think developing two new offices and expanding their current office. And, yeah, it's gonna be big. They're bringing like 3,000 plus jobs by 2020.

Sign us up. Do you need a podcast host? Would they like. Would they like to pay somebody to eat lunch?

Yeah, I don't know. They could.

Or we'll. We'll.

We'll dress up to throw around, so you never know.

Dress up, too. Amazon, if you're listening.

So here's hoping that they'll sponsor us when they move to Vancouver.

But they're. They're. They're taking over the big Canada Post building.

Yeah. So they're actually building on that and building a whole new office. They're tearing down things, building new things, bringing new jobs. It's going to be a lot of changes starting in the next couple of years.

My one question is, what is. What is the Arrow cast gonna do? What is Flash gonna do? They do a lot of their filming there. So for those that don't know and all these, all the. All the different superhero geeks, I think this is the week that you want to listen to. Arrow is filmed in Vancouver. Flash is filmed in Vancouver. Supergirl is filmed in Vancouver. And they basically just used the corner of that street. And for the last, like, year and a half, that building has died over and over.

Which street? The Canada Post one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Georgia.

Oh, I didn't know that.

What. What's it called? Okay, so. So that's where all the explosions happen. What are they gonna do now? They're gonna have to blow something else up.

Yeah. Right in front of Launch Academy so that we can get some good brand.

Yeah, I would love to have the flashing show. Why not? Right. We'll work on Mark Hamill first, who is also, by the way, in the Flash.

Okay.

Mark Hamill's Luke Skywalker for those that are not in the new. But he also plays a weirdo on Flash, so he's.

I've yet to see Flash.

I gave him a text, but he didn't. He didn't seem to want to respond today. I think he's all weirdos on today. But anyway, back to Amazon. This is a big, big deal. And. And, you know, I. I opened the news and we kind of, you know, us being in tech, we kind of knew this was coming. Like, we're. Full disclosure. Amazon is one of our program partners. We worked closely with their AWS team And all that stuff. Nothing to do with specifically the Vancouver team, but just Amazon in general. But we knew they were planning something big. We knew when they took over a lot of the WeWork offices over in Burrard that they were planning to stay here for a while and call it kind of a second or third home. So when we woke up, the news And I heard JT's here, here in town again. By the way, doesn't. Doesn't Justin Shooters love coming to Vancouver?

He loves it.

I mean, we know he's from Vancouver, but I feel like any. Any excuse or reason he has. He's here, he's here.

We should. We should send him a request being like, yeah, Justin Trudeau, we need you to come for the announcement of.

Yeah, hey, Justin Trudeau, do you want to be on Lunch Academy? Like, we'll hook you up.

Vancouver? Sure, I'll be there.

Yeah, it's like, we'll make an announcement for you to come to town, but, you know, so I expected the news to kind of. Kind of fill up the airwaves, fill up the newspapers and all that stuff, and all I saw was this whole thing about an Amazon effect, you know what I mean? And so what is the Amazon effect? Are you familiar with that term specifically?

Well, I'm guessing, like, just the growth of Amazon will change a lot for Vancouver in terms of the prices of real estate and the amount of.

Here we go.

The amount of, like, capital. I mean, in terms of, like, human capital, like.

Yeah.

Isn't it going to be less staff and less skill available? Yeah, it's just gonna. It's gonna bring changes. With any massive company like that moving into a territory where they have really, truly expand into, you would only imagine that it might affect literally every single.

Aspect of the tech industry, and not just tech industry. Right. Like, Amazon effect. I think. I think there might have even been books written about it. But it's this whole concept of when Amazon really blew up and originated in Seattle, it really kind of changed the city in terms of economics, in terms of housing, in terms of everything, because they took over and I mean, they have 50,000 staff in Seattle itself, so that's gonna make a big difference. And so some of the scenarios that happen is, for example, rent, 50% increase over the last, I think, 10 years, which is, you know, significant. Every dollar is $2 now. Right. And so it's really weird and a little bit uncomfortable, actually, is every other article about this Amazon Vancouver news ended up talking about housing.

Yeah, it's like Vancouver's number one problem.

And here's the thing. And I understand that housing is a big deal. I'm not denying that. I'm with you. It's a big deal. The city needs to address it. And I'm not here pretending to be an expert on housing or even the political landscape of all of it. But here's the thing, and this is my rant for today. Vancouver. We wine. And I'm using we because I'm a part of it. You're a part of it. We whine way too much.

Oh, for sure.

And I understand that this is meta, because I am whining about Vancouver. Whining. But we whined when the Olympics were here and despite how you feel about sporting or Olympics or whatever. And now we're whining about Amazon. And it's kind of like, I'll take something, for example, that most Vancouverites love. The Vancouver Canucks, right? It's like if the Canucks were actually good, and it's the equivalent of us whining about Amazon coming here and the house prices raising is the same as if the Canucks were good. And we're all complaining about beer prices downtown going up. Yeah, right. It's absurd.

Everything is going to have pros and cons, right? And with the growth, with the growth of a city, there's always going to be some major cons. And it happens to every single major city where the industry of tech or any. Any other industry blows up. Like if you look at the way the industry of oil and gas affects Calgary, right? Like it's the same thing. Every single major industry that is prominent in a city and that therefore grows, the economic kind of health of the city will have cons and we just, like, we just need to deal with them. That's what it is like.

Exactly.

It's either we stay like this forever and everything stays the same, or we grow and there's some shitty and good parts.

Yeah. And honestly, I think this kind of whining is a very loser's mentality. I've described before on air and off the air of Vancouver's tech ecosystem as a teenager as we did some good things, we did some really stupid things, and we're still trying to figure out what our identity is as a tech ecosystem. I think Amazon can only add to that. But I see none of the coverage about that. Maybe a little bit from Beta kit, maybe a little bit from tech vibes, but the majority of it is all about housing. And I understand that there's an angle to be had here that we need to address. That, but it can't be the first thing we read on Google. It can't be the only thing. What is the impact? And we'll get into that here a little bit. What's the impact on developers, for example? That's a huge deal. I have lots of buddies that are developers. I'm sure you do too. We have Lighthouse Labs right next door. Shout out to Lighthouse Labs and they're building developers every day. What do you think is the impact of it on those guys?

Well, there's already a lack of, of developers out there and it's hard to hire. And it's the ongoing issue that I keep overhearing at events or around our space. It's like startups main issue is finding office space and finding developers. Like that's their two. They're like, what about like raising, you know, your first seed fund? And they're like, nah, this is fine.

Gotta spend it on developer.

Yeah, it's finding developers and finding office space and so it's going to affect both of those. So I'm guessing a lot of startups are seeing, focusing on the negatives. And I mean right now the tech industry is, is using outsourcing a lot for, for getting this the skill level that they want for developers. And Amazon coming here will bring a lot of external talent. Since Amazon has the resources to hire externally and internally, it's just going to make the market a lot harder for hiring, I believe, I think, I think.

In some ways that's true, but I think, I think if you dig deeper into kind of this developer landmine, I think places like Lighthouse Labs, places like Code Core and a lot of the other developer schools out there, they're doing a great job of trying to build new developers. Yeah, the gap is your intermediate and senior developers.

Exactly. Yeah.

And as we bring Yoda into the.

Show, we have a special guest.

Wait a minute, we're being distracted live because Yoda needs to be here.

My friend Yoda has arrived. Good to have you on the show, Yoda.

Oh, sweet. Comes with Hanrillos. What were we talking about?

Developers. Yeah, but Lighthouse Labs and all those coding schools are doing a great job.

Intermediate and, and senior developers.

And how do you, how do you build those?

How do you build those? Well, if you can't build them. And we're waiting for our juniors to become. Not juniors. I guess seniors would be the.

But it's hard.

Yeah, that's, that's an offside record, by the way. We go from junior straight to senior.

There's no, like, when you Pump out a thousand junior developers. And the, the market, the demand for junior developers is right, like, yeah, high. You pump out a thousand, it gets lower and gets lower and then all those juniors are filled up and then there's no longer opportunities for new juniors to start going up in the range. So it's kind of like bottlenecking pretty.

Much a little bit. But, but I think, I think it does a couple things. I think if you're a developer today, I think the wrong thing to do is to go, oh no, can I still keep my job? Or they're gonna bring higher talented people and replace me. I think you guys got to look at it an opportunity because I mean, it's not, it's not a secret. Vancouver has some of the lowest salary developers, period, in the country, in North America.

And is Amazon planning on maintaining their current.

And I think whatever they do it like, it's this again, I've brought this up before, is this concept of iron sharpening iron. If Amazon offers me 50k or 60k or whatever that number is, can somebody else kind of beat that? Right. And so I think if you're a developer from your career standpoint, having your boss worry a little bit about, okay, will they take that Amazon job, I think that's healthy for them. And I think it again pushes into our second topic about the actual entrepreneurs. It does push them to make sure that whatever they build and whatever their staff is on record, that they're not just hiring them just for the money. And I think it's a great opportunity for at least young startups like the ones we have in our space, to offer developers not just a certain amount of money or equity or whatever it is. But how are you creating a company that people want to work for? Yeah, right.

You just gotta try a little harder now. Competition, competition is good. Like we've known this over and over again and every time there's competition in the market, there's like a phase of fear right at the start and everybody's like, oh no. And then they deal with it and then they grow from it and they realize competition is good. You have to like, you always loop back to that kind of realization that if competition doesn't come in, you're going to grow, but if competition comes in, you're going to grow faster because you have to. It's like fight or flight.

Yeah. And I know, I know for, for a lot of the tech entrepreneurs out there, like, I think, I think it's gonna put Vancouver on the map a little bit more. It's gonna take some time and to jump back on housing for a second. Like 3,000 people aren't just gonna appear here. There's gonna be a process.

We'll be fine.

And doing the work that we do with our startups abroad, we can tell there's a lot of very, very talented people, both entrepreneurs, developers, otherwise other people in the ecosystem, UX people, you name it. And they're all looking at Canada as a destination because life ain't so great in the States sometimes. And it's not me knocking on them. I have a lot of friends in the United States. They're all doing great. But in our line of work we do see that. And people are going, what about Vancouver? If I came to Vancouver, where would I work? Would I have to build my own thing? I think that's the point that we don't want to get to is where entrepreneurs have to be entrepreneurs. We want to build entrepreneurs that just can't do anything we talked about in the past. Past. Right. They can't do anything but be entrepreneurs. I mean that's the ideal. But for our tech entrepreneurs here, like what is one of the most common questions that you get asked day to day? Let me see if you can get it from our entrepreneurs to us. Can you read my mind here? Let me.

Like new entrepreneurs interested in Launch academy.

Yeah.

Do you invest in the companies who come in? That's the first question.

That's the first question. The second question is always, where can I find a co founder?

Yeah, true.

Where can I find a co founder?

And same with our. Some of our startup Visa companies come in, they're like, where can I find a local co founder?

Where can I kind of local. Somebody who's technical, someone who has experience. I'll give you an example. A thinking eight great buddies of mine, they run a gaming studio here in town, ex Amazon guys. So that's just one example of people they've worked. I guess you can't call Amazon a startup anymore. You call it corporate. It's a little bit weird, Something in between that where they've built enough experience, they've done enough cool things, they're like, screw this, I'm going to do my own thing.

And there's also an opportunity to bring Amazon into what we have here going on in the Vancouver ecosystem where at least from my experience and the people I've talked to is kind of known as one of the most collaborative tech ecosystems where people are very, very supportive of each other. And bringing a company like Amazon into this space, they're Going to have to adapt to the tech culture here and hopefully they adapt in a way that they want to collaborate and want to be supportive of what we've got going on in the early stage. Tech startups.

Yeah. And I think to kind of wrap that up is like the impact of an ecosystem. Like I tried for a very long time, we were doing some research on this topic last night. I tried a very long time to figure out some of the negatives. And yes, it will get more competitive, but like you said, like competitiveness, there's nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, competition comes growth.

Like if you're, if you're an athlete, like you're not an athlete to play just to win against little kids.

Right.

Like you want to beat the best.

Keep wanting to play the best team because that's the only way you're going to get to that level.

Exactly. And, and in terms of our ecosystem, there's this thing that Ray, our CEO always says, he always comes up with these weird like old man quotes. Yeah, but it's a rising tide.

It's very quotable.

Yeah, it's like a rising tide raises all boats. And I was like, oh yeah. It's like if I was into boats, I guess I could relate to that. But it's true, right?

A rising tide.

A rising tide raises all boats. I'm pretty sure you didn't make up. He probably just Googles all this stuff so he has it like he just pulls them out like to sound a.

Little bit and then you can go deeper, like as long as they don't have cracks and then they start sinking like the negative Nancy over here.

But anyway, like you mentioned, to wrap this up, I think 3,000 jobs. They already have a thousand here. Right now they're building another thousand I think by 2020. So that's 5,000 jobs. And I really don't think they're going to be the only one. I think Microsoft's already got a huge, huge office here in Vancouver. There's more people coming and I think it's going to help in terms of finding co founders, finding interesting people to do cool projects with. And I think it gives our local entrepreneurs people and connections and networks to look up to. Because you think about again, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook is here now. These aren't just connections here in Vancouver, they're connections throughout the Valley and Seattle and all that stuff.

It just, it just connects us even more to those, those big hubs that Amazon is already in.

Yep. Yeah, exactly. So the too long didn't read version is stop whining Vancouver. It's gonna be great.

Yeah. With the rising tide. What is it? With the rising tide, Raise all votes.

How to say Rising tide raises all boats.

That's gonna be the takeaway for today, right?

It's not like, it's not like, it's not like Amazon's bringing a Death Star to Vancouver.

Let's. No. Otherwise I will be here to help you fight.

She's gonna take it down. But I mean, speaking, speaking of all the jobs that are being created, I'm really excited because some of our companies here that have actually come from abroad are now starting to hire. So I want to give two quick shout outs to Edition Guard Turge, who's the CEO of Edition Guard. He's looking for a customer service manager. So we're going to have links in our Facebook later on if you were interested in applying and you want to be a customer service manager, you want to work for a cutting edge tech company that's a place to look. And also at the same time a different company called Flair, they are looking for a project manager. So these are some of the, just kind of the tip of the iceberg of cool things that are going on every day at Launch Academy. These companies have been here for three actually. Flare started on May 1st.

Yeah. We're happy to see them grow so fast. Right. They've only been here for a month or two.

So if you're worried about Amazon taking away your jobs, which I don't necessarily think may happen. No, there are more jobs being created and people are noticing what's going on in Vancouver. Speaking of what's happening in Vancouver, you had some announcements.

Yes, we do have some announcement this week. A lot of awesome things will happen this week. It's been, it's been really a good week for Launch Academy. So as most of you probably know, there was the BC Tech TIA Awards, Technology Impact Awards. Yes, exactly. And we got lots of nominees within our community, which is awesome. So we're all going to give them some shop shout outs. Our CEO Ray Walia was nominated. It's one of the finalists for Person of the Year.

Person of the Year.

Person of the Year. Like, fingers crossed for him to win it. That'd be awesome.

Such a politically correct award, like you're, you're a person. You will be person of the year.

You will be the human of the year.

Because it can be, I think, I think it's because it can be an entrepreneur, it can be an investor. So they can't be like entrepreneur of.

The year and then We've got a few of our alumni who've gotten nominated as well. We've got Hat Capital and Clue nominated for Startup of the Year, which is like good job guys, pretty awesome. And shout out to Clue. They're going to be on our video interview next week which will come out probably at the end of the week. So stay tuned. And also yeah, our alumni Thinkific was nominated for Growth Company of the Year. What does that entail?

Growth company growth means they got a growth Spurt. They were 4, 9 and now they're 5 2.

Wow.

No, I'm joking. They.

I thought you were talking in terms of like ratios of employees.

No, I was talking about height. It was a bad joke. Get with the program.

Sorry I'm slow today.

They grew to about 60 people this year, so hats off to amazing Greg, Matt and the rest of the team there.

Amazing.

Awesome.

So we've also got a few other announcements. Wait, let me just check my notes before I.

We do have notes, guys.

Yeah, no, actually that was it. I had. You had given me notes and I took. Just looked at my notes and it's the same thing. But we've got some awesome events coming up as well. So on May 22nd we've got a startup fundraising 101. So yeah, if you want money, your early stage startup, you want to kind of, or if you're whatever, any stage startup. But you want to see what people have to say today about fundraising because this is like fundraising. Today we're going to have a fireside chat with. I'm probably going to butcher his name. Chris Hart Vigson. Yes. CEO and co founder of Dooley. Yeah, Pretty awesome. The guy has a lot of great things to say and he has a lot of experience. So this is going to be a good one. May 22 at 5:30, shout out to Julie. Yeah. Go to our Pika Tick event to sign up. And we've also got another intro to Blockchain. So if you didn't make it to our last one, which I think was last week, we've got one coming up in May 28th.

Yeah, awesome, awesome. Tons of stuff happening. So anyway, we have Yoda here and I know we have some food waiting for us as well. But before we do that, I wanted to bring a little back Star Wars. I want to bring Yoda back into here. So you know, we, we were racking our brains on what games we could play about Star wars. So, so hard we got to play a game. We gotta.

Also I made it hard on Sam because I'm not the most knowledgeable about. Don't let this fool you. My Princess Leia costume. I am not the most knowledgeable about Star Wars.

Yeah, we were literally talking five minutes before the show about what Princess Leia's last name was, and it was a tough.

I'm a millennial Star wars lover.

That is true.

Which means I've only seen the last two movies.

Do you want there to be an Episode six or not? We've seen all of them twice. Just twice, though.

I grew up in Costa Rica, literally under a rock.

So that means you're perfectly relatable to Luke.

I didn't have a tv.

He loves rocks. His best friend is a rock. I'm gonna play the villain anyway, so to maybe. Maybe educate you a little bit, I thought it'd be fun if I took out some quotes from some of the most famous characters in Star Wars. You cannot look at the answers, and it will be your turn to guess who said them. Okay, so it's just a couple ones. Some of them are very popular ones.

Do I have the names on my notes?

You do not have the names on your notes. But just so you're aware, it's Darth Vader. Of course. Luke Skywalker. So here's what's weird is I know Luke Skywalker is that young kid with the green lightsaber. You knew. Luke Skywalker is a creepy old man.

Yeah.

Who talks to rocks.

Who looks.

Yeah.

Who's a bit disturbed. This is.

This is very weird, but we do have Luke Skywalker. We have Yoda, we have Kylo Ren, and then we have Rhett. Okay, so all you have to do is decide who said this quote.

Okay, cool.

Okay, so we'll start with a very easy one just. Just as a demo. Okay, so do or do not. There is no.

Try Yoda.

Yoda.

Our friend here. Yoda.

Easy, Right?

I live my life through that. Do or do not.

Yeah. Okay, so we'll move on from there. So the next one is. When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master. Oh.

Is that Kylo?

It could be Kylo. It could be Darth. It could be Rock Boy. Luke.

I'm going Luke.

Nope, that's Darth Vader. Oh, that's right. That's the fourth episode. So he is actually talking to Obi Wan Kenobi, a name maybe you're not familiar with.

I am familiar with that.

There you go. Right?

Don't underestimate me.

You just said this was Luke and he was talking to Obi Wan. Who is his master before he kills him. Sorry. Spoilers, spoilers. Spoilers on a 40 year old movie, guys.

I haven't watched it yet.

Okay, let's move along.

I'm going to stuck at this game.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Who said this? So we have some Imperial guys here. Kylo. Darth. So those are. Those are your heavy hitters. Could also just be Luke or Yoda. Probably not. Rey. I'm gonna give you a hint on that one.

Okay.

Sounds like an I'm gonna say Kylo.

It's Yoda.

Yoda.

Damn it. Yoda.

So this was in the Phantom Menace, which is technically episode one and.

Can't believe you went that back on these quotes. Obviously I don't know them.

I have to. And he was talking about he saw fear in a young Anakin Skywalker, AKA future Darth Vader. Okay, this one. This one should be easy. I am your father.

Is that. I don't know. Actually.

Our producer Claire is laughing her head off. Help me. She's not gonna help.

It's either. Wait, it's either this is like you.

Going into a math test 2 times 4, or I'm not helping you with this one.

Is it Darth Vader? I don't know. You. You tell me because I am not answering. Is this one. It's. It's Darth Vader.

Yes.

Okay.

Darth Vader. Big reveal. Big reveal. Darth Vader is Luke's father. What?

I was like. Nobody else would say that in that tone.

Yeah, but I'm making the tones. Yeah. Okay. This is. This is a. This is another one. Strike me down in anger and I'll always be with you. Just like your father.

That's Luke.

That is indeed Luke talking to Kylo Ren.

That's in the last movie, right?

That was in the last movie.

So good.

See, Daniel, she actually watched.

Was in that crazy scene where he was like invisible.

Hey, Spoilers. Producer lady gave me the. The evil eye for screaming into the mic. Spoilers. Spoilers. Okay.

Okay, so I lost that. Good. Good to know.

No, wait. Well, let's do two more.

Okay.

I need someone to show me my place in all of this.

Rey.

Yeah. That is Ray. That was on the trailer of the last Jedi. Okay, Last one. It's not can, it's will. You have to will things into fruition.

Luke.

You sure about that?

Yoda.

Anybody else?

I feel like those inspirational ones are always Yoda.

It's a trick question. That was Kanye West. Oh.

What?

What? So that is. That is it for this game, man.

We should put Kanye west in the next Star wars movie.

This is how far deep into the depths of the Internet that I went for this game is. I was just looking up random Star wars stuff and. And did you know that what's his name, Kanye and Kim met on some sort of spoof show about Star Wars.

Okay.

So it's because of Star wars that we now have Kim Ye.

Man, Star wars has done so much for us.

It's a scary world out there.

What would the world be without. Just imagine it. What would the world be without Star Wars?

I don't know. People do go outside.

Yeah.

Instead of nerding out to. To Han Rolos, I guess it would.

Be a better place. And then all the Star wars fan are waiting for me outside of. How you say that?

Yeah, they were outside. Like, we. We had an abnormal amount of people outside.

Everybody standing, walking past our media room just is taking photos. I've never felt so popular in my life.

I'm not sure that's the right word. I don't know if it's popular. They're judging you.

No, Sam, you're so negative. I'm gonna say I think they're admiring me. And you think they're judging me.

Well, I'm part of Vancouver. I whine a lot. That's the whole point.

I bring the positivity to the show.

All right, so. So this week is my turn to. To bring you food after you gave me that fake pizza last time. And. And this. This was kind of hard because I was trying to do something Star wars themed. I knew you would bring it. We had pancakes this morning, by the way. We have these Han Rollos here. I keep staring at Yoda to the right of me, and I kept coming back to the what kind of disgusting food can I bring her this week? And my mind kept going to Jabba. You know, Jabba the Hutt?

Oh, no.

So what kind of weird, slimy thing can I bring her this week? And actually, it's not that bad, but it does look kind of weird. So we'll pull over the plate.

Okay.

And I will introduce this dish. So this is another dish from myheritage. This is actually myheritage. I'm not Korean. I'm Chinese. Okay, so this is a pretty popular food in Hong Kong. So open it up.

Oh, that actually looks delicious.

So the Chinese or the Cantonese name for this is Gonzhaoho.

Wait, let me try to pronounce that. Say it again.

G gone. Gong gone. So what? That's not bad.

Killed it.

Not bad at all. So literal translation is dry fried beef noodle.

Very literal.

Very literal. I like it very little. So. So it's because there's actually a wet version with sauce. But for the sake of the show, I brought the dry version, which I think is the more popular version. Anyway. If you dispute that, let me know in the comments.

I honestly think you got the losing part of this deal, because every food you bring me, I'm super excited.

She's down for.

And I bring you fake pizza, so.

May the forks be with you. Dig in. I'm pretty sure you haven't tried this before.

No, I have not.

I gotta whip out my chopsticks because we only have one fork in all of Launch County.

I could have showed off my chopstick skills.

Go ahead.

Mmm.

So I think. I think. I think the best version of this, again, is. Is like, almost like a street food. Like, right off. Right off. Like the frying pan. I think that would be the best version.

This is delicious.

Yeah. So this is from. I think it's congee noodle delight. That's our second week in International Village. Last week we had the caveman disaster. Sorry. Caveman.

Caveman is so good.

Yeah, yeah. Agree. Agree to disagree.

Oh, I'm digging these noodles.

So. So this. I think this can actually be our lunch this time because the. Here's the secret about Lunch Academy. As I ramble on as she just continues eating and eating and eating. We're actually quite hungry after the show. We do this right at lunch, but we don't actually have lunch, so.

And that producer eats her lunch right in front of us while producing.

It's. She's like. It's Lunch Academy. Right? Cool. So what do you. What do you think? What do you think of this week?

This is. This is great. Thanks for the amazing food. I think we've got. We had some fun things to talk about with Amazon, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the news kind of go beyond the surfacey stuff and go deeper into what it actually could potentially look like. Death Star in the positive sides. I'm excited to see that. And, yeah, we'll have fun things to talk about next week.

Awesome. If you have any food suggestions for us, we would love your suggestions. It's very hard to come up with food and have it here for 12 o'. Clock.

Oh, it's pretty easy for me. I've got all these ideas of very green things to bring you.

Why does it always have to be green? All right, until next time, we're gonna sign off now. Have a great weekend. Have a gray weekend.

Have a great. No, it's gonna be sunny. Have a sunny weekend and may the force be with you.

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