Noodle Shop Shorts: Dave Tries to Guess a Patron's Job

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**Dave Chang** (1:06)
I'm going to ask you some questions, I'm going to figure out what you do.
Okay. When did you move to LA, are you born and raised in LA?

**Natalie** (1:11)
I'm from Massachusetts, I'm from halfway between Boston and Providence, and I moved to LA, like California, maybe 13 years ago, 14 years ago.

**Dave Chang** (1:24)
After college?

**Natalie** (1:27)
No, my late 20s. My goodness.

**Dave Chang** (1:29)
So this is a chilled spicy noodle. Let me add this, I forgot. This is a key ingredient, some sesame oil.

**Natalie** (1:35)
Beautiful. This is great. My husband's allergic to sesame, so I can't have it in the house.

**Dave Chang** (1:39)
your husband.

**Natalie** (1:40)
I mean, honestly.

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Do you work with your hands?

**Natalie** (2:24)
Technically, I guess.

**Dave Chang** (2:26)
Well, the leading question is like, do you work in a field that you use your college degree in?

**Natalie** (2:33)
No. It's my day job. I also, anyway, it doesn't matter.

**Dave Chang** (2:36)
Well, this is now really intriguing.

**Natalie** (2:39)
Yeah.

**SPEAKER_5** (2:40)
It's chosen a difficult one, I think.

**Dave Chang** (2:42)
Do you work with computers a lot?

**Natalie** (2:45)
I do have to use a computer.

**Dave Chang** (2:47)
Do you have to be in your office?

**Natalie** (2:49)
No. No, no, no.

**Dave Chang** (2:52)
Are you in the entertainment business?

**Natalie** (2:55)
Yes and yes and no.

**Dave Chang** (2:56)
Yes and no.

**Natalie** (2:57)
Yes and no.

**Dave Chang** (2:59)
You were a screenwriter?

**Natalie** (3:01)
Yes. That's one of them. Yeah.

**Dave Chang** (3:03)
One of them.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:04)
Nice though.

**Natalie** (3:05)
But that's not the job that pays me.

**Dave Chang** (3:07)
Right. Are you used to do it quite a bit?

**Natalie** (3:12)
Yeah. Well, actually, it comes and goes. That's why I moved out here. I went to school, grad school for it, and worked in TV off and on for a few years, and during the strike, I went and got a day job.

**Dave Chang** (3:29)
Restaurants are struggling because Hollywood is not doing what it normally does.

**Natalie** (3:34)
Oh, yeah. I mean, a film set, a TV set is mostly a restaurant. It's mostly food. And when you're on a crew, all you think about is the food you're going to eat all day, because you're just standing around and it's like, okay, it's 9.45, what's for lunch? Because first lunch is served at 10 a.m. And then you get your second lunch whenever you're in lunch break, because, oh, it's great. And then that's not even crafty. And then usually there's...

**Dave Chang** (4:03)
Explain what crafty is to people.

**Natalie** (4:05)
Craft services. So it's this amazing department that organize...

**Dave Chang** (4:10)
They do amazing things.

**Natalie** (4:10)
They do amazing things. They organize all the food for a set. And there's usually a room you can walk into that just has jars of candy and snacks and sodas and cold brew on tap.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:22)
Hey, Natalie, in your day job, in your non-screenwriting job...

**Natalie** (4:25)
Yes.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:26)
How many hours out of an eight-hour day do you think you're, like, typing something actually productive or working on something that's legitimately... If your boss looked at you at that moment, you'd be like, this is work.