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Matt: “Yeah, I think when we came up with the idea of just- I mean we had been talking about and quoting an Amazon show. Uh, and then I think we started it at a place where we said what if, what if South Park- and again just starting a show and there’s a new reality and the new reality is that-that-that-that this is a company town now. Where, you know, everyone kind of works at the same or a lot of people work at this place. That they shop there they get their stuff there. And Amazon is reaching this point where it’s so ubiquitous in our lives, um. Kind of what that, um, What that does to everybody but I think it was the- it was also the time when Amazon was doing that headquarters search was in the news. They made all these cities kind of audition for the, for the, uh, spot of having an Amazon thing there.”

Trey: “Yeah.”

Matt: “Um, Which seemed kind of ripe. And then the idea of- I think that’s when we- we really kind of loved the idea was when we just came up with the idea. Like holy shit they’re called fulfilments centers you know what I mean? Like they actually call it a fulfilment center. And that’s what it obviously isn’t to anybody who, you know, works in that kind of environment,um. So, but the really big thing which Trey was super excited about was I really wanted to do a lesson about Marxist economics and Marxist critiques of Capitalism. Which is really what this is.”

Trey: “So I decided to stuff it in a box.”

Matt: “So great. Yeah.”

Trey: “I just like to have it all come out of a guy’s mouth it was in a box.”

Matt: “Yeah, that was great you know what I mean? And so like- there was just, uh, in the,uh, I don’t know. There was just something about it the Amazon fulfilment centers and how gigantic those places have become and how dehumanizing the work is. It seemed like a perfect time to slip a little economics in there.”

Trey: “Yeah and we really quickly came- Remembered this song. You know and, and we were playing it again and going wow this really is someone’s- you’re sort of working there and we’re all and-that-that’s what’s so funny is that in doing these, these couple shows I was made aware of how-because I get on Amazon every day. I-I get something from Amazon everyday. I have an Alexa in my house you know and all that stuff. And it was like how many times I realized like I’m sitting here making these jokes and then an hour later getting something off Amazon. Like getting on there and realizing like I-I-I’m totally addicted too. You know? And to you know just how-how clean it is. How, you know, how well it works.”

Matt: “Right. It’s one of the, one of the things in America that works.”

Trey: “Yup.”

Matt: “I mean really it’s like it’s just so amazing how, how, uh, how-how well of a consumer experience it is and that was the Jeff Bezos. We found this thing online where Jeff Bezos had said in his, in an investor letter ‘The consumer is always beautifully…’ What is it ‘beautifully unsatisfied’?* Or something like that.”

Trey: “Yeah”

Matt: “And, the idea that the consumer like Amazon’s, uh, whole business is relentlessly, relentlessly focused on the consumer experience. Which is a great way to get into Marxist economics. So everyone knows that if you’re relentlessly focused on the consumer you’re probably relentlessly focused on the worker or all the other people that are involved in that thing.”

Matt: “And then in this episode we also took Te-brought Tegridy Farms back, um. Which we kind of knew we needed a kind of like wrap up ok Stan and his family are really not- just leave them out there but we wanted to check in with them and that’s how we came up with this idea that-that Randy starts- and you know and then again bring the scooters back kind of doing it and show everything is kind of make an appearance. The scooters get combined with Tegridy Farms and then they create a delivery service and that becomes slowly the thing that, um, breaks… brings the town together. The workers- the workers, the shoppers to fight against the big Capitalist alien guy, Jeff Bezos. Is they all sort of just get high and are ok for the bike parade. And I’m not like- I just like let- I love that when we came up with the end I think is such a good- that was the season was about. Like ok we didn’t stop Amazon, we didn’t blow anything up it was just this town, this day decided to get high and like sit and watch our kids ride bikes. And it was like a little community coming together and it had this weird fucked up kind of tone but it felt very much like- I dunno it felt very like- I dunno I really like it felt like a little town that loves each other.”

Trey: “Yeah”

Matt: “You know what I mean?”

Trey: “Well and it also had- it was funny cause this season started with a big joke. Before the season even started which was a couple months before the season started we all kind of came together and came up with this idea of a marketing campaign where we did #cancelsouthpark.”

Matt: “Oh right! We did.”

Trey: “And, um, we were like really stoked on that idea and we started looking at different versions of it and we ended up deciding that the best was just a black, uh, screen with a white ‘#cancelsouthpark’. Really simple. And we- and seeing those billboards up everywhere and, and you know in the train stations in New York and everything was really funny and a lot of people really got the joke. And then- so it was nice to bring the whole season back to that. And the idea that the boys are trying to cancel the bike parade for their own selfish reasons and then they have this little moment which was again another Tuesday, uh, addition was this little scene on the bridge at the end of this where they’re saying you know ‘Why is that everything else is getting cancelled if just can’t seem to do it?’ Which was obviously a very subtle self-referencial, uh, joke.”

Matt: “Right”

Trey: “And, um, but yeah, at the end of the day, we actually we really like this season which is a rare thing.”

Matt: “Yeah, I really liked this season. I felt like the end thing when, when, uh, when Randy is yelling at Bezos at the end when he’s high. I kind of feel like that’s us a little bit. Just being like all right, you know what? Ok we’re over here were a little bit high. We’re a little bit this.”

Trey: “Yeah”

Matt: “But we fucking didn’t get cancelled we made it through the season. Fuck you that’s what we kind of like yay!”

Trey: “And what was funny was the stories that came out going ‘Wow, I guess Trey and Matt are anti-capitalist now even though they’ve clearly changed their stance because in their second season episode with Underpants Gnomes-’ And it’s like re-really you’re gonna talk about Underpants gnomes?”

Matt: ”Yeah”

Trey: “You’re gonna base our politics on Underpants Gnomes? But now because of what we’ve said about fucking Tegridy Weed and gigant-”

Matt: “Three hundred episodes.”

Trey: “Yeah”

Matt: “Three hundred episodes you can do both. You can do both critiques of Capitalism. It’s fine”

Trey: “Yeah, yeah"

Matt: “You can do a pro and- A wow I guess these guys don’t like Cheerios anymore what about when they were five? They did like Cheerios.”

Trey: “What about when they did the fart on Cheerios joke?”

Matt: “Yeah.”

Trey: “All right everyone thanks. As always, thanks for watching, thanks for being fans and thanks giving us jobs.”

Matt: “All right, bye everybody.”

Trey: “Bye"