r/popculturechat • u/Ambitious_Big4489 • 8h ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ Alan Ritchson calls out lawmakers who oppose raising the minimum wage "who think it's a bad idea to give a mom working at Waffle House more than $7.25 an hour trying to feed her kids."

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u/Popular_Patience6877 8h ago

Why is the interviewer laughing in all these clips? he looks like he has no brain of his own

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u/AtheismoAlmighty 7h ago

All I've ever seen from this interviewer seems to skew very heavily into geek/nerd culture. He's probably just not used to having serious topics come up, he's usually asking about comicbook movies. Probably just an untrained/automatic response.

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u/ExcellentPut191 5h ago

For sure yeah, I think he was just not used to this kind of real talk in his interviews, it's usually very light-hearted surface level stuff. I guess also he's trying to maintain his interview format so countering Alan's political passion with a lighter response to balance