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EJ Perras

EJ Perras

Manager of Social/Digital Marketing at Charles Schwab; actor, filmmaker, and content creator based in Jersey City, NY.

Jul 14, 2026

12:15
in successful or unsuccessful ways but it's like I don't know I do think it is helpful I don't know how you feel about this but it is helpful to like find some community in that in some ways and like reassuring whether that is through watching somebody like Benjamin Brad going through that or you know talking to somebody over zoom or whatever it is that like man, there is something universal about being in your twenties and, you know, twenties are into your thirties, like, and still kind of being like, what the hell am I doing? You know?
12:48
I mean, I think that's what it's all about.
12:50
You know, I guess I could say my own original thoughts, but I think of Ethan Hawke's TED Talk about, you know, art being not a luxury.
13:00
Art's not a luxury.
13:01
It's sustenance and the idea that you can feel like you're having the worst day of your life, but then you read a poem, you listen to a song, and that person has gone through the same exact shattering of the heart that you did.
13:16
So...
13:17
Yes, I mean, that's what I find reassuring with The Graduate and I mean, Come On, Come On is also a coming of age film in a way in its own way.

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37:39
And I said, oh,

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