Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Speaker 1: Weekly Zeitgeist.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: These are some of our favorite segments from this week,
Speaker 1: all edited together into one NonStop infotainment laugh stravaganza. Uh yeah, So,
Speaker 1: without further ado, here is the Weekly Zeitgeist. Miles, we
Speaker 1: are killed to be joined in our third seat by
Speaker 1: one of our favorites. One of your favorites. A stand
Speaker 1: up comedian, writer, producer, podcaster who you know from Lady
Speaker 1: to Lady. She performed everywhere from a basement in Whitesburg, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: to the stage of the Kennedy Center. It's Brandy, Posy, Brandy.
Speaker 3: Cleaning up all this glass from all these broken Uh,
Speaker 3: you killed, you broke all these things over here?
Speaker 4: Thank you?
Speaker 1: Like what was that movie the tornado flew around in there?
Speaker 4: Splash is not like a thing in Splash like shatters
Speaker 4: all the glass from like talking because her voice is
Speaker 4: so high pitched.
Speaker 1: Anyway, and as some as a problem I thought I
Speaker 1: was gonna have to be dealing with as an adult based.
Speaker 4: On glass shattering.
Speaker 1: Yeah, glass shattering because of high pitch noise or bad
Speaker 1: sounding music or yeah ye they loved that.
Speaker 5: Do you think, Yeah, yeah, I think it's in splash.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I want to believe it is. I've mean, god,
Speaker 4: I'm such a fan of Daryl Hannah.
Speaker 3: So do you guys feel like Mariah Carey has ever
Speaker 3: like her assistants have ever had to like fake shatter
Speaker 3: glass around her because of her voice, just.
Speaker 4: Like reinforce it. I mean, as someone who has that
Speaker 4: kind of range, she's probably you know, her and Ariana
Speaker 4: Grande probably can get up there with those whistle tones.
Speaker 4: But that would be funny, like did you did you
Speaker 4: get the fucking breakaway glass? She's Oh fuck, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to break a real pane of glass once in
Speaker 4: a while. My hands all cut up from punching the window. Oh,
Speaker 4: my hands weeding too, and are completely unrelated. No, probably
Speaker 4: not from putting through a pane of glass anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am googling has always ever broken glass, and
Speaker 1: according to PBS Learning Media, even resonance produced by sound
Speaker 1: waves can cause the material to break, such as when
Speaker 1: a glass goblet is shattered by sound. It is not
Speaker 1: made up, folks, it's real. Take it seriously. A sufficiently
Speaker 1: high note r right research also, a sufficiently high note
Speaker 1: can break glass. According to this person on Reddit and
Speaker 1: that's all we can trust. Because the Google AI doesn't
Speaker 1: know how many rs are in strawberry. I can't successfully
Speaker 1: answer how many rs are in strawberry because they're wrong.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah arguing with it, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, let's
Speaker 4: move on to.
Speaker 1: It's given me a number of wrong answers lately.
Speaker 5: It's just not great.
Speaker 1: It came out out we were like this is bad,
Speaker 1: but like probably buggy, and they just like dropped it
Speaker 1: too early, and then it's like since continued to be
Speaker 1: bad because it's just they don't have the technology to
Speaker 1: crawl that many resort results and get the right answer.
Speaker 3: It's going to be fun to tell our kids and
Speaker 3: nieces and nephews and stuff later, like twenty years from now.
Speaker 5: Yeah. The Internet used to have the answers.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, right, used to be able to find them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but now it's like buried under auto auto finds. This
Speaker 1: is your friend who is going to tell you confidently
Speaker 1: the wrong answer. So basically like what it was like
Speaker 1: before the first five years of the internet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Internet is just a guy at the bar now, yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, or being in sixth grade, you know what I mean. Like,
Speaker 4: that's just where we're going to go revert to It's
Speaker 4: like someone told me that, Like you really think Richard
Speaker 4: Gear did that with a bunch of Gerbils. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do think that I'm a truther on that one.
Speaker 1: In this household we live, Yeah, we need one of
Speaker 1: those signs. Twitter is always X is always Twitter.
Speaker 4: Of his and Taco bell is health food.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brandy, the Kennedy Center, I just wanted to be
Speaker 1: clear that was we performed on the stagees of the
Speaker 1: Kennedy Center. That was the Robert F. Kennedy Junior Center.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, It actually was a dumpster behind his house
Speaker 3: for his bones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to make sure it wasn't the
Speaker 1: Washington DC one named after Kennedy j from m t V.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah Fox Now on Fox, Yes one of ours.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hers as actually her Kennedy Center is actually just
Speaker 3: is a is a cyber truck that people also think
Speaker 3: is a dumpster?
Speaker 1: That's right? What is something from your search history?
Speaker 2: Okay, I googled dunkle Latte. Have you heard about these?
Speaker 4: I can almost in for where it's from and what
Speaker 4: it might be about.
Speaker 2: My friend was like, I've been hearing about these dunk
Speaker 2: a lattes. Let's go get one and for.
Speaker 6: Very kind of Jamie not my friend at it.
Speaker 2: It actually wasn't, but it was our mutual friend Bryant
Speaker 2: who he Jamie and I are in a group chat
Speaker 2: together called wait for it, all of Garden friends.
Speaker 1: But so you're a't Olive Garden, but at the Olive
Speaker 1: Garden you're not friends your family, So what's going on
Speaker 1: with you guys?
Speaker 2: That's the thing. We're very it's we're very subversive.
Speaker 1: Okay, kind of energy in that way.
Speaker 2: It's like when we're all of Garden, we're friends, is
Speaker 2: how WOW feel about it.
Speaker 4: And so.
Speaker 2: Group chat together and we were making because it's right now,
Speaker 2: endless like limitless pasta the Olive Garden and so we
Speaker 2: were trying to figure out when to go and then
Speaker 2: Brian was like, well, I also need to get a
Speaker 2: dunk a latte. And so if you don't know, apparently
Speaker 2: and this is this is what I learned upon my
Speaker 2: Internet search. It is a latte that is made from
Speaker 2: espresso and then something called coffee milk. And you're like,
Speaker 2: what's coffee milk?
Speaker 1: It is cereal milk. I have not heard of coffee milk.
Speaker 2: Coffee milk is a blend of whole milk and coffee extract.
Speaker 4: Coffee extract, okay, yeah.
Speaker 2: So I guess they mix that together and that's the milk,
Speaker 2: and then they put espresso in that, and that equals
Speaker 2: a dunk a latte.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 2: Now I know.
Speaker 4: You have you taste tested it?
Speaker 2: I have not. Yeah, we have not. Well, we've made
Speaker 2: grand plans to go to Olive Garden and then go
Speaker 2: to Duncantone.
Speaker 4: This is or whatever it's called. I mean, but a
Speaker 4: latte is espresso with the steamed milk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this is taking it one step.
Speaker 4: Further, espresso with steamed coffee milk. So it's just adding
Speaker 4: like a redundant coffee layer to this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just extra coffee. I guess.
Speaker 4: Oh so is it like higher caffeine because there's like
Speaker 4: a coffee extract. Let me, let's find out.
Speaker 1: I'm on it, Miles. Yeah. So we're looking at it
Speaker 1: like thirty eight milligram's total for the small dun Collette
Speaker 1: that do anything for old Banjo eric or not? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's not bad. That's pretty good. That's about
Speaker 1: as much as a you know, drip blonde roast of
Speaker 1: Starbucks but you know, drip coffee is actually more highly
Speaker 1: caffemated than people give it credit for, and espresso less
Speaker 1: caffeine because it's so little rite the amount sure, sure, sure, okay, huh,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a solid amount of caffeine. This
Speaker 1: all feels like I don't know when something goes viral
Speaker 1: from Duncan or like what Starbucks are you know, one
Speaker 1: of these coffee chains, it's usually they're doing way too much, right,
Speaker 1: it's like a pino corn thing that looks like cotton
Speaker 1: candy or some ship. But this just feels like they've
Speaker 1: invented something called coffee milk and are doing a latte
Speaker 1: with coffee milk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm surprised it doesn't already exist.
Speaker 1: Right, you know, yeah, well they they made coffee milk,
Speaker 1: so of course it doesn't exist. That's cutting edge technology.
Speaker 1: They use the large hay drunk collider to invent coffee
Speaker 1: milk precisely, and.
Speaker 4: They got Kristin Wig. This like whole, They really launched
Speaker 4: this whole. Duncan dunk a.
Speaker 2: Lot at it. They're like you can get.
Speaker 4: And the sweatpants.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're gonna want to dunk a latte yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so, that's cool. I'm trying to imagine wanting
Speaker 1: a big, creamy dunk a late after a bowl of
Speaker 1: endless pasta, and I can't. I can't get there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure. I'm sure it's possible.
Speaker 2: I just like it's a it's a pairing that makes
Speaker 2: that makes perfect sense palate.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not there yet. Okay, Yes, Jason, what is
Speaker 1: something do you think is overrated?
Speaker 7: I think all of the panic about like fake news
Speaker 7: generated by AI and it was deep fakes for a while,
Speaker 7: and all of that to like generating a completely fake
Speaker 7: story from whole cloth is not and has never been
Speaker 7: the real threat. I think the way that the news
Speaker 7: media manipulates you will always be based on what stories
Speaker 7: they choose to cover and not cover, Like all of
Speaker 7: the news outlets choosing not to publish those hacked Trump
Speaker 7: emails and side they're going to sit on that. But
Speaker 7: like the thing that you guys, you know, referenced about
Speaker 7: the story with the Haitian immigrants eating the pets. The
Speaker 7: reason that fake story worked is because Fox News had
Speaker 7: been laying the groundwork for years by just cherry picking
Speaker 7: actual crimes. Because in a country of three hundred million people,
Speaker 7: you can find a trend, whatever trend you want. So
Speaker 7: anytime a an illegal immigrant ran a stoplight, Fox News
Speaker 7: ran that as a headline and creates by just carefully
Speaker 7: sorting through. Again, you know, if a report comes out
Speaker 7: that says, well, actually, you know, native born people are
Speaker 7: more likely to commit crimes and immigrants, you simply you
Speaker 7: simply don't report it. Yeah, And likewise, like this thing
Speaker 7: with the you know, the governor North Carolina and the
Speaker 7: guy that is Mark Rabinson's his name, but all that
Speaker 7: crazy scan like Fox News devoted like seven minutes to
Speaker 7: that yesterday, Like they simply just bury it in they're broadcast.
Speaker 4: That will always be.
Speaker 7: The way by which people get into bubbles and get programmed.
Speaker 7: It's not it does not require the fake news stuff
Speaker 7: will be a problem. It doesn't require a hoax. Just
Speaker 7: filtering what you report and choose not to report will
Speaker 7: always by far be the most powerful thing, because for
Speaker 7: the most part you're sticking to things that are real.
Speaker 7: It's just that they're not representative of what's going on,
Speaker 7: but you can absolutely create the impression.
Speaker 4: That they are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a wild selection bias has always been the
Speaker 1: way that the US media tends to operate because it's
Speaker 1: a big country and they know what stories they can
Speaker 1: get a lot of eyeballs on because they're scary and
Speaker 1: reinforced preconceived fears and beliefs.
Speaker 4: And probably like the easiest way to manufacturer consent too.
Speaker 4: It was just by being like, and what if we
Speaker 4: just tell people about this all the.
Speaker 1: Time, and now when the decision comes to do something awful,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Like they so they're just not
Speaker 1: publishing the Trump emails. They're because the political The Washington Post,
Speaker 1: I think jud Lugum also at Popular Information said he
Speaker 1: was offered these documents, and he said because he was
Speaker 1: involved in the Podesta emails and he just doesn't think
Speaker 1: that anything in the emails are necessarily of note outside
Speaker 1: of just showing like a shitty campaign.
Speaker 4: That was like his logic. But then it's also like, well,
Speaker 4: what's the logic of these other papers, because they were
Speaker 4: more than willing to publish the emails in the last
Speaker 4: like in the twenty sixteen cycle. But it's yeah, it's
Speaker 4: just kind of like, well, what what exactly, like tell
Speaker 4: us what the the logic is of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, that's that's sort of like where I
Speaker 1: feel like that story's kind of out at the moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were talking about this a little bit last week
Speaker 1: with regards to there was a Russian creative fake media
Speaker 1: like fake a local news story about Kamala Harris like
Speaker 1: running someone over in her car and then like driving
Speaker 1: away in San Francisco, and like people were just you know,
Speaker 1: you could see that it was a fake news site
Speaker 1: that doesn't actually exist. They created the URL two days before.
Speaker 1: It wasn't overly convincing, and it didn't seem to like
Speaker 1: get that much media attention other than the debunking of
Speaker 1: it got a lot of attention. Whereas you know, just
Speaker 1: Elon Musk having as many followers and as much sway
Speaker 1: as he has just tweeting any dumb bullshit absent mindedly
Speaker 1: is pretty I think, more influential than I want to
Speaker 1: believe it is. Also, well yeah, now especially with the
Speaker 1: block function being like, ah, even if you block me,
Speaker 1: you're still going to see my bullshit.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that the thing with Hillary's emails in
Speaker 7: twenty sixteen, I think that is the perfect cause sample
Speaker 7: of what I'm talking about here, because that was the
Speaker 7: case where I think if you interviewed one thousand people
Speaker 7: both sides and said, can you summarize what was scandalous
Speaker 7: about her emails the whole but her email theme, which
Speaker 7: became the number one story that entire campaign because those
Speaker 7: were released in a drip feed where it's like a
Speaker 7: new revelation every day, can you summarize what the deal
Speaker 7: was with those emails and why that should be a
Speaker 7: deciding factor in who you vote for. I think not
Speaker 7: five people in a thousand could accurately explain. But when
Speaker 7: The New York Times has Hillary clinton emails as the
Speaker 7: a one story every day Hillary Clinton email scandal, by
Speaker 7: putting it at the top of the front page, you
Speaker 7: are saying that it's important. You are saying that it's
Speaker 7: huge and impactful, and this must be a terrible crime
Speaker 7: that's been like this must be disqualifying. So even if
Speaker 7: you watching it don't fully understand what's bad about it
Speaker 7: or what it means or whatever, it doesn't matter because
Speaker 7: giving it that place on the front page indicates that
Speaker 7: it matters, and it's a negative story. So he's saying, Hey,
Speaker 7: all the other stuff in this selection not important. This
Speaker 7: email server, your personal email server. Security candidates using personal
Speaker 7: email for like, that's what matters, that's the thing that's
Speaker 7: at stake in the selection, and they set the agenda
Speaker 7: that way. Again, the stuff they were reporting wasn't fake,
Speaker 7: it's just the amount of spotlight they chose to give
Speaker 7: to it as opposed to anything else that created the
Speaker 7: impression that it is I think as false, as in
Speaker 7: something that was you know, that had been gend up
Speaker 7: out of whole cloth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean I think yeah, it gave a
Speaker 1: look into like sort of what was going on in
Speaker 1: the DNC. But then people like John Podesta called a
Speaker 1: guy a prick and this is his risotto recipe and what.
Speaker 1: But they're at the same time like, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Colin Powell also had a private email server. A lot
Speaker 1: of people like what what, what what's the emphasis about?
Speaker 1: But yeah, now it's just very much like it's not
Speaker 1: in the public interest. Blake, what's something you think is underrated?
Speaker 4: Underrated?
Speaker 6: Cuckoo clocks? We have clock, don't don't you there?
Speaker 1: The anti cooker?
Speaker 4: Okay, go on, go on?
Speaker 6: Why was that was that a hard like Jesus being
Speaker 6: a foot curver?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: No, something cute? No, I'm just gonna take the foot.
Speaker 4: I'm like anticipating, just laughing really hard. That's I'm like,
Speaker 4: get the fuck out of here, because I know you
Speaker 4: about Okay, go on, I don't I don't have to
Speaker 4: tell you what this uh what this pick makes me do?
Speaker 4: Makes me go cuckoo yep, because your cuckoo for cuckoo clocks. Yes,
Speaker 4: thanks for your problem for cocoa clocks.
Speaker 6: But by my friend Todd and I used to have
Speaker 6: a bit where it'd be like, toddlast, I don't Yes, yes,
Speaker 6: it would be like, did you hear about I'm about
Speaker 6: our friend Eric. Yeah, he's in really bad shape. He
Speaker 6: cuckoo for cocoa puffs and he's so he's sick. He's
Speaker 6: completely sick. He knocks on the door in the middle
Speaker 6: of the night trying to get them. But yeah, no,
Speaker 6: I think I don't know if you notice, most clocks
Speaker 6: don't have a bird that comes out of them. I
Speaker 6: would say fifty five percent of clocks don't have birds
Speaker 6: that come out, Yeah, but the ones the other forty
Speaker 6: five percent do And I love the fact that it
Speaker 6: kind of helps you keep track of the day and
Speaker 6: kind of takes the edge off of the eternal clock
Speaker 6: ticking towards your death off a little bit where it's
Speaker 6: like I lost another hour, but loose listen to how
Speaker 6: many times the bird? Yeah, it's like it's really not
Speaker 6: that bad.
Speaker 4: Full of life it Wait, cuckoo's for every hour? Is
Speaker 4: that how it works too?
Speaker 1: Like how grandfather oh Man when it hits eleven o'clock saw,
Speaker 1: Yeah it is bad. You're like, yeah, it's actually cuckoo
Speaker 1: for punctuality. Yeah it is, you know stick or ye,
Speaker 1: so assuming cuckoo for punctuality?
Speaker 4: So what so wide are that bad? But yeah, no
Speaker 4: I love them. But one o'clock, two o'clock three, we're
Speaker 4: gonna rock around the clock tonight.
Speaker 1: This show is no good.
Speaker 4: We really are.
Speaker 6: We're gonna show the show is.
Speaker 1: I wonder if people like didn't recognize it was bad
Speaker 1: when it was just recorded, but now that there's like
Speaker 1: a video component, like, wait, what the fuck are we listeners?
Speaker 4: Okay, this is people, this is people with brains.
Speaker 1: They're just saying nursery rhymes right now. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break and come back and talk about
Speaker 1: a Bridger ten themed ball.
Speaker 4: We'll be right.
Speaker 8: Back, and we're back. We're bad it's true. We are,
Speaker 8: We're back, we are and this is yeah, this is.
Speaker 1: The theme giving Glasgow, Yep, Willy Wonka Chia Factory, a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 4: A lot of lot of scammy balls and fan events
Speaker 4: out there, and yeah, it's happened again. So obviously, like
Speaker 4: Bridgerton is a huge show with a ton of fans
Speaker 4: that would like love to pretend that they are in
Speaker 4: the show. I totally get the appeal, Like it has
Speaker 4: its own aesthetic and like musically, you know, bashion wise,
Speaker 4: et cetera. And so Netflix knows this, and they have
Speaker 4: a legit event called the Queen's Ball that has like
Speaker 4: gone like traveled across the country and world like cities
Speaker 4: like in like La New York, Melbourne in Australia, and
Speaker 4: it's like a fucking full on production, like set recreations.
Speaker 4: They have actual outfits from the productions that you can
Speaker 4: look at really like a portrait photo, booth themed bars
Speaker 4: with bartenders dressed in period clothing, a dance show like
Speaker 4: a queen that shows up and chooses a diamond of
Speaker 4: the evening. It's like an event and that Netflix already
Speaker 4: has tickets starting at thirty nine dollars. So I'm like, okay,
Speaker 4: that's not bad. So when people in Detroit, reasonable, yeah,
Speaker 4: when people in Detroit heard about a Bridgerton ball with
Speaker 4: tickets costing anywhere from one hundred and twenty dollars to
Speaker 4: one thousand dollars, people got excited.
Speaker 1: The web miles my brain when I hear okay, the
Speaker 1: other one's forty dollars, this.
Speaker 4: One starts at one hundred.
Speaker 1: To be it's gonna be three times better minimum at
Speaker 1: least that is. Yeah. I'm such a sucker for ship
Speaker 1: like that. Oh yeah, that's that's definitely fan math. High
Speaker 1: price equels good goodness. We have the website said is
Speaker 1: it made in America? Can I ask you that is
Speaker 1: the effect? Because I know the shows in Britain? But
Speaker 1: is the event made in America? The event is built
Speaker 1: for it tough. Yes, it is built for tough exactly. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's patriotic, but so the the on the event website
Speaker 1: it said, step into the enchanting world of the Regency
Speaker 1: era at the Detroit Bridgerton Themed Ball, join us the
Speaker 1: highatt Regency that was the Regency era that we were.
Speaker 4: Two thousand and two to two thousand and we know
Speaker 4: it's a bando now, but we've turned it into a
Speaker 4: whimsical event space. So it says, join us for an
Speaker 4: evening of sophistication, grace and historical charm. Experience a night
Speaker 4: like no other, filled with music, dance, and exquisite costumes.
Speaker 4: But this event started off shaky though. The event was
Speaker 4: originally supposed to happen in late August, but at the
Speaker 4: last minute organizers had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances
Speaker 4: and people didn't get a refund. That's the first red
Speaker 4: flag for people. Okay, they rescheduled it to this last weekend,
Speaker 4: and people still shelled out the money to get in
Speaker 4: on the unique experience and paid a lot of money. Also,
Speaker 4: like people were dressed up like custom custom made outfits,
Speaker 4: doing their hair, all kinds of shit like that, and
Speaker 4: what they got was not quite what was advertised here,
Speaker 4: Like this is from a local news report about the
Speaker 4: would be fantastic event.
Speaker 9: The way that it was described is that this was
Speaker 9: going to be a Bridgerton evening. We were going to
Speaker 9: have classical music, good dinner, and there was going to
Speaker 9: be a play and they were gonna pick dime into
Speaker 9: the season. They were going to give away all of
Speaker 9: these prizes and we went in and it's gonna share hip.
Speaker 4: Me in there.
Speaker 10: Organizers Uncle in the LLC have since disabled its website
Speaker 10: and turned off social media comments. I reaching out to
Speaker 10: the co owner, Chelsea Beard as early as five am
Speaker 10: Monday Monday afternoon, Seven News Detroit's Whitney Bernie also called.
Speaker 1: And then doorstep in someone.
Speaker 4: They got no response.
Speaker 1: Okay, and yes you did have a hype man who
Speaker 1: was also like a play because they really if if
Speaker 1: either of us ever gets interviewed for a local like
Speaker 1: what something terrible happens to us, we have to make
Speaker 1: a promise right now the other of us will go and.
Speaker 4: We should just be for news cruise just to be normal. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 4: And I'll just do like West Sky, I'll do West
Speaker 4: Side Gun fucking like anyway.
Speaker 1: So the event was fucking shaky. The the like the
Speaker 1: event space was empty.
Speaker 4: Uh. The food was some regular ass buffet that ran
Speaker 4: out within one hour. I put a picture here in
Speaker 4: the dock that you can see that is it.
Speaker 3: Shi.
Speaker 1: It is all giving like a mediocre prom. It's like
Speaker 1: a line outside like the Yeah, the food, I guess
Speaker 1: does proms have food? Maybe maybe it's like a cash
Speaker 1: bar wedding.
Speaker 4: They have food. Yeah, they have Blake's. I'm a prom
Speaker 4: king is what I have. So this ship was like
Speaker 4: you know the they said, people weren't even scanning your
Speaker 4: like tickets at the door. There was like nothing, So
Speaker 4: Randalls are just walking in and eating the food that
Speaker 4: ran out within one hour. Like I said, the Netflix
Speaker 4: event had a full bar. They were promising people drinks.
Speaker 4: The only drinks they had was I'm not joking blue
Speaker 4: kool aid. You had to buy. That was the only
Speaker 4: beverages on sale for people. They were promised libations. Okay,
Speaker 4: they marked it up too. Apparently the woman who is
Speaker 4: playing the queen people were saying was totally out of
Speaker 4: character while basically hustling her business card to anyone that
Speaker 4: would listen. So I think you could pose and take
Speaker 4: a picture and she was like like, okay, that's my
Speaker 4: favorite detail, just not even in characters, like okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: so if you need me, this is my card. Yeah,
Speaker 4: good to see you. Okay, I'm the Queen of Detroit
Speaker 4: Real Estate. I'm a real order here. Why don't I answer,
Speaker 4: I'm Detroit's muffler queen. You got any muffler problems? You
Speaker 4: come see me, okay, car making too much noise here.
Speaker 4: It takes absolutely oh shut that car. Yeah.
Speaker 1: There are pictures from inside the event that have like
Speaker 1: promotions for other like events on the wall and shit,
Speaker 1: like it's supposed to be this immersive thing and it
Speaker 1: just looks like you're inside a fucking yeah bus stage.
Speaker 4: My favorite part is like, so there was a main
Speaker 4: sort of dining room floor that filled up immediately, so
Speaker 4: people were relegated to the upstairs that was this It
Speaker 4: was just a fucking empty room like yeah, bummed out
Speaker 4: people in the nicest fancy dress like sitting like on
Speaker 4: their phones, like, man, this shit was it looks like
Speaker 4: a radicon. Yeah, not a high regency honestly.
Speaker 1: No, not even a region. The live music they were promised,
Speaker 1: okay they had live music.
Speaker 4: It was. People felt so bad for this woman. It
Speaker 4: was just this young woman on violin by herself, who
Speaker 4: played they said, for like four hours straight, damn no breaks,
Speaker 4: just having to work that violin. I don't know how
Speaker 4: many times you can play, you know, Desposito on violin
Speaker 4: for people, But that's what she did. Classy though, it is,
Speaker 4: I mean, look shout out to what is it that
Speaker 4: vitamin string quartet that their entire catalog blew up because
Speaker 4: they were using their like sort of rethought up remixed
Speaker 4: current songs with like string arrangements throughout the show.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 4: They said that, right though, right, well, what if we
Speaker 4: played yellow on violin? Yeah, we had one of those
Speaker 4: of my wedding fys. Oh really?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: Have you heard clocks on cello?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Actually it kind of goes is that that's a Cold
Speaker 4: Play song? Is that? Yeah? Cloths? Are we making fun
Speaker 4: of this? Are we saying that we like it because
Speaker 4: I was making.
Speaker 1: Fun of it and also saying that I fully did
Speaker 1: it at my wedding?
Speaker 4: This shit goes hard. But like the backdrops again, this
Speaker 4: is supposed to be a like again anywhere from one
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty to one thousand dollars. You could see
Speaker 4: like they just unfrilled some plastic rose like tablecloth print
Speaker 4: and they're like, and that's your backdrop for photos. This
Speaker 4: is this poor lady having to serve a bunch of angry,
Speaker 4: upset people in fancy dress. The food, and then the dancing. Right,
Speaker 4: the dancing was one exotic dancer. They wheeled out the
Speaker 4: play or whatever. They wheeled out like one of those like,
Speaker 4: you don't need a ceiling to put this pole up
Speaker 4: for someone to dance on. And then this is the
Speaker 4: quote unquote entertainment for the evening. I'll just play quick
Speaker 4: clip this. I don't remember this. These four people remember
Speaker 4: you weren't looking hard enough because obviously.
Speaker 1: There was string music. Okay, the Royal pole Dancer has arrived.
Speaker 1: Now please get out your singers, get out your shillings
Speaker 1: for this intrepid young business person. But yeah, like every
Speaker 1: other fucking scam event, the organizers are saying anything but sorry,
Speaker 1: here's your money back.
Speaker 4: This is what they said. Quote. We understand that not
Speaker 4: everyone had the experience they This is like almost like
Speaker 4: identical to the fucking Glasgow Willy Wonka one. We understand
Speaker 4: that not everyone had the experience they hope for at
Speaker 4: our most recent event, Sunday Night at the Harmony Club,
Speaker 4: and for that we sincerely apologize. Our intention was to
Speaker 4: provide a magical evening, but we recognize that organizational challenges
Speaker 4: affected the enjoyment of some guests.
Speaker 1: We take full responsibility and accountability for these shortcomings. Please
Speaker 1: know that we are working diligently to address all concerns
Speaker 1: to ensure that all guests have the enjoyable experience they deserve.
Speaker 1: Your feedback is invaluable, and we truly appreciate both the
Speaker 1: positive and constructive comments shared with us. They deactivated their
Speaker 1: webs like, they took down their website, they took down
Speaker 1: fun and everything you can, like there's no comments, Like
Speaker 1: all the comments are disabled on their Instagram account, so
Speaker 1: that's where things are, and people are basically out a
Speaker 1: lot of money.
Speaker 4: Unfortunately this one.
Speaker 6: It seems like I don't know if this is funnier
Speaker 6: or sadder, which is a question I ask myself about
Speaker 6: pretty much any topic. But because a lot of these
Speaker 6: had to do these scam events were geared towards children, sure, yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 6: and this is one of the first ones that's geared
Speaker 6: towards adults, so like it is sadder in a way
Speaker 6: where at least you could get angry. We're like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, these people they deceive my child, and like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: I feel some more righteous anger. Yeah yeah, that was
Speaker 6: just like, oh, I wanted to have a nice, magical
Speaker 6: evening as a princess, took this away from it.
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, like as someone who is part of
Speaker 1: a few fandoms like I totally understand the urge to
Speaker 1: do something like this, like you know, someone is creating
Speaker 1: the world that you secretly want to live in, or
Speaker 1: not even secretly, you tell everybody about how you wish
Speaker 1: you lived on a Corellian cruiser. But people, I think
Speaker 1: this is the thing to your point, Blake, for an
Speaker 1: adult event like this, we have to be more diligent
Speaker 1: when it comes to assessing the bullshit because you start
Speaker 1: just like vague clip art and stock images from the
Speaker 1: show without anything really being there.
Speaker 4: And again they canceled the first event. I was looking
Speaker 4: on Instagram. Someone claimed in a comment they worked for
Speaker 4: the first venue and they said the reason the first
Speaker 4: event was shut down is because the event planners did
Speaker 4: not fully pay out all the deposits they needed to
Speaker 4: to actually hold the event. Now, I don't know if
Speaker 4: that's how true that is, but red Flags, you already
Speaker 4: paid one. They didn't give you a reach. The company
Speaker 4: that the.
Speaker 1: Company that organized it was called Uncle and me LLC,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't know why that gives
Speaker 1: you the sense that they're going to do a good
Speaker 1: job of putting on a Bridgerton Galla.
Speaker 4: Yeah, have you ever done anything with your uncle, and
Speaker 4: it was like, okay, I remember like helping my uncle
Speaker 4: bill something wasteful.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a support group for perverts, is what you
Speaker 6: would call. Uncle, And me like that's what that should
Speaker 6: be called.
Speaker 1: I big unc energy.
Speaker 4: But huge unc energy.
Speaker 6: I got scammed recently where with stand up, which I
Speaker 6: should know better, Like this is a thing where I
Speaker 6: should know better. I've been doing this long enough. Where
Speaker 6: there was this a book or a quote unquote book
Speaker 6: er being like, hey, we're putting on this event. It's
Speaker 6: uh Keenan Thompson is presenting it and it's a talent event,
Speaker 6: and I'm like, it's saying he's hosting it. He said
Speaker 6: he's presenting it, and it was very vague as to
Speaker 6: like who the like talent bookers were going to be there.
Speaker 6: And I'm like, all right, this thing's not costing me money.
Speaker 6: It's five minutes from my place, Like it's really no
Speaker 6: sweat off my back if this is a scam. But
Speaker 6: this seems like a scam, Fuck it, I'm going for it.
Speaker 6: I'm like, Keenan Thompson is also in France for the
Speaker 6: Olympics right now, Like I know he's not coming to.
Speaker 11: This parifiably not even on the same content. But you're like,
Speaker 11: I'm watching him with Kevin Hart on NBC right now.
Speaker 11: I know he's not flying back for this shit. And uh, yeah,
Speaker 11: it was a total ripoff, but it was funny because
Speaker 11: it didn't cost me money, whereas if it cost like
Speaker 11: one hundred and twenty bucks a thousand, but like that is.
Speaker 4: So you it's doubled the book. So they booked you
Speaker 4: for this gig and you're like, I'll do it, and
Speaker 4: then you showed up and there just was no gig,
Speaker 4: or just was no Keenan.
Speaker 6: There was no Keenan. There were no talent book like
Speaker 6: you know, like agents or like you know, talent bookers.
Speaker 6: So it was just some scumbag from Atlantic City and
Speaker 6: stand up. I did, stand up killed, but it was all,
Speaker 6: you know, like the organizer, who fucking I killed? I committed, Yeah,
Speaker 6: first degree murder and we're trying to get that down
Speaker 6: to manslaughter because no one's ever Hey listen, I have
Speaker 6: passion for everything I do, particularly crimes of And yeah,
Speaker 6: it was a thing where you know, they clearly were
Speaker 6: taking the door the money. This was the saddest part
Speaker 6: is that the audience who did pay money. Thought Keenan
Speaker 6: Thompson was going to be there. So there were like
Speaker 6: two hundred and fifty audience members there, and then the
Speaker 6: host in passing is like.
Speaker 4: All right, everybody, we got a great show for you tonight.
Speaker 6: You know, Kenan couldn't make it, but I think and
Speaker 6: then you just heard the whole crowd go oh it was.
Speaker 4: Such did people get up?
Speaker 1: Couldn't make it. But he's still confidently and fully presents this.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but we we are using his name with or
Speaker 6: without his knowledge, so there's that.
Speaker 4: Please don't tag him in anything. Don't tag him.
Speaker 1: Got a bunch of seasons desists already A yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it is dealing these stars. I'm sorry that that
Speaker 1: it didn't work out for you, but you know we're
Speaker 1: here to support you.
Speaker 4: Thank you. Yeah. I think those Bridgerton things.
Speaker 1: Are going to be more and more calm, Like I
Speaker 1: think this is just the beginning. Like we I read
Speaker 1: an article about the orb or whatever the fuck is,
Speaker 1: you know, the sphere in Las Vegas, and like that
Speaker 1: is part of this big like thing that whoever like
Speaker 1: advertisers and marketers whoever like, creates psychographic networks like says
Speaker 1: that is like it's the big thing that people just
Speaker 1: like want immersive experiences because our lives are bad, and
Speaker 1: so we're like, they're like, yeah, they just like want
Speaker 1: to feel like they don't exist in the context of
Speaker 1: their lives. They want to feel like they are in
Speaker 1: some other world. And so I think other than the ORB,
Speaker 1: the ORB is the only one that I've like heard
Speaker 1: of that like consistently people are like, yeah, it's really weird,
Speaker 1: like you don't feel like you're on the planet at all.
Speaker 4: From some people.
Speaker 1: Some people are like, yeah, it's just a weird bed
Speaker 1: motion sickness experience. But like if you go to like
Speaker 1: disney Land or Disney World, like as an adult, it
Speaker 1: does like that. That's what that whole experience is about,
Speaker 1: is like immersive feeling like you're not there, And it
Speaker 1: still feels kind of to me, not to everyone. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they're like Disney adults who like love Disney, and I
Speaker 1: think that's great, but like, to me, it still feels
Speaker 1: like you're like in a bar when the lights come on,
Speaker 1: like on your childhood.
Speaker 6: Right, yes, yeah, because you don't just see many and
Speaker 6: you don't just see like goofy or whatever. You also
Speaker 6: see a guy vomiting. Yeah, in the corner, you know,
Speaker 6: like it's you do get the whole right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 6: why it's you know, for kids, it's they don't they
Speaker 6: have tunnel vision, like they see like, oh my god,
Speaker 6: it's it's you know, I'm trying to think of a
Speaker 6: celebrity equivalent for an adult. Jeff Bezos was the Oh
Speaker 6: my god, it's Bezosozos. Have you been to Amazon Land.
Speaker 6: It's one of my It's incredible, And everybody's.
Speaker 1: Gonna be disappointed in because I think the the ideal
Speaker 1: that we have is like most of being like transported
Speaker 1: by an immersive experience is mostly from our childhood. I
Speaker 1: totally sympathize with it. I think like we all crave that,
Speaker 1: especially more and more in the current environment of a
Speaker 1: disintegrating empire. But I do feel like we're just going
Speaker 1: to continue to have stories where people are like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: come on in here. If you just go through that door,
Speaker 1: it's fully immersive and like you're gonna forget the world
Speaker 1: that you live in.
Speaker 4: There's there's like a sports bar like a venue downtown
Speaker 4: called or not by the Sofide like in Inglewood called
Speaker 4: Cosm that's basically a half spear screen where they show
Speaker 4: sporting events now and it's like a like it's the
Speaker 4: fucking screen is oh yeah wild and they show like
Speaker 4: soccer games there and I was gonna go see Arsenal play,
Speaker 4: and like the tickets are so much money, it's unbelievable here,
Speaker 4: Like this is just give you an idea of like
Speaker 4: what these seats look like. God, like, look at this.
Speaker 4: It's prob oh my god. Like, so it's a full
Speaker 4: it's like two levels and you can buy like a
Speaker 4: booth has eight seats and it's like three hundred or
Speaker 4: four hundred dollars. It's a shit ton of money just
Speaker 4: to watch on like a freaky screen. But again, I
Speaker 4: think for a lot of people, especially if you like
Speaker 4: to watch sports in a new way, it's kind of
Speaker 4: worth the money. But yeah, like everything is just becoming
Speaker 4: more and more immersive, and like they pump stadium sound
Speaker 4: into there and they try and give you a feel
Speaker 4: of like hey can't make the game, give us ninety
Speaker 4: dollars to sit down and like yeah, it's like I
Speaker 4: could just go to the game right yeah, to your
Speaker 4: to your point miles, Like that's you know. Arsenal plays
Speaker 4: in London, you can't just go to the game, so
Speaker 4: there must be some people who love fans in other countries. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's like, hey man, you know, doing drugs is pretty cool,
Speaker 4: and you're like the real thing I've read.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 1: we'll come back.
Speaker 4: And we're back.
Speaker 1: We're back, and NATO wants to improve your movie going experience.
Speaker 1: No wonder Biden was so reticent to drop his bragging
Speaker 1: about NATO. You know, NATO's about to do big things.
Speaker 1: They're planning to put two point two billion dollar investment
Speaker 1: into Oh I'm sorry, this is the National Association of
Speaker 1: Theater Owners. I love that they are just sticking with that,
Speaker 1: like we're actually the more famous NATO. So yeah, everybody
Speaker 1: should just shut the fuck up. And if we're that NATO,
Speaker 1: ask them if they're that NAT, because they're not.
Speaker 4: We're not.
Speaker 1: We are that NATO. They're gonna invest two point two
Speaker 1: billion dollars in movie theaters to fix problems that I
Speaker 1: personally didn't notice movies having. But yeah, Kaitling, you go
Speaker 1: to more movies than I do.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Was this something you're asking for? They're
Speaker 1: like asking for. They're like, well, I had bowling alleys
Speaker 1: and video game arcades like nineteen eighties. Shit, better air
Speaker 1: conditioning and better projectors, and I don't.
Speaker 4: Line down to where the movies are played. It's dope,
Speaker 4: it's fresh, it's cinema arcave, all right, work.
Speaker 2: Great world reference. That was wonderful. Uh yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: want any of that stuff necessarily. What I do want
Speaker 2: is honestly more air conditioning. Bad idea. AMC's are too cold, freezing,
Speaker 2: oh my god, freezing, and so like lay off the
Speaker 2: AC and it's like and they're too loud.
Speaker 1: You need to pack for mountaineering to like go to
Speaker 1: an AMC. It's fucking freezing there. Yeah, you know layers.
Speaker 4: So this is so NATO, right. They represent the likes
Speaker 4: of AMC, Cinemak, regal cinemas, and they control about like
Speaker 4: seventy percent of the market. So they're talking like we're
Speaker 4: putting two point two billion, like twenty one thousand screens basically.
Speaker 4: And I think ever since Barbenheimer summer, like the industry
Speaker 4: has been really positive, like the theater industry has been
Speaker 4: really positive, like that the movies are fully back, but
Speaker 4: now they want to evolve in order to compete with
Speaker 4: like smaller chains that offer premium experiences like IPIIC or
Speaker 4: Alamo Draft House, And we're like, how do we get
Speaker 4: in on that? So again it's like Arcades, it's bowling better,
Speaker 4: better sound systems, Caitlin, better seating, improving concessions, and like
Speaker 4: all this other stuff new signs, revamped carpeting, which you're like, okay,
Speaker 4: But they also said that the competition, the quote competition
Speaker 4: for consumers hard earned dollars is fiercer than ever. But
Speaker 4: I'm like, is making the movies a more premium experience
Speaker 4: the way like if you acknowledge the hard earned dollars part,
Speaker 4: but then make the move like, then make the movies
Speaker 4: easier to go to, rather than be like, well now
Speaker 4: you got recliners and shit this year forty five bucks
Speaker 4: for a ticket, right, And the.
Speaker 2: Thing that gets me to see so many movies is
Speaker 2: any is like a pass a movie, pass the amc
Speaker 2: A list, because yeah, movies are inaccessible price wise, right
Speaker 2: for most people unless you have some kind of thing
Speaker 2: like that. The reason I go to AMC's is because
Speaker 2: I have the thing. So they need to like incentivize
Speaker 2: people that way, right, not by being like we have
Speaker 2: a bowling alley now, and it's like, well, I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm going to see a movie. I'm not gonna go.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to fast bowling. I get that they
Speaker 4: probably see an opportunity with like families and shit like that,
Speaker 4: but like to your point, Caitlin, like if the point
Speaker 4: like if I think the emphasis should be on ease
Speaker 4: rather than like so there's more friction as it can.
Speaker 4: So for example, I saw Beetlejuice Beetle Juice the other night,
Speaker 4: and when her Mazinye, and I were looking at tickets,
Speaker 4: we based our decision on the price. You're like, how
Speaker 4: come to fucking Grove is like ten bucks more than
Speaker 4: this other theater that's like closer, Like fuck all that,
Speaker 4: Like I'm gonna pay fucking thirty dollars to be disappointed
Speaker 4: in a movie. I'll pay I guess twenty to do that. So,
Speaker 4: like I get though too, like on a premium experience
Speaker 4: is nights for like a date night. But I just like,
Speaker 4: if I get the itch to see something, I don't
Speaker 4: want to pay more and be like, well I need
Speaker 4: all this other shit, Like I've I've always been fine
Speaker 4: with a dark theater that has a functioning chair that
Speaker 4: isn't dirty, and it's reasonably temperature controlled, and that's fine.
Speaker 4: I don't need to fucking like I don't think the
Speaker 4: reason I'm gonna sit down and sit through Sonic the
Speaker 4: Hedgehog seven is just because I get to eat pizza
Speaker 4: in a suede recliner.
Speaker 1: Like, no, you're gonna go for the film Gry one
Speaker 1: of the characters is called Miles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do have those, like what are the what's
Speaker 2: it called? I think there are a few different versions
Speaker 2: of this, but they basically you watch a movie ever
Speaker 2: heard of it?
Speaker 1: And please.
Speaker 2: It's an existing movie, like one that came out probably
Speaker 2: ten twenty years ago, but it's like a beloved movie,
Speaker 2: and then they design a menu around it, and then
Speaker 2: they bring out so like, for example, this is a
Speaker 2: thing with Shrek, so you buy a ticket to this
Speaker 2: like Shrek experience where at certain points of the movie
Speaker 2: they bring out food like the food that they're eating
Speaker 2: on screen, and they're like.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a little eyeball cocktail and you drink that, but
Speaker 2: it's whatever apple juice or some shit. So I would
Speaker 2: pay more money for like a fun immersive experience like that,
Speaker 2: but that's only like something I would do once every
Speaker 2: six months or so.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so something like.
Speaker 2: That, I get it, but don't upgrade your like shitty
Speaker 2: theater and sticking an arcade that I'm not going to
Speaker 2: go to and use that to justify higher ticket prices.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, like we this is going to entirely
Speaker 1: be passed on to us the phone doors.
Speaker 4: Like whatever. Two point two billion dollars so much fucking money. Well,
Speaker 4: and what's crazy is it's because they've made so much
Speaker 4: money from raising their prices over the years too, that
Speaker 4: they're like, man, we got a lot of money we
Speaker 4: can play with right now. And that's kind of like,
Speaker 4: all right, next phase, make it more expensive, right.
Speaker 2: It's also like, don't spend don't give Nicole Kidman twenty
Speaker 2: five million dollars to make a commercial for the theater
Speaker 2: that I'm already at right, like like make your concession
Speaker 2: prices a little lower, because then I'll buy a popcorn.
Speaker 2: But I'm not going to buy a twelve dollars pop corn.
Speaker 1: No, Well, Caitlin, but you can't recreate poetry like Nicole
Speaker 1: Kidman saying, and we go to the movies because here
Speaker 1: to come to his.
Speaker 2: Place for magic. We come to his place to laugh,
Speaker 2: to cry, to care, because we need that all.
Speaker 1: Really hit that last line where she's like because here
Speaker 1: it is like it's the fucking best line that's ever
Speaker 1: been written. It's like it feels good in a place
Speaker 1: like this.
Speaker 4: You sick.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm a weird though I mainly go
Speaker 1: to the movies because of the movies they are showing
Speaker 1: there what.
Speaker 4: I'm a I'm a sick.
Speaker 3: Of banjo, Eric Banjo.
Speaker 2: Come on.
Speaker 1: The two pictures I've heard that are actually I think
Speaker 1: would benefit and make like movie theaters more solvent. One
Speaker 1: is the one that you always talk about, Miles. Do
Speaker 1: you want to pitch your idea? Yeah, you know, smoke
Speaker 1: weed in the movie. Yeah, you can smoke weed in the theater.
Speaker 1: You can or at least vape weed in the theater,
Speaker 1: or have like designated smoking shows.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like sell weed and like it's basically a
Speaker 1: glorified like weed cafe anywhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because half these places got a little mini bar
Speaker 4: like out front. So just what can burn up whatever? Okay,
Speaker 4: all right, all right.
Speaker 9: One.
Speaker 1: The other one is like doing the thing that you
Speaker 1: said Kaylan about like having the like locally programmed, basically
Speaker 1: replacing there. There used to be this thing at video
Speaker 1: rental places where you would have people who worked there
Speaker 1: who had the same taste of movies as you, and
Speaker 1: they would have a section of like movies that they
Speaker 1: were picking. If you create because the other thing that
Speaker 1: we're lacking other than like independent cinema right now is community.
Speaker 1: If you make theaters a place where people can like
Speaker 1: have like we're all fans of Banjo Eric's taste in movies.
Speaker 1: Let and like Key shows year every like Wednesday and
Speaker 1: gives a little speech before and then like everybody comes
Speaker 1: and like watches like his great movie selections for this month.
Speaker 1: Like I feel like that would be cool that and
Speaker 1: you know, especially if it's a place where people can
Speaker 1: like have drinks and smoke, like that would actually and
Speaker 1: local theaters do that. But like I don't know if
Speaker 1: you're gonna invest in like making this a really cool place,
Speaker 1: Like it would be great if people could just pay
Speaker 1: to Like right now, you can rent to theater and
Speaker 1: screen a movie, but it has to be like one
Speaker 1: of the movies that's out right now. It'd be awesome
Speaker 1: if like you could just be like, yeah, like I
Speaker 1: want to show this movie from the eighties, and like
Speaker 1: if I let you know, a month and a month
Speaker 1: and a half in advance, like you know, the fucking
Speaker 1: public library can get a book for you. That's like rare,
Speaker 1: Like why why shouldn't they be able to just like
Speaker 1: get a digital print or like a print of the movie.
Speaker 1: And I feel like people would pay for that. It
Speaker 1: would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me and my friends want to see Dunstan checks in, Oh.
Speaker 4: Yeah a menu, Yeah, Baby's day out, fuck you, and
Speaker 4: we get on the same page here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's just like it's just so funny. Like
Speaker 4: what they perceive as the friction, you know, to getting
Speaker 4: more people in the theater. They think it's, oh, this
Speaker 4: thing has to cease to be a movie theater with
Speaker 4: affordable prices rather than like I'm sure so many these
Speaker 4: like you know, movie passes are becoming like huge parts
Speaker 4: of their business and realizing, oh, maybe like it should
Speaker 4: just be that it's easier to come to the movies,
Speaker 4: and that through having more affordable prices and I'm sure
Speaker 4: you're gonna sell, you'll offset the amount of empty seats
Speaker 4: you have by having seats that are just reasonably priced
Speaker 4: but again, these are mostly publicly traded companies, so line
Speaker 4: has to go up. And now they're like, yeah, they're
Speaker 4: gonna love these two point two billion dollars you put
Speaker 4: into like new seats or whatever. Like I feel like
Speaker 4: we're at the peak of the cinema experience right now.
Speaker 4: Like I don't know what else you need to add
Speaker 4: for people to be like, oh god, there's such a
Speaker 4: gaping hole in the offerings of what a movie theater
Speaker 4: is giving people. And I don't think they just don't.
Speaker 4: I don't see it.
Speaker 2: People are craving that four D experience where that is
Speaker 2: flash water in your face.
Speaker 1: With water, make it smell like someone farted on me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you call me a dirty, filthy.
Speaker 4: Banjo, Eric, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right. Should we check in with the billionaires because
Speaker 1: we are always concerned about the billionaires. Over the past
Speaker 1: four years, we were worried, you know, like Bernie Sanders
Speaker 1: got a little bit of heat, you know, he got
Speaker 1: some attent, national attention, and we on this podcast were like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that is dangerous. What is going to happen to the
Speaker 1: billionaire's wealth now?
Speaker 4: Because what if I become a billionaire?
Speaker 1: Yes, news for those of us with a growth mentality.
Speaker 1: Billionaire wealth has grown by eighty eight percent in the
Speaker 1: last four years. Fucking percent is so wild after the
Speaker 1: scene Trump left office, it's grown by eighty eight percent
Speaker 1: because the pandemic was really good for them. Because basically
Speaker 1: every event it turns out in our current system is
Speaker 1: really good for them, because they will take any opportunity
Speaker 1: to manipulate the rules to be better for them, and
Speaker 1: we live in a society where that is entirely possible
Speaker 1: and will not stop unless they are stopped. So billionaire
Speaker 1: wealth way up, staggering amount of money that should never
Speaker 1: be accumulated by a single person.
Speaker 4: Right, But if they're not, like, if they're not unburdening
Speaker 4: themselves of this wealth by buying Nazi memorabilia, Yeah, because.
Speaker 1: That's apparently not allowed anymore.
Speaker 4: Shout out Harley Crow. So what do they do then?
Speaker 4: Where do you take your gotten gay?
Speaker 1: Well, So the problem with having that much money, we're
Speaker 1: learning it's bad for us who don't have that much money,
Speaker 1: also bad for them because they go a little bit
Speaker 1: crazy and they get very scared of us. When you
Speaker 1: get that much money, you start to be afraid of
Speaker 1: all the money you have because it is a unjust,
Speaker 1: just irrational amount of money that you have, and you
Speaker 1: turn into Gollam and you start just wanting to be
Speaker 1: isolated from everything around you and treating everyone around you
Speaker 1: like an enemy combatant. And so that brings us to
Speaker 1: Indian Creek, which is a island that is privately incorporated
Speaker 1: by billionaires in Miami's Biscayne Bay. Jeff Bezos recently bought
Speaker 1: in bought like three homes on this island. It is
Speaker 1: essentially a military fortress at this point, Okay, says guns
Speaker 1: and stuff. Yeah, yeah, oh well it has so it
Speaker 1: has basically a cop for every person who lives there.
Speaker 1: Not quite, but they have nineteen cops and I think
Speaker 1: like sixty something people who live there. So if New
Speaker 1: York had the equivalent citizen too cop ratio, it would
Speaker 1: be it would have like six point five.
Speaker 4: Millions or something like that. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: But they all also have private security for it, like
Speaker 1: Elon Musk travels with twenty travels with up to twenty
Speaker 1: bodyguards at a time. So this Indian Creek place, it
Speaker 1: used to be just you know, a place where rich
Speaker 1: people lived. In Miami. There is a publicly funded bridge
Speaker 1: that goes to the island that is part of the
Speaker 1: Miami like city municipality, and it used to be a
Speaker 1: thing where like people like this. One guy said, who
Speaker 1: lives like on the other side of that bridge, on
Speaker 1: the Miami side of that bridge, said the security is
Speaker 1: very different from how it used to be, and then
Speaker 1: recalled a time in the early nineties when he could
Speaker 1: bring his college friends to Indian Creeksgate and get permission
Speaker 1: from the police to give them a tour of the island. Now,
Speaker 1: if he approaches the bridge, the cops start flashing their
Speaker 1: lights and order him to back away. Approaches, approach, roaches
Speaker 1: the bridge, not even on get the don't even fucking
Speaker 1: approach this. We can tell what you're thinking. And no,
Speaker 1: don't even fucking come close.
Speaker 2: You're visibly too poor to be anywhere near here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Threat threat identified. Threat identified.
Speaker 4: The community on.
Speaker 1: The other side of the bridge is called Surf Side,
Speaker 1: and people are like, uh and on the island they
Speaker 1: call it surf with an E surf Oh my. So,
Speaker 1: but if you if you want to approach it or
Speaker 1: just like be in the same bay as this island,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a bit of a problem for the
Speaker 1: billionaires who live there, because the trees all have AI
Speaker 1: equipped cameras that watch every boat that passes basically between
Speaker 1: the island and the horizon and is attempting to determine
Speaker 1: if it's a threat.
Speaker 4: People who like.
Speaker 1: Run tours out of Miami Bay are like, yeah, like
Speaker 1: you will just see a red light, like lock onto
Speaker 1: your boat and just follow you across the entire bay,
Speaker 1: and then if you come within a certain distance, the
Speaker 1: they will, basically the security force will come out meet
Speaker 1: you and probably give you some bullshit ticket for like
Speaker 1: creating too large of a week or something. Basically, it's
Speaker 1: just stay the fuck away from our island Lebowski And yeah,
Speaker 1: so I don't know, like a lot of the surveillance
Speaker 1: technology and weaponry comes from Israel. So that's another kind
Speaker 1: of detail. We'll link off to the article. It's worth
Speaker 1: giving it a but in case you're a person who
Speaker 1: lacks empathy and wants to know why you should care
Speaker 1: about Gaza and the West Bank from a self interest perspective,
Speaker 1: it's because the wealthy want to do what Israel does
Speaker 1: to Palestinian people to all of us, and that is
Speaker 1: where they're headed. The extremely wealthy want to watch you
Speaker 1: and monitor your every move in the name of their safety.
Speaker 1: I just want to read a couple paragraphs from this article.
Speaker 1: It was on MSN. I think it was originally written
Speaker 1: by Business Insider. It says multiple billionaire security professionals I
Speaker 1: spoke with described an increased interest in security among their
Speaker 1: ultra high net worth clients. Some are shelling out millions
Speaker 1: on highly trained bodyguards or deploying high tech surveillance drones.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk travels with up to twenty bodyguards at a time.
Speaker 1: Others are building bunkers to wait out the apocalypse in
Speaker 1: Indian which we've covered before on Every Green episode. If
Speaker 1: people want to go find that in Indian Creek, If
Speaker 1: you somehow have the island wide surveillance dragnet that Bezos
Speaker 1: and his neighbors have amassed through public funding, it still
Speaker 1: have to contend with the formidable private dragnets guarding their
Speaker 1: individual mansions. And then they speak to somebody who's an
Speaker 1: expert in this, and he says security has become a
Speaker 1: really big concern for billionaires now because there's never been
Speaker 1: more talk about the divide between the haves and the
Speaker 1: have nots. Says Brian Daniel, who operates the Celebrity Personal
Speaker 1: Assistant Network, a company that connects billionaires to security staff.
Speaker 1: So basically, it by pointing out that they have too
Speaker 1: much money for the successful operation of a civilization, we
Speaker 1: are forcing them to arm themselves to the teeth and
Speaker 1: invest in military technology to aim at us when we're
Speaker 1: taking a boat by their private island, their private military
Speaker 1: fortress island.
Speaker 4: Ah man, idea.
Speaker 1: Look, I also count Brady lives here, so it's everyone
Speaker 1: from Tom Brady to bezos.
Speaker 4: Baby. I don't want to have killer drones. You know,
Speaker 4: it's the last thing I want. But I'm sorry pours
Speaker 4: the increase in class consciousness. It's kind of freaking me out,
Speaker 4: I gotta admit. So now I have to arm the
Speaker 4: robots with weapons because yes, oh man, I just heard
Speaker 4: about like proletarian revolution. I don't miss it. It's just
Speaker 4: like freaky stop, just freaky stuff. So we're gonna go
Speaker 4: to this island and you will fucking die if you
Speaker 4: get near the bridge.
Speaker 1: How's that every time you point out how much money
Speaker 1: I have, another gun gets cocked behind me. I'm not
Speaker 1: even looking back there, but you're gonna hear it. And
Speaker 1: uh just know that you're making me nervous, and when
Speaker 1: I get nervous, somebody else shoots you.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, why I can't more billionaires just like
Speaker 2: go in those submarines looking for the Titanic wreckage and
Speaker 2: then really implode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really the greatest.
Speaker 1: It was like the best we could hope for.
Speaker 4: Can't like sea level rise just consume this island or
Speaker 4: something too and just render it fucking non like non
Speaker 4: operational at some point, I know, I mean like maybe
Speaker 4: not in the immediate future, but I know that is
Speaker 4: a huge obviously concern in Miami. Yeah, yeah, Miami especially.
Speaker 1: I mean it was originally dredged from the bottom of
Speaker 1: Biscayne Bay, and so it was like man made I
Speaker 1: believe that's what that means. Originally just a place exclusively
Speaker 1: for white gentiles, that where they would not allow any
Speaker 1: non white or Jewish person to live. And the way
Speaker 1: they enforced that is all electricity was dulled out by
Speaker 1: the local country club, so if somebody moved there and
Speaker 1: was either not white or Jewish, they just couldn't get electricity.
Speaker 1: So wow, But they they've come along and now they're
Speaker 1: super woke billionaires who will kill you for not having
Speaker 1: a high net worth. God make these fuckers sweat more, please,
Speaker 1: But I don't know, but this is it's interesting how
Speaker 1: this like the increase in awareness around the absolute greed
Speaker 1: of these freak billionaires.
Speaker 4: It also like manifests and how like different political campaigns
Speaker 4: are elevated or how discourse is controlled, because yeah, they're like, no, brute,
Speaker 4: we need to stop with this like conscious shit, Like
Speaker 4: we we need more ignorant people to like completely ignore
Speaker 4: the fact that I exist and I might be the
Speaker 4: architect of a huge portion of climate change or whatever,
Speaker 4: or inequality or lack of access to certain things. Please
Speaker 4: just shut the fuck up, or else you know, more
Speaker 4: of us are gonna have to vote for Trump unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it is interesting that they the people
Speaker 1: who have access to like all the information about like
Speaker 1: what they're doing to fuck up the world and to
Speaker 1: keep the proper amount of resources from the rest.
Speaker 4: Of the world.
Speaker 1: They are like, we better arm ourselves with fucking radar
Speaker 1: on every tree, Like we we better treat it like
Speaker 1: a military bunker, because when they find out what we're doing,
Speaker 1: you know, like it's very telling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're preparing for a violent backlash from people, and.
Speaker 2: So we should do it.
Speaker 4: We should.
Speaker 1: Like resolution, you're forcing our hands. We're gonna have to
Speaker 1: put missiles next to the radars now because Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was telling my friend about this. He was like, why
Speaker 1: have a bridge? Like why why do they even have
Speaker 1: a bridge, And the answer is because they have hundreds
Speaker 1: of laborers coming out because they're all like Jeff Bezos
Speaker 1: just bought three properties and he's like building them into
Speaker 1: one giant mega mansion. So there's tons of blue collar
Speaker 1: workers having to go onto the island every day. So
Speaker 1: just a note.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what we need to do.
Speaker 2: We need to learn a trade, we need to become
Speaker 2: masons or something.
Speaker 4: Get hired electricians.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, and then we're like, yeah, we're here to
Speaker 2: work on your house. And then we do something.
Speaker 1: Bad and we make their good their stone fireplace ugly? Yeah,
Speaker 1: not as good.
Speaker 4: What's the new Daisy Ridley movie that's coming out, A
Speaker 4: New Days rid Daisy or no, which one is it?
Speaker 1: Is it?
Speaker 4: There's like some movie where it's like activists take over
Speaker 4: a thing and then it's like it's like all about
Speaker 4: like it's sort of painting activism, like these like Boogeyman
Speaker 4: type characters.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean that's coming for sure.
Speaker 4: No, But I mean, like it's funny again. How then
Speaker 4: you're gonna see like movies made that are kind of
Speaker 4: sort of being like, well, these people suck, because you know,
Speaker 4: I'd love to see a movie that was about kind
Speaker 4: of what we're describing Kaitlin, where it's like working people
Speaker 4: being four steps ahead of billionaires in this race to
Speaker 4: the end. So like when they think they can close
Speaker 4: up shop, it's like we had the keys the whole time. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know that's.
Speaker 1: What the Ministry for the Future covers. If people we've
Speaker 1: talked about that last year. That's a cool novel that
Speaker 1: talks about like potential ways to activate some manner of change.
Speaker 1: But it's also I feel like, if you want to
Speaker 1: actually sell a movie in Hollywood, that shit's not going
Speaker 1: to resonate with the studio heads and the people who
Speaker 1: are approving the movie. The thing that's gonna resonate with
Speaker 1: them is like, man, it's poor people are like getting scary, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I do.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It feels like now more than ever a phrase that
Speaker 1: I love to say, we do we're ripe for a
Speaker 1: resurgence in independent film because right there's better technology that
Speaker 1: people have access to, and also the studios are just
Speaker 1: making dog shit. But I also feel like we're kind
Speaker 1: of in a sticky situation because distribution is now being
Speaker 1: kind of controlled more and more by the big companies.
Speaker 2: But by NATO.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by NATO exactly. So I don't know, Like I
Speaker 1: do hope that there's a resurgence in people making movies
Speaker 1: that actually are from the perspective of people who don't
Speaker 1: have a billion dollars.
Speaker 4: Right, that's on that SDE.
Speaker 2: I highly recommend the movie How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Yeah,
Speaker 2: which is about like activists who I mean, just watch
Speaker 2: the movie.
Speaker 4: This is what's This is the synopsis for the movie Cleaner,
Speaker 4: which is an upcoming British action thriller film starring Daisy Ridley.
Speaker 4: When activists take over an energy company's annual gala held
Speaker 4: at the Shard in London, some more radical members of
Speaker 4: their group try to take the guests as hostages, and
Speaker 4: that's where Daisy Ridley's character enters to to help.
Speaker 1: She's the cleaner. She's like, I take care of problems.
Speaker 1: Knuckle cracked, knuckle crack. She was like apparently a soldier
Speaker 1: with a secret type of character in the buildings, like
Speaker 1: I actually do have a such special set of skills,
Speaker 1: and I don't know why these people would attack the
Speaker 1: people who are destroying the earth.
Speaker 4: With their energy. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 4: exactly the tone is, but that just sounds when you're like,
Speaker 4: what the tone?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, this billionaire is actually fucking cool.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm sorry, just because we're making the earth uninhabitable,
Speaker 4: you think you can like resort to this kind of
Speaker 4: extreme shit. I don't think so, Honey, shout out of
Speaker 4: those words, because.
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