WEBVTT - 96: Sex Lies & CD-Roms 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:13.920 Welcome to Nightcall, a production of I Heart Radio. It's 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.960 one forty seven am in the St. Mark's Church Rectory 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:42.919 and you're listening to Night Call. Hello, and welcome back 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.680 to Night Call, of podcast for your strange days and 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.960 lonely nights. I'm here in l A. My name is 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.880 Tess Lynch and with me as always are Emily Yoshida 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.680 and Molly Lambert. Guys, we have a lot of robots 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:58.160 to cover. At the top of the show, it's our 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:05.160 brief robot conversations last week spot News. Um. First off, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.720 we have a follow up on what we were talking 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:12.040 about last week. Does Wally have a gender? Is he male? 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.160 Is Evie female? Um? I looked into this and I 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:20.840 found Kate Brenstein's blog. She has a whole essay on this. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:25.720 I will quote from it. Yes, Eve is Eve Evie. 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:33.000 Eve is pretty pertly streamlined. Eve's eyes literally sparkle and dance. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.840 Eve giggles for Heaven's sake. Eve is kick ass, strong 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:39.760 and powerful. Eve is performing fem while e is rugged 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.440 and protective and shy and loyal. While he is is 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.200 a sensitive little thing held together by sheer will and 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:49.480 rubber bands. While he is performing butch I believe this 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:54.960 is the definitive answer. Okay, I'm gonna say, I believe 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.280 that robots can perform gender, right, they can perform gender, 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:02.680 but they cannot have a gender exactly because the gender 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.280 is robot. The gender is robot. Robot is is their 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.880 gender agreed? But wait, does that mean that? Okay, never mind, 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:12.600 I'm not going to get into an even authority or 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:18.320 discussion of gender podcasts. No, absolutely not. Um, yeah, no, 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.119 they're they should. They should revel in their freedom from 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.240 having to deal with this question at all. We should 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.359 let them have that. Um. We also got an interesting 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.840 tip from listener Angela Um, who sent us an article 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:35.840 This is a Very night Call article from Smithsonian Magazine 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:40.600 about how in a Chinese restaurant in Pasadena called to 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.639 Panda Deli put a pair of quote disco blasting robots 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.720 to work as servers. The article goes on to say 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.760 each Japanese built robot purportedly cost twenty THO dollars about 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.960 forty five THO dollars adjusted for inflation. But we're prone 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.040 to dropping things and letting radio interference make them go 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.680 a bit haywire when they work. They were a hit 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.639 telling jokes and delivering food to customers who were assured 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.040 that this would be the future of the restaurant business. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.280 In the mid nineteen eighties, the robots gained some national 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.680 press in typical News of the World, Fashion and so 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.960 it was there's a blurb about how the robots were 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.720 just so not technologically advanced that they would just kind 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.800 of like switch between languages, like they would drop food 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:26.680 all over the place. They wouldn't know what to do 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.119 when something was in their path. So it's a very 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:34.600 short lived expect The police radios interfered with if they 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.040 got too confused by commands, they would say, that's not 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:41.040 my problem, which relatable, Yeah, totally, especially if he worked 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.880 as a server was trying to radical as the robot 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.760 service army. That's been a big theme on our show. Yes, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.040 I mean this feels very eighties and that like they 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.000 have to like demarcate that it's a Japanese built robot, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.680 but it's also what a Chinese Chinese restaurant. It does 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.360 feel like also that first wave of eighties, like the 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.280 robots are coming to take over jobs, which now we're 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.160 back in again kind of. But it was just cute 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.200 then and then it was just like shorthand for Japanese 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.480 people too. Um, and now it's just actually, the robots 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.760 are indeed coming for our jobs. They are. They're always 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:20.320 making service robots. They're never making like management class robots, 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.560 but they're making journalism robots are What you don't know 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.960 about this? What do you mean? Uh? Yeah, I don't 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.280 you know about Like tons of blogs are just automated content. Now, No, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.280 I didn't know read one where you're like, who could 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:36.760 this be written human? Yeah? I thought those were still 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:41.280 written by a person, just badly. No, I think that 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.159 you can auto generate. I mean, like, have you ever 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.880 this is like there's a moment in vander Pump Rules 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.960 when Jack's goes to Vegas and sees a robot bartender 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.280 and he's like, my job. Yeah, He's just like, I 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.400 can make a better drink than the robot. Yeah. I mean, well, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.680 the content that the robot, the journalis and robots right 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.159 now are generally is content that I have been paid 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.520 to generate before but have not generated in some time. 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.920 But it is that kind of totally mindless, Like here's 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.000 some of the top moments from this week's Kardashians episode, 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.440 Like that kind of thing which I used to do, 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.760 like I get, I used to get payment outsources. But 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:21.000 I also think that there are some celebrity like info 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.200 on celebrities where you can tell because at first you 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.640 could think, okay, this could just be like run through 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.800 Google Translate. But they have the same cadence as the 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.360 chat bots, so that's what makes it identifiable. Yeah, and 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:38.080 like the same weird phrases that nobody actually uses and 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:42.760 wouldn't probably pop up in what if they outsourced podcasting 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:48.520 to bots? Oh they will know. Well, we're about to 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.200 talk about Well, we will talk later in the episode 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.080 about a particular kind of podcast that I think could 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.840 very easily be outsourced to bot. I think you're right, 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:59.680 But first let's talk about a cutie robot named Bali. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:05.080 Bolly is the non threatening smart robot that was recently 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.880 rolled out by Samsung. It is a service robot, and 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:14.440 it's basically like a what are the robot vacuum cleaners? 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.880 Like a roomba, but it looks like a tennis ball. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.479 It's a prototype. Still it looks like b B eight 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.640 but it's only yeah, just one little ball. He doesn't 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.240 have the head balancing on top, and they purposely tried 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.320 to make it non threatening looking and it's going to 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:35.960 be affordably priced. Um, but it's terrifying. It's terrifying because 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.839 it follows you around at a quote unquote safe distance 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.640 or comfortable distance. Like it follows you. It looks like 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.159 about three and a half feet behind you and it 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:48.360 won't stop until you ask it to go away. Oh 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.720 my god, it's like the one from the Miley episode 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.440 of Black Mirrors. Yeah, this is sort of like it's 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.760 sort of my dream of what I wanted in a robot. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.840 But I just wanted one that would play music for me. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:00.719 That's all that I want. Like, you know, people like 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.760 sometimes that's a radio, yeah, but like not if you're 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.120 not in the car. You could bring a radio where 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.000 you don't. You have like a little portable wind up radio. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.440 I have a portable wind up rate for emergency. It's 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:22.040 not like a normal Yeah. That's an eighties earthquake kicks building. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:27.120 because it's when when power doesn't work after there and 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:30.760 the wind if work, because I probably I have one 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.040 that's probably from the eighties. It will work work in 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.200 the case of an EMP of a what an e 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:44.440 MP an electric magnetic Oh of course, of course, I think, well, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.120 the deal is the real thing we have to prepare. Obviously, 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.160 it was like an n T like I think if 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.239 you're a doctor of nose and throats, like, it should 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:57.520 still work for you. It works the Electronic Music Project 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.440 interesting where we are? You guys are not hipto a 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.400 e MP like that's like that is a doomsday threat. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.080 I don't think it's like the scenario in which all 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.560 like it could come from a solar flare or something. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:13.920 All I was scared about was that it would take 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.120 down the Internet, and which would probably for me personally 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.680 only the positive that would be great, But it would 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.280 take down everything that runs on electricity like nothing. They 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.720 made a really bad show on ABC, I feel like 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.640 five or six years ago that was about this, about 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.920 like a total blackout. It's like a permanent blackout and 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.040 you can never have any power anymore. And it's just like, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.800 but then you're going to really want that wind up radio. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.360 Well that's what I'm asked, But it won't give you 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.520 a radio. Wouldn't You might be able to pick up 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.760 like like it, but if the power is off at 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.120 the radio station, can they even know that? You would 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.240 be anything but you know what it can do. That's 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.720 cool as it makes like a really loud siren noise. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:59.280 Well that's not related to anything else. No, I've definitely 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:03.720 thought about the like the no technology apocalypse, um, because 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.520 anytime I go somewhere that has no technology, like if 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.400 you go up the Central Coast or something, and you're 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.120 off the grid, even for like a night or two, 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.480 it does make you realize how reliant all of us 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:18.000 are on it to a degree that is unhealthy. I 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.400 was just thinking about this. I was like, it's like 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:26.000 the world's most boring drug, electricity. Yeah, I just like 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.400 what a what A like not that fun thing to 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.680 be addicted to. It's like sugar. It's like you don't 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.360 even think about how addicted yard sugar until you try 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.319 to deliberately take it out of your day, and then 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.920 you really withdraw hard. Like I'm drinking a ginger ale 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:42.800 and looking across the table at a bag full of candy. Yeah. An, 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.960 it's like a Halloween candy, Like a giant plastic bag 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.240 filled with mini candy bars. Just how they keep us 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.439 podcast until the box get here. Exactly sugar in electricity, 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.120 I'm I'm on the fence about Bali though I have 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:58.719 to say I have to. I feel like I have 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.800 to pronounce it. Balls, I thought to view because you 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:02.640 were such a b B eight I know, and I 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.160 want a little like that's what I want out of that. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.320 And there's like there's one with wings on it from 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:10.640 an anime that people I want. I want. What I 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:15.960 want is this Robots and Sailor Moon that TV Sailor 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.920 Moon has called Luna pe. It's a cat head that 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.360 floats around. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the best. And 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.200 she can like turn it, she can press a button 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:25.920 on it and turn it into anything she wants it 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.840 to be. That's what I want. Here's what it just 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.520 is a companion. Oh it's just a friend. Yeah, just 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.160 a babysitter because she's like a kid and she's like 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:35.959 she's like on her own, So she has a robot, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:39.040 it says BOLLI would be like a baby monitor. That's 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.120 what their advertised. But also it said in the venture 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.520 Beat article that covered this, it said that it could 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.080 be used to spy on your kids to let you 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.800 know if they're doing their homework, which made me really 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.600 freaked out because I'm like, well, then you can be 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:57.240 spying on your spouse. You can be like spying. It's terrible, 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:01.120 but that's all technology, right, Yeah, but that's bad. I 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.400 don't want a little tennis ball that's like creeping around. Well, 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.680 it's so much more sinister because they made it look 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.560 tried to make it not look sinister. Well, here's what 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.320 I think. I think we could still have these things, 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.480 but they have to be like homebrew robots. What do 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:18.160 you mean, like like we get someone who's not part 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.720 of the surveillor state that it's kind of like open 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.240 source your hit and then it's up to you. Yeah, 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.480 you make it yourself. You have control of the network, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.520 so it's not going to be sending your data to 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.840 some whore. You know. People could still hack it, probably, yeah, 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.559 but what would you use it for though? What would 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.160 be It's like design it just to have a little 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.240 friend to follow, a little just a buddy, I mean, 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.440 because that's what I do. Like when I'm wandering around 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.200 the house getting ready and I'm listening to podcasts or whatever, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.760 I'm just taking my phone in my hand with me, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.840 and if that was just floating behind my head and 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:51.880 playing and following me around and playing my podcast, So 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:53.280 I don't have to remember pick it up, or I 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.520 could like you both you could get well. I would say, 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:01.040 my friend got the most amazing boom box from the 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:04.280 swap meet in MacArthur Park. There's like this electronics store 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.400 that faces the street had a lot of amazing boombox 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:11.800 type things with microphones and amazing LED displays. And I've 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.839 been really thinking like maybe this is the way I 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.280 use my radio all the time. And I used to 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:19.000 have a boombox that was like a kind of like 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.280 early two thousands boom box that played CDs, which also 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:24.960 I had, and all the time. I was trying to 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.920 find a DVD and video player a while ago, and 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.760 I was like where can I find those? And everybody 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:33.360 was like two thousand three? But somebody at a record 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.680 store gave me one because they had one, So you 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.680 can get one still at like you know best, but 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:44.880 and they cost twenty It's incredible. Um. But I also 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.200 like watching like a regular TV now because I'm like, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.440 it's not a camera, it's not tracking my location. That 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.600 is relaxing in and of itself. Because you were watching 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.520 everything on a laptop for a while. I was like 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.600 a very early adopter of oh my god, I was 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.520 watching a Sex in the City episode of US Night 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.679 or Samantha's Like, you can get a DVD delivered, It's fabulous, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.040 But yeah, I was like pirrating things when you could. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.280 First I was like, Oh, movies on the screen and 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.640 I can just like search for any movie I've ever 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.960 wanted to see. Like that sounds great, But now I 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.040 do feel like there's just like too much choice and 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.160 also not enough, Like I never want to watch anything 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.600 that's on any of the streaming platforms except maybe some 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.599 weird like deep cuts on Hulu that I find. I 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.679 still couldn't get you on board of the Kaminsky method 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.839 so horrible. I'm just waiting for the next hit a 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:42.400 Kamanski taking its time. I respect your commitment to the 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:50.240 Kaminsky method. There's no way to do it seems so easy. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.560 We're gonna take a quick break for an ad and 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.400 when we come back, we're going to talk about a 0:13:55.480 --> 0:14:13.959 fun field trip and only went on. Welcome back to 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.560 night Call, Molly. You went on a very special adventure 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.920 this past week, um into the home of one of 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:27.920 our faves. I got in the zone. Was it spiritual? 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.880 The shrine? I went to the zone. Brittany the zone, 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.280 the Britney Spears experience. Were you in the zone, was 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.080 in the zone? I was alone in the zone and 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.440 never alone in the zone. I wasn't like fully that 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:41.840 I was with a group, but I wish I had 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.600 gone with you guys, because I realized halfway throughout it's like, oh, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:46.880 this is like you're supposed to do it with a friend, 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.640 so you can take pictures of each other and like 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.640 experience it with so black and that's the point of 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.680 like all pop ups, it's just a thing to happen. 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.960 I was just like, you know, okay, time to enter 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.320 the void alone like a psycho not you know, but 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.800 then I needed people to help me take good pictures. 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:07.440 I want a full guided tour of Britney. Yeah what so, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.760 so tell us what this is, why it is where 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:14.120 it is. I was asked by my editor at the 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:15.800 l A Times, Craig Bars, if I wanted to write 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.080 about it, and I said, of course. Um, it is 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:24.000 in a former km art across from the Grove. Yeah, 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.800 in this amazing mini mall that has really not changed, 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.920 even though the grove has been across from it years now. Yeah, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.960 it's like the Brittany Museum is next to the Whig Store, 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:40.000 which the Whole Foods though, yeah, but still like there's 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.560 an Italian restaurant and it used to be really good 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:45.960 type place. I don't know if it's the whole vibe 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:50.200 is perfect for Brittany. The Zone um, and it is. Yeah. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.200 It's a pop up experience put on by a production 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.240 company in conjunction with like a merchandizing agency. So it's 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:01.080 basically like a store to buy Brittany merchandise and then 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.760 also ten rooms, each one themed after a different Britney 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:10.800 Spears video with immersive experiences and a bracelet, a chip 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:14.880 bracelet that you scan to make videos in different parts 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:20.800 of it Brittain Chip Britney Land Yikes. A chip bracelet 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.080 that says a zone on it. It was like an 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:24.920 hour after I left the Zone that I was like, 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.320 I have to get the bracelet off one tracking me. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.400 Wait did you did you leave with it on? Yeah? 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:33.120 Is it just a paper braceletter? You don't know, it's like, um, 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:36.880 it's like a backstage. Yeah, it's on a it's on 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:39.280 like a just a piece of fabric. But it's like 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:41.400 the Coachella on the app. Yeah, it has a little 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.800 chip in it, but then it's like was pulled too 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.400 tight and I like went into a place to be 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:51.040 like cut this off me right now. It was an anklet. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:57.040 But um, the zone is basically an escape room, but 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:02.720 like foreign escape to the past. You know. Um, it's 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:08.520 definitely for people in their thirties. Yeah, um to be like, hey, 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.440 remember twenty years ago, don't you wish it was still 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.680 that a little bit instead of now? Remember when you 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.320 had what you thought the future was going to be, like, yeah, 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:22.480 it was the crazy video. Yeah remember the TRL the 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.160 late nineties turn of the millennium projection of the future 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.960 where everything was going to be like Vinyl oh final 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:35.800 body suits, everything in. Yeah, that was a good future 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.320 and then it got dystopian in like a much worse 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.760 and boringer way. Okay, but I would not look back 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.960 on the music, particularly the music videos of Britney Spears 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.560 and be like, ah, yes, I wish I could live there, 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.639 that's what you think. But now the first okay, so 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.120 the first room is hit me maybe one more time, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.320 and it's just like a classroom set. Um, did you 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:03.360 get costumes? No costumes. There are like some interactive lockers 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:08.760 you you can write a note to Brittany and like 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.159 leave it in a locker and when there's like a 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:15.840 tiny basketball hoop and tiny pink basketballs, you can play basketball, um, 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:21.280 just like in the video, and they show video on 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.639 a giant screen. I mean there's a classroom set that 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.600 just looks like a porn set, which obviously I was 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.920 a big pan, but they just show the video on 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.320 a giant screen. It's like it's an art installation of 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:35.440 that music video. It just it just makes you think 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:37.960 about like where you were at these different moments in 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:42.240 time a lot. It's a lot of like simula simula. 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.800 Like you know, I've never been a big fan of 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.720 pop up museums because they like take over spaces that 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:52.080 should be turned into like homeless shelters, and then they're 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.320 like the Fruit Museum, you know, like jump in a 0:18:55.440 --> 0:19:00.840 pile of clementine. It's so crazy, see that. That's how 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.359 the world where it just seems like a trick to 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:08.320 give everyone the flu Like the wall listen into the 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.600 history because I guess they were like invented by the 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.480 Museum of ice Cream a couple of years ago, which 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.080 that was more than a couple of years ago, according 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.680 Museum of ice Cream is kind of really that's the 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:25.240 article about it. But they invented the sprinkle pool, which 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.720 is the like the centerpiece of money experience. I was 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:29.840 actually I was so disappointed when the first time I 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:31.840 heard about the Museum of ice Cream, because I was like, 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:37.119 I would actually like to go to like a historical museum. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.119 I mean just the idea of the selfie museum, you know, 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.200 as a thing of like, oh, people are taking selfies 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:43.879 in front of art, so let's just like cut out 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.040 the middleman that is the art and just make it 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:49.720 places to take selfies in front of. However, the Brittany 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:53.080 Museum is like fraught with a lot more meaning in 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.119 a way that like it does feel like an art 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:58.800 installation where you're like I'm thinking about a lot of 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:01.720 stuff in this space ace and not just like taking 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:05.560 selfies mindlessly, but like mindfully. Is it more or less 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:10.680 spiritual than the helmet of Climp show? At the there 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.760 is a spiritual component, which is that um so there's 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:16.560 like different the other different rooms where like oops, I 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:19.240 did it again, a space room. There's a room is 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.760 a stronger video that has metal chairs and like a 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:27.200 weird like shutter. It's like her dancing on a chair. 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.200 It's just her jump like like it's like a solo 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.280 dance video, like a Janet Jackson like routine with a 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.600 chair where she's like playing a chair all around. It's 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:38.800 about her taking control of her womanhood. It's a great video, 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:40.639 but it's also like a weird one to do a 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:43.480 room around. So it's just a black box with chairs 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.720 in it, which is very like it's like so weird. 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.959 It's like the rain room at Lacma or something. It did. 0:20:50.040 --> 0:20:51.760 They have one where you can get in an argument 0:20:51.840 --> 0:20:56.000 with Stephen Dorff, but they have Me against the Music 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.680 where you can dance with like a Brittany impersonator who's 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:00.320 on the other side of a wall. She was not 0:21:00.400 --> 0:21:02.960 working the day we were there, and you get to 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:07.240 be Madonna with the cane and that's when you scan 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.959 the bracelet and it's like now a countdown and then 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:12.879 it's like you do your dance. I saw Katie from 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.960 the Under Pump Rolls did it um with the cane 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:18.040 where you get to do it on the other side 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.280 of the so stuff like that. And that was where 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.320 there was like a swing with a fake autumn background, 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.440 which um, I guess that's from me against the music video, 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:29.880 but it was a great photo, thank you. I thought 0:21:29.920 --> 0:21:32.320 it was a deep cut reference to my favorite Brittney song, 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:37.080 Autumn Goodbye. There's like some easter eggs. Like the people 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:40.120 who made it, I think, like Brittany genuinely they would 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.640 have to write, yeah, well it's a marketing from those yeah, 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.880 but it's also like they they said, right generation there 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.680 also probably yeah exactly, and it has like a sense 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.359 of humor, like it's not it is strange. But the 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:58.400 best part is the Blackout room, the Blackout phase, which 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:01.640 was like when Brittany got fifty fifty and had sort 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:05.600 of her personal low point to represent that just like that. 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:07.800 Erec is also it's people's favorite album and it's the 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:11.760 best album. It's a chapel and it's like there's no 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:14.560 pictures of Brittany. You can't even really take a selfie 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:16.399 in it. But it's like sort of like a Romeo 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:21.600 and Juliette bos Lerman like chapel to Brittany with like 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:26.680 blackout stained glass windows and like this altar with just 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:30.080 like the cover of Blackout like a neon rectangle and 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:35.760 then just like led candles everywhere and like flowers and hearts. Um, 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:39.399 and that was like where I had a spiritual expa Imagine, 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:43.159 did you forget you were in a formermart? Yes? I mean, 0:22:43.320 --> 0:22:45.920 And I was like I would stay in here all day, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:48.800 you know, if I weren't with a group and moving along, like, 0:22:48.880 --> 0:22:50.960 I would totally just hang out here forever because it's 0:22:51.080 --> 0:22:53.440 like great, it's a great space. And they said they've 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:55.480 had requests already for people to get married in there. 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.480 I just liked the idea. I was like, Oh, it's 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:02.840