Think Outside the Redbox

bunch of movies. Um, probably not meeting any evil billionaires. Fingers crossed Sundance Film Festival. It's Hollywood fever strikes. Oscar nominations came out this morning, so I'm just like in a everyone's got Hollywood fever, Emily. Do you have any strong agians on the nominations? No? Yeah, this is the thing.

I feel like somehow I've finally grown up to the point and I tweeted this, but I was just like, Yeah, there are movies where I'm glad if they get recognition or get nominated or or feel like, you know, career achievements or something for somebody, like I feel that way about Roma. But then there are movies like First Reformed, which I love, um, which are so good and also so weird and and like Sorry to Bother You and

stuff like that too. I mean, nobody was gonna nominally Sorry to Bother You for anything, but like First Reformed, people had been thinking, O, you know, ether Hawk, or it'll get the Best Picture nomination or something. But that movie is like special and weird, and I like it better without the recognition of the Academy like it just it feels more appropriate for it to be uh unloved by the same awards body that apparently loves Bohemian Rhapsody. I feel like that took all the air out of

the room. Yeah, people being like awards matter ever have no I It kind of is a reminder of the fact that people who are into the oscars now are like all people who really sought the approval of teachers when they were in school, Like, and I consider myself among that kind of person who was like, I hope the authority figure in the room approves of my work and thinks that I'm special in doing a good job.

And I feel like I feel like as you grow older, you hopefully grow out of that a little bit, or realize that it doesn't all like like the parent figure doesn't need to approve of something in order for it to be like good. It was like the only people who care about the oscars are people who think they might be there someday. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, oh that's true.

I mean, I don't dislike the oscars. I'm I. I still I almost didn't see the Golden Globes, and I realized that if I didn't see them, it would probably be the first time in like fifteen years that I didn't watch them, Like, I mean, I watch all these stupid shows, you know, religiously. It's just so I stopped as soon as I didn't have to. I stopped before I didn't have to. I stopped long before I did forever.

And then I like, it's also funny because like I talked about this a lot, but it used to be like an award show would happen, and then it would be a week long news cycle of like waiting for the Entertainment Weekly, you know, wrap up on the award show from a week ago, and now it's like, by an hour afterwards, the commentary. You've seen every meme. You don't need to watch it. You find out what happened. I don't know. I like to watch something in real time.

This goes back to the American Idol thing too, because though that wasn't like up to the minute live, it's like sports. Yeah, it's sports, and I want to see I mean, like, I feel like it had been a long run of nothing interesting happening on the oscars, but then that mixed up with La La Land and Moonlight that gave it another ten years of relevancy. That was like the most wacky thing. What if that was an inside job? Guys, the mix up, It's very possible. Who

wasn't starting a conspiracy Warren Baby did it? And fade away? Yes, Bonnie and Clyde one last job. Yeah, I would definitely watch an Awards show if the host were right and I really was pinning my hopes on. Oh hello, well that was that? That would mean that was the most exciting. You know, who's available nightcall? Oh yeah, I don't know that we're available. Imagine how long are you just so much waiting around? Come on, you have to go to all these like writing rooms and like approve of terrible

jokes and stuff. I feel like the jokes will be good because we'll be in charge. Ah, yes, known for our jokes. Everyone will have to enter and exit the stage on a UFO, a giant parliament funkadelic UFO. There will be a parade afterwards and parade during during the whole thing, it will be a moving awards show. We'll shut down the boulevard. We'll hold it marching down Hollywood Boulevard like the Christmas Parade. People want that mobile awards show would be amazing. I float is like you present

an award on each float. Yeah, I like this. This is why we're in charge of the Oscar show. Yeah, we don't need approved parentalres I want to introduce this concept at the Avian Awards. The best thing that they did, among many good things, was they start the show with the in memorium, which makes everybody shut up and sit down, and then you get it out of the way. How do you recover from that because you have a comedian come on immediately afterwards and do like some really filthy jobs.

That sounds so jarring and that life is jarring test Yeah that's true life. Well, I like I like the prospect of US pivoting to events in twenty nineteen as part of our media empire. Uh at us. Yes, speaking of events, we have an event coming up. We do have an event coming up. Have you heard? We haven't been talking about it much at all, but we have a god talking at the very end of podcasts and I wonder if people have not been tuning in all

the way through. Well now we're going to put it at the front, like the in memoriam look at yeah really really sad, just the opposite, super happy. We're doing a DJ set. We as Nightcall are doing a DJ event at Gold Diggers in Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard. Um. You may have attended our our little pre Thanksgiving event in November with Molly and Tests, but this time all of us are going to be there. It's gonna be Chinese New Year. It will be Chinese some Chinese New

Year magic. Yes, our run a magician, Emma Cunningham is going to do some Chinese New Year themes magic that she's working on especially for the show. Very exciting. I'm really excited for Chinese New Year because New Year New Year didn't really like shift the vibe enough for me. I need a new like a thing to represent something you didn't feel, show you didn't feel, like the eclipse. For example, Well, you guys, did you all watch the super blood moon super Wolf blood Moon? Yeah? I did.

Confused about when it happened. Well, the time zone differential, we had totality at nine pm, a great time for this past weekend, but we're recording a week out, so two weeks ago, a week ago for you. I didn't really understand that it was an eclipse until like that day, and then I was like, oh, I understand. Now it's like a big deal because it's going to be a red eclipse. Yes. Uh. It also kind of tied up one of the weirdest weather weeks in Los Angeles that

I've seen, which was like four days of glorious rain. Uh, and now it's super windy and crazy. But yeah, it was a pretty It was a pretty good moon, a very good B plus moon. What it takes a lot, you know, I'm not easily impressed. I was so impressed. First it turned red and then it eclipsed and then it came back. Yeah, and it was I was not thinking that it was going to be as dazzling as it was, because it was all like foggy and misty, and I was like, we're not going to see it.

But then everything clouds blew away just in time, and there was a really good live feed from Griffith Observatory that I was also had up on a computer because two moons angles Time and Date dot com. They had like an astrophysicist commenting live and that was really interesting because he like explained a lot of things I didn't understand. That's great, like the pnumbra yes um, just about how

like why it happens. It's like in the shadow of another all the things are lined up in a way that they never aren't the red from the atmosphere of Earth, or we need an astrophysicist or Alley Ward to come. You know. It was very beyond comprehension in a way that I like things to be. But it was also funny because like that was all I cared about, and then Twitter was like talking about sports and I was like,

where's the moon discourse, guys, we need more moon. Honestly, the PR department for this moon, this moon event was not It didn't really release information in the best way to drum up the excitement necessary. It was like everyone got excited about the name and it sounded really metal, and then it was happened. We didn't know what. They didn't announce the time. They didn't what do you read? And I looked on a website and you had to

do extra clicks. They should have told you right on the social media, like I should have told everybody what time. Shut out a Twitter feed for the blood moon, and then bio it would say happening at nine eighth Central only on the c W. I went up. I went up to a Moon Canyon, which is up at the top of Mount Washington. There's a little area canyon called Moon Canyon. Oh yeah, that that canyon is very cute. It's it's very cute, and it's like you can see the moon from it. I guess that's why it's you

can see the moon from anywhere. No, but it's like I had always been like, I wonder if it's really a good moon viewing spot. It turns out it is. A bunch of people were up there also to check out the eclipse, and then right when the full eclipse happened, all these dogs started howling. Really, yeah, it was the craziest thing I've ever heard, because I thought at first

it was people. I thought it was people howling like it was like, and then it was clear that it was like every dog in the area and maybe coyotes, um, like the midnight howel and hundring one dalmatian. Yeah, it was real. I was like, oh, and just that thing of like, oh, animals are so affected by the moon. Yeah, we are animals. That's so cool. Okay, speaking of the moon stuffs growing up there now not anymore? Oh did it die? It died already. Well, look, it was a

good start. There was a cotton plant on a spaceship, I believe a Chinese spaceship on the moon, the Chinese Moonlander. Yes, and it had cotton and potato seeds, yeast and fruit fly eggs just to whip up some nice breakfast. It's like a chopped basket. You know, it had never been grown before in those circumstances. But then it died. Yeah, that was not on the far sideway, because that was this was from the Chinese mission that landed on the far side of the Moon. Is this part of the

same project. I think they didn't plan on the far side, did they didn't plan on the Moon. It's like in the Lunar Lander in the pod. Yeah, like in Sunshine when they have the greenhouse on the ship. Yeah. The only thing that's ever made me think I could live on a spaceship. I was like, oh, there are a lot of plants inside. Maybe that's again like Wally, It's like the creepiest thing about a planet would be if

there were no plants. Rights creepy for a lot of reason. Well, I did not like Wally that much until I was like, Oh, it's the if you have kids who are watching a bunch of kid movies and that you're in this like drought where it's just there's nothing to sink your teeth into, and then you yeah, like here, kids enjoy this, Yeah, you will enjoy it. I feel like we didn't get to sufficiently get into that Chinese moon landing when we were rounding up our space news. Yeah, because it was

a big, a big part of space news. It's a pretty big deal. Also related to the Gamma rays, which I was talking about before only on Nightcall guys, I was talking about the kind of conjecture that you could get some kind of alien signals from Gamma rays and theoretically one of the best ways to receive them, and where it would be, you know, out of range of the Earth and like a clean you would be able to get clean signals would be on the far side

of the moon. Ah, so the night of the moon. Yeah, yeah, uh so we're we're you know, halfway there, guys, halfway there. I listened the next day after the eclipse too. They played an old episode of Jones's juke Box where he had Brian may On from Queen who's also an astrophysicist. Yeah. So he was talking about the Drake equation a lot. It was episodes from when the last eclipse happened, and

I remember listening to it at the time. Did he talk about new trinos, No, but he talked about like he was very open minded about you know, who knows where we came from. You know, knowing a lot about science doesn't preclude you from believing in aliens or you know. Jonesy was like, oh, do you think that, like we're the accidental invention of an alien civilization? He was like, oh, I hope, so that would be nice speaking of things that at nobody was sure what time they would happen.

We all talked about watching the Fire Festival documentaries on Hulu and Netflix, and then we all decided as a group not to do it as a form of protest against the endless content zoned. I thought you watched them, Molly, Oh no, I didn't watch them. She was protesting by not I was going to watch them. I heard one of them is definitely better than the other according to everyone who watched both, which is fire is supposed to be better, right, WHOA I heard the Netflix one was

the sponsored one. Yeah, Netflix is the one that's like produced by Jerry Media. I came to resent how much time I was spending learning about these documentaries and like the differences between them. Just as somebody who didn't want to watch either of them, I still absorbed so much information about it through. It's like you couldn't help but get information about the Fire Festival documentaries, right, Like you had to struggle to have information about the eclipses, right.

And I'm like, I remember when the fire Festival thing happened. It was whatever. I don't know. The problem is there were no heroes in that story, you know what I mean? Because it's yes, it sucks to like spend a ton of money on something and have it be bad. But it's also it just seems like an absolutely crazy expense for like a really it seemed like a Wolf of Wall Street thing, or oh, are we glorifying these idiots for like wasting people's time and money, because like the

details I found interesting. I mean, like the cheese sandwich is something that I'll remember for a long time. Um,

and there were great jokes about it. But yeah, I mean I was I planned to watch it, but I thought that Molly's point about like endlessly spinning content from something that same bad about it is how it turned into a story about the content wars, but the streaming wars between Hulu and Netflix, and it made it like this like Hulu and Netflix or having like an East coast West Coast rap beef and like everybody wins because you get to watch like four hours of documentary and

that a thing that's not that cool. So I was like, this documentary is about a scam, Like that's the scam, Like you're all being scammed into watching whatever because it's there and you're like in front of it already. There's something of like this indulgent like it's it's so kind of low steaks was other garbage. But it's like, if

it's forced on me, I'm like you you rejected. If I'm like everybody's watching the thing, it's you have to watch it so you can be in the discourse, I'm like, m When it was happening, I feel like there was a lot of hope that like it would be the end of something, Like I remember making some Altimont jokes about it when when the actual debacle was happening, um, and it felt like the closer off the Emperor, we can kind of, you know, see this sort of hype

be stuff for what it is. But then it feels like it defeats the purpose to like mythologize it again at least so quickly, like go back and make a fire Festival documentary in ten years or twenty years and we have more hindsight about where we were culturally. But I feel like right now, it's just like, what more are we going to learn? That wasn't you know? People

were saying that. I mean, like, one of the things I learned from Twitter was that the big takeaway was that there were a bunch of like service workers in the Bahamas who got really screwed and had to like work for free essentially, and then somebody started to go fund me for them. I think it was like fuck Jerry or whatever was like, hey help this woman who this documentary is about how we screwed her and all her co workers, and everybody was like, wait, didn't you

get paid from this Netflix making this documentary? Like why don't you just pay her? Yeah? Again, it seems like I think you're right, like there's not enough hindsight because like all the same stuff is still happening yet. Yeah. I mean so we sometimes if we're just like at

a loss, we'll put on Netflix. Not very often, but it's always like an exercise, exercise and absurdism in a way, Like David and I will just put on the Netflix and see, like go down as far as we can go until we get past all the stuff that gets

automatically fed to you and find something truly random. And there's a show, a series that was on Netflix and I think that it was from I want to say called Internet Famous, and it is like it is a UM series that is like made for Instagram people because each of the episodes is about seven minutes long, UM and so each one you know, purports to profile a different Internet famous person, and the first one is the funk Jerry guy. But I think it was produced by him.

I'm not sure on this, but because they had footage of him from LIKELVE or something or whatever. He was first starting his career as a viral content boy, and then it fast forwards to him like having his office space and starting jury media and all this ship and it was like beyond entourage level of like vacuity. It was just the most empty thing in the world. And I like that person. They just aggregate other people's memes. Yeah. Yeah,

they don't even make their own stuff. It's just then it was like they were branching down into merchandizing and making like a card game about memes or something like that. It was just like, and I remember thinking, and I hate to always reduce it to something like sex, but I was just like, man, if you were a teen and like, fuck, Jerry was like somebody you were supposed to have a crush on or something because he was like an internet entrepreneurrepreneurs. He was like a young mover

and shaker or something. Because he's not a bad looking dude, but you can imagine that a lot of girls are like sending him nudes or whatever. Um, and and I was just like, man, like, it's the least sexy thing in the world to be, to be a like content aggregator. It's totally soulless. We're in a scammer economy, yeah, but

there's not scammers are sexier, though. There's something about a scammer where it's like there's more potential for like the imagination, like they're like, I don't know, some sense of like romance or like Bonnie and clydeism or something speaking, there's more there's more plot. Yeah, there's more plot. Like with that. It's just like it's just like being a receptacle. It's just like being a human receptacle, and like not in

a hot way. So, I mean I felt old, but I also felt like, I mean, I guess the worst combination of things. I felt old and superior. But then you know, realizing then that he had a hand in one of these documentaries and that like I hadn't put it together, I totally forgotten and he was like behind the fire Festival. And then I kind of seeing that like very depressing seven minute episode and then remembering that

he was a fire festival dude. I was just like, oh my god, like this culture has not gone away at all, you know, his fame or whatever. Yeah, totally some more longevity. Yeah no, and and pathologize. I mean, I guess they like what happened to the main guy? That Billie McFarlane or whatever his name was, the main guy? Um? Is he like in legal trouble now? I mean I remember, right after a fire happened, then they're like, we're gonna

do it again next year. Guys, it will work this time, and then everybody's like l O L and it didn't. I think that that's not happening anymore. So it's not like Wolf of Wall Street stuff. He'll probably end up on like a speaking tour telling people how to rip other people off. It's like a less consequential version of Steve Bannon. We still feel like we need to like hear these more or less people who have more or

less proven themselves to be worthless. We feel like we have to hear them out in order for like to have like more information, because all information is good to have your brain. It's just like, no, I don't know if this is actually helping anybody Yeah, maybe don't give this person money to talk about anything. Yeah, banish them. Today's episode of Night Call is brought to you by Green Chef. Green Chef is a U. S d. A certified organic company that makes eating well easy and affordable,

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Green Chef dot Us forward slash call Yeah yeah. He also I think I remember that there was an article where he quoted UM what he was going to get for the Hulu documentary to Netflix and like grossly inflated it to try to get Netflix to pay him more money to appear in their documentary. And they were like, yes, yeah, you still got paid by somebody. I know he got.

He got paid by UM. So I think the Hulu documentary is the one that paid them for their participation, and then the Netflix one is the one that was like, you know, co produced by them. So he but he did not appear in the Netflix one and in the Hulu one. The reason I heard that the Netflix one was better is that the Hulu one apparently relied on these interviews with him, and he just kind of didn't relies on a lot of stock footage. Everyone's favorite way

to pad out of skin be documentary. There's a lot of like cut to like a cartoon example of like what a word means. I mean, to be fair. I'm kind of actually into that now. I've been I think we've talked about this before, but I spent a lot of time at night reading wicky how and there was one about how to hypnotize a chicken like they have literally everything. But I find the art tremendously soothing. The one that you posted of how to be Mysterious was hilarious.

Hypnotize chickens from Lust for Life and then I had it written on my seventh grade backpack. You did white out pen very cool. That's like hypnotizing chickens. But I thought that was so cool. You can hypnotize chickens, you can, and you can be mysterious. All you have to do to be mysterious as Whisper that was for real takeaway Whisper and were necklaces. So this email comes to us from Sage, and Sage says High Night Gang. Last year, I worked at a restaurant that had a lot of

strange paranormal activities. When I started, the first thing my coworkers showed me was a security video of the lobby. A bright white orb dashes across the screen, making a sharp turn into the kitchen. Large pans would routini falls from the shelves. It was spooky and yet expected from the staff. One night, I was working clothes when there was a blackout and the dark restaurant was only lit by a few backup lights. I didn't leave until we got the okay, and waiting around the big old building

was probably the creepiest night of for me. Additionally, the history of the place's namesake, Hoyle's went back to the first landowners in Atlanta, Georgia. They bought up the land before the city was even established. Um sus This guy, George Hoyle Ivy Jr. Started a grocery store at the location in the mid twentieth century. They let others run the property for years of ceed taverns by various names.

When I got there, it was a new barn girl trying painstakingly to make a pig bougie hay out spot. I quit when I found better pain work, and I've never been back. Maybe I'll go back if Night Call wants to do a live pot in Atlanta. Y'all is invited, is all I'm saying. Stage Haunted Restaurant, Thank you, Stage a great night. Yes, it's such a Also, I would love to go to Atlanta. I love it like I've never been to Atlanta in my life. Oh yeah, I've

been to the airport. I don't feel like we've ever talked about orbs on this show, which I used to

be really into Wars. Yeah, I tried to start a tumbler. Um. It might have been when I was at grant Land, or it might have been earlier, but it was some job where I had the Getty login for the publication that I worked at, and so would be always combing through these paparazzi photos of celebrities coming and going from places, and um, sometimes every once in a while you would get an ORB in the picture, and so I wanted to start a tumbler that was just celebrities with orbs.

It's not too late, I know. Well it was when I had that that access to that sweet sweet content. UM. But yeah, I I think they're I think they're kind of interesting. I like how they're coming about. Well, what do you mean do you know what orbs are explaining? Orbs show up in. They can show up in video and photography. Sometimes they are like semi explained, like you know, it's kind of like something like a light flare or you know, any other photographicum or like optical effect from

light hitting a lens a certain way. UM. But they also show up in infrared or like night vision um photography, which would you would think was differently. I don't know too much about that, but people think they're ghosts a lot there. Yeah, yeah, people think they're ghosts. Um. The thing that's creepy about them is like, Okay, sometimes you see an errant or floating around somewhere or like in some night vision security photography as stage was talking about.

But then sometimes you see that like if you look it up. Sometimes there are things where there's like a bunch of little orbs like clustered around something, and it totally gives me the heebie geebs. It's so spooky, I think, just because it's like that circle creepiness thing that we always come back into the whole phobia. Yeah, but it's just like it's it's also like a parasite or something. It's some kind of spiritual or like optical light parasite and that freaks me out. Um. I find that to

be very freaky. So I think we've talked about this before. But orbs, like the discussion of orbs is very popular on baby monitors, you know, yes, surrounding baby monitors. There are a lot you see a lot of orbs on baby monitors. I think, you know, like we talked about that they often show up in night vision UM. And also baby monitors are usually positioned pretty high up and like far away from the baby, So there's lots of stuff that's you know, comes into focus between the camera

and the person. UM. But I the other day, I was looking through old pictures and I lived in this condo for a little over a year, and every picture taken in that condo has or herbs, And I was like, Initially, I was just like, well, I think that was just a really dusty era and that these are just kind of like dusty. No, but I totally could be haunted.

It's easily explained either way. But it is interesting because like occasionally you do see like a weird cluster of orbs, or the orbs are moving in a way, like the video of the orbs, they're moving in a way that just doesn't seem to be naturally explained. Yeah, it's a very like ghost Centers type thing. It's like ghost Centers one on one, you know, breaking out the infrared camera

and checking out some orbs. Okay, what I was thinking about was the movie Phantasm, the horror movie from the late seventies where there is an orb that flies around and shoots out spikes controlled by an evil wizard. WHOA. It's a very good movie. You should see it. There's like I feel like in the sequels, maybe there are like more orbs. It's like a look like pinball flying through space and then it like shoots out a knife. It did you think that stage was writing in to

talk about like a weaponized block. Well, if there's knives and lands and stuff and heavy equipment in the restaurant, it could be lethal. All the stuff about like ghost being able to use magnetic force, yeah, to like throw a knife across the room. Yeah, ke, Or like I feel like this is in some movie or show that I've seen, but like a ghost or a poulter geist that messes with the gas range? U. Yeah, Like that's

freaky too. Well, the idea of something messing with your your appliances at home is freaky, which is why it's also freaky when people hook it all up to like a smart Yeah, you know, I think I'm always convinced when people are talking about or like some like I'm intrigued when people tell me a ghost story and then they're like, I didn't want to be there anymore, as opposed to like, when I read this, oh, I want

to see it, like I want to go there. But when people are like genuinely like I have no interest in going back to that place ever again, then I'm like, Okay, there's something. There's some other weird chili energy going on there. Well, it depends if the ghosts are good or bad. I guess too. Also working being compelled to go there whether you like it or not, not being able to say like, Okay,

I've had enough, I'm going to go. I mean that adds later because then you're basically like entering into contact with this contract with the spirits. Well, you have hostile coworkers, coworkers exactly if um, if they're trying to help you, just like stir the rue or whatever. It's fine, stir the ru um. What's the most haunted restaurant you guys

have been to? I mean, I used to work at a country club that I it wasn't old enough to really feel truly haunted, but it had bad vibes and I just felt like maybe like bad stuff had happened there before, but in like a very mundane way, not a it was not a gothic type. It's not a gothic country club. I'm shocked that we didn't all just say at the same time that the most haunted restaurant we've all been to as takes. Oh yeah, yeah, I did restaurant. Yeah, and I mean I think there is

a documentation of this. You can look it up on the internet. There's stuff where it's haunted. Do you think Clifton's was haunted Clifton's Cafeteria, For sure, it was, and it's it's haunted by like not being able to be successful at all. Yeah, it's the ghosts. There was a place called the Spanish Kitchen that I think, oh yeah, that was like a restaurant spot of death where it was like rumored to have had something creepy happened, but then it was like no restaurant could succeed in that spot,

you know, Yeah, anything that opened would close. I was going to say Musso and Frank's, Oh yeah, I feel like Musso Franks is haunted by friendly ghosts, though I have but like, if you found out the bartender was a friendly ghost, right, yeah, Frank's also was. I don't know if any of you were watching the Kaminski Method just got my screeners. So I'm watching the Kaminski Method. But I realized I was, like, I could watch any

show and not really be enjoying it. But then I see characters in Los Angeles choosing a place to go to dinner, and I'm there for it. And then there's Frank's and I'm like, I'm so glad I'm watching this show. And then it's over and I'm like, I let's clarify that we are not watching like, you know, high minded art movies, maybe Amilias, but you know, Tess is watching the Kaminsky Method. No shame in that. I watched the Brady Bunch movie. Also, no shame in that. Why why

did you choose that? Because it was on Hulu? And like, Hulu has the superior if we're going to play Hulu versus Netflix like they want us to, Hulu has the better like video store selection of like because I might actually want to throw on in the background. Although I have noticed Netflix right now anyway, and I think this is abnormal has a surprising amount of like good classic movies like I watched Heat on their couple of days.

They're like classic movies like Heat. Well, I mean like like movies that are not new, like yeah, I mean I had like Heat and Heather's Yes, they're right next to each other alphabetically, so I was like, oh, two good movies and on Netflix I can watch for free. That's neither of these places have anything from like before which r films film Struck, That's what film Stock was good for. Um, guys, I have a question. So we just went to the Roswell pop up recently we're talking

about the Saved by the Bell pop up restaurant. Would you guys go if there were like a pop up video store that was like super grungy and gunky and was just made up of these No, I know, but I'm curious because I'm like, have we like just completely it? No? Talking about my brother always said, my brother Ben Lambert Lambert Lambo that that should be the next move for somebody who's open a brick and mortar video store. But it has to be like I know that it's been done.

But it's interesting how cynical we all are talking about Netflix and Hulu and everything right now. It's just funny that it makes us nostalgic for going to Blockbuster, a play that everybody made fun of at the time. For some people have found that like food and craft beer have been useful in making a movie theaters relevant again, kind of the Alamo model. What if? What if? Though? Hear me out, you have a very like artisanal movie

rental place. Um, they play like good music, there's like a nice candle burning, and you pick out your movie and then while you're checking out, you can order something on seamless or Postmates. Are you describing my bathtub right? Greatest boutique theater exactly? But it's like it's like if you can do all that together, like basically go to a place where you get to like plan out your evening, like a place you could stop by after I Love This by Adelaire, which is that the sales people will

choose what you'll watch. You have no say, so you come in in like you can try to tell them like I'm in the mood for this, or that they don't have to listen to you, and they choose for you. You get what you get, you know what I mean. That's like the movie version of it, like where they have I'm going to add I feel like maybe this is what movie pass was going in the direction up before it was yanked away. Movies should be like two dollars, and there should be a multiplex and you can just

stay as long as you want. You mean, but stay as long as you want and keep paying two dollars every time you see you know. I mean, that's not I don't see how that's financially viable. It sounds nice. I think that you should have a brick and mortar where you only have at any given time ten movies, but you change it up randomly, and no one knows when you're going to get a whole new shipment of movies, and then people go in and you get assigned a movie. No.

I love the idea of like it's like a red box. Basically, a red box is a significant limited selection, but they tend to be more new release stuff. But if you had a more snobby selection and and the machine dispensed a wine collection, uh, oh my god. We have such different desires for a movie theater. I like, I can't

even theaters. It's not a theater though, it's a rental place, so you have you leave, you believe with a you could have a code for a rental if you don't have a Blu ray player, like you could have a code for a digital download that expires. Theater is called detention, and you're somebody wheels in a TV on a car. Take it on a car. You don't get to pick

the movie. It's probably like Donald and Math, Magic Land, or it's like about not getting pregnant and you can smoke weed inside and then you have to pass a test at the end. It proves that you were paying attention. And if you pass the test, did you get a prize? That's like going to see a free screening and the prizes you saw. Yeah, the best movie eater going experience of all is just being in on the screening racket. Okay, at the end of the screening, everybody picks one person

to stone to death. I'm just thinking outside the box. The bird box, like what I mean is not a part of the traditional movie theater model and probably the reason it's failing. Or or everything's a trampoline. What do you mean, Like you're watching a movie of a trampoline,

but instead of seats, it's all trampoline. You guys, start thinking outside the box enough, everything's a trampoline is like broke my brain trying to understand what you told me about much of the place kids love to go scooters jungle scooters jungle, or there's a thing called like, um

it's like space or something. Yeah, they have all of these places where you just bounce off everything and then you climb up onto like a terrifying tunnel made of rope, and then you're just like I could fall down and you can find that and is a movie playing man sensory overload. I don't know what's up everyone. My name is Stephen. Today I'm gonna be sharing with you my top three favorite smart drugs, new tropics or products. Now,

just a disclaimer. Before we began, Molly and I were shooting the Breeze and I don't know how we got around to talking about it, but we started talking about new tropics and uh, those are like brain supplement drugs. And I'm very smart drugs. I'm careful about like taking things, or at least was until pretty recently. But I'd like to see if your immune system can fight it off. And as you can tell, it's I've lost the war

on that. I was taking a regular A lot of people they're like, I'll just I'll ride it out, ride it out. No, I was taking down by a cold, but I did take I started taking a new tropic. And also it's really hard for us to figure out how to pronounce this, and I was like, can we call them? NOI tropics, NOA tropics? Um. Have you guys ever taken? But I was saying a friend of mine took them for a long time and I was like,

what are all these weird pills in our cabinet? And she was like, Oh, They're just these weird brain pills I ordered off the internet. Yes, that's where you get So so is this like the Modaphanel School of drugs or what are we talking about here? Or like bulletproof coffee, because there's like a range. I think it's somewhere between.

I started taking um, theeny l fen, which is the thing in green tea and I think also in black tea that makes you feel chill but alert um, because I really, my whole life has been spent chasing that chill that alert vibe so elusive UM. But I started taking it and I and I was really into it. But it's again like you know nothing about it. You're not like talking to a doctor about it, and you just order it off come under in the Dark Web no, okay,

from Amazon. I mean it's it's basically if I was a Dark Web fair, it's like if you were drinking, you couldn't drink enough Green Tea to get like this amount of the thing. I'm pretty sure that's what they say. They're like, this is like a super amount. Well you can just look at how much is in green Tea and then look at the bottle that I bought that's accidentally like a double dose of How much. Is there such a thing as too much? I'm sure there is.

I mean I think with this one, it's like an anti anxiety you know, people use it for like anti anxiety causes. So I think if you take two At first, and I was taking it every night and I was like, whoa, this feels terrible. I mean I just felt like I was dragon. It was the chill without the alert. But then I was like, okay, I'll just take it like a couple of times a week, and it's been really it's good. It gives you like a weird chill feeling, but it is really scary to be like, this is

probably super duper unregulated. Yeah, there's so much of that stuff though. Now at CBD and everything else. That's what. And it's like I I have been wanting to try CBD for a long time, and um, I've talked to Molly about this too, and it's just like it's not that I'm it's not that I'm afraid of it, like doing something adverse to me. It's just that I feel like I'm gonna get burnt, like I'm gonna spend money on something that doesn't Actually it is so crazy expensive.

I wouldn't Lassens the other day, which is our natural food store. That's controversial, but I was just walking in to get a sandwich, so don't judge me. But I was like, oh cool, there was a thing of cb D I think it was tincture and it was the price was like mislabeled. I was like fourteen bucks going to get some CBD tincture and it was like seventy It was so, I mean, CBD is such snake oil right now, because you can just say anything has CBD and nobody can prove it well, because it's like weed

that doesn't get you high. So like if you drink something that's supposed to have weed in it and you don't feel different, you know, that it was like not real. But with CBD, it's like literally everything in l A and California right now, like at gas stations are like you have the CBD drink. I've talked to people where I know that it helps, like they apply it topically and I have two friends with arthritis and they say it's really really helps people and they like it. My

question is like is it a placebo? But that's a good question, I know. I mean it's also like without it's it's nice friend th HC. Like how much I tend to think every drug is a placebo, even real drugs. Really it's worked against me in time. Yeah, yeah, because when I first started taking antidepressants, I was like, what are the odds of these are actually doing anything? Why don't stop taking them and find out? I'll bet it's just me. And then clearly the drugs has something to

do with it. The absence is felt more than the presence, And yeah, I think, Yeah, I've never taken like brain drugs that I have to take every day, but I have. I'm very sensitive to medication, which is probably why I'm like really conservative about it. Brain drugs are crazy and they're like technically legal but I feel like the wild Yeah, and like when they tell us it's like a big experiment on our generation, will be like, oh yeah, yeah, makes sense. Yeah. I mean that's what's weird though. Two

is like how fragile your brain chemistry is. I mean for a while I was taking out of van for panic attacks, and it was like it just was very effective, but to the point where I just couldn't really function if I was taking out of and so it was only for like emergencies. But then there's this weird, totally false sense of security you have when you're dosing yourself with something that's like from the earth, but where in

the earth is it from? Tess. I met another person who had an eye issue, and I told them about your eye struggle, which we can't talk about in detail because it made everyone want to podcast. He went through all the same stuff where you had like an existential crisis related to like how vulnerable his eye was. It's

pretty crazy. I feel like a lot of people you know who have had like a kind of weird you know, there are certain medical emergencies that just really make you realize that like you're a very soft Maybe that's why I prefer snails to slug because I'm like, look at the slug. It's it's all. It's just a bunch of guts speaking around of fragile ecosystems. I will say one movie I'm really glad people are learning about through streaming as Annihilation, which is apparently like the most streamed movie

on Hulu. Now that's something like, hey, you guys, we're making so much fun of Annihilation. When I was up because we had to go to a theater to see it, I still I do think I would have enjoyed it more at home. I think seeing it in a way, yeah, sound you would rather see that on your TV, you know, Emily, I'm so cheap. It's like a movie in the theater. I have to leave like having like cried. I think that's it too. I just expect a lot more from the experience if I pay for it. Yeah, I want

like a twenty five dollar experience. I felt like with Annihilation, we went into a matinee. It was crazy expensive, it was not there weren't a lot of people in the theater, and I felt and you had given it such a glowing recommendation, and I really wanted to like it, but I just I wanted. My expectations were so hot. Your expectations are like a giant sub and then you got a cheese sandwich and I'm hungry. Yeah, but sorry, it's better than a cheese than that cheese sandwich. I'm just saying,

a Star is Born. I walked out like, Okay, that was a movie I spent money on. Maybe I can't be impressed. I mean, I was A Star is Born was solid for me. I wasn't blown away, and also put it out there that like neither one of us loves to leave our house them No, I hate it,

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