Show Vs. Business
Show Vs. Business
SvB E201 TikTok Isn’t Really Gone
This a hot week for Show vs Business!
TikTok got banned (sorta?), Disney Trailer reactions, Squid Game Season 2 reactions, AI being pushed aggressively, and more!
Seat back, pop a can and let's get into it!
00:00 Introduction and Opening Banter
01:14 New Year Resolutions and Personal Growth
08:25 Squid Game Season 2 Review
17:23 AI Innovations and Market Impact
26:40 TikTok Ban and Social Media Alternatives
32:50 Exploring Redbook and Lemon8
33:24 TikTok's Cultural Exchange
34:38 Concerns Over Data Privacy
36:16 Famous Goodbyes: TikTok and Beyond
38:33 Nostalgia: Disney Vault and McRib
41:40 Tech Goodbyes: Napster and More
43:32 TV Finales: Sopranos and Mad Men
49:36 Reacting to New Trailers
01:00:47 Conclusion and Farewell
YouTube link to this Podcast Episode:
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Introduction and Opening Banter
Real Theo Harvey: This is show versus business where pop culture meets pop money with your host, the real Theo Harvey and Mr. Benja. Mr. Benja, what's on tap today? It's on my mind, bruh.
Mr.Benja: Hey, hey, it's Mufasa. Hey, hey, that's Mufasa.
I don't know why you showed me that before the show started, man.
Yes, that's Mufasa. Look up Mufasa dance challenge, if you dare. And yeah, I don't know why, but now it's stuck in my head and I can't, I can't stop it. It's a, but it's a good, it's a good thing. Um, it makes me laugh, makes me smile and we need more of that. And, uh, you know, I just, the air is a little cleaner now that, um, now that some of the fire fires have died down, it's been contained, uh, thankfully it wasn't.
It wasn't, it didn't get worse. Um, you know, unprecedented times, but things are much better now.
New Year Resolutions and Personal Growth
Mr.Benja: So get back on to the new year, 2025 being the new year new me. And, uh, man, I'm, I'm feeling, I'm feeling good, man. Just, uh, just in general. So you feeling all right.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah, man. I'm good. I'm good, man. Um, I'm still pushing toward new habits in 2025.
I switched up my little workout schedule where that's the first thing I do. I used to wait till I did some work first and then work out and it never worked out for me. So now I'll work out first and it's been going good, man. So, but those, those old habits are creeping up, man. Like, you know, I'll just cheat a little bit with this little food here.
This little cheat, this is, Oh no, I'm starting to fall back, man. And, uh, don't like that. So, uh, if you don't know, Quitter's day was January 10th. That's, uh, nationally when everyone puts the new year's resolution. So I'm still holding strong to mine, but yeah, man, just trying to make the new habits, uh, you know, let the new habits take over the old habits and not let those old habits, you know, still dominate.
So, so still pushing. Hey
Mr.Benja: man, you know, you know how I think about the new year, it's like, sit down, get resolute with yourself, look it up if you don't know what resolute actually means, get some resolve, and say, it's about to be this, and this is going to be a remarkable resolution. You don't have to tell anybody.
And you know what was messing me up for years with resolutions? And I really was thinking about this. I'm like, why is it going bad? And I know people don't want to hear about resolutions anymore, but whatever. I'm talking about it. What was going wrong with me for so long was that I thought that I knew how I was going to get to my resolution and I thought I actually knew what my resolution was.
So, if y'all had this idea of I'm going to go to the gym three times a week and da da da da, that's a That's a random task. That's a to do list, but that wasn't actually a resolution that wasn't actually like something I was trying to, and I'm avoiding the word goal here. That's why I'm hesitating. I wasn't.
Resolved in my spirit and my mind to do something a certain way and to get a certain result. And I don't mean an end goal. I mean a certain change in myself, uh, where all my processes would change. My perspective would change. My attention would shift. And interestingly enough, I was just listening to Benjamin Hardy, um, a little while ago before this.
He just randomly came up on my podcast playlist. I just, I have a. Podcast player that can just randomly pick episodes. So it picked Benjamin Hardy one. Anyway. Um, I realized that I was looking at it fundamentally in the wrong way. Like. If I didn't go to the gym, somehow I failed, or if I tried to do too many things and my gym experience wasn't that great, then I somehow was messing up, but I wasn't incorporating enough messing up into the process, you know?
And, and that was starting to mess with my resolve. So, you know, once I started figuring this out, I'm like, okay, as long as I'm becoming more resolute about what I'm trying to do, I can give myself a lot more flexibility. So that's when I started coming up with the idea of being remarkable. What is somebody going to remark on?
What is somebody going to say? How, how am I going to communicate my change to the world without actually saying it? If I'm going to the gym, somebody's got to say something. Somebody's got to say, wow, he goes to the gym every day. Wow. He looks more fit. Wow. He's got a lot more, uh, you know, well fitting tailored clothes.
He's, you know, he ran up the steps and he always takes the elevator. What happened there? What's, what's going on with that? Or now he's eating like a, you know, eating like a rabbit, eating all this, you know, carrots and what's he doing? Remarkable. So yeah, I had a whole new way of looking at it. And, uh, and this year it's funny.
I'm just now realizing this year how well I think last year went because it was a whole year of actually practicing it. So stay on it. You fall off the horse. Don't worry about it. You might not even need a horse. You might have to throw you up on a camel process might change a little bit. Love yourself.
It'll be all good.
Real Theo Harvey: Well, you know, and, um, just get my little philosophy on it too. It's like, I try to keep it simple and that, that calendar thing, right? I know you heard about that 30 day process where you do something every day and you can only miss one time. So you can't miss two and two, two, two things in a row.
So I just keep it simple. So I said, I'm gonna work out, you know, I give myself grace. I didn't do my pushups today, but guess what? I won't miss tomorrow. So I give myself grace so I can only miss two in the, you know, in the 30 day period. And then the other thing is, um, you know, being able to, uh, you heard that, that, that, uh, phrase be do have, right?
So I have to become a person that gets up to work out. five o'clock in the morning, the first thing that's, that's who I become. So once you become that person, then you can, you know, do the things that, that, that type of person does. Right. Just like us, we're doing that. We're podcasters because we do podcasting is not because we thought about doing it.
We've been doing it consistently for, for, for two years. And so, you know, I think. People realize is that, you know, you first have to set in your mind is who, who I want to become. And like you said, the remarkable piece, and then you just do the actions of what that person does. And then that's how you become this.
So, so I'm a big proponent as I get older, it's like, it's really just more of a identity change of who you are. Exactly. That looks like.
Mr.Benja: And, uh, and
the identity change is the part that got me because What, what I was, uh, what I was experiencing is that as my identity changed, I didn't recognize it. Like, I, I think I know what it takes to be, you know, world class athlete or whatever, or stand up comedian or, you know, whatever you're trying to do. You might think you know what that is, you see the processes that other people do, but when you start doing it, you're like, oh, oh, okay.
This is what it takes. Or, Oh, this is what that means. Oh, I have to behave this way in order to get that done. And you start retroactively figuring out what it means to actually be in that identity. So that's all I was saying with give yourself a little leeway, because if you have a process that you thought made sense, you know, back in 2023, but then in 2024, all of a sudden, now it's starting to make sense.
You may have to adjust your metrics and parameters and processes a little bit. That's all the same.
Real Theo Harvey: No, I love it, man. We're on the same. We sympathical brother.
Mr.Benja: Yeah, make it
Real Theo Harvey: happen in
Squid Game Season 2 Review
Mr.Benja: 25 And you know what else is happening to me 25. I'm watching squid game season 2 what yes Fired up Netflix because squid game was so awesomely phenomenal to me And I've watched the first whole part of a squid game season 2.
There's another part coming late that's why I said the first whole part and Are we opening spoilers? Do you wanna do that? Yeah, let's open em.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah. Spoilers. It is. Spoiler warning, .
Mr.Benja: Uh, yeah. Jump, jump down below if you wanna skip ahead. Few minutes, but yeah, I, I, I wasn't feeling it, man. Ooh. Just was not feeling it.
I, I thought they did some, the first thing I thought of was like they're trying to push message on me. .
Real Theo Harvey: Message. Message .
Mr.Benja: Okay. I need more game, not so much squid, you know.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah, I think that was the gist I got. I did. I was impressed though. The first episode. Kind of, I was like, okay, you know, the whole get the gang back together kind of crap, but I thought that was very thrilling.
Did you thought the recruiter and trying to find him and then that whole game with, uh, the Russian roulette game? I mean, did you find that compelling? And that, that interesting?
Mr.Benja: I found it compelling and I thought they wasted that character. As compelling. I did too. Good boy.
Real Theo Harvey: Because they, that character needs to stay alive.
That was that, that, that, that guy came in hot, didn't he? Yeah. He's like, ha ha ha ha. He was just maniacal man. He said This .
Mr.Benja: Yeah. As compelling as he was, man, I, I thought they kind of, um. You know, blew their wild with that one a little bit. It's like, it's like, you got to keep certain things. You just want to keep with a certain amount of mystique and, you know, it's like, there's this other character.
There's these other islands, apparently that are having the games going on. There's all this other stuff going on. And if you just start answering it or making it regular, then it, it pulls a little of the mystique out of the air, you know? So. I don't know. I, I would have, I actually was hoping that he would get away and we wouldn't see him again until season three, you know, like, uh.
Yeah.
Real Theo Harvey: I mean, you know, he was the entry point for the first season and then the second season he wasn't, but I gotta tell you, I mean, I thought the games were kind of flat because they say almost repetitive. I thought they're going to be whole new games. And there were a few new games, you know, like the merry go round game.
That was kind of interesting and chaotic. But then the first two games were almost beat for beat like the other games almost right. So it was kind of like, huh, what are we doing here? Um, but I, what'd you think of the whole voting thing and then that back and forth and trying to figure out who wants to leave and China, you know, make it seem like people had a choice, I guess that was interesting.
Mr.Benja: I didn't think the characters were compelling enough to care. Like, I mean, you have this interesting fortune teller lady, but you know, like I actually thought the, um, the trans lady was interesting, but because of the way, the way they presented her, I'm like, you know, you could have just left it at. I mean, like when they started to get the military backstory on that character,
Real Theo Harvey: I was like,
Mr.Benja: Okay, now this character is a little more interesting, got a little more life to him.
But, you know, when they, when they plant, when they plant certain characters in the background, Oh, I thought it was a guy. It's like, you know what I mean? It just seemed kind of contrived.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah. Well, you know, um. I think that's how you pronounce it. The character, main character, he, um, definitely was a different character.
I mean, you know, if you watch the first season and compared to this one, he's definitely just more, uh, jaded, you know, just more focused. And maybe that's purposely right. Purpose, purposely, they're trying to show how the money has changed him. That blood money he won last season. Yeah. He's, he's, he's not smiling.
They even show a comparison between the first photo he took in. The phony tickets into just like, he's like goofy laugh in the first step, but you know, the first scenes in this one is more like goofing off, but, uh, someone made a good point. I mean, there's a lot. You're right. It's a lot of message in it.
Like number one again is, is, is a ringer just like the first one. Right? I think that the rumor is that old guy in the first Squid game was the creator of the games. Is that correct? I think that's what they mentioned.
Mr.Benja: I don't know if that's solid evidence or something. Well, that's
Real Theo Harvey: internet rumor. And then now this one is the guy in the black mask, right.
Who was featured a little bit in the. First season. And so now he enters the games, big spoiler alert. Um, was that, was that a thrilling twist for you? Or are you just like, eh, it is what it is.
Mr.Benja: No, I kinda, I kinda like that. Um, you know, where he's in there watching and it kind of gives you the idea, like, why would somebody be in the games if, you know, I understood the old guy had a tumor and wanted to be in there.
It's like, just put me in coach, but this guy, it's like, what's his motive? Why would he do that? Um, And when he did that, I thought there should be a little more of a, what do you call it? Story behind like the seriousness of the games, how they take it almost as like a religion or whatever, or like, you know, something very serious to them, but he just kind of seemed to be hanging out there.
So it wasn't bad, but it's just a lot of the, the core elements that really grabbed me and got me into the first one.
Real Theo Harvey: I wonder, I wonder, but I think he was taking this serious because I, but he was also trying to prove a point to the main character that he can be just as corrupt. As the, as, as, as he assumes the people who run the games are right.
When he decided to sacrifice the other, other folks, cause they were saving the energy to get the guns right from the soldiers later. So he said, they have to die. A few people can die, you know, so we can be successful. And that's thinking just like. A game master, right? And so I think that was the, the whole point was to kind of show corruption, just like the recruiter, right?
Recruiter was, yeah, the recruiter was doing the same thing. He was just like, you know, if you don't pull that trigger, then you just proven to yourself that you don't believe in the games. You know that. And so I think there's this, you know, they're trying to prove that yes, the games are unfair, but people do it willingly for whatever reason.
And. And so now it's, it's really the people choosing to want the games, right. It's not something that people are being forced to do. Does that make sense?
Mr.Benja: Yeah. So do you, here's a little speculation now, the way I see it going, and I'm not sure if it's going to go this way is I'm thinking that, you know, he's going to take that main character is going to take that turn and just basically be like, listen, there's some irredeemable people in this world and.
You know, we got to get rid of him. Let's let me be part of the games and I can help get rid of these people now and he'll have a whole 1 80 kind of thing. That's just kind of the vibe I got
Real Theo Harvey: that. That's where it's going. I mean, obviously, because the, you know, the guy in the black mass, right? They came, he, he won the games previously.
Right. And so. Some kind of way he got corrupted. Now he's over the games and so I think yes, I absolutely believe that's where they're kind of going with this and so, but we'll see, you know, it'd be interesting. They got a lot of interest in care. They got a pregnant lady in the, you know, but you're right.
It's like, I think the characters of themselves are more. Interesting last season, but now they got to have all these accoutrements, right? They got the mother and son, not just, not just the son, not just a mother, but a mother and son. So you're like, Oh, who's going to die first? Then you got a pregnant lady, right?
And also her ex boyfriend happens to be. Just like, ah, this is too much.
Mr.Benja: I kind of, I kind of like Thanos in the purple hair. As corny, as corny as he is, he just worked for me, you know?
Real Theo Harvey: And, and the fact that he would throw random English words out there too. Cause if you watched, you just watched it all of a sudden, he says, you suck.
I was like, Oh, that was English. Yeah. Hot character. They, I think, yeah, unfortunately, you know, he's gone, but hot character. They should have kept them around a little bit longer.
Mr.Benja: We'll keep, we'll keep a watch on that. So, um, yeah, there's a. But yeah, I got back home to Netflix to check that out and, uh, I'm, I'm happy I did.
I, as I said, I got issues with a lot of stuff, but I'm happy I got in there and watched it.
Real Theo Harvey: What we are wa we talking about a show together? I love it. . Guys, this take me back to 2020. Oh my God. 2022
Mr.Benja: 2022. I love it. No. Uh, yes. Oh my gosh.
AI Innovations and Market Impact
Mr.Benja: Um, but also you were telling me about, um, we were talking about AI a little earlier and.
Google, Microsoft and what they've been doing in the marketplace. And this one is affecting you a little bit. What's going on?
Real Theo Harvey: Well, yeah. Uh, recently Microsoft on Thursday said it would start including AI copilot features by default and their office 365 applications for consumers. Um, and so basically the bundle price.
Go ahead
Mr.Benja: for
Real Theo Harvey: free. No, the price will increase by 30 percent to 13 per month per household or 10 per month for individuals. Uh, so this is also similar to the change that Google made to their, um, Gemini feature where they're adding an extra 3. Uh, to, uh, Google office users, right? I forgot what they call it, but, uh, I'm not Google office.
It's something else, but, uh, this directly affected my business because we use, uh, Google business, right. For, uh, how we communicate via email and, you know, Google docs and all that. So they just automatically just turned on Gemini, right. And now all of a sudden, Oh, by the way, we're gonna charge you 3 extra.
And, uh, you know, me and my co my, my business partner, we were pissed. I'm like, what is this? And so this is crazy, Mr. Benji, you know, I went on this ramp before we got on this call, but it's just like, these guys have spent so much money on infrastructure for AI, right. It's going to get more expensive, right.
With data centers and then the cost of GPUs are just going through the roof. They need to start recouping some of this money. Yes. They have more money than God in some cases But they need to start showing some profitability on this and the only way they can do it is by force feeding us these products And I don't think that's a good thing.
Mr. Benji. I mean, um, and I got some theories on this but What are your thoughts on this? Is it is
this does it there's this reek of true? Uh innovation or is it just like You know, we're just going to force this on you and you go, we're going to make you love AI no matter what.
Mr.Benja: Um, you know, uh, Patrice O'Neal had a, had a bit that was kind of like this. Uh, that reminded me of this, where he was talking about when prices start going up and everybody starts adding features, basically somebody comes around the block and they're like, Like the bread maker comes around.
Yo, everybody raising prices? I just make bread, man. My prices ain't changed. What's going on? You think I'm going to be left out here in the cold? I'm going to add sesame seeds or something and hike the price up. It doesn't have to be justified. Just whatever. Add it in. Everybody's getting it. Everybody else is raising prices.
I'm not going to be out here left alone. I'm raising prices too. And it just kind of felt like that to me. Um, I don't know that they've really been pushing a, I don't know how it looks from your end, but at least on the random consumer end, I don't see a lot of, Hey, you know, Google AI integrated with X, Y, and Z.
I mean, it's there, but I don't see them pushing it like the thing and saying, Hey, this is what justifies the new price. It just seems like it's kind of happening.
Real Theo Harvey: Well, but that's the thing. Yeah. So on my side, our side, if you go to our, you know, Google docs, even a Google doc, I'm looking at with yours, it has like summarizes doc or, you know, summarizes email or do this and push this little star button, you know, it's like clippy art, right?
We talked about their version of clippy, Well, a star icon pops up and, you know, flashes in your face, pick me, push me, you know, kind of thing. And I'm like, no, but, uh, you know, it's just, but I think they're trying to say, Hey, people just used it enough. Then they'll see the use in it. But the challenge with AI I'm running into Mr.
Benji, cause you, you. A hint of that. You say, okay, what, you know, what's this thing called? The GPT is right. So is anybody using that was a thing. That's the problem. This innovation is coming too fast and furious that no one has time to slow down. I forgot. Is this even useful to what I'm trying to do day to day?
Right? And then, yes, you can play with it. You know, I'm, I'm playing with it doing different things, but it's like, They give you the next feature, right? And he's like, wait a minute, I was just playing with the other feature, right? . So, okay, lemme see this next feature. Oh, here's another feature. You're like, wait a minute, hold up , I gotta find out if any of this is working for me.
And then you just get frustrated because you're behind and they're telling you this new, next new thing. And it's like hard to, you know, incorporate it. 'cause there's no, it is not, um. You know, it's not so the ultimate way to want it is where it's like, you just say, Hey, I need a spreadsheet on, um, you know, 19th century Russian art, right?
Go. And then basically he'll do it. And then all you have to say, okay, change that, change that, change that verbally and do it. It's not there and it may not be there for a while. So in, in the medium, you still got to have a human in there to kind of interface with it to create that version of it. And that's the problem because it takes energy and time as a human to think through that.
And if I got time for all that, I must just do it myself or hire a real human to just do it for me. So it's like, I don't, I get where they're trying to go with it, but it's like. That version of it is so, I think it's a little bit further off than they want to admit. And so they're trying to give you all these little bells and whistles like, Oh, you can do a copilot can just tell you little stuff.
And in some cases it works with, uh, you know, uh, coding and things like that and some, some art stuff. But, you know, if you're, if you're a higher level person, you're trying to get something done that in the weeds, it can make a person productive. Can it make an organization productive? I don't know.
Mr.Benja: Yeah, and these are questions that, um, this is, yeah, that's, it's a tough one, man.
And you run into this in a lot of creative industries, like where you want to create something and unless they create something you want to introduce something into a marketplace and it's not that it's too far advanced. It's just that everybody is kind of okay with what they already have.
Real Theo Harvey: Yes,
Mr.Benja: and you need these, you need a certain amount of, you need a certain gap from, Hey, this is the old and busted to, this is the new and hot, you know, like when people started using Google docs, they'd like.
This is just like Microsoft Word. It's like, yeah, you don't have to install anything. It's just right there. I can log off and then go log in somewhere else. It's all saved automatically. It's already in the cloud. You know, I don't have to, the stupid MS Word updates and all that, that was happening at the time and.
It was just phenomenally simple. You know, you just, you can talk about loading time. Uh, people don't even talk about the boot time anymore, but you just load and go with Google docs and you're kind of there, I remember we used to start up Microsoft word or any of the other programs you'd be waiting. You know what I mean?
And. There was actually
Real Theo Harvey: three seconds. Look how long I look, I mean, look how long that took. Look, it only took two minutes. Love it. Awesome.
Mr.Benja: Yeah, it was just, it was just terrible. And sharing files was like, Oh, you got to copy the thing and, you know, Oh God, I got to email it. Or, you know, it was just a big hassle.
Now it's just like, look, man, it's just, it's just, just, just click the link, man. Just, you just click the share button, man. Just, man, just email the thing to me, you know, it's simple. And there was a gap between, you know. Microsoft Word and Docs that Microsoft had to catch up with, you know, if you, if you say, Hey, I use AI in my documents.
Some other guy doesn't it's like I'm not sure I can that may work for Photoshop You know apps like that where there's a clear gap between what you can do here and what you can't do. But yeah I'm not sure it's being sold heavily in the office area. So we'll see.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah, I don't know man. Just yeah I'll say anyway, that's just my Rent from the trenches, man.
It's just like, just like the Amazon thing, man. They just force crap on you, man. It's just like, Hey, uh, guess what? We're going to give you commercials, but you know, you don't have to have commercials because you know, we're going to charge you 3. If you don't want us to charge you 3, just say opt out, but you're opting into paying 3.
Amazon. So if you don't know Amazon prime, you know, if you don't, if you, uh, if you keep opting in to you, they'll charge you 3. So you don't have to watch commercials anymore. And, and, and the selling point of Amazon prime, uh, streaming service was that it came free included with the two day free shipping.
And so, uh, yeah, there you go. Like you said and it says to me seed seeds on top of the top of the bread man That's all we're doing here.
Mr.Benja: Why is my dollar ninety nine loaf of bread costing four dollars seventy five cents? Hey, that's just I don't want that. Where's the old bread or the old bread is gone
Real Theo Harvey: Exactly, man.
So it's, it's crazy times.
TikTok Ban and Social Media Alternatives
Real Theo Harvey: So, uh, man, speaking of crazy times, Mr. Benji, are we going to pull a little something out for RIP for Tik Tok, um, as we're recording this with within hours.
TikTok ban, Mr. Benja, uh, you know, high level, 170 million TikTok users in the U. S. Congress moved last year to force TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to sell a stake in the app or be cut off from the U. S. market. The law gave the company a deadline, January 19th. Which is in about a couple hours as we're recording this one day before a new president would take office to be clear, though, the law does not ban users from using the platform, but rather requires us app stores to stop internet service providers from hosting the service.
However, so, so from my understanding, you know, people practice to access it, especially if they can use it, you know, service providers elsewhere, but they can't, you know, change the software or anything like that. However, uh, the reports is just tick tock would just cut off everyone's access. Uh, instead of allowing those who have downloaded the app to continue using it.
So, so the rumor is, and this is going to be a game of chicken. Will TikTok totally go black at 1201 or just this service is no longer. Well, we know it'd be funny. This, this generation, I don't know. Guys, I'm live on
Mr.Benja: TikTok. Here we are in front of who?
Real Theo Harvey: No, they get the dreaded. You get the dreaded 404. I don't think they know what that is, right?
So they get that, they pop up with TikTok. What's 404? What's that? So, um, yeah, Mr. Benja, how are you feeling about the TikTok ban and all this, the legal ramifications, but more importantly, the cultural ramifications of this?
Mr.Benja: Uh, I didn't, I wasn't a fan of TikTok, um, in its application or in its, in its culture and, um, in its stance on how it dealt with information and the feeds that it was giving me.
It was just like, it was, It was a fight to actually get good content. I mean, good quality, wholesome history channel type of content. And it was there, you know, I, I'd search for it and I had my own little page. Um, all the people I was following and like, okay, this is cool. But man, if I slowed down for two seconds on someone dancing at the.
Someone dancing at the beach, man. He'd be like, all of a sudden I'm getting Spanish language, boondock videos, and, um, you know, stuff from Brazil. I'm like, how did this happen? And it's like,
Real Theo Harvey: you got distracted by one little video next to, you know,
Mr.Benja: I didn't even hit like, I didn't even like to slow down for a second.
It's like, who is that done? So, yeah, I had some issues with it, but geez, uh, banning it. I mean, I think this is actually a good first step. Uh, From the, from, from the U S, uh, blockheads in, in the government, you know, let's try to take back some control. You mean getting beat up on the internet for a while now and some of these technologies, it's like, you know, what?
We're going to turn you off and it's just like, Oh, what are you going to do now? Nothing, nothing but cry. So I don't, I don't know what kind of reverberations are going to happen in the market with the alternatives, but I thought it was a good move by the, by the U S
Real Theo Harvey: yeah. So what is the alternatives? What are you seeing out there that people are yammering about?
Right. To kind of say, Hey, go here. This is where I'm at. What's going on? Come here. What are your thoughts?
Mr.Benja: Um, well, you know, I was, I was talking about, um, Isaac Hayes and his, uh, his, his app fan base fan base, which is, uh, it's got Snoop on there. It's got a couple of others who have actually made some posts.
Candy Burris, um,
Real Theo Harvey: Candace Ginsburg. Oh, Candy Burris. I'm sorry. I said Candace Owens. I thought you said Candace Owens. What? She totally went black.
Mr.Benja: I do not keep track of where Candace Owens shows up. If she does show up, I scroll past. Um, let me know if you see her on any of my, uh, likes or comments, I'll be sure to get rid of her.
Um, but yeah, no, there's a fan base is the one put out by Isaac Hayes, kind of independent. Didn't really have like a huge VC backing or a huge tech backing behind it. Um, so it's gotten more of a, more of an organic, slow building kind of. Following into it, and it actually imports all your tick tock content.
So if you, if you actually want your content imported and just keep going, uh, fan base does that, but it is not up there with, in terms of functionality of some of these other ones that are being backed, like, uh, Snapchat, which a lot of people are going back to Snapchat still doing his thing. Uh, it's always kind of hung out in the.
The fourth or fifth spot in terms of popular apps, but it may see a resurgence. We'll see. I don't think they've done anything. I mean, my,
Real Theo Harvey: my daughter still uses a lot. They do that inner still inner, you know, younger generation still kind of uses the communicate. Yep. Great tip. Oh, nice. You know? Yeah. So it's still there.
They're still using it.
Mr.Benja: Yeah. It's uh,
Real Theo Harvey: it's like a Messenger app.
Mr.Benja: Yeah. It's got some fun features to it too. I've seen, uh, like groups of five people like just continually snapping, and these five people are going around just snapping everything. And then at the end of the, the day or after a few hours, or while they're eating lunch or whatever, they're just kind of going through everything that.
This group of five people has snapped with each other. It's really, it was really interesting thing to see somebody do. So I was like, okay, it's got a, got a different type of use than I, I hadn't seen anywhere else. Um, Redbook is it's like completely Chinese. You have to go through a Chinese terms of service and people are like, I don't care, I can't even read the language.
Boom. Except yes, is that the symbol for? Yes. Green check. I'm in. Um, and they're jumping on that. We'll see how that goes. It's a, that's almost like a tick tock clone if you will.
Real Theo Harvey: And
Mr.Benja: um, yeah, a lot of Chinese young Chinese people are on there interacting with American people all of a sudden who are people from other Americans were like, I want to see what's going on.
And Chinese people were like, where'd you come from? Tick tock. Oh, okay. So it's a whole cultural exchange going on over there right now. And lemon eight, how are they going to release another app and not let just release another app. That's basically the same thing as tick tock owned by the same company.
Real Theo Harvey: Oh, by dance. I didn't know that eliminate this owned by dark by dance. Oh yeah.
Mr.Benja: Love. So this
Real Theo Harvey: ain't tick tock
Mr.Benja: wink, wink. Yeah. Uh, but I do expect most people to jump over to Instagram and YouTube and start leaning a little more heavily into those. Yeah,
Real Theo Harvey: yeah, we saw a lot of folks already, you know, start migrating to YouTube and, you know, the book talk guys went over to YouTube, did a lot of those YouTube shorts and, um, Yeah, and so now they're trying to create some longer form.
I mean just like vine right a lot of folks that started on vine They just migrated to the next thing and you know, they're still famous So yeah, I mean, you know the algorithm though was something nasty though that thing to your point was I think it was a comfort a little bit during 2020 right during the COVID where everybody kind of had something to watch together and get connected to.
But, yeah, it's just got out of control, man. And even before COVID, man, I was leery about, I heard about the, the Chinese influence and how it wanted all this information off of you, you know, your location, all this crap, like, yeah, all this stuff, man. And, um, it's just too much. And so, especially if we don't.
You know, we know, you know, the Chinese government is actively always trying to do things. They have reams and reams of data on us, right? You know, there's so many hacks that happen. Why give them more, you know? And I'm sure we're doing something similar, right? You know, it's not, it does not get twisted, you know?
Mr.Benja: Yeah, okay. Um, also, And to that point, you know, a lot of people say, Hey, well, you know, Facebook and Meta, they do the same thing. It's like one, it's not the same thing. Uh, similar. Yes. Same thing. No. Um, you know, it's, it's, it's not even the same level as the United Kingdom where, you know, you can actually get sent to jail for, you know, messing around and saying some things I've said some things that were.
Completely innocent. And then I got like flagged on my account just by AI or whatever. But then it was like, all right, whatever. Keep going about your business. But that's nothing like someone coming to my house and actually arresting me. That's so when people say they're doing the same thing, maybe not exactly.
Uh, pull that back just a little bit. Not the same. Yeah,
Real Theo Harvey: no,
Mr.Benja: not at all. Not at all.
Real Theo Harvey: So, yeah. Um, Mr. Benja for fun.
Famous Goodbyes and Nostalgia
Real Theo Harvey: I said, Hey, do we want to talk about other famous goodbyes? Since everybody's on TikTok, if you haven't seen these reaction videos, you know, you got artists singing songs about goodbye. You got pseudo celebrities on TikTok, you know what I'm saying?
You know. See you later. But by the way, go follow me on Instagram. Uh, yeah, they're all over TikTok. They're good to watch. I kind of get kick out of it. Uh, Mr. Benji, what other famous goodbyes do you remember, uh, from my years and, um, I caveat this because before we got in the pod, I talked about we're living in an age that I don't think anything ever really goes away anymore.
Back in the day, yes, something would end and we'd be like, oh, that's it. Okay. They're done. We'll never see that again.
Mr.Benja: Yeah,
Real Theo Harvey: but remakes are happening. Like a movie came out like five years ago and they'll, they'll do a remake on it. So, but I just wrote a few things here. If you have a few more ideas, Mr.
Benjo, what famous, uh, goodbyes and look guys, you know. If you hear anything that you like out there or there's other goodbyes that we miss, you know, put them in the comments and we'll, we'll give you a shout out, but, uh, other famous goodbyes, Mr. Benja, uh, the McRib
McDonald's and McRib now, technically it comes back, you know, goes comes back once a year, but man, when it leaves, it leaves hard, man. You know, it's just like that 10 30 breakfast at McDonald's. When it turns 10 31, that thing flips so fast. So likewise, the McRib is on there and you don't know what's gonna pop up and you don't know when it's gonna leave, but when it leaves, it leaves hard, man.
So, uh, yes, McRib, Disney McRib. I mean, Disney, McDonald's McRib.
Mr.Benja: Can I get a, uh, a McRib, a large fries, sir, sir? The McRib is no longer being served. If you've ever seen that happen, boy, that's funny because that person's face is just distraught. I know, man. They just want that
Real Theo Harvey: McRib.
Mr.Benja: It's like, sir, it's gone.
Real Theo Harvey: So, uh, this is pre streaming, but, uh, back in the day, there was this thing called the Disney vault, Mr.
Benjamin, I think you remember that. Where basically all the Disney hotness, the hot movies, you know, Cinderella and Snow White and all these ones, they would come out every so often and you had a limited amount of time to buy them and for a DVD format, right? And if you didn't buy it, then it's too late.
It's going back in the vault and you can never see him again to whenever they decide to release them. Now, this is. People don't realize that, but you know, because there was no such, no such thing as Disney plus, but yes, we couldn't see any of these movies for years. So when Disney plus did launch, that was the first thing that was amazing to me that we could see all these movies and TV shows that for decades we got deprived of because they would never let them out the vault.
Mr.Benja: Yeah. You'd have them, they'd play on TV and special occasions and everybody'd be huddled up around the TV or, you know, special theatrical re release. And you'd see people dressed up as Cinderella for the big anniversary. And it was, it was a whole thing to, for something to come out the vault and be able to see certain things, you know, in a big theatrical way.
And I think, I think you've got, you're onto something here because this, these movies used to be like Disney's Big Ribs. If Disney had a rib sandwich, it would be, you know, like the Cinderella 25th anniversary edition or whatever.
Real Theo Harvey: Exactly. And it was genius. I mean, Disney is making money leftover fist, man, you know, hand over fist, excuse me, um, because, you know, that was in a time of physical media, right?
CDs and DVDs and tapes you get, you have to get shipped. And so they created a, um. Uh, exclusivity, right window. They created, um, you know, like a VIP access. And so that made the price of those things go up.
Disney's Shift to Experiences
Real Theo Harvey: So they're probably, they're probably selling them above market prices, obviously, for anything that went into the vault.
And so now we're in new areas that Disney's realizing that, you know, content is not as valuable anymore. Yes. You know, you have to have content to kind of keep 'em paying for a service, but it's not like, you know, physical media anymore. So, you know what they pivoted toward to, to make their money, to make their net.
Mr.Benja: Wait, what?
Real Theo Harvey: They pivoted to experiences. So the park Oh, right. Prices are going through the roof. Right, right. Cruises going through the roof. Yeah. For a family of four, for like a three, four day cruise to The Bahamas. I listened to this podcast. They said it's cost $10,000. For a family of four for Disney Cruise.
Yes, man. That's crazy. So, yeah, I'm telling you man. So, it's like they've pivoted. So, they said, well, we can't make up money on on uh content like we used to. I mean, the movies, you know, they're doing okay. So turn it up on experiences. Maybe you want to go to the park, pay us. So, um, yeah, business one on one, uh, TV, uh, Oh, go ahead.
Mr.Benja: Let me, can I throw one in there? Sure.
Nostalgia for Napster and Early File Sharing
Mr.Benja: This is, this is, uh, you know, you were thinking you were fondly remembering all these things that had gone away. I just want to throw a, your boy Napster in there. That was a famous tech. Goodbye. I remember that one, man. Uh, there was Napster, LimeWire, and maybe some alt.
net groups or whatever that were, that were out there.
Real Theo Harvey: Oh, early odds, man. We all spent that time in college dorm rooms, ripping the way boy. Well, I got my CDs here. I'm about to get the naps about, Ooh, that new, that new little way came out by the rip that Joker.
Mr.Benja: Yeah, it was weird, man. Um, you know, you just get online and we weren't thinking about viruses or, you know, a lot of these other things, you know, that.
We're still just kind of in their early phases. And it's just like some guys like, Hey, you know, I got a new, a demo copy of that, of that new ice cube. I'm like, Oh, okay. New demo copy of the ice cube. Hey, it's a demo copy, right? You download it. It was just, it was just the same thing. It's just a, just the full version.
I don't know why they put demo in there, but yeah, everybody was just. Go into a site, download and stuff. And, uh, and maybe we can throw pirate Bay in there too. That's kind of, kind of along the same thing. We just go on a site and just download anything you want.
Real Theo Harvey: Oh, that's good times, man. Yeah, just ripping away.
I remember being a dorm just like, oh, yeah, the new stuff came out. Yeah, let me get in here and get this stuff and and you can find, um, software too, man. It was a perfect time and wonderful time. So, uh, oh, am I revealing too much? Mr Benja? My, my pirate days
Mr.Benja: are 80.
Real Theo Harvey: I know. I know.
Iconic TV Finales: Sopranos and Mad Men
Real Theo Harvey: Uh, television, man. Uh, you know, this show versus business, that business show business kind of podcast.
So I was like a tv finale, you know, when they were like big things that people are watching, got excited, invested in back in the day, right? You know, when they were big for now, it's like a Cosby show or mash. Bob with new heart as a little bit before our time, you know, those have They were sitcoms, right?
They ran for a long time. And then, you know, it was kind of, there was no, like, long storytelling. You just, just enjoyed your time or cheers. You just enjoyed your time with these characters, right? And you wanted to see, okay, saying goodbye. But then the most, the ones that we started enjoying were the ones that were, um, more serialized, right?
They told a whole story and like, The, you know, we think about like the Sopranos, right? That was huge. A controversial final, right? You remember that final at all?
Mr.Benja: People were about to fight over that finale. Yeah, yeah. That was that was one of the first big argument inducing finales I remember. That
Real Theo Harvey: was crazy.
I mean, if you don't remember, you know, spoiler alert for a show that ended. 30 years ago, almost. But, uh, yeah, my wife and I, or my girlfriend at the time, we're watching it and we were watching it. And if you don't know, there's a scene there, all the family sitting together, things just kind of ratcheting up.
It seemed like something ancient is going to happen, this pizzeria with Tony Soprano and his family. They ratchet the action, ratchet the action. We hear somebody come in through the door and it shuts the black. And everybody's like, What happened? The first thing I thought was my cable went out. I was like, what happened?
And I think the majority of people thought that, and to this day is still kind of one of the more controversial, but I almost respect it to the point now, uh, the way they ended it. And, uh, you know what the rumor is, right? What David Chase finally admit what happened. That's why I wish I could
Mr.Benja: talk to me.
Real Theo Harvey: He said Tony Soprano got shot. He got whacked.
Mr.Benja: That's okay. That was like the, the thinking, but then it was just, you have to see it in context to understand how, how weird this was. You know, you're just sitting there watching the show. Then all of a sudden. Nothing. I mean, just, and it was like, Oh, wait, what?
That's it? It's like, yeah, they got no more story to tell. And that's from an Archie point of view. That's kind of what people started thinking. Oh, he must have gotten killed. Or it's like, no, there was no more story to tell. So it just went to black and everybody had their own little theories and whatnot.
But yeah, no sound of a gunshot or anything. Just nothing. Very, very, you know,
Real Theo Harvey: at the time, at the time it sucked, but then at the same, cause you know, we're looking, it was basically a character study of this guy, you know, who was borderline psychotic, but also has some good qualities. Right? And he wondered if he was ever going to get redeemed and he never did really.
They just kind of cut it and, and, and that's life, you know? And so I thought that I respect it now, but back then it was, uh, uh, a little frustrating. Uh, do you ever remember the Mad Men, uh, finale at all? You remember that one?
Mr.Benja: I remember it getting weird toward the end and getting weird. Yeah.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah. So, you know, it was basically about this advertising guy.
Great. show. If you like business, you like advertising. And uh, even some of the gurus to this day still reference episodes of that show, right? To kind of make their point. But the near the end, you know, he kind of went off on a tangent and it was just like, I've lost. No one loves me. And they said, well, you need to come back and you know, people will still have you.
So he's often hippie land. And then he's doing this whole sitting on the hill, just kind of relaxing and doing, um, and relaxing. And it fades to black and it comes back up. And it's the Coca Cola commercial, the most famous one of all time, where it's like, I want to teach the world to sing and perfect heart, but your hippies on the hill.
And it was about, you know, drinking Coke. And so the reference was that at his lowest point. He ended up creating the greatest ad of all time.
Cause to him creating ads was his life, his art. Right. And so, so it was, yeah, that was a classic one. That one
Mr.Benja: was funny because it actually, it actually crossed. I don't want to say the, you know, the fourth wall, but it actually started to call, talk to you like, Hey, I'm selling you a Coke. You've been sold this entire story.
So. That part, I gave it props where I was like, okay, that's interesting. It took a while to build up to that and watch him kind of not fall apart, but lose his, his mojo, if you will. When they started playing the Coke thing, I was kind of like. Part of me was like, Oh dear Lord. I don't believe they did that.
And the other part of me was like, that's pretty smooth. I respect it. So
Real Theo Harvey: yeah.
Mr.Benja: Yeah. Got respected,
Real Theo Harvey: you
Mr.Benja: know,
Real Theo Harvey: uh, what about technology?
The Demise of Google Podcasts
Real Theo Harvey: You had mentioned some technology goodbyes that, uh, we had recent.
Mr.Benja: Um, Oh, you know, uh, the Google podcast has gone away. I don't know if anybody noticed or cared, but you can't just go listen to a Google podcast anymore.
You're going to end up on YouTube or YouTube music and. I actually think that kind of screws up both of those experiences. So if you're on YouTube music now, all of a sudden I'm getting podcast recommendations and I, I'm like, look, I just, I just want the music. Why don't I have podcast recommendations in here?
And it's kind of screwing me up, but I get it. Spotify and, uh, you know, Amazon, all the others are starting to do that too with podcasts, so I get it. I just need a clear separation. In my hit podcast music. Um, so yeah, you know, no more dedicated podcast. Listen, viewing, listening,
Real Theo Harvey: rest in peace said
Mr.Benja: that's all I got.
Yeah.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah. Mr. Benja. I think you had mentioned that, uh, we want to do something a little different.
Mr.Benja: Yeah. I didn't just mention it. I felt it in my soul, man. I felt it in my soul. My brother,
Real Theo Harvey: what are we going to do? That's different guys.
Mr.Benja: You know, new year, new us, right? So we always talk about trailers and things that come up.
Trailer Reactions: Daredevil and Brave New World
Mr.Benja: So we wanted to try just a little reaction here right off the cuff. We may clip this out and put it into a separate video on its own, but we'll leave it here in this podcast, uh, as kind of a, it's kind of a bumper, a little end piece, but. There are two trailers that we were going to check out. Um, the Daredevil trailer and the Brave New World trailer just came out this week.
So Theo, you've already seen the Daredevil trailer, but we're going to go ahead and do that one anyway, and then we'll watch the Brave New World trailer. So up next, and we'll do a count. I'll do a countdown for it. We're just going to watch the trailer, have a, you'll be able to see us react to it right here.
We'll, we might say a few things as it goes through. And then we'll come back and talk a little bit about it. Shouldn't take more than five, six minutes.
Real Theo Harvey: Let's go.
Mr.Benja: All right. I am queuing it up right now, going over here. And this is Marvel television's Daredevil born again, official trailer. And we are hitting play in three, two, one.
Violet, Violet, Violet.
The old, I love this
Real Theo Harvey: character. I love this character.
Mr.Benja: No Hawaiian shirts. I like that.
Real Theo Harvey: I didn't watch that go. I heard he was doing this thing.
Okay. Oh, Rogers. You saw that
musical.
Okay. We're back to the kingdom. That's the Spider Man string.
Okay. That's hot.
Oh, Oh. Uh oh.
Mr.Benja: Do we know any of these characters?
Real Theo Harvey: This is on Disney plus. We gonna see blood. Oh. Oh. You know that. Is Bullock
alright?
They screw Uhoh. Matt getting it in.
Mr.Benja: I know that character too. Put that jigsaw again. Hey Punisher, obviously Punisher
Castle
Real Theo Harvey: Uhoh. Oh, that's Tony Soprano.
Oh,
that's hot. Those helmets. Oh, dang.
Let's go. Let's do this. Let's break some risk.
Mr.Benja: You want the, you want that soundtrack, don't you? I saw your head, Bobby.
Real Theo Harvey: Well, man. Uh, they ain't playing, boy. This Disney Plus, huh? I guess you're gonna need that parental controls on this one. That's for sure.
Mr.Benja: Disney Plus your medical records.
Real Theo Harvey: Damn, that one where that guy came on his knee just cracked.
I was like, oh snap. Um, what you think?
Mr.Benja: You hype? It seems standard. I, I like it. I'm going to check it out. Uh, it seems cool, but am I hyped? There was, there wasn't that, once again, there wasn't that hype moment. Um, it was like Microsoft, Microsoft Word. It was like, hey man, it seems like the same old stuff.
It's like, It just needs a little more hype. I like it. I'm going to check it out, but I didn't, I can't give it the hype label yet.
Real Theo Harvey: I I'm I'm I'm near me, you know, um, the second daredevil move TV show got a little repetitive to me. It was like, how many times we're going to go down a hall and beat up. You know, ninjas in black.
It's just like, I hope they switch that up a lot more, but I'm, I'm curious. Um, man, they bring it back. The whole cast look like everybody's the same in the same spots. I mean, the rumor is that Luke Cage, uh, Michael Coulter probably come back too. So it looks like, you know, these, this Netflix, uh, TV jaunt was, or, uh, Marvel TV, uh, with the defenders, right?
The whole, yeah. Cast and crew. I think they're trying to bring back some of these people back, right? Because I think the characters were cast correctly. The actors are cast correctly, but maybe you know They're not they weren't part of the MCU and so they're gonna try and bring them into the fold So that's good, man.
Well, I saw Matt Marduk and what spider man no way home. So yeah, he's here How'd you do that? I'm a good lawyer Great line
Mr.Benja: I'm just looking here and I'm just double checking. It's 18 episodes. So it's going to be a longer, longer burn than a lot of their other shows, which could be good. Um, you know, it seems like it's taking a more, a slower, more methodical story pace, even from the trailer.
So seeing that play out in, you know, this new series with, which has, I don't want to say that guys is jigsaw. I don't want to start analyzing the, um, Mm hmm the whole thing again, but you know the guy with the black the white mask with the black tears coming down Yeah,
Real Theo Harvey: did you read a lot Daredevil comic books back in the day?
Not too many. Yeah me neither I mean, I'm familiar with the broad strokes of Daredevil, but he seems a little too broody. He, if to me, you know, I think he felt like a, uh, you know, uh, a passable Spider Man, but he, without the quips, you know, it's just like, uh, he flies around, you know, he hits people, but
Mr.Benja: yeah, he always seemed like a not quite character.
Like, he's not quite Spider Man, not quite Batman,
Real Theo Harvey: not
Mr.Benja: quite, you know, dark enough, not quite silly enough.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot of, yeah, it's, it's, it's, but Frank Miller, I mean, he did the lion's share, right? Just creating something compelling about that character. And so I think that's what kind of put Daredevil on the map.
But you, you, man, you hit the nail on the head. He was just, he wasn't Batman enough and he wasn't Spider Man enough. He was just kind of like, yeah, he's like a mix of both, but. It's kind of sucks to be in the middle like that.
Mr.Benja: I actually remember as a kid, someone saying, you know, someone, we were talking about Batman, someone comparing daredevil.
And as a kid, I was clowning around. I said, man, his horns ain't long enough to be compared to Batman. And just cause he has those little nub horns instead of the big.
Real Theo Harvey: Exactly. So it's, it's yeah, it's a piece. So, man, yeah. So, uh, Mr. My, um, um, Uh, enthusiastically optimistic and you're more cautious, right? So, yeah, I'm there, but, you know, I watch anything.
So, you know, but, you know, but, you know, I watch stuff, Mr. Benjamin, but, you know, when that stuff get born, I start putting that fast forward so fast and I'm starting seeing a love interest and they sit at a dinner table talking about some mess. Like all these scenes with their, uh, with, uh, what the king pin and Vanessa, his love of his life.
They started at the Senate, the table talking too much. Fast forward that thing. Yeah.
Mr.Benja: I mean, yeah. As I said, that trailer, I just want to see in trailers like this. I don't necessarily want to see guest stars like, Hey, you know, punish for showing up. I want to see like, that's just another character. That doesn't show any, any actual tension.
You know what I mean? Like if he said, if he would have said something like, you know, I need to hire a hero to help me out, you know, then it's like, Oh, hero's right here, you know, that kind of thing to get me hype in the trailer. So it'll, it'll be good. It'll be fine. Um, I'm confident in it. As I said, just didn't, just didn't hit me with the hype.
Real Theo Harvey: That's a good point. Yeah. I guess I'm. You know, I'm not unhappy to see you. You're right. If he was just like, you know, I'm here to hire you. Oh, snap. They're working together. What's going on?
Did someone say, uh, so we're going
Mr.Benja: to do this again. Uh, the second one, we have trailer number two that we're going to react to today. Captain America, brave new world, get tickets. Now that's actually part of the title here. And in Marvel entertainment, uh, YouTube video for the trailer, Captain America, brave new world, get tickets now.
All right. Thank you very much for the reminder. So this is, uh, how many trailers have we had of this so far? I don't know. Couldn't even tell you.
Real Theo Harvey: We had quite a few.
Mr.Benja: Okay. Well, it's only been released one day and it's got, um, just crossed a million views. So optimistic. So here we go with Captain America, Brave New World in 3, 2, 1.
I like that. Bouncing the shield.
Real Theo Harvey: Oh, you know, that is Isaiah. He ain't playing that mess. Oh, you know, that is just,
Oh, we've got some on here. Get a hype. He's part of the serpent society.
Sit your black ass down. That
was inferred, huh? Dang, man. How many guns he got?
Oh,
oh, he going to fight the president?
Nobody's saying that
Mr.Benja: at all. I don't need a sidekick.
Real Theo Harvey: Nobody's saying that at all.
Everybody.
Mr.Benja: Uh, You know, I mean, um, yeah, I'm not mad at it, man. I like that. I would have wanted that to be one of the earlier trailers, you know, really get people hype. I like the, I don't know, I guess red Hulk. You can't really hold something like that. You can't really hold that back. You just got to go ahead and tell people that's what you're doing.
Real Theo Harvey: I guess, but it seems like it's like near the end or, you know, they might do a flip, but it's like. He's not the main character. So it's kind of like, you know, here it is. He, you know, he's going to fight the red Hulk, but you know, he just said, just calm down, Mr. President, calm down.
Mr.Benja: See that, that, that would, that would hurt my soul if they did that.
If they, if they said, um, You know, Esposito, his character, uh, I think he's a member of the Serpent Society, I don't know if you remember those books. Um, if he is the main bad guy, and they just kind of throw Hulk in there as a special appearance, and then people come in expecting Hulk being the big bad, and it's like, wait a minute.
Real Theo Harvey: Remember in comic books, you know, at the bottom of the page, someone's face would be here smiling, like, in the corner, like, you know, checking their head. They're smiling. Guest star! Guest star! Wolverine! Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, you know, I mean, you could probably tell what's going to happen. Secret, uh, Serpent Society probably, uh, You know, no, the president has that gamma radiation in him and aggravating him.
And so that's their big plea to kind of get Captain America. Captain America is going to calm the president down. He's going to go after the real villains. I mean, that's pretty much what this is about. Right. So, um, I hope that, you know, I hope it's going to be interesting though. I mean, they, The, the, the, the rumors are is that it's not, you know, as good.
And so we'll see, and it's the shortest of the malls, like 97 minutes. So, um, yeah, so, you know, Mr. Benjamin might even go see it. Yeah.
It's so quick. Oh, do it at lunchtime.
Mr.Benja: You know, I got to support, uh, Captain Black Falcon American. Oh, yeah, I'll support it. But I just, you know,
Real Theo Harvey: I just don't want to be that, that 90s. Uh, well, we didn't even talk about Craving the Hunter, man, how that just flamed out. I didn't even watch that one either. So, yeah, we're not talking about that.
Mr.Benja: I got mad at Morbius. So, I don't know if I can take another Sony one right now.
Real Theo Harvey: Yeah, I didn't watch Morbius at all. So, I still haven't watched it to this day. I watched Madden Webb though. It was, it was fun. But um, not this, not this. Not like this. Yeah. Reference to the Matrix guys. If you haven't seen that scene.
Not like this. Not like this. Anyway, Mr. Benja, that was fun, man. Maybe we'll do more of those, man. I really uh enjoyed that uh more than I thought I would. So, yeah, we should do
Mr.Benja: that more often. Yeah, yeah. That's uh that's a good thing. I like it. So, we'll see what happens with that.
Final Thoughts and Outro
Mr.Benja: And, um, that's it, right? I don't think we have anything else on the list.
I'm sorry, I'm all blanking out over here because Captain Black American Falcon got me thrown off.
Real Theo Harvey: I know, man, I know, but it was too hype, I get it. Guys, look, I think we're done, man. If you guys, look, Mr. Benja, it's always a pleasure doing this with you. Um, definitely guys, if you like this, please subscribe, comment, you know, smash that like button whenever you see us at Show vs.
Business. Go check us out on Threads, you know, individually or YouTube or Instagram. You can also listen to us at Spotify, iTunes, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also visit us, visit us on our website at show versus business. So Mr. Benja great time. We'll have a good one, man. Peace. All right. So do we do an intro at the beginning?
So you read it?
Mr.Benja: Yeah. Uh, let me just type this up really quickly.
Real Theo Harvey: Long form. Long videos. Ah, let's see.
Okay. Starring bricks. Yes. Starring the Punisher. Guess starring the Red Hulk.
Mr.Benja: Hey, you know what? That might be interesting.
Guess starring the Red Hulk.
Real Theo Harvey: You said it.
Let's see. Well, you know, it's MCU, man. I got those connections on everything. So I wonder if they can get that. This is going to be a test, man. Do they have their mojo back after Deadpool?
Mr.Benja: Let's see. Ask a good question.
Real Theo Harvey: What else is coming out this year? Oh my goodness. Washington is killing it. You can watch this game.
Mr.Benja: Sports. Yeah.
Real Theo Harvey: They, uh, beat my bucks. Uh, this guy, this quarterback, man, Jaden Daniels. He was fire. It looks like 14 years old out there, man. This is skinny. One bad hit, man. Dude is out. Ha ha ha. It's football. It's a joke.
Mr.Benja: Uh, lemme see if this, uh, how this works out.
Real Theo Harvey: What that, hold one second.
Mr.Benja: Mm-hmm. Doing better with the bricks. All right.
Real Theo Harvey: Alright.
Mr.Benja: Uh, so we talked about New Year's, new US New Year's quitters.
Real Theo Harvey: Mm-hmm .
Mr.Benja: Squ Game. Good game. Googling Microsoft. Um, jacking up prices with ai,
Real Theo Harvey: TikTok. Just put TikTok, it's going away.
Mr.Benja: Technology that went away. TikTok,
Real Theo Harvey: Daredevil, brave New World.
Mr.Benja: Uh oh. That one went down. I have the right order there. That's how we did it. And I tick tock.
Real Theo Harvey: Nope. Yep.
Let's move. Uh,
Mr.Benja: all right. Going in 3, 2, 1.
In this episode of show versus business, Theo and I talk about the tick top band, the band hammer that just happened. And it calls us to talk about some other stuff. Um, new year's. Quitting people have already quit their new year's resolutions. Talk a little bit about squid game. Got some impressions on that.
We're not quite sure what we think about it, but it's only one part. So we'll see what happens in the second part. Uh, Google and Microsoft are jacking up prices with their AI. Tick tock, as you said, going away. Uh, it's been banned. You can't get access to it. What's going to happen? What are people going to do?
What do we think about it? Uh, and we have some technology that went away in, in, in light of tick tock going away. We decided to talk about some things, other things that went away in time. And not just the McRib either real technology that you might've actually used.
Real Theo Harvey: Man, the McRib is awesome, man. Don't talk bad about the McRib.
Everyone, I concur. Mr. Benja is telling the truth. This is a hot, hot one. Look, I always say this, but please like, subscribe, you know, comment below, follow us. I mean, we have some good hotness. If you want to know what our thoughts are on the TikTok ban or, you know, the latest thoughts on Squid Game, you know, spoilers ahead, you know, definitely.
Check it out because we definitely got some good, interesting things. And also one of the things that we did, too, we did something unique and different. Go check it out. But I think you're going to like, especially if you're interested and understand more about what's happening with Daredevil. Some of the new trailer that just dropped for Daredevil and for.
The new black American Falcon, also known as Captain America, brave new world. Uh, so we did some, some interesting things this, this time. And so, uh, the trailers and maybe did a little slight trailer reaction.
Mr.Benja: Yeah. You know, kids like reactions. I like reactions, uh, probably watched too many of them myself.
So I threw some trailer reactions in there. Uh, and we'll see how that goes. As always, you can check the show notes below and jump to the exact part of the show that you want to see. But we thank you for checking us out. Anything else, Theo?
Real Theo Harvey: Nah, let's get to it.
Mr.Benja: Enjoy the show.
Good, good, good.
Real Theo Harvey: All right. So, because that goes in the beginning, right? So yeah, I probably want to keep that energy pretty high up. Yeah. Sorry, I was lacking energy.
Mr.Benja: You want to do it again? I can redo it. I can redo it again. Super short, good energy.
Real Theo Harvey: You ready? All right, James, this will be one we're putting in front.
Mr.Benja: All right, James, we're putting this one in the front. Welcome to Joe versus business episode 201. We're doing it again. New year is here and people are already quitting their resolutions. We're going to tell you a little bit about that. The new squid game came out. Theo saw it. I saw it. We get to react a little bit to what we thought about it.
Things are happening. And Theo, you were talking about Googling and AI, right?
Real Theo Harvey: Oh man, they just ripping me off, man. I'm not even going to get into this, but you know what I am? Because this is a shame, man. They're pushing AI on us, a small business, man, charging us money. And we'll go into why, why AI is being pushed on everyone at this point for no reason.
So that sucks.
Mr.Benja: Yeah. And the big story is TikTok is going away. So we're definitely going to check in on that and some other technologies that are going away. What does this mean for us? Why is this happening? Who cares? Do you use TikTok? Let us know in the comments. Um, but we're also going to do something new.
If something's going to go away, we're going to do something new. So at the end of this show, we're going to have two reactions. We're going to react first to Daredevil Born Again. The new trailer just came out and what we call Captain Black American Falcon. Brave New World trailer reaction just got released.
I think that's the final trailer, not sure, but it's coming out. So we're going to react to both those trailers at the end. You can check all of the times in the show notes below. And Theo, is that all we want to prep them for?
Real Theo Harvey: Nah, man, I think this is a hot hot one. So look we always say this but please like follow Comment just just follow us guys because this is some hot stuff man We're not only giving you the stuff from our opinion, but you know over what between us Almost 50 years of knowledge and experience with business and from understanding the show aspect of everything.
So I think this is some insights that you guys won't get anywhere else, but also come hang out with us cause we have a good time. So please check it out, comment below. If you like what we're talking about, you want to hear us talk about it, give comments on, and especially this new trailer reaction feature.
I'm really super excited to see your comments on that one.
Mr.Benja: Flame us in the comments. Love it. Let's go.
Real Theo Harvey: Okay, good.
Mr.Benja: All right anything else? No. No, that's it. You can stop the recording. I suppose. I'm just gonna put a note down here