Welcome to Michael and us. I'm Will Sloan, here as always with.

Luke Savage, hey everyone. And before we get going today, I just want to say this is, I think, our second week on the Jacobin Radio podcast feed.

So we're pretty bad at promoting the show, but I just wanted to say quickly that if you found us through there and you like the show, you can find our entire back catalog on Spotify at SoundCloud,

a friendly neighborhood podcast app near you.

We also have a Patreon where there's bonus content and where we also put a paywalled episode

every other week.

So check us out there too.

Boy, iTunes, Spotify.

It's a brave new world out there.

But I would like to talk briefly about an older brand, Blockbuster video.

Something that came on my radar this week was the reemergence of Blockbuster as kind of a nostalgia brand.

I saw that the official Blockbuster Twitter account has been active. They got some engagement. And also

the last blockbuster store in America. And it always seems like there's a last blockbuster store

in America. I feel like for years I've been hearing about a different last blockbuster in America.

But whichever it is, they're holding a sleepover party, like a slumber party that people can join,

which is strange to me because the experience of sleeping at a retail store is not something

I'm particularly nostalgic for.

But I guess they're tapping into the feeling of like renting a video when you were a kid

and having a sleepover and watching the video.

A long time listeners will know that we're fans of Wet Movie 1 and Cool

Duder, the YouTube personalities.

And we saw a YouTube video where Wet Movie 1 went to a blockbuster pop-up store

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