So I've got something you'll

So I've got something you'll like right off the top here, which is that I happen to watch, you know, kind of starve for things to watch these days.

So I watched this film on Netflix, The Last Blockbuster. Are you aware of this?

Oh, God. Yes, I am aware of it. I have not seen it yet, though. My finger is always

like perpetually hovering over the play button for it because, you know, I love stuff about

video store culture. I love thinking about video store culture, but I just know it's going to be

stupid. Well, you know, it's the kind of thing. I mean, I would have recommended we do an entire

episode on it if there was enough to discuss. Unfortunately, it's, it's very slight. So I thought

I'd just kind of bring it up here off the top and kind of tell you about it. And I don't know,

maybe the two of us can discuss it in more detail once you've seen it. But I would describe it as,

you know, yeah, slight, but intermittently quite charming. There were parts that I identified with very strongly and other parts

that I found completely baffling. So, I mean, basically, the centerpiece of the story is, you know,

as the film's title suggests, this, you know, last Blockbuster store that's being

heroically kept open by this nice lady who kind of runs it as a family business. But the documentary

also tells the story of Blockbuster or tells the story kind of of movie rentals in the history of

movie rentals through the lens of blockbuster. So that part of

it's kind of interesting. So I didn't know, for example, the origins of the video store, which

were that VHS tapes when they first came out were kind of like $100 each. And so people, you know,

couldn't really afford to own them. So, you know,

somebody came up with the bright idea that if you buy a few copies of each one and rent them

to people, you know, that you can, you can create a sustainable business that way and people can

have, you know, home, home movies. And as I understand that the movie studios were originally

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