Summary
Nate Petroski is an off-the-grid recluse who has a girlfriend he met online, millions of fans all across the country, and a bespoke beard-oil brand. Something isn’t adding up here. In this finale episode, Hannah and Maia step into the wilderness of the internet’s very own homesteading community. These influencers make a living documenting their alternative, self-sufficient lifestyles. And, in an increasingly volatile political and economic climate that has many people wishing to go back to basics, it’s extremely lucrative. But is being an internet influencer antithetical to the tenets of off-grid living? Or does it make it more community-oriented than the lifestyle allows? Listen to find out! Tangents include: a divisive Oscars season, Hannah becoming a female pickup artist, and the perplexing contradictions of AmishTok.
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| 0:00.0 | It's movie season. |
| 0:01.9 | I was like, why are there so many movies that I need to see in theaters? |
| 0:06.0 | And then someone was like, because it's Oscar season. |
| 0:09.8 | And I was like, right, right. |
| 0:11.3 | It happens every year. |
| 0:12.9 | Why are there so many movies I need to see in theaters? |
| 0:16.1 | Like, why are you dragging my ass to the theater to watch all these movies? |
| 0:20.1 | I have actually seen five |
| 0:22.8 | films in the theaters, like in the past like a week and a half. I've only seen three, and that's |
| 0:28.8 | a flop for me because well, famously my job, but... Well, no, but this is just like, I hadn't been |
| 0:33.6 | to a movie theater in probably a couple of months, and I've just been doing a tour of London's |
| 0:39.2 | independent cinemas. What's incredible about New York and London is I feel like the movie-going |
| 0:43.9 | culture here is so much stronger. Like my friend, like it feels like something just like |
| 0:48.1 | embedded into like the week. I think going to movies alone is a lot more of a culture, whereas |
| 0:52.0 | Toronto, and we've talked about this |
| 0:54.4 | on the podcast, I'm pretty sure, but Toronto has, like, no independent cinemas, almost none. |
| 0:58.5 | They're all just going away. And so it's like, you kind of have to trek to a different big |
| 1:03.9 | box movie theater. And so, yeah, I feel like, I feel like I see a lot more movies while I'm in |
| 1:08.4 | New York than I would have in Toronto, like at the theater. Yeah. And it's kind of like a bit more of a vibe when it isn't, you're like you're not seeing it like a multiplex type of. Well, yeah. So I saw the brutalist this past weekend and I saw it at the Angelica in the East Village. And it's just like the most ornate movie theater. If you're living in New York, I'm sure you know about it, but it's just like gorgeous, like the ceilings or it feels like like a really old school cinema from like the 1900s. I actually don't know when it was built. So, but to see like a movie of that length in a theater, like that felt like such an ordeal, like such a, such an event. That was just awesome. It just provides more opportunity to experience films, like, as they're meant to be experienced. And I think there is something, like, more romantic about being in sort of like a cozier or, like, older theater. And I don't know, like, there's like a level of, like, appreciation in the air, maybe, like, amongst patrons. And it's kind of fun to look around and be like, wow, there's like a level of like appreciation in the air maybe, like amongst patrons. |
| 2:02.0 | And it's kind of fun to look around and be like, wow, there's like all these kind of cool, like, younger people who've decided to go out and like see these in theaters. |
| 2:09.3 | Many hoys. |
| 2:10.5 | Yeah. |
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