I like your Bruce Lee shirt there. Well, it was that a Christmas acquisition. Thank you very much. No, I actually got it when I was shopping at old Navy about four or five months ago.

You know, I just saw it there $14 or whatever and I thought you know what I would like to have the dragon's energy coursing through my veins. Well, I haven't been into an old Navy in quite a while, but I guess you can get cheap pants there. I don't know if you've heard.

But there's something kind of warmly nostalgic for me about the fact that you can still go into places like old Navy or when I was a teenager, it was blue notes and get these kind of novelty t-shirts when when I was a teenager.

My favorite type of t-shirt was a novelty t-shirt from like a band or a movie or something, but I didn't recognize them as novelty t-shirts. I just thought they were really cool. Whereas, of course, you're wearing the Bruce Lee shirt not ironically, but in a way that's self-aware.

Yeah, I mean, it's like I know that it's sort of ridiculous to be wearing this shirt, but at the same time, I don't care. I genuinely like it.

And of course, if you wear a Bruce Lee t-shirt, you're also able to fight like Bruce Lee. You gain his power.

That's true. That's what they told us on the school yard. And then you die under mysterious circumstances, too.

No, no, Bruce Lee's not really dead. It's, yeah, it's in a book. He was actually undercover working for the Hong Kong police.

Right, right. Of course, if you want to bust the triads, it's send the world's most famous Chinese film star.

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Actually, what before we leave the t-shirt ref, one more thing I want to say is you'll notice that this Bruce Lee shirt, they've made it look sort of retro, they've made it look kind of vintage.

And you'll find that on a lot of novelty t-shirts that you can get at a hot topic or at Old Navy or wherever they sell novelty t-shirts.

Like, if you see one of those racks of t-shirts that have, you know, star wars or Indiana Jones or some other property, they've made it look like an old movie poster.

And sometimes they make it look sort of like faded and, you know, they'll use fonts and stuff that would have been popular in the 70s.

And that's a way of, you know, even though you've bought a shirt for star wars, the most popular thing ever, ever.

The thing that everybody in the world likes, they figured out a way to make it look sort of niche.

And you bought it at Old Navy, too, okay?

Man, I hate it. I mean, this is just further vindication of, I mean, it's not our thesis, but it's something we return to again and again about the way that everything is commodified now.

And what I mean by that isn't just that they commodified, you know, star wars or whatever.

Star Wars has always been a commodity. Bruce Lee has always been a commodity.

What they're really commodifying there is, you know, a type of experience that you might have had in the 1980s or 90s, where you go into a vintage store or a second-hand store and you buy something that is actually quite rare, you know.

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