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🗓️ 21 December 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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For months we've been immersing ourselves in such Intellectual Property soups as Ready Player One, Space Jam: A New Legacy, and The Simpsons in Plusaversary, so we felt it was time to examine the animated hit that helped birth this new phenomenon: THE LEGO MOVIE (2014). PLUS: the return of COVID, a bad week for the Democrats, and the actual, honest-to-goodness phenomenon of official Rifkin's Festival NFTs.
"What’s behind global covid inequalities? Corporate greed" by Luke Savage - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/13/covid-vaccine-corporatism-inequality/
"Beyond NFT: DAMOVE company is building the future of movies and entertainment" - https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/beyond-nft-damove-company-is-building-the-future-of-movies-entertainment#ixzz7FW3eISjz
Learn more about Rifkin's Festival NFTs - https://twitter.com/RifkinsfestNft
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0:00.0 | Everything is our song. Everything is cool when you're part of a team. Everything is our song. When we live it, I dream. |
0:13.0 | Let me tell you, I'm definitely getting some bad vibes from everything right now. |
0:17.5 | It definitely feels like in the span of a few days, we went back to something. |
0:22.5 | I mean, it's already like two or three days into this. This already feels like a kind of cliche talking point. |
0:28.0 | But, you know, everyone's pointing out how much the past few days have felt like March of 2020. |
0:33.5 | I would add to that, though, that a lot more people, just anecdotally, a lot more people seem to be getting COVID. |
0:40.0 | And I guess the numbers bear that out as well. I mean, one of the ironies of the pandemic, if it is an irony, |
0:45.0 | is that in the first few months and in those first few weeks, especially when I think, you know, most of us were probably taking the most precautions. |
0:54.0 | The actual cases were quite low. It wasn't until, you know, the following winter, I guess, that they really, really started to spike when there was kind of the second and then the third wave, which I guess was last spring. |
1:05.5 | But here we are, despite all the vaccinations, we seem to be in a fourth COVID wave, so not getting good vibes for most things right now. |
1:14.0 | I guess, welcome back to Michael and us. Stay safe and healthy out there, everyone. |
1:18.5 | Yeah, I've been helping an ailing relative. So I just look out the window and see that stuff's happening and think, oh, I guess something's happening outside. |
1:26.5 | I mean, you say that as if, as if you have been disconnected from the internet in some way, which would be, which is cute. It's cute if you suggest that. |
1:34.5 | But anybody who's falling on Twitter knows that that's very much not the case. |
1:38.5 | I've been more online than ever actually because of my current situation. I mean, my ailing relative is watching the TV all the time. |
1:46.5 | So actually, I do hear a lot about this Omicron variant. Would you, would you believe it? |
1:51.5 | And in a way, I'm kind of grateful because it's got cable news to stop talking about January 6th for a couple of goddamn seconds. |
1:58.5 | Well, the anniversary is coming up. So brace yourself. It's going to be full spectrum dominance for January 6th on the one year anniversary. |
2:06.5 | I can't wait. |
2:07.5 | But it's true that I've been very heavily online these past couple of weeks. And what is more online right now than NFTs? |
2:15.5 | We all love NFTs. We're all getting in on the digital art market. We love NFTs. Don't we folks? |
2:20.5 | We're all getting our collections. We've all got our virtual galleries that we're curating right now. |
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