So I've got something you'll like right off the top here which is that I happen to

watch you know it's kind of starved 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've

not seen it yet though my finger is always like perpetually hovering over the play button

for it because you know I love 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

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 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 yes 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 story 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 of movie rentals in the history of

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 when they first came out were kind of like a hundred dollars 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 not in favor of video stores but the law was such that if

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