The Welcome to Michael and us, I'm Will Sloane, here is always with.

Luke Savage, hey everyone.

And before we get going today, I just want to say this is, I think, our second week on the Jacobin radio podcast feed.

So we're pretty bad at promoting the show, but I just wanted to say quickly that if you found us through there and you like the show, you can find

our entire back catalog on Spotify at SoundCloud, a friendly neighborhood podcast app near

you.

We also have a Patreon where there's bonus content and where we also put a

paywalled episode every other week so check us out there too.

Boy iTunes Spotify, it's a brave new world out there, but I would like to talk briefly about an older brand, Blockbuster video.

Something that came on my radar this week was the re-emergence of Blockbuster as kind of a nostalgia brand.

I saw that the official Blockbuster Twitter account has been active.

They got some engagement, and also the last blockbuster store in America and it always

seems like there's a last blockbuster store in America I feel like for years I've been

hearing about a different last blockbuster in America, but whichever it is they're holding a sleepover party,

like a slumber party that people can join, which is strange to me because the experience of sleeping

at a retail store is not something I'm particularly nostalgic for,

but I guess they're tapping into the feeling of like renting a video when you were a kid and having

a sleepover and watching the video.

A long time listeners will know that we're fans of Wet Movie 1 and Kool-Dooter,

the YouTube personalities, and we saw a YouTube video where Wet Movie 1 went to a blockbuster pop-up store in downtown Los Angeles,

and he got like blockbuster stickers and blockbuster t-shirts and blockbuster keychains, you know, just

with that iconic blue and yellow logo.

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