NST Mailbag: Taking photos in movie theaters (& more)
NO SUCH THING
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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This week, we tackle movie theater photographers, black coffee, dirty jeans, trebuchets, and more as we answer questions submitted by listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Mani. |
| 0:01.1 | I'm Noah. |
| 0:01.9 | This is Devin. |
| 0:02.7 | And this is No Such Thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:09.3 | Today's episode is a mailbag episode. |
| 0:12.0 | What are we talking about? Black Coffee, movie theater etiquette, and more. |
| 0:18.9 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:20.9 | No such thing. |
| 0:23.8 | No such thing. |
| 0:25.6 | No such thing. |
| 0:26.9 | No such a thing. |
| 0:28.6 | No such a thing. |
| 0:35.6 | Before we dip into the mailbag, we wanted to quickly discuss a topic that we've seen online a lot these days. |
| 0:44.7 | It has to do with movie theater etiquette, and specifically it has to do with taking photos of the screen during the movie. |
| 0:52.6 | What are your guys' thoughts? |
| 0:57.1 | There's no, there is literally no good reason to do this. There's zero. I think even if, sorry, even if you're like doing your best with |
| 1:04.0 | your brightness down and trying to be so discreet. There's no reason. I think it's, yeah, I agree. I think |
| 1:09.8 | it's crazy. I think it just shows that like, you know, the people who are doing this, y'all don't go to the movies often. You're not real. You're not real cinephiles like us. Because a real movie head, once you get into that thing, once the movie starts, you put in your phone away, you put on silent. the whole reason I'm at the movie theater is so I don't have to be on my phone. Exactly. Right. If it's an emergency, step your ass outside the theater. Exactly. And take the call or text. Yeah. We are here to remove ourselves from the outside world. If you want to take pictures of your screen, you could do that at home. I do it. I watch Love Island. I take pictures of screen. It's Love Island. I'm at home. |
| 1:49.4 | Sure. I'm allowed to be on my phone. We are taking pictures of the screen at a movie |
| 1:54.9 | theater, recording it like, what are we doing? Bootlegs again? Well, it gets me is the famous thing |
| 1:58.9 | about movies, more than any other medium, |
| 2:02.0 | is that the movie is the same. Yes. Yeah. So you can find a screenshot of that scene. Yes. |
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