Sup you beautiful bastards. Hope you've had a fantastic Wednesday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show.

Buckle up, hit that like button and let's just jump into it. And the first thing I wanted to talk about today, it's quick entertainment news, but also at the same time makes me feel like we're living in the end times.

The cast for the upcoming season of Dancing with the Stars was announced and among the people named. You've got people like Nellie, Charles Oakley, Monica Aldama from Cheer, Catfish is Nev Schueman, Disney Channel actress Guy Jackson, others. And then the big stand that I think for most people is Carol Baskin. Of course, best known from the docu-series Tiger King, the sworn enemy and arch nemesis of Joe Exotic,

who's currently serving out a 22 year sentence

for a murder for hire plot against Baskin,

as well as allegations and a widespread belief

that she may have fed her former husband to a tiger.

You know, following this announcement,

there was a big reaction, a diverse reaction,

including some outrage, and for me personally, it's just strange and weird. And with everything that's happened over the past year especially, but several years, it feels like we're all living in a simulation. And whoever has control of the slider for like believability, we just went nah. But that said, I want to pass the question off to you, cool cats and kittens. What are your thoughts on this?

I don't even know what life is anymore.

Then, in other entertainment news, we should talk about theaters reopening.

With AMC, making the massive announcement that they would have 70% of their theaters opened this weekend in time for audiences to see Christopher Nolan's tenant.

You know, this is the continuation of what we've been seeing them do over the past several weeks. Reopening theaters at limited capacity. As of this

weekend, it will be 420 theaters open. This notably including their first theaters in California

to reopen as seven theaters in San Diego will be open on Friday. So far, AMC says that things have

gone smoothly. With the CEO and president of AMC theaters saying in a statement, the first two weekends of operations have exceeded

our expectations in terms of guests returning to the movies

and in terms of their feedback about our extensive AMC

safe and clean policies and procedures.

And seemingly as a result of AMC announcing

that more theaters will be open Labor Day weekend

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