Water Cooler: Hundreds of Beavers, Shogun, Sleepaway Camp, Infested, and More
/Film Weekly
SlashFilm.com
4.4 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On the May 1, 2024 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor BJ Colangelo to gather around the virtual water cooler and talk about what they’ve been up to.
In the Water Cooler:
- What we’ve been Doing:
- BJ has been purging/donating her wardrobe AND MY BOOK ON SLEEPAWAY CAMP IS FINALLY COMING OUT.
- What we’ve been Reading:
- BJ has been reading the essays of Gen Z culture writer Freya India. (https://www.freyaindia.co.uk)
- Ben read Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.
- What we’ve been Watching:
- BJ watched Lola aka Twinky (1970), Greener Grass (2019), and Infested (2024).
- Ben rewatched O Brother, Where Art Thou? and saw Shadow of the Thin Man, Hundreds of Beavers, and Shogun.
- What we’ve been Eating:
- BJ has been eating every fast food spicy nugget and determining a champion.
- What we’ve been Playing:
- BJ finally started playing Connections (and she is bad at it sometimes).
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever browsed in Incognito mode? |
| 0:02.2 | It's probably not as Incognito as you think. |
| 0:04.8 | Google recently settled a $5 billion lawsuit |
| 0:07.5 | after being accused of secretly tracking users in Incognito mode. |
| 0:11.4 | Google's defense? Incognito does not mean invisible. |
| 0:15.2 | In fact, all of your online activity |
| 0:17.1 | is still 100% visible to a ton of third parties, |
| 0:20.8 | unless you use Express-DPN. |
| 0:23.0 | Third parties like your internet service provider, |
| 0:25.2 | your mobile network provider, |
| 0:26.8 | and the admins of your Wi-Fi network, |
| 0:28.6 | which could be your school, your boss, or your parents, |
| 0:31.4 | can still see every website you visit even in incognito mode, but not with |
| 0:35.9 | express VPN. They reroute all of your traffic through servers that are secure and |
| 0:40.0 | encrypted so nobody can poke around and see what you've been up to. |
| 0:43.4 | Express VPN is ridiculously easy to use. |
| 0:46.0 | It is literally one click and you're protected. |
| 0:48.6 | It works on a ton of different devices, your phone, your laptop, your tablet, and more, so you can stay protected anywhere. |
| 0:55.1 | And it's been rated as the best virtual private network by respected tech reviewers like The |
| 0:59.0 | Virge and CNET. |
| 1:00.8 | I don't like the idea of anyone spying on my internet activity for all kinds of reasons |
| 1:04.4 | so it's important to me personally to use express vpn to make sure my online activity is my own. |
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