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Meeting w/ Self-Loathing and Narcissism departments/tendencies to brainstorm exciting new potential collabs
Someone must’ve hacked my calendar because this is word for word how I spend every single day. Not sure how people who work from home and don’t have a boss stay productive and/or how they prevent themselves from staring into space for an hour.
Channel 5, the YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Callaghan, said it gave a list of its email subscribers to Hunter Biden, the former president’s son, who went on to promote his new memecoin, a move that a data privacy expert told 404 Media is likely illegal in some jurisdictions.
Callaghan and Channel 5 have surprisingly done some good reporting and interesting interviews—much to my surprise—and I was starting to respect it, but this is just dumb. And I was also enjoying the spicy takes from Hunter Biden and then to turn around and launch a memecoin? What are we doing people?!
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes—two names I never imagined would ever be uttered in the same sentence, but at the same time… could there possibly be a better pairing for a bonkers documentary.
Looks absolutely wild. Given they struggled to find distribution, I tend to think the trailer is likely to be quite deceiving, but whoever cut the trailer definitely did their job.
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A little late on this one as it’s travelled across the interwebs and back already, but I felt like it needed to be preserved here as well.
“Inspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of ‘South Park’ to ‘South America,’” Parker and Stone said in a statement. “We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”
South America is some Grade-A marketing, which is no surprise from these guys. I know they’ve always pushed boundaries, but I absolutely love that they’ve ratcheted things up over the last few years.
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