Podbit · Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast
Nintendo revealed a hyper-realistic Ocarina of Time remaster, and David is not happy. His argument: cartoon and cel-shaded art is timeless because it was never trying to be real. Photorealism always dates itself. Wind Waker looks as good today as it did 20 years ago. A hyper-real Ocarina will not age the same way.
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David and Marques deliver the BetterHelp ad, citing the company's 2026 State of Stigma report: 85% of Americans say getting mental health support is smart, but 74% say society discourages it, and more than 3 in 4 Americans reported anxiety or depression symptoms in the past two weeks. They direct listeners to betterhelp.com/voxpods. The Pure Leaf spot follows, introducing Caffeine Focused — a sugar-free, calorie-free sparkling iced tea using naturally occurring caffeine from black tea and added L-theanine, available in peach and raspberry flavors.
Anthropic released Claude Fable — the model it previously said was 'too dangerous to release' — to all paid subscribers for one month before pulling it behind an expensive API paywall. David called it the drug dealer playbook: give them a taste, then make them pay. And given that $20/month plans cost these companies ~$5,000 per user, the economics demand it.
Data suggests that $20-per-month AI subscription plans cost companies like Anthropic approximately $5,000 per user in compute, making per-token API pricing essential for profitability.
The entire plot of the original Terminator film depends on the phone book. The Terminator looks up 'Sarah Connor,' finds multiple listings, and starts killing them one by one. No phone book, no movie.
Rico has already appeared in Den of Thieves, Den of Thieves 2, and Roadhouse alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Dave Bautista. Jason Statham is developing a specific role for him. Working alongside elite actors taught Rico something about himself: the emotional suppression that makes him a great fighter is exactly the material that makes great acting — if he learns to stop pushing it away.
Trump joked that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally ran over, butchered, and delivered the evening's beef tenderloin to the dinner — then topped it with a punchline about RFK wanting to serve raccoon roadkill as an appetizer. The crowd's laughter at jokes targeting his own administration signaled a rare night of good-natured self-deprecation from Trump.
Jimmy Tatro is playing the nemesis-son to Will Ferrell's washed-up golfer in The Hawk, his fifth project with Ferrell and Ferrell's first lead TV series. The real highlight: Molly Shannon, playing his on-screen mother, drove off set on the last day with Chief Keef blasting from her subwoofers.
Alan Ritchson walked into a Thor audition with his sides still in his hand, half-assed it on a spotlight-lit stage before two silhouettes in a dark theater, and bombed so completely that the casting director broke protocol to call his team. The feedback? He had no craft. That one sentence sent him to acting school — and changed the trajectory of everything.
Alan Ritchson walked out of his Titans audition so sure he'd booked the lead that he called his wife and told her he was going to buy a Tesla. She said he hadn't booked it. He went and bought the car anyway. His instincts were right — he was offered the role — just not the one he wanted.
Reacher drew 56 million global viewers in a single week of Season 2. Alan Ritchson points out what makes it unusual: unlike ensemble shows, almost all of that visibility lands on one person. It's an anthology with a rotating cast built around a single titular character — and the scale of it is something even he calls unprecedented.
Motor City has no spoken dialogue. Every major leading man in Hollywood — Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman, Gerard Butler, Adrian Brody — was attached at some point. It was greenlit nine times. The concept was simple: Greg Silverman wanted a film everyone in the world could watch with the exact same experience, regardless of language. Alan Ritchson read the script and called it a masterpiece.
Working with Arnold Schwarzenegger showed Alan Ritchson what 100% recognition looks like. People feel Schwarzenegger before they see him — like a meteor approaching. Alan's wife wants a strict no-photos policy around family. Arnold stops for everyone. The contrast was a master class in how gratitude should manifest when fame is inescapable.
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