On the first night of a 5-week European tour in Romania, Matt Rife's videographer Kyle was drugged and robbed of his chain, camera, and $3,000 from his debit card.
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A conversation about Rhode Island data centers leads to a clip of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison describing an AI surveillance system where 'citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting everything.' Theo and Matt are visibly unsettled — not quite outraged, but deeply uneasy. They then stumble across Flock Safety camera information: license plate readers that also build behavioral profiles using gender, clothing, biometrics, and social media data, already deployed in over 4,000 US cities and apparently feeding into Palantir's Gotham platform used for ICE operations. Theo's conclusion: 'It's done. That's the new Annabelle — and she's out of the box.' [1] — Theo Von "Theo Von and Matt Rife read about Flock Safety cameras — surveillance devices deployed in over 4,000 US cities that don't just read license…" 1:50:20
Matt Rife's crowd work segment with a grandmother from Iowa has collectively received over 100 million views across platforms.
On the very first night of a five-week European tour in Romania, Matt Rife's videographer Kyle was drugged by strippers, robbed of his chain, camera, and $3,000, and woke up in an ambulance 50 miles from the hotel. His only clear memory: 'I think those strippers were mean to me.'
A novel called 'Call Me, I'll Hide the Body' triggered a 14-publisher bidding war and sold for $2.4 million before critics alleged it was predominantly written by AI.
John Mulaney cold-texted Robby Hoffman out of nowhere to offer to produce her Netflix special, which became Wake Up.
Robby Hoffman posed as a courier to hand-deliver her spec script directly to the president of HBO Canada early in her career.
Robby and Mulaney filmed two shows in one night for the Netflix special; after the first they knew they had it, so the second was a victory lap.
Jimmy Carr performs up to 300 shows a year, often doing two shows per night, which he says reduces nerves rather than increasing them.
Jimmy Carr says that speaking at roughly 92 beats per minute is the optimal cadence for comedy and public speaking, including political speeches like Obama's.
The oldest recorded joke appears in a Roman book called 'The Lover of Laughter' and is still funny — a barber asking how a man wants his haircut, who replies 'in silence'.
Jimmy Carr argues that comedians like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Dave Chappelle have permanently expanded the conversational Overton window on sex, politics, and taboo topics.
The Lion King musical has grossed over $11 billion in its 30-year run, making it the single highest-grossing piece of entertainment in history across any medium.
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