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303. Thirty Minute Thursday! Michael Allio & Jadé Marie Chapman Recap, Love After Loss, Portugal Adventures & Pop Culture Headlines
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It's 30 minute Thursday, baby. I got the one and only the curious Canadian with me. I feel like our most loyal listeners are always here with us on 30 Minute Thursdays. And it's a beautiful thing. It is Thursday, May 28th. We are right around the corner to June. Holy shit. Where did 2026 go? I'll tell you what, time is flying. Speaking of time flying, it feels like yesterday I had Michael A. On. We were talking about his breakup with Danny. Now he's in love, he's wrote a book, he's found business, endeavors, he's back on his feet where last time I saw him it was a little bit of a mess and I am so happy for him. He sounds like he's really doing well and it feels like he 100% met his one curious Canadian, David Arwin. Before we get into Michael A. How are we doing? Like, what's going on? What's cooking?
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We're doing good. I, I resonate with the times. Moving too fast apparently was Memorial Day last weekend. I feel like that came a week or a month too early. I haven't even. I just took the patio furniture out of my shed after Memorial Day. That doesn't make sense. But here we are. It's May 28th. It's almost June. Summer's basically almost over. Great. Didn't. Don't even, didn't even get a tan yet. But here we are. We're moving at the speed of light. But life is good. Life is good. I had a. I had an amazing personal weekend as a, as a, as a father that we'll get into later when we talk some personal updates. But speaking of father, you have a great one here in Michael for James the. Listen, I'm going to say this, okay. I'm going to say this. I hope you understand where I'm coming from. This was such a feel good episode that it made me question if it was too good to feel like. If it was like too good. Like this is. These two are too perfect. This book, this cancer, chemo, this skin. This is too per I'm style. I'm starting to question my life because it's so perfect. It was just crazy. Hallmark meets like manifestation meets like rom com meets everything. It was just such a feel good episode and like you said, so happy for him. So did you feel that in the room, Jay?
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Dude, so well said. Like I had a. That day I had like a 6am flight so I was like super tired. And you know me, I'm usually Mr. Positive and Stuff. Right. And There. I think if you guys go watch the YouTube, if you don't know trading secrets has a YouTube, just go search Jason Tardick. Subscribe. There are times they're talking and I'm just like, I'm. I'm literally just like. I'm like, wow. Like, really? Oh, my God. And I was like, wait, what? I'm like, you two are soulmates, and if you're not, if these two aren't soulmates, I'm just like, soulmates don't exist because everything was in. It was like, so kind, so supportive, so sweet. What he's doing with this book is amazing. I haven't talked to Michael in a while and I'm like, I felt the same way. I'm like, damn, I got. I'll be. You know, I love on 30 Minute Thursdays. I always get behind the scenes, right? We got out of there. I'm like, guys, when are we doing this? Like, what are we waiting for? Like, you guys, you guys got this thing on lock. Everything is like, so dialed. And they're both. They're very, very kind. Behind the scenes, they're both very, very kind. You know how sometimes, like, you hear people are like, what are they like? Like, on camera versus off. Those two are just very, very. They are very sweet. They were actually heading off to Hamilton show. They were going to see Alexander Hamilton right from the studio.
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And yeah, it was crazy. It was 15 minutes in. I was like, this is so sweet. This is so. And then 45 minutes, I'm like, why am I getting angry with how, like, sweet and kind and. And amazing they are? Like, this is. This is a me problem. But no, it was. It was incredible. Got to read his book. I mean, gosh, talk about, like father to son or just parent to child of like, using the characters, the storytelling to just have the hard conversations and have them resonate. It was just a beautiful, like, the best part about it was there was no intent that he did 35 of them, that James had to pick seven of them. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy and read it. And it just kind of has him shine all the way through with what he's trying to achieve, which is at the end of the day, you can tell all he's trying to achieve in life is be the best dad that he can. And this is a huge accomplishment for him. So super proud to see that.
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Yeah, amazing, Truly. And I think the idea to, you know, you, you know, you talked about your personal updates, having a great weekend with your son. One Year old, forget. I mean, I don't have kids. But his story of how when you tell kids stories, it helps them take them out of being the character in the story. And listening to a story about a character, it feels like that resonate like that to me. I'm like, that makes so much sense. The book idea, like, that's. It's a genius.
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Well, we had last week, Alex, she was talking gayly. Alex was talking about storytelling and in. In her sales mechanism. And so to see storytelling become such a theme and the people who are starting to be really successful at it, be really good storytellers and take themselves. Themselves out of the equation to kind of paint the picture is a pretty powerful form of communication. And they did talk a little bit about money. There's a couple fun, fun quotes. When you asked her how much she invested in her skincare line, she's had a couple commas. Usually you hear a couple zeros. I thought her saying a couple commas was kind of funny. And then she complimented him about how good he is investing money and goes, yeah, it goes to work for me. And it doesn't talk back. I just thought that, like, that, like, kind of just like quick, witty terminology like story talk about storytelling. Like, it hit. It resonated. I'm like, he's got a point there. He's really got a point.
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Yeah, I think so, too. Any other big takeaways, questions? Curiosities?
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How much time's in a day for these, for these two? Like, they are going around the clock. Like, they are. It seems, like, inseparable. I mean, talk about when, you know. You know, I kind of felt like you was like, hey, are we doing this? Like, when we. When are we doing. Doing this? When we make it official. But they just. They're so happy. I mean, how could you not just want to ride the wave of, like, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Whatever they are, you don't need a label on it. They seem perfect together. James, obviously, you know, is. Is cared for and loved in the situation. Just, I. You got to think at some point, even though they seem perfect, there's so many hard things that they talked about. And you got to think that this episode resonates with people no matter what they've been through, 100%.
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I mean, you talk about grieving through loss, making room for someone else, and stepping into a parenting situation.
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Yeah.
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That Jade's had to step into. It's. It's truly, like, I would say this is the couple that needs to Write a book on how you manage all the moving. Moving from Dude, Hollywood, L.A. to Acrid. That's a. That's a huge life adjustment. And it sounds like that's kind of the theme of their relationship is, like, just making these big adjustments. Beautiful episode. They're doing well and a lot to talk about.
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Yeah. And doing like she said just to. To do it with. She asked, like, what's the blueprint? He's like, I'm a single dad. You think I know what it's like going to be when he turns 8, 9, 10, goes through purity. Like, that's the beauty of parenting. That's the beautiful beauty of going through that journey with someone as be able to figure it out on their own. And let me tell you, it seems like they've. They are figuring it out, Jason. Figuring it out. Which is great to see.
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That is for damn sure. All right, David. Well, anything else on Michael A. Before we go to what is happening in pop culture markets and money right now?
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No, I'm. I'm gonna. I'm gonna parlay that with, like I. Like I said before, a little bit of a. A. A proud father moment. We're gonna go personal before pop culture and business. It was Memorial Day weekend last weekend you were in Portugal. I want to hear a little bit about that and just some takeaways that you had being to Portugal for resonate with some of our listeners. But it was 50 degrees and raining the whole weekend here. And so what we decided to turn into was a sports weekend for Carter. We took him mini golfing, we took him bowling, and we took him skating for the first time. And you would think that the hockey coach who runs a hockey academy knows exactly what to do for his kid. The first time skating, I was, like, so anxious the night before. I made him, like, try, like, what does a three year old wear on the ice? Does he wear all the gear?
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Does he wear.
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None of the gears wear. Does he wear a snow pants? Does he wear a jacket? So we were trying them on. It was really cute. And then I went digging in, in my. In my attic space, and I found the first ever hockey jersey that I ever was given when I was five years old. It's a Pittsburgh Penguins Mario Lemieux jersey. And it's all ratty and torn up, and I just brought it down. I was, like, about to cry, and I put it on him. He just loved it. And he was like, jersey, jersey. And so he wore that to his first skate. So my son had his first skate. Something I'll never forget was really emotional. Truly a really emotional moment for me. So that's one thing that I'll never forget. And that's how I spend my Memorial Day weekend.
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Dude, that's beautiful. Those are. I mean, I have the picture of my dad and I when we went skating for the first time, and it is buried into my brain. Like, I remember exactly what he was wearing and what I was wearing and all that. I also have a memory I'll never forget, which you'll have with Carter, too. I always had wheels playing hockey. I could go. I could skate fast. I couldn't stop. I was like Luis Mendoza out there. And the first time I stopped, I remember I was in the middle of a game. My dad was coaching me. I'm like, dad, I stopped. I stopped. And those are the moments. You just. You gotta live in those. You gotta cherish them. It's a beautiful thing.
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Your dad commented on my Instagram post, and he was like, I just love this. And I was like, I bet you do. I was like, I bet you do.
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So it's.
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It's funny that you bring that up, too, because he was feeling it, but, you know, you were doing, you know, more. I'm gonna say, exciting things in Portugal. Any takeaways for the people? Tell me about Portugal. I've never been. We were there for bachelor party. Any. Any. Any. Any things that cost of living, Portugal. Are things cheap? Are they expensive? Did you. You guys traveled through train. You guys went out to a nightclub. You guys went out for restaurants. You drank a lot of wine. You went on a boat tour. Like, you know, getting there was expensive, but when you're there, did it make a little more sense? How was it? Paint a picture for me. I got a little out of fomo.
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So, yeah. So, like, I was thinking a lot of bees. It was the boys. We went to the beach, we had some bougie dinners, we went to bars, and we did a boat. That was a lot of bees. Portugal was beautiful. Like, I mean, you've been to Europe, right? Okay, just Europe in general. It's just. I mean, it's amazing. The vibe, the people instantly, all energies calm. One of the funny things is, like, why were we having anxiety at the restaurant? Like, we were. Everyone was having anxiety at a restaurant because it takes so long for them to come to you. Like, that's how impatient we are as Americans. We're just like, where are you? Where's our drink? Where's everything? And, like, you have to ask, you have to beg for the bill. It's like hello. Like it's so funny in that regard. But the food was incredible. It's the, this just the scene, the views. The Airbnb was amazing. Like I mean we fit all 12 people in there. There's two different pools in the Airbnb. Ubers are so damn cheap. Nauseating. It's like $3 to get somewhere and we have a good decent exchange rate right now with the Euro. It's like anywhere though. You want to go to fancy places, you're going to spend a lot. The last night we went to a really nice meal. So we were there from 7:30pm to 1:30am it was a, you know to sit 12 people and it was a standard. Like they set the meal for us and a drink package, you know everything from wagu to lobster fetishini with gluten free options. The, the, the package had unlimited wine and beer. People of course got their own cocktails. That plus a bottle after in its own table was like 30 $300 US so around 294 per person from a 7:30pm to a 1:00am with like a bottle, a whole dinner, drinks, cocktails. And it was the most expensive, most amazing place we went. So that's for perspective. The other can you went to is like 60. It was like a really nice 11 course meal and it was like 60, 70 bucks.
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Can you, can you compare that 294 head to like if you did that same thing in like New York City or Miami?
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It's so funny you said that Hawk's brother was saying that. He was like oh, the 294 for the head for that one by the way. It's like we, we paid for the bachelor. So that was 11 people. Eight, eight to $10,000. I mean that's what's great. So when you go out there, at least in Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal, I mean it was, it was, it was affordable. It was affordable. It's not cheap. You're not, you know, you're not getting steals but it's, it's much more affordable than going to like a Miami, New York City, Louisiana. The boat was, that was the. Probably the best. You're on the boat and just the views are incredible. You're with the boys. There were tears shed on the boat. There were, you know this group was really, really good. You know most of us as you know all went to college together. So a lot of us have like 20 years of relationship. We were really good at like let's go around the horn and like let's Say, what's your favorite memory? What's our favorite this. What's your favorite memory of this person? That person? And it was like there was. It was just. It was emotional, it was fun, it was exciting. I think the best part too is with that many people, you get concerned about, like, how is it going to work? How's the vibe going to work? And you realize that 12 of the 14 of us, 12 of the 14 of us lived together in college. Like actually in the same house. There was 12 of us that lived in the same house. So it worked. It's just like it was like back to college days for a weekend. And it was, it was great. We had a good time. But we missed you, man. We missed you.
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Yeah. And listen, the group that was there was a bunch of Michael A's. There's a bunch of like down to earth great guys who want to get in the weeds about, you know, talking and showing appreciation and talking with kindness and so it seemed like an amazing time. Like I said, FOMO was off the charts, so. But. But I'm happy for Hawk. It sounded like he had a great weekend and. And now you're back and you're about to go back to Europe. Correct?
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Insane. Yeah, I tell. I think I said this last week. I'm like in this wild chapter that I have friends that are in bachelor parties. I have. Yeah. Couple weddings coming up here in Europe. So leaving the sixth, we're going to Santorini for a wedding. Then Catherine and I by ourself will be exploring Italy together. Can't wait for that. And then going to Croatia for another wedding. So most of June I'll be in Europe. So this is like Euro 2026. I don't know when I'll be back in Europe. Probably not for a very long time. But I'll let you know how that trip goes.
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Taking Trading Secrets International for a couple of weeks as we 30 Minute Thursday on the road. Speaking of prices, Jay, I've been. The New York Knicks have made the a NBA Finals and I saw they're doing cross comparisons. They're assuming they're playing the Oklahoma City Thunder. I've seen cross comparisons on social media of what kind of home you can buy in Oklahoma City for the price of a ticket to Game 3 or Game 4 of the NBA Finals. It's gonna be madness that New York City might burn down. It's. It's just crazy. Tickets are going for an astronomical amount. It's, it's, it's. Can you. You just suffered a pretty hard loss in, in game seven. Can you justify paying a lot for Sporting Men anymore?
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No, it's stupid. Honestly, like I'm just done. I've. I've. Like, it's so stupid. It's so, it's so. My business partner is a huge Knicks fan and he was saying how for the cost of the cheapest ticket for him to go, he could in New York City, by the way, he lives in Connecticut. He could pay for his son to have daycare. Full time daycare. That's like a month plus of expenses. One ticket, worst place in the entire spot. There's, it's all, it's, it's bullshit.
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You could probably rent a Super Bowl.
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I've gone to all these things. I've. Stanley Cup, I've been a Stanley Cup Game 7 team wins in overtime and the next morning drinking out of the cup in a beer. And still these prices are just nuts. They're just crazy. And honestly like I'm going to show you some, some like business case too. The times I have bought tickets for the Super Bowl, I have bought them after it starts on an app where the prices decrease significantly. Where I got them at like 20, 30% of what their price point was before the game. And there's a business case because like those big events, like you can get good, good content, which is crazy. But like that's a reality in the world that we live in. And like the people paying this much is just nuts. And it's the same thing for the, the FIFA. So today I read this. Yeah.
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Before you get there, there is a scenario in which Game 6 of the NBA Finals is happening the same time as a World cup match is happening at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, right across the, the Hudson from New York City, which they're saying like between the amount of like people that flood the streets for Knicks games, win or losses and the traffic for people who are coming for the World cup is like New York City is going to be like immobile. Like don't even leave your house if you're not like going out for the World cup or going out for the Knicks. And in cost wise of each of those events, it's, it's just crazy. Things are just getting so expensive.
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It's getting ridiculous. Especially here in the States. I read this article this morning. It's so funny you said that. I was alluding to that. I mean that by the way, that would be epic like if you. I remember once I went to a Mets game and US Open and we walked to it and like that was the coolest thing. I can't even imagine what that would be. Sky high. World cup ticket prices sparks investigation by New York and New Jersey attorneys. It's crazy what happened here recently with these ticket prices. FIFA ticket prices for group matches in the U.S. they began at 60 bucks for a small number of tickets, and now they went up to more than $600. That was, according to the New York Times, face value tickets for the final were as much as. How much, David? Face value tickets for the final were as much as.
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Face value tickets are as much as the World cup final.
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I mean, it's got to be like four grand, $10,990. Fans were already angry about these high prices, which quickly soared exponentially higher on resale platforms, including $2 million for the final. There were group packages, $2 million. So they're looking into seeing what is going on, how it's going on now. David. I sat next to the head of all FIFA comms at, at Bloomberg when I was there for a dinner. He said, this has just been such a hard World cup of deal. Oh, like he's dealing with such mania from these platforms from people from. Honestly, he talked about like, like the capitalism United States creates. This whole other moving point that he like typically in some other countries doesn't have to deal with as much. I mean, it was wild to like hear from his standpoint how he's like, you know, it's just been absolutely mayhem to deal with the communications of the World Cup.
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Well, you're dealing with three countries hosting, which is pretty rare. You're dealing with locations all across. I mean, just the logistics of it is crazy. And the World cup like this, I mean, they had it in Qatar, for God's sakes. And there was a whole bunch of issues in terms of labor inequality and things of that nature, building those. So the World cup is an amazing event. But God, it's got some. It's got some red flags. It's got some. It's got some corruptness behind it. I think that we can all agree on that.
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It's mayhem. Another wild thing. Travis Kelce. I mean, that guy has hit a whole different level. It's funny. After the Miami Super Bowl, Evan and I were at the afterparty with them and Evan and I have a picture of Travis Kelce. And I gotta show you, the style this guy has at this point in time in his life is just atrocious. Fast forward today. This guy is like dialed. There's not a. There's that from the top hair on his head to the bottom, you know, piece of rubber on his shoe. Everything is just dialed. He now just bought a minority stake in Cleveland Guardians after taking Taylor Swift to his hometown. I credit every good thing in my life to Cleveland and being raised here with the values and the people and the work ethic. I think that connects to a lot of people in the Midwest and people like you who live in Rochester. Me from Buffalo? You gotta love to see that. You love to see people born from, you know, smaller midtown cities come back and make a difference like that. How much he bought it for, trust me, I will be looking everywhere. We'll share it here on Trading Secrets. Don't have that information now, but that's what's moving, and this one is crazy. There was an indie horror film, David, that became a box office obsession. There's a YouTuber, Curry Barker, who filmed a rare box office fee, okay, earning 30% more in its second weekend in theaters than its opening. How much do you think it cost? What do you think the budget was to make this horror movie?
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Indie?
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Yep.
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Okay, all right. Horror, indie, small, we're talking. It's still a movie though. So it's not gonna be a million dollars. It's gonna be less. It's gonna be 612, 000.
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Man, you're getting good. Five years and 300 episodes of Trading Secrets. This guy's just getting good. Curry Barker, the 26 year old YouTuber turned filmmaker made his horror movie film obsession in just 20 days on a mere seven hundred and fifty thousand dollar budget. Wait till you hear these numbers.
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It's still a lot of money.
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No, it's a lot of money, but that is nothing for a movie. After its second weekend in theaters, the Focus Features distributed movie is now on its track to earn more than a hundred times that amount with an expected 79.7 million haul at global box office, according to Box Office Mojo. My biggest takeaway from that is like this is a 26 year old kid who is a YouTuber who continued to just dream bigger and go bigger and do more. And he obviously raised the capital. We should try and get Curry Barker on this. Raised $250,000 and now has a global hit. $80 million. David, what do you take away from that?
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Well, I, I take a lot away. It reminds me of the Blair Witch Project. If we have any, any millennials listening to this, you'll remember the Blair Witch Project made from a home video with a bunch of buddies that are ripping around in the forest. And that was in theaters, scaring The. Out of people making millions and millions of dollars. I would like to do a comp right now. I don't know if you're, if you're, if you're in the ones and twos there, but I would love to see how much the Blair Witch Project was to. To create and, and make. And Jason's gonna do a little scribing there for me. But that. Listen, sometimes when you put your life's passions together, if it's good quality, it's good quality. And, you know, putting. Raising money and, and being able to put 750. I love these stories. These make me feel better than Transformers, who you spend. The budget's ridiculous and they. Maybe they cover it and it's all ridiculous anyways.
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I feel like it's the way it's going. Like, there's. There feels like this very interesting thing in time where we're doing the opposite of what makes sense. Like, even on social media, they're saying, like, just pick up your phone, don't edit anything. Just go. Like, I think people are looking for so much, like, more realness in this time because there's so much fake out there. You know what I'm saying? Oh, it's crazy.
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It's no doubt. I mean, it's, it's really been the case with a lot of people that we've talked about, because everyone who is successful comes on and says, just be authentic. Be yourself. Like, curated content that's like, perfect. It's not as well received, and it's also not sustainable. It's not realistic. It's not. It's. It takes too much time. You get people who pick up and record what's on their mind. I mean, you think of some people like a Brianna Chicken fry, Dave Portnoy doing Ty, this new guy, Big John, like, he's, he's talking about it on, on social media being like, for the amount of time that you've thought, he's like, just post the cringe content. Just post the cringe content. The amount of time you've thought about if people are gonna like it. I've already put up seven videos and that's why I'm better than you. Like, it's, it's. But it's the truth and it's more relatable. And it's. I don't know. It's, it's, it's. It's crazy. Now what you don't want to do, talk about pop culture in the media right now is, is pick up the phone and say something stupid like James Charles did what?
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What happened there?
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No, you don't. Come on, Jason. You know James Charles? Yeah. You know who James Charles is?
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No.
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Jason.
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This. I feel like this is like when
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you asked 45 million followers. 45 million followers on Tick Tock. Does the makeup.
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Yeah.
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Oh, yeah. Big.
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You lost like 5 million flesh. What did he do?
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He had a. A Spirit Airlines employee reach out to him asking, you know, they. Spirit Airlines just went bankrupt. She lost her job. She's was asking for if he would be, you know, donate to a cause or a fund. And he basically took this person, opened his phone and absolutely shredded her. Basically, like, laughed in her face, demeaned her. I. I'll send you the video. It'll absolutely disgust you. And he's getting the proper treatment. There's also a lot of people saying that, like, they went to go unfa. Like, they didn't even know they were following them. And people are saying that all the 40 million followers that he do have, that he does have, maybe a lot of them aren't real because people. More people want him unfollowed and it's not moving as fast as they want. But talk about kindness. Michael A. At the start of this episode, you've done a couple reels yesterday about kindness and increasing kind. And just to see someone use their $45 million platform to just absolutely. On someone who just lost their job, who's just throwing. Just. Just throwing a. A hail. Hail Mary out there, asking for a favor, a generous act, like, I don't know, James Charles. Pretty gross. It was pretty gross, to be honest.
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Me or. And I said this on my story yesterday. But, like, is. It feels like people are just talking so much, just shit lately. Like, I feel like everywhere I turn, like I go to a post and it's just talking after talking. Is it. Is this just my little algorithm and world?
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No, it's been our world for 25 years, since probably the Internet was invented and maybe before that in some ways. But it's just. People go on the Internet and seek out, like, things that they don't like almost more than they like. I mean, you just. It just. It's kind of that world where it's easier to pile on someone than it is to support them. It's tough, though. It's like people's insecurities coming out when. When they. When they get to hide behind a computer screen. And that's where it comes from. Everyone's looking for a comment. And some listen, some people. Sometimes it's good because it holds people in check a little bit. But then sometimes it's bad when you're just doing it to do it.
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But I think the reality is like it's, I think think having so much visibility to so many people in the so many areas of their life is creating reactions from individuals because of maybe issues they're having. You called it out. I nodded my head. Hearing like Michael A. You're like, is something wrong with me? Like is this too perfect? Like, but you think about, you're someone who's very expressive. Like when you feel good, you share how great you feel. When you feel sad, you feel so like, you know, maybe there is something in there that like maybe like triggered or brought something up. And I think what happens and that's a healthy way to do it. I think there's so many unhealthy people that are just like so like pissed at the world and then they see something online and they just throw all their on those people.
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Well, I think online has given us the ability to have feel like we have the say the right to comment or, or call out things that we don't like where before when we didn't have that opportunity. Maybe a little more bite your tongue. A little more self reflection, less opportunity. I mean we're going to end this 30 minute Thursday because we got about two minutes left. Like we, like we've ended all of them. I mean tell me the Summer House reunion that just aired, that is g. That, that has just been the fuel and the fire of like everyone feels like they're entitled to an opinion of what's going on. We've talked about on the podcast. So here we are contributing to it. But it's, but it's just the world that we live in. It's kind of sad but at the end of the day it also is like the moral compass. Like if you're, if you're, if you're on a platform, if you're James Charles and you're saying something that is wrong. Right. If you're on Summer House and you're. And you're choosing through actions to do something that is hurting people and is, is wrong by societal norms. Like and, and people have the ability to comment on it. Yeah. You can say people are filled with hate, but when it's done towards actions that are wrong, like wrong. Like, like the moral compass says it's wrong. I don't know. It's. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen naturally. Especially when they have the platform.
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B
Interesting take. That's why you gotta love 30 Minute Thursdays. And for those who stuck with us this long, the answer for Blair Witch. I had it here. Okay, we just got talking. 200 to 300,000. That was the final cost to make the Blair Witch Project. An initial production was $35,000. To shoot it raw. After post production, sound remixing, transferring the film to 35 millimeter, the final cost was around 200 to 300,000. So I found that pretty.
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A
How much did it make?
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B
Let's see.
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A
Yeah, we gotta see how. Gotta see how much. Me, I'm not. I'm not a scary movie guy. I'm just not. I'm a. I'm a huge wuss. Like, I'm just bad.
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B
Like, I like, have to watch love horror movies. Oh, you wouldn't go in haunted houses, huh?
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A
Not by choice. It's like I. It's like, oh, if you're at a haunted house, you're. You probably like with a girl, it's like, oh, yeah, no, of course I'll go. Yeah, you just go first. You just go first. I'll hold your hand. I'll make sure the.
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B
My birthday's late October. I would have parties where people like, when, you know, like Bill Story would be like, we're gonna go to a haunted house. Get pizzas, go to hot house. All right, we're running late on 30 Minute Thursday. $248.6 million at the worldwide box office.
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A
Wow.
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B
A lot of action happening in pop culture, money and markets. Next week we'll talk a little bit more about personal finance and trip to Europe. All the exciting things, plans. David, anything before we wrap 30 Minute Thursday?
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A
We got to get someone who is a specialist in peptides on the podcast. I got so many questions and curiosities about the goddamn peptide conversation. Feels like I woke up one day and everyone in the world knows what a peptide is. I have no clue. So it's just, I'm putting it out there.
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B
I need.
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A
I want peptides.
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B
I will get a peptide. Guy can see it. Done, done and done. Thank you for tuning in to another episode of 30 Minute Thursday. Hopefully it was one you couldn't afford to miss. Get ready, Dancing with the Stars. Max. Next week.