In this episode:

• Why Gen Z is going to the movies more than everyone expected, and why phones in theaters should maybe be legally actionable.
• How streaming-only movies and albums can just disappear forever because apparently permanence was too convenient.
• A $500,000 tropical company retreat somehow became E. coli, dead tarantulas, Navy SEAL drills, fire ants, and a falling porcupine.
• A CEO says craving work-life balance is a red flag, because billion-dollar executive advice remains undefeated in being wildly out of touch.
• Why return-to-office arguments keep pretending to be about culture when they usually end at “because I said so.”

Listen if you care about movie theaters, missing media, corporate retreats from hell, CEOs with too much confidence, work-life balance, remote work, and workplace culture getting a little too culty.

00:00 Intro: Eyes on the Prize, Probably
02:10 Gen Z Is Saving Movie Theaters?
05:00 Phones, Second Screens, and Movie Theater Jail
06:48 Streaming, Missing Media, and Movies That Vanish
09:42 The $500K Corporate Retreat From Hell
17:46 Work-Life Balance Is Apparently a Red Flag
22:30 Remote Work, Return-to-Office, and Executive Control
27:21 Wrap-Up

Article Links:

Gen Z & movies https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/gen-z-driving-box-office-1236703551/

Corporate Retreat from Hell https://www.inc.com/leila-sheridan/plex-tech-company-retreat-nightmare/91327481

Work-life balance https://fortune.com/2026/04/22/work-life-balance-bupa-fortune-500-ceo-barack-obama-work-weekend/

In this episode:

• The McDonald’s CEO blames his mom for the world’s weirdest burger bite, because apparently even billion-dollar burger drama can become a family issue.
• Google changes the review rules, because apparently businesses needed a reminder that “please say Brad was amazing” is not organic feedback.
• Scott’s hilarious fake testimonial stunt for his own book proves that with enough Fiverr and zero shame, “bomb diggity” can become a marketing strategy.
• The Bell Mobility review mess, where Scott used the highly classified investigative tool called LinkedIn and helped turn fake app praise into a $1.25 million lesson, all before getting out of bed.

Listen if you care about customer trust, fake reviews, CEOs trying to act relatable, Google review rules, brand credibility, and why “just leave us five stars” is not a business strategy.

Article links:

https://sporked.com/article/mcdonalds-ceo-blames-small-bite-mother/

https://www.threechaptermedia.com/blog/google-review-policy-2026

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/AttractionProductReview-g45963-d13166381-Exotic_Car_Driving_Experience_at_the_Las_Vegas_Motor_Speedway-Las_Vegas_Nevada.html

https://unmarketing.com/articles/for-whom-the-bell-mobility-tolls

00:00 Intro

02:57 McDonald’s CEO and the Burger Bite Heard Around the Internet

08:30 Google Changes the Rules for Customer Reviews

17:44 Fake Testimonials, Review Trust, and the Bomb Diggity Problem

19:34 The Bell Mobility Tolls Article and the $1.25M Review Scandal

In this episode:

• Why animal shelter adoption data says more about business than most executives do
• Dropbox treating adults like adults should not feel revolutionary, and yet here we are.
• “Return to office” keeps pretending it’s about collaboration when it’s really giving control issues a corporate haircut.
• Ontario’s hiring rules are basically the government stepping in because too many employers refused to stop being shady on their own.

Listen in if you care about:
The future of work, the nonsense built into modern hiring, and why “trust your people” still feels like a radical business strategy.

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Articles:

Best Friend’s Society: article

Dropbox CEO: article

Return to work mandate - leases: article

Moms at work pay transparency: article