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/