Hollywood’s Tech Founder Villain Era & Meta’s Muse Soars to Top of App Store
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Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Kayla Lopez. And I'm Kyle Hagee. Today, why you may never have to be on hold again.
And why California creators might get fined for undisclosed political posting, it's Monday, September 21st. Let's ride.
Good morning. It's a per my last email takeover. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. That's takeover. Crazy. Kyle. Uh Neil and Toby are out today, so Kyle and I are filling in.
That's right. Uh very excited to do the show with you, Kayla. A different show today. And we might as well start off with a hard-hitting topic. That is toilet talk. Let's do it. New York City is deploying robotoilets across the five boroughs, which can be opened only by texting a number via a smartphone or by using a special tap card. And once inside, a 10-minute timer will start. And when it hits zero, the users will say, Hey, you have no time left. And then the doors will open. Exposing them to the public. And if someone still refuses to leave the futuristic bathroom, workers for Throne Labs, the company that makes these robotoilets, will get an alert to go check thing out, check things out in person, which sounds like a very fun job.
And then obviously uh could escalate it and call the police from there if someone is is holed up in the robo toilet. Kayla, I have a question I never thought I'd ask you. What do you think about robotoilets?
You know what? I gotta be honest. I think 10 minutes is plenty of time. I I don't know what's all the the hullabaloo about here. Uh and I'm pr I'm super pro this because I think New York City has only a thousand public bathrooms across five boroughs.
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So like if yeah, if that's what it takes is a robo toilet to make sure that there's more accessible bathrooms that isn't like a hotel lobby, I'm pro that.
I like it. I do need this RoboTilet at home, so I stopped scrolling Twitter in ten minutes. So we'll have to look into that. Now a quick word from our sponsor, Roku Ads Manager.
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Founders are becoming more uncool than skinny jeans, and it's impacting what we see at the box office. A documentary on Elon Musk is making the festival rounds, and it got such good reviews that its US distributor pushed the release date up by a week to October 9th. The film is from Oscar and Emmy winning director Alex Gibney, who's known for documentaries like Going Clear about Scientology and Enron, the smartest guys in the room, about well, Enron. This new documentary, which is nearly four hours long with a 10-minute intermission, reportedly covers Musk's entrepreneurial start, then follows his rise to fame and covers his more recent political involvement with President Trump and the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency or Doge.
Musk has not let this movie sink in, calling it a hit piece back in twenty twenty three when the film concept was announced, and calling Gibney a bitter old man with zero integrity after it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival earlier this month, though there's no indication that he's actually seen the movie. After a decade plus of content celebrating people with founder in their LinkedIn titles as quirky, if not flawed, geniuses, this documentary fits into a recent pattern of media portraying real and fictional founders in a more negative light, pointing to signs that Hollywood's love affair with tech founders is over.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:49
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How are New York City’s new robo‑toilets designed and what problems do they aim to solve?
1:49–8:30
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What does Roku Ads Manager’s first‑class offer mean for small marketers?
8:30–12:32
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What’s the latest news on the Elon Musk documentary and Hollywood’s tech founder portrayals?
12:32–26:15
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