Listeners, this week G+J are discussing a buzzy anthology series that doubles as a recurring theme of this podcast: Beef! The boys are impressed with this darkly comic Netflix project starring Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny, and Charles Melton. Before they venture into the intergenerational battlefield, they break down Amazon MGM dropping Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’, A24 accepting money from Google in a new AI partnership, and an all-women festival from Olivia Rodrigo. Sis, are we unc chopped?

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:54 Catch-Up ft. Shampooing Redux

06:44 Amazon MGM Drops ‘Artificial’, Citing $50B Investment in OpenAI 

12:19 Google Invests $75M in A24 in an AI Research Partnership

18:13 Olivia Rodrigo Launches Daisy Chain Fields Festival with an All-Woman Lineup

23:03 Charli xcx Releases “Wink Wink”, the 3rd Single off ‘Music, Fashion, Film’

28:38 Beef s2 (Spoiler-free)

52:34 *SPOILERS* for Beef s2

01:13:40 Pet Owner Sidebar

01:20:26 Justin’s What’s Good: MIO: Memories in Orbit

01:23:25 Geoff’s What’s Good: missladysalad, Taryn Delanie Smith & Olivia Nicole Hoffman

01:30:47 Outro

What’s Good:

Geoff: missladysalad (Instagram), Taryn Delanie Smith (Instagram) & Olivia Nicole Hoffman (Instagram)

Justin: MIO: Memories in Orbit (Nintendo eShop) (Playstation Store) (Xbox Store) (Steam)

Links:

Bants! on TikTok

Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman, OpenAI Film ‘Artificial’ Dropped by Amazon MGM Studios (The Hollywood Reporter)

Netflix, Focus Pass on Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’ (The Hollywood Reporter)

A24 and Google DeepMind to Form an AI Venture (The Hollywood Reporter)

Olivia Rodrigo Launches Music Festival Daisy Chain Fields (Pitchfork)

Wink Wink (Official Music Video) (YouTube)

Socials:

Instagram • TikTok • YouTube • What’s Good on Letterboxd • What’s Good on Spotify