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Files, Fed Chairs, and Films | Lemonade Stand - Ep. 42 Premium [VIDEO] (Patreon)

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Recorded on: February 3rd, 2026

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0:00 Intro

0:42 - The latest Epstein Files drop

16:42 - The new Fed Chair

20:35 - Scott Bessent

22:09 - Rubio vs Vance

26:55 - New Disney CEO

35:20 - Is Disney in trouble?

38:33 - How to save Movie Theaters

50:09 - Are movies worse?

52:52 - Spiderman is in the files

54:16 - Does age restricting social media work?

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Austin

Glizzy glizzy glizzy

drxcu

I thought the Patreon episodes release mondays?

raymond

Do it make the joke on Patreon

Rolf

Guess we were just lucky

Bailey Yin

Please no phones or chat in movies

Chen

I’ll be real the chat on the screen is the most boomer take I’ve ever seen. Like despite everything, people talk in movies. Shit happens even without your phone man.

raymond

Nah Gen Z’s go to the gym lmfao not movies. We single handedly changed its business model

Robert Quinn

If you follow Scott Galloway, he's been trying to convince everyone to unsubscribe to all the bullshit. I'm with Aiden's totally real friend on this one.

Shane Burton

Surely the joke is about using adobe acrobat to edit the pdfiles

FoxHunt

36:25 Aiden said it. He fucking said it.

XCaliber

To counter Doug's point about why they don't just drop all the files at once and hide the small (20%) number that are truly incriminating is because of fear of whistleblowers. There is an argument that people have seen the worse of the worse in the files and if those are hidden from a dump they will be noticed/leaked. You can never gurantee that acts like that wont be leaked. That's also why they can't just destroy the files. There is also the issue of mutually assured destruction, where if person A is incriminated, they will leak the existance of hidden files that incriminate others who are being protected by the government. What's more likely is that by normalizing the sloppy way the files are being released and by stretching it out, they can try and hide any "missing" files as mistakes and try to sweep it under the rug. Or make so many mistakes the truly nefarious ones get overlooked.

Eli

About the part of Gen Z not going to movies anymore. I’m on the younger side of Gen Z but going to the movies is still a pretty popular activity at least in my social circles. I personally go 1-2 times a month and just this summer went multiple times with big groups of people to see Superman and f1. I do think it’s in a downturn but the younger generations definitely want to go to movies they are just expensive especially right now. Also at least local theaters near me do reruns of old horror movies and they are packed and sold out. I think there’s ways theaters stay alive and even thrive by doing stuff like that I at least hope they do.

Robert Quinn

For the movie talk. Movies should release different version of the movie in theaters at the same time. Across the Spiderverse had slightly different dialogue and jokes and of course Clue had multiple endings. That would make discussions about the movies more fun in trying to find which version of the movie everyone got.

makaveli

39:00 Re: Movies, Large Multiplex theaters like AMC/Regal etc. are not the theaters that are doing well or the communal experience people are looking for generally. The film “whales” that care about cinema as an art form as opposed to entertainment are what’s doing well imo. There’s lots of independent and Art House cinemas where people go and care about the >programming< and curation especially in major cities with that get First Run cinema. I think Letterboxd has fueled that community as well as seeing things as soon as they come out and keeping up is part of the game and fun of it. I live in Omaha and FilmStream’s our local Non-Profit theatres are doing very well. People want to see big clear video and big clear sound. We are seeing the transformation of cinema to the 501c3 space similar to the continuation and emerge of performing arts centers for “less commercial” forms. There’s a reason why you don’t see Ballet in a 20,000 person Arena/Stadium. Concerts are doing WELL also but Performing Arts Centers are currently struggling in the Live Entertainment space as well. Regal/AMC could completely collapse and the arthouse cinemas will still be there and exist to support the cinema experience.

Scumlord Studio

AIDEN PRICE ISNT AN EXCUSE, IM THE DISNEY YAPPER YOU MET AT ATRICON I WILL SIGN YOU 3 IN FOR FREE

Scumlord Studio

Your move sweeden boy time to take a picture with Mickey and the princesses

Regalia

HARD disagree on movie quality not being the issue there has been a steady down turn for the past decade and arguably the past two in mainstream movies the general audience member can no longer just walk in to the theater on any weekend and expect something of good or great quality, if consistent great movies were coming out in theaters people would absolutely be there but people don’t want to spend 30$ a person just to watch a movie that had its third act written during shooting

Reuben Sinha

I think they should split the guys making the movies from the guys streaming the movies the same way they did for movie theatres, then ban exclusive contracts. I feel like that would immediately make everything better.

mrq02

The equals sign in the Epstein emails come from line character limits on email. It's an encoding issue from how emails used to work.

theo

God people could just bitch less at people talking at the movies. Sit in silence in your room if you want to see a movie that way

Kruger Main

I’m glad Aiden brought up the Israel thing because yeah on instagram I’ve seen A LOT of posts talking about how this confirms they eat babies, worship baal and pizzagate stuff and these posts have millions of likes but honestly NONE of them have any proof or links it drives me a little crazy

Kruger Main

Second comment halfway thru the pod, as a 19 year old chud, yeah me and my friends go to the movies a ton like 3 times a month and I feel like a lot of people around my age does, buuut the theatres do seem relatively empty, and yes chat during a movie would be a w

M C

Iger made some smart decisions during his time as CEO the first time, but he was able to do so because Chapek was his second who made the real stupid/hard decisions at his direction. Reducing costs is worth reducing quality. Anything that went wrong was never directly attributed to him. Chapek then became CEO and continued behaving how he always had and, most importantly, what he had always been praised for. But when all you are known for is reducing costs... you are cooked especially with Iger wanting to run the entire thing as a shadow-CEO. We are just at the natural conclusion to the Disney strategic plan Iger implemented which was objectively horrible with a few great purchases.

mrq02

To save the movie theaters, they need to get a Netflix subscription. And then have the same programming every day for a week, before going to the next week with new programming. I'd absolutely go to the movie theater for 2 hours of The Office (or Arrested Development, or Seinfeld, etc), each week showing like 4 episodes. It'd also be awesome to be able to re-watch old classic movies that have been out of the theaters for ages. I've probably seen Terminator 2 a couple of dozen times in parts on tv. But if it was in the theaters again I'd absolutely show up to watch it. Of course, this would also assume that it only cost like $10 per ticket and the snacks weren't insanely priced. But I think enough other people would go, too, that they could turn a profit, depending on how much Netflix charged the theater.

Rachel Cunningham

As a power move I write extremely informal emails but I couldnt get away with it if I wasn't good at my job

M C

Counter‑argument: when you ban something instead of teaching healthy use, people don’t avoid it—they binge the moment they get access. We’ve seen this everywhere. U.S. alcohol culture is toxic because we forbid drinking until 21, then young adults go wild. Kids from extremely sheltered or home‑schooled environments often swing hard into rebellion. Abstinence‑only sex ed leads to more risky behavior. No‑sugar households create secret bingeing. Dry campuses push drinking underground. Kids who never handle money often overspend once they finally can and are financial illiterate. The pattern is always the same: restriction without education creates overconsumption. People learn moderation through guided exposure, not prohibition. That’s how I grew up—gradual tech access (phone with 5 numbers, to flip phone to smart phone), internet safety education at school, and increasing responsibility. It worked. If we want to protect teens, the answer isn’t banning social media. It’s holding tech companies accountable for predatory design. For example, research shows TikTok’s harm comes from the endless skipping loop. Limit skips, and you break the addictive cycle.

Adib Teske

somebody should make a tracker of all their predictions so we can look back at the lemonade stand boys' track records

Tyler Page

I really hope Aiden goes down the rabbit hole and looks into some of the “100% debunked conspiracies.” Because I’m very anti-conspiracy theory, but once you combine this with some of the Hillary Wikileaks stuff, John Podesta, and James Alefantis stuff, the evidence for a lot of this stuff becomes so clear. I was actually dissociating this week as I dove in the rabbit hole. The “suicide,” without a real noose, the cameras being out, Lutnick CLEARLY knowing what he was, food being used as code for CSAM. Obsessions with immorality link to drinking child blood (yes really, it’s not even that crazy Bryan Johnson was publicly getting blood transfusions from his son). The whole thing is tied together by blackmail. The more informed you get, the more apparent that Epstein was some form of a honeypot for the desires of people who are so rich/powerful that the only things that bring them pleasure, are things money can’t buy.

Rachel Cunningham

many of the reaaallly good movies go directly to streaming now

Rachel Cunningham

OK last comment re: the social media discussion: I just read a really great book on this called The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher

Rachel Cunningham

if Republicans need the Latino vote back, Rubio has a shot at pulling that while Vance absolutely doesn't

Chance Roberson

Aiden’s not a pdf, those women in Sweden were well into their 60s

Reece

I would argue for an algorithm ban for teens. They can still load up instagram or tiktok and follow their friends, but their feed is solely the people they follow (AND follow them back, like facebook friends used to be). Almost like how the subscriptions tab used to be the de facto homepage of youtube back in the day.

Growing Carrot

Aiden's statements on the death of movie theaters remind me of the ship of Theseus. It won't be the same & that sucks

Azayrian105

Damnit Aiden. You can’t just blueball us with an ending statement like that! Now I NEED to know. I mean if it is THAT juicy that you can’t say it on here. Damn it just makes me want to hear it more. Pretty please?

pnott

I go to the theater because I want to watch it in the optimal experience: on a big screen with great sound. If I could afford a million dollar setup in my own home I'd happily do that instead of having to go out.

theo

I get that I just dont think that'll make money because I dont think most people care a whole lot about that aspect of it. Otherwise they wouldnt be struggling so bad.

Tyler Page

I think Aiden’s analogy for social media antibodies has a ton of merit. Rather than doing a class, a practical implementation of the soft skill could be baked into the structure of school. Rather than “no phone” you have multiple 15 minute periods throughout the day where kids can have technology, but then they must put it away to start class. This trains the mind’s ability to stop scrolling in a structured environment, and can kinda serve as an antibody to doomscrolling.

Tyler Page

I also think mindfulness in schools (I think Baltimore did this) can be a massive benefit to mental wellbeing.

Toto Wolffgirl

sincerely if you hate streaming services than just go to the library and get blurays. even in a poor town in Ohio they've got like everything I could want to watch and you can rip the blurays too if you get a drive for your computer. also most libraries in the states are fine free now if that was a concern at all

DeftCG

I second this, anecdotally, my friend group mostly goes to a local theater that has a lot of unique programming, is run by a community organization, often has displays and guests before and after the show, and give little introductions and such before the film starts. It's nice, and feels like much more of an event than a regular movie going experience

DeftCG

And it's less expensive than typical theaters, just a much smaller operation

Devon Meyer

I honestly think the average quality of the movies being produced by Hollywood has dropped off massively in the last decade. That's the reason nobody goes to movies anymore. If they start making amazing movies again everyone will want to go see them. Sure, YouTube, Twitch, and social media content is competing, but I think if the movies coming out are amazing, its gonna start drawing people back. Hollywood has just slowly gatekept creative people from entering, and all the big movies are formulaic because of big executives making safe decisions.

Steven K

I agree with you here and I'd disagree with Aiden on this. Sure, some good movies come out, but, for example 2009 had: Avatar, District 9, Harry Potter, Up, The Blind Side, Sherlock Holmes.. so many great movies. 2025 had... Sinners, Superman, and Wicked 2 if you like Wicked. Maybe being a 28 year old isn't the demographic for movies? I don't think if, say, cinemas dropped ticket prices, it would change anything, because I just don't care to see new films in theatres. I really only go to local theatres when it's, say, Nolan night, and they play older films. Chalamete is an exception and he just genuinely loves film, and so I watch all of his films even if I didn't enjoy being stressed in Marty Supreme.

SgtShrew

TMG would sometimes release a compilation of cut ad reads on the paid platform they used with just the name of the brand omitted and I found them really funny so if you did something similar I would love to watch that.

Eulaila

In reply to the inconvenient nature of streaming services you talked about, i just experienced that with the Superbowl. It was streaming on Peacock, and i went to my friends house to watch it. She lives with her mom, and her mom was with her bf in the other room watching it on there but my friend wasn’t logged in on her tv. So she asked for the login info, only getting the right one after 3 tries, after which it said “login code sent to the email address” (aka her moms) so we just gave up on trying to watch the superbowl even tho her mom was in the next room watching it. Even if we had access to that email, i feel like its an extra layer of work that really disincentives access Online shoppings rule is the less clicks needed to access a product, the better. Why do streaming services make you link your cable provider, find codes on your phone and email, login with external devices, all these things that make it more work to access the product? Netflix works best bc they make it easiest to watch for the least amount of work imo

Mj

I Agree!! This abstinence only approach to the internet isn't going to prepare children for how integrated it is in adulthood. We're just going to get more people at risk of radicalization and being scammed.

Mj

I really disagree with this abstinence only approach to the internet and social media. I know it's coming from a good place, but that doesnt mean it gives good results. As an example, (where I'm from) a lot of older women have experienced some form of sexual abuse/ harassment. As a result, they were insistent on teaching me (and other girls around me) not to speak or interact with men, in any circumstances. Girls go to single sex schools (government enforced) and spend their whole lives surrounded by other women. This divide however, did not stop gorls from being sexually abused. It just meant that if a girl was abused (either by family members, teachers, family friends), she didn't understand what was happening nor did she know what to do about it. The only thing she did know was shame. She wouldn't tell anyone about it and the abuser would remain unpunished and able to hurt more people. Once these girls grew up, they were again wholly unprepared to experience adulthood, where they were expected to work with, marry and have children with the same group of people they were told to always be afraid of. They had no way of identifying abusive relationships nor did they know what to do in the case of sexual abuse. They again only knew shame. I feel like the internet is the same. Abstinence only sexual eductaion has never worked. Effective sexual education teaches children about dangers they can experience from abusive relationships to STIs and gives yhem the tools to deal with these situations and that its always okay to tell an adult. That's what you need.

Waloki jeps

Them drip feeding the files is literally what so many video game groups and shows do to MAINTAIN relevancy!! That’s how you get your once a week episode installment, or even your Fortnite seasons lol.

Allan

Every couple of months us getting more Epstein files is the equivalent of getting new Smash character announced over time, all the anticipation?! Who's gonna be in the files next month?

Waloki jeps

It almost felt like a need to once a day, everyone needs to get together for an hour or so and all interact for a bit

theo

I don't even know who you are, I'm trying to make bad points

KleinStoll

The Swedish national television broadcaster SVT is currently streaming the Olympics on their streaming service SVT Play. If you choose to watch via the web there is a live chat window to post in. There are also moderators and sport reporters to answer questions about the games.

itreatthepluglikehulkhoganandjuststraightuplietoem

I disagree because it’s easy to make a list of movies you like or think are classic, but it can kind of be easy to miss things other people think are great or classics. Making a list of best or most memorable films of 2025 and including Wicked 2 over One Battle After Another, Marty Supreme, or even the minecraft movie if you’re just judging financial success, is wild to me. The box office this equivalent weekend in 2009 was: Coraline (4.2) Friday the 13th (2.6) Taken (3.5) He’s just not that into you (3.1) Confessions of a Shopaholic (3.2) This weekend was: Send Help (3.5) Solo Mio (3.2) Iron Lung (3.2) Stray Kids* (4.1) Dracula (3.1) No standout classic like Coraline, but it’s not like film is any worse. Scores are taken from Letterboxd so take it with a grain of salt. *Technically Stray Kids is a concert film, so its score is artificially inflated due to its not like film critics are gonna shit on it. But if you take it out 6th is Zootopia 2 (3.8)

finn Stafford

In regards to what Aiden said about the files. I am a little disappointed in the lack of nuance. I do agree that antisemitism is unfortunately on the rise partly being fueled by false information about the files. That being said I do believe that Big B is purposely using the rise of antisemitism as a shield for atrocities and covert ops. It is clear that there is something fishy with mossad and the Israeli intelligence community let alone the genocide they're committing. Both of these things can be true and the shield of "that's antisemitic" is so commonly used that it is both tiring for my generation (Gen Z) and is actively pushing people towards antisemitism. I encourage everyone to read the files themselves only if they can handle some truly depraved things. Things in them like Jeff calling non jew goyim is 100% present and used in a derogatory manner. He also does have clear ties to mossad, and unfortunately when looked at in conjunction with wiki leaks, and the history of conspiracy theories being true (like the CIA using drugs on black neighborhoods) it's hard to blanket shut down conspiracy theorists. It's rough out here please don't ruin your mental health! Movie theaters are only becoming "cool" at all because where else do we have to go? Especially for those of us who live in smaller communities

Jacob

Aiden saying that there are good movies then not naming a single one is crazy. I love movies I try to watch one a week but the new movies haven't been anything of interest. Not interesting enough to spend the money and watch in theaters. The last movies I watched recently that I really enjoyed was Nuremberg with Russell Crowe as Göring and wake up dead man. Those arent even in theaters. Watching one battle after another was fine, I wouldn't have wanted to watch it in theaters.

MizterMind

My biggest issue with the Social Media ban or ban from online spaces to talk for kids is without those I probably wouldn't have had anyone to talk to for multiple years in my formative life. I went through a stretch if like 3 years where 95% of nights I wasn't talking to people in my local area because they didn't wanna talk to me or were busy, etc. So the only place I had was online. It felt like I would talk to people at school how adults talk to coworkers. You talk to each other cause you're stuck doing the same thing, but the second we were able to do our own things and choices, I had no one and I watched as people would tell me about what they did for the weekend or what they did last night and I literally couldn't relate cause people genuinely didn't wanna hang out with me. I developed social skills by talking to people online, from there I felt more confident to hold conversations with people outside of online, but without those people online...I would've been the lonely kid and probably stayed lonely after High School

Saad Salman

it's acrobat studio and the joke is about Epstein files redaction, right?

Dillon Lukaszewski

I am a 20 year old gen z and I go to the movies like 3-4 times a month so Aiden might be spittin facts

WillyThaJawn

I can't tell if Atrioc is really good at translating boomers or dementia patients because everytime I hear big A quote Trump its way more coherant than what he actually says

Ruben

What would you say if discord would not be banned?

MizterMind

That'd be where my line is, but i think it's hard to draw a line at least governmental without including chat based platforms too

Ruben

He got talked over and they switched topic. I'd say movies are fine, people regretting going to a movie is more a price/inflation/transportation problem than a movie quality problem.

Ruben

From your last sentence I reckon it's an inflation problem.

RyGuy

As someone who is Gen Z, my friend group goes to the movies but only on $5 deal day every month; other than that, I don’t really go to the movies

Jeremiah Seiuli

I'm ngl these Epstein files bore the fk out of me as legit nothing really new has been learned since I was 12 and now I'm 20. Just a confirmation on the people we all thought we were in it. No real evidence new evidence on pedo blackmail ring nor the client list. It's funny asf tho how much it's back fired on the republicans.

GMan47

I think drive in movies could make a real comeback. You can talk with your friends, you can be on your phone, and it keeps the viewing experience in tact for those that want to just sit and watch.

GMan47

I think social media is fine. Everything was going well UNTIL algorithm based social media. I think that needs to be banned. Back when Myspace was just your friends and your YouTube home screen was all your subs

Argonaut

"Do you sit on the couch and watch YouTube on the TV?" As if I had a couch or TV or a place to put either of those things in this economy.

Jon Moody

I have to ask because I’ve been dying to know, is the white skateboard deck behind Aiden a Jason dill FA deck?!? So clean I have the same one!!

Matchu

I don't think movie theatres have gotten worse, and I don't think movies have gotten *that much* worse. Rather, I think that in the time *before* the internet, so-called "content" was: broadway, musical performances, comedy, and yes movie theatres. NOW, in a time with the internet in everyone's pocket, we consume so much more "content" 100% for free on a monthly, weekly, daily basis in the form of youtube/twitch/tiktok/netflix/whatever, that the standard for "content" that we choose to spend our time on, and especially the standard for "content" that we choose to spend our dollars on in this economy, is a much higher bar, and so it feels like "going to the movies" has gotten measurably worse. With that being said, I would 100% spend $60.00 to subject my fellow movie-goers to a slew of emojis and copypastas all the while shovelling popcorn and candy down my gullet.

Emmanuel Alagbala

Something must be wrong with me cause bullying aiden is so unreasonably funny, everytime begin to feel a sliver of empathy Atrioc drops another banger

Emmanuel Alagbala

I disagree with Aidens nihilistic cinema/theatre take. I think the issue is a lack of good movies. The issue is theres no good movies to go to the cinema FOR. Imagine movies made as independently as Markiplier has done. Imagine dozens of movie options. Not two or 3 Hollywood ones. Secondly, having people who are local to a cinema be able to vote for an old movie to be rerun would increase engagement and put more butts in seats.

Deeve

a bit unrelated but the discord link is not working from the patreon side. would love to join :D

Dragau4

Ngl, sometimes, I boot up a movie, something happens and I want to laugh and react with chat... then I realize Im watching the movie alone. It does have some true grounds, movies solo are ass, having the idea that you're interacting about the movie with someone feels nice

William

Saying movies solo is ass is insane to me. I can understand wanting more but cmon an ass!!!??