Weekly Ramblecast 238: Dave Thomas Had Standards! (Patreon)

For our last Ramblecast of calendar 2025, we play a little game of "better or worse" and reflect on the current state of basics like TV and movies, the music industry, food, computers, medicine, and more. Happy new year, and thanks as always for supporting us and keeping us going!

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(00:00:00) Start of show(00:00:55) Do we really want to review this year?(00:01:55) Instead, let's play "better or worse"(00:02:43) Listening to music(00:08:18) Musical artists(00:11:19) Is social media the only way to get noticed now?(00:15:13) Would you rather be on TV or Tiktok?(00:17:48) Toys(00:20:30) The rights to make Skibidi Toilet toys belong to...?(00:27:27) Food(00:29:05) Data collection at the supermarket(00:37:27) Food-ordering scams(00:41:35) Movies and TV(00:45:33) How much of the movie is directed through VFX?(00:51:35) Computers(00:54:50) Medicine(00:58:00) Maybe humanity is playing Civilization(01:04:12) Happy New Year! (and happy b-day Dick Van Dyke)