00:01Welcome back to Bloomberg This Weekend, or BT Dubs.
00:04I'm Christine Ruffini with David Gurra.
00:06Here are some stories you might have missed this week.
00:08This is a pivotal moment here.
00:09We have Tim Stenevec with us.
00:11Yeah, we need to...
00:11Tim, what's the tiebreaker?
00:12You know, I say BT Dubs.
00:13Gurra says BTW.
00:15We're going to save it for the news quiz.
00:17Whoa, all right, okay.
00:18That's going to show, you know...
00:20Why do I feel like this is going to end very badly for me at the end of the show?
00:23He doesn't know yet.
00:24He hasn't settled on what he thinks it's called.
00:26Hey, have either of you guys seen The Odyssey yet?
00:28I have not.
00:29We did have Emily Wilson, who wrote the big translation, but no way.
00:33I haven't seen the movie of that.
00:33And panned the movies.
00:34I was not happy with that.
00:36The movie's doing pretty well.
00:37It's hard to get tickets for the 70mm IMAX.
00:39I looked to go to the 70mm IMAX at Lincoln Square, and it is sold out like through August.
00:44And there are showings at like 4am that are sold out.
00:46Yes.
00:47I saw on Instagram a friend of mine went earlier this week.
00:50He got up at 4am to go to the 6am showing by himself.
00:53There is no way I would make it through a three-hour movie at 4am.
00:55It's a giant screen.
00:56The Telegraph is out with a profile of Zendaya,
00:58who, if you've seen any of the promotional materials for this, you'd think that she was...
01:03Star of the movie.
01:04No, she's in for five minutes.
01:05Is that right?
01:05Oh, I didn't know that.
01:07Five minutes.
01:07She plays the gray-eyed goddess Athena, if you remember from your high school Odyssey days.
01:11I did.
01:11I read the Robert Fagel's translation.
01:13And she has just this star power nowadays that attracts viewers.
01:17I mean, she's giving Athena.
01:19She's just gorgeous.
01:20She's got almost 200 million followers on Instagram.
01:22Slightly more than you.
01:25I have no retort for that.
01:27Yeah.
01:28By the end of the year, her three main projects, The Odyssey, Spider-Man Brand New Day, and Dune Part
01:333, are projected to make over a billion dollars each at the box office.
01:37One of the things she's really good at, though, is we play these red carpet videos, is she works with
01:40stylist La Roche, and they plan years in advance for these premieres and what she's going to wear.
01:46And they are very, like, curated, constructed.
01:49They're always on theme.
01:50And so they go super viral.
01:51So that probably does help her, because the fits, as the youths would say, are amazing.
01:55The Telegraph story points this out.
01:57That's a huge part of her following.
01:59She's married?
01:59She's getting married?
02:00She's married?
02:01Spider-Man!
02:02And apparently, in the UK, they're sort of looked at as the opposite of Travis and Tyler.
02:09Taylor.
02:09Taylor.
02:11Taylor and Travis.
02:12Tim Stenevec noted.
02:15Was not invited to the wedding.
02:16Was not at the wedding.
02:18Clearly not.
02:19All right, let's get to something I know a little story.
02:20Let's get to something I know a little more about, and that would be...
02:23I will see the movie.
02:24Willie Nelson.
02:25Willie Nelson.
02:25Willie Nelson.
02:2593 years young.
02:26Willie Nelson.
02:27And he's still touring.
02:28Yes.
02:28He's got an amphitheater tour this summer.
02:31Or you can actually go see him.
02:32Upstate, I think.
02:33Upstate, you can go see him on Long Island.
02:34I think he's playing at Jones Beach.
02:35I have seen him.
02:36Somebody you would see, yeah.
02:37I saw him in Forest Hills.
02:39It was a double billing with...
02:40Oh, that's a great show.
02:41God, I can't remember who it was with.
02:42But, oh, it's Van Morrison.
02:44But I thought they'd play together.
02:45They didn't play together.
02:46Oh.
02:46So it was Willie Nelson and then Van Morrison.
02:48There was a lot of dispute in the amphitheater who should have gone first.
02:51Like, you'd think the headliner maybe should have been Willie Nelson.
02:54But it was actually Van Morrison.
02:55But we're not going to settle that here.
02:56Anyways, I'm sorry to derail.
02:57That's okay.
02:58No, I mean, that's a big part of the conversation, that he still tours.
03:00And when he tours, he also makes it known about what he stands for.
03:04I mean, he's pushing back right now on data centers.
03:06He's out with a post on social media.
03:08He calls them loud, thieving, light-polluting hubs that are invading our land.
03:13And he's no stranger to sort of making his views known.
03:16Last year on a tour, he talked about support for immigrants.
03:21He started Farm Aid back in 1985.
03:24Yes, yeah.
03:25He's still supporting farmers here in the U.S.
03:27He did that along with Neil Young and John Mellencamp.
03:29So he's still out there doing his thing.
03:32All right.
03:32I mean, it's interesting.
03:33As you look at, like, wide open spaces and how they're seen as an opportunity, you know,
03:37they're putting this thing in Inner Mongolia now, which is, like, one of the pristine landscapes.
03:42A new data center.
03:42But it's open space.
03:44A DeepSeek data center.
03:45Yeah.
03:46DeepSeek.
03:47Have you guys ever gotten a package that was not addressed, that was addressed to you?
03:52Okay.
03:52You open it and you have no idea where this thing is from?
03:55This has happened to me before, often from the Amazon Prime Corporation.
03:57Yes, but this is because my mother can't remember to change her address in our shared Amazon
04:01account.
04:02Oh, okay.
04:02She's getting things interesting.
04:03Yeah, she actually sends things to me.
04:05There are stores popping up in Europe where you can buy stuff that was shipped to other
04:08people.
04:09Oh.
04:09And the idea is that it creates this experience that you can't replicate online.
04:13Yeah.
04:14There's sort of a thrill in opening somebody else's package.
04:17Yeah.
04:19And the idea is that, like, you're kind of a kid again.
04:21It's a bit of a surprise.
04:22It's like when you go to the bookstore and you see they have those shelves now of, like,
04:25wrapped books, you like this or that, get this book, you're not knowing what it's going
04:29to be.
04:29So I like that.
04:30Okay.
04:30You've got a surprise element to adulthood.
04:32And it's kind of sustainable, too.
04:34They take returns from people who don't want whatever they ordered.
04:38All right.
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04:41All right.
04:41Last one.
04:42Last one.
04:43If you're looking for some uncensored Marmot content, I've got some good news for you.
04:47I have not been, but as I linger on the element of surprise.
04:50I love this story so much.
04:52That is a Marmot right there for our listeners.
04:53That's a Marmot.
04:55They're very cute.
04:55It's like a woodchuck.
04:56Large squirrel-like rodents with sharp claws and furry ears.
04:59That's the description in the New York Times.
05:00I thought that was so good.
05:01I had to just read that.
05:02It's the badger of 2026, the honey badger of 2026, maybe.
05:05Well, there's an account on OnlyFans that uploads research videos of wild marmots.
05:10It's called Only Marms.
05:13Only Marms.
05:14It's PG-rated, right?
05:15G-rated.
05:16It's G-rated.
05:16They lost their funding, and they needed to, right?
05:19Yeah.
05:19It doesn't have to do with the...
05:20That's right.
05:21There's a federally funded angle here.
05:23So, Dr. Daniel Blumstein, a biologist, he's looking to cover a lack of research funding...
05:28Oh, look at them.
05:28They're tussling.
05:29...for his work in federal cuts...
05:30Look how cute they are.
05:31...to scientific research.
05:32Okay.
05:33And his idea, he was actually inspired by that TV show, Margo's Got Money.
05:37So, he's like, if we just use OnlyFans to raise money for this...
05:40Not a G-rated treatment of the only...
05:42Not a G-rated, correct, correct.
05:43This is, though.
05:44Okay.
05:44And we keep it G-rated here.
05:46And he has uploaded this account.
05:48There was a little issue when he created the account because the image on his state-issued
05:53ID did not match the image of the Marmots.
05:56Well...
05:56So, the computers rejected him.
05:58He was able to...
06:00He was able to get past that and now has the OnlyMarms account.
06:03It's only raised a little bit of money at this point.
06:05I was going to ask if it's doing well.
06:07At this point.
06:08$650 in tips.
06:09This was as of last week.
06:10You know, before the New York Times wrote this story, so I imagine it's done better.
06:132,900 visits, 112 subscribers.
06:15All right.
06:15Come on, OnlyFans fans.
06:17Oh, boy.
06:17Like, it'll even out your karma.
06:19Give to the Marmots.
06:20Marmot fans.
06:20Tim, thank you very much.
06:21What do you call this segment?
06:23Uh, this segment is called...
06:26BTW.
06:26The Newspapers with Lisa McTown.
06:27It's called BTW.
06:29BTW.
06:29Thank you for joining us on BTW.
06:30That's all we care about is the last character.
06:31You're welcome.
06:32Tim, that was much appreciated.
06:33Excellent work.
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