2025.01.06: Globally Golden

Burnie and Ashley discuss the Golden Globes 2025, roast hosts, awards memory holes, Emilia Perez, what is a comedy, Ted Lasso’s Oz connection, Wild At Heart, Medal of Freedom winner, Wild Robot, Flow, the Millennial Pause, TikTok’s final appeal, dead internet acceleration, and Meta’s phony influencer backtrack. This episode is extended on Patreon.
  
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Golden Globes

• The Golden Globes’s Definition of a Comedy Is Still a Mystery
• Yes, ‘Ted Lasso’ Was Inspired by ‘The Wizard of Oz’ – Brett Goldstein Explains How
• How WILD AT HEART Brought Surrealism Over the Rainbow – Nerdist
• Golden Globes 2025 winners: The full list – BBC News
• Ariana Grande, Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet walk Golden Globes red carpet – BBC News
• Nikki Glaser Opening Monologue | 82nd Annual Golden Globes

Apple’s AI Opt-in

• Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI • The Register

Meta’s Backtrack

• Meta deletes all AI character profiles on Facebook, Insta after backlash | Mashable

Presidential Medals

• President Biden Announces Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom | The White House
• Denzel Washington’s Controversial Acting Choice For Gladiator 2 Actually Reveals A Problem With The Genre

And Pause

• Millennial pause – Wikipedia