2025.11.12: Yes and... Finger

Speaker 1 You don't need to be helped any longer.

Speaker 2 You've always had the power to go back to cancer.

Speaker 1 Hey!

Speaker 2 We're recording the podcast! Gut up!

Speaker 2 Good morning to you, wherever you are, because it is MONING SOMEWHERE! For November 12th, 2025 early. My name is Bertie Burns, sitting right over there, clicking her heels together.
It's Ashley Burns.

Speaker 2 Say hi to Ashley, everybody.

Speaker 1 I see someone's getting excited for Wicked.

Speaker 2 Wicked? Oh, the new Wicked. Is there a new Wicked coming out?

Speaker 1 Yeah, in like two weeks, I assume that's

Speaker 1 what the Wizard of Oz drop was for.

Speaker 2 Sometimes I think like

Speaker 2 the drops, sometimes when I select him, I don't realize what's inspiring me to do it because I was not thinking about Wicked.

Speaker 1 Well, you know what that means is, though, it means the marketing is working right. Like, it's in your head.

Speaker 2 If I was going to... think about wicked, I would immediately get sidetracked thinking about the interview that they did,

Speaker 2 what was it, like a year ago where they were talking about holding space, but I'm obsessed with Ariana Grande reaches out and grabs her castmate's finger and starts stroking it, like holding it in a weird way.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like not holding hands, like holding finger.

Speaker 2 Holding a finger, like gets, gets, gets a hold of her digit and starts like, like tapping on it.

Speaker 1 That's because there's a little-known fact, Bernie, you may not have realized this, but that finger, that's the space finger. Is it? If you hold it, you're holding the space.

Speaker 2 You can grab hold of it. You're like,

Speaker 1 yeah i mean there's a finger there was a lot from that press tour that i i just assumed that they were loopy and exhausted by the end between like you know all the the the tours and like going on shows and doing like all the interviews and like all the like wacky promotional things and the games whatever like by the end of that i don't know how you would come through it intact i think they later came out and said they had no idea what that lady was talking about and they were just trying to react in a way that was was like positive, but like not sure what she meant by that.

Speaker 1 They were trying to what?

Speaker 2 Yes, and kind of yes and, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but also, you know, it seemed like quite like the serious interview. And it's like, like, what do you do? You go, yes.

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 and then, what do you, give me your finger?

Speaker 2 And clearly, yeah, Ariana's learning improv. He's like, yes, and finger.

Speaker 2 Give me that finger.

Speaker 2 Listen, you're on camera enough, like you said, you do these junkets. They do them forever.
I got to think, too, it's like

Speaker 2 it's to me, it really speaks to the power of the studios that they can get these like major stars to go do these press junkets. Like they lock them in on the marketing.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, I'm sure it's like all like in the contract, right? But, you know, and

Speaker 1 what do you think those look like? Like, yes, I will do the ones with the hot sauce and the lie detectors.

Speaker 2 No, right.

Speaker 1 No, I will not do like these specific ones. I'm not going to go on like the late shows, but I will do these ones or I will do the late shows, but keep me away from the hot sauce.

Speaker 1 Like what, like, I wonder what those contracts look like and how the cast like divvies them up.

Speaker 2 Well, you see some of the, I mean, everybody knows this room, right? It's like a hotel conference room, it looks like, and they set it up with like the poster.

Speaker 2 It almost looks like they're at a trade show.

Speaker 1 And they put like black curtains behind everyone for, I don't know, some reason. And there's, yeah, there's the one poster like on like an easel.

Speaker 2 Like rent a theater, right? I mean, why don't they do that? Like, it's always the same setup. It's so weird to me.

Speaker 2 And they get people like, for like, once upon a time in Hollywood, they got Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Margot Robbie all in the same room at the same time. How wildly expensive is that?

Speaker 2 Like, they might not have been on the set at the same time during the movie. Right.
Right. But they get in there for the marketing.

Speaker 1 The first time they met each other was at the press junk camp.

Speaker 2 Hey, good to meet you. Yeah.
Why would you want to think of a movie? We're all in together.

Speaker 2 You know?

Speaker 1 I have a holding space for you, buddy.

Speaker 2 I mean, think about those contracts and how much money it is to get those people on set. And then also, oh, also some random week in April, we're going to have all of you back again.

Speaker 2 Like, can you make time for that? And that seems to be no problem whatsoever, getting those people in those rooms.

Speaker 1 Once again, it's the contracts.

Speaker 2 Or they hide it. Well, like, it probably is a huge thing, huge negotiation point.

Speaker 1 Right. Like, like, no, can you imagine like Harrison Ford being like, yeah, throw me on the lie detector.

Speaker 2 Harrison Ford has done them. Like, he did them for the Hulk.
Yeah. Remember the whole thing of like, that's what the money is for?

Speaker 2 Even Harrison Ford, major star is doing these press chunk of things. It's crazy.
I guess they understand. They all want their movie to do well, right?

Speaker 1 They do. And I will say that I feel like the entertainment value of a lot of those has also ramped up in the wake of like hot ones where for a long time, like doing the interview was enough, right?

Speaker 1 Just ask questions, get answers. And that was good enough for all the major outlets.

Speaker 1 And then this dude comes along and is like, I'm going to feed him hot sauce at the end of the day and actually like get some entertainment value out of it. And it blew up and became this huge thing.

Speaker 1 And now they're like, uh, uh, oh, all right, everyone's hooked up to a lie detector. Now you ask each other weird questions.

Speaker 2 Yeah, well, the hot ones, too, kind of started this whole trend of, like,

Speaker 2 if I may, a gimmick. I don't mean that in a bad way.
To me, the conceit of hot ones and eating the hot wings, I think in a way, it detracts from what an incredible interviewer Sean Evans is. Does it?

Speaker 2 And his team. If you watch those interviews, I think it's one of those things a lot of people have like consumed via clips and things like that.

Speaker 2 The depth of some of those bits they come up with from research, like talk about this from back when you were in middle school and you knew this person or whatever.

Speaker 2 It's like, and even the people are like, how did you find out about the play I was in when I was in eighth grade? We've been through your yearbook. Yeah, it's really fascinating stuff.

Speaker 2 He's kind of known for it. We actually did.

Speaker 2 Barb and I did one of his shows.

Speaker 2 It wasn't Hot Ones. It was First We Feast, which I think was the original show.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, that was, you guys were in like New York or something and you went around to like a, like, was was it Deli?

Speaker 2 No, no, no. We did, there was a, in Brooklyn, there was a barbecue movement.

Speaker 1 Oh, right. Get the Texans to come to Brooklyn to talk about barbecue.

Speaker 2 And Barb and I were in,

Speaker 2 it might have been for like one of the new fronts. Like, it's an industry thing.
Yeah, that's why I can't think of why we've been in New York.

Speaker 2 Like, I never did any stuff for Ruby, like on a con level, but Barb was doing that all the time. But we were in New York at the same time for some reason.
We did the show.

Speaker 2 So, anyway, but it was a ton of fun. And

Speaker 2 he really is a great interviewer.

Speaker 1 He really is. They've got a, they've got something new coming out, too.

Speaker 2 Um, hold on, a little everything. They do branding deals all over the place.
There are like, there's a whole line of Hot Ones Pringles now.

Speaker 1 What, really? Yeah. Like, spicy Pringles.
Okay. All right.
All right. I could get behind that.
Uh, yeah. Okay.
Here we go. Um, so Hot Ones cooks up

Speaker 1 another spin-off this time involving Wing Pong. This is from Deadline.

Speaker 2 What's Wing Pong? Okay.

Speaker 1 What is Wing Pong? Um, the new series, which launches November 12th. Hey, that's today.

Speaker 2 I heard about this. Uh, Mikey Day is in it.
That's the only thing I remember. He's like one of the first guests.
And so I was excited to see that Mikey Day was going to be a guest on something.

Speaker 2 Yeah, cool.

Speaker 1 So it's a combination of the original hot ones with the classic party game, beer pong, I guess. So it sees two teams face off with each team's cups hiding a mystery wing or a question.

Speaker 1 So it's kind of like truth or dare, but wing pong, but beer pong, but not beer,

Speaker 2 but also interview. You know, I gotta say, Freddie Wong's been putting out videos on his channel.
I've talked about it before, but I'm really happy to see him doing like narrative stuff.

Speaker 2 Like he's doing movies and he's showing clips from it and behind the scenes stuff. It feels like everything online now is a game, some variation of a game.

Speaker 2 You know, you either play a video game or you play a board game or you play a tabletop game or you play a role-playing game or you play an improv game or it's a game show.

Speaker 2 It just feels like everything is a game now. That's what people want to watch.
Other people just play games. Even like Tonight Show, it's all games all the time.

Speaker 2 They play charades on the tonight show.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, I mean, in a lot of time,

Speaker 2 network show.

Speaker 1 Like, those are almost like structures for people to then like, yes, and and play in, right?

Speaker 1 Or like some way to entertain up an interview so that it's, it's more than just the, you know, a couple people talking. But speaking of Bertie.

Speaker 2 They clearly were. I'm just, I'm personally shocked at people's appetite to watch other people play games all the time.

Speaker 1 All the time. Yeah.
Well, speaking of, though, like games and competitions, did you see they've just crowned a new Miss World Chile?

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the lady who won, the contestant who won, is a death metal singer. And that's what she did for the talent portion of the competition.
You're kidding me.

Speaker 2 I'm not. Beauty queens thing in death metal.
Is there a clip of this?

Speaker 1 Oh, there absolutely is. Hold on a second.

Speaker 2 I gotta pull up a clip.

Speaker 1 And it's amazing. So this lady, she's like, that's what she does.
Like, that's her, like, her day job.

Speaker 1 She's a death metal singer. And so she sang a song from her death metal band.

Speaker 2 I love this. Hold on one second.
Okay, so this is, I'm just going to pick a random video on YouTube. Play this.
It'll probably be somebody talking at us for like 30 seconds. Let's roll the dice.

Speaker 2 Roll the dice. Here we go.

Speaker 2 Nope.

Speaker 2 The image is unbelievable. So this woman looks like a cross between Selma Hayek and Penelope Cruz.
She's so good. You can imagine that voice coming here.
She's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 Absolutely gorgeous. But the thing is like, this is amazing.
Does her singing the death metal make her like even hotter? Like she's already smoking hot, but she's like, she's a hot one. Am I right?

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 does it make her even hotter?

Speaker 2 Unquestionably so.

Speaker 2 Unquestionably.

Speaker 1 It's amazing.

Speaker 2 So much hotter. Somehow, she's gorgeous.

Speaker 1 The thing is, too, I don't know how you top that as a talent. Like, I remember in,

Speaker 1 like, you, when you get motorcycled, you have to, like, do, like, some crazy tricks. You're going to beat someone up like in Miss Congeniality?

Speaker 2 Like a jewel heist or something.

Speaker 1 That's what the loot thing was all about. It was actually an entry for Miss World Chile.

Speaker 2 It'll be like an assassination or something to follow.

Speaker 2 I wouldn't know. I don't think it's possible to top death metal.
It literally is. It says death metal.

Speaker 1 It's incredible.

Speaker 2 Miss World Chile

Speaker 2 contestant sings death metal. Get the hell out of here.

Speaker 1 And won. And won.

Speaker 2 So, like, this is the future I wanted to live in.

Speaker 1 And this is great too, because then she can go around to, I assume, all of the like Miss World international competitions and like introduce the rest of the world to the most incredible death metal ever.

Speaker 2 All right, listen, I have never been to a death metal concert. This might get me out of the house and get me down to the auditorium and watch her sing.
That'd be amazing.

Speaker 2 I hope this will be great when she, like you said, she takes the world stage now. And now she's like performing with her.
Hopefully, she's up against the lady who screams France.

Speaker 2 She can still be in the competitions.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 I hope so. So while we're talking about stuff, we were talking about the new First Weafie show coming out called Wing Pong.
Wing Pong. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Running Man comes out this weekend. I think it comes out this weekend.

Speaker 1 I'm excited to see it.

Speaker 1 Reviews are interesting because a lot of the reviews seem like they're sort of middling, but I read some excerpts from the reviews and they all seemed like they had good things to say.

Speaker 1 So I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I'm going to go see it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, people, though, you're coming from the world of video games where anything below a nine is like...

Speaker 2 take it out and shoot it right that's true i don't know why the scales are different like if you can get to like 70

Speaker 2 65 it's actually not considered to to be bad in the movie world. And

Speaker 2 it's not that shocking.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I guess it's just different levels of expectations. And you're right.
Mine are probably broken.

Speaker 2 I'm kind of staying away from this. I did watch Baby Driver just recently, another Edgar Wright film.
I also watched Scott Pilgrim with JD. He had never seen it before.

Speaker 1 I can't believe he hadn't seen it.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Jenna was shocked by that too, his girlfriend. And it was great.
Such a good movie. And,

Speaker 2 but yes, I'll kind of stay away from this because I read the book as a kid. Of course, saw the Schwarzenegger movie as well.
So now I'm excited to see what this one is like.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Without ruining too much of it.

Speaker 1 So yeah, that's going to be coming out this weekend. But something else is coming out as well.

Speaker 1 I think the new Now You See Me, Now You Don't movie is coming out, but I'm not sure if it's coming out this weekend. What I do know is coming out is like a popcorn bucket for it.

Speaker 2 Oh, I saw this where it makes the popcorn disappear.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the popcorn bucket is itself like a magic trick. And so that I don't know much about the movie, but I know about its popcorn bucket.

Speaker 2 It's so weird.

Speaker 2 When did these popcorn buckets become a thing? Was it Dune that kind of set the whole thing off?

Speaker 1 No, no, I don't, I don't think so. I think they've been a thing for a while.
I think the Dune one just went viral enough that people like you and I who don't know about the like

Speaker 1 popcorn bucket collectible market heard about that one.

Speaker 1 That's one of the ones that broke through. And for me, this one broke through as well.
The fact that it's its own magic trick is so great.

Speaker 2 So there's collectible stuff to me. It falls in kind of the same category as some video games for me.
Because when I get a video game that I like, I'll binge it.

Speaker 2 And when I play for like five hours, six hours, then I there's always a moment where I say, Okay, I know what this experience is like, and now I can project what this experience is going to be like over the next 80 levels of this game or whatever.

Speaker 2 And I'm going to get bored of it at some point. So, let's just assume I'm that person right now, and I'm bored of it, and I'll stop playing it.

Speaker 2 And I won't waste the time to reach that, you know, that nexus when I become too bored of it.

Speaker 2 Likewise, with collectibles, I look at some stuff like these popcorn buckets and I go, at some point, I know I'm going to be standing there thinking, do I throw this away? Can I recycle it?

Speaker 2 Should I try to sell it on eBay? Like, I know that moment's going to come when I don't want it anymore. Let's just short circuit all of that and just not buy the damn thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I will say that the popcorn buckets, it seemed like a very like space intensive. thing to collect.
Like each one is going to take up, it's going to hold a lot of space, Bernie.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You know, and for something that you're not going to use all that much, probably, right?

Speaker 2 It'd be great if your wicked bucket holds a lot of space. What if it holds your finger? What if the wicked popcorn bucket holds your finger?

Speaker 2 Like a hand reaches out of the popcorn and just strokes your finger gently while you're eating your popcorn. And say, I don't understand this one.
I'm just going to, yes, Andy.

Speaker 2 But we actually had a funny thing with popcorn buckets because, like you said, we don't collect these things. And one time we went to go see Deadpool and Wolverine.

Speaker 2 And I think you were in the bathroom bathroom or whatever.

Speaker 1 And I thought, oh, ha ha,

Speaker 2 I'll buy the, like, it's nothing special. It was just a metal collectible popcorn bucket with Deadpool on it.
And I thought, I'll buy this as a joke. And this will be really funny.

Speaker 2 But once again, couldn't throw it away. So we had to take it home.
We use that thing almost every day.

Speaker 1 We do. But the trouble is.
What a weird item in your kitchen.

Speaker 1 Like we would never expected like this thing to become such a major part of our lives.

Speaker 1 The problem is, though, it's a metal, like it's a metal popcorn bucket, which is also why we didn't throw it away.

Speaker 1 It's like you'd feel like you can't just throw one in the bin on your way out of the movie, right?

Speaker 2 That's it. I'm buying an obligation.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so we, so we brought it home, and we do air-popped popcorn, and so it gets really hot every time we use it, but we can't not use it because we've got it, and it's our popcorn bucket.

Speaker 2 Right. And it gets like, it gets crazy hot, but it also cools off pretty fast because it's like thin aluminum or zoomout.

Speaker 1 So I guess we can sort of call ourselves collectors anyway.

Speaker 2 Hey, some news while we're talking about collectibles and stuff.

Speaker 2 Did you read the headline that now Funko has said that they only have a certain amount of time left before they're going to go out of business?

Speaker 2 And I guess the Funko pop those figurines with the big heads

Speaker 2 that everyone was collecting like mad a few years ago. I guess that has dropped off enough to where they're now going to like, they're giving the warning that their company is about to go away.

Speaker 1 I did. I saw something about that.
Like they're hundreds of million dollars in debt. Ooh, shit.
You know, yeah.

Speaker 1 So I imagine that, remember, there was a period of time where they were like the major thing to do to get they had partnerships with every brand under the sun.

Speaker 1 And I have to imagine

Speaker 1 they did, but I also imagine that a lot of those licensing deals were also very expensive.

Speaker 1 So they must have been running on razor margins and, you know, in an era where of like they're now a laboo-boo behind, right? In terms of being like the hot thing. And so I can imagine how the

Speaker 1 cost of a lot lot of licensing and everything would add up faster than their revenue does at this point.

Speaker 2 Can I just say too, coming from Austin, there are

Speaker 2 circles of friends that I have there. You do not mention Funko in those circle of friends.
Do you know why? I'm curious if you know why.

Speaker 2 Because I'll just read it. Here's a headline from March of 2023.

Speaker 2 Funko cuts back Mondo movie poster business, lays off co-founders and other staff. Okay.
And acquired Mondo, which was an Austin, a beloved Austin collectible brand.

Speaker 2 And I just, I don't know, I knew some people involved with that. And it's like, you just don't talk about Funko.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, no, that would do it. Mondo was for a long time this really incredible brand of

Speaker 1 almost like like hyperlimited. They would make like 200 posters for, you know, as this special edition poster for a film or something.

Speaker 1 and they were so wildly in demand people are lining up to get them and the thing is they were all also really really cool like the artists they had working on these posters were absolutely incredible and so I do remember they were a huge deal for a while I didn't realize why I wasn't hearing about them anymore I just

Speaker 2 because we're not there anymore I thought maybe I'm just sort of out of the scene but no that actually that makes a lot of sense you know actually we've been talking about old merch and the people like grape shirt is now up in the store My favorite piece of merch ever produced by Rooster Teeth, probably at least in the top five, was a Rooster Teeth podcast poster, which I believe we did in collaboration with Mondo.

Speaker 2 It was the one that was kind of inspired by Zombie Plan Walking Dead. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 No, I remember that one. That was a really cool poster.
It's a cool poster.

Speaker 2 It's a cool poster. Yeah.
Not to take away from all the other posters we did, but it just like it really spoke to me.

Speaker 1 No, but, but speaking of,

Speaker 1 I held space for it and stroked its poster finger of companies that are in dire straits. Roomba,

Speaker 1 the company that makes all of the kitchen robots, the floor robots, the vacuums, may be going out of business.

Speaker 1 Like they only have enough capital, I guess, to keep operating for a few more weeks if some kind of miracle doesn't come through.

Speaker 1 And so Roomba, our beloved Roomba, might get bricked.

Speaker 2 I'm glad to hear you say the word beloved. Why is this one affecting me? Like,

Speaker 2 I feel bad bad about this.

Speaker 1 I think it's because like this, for us, this, the Roomba that we have, it's been a member of our family for 12 years. It's like a pair of, or like at least 12 years.
It's, it is.

Speaker 1 And we've spent so much time like fishing that thing out from under couches or like opening it up to, you know, cut hair off its brushes or like taking care of that thing and like pulling cables back out of its mouth.

Speaker 1 Like that thing is like, it's now, you know, it's not just a robot. It's a friend.
A really irritating friend who eats cables and gets stuck all the time.

Speaker 1 but still, like, you know, it's been a part of our life for so long.

Speaker 2 Yeah, hearing you talk about all that maintenance reminding me that it's actually less like a pet, more like a kid.

Speaker 2 Pulling cables out of its mouth.

Speaker 1 God, no, don't put that in your mouth. You know, you're not allowed in that room.

Speaker 2 Holy crap.

Speaker 1 But yeah, so they, I guess they've seen a lot of increasing competition from, you know, like much lower priced versions of the Roomba coming out of China.

Speaker 1 And they've seen like a huge annual decrease in their revenue. Let me see if I can look this up.

Speaker 1 Here we go. They have the company now only has $24.8 million in financial reserves.

Speaker 2 It generated only $24.8 million, everybody.

Speaker 1 Well, but like when you have a company at scale. They're manufacturing.
Yeah. The company generated only $145 million in revenue

Speaker 1 in this last quarter, which was down 24.6% from the same quarter last year. Instead of a profit of $7.3 million, they reported a loss of 17.7 million.

Speaker 1 So, like, that drop made a huge, huge change to their financials.

Speaker 2 All the way through the margin and straight down into

Speaker 2 the red.

Speaker 1 So, they, and unless there's like some miracle, which, you know, if you're a company and you see them and you're like, well, they're failing, why would I buy them?

Speaker 1 You know, they might be going out of business.

Speaker 2 And so, now it's potential that all these Roombas, which might be one of the most widely distributed products that could be subjected to this,

Speaker 2 they could be bricked.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 2 this is the product that is the most ubiquitous, I think, that could be part of this new wave of tech company goes down and that all the services for your device are turned off. Right.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to think of something that would be bricked. Like

Speaker 1 if they take down their servers, then the... the robots have nothing to connect to.
I mean, where are they going to send your kitchen floor plan?

Speaker 2 You know, that bird or that whale that sings for itself and that's it. That's our little Roomba.
I'm telling you, this is a sad story. I feel bad about it.
It's Roomba.

Speaker 2 What else could possibly be brick that would be worse? R2D2?

Speaker 1 Well, think of it, though, as like a little ray of sunshine. We do have a very, very old model.
We have one of the ones that just like bumps around to navigate until it like...

Speaker 1 eventually finds its way.

Speaker 1 And so maybe ours will keep working because it's not relying on, I don't know, some telemetry from the cloud.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we have one of those lame ones that doesn't like like spy on us and sell our data or anything like that. I don't know that they do that, but I'm assuming everyone does it at this point.

Speaker 2 I don't know.

Speaker 1 Clearly, like the data of the layout of kitchens was not worth enough.

Speaker 2 Here's what I'm learning from all of this, Ashley, is that we need to go back and update some of the old sci-fi movies that we wrote about the horrible future. Like we need to update.

Speaker 2 Terminator, you know, the third actor.

Speaker 2 Arnold Schwarzenegger's bearing down on Sarah Connor. And she's like, no.
And he raises the gun and then just stops. And it's like, oh, we just got an update.

Speaker 2 Cyberdyne systems just lost all their funding.

Speaker 2 They had a bad quarter.

Speaker 1 Well, we released a T 1001 and

Speaker 1 we're no longer offering support for the 1000 model. Please upgrade to continue your, I don't know, your massacre.

Speaker 2 You trade in a Terminator and they wipe it and resell it to somebody else.

Speaker 1 No, it just goes on the shelf. It's a collectible now.

Speaker 2 It is something we have EMPs and everything else. We never thought about the fact that the company could just brick the futuristic robot soldiers at some point in time.

Speaker 1 It's because sometimes even the dystopian futures are too optimistic. Like, they don't realize how dumb things can be.
Like, Apple just announced their brand new like iPhone bag.

Speaker 1 And this is like a high-end fashion accessory.

Speaker 2 Is it a bag?

Speaker 2 This is vexing me. I read the headline and looked at the photo and stopped immediately.

Speaker 1 It's like a pouch that you use to carry just your phone. It doesn't fit anything else.
But this is the first line, inspired by the concept of a piece of cloth. That's what it says.

Speaker 1 Inspired by cloth by a piece of cloth.

Speaker 2 This isn't it made of clothes.

Speaker 1 Yes, good lord.

Speaker 1 But it's uh, they offer in two versions: there's a short strap that you can carry like over your arm, like any other bag, except you have to carry in addition to your bag because it's not going to hold anything except the phone, or you can get like the long strap version that can be worn like a cross-body bag, still only holds the phone.

Speaker 1 And the cost for these things is insane. The let's see, the short, short uh the short one the one that you just carry like over your arm 150 the long strap one 230

Speaker 2 okay okay that is high right but it does make me think too it's fashion fashion is no pun intended a mixed bag it only holds the phone it's so weird and also you keep calling it a bag Everything I've read, they call it a pocket.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's a free floating pocket.

Speaker 1 No, it's like a pouch with a strap on it that only fits the phone.

Speaker 2 You know what it reminds me me of looking at it? It looks like, not inspired by cloth, it looks like the pouch from a Marsupian.

Speaker 2 That's what it looks like.

Speaker 1 It's a little Joey pouch.

Speaker 2 It's got a creepy thing.

Speaker 1 See, if it could hold more stuff, like, okay, maybe, but it only holds the phone.

Speaker 2 Right. This is Apple, right? If Apple's good at, they invented a bag.
If they're going to make a bag. This futuristic thing, it should have some kind of new technology in it.

Speaker 2 Like, it should be, you reach in there and there's a portal to another dimension. I can store my stuff in that.
Right, like a pocket universe, right?

Speaker 2 Like, or like a bag of holding from Dungeons and Dragons, right?

Speaker 2 It's like it'll hold 10,000 things in it, or something, or I can subscribe to a service where I can store another 800 cubic meters of stuff in my bag of holding.

Speaker 1 You put your, uh, you put your hand into it, and just you feel someone grab your finger.

Speaker 2 This is Ariana Gandhi in there going,

Speaker 1 Ariana, are you all right in there?

Speaker 2 She's like, Yeah, I don't really understand this, but I'm just here to help.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes, and am I right?

Speaker 2 So, I don't think, uh,

Speaker 2 if I'm hearing what you're saying, on your Christmas list for this year, you do not want an apple pocket.

Speaker 1 Nah, buddy, get me the popcorn bucket instead. If we're going for like weird ass shit that probably costs more than it needs to, go for the popcorn bucket.

Speaker 2 I thought this feels like one of those things you have to buy because it'll be run off the market so fast that it'll be a valuable thing in hindsight.

Speaker 2 Like a cyber truck. Like a Funko Pump.
Well, obviously, Cybertrucks are a really high.

Speaker 2 If you were collecting cars, for instance,

Speaker 2 20 years from now, people are like, you have a goddamn cybertruck?

Speaker 1 It's going to be the DeLorean, right? Wasn't DeLorean like a dog when it came out?

Speaker 2 Yo, yeah, it went away. And then there was all this stuff about drugs in the trunks of some of the cars that they sold to people or something like that.
One of the urban myths.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but DeLorean's a great example. It's like, it was a problematic car, but then because it went away, now it's like this incredible collectible.

Speaker 2 I have to say, though, did you read the article really quickly?

Speaker 2 At Tesla, the head of Cybertruck and the head of the Model Y both resigned.

Speaker 1 No. Not a great sign.
I'm sorry, did they not get a trillion-dollar pay packages packages or like...

Speaker 2 Ashley, this was Family Feud. You selected the number one comment.

Speaker 2 I think I read that comment at the top of like three different articles about this.

Speaker 1 Look, I'm just saying.

Speaker 2 No, you do great.

Speaker 1 Just saying. But you know what? I want to say a big thank you to today's collectibles, Noctis and Smallberb.

Speaker 1 Thank you both so much for sponsoring this episode of our show at patreon.com/slash morningsomewhere and roosterteeth.com.

Speaker 2 If given the opportunity, we would gently stroke your fingers.

Speaker 2 Luckily, the opportunity will not present itself. All right, well, that does it for us today.
November 12th, 2025. We will be back to talk to you tomorrow.
We hope you will be here as well.

Speaker 2 Bye, everybody.