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Too much abundance
ArtsThis is Rob Long, and on today’s Martini Shot I coin a new word: concernvertisement, which describes those emails we’re all getting from anyone we’ve ever bought anything from.
Psychic break
ArtsThis is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot, I talk about the audience, which has been practicing a kind of social distancing since the moment Netfix started streaming — or, if you…
One or the other
ArtsThis is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot I realize that there are two kinds of people in the world.
You keep forgetting
ArtsThis is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot, I try to figure out how YouTube made fifteen billion dollars, and how to handle breaking up with my barber.
The babysitter
ArtsThis is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot I reveal what a friend of mine confessed to me years ago.
Quibi
ArtsThis is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot I talk about the newest venture in Hollywood and how people like to say, Never Gonna Work about things that, you know, really could work.
Still angry
ArtsThis is Rob Long, and on today’s Martini Shot I get really angry at something that hasn’t happened yet, and then get angry when it doesn’t happen, and then don’t know what to do with…
Pay the money
ArtsThis is Rob Long, and on today’s Martini Shot I watch a group of people refuse to pay the cover charge at a jazz club and think, I wonder if those people pay for Netflix.
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