Ep. 85: Too Online. Carrot Tan, Sunday Nobody Art, Plastic in Receipts, Mehran's Steakhouse

[00:00] I think most people will have seen it at this point because it was sent to me three times to talk about on the podcast. So I was like, okay. [00:07] this is getting widespread exposure by like internet people or was it sent to you by it was sent to me by the first one i got was sent to me by a friend who is the least online person that i'm in relationship with wow we have a crossover story we have a crossover story my friend steph she sent it to me and she was like this is a great two online story and i was like wow product market fit she's mounted welcome to two online by boys club hot internet news served fresh [00:37] I'm Natasha Hoskins. I'm Dina Burke. And this is Boys Club. Wait, is it just Boys Club? It's just Boys Club. [00:44] The Boys Club podcast? No. No. [00:47] Just boys club. Here we are. Recording live from Barcelona. We did the LA to Barcelona classic pipeline. [00:55] We are here... [00:58] throwing an event at SmartCon with Chainlink. [01:01] And feeling the jet lag, but happy. So happy to be in Barcelona. I won't. [01:07] Stop talking about my... [01:09] Sleep insights from my aura ring. Non-stop. Non-stop. Non-stop sleep insights. We'll not shut up about it. But I do think that... [01:18] My travel companions, a.k.a. you and Miranda... [01:22] there is some value. [01:24] And getting some residual sleep insights. There is some value. I woke up this morning feeling anxious and a tiny bit depressed. I have a...

[01:35] a protocol for jet lag where I do not sleep properly. [01:40] the day if i'm for a work trip if i'm on vacation it's looser but like if i'm here for a work trip i do not sleep the day that i get in classic air people make they're like i'm going to have a little nap no do not do that you got to push through you got to get as much sun exposure as you possibly can and you got to walk all day long so we we did that yesterday we got a great meal we walked around all day we had a great dinner with some friends and we we're going to sleep the day we're [02:05] push through so that you can sleep through the night. Yeah. And I, we did sleep through the night. So I got a good amount of sleep, but I woke up and I was like, man, I feel, I don't feel great. And then you're like, well, let me tell you about it. Our ring heart patterns, help repetitions, like the whole thing. I'm like, okay, I guess I'm getting the same exact type of sleep as you is what I'm assuming. I think that's true. I think that's true. Anyway. So here we are. Um, [02:35] I go as pretty nicely into my I have accidentally chosen both my stories around a theme. Wait, before we get started, this is two online. [02:43] This is our show where we... [02:45] Tell each other two internet stories that we have found. So we usually do four internet stories. It's loose, but that's usually what we're doing here. And, [02:53] Up until now, we've been like... [02:56] We're going to surprise each other. [02:58] we're not going to tell each other the same internet story, but then, uh, [03:02] there was a little bit of nervousness because we were like, okay, what if we have the same internet story? So then the other day we're driving around with Miranda and we were like, Miranda, we need to both tell you our internet story so we can figure out if we are overlapping at all. And so we're in the car. So one of us did the like, la, la, la, la, la, the other person like told her, and then I went first and then you went next. And then Miranda was like, wait, wait, wait, what do I do if you guys have the same internet story? And we were like, oh, we'll just have to

[03:32] So now it would have been funnier for that to happen on air live. But now we need to create a plan around what we do if we have the same story. Yeah. [03:42] What do you think we do? I think we need to check. Because I do think that... [03:47] Well, either there's two options. One, we come and we have different takes on the same internet story, which is possible. Or two, we come, we have the same take, which is not that interesting, which is super boring. So I think we I kind of think we need to keep checking. [04:00] Okay. So anyway, you know, one of mine, I know one of yours, I know one of yours, but in fairness, I did, it crossed my desk, but I didn't spend any time with it. So I'm totally new to it. Okay, great. So just before we kick off, my two internet stories are the one that you know, Moran Steakhouse. My second is Sunday Nobody Art. [04:21] and specifically, [04:23] hot dog sculptures. [04:24] Okay. Are you familiar? No. Okay. What are your two internet stories? Okay. My two internet stories are Carrot Tan. [04:30] Okay. Are you familiar? Not at all? I have a guess of what it could be, but no, I've not. I've not witnessed this. And the second one is plastic and receipts. Okay. Which honestly, I, well, we'll get into it, but I've, I've kind of come around with the story. Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. Stick around. Hey, Natasha, if someone wants to get into crypto or is looking for a better way to trade, where should they go? [05:00] the place to be is Kraken. It's more than a crypto platform. Kraken is your bridge to the new world of finance. A simple, gorgeous place to trade with a redesigned trading interface that's so easy to use. From degen to day trader, first timer to full timer, make your trades in just a few clicks. Go to kraken.com backslash boys club, sign up in just a few minutes, and you can even get started with as little as $10. We love you, Kraken. Okay, so you accidentally have a theme,

[05:30] is... [05:30] White girl wellness, let's call it. Oh, wow. This corner of the internet is... [05:36] rich with information there's a lot that you could pull on here white girl wellness with hints of [05:45] hysteria. Totally. [05:47] and anti-vax culture and stuff we're back to vision healing it's kind of it's next to the vision healing story okay same type of woman yeah we're posting about both honestly both of these stories yeah and maybe this is becoming my beat yeah you're tapped into it it's kind of shocking actually you you really get in there okay so i'm gonna start with carotan carotan okay nothing my only guess would be i as a florida woman as a florida woman i was gonna say [06:17] say as a woman who grew up in South Florida. There... [06:21] was a time in my life where, [06:23] Where... [06:24] I was willing to do anything to be tan, you know, now, um, [06:29] Things are different. But... [06:31] One of the things that you would do is buy something called carrot oil. And it would be this oil that was from carrots. I mean, there was probably no carrot in this. And it was basically like baby oil and you'd rub it all over your body. A topical. Oh, topical, topical. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interesting. It was like a tanning oil, essentially. But carrot oil was like a specific type of oil that you would go and you would get and you put it all over and then you'd bake in the sun. Like a crazy person. Like a roast carrot.

[07:01] And that was the thing that you would do. And so for many years, I was on a carrot oil cycle. [07:13] So that's what comes up for me. Okay. Well, this time the girlies are doing it from the inside out. [07:19] okay that's why i was like topical of course it was topical no yeah okay let's hear it let's so on tiktok there's a trend very popular trend uh-huh where all these girls all they're all all every video i saw was a white woman okay [07:34] You have to eat 10 carrots a day for about two or three weeks to establish a carrot tan. Oh, okay. A base. A carrot base. A carrot base. And they're all doing this and they're eating all these carrots. And once you get to your carrot base, then you can be eating two to three carrots a day. Okay, you can downgrade. To be maintaining your tan. Okay. But the ultimate goal is natural carrot tan. Here's the science of it. It's called carrot tanemia. [08:01] Okay. Keratinemia. It's generally not dangerous though. The dose makes the poison, which is also a theme for my other, my second story. But basically if you eat a lot of beta carotene rich foods, your body makes vitamin A and it uses vitamin A for most people. But if you like really overdo it overdose, there's vitamin A and like, it just starts to come through. Seems through your veins. It starts to come through and the orange color starts to concentrate. Yeah. [08:28] First in the palms and the soles of your feet where the skin is thicker. And just like when you get a spray tan.

[08:34] That's where you have the worst streaks. And then it starts to come through in other areas. And the videos are like, I used to get spray tans. I belong to this gym that gave me like one free spray tan a week. And you better believe I was hitting that every week. And now I don't do that anymore. And I just do a carrot tan. And when I searched for the story, I searched like carrot tan and TikTok. And like, it was shocking how all the video previews, it was like, oh, [09:04] really look like it works okay so then it works it works she says it works can I ask some questions about what they look like [09:11] either carrot they're orange huge they're orange huge but are they like blonde brunette all are all um there's some brunettes okay there's a lot of bottle blondes are they like done up girls who get done up yeah okay it's a done up girl for the most part so yeah there's a lot of videos where it's like this is uh this is my real skin tone like a before and then this the after photos like here's me after going on the carotan diet so that's that's sort of like was the first introduction [09:41] of dermatologists and doctors who are stitching those videos. Okay. And commenting. What are they saying? They're saying that it works totally legitimate. And there's one carrot tan main character. There's a main character of carrot tan. She's blonde and she's orange and she's beautiful. And one of the doctors took a screenshot of when she had her hand like, and it looks, it's like very orange. And he was like, yeah, this can happen. Like here's one of the side

[10:11] You can OD. So you can overdo it. Like get yourself sick. The main character of Carrot Tan, she, one of her videos was like, yeah, I went to the doctor and I wasn't feeling that great. Yeah, no shit. Like took one look at me and he was, and they were like, you're eating way too much carrots, way too much by me. So she was like, I've toned it down now to only two or three carrots a day. But basically like you can get... [10:31] orange once it reaches like your eyes and oh my god i know i know so okay everyone's fine yeah and it's for the most part totally fine but you really kind of od it just like any eating disorder totally two questions is it a raw carrot or does it need to be cooked roasted does it matter they're mostly eating raw carrots i would imagine it needs to be raw that's like yeah no one's eating roasted carrots that i saw i do think that there's an optimization that you [11:01] shredded carrots which is kind of crazy some girls who like carrot burger some of the girls who seem to be kind of phoning it in were drinking store-bought carrot juice yeah that seems like a that seems like not gonna work right i think you could probably get there but you'd have to drink a lot of it but yeah for the most part raw carrots okay and then the other question i have is are these carrots do they have to be [11:24] Orange. [11:25] Or can you get a tri-color carrot? Oh, great question. Thank you. Great question. Thank you. Dig in. Dig in and let me know. [11:32] People see us in like two weeks on the podcast clubs and we're like totally orange. I love it.

[11:43] Okay, so... [11:45] The first story that I'm going to do... [11:47] is about an artist, an artiste. Okay. [11:51] Sunday nobody is what this man goes by. [11:54] And I first came across his work, his artisan work through a viral TikTok. [12:01] So he had a TikTok that went absolutely unbelievable. [12:04] Crazy viral 17 million views. And this is how it starts. He said, this is how I made 394 hot dogs and took the leftover hot dog water to make hot dog shaped ice sculptures, which I then mailed unrefrigerated to 394 people. [12:23] So he starts this video and you're like, [12:26] what? And you start watching it and it's, [12:29] really jarring because the first shot is... [12:34] This huge bucket. I made 394 hot dogs and took the leftover hot dog water and froze it to make hot dog shaped ice sculptures, which I then... [12:43] mailed out to people in unrefrigerated containers so that [12:46] when they arrive they're just [12:48] Puddles of hot dog water. Okay, okay. So when you first see the video, it's like huge buckets filled with hot dogs. There's a few different elements that stop the scroll, basically, to make you think about what's going on here. And then you see that he has basically these glass containers that have a tight lid on the top of them. And... [13:09] They say hot dog sculpture, and then it's numbered out of 394. Okay. Is he an NFT artist? He does have two NFTs. But when it arrives, it's just water. Yeah, I'm tracking. Someone's putting out a shower, just water. So I started to dig in specifically to this NFT.

[13:28] One, and this happened in August. So this is sort of an evergreen story, but now I've started to dig into his work more. But what is so compelling about... [13:37] the first video for me, and then I'll talk more about his work, but is that he starts with something that's like so stupid and silly and eye catching. And then when you start to get into it, it's like deeply, deeply technical what he's doing. Like he's using all this different machinery, a milling machine and CNC, and he's taking these aluminum chunks and he's shaving them down with a huge like electric saw. And then he's got all these different drill bits that he's talking about. [14:07] has a whole setup. It's not just like, oh, I took some water and I froze it and I shipped it. And the setup is around the sculpting of the ice? For this specific piece of work. Okay. And the sculpture... [14:18] of the ice hot dog looks amazing when he's done with the original one before it melts it's like perfect and beautiful and he talks about how he did it at first and it took too long and the water wasn't clear so then he um shaved different chunks so gross then he shaved different chunks of ice and froze them in small coolers so that they when you free something in a cooler like the cloudiness of the water goes to the bottom so the water gets super clear so like there's a craft he's a craft [14:48] And his... [14:50] bio across all of his channels is meme artists. Like he's really taken this idea of [14:57] the internet culture to IRL pipeline in a real way that is really resonating with people.

[15:07] works pieces that he has done, like physical work. [15:10] art projects. And then there's a TikTok video that corresponds to those projects. And all of them are funny and meme-y and have this sort of like culture around them. And all of his TikTok videos have sort of the same start. Like this is how I, and then descriptions. He knows how to write a hook. He knows how to write a hook. Yeah. And so a few other ones, this is how I took 104 Sharpies and a tattoo gun and made all the moms in the Pixar movies. And then he like goes on to tell this [15:40] and put a bag of flaming hot Cheetos inside of it and buried it in a huge hole underground for future civilizations to discover. And that one also went pretty viral. And with each of these, like, he has this hook, and then he goes into, like, the technical detail of how he created this work of art. I went to the new school, and I'm like, they would, like... [15:59] This guy would be, he is a hero. He's a master of a craft. He's a master of a craft. Yeah. And I started to wonder if like legitimate, [16:07] Art institutions would respect this guy. Yeah. Like where would he land in the art, in a traditional art world? Yeah. And so he actually got a write up in art net, which is a publication. Do we respect art net? We do. It's not a New York times, but it is like a totally legitimate publication that talks about different types of art. And yeah, [16:27] This was when the flaming hot bag of Cheetos came to be. That was one of his first viral videos, the hot dog water, uh, experiential, [16:36] distribution that was after this, but they said this project is almost profound in its absurdity, a bag of flaming hot Cheetos encased in resin and suspended by wires inside a 300 pound concrete sarcophagus buried outside of Seattle with a plaque instructing the future archaeologists to open it in 10,000 years. The work, which cost $1,200 to produce, is the latest effort from the artist known as Sunday Nobody, a 28 year old motion graphic designer at a Seattle ad agency. The

[17:05] He made this first artwork just a year ago, kicking off a practice defined by complex, labor-intensive projects that are both deeply indebted to and embedded in internet culture. Yeah. That's a great summation, I think. TikTokers, Reddit users are obsessed with this guy. They love what he's doing. And honestly, I do too. One of the things that he did that plays against traditional art world is he had a huge frame, like massive, massive, massive frame. [17:35] work of art is a true national treasure and you scan the cure code and it takes you to the Nicolas Cage movie and national treasure. [17:43] And he had mailed that to PS1 MoMA. Okay. [17:47] to, I guess, I don't know. He thought that it could be displayed, but he just mailed it to them. Okay. With no return address. And somehow MoMA PS1 got it back to him. Oh, okay. They were the return to sender. Yeah. No, thank you. And that's one other one. And then he does have, he does have some NFTs. He played with some NFTs. So he, one of his NFT projects was two NFTs. [18:10] he had these four paintings okay that were pixelated [18:16] images, image paintings of the Rickroll GIF. Okay. Two of those paintings he made into NFTs that he auctioned on foundation. Okay. We need to get him on the podcast. We do need to get him on the podcast. I think he would be willing. What's funny is like, he's a totally normal guy in Seattle. Like he's a demographic designer. Yeah. And he lives like really cheaply. And then he has, does this stuff on the side basically for fun. And the last component is that

[18:42] Almost every part of it, there's a sale or an auction of some kind with some of these works. So people bought the actual hot dog sculptures. So he sold each of them. I don't know how much for, but they were, I think, under $100. And then he auctioned the molding of the hot dog. And... [19:02] It went... It's gone now. But the last price that I saw was over $10,000. Oh, wow. Good for him. So there's some... [19:10] Mark it. It's good for him. So that is Sunday. Nobody. I love that. So the first story when you were telling it is about the attention to detail and the craft around something. [19:23] that is impermanent. Mm-hmm. [19:26] And the impermanence of an ice sculpture and then sending that out. First of all, that's like a really poignant commentary on like state change. Like I think it's like really, really compelling. And it reminds me of, there's this thing that, [19:41] this certain group of monks do. Okay. Where they basically spend like... [19:48] three weeks creating these sand displays oh yes and it's all these different colors of sand and all these really really really interesting yes i know exactly what you're having beautiful beautiful displays and then at the end of it they just like throw it they just destroy it and it reminds me of that it's very similar and i think also the similarity is that a big part of that sand yeah sculpture is the meditative state

[20:12] of doing that work and the meticulous detail that's required of it. Yeah. And that is also what comes through in this guy's TikToks is this attention to detail and the... [20:24] Flow state that he gets in. The flow state that he gets in. The repetition that's required for a lot of these things. And also brings you into the trial and error of it wasn't like I had this idea. I'm just going to do that. Like there's many steps to getting to how the thing actually is then finally produced. And you're along for the whole ride. Wow. [20:40] So thank you. You're welcome. Kraken is a crypto OG. They have more than 10 million clients around the world that trust them with their crypto needs. They're one of the largest crypto platforms out there with some of the highest security standards in the industry. So you can rest easy that your funds and your privacy are safe for the keeping. And if you need help along the way, as we all do sometimes, Kraken's award-winning client support team is available 24-7 every day of the year. This is a true story. [21:10] very dumb questions about our account and they were so nice and so patient. It just takes a few minutes to get started today at kraken.com backslash boys club. [21:18] My final story. I got to say I've been on a ride with this one. Okay. Because when I first came across this as a concept, I'm going to [21:27] plastic and receipts as a concept. [21:29] I was like... [21:30] This is hilarious. Okay. And I was making fun of all the people that were doing the videos around it. So what is plastic and receipts? So plastic and receipts is this idea, this now proven idea that the paper that's used for receipts and specifically the coding, there's like a thermal coding that's used in receipts that you get at CBS or the post office or all these different

[22:00] 1,000 times the amount of BPA... [22:04] Okay. That other stuff has in the world. Yeah. And your skin absorbs BPA. Okay. And so when you're touching a receipt... [22:16] Uh-huh. [22:17] You're getting dangerous levels of BPA. [22:22] Exposure. Mm-mm. [22:23] Okay. Well, okay. I gotta tell you so far. I'm unconvinced. I know. Totally unconvinced. Okay. So I'm for, I, I hear the story. [22:33] and on tiktok uh i heard the story irl okay and then i went to tiktok to get the receipts and i also was on reddit too but i had i yeah i had encountered the story like not not online okay so i'm like what a load of shit totally people are such idiots because the first the first video i saw of it was also hilariously stupid there's there was this woman who was holding up a receipt with like a a metal like a barbecue tong and she was like talking about it [23:03] holding it with the metal tongue that's so dumb and i was like so dumb it's so dumb okay it's so dumb was she it was a parody no it was serious no it's serious oh okay actually i almost scrapped the story because it got like serious and i was like maybe this is too serious for the podcast [23:20] but yeah so basically her video was really down the deep end where it's like it's disrupting your hormones and it goes really into that that zone and sort of the videos around it are taking two shapes one is more sort of do-gooder eco-conscious which people who are saying because of the thermal coating on these receipts you can't recycle them so okay all this other stuff and then a lot of the videos are people saying that it's about bpa exposure and it's really really dangerous so

[23:50] research I see Hugh Burman [23:51] here we are has he entered the chat and he runs entered the chat and the video clip that i saw of him was him basically saying the levels of epa that are in the water that we're drinking are actually fine but you want to know it's not fine [24:04] the bpa level in the receipts that you're handling every day so he's gone full in on classic receipts okay and a lot of the advice is like if a cashier tries to hand you a receipt do not touch it make them put it down on the counter so you can take a photo of it oh my god which to me i'm like these poor people are actually getting exposure yeah exactly and like if you work in retail you're shit out of luck like that was kind of the subtext of these videos can you imagine [24:34] the advocates are saying, or only get your receipts like emailed or texted to you or make the poor retail worker, like put it down on a flat surface so you can take a photo. Okay. So I'm researching a story. And at first I'm like, this is hilarious. And then, and now, [24:50] You're totally sold. I'm totally sold. Oh my God, Dina. I'm totally sold. I'm totally sold. Mostly because the final shot for me, I mean, you can find evidence for anything you want to believe. And there's a lot of evidence for this particular story, but Walgreens did commit to switching to BPA free thermal phenol free paper receipts by the end of 2023. So they're, they're making a move. Okay. It feels like an easy win for corporation. I guess that's true. I guess that's true. I guess [25:20] talking a lot about the receipts on TikTok and they were like oh change it change it we can make that change and then the final thing I saw which was really funny was that there was I think this was on a slide on Reddit and they were like talking about it and people were freaking out and then some doctor came in and he was like as long as you don't eat the receipts you're gonna be okay these are two things come up for me one is I don't feel like I'm ever handling receipts I'm never getting receipts I'm never

[25:49] The only time I need a receipt. Good for you. In my life. It's flexing. I'm so healthy. Is like expensing something and I'm just like email it to me. I don't know. I'm never getting a receipt. You're never getting receipts? Never. Great. You're in great shape. I don't know when actually like. I think I'm now just going to list places where you could get a receipt. Like a CVS. Okay. Yeah. Post office. I'm just always like I don't ever know. Great. So you're already on the front lines. I'm already on the front lines. Congratulations. [26:19] feeling that comes up for me or thought is... [26:21] Just like people need more to care about. I totally agree. I'm just like, this is not it. I was really struck by that when I was researching. I was like, I, the amount of free time, really. Yes. Yes. And sort of passion. [26:36] that is miss like that passion could be funneled in any other so many other directions so many other directions and it's being funneled towards plastic and receipts and that felt yeah that feels like a mess okay [26:54] So my last story is Moran Steakhouse. Okay. Okay. [27:01] You're familiar. I saw it on Twitter, but I didn't dig into it. Okay. So the story goes that... [27:06] There's a restaurant in New York City on the Upper East Side called Moran's Steakhouse. Okay. It has... [27:13] tons of five-star reviews it has a 900 person wait list if you call or if you go to their their

[27:22] website it's like we're booked out for months leave your name leave your email we'll get back to you when we have reservation openings and then they opened up reservation saturday for 120 people can i ask a question yes how are people discovering the steakhouse google maps [27:37] Okay. It had all these reservations, all these reviews and Google ads. Okay. The thing is, this is not a real restaurant. Okay. It started because there were 16-ish people who lived in a hacker house on the Upper East Side. Okay. And they were all in their early 20s, like fresh out of college. Okay. [27:52] And there was one guy in the house named Moran who made steaks all the time. Okay. And so people in the hacker house started to write reviews and they made a Google like restaurant, a fake restaurant. Okay. Okay. And they would leave these good reviews and it became like a joke between everybody in the house that they leave reviews for him. Very funny. [28:10] And then it started to create this buzz online where they were like, oh my gosh, these, this couple, about a year ago in 2022, a couple shows up at the house and is like, we're here. We'd like to eat. [28:23] eat at your steakhouse. Oh my gosh. And the people who were there were like, oh, we don't know what you're talking about. But they knew like, oh my gosh, this is from the Google review. Okay. So then from there, they decided we are going to [28:34] actually put up a landing page and we're going to have a Google voicemail that will build up a wait list. Okay. Okay. So they do that over the course of the year and they get 900 people who have signed up over the course of a year or like over the course of yeah, 2022. So over the course of at least, at least over nine months. And then they decide, okay, we're going to do a pop-up. We're going to do a night where we invite people to come and we're going to do this, do this restaurant. And so they book a space in the East village. I'm like, if people are paying close

[29:04] You might be like, well, this is kind of weird. So they open it up and I think they get 120 people who sign up for this dinner. And this group of friends bring in 60 of their friends and they order all this food, 110 pounds of steak, like 60 pounds of potatoes. They design a four course menu. They're bringing this restaurant to life for one night as basically an Internet joke. Oh, my gosh. OK, pause. Yes. Are they cooking? Yes. [29:32] Yes. Yes. They're cooking. Like people who have never worked in a restaurant, people who do not cook, they're like, okay, we're going to do the steaks. We're going to do that. They like design this menu. Was the space a restaurant? [29:43] No, it's like a white box with like a... Oh, yeah. Like a backdrop. Like a photo studio. It's like a photo studio, basically. Is there a kitchen? Like, how are they... Like, what... I'm so curious how the production... [29:54] Yes, there's a kitchen, but it's like a sick stovetop. They rent all the tables. They like deck it out. They're like white tablecloth. They fully produce this thing to happen. And then they also produce weird sort of moments around it to build into the stories. They hired a ton of people or they're volunteers, I'm sure, like friends of theirs, like college students who are outside of the space who are pretending that Drake's inside. So they're a group of Drake fans that are outside.

[30:24] these different celebrities like Al Pacino and it doesn't logically make sense because it's like throughout the ages like all these different okay so all these different things are happening okay they design the menu and have La Sandwich which is like a famous sandwich shop the the owner of that Elise Bakri they had them taste the menu before while they were designing it like really or as a part of a bit [30:48] No, no, no. That's real. That's real. That's not part of the bit. I mean, it's all sort of part of the bit, but that was real. So they developed this fourth course menu. It's $114 plus tax and tip. And all these people show up. Like it really happens. It gets a write up in the New York Times about the story of it being a bit. Okay. And there's all these photographs of the dinner and it's all sorts of people. Like it's who would sign up for a steakhouse on the Upper East Side that has a 900% wait list. [31:18] Some people were like, it tasted like banquet food. There was no one who was like, the food's amazing. But some people were like, it's pretty good. Knowing what I know now, they did a pretty good job. Yeah. So there were three guys who were really... [31:29] champing the Moronga and then two other dudes and then a team of 60 to like produce this whole thing. Wow. And he sent the menu out in like a Google Drive to the staff and he's like this is your Bible this is your Quran like study this know it and there was three glasses of wine options that they could have or a full glass of milk was another option and then they had one guy was the sommelier and there's hilarious videos of him like not knowing how to open a wine bottle like him

[31:59] in the bottle. And so it's a bit come to life. And I guess I have a similar theme with the hot dog guy, a bit like IRL. Some people were upset because they were made duped. They were made to be a joke, but most people were super into it. And for much of the evening, I think a lot of people were like, is this real? This is a restaurant, but sort of like what's going on. And then I'm [32:24] mid- [32:25] dinner, there's a fake engagement, which from my reporting, my gathering intel, it seems like that went wrong. [32:33] really bad. It was like really awkward. Okay. And that seems to have been when the tide turned for most people. Okay. And they were like, something's weird here. This is like an art experiment. Yeah. And a lot of people were like, Oh, this is like an NYU production, like something's going on. So that is New York's hottest steakhouse. [32:50] Wow. Thank you so much. I love the performance art so much. It's performance art. It's so great. And there's a Twitter thread from this guy talking about how it all came together. And it seems like it was such a fun experience for this group of friends. [33:08] There's something... [33:09] So... [33:10] special about it because it's only going to happen once yeah there's these really cute like bts shots of them like exhausted laying around after doing it there's only something you do when you're so young and you're not concerned about getting sued or like you know it can only happen in this moment of time so anyway i really enjoy this week was looking at all these weird internet phenomenons and people bringing them into irl experiences which i love i love that that's it that's it

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