• Update: Alex Gibney’s Musk Documentary Flopped in Theaters — and No Agenda’s Panel Piled On

    Following up on Alex Gibney’s four-hour Musk documentary (covered here after its festival debut): it bombed in theaters, opening to roughly $290,000 — about $614 per screen — and was pulled from theaters shortly after. On the show, guest Jason Calacanis was blunt about it, calling Gibney “bitter,” the film “a total hit piece,” and telling Dana flatly that engaging with Gibney on X amounts to “platforming him with a movie that sucks.”

    Check JustWatch for where it’s streaming now that its theatrical run is over.

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  • “You Can See Everything” — Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Splits the Panel (Overhyped vs. Top Three of All Time)

    Dana Brunetti caught the new Elizabeth Holmes documentary, You Can See Everything, co-directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim — three hours long, built around real access to Holmes before she reported to prison. His verdict: the trailer hooked him, but the central gimmick wore off well before the credits, and his own expectations were set too high after hearing everyone “ranting and raving.” He’s not telling anyone to skip it, just go in without the hype.

    A week later, special guest Jason Calacanis went the other way entirely, naming it one of his top three documentaries of all time, alongside Grizzly Man and Hoop Dreams. Worth judging for yourself.

    A documentary in theaters now from A24; check Fandango for showtimes: fandango.com.

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  • Weigh Your Own Packages and Print Your Own Shipping Labels

    Dana’s tip for anyone who ships things regularly: the post office counter rounds your package up to the next full pound, and that adds up fast over time. Weigh it yourself and print your own label online instead — services like Pirate Ship (free) or USPS Click-N-Ship let you enter the exact weight and pay only for that. A cheap digital postal scale (no specific model named on air) is all you need at home to get the real number.

    The money-saver here is the free label service: pirateship.com or USPS Click-N-Ship.

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    Weigh it yourself at the post office
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  • Use Venmo to Split the Dinner Bill So Nobody Has to Do Math at the Table

    Dana’s fix for the inevitable bickering over who owes what at a group dinner: pay the full bill yourself, then use Venmo to split it however many ways. Venmo’s group/split-pay feature calculates the exact per-person amount and sends each person a request automatically — no napkin math, no app with twelve different splitting apps required.

    It’s a free app: venmo.com or your phone’s app store.

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  • Tip of the Day: Don’t Install Software Updates the Day They Drop

    Dana’s rule: never install a software update the day it drops, or even the day after — especially on Apple products. Let other people find the bugs first; wait a few days so they get worked out before you install. The one exception is a flagged security update, where the vendor is explicitly warning you that you’re vulnerable — install those right away. Otherwise, patience saves you from being the one who gets bricked by a bad release.

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  • Why a $20 AI Subscription Beats Buying Local AI Hardware

    Gene built his own AI-usage tracker this week and used it to make a pitch: local AI hardware that can keep pace with cloud models starts around $8,000, while a basic $20-a-month cloud plan covers the vast majority of real-world use. By his own back-of-envelope math — comparing the API token rate to what a capped plan actually hands you — he figures a $20 plan delivers roughly $2,500 worth of token usage if maxed out in a month. That’s Gene’s personal calculation from the show, not a published Anthropic figure, so treat the multiplier as an estimate, not gospel.

    Not an Amazon product — subscription signup: claude.ai/pricing.

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    Why a $20 AI Subscription Beats Buying Local AI Hardware

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