Boardwalk Empire

I thought it was interesting.

I remember reading this article about the TV show Boardwalk Empire.

Remember that one on HBO about the mobsters in New York? And this article highlighted all the pretty heady books these guys were reading.

these 1920s mobster guys who are kind of, you know, rough and tumble, but they're reading like some heavy books.

Yeah, absolutely.

And you can be so much more entertaining with television.

I mean, you know, I love books, but a book can only be so entertaining, you know, next to a TV show or a video game, a book is just inevitably a more boring object in a good way, I think.

But you just enter this world of, I mean, especially, you know, when you kind of bring in this element of capitalist competition between cable news shows, and eventually the same thing happens with algorithms on TikTok.

It didn't disable you necessarily in the same way of losing limbs, but it was incredibly disabling socially.

You probably have seen Boardwalk Empire.

Yeah,

I remember the face.

But if you were sitting across from somebody.

And moving around, breathing, talking.

And I think that's why Boardwalk Empire, that character is so unsettling is that kind of.

It's like the temporaries.

Yeah, because what they were doing during Prohibition, they were stealing each other's liquor.

because they didn't you know it was just easier and doing that they killed people and that's where you see that in the movies Boardwalk Empire is a good example and that had to stop because they were tied into the law enforcement and they were society was getting tired of all these deaths and useless killings and uh my grandfather got with Luciano they went to Atlantic City they brought everybody in including Al Capone And they said, we have to stop all these killings.

It's not working for us because we're losing money.

Bad PR.

there's a show that you should go watch.

It's called Boardwalk Empire.

I have seen that.

It's been some time ago.

Oh, my God.

In Chicago, you know, took over control of everything.

So Boardwalk Empire, great show.

That is a great program.

And you know what else? They were streaming in the loops on my HBO yesterday, and I started watching some.

It was Boardwalk Empire because I caught it at the start of a new season.

Actually, I saw the end of it one season into the next.

Boardwalk Empire was really good.

Very underrated.

Steve Buscemi is

The guy that plays Capone as it goes.

Everybody's great.