BINGELY STREAMING

BETWEEN TWO FERNS: THE MOVIE

Netflix Originals

Netflix brings back the popular web series with Zach Galifianakis who showcases how he is the worst celebrity interviewer ever! The movie is filled with deadpan insults and plenty of pained expressions between the interviewer and the interviewee. Within the movie, he plays an altered version of himself and is tasked by Will Ferrell (who plays a cartoony villain of himself) to conduct 10 interviews in a span of 2 weeks in order for him to get a real network talk show that he really wants.

Throughout the movie, you're treated to a number of star-studded interviews (Keanu Reeves, David Letterman, Brie Larson, etc.) that all end horribly.

Ultimately, viewers will enjoy seeing their favorite celebs allowing themselves to be subjected to Zach's antics as well as trying to keep a straight face through it all.

THE MISSING CRYPTOQUEEN

BBC Sounds

Apple Podcast

This BBC Sounds podcast investigates the details of missing cryptocurrency OneCoin founder, Dr. Ruja Ignatov in 2017 who promised to change money forever. Host, Jamie Bartlett walks us through the finding of this case that includes: data leaked to the BBC found that the scam was worth between £3.6 - £4bn worldwide, and shows for the first time the scale in the UK. At least £26m was invested from the UK over one six-month window in 2016 - and maybe as high as £90-97m between 2014 - 2017 and over 175 countries had victims in the largest crypto-scam of all time that is still running to date.

Within 2 years of launching the company, they claimed to have over 3.5 million members with hundreds of thousands of investors and offices that opened in major cities around the world with events, she seemed unstoppable; however, rumors were swirling about the legitimacy of the currency and thus digging into the scheme that ended with Dr. Ruja vanishing.

BUNGALOW SK

Athleisure Studio

iHeartRadio

As you know, Athleisure Media is comprised of Athleisure Mag as well as our podcast network, Athleisure Studio.

These days, your calendar is supercharged and you find yourself having to pencil in when you need to breathe! As we're always moving and grooving between our offices, home, studio and out, we could all take some moments to spend time and hear from our faves in pop culture on what they're up to and how they keep it together as well. In Bungalow SK, you'll hear from your favorite celebrities and get the inside scoop on what they are working on.

Read the Sept Issue of Athleisure Mag and see Bingely Streaming in mag.

BINGELY STREAMING

THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Hulu; Starts April 25th

This month, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is back for its second season and all eyes are on Offred/June
(Elisabeth Moss) and Gilead. If you haven't seen Season 1, then you need to go back and binge the first season where viewers are privy to a patriarchal society of Gilead which is an intense nightmare. Season 1 focuses on content that you can find in Margaret's book and ends with Offred/June bundled into the back of an anonymous van as she makes an attempt to escape.

Season 2 lets viewers see if she was able to escape or if the Eyes, agents of Gilead took her back to the Colonies. Expect to see more about her pregnancy as well as her fight against this obtrusive system. In addition, we'll find out more about her past and her friends as well. In case you were wondering, plan on another "really dark" season -promised by Moss herself!

#LIPSTORIES
Girl Boss Media

From Girlboss Radio and in partnership with Sephora Collection, #LipStories is a podcast that accompanies the Sephora Collection of lipsticks available in their stores and online. The lipsticks are 40 colors strong and are inspired by real life stories. The podcast also shares stories over six episodes with six influential inspiring female founders, creatives, entertainers, thought leaders and activists.

Stories include Aminatou Sow, Molly Hayward, Pia Arrobio, Jen Rubio, Aurora James and Sarah Robb O’Hagan talking in their own words about their memories and what sticks out to them and how it framed who they are and where they are now!

Hosted by Sophia Amoruso, founder of Girlboss Media and former CEO of Nasty Gal she navi-gates their stories to find out more about them as they continue to trailblaze in their careers, enjoy time with friends or reflect on memories in the past that stick out to them to this day.

SANDRA
Gimlet Media

When we ask Siri, Google, Cortana to sing us a song, check our calendars or to tell us the time - we simply make our requests and receive an answer that points us in the right direction. But who are these assistants that we use? Where does this information come from and how do we keep getting it?

Sandra is a podcast from Gimlet Media that delves into the person or people behind these assistants. In Oklahoma, there is an office where Sandra is actually a number of people that are able to provide you information in her voice but who have a number of personalities and issues that they are dealing with.

One of the many people who play Sandra begins the podcast looking for a job and a means to live her best life, gets her dream job and due to being her best self as Sandra, finds herself not only on the outside looking in but becoming close with one of the users who has plans of his own that can harm someone in his life.

Sandra tackles the nature of identities, what it means when human behaviour merges with technology and what we do when it's time to make the right call and to add a personal touch.

Read more from the April Issue and see Bingely Streaming in mag.

TOWARDS AN ATHLETIC REBOOTING

by Ron Mwangaguhunga

Everyone nowadays is anxiously rebooting. And by rebooting I don’t quite mean a vigorous work wear boot. In the penultimate week of August, for example, Donald Trump rebooted his meandering, sour-grandpa campaign. The value add of data-driven Kellyanne Conway as the new Team Trump campaign manager signaled that, for good or for ill, the GOP standardbearer of the angry demographic feels the need to give it another try, to reintroduce himself to an already on-edge American public.

If politics is all about the strategic reset, then Hollywood nowadays is all about legacy-quels, the sequels and the reboots. The Woods was a stealth sequel to The Blair Witch Project. There will be a Blade Runner sequel in 2017, set decades after the 1982 original film. Also next year look forward to sequel/reboots of: Resident Evil, Trainspotting, John Wick, Wolverine and Guardians of the Galaxy. Is there any originality left in La-La Land? All this revisiting of past storylines is enough to give a movie-viewer a considerable case of Whiplash (nb: no sequel date yet set for that 2014 film about abusive drum instructors).

The word “re-boot” itself though apparently not the concept is a no-no among the cognoscenti, particularly on the left coast. So toxic is the term that The Rock – of The Fast and Furious franchise, rebooting in 2017 – recently made it perfectly clear that the new Jumanji is NOT a reboot. On Instagram he wrote: “for the record we are NOT making a reboot, but rather a continuation of the awesome JUMANJI story.” Whatever, Dwayne.

Economically as well, the pendulum swings.  “With economies all over the world growing too slowly and little scope left for new monetary stimulus, governments are turning their attention back to fiscal policy,” said recently the august Bloomberg View. What a sagacious way to say, essentially: reboot, reboot, reboot.

What is with all this rebooting and resetting? Whether or not The Trump or The Rock or even the Council of Economic Advisors want to admit it publicly, a reboot is a reboot is a reboot, to paraphrase Gertrude Stein. And this Olympian-level athletic contortioning of all kinds by the culturally, politically and economically powerful suggests strongly that something indeed is amiss in the land of milk and honey. But what?

The State of the Union, quite frankly, is gloomy. A Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll of the last several years shows a virtually unchanged amount of stress/worry among Americans from the Great Recession of 2008 to the present. Despite the bright economic indicators and rosy labor statistics we are still a very, very stressed out people. That might explain the rise of Trump, the various public reboots to get his message right. It might also explain, at least partly, why we keep going back to the movie theaters shelling out our hard-earned money for tickets to re-visit the same familiar characters and stories that we saw last year or the year before.

What is to be done? Stress is an inevitable aspect of life and, unfortunately, we live in a particularly stressful and turbulent era. While we cannot control the vast forces that influence us culturally, politically or even economically, we are stewards of our own physical real estate. As simple as it might sound, a good workout is a wellknown coping technique in a world gone antsy.

Reconnect with your body. Perhaps instead of a sequel or a reboot or the political circus on the cablers you might prefer to throw on some particularly fly athleisure gear and have a good workout or smooth yourself out with some restorative yoga? The most useful reboots do not involve politics, culture or the economy. Your body is calling. Say no to reboots and say yes, dear reader, to rebooty.ing

Ron Mwangaguhunga is a Brooklyn based writer focused on media, culture and politics. His work has appeared in Huffington Post, IFC and Tribeca Film Festival, Kenneth Cole AWEARNESS, NY Magazine, Paper Magazine, CBS News.com, and National Review online to name a few. He is currently the editor of the Corsair.