Mateyush
@mateyush.bsky.social
Geographer and one-time aviation and transportation planner. DC now after stops in CDMX, NYC, Shanghai, Jerusalem, Dubai, and Montreal, but always and forever a proud New Jerseyan.
I've wondered about this. The same game show (same set, cues, everything) is licensed to many countries, including The Floor. The Israeli version has a complex high-production value set for a country of 10 million people. Why don't, say, all the Endemol shows shoot in one worldwide studio?
U.S. networks are shifting game show production overseas for massive tax credit savings that can cut per-episode costs by millions. www.latimes.com/entertainme...
One of America's TV pastimes is the game show. Why are so many filming overseas?
The questions and gags may be written in Los Angeles or New York. But the cameras are rolling in countries where producers can make them for less.
www.latimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I've wondered about this. The same game show (same set, cues, everything) is licensed to many countries, including The Floor. The Israeli version has a complex high-production value set for a country of 10 million people. Why don't, say, all the Endemol shows shoot in one worldwide studio?
The audience here that understands Israeli sketch shows is probably zero, but it felt like Zehu Zeh crossed a serious line, and I'm curious if there will be any blowback tomorrow.
November 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The audience here that understands Israeli sketch shows is probably zero, but it felt like Zehu Zeh crossed a serious line, and I'm curious if there will be any blowback tomorrow.
The very first time I had Dairy Queen was here.
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The very first time I had Dairy Queen was here.
The NCAA could have done the funniest thing possible by matching up Drake and Lamar in the first round.
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The NCAA could have done the funniest thing possible by matching up Drake and Lamar in the first round.
I went home with a waitress / The way I always do
How was I to know / She was with the Russians too
I was gambling in Havana / I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns, and money / Dad, get me out of this
How was I to know / She was with the Russians too
I was gambling in Havana / I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns, and money / Dad, get me out of this
November 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I went home with a waitress / The way I always do
How was I to know / She was with the Russians too
I was gambling in Havana / I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns, and money / Dad, get me out of this
How was I to know / She was with the Russians too
I was gambling in Havana / I took a little risk
Send lawyers, guns, and money / Dad, get me out of this
I know 2 people from here!
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I know 2 people from here!
Best solution for the mobile lounges: build a couple of ramps in Ocean City that lead down into the Atlantic. Have a big festive parade all along Route 50. At the end of the parade, thousands of people cheer as the lounges roll into the sea never to be seen again.
This is the most thoughtful solution I’ve heard so far for the mobile lounges: “It would be fun to keep a set of docks attached to the terminal with a few mobile lounges.”
A stationary monument to Saarinen’s vision.
@kelseyables.bsky.social
A stationary monument to Saarinen’s vision.
@kelseyables.bsky.social
Much ado about the mobile lounge
Eero Saarinen's mobile lounges at Dulles are in the Trump administration's sights
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Best solution for the mobile lounges: build a couple of ramps in Ocean City that lead down into the Atlantic. Have a big festive parade all along Route 50. At the end of the parade, thousands of people cheer as the lounges roll into the sea never to be seen again.
Oh hey, Penn's long snapper is the kid of JP Darche, the McGill grad who was a long snapper in the NFL and is now the Chiefs team doctor.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Oh hey, Penn's long snapper is the kid of JP Darche, the McGill grad who was a long snapper in the NFL and is now the Chiefs team doctor.
I love this so much.
Day #160: United States Postal Service (1969)
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I love this so much.
This is... awesome?
All my Goodnight Moonheads lining up at midnight for a first look at the Goodnight Moon suite. The Goodnight Moon fandom has been clamoring for this www.boston.com/travel/trave...
Look inside Sheraton Boston's whimsical new Goodnight Moon suite
Look inside Sheraton Boston's whimsical new limited-time Goodnight Moon suite, which is available through Feb. 28, 2026.
www.boston.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This is... awesome?
Mega Burger, featuring... not burgers. This is, by the way, a pretty central area in a second-tier Kyrgyz city (it's actually closer to Almaty than Bishkek, though there is a 16,000' mountain range in the way)
Мега Бургер; F9RV+8HG, Karakol, Kyrgyzstan https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=42.49081699999999%2C78.3939462&query_place_id=ChIJmUmZyD9bhjgRlJY3TWweHp8
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Mega Burger, featuring... not burgers. This is, by the way, a pretty central area in a second-tier Kyrgyz city (it's actually closer to Almaty than Bishkek, though there is a 16,000' mountain range in the way)
Have they field-tested this in the Northeast? If every employee within 4 feet of me starts asking about my day, I'm going to run screaming out of that place.
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Have they field-tested this in the Northeast? If every employee within 4 feet of me starts asking about my day, I'm going to run screaming out of that place.
Love the bonkers weather days that show up at season change.
WASHINGTON DULLES DC Nov 5
Climate Report:
High: 74
Low: 33
Precip: 0.0"
Snow: 0.0" Snow Depth: 0"
at Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:26:46 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.
Climate Report:
High: 74
Low: 33
Precip: 0.0"
Snow: 0.0" Snow Depth: 0"
at Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:26:46 +0000 via IEMbot
Additional Details Here.
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Love the bonkers weather days that show up at season change.
I was a geography undergrad before Google Maps/Earth and 7 years later was a planning grad student when it was available (and a practicing planner after that), and you can't understate how much it revolutionized any field with a real-world spatial component.
Google Maps is a more impressive achievement than any given physical wonder of the world, in my opinion.
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I was a geography undergrad before Google Maps/Earth and 7 years later was a planning grad student when it was available (and a practicing planner after that), and you can't understate how much it revolutionized any field with a real-world spatial component.
Funnily enough, I have strong connections to both the top Mamdani neighborhoods and the top Cuomo neighborhoods. I also have a strong connection to a Sliwa neighborhood that's just under this list.
Striking how Brooklyn accounts for both the top 5 Mamdani (blue) and top 5 Cuomo (purple) districts
November 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Funnily enough, I have strong connections to both the top Mamdani neighborhoods and the top Cuomo neighborhoods. I also have a strong connection to a Sliwa neighborhood that's just under this list.
I was served this ad on a different social network. Only problem is that this plane is departing from Ben Gurion.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I was served this ad on a different social network. Only problem is that this plane is departing from Ben Gurion.
Hilarious/sad segment on Israeli news of Israelis holding up the same product in supermarkets in a bunch of countries (Spain, Greece, Germany, Bulgaria, US, et al), saying the price and then showing how much more expensive the same basket is in Israel (almost double!).
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Hilarious/sad segment on Israeli news of Israelis holding up the same product in supermarkets in a bunch of countries (Spain, Greece, Germany, Bulgaria, US, et al), saying the price and then showing how much more expensive the same basket is in Israel (almost double!).
Baseball season ends yesterday, Port St. Lucie comes up today. I think it's a sign. #LGM.
(Also, I know someone from here)
(Also, I know someone from here)
November 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Baseball season ends yesterday, Port St. Lucie comes up today. I think it's a sign. #LGM.
(Also, I know someone from here)
(Also, I know someone from here)
The last 3 good bars in Jerusalem are closing and it's making the news about how to save nightlife in the city.
November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The last 3 good bars in Jerusalem are closing and it's making the news about how to save nightlife in the city.
Yep; when I describe the core skillset of planners, data-driven storytelling is one of the pillars.
We see our job as transit planners as being at least half storytelling. The great Todd Litman explains why.
www.planetizen.com/blogs/136153...
www.planetizen.com/blogs/136153...
For Better Public Transit, We Need Better Stories
Public transportation provides many often-overlooked benefits. We can do better at communicating the value of transit investments. We have good stories to tell.
www.planetizen.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Yep; when I describe the core skillset of planners, data-driven storytelling is one of the pillars.
I have seen more upright basses on the New York City subway than I have everywhere else in the rest of my life combined.
I consider myself a connoisseur of people hauling big stuff on the subway, and today: upright bass. Pretty good.
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I have seen more upright basses on the New York City subway than I have everywhere else in the rest of my life combined.
Israel's satire show of record spends an hour lampooning every current party leader and half the Cabinet and then closes with freed hostage Alon Ohel playing the piano while the entire cast sings Mitachat HaShamayim. An eretz nehederet, indeed.
October 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Israel's satire show of record spends an hour lampooning every current party leader and half the Cabinet and then closes with freed hostage Alon Ohel playing the piano while the entire cast sings Mitachat HaShamayim. An eretz nehederet, indeed.
Damn, just how forgotten was Lando Norris?
October 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Damn, just how forgotten was Lando Norris?
Is Connections finally obliquely giving credit to where the idea came from?
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Is Connections finally obliquely giving credit to where the idea came from?
Anecdotally, I hear a LOT more French in Jerusalem than I did 4 years ago and even quite a bit in Tel Aviv (I haven't been back to Netanya yet.)
“12% of French people believe it would be good for the country if its Jews packed up and left, a new survey shows, with one of the pollsters calling the numbers ‘a historic reversal’ reflecting a worsening of antisemitism on the left.”
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2024-...
www.haaretz.com/jewish/2024-...
12 percent of French people would welcome a Jew-free France, poll shows
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www.haaretz.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Anecdotally, I hear a LOT more French in Jerusalem than I did 4 years ago and even quite a bit in Tel Aviv (I haven't been back to Netanya yet.)