I believe he negotiated it down last year.

Oh my God, I understood the implications of this, but then I actually went and looked at the score and it's still surprised me just how bad Gonzaga is getting their ass beat.

When it was clear he wasn't going to stop, I went and found a theater employee. She clearly has practice dealing with this. She asked me where he was sitting, she waited until I returned to my seat, then maybe 3 minutes later went and talked to his mom. That ended it!

It wasn't a podcast, it was a kid, maybe 13 years old, with his younger sister and probably his mom, and he was watching fucking TikTok during the movie. Not just watching, actively scrolling and liking, with the volume playing. What the actual fuck. I watched him do this for a good 5 to 10 minutes.

For the first 30 minutes of the movie, whenever it was very quiet, I could hear some sort of noise, talking, like maybe someone had their phone accidentally playing a podcast or something. It was annoying, but I couldn't figure it out. And then I spotted the culprit.