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🎧 Is The Predator Called Mud | Chapter 264

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🧩 Episode Summary

Chapter 264 is peak Distance Nerding chaos. We break down massive MCU Doomsday rumors, Thor reuniting with fallen heroes in Valhalla, and Doctor Doom possibly becoming Marvel’s most tragic villain yet. Gotham heats up with The Batman Part II rumors, while the industry itself shifts as Paramount quietly outmaneuvers Warner Bros. Meanwhile, Game of Thrones lore explodes with Mad King revelations, Aegon’s Conquest heading to theaters, and Harrenhal once again ruining everyone’s lives. Also discussed: Mario villains, Predator’s future, and whether the Predator is, in fact, just… mud.

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🧠 Key Takeaways

• Marvel villains work best when driven by grief and loss

• Doctor Doom may be rebuilding reality for personal reasons

• Batman stories hit harder when villains come from Bruce’s past

• Paramount’s creator-first strategy is pulling talent away from Warner Bros

• Harrenhal remains Westeros’ most dangerous vacation destination

• Time travel arguments never end, across any universe

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• “Time travel f***ing sucks.”

• “That’s Stranger Things… but for old people.”

• “Even More Heat. Getting hotter.”

• “Mud.”

• “Do it. Do it now!”

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That's where. We're going, of course, Val Army

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and the possible return of the fallen MCU heroes.

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Doomsday rumors are ramping up. Everyone listen to me now and

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talk to me. Later.

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In the doomsday teaser, Thor is seen praying to the All Father,

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asking for the strength to defeat one more enemy so he can

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make it back home to his daughter.

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Love. According to insider merchant

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MTTSH, Odin actually answers. That never happens.

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Thor won't be walking into battle against Doctor Duma

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alone. Instead, Odin and reinforcements

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straight from ball. And not just anonymous warriors.

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Oh my gosh, does this mean work? OK, never mind.

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Thor has lost a long list of allies over the years with

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Heimdall, the Warriors 3, Jane Foster, Valkyrie, and more.

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If this rumor holds up, Valhalla could open doors for some

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powerful and emotional cameos. Interesting.

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So are we going to get brief cameos from Thor's pass?

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Are we going to get Jane Foster again?

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Are we going to get there like cool down moment or heat up

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moment? I guess I don't know it.

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It I, I think we will and I think we're whether it's him

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visiting Valhalla, seeing his father, seeing all, all of the

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the fallen heroes that he's been friend like missing in all of

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this. It'd be interesting to see them

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do that because I'm I'm assuming that Valhalla is probably them

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tapping into another universe anyways.

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Yeah, I could see them getting some of them back.

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And it would be kind of bittersweet for Thor to be like,

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you know, my friends are here. But like maybe it's it's only

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for the battle and then they disappear again or something

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like that. So it's like he sees them and he

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gets to battle with them, but that's it.

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You know, he doesn't get to, you know, have a have a sit down

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talk with them. It's just like we're here for a

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minute and then gone sort of thing.

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Right. Especially for like Hemdale or

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Jane. Wait, Jane died, Jane's dead?

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Spoiler like. Hemdale like actually said, Hey

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Jane, you fell in battle. You get to go to, do you not

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remember that? That was like a huge thing.

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That was a long time ago. Big moment.

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It's a lot of universes ago. This is why I don't watch movies

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with you. That is true.

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What do you think, Frey? I think.

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We're going to get them all. I think this is the perfect way

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for Odin to tell Thor where Loki is, to bring Loki into the mix,

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because I think that's who he's going to need.

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Oh, that's a good point. I like that.

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Yeah, I like that a lot. Like hey, your brother is still

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out there kind of thing. Well, like Thor could be like,

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where's Loki? Why isn't Loki here with us?

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Odin says. Dude, look, he got his own show

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and it's really cool stuff on it.

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And now he kind of guards the tree of life in these really

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cool shoes. You really need to see his shoes

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because they're fucking amazing. And so then horse like, well,

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yeah, I got to see the shoes and got to see my new like hammer

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thing because he hasn't seen that yet.

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They got to catch up. They're Bros.

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Yeah, that's that's. A good point.

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Yay Thing. And Luke Wilson, not Luke

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Wilson. Owen Wilson's character Mobius.

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He meets Thor and then Loki gets jealous because he likes Thor

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more than he likes Loki. So then Loki stops being the

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three guardian guy and then he comes and he's like maybe I

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should be on Doctor Doom's side, Maybe I should be on Thor side.

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Then they play get help. Then Loki goes back to the tree

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because he really needs to, because that not going to be,

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you know, very tree light. Anyway, that's all I have.

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Because as far as Thor thinks, Loki died right at right.

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What was that? Yeah, game.

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Oh no, in Infinity War. Like the last time he saw his

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brother was was at Stark Tower, no.

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No, but that was the old that was.

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The old Loki. But that's the last time Thor

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saw him though. Yeah, no, he saw him on the

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ship. Well, Thanos showed.

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Up Thanos killed him that's. Right.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So he's going to be like, no, but Loki's alive with a jet.

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Ski with a guy who likes jet ski?

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No. So The thing is though, no.

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But Phil's right. The last time Thor saw Loki was

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the tower because they had to go back in time to get the stone.

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So technically the last time he saw Loki was in that.

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And that's the Loki that was taken out of that's the Loki.

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So that, Loki, that we saw that. Thor.

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Thor wasn't there. Thor went to He was in Thor Dark

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World. Yeah, he was.

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He was in space with with a a a a 10 foot tall or like 20 foot

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tall little person. No, he was in Asgard.

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Thank you. Somebody rolled the clip.

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Rolled the clip. Roll the clip.

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We're all wrong here. It's like it's fine.

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No, I am right. He was in Asgard talking to his

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mom at the same time. That's what I just said.

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No, you didn't. Yeah, Dark World.

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No, he did. He did say Thor of The Dark

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World. OK, all right, He was Thor of

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the Dark. OK, he was in that movie, but it

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wasn't OK. Never mind.

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You know what? Time travel fucking sucks.

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All right, let's move on. Especially when there's two

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movies that were like 10 years old at this point.

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So it's like, Oh my God. No, we're like arguing over

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them. Well, we are nerds.

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OK, all right, Bruso brothers. Doomsday Post solve What looked

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like a random behind the scenes tease could actually hold the

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emotional core of the entire Multiverse Saga.

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Insider MTTSH claims that the photo wasn't random at all.

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It reportedly comes from a flashback sequence that lays out

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Doom's tragic origin. According to the report, the

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scene takes place in a lab where Victor von Doom is working on a

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dangerous experiment with his family nearby.

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Oh, that's Max of Ant Man. The experiment goes wrong, the

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blast kills his wife and child and leaves Victor severely

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disfigured. That's a shame.

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The accident is what pushes him into the armor and mask that

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define the character. Doom allegedly believes Captain

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America set off the chain reaction that led to the lab

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accident. Wait, so does so are we saying

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that? Where Steve wound up is where

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Doom also went. OK nevermind.

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If true, it adds a revenge angle to the massive showdown.

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And then Doom's goal is to rebuild reality from the ashes,

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reshape it how he sees fit, and bring his family back back.

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So how do you see Doomsday shaping up?

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So like, what do you guys think though?

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Just right off the bat, the real tragedy is that we're still not

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industry insiders after even after the blueprint came out

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last week. No, So with this it, it kind of

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does follow the story in some ways of how kind of doom gets

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the whole thing. And there's the there's the

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accident, there's the the horrible disfigurement, which

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funny enough, if you follow the comics, the disfigurement was

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like a small cut on the side of his face.

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And he's still like Uber. Hands.

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Oh yeah, yeah. So, yeah, 'cause the whole point

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was that he's so vain, he's so like in love with himself that a

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small scar is a massive disfigurement to him.

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But no, I, I, I, I do think that this is probably going to be the

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way that he becomes doomed within this universe, within

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this, this, this dimension that they're in this, this timeline

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that they're in. And that causes this rift

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between Doctor Doom and Captain America that kind of kicks off

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this entire thing. And again, Doctor Doom or, or

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Captain America being with if, if the theory prevails that he's

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in another universe, then then he know he caused this in a

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universe that he's in that's not our own.

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And this is going to cause him to get with Loki, and Loki's

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going to bring him to our universe to assemble the new

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version of The Avengers. I like that it gives purpose,

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not just like, oh, doom wants to rule everything.

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That's just what he wants to do, but it gives him a, a revenge

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story. And I kind of like this that

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it's not just something happened in the past and I'm mad about it

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now. I want to rule everything, but

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he like he's trying to change the past or reshape everything

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because of a loss that he had. I I like that story because

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again, like what we're what we're always saying the villain

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needs to be the hero of their own story.

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So. And they learned that, they

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learned that from Black Panther just because they they kind of

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learned that if you give more depth to the villain, it makes

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his better story. And Thanos had that same thing

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with him, that there's a lot more depth that to Thanos than

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just I want to kill everybody in the universe to impress Lady

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Death. Right, exactly.

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I like it, Frey. Thoughts.

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So my thoughts are, yeah, they the NCU did learn this already

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because that's what Wanda Vision was about.

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Wanda changed reality, so this could also bring Wanda into it

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because Doom's gonna wants to rebuild reality and who better

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to do that than, oh, I don't know, someone who can create

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their own reality, so that could bring Wanda in it.

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So that's really interesting. I mean, of course they're going

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to put Captain America against Doctor Doom because Doctor Doom

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is being played by Robert Downey Junior, who is Tony Stark, and

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they've already done that. So there's that and then also

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the whole family experiment, family killed.

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That smacks of Baron Bemo and Avengers 2.

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So yeah, they're just going with all the old hits it looks like.

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Yeah, hey, whatever works. Whatever works.

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Don't forget the von Baron von Zemo.

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Remember, von is the. Oh, Von.

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Right. No, because, because that that

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says that he's German nobility. So you get got to run.

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That's right, yeah. Von Baron von Zemo.

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Baron von Zemo can. I enter something.

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I thought that was Striker. That's one striker.

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Zemo doesn't have a VON, it's just Baron Zemo.

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You guys have the Internet in front of you.

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Can I throw something out there? I for some reason, I think

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Segovia and Latveria are going to be somehow connected and

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maybe like in different universes, like the country is

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Latveria in another universe, it's Segovia like, but it's the

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same country. Yeah, I could see.

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That yeah, I. Have a feeling that's gonna, I

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don't know why that just popped my brain right now, but I have a

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feeling there's going to be something, something there.

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That would be interesting just because the Maximovs were were,

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were Sokovian in, in the MCU in the 616.

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So if there's Sokovian in this and then they're librarian and

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another thing that that just kind of makes it kind of like

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the lore that much bigger. I I kind of like that idea.

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I think that'd be really neat. I would like that, but I also

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also believe that they really are just putting on the hits

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now. Exactly.

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All right. Is that do we have any more

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Marvel? I think that's it for.

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Marvel. That's it.

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Let's let's jump into the next segment here guys.

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It's time for we'll. Be jamming.

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Let's jam to the watchtower. Jam to the watchtower like snake

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jazz. Look at that old ass graphic.

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Come on now, what is that? Like dope graphic.

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Why would I change that one? Three weeks old.

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You changed the other one. Yeah, but this one, this one's

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fine the way it is. I just added audio to it.

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Cape Bruno Mars. Oh my God.

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Oh my God. OK.

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Wow, So holy emo Batman. Batman.

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OK, where's Ruben? OK, wait a minute.

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No rumors have surfaced. I was going to add to it.

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You're a wizard, Harry. Crap, wrong one.

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Never mind. Oh jeez.

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Come on, let's go. I like the first one.

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New rumors have surfaced regarding the upcoming The

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Batman Part 2. A new post on the Leaks and

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rumors subreddit says the film story will be way more intimate

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than people expect. The movie will focus on how

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Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent, and the Arkham family are all

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connected in ways Bruce hasn't fully confronted yet.

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Here's some details from the subreddit.

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So the movie's going to open with a flashback.

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Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent as teenagers establishing their

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friendship. Then the movie picks up shortly

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after HBO's Penguin series, which that series took place in

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what, like a week? That was crazy.

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Harvey Dent being the face of reform at Arkham Asylum.

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The Post also suggests that Scarlett Johansson will play

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Vicki Vale, a journalist investigating things in the

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movie, and that the arc of Doctor is meant to be Jonathan

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Crane making Scarecrow the main villain of the movie.

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Didn't you? Guys fight about her being Vicki

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Vale. The Batman Part 2 will be

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released in theaters on October 1st, 2027.

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Please go ahead, Phil. I think we argue that she wasn't

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going to be Vicki Vale. So, I mean, now that the rumor

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is saying that she's going to be Vicki Vale, that's interesting

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because like, like we, we, we the rumor was saying that she

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was going to be Dan's wife. Yeah.

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Right. Yeah, you know, and, and and

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that I believed. Right?

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Like Harvey Dent's wife, me pull it up here.

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Harvey Dent's wife, Gilda Dent. Gilda Dent is she plays such a

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big part in in long Halloween that it made sense that she

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would be Gilda Dent, right? Especially because this entire

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series seems like it's following long Halloween.

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So I felt like that was probably the the, the best way to go.

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When they announced it again, my original idea was that she was

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going to be oh, oh, again, I'm forgetting her name right now.

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Phantasm. Oh, yeah.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, right.

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And that's kind. Of like who I I would like her

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to be because the Phantasm is a character.

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Andrea Beaumont. Andrea Beaumont is a great

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character. There's so much history between

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Bruce and Andrea. That you know, she could be

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intricately, intricately tied into his past and the fight

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scenes would be so bad ass between Scarlett Johansson and

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and and and emo Batman Rob Pat and Rob bat Rob.

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Bat, Rob, Bat. Robert Battensen.

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Robert. Battensen Oh my God.

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I. Hate you both.

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I do like. I do like the whole flashback

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thing of showing Bruce and Harvey together, like, like they

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have history. I like that.

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I like again, you know, Batman's villains, Batman's rogues

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gallery kind of are merging from his past, you know, and him

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having some kind of tie into like who those criminals or who

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those rogues rogues are, that sort of thing.

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I do like how it all ties together like that, right.

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So I've. Always liked when they do that

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in stories where where Harvey and Bruce were friends growing

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up and everything like that and they have a really close

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relationship. And then when, you know, when

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everything happens, it's because Bruce is trying to save Harvey

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from the situation he's in and can't do it.

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And he has a lot of guilt for what happens to Harvey.

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But again, the more modern takes on Harvey Dent where Harvey Dent

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already had multiple personality disorder, disassociative

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personality disorder, where he, you know, his his other

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personality just completely takes over.

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And you know, he's big bad Harv and he is just, you know, he

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turns into the psychopath, right?

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This duality obsessed psychopath and Batman just has to fight

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that guy all the time. And it's I, I love that because

00:21:49
there's so much more tragedy and depth in that story.

00:21:53
So I would love to see them do a hybrid of the different versions

00:21:57
of Harvey Dent because a lot of movies have been doing that.

00:22:00
Wonder Woman did that and they did it so well in the first

00:22:03
movie where they took different versions of Wonder Woman and

00:22:06
melded her story together to get what they got in that movie and

00:22:09
and it was really well done. So I kind of want to see that

00:22:12
with Harvey Dent because you can take this really tragic version

00:22:17
of Harvey Dent that is a very interesting version of of, of

00:22:20
the two face and then put in traditional 2 face and then add

00:22:25
in elements of Long Halloween where you have them as friends

00:22:29
growing up and everything like that.

00:22:31
And and you get like all of this depth within that character,

00:22:34
especially when you have someone like, God, why I'm I'm blanking

00:22:41
on everybody's name tonight, Scarlett Johansson.

00:22:44
No, Bucky. Barnes, Sebastian.

00:22:48
Sebastian. Sebastian Stan.

00:22:50
When you have Sebastian. Stan playing Harvey Dent.

00:22:52
That's he that that. Wait, Sebastian.

00:22:55
Stan is playing Harvey Dent. That's.

00:22:58
Right, You've been gone for a while, Sebastian Stant.

00:23:00
I have when you have Sebastian Stan playing Harvey Dent, he can

00:23:06
pull off a lot of those emotions we're talking about.

00:23:09
So I I think that I think it's, it's a good combination,

00:23:14
especially again, Sebastian Stan playing Harvey Dent.

00:23:17
That's that's I think that's going to be a great way to to

00:23:19
play the game. I really want to see this.

00:23:21
Movie now. Nice.

00:23:25
When? Well, when does it come out?

00:23:26
I have to say, this year, no. October 1st.

00:23:30
I already said it you. That was a long time again.

00:23:32
That was a long time ago. We also talked about Sebastian

00:23:35
Stan being Harvey Dent. Rewind the tape.

00:23:41
Bring it back. Bring it.

00:23:42
Back, isn't it? Like October 1st I don't know I

00:23:45
already you're the one that sat the 1st. 2027 October 1st, 2027

00:23:49
yeah. Yeah, it is.

00:23:52
I was right. Shut up, James.

00:23:55
Now start talking because you're up next.

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00:24:43
John, it's time to jump into some headlines here.

00:24:45
It's jump into these news one shot TIME headlines.

00:25:00
We're buzzing with Yellowjacket news.

00:25:02
Molly Ringwald has officially signed on for a reoccurring role

00:25:07
in the 4th and final season of Yellowjackets, adding another

00:25:10
iconic name to the series already.

00:25:13
Killer lineup. Get it?

00:25:15
Killer lineup. That's what you did there.

00:25:17
Ringwald's. Casting also continues Yellow

00:25:20
Jackets tradition of bringing in beloved teen stars from the 80s

00:25:25
and 90s to round out its adult ensemble.

00:25:28
Over the first three seasons, we've seen powerhouse

00:25:31
performances from Melanie Linsky, Christina Ricci,

00:25:35
Juliette Lewis and Hilary Swank. Yellow Jackets will be swarming

00:25:42
late 2026. All right, I was going to be

00:25:46
really happy. About that?

00:25:47
Who that? Graveyard, Graveyard.

00:25:50
Will. He be happy about this next one

00:25:51
though, because did Scream 7 slay the box office?

00:25:56
Scream Seven hit theaters as the only new wide release this past

00:26:02
weekend and completely took over the latest chapter.

00:26:05
And the long running horror franchise carved out the biggest

00:26:09
opening weekend of 2026 so far, pulling in a massive 64.1

00:26:15
million domestically. For comparison, Wuthering

00:26:19
Heights previously held the year's best debut with 32.8

00:26:23
million. That came out like 2 weeks ago,

00:26:25
3 weeks ago. Moving into its second week,

00:26:29
Scream 7 will soon face fresh competition from Hoppers, the

00:26:34
latest Pixar feature. All right, interesting.

00:26:39
I think Hoppers is going to overtake it.

00:26:40
Every review that I've heard of Scream 7 has not been good.

00:26:43
Yeah. I that's what I heard too.

00:26:45
Yeah, it's. Hard.

00:26:47
It's hard to fail if you don't have any freaking competition.

00:26:53
But some friends that went and saw it said they loved it and

00:26:57
they loved all the the tie insurance.

00:26:59
So it could be just a a critics thing.

00:27:03
Like critics hate it, but like fans love it but also like.

00:27:06
I've been listening to fan podcasts and a multiple podcasts

00:27:10
have all said that they don't like it either.

00:27:11
I'm just like, oh man. It's kind of disappointing when

00:27:14
I hear when I hear the people who enjoy this kind of stuff

00:27:17
don't like it, then then it kind of it, it, it upsets me a little

00:27:21
bit, but I mean, I'm probably still going to go see it.

00:27:22
But I mean, I just it, it, it doesn't excite me as much as it

00:27:26
did when when, when, when, when the hype train was going on it.

00:27:30
So yeah, 60. 4 million, though, I think they're, I think it's

00:27:33
doing pretty good. Yeah.

00:27:35
All right, moving on. Oh, wow.

00:27:38
Things are heating up. Nothing good.

00:27:42
The long. Awaited follow to the.

00:27:44
Heat is. Picking up serious momentum, and

00:27:47
now we've got official word that Christian Bale is stepping into

00:27:52
the world of Michael Mann's iconic crime saga.

00:27:56
A sequel to Heat, Michael Mann's 1995 crime classic starring Al

00:28:00
Pacino and Robert De Niro, have found a new home at United

00:28:05
Artists after Warner Brothers allowed Mann to shop the project

00:28:09
elsewhere. At this point, Bale is

00:28:11
confirmed, DiCaprio is still in, and Adam Driver may be joining

00:28:18
the cast. Can you imagine that that's

00:28:20
that's a pretty huge cast that just.

00:28:22
Those three names alone is Oscar worthy like that is that is

00:28:26
insane. And then you have Michael Mann

00:28:28
writing and directing the sequel to his film that is considered a

00:28:33
classic. I'm I'm very excited for this

00:28:35
for any thoughts? On the heat I do have.

00:28:38
Some. So we're getting Batman.

00:28:43
Jack. Yes.

00:28:45
And who's the other one? Adam Driver and freaking Kylo

00:28:49
Ren. Kylo Ren.

00:28:51
I hope they all die. Wow.

00:28:54
Hope they all get killed. I hope Pacino and De Niro take

00:28:58
them all out. That's it.

00:29:00
That's what I want. I.

00:29:02
Loved Heat, that was such a good movie.

00:29:04
Such a good movie to this day. I want it to be.

00:29:07
Called even more heat even more. Heat.

00:29:10
Even more heat. It's getting hotter to this day.

00:29:14
De Niro's monologue when they're in the the cafe when they're in

00:29:18
the the diner is still, to this day, one of the best monologues

00:29:22
in in film history. Got.

00:29:24
To hear Tom Hiddleston do that monologue to Robert De Niro on

00:29:32
Graham Norton and then you'll be impressed.

00:29:34
I I did see. That and I saw how impressed De

00:29:37
Niro was with it and it it, I mean, he he pulled off De Niro

00:29:40
really well. So I mean, like, yeah, no, it's,

00:29:42
it's, it's good. And again, there's a lot of

00:29:45
people in acting school that we use that as a monologue in their

00:29:48
finals and stuff because it's a great monologue.

00:29:50
It's it's really good. It is.

00:29:53
That's really. Good.

00:29:53
All right, let's move along. OK.

00:29:57
Yes, there are two new GI Joe movies in the works and knowing

00:30:03
is half the battle. According to Deadline, 2

00:30:05
separate GI Joe movies are in early development, One with

00:30:11
Danny McBride and the other being done by Max Landis

00:30:15
circling very different takes on GI Joe Very interesting.

00:30:20
Yes, 2 Joe movies, 2 Visions, 1 studio.

00:30:25
By the way, Max Landis, he's the son of John Landis.

00:30:29
He has a treatment written while Danny McBride is in talks to pen

00:30:34
his own. But Lorenzo de Bonaventure,

00:30:37
who's, you know, part of the Transformer franchise, also at

00:30:41
Paramount, I'm thinking about it, is producing the GI Joe

00:30:45
films as well. So 2 movies for GI Joe, probably

00:30:50
1 very comedic one very action oriented will be interesting.

00:30:56
So my take on this, and it's going to be quick.

00:30:59
Max Landis, he he's not super proven.

00:31:03
I mean, his dad new action, but his dad also got, you know,

00:31:07
hopefully he's safer than his dad was because his dad, yeah,

00:31:10
hold some records for some pretty bad things that happened

00:31:13
on sets. Danny McBride, I'm hoping he

00:31:15
goes the route of of Rogen, of Seth Rogen, right?

00:31:20
Where Seth Rogen, when he produces things like this,

00:31:23
they're not exactly comedic. Then there might be like a

00:31:26
little bit of like, like filler comedy in there, but it's mostly

00:31:29
serious takes on these franchises.

00:31:33
I'm hoping that Danny McBride is like, I love GI Joe.

00:31:36
I grew up with GI Joe. I want something that does

00:31:39
justice to GI Joe, and he does a serious take on GI Joe that, you

00:31:44
know, pokes fun at itself for what it is, but also is a

00:31:47
serious take on GI Joe and doesn't make a joke out of it.

00:31:50
Yeah. Angry.

00:31:52
I think it's going to be a. Total joke.

00:31:55
I think the more serious you can take it, the better it's going

00:31:58
to do, yeah. But anyway.

00:32:00
OK. And I know that.

00:32:04
The only way that John Mez will take those movies is if is if

00:32:07
the Rock is in them again, I mean.

00:32:10
That'd be nice. Roadblock.

00:32:13
Roadblock needs his own movie. I'll take it.

00:32:16
Good. OK, we're.

00:32:17
Priming up for the new God of War series?

00:32:21
Prime Videos Live action God of War series is officially in

00:32:24
production and we got our first look with Ryan Hurst as Kratos

00:32:29
and Callum Vinson as Atreus. By the way, have you guys

00:32:34
watched Night Agent on Netflix? Haven't heard good.

00:32:37
Things, though I've heard good things.

00:32:39
Yeah, it's. It's really good.

00:32:40
I just finished it, but Callum Vincent is in that as well.

00:32:44
The adaption of the PlayStation Studios classic comes from Sony

00:32:47
Pictures Television and Amazon MGM Studios, and it's already

00:32:51
secured A2 season order led by Ronald D Moore, who serves as

00:32:56
writer, showrunner and executive producer.

00:32:59
Moore is known for his work on Battlestar Galactica, Outlander

00:33:03
Star Galactica. Outlander and.

00:33:05
For all mankind when you said Ronald.

00:33:08
D Moore. I was like Ron Moore from

00:33:10
Battlestar Galactica. Ron Moore like, oh God, it is.

00:33:13
Yeah, it was like. Battlestar Galactica, yeah.

00:33:17
No, that's, that's, that's great.

00:33:19
I'm I'm more excited about it hearing that Ron, Ron Moore is

00:33:22
going to be on this. I I did see the picture.

00:33:25
I don't know if you guys saw the picture of of everything.

00:33:29
I don't think that that picture is actually them.

00:33:34
So there was a lot of like hubbub people saying like a lot

00:33:37
of hubbub people saying like, Oh yeah, it's it's, it's, it seems

00:33:41
like it's not all that great or anything like that.

00:33:44
I think it's actually an AI picture.

00:33:46
And the reason is because even even Ryan said don't believe

00:33:53
everything you see on the Internet.

00:33:55
Interesting. In regards to that.

00:33:57
Picture like Ryan post on his on his Twitter said don't believe

00:34:00
everything you see on the Internet or it's got to be some.

00:34:03
Post production you like maybe this is just the still well I

00:34:06
think what? It is, I think what it is is

00:34:09
they may have said, OK, this is what everything's going to look

00:34:12
like. Can you put everything together

00:34:14
and recreate this scene from the game?

00:34:17
And they did that and AI created it as them.

00:34:21
I mean, if you tell AI to do something specific and give it

00:34:24
all of the elements, it can do something like that.

00:34:26
I've done that in the past, looking at something for myself.

00:34:29
Not something that I was putting out there, but like, hey, I'm

00:34:32
going to create this outfit. Can you take this picture of

00:34:35
these pants, this picture of this shirt, this picture of

00:34:38
these things right here? Put it on me and show me what

00:34:40
it'll look like. You know, that's what.

00:34:42
You're using AI for? I did it once.

00:34:44
When I was doing that vampire costume.

00:34:47
No, I did it. Once when I did that vampire

00:34:49
costume in in for for Halloween, so he does it.

00:34:52
Everyday, folks. Yeah, yeah.

00:34:54
Absolutely. But I mean, the fact that it can

00:34:57
do things like that, I think that that's what they did with

00:34:59
this. I, I don't think that this is an

00:35:02
actual set photo. I think this is this is an AI

00:35:05
picture. Gotcha.

00:35:08
All right. That was the last one, all

00:35:10
right. Well, that means we are going to

00:35:12
go ahead and move on to the rest of the news that we have going

00:35:17
on here. Some of the larger stories that

00:35:20
we have going on here. Actually before that Jamez or

00:35:24
actually Jen, I'm going to have you do this.

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00:36:12
All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to jump into a

00:36:14
little bit of a of somber news here because legends doing

00:36:17
legend things just do me a favor and no one tell graveyard he

00:36:22
already knows I. Know he does, I'm just.

00:36:24
Saying, you know, just it's not, it's not through this.

00:36:28
Bruce Campbell, the legendary face of Chain of the chainsaw

00:36:31
handed hero Ash Williams, has revealed that he's currently

00:36:34
battling a cancer diagnosis. In true Campbell fashion, he

00:36:38
isn't asking for pity, he's asking fans to stay calm.

00:36:42
Campbell shared the news directly with fans on social

00:36:45
media. He says the cancer is treatable

00:36:48
but not curable, and that it will require him to step away

00:36:52
from work for a while. That includes acting gigs and

00:36:56
convention appearances through the summer.

00:36:58
Campbell's been gearing up for the release of Ernie and Emma, a

00:37:01
passion project that marks his first time directing a feature

00:37:06
since My Name Is Bruce in 2007. Not only is he directing, but he

00:37:11
also wrote the script and stars in the film.

00:37:14
His goal is to be back on his feet and ready to promote Ernie

00:37:18
and Emma in the fall, and that's about it.

00:37:21
I'm not trying to enlist sympathy or advice, I just want

00:37:25
to get ahead of this information in case false information gets

00:37:28
out, which it will. Fear not, I'm a tough old son of

00:37:32
a bitch and I have a great support, so I expect to be

00:37:37
around a while. Bruce Campbell's romantic comedy

00:37:41
Ernie and Emma. Yeah, I I love his attitude

00:37:43
towards stuff like this. Bruce Campbell's romantic comedy

00:37:46
Ernie and Emma, shot in Southern Oregon, had its world premiere

00:37:49
in February 2026 in Medford, OR, which we will be like 2 months.

00:37:55
The film is scheduled for a winter release through Alamo

00:37:58
Drafthouse Theaters in September 2026.

00:38:02
That's cool that. He wants to like, hey, I'm going

00:38:04
to pull back, going to take care of myself, get my strength up,

00:38:08
and I'm going to promote the the heck out of this movie once it

00:38:12
comes to the fall. Yeah, cool.

00:38:15
Yeah. I, I I.

00:38:16
I respect the way that he's treating it, and it's just like,

00:38:19
hey, it's something that happened.

00:38:21
It's here and it's treatable. I can't cure it, but, you know,

00:38:25
I can prolong my life. So you know we need more Ash

00:38:30
Williams in our lives. Good for.

00:38:32
Him. Yes, All right.

00:38:34
Any. Any other comments before we

00:38:35
move on? No.

00:38:37
I just hope he feels his best for as long as he possibly can.

00:38:43
Here, here, actually, yeah, Dilly, dilly.

00:38:46
Dilly, dilly, there we go. Dilly dilly.

00:38:49
To him dilly, dilly. Let's let's.

00:38:52
Move on here ladies and gentlemen.

00:38:55
Missing some horror old school adventure.

00:38:58
Conformity. Gate lives, man.

00:39:01
Right, James? Conformity.

00:39:03
Gate lives, man conformity. Gate lives.

00:39:06
Man, all right. Netflix has unveiled the first

00:39:10
images from its upcoming mystery series The Burroughs, executive

00:39:14
produced by Matt Duffler and Ross Duffer, the creative minds

00:39:18
behind Stranger Things. The new 8 episode series is set

00:39:21
to premiere May 21st. Stranger Things for old people

00:39:25
opposite. Oh God, James got me an opsis.

00:39:27
Read it. Stranger Things for old people,

00:39:31
Opsis, mystery monsters, and maybe some Maalox synopsis.

00:39:37
Stranger things for old people, Opsis, mystery monsters, and

00:39:41
maybe some Maalox synopsis synopsis.

00:39:46
You know, I, I, I thought I said Malort.

00:39:48
The first time I I read through that, I was like, that's would

00:39:50
have been so bad. That's the drunk.

00:39:52
Side of you. It's your drunk eyes looking

00:39:55
exactly. A widower played by Alfred

00:39:58
Molina. So I already want to watch it

00:39:59
because Alfred Molina isn't it. Not not even just that it's a

00:40:02
Duffer Brothers thing. But like, now, I'll.

00:40:04
I'll. OK, yeah.

00:40:05
Let's go. Moves into a retirement

00:40:07
community that seems peaceful on the surface, but it doesn't take

00:40:10
long before something far stranger begins to creep in.

00:40:14
What follows is a mystery involving dark secrets,

00:40:17
supernatural threats, and a group of residents who refuse to

00:40:21
be sidelined. The cast is packed, including

00:40:23
Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Dennis O'Hare, Clark Peters and

00:40:28
Bill Pullman, all playing members of this unlikely crew.

00:40:32
Retirees who find themselves staring down something

00:40:35
monstrous. That's.

00:40:37
Crazy it 100. Percent is stranger things with

00:40:40
old people. Exactly.

00:40:43
It's Cocoon. It's Stranger Things cocoon.

00:40:48
It is the. Burroughs, a new eight episode

00:40:50
series, is set to premiere May 21st on Netflix.

00:40:53
Do you guys think, and this is my question for you on this.

00:40:56
Do you guys think that this is it takes place in the Stranger

00:41:00
Things universe? Oh, that.

00:41:02
Would be interesting. No, they.

00:41:04
Said that the Duffer brothers said that that it is going to be

00:41:08
in the universe but it may it's not going to be the same people

00:41:10
or anything so it's still going to be in that universe it's just

00:41:14
going to be kind of like how they like something else that

00:41:18
happened right that's and that's.

00:41:20
Kind of what I was like thinking like, OK, well this could this

00:41:22
be something that happens in like another state, but like

00:41:25
more weird things are happening, you know, like now that we know

00:41:28
that supernatural stuff like another.

00:41:29
Hell now, right? Right.

00:41:32
Yeah, hell now. That's right.

00:41:33
It's a good reference. So let's let's go ahead and move

00:41:37
on. Unless anybody has anything

00:41:38
else, I'm just. Excited to see it, it looks fun.

00:41:41
Same. Same.

00:41:43
Whatever. That's.

00:41:45
Right, You've you haven't seen Stranger Things, so you don't

00:41:47
you don't get a say. I haven't finished.

00:41:49
Stranger Things. So why would I want this?

00:41:52
Although I do like Mason Malfrey Woodard.

00:41:55
She's from Oklahoma. I mean I also.

00:41:58
Like Bill Pullman, I also like, I mean Alfred Molina alone makes

00:42:02
me want to watch this. I missed.

00:42:04
You know, he was so good in chocolate, he's good in.

00:42:07
Everything he's in, he's like a he's like a a he's an underrated

00:42:12
top tier level actor. All right, OK.

00:42:15
Let's jump into it. All right.

00:42:16
I didn't know you were a Molina head, but come on, let's go.

00:42:18
I kind of am. Let's let's.

00:42:19
Jump into this next story here. Yoshi won't be the only newcomer

00:42:22
to the Mario Cinematic Universe or the MCU.

00:42:28
MCU. Will.

00:42:30
The MCU if you will. IGN reports the MCU.

00:42:34
The MCU. Mamma Mia Whoopa OK IGN reports

00:42:41
that the UK based luxury cinema chain Every Man has posted a new

00:42:46
description of the movie that leaves no room for ambiguity.

00:42:49
After defeating Bowser and saving Brooklyn OK Mario faces

00:42:55
no right. Mario faces Wario and Bowser

00:42:58
Junior's evil alliance. What?

00:43:01
OK now, alongside his friends and Yoshi, he must stop their

00:43:05
plans for world domination. I just got really excited right

00:43:08
now The movie details. Yeah, the movie.

00:43:11
Details from the theater chain above has since changed its

00:43:15
description of the film, so this news comes from someone who saw

00:43:18
it and grabbed the quote above the share.

00:43:22
Oh my God. You know what's funny is

00:43:24
recently we were having conversations about the Mario

00:43:28
movie and the one thing that it's missing or the one thing we

00:43:31
wanted at the end of the movie as a teaser was Wario.

00:43:35
We wanted Wario and and and Waluigi, Right.

00:43:40
And yeah, that's yeah, that's yeah, I.

00:43:41
Remember you guys saying that? Yeah.

00:43:42
And we were also. Saying that Danny DeVito needs

00:43:44
to play Wario. Danny DeVito.

00:43:47
Yeah, I wonder Danny DeVito of all people in the way that.

00:43:50
They've built this universe. Danny DeVito needs to be Wario.

00:43:53
He's the perfect person to play Wario.

00:43:56
I mean, there's the connection. With Charlie Day, so exactly, I

00:43:59
could see that happening exactly Charlie Day.

00:44:01
As as as as Luigi, right? It makes all the sense.

00:44:06
I, I'm, I'm, I'm really excited about this.

00:44:08
I don't know about you guys. I'm already excited for this

00:44:09
movie because the first movie was so good.

00:44:11
When I saw them reveal that Yoshi's in this 'cause I thought

00:44:14
he wasn't going to be after the first trailer.

00:44:16
I, I got really excited when I saw Yoshi and now they're

00:44:20
putting out Yoshi merch and all this other stuff.

00:44:22
So like hearing that Wario is probably going to be the villain

00:44:25
that the main actual villain in this Bowser Junior seemed like

00:44:29
Bowser Junior is like a a he's an appetizer of a villain in the

00:44:33
Series, A mini boss. He is, if you will, literally.

00:44:37
Is a mini boss in any game that he's in a junior?

00:44:41
Boss, right So. Having Wario actually be like

00:44:44
the secret real villain of the movie.

00:44:47
I I'm I'm all I'm all in for this.

00:44:50
This is a day one movie for me at this point now.

00:44:54
When's that day? Oh, that's right.

00:44:56
I was waiting to see if you guys had any comments. the Super

00:44:59
Mario Galaxy movie will be released in theaters on April

00:45:03
3rd, 2026 and I will be there. Hey, I'm going to be.

00:45:07
Hungover. I'm going to be there.

00:45:08
I'm. Going to be watching this movie.

00:45:10
I'm going to be hungover. We're going to go see Bob Moses

00:45:14
and Cannons the night before. Oh, that's that's.

00:45:17
That's a good show. Mario 2 two months away.

00:45:21
Exactly 2 months away. Awesome.

00:45:23
All right, so let's let's move on to even more news that I'm

00:45:26
excited for. James, you gave me all the

00:45:29
stories that I'm that you know I was going to get excited about.

00:45:32
I know. You're welcome.

00:45:34
That's what I do. The Predator is ready for

00:45:37
another hunt. Even with a fresh first look

00:45:40
deal at Paramount. Dan Trachtenberg isn't walking

00:45:43
away from the Yaocha. In fact, he's actively cooking

00:45:48
up new ideas for where the sci-fi action series could go

00:45:51
next. Trachtenberg has become the

00:45:53
creative force driving Prey, Predator, Killer of Killers and

00:45:58
Predator Badlands. As for the Paramount deal, the

00:46:01
studio has been locking in major talent following its Skydance

00:46:04
merger, including the Duffer Brothers, John M Chu and James

00:46:08
Mangold, all massive film makers.

00:46:12
Unlike some of those film makers, Trackingburg doesn't

00:46:15
have a specific project announced yet, which leaves him

00:46:18
free to develop original ideas while continuing to shape

00:46:22
Predator. See, I'm.

00:46:23
Glad they're doing this. Like I I bet he wrote that into

00:46:26
his contract. Like hey, I'll go do first look

00:46:30
projects with you Paramount, but I still get to work in Predator,

00:46:35
right? Right, I like it.

00:46:37
That's that's a super smart idea on on his end Again, I I'm so

00:46:42
excited to see what he's going to do more with the predator.

00:46:45
I've I've talked enough about this on previous episodes, so I

00:46:48
won't go super into it. But again, I do want to mention

00:46:53
and I think that we talked about this in the past to the first

00:46:57
look deal with Paramount. What do I think he's doing?

00:47:00
Terminator. Yeah.

00:47:02
I agree. Yeah, kind of actually

00:47:05
connecting that story. We we talked about like a week

00:47:07
or two ago where Netflix had that Terminator anime series,

00:47:14
but they cancelled the second season.

00:47:16
I think Paramount's bringing something in house and giving it

00:47:20
to Trachtenberg. Yeah.

00:47:23
Yeah, I totally agree. So Predator Badlands.

00:47:26
Is currently streaming now on Hulu.

00:47:30
Jen, you have any words? About Predator.

00:47:33
Mud that's that's actually. A pretty good word.

00:47:38
Come get me. All right.

00:47:42
Do it. Do it now.

00:47:43
Do it. Do it now.

00:47:47
What are you waiting? For for me, kill me.

00:47:50
Mud. What are you waiting for?

00:47:53
For me to all. Right some.

00:47:58
Interesting Game of Thrones news.

00:47:59
I talked about this what like 2 weeks ago and now we're getting

00:48:02
the official news on it? Wait, how did?

00:48:04
You know about this like 2 weeks ago, You some kind of industry

00:48:07
insider? What's happening here?

00:48:10
No. Because they he he announced it.

00:48:12
George RR Martin announced this before I even talk about it

00:48:14
here. A brand new stage production set

00:48:17
in the world of Game of Thrones is officially on the way, and

00:48:19
it's diving straight into one of the most pivotal chapters in

00:48:23
Targaryen history. Titled Game of Thrones The Mad

00:48:27
King, the play will center on the reign of Eris the Second

00:48:31
Targaryen, the infamous ruler whose madness helped spark

00:48:34
Roberts rebellion and ultimately led to the fall of his family's

00:48:38
300 year dynasty. The story focuses.

00:48:41
On the legendary tourney at Harrenhal, a grand tournament

00:48:45
that became the turning point for the Seven Kingdoms.

00:48:48
What was meant to be a lavish celebration spiraled into a

00:48:51
chain of events that reshaped Westeros forever.

00:48:55
It's the gathering that brought together young versions of key

00:48:57
players like Ned Stark, Robert Baratheon and a teenage Jaime

00:49:02
Lannister before he donned the white cloak of the Kingsguard.

00:49:06
And at the center of it all stands Aries the second, Aries,

00:49:09
the Targaryen the second, the volatile ruler later known

00:49:13
across the realm as the Mad King.

00:49:16
So here's, here's before I give you guys the date on this,

00:49:20
right? Is this going to confirm the

00:49:24
thing that has everybody pissed off on our TikTok about?

00:49:30
That the Tyrion. That Tyrion.

00:49:34
Is is Heiress's son? Yeah.

00:49:37
I mean, we'll see. We'll have to see.

00:49:39
But you have to buy tickets, no? That's.

00:49:42
But that's not the big thing. This is where Liana the, where

00:49:48
we could get confirmation that Liana is the mystery night in

00:49:52
the Harrenhal tournament and that's how her and Rhaegar get

00:49:55
together and that's how we get Jon Snow.

00:49:57
No, that's that's another. Thing that that that's in there

00:49:59
now, there's there's so much that happens at the that at the

00:50:01
tourney at Harrenhal, the attorney at Harrenhal

00:50:03
specifically. It's it's the.

00:50:06
Fall. Spring.

00:50:08
Right. These tourneys.

00:50:10
Are off the. These tourneys.

00:50:12
Are off the chain. What is happening at these

00:50:15
tourneys? Yeah, this is.

00:50:16
This is also it's known as the 250th anniversary tourney.

00:50:22
So this is this is basically year.

00:50:25
Of the fall spring right this this.

00:50:27
Is also where supposedly. Supposedly this is where if Eris

00:50:36
had taken and assaulted Joanna Lannister.

00:50:40
It's the only way I can say this on the Internet, where we're not

00:50:42
going to get kicked out. If, if that's if if it did

00:50:47
happen, yeah, this is where Tyrion would have been

00:50:51
conceived. So interesting.

00:50:53
And this is going to be a play is so Tyrion is.

00:50:56
Not a Targaryen. Put it in the comments section

00:51:02
with the other 500. People who were yelling at me

00:51:04
and saying that I'm wrong. Look.

00:51:10
I've done a lot of research and watched a lot of YouTube about

00:51:13
this. Yeah, but I've, I've, I've also

00:51:17
read, I've, I've also read A World of Fire and Ice at least

00:51:21
three times to make sure that I read what I read correctly.

00:51:25
I'll send you a. Instagram short or Instagram

00:51:28
real? Yeah, you.

00:51:30
Can you can let you know? Yeah.

00:51:33
You can yell. You can yell at me on there with

00:51:35
the rest of everybody else, like I'm on the show with him and I

00:51:37
think he's wrong. I know you're wrong.

00:51:40
But OK, let's move on. It's so.

00:51:42
Interesting how Game of Thrones is so tied into these little

00:51:47
sequences where it like branches out so much and so much happens

00:51:52
from 1:00 incident or one event The lore is.

00:51:56
Is absolutely insane because the the the the lore within Game of

00:52:00
Thrones spans like just centuries that the amount of

00:52:05
stuff that George RR Martin has written for it and George RR

00:52:08
Martin is all about if he, if you read the books, all through

00:52:11
the books, he's all about implying things and not

00:52:16
confirming anything. So This is why all these

00:52:18
arguments happen is because there is no confirmation of

00:52:21
anything in his stories. Yeah, Dunk could be.

00:52:24
Alive. We just found that out.

00:52:28
That would be crazy. If if if, if, if Duncan was was

00:52:31
still alive. No like.

00:52:34
George RR Martin told that to the actor that plays Dunk.

00:52:37
Oh, gotcha, Gotcha that. Duncan.

00:52:39
Natal is alive. He made it out of Summer Hall,

00:52:43
which again is like a huge thing.

00:52:47
And now everybody thinks that he's going to be Cold Hands,

00:52:50
that that's who Cold Hands is. Oh, that would be.

00:52:52
Interesting, that's a nickname you don't.

00:52:54
Want. Yeah, that.

00:52:57
That still would be a very interesting story.

00:52:59
So priority tickets go on sale April 14th and anyone serious

00:53:03
about attending may want to look into Royal Shakespeare Company's

00:53:06
membership for early access. If I didn't mention it before,

00:53:10
it's it's through the Royal Shakespeare Company.

00:53:12
Yeah, so. It's not going to be here.

00:53:16
For at least a year, right? And by here I mean like New

00:53:22
York, right? Right in the United States it's

00:53:25
Oh no, no, I'm. Going to London, you're going to

00:53:30
go see it in. London, it's going to be

00:53:31
amazing. I would love to.

00:53:33
Wouldn't that be amazing? It would.

00:53:37
So let's continue. On with more Game of Thrones

00:53:39
news here. Game of Thrones is going in more

00:53:42
in a more new direction here. And by new, we mean like,

00:53:47
extremely old. Like, like very, very old.

00:53:55
Where's that? A Game of Thrones movie is

00:53:57
officially in development at Warner Brothers, and the project

00:54:00
is being written by Bo Willeman, the showrunner of House of Cards

00:54:05
and the writer and a writer on Andor.

00:54:07
According to Page 6 Hollywood, Willeman has already turned in

00:54:11
the draft of the script. Early reports say the film will

00:54:14
center on Aegon Targaryen. So Aegon the First and his

00:54:17
conquest of Westeros set centuries before the events of

00:54:21
Game of Thrones. For fans of George RR Martin's

00:54:23
lore, that's a massive chapter of history finally getting the

00:54:27
spotlight. Aegon's conquest is packed with

00:54:29
Dragon's war, political maneuvering, and the forging of

00:54:33
the Iron Throne itself. So badass.

00:54:37
So would you want to see Game of Thrones make a jump to theaters?

00:54:41
What are your guys thoughts on this as fans of Game of Thrones?

00:54:45
I'll, I'll be quick. About it, just because you guys

00:54:47
are deep into it, but I don't know if they can tell enough of

00:54:51
a Game of Thrones type story within a 2/2 and 1/2 hour movie.

00:54:55
It just doesn't seem right that they can pack all that into two

00:55:01
2 1/2 hours. It feels like Game of Thrones

00:55:04
needs to be told in like this longer format series type thing.

00:55:10
Yeah. I can see that, unless what

00:55:12
they're doing is is kind of telling the events going up into

00:55:17
the first invasion when, when Aegon, when Aegon the Conqueror

00:55:22
invades Westeros the first time. What do you think, Jen?

00:55:27
I don't like it. I want it to only be TV shows,

00:55:30
yeah. But what if it's ATV?

00:55:32
What if it's a movie that's meant to kick off another TV

00:55:35
show? It's just like a major event

00:55:38
that they're telling in the movie and then kicks off another

00:55:40
TV show. Like what would be cool is if

00:55:43
they had the movie, TV movie. Make it an HBO movie.

00:55:46
HBO movies went all sorts of shit.

00:55:49
They don't need to make it a theatrical relief.

00:55:51
No, no movie. I want it on HBO.

00:55:55
I want it on HBO Max. I've watched everything else on

00:55:58
HBO Max. Put it on HBO fucking Max it

00:56:01
might it. Might be Paramount Plus by the

00:56:03
time it comes out. Yeah, I know, right?

00:56:04
No. The point of it is because they

00:56:06
want to make money and if they, if they put it in theaters, then

00:56:08
they're going to make more money on it.

00:56:10
So what what I would want as a consumer, if they are going to

00:56:14
do this the way that they're going to do it, because if they

00:56:16
if they're if they're like fucking set on putting it in a

00:56:20
theater, yeah, give me that first thing in theaters and then

00:56:24
immediately have a show that comes out with it.

00:56:27
So like, you've already filmed the first season of the show.

00:56:30
You have this movie. There you go, you.

00:56:34
Know I have I have another. Thought, go ahead.

00:56:37
Well, no, go ahead, fames. No, go ahead.

00:56:38
I was just going to say that. You know even Night of the Seven

00:56:42
Kingdoms, the Duncan egg story, that was 6 episodes 30 minutes

00:56:47
ish each, that was still 3 plus hours long.

00:56:52
And that was like the. Quickest Game of Thrones series

00:56:55
there's been so far so because the novella.

00:56:59
Is only 200 pages long, right? Right.

00:57:02
So telling this story in two 2 1/2 hours, I don't know, sorry.

00:57:06
Go ahead. So.

00:57:08
I just wanted to say, Phil, you know, you said a lot of stuff

00:57:11
and I appreciate it. I respect your opinion, No.

00:57:17
Figured that's where she was going.

00:57:18
All right, Well, let's move on to this next story here because

00:57:20
we don't have time to continue arguing because otherwise we

00:57:23
would. But the the last story we're

00:57:27
going to go on. David Ellison just made his

00:57:28
stance crystal, crystal clear. Yeah, my, we're going to get in

00:57:35
David Ellison here in a minute. Paramount is going all in on

00:57:40
theatrical releases and committing to 30 movies a year

00:57:43
hitting the big screen. On a recent call with Wall

00:57:46
Street with the Wall Street Journal, Ellison laid out

00:57:49
exactly where he stands. The actual isn't an

00:57:52
afterthought. It is the foundation.

00:57:54
It's something we deeply, deeply believe in.

00:57:57
Large franchises and big pieces of an intellectual property are

00:58:01
launched in theaters, period. 30 movies.

00:58:07
It seems like a lot for one studio I guess.

00:58:14
It's not one. Studio I know.

00:58:16
That's why I said it that way. So yeah, let's.

00:58:20
Get Let's get into the last story, because there's a lot to

00:58:22
unpack. A lot.

00:58:23
So let's let's jump into this guys.

00:58:26
It's time for the trend up. Me, it's the trend up.

00:58:48
So this is how liberty dies with thunderous supplies.

00:58:55
That was my Natalie Portman. The Warner Brothers Discovery

00:58:58
Board announced that Paramount's newly sweetened offer to acquire

00:59:03
the entire company is officially superior to the 83 billion

00:59:08
agreement it had reached with Netflix.

00:59:11
Rather than escalate into a bidding war, Netflix has decided

00:59:14
to step aside. That ends what has been shaping

00:59:17
up to be one of the most dramatic media shake UPS in

00:59:21
years. Darling.

00:59:25
Netflix confirmed its exit with the following statement.

00:59:29
We've always been disciplined and at the price required to

00:59:32
match Paramount's guidance's latest offer, the deal is no

00:59:36
longer financially attractive. So we are deciding we're

00:59:39
declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid.

00:59:43
Netflix proposal had already stirred antitrust concerns, but

00:59:47
the Paramount acquisition is expected to face serious

00:59:51
scrutiny from the US Justice Department as well.

00:59:56
So Warner Brothers historic Hollywood merger Paramount and

00:59:59
Warner Brothers announces 110 billion deal.

01:00:04
So the details on the deal are after months of rumors, backroom

01:00:09
maneuvering, look, we already talked about this.

01:00:11
I'm not going to go totally into it, but look, they said 110

01:00:14
cash, this guy, that's what they wanted Paramount for everything.

01:00:21
Paramount will pay $31 per share in cash for all outstanding

01:00:26
shares of WBD. The agreement was unanimously

01:00:31
approved by both companies boards and expected to close in

01:00:35
the third quarter of 2026 of. Course you know.

01:00:40
The government's got to get its little fingers in those pies.

01:00:43
So they've got to go through, like, regulatory clearances and

01:00:47
shareholder approvals and all that crack.

01:00:49
Yeah. So then the Paramount plans to

01:00:54
merge HBO Max and Paramount Plus in a massive streaming shake up.

01:00:58
So during a recent investors call, Ellison laid out exactly

01:01:02
what Paramount tends to intends to do if the acquisition becomes

01:01:06
official, saying we do plan to put 2 the two services together,

01:01:10
which today gives us a little over 200 million direct consumer

01:01:14
subscribers. We think it really positions us

01:01:17
to compete with the leaders in space at Paramount.

01:01:21
By the middle of this year, we'll have completed the

01:01:23
consolidation of our three services under 1 unified stack

01:01:27
and you can see us taking a similar approach to this

01:01:30
platform going forward talking about.

01:01:33
Max and Paramount Plus, right? Yeah.

01:01:37
The bidding war may be over, but the real drama is just getting

01:01:40
started. So let's talk about this, shall

01:01:43
we? Let's have a conversation about

01:01:47
this subject because I have opinions.

01:01:51
So I'm going to go last because I have a lot to say.

01:01:56
Well, look right. Off the bat, I was going to say

01:01:58
right off the bat, 30 movies a year, that's 15 movies per

01:02:04
studio. That's Warner Brothers doing 15

01:02:06
and that's Skydance, Paramount doing 15.

01:02:08
So that's over one film a month. So they're trying to take over a

01:02:15
theater. I mean, they think all the money

01:02:16
is in theater, so they're trying to like own everything in the

01:02:19
theaters right now. So 30 movies you think about

01:02:22
like there's only 52 weeks in the year.

01:02:26
So they're trying to, they're trying to get all the number one

01:02:28
spots. Nuts.

01:02:31
Nuts. Yeah.

01:02:32
I I. I don't know how I feel about

01:02:36
all of this. I mean, I've, I've made it very

01:02:37
clear that I am not a fan of the Ellison's.

01:02:40
I'm not a fan of the way that they've been conducting

01:02:43
themselves as far as their posturing and maneuvering when

01:02:46
it comes to the way they posture with the with, with the

01:02:52
government, but also kind of how they've laid out their plans to

01:03:00
cut people from from the business so that they can focus

01:03:04
on AI and, and everything like that.

01:03:06
It is, it is a travesty the way that they were talking about

01:03:11
people. And it's like, OK, cool.

01:03:12
You're talking about properties and the way you want to treat

01:03:14
the properties. All right.

01:03:16
You know, Ellison does have a passion for for certain films.

01:03:21
He's been in the film. Him and his sister have been in

01:03:23
the film industry for a little while now, you know, obviously

01:03:26
off of daddy's money because, you know, Oracle, one of the

01:03:29
most profitable companies in the world, you know, they allowed

01:03:32
them to get into the film industry as film executives and

01:03:35
everything like that. So I mean, you know, that

01:03:38
they've been trying to go in there and, and do their thing,

01:03:41
but you know, it's, it's this hostile takeover and, and this

01:03:48
idea of monopolizing the film industry that that really upsets

01:03:52
me that you're getting rid of actual competition within the

01:03:55
industry. Your only competition is Disney,

01:03:58
because Disney owns all the other studios, you know, I mean,

01:04:01
and you cut out Netflix, who where Netflix had this whole

01:04:04
experience idea where they were like we want to make going to

01:04:08
the, to the movies and experience, you know, with

01:04:12
their, their, their Netflix was the Netflix house, you know, the

01:04:17
things that they were doing with that.

01:04:19
I, I'm, I'm just, I'm afraid of what the Ellison's are going to

01:04:23
do with everything. They, they also own the majority

01:04:27
of media stake that's out there. Now when it comes to I, I hate

01:04:32
to use this word on our show because I don't want to do this,

01:04:34
but propaganda because they own, they own CBS and now they own

01:04:44
CNN and they're going to go and turn the they've already

01:04:49
destroyed CBS. CBS is is CBS is a joke now and

01:04:54
they're going to do the same thing to CNN in order to Curry

01:04:57
favor with whoever and and just. It's it.

01:05:04
Just everything that's happening, it, it, it, it pisses

01:05:08
me off. I, I, I, I was, I was talking to

01:05:11
somebody earlier today on threads specifically because

01:05:14
they were saying, well, now that this deal was happening, what

01:05:16
happens to DC, right? And there's already been talks

01:05:22
that Larry or not Larry David Ellison is planning on getting

01:05:27
rid of James Gunn. And that pisses me off because

01:05:32
I, I, I see it being that way because again, the dude is, is

01:05:36
trying to Curry the favor. And what better way to Curry

01:05:40
favor with your people than getting rid of dissenting

01:05:42
voices? Because.

01:05:45
James Gunn is a dissenting. Voice James Gunn is all about

01:05:48
punk rock, all about Buck Buck the system and and you get rid

01:05:54
of somebody like James Gunn who is doing actual independent

01:05:58
thought with an independent, you know, like having superheroes be

01:06:05
the ideal, having Superman be that the ideal of of what

01:06:11
everyone should aspire to be. And they're going to they're

01:06:16
they're talking about getting rid of gun and saffron because

01:06:20
the Superman movie didn't make as much money as the the Zack

01:06:24
Snyder movie. And that's all they care about

01:06:26
is the numbers, not about what message it's sending what how

01:06:30
good the movie in general was. They care about the money.

01:06:35
They care, they don't care about the creativity.

01:06:37
They care about how much money it makes them.

01:06:39
And again, that's something that worries me because when you,

01:06:43
when you prioritize monetization over over creativity and rather

01:06:50
than letting creatives be creative and then because

01:06:53
they're making good creative product, then it makes money

01:06:55
over time. They're looking for what are

01:06:58
what, what's going to appease the loudest voices, but smallest

01:07:04
amount of people with the loudest voices on the Internet.

01:07:09
You know, and, and, and, yeah, so I'm, I'm, I'm going to leave

01:07:13
it at that. I'm obviously not happy that

01:07:14
this is happening. Yeah.

01:07:16
But you know. Real, real quick as.

01:07:18
You were mentioning, you know, Zack Snyder as I was putting

01:07:23
stories together for this episode, for whatever reason,

01:07:26
the last five days there were like 8 or 9 Zack Snyder DC

01:07:31
stories that were popping up. I'm like, why is this even

01:07:35
popping up right now? But it was just and they were

01:07:38
all kind of just fluff. It's like there's no real story

01:07:41
here. But why?

01:07:41
Why do you have to keep saying Zack Snyder, DC, Zack Snyder

01:07:46
Justice League? It was just non-stop story after

01:07:49
story after story. I'm like, this is more than one

01:07:52
a day about something that's not even happening.

01:07:55
Yeah, there's. But now there's so much.

01:07:58
There, there. There's so much rage bait on the

01:08:01
Internet that are just people talking about I hate James Gunn.

01:08:04
I love Zack Snyder. Put Zack Snyder back.

01:08:06
Ellison's in charge, so he's going to put Zack Snyder back

01:08:09
and Netflix is going to put Zack Snyder back.

01:08:11
And it's like none of that's happening.

01:08:13
Even Zack Snyder has said that his DC projects are dead.

01:08:17
Yeah. All right, Fray, what do you

01:08:20
got? This is a bad idea.

01:08:23
I don't like anything about it. I I feel like DC will not

01:08:30
recover from this for a very long time.

01:08:33
I'm very sad, I'm very angry, and the Ellisons are on my list.

01:08:39
I. Just made the list and Zasloff.

01:08:42
Still on my list, You mother, you fucking butt hole, you

01:08:47
fucking butt hole. All right, that's it.

01:08:51
That's all I had. OK, So what does this?

01:08:55
What does this mean for the future?

01:08:56
Like just seeing that features and everything is dead.

01:09:02
It's dead. We're all dead.

01:09:04
I'm nihilistic now. This broke me.

01:09:09
No, I'm kidding, Ed. This is super personalizing.

01:09:14
We'll survive it. It'll be fine.

01:09:16
Everything will be fine. I don't think that.

01:09:18
I honestly think that the Ellisons are just peacocking

01:09:22
right now and that James Gunn and and Peter Safran are going

01:09:27
to be fine because I think Supergirl's going to be amazing

01:09:30
and that's going to change. Everybody's total.

01:09:34
Like they're going to be like, oh, no, we love him now.

01:09:36
And that's, yeah, it's my hope. Is that every single thing that

01:09:42
I've said about David Ellison, that everything that I'm afraid

01:09:47
of with David Ellison is wrong, I'm hoping that he proves all of

01:09:55
us wrong, is like, I 100% care about filmmaking.

01:09:59
I 100% care about prestige film. I 100% care about creativity.

01:10:07
I'm not getting rid of James Gunn.

01:10:08
James Gunn is a creative force in this industry and I'm not

01:10:12
going to get rid of him. That's what I'm hoping that

01:10:14
David Ellison is going to do, that he 100% proves me wrong.

01:10:19
Otherwise then he's just bootlicking and and you know,

01:10:24
the the things are not going to go his way regardless of how

01:10:28
good of a film he makes, because if he's going to continue to

01:10:30
bootlick, people are going to fight back.

01:10:33
People are not going to get going to do that.

01:10:34
You know, people are like, Oh yeah, I'm going to go watch this

01:10:37
movie, but I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to bootleg

01:10:39
it. It caught.

01:10:40
The kids today call that torrent.

01:10:42
They're torrenting. They're.

01:10:45
They're lime wiring. They're napstering.

01:10:47
I'm going to do. It on they're napstering.

01:10:49
And do it on the Napster. I I just.

01:10:52
Hope for what? I guess for selfish reasons, I

01:10:55
just want DC to succeed. Still, I want to see James

01:10:59
Gunn's vision layout, you know, what he has for Supergirl, what

01:11:05
he has for Batman, what he has for, you know, a bunch of the

01:11:08
other characters. I want to see that version

01:11:11
exactly. I want to see Paradise Lost, you

01:11:14
know, But you know, all this going on with with Warner

01:11:18
Brothers and Paramount and Netflix and knowing things like,

01:11:22
oh, Paradise Lost may be cancelled, may not be cancelled.

01:11:26
We haven't found our Batman yet. Like I feel like things are

01:11:31
stalling and it might not be on James Gunn's side, but I also

01:11:36
think. A lot of that is just the

01:11:37
Internet making up shit to piss people off and rage bait because

01:11:41
like I said, when when James Gunn got back on the Internet he

01:11:44
was like the fuck is the Internet talking about?

01:11:47
I have not cancelled fucking Paradise Lost.

01:11:50
He hasn't. Paradise found.

01:11:52
Now. Yeah, exactly.

01:11:54
There you go, I. Like that?

01:11:56
How's it going, tech guy? Shout out to chat out we we we

01:11:59
met him in at line to meet Kevin Smith over the weekend.

01:12:03
Oh nice, he. He posted a comment.

01:12:05
He posted a comment on YouTube. I liked it.

01:12:07
How are you? You're welcome.

01:12:08
Appreciate it. What's up?

01:12:11
Shout out chat guy. Yeah, I, I, I want DC to succeed

01:12:19
and I feel like Netflix was a better place for them, but we'll

01:12:24
see what happens and we'll see if I have to, you know, come to

01:12:27
California and talk to the Ellisons or wherever the fuck

01:12:31
they are. So yeah, I think that's it.

01:12:35
I think we're done. I think we're done with the

01:12:37
trend up because it's bringing me down.

01:12:39
So let's let's go ahead. My my.

01:12:42
Real quick, my final thought is even though they said Oh my God,

01:12:45
even. Though they're still going to.

01:12:46
Do Warner Brothers. I do feel like the brand of HBO

01:12:50
is going to go away and it's going to be Paramount Plus and

01:12:56
Warner Brothers, but HBO is going to silently, silently just

01:13:00
kind of go away. That makes me sad.

01:13:02
I I don't think that's. Going to happen just because

01:13:03
they have mentioned that they want to keep the brand separate

01:13:06
because HBO has so much prestige and then it has so much name

01:13:10
brand recognition that they don't want to get rid of it.

01:13:14
Paramount plans to merge HBO Max and Paramount Plus in a massive

01:13:17
streaming shake up. Yeah, and they said that it's.

01:13:19
Still going to be HBO Max because they said that HBO Max

01:13:22
has the bigger brand brand recognition now let's.

01:13:25
Face it, Paramount sucks. Let's go.

01:13:30
So, ladies and gentlemen. That is it for this particular

01:13:35
section of the shows it for the show in in general.

01:13:38
So let's talk about our schedule here coming up soon.

01:13:41
So ladies and gentlemen, the show that we do now 6:30 to 8:30

01:13:44
we we do distance nerding the show you are watching right now

01:13:48
Thursdays, the build. Now this week we had a

01:13:52
reschedule that happened and I know hopefully graveyard is

01:13:56
going to be free. He's had some work things going

01:13:58
on for the last like month or so.

01:14:02
But our guest this week on the show, sorry, I'm pulling my

01:14:07
calendar up, but of course it's on the wrong side.

01:14:09
Jordan Morris is going to be on the show.

01:14:12
If you're unfamiliar with Jordan Morris, he is a comic creator,

01:14:16
but he's he's a bigger comic creator.

01:14:18
Jordan Morris just got off of his Marvel Predator run.

01:14:23
So he just did a Marvel, a whole Marvel or a whole Predator run

01:14:27
for, for Marvel in the comics. He also is the guy behind

01:14:32
Godzilla versus LA, which was the Godzilla run for Marvel.

01:14:36
So Jordan Morris, really fun guy.

01:14:39
He's done a lot of horror stuff. Fred, what do you got?

01:14:42
I have a question. Yes.

01:14:44
Is the predator. Series called MUD.

01:14:47
No, not. That's the name of the episode.

01:14:51
Thank you, that was a missed. Opportunity.

01:14:53
That's the. Name of the episode?

01:14:54
I appreciate it, Jen. No, it's the Predator series

01:14:56
called MUD. OK.

01:14:59
My my work is done. Here.

01:15:02
So that's us on Thursday, ladies and gentlemen.

01:15:04
And of course Friday we are going to be doing the fourth

01:15:07
session of the Great Con. So for all our D&D fans out

01:15:11
there, we are going to be doing more D&D chaos.

01:15:15
It is going to be great tech guy.

01:15:17
I know you're excited for that one.

01:15:19
When Eric, when I was telling him about the DND sessions we

01:15:23
do, he was like, I can't wait to see that.

01:15:25
So yes, that's going to be on Friday at 6:30.

01:15:28
We're going to be having a whole bunch of fun with that.

01:15:29
So TuneIn to distance nerding. Actually, that Friday show we

01:15:35
also do on Instagram and on Twitch and YouTube Shorts.

01:15:42
So we're going to be doing all that.

01:15:44
Jen, you got any plugs that you want to do here or do you want

01:15:47
to skip? No.

01:15:48
Plugs don't plug any holes in me.

01:15:52
That's what I want to say. That's a just a good message in

01:15:55
general. No plugging of.

01:15:58
Holes on you without your consent people I fucking love.

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01:16:36
As always before we we do our sign off here.

01:16:41
Bruce, buddy, it's bedtime. Time to go to bed.

01:16:45
Go to. Bed Bruce.

01:16:46
Bruce. I know it's been a.

01:16:47
While I know. I know.

01:16:48
It's been a bit. Yeah.

01:16:50
Auntie Jen. Since Auntie Jen.

01:16:52
Yeah. I I I think it's time to go to

01:16:53
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01:16:55
You got school tomorrow? Oh.

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01:17:25
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