EPISODE SUMMARY
This week the nerd squad deep-dives into the biggest pop-culture shakeups of the moment! From Doom vs. Cap rumors that have us questioning Pepper Potts’ insurance policy, to Netflix trying to buy Warner Bros. like it’s a Black Friday doorbuster, the crew breaks it ALL down with peak nerd rage and questionable math jokes.
We climb the Watchtower, argue about realistic Batman villains (spoiler: Calendar Man only takes one day off—6/7), and debate whether Netflix owning Hogwarts means we’re getting Squid Games of Fire. Plus, Jahmez 5000 threatens the integrity of theater chains everywhere, Yung Phil summons Superior Iron Man energy, and Fray keeps us all grounded with logic… which we promptly ignore.
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TIMESTAMPS & TOPICS
00:00 – 03:00 • Cold open chaos & sponsors that keep us caffeinated and alive
03:01 – 06:30 • Straight From J Jonah
– Doom vs. Cap?? Superior Iron Man??
– MCU multiverse spiraling out of control (again)
– Disney+ says “We’re totally grown-ups now!”
– True crime, UK dramas, & Mormon Wives (Jahmez’s new guilty pleasure)
12:01 – 32:00 • Watching the Watchtower
– Batman villains that actually make sense in a grounded universe
– Calendar Man’s one sabbath day: 6/7
– Professor Pyg = terrifying plastic surgeon
– Maxie Zeus = that one gym bro who definitely thinks he’s a god
32:01 – 01:31:00 • The Trend Up
– Netflix’s $77B attempt to collect Warner Bros. like Infinity Stones
– Paramount/Skydance fires back with a hostile “NUH-UH, OUR TOY” offer
– Theaters panic
– Will Netflix create theatrical releases or just beam movies directly into our retinas?
– Is this a monopoly or the world’s nerdiest custody battle?
01:31:01 – End • Giveaways, merch, chaos, and Bruce being told to go to bed
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KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Doom vs. Cap rumors hint at Superior Iron Man–style multiverse mayhem
• Disney+ really wants you to know it’s not just for kids (but we already knew… Deadpool exists)
• Netflix buying WB could reshape streaming, theaters, and our entire nerd economy
• Calendar Man’s worst day? 6/7
• Professor Pyg remains nightmare fuel no matter the universe
• The Paramount–Netflix bidding war = two billionaires fighting over who gets custody of Batman
• Jahmez 5000 has seen “K-Pop Demon Hunters” more than anyone on Earth
• We’re almost at multiple giveaway milestones… SUBSCRIBE!
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BEST QUOTES
• “Calendar Man… guess what day he doesn’t kill people? 6/7.”
• “Victor von Stark? Tony von Doom? Pepper is not ready for this.”
• “Disney+, thanks for telling us you’re grown-ups now. We’ve met Deadpool.”
• “Maxie Zeus is just a strong gym dude who thinks he’s a god. So… every gym dude.”
• “Netflix buying Warner Bros.? Monopoly screams louder than Banshee on karaoke night.”
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Let's do it. OK?
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Nice graphics. By the way, when Doom throws
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down with Cap, it's not just Shields versus sorcery, it's
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ideals versus empire. Industry insiders are
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circulating rumors that Avengers Doomsday will center or run a
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clash between Doctor Doom and Captain America.
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Oh, interesting. Positioning Doom as the central
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antagonist for the film. I know we've gotten a ton of
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doomsday rumors, You know, where does Reed Richards fit into all
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this? But Cap versus Doom, you know,
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Steve Rogers versus versus Tony Stark or Victor Von Doom?
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Tony Stark, I kind of like it. Victor von Stark or Tony?
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Von Doom, Tony Von Doom. There you go.
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So I mean this would. What is Pepper going to say?
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Is that, is this how we're going to bring Doctor Doom into the
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MCU? What do you think?
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Well, yeah, absolutely. We, well, I'm sorry, Harder.
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Hold on. Yeah, absolutely.
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I, this is I, I was like, I'm, I'm about to mess things up.
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I, I, I do believe this is the way that we're going to do it
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again. I, I've said this over the
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course of since they announced that Robert Downey Junior was
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playing Victor Von Doom, that this is going to be superior
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Doctor Doom, superior Iron Man. Superior Iron Man is a version
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of Doctor Doom that is Tony Stark in another universe.
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So I, I feel like this is they're, they're going to
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loosely base it on that. I feel like it's going to be its
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own story, but they are going to loosely base a introduction to
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Doctor Doom with Superior Doctor Doom.
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I don't think that he's going to continue playing Doctor Doom
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moving forward. I think that he is going to be
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the threat. They're going to fight him in
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secret. It's going to go towards secret
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wars and then in secret wars we're going to get introduced to
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Doctor Doom moving forward. So whoever they choose to play
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Doctor Doom for the rest of the MCU moving forward there the the
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Secret Wars is when we're going to introduce to that character.
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Interesting, interesting. But I think that this is so
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Captain America Civil war. That was like 15 years ago.
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What's up with that peeps now? Yeah, I think we are going to
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get a Doom Prime, and that's going to be somebody else.
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Hopefully by the end of Secret Wars, we'll have that person so
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that they won't have to be like, oh, who's going to be the new
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Doom? Because you know what, I'm
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getting a little over stimulated by this Avengers doomsday rumor
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mill. That's kind of, it just seems
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like everything. It's just room, room, room,
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room, room, room room. Casting, you know, plot lines,
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you know who's doing what. Yeah, I know it's getting a
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little tiresome, but with, you know, a potential trailer right
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around the corner, we're going to start getting answers.
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And, you know, all a lot of these rumors are going to go
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away and we're going to start honing in on the story.
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So we're going to see what they're going to cook up.
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But I want to, I want to know because, you know, Doctor Doom
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is typically a Fantastic Four villain, right?
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So what do you think this means for the Fantastic Four?
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Like, what's the ripple effect if Doomsday is focused on Doom
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versus Captain America? Well, they fought before though.
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Like, I mean, I know that Cap has because Doom, yeah, he may
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have started as Fantastic Four, but like he he fought The
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Avengers. I mean, didn't he like crossover
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at one point when they crossed over with DC and he like was
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like fought somebody. I mean, he's been everywhere.
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Doom is everywhere you want to be.
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Let's just face it, I, I do think that I really feel like
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the Fantastic Four is going to be on the wrong side of this.
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I think they're going to be supporting Doom.
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I, I really think that's what's going to happen.
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And that's what's, and, and Captain America is going to be
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like, dude, you were like, like the heroes in the 60s.
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I read about you on the Internet and like, be like, what happened
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to you and that kind of stuff. And then really like, that's
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going to be part of it too, because there's got to be some
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sort of emotional depth to this. And as we know, Doctor Doom is
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very persuasive and he definitely wants in Sue's pants.
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So you know. Yeah, yeah.
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And you know, with Fantastic Four first steps focusing on
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like world ending events, maybe Doom finds a way to just get a
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little bit what I want persuasive to read in the
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Fantastic Four saying, hey, this whether the universe is trying
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to kill us, trying to kill our universe, just the way Galactus
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was trying to, you know, kill our earth and yours and take
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your son. Maybe this other universe is
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going to try to take your son and then they, you know, snap
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into mom mode again. But.
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That act, that's the, I think that's the way in.
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I think you've got it. I think that's how he's going to
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do it because we saw the in credit scene, mid credit scene,
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whatever the hell they're calling now where, you know, it
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was Franklin with him. If Franklin likes him, you know,
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Sue's going to probably be a little bit more apt to, to like
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him as well. And so it really just depends on
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how he does it. But we know, and Tony Stark can,
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I mean, even Tony was really persuasive with shit.
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So I, I honestly think that that that's the way in.
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But I do think the Fantastic Four are going to be on the
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wrong side of this and that's going to be interesting.
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Yeah, that makes total sense. That makes so.
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Interesting James, what are your thoughts on this?
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I mean we kind of covered covered it all.
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What I wanted to add was so they announced that they're going to
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re release End Game in theaters September of next year.
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So roughly 2 months, three months before Doomsday comes
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out. But they're adding a special end
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credits scene to End Game leading into Doomsday.
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Interesting. So they're they're really making
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end game and Doomsday like connected.
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Yeah, well, they're kind of like rumor.
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There's a rumor that in this universe they're bringing Thanos
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back. So it's like.
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Yeah, could be, could be. So so September they're re
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releasing End Game with the extra end credits scene and then
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Doomsday comes out December 18th, 2026.
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I can't believe we're like a year away from this.
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The marketing is going to be crazy on this film.
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I'm going to have to go into like seclusion or something to
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keep me from just like losing my ever loving mind.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, again, we're we're going
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to see this, but supposedly, I mean, it's a rumour right now,
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but supposedly the trailer is now coming out on YouTube on
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Thursday. We'll see, you know I'll be
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there. Yeah, I got.
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I've heard too many different things about the trailer coming
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out. I know it's coming soon but I'm
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not going to like speculate where it's going to be but.
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Well, a lot of a lot of people, I've been on threads talking to
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people about this and a lot of people on threads admitted 100%
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they bought tickets to go see Fire and Ash just to get the
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trailer. For.
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For a doomsday, one guy said. I'm literally doing what I did
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in 98. I'm going to go watch the
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trailer and then I'm walking out.
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But. You know, Oh my gosh, in this
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economy. In this economy and for how
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expensive movies are now, like no dude.
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That that that dude doesn't have kids.
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That's he's he's not he's not spending money on a Robux, you
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know, at home. He's not worried about 6-7.
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He's got money to spend on frivolen movie tickets.
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This. 6767. Oh, easy, easy all right, let's
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keep it going because we've got more movies, more.
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Marvel Spidey's moral compass meets Punishers trigger finger
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Marvel confirmed that the upcoming Punisher special will
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tie directly into Spider Man Brand New Day storyline, weaving
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Peter Parker's continuity into Frank Castle's brutal world John
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Berenthal, returning as Frank Castle, emphasized the
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importance of continuity between the two projects, he said.
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I think that I think what we really is important to me and to
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Destin Destin and Daniel Craig and to Tom Holland is that we
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believe that the Punisher could walk off Spider Man set and
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could walk onto the special Punisher set.
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And I do believe we've achieved that.
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So I don't, I don't know. I know that's like, OK, we're in
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the same world. We're going to be in New York
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probably, but what does that mean for the storylines between
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Brand New Day and the Punisher special on Disney Plus?
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Do you think they're going to make timeline wise?
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Do you think they're connected? Yeah.
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So what I feel like is going to happen is whatever happens
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between Frank and Peter in in in this movie.
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And again, I think it's just going to be something at the
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very beginning. It's not going to be something
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that is Frank is a mainstay player through the entire movie.
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I think that Frank is going to be he like the opening scene of
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the movie is going to be an interaction between the Punisher
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and Spider Man. And I feel like whatever happens
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in this section, whatever implications that happen in, in
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this opening scene are going to lead directly into what happens
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with Frank in the, in, in the special.
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And I, I, I love the weaving of the storytelling.
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I love that it's like, you know, it makes the world
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interconnected. Some people don't like that
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because it's like, oh, that means I have to go see Spider
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Man before I have to go do the Punisher.
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And, you know, might be a different audience for some
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people, you know, where it's like Spider Man's more fun and
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friendly, where the Punisher is dark.
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And that's what I want to watch. I get that.
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But I I like the idea of setting up a story in the movie that
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pays off in in the presentation. I can see that.
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I can see that. Fred, what do you think about
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Frank and Peter? By the way, why isn't there a
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comic book titled Frank and Peter?
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And they're like selling hot dogs.
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Peter, Frank and Peters, Frankfurters.
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Because both. Frank and Peters it's.
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Because both of those can be misconstrued as Dick jokes.
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Oh, my bad. Sorry about that everybody.
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Don't love the phrasing. All right, so I feel like I like
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this. I do.
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I really because like spider Man has interacted with so many
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different characters like Daredevil, Punisher, like any of
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the street level characters he's.
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Civil war, Everybody in civil war, Yeah.
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Well, I mean, I'm talking like in the comics.
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So the people that are like, well, I don't know about the
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Punisher being and Spider Man brand New Day, they probably
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haven't read the comments, right.
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And they said it just like I just said it, just like it.
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Well, yeah. I did have reservations about
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that, but there with that interview with John Berenthal,
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they did talk about that where, you know, the Punisher is going
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to have a very TVMA tone to it, you know, kind of like
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Daredevil, whereas, you know, Spider Man is like PG13 at the
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most. But they did talk about even
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though those are two different types of stories, two different
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types of tones for the for the storylines, they will be able to
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interact with each other. That being said, I don't think,
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I think we're going to see Punisher in Spider Man, but I
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don't think we're going to see Spider Man in Punisher, if that
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makes sense. Yeah.
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No, no, no. Yeah, definitely not.
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Yeah, I I do think that that it's going to be interesting to
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see Frank Castle interact with someone that is so like just.
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He's like annoyingly good. Like annoyingly like he asked
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all those questions. He's like, what are you doing?
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Why are you doing it that way? Yes, I can stick on walls.
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Yes, I can climb up onto the ceiling.
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It's a thing. Stop trying to shoot me.
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It's not going to work. I mean, I could just see those
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things happening and. If this was wrestling, we'd call
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him a white meat babyface. Oh yes, 100% now, now here's the
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other thing that I'm noticing about this right.
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If there is not a Peter making a reference to Frank and being
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like, you're like that guy from that really old movie Die Hard,
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yes. And then Frank's just going to
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be. Pissing on for me.
00:20:08
I just love to hear it once. Like I can see I can see Pete
00:20:11
like like webbing himself to the roof of something and be like,
00:20:14
can you just say Yippie Kaye one time and then Frank would be
00:20:18
like get away from me bug. Or he's like, listen here little
00:20:24
I'm not even no, I'm not even doing it.
00:20:26
I'm not wasting the words on you.
00:20:28
And like, it blocks off. I could just see that.
00:20:31
I mean, yeah. So I do think that that it'll be
00:20:35
a really cool thing. Tom Holland and John Behrenthal
00:20:38
have also worked together before and are pretty good friends.
00:20:41
So I think the chemistry is already there.
00:20:44
I think we'll, I think it'll be interesting.
00:20:45
Yeah, they have really good on screen chemistry.
00:20:47
So I mean, I, I can't wait to see them tonally with the
00:20:51
characters that they're going to play because the movie that
00:20:53
we're in were what was more like they were, they were very
00:20:57
playing off of each other. And in this like you're getting
00:21:03
the darkness and the Punisher and the light heartedness out of
00:21:06
Peter Parker. So it's it's going to be a fun
00:21:08
interaction between the two of them.
00:21:12
Awesome, So and. And Peter's looking for a new
00:21:15
daddy, you know, Tony's gone. Sounded bad.
00:21:20
All right, so Spider Man Brand New Day comes out July 31st,
00:21:24
2026 and the Punisher special probably sometime after that.
00:21:30
All right, Speaking of Spider Man, the new punk rock isn't
00:21:35
kindness, it's Spider Punk. I like this.
00:21:40
Marvel has confirmed progress on the Spider Punk solo movie with
00:21:43
developmental activity moving forward and creative updates
00:21:48
expected in 2026. So I'm in for a Spider Punk
00:21:54
movie. I don't know if it's going to be
00:21:57
animated. I assume it's going to be
00:21:58
animated, but I'm down with this.
00:22:00
I like, I like me some Spider Punk.
00:22:02
I I agree. I I love Kobe.
00:22:05
Kobe is such a good character. He's just he he beats to his own
00:22:10
drum. He is super anarchist he's super
00:22:13
punk like he is. He is a a punk to the core and I
00:22:18
love the idea, especially because we got Kobe in the
00:22:21
spider verse movies. I kind of would prefer an
00:22:25
animated one just because they've already kind of
00:22:27
established that character and I kind of want to see them expound
00:22:30
on that character in in in itself.
00:22:32
But I also wouldn't mind a live action version of of of spider
00:22:38
punk and kind of just like exploring that world because
00:22:42
it's it's a lot of fun. So I'm I'm in on this 100%.
00:22:46
Again, I would prefer an animated version of it, but I
00:22:51
wouldn't mind a live action yeah and if they do it right, you
00:22:55
know, especially now that we got the trailer or not the trailer,
00:22:57
but we've been getting like some of the the set pieces from and
00:23:02
some of the the work from the live action Spider Man noir,
00:23:08
right? You know, like we just got an
00:23:12
announcement photo the other day, right?
00:23:15
I I'm in for it just to kind of see like if Spider Man Noir does
00:23:20
well then I would like to see this for live action too.
00:23:24
And it would I just I kind of threw you off.
00:23:26
But it will be animated. It'll it's going to be voiced
00:23:29
again by Daniel Kaluya, I believe his name is.
00:23:33
He's from Black Panther. Yes.
00:23:35
OK, Black Panther. Get out What he was in another.
00:23:39
Oh yeah, yeah, he's the British guy that.
00:23:42
He's they're all British. Rhino.
00:23:45
Yeah. The pet rhino.
00:23:47
And yeah, he was Mary Tao. Koye, which what's funny, those
00:23:51
two movies, he's he's doing an accent and his actual accent.
00:23:55
He's he's British. So he sounds more in real life
00:23:59
sounds more like Spider Punk than he does his character in
00:24:02
get out. You know what I mean?
00:24:04
So again, now that you're, you're giving that.
00:24:07
I'm sorry, it wasn't. Get out it was.
00:24:08
Nope. My bad, my bad.
00:24:09
Yeah. Well, no.
00:24:10
Daniel Kaluya was the main character.
00:24:12
Yeah, he was the main character in Get Out.
00:24:14
Yeah. So, so now that it now, now that
00:24:17
I know that they're doing an animated version of it again,
00:24:20
I'm again, I'm 100% in in on this.
00:24:23
Yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited for it.
00:24:26
Let me. I don't think did we have a
00:24:30
date. We don't have a date on it yet.
00:24:31
No, I I think it's still. Yeah.
00:24:34
Yeah, I think it's like more of a like they're, they're talking
00:24:36
about it being in development. Fred, what do you think should
00:24:40
should they keep going with the spider verse into the spider
00:24:44
verse universe like spin offs? I don't care.
00:24:50
You don't care? Did you not enjoy that into?
00:24:53
The movies, I'll watch them, but like I have no, like I I have no
00:24:57
dog in this race. I mean I've you guys know this.
00:25:00
I did. I know I've always found Spider
00:25:04
Man and his spider friends a little annoying.
00:25:08
So I didn't read the comics. I wasn't a big Spider Man fan.
00:25:13
I didn't even start liking him really until Andrew Garfield.
00:25:19
And now I love him because of Tom Holland.
00:25:21
That's it. There you go.
00:25:23
OK. So like you're OK.
00:25:25
I didn't mean to crush anybody's souls or anything.
00:25:28
The only soul you crushed was Tobey Maguire's so because he
00:25:33
came before Andrew. Garfield get in line behind
00:25:34
Jared Leto. Wow, that's that's.
00:25:38
So we'll probably get more Spider Punk updates in 2026.
00:25:44
All right, that's it for Marvel from Dooms Empire to Punishers
00:25:48
crosshairs to spider punks guitar riffs.
00:25:51
The Marvel Universe is tuning up for some seismic clashes.
00:25:55
Now let's teleport over to the watchtower for some DCU and news
00:25:59
and rumors. Though I will say this.
00:26:02
I feel I feel right now, right now, this moment, I feel like
00:26:06
Marvel has started to right the ship and like created a new
00:26:11
direction and I've I kind of feel good about it.
00:26:14
I don't I don't know why. I don't know why but like spider
00:26:16
punk, Doomsday maybe I'm what? Just bloated.
00:26:22
I'm always bloated. Thank you for noticing.
00:26:25
On to the DCU. The architect.
00:26:30
My pants are tight. The architect for the DCU isn't
00:26:33
taking fan poles. He's building a universe not by
00:26:36
committee. James Gunn addressed fan
00:26:39
comments that begin with We want, offering pointed advice
00:26:44
that creators should focus on telling authentic stories rather
00:26:47
than catering to collective demands, Gunn said.
00:26:51
When people say we want, it usually means I want, and that's
00:26:56
fine, but it's not how we build a universe.
00:27:00
I I think that's really good for Gunn to say because he's been
00:27:04
such a a champion of telling good DC stories, not just the
00:27:11
stories he wants, even though he has a lot of influence, like
00:27:15
especially with soundtracks on on what his DC universe is
00:27:19
shaping up to be. But he's all about the stories,
00:27:22
he's all about the characters. So I think that it's nice of him
00:27:25
to to throw that in there, so. Yeah, I read the whole like, I,
00:27:31
I actually, I read a lot about it.
00:27:35
And I feel like I know where he's coming from because he does
00:27:38
like he's on threads a lot and he talked like he will respond
00:27:42
to a lot of the a lot of fans. But they do come in and they're
00:27:46
like, well, we want it. And it's like, no, dude, you
00:27:49
want that. Not everybody wants that.
00:27:51
Like I didn't know about this whole, everybody wants the Gray
00:27:55
suit with the blue Cape and the white eyes of Batman.
00:27:59
I don't want that. I don't care about that.
00:28:01
And let me tell you, I am I'm ADC fan, we all know this, but I
00:28:06
don't. You know what?
00:28:07
Put him in whatever you want. Put him in the freaking purple
00:28:10
thing. I don't care.
00:28:12
Put him in that thing that's like half, I don't really care.
00:28:16
I want a good Bruce Wayne who who is actually a good Bruce
00:28:22
Wayne and a good Batman and tells a good story and is
00:28:27
entertaining. You know, he did really well
00:28:30
with Superman. I don't have a problem.
00:28:33
Like, I'm like, no, he did really well with Superman.
00:28:35
Supergirl's getting great reviews and stuff.
00:28:38
I know we're going to talk about that later, but yeah, so I, I
00:28:41
feel like he's, he's doing a great job.
00:28:43
Let the man cook. People stop telling him how to
00:28:47
do the DCU until he's done the DCU.
00:28:51
Yeah, I agree. I feel like it's, it's like with
00:28:56
Star Wars, right? Like with Star Wars, you have a
00:28:58
lot of the fandom that's like, well, we want this or this
00:29:00
should be this or, you know, this is what we want.
00:29:04
And it's like, OK, cool. Fanservice is one thing, but at
00:29:07
the same time, when you're doing nothing but fanservice, you get
00:29:10
no story out of it. So, you know, I, I would prefer,
00:29:14
you know, hey, what I'm going to do is tell a story and go in and
00:29:19
go in the direction of the story.
00:29:20
Like, for example, with Peacemaker, right?
00:29:23
Like we, we got this story and I, and I know there's a lot of
00:29:27
people online that cry and complain about, you know, oh,
00:29:30
well, he followed up a family friendly movie with something
00:29:33
that is hard R And it's like, OK, fine.
00:29:36
But he's still world building. He's still telling stories.
00:29:39
And the way that he's telling these stories, they, they, they
00:29:43
work in conjunction with each other to tell a bigger story.
00:29:46
And I am all for, for that, you know, he's telling stories and
00:29:50
setting up stories for things that I didn't even realize I
00:29:54
wanted to see live action. Salvation Run wasn't something
00:29:58
that I was immediately on my radar and going, Oh yeah, you
00:30:01
know what? I'd like to see Salvation Run.
00:30:04
No, but I'm all in for it now. You know what I mean?
00:30:07
You know, what do I want? I want, I want the new gods, but
00:30:10
I mean, at the same time, and I want them done properly.
00:30:12
But I mean, at the same time, it's like he's also said he's
00:30:15
not going to do the new gods. So OK, I'm not going to complain
00:30:19
because eventually we will get the new gods because you can't
00:30:22
tell ADC story and not have the new gods.
00:30:24
But I mean, like, you know, I'm I'm in for all of these other
00:30:28
stories that he is going to tell for the world building.
00:30:31
Again, the fact that we're doing Woman of Tomorrow was a big
00:30:34
deal. So I'm I'm all in for whatever
00:30:38
he wants to give us. I trust him enough as a nerd and
00:30:42
as a guy that I know is a massive nerd.
00:30:44
I trust him enough to just let him do his thing.
00:30:47
Let, like Jen just said, let him cook and I am willing to eat
00:30:51
whatever he serves us. But also, like everything should
00:30:56
have a different tone. Like Superman's worldview should
00:31:01
be his should be his movies. Batman's worldview should be his
00:31:05
movies. And that tone should be it.
00:31:08
It should be that, you know, just like that, you know, people
00:31:11
say our reality is shaped by how we perceive it.
00:31:15
Their reality is shaped by how they perceive it.
00:31:18
Superman's reality is going to be slightly different than
00:31:21
Batman's reality, and it's going to be different than Peacemakers
00:31:24
reality because they're different people, believe it or
00:31:28
not. So not all the comic books are
00:31:29
going to be the same. That's where the MCU started.
00:31:34
Captain, the first Captain America movie was totally
00:31:37
different than the first Iron Man movie, that and the first
00:31:40
Thor movie and the first Hulk movie, and it goes on and on and
00:31:44
on. When it starts feeling the same,
00:31:47
that's when you lose everyone because it's not about the
00:31:52
stories anymore, it's about the spectacle.
00:31:54
And right now he's telling the stories.
00:31:57
Let's hope he doesn't get to the spectacle, but he's doing it in
00:32:01
a way where he's taking all these little things from
00:32:04
different corners of the universe and he's bringing them
00:32:08
together slowly, which is exactly what he should be doing.
00:32:12
So stop with the wide eyes, guys, OK?
00:32:14
It doesn't matter if a man has wide eyes or not.
00:32:17
I. I think, I think the only reason
00:32:19
that people want that is because we got Wolverine.
00:32:21
He had the wide eyes and people are like, OK, when if you can do
00:32:24
it with Wolverine and Deadpool, you can do it do it with Batman.
00:32:27
I I don't I don't want that with Batman and mainly because I'm
00:32:32
I'm I'm very much a Pierce with Batman.
00:32:34
You guys already know this. I I complain a lot about what
00:32:38
what I want to see with Batman and how I want to see everything
00:32:42
done. Who I think should play Batman,
00:32:44
which I'm I'm fine with whoever he picks a trust what he's going
00:32:47
to do with it. But at the same time, I don't
00:32:50
think we need the wide eyes. I think honestly, Milky white
00:32:53
eyes or just white eyes in general, like if you do a block
00:32:56
out on the mask is going to feel so off putting with Batman.
00:33:01
It's it is it is going to be a distraction more than anything,
00:33:04
whereas with Wolverine, it works because of the way that they
00:33:09
created that character. You know what I mean?
00:33:12
But with Batman, I, I absolutely don't want that.
00:33:15
I, with Batman, I, I, I, I, I want them to do something.
00:33:20
That is it in the end. And I know 'cause James gonna
00:33:25
said that this is what he also wants.
00:33:26
So we agree on this. I want a detective story.
00:33:30
I want Batman to be able to shine as a detective more than
00:33:34
fighty fighty, because I love the fighty fighty.
00:33:37
But you can do Dick Tracy where he is a detective 90% of the
00:33:43
movie. And then when he does have fight
00:33:45
scenes, he beats the crap out of people.
00:33:48
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I want to see more gadgets,
00:33:51
but I like like, like less of just like some of the things
00:33:54
that he has like I want to see almost 66 level gadgets.
00:34:01
You know what I mean? Like I, I.
00:34:02
How about one more? How about one more gadget?
00:34:04
6/7. OK, we're not doing this.
00:34:08
Again, All right, I'll, I'll wrap this up.
00:34:11
I'll wrap this up because you know you.
00:34:13
So one of you mentioned Star Wars earlier and I was one of
00:34:17
those we want Star Wars guys. I want Star Wars guys where it's
00:34:21
like, I think I I know how Star Wars should be.
00:34:25
And then when you don't give me what what I think it should be,
00:34:28
I think it's wrong or I didn't like it.
00:34:29
So I'm guilty of that. I am on board with what James
00:34:35
Gunn is doing because the difference between how Star Wars
00:34:39
has been going and how DCU is going is DC is focused on long
00:34:44
term storytelling and building the world, the universe out.
00:34:49
Star Wars is like, let's throw some stuff on the on the wall
00:34:52
and see what sticks. I don't, I don't know what's
00:34:54
going to happen. Can we bring Luke back?
00:34:56
We, we wait, we already brought Luke back.
00:34:58
Who else can we bring back? You know, so let's bring the
00:35:01
emperor back. Somehow the emperor has
00:35:03
returned. So I'm OK with what?
00:35:06
The bartender from the first the movie A New Hope returns.
00:35:11
Yeah, exactly. And apparently they're serving
00:35:14
Chris Shipperson a drink right now, so.
00:35:16
There you go. I'm I'm good with how James Gunn
00:35:19
is focused on long term storytelling and he's kind of
00:35:22
wedding out all the all the comments.
00:35:25
You know what they say when you're that popular, don't read
00:35:27
the comments. I still have to read the
00:35:30
comments because I'm not that popular.
00:35:32
But for him, he doesn't have to read the comments.
00:35:35
OK, there are comments. There's comments.
00:35:37
See, you're too. You're too big time.
00:35:41
You and your you and your Tik Toks.
00:35:43
Oh, you know, I just, it's because I I just have a food
00:35:46
baby. That's what it is.
00:35:47
It's. Because you're a Time Lord.
00:35:51
Speaking of Time Lord, from Time Lord to Cosmic Conqueror, Matt
00:35:55
Smith may be trading in the TARDIS for Kolu.
00:36:01
The rumors suggest that Matt Smith is the front runner to
00:36:04
play Brainiac and James Gunn's Superman Man of Tomorrow,
00:36:08
positioning him as the film's central villain right off the
00:36:14
bat. I mean, this is casting so Frey,
00:36:16
What? What do you think?
00:36:18
What do you think about Matt You?
00:36:20
Know I don't mind. I really want Matt Mark Rylance.
00:36:24
I really do, and I'm not sure why I want Mark Rylance.
00:36:28
I I really just want Mark Rylance to be in the DCUI really
00:36:34
do. And we're running out of really
00:36:36
good villains for him to play. But you know, he also might be a
00:36:40
really good Jay Garrick look, I haven't I haven't given up on it
00:36:42
yet. Mark, I'm I'm totally
00:36:44
manifesting for you right now, but no Matt Smith.
00:36:47
I could absolutely see him being brainiac.
00:36:50
I think this is a like a it's a epiphany choice.
00:36:55
It's I hadn't even thought about him being that, but he's played
00:37:00
villains recently. He would be great.
00:37:03
David Tennant would be amazing as Brainiac.
00:37:07
I think we need some British guy to just really chew the scenery
00:37:13
of this and be the most intelligent man you've ever
00:37:16
intelligent being you've ever seen.
00:37:18
Because I don't think he's actually a man.
00:37:19
But you know what I'm saying? And I really, I think it is
00:37:27
great. And his stint in House of the
00:37:29
Dragon and that like that last like the second season where
00:37:34
he's like having those visions and stuff.
00:37:36
And I, that is what really makes me think he could do it, that
00:37:40
there's a lot of depth. There was a lot of depth that he
00:37:43
went through the that last season and he did so well.
00:37:46
I think he could do it. Sign the docs now, Matt.
00:37:51
Matt Smith carries a lot of gravitas in his performance and,
00:37:56
and there is just, there's a way that he carries himself where
00:38:01
there is a aristocracy, but a level of power that comes from
00:38:07
him that he, he just portrays that.
00:38:09
And Brainiac needs that. Anyone who plays Brainiac needs
00:38:15
to be able to have a calm, calculated level of power that
00:38:20
comes from him, where he talks to you as an intelligent
00:38:25
scientist would talk to you. But his intentionality is that
00:38:29
I'm going to wipe everything off the face of this planet.
00:38:33
And you need to be able to convey that just from words
00:38:37
alone. So Matt Smith, I believe, is a
00:38:43
good enough and and a heavy enough actor that he can portray
00:38:50
that. And I feel like he's the perfect
00:38:54
person to play Brainiac. Also think about how Matt Smith
00:39:02
and Nicholas Holt, like they can go toe to toe with each other.
00:39:07
They both have that intensity and and David Corn Sweat is he's
00:39:14
just such a sweet, sweet baby. David Corn Sweat's a sweet baby
00:39:18
sweet, sweet, sweet baby, sweet sweet Corn sweat.
00:39:22
Now that you mentioned. Corny sweat.
00:39:24
Now that you mentioned Nicholas Holt, he was actually really,
00:39:30
really good as Lex Luthor. Yeah, he's exactly that when I
00:39:33
was just mentioning like Nicholas Holt is another one of
00:39:36
those guys that is calm, calculating, but can convey a
00:39:40
level of pure power driven insanity that that Lex Luthor
00:39:48
needs, especially the version of Lex Luthor we're getting, we're
00:39:51
not getting, you know, master thief, you know, I, I'm, I, I'm
00:39:56
going to break into a jewelry store.
00:39:58
Lex Luthor from like the Seventies, 60s and 70s.
00:40:01
We have Lex Luthor that runs a multi, you know, multinational
00:40:07
conglomerate that easily could become president Lex.
00:40:11
And we may get that version of Lex Luthor where he's the
00:40:14
president, you know, so it's like.
00:40:17
This is the version that that this is the version that's the
00:40:20
scariest of Lex Luthor 'cause he's smarter than everyone
00:40:24
around him. And he's to a point where Lex
00:40:26
Luthor in the comics has been able to not outsmart, but at
00:40:31
least outwit Brainiac and and get Brainiac to to do things to
00:40:37
his means until Brainiac like reveals that it's like, well,
00:40:40
you know, I was playing you the entire time because I was
00:40:43
getting something from you because you're not going to
00:40:45
outsmart Brainiac. But I mean, like, you know,
00:40:47
that's those, those two guys. That dynamic on on screen is
00:40:53
absolutely chilling. I think we've talked about the
00:40:57
absolute universe version of Brainiac and I think if they
00:41:02
wrap some of that into this, because that absolute version of
00:41:06
Brainiac is he's not just smart, but he's psychotic.
00:41:10
It's like terrifying, terrifying.
00:41:13
And to see somebody with that much power, that that much
00:41:16
intelligence have that much like emotional craziness to him.
00:41:21
This again, the psychosis, like I think he could pull it off.
00:41:26
If anybody could be Matt Smith that could go crazy in a room
00:41:30
and then and then just pull it all back in and be calm, cool,
00:41:33
collected. So I'm excited for.
00:41:35
That imagine what he would do with all the others like Justice
00:41:38
League. Imagine him with Batman.
00:41:40
Imagine him up against Wonder Woman.
00:41:42
Like I mean, Matt Smith can hold his own and he's proven it
00:41:48
through Doctor Who. He led that forever and through
00:41:54
and House of the Dragon he was on the crown.
00:41:57
He's just got a pedigree of successes, so yeah, I totally.
00:42:03
Man of tomorrow man of tomorrow slated for July 9th, 2020
00:42:08
seventh So about a year and a half, but you know what's going
00:42:12
on sooner. Supergirl's first flight isn't
00:42:14
just cosmic, it's chaotic, crude, and packed with fan
00:42:18
favorite cameos. A description of the Supergirl
00:42:22
Woman of Tomorrow trailer reveals appearances by Lobo,
00:42:25
high energy cosmic battles, and a gag involving Superman being
00:42:31
Superman being peed on by Crypto.
00:42:33
It it was a newspaper, he's not actually peeing on Superman.
00:42:39
Sparking buzz for the film's irreverent tone, director and
00:42:43
Noguera teased We want to show Cars World as raw, wild, and
00:42:48
unapologetically cosmic. You know, I think of all the DC
00:42:54
projects, I think I'm most excited for this.
00:42:57
Yeah. I know I am.
00:43:00
I am absolutely insanely excited.
00:43:04
Want to pull my hair out until we get this movie.
00:43:07
I loved the Woman of Tomorrow series that they did that little
00:43:13
limited series. And I just think, I think Millie
00:43:17
Alcock's going to just, she's just that she kind of embodies
00:43:22
that Kara. And I cannot wait.
00:43:26
Speaking of House of Dragons. Yeah, and like Lobo being in it,
00:43:33
Jason Momoa as Lobo, it's like an achievement I didn't know
00:43:37
needed to be unlocked has now been unlocked.
00:43:40
Yeah, it's it's perfection as far as like casting goes.
00:43:43
Like his attitude in like real life is 100% the main man.
00:43:50
Like if you've ever met Jason Momoa, which me and James have,
00:43:58
the dude is hilarious. And he is one of those guys that
00:44:03
that embodies that that character.
00:44:05
And it's like, of course he wanted to play Lobo.
00:44:08
That makes so much sense. Now, as far as everything else
00:44:12
goes, I'm all in for this. And it's because it's it's
00:44:17
picking up where everything is left off so far.
00:44:22
But taking it up a notch and knowing the story and knowing
00:44:27
where this goes, you know, minus the horse gag from the comics,
00:44:32
because that's absolutely didn't make any sense.
00:44:35
You know, in the comic. And I heard that they're they're
00:44:37
doing something that is going to be an homage to it, but it's not
00:44:40
going to be exactly what it was in the comics, which I'm OK
00:44:42
with. They're they're not going to
00:44:45
have comic. They're saying there's going to
00:44:48
be some kind of reference to it, but it's he's not going to be in
00:44:51
the book. In the movie.
00:44:54
Yeah, I love. Coming.
00:44:55
She's got crypto. Come on.
00:44:57
Yeah. But again, I'm I'm very excited.
00:45:00
Really. A man that got turned into a
00:45:02
horse by a cosmic witch? OK, let's let's move on.
00:45:06
I'm. Sorry.
00:45:08
So yeah, I, again, I'm, I'm very excited for this and it's just
00:45:12
because I, I want more DC in general, right?
00:45:15
I, I, I want to see more of these stories that I love
00:45:18
reading on screen and I want to see just what, what changes are
00:45:26
going to it to make it something that's original versus something
00:45:29
that I'm just seeing from the page onto the screen.
00:45:35
I'm excited for this too, because this is I mean, even
00:45:39
though Superman's from another blind and whatnot, this is going
00:45:43
to be our first like cosmic taste of the DCU and I'm excited
00:45:48
for that just because you know, the way James Gunn handled
00:45:51
Guardians of the Galaxy and that, you know, world in itself
00:45:57
that he told I'm super excited for this.
00:46:00
I'm super excited for Supergirl. So let's see.
00:46:03
Release date is June 26th, 2026. So out of 20 sixes.
00:46:09
O62626. There you go.
00:46:12
That's not too far away. That's that's about six months
00:46:14
away. That it's weird when we start
00:46:17
talking like that with projects that felt so far out there.
00:46:20
Now it's like, oh, that's in like 6 months, you know?
00:46:24
That's nuts. Nuts.
00:46:25
Man about bonkers. Let's go, let's keep going.
00:46:28
When Gotham calls, even Hollywood's busiest star clears
00:46:32
her calendar. Scarlett Johansson has
00:46:36
reportedly stepped away from 2 upcoming film commitments after
00:46:40
securing a role in The Batman Part 2 Take that, dinosaurs.
00:46:46
While Joel Scarlett Johansson hasn't issued a formal
00:46:51
statement. Insider's note, her decision
00:46:54
reflects the film's demanding schedule and her enthusiasm for
00:46:59
joining Matt Reeves Gotham saga Fray.
00:47:02
How you feel about Scar Jo? Stop.
00:47:05
I, I saw this and I actually had a little, I, I was on Instagram
00:47:12
and I, I did a little comment to, to geek freaks because they
00:47:17
were talking about it. And I have 3 possibilities that
00:47:21
I actually, there are more than that, but there are three
00:47:23
possibilities. I think she could be obviously
00:47:25
Poison Ivy. She could absolutely be Poison
00:47:27
Ivy. Pamela Doctor, Pamela Isley.
00:47:31
She could also be Sasha Bordeaux, because remember, this
00:47:36
is Elseworlds. And even though we have Sasha
00:47:38
Bordeaux, she did she she was originally a Batman supporting
00:47:44
character for a while. She could be Sasha Bordeaux of
00:47:49
that universe or Silver St. Cloud.
00:47:54
Guys, why not Silver St. Cloud?
00:47:58
I think she would be perfect as Silver Saint Cloud.
00:48:02
Who's tell me who's Silver St. Cloud is?
00:48:05
She's like she's kind of an older character in the in the
00:48:10
DC, but she's very grounded in reality and she was like a kind
00:48:15
of a spy also kind of Batman's girlfriend.
00:48:19
She's done, she's had many iterations so but I just think
00:48:22
she could be an especially if if they did like the spy type
00:48:28
thing. I'd really love for them to do
00:48:30
like a court of Owls, like get this whole thing and court of
00:48:33
Owls be the last. But I think they're going to
00:48:36
save that for the main universe. And Silver St.
00:48:40
Cloud would be a really good character to to, to, to
00:48:43
transition into the Court of Owls.
00:48:46
I've got a different person who I think she's going to be.
00:48:49
And I know a lot of people have been talking about this online
00:48:51
too. If.
00:48:52
You say Vale. I will drive to California and
00:48:57
slap. You Vicki Vale would be
00:48:58
derivative at this point, no? Andrea Beaumont from.
00:49:04
I could see that. Mask of the Phantasm.
00:49:05
She's the Phantasm. Yeah, she could be.
00:49:08
Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert from a movie that
00:49:11
came out in 1993, Andrea Beaumont.
00:49:16
Just a little tack thing. Yeah, Andrea, Andrea Beaumont,
00:49:20
for those who didn't watch the movie, is a she starts off as a
00:49:26
love interest of Bruce Wayne. She is somebody who essentially
00:49:31
he went to college with and was like his college girlfriend.
00:49:34
They didn't work out, but he like she was always the one that
00:49:39
got away. That that Bruce is always looked
00:49:42
at as the one that got away. And she has a lot of ties in
00:49:46
Gotham, a lot of ties to various mob characters and things like
00:49:52
that. And I'm not going to go too much
00:49:55
further into the Phantasm and what that character is, but it
00:50:00
is such a tragic story, the relationship between Andrea and
00:50:05
Bruce, because she's one of the few people who knows him without
00:50:11
the mask as Bruce. So she like, she doesn't know
00:50:15
that he's Batman, but like she knows that that perks the side
00:50:18
of his personality is the real Bruce Wayne.
00:50:20
And she knows how to pick up on it.
00:50:22
She's one of the few people to guess that that Bruce was Batman
00:50:26
just based off of his mannerisms.
00:50:28
And it's just because she knows him so well.
00:50:30
And they, they, there were elements of Andrea in The Dark
00:50:35
Knight series because he was willing to give up being Batman
00:50:40
and willing to give up everything that he was doing if
00:50:44
Andrea would just be with him, you know, like Bruce wanted to
00:50:51
give up. Not a love interest at all.
00:50:53
No, but I mean like Bruce, she's.
00:50:54
Like 10 years older than guns. I mean, I'm all for that.
00:50:58
Be a cougar. Whatever, but like Bruce was
00:51:00
willing to to to give up being Batman in order to start a life
00:51:05
with Andrea, and this is without him knowing that she was the
00:51:08
Phantasm so. Good job, detective.
00:51:12
Yeah, well, he was blinded by love at that point, so.
00:51:16
But I mean, she's such a compelling character.
00:51:18
Like I think that Scar Joe would be really good just because
00:51:24
imagine those fight scenes because Scarlett Johansson is
00:51:28
really good when it comes to fight scenes and everything like
00:51:30
that. Imagine these fight scenes with
00:51:36
Batman as as Batman who he is fighting the phantasm but not
00:51:42
like the slow moving floating phantasm that just has a scythe.
00:51:46
Like imagine her being like a much more tactical ghost with
00:51:50
the with like still with the scythe and how much more
00:51:53
dangerous she would be when fighting when fighting Batman.
00:51:58
And those fight scenes would be intense.
00:52:00
I want to see that. I would want to see her as as
00:52:03
the phantasm. I like it.
00:52:07
I so just in general, I do like this whole storytelling of, you
00:52:13
know, people in Batman's past that are coming back as
00:52:16
villains. So again, like absolute universe
00:52:19
is kind of what's happening in that.
00:52:22
But like Phantasm's a great, a great example of like tying it
00:52:26
in to like his past. And, and it's almost like Bruce
00:52:29
Wayne is becoming Batman to help Gotham, but he's also creating
00:52:33
part of the problem of Gotham, if that makes sense.
00:52:38
So it's interesting. So release date October 1st,
00:52:42
2027. All right, So I guess no more.
00:52:47
I haven't no more Jurassic World for Scar Joe.
00:52:53
All right. Gotham's.
00:52:56
Jonathan Bailey to to be in in the Batman Part 2.
00:53:01
He can be a a Riddler or something.
00:53:04
Jonathan Bailey, Is that from Wicked?
00:53:08
Yeah, but he was also in Jurassic Park.
00:53:11
Oh yeah, that's right. That's right.
00:53:13
OK, moving on, Gotham's rogues gallery is about to get a fresh
00:53:17
face, and it's wearing an A list mask.
00:53:20
More Batman Part 2 news Batman Part 2 will introduce a new male
00:53:26
villain with an A list actor ready to offered the role.
00:53:32
While the studio has not confirmed which villain,
00:53:34
speculation points to Matt Reeves expanding Gotham's roster
00:53:38
beyond the Riddler and Joker. I know we're looking at Hush
00:53:42
here, but who do you Who do you think?
00:53:46
Who do you think the villain is of Batman Part 2, and why do you
00:53:50
think it's Hush again? Batman's past.
00:53:55
Well, if they're not going to do Court of Owls, I, I think Hush
00:53:59
should be the the villain of the last movie.
00:54:02
I think it should be like 3. I, I really feel like, and
00:54:10
that's kind of why, like I was thinking more like a silver St.
00:54:14
Cloud or a Sasha Bordeaux or even like Pamela Isley.
00:54:21
They could still lean into that whole Long Halloween kind of
00:54:28
feel that they had in the Riddler, because Poison Ivy is
00:54:32
part of that. And so, you know, I feel like
00:54:36
that that might be a good thing. Even if she's not actually
00:54:39
Poison Ivy, she's just Pamela Isley and she's not really
00:54:42
Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy.
00:54:46
I think something like that could happen.
00:54:50
So yeah, I would. I would like Hush to be in the
00:54:52
third movie, so if it's somebody in this one, I'm thinking they
00:54:57
could do. Like I mean, we still could see
00:55:00
two faced Scarecrow. There's a there's a ton of his
00:55:05
villains we haven't seen. Well, I mean, there's also,
00:55:07
like, Clock King, Mad Hatter, Max Zeus.
00:55:14
Ventriloquist. Ventriloquist.
00:55:16
Yeah, there, he's got so many rogues.
00:55:19
Yeah, I, I, so, yeah, I, I would want them to stick with the kind
00:55:27
of more realistic, like people who would still work in real
00:55:30
life. So again, we mentioned Victor's
00:55:33
as a while back. And I mean, we've done Victor's
00:55:35
as a couple of times, but I mean, another take as, but he
00:55:38
would have to be like a henchman level.
00:55:40
We've been talking about Professor Pig a lot.
00:55:43
Like, you know, Professor Pig would make a lot of sense in
00:55:45
this universe. Calendar man, Calendar man,
00:55:48
that's who I want to say calendar man and the calculator.
00:55:51
Yeah, like, well, like 'cause Calendar man, Calendar Man as
00:55:56
'cause, I mean, he's the main villain for Long Halloween, but
00:55:58
it's like Calendar Man. Spoiler alert.
00:56:02
As as a character is in in the translating him into a real
00:56:09
world setting makes a lot of sense because he's a serial
00:56:13
killer that bases his killings on days of the year.
00:56:19
Hence calendar man. That makes a lot of sense in
00:56:24
this universe. The way that they've built, like
00:56:26
the the way they built the Riddler, where again, you know,
00:56:29
he was just kind of like this psychopathic, you know,
00:56:33
cerebral, like anarchist villain.
00:56:39
He was a serial killer with a with a hook like an actual like
00:56:44
he had a a hook for a serial killing.
00:56:46
He didn't actually have a hook. That he had a gimmick.
00:56:49
He had a gimmick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:56:51
But again, like calendar, man, that makes a lot of sense.
00:56:54
That's a character where you have the psychosis of I'm
00:56:58
fixated on dates in the calendar and I have to kill somebody as a
00:57:02
serial killer. I have to kill somebody on those
00:57:03
days. Professor Pig again makes a lot
00:57:06
of sense 'cause all he is is a plastic surgery surgeon that
00:57:10
goes nuts and starts killing people to make them look
00:57:14
prettier. Again, ventriloquist doing A
00:57:19
twist on the ventriloquist because like, you know, the
00:57:22
character himself wouldn't make sense in this world where you
00:57:25
have this possessed doll that is, you know, dictating things
00:57:28
from. Yeah, but like split personality
00:57:32
type thing. Right, like you do something
00:57:34
where where again you have a psychopath that is just like I
00:57:38
am, I'm not the one that's killing people.
00:57:40
The puppet is. But like in reality, he is using
00:57:44
a another personality. I think that's the way they did
00:57:46
it in the animated series was like they made him.
00:57:50
I think there was an episode where they revealed that the
00:57:53
ventriloquist himself was really doing everything and he was just
00:57:58
using Scarface as a as an excuse.
00:58:03
Yeah, yeah. So like things like that, again,
00:58:05
Maxi Zeus makes a lot of sense. Maxi Zeus just don't give him
00:58:08
like the Super strength. But Maxi Zeus is just basically
00:58:11
a really big strong dude that thinks he's a God, you know?
00:58:17
So I again I want the more real like characters that you can
00:58:20
create a realistic version of. Like how Dark Knight handled
00:58:26
Scarecrow. Scarecrow.
00:58:27
Yes, that was perfect. Yeah, using the fear toxin, but
00:58:30
in reality it's just he's a yeah, he's a, he's a
00:58:34
psychologist that's just messing with people.
00:58:37
Again, I think Calendar Man and Professor Pig are the best the,
00:58:42
the, the best bet. Like those are, those are where
00:58:44
I'm hedging my bets on as those two.
00:58:45
Yeah, calendar man. Guess what day he doesn't kill
00:58:49
people? 6/7.
00:58:54
And on that note, so Batman Part 2 release date is scheduled for
00:59:00
October 1st, 2027, and from cosmic clashes and Gotham
00:59:05
shadows, we zoom out of the Watchtower and back down to
00:59:09
Earth. It's time to shift gears,
00:59:12
because the biggest projects across pop culture are making
00:59:16
waves to dumb. Let's dive straight into the
00:59:21
headlines. Oh yeah.
00:59:24
All right, guys, time for the headlines.
00:59:26
Let's get right into to the to the murky business of everything
00:59:31
that's going on here. Disney or Disney Plus grows up.
00:59:37
Oh, this is this is a big deal. Disney executives emphasize that
00:59:40
Disney Plus isn't just for kids. The streamer highlighted dramas,
00:59:44
comedies, documentaries and true crime series as part of its
00:59:47
evolving slate, pointing to examples like the raunchy UK
00:59:51
drama Rivals, the docu series Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,
00:59:56
God That Show and the comedy drama Alice and Steve.
01:00:03
So starting here with Frey, what what are your, what are your
01:00:06
thoughts on all of this? I, I, I already knew that they
01:00:11
had stuff that wasn't kid stuff. We're MCU fans.
01:00:15
Yeah, Deadpool. Not really kid stuff, Star Wars.
01:00:19
I mean, yeah, it is, but it's also not.
01:00:22
So, yeah, I, I, I kind of knew this.
01:00:24
So thanks for letting us know, Disney.
01:00:27
Yeah. What do you think James, as a as
01:00:30
as a dad that has Disney Plus and I know now you have to like
01:00:34
hide stuff from your kids like what are your thoughts on on
01:00:37
this in particular? I know this is like the the big
01:00:39
thing online is parents being pissed that they're that there's
01:00:43
rated R content on Disney Plus even.
01:00:45
Though it's been there for a while, they they've addressed
01:00:48
that and they have profiles like when I log into my profile, I
01:00:51
have to put in a code right for it.
01:00:53
Of course the kids know the code, but they I still have to
01:00:57
do the code and that may be too, it just may be too much work for
01:01:01
them. So but yeah, I mean, with Hulu
01:01:06
and Disney Plus being so connected and like almost like
01:01:10
cross promoting all their content, like we get it, parents
01:01:14
get it. I think this is Disney's way of
01:01:16
like, hey, it's not just for kids to turn on, you know,
01:01:20
Spidey and his amazing friends. It's like it's kind of like
01:01:24
hooking for Hulu. It's almost like constant
01:01:26
advertising for Hulu. Like we got, we got these other
01:01:29
shows on Disney Plus because you just click on it, even though
01:01:33
it's on Disney Plus, it it takes you over to Hulu.
01:01:35
So like we've been watching Dance Moms.
01:01:38
Like it's not really a Disney thing.
01:01:40
It's a Hulu thing, but we've been watching Dance Moms lately
01:01:44
so. Hooking with Hulu.
01:01:47
There it is. That's some phrasing right
01:01:49
there. And again, Secret Lives of
01:01:51
Mormon Wives like that is not a Disney show at all.
01:01:56
I don't know if that should be a show at all.
01:01:59
I mean, people are interested in drama.
01:02:01
People are just interested in drama.
01:02:03
And, and it's it, it is, it is like, what is the the real Real
01:02:09
Housewives? Real Housewives of Salt Lake
01:02:11
City is actually excellent, thanks for bringing it up.
01:02:16
But it's on Peacock A. Whole bunch of drama.
01:02:18
All right, so let's continue on here guys.
01:02:23
Pull that back up. There we go.
01:02:27
What sucks? This is on like 4 screens all
01:02:28
right. A New Hope for old reels.
01:02:32
This has got me so excited. Lucasfilm confirmed that the
01:02:35
original theatrical cut of Star Wars A New Hope will be re
01:02:39
released in theaters on February 17th, 2027, giving fans a chance
01:02:44
to experience the saga as it was first shown with no retouches.
01:02:51
Jen, give me your thoughts. I saw it when it was originally
01:02:55
out in the theaters, and I'll be there again to see it again with
01:03:01
no retouches. Like, how exciting is that to to
01:03:06
to be able to go see this film without any of the changes?
01:03:12
You know, I, I was talking about this with some friends that are
01:03:17
also big Star Wars fans who've gone to Star Wars Celebrations,
01:03:21
you know, on both coasts. And they were saying how they're
01:03:26
super excited about this because even though they have a version
01:03:30
like a bootleg version of it, they paid money for like a
01:03:34
bootleg version that's like restored and not restored, like
01:03:38
one that's like digitally remastered and one that's like
01:03:41
grainy as shit. You know, like we want both.
01:03:44
Then they paid money for like, OK, that's good on you.
01:03:47
But I'm I'm excited for this. I think that's fun.
01:03:51
But you know what this really tells me?
01:03:52
It tells me that George Lucas, his say in what happens with how
01:03:58
they promote Star Wars now, especially the 50th anniversary
01:04:02
is out the door. Disney's going to do what
01:04:04
Disney's going to do. So they're going to market
01:04:10
Disney X-rated. Who knows?
01:04:11
I don't know what they're going to do to promote.
01:04:15
Because she do is not here. I'm going to say it for money.
01:04:19
Yes. For money.
01:04:21
For money I'm I'm just happy that, you know, we're going to
01:04:25
be able to kind of re experience that original version of the
01:04:30
film and in reality show kids that yes, Hahn shot first
01:04:36
goddamnit. And, you know, like I, I, I, I
01:04:41
love that version of the movie and, and you know, when, like I,
01:04:47
I have the original version. Well, I mean, it's still not the
01:04:50
original version because he changed it from like the second
01:04:53
theatrical release. But I, I have like the closest
01:04:57
to the original version on VHS, you know, and it has, it's
01:05:03
before the, the, the special editions, before they added on
01:05:07
in, in the bad CG and change things like Han not shooting
01:05:11
first anymore and all that. Like, you know, the only thing
01:05:14
they changed in the original cut was they added episode 4 A New
01:05:19
Hope, right? But I mean, even with that,
01:05:22
yeah, I I'm excited to see this version back in theaters again.
01:05:28
Yeah, it'll be fun. It'll be it'll be a nice little
01:05:31
trip down Nostalgia Rd. Right, right, right.
01:05:36
So we're going to move into our sword and sorcery block.
01:05:40
A A no, a OK. We're Canadian.
01:05:45
A all right one ring to rule the box office once again.
01:05:49
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Fellowship of
01:05:51
the Ring, the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
01:05:54
are returning to theaters in January of 2026.
01:05:59
Screenings will run across 2 weekends, January 16th through
01:06:02
the 18th for D Box presentations and January 23rd through the
01:06:06
25th for standard formats. So just so everybody knows, if
01:06:12
you guys aren't familiar with D box, I, I know I have them at
01:06:15
the my local regal D box is an immersive movie experience where
01:06:19
specialized seats move, vibrate and provide a haptic feedback
01:06:23
synchronized with the on screen action, giving you a feel like
01:06:26
you're you're part of the movie. So it's it's yeah, it it's like
01:06:31
being on a roller coaster, but but watching a movie at the same
01:06:34
time. I'm.
01:06:35
Going to say no to the D box and yes to the standard.
01:06:40
I can't do that. There are spiders in these
01:06:42
movies and I used to to be in AD box setting when there are
01:06:48
spiders in A. That's just not going to fucking
01:06:51
happen. They're just like the spiders
01:06:53
are crawling on your leg. I I picture you know that.
01:06:58
Because it'll start doing that. I am very suggestive about shit
01:07:02
like that. Stop it now, Jen.
01:07:04
'S like I fucking. Hate you?
01:07:05
Did you ever go to Disney California Adventure and that
01:07:09
Muppet Show where they do the I think they called the 4D?
01:07:12
Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:13
And they had like the smells coming in and then like there's
01:07:16
like the, I think it was mice that like run past you or rats
01:07:19
that run past you and that like your chair moves.
01:07:24
It's 40X now. California, the, the soaring
01:07:28
over California, they actually there's smells in that too, like
01:07:31
when you go over the orange Groves, they pipe in orange
01:07:34
smell like it's yeah, it's, yeah, no, yeah, that Muppet
01:07:39
thing. I, I went in that once because I
01:07:43
was hot and I went in and it's, it is not a pleasant experience
01:07:49
for somebody like me. I, I, I don't like being
01:07:52
overstimulated, y'all? I don't.
01:07:54
I want my movies to be 2D. Yeah, they have the honey
01:07:57
action. Where I'm not involved in it.
01:07:59
Yeah, they have the honey I shrink the kids one too.
01:08:02
Yeah, that's the honey. I shrink the kids.
01:08:04
Yeah. And then I think there's the
01:08:05
Michael Jackson one. There was the Michael Jackson
01:08:07
one when they did. Oh.
01:08:12
Captain EO. Captain EO, that one.
01:08:15
Interesting. Yeah, I I hold on.
01:08:17
You're the captain, EO. Let's clear the air.
01:08:19
D box is not that Like they're not going to pump in smells.
01:08:22
You're not going to smell orcs or anything during Lord of the
01:08:25
Rings, so. It's just going to smell like a
01:08:28
like like a what's the bread? Lambis bread.
01:08:32
Lambis Lambis bread. Lamb, it's going.
01:08:36
To smell like lambis bread Lambis.
01:08:38
Bread. Oh.
01:08:40
Sean asked. All right, so let's let's
01:08:46
continue on here guys. And again, just my last thought
01:08:51
on this. I I do love Lord of the Rings.
01:08:54
I don't know if I'm going to go and see the the rewatch
01:08:58
theatrical releases of Lord of the Rings in theaters, although
01:09:01
I did see these the all three of these movies in theaters when
01:09:04
they when they came out. So yeah.
01:09:06
But I think. On they're the extended editions
01:09:08
right, so they're super fucking long you'll have to like have an
01:09:12
intermission or something in them because.
01:09:13
Yeah, definitely have to go on a pee break.
01:09:15
They're like 3 1/2 hour movies. All right, Mask on, Machete out.
01:09:22
A new Friday the 13th film is officially happening, and
01:09:25
director Mike P Nelson, best known for Wrong Turn in 2021,
01:09:30
has already thrown his mask into the ring, publicly expressing
01:09:33
his desire to helm the project after directing the Jason
01:09:37
Universe short Sweet Revenge. So guys, your thoughts on this?
01:09:43
Do you guys think that it's continuing from the was the 2013
01:09:50
remake or are they going whole hog and just going right into
01:09:54
the old universe? Yeah, I don't.
01:09:56
When it what's the swipe? When you swipe and you don't
01:09:59
want something, is that swipe left or swipe right?
01:10:02
I don't know. Whatever that like thing, just
01:10:06
swipe it away. Just yeah, swipe it.
01:10:09
I want Darren Fox to just be swipe A and just get it out of
01:10:14
here. Just yeah, I don't care.
01:10:20
Well, I'm a I'm a chicken and I don't really watch scary movies,
01:10:23
so I wouldn't swipe left or swipe right.
01:10:25
I'd probably just throw my phone if if something scary came on my
01:10:29
phone. So your phone at it.
01:10:31
So I would just throw my phone against the wall.
01:10:33
Police. I just threw my phone away.
01:10:37
But you know, with all of this nostalgia coming back, you know,
01:10:40
like, like how aliens, that franchise, how they're handling
01:10:46
that, how Predator is coming back and they're handling it
01:10:49
really well. It would be kind of cool to see
01:10:52
a franchise like Friday the 13th come back, get handled really,
01:10:57
really well and, and push forward with something new.
01:11:00
So I I don't have a skin in the game on which version of Friday
01:11:05
the 13th they should play off of, but I just hope it's
01:11:09
interesting and good. As as probably of the three of
01:11:13
us, the only one that actually does enjoy horror movies.
01:11:17
I my my thought on on bringing back Friday the 13th.
01:11:22
So I know that they are doing a series on Peacock.
01:11:27
They the camp camp Crystal Lake. It's supposed to be like the
01:11:30
events leading up to the first movie.
01:11:32
So kind of like, you know, Jason being drowned and causing his
01:11:37
mother to go nuts and kill a bunch of people.
01:11:41
You know, I, I, my thoughts are, are they building up from that?
01:11:46
Is this something that is jumping over the old franchise?
01:11:51
Cause the old franchise sucks honestly.
01:11:52
Like if you go through everything, like there's no
01:11:56
consistent continuity, it like you don't know what's Canon and
01:12:01
what's not Canon. It's it's like one of those
01:12:03
things where, you know, the next director was just like, I'm just
01:12:06
going to write a new story and whatever it is, it is, it is,
01:12:09
you know, he's magic in one, he's he's a demon in another.
01:12:14
You know, he's. Just he's in space.
01:12:16
In the next, yeah, I know he's in space in another one.
01:12:18
He's, he's just a guy in the remake and it's, I would kind of
01:12:24
prefer him to be, if they're going to do another movie that
01:12:28
it's tied to the 2013 movie, mainly because the 2013 movie
01:12:32
kind of reimagined him as like just a really brutal serial
01:12:37
killer and not a like a demon or a monster, you know?
01:12:44
And yeah, I, I just feel like that would be that's probably
01:12:48
the scariest version of him because it's the version of him
01:12:51
that is like most likely for for us to like see in real life.
01:12:55
So it makes it like, scarier, but yeah, what?
01:12:58
If they pull, what if they pull a Spider man?
01:13:00
Like we don't need to retell the origin story, you know, and just
01:13:04
go forward and and just do scary movies.
01:13:07
Yeah, we don't need to retell what happened.
01:13:09
Well, I, I prefer that that's, that's what I'm saying is I
01:13:11
prefer that it's going off of another movie that's already
01:13:14
existing. They're not retelling a story.
01:13:16
They're not telling a, you know, going back for other beats
01:13:20
again, they're already doing an origin story.
01:13:23
So it's kind of like if we do this movie, it should just pick
01:13:27
up and be its own story, you know what I mean?
01:13:31
Cool. All right, well, let's jump into
01:13:34
this next one here, guys. No Cape is safe.
01:13:38
And when we say no Cape, we mean none of them.
01:13:41
Carl Urban revealed that The Boys Season 5 will open with
01:13:45
major character deaths, warning fans that anybody's fair game.
01:13:52
Have you guys been keeping up with The Boys?
01:13:53
I know you have. Have you guys been keeping up
01:13:55
with The Boys? And the thoughts on this are
01:13:59
going to be, what's your prediction, guys?
01:14:01
Like, who do you think is going to die in that first episode,
01:14:04
'cause they're making it seem like somebody's going to die?
01:14:07
Are we, is it, are we doing a Deadpool?
01:14:10
At Deadpool or at the boys? Yeah.
01:14:13
We're doing a Deadpool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:14:15
Yeah, we're doing a Deadpool. OK, so here's the thing.
01:14:19
A train, he's dead. He's gone.
01:14:22
He's not making it out of this. They've been trying to kill him
01:14:24
off season after season after season.
01:14:26
He's going to be gone. I think the seven that we saw in
01:14:31
the first season, I think they're all they're all gone.
01:14:34
All of them. They're all just.
01:14:37
And I also think that the creepy grandchild of Giancarlo
01:14:46
Esposito, I think she's gone too.
01:14:48
I think they're going to right out of there, yeah.
01:14:50
But I also I also think that a a couple of the Gen.
01:14:54
V people might also. Oh, that's pretty good, yeah.
01:14:59
Yeah, I think that might happen. I think Huey's gonna make it.
01:15:07
I think he might be the one that tells the story.
01:15:11
Yeah, about it and takes up the mantle after that.
01:15:15
Now, I haven't read the comics like I didn't read the.
01:15:17
Oh, this. This veered away from the comic
01:15:19
a long time ago. OK, so then I think he was going
01:15:23
to will be there, but I don't know if Starlighter is going to
01:15:26
going to make it, but I think he was going to make it.
01:15:29
I'd really like to see Karl Irving's character.
01:15:31
I'd really like to see Billy make it, but I don't think he's
01:15:34
going to. I mean, he's dying, yeah.
01:15:36
That's part of his. I think Billy's going to make a
01:15:39
sacrifice at some point. So, but here here's my hot take
01:15:42
on this, right? Number one, I, I think a train
01:15:46
is going to die, but not in the first episode.
01:15:48
I think I think a train is on the road to redemption.
01:15:54
I think they're going to they're they're going to Game of Thrones
01:15:56
him and they're they're going to build him up to be a hero that
01:16:01
like, you know, everybody falls in love with and is like, you
01:16:03
know, that redemption character and then he's going to die mid
01:16:06
season. Are they going to?
01:16:08
They're going to be. On him, you know who I think is
01:16:11
going to die in the first episode because it is going to
01:16:14
carry a lot of emotional weight. I think they're going to kill
01:16:17
Frenchie. I think if they kill off
01:16:21
Frenchie, that is something that, you know, he's had his
01:16:25
battles with addiction. He's had his issues that he that
01:16:30
just in general, but he is generally somebody everybody
01:16:34
relies on and that everybody loves.
01:16:36
Like there's not a person who watches this show that'll say,
01:16:39
God, I hate Frenchie, man. He pisses me off so much.
01:16:42
Most people love Frenchie because he is that kind of like,
01:16:45
you know, second chance character.
01:16:47
I think it's either going to be Frenchie or it's going to be
01:16:49
mother's milk. Well, I was going to say, by
01:16:51
killing Frenchie, I think that would spark mother's milk to be
01:16:55
like all in you. I'm all in on getting rid of,
01:16:59
you know, Homelander and every in all of them in the seven,
01:17:03
because right now he's kind of always been on the fence like
01:17:06
this is we got to walk away. This is crazy, but I think
01:17:10
Frenchie dying would would dive him in.
01:17:13
Also, I think, I don't know if it's the first episode, but I
01:17:18
think just as cannon fodder, I think Noir is going to go yeah,
01:17:24
and probably not the first episode, but like he's just been
01:17:26
like chump change, you know. Like they don't.
01:17:29
There's no background on on who Noir is anymore.
01:17:32
Like nobody really. Cares because it's not the
01:17:33
original noir. Exactly like exactly.
01:17:38
So no, but nobody cares who the new one is Like they're they're
01:17:41
not telling his story. So I think he's just going to be
01:17:43
candid fodder you. You know who what?
01:17:45
You know what I would really like, and I know they're not
01:17:47
going to do this, is if they went back.
01:17:53
So they already changed Black Noir story right in the comics.
01:17:58
Spoilers for anybody who hasn't read the comics.
01:18:00
OK, in the comics, Black Noir was a clone of Homelander,
01:18:08
right? And there is a point in the
01:18:12
comic where when Homelander finds out that Black Noir is
01:18:19
basically the equivalent of Superboy with for him, they get
01:18:24
into a big fight and Black Noir, Black Noir like because Black
01:18:27
Noir was put on the team to keep Homelander in check.
01:18:31
Right, right. And and like Black Noir, like he
01:18:34
beat the shit out of him a couple times, but like in the
01:18:36
end he ends up killing Black Noir in the comics.
01:18:38
So I would like to see, you know, maybe this version of
01:18:44
Black Noir dies and then another silent version of Black Noir
01:18:47
comes back and it ends up being that Homelander clone.
01:18:51
That would be a cool full circle back to the comics, because when
01:18:59
they veered off, I think it was season 3 is when they veered off
01:19:02
and and and said, Oh yeah, this is no longer the Black Noir that
01:19:05
you thought it was the one from the for the comic book fans,
01:19:08
this it would be really cool to bring back Black Noir and kind
01:19:11
of show that version of him. Interesting, interesting.
01:19:15
You know, here's one for the Deadpool.
01:19:17
What about the Deep? The deep's going to die, I don't
01:19:21
think. Yeah, he's going to die.
01:19:22
I, I I. Think an octopus is going to
01:19:26
bite his Wiener off? Oh my goodness.
01:19:30
And then the the little white trash redhead.
01:19:35
Oh, firecracker. Yeah, she's I, I think her and
01:19:39
Starlighter are going to just throw down and she is going to
01:19:43
kick her ass. Yeah, Starlight's going to beat
01:19:47
the shit out of Firecracker. Sister Sage is going to defect.
01:19:51
Yes. After what happened in Gen.
01:19:53
V and she's going to defect and she's going to be like, no, I
01:19:56
don't want this shit anymore and but I think she's going to die
01:20:00
too. But I love her.
01:20:01
She's actually my favorite. I love her.
01:20:03
Yeah, she's an interesting character, but but again, it's
01:20:09
all about, it's just for sister Sage, sorry.
01:20:11
It's all about like, what she can do, what she can manipulate.
01:20:14
She doesn't really care about the outcomes, you know, or who
01:20:17
wins, what can I play with? It's like, what can I do with my
01:20:20
brain to make this things happen?
01:20:22
So. Yeah.
01:20:24
But I do think, yeah, I think they're going to take her off
01:20:26
the board. So yeah.
01:20:28
Absolutely. And then I, I, I think if
01:20:31
anybody kills Sister Sage, I think it's going to be Marie.
01:20:36
Yeah, yeah, Marie. Marie owes her a couple of
01:20:40
things. She owes her some.
01:20:42
Some blood there. So yeah, blood.
01:20:46
I think yeah, I think, I think Marie ends up messing her up and
01:20:51
then I think there's going to be AI think there's going to be a
01:20:56
big fight, you know, you know, I think might actually take out
01:21:00
the deep is probably polarity. That would be amazing.
01:21:03
They have history. So it's like, oh dude, what if
01:21:06
polarity is the one that takes out the deep?
01:21:10
Could be, could be. Right, because Andy Marie.
01:21:13
Did fix him so. Yeah, and, and OK, I mean, we
01:21:16
know that a lot of Gen. V characters are coming.
01:21:18
Polarity has history with the seven specifically.
01:21:21
He had a lot like he got into a lot of fights with him in
01:21:24
college when they were at when they were at get Olken.
01:21:27
So oh man, like if him in the deep went into it and he ends up
01:21:32
being the one that kills the deep, I'd be, I'd be, I'd be on
01:21:35
board for Polarity taking his ass out.
01:21:38
Now you're getting deep in the weeds.
01:21:40
Let's keep it going. Now let's let's get let's keep
01:21:42
moving on here. All right, so.
01:21:45
Anemones. Anemones, anemones OK upside
01:21:53
down, right side up in the charts.
01:21:57
Netflix announced that Stranger Things season 5 had a
01:22:00
record-breaking premiere week, setting new streaming highs for
01:22:04
the platform. Did you guys watch?
01:22:08
Yes. You already know the answer to
01:22:11
that. I know Jen hasn't because Jen
01:22:13
has not watched past season 1. I actually started a rewatch so
01:22:19
I I finished the first part of season 5 and then we're like
01:22:23
man, like 3 days later we're like, man, I want more stranger
01:22:26
things and, and my wife was just like, well, should we just
01:22:29
restart it and just start? I'm like, yes, how fun would
01:22:33
that be? And actually going back and
01:22:35
rewatching it, you see so many connections to what's happening
01:22:40
in season 5 right now. This is so well orchestrated.
01:22:44
I'm so impressed with the Duffer Brothers for putting this all
01:22:48
together. So yes, I am rewatching and it's
01:22:52
it's worth the watch. Yeah.
01:22:54
Oh, especially like everything that happens in season 4, it's,
01:22:57
it's, it all pays off. And and like a lot of it pays
01:23:01
off at the beginning of the season.
01:23:03
But then kind of like a lot of like these small little things,
01:23:06
you don't notice the fact that Holly's wearing his sister's
01:23:10
dress from that first episode in in Season 4, right.
01:23:14
Like just, you know, all these different, just small little
01:23:18
details that they just do not leave out because they know
01:23:22
people like us or people like, just like nerds on the Internet
01:23:25
are, are ripping everything apart for every little small bit
01:23:31
of Easter egg and, and small thing they can find.
01:23:33
I love the idea that, you know, they're writing the show for
01:23:37
people like that. Yeah, totally.
01:23:40
I agree. I think it was #1 on the weekly
01:23:45
TV rankings, I think got 59 point, 6 million views globally.
01:23:50
It's like one of the biggest premieres ever, I think the
01:23:54
biggest premiere for Netflix. Yeah, no, it was, it's, it's so
01:23:59
good. And and I'm not at all surprised
01:24:04
that, you know, they, they, they're getting all these
01:24:07
record-breaking numbers. I mean, we've been waiting what,
01:24:09
three years for this season to come out.
01:24:11
So I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm on board 100%.
01:24:15
I think this show started nine years ago. 2020 yeah. 20/16/2016
01:24:24
it was 2016. That's crazy.
01:24:26
Yeah, and they're still in high school.
01:24:28
I know, right? I mean, they're all like you.
01:24:32
You look at them all, they're all grown ass adults.
01:24:35
Millie Bobby Brown has a baby. Yeah, yeah.
01:24:39
I mean, you can have a baby in high school, but still.
01:24:41
You know, you know what I'm saying, Millie Bobby Brown has a
01:24:44
baby and it's also a Bon Jovi. So I mean, like, there's there's
01:24:51
that, right? Did you notice her outfit?
01:24:56
Whose outfit? Millie Bobby Brown's outfit in.
01:24:58
The rocky outfit. So specifically, it's the it's
01:25:02
the same piece for piece, the same exact outfit.
01:25:08
Oh, that What's his name's wearing in the Goonies?
01:25:11
Josh Brolin. That Josh.
01:25:12
Brolin is wearing in The Goonies.
01:25:14
Yeah, I saw. I I noticed that too.
01:25:16
At first I saw, when I saw it, I thought it was Rocky, but I
01:25:20
heard somebody else say Josh Brolin, Goonies.
01:25:22
I'm like, that makes sense. I I looked at a picture of them
01:25:26
side by side and it's the same exact outfit piece for piece.
01:25:30
That's interesting, but let's talk about how they're releasing
01:25:33
it in batches. And I think Netflix kind of
01:25:37
cracked how the the the best solution for like week to week
01:25:43
to get that marketing, but also like giving people more chunky
01:25:49
content than just dropping an hour at a time for a week.
01:25:53
I think they figured it out. This was like perfect.
01:25:56
Like, what was it, 4 hours worth of Stranger Things and then you
01:26:00
got to wait and we're talking about it.
01:26:02
I think that's the key. It's, it's, this is, is the
01:26:05
reason that they did this is because you have, you know, you,
01:26:08
we got 4 episodes and now you have all of the world talking
01:26:12
about this show and they left it at a cliffhanger.
01:26:15
Enough that we're going to get four more episodes on Christmas,
01:26:19
just with enough time for us to go to the theaters to go watch
01:26:23
the season finale. Right, right.
01:26:28
So it's even more meta than that, guys.
01:26:31
Kids in high school have Thanksgiving break in America
01:26:39
and they get really bored with having to be with their family
01:26:44
the whole day. So yeah, wouldn't they want to
01:26:47
binge watch a show? 4 hours of it and then again for
01:26:52
Christmas break they do it again and then you have the finale at
01:27:00
the theater during New Year's, which is still Christmas break.
01:27:06
It's see it's even more meta than you guys thought.
01:27:09
It's so genius. It's such a genius marketing
01:27:12
strategy. But the the glass half full
01:27:16
version of that is like, their parents love this too because
01:27:20
they started watching it nine years ago.
01:27:22
So right now, now they can. It's bringing families together
01:27:27
and they can watch Stranger Things together on a small
01:27:31
iPhone. From Dances with Wolves and
01:27:35
getting in trouble and my dad thinking that we kidnapped my
01:27:40
aunt and are we're holding we're holding her hostage so we could
01:27:45
go joy riding in a car or something.
01:27:47
Oh my. God.
01:27:50
That's a very. Different story.
01:27:52
It's a very specific. Story for Thanksgiving, and I'm
01:27:56
not kidding, that didn't happen. Is that why you're not watching
01:27:59
Stranger Things? Oh my gosh.
01:28:01
And no. And we did not know that that
01:28:05
movie was that long. And our parents thought we had
01:28:08
kidnapped our adult aunt so we could go joyriding and not see
01:28:14
Dances With Wolves. We had to answer questions when
01:28:17
we got home about that. So yes, I do have a little PTSD.
01:28:21
Thank you so much for bringing that up.
01:28:23
Thank you both for that. Well, technically you brought it
01:28:25
up so. Yeah, yeah, you, you kind of
01:28:27
brought that on on yourself. All right.
01:28:29
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that is it for our news.
01:28:32
So we're going to talk about what's trending on the Internet.
01:28:35
Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the trend up.
01:28:50
Previously on The WB, Netflix moved to acquire Warner Brothers
01:28:56
Discovery for $77 billion. Executives at Netflix insist the
01:29:02
deal won't crush theaters or repeat the mistakes of AOL Time
01:29:06
Warner. Everybody remembers that, but
01:29:09
the industry is rattled. Meanwhile, Paramount Skydance
01:29:15
has fired off a hostile 108.4 billion bid of its own,
01:29:23
escalating the fight for control over Warner Brothers.
01:29:27
So what this means is so Netflix.
01:29:32
If Netflix acquires it, their acquisition would give the
01:29:35
streamer the studio identity that it's long lacked, unlocking
01:29:40
Warner Brothers massive IP vault.
01:29:42
DC, Harry Potter, Looney Tunes, Game of Thrones insert IP here
01:29:49
and potentially redefining its place in the streaming wars.
01:29:54
But Paramount Skydance's counteroffer raises the stakes,
01:29:59
positioning itself as a traditional studio challenger
01:30:03
with deep theatrical ties. Theater owners are panicking,
01:30:08
fearing Netflix will sideline box office releases, while
01:30:12
insiders warn of consolidation risks and creative all out.
01:30:18
So the pros on this the pros for Netflix is finally gives Netflix
01:30:23
their true studio identity access to Warner Brothers IP
01:30:26
vault. And I could I mean, think about
01:30:29
that because I mean, they they're global streaming.
01:30:31
They could like make so much bank on that.
01:30:35
Executives argue they'll expand theater like theatrical value,
01:30:39
not destroy it. But I mean, like, why would they
01:30:43
do that? They already have such a big
01:30:45
platform. And then Paramount Sky dances
01:30:49
pros are it keeps Warner Brothers in the hands of a
01:30:52
traditional studio with theatrical DNA, DNA potentially
01:30:59
safer for theaters and box office revenue.
01:31:02
And it could stabilize Warner Brothers without streaming
01:31:05
first. Disruption.
01:31:09
So the cons And this is like the industry concerns about it.
01:31:13
Theater owners fear Netflix will undermine box office revenues,
01:31:17
consolidation, risk, fewer creative voices and less
01:31:21
competition. Echoes of AOL Time Warner
01:31:24
disaster Too big, too messy, too risky.
01:31:28
So the real question is, is Warner Brothers better off with
01:31:33
the net in Netflix's hands as a bold identity play or with
01:31:39
Paramount Skydance as a safer traditional Stewart?
01:31:45
So let's let's start this off with James Jamez 5000.
01:31:50
What do you think about this? So hearing about all this and
01:31:53
it's it, it's screams monopoly right off the bat.
01:31:59
But, and, and that goes for either case where whether it's
01:32:03
Netflix getting Warner Brothers or if it's Paramount, Skydance
01:32:08
getting, getting Warner Brothers, it's screams monopoly.
01:32:12
It's, it's that consolidation. And you know, a lot of jobs are
01:32:16
going to get lost. A lot of projects are going to
01:32:18
get whacked. That being said, if going back
01:32:23
to your question, is it who's who's a better steward for
01:32:29
Warner Brothers Discovery? Honestly, I, I think Netflix
01:32:35
would take more value and, and be more true to who Warner
01:32:43
Brothers was trying to be, if that makes sense.
01:32:47
Whereas Paramount is just like we're looking to take more on.
01:32:51
Skydance is just like, I just want to own it all.
01:32:54
I want to own it all. I don't know what the plan is,
01:32:56
but we're just going to own it all.
01:32:58
But I think Netflix, what's really cool about Netflix is
01:33:03
they're really good at pivoting. If something doesn't work or if
01:33:06
there's a trend or a change in the market, they're going to
01:33:09
change and go. And they're not.
01:33:10
They're always willing to adapt, just like how they adapt from
01:33:14
remember. They remember when we used to
01:33:16
get discs in the mail and then he went to all online.
01:33:20
I remember, like, are you kidding me?
01:33:22
I can't get discs anymore, you know, so, and then even like how
01:33:26
they, how they handle the, the platform itself, I think how
01:33:31
they use the algorithm, I think that's super important.
01:33:34
I think HBO Max will benefit from this because I don't think
01:33:39
they're going to let HBO Max go. I think that's too much of A
01:33:43
commodity for them. And they're just going to have a
01:33:45
second streamer, but use their algorithm method to promote
01:33:51
content on HBO Max. Because I think, I think I might
01:33:56
have said this a couple weeks ago.
01:33:58
One thing HBO Max and Warner Brothers doesn't do, they don't
01:34:01
do a good job at promoting their content.
01:34:03
They've have a massive library, but it just sits collecting dust
01:34:08
and like, hey, remember that one thing, the one thing we liked?
01:34:11
Where is it? Oh, it's on, I think it's on
01:34:14
Max. I don't know.
01:34:15
And you have to go find it. So I I don't know for me they.
01:34:19
Don't want Looney Tunes on Max anymore, you know now it's on
01:34:23
Prime or wherever so. Honestly, I, I'm kind of leaning
01:34:28
towards if we have to choose, you know, choose between mommy
01:34:32
or daddy, I think we're going to choose Netflix.
01:34:36
And I think, honestly, I think Netflix is going to look at this
01:34:39
whole theater thing and go, hey, we don't want that kind of bad
01:34:42
rap of us destroying movie theaters because we're built off
01:34:46
movies. So I don't think they're going
01:34:49
to ruin the theater experience by taking on Warner Brothers.
01:34:55
Right. Cool.
01:34:57
All right, Phil. So I, I'm, I'm, I'm in a greens.
01:35:00
I, I think that Netflix is the way to go on this.
01:35:06
So yes, it is giving them a studio identity, even though
01:35:11
it's more to be recognized as a studio because Netflix has
01:35:14
studios. Netflix has all these different
01:35:17
things. They're known as the company to
01:35:19
go to if you want to get a big budget show done, you know, so
01:35:22
it's it's not like Netflix isn't somewhere that's that someone
01:35:26
that's already there. But this just gives them a
01:35:27
larger imprint right now, taking all of that Warner Brothers IP
01:35:32
and not having to pay for all of the streaming rights in order to
01:35:36
put this stuff up. They can just put on, you know,
01:35:39
everything they have with this massive, massive library that
01:35:43
they have now or where they would have if they, if they are
01:35:46
able to, to get this purchase to go through.
01:35:50
And as far as destroying theatrical value, I don't think
01:35:53
they're going to do that. I think they are already
01:35:56
experimenting with putting things in theaters and the
01:35:59
advantages to putting things in theaters.
01:36:02
I keep going back to this and James knows I go back to this.
01:36:05
James agrees on this one. K Pop Demon Hunters is proof in
01:36:09
the pudding that they can put something on Netflix and then go
01:36:13
put it in theaters and people will still go watch it, right?
01:36:17
Because they want that theater experience.
01:36:20
OK, They still do put movies in theaters, like some of their
01:36:24
larger ones. Again, we were just talking
01:36:26
about about Stranger Things, right?
01:36:29
If they didn't believe in theaters, if they didn't believe
01:36:32
in in putting things in theaters, they wouldn't have
01:36:35
specifically made a point of saying, hey, the season finale
01:36:39
of Stranger Things, because it is very theatrical, is going to
01:36:43
be in theaters. They wouldn't even bother with
01:36:46
that if that were the case. If they, if they didn't believe
01:36:50
in putting things in theaters. So I think that that is when
01:36:53
people argue that, that they're not going to put things in
01:36:58
theaters and they, they're, they don't care about that.
01:37:00
I think that is the biggest bullshit, horseshit excuse
01:37:03
because that's just people trying to fear monger that a
01:37:06
streamer won't take care of, of doing putting things in
01:37:09
theaters. Now are they going to?
01:37:12
Name one thing that that Netflix put out in theaters first before
01:37:18
it was shrink. Wake, wake up dead man.
01:37:22
So the Knives Out stuff. That.
01:37:24
That was the sequel. OK but the first one was on.
01:37:28
But that was during COVID so that doesn't count.
01:37:31
Yeah, right. And I was going to say that was
01:37:33
the whole thing is James gave gave us the exact name right
01:37:38
there. Thank you, James.
01:37:39
The there there are films that they specifically want to have
01:37:45
Oscar contention, so they will put it in theaters first.
01:37:50
Frankenstein is another one that was just in theaters first
01:37:54
before it was before it was on Netflix.
01:37:57
And it was because they see that they had so much faith in that
01:38:01
film that and it was built to be a theatrical release.
01:38:05
But I mean, they had so much faith in that film that they put
01:38:08
it in theaters first, but only had a limited run and had it on
01:38:12
Netflix soon thereafter. So I mean.
01:38:14
Do you think that that they would use the like Warner
01:38:20
Brothers as their theatrical release company, like the stuff
01:38:25
that they'll funnel to Warner Brothers studios to do that?
01:38:30
Do you feel that that's what they want Warner Brothers for?
01:38:33
I, I think there's multiple reasons.
01:38:35
I think one of them is what I mentioned before that they,
01:38:38
they, they, they're not, you know, what's the best way to get
01:38:43
a film library that you don't have to pay streaming rights for
01:38:46
will own the library. And now they don't that that's
01:38:48
pure profit for them. That's, that's, that's honestly
01:38:51
less of an expense for them because now they don't have to
01:38:53
pay for those libraries. Right #2 It is the, it, it, it's
01:38:59
a traditional distributor. So the whole thing is OK.
01:39:02
Any movies that we want to put out in theaters at the larger
01:39:05
movies that we do, you know, the, the there are so many
01:39:10
movies that I feel like would have done well in theaters that
01:39:13
were on Netflix. And it's like, you know, that's
01:39:16
that's exactly it is OK. Now we have a chance to put
01:39:19
these in theaters. Now I think that Netflix, where
01:39:22
Netflix is going to win is if they do a hybrid model, right?
01:39:26
So where it's OK, it's streaming and then somebody goes and
01:39:30
watches a movie and it's like, man, this is a really good
01:39:32
movie. I wish I would have saw this in
01:39:34
theaters. Oh, look, it's in theaters.
01:39:36
I'm going to go pay to go watch it in theaters, right, because
01:39:39
again, their experiment was K Pop Demon Hunters, right?
01:39:44
Because the experiment was it's available to go watch it at
01:39:47
home. James has seen it 5000 times at
01:39:49
home. How many times have you seen?
01:39:51
How many times have you still seen it in theaters, James?
01:39:54
Think once. I was going to say I, I would
01:39:56
assume twice, but I mean like still.
01:39:58
He went to go see it in theaters.
01:40:00
But here here's another one. So technically that movie that
01:40:05
came out of nowhere a year or two ago, Emilia Perez, that was
01:40:10
technically a Netflix distributed product that got
01:40:14
released, you know, limited release, but then on Netflix.
01:40:18
And and it and it won a whole bunch of awards.
01:40:21
So I would say movies like that that just need a chance.
01:40:26
I think Netflix is willing to take more of a chance on smaller
01:40:31
budget projects, indie projects, get them in theaters.
01:40:35
Are they going to do well? Maybe if they don't, they're
01:40:38
like, all right, you're going to have a home.
01:40:41
And they might actually have two homes.
01:40:42
It could be a home on Netflix or it could be home on Max.
01:40:46
And probably a lot quicker than the traditional route of
01:40:50
waiting, you know, a long period of time.
01:40:52
So I think they kind of win both ways if Netflix takes it on.
01:40:57
Yeah, now, now. Yeah.
01:40:58
No, I see that. I was going to say the whole
01:41:02
thing about putting the theatre in the hands of a traditional
01:41:05
studio with the actual DNA That, that again, bullshit.
01:41:08
I, I, I think that is, that is the stupidest excuse that you
01:41:12
can give somebody to say, oh, they're going to handle it Well,
01:41:15
because they were, they were a studio before, yeah, owned by a
01:41:18
dude who didn't own a fucking studio before that.
01:41:20
So don't give me that fucking bullshit, OK?
01:41:22
He, he, he, he also doesn't know shit about about running a
01:41:25
studio. So, you know, the, the safe beat
01:41:30
them being the safe bet. Again, that's, that's, that's BS
01:41:33
as far as the way that I look at it.
01:41:35
And then stabilization. I mean, like I, I, I don't think
01:41:38
that any of the arguments that people have for Paramount taking
01:41:43
over Warner Brothers are any ones that are good.
01:41:45
I think that James hit on the head that it is all I think of
01:41:50
is conglomeration. All I think about is is is you
01:41:54
are monopolizing the studio system and that that.
01:41:59
I mean, we literally have laws in place so that that doesn't
01:42:02
happen. Because if there's no
01:42:04
competition, then what the fuck's the point?
01:42:06
You know, as far as like business goes.
01:42:10
Frey, what do you think? Where, where do you stand on all
01:42:12
this between Netflix and Paramount and the whole
01:42:16
situation? Yeah, yeah.
01:42:18
It really boils down to, for me, who's going to give because I
01:42:25
mean, let's face it, the biggest horse in the race that I'm
01:42:28
concerned about is DC. I'm concerned about all of the
01:42:33
superheroes because I love them and I've loved them since I was
01:42:36
little. So my biggest question is who's
01:42:42
going to give the DCU its creative control without trying
01:42:52
to put their hands and everything.
01:42:54
And I feel like that's Netflix and it's not Paramount Skydance.
01:42:59
I also don't want David Zasloff anywhere near this fucking
01:43:04
company anymore. I think he is the reason that
01:43:11
people didn't go see Superman, not as many people went and saw
01:43:13
Superman is because he's such a cancer to to Warner Brothers and
01:43:22
to PR for Warner Brothers with the whole canceling Batgirl that
01:43:29
yeah, he needs to get rid of Warner Brothers because nobody
01:43:33
wants him to be in charge of Warner Brothers anymore.
01:43:36
No one wants his input go away. David Zaslow, sorry, I didn't
01:43:43
intentionally do that. It just I any I just want to
01:43:47
punch him in the face anyway. I will not punch him in the
01:43:50
face. I promise.
01:43:50
I told Husby I wouldn't do that. I will not do it.
01:43:54
But so I feel like Netflix is has that kind of here.
01:43:59
Just take money, take money and do your project.
01:44:03
So I wonder if they're going to be more to do that.
01:44:08
But then also they are what they are really like super cancel
01:44:15
happy sometimes. And I'm like, you know what?
01:44:17
Maybe this show needs a couple more years to stand on its legs
01:44:21
because I don't think the Gilded Age would have lasted at Netflix
01:44:24
as long as it's lasted on HBO Max.
01:44:27
And so, you know, there's certain things there, you know,
01:44:30
But then again, Paramount is the same way.
01:44:33
They do this the same thing. And I don't think Paramount
01:44:36
understands streaming at all. So if, if and we're that's the
01:44:42
world we're developing into is that we want to see what we want
01:44:46
to see when we want to see it. And Netflix has much more of a
01:44:52
grasp on that. So if I were, if I had to
01:44:55
choose, if it was like, Jennifer, you're going to make
01:44:57
this decision just you, I would give it to Netflix because they
01:45:02
have a bigger, they have a better grasp on what's coming
01:45:07
than the traditional studios. And I feel like getting Warner
01:45:11
Brothers and getting that prestige that Warner Brothers
01:45:17
that like the actual like, you know, Warner Brothers has been
01:45:20
around for a really long time and it was one of the
01:45:24
traditional studios and merging it with something that it knows
01:45:28
what's happening in the future. I think that that act that could
01:45:31
be a marriage made in heaven. And I'm down for that.
01:45:35
If Paramount Skydance gets it. I mean, yeah, it'll be fine.
01:45:40
They they'll pay the money for it.
01:45:41
And but I'll tell you what, I will track down the CEO and I
01:45:46
will punch him in the face if he fucks with DC.
01:45:49
That's that's all I'm going to say.
01:45:51
I. Whoever buys this, if you fuck
01:45:53
with my DCI will come for you. I imagine.
01:45:57
Do you see the look on my face? I imagine Netflix going with the
01:46:02
Amazon business model when it comes to this for all the bad
01:46:06
things that Amazon does. But I mean, when I worked at
01:46:09
Amazon, what Amazon does well is when they acquire a like another
01:46:18
company, all they do is handle logistics and they allow that
01:46:22
company to continue to operate the way that they were
01:46:26
operating. Because the whole thing is we
01:46:28
wouldn't have bought you if you weren't successful to begin with
01:46:30
anyways, All right, So Ring as a company, when I used to work for
01:46:34
Ring, Ring as a company is still the same exact company as it
01:46:39
was. All it is is they have bigger
01:46:41
pocketbooks 'cause now they're getting Amazon money, but then
01:46:44
they also have logistics handled by Amazon.
01:46:46
So I, I imagine the best way for Netflix to handle this would be
01:46:54
to allow Warner Brothers to still operate as the company
01:46:59
that they are, but now they don't have to worry about the
01:47:02
financial side of shit. Now Netflix handles that right?
01:47:07
Netflix handles the financial stuff, Netflix handles
01:47:10
everything that they're doing, but then they can also use that
01:47:12
as, hey, we've got movies we're doing and we need to distribute
01:47:15
Warner Brothers distributes, right?
01:47:18
Things like that. Like I, I feel like the smartest
01:47:21
way to run that company or like to, to bring that into the fold
01:47:25
is to allow it to continue to be what it is and then just handle
01:47:31
kind of like the back end stuff that they need to handle.
01:47:34
I know that Sarandon already said, Sarandos already said that
01:47:42
if they do acquire DC that one or if they acquire Warner
01:47:49
Brothers one that the creative management team that is there
01:47:54
currently meaning James Gunn is staying in place.
01:47:59
And Peter Safran, he, he was saying they were staying in
01:48:02
place and as a matter of fact, his plan was to extend their
01:48:05
contracts. Their contracts did get extended
01:48:09
until 2027 prior to this happening.
01:48:13
So that's like they're like, so if Netflix does buy, obviously
01:48:17
their contract will stay at Paramount.
01:48:19
I dance. I will punch them in the face.
01:48:22
Sarandos was saying specifically he wanted to extend their
01:48:24
contracts by at least another six months.
01:48:27
So like that's the whole thing is like, and it's not it's not
01:48:31
much, but I mean, that's enough for another movie, right?
01:48:33
So I mean, like that's that's the whole thing is if, if, if,
01:48:37
if Sarandos is already saying that I like what DC is doing.
01:48:42
I think they should continue doing what they're doing.
01:48:44
We're keeping the same people in place.
01:48:46
You have all the trolls online that are sitting there saying
01:48:49
the Snyder versus coming back. It's not.
01:48:51
I'm sorry, guys. I know you guys are all sad
01:48:54
about that. But the Snyder versus not coming
01:48:56
back, the Snyder Versus is dead and gone.
01:48:59
My favorite troll of all of them is the one that nobody goes to
01:49:04
read right and it says next Netflix.
01:49:09
Warner Brothers acquisition just said that they are.
01:49:15
They are developing Justice League 2 right?
01:49:21
Written, written and directed by James Gunn.
01:49:25
Right? Such a troll and like all the
01:49:27
Snyder verse Bros are all pissed off about it.
01:49:29
I saw it reposted on the Snyder verse account and they were
01:49:34
excited like it's Snyder versus coming back and I'm like did you
01:49:36
not read the whole thing? It literally says written and
01:49:40
directed by James Gunn. Dude like like that is the
01:49:43
biggest troll. It's AI.
01:49:46
It's an AI pod. Yeah.
01:49:48
Yeah, I think so. So for me, just looking at those
01:49:53
scenarios, like what will happen with the DCU and what's going to
01:49:57
happen with theatrical releases, I think the spotlight is odder
01:50:02
on Netflix to do the right thing.
01:50:05
Like if if they make a misstep with crushing the DCU or like
01:50:10
limiting Warner Brothers theatrical releases, they're
01:50:14
going to get a lot of Flack for it.
01:50:16
Whereas like Paramount and Skydance is going to be like,
01:50:20
oh, we just changed things because we have some other
01:50:22
releases coming. Just we're going to just tuck up
01:50:25
behind us. No big deal.
01:50:26
We're in charge. Like I, I feel like Netflix will
01:50:30
make the conscious effort to do the right thing.
01:50:34
You know, technically, and I was looking this up, they could
01:50:37
technically release it. Once they buy one of those, they
01:50:41
could technically release Batgirl.
01:50:44
They could, because now it's no longer a write off for Netflix.
01:50:49
Yeah, that's true. Yeah.
01:50:52
And they would own it. So yeah.
01:50:54
Yeah. They would own the we.
01:50:55
Should wrap. I think we should wrap it up.
01:50:57
So any last like short short thoughts on this?
01:51:02
Well, we kind of, we talked about that, we kind of touched
01:51:05
on the hostile takeover. It is that still pending, right?
01:51:08
Like that could happen, not happen.
01:51:12
I hadn't heard anything up until the point that we came on the
01:51:17
show. So there's no update as of now.
01:51:21
It, it's a long process like especially if it's if, if
01:51:26
monopolies are starting to, because there's that anti all
01:51:30
the antitrust laws and everything.
01:51:32
So obviously lawyers are going to get involved in every, and
01:51:36
I'm sure the government's going to get involved in all that, but
01:51:38
we're not talking about that part of it because we're fans
01:51:41
and we're not a political podcast.
01:51:45
I heard the big difference between the two different bids
01:51:49
the the Paramount Skydance bid is also includes the TV portion
01:51:56
right? Like the TV stations portion of
01:51:59
Warner Brothers. Whereas Netflix did not want any
01:52:03
of that. Yeah, which gets weird because
01:52:06
Skydance just bought CBS and it's like, OK, well now you have
01:52:09
CBS and CNN. So it's like you have two
01:52:12
competing networks. Like do you merge those
01:52:13
together? Or do you, you know, kind of
01:52:16
create 2 separate narratives going from 2 networks that you
01:52:20
own? It gets a little.
01:52:21
Weird. Oh yeah.
01:52:21
Now I really don't want Paramount and Sky Paramount
01:52:24
Skydance to to get it. Screw you guys.
01:52:26
I don't like CBSCBS sucks. All right, so you know what,
01:52:30
though? I would like I'd like some
01:52:33
merch. Because we got merch people.
01:52:39
We got merch people and so can you all you got to It's
01:52:44
Christmas time, it's present time, it's Kwanzaa time, it's
01:52:47
Hanukkah time. Come get some presents.
01:52:50
Hanukkah, Oh, Hanukkah. Come get the shirts from us.
01:52:54
All you got to do is DMS at distance starting on Instagram.
01:52:57
Let us know what shirts you're looking for.
01:52:59
We got two different shirts. We got the logo shirt, we got
01:53:01
the character shirt, one black, one charcoal.
01:53:04
They're 20 bucks, 25 if we got to ship it to you.
01:53:08
If you want to buy multiple more than welcome to let us know.
01:53:11
Probably get you a deal. We'll get them out to you,
01:53:14
hopefully before Christmas times.
01:53:17
Put them under the tree. And if you're, if you're local
01:53:19
to Sacramento, if I got to drive it to you, we're going to do
01:53:21
that. OK, so.
01:53:23
Young Phil will throw it in your chimney, that's how.
01:53:25
Exactly? Customer service.
01:53:26
Yeah, we'll take my big ass down.
01:53:28
And he'll say, Oh yeah, as soon as he throws it down.
01:53:32
Exactly. Well, ladies and gentlemen,
01:53:33
let's talk about the schedule that we got going on here.
01:53:36
Tuesday's the show that you're watching right now, Distance
01:53:38
nerding, all the nerdy news, all the nerdy fun, all the things
01:53:42
that are happening over the course of the week from 6:30 to
01:53:44
8:30. Thursdays, the build actually
01:53:49
now it's just this is starting interviews, but we're building
01:53:52
Lego talking nerdy now this week.
01:53:54
Oh my God, guys, I'm so excited for our guest this week.
01:53:59
So for all of my Conan O'Brien fans, for all of my Daily Show
01:54:05
fans, Rob Kutner, who was a writer, staff writer on both of
01:54:10
those shows, is going to be on the show this week.
01:54:14
He also wrote this. I been in the process of reading
01:54:18
this Apocalypse, how he also just put out a Deadpool comic
01:54:24
book. He also wrote a Godzilla comic
01:54:27
book. He's got all kinds of stuff.
01:54:29
He's got a horror, a children's horror comic book that is about
01:54:35
like, like booger goblins. It's so funny.
01:54:39
He's really funny guy. He's coming on the show on
01:54:42
Thursday. We met him at La Comic Con and,
01:54:46
and, and I'm I'm really excited to have him on.
01:54:48
It's going to be a really good time.
01:54:51
So that is this Thursday, guys from 6 to 8.
01:54:55
We're going to be talking with him.
01:54:56
Of course, the buzzer from 6:30 to 8:30 on Fridays.
01:55:00
Our our weekly game show this week.
01:55:04
I Do we have any games written this week or are we just going
01:55:07
to be doing Jackbox? I might, I might be able to ride
01:55:12
a a jump nerdy, a seasons jump nerdy.
01:55:17
Hey, hey, real quick going back. Nerdy seasons.
01:55:20
Going back to Rob Kuttner, just just for the nerds out there, he
01:55:24
also wrote on Teen Titans Go. That's right.
01:55:27
That's right. There's all kinds.
01:55:29
Of. Yeah, his, his resume is
01:55:34
amazing. And, and we just kind of
01:55:36
happened to walk by a booth that he was at.
01:55:39
We talked for like a minute because yeah, man, it, it was
01:55:44
just, we talked for like a minute and and I was just like,
01:55:46
I, I, I need you on my show. And he was like, yeah, that
01:55:48
sounds fun. Let's do it.
01:55:49
I'm like, yes. Oh my God.
01:55:54
And he he was a voice in Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
01:55:58
Yes, yes, I had a conversation with him about that.
01:56:01
OK, so you know what it'll be on Thursday.
01:56:05
There you go, Friday our games. So guys that of course, those
01:56:10
are all on the West Coast. Now before I jump into the stuff
01:56:14
in the end here, do we have any plugs?
01:56:16
Jen, do you have any plugables you want to do?
01:56:19
Nope, not really. Not really.
01:56:21
All right. Well, ladies and gentlemen, if
01:56:24
you would like to support the show, the best way to do that is
01:56:26
to head over to distancestarting.com.
01:56:28
Hit up to the top of the screen there, hit that Big Blue button
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Taco. Join the Taco party.
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Wrong page. That's right, ladies and
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gentlemen, join the Taco party. It is the best way to support
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distance starting and makes. So we can do more shows, we get
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better prizes, we can give more things out.
01:56:46
Actually, matter of fact, you know, where are we at number
01:56:51
wise? Let me look here.
01:56:53
I think it's 550. So we are at 202 on
01:57:00
Instagram. So once we hit 3000, we'll
01:57:04
probably do a giveaway. You said about 5:50 for for
01:57:08
YouTube. 0551 my mom must have hit that 5. 51 so guys, 49 more
01:57:15
once we hit 600, let's we're going to give away another prize
01:57:18
and of course, TikTok. Let's see where my my TikTok
01:57:21
followers are at right now. We're one away from 500
01:57:26
followers on on TikTok. So guys, if you're not already
01:57:30
following on TikTok, make your way over to TikTok and, and
01:57:33
follow us on there. Of course, again, 49 away from
01:57:37
another giveaway on YouTube and then we're about 80 away from
01:57:40
another giveaway on Instagram. So guys, get us there, get us to
01:57:43
the end. We will give away more Lego kits
01:57:46
and more Funko and more fun stuff.
01:57:48
So let's let's get that going here.
01:57:51
With that being said, have something you want to discuss,
01:57:57
Tell us what you're nerding out on all the social media places.
01:58:00
If it's existing, we are there at distance nerding.
01:58:03
Or of course, if you'd like to send us an e-mail, we will read
01:58:05
it on air. You can send us an e-mail at
01:58:07
distancenerding@aol.com. And again, we will read it on
01:58:12
air. So ladies and gentlemen, that is
01:58:14
it from us. James, take us home.
01:58:17
Thanks and keep nerding together.
01:58:20
That's right. And Bruce, Buddy.
01:58:22
It's the time to go to bed, Buddy.
01:58:24
Take us yes though. Not Christmas break yet, dude,
01:58:27
come on. Yeah, still it's it's he's he's
01:58:31
got to he's got to he's got to go to sleep.
01:58:33
Still Sandra and Delong in the chat saying that for all the
01:58:37
listeners out there, Delong Family cosplay is also still
01:58:40
trying to get 200 followers on their Instagram.
01:58:43
They're are not on the on the YouTube.
01:58:45
Sorry, Delong fam cosplay on YouTube.
01:58:49
Once they hit 200 subscribers, they've got a whole bunch of
01:58:51
stuff they're giving away too. Guys, if you like free stuff,
01:58:53
tell your friends. Have them subscribe to distance.
01:58:56
Have them describe to Delong fam cosplay go and subscribe to us
01:59:00
on Instagram on on the tik Toks, all those places.
01:59:04
So that way we can just give you stuff guys, it's free.
01:59:08
If a subscribe is free, it literally is.
01:59:10
It doesn't cost you anything to subscribe.
01:59:12
So subscribe to us. We give you away stuff that
01:59:14
costs money. I like it.
01:59:16
No, that's true. All right.
01:59:18
Well, ladies and gentlemen, again, that is it from us.
01:59:21
We will see everybody on Thursday hanging out with Rob
01:59:24
Kutner. We appreciate everybody.
01:59:27
And again, keep nerding together, keep fighting against
01:59:31
the evils of gatekeeping and you know, asshole nerdiness, toxic
01:59:38
nerdity. We will see everybody later.
01:59:41
Bye. Peace, distance, nerding.
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