🧠 Episode Summary
This week, Yung Phil and Jahmez 5000 ride a blue wave of nerd news straight into chaos. We break down Avatar: Fire & Ash absolutely printing blue money, debate whether James Cameron has secretly unlocked an infinite Na’vi ATM, and officially crown Sigourney Weaver as Ripley of the Cat People.
On the superhero front, Marvel teases Avengers: Doomsday and the internet immediately overanalyzes a green poster like it’s the Zapruder film. DC fans eat well with Brainiac casting news, Seth Rogen popping up in Supergirl, and James Gunn staying firmly planted at the helm.
Add in Peanuts being bought by Sony, live-action One Piece Chopper hype, Avatar Studios chaos, and YouTube stealing the Oscars, and you’ve got an episode that moves faster than a banshee on Red Bull. Nerdy. Funny. Slightly unhinged. Exactly how we like it.
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⏱️ Timestamps & Topics
00:00 – Live show warning & chaotic intro
02:45 – What’s on deck this week
04:30 – Marvel News: Avengers: Doomsday teaser + poster discourse
12:30 – Can pre-MCU heroes save the MCU?
16:00 – DC Watchtower: Supergirl, Seth Rogen, Brainiac casting
21:30 – James Gunn & DCU survive the Netflix era
26:00 – ⚡ Dubby Energy break
27:30 – Headlines: Avatar prints blue money
31:00 – Sigourney Weaver becomes the new Avatar narrator
34:30 – Avatar: The Last Airbender skips theaters?!
44:00 – One Piece live-action Chopper revealed
47:00 – Sony buys Peanuts (good grief)
52:00 – Warner Bros vs Netflix vs Paramount drama
57:30 – YouTube wins the Oscars
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🔑 Key Takeaways
• James Cameron could fund a small country with Avatar sequels
• Avengers: Doomsday marketing has officially begun its mind games
• DC continues stacking wins with smart casting and stability
• Paramount skipping theaters for Avatar might be wild behavior
• Sony owning Peanuts feels oddly inevitable
• The future of Hollywood is streaming… and YouTube apparently runs awards now
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💬 Quotes of the Episode
• “James Cameron prints money… and it’s blue.”
• “Ripley of the Cat People.”
• “The only way Avatar stops is if it stops making money… good luck with that.”
• “People are overanalyzing a poster like it owes them money.”
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Marvelous things happening at Marvel.
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It's just visuals right now but I can add I've I've already got
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There you go. All right, MCU rumors on your
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left. Marvel Studios has officially
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released the first teaser trailer for Avengers Doomsday
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featuring the return of Steve Rogers.
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It looks like we're getting the four different trailers in front
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of Avatar Fire and Ash. Like the rumors, like the rumors
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even said, it's weird. Like a rumor, it's kind of
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coming true. It's weird.
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It's always nice when the rumors start coming true though.
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Yeah, that is true. So, young Phil, did you see
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Avatar and see the trailer or did you just see the trailer?
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I I just saw the trailer and I just saw it today and I reposted
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it on TikTok. So it's actually on our TikTok
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feed right now, right now. OK, all right, all right.
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Well, I mean, Marvel, Disney, they put it out there now like
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instead of just the bootleg versions, it's it's out there
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officially on on the Youtubes and all that from Disney.
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So how did how did you feel watching this trailer or this
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teaser trailer? Yeah, 'cause it really is a
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teaser. It really does feel exactly like
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they kind of advertised it to be that it is a, a teaser with,
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with, with Steve Rogers in it. I, I, I've noticed a couple of
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things that people have been talking about online and, you
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know, good and bad and things like that.
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Now, my, my, my quick take on this, I do believe that it is
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going to be Steve Rogers and not going to be Captain America.
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I do believe that he really did hang up the, the, the uniform.
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And I feel like this is also going to be a moment where he
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props up the, the, you know, Sam, Sam Wilson, the current
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Captain America. I also feel like they they kind
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of went out of their way to show that he is still in the 50s.
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So, you know, because the, the whole thing is everybody's like,
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oh, he's returning as Captain America.
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We'll know everything they showed was him in the 50s.
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So if anything, they may travel back in time and consult Steve,
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but I don't think Steve is going to come back as Captain America.
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Oh yeah, I totally agree. Yeah, I totally agree.
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So just to set the stage, so if you haven't seen it, you can go
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watch it again. Like you said, it's on our
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distance starting TikTok. It's pretty much it doesn't show
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Steve. It's just some dude on a bike.
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He's got a wedding ring. He gets out in front of the
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house, the house that was at the end of End Game.
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End game, right? Right.
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And then you see Steve walk into a room and there's a little
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baby, she's hanging out. He's got a little spit rag on
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the shoulder and everything. It's it's adorable.
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Yeah, there you go. He's being a dad.
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I mean, so we didn't see much. We didn't see much, right?
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But all the hype that is, you know, here for Doomsday.
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I mean, we're a year out from this movie being in theaters and
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we get a 10 second trailer of, you know, a dude and his baby.
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So is that the trailer you expected from from Doomsday?
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What I again, what I think they're doing is they're going
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to do teasers of the big three and their current state within
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the universe, right? So you're going to see this
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first one, Steve Rogers. It's building up excitement that
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Steve is coming back. The next one is going to be
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Thor, probably going to see, you know, his status as a dad.
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The last one is going to be Doomsday or Doomsday Doctor
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Doom. But that is bringing back who we
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believe Tony, Tony Stark is. So we're getting the big three
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in those. And then the final one is going
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to be a full on Doomsday trailer.
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Like the epic epicness that is, you know, an Avengers movie type
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thing. Yeah, I don't know.
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I, I mean, I was, I was looking forward to it.
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I wanted to see what they were going to do.
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But they it just wasn't, you know, it didn't have the glitz
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and the glamour. That is an Avengers type thing.
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It was just like just a snippet. And I think it was just there's
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too much overhype, especially a year away from this movie coming
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out just to give us this 10 seconds.
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I guess we'll see what happens on on Christmas Day with with
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the second trailer because that's what they're going to do.
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They're going to do the second trailer on the 25th, 3rd trailer
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on the 1st of January, and then the last trailer on the 8th.
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So they're doing some Stranger Things stuff.
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I know. We'll see what happens.
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But along with the the new, I guess teaser trailer, there's
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also a new poster that dropped. Posters, people.
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New poster, new rumors. Marvel Studios has officially
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kicked off the next phase of hype with the first teaser
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trailer for Avengers Doomsday. And it didn't take long for
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pseudos to follow up with a poster reveal, which is just a
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poster. People.
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Leave it alone. I don't understand why people
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get all bent out of shape. It keeps things super simple.
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It's just the typical Avengers logo with the A and the arrow
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pointing but people are all up in arms with like oh it's it's
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Doom's castle and all that stuff.
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I'm like OK what is what does that matter?
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What? You saw the poster I assume
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since it's on screen. Yeah, yeah.
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It's so with all of this that's happening, like everybody is
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over analyzing. But I mean, the thing that I, I,
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I can see where they're going at is it is doom green.
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So I mean, like you are getting like the doctor doom green out
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of it. We know that they're pushing the
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green on there. I I, I do think people are over
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analyzing the things you see in the background.
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I mean, yeah, that could be something with his armor.
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That could be something in the castle.
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You know, it could be lap barrier release it related.
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It could not be, it could just be something completely
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unrelated at all, you know, So I think people are kind of jumping
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the speculation really quick off of a trailer.
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I'm sorry, not trailer off of a poster, right.
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And you know, I'm, I'm, I'm more, I'm more curious to see
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what that leads to or what we're going to get next.
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I agree. You know, when people are like,
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oh, there's so much speculation. I looked at the poster.
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I'm like, what? What are we speculating about?
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We know it was going to be green somehow.
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The logos green. Doctor Doom is green.
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I was thinking like, so it's the window pane behind it.
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And it made me think like, what are people reading into?
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And was it the, what was the castle at the end of Loki?
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The the you know. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Kang's Kang's little castle thing place.
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I'm like, was that the window? Are they connecting it to Loki?
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I don't. Yeah, it's, I don't know the,
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the, the home at the end of time.
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Yeah, something like that. So I'm just like, I don't see
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what the big deal is. But you know, people are
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jumping. So anyway, Avengers, Doomsday,
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we got it. We're a year away.
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December 18th, 2026. Yeah let's do this.
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This one I have a rumor that I did not see coming.
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Are you ready for this? Will Electra save the MCU?
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Oh Oh my gosh this is this one kind of threw me off, but I kind
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of like it. A new rumor suggests that when
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the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be saved, it won't be saved
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by the MCU characters we know, but it will be saved by the non
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MCU characters we know. So the we're talking about X-Men
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like the like I guess the Famke Jansen, you know, James Marsden
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Blade, what's your name? I can't think of her name right
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now. Electra, those type of
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characters that were like pre MCU characters that they're
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going to bring back to save the MCU.
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So the implications feel pretty clear.
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There's any truth to this rumor? Marvel may be positioning its
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pre MCU heroes as the last line of defense when it when the
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multiverse begins to collapse. What do you think about this?
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I I like the idea. I like the idea that the
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universe gets saved by characters who are not a part of
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the MCU, right? And then it's all the
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characters. Like, you kind of give
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difference to all the characters that, you know, everybody's kind
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of written off at this point, right?
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Like everybody's looking at like, oh, yeah, no, these
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characters are no longer part of the MCU.
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Now, Deadpool would argue differently because, you know,
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Deadpool's a part of the MCU and he brought all these characters
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back. He brought them back.
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You're right. And, and you know, like they,
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they officially made these characters a part of Canon
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again, which I love because whether you liked or hated the
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versions of these characters, they exist now.
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You know, and, and, and I love what all I want now is during
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Secret Wars. I want to see Ben Affleck at
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come back as, as Daredevil to meet Charlie Cox's Daredevil.
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Oh yeah. And just have a just have a
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blind fight off would be amazing.
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Oh my gosh. So I mean, we, we talked about
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Wolverine, Deadpool and Wolverine.
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So there could be Wolverine. It could be Jennifer Garner's
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Electra, Wesley Slamps, Blade, Tomey Tomey Maguire, Spider Man,
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Nicolas Cage's Ghost Rider. That's kind of funny to me.
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I'm like, OK, now we're starting to talk Eric Bana's Incredible
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Hulk, or I think it was just called the Hulk.
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I, I, I would love to see Eric Bana back in all of this.
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Man, Eric Bana deserves a win back on this.
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He since doing that movie, everything he's been in has been
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great. Eric Band is a great actor, man.
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So it's like I want to see him come back and redeem that Hulk.
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And you know what's kind of nice about this, like them being in
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the last line of defense, like trying to save the MCU that we
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know, saving the 616, That would be kind of poetic justice.
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Like honestly, I don't think we would get to the MCU to the
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level it's at without those movies ahead of time.
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Ghost Rider, the, the other Hulk movies, you know, the original
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Fantastic Force, as much as they weren't the X-Men movies, as
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much as they weren't like the MCU, like I think we needed to
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take those baby steps to get to where we could run with the MCU
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now and where it's going in, in the DCU as well.
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So I, I kind of think it's poetic justice to be like, oh,
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look at them, They're coming back.
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They're going to help save the MCU.
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Plus it'd be, it would just be kind of cool to see them back
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again. Yeah, I know.
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So I'm into it. I'm into.
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It so am I, man, I, I love the idea of it.
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It's, it seems like like a good idea to to put a showcase on
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those characters and and give some love to those characters.
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And if it's their swan song for these characters and like, we're
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going to, you know, sunset, like the old stuff, it's like, at
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least they're going out with good purpose and then we're
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making them matter moving forward.
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Right. And I like that.
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That makes me happy. So again, Doomsday, December
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18th, 2026. And then Secret Wars, December
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17th, 2027. OK.
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All right, so let's let's continue on here and let's move
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in guys. We're we're jumping into the
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next section of all the big news here.
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It's time for watching the Watchtower, all of our DC
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centric news. James, take it away, Sir.
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All right, will there be a Kryptonite bong in the Supergirl
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movie? Honestly.
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That's actually not bad. That's a pretty good.
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That's a pretty good Seth Rogen that impressed me.
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It was like a mixture of Seth Rogen and Van from It was.
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Pretty. Good.
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It's pretty, pretty, pretty good.
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In a In a recent reveal from industry scooper Daniel Rickman,
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he explains that Supergirl screenings revealed that Seth
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Rogen, whose part in the film has been shrouded in mystery, is
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playing a small alien guy who helps run a space bus, adding
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that he's kind of funny in the movie.
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That makes total sense to me. Little comedic humor.
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Seth Rogen. So.
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So are they making Paul part of this universe?
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Like, are they? Are they because he played Paul
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in the movie Paul? Maybe we'll see.
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We'll see. I think it's kind of cool that
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he's going to be in this, even if it's a throw away character.
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He, he is such a big comic nerd and he has done so much for
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comic book properties. Remember, he's an executive
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producer on The Boys. Remember that he is a part, he
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was a big part of Preacher and he's a part of Invincible.
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Like it just he he's he's a character on invincible.
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Like he's such a massive comic book nerd.
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And I love that. Like it's like my movies are
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going to be comedies, but I'm going to take comic books
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properties so serious that they are going to be the best
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properties that are out there. I love how much Seth Rogen loves
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comic books to the point that they were like, you know what,
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let's make him a throwaway character in DC, you know?
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And that's not to say that he won't be little cameo characters
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all through DC. You know, he doesn't have to be
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just this one little throwaway character.
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He can be a bunch of throwaway characters.
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Yeah, yeah, but he's always going to be Seth Rogen.
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Like even on Invincible, it's still Seth Rogen.
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And like his his, even though as much as he's like, OK, it's
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going to be a new character, it's still the same dude.
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It's still Seth Rogen. Anyway, you kind of, it's his
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voice. I'm trying to think of another
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act. It's like kind of Dwayne the
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Rock Johnson. Every movie he's in, it's the
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same character type. Thing he's still the rock,
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right? It's he's still the rock, but
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Seth Rogen cool. I like that.
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That's cool. And you know what he's he's like
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what you mentioned before. He's a big producer on like
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Invincible, even though he's he's in it and some of these
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other shows, it just shows that he's like, he doesn't have like
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a huge ego. Like he doesn't have to star in
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these movies. He's like, I just want to be a
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part. I just want to be a part of
00:18:47
this. Yeah.
00:18:48
And I. Think that's great?
00:18:49
Yeah, I totally dig it. Supergirl arrives flying in the
00:18:54
theaters June 26th, 2020. Sixth.
00:18:58
Oh yeah, six months away. I like.
00:19:01
That not too far. All right, moving on here.
00:19:05
This one's kind of big. So who knew Brainiac was German?
00:19:10
James Gunn confirmed the news himself with an Instagram post.
00:19:16
German actor Lars Eidinger has been tapped to play Brainiac in
00:19:22
Man of Tomorrow, setting the stage for a big threat in the
00:19:25
franchise. We talked about Matt Smith maybe
00:19:28
being casted as Brainiac, but looks like it went to Lars
00:19:32
Edinger. OK, I'm into it.
00:19:36
This one definitely was a surprise.
00:19:38
He he wasn't on my radar at all. I was not expecting this this
00:19:45
guy Lars Eddinger to to to get this role.
00:19:49
But I feel like any times, Jane, anytime James Gunn picks an
00:19:53
actor like this, that means that in their test screening, in
00:19:57
their chemistry read and anything they did, they knocked
00:20:01
it out of the park. And I feel like.
00:20:04
This this dude was probably like he probably gives off
00:20:08
intelligent and menacing at the same time, which is what you
00:20:11
need out of Brainiac. Brainiac needs to be someone who
00:20:13
is cold, calculating, extremely intelligent, almost like the
00:20:20
level that Lex is before he loses cool in the Superman movie
00:20:24
where it's just he's very calm and collected and he's very
00:20:27
calculated in everything that he does right, but almost like a
00:20:31
robotic way of doing it. This is what kind of what you
00:20:34
need with with Brainiac and and I I love the idea of that.
00:20:38
And again, this guy probably gives off a lot of like subtle
00:20:41
menace, which is is what you need with with with someone like
00:20:46
Brainiac. A lot as I was reading this, a
00:20:49
lot of his roles that he's played have been described as
00:20:52
intense and cerebral performances.
00:20:55
I'm like, yeah. Yeah, Brainiac, perfect
00:20:57
Brainiac. That is 100% Brainiac.
00:20:59
That is what you need for Brainiac.
00:21:02
Brainiac needs to be an intensely cerebral character.
00:21:05
So I mean, yeah, I, I'm, I'm again, I trust anytime James
00:21:09
Gunn does a a casting. I trusted 100% just because he's
00:21:14
he's knocked every casting out of the park.
00:21:16
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
00:21:18
Yeah, I like it. Man of Tomorrow is set to take
00:21:21
flight July 9th, 2027. Oh my gosh, DC is just putting
00:21:28
it down. I like this.
00:21:29
They really are. All right, I got one more DC
00:21:33
story. So the Kryptonite dust is
00:21:35
settling, and it looks like James Gunn is still standing or
00:21:40
finally getting some answers with this whole Netflix Warner
00:21:43
Brothers Discovery thing. We're going to talk more about
00:21:46
that in a minute. But for DC and James Gunn, the
00:21:50
big question was what's going to happen with the DCU and James
00:21:53
Gunn and Peter Safran? But turns out they're staying
00:21:56
put. Yeah.
00:21:57
They're it so the creative architects behind DC Studios
00:22:02
will continue leading the DCU as Co CE OS even as the company
00:22:06
prepares to operate under Netflix's massive corporate
00:22:09
umbrella. Good job Netflix.
00:22:13
Yeah, this. This makes me happy.
00:22:15
I mean, this, I, I, we called this from the beginning.
00:22:17
We said that they were not going to get rid of them.
00:22:19
Why? Because as much as all of the
00:22:23
big voices on the Internet are complaining and crying about we
00:22:27
need we need Snyder, we got to be restore the Snyder verse.
00:22:30
It's not going to happen, guys. As much as you guys want that to
00:22:33
happen, it's not going to be a thing because the level of
00:22:37
success that they've had with this is on a higher level than
00:22:41
just monetary and Netflix recognizes that if.
00:22:47
I think Netflix is going to position this to be like, hey,
00:22:50
we love what you're doing, keep expanding.
00:22:52
If they get their own, I don't know, franchise out of this and
00:22:57
like that can kind of span movies and HBO Max and possibly
00:23:02
Netflix. Like, yeah, keep going with it.
00:23:04
James Gunn, whatever you want to do.
00:23:06
You want to do 1 offs and 1 shoots and you don't have you
00:23:10
don't know where to put it, put it on Netflix.
00:23:12
I think they're going to, I think they're going to find a
00:23:15
home for anything that they want them to do.
00:23:17
So Netflix and Warner Brothers jointly confirmed that they're
00:23:21
staying in place. So they even put out a website
00:23:24
callednetflixwbtogether.com. Oh God.
00:23:30
That, that seems like something that James would do, that that's
00:23:32
much of James Gunn thing. It seems something corporate to
00:23:35
me, but it will outline how the two companies plan to function
00:23:39
post merger, Netflix said. Over the last four years, we've
00:23:43
contributed over 125 billion to the US economy and hired more
00:23:48
than 140 cast and crew members filming across all 50
00:23:53
states. With Warner Brothers, we'll be
00:23:56
able to do even more. So that's just them committing
00:23:59
to putting out more films, putting out more content.
00:24:02
Good for them. So the DCU continues with
00:24:04
Supergirl, which is currently slated to hit theaters again
00:24:08
June 26th of next year, almost this year.
00:24:12
Yeah, no, I like it. I'm I'm, I'm so ready for this,
00:24:14
man. It was so such a smart move to
00:24:17
lead. They did put them in there.
00:24:19
And again, we, we called it that they were going to leave them
00:24:21
there because they just extended their contracts, right?
00:24:25
Like Netflix said, we're going to extend your contracts for
00:24:27
five more months. It's not a big deal on the big
00:24:29
scope of things. But the idea that they were
00:24:31
trying to extend the contracts, not like, oh, we're going to cut
00:24:35
your contract by 5 months. They'll say, right, we're going
00:24:37
to give you an extra 5 months. Yeah.
00:24:39
And I think that was just kind of a placeholder like, hey,
00:24:42
we're going to extend it, get through all this.
00:24:44
We're we're committed to paying you and we'll figure things out.
00:24:48
And now that, you know, all this kind of Warner Brothers,
00:24:53
Paramount, Skydance, you know, a little bit of back and forth is
00:24:57
is going to go away and we'll talk about that in a minute.
00:25:00
Like I think it's them saying, all right, DCU, all right, James
00:25:02
Gunn, Peter Safran, we're in, right?
00:25:04
Let's do this. Right.
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So Speaking of all the things that are happening, James
00:27:24
Cameron prints money and it's blue.
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In case you didn't know that Avatar Fire and ash powered its
00:27:30
way to a 345 worldwide debut, marking one of the
00:27:35
biggest openings of 2025. It was the second largest global
00:27:39
opening of the year. Only one film stands above it so
00:27:42
far, Disney's animated sequel Zootopia 2, which posted an
00:27:46
enormous $500 million three day debut earlier in its run.
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That is amazing. Avatar, Fire and Ash is burning
00:27:57
up the theater now. James, have you gone to see it
00:27:59
yet? I have not, but I I do want to
00:28:03
go see it and I do want to see it in theaters because I saw the
00:28:06
second one in theaters and it does.
00:28:09
It is one of those films that makes a difference when you see
00:28:12
it on the big screen versus at home.
00:28:15
Yeah, yeah, I, I have not seen the second one.
00:28:18
I almost, I was sick for like the last week.
00:28:20
I almost watched it and I ended up passing out before I even
00:28:23
turned it on. So, but I mean, I do want to
00:28:26
watch it mainly because I've been hearing a lot about fire
00:28:29
and ash and how good it is, you know, so I, I, I definitely want
00:28:34
to go and when I've been hearing it's better than the second one.
00:28:36
So I mean, that makes me want to watch the second one just so I
00:28:39
know what is going on with the story to lead into this.
00:28:42
I'm very much I have to watch the whole story, guy.
00:28:45
I, I like the second one better than the first one.
00:28:47
The first one was, was still good.
00:28:49
It was like very, you know, dances, dances with wolves with,
00:28:53
with blue people. Totally OK.
00:28:55
I dug it. Like the storyline is good, but
00:28:59
the, the second one took things in a new, a new direction and it
00:29:03
kind of expanded the world. And I was like, I'm so into
00:29:06
this. This is and it's things I didn't
00:29:08
expect to happen happen. So I was super excited for this.
00:29:12
So knowing that Fire and Ash gets a little bit darker and the
00:29:16
story's going to evolve a little bit more, I'm into this.
00:29:19
The other thing is, in this, before I jump into the next
00:29:21
story, you know the person who plays the main antagonist in
00:29:25
Fire and Ash. Did you realize that that's
00:29:28
Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter? No, I did not.
00:29:30
What? Yeah, it's Charlie Chaplin's
00:29:33
granddaughter. That's nuts.
00:29:35
I had to look it up. I guess I saw something pop up
00:29:37
that was like Una Chaplin cashes in on her family name and I was
00:29:43
like Una Chaplin, who the hell looked her up?
00:29:46
And it's shows Una Chaplin. She's the star of of or she's
00:29:50
the main antagonist in Fire and Ash.
00:29:52
So she's the chick that everybody's been.
00:29:54
She's the one that's in the in in the picture on on this right
00:29:56
here back on that's her right. Everybody's been like kind of
00:30:00
like blowing up about her. Apparently she was in Game of
00:30:02
Thrones, but like, everybody's just like feigning over her.
00:30:07
Like I've, I've seen so many people talk about how, how, how
00:30:10
hot she is, even as a, as a blue cat person.
00:30:13
And then I look her up and I was like, Oh my God, she's Charlie
00:30:17
Chaplin's granddaughter. That's crazy.
00:30:19
Wow I did not know that. Does she have like a like a top
00:30:22
hat too? Does she do the whole?
00:30:23
Thing and and and the cane and she has the mustache.
00:30:25
They they, they reverse, they reverse Henry Cavill, her and
00:30:30
they and they CGI the mustache out.
00:30:33
Oh, that's perfect. Yeah.
00:30:34
And and the and the suit jacket with the tails.
00:30:36
That's good. Exactly.
00:30:37
Exactly. Nice job, James Cameron.
00:30:39
Yeah, James Cameron did a really good job of making her not look
00:30:41
like her grandfather, you know, just hotter.
00:30:44
All right, Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's.
00:30:48
It's you got a kink. You got a kink now?
00:30:50
Low hanging fruit Ripley of the cat people.
00:30:54
And she knew it the entire time. James Cameron's Avatar saga has
00:30:59
always been guided by Jake Sully's voice.
00:31:01
With Sam Worthington narrating audiences through the wonders
00:31:04
and dangers of Pandora. That tradition is about to
00:31:07
change. When Avatar 4 arrives, the new
00:31:11
narrator will step in. And it's a shift in the story
00:31:14
that's been quietly planned for more than a decade.
00:31:18
Sigourney Weaver, who plays Kiri the in the franchise, recently
00:31:21
revealed that she'll be taking over narration duties for the
00:31:25
fourth film. No spoilers for Fire and Ash,
00:31:27
but it's a clear sign of how the story is evolving for the next
00:31:30
generation of Navi. Avatar four.
00:31:33
I know, right? This, this, this makes me
00:31:35
believe Jake doesn't make it through the end of this movie.
00:31:40
Avatar 4 is currently scheduled to hit theaters on December
00:31:43
21st, 2029. Oh, that's interesting now, but
00:31:48
honestly I kind of want to see fire and Ash even more now, just
00:31:52
to see what happens. Just if there's speculation that
00:31:55
even just speculating that Jake dies.
00:31:58
Yeah, right. I now I want to see what happens
00:32:03
now I'm interested. And then Sigourney Weaver of the
00:32:05
Cat people is like Ripley of the cat people.
00:32:11
I did hear though she knew about this like 12 years ago whenever
00:32:14
this started. Yeah, which means they already
00:32:16
knew what was going to happen in this in in this third movie.
00:32:20
Yeah, yeah. Like we planned this.
00:32:22
We put Sigourney Weaver in this role for a reason.
00:32:25
But the plan was always to make 6 movies though, right?
00:32:28
Weren't they? Weren't from the from the
00:32:29
beginning they had planned that they were going to make 6
00:32:31
movies. I think so.
00:32:33
I think so. But I mean, now that you know,
00:32:37
what is it? The first two did like 2 billion
00:32:40
each. Yeah, like now it's like, all
00:32:42
right, we're going to ride this train until the till the wheels
00:32:45
fall off. They, they really are.
00:32:47
And, and just like there's a lot of people who are already kind
00:32:50
of like sick of the cat people. But it's like, at the same time
00:32:53
it's like it, it, it prints money.
00:32:55
So they're going to continue to do it.
00:32:58
Yeah. The only way if if you're really
00:33:01
upset that that Avatar, they're making more Avatar movies, the
00:33:04
only way to get them to stop making Avatar movies is to not
00:33:08
make them be successful. So, and it's not going to happen
00:33:11
because enough people like these movies.
00:33:14
Yeah, you know, I mean, they're putting, they're putting a lot
00:33:16
of money behind this, not just in the movies, but they already
00:33:19
have a park in Disney World and a ride in Disney World.
00:33:23
I I just saw a video about them the plan for Pandora in in
00:33:28
Disneyland California Adventure. Yeah, I saw that so.
00:33:32
It's it's coming. So Disney is full, full on
00:33:35
board, just like Zootopia. We just talked about Zootopia
00:33:38
for a second. Like there's a whole theme to
00:33:40
land in. Like I don't know, where does
00:33:43
some other Disneyland overseas, but you know, it crosses a
00:33:48
billion dollars in like a month. Like, OK, yeah, we're, we're
00:33:52
going to push. That makes a lot of sense.
00:33:54
I mean, yeah, it makes a lot of sense because they are
00:33:57
successful franchises. So, yeah, so let's continue on
00:34:02
here. Sorry, I forgot to put this back
00:34:04
on the screen. Let's continue on with our
00:34:07
journey. More Avatar news, sort of
00:34:11
different Avatar the, the, the Avatar that we all thought of
00:34:13
when we heard the word Avatar. The Legend of Hang the Last
00:34:17
Airbender is blowing past theaters and Earth bending
00:34:20
straight to your TV instead. The animated feature will debut
00:34:24
exclusively for Paramount Plus next fall, marking A notable
00:34:28
shift in plans for one of Avatar Studios most anticipated
00:34:32
projects. The release date has Earth
00:34:34
bended from October 2025 to January 2026 and now October
00:34:41
2026 on to Paramount Plus. Avatar Studios is also
00:34:45
developing a brand new 2D animated series titled Avatar 7
00:34:49
Havens, produced by Nickelodeon Animation.
00:34:51
The series takes place after the era of Korra in a world
00:34:55
fractured by devastating cataclysm.
00:34:58
Kind of a big deal because we, I know that they were talking
00:35:02
about the next story was going to be the next Avatar after
00:35:06
Korra. So I mean, like, you know, it's,
00:35:09
it's going to be interesting to see kind of where they go with
00:35:11
all this. Also, the legend of Eng, the
00:35:16
last Airbender already doesn't work because he's no longer the
00:35:21
last Airbender. Because when he has his, when he
00:35:24
has his son, his son is the new is the new.
00:35:27
Airbender. Oh yeah, that's a good point.
00:35:29
So by the time Legend of Makora hits it's like oops is there a
00:35:33
bunch of airbenders? They're repopulating so he gets
00:35:36
married. He has like 3 kids and all three
00:35:39
of his kids are airbenders. Yeah.
00:35:41
OK. I mean, I kind of want to see
00:35:44
this though, like the whole legend of ANG Last Airbender,
00:35:47
because it takes place after the series.
00:35:51
Yeah, no, I and. Of course, before Korra.
00:35:53
I'm very excited to see this because I want to see all of
00:35:56
them as adults. I want to see how ANG postures
00:35:59
himself as like, I, I, I want to see ANG where he is.
00:36:05
You know, that that smart, savvy monk, Well, obviously he's not
00:36:10
fully a monk because he marries Katara.
00:36:12
But like, I I want to see him as like a warrior and and kind of
00:36:16
like, you know, in his own and like taking things a little more
00:36:20
seriously. But every now and then you just
00:36:21
kind of see like young Ang pop out and he just does something
00:36:24
really silly and stupid or he just says something silly and
00:36:28
stupid where it's like, yeah, I'm a grown man.
00:36:31
I'm a grown adult. And like he makes a joke about,
00:36:34
yeah, I'm a grown man. Why?
00:36:35
Why would I say that? Yeah, I I want to see where this
00:36:42
goes. You know what's interesting to
00:36:44
me though? So looking at the dates, October
00:36:47
2025, January 2026, now October 2026, is this thing done?
00:36:53
Is it sitting and waiting? Yeah, I I wonder about that.
00:36:58
I know they've been working on it for a while.
00:37:01
Script writing got done a long time ago.
00:37:04
I know that they've done a lot of voice over on this because a
00:37:08
lot of the actors have stated that they've been done with the
00:37:10
voice on for this for this movie for a while.
00:37:13
So it's it's interesting. I think it's just kind of like
00:37:16
they don't know for the longest they probably didn't know
00:37:19
whether they wanted to put it in theaters or not.
00:37:21
And now they're just like, well, we don't know if it's going to
00:37:23
make money, which again, the way anime is going right now and for
00:37:26
how much people love Avatar, the dumbest move you can make is not
00:37:30
put this in theaters. But.
00:37:32
I don't understand it. Like, like when they put Demon
00:37:35
Slayer in theaters, I'm like, what?
00:37:37
What are they doing? And then it was like the and
00:37:40
then, yeah, he killed. It was like the highest, you
00:37:42
know, grossing anime ever. Like, oh, OK.
00:37:47
Like, but then why? Why skip theaters?
00:37:50
And I think when I read the article, I think it said
00:37:53
Paramount had 15 movies slated for 2026, and this was one of
00:38:00
them. So it's like, what was more
00:38:02
important than Avatar the Last Airbender movie that could bring
00:38:08
it? You know, either way, if you put
00:38:10
it in theaters or you put it on Paramount Plus, people are going
00:38:13
to watch it. But like what Disney wants to
00:38:17
do, like Bob Iger put it in theaters, let's make money
00:38:21
there. And then it'll also make money
00:38:23
when we get it to Disney Plus because people will watch it
00:38:26
again and again and again. I don't understand why they
00:38:29
they're skipping theaters. It feels like it's somebody
00:38:32
making a decision that doesn't know how to make this right
00:38:37
decision. Also, like somebody who doesn't
00:38:39
understand the moment, you know what I mean, like somebody who's
00:38:42
just not understanding what is happening right now.
00:38:44
And then the things that audiences are going to the
00:38:46
theaters for. I I mean, OK, demon Slayer,
00:38:51
chainsaw man. I think the other one was
00:38:54
Jujitsu Kaizen that just came out with a movie in theaters
00:38:57
like anime is killing it right now.
00:38:59
The number one movie in the world was Nasaw 2, which is
00:39:02
currently now on HBO Max. So if you guys want to go and
00:39:06
check that out. Starring friend of the show.
00:39:10
Griffin. Griffin, right?
00:39:14
Who is the main character in that movie?
00:39:16
He plays Nasaw and again #1 movie in the world was Nasatu
00:39:23
may not have been big in the United States, but it was
00:39:25
massive in the world. Don't forget K pop Demon Hunter
00:39:29
I was. Going to say those, those, those
00:39:31
anime or those three anime movies we just talked about
00:39:36
Zootopia 2 making over $500 million, right, right.
00:39:40
Like, who do you think is going to theaters to watch movies
00:39:45
right now? You know, again, the last year's
00:39:47
biggest movie was mine, mine Minecraft, right?
00:39:50
Like. That's a real good point.
00:39:52
Think about it's, it's kids that are going to go watch movies,
00:39:56
right? And almost every millennial
00:39:59
parent, some Gen. Xers like like my my buddy Jamez
00:40:02
here, are showing their kids Avatar the Last Airbender and
00:40:07
are watching Avatar the Last Airbender with their kids.
00:40:10
And I don't think there is a kid that exists that has seen Avatar
00:40:14
the Last Airbender that would not be on board to go watch this
00:40:17
movie. Exactly.
00:40:19
And you know, theaters experiences are kind of few and
00:40:23
far between nowadays. Like you don't honest, to be
00:40:27
honest, I only go out for the big stuff, you know, like if
00:40:30
it's going to be Superman or or like wicked or something like
00:40:35
that. Those are, you know, to be
00:40:36
honest, you know, also Minecraft, you know, those big
00:40:39
movies, K pop D and hunters, you know, the the big, big movies.
00:40:43
So this is something I would go take my kids to because they've
00:40:48
watched the series, the Netflix series.
00:40:52
I don't understand, like people are hooked to the the anime and
00:40:56
hooked to the live action and you're going to extend that?
00:40:59
Right. Put in theater.
00:41:01
Like you're, you're, you're putting so much emphasis on on
00:41:05
expanding the universe, but you're not giving faith to it
00:41:09
Paramount. And it's like give faith
00:41:12
specifically to this show. It's, it's like I, I don't think
00:41:15
you guys understand the fandom, like the rabid fandom that
00:41:18
Avatar has. Yeah, exactly.
00:41:21
You know, especially like with the live action series season 2
00:41:24
coming out and the amount of hype that everybody is giving
00:41:27
toff. Like come on dude, you are
00:41:30
leaving money on the table by not putting this in the theater.
00:41:34
Especially when Netflix is putting out season 2 right now
00:41:37
and everybody is losing their collective fucking minds over
00:41:41
live action toff. I know that's exactly.
00:41:45
And, you know, people are going to go crazy and then next
00:41:48
Halloween, everybody's going to be dressing as, you know, Avatar
00:41:52
Last Airbender. And then, you know, Paramount's
00:41:55
going to be like, damn it, we missed out.
00:41:58
Like what? Why didn't we do that?
00:41:59
Like. Yeah, they're, they're going to
00:42:01
regret not putting this in theaters.
00:42:03
Yeah. And I, and I get like the other
00:42:05
things I get that putting it on Paramount Plus, they're the, the
00:42:11
opposite side of the coin. And I know we're, we're spending
00:42:13
way too much time on this. But I mean like the opposite
00:42:15
side of the coin is if they put it on Paramount Plus, that might
00:42:20
be a way to draw people, more people to Paramount Plus.
00:42:24
Yeah. Yeah, like 'cause they, they,
00:42:26
they may be looking at it as because this is such a
00:42:30
successful show and they wanted to put it in theaters, they're
00:42:33
like, Nope, put it back on Paramount Plus.
00:42:36
Because that'll draw people to Paramount Plus.
00:42:38
The same way that The Mandalorian drew people to
00:42:41
Disney Plus. The same way that Halo at first
00:42:45
drew people to Paramount Plus because the curiosity got people
00:42:49
to to download the app. I I see what you're saying.
00:42:52
I totally agree. I think people are going to go
00:42:54
watch it. I think they're just missing the
00:42:56
opportunity because it's a movie.
00:42:59
Yeah. We're not talking about 8 hours
00:43:01
of a series like a a show. We're talking about a movie.
00:43:06
Right. And I don't understand why
00:43:08
they're not putting it on both, you know, and, and kind of
00:43:12
double dipping, so to speak, but.
00:43:14
Unless unless they do the Netflix thing where they put it
00:43:17
on streaming 1st and then they put it in theaters.
00:43:20
Yeah, possibly. You know, they may be, but if,
00:43:23
if, if they're learning, then they'll that that'll be a lesson
00:43:26
they pick up from Netflix. As much as they're like fighting
00:43:29
over Netflix, 'cause we're going to talk about this in a minute,
00:43:31
but as much as they're Paramount specifically is fighting with
00:43:33
Netflix, you know, just because you're fighting with an opponent
00:43:37
doesn't mean you're not going to take from their, their, their
00:43:38
playbook. Exactly.
00:43:41
And that's exactly it. Taking from their playbook,
00:43:43
they're like, whatever, Netflix. I don't want to do what Netflix
00:43:46
does. But they made a lot of money.
00:43:48
OK, well, maybe we'll do what Netflix does.
00:43:51
Yeah, exactly. All right, well, we got to
00:43:53
continue on because I, I I will talk about this all day and we
00:43:57
have other things we got to talk about.
00:43:58
You're right, You're right. Yeah, But yes, who win in a
00:44:03
fight? And I'm asking you this
00:44:04
seriously, James, who would win the fight, Kat Grant or Tony?
00:44:08
Tony Chopper. I think you can answer this
00:44:11
because you've interviewed both of these, both of these
00:44:14
characters, so to speak, I guess kind of, Well, yes.
00:44:17
Me, me and Kat Grant at the. Time I talked to yeah, I, I, I
00:44:21
talked to, talked to her at a show.
00:44:25
So Netflix has offered us our best look yet at Tony, Tony,
00:44:29
Chopper, and a new teaser trailer for Netflix's live
00:44:32
action One Piece series. It was released as part of the
00:44:35
Jump Festa 2026 showcase in Japan, giving fans a fun look at
00:44:41
how the beloved reindeer will exist in a live action world.
00:44:45
Netflix also revealed who's voicing Chopper in the English
00:44:48
dub, with Michaela Hoover bringing the character to life.
00:44:52
You're so excited about that. Yes.
00:44:55
I got a chance to talk to her about that.
00:44:56
So one, that's awesome. Yeah.
00:44:58
It was. It was pretty fun.
00:45:00
One Piece Season 3 is now in production with plans to adapt
00:45:04
the Alabasta Saga. Alabasta Saga, I think.
00:45:09
I think it said Saga because Saga and expand the roles of
00:45:14
characters introduced in Season 2 including Chopper.
00:45:19
Oh, I like that. That's cool.
00:45:21
Yeah. I don't know much about the One
00:45:23
Piece lore, but I I know Chopper is supposed to be pretty big
00:45:28
moving forward so that's kind of cool.
00:45:31
Yeah, no, it's it's it's super dope.
00:45:34
Michaela Hoover, that's awesome. Right now, like I said, it was
00:45:38
fun. We had a chance to, to, to have
00:45:40
a conversation with her at, at a con and and yeah, she was
00:45:45
really, really, really fun person.
00:45:47
Was that which con was that? Shout out to Colossus Girl
00:45:51
Entertainment because it was a Colossus Girl Entertainment
00:45:54
show. There wasn't.
00:45:56
Gemstate was no. It was Meadowlark.
00:46:00
Meadowlark. There we go.
00:46:02
Look at that meeting. Tony.
00:46:04
Tony Chopper. Yeah.
00:46:05
Now, again, really, really, really fun person.
00:46:09
You know, she, she, she was really gracious and having a
00:46:13
conversation with us. So it was, it was really cool,
00:46:15
man. Cool.
00:46:16
Yeah. So moving on though, because we
00:46:21
will continue and I just like, highlighted my entire page by
00:46:25
accident. Oh, man, Good grief.
00:46:30
Or good grief, you're hot, Charlie Brown.
00:46:36
Sony Hussein, who said that Lucy is that Lucy that said that?
00:46:39
Good grief, you're hot, Charlie Brown.
00:46:44
OK. And then.
00:46:45
And then, of course, we got to do a wah, wah, wah, wah, wah,
00:46:49
wah, wah. But, but, but no, teacher.
00:46:52
I'm. I'm not that cute.
00:46:54
Wah wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. Yeah, but she's lying.
00:46:59
I don't know why you're involving the teacher all of a
00:47:01
sudden. That's easy.
00:47:03
Easy. That got that got really bad,
00:47:07
all right. Sony has reached a deal to take
00:47:09
majority ownership of Peanuts, the iconic franchise created by
00:47:13
Charles M Schulz that introduced the world to Charlie Brown,
00:47:16
Snoopy and the rest of the gang. Sony Pictures Entertainment and
00:47:20
Sony Music Entertainment in Japan announced they've entered
00:47:23
an agreement with Canadian media company Wild Brain to acquire
00:47:27
acquire Wild Brains 41% stake in Peanuts Holding LLC Sony will
00:47:32
pay $457 million for those shares.
00:47:40
Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment
00:47:42
will collectively control 80% of Peanuts Holdings LLC.
00:47:46
The remaining 20% will stay with the Schultz family.
00:47:50
That is absolutely insane. And that makes me wonder what
00:47:55
Sony's going to do with that. Yeah, it.
00:47:58
Honestly, you know what's funny? I just had a conversation with
00:48:01
with my wife about the Peanuts and she's like, are the peanuts?
00:48:05
Are the Peanuts big again? I'm like, what do you, what do
00:48:08
you mean? Like they're on Apple TV?
00:48:10
What what do you mean are they? She's like, I'm seeing them
00:48:12
everywhere. It's like when I go to like,
00:48:17
what is it? Aeropostale in in the mall and
00:48:21
stuff like that. She's like, I'm buying kids
00:48:22
clothes and I just see Peanuts in Snoopy everywhere we go.
00:48:27
And then as she was saying that I now I'm seeing Peanuts and
00:48:31
Snoopy everywhere we go. It's like this whole like wave
00:48:36
of, of merchandise just came through with with the Peanuts
00:48:41
and Snoopy in it. And it's like I just see it
00:48:43
everywhere now. Like I was at Nordstrom's and I
00:48:46
saw it there and like every store I go to, I see it, I see
00:48:49
it, I see it. It's non-stop.
00:48:52
Yeah, that's, that's pretty crazy that, that they're like
00:48:54
starting to get all this hype again.
00:48:56
But I, I, I, I love it. I I love the idea of the Peanuts
00:48:59
getting hype again. You know what?
00:49:01
I just saw that creep me the hell out is a whole bunch of
00:49:04
people just did a bunch of cosplay of Peanuts characters,
00:49:08
but they did like drawing accurate Peanuts costumes and
00:49:14
they were the creepiest things ever.
00:49:19
Not in a good way. Not in a good way.
00:49:21
Like it wasn't like it wasn't, they weren't like good creepy
00:49:25
costumes. They were like, they like you
00:49:28
take the, the characters and like the way they did the hair
00:49:31
was like just squiggles on the head and stuff like that.
00:49:34
And they were just, they just looked creepy.
00:49:38
But I think they, I think they intentionally knew that they
00:49:41
were going to look creepy though.
00:49:42
Yeah. And that was that was the goal,
00:49:44
a little bit of real life cartoony thing making it a
00:49:48
little little awkward. Yeah.
00:49:49
Makes sense. I, you know, as as we were
00:49:52
talking, I think I realized it was the it's the 75th
00:49:55
anniversary of like Peanuts and Snoopy, like the comic strip.
00:50:00
So. So I think that's what's kind of
00:50:02
pushing it on. But also I think there's a
00:50:05
little bit of a bubble is bursting for like, say, Disney
00:50:12
merchandise. Yeah, So I think it's like, OK,
00:50:15
we've done Mickey, we've done Stitch, we've done all these
00:50:18
other things. We've even done Goofy and Max.
00:50:22
What else can we do? Like, oh, wait, there's this
00:50:24
whole other, you know, IP that we haven't really touched, you
00:50:29
know, over the years. Let's go push merchandise for
00:50:31
like, the peanuts. So it's almost becoming like an
00:50:34
alternative pop culture thing, if that makes any sense.
00:50:38
Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm just throwing it out there.
00:50:41
Woodstock for the win. Woodstock if I if I get any
00:50:45
merch it is going to be Snoopy as the Red Baron and anything.
00:50:50
Woodstock because Woodstock just because of how goofy he is.
00:50:54
He's easily my favorite character.
00:50:57
Yeah, I like that. I like that.
00:50:58
Yeah, it's cool. And I mean, you know me
00:51:00
gravitating towards my goofy ass characters, right?
00:51:02
So, yeah. All right, well, let's let's
00:51:07
continue on here with with all the fun things happening.
00:51:12
Looks like Warner Brothers already has a dance partner.
00:51:17
Warner Brothers Discovery has officially shut the door on
00:51:19
Paramount and Skydance, rejecting their $108 billion
00:51:23
acquisition bid and making it clear the offer doesn't come
00:51:27
close to matching matching the value or certainty of its
00:51:32
pending deal with Netflix. The company's bored unanimously
00:51:39
Sorry I I for some reason I can cannot read right now,
00:51:42
unanimously advised shareholders to reject Paramount Skydance's
00:51:45
$30 per share tender offer, calling it inadequate, risky and
00:51:49
ultimately inferior to the Netflix agreement already in
00:51:53
place. Netflix will acquire the Warner
00:51:55
Brothers film and Television studios HBO and HBO Max for 27
00:51:59
point $7527.75 per share following Warner Brothers
00:52:05
Discovery's planned Q 32026 spin off of Discovery Global, which
00:52:10
will house the company's legacy TV networks like CNN and
00:52:14
Discovery Channel and everything like that.
00:52:18
Well, I mean, there you go. There it is.
00:52:21
No, we're not fighting anymore. We're not.
00:52:23
We're not talking about who does what.
00:52:25
It's Warner Brothers is going Yeah, Netflix.
00:52:28
Yeah, and, and I think that they they kind of Warner Brothers
00:52:31
probably already knows that's like we're probably better
00:52:34
suited going to Netflix than we are just merging with Paramount
00:52:37
and Skydance as as much as it, you know, pisses them off.
00:52:40
It's kind of like, you know, they're looking for the best
00:52:43
interests of the company and specifically the IPS that
00:52:47
they're going to be trading off with these companies.
00:52:50
The fact that all the legacy media stuff is being sold
00:52:53
separately kind of makes it that, you know, it, it's Netflix
00:52:58
doesn't want to get into the TV game.
00:53:00
They're that's not what they want to do.
00:53:01
They they're happy with streaming.
00:53:03
They love the film division that they have.
00:53:05
They'll get more legitimacy as a as a film studio in acquiring
00:53:11
the Warner Brothers name. But the Discovery side going to
00:53:15
another network company makes sense for the way that they're
00:53:19
doing things. Yeah, I I totally agree.
00:53:22
And it, it kind of shows like net Netflix is like forward
00:53:26
thinking like no, you can keep your TV.
00:53:28
We we don't need that. We're not going to pay billions
00:53:31
of dollars on top of it for that, you know, and, and from
00:53:35
what I heard, I heard Paramount, you know, Warner Brothers first
00:53:39
said everybody come to the table with your best offer and
00:53:43
everybody did. And Netflix was valued as the
00:53:46
best offer. So the rumor started to come out
00:53:49
that Netflix is going to, is going to win the bid, that sort
00:53:51
of thing. And then Paramount comes out
00:53:53
with this, you know, forced bid like, OK, shareholders $30 a
00:54:00
share and we'll take your, your TV stations as well.
00:54:04
And all of a sudden it's just out of nowhere.
00:54:05
Like where was this bid a month ago when we said give us your
00:54:09
best bid, You just wanted to like come out of nowhere.
00:54:12
You wanted to lowball us. And then since that didn't work,
00:54:16
you want to just throw more money onto the table just to be
00:54:19
like, OK, we'll take everything. This is what we got to offer.
00:54:22
So I honestly think also though, just like kind of looking at the
00:54:25
way they have this set up. So Netflix is taking just HBO
00:54:30
and HBO Max and the Warner Brothers film studio for $27.75
00:54:36
per share, which means $2.25. That's all Discovery offered for
00:54:44
or not Discovery. What Skydance offered for
00:54:46
Discovery Global was $2.25. Yep.
00:54:50
And I'm sure they're like, you know, what, if we just sell off
00:54:54
these assets to Netflix, we can probably make more money selling
00:54:58
Discovery Global as its own separate asset.
00:55:03
Exactly that was that's totally it.
00:55:06
It's totally that. Like, wait, you only valued our
00:55:09
TV at $2.00. What is it, $2.25 a share?
00:55:13
What Paramount, what are you doing on top of that?
00:55:16
I also heard Paramount said we'll pay you, but we won't
00:55:21
really pay you. We're going to put it into this
00:55:23
trust account and it's going to be ran by like our whoever our
00:55:28
CEO is, like, you know, Pete Ellison or something like that.
00:55:31
Whatever his name is, it's going to be that.
00:55:34
David Ellison. David Ellison like it's going to
00:55:36
be that versus paying you straight out cash.
00:55:39
And that sort of thing, they don't want that.
00:55:40
They don't, they don't want to sit there and be like we're
00:55:42
selling our company. We don't like Zasloff is like, I
00:55:44
want the money upfront. Yeah, we're, we're getting out
00:55:48
of the game. What what are you doing?
00:55:49
Like, what do you, what do you mean?
00:55:50
We, you're going to hold on to the money even though you're
00:55:53
going to say it's it's not your money, it's our money, but it's
00:55:57
you're holding the money. Like what?
00:56:00
I don't know. I the more I hear about the, the
00:56:03
Paramount deal that they offered, the more it got shady
00:56:07
and that that's where it got a little funky to me.
00:56:10
I'm like, good job Warner Brothers, good, good job
00:56:13
sticking with Netflix. Right, which I mean, that's what
00:56:18
The funny thing is like Paramount owns Comcast, right?
00:56:21
So it's like, it's not like Comcast as as an organization
00:56:25
couldn't buy Discovery Global and and bring all that stuff in
00:56:28
house. Yeah.
00:56:30
You know. Yeah, that's a good point.
00:56:31
Like they honestly, they can still do that.
00:56:33
They could be like, all right, great, give us the TVI don't
00:56:36
know why you'd want to do all It's like double dipping and
00:56:39
buying the same thing over. And over it is especially
00:56:41
because Paramount already owns CBS.
00:56:43
So it's kind of like, you know, you're going to be doing
00:56:45
basically CBS and CNN are going to be clones of each other.
00:56:48
And it's like that's, I mean, you, you lose the independence
00:56:51
of those of those organizations in doing that when you just like
00:56:55
cloning each other. Like I think it's be, I think
00:56:57
it'd be smarter and more advantageous, at least for
00:57:01
audiences if a separate company were to buy Discovery Global.
00:57:07
Yep, at least, at least those organizations will will be
00:57:10
independent of each other. Yeah.
00:57:12
And that's you need that. You need a little bit of
00:57:14
competition, right, for it to begin.
00:57:16
If everything gets, I don't know, homogenized, then you're
00:57:20
really saying the same thing, the same thing over and over
00:57:23
again. Right, right.
00:57:24
Right, so. All right, well, let's let's
00:57:26
move on to this last story before we get into into into
00:57:30
trending topics here. And this is another kind of big
00:57:34
deal that's going on right here. And the winner is actually do I
00:57:38
have a drum roll? I thought I had a drum roll.
00:57:40
I'm not going to look for it right now.
00:57:42
We'll put it in post. Yeah, I know, right, Because
00:57:45
that's what we do now is put everything in post.
00:57:48
Yeah. And the winner is YouTube.
00:58:02
You got the applause. I did get the applause line all
00:58:04
right. The Oscars are officially
00:58:05
changing channels as YouTube has secured the television rights to
00:58:09
host the Academy Awards beginning in 2029, so it's not
00:58:13
anytime soon. The Google owned platform beat
00:58:17
out multiple competitors, including long time broadcast
00:58:19
partner ABC. Disney's current deal with the
00:58:22
Academy runs through 2028, making the 2029 ceremony the
00:58:27
first under YouTube's banner. YouTube's first broadcast will
00:58:31
be the 101st ceremony, and the agreement locks the platform in
00:58:37
as the home of the Oscars through 2033.
00:58:42
Man, are you going to be turning into tuning into YouTube to to
00:58:46
to watch the streaming awards? Of course, you kidding me?
00:58:51
It'll be so much easier to watch it on on YouTube.
00:58:55
And you know the thing about this, it's such like a shift in
00:59:02
in how things work. So the TV's kind of going away
00:59:06
or the traditional TV's going away going to streaming, going
00:59:10
to kind of video on demand or video at your your time.
00:59:16
Like to be honest, I don't want when I will go to watch
00:59:19
wrestling every week. I don't watch it live.
00:59:21
I watch it, you know, later on that night or the next day or
00:59:25
something like that. I watch it at my time.
00:59:27
And I think that's just how things work these days.
00:59:30
It's not everything is. You have to see it live.
00:59:33
I think maybe what the Super Bowl, I think that's kind of it
00:59:37
right now. The the only thing I watch live
00:59:39
at this point is is football. That's that, that's it.
00:59:42
You know, and I'm half the time I'm still watching those on
00:59:45
streamers and I'm trying to figure out what streamers
00:59:46
they're on. You know that that I can watch,
00:59:49
right? Like I lucked out that the Niner
00:59:51
game was on weird enough Disney Plus yesterday.
00:59:55
What? Yeah.
00:59:56
Really, the Niner game, because it was a Monday Night Football,
01:00:00
right? Monday Night Football's ESPN and
01:00:03
they decided we're going to put it on the Disney Plus for Disney
01:00:07
Plus subscribers. Oh, that's interesting.
01:00:11
Well, finally good 'cause I don't have, I don't have ESPN
01:00:15
Plus or Unlimited or whatever, so I lucked.
01:00:17
Out and I was like, Oh my God, I can watch my game on Disney.
01:00:19
I'm so happy right now. That's awesome.
01:00:23
And this week, you know, you said what streamer is NFL going
01:00:26
to be on? It's going to be on a new
01:00:29
streamer this week. It's going to be on Netflix on
01:00:33
Christmas Day. That's right.
01:00:35
That's it's crazy because like, Prime has Thursday Night
01:00:38
Football. Yeah, right.
01:00:40
I've been Paramount Plus has actually had the majority of the
01:00:44
football games that I watch because CBS and CBS is a is an
01:00:48
NFL partner. The only ones that I can't watch
01:00:51
are on ESPN. And again, they've been putting
01:00:54
it on. They've been putting at least
01:00:55
Monday Night Football on on on Disney Plus.
01:00:59
Right, exactly. So it's super interesting, you
01:01:01
know, again, I lucked out that I had that, that the Niners had
01:01:03
the Monday game this week, but it was like it for me, it was a
01:01:07
big deal and I I don't want to get super into sports, but it's
01:01:10
like it's a big deal because the Niners, if we, if we won
01:01:14
yesterday's game, we, we, we clinched the wild card.
01:01:20
But if we win every game to the end of the season, we can
01:01:24
overtake the number one position.
01:01:27
Right. So wild card is cool, that
01:01:29
guarantees us a spot, but I mean, if we can get in at a
01:01:32
higher seed, you know, we get that bye week and it's nice.
01:01:35
You have the the divisional tiebreakers.
01:01:38
Right, right. You know, so it's like that's
01:01:41
it's it's it's nice, especially God.
01:01:44
The other big deal for me was Brock Purdy came back yesterday
01:01:48
and it was funny because they were talking about it the entire
01:01:51
game. Brock Purdy is what the Niners
01:01:54
have been missing for the like the entire season 'cause he came
01:01:57
in and he dude first time and I think they said it's the first
01:02:01
time in 25 years that a quarterback against the Colts
01:02:07
got got 5 touchdowns. Yeah, something crazy.
01:02:12
It's just it's crazy. He comes back for the for, for
01:02:15
the first game since like the beginning of the season and he
01:02:18
breaks a record and just wrecks the the Colts.
01:02:22
It was. It was nuts.
01:02:24
It was a Oscar worthy performance.
01:02:27
It absolutely was. All right.
01:02:29
So with that being said, guys, before we jump into our last
01:02:34
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I, I love fandom portals and challenge accepted.
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Right. So I mean, like, you know, geek
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They'll be back at the beginning of the year.
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Challenge accepted. They've got a couple of like pre
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canned episodes and, and fandom portals.
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I absolutely love man. If you're, if you, if you guys
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have not gotten into fandom portals, those guys are so good
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with their analysis. They, they take movies and they,
01:03:46
they'll take themes and relate those themes.
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So like they just finished up with a movies that came from
01:03:54
good IPS that probably deserve a second chance, meaning like
01:03:58
movies that need to be remade, you know, like movies that were
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like movies, movies that like flopped, that had good IPS but
01:04:05
would like there weren't good movies.
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I was like the number one movie that I always talk about when it
01:04:10
comes to stuff like that was a movie they they covered was
01:04:12
airborne. That was, it was a good concept,
01:04:16
yeah. Yeah, Airborne is a good book.
01:04:18
You know, like the book itself is a very good book.
01:04:21
They just did not execute those movies well at all, you know,
01:04:25
and they not only like in in a way where where I don't usually
01:04:31
can articulate the way that I felt that movie was not as good
01:04:35
as it should have been. They fully articulated
01:04:38
everything and and actually talk about like why this character
01:04:42
didn't come across as good, why they messed up this character
01:04:45
and the the difference between the books versus the characters
01:04:49
in the movie and things like that.
01:04:50
They also covered John, was it John Carter of Mars?
01:04:58
Yeah, right. Which was another movie that
01:05:00
was, you know, Disney put so much money into that movie and
01:05:03
it just completely flopped and 'cause it was supposed to be
01:05:06
their new game, that was supposed to be their next Game
01:05:08
of Thrones like thing. And they just did not execute
01:05:11
correctly, you know, and it's like, that's another series that
01:05:14
kind of deserves a second chance.
01:05:15
Like they should remake that series because it's a good
01:05:17
series if you execute it correctly.
01:05:22
Speaking of Disney remaking a series like I'm really enjoying
01:05:26
Percy Jackson. Yes.
01:05:28
And the Olympians. I just watched the third episode
01:05:30
yesterday. Man, so good.
01:05:33
Yeah, I'm, I'm so digging that show.
01:05:37
But yeah, I you know what's cool too about Fandom Portals is you
01:05:40
get to listen to a podcast with good analysis, good content, but
01:05:45
also like cool accents. Right, 100% Australian.
01:05:50
I I love both of those guys, man.
01:05:52
Like maybe I need to find an accent or something like that,
01:05:54
right? And start bringing that in just
01:05:56
to spice it up a little bit. I don't know.
01:05:59
Yeah, yeah. It's not fair.
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You sound cool walking around sounding cool.
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They they, they absolutely do, man.
01:06:07
And, and I mean, they also, we have cool names, Young Phil and
01:06:10
Jamez 5000, but like, his real name is Brash.
01:06:15
That's bad ass, Yeah. What does?
01:06:19
What does that even mean? It doesn't even matter.
01:06:21
It's so that's. Not a birth certificate.
01:06:23
OK, they allow that on Australian birth certificates.
01:06:28
Right. It's like your name is brash.
01:06:30
It's fucking dope. Must be cool, must be nice to be
01:06:35
Australian. I know, right?
01:06:36
Well, ladies and gentlemen, let's let's move on.
01:06:39
Let's get into this next segment.
01:06:40
It is time for the trend up. We're going to talk all the
01:06:43
things trending right now. Let's.
01:06:53
Get into it and I'll talk over. OK, so this is kind of a follow
01:06:57
up from our last conversation. Was that our last conversation
01:07:00
or the conversation before about use of AI?
01:07:03
Yeah, Disney was doing one thing, we're going to do
01:07:05
another. So the AI discussion, Disney
01:07:08
said yes. YouTube is saying no.
01:07:11
YouTube has officially shut down two of the biggest channels
01:07:16
responsible for the flood of AI generated fake movie trailers
01:07:21
that have racked up millions upon millions of views.
01:07:24
After months of scrutiny and mounting backlash, Screen
01:07:28
Culture and KH Studio are gone, marking a major shift in how the
01:07:34
platform is handling misleading AI content tied to major films
01:07:39
and franchises. Because it's not just about
01:07:42
these two channels and what they do.
01:07:45
It's about the click bait and the misconceptions that they're
01:07:50
that they're doing by putting this content out there.
01:07:53
So Even so, the studios are getting upset too.
01:07:55
So both channels were massive. Combined, Screen Culture and KH
01:07:59
Studio pulled over 2 million subscribers and more than a
01:08:03
billion views. And on top of that, they were
01:08:06
monetized. Of course.
01:08:07
As of now, anyone trying to visit either page is met with a
01:08:12
blunt message from YouTube saying this page isn't
01:08:16
available. Sorry about that.
01:08:17
Try searching for something else.
01:08:19
That's weird. Just cold.
01:08:22
Just cold like that. YouTube Deadline reports that
01:08:25
YouTube terminated the channels for violating its spam and
01:08:29
misleading metadata policies. The move comes after a long
01:08:33
running investigation investigation into the rise of
01:08:37
fake movie trailers that blend official footage with AI
01:08:41
generated images often presented in a way that made them look
01:08:45
legit. So even Disney sent a cease and
01:08:49
desist letter to Google claiming that it's AI training models and
01:08:54
services infringe on Disney's copyrighted materials on a
01:08:58
massive scale, Right? And then it kept going.
01:09:01
It was revealed how the studio responded instead of
01:09:05
aggressively protecting their copyrighted materials for some
01:09:08
major players, including Warner Brothers, Disney or Warner
01:09:11
Brothers Discovery. And Sony allegedly allegedly
01:09:14
asked YouTube to redirect ad revenue from these AI heavy fake
01:09:19
trailers back to the studios themselves.
01:09:22
So it's not just take down your content like, all right,
01:09:26
YouTube, you're going to leave it.
01:09:27
We want the money. So that's huge.
01:09:31
Yeah. So on a level that seems the
01:09:35
second part of that seems a bit greedy because The thing is, is
01:09:40
I'm not pro AI at all. And I'm actually happy that
01:09:43
YouTube took this stuff down. But for for the other companies
01:09:48
to say, you know what, we we want the money from that that
01:09:51
was monetized on that too. You know, we, we, we want all
01:09:55
that money that they were that they were making.
01:09:56
It's like, yeah. And I get because it's, it's
01:10:01
somebody is illegally using your, your stuff to make an AI
01:10:07
fake trailer. But The thing is, is that for a
01:10:10
lot of that stuff, they do say that it's a fake trailer.
01:10:16
I've, I've known about screen culture for a while.
01:10:18
Screen culture before even before AI came out, they were
01:10:22
making fake trailers like on purpose, you know, you know they
01:10:26
would they would splice like a whole bunch of footage together
01:10:29
and everything and say Oh, this is the new Deadpool movie or
01:10:32
this is the new Superman movie or something like that.
01:10:36
And it would be like, you know, different things from different
01:10:40
movies spice together. I think it was just more now
01:10:43
that AI is a thing they probably just refined what they were
01:10:45
doing to make it like more realistic and what not.
01:10:48
But. But I think what they were doing
01:10:51
is they were using, yes, they were using AI, but you know, it
01:10:55
has things jumped from from like, you know, scene to scene
01:10:58
and like shot to shot. They would mix in actual footage
01:11:03
from like, say a previous movie. Like if it was Avengers movie,
01:11:06
they'd pick like another Avengers movie and pull stuff
01:11:10
out of that. So when when like YouTube's
01:11:14
algorithm would look at it and go like, oh, that content's
01:11:17
legit, that that's real footage, you know, So it was a mix of AI
01:11:22
and that. And it was also misleading, like
01:11:24
viewers. Yeah, then it became an issue.
01:11:28
I can see that just at the same time, like I demonetized them.
01:11:32
That's that's fine, right? Demonetized them because you're
01:11:35
violating ethics standards and things like that.
01:11:38
But as far as like, hey, give Discovery that money or give
01:11:42
Sony that money, Why no? Well, here.
01:11:47
OK, here's a. Clear question.
01:11:48
So that that seems more like a like like like a agreed power
01:11:53
move because it's like you're being monetized.
01:11:55
We want to take the money from that monetization.
01:11:58
But it's like I, I do understand that like in like in the case
01:12:02
of, let's say, for instance, if we use some kind of like Sony
01:12:09
video in the background while we're analyzing it right in, in
01:12:12
say we're monetized, like, would you believe that, you know,
01:12:15
because we're monetized and we used a audio list video to do A
01:12:20
and, and this is just an example in our case, right?
01:12:24
Just us being on the other side of the coin on this, if we used
01:12:28
any kind of footage in order for us to analyze that footage, you
01:12:34
know, and then they demonetize that video, you know, do you
01:12:38
believe that that monetization that we should have to pay that
01:12:43
back to Warner Brothers Discovery or something like
01:12:46
that? You know what I mean?
01:12:48
That's the other side of the coin as a creator.
01:12:50
I, I see what you're saying and I think, I think most of the
01:12:54
studios would be OK, but kind of faking it that it is actual
01:13:00
content, like representing the, the studios, so to speak.
01:13:05
You know, it's not, they're not looking at it like or like say
01:13:08
this screen culture isn't looking at it like I'm going to
01:13:13
cover this as, as like news as content reporting on it like we
01:13:18
are. They're like, we're going to
01:13:19
fake it. We're going to just because they
01:13:21
don't really care about the content.
01:13:23
They care about the clicks, right, to generate that, that ad
01:13:28
revenue. That's what they care about.
01:13:30
And so who was at Warner Brothers Discovery, Sony looking
01:13:34
at that and be like, all right, let let me hit you where it
01:13:36
hurts. If it's going to be a lot of red
01:13:38
tape for to get the video taken down, it could be, you know
01:13:41
what, YouTube, we want the ad revenue.
01:13:44
Then all of a sudden YouTube's like, OK, let's deal with this
01:13:46
since we're actually talking about money.
01:13:48
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So like I said, I mean, you
01:13:51
know, in the end, you know, do what we've had a couple of our
01:13:53
videos taken down after our our our page monetized.
01:13:58
We've had a couple of of takedowns that have happened
01:14:02
with stuff that's like, OK, hey, now that you guys are make
01:14:05
technically you guys are monetized because we're not
01:14:07
monetizing the way we're like we're getting ad revenue and
01:14:09
stuff. But like, you know, technically
01:14:11
now that you guys are a monetized channel because that's
01:14:15
a thing now. Now you can't use content that
01:14:19
is copyright stricken stricken. So anything that has music,
01:14:23
anything that has videos, that's that's why I go so hard on
01:14:26
making sure that we have like the music that I play is
01:14:30
something that we have a license for, you know what I mean?
01:14:33
Yeah, I, I see what you're saying.
01:14:35
I do. I do see like a little bit of
01:14:38
how YouTube has to set the rules and then follow the rules.
01:14:43
And to be honest, their, their editing tools are super
01:14:47
impressive where it's like, hey, we just flagged you for this
01:14:50
video for this many seconds from here to here.
01:14:53
What do you want to do about it is up or the video's down?
01:14:55
It's like, what do you want to do with it?
01:14:57
Do you want to erase the video, change out the video, change out
01:15:00
the sound, that sort of thing. It's pretty impressive that
01:15:03
YouTube's like, we don't want you to take down your content.
01:15:06
We just don't want to have an argument over is this your
01:15:09
content or that person's copyright content and who gets
01:15:13
revenue for it? Like let's figure that out now,
01:15:15
right, right, right. And I I I'm I'm 100% OK with.
01:15:19
That, you know, and again, for for channels like like these two
01:15:22
channels, again, they are their whole thing is trying to
01:15:26
capitalize on on copywritten content.
01:15:29
So at that point, yes, demonetize the channel, you
01:15:33
know, take that at this point, they've been taken down, right?
01:15:35
Like they've been they've been not shadow banned, they've been
01:15:38
banned. And in that case, you know that
01:15:41
monetization is gone. Like you know, even if you make
01:15:43
a new channel it it's gone. You know, you're not you have to
01:15:46
rebuild everything from scratch, right?
01:15:49
That's Yep, you're right. And they would do.
01:15:53
Things like we're going to make a, a trailer, a fake trailer,
01:15:58
but we're going to make like 27 versions of this trailer and put
01:16:03
it up in different places and, and try to kind of twist the
01:16:08
algorithm. Like once they figured out how
01:16:10
the algorithm works on YouTube, like how do we twist it?
01:16:13
How do we twist the metadata to get what we want versus just
01:16:17
organically being like, OK, here's the content that's
01:16:21
supposed to be presented. Here's the content that the
01:16:23
viewer wants to watch. They were able to trick
01:16:26
YouTube's algorithm to like, hey, we're going to feed you
01:16:29
this, even though it's not the real trailer, it's not the real
01:16:32
content that you're looking for. And that's been Google's mark
01:16:36
all along. Like it's not about the, it's
01:16:38
not about the algorithm. It's not about the analytics.
01:16:40
It's always about what the user wants.
01:16:43
And Google always strives to be like, what are we going to give
01:16:47
the user? What does the user want?
01:16:49
How do we get them that content? That's what it is even when it
01:16:52
comes to like web traffic, like, you know, building websites back
01:16:55
in the day, it that's what it was about.
01:16:56
It's all about the content for the user, not about what you can
01:16:59
keyword stuff, right. So no good on good on YouTube.
01:17:04
Yeah, no again. And and I'm, I'm one. 100%.
01:17:06
Behind this move. To, to take content like that
01:17:10
down because we, we talked about it a lot last week where again,
01:17:16
AI is nice when you use it as a tool, but not when you are using
01:17:21
it as something that is replacing creative content
01:17:24
completely. You know, and this is an example
01:17:27
of something trying to replace creative content completely.
01:17:30
Where this again on on the flip side, you know, I, I just made
01:17:34
the argument for, you know, not completely like, you know,
01:17:39
ruining content creators, things like that.
01:17:40
But on the other side, when you are doing things like they were
01:17:44
doing where you are creating AI content that looks real,
01:17:48
especially with something like Sora 2, you know where
01:17:51
everything looks real as all hell, right?
01:17:54
And you and you put content up like that, that kind of thing is
01:18:00
going to it. It it's it the to the unknowing
01:18:03
eye, to the unseeing eye, it's going to, it's to somebody who's
01:18:07
not used to looking at things and being able to tell the
01:18:10
difference between AI and not AI.
01:18:12
Those people are going to believe like why I saw this
01:18:14
scene on YouTube and how come it's not in the movie?
01:18:18
You know, put that scene in the movie.
01:18:20
It's like that was never filmed. That was a computer generating
01:18:23
something that didn't exist. So exactly, exactly.
01:18:28
And I mean, that's comparing it. Like AI to say real life film,
01:18:33
that sort of thing, but what it like what you were kind of
01:18:35
getting to what if it was like a gaming trailer or like an
01:18:39
animated film trailer? All of a sudden all bets are
01:18:42
off, you know like we don't know what's real, what's fake.
01:18:45
You know what's Frozen 3? Is this the real Frozen 3
01:18:49
trailer? Yes no am I going to clunk it to
01:18:51
find out? And that's what you know screen
01:18:54
culture and KH studios wanted. We just want that Click to get
01:18:57
paid and go from there. So I'm, I'm all for this.
01:19:03
And you know, honestly, I think you hit it on the head where you
01:19:05
said a tool like AI is a tool. Like we shouldn't be afraid of
01:19:09
it. And, you know, burn it to, you
01:19:12
know, burn it to the stakes, burn it, burn it down because
01:19:15
we're afraid of it. It should just be like, OK, how
01:19:17
do we use this? It, it is here, it's coming,
01:19:21
whatever you want to say, but it's part of culture now.
01:19:24
So how do we use this? We need to set some standards.
01:19:28
Let's set some guidelines with like it's a tool and that's all
01:19:31
it is, right? Right. 100%.
01:19:34
I, I, I agree. I agree.
01:19:35
On, on, on every word we just had there.
01:19:38
Well, with that being said, that's it for the trend up guys.
01:19:43
We're going to move into our last segment for the night.
01:19:46
It is time to talk about what happened over the weekend.
01:19:50
Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for some geek and update.
01:20:02
That's right. Come to you from all the cons,
01:20:04
ladies and gentlemen. This weekend was SAC Gamer Expo
01:20:08
here in Sacramento, CA and there was a whole lot, whole lot that
01:20:13
went on. So again, it's been a little
01:20:16
while because we haven't been doing too many cons, but I'm
01:20:19
happy to have her back on the stream.
01:20:21
Ladies and gentlemen, to talk about the weekend.
01:20:25
Please welcome back to the show our con correspondent, It is
01:20:29
Sandra Delong from Delong Fam Cosplay.
01:20:35
Hello. Hello.
01:20:38
Oh, can't hear you, Sandra. Mic checked.
01:20:41
Oh no, no, don't hear anything. The mic may be switched the.
01:20:49
Mic may be switched on her. Yeah, well, in the meantime,
01:20:54
because. I'm curious about seeing what
01:20:56
while she's fixing the audio there.
01:20:59
Here is the video from this weekend.
01:21:01
Let's take a look and see all this stuff.
01:21:03
Oh, look at that. I think was at the Scottish
01:21:07
Scottish Wright Museum. Here in Sacramento, real popular
01:21:10
venue. Real popular venue for for cons
01:21:13
and and local cons in the area always brings out a good
01:21:16
community. It was December twenty 20th and
01:21:20
21st. So this past weekend here in
01:21:21
Sacramento, tons of vendors. They always fill up tons of
01:21:26
vendors and it looks to be amazing, like it's a good
01:21:31
community event. It keeps growing and growing and
01:21:33
growing. You see with that they had Santa
01:21:35
Claus and Buddy the Elf and and. And misses Claus there.
01:21:39
So that's that's always a good sign there.
01:21:43
I like it. They had let me.
01:21:46
See, who was it? TC Carson.
01:21:49
That's Kratos. Kratos himself and.
01:21:52
And Mace Windu. That's in the the.
01:22:00
Animated in the animated series, that's right.
01:22:03
And the Lego stuff like the Lego.
01:22:06
Lego movies, I guess yes so like clone wars from Clone wars
01:22:11
forward He's he was Mace Windu right, right, right, right.
01:22:15
Super cool. Who?
01:22:16
Else, Carol. Rodiger.
01:22:20
She's from God of War. She was Athena, God of War.
01:22:24
Oh, nice. And then this is going to be a.
01:22:28
Future guest on the show, but. Eric Bra.
01:22:32
He's, I don't know how to pronounce Bra or bra.
01:22:34
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's he's actually one of
01:22:36
Becks's buddies. Yeah, League of legend, Marvel.
01:22:41
Rivals, he plays Moon Knight. He plays Moon Knight.
01:22:43
That's right in in Marvel Rivals.
01:22:46
So Tyler was actually his handler.
01:22:49
Over the over the weekend. Oh, that's awesome.
01:22:51
Yeah, that's cool. You know I was I.
01:22:54
Was going to, I was going to check, but he's also.
01:22:56
In. Star Rail and I know remember we
01:23:00
did that con last year, fandom con where there's a bunch of
01:23:06
Star Rail actor like voice actors there.
01:23:10
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to talk to him about
01:23:12
that, but yeah, he he was in that super cool.
01:23:15
I think I ended up doing the the entire Star Rail.
01:23:19
Panel, yes, yes, I think. I think so.
01:23:26
Then some other guests we had. There was a ton of guests.
01:23:28
David Rivas, who was in Benji. Oh, hey, there we go.
01:23:34
OK, alright. Thanks babe.
01:23:37
You're welcome. Oh, I guess at a.
01:23:41
Fray moment. Do I ever call you babe?
01:23:44
People think we're related like we're cousins.
01:23:45
So no Mexican, Filipino, I mean it's it could be.
01:23:51
It's nice. Way back in the day.
01:23:51
Yeah. There's there's, yeah.
01:23:53
Remember we had that conversation.
01:23:54
That we could be. There's there's.
01:23:55
Spanish lineage. Down there somewhere, some
01:23:58
Spanish sailor, yeah. I know, right?
01:24:00
Sandra We. We, we, we were talking.
01:24:03
About the things we were talking about here, but I mean kind of
01:24:05
give us a rundown of what happened over the weekend.
01:24:08
Well, I think you guys summed it up without even being there,
01:24:10
but. Yeah, I was there with SAT geeks
01:24:12
like I always AM, and we had a bunch of people there like Nick
01:24:17
Bra, who is friends with Bex. I was just hearing James say he
01:24:21
was there with Dave, Riva, Sean, Chris, because they were all in
01:24:25
Bendy, a version of Bendy, and they all had fun and they did a
01:24:30
panel about it together. I got to walk in for a little
01:24:34
bit, but not too much because I had responsibilities, being a
01:24:38
grown up and everything. Why?
01:24:41
Why be an adult 'cause I didn't? Want to but I was told I.
01:24:46
Had to be in charge. So yeah, but.
01:24:50
Bruce, I mean, he's. Not here right now to tell you,
01:24:53
but he had a lot of fun with all of the inner.
01:24:56
They had two different rooms where you could play video
01:24:59
games. Yeah, I I see him and Jeff
01:25:03
playing a game. On the screen there somewhere,
01:25:06
which they were, they jumped around to a lot of different
01:25:08
ones, so. But like even Bruce would go off
01:25:11
by himself and he would play verse random people all day long
01:25:16
going back and forth between the two different rooms just
01:25:20
challenging fools. Hey, Oh.
01:25:22
Yeah, Bruce, like, yeah, I'm trying to go back.
01:25:25
And pause. Ah, Dang it.
01:25:28
Well, it was a shooting game and it was really cool 'cause I did.
01:25:32
Watch them play that one, 'cause I was towards the end of the day
01:25:36
and there we go. They had a lot of fun with that
01:25:39
and I was finally like, hey, we have to get home, finish, finish
01:25:45
him so we can go home, finish him exactly.
01:25:50
But. Yeah, he had a lot of fun
01:25:51
interacting, running. Around because he has a cell
01:25:53
phone now, so we can just call him, go where are you and he.
01:25:59
So yeah, he went around between those two rooms.
01:26:00
The stage, as that you can see in the slideshow, was where the
01:26:05
tournament was happening. And throughout the day they were
01:26:08
announcing winners and next rounds and stuff like that.
01:26:11
So you knew what was going on without having to jump on stage
01:26:14
and being nosey and like, bothering everybody.
01:26:18
So that was really cool. And a lot of our cosplay friends
01:26:21
were there, like Misha and her son Santa Claus showed up with
01:26:25
Buddy the Elf, and I had my own little elf hanging out with
01:26:30
Grumpy Cookies. Awesome, awesome.
01:26:33
And there's just so. Many video games, I mean.
01:26:37
It was amazing how many different vendors had a variety
01:26:43
of different games of consoles and systems and just like the
01:26:48
Japan versions of the American versions.
01:26:51
And it was just, it was really cool.
01:26:53
It was so cool that I think I I got, I got this little beauty.
01:26:56
Of course. I mean, another Power Ranger
01:26:59
game, Yeah, but this is the movie.
01:27:02
For Sega. Oh, that's fun, yeah.
01:27:07
And then? And then Jeff found this little.
01:27:09
Nugget for an. Early birthday present for me.
01:27:15
Power Ranger action gloves. Yeah, yeah.
01:27:18
Is that the one where the coin comes off?
01:27:20
No, it doesn't come off. But when?
01:27:22
You hit them together, they make the noises.
01:27:24
They made the swish noises and stuff, Yeah, and the.
01:27:30
They made that. I didn't.
01:27:32
Have this particular I had the ones from the movie then in
01:27:35
jetty ones when I was a kid. So when he just plopped these on
01:27:38
my lap said happy birthday I was like what?
01:27:41
Huh. They have me.
01:27:44
What? Well, that's what he does.
01:27:46
Though I mean, before, one year, before it was even Christmas, I
01:27:49
got my Valentine's present early.
01:27:51
That's adorable. So keep on your toes.
01:27:54
That's good. Exactly but.
01:27:56
Then again, it was kind. Of hard for him to hide roller.
01:27:58
Skates in the house, so he just gave them to me.
01:28:03
So what do you do to stop that? What?
01:28:07
Power Ranger gloves or roller? Skates both.
01:28:10
I'm let me go roller skating. Oh, there you go.
01:28:12
There you go. And yeah, we had a.
01:28:17
Lot of like at the booth. We had color.
01:28:19
Pages for or the color tablecloth.
01:28:21
I mean for people to come in color and if you colored a snow
01:28:26
globe, we give you a prize. Girl mode official was there and
01:28:30
she was giving out Pokémon cards to people and it it was a lot of
01:28:35
fun. Very we had a lot of fun
01:28:37
interacting with everybody and hanging out and a couple people
01:28:39
were actually interested in joining Satgeek, so we were like
01:28:43
really excited about that too. That's that's actually pretty
01:28:46
cool. Yeah.
01:28:48
We normally don't get. That and we're like, Oh yeah.
01:28:51
Here, here's our information. Just let us know.
01:28:54
That's awesome. That's good.
01:28:56
That's good to see the more events.
01:28:57
That psychics does the the reach just keeps getting bigger and
01:29:02
bigger. So that's cool.
01:29:03
That's awesome. I know.
01:29:04
And then we I recruited Tyler Tater, Bob.
01:29:07
In the chat, for those who don't know, as a handler and he was
01:29:11
hanging out with Eric too. And he he did a good job.
01:29:15
He did a very good job. Did you guys give him up?
01:29:17
Did you guys give him up piece I gave him good boy.
01:29:22
Pants. OK, there you go that.
01:29:24
Sounds weird. Did.
01:29:28
Did did Eric? Mention Tyler's beard.
01:29:31
Was he like, that's a nice beard?
01:29:33
Not as far as I know. Yeah, 'cause it's not a nice
01:29:36
beard. Tyler doesn't have a nice no.
01:29:39
Exactly. Compared to Eric's, definitely
01:29:41
not. Eric has a.
01:29:42
Man beard. Tyler has.
01:29:44
I know, I don't know. He got he got stuck on the
01:29:47
railroad tracks beard. You know what I mean?
01:29:49
I love that Tyler. I love.
01:29:52
I love that Tyler is literally. Not in the chat to defend.
01:29:54
Himself for right now that's that's that's that's also his
01:29:58
fault. But I mean still, yeah, I mean.
01:30:00
Yeah, he was up later. Than the rest of us last night
01:30:03
too. You know who was there, and I
01:30:06
keep. Wanting to talk to him because
01:30:08
he's at. Stockton Con, Like every single
01:30:11
time. But AJ Kirsch, who's been in
01:30:15
games, so he was like in WWE, like 2K252K. 19.
01:30:21
He's played one of like the the customized characters, but he
01:30:25
was also a wrestler to be and he was on WWE tough enough, the
01:30:31
reality series. So he got to wrestle in front of
01:30:35
cameras, got to talk and meet and do promos in front of like
01:30:39
the Rock, you know, So I wanted to know, like his experience of
01:30:45
being in games but also living dreams is like, you know, being
01:30:48
a wrestler, that sort of thing. And then he also hosts comic
01:30:51
cons like Stockton Con and whatnot.
01:30:53
So he'd be a cool person to talk to.
01:30:55
And I saw that he was there. I'm like, oh man, it would have
01:30:57
been it would have been a good conversation with AJ Kirsch.
01:31:00
So sooner or later we'll have that conversation.
01:31:02
But that's cool that he was there.
01:31:04
I mean, if you if you knew he was, if you knew he was there
01:31:07
and wanted. To like try to get him on the
01:31:09
shirts. He could have said something.
01:31:10
I could have talked to him. Yeah, about that.
01:31:13
But I mean, no one told me anything.
01:31:16
Just. Anybody you meet?
01:31:17
Just tell him we want him on. The show doesn't matter.
01:31:20
OK, well I need like a stack of business cards because I'm.
01:31:23
Running out? There you go.
01:31:25
There you go. Like a thick stack.
01:31:27
So it was a good. Event a lot of a lot of people
01:31:29
came out that's. Awesome.
01:31:30
Oh yeah, we. Were super busy, like even when
01:31:33
it was slow. It was busy, which was good.
01:31:37
That's good. Yeah.
01:31:39
I. Like, we had a lot of fun.
01:31:40
I like the way this the Scottish Rite.
01:31:43
Is set up. It's.
01:31:44
It's big, but it's small. Like, yeah, it's it, it feels
01:31:48
big because it, you know, you're in one.
01:31:50
Room. But it also feels small because
01:31:53
you're in one room, you know, like it always looks busy
01:31:56
because there's like people that you see everywhere.
01:31:58
But it it's still like a, a contained space.
01:32:01
So I dig it. I like Scottish, right?
01:32:03
Yeah. Because if you don't know the
01:32:04
layout and you don't know the other places to go.
01:32:07
You're like, what's down here? Wait, there's there's this what?
01:32:10
And it's like another room full with stuff.
01:32:12
And like like I said there we had two separate rooms to
01:32:18
interact and play video games, plus the panel room, plus the
01:32:22
tournament on the stage, then the vendors and then that little
01:32:29
vestibule area. That's where all the special.
01:32:31
Guests were. So there was something
01:32:34
everywhere and they utilized the space extremely well.
01:32:38
Most conventions that are in there do 'cause I they're like
01:32:41
once or twice a month for different conventions.
01:32:44
So I, I know the layout. People ask me where's the other
01:32:47
man down that hall? You'll see it.
01:32:49
And then oh, where's the oh, go fast.
01:32:51
The bathroom turn down that way. And like, I don't even need to
01:32:55
know anything else that I know it like the back of my hand.
01:32:59
I know it like my house. There you go.
01:33:01
You're like, don't use the third stall.
01:33:02
That's the one, Tyler. Used so you know, keep going.
01:33:06
No, Legit though there is a particular sink.
01:33:09
In the women's bathroom, that just won't work ever, no matter
01:33:13
how hard you try. That's funny.
01:33:16
That's funny. All right, set gamers.
01:33:18
Expo. That's cool, I like that.
01:33:20
That's good. Do they only do 1A year?
01:33:23
I thought there was. As far as I know they did, but
01:33:26
they were announcing that. Their next one will be in June
01:33:32
and it's going to be June 21st, 22nd in Roseville.
01:33:41
I don't remember where exactly in Roseville, but it will be in
01:33:44
Roseville at the grounds, probably.
01:33:47
Probably, yeah. 'Cause once I said the days I'm
01:33:50
like, oh darn. That's sinister creature Con I
01:33:53
won't be able to go to that 'cause I'll be at sinister.
01:33:58
You can do, you can do double duty, you know, morning at.
01:34:00
One afternoon at the other. Well, not for what we have
01:34:04
planned for Sinister, especially Saturday.
01:34:06
So there you go. Yeah, more, more news to come on
01:34:11
that on our channel later. I like that.
01:34:14
I like that. There we go.
01:34:16
Well, let's. Let's continue on here.
01:34:20
Sandra, actually before we we let you go here, give us your
01:34:23
plugs, especially talking about things you're going to be
01:34:26
announcing on your channel. Well, tell people where to find
01:34:28
you. OK guys you can find me on
01:34:31
Facebook, Instagram, threads and.
01:34:33
Obviously YouTube, where we're still on the road for 200, we're
01:34:36
at 160, so we need 40 more Subs. We can do all these giveaways of
01:34:41
stuff that we've been compiling and making just to give out to
01:34:45
people for reaching 200. And our next show will be coming
01:34:51
back for the new year on Wednesday the 7th, and we will
01:34:55
update everything that we're having lined up because we are
01:34:59
revamping a little bit and having more guests and have a
01:35:05
lot more stuff happening. And if you want to see us in
01:35:08
person, the next event, we're going to be at SAC Anime only on
01:35:13
Sunday though, And we will be at the Geek Fashion Show because I
01:35:17
did it, of course. Yay.
01:35:22
That's awesome. Awesome.
01:35:27
Right, good stuff. All right.
01:35:30
So let's. Let's let's let's lead home
01:35:32
here. James.
01:35:35
If you want to go to a con or something like that, you know go
01:35:37
to SAC anime or you guys want to go to just any one of these
01:35:40
comic cons that are out there and you want to represent
01:35:42
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it. You can go get some merch,
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01:35:52
And so. Can't you DMS at distance
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01:35:56
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Let us know what sizes how many you're looking for.
01:36:07
Of course, every single one comes with a set of stickers for
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01:36:13
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01:36:16
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01:36:43
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01:36:44
in her in her household. So you know, there's, there's
01:36:47
that. We have every single one of your
01:36:50
shirts. Every single person in the house
01:36:51
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01:36:53
There you go. They rock them regularly.
01:36:56
And of course, guys, if you get distance nerding shirts, I'll
01:37:01
throw in some stickers. Let's do that.
01:37:04
Stickers, stickers. I will throw in some.
01:37:07
Stickers well. With that being said, ladies and
01:37:09
gentlemen, let's talk about our schedule, our schedule on
01:37:14
Tuesdays, distance, nerding the distance starting podcast from
01:37:17
6:30 to 8:30, the show you are watching right now, Thursdays,
01:37:20
typically we do the build. Now we are on hiatus for the
01:37:23
build until after the New Year, mainly because the Thursdays
01:37:26
land on Christmas and New Year. So we're, we're not going to be
01:37:31
doing the build on those days. But you know what?
01:37:33
We are doing a holiday buzzer this Friday.
01:37:39
Still trying to figure out. But guys, it's going to be, it's
01:37:43
going to be the drunken madness. We're we're going to be playing
01:37:46
another game of Jeopardy and we're going to be drinking and
01:37:49
it's going to be absolute madness and mayhem.
01:37:53
I thought it was possibly Saturday.
01:37:56
We were talking Friday, but I mean, if it's Saturday.
01:37:59
It's whatever to me, last I heard in in the chat about that,
01:38:04
but I don't know I. Either way, I as far as I know,
01:38:06
it's not fully confirmed, but we'll, we'll figure it out.
01:38:09
And then if you're, if you're, if you're.
01:38:11
Not in our our group chat. And you want to be a part of
01:38:14
that group chat. Let us know guys.
01:38:17
And that way, you know, when the events are happening and
01:38:18
everything like that when it comes to the buzzer, what we're
01:38:20
playing and who we're going to be, what games we're going to be
01:38:25
playing and what not. Also, you know, keep in touch in
01:38:28
the Discord and we'll be talking about things like that in the
01:38:30
Discord as well. Well ladies and gentlemen, with
01:38:34
that all being said, anybody got any pluggables outside of Sandra
01:38:41
just doing all hers a second ago?
01:38:43
My only plug is the Long Fam cosplay on YouTube.
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People there you go go get it to long fam cosplay.
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Go and subscribe now guys so they can give.
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Stuff away because they want to give away free stuff just like
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we like to give away free stuff. You know, we, we, we all we want
01:38:58
to do is buy your affection. That's it.
01:38:59
We just want to buy your life. We're givers.
01:39:01
We're givers, not takers, right? Exactly.
01:39:03
You know, be a. Maker not a hater exactly I.
01:39:06
Will take a follow or a subscriber.
01:39:09
Too. I'll take that.
01:39:10
Definitely, definitely, definitely take a subscriber.
01:39:12
We'll, we'll take all the subscribers.
01:39:14
Night of OA Merry almost Christmas.
01:39:17
Yes, Sir, Merry almost Christmas.
01:39:20
Oh, merry almost Christmas, Matt.
01:39:23
Are you going to do a show on? Friday, yes or no?
01:39:26
I was wondering about that. That is, that is a good
01:39:29
question. Are they?
01:39:30
I was going to ask. I was going to ask during their
01:39:33
their last. Friday show but I forgot.
01:39:35
So are they even going to wake up for that?
01:39:36
Like like. Yeah, no, we had a lot of
01:39:41
Christmas stuff that happened. I can totally see Kofi being
01:39:48
like, I did not want to wake up this morning, but I did.
01:39:50
So I'm here to be happy, be happy that I decided to wake up
01:39:54
for everybody. That sounds that totally sounds
01:39:57
like something Kofi would open a show with, you know, hey, since
01:40:01
Kofi's not watching because I know Kofi doesn't watch, but.
01:40:04
Hey, Matt, you know it's all very true.
01:40:06
Kofi Kofi's living his his best. Dad era now.
01:40:10
Have you noticed his his his glasses keep getting bigger and
01:40:14
bigger like it's like he's like he's straight run DMC.
01:40:18
All he needs is a like leather jacket and some Adidas.
01:40:21
Don't tell him I said that, but just between us, just between us
01:40:24
here, This is the tree, the safe tree, the trust tree.
01:40:28
Also, if that does that era if that does end up showing.
01:40:31
Up on the Friday show like you just like hey yeah.
01:40:34
So James from distance nerding had a question about your
01:40:37
glasses and that becomes a becomes a thing.
01:40:41
He's gonna hate us. We'll probably be both.
01:40:44
Honored and. I'll probably have some soon.
01:40:50
He said he just had to go get an eye exam.
01:40:52
Hey, dude, all right, look, I'm younger than all of you guys and
01:40:56
I've had I I, I had to get AI had to get eye surgery.
01:41:00
So dude, I'll I'll be honest with you.
01:41:03
I just got. Progressives, which is the new
01:41:06
way of saying you're old as fuck and wearing bifocals.
01:41:11
And I couldn't, I couldn't figure it out.
01:41:14
Like I was such like an old man thing like how do these how do
01:41:17
these work? It was awful.
01:41:19
I had cataracts and I had to have the, I had to have my
01:41:22
lenses. Replaced that's I'm I'm I'm I'm
01:41:25
the old man of the room and I'm younger than all of you just by
01:41:31
a few days, just I'm still. But I I still have I I I had.
01:41:36
I had I had the worst eyes. Now they're fine.
01:41:40
My eyes are fine. But I mean, like, you know, I
01:41:42
chose not to be able to see up front, hence the glasses I'm
01:41:45
wearing now, but I can see far away just mine.
01:41:46
So anyways, all those jokes aside, because I think we just
01:41:50
wasted 15 minutes just making these jokes, That's how we roll
01:41:56
exactly. Especially at the end of the
01:41:58
show. Just wasting all the time,
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fun things and, and, and it supports us guys and we want to
01:42:25
just continue doing shows. We want to continue entertaining
01:42:27
people as much as we somewhat entertain people.
01:42:32
We're not the greatest entertainers, but we're there.
01:42:34
Have something you want to discuss?
01:42:35
Connect with us on all the social media places if it
01:42:37
exists. We are there at distance
01:42:39
nerding. And of course, send us.
01:42:42
You can send us an e-mail, guys. Send us an e-mail.
01:42:44
I want more emails guys. I want to read all of your
01:42:46
emails blasting us or telling us how much you love us.
01:42:50
I actually, I actually would love hate emails.
01:42:54
I would love hate emails. Why?
01:42:56
Because that gives me a reason to talk smack and during mailbag
01:43:00
at the end of the show, right. Like if I, if I've got somebody
01:43:03
who's just like blasting us talking about how much they hate
01:43:05
distance nerding, Oh, that'd be so much fun.
01:43:09
That'll be so much fun. I'm going to send you a a hate
01:43:13
e-mail just talking about how your voice.
01:43:16
Got super high pitched just now it it did.
01:43:18
It did. Why?
01:43:19
Because my voice gets high. When I get excited, OK, I'm
01:43:23
like, all right, all right, 40. I'm I'm like, I'm like Chad the
01:43:27
bird. I'm like Chad the bird.
01:43:28
Like they. Like my voice just goes and
01:43:30
there we go so ladies and gentlemen that is it from us as
01:43:35
always James take us home thanks and keep nerding together all
01:43:40
right well ladies and gentlemen that's.
01:43:41
It from us. We will see everybody.
01:43:44
Possibly at the end of this week, end of this week, we'll
01:43:47
figure it out. We'll figure it out.
01:43:48
We'll let everybody know on. All the social needs till then.
01:43:52
We love you guys. All peace and Bruce go to sleep.
01:43:55
Bruce, go to sleep. He might be He's at his aunt's
01:43:58
house and she's. Really strict on him.
01:44:01
Well, then he's probably passed the heck out.
01:44:04
All right, guys, we'll see everybody.
01:44:05
Later bye deuces deuces since Manson deuces.
01:44:13
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