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Episode Summary
Hollywood is shifting, studios are swinging, and Paramount is officially entering its villain era. In Chapter 262 of Distance NERDing, the crew breaks down major studio moves, franchise shakeups, and why Paramount’s recent power plays could ripple across Marvel, DC, and legacy IPs alike. From Spider-Man Noir and mutant rumors to DC’s evolving slate, Predator’s future, canceled franchises, and the never-ending resurrection of nostalgic properties, this episode is packed with speculation, industry insight, and the usual amount of lovingly chaotic nonsense.
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⏱️ Timestamps & Topics
• 00:00 – Live show warning and chaotic intro energy
• 03:00 – What’s on deck this episode
• 04:20 – Spider-Man Noir and the black-and-white vs color debate
• 08:00 – Spider-Man: Brand New Day rumors, Man-Spider, and mutant implications
• 15:00 – Sinister Six theories and Damage Control as MCU puppet masters
• 21:00 – Doctor Doom, Darkhold magic, and Avengers Doomsday speculation
• 26:30 – Captain America’s role in the multiverse going forward
• 28:30 – DC updates: Supergirl, Superman appearances, and Krypton trauma
• 34:00 – Clayface movie delay and DC’s horror direction
• 40:30 – Paramount power moves and Dan Trachtenberg’s future
• 43:30 – Terminator Zero cancellation and franchise fatigue
• 47:00 – Baywatch reboot because nothing ever truly dies
• 50:00 – Industry headlines and closing thoughts
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🧩 Key Takeaways
• Paramount is quietly positioning itself for long-term franchise control
• Marvel appears to be planting seeds for mutants through Spider-Man
• Doctor Doom may blend tech and magic deeper than previous MCU villains
• DC continues leaning into character-first storytelling
• Nostalgia is still Hollywood’s favorite life raft
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💬 Quotes from the Episode
• “This feels less like rumors and more like Marvel planting landmines.”
• “Cyberpunk’s not the future, but studios absolutely are.”
• “Nothing stays dead in Hollywood. Not even Baywatch.”
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We're going to talk all the Marvel news here.
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So getting started, black and white or color, Nick Cage has
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the answer. Talking to Esquire, Nick Cage
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opened up about the creative push behind Spider Noir to make
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both versions available and why monochrome was always part of
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the vision. I understand why they presented
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it in both and I suggested suggested it in the beginning.
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I remember when Amazon was first thinking about doing it, they
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were were nervous about black and white.
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I said you don't have to do only you don't.
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You don't have to only do it in black and white.
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You could do it in color as well, because this is for all
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ages. But the truth is, they both work
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and they're beautiful for different reasons.
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The color is super saturated and gorgeous.
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Wow, that's how we start the show.
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Like with Nick Cage. Impression with a bad Nick Cage
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impression a pop the pulp inspired Spider man story set in
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the 1930s. Black and white doesn't just
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feel stylish, it feels right. And, and I think we all agree
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based on the, the, the trailer. We'll talk about this in a
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second. Cage even pointed to the recent
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movie experiment that pulled off the same trick.
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Godzilla. Godzilla -1 So guys, your
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thoughts on all this? Let me, let me chime it.
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I was going to be a purist and say it's got to be black and
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white. It's, it's a noir piece, right?
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It's you have to watch it in black and white.
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But I saw some of the stills where they put the the black and
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white version up against the color version.
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And he's exactly right. All the colors are really
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saturated in the color version and it looks gorgeous.
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Yeah, there's almost like a like a painted feel to it.
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I don't know how to how to put it but it looked super pretty.
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Yeah, yeah, 100%. Looks like they saturated all
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the color. It looks absolutely gorgeous.
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I would love to see it in black and white because as far as like
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the pulp feel of it and being that it is, they're going for a
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traditional crime noir feel to it.
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I'm I'm going to watch it both ways.
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I'm going to watch it in black and white, probably watch it in
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black and white 1st and then watch it in color after just to
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see kind of what saturated beautiful colors that they use
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and what choices that they made in the color.
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I'm I'm, I'm very excited for this.
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I, I, I wasn't at first after seeing the trailer, I'm more
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excited for this again. I'm, I'm, I'm a little skeptical
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on it being Ben and not Peter Peter Parker, but I'm I'm OK
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with this. I'm, I'm, I'm definitely going
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to be watching this. What about you should do what
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what? What thoughts do you have on
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this? No, I mean, I was going to kind
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of go the same route as James. Like, you know, I was going to,
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to bring up where like Werewolf by Night and all of that.
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It's like, oh, you never should have released it in color or
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whatever. But I, I, I understand why
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they're doing it. It seems like they're still
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making a deliberate stylistic choice with the color version to
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yeah, to still harken back to that kind of era of filmmaking.
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So I'm apprehensively curious, I guess.
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OK. And that's and that's good.
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So let's continue on, guys. We're going to continue moving
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on here. What came first, the spider or
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the man? According to John Campea, some
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recent plot details floating around focus on Peter's
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genetics. The spider bite didn't just give
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him powers, it altered him on a deeper level.
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And now that change may be spiraling out of control, Campea
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says in the vein of Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.
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We're going to see Peter mutate into a spider.
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Being what I'm I'm this, this, this scares me to see if they do
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this right. But one of the main things about
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this movie is them trying to race against the idea of how to
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prevent Peter from mutating totally.
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There's also speculation that he may develop organic web shooter.
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So they're going to be going into that original Spider Man
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film idea of the organic web shooters.
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Campia also doubled down on the idea that Sadie Sink is playing
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Jean Grey. This is going to be setting up
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the anti anti mutant thing because Jean Grey is being
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hunted because she's a mutant. And this is pre Xavier school,
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which means we're probably going to get first class once we
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actually do get the X-Men. MCU isn't introducing the X-Men
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as a fully formed team right out of the gate.
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So what are you? What are you?
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What are you guys? What are you guys thinking here?
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I was spider bean. I was just thinking if this kind
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of leads into him being kind of mutating and maybe that's the
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reason why they bring in mutants more.
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I doubt they're going to call him a mutant, but they're going
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to do something where like mutants are going to come help
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him or something like that. But, and maybe this is a reason
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why to have Mark Ruffalo and you know, Bruce Banner in this in
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this film. Yeah.
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And and that kind of leads into more mutant stuff.
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OK. I can see where you guys are
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going with all this. Yeah, I, I, I, I still don't
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like this very much, but I I still don't think it's a good
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idea. It's it's interesting,
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certainly, but I'm not, I'm not really sure.
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Again, how long is this movie going to be?
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Because it seems like we're packing a lot of stuff into this
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movie. Again, as much as everybody
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brings that up and like everything is like they,
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they're, they're packing so much in, they're packing so much in
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again, it it seems like Marvel is really good when it comes to,
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hey, you think they're going to pack a lot in there And it's
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more like Easter eggs and more stuff.
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There's also kind of of of a lot of rumors around, you know, now
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because we know that there's this might be the jump off point
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for mutants. This also leads into kind of
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like the reason the Punisher is there and different things like
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that. There's a lot of stuff that's
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coming up in regards to all of that.
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It could be fun and yeah, it's like it's an interesting way to
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start to introduce mutants. Yeah, no, I'm I'm interested.
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I was still kind of holding out hope we'd get like Sadie Sync is
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as Firestar and like really lean into the kind of Spider Man is
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amazing friends thing. So that'd be funny, but yeah,
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no, I'm, I'm, I'm curious about this.
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So I, I don't know if they do it.
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I think it'll be interesting. It's a different direction to
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go, right? Yeah, for this, yeah.
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I I agree, it seems like every week there's some kind of spider
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man brand new day rumor. Right.
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But it's like, OK, now it's a completely different movie.
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Yeah, exactly. It goes in a different
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direction. You're like, what is happening
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in this movie? And, and maybe that's why I feel
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like, oh, they're packing a lot into the food because I've heard
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all of these rumors. It's like, what?
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What the hell is this about? So.
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A couple months ago I thought having Punisher in this movie
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would be the weirdest thing. No it's not.
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It's the Man Spider. So, so I, I feel like they're
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planting seeds. I think there's a lot of seed
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planting, especially considering that they're talking about doing
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like a whole new trilogy of Spider man movies.
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Where I think this is leading to where, where I think what
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they're going to plant the seeds for is, you know, a lot of us
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have complained about how much they biffed on Carnage, right?
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The fact that they're bringing in Manspider tells me one thing
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that we're probably leading into the whole Carnage storyline and,
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and, and the reason I believe that, and the reason I believe
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that is because 1 of Carnage's kind of like main lackeys is
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Doppelganger, who is a clone of Man Spider, a clone of Peter
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Parker as Man Spider. Also gross.
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Yeah, and also gross. Doppelganger.
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Doppelganger is a very interesting character and so,
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you know, and and and again, this could lead into a proper
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version of carnage, a proper version of venom us getting like
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full on MCU versions of characters that we've all been
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asking for. So I I'm, I'm not against this.
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I feel like, you know, again, the two things that this would
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lead to is we could get the Carnage storyline from from,
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from the 90s, but then at the same time this leads into
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mutants. Technically he's a mutate, but I
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mean like mutants. Yeah, it's effectually the same
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thing. Yeah.
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But again, we also remember all these things are rumors, so we
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don't know what's going to happen.
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Also. Hi, Jr.
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Yeah, we. We.
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Yeah. We don't know what's going to
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happen. This is all a rumor.
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Yeah. So none of this could happen.
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Can I, can I throw this out there just because as we were
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talking about, I was thinking about it like this whole all
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these different rumors and like, like what Philippe is saying,
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like it could be bits and pieces thrown in here and there, but
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not like the entire movie. Is this, you know, if Sadie Sink
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is Jean Grey, maybe she could be like messing with his mind, like
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almost like get away from me. Like maybe he's chasing her for
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whatever reason and he's like, OK, spider man, let's see.
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Let's see what it's like if you turned into a mutant like and
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she mute she like in her in his brain mutates him into the man's
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back. And he's.
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Like what is happening, you know, and it turns into that.
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So she's like, stay away it. Becomes a little trippier you.
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Know what's crazy is that that kind of adds like more credence
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to because this is going to be something that messes with his
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head because Mysterio did the same thing to him.
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So with Mysterio messing with his head and her messing with
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his head like this kid like easily be something that's just
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like oh I I hate it when people mess with my head like that.
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
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Oh man, that's that James with I, I, I hope we clip that James.
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That is a great, a great theory there.
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That would be really cool if they did that.
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So let's let's go ahead. Go ahead and move on to our next
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story here. The Peter Tingle is going to
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tingle like it's never tingled before.
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Tingling just thinking about it. We're going to be tingling while
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we're tingling and tingling. The tingle.
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Peter Parker is about to have a rough sketch stretch in the in
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the MCU. The sequel is shaping up to be
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villain heavy with deep cut baddies and capped off with what
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insiders are teasing as a crazy twist that will shake things up.
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Tom Holland, spider man will go toe to toe with Tombstone and
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Scorpion, with rumors also pointing to the hand lurking
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somewhere in the shadows. So earlier rumors brought up
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Tarantula and Boomerang, and now the list is just getting even
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deeper. I don't know if you guys saw the
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the the, the shots that got put out, like the the the concept
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pictures that got put out there. Yeah, so they over the weekend,
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they put out a bunch of concept stuff of Peter Parker and the
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Hulk together, but then also Tarantula, Boomerang and
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Scorpion. And it's it's really cool.
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Tarantula, you know, he he's his his his costume is very comic
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book accurate. Boomerang is a really cool mash
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up of like every version of Boomerang that's ever been in
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the comics. So there's like different
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aspects in his costume that look like different versions from the
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comics. And then Matt Gargan the the the
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pieces on his costume look very much like construction
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equipment, which is very in line with the way his character has
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been so far within the MCU. Interesting, interesting.
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So I have. AI have another theory about
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about all these different villains.
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Go for it, man. 'Cause they keep teasing, they
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did it in I think the last Spider Man movie.
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And then in Wonder Man, the DODC, the the Department of
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Damage, damage Control. I think, I think they're going
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to be acting almost like Amanda Waller in the DCU and they're
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going to like grab all these villains and that's going to be
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like their version of the Suicide Squad.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean sinister. 6 The
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Dark Avengers. That's the sinister 6.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty. Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah. But they weren't done by the
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DODC. No, but I mean like this is a
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way that you can do the sinister 6 where it makes sense within
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their universe. Yeah.
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You know, it's not just, it's it's not just a bunch of like,
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it's not just a bunch of bad guys that just decided one day,
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hey, we're going to team up and fight Spider Man.
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Like if you do damage controls, like, hey, we will commute your
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sentences if you guys can take down Spider Man, Yeah.
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Exactly, that could be cool. You know, 'cause last we saw
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Matt Gargan was in jail. So I mean, like, that's, that
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actually makes a lot, a lot of sense.
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Like, man, that's, that's, that's pretty cool.
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So insider cryptic 4K qual claims that 8 Ball and the
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Jackal are also going to make their dim MCU display debut.
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So hold on. 8 Ball, Jackal, Tarantula, Boomerang, Scorpion
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and Tombstone. It's a sinister 6.
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Yes, they go. It's a whole new 6 but.
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Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's, it's it's a
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different Sinister 6, but it's still a Sinister 6.
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And I mean, they've done that in the past.
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That's what they did with Guardians.
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This was the new version of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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We didn't get the original Guardians of the Galaxy in that
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movie until like the third movie.
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That's a good point. You know, so I mean, like,
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they're probably building a new sinister 6 that works within
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this universe. I that's Oh my God, it's genius.
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So there's also an interesting casting wrinkle.
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Cryptic reports that Sadie Sync's sister JC Sync has a
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small role in the film that lines up with another recent
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rumor suggesting Jean Grey's older sister Sarah could appear.
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So Sarah Grey may be in this as well.
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Supposedly Sarah's death triggers the damage control
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investigation into Jean, which opens the door to some big
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mutant related implications down the road.
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So this could be absolutely like, like huge hinging on the
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rest of the universe here, right?
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And then they said Spider Man brand New Day was going to have
00:19:15
larger implications for the entire universe.
00:19:18
If all these rumors are correct, this is exactly where they're
00:19:20
going. Yeah, and then the DODC becomes
00:19:24
like a bigger bad, like a like an overarching bad that may span
00:19:29
more than just this movie, you know what I mean?
00:19:32
I wonder if damage control just folds into like, like like, or
00:19:41
maybe Senator Kelly gets oversight over them.
00:19:45
Something like that, yeah. Yeah.
00:19:46
So, like, you know, because if they're a government
00:19:48
organization, then you can get Senator Kelly to have to have
00:19:53
jurisdiction like, like, like oversight over them.
00:19:57
And that directly creates Senator Kelly as the enemy.
00:20:03
Exactly. We're doing it.
00:20:05
We're solving it. You're welcome.
00:20:07
I, I You're. Welcome, Kevin Feige.
00:20:08
James and and James probably cracked the code here and he's
00:20:12
he's doing a really good job. I did not mention here before
00:20:15
Spider Man War is swinging on to prime on May 27th of this year.
00:20:22
We're going to be getting Spider Man brand new day on July 31st,
00:20:26
2026. 30. 1st That's right. So they moved it.
00:20:31
It originally was set for July 24th, but they're moving it to
00:20:36
July 31st. OK, wow.
00:20:39
Just think about that. We're getting Spider or Spider
00:20:42
Noir in May and then Spider Man Brand New Day in July so like 2
00:20:48
months and we're going to get all the Spider Man content.
00:20:51
Right. It's it's going to be great.
00:20:52
And I think they're working on another season of friendly
00:20:55
neighborhood spider man 2, which takes place in the in a parallel
00:20:58
universe. So I mean like, yeah, this is
00:21:00
this is going to be good man. I'm I'm, I'm very excited for
00:21:03
all of this. I love I love all the spider man
00:21:05
content. So it's.
00:21:07
Making you tingle. Speaking of the tingles
00:21:11
happening because we're going to get some more tingles here.
00:21:14
It was all it was Victor all along.
00:21:18
It was Victor all along. There you go.
00:21:21
It was. We'll fix it in post.
00:21:27
Yeah, exactly. A new update suggests that the
00:21:30
villain could be tapping into something deeply supernatural
00:21:34
and potentially reality breaking.
00:21:36
During a recent Cosmic Circus Q&A, insider Alex Perez said The
00:21:41
dark hold, which we thought was destroyed.
00:21:44
The dark hold, the runes, the way Agatha absorbs magic, it's
00:21:48
all relevant to something Doomed does in Avengers Doomsday.
00:21:53
All I can tell you is to be where the man who carries the
00:21:57
word of God. No, they're bringing in the word
00:22:00
of God. OK.
00:22:01
I'm sorry there's so much going on here right now.
00:22:05
Oh, my God. OK.
00:22:06
You said a lot of words and I don't understand word of God.
00:22:09
Is that like another book it? Kind of it's it's it's it's kind
00:22:13
of like a a totem that Doom gets his hands on that gives him like
00:22:18
a shit ton of power. Yeah.
00:22:21
So the idea that Doom's powers, the power set draws from the
00:22:25
same mystical playbook as Wanda, Vision and Agatha all along also
00:22:30
suggests that Marvel isn't done exploring the fallout of the
00:22:32
dark hold and chaos magic. I am kind of juiced about that
00:22:38
if that's the route that they're going.
00:22:39
And I kind of had a feeling that's where they were going to
00:22:41
go because that's where the magic is at, right?
00:22:45
For those who are unfamiliar with what Doom actually is and
00:22:49
only know him from the movies because they've never played
00:22:51
with this that much in the movies, in the previous movies,
00:22:54
Doom is a character that relies on both technology and magic.
00:23:00
He is someone who was able to do both.
00:23:04
His mother was a was a witch and his father was like a genius
00:23:08
level scientist. So basically he's a melding of
00:23:11
both. This dude is basically Iron Man
00:23:13
if he knows magic. Like Iron Man and Doctor
00:23:17
Strange. Yeah, mash together.
00:23:19
Yeah, if you took Iron Man and Doctor Strange and put them
00:23:21
together, you get Doctor Doom. That's cool.
00:23:25
Yeah, and Doctor Doom is ridiculous.
00:23:29
The way he taps into magic is is absolutely crazy, but then at
00:23:33
the same time like the Doombots and he can like basically
00:23:37
fabulous. This dude is like a step below
00:23:39
Forge when it comes to like creating like like technological
00:23:43
wonders. He's he's absolutely crazy.
00:23:46
I, I can't wait for this movie to get here because I'm I'm done
00:23:50
with all the rumors and all the speculation.
00:23:52
I just want to see how they're going to do it.
00:23:54
I want to see how they're going to take Tony Stark and Robert
00:23:57
Downey Junior and make him become, you know, Victor von
00:24:01
Doom, Doctor Doom. I just want to see how what's
00:24:04
going to happen and then tell the story after that.
00:24:07
Yeah, again, this is, this is absolutely shaping up to be very
00:24:12
much a, a like comic accurate, kind of like, like, like where
00:24:18
they're going, they're going very comic accurate.
00:24:20
And I, I think they learned that they don't need to hold back on
00:24:24
like comic book wackiness, right?
00:24:27
Because like, you know, it seemed like for the longest time
00:24:30
they were afraid to just like really lean into the crazy
00:24:33
things that were in comics. And now it's like, I, I like, I
00:24:37
think they feel like we've been doing this for what, 20 years?
00:24:40
We, we're not going to baby the audience with all this stuff.
00:24:43
Let's just give them exactly what is in the comics.
00:24:46
I don't think anybody's going to be mad if there's a dude who
00:24:50
combines magic with, with technology and you know, you
00:24:53
have all these different warlocks and, and this crazy
00:24:57
stuff. I mean, like, look at what
00:24:58
Vision Quest is going to be going to be becoming like we've
00:25:02
had like everybody's favorite character is Wanda.
00:25:04
Like there's so much going on. You know, Agatha like like it
00:25:09
made a big splash within the MCUI think that they're just
00:25:12
like we're we're just not going to talk down to our audience and
00:25:15
we're going to put things out there as they are.
00:25:17
Yeah, yeah, that's, that's totally true.
00:25:20
And that's how they started The Avengers anyway.
00:25:22
Like Captain America was frozen in ice for, you know, how many
00:25:28
years. Like it's OK, just tell fun
00:25:31
stories and and what we're on board.
00:25:33
Absolutely. Yeah.
00:25:34
Now this is going to be great. All right, Well, let's let's go
00:25:39
ahead and continue on here unless we have anybody who has
00:25:42
any last minute speaky speakies. I'm.
00:25:46
Good. All right, the multiverse is
00:25:48
getting personal. Steve Rogers is back, and he's
00:25:52
at the heart of the story. In the recent interview with
00:25:54
Empire Magazine, the Russos made it very clear that what we've
00:25:58
seen so far is only the beginning.
00:26:01
We have a special affinity with the character.
00:26:03
We can't see his narrative without his.
00:26:06
We can't see this narrative without his central role in it,
00:26:09
Basically the special place he holds among the ensemble.
00:26:13
He sort of retains that moving forward.
00:26:16
Now, that doesn't necessarily mean that Steve is the sole lead
00:26:19
of the film, but it does confirm that he is the driving force of
00:26:23
the story. So a lot of those speculation
00:26:26
and all the rumors that we were coming up with where, you know,
00:26:28
maybe he's returning the stones or there's implications because
00:26:31
of the stones. Things like that are going to
00:26:33
have to do with the story. It seems like that's kind of
00:26:36
what's going on. It also seems like, again, like
00:26:41
the family aspect we talked about in the past, I'm hoping we
00:26:44
get Captain Hydra in this. Like I, I think there's a lot
00:26:47
going on and that Steve is at the center of this because of
00:26:51
the actions that he took in the last in in the last set of
00:26:54
Avengers films. Yeah, totally.
00:26:56
And, you know, to be honest, I think we need this through line
00:26:59
and it kind of has to be Steve. You know, if if RJD is going to
00:27:04
be the Batty and you know, Thor's kind of off being Thor.
00:27:08
And we have a couple other, you know, players that are kind of
00:27:12
off the board, like if Hulk's going to be over doing the
00:27:15
spider man thing and and you know, sorry, Black Widow and
00:27:19
Hawkeyes retired. Like we kind of need that
00:27:22
grounded piece of Steve is the through line through this entire
00:27:27
long story. We, it's, it's all about Steve.
00:27:31
So I I think that's will help get audiences back on board with
00:27:35
what's going on in the MCU. Right right now I agree with
00:27:38
that. I I 100% agree with he's the
00:27:41
through line in the story. What about you should do?
00:27:43
What are your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm
00:27:48
interested to see how they pull it off.
00:27:51
So, you know, I like that that Stephen gone, but I think they
00:27:53
need to to give a good enough reason for him to come back.
00:27:57
And this feels like we're, we're getting there.
00:27:59
So right. Yeah, I'm, I'm looking forward
00:28:02
to it. I agree with that.
00:28:04
So, yeah, ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of of the Marvel
00:28:09
of of Jay Jonah. Of course, before we let Jay
00:28:13
Jonah go, he's he's, he's got some words for us.
00:28:17
Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like and
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subscribe. All right, so that with that
00:28:20
being going on, let's let's move on here.
00:28:22
We're getting into DC. It's time for watching the
00:28:26
Watchtower. I'm Batman.
00:28:31
There you go. All right, and this is this is
00:28:35
mine. So how much corn are we sweating
00:28:39
here? According to Scooper Axel Talks
00:28:41
Films, corn sweat Superman will appear in three scenes in
00:28:44
Supergirl. These aren't throwaway
00:28:46
appearances either. The report claims the scenes
00:28:48
play a key role in shaping cars or else's emotional journey.
00:28:52
Another insider, Cryptic HD Quality, backed that up, though
00:28:55
they added that Superman might only physically appear once.
00:28:59
So, yeah, So what do we think about this?
00:29:03
I think I think that's good. I think that's a good balance. 3
00:29:05
scenes. He's not taking over.
00:29:08
It's not, you know, Superman and Supergirl movie.
00:29:12
It's just the Supergirl movie and it has a couple scenes of
00:29:16
Superman in it. OK, great.
00:29:17
You know, and I could be simple like, you know, she's off in
00:29:21
some, you know, crazy Galaxy at a bar and he calls her, you
00:29:25
know, and and he's like, hey, come home, what are you doing?
00:29:29
Come home? And she's like whatever, you
00:29:31
know, just slams the phone down or whatever.
00:29:33
They have intergalactic phones they have to slam down.
00:29:36
Well, I mean, yeah, it's like it could be, you know, flashbacks
00:29:39
or holograms or they have some sort of weird connection to each
00:29:43
other. So the storms.
00:29:46
I was going to say the story is supposed to be parallel to
00:29:49
what's going on with in in Superman.
00:29:52
You know, this is Cara off world and and Clark is taking care of
00:29:57
crypto at that moment, right? So, you know, it could be her
00:30:01
calling in to say how's my dog, what's my dog doing and
00:30:04
everything like that. And it could be like right in
00:30:06
the middle of when Lex stole the dog.
00:30:09
So she has, he has to be like he's doing OK and you just like
00:30:13
see him going to fly over or, you know, like a Comic Relief
00:30:18
kind of like scene or it's a opening or tail end scene.
00:30:23
And it's not going to be something that is, you know,
00:30:26
immediately a showcase of Superman.
00:30:28
It is her interacting before she goes on her trip and asking him
00:30:33
to watch the dog, or her interacting when she gets back
00:30:37
from the trip, which ends. You know, it's basically the
00:30:40
same scene, you know, you end the movie.
00:30:41
With yeah, I was meant to say it could be like the same scene
00:30:44
just from her perspective. Right.
00:30:45
So she gets there, She's like seems like she's upset and
00:30:48
everything like that. All the reviews that have been
00:30:51
coming out, because they've been doing early screenings, all the
00:30:53
reviews that have been coming out about Supergirl have been
00:30:56
that she takes center stage, that it is all about her.
00:30:59
It is a very good story. So I don't think that in any way
00:31:05
Kalil is going to over shadow her in in any way in the story.
00:31:09
Yeah, and one of the I was going to say one of the lines from
00:31:13
from the trailer, the Supergirl trailer is she goes, he sees the
00:31:18
good in everyone. I see the truth.
00:31:20
And I love how they flip that line like, hey, he wants to be
00:31:24
positive glass half full. And she's like, I'm bare bones.
00:31:28
And this is exactly how it how it is.
00:31:30
Right. Yeah, it's, it's much more, I
00:31:33
guess, realistic ish. Much more realistic.
00:31:37
Yeah. So Millie Alcock confirmed his
00:31:40
involvement during interview. She just basically said, yeah,
00:31:44
he was there. It was like 2° apparently on
00:31:48
set. And then the the whole scene was
00:31:50
apparently in the Kryptonian language, which is kind of
00:31:54
interesting. So it looks like there are going
00:31:57
to be some flashbacks and some we're going to get a little bit
00:31:59
more detail on this version of Krypton and all of that.
00:32:02
I, I kind of want that. I kind of, I kind of want to see
00:32:05
'cause remember from her perspective, she was already
00:32:08
like a young adult when when Krypton was destroyed.
00:32:13
And the whole idea with all this is her trauma.
00:32:16
I kind of want to see that. And I mean, she's not going to
00:32:17
be speaking, you know, English when she's going through this.
00:32:22
Like, they've established that they speak a different language
00:32:24
in Kryptonian. So I mean, like, she's going to
00:32:26
be speaking straight up Kryptonian with her father in
00:32:29
the early scenes or at least in the flashback scenes.
00:32:31
So I mean, yeah, I kind of want that.
00:32:35
I'm excited for that. Which I'm always excited for
00:32:38
more conlings, that's one of my things.
00:32:40
So I'm almost excited for that. I am interested if maybe the
00:32:45
beginning of this movie will be because we didn't do this for
00:32:49
Superman, which I'm glad we didn't because everybody
00:32:50
basically knows the story. It would be funny if we did like
00:32:53
a destruction of Krypton as the beginning of this movie.
00:32:56
Right. Oh yeah, Yeah.
00:32:58
But from her perspective, yeah. So that's we've done that less.
00:33:01
And I would prefer that. I would prefer it being from her
00:33:04
perspective because it's different than Kalil who did not
00:33:07
experience the actual destruction of Krypton.
00:33:09
Right. And especially since this seems
00:33:11
to be a slightly more like imperialistic and kind of a
00:33:16
little bit eugenic Krypton, it's going to be interesting to see
00:33:19
that version I. Think I think they're going to
00:33:21
build up her the trauma that she went through as a kid because
00:33:25
another one of her lines is like Krypton didn't die in a day.
00:33:30
So I think we're they're slowly going to show how Krypton, you
00:33:34
know, collapses so to. Speak.
00:33:35
And it could be a whole big political thing about, you know,
00:33:38
they could have done it to themselves and all of that.
00:33:40
Exactly. Exactly.
00:33:42
Could be good. All right, Does everybody,
00:33:44
everybody get that? Good?
00:33:46
All right, so let's stop claying around and just release this
00:33:51
movie. DC Studios has officially moved
00:33:54
Clayface off its original September slot and into the late
00:33:57
October 2020 sixth slot, while Warner Brothers has nudged
00:34:01
Practical Magic too. Guess we're mentioning that into
00:34:04
the space it left behind. This shift might actually work
00:34:07
in its favor since this seems to be a darker, horror inspired
00:34:10
film. So yeah, so they've just moved
00:34:14
it a little bit. Yeah, not, not a huge deal, but
00:34:19
it's a little, a little bit later than I expected, but.
00:34:22
Yeah. But yeah, again, if this is like
00:34:24
a horror that seems like a body horror kind of thing, then yeah,
00:34:27
this would be a good time to do it.
00:34:31
Because then yeah, it is a body horror because is it Reese or
00:34:35
Rice? Reese Reese Tom Reese Harris
00:34:40
plays Matt Hagen, an actor whose life collapses after his face is
00:34:43
disfigured, while Naomi Aki Co stars as the scientists he turns
00:34:47
to for help. Those does seem to be kind of
00:34:51
body horror. And then that of course turns
00:34:54
him into Clayface, which is even more.
00:34:56
Man, they turned this film so fast.
00:34:58
Yeah, they did. They it went from like, hey,
00:35:00
this is an idea to like we're filming to it's done and wrapped
00:35:04
to we're putting it out like, Oh my gosh.
00:35:06
Yeah, it's, it's interesting that this will be what'll be the
00:35:10
third in this universe, like third actual film in this
00:35:12
universe. Yeah, it is.
00:35:15
It is interesting that they're doing a Clayface film as they
00:35:18
didn't. They say this is this is going
00:35:20
to be in Elseworlds thing. Did they?
00:35:24
I think they did. Well, I mean, it would seems
00:35:27
like it would work well in the Reeves of verse too, but you
00:35:32
know. Yeah, I could be cool.
00:35:34
I I could see them putting it like what you're saying in the
00:35:37
Matt Reeves The Batman universe. Yeah, Yeah, it would.
00:35:42
It would probably sit there because that's a little darker.
00:35:44
It's a little bit more. Yeah.
00:35:46
So no, this is, this is interesting.
00:35:49
There's so yeah. So the phone was previously set
00:35:52
to arrive on September 11th, which would have been an
00:35:55
interesting placement, but we're not open on October 23rd would
00:35:59
have. Been very.
00:36:00
Interesting was that everybody got there, yeah.
00:36:03
So I think that leaves us here for DC.
00:36:08
So, so moving out of DC here. I'm Batman.
00:36:12
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00:37:17
Let's get into these one shots. Guys.
00:37:19
It's time for headlines. All right, get into it.
00:37:26
Spoilers, you fools. Thanks to Magneto, I mean Sir
00:37:30
Ian McKellen, we've got a clearer idea of exactly where
00:37:35
Gandalf fits into The Lord of the Rings, the hunt for Gollum,
00:37:39
he said. By the way, what's up with Ian
00:37:43
McKellen? Just giving out all the spoilers
00:37:45
and all this. I don't know, I feel like he
00:37:47
might just be like too old at this point to give a shit.
00:37:58
Unless they're rumors, then they're passing all through him.
00:38:01
Exactly right. He like signed 0 Ndas.
00:38:06
It's fine, he's in Sir Ian McKellen.
00:38:08
Sir Ian McKellen. He said it's not in the in the
00:38:13
position to say, but the script is designed to appeal to people
00:38:16
who like the Lord of the Rings. It's an adventure story.
00:38:19
Aragon tries to find Gollum with Gandalf directing operations
00:38:24
from the sidelines. So one of the things they said
00:38:27
is they're going to cast a a new Aragon for this.
00:38:31
Aragorn. Yes, sorry, what was I saying?
00:38:35
Aragon. Aragon.
00:38:36
Using Aragon like the the Kingdom from 700 years ago.
00:38:42
That's what I meant anyway, McKellen.
00:38:45
Also shared going to be in this movie.
00:38:48
You know what it was? It's the other dragon story
00:38:51
from. Oh, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:53
There you go, sorry. I bet.
00:38:55
McKellen also shared another update that it's sure to get
00:38:58
fans excited. It's going to start filming in
00:39:01
May and the film is set to hit theaters in December of 2027.
00:39:06
So he's he's got rumors, he's got casting, he's got release
00:39:10
dates, he's got production dates.
00:39:13
I mean, just my very quick opinion here is I'm looking
00:39:18
forward to this. I don't think we need it.
00:39:21
I don't think it's necessary. I feel like it's kind of
00:39:23
shoehorned in, but I'm curious. It's it's Warner, it's Warner
00:39:28
Brothers just trying to cash in. That's what I'm saying is that
00:39:31
it's like, OK, And it's very transparent.
00:39:33
That's what they're doing. Yeah.
00:39:34
So I'm like, at least do do some salmarillion shit, do a weird
00:39:39
animated like kind of trippy First age thing.
00:39:44
You know what I was I was about to say, I was about to say why
00:39:47
don't they do any like Lord of the Rings series, but that the
00:39:52
one that's out on it's on Prime Video, right, Not on Mac.
00:39:55
Right, Yeah, they did rings power, but I think you have the
00:39:57
Selma rolling, You have a bunch of stories there.
00:39:59
You can do all the stuff about the Selma rolls and.
00:40:03
The origins of the elves and you can start with the creation of
00:40:06
the world and like that would be awesome and it's.
00:40:09
I mean, they like well. If you get animated so you can
00:40:10
do all this other stuff, it's like there's so much material
00:40:12
here. They they didn't animate.
00:40:14
They did an animated war of the Rohiram.
00:40:16
And I mean like apparently was really good.
00:40:17
I haven't seen it yet, but I mean like apparently.
00:40:19
Yeah, I need to watch that, Yeah.
00:40:20
I I think it's on Max right now so I need to, I definitely need
00:40:23
to watch it. Yeah, it's interesting how they
00:40:25
went with a a film for this, but OK, there we go.
00:40:29
Next one it just anyway, yeah, move on.
00:40:35
Is Paramount the one that beats the Predator?
00:40:38
Dan Trachtenberg has delivered three amazing Predator projects.
00:40:44
Trachtenberg signing a first look deal with Paramount, though
00:40:48
fans thought the Predator universe would be done.
00:40:51
Disney owns Predator, not Paramount.
00:40:53
Trachtenberg spoke with IO9. I have this deal at Paramount
00:40:58
where I'm thrilled and they are thrilled to make some of the
00:41:01
original movies that I've always had in my head in my heart.
00:41:04
And of course, they also have very cool IP and all that, you
00:41:09
know, timing may affect certain things, but both things are in
00:41:12
my heart. Anything is on the table.
00:41:14
So I read more about this article and he said he's pretty
00:41:18
much saying that he's still part of Predator, but he just has
00:41:21
these other projects that he can start with Paramount.
00:41:25
But I think Disney still has him on board for the Predator
00:41:30
franchise. You know what I would be 100% OK
00:41:33
giving Dan Trachtenberg, what's that fucking Halo?
00:41:37
Give him Halo. Oh yeah.
00:41:41
OK. You see what he did with
00:41:42
Predator? Give him Halo.
00:41:45
Give this man Halo. Or or yeah or give him fucking I
00:41:51
just something that has not been fun.
00:41:53
Give him Elder Scrolls. Do some Elder Scrolls shit.
00:41:56
Give him like Mass Effect or something, you know, really.
00:42:02
Yeah, give him an IP that he can play with, yeah.
00:42:05
Right. Exactly.
00:42:07
So I like that he seems to be able to to kind of strike that
00:42:09
balance between being, you know, respectful to it and like
00:42:12
getting to the the core of what it actually is, but also
00:42:15
expanding the universes and really, you know, telling new
00:42:18
and different stories and so completely.
00:42:20
Or give him a live action South Park.
00:42:22
There we go. Or that.
00:42:26
Easy, easy, easy. Do not do live action South Park
00:42:30
Paramount. Do not do a live action South.
00:42:34
Park, I hope, I hope what they do, though, I hope they let him
00:42:38
cook. And that goes for Paramount and
00:42:40
for Disney too. Like, hey, we understand we have
00:42:42
a talent here and he's got a, a, a brilliant way of storytelling.
00:42:47
You know, we'll have him on these projects.
00:42:49
We'll, we'll work with each other.
00:42:51
Let's just make sure we can play together, yeah, As studios.
00:42:54
So I think I just went and rewatched Predator Badlands
00:42:57
because it's on Hulu right now. It's it's even better the second
00:43:00
time. There you go.
00:43:03
I like it. All right, You know who's having
00:43:07
problems with their franchise? Give me your boots, your
00:43:10
motorcycle. And only one season.
00:43:13
The war against Skynet has officially come to an end at
00:43:17
Netflix. The streamer has pulled the plug
00:43:20
on Terminator Zero. Creator Matson Tomlin said the
00:43:24
critical and audience reception to it was so tremendous.
00:43:28
But in the end, in the end of the day, not nearly enough
00:43:33
people watched it. I would have loved to deliver on
00:43:36
the future war I had planned in seasons 2 and three, but I'm
00:43:40
also very happy with how it feels contained as is.
00:43:45
Yes, so there. I mean, we go from Trachtenberg
00:43:49
and he's got Predator franchise and going to do more stuff, but
00:43:52
his his franchise isn't dead or his vision for the franchise
00:43:56
isn't dead. To Tomlin, sorry your your
00:44:01
vision for this franchise is over.
00:44:04
It, it, it was really good because it tells the origin of
00:44:07
like, you know, kind of like Skynet and the first, the first
00:44:12
Terminators that it makes and why it creates the Terminators
00:44:14
and everything like that. Like it's actually a really good
00:44:18
show. And I mean, like he said, he had
00:44:21
a lot of critical success. It was really well done.
00:44:24
It was really well received, but just not enough people watched
00:44:27
it. And Netflix tends to cancel it
00:44:30
if it's not like massive numbers.
00:44:31
So it's like, fuck yeah. And like I.
00:44:33
And like, and it was just because there wasn't kind of in
00:44:36
this, sorry. Yeah, I, I, I hope somebody else
00:44:39
picks it up. I, I, I think what Universal
00:44:41
owns Terminator? Who?
00:44:43
Who owns Terminator? I don't know, I have to look it
00:44:45
up. Yeah, whoever owns Terminator,
00:44:49
you know, hopefully whatever streaming network that they
00:44:51
have. So like, if it's Universal, then
00:44:54
that would be NBC, right? Interesting Skydance.
00:45:00
So it would be. It would be paramount.
00:45:02
It'd be paramount. That's why they cancelled it.
00:45:04
It's because Paramount's being assholes when it comes to the
00:45:06
shit they're trying to do, right?
00:45:07
Now. Or that's what it is.
00:45:09
Or they're like, hey, Dan, Dan Trachtenberg, now that we have
00:45:13
you, what do, what do you think about Terminator?
00:45:17
That's the hopeful version. They've been talking about
00:45:20
revitalizing it, so yeah. And do it on Paramount Plus.
00:45:23
Interesting. No, I was going to say that it
00:45:27
was just because I'm not running in this world.
00:45:28
I'm not really a terminated person, but.
00:45:32
You're not a. Cyborg didn't.
00:45:34
I've never. No, I'm not a Cyborg.
00:45:37
I have never heard of this show. Oh dude, we, we, we can't.
00:45:42
Think about it. We covered it on the show, okay?
00:45:44
Well, I mean, I've been there for that, or I forgot about
00:45:46
that, but there were no trailers or anything.
00:45:49
Yeah. So I probably heard about it
00:45:50
once and there there was nothing.
00:45:52
It was a full anime and and they can't, they did push it on
00:45:56
Netflix. It's just like, you know, it was
00:45:58
one of those things that was on the like on the the front screen
00:46:01
of Netflix. So it wasn't like a, oh, we're
00:46:03
not telling anybody about this. It was like one of those things
00:46:05
where you opened up Netflix and it was right there, right?
00:46:08
And if you're not really on Netflix, you're not going to see
00:46:11
anything. Right, it was.
00:46:12
Maybe that's a wider problem with advertisement.
00:46:14
Yeah, it was it again. It was a really good show.
00:46:17
James. Did you watch it?
00:46:19
I didn't watch it, but I did see a bit of it.
00:46:22
Yeah. I didn't watch the whole.
00:46:23
Thing I remember when I finished the season because I binge it
00:46:25
all in one day. I remember messaging you guys
00:46:29
going like dude this show is awesome.
00:46:30
If you haven't watched it, you have to watch it.
00:46:34
Well, you did your best. All right, moving on.
00:46:38
All right. That's good.
00:46:39
Moving on, get your SPF 50 ready.
00:46:43
We're going back to the beach. Stephen Emil, yes from Arrow and
00:46:48
Heels, is the first star to be cast in Matt Nix's Baywatch
00:46:53
reboot for Fox. Thank you Fox.
00:46:58
He will play the series regular role of Hobby Buchanan, a
00:47:02
character from the original series.
00:47:04
The character is now a Baywatch captain, following the footsteps
00:47:08
of his legendary father Mitch Buchanan, played by David
00:47:12
Hasselhoff. Of course, the Hoff.
00:47:14
The reboot received a 12 episode straight to series order.
00:47:19
Production is slated to begin shooting this spring on Venice
00:47:22
Speech and on the Fox Studio lot in Century City.
00:47:27
I like. It I have one thing to say to
00:47:28
this it better be good. In the immortal words of Chad,
00:47:31
the bird hot. Hot, yeah.
00:47:39
What are the chances under over under that we get the Hoff on
00:47:43
the series? Oh yeah.
00:47:45
He's the dad, right? That's what I'm saying.
00:47:48
Because he's going to show up. Because this is a legacy series,
00:47:51
right? So Stephen Amell is playing
00:47:52
Hobie. So I mean, if we're getting
00:47:54
Hobie on the series and we know that his dad is Mitch, are we
00:47:58
getting Mitch on the series at least as a cameo like a in the
00:48:01
first episode? And it's like Dad, you know,
00:48:04
like one of those things. He's going to drive up in like a
00:48:07
black Camaro. What do you have to defer it
00:48:09
off? He's going to, he's going to
00:48:12
pull up on a black Camaro and it's like, oh, we're going to
00:48:15
we're going to double the down on this right here.
00:48:17
Yeah. Like, it's it's it's not only
00:48:19
not only Baywatch, but we're also knight riding this shit.
00:48:21
Let's go. Exactly.
00:48:22
Oh my, how good would that be? Stephen Mill as like the next
00:48:26
Knight Rider as well, come. On and.
00:48:28
Oh, he would be a good knight and.
00:48:29
Then. And then, and then, and then you
00:48:31
make him, you make him a cop, right?
00:48:34
And it's like, you know, not now we've got like 3 different
00:48:37
franchises at the Hops. Going so good.
00:48:39
And then you, you call it, you call it Bay Rider.
00:48:44
Yeah. Bay Rider, yeah.
00:48:46
Night Watch Night watch is even. Better.
00:48:48
Yeah, Oh my God. That's so bad ass.
00:48:51
OK, sorry. And then he goes on to a singing
00:48:53
career in Germany. Oh, it's, it writes itself.
00:48:55
It's going to be great. Oh God, that's.
00:49:00
Both terrible and amazing at the same time.
00:49:03
All right, well guys, that is it for for our one shots.
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the chat that's. Oh, it's been blocked.
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Dilly, dilly, dilly. No, it's a, it's, it's a whole,
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it's a thing on our end. Yes, I would need someone to to
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anything right, OK. Well, I have other things to do
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because this is normal news. We're getting into our Yeah,
00:50:11
just just normal news. All right.
00:50:13
So we're going into the into the headline section, guys.
00:50:16
Talk about the news. Yes, headliners.
00:50:18
And of course, I get all the really, really depressing ones.
00:50:22
A legend takes his final bow. Robert Duvall has passed away at
00:50:27
the age of 95. He leaves behind more than 100
00:50:31
film and television credits, an Academy Award, multiple Oscar
00:50:34
nominations, and a body of work that helped define American
00:50:37
cinema across 6 decades. Duvall's name will forever be
00:50:41
linked to The Godfather, The Godfather Part 2, Apocalypse
00:50:44
Now, The Judge, Deep Impact, Gone In 60 Seconds, Sling Blade,
00:50:48
Falling Down, Days of Thunder, Lonesome Dove, The Natural, THX
00:50:51
138, Killer Mockingbird, and so, so many more.
00:50:56
He received Academy Award nominations for a Civil Action
00:50:59
and The Judge, proving that even decades into his career, he was
00:51:03
still at the top of his game. Man.
00:51:07
So, yeah. And then, of course, in keeping
00:51:10
with his wishes, there will be no formal memorial service.
00:51:13
Instead, the family encourages fans to honor him by watching a
00:51:15
great film, telling a good story around a table with friends, or
00:51:18
taking a drive in the countryside to appreciate the
00:51:21
world's beauty. That's actually pretty pretty
00:51:24
awesome. I know, right?
00:51:26
Yeah, that's just like if that was his wish.
00:51:29
It was like, I don't want to be a massively memorialized.
00:51:33
Your memorial to me is watch one of my films or go and enjoy.
00:51:37
Go touch grass is basically. What he said, Yes, exactly,
00:51:40
which is a sentiment we can all get behind.
00:51:42
Yeah, 100%, even though we are hosting a podcast right now.
00:51:46
Or allergic to grass? That's fine.
00:51:47
We're allergic to grass. Paula, it's Paula.
00:51:52
And continuing, unfortunately on that theme, one last trip down
00:51:57
Dawson's Creek. James Van Der Beek, the actor
00:52:01
who defined a generation as Dawson Leary on Dawson's Creek
00:52:04
and also cemented his place in the late 90's pop culture for
00:52:07
The Varsity Blues, has died at 48 after a long battle with
00:52:11
colorectal cancer. Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 to
00:52:15
2003 and was syndicated worldwide, becoming the top
00:52:18
rated show among teenage girls and WBS most popular series.
00:52:23
The show found new life in 2020 when Netflix introduced an
00:52:26
entirely new generation. The series also launched the
00:52:29
careers of Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams.
00:52:33
1999 Van der Beek starred in Varsity Blues, also starring Jon
00:52:38
Voight, Amy Smart, Ally Larder, Scott cannon, Paul Walker.
00:52:42
The film cast of the energy attitude of the late 90s teen
00:52:45
culture perfectly. James Van Der Beek's career
00:52:48
helped shape a generation of TV viewers and late 90s movie
00:52:52
goers. James Van Der Beek was 48 years
00:52:55
young. Oh man.
00:52:57
Also, let's not forget that James Van Der Beek played the
00:53:00
best version of Jason Mewes. The best version of Jason Mewes.
00:53:07
Yeah, he remember in James and Bob Strike Back.
00:53:12
That's right. He goes.
00:53:14
What did he say? He goes, He goes.
00:53:16
I'm being played by the fucking Dawson.
00:53:20
That's great. Well, I'm not really entirely
00:53:26
sure how to transition in this next story.
00:53:28
This is a very unfortunate placement for this next story
00:53:31
because the The Mummy franchise is back where it belongs.
00:53:37
I'm so sorry. Hey, just before we jump into
00:53:40
all this again, rest in peace James Duval.
00:53:44
Rest in peace, James Vanderbeek, Robert Duvall and James
00:53:47
Vanderbeek. Rest in peace to you both.
00:53:49
You guys contributed massively to the culture, to the pop
00:53:53
culture, to all of the things that we know and love.
00:53:57
And we will continue on both of your legacies by enjoying the
00:54:03
work that you did and, and and cherishing that forever.
00:54:06
So. Yes, yes.
00:54:09
Now you can talk. Brandon Fraser and Rachel Weiss,
00:54:11
let's go. So The Mummy franchise is back
00:54:18
embedded. Fraser and Rachel Wise are
00:54:19
locked in to star in the studios.
00:54:21
The Mummy Four. With Fraser and Wise back, Radio
00:54:24
Silence at the helm and Universal positioning, the film
00:54:27
is a prime summer event. We have a new Mummy movie.
00:54:32
The Mummy 4's Tomb is set to open into theaters on May 19th
00:54:36
of 2028. So what do we think?
00:54:38
I. Love this I I'm super happy.
00:54:40
Same. I'm very excited about this and
00:54:43
mainly because for one reason, if you guys didn't see the
00:54:47
picture that popped up earlier today, Brendan Fraser, Rachel
00:54:51
Weiss and John Hannah all like posed for a picture together.
00:54:56
Brendan Fraser dropped a bunch more weight.
00:54:58
Like he's already lost a bunch of weight since he's been back
00:55:00
on the scene, right? But he lost a bunch more weight
00:55:04
and there's a picture of him, Rachel Weiss and and John Hannah
00:55:09
all standing next to each other and, and the shirts that they're
00:55:13
wearing are like, are like set shirts.
00:55:17
Right. Yeah, so they're just like, you
00:55:18
know, they were celebrating. I, I want to say it was on
00:55:21
Brendan Fraser's social media, but it's, they were celebrating
00:55:25
that they're, they're, they're back on set and it's like, Oh my
00:55:28
God, that's so, so dope to see them all together again.
00:55:34
That's cool. Now, again, they all look older,
00:55:36
obviously, like John Hannah looks very, very, very much
00:55:39
older than he. Did you know Rachel Weisz?
00:55:43
I mean, she's still Rachel White.
00:55:44
She's still, you know, she's one of those chicks that she gets
00:55:47
older and she still gets hot, but she she gets hotter.
00:55:49
And Brendan Fraser is still like, you know, he's still a
00:55:52
little bit bigger, but he's obviously dropped a bunch of
00:55:54
weight. I'm curious because I'm sure
00:55:57
they're doing treatments right now.
00:55:58
I'm sure they're doing like, you know, casting and everything
00:56:00
like that. And they're doing like early
00:56:01
stuff. They're probably not filming
00:56:02
yet, but like I'm, I'm wondering if Brendan Fraser, like he's
00:56:06
lost a bunch of weight, if he's going to put on some muscle and
00:56:09
it's going to be like older dad bod, like a bad bod version of
00:56:13
his character. I love it.
00:56:16
Yeah, Rick O'Connell. Yeah.
00:56:19
Hey, and let's bring back the rock.
00:56:20
He's going to go work out with the rock.
00:56:22
That's what's going to happen. OK, so supposedly, supposedly, I
00:56:26
think we talked about this a while back, they are trying to
00:56:28
revitalize that series. They're trying to do the
00:56:30
Scorpion King all over again. Yeah, Yeah, we, we talked about
00:56:33
that like a few weeks ago. But I.
00:56:36
Also saw. This this interview where
00:56:38
Brendan Fraser and The Rock are kind of interviewing each each
00:56:41
other and having a discussion. And The Rock gives all the
00:56:46
flowers to Brendan Fraser for like, starting his movie career.
00:56:51
He's like, yeah, man, you. You're welcome.
00:56:53
I believed in you. I knew you could do it.
00:56:56
How about you share some of that love with me?
00:56:58
Like, you're the biggest box office actor ever.
00:57:02
Now come on. What about Spread the love?
00:57:04
Bring bring me back. Right.
00:57:06
Yeah, So no, no, so, so we have The Rock in in this movie and
00:57:08
he's playing Black Adam again. Yeah.
00:57:11
Exactly. Please, Please don't.
00:57:13
Please don't. The mummy version.
00:57:16
That's the worst version of Black Adam.
00:57:18
Also hierarchy. Of power in the Mummy universe
00:57:20
is about to change. There we go.
00:57:25
Perfect. All right, so Next up we have
00:57:28
Godzilla in space. Space, space, space, space.
00:57:32
A test scening for Godzilla X Kong Supernova went down and
00:57:36
details have already clawed their way online.
00:57:39
Well, we don't have a full plot. We do have some interesting
00:57:42
story bits about the villain, surprise absences, returning
00:57:45
Titans, and how this next chapter in the monster verse
00:57:48
plays out. Space Godzilla is the baddie,
00:57:53
but while he is the primary antagonist, he is not at the top
00:57:56
of the food chain. The report states that Space
00:57:58
Godzilla is created by a greater threat, which is teased at the
00:58:01
end of the film. Interesting.
00:58:03
Also, Mothra and Rodian are reportedly not appearing, and
00:58:07
none of the King of Monsters Titans are involved either.
00:58:10
So even now, what do we think here?
00:58:13
Yeah. Where's where's Jr. when we need
00:58:16
him Talk about some Godzilla. Yeah, Jr. weren't weren't you in
00:58:19
the chat? Actually, I think he talked
00:58:20
about this on Friday and how pissed off he was at this.
00:58:24
Well, this. I mean, this is interesting.
00:58:26
Just ask him to scratch scratch your ass and he'll be there.
00:58:28
You know we'll. Where are you?
00:58:31
My ass needs scratching. You don't get that?
00:58:35
Go watch. Go watch The Great Con.
00:58:37
You have to watch the great con the the the the ongoing tiefling
00:58:42
scratch my ass joke through through the entire the entire
00:58:45
campaign. It's going to be amazing.
00:58:47
I also hear that Godzilla and Kong are like buddies in this
00:58:52
one. I mean, they like, there's not
00:58:53
as much like fighting in, you know, between the two.
00:58:57
Yeah, yeah. I ship them.
00:58:59
Yeah, there you go. I was thinking more like buddy
00:59:02
cops but whatever they can hold. Oh yeah, OK, yeah, I know that
00:59:05
would work too. Well, they can hold hand.
00:59:07
I mean Godzilla, right? Just like, you know,
00:59:10
platonically Hold I. Mean he's got a he's got a robot
00:59:13
arm. I mean, like, it's fine.
00:59:14
He's he's going to punch Space Godzilla right in the fucking
00:59:17
Dick dude. It's going to be great.
00:59:20
All right, spoiler. All right, so the film the film
00:59:28
rockets into theaters on March 26th of the 20.
00:59:31
Rocket arm to the Dick, there you go.
00:59:33
Nice. All right, so we are moving on.
00:59:37
What's faster, a jet or a pirate ship?
00:59:40
Jerry Bruckheimer has the answer tonight at 8:00.
00:59:42
No. And a recent chat with Eric
00:59:44
Taylor tonight, Bruckheimer shared where things currently
00:59:46
stand with the sequels Topgun and Pirates the Caribbean.
00:59:50
It's a horse race between, it's a horse race between the two of
00:59:53
them. So we'll see.
00:59:54
Right now, Top Gun is a hair ahead, but that's it.
00:59:56
We're expecting a script shortly.
00:59:59
So for Top Gun, in 2024, the studio officially greenlit the
01:00:02
project. And by 2025, Christopher
01:00:05
Mcquarrie confirmed he was working on the script.
01:00:08
Now, with Bruckheimer saying they're expecting a draft soon.
01:00:12
That's, you know, more hope for the film.
01:00:14
As for Pirates of the Caribbean, Bruckheimer revealed that there
01:00:17
are two different pirate films that were in development.
01:00:20
One version was set to starmonger Robbie.
01:00:22
Signaling a potential new direction for the swashbuckling
01:00:26
saga was the same time there he did indicate the 6th main
01:00:31
installment. I would bring back some familiar
01:00:33
characters from the original movies.
01:00:35
So yeah, what do we think here? Are we getting elves on boats
01:00:40
with with with tentacles again? I'm OK with that.
01:00:47
I'm OK with as long as Margot Robbie's in it.
01:00:49
That's cool. Don't get that joke.
01:00:55
You guys don't watch those movies?
01:00:58
Well, suddenly that was never a a childhood thing for me.
01:01:01
I still need to get through get through those.
01:01:04
Pirates of the Caribbean, you know, kind of like The Mummy.
01:01:07
They're good popcorn movies, you know, like, just go have fun
01:01:11
with it. You don't need to like, you
01:01:13
know. I don't need an excuse to get
01:01:14
popcorn, but yeah. Exactly right.
01:01:16
It's just, they're just fun movies to watch.
01:01:18
Like we watch them together, like with the family and they're
01:01:23
they're like, you know, kids are scared on the couch, but it's
01:01:26
just, it's just a fun film. And then Top Gun, I'm super
01:01:30
excited the way they brought back Top Gun Maverick.
01:01:32
Oh, so good. I was so hype.
01:01:36
I've never wanted to play volleyball on the beach with my
01:01:39
shirt off so badly. It was.
01:01:43
So good. So should do if you don't get
01:01:44
the joke that I was doing. I was saying Orlando Bloom.
01:01:49
Oh yeah, yeah, OK, no, no, he plays and then the old.
01:01:52
He plays, he plays Legolas, right?
01:01:54
So elves. On the whole David Crockett
01:01:57
thing, right? And and he becomes Davy Jones.
01:01:59
So because he becomes Davy Jones and and and Davy and David Jones
01:02:04
has a squid for a face. Right.
01:02:06
Right, even though technically he doesn't become that version
01:02:09
of, you know, Davy Jones, but he, you know, he, he is the
01:02:14
captain of the Dutchman, so. Yeah.
01:02:17
I'm excited we're getting both of these franchises and they're
01:02:20
going to keep going. Yeah, yeah.
01:02:23
I like it. Those are big tentpole
01:02:24
franchises. Absolutely.
01:02:26
My whole thing. The only thing I have with
01:02:28
Pirates is I, I, I, I love the franchise, right?
01:02:31
But give me something new, you know what I mean?
01:02:33
Like with with that franchise, you guys are 6 movies in.
01:02:37
Give me something new. Give me something that that
01:02:39
revitalizes the series. I liked the concept we talked
01:02:43
about the last time when there were last week when they were
01:02:46
talking about, OK, Jack Sparrow's son and, and they're
01:02:51
being like the distant relationship between Jack and
01:02:53
his son. I like that idea.
01:02:55
You know, I would prefer him to be like a first mate.
01:02:58
And Margot Robbie's Scarlet Scarlet Queen is is is the main
01:03:04
centerpiece, you know, because again, you get you.
01:03:08
They're giving me something new in that you're getting a
01:03:10
different character, different take.
01:03:12
And also give me a plot point that makes sense and isn't just
01:03:16
something that's recycled. You know what I mean?
01:03:18
Like give give me something new. Yeah, I like that.
01:03:21
Yeah. Make it happen.
01:03:24
Jerry Bruckheimer. So now we're getting into the
01:03:29
Star Wars section. So I'm I'm excited for this
01:03:32
section here. Let's you do.
01:03:34
I also have like one thing that I have thoughts on.
01:03:36
We'll get into that later. So.
01:03:37
It's all right. Wait, wait, prerequisite.
01:03:39
Has everybody watched the trailer?
01:03:41
Yes, I watched it literally before we did the show.
01:03:43
OK, good. Good, good.
01:03:44
All right, we're all caught up. Did Grogu team up with Darth Jar
01:03:49
Jar? A new comic centered on Jar Jar
01:03:51
just connected some dots about how Grogu survived the fall of
01:03:54
the Jedi. Mandalorian Season 2 delivered
01:03:56
the big reveal that it was Ahmed Best Jedi Keller and Beck who
01:04:00
fought through the clone drippers and escaped Coruscant
01:04:02
with the youngling. So there's a there was a new
01:04:05
comic. The comic pairs Jar Jar Binks
01:04:07
and Keller and Beck together on a mission that leads to some
01:04:10
surprisingly meaningful conversations.
01:04:13
At one point, the two share their doubts about Palpatine.
01:04:16
According to the comic, the ship Keller and Beck uses to escape
01:04:18
Coruscant with Grogu might just be Jar Jar's personal cruiser.
01:04:24
Oh. Interesting.
01:04:27
Interesting fact about this if you guys weren't paying
01:04:30
attention a couple of weeks ago, not only is this comic about
01:04:33
Keller and Beck and Jar Jar Binks, it's also written by
01:04:35
Ahmed Best. Yeah, he was at Golden Apple
01:04:39
Comics signing because it just got released like last week.
01:04:43
Yeah, so I mean, I'm, I'm very excited to go check it out just
01:04:46
because it's a story written by Ahmed Best that stars the 2
01:04:51
characters he plays in Star Wars.
01:04:53
So I like I I definitely want to.
01:04:55
Go The real question is, is Grogu going to be voiced by
01:04:59
Ahmed Best now? Oh, good point.
01:05:04
Who does voice Grogu? I'm going to look that up.
01:05:06
I. I think it's just, I don't know
01:05:08
if we have a voice. Yeah, I think it's just random
01:05:10
baby sounds. I, I really, I really kind of
01:05:12
hope it's Jon Favreau, but, you know, just just doing weird baby
01:05:16
sounds. So Order 66 wiped out most of
01:05:20
the Jedi, but Jar Jar and Keller and Beck saved the most
01:05:22
important one in the Galaxy. All right.
01:05:26
I like it. So continuing on that trend,
01:05:28
Space minivan to hot rod and back to space minivan.
01:05:32
Yes. While appearing in a New York
01:05:34
Tory fair to unveil new merchandise connected to the
01:05:37
upcoming film, Jon Favreau addressed the Razor Crest's
01:05:41
return. Din's in the Razor Crest now
01:05:43
it's the ship he originally had, Trevor said, before adding he's
01:05:47
in the same model of ship. Side note, one of the stories
01:05:49
that Trevor was unveiling was a new Lego set featuring the Razor
01:05:53
Crest, Mando, Groku and Zed. So yeah.
01:05:56
Want it, I want it. I.
01:05:58
He didn't really explain that much.
01:06:00
He was just like, Oh yeah, it's the same kind of ship.
01:06:03
I kind of figured that that's what they were doing with this.
01:06:05
I kind of figured because everybody's like he's got the
01:06:06
Razor Crest back. I think he just has another
01:06:09
Razor class. Yeah, a Razor class that's.
01:06:11
Exactly what it is, yeah, Yeah. And it's.
01:06:13
Assuming at some point, sorry, go.
01:06:16
Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean for the most part it's probably
01:06:18
'cause he had the N1 and the N 1 was like, hey, this is fast and
01:06:20
this is, you know, cool thing and what not.
01:06:22
But I'm not at home unless I have my Razor Crest.
01:06:25
And he probably like, he probably went through like every
01:06:28
junker in the Galaxy to see if he could it.
01:06:30
Was like, hey, do you have one? Do you have one do?
01:06:32
You have one. Well, especially because it's
01:06:33
kind of fun. It's supposed to be a
01:06:34
decommissioned ship. So I mean like he would have to
01:06:36
go through Junkers to find it. I think it would be fun if
01:06:40
somebody at the the base at at Adolphi like got him the ship
01:06:45
like he he gets back there and they're like, Hey, we have a
01:06:48
gift for you. It's your we found a Razor
01:06:52
Crest, right? That's awesome.
01:06:54
Maybe we found like space minivan could be like.
01:06:57
Hey. Space.
01:06:58
We have a Razor Crest available. He's.
01:06:59
Got a kid, man, I'm. I'm again, I'm I'm very excited
01:07:04
that I have this. I actually, I don't know if you
01:07:05
guys noticed behind me on this side right here, my shelves are
01:07:09
back up so on the middle shelf on that one right there, you
01:07:13
can't really tell in the picture right now, but that's the Razor
01:07:15
Crest nice and on the other end of this.
01:07:19
I cannot wait to blow up your race of.
01:07:21
Christ, I know right on the other side of the ship I have
01:07:23
the end one sitting right there. So I have both of his ships on
01:07:25
there and in between that I've got the Falcon.
01:07:30
And then of course, James, your your slave one is at my house
01:07:36
right now because I've had how dare you.
01:07:39
How? Dare you About like 3 years ago
01:07:41
I needed something to build James like I have AI have a
01:07:45
original slave one that hasn't been built yet still in the box.
01:07:48
So I built it and it's been at my house ever since.
01:07:51
So it's sitting on my on my shelf right here.
01:07:52
Oh yeah, take good care of it. I have been I, I, I actually the
01:07:56
the other day because Jackie was going through like, So what kits
01:07:59
should we get rid of? And I was like, well, I can't
01:08:00
get rid of the slave one. She goes, why?
01:08:03
Because it's, it's an original. I said no, because it's not
01:08:05
mine. It's James.
01:08:06
It's good. It's just she's there for three
01:08:09
years. He's not going to miss it.
01:08:12
Let's put it on top of the the work van.
01:08:14
Everything's fine. All right, so for a final Star
01:08:18
Wars story here in our little Star Wars news trilogy.
01:08:22
This is the one I have thoughts on.
01:08:24
Yes. So Marvel isn't cinema, but Star
01:08:27
Wars. Now that's cinema.
01:08:29
Cameos have always been part of Star Wars tradition.
01:08:31
Ralph Mcquarrie, Daniel Craig, Simon Pegg, John Williams, even
01:08:34
George Lucas himself. Now you can officially add
01:08:38
Martin Scorsese to that list. The voice, the cadence, even the
01:08:42
eyebrows built into the CG model felt unmistakably Scorsese.
01:08:46
Turns out the Internet was right.
01:08:48
Comic Book confirmed with Disney that the Ardenian in the trailer
01:08:51
was indeed voiced by Martin Scorsese.
01:08:54
Scorsese is stepping into a major Disney franchise that's
01:08:57
bound to stir up memories of his 2019 comments about the MCU.
01:09:02
At the time, he said MCU films were not cinema and compared
01:09:05
them to theme park attractions rather than traditional movies.
01:09:10
But not only has Scorsese previously collaborated with Jon
01:09:13
Favreau, the director of Amy William Groger, who had a role
01:09:16
in his film The Wolf of Wall Street, but more importantly,
01:09:19
Scorsese remains a long time friend of fan of franchise
01:09:23
creator George Lucas. I call hypocrisy.
01:09:27
And then this is this that those are my thoughts, right?
01:09:29
Like the whole thing is, dude, you just did this whole takedown
01:09:34
of comic book movies, right? And, and, and and just kind of
01:09:38
like these types of franchises. And then you like turn a 180 on
01:09:44
Star Wars, which is essentially a a similar franchise, right?
01:09:49
It is very much a superhero franchise.
01:09:52
There are fucking space magicians in space Wizards.
01:09:56
Space Wizards. Paladins, yeah.
01:09:58
Right. And Paladins and then and shit
01:10:00
like that. Like, dude, that is that is the
01:10:03
most hypocritical bullshit. And and don't get me wrong,
01:10:07
Martin Scorsese, I love you. I love your fucking movies.
01:10:10
I love you in the studio because that that one scene he had in
01:10:13
the studio was absolutely meta and hilarious, right?
01:10:16
And it shows. He actually does have a sense of
01:10:18
humor. Right?
01:10:20
But like to go from Marvel movies are trash and I hate
01:10:24
these Marvel movies to hey I'm going to go into Disney's other
01:10:28
franchise and do a cameo as a Star Wars character like dude.
01:10:33
To me, it feels like I'm, I'm not necessarily trying to let to
01:10:39
let him off the hook here, but it feels more like you're, you
01:10:43
know, with your grandpa in a nursing home or something and
01:10:48
he's just like complaining about something.
01:10:51
And he's not really serious. He's just wants to complain
01:10:53
about something. He's just being a curmudgeon.
01:10:57
That's what it feels like to me to be like all these stupid MCU
01:11:00
movies. Honestly.
01:11:02
So if you look at the timing of what happened around then, he
01:11:06
had just put out the Irishman and it did not.
01:11:09
This is what I'm saying, yeah. This is what I'm.
01:11:11
Saying it did not do well on Netflix.
01:11:13
And honestly, I think that's because it it suffered because
01:11:16
it was on Netflix. That was probably a movie that
01:11:20
should have been in theaters. And that that was also before
01:11:23
Netflix was really doing an effort to put movies in
01:11:26
theaters. Like that is a movie that should
01:11:28
have been in theaters because it was mid 2019.
01:11:32
This is before COVID shut everything down.
01:11:35
They didn't they they put it in select theaters, but it's like
01:11:37
it's a Martin Scorsese film. This should be in.
01:11:40
Theaters, yeah. You know, and if you've never
01:11:44
seen The Irishman, it is a great movie.
01:11:47
It is very much in line with every other movie.
01:11:50
It also it brought back so many actors that had not done films
01:11:56
in years that have worked with Scorsese for a long time.
01:12:00
Dude, Joe Pesci came back for that movie.
01:12:03
Yeah, I think you were sour about that.
01:12:05
To be fair, to be fair. And take out his frustration.
01:12:09
He said it in 2019. You know what Marvel movie came
01:12:13
out in 2019? X-Men.
01:12:15
Dark Phoenix. Oh God.
01:12:17
OK, I'll give him that. I'll give him that.
01:12:18
Give him, give him a break. We know people who worked on
01:12:21
that film that both said that said the same thing.
01:12:24
Right. Yeah, and Geek Weeks here is is
01:12:29
big is making a good point. He didn't say they were trash,
01:12:32
just theme parks, like reading why a novel versus the hefty
01:12:34
fantasy series. Yeah.
01:12:37
But also that kind of implies, like, if you're Martin Scorsese,
01:12:41
you think that theme parks are not as good as, you know, It's
01:12:46
like, yeah. There's there's still and
01:12:48
gravity to something like that coming out of Martin Scorsese.
01:12:52
And like, yeah, it is like, yeah, the MCU is not, it's not
01:12:54
prestige films and whatever, but it's still cinema.
01:12:58
It's still, there's still movies.
01:13:00
There's still purpose there. There's still meaning there's.
01:13:02
Good story there, you know, for the.
01:13:04
Most. It was good storytelling and and
01:13:06
they took, you know, the course of what it was.
01:13:10
It was fucking 12 movies or something like that and and
01:13:13
created an entire narrative out of it.
01:13:15
Like it it, it, it's, it's, it's, it's cinematic genius.
01:13:20
And that's not on the level of a Scorsese film.
01:13:24
No, you you could. Say it's absolute cinema.
01:13:26
Yeah, because a Scorsese film. The difference between the MCU
01:13:30
and Scorsese is, yes, the MCU, those stories are fun.
01:13:33
You can go. There's a lot of rewatch
01:13:34
ability. Scorsese films are studied for
01:13:37
like, hey, this is how to make a good movie.
01:13:40
Martin Scorsese, you know, like that's that's literally what
01:13:43
Scorsese is known for. Is this, you know, people study?
01:13:46
I've been in film classes before.
01:13:47
I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:13:49
You know, so yes, it's not on the level of a Scorsese film,
01:13:52
but it's not not cinema. But also, you're fucking Martin
01:13:55
Scorsese. Yeah, not a lot of people are on
01:13:57
your level. Right.
01:13:59
You got you got to give the the rest of us plebeians a break
01:14:02
here, right? But, you know, going back to the
01:14:06
whole, you know, Mandalorian Grogu trailer and the voicing in
01:14:10
it, I think it's pretty cool. It was.
01:14:12
It was actually. It was really it.
01:14:13
Was really good. It was.
01:14:14
To get somebody like that, that kind of a name inside Star Wars,
01:14:19
I mean, oh, look. Different, yeah.
01:14:21
Yeah. And again, it's very, very,
01:14:23
very. It's very noticeable.
01:14:26
You know, that's Martin Scorsese.
01:14:28
You're like, oh, yeah, Shows up on the screen.
01:14:30
Like as soon as you hear him talk and go, hey, hey, I'm like,
01:14:34
that's fucking Martin Scorsese. That's great.
01:14:37
And the way they made the the CGI or the puppet or whatever it
01:14:40
is, yeah, it looks like an alien version of Martin.
01:14:44
Scorsese, I love that. I love that they made him an
01:14:47
Ardinian because that makes a lot of sense.
01:14:49
And put it back on screen for anybody you can.
01:14:52
See, you can see it. Yeah.
01:14:54
I mean, it's it's like how they. His smile.
01:14:57
It's the smile on the eyebrows. Like he looks like he looks
01:15:00
like. I don't know which one's.
01:15:02
Winning. No, it's, I mean, it's like how
01:15:05
they, they just painted George Lucas blue.
01:15:07
They they made him a Pantorin and like, oh.
01:15:09
God. It's the same thing.
01:15:12
Love it, it's great. Shark Tale.
01:15:14
That's right, he wasn't Shark Tale dude talking about because
01:15:18
he played a you played a knob fish, but you can't talk shit
01:15:22
about fucking Marvel if you've been in.
01:15:25
Shark tale, bro. If you have been in shark.
01:15:28
Tale So of course the Madeleine and Grogger is scheduled to be
01:15:32
released in theaters on May 22nd of 2020.
01:15:34
Sixth All. Right, well, that is it for our
01:15:36
regular news. We're going to jump into the
01:15:39
trend up here guys, so let's. We're going to have a lot of
01:15:42
thoughts on it. Do this transition here.
01:15:55
So I know people watching live can't hear the audio.
01:16:00
We're going to fix that next week.
01:16:01
I didn't have time to fix it all here, but there is audio.
01:16:03
I was going to say there is audio there, that it will be in
01:16:06
the regular podcast because it's recorded.
01:16:08
So I don't know. It's weird because it doesn't
01:16:11
play it on the live version. Anyways, let's let's jump into
01:16:15
this here. Here we go.
01:16:17
Stream Wars Episode 5 Paramount strikes back.
01:16:21
All right, things just got a lot more interesting in the ongoing
01:16:25
Warner Brothers Discovery merger saga.
01:16:28
Even though Warner Brothers Discovery and Netflix put out a
01:16:31
press release announcing their intended deal, new report
01:16:34
suggests that agreement may might not be as locked in as it
01:16:38
first appeared. Hold on, this is going to piss
01:16:41
me off All right let's go According to multiple outlets,
01:16:44
including deadline, Warner Brothers Discovery has announced
01:16:47
that it plans to enter discussions with Paramount
01:16:50
Skydance about a possible merger.
01:16:53
They are entering 7 days of deal talks with David Ellison company
01:16:58
even as it continues to stand by its art agreement with Netflix.
01:17:03
Despite signing on with Netflix, the Ellison family's latest
01:17:07
proposal from Paramount appears strong enough that Warner
01:17:10
Brothers Discovery, the parent company of HBO and DC Studios,
01:17:14
can't simply just brush it aside.
01:17:16
Paramount has made an unsolicited takeover offer
01:17:20
before and, and and it's been turned down, but this new pitch
01:17:26
has clearly gotten the attention of of the investors over at
01:17:30
Warner Brothers. Doesn't say HBO, but it's the
01:17:32
same thing. Warner Brothers.
01:17:34
Warner says the Ellison camp have now verbally agreed to
01:17:39
boost its bid to 31 billion or higher if or $31 per share or
01:17:48
higher if two of the two sides engage, which Warner Brothers
01:17:51
Discovery today has agreed to, the report continues.
01:17:56
It also agreed to fund a $2.8 billion termination fee that
01:18:01
would be payable to Netflix and ticked off a series of
01:18:04
concessions around Warner Brothers Discovery's debt
01:18:07
financing costs and obligations. Paramount still has not defined
01:18:12
that bid as its last and best offer.
01:18:16
So guys, stay tuned. This isn't over yet.
01:18:19
Unfortunately not. I need your thoughts, James.
01:18:23
We'll start with you. What are your thoughts on on on
01:18:26
kind of paramount kind of mucking this deal and and?
01:18:30
How? I don't understand how this just
01:18:32
can't end. You know, it seems like Warner
01:18:35
Brothers said no a couple times to Paramount and probably a
01:18:39
bunch of other people, too. They said yes, Netflix, here's
01:18:43
our handshake agreement. We're probably signing things.
01:18:46
Paramount came back and said no, wait, try this.
01:18:49
And Warner Brothers said no again.
01:18:52
But now they want to listen to to Paramount in Skydance.
01:18:56
What is happening? You can't take, you can't take
01:19:01
two people to the dance. What's happening?
01:19:02
What's what's going on here? OK, so first of all, I'd like to
01:19:07
say no means no. Yeah.
01:19:12
Second of all, I, I, I don't, I don't know how to like
01:19:20
articulate this in an eloquent way.
01:19:22
What the fuck is going on? Like this is not, I feel like
01:19:29
what's happening and this is a larger like political point.
01:19:31
Again, this is not, this is very after dark.
01:19:33
I'm not going to really get into it.
01:19:35
A lot of these companies seem to be very much taking advantage of
01:19:39
a much more, I was going to say LAX administration, but
01:19:42
administration's going to allow the big companies to do what
01:19:44
they want to do, to just try to consolidate all the power they
01:19:49
can right now. And it's really harrowing.
01:19:56
So, and it's, it's concerning that it really feels like we
01:20:00
could get a situation where there are like 2 entertainment
01:20:05
companies and that's it, this. Is 1. 100%.
01:20:08
Yeah, this is 1. 100 It's monopolizing.
01:20:10
It is monopolizing. Yeah, and and I mean.
01:20:13
Profoundly illegal. Yeah, it it, it is at a point
01:20:16
where the current version of the FCC is not stopping monopolistic
01:20:24
practices. They're not.
01:20:25
Well, no, they're, they're, they're more worried about
01:20:27
censoring, you know, Late Show hosts.
01:20:30
Yeah, we're not, we're not going to jump into that because I, I
01:20:32
have thoughts on that that I do not want to.
01:20:34
Discuss. You do right?
01:20:35
Right now I'm just I'm making a terrible joke.
01:20:37
I, I, I, like I said, I don't want to discuss any of that on
01:20:39
the show. I mean, I barely want to discuss
01:20:42
this because it it it it amps me up so much.
01:20:46
Yeah, My issue with Paramount buying Warner Brothers if it
01:20:52
like you know, because I'm, I'm sure the FCC would allow that to
01:20:55
happen immediately if it ever went through.
01:20:58
But if Paramount were to buy Warner Brothers, the difference
01:21:01
between the Ellison's buying Warner Brothers versus Ted
01:21:07
Sarandos buying Warner Brothers is Ted Sarandos for all of the
01:21:13
intention he has as far as like, hey, I want to bolster with, you
01:21:17
know, film and make Netflix a more marketable and profitable
01:21:22
company. There is intention for
01:21:26
preserving film, right? There is intention for, hey, you
01:21:31
know, we, we, we want to be a bigger film juggernaut, bigger
01:21:35
films studio. We want legitimacy in that
01:21:39
Warner Brothers would be a part of our, of our catalog.
01:21:43
We can catalog Warner Brothers, but also, you know, continue to
01:21:46
push things out. And we want to be recognized by
01:21:50
our peers as being as big of a powerhouse as a Warner Brothers
01:21:55
or as a Paramount. Now the Ellison's, and this is
01:21:58
where I'm going to get really angry, The Ellison's, their
01:22:02
entire intention in buying Warner Brothers is stock value.
01:22:06
Their whole thing is how do we make ourselves more rich?
01:22:11
Their big thing, the big thing with the Ellisons is it's not
01:22:15
quality over quantity. Their whole thing is, hey, our
01:22:20
intention is to buy Warner Brothers and then we are going
01:22:24
to need to make cuts in order to make more money.
01:22:26
So let's get rid of people and replace them with AI.
01:22:31
It really feels like they're like the doge of the corporate
01:22:33
world at this point. Because the whole thing with
01:22:35
with and, and, and I mean, maybe the younger Ellison was it Keith
01:22:42
Ellison? I don't know.
01:22:44
I'll look it up. Larry Ellison is the father, I
01:22:46
know that. But the the younger, the younger
01:22:48
Ellison I. Don't care to.
01:22:51
Know it really seems like I like I hope that maybe you know, he
01:22:58
in in purchasing sky dance and his whole thing down the road is
01:23:01
you know what hey, I do care about film and I I I love
01:23:05
filmmaking and if we purchase Warner Brothers, I want to, you
01:23:11
know, make everything more grand.
01:23:15
I mean, so far some of the moves that he has made with Paramount
01:23:18
seem more brand focused, which I'm OK with, right?
01:23:24
Like some of the things that he's done have been to make some
01:23:29
of the product better. But The thing is, is that some
01:23:31
of the other actions he's done have been, Hey, we are planning
01:23:35
on firing a shit ton of people. And one of the valuations that
01:23:38
they've done with Warner Brothers and saying when we buy
01:23:41
Warner Brothers is we're going to fire a bunch of people.
01:23:43
If we, if we buy Warner Brothers, it's just going to
01:23:45
happen. And, and that upsets me, you
01:23:48
know, like that upsets me that you are going to get rid of a
01:23:51
bunch of people in, in, in deference of making more money
01:23:56
in your pocket. And, and who knows, Sarandos may
01:24:00
do the same thing. But at least Sarandos's
01:24:03
intention in buying Warner Brothers is wanting to preserve
01:24:06
film and wanting to bolster their filmmaking process and
01:24:10
their legitimacy in the film world.
01:24:12
So again, it it the intention is what bothers me with this.
01:24:16
And Ellison wants it so bad that his whole thing is, I am going
01:24:22
to throw more money at this just so I can make more cuts and,
01:24:26
and, and, and it bothers me. Yeah, no, I mean it it, you
01:24:29
know, yeah, it's like the goal of of everyone here is, is to
01:24:34
make money regardless. But at least with, you know,
01:24:39
yeah, at least at least from Netflix, it seems to be a little
01:24:41
bit more, you know, we want to make money by making better
01:24:45
things. Not we just want to cut a bunch
01:24:47
of things and, yeah, raise our our stock value.
01:24:50
Yeah. Netflix buying Warner Brothers
01:24:54
feels like Disney buying Fox in 21st Century, where it's more
01:24:59
like, hey, we're going to continue this.
01:25:01
There may be some cuts. That's fine.
01:25:02
We get it. That's what happens with with
01:25:05
companies taking over. But that being said, we're going
01:25:07
to keep running both studios. Yeah.
01:25:10
You know, whereas the whole Paramount version is like, we
01:25:14
just want all the things, we want all the toys and make them
01:25:17
mine. And.
01:25:19
Here's the thing. Like I said, maybe Ellison does
01:25:22
end up doing that. Maybe he does do some small
01:25:24
cuts, but in the end preserves Warner Brothers because I was
01:25:28
skeptical when Disney bought Fox.
01:25:31
When Disney bought Fox, I was like, they're going to they're
01:25:33
they're going to get rid of one of the legacy studios.
01:25:36
And they didn't, they made it a separate company under under
01:25:39
Disney. And you look at what they've
01:25:42
done with these franchises, right?
01:25:44
Like, OK, so Avatar is continuing on.
01:25:46
Cool, right. And Avatar was already on its
01:25:49
way. They were doing their thing.
01:25:50
But I'm looking at the way they revitalized Alien, the way they
01:25:54
revitalizing Predator right now and the conversations we're
01:25:57
having with what they've done with these franchises.
01:26:00
The fact that they have, they doubled down on The Simpsons and
01:26:04
we didn't think The Simpsons were going to continue on like
01:26:06
they, we thought they were going to start canceling The Simpsons
01:26:09
after what, 40 years that it's been on.
01:26:11
No, I mean, they, they, they, but I mean, they've been finding
01:26:15
ways to make it better. And the whole thing is like, OK,
01:26:19
for all the I or I have for Bob Iger, he has absolutely put the
01:26:24
right people in place over at Fox.
01:26:27
And and and and Disney now because Dana Walden came from
01:26:32
Fox, right she was running Fox now she's going to be lack of a
01:26:37
better term, Co CEO part of. Right.
01:26:39
So like, I, I, I love what Disney for the most part has
01:26:43
done at Fox and, and, and not destroying a legacy studio and
01:26:48
if anything, taking the IP that that studio own and revitalizing
01:26:54
projects, but also just elevating things, you know,
01:26:58
taking Fox Searchlight and making that a thing and, and not
01:27:02
getting rid of indie creators and giving indie creators a
01:27:05
place to make film. And I, I, I should have not
01:27:11
like, like that. That shouldn't have been
01:27:12
something that surprised me because Disney was already doing
01:27:14
that with Buena Vista. Did Disney was already doing
01:27:17
that with some of their side studios.
01:27:21
New line Cinema was also a Disney owned company that, that
01:27:24
dealt with specifically with indie film.
01:27:26
So I, I, you know, it, it shouldn't have surprised me that
01:27:30
that Disney did what they did with Fox and, and elevated Fox
01:27:34
as a studio and said, hey, we're going to take a failing studio
01:27:37
and we're going to elevate it and make it better.
01:27:39
And, and I love that they did that.
01:27:40
You know, I feel like between the two people, the two
01:27:45
companies, between Netflix and Paramount, I'm seeing more of
01:27:47
that from, from, from Sarandos than I'm seeing from Ellison.
01:27:51
Because Ellison seems like he wants to dismantle the company
01:27:53
and, and, and absorb it into Paramount, whereas Sarandos
01:27:57
wants to elevate Warner Brothers and, and take all of the
01:28:02
prestige legacy that Warner Brothers has had for so long.
01:28:08
I, I, I feel like what they're trying to do is what Amazon is
01:28:11
doing with MGM. Yes.
01:28:14
You know, because Amazon purchased MGM and MGM didn't
01:28:18
disappear. It it, it, it surprised me that
01:28:22
they took The MGM brand and just integrated it with the Amazon.
01:28:28
But also they elevated MGM plus they made it an add on for, for,
01:28:32
for for prime. They didn't get rid of MGM in
01:28:35
any way. They elevated MGM.
01:28:38
And I feel like that's what I'm, I'm almost, I'm almost tearing
01:28:41
up right now. I feel like that's what Netflix
01:28:43
wants to do with Warner Brothers.
01:28:45
They want to elevate a studio that has been here forever and
01:28:50
is a groundbreaking company in in in the world of film.
01:28:55
Whereas the Ellisons don't want to do that.
01:28:59
At least it doesn't seem that way.
01:29:01
Like I said, I I'm taking all the credit away from him right
01:29:04
now. Maybe he does.
01:29:06
Maybe he does want to take Warner Brothers and make it a
01:29:08
separate brand and take them out of the financial woes that
01:29:13
they're in right now, because Warner Brothers has a lot of
01:29:16
financial problems that they're dealing with right now.
01:29:20
You know, maybe the Ellison's want to take that and, and fix
01:29:24
the back end problems for the studio and elevate that studio.
01:29:27
But it seems like what he's actually trying to do, what he
01:29:30
wants to do, what his intention is, is to liquidate the assets
01:29:33
that Warner Brother has, take the ones that are actually still
01:29:37
money making and, and and put them into Paramount because they
01:29:40
had a fail in Paramount Plus and they want to fix that.
01:29:46
You know, I will say this too, Warner Brothers is slapping
01:29:51
Netflix in the face with this. Like they've said yes to Netflix
01:29:56
twice, turn down Paramount twice.
01:29:59
And for them to be like, hold on now we want to listen to this
01:30:03
offer again. After how many times we said
01:30:07
give us the best offer out there, and now we're going back
01:30:10
to this, like, how many months later?
01:30:12
Dude, that's messed up. That's that.
01:30:14
It feels like bad business for Warner Brothers.
01:30:17
And. And what, what's his name?
01:30:18
Zaslav. Like, you have no honor.
01:30:21
Yeah. When it comes to being a a
01:30:22
businessman. Yeah, I, I have, I, I, I don't
01:30:25
and, and we're lucky your mom's on on the show right now.
01:30:28
She do, but I mean like I I have no, there's no love loss for for
01:30:32
for for David Zaslav. But the only way that they are
01:30:37
redeemed to me on this is if the only reason they took the
01:30:40
meeting was so that Ellison could waste money on it, right?
01:30:44
It's. Like.
01:30:45
You know, if, if, if, if it is a slap to Ellison and saying, Hey,
01:30:50
we're going to take your meeting.
01:30:51
We're going to do these seven days.
01:30:52
He wastes a shit ton of money on these meetings and then says,
01:30:55
Nope, we're we're still selling on Netflix.
01:30:58
Like immediately is like, no, we, we, we don't need to think
01:31:01
about it. We're selling on Netflix.
01:31:03
That would be really funny. Yeah, that would be great
01:31:06
because that is just David Zaslav saying go fuck yourself,
01:31:08
dude. Yeah.
01:31:10
I will say, though, that you know how it feels like Paramount
01:31:14
is going after the the stakeholders right now.
01:31:18
I feel like that's working for them.
01:31:20
And I feel like This is why this conversation has come up again,
01:31:24
is because they're infiltrating the the stakeholders and being
01:31:28
like, wait a second. Like, hey, hey, come make money
01:31:31
with us. Hey, exactly, exactly.
01:31:34
I think this is where like I keep on talking about like, you
01:31:37
know, how much it pisses me off to just let rich people that
01:31:41
like to to worry about rich people and not the consumer.
01:31:43
Because it's like, OK, you have all these investors and they
01:31:46
want to get their money back, but how do you make that money?
01:31:50
Yeah, right. You really think that you're
01:31:52
making that money on your own? No, you're making that money by
01:31:55
all of the people who are putting in blood, sweat and
01:31:59
tears to make these films to, to make all of this, this IP and
01:32:03
all this product and everything like that.
01:32:05
And then you're making money because we're going out to get
01:32:08
it. Yeah.
01:32:10
You know, again, Disney is on the right track.
01:32:13
And hey, creditor, we're going to give this to Dan
01:32:16
Trachtenberg. And Dan Trachtenberg is going to
01:32:18
treat it with so much fucking care that he's going to make you
01:32:21
care about the Predator in a way you never did, right?
01:32:25
And a new generation care about it.
01:32:27
Right. You know, we're going to do
01:32:28
alien in a way that is new and groundbreaking and different,
01:32:33
you know, like it's, it's these different things that where
01:32:36
Disney respects the the the property.
01:32:41
Again, if I see more out of Paramount where they are proving
01:32:46
that they are doing the same thing that they are, that
01:32:49
Ellison is treating properties with the same amount of care,
01:32:53
right, then, then I'll trust, you know what he's doing a
01:32:58
little bit more. But as of right now, I don't, I
01:33:00
don't trust anything. It's mostly because Larry
01:33:02
Ellison is a, is a soulless monster.
01:33:05
And I, I, I, you know, I base everything on his dad.
01:33:11
I base everything on the way that he treated Skydance when he
01:33:14
got Skydance, right. And it's like, you know,
01:33:17
Paramount just has not done anything that makes me believe
01:33:22
that they give two shits about the industry itself rather than
01:33:25
just making money. And yeah, and Alan off by saying
01:33:30
I don't trust anything which people do, so let's move on.
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I thought mine was pretty good but OK.
01:35:06
We'll wait and see what Belarus has to say about the music.
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Exactly. Yeah, when Belarus like you
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know, yeah, they, they, they kick us off again there.
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You go, we, we, we just need to get banned in another Eastern
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Belarus is going to ban us again anyways.
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I mean, you know, they're right. Yeah.
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Either way. All right, well, let's let's
01:35:27
jump in guys, Ladies and gentlemen, let's talk schedule.
01:35:30
So the show you are watching right now, distance starting
01:35:32
from 6:30 to 8:30, all the news, all the rumors, all the fun
01:35:36
things that we do Thursdays, we are still doing distance
01:35:39
starting interviews. Now let's see who we talking to
01:35:42
this week, this week. Oh, that's right, Braxton Cosby
01:35:46
is back. So yes, that Cosby, it is Bill
01:35:52
Cosby's nephew, no BS, but Braxton is amazing.
01:35:56
And he's he's a comic book creator.
01:35:59
He has really good comics. I'm actually really excited for
01:36:01
this one. The books that he sent us this
01:36:03
week for the the the new books that he's promoting are books
01:36:07
based on Yaske. Yes, yeah, yeah, yes.
01:36:10
You talked about that last week. Yeah.
01:36:12
Right, so if you're unfamiliar with Yaske, ladies and
01:36:14
gentlemen, look him up. Yaske is the historically he's a
01:36:19
real person. Yaske is one of the only non
01:36:23
Japanese samurai to ever live and and he was during the 1700s
01:36:32
and Yaske is AI think they said he was like 6 foot five.
01:36:36
He was a six foot 5 black man. He's the only black samurai in
01:36:40
history. Right this massive.
01:36:42
Guy, he was massive. They called him the only
01:36:44
because, you know, not because he was black, but because he was
01:36:48
massive and he would just wreck people in battle.
01:36:51
So it's like it's so. Bad.
01:36:53
This guy's, this guy's the spirit.
01:36:55
This guy's a demon, Yeah. It's it's almost like the
01:36:58
stories that you read about Yaske are not half as cool as
01:37:01
the shit he did in real life. Yeah.
01:37:04
You know, so that right there. And then, of course, Fridays,
01:37:07
we've got game night, the buzzer.
01:37:09
We have been playing the great con.
01:37:13
If you're into DND, if you want to watch a live DND campaign, if
01:37:17
you want to watch four people piss off a game master, then you
01:37:21
can sit there and watch us all pissed off.
01:37:25
Yeah, she do as a game master. And we love, love to piss him
01:37:30
off. Especially when I have Jr.
01:37:31
scratch my ass. And for the work, if any of it
01:37:37
made this clear, of course, this is my own original story that
01:37:40
we've been running through. So it's very fun.
01:37:44
Yeah, some anyway. It's very fun.
01:37:47
Right, it's it's. I don't know if we're doing
01:37:50
that. Hey, real quick, real quick.
01:37:53
Geek Freaks is in the chat if you want to get in on the D and
01:37:57
DI. Don't know if there's a spot,
01:38:00
but let's find a way to get a hold of you.
01:38:02
Yeah, dude, because we've been doing it on we've been doing it
01:38:05
on Fridays. So, so Frank, if you're if
01:38:09
you're interested and you want to get in on this game, get in
01:38:11
touch what should do. And that way we can build either
01:38:15
we can import one of your characters, or we can build a
01:38:17
new character for you in, he said.
01:38:19
Yo. We know they talk about.
01:38:23
It can. Can he make reels and shorts
01:38:25
while he's playing D&D? That's the real question.
01:38:29
That is the, that is, that is. That's the real question, yeah.
01:38:33
There's only, there's only one thing right now that I want
01:38:37
Frank to make a reel out of. She do get my DMS all right
01:38:43
right there. If you insist, Frank.
01:38:46
That sounds like consent. There there's only one thing
01:38:50
that I watched Frank to make a reel out of, and it's the very
01:38:53
first time that I pissed you do off right in the beginning of
01:38:57
the campaign, because she do was like, is this really going to be
01:39:01
the first time that we throw dice?
01:39:02
Is this really going to be it? We we rolled for J Rs Teethling
01:39:08
to scratch. My ass.
01:39:12
Because that. Was the first role of the
01:39:13
campaign. It is not AD and D game.
01:39:16
If the first thing you do doesn't piss off your your your
01:39:19
your DM. Oh yeah, I think the first for
01:39:22
one of mine, the first thing I did, I think I murdered someone.
01:39:25
Accidentally, yeah. It was my first role.
01:39:27
We were tied up. We were tied up to a tree.
01:39:29
Like we wake up in a camp, we're tied up to a tree and I look
01:39:32
over and I'm like T fleek my ass itches, scratch my ass.
01:39:41
It was great, man. It's it is absolute and total
01:39:44
chaos. You should totally come here we.
01:39:46
Were like 2 hours and we didn't do we didn't accomplish shit in
01:39:49
the last fucking. You accomplished what I needed
01:39:53
you to. We still didn't accomplish a
01:39:54
goddamn thing in that entire fucking match session, man.
01:39:59
Maybe I'm just good at planning sessions with you guys.
01:40:02
Like, I already knew you guys were going to fuck everything
01:40:03
up, so I was just that. Two hours of us just being
01:40:08
jackasses. It was great.
01:40:12
So anyways, yes, ladies and gentlemen, the buzzer from 6:30
01:40:15
to 8:30, if we are not going to be doing the great con, we've
01:40:18
got other games we're going to be playing.
01:40:20
We will keep everybody informed on that.
01:40:22
So that way you guys know what we're doing on Fridays when we
01:40:26
know what we're going to be doing.
01:40:27
We do have a Jeopardy game that is being worked on that we
01:40:32
should be playing pretty soon. I don't think we have any well
01:40:35
release happening anytime soon because well well release I'm.
01:40:38
Kind of focusing on the D&D thing.
01:40:39
I, I, I might, I have ideas. So I just need to get through
01:40:42
that, yeah. Right, right.
01:40:44
So with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, let's let's let's
01:40:48
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01:40:52
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that Big Blue button that says buy us a Taco.
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Because yes, ladies and gentlemen, that's right, you can
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buy us a Taco. Join the Taco party.
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Oh, I'm on the wrong page. Join the Taco party.
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That's right, ladies and gentlemen, join the Taco party
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is the best way to support distance nerding.
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Let's talk about this. Let's talk about supporting
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distance nerding. Ladies and gentlemen, you did
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it. That's right, All of you did it.
01:41:56
We just hit 600 subscribers right before the show started.
01:42:00
We just hit 600 subscribers on on YouTube.
01:42:03
So now that we've hit 600 subscribers on YouTube, as long
01:42:06
as nobody unsubscribes, which I mean, with half the shit that I
01:42:11
say, I wouldn't be surprised if that happens.
01:42:12
But yeah. Who knows?
01:42:14
Oh look, we lost half of it. We lost half of our audience
01:42:16
already. No, with, with, with given now
01:42:20
that we're at 600 guys, me and James got to get some Funko
01:42:23
Pops. We got to go get some Lego.
01:42:24
We're going to be giving away some Lego and some Funko Pops
01:42:27
because you, you did it. You guys got us 600 subscribers.
01:42:31
So because of that, we want to thank all of you.
01:42:34
We want to thank all of the Taco party.
01:42:36
We want to thank all of the subscribers, everybody, all the
01:42:39
nerds out there. Thank you so much for helping us
01:42:41
with that. Now also, we're just under 3500
01:42:46
followers on on on Instagram. We we've grown exponentially.
01:42:50
It's been massive. We're also at 6:50 on TikTok,
01:42:54
like within a week, we got 150 followers.
01:42:57
So I mean, guys, it's all because of you.
01:43:00
You guys are the reason that we continue to grow.
01:43:03
You're also the reason we continue to do this show and we
01:43:06
continue to have fun and report on.
01:43:08
All the things that are very we, we literally could not do it
01:43:11
without you. Literally.
01:43:12
So because of all of that, because of all of you supporting
01:43:16
distance nerding, because you had helped us hit another
01:43:20
milestone, I'm going to repeat it again.
01:43:22
I am not afraid to buy your affection, which means we've got
01:43:25
Funko Pops, we've got Lego, we're going to get that stuff
01:43:30
and we're going to be giving that away.
01:43:31
So stay tuned ladies and gentlemen, we will be doing a
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subscriber only. Taco.
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Party Taco party. That's perfect.
01:43:40
Thank you, James. We're going to be doing.
01:43:42
A million tacos. Right, we're going to do a
01:43:44
subscriber only Taco party and we're going to give away a
01:43:48
prizes during that Taco party. So again, thank you ladies and
01:43:52
gentlemen, thank you now, if you are currently not subscribed or
01:43:56
you're not following distance nerding on all the social media
01:43:58
platforms and places like that, what are you doing?
01:44:01
Why why aren't you? Why?
01:44:02
Why are you not following us on all the places guys, we're
01:44:05
everywhere that social media exists at distance nerding or of
01:44:09
course, you can send us an e-mail now I still don't have
01:44:12
hate e-mail because I've been asking for it for a while, but I
01:44:14
still don't have any any hate mail that's going to make James
01:44:17
cry. We need something that makes
01:44:20
James cry on the show. We need to do a mailbag in
01:44:22
general. We haven't done Mailbag in like
01:44:24
probably 100 episodes. Yeah.
01:44:27
Hey all the all the comments on that Tyrion Lannister video.
01:44:31
I mean, we could just, those were pretty hard fault,
01:44:32
honestly. Some of those made me cry.
01:44:34
Oh my God, I can go in there and read.
01:44:36
There's like 600 comments on that one, but I mean I'm.
01:44:38
Saying we, we could just, we could do an entire mailbag of
01:44:40
just that. By the way, I could.
01:44:42
Comments on that video. Thank everybody from Instagram
01:44:45
and every and Facebook and YouTube for watching the video.
01:44:49
It's I think 1.1 million views on Instagram plus Facebook and
01:44:56
YouTube and TikTok and all that stuff.
01:44:58
So thanks everybody for listening to young Phil rant.
01:45:04
I'm sure there's going to be more.
01:45:05
It was great. It was great, somebody commented
01:45:07
at the beginning of the show today.
01:45:09
This is just not true. Please shut up and and I
01:45:15
responded with How about no Scott?
01:45:19
OK that that's your thing now you at the end of the show you
01:45:23
get to read 1 mean comment. From the the Tyrion video.
01:45:27
But you got to tag the person when this goes out.
01:45:31
You got to tag the person that left the mean comment.
01:45:34
That would be, yeah. You know what?
01:45:35
Any engagement is good engagement.
01:45:36
Thank you for giving us engagement.
01:45:40
It's it's funny because like half the comments are like, oh,
01:45:42
this makes so much sense. This is amazing.
01:45:44
The other half? And the other half are like fuck
01:45:46
you. Yeah, the other half, literally
01:45:47
the other half is like, fuck you.
01:45:48
You shut up. You're, you're fucking stupid.
01:45:51
It's like, great, you guys, because it's not my fault that
01:45:55
you guys didn't read. Let's put this out there.
01:45:57
You didn't read World of Ice and Fire.
01:46:02
OK, I get that. Everybody in the comments here
01:46:05
is like, that was never in the main books because it was in the
01:46:09
world building book, World of Ice, and I'll say it one more
01:46:14
time, World of Ice and Fire. Go read that one guys.
01:46:21
Have something you want to discuss?
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Connect with us everywhere at distance.
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Nerding in? Leave a mean comment for Young
01:46:27
Phil. That's right.
01:46:28
Or leave a comment that'll make Jamez cry.
01:46:31
Bruce Either way, we'll read it in the air, right?
01:46:34
Brucey, Buddy. Bruce, it's time to go to bed.
01:46:37
Sleepy time. You gotta go.
01:46:38
Gotta go. Night, buddy.
01:46:40
Go to sleep, Bruce. Go to sleep, Bruce.
01:46:42
It's time to go to. It's time to go to sleep.
01:46:44
Thanks and keep nerding together.
01:46:47
Sorry I just I I just saw this comment right now.
01:46:51
Phil, stop making clips while your cameras are small.
01:46:56
Directing from the chat. Directing from the chat.
01:47:00
All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is it.
01:47:03
We will see everybody on Thursday with Braxton Cosby.
01:47:09
See everybody later. Bye.
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