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This could give me for our podcast. What up? I'm Jizzo. That
is John Magic, and we areback. Apparently we're I mean not to
toot our own horn, but wewe are sort of like the talk of
the town right now. And thereason why I say that is because I
was DJing a club and this randomperson came up to me and was like,
I love your podcast. I waslike, well, I don't know
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who you are, but I appreciateit. And then something happened to you
at the gym, right Yeah.I saw some dude at the gym.
I wasn't sure, like I didn'tknow him, and he came up to
me and he was like, hey, man, I've been enjoyed the podcast.
All the things that you guys havebeen talking about with Fresno. It
like takes me back. So man, we appreciate everybody tuning in to us,
and we're gonna keep this rolling withmore guests. Yeah, and we
got another special one today. He'sbecome a good friend. But he we
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kind of met him through where heworks at Ladies and Gentlemen. He's the
general manager of Maya Cinema, Fresnosixteen. Andy Bolanos, did I say
that your last name, right,that's right, yeah, Bolanos. Okay,
all right, so let's just goahead and dive into it. We
usually like to get people familiar withour guests at first. But you actually
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are not from Fresno. Yeah,that's usually our first question is are you
from the valley? Yeah? No, I'm not from Fresno. I originally
grew up in La San Fernando Valleyto be more specific. So I didn't
move out here to like twenty fourteen, fifteen and the childhood I mean,
oh to what old were how oldwere you around that age when you moved
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out here? I was probably likewhat twenty five, twenty four and what
year was this because this was likejust I would say, like twenty fourteen,
like right when the theater was openingup. Okay, you know I
moved down here in two thousand two, No, no, two thousand and
three, I think, And itwas because of the job. Did was
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that you? Reason? Is movingto Fresno for a job? Was the
reason you came down here? Yeah? So originally I started off in Maya
Cinema's Bakersfield. So they had acinema over there, so I started working
there. So like I said originallyfrom La. My wife at the time
was pregnant, so you know,I was back and forth visiting her on
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weekends, just in Bakersfield, andshe was telling me they're opening this new
theater. Because I had theater experience, so I went over there and kind
of applied on a Friday, andthey told me like, hey, you
know, do you want to bepart of the crew. It starts on
Tuesday. They were just opening up. This is the Bakersfield one. This
is a Bakersfield Maya. Yeah,so they were just opening up. They
had no experience or nothing like that. But before going into that, like
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I started in the theater industry inLA when I was growing up in LA,
I won't start working for a movietheater there doing like just those regular
like kid jobs. Yeah. Yeah, so let's start there. Is that
when you first got into the movietheater industry, was it? Were you
like one of those ticket ripper guysor like, how does that? So?
At first, you know, likeI said, from the San Fernando
Valley, So there was a movietheater. I don't know if you guys
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remember it used to be called PacificTheater. So it doesn't really exist no
more. But it's Pacific Theater.So I was just a movie going here.
I was a young kid. Itwas in the galley of the mall,
so it was a cool place togo check out, you know,
hang out. And then some ofmy friends started working there, so then
I tried to get in there,you know. So we got in there.
Yeah, And I started off justlevel ground. I was doing box
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office concessions, greeter cleaning theaters,so I started from the very bottom,
so just doing all that experience.So when you get a job like that,
it's one of those things where theyif you're a first hire, they
say these are you're gonna do allof it, like the bottom right,
Yeah, yeah, you kind ofjust do whatever they think. Like there
was no system, I would thinkback then, it was just kind of
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like, all right, let meput them over here, see what he
could do. Let me put themover there, see what he could do.
Can someone requests I just want todo concessions, They would you could
request it, but they're not gonnacare, you know, put you back
there and make you do it regardless, So I might as well just do.
I mean, those areas that Ididn't like, but I had to
do it. You know. Sonow, was this a situation where you
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just like eventually moved your way upin the movie theater industry or like how
did that work? Yeah? Soat first, like I was ground level,
like I was saying, you know, like just different experiences and I
think, you know, we'll getto that later. But that kind of
moved me into the person I amtoday. I dealt with a lot of
bad management or bad coworkers and justexperience everything, man, like you know,
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like we said, you know,this could give me far Like back
in the day, bro, wewere figuring we could give out things to
our friends, let people sneak in, you know, and do that kind
of stuff. But then as Igrew more into that career, I was
like, you know what I wantto do more, like I want to
experience more. So the next stepfor me on that was going into the
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projection film the booth. And backthen it was thirty five millimeter, so
you used to say, this islike the real, the real, right,
yeah, real, the real film. You used to have to splice
it. It would come in parts. What, yeah, you need trailers,
you need like things like that.So when I first asked, I
asked, hey, can I dothat, and they took me up and
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I saw the room. I said, there mine, get me out of
here. Like it looked too much. I didn't know. It's like a
running car hoping because there's there's beltsa lot of instruments that go into the
projectors that it was very scary tolike intimidate, I'm gonna be in charge
of this, like anyway, likeget me out of here real quick.
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You you know, we talked aboutreal to real because when I was in
radio college, we learned that whereyou could edit actual tape using razors and
then tape to tape the edit isthat so you guys were learning that So
I didn't know that. I didn'tI thought it came edited already with the
pre trailers and all that stuff.Yes, So did you have to do
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that when you would put trailers backto back too as well? I kind
of splice them together be smaller trailers, so it'll be a small pack of
film, huh. And you wouldhave to unwrap it and it comes labeled.
They'll come like I remember, likeHarry Potter, you know, and
this and that and then and itcomes with a little thing that they call
trash. So it's a countdown thatgoes from ten to one. Yeah,
and that one you know you haveto cut it. Yeah, and then
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at the end of it, it'sthe same thing ten to one. You
know, you have to cut thatand slice the next pieces together. So
you know how what we so inradio we use tape? Was it using
the same It was called like maskingtape. It was called yeah, masking
tape, and it was it lookslike a regular piece of scotch tape,
but it was a lot thicker.And of course it's like proof to like
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you know, not rip and notdo things like that. So it will
be very very long to like puta movie together. So she is that
something that you have to like catchor it's already like pre done before it's
rolling, Like like say you hadlike a longer movie and it's like two
things of film? Is that something? Like? How how does that work?
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So let me give you an examples, because I remember like Grindhouse Avatar
being one of the longest movies.Spider Man, it'll come in nine pieces,
so I'll say this is piece one, this is peace two, this
is piece three, and piece themtogether. So yeah, you have to
piece them together out the box andsometimes they'll come backwards and sometimes they'll come
forward, so we needed a tableto like fix it and make sure they're
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all forward. So this is kindof where I learned, like all that,
and like you guys all say inyour industry, I learned by making
mistakes, like I put movies backwards, I put the sound. I was
just like, it was not noteaching, like you kind of just had
to learn on the job. Learnon the job. The guy before you
that was been working there for yearsis teaching you. So let me tell
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you something about that. That's funny. So the first day that I got
into the projection, the guy wasshowing me, you know, he was
showing me a full like how it'scalled threading, so how do you put
it through the film? And hewas like, hey man, you know
what, there's nothing against you,but I'm gonna go down. Isn't quit?
Whoa yeah? And I was like, well, all right, you
know, I didn't know nothing,so I'm like, all right, go
ahead. This is a guy thatwas teaching me. He was training me.
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So he's like, I'm gonna quit. And I was like, all
right, all right, you know, I don't know what to say,
so he left and quit. Themanager came back and he's like, hey,
so do you know how to dothis? And I was like he
literally showed me like maybe one ortwo or three. You know, yeah,
I don't know what I'm doing.So he's just like, all right,
I'll do these next two and thenyou do the ones after that.
So take your time because now thatyou see the start times, it's just
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digital starts. They just start ontheir own. But back then, the
start times mean we have to startit. So the movie starts at ten
where they're starting at manually, mant I have to make sure the film
is ready and ready to go.So he kind of gave me like a
forty minute head start, right,So then I was like, all right,
cool, So I go to thestart like a couple of movies that
he did. Cool, no problem, you know this, and that I
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start mine like the projector's not rolling, it's not going. I don't know
what's happening films for on the ground, bro, I think everything that you
can think of, I started thewrong movies. So back in the day,
like if you guys remember, theyused to be like cigarette marks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatwas that? So that lets you know
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that the real is changing. Sowhen is real to real? Yeah,
you have to be there watching thefilm and watch that spotlight unless you know
you got ten seconds. So onceyou see it, yeah, I'm starting
the next machine with the next piece, So time it. You gotta time
it to you don't know what's happening. Yeah, Also I thought it was
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I thought it was all taped togetherto make one thing both, so it
is taped together so one time.Most movies are taped together. But there's
other movies that you can't cut becauseif you cut that film, that's the
only film they have to make anothermovie. So like, for instance,
we had Scarface Gone with the Windthat we had to do real to real
because it's not allowed to be cut. Or if it's like a one time
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premiere or like a premiere that's notcut yet, you'll put it on the
real to reel. So that's howI was working. So you have to
be trained like you would do itwith the practice tape, like I was
telling you guys before a countdown,and you will flip it and if you
see a number, you did itwrong. So the movie should just continue
to just continue like you don't knowit was there back in the day,
that's what. That was a signthat that real was changing. So it
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was going to the next rend realquick. If you watch the fight Club,
the movie fight Club, there's ascene where Brad Pitt's character, you
know, how they talk to thecamera that movie where he explains that exact
thing that burd Mark. So ifyou guys watch Fight Club, you'll see
a scene what you were just talkingabout. Yeah. So even now,
when you see old school movies andyou kind of see like the lines and
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like it list kind of grimy,it's because that it got transferred over.
It got transferred over. People's fingerprintsdust in there. Like you have to
have a real clean because when theyremake that movie using that same film,
it's going to reflect on there.So that's why old school movies you see
that stuff on there. That's agood point. So I want to talk
about because I know before you youtold me about I don't know if it's
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the same theater, but you woulddeal with like premieres and stuff. Right.
Where was that at? Yeah,so I was going back into going
working for Pacific Theater. So thisis an interesting story. So we got
bought out by what was called ArcLightCinemas. You know the dome in La
right. Yeah, when ArcLight cameout when you know this theater, it
was the High Sex Super Nice Theaterat the time, so everyone wanted to
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go to arc Light. Literally itwas top seven in the world. Wow.
So they got bought out the PacificTheater because I worked at the Sherman
Oaks Galleria, So it got boughtout by arc Light. This isn't Sherman
Oaks. This kind of saying likeClovis and maybe like you know, going
down to Selma or something, youknow, so it's a little bit of
distance. So they got bought out. And we had probably like sixty seventy
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employees and they only ended up keepingten. And I was one of those
ten. Like I don't know why, maybe because they knew I knew how
to by that time, I wasgood that what I was doing, so
I knew what I was doing,so they kept me and like, yeah,
you know you're doing the booth.Cool, you could do the booth
again. And that was with managementstaff. Maybe they kept one manager a
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few and I don't even know howthey evaluated us, but you know they
kept ten. Why the cut ofthe employees numbers. Why from seventy to
ten. I think, to behonest, they had a certain standard they
were looking for. Because when Iwent to Hollywood, so like I said,
it was purchasing Sherman Oaks, Ihad to go to the La Arc
Light to train, and it wasjust a different atmosphere. Like for us
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it was chill, easy going collegeyou know, high school kids. You
go over there, it was grownups a little bit more dull, more
serious. So I don't know that'swhat they were looking at, but I
stopped. I stopped messing around.Like when I was doing projection, I
was taking that serious because you're doingthat for people coming in. You know,
you can't have a movie look bad, yeah, and all that because
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that's on you. And they're checkingit after two So after you run it,
they would check it to see ifit was scratched. So if it
was scratched, they were not youwould get in trouble. So there was
a lot of accountability being up there. So that's I don't know why they
make that change, but that's whatit was. So we ended up going
to La to train at the Arcline. Back to Giso's question about the
premiere. Yeah, so you hadpremiere like that, So that's where I
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was getting to So was there.So that's where I got my film school
really because right there they made yougo to the actual film school in Los
Angeles because you couldn't get into thebooth unless you reunion. So there was
a lot of older guys there thatthey didn't really like like like me or
allow me in because they had theirgroup. You know, was this guy.
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But anyways, you know, itwas kind of part of the deal.
But we did a lot of theTransformers, Spider Man, I remember
me, Shila Above, Sylvester Stallone, Toby Maguire. So, like you
were saying, in the dome,if you remember on Sunset, that dome
fit a thousand people, so sopeople, that's where all the premiers used
to be, so we used torun. I used to run that dome.
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So that was the first time Isaw digital. So there was digital,
but there was also film. Sothe digital will be running, but
the film was running like five minutesbehind that. In case that failed,
the film is still there. Sothat was the first time I got introduced
to like digital. But that's whereI met a lot of celebrities, A
lot of red carpet and I gotto know them and got to see how
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they act, you know, BritneySpears and just to Timplate they were dating
back then during that time. Yeah, so we had to bring them in
the underground parking through the elevator,just a lot of people. So on
a premiere not like that when youhave like all these industry people and actors
and stuff like that, like whatare you doing that day? Are you
just operating like a normal day?Is it like different? And they tell
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you like don't talk to nobody orthat's the thing. I used to get
nervous because I was like, ohdamn, this theater is full, and
like if I mess up, likeman, this is going to be embarrassing.
But then I started learning like it'sthe same process whether there's a thousand
people in there or two people inthere. Yeah. But I was just
mind my business. I'm just inthe booth doing my thing. I'm not
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even at the red carpet. I'mjust doing my stuff. And then you
know, Sylvester Stallone will come up, you know, Toby Maguire would come
up and just come talk to me. They want to see the film that
I was just gonna yeah, Iwas gonna say that because sometimes I've seen
footage of these actors wanting to seethe the process. The process. Yeah,
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and I think, like what youwere saying, digital was new at
that time, right, so Ithink maybe that's another thing. They wanted
to see the new technology. Ohokay, that's fair. How old were
you at this point? I thinkat this point I was like twenty one.
Oh man, twenty you were ayoungster, That's what I'm saying.
The people that were working that stuffwere forty thirty, so they were kind
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of upset that I was running that, but it was just in preparation for
me to go back to the othercinema and do what I had to do
over there. But yeah, theywould come shake my hand and kind of
ask me questions, and I wasjust like I was just used to,
like, you know, treating themregular. You know, you don't know,
there's a capito, I think Iwas telling you. And he was
just real quick, like very nice, but like, hey, let me
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get to where I need to goto and let me do my thing and
cool man, and too bad thereis no sore during that time. Yeah,
man, that's man. The picturesyou would have had, and you
don't even think about it. Likeas I work and they took they did
tell you that, like, hey, you know, don't bother them this,
But I didn't even think about itbecause I remember I was in the
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elevator one time with the game Rapperand he was just talking to me,
and he was just like this andthat, you know, and he's like
I want a picture or something.I'm like, oh no, man,
I'm like, I just don't wantto bother you. Just go ahead about
your day, Like, do youyou know that's fair. I was asking
about his age because you know,Gizo went to college specifically to intern here.
You know, I went to schoolspecifically to be in radio. You're
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already twenty one. You've been workingin the movie theater industry for a few
years now. Were you when didit click to you that you wanted to
this was going to be your careeror was this just a job to you
that, Oh, when I findmy career, I'm gonna move on.
I get turned into a career.Yeah. I guess it kind of just
came with like having fun at thejob, you know, I experience,
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Yeah, for sure, Yeah,I could probably go somewhere else and get
paid something else. But it wasabout the experience and what I was the
joy I had from like putting thatfilm and pressing play and knowing that,
man, you know what, I'mcontrolling this whole ties. So you're like
starting the entertainment for people. Youknow what I'm saying, You're the host
of venue. Speaking of which,let's fast forward to Maya Cinemas. How
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did that gig start for you?Because you started at Maya before you came
to Fresno, right, Yeah,so I started there, Like I said,
you know, once I left theArc Live Cinemas, I actually worked
for Dish Network for two years.Okay, wait, why did you leave
Arc Light? So I left arcLight because of the Dish Network experience.
So once I went back, Soonce after that training in Hollywood in La
I went back to the opening ofSherman Oaks, and it was just a
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different, different atmosphere. Like Iwas mentioning, it wasn't the same vibe.
It was like so serious, itwas so like it wasn't fun anymore.
So that's why it was like youjust like that's the biggest reason why
I'm here is Yeah. I waslike it's not fun no more. Most
of my friends that I had left, and like I said, I did
go to the film school, soI didn't know I had that knowledge,
and I just felt like I wasn'treceiving the respect that I should. So
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most of my friends went to DishNetwork. So then I was like,
well, let me go do that. Go doing be an installer over there.
And I was doing and I wasdoing that. But then, like
I said, my wife at thetime got pregnant in two thousand and nine
and she moved to Bakersfilm and sheknew I had that theater experience, like,
hey, they're opening this theater,you should come work over here,
you know. And at that pointI was just visiting her every weekend.
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So I went on the weekend.I went on a Friday for the interview,
and it's the funniest interview I hadbecause I remember, they didn't have
no experience, they didn't have nobodythat knew like projection. So I told
him I knew that and what Iwas certified, because at that point I
had certification. And they're like,also, you know how to do this?
Can you show me? And Iwas like, yeah, I can
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show you. So I go there, do about three or four of the
projectors, and like the guy wehave right now, it tasts like thirty
minutes to do one, like canyou start on Tuesday? And I was
like, oh, dang, okay, I guess so I just stayed.
I never went back to my familyand being from the Hispanic community, like
it was hard on my mom,grandma A course, yeah home, yeah,
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yeah, I thought you were justgone for the weekend. Yeah,
I gotta baby on the way,like I gotta do what I gotta do.
So I found that joy again.To explain back on that, I
found that joy again because it wasnew. Everybody was fresh. I was.
I was experienced at that time.So let me see how I can
contribute to this cinema. You know. So was this around the same time
about the or where was the theaterthat you was telling me that it was
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like an old hospital or what wereyou saying about that? Oh yeah,
that was the one that was theone in Bakersfield. Okay, So tell
this story all right. So Iwas telling you about this story that apparently
before that theater got construction and constructedin Baker's Field. I guess it was
an old hospital or something like that. So we had these ghost hunters that
were like kept asking us and theywere doing podcasts too, I think at
that time. But they wanted todo like an overnight video or do something
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like that, and we were like, okay, go ahead, you know,
do it. So they left thecamera up overnight in the theater in
one of the theaters. I guessthey had like a radar or something that
told them where where's the most likespirits at So we're going to position it
right here. So we're like,all right, so we just left it
overnight and then I'll never forget.We seen the footage, and I seen
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the footage of like a little spirit. I would say it was a little
girl. So they took a pictureof it and they like zoomed into it
and all that, so I wouldsay it was a little girl standing right
there, and just like you justsee the shadow like moving around, you
know, and then you just you'relike the camera fell over, and this
is overnight. This is like atfour am. It's some paralanormal activity,
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normal activity. And I used tobe scared, man, because in the
booth you're by yourself. Yeah,oh yeah, it's dark looking. Yeah
yeah. I started feeling shadows shot. I'm like, no, man,
I'm trying to be up here bymyself. But that was one of the
scary experiences I had right there.What was your position when they hired you
and Biggers Field, I was abooth Okay, so doing just booth,
this booth supervisor. But since Iknew how to clean and how to do
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everything else, it was like thatwas different about Maya than my experience over
there. It used to be yougot hired for concession, you got hired
for box office, you got hiredto clean, and that's your position.
That's what you're gonna do. Therewas no cross training, and I'm like,
that's weird because where I'm from,you do everything. So when I
would do the booth and I wouldhave such a break because once you start
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all the movies, now you haveto wait for the first movie you start
to be over to do it again. So I'll go downstairs, I'll go
clean or whatever. And that's howI kind of got into management because they
seemed like, ain't nobody had totell me what to do, Like I
would just go do it, likeit was just on me, Like you
didn't have to come tell me tocome help. I'm gonna go do it.
So okay, So when Campus Pointgets started in Fresno and Maya's launched,
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were you were you? Did youcome down here to help open this
one up? Yeah? So Iwas in Bakersfield and they had asked two
of us, which I think youremember, Josh, Yeah, so our
old general manager. So it wasme and him. We were running Bakersfield
at that point, but we werestill just like managers, but we were
running it. We knew, like, man, you know, we got
this. So they had offered us, like, hey, you know,
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you guys want to go over there. They're going to open this theater.
And we're like, yeah, we'llgo over there. And my kids were
just about to enter school at thattime, so I gotta make a decision
to like, see what I'm gonnado because my kids are going to go
to school, so you let mego to Fresno. And then they kind
of delayed it because it's like,you know what, we can't lose both
of you guys. But I stillcame over here. You know, when
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it was under construction everything, Iwas here. We were putting stuff together
where we're doing all that, SoI had to stay back a little bit
when they're first open. So Iwasn't here for the grand opening or nothing
like that, but okay, Iwas coming and going still. Okay,
So and then obviously you've been hereever since. Yeah, then ever since
I was here. But in betweenthat time too, like the old CEO
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of Mayas Cinemas knew how much experienceI had, so he sent me to
certification classes as well. So withthe projectors we have now, he's like,
man, instead of paying these peoplefive thousand dollars to come every time,
I'm gonna just send you and likeyou learned it. So with they're
called Christy projectors, so I learnedhow to like take them apart, put
them back together. The bulb changesall that stuff, so people don't know,
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like there's actual bulb in there thatyou have to change out, you
know, So when you see themovie it is dark in here. The
movies is not good lighting. That'sprobably because the bulb is going out.
Oh yeah, there's some times,you mean when the screen is like dim,
when yeah, it's dem or you'llsee a little flicker. You'll see
some that's because the bowl is runningout of his lifespan. I've seen that
before, so everything is like digitalnow right, Yeah, it's digital,
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but there's still it still has alight bulb even when it was filmed.
Still still a light bulb back there, and then back back in the day,
it used to be a light likeI actually it used to be a
flame. Flame. Oh wow,it used to be lit. So now
it's a light bulb and that normallygives you about like four thousand hours,
so it's just depending how much itruns in there. Okay, what did
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it take convincing to your family,your wife, the kids like to move
to Fresno. Did it take someconvincing or No? It was easy because
at that time my son had wellhe still kind of has it, but
not as much. It was rhematoryarthritis. So he was a young kid
at that point, probably like fouror five. So he was going to
the children's hospital for treatment. Ohyeah, So when that came along,
I was like a children's Yeah,I was like I might as well.
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I mean, he's having these treatmentsand stuff like that, and we're just
growing into our own me and mywife at that point, so we're like,
yeah, there's a good opportunity andwhy not you know, they just
lined up, So it was justeasy, all right. So my cinemas
it's you know, it's not regal, it's not amc is it just like
owned by one person or how doesthat? Is it privately owned? And
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that's what's that's what's funny that peopledon't know is Maya's independently owned. So
that's what's different with other cinemas.You know that they're a big brand and
they get a lot of more supportthan we do. So sometimes when we
talk about like, hey, areyou getting this bucket? Are you getting
this like you no, Like thebig fishes get that and maybe we get
the leftovers because they see us aslike maybe not valuable as others. But
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yeah, it's it was bought outby His name is Montezuma A Sparza and
he was actually the producer of SelenaOkay. So his thing was just remembering
growing up as a kid trying togo to movie theaters with his family and
then how expensive it was and howyou know, there wasn't one close to
him. So his goal is tolook at the market and see where he
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thinks is like lower income, andlet me build something there where low income
families could come and have a goodprice and not be over expensive. You
know. I do feel like youguys are pricing is different than like the
bigger the bigger guys. So Ithink that's cool. So how many Mayas
are there and when where are theyat? There should be I think there's
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five or six. So we haveFresno, Vegas, Field, Selena's de
Leno, Vegas, and Pittsburgh,California. Okay, so that's that's the
total of my cinemas. Yeah,that's the total. So I've been to
So I've been to everyone after I'veopened everyone. So I've been there,
I've trained everybody. I've helped themwith the booths when it was booth,
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when it was digital. I've beenI mean, I think you see me.
I've been in Selena's before when thingshappened. So just because I was
certified, I was able to goover there and help them put the projectors
together and make sure everything's working fine. When you know, when Maya's cinemas
first open here in Fresno, ofcourse, the bigger you know regal amc
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at the time, you know,all these big ones at that time.
I remember when Maya opened, Ithought it was this is like you thought
it was up there with the bigboys, right, well, yeah,
and also I felt the difference.There was such a difference of just the
look. It was sleeker and youguys even the concessions. You guys had
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something special with the concessions. Ithink I remember at the time. Of
course, everyone's trying to catch upnow. Yeah, well, I know
you guys were like, you guysdid your own drinks first, I think,
right, Like I don't remember Regal, you'd have to ask can I
get a refill? But you guyscan have your own. I remember that
I used to in the old theaterwhere we had to pour the drink.
Yeah, but we decided to likedo it the opposite, let the people
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get their drinks. And like yousaid, like we did our research and
you know, we're not lower onaccident. You know, I have to
go to other theaters and like checkthem out with there and kind of priced
lower for us. And then notjust because I worked for Maya, because
I worked for other theaters. Butthat's what I noticed about them, as
they really care about the community.Yeah, they're at and we have to
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represent because there's nobody backing us up. We're just independently owned. So well,
that's what I like about you guys, is you guys really embrace like
the community. You do a lotof stuff with like Fresno State. You've
done a lot of stuff with us, You've done like owned events. You
guys collaborate with a lot of community, I mean with a lot of like
businesses in the community. Uh.And then you also know like culture,
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you do things like you know,the popcorn there's like the top of the
O and the limit that you couldput on your popcorn, and you know
you got the hot Cheetos and youcan put cheese on it. Like these
are cultural things that people like outhere that you guys like offer that I
thought was like really cool that someof these corporate places wouldn't know to do
that, you know. And youbrought up kind of like how we all
connected was you started working with theradio station with us over here with movie
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premieres, us giving away passes.You gave us our very own balcony where
our listeners can you know, wintickets to sit with the balcony radio station
area, and we kind of becamefriends that way and network and one highlight
I remember from this partnership that westarted was my cinemas. You guys let
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us film a segment where we gotto do the pre show where you know,
where people watch and they tell youto be quiet, turn off your
cell phone, that whole thing.So I was actually one of the you
know, actors in this way withsome of the B ninety five DJs.
Remember that. I think my partwas like making noise with the straw.
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Yeah, like that. I didn'tthink it was I thought it was cool.
Number one. I thought it wascool, but I thought that's what
it was. You don't know howmany text messages I got people saying,
you know, just mean they tookpictures of it and would send it to
me. So I was like,oh man, and that was really cool
to be a part of. Soback to what you were saying about just
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embracing the community. You let uslocal DJs be in the on the big
screen. Also, we had himon our podcast, but Jordan from A
Hero Alliance, Oh yeah, youwere kind of like one of the first
to like really kind of help himget started with bringing some of the movie
characters to the theater. Right.Yeah. So that's that's what I think
is different because it wasn't like acorporate decision to like do any of that.
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It was kind of more always mytrain of thought, like man,
how can I make this theater better? What can I do? Yeah,
So connecting with the community and alot of it was like I don't expect
nothing in return, you know,like let's just do it. Let's do
this, because you never know whothat person is, you know, when
I'm met you guys, I don'treally know who you guys are, but
I don't care. Let's do it, you know. Yeah. Not so
Yeah, with Jordan, with herolines, he was just somebody who would come
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to the premieres and was like,hey, man, I got this costume
and it looks legit, Like canI come out and like do this?
You know? I was like,yeah, that'd be cool. So he
started coming out and people would askhim like, yoh, man, can't
do his birthday party, can't dothis. So he's a real good guy.
Man. He'll always give us creditwhere credit is due. Yeah.
So now he has his own company, as you know, tons of superheroes,
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and he always would tell me like, man, thanks, you know,
because he helped me out with thatpartnership. Yeah, he shouted you
out on the podcast too. Hewas like when I it was not that
much like you gave me the opportunity. I'm like, yeah all the time,
man, I'm not charging him,he's not charging me. It was
just a respecting you know, like, well, how can I help you?
And of course you're coming in you'reseeing the Star Wars stuff. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, so hell yeah, everybody's gonna let's make a premiere
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party, you know. Yeah,that's what was cool about it. Like,
you know, when the Avengers areplaying, you would go to the
movie theaters and there's like Spider ManCaptain America. You could take photos with
him doing meet and greet. SoI thought that was really dope to add
that to it. And even props, like when you guys would have the
Star Wars you would have even likeStar Wars props out there, which I
thought was like really cool. Soyou did. You definitely get like a
big experience at Maya. Do youguys still have the biggest like like screen
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still yeah, the NPX screen.We have the biggest screen on the North
of North America. Oh wow,that's the NPX on the you know,
the one, the bigger one.So yeah, they they practiced on that
because it was like at that time, like we couldn't really get recliners.
We can do this, so it'slike what else can we do? What
else can we maximize? What canwe do different? You know, And
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that goes back to where you're saying, like whether it's the hot cheeto popcorn
or the top of tea or youknow, like let's get somebody an experience
because we don't have the recliners,so we don't have this, so let's
do that. You know, wecould do other things. How does it
work when you know I always seeevery Monday, I always see like the
box office support and how much moneythese movies made. How does that work
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with like the studios getting a percentageand you guys getting a percentage or do
they get all of it? Orhow does that? That's good that you
asked that because we get a lotof questions and we get a lot of
stuff from from guests, you know, and sometimes they'll say, like all
the movies out, like it didn'teven last two weeks, like how come
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we go not playing it? Andwhere I'm like, we ain't playing it
because you're not supporting it. Itgoes based on that, so yeah,
there's a lot of contracts and thingsbehind the scenes that people don't know,
Like like you're asking about the bigscreen, Like right now we're showing doing
right, and they're contracted to bein there for the first four weeks.
So even if something else comes outthat we think is bigger, we can't
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give them that screen because they wantthat screen because it has the most money,
you know, So yeah, wemight keep. It's different, So
it's every so every movie is different. Every how you guys play and how
long you play. Yeah, itdepends how well it's doing. So if
it's doing well and people are supportingit, we're gonna keep having it because
the studios are getting that money.But if the studios are seeing that nothing's
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happening, then let me get thatout of here and let me put this
because yeah, like you said,we're maybe keeping and I don't know exact
numbers, but I'm just give youan example, maybe a quarter to fifty
cents to a dollar. Wow,that's why the concessions is when like this
is that, well, yeah,that's what we have to make the money,
Like, we don't don't keep themoney from the ticket sales, so
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you guys make most of your moneyor a bigger percentage of your money with
the concessions. Then yeah, withthe concession cells. Because like we said,
there's a lot of contracts, there'sa lot of negotiations, and sometimes
studios that have the big movies likeyou know, Star Wars or like all
the Disney stuff, right Disney stuff, sometimes they have a movie that's not
that great and they'll tell you,well, I want that in the big
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theater, and if you don't playit in the big theater, you're not
gonna get this like a better movie. So sometimes it's like, ye,
is that someone's job to negotiate that, or we have somebody that's called the
booker, Like I'm pretty sure youguys have something like that that like you
know, they book like you wouldhave somebody that booked the artists and stuff
we have. They booked the movies. So they work out the contract like,
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yeah, all right, we'll showit for this much, but how
much can we get and how muchof it we have to give you?
Does it make sense for us?And that's why sometimes we show a lot
of independent movies too that are thatreally do well because they might not charge
something because they just want to showtheir content. You know, they might
want to just show their mo movies. So it all depends on every contract
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is different. As long as peopleare supporting though, people will come out
sometimes I see. I mean notonly you guys, but I've even heard
of other theaters show like the oldmovies. Yeah, that's becoming like real
trendy. Yeah how does that work? Who's getting who's booking that? Or
is someone is the studio getting paidfor those showings? So those movies are
still owned by somebody. So yeah, sometimes we'll do like real school movies
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or you know, flies back whateverI think. Yeah, I went like
they brought back Star Wars Return ofthe Jedi, Like I went to go
see that, and I know theyjust announced that all eight Spider Man movies
are coming back to theaters, sosomeone's gonna eat from that. Yeah,
they're seeing that. Like you know, maybe you didn't get a chance to
see this movie the first time itwas out, or maybe you side of
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the child. Now you have kids, maybe you guys want to experience together
or you want to see it againon the big screen. But yeah,
definitely somebody's getting a chunk of that, So it's up to them. All
right, I want to get tothis part of the episode which we all
went through. You know, youremember the back in the days when movie
premieres would the big ones, justthe lines. I man, I remember
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standing in lines for movies to buya ticket and just the masses of people
trying to catch this sold out,big premiere. And then we get twenty
twenty, you know, the pandemic. Tell what was going on in the
industry when that whole shutdown happened.Yeah, So with COVID, I mean
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that was very hard, Like wethought maybe we wouldn't come back from that.
You know, a lot of thingschange, a lot of people mindset,
change of oh I've been doing thisfor that long, I didn't know,
you know. So it was definitelytough. Like when you first reopened,
we could only open like twenty fivepercent, so sometimes it'd be like
scatter seats or you can't sit disclose next to somebody else. So that
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was definitely an effect. But togo back to your question, I remember
we used to do premieres too,and there will be so many lines outside.
But the reason for that change wasactually prior to COVID, was they
just wanted to go with the signseating, So the sign seating was their
mindset of like controlling, Oh nowwe can know. So sometimes when there's
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a theater and there was no signseating, you could walk in there and
you might not know who's supposed tobe there who's not. So it was
more controlling of like, all right, we have twenty tickets sold, they're
sitting in these twenty spots. Sothe other ten people that are sending randomly,
let's get them out because they didn'tpay for their ticket. I think,
as a customer, I have mixedfeelings about that, because I felt
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that a sign seating allows people tofucking show up late to movies, and
that like pisces me off a lot. I'm even I'm always like hitt up
Andy, like complaining, like themotherfucker's coming late because your seat is there,
so you know before it's like getthere early, get the seat you
want, and everyone's sitting down beforethe movie starts. But if you're running
late, you're like, oh,I don't need to get there. You
know, I can miss the previewson my seat is good to go.
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I can show up whenever, andpeople do that shit. So once again
just goes back to people suck.But that's the part that like kind of
ruin it for me. And youknow, there was something fun about everybody
hanging out outside getting excited for themovie. But you know, I understand
like cleaning up, you know,all the big lines outside. But back
to what Magic was saying about thepandemic, how has that like changed the
industry as a whole. I mean, we hear about it or less people
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going to movie theaters. Is itslowly coming back from the pandemic? What's
going on there? I think atthis point it slowly has came back.
Definitely. The first couple of yearsit was super slow. And then what
really affected that was like streaming andthings going straight to Yah direct, you
know. But even through there,we're doing the palcorn pickup thing, Yeah,
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palcorn to people, and even thatwas popping because people just wanted a
taste of the outside world. Yeah, exactly. Or it was like a
cool movie and actually to have powkfor the theater. Yeah. But yeah,
eventually, it's been coming back slowly, but I think people still have
a mindset that that got them stuckinto, like I'd rather just be at
home or just I'm not gonna gowaste money. No more, Like you
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know, people started really changing theirthoughts on just a lot of things,
not just the theater industry. ButI've seen it now for sure. Come
back when when the big movies areMarvel, oh yeah, nature, you
know, that's always like a greatexperience. And I still like the movie
theater experience I go all the time. I still like, you know,
seeing it on the big screen forthe first time, and the sound and
the people when they know how toact right. How How because I think
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you've told me about this before,But how does like leaks get prevented?
Right because you get a movie afew days before it's supposed to come out,
right, isn't Don't they do somethingto prevent, like, say,
you from leaking it or something.Okay, so what's funny about that is
let me tell you so, LikeI was telling you guys back in the
day, when I used to piecethe movies together, we used to actually
had to screen it first to makesure the pieces are right. Okay,
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because I play a movie, I'mlike that we did not make sense.
It was like that we did thatmovie. You all put it together the
right the way you're supposed to be. We messed up. We messed up,
you know, we messed up.So dang. So back then,
there used to be a watermark,so if it used to get leaked,
they could track it to what theaterthat came from. So so now what
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they're doing is, yeah, theywant you to test out the movie,
but they're only giving you permission becauseit has an encrypto key that only lets
you play fifteen minutes of the movie. So what they're saying, once that
fifteen minute clears up, it's gonnarun fine, you know, but there's
different things as it's being downloaded.We had this issue with Coco. I
remember it was busy movie, andas it transfers and you're doing different things,
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it's just like downloading music, itmight get corrupted, something happened,
and the movie's playing in the froze. So we had to deal with that.
So we try to do employee screeningsto as an incentive, you know,
like we want you guys to watchit first, because you already know,
people walking up movie theater. Ican't believe John Magic died, you
know, yeah, ruining everything.Yeah, Like if you're walking out of
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theater, I don't want you tobe discussing it. Yeah, so they
ruined it for the for the employees, and then also when they ask the
employees, you know, hey,did you watch this movie, Like what
do you think about it? We'reable to give that insight, but we
make sure there's no cell phones.Even now, we have big screenings with
Sony's and stuff, and they collectpeople's phone They have security in there.
Wow, And yeah, there's abig punishment that you're doing that. But
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I mean, lately, I haven'tseen no real leaks unless it's been like
the studios involved and they send itto overseas and somebody over there leaked it.
But I haven't seen that too much. You know, you remember back
in the day, that'll be theperson selling the bootlegs out there. Yeah,
yeah, someone cam Quarder. Yeah, I don't really see that.
We don't really see that no more. Now. Well, it seems to
be the thing that people are leakingnow is the merch and you actually brought
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us some. The one that wasreally popping off was the worm from the
Dune too. Yeah, the popcornbucket where you put your hand, Yeah,
questionable hole. I do feel likethat's become another avenue and kind of
a cool thing that movie theaters arestarting to do that maybe gets people back
into movie theaters because even like allthe for the Aerostour with the Taylor Swift,
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those cups were going crazy and Iknow you guys had some of those.
So do you see a shift oflike this is kind of the next
new thing of getting like these coolpopcorn buckets or these cool drink cups to
kind of entice people to come back. Yeah, not just that, but
like TikTok has been a lot ofchange, Like sometimes they know things before
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I know, because I know youasked me about that doom bucket and you've
seen my corporate people and they're like, no, that's just a made up
thing, And then a couple ofyars later, I guess you're right that
is coming up. Yeah, Iknow, like with Barbarenheimer or like they
put them together. Yeah they putthem. Oh yeah, yeah, barbaron
Heimer, that's what they're calling it, like hey, let's go support this,
or like the Minions, I don'tknow, you remember that trend where
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they're coming dressed as many Yeah,didn't they do that. So it's just
like or like different things like oh, we're gonna go salute or do Yeah.
So I think social media is makingit big for people to go get
the incentives out of movie theater orshow up like you're right, like the
Barbenheimer thing, like everyone wanted todress in pink and go to the movies
during that time and support because ifyou go based on the numbers, so
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what people don't know to is wehave to run reports, right, we
run reports of like previous years,what is this movie tracking? Who is
it attracting? So we go basedon that. Oppenheimer didn't have good numbers,
like we didn't expect it to dothat. But because of that social
media push, Wow, like peopleare gonna come out just to come out,
you know, because everyone's doing it. My kids they just wanted to
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go see a movie because of howbad it was. How bad it really
is, yeah, you know andit was actually not as bad as I
expected. But yeah, just socialmedia push and just people word of mouth
and just like you said, theysee these products a lot of stuff people
already calling like remember the screen bucketswere very popular. Here are you guys
gonna have that? Like I wantto get it. So I think just
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to re experience that as bringing backdefinitely the excitement. Yeah, that's it's
definitely been a cool added thing.Speaking of TikTok and these buckets, the
one you gifted Jizo on myself isthe slimer popcorn bucket Ghostbusters from the Ghostbusters
movie that's coming out. And thereason why this was viral that I saw
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on TikTok was there was a guythat made a TikTok and said, this
is what they were at, thisis what movie theaters was advertising that you're
gonna get the popcorn bucket, andit was this slimer, you know,
detailed popcorn bucket. And then whenpeople saw the actual one after they ordered
it, it's it's a basic,you know, oh you know bucket.
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So it it kind of got viralbecause people were, yeah, so can
you tell me about this this wholeslimer Yeah. So it was just like,
I don't know, they put outan image that I don't know if
they didn't see what it was actuallylike, or maybe they did get that
picture because you kind of could seelike you can go on the website and
kind of see like all these arethe promotional items we have coming out.
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So maybe somebody jumped the gun andposted something, and yeah, there was
a lot of backlash. People preordered it based on that picture and once
they got it they were upset ofhow it looked. But on that negativeness,
it made people want him. Wealready have people calling like, you
guys got the bucket, but notthe picture. It's not the mess of
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what it was advertised. So it'sit's so social media. It's that's what
it is like regardless, as longas it's becoming popular either way positive or
negative, it's gonna be popular.And the slimmer bucket is now becoming popular
because of the negativity it's getting andnow people are wanting the bad slimmer bucket
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and Jizo and I have one,so we might put this up on you.
They never know. That's how that'show, that's how it be.
Sometimes because they can't get something thatis so minute, people will resell it
or redoce stuff. So, yeah, you do you want? I was
gonna say, do you have anydo you want to do some funsy questions,
like some quick fun questions. Well, earlier you talked about I think
you answered this already, but Iwas going to ask when the movie starts
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and you're watching, there's always thatone employee that comes in there and oh,
a good question. That looks aroundand in my head I think they're
counting, so but I don't know. I'm asking you, what's the official
What does that employee doing going inthere? Yeah, so looking around?
So the main thing the employee isdoing when it goes in there. They
have to make sure there's something onthe screen. So this is going way,
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but no one's in the booth.It's on schedule, so it's off
scheduled. So their thing is totell me, like, hey, it's
two thirty, this mon's supposed tostart. A two thirty is two forty.
There's nothing on the screen, becauseI don't want you to come out
and tell me, hey it's twofifty. We're twenty minutes. The movie
hasn't started. So that's their jobis to report like hey, you know,
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or everything looks good, or youknow, it's hot in here.
We need some ac So they're kindof just checking out the atmosphere and making
sure everything's rightsphere. And then likeyou've had this experience before where they're supposed
to check in min movie or somewhereelse later because we know, you know,
there's gonna be kids, somebody bescreaming, but when they walk in,
it happens to be that everybody'll bequiet exactly because they know they're walking
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in. But we just want tomake sure that, you know, we
extruct them to like look to theguests, see if anybody's trying to wave
them down, maybe like questions,you ask a question, or this person
is being too loud or say something, because we don't want people to come
out after And then it was abig you know And that's another piece of
the you know inside thing is thatpeople come out after the movie all the
time and I want their money back. Uh, I want my money back.
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This was terrible, Like somebody wasin there kicking my seat and blah
blah blah, And I'm like,then, why don't you come out and
tell me? I don't know what'sgoing on in there, Like, well,
I didn't want to miss my movie, but you want to be kicked
in the back of your seat.So I tell them, Like the best
way I tell them, it's likethat's not going to a restaurant and you
know, eating your meal and thencomplaining about it afterwards, complaining about your
meal where you're eating it. Butyeah, that's basically their job is just
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make sure everything's running good. Isa sound too low, is it too
high weather? So that way ifyou do come out and make something like,
hey, you know, we didhave so many checking and we didn't
get nothing reported back. But ohI always thought they were counting, and
then they made sure how many ticketswere sold and how many people were in
there that I thought that was theonly reason. What's funny too, is
that I know, and I've beenthere, like going to movies out of
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experience, that when people bring outsidepooon, they start hiding it because they
think people are there to check that, Like, it's not that, So
you guys don't care about that now, it's not that? Was my next
one is do you so you guysknow people are bringing into I see this
again back to TikTok. I seeall these theater hacks and how to do
this and how do that. Ican't speak for other theaters, And like
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we said, you know, butwe're honestly checking that you ain't bringing no
weapons, and we're checking your bagis to make sure safety, you know,
and we're seeing a bag of skittlesor something like I got to freak
out we're not going to freak out. Obviously, we don't want it because
it's taking money away from the concession. That's the main reason. So we
don't want that. But you know, I see it, and I'm not
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going to be like, hey,you can't have that bag of cheetos are
you know? So with that beingsaid, what's the wildest thing? Food
wise? You saw someone bring inthe wildest thing? You know? But
food wise is just like alcohol.But you said you said brought someone brought
a whole ass pizza. Yeah,the whole pizza, a whole just like
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leftover stuff. You know. Ihad somebody actually bring like tamalis, like
in a tough aware or something.It's like, what the hell they got
their thing over here? But yeah, I mean I've seen I've seen them.
I've seen a lot of things theybring in and like I said,
we could stop it, and asobvious we'll stopping you know, like,
hey, we'll hold that for you. You can't bring it in. But
if you're sneaking stuff in and allthat, I'm not condoning it. I'm
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just saying we're not going over thetop crazy like oh man, you got
that your band or whatever, unlessyou're in there drinking in the theater and
we see you because right now wedon't have alcohol, so you're not supposed
to be drinking in there. Butyou know, is this a myth or
is there what is it called whereit's a camera that can see Yeah,
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where you could see the crowd?Is there a camera looking at the crowd?
No? And that's funny because Ihad other people that go to the
Telarity theater and told me that they'veseen a camera in there, and I
was like, to my knowledge,you have to have people's consent or like
you have to let them know,Hey, you know this is your reactions
are gonna be recorded or whatever.You have to let people know. So
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we do not have cameras or anythinglike that, you know, set up
like that. That's kind of crazybecause if we didn't, like going back
to the crazy stories, I mean, we would have caught a lot of
stuff earlier than we did. Yeah. Another one, back to the food
thing. What happens to the leftoverfood at the end of the night.
Good question. Yeah, So mostof the left or food we have might
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be like hot dogs, because everythingelse like hot dog, I mean,
nachos is kind of made on thego. Yeah, popcorn. So the
popcorn when we do, we bagit up and we kind of wait for
people like they want refoles and ifnot, like maybe an employee takes you
home or I had the funniest employeeI had had chickens, so he was
feeling his popcorn. But then thehot dogs that are left over, we
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just had to count it and wasteit out for inventory purposes. But we'll
give it to the staff that whoeveris there go ahead and eat it.
But we do have to make sureit's good at that point, because you
know, it could be older expiring. But there's nothing big that we do
that we have to like, ohman, like I know, like Little
Caesars or somewhere else. They mighthave pizzas and ten pizzas. What are
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we gonna do with it? You? Yeah, but we don't have things
like that that we could just youknow, give up besides the hotdogs.
So now I never did this,but I know people that did when I
was younger. Sneaking in Is thatstill a thing? Do people still try
to sneak in and well with theassigned seatings a little harder now? Right?
Yeah? Does that still happen?Do you catch Yeah, that's still
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that still happens definitely. Like duringthe day, we have a lot of
young kids. They just try tobe sneaky, and it's kind of like
we already know. Just like wesaid, we have counsel, Like we
know that there's no ticket seals,and the person that's checking, they'll be
like, oh, there's ten peoplein here, but on my board they're
saying there's none. So that's whatthat's what we'll know. Like somebody does
pay for a theater and then tryto like theater hop but then went to
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the sign seeing somebody will say,hey, somebody's in my seat. So
now we have to go validate whoseticket? Who has the ticket? But
what if there's room, Like dothey get away with it if there's like
a lot of room is there?If there's room? Well, most of
the times we have to validate,you know, like are they actually here
or whose ticket is it? Becausethey'll lie you know, oh no,
what I mean by sneak because thesystem that you know, my friends,
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what you heard about, it wouldbe a side door, you know how
there's different exits exits, so youdon't you don't enter from the front.
You just enter where nobody checks you. So that's what if someone just happens
to walk in there. I mean, yeah, I'm sure it happens.
There's so many things that we couldcontrol, you know, and there's just
some things that we're not going tocatch. But yeah, I mean we'll
we'll notice that like a theater,you know, trash and stuff and like
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wait, nobody was even here.Yeah, so I mean, yeah,
it's happen like anywhere else. Youknow, you can't like police it all.
We tried to like just question peopleor the like suspicious all we see,
like you know, things going on. Well we'll get to it.
But I mean, yeah, there'sways, there's always around different things,
you know. Lastly, any bigmovies that are coming out, I know
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the one that I'm looking for toois the Deadpool and wove Ring. What
else is big this is coming outthis year? Well, most of the
movies that were supposed to come outgot pushed too because Strike. Yeah yeah,
yeah, yeah, so there's alot of dates that I'm not even
confirmed. So yeah, I waslooking forward to, like did Pull and
Ring just a lot of different onesthat the dates. So that's another thing
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that takes effect too. You knowthere's a strike and things are getting changed,
and that's what people don't know too, because they want to buy advanced
tickets. But we're actually don't getour show on into like a week or
two prior because of some confirmations theymight be coming out. They might not
push, Yeah, they're pushing.The charges are different, so we might
not get it at wrong. Butnow I'm looking forward to, like even
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ghostposters coming out, you know,I'm looking for it. Just to each
his own, you know whatever,you is there some moays I don't like
in some ways you like, andthere's some always we brought back, Like
you know, our Parameter that justgot a lot of theaters, a lot
of awards, We'll bring it back. So it just kind of varies different
ways. But are you watching allthese movies that come to my Are you
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personally watching them? Definitely not?And that's what's funny because now you get
that too. Yeah, I askedAndy. You know, the fact that
he's been in the movie theater businessthis long. This dude doesn't like anything.
He doesn't watch anything. I'll belike, oh do you watch that,
and be like, Nah, themost I'll get out of him,
you'll be like it was cool,Like that's the most I'll ever say,
like it's cool, Like damn,do you like any movie? It's funny
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because you asked me that question.So to be honest with you, just
I don't even know when I'm atthe when people ask me all the time,
like almost playing at the theater,what's good or was this or was
that? I don't know, likeonce I couldn't even tell you. Check
in and check out five movies thatare playing right now. You know when
you guys are different with music.You guys know what's going on. I
know when I'm looking at the reportingand I'm seeing and I'm planning for the
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next months. Now, I know, all right, this movie, that
movie, let me see it,like I said, tracking and how's it
gonna do. But other than that, I don't watch movies on doing that
unless as my kids wanting to watchit because a lot of the time they
were going without me because I wasalways at work. So I never seen
like Black Panther or this that becauseby the time I want to watch it,
we've already seen it. We don'twant to watch Well, man,
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you always take care of us,and I know you know we take care
of you as much as we canas well too, and we appreciate the
friendship and continued success with all yourendeavors. Yeah, it was educational today.
I had fun some things we didn'tknow about it and so we appreciated.
You want to plug any thing youwant to tell the listeners. You
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know where Maya is exactly or Instagram? Yeah, Maya We're located at Campus
Point right across the street from Saintmart Center, so right on Sean Chestnut.
So yeah, I know. Theonly thing I want to say is,
you know, my biggest thing isworking with the community and not expecting
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nothing in return. I always reachout to people like, Hey, what
can I help you with with whatyou got going on? Do you need
tickets? Do you need like anythingfor me to help. So that's my
biggest thing. If there's something goingon with the community, I love to
be a part of it and justhave my other because I feel that connects
to people and they'll see us therelike, oh, Maya, what's that
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Let's go check it out. Sothat's the only thing you know, and
that people want to follow me onInstagram is that end up promotions and I
promote everything on there that we're doingat the theater, whether it's you know,
jump houses or your Guys Show oranything. I love to promote and
just work with people in the communityis the biggest thing for me. It
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is. Yeah, I appreciate youbeing our guest today. Yeah, thank
you guys.