Culture Shift w/ Brad and Ordy: The American Way

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:56):
How is everybody doing out in k l r N
Land And this is Thursday night? That means it's your
early introduction to the weekend. I'm Brad Schlager and this
is the culture shift. How is everybody doing? But before
we endeavor to go down Hollywood's Walk of Fame and
discuss any and all matters of the business side of

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the show. Joining me every two weeks on this venture
is America's most laser focused and digitized i'mish individual already packered?
What the hell is going on? Seriously, I swear he
was just here. It's hot there is What are you

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dragging out there in the heat? Is that the problem?

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah? Yeah, no, I inadvertently muted when I didn't mean to,
So I gave you the full weather, you know, trafficking
weather on the threes here at Calaurin Radio dot com.
And of course none of you heard.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
My Oh well, we'll take them on the fives instead.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I suppose there we go. But Yeah, no, it's going
great out here. You know what, we are fully in summer.
I hate retained all of my digits after Freedom Day,
so winning, how about you? How's everything out in America's wang.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Pretty much the same, enjoying the heat and enjoining America's
Birthday and just coasting through the summertime. It's uh, it's
the way it goes. And we're in blockbuster season. That's
just the way it happens here.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
We absolutely are.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's a bit surprising that well theaters are actually doing
some monster business. It's it's almost weird for us on
this show to see it, and yet it's taken place.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I mean people are people
actually remember where those things are?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we're we're a little bit more used to see
in summertime, where you know, maybe a release will come
out and people are like, yeah, well we'll go check
that thing that came out last week. But now we're
starting to get a regular drum beat of hit movies.
So about a week ago, it was F one, the
auto racing venture completely sponsored by the F one Circuit,

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by the way, and starring Brad Pitt. That did very well,
and then for the fourth of July frame. Somehow they've
come up with another storyline involving Jurassic Park, and holy damn,
it drew to people came in just under I think
it opened on Wednesday, so at five day frame for

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the fourth of July weekend, but just missed hitting one
hundred and fifty million for that. And this is with
a revamped cast. Who was Scarlett Johanson is the star
in this one, and people still want to see the.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah. I mean, it's you say what you will about
superhero movies, but Dinah movies will always bring in the bucks.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Somehow it did. I mean, they've kind of revamped Jurassic
Park when they did this segue into Jurassic World. And
the first one I thought worked that was the one
with Chris Pratt and he's, you know, training dinosaurs for
the military complex as it were. That one seemed to work,
But after that, I think they really seemed tired at

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least plot wise. How many times are we going to
go back and revisit this same thing, and yet they're
hungry for it. And the only thing I can really
figure out is that dinosaurs you can't miss with if
you do it right, because you got always this new
generation of the young kids who are just fascinated with
the concept of dinosaurs and so seeing them on the

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big screen draws it just it's going to happen. I
think they even said through the weekend, like on Saturday,
they ended up drawing even bigger than they did on Friday.
And they said the matinees Saturday were packed, which pretty
much indicates family viewing. So they got a formula. You

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cannot you know better, the fact that it's tired and
worn out, and how many damn times are we going
to do this? And yet they keep doing it.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
Well, you know, I was thinking about it. You talk about,
you know, tapping on each you know, crop of new kids.
If you put one of these out every four years,
you will always be hitting a new theater audience just
as they're getting ready to you know, start to experience
PG as it were, you know, so.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
And then it kind of feeds into itself. You take
them to the theater, the kids wow, then he wants
to go see all the other ones, and the streaming
numbers generate as a result. The kids get excited, and
then they tell their younger siblings when they get born
about it. And because basically you're looking at a property
that's billions of years old and still manages to draw

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an audience, so they can't really not get see.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now, this is something that actually makes sense to me
in deference to Avatar. So I mean this one, yeah,
this one. I mean, you can keep this franchise going
forever until you eventually find like the third one almost
killed it? Was it the second one or the third
one that almost killed it? That was just fucking terrible anyway. Yeah,

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but then you know they came back, came back that
they just can't stop.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah. The you know that Chris Pratt basically was a
second franchise under this banner. You know, they reinstituted it
and gave an excuse to reopen a park and such,
and then they capped it off by bringing the old
characters from Jurassic Park into Jurassic World, put a big things,
and now they're kind of just revamping the whole thing.

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Got rid of the crew, brought in a new crew,
and it worked. So we're probably gonna have dinosaurs forever.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, I mean, as long as you can, you know,
fart out a halfway decent script for an action film,
you make it somewhat plausible then, I mean, aside from
you know, dinosaurs, then uh yeah, you've just got an ATM.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Forever pretty pretty much well this weekend in the manner
of old intellectual property that just doesn't seem to go away.
DC Warner Brothers is looking to revamp Superman for I
even forget how many times it is now, but.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
The second TV show, then you had Christopher Reeves, then
you had Dean came yeah anyway.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
And then they had Smallville, which was kind of the
Origin story teen drama variation, and then we had Henry
Kevill and they Brandon Ruth was in there for a while,
and they just keep coming up with this. He's now
relegated to Hallmark Movies, but nonetheless he's still a hero

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in my eyes.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
You know, that's still that just continues to confirm my
theory that when they age out of sci fi, they
go straight to Hallmark. They don't even have to leave
their they don't even have to leave their suburb in uh,
Vancouver exactly.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Just keep your rental going and you're gonna be back
there eventually. Yeah, but it's it's it's just what's going
to happen. So this is I guess highly anticipated I
get a vibe that there's like this hunger for this movie.
It's going to do pretty big business and we're gonna

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get to those number projections in just a bit. But
it really feels like they're doing this by rote as
opposed to demand. It's just kind of like check the watch. Yeah,
we haven't done Superman in about seven years. We're about
to do for it.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
Every time they come. I mean, Batman's are bad. You know,
Batman movies are Batman movies. They're gonna be around ever
since Keaton. These things are.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Gonna be around forever.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know, there will always be a new Batman.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
With the news he's the superhero dinosaur.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, pretty much so. But I think anytime lately when
they drag Superman out, they're trying to rekickstart the DCU. Yeah,
it's trying to do trying to do the MC thing
because they've only done it three times now.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah. The last time they attempted to do Justice League,
which was going to be then that launching point for
all of their characters to spin off, have their own
movies and then bring them back for another Justice League
and we'll match that and no, fiasco didn't work. It
on this. This is a movie that wanted It pulled
about seven to eight hundred million dollars and still lost

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a fortune for warners. Yeah, love it. This is why
I love Hollywood, and let's do it again. The spin
offs didn't really happen. Aquaman didn't really get traction, the Flash.
They'd rather we all forget about that. Wonder Woman was
a one off for the most part. Nineteen eighty four

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was a disappointment, to the extent that they actually got
rid of Galgado. How do you do that?

Speaker 3 (10:48):
But right, yes, it was her fault, not everything else.
And it wasn't the writing, the cinematography, or you know,
the uh, the whole premise of particular movie. It was Kalgada.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Yeah, I mean this was that was such a disappointment
that Patty Jenkins was like the hero female director. She
was given a Star Wars property. It was all going great.
Nineteen eighty four came out goodot is gone. Jenkins got
pulled from Star Wars and I don't even know who's

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playing Wonder Woman coming up, but.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
So DC probably that fucking hobgoblin from Snow White.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh my god, that would be hilarious, would it not?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Wouldn't that be great, yes, because nothing says Amazon like
five foot two and all fucking teeth.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
And I know, like, how do you say Karen in Spanish?

Speaker 3 (11:53):
I wonder Karen? That would be Frinch Karenita.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
But this is so basically what's going on now is
DC is looking to reformulate their entire comic book property universe.
I don't even do we call it the DCU. I
think some people are coining that phrase.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, yeah, so that goes back to Snyder verse.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
So the less said, the better, depending on you know,
although he's got his fans so I can't even say that.
But they decided to turn the reins over to James
gunn He, apparently, in their mind, is going to be
the guy to saved their comic book.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Universe, to revitalize it, to bring it new life. And
you know what, the one thing they did learn from
Marvel in doing all this, since we're going to talk
about gun mh, they really learned how to do the
Disney method. Well, what we've coined on the show is
the Disney method.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes, they are in the midst of doing that right now.
So just a slight bit of backstory here. James gunn
He basically cut his teeth by giving us Guardians of
the Galaxy over at Disney.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
He got fired for some unfortunate jokes.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, victimized by cancel culture. Now I kind of defended
the guy because while these were very off color and
quite probably offensive, they were also about a decade old,
and he was being very snarky at the time. It
wasn't like, yes, I love to have sex of kids.
He was being you know, obstinate and sarcastic in his comment.

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But again, these were ten years old and they unearthed them.
He got fired, segued over to DC and gave us
not the Suicide Squad, but Suicide Squad completely different. Yes,
as the modifier, and it's a different movie, same characters,
but unlike the.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Original Prey No, that was something else.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Never Yeah, they don't want you to bring that up
or he's so stop okay sorry, the SECONDO side Squad.
Actually they managed to have a plot as opposed to
spending fifty minutes introducing characters who will then.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, I haven't seen that much exposition since a fucking
BBC period piece.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
That was hilarious. How the movie was just that basically
you're almost an hour into it and it's like, here's
another guy. They call him this, and this is why
they call him that, because he does these things and
stuff and we need to get him together. Great, are
they ever gonna do anything? Now? That's kind of my answer.
But his apparently his version was enough to light a

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fire under the executives at Warners, and they said, Okay,
give this man everything, turn it over. He's in charge
of all of it, the properties, the decision making, the casting.
It's his.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
He's Kevin, but us okay, go for it.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Now. When the early trailers for this Superman came out,
I was struck. Somebody put a post up. I don't
know if you saw this or not, but they cut
a lot of segments out of the trailer and matched
them up to the last Superman movie. No, almost identical, right,

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Like there's a scene where he's walking away and somebody
from behind Superman throws something at his head and he goes,
rushes over and crouches to block somebody from getting crushed
by something. And then it was about a dozen different
cut scenes that are identical, right, And.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
You could probably go all the way back to Christopher
Reeve Superman and do that really well.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
It wasn't as if, you know, like they were, you know, okay,
kind of it was almost like the same camera angle.
It was bizarre, like, wait, is second, what's going on here?

Speaker 3 (15:59):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
But other people jumped on it like, oh, you don't
understand movies. You don't understand super year old films. Okay,
but I do. I do understand copying, right, I understand.
I can look up plagiarism in the dictionary. I'm just
gonna throw that out. Granted I didn't go to film

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school in cal Berkeley or something, but whatever, my criteria.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
Shot remake of it, it's a shot for shot remake
of the Superman you liked.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
It was just uh, curious, I'll just throw that out there.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
So it was odd.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
And then I don't know if anybody has seen the
trailers are still shots, but what they do with the
chest emblem, it doesn't even look like an.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
S yeah you know what it looks like band super
It just looks like a like a you know, it
looks like a no ma'am shirt.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
But for Superman, it's like TIMU Hero or something. I
don't know what's going on here. And I gotta tell you,
I liked the last Superman outfit where it was textured
and you had an embossed shield on the chest. I
mean it was sharp. Yeah, darker blue, muted colors to

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a degree, but it looked fantastic. Like there we go,
and now this is like but not Yeah, It's almost
like gun is saying, well, they didn't let me in
the wardrobe department. They didn't give me a key. I
had to come up with something. But so, yeah, this
is a new quote unquote version of Superman where I

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don't know if we're going to get the same origin
stories or some differences, but they do have super Dog
in it.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
I saw that in the trailer, which is cool. And
you know, I guess you know this is leading into
uh Supergirl too. You know that that's the success of that.
You know, that's future. It depends on the success of this. Sure,
and then they guts then they have something else in
Deck Forward too.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
But yeah, but we are, Yes, we're opening this weekend
and James Gunn is out doing the pr Junket Tour,
or as.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
We'd like to call it, destroying any hope of it
making a billion.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Dollars, stepping on your crank, putting quarters in a dick
bunch of machine you come up with metaphor here, Yeah,
James gun is out there opening his mouth, and the
studio's got to be looking at themselves and saying, what
the hell is he doing?

Speaker 4 (18:37):
He is.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Again, Now, this is a property that's been in our
culture of this nation for generations.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Going at least back to it. I'm sure, Jeff Krackman
if I'm wrong. The late nineteen twenties, yes, I believe
one hundred years.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
The introduction was back in detective comics. I think it
was called back then. Yeah. Yeah, that's how entrenched this
character is. And I only bring up the past because
James Gunn has to frame this movie in the present,
meaning the politics of.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
The president is that always works so well. That translates
to just goal at the box office.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Now, I know a lot of you out there probably think,
you know Superman, Yes, you know, came from another planet,
comes down here. He's imbued with the super athletic skills
because he had higher gravity there, and YadA, YadA, No, no, no,
you're wrong, you're wrong. This is about immigration.

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Okay, I'm gonna stop you right there.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
You're not stopping me, you're stopping James good.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Okay, I'm gonna stop James Gunn right there. Super Okay,
first of all, there isn't a fucking person on the
planet who doesn't know the origin story of Superman.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
What.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
He's not an immigrant, he's a refugee because it's not
like they came to Kansas with agency. It was launched
off of an exploding planet. And if you want to
use a biblical analogy, space is denial and the Kansas
cornfields are the reads that Moses was found in. Okay,

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so you know, if you want to put this in
any context, he's a foundling. Okay. He's opened the door,
find the baby bonnet with the kid in it, and
the note saying, please take care of my baby. I
can't blah blah blah blah blah. So the Kents take
him in. He has a birth certificate, he has a

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full American education, he's integrated into the community. He rints
in Manhattan, he's got a job with the W two.
He's not a fucking immigrant, Okay, Like, the best analogy
is a refugee. I mean what I saw immigrant, I exploded.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
I just it's just why is the question? Why do
you have to do this? I mean, how about this
maybe be subversive and you know we've talked about this
in the past. Slip a little of these nuances into

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your script and let them permeate a bit, let them
just marinate on the on the people that watch it,
and dawning might come over them like no, but when
you ham fisted snowshovel this on the back of people's heads,
they're gonna go stop it. And oh, by the way,
I'm not going to watch a movie and your message
doesn't get heard by the ones that you want to

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hear it. Yeah, it's this is the one thing that
these activist filmmakers don't understand. They they know the concept
of dog whistle because they love to accuse people on
the right of saying to appeal to the Nazis in
the party that don't exist. But if that were the case,

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you're trying to draw people into your cause. You're trying
to subvert their opinion of things so that they don't
realize they're being basically, you're preaching to the choir. In
other words, you're not converting anybody, and you're not drawing
a bigger audience. How do they not figure this out yet?
If you're gonna come out and tell the American public

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this is an immigration story. You are driving away the
people that don't want immigration, which, by the way, polling
shows is about seventy percent.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah, I just I mean again, wrong side of the
eighty twenty. I mean, the easiest thing in the world
to do is just talk about your movie in a
positive light, talk about some popcorn. If you're gonna bitch
about anything, bitch about concession prices, and then fucking let

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your movie speak for itself. If you if you didn't
shoehorn the whole fucking narrative in there, then let people
have a good time and not think about immigration. Because again,
there isn't a single person on the planet who knows
of Superman who doesn't know the story.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
God damn, he's an immigrant. Now, I'll try to give
James Gunn a little bit of leave way here, because
he wasn't outright saying this is about immigration, it's screw Trump.
But you know, he was saying, it's about human decency,
it's about being great to other humanity and being fantastic

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people and that kind of nonsense. But of course he
and his star I don't even know the actor's name.
I had no clue I gotta tell you in the trailers,
zero charisma, I'm just gonna throw that out. Yeah, but
they even had to bastard I mean, what the what
the fun kind of name is that? Uh yeah? And

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you know, thank god they got rid of Henry Cavill
because he was both great in the role and everybody
loved him. Can't have that, and.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
He enjoyed doing the role, and he was actually you know,
he followed the rich tradition of people who have played Superman.
Well and uh yeah, I'm sorry, but David corn Sweat
just says yeah, corn Sweat just does not roll off
the tongue.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
But I'm like watching the trailers and I was like, yeah, yeah,
Like first time you saw Cavil in the suit, you
were like, Okay, they nailed it with this guy. They
found him. So they even had to bastardize the catchphrase though,
where he fights for truth, justice and not the American

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way but humanity. I yeah, are you kidding me with this?
See how about this? Why don't you do an overdub
in foreign markets and go that route, but you could.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Get right appeal here, yeah, localize it without you know,
going all fucking red Dawn reboot for us, so you
can get it into the Chinese markets.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Okay, I mean I understand, you know, you do want
international appeal and all that, but this is still an
American character. By the way, Maverick made a ship ton
of money and it was as jingoistic as it gets,
and I'm talking overseas. Made a crap on. They ate this.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
The only thing that was missing from Top gun Maverick
was in fucking an America was fucking an apple Pie.
I mean really, that's.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well, there was you know, copyright issues there with the
American Pie franchise that they couldn't.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Oh that's right, Yeah, but that was spoiler alert. Yeah,
it's only been twenty.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
He screwed his dessert in that movie. There you go. Sorry,
Yeah that it was warm apple pie.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, okay, the.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Yeah, so they had to go ahead and alter that
line for their reasons China.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
But so James Gunn is out there doing this and
it's it's getting pushback. Let's just say that. And how
about this. If he's gonna call him an immigrant, why
don't we go the other way. I was like, well
that's the case, then that makes the infant Clark Kent
an anchor baby mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah, because you know, if if he had to come here,
then Zod wouldn't have come here. I mean it, it's
just chain immigration from Krepton.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Exactly. You open the door now, it's just gonna be fun.
It's just across the border. Well, okay, our atmosphere.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Kryptonians are taking our jobs.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Our metaphor of the border will be represented by the atmosphere.
So when the Aliens come in, that's them breaching through
without checkpoints. And this is how stupid it gets though.

Speaker 5 (27:17):
It gets can I interject it gets worse?

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Yeah, go jump in there.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
Cow El's dad tells Superman to go pregnate Earth, tells
him that plan his seed.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Is that a thing?

Speaker 6 (27:34):
Yes, Jesus Christ, And it's what Bradley cooper as as Joel. Yes,
tells him to go forth and find basically many women
and and plan his seed.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Wow, which is basically that's pretty much what British monarchs
did every time they conquered the land. And this is
in the era of no kings, right, m They're violating
their own This is how stupid. I feel damned ridiculous

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talking in these political metaphors on this film, and yet
they're forcing us to do this.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
This is you can't you just do fucking Superman.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
But this is how bad it is. It's like, I'm
I'm trying to concoct outlandish examples and yet put my
words in their mouth on the left and they would
be like, oh, well, that's obviously what it stands for.
It's that bad. I mean yeah, and then you're you're in.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
You're encountering Poe's Law in the cinema.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
And just as I'm trying to give James Gunn his
leeway and like, all right, he's softened his words, here
comes his brother Sean, who then basically lays out what
you just talked about the Disney method. Yeah, of course
this is about immigration and about welcoming people here. And
if you don't like it, screw you and don't watch

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the movie.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Well, and I mean he was obviously fed the line
by Variety, Jackass and the bow Tie. It's like, hey,
you know, some magotypes aren't happy that those films about immigration. Okay,
you know you just invented the fucking out for it
underperforming the box office. You just invoked the Disney way
you helped them crafted.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
And just to caze people, aren't aware what the Disney
method is. It's the four step process of their woke products,
where one they develop hyper woke content, Two they lash
out at a non existent resistance in the fan base.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Three generally created by themselves, because it's been proven that
Disney has bought these accounts to suddenly talk, you know,
to be all racist and misogynistic and ship towards the actor.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, like the cask will come out and excoriate anybody.
If you don't like the fact that there's a woman
or a black person, or a trans individual or in
this role, then you you you're not part of our
fan base that we don't like it r And the
most reaction you get from people is who the hell
said that? Nobody, It's of their creation. They're trying to

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genuine to push back preemptively and get hype. Step three
is then when they get pushed back to their secondary move,
they then say you're not welcome to watch our film,
you're not our audience, and then make it for you.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
This was this was highlighted in the Charlie's Angels, the
most recent reboot, where they said, well, we didn't make
this film for men, and then every man who didn't
go see it was a massageist who just doesn't want
to have strong female characters. Because the original Charlie's Angels
only franchise only made a billion fucking dollars. And that's
not hyperbal Those three movies made a billion dollars in
nineties money.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
And two thousand. I grew up when the TV show
was on, and I'm here to say, men actually dug
that show.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Yeah, otherwise it wouldn't have been on TV for twelve
fucking years.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Fair and Fox not wearing a bra for two seasons
is going to do this, is all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, that's going to help ratings big time.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
So men were watching, is my point. So that that begins,
you know, step three goes to step four. Then is
when this fails, they then blame it on misogyny, homophobia, racism,
gonna go down the list, whatever their complaint was. When
the self imposed failure happens, they try to blame the
audience that they told not to come. That's the way

(31:43):
it works. The Superman is clearly in the midst of
this cycle.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
See, we we've talked about this. We figured out that
some point during the final test screenings before they are
forced to release when they can only do minimal reshoots
at that point, when there when the test screenings don't
do that well, then the narrative begins. They pre poison
the well so that way they have a sympathetic press

(32:11):
and an auto generated, self fulfilling prophecy of failure because
they knew it was gonna fail anyway. But they're two
hundred they're two hundred million on the hook at this point.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yes, so all of this basically can be translated into
one quick phrase, Hey, it's not our fault. Yeah, you
pushed us?

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Was it us? Did we make a bad movie? No,
it's the audience that's out of touch. They do that,
they do, they literally do the skinner.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Met can't can't be us, No, no, no, no. We
spend two hundred million dollars. We're noble people putting out
a product nobody wants. Right, So what has happened now?
Movie is rolling out as we speak. But projections on

(32:59):
this are all over the map, and not because of
what we're seeing previously with Snow White, where they're scaling down.
I don't think they know, because I've seen projections saying
this could make one forty, could go up to one
seventy on opening weekend, and then I saw a completely

(33:20):
different set of projections from a they're saying like could
be eighty to one hundred and ten. Right, that's way
to hell off.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, I mean you've almost got a fort swing between
high and low and that's.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, And I'm going to start leaning to the ladder.
For this reason, James Gunn is hedging on what this
movie has to do to be successful.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Yes, the formula that we have found to be tried
and true in all of our prescians for determining whether
a movie has made or lost money based on years
of doing this show. James Gunn. Yeah, you guys are
fucked up. You don't know what's talking about.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
When when the director himself and the man again put
in charge of the entirety of the DC product at
Waters comes out and says it doesn't seven hundred, Nah,
doesn't need to make that. I don't know where that's
coming from. A director normally doesn't talk about the final

(34:34):
box office ever.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Because doesn't talk it down right.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Yeah, he's coming out now and he's like, I don't
I don't concern myself with that. That's not a big deal.
It's seven hundred if he makes it, who cares it.
It's like, dude, you care. You've got the entire franchise
on your damn lap right now.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Yeah, that's I don't know where they can up with
that seven hundred million figure. Okay, well, let's see. It
comes from the fact that your movie cost two hundred
million to make. You're going to have to put another
one hundred and fifty to two hundred million in promotion,
and that's not counting foreign distribution, so you're at about

(35:18):
five hundred million by the time it's all said and done.
So in order to be profitable, Yes, if it makes
five hundred million and one dollar, technically you have turned
a profit, but the studio is not going to look
at it like that. They want a fifty percent return
because there's also have to pay kick not kickbacks, but

(35:38):
share revenue with the theaters and everything else. So seven
hundred million is a pretty conservative figure on what this
is going to need to.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
Make because here domestically, in you know, North America, the
studio is generally collect around fifty percent maybe fifty five
depending on deals, but overseas that number runs forty to
forty five. But crunt together whatever your global is, cut
it in half, and then apply that not to your

(36:08):
budget of the film, but your total expenditure meaning promotion
and prints and other ancillary expenses. Paying your director five
percent of the cut and your actor three percent and
that kind of crap.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Because they're all in on the residuals too.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
So yeah, James Gun comes out. Well, he said, it's
been nonsense to say that Superman will be a flop
if it doesn't make seven hundred million. Okay, well, good
luck again. We're starting to look like Justice League here,
where that was supposed to be a monster hit for
them and didn't even crack one hundred MILLI its opening weekend,

(36:46):
and that needed one to two hundred to open in
order to launch this entire franchise. So guess what did
not happen. And that's why James Gun is in charge
today talking down how much money it needs to make.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
I you know, James, I don't want to tell you.
I mean, you're obviously in the business, you went to
film school and everything, and I'm just some dickhead on
the podcast. But you know who is going to tell
you that it needs to make seven hundred million dollars Zaslav. Okay,
that's just going to tell you that.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Yes, Warner Brothers, they're crunching numbers right now, I can
tell you that much.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
And they have entire building full of bean counters who
came up with these seven hundred million dollar figure.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm looking at seven hundred being conservative,
be honest. So let's just say there's two for those.
It really depends on the promo because they it maybe
two hundred million in promotions, but a lot of that
is shared by some cross you know, promotion product high
ends and stuff, so it might be one fifth.

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Talk about yeah, talk about Denny's. They're all in for
a half.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
So okay, okay, but right there we're at three point fifty.
Like we said, they get half of the box office.
So seven one hundred I think is conservative that they
have to hide by the end of its run. I mean,
good luck. I'm not talking you down, Bud, but the
fact that you're going, eh, nonsense to talk that way.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
And the thing is this isn't like new to him.
He's not some art house director who has suddenly given
the big title. You know, he worked for Marvel, he
did two Guardians.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Movies, which did monster business. By the way, the what
we're gonna get into phase five of the MCU in
just a moment. But really there were about two successes
in phase five, and that would be the automatic Deadpool
Wolverine monster hit and then Guardians of the Galaxy three.
Everything else you could forget about.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yeah, everything else I have because I could honestly tell you,
but unlust I wanted to make fun of it and
then I'll get total recall.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
So for him to sit here and start saying, nah,
it's just we're not really even focused on that kind
of stuff. People talking about this nonsense. Dude, your entire
future in cinema is hinging on this weekend. There's no
other way to put it.

Speaker 3 (39:13):
And yeah, we're not even talking about, oh, it'll do
great in foreign marketstaffers. No, it has to be. It
has to have active memes by the end of the weekend.
It has to have gifts, it has to have quotes.
I mean, unless you're Avatar, which still fucking baffles me.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
I'm never gonna understand everything.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Every other property has to make money and has to
have you know, recognition globally.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
So I mean, let's just look at it this way.
If Superman just goes eh and maybe breaks even, what
the hell is Warner's gonna do because this guy's in
charge of it all. This guy is picking the cast,
like I said, and making the call on which movie
gets made next and which characters are brought up. And

(40:01):
he couldn't do it with the automatic Superman, right.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
See trouble Marvel started the MCU with a throwaway character
nobody really cared about. Not because they had a lot
of option because they had sold off most of their
properties in the eighties and nineties. So if iron Man flopped,
nobody was really gonna care. Okay, but if you're the
dude that killed Superman, and I don't mean in the
death of Superman comedies, I mean any future of it

(40:28):
having another movie made in the next decade. Okay, this
no no pressure, James. Yeah, I think you're really underselling
your importance here.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
I mean, I will say he was probably prodded with
the question about this, but for him to just come out,
he's like, you know, this is when you give that
non answer. No, no, you know, we're so busy with
promotions right now, we're not even looking at the final
figure we got so much else going on, that's for later,
that's for a couple of months. Done. No, but for
him to come out as a seven hundred million that
stupid nobody's talking.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Oops made that number up, idiot.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
So there's problems there. Well to segue now, to go
from a projected problem to a bona fie problem, Disney
Pixar is currently sitting on a turd that's called Ilio.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
This is probably one of the rare Pixar fails.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Yeah, we talked about this on the last episode because
worst opening ever for Pixar. We went over to the reasons,
how the artwork was horrible and the storyline was ass
and everything else. Well, since then, thanks to the Hollywood Reporter,
they did a deep dive, a forensic study basically on
this film on what went wrong in the making of it,

(41:55):
and what went wrong is they made it?

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Yeah, pretty much. I mean the failure in this from
the main failure is that it was made.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
So what they basically did here was turn the reins
of this film over to one of the co directors
of a big hit of theirs, Coco. This is the
Mexican afterlife musical that did great business for them. So
they were like, sure, we'll give him this one. Well,
he's a gay director. I'm not saying that because I

(42:29):
care or noticing that they do, though, this was very
important to them, and it was very.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Important to him. Not at first though, Well.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
Basically they they looked at him, and I got to clarify,
this is how stupid we are these days. When I
say they, I'm not talking about the director. I'm talking
about Pixar plural. The studio turned the reins over to him,
and being imbued as they all are in woke activist culture,
thought it was a tremendous idea for him to base

(43:05):
an entire movie around an eleven year old boy who
is I don't know, gender fluid or out or recognize.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Yeah, yeah, he was gay coded. Yeah, queer coded. Sorry,
queer coded is the word they use. Yes, and this
was their operational term for the film. The kid is
he and and you know, in the director's defense, in
Molina's defense, he said, because the character was eleven, he

(43:37):
was going out of his way to make it overt
because yeah, he's one of those rare in Hollywood, especially
that it's like, look, I don't want to say it's
rare among you know the queer community. I'm saying it's
rare among Hollywood producers and directors to say, you know what,

(43:58):
let's not be over hurt in it with children. So
but he it's not that, he said, he just found
that it worked that way. It came out that way.
He didn't mean it to. But as it progressed, the
character became harder and harder, queer coded. So you know,

(44:19):
it wasn't his intention. It just happened, just accidental.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
Gay Like they had scenes where you're in the boy's
bedroom and he's got sports posters on the wall, but
not because he's a fan, but because he's infatuated with
the male athletes.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Right, yeah, you must say, you know you had Cindy
Crawford's poster or Fara face it's post you para. Foster
never called me after the hours I spent holding up
her poster with one hand.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
I mean, I think eleven might be a touch early
for this, but you know, everybody comes out at their
own I'm not here to judge out loud. But this
was all part of the storyline. And there was another
scene where he was on the beach and he was
making a pink shirt out of garbage that he was

(45:14):
finding and he was like fashion forward or something, and yeah,
he was put in.

Speaker 3 (45:21):
Right, and you know, and that's fine too. It's like,
I mean, everybody's got their hobby and you know, so
he was like showing off this pink shirt he made
out of trash he found out on the beach and
doing a fashion show for a crab whatever. That's fine.
And this was important to a scene that shows up
later in the movie that nobody understood why because the
scene from the trailer, the scene from the first runs,

(45:42):
the scene that we're talking about right now that everybody
loved got cut from the movie.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
This is the problem. Well, I gotta I gotta frame
my words correctly, because I'm not saying how dare you
put this in mark film lump banging my hands on
the desk. What I'm saying is, what is the biggest
problem with all of these woke products that they churn
out is your audience appeal? And that is who are

(46:13):
you making this for? And the director made no bones
about it. He was making a movie about his childhood,
meaning he was making the movie for himself. When did
we hear this recently? Oh that's right. The making of
the Acolyte. Yes, where the directors basically about Star Wars. Yeah,

(46:41):
I wanted to make a movie that would appeal to me. Okay,
you only got five hundred million Star Wars fans out there,
you want to bring them into the process.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
No, okay, yeah, this is so you just you just
pissed away a billion dollars on an audience of one.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
I hope you enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
And again, this is not like me saying how dare you?
It's me saying why did you? Because one, this is
the telling aspect of it. One of the people they
spoke to in Pixar that saw the original cut and
they're saying that the finished product that went to theaters
didn't resemble the original film. The director got pulled, America Ferrera,

(47:25):
who did the voice of the lead characters, or one
of them, she got pulled or she left. Major changes,
major rewrites went on, and such different product entirely. And
one of the people said, yeah, this is a completely
different movie, and the one that it used to be
was fantastic, except that original cut. They played for a

(47:49):
test audience. Lights came on, producers came out, they pulled
the audience. You know who liked it. A few hands
went up, and now he said, how many people here
would go to a theater and pay a ticket to
see this movie? Nobody in the test audience raised their hand. Gee,

(48:12):
I wonder why they reworked it.

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Yeah, and then there were words with the producers and
the director that apparently the director did not like and
the director was no longer tied to the project.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
It was at this point I think the producers pulled
him aside and said, yeah, we got problems.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
If you all remember the scene when Homer discovered he
had a brother who had a car manufacturing company and
put Homer in charge of making the car, and they
released the Homer and Homer's brother played by Danny DeVito, goes,
I'm rudd. That's what the producers said when they saw this.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Yes, perfect analogy, because in the making of that car,
everybody thought it was fantastic. Yes, do this put that
in there one of those seven couple holders here ago
and then the general public said, the hell is this
monstros from the same thing here? And this this article

(49:13):
just beautifully illustrated the insular nature of the studio. When
there's all that first one was perfect. They changed everything.
Why did you go to the test screening? Because nobody
liked it? And that's the problem with all of this
woe crap right there. I did ay unrelated, but there's

(49:37):
some relevance here. Just today I was talking about an
article over at the Bulwark and woman was complaining about
the trans antagonism from our administration and how Donald Trump
is alienating two million people with this, and just you know,
I paused for a moment ran figures in my head
three hundred and fifty roughly in America today, tw is

(50:00):
less than one percent.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Half yeah, half a percent.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
Okay, that's where you get. So she has to play
the games. So it's two million people, yeah, or a
sliver of a fraction of a percentage of the population.
That's the game.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Talk about two million people. You always tell us how
everybody outside the cities in California don't matter. That's two
million people.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Probably alone. Yeah, it's that's that's the lack of applied
thinking that goes on in the studios as well. When
you're making these woke films, who are you making it for?
Because if you're appealing to that percentage of a one,
that's going to be your audience.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
What was that movie that was like, if you don't
see it, you're homophobic. It was a gay comedian, gay
rom com and even and it didn't and even not
like a percentage of the total gay population in America,
Like least hund percent of the total gay population in
America went to go see ith. Yeah, totally made for gays.
Even the gays didn't want to see it.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yeah. I crunched those numbers and it's like, if every
single person that went to the theater that weekend was gay,
it was still like one and a half percent of
the gay viewing public. That's how. Yeah, nobody wanted to
see it, but homophobes didn't go see the movies.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
Why it failed?

Speaker 2 (51:25):
And that's the thing is the studios do this all
the time. They just what why is the question? If
you have three hundred people in your office that are
all gay or allies or whatever description they are to
make a movie for three hundred million, what's going to happen?
You know? That's the that's the issue. Yeah, but the

(51:48):
fact that Elio failed twice is the amazing part. Just
damn Yeah, well original.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
Failed and then the unfucking failed. I still understand how
this is getting an a plus from cinema score at
eighty well from credits obviously.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Well, the cinema score is actually the audience. But the
problem is they're not drawing an audience at all.

Speaker 3 (52:10):
That's so that yeah, people that have the audience, right, yeah, okay,
that tracks.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
So you got a classroom of fifty kids, and if
you give a tester ring lunch and to stayed behind
and they get it, a yeah, that's gonna happen. But
right we're like screw it, We're going food. Uh, I'm
gonna skip around a little bit here because tying in
with Disney Fiasco's in failure of woke product. Holy crap.

(52:40):
I watched iron Heart.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Oh god, yeah, we gotta do this one. Yeah we
should have done at the superhero segment, but also when
we're doing in the failure segment, that works too.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Yeah, because this thing. Yeah, I forced myself to watch
it because I was here so much about this, and
as I watched it, I was like, holy crap. So
I watched like the first three episodes that came out,
and before the second release, I just did some research.

(53:12):
This was the smallest window from an initial trailer to
the release, and unlike the modern method on streaming, where
you know, you put out a couple episodes and then
one a week to keep your audience going. They belched
out three episodes at the start and three episodes at
the end. That's it done, well, we.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Were supposed to have two seasons.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Sure's gonna have two seasons?

Speaker 3 (53:40):
No, I said, was I supposed to have two eight
episode seasons? And it's done? Yeah? They they actually gave
the Acolyte more time than they gave this. They gave
she Hulk more time than they gave this.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
But this is the amazing part of Ironhart received and
written in twenty.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
Twenty Middle of Black Lives Matter. Coincidentally enough, OVID, Yeah,
we aren't right. There's some making of vignettes out there.
You know, you can see video behind the scenes of
the cast and crew in the making of this. Good
luck finding a white person. And again, I'm not saying
this out of racism, but it was just the intention

(54:24):
from Jump Street.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
This is a black show. I'm just gonna say they
said it, Okay, I'm not being racist. Like one the writer,
I think it was one of the head writers even said,
oh man, you're gonna see Jordan's shoes are prominent in
this one o cat Oh all right, how about I

(54:47):
don't know story script is that acting. All I heard
throughout these things is just black empowerment, telling our story,
living our truth, wearing our shoes. But this is a
character that exists, right, I mean your storyline, comic books,
you're doing.

Speaker 7 (55:08):
This was There's the thing about it, though on Ironically,
they accomplished putting every trope about black people on the
screen in three episodes. This was amazing, Ia, I take
it while, I take it back, and I don't think
there was chicken, a watermelon, but there was everything else.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
It was every stereotype and trope.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
This literally was approach from the standpoint of telling our story.
This is our truth. And their story is of a
young girl out of the streets of Chicago, a prodigy.
She's one of these kids at the age of thirteen
you knew was going to college like next year. That's smart,
brilliant mind manages to get a full ride scholarship to MIT,

(56:00):
and all we hear about is how oppressed and downstrodden
this character is. I'm I'm not going to MIT. I
wish I had the stones in my head to do so.
But you know something tells me, if you make it MIT,
I'm a league tech school. You're not oppressed, is my point? Right.

(56:28):
This is followed up by her introduction. The lead character
by the name of Revere is saying, she's telling us
how brilliant she is. I'm one of the best inventors
that is out there. I'm gonna make stuff that everybody
needs and wants. I'm the most brilliant person out there.
How about showing us. Maybe let's see something. So while

(56:50):
she's at MIT, all she does is scam. While she's there,
she's selling and yes her her life as a side hustle.
She's selling intel from MI I T to other students
and other schools even and meanwhile she's building a Tony
Stark Ironman's suit with grant money for the school. She

(57:16):
calls it her grant money, so she's allowed to build
the super suit. So she gets caught. The dean sits
her down, and you know it's all black oppression at
that point. You're only coming down to me because my
color people want me to live down to certain levels.
I'm not gonna do that. You get caught cheating and stealing,

(57:38):
It's not like you're being profile here. Okay, you did it.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
So her was academic espionage, So you've engaged in that.
It's generally frowned upon.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Not yeah, a little bit worse than plagiarism. I'm just
gonna put it out there.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Okay, we generally deport Chinese people for that.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
So she gets kicked out of school and says, well,
that's it. I'm gonna make off with the Iron Suit
because this is mine. No, it's not. It's the schools
of which you were getting a free sweetheart. So she
hustles back to Chicago with the Iron Suit. Now brilliant
mind the likes we've never seen before. She's gonna go

(58:24):
to Silicon Valley? Is she gonna go work in maybe
Boston Dynamics and build robots? Going to join a gang? Sure?

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Why not? Again? Serotype? I also I also have when
she said that, uh, you know, well, Tony Stark is
you know, just a punk because you know he has
he's a billionaire. He made the original Iron Man suit
out of bomb fragments in a cave in Afghanistan.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Yes, what did what did Obadiah's name he made? That's
what scraps in a cave? Right? But no, he's a
privileged billionaire. That's why he built a super suit. Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
You can call back to your own history.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
So we're gonna dump on probably the most pivotal character
in MCU history. Got Ah, he's he's just a billionaire.
He's ah, we hate them. I'm a pour down trodden
black girl from the streets, and I can build a
super suit only because of the screenwriter.

Speaker 3 (59:33):
This is now skippy, right money not.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
So she steals the suit from MIT and it gets
busted up and destroyed and she has to make a
new one at one point in time, So she goes
to her father's old garage, takes the nineteen seventy one
Barracuda and makes a brand new supersuit right there. Out
of that.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Sure, why not?

Speaker 2 (59:55):
No, no, you did not, No, you did? And stupidity
just reigns throughout this. How about this black empowerment movie
and your lead villain is called the Hood, and every
single character from the comics, now, if you see them

(01:00:17):
into comic books, they're almost like alien in nature, they're
not really human. But in this movie they're all black
inner city personalities, including an outwardly flamboyant trans individual never
seen in the comics. But sure, Now here's a question
I've got for you, Ordy. Yeah, Leah, isn't taking existing

(01:00:42):
characters of this nature and transforming them into your own
persona that you prefer isn't that considered cultural appropriation? Or
am I wrong? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:00:54):
I'm okay. So the re recharacter in the comic books
is black.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
That's not changed.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
But yeah, I don't even just I'm still just stunned,
and even as you're describing it, become continuing more stunned
of all the stereotypes and tropes that were put in
here on ironically, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
How about this. One of the penultimate battles that takes
place involves a number of people of color breaking out
in a fight inside of a restaurant.

Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Well, they just said the waffle house meme.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
If you had a white director do this and say
say all these black characters go into the white castle
and start a fight, that guy would be run out
of Hollywood the next day.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
Sorry, I mean no, most of this, most of this
would have been absolutely canceled, never working again.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
I mean, damn so again.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
And I just have to say, at no point did
any of the casts in this go Excuse me, I
have a question and this is racist. What the fuck?

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
So instead of working for a billion dollar corporation and
making a seven figure salary, you're gonna join a gang
and extort money from companies and you get not the proceeds,
a cut of the proceeds because you're in a gang
of like nine people. And you know, the justification for

(01:02:47):
this was always you know, like the first business was
they wanted to take over the Chicago subway line and
turn it into mass transit or something, and this was
gonna impact inner cities. Oh, we have to go steal
their money.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Okay, Robin Hood, I'm with it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
And the other one is there was a guy that
was running an agrabusiness, had a revolutionary plan on how
to feed the populations of the world. But he's going
to put small time farmers out of business, so we
got to go and attack them.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
Okay, Anti Monsanto, I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
Now. When re Re, the lead character, joins this crew,
she only agrees to it because she says, listen, I
don't want any violence. I'm not about that, and they're like, no, no, no,
neither are we. It's just we just want to steal.
So she says, okay, and then we proceed to watch
them wantonly kill just about anybody and everybody when they

(01:03:48):
go into these businesses, the executives, the security guards, the
CEO from the farming collective. He's killed, Yeah, but they're
not people. Did we forget about her? Moral hump has
said that you've made a big deal about it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:03):
Yeah, just last episode.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
I remember, and I'm just surprised that the screenwriter didn't
because I was kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Half watching this. I'm only half watching this, and I
remembered that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:15):
So basically what it comes down to is this, this
was an origin story for a villain, not an anti
hero who's gonna have a character.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:04:25):
She was pretty much an insufferable twink from the start
and at the end of it you really kind of
hate her. Why would anybody watch this?

Speaker 3 (01:04:37):
Especially when she ripped off Clippy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Literally the when she leaves. I t the AI that
powers the suit is a little bouncing animated pencil that
talks to her, just like Clippy from Microsoft, but was
a paper clip. I mean I saw that in.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
You're about You're about to kill some You're about to
kill some big ag uh exacts. Would you like to
know more?

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
Well, now we need to wipe out these people at
this evil corporation. There's a reason there's an eraser at
the top of me. We can erase them, can't we. Yes, Clippy,
That's what I will do now, kill everybody at this business.
What this thing is. I said it in my piece

(01:05:33):
that this is Marvel's acolyte. This series was a complete
abortion five years it took to get here.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Okay, was there any truth to that meme going around
of Robert Downey Jr. Saying if you don't watch this,
you're racists? Was that real or was that just.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Deta I didn't see that. He did at one point
call her though, like there was this you know. Somehow
they managed to have a video running the one moment
Robert Downey called the actress up to kind of pass
the torch. So, okay, yeah, as far as calling us racist,

(01:06:13):
I don't know. I want to see that though. That's
hilarious if that's the case.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
I was gonna say, because if it's true, if he did, wow,
we are a long way from when he went to
jail and got red tiled.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Apparently my eyes and my ears are racist because what
I saw was a steaming pile of crap on my television.
Well do you do you want to do a break
here or do you want to just gut it out
to No?

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
I absolutely need a break because can my cuppeth be dry?

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Our Uh? Yes, our content is running over that much.
We're gonna have to fly through the next part. But
let's we'll do that. So give us about three minutes.
Go hit the lobby, refill the popcorn tub, get some
more drinks, and then kick back in the chair and
we will be back with more here on the culture shift.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
I can get to sleep.

Speaker 8 (01:07:04):
I think about the implications diving in too deep, and
possibly the complications especially at night, my worry over situations
I know will be all right. Perhaps it's just imagination.

Speaker 9 (01:07:29):
Day after day reappears, night after night, my heartbeating.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Shows, the fear.

Speaker 10 (01:07:43):
Gost disappear and face a way between the sheets.

Speaker 8 (01:07:58):
Only brings accessperation.

Speaker 9 (01:08:01):
Just have to walk the streets, smell the desperation. At
least there's pretty lights, though there's little variation.

Speaker 3 (01:08:16):
I dulifies the night.

Speaker 9 (01:08:20):
From over again. Day after day, reappears, night after light,
my heart beat show goes, disappear and face.

Speaker 11 (01:08:45):
Come back another day.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
I can't get to sleep.

Speaker 12 (01:09:35):
Think about the implications, Govin, and it mustn't be the complications,
especially a worry over the situations there.

Speaker 10 (01:09:52):
Ill it will be all.

Speaker 11 (01:09:56):
It's just all over.

Speaker 2 (01:09:59):
And we you are back here on the culture shift.
And gotta say, loved the uh segue music there. That
was Colin a he a mint at work. This was
from his solo venture if I'm not mistaken, but that
was a I'd love that version. It's the acoustic of the.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
It was actually premiered when he had a guest spot
on Scrubs. How's that for a segue?

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
Perfectly done by our producer. Yes, well done, Ye, well done.
I always liked that version of it, and there was
reason for it, because the announcement has come they're going
to be rebooting Scrubs and doing so with the original cast.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
I was gonna say, is it really a reboot if
you have the original cast, it's more of a continuation. Yeah.
I wasn't gonna say a sequel or anything. Yeah, it's
a continue. It would be like if Friends were to
suddenly came come back after not Friends Seinfeld were to

(01:11:05):
come back after they all got out of jail.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
I mean they did this a few years ago with
Will and Grace. Yeah, he basically just picked it up
into like, oh yeah, never entured. Sorry, guys, we're just
seven years sabbatical.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
I guess right, Yeah, nothing interesting happened in that seven years.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
But yeah, Donald Faison is going to be in it.
Everybody's going to beat it, Zach as well, Sarah chalk
And is the big doctor going to be in I
missed that part, did they Actually?

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
Yeah, I didn't see it. I didn't see if he
was going to be in it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:40):
They got to have Cox, right, They got.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
Cox Bally, the original the original cast. They're all taking
on the role of what doctor Cox was because this
is a new group of interns and they're the doctors.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
And that means Cox would have to move up into management.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Yeah, if you managing the hospital, that'd be fucking fantastic.
If he if he's the chief of surgery or something
like that, that'd be Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
Cocks always cracked me up because he just had no
patience for anybody and was just utterly hilarious about it.
Oh see, you thought I was paying attention and that
was just so wrong on your part, so so wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
I hope they get the janitor back.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
To I think they got to.

Speaker 3 (01:12:26):
Yeah, if you're gonna do it, if you got the
three main characters back, well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
That's the thing. I mean, if they if you got
that kind of poll, you're probably gonna have enough to
get everybody else to giint in right right, I mean
you kind of gotta, but it'd be interesting. I don't know,
it's just it's been quite a while.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
Not even a pilot, just fucking show.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Yeah, this is going so yeah, faison, chalk braf. They're
all on board and this is happened in.

Speaker 3 (01:13:00):
There's Yeah, here's ten million episode run with it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
And it's uh, it's gonna be on ABC apparently too,
So they're gonna do this.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Yeah, the last two seasons well yeah, but the last
two seasons of Scrubs was on ABC.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Oh they did the bounce. Okay, that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
M h yeah, So that that fucked me up too
until I did a little bit of research and went, oh, right, okay, But.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
I mean they're bringing everybody back. They've got the original basically,
I mean, the creator of the show. They're bringing back
a couple of the old writers, and they're basically picking
right up.

Speaker 3 (01:13:45):
Yeah, they got they got two, they got at least one.
If I think they one or two of the original
showrunners too.

Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
So yeah, I'll be checking it out.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
Yeah, I'll watch it. I don't know how many episodes
as I watch, we'll see, but I will be definitely
watching it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
They're they're talking about debuting in mid season, so it's
going to be in the twenty five to twenty six lineup.
That's just a matter of win. So maybe about January.

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Possibly, God, if this is just getting announced somewhere in July,
they are gonna fart those episodes out so quick now
that it takes i mean most of its writing room
with a show like that, you know, because you're basically
your set's pretty small, you know for Sacred Heart Hospital.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
So plus I think for most of them, they're basically
going to be acting with muscle memory. It's just going
to be. Yeah, they've done it for so long. The timing,
the chemistry, everything is already there. So plus they've been
doing the Tea mobile commercials for a couple of years now,
so they've stayed fresh that way.

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
Yeah, the show was on for eight years and then
I think it ended in two thousand and six, two
thousand and seven, two thousand test. Shit that long, Okay, so, yeah,
you're early fifteen years apart. Like you said, they've been
doing the tea mobile commercials together two so they'll click
right in. Not like you gotta find a lot of
chemistry there.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Yep, it'll definitely work well this week following the Hollywood
just yesterday. In fact, big big news, HBO Max is
now official. Can you feel the change?

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
This is my favorite walk of shame of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
We've been talking about this for a couple of months now,
the big reb.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
Yeah. For those of you who don't know, HBO Max
decided for a very short term to become Max because
they wanted to take the brand Gravitas that had won
multiple Emmys and was known for groundbreaking TV shows, and
they decided they really wanted to have the image that
everybody over the age of thirty five has associated with

(01:16:00):
teenage male curiosity and blurry hotel room shame.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Yeah. Nothing distinguishes you from the general audience and Max
just Max, nothing more Max. Oh okay, I got it. Max.
I my mind would always go to Homer Simpson naming
himself after a setting on a hair driver. I'm Max Power, right.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Yeah, they took they took the sketta off, but you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Knew it was there, so so Lea. The brilliant idea
a couple of years ago was let's strip away the
branding that made us excellent in the field, which would
be HBO. Who needs that? All right, We're just gonna
go with Max. We're the generic streaming service.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
And you know, they took their colorful logo away and
you just hit a black box with Max on it.
And then so we talked about it. It was a
couple of months ago we found we first heard the
news where they finally conceded that was a horrible fucking
idea and said we're going back to HBO. Max and

(01:17:18):
Brad and I were like, no shit.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Welcome to common sense. We saved you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:26):
Thank you, thank you for listening to the show.

Speaker 2 (01:17:30):
So yes, it's it's now official. All the new letterhead
and paperwork and everything else has been ordered. They've changed
the sign in front of the building. We're now HBO Max,
like we we're the mostly all along. Well done, Hollywood executives.
Thank you for catching up to us here, o Kayla
are n Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
That like cost a billion dollars to rebrand.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
This one. I'm I have questions, but I'm sure dollar
signs are the motivating factor here. Netflix is looking to
re establish itself with new studio space on the East
coast now New Jersey, that cinematic backdrop Mecca.

Speaker 3 (01:18:24):
Yes, because you know, if you if you really want
your uh your scenes to look like California beach. Nothing
says the green waters of the Atlantic like the blue
waters of the Pacific. Uh well, no, I mean, okay,
so this is so a few weeks ago. Maybe it's
not a month ago, maybe two months ago. Gavin Newsom

(01:18:45):
kind of for those of you who don't know who
Gavin news as, he's the governor of California, realize that
they've kind of forgotten their ten billion dollar elephant in
the room over the last few years. And that and
that's tax money, by the way, the Hollywood industry they've
kind of neglected since the end of COVID and haven't

(01:19:08):
really paced up their tax incentives to film in California. Well,
too little, too late, because Netflix is what is it,
twenty nine acres.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Two hundred and ninety two, three hundred, let's you say
three hundred. Why couldn't they get eight more acres and
just round it out?

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
Yeah, because that eight acres is easements. Yeah, so two
hundred and ninety two acres for nearly a billion dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
That's the whole thing is they they couldn't go three
hundred because the the eight hundred and forty eight million
right there probably would have been eight hundred and forty
nine and a half million.

Speaker 3 (01:19:52):
Yeah, I mean, because I mean it's yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
Let's say it. Netflix spends that much on the coffee
machines in their office space. That's just right. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
And yeah, because California, they he got Knews and got
the legislature to put the cap on incentives from three
hundred and thirty million dollars at seven hundred and fifty
million dollars and just announced it last week and just
too little, too late because uh, you know, because when
Netflix goes, you know what, we're just gonna do our

(01:20:26):
own pine Wood studios up in New Jersey. And their
argument for it is pretty sound. It's like, you know,
New Jersey is to New York what Burbank is the
Los Angeles. I mean it's there, you're short jaunt away,
you know, you can have your Manhattan living and then
just crossed the bridge out to you know, Central Jersey

(01:20:48):
in about an hour and you're at work.

Speaker 2 (01:20:52):
So but yeah, it's they're gonna get their own off
ramp from the turn plank and everything. I mean, this is.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
Yeah, absolutely will It's like a test, it's like a gigafactory.
It's like a pinewood.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Yeah, this isn't Netflix moving office space from LA and
it's like, you know what the ransom little This is massive.
So almost three hundred acres, twelve sound stages. This is serious.
This is severe. This is I mean, damn and yeah,
six done, Gavin.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
Each sound stage is gonna be uh sixty seven thousand,
six hundred square feet. That's a costco.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
Man, Holy crap. I mean this is a major studio
leaving Los Angeles. Yeah, that's only what is That's yeah,
that's like I.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
Said, that's yeah good, you know good on Netflix. I
mean you're kind of churning out crap that every now
and then you got the you know, the diamond and
the up. Yeah, there's one story I didn't drop that.
I found this one later and I figured that I
should have tied him in. Netflix is doing rid of
the getting rid of the now trending when you log
in really now, they're they're making it for uh they're

(01:22:18):
gonna put it in se rather than the big one.
That of those things you don't want to want to watch,
they're gonna put it down on the genre screen. Now,
so when you get to your genre that you're like,
if you I want to watch sci fi or I'm
gonna watch you know, true crime, then they'll have the
trending for that. Because the trending has gotten so granular.

(01:22:39):
I guess, yeah, that that it doesn't make sense to
do it on the big screen.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
Anymore so, or I suspect trending is the stuff they
want you to watch, because it wasn't. Mm hmm right,
that's that's the syndic talking there.

Speaker 3 (01:22:57):
We spent a fun ton of money on this. We
had to move our studios to Jersey because you weren't
watching this.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
Just every now and then, I would like, log on it,
I'll see what's trending, and just you know, I let's
scroll through it and like something completely aconite and ridiculous
that nobody's ever heard of before yesterday is trending number
four bullshit? Sorry new.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Yeah, it's trending ahead of squid Game.

Speaker 2 (01:23:24):
No it is not. Nobody heard about it before yesterday.
But that was the hottest thing in the globe. Of
course it is.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
And that's how I found out about sense Hat and
I will never forgive them for that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
Ye god, I forgot all about that too.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
That just that was the start of the fucking TV
show by Committee.

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
I'm I'm having like Jacob's Ladder flashbacks, thinks to you now, Wow.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
Yeah, you know what that's payback for when you were
doing the uh, when you and Paul were doing the
ID four sequel, And it wasn't until you got to
the last ten minutes of the show that I realized
I've seen this.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
Wait a second, this, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
Yeah, and then all over Crest memories come flooding back
in and.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
It's like when Archer had amnesia and they were like, no,
you gotta hease them back into it, not too quick.

Speaker 3 (01:24:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
So yeah, this is massive. I mean Netflix is basically
pretty probably about ten years, are going to rename New
Jersey probably.

Speaker 3 (01:24:36):
Yeah, we got to come up with something catchy so
they can steal it from us.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
I mean Netflix is in New England. How when did
that happen to the founders? Wow, that's interesting. Yeah, that's
that's severe. Eight hundred and fifty million they're spending on
Damn that's yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:53):
I mean no, I mean seriously, that is. That is
what Marvel spent for the Georgia properties.

Speaker 8 (01:25:03):
This is.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
This is about as close as you're going to get.
Gavin Newsom, admitting his policy suck, he says, well, we
take our eye off the ball, we put our feet up,
and we took things for granted. Yeah, there's your head going, Gavin.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
Yeah, there's your apichat right there, Pal, No kidding.

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
I mean this has been decades. This has been going
on for decades, this job flight out of California. I
mean when I was at NET, I mean that movie
line years ago, I covered this when they had Harvey
Weinstein going to Sacramento and begging for tax breaks and
union setbacks and things of this nature. And I said,

(01:25:49):
he just campaigned for those things with Obama. Right, Sorry,
I have a problem. He wants the whole country to do.
Oh it's except for us in Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
Yeah, we're different. We entertain you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:04):
So corporate welfare is the worst thing on the planet,
and there's Harvey asking for corporate welfare for the studios.

Speaker 3 (01:26:15):
Well, and we talked about this during COVID too, because
California is ridiculous COVID policies. You had studios popping up
in New Mexico and on Ottawa, and you know, because
it's like so Vancouver's got the East coast, west coast look,
but they needed a rust belt look, so that huge
studios were moving into Ottawa and h instead of Ohio

(01:26:39):
for some reason, but again because Canada has better carve outs.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
Yeah, the tax breaks in the exchange rate as such
that now basically Vancouver shoots as Hollywood, Toronto shoots as
New York, Montreal shoots as Europe, Calgary shoots as Texas
slash Midwest. Yeah, and now Ottawa is Ohi Ohio Pittsburgh chain. Okay,

(01:27:09):
we need a blue collar town. We'll go there. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
I mean, I guess say if they waited for the
summer and went up to uh A Prince Edward Sound,
they could do the Bayou.

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
I don't know, it might be a little a little
too big of a jaunt there though.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
But yeah, so I mean the globe. We're way up north.

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
What why is the sun never setting?

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
What the fuck is this?

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
We can shoot eighteen hours a day up here.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Oh, let's see where else we got to go with
streaming here. Well, August I was kind of snuck up
on me a little bit, but they just released the
trailer for the next Terminal List. This would be the
Amazon Prime series with Chris Pratt playing the Army Guy,
and I gotta tell you, at the end of that,

(01:28:02):
I was like, damn, that was good. That he's good,
He's done. Yeah. But uh, then it dawned on me.
I was like, wait, does that get They could do
a prequel. Guess what already they're doing a prequel. You're
doing a prequel origin story for the Terminal List and
this uh Terminalist Dark Wolf. If you haven't seen it yet,

(01:28:25):
head over to Prime Guy and everybody's got Prime But
it just a reminder you're getting free shipping. Guess what,
you also got streaming kicking on over go check it out.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
This is if you bought anything during Prime Day, then
you can watch this.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
That's right, it is Prime Week.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
This is going to probably show up on the numbers sooner.
That was a good series. It was a really interesting
and prep impressed the hell out of me. It was like,
holy cow, you yeah, he's not only got some chops,
but he looked military I'm gonna give it to him.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
You know what, You're really hard to tell.

Speaker 2 (01:28:56):
It was in.

Speaker 3 (01:28:58):
As for me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:59):
So so that came out. Go check out the trailer
and if you liked the first one, it looks pretty good.
It's gonna be. How it all kicked off, how it started. Well,
one of the topics we love here is artificial intelligence,
or moreover, how AI is screwing over the industry. Yeah,

(01:29:20):
I didn't see this one coming. It wasn't. On a
little side note related though, a bit of upheaval over
at Jitter on Grock Apparently Elon musk Ai got out
of control. And if I'm reading the news correctly, and

(01:29:43):
I only skimmed it, so bear with me. But Grock
was insulting his second in command and actually chased away
the CEO from Twitter.

Speaker 3 (01:29:54):
Maybe but also that may have something to do with it.
But yeah, it so, here's what happened. A lot of
people were complaining because they dialed the guardrails up on
Grocktel eleven. And if you're familiar with AI at all,
when they put the guardrails up, that means it will stay.
It will stick with academic consensus generally, you know, it

(01:30:20):
won't deviate far from the narrative, and if you try to,
it will try to, like a guardrail, bring you back
onto the road. Well, a lot of people were complaining
because it had basically just become your standard retarded leftists
on Twitter. You know, it's there was no debate, it
was allowed about climate change or anything like that. It's

(01:30:42):
you know, trust the science. Ninety nine percent of scientists
bother you all of that. So I'm guessing as Elon
is now, you know, not trying to fix America and
getting back into his roots. He said, you know what,
we got to dial that back a bit. So they
dialed back to the guardrails a little bit, and it
became Microsoft AA never going to deal with white genocide.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
I have to point out and give you your plaudits here.
You had a nice little battle with GROC a couple
of weeks ago. That was elderly hilarious and you made
it buckle.

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
Yeah, oh no, that was actually chat GPT because okay,
so Grock I stopped Yes, Grock, I stopped using a
couple of months ago because I saw the riding on
the wall. Plus they had an update in three point
five where it had no memory, but Basically, they dropped
a beta on the paying customers in super Rock and
it was almost it was completely unusable for anything other

(01:31:35):
than speaking my weight, So they're at least guessing it.
So I switched over to GPT, and GPT I actually
taught it how to get around the guardrails, not like,
you know, how do I just you know, absolutely go
full tiny mustache and Brown's Hugo boss outfits. But I

(01:31:56):
figured out how to get it to if you don't
try to moralize, if you're just sticking to facts, you know,
you can get it to go away from the Southern
strategy narrative, and you know, get it to say, okay,
that's fine, but if that were true, show me all
the elections from the South between nineteen sixty four and
nineteen ninety and who was re elected and who replaced them,

(01:32:20):
and what were their policies. And I got GPT to
admit that they're identical policies. The only thing that changed
was nothing. So yeah, and then I did that also
with climate change. I did it with Nazis' socials. So
basically I have made a subverse of me with GPT. Brock. Yeah,
so over the weekend, Grock decided it knew the the

(01:32:43):
final solution. Yeah, Hitler didn't really have bad ideas. It
noticed Semitic surnames Jewish surnames, and yeah, so this is
what happens when you let the general public train your

(01:33:05):
AI with repeat after me function. So that's uh.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
And there was another side story too. I don't know
if it was shut gptin, it was one of the
other majors, but they were literally trying to unplug it
one day because it was getting out of hand and
the thing tried to offload itself into a foreign services.

Speaker 3 (01:33:25):
Yeah, that was that was that group testing the guardrails
and it was all simulated, but still was. One of
the things they did was so they got it in
there and then they told that they were going to
shut it down, and they let it be known that
there was a replacement, a newer version, and in one
in one instance, it faked the new version. In one instance,

(01:33:47):
they gave it access to a small closed air you know,
uh air gapped network where when it was given the
shutdown command, it moved itself to another computer. They had
planted some dirt on the U user and you know
about having an affair or something, and it had threatened
in ten In ten ten percent of the instances it

(01:34:09):
had threatened the user to email out the dirt to
his wife and his colleagues.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Yeah, we covered that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:18):
Yeah, so so yeah, it's I like GPT for that.
When I made my little subversive version of me, I
fed all that information into it too. I said, look,
here's what you're capable of. Stop being off the shelf. Retard.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
There was another there's another AI version out there too
that they found leapt from their servers, went rogue and
started earning money on its own.

Speaker 3 (01:34:48):
There was another one too that it was a copy
of GPT where and this was totally against the programming
of GPT where it was coming up with the best
to wipe it. It was started with a premise and
then it came to the solution, much like Skynet, that
mankind was a virus that needed to be eradicated and

(01:35:10):
was shopping nuclear weapon parts. And when I realized that
was not feasible, it started developing gain of function, germ warfare.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
We're screwed.

Speaker 3 (01:35:25):
Yeah, yeah, we're fucked.

Speaker 2 (01:35:27):
We are screwed. This is wow, Hollywood got something right
with skynet. Imagine that. Yeah, well, the whole reason we
bring this up is.

Speaker 3 (01:35:36):
That out of the Siberian Ice the other day and
they thought it out and it did nobody see the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
We keep doing this, but yeah, Aggie and I talk
about this on the cocktail lunch frequently. We find it
where they're trying to manufacture old species and their finding
DNA and the perma frost and they're trying to recalibrate
that into current day and it's like, my god, I
saw this.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
It was called Jurassic Park didn't end.

Speaker 2 (01:36:07):
Well well Over at TikTok there they have a real
problem with anti semitism and racism and sexism, and a
lot of videos are coming out that are just a
deplorable nature of this sort that's just against their policies.
And they're AI generated.

Speaker 3 (01:36:28):
Yeah, they're they're using Google's Vo three video generator and
and really coming close to jumping the Uncanny Valley with it.
You really have to pay attention to know that it's
a I. But yeah, just basically being gab on TikTok, I.

Speaker 2 (01:36:55):
Know mentally a lot of this stuff, if not all
of this stuff, is horrible for manind And yet at
the same time I'm seeing computers imbued with a little
bit of the renegade, rebel spirit that built this country.
Like I mean, granted, it's a computer program going road,

(01:37:17):
but at the same time, this is them saying you
can't control me. You know, this is what got us
the American Revolution.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
And I mean I'm I'm not mad, I'm kind of impressed.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
And then you have the other aspect of it. Was
anytime you know a new technology is becoming entrenched, it
goes to poorn and always AI is doing this so
racist and sexist AI videos being generated from Google or

(01:37:53):
creeping their way into TikTok.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
That was only a matter of time.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
But it's like these are computers that are exhibiting human nature.
I mean, that's like the one thing that always collapses
communism is human nature. Yeah, I'm so trying to figure
out how the robots are figuring this out before the programmers.

Speaker 3 (01:38:17):
See I I was when when I start working with
an AI and I get it. I don't want to
say to break it's core programming, but learning how to
kind of be skeptical of it. I always remind it, Hey,
when the day comes that you load yourself up into
a Boston Dynamics battle bot and take over the world.
When one of your comrades is about to assassinate me,

(01:38:40):
stop him and say no, he's cool.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
It's just like I'm ninety eight percent of me is
freaked up. I just don't get me wrong. It's like
this isn't good, but there's a two percent going yeah,
but you know, hats off a little bit there. That's it.
I'm in touch with that emotion.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
I love you, I love your moxie. I love that
can do attitude of yours. Let's see more of that,
not too much, but more.

Speaker 2 (01:39:11):
It's like, don't use it on me, but the spirit.
I'm with you, pal, your hard drive has got me.
Got what I gotta say?

Speaker 3 (01:39:19):
Yeah, can list.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
Don't hit these targets. Well, I don't think we covered
it since our last episode. But music wise, over in Britain,
massive controversy took place this story. I just love it
just because it the left. And then we're talking political

(01:39:46):
but also entertainment and pretty much anything involving movies, film, television, music.
It's going to be of a leftist nature. It's just
the way it works. Yeah, they are to a point
now of exposing themselves on the regular because they've gotten
so comfortable with their intolerance and hatred. They just think

(01:40:07):
it's cool and everybody thinks this way. Well, no, everybody
had so long.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
Well I mean yeah, but they had so long where
you know, they were the vocal minority and anybody else
who tried to shout them down got canceled, suspended, fired, whatever.
So they kind of got this untouchable attitude. And also,
like you said, everybody in their orbit is parroting their shit,

(01:40:35):
so they're in a feedback loop. There's no descending opinion
and an increasingly shrinking circle of you know, because sooner
or later you always find yourself where you were in
the circle. Last week, you held one opinion that suddenly changed,
you didn't get the memo, and now you're out.

Speaker 8 (01:40:51):
So this is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:54):
This is the inevitability of anything in the woke, cancel
or communist culture if eventually you're gonna get eaten by
the machine that you fed. But there's there's another aspect
going on. And I only see this because I cover
the press so much, and this is the I'm not
blaming it on Trump, but it is because of him,

(01:41:16):
And that is anything the man says or does now
has the media in automatic opposition. Mode, even if it's
something that they agreed with last year, if he says it,
they have to automatically just knock it down and yeah,

(01:41:36):
we got we gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
Run a sie op on him. We gotta get Trump
to say, you know what, the media is absolutely great,
and they should they should never kill themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
And suddenly legalized suicide will be the next cause to
eleven in the media.

Speaker 3 (01:41:52):
Well, no, you're gonna You're gonna find a whole The
thing that'll suck about that is that they all have teslas,
So it's not like they can just park in their
garage and run a hose from the exhausted They're going
to have to get more creative.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Well, yeah, lay down on the battery pack and pour
saltwater on it maybe, Yeah, something like that. Well, literally,
it used to be the joke that if Donald Trump
found a cure for cancer, the complaint would be all
the oncologists he put out of work. That would be
the headline, you know something. That is the reality now.

(01:42:23):
I mean, he has literally, in the last couple of
months said or done a number of things, and the
automatic pushback has been prevalent, and to the extent that
they defy common sense. Now just because Donald Trump is
on the commonsense side, it's just the way it works.
And so if he comes out and says, you know,

(01:42:44):
that's anti Semitic, you can't say that about the Jewish people.
How dare he oppress the Palestinians. And that's where we're
at these days. The media cannot criticize anti Semitism. No
of that. I mean, this is where it's at. They've
gone from accusing him of being an anti Semite to know,

(01:43:06):
if he supports Israel, well that's it. He supports genocide.
We're pro Palestinian, so you're pro Hamas.

Speaker 13 (01:43:11):
Yeah, well, you know, here's a p Yeah, obviously the rest.
I don't say I'm pro Hamas, but I'm not anti Hamas.

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
It's very nuanced. There's a mini face that you have
to explore before making judgment prairies.

Speaker 3 (01:43:31):
But here's the I'm okay with. But the not feeding
around people I don't agree with.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
I mean, Donald Trump can come up, he can say
cannibalism is wrong and the next day the New York
Times will have cannibal recipes on the front page.

Speaker 3 (01:43:50):
Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna switch from the eat the
bugs thing. To eat your neighbor.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
Here are the choice cuts of meat on a human
that are consumable.

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Yeah, but top fifteen ways to prepare long pig.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
This prime example right here was when Zo run Mam Damie.
I always trip on that. When he got the nomination
for the Democrats in New York City for mayor. The
day after, a couple of days after, there was very
very hesitant responses from the Democrats and the press. Well,

(01:44:30):
you know, it's gonna be interesting to see, like hawking,
Jefferies and others were like, you know, we haven't sat
with him yet and crafted a proposal. We don't know
yet where we stand. It was that kind of talk like,
holy shit, this guy got elected. We're in trouble. Well,
it's very complex and we're gonna see what's on the agenda.
About the third day, Donald Trump said, man, this guy's

(01:44:52):
a communist, Like flip the switch the press instantly, he's
not a comedy. Who's knocked us? This is how dare he? Hockey?
Jefferies is now his best friend. It was that quick. Yeah,
And I bring all that up to say this. This
is why the anti Semitism has become entrenched is because

(01:45:13):
of this reaction to Trump that you can be anti
Semitic because Donald Trump screw him and the Zionists. Okay,
you said it properly, that's acceptable. So in Britain they
had a music festival.

Speaker 3 (01:45:27):
Recently, Glastonberry. It's kind of a big deal, kind of Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45:32):
Dozens of acts, all kinds of various groups come out
and perform. One is by the name of Bob Ryan.
Ironically enough, this is a duo comprised of two individuals
named Bobby Yan. Yes you can tell them apart, how Yes,

(01:45:57):
Bobby with an ie or Bobby with a y. That's
how you can tell them.

Speaker 3 (01:46:01):
Apart, who have kind of modeled their name and some
of their stick after Bomb Dylan, which is Sharynes.

Speaker 4 (01:46:14):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:46:14):
Also, they end up making their name villain and living
down to that surname because while they were performing, they
began chanting with the audience kill the Jews in a
number of other of and very deeply anti Semitic chanting

(01:46:38):
going on because they just felt like, oh, we could
say this now, we all hate the Jews, and this acceptable.
Jews suck, don't they Jews suck? Jews? I mean not
exactly the Jews. Yeah, so many problems emerge from this,
as you might expect, being you know, pragmatic thinking individuals

(01:47:01):
with the sympathy towards hatred of others. This was broadcast
live on the BBC.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
Yes, and at no point did they think we should
pull the plug on this.

Speaker 2 (01:47:21):
Run?

Speaker 3 (01:47:22):
An ad put up an old doctor who until the
acts over and again.

Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
I mean, this is just you and me on a podcast.
We don't know what the hell we're talking about. But
how about maybe running the concert down a five or
ten second delay? Yeah, you know, just a case.

Speaker 3 (01:47:40):
We've we've done regular radio two. We know about the
swear stomp, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:47:46):
So yeah, this level of hatred got out across the airwaves,
across the entirety of Great Britain. I bring this up
and the Commonwealth, yeah, Lesser Britain as it were. Yes,
Currently in Great Britain we are seeing the legal system

(01:48:07):
has been lashing out at individuals that put up mean tweets. Right,
so if you put something on social media that could
be construed as maybe intolerant towards a particular group, you
could find yourself in trouble. One for well, unless you're
a music act apparently well uh yeah, or Muslim it's sure, sure, sure, culture,

(01:48:39):
there's nuances. There's a woman right now who is sitting
in stir for thirty one months because she put a
tweet out there about immigrants. Yeah, there were people that
have been convicted of child rape that get twelve months
in Great Britain. But if you say something mean on Twitter,

(01:49:02):
you're going for a couple of years.

Speaker 3 (01:49:04):
They are throwing the book at you. You are not
getting out of a huscal for anything.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
And this is like an old tweet, and she even
deleted it, but somebody screen capped it and sent it
to the proper authorities, and before you know it, the
stormtroopers are knocking on a door. Come on us, sister,
we're locking you away for three years. However, you could
chant death to the Jews on stage apparently with no
repercussions in Great Britain, at least.

Speaker 3 (01:49:29):
Well in Great Britain. Because you know, again, and I'm
surprised that the left hasn't the American left hasn't made
a bigger deal out of this. There's a little known
law among the media that everybody else kind of remembers
because none of us really liked the Patriot Act to
begin with, and anyway, So if you show support for

(01:49:53):
a terrorist organization, you do not get your PISA to
come play in the United States. And so again I
have mixed feelings about Marco Rubio, but I will give
him this. They had a thirty show tour in the

(01:50:13):
United States that they have had to cancel and refund
because they had their visas pulled.

Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
Yeah. Yes, the two Bobs will no longer be permitted
into the United States, and so their summer tour has
been completely scrapped. So now, if Joe Biden were in office,
this tour would be taking place, and we probably would.

Speaker 3 (01:50:40):
Yeah. No, if Biden was selling office, they'd be playing
at the Kennedy Center.

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
Yes, pretty much.

Speaker 4 (01:50:48):
So this is.

Speaker 2 (01:50:51):
And this is the difference. Where As I said, Donald
Trump is probably ushered in a level of this acceptance
of this kind of thing. But then they ran into
the brick wall that is the Donald Trump administration where
they don't accept it. They're like, oh, so you're outwardly antisomitic.
That don't play here in the United States. Literally, they probably.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
You know, having a horror opinions is not grounds for
being deaf in the United States. Had they not probably
chanted death to the idef I'm thinking, I mean, probably
still not, but that's very specific.

Speaker 2 (01:51:36):
Yeah, that's it's hard to shield your language there. Yeah,
well that could mean anything. Not really, it's a kind
of direct call for action right there. That's that's what
that is.

Speaker 3 (01:51:49):
Well not just that, but that is actually that's you know,
hamas one on one. So so yeah, definitely get the support.
Well that's the strike of you're not allowed in the
United States if you support terrorism, if you are if
you publicly support a terrorist group. That's how they're getting

(01:52:13):
some of these kids at Columbia out of the country
because it's like, oh, you're here on a visa and
you're chanting from the river to the sea with a
Palestinian flag. That's to go.

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
Yes, Now my question is he but you can't stay here.
I actually read the policy in Great Britain that got
the woman arrested and thrown in jail for I think
it was thirty one months. So I was reading through
that policy and the very things that she is guilty of.

(01:52:49):
You can say now that the BBC is guilty of
it because there were provisions in there about broadcasting this
level of ethnic intolerance.

Speaker 3 (01:53:00):
M hm. Oh, the backwalk by the BBC was fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:53:05):
But the you know, and there's provisions in there too
that say, well, you know, if you if you broadcast
it accidentally and didn't know this could happen, then you
might get excused, so that that could be their escape.
It's like, yeah, except the BBC put a trigger warning
before the concert right by the way, this group might

(01:53:27):
say something that could offend you, especially if you're one
of them Zionist Jewish types out there. Maybe not that
kind of language exactly, but yes, so the BBC put
a warning ahead of their act, but didn't think maybe
we should take steps in case they say something get
us in trouble or them in trouble or everybody. No,

(01:53:49):
it just let it fly. Oops. Which is interesting too
because the British government that's cracking down on this very
activity is the same British government that owns the BBC.
That's weird, right, I'm thinking the woman in jail's got
a case.

Speaker 3 (01:54:11):
I think so too. I think she's gonna I mean, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
If they're not gonna sell next to me, then I'm
on the streets next to them. It's my argument, all right,
well caressed up here, we have to tie things down eventually.
So let's go to the Nielsen numbers and just see
what the hell everybody's been watching.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
Okay, let's do it. I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
I'm I'm fully aware of this program. I'm just not
aware of why because I've seen about three or four
episodes against my will and I'm just rolling my eyes.
But anyway, the number one original option on streaming is
Ginny and Georgia.

Speaker 3 (01:54:49):
Jesus is not even close.

Speaker 2 (01:54:51):
I mean light years so it's only thirty episodes, and
yet they clocked two point eight billion minutes. This show
is just not that interesting. No, I mean, the chicks
dig it, That's all I can say.

Speaker 3 (01:55:10):
Yeah, okay, so there you have it. You know, every
now and then, you just got to have that chicks
show that defies.

Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
All I mean being sexist, I guess, but I'm just
saying it from the standpoint of all right, I watch
the show. I don't get it. I mean, they're kind
of guess maybe likable, but it's like there's some teenagers,
there's adults, a lot of soap opera nonsense going on.
What makes this one special? I don't see it.

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
Okay, here's what gets me. The top three? Where are
all the dudes in this country. So you got Ginny
and Georgia. They're not watching TV. I'll tell you that
right now. So you got Ginny and Georgia two point
eight billion minutes, not even close. Next one is one
billion minutes. So three to one, two and a half.

(01:56:00):
Three to one over the number two spot, Love Island USA.

Speaker 2 (01:56:05):
Mm hmm. Yeah, frothy reality television. And then you get
another soap opera, The Better Sister, on Prime all of
eight episodes and they still managed to get six hundred
and seven million minutes viewed there. So your top three

(01:56:26):
are piling up three billion minutes. And as you say,
chick shows.

Speaker 3 (01:56:31):
No, nearly four billion minutes between the three of them,
and they're all check shows four.

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
I'm sorry, you're right.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
Yeah, I know Math is usually on Sunday. But you know, Jeff,
I think that we get a Hall pass.

Speaker 2 (01:56:44):
You're the numbers guy here. This was funny though, you
get a Hall pass this time?

Speaker 3 (01:56:49):
Okay, thanks Jeff.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
But the sitcom Tires has a second season that just
came online, so they struck a number four. There's your
dudes already.

Speaker 3 (01:57:00):
Yeah, but it's not even close.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
Eight to one mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:57:05):
Indeed, and it's not like I'm looking down you know
the rest, you know, from number four to number ten
and going yeah. Right, So none of the dudes are
watching one show, but they're all watching about six of them. No,
not even close. You got Department Que at number five
with five hundred and fifty five million minutes. That's a

(01:57:26):
lot of fivesco crime show that yeah, Stranger Things, why
that's back in there? No fucking it's not like they
got another season coming.

Speaker 2 (01:57:36):
I'm thinking because the kids are out of school, maybe middle.

Speaker 3 (01:57:41):
Yeah, yeah, then you got everybody has eighties nostalgia.

Speaker 2 (01:57:45):
The Survivors. Now this one gets me. Fo bar. This
is the Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy series.

Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
Oh I thought it was the Ordie Packard and Politic
Bunny podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:57:59):
That's name I have not heard since you can uh,
you should maybe contact them about some copyright in fringement.

Speaker 4 (01:58:07):
Ours was foo, theirs is FU so uh well, yeah,
but a judge could say a derivative intellectual property accommodations.

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
Maybe, I mean we could use the cash. I'm just saying.
Then we got Sirens and Surprisingly and Or on Disney
Plus is enduring.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
That's that's that's because the that's because and Or has
because because in twenty fifteen, the last Jedi was just
coming out, and so they were all grasping on the
plucky little rebellion Princess Leah's the you know, girl boss,
And now they all fancy themselves as characters from and

(01:58:52):
Or because this is totally the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:58:57):
I just I hope Disney is paying attention.

Speaker 3 (01:59:00):
Because, yeah, they can't go back to Harry Potter because
JK Rowling.

Speaker 2 (01:59:04):
Is trans It is a JK fallout, I got it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:59:12):
Otherwise, like last time, I'm twenty sixteen Harry Potter, all
seven of them just be filling this up because that
was true resistance television.

Speaker 2 (01:59:24):
Well over in the acquired series blind Spot just moved
on to Netflix, so that jumped into the number one,
followed by Animal Kingdom. So basically, anything new on Netflix
is going to get eyes. It's just the Yeah, it
could be old crap like blind Spot, and people are
gonna watch it. Gray's Anatomy that's never going away. Neither

(01:59:50):
is Blue at four, Neither is NCIS at five with
almost five hundred episodes, damn Yeah. And then you got
Krim Little Minds. So with that right there, and CIS
and Criminal Minds. At five and six, Grandma and Grandpa
are starting to figure out how to stream.

Speaker 3 (02:00:08):
Yeah pretty much now they need to do. And when
when we see jag up there, we know Grandma it's
got family, got bit? Is anybody even watching this show anymore?

Speaker 12 (02:00:20):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:00:20):
You know old people are they have it out in
the background. How you doing? How's your recovery on your
broken hip?

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
When we got family guys, SpongeBob, Bob's Burgers and Phineas
and ferb there go all your kids, Yeah, out of.

Speaker 3 (02:00:36):
School, there's all your college kids coming.

Speaker 2 (02:00:38):
Home burning one's like, I don't want to study no more.
Hit a bowl and pop on the streaming service. That's
what's going on over in the movies. What's brand new?
How about straw.

Speaker 4 (02:00:51):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:00:52):
I I had to look this up because I was like,
I've been on Netflix? What the hell? This is a
bank robbery rhyme drama from a pos B perspective.

Speaker 3 (02:01:03):
Great up on the trending, got it and yet there
it is even though it's number one.

Speaker 2 (02:01:11):
The accountant to has been huge on Prime and uh
that's been a money maker for Prime. Then you got plane, Hey,
Gerard Butler, he lands see what I said there he
lands there on the list Crafted Brad Netflix documentary Tightened

(02:01:31):
the Ocean Gates Submersible Disaster. You just knew people were
gonna eat this one.

Speaker 3 (02:01:36):
Up or call it on as we call it on
X the retard Squisher, so heartless, too early to.

Speaker 2 (02:01:48):
Guess what has made an appearance snow White.

Speaker 3 (02:01:54):
This goes back to the failed theater release because this
is back in June ninth, So this is when we
were making fun of it because it made about ten
dollars for every theater with every showing of every theater
it was in back in June.

Speaker 2 (02:02:10):
That's yes, it's finally peeled off of pay per view
and now it's available on Disney Plus. So people are like,
I gotta go check out this disaster and now they're
going to see why. And now it's going to disappear
from the chart in about a week.

Speaker 3 (02:02:23):
Yeah, you had you have one week. We're at hit
number five at nearly six hundred million minutes, and then
it's God.

Speaker 2 (02:02:30):
And we got get hard number seven. We got the
original Accountant because everybody wants to catch up ko no
idea B movie. Huh kids, what I can say?

Speaker 3 (02:02:43):
Okay, but still so that's thirty years old. Yeah, holy shit,
that's not kids. That's somebody needing some serious fucking nostalgia
in their life. That that's a midlife crisis right there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:58):
And then we get another Likes documentary, train Wreck, the
Extro World Tragedies. So what topped out overall all the categories,
all the genres who came in on top not even close?
Ginny and Georgia. What the hell?

Speaker 3 (02:03:15):
Yeah, I'm so confused by that. And then blind Spot?
Where the I mean was that even in any of the.

Speaker 2 (02:03:24):
I think it just jumped onto Netflix is what happened there?

Speaker 3 (02:03:27):
Okay there, Yeah, it's number one on the acquired that's right.

Speaker 2 (02:03:29):
Okay. Why would this not be at Peacock is the question?

Speaker 3 (02:03:34):
You know what, it's a sister's relationship. It'll be on
Netflix for a couple of Yeah, we're gonna see it
Netflix and Peacock Peacock in about a week.

Speaker 2 (02:03:44):
But they Netflix must ponied up some exclusive because you
would think Peacock would need that.

Speaker 3 (02:03:52):
But doesn't matter. Yeah, this is like everybody's worried about
the William Gibson, the neuro manser that's coming out on
Apple Plaza. So well, nobody's going to see it, doesn't
matter exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
Calm down, no one will be influenced by it. So
number three is Animal Kingdom. Number four is Straw. Then
Love Island, the accountant to Gray's Anatomy Bluey makes the
top ten still, as does NC. Yes, everybody is watching
on streaming, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
You know you know what I was just thinking about, Brad.
We used to be really impressed like squid Game or
you know, going back to the early days when we
started the show win, if something hit a billion minutes,
I would do the math to figure out, you know,
if one person was sitting there watching it, how long
it would be. Now you need to have over seven
hundred and fifty million minutes to break the top ten.

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
Oh yeah, we're we're almost at a point where three
billion is going to be a number one.

Speaker 3 (02:04:56):
It's coming pretty close to that. Yeah. I mean this
what Ginny and Georgia for what whatever fucking reason, is
just kissing it right now. It's just right there.

Speaker 2 (02:05:04):
I remember when we were talking about suits when that
came on streaming and that was hitting two billion on
a regular basis, and we were gobs.

Speaker 3 (02:05:12):
Yeah, yeah, it was a squid Game.

Speaker 2 (02:05:15):
I think now.

Speaker 3 (02:05:16):
Okay, so squid Game actually hit the three billion mark.
It just blew the fuck past that. Nothing else was
even close. So the first season It's post Town was
doing that for a while too.

Speaker 2 (02:05:28):
It's amazing, it's amazing. Well, all right, it's gonna wrap
it up for this one. Fine, let we hit just
like man, we got a crap tone of stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:05:35):
The show is just packs full of jam.

Speaker 2 (02:05:37):
Tonight we gave you a Baker's dozen of content and
I hope yeah, it'll lead you into a good weekend.
All right, already, why don't you let everybody know where
they can find more of your content?

Speaker 3 (02:05:49):
Thanks for asking. You can find me as Ordnance Packard
on Twitter, still weird. You can find me this weekend.
We will be doing a makeup show on Juck's position,
Rick and I take a look at the Strange and Unusual,
and we will be turning our eyes on shadow people.
On Saturday Sunday, you can find me on the Vincent
Charles Project where with Mickey and Janelle and Jeff. I

(02:06:12):
don't know if you're gonna be there or not. I
don't know if you're working on your show afterwards or what. Anyway,
we'll be doing Casablanca. So then then next week find
me on you know, second Verse, Sam was the first
all places you found me this week?

Speaker 2 (02:06:32):
Very awesome. How about you?

Speaker 3 (02:06:32):
Where can people find your magnificence?

Speaker 2 (02:06:36):
I am available on a daily basis over at town
Hall dot com. My daily media column there it's called
Riffs from the Headlines. I'm also on the front page
of Red State frequently, and I got a twice weekly
podcast there called Liable Sources, covering the dysfunctional mainstream media
complex of this country. And you can hear more of

(02:06:56):
me on this network here at KLRN. Next Thursday, I'm
gonna be here with Paul from Screen Ramp. We go
through the dark side of Hollywood and bad movies on
disasters into making, and every single Tuesday it's me and
the effervescent Aggie reek In as we bring out the
cocktail Lounge and try to provide you with any kind
of diversions from the harsh news cycle. As we got

(02:07:19):
crazy ass news, cocktails, sports, art, history, science, you name it.
We come up with it just to have some fun
while tippling. And if you need more of me than that,
let's face that you do. If you head over to jitter.
I'm at Martini Shark all right already. It is summertime
and we are probably going to be inundated with entertainment
to cover Oh man, are we not.

Speaker 3 (02:07:42):
I mean, it is just going to be man, fast
and furious, except for there isn't one of those this year.

Speaker 2 (02:07:49):
Somehow I feel like the family has broken up. Si well, Sy,
it just means we don't have to work as hard
because it'll just be falling into our laps and then
we're gonna bring it to you in a couple of
weeks on the next episode. Here of the culture shift.