The Culture Shift: The Nominations are in!

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Speaker 1 (01:01):
How is everybody doing a Kate lrn land? This is
your early introduction to the weekend. This is the culture shift.
I'm brad Slicker getting ready to guide you down Hollywood's
Walk of Fame with all of the other important information
along the way. But I'm not doing it alone because
joining me every fortnight on this foray is America's most

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digitized and laser focused on individual How is Ortie Pecker night?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, I'm not burning, so winning.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
In your state? That is a plus, as it were.
We're even gonna be touching on this topic in a
little while, but you glad to know you're smoking flame
free at the moment.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Well, I'm flame free. We do get all the smoke
from anything that catches on fire in the state.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
I get to smoke in my valley. So that's true.
That's true. You always told us this and it's uh,
it's a graphical anomaly.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Right, Yeah, it's just it's apparently I'm a ham.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
In the oh brother where art now? Where that store
was two weeks away from everywhere. You're already in the
smoke valley no matter what happens. Pretty much, how about you?
How are you doing?

Speaker 4 (02:21):
How's things out in America's wang?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Thing's going good? Here? We were all we're just busy
with the new year, the new presidency, you know, all
the mayhem that that carries with it. But making a
bit of a political detour tonight as we get to
go into the entertainment room of things for a change
and deviate a little bit from all of the non

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important but highly focused topics that are going on out there.
Everybody's consumed and absorbed in that stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
Well, you know, before we start, I do have to
veer into that, just lean into it a little bit.
With something that happened today, I've got two things to
say about this one. If you didn't hear Trump signed
an EO today that is going to declassify all the
government information on JFK, RFK and MLK. And my first

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thought was, if he keeps signing eos like this, Rick
and I, we're not going to be doing a conspiratament
show anymore on juxtaposition.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
We're just going to be reporting the news. But with that,
here's my secret hope.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
My secret hope is that with the release of the
JFK files, Oliver Stone is completely vindicated and he gets
to take a victory lap around Hollywood with two fingers
in the air.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
This is kind of where I was leading out of things.
It's like he's either going to come off as a
hero or a complete coop, and I think he's currently
occupying in the second category at the moment. So what
right now? How much this you know? Yeah, well we'll
see how that it either be completely vindicated or completely exposed. Yeah,

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that's that's.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
Why vindicated to if he gets completely vindicated, then does
that mean that like you know, somebody was leaking him
intel new conspiracy, new conspiracy theory, but a book marks
that one.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
There you go, Yeah, so you do have a show material.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Right there was there's will still be show material when
they started releasing information on Hollow Earth and Hollow Moon.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Then we're true well and truly fucked. Yeah. Once uh,
once things are exposed, then there's always that you know,
looking back and pouring through well, what lets that who
covered it up? What was happening. Oh okay, so it's
not going to stop God, well that's yeah, that was
kind of funny. It's it's one of the things Donald

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Trump had always been promising that he would do, and
lo and behold, he's done it, which is really pissing
off the press because they've been leaving on. Oh you know,
he said no presses would drop on day one. It's like, seriously,
we're taking this serious, right. He speaks metaphorically, he speaks
in broader terms. He didn't mean I'm gonna swear in

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and eggs would drop fifty cents on that day. But
there we are. Hey to on another level of that though.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
The moment he was elected and ever since then, the
crypto market's been doing quite well.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Because too, because he started his own crypto and now
it's uh, he did this before he was president, but
now he's making money as president, and that's bad. Well,
I mean, is he making money?

Speaker 4 (05:48):
I mean it's a mean coin unless he has a
lot of them, he's really got. I mean, you know,
I've got doge. I mean I buy doge just as
just as a lark. Hey, here's fifty Oh hey, I
like the whole Doge government saying I'm gonna buy more
Doughe No, it's just a.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah. Really, with crypto, it seems to me you're not
investing in anything except the market itself. So if one
of them gets hot, that's when you sell it. Other
than that, I mean, you don't really have any any
fundamentals to work off of. And I think this is
very much exemplified by the fact that what was it,

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October November, the hawk To a girl pulled out her
own crypto and then she built a lot of the
market and the market was screaming about it. She scammed us.
You bought hawk to a bitcoin. I mean, come on,
I don't know who to blame her but yourself.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Okay, sounds like everybody's still holding on the beanie babies.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
You know, if you're investing in hawk To anything, you
pretty much got what's coming to you. And I ain't
blamed the blonde, just gonna say.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, but unless you actually got hurt to give you
hawk to, uh, you.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
You got what you deserved. Yeah, they did me like,
oh my gosh, you got an std that bitch you
slept with her. It's kind of the same. Yeah, you
you you dropped drow. It's pretty much a responsibility partner
just gotta say it. Well, there's my investing advice, you know,
or I should say it's probably not advice. Don't take

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that as investment listens from me. Disclaimer disclaimer, disclaimer. Anyway, Hollywood,
well why don't we just start there. We already are
on the topic of the place itself. Yes, unfortunately Hollywood
is still dealing with wildfires in Los Angeles area. Another

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one has just broken up one yesterday massive.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's uh, well, we went back into red
flag yesterday, which means high winds.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
So I mean, for you nautical folk, you know what
that means.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
For all you land lovers, that red flag means high winds.
So yeah, we uh that just you know, let's push
that fire arounds more.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
I mean, the only good news I guess is that
this is mostly in nature preserve areas. Although they did
evacuations yesterday. I think they beat them back though before
they reached any residents from what I could tell. Yeah, well,
this has been I mean, disaster of fiasco. We've seen
a number of thousands of families are affected. But of

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course it's the celebrities we are affected that make the
news because nobody else's homes I guess right.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, no, no, the other one hundred thousand people that
were evacuated don't matter.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
But how did it affect the Bald exactly. It's I'm
sure that whole neighborhood is wiped out entirely. But did
you know Miles Teller and his pool cabana burned down?

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Ah?

Speaker 1 (09:10):
You know, it's that kind of information I'm conflicted with.
It's like pretty bad all around, not just in Hollywood,
but that's what we get. And then we had, of
course the conservatives in Hollywood like James I just James
Woods came out and was trying to explain to everybody

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how bad things are, and of course the sympathetic, heartwarming
people on the left said, screw James Woods, this is
carbon that his house burned down. Yeah, it wasn't just
his house, you understand that. Okay, it's there's a metropolitan
area was threatened. But yes, James Woods had this coming

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to him. Yeah, that kind of mentality.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
I'm dealing too well.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Because I see that, you know what the hurricanes every
time they hit Floria. Oh there you go to say
this or news, it's God's payback we do have Democrats
in the state too, you know, right Williams.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Their sin they voted the way you like, why are
you punishing them?

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Well, they didn't move.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
They had it coming, I supposed, but the up right
now they knew what they were getting into. I say,
let them crash, and it's yeah, you have to laugh.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Otherwise I'd be punching parrots in the floor. That's just
how stupid they are. But this is also affecting Hollywood,
and every so often we would see this like there
have been fires in Hollywood before. There have been a
number of classic films from the Silent Era onward that
have been lost forever because Bolts said some of the

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studios had burned down. A lot of that had to
do with the film stock itself flammable, the use from
back in the day. But nonetheless, it's it's been an
on going isition for generations and right now Hollywood is
deeply affected as well, even indirectly because I don't know,

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did you see if any studio lots we're incurring any fire, damagel.
I don't.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Not that I've seen. I mean, no no official like
you know, Universal Studios or Paramount or anything like that.
They're kind of in the areas where it doesn't really matter.
I mean it looks like that, you know, they're pretty
close to the foothills and everything, but there's a whole
lot of urban sprawl between them and the fires. It's

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like again, that red flag map that came up yesterday,
all surrounding I mean, aside from the Pacific Ocean, everything
that surrounds Los Angeles popular proper was red except for
where there's the densest urban sprawl, basically everything from the
coast to the autumn halls on the outskirts of the city.

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After that, then yeah, it's red flat. But the studios
themselves they're pretty uh, they're kind of balls deep in
the urban sprawl. They're giant lots taking up space from
the urban sprawl.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
That's why when you see those pictures.

Speaker 4 (12:13):
Like Disneyland being threatened by the fire, it's not even close.
There's about twenty miles from them to the nearest tree.
Oh okay, that wasn't purpose that wasn't purposely planted and
well maintained, and yeah, surrounded by asphalt. So I mean

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it's a dramatic picture.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
But no, yeah, got it. Not only asked because every
so often would see they would mention bird Bank or
Studio City or you know, one of those on the
birds or on the edge of it or such. But
I did not see damage going However, this being the
culture shift and we cover Hollywood business more than gossip

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or anything else, Hollywood productions are no less threatened because
this has been an ongoing problem in Los Angeles itself,
and that is production flight is what they call it.
They've been losing production on a regular basis for the
last few years and it's only become worse now because

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of the fires. Yeah, I mean, they.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Recover from COVID and but point did they take a
long time doing it.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
But you know what, I.

Speaker 4 (13:30):
The real reason for this And as I was reading
the sources you and I shared on this topic, everything's
going to an eight to ten season, eight to ten
episode season. So there's like your production being cut in
half just on a series.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
You know.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
So, I mean, yeah, there's a lot of other things
going on too, But you know, you can't look back
at like, you know, your numbers from ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Wow, production is down by yeah, so are the seasons.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
We used to get twenty two episodes and now we
get eight.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, this is a bit of the influence of the
streaming services because terrestrial, if you want to call it that,
standard broadcast networks and even cable are seeing such a
drop off in audience as people move to streaming. But
the streamers themselves don't adapt to the old method of production.

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So it used to being primetime television, whether it's sitcoms
or dramas. You would get close to two dozen or
even more episodes in a season that would constitute your
broadcast season. Usually start in September, maybe a break in
the holidays, continue on through and then summer was reruns,

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but that would carry you through a full calendar because
you had so many episodes.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
And even then your holiday break, you still had your
Christmas episodes, you know.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Yeah, you had your Christmas episode about or second week,
and then get through the holiday specials and all of that,
and then you would pick it back up again unless
there's a cancelation, and then you'd have the mid season replacement,
and that that would be a new series. Streamers don't
do that story.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
When a mid season replacement would become like the top show,
it's like, wow, they weren't even gonna air this thing.
And then you know, after Mash got canceled and this
was the mid season replacement, and holy shit, it's, you know,
the number one show on television for four years running.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
You don't think it would be one of the last
pilots that were canceled. And then yeah, kept them tabbed
on production for some contract work. You'll beat the replacement.
You'll be the standard backup quarterback who goes on to
win the Super Bowl. Right. But streamers would play a

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completely different schedule. They would just belch out at first
all of their episodes. They one, so you get twelve
to fifteen and you could sit and binge the whole
thing in one sitting. And then they said, well, we're
not keeping our audience, and now they're doing the basically
spit out a couple episodes to tease you, and then
week by week back in that stand up format. But

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they always did six, eight, maybe ten episodes.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Yeah, say, I'm watching Wednesday right now.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
It's eight episodes, and they have just so much content
and so much older stuff that they just try to
draw eyes with something new for now. But there's always
something new coming down the pike, it seems, so yeah,
that's part of it. But this has been an ongoing
problem for more than a decade. For one, they've been
losing a lot of shooting to at first Canada, but

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now Georgia, New Orleans a little bit, and other parts
of the country. They're all lwering productions with low tax breaks,
and California, being what it is, doesn't like to cut taxes.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
No, they like they've never met at tax that they
that they want to get rid of.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
I back in my When I'm Over movie line, I
wrote about stop crashing me up a bit, But Harvey
Weinstein at the time was going to Sacramento and begging
for They wanted tax breaks for the studios, they wanted
the labor unions to back off, and they were doing

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all this to try to bring production work back to
Los Angeles. And I said to my editor. At the time,
it was a liberal website. I was the secret conservative there,
but I said, you know, this is against every single
thing they campaign for. When he backed Obama, he wanted
higher taxes, he wanted to cut favor the unions, and
they were cursing corporate welfare. He's doing the exact opposite

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on all three topics now. And my editor was floored.
He's like, holy wow, what there's there's your liberal hypocrisy,
I mean, Hollywood.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
For you, here's your little red pill.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Enjoy it. So that was taking place then, you know,
and as they have government offices in southern California that
actually record shooting days, how many take place, and where
they're at and such. It's been on a steady decline
for a good decade. Now COVID was a complete shutdown,

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of course, but then this being California, we're talking about
the lengthy shutdowns, plus the people working remotely, all of
this impacted shooting on site. It gradually started to come
back and they were pretty close to being back to normal. Hello,
trade union stripes and everything shut down once again, and

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they've over started just as they get out of this,
and now the wildfires shooting is suspended all over once more.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Well in California was kind of suffering from that anyway,
because I mean one of the things we talked about,
you know, fack during COVID was as states were reopening,
California being one of the last. Because newsome a lot
of production left southern California and went to places like
Georgia and New Mexico, you know, doubled the representation up

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in British Columbia, and you know even Ottawa started getting
a lot of production going up there too, And you're
in Texas and you know, so it was kind of like,
you know, you you really got nothing to complain about.
You do it to yourself, and you know, and even
everybody in the industry, y'all vote for this, you know,
like you were just talking about, you know, this is

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you voted to be put out of work and relocated.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, this is you know, I think we just summed
up California in fact, yeah, fast a whole legislation and
then complained about the app for effects. Who do we blame?
Hello mirror right, and you know this is Gavin Newso
and this is everything else. But this, this is a
challenge right now for Hollywood that once again they're they're

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behind the eight ball while you know, George has exploded.
It's ridiculous outside in Atlanta, you've got sound studios on
par with Pinewood in England. Pine would have their own
they're shooting Marvel films now in Georgia.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Yeah, I mean some of these places have their own
zip code.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
They're huge. Of course, you know, Canada has long been
the case, you can't watch a Hallmark movie or pretty
much si. Yeah, I mean any of the cable dramas
are shot in what they call Hollywood North mostly Vancouver. Yeah,
And in fact, Canada has portioned itself out according to

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the location of the script. So if they need New
York City, Hello Toronto, if they need Texas or anywhere
in the West, you go to Calgary, you need basic
urban center as Vancouver. Hey, we have a European storyline,
head out to Montreal. Yep. Yeah, in California, it's weird. Yeah,

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you know, in Calgary that's all.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Oh okay, you know it's you know with Hallmark too,
when they start filming all their Christmas movies in July.
You know, it's a lot easier to make snow in
Calgary than it is to say, you know, sound stage
and Paramount.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
That's it. And you'll sometimes see too as they walk
down the sidewalk and the snow moves because it's all
sheets of cotton or such. But this is this has
long been the case. So the fires are just augmenting
this problem, and once again Hollywood is losing work when
they're supposedly the entertainment in Mecca, right so just a

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little I not it's not the biggest story to come
out of the wildfires, but one that we cover here
because that's what we do. Hollywood business and how they
screw business up.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah, they're the only business that works counter to their
own interests and still succeeds. It's why we do the show.
It's just it's fascinating.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
It is indeed, I mean, I like to say they
kind of sidestep all basic economic principles. And that's because
almost every single film is its own economy, independent of
any others. For the most part, even though they're under
a studio aegis and have to follow certain bylaws and

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stuff of whatever the studio had say, the films are
pretty much their own economy. The salary base, all the
basics that go into it changed from film to film.
Sometimes it's just that kind of matrix, and it's never
makes sense. In fact, I think Paul and next week's

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program on the disasters and to make and We're gonna
be opening with a rule fiasco showing where the not
the studio but the parent company itself actually predicted a
disaster months ahead of time and it came to fruition
and it's just mind and there they are.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
I love that show. You guys are fun. That's just
a fun show.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
We try. We try, even if we're just entertaining ourselves.
We have fun. But uh, speaking of entertaining oneself, Yes,
the oniistic practice is in full swing, even though a
little bit of a delay because of the fires and
that I'm talking about the Academy Awards. The nominations have

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just been announced for the most important awards ceremony on
the planet. According to them, you mean, oh wait, no,
we're talking about the Oscars. Well, we'll talking about in
a minute. That's why I said, according to them.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Right, according to them, According to the rest of everybody.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
It's the reality might be a different story, but this
is I think it's an indication of things that there
has been this change. Now. Part of this, I think
what I'm talking about here is the real unfamiliarity with

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the films being selected this year.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
I've only seen one of them.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
I mean, there's only a few that kind of jump
off the pages. Oh, of course that one got nominated.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
I don't remember reporting on any of these movies. On
our show, Okay, Wicked, we talked about for Best Trutchure Yeah,
we talked about Wicked, but actually we talked about the
controversy around it, not the actual.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, pretty much, because it's I mean, it's a musical.
It could be a break. Yeah, you want me involved
in that? Sorry you picked it wrong. Hey, we covered
but this is just this is a rundown. And remember
a few years back, the Oscars expanded the Best Picture
category from five to ten, just to appease the bitter

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cranks in the audience, meaning the entire audience, who always
complained that the most popular films were never picked. Yes,
so they spread it out to ten. I'm gonna run
down the list alphabetically, and just for any listener out there,
try to grasp how many of these you even have
a conscious knowledge of. Okay, a Noorra, The Brutalist, a

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Complete Unknown, Conclave to the name of the movie, not
the previous two movies I'm still doing titled Yes, Conclave,
Dune Part two, Amelia Perez, I'm still here, Nickel Boys,
The Substance Kid. Two of those are fairly mainstream. Dune

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and Wicked. I know about a complete Unknown, probably more
so that they've pushed a living hell out of this
on a couple of the streaming services. So I know
that's that's about Bob.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
Dylan, right, I've seen that pop up. I've seen that
pop up in my rex, so that's fair. I haven't
watched it, but I'm familiar with it.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
But for the most part, I've got no familiarity with
any of the others. And Amelia Perez is the most
nominated film of the year, kind of following suit with
the Golden Globes. Mm hmm. Let's do just a tagline

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for Amelia Perez to see who is possibly interested in
this film. A Mexican drug lord becomes transgendered two and
this is supposed to draw audiences. Yeah, you got a

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Mexican character, you have a drug lord who is transsexual. Ah,
this is going to appeal to who you know. And
this is again the most celebrated title on the list.
Who saw it? Nobody as you? Okay, I gotta find out.
I gotta find out what it raked. I think it

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is a I think it's a Netflix production, so the
the theater release is going to be negligible regardless. But
this is the this is what the oscars are centered on.
Conclave is another one that's getting just all kinds of
hype and now.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
It is a Spanish language French musical crime film.

Speaker 1 (28:04):
Ooh, can I buy two tickets to that? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (28:07):
It grows ten point six million at the box office,
the million euros.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
And uh yeah, the the lead in it is an
actual transgender performer. So I guess Checkbox Galore has gone
on with that. Mm hmmm cool, got it? Noora not
no familiarity. The brutalist couldn't tell you. No, I'm still here.

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That one feels like I should know something about it.
I probably have lost it, nickel boys, no idea. Let
me well while you're talking. M Now the substance I've
heard about because that's been Demi Moore's comeback vehicle, But
I couldn't really tell you what it's about. I heard

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it was a horror I think. Yeah, I'm still looking up.
I'm still here. Yeah. No, It's what I'm saying is
we have to do this kind of legwork just to
find out what the hell the movie's about. That says
so much, does it not?

Speaker 4 (29:14):
Uh, it's about the military dictatorship in Brazil in nineteen
seventy one. Okay, that's right, Okay, the substance I mean
exactly who's and one mother and one mother's journey into
coping with a random act of brutality.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
I almost feel like I'm reading the Rundown on the Sundays.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Of the DRMA horror fading celebrity takes a black market drug,
a self replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better
version of herself.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Demi Moore got it sounds like Benjamin Button, which sounds
like portrait of Dorian Greg Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Indie Wire, absolutely fucking insane.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
It's got Tennis Quid in it though. So this is yeah,
this is our lineup. This is what we're looking at now,
Adrian Brody and the Brutalist. Everybody's kind of favoring as
the favorite, although Timothy Schallamy could be an upset as
but not for Dune. That's the thing.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
Yeah, it's playing Bob Dylan, not for Dune.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
And I'm just seeing, you know, running down the list.
If anybody else's even Emilia Perez again, well yeah, the
Han we got Sophia gas home.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
Best actress for Amelia Perez, the guy Horay Patriarchy, sorry,
trans whatever, a.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
Little bit of a surprise here. Best supporting Actor Jeremy
Strong for the Apprentice. That would be the Donald Trump movie, which, yeah,
nobody liked on either side of the political aisle, even
though Hollywood made it. I think they tried to piss
off conservatives, and the conservatives said, well, then we're not
gonna watch it, and then Hollywood found out, well, this

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doesn't really tear them apart. It's just kind of straight laced.
You're normalizing him. We hate this. You're sane washing Donald Trump.
This is how screwed up it is. The actor of
playing him in the film now is being blacklisted in
Hollywood for playing him, for playing him bland for the

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So Hollywood is blacklisting the guy that worked the Hollywood film.
Oh did you catch your paycheck? We hate you now.
This is what goes on in this industry. It's the
best director and nothing different. All the same movies are there.

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So how about animated film? We should know what's going
on there? Right? Okay, right, all right, flow? Never heard
of it? Okay, Inside Out too, Yes, Memoir of a Snail. Nope,
there was a new Wallace and Grommet. I didn't even

(32:18):
know this. Vengeance most Foul, and then the Wild Robot.
That one came out in the summer. I think it
was a Yeah, that was a dream Works I think
it was.

Speaker 4 (32:28):
Yeah, you know, I remember, I remember doing Okay, I
remember we I think we talked about it briefly in
a you know, just a box office rundown.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
You got a lot of critical praise at the time. Yeah. Yeah,
so I'm familiar with that one. Okay, there we go.
I'm I'm clitching international film. We are not going to
even look at that. Okay, So here's what that got me.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
Okay, adaptive screenplay, a complete unknown Comclay Conclave, Amilia Perez Nickel,
boys sing sing all right, So Dune is nominated for
Best Picture but not an adapted screenplay.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
How does that even? Yeah, it seems off unless there
are people that don't think it was based on the book,
but maybe based on the know that.

Speaker 4 (33:23):
Okay, they're not big readers in Hollywood. Okay, they're they're
familiar with a title. But you know, it's when you say, oh,
we're adapting the book, nobody's fucking read it.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Nobody knows. I'm too busy reading scripts. I don't have
time for.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
It's like, you know, some producer will remember seeing that.
You know, back in the day when he would be
taking his family through the mall and passed by a
Walden Books and would see the big display for fucking
whatever you do you.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
I think the only time they would know about a
book is when there was a film adaptation that came
out and they would see the movie poster on a book. Right, Oh,
that's where that came from. Okay, I've read this Stch
and we probably were gonna mention Dune. We probably should
point out that David Lynch did just recently pass away.

Speaker 4 (34:17):
Yeah, the best June was it?

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Was it? Though? It really was?

Speaker 4 (34:23):
I mean, I mean the sci fi the sci fi
ones were good. No, you know what, that's a cultural
touchstone for all gen X.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
No, it is. I mean I I watched it, Yeah, totally.
I had no idea what was going on. I felt
like I had taken spice while watching it. That would
be the that's the idea in the storyline for those
who haven't seen it. But that's Yeah. So that's our
rundown of the Oscars for the most part, summation of

(34:51):
it all. What the hell? Yeah, you know what? This is? Really?
What's going on here? This is gonna be another Oscars.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
Nobody's gonna watch and then they're gonna wonder what they're
doing wrong, and DEI harder when it's really because they've
over deied. And then they didn't nominate anybody anything. Anybody watched,
I saw none of the The only June two is
the only movie out of all of these, even looking

(35:22):
at you know, all the other movies that you liked,
the supporting actors that aren't not necessarily nominated for the
Best Picture, Wicked and June two are the only ones
that hit my local theater.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean that's and that is it.
And they're in the broad tend movie category and then
a couple of the technicals and that's about it. It's yeah,
I was gonna hint that earpone to the normies. But
I think really we're looking at here a collection of
films that are starting to represent that new policy that

(36:00):
they instituted at the Oscars, and that is every movie
had to have basically DEI. They did prescribe that there
were minimal amounts of represented individuals that had to be
in your film. So how many blacks do you have,
how many Hispanics? How many handicaps?

Speaker 4 (36:19):
You and teltal World operators do you have you know,
you know?

Speaker 1 (36:23):
And LGBTQ representations like can he focus a camera? I
don't care who he's sleeping with. That's where I'm at
these days. But I think this is what you end
up with now, is because you're mandating that this is
what you have to vote for as well. Okay, this

(36:44):
is what you get. So a Mexican musical about a
drug lord who's a transgender individual and.

Speaker 4 (36:51):
A Mexican Spanish Spanish language Okay, so Mexican Spanish language
French film.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, the United Nations just put that on the poster
and yeah, just you this is your the favorite of
the Oscars. This is the one going in with the
inside track of winning it all. Okay, Yeah, so I
guess after it becomes an Oscar winner, it's going to

(37:21):
double that ten million dollar box office. Mm.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Somebody might actually watch it on the streaming service that
it was released on.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
I mean, however, this isn't the only celebration that's going
to be taking place in the coming weeks in Hollywood.
There's now we have the most important one. Yes, there's
a better award show, and by better I mean at
least movies we've heard of every single one of them.
The rash got it.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Look, this is this is the antioscar, you know, this
is the antidote for the oscars. This is the Oh
those smug fox I really need to Oh hey cool,
the razzies run.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah. The Let's just put it this way. When you
go to a five star French restaurant, the razzies are
the food you smuggle in that you're actually going to eat.
This is what you want to see, is what you
want to consume.

Speaker 4 (38:20):
Yeah, that's your back Eminem's and peanuts you're keeping, you know.

Speaker 1 (38:24):
Your must pocket. I'm still very torn about the Razzies.
I used to be a voting member, not anymore because
the top don't get wrong the subject matter, bad films,
awarding the worst of Hollywood one hundred percent there the
people running this show, however, not so much Cornball comes

(38:46):
to mind for a lot of this, But also you
see them being desperate about still currying favor with Hollywood,
Like even though they're supposedly sticking a finger in the
eye of Hollywood, it's at the same time the other
hand is rubbing their back. It's like, we still love you, guys,
We're one of you. Really because we hate that other side.

(39:08):
And I'm gonna get to that in a moment. But
first the cornball part. They have to go with the
lamest ass jokes. If you play the Razzies straight, it
would be funnier, but they still have to stick in
that just it's almost like Annibal flapstick, you know. Yeah. Also,

(39:30):
they have to go political every single award show case
in point. These are the movies for worst Picture on
board with all of them but one first one Borderlands. Hell, yeah,
we talked about that fiasco Madame Webb. Yeah, well yeah,
we talked about that too, absolute shit fire from February. Yes,

(39:54):
Megapolis the biggest bomb of the year. Yes, Costumes, winery
and then Reagan the biopic what Okay, they they But
the thing is they have to do this every single
ras has to have some kind of screw you to

(40:15):
conservatives and Reagan. Is it. It's not just here, it's
seed in like four or five categories. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
They did it with Bush or with W two. And
I'm really surprised they didn't do the uh the Apprentice fell.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
I think that they were torn like do we hate
it or do we want to I might have split
the vote. You know, but yeah, they got Reagan and
like the acting category and stuff. Sorry, this isn't because
I love Regular, hate Regular anything. It wasn't that bad
of a film. It just wasn't. It really was so

(40:52):
much worse out there fly Me to the Moon. How
about that? That was a shit fire movie? What was that? Unfrosted,
which does have a couple, it's got a couple, but
that was a worst movie, way worse than Reagan. That
should be in the prime category.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Yeah, and you know, Unfrosted for what it was, wasn't terrible.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
I mean, yeah, it was terrible, but it was just
still it was. It wasn't bad as it was. It
was really handed. Was that it was just ham fisted. Really,
it was almost like vaudeville on camera. Just everything was broad.

(41:36):
Everything was slapstick. It was basically a guy poking into
ribs every thirty seconds. You get it? Did you get it?
That was so for actor? They have Jack Black for
Deer Santa. Yeah, okay, Zachary Levy for Harold in the
Purple Crayon. I don't know about that one because that's

(41:57):
a kid's movie. Really was he really that bad?

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (42:01):
Really? Yeah? Or is it because Zachary Levey is now
coming out as a conservative. Yes, that's probably the more
likely reason. I love this. Joaquin Phoenix for Joker Part
two and that should have been in the final category two.
Holy cow that.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
I'm surprised I didn't get nominated.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
For Best Picture in the Oscars. Sorry boy, I gotta
throw a boat with Marmies.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
They liked that, they liked that Joker movie last time around.
Let's let's get in on that action.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
I think in July they were thinking that very thing,
and then the movie came out, right, But they got
Dennis quaid Is playing Reagan, sorry no, and Jerry Seinfeld
in Unfrosted. I could go with that. He he was
a little insufferable in it. Then they got Kate Blanchett
in Borderlines, Lady Gaga for Joker, Bryce Dallas holl Word

(43:00):
for Argyle. I'm glad this movie is getting included. This
is what I like is when they spread it out
and they bring in the ones.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
Yeah, because I mean, there's so many bad movies, so
you can't just kind of like, you know.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
And Megapolis got that good good You got to go.

Speaker 4 (43:19):
To Johnson for Adam Webb and Jennifer Lopez for Atlas too.

Speaker 1 (43:23):
So yeah, supporting actress. Is this really a name? Fka
Twigs for the Crow? But again, everybody hated the Crow.
Good to see it on the list. That's what I'm saying.
This is this has done well. Yeah, so this is
where the corn cob comes into play. Screen combo. Any

(43:44):
two obnoxious characters, but especially Jack Black in Borderlands. Yeah,
come on, any two unfunny quote comedic actors unquote and unfrosted.
You did it? You really?

Speaker 4 (44:01):
The entire cast in Megalopolis.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Okay, you know what, that's actually fair. Yeah, but just
yeh say Megapolis the cast boom, It's dryer, it's cleaner,
it's funnier. Yeah. Okay, yeah. I'll give them some credit
this year because with prequel, remake or ripoff category they
did segregate for a change, because usually they almost have

(44:25):
like every single bad movie shows up in this category too.
It's like no break it apart, segregate it and good.
So when the prequels The Crow, Joker, Craven the Hunter, Mufasa,
and Rebel Moon two, good, well done guyes. You're coming
around here, see.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
And I like how Craven the Hunter is making it
into these even though none of the actors or actresses
actually got you know, nominated.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
In the other categories.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
But they're still now, they're still giving a nod that
Craven the Hunter was fucking terrible.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I do understand, although I don't approve. The other thing
they love to do with the Razzies is those multiple nominations,
so that when the press release goes out, Adam Saylor
nominated for five Razzies this year, and you know that's
that's the draw to get the news outlets to report
on it. Oh my gosh, you're resignful got naming them
for three Razzies. So they they kind of have to

(45:23):
do that to churn it a bit. But here at
least better news. They've at least spread it, which I like. Okay, well,
so much for the celebrating the good and the horrible.
Trust me, I have celebrated the horrible. But this one,

(45:43):
you all, I enjoyed this one. This is right up
our rally. Of course, in the business side of things,
on the streaming side of things, Yeah, there's a big
fight going over the rights of South Park.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
This is great, this is you know what I mean,
after what is it twenty six years two of the
biggest studios in Hollywood are fighting over the gobs of
money this show still receives.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Yeah, and that's the thing, is the when you consider
the content, consider the product and all of that. And
it got so bad that they had to go to court. Yeah,
Paramount and Warner Brothers Discovery had to take this to
trial in order to settle basically a breach of five

(46:40):
hundred million dollars.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
And you know, this is the only this is the
only time I can ever remember actually feeling sympathetic towards
Warner Brothers Discovery. They got absolutely fucked in this, especially
by tent.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Matt and Trey. Yeah, you know, because you always want
to view them as the little guy, right, I mean,
they're on our side, they're one of us. It's like, no,
these guys are worth asloads of money, right, They're richer
than third world countries, these two, Yes, exactly. They've been

(47:21):
doing this for decades and they're doing the same thing
decade and all they do is who do we piss
off this week? Really?

Speaker 4 (47:28):
And yeah, you know, it's a formula that works though
so well it is.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
I'm not knocking them whatsoever.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
I mean, I mean, they're still good after twenty six years,
and the Simpsons ran out of gas after ten, so
you know.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, And in fact, south Park kind of did a
crossover of sorts because I think for the first ten
fifteen years they were kind of the you know, the left,
not quite left wing, but left of center. You know,
they were just going after the usual targets, and as
things started to slow down, they decided to just go
after sacred cows. It's almost like it was a parting

(48:06):
shot and they got this whole new audience from the right.
They were like, wait a second, we could piss off
both sides and make more money. I mean, they actually
got more popular in their later years. Well, yeah, the
symptoms are like, oh they're still on Yeah, why is
that show? Why?

Speaker 4 (48:23):
Why are you desecrating your own corpse?

Speaker 1 (48:27):
And yeah. Now it's like anytime something breaks in the news,
first thing people say is, oh my god, South Park's
gonna have fun with this one. It becomes appointment viewing
as a result. Yeah, the studios now because of that,
because the value was so built up in this and

(48:47):
this is a show, by the way, it's still on
Comedy Central. You go watch it almost any time you
want to, and it is that hot that there was
that much money involved and we had to go to courtover.
So basically, yeah, I would almost think, and maybe this

(49:10):
is me splitting the baby, but isn't there enough money
going on here that you could have doled out something
to both sides?

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Yeah, or you know, kind of made your contract a
little more clear.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
Yeah, but or you know, not done shady shit. But
this is again, what was it s We're on season's
twenty six of the show, and this is what they're
arguing about. Still.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
Yeah, so this, yeah, this contract was specifically for seasons
twenty four through twenty six, so and Warner Brothers Discovery
was supposed to have exclusive rights to stream all the
south Park content everything, and then they are getting what
they called And this is actually the judges saying they

(50:05):
were blindsided when South Park Director Studios created episodes that
it claimed weren't within seasons twenty four through twenty six
and they were given to Paramount Plus to help them
start off their new fledgling network.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Yeah, it was almost as if they created special episodes
just for Paramount. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
These are special they literally called them specials. These are specials.
They're not part of the contract. Deal, so we can
shop them out.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
And I don't know if this is accurate or not,
but it was almost as if you could say, Rogue one,
while being a Star Wars property, is not in the
necessary canon of the nine films of the franchise, so
it's separate. So another studio could have bought that one

(51:03):
out and claim Star Wars. But it's not these Star Wars.
It's but the only way I could really make a
comparison because it's the same characters, same people making it,
same crap going on. It's just they put the word
special on the title, so it's not part of the season.
We're doing it over here with somebody else. Yeah. I

(51:25):
could see Warner's point, but at the same time, it's like,
I don't know yet what thirty episodes to their three.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
But here's the thing though, after they were shown on Paramount,
South Park Studios decided, you know what, those actually are
part of your thirty here, So after everybody had seen
them on Paramount.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
Oh, these are part of your exclusive deal. My bad.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Yeah, but it's you're only getting eight episodes this season,
so that is that season for you because COVID and reasons.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Yeah, so it's yeah, a lot of a lot of
sheety crap going on. Basically what we're seeing here, it didn't.
It's a weird story where it feels like it's like, guys,
this didn't have to go to court, and then you
look at it, it's like, oh, yeah, we need a
judge a clean this shit because it is just that convoluted.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Well, I mean, here's your Other breaches in the contract
include SPDs slashing the episode count for seasons twenty five
and twenty six from ten to six, and the joint
venture contracting with Paramount and MTV to produce four additional
fifty minute long episodes exclusively for streaming on Paramount. They
took advantage of ambiguity in the contract, and uh so

(52:51):
in this whole thing there may be discovery. This is
where it's kind of like, okay, Paramount, this is where
you kind of fucked up. Is that in the discs
they want streaming numbers. They want to know, you know,
not they want to know how much retention, how much money,
how many subscribers they potentially got from this, and.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
That if if the.

Speaker 4 (53:16):
Judgment goes away, Warner Brothers wants one percent of that
revenue would go to Warner Brothers.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Yeah, and I mean this is uh Stone and Park
are really kind of screwing everybody over for their own benefit.
It smacks of a lawyer getting in there and saying, well,
you know, the contract doesn't say you can't do it right.
It's like, I'm sorry, if you're in a contractual agreement

(53:45):
with a studio, I'm pretty damn sure you should let
that studio know you're going to make the same product
for another studio if they've got the rights to your show,
and you're gonna say, okay, but we're gonna get paramounts
some I'm sorry, you're gonna do what now? Nobody thought

(54:06):
that this was squirrely until it happened. I'm sorry. I'm
pretty sure somebody did. So that's where I'm leaning on
a lawyer going, yeah, you can get away with this,
and if you don't, you can just retain me and
I'll go fight in court and you can do as well.
How about that? All right? Or do you want to
do a break here a refill moment? Yeah, yes, I

(54:31):
need to refill my drink and cool. Then all right,
So we'll come back and I'm gonna touch on a
little bit of a court case that also erupted. Since
our last episode is a little bit of a teaser,
and uh, when we come back, we've got more streaming numbers,
streaming news, a bunch of all kinds of stuff that's
going on. So go get your tub refilled and hit

(54:51):
the seat again for the last half here of the
culture shift. Two tablespoons of cinnamon and two or three.

Speaker 6 (55:16):
Egg whites, I half a stick of butter.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
Mmm, mount.

Speaker 6 (55:27):
Stick it all in a bowl, baby staring with a
wooden spoon. Mix in a cup of flowers. You'll be
in heaven soon.

Speaker 7 (55:42):
Say everybody, han't seen my balls that big and salty
and brown? If you haven't eat a quick pick me up.
Just stick my balls in your mouth. Suck on my
chocolate salted balls. Stick them in your mouth, Ben, suck'em.
Suck all my child lit salt at ball.

Speaker 6 (56:02):
They're bad for Budy lunch and good for you, So
suck on my ball.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
I want to come of one swinging chocolate, and I have.

Speaker 7 (56:18):
A cup of brandy and throw a bag at up
sugar and jump the pitch out vanilla.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
Read up the cookie sheet.

Speaker 7 (56:34):
Because I hate with my ballstick.

Speaker 6 (56:38):
Then freeze, driving to three.

Speaker 7 (56:40):
City and give that spoony leaf. Say everybody, haven't seen
my balls there, big and salty and brown. If you
ever need a big pick me up testick.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
My fathers and your mother.

Speaker 7 (56:55):
So all my cholc lit salt at barm.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
Put him with your mother and suck suck on my
chocolate choking ball.

Speaker 6 (57:05):
Hold your back. I'm goodness, hide and fight out suck
my ball. Hey, wait a minute, what's that smell? Smell

(57:25):
like something burning. Well that don't confront me now. As
long as I get my rent paint on Friday, maybe
you better get back in the kitchen because I got
a sneaking suspicion. Oh man, baby.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Baby, you just burned my ball.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
Come my ba's on fire.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
Lest it.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Well, now we are back on the culture shift. That
was highly inappropriate.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
He had something else planned, but we didn't go to
break after the oscars, so.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
He was gonna play Lola. We should have probably coordinated
a little better. But no, it wasn't a complaint. I
should probably clarif.

Speaker 4 (58:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Well, while we were on the topic of court cases,
we got to talk about what went down last Friday.
It's it's just one. I kind of savored. What about
eight months ago was Dune of last year where I
found out CNN was coming under fire of a defamation suit.

(58:44):
And I I have to admit, there's a level of
Shot and Friday taking place here. That's the German word
meeting laughing when somebody's putting the screws to someone else. Translation.
I'll have to check on my co host Aggie about that.
She's the polylingualist. But yeah, when I first saw the

(59:08):
court documents regarding defamation, I said, yees, defamation. It's really hard.
I'm reading the docs of the internal communications from CNN
and said, holy hell, these guys are toast because when
it comes to defamation suits real briefly, they're very, very

(59:29):
difficult to even bring the trial, let alone goot judgment,
because the courts have set such a high standard on
journalism accountability, because you've got to both prove not just
that a story was incorrect but known to be incorrect
during broadcast, but also was done with malicious intent. And
these are very difficult to prove out. And this is

(59:55):
the case Navy veteran who was a contract worker who
extra people from hot zones and he was getting Afghani
people out of Afghanistan during that disaster of Joe Biden's expulsion,
they did a story on Zach Young claimed that he
was gouging people operated illegally in a black market, all

(01:00:18):
kinds of wild claims that were just patently false. And
he told him as much, and he said, don't run
the story, don't go with it. That's factually wrong. I'll
sue more than that. Though. The internal documents showed that
some editors were saying, there's no facts here, it's mostly emotion.
Plus we're not running it on the digital side. And

(01:00:39):
then we saw communication between the reporters and editors, and
you got to put the screws to this guy. Screw him,
knock his dick in all this kind of stuff, bury
him and twist stick. That is malice. I'm sorry that
no other way to look at it. And again in June,

(01:00:59):
I said, they're host and you know, I watched all
the pre trial hearings, and each time the courts were like,
oh no, this is going forward, Oh no, this is
going to jury. Oh no, you can't take that out.
You have to CNN lost consistently through this case to
one point they said no, no, we never said it
was illegal, and then turned around and said, well, yeah,

(01:01:20):
it was illegal because of Scharial law. CNN tried to
argue on behalf of shar real law. That's how desperate
they got in this case. So it finally came the trial.
It started on what January sixth, clean cleaned two weeks though,
and last Friday, judgment came in and the jury found

(01:01:41):
them liable of defamation and malice. Millions of dollars paid out,
and then punitive damages were coming up. And that's when
the CNN lawyers jumped up and was like, it's little
plaintiffs and said we got to talk. We got a commission,
and they came up with punitive damages, but it was sealed.

(01:02:01):
They didn't want that getting out. So understand this is
why I took so much glee in this case. It's
not that I hate CNN necessarily, or hate even journalism,
love journalism. I hate condescension though, especially when it's smug

(01:02:22):
condescension coming from asshats who are completely incorrect. Yeah, anos,
that is CNN for the most part. Jake Tapper, whose
show this appeared on, he actually said this. He had
a video testimony he gave because they they argued he
couldn't lower himself to go to a Florida courtroom, and

(01:02:45):
his deposition actually said, well, I'm not even really sure
what my title at CNN is. I don't really care
about this. Sure you don't, Jake people's dms, including my
own for being critical of his. He doesn't care about
these things, Jake. I can go on CNN's website. There's
a bio page for you, and on that biopage it

(01:03:07):
list your title. It's right there. I can read it,
and you can read it, because I'm sure you did,
because you pose for the picture on the page. But
also in his deposition, he said, oh, my ratings, I
couldn't even tell you what my ratings are. I have
zero concern about ratings. Jake Tapper said that, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:29):
No, that's all he Yeah, he is probably one of
the most narcissistic, aside from Acosta.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Which I got another comment about Acosta.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
But yeah, he lives and dies by his ratings. I'm
sure he knows before anybody else does what his ratings are.
He has a hotline to Nielsen.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
I would dare say, like we just did a show
break here, like during his breaks, you're like, so, what
are the numbers? Should we turn it up? Sho we go?
But you want louder? Should we put him on for Okay?
It was really funny because after that deposition came out
within a matter of like an hour, so Fox News
had compiled about a dozen examples on social media of

(01:04:17):
Jake Tapper crowing about his ratings.

Speaker 6 (01:04:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:22):
Yeah, like we wouldn't research this, Jake. You think this
is something people would maybe look into and I don't know,
commit journalism and look into these details. So yeah. The
reason I really was on this case is because it
involved Tapper, and he was the most obnoxious about the
Fox News settlement in their defamation suit. I mean, just

(01:04:48):
performative as you could be during the time he was
reading that news item. I've got the official notice from
Fox News here where it says they prize journalism. Oh
my god, it didn't just h really, it says they
pride themselves on journalism over there. Sure, I mean he
was that histrionic about it. His network has just been

(01:05:09):
found in a court of law to have committed defamation.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
Yeah, I and this isn't the first time.

Speaker 1 (01:05:15):
I mean, well that was the other thing. When he's
going on about their settlement, It's like do you not
remember Nick Sandmon, because we do.

Speaker 4 (01:05:23):
Yeah, right, and that wasn't that long ago. And I
mean they got lucky in the fact that in Florida,
punitive can only be ten times what the jury awards
the plaintiff. Right, So with the five million dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
Yeah, the settlement was five or you know, the settlement
was five million.

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
So they actually got off light on this one with
only having to pay up to fifty million dollars in
punitive damages.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Yeah, And I honestly, I think they got off a
lot easier there because there was speculative talk this could
hit a billion, meaning that, you know, if it was
going to be some monumental damage amount. But it's I mean,
they've been adjudicated now, a jury found them to have

(01:06:15):
committed complete and utter defamation with malice. That's severe. I mean,
that is just as bad as it gets. Fox doesn't
even have that yoked on them, And I.

Speaker 4 (01:06:28):
Don't even think Weekly World News or National Choir has
been slapped with that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Now. And I've you know, I've talked with some people
from a couple other outlets, like like the guy's over
at NewsBusters. I mean their guy, Nick was covering this case.
He and I have been talking about this from Jump
Street and he did a fantastic job covering it live,
and I was talking to someone else from Daily Signal.
And it's kind of funny how all the sites like
US conservative sites are all we're constantly slammed as being

(01:06:57):
fake news. We're having articles flag and taken down because
the content is inaccurate misinformation and throttling our sites and such,
despite the fact that they were one hundred percent factually
on point. All right, despite all that, I don't know
if any of these sites, ours or anyone else's sued

(01:07:18):
for defamation, let alone successfully. So yeah, which seeks everything.
That's it's a huge deal. I mean, CNN is one
of the loudest voices about misinformation, fake news. All these
lies are out there. It's like you're the ones guilty
of it. Cornelog found you guilty. We haven't even been sued,

(01:07:40):
let alone found guilty about this stuff. And it's and
what really is revealing here is when the Fox's case
was going on, Brian Stelter was barking up a storm.
Fox won't even talk about this on the air. They're
not even letting their people dressed this where it's going

(01:08:01):
on in a court of law. He got a book
deal where he was going to cover the trial, and
then they set a lot of court and completely screwed.
He had to cobble together for two years that they
just went out and settled. So we had to he
had to alter into like Fox and Trump together or
something and sold nothing. And yet as this trial was

(01:08:25):
going on, not a word from Brian. And I went
through his feet the TI and he no, yeah, he
was okay at the time. No, but he was when
the trial came up.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
That's my point, right, Yeah, so he didn't get a
book deal for that one.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
No, But I looked, because the settlement came in on
Friday afternoon. I looked from Thursday evening through Saturday, might
have been in the neighborhood of one hundred tweets from
him about TikTok and all the background drama and will
sell will What's Trump gonna do with TikTok? Oh? My god?

(01:09:02):
Not a single word about this case from him. He
finally put up a post you linked to one page
at cnn dot com about the trial result, and uh
had his gold I think is the one that wrote it.
All of one hundred and sixteen words. It was, there

(01:09:24):
was a court case. We were pulling the defamation and
here's our official paragraph statement from the let me say
we still value journalism and we hopefully will learn from
this and going forward and moving on, and we will
never talk about this ever, ever, ever again. That was it. So,
by the way, Fox did talk about their case frequently
on the air. Howie Kurtz would bring it up on

(01:09:46):
his media show every week, like Brian Stelter used to have.
By the way, so there you have it. Of all
the news networks that are out there right now, CNN
is found to have committed definitely my favorite part I
still was a costa. Remember this isn't Fox News. You

(01:10:10):
can't lie on CNN one day before, right, No, it
was day after. Oh that's right, that's right now. You
said something else the day before it was, uh, I
think it was that Thursday. He was talking about we're
the highest bastions of truth out there and fighting this

(01:10:31):
information and this Elon Musk getting involved is going to
lead to lies, which we don't tolerate at CNN. Guilty. Yeah,
you're right there. He was talking to one of the
representative representative Bouchette. He said, sorry, this isn't Fox News.
You're spin has no gravity here or what we don't
want to You can't pull the wool over people's hearts.
I say on that, Well, that's because that's your job, Jim.

(01:10:56):
It comes down to, by the way, a bunch of
resks edging restructuring today, two hundred layoffs at CNN, and
they're moving a lot of their stars around. Wolf Blitzer
now will be on mornings where Jim Acosta used to be.

(01:11:16):
He has a currently unspecified time slot they're trying to
put him on. Literally, they're moving Jim Acosta to midnight
to two am.

Speaker 4 (01:11:26):
Yeah, and he's all, you know, he didn't say he
was gonna quit because of it, but he's like, you know,
hinting that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:33):
That was That was the news before today, and the
official announcement was negotiations are in place to see where
Jim Acosta will end up working. Basically, it means he's
throwing a ship fit right now and they're trying to
decide if he's quitting or not, which I think was
the entire purpose of the twelve am time slot. We're

(01:11:56):
not going to fire you, Jim, but if you want
to go to see how the door already opened. You're
more than three to pass through it if you care to.

Speaker 4 (01:12:04):
Sure you know, you know it's right over there, or
you know you can be on midnight when you know
you'll probably get the most ratings. Your your ratings won't
change much.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
It's it's not gonna be as bad as you think, though, Jim.
Because we want to move out to Los Angeles, so
it'll be nine pm there. They're totally getting rid of them.
Go to LA please. Yeah, that's just it. The more
I dig into the story, the funnier it gets.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
Yikes, Well, I just it's I mean, I I just
love I mean, they did it to themselves.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
And you'll love to see it. You do, you do?
I do? I fully admit it. I do. And it
gives content sources, Oh oh, constantly it is. Yeah, Jim
has been a feature from the last week. I think
it was a yes, yeah, yesterday's column over there. All

(01:13:12):
the stories were CNN. That's how bad the week is
been formed. And it hasn't all been about the case either.
That's the funny part. But speaking of failures and studios
going down, well not really, but hey, uh Bob Iger
got a raise. Yeah, I needed to.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
He got a ten million dollar raise. I mean, did
does he have any successes this year?

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Well? There was Inside Out too well, Manitude did pretty good.
That was smoking Fassa not so much. That was about it. Yeah.
Oh wait they they had the Alcolyte come out. Yep, Yes,
that was.

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
The thing that that That was a that that was
a thing that happened.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
They that show. Yeah, I want to say there was
there was a Marvel of some sort, wasn't there? Let
me see, it feels like there should have been. There's
something some of the adjunct characters had to have gotten.

(01:14:36):
What was that? Didn't they have that one ensemble? I
don't know if it was truly Marvel or not, but
it was like another group? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
Nothing everything? Okay, yeah fine, I mean I don't know
if it really counts that. Yeah, all right, Deadpool versus.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
Well, yeah, I don't know that I can really take
credit for that one. That was kind of really that
was kind of baked in already. You know, it's not like, hey,
good thing he green lit that movie, because why you
wouldn't make it otherwise you were gonna make the date movie.
You were desperately praying for them.

Speaker 4 (01:15:23):
That's probably the only thing that made them money this year.

Speaker 1 (01:15:28):
I'd say Inside Out Too probably did because that was
it was expected to do well, but I don't think
as well as it did. I think a lot of
people were surprised by how that took off. No, it's yeah,
I mean it was a smash for the summer. Before
Deadpool came out. How many people were even talking about
it was just like, well Deadpool July, that's going to

(01:15:49):
start the summer. It's like it's almost the end. Yeah,
but that's when that comes out, So it's counting a summer.
And then Inside Out Too did Gangbuster form that was
kind of a bonus. But they're counting on it.

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
You know, they got you got the Disney uh shareholders
meeting coming up here in a couple of months, and
they're they're they're kind of hoping it is not as
contentious and as big of a deal as it uh
was last year. You know, with all that that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
Was kind of my point was a year ago Iger
was fighting for his job. Yeah. Now as a race,
I mean they're you know, they had outside interests, are like, look,
we're gonna buy in here, get us on the board.
We got to fix this crap because this ship is sinking, right.
But Iger kind of stacked the deck enough that they

(01:16:37):
voted him back on and you know, cleaning his fingernails. Yeah,
but I I yeah, they had their year of success.
They also had crept on a failure. So break even
is kind of how I would look at the spreadsheet.
But they're claiming, no good, Yeah, everything's fantastic. Forty one
dollar salary for him. I guess. I'm pretty sure you

(01:17:05):
and I already could have green lit a couple of
animated sequels in a Deadpool movie and done well. You know,
I could have walked around the studio all year on
those three releases like that was me my idea.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
We did that He's got and let those movies this guy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
I would have a Deadpool hat, inside out shirt, Maana
Tuo jacket, and I'd walk around just there you go,
remember mine? Did it? That one? Got it? Did it? Painted? Oh?
Looking up front oscar? Yeah? Okay, I guess so that.

(01:17:49):
Here's the other thing though, what's coming down the road?

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
You know, like they got I mean, they got some
Marvel stuff coming out in twenty twenty five. Yeah, that's
pretty much it. I mean, I haven't heard of anything else.
But even then a lot of those twenty twenty five
releases were twenty twenty fours that got pushed back, probably
for reshoots. But yeah, remember we had this big log

(01:18:16):
jam coming out of COVID, and it seems like there's
still a glut in the uh.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
In the fair that we're receiving in the Really, the
only thing popping on my radar is, yeah, I'm thinking
of the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves debuckle and
you know, I'm just gonna scroll through. Okay, So Kingdom
of the Planet of the Apes that did okay, but

(01:18:45):
that's really a Fox property. That's why that's there. Oh
I guess. Yeah, there was an alien movie too that
came out right that was Fox that didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:18:55):
Yeah that's didn't you bad? It got nominated for in
technical categories.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
But that again, that's Fox. That's not Eiger. You know,
that's their property. So I don't know, really what he's
hanging his hat on is as like massive success stories
like I'm yeah, I just and again a guy who's

(01:19:26):
fighting for his job. So I mean, I'm just thinking
that through here, Madam Webb. That's connected to Marvel that
was their fiasco. Mm hmm, let's see first omen that
that was a Fox film and didn't do anything. I mean,

(01:19:50):
I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that jumps off
the pitch, you know that. No ma wanitu is about it. Yeah,
that can't then they're proud of this. You know. There's
there's the new Captain America on the horizon, the Black
Captain America. I only say that because he is. They're

(01:20:13):
still going with snow White though in March. I kind
of can't wait. I still can't wait for that. I
may have to go and see.

Speaker 4 (01:20:24):
Just Oh, I'm you know, it'll be the first time
I've logged into my Disney account in a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
I'm I'm looking forward to it. So I'm just I'm
kind of scrolling through here, like Perspective releases for twenty five.
There's a Leelo and Stitch coming out in May. That's
a callback the Fantastic four First Steps comes out in July.

(01:20:51):
I've not heard a lot of buzz. I mean, I've
heard about it being made and people talk about it,
but it's not like, man, I can't wait for it.
It's like they're thinking it's hear this up again? Uh,
z Utopia too, that's gonna be the Thanksgiving release, so
that's probably I can't miss there. Oh there's a Tron

(01:21:13):
coming out. Oh good Tron aries. M you know, I'm sorry, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:21:24):
None of the Neutron movies have done anything for me.
And that was like whenever that got unlocked from the
vault and was available on VHS, I would buy a
new copy because I generally wore out my other VHS copy.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
Mm hmm. Yeah, I watched I watched them, maybe not
the last trump with the one before it. I only
recall it being basically a music video like it was.
All they talked about was Daft punk and I just
remember them light cycle with music. That was it. Yeah. Uh,

(01:22:00):
now there is get ready to be excited already December
holiday release. Another avatar fogg h. Who's watching these movies again?
I've never seen anybody wearing or displaying any kind of

(01:22:25):
swag whatsoever of Avatar, Like I'm a T shirt, hat,
key chain anything like I'm in the park, I'm in
the avatar section, and I don't see anybody wearing Avatar clothes. Yeah, yeah,
it's this. There's there's really some weird blind spot. Here

(01:22:48):
a movie everybody goes to see and nobody talks about.
I am forever going to be fascinated by this. But yeah,
no gifts, no nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
The only gift you see is from the original, and
that's usually like none of them.

Speaker 1 (01:23:02):
It's the bad guy because.

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
He's the only interesting or intriguing part of that movie.
Everything else it's just fucking fern Gully.

Speaker 1 (01:23:13):
It's fern Gully with a hundred million dollar dudgeon. I
will never stop laughing when I one billion dollar fern
Gully film. All right, So we've been talking about streaming.
This is kind of interesting. We're almost we're almost seeing

(01:23:34):
a streamer going backwards. Now. I will say this, I
got a little bit of interest in this one. It's
uh coming out tomorrow. I believe it's called Paradise, and
Sterling K. Brown is in it, and it looks like
a really high concept uh brief in the future. I
think it is where uh, somebody is coming to a

(01:23:57):
realization that conspiracy theories are actually valid. It's part of
a government agency that's just like a slow reveal that
some of this stuff is legit. We've been talking about
that for years on Jack's position, and yeah, I've seen,
you know, teaser trailers for it. I'll go on Hulu

(01:24:17):
from time to time and see some clips for it.
It's like, I'm probably gonna end nip checking that out.
This is where it gets interesting though. They're going to
basically cross premiere the show tomorrow. It's gonna appear on
ABC Network and on FX. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:24:40):
Yeah, they're hitting the broad either hitting streaming, broadcast and
cable all at once.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Which is a nice gif. Yeah. I'm I'm going to
be interested to see how well this pays off, because
what you're basically basically what they want to do is
tease this out there and of course during the episode
of this to say, hey, we watch the next episode
exclusively on Hulu and people are like, damn, that's a
good show. I gotta get a subscription. We'll see if

(01:25:10):
that kind of thing pays off. Now, I believe they
were probably inspired by this by what Paramount was doing,
but kind of in reverse, which was putting out their
older episodes of Tombstone on CBS that seemed more of
a desperation as opposed to cagy promotional effort. It's kind

(01:25:33):
of like de summertime CBS is dying on the vine.
Damn it, we got this property, why don't you put
it on there and get a couple of eyes. And
all of a sudden, this thing was hitting the top
ten in the ratings. Yeah. So basically, the people that
don't have Paramount plus we're saying, oh man, everybody's been
talking about that show and then they got into it.
This is a little bit different. What Hulu's basically doing

(01:25:54):
is trying to get non subscribers a teaser, kind of
like the Playground drug lord tactic. Hey, first one's free game.

Speaker 4 (01:26:03):
Exactly, put it out on cable and broadcast First One's
free and going back really quick, Jeff, you're not contractually
obligated to pay. I will actually do this fifty dollars
bounty for anybody who can get a picture of somebody
actually wearing a fucking Avatar T shirt out in the wild.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
And no, well, I was gonna say, somebody that has
an Avatar shirt would, but they first have to buy
the Avatar shirt, which means they're gonna squander whatever fifty
dollars payout they would have, right, and it's only.

Speaker 4 (01:26:33):
To the first one, like if you know, like three
au happen to find you know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:38):
Well, photographs have to be turned in before shipping is complete.
How about right, Yeah, three days to find somebody out
there wearing an Avatar hat. I dare you. I will
say this though, I'm in possession of some Avatar swag.
Just I just remembered this I have. It's kind of

(01:27:01):
boxed away now since the move. But I do have
a collection of three D glasses. Got some old ones,
got some novelty ones from specific films, like you know,
I've got one that's the Minion goggles that they put
out for the film mhm. But I have a special
edition there. They actually almost look like oak Ley's or
some kind of style issues sunglasses. But there are Yeah

(01:27:24):
for Avatar's got it's in a triangle case, and got
the movie scene on one sponsored by Coca Cola. So hell,
if I can find that, I'm in for fifty bucks.
Huh yeah yeah, no yeah, ye like ye wait, I've

(01:27:46):
got schwag, Send me uh Sabby subourbon, send me a
seve me a total line gift card. There you go
where even no, it's I only got this because I
was online. Holy shit, they made these. I got it
at that price, and what the hell, let's do it?
Not that I was an Avatar fan. She was like, hey,
I don't have these three D glasses. Shit, I'm doing it.

(01:28:10):
But that's yeah, that that is that is not as hell,
just just bizarre. Yeah. Anyway, we going on. Yeah, we
gotta wrap here. So why don't we just get into
the stream.

Speaker 4 (01:28:20):
Now we don't have anybody follos, we can we can
finish all our content if we want.

Speaker 1 (01:28:24):
Yeah, but I got to vacate the studio. Oh gotcha. Okay,
all right, we're not gonna talk about the Toxic Avenger.
Well yeah, well don't we could throw it out?

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
No, no, no, no, I mean okay, So this is actually
just really quick. So after a couple of film festivals,
the new unreleased Toxic Avenger movie, which actually has a cast.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
I mean, you got funk. I just had this.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
Peter Tinklic He's in it, damn and I lost it. Anyway, Yeah, okay, Peter, Jnklege,
You've got Kevin Bacon and Elijah Wood.

Speaker 1 (01:29:09):
Are all in this.

Speaker 4 (01:29:09):
Anyway, So this film is it's unreleasable because they won't
give it a rating. So none of the UH production
houses will you know, pony up the money to uh
put it out in the theaters. Finally they got one.
So we will be seeing we will be revisiting our
tour of Tromaville.

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
And I'm only assuming Lloyd Kaufman is at the home
of this.

Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
I believe so he would be the no Macon Blair.

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
Huh he's a director. Well now I figured Old Kauflin's
got to be producing. No Adam Adam Manski is really now,
what do you just sell the rights off? Because this
is I mean, toxic Avenger is the only reason Lloyd
Kaufman has a profit. Yeah, well, I mean he would exist,
but this elevated him to the Roger Korman level of filmmaking. Yes,

(01:30:10):
I really did actually met at a film festival. He's
really cool. We did. Uh. We had a party at
one one of the bars over at Sundance for Trauma.
It was kind of hilarious. It was like, wait, we
are what it was like just as strolling people and
a bunch of fans came in and there's Lloyd. I
was like, damn, Lloyd, what's happen? Introduced me. He's like, on,

(01:30:33):
I read your stuff on film for it and He's like, no,
you don't. He's like, I do, I do. I like it?
You like bad films. It's like love him, love him,
love you, hug me, take us healthy. But you're right,
kindred spirit. Now he's uh now, now he's more known
for doing cameos in film suddenly show up. I'm like,
wait a second, that's Lord Coffin. That's about it. He

(01:30:55):
doesn't really make films anymore. That's curious, all right, But
I'm I'm sure sure he's got to be attached here.
I'm just I'm just of the opinion. But yeah, this
is it's kind of weird that they got named people
going to be in it. I mean, of course, Toxic
Avenger being what it is, it's just so well known
and I'm sure there are fans in Hollywood, so for

(01:31:17):
a listeners to be in this is just it doesn't
feel right.

Speaker 4 (01:31:21):
It well, i mean, obviously they needed a midget for
some part of the movie. So and since Peter Dinklin
closed the door behind him and got the all the
rest of them fired in Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (01:31:36):
Yeah, only he can play it. But yeah, Kevin.

Speaker 8 (01:31:39):
Bacon and it just nice Elijah Wood, Okay, I know,
but it just It kind of feels like he got
you know, nerds down in a basement playing Dungeons and
Dragons and then the star quarterback comes in and says, hey,
I want to play.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
Yeah, no, what.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Even though I can't remember the last time Kevin Bacon
made a good film, he still has that every you know,
he will always be Kevin Bacon. There will always be
oh fuck, Kevin Bacon's in this.

Speaker 1 (01:32:13):
Yeah he's he's still doing stuff. He shows up in
crap all the time. But yeah, I think it's more of,
you know, just so he's working just to get the
sad card insurance. Maybe just get out of the house
away from Kira, or maybe she kicks him out and like, hey,
you haven't done a film in a while, Kevin, go
make one.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
Yeah, get out of the house.

Speaker 1 (01:32:35):
Well there's a Troma movie do it. Go take it
and I'll see you in a month or two something
like that. It feels like, okay, cool, we got what's
the release date on this? Oh you shouldn't just.

Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
I don't think they have.

Speaker 1 (01:32:55):
Yeah, let me, uh, let me keep let me bring
it back up real quick. There we go. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:33:07):
Oh, by the way, it's being released by Cineverse. Which
they do content for streaming and theater.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
Dude, well I'm thinking that's how they how they dodged
the unrated mm hmm curse streaming. Now. I was just
wondering if we had an official data but stolen the works. No,

(01:33:36):
it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (01:33:36):
I don't see anything in here, just that you know,
we may it's finally getting you know, after a couple
of film festivals and all the buzz around it they
said this movie is unreleased. The common theme was this
movie is unreleased. Well, usually that's because it's a bad film,
not because it can't get a rating.

Speaker 1 (01:33:55):
Yeah, And then it's kind of funny. It's almost like ratings,
really are we still do in that? Can?

Speaker 4 (01:34:02):
I kind of like my favorite story about uh David
Lynch when he got a G rating on one of
his films and he asked the.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
Uh, the review boards. Can you say that again?

Speaker 4 (01:34:11):
Because it's the only time I've ever gonna hear those words.

Speaker 1 (01:34:16):
I just you know, we're we're in that era now
where you put a movie on Netflix and an eight
year old could pull it up the parents that the
parental controls. That's yeah, that's curse in Hollywood.

Speaker 4 (01:34:31):
This We need a po movie doesn't seem joyful at all.

Speaker 1 (01:34:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna watch whinny to POUHMNT go ahead? Why
is he dying? Right? I'm still uh, I'm still looking
forward though to the Popeye slasher movie coming out. You
can't wait.

Speaker 4 (01:34:52):
Yeah, that one makes the most sense out of everything.

Speaker 1 (01:34:54):
In a hunted spinach factory. It got sold ticket.

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
Here you go, man, I get Yeah, you got a
schwag to go with it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:05):
You got a popcorn bucket like June.

Speaker 4 (01:35:07):
Two, something I could fuck, that'd be great.

Speaker 1 (01:35:09):
Yeah. It looks like a corn cob pipe maybe or
something that'd be say corn hey, tie in everything else? Synergy? Right,
they do that? You you they owe you for royalties?
Oh good know they listened to the show. That's what
I like to see. Yeah, yeah, all right, why don't

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we wrap up with the Nielsen streaming numbers here we've uh,
we're just yeah, basically we're looking at the week of Christmas, Yeah,
concluding just before, so it's gonna be of December sixteenth
through the twenty second. Yeah. On the original content side
of things, Virgin River, this is a there's a big

(01:35:54):
one in my house. The wife loves this show. I
watch it with her sometimes and I'm like, you know,
there's stuff happen and she raves about it. She loves it. Okay,
La Palma, don't know land Man, I'm gonna be all
over this one. In a couple episodes. I'm gonna binge.

Speaker 4 (01:36:10):
Yeah, I'm I got, I got the last episode of
Wednesday and I'm gonna start watching.

Speaker 1 (01:36:15):
I've heard this is just too good. So it's a
it's a Tyler Sheridan joint, as they like to say
in this in the business. I don't like to say it,
but they make me. You know that. Sheridan he's the
creator of Yellowstone in about twelve other episodes. He's got.
This guy has so much crap going on. I have
no idea how he does it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:34):
It's like J. J. Abrams back of the day before
he started sucking up movie franchises.

Speaker 1 (01:36:40):
And Robot was everywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:36:42):
FROs So, yeah, fringe and but.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
I mean Sheridan can put out this stuff and this
looks good. He's got Billy Bob Thornton and has got
John Hammon. It's about the oil fields today in Texas. Yeah,
I'm there, I'm gonna be.

Speaker 4 (01:36:55):
I think everybody started watching it for that rant about
green energy and then and uh, then they got hooked.

Speaker 1 (01:37:02):
Mhm yeah, work for me. I'll be there after that.
We got no good deed, don't know it ultimate a
Mary move on Black does Queer Eye? That came back again? Wow?
Does that? Did we want?

Speaker 3 (01:37:17):
That?

Speaker 1 (01:37:17):
Was that something people ask for? This? I like though
ap bio came back. M hm that they moved that
off the network on the streaming and it's actually finding
you ad for you, Glenn Howardton the Madness and then
special Ops Lioness. That's uh, that's been a Netflix feature
for a while. Over in the Acquired things. Look at

(01:37:39):
that Blue has taken the top shocking.

Speaker 4 (01:37:42):
You mean a whole bunch You mean a whole bunch
of households that had kids in them over the holidays
watched Blue that was out.

Speaker 1 (01:37:53):
Gorge didn't suit his results coming. I'm a little surprised
by this. Though the equalizer is number two. I gotta
go back to Blue for a second.

Speaker 4 (01:38:01):
Sure, this has been in the top ten for as
long as we've been doing the show.

Speaker 1 (01:38:07):
Every two weeks we have to say the words bluey.
It just it used to be well it was Coco
Melon was on there too, and then that kind of failed. Yeah,
that was saying that was because of your house blue.
Just now. We never watched it here, believe it or not. Blue.
We did, although it's kind of funny than the six
year old all like one day. No, I don't want

(01:38:29):
to watch it anymore. We're talking about we've had it
on for four hours old, No, I don't want to.
Like somebody at school said, oh, you like blue. Yeah,
and then and that was its cool. Great only brought
you like five presents from your birthday that are blue,
but whatever, they already wrapped. And then you could tell

(01:38:53):
the college kids were home because rounding out the top
ten family guy Bob's Burger's Big Bang theory. Yeah, that's
what was going on there.

Speaker 4 (01:39:05):
Yeah yeah, I mean in between and all that, you
got Gray's Anatomy, n C I S and Gilmore girls.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
They're always there.

Speaker 4 (01:39:14):
So yeah, you can definitely tell there was a lot
of people normally doing other things that went back to
their old comfort favorites.

Speaker 1 (01:39:23):
Yeah, the chicks were home too, so we got to
throw those on the list. Oh my god, he didn't
just say that that was sexes. Yes, it was, oh right,
original movies, carry on. That was I watched this, Yeah,
most of it. It was Jason Bateman, and Carrie was

(01:39:46):
the name Carrie Terrington, the English dude that was Robin
Hood and basic no, no I have yet year years later. Yeah, okay,
I always fumble his name too. He was in the
Gentleman Spy Movies and stuff too. But he plays a

(01:40:08):
TSA agent and Jason Bateman is on the phone and
basically has every single thing on the planet wired. He
could see what he's doing, he could tap into his phone,
he could tell you what his girlfriend's doing. He's at
his parents basically compelling him to let one bag through
the airport. And it's intriguing drama on whether or not

(01:40:30):
this thing could go through, and it's just ponderous. And
it was the number one movie forever on Netflix. Then
there's Red One, and.

Speaker 4 (01:40:43):
You know it wasn't bad and it deserves what it
got and it'd be in the number one spot.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
It just you know, I watched it, and it really
feels like a typical Netflix, typical streaming movie that that category.
We put it in stars, massive production, ship ton of
stuff is happening, and you don't retain too much of
it afterwards, just like every other one. I mean, this

(01:41:10):
is pick pick the film, and it's that. I mean
six Underground, it's that. Yes, there was a scene with
a snowman fight reing deers. Yeah, it's just stuff happening,
and it's just okay. Yeah I saw it. It was good.

(01:41:34):
It's always the thing you always want to say. It
was like, yeah, it was good, as you try to
recall what the hell happened. Yeah, six Triple eight this
was Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:41:47):
I never heard of it. I have heard of it,
but I never actually saw it. I couldn't tell you
which streaming service it was on because it never popped
up in my face, which is unusual because it was
on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (01:42:00):
Yeah, and they, you know, they were pushing it during
the holidays, and I said, oh, I could be interesting.
You know, it's a historical war movie involving women of color.
Let me look into it. This was about the heroic
battalion of women who sorted mail. Oh right, right, right, right, right,

(01:42:21):
right right. I remember.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
I remember there being a big brujaha because somebody laughed
about it on Twitter.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
But that was the thing. Is like, after the first promos,
every coverage I saw in this film were people defending
the fact that they were sorting mail. Oh, make fun
of it, but this was so heroic and you don't
understand that the soldiers needed this and morale was at
its lowest and these women fixed all the problems that
they could. Okay, I'm not disputing that happened. I'm saying

(01:42:56):
watching women sort mail is not exactly entertaining, right. No
one's diminishing what they did or their import. But I
don't think I want to watch it. You know, it probably.

Speaker 4 (01:43:10):
Would have made a great sitcom that could have spanned
longer than the actual war and then god dramatic at
the end of its run.

Speaker 1 (01:43:20):
It's yeah, and they show them marching information and going
through this and there's one, you know, bossy loud supervisor
and it's just like and mail. They're doing mail. I'm sorry,
but okay, home alone, of course, and Doctor Seuss The Grinch,

(01:43:41):
the twenty eighteen version, because of course that was on Peacock.
That's how they landed on the Elf. How the Grinch
stole Christmas two thousand, that was also on Peacock. It
ends with us. Is that the Is that the one
with the big court case going on? Yeah, that's I'm

(01:44:03):
not sure. Yeah, with Blake Lively and that other dude,
and it's like, yeah, four hundred million dollars court case
I'm supposed to care about, and I cannot like this
story would keep coming up with the new developments into story.
There's more. They don't like each other against my will.

(01:44:27):
It's like, I sorry, I'm not reading past this headline.
It won't happen, SERI. And then the dead no line
holdlone too. So the overall chart, who was the champion already,
who took all of it through the holidays, all of
it through the holidays was carry on? What? Yes, that's

(01:44:49):
that's how people wanted to spend their Christmas watching Intrigue
at the TSA counter at the airport.

Speaker 4 (01:44:56):
Yeah, one point nine billion that's watched, I k.

Speaker 1 (01:45:04):
Which in the history of our show and watching these things,
that's a relatively tame number. I gotta yeah, but I
gotta do the math anyway, No, I know, but while
you're counting, I will explain it in this fashion. I
believe it's because there was so much spread out, because
usually one, maybe two will be over a billion. But
we've got the top four broke a billion, including Bluie.

(01:45:29):
That should tell you, right, there, everybody was divided on
the streaming service. Can I watch carry on now? Thatt,
I'm on upisode four blows? Shut up guy and go
wrap my presents. That's kind of what was going on.
So yeah, everything got kind of so it was you
were rising tide lifting all boots. Okay, sure, as we

(01:45:50):
haven't done it in a while.

Speaker 4 (01:45:52):
As for you longtime listeners to the show, now, when
a number like one point nine billion minutes watched something
like that is just so ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
I have to do the math.

Speaker 4 (01:46:02):
If one person were to watch that consecutively, it would
take them three thousand, six hundred and fourteen years to
watch one point nine billion minutes of a TV.

Speaker 1 (01:46:14):
Show, plus ten minutes for a bathroom break.

Speaker 4 (01:46:20):
Yeah, and that's not once Netflix popping up asking if
you're still watching.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
Exactly, or or any buffering like you were watching the
Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight.

Speaker 4 (01:46:37):
Oh Jesus Christ, I don't think we gave that fiasco
the attention it deserved.

Speaker 1 (01:46:43):
I mean, we talked about it at length, but yeah,
I actually I think we did give it what it deserved.

Speaker 4 (01:46:49):
Very look, well, yeah, I mean we all agree that
Tyson through that fight.

Speaker 1 (01:46:54):
Right, yeah, I mean it happened, it took place, we
saw it, we disgusted brief, we moved on, as has
the world appropriate. All right, that's gonna do it for
this episode of the Culture Soup. So ordy once you'll
let everybody know where they can find more of you.

Speaker 4 (01:47:15):
Well, thanks for asking for right now. You can still
find me on X as ordnance packard. You can find
me yet It's the rule. If I'm unsuspended, I can
call it X. When I'm suspended again, I call it Twitter.

Speaker 1 (01:47:26):
You can find me. I'm off the rest of the week.

Speaker 4 (01:47:29):
Next week you can find me Tuesday night on Renk Course,
Steve's Manorama Show, Rumble YouTube and now rebroadcast on Calor.
And right here on X you can find me Wednesday
nights with Rick on Rick and already uh And next
week juxtaposition week you can find me and Rick again
diving into what is eventually going to be called news

(01:47:50):
if they keep releasing all the document compiracy theories.

Speaker 1 (01:47:55):
How about you, Brad?

Speaker 4 (01:47:55):
Where can people find more of your magnificence?

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
I available at town hall dot com daily. I covered
the media there with my column called Rift from the Headlines.
Also on the front page of Red State, where I've
got a twice weekly podcast called Libel Sources, where I
go a little further into the muck and meer of
the mainstream media. Also more on this network Next Thursday,
as mentioned, I'm going to be here with Paul Young

(01:48:20):
from screenerant dot com. He and I are going to
go through bad movies and bad Hollywood happenings on the
Disasters in the Making show. And then Tuesday evenings at
eight and a half, I'm here with the ever Efforbest
and Aggie Reekin giving you all sorts of relaxation options
from sports, cocktails, art, science, you name it, we find

(01:48:42):
it and try to tease your brain with it on
the cocktail lounge. And if you need more of me
than that Les's face that you do if you go
to jitter, I am at Martini Shark. All right already,
I think we're kicking off the ear in grand fashion here.
We are going to be looking forward to more news
coming out of Hollywood as things evolve and develop, and

(01:49:05):
we'll be back here in two weeks with more on
the culture shift. Hel Hydra.

Speaker 5 (01:49:12):
So after the sag out your death on your hip,
get on Dob surprise, you do end the bench mistake

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
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