The Cultures Shift w/ Brad and Ordy:

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Speaker 2 (00:31):
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Speaker 3 (00:56):
Good evening and happy Thursday to everybody out in k
l are in Land. This is your early introduction to
the weekend. It's the culture shift. How is everybody doing?
I'm Brad Slagger getting ready taking on a journey into
the business and backstreet sides of Hollywood. But not taking
this walk by myself, no, because joining me is always

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Every fortnight is America's most laser focused and digitized homish individual.
Ordi Packer. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Oh, you know the uh, the leaves are change in.
The weather's getting warmer and doing Indian summer. So of
course trees are fucking in my nose and chest because
they're getting cocky out.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
You're one of those? Are you affected by the trees?
Much like? Uh, you're basically kayla EN's Mark Wohlberg pretty much?

Speaker 4 (01:51):
Yeah, yeah, in every way imaginable.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Just a reference to the happening, one of my favorite
n night Shyamalan movies because it doesn't make a liquid
since But there you go. That's what we do here,
nuggets on you all the time on this program. Well,
we've got ourselves kind of a mixed bag this week.
We're uh, you know, we are basically a media show.
We cover quite a bit of the various mediums as

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they were, and I mean we got a little Broadway,
We've got a little bit of movies, some streaming news
of course, and also some general news media coverage too.
Because they've been rather busy this week, so I don't
even know.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
I wouldn't say they'd been busy because a lot of
them are getting pink slips.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well that's just uh yeah, I guess I should say
I've been busy covering what they are doing. That could
be part of it. But why don't we go to
one of our favorite topics of the year to start
things off? You know, we've what's that?

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I said, I'm with you, let's do it.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Oh okay, okay, because we were, you know, for quite
a while covering well, I can't really, I don't even
know if I can call it a career. I suppose
we could of Rachel Zegler, the actress Thusk me an
extraordinaire who took a slam dunk success of a franchise
that has snow white and managed to drive that into
a crater and leaves moldering wreckage for Disney. I mean,

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we have just covered extensively her Shenanigan's her talking her
PR disasters that she's just to put it in perspective,
she's been so bad and impactful on the business that
a producer I know has told me that not just
at his production studio but others they are writing language

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into their scripts now that if you do anything even
approaching this, you're going to be held accountable legally. So
that's how impressive her fiasco has been this year. Hollywood
is literally adjusting themselves to try to fend off this
kind of negative PR.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
Yeah, there was the stress and effect. There is now
the zigwar effect. So I in researching the show tonight,
I went on just to see because you know how
like IMDb, when there's a hot actress or you know
or even just you know whatever, any actress actor actress,
if they are in production on something and it is

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known it will say like untitled project or something like
that in there, meaning that they are working snow White's
the last entry for her.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, she's been basically plying her trade in the I
don't I guess it's on Broadway. They're going a reboot
of one of the shows that you know, Don't Cry
for Me, Argentina. That's basically her.

Speaker 4 (04:56):
Now, that's doing a vida.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
You know, it's just okay, go ahead and do that,
I suppose. But yeah, her movie career is not exactly igniting,
more like smoldering. In fact, I did a piece over
at town Hall back in my thick March of April,
just cataloging her movie catalog they you know, performance wise,

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and the only thing that you could point to as
a success is the ensemble action that everybody was in.
And you can't give her credit for anything else where.
She's centrist failure. Yeah. So yeah, she was in I
Think We're Catching Fire version of the franchise, and you know,

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made a couple hundred million dollars and oh yeah it
was a success. Okay, take her out of the movie
and nobody would notice.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Insert random actress and it does the same exactly.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Plug in a competent performer, and you would have no
difference in results. We say all of this because Rachel
Zegler herself is a disaster, fiasco, a pr nightmare by
all means, let's grant her Woman of the Year status. Yes,
this is what Glamour magazine actually did. They have her

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featured as one of their Women of the Year.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Because nothing says glamour like a hobgoblin and a dress
way too large.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah, a take a miserable personality and stick it into
the vessel that is basically Lord Farquhard right from Shrek,
and you have Woman of the Year. I guess.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
She is the epitome of housewife voodoo. She is the
avocado seed on toothpicks, that freaking bulbous head on a
body much too small.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm you know, I'm not prone to make fun of
people's appeers is, but I am feel free. You know,
I'm not judging. I'm bringing it up for this reason.
I'm looking for the appeal of this individual. What is
the draw? Because I guess she's got a good voice,

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I can grant her that much.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Probably, Okay, great, go to Va.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
But as far as charisma, screen presence, off camera, personality, promotion,
for product everywhere I turned with this individual, I just
don't get positives. What's why? How come? Huh? You know

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That's where I'm at. And so, yeah, she's not a knockout.
I mean she's not horrid looking, but I mean her
hairstyle looks just like Lord Farquhark.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
And we can't even blame Harvey Weinstein for her success.
It is completely untrackable.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Yeah, she's just like, I don't get it. You know,
why is she being foisted on the public as popular
as Oh, we got to put her in a movie
based on what not a track record? And I don't
see the demand for it, Like, who's clamoring for her?
And like you said, not only does she not have
any film credits in production right now, but you don't

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see her across social media. People you know, aren't fangirling her,
standing her account or anything of that nature like you
usually expect to see so.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Except form.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, and then Glamour magazine shows up and says, hey,
Rachel Zeggler woman of the Year.

Speaker 4 (08:58):
Well, she wasn't the only Rachel. There were two Rachel's.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, what's what's to put it in perspective? I guess
is the best way to say it. What's her character
on YouTube? Uh, it's like miss miss somebody.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
But basically it's a I've never even heard of her.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
It's a child performer. This woman basically puts on YouTube
videos for four year olds, Miss Rachel, I think is
her name? Is it?

Speaker 4 (09:30):
No, it is miss Rachel, But I don't know anything
about her beyond that.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Just to give you an indication of her level of status,
we were at a family costume party over the weekend.
We had about forty people in attendance. Half of it
were adults out in the backyard drinking heavily, and half
of it were two to five year olds dancing to
videos in the living room. And one woman showed up

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dressed as missus Rachel or Miss Rachel.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
Okay, and unless five year olds were zombie dancing, that's
not a very fun Halloween party.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
It was. But it was family too, you know. It
was one of the nephews, and he put out a
table that had all kinds of hard liquor and coolers
of beer. So we were in approval of that.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Well, sure, yeah, I'm in.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
We were in the backyard, we had the patio television
tuned into college football, and we can have just missed
the entire mayhem inside the house and we were perfectly
fine and happy. But yeah, she came out to the
backyard just for a while, and somebody even said, oh
my gosh, she is miss Rachel, Like what's your list name?
Oh my god, rid, She's totally famous on YouTube and
stuff like I was an idiot. I was like, okay,

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what she do? Well? You know she sings the children?
There are three, and you're mocking me for not knowing
who this is. Okay, I got it. I'll start dropping
names from the masthead of the New York Times and
see if you catch up, and then I'll call you stupid.
How about that? Because that's what I do. I don't

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watch children videos all day. But I wasn't too far
in my cups at the plate. There you go, But yeah,
this this is who they pick as a Woman of
a Year. Now to also put it in perspective for
this same issue, did you see what they did in
Great Britain? No, I missed that too, there they didn't,

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you know, also feature them because it's like it's kind
of like Times Person of the Year will actually feature
a couple dozen people and for the British issue Women
of the Year had nine individuals wearing t shirts that
said save the Dolls or some such, all of them

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trans women.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yes, yes, I actually saw JK. Rowings tweet about that
today that uh yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
The Women of the Year for Glamour nine men.

Speaker 4 (12:01):
Mmm, I'm yeah, that is a conquered country.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I mean, I'm just still amazed at how you know,
conservative people right of center, like ourselves, we're regarded, as
you know, hateful, sexist, misogynists, hate women, can't let women
have their own dignity and agency. And then and yet
here you are pimping out men when you're supposed to

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be highlighting powerful women. I'm at a loss. Sorry, don't
get it, but that's a sausage party.

Speaker 4 (12:37):
That's not what why the New Doctor didn't even last
two seasons.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
And you know, again, I hate to bring it up
all the time of how correct we actually are all
the time, but you know.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
Our prescience knows no bounds.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, actually, I got to check you there. Tonight. We
will have a little bit of an error on our part.
We'll get to that in a little while.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
I'll find a way to spend it to a positive.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Okay, good Your people sent them to the No, I.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
Know exactly what you're talking about, and you know what,
I'm actually kind of happy about that.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
All right. Yeah, we'll touch on that in a few moments.
That's how varied we are, and we're willing to admit
our faults at times the few times they happen. So
good luck, everybody. You've tuned into an episode where something
deeply rare will take place. We were wrong about something,
but not about Rachel Zegler. Damn train wreck, That's all
I gotta say. I just you know, and like, try

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to imagine a CHESSI system engine carrying four vehicle cars
behind it, going off a trestle into a deep gorge
and exploding into a fireball, and then they give that
individual train conductor of the Year. That's pretty much what

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we're looking at here.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, I mean, okay, it's akin to when Bizarre magazine
listed Nancy Reagan as the most beautiful woman in the
world once, maybe not as seventy five.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Well, you know.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
It is Bizarre magazine.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
So yeah, I'm I'm gonna reserve judgment again, I'm not
that prone to it, but I'm looking at just the
success rate. I'm looking at what got contributed to the
culture by Rachel Zeg What did you bring to us
as a nation, as a country, as an entertainment consuming public.

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She's pretty much known for one thing and one thing only, and.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
I'm trying to find in any way is she glamorous? Okay,
where will look if you want that to be the
look the look of glamory. You've got Idrey Plaza, You've
got Jesus Christ. I just drew a bike on her name.
She plays Wednesday Adams, Jenda Ortega. You know you've got

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there is that style out there. If that's the style
you want to promote as glamour, who has not set
their entire career on fire and then pissed on it?
Mm hmm. But that's just me, you know. I'm just
trying to figure out if that's what you want to
be as glamor, there are much better representations of it.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Yeah, really, I mean I'm kind of stuck as to
what they were going with. What are you highlighting here?
What are you pinning to the wall as far as
an accomplishment here, because again, looking this over, no work
in progress. Nothing she delivered of impact this year except
fiascos and disasters popularity, no demand. No, so what the

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what are you thinking? That's what I mean?

Speaker 4 (16:07):
Setting whatsoever? Did she have a mode of dress that
everybody started to mirror and copy. No, she brought nothing
to the table aside from setting a half billion dollars
on fire for Disney.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Yep, I mean she was not, uh you know, meme
bait in any capacity. We didn't see her featured in
fashion spreads or or rolling out products or promoting anything.
I mean a sheer loss.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Yeah, I mean, when I think Glamour's Woman of the Year,
I'm going to think of, like, you know, somebody who
just that year was an absolute tour to force, like
say Scarlett Johansson at the peak of Black Widow's popularity.
You know, where there was not you could when you
went into the supermarket, every fucking magazine had scar John Right, Okay,

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that's what That's what Glamour gives women of the Year two.
Not some hobgoblin who set a half billion dollars on fire.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
How about somebody that was successful in the public eye,
moving the cultural needle on a regular basis, promoting products
in a vastly successful fashion Sidney Sweeney. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Sure, Instead we got nine men and two Rachel's.

Speaker 3 (17:31):
So how how do we measure that? Rachel Ziegler Woman
of the Year. She gets this award alongside a YouTube
performer for four year olds and nine men in women's cosplay.
I'm sorry, I'm not looking at female royalty. Here is

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my points. No, just just laughable, lappable stuff. But there
we are. This is what this is what's being dropped
in our laps. Well, we've got man all places we
can go. What's on your head? What do you want
to touch on?

Speaker 4 (18:12):
You know what? Real quick going back to that, at
the peak of its popularity, Ruby Rose from cat Girl
our previous favorite topic or Batgirl, ourvious previous favorite topic
of all time before paramount, she could have moved the
needle and glamour. She was everywhere, you know, she had
a distinctive style, she had ability, she was everywhere, and

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uh yeah, that I could see. If you're going to
take a controversial figure.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
That was it. I have no idea what yeah, I mean,
at least you could say when Ruby Rose, at least
that you know, at the time she was she was
putting out products, she was talked about, you know, granted
she was appealing to kind of a niche crowd, but
nonetheless appealing to him popular as a result doing things,
showing up, seeing her. Okay, I get it. Maybe it's

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a stretch, but it's still okay. There's enough there for
some traction here. Forget about it. What are you doing?
Don't get it at all?

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Yeah? Yeah, so you know what, I think we got
to go with the time. We were kind of wrong,
sort of right, but kind of wrong.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Oh right, all right, why don't we do it? We'll
prostate ourselves and uh do some cultural sepachu. I guess
you could say, what was it about a week or
two ago we were discussing how Broadway was going through.
They were right on the precipice of a major strike
right before their hottest season of the year. Well, it

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looks like they've kind of resolved it. I guess the
Actors Guild now is in the process of voting to
approve the latest contracts. So it looks like the shows
will go on, as they like to say.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
One of those shows is debuting. It's as remakeer sorts.
What do they call it in Broadway? It's a revival?
There you go.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yes, Yes, it has debuted.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Yes, it's I don't think it's in its full slate schedule.
It's done a handful of shows. But we talked about
it recently, and that is the nineteen eighties production. I
can't call it because that's what we talked about last time.
Called Chess.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
And not familiar with the Broadway musical, then you are
absolutely familiar with the Murray Head song mm hmm that
that is from.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
And that's what we talked about was everybody pretty much
knows this song and nobody knows that it actually came
from a Broadway play that didn't last very long, did
not make much money, if any, and probably only turn
to profit. It was because of Albun sales. Thank you MTV, right,
And yeah, we pretty much mocked it and said, why

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on earth would you be bringing back, of all plays,
one that's deeply obscure and was not successful, Well, what
the hell do we know about Broadway or.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Do you absolutely nothing?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
So the new revival of Chess has done a limited
kind of like I guess, sneak preview performances, like about
nine shows or such, and is among the top grossing
plays on Broadway as we speak, pulled in a little
over one million in one week.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
Yeah, one point eighty six million, second only on Broadway
right now to the Lion King.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
I was about to say, Lion King has to be
number one, Yeah, because that has been number one for
almost a decade, I think.

Speaker 4 (21:49):
And if you want to know, if you want to
know what that means, the average ticket price in Broadway
is one hundred and eighty three dollars for the shitty seats. Wow.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
So don't get it. Yeah, I mean that's you know,
that's like basically a nineteen eighties rock and roll farewell
tour taking a price.

Speaker 4 (22:17):
That's what That's what you would spend for nosebleed seats
at you know, Springsteens playing a Madison or something, you know.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Yeah, I mean a hundred He's game. They're two hundred
dollars for ship seats at Broadway. Yeah. I just don't
get it. I mean I don't get musicals. I don't
get the appeal and all of it. So it's like,
what the hell? So, yeah, Chess has returned, and despite
our prognostication, it looks to be a hit.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Well. I don't want to say that we were wrong
so much as the fact that it perplexed us. You
have an absolute dog from teen eighty three. Hey, let's
uh renew that steaming turred and shove it on Broadway
just for secondary humiliation. I mean, if they were trying

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to prove a point, they proved the point. But I
don't think that that was the point. They were trying
to prove. Observe to stay dead. God damn it. Now
we're gonna do it for the next twenty years.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I almost wonder if somebody didn't hear our show he
was like, you know what, let's put the screw to
the just do assholes. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Yeah, these fuckers always think they're right. Let's prove them wrong.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
So well, I'll fall on the sword and say I
was wrong about Broadway. How about that?

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Okay, we got Broadway wrong.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
I think I'll be able to sleep. Just find the night.
Oh shucks, I missed on the level.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Since I kind of alluded to it, we've got to
do the the Springsteen story.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yep, yep, Well you mentioned it, so it makes for
grand segue right there. So last weekend in movie theaters,
this one I guess I could see you know, hot
off of the biopic that came out last year about

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I guess it was popular or was it I should
probably look at them box office on that one. But
it's just kind of a mystery about biopic about music
stars in movie theaters. This one is about Bruce Springsteen.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
I'm just not sure of the demand for this because
you know, people will like the music, people will go
to a concert and see the show. Do they really
want to see his life story?

Speaker 4 (24:59):
The Door did great, you know, Obamba did great, So
why wouldn't Springsteen crush it? Well? Because right now most
of the Springsteen fans are at No King's rallies making
sure not to break their hip.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Quite possibly, so this is called yeah, yeah, I'm.

Speaker 4 (25:34):
Just it's a it's a biopic about the crafting of
the nineteen eighty two album Nebraska. You know that Born
in the US and When the Holy Ea Street Band,
and you know it's based on Warren z Aane's book.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Right, pretty much you're not familiar with Nebraska. He at
the height, like basically when Born in the USA was exploding,
he made an entire album that was acoustic. It was
pretty much just him a guitar and harmonica, cut tracks
himself on the cheap put it out there. He had

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he had one hit from the album it was Atlantic
City m hm, catch enough, kind of a ballad of sorts.
But it was just, you know, it's kind of like
a sign post in his past. It wasn't deeply significant
and successful. It's just like, well, I love Born Usa,
I'm gonna love this, and people listen to it and
we're like, whoa, this is like completely different.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
But it's like Eddie Vedder when he's unplugged, and I.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Don't like that. So this is all about that period.
But we knew about all this already. We pretty much
came down his road. And plus the book came out
and people that cared about it read the book. Did
they really need to go out and watch again?

Speaker 4 (26:57):
You know some people are visual learners, Brad, I get that.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Yeah, I suppose. I suppose so. But wasn't that big
a hit. It wasn't a hit at all. In fact,
they were pretty much is it being positioned as Oscar bait?
Let's just face it. Sure, they're come out of the
Toronto Film Festival and now they're releasing it just now,

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so perfectly timed for it. It's got Jeremy Allen White
in the lead. He's the guy from the TV show
the Bear if you're unfamiliar with the name. Yeah, so
it didn't do what anybody expected. They were looking at
it twelve to fifteen million opening last weekend. Right, that's

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a very a modest opening, and yet a wide window
to hit a number in relation to the figure. Usually,
if you see like a three to five million dollar swing,
it's in the upper strata. When superhero movies, this could
make sense.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Eight million, that's when you're yeah, that's when you're guessing
a fifty to eighty million dollar run, not a twelve
million dollar run.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
And so yeah, so they were kind of already indicating
they didn't know what this would do. Part of it also,
is that anything geared right now towards an adult audience,
and I'm talking thirty and up. Let's just say, you know, dramas, romances,
they're really not doing much business at all. No, I mean,

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anything that comes out now is just going to die
on the vine. So this movie they were looking at
twelve to fifteen opening weekend eight point eight million.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
So I did the math on that one, Brad, Oh.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
You know much, I hate math, but go ahead.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
I know usually it's a Sunday thing, but for this one,
I did the math. Eight point eight million dollars opening
weekend open at now take the average ticket price of
sixteen dollars and eight centence nationwide. This opened on thirty

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four hundred screens, meaning the opening weekend a total of
one hundred and twenty five people per screen saw it.
Pack in the house.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
This one is, yeah, one that would be divided among
Let's see, once you probably three to four showings on Friday,
let's say six on a Saturday, five maybe four on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
So that's you had no trouble getting a ticket on fandango.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
We're pretty much looking at about an average of ten
people per viewing per theater. You know, Uh no, I don't.
Actually the budget was I don't see it off hand.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Five million?

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Whoa really?

Speaker 4 (30:07):
Yeah wow, I mean they just throw money at ship
for but yeah, no, I went off I went off
script to look that up because I was curious when
I was doing the math.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah, so this thing needs to clear about one hundred
to a buck ten million to start breaking even.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Not yet, I mean even even well globally Right now,
after six days, it has made domestic and global combined
eighteen million.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, barely eking out what they expected on an opening
weekend domestic Yikes, not a big draw. I'm just gonna say.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
No, not a lot of buzz about this one because
I knew it was being made. I forgot it existed
until you dropped it in the rundown thing we're going
to talk about.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yeah, it was. It was really one of these movies.
Was kind of chatted up pretty heavy in the press
ahead of the release. And then I noticed on like
Monday or tuesdays like, wait did that come out? This?
I haven't heard a damn thing about it, and nobody wanted.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
To touch it.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah, And it's like that sounds like it didn't work,
and so kay, I think better. Well, I'll tell you
what they were probably thinking here was they wanted something
like the one that came out on a year ago,
a complete unknown Bob Dylan. Yeah, and that one basically

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did its job. It was touted his Oscar bait, pulled
in globally about one forty mil and Yah, probably turned
a profit, got some Oscar buzz, if not Oscar wins,
you know that kind of thing. So it was just
enough to pimp it out and keep it rolling, keep
it going. It probably showed into March and enough people

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went and saw it. I guess Disney was kind of
hoping for that here. It feels just like that.

Speaker 4 (32:19):
They probably could have just gone with Menudo and done better.
Keep it in house Disney.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
With something like Menudo Vampire Hunters, put it on Netflix,
roll it in the theaters.

Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, put it out on Disney Plus nobody will watch it.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Yesh. Well, let's see we could all Why don't we
bounce over to streaming because this one kind of fascinates me.
This one really just fits our milieu that we do
on this show, which is the popular stuff, but the
business side and what goes on behind the scenes at
the same time and involves what seems to be our

(32:57):
latest batgirl inclination on the program, and that would be
sky Dance Paramount. Yeah, got a lot going on with
these guys this week, but this this news just jaw
dropped me when I saw it. Taylor Sheridan, if you
don't know the man by name or by face, you
definitely definitely know him by product.

Speaker 4 (33:21):
Right. He's the creative Yeah, he's the creative forest behind
Yellowstone nineteen twenty three, Tulsa Kings, Special Ops, Lioness.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Just he is land Man.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Yeah, land Man, he's he is the new JJ Abrams
when it comes to just being fucking everywhere. Well, JJ
Abrams was in two thousand. Taylor Sheridan is now.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
But and like one of the executives had said, the
guy's got a perfect track runner, I got a hard
time arguing with that. This guy's gold I wouldn't look.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Yeah, no, I mean he is the goose that lade
the golden egg.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
And uh you know again, you know, like Landman came
out Home Run, there was this stat in there that
just with Yellowstone alone, Paramount Plus has counted eighty million.
That's eight zero million subscribers just for the program. Yeah,

(34:28):
I mean, yeah, that is significant beyond words. They pretty
much spelled it out and they said paramount is two things,
NFL football and Taylor Sheridan.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
And really bad.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
Well they don't want you to bring that up actually
already think.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yeah, remember that was there big way when Remember when
Paramount Plus launched, their whole splash page was all the
new track and now you're hard pressed to find it.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Oh yeah, they're they're TV commercials. You can see the
old stuff and this brand new TV show that we've
created just for streaming. Come here and see it, all,
you trekkies, and then they're like this sucks.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
Yeah we don't want to so no, well.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
But yeah, Taylor Sheridan has just been unhittable when it
comes to this. I mean, he puts it out there
and it's gonna make it. Then the news came out
he's leaving Paramount sky Dance m HM signed a new
agreement with NBC Peacock and I love this where they

(35:41):
they did say that it wasn't about the money, and
yet when they say this pretty much about the money.
So his current contract with Paramount was in the neighborhood
at two hundred million, eight the to scratch, you had
nothing to be bitching about. But yeah, he's going over

(36:05):
to NBC Universal now for one billion m. You're gonna
tell me an increase in salary by five is not
the factor?

Speaker 4 (36:16):
No, no, No, he's making eight hundred million at Paramount
right now?

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Oh is he? Okay, maybe I saw the old figures
or something.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
Yeah. No, he's started at two on Yellowstone, took off
and now that he's just farting out product. Yeah, you renegotiated.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Well, okay, my mistake. Then I was an error but
still a two hundred million jump is pretty damn significant
in and of itself. Yes, but apparently he's uh, he's
bristled with the arrival of the new management.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yes, and he's not getting along with Ellison.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Well, I don't even think it's that, you know, like
Ellison tried blowing as much smoke up as ass as
possible when they came over. Yes, he's untouchable with can
he's ours. Nothing's happening, He's not going anywhere. Problem is,
all the managers under Ellison are looking at every single

(37:15):
facet of Paramount CBS right now, including budgets, including how
things are filmed and such. And I guess Sheridan has
a bit of a reputation of I'm gonna go over
here and do this. Leave me alone until I'm done,
and give me that bunk check. Yeah, cover the costs

(37:36):
and I'll give you a product when I'm good and ready.
Right now, that's not an idle threat, because, like you said,
he just burps out quality left and right. I mean,
every time I turn around, it seems like there's an
announcement next from Taylor Sheridan. It's like, really, I was
watching something the other day on streaming. I guess one
of the ball games or hockey games, and a promo
came on for a horse competition reality show and there

(38:02):
he is pimpinged it. So he's like the producer and
everything because that's his gig. He's you know, he's a
branch and if you've seen him in Yellowstone, he's actually
on horseback and doing very calm placed training and such.
He's up there.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
He's got the sixty six sixty six ranch down Panhandle,
Texas and yeah, yeah, he's you know, he's the horse guy.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Yeah, he's uh, he's legit when it comes to that.
So so yeah, another shot he's doing. In other words,
and this is the part that crack me out because
I made it. Everybody's like, oh my god, I can't
believe he's laving in three.

Speaker 4 (38:41):
Years, right, Yeah, he doesn't actually start at NBC until
twenty twenty nine, I think.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
Yeah. Yeah, the contract currently is for three years with Paramount,
so yeah, he still has to deliver. And by the way,
Paramount gets to hang on to all the property too.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
So yeah, and here's my thing with that too, is
that I mean, okay, so one Ellison's trying to cut
cross all over the place, right, he's trying to he's
trying to write the ship at paramount. That's an eight
hundred dollars check. He doesn't have to write anymore. Eight
hundred million dollar check. He doesn't have to write anymore.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
My other thing of this is, do you really think
Sheridan's really going to be all in for the fifth
season of Tulsa King's you know? I mean? Or is
he kind of like handing that off, you know, handing
off his light work now? So right? And I mean,
and let's look at it like this too. Comcast isn't

(39:41):
foot in the bill at NBC anymore? Does NBC have
a billion dollars or are they just putting all of
their eggs into this basket?

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Well this, yeah, you know, it's the thing that be
devil's this entire streaming industry is that everybody wants to
throw money around. But the problem is nobody's made making money. Right.
If you're not Netflix, you're pretty much in the red.
I think Disney Plus maybe starting to get into the positive.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Not from what I saw from the last shareholders. But
Roku's in the black. Netflix is in the black.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Not so Loku doesn't really they don't. They don't do
new product too much. You know, they're not out there
delivering new series every other week and stuff like.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
That, right, right, But I mean of the streaming services.
You know, you said who's in the black. I mean, yeah,
they're not putting pumping out a whole bunch of original content.
But they are now for the first time in the black.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Right, and they're you know, credit their business model too,
operating on the cheap and it's a fast service. So
you've got advertising and then you know you've you've got
some money coming in. That's a good thing.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Hey, you know what, Roger Carman built an entire career
off that.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
I don't want to see named brand soda on set
craft services. You're fired, go get generic.

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Yeah, true. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, a gaffer just
left the can there. We're all shast to hear man.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Calm down, No, mister PIB, I want doctor Thunder or
you're fired.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Pretty much eight years of thunder school to be called
mister Thunder.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
So this is yeah, this is something that's gonna bear
watching down the road. It's not gonna happen anytime soon,
like we said. But yeah, yeah, the guy, I mean
the guy's just gold. Anything he puts out there is
just solid. So you've got to wonder how much his
catalog is gonna support Paramount after he's gone. They're just

(41:54):
gonna keep It'll be their office, I guess Yellowstone pretty much.

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Well, no, because Paramount's offices are moving.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah, it makes sense of that. But yeah, they're going
to Jersey.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Well, I mean this is what we talked about two
weeks ago when we were talking about you know, California
was a little too late with their tax credits and
you know, too little too late for to keep Hollywood
in Hollywood. So Paramount is moving to the UH eighteen
eighty eight UH studio grounds out in New Jersey. They're
occupying more than two hundred and eighty five thousand square

(42:35):
feet of studio space and production on a production campus there.

Speaker 3 (42:42):
That's I wonder if this is going to spearhead something. Uh.
We kind of kicked this around a little bit the
other night on the show with Aggie, and that is
this impending that they say mayoral race in which Zoran
mum He is poised to be the next mayor and

(43:05):
his entire platform basically is I'm going to soak the
rich so I can give everything away.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Right, which has always worked so well for everyone except
for Robinhood.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
I mean, he wants to provide free housing, free commuter rail,
be it the subway or buses, I mean state run
grocery stores, and I mean pretty much basically going to
roll out the golden carpet for everybody, according to him,

(43:40):
and the billionaires are going to fit the bill for
this thing. And like I said, Jersey ain't that far away,
and those people were smart. Now we're talking politicians, so
that's a long shot. But still I'd start adjusting policy
and acts, guidances and such and start luring everything out

(44:03):
of that city into my territory. That's a bridge across
a river away.

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Right, And well you know it's like you know, Paramount's
decision to move to Jersey partnering with eighteen eighty eight studios. Uh,
they receive tax credits up to forty percent on productions
for movies and TV see there.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
And.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
I mean, just imagine what production costs have to be
to shoot anything in New York City, right, And if
you can right away, yeah, I'd start definitely advertising heavy. Hey, billionaires,
we got all kinds of land here. We're not using.

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Yeah, yeah, just come on out to the pine dunes.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Well, I just wonder if yeah, I mean, if a
major studio like this is coming in and putting in
a massive footprint like that, that's gotta start drawing some
attention and work away, and and that's going to spark
a few ideas.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
That's got to Oh definitely. I mean maybe that's where
Marvel's moving Pinewood too. Who knows. Now they're going to
the UK, But wouldn't that be great off New Jersey
just became one giant Universal studios, you know, I mean
all the Garden state. Yeah, great if you're growing smokestacks,

(45:23):
but yeah, just pave it over and just make it
one giant Universal studios.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
I mean pretty much all they're really known for is
pollution and cows, so okay, Atlantic City whatever. But yeah,
I think they think they could be onto something. It'd
be interesting to see if paramount sparks that kind of
business migration, because if they end up electing this guy,
I can't believe they're on the verge of doing so,

(45:53):
but if they do, holy crap, you're gonna see hilarious
amounts of money moving out of that state immediately.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
Well, I know we don't do politics too much on this,
but you see what Tasantas did the other day. Hey, NYPD,
don't vote for him, but if you happen, if he
happens to win, we're giving you a five thousand dollars
signing bonus down here. Weather's nice, Come on.

Speaker 3 (46:19):
Down, Yeah, he's uh, he's good about that. He's been
he's been making those kind of overtures all the way
back since the pandemic. You know, when people were gonna
get fired if they didn't get an oculator or something.
He's like, hey, we got son and no requirement here.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Yeah, son and no jab. Come on down.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
We won't check your medical records.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Women in Miami Beach.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah. That That was one of the things that cracks
me up to this day. When Joy Reid said that
Ron DeSantis is trying to make Florida into Gilead with bikinis.
Okay you never seen the show, Joy.

Speaker 4 (47:04):
Well, not just that, that sounds like something that should
come with balloons.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
It's like you just painted a picture that's in complete
contradiction to the very handmade, stale nightmare you're trying to draw.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
They have never That's like the woman on Twitter today,
the author on Twitter today talking about how fast anti
fascist Tolkien was and the good folks of the Shired,
you know, the good folks of Middle Earth didn't have
borders them all. Have you even read the fucking books?
You your whole knowledge is half watching the theatrical release.

(47:40):
Because the Shire had this, this, this, this, the elves.
Nobody went abou about you. So yeah, no, they have
no idea what they're talking about. They just they've built
this fiction in their head.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
And well, I can go one better. Actually, I think
it was today somebody wrote about animal Farm that it's
an anti capitalist. Yes, anti capitalist, the anti Yeah, I'm sorry,
I was under the impression for three or four generations.

(48:13):
This was the epitome of an anti communist screed. But okay, no,
com wait capitalism, Oh sounds the same. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:26):
They start with saying, what are you.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Even trying to do with yourself?

Speaker 4 (48:32):
Yeah? This isn't the same guy who wrote Homage to Catalona,
which talked about the infighting between the socialists during the
Spanish Civil War. Yeah no, that's he absolutely wrote in
penned and anti Capitalists scree in nineteen eighty four. Have
you read the fucking book. I swear it's like, yeah,

(49:00):
are you just going by the movie that has Seth
Rogan in it where they did a disservice to it.

Speaker 3 (49:06):
I think that was called Sausage Press.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
No, they did Animal Farm, but yes, also yes.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Wait, Seth Rogan did Animal Form and I missed it.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
He voiced one of the pigs in Animal Farm.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
Holy crap, I gotta look for this. Yeah, you've gotta
you gotta hit me to these things earlier. What the hell?
Come on?

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Man? Should I thought you knew? I thought we even
talked about it on here because it did absolutely nothing. Wow,
it was one high off of a Accuda matat or
whatever the fuck.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
Well, this isn't all that sky Dance Paramount is going
through either. Now, well, do you want to take a
break here, because then we might be able to segue
into uh our media segment.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
Yeah, let's do that, all right, because this is a
hung out.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
We'll keep people on the edge of their seats and
on tenter hooks. How about that? All right, So we
will take about a three minute.

Speaker 4 (50:03):
We need the edge exactly.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
So grab your tub of popcorn and your soa hit
the lobby. We got free refills, and then back in
the seat in three minutes. As we got more on
the culture shift.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
Hits us down and time is fleeting. Madness takes its tall.
But listen closely, not.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
For very much longer.

Speaker 7 (50:39):
I've got to keep control.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
It's just a jump to the left.

Speaker 5 (51:17):
You it's a dreamy, my fantasy freely so you can't see.

Speaker 8 (51:48):
No, not at all.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
In another diamond shoe with boyaristick in shot well subluded,
I see your.

Speaker 6 (52:02):
Mind.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
You're into the times live.

Speaker 4 (52:07):
And nothing can never be the same.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
Mister startled sensation like.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
You're under city. That's well, I was talking down the street.
Have a thing, give me away.

Speaker 8 (52:34):
He shouldn't be.

Speaker 9 (52:37):
He had a big gas rig, a sad.

Speaker 8 (52:44):
Never just a jump to the next put your hands on.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Hippo, A'll ride and we are back on the culture shift.

(53:36):
So mm hmm. Yeah, that was a That was a
song that just countures up all kinds of memories, does
it not?

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Does it not? You know I've been talking about it
my thirty one days of Boyingo thread the uh. Danny
Elfman did a couple of songs for his brother's film
Forbidden Zone. In that movie, and if you haven't seen
Forbidden Zone, I saw it down in San Diego when
I was in college near the Museum of some place
near the Museum of Man, and they had a shadow

(54:04):
cast like Rocky Horror would do too, And Forbidden Zone
is a fantastic move. Every bit is fucking bizarre, even
more bizarre than a Rocky Horror. So, hey, I don't
know if you saw on Discord. I sent you the
link to the IMDb on the Animal Farm that came
out this year. Yeah, so basically, Seth Rogan plays Napoleon.

(54:29):
You've got Steve Bushimi, Woody Harrelson, Glenn Close, Andy Serkis,
Kiri and Kulkin, Kathleen Turp. Basically all your general Hollywood
comedies are in it. So it's no wonder I got,
you know, re reimagined. Wow, Yeah, it's it's yeah, it.

Speaker 3 (54:52):
Yes, and it was directed by Andy.

Speaker 4 (54:56):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
Huh does that mean it's all stop motion?

Speaker 4 (55:01):
It's cgi.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
All right, that makes sense probably, uh, yeah, they probably
did Mo Captain.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
It's like, yeah, it's like sausage fast but with animals.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
So going to have to I'm going to have to
explore this further. Well, as we were talking before the break,
we had sky Dance Paramount going through all the permutations
and other cost cutting maneuvers as usually seen when a
merger takes place. This is spreading over to CBS News.

(55:41):
They are not happy over there at all. They have
been I tell you, pretty much in a state of
distemper for the better part of October. What one of
the very first moves sky Dance did after taking over
paramount owner of CBS was buy out The Repress. This

(56:01):
is the news outlet that Barry Weiss, formerly of The
New York Times, started up.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
She was basically conservative Barry Weiss.

Speaker 3 (56:13):
To this day, I crack up that they call her that.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
Well, you know what, I like, I said, I have
both agreed with Barry and Barry Weiss and blasted her.
So she is actually a journalist I respect.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Yeah. I mean, if you know, if there's a journalist
out there that you are just one agree with every
single time, that's kind of there's something off there. There's
something wrong, and you know there's probably an object lesson
taking place right now too. Like for those people who
were just ardent devotees of Tucker Carlson, M Man, that

(56:52):
boy's gone off the reservation, hasn't He actually sat down
with Nick Foentes the other day and had a serious interview.
What in the hell are you doing?

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Yes, an ironically serious. But you know, the thing is
is that here here, Okay, here's my thing. I don't
think that you that Nick Fine should be deplatformed. I
think it's just the opposite. Let him speak. But when
you let him speak without pushback on anything, I'm not
saying you have to be hostile, but if you're just

(57:26):
asking questions, maybe ask some questions, not lead him into
another try anyway, enough about.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
That, challenge them, huh not? Like, man, you got some
good ideas, let's hear about them.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Nick, What was your most chanting thing about your anti semitism?

Speaker 3 (57:47):
If you were a tree, how antisemitic would that tree be? Right?
It's this is where Tucker's at. So yeah, that's that's
been going on. But Barry Wise was you know, for
years at the New York Times and kind of like
they would hold her up as like their quote conservative
reporter columnists. You know that is right, what they consider conservative,

(58:11):
we consider well, I don't want to punch her all
the time.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
Yeah, and she doesn't constantly offend me. Yeah, I agree
with probably a third of the things that of her opinions,
but I cannot discount her reporting.

Speaker 3 (58:32):
And so you know, every so often, while straddling the
political line, her foot would occasionally come in contact with
items on the right, and the millennial gen y crowd
at The New York Times found a color. Yes, she's
not a rock ribbed left winger. I feel unstafe.

Speaker 4 (58:56):
That was a comment. I feel unsafe I could.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Knowing she's here because this makes me feel unsafe in
my workplace. This is literally the kind of bullshit that
they would say because somebody disagreed or at least didn't
fall on their knees every time you had an opinion.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Yeah, I'm not going to rubber stamp your tenth article
about white male fragility this week.

Speaker 3 (59:24):
But this all took place around the time where Tom
Cotton dared write an editorial where he said, you know,
if people are burning cities down, it might be time
to send in the National Guard.

Speaker 4 (59:35):
Right.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
There was a wholesale revolt at The New York Times
that somebody dared express that opinion like a Republican sullied
their good fortune and name of the newspaper by saying,
I'm anti burning down cities.

Speaker 4 (59:52):
Right, We can't have that kind of hate.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
So this was the environment that basically saw I mean,
she ended up quitting, but it was pretty much, you know,
she couldn't take the hounding any longer from the kids,
so she went on and started her own thing, developed
that into a rather sizable and successful venture. CBS News
purchased The Free Press about six weeks ago for about

(01:00:18):
one hundred and fifty million, and in doing so elevated
Barry Wise too, chief executive editor of the News division. Yeah,
this has enraged anybody at CBS News. Hair set on,
fashion of.

Speaker 4 (01:00:37):
The teeth, the rending of the clothing, the pulling of
the hair. Face covered an ash.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
And this is not hyperbole either. The words coming out
of CBS News have been that hysterical. At one time,
she was trying to get a handle on the leak
coming out and that actually got reported by other news
outlets because people were leaking the fact that Barry Whites

(01:01:08):
was trying to stop the leaks from And then it
was about a week ago she sat down with the
staff of sixty minutes and ask them a question and
according to The New York Times, jaws hit the floor
and they were in stunned silence for up to a
minute before they could dare answer this offensive question, which was,

(01:01:34):
why do you guys think the general public thinks you're biased?
That was it, That was the question.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
That's yeah, and titled of you to ask such a question.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
Like I could see hands pressed to clavicles with a
gas being uttered when they heard this questions. These are
people that paint themselves as you know, we bravely go
out and slay the dragon and the buildings on fire.
We're the ones that rush in. And oh my god,

(01:02:11):
I can't believe she asked that question right in front
of us. It's like so offensive, I can't even Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:02:15):
We're out there swaying dragons. No, you're out there tilting windmills.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
So this is the kind of environment that's going on
at CBS News, and she is daring to take the
steps of moving the news division closer to the center
as far as coverage of the news, which is supposed
to be reporting of the facts, and she is pushing

(01:02:42):
a rock uphill with an entire staff on the other
side of the rock pushing down. Yikes. Well, yesterday the
news came out at CBS a massive amount of layoffs
have taken place.

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
Yeah, a thousand company ways I had just in the
news division alone.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Yes, So basically they're getting rid of a lot of redundancies,
such as the streaming services attached to the morning show
and the CBS Evening News.

Speaker 4 (01:03:15):
The things they are watching. How dare her get rid
of the plus content?

Speaker 3 (01:03:21):
Yes, and the you know, the streaming side that nobody's
actually streaming. We're going to get rid of that, gasp.
And also they're gutting the Saturday CBS Morning Show that
again nobody's watching, especially now that college football has begun,
just saying, fired their host as well as the producer.

(01:03:44):
And then they also got rid of what is effectively
called the DEI division, right, They they actually had a
offices set up specific leak to screen any news items
concerning marginalized groups. So that is so, arewellian you picked

(01:04:11):
the minority group, if you were reporting on them, it
had to get vetted through this division to ensure that
the coverage were fair and balanced and that proper language
was being used. Things like this and all the.

Speaker 4 (01:04:33):
Yeah, all the legacy news departments have these. So you know,
when we're on X and Twitter going you know why,
you know, why won't we ever know the motive behind
Charlie Kirk's assassin.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
We know it.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
Why aren't you know? Motive unknown? It's not, But that's
because it's already been filtered through these departments.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Yeah. They they called this the Race and Culture Unit,
and basic if a news item concerned let's say a
minority person of color lgbt PI individual, a transshooter, for instance,
they had to make sure that the even handedness and

(01:05:15):
the unoffensiveness was filtered out, that you use proper pronouns
in the reporting, and you don't say pregnant woman but
pregnant birth giving individual or whatever euphemism you're come up
with this week. Yeah, they've gutted that entire division.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
That's a shame.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
So we may actually see where they won't offensively say
that an individual giving birth as a woman. Yeah, that
nightmare is going towards.

Speaker 4 (01:05:51):
Or you know, I mean, rather than just say not
a Christian white man, they can.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
You know, but I mean this is probably the same
department too that whenever somebody does something offensive like, oh,
I don't know, random example, have a Nazi tattoo, mm hmm,
they'll take the machete off that letter D in front
of their name.

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
Yeah, yes, that seriously drops.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Yeah, he's uh, he's running for office. We we were
not even really sure what party. We didn't go that far.
We didn't have time. We had to get the story
because you know, we just know he's running, we're just
not sure for who. So lever get around here.

Speaker 4 (01:06:38):
It's famous for Nazi tattoos.

Speaker 3 (01:06:42):
So this this is absolutely driven people, bad shit insane
because this race and cultured unit was actually crafted during
the George Floyd riots. Yeah so this should tell you
exactly how effective and vital these offices are, not.

Speaker 4 (01:06:59):
Mostly peaceful the mostly peaceful protests.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
Yeah so this has gone. Of course, this is going
to be blamed on Barry White, even though I'm pretty
sure this was on the chopping block about a year
and a half ago when they started negotiating. It's like, yeah,
when we take over the news division, the people are gone.

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
I'm sorry. They start with yeah, yeah. It's it's the
kind of thing where you know, when Ellison showed up
the first day, goes, why are you still here? In fact,
not clear over the last year that your department would
be why are you still getting a paycheck here? You
should be at Peacock by now. Ms now whatever, not here.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
What Barry even did the Elon Musk things. She sent
out an email? So describe what it is you do here?

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
Yeah, what exactly it is what you say that you
do here, which I'm missing a lot of work. I
wouldn't say I'm missing it, Bob.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
I'm just I'm still laughing at the fact that people
that received this email and government were offended. Can you,
bethink is it that hard a question to answer? I mean,
it seems to me you should be able to dash
that off in thirty seconds while you're getting coffee. Okay,
I'm sorry you're offended. I think if you can't describe

(01:08:24):
your job duties, you just basically described your job is
not necessary just gonna say it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
You know, it's like that old Lewis Black bit. If
you can't describe what you do for a living in
one sentence, it's illegal.

Speaker 3 (01:08:44):
Well, I always say this to when I'm when I'm
governing news reports, and they always rely on experts. If
you're an individual whose title is more than three words,
you're not worth listening to, right, you know, if you're
a professor of gender dynamics and social schematics on an

(01:09:05):
Intel shut up. Already stop before you finish your title.
I'm done with you already. I have it.

Speaker 4 (01:09:12):
I have a degree in the decolonization of venture capital.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
Well, I actually am a PhD studied Masters with application
of the social underpinnings of the oppressive genocide. Done over.
Shut up.

Speaker 4 (01:09:34):
You know everybody talks about how Idiocracy was a documentary,
so is PCU exactly?

Speaker 3 (01:09:41):
Your business card should not have pages.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
Right if it gets if you got to go to
the back of it to actually get your phone number
an email address, I ain't calling you.

Speaker 3 (01:09:55):
But this is this is what is happened. The funny
thing is this is almost identical what NBC Who's did
about two weeks ago when they had some layoffs. Yeah,
they got rid of all of their gender identity or
racial identity offices. So again we were supposed to be
paralyzed by this news. Can you believe they got rid

(01:10:15):
of the people that cover POC issues, LGBT issues, the
transgender issue. And here I am saying I didn't even
know they had these all right.

Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
I mean, you know, with AI taken over coding, you
all pretty much better learn Nicole.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Yeah, it's.

Speaker 4 (01:10:35):
Millennials craved the minds.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
Let's just say this is a trend. And of course
the other explanation we're getting Barry Weiss is turning CBS
News into a mega news outlet.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
You know, shoulday by that they mean centrist.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Just uh, I just have to savor the hysteria.

Speaker 4 (01:10:58):
I it's it's like ambrosia, my friend, there's a nectar
from the gods. It is a gave on pancakes.

Speaker 3 (01:11:10):
There see, there you go. Now you paint some lovely pictures.
I like that. I do.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
I am the Bob Rouss mental images.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Well, let's see, we're else gifing. We go from here.
We've covered Broadway, we covered movies, cover the news.

Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
Uh, we're not telling the news we get. We got
a couple of news stories. We got to talk about
the Daily Mail.

Speaker 3 (01:11:29):
Oh yeah, oh no, the Times of London.

Speaker 4 (01:11:34):
Times of London. Sorry, there's a differ.

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Difference, Yeah, exactly, they have they have a different accent.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
The eyebrow.

Speaker 3 (01:11:45):
There's a bit of a gem of a story. I
had to just sink my teeth into today. A couple
of days ago, we did a piece at Red State
where Bill Deblasio reportedly said, uh, there's some quas critical
things about these are on bum Dami policies, and basically
he was saying, it's a bit of a pipe dream.

(01:12:06):
I don't think economically this is gonna work out. Doesn't
seem financially feasible. Things of this nature. I'm still supporting
the guy, but a bit of a pipe dream here,
I don't think it's gonna work. Headlines splashed across the media.
We picked up on it and I was like, oh cool,
I'm gonna use that in McCollum today, went back a
little while later to go pull it up. It's not there.

(01:12:28):
We took it down. What the hell? How did we
get this wrong? Well, we didn't. The story is and
I love it because it's layered, keeps developing. Yes, it's
onion like evolving, if you want to say so. This appeared,
as we said in the Times of London this interview,

(01:12:51):
and then within a few hours Times of London pulled
it down, spiked it entirely, not even with corrections or
editorial notes, just on didn't meet up to our editorial standards.
I always love when that that that's the qualifier. A
lot of times we came to find out just didn't
meet our editorial standards, and so we've taken the piece down.

(01:13:13):
It's like, okay, question where were your editors before published?
It's always my question, but there you go. Turns out
Build de Blasio came out and said, yeah, that article
an interview is complete bullshit. I didn't say any of
those things. I didn't even talk to this individual. I

(01:13:33):
didn't even speak to anybody at this paper. What the
hell you guys doing? And then they went, gulp, where'd
you get your information from?

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
Where'd you get these quotes from?

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
So they did a little finer research into this, came
to find out the story was that, uh oh, the
paper was duped by an impostor. The interview was a hoast.
We were duped. They totally vooledos. This guy claimed to
be Bill de Blasio. It's not our fault he did

(01:14:10):
it to us.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
But wait, there's more.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
That was yesterday, So two days ago, interview up, interview
down yesterday of it just got lige to us. News
comes out today from Semaphore. Turns out London, Uh, Times
of London actually did speak to Bill de Blasio, only

(01:14:41):
not the ex mayor of New York, but the international
wine importer business owner named Bill de Blasio from Long.

Speaker 4 (01:14:53):
Island, slightly different name. The entire interview was done over
a ring camera. God, I love that because the Bill
Depausio in question was not actually at home when the
reporter came a knock him. So I do love did
the Jude's answer. I didn't deceive him, I just didn't

(01:15:15):
correct him.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
So Semophore finds out there's another Bill de Blasio in
the New York area. They go to Long Island and
knock on the guy's door and he doesn't answer the door,
but he comes in his ring doorbell notice and says, hey,
what can I help you? Guys with I'm from Semaphore
like to do an interview. Guys like great, I'm on

(01:15:38):
my porch here in Florida, but we can. We can
do it here. So the entire interview is on the
ring camera. And he said I didn't trick him. I
didn't claim to be the mayor. This guy emailed me
asking me what I thought about the election.

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
I told him, right, I am a person of note.
I am an international wine broker in New York. It
is relevant to me.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
And I mean he had the whole email and he said,
here is it's like, you know, we just like to
pick a brain about the election. What are your opinions
about this policy? Do you think it's economically feasible? And
he's like, wow, no, I don't. In fact, I think
he gave him a full answer. Oh go ahead, Well
just he even said, at no point in time did

(01:16:32):
I tell them I was the former mayor, And at
no point in time did they ask if I was
the former mayor. So it never came up, right, Holy crap.

Speaker 4 (01:16:44):
So I I've got a bit of advice for Times
in London. Next time you want an interview with Bill Deblasio,
maybe go knocking on Warren Wilhelm Junior's door.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
Hmmm, well my question.

Speaker 4 (01:17:00):
That's Bill de Plasio's real name.

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
So I don't know how they don't already have his
office contact information on file.

Speaker 4 (01:17:10):
Yeah, it should be on speed dial.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
That's the kind of thing that you just walk out
and you go, hey, Steve, could you call up Bill
de Blasio for me? Uh, just tell him that this
is Joe Schmoe from the Times of London. Yeah, he'll
take the call.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
You should usually have a database, punch in a name,
everything will come up, office phone number, email, cell phone,
all of this.

Speaker 4 (01:17:38):
I love the reporter's answer too. I tried reaching him
through his website and he didn't reply. So, wait, you
just sent a blanket email out to every email service
Bill de Blasio at outlook, hotmail I find.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
You know. Yeah, if there's an underscore after Bill, that
should be a tip off. You know. Yeah, there's a
lot of characters after the name. Sometimes that's usually a ringer.
You know. Hm, maybe I should.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
Double xxx build of Blasio xxx.

Speaker 5 (01:18:10):
I.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
You know, and here I am thinking, why did you
even take the article down? Because technically it was ill accurate?

Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
Yes, it was an interview with Bill de Blasio.

Speaker 3 (01:18:19):
You know what you do?

Speaker 4 (01:18:20):
You add the correction and you say the Bill de
Blasio in this column is not the former mayor.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
Problem solved, Yeah, and then say, uh, despite this indiscrepancy,
he was one accurate in his assessment of this election, right.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Yeah, Andrew wondering while we're interviewing him. He is an
international winebroker who lives in Long Island.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
He is.

Speaker 4 (01:18:44):
Affected by the policies.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Of I can almost guarantee that after this interview got published,
this guy went out to the loading dock, reached into
a boxes and yanked out a bottle of champagne and
popped it, got.

Speaker 4 (01:18:58):
It got him.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
For a week. What's that?

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
We got some breaking news. Jeff's just dropped in the discord.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
Uh oh.

Speaker 4 (01:19:11):
Netflix is actively exploring bid to buy Warner Brothers. Netflix
has hired the same investment bank that advised sky Dance
on the purchase of Paramount.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
Holy hell, now that's kind of big because the whole
talk for the last month has been that sky Dance
Paramount I was looking into, Uh, take them over.

Speaker 4 (01:19:34):
It's gonna be it's gonna be a betting war that
we're gonna cover for the next year.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
My friend sounds Mark.

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
We're gonna be talking about this in July.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Still we have content.

Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
You.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
Here's the thing I love that Discovery Warner what two
years ago was it completed the merger? Three? Maybe? Yeah,
that's that's still fresh. I mean you're still taking plastic
afflm the office chairs.

Speaker 4 (01:20:02):
Seriously. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
Yeah, they've gone ahead and like hung the shingle for sale.

Speaker 4 (01:20:08):
I don't even think Zaslov has had Warner Brothers business
cards printed yet.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
Probably not. This is what I love, though, is if
you go to Brian Stelter's jitter feed right now, his
pin tweet talks about the sky Dance Paramount merger and
now this is urbanism taking place in the United States,
and he's referring to in Hungary. How all of the

(01:20:33):
oligarchs consolidated the news in favor of the leadership.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
God, I'm old enough to remember when everything in the
news industry was owned by a General Electric and Ted Turner.

Speaker 3 (01:20:45):
And it was just fine, wasn't it. Wait, I'm sorry.
Aren't those billionaire corporations running the news?

Speaker 4 (01:20:51):
Yes, I'm sorry, tATu. Remind me who it is you
worked for again. I know he colorized a bunch of
shit in the nineties, Turner.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Yeah, and then every call, you know, like Columbia used
to have the Coca Cola emblem right underneath the statue
when she's holding the.

Speaker 4 (01:21:10):
Torch and a Coca Cola company.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
We were all kind of cool with that, somehow, we
didn't mind.

Speaker 4 (01:21:17):
You know what ruined it all for everybody is when
Pepsi bought Taco bell so that way they'd have a
place to serve their drink.

Speaker 3 (01:21:26):
Oh that's.

Speaker 4 (01:21:29):
Because now we've got demolition Man saying pizza Hut instead
of Taco bell.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
I.

Speaker 3 (01:21:37):
Crack up, though, because Stelter is bad mouthing what's taking
place in this landscape while his own company itself is
a conglomerate and about to be taken over by some.

Speaker 4 (01:21:49):
Was it he fired for saying the exact same thing
before Zaslav took over.

Speaker 3 (01:21:56):
I don't know that he got fired for that or
just being competence? Could you have to kind of I'm
gonna lead on that, but it could be he's he's
like almost three times worse than he used to be
and is therefore five times more insignificant.

Speaker 4 (01:22:17):
Yeah, because it used to.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Be always have to cover him because he would always
be saying something. He was always in the feed. Now
it's like I have it's like, oh crap, I haven't
seen Stelter like a week. What's he up to? What
he had said? Something stupid? Sure enough has of course,
but yeah, he's become inconsequential really, which is amazing. I
mean he's still everywhere and try to be like can

(01:22:41):
I play guys? I want to sit on the panel too,
Can I be on your show? Can I do an interview?
And it's like I guess whatever, Yeah, just sit there,
wear pants please it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:53):
You know, for those of you who don't know and
I want to put everything into perspective about Brian Steller.
He's forty.

Speaker 3 (01:23:05):
I crag up every damn single time I get reminded
of that. It's like he's that much younger than me.
The guy looks like he should be my boss.

Speaker 4 (01:23:14):
Right, Seriously, he looks a bit like I mean now,
he looks a bit like Kingpin, but without all the
witty banter.

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
Well, it's really funny, is if you ever see photos
of him in college? No, that's when he was he
started TV newser that was his blog. Now it's an
independent website and such after he sold it and everything.
But back then in his dorm he looked like he
was forty, portly, already had the receding hairline. It was

(01:23:51):
just like if you had told me if it was
taken last year, out of be like, okay, yeah, I
get seen it.

Speaker 4 (01:23:56):
So he shows that look for historian Gray portrait. Hey, Jeff,
we got anybody behind us?

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
Now he's.

Speaker 4 (01:24:08):
Excellent.

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
Yeah. The only difference there with Stelter is that the
photo in his attic is getting thinner.

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
It's like the opposite of that Stephen King thing thicker.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
Well, what else we got, I don't know. We don't
pretty much.

Speaker 4 (01:24:26):
Oh, we know we I mean we've got well, I mean,
where are we at?

Speaker 3 (01:24:30):
Where we at? We're kind of all over the Yeah,
I was about to get into that. That cracks me up. Yeah,
they to Two days ago, new streaming subscription premium service
of CNN has gone live.

Speaker 4 (01:24:47):
Is this so open?

Speaker 3 (01:24:49):
I've I've only heard about it from CNN people touting it.
I've not heard anybody say, yeah, I got the new
service pretty good, or it sucks or I'm still working
through it to figure it out, and I've heard nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Hang on, what's the actual name of the service? I'm
just going to do it quick, see.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
That's what I'm saying. Even that's a question. I had to.
I had to do a light correction of Curtis hawk
Over at NewsBusters because he said, yeah, CNN's doing their
second attempt at streaming, and I was like, no, actually
it's their third. Last year, they were on HBO Max
for a while.

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
I do not have an actual Twitter account called CNN's streaming.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
I think it's launch of it's all access subscription streaming tier,
but that doesn't give us a name here coming under
the market or whether the discovery killed us CNN All Access.

Speaker 4 (01:25:54):
I guess okay, let's see.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
Seven bucks a month.

Speaker 4 (01:26:01):
Nope, they don't have an act. Huh, they don't have
an AT and putting in a CNN streaming service, all
you get is ruthless podcasts.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Sure, now that's funny.

Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
Yeah, so let's try CNN All Access.

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
Yeah, it's the interesting that it's not just popping up everywhere.
I'm not seeing banner ads for it, or pop ups
or anything of the sort.

Speaker 4 (01:26:31):
Three tweets for CNN all Access.

Speaker 3 (01:26:36):
I'm just gonna say this, as a former CNN Plus
Lifetime subscriber, I should get a free account.

Speaker 4 (01:26:44):
Yeah, I was gonna say absolutely. And an NFT Oh damn, yes,
those you don't remember the lifetime last time got an
n FT of the clips that CNN Plus played that day.

Speaker 3 (01:27:05):
Yeah, they were offering n f T s. I think
of the first ever opening in the history of cnoon
and a couple other historical.

Speaker 4 (01:27:13):
Clips like you know, wolf Bloods are hiding under a
desk and remember you gotta remember desert Storm for that one.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
That's what put Wolf on the map. Yes, but yeah,
this is the this is the third iteration.

Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
Now hiding under a desk and tel Aviv.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
I'm still trying to figure out that who's doing this,
because their ratings for the free service are falling through
the floor. I mean even now they are. They had
what was it last week? I looked at the figures
just ahead of this opening, and they from six o'clock

(01:27:59):
onward they don't have a single program that breaks half
a million total viewers. I think by ten o'clock their
primetime draws under four hundred thousand total. Not demo.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Well, I mean, in all fairness, not how many people
watch the trait in the Springsteen movie, but there.

Speaker 3 (01:28:25):
This is how bad it is. Take one show over
at Fox the Five, take their audience for one hour.
Take CNN from that point on all the way through midnight.
Add up their entire audience. It doesn't total up the
one hour of the Five.

Speaker 4 (01:28:43):
No, that's yes crushing it. You know, they're awfully fucking
smug for a bunch of people that nobody's actually watching.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
I'm just Stapper. Since his book came out early this year,
Expose of Joe Biden, Jake Tapper has lost like thirty
percent of his audience. And you would think this would
explode his numbers, right if it was so viable important, no. See.

Speaker 4 (01:29:14):
And the thing is, it's like, Okay, last time Trump
was president, CNN was doing well, even for being pulled
out of all the airports. They were doing better because
they were able to rage bait the whole time. Now
that we're in the second term and people saw, wow,
you know, after Biden, we really didn't have that bad

(01:29:36):
So nobody's mad. I mean, yeah, people, you know, you've
got the usual you know, screaming Mimi's on fucking Twitter.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
But you know, well, I think what happened was last
year after the debate when Joe Biden melted down live
on television. Everybody was like, wait a second, the president
been lying their ass off all this time about him. Yeah,
and nobody buys their bull crap any longer.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
All right, I mean you have to be you have
to just I mean okay. So it's like everybody who
watches the New Star Trek, yeah, or great example was
you know The Acolyte, where most of their ratings came
from YouTubers who were going to be the first strike
on agn it immediately after the show ended. There was

(01:30:25):
a whole cottage economy around that fucking TV show, and
it was just people who you know. I get nerd, rotic,
doom cock geeks and gamers. You know is they just
race to the fucking youtubes to record a video talking
about how absolutely bad it was. Whereas we we would
wait every other week and save up two episodes of Batgirl.

Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
We have discipline, We could control ourselves. We didn't feed
the monster. We just reported on it, crapping on everyone's head.
That's what we dissed, because we're professionals. You say that's
the way that works. Jeez. Well, we got to wrap
this up because I got to vacate my office. But
hit one last piece here. Bad news, Jeff, sorry to

(01:31:14):
say we will not have another season of Jeff walking
us through and hate watching Amazon's Lord of the Rings.
They've canceled the franchise over at Amazon Prime. You're kidding,
I did actually dropped this one. Oh yeah, right, that's

(01:31:37):
just for the video game. Oh is that?

Speaker 4 (01:31:43):
Yeah? Damn it? Sorry, Jeff, your burden continues.

Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
Yes, that show's not dead quite yet. I missed the
MMO part there.

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
It's not dead yet. I'm feeling better.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
Bring out your dad.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
You should be quite happy.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
Oh god?

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
Oh, so just rumors out there, but there has been
weeks that they are Disney Is for the fiftieth anniversary,
fucking world doing a four K upscaling, not AI upscaling,
but they're doing it from the original negatives and prints
of Star Wars and New Hope.

Speaker 3 (01:32:30):
They'll screw this up.

Speaker 4 (01:32:32):
I'm sure they will, but it finds out the original
theatrical release and not the uh remastered that George Lucas said,
you know what would make my magnum opus so much
better is if I just shoved a bunch of unnecessary
shit into it in every scene.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
I'm I'm hesitant on this because I'm pretty sure they'll
find a way to cgi gay droids something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:01):
I know they're gonna fuck it up, but and they're
doing all three of them, so they're gonna be Because
the last time we had the trilogy released based off
of the original theatrical release, it was copied off the
laser disc, which was already of bad quality.

Speaker 3 (01:33:19):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:33:21):
Yeah, so and that was in two thousand and six,
and it was bonus feature where you could watch the
original unmolested version.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
They yeah, they they have really just raped this course.

Speaker 4 (01:33:38):
They yeah, they they just looked at the Star Wars
library and said, Wow, I have never seen so many
dead hookers in my life.

Speaker 3 (01:33:50):
We need a bigger trunk.

Speaker 4 (01:33:53):
You get that reference, and I love you for it.
They were an epic In that scene.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
They are basically saying, you know, we've been unsuccessful with
everything we've tried on this, Let's go back to the
original and give them that. Gee you mean what the
people want? Right? How about that original thought?

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
Well, we're gonna absolutely molest it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
Geez. Yeah, I can't wait to see how they bastardize this.
All right, Well that's going to do it for this one.
But if we man, we flew through this one.

Speaker 4 (01:34:25):
Quick, yeah, this one big time, quick and all kids. Yeah,
streaming numbers real quick. I mean if you're curious, Oh no,
it's it's funny.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
So original series number one, Monster The Ed Gang Story
acquired number one, n c I S Shocker Movies number one,
Play Dirty Interesting number two. You think K Demon Hunters
will be doing better at Halloween, but overall Monster Wayward,
n cis Play Dirt, Lawn Order, K Pop Demon Hunters,

(01:35:02):
SpongeBob square Pants, Love Is Blind, Louie as Always, and
Bob's Burgers.

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
Wow, well, I also understand these are month old, so
it's not Halloween because.

Speaker 4 (01:35:13):
Well still, but I mean so K pop Demon Hunters
is number one for three months and then we finally
hit October and people are like.

Speaker 3 (01:35:21):
Nah, well it might bump again because I saw firsthand
the party I was at. I went in to get
some food. They had the movie on, and these kids
were shrieking every word of the songs in that thing.

Speaker 4 (01:35:37):
Of course they were yikes. And yes, minstent Charles, we
meant Andy jerkis.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
Don't besmirch that troll. Not Vincent. I'm talking about Andy.
He's actually a troll. He's a wee little guy, but
he's very good at what he does. Yes, he's all right,
Well that's gonna rap for this one. So Ordy, what's
your win? Foremast? Where can they find some more of
your content?

Speaker 8 (01:36:07):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:36:07):
You can find me on Twitter surprisingly still as Ordnance Packerd.
You can find me. I'm still working on my thirty
one days of Boingo. I've got today's and tomorrow's the
post and then done with that thought, you know what,
I think I'm gonna call an audible. I'm going to
put an extra one in and do my traditional goodbye
song on November first, You can find me on Juxtaposition

(01:36:30):
as we are still in October on Saturday night, where
we will be doing a panel show discussing cryptids. You
can find me Sunday on the Vincent Charles Project and hey,
I finally got it right once this week instead of
calling it Vincent Charles Experience. And then you can find
me on Tuesday on Manorama with Vincent Charles, Rick, Jeff

(01:36:50):
Hopefully and some random Canadian. Usually then it just circles
all around to do more of the same. How about you,
Where can people find all of your magnificence.

Speaker 3 (01:36:59):
Well, I'm covering the press on a daily basis over
at townhall dot Com with my media column called Rift
from the Headlines. I'm also on the front page of
Red States covering politics and the press and other important things.
And I got a twice weekly podcast there called Liable Sources,
going even deeper into the muck and meyer of the
outmoded media. And you can hear me on this network

(01:37:22):
more often. Next Thursday, it's going to be me and
Paul Young from screen Rant here on Thursdays where we
do bad movies on disasters in the making. Every Tuesday evening,
it's me with the ever effervescent Aggie Reekan on the
Cocktail Lounge bringing college football, drinking, sports, entertainment, you name it.
We come up with all kinds of diversions and crazy

(01:37:44):
news and what we can to have some fun and
diversions from the mayhem. And then if you need more
of me than that lists face it you do. If
you head over to Jitter, I am at Martini Shark.

Speaker 4 (01:37:55):
All right, you got there, my friend.

Speaker 3 (01:37:58):
Well, we are surprisingly seeing entertainment kick up. They're they're
delivering more of the goods. We're probably gonna have some
wicked information on the next show sequel. Come in goose
Bumps please, But that and more will be available here
in two weeks on the next episode of The Culture Shift.

Speaker 4 (01:38:23):
Go ahead them