Paramount, Bonta Settle WB Merger Issues, DC Dynamic Duo Cast, Daredevil BA Cancelled | THE TRUTH

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Yo, what's up, everybody? Welcome to... Welcome to an episode
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of The Truth here on Monday afternoon slash evening, depending
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on where you're at, maybe even morning, depending on where
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you're at in the world here. Appreciate y'all joining me
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live here to start off right off the bat, because
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there is so much we're getting into here today. For
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those who come in a little bit later, thank you
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so much. for coming in and joining me here tonight
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live on The Truth. You know, I try to endeavor
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to go live on Mondays. I don't always motivate myself
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to do it, but I try to do it. And today, definitely,
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with the massive news that dropped with the settlement talks
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apparently being settled for the WB merger between the 12
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state AGs led by California's AG Rob Bonta versus David
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Ellison and Paramount and what they're trying to do there
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to get the merger done. We will dive into the merger,
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dive into the specifics of the details. I have a
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PowerPoint presentation for you all to watch along with me
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and go along with me as we go through. And
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I'll also talk about how many of these things that
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are part of the deal are actually doable, actually actionable.
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And if this was a version of Rob Bonta caving...
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and Paramount getting what they wanted, or if this is
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really a good deal for the industry. I read my
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brother Jeff Snyder's breakdown of it. He's very pro-David Ellison.
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He will not hear anything negative about David Ellison. He
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won't hear it. He just believes in David Ellison so much.
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David Ellison is the god among men that it is
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impossible to talk to him rationally about this kind of
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thing because he is just so determined to believe this
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about David Ellison. I, of course, do not share his beliefs,
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and I think Jeff's a little bit self-serving in his
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belief of that, but it is Jeff, and he's allowed
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his opinion, and we will certainly discuss it on the
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hot mic later on this week. I tried to get
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him on to go live tonight for an emergency live episode,
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but he did not. He could not do it because
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he's got three screenings today. He did put out his newsletter.
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He did break a massive piece of news, which we
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will lead off this show with. But yeah, but the
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big news, we're definitely going to dive in, as I said,
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into the Ellison settlement deals here with Rob Bonta. We're
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also going to get into some rumored news about Star Wars,
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that they might have found their director for the Simon
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Kinberg trilogy, and that apparently Kinberg wasn't even a consideration
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to direct this trilogy. So that's interesting and kind of smart,
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to be honest with you. Um, we're also going to
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get into the new trailer for the misadventures of cliff
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boot that dropped early. And my reaction is up on
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the channel. If you guys want to watch my reaction
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as well, after the show is over, uh, we're also
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going to get into the daredevil born again news, which
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apparently came over the wire here on THR. I think
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Boris Kip broke the news that daredevil born again will
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not continue after season three. So it's effectively been canceled.
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because they are not going to go forward with season three. Apparently,
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no matter how well season three does, which I imagine
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is not going to do that well, judging from season
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one and season two and the diminishing numbers that are
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going on there, that maybe they saw the writing on
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the wall and were like, we got to get out
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of here. We'll see. We'll look at the particulars about
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the cancellation as well. And we'll get into some Resident
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Evil conversations about the box office. And we'll get into
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an Alan Richson story as well here. on the show
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but um just want to remind you all the stream
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lab super chats are open we will lead in with
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a couple of news stories before we get into the
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massive news story because i want to make sure that
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more people show up here before we dive into the
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big news story which is going to be the paramount
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rob bonta situation uh but i want to start off
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with this oh and also we're going to get into
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the ed sheeran stuff later on on the uh on
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the show as well in his quote-unquote apology but Let's
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get into this. This is breaking. Jeff just posted this
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on his newsletter. I'm going to put up the visuals
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and then read what he wrote in his newsletter here.
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The dynamic duo, the first animated feature from DC Studios,
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is finally starting to come together. According to Jeff, multiple
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sources tell him that Mason Thames, who you see there
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on the screen, who on the black phone will voice
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Dick Grayson, while Logan Kim from Ghostbusters Afterlife, Logan Kim
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will voice Jason Todd. Additionally, Marseille Martin from Black-ish will
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voice Barbara Gordon, who you see there on the screen,
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and Lee Pace will voice Red Hood 1. All those
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deals are closed. Steve Buscemi has an offer out to
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him to voice Red Hood 2. He also says there's
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another part of the story, one he'd rather label a, quote,
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hot rumor than an exclusive, but it is still very
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much in the air. And he says that he is
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being told that Chris Pine has an offer to play
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Batman in the dynamic duo. He's now reporting that Chris
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Pine is in talks. He doesn't even think his team
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is countered at this point. But even with the offer,
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I'm cautious that other actors are in the mix. But
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three sources of Jeff's have mentioned Chris Pine's name. And
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though DC may go in another direction, I felt compelled
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to share it, given that the rest of the names
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panned out. So there you go. Obviously, you look at
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this as a talented cast. Mason Thames really been enjoying
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his work as a young actor coming up. Not so
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familiar with Logan Kim. Or with Marzee Martin. I did
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see Logan Kim in Ghostbusters Afterlife. I enjoyed him in that.
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But didn't really stand out to me as someone who
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I necessarily would remember. Whereas Mason Thames in Black Phone
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certainly did. And I never watched Black-ish. So Marzee Martin,
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I don't know her too well. But I'm sure a
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lot of people like her work. Lee Pace. Lee Pace
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can't seem to walk away from comic books or superhero
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stuff at all. And why not? He's got a great voice,
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a great face, a great body. So bring him in
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to be a part of this. I think Lee is...
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currently in the Practical Magic 2 film that is out
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in theaters now. I think that's right. Yeah, Lee Pace.
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Buscemi is an interesting choice. A completely different voice, an
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older voice for Red Hood 2. I'm not familiar with
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Red Hood 1 or Red Hood 2, so maybe that
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is an older person. But Chris Pine in here as
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the voice of Bruce Wayne Batman would be really interesting. Again,
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Jeff is saying, that he has an offer, but he's
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not saying that he's in talks. It's just an offer,
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but there are other actors in the mix. So Chris
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Pine could be the choice. He's not saying Chris Pine
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is the choice, but I like the idea of Chris Pine.
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We enjoyed him as Peter Parker in the Spider-Verse movies.
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So why wouldn't it make sense for him to come
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in and do Bruce Wayne? He's got the deep voice.
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He's played Captain Kirk already. As I said, he stepped
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in and played Peter Parker, Spider-Man. So like, He has
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an experience taking on these iconic roles and doing them justice,
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whether on camera or behind a microphone. So I love
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the idea that Chris Pine would step in to voice
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Bruce Wayne slash Batman. Now the question becomes, is this
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the cast that will transfer over and do the live
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screen version of Batman Brave and the Bold? If you've
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watched Lanterns over the past weekend, spoiler alert, I guess,
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there was a reference to Batman and a particular bat
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signal that was in the show. And it made it
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feel like Batman is a contemporary of Green Lanterns, of
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the Green Lanterns, of Superman and everybody in 2026. So
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Batman is around in Gotham in 2026. So, which makes
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it curious that Carrie Kane has not brought it up once,
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considering she's from Gotham to Howl. that we've seen on screen.
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But James Gunn, remember at the beginning when his announcement
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and all that stuff, he said that whoever was voicing
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over these characters would end up playing them live action.
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Now that hasn't fully turned out to be the case
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because Clayface is obviously not the young actor who's playing
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him in the movie, is not the guy who was
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voicing him over. And that could have been a different Clayface.
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They might get away with that technicality there. But certainly
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we saw Frank Grillo, with him reprising his role there
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from Creature Commandos to live screen on Peacemaker Season 2
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with Rick Flagg Sr. So it is a possibility. So
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Chris Pine as Bruce Wayne slash the Batman is, to me,
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is exciting for Batman Brave and the Bold because I
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think Chris can walk that line between serious and humor.
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And certainly Brave and the Bold is a little more
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humor than your standard Batman stories. So I think that
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could be really interesting. And Mason Thames here as Dick Grayson,
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a little bit of an older approach to it. And
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Logan Kim as Jason Todd. I don't know how Logan
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Kim as Jason Todd will go over with people. It
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might work, might not work. We'll see. But I love
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the idea of these actors coming together to be a
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part of this thing. So what do you guys think?
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Do you like this idea? Do you think it makes sense?
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You like Chris Pine possibly? As the Batman slash Bruce Wayne,
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do you like Mason Thames as Dick Grayson? Is that
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a Dick Grayson you think about? And certainly Mason Thames
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is a little bit younger, so is this a younger
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Dick Grayson? That's the questions you have to ask yourself.
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Is this a younger Dick Grayson? Where are we going
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with Red Hood? One, Red Hood. Two, I don't know
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if I'd see Buscemi and Lee Pace reprising their roles
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on screen as much as I could totally see Chris Pine.
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I can see Chris Pine. I can see Mason Thames.
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I don't know if I see Logan Todd, Logan Kim
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rather necessarily. And Marseille Martin as Barbara Gordon. I mean,
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Jim Gordon is black in the Robert Pattinson Batman. So,
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I mean, are we, is this like, maybe even are
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we approaching the possibility of that Robert Pattinson will be
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the Batman and James Gunn, James Gunn's DCU now with
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this casting. It's, I mean, it's not unfair to speculate
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that that is a possibility. Or are they saying because
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Jim Gordon is black in the Batman, but that's not,
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you know, that's not, we haven't seen Jim Gordon in,
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in James Gunn's DCU yet. We've only seen him in
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Matt Reeves DCU. So is this a door that's possibly
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opening or is, Are we to assume that Jim Gordon
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will also be black in James Gunn's DC universe since
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Barbara Gordon is his daughter and will be in a
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voice character? But again, this is all speculation because it
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is voiceover versus live action. What's going to happen there?
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So we will see with all of that. Of course,
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Chris Pine just played Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman, but
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that's for a different version of uh, the DC universe and,
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and Momoa has shown, you know, jumping over from Aquaman
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to play Lobo, whether you like the movie or not,
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which is out on HBO max. Now it's, it's still
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possible to make that happen. So, um, and I imagine
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this means that we're not going to see Chris Pine
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in the new Star Trek stuff either, that maybe that,
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that is finally dead once and for all that cast.
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Maybe they come back for like a multiverse legends type
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of thing. Like we've seen Leonard Nimoy show up in
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there in the first Star Trek with, uh, Zachary Quinto
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playing that version of Spock. Maybe we see Chris Pine
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and the crew show up in some storyline in the
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movie Down the Road, where they bring all of them
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back together. So it could be interesting for sure. But
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of course, this is all dependent on what happens once
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this merger is officially locked down. And we'll get into
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that in just a little bit in our approach here,
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in our conversations here on the show. So For what
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Jeff writes here, who's it? Matt Reeves and Teresa Anderson,
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who's with Arthur Mintz. Their company, Swaybox, will handle the
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animation for the picture. Swaybox has pioneered an innovative approach
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to puppetry that is a hybrid of live action, motion capture,
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stop motion animation, and CG animation. Reeves and Anderson will produce.
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Matthew Aldrich, who wrote the initial draft of the script
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with revisions by 500 Days of Summer, Scott Neustadter and
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Michael H. Weber. The story will follow the friendship between
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Grayson and Todd and how it is tested by their
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diverging ideas for the future. So, yeah. So we'll see. Oh, right. Oh,
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was that her? Oh, that's right. That was her. Okay,
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so I'm reminded that Marzee Martin played a young version
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of Issa Rae And Little, which is a funny little comedy,
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pun intended, that came out a few years ago that
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I thought wasn't too bad. So that's your big news
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here that Jeff broke on his newsletter for the dynamic duo.
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So what do you guys think? You like this? Is
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it exciting to you? Do you like the idea of
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these actors coming in to play these roles? And would
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you like to see them transfer over and play these
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roles live action? Let me know down in the comment
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section or in the chat. Are you guys not hearing me? Okay.
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Audio sync issues. Are you hearing me? I hope you're
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hearing me. I've turned on everything. God, please tell me
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you're hearing me. Somebody tell me you're hearing me. I
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don't want to have gone on for 100 minutes and
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no one can hear me. Okay, good. I don't want
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to go on for 15 minutes. And no one can. Oh,
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is it quieter? Oh, maybe I need to turn up
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my overall voice. I don't know how to do these
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machines the way they do this. Maybe they're OK. All right. Sorry, Ed. Ed, Ed,
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you almost had a beer with us tomorrow night. You
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almost had a beer with you. You were all you
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were so close, Ed, to coming on to the show
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tomorrow night to have a beer with me and Winston A. Marshall.
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But in the end, the Jets couldn't get the job done.
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in overtime against the Eagles, sadly. So sorry about that
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for you, Ed. But yes, anyway, so that's how we
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start the show with that news. Let me know what
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you thought about it. I want to hear from you all.
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If you're watching later, let me know down in the
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comment section below. Do you like this choice? So, all right.
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Should we do one more story before we jump into things?
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I wonder if we should. Let me see here. We
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got 150 of you joining me live. Thank you so much.
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Appreciate you. Was hoping we'd get to 200 before I
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jumped into the big news story. So let me get
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to one more story. Yeah, maybe this is kind of
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the easiest one. Oh, wait, what's this? Oh, maybe we
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should attach this. Okay, so I'll attach this after the
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Star Wars story. So let's get into... Where is it?
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What do I have here? Oh, here we go. Yeah,
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let's get into this as kind of a fun story,
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but it doesn't have to take too much time. Resident
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Evil blew up at the box office, y'all. I mean,
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just absolutely blew up at the box office. Pulled in
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a major $ 108. 3 million worldwide, $ 60 million domestic, $ 48. 3 million overseas.
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That easily tops the $ 70 million worldwide start of Weapons
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last year to be Zack Kreger's biggest debut to date.
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The opening also beat Scream 7. Scream 7 for the
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second best start for a horror film worldwide this year.
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It's behind only Backrooms, which opened with $ 118 million. Overseas only,
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Resident Evil topped Backrooms, which debuted with $ 36. 7 million. The
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worldwide opening has also beaten the worldwide final gross of
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the original Resident Evil, which was $ 103 million, and the
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more recent 2021 failed reboot, Welcome to Raccoon City, which
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only opened at $ 42 million. The final chapter from 2016
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holds the highest total gross for the franchise with $ 312 million,
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half of which came from China. So Mila Jovovich must
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be a very, very rich lady to have made that
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much money off that movie, for God's sakes. Insane, insane.
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And Paul W.S. Anderson. But look, this is a great
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start for this movie. This is a fantastic beginning for
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that movie. Um, and I think this is a fan,
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a great thing overall for this kind of approach, which
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is 90 minutes in and out action packed, funny, great
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performance from Austin Abrams. I love the way the film
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builds from beginning. He's a kid who doesn't know what's happening.
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I'm not going to spoil. I'm just giving a quick
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little non-spoiler review. I love the fact that he's a
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kid or 20 year olds, 20 young twenties, whatever, who's
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working a job as a courier. He is on the
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phone with this girl. She tells him, you know, that
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they've got to make a big decision about something that's
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happened between them. He promises her he's going to go home.
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But then this woman offers him, a nurse offers him
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double his rate to deliver this particular thing. And that
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starts the journey. Right. And he tells his girlfriend that,
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you know, he's not coming home yet, that he's got
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to make this delivery. She doesn't understand it. She's mad
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at him. And so throughout the whole movie is that
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relationship coursing through the whole movie, his feelings for her,
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her calling him. And then as the movie gets crazier
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and crazier, I think Austin does an excellent job of
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being just a regular guy caught up in the madness
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of some infected, some virus rather that has gone crazy
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and infected. People are running around and some of the
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most horrific, gory, bloody, insane shit you've ever seen in
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a horror movie happens in this movie and gets progressively
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more and more insane and Austin has to rationalize what's
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happening more and more his character's name is Brian Brian
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has to rationalize everything that's happening here so he can
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at least function and deliver what he needs to deliver
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and yeah and the last half an hour of the
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movie absolutely goes full on bonkers and So that is
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like the divisive point. That's the refrigerator moment from like
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Indiana Jones, right? So people are either in or they're out.
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in or you're out. I was completely in and seeing
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it a second time, I was even more in. And
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I'm telling you, if I'm Kevin Feige, if I'm James Gunn,
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if James Gunn is going to stay, I'm immediately on
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the phone with Austin Abrams people and being like, what?
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how can I get this kid into my franchise? How
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can I get this guy to do something? He'd be
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a great X-Men depending on what role you want to
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line up for him. He'd be great in the DC universe,
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depending on what role you want to line up for him.
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I think there's a lot of places you could go
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with Austin Abrams. That could be a lot of fun. So,
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you know, this, I think this kid with this movie
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is kind of fully announced himself into people's eyes. And
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it'll be interesting to see what his next choice is
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or next role is after this. I don't mean ones
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he's already shot or ones he's already in production for.
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next because Zack, you know, he is arguably three for three.
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I know earlier this morning, Paul, PLD brought up on
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the show with Christian Harloff, PLD brought up that he
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had co-written a film and co-directed a film, but I
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don't really count that because he wasn't the full director
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for it. So the fact that he's the full director
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for these last three films, and they've done well at
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the box office, and each one progressively more than the other,
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I think speaks volumes. So Zach Greger, though, he said
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it was a very difficult situation. People put a lot
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of pressure on him, but clearly all the people who
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said like, you know, this doesn't feel like Really, Resident Evil,
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all of them didn't matter in the end because the
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movie made money. And the movie is successful, very well reviewed,
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and people like it. And so, listen, it's not saying
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that their opinions don't matter. I'm saying they didn't have
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an effect on the movie overall being successful. That's why
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they didn't matter. Their opinions matter to themselves and to
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their groups. But in the end, it doesn't matter to
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the movie because the movie made money and is being
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very well reviewed. So it isn't one of these things
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that's like a shitty movie that made a lot of money.
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It's actually being very well-reviewed, and it made a lot
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of money. So you're welcome to your feelings, of course,
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for people excited. A friend of mine who reached out
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to me and told me he didn't like the movie
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because he's a big Resident Evil fan, and he felt
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that it didn't fully get there. You obviously allowed your opinion.
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But in the end, the movie's made money, and I'm
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sure there'll be a sequel. But I think Zack made
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it clear that he wasn't going to come back and
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direct another franchise movie. So I don't know if that
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meant Resident Evil or if that means Eddie. franchise movie
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but i'm sure we'll find out as as things go
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along um which you know i'm very happy about so
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um let's see here the jackson dart is hurt already
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got hit as he threw it now grabbing his knee
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got hammered oh lord jackson dart is now out now
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oh boy cue cue the maga tears All right, let's
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get into it. We're 22 minutes into the show. Let's
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do it. So the big news of the day, of course,
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is that Rob Bonta, California Attorney General, man I respect
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very much, comes from parents who are big union fighters,
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represent unions and have fought for unions, worked his way
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up through the California legislature to become the Attorney General.
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He has been negotiating for quite some time to stop
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this merger from happening or to at least get some
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concessions from the Paramount side of things. And it seemed
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like he was very clear that he was not going
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to concede a lot of points in this whole situation.
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But there were stories over the weekend that settlement talks
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were happening with David Ellison, Paramount, and David Ellison. and
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Rob Bonta representing the 12 state AGs. And of course,
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Rob Bonta was having political pressure from Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra,
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and Karen Bass, the current LA mayor, though I don't
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think she's going to win the election coming up, to
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make a deal here. And Ellison had, of course, been
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threatening to move Paramount out of California. He had supposedly,
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I don't believe a word of it, supposedly been looking
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at real estate in Austin, Texas, or in Tennessee, in Franklin, Tennessee,
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and all of that. And Mark Ruffalo, representing the Stop
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the Merger people, came out very loudly and proudly saying,
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do not fold, do not give in, do not settle
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to their terms, settle and agree to their terms. But
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in the end, the settlement happened. And I think this
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means that the merger is going through. There are other
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people who want to stop the merger. Perhaps they have
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some legal clout to stop the merger from happening. But
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at this point, it was, it's very clear that this
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was the last hurdle to stop the merger from happening.
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And now it's going to go through probably, you know,
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I think Dave Adelson said today that in the next
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couple of weeks is when he wants to kind of
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solidify or lock this thing down once and for all. Yeah. Yeah.
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He says he's going to close it. He sent a
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memo out to his staff and said, quote, it's an
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exciting moment for our company, our industry. But he did
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say in the memo that there is still work ahead
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to get this deal across the finish line. He forecasted
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tentatively that it will close in the next two weeks.
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He addressed the troops, quote, unquote, after just a landmark
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settlement with attorneys generals of the 12 states. who had
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sued alongside with the WGA with each calling the merger
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illegal under antitrust law. And if you watched Rob Bonta's
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press conference today, he made it very clear that to
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him it wasn't about politics. It was about the antitrust situation.
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And certainly Rob Bonta had said and tweeted out in
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the past that for him looking at the situation, he
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felt that they had a very strong case on the
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antitrust side of things and they could have got the
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job done. And a lot of analysts felt like the
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states had a very strong case. Even if the whole
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world was settling and approving the merger, these 12 state
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AGs had legitimate cases they could have brought here. They
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could have dragged this thing out for quite some time.
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But a five-year consent decree was reached with the states
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and largely matched in WGA talks. that will require Paramount
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to make just a few concessions. And sadly, it does
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not include any structural remedies or asset sales. The $ 111
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billion merger will now bring CBS, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Plus
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with HBO, CNN, and HBO Max all under one roof.
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And remember, it came out over the weekend, maybe you
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guys don't know about this, that the foreign money 49.5%
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of the money being used to push through this merger
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come from Middle Eastern investors and companies from the Middle East.
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And the DOJ or whoever it was, I think it
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was the DOJ, approved this. Well, of course they did
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because Ellison is Trump's boy. And so that's going through.
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And of course, Trump has made overtures to the Middle
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East companies. Irregardless of what's going on with Iran, he
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received that jet, that Air Force One nonsense from Qatar,
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and then the stuff he's got going on there with
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Saudi Arabia. So just a lot of stuff, a lot
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of money is behind all of this stuff, which is
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really uncomfortable. But in the end, Rob Bonta did settle.
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Some people feel he caved. We'll get into the specifics
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and talk about them in just a second. But Bonta
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did say that people should not look at this as
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a blessing of the merger at all. And so he's
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saying basically they had to do this because what they
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did here was for the workers of California. That was
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Rob Bonta's comments on all of this. Let me see here.
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I want to make sure I get his quotes on
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all of this. Yeah. He detailed a list of items
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to which Paramount is committed. And we'll look at those
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items in just a second. Repeatedly, Bonta has emphasized in
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the past that only structural, not behavioral remedies would be
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deemed acceptable by the AGs. But in the end, there
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were no structural remedies. The closest thing he got to
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a structural remedy is a requirement in the consent decree
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that the companies negotiate pay TV deals as separate companies.
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And if they fail to adhere to that provision, During
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the five-year span of the agreement, they can be forced
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to sell off cable networks as punishment for this. So
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Bonta said, quote, the settlement is not a vote of
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support for this merger. It is not a blessing for
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the broader merger, which doesn't serve the economy or consumers well.
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He said it more bluntly, I don't think these companies
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should merge. And then he mentioned how his office had
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thwarted the merger of supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons and
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airlines Spirit and JetBlue. but he said that our way
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that conviction to go to court was that he works
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for the people of California and he had an obligation
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to help their, to help their situation. He said, I'd
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rather resolve the case in the boardroom rather than the courtroom.
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And that's what happened here. And he said that this,
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these settlement talks and this merger, the arrangement here is
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the opposite of Disney Fox and a framework that quote
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locks in a massive upside and Because a lot of
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people have pointed, including me, have pointed to the Disney-Fox
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merger and how the output decreased once the merger happened.
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Because Ellison and others have been saying that they're going
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to increase their output. So let's see. The company's promised. Right, right.
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We'll look at all that stuff. Okay. So let's look
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at the particulars. I've got this, as I said, as
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a bit of a PowerPoint presentation. I'll do a setup
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and then we'll get to everything. Derek, thanks so much
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for sending in your super chats. Thanks to Tim. Sim
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is in here as well. well. WV Grad, Alan Smithy, Cartoon.
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I will get to them in a little bit, but
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I want to lay out all of this and explain
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it for people maybe who don't 100% understand what is happening.
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Let's get to the first one. Here's the setup. Paramount Skydance,
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coalition of 12 state AGs led by California's Rob Bonta.
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and New York's Letitia James, who I love, settled the
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antitrust suit blocking the $ 110 to $ 111 billion WBD merger.
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The settlement clears the last hurdle before a scheduled March
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antitrust trial. And not only that, Paramount had faced a
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ticking clock because of an unclosed deal after October 1st
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was essentially going to cost them $ 7 million a day.
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We're about 10 days away from August 1st or October 1st.
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And the financial pressure drove a fast marathon weekend of negotiation. Um,
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so this is only a resolution of the antitrust claims.
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This is not a blessing of the merger. So Rob
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gave himself a little bit of, of like escape, escape
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hatch by saying, well, we resolved the antitrust stuff. So
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the annual film release commitment here. Now it's a five-year term.
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They are committed to release, not make release. This is
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a big deal. Release 30 films a year, 20 of
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them in wide release in years, one to two, and
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then 32 films. with 21 films wide released in years
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three through five. At least four independent films will be
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released every year. And if you watch Rob Bonta's press conference,
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he seemed to think that these independent films would be
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from voices that were underrepresented in our society. There is
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literally no guarantee that it'll be those films that are
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part of the independent films that get released every year.
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If they miss the number of 30 films released or
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32 films released in years three through five, they must
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divest of Miramax and pay a $ 30 million fee per
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missed film to union funds and NAG enforcement. This is
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the most concrete checkable term in the deal. Plausible numbers,
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but quote, wide release and independent are definitions that can
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be litigated. The pitfall when you compare them on WBD
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side of things is theatrical is shaky industry-wide. It's a
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bad slate year with delays and flops, which could trigger
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the Miramax clause almost by accident. The pitfall for the
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state AGs and the unions is that the released films
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does not mean films that are made or marketed well.
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And the compliance on paper versus good faith execution is
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the real gap to watch. And that's where I think
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when you look at all the terms of this deal,
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is where there's a lot of wiggle room that Bonta
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and the state AGs have and Paramount has. I think
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this deal in the end was about saving face for everybody,
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but Paramount comes out the winner in this deal. And
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to me, I look at Gavin Newsom, I look at
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Karen Bass, I look at Xavier Becerra, who's coming in,
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and I put the blame on them. Because I think
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Rob Bonta legitimately wanted to take this all the way
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to trial and fight for the people of California, fight
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for the businesses of California, fight for the below-the-line people,
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above-the-line people, and get a deal that was good for
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everybody and stop the Trump administration, through David Ellison, having
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control of CNN, which we'll get to their settlement deals
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on that. But that, to me, is what I believe here.
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So when I look at this, Gavin Newsom has lost
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my vote. Uh, I am, if I was in LA,
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I would certainly be voting against, um, Karen Bass. Uh,
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and I hope people see this, uh, because it's, uh,
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I think it's, um, what's her opponents, Maria opponents. Uh, yeah.
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Nithya Raman is again, was against the merger. So I
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encourage anyone listening to me right now who lives in
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Los Angeles to to vote for Nithya Raman over Karen
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Bass because she did not want the merger to go through.
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She wanted the merger to be looked at, analyzed, and
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she did not want to give even more power over
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the media to a Donald Trump sycophant in David Ellison.
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And we've seen with him and his DEI hire, Barry Weiss,
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and she is absolutely a DEI hire by the technical
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term that MAGA people love to use, DEI hire. She
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checks a box because she's a woman. She checks a
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box because she's a woman. Rather, she checks a box
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because she's from the LGBTQ community. And she's woefully underqualified
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to be in charge of CBS News. And you're seeing
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that reflected in the ratings numbers dropping significantly. for everything
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across the board, including 60 Minutes and fuck off with
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that idea of an NFL lead-in game. Shut the fuck
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up as an excuse. And across the board for the
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CBS Morning News, CBS News overall seen as an absolute
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train wreck under her guidance and her stopping anti-Trump stories
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from being put out there other than the one token
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anti-Trump story they had in 60 Minutes. about the pardons
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and paid-for pardons, which really doesn't affect Trump because the
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people paying for these pardons, how many Americans, everyday Americans,
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are really going to be in that position to worry
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about that? It's a safe one that only affects like
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1% of people or less than 1% of people in
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our country. The other ones, the ICE stuff, where they're
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deporting people to the separate countries, That report that she quashed,
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that was something that was going to affect communities and
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people within these communities. So they're being, they're being, she's
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being very technical about what stories she puts out there
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that are quote unquote anti-Trump stories. She's putting out the
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safe ones that don't really hurt him with everyday Americans.
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And that's a reason, there's a reason for that. It
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keeps her safe and it gives the veneer of fair
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and balanced. And so now, Allison is going to come
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in and be in charge of these... God knows who's...
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I think they're going to put Bari Weiss in charge
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of CNN as well. She's going to fucking shatter that
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network as well. Now, look, we'll get to the CNN
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stuff in just a second, but domestic production spent minimal
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additional $ 1. 5 billion. Well, actually, let's go back to this
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other slide, right? Again, 30 films in a year released.
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They could pick up... Sorry, they could pick up any...
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crap off the trash heap and put it out just
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to hit the numbers, hit the quotas of these numbers.
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But what's going to happen if there is a strike?
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What's going to happen if these movies start losing money
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that they're putting out there and they don't want to
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put out the money because they're going to have to
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spend money on marketing, spend money on all these other things?
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Will they hesitate to put out 30 films a year
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because they're going to lose money on the deal putting
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out 30 films a year? if those 30 films aren't
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making money and putting money back into the coffers of Paramount,
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why would you keep putting out stuff that's not going
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to make you money and then spending money to put
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it up? So in the end, this could really fuck
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Paramount financially. And I don't want Paramount to go away
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as a studio. That's the thing. All these people who
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support the merger are like, well, this is, I trust
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him to save movies and it's about saving movies and
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about bringing movies back. And yeah. And it's like, well,
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if you're forcing him to put out 30 movies a year,
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release them, then you are hitting a quota. And if
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those movies are not good and he's just forced to
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release them because there's 30 films a year and those tank,
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you're actually killing their ability to make more movies by
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making them more, putting them more in debt and making
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the company financially unviable. And that would be an issue
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for Paramount, and eventually Paramount will fold. So all the
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people banging their drums on David Ellison saving movies, by
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agreeing to this, it could be quite the opposite. Because
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people are assuming, well, they're going to put out 30
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films here, that's great. It doesn't mean that all 30
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of those films are going to be a success. Right?
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And so where is the bottom line in all of this? Eventually,
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and if they go on a bad run... As we
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see WB going through 12 months without a film that's
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made its money back, that could sink the studio because
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they're forced to put out 30 films and not all
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of them are going to be good. So it's an
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interesting situation. You think the anti-woke, anti-DI MAGA crowd who
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hates quotas in affirmative action would hate the idea of
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quotas here, but they're trumpeting this now. Now, domestic production spend,
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a minimum additional $ 1. 5 billion over five years above 2025 U.S.
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spend levels with a baseline 5% of production is domestic
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currently now. So that would increase the percentage. Federal tax
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credit of 20%. If it passes, the domestic total must
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hit 20%. That's production. 20% of production should be domestic
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in years one through two and 30% in years three
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through five if that federal tax credit gets pushed through
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which is not a guarantee 100%. And Bonta has said
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he's going to work to lift that cap. State credit
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in California and New York also passes. Threshold rises to
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40% if that happens. They have to hit a 40%
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of production that is domestic, which means films made here
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in the States. Because a lot of people, including me,
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were saying that, well, they built a production studio in England.
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So the idea of putting out 30 movies does not
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necessarily mean all 30 movies are going to be made
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in the United States or that a large percentage of
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them are going to be made in the United States.
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But this settlement term is essentially guaranteeing that anywhere from
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20% to 40%, depending on these federal tax credits for
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film get passed, should be made here in the States.
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If credits never pass, they only owe a flat $ 1. 5
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billion baseline, which is kind of a soft landing, which
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is what they were going to pay Warner Brothers anyway
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if the deal didn't go through, so they had already
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reserved that money for something. For the AGs, the pitfalls
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are the most ambitious tier, 40% is the least likely
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to ever trigger. Critics may call the escalator a mirage. Right.
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It's to make it seem as if, well, look, we're
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going to keep these things domestic. We're going to make
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these movies in the domestic way. They're going to be
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here in the States, but There's no guarantee that they're
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going to hit those numbers. And it all depends on
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this federal tax credit being passed. And who knows if
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they include, to save Ellison, if the GOP, because I
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think the Democrats are going to be in power, it
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seems pretty clear from the Senate and the House. So, well,
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maybe the House, but maybe not the Senate. But if
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they put qualifications on these tax credits, say, well, we're
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going to pass the tax credit, but Paramount does not
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have to hit these numbers, then what did you fucking negotiate?
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And so every term I'm bringing up is full of
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language that allows Paramount to get out of their responsibilities
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and language that allows the state AGs to say, well,
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we settled on this. Don't be mad at us. We
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settled on it. Rob Bonta kept saying, AG Rob Bonta
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kept saying, well, these are actionable through the courts. I
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think that's a smokescreen to make people feel good. Because
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we have seen a lot of courts, including the Supreme Court,
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siding with President Trump and his interests. And certainly he
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would want to protect David Ellison if he's going to
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muddy the waters of CNN. And so taking it to
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court doesn't necessarily mean you're going to get a positive result.
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And as we've seen from Trump and his people, they
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love to appeal a decision over and over and over
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and over again. Currently, right now, the DOJ is filing
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emergency appeals to stop the judge in a case there
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that Katie Fang, used to be MSNOW reporter, and she's
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her own independent reporter now, got a judge to agree
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to get the FBI to release their notes, their interview notes,
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with a 13-year-old girl who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault.
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Katie Fang, under the Freedom of Information Act, lobbied for that,
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went through court, And the judge said, yes, you should
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get the notes and decide if they can be released
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to Katie Fang for her to look at and do
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a report on. So what happens? The DOJ has been
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filing appeal after appeal after appeal, even though the judge
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is shooting out each of these appeals, to slow walk
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this thing. So you're going to tell me if Paramount
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doesn't hit one of these goals, that they're just going
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to go to court real quickly, get it done, and
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then Paramount's going to have to comply? Bullshit. They're going
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to slow walk this thing up until the end. And
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if they have to do multiple cases, so be it.
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Paramount has that in their coffers, in their legal coffers
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to use. So it's bullshit on that $ 1. 5 billion. The
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other element of this was an independent film fund and
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worker protections. An independent fund, $ 5 billion a year for
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five years, $ 25 million total to purchase independent films. a
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workforce fund of $ 47. 5 million over five years for displaced
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worker training career development. This is for people who lose
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their jobs because of this merger. And they must honor
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the existing CBAs and bargain in good faith going forward.
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The likelihood of this, high on the dollar commitments themselves, quote,
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good faith bargaining is a standard that's historically hard to enforce. Again,
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as I said, they have included language in these settlement
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talks that allow for Paramount to have wiggle room and
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the state AGs to have an ability to say, well,
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we negotiated this. They're the ones that are to kind
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of protect themselves from any bad press. Pitfall for the
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unions is that 47.5 million is split across likely thousands
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of displaced workers over five years. It isn't a huge
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per person number. So they're trying to wow you with
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that 47.5. But when you look at the amount of
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people who will be needed for that 47.5, It isn't
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that big of a number overall. And for Paramount, the
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post-merger consolidation usually means real layoffs. And this fund puts
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a price tag on paper trail on the cuts. So
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that's another thing that goes. They're going to want to
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avoid that. So there's a lot of financial penalties in
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the settlement that they've agreed to. So you know Paramount
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is going to do its damnedest to get out of
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paying any of those financial penalties. And they'll agree to
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any term, as they just did here with this stuff,
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just to get this stuff in motion. And then later on,
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they'll be able to play around with the numbers, play
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around with the good faith bargaining, and lobby for that
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in court with a mediator. And who knows, if they
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get the right judge or favorable judge, then the state
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AGs won't have a leg to stand on. Again, all
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of this stuff has very malleable terms attached to it
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that allows Paramount to get out of any of their commitments.
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The more you look at this deal, the more of
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a disappointing deal it is. And as I said, Gavin Newsom,
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Karen Bass, Xavier Becerra is coming in. They all own
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this deal. This isn't on Rob Bonta fully. This is
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on them for putting political pressure on Bonta to acquiesce
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and surrender. And because their knees started knocking about the
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bad press over losing jobs in LA or California, which
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was never going to happen, by the way, never. It
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was all a fucking bluff from Ellison. They were never
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going to move to Texas. They were never going to
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move to Tennessee. Fucking nonsense. It would have taken such
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a long time to do that. The administration would have
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turned over and put a stop to it. So it's
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utter nonsense. The cable negotiation restrictions now. Five years, Paramount
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Basic Cable, Warner Basic Cable channels negotiated independently, not bundled.
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This is the closest they came to a structural remedy.
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here by having them each negotiate their own terms. They
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must keep offering a free ad-supported streamer like Pluto TV
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at current quality service. Big fucking deal. And as noted here,
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this is a behavioral remedy, notably the kind Bonta originally
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said he didn't want, preferring structural divestitures. Yes, Bonta tweeted
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this out numerous times that he wanted structural remedies. The
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pitfalls here are that Bonta himself has called behavioral remedies, quote,
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weak and difficult to enforce. So the things he agreed to,
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are weak and difficult to enforce. He was saying about
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these things in the past. Bundled effective pricing could still
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happen informally. Absolutely. And the pitfall for Paramount WBD is
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running duplicate negotiating teams for five years cuts against the
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various synergies that justified the merger financially. Absolutely. Why, why,
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I mean... Under a merger, why would WB be able
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to negotiate separately and Paramount? Like, what does that get
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you except the illusion of independence? When both of them
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are negotiating terms that are supposed to be favorable to
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the Papa company, which is essentially going to be Paramount, Paramount, Skydance.
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And so you see that, and this is just, again,
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it's to fool you that all these terms and all
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these settlements are settlement deals mean massive penalties for paramount.
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And that's how Rob Bonta pitched in his press conference.
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I think he did his best to spin this as
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much as he could. I think he had political pressure
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to agree to these terms to a certain degree. Four
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States didn't want to go forward with this deal. Four States,
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including New York with Letitia James, who has gotten the
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best of Trump numerous times has not been indicted yet
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in that whole situation. They try to get her for, um,
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But in the end, they looked at the fact that
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if California was ready to settle, they didn't have the
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financial wherewithal to fight this thing. And that also happened
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with the Writers Guild. If you saw what they settled
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with for the merger, it's really peanuts what they settled
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for the WGA. And in the end, it brought them nothing.
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It really is not good. There's not much that they
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got in their settlement. But they essentially said, like, we
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couldn't keep funding this because the state of California was
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ready to settle. And we were getting some of our
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money from California to fund our lawsuit against the merger happening.
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And now we couldn't. So they had to settle in
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the end. So California carries a lot of the blame,
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in my opinion, for what happened here. And it's unfortunate.
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It's sad to fucking see it. Now let's get to
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the CNN part of thing, news editorial board and monitor.
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Apparently this is how they're going to solve the CNN
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issue and the CBS issue, which has been ridiculous to
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watch over the last few months, a new board to
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support CBS news and CNN's quote, continued editorial independence. Independent
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monitor appointed to oversee compliance with the whole agreement. Context,
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Paramount already paid Trump $ 16 million over 60 minutes edits,
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which was ridiculous. Hegseth publicly welcomed Ellison's CNN takeover. See, that's,
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and Trump even said it the other day, that CNN
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is going to be amazing and great in all of
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this stuff now that they're under new management. And editorial
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independence to me is the hardest term to enforce via
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consent decree and There's no hard number to check, unlike
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film counts or dollars, which is already difficult to check
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on both sides because we know how studios can be
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with their creative bookkeeping. To think that you will somehow
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have editorial independence, some phantom term like editorial independence is nonsense.
839
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The pitfall here for Paramount, if the board looks toothless
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or Ellison appointed, it becomes a talking point that undermines
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CNN and CBS's credibility further. But who fucking cares at
842
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that point? Pitfall AGs, this is where left-leaning critics, Booker Press,
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freedom groups already say the entitlement, the settlement doesn't go
844
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far enough, 100%. Because, right, it looks to, what's the
845
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point of bitching out Paramount's control of CNN with this editorial,
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this independent supposedly editorial board that will be made up
847
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of journalists, by the way, and is supposedly politically equal
848
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if they start to veer to the right and they
849
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start to elect people who are just like the January
850
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6th commission didn't want to have MAGA nut balls like
851
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Jim Jordan and Matt Gates and others who were there
852
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to simply poison the well with no desire to find
853
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the truth, absolutely zero. They were there just to blacken
854
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the water so that what came out of it of
855
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those January 6th commission, if they had allowed them to
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be on it, would have been nonsense and muddled stuff
857
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instead of the actual truth that we got out of
858
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those January 6th, that commission, right? And so essentially what
859
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you've done here is allowed the MAGA journalists, because there's
860
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no way Ellison doesn't pick people from OANN or hardcore,
861
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Laura Ingram possibly, or Sean Hannity to sit on this
862
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fucking board And we know that a lot, because they know,
863
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and we know, that a lot of liberal journalists are
864
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not fighters, you know, and they are kind of wussies.
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And this is where this all comes down to, for me,
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when you look at the settlement talks, all this kind
867
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of stuff, and I'm not calling Rob Bonta a wussy
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at all. I'm saying that overall, the settlement talks just reinforce,
869
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the settlement terms rather, reinforce what MAGA has felt about Democrats,
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about progressives, about liberals, is that we're a bunch of pussies.
871
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Excuse the term, wussies, I guess you would say, just
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to be fair, gender neutral. Wussies who can be easily
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pushed around, who don't like confrontation, who want to adhere
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to the rules all the time and want to do
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things the right way. And I think that's amazing, right?
876
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That's a good thing about a lot of progressives and liberals,
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regardless of what the right says, fuck them and their bullshit. Like,
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there's a lot of liberals, progressives who want to do
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the right thing, who want to adhere to the rules,
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who want to do positive good in the world and
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help their fellow man and fellow woman or fellow however
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they identify. But we have seen over the last few years,
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the last two years, how MAGA just steamrolls all the norms,
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steamrolls all the expectations, steamrolls all the stuff, and they
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have willing people who will excuse anything through false whataboutism equivalence,
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like we saw over the weekend, Steve Scalise going on
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Kristen Welker's show, or no, the ABC show this week
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on ABC, and saying about Trump banning the MSNOW and
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CNN and Politico from being in the press conferences. Well,
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Joe Biden banned 400 news agencies, and Jonathan Karl there,
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I mean, and Scalise knows better. He's lying through his
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fucking teeth and he knows he is. And that's the thing,
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the bad faith argument from MAGA all the time when
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it comes to this stuff. And Jonathan Karl had to
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say to him, it's not true. What you're saying is
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a lie. It is an absolute lie. These 400 people
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did not reapply for credentials. Biden never banned them. They
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didn't reapply for credentials. Okay, maybe they thought because they
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knew they were going to be turned down, they didn't reapply,
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but they didn't reapply for these credentials. only one reporter
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was banned, but that was for another issue. And that
902
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was a completely different situation. But see, they will push
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out these false equivalency narratives to fool their base and
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give them talking points to counter the legitimate factual narratives
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that are going on. And even today, tonight, I don't
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know if you guys know this, but Donald Trump launched
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Trump TV. This is now his own television network that
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is supposed to be countering the factual reporting from CNN, MSNOW, Politico,
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the New York Times, at times the Washington Post when
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Bezos is not looking, and these other news organizations that
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have called out the corruption, the back door, the back
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behind the scenes deals, the back room deals that they've
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been making. And now he's launching his own, essentially, state-run
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TV where Donald Trump will approve all the news that
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is being put out there. And it's only positive news.
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If it walks like a dictator, quacks like a dictator,
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talks like a dictator, and then acts like a dictator,
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that's what we're seeing. And I totally believe this is
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happening because he knows that he's going to get wiped
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out in the midterms. And so they're already starting a
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two-year plan to undercut everything the Democrats do once they
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come into power in the House, hopefully, and possibly in
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the Senate, by pushing stories to destroy them. As if
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Fox News doesn't already carry Trump's water, OANN doesn't already
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carry Trump's water, Newsmax doesn't already carry Trump's water. And
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now CBS is essentially carrying Trump's water. And now CNN
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will probably be carrying Trump's water. Now we need another
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state-run TV. This is what is madness to me. This
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is essentially state-run TV across numerous networks. Numerous networks. Shout
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out to Fox News, who today, along with other news agencies,
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refuse to broadcast Trump's press conference because they don't like
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the idea that Trump wants to ban news organizations from
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being in the White House. It's a violation of the
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First Amendment. Shout out to them. I'm a fair bounce.
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I call balls and strikes. I give credit to Fox
936
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News for joining that boycott of Trump's press conference today
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00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:03.070
that happened where Trump was talking into the air essentially
938
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because there was no microphone because none of the studios
939
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set up microphones for him. So it was just the
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00:57:09.230 --> 00:57:12.369
drone of whatever the vehicle, construction vehicle was behind him
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and you couldn't hear a fucking word he was saying.
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So to me, when I look at everything that's happening here,
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I think this is a dereliction of duty when you
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00:57:20.610 --> 00:57:23.789
look at the settlement talks. Like, yes, the antitrust stuff
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00:57:24.550 --> 00:57:27.969
was important. They could have won. But all these networks
946
00:57:28.010 --> 00:57:31.269
now being in control of not only Trump, remember what
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00:57:31.309 --> 00:57:35.250
I said earlier, 49.5% of the funding of this deal
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00:57:36.050 --> 00:57:42.159
is from Middle Eastern investors who will absolutely, absolutely warp
949
00:57:42.219 --> 00:57:44.409
the content of what is going to come out from
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00:57:44.650 --> 00:57:49.150
all of these networks and all of these film studios. Absolutely.
951
00:57:49.329 --> 00:57:52.829
Regardless of the bullshit that they say that they're not
952
00:57:52.869 --> 00:57:54.650
going to have a say in it. Who do you
953
00:57:54.809 --> 00:57:58.570
know that invests a significant amount of money into something? Goes,
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00:57:58.590 --> 00:58:01.000
you know, do whatever you fucking want. I don't give
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00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:02.519
a shit. I'm not, I don't care what you, you know,
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I'm not going to have an opinion on it. Do
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whatever your bullshit. They're absolutely going to want to push
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00:58:08.019 --> 00:58:11.570
their narratives through the content that they're making. The exact
959
00:58:11.610 --> 00:58:17.179
same things they accuse the liberals of doing or liberal Hollywood,
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00:58:17.199 --> 00:58:19.360
which was never liberal to begin with, let me just
961
00:58:19.400 --> 00:58:23.820
tell you. The exact same thing that they push about
962
00:58:24.159 --> 00:58:27.860
liberal Hollywood, they now are doing. Like everything with MAGA,
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00:58:28.179 --> 00:58:31.360
it is projection. I will accuse you of the thing
964
00:58:31.639 --> 00:58:35.400
I want to do so that I distract the general
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00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:40.219
populace to look at you while I do... what I
966
00:58:40.280 --> 00:58:42.409
accused you of doing. And then if you catch me
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00:58:42.469 --> 00:58:46.369
doing what I accused you of doing, I will claim
968
00:58:47.110 --> 00:58:51.269
that I'm doing this because you did that. So my, my,
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00:58:51.289 --> 00:58:54.050
the people who support me will go, well, yeah, that's right.
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00:58:54.130 --> 00:58:55.739
He's got a right to do that because you did
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it first. So he's got a right to do it.
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That's the nonsense game that they're playing. And the Democrats
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00:59:01.719 --> 00:59:05.780
get caught with their pants down all the time. And
974
00:59:05.960 --> 00:59:08.760
it is so frustrating to see that kind of thing. So,
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00:59:15.909 --> 00:59:18.510
of SAG, someone's asking about SAG. I thought I had
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this in here, but let me see if I've got
977
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this in here. I thought I had SAG's response to this.
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I'm sorry. We're taking care of a couple of dogs
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and they're very excitable right now and barking very loudly.
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So I apologize. The lady outlaw is out there with them.
981
00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:44.619
So maybe someone has come to pick them up. Possibly.
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I don't know. Let me see. Let me put this.
983
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I thought I had this. I guess I didn't add
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it to my photos. But I want to bring up
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Sag's response to this merger because someone is asking about it.
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Let me create this photo real quick and then put
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it up on the screen for you all to read
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with me. I suppose I could have gone to the
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Twitter thing, but I kind of just don't want to
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share screens right now. As I say that, I'm about
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to share a screen a little bit, but for sure.
992
01:00:16.550 --> 01:00:18.780
So here's what SAG said. Statement from the SAG after
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President Sean Astin, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan
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Crabtree Ireland regarding the Paramount Warner Brothers settlement. The sentiment
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01:00:25.449 --> 01:00:29.650
of the attorneys general antitrust lawsuit announced today addresses some
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01:00:29.789 --> 01:00:32.719
of our deep concerns about production levels and investment in U.S. production.
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01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:35.880
We thank California Attorney General Rob Bonta, New York Attorney
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01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:39.559
General Letitia James, and the other attorneys general for helping
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01:00:39.579 --> 01:00:41.760
to ensure our members' interests were part of the conversation.
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Their advocacy is deeply appreciated. This is very sweet words
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01:00:47.090 --> 01:00:49.849
and very political words. Thanks for having our voice in
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01:00:49.889 --> 01:00:53.289
the room. We really appreciate it. We will continue to
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approach our relationship with Paramount with professionalism and the intention
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01:00:55.969 --> 01:00:57.789
to work well together. We hope that the process of
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engaging with the attorneys general has impressed upon them. The
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fact that in addition to collective bargaining, our members rely
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01:01:03.679 --> 01:01:06.300
on the law to help protect our interests. These are
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the lowest standards that our employers must meet. All of
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the companies have the opportunity to exceed their legal obligations
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01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:15.039
and make additional efforts to ensure that our workplaces are
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01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:21.769
healthy and that employers honor our dignity. Very sweet words,
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01:01:22.230 --> 01:01:27.809
very democratic and liberal words, very kumbaya. Let's hold hands.
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01:01:27.849 --> 01:01:31.550
Let's reach across the aisle. Let's ignore the fact that
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01:01:31.610 --> 01:01:34.219
the aisle with their other hand, the person I'm holding
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01:01:34.260 --> 01:01:36.840
the eye, the hand of the person across the aisle
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01:01:37.300 --> 01:01:39.579
while they have a ax in their other hand to
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01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:42.340
cut my arm off. Let me ignore that. You know,
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01:01:42.420 --> 01:01:44.489
it's that nonsense. And look, they have to do it.
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01:01:44.519 --> 01:01:48.019
They're part of an organization. There are, conservatives and MAGA
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01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:50.679
actors in the SAG and they'd lose their minds if
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01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:55.050
they didn't issue a politically correct statement like this. But
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01:01:55.090 --> 01:01:58.690
you can see through this statement completely and how flaccid
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01:01:58.750 --> 01:02:02.170
it really is and how it says like, well, you know,
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01:02:02.869 --> 01:02:05.449
they can exceed things and we hope we work with
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01:02:05.510 --> 01:02:08.780
Paramount in good faith. It's all cover. It's all just cover.
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So that when Paramount fucks over actors with AI, which
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01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:16.630
they will, Paramount WB, fucks over production staff with AI,
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01:02:16.769 --> 01:02:20.889
which they fucking will to hit that quota, they can say, well,
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01:02:21.010 --> 01:02:24.519
we entered into good faith negotiations. Paramount fucked us over.
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It's Paramount who's the bad guy. And all of that
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01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:31.199
dialogue doesn't mean jack shit when you had a chance
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01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:34.300
to really bring them to their knees. And this is
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01:02:34.360 --> 01:02:36.320
what's frustrating about this whole thing in the end of
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01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:42.010
the day is California and these 12 state AGs had
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01:02:42.050 --> 01:02:44.349
the chance to bring Paramount to their fucking knees and
1036
01:02:45.099 --> 01:02:50.579
have them surrender CNN, and have them adhere to much
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01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:55.780
more strict structural remedies. But in the end, they gave
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01:02:55.940 --> 01:02:59.960
in to a loud, small minority of the public sentiment
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01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:06.599
that was getting attention. And they bought the bluff that
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01:03:06.699 --> 01:03:09.369
Paramount was going to leave California. He was never going
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01:03:09.389 --> 01:03:14.159
to leave California. And so it's so frustrating. Because this
1042
01:03:14.219 --> 01:03:17.969
is what's been happening now from universities to news organizations
1043
01:03:18.070 --> 01:03:23.710
to tech bros to human beings, to senators, to legislature,
1044
01:03:23.969 --> 01:03:29.929
representatives rather, to local politicians, to school boards, to fucking
1045
01:03:29.949 --> 01:03:34.469
heads of studio, man, and to AGs and to governors
1046
01:03:34.849 --> 01:03:39.429
and to mayors. That the second MAGA and the right
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01:03:39.469 --> 01:03:42.139
put pressure on them, they fold like a stack of
1048
01:03:42.340 --> 01:03:46.760
fucking cards, man. And you wonder why Democrats are turning
1049
01:03:46.880 --> 01:03:50.539
to socialism. You wonder why they're turning to the DSA
1050
01:03:51.139 --> 01:03:55.280
and electing candidates from the DSA because they're fucking tired
1051
01:03:56.239 --> 01:04:02.809
of weak needs, spineless, cowardly Democrats who talk a big game.
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01:04:04.030 --> 01:04:07.829
But when it's time to step up, they shit their
1053
01:04:07.869 --> 01:04:11.860
pants and fall over crying. That's what they're tired of, right?
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01:04:12.329 --> 01:04:17.250
We all watch, well, some of you watch sports. And
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01:04:17.289 --> 01:04:19.510
we know what it's like when someone talks a big
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01:04:19.550 --> 01:04:23.960
game and they get into that ring and they get destroyed.
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01:04:24.059 --> 01:04:28.039
Or they get onto that field and they get destroyed
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01:04:28.059 --> 01:04:32.239
when the pressure gets turned up. And that's what you
1059
01:04:32.280 --> 01:04:34.159
see here. And I don't mean Rob Bonta because I
1060
01:04:34.179 --> 01:04:36.059
think Rob wanted to go all the way to the end.
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01:04:36.119 --> 01:04:39.389
I respect Rob here. I think this is all about
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01:04:39.409 --> 01:04:42.909
the pressure, political pressure from Democrats in the state of
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01:04:42.949 --> 01:04:47.880
California who essentially forced Rob Bonta's hand to make these
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01:04:47.940 --> 01:04:51.480
settlement deals, the settlement deal here with Paramount and David Ellison.
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01:04:52.199 --> 01:04:54.699
And it's sad. It's sad because in the end, it's
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01:04:54.760 --> 01:04:57.869
not going to lead to the things it's supposed to
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01:04:57.929 --> 01:05:01.130
lead to. And I think there's a lot of, there's
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01:05:01.170 --> 01:05:03.510
way too much wiggle room for them to get out
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01:05:03.550 --> 01:05:08.989
of everything. You know, wide-release... He was mentioning that they
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01:05:09.030 --> 01:05:11.989
had to be tentpole picture, franchise pictures. 20% of them
1071
01:05:12.010 --> 01:05:14.710
had to be franchise pictures. How do you determine that?
1072
01:05:14.849 --> 01:05:22.019
All these terms are so open to interpretation, open to definition, right?
1073
01:05:22.139 --> 01:05:25.159
Independent film. What do you determine in independent film? Is
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01:05:25.219 --> 01:05:29.880
it like Star Wars? Is that an independent film? Because
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01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:33.099
George Lucas, the prequel, because George Lucas funded them all himself,
1076
01:05:33.659 --> 01:05:36.110
that qualifies as an independent film. So is that a
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01:05:36.139 --> 01:05:38.519
franchise film or is that an independent film? What is
1078
01:05:38.539 --> 01:05:42.440
that category for? What if these tech bros, what if
1079
01:05:42.460 --> 01:05:45.079
these MAGA tech bros wanted to make their own movies
1080
01:05:45.719 --> 01:05:48.579
that they funded themselves? That's an independent film. Guess what?
1081
01:05:48.900 --> 01:05:51.570
Paramount will happily put it out. You want to make
1082
01:05:51.610 --> 01:05:54.610
a movie full of propaganda that is a lie and
1083
01:05:54.889 --> 01:05:58.869
false truths about fake news about what happened in history?
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01:05:59.349 --> 01:06:01.929
Come on in and put the film in. Paramount will
1085
01:06:01.949 --> 01:06:04.929
distribute it. We got to do 30 films. So let's
1086
01:06:04.989 --> 01:06:08.889
put out this MAGA misinformation that warps people's minds. And
1087
01:06:08.909 --> 01:06:11.550
so this is the thing you look at. This is
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01:06:11.610 --> 01:06:15.599
not a good faith negotiation from Paramount's side of things.
1089
01:06:16.559 --> 01:06:21.480
Everything is malleable. Everything has wiggle room for them. And
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01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:23.980
they'll be able to get out of just about every
1091
01:06:24.539 --> 01:06:32.719
financial ramification through clever lawyering or clever arguments in court.
1092
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:40.440
or negotiations and or waiting out any resistance like they
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01:06:40.460 --> 01:06:43.519
did with this thing and then coming up with another
1094
01:06:43.539 --> 01:06:48.119
set of malleable terms to use to calm down the
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01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:51.420
resistance and settle and this is what you'll see for
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01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:53.409
this kind of thing when you look at the independent
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01:06:53.429 --> 01:06:56.010
film fund right 25 million dollars over five years is
1098
01:06:56.050 --> 01:06:59.909
a rounding error for a company this size good meaningful
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01:06:59.969 --> 01:07:02.590
is this a meaningful concession or a pr line item
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01:07:02.630 --> 01:07:05.269
and i say that this is a PR line item,
1101
01:07:05.909 --> 01:07:08.670
absolute PR line item. This idea of five million a
1102
01:07:08.670 --> 01:07:11.300
year for independent films to purchase independent films, they could
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01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:18.440
be purchasing all MAGA independent films, right? Rob Bonta's definition
1104
01:07:18.500 --> 01:07:21.539
of this and scenario that he presented, that it would
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01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:26.429
essentially mean underrepresented voices, there is no guarantee that Paramount
1106
01:07:26.469 --> 01:07:30.050
is going to buy five independent films or five million
1107
01:07:30.070 --> 01:07:32.599
a year for five years He's going to use that
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01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:35.940
$ 5 million to buy independent films that lean left or
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01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:39.900
lean liberal or lean towards understanding an underserved section of
1110
01:07:39.940 --> 01:07:43.179
our community. There's no guarantee. So you could be looking
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01:07:43.219 --> 01:07:47.050
at $ 5 million a year to make independent films that
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01:07:47.110 --> 01:07:50.389
push the MAGA false narratives. It could be the election,
1113
01:07:51.429 --> 01:07:53.530
the 2020 election, a film on the 2020 election that
1114
01:07:53.710 --> 01:07:59.440
absolutely lies to you about the steal that supposedly happened.
1115
01:08:01.619 --> 01:08:04.239
And with the workforce protection, right, the high on the
1116
01:08:04.260 --> 01:08:07.840
dollar commitment, murkier on the good faith bargaining, a standard
1117
01:08:07.860 --> 01:08:09.619
that's historically hard to work, and often ends up in
1118
01:08:09.780 --> 01:08:14.239
years later litigation. So again, these terms being as malleable
1119
01:08:14.300 --> 01:08:17.229
as they are allows Paramount to go to court with
1120
01:08:17.250 --> 01:08:19.470
all this stuff. And Bonta was pitching it like, we're
1121
01:08:19.489 --> 01:08:21.189
going to take him to court, like it's a big deal.
1122
01:08:21.250 --> 01:08:23.909
And Paramount's over here going, pitch, please take us to court.
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01:08:24.109 --> 01:08:26.510
We're ready to go to court. We know exactly how
1124
01:08:26.550 --> 01:08:30.090
to drag this out forever. There's no dirtier lawyer than
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01:08:30.100 --> 01:08:32.670
a lawyer that works for a fucking studio trying to
1126
01:08:32.710 --> 01:08:39.329
protect its interests. Um, uh, for the cable negotiations, they
1127
01:08:39.350 --> 01:08:43.470
already talked about that, uh, running duplicate negotiating teams for
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01:08:43.529 --> 01:08:46.890
five years cuts against the synergies that justified the merger. Absolutely.
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01:08:47.550 --> 01:08:52.390
The editorial independence board, as I mentioned already, um, A
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01:08:52.449 --> 01:08:54.960
voluntary board inside a company with that track record is
1131
01:08:54.979 --> 01:08:59.550
going to draw real skepticism from press freedom advocates. That's
1132
01:08:59.569 --> 01:09:06.899
a legitimate... journalistic critique, not just partisan noise. Editorial independence
1133
01:09:07.039 --> 01:09:10.430
isn't measurable the way a film account or dollar figure is.
1134
01:09:10.510 --> 01:09:12.710
This is the area where critics on the left are
1135
01:09:12.750 --> 01:09:14.470
already saying the settlement doesn't go far enough, which I
1136
01:09:14.529 --> 01:09:18.029
already said. Oh, and one last thing. One last PowerPoint
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01:09:18.090 --> 01:09:22.109
on the independent. Is the independent monitoring? Okay. No, I
1138
01:09:22.130 --> 01:09:23.770
guess I don't have this. So let me read this.
1139
01:09:23.810 --> 01:09:26.470
The independent monitoring of it all. An independent monitor is
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01:09:26.510 --> 01:09:29.939
appointed to oversee compliance with the entire agreement. So an
1141
01:09:30.069 --> 01:09:33.260
independent monitor. Who is going to appoint this, quote unquote,
1142
01:09:33.500 --> 01:09:37.399
independent monitor to oversee compliance with the entire agreement? And
1143
01:09:37.460 --> 01:09:40.359
you know that if they appoint someone who has any
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01:09:40.460 --> 01:09:45.500
history of agreeing with Democrats or liberals or progressives, They're
1145
01:09:45.539 --> 01:09:49.930
going to say every judgment they make is biased against
1146
01:09:50.109 --> 01:09:55.430
Ellison and Trump and MAGA. And they're going to pressure
1147
01:09:55.489 --> 01:09:58.710
this person out of the job. Right. People get doxed
1148
01:09:58.829 --> 01:10:00.829
all the time once they come into the crosshairs of
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01:10:00.869 --> 01:10:03.550
the right. And so I would not be surprised that
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01:10:03.560 --> 01:10:08.029
this independent– and who wants this job to subject themselves
1151
01:10:08.069 --> 01:10:11.029
to possible death threats, their family to possible death threats?
1152
01:10:11.430 --> 01:10:13.350
This is legitimate when you look at this stuff. The
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01:10:13.409 --> 01:10:15.649
right-wing violence is out of control in this country. Yeah,
1154
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:19.779
they'll say left-wing bullshit. It's absolutely right-wing. This is the
1155
01:10:19.819 --> 01:10:23.079
part of the deal that I wonder about. Who appoints
1156
01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:26.350
the monitor, how independent they really are, and what power
1157
01:10:26.399 --> 01:10:30.130
do they have to escalate the violations themselves? is what
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01:10:30.189 --> 01:10:33.229
we need to watch here. Will they be willing to
1159
01:10:33.409 --> 01:10:36.250
escalate these? You know what? They should appoint me. I
1160
01:10:36.270 --> 01:10:38.310
will take a look at this shit and tell you
1161
01:10:38.569 --> 01:10:41.210
what's bullshit and what isn't bullshit and take the heat
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and live in a cave somewhere so nobody can find me.
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And I would be willing to up the numbers and
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01:10:47.619 --> 01:10:51.039
the violations and make Paramount pay that money. You got
1165
01:10:51.060 --> 01:10:53.539
to have someone who is willing to take the hits
1166
01:10:54.060 --> 01:10:57.170
to be the independent monitor to see and be strong
1167
01:10:57.210 --> 01:11:01.300
as shit And be forceful to both sides to get
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01:11:01.340 --> 01:11:03.859
the job done. Is there anyone you can think of
1169
01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:08.020
out there? Maybe Alan Richson should quit acting and become
1170
01:11:08.039 --> 01:11:11.399
the independent monitor here. Make $ 20 million a year being
1171
01:11:11.420 --> 01:11:20.090
the independent monitor of this shit. A lot of things
1172
01:11:20.100 --> 01:11:23.850
to look at here. Ellison's family ties to Trump. Bought
1173
01:11:23.869 --> 01:11:27.229
his own political ambitions. A highly politicized deal-making environment will
1174
01:11:27.250 --> 01:11:32.600
shape how partisan everyone thinks these terms were. Senator Cory
1175
01:11:32.920 --> 01:11:35.619
Booker is already calling the deal, quote, far from settled
1176
01:11:36.239 --> 01:11:39.090
and wants Ellison to testify before Congress, which may happen
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01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:42.569
if they win the midterms. This settlement does resolve the
1178
01:11:42.670 --> 01:11:47.569
state antitrust suit, but it doesn't end the federal-level political scrutiny,
1179
01:11:47.590 --> 01:11:51.350
which may go on here. And the financial output terms here,
1180
01:11:51.390 --> 01:11:54.489
film count, production spend, worker fund, have real enforcement mechanism
1181
01:11:54.529 --> 01:11:57.029
and hard numbers, but they're most likely to be tracked
1182
01:11:57.090 --> 01:12:01.000
and actually litigated if missed. The soft terms, though, the
1183
01:12:01.079 --> 01:12:04.659
editorial independence, the good faith bargain, the cable negotiation independence,
1184
01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:08.810
are more PR political cover than hard guard rails. Proving
1185
01:12:08.850 --> 01:12:12.609
compliance or violation on those in five years will be
1186
01:12:12.750 --> 01:12:15.670
genuinely difficult. So that's the way I look at all
1187
01:12:15.689 --> 01:12:18.050
of this stuff, babe. There are some hard terms in it,
1188
01:12:18.649 --> 01:12:23.939
but there's way too much movement or malleability in these
1189
01:12:23.979 --> 01:12:27.720
terms that will allow Paramount to get away with everything.
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01:12:28.079 --> 01:12:31.539
And that's what's going to happen. Name me anybody who
1191
01:12:31.579 --> 01:12:36.029
has settled anything with a company connected to Trump who
1192
01:12:36.130 --> 01:12:39.189
didn't find a way to cheat on the terms and
1193
01:12:39.409 --> 01:12:42.069
try to get out of paying their fees for cheating
1194
01:12:42.109 --> 01:12:44.390
on the terms and try to go to a favorable
1195
01:12:44.449 --> 01:12:47.649
judge or get pardoned by Trump as he's pardoned so
1196
01:12:47.689 --> 01:12:52.939
many people recently. So it's just madness when you look
1197
01:12:52.949 --> 01:12:56.680
at this stuff. All right. I've talked about it, what,
1198
01:12:57.000 --> 01:13:05.029
well over, almost into an hour now. Let's answer some
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01:13:05.050 --> 01:13:12.189
of your questions before I get into anything else. And yeah,
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01:13:12.210 --> 01:13:13.850
keep sending them in as we go along. WGratz says,
1201
01:13:13.869 --> 01:13:17.659
you should use threads or blue sky more. Okay. X
1202
01:13:17.720 --> 01:13:20.239
is falsely flagged. X is AI falsely flagged me as
1203
01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:22.770
a bot or burner, which is total BS. Yes. It's
1204
01:13:22.810 --> 01:13:28.449
refreshing to be off that shithole app. Okay. I'm on
1205
01:13:28.609 --> 01:13:31.020
one social media. I mean, I guess I should try
1206
01:13:31.029 --> 01:13:34.399
to tweet out more on threads and on blue sky,
1207
01:13:34.439 --> 01:13:36.960
but it's a lot, man, to be on one for
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01:13:36.979 --> 01:13:40.300
God's sake, but thank you. Tim Bino says, why do
1209
01:13:40.319 --> 01:13:42.479
I have a feeling that another January six, like event
1210
01:13:42.500 --> 01:13:44.359
could happen if Trump tries to stay in power, no
1211
01:13:44.420 --> 01:13:47.960
matter what in 2028, that fear is creeping in. I agree.
1212
01:13:48.460 --> 01:13:50.399
You know, I was watching debt. I've been watching deadline
1213
01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:51.979
white house again over the last couple of weeks and
1214
01:13:52.779 --> 01:13:56.350
which is a great show, by the way. And they're
1215
01:13:56.369 --> 01:14:00.909
sounding the alarm on the midterms. They think this barring
1216
01:14:01.109 --> 01:14:04.229
of the press is part of him wanting to do
1217
01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:12.859
nefarious shit to steal the midterms and keep the press
1218
01:14:13.100 --> 01:14:16.689
out of the White House because people are leaking stuff
1219
01:14:16.739 --> 01:14:18.649
to the press from the White House. There are people
1220
01:14:18.810 --> 01:14:21.409
in the White House leaking stuff. Why do you think
1221
01:14:21.470 --> 01:14:24.550
Pete Hegseth a few weeks ago did those lie detector
1222
01:14:24.590 --> 01:14:28.310
tests to find out who's telling the truth about these
1223
01:14:28.350 --> 01:14:32.489
leaks or who's leaking them? And I think Trump thinks
1224
01:14:32.569 --> 01:14:36.310
keeping this press out of the White House keeps the
1225
01:14:36.350 --> 01:14:39.300
leaks from happening. And if they're going to do something
1226
01:14:39.380 --> 01:14:46.460
to steal the midterms, they're going to be unable to
1227
01:14:46.520 --> 01:14:50.090
report it in full or have leaks from the White House,
1228
01:14:50.189 --> 01:14:53.050
letting them know ahead of time what Trump is doing.
1229
01:14:53.069 --> 01:14:55.260
But I think it's nonsense. If people want to leak,
1230
01:14:55.270 --> 01:14:57.520
they're going to find a way to leak to these
1231
01:14:57.800 --> 01:15:01.659
press people. And I'm sure press people have multiple ways
1232
01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:03.640
to get in touch with them that can't be traced
1233
01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:05.600
back to the source that's getting in touch with them.
1234
01:15:07.649 --> 01:15:09.949
And I agree, 2028, I mean, when he's talking about
1235
01:15:09.989 --> 01:15:12.789
putting drones on that arch that he wants to build
1236
01:15:13.710 --> 01:15:18.090
out there in D.C. and putting snipers, that is not
1237
01:15:18.409 --> 01:15:22.060
casual rhetoric that he's throwing out there. The fact that
1238
01:15:22.100 --> 01:15:24.039
he wants to put drones on top of that ballroom,
1239
01:15:24.159 --> 01:15:28.359
that is all that we're seeing. What Alex Garland shows
1240
01:15:28.380 --> 01:15:31.239
you in that movie, civil war. I watched that movie
1241
01:15:31.260 --> 01:15:33.220
and I watched so many reviewers say, Oh, it's a
1242
01:15:33.220 --> 01:15:36.539
little fantastical. It can never happen. It's utter bullshit. Well,
1243
01:15:36.600 --> 01:15:39.859
look at what's happening. This is what frustrates me about
1244
01:15:39.930 --> 01:15:42.409
too many liberals, especially liberals in the media or in
1245
01:15:42.430 --> 01:15:44.850
the pundits fear that I'm in some of these reviewers
1246
01:15:44.890 --> 01:15:47.829
and critics. There's like, oh, it couldn't happen. It wouldn't happen.
1247
01:15:47.909 --> 01:15:52.520
No way he'd do that. Wake up. Wake the fuck up.
1248
01:15:52.739 --> 01:15:56.460
Things are happening here for real. And you all are
1249
01:15:56.479 --> 01:16:01.420
trying to rely on, oh, no way. Who would do that?
1250
01:16:01.619 --> 01:16:06.060
Stop thinking like you think and start seeing how they think.
1251
01:16:06.939 --> 01:16:10.329
And it is not how you think at all. And
1252
01:16:10.350 --> 01:16:12.970
you've got to be prepared for that. And so I
1253
01:16:12.989 --> 01:16:15.550
think it's dangerous what's happening. It's scary. It's my hometown.
1254
01:16:17.020 --> 01:16:18.789
Tim says, to those who think to wait to see
1255
01:16:18.829 --> 01:16:20.989
how this deal pans out, you're out of your damn minds.
1256
01:16:21.069 --> 01:16:24.289
I agree. This is horrific as greed prevails again while
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01:16:24.369 --> 01:16:27.010
thousands of workers will be cut from this unholy merger.
1258
01:16:27.750 --> 01:16:30.909
John Oliver is fucked. HBO is fucked. Absolutely. I mean,
1259
01:16:30.930 --> 01:16:35.029
John joked about it over the weekend to his business daddy, Ellison.
1260
01:16:35.729 --> 01:16:40.050
They're absolutely going to come in and have monitors on
1261
01:16:40.210 --> 01:16:43.210
all these shows and they will tell them that they
1262
01:16:43.270 --> 01:16:46.189
have to be, they have to include the other side
1263
01:16:47.310 --> 01:16:49.909
But if they're right wing shows that will be made
1264
01:16:50.109 --> 01:16:54.250
under this auspices of Paramount WB, they absolutely will not
1265
01:16:54.289 --> 01:16:56.399
tell them that they have to include the progressive side
1266
01:16:56.409 --> 01:16:59.140
or the liberal side of things or even the middle
1267
01:16:59.239 --> 01:17:02.260
side of things. So that's what you're going to see
1268
01:17:02.819 --> 01:17:06.079
is you're going to see all these outspoken, outspoken critics
1269
01:17:06.119 --> 01:17:10.670
of Trump get silenced or get saddled with changes. Jon
1270
01:17:10.729 --> 01:17:15.579
Stewart as well over on on The Daily Show. Desi,
1271
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:18.659
all the people on Jordan, on The Daily Show, they're
1272
01:17:18.729 --> 01:17:23.770
all going to be eventually run out of there or
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01:17:23.829 --> 01:17:28.289
silenced because they're going to make staying at those jobs untenable.
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01:17:29.069 --> 01:17:33.170
They're going to do whatever they can to make working
1275
01:17:33.210 --> 01:17:36.569
at that place exhausting. That's why I think so many
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01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:39.640
people left at CBS. Yes, because they think Bari Weiss
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01:17:39.659 --> 01:17:45.510
is essentially a... you know, a junior varsity person thinking
1278
01:17:45.529 --> 01:17:49.609
they can play pro. And they don't, they didn't want
1279
01:17:49.630 --> 01:17:51.430
to listen to her because she's not that smart. And
1280
01:17:51.649 --> 01:17:53.069
they're like, you don't know what you're talking about. Why
1281
01:17:53.090 --> 01:17:55.350
should I listen to you about anything? And I think
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01:17:55.399 --> 01:17:57.659
the same thing is going to happen here is she's
1283
01:17:57.680 --> 01:17:59.739
going to launch her minions to go down there to
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01:17:59.880 --> 01:18:02.380
all of these shows. And they're going to be sitting
1285
01:18:02.420 --> 01:18:04.560
there in those rooms and be like, do you, is that,
1286
01:18:05.140 --> 01:18:06.500
I think you should say this. I think you should
1287
01:18:06.539 --> 01:18:08.560
say that. I don't think you should put that on
1288
01:18:08.579 --> 01:18:09.800
the air right now. If you don't put it on
1289
01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:11.539
the air without this, then it's not going to happen.
1290
01:18:11.560 --> 01:18:14.779
So it's all bullshit, right? But then the antitrust side
1291
01:18:14.800 --> 01:18:18.430
of these things, greed does prevail. Thousands of workers will
1292
01:18:18.449 --> 01:18:20.789
be cut from this unholy merger. Absolutely. Thousands of workers
1293
01:18:20.829 --> 01:18:26.369
are going to lose their jobs for sure. And this
1294
01:18:26.430 --> 01:18:31.840
idea that they want to save $ 8 billion. Ellison said that,
1295
01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:34.779
that they want to save $ 8 billion. You think they're
1296
01:18:34.800 --> 01:18:37.579
not going to save $ 8 billion by firing a shit
1297
01:18:37.619 --> 01:18:40.699
ton of people? And do you think with a skeleton staff,
1298
01:18:40.739 --> 01:18:44.359
they're going to be putting out 30 films without using AI?
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01:18:44.810 --> 01:18:47.609
And then 32 films in a couple of years under
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01:18:47.630 --> 01:18:50.619
the agreement? Get out of here. They put all this
1301
01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:53.359
stuff there to win the PR war, but in the end,
1302
01:18:53.399 --> 01:18:55.899
they're not going to adhere to 90% of it. I
1303
01:18:55.979 --> 01:18:59.659
guarantee it. I guarantee it. They'll happily be tied up
1304
01:18:59.699 --> 01:19:02.510
in court because they know they can be tied up
1305
01:19:02.550 --> 01:19:05.470
in court for months or years, and they can just
1306
01:19:05.510 --> 01:19:08.409
keep doing business as usual because the court's not going
1307
01:19:08.430 --> 01:19:10.409
to stop them. And if the court tries to put
1308
01:19:10.449 --> 01:19:13.029
a stop on them, they'll appeal that decision. And then
1309
01:19:13.069 --> 01:19:15.380
if another court says that, they'll appeal that decision and
1310
01:19:15.409 --> 01:19:17.779
just keep going. You know, this is the game they're playing.
1311
01:19:18.319 --> 01:19:21.779
Wake up. Tim Sims says also artistic freedom is going
1312
01:19:21.800 --> 01:19:23.859
to be so chill post-merger that we will never see
1313
01:19:23.899 --> 01:19:26.720
something as bold and original as Coogler's Sinners get greenlit. Well,
1314
01:19:26.760 --> 01:19:30.279
not under WB, not under Paramount for sure. Another death
1315
01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:32.000
knell to the dreamers who want to make it in
1316
01:19:32.039 --> 01:19:35.680
film and television. I agree. I mean, I think it
1317
01:19:35.699 --> 01:19:37.680
would be amazing if all these directors came out and
1318
01:19:37.720 --> 01:19:39.640
said they're not going to work with Warner Brothers anymore.
1319
01:19:39.819 --> 01:19:42.289
Like if Christopher Nolan came out tomorrow with Ryan Coogler
1320
01:19:42.329 --> 01:19:47.430
and all these other directors, what's-her-face, Greta Gerwig, all these
1321
01:19:47.470 --> 01:19:50.949
people who have had success under WB, James Gunn even,
1322
01:19:51.550 --> 01:19:54.369
if they all came out together in mass, like they
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01:19:54.409 --> 01:19:58.109
showed up for that Lucas Museum of Natural Movies or
1324
01:19:58.130 --> 01:20:00.989
whatever it was, that museum there, and that wonderful photo
1325
01:20:01.020 --> 01:20:03.460
that was released over the weekend with so much talent
1326
01:20:03.539 --> 01:20:07.819
in there, along with Tyler Perry, I think if they
1327
01:20:07.880 --> 01:20:10.260
all came out and had a group picture and said,
1328
01:20:10.659 --> 01:20:12.100
we're not going to work with WB anymore. We're going
1329
01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:14.819
to direct films with WB anymore. And we're moving to
1330
01:20:14.859 --> 01:20:18.020
these other studios. Nolan going back to Universal. There's just
1331
01:20:18.119 --> 01:20:20.300
all kinds of possibilities here. And I wish they would
1332
01:20:20.340 --> 01:20:22.020
come out and do that. That'd be a really powerful
1333
01:20:22.060 --> 01:20:25.739
statement to make. But of course, the DGA sees themselves
1334
01:20:25.819 --> 01:20:29.020
as elitist and they would never do that. Tim says,
1335
01:20:29.180 --> 01:20:31.810
all for the Ellison's to not only fulfill their media
1336
01:20:31.819 --> 01:20:34.409
mogul dreams, but to chill free press by controlling CNN.
1337
01:20:35.149 --> 01:20:37.569
Were there GOP politicians like that orange man in the
1338
01:20:37.590 --> 01:20:43.500
White House? Hashtag everything is political. Correct. Nowadays, everything is political, y'all. Everything.
1339
01:20:43.579 --> 01:20:45.840
And people trying to tell you that it isn't are
1340
01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:50.539
living in a fantasy land. Everything is political. Everything. Because
1341
01:20:50.640 --> 01:20:53.399
MAGA upped the stakes to make this thing life and death.
1342
01:20:53.800 --> 01:20:57.060
They have been the ones who pushed this thing. You know, people,
1343
01:20:57.319 --> 01:20:59.619
I know I said this today, like there's people on
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01:20:59.649 --> 01:21:01.310
the left and people on the right who are extreme
1345
01:21:01.369 --> 01:21:04.689
on both sides. So you can say that argument both sides.
1346
01:21:05.529 --> 01:21:08.529
But the people who have poisoned our rhetoric is absolutely
1347
01:21:08.550 --> 01:21:11.430
from the MAGA side of things. Democrats and liberals have
1348
01:21:11.550 --> 01:21:14.689
adopted that playbook in order to fight back against that.
1349
01:21:15.310 --> 01:21:17.750
But they're the ones who adopted the burn it all
1350
01:21:17.789 --> 01:21:19.210
to the ground if I can't have it the way
1351
01:21:19.250 --> 01:21:22.109
I want it approach. And so that's what's poisoned our
1352
01:21:22.149 --> 01:21:24.720
rhetoric and our toxicity. And yes, social media has taken
1353
01:21:24.729 --> 01:21:27.180
advantage of that. But who's in charge of social media?
1354
01:21:27.260 --> 01:21:30.920
Elon Musk over there on Twitter. And the people in
1355
01:21:30.960 --> 01:21:34.920
charge of TikTok now who ban certain words that are anti-Trump.
1356
01:21:35.250 --> 01:21:38.029
from being a part of the TikTok, it's all there.
1357
01:21:38.350 --> 01:21:41.569
These tech bros have taken over everything. Fucking Jeff Bezos
1358
01:21:41.590 --> 01:21:43.850
over the Washington Post. I will never resubscribe to the
1359
01:21:43.890 --> 01:21:47.630
Washington Post. And I was a subscriber for 20, 30 years.
1360
01:21:48.329 --> 01:21:49.829
The second he took over and I saw what he
1361
01:21:49.850 --> 01:21:53.729
did with his editorial board before the election with Kamala
1362
01:21:53.750 --> 01:21:57.569
Harris and Trump and banning them from endorsing Kamala, I
1363
01:21:57.600 --> 01:22:00.100
was like, yeah, I'm fucking done. And I'm never coming back.
1364
01:22:00.180 --> 01:22:02.359
No matter how many negative stories they make on Trump,
1365
01:22:02.819 --> 01:22:04.699
I'm never coming back to the Washington Post while Jeff
1366
01:22:04.720 --> 01:22:10.100
Bezos owns them. Subwire says, I just bought the 4K Blu-ray,
1367
01:22:10.159 --> 01:22:12.189
Blue Steel book of Fight Club from Amazon. I love
1368
01:22:12.210 --> 01:22:14.350
this movie. I'm glad it got such a beautiful looking case.
1369
01:22:15.090 --> 01:22:19.850
I have that on my list of things to purchase,
1370
01:22:20.229 --> 01:22:27.880
but it's so expensive. It's like $ 35. I almost said like,
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01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:30.079
if one of you wants to give me $ 35, I'll
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01:22:30.100 --> 01:22:32.840
buy it. But like, I wouldn't say that. I don't
1373
01:22:32.859 --> 01:22:37.779
need that. Is it $ 35? Yeah, right here. It's $ 34. 97,
1374
01:22:37.619 --> 01:22:41.420
Fight Club, UHD combo, digital steelbook. I want this thing,
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01:22:42.119 --> 01:22:45.250
but I'm not going to pay $ 35 for it. I
1376
01:22:45.289 --> 01:22:47.590
can't pay $ 35 for a steelbook. It just doesn't make
1377
01:22:48.149 --> 01:22:50.609
sense to me on any kind of level. But maybe
1378
01:22:50.649 --> 01:22:52.989
it's cheaper at Barnes & Noble. They do these random
1379
01:22:52.989 --> 01:22:56.750
50% offs on their steelbooks, so we'll see. Alice Smithy says, hey, Roka,
1380
01:22:56.770 --> 01:22:59.149
why wasn't Kathleen Kennedy featured in any photos at the
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Lucas Museum Gala opening? That is a great question, Smithy.
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01:23:03.569 --> 01:23:06.029
Her husband, Frank, was featured. She's produced Star Wars and
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01:23:06.069 --> 01:23:09.970
Indiana Jones. Seems like a snub to me. Yeah, possibly.
1384
01:23:10.689 --> 01:23:12.949
It could also be Kathleen going like, I don't want
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01:23:12.970 --> 01:23:15.989
to take attention away from George. If I show up,
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01:23:16.069 --> 01:23:18.250
it's going to be all about me and what happened
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01:23:18.390 --> 01:23:21.289
during my tenure in charge of Star Wars. And George
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01:23:21.350 --> 01:23:24.409
really does not want this to be just about Star Wars, right?
1389
01:23:24.439 --> 01:23:27.739
He wants... his museum, I think they had to convince
1390
01:23:27.779 --> 01:23:29.939
him to make one room just about Star Wars, but
1391
01:23:29.970 --> 01:23:33.670
he didn't want to do it. So, because he wants
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01:23:33.710 --> 01:23:35.989
to celebrate all the film, because that's where George started,
1393
01:23:36.050 --> 01:23:39.189
as a lover of film. So maybe Kathleen didn't go
1394
01:23:39.229 --> 01:23:40.649
because she didn't want to be a distraction, which I
1395
01:23:40.670 --> 01:23:43.819
can understand, because people would have made her a distraction, right? So,
1396
01:23:44.579 --> 01:23:46.939
maybe it's a snub, Smithy, maybe you're right. I doubt
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01:23:46.960 --> 01:23:50.060
her husband would go if he was snubbing her wife.
1398
01:23:50.260 --> 01:23:54.890
That's a really bad move to if you think you're
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01:23:54.899 --> 01:23:56.670
going to sleep in the same bed that night. So
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01:23:56.909 --> 01:24:01.109
I think it's more likely that Kathleen Kennedy, maybe, or
1401
01:24:01.149 --> 01:24:04.409
George said to her, maybe don't come because it's just
1402
01:24:04.430 --> 01:24:07.770
going to cause too much drama. It's very possible. But
1403
01:24:07.789 --> 01:24:09.890
it is curious. Cartoon 49 says, do you think that
1404
01:24:09.949 --> 01:24:12.130
whoever runs for the next president, one of their goals
1405
01:24:12.569 --> 01:24:15.289
is to split or deregulate companies like Paramount? I would
1406
01:24:15.329 --> 01:24:18.350
love that. I really would. We saw that with Teddy Roosevelt,
1407
01:24:18.510 --> 01:24:21.250
ironically a Republican. When he ran, he would be a
1408
01:24:21.350 --> 01:24:25.619
fucking liberal Democrat by Republican terms nowadays. So when they
1409
01:24:25.680 --> 01:24:27.079
claim Teddy Roosevelt, I think it's one of the most
1410
01:24:27.180 --> 01:24:29.319
laughable things. The same thing with Lincoln. It's laughable that
1411
01:24:29.340 --> 01:24:31.939
Republicans claim either one of those presidents. They both would
1412
01:24:31.979 --> 01:24:36.270
be considered liberals nowadays. Even Reagan would be considered somewhat
1413
01:24:36.350 --> 01:24:42.210
liberal nowadays. Looking at the platform of the Republican platform,
1414
01:24:42.229 --> 01:24:45.350
the MAGA platform. I would love that because when Teddy
1415
01:24:45.390 --> 01:24:47.930
Roosevelt came in, he immediately set out to bust up
1416
01:24:48.130 --> 01:24:51.970
these large corporations, U.S. Steel, I think the oil, Standard Oil,
1417
01:24:52.859 --> 01:24:54.779
If you do your history, you know, Teddy was all
1418
01:24:54.800 --> 01:24:57.180
about busting up these things. So the next president, I
1419
01:24:57.220 --> 01:24:59.979
hope so. And the next time we have a Democrat
1420
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:02.149
who's in charge of the House, the Senate, and the
1421
01:25:02.189 --> 01:25:06.670
White House, fuck reaching across the aisle, take care of business,
1422
01:25:07.109 --> 01:25:11.250
do what's best for the country overall. People will come around.
1423
01:25:12.130 --> 01:25:16.229
But to wait for these Republicans who are invested in
1424
01:25:16.310 --> 01:25:20.069
making sure you fail to agree to anything you're doing
1425
01:25:20.090 --> 01:25:23.939
is nonsense. I think if you want to change the
1426
01:25:23.979 --> 01:25:28.050
country for the better, then do that. Stop waiting around
1427
01:25:28.109 --> 01:25:29.630
for other people to give you approval to do it.
1428
01:25:29.789 --> 01:25:33.869
You got to do it. WGrad says, what the fuck?
1429
01:25:33.909 --> 01:25:35.829
Trump is now launching Trump TV. Yes, it will be
1430
01:25:35.869 --> 01:25:39.300
nothing but 24-7 propaganda and state-run media. But I guarantee
1431
01:25:39.420 --> 01:25:41.439
no one's going to watch it. It's only going to
1432
01:25:41.479 --> 01:25:47.920
be his hardcore-based... I bet even they won't watch. They'll
1433
01:25:47.979 --> 01:25:50.979
claim to watch. But I guarantee you they won't watch.
1434
01:25:51.359 --> 01:25:53.779
You know, look at Truth Social's numbers. They're in the
1435
01:25:53.859 --> 01:25:58.060
toilet for engagement. Look at how many MAGA people release
1436
01:25:58.119 --> 01:26:01.000
movies and none of them fucking show up to see it, right?
1437
01:26:01.439 --> 01:26:03.460
Nobody showed up to see that stupid Western with Gina
1438
01:26:03.479 --> 01:26:05.899
Carano did for Daily Wire. No one's going to show
1439
01:26:05.920 --> 01:26:08.899
up for this infidel, dumbass movie. No one showed up
1440
01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:13.319
for the Uwe Boll movie. They had to put it
1441
01:26:13.439 --> 01:26:16.550
on online. No one showed up for this shit. So
1442
01:26:16.909 --> 01:26:21.579
it's just nonsense. I'll be curious to see who takes
1443
01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:27.550
a job at that Trump TV situation. Derek Johns, what's up, Derek?
1444
01:26:27.569 --> 01:26:29.569
Thank you for stopping by. He said, honestly, at least
1445
01:26:29.569 --> 01:26:33.310
50% equity by the Saudis. Same government that brought you
1446
01:26:33.350 --> 01:26:36.789
chopped up journalists. Yes, and Khashoggi. These are people who
1447
01:26:36.829 --> 01:26:38.390
put this amount of money into things and have no
1448
01:26:38.449 --> 01:26:40.449
say in how things operate. This is a major problem.
1449
01:26:40.630 --> 01:26:44.119
I agree with you, brother man. Especially after 9-11, which
1450
01:26:44.180 --> 01:26:48.390
was literally 10 days ago. The 25th celebration of 9-11.
1451
01:26:49.909 --> 01:26:52.800
To have this money now involved in a major corporation
1452
01:26:52.819 --> 01:26:55.880
I think is dangerous and scary. No matter how much
1453
01:26:55.939 --> 01:26:59.060
they claim they've changed. I think it's dangerous and scary
1454
01:26:59.079 --> 01:27:00.880
to have this kind of money involved and wrapped up
1455
01:27:01.039 --> 01:27:03.970
in a major Hollywood studio. Two of them now merging.
1456
01:27:04.970 --> 01:27:07.970
If you think they're not going to change the content
1457
01:27:08.930 --> 01:27:12.130
or lean on certain people who, by the way, they've
1458
01:27:12.170 --> 01:27:15.649
bought and paid. There's quite a few people who've been
1459
01:27:15.689 --> 01:27:19.560
taking money from the Saudis and Middle Eastern through shell companies.
1460
01:27:20.069 --> 01:27:23.329
who are in our government. That was a great storyline
1461
01:27:23.369 --> 01:27:26.989
for Lioness this season of how many people were taking
1462
01:27:27.069 --> 01:27:32.479
money to push certain agendas. Again, Taylor Sheridan, very purple guy.
1463
01:27:32.489 --> 01:27:37.920
I like Taylor and his work. Absolutely, it's going on
1464
01:27:38.140 --> 01:27:43.039
right now. I wish we could expose it. People always ask,
1465
01:27:43.439 --> 01:27:48.619
what would be your superpower? Turn invisible, super speed, flight, strength.
1466
01:27:49.680 --> 01:27:54.060
all that shit, my superpower would be able to immediately
1467
01:27:54.159 --> 01:27:59.039
know what the, all the dirty shit everyone is doing that.
1468
01:27:59.140 --> 01:28:02.079
I would love to have that superpower. Like I would
1469
01:28:02.119 --> 01:28:04.829
love to be able to levitate every one of the
1470
01:28:04.850 --> 01:28:07.529
people doing horrible things in the world, bring them out
1471
01:28:07.729 --> 01:28:09.729
off of the earth, just look at them and see them,
1472
01:28:10.189 --> 01:28:16.199
see what they're doing. Um, and, and show that, evidence
1473
01:28:16.359 --> 01:28:19.340
of it so they can, so they can be arrested
1474
01:28:19.380 --> 01:28:21.619
and tried by the courts. That would be amazing. I
1475
01:28:21.659 --> 01:28:25.149
would love to be able to do that. Finding out
1476
01:28:25.210 --> 01:28:29.949
how many of these senators and representatives have are getting
1477
01:28:29.970 --> 01:28:34.050
bought and paid off by money through shell corporations or
1478
01:28:34.569 --> 01:28:37.609
backdoor deals. That's what I'd like to find out as well.
1479
01:28:38.569 --> 01:28:42.029
Subwire says, unfortunately, ESPN is rewarding Stephen A. Smith and
1480
01:28:42.069 --> 01:28:45.109
Pat McAfee. The journalists like Bob Levy, Dan Levitard, and
1481
01:28:45.140 --> 01:28:48.439
Pablo Torre get pushed out. PTI is the last bastion.
1482
01:28:48.579 --> 01:28:51.300
I watch less now. Yeah, I agree. I only watch
1483
01:28:51.439 --> 01:28:54.439
ESPN for the games. I don't watch ESPN for anything
1484
01:28:54.500 --> 01:28:58.000
else other than the games. And PTI. Yes, I still,
1485
01:28:58.060 --> 01:28:59.779
I mean, I grew up in DC. I grew up
1486
01:28:59.800 --> 01:29:02.779
in Virginia, Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon. Those are my boys.
1487
01:29:03.479 --> 01:29:06.300
So yes, I absolutely watch PTI every week, even though
1488
01:29:06.340 --> 01:29:09.310
those guys are like, they're so old now. I love it.
1489
01:29:09.340 --> 01:29:12.119
Tony has to hold his glasses. So his hand doesn't shake.
1490
01:29:12.439 --> 01:29:15.800
Wilbon has wrinkles upon wrinkles, but I still love those guys.
1491
01:29:16.079 --> 01:29:20.439
You know, Dennis Hoffman says, as someone who was part
1492
01:29:20.460 --> 01:29:23.039
of the Fox and Disney merger, this is terrible for everyone.
1493
01:29:23.590 --> 01:29:27.270
Employees and consumers except Ellison. I went through five rounds
1494
01:29:27.329 --> 01:29:31.409
of reorganization and layoffs as they quote unquote aligned. Yeah, exactly.
1495
01:29:32.130 --> 01:29:34.770
I worked for a DVD testing facility years ago and
1496
01:29:35.449 --> 01:29:39.770
they merged with multiple companies at separate times. And every
1497
01:29:39.840 --> 01:29:42.399
time it was a round of layoffs, I kept surviving
1498
01:29:42.420 --> 01:29:44.680
because I was the night manager. I had moved up
1499
01:29:44.720 --> 01:29:47.640
to be the night manager, but yeah, they kept laying
1500
01:29:47.659 --> 01:29:49.619
people off. And then finally at the end, it was
1501
01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:53.649
about removing everyone's healthcare and so they could save money
1502
01:29:53.689 --> 01:29:57.750
so they fired you removed your health care then you
1503
01:29:57.789 --> 01:30:02.500
were hired back as a freelancer fernandez tried to do
1504
01:30:02.539 --> 01:30:06.380
that to me at collider he was like well you
1505
01:30:06.420 --> 01:30:11.340
know he tried to apologize right obviously for the stupid
1506
01:30:11.380 --> 01:30:13.399
and shitty way he went about laying me off and
1507
01:30:13.539 --> 01:30:16.460
everybody he laid off riley and others clearly had no
1508
01:30:16.520 --> 01:30:21.189
problem with what he did i did um and uh
1509
01:30:22.840 --> 01:30:26.960
He was like, well, we can bring you back as
1510
01:30:27.000 --> 01:30:30.479
a freelancer and you can come cover junkets and cover
1511
01:30:30.500 --> 01:30:32.460
a press conference. I was like, get the fuck out
1512
01:30:32.479 --> 01:30:34.739
of here. You know, I'm going to come back. Like
1513
01:30:34.840 --> 01:30:37.840
I was hosting shows and you're going to make me
1514
01:30:37.880 --> 01:30:41.899
now coming back freelance money with no healthcare to help
1515
01:30:42.060 --> 01:30:46.460
your channel. You know what I'm saying? I was like, nonsense, nonsense.
1516
01:30:46.479 --> 01:30:48.640
So that's why I started this thing. And I've never
1517
01:30:48.699 --> 01:30:51.869
been happier and never made more money. than I have
1518
01:30:51.909 --> 01:30:54.550
being independent than I was at Collider. And I don't
1519
01:30:54.689 --> 01:30:58.010
have to deal with the office politics, the FOMO bullshit
1520
01:30:58.050 --> 01:31:00.430
that everyone had, a lot of people had over there.
1521
01:31:00.449 --> 01:31:02.970
I don't have to deal with the, why is he
1522
01:31:03.029 --> 01:31:05.590
getting this? I want this. Why don't I get this?
1523
01:31:05.810 --> 01:31:09.890
It was just such nonsense that you dealt with over there.
1524
01:31:09.949 --> 01:31:11.970
And so Fernandez trying to bring me, I was like,
1525
01:31:12.750 --> 01:31:14.350
no fucking way am I coming back to deal with
1526
01:31:14.649 --> 01:31:19.130
all that bullshit for freelancer money. You're out of your
1527
01:31:19.210 --> 01:31:23.800
fucking mind. Out of your fucking mind. Um, there Johnson says,
1528
01:31:23.840 --> 01:31:26.600
if I'm Ellison, I'm cutting union workers, paying cheaper costs,
1529
01:31:26.699 --> 01:31:29.600
using cheap labor and doing anything I can to meet
1530
01:31:29.619 --> 01:31:31.899
that movie release requirement and to make back money on
1531
01:31:31.939 --> 01:31:34.479
that massive debt. Settling was not a good move. You're
1532
01:31:34.619 --> 01:31:40.739
absolutely right. All this is done. Uh, Derek is give
1533
01:31:40.840 --> 01:31:44.279
paramount the green light to do exactly what you've laid
1534
01:31:44.380 --> 01:31:47.180
out in your, in your, uh, super chat here and
1535
01:31:47.460 --> 01:31:50.119
also give the people on the other side of the
1536
01:31:50.140 --> 01:31:53.189
merger who are against the merger, uh, talking points to
1537
01:31:53.329 --> 01:31:55.609
yell at Paramount about so they can get on TV.
1538
01:31:56.390 --> 01:32:00.130
But none of it helps all the people who are
1539
01:32:00.149 --> 01:32:06.109
going to lose their jobs. Their grandstanding and Paramount's nefarious shit,
1540
01:32:06.569 --> 01:32:08.189
none of that is going to help the people in
1541
01:32:08.229 --> 01:32:10.670
the middle who are going to lose their jobs, lose
1542
01:32:10.710 --> 01:32:15.619
their homes, maybe get divorces because of financial situations, be
1543
01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:20.340
unable to afford living in California, having to find another job,
1544
01:32:20.640 --> 01:32:23.960
uprooting their families. all kinds of stuff. And no, that
1545
01:32:24.239 --> 01:32:27.539
money they've set aside ain't going to fucking help all
1546
01:32:27.579 --> 01:32:29.279
those people. It could be enough to help all those
1547
01:32:29.300 --> 01:32:31.640
people that are going to be fired or laid off,
1548
01:32:32.119 --> 01:32:35.529
you know? So it's a, it's a shame and you're
1549
01:32:35.569 --> 01:32:37.250
absolutely right. And I think AI is going to be
1550
01:32:37.270 --> 01:32:38.409
a part of it too. I think you're going to
1551
01:32:38.430 --> 01:32:43.470
see Paramount and WB go into turbo boost AI of
1552
01:32:43.649 --> 01:32:48.869
all these movies and TV shows. Derek also says, that
1553
01:32:48.909 --> 01:32:51.880
Saudi money don't care about these small fines. LOL, you're right.
1554
01:32:52.319 --> 01:32:55.520
They're making that fine amount in less than a day.
1555
01:32:55.880 --> 01:32:58.199
Less than a day, less than half a day. You're
1556
01:32:58.260 --> 01:33:01.220
absolutely right, Derek. You're so absolutely right on this, my man.
1557
01:33:02.340 --> 01:33:04.630
Derek also follows up and says, these entertainment journalists are
1558
01:33:04.649 --> 01:33:06.310
going to have a wake-up call when foreign money is
1559
01:33:06.350 --> 01:33:09.569
involved prominently in entertainment. Yes, you can't be digging around
1560
01:33:09.609 --> 01:33:12.470
near people associated with Saudi money with this current administration.
1561
01:33:12.949 --> 01:33:15.729
You're absolutely right. These reporters are not going to want
1562
01:33:15.750 --> 01:33:20.010
to be another Khashoggi start like kicking the tires with
1563
01:33:20.029 --> 01:33:24.590
their investigative reporting if saudi people are involved they're going
1564
01:33:24.609 --> 01:33:28.189
to be scared for their lives these entertainment journalists for
1565
01:33:28.210 --> 01:33:31.880
me come on these have you met your average entertainment
1566
01:33:31.899 --> 01:33:35.300
journalists they're not about confrontation they're not about putting their
1567
01:33:35.359 --> 01:33:39.380
lives in danger to report on nefarious shit going on
1568
01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:44.250
with a studio or with a uh with a production
1569
01:33:44.329 --> 01:33:46.569
office or a movie or a TV show or a
1570
01:33:47.500 --> 01:33:50.760
show itself, like a live action show or anything like that.
1571
01:33:51.319 --> 01:33:55.100
They're not about putting themselves in danger for that kind
1572
01:33:55.140 --> 01:33:58.119
of stuff. You know, they don't mind rattling the cage
1573
01:33:58.159 --> 01:34:00.619
all it was. They don't think, you know, they don't
1574
01:34:00.640 --> 01:34:03.189
think studio executives are going to show up at their
1575
01:34:03.229 --> 01:34:09.310
house and, you know, do whatever and attack them physically. So, yeah, absolutely.
1576
01:34:09.489 --> 01:34:12.250
I agree with you, Derek. This is absolutely another way
1577
01:34:12.289 --> 01:34:16.270
that they're going to curtail the coverage. I think Penske
1578
01:34:16.310 --> 01:34:19.439
Media is in bed with them as well. So we'll see.
1579
01:34:19.460 --> 01:34:21.920
And I don't know, but we'll see. And you'll see
1580
01:34:21.939 --> 01:34:24.659
the coverage absolutely change. You know why? Because all of
1581
01:34:24.699 --> 01:34:29.439
these journalists who work, journalists, writers who work for Penske
1582
01:34:29.500 --> 01:34:34.529
Media love that six-figure paycheck way too much. to be
1583
01:34:34.649 --> 01:34:37.399
rattling the cage. Hey, I gotta pay my bills. I
1584
01:34:37.439 --> 01:34:40.079
gotta pay my mortgage. I gotta put my kids to college.
1585
01:34:40.119 --> 01:34:43.819
I gotta, you know, I gotta support myself. And they're
1586
01:34:43.840 --> 01:34:47.779
gonna easily, all these people who had so much convictions
1587
01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:51.899
and ethics and morals and principles calling everybody out, all
1588
01:34:51.939 --> 01:34:54.949
of them are gonna kiss that ass. Look what Frosty did,
1589
01:34:55.430 --> 01:35:02.069
platforming that ridiculous fucking movie with Armie Hammer, who claimed
1590
01:35:02.090 --> 01:35:03.989
he didn't know what the movie was about, like an idiot.
1591
01:35:06.979 --> 01:35:14.960
that movie that Frosty held a screening, a Collider approved
1592
01:35:15.399 --> 01:35:20.010
screening of that movie. I wish I had known about it.
1593
01:35:20.689 --> 01:35:23.890
I would have driven up and I would have yelled
1594
01:35:24.010 --> 01:35:26.130
my questions because there's no way he would have picked
1595
01:35:26.210 --> 01:35:29.789
me to ask a question, but I would have yelled
1596
01:35:29.890 --> 01:35:32.819
my questions and I would have called out Frosty. they
1597
01:35:32.840 --> 01:35:35.340
would have absolutely had to escort me out of the
1598
01:35:35.460 --> 01:35:39.800
fucking theater because I would have totally called out that
1599
01:35:39.859 --> 01:35:42.970
movie while I was there. A hundred percent. I would
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01:35:42.979 --> 01:35:44.750
have had to sit through that piece of crap, but
1601
01:35:44.770 --> 01:35:47.090
I would have called it out. But you see this,
1602
01:35:47.130 --> 01:35:49.890
that was the first shot across the bow. And I
1603
01:35:49.930 --> 01:35:53.130
heard from people behind the scenes that he was upset
1604
01:35:53.229 --> 01:35:55.430
at me calling him out, that he was upset at
1605
01:35:55.449 --> 01:35:57.130
me posting what I posted on social media. He was
1606
01:35:57.529 --> 01:36:02.060
furious about good. Because there's still some of us who
1607
01:36:02.079 --> 01:36:04.840
want to call out this bullshit. While other people want
1608
01:36:04.880 --> 01:36:08.520
to sell their fucking souls to keep their jobs, to
1609
01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:12.050
hang on by their fingernails to their status in the
1610
01:36:12.090 --> 01:36:14.350
entertainment business, there are those of us who want to
1611
01:36:14.369 --> 01:36:19.949
call out the bullshit and have no fear doing so.
1612
01:36:20.069 --> 01:36:22.670
Tim Mantos says, how long until James Gunn leaves DC Studios?
1613
01:36:22.710 --> 01:36:26.140
I don't think the business case makes sense for Paramount's
1614
01:36:26.180 --> 01:36:28.260
guidance to keep him, to be honest. Yeah, I don't
1615
01:36:28.300 --> 01:36:31.560
know how that's going to go. It's a legitimate question. Like,
1616
01:36:32.239 --> 01:36:35.600
where's the line on James Gunn's politics? What does he
1617
01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:40.050
do the first time a representative of Paramount comes in
1618
01:36:40.090 --> 01:36:42.489
and goes, you know what, this feels like a liberal storyline.
1619
01:36:42.829 --> 01:36:45.229
I don't know if I like it. You're making the
1620
01:36:45.270 --> 01:36:50.770
bad guy a MAGA person or have right-leaning points of views.
1621
01:36:51.170 --> 01:36:53.649
I don't know if we can have that. This feels
1622
01:36:53.689 --> 01:36:56.710
too similar to a President Trump type character. I mean,
1623
01:36:56.869 --> 01:37:03.140
I look at Noah in Lanterns. And I go, this
1624
01:37:03.180 --> 01:37:06.340
certainly looks like the son of a certain president. And
1625
01:37:06.380 --> 01:37:09.720
he's talking about becoming president, or his mother talked about
1626
01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:12.479
him becoming president on the show. And if we find
1627
01:37:12.560 --> 01:37:16.560
out that he's secretly a manhunter and he killed, what's
1628
01:37:16.600 --> 01:37:21.600
his face? And this is all, I mean, it ain't
1629
01:37:21.640 --> 01:37:24.939
like Lindelof is scared to put that stuff in his programs.
1630
01:37:25.310 --> 01:37:28.189
So I would not be surprised if that's his low-key
1631
01:37:28.229 --> 01:37:33.000
shot at a certain somebody. We'll see. But I'll see
1632
01:37:33.020 --> 01:37:35.859
what happens with James Gunn. I respect the man regardless
1633
01:37:35.899 --> 01:37:38.710
of my issues with him on social media. I respect
1634
01:37:38.729 --> 01:37:41.350
the man and his talent. I respect his principles and
1635
01:37:41.390 --> 01:37:44.689
his morals and his ethics. He's spoken out about certain things.
1636
01:37:44.729 --> 01:37:46.569
He's certainly been very diverse in his casting in the
1637
01:37:46.590 --> 01:37:52.220
DC universe. And so I'll be curious to see how
1638
01:37:52.260 --> 01:37:53.600
he reacts to this. And I'll be curious to see
1639
01:37:53.619 --> 01:37:57.760
if he sticks around what happens when these Paramount people
1640
01:37:57.800 --> 01:38:01.319
start telling him what he can and can't do story-wise
1641
01:38:01.380 --> 01:38:04.779
with these characters, I think it's going to be fascinating,
1642
01:38:05.220 --> 01:38:07.539
to be honest. It's something to watch. Derek says, I
1643
01:38:07.579 --> 01:38:09.859
believe that quote won't mean anything. The goal is to
1644
01:38:09.899 --> 01:38:11.779
get the foot in the door of U.S. media and
1645
01:38:11.800 --> 01:38:14.720
the Saudis and Emirates are one step away now. Agreed.
1646
01:38:15.470 --> 01:38:17.159
Even if those films lose money, it's worth it for
1647
01:38:17.189 --> 01:38:19.930
what they gain after years of trying. Yeah, absolutely. Too
1648
01:38:19.970 --> 01:38:23.630
many people see this as the short game and people
1649
01:38:23.670 --> 01:38:26.590
who've been around a long time. Again, Lioness talks about this.
1650
01:38:27.369 --> 01:38:32.659
China in this particular series, see has been slowly doing
1651
01:38:32.720 --> 01:38:36.300
things that they've been doing for a number of years, decades.
1652
01:38:37.199 --> 01:38:41.840
They slow walk everything because they're patient, right? Americans are
1653
01:38:41.939 --> 01:38:45.760
not patient. We're an impatient people by nature. Why? Because
1654
01:38:45.800 --> 01:38:48.750
we've been able to basically get everything we want. So
1655
01:38:48.810 --> 01:38:51.439
we think if we can't have it immediately, we're just
1656
01:38:51.479 --> 01:38:53.159
going to bully people to get it, as we just
1657
01:38:53.199 --> 01:38:57.420
saw with Paramount and bulldozing their way to getting WB.
1658
01:38:57.439 --> 01:39:00.340
They essentially bullied everybody until they gave in and they
1659
01:39:00.359 --> 01:39:03.939
got WB, right? That's America in a nutshell. And so
1660
01:39:03.979 --> 01:39:06.689
when you look at this stuff, like these people who
1661
01:39:06.729 --> 01:39:12.850
have civilizations that have been around for centuries, they are
1662
01:39:12.930 --> 01:39:18.310
patient and they slowly move. I still think everything we're suffering,
1663
01:39:19.010 --> 01:39:22.449
in this country stems from that 9-11 attack 25 years ago.
1664
01:39:23.310 --> 01:39:27.350
I think bin Laden absolutely shattered us in half. Absolutely.
1665
01:39:28.050 --> 01:39:30.529
The Patriot Act was the beginning of this idea of
1666
01:39:30.609 --> 01:39:36.010
where are our lines in sacrificing our freedoms. And from
1667
01:39:36.109 --> 01:39:40.090
there it became what's the paranoia, Islamophobia, and all this
1668
01:39:40.109 --> 01:39:44.250
stuff popped up. Othering people of color, othering people from
1669
01:39:44.310 --> 01:39:47.930
other countries. And now we see the immigration debate, what's
1670
01:39:47.949 --> 01:39:50.949
happening with ICE. Like, all of this is connected. Nothing
1671
01:39:51.010 --> 01:39:54.710
is in a vacuum, man. And I think slowly but surely, yes,
1672
01:39:55.029 --> 01:39:59.130
as the Saudi Arabia, as the Middle Eastern countries, like
1673
01:39:59.149 --> 01:40:01.109
some of them saying, you know, we're changing our port,
1674
01:40:01.130 --> 01:40:06.140
we're changing, you come trust us, getting in with the WWE, right? Eventually,
1675
01:40:06.159 --> 01:40:09.079
we're going to see a Super Bowl in Saudi Arabia.
1676
01:40:09.180 --> 01:40:12.039
I'm telling you right now, we are going to see
1677
01:40:12.100 --> 01:40:15.460
a Super Bowl in Saudi Arabia. Trust me on that.
1678
01:40:15.520 --> 01:40:19.340
That is going in our lifetime. In our lifetime, we
1679
01:40:19.359 --> 01:40:21.840
will see a Super Bowl in Saudi Arabia, just like
1680
01:40:21.859 --> 01:40:24.140
we're going to see a WrestleMania or we saw a
1681
01:40:24.140 --> 01:40:30.699
WrestleMania in Saudi Arabia. Absolutely. It will happen. Right-leaning organizations,
1682
01:40:30.739 --> 01:40:35.069
which the NFL is and WWE is, absolutely have no
1683
01:40:35.149 --> 01:40:38.390
problem getting in bed with the Saudis or Middle Eastern money.
1684
01:40:38.409 --> 01:40:41.510
Absolutely no problem. So I don't think we'll ever see
1685
01:40:41.529 --> 01:40:45.399
an NBA Finals. in Saudi Arabia, depending on who becomes commissioner.
1686
01:40:45.699 --> 01:40:47.939
But we'll absolutely see a Super Bowl. Trust me on that.
1687
01:40:50.739 --> 01:40:52.939
Salbar says, I'm glad Ryan Coogler is making Black Panther
1688
01:40:52.939 --> 01:40:55.590
3 on film. Why aren't more MCU movies made on film?
1689
01:40:55.750 --> 01:40:57.869
Why is it always digital? That's a good question. I
1690
01:40:57.909 --> 01:41:00.210
don't know, to be honest with you. I think it's
1691
01:41:00.229 --> 01:41:06.090
about expenses, cost, the amount of money it takes to
1692
01:41:06.109 --> 01:41:08.609
make those, and wanting to take advantage of technology because
1693
01:41:08.630 --> 01:41:11.640
there's so much technology in these films. So the idea
1694
01:41:11.680 --> 01:41:14.979
of using, you know, shooting on film, I think is
1695
01:41:15.020 --> 01:41:19.640
an issue. And film is expensive. So digital is easier.
1696
01:41:20.180 --> 01:41:21.619
And so if you're going to crank out as many
1697
01:41:21.659 --> 01:41:25.060
movies as the MCU cranks out and TV shows, you
1698
01:41:25.079 --> 01:41:28.470
got to cut expenses somewhere. And certainly with Iger coming
1699
01:41:28.479 --> 01:41:30.789
in and saying, we need to cut budgets. First place
1700
01:41:30.810 --> 01:41:33.050
you cut the budget is film stock. So it just
1701
01:41:33.069 --> 01:41:36.789
makes sense. Not film stock, actually, film stock. Derek says,
1702
01:41:36.810 --> 01:41:38.750
I love how crazy this all is. We are literally
1703
01:41:38.829 --> 01:41:41.760
in the craziest timeline, Elo. We are, dude. We are,
1704
01:41:41.800 --> 01:41:44.020
and we can't see straight. We fucking can't see straight
1705
01:41:44.039 --> 01:41:47.079
from the timeline. You're so right, bro. Thanks again, Derek,
1706
01:41:47.100 --> 01:41:49.239
for all the donations you're making, man. I really appreciate you.
1707
01:41:49.619 --> 01:41:51.850
And appreciate you guys. Everybody's joining me now. Well over
1708
01:41:51.850 --> 01:41:55.930
200 people. Thank you. Poochute Riot says, Hey, Roka, since
1709
01:41:55.949 --> 01:41:58.329
you loved Resident Evil so much, I'd recommend trying playing
1710
01:41:58.350 --> 01:42:02.029
the games. Highly recommend the Resident Evil 4 remake. It's
1711
01:42:02.029 --> 01:42:05.289
$ 20 for PS5 at Walmart. Take care, man. Hey, let
1712
01:42:05.310 --> 01:42:10.529
me put that on my Amazon list. Resident Evil. I
1713
01:42:10.569 --> 01:42:12.869
tried to buy Wolverine today. Let me tell you, they
1714
01:42:12.890 --> 01:42:16.149
had 40 fucking copies at my GameStop. They have no
1715
01:42:16.250 --> 01:42:19.760
copies of Onimusha, Way of the Sword, but they have
1716
01:42:19.760 --> 01:42:24.720
40 copies of Wolverine. That tells you that reviews still
1717
01:42:24.760 --> 01:42:28.340
fucking matter. Reviews still matter for a lot of things
1718
01:42:29.720 --> 01:42:34.560
in our world. So, let's see. Resident Evil... What is it?
1719
01:42:34.590 --> 01:42:37.350
The remake? What would I know that as on Walmart?
1720
01:42:37.369 --> 01:42:43.199
I don't know... Is it Requiem? Is that the remake?
1721
01:42:43.270 --> 01:42:45.670
Is Requiem the remake? Or is it Resident Evil 4
1722
01:42:45.670 --> 01:42:49.449
or Resident Evil 7? Biohazard? Tell me which one it
1723
01:42:49.590 --> 01:42:54.210
is and I will put it on my list. God,
1724
01:42:54.229 --> 01:42:57.739
they have so many. Resident Evil Village? Wow, there's a
1725
01:42:57.779 --> 01:43:00.659
lot of these. All right, anyway, let me know which
1726
01:43:00.720 --> 01:43:02.899
one is Poochoo, right? Put it in the chat. Which
1727
01:43:02.960 --> 01:43:04.920
one is it? Oh, Resident Evil 4? Is that the
1728
01:43:04.979 --> 01:43:09.250
one he's talking about? Resident Evil 4? Okay. Okay. That
1729
01:43:09.329 --> 01:43:15.270
is $ 16 on Amazon. Resident Evil 4. All right. I
1730
01:43:15.300 --> 01:43:19.560
just added it to my cart. God, I wish I could.
1731
01:43:19.800 --> 01:43:22.619
Onimusha is impossible. I can't find it anywhere. I've gone
1732
01:43:22.659 --> 01:43:24.520
to all the GameStops in the area. They don't have
1733
01:43:24.539 --> 01:43:26.819
them in stock. All the Targets, all the Best Buys,
1734
01:43:27.439 --> 01:43:30.649
nowhere in stock. And on Amazon, it's not coming back
1735
01:43:30.699 --> 01:43:33.149
in stock until the middle of October. So it is rough.
1736
01:43:34.319 --> 01:43:36.279
I even was going to go the $ 5 extra for
1737
01:43:36.300 --> 01:43:38.939
the exclusive edition or whatever, and I couldn't find it.
1738
01:43:40.239 --> 01:43:43.439
But thanks for the suggestion, Poochoo. Eriks96 says, DC Comics
1739
01:43:43.479 --> 01:43:46.699
under MAGA. This is a sad day. It feels like
1740
01:43:46.840 --> 01:43:48.859
evil is winning a lot as of late. Where do
1741
01:43:48.880 --> 01:43:51.039
you see hope, John? Thanks for the breakdown. Eriks, I
1742
01:43:51.060 --> 01:43:53.600
see hope in this, that the numbers for the midterm
1743
01:43:53.619 --> 01:43:58.000
show very clearly that the Democrats are going to take
1744
01:43:58.020 --> 01:44:00.229
control of the House, possibly take control of the Senate.
1745
01:44:00.970 --> 01:44:03.489
you see that Trump is desperate, which is why he's
1746
01:44:03.550 --> 01:44:06.670
kicked out all the journalists that report on him fairly
1747
01:44:07.149 --> 01:44:10.789
and launched his own state-run TV because they're scared. They're
1748
01:44:10.869 --> 01:44:13.590
all scared. Trump keeps saying he's going to pardon anybody
1749
01:44:13.609 --> 01:44:15.710
who's within 100 feet of the White House, and they're
1750
01:44:15.869 --> 01:44:19.829
using the Biden pardons as an excuse. But of course,
1751
01:44:19.930 --> 01:44:22.909
Biden pardoned people because he knew that the Republicans were
1752
01:44:22.970 --> 01:44:26.989
going to launch bad faith investigations to try to throw
1753
01:44:27.109 --> 01:44:32.920
Biden's people in jail, including Biden. And so So they're
1754
01:44:33.039 --> 01:44:36.020
using that legitimate pardons that Biden did because he knew
1755
01:44:36.359 --> 01:44:39.640
that MAGA is corrupt as fuck. And they're using that
1756
01:44:39.720 --> 01:44:43.220
to pardon everybody who's doing dirty things in the White House.
1757
01:44:43.239 --> 01:44:46.970
I mean, Katie Miller come out and say how they're
1758
01:44:47.239 --> 01:44:49.550
going to lose all their money defending themselves from all
1759
01:44:49.569 --> 01:44:53.789
these court cases if Democrats get into power. They're trying everything.
1760
01:44:53.989 --> 01:44:57.170
They're trying everything. Laura Ingraham is out here, who's supposedly
1761
01:44:57.189 --> 01:45:01.180
an unbiased journalist, is out here telling The Republicans, they
1762
01:45:01.189 --> 01:45:04.100
need to spend double what they're spending on ads for
1763
01:45:04.119 --> 01:45:07.899
the midterm. So to me, I think watching them scramble
1764
01:45:07.979 --> 01:45:11.380
and get scared and try to rig stuff, that shows
1765
01:45:11.420 --> 01:45:14.430
you that the tide is turning, that people are no
1766
01:45:14.470 --> 01:45:17.289
longer listening to their nonsense. There's still the 20% to
1767
01:45:17.289 --> 01:45:21.189
25% of people who are just brainwashed and zombies from MAGA,
1768
01:45:21.649 --> 01:45:24.569
but a majority of people are not listening anymore. And
1769
01:45:24.649 --> 01:45:27.060
that is why he's freaking out and going crazy. And
1770
01:45:27.100 --> 01:45:29.359
he feels the loss. He's losing power. He knows it.
1771
01:45:30.159 --> 01:45:34.039
I mean, that representative, Salazar, who is corrupt as they come,
1772
01:45:34.760 --> 01:45:37.060
she came out and was like, you did terrible things
1773
01:45:37.119 --> 01:45:39.689
with the immigrants and blah, blah, blah. And she's turned
1774
01:45:39.729 --> 01:45:42.710
from Trump, even though she supported his agenda all the
1775
01:45:42.729 --> 01:45:45.369
way up until she was about to get reelected. So, yeah,
1776
01:45:45.550 --> 01:45:47.529
I think there's hope to be had in that way.
1777
01:45:47.949 --> 01:45:50.869
What we need, though, is people in power who are
1778
01:45:50.930 --> 01:45:54.449
willing to fight. And I don't think Hakeem Jeffries, who's
1779
01:45:54.560 --> 01:46:00.380
meeting with Jared Kushner on airplanes, or what's his... fucking
1780
01:46:00.399 --> 01:46:02.159
face from New York. I don't think any of those
1781
01:46:02.199 --> 01:46:07.050
guys are the tough people we need in power. AOC,
1782
01:46:07.529 --> 01:46:12.229
Bernie Sanders, the progressive wing of the Democrats, Ariana Presley,
1783
01:46:12.289 --> 01:46:16.020
the squad, these ladies fight. Make fun of them all
1784
01:46:16.060 --> 01:46:19.100
you want. I don't give a shit. They fight. And
1785
01:46:19.220 --> 01:46:22.520
I love that. You know, and I wish Moskowitz hadn't
1786
01:46:22.720 --> 01:46:24.779
kind of conceded certain things. He was a guy I
1787
01:46:24.800 --> 01:46:28.069
had on my list. Or Jasmine Crockett really selling herself
1788
01:46:28.170 --> 01:46:32.439
out there down in Texas, not supporting Tallarico. It's really unfortunate.
1789
01:46:33.239 --> 01:46:35.699
I want fighters who are going to fight for our agenda,
1790
01:46:35.739 --> 01:46:37.520
fight for what's good for this country, what's good for
1791
01:46:37.600 --> 01:46:41.829
people in this country. Not an exclusive club that the
1792
01:46:41.890 --> 01:46:44.569
Republicans want to turn this country into. They are the elite,
1793
01:46:44.649 --> 01:46:46.930
as John Ossoff said. John Ossoff is another one, great fighter,
1794
01:46:47.510 --> 01:46:49.970
who said they're the elites. The Republicans are now the elites,
1795
01:46:49.989 --> 01:46:54.680
and it's true. Derek says, there will definitely be editorial
1796
01:46:54.720 --> 01:46:56.899
independents picked by the same people who selected the new
1797
01:46:56.939 --> 01:47:00.800
Kennedy Center Board, which will provide Complete and utter independence.
1798
01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:04.039
Hands off, no bias reviews whatsoever. Yeah, exactly. I'm picking
1799
01:47:04.060 --> 01:47:07.439
up your sarcasm, Derek, for sure. You know, I found
1800
01:47:07.520 --> 01:47:12.260
out that Robert Kraft's wife is a member of the board.
1801
01:47:12.279 --> 01:47:16.079
I think she's like 60 years younger than he is
1802
01:47:16.140 --> 01:47:19.180
or something, something big, some big number like that. She
1803
01:47:19.260 --> 01:47:24.590
sits on the Kennedy Center board. And she was part
1804
01:47:24.810 --> 01:47:26.949
of approving Trump wanting to put his name on the
1805
01:47:26.989 --> 01:47:30.739
Kennedy Center. And so tell me that Robert Kraft doesn't
1806
01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:33.760
have something invested in going after Macklemore. See, nothing's in
1807
01:47:33.779 --> 01:47:38.800
a bubble, everybody. Everything is connected. Everything is political. No
1808
01:47:38.819 --> 01:47:41.069
matter what people try to tell you, everything is political.
1809
01:47:43.090 --> 01:47:45.430
Derek Johnson says, one, I'm going to take some heat
1810
01:47:45.470 --> 01:47:47.729
for these next two super chats, LOL. Everybody needs to
1811
01:47:47.750 --> 01:47:50.289
get off Ed Sheeran's butt. As I said, he got
1812
01:47:50.329 --> 01:47:52.229
placed in a difficult position by the real villain here,
1813
01:47:52.250 --> 01:47:55.979
Robert Kraft, who actually silenced the speech. Well, I will
1814
01:47:56.020 --> 01:47:59.069
say this to you, Derek. If he had come out
1815
01:47:59.130 --> 01:48:01.890
and said, I do not support what my touring company
1816
01:48:02.050 --> 01:48:05.170
is doing, I do not support what Robert Kraft is doing,
1817
01:48:05.550 --> 01:48:08.560
but he was at Robert Kraft's wedding. So if he
1818
01:48:08.600 --> 01:48:11.199
had come out a little more firmer and stood behind
1819
01:48:11.260 --> 01:48:15.840
Macklemore and said, I'm going to cancel my concerts or
1820
01:48:15.920 --> 01:48:20.989
postpone my concerts until we figure this out. that would
1821
01:48:21.029 --> 01:48:24.729
have been the move. What he did with that fake
1822
01:48:24.770 --> 01:48:28.699
apology and those crocodile tears, I think there is blame
1823
01:48:28.739 --> 01:48:32.000
to go around for Ed Sheeran. When he says something like,
1824
01:48:32.359 --> 01:48:35.859
now I know who my friends are, essentially implying that
1825
01:48:35.899 --> 01:48:38.760
people who didn't stand by him are not his friends.
1826
01:48:39.670 --> 01:48:42.069
God forbid they stand for their principles and morals and
1827
01:48:42.210 --> 01:48:45.430
ethics in this world, and he implies that they're not
1828
01:48:45.449 --> 01:48:47.909
his friends, then yes, there is blame to go around
1829
01:48:47.949 --> 01:48:50.770
for Ed Sheeran. When he is claiming that he might
1830
01:48:50.810 --> 01:48:54.359
be attacked during a concert, which when nobody would get
1831
01:48:54.420 --> 01:48:57.479
points for attacking Ed Sheeran in a concert, that little
1832
01:48:58.060 --> 01:49:02.500
simpy performer, come on. And then him crying at the
1833
01:49:02.539 --> 01:49:05.159
end of his concert about having to make an apology,
1834
01:49:05.199 --> 01:49:09.130
like he made it all about him. So yes, absolutely.
1835
01:49:09.149 --> 01:49:11.470
There is blame to go around and there's blame left
1836
01:49:11.569 --> 01:49:14.569
over residue for Ed Sheeran. But I agree with you though,
1837
01:49:15.029 --> 01:49:17.850
that Robert Kraft is the one who really should get
1838
01:49:18.069 --> 01:49:21.189
our ire. The man who gets hand jobs and God
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knows what else and massage parlors in Florida and him
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colluding with other NFL owners to put the pressure on
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the touring company to kick Macklemore off the tour. That's
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absolutely true. where you should be putting the blame. But
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there's enough blame for Ed Sheeran, too. Stop looking at
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athletes and entertainers to be your freaking role models and
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arbiters of morality. I agree with you on that. Stop
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expecting them to be something more than they are if
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all they want to do is sing or act. Let
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them do that. Sure, but he inserted himself in the situation, bro. Like,
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he also inserted himself in the situation. He has come
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out in support of Ukraine. So this whole thing where
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he said he was not a political person, he doesn't
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choose sides, is bullshit. He fights for, as Saturday Night
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Live called him out, he fights for the causes that
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are safe to fight for, that everyone else supports as well.
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He doesn't take a stand. You know, people taking a
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stand for Gaza, they are risking themselves, just like people
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are taking a stand for Israel. They are risking themselves.
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It's a very complex situation. And there is a history
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on both sides of horrible acts being done to both sides.
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I'm not trying to both sides the argument. I'm trying
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to put it in a historical context. Currently, yes. What's
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happening in Gaza right now is horrific. Absolutely. But there
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are examples of the same things happening in the past
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to Jews in Israel. So it is a long history
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of this stuff that's been happening for a very long time.
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Michael McKenzie says, glad you dig Resident Evil. What's the
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scariest game you played? I don't play scary games, bro.
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It's not my thing. I just don't. I barely go
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to horrors. So I would never buy a scary game.
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video game. Maybe, maybe I'll buy, I haven't even bought
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last of us. And I've had those two in my
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hands multiple times and never pulled the trigger. Like for
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black Friday, I think last year, two years ago, they
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were like, they had dropped them down to like 25
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or $ 30 at Best Buy, both of them. And I
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almost bought them. And I was like, am I really
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going to play this? But you know, I think maybe
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it's time to break that, uh, break that Schneid. So
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The scariest game I ever played is probably Madden because
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I can never figure out how to be successful in Madden.
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It's so frustrating. I played hours of Madden and whenever
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I go to the top level, I get my ass
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kicked and I never could be good at it. Wiley says,
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I watched The Shining for the first time this week
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and I've been told by everyone in my life that
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this movie is terrifying, but I didn't get scared at all.
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But I do hear Doctor Sleep is more scary. Well,
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it's more mentally terrifying. That film is scary on a
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mental level that he would You know, that there's a
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spirit in that hotel that could drive someone crazy enough
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to kill their family, right? That's what the film is
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really exploring is the weakness of mind and how a
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good person can easily be influenced to do evil in
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the world if they allow themselves to be influenced by
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outside forces. And you see that with him. Let me
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recommend the documentary Room 237, which we talk about on Cinefiles.
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While I know you've heard it, I hope you watch
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that documentary as an interesting sidebar to The Shining. I
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almost put it on again last night. I love that documentary, though.
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But I have not seen Dr. Sleep. I might do
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that as a reaction video down the road with my channel,
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which is going to be doing more reactions very soon.
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I can think of one entertainment journalist who is crazy
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enough to buck the system, but he has no idea
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how business works. And that's my opinion. Who would be
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that entertainment journalist? Who has no idea how business works?
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Let me know. I'd love to know who that is.
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Because I hope you're not talking to me. I don't
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consider myself a journalist. I don't investigate stories. I don't
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write articles. Those are journalists. Jeff's a journalist. I am
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not a journalist. But I do have an idea about
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how business works. This is my business. So I hope
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you're not talking about me. I have two black hands.
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It says, DC owned by Magamount. I think I'll just
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check out. Yeah, we'll see. We'll have to see. We
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have to keep an open mind to see what happens.
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But open mind with a very raised eyebrow and arms folded.
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So Brian VR, Aether says, sending support. Thank you, Brian.
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Appreciate you, man. Thank you so much. Chef Rego says,
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in a realistic world, does Snyderverse return now? Fuck no.
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These people still want to make money. I don't think
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they would bring Snyder back. to do a film, take
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over the DC universe. Maybe they bring him back to
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do an Elseworlds live-action Kingdom Come. That could be a
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lot of fun. Maybe you convince Cavill to come back,
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Gal Gadot, maybe Ben, down the road. If you're going
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to have Saudi money, you can offer them all kinds.
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As we see with the Saudi Football League, for those
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who watch football and soccer, they offer all kinds of
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money that has been football players or football players past
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their prime to come and elevate their league. So if
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you've got that Saudi money, maybe you can buy Cavill,
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buy Affleck, buy Gal Gadot to come back, Momoa as Aquaman,
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and risk Ezra back as Flash, and you do a
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Kingdom Come. It's very possible. But I don't think the
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Snyderverse returns at all, no. They want to make money,
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and I don't think Snyderverse makes money anymore. Kajus says,
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I appreciate the point you made on the Harloff show
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regarding the privilege of white heterosexual males in the political space.
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Continue speaking. The truth. Yeah. Thank you, KJ. I appreciate that.
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Yet I wasn't saying that white men are terrible. I
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was saying that white straight men are born with certain
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inherent perks in our society. Because they're not snatching white
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straight males off the street and sending them off to
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different countries. They're not restricting white straight males from having
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sex and putting them in jail if their babies get aborted.
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That's the women they're putting in jail, right? Not the
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men who impregnated them. Even if the men might agree
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with the abortion... The men are not being put in jail.
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It's the women are being threatened with jail. So these
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are these things, these perks, right? It doesn't mean that
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white men don't suffer. White men don't have issues, financial problems, divorces,
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don't get sexually abused as children. Of course, everybody has
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a tough life or I kind of have a tough life.
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Not everybody. You know, as we saw with Cindy Crawford's son,
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if what they're suggesting happened to the poor man, He
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had all the perks and possibilities in the world as
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a white male kid in the world. And addiction, it
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looks like, I don't know that they've officially said that,
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but it looks like addiction got the better of him.
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It just proves that, right? All I'm saying is that
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if you're born in this world as a straight white male,
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you have certain inherent advantages that other people don't have.
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And it does not mean that your life is somehow easier.
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It doesn't. It just means that there are some things
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that you will be able to do a little easier
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than other people. And that's all I was trying to highlight.
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But I appreciate it, KJ. Thank you. Thank you, Derek.
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Much love, bro. Thank you so much. What a very,
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very kind donation, bro. Much love to you. I appreciate you,
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my man. Thanks for all the stuff you sent tonight, dude. Derek,
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you mean the world to me. Thank you, dude. Isaac
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Rocky says, one of the most ridiculous defenses of this
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merger I've heard is that David Ellison loves movies and
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the industry. Yeah, I wonder where you heard that defense.
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So what? I guarantee he loves money and spreading his
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political leanings more. I guarantee that as well, Isaac Rocky.
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I think people who say that David Ellison loves movies
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and the industry, I think they're protecting their bottom line.
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I think they're using that as cover for not seeing
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the other things that David Ellison has done in the
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industry and the political leanings of his family. I think
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they're using that as cover. And I include Tom Cruise
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in that, who I love to pieces. It is the
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one actor I will not talk shit about. It is
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the one superstar. He has just been such a valuable
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part of my life. I know Scientology. I know all
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the stuff behind the scenes. He is my one kryptonite
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in the world. I just won't. I love him too much.
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He means too much to me. I literally fought to
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get into CinemaCon for the first time ever in my
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life so I could see Top Gun Maverick before anyone
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else did. And I spent $ 2, 000 that month on a hotel, food, gas,
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and anything else that I bought there just so I
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could see Top Gun, Maverick ahead of everybody else. I
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can't say anything, but I agree that these defenses of
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the merger about Love's movie, I think that's all a cop-out.
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None of these people have met David Ellison other than Dom, obviously.
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But a lot of these journalists who are defending it,
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including my brother Snyder, have never sat down and met
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David Ellison and had a cogent conversation with him about
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his love of movies. They're all just putting their feelings
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about what they think David Ellison thinks about movies onto him,
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but they have no actual knowledge of that with him.
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Michael McKenzie says, if you were looking for great horror
2006
01:58:25.100 --> 01:58:28.279
games to get into, Get Dead Space is absolutely amazing.
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You'll love it. You know what was available today at GameStop?
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Because GameStop was selling, like if you sign up for
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their thing, you get like $ 10 off two games. I
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almost did it, but I couldn't find a second game
2011
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because I said Onimusha was not there. But I saw
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Death Stranding 2 was there. Is that a good game?
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Is that a horror game? Should I get Death Stranding
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1 and Death Stranding 2? Should I try Death Stranding 2?
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Let me know. I want to try these games out
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and have some fun with them because I really enjoyed
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Getting back into games with the Ghosts of Yotei and...
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Oh my God, why can't I remember the other one?
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The first one, which is what got me back into games. Tsushima,
2020
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Ghosts of Tsushima. Those two games got me back into
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gaming single-handedly. I've always played FIFA. I've always played Madden
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and the new college football game. Those are fun. But
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actual game games with storylines, the Tsushima and Yotei games
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were just life-changing for me. I have bought... The James
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Bond one, I have bought the French one that came
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out as well, but I haven't played them yet. So
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you're saying Death Stranding is a very... Wiley says it's
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very slow and a lot of traveling. Oh, okay. Okay.
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JK says it doesn't amount to much low value. What
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is what gives the privilege? Everett Joshimo is nothing special,
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no privilege. no, you have a little bit of privilege. Okay,
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so I think that's all the questions. Oh, Wayne. Hey, Wayne.
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What's up, Wayne? I always love seeing you, Wayne. Thank
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you so much. Wayne says, good evening. This is a
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disappointing day. I agree with you, brother. Bonta wanted to
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fight the good fight. He was stabbed in the back
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by Newsom and other California politicians 100%. And the guilds
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folded as well. This may all blow up in Ellison's
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face in three years. I hope so. I hope so.
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We'll see. I'm not holding my breath, but we'll see, man.
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We'll see. Let me see if I've got any stream
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labs that have come through. Thanks for the spoiler review.
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Got to show my support. Oh, that was from a... Sorry,
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that was yesterday. Fred sent a new one today. Hey, Outlaw,
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I wonder how much longer the Saudis are going to
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keep their money in the merger while they're getting pounded
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by the Houthis. Also, fuck the gas prices and the
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dumb fucks who were soulless and voted for it. I
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don't disagree. I don't think these people voted for the
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Iranian war, which is why they're turning on Trump. But
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you had to know at some point that madman was
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going to do something stupid, that jack prices back up.
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Anyone who believed a rich, out of touch, spoiled little
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shit was going to reduce prices for people he doesn't
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give a fuck about is insane. And all these people
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who think that he cares about America, he doesn't care
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about us at all, bro. He doesn't. He's selling the
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country out piece by piece. So. I agree with you
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to an extent, bro. Lou, what's up, Lou? Good to
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see you, brother. Thank you so much. He says, hi, John.
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I love your analysis of the current situation. I'm equally
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frustrated as you, and it feels like all is lost.
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I feel bad about Paramount because I love Strange New Worlds,
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and I think I have to cancel the subscription once
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the current season is done. On a different note, I
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bought tickets to Street Fighter today. It's generally a movie
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I'm very excited about. I hope it's going to be good.
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What's your take on it? And are you going to
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see it opening night? Well, I'm going to see it screener,
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02:01:51.760 --> 02:01:54.260
I'm sure. So I will see it ahead of opening.
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02:01:54.279 --> 02:01:55.920
I don't know if I'll go opening night, but I'll certainly,
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I'm looking forward to the screening for it. I might
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02:01:59.340 --> 02:02:03.640
even buy that popcorn bucket, which I think is great
2074
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because I love Cody Rhodes and the fact that he's,
2075
02:02:07.239 --> 02:02:10.520
they're using his head, I think is great. So I
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02:02:10.579 --> 02:02:12.020
am excited about it. I think they released a new
2077
02:02:12.060 --> 02:02:13.739
clip this morning, which looks like a lot of fun.
2078
02:02:14.479 --> 02:02:16.789
So yes, I'm in on the Street Fighter. I think
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it's going to be way better than Masters of the Universe.
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02:02:19.529 --> 02:02:20.909
And it looks like it's going to be a lot
2081
02:02:20.930 --> 02:02:24.770
of fun. I'm sorry you feel like you have to
2082
02:02:24.789 --> 02:02:28.010
cancel your Paramount Plus subscription. I hear you. But like
2083
02:02:28.050 --> 02:02:31.149
I said, we have to keep an open mind. But
2084
02:02:31.189 --> 02:02:33.430
the second you start to see them turn right wing,
2085
02:02:33.449 --> 02:02:35.170
you start to hear the stories, all this kind of stuff,
2086
02:02:35.649 --> 02:02:39.770
then absolutely cancel the fuck away. Cancel everything. But until
2087
02:02:39.810 --> 02:02:45.590
they show you that they're going to be a MAGA-infused network,
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02:02:46.310 --> 02:02:48.010
I think you have every right to stick around for
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a little bit to see what happens. So just have
2090
02:02:50.970 --> 02:02:53.829
a little faith. Because this season of Strange New Worlds,
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02:02:53.909 --> 02:02:56.010
I'm going to catch up tonight, I think, has been
2092
02:02:56.029 --> 02:02:58.109
a lot of fun. It's so much better than last season,
2093
02:02:58.149 --> 02:03:00.170
which got to be a bit of a drag. I
2094
02:03:00.210 --> 02:03:03.270
kind of like what's happening with Strange New Worlds this season.
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02:03:03.310 --> 02:03:05.729
So I hope you are too, bro. And anyone who's
2096
02:03:05.750 --> 02:03:08.710
watching who likes that season as well. Fred says, I'm
2097
02:03:08.729 --> 02:03:10.869
in Texas and the best thing for Tallarico to win
2098
02:03:10.890 --> 02:03:13.090
the seat is for Jasmine to not show support because
2099
02:03:13.109 --> 02:03:15.689
it doesn't matter if the white man is a Democrat
2100
02:03:15.710 --> 02:03:17.939
or not, they will vote against him because remember, they
2101
02:03:18.060 --> 02:03:22.600
are stupid people. Who is he talking about? Oh, the Republicans?
2102
02:03:24.039 --> 02:03:26.140
I don't know who Fred is talking about here. I'm
2103
02:03:26.159 --> 02:03:28.060
in Texas and the best thing for Tallarico is for
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02:03:28.100 --> 02:03:31.060
Jasmine to not show support because it doesn't matter if
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02:03:31.539 --> 02:03:35.279
the man is a Democrat or not, they will vote
2106
02:03:35.300 --> 02:03:37.449
against him because remember, they are stupid people. I don't
2107
02:03:37.470 --> 02:03:39.449
think that's true. I don't think that's true at all.
2108
02:03:39.729 --> 02:03:42.409
I think people would absolutely give Tallarico a shot. I
2109
02:03:42.439 --> 02:03:45.640
think he's making inroads like crazy with people as well.
2110
02:03:45.859 --> 02:03:52.890
So we will see. Okay. Oh, Wayne sent another one here.
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02:03:52.899 --> 02:03:54.569
Thank you, Wayne. On a lighter note, you are killing
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it on your live lantern show on Sunday nights. Thank you, Wayne.
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02:03:57.210 --> 02:04:00.029
I meant to join last night. Lanterns and lioness are amazing.
2114
02:04:00.609 --> 02:04:02.810
Did you ever start watching dark matter? I have not.
2115
02:04:04.000 --> 02:04:07.319
And the reason is because we started watching Legends on Netflix,
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02:04:07.539 --> 02:04:10.340
which is an excellent fucking show. Like, if you guys
2117
02:04:10.380 --> 02:04:13.520
aren't watching Legends, I highly recommend it. Right now, we're
2118
02:04:13.539 --> 02:04:16.520
two episodes away from finishing it. It is such a
2119
02:04:16.539 --> 02:04:19.640
good show. And it's basically set during the early 90s
2120
02:04:19.859 --> 02:04:23.920
in Britain. And Steve Coogan, yes, Steve Coogan from fucking
2121
02:04:23.960 --> 02:04:29.890
Tropic Thunder, plays this former undercover DEA, their version, customs agent,
2122
02:04:29.909 --> 02:04:32.409
I guess, DEA agent, there in Britain, who puts together
2123
02:04:32.449 --> 02:04:37.029
this task force. to go after the drugs in Britain
2124
02:04:37.649 --> 02:04:42.029
and find the drug dealers in Liverpool, London. And it
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02:04:42.090 --> 02:04:45.220
is so well acted, so well written, so well directed.
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02:04:45.920 --> 02:04:47.779
So once we're done with that, I'm going to turn
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to dark matter because I have both. I think both
2128
02:04:50.720 --> 02:04:52.899
seasons are, I have all the screeners for dark matter
2129
02:04:52.920 --> 02:04:55.640
season two. I don't know if all this episodes are out,
2130
02:04:56.189 --> 02:04:58.210
but I will absolutely be turning the dark matter. I
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02:04:58.229 --> 02:05:02.479
need another show to dive into for sure, man. Thank you, Wayne.
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02:05:02.619 --> 02:05:04.260
Much love to you, brother. And thanks for watching my land.
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02:05:04.279 --> 02:05:06.159
Thanks to everybody who's watching right now, who watches my
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02:05:06.199 --> 02:05:08.199
lanterns reviews. It means I, you know, I always get
2135
02:05:08.220 --> 02:05:10.319
nervous that people are going to show up and we
2136
02:05:10.359 --> 02:05:12.239
always get a good crowd of people to shows up every,
2137
02:05:12.399 --> 02:05:15.239
every Sunday to have a fun conversation with the show.
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02:05:15.270 --> 02:05:17.199
And then people watch it later. It gets thousands of
2139
02:05:17.270 --> 02:05:19.710
views afterwards, which it means a lot to me as
2140
02:05:19.770 --> 02:05:21.529
I keep building here on the channel. So thank you.
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02:05:21.550 --> 02:05:23.069
And thanks to everybody who's joining me tonight as well.
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02:05:23.449 --> 02:05:27.369
Appreciate you guys, Matt. All right. So we're at over
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02:05:27.430 --> 02:05:29.689
two hours. I had a couple of things I wanted
2144
02:05:29.729 --> 02:05:32.180
to talk about as well. Do you guys want me
2145
02:05:32.199 --> 02:05:34.760
to stick around for a couple more minutes, or are
2146
02:05:34.779 --> 02:05:36.939
we good to shut the show down? What do you
2147
02:05:36.979 --> 02:05:40.079
guys think? And maybe we'll talk about this other stuff
2148
02:05:40.100 --> 02:05:41.859
with the Geek Buddies. Well, I think we should talk
2149
02:05:43.729 --> 02:05:48.010
about this, though. We should talk about this. Where is it?
2150
02:05:48.069 --> 02:05:50.649
Where do I have it? Because I had this on
2151
02:05:50.710 --> 02:05:54.050
the title. So, yeah, Daredevil Born. So let's move on.
2152
02:05:54.060 --> 02:05:56.220
So that's the merger. Let's move on to Daredevil Born again.
2153
02:05:56.239 --> 02:06:00.840
It is being canceled. After season three, this is from
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02:06:01.600 --> 02:06:06.640
Boris Kitt, Rick Porter over at The Hollywood Reporter. Third
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02:06:06.659 --> 02:06:08.380
season of Daredevil Born Again is about to come out,
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02:06:08.399 --> 02:06:11.140
will be its last one, sources tell THR. The decision
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02:06:11.180 --> 02:06:13.500
comes about two months after the Marvel Studios show wrapped
2158
02:06:13.539 --> 02:06:17.020
its third season. The move also comes as Marvel has
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02:06:17.180 --> 02:06:21.739
quietly parted ways with showrunner Dario Scardapain, whose contract was
2160
02:06:21.819 --> 02:06:24.779
up and was not renewed. The parting of ways is
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02:06:24.800 --> 02:06:27.359
a bit eyebrow-raising as it means that Scarlet Pain is
2162
02:06:27.619 --> 02:06:31.300
exiting the show in the middle of post-production. It is
2163
02:06:31.380 --> 02:06:34.199
unclear who will see the show through to completion. One
2164
02:06:34.239 --> 02:06:39.649
source said the post-production is in final stages. Anyways, so yeah,
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02:06:39.670 --> 02:06:41.909
Daredevil Morning God has had a somewhat rocky run since
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02:06:41.949 --> 02:06:46.090
Disney Plus revived the series is what Boris Kidd is
2167
02:06:46.149 --> 02:06:52.750
reporting here. It initially ran for three seasons on Netflix.
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And it was greenlit for an 18 episode season with
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02:06:56.100 --> 02:06:58.920
Matt Corman and Chris Ord as head writers. Production stopped
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02:06:59.119 --> 02:07:00.739
right during the strike and then Scar to Pain was
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02:07:00.779 --> 02:07:03.399
brought in. But the second season, in my opinion, wasn't
2172
02:07:03.500 --> 02:07:07.189
any better than the first season. And so it became
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02:07:07.229 --> 02:07:08.970
an issue. I think in the end, they just couldn't
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02:07:08.989 --> 02:07:12.609
get this Daredevil thing right. I think that they couldn't
2175
02:07:12.630 --> 02:07:14.670
get this. What's going on here? They couldn't get this
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02:07:14.689 --> 02:07:18.210
Daredevil thing right. And in the end, that's why they're
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canceling the show. And it's a shame because they brought back,
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02:07:21.670 --> 02:07:23.810
you know, Deborah, Deborah Wall, who was great to see
2179
02:07:23.829 --> 02:07:27.470
back in our pop culture spheres, back in our geek spheres.
2180
02:07:27.890 --> 02:07:30.449
And her conversation with Jon Bernthal, one of the best
2181
02:07:30.489 --> 02:07:34.340
interviews I've ever seen. And she's a sweetheart, such a sweet.
2182
02:07:34.350 --> 02:07:36.350
She's a down to earth regular person who just happened
2183
02:07:36.380 --> 02:07:39.399
to be successful as an actress. I love her coming back.
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02:07:39.439 --> 02:07:41.100
The actor plays Foggy. It was great seeing him back,
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02:07:41.140 --> 02:07:44.300
you know, and. But yeah, I think they see that they're,
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02:07:44.579 --> 02:07:46.939
you know, just like they didn't renew Wonder Man. I
2187
02:07:46.979 --> 02:07:49.319
think they're making the cuts. You know, even Prime Video
2188
02:07:49.579 --> 02:07:53.199
cut the Hannah Waddingham show that apparently had really great
2189
02:07:53.239 --> 02:07:57.029
reviews and great numbers. um the same thing with wonder
2190
02:07:57.050 --> 02:07:59.430
man great numbers it came out but wonder man was
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02:07:59.529 --> 02:08:03.189
on fucking nielsen's how about that lanterns is doing great
2192
02:08:03.229 --> 02:08:06.039
numbers for dc for warner brothers right made the nielsen's
2193
02:08:06.079 --> 02:08:08.300
as well so i meant i'm sorry i meant lanterns
2194
02:08:08.340 --> 02:08:09.880
got on nielsen's not wonder man but wonder man had
2195
02:08:10.180 --> 02:08:11.500
they came out with the numbers of wonder man had
2196
02:08:11.520 --> 02:08:14.739
some incredible numbers viewing numbers so that narrative that it
2197
02:08:14.779 --> 02:08:17.569
didn't have good numbers can be shot to pieces So
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02:08:17.750 --> 02:08:21.210
I think there's just all these companies, I think, are
2199
02:08:21.250 --> 02:08:23.729
looking at the landscape and they're cutting where they need
2200
02:08:23.760 --> 02:08:26.359
to cut. And shows that are mixed or not performing
2201
02:08:26.380 --> 02:08:29.060
or not doing well, they're immediately cutting them. Even shows
2202
02:08:29.100 --> 02:08:30.880
that are doing well, if they don't fit where the
2203
02:08:30.939 --> 02:08:34.560
overall goal that they're going towards is, they're cutting those shows.
2204
02:08:34.920 --> 02:08:39.300
And so I think Daredevil Born Again is just an
2205
02:08:39.539 --> 02:08:45.699
extension of that, unfortunately, for everybody involved with Daredevil Born Again. So, yeah.
2206
02:08:47.000 --> 02:08:50.159
So there you go. What else do I want to
2207
02:08:50.199 --> 02:08:52.800
talk about? I know we're running out of time here.
2208
02:08:52.840 --> 02:08:54.619
Is there one other story that I do? Should I
2209
02:08:54.640 --> 02:08:55.939
stick around? You guys want me to stick around? I
2210
02:08:55.939 --> 02:08:58.279
don't know. Are people running off to go watch the
2211
02:08:58.300 --> 02:09:01.100
game or you want me to keep going? All right, Wayne,
2212
02:09:01.119 --> 02:09:02.670
I guess I can keep going for a little bit.
2213
02:09:02.710 --> 02:09:04.409
What's the score of the game? I haven't even checked.
2214
02:09:04.949 --> 02:09:07.210
During this time, I've had seven text messages come through,
2215
02:09:07.250 --> 02:09:10.310
for God's sake. So what's the score? 14 to three ramps. Oh, wow.
2216
02:09:10.810 --> 02:09:12.890
All right. I guess because what's his face is out, right?
2217
02:09:13.010 --> 02:09:16.239
Is he not quarterbacking? Uh, let me see. What's the
2218
02:09:16.300 --> 02:09:19.680
box score here is, is, uh, Oh, Jamis is in
2219
02:09:19.720 --> 02:09:21.050
that way. You ain't going to win a game with
2220
02:09:21.090 --> 02:09:24.510
James Winston. He's already threw it in reception. No surprise there. Yeah.
2221
02:09:24.550 --> 02:09:26.409
They're not going to beat the Rams. I think they
2222
02:09:26.449 --> 02:09:28.590
had a shot to beat the Rams with Jackson dart,
2223
02:09:28.609 --> 02:09:30.170
but if he's out, they don't have a shot to
2224
02:09:30.189 --> 02:09:33.909
beat the Rams now. Um, yeah, I wasn't a fan
2225
02:09:33.949 --> 02:09:35.949
of daredevil, so I'm not surprised. I didn't think it
2226
02:09:36.020 --> 02:09:40.640
was the best, uh, example of a good show. Uh,
2227
02:09:40.739 --> 02:09:42.880
and in the end, it's just too, what do you
2228
02:09:42.899 --> 02:09:46.479
call it? Too mixed, uh, to survive. So I think
2229
02:09:46.500 --> 02:09:49.739
that's what ended up being the issue. And Scar to
2230
02:09:49.760 --> 02:09:52.520
Pain not sticking around at Marvel tells me that Marvel
2231
02:09:52.539 --> 02:09:54.739
also feels like he did not do a good job
2232
02:09:54.779 --> 02:09:57.100
show running the show in the end. So it seemed
2233
02:09:57.119 --> 02:09:59.659
to be a cursed show from the beginning, because even
2234
02:09:59.699 --> 02:10:02.069
in season one, they had to change. They had to
2235
02:10:02.149 --> 02:10:04.050
reshoot the whole damn thing. So they spent a lot
2236
02:10:04.069 --> 02:10:06.810
of money on this show and did not see the return,
2237
02:10:06.949 --> 02:10:08.729
I think, that they wanted to see on the show
2238
02:10:09.649 --> 02:10:12.609
in the end. And so that's what happened there. Uh,
2239
02:10:12.680 --> 02:10:14.380
while this is Roka, what is the actor you never
2240
02:10:14.409 --> 02:10:16.300
really liked and never understood the love for? Mine is
2241
02:10:16.319 --> 02:10:18.819
Jennifer Garner. I never liked her in a movie. Really?
2242
02:10:18.840 --> 02:10:20.760
You didn't even like her at 13 going on 30. Oh,
2243
02:10:21.439 --> 02:10:23.180
I thought she was great in that, that movie. I
2244
02:10:23.220 --> 02:10:32.239
loved her in that movie. I mean her Electra, you know,
2245
02:10:32.300 --> 02:10:33.880
it leaves a lot to be desired, but I don't
2246
02:10:33.899 --> 02:10:35.659
think she's a bad actress, but I hear you, you know?
2247
02:10:38.119 --> 02:10:39.460
What is an actor you never really liked and never
2248
02:10:39.500 --> 02:10:41.779
understood the love for? I'll tell you two right now
2249
02:10:41.840 --> 02:10:46.359
that I don't get. Margaret Qualley and Dakota Johnson. I just,
2250
02:10:47.180 --> 02:10:49.680
you know, I feel nothing. I don't want to go
2251
02:10:49.720 --> 02:10:52.720
see Verity. I have no interest in that film. And
2252
02:10:52.779 --> 02:10:55.239
Margaret had a new film that came out, a new trailer.
2253
02:10:55.270 --> 02:10:57.350
I was like, I don't care what happens in this.
2254
02:10:57.449 --> 02:10:59.930
I think I started watching 30 seconds into the trailer
2255
02:10:59.949 --> 02:11:01.210
and I was like, I don't give a shit about
2256
02:11:01.250 --> 02:11:03.930
her and what's going on with her character. So That's
2257
02:11:03.970 --> 02:11:06.310
all subjective, right? I'm not saying she shouldn't work. I'm
2258
02:11:06.350 --> 02:11:07.989
not saying she doesn't have a right to have a career.
2259
02:11:08.010 --> 02:11:10.270
I think all of us have actors who we just
2260
02:11:10.329 --> 02:11:15.869
don't gravitate to, don't connect to. I wish I could
2261
02:11:15.909 --> 02:11:19.310
remember some of the other actors. I mean, I'm not
2262
02:11:19.369 --> 02:11:25.010
a fan of a lot of J-Lo stuff. God. I mean,
2263
02:11:25.029 --> 02:11:27.289
no offense to Paul Walker, but I mean, I never
2264
02:11:27.329 --> 02:11:28.789
thought he was that great of an actor and I
2265
02:11:28.869 --> 02:11:36.489
never watched anything outside the Fast and Furious movies. I
2266
02:11:36.529 --> 02:11:39.409
don't know. It's a good question. An actor I never
2267
02:11:39.470 --> 02:11:43.090
really liked and never understood the love for. I mean,
2268
02:11:43.109 --> 02:11:46.340
I'll get in trouble for this, but James Garner. I've never,
2269
02:11:46.409 --> 02:11:49.159
I mean, I was not a Rockford Files person. I
2270
02:11:49.199 --> 02:11:52.220
know people of a certain age were. I never was.
2271
02:11:52.840 --> 02:11:59.420
And even that Western he did, the Support Your Local
2272
02:12:00.300 --> 02:12:02.199
Sheriff or something, Support Your Local Gunfighter, I can't remember
2273
02:12:02.220 --> 02:12:04.369
what it was called, something like that. people are like,
2274
02:12:04.390 --> 02:12:06.050
this is a great Western comedy. I watched this. They
2275
02:12:06.069 --> 02:12:09.369
didn't laugh once. I'm just not a Garner person. Even
2276
02:12:09.430 --> 02:12:12.630
the Hour of the Gun, which is a great approach
2277
02:12:12.710 --> 02:12:16.020
to the gunfight at the OK Corral, I'm only watching
2278
02:12:16.060 --> 02:12:19.800
it for Jason Robards, really. So yeah, I'm not a
2279
02:12:19.819 --> 02:12:23.779
Garner person. Michael McKenzie, Metal Gear Solid is the game
2280
02:12:23.800 --> 02:12:25.460
that made me a gamer. A true classic and still
2281
02:12:25.500 --> 02:12:27.680
holds up years later. Snake Eater is like Rambo meets
2282
02:12:27.720 --> 02:12:30.350
Ghost of Tsushima. Ooh, interesting. All right, that's a good
2283
02:12:31.270 --> 02:12:34.529
Good possibility. Pooch Arise, a spoiler review for Resident Evil.
2284
02:12:35.130 --> 02:12:40.060
I will drop that tomorrow or Wednesday. I got a
2285
02:12:40.079 --> 02:12:42.920
lot going on, but maybe tomorrow I'll work on it
2286
02:12:42.979 --> 02:12:46.899
in the morning and drop it by noon because we
2287
02:12:46.920 --> 02:12:49.979
got the 4 p.m. we have Spill the Tequila. Or
2288
02:12:50.039 --> 02:12:52.859
maybe it might change. Winston is doing 3.30 to 4
2289
02:12:52.859 --> 02:12:56.100
on Christian's channel for that Kickstarter. So we may have
2290
02:12:56.140 --> 02:12:58.619
to push the time for Tequila to later, or maybe
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he'll be done in time to jump on it for.
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We'll see. But I haven't texted him about it, so
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02:13:02.300 --> 02:13:06.340
we'll talk about it. Ben says, Will Smith annoyed me
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02:13:06.859 --> 02:13:11.260
even before the slap. Oh, that's fair. Let's see what
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02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:13.739
else I want to talk about that I have here.
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Thanks for everybody who's sending in Streamlabs Super Chats. If
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you want to send them in, keep sending them in.
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I got two more topics to hit because I have
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pictures for them. Let's see. We talked Resident Evil. Oh,
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here's one that I'm sure we're going to talk about. Actually,
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02:13:27.069 --> 02:13:29.510
let's get to this one. The Further Adventures of Cliff Booth.
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The trailer came out today. It's going to come out
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on Netflix in November. My reaction is up on the channel.
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And all I can tell you is that it was
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02:13:38.460 --> 02:13:42.279
a fun trailer to watch. An enjoyable trailer to watch even.
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02:13:43.039 --> 02:13:45.960
But I have to say, I don't feel excited for
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02:13:46.000 --> 02:13:48.659
this one. And I thought I was going to be like, yeah.
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02:13:49.479 --> 02:13:52.029
But I came out of the trailer going, okay, I'm in.
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02:13:52.590 --> 02:13:55.329
But I'm not 100% on board. Because I don't know
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02:13:55.390 --> 02:14:00.510
that the Quentin Tarantino... script mixes with the David Fincher
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02:14:00.569 --> 02:14:04.029
style of filmmaking. I don't know that the quippy, funny,
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02:14:04.890 --> 02:14:12.600
well-written back and forth dialogue works with Fincher and his style.
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02:14:12.619 --> 02:14:16.720
Like Fincher's not used. Fincher doesn't do comedies. And there's
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02:14:16.760 --> 02:14:18.739
a lot of comedy in this trailer and the way
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02:14:18.779 --> 02:14:20.460
he's shooting it with the quick cuts and the back
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02:14:20.500 --> 02:14:23.060
and forth and the moving of the camera. It's like,
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02:14:24.289 --> 02:14:26.229
You know, that isn't what I go to a Fincher
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02:14:26.270 --> 02:14:29.409
movie for. I'm all for Fincher expanding himself and being
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02:14:29.430 --> 02:14:31.170
a great director and challenging himself. I got no problems
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with that. But I got to judge the end result.
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02:14:33.350 --> 02:14:35.909
And judging from the trailer, I don't know that it
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100% works. You know, I don't know that any director
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02:14:38.619 --> 02:14:42.079
has ever directed a Tarantino script as well as Tarantino
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02:14:42.119 --> 02:14:45.500
can direct his own script. Like True Romance, that's a
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02:14:45.939 --> 02:14:49.180
great classic 90s movie, right? People love that. Some people
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02:14:49.199 --> 02:14:51.020
hate it. I love that movie. I bought it in
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02:14:51.279 --> 02:14:54.619
4K recently from Arrow Video. I think it's half all.
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02:14:56.739 --> 02:14:59.079
I love that movie. But do I think that's a
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02:14:59.100 --> 02:15:01.840
great Tarantino film? I do not. Do I think if
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Tarantino had directed the film, it would have been a
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02:15:03.420 --> 02:15:06.979
great Tarantino film? I do. Same thing with Natural Born Killers.
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02:15:07.010 --> 02:15:11.390
I think that's a fun Oliver Stone movie. But if
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02:15:11.449 --> 02:15:15.350
Tarantino had directed Natural Born Killers, it would have had
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02:15:15.390 --> 02:15:18.920
a lot more to say. So I just never... think
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that that works. Tarantino is so unique as a screenwriter
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that I think only he can bring about the nuances
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02:15:26.130 --> 02:15:29.069
that was in his mind when he was writing the scenes.
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And I think that shows when you're watching this trailer.
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That being said, it looks like a lot of fun.
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02:15:34.569 --> 02:15:37.180
I've loved seeing Brad Pitt back. Let me put the
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02:15:37.260 --> 02:15:40.819
pictures back up of everybody who is in this movie. Yeah,
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02:15:40.859 --> 02:15:44.659
Brad Pitt looks fantastic, looks excellent back. The shot at
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02:15:44.720 --> 02:15:46.420
Rick Dalton at the end saying he got to be
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02:15:46.460 --> 02:15:48.319
too fat for him to be his double was a
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02:15:48.420 --> 02:15:51.470
fucking hell of a shot at DiCaprio. I hope that's
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02:15:51.510 --> 02:15:55.890
an inside joke between them because DiCaprio does put a
2347
02:15:55.989 --> 02:15:58.869
weight between films. But we got to see, you know,
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02:15:58.890 --> 02:16:02.810
Carla Gugino, Elizabeth DeBecky. I'm supposed to buy Scott Kahn
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02:16:02.850 --> 02:16:07.800
as this great TV superstar, I guess. And then these
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02:16:07.859 --> 02:16:10.300
two brothers who are in or two henchmen who are
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02:16:10.340 --> 02:16:13.050
in the car. I don't know their names, but I
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02:16:13.090 --> 02:16:16.250
like the shots they had of them. And then Yahya
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02:16:16.329 --> 02:16:20.090
Abdul-Mateen II, who was playing a football player. So I
2354
02:16:20.109 --> 02:16:22.890
think overall it was a fun trailer to watch, but
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02:16:22.930 --> 02:16:26.149
I'm not 100% over the moon to see it yet.
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02:16:26.850 --> 02:16:32.100
So we'll see. This other story broke, and maybe we'll
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02:16:32.120 --> 02:16:34.860
wrap up on this story, because we've talked about other things.
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But apparently, according to... Who is this? According to... Where
2359
02:16:41.829 --> 02:16:46.690
is it? Caleb Williams, entertainment journalist Caleb Williams. I want
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02:16:46.719 --> 02:16:49.379
to give credit to Caleb. He posted on X that
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02:16:49.500 --> 02:16:53.620
a director has been found for the new Star Wars
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trilogy by Simon Kinberg. Kinberg wasn't even considered to direct them.
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The scooper did not specifically say which director will helm
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02:17:03.379 --> 02:17:06.899
the project. Caleb did further claim that production is picking
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02:17:06.940 --> 02:17:10.940
up steam fast and could begin filming as early as
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02:17:11.120 --> 02:17:15.139
next week. year. However, there's no official confirmation of the
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02:17:15.180 --> 02:17:22.760
reported director or production timeline. So this is very interesting
2368
02:17:22.799 --> 02:17:27.610
because the upcoming Star Wars trilogy was first announced in 2024.
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And so if they start shooting next year, you know,
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they're going to be coming on the heels of Starfighter, right?
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02:17:33.389 --> 02:17:36.010
So will Starfighter or will it come out as they're
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02:17:36.069 --> 02:17:41.020
finishing up shooting the first installment in the trilogy? I
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02:17:41.059 --> 02:17:45.459
don't know. It'll be interesting. Someone's asking, will it include,
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02:17:45.559 --> 02:17:47.159
does it have to include race has been bad but
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02:17:47.200 --> 02:17:48.979
I hate to break to you Ben but it absolutely
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02:17:49.000 --> 02:17:51.700
is going to include Ray she will absolutely be at
2377
02:17:51.719 --> 02:17:56.860
the end of that film taking in Amy Adams his
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02:17:56.920 --> 02:18:00.270
child and Ryan Reynolds Ryan Gosling delivering him to her
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02:18:03.030 --> 02:18:06.309
so we will see but now the question becomes who
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is this director that they have found and I mean,
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02:18:10.750 --> 02:18:13.590
what have we seen recently? Fetty Alvarez has been removed
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02:18:13.790 --> 02:18:25.059
off Alien. Zach Kreger, he has said he doesn't want
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02:18:25.100 --> 02:18:28.319
to do any franchise films, but I mean, could that
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02:18:28.340 --> 02:18:32.239
be a possibility? Like, who are some directors out there
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02:18:34.420 --> 02:18:37.680
that could be interesting to slide in? I mean, do
2386
02:18:37.700 --> 02:18:40.649
you bring Chloe Zhao in? That's dangerous. People get upset
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02:18:40.670 --> 02:18:43.170
about that, I'm sure. I doubt they'll bring a female
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02:18:43.209 --> 02:18:45.930
director in because of all the drama they've had with
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02:18:46.110 --> 02:18:50.840
some of the loud grifters on the anti-woke, anti-DEI side
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02:18:50.860 --> 02:18:52.760
of things who hate women and don't want women to
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02:18:52.799 --> 02:18:56.420
be part of Star Wars or lead Star Wars or
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02:18:56.459 --> 02:19:04.260
direct Star Wars. Who could direct? Hold on. May someone
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02:19:04.280 --> 02:19:09.700
show something to this? The Star Wars trilogy. What are
2394
02:19:09.729 --> 02:19:15.750
some suggestions? Bryce Dallas Howard? No. Dave Filoni? No. Denis Villeneuve?
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02:19:17.129 --> 02:19:19.510
I mean, he's going to be done with, well, he's
2396
02:19:19.530 --> 02:19:22.770
going to move on to Bond, right? So no. Christopher Nolan?
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02:19:22.870 --> 02:19:27.889
No way. Alfonso Cuaron? I mean, that could be interesting.
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02:19:29.549 --> 02:19:35.280
I don't know that that would be the choice, but
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that could be fun. yeah Del Toro no I mean
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Matt Reeves if they're really not going to go forward
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02:19:48.979 --> 02:19:51.860
with a third Batman after this Batman and I think
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02:19:51.899 --> 02:19:57.340
he's almost done shooting this Batman that could be really
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02:19:57.379 --> 02:20:01.229
interesting Matt Reeves directing a Star Wars movie could be
2404
02:20:01.270 --> 02:20:07.569
really interesting Sean Levy could continue off of Starfighter and
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02:20:07.590 --> 02:20:10.680
just direct the trilogy that's very possible Maybe they just
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02:20:10.700 --> 02:20:15.770
like being a business with him. Let's see. Who should
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02:20:16.129 --> 02:20:19.889
direct the next Star Wars trilogy? Let's see what comes
2408
02:20:19.969 --> 02:20:22.290
up here. Kind of jog my memory a little bit.
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02:20:22.309 --> 02:20:24.090
This could be a fun video. These are the videos
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I need to start making. Who should direct the next
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02:20:26.549 --> 02:20:30.549
Star Wars trilogy? James Mangold, of course, because he had
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02:20:30.569 --> 02:20:36.559
that other one. What, David Lowery, maybe? I don't know.
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02:20:39.600 --> 02:20:43.489
I mean, another vote for Matt Reeves. Tony Gilroy had
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02:20:43.510 --> 02:20:48.549
a huge budget. That could be really interesting. Nolan or
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02:20:48.590 --> 02:20:53.000
Gore Verbinski? I don't think so. Trevor Lowry. Oh, sorry.
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02:20:53.020 --> 02:20:56.520
David Lowry. Duncan Jones and Barry Jenkins. Trevorrow, no way.
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02:20:57.280 --> 02:20:59.659
George Lucas. I'll tell you who they should get. You
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02:20:59.700 --> 02:21:01.299
want to know who they should get? You want to
2419
02:21:01.319 --> 02:21:02.700
know who they should get? I'll tell you exactly who
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02:21:02.729 --> 02:21:05.110
they should get. Hold on a second. Let me get
2421
02:21:05.170 --> 02:21:08.629
this name. I don't want to mispronounce this name. I'll
2422
02:21:08.649 --> 02:21:12.010
tell you exactly who they should get. I'm telling you,
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02:21:12.850 --> 02:21:16.229
I know this would be an exciting hire on so
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02:21:16.270 --> 02:21:23.110
many levels. Where is it? I want to make sure
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02:21:23.129 --> 02:21:28.010
I get his name right. Takashi Yamazaki, the Godzilla minus
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02:21:28.090 --> 02:21:32.299
one director and the Godzilla minus zero director. Takashi Yamazaki,
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02:21:32.340 --> 02:21:35.959
if you announced Takashi Yamazaki to direct the new Star
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Wars trilogy, I think people would be excited and over
2429
02:21:40.139 --> 02:21:43.819
the moon. Plus you're connecting Lucas all the way back
2430
02:21:44.559 --> 02:21:49.049
to a Japanese influence, Kurosawa, who influenced him to do
2431
02:21:49.079 --> 02:21:52.770
Star Wars with Hidden Fortress. This would be a great
2432
02:21:52.809 --> 02:21:55.770
way to kind of bring it full circle to have
2433
02:21:56.709 --> 02:22:02.489
Yamazaki directed. That would be amazing. And I think he'd
2434
02:22:02.530 --> 02:22:04.590
be perfect to do it. And clearly he can do
2435
02:22:04.629 --> 02:22:07.389
things under budget, low budget. So if Star Wars is
2436
02:22:07.409 --> 02:22:09.209
looking to cut a little bit of budget, I think
2437
02:22:09.229 --> 02:22:15.219
that's the way to go. As Ed said, I'd lose
2438
02:22:15.260 --> 02:22:19.840
my shit. I think people would lose their shit. So yeah,
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02:22:19.940 --> 02:22:25.000
I think that's absolutely a situation where that could be amazing.
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02:22:25.389 --> 02:22:26.889
That would be my choice. If I was in the
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02:22:26.930 --> 02:22:30.229
boardroom at Disney right now, Lucasfilm, I would be on
2442
02:22:30.270 --> 02:22:33.090
the phone to Yamazaki every day, kind of like a
2443
02:22:33.149 --> 02:22:36.149
college football recruit. I would be calling him every day
2444
02:22:36.170 --> 02:22:38.200
to see how his day is going and be like, Hey, man,
2445
02:22:38.219 --> 02:22:39.659
I'd love for you to come direct Star Wars. I
2446
02:22:39.680 --> 02:22:41.280
think you'd be amazing if you come direct Star Wars.
2447
02:22:41.600 --> 02:22:43.819
You should come direct Star Wars every day. Hey, I
2448
02:22:43.860 --> 02:22:47.079
saw Godzilla minus zero. It's excellent. You know where you'd
2449
02:22:47.100 --> 02:22:50.049
be great? Directing the Star Wars trilogy. So if they
2450
02:22:50.079 --> 02:22:54.020
have Yamazaki, bro, I think that would be an amazing choice.
2451
02:22:54.520 --> 02:22:57.309
That's my out of left field choice. I don't know
2452
02:22:57.350 --> 02:23:00.989
that the anti-DEI, anti-woke fuckers, I think it would confuse
2453
02:23:01.030 --> 02:23:05.409
them to the nth degree to try to find something
2454
02:23:05.430 --> 02:23:08.030
to be upset about with that. And you would make
2455
02:23:08.069 --> 02:23:10.870
it an international kind of approach, which I think you
2456
02:23:10.909 --> 02:23:13.649
want Star Wars to be global. So I think that
2457
02:23:13.690 --> 02:23:17.719
would be a fascinating decision. That being said, it's probably
2458
02:23:17.739 --> 02:23:19.920
going to be Danny Boyle or something. I don't know.
2459
02:23:19.979 --> 02:23:22.739
I just, Star Wars doesn't really take chances now. Filonia
2460
02:23:22.760 --> 02:23:26.190
doesn't want to take chances. But Yamazaki, I'm telling you,
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02:23:26.290 --> 02:23:28.690
that's the choice. That would be amazing if we got that,
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02:23:28.770 --> 02:23:31.829
you know. Um, all right, let's see here. Have I got,
2463
02:23:32.209 --> 02:23:34.370
so we'll see what happens with that, but, uh, I'm
2464
02:23:34.409 --> 02:23:36.670
sure the geek buddies talk about it and I'm sure
2465
02:23:36.709 --> 02:23:39.530
we'll have a bigger conversation on the hot mic at
2466
02:23:39.559 --> 02:23:42.219
some hot mic at some point down the road, um,
2467
02:23:42.600 --> 02:23:44.579
as well. So we'll see. All right. I think that's
2468
02:23:45.059 --> 02:23:48.340
all the subjects I wanted to talk about. I don't
2469
02:23:48.440 --> 02:23:51.379
see any more stream lab. So I'll hit these last
2470
02:23:51.459 --> 02:23:53.559
few super chats. I think we'll wrap it up there. Uh,
2471
02:23:54.899 --> 02:23:57.989
Isaac rocks is, Oh my God, James Gordon disrespect. I
2472
02:23:58.069 --> 02:23:59.489
am of a certain age that I first loved him
2473
02:23:59.530 --> 02:24:02.170
in reruns of the old TV show Maverick. Yes, to
2474
02:24:02.209 --> 02:24:05.209
each his own, but he was one of my first crushes. Hey, listen,
2475
02:24:05.409 --> 02:24:08.370
Isaac Rocky, again, this is just personal taste, right? I'm
2476
02:24:08.409 --> 02:24:10.409
sure there's someone you love that I'm like, I don't
2477
02:24:10.430 --> 02:24:14.430
get it. So it's all subjective. And look, there's enough
2478
02:24:14.469 --> 02:24:16.530
people who love James that he had a wonderful career.
2479
02:24:16.569 --> 02:24:20.370
So he doesn't need some random schmo like me to
2480
02:24:20.649 --> 02:24:23.510
stay successful or be successful or be thought of as
2481
02:24:23.549 --> 02:24:26.850
a successful career. So it's just, I just never really
2482
02:24:27.010 --> 02:24:30.069
just nothing. It just never really did anything, but totally.
2483
02:24:30.229 --> 02:24:33.329
But I know he's got a great following with people,
2484
02:24:34.239 --> 02:24:37.860
male or female. Subwire says, hope they make a champions
2485
02:24:37.879 --> 02:24:40.139
young Avengers project. Well, the rumors it's supposed to be
2486
02:24:40.159 --> 02:24:42.979
a series, but I really doubt that at all. Now
2487
02:24:43.200 --> 02:24:45.079
I think they're cutting everything and just want to focus
2488
02:24:45.120 --> 02:24:47.250
on the movie. So I don't think we're going to
2489
02:24:47.270 --> 02:24:51.129
see a young Avengers or a champion situation. down the
2490
02:24:51.190 --> 02:24:53.569
road at all i mean listen in a better world
2491
02:24:53.670 --> 02:24:57.219
would we be okay with a female led champions young
2492
02:24:57.260 --> 02:25:01.659
avengers with a gay hulk and a gay uh um
2493
02:25:02.059 --> 02:25:06.739
son of of a wiccan gay wiccan sure uh but
2494
02:25:07.459 --> 02:25:10.809
a black iron patriot no fucking no way would you
2495
02:25:10.850 --> 02:25:14.530
be able to get that out nowadays because all the
2496
02:25:14.670 --> 02:25:17.329
anti-work anti-dei people would be sitting there with bibs on
2497
02:25:17.370 --> 02:25:22.079
and they're fucking large extra large knives and forks waiting
2498
02:25:22.110 --> 02:25:24.959
to cut that shit up to pieces for their audience
2499
02:25:25.020 --> 02:25:29.239
and manufacture rage for their audiences make their stupid thumbnails
2500
02:25:29.280 --> 02:25:32.340
for their audiences absolutely so that's why i know it'll
2501
02:25:32.360 --> 02:25:34.420
never happen because disney does not want to do that
2502
02:25:35.579 --> 02:25:37.680
uh tim says me saying ryan johnson be the director
2503
02:25:37.719 --> 02:25:39.840
for all three films but expecting 100 swords in my
2504
02:25:39.860 --> 02:25:41.899
face why i don't give a fuck smoking a cigarette
2505
02:25:41.959 --> 02:25:46.510
yeah dude ryan will never direct one scene of Star
2506
02:25:46.530 --> 02:25:49.250
Wars ever again. I'm just telling you, it's never, ever
2507
02:25:49.350 --> 02:25:52.190
going to happen. I just don't think he wants to
2508
02:25:52.229 --> 02:25:53.510
come back as much as he says he would like
2509
02:25:53.530 --> 02:25:54.989
to come back. And I don't think they want him
2510
02:25:55.030 --> 02:25:56.729
back because of all the drama that he caused with
2511
02:25:56.750 --> 02:26:01.260
Last Jedi. And I just think that's just not something
2512
02:26:01.299 --> 02:26:04.760
you want to do. Why awaken those ghosts? It just
2513
02:26:04.799 --> 02:26:10.079
doesn't make sense on so many levels. Um, all right. Uh, yeah.
2514
02:26:10.379 --> 02:26:13.319
Heart after his Oscar when Yamazaki said Star Wars was
2515
02:26:13.360 --> 02:26:15.170
his dream a year ago, Filoni said that he wants him.
2516
02:26:15.200 --> 02:26:16.930
Give it a go. Oh, wow. So there you go.
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I did not know he said that. Or if he did,
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I forgot that he said that, but that is absolutely
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02:26:21.549 --> 02:26:23.469
my choice. So if he did say that and they
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02:26:23.489 --> 02:26:27.170
announced it, believe me that I had no inside information.
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I did not know. No one's like whispered this to
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02:26:29.059 --> 02:26:30.940
me in my ears. I just came up with it
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02:26:31.020 --> 02:26:32.860
on the fly. And I would think that would be
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an amazing, amazing choice for sure. All right, let's get
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out of here. Thank you all so much for hanging
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02:26:37.950 --> 02:26:40.280
out with me on this episode of The Truth. I
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02:26:40.319 --> 02:26:45.319
hope you enjoyed yourselves. I am looking to do more
2528
02:26:45.360 --> 02:26:48.920
of these live shows. So I want to be a
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02:26:48.959 --> 02:26:51.940
voice in your world. You know, I was hoping to
2530
02:26:51.979 --> 02:26:54.100
get more. We got 200. I was hoping to get
2531
02:26:54.120 --> 02:26:56.690
three or 400, but maybe consistently if I start doing
2532
02:26:56.729 --> 02:27:00.290
these shows, maybe three times a week, I'm thinking about
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02:27:00.329 --> 02:27:03.360
doing that in the future. People will know to show
2534
02:27:03.440 --> 02:27:05.959
up at those times because I'll be reliable and they
2535
02:27:05.979 --> 02:27:08.239
can depend on me showing up. And that could be
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02:27:08.280 --> 02:27:11.440
something that I'm legitimately exploring that. And so this was
2537
02:27:11.500 --> 02:27:14.700
another like kind of trial run, so to speak. And
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02:27:15.260 --> 02:27:16.760
the fact that I can talk for this long is
2539
02:27:16.809 --> 02:27:18.610
kind of mind blowing to me. And the fact that
2540
02:27:18.629 --> 02:27:21.010
all of you stick around for this long is very
2541
02:27:21.129 --> 02:27:23.090
humbling to me. And I appreciate it madly. Thank you
2542
02:27:23.129 --> 02:27:26.030
so much. Thanks for the streamlines. Thanks for the super chats.
2543
02:27:26.629 --> 02:27:28.829
If some of you are interested in me continuing to
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02:27:28.870 --> 02:27:31.750
do live shows, maybe you'd like to suggest some segments.
2545
02:27:32.379 --> 02:27:34.639
That could be fun to keep it lively and interesting
2546
02:27:35.139 --> 02:27:37.870
rather than just me talking about news stories, maybe like
2547
02:27:37.909 --> 02:27:41.149
dope of the week or something funny like. revisiting a
2548
02:27:41.190 --> 02:27:45.159
classic film or revisiting a geek film. That could be
2549
02:27:45.170 --> 02:27:47.180
a lot of fun and having a conversation about that.
2550
02:27:47.219 --> 02:27:50.020
So just stuff you could toss my way and it
2551
02:27:50.040 --> 02:27:52.079
could be things I could maybe DM me on Twitter
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02:27:52.120 --> 02:27:54.819
and I could like add that as a possibility. I'll
2553
02:27:54.840 --> 02:27:58.180
definitely give you credit. And, uh, and that could like
2554
02:27:58.239 --> 02:28:00.620
be something I add to a segment. Like it's a
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02:28:00.639 --> 02:28:04.120
segment every Wednesday, every Friday, every Monday, that could be
2556
02:28:04.159 --> 02:28:06.579
a lot of fun as well. So we'll see, but definitely,
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02:28:06.600 --> 02:28:09.750
definitely thinking about all of that stuff. So thank you guys.
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02:28:09.950 --> 02:28:12.229
You are amazing. I love you madly. Remember what I
2559
02:28:12.270 --> 02:28:13.930
say at the end of every, uh, every one of
2560
02:28:13.950 --> 02:28:18.209
my shows like this, um, please, please understand we are getting,
2561
02:28:18.250 --> 02:28:21.069
we're rounding the corner into the holidays. And I know
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02:28:21.110 --> 02:28:23.510
some people tweeted out or sent super chest today and
2563
02:28:23.610 --> 02:28:25.670
put it in the chat. that they feel like they're
2564
02:28:25.690 --> 02:28:28.639
losing hope and they feel despondent. I get it. I
2565
02:28:28.659 --> 02:28:31.440
get it. I've been there. I certainly have my days
2566
02:28:31.479 --> 02:28:35.159
where it's all overwhelming. And why is anybody fighting for us?
2567
02:28:35.280 --> 02:28:38.360
Why are we letting evil win? I get those feelings.
2568
02:28:38.479 --> 02:28:41.420
I totally do. And why are people okay with it happening?
2569
02:28:41.440 --> 02:28:44.500
Because it's not affecting them at all. That's why. But
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02:28:44.540 --> 02:28:47.309
you get frustrated. I get it. But you got to
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02:28:47.350 --> 02:28:49.950
hold on, man. You got to hold on. You got
2572
02:28:49.969 --> 02:28:52.010
to stay with us. You got to fight through all
2573
02:28:53.489 --> 02:28:58.610
the feelings of despondency because, man, you got to be
2574
02:28:58.670 --> 02:29:01.540
here to see when it turns around. And you got
2575
02:29:01.579 --> 02:29:04.040
to be here to celebrate that. And I know that's
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02:29:04.079 --> 02:29:07.219
the truth. Study your history. Evil never wins. Evil has
2577
02:29:07.379 --> 02:29:10.899
never won. They've lasted for a little while, but they've
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02:29:11.000 --> 02:29:14.120
never won. People have always come back to their senses
2579
02:29:14.379 --> 02:29:18.760
and gotten rid of those things. And so I hope
2580
02:29:19.500 --> 02:29:22.049
that we are on the turn finally 10 years later
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02:29:22.930 --> 02:29:26.049
to eradicating this movement that's tried to destroy our country
2582
02:29:26.829 --> 02:29:31.139
and to taking back, ironically, taking back our country from
2583
02:29:31.159 --> 02:29:35.780
these forces to create a more equal, a more balanced,
2584
02:29:36.620 --> 02:29:41.979
a more loving, empathetic, caring society that brings us back together.
2585
02:29:42.780 --> 02:29:44.850
And as I said on Krishna Harloff's show, wakes us
2586
02:29:44.969 --> 02:29:48.270
up from the control Ares had on our minds, like
2587
02:29:48.290 --> 02:29:50.569
what happened at the end of Wonder Woman, And we
2588
02:29:50.629 --> 02:29:54.409
find more commonality than difference with each other. That would
2589
02:29:54.430 --> 02:29:57.979
be great to see. And for any of you suffering
2590
02:29:58.600 --> 02:30:01.459
mental health issues or going through some tough stuff, I
2591
02:30:01.479 --> 02:30:03.979
just want to let you know you're strong enough to
2592
02:30:04.040 --> 02:30:08.120
survive it because if you're still here with me or
2593
02:30:08.139 --> 02:30:11.680
if you're still here at all, you are undefeated through
2594
02:30:11.700 --> 02:30:14.209
those dark times because you've gotten through them every time.
2595
02:30:14.770 --> 02:30:17.430
You're undefeated. Let that give you hope. Let that give
2596
02:30:17.450 --> 02:30:20.950
you strength. I have been there. I know it's tough.
2597
02:30:21.209 --> 02:30:23.409
I still occasionally go into those places and I have
2598
02:30:23.450 --> 02:30:25.510
to walk myself out of it. I just bought a
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02:30:25.549 --> 02:30:29.090
new book the other day called The Confident Mind. I'm
2600
02:30:29.110 --> 02:30:30.950
going to read that and try to put those in
2601
02:30:31.569 --> 02:30:33.469
motion because there are changes I want to make to
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02:30:33.510 --> 02:30:36.530
kind of elevate the show and myself to the next level.
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02:30:37.489 --> 02:30:38.950
We'll see if it works. We'll see if it doesn't.
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02:30:39.129 --> 02:30:41.450
But I'm trying to do things. You got to be
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02:30:41.549 --> 02:30:43.930
active in trying to take care of yourself. It's really important.
2606
02:30:44.010 --> 02:30:45.889
If you're sitting around waiting for other people to save
2607
02:30:45.930 --> 02:30:48.969
you or fix you or put you on the right path,
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02:30:49.559 --> 02:30:52.459
It's never going to happen. It really isn't. Not without
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02:30:52.540 --> 02:30:55.819
your help. You've got to be willing to take care
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02:30:55.840 --> 02:30:58.209
of your life, to take control of your life, fight
2611
02:30:58.229 --> 02:31:00.190
for your life. It's really important. I know it can
2612
02:31:00.209 --> 02:31:03.350
feel that it's overwhelming, but you got to find that
2613
02:31:03.389 --> 02:31:05.430
strength within yourself to do it. And I guarantee you
2614
02:31:05.450 --> 02:31:07.850
have it. We all have it. I believe in God.
2615
02:31:08.209 --> 02:31:09.809
Some of you don't believe in God. Some of you
2616
02:31:09.829 --> 02:31:12.309
believe in a different God. That's totally fair. But whatever
2617
02:31:12.370 --> 02:31:15.950
it is that created us and gave us the power
2618
02:31:15.979 --> 02:31:19.969
of thought and thinking and analysis and feelings, gave us
2619
02:31:20.389 --> 02:31:23.209
this thing inside of us to fight, the survival instinct
2620
02:31:23.649 --> 02:31:25.870
to fight for ourselves. And so I think if you
2621
02:31:25.909 --> 02:31:30.360
hold on and make the moves to kind of see
2622
02:31:30.479 --> 02:31:33.000
a better future for yourself, you might be surprised about
2623
02:31:33.040 --> 02:31:34.899
what can happen. But it's not going to be easy.
2624
02:31:35.340 --> 02:31:38.360
It takes hard work. But, you know, I don't think
2625
02:31:38.379 --> 02:31:39.979
you're lazy. I think you will to fight for it.
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02:31:40.180 --> 02:31:42.309
So that's what I would say to you. I encourage
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02:31:42.340 --> 02:31:45.110
you to do that. However, and sometimes you may go
2628
02:31:45.170 --> 02:31:48.590
down paths that don't pan out. The effort is what matters.
2629
02:31:48.930 --> 02:31:52.409
The effort is what matters. So think about that. All right,
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02:31:52.450 --> 02:31:54.430
I love you. Whatever you need to do to get
2631
02:31:54.450 --> 02:31:57.290
through the next second, next minute, next hour, next day,
2632
02:31:57.309 --> 02:32:01.090
next week, next month, next year, fucking next decade, I
2633
02:32:01.129 --> 02:32:03.090
want you to do it. Because I want you sticking around,
2634
02:32:03.129 --> 02:32:05.450
hanging out with us. If I'm building this channel the
2635
02:32:05.469 --> 02:32:07.229
way I'm building this channel, I want you all hanging
2636
02:32:07.250 --> 02:32:10.030
out with me and growing with me as I go along.
2637
02:32:10.149 --> 02:32:12.389
I love seeing all the regulars. I love seeing new
2638
02:32:12.409 --> 02:32:14.450
people taking a chance on the channel and these shows
2639
02:32:14.469 --> 02:32:16.920
we do. You all mean so much to me. Thank you,
2640
02:32:16.950 --> 02:32:19.649
thank you, thank you very much. tonight. And thanks to
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02:32:19.690 --> 02:32:22.159
everybody for all the Streamlabs Super Chats again and the
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02:32:22.219 --> 02:32:24.719
lively chat that we had. And take care of yourselves.
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02:32:24.860 --> 02:32:27.860
All right. Have a good night tonight and wake up
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02:32:28.020 --> 02:32:30.950
with a little more hope. Trust me on that. And
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02:32:30.969 --> 02:32:32.950
I'll talk to you next time with another brand new
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episode of The Truth. Peace, everybody.