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

because i want to make sure that 70 00:03:55.550 --> 00:03:58.289 more people show up here before we dive into the 71 00:03:58.330 --> 00:04:00.150 big news story which is going to be the paramount 72 00:04:00.629 --> 00:04:04.449 rob bonta situation uh but i want to start off 73 00:04:04.490 --> 00:04:06.509 with this oh and also we're going to get into 74 00:04:06.530 --> 00:04:09.539 the ed sheeran stuff later on on the uh on 75 00:04:09.580 --> 00:04:13.310 the show as well in his quote-unquote apology but Let's 76 00:04:13.340 --> 00:04:15.680 get into this. This is breaking. Jeff just posted this 77 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:19.319 on his newsletter. I'm going to put up the visuals 78 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:21.920 and then read what he wrote in his newsletter here. 79 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:27.209 The dynamic duo, the first animated feature from DC Studios, 80 00:04:27.350 --> 00:04:31.790 is finally starting to come together. According to Jeff, multiple 81 00:04:31.810 --> 00:04:34.699 sources tell him that Mason Thames, who you see there 82 00:04:34.740 --> 00:04:37.379 on the screen, who on the black phone will voice 83 00:04:37.660 --> 00:04:42.620 Dick Grayson, while Logan Kim from Ghostbusters Afterlife, Logan Kim 84 00:04:43.019 --> 00:04:48.189 will voice Jason Todd. Additionally, Marseille Martin from Black-ish will 85 00:04:48.250 --> 00:04:50.149 voice Barbara Gordon, who you see there on the screen, 86 00:04:50.670 --> 00:04:55.949 and Lee Pace will voice Red Hood 1. All those 87 00:04:56.009 --> 00:04:59.649 deals are closed. Steve Buscemi has an offer out to 88 00:04:59.750 --> 00:05:03.680 him to voice Red Hood 2. He also says there's 89 00:05:03.740 --> 00:05:06.160 another part of the story, one he'd rather label a, quote, 90 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:09.910 hot rumor than an exclusive, but it is still very 91 00:05:09.970 --> 00:05:15.949 much in the air. And he says that he is 92 00:05:15.990 --> 00:05:20.459 being told that Chris Pine has an offer to play 93 00:05:20.540 --> 00:05:24.319 Batman in the dynamic duo. He's now reporting that Chris 94 00:05:24.339 --> 00:05:26.279 Pine is in talks. He doesn't even think his team 95 00:05:26.339 --> 00:05:28.709 is countered at this point. But even with the offer, 96 00:05:28.790 --> 00:05:31.189 I'm cautious that other actors are in the mix. But 97 00:05:31.230 --> 00:05:35.139 three sources of Jeff's have mentioned Chris Pine's name. And 98 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:37.500 though DC may go in another direction, I felt compelled 99 00:05:37.540 --> 00:05:40.040 to share it, given that the rest of the names 100 00:05:40.379 --> 00:05:46.389 panned out. So there you go. Obviously, you look at 101 00:05:46.430 --> 00:05:49.329 this as a talented cast. Mason Thames really been enjoying 102 00:05:49.370 --> 00:05:51.930 his work as a young actor coming up. Not so 103 00:05:52.009 --> 00:05:55.170 familiar with Logan Kim. Or with Marzee Martin. I did 104 00:05:55.209 --> 00:05:57.930 see Logan Kim in Ghostbusters Afterlife. I enjoyed him in that. 105 00:05:58.329 --> 00:06:00.930 But didn't really stand out to me as someone who 106 00:06:00.970 --> 00:06:04.430 I necessarily would remember. Whereas Mason Thames in Black Phone 107 00:06:04.449 --> 00:06:08.189 certainly did. And I never watched Black-ish. So Marzee Martin, 108 00:06:08.290 --> 00:06:10.930 I don't know her too well. But I'm sure a 109 00:06:10.949 --> 00:06:14.160 lot of people like her work. Lee Pace. Lee Pace 110 00:06:14.180 --> 00:06:16.579 can't seem to walk away from comic books or superhero 111 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:18.980 stuff at all. And why not? He's got a great voice, 112 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.339 a great face, a great body. So bring him in 113 00:06:21.379 --> 00:06:22.639 to be a part of this. I think Lee is... 114 00:06:23.420 --> 00:06:26.920 currently in the Practical Magic 2 film that is out 115 00:06:26.959 --> 00:06:29.779 in theaters now. I think that's right. Yeah, Lee Pace. 116 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:33.060 Buscemi is an interesting choice. A completely different voice, an 117 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:35.949 older voice for Red Hood 2. I'm not familiar with 118 00:06:36.009 --> 00:06:37.790 Red Hood 1 or Red Hood 2, so maybe that 119 00:06:37.850 --> 00:06:42.290 is an older person. But Chris Pine in here as 120 00:06:42.389 --> 00:06:46.670 the voice of Bruce Wayne Batman would be really interesting. Again, 121 00:06:46.709 --> 00:06:49.730 Jeff is saying, that he has an offer, but he's 122 00:06:49.790 --> 00:06:51.529 not saying that he's in talks. It's just an offer, 123 00:06:51.589 --> 00:06:53.129 but there are other actors in the mix. So Chris 124 00:06:53.149 --> 00:06:55.610 Pine could be the choice. He's not saying Chris Pine 125 00:06:55.790 --> 00:06:58.540 is the choice, but I like the idea of Chris Pine. 126 00:06:58.769 --> 00:07:01.699 We enjoyed him as Peter Parker in the Spider-Verse movies. 127 00:07:02.279 --> 00:07:05.120 So why wouldn't it make sense for him to come 128 00:07:05.180 --> 00:07:07.600 in and do Bruce Wayne? He's got the deep voice. 129 00:07:07.819 --> 00:07:11.089 He's played Captain Kirk already. As I said, he stepped 130 00:07:11.170 --> 00:07:14.089 in and played Peter Parker, Spider-Man. So like, He has 131 00:07:14.110 --> 00:07:17.250 an experience taking on these iconic roles and doing them justice, 132 00:07:17.649 --> 00:07:20.889 whether on camera or behind a microphone. So I love 133 00:07:20.930 --> 00:07:25.410 the idea that Chris Pine would step in to voice 134 00:07:25.970 --> 00:07:30.910 Bruce Wayne slash Batman. Now the question becomes, is this 135 00:07:31.889 --> 00:07:36.379 the cast that will transfer over and do the live 136 00:07:36.420 --> 00:07:39.300 screen version of Batman Brave and the Bold? If you've 137 00:07:39.339 --> 00:07:43.420 watched Lanterns over the past weekend, spoiler alert, I guess, 138 00:07:44.069 --> 00:07:47.550 there was a reference to Batman and a

particular bat 139 00:07:47.610 --> 00:07:51.569 signal that was in the show. And it made it 140 00:07:51.610 --> 00:07:57.750 feel like Batman is a contemporary of Green Lanterns, of 141 00:07:57.790 --> 00:08:02.269 the Green Lanterns, of Superman and everybody in 2026. So 142 00:08:02.310 --> 00:08:07.370 Batman is around in Gotham in 2026. So, which makes 143 00:08:07.410 --> 00:08:09.310 it curious that Carrie Kane has not brought it up once, 144 00:08:09.410 --> 00:08:13.139 considering she's from Gotham to Howl. that we've seen on screen. 145 00:08:13.180 --> 00:08:15.920 But James Gunn, remember at the beginning when his announcement 146 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:18.800 and all that stuff, he said that whoever was voicing 147 00:08:18.860 --> 00:08:21.939 over these characters would end up playing them live action. 148 00:08:21.990 --> 00:08:24.649 Now that hasn't fully turned out to be the case 149 00:08:24.689 --> 00:08:27.529 because Clayface is obviously not the young actor who's playing 150 00:08:27.569 --> 00:08:29.569 him in the movie, is not the guy who was 151 00:08:29.629 --> 00:08:31.610 voicing him over. And that could have been a different Clayface. 152 00:08:31.629 --> 00:08:34.950 They might get away with that technicality there. But certainly 153 00:08:34.970 --> 00:08:39.320 we saw Frank Grillo, with him reprising his role there 154 00:08:39.539 --> 00:08:45.000 from Creature Commandos to live screen on Peacemaker Season 2 155 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:49.480 with Rick Flagg Sr. So it is a possibility. So 156 00:08:49.620 --> 00:08:53.919 Chris Pine as Bruce Wayne slash the Batman is, to me, 157 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:57.840 is exciting for Batman Brave and the Bold because I 158 00:08:57.860 --> 00:09:00.700 think Chris can walk that line between serious and humor. 159 00:09:01.179 --> 00:09:02.700 And certainly Brave and the Bold is a little more 160 00:09:02.779 --> 00:09:06.460 humor than your standard Batman stories. So I think that 161 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.960 could be really interesting. And Mason Thames here as Dick Grayson, 162 00:09:09.980 --> 00:09:12.460 a little bit of an older approach to it. And 163 00:09:12.539 --> 00:09:14.919 Logan Kim as Jason Todd. I don't know how Logan 164 00:09:14.940 --> 00:09:17.379 Kim as Jason Todd will go over with people. It 165 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.159 might work, might not work. We'll see. But I love 166 00:09:20.179 --> 00:09:23.360 the idea of these actors coming together to be a 167 00:09:23.379 --> 00:09:25.399 part of this thing. So what do you guys think? 168 00:09:25.419 --> 00:09:27.440 Do you like this idea? Do you think it makes sense? 169 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:32.200 You like Chris Pine possibly? As the Batman slash Bruce Wayne, 170 00:09:32.220 --> 00:09:34.620 do you like Mason Thames as Dick Grayson? Is that 171 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:36.860 a Dick Grayson you think about? And certainly Mason Thames 172 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:39.259 is a little bit younger, so is this a younger 173 00:09:39.320 --> 00:09:45.340 Dick Grayson? That's the questions you have to ask yourself. 174 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:48.850 Is this a younger Dick Grayson? Where are we going 175 00:09:48.870 --> 00:09:50.710 with Red Hood? One, Red Hood. Two, I don't know 176 00:09:50.750 --> 00:09:54.129 if I'd see Buscemi and Lee Pace reprising their roles 177 00:09:54.210 --> 00:09:57.250 on screen as much as I could totally see Chris Pine. 178 00:09:57.789 --> 00:09:59.909 I can see Chris Pine. I can see Mason Thames. 179 00:10:00.080 --> 00:10:03.740 I don't know if I see Logan Todd, Logan Kim 180 00:10:03.779 --> 00:10:08.039 rather necessarily. And Marseille Martin as Barbara Gordon. I mean, 181 00:10:08.059 --> 00:10:13.309 Jim Gordon is black in the Robert Pattinson Batman. So, 182 00:10:14.429 --> 00:10:16.730 I mean, are we, is this like, maybe even are 183 00:10:16.769 --> 00:10:20.370 we approaching the possibility of that Robert Pattinson will be 184 00:10:20.389 --> 00:10:24.389 the Batman and James Gunn, James Gunn's DCU now with 185 00:10:24.429 --> 00:10:27.309 this casting. It's, I mean, it's not unfair to speculate 186 00:10:27.490 --> 00:10:31.389 that that is a possibility. Or are they saying because 187 00:10:31.429 --> 00:10:35.620 Jim Gordon is black in the Batman, but that's not, 188 00:10:35.779 --> 00:10:38.639 you know, that's not, we haven't seen Jim Gordon in, 189 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:42.539 in James Gunn's DCU yet. We've only seen him in 190 00:10:43.039 --> 00:10:45.860 Matt Reeves DCU. So is this a door that's possibly 191 00:10:46.059 --> 00:10:49.090 opening or is, Are we to assume that Jim Gordon 192 00:10:49.110 --> 00:10:52.220 will also be black in James Gunn's DC universe since 193 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.639 Barbara Gordon is his daughter and will be in a 194 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:00.940 voice character? But again, this is all speculation because it 195 00:11:01.019 --> 00:11:05.039 is voiceover versus live action. What's going to happen there? 196 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:11.080 So we will see with all of that. Of course, 197 00:11:11.500 --> 00:11:14.139 Chris Pine just played Steve Trevor in Wonder Woman, but 198 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:19.370 that's for a different version of uh, the DC universe and, 199 00:11:19.610 --> 00:11:22.669 and Momoa has shown, you know, jumping over from Aquaman 200 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:24.679 to play Lobo, whether you like the movie or not, 201 00:11:24.740 --> 00:11:27.779 which is out on HBO max. Now it's, it's still 202 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:32.159 possible to make that happen. So, um, and I imagine 203 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:33.799 this means that we're not going to see Chris Pine 204 00:11:33.820 --> 00:11:36.659 in the new Star Trek stuff either, that maybe that, 205 00:11:36.899 --> 00:11:39.500 that is finally dead once and for all that cast. 206 00:11:40.139 --> 00:11:43.000 Maybe they come back for like a multiverse legends type 207

00:11:43.039 --> 00:11:45.889 of thing. Like we've seen Leonard Nimoy show up in 208 00:11:45.909 --> 00:11:49.320 there in the first Star Trek with, uh, Zachary Quinto 209 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.220 playing that version of Spock. Maybe we see Chris Pine 210 00:11:52.259 --> 00:11:54.220 and the crew show up in some storyline in the 211 00:11:54.259 --> 00:11:56.600 movie Down the Road, where they bring all of them 212 00:11:56.659 --> 00:12:00.600 back together. So it could be interesting for sure. But 213 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:05.830 of course, this is all dependent on what happens once 214 00:12:05.899 --> 00:12:10.450 this merger is officially locked down. And we'll get into 215 00:12:10.490 --> 00:12:13.149 that in just a little bit in our approach here, 216 00:12:13.250 --> 00:12:17.220 in our conversations here on the show. So For what 217 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:21.769 Jeff writes here, who's it? Matt Reeves and Teresa Anderson, 218 00:12:21.870 --> 00:12:27.009 who's with Arthur Mintz. Their company, Swaybox, will handle the 219 00:12:27.049 --> 00:12:30.409 animation for the picture. Swaybox has pioneered an innovative approach 220 00:12:30.429 --> 00:12:33.090 to puppetry that is a hybrid of live action, motion capture, 221 00:12:33.149 --> 00:12:38.370 stop motion animation, and CG animation. Reeves and Anderson will produce. 222 00:12:38.529 --> 00:12:40.500 Matthew Aldrich, who wrote the initial draft of the script 223 00:12:40.509 --> 00:12:44.070 with revisions by 500 Days of Summer, Scott Neustadter and 224 00:12:44.129 --> 00:12:46.509 Michael H. Weber. The story will follow the friendship between 225 00:12:46.529 --> 00:12:49.090 Grayson and Todd and how it is tested by their 226 00:12:49.149 --> 00:12:59.220 diverging ideas for the future. So, yeah. So we'll see. Oh, right. Oh, 227 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:02.299 was that her? Oh, that's right. That was her. Okay, 228 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:08.159 so I'm reminded that Marzee Martin played a young version 229 00:13:08.220 --> 00:13:12.179 of Issa Rae And Little, which is a funny little comedy, 230 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.960 pun intended, that came out a few years ago that 231 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.899 I thought wasn't too bad. So that's your big news 232 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:24.809 here that Jeff broke on his newsletter for the dynamic duo. 233 00:13:24.970 --> 00:13:26.970 So what do you guys think? You like this? Is 234 00:13:26.990 --> 00:13:29.990 it exciting to you? Do you like the idea of 235 00:13:30.049 --> 00:13:33.220 these actors coming in to play these roles? And would 236 00:13:33.250 --> 00:13:36.019 you like to see them transfer over and play these 237 00:13:36.059 --> 00:13:39.740 roles live action? Let me know down in the comment 238 00:13:39.759 --> 00:13:46.169 section or in the chat. Are you guys not hearing me? Okay. 239 00:13:48.490 --> 00:13:50.929 Audio sync issues. Are you hearing me? I hope you're 240 00:13:50.950 --> 00:13:54.870 hearing me.

I've turned on everything. God, please tell me 241 00:13:54.889 --> 00:13:58.149 you're hearing me. Somebody tell me you're hearing me. I 242 00:13:58.169 --> 00:14:00.120 don't want to have gone on for 100 minutes and 243 00:14:00.149 --> 00:14:04.679 no one can hear me. Okay, good. I don't want 244 00:14:04.700 --> 00:14:07.440 to go on for 15 minutes. And no one can. Oh, 245 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:09.669 is it quieter? Oh, maybe I need to turn up 246 00:14:09.710 --> 00:14:14.330 my overall voice. I don't know how to do these 247 00:14:14.389 --> 00:14:21.179 machines the way they do this. Maybe they're OK. All right. Sorry, Ed. Ed, Ed, 248 00:14:21.379 --> 00:14:24.159 you almost had a beer with us tomorrow night. You 249 00:14:24.259 --> 00:14:26.419 almost had a beer with you. You were all you 250 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:29.700 were so close, Ed, to coming on to the show 251 00:14:30.100 --> 00:14:33.009 tomorrow night to have a beer with me and Winston A. Marshall. 252 00:14:33.490 --> 00:14:35.950 But in the end, the Jets couldn't get the job done. 253 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:42.009 in overtime against the Eagles, sadly. So sorry about that 254 00:14:42.049 --> 00:14:44.649 for you, Ed. But yes, anyway, so that's how we 255 00:14:44.669 --> 00:14:48.590 start the show with that news. Let me know what 256 00:14:48.610 --> 00:14:50.889 you thought about it. I want to hear from you all. 257 00:14:51.409 --> 00:14:53.049 If you're watching later, let me know down in the 258 00:14:53.100 --> 00:14:57.419 comment section below. Do you like this choice? So, all right. 259 00:14:58.340 --> 00:15:01.299 Should we do one more story before we jump into things? 260 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:05.409 I wonder if we should. Let me see here. We 261 00:15:05.429 --> 00:15:07.840 got 150 of you joining me live. Thank you so much. 262 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.360 Appreciate you. Was hoping we'd get to 200 before I 263 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:13.200 jumped into the big news story. So let me get 264 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:18.240 to one more story. Yeah, maybe this is kind of 265 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:21.919 the easiest one. Oh, wait, what's this? Oh, maybe we 266 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:29.029 should attach this. Okay, so I'll attach this after the 267 00:15:29.070 --> 00:15:33.539 Star Wars story. So let's get into... Where is it? 268 00:15:33.539 --> 00:15:37.559 What do I have here? Oh, here we go. Yeah, 269 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:42.090 let's get into this as kind of a fun story, 270 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.639 but it doesn't have to take too much time. Resident 271 00:15:44.779 --> 00:15:47.649 Evil blew up at the box office, y'all. I mean, 272 00:15:47.710 --> 00:15:50.970 just absolutely blew up at the box office. Pulled in 273 00:15:51.009 --> 00:15:53.870 a major $ 108. 3 million worldwide, $ 60 million domestic, $ 48. 3 million overseas. 274 00:15:53.909 --> 00:16:03.419 That easily tops the $ 70 million worldwide start of Weapons 275 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:06.419 last year to be Zack Kreger's biggest debut to date. 276 00:16:06.899 --> 00:16:10.940 The opening also beat Scream 7. Scream 7 for the 277 00:16:10.980 --> 00:16:13.159 second best start for a horror film worldwide this year. 278 00:16:13.600 --> 00:16:18.919 It's behind only Backrooms, which opened with $ 118 million. Overseas only, 279 00:16:19.360 --> 00:16:23.840 Resident Evil topped Backrooms, which debuted with $ 36. 7 million. The 280 00:16:23.860 --> 00:16:26.299 worldwide opening has also beaten the worldwide final gross of 281 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:28.860 the original Resident Evil, which was $ 103 million, and the 282 00:16:28.899 --> 00:16:32.570 more recent 2021 failed reboot, Welcome to Raccoon City, which 283 00:16:32.710 --> 00:16:36.909 only opened at $ 42 million. The final chapter from 2016 284 00:16:36.909 --> 00:16:41.669 holds the highest total gross for the franchise with $ 312 million, 285 00:16:41.830 --> 00:16:45.990 half of which came from China. So Mila Jovovich must 286 00:16:46.029 --> 00:16:49.429 be a very, very rich lady to have made that 287 00:16:49.500 --> 00:16:52.620 much money off that movie, for God's sakes. Insane, insane. 288 00:16:52.659 --> 00:16:55.940 And Paul W.S. Anderson. But look, this is a great 289 00:16:55.980 --> 00:16:59.860 start for this movie. This is a fantastic beginning for 290 00:16:59.879 --> 00:17:03.759 that movie. Um, and I think this is a fan, 291 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.980 a great thing overall for this kind of approach, which 292 00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:13.640 is 90 minutes in and out action packed, funny, great 293 00:17:13.680 --> 00:17:16.930 performance from Austin Abrams. I love the way the film 294 00:17:16.990 --> 00:17:20.490 builds from beginning. He's a kid who doesn't know what's happening. 295 00:17:20.509 --> 00:17:21.809 I'm not going to spoil. I'm just giving a quick 296 00:17:21.829 --> 00:17:24.029 little non-spoiler review. I love the fact that he's a 297 00:17:24.069 --> 00:17:28.950 kid or 20 year olds, 20 young twenties, whatever, who's 298 00:17:29.109 --> 00:17:32.349 working a job as a courier. He is on the 299 00:17:32.369 --> 00:17:35.299 phone with this girl. She tells him, you know, that 300 00:17:35.390 --> 00:17:37.839 they've got to make a big decision about something that's 301 00:17:37.859 --> 00:17:42.240 happened between them. He promises her he's going to go home. 302 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:46.380 But then this woman offers him, a nurse offers him 303 00:17:46.700 --> 00:17:51.240 double his rate to deliver this particular thing. And that 304 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:54.279 starts the journey. Right. And he tells his girlfriend that, 305 00:17:54.700 --> 00:17:56.539 you know, he's not coming home yet, that he's got 306 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.700 to make this delivery. She doesn't understand it. She's mad 307 00:17:58.740 --> 00:18:01.710 at him. And so throughout the whole movie is that 308 00:18:01.789 --> 00:18:04.819

relationship coursing through the whole movie, his feelings for her, 309 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:09.579 her calling him. And then as the movie gets crazier 310 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.339 and crazier, I think Austin does an excellent job of 311 00:18:12.380 --> 00:18:15.640 being just a regular guy caught up in the madness 312 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:20.190 of some infected, some virus rather that has gone crazy 313 00:18:21.089 --> 00:18:24.490 and infected. People are running around and some of the 314 00:18:24.529 --> 00:18:28.670 most horrific, gory, bloody, insane shit you've ever seen in 315 00:18:28.710 --> 00:18:33.680 a horror movie happens in this movie and gets progressively 316 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:37.660 more and more insane and Austin has to rationalize what's 317 00:18:37.700 --> 00:18:41.000 happening more and more his character's name is Brian Brian 318 00:18:41.019 --> 00:18:44.099 has to rationalize everything that's happening here so he can 319 00:18:44.140 --> 00:18:47.759 at least function and deliver what he needs to deliver 320 00:18:50.529 --> 00:18:52.230 and yeah and the last half an hour of the 321 00:18:52.269 --> 00:18:56.460 movie absolutely goes full on bonkers and So that is 322 00:18:56.519 --> 00:19:00.359 like the divisive point. That's the refrigerator moment from like 323 00:19:00.980 --> 00:19:04.420 Indiana Jones, right? So people are either in or they're out. 324 00:19:05.289 --> 00:19:06.950 And I think the last half an hour, you're either 325 00:19:07.089 --> 00:19:10.250 in or you're out. I was completely in and seeing 326 00:19:10.289 --> 00:19:13.630 it a second time, I was even more in. And 327 00:19:13.650 --> 00:19:16.730 I'm telling you, if I'm Kevin Feige, if I'm James Gunn, 328 00:19:16.890 --> 00:19:19.750 if James Gunn is going to stay, I'm immediately on 329 00:19:19.769 --> 00:19:22.670 the phone with Austin Abrams people and being like, what? 330 00:19:23.099 --> 00:19:25.099 how can I get this kid into my franchise? How 331 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.559 can I get this guy to do something? He'd be 332 00:19:27.579 --> 00:19:29.769 a great X-Men depending on what role you want to 333 00:19:29.789 --> 00:19:32.670 line up for him. He'd be great in the DC universe, 334 00:19:32.690 --> 00:19:34.430 depending on what role you want to line up for him. 335 00:19:35.130 --> 00:19:36.789 I think there's a lot of places you could go 336 00:19:36.970 --> 00:19:39.450 with Austin Abrams. That could be a lot of fun. So, 337 00:19:39.869 --> 00:19:41.970 you know, this, I think this kid with this movie 338 00:19:42.029 --> 00:19:46.329 is kind of fully announced himself into people's eyes. And 339 00:19:46.349 --> 00:19:47.849 it'll be interesting to see what his next choice is 340 00:19:48.230 --> 00:19:51.390 or next role is after this. I don't mean ones 341 00:19:51.430 --> 00:19:54.680 he's already shot or ones he's already in production for. 342 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:57.440 And I'll be curious to see what Zack Kreger does 343 00:19:57.480 --> 00:20:03.299 next because Zack, you know, he is arguably three for three. 344 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:07.589 I know earlier this morning, Paul, PLD brought up on 345 00:20:07.630 --> 00:20:10.190 the show with Christian Harloff, PLD brought up that he 346 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:13.000 had co-written a film and co-directed a film, but I 347 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:15.160 don't really count that because he wasn't the full director 348 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.240 for it. So the fact that he's the full director 349 00:20:18.259 --> 00:20:20.549 for these last three films, and they've done well at 350 00:20:20.589 --> 00:20:23.349 the box office, and each one progressively more than the other, 351 00:20:23.369 --> 00:20:27.069 I think speaks volumes. So Zach Greger, though, he said 352 00:20:27.089 --> 00:20:29.730 it was a very difficult situation. People put a lot 353 00:20:29.769 --> 00:20:32.019 of pressure on him, but clearly all the people who 354 00:20:32.099 --> 00:20:35.650 said like, you know, this doesn't feel like Really, Resident Evil, 355 00:20:36.009 --> 00:20:37.980 all of them didn't matter in the end because the 356 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:42.660 movie made money. And the movie is successful, very well reviewed, 357 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:45.619 and people like it. And so, listen, it's not saying 358 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:49.180 that their opinions don't matter. I'm saying they didn't have 359 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.849 an effect on the movie overall being successful. That's why 360 00:20:52.970 --> 00:20:55.470 they didn't matter. Their opinions matter to themselves and to 361 00:20:55.509 --> 00:20:58.089 their groups. But in the end, it doesn't matter to 362 00:20:58.130 --> 00:21:00.589 the movie because the movie made money and is being 363 00:21:00.670 --> 00:21:02.599 very well reviewed. So it isn't one of these things 364 00:21:02.619 --> 00:21:04.119 that's like a shitty movie that made a lot of money. 365 00:21:04.579 --> 00:21:06.660 It's actually being very well-reviewed, and it made a lot 366 00:21:06.700 --> 00:21:09.160 of money. So you're welcome to your feelings, of course, 367 00:21:09.180 --> 00:21:10.700 for people excited. A friend of mine who reached out 368 00:21:10.720 --> 00:21:11.710 to me and told me he didn't like the movie 369 00:21:11.730 --> 00:21:14.130 because he's a big Resident Evil fan, and he felt 370 00:21:14.150 --> 00:21:18.910 that it didn't fully get there. You obviously allowed your opinion. 371 00:21:19.130 --> 00:21:21.630 But in the end, the movie's made money, and I'm 372 00:21:21.670 --> 00:21:24.539 sure there'll be a sequel. But I think Zack made 373 00:21:24.579 --> 00:21:26.059 it clear that he wasn't going to come back and 374 00:21:26.859 --> 00:21:29.079 direct another franchise movie. So I don't know if that 375 00:21:29.140 --> 00:21:33.490 meant Resident Evil or if that means Eddie. franchise movie 376 00:21:33.509 -->

00:21:36.150 but i'm sure we'll find out as as things go 377 00:21:36.190 --> 00:21:40.279 along um which you know i'm very happy about so 378 00:21:40.950 --> 00:21:45.500 um let's see here the jackson dart is hurt already 379 00:21:45.539 --> 00:21:47.119 got hit as he threw it now grabbing his knee 380 00:21:47.140 --> 00:21:50.720 got hammered oh lord jackson dart is now out now 381 00:21:52.059 --> 00:22:00.140 oh boy cue cue the maga tears All right, let's 382 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.220 get into it. We're 22 minutes into the show. Let's 383 00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:06.140 do it. So the big news of the day, of course, 384 00:22:06.859 --> 00:22:11.819 is that Rob Bonta, California Attorney General, man I respect 385 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:16.650 very much, comes from parents who are big union fighters, 386 00:22:17.329 --> 00:22:20.910 represent unions and have fought for unions, worked his way 387 00:22:20.970 --> 00:22:25.190 up through the California legislature to become the Attorney General. 388 00:22:26.470 --> 00:22:30.730 He has been negotiating for quite some time to stop 389 00:22:30.990 --> 00:22:35.059 this merger from happening or to at least get some 390 00:22:35.099 --> 00:22:40.619 concessions from the Paramount side of things. And it seemed 391 00:22:40.660 --> 00:22:43.180 like he was very clear that he was not going 392 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:47.000 to concede a lot of points in this whole situation. 393 00:22:48.220 --> 00:22:51.279 But there were stories over the weekend that settlement talks 394 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:56.309 were happening with David Ellison, Paramount, and David Ellison. and 395 00:22:56.369 --> 00:22:59.190 Rob Bonta representing the 12 state AGs. And of course, 396 00:22:59.250 --> 00:23:03.390 Rob Bonta was having political pressure from Gavin Newsom, Xavier Becerra, 397 00:23:03.410 --> 00:23:06.430 and Karen Bass, the current LA mayor, though I don't 398 00:23:06.450 --> 00:23:10.089 think she's going to win the election coming up, to 399 00:23:10.490 --> 00:23:12.650 make a deal here. And Ellison had, of course, been 400 00:23:12.710 --> 00:23:17.480 threatening to move Paramount out of California. He had supposedly, 401 00:23:17.539 --> 00:23:20.319 I don't believe a word of it, supposedly been looking 402 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:24.180 at real estate in Austin, Texas, or in Tennessee, in Franklin, Tennessee, 403 00:23:25.859 --> 00:23:30.240 and all of that. And Mark Ruffalo, representing the Stop 404 00:23:30.259 --> 00:23:33.079 the Merger people, came out very loudly and proudly saying, 405 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:37.890 do not fold, do not give in, do not settle 406 00:23:37.910 --> 00:23:42.230 to their terms, settle and agree to their terms. But 407 00:23:42.349 --> 00:23:47.730 in the end, the settlement happened. And I think this 408 00:23:47.829 --> 00:23:51.579 means that the merger is going through. There are other 409 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:54.220 people who want to stop the merger.

Perhaps they have 410 00:23:54.279 --> 00:23:59.410 some legal clout to stop the merger from happening. But 411 00:23:59.450 --> 00:24:03.460 at this point, it was, it's very clear that this 412 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.519 was the last hurdle to stop the merger from happening. 413 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:12.920 And now it's going to go through probably, you know, 414 00:24:13.019 --> 00:24:15.779 I think Dave Adelson said today that in the next 415 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:18.700 couple of weeks is when he wants to kind of 416 00:24:18.740 --> 00:24:22.220 solidify or lock this thing down once and for all. Yeah. Yeah. 417 00:24:22.809 --> 00:24:24.329 He says he's going to close it. He sent a 418 00:24:24.390 --> 00:24:29.809 memo out to his staff and said, quote, it's an 419 00:24:29.849 --> 00:24:33.450 exciting moment for our company, our industry. But he did 420 00:24:33.509 --> 00:24:36.769 say in the memo that there is still work ahead 421 00:24:36.809 --> 00:24:41.109 to get this deal across the finish line. He forecasted 422 00:24:41.210 --> 00:24:43.890 tentatively that it will close in the next two weeks. 423 00:24:44.650 --> 00:24:47.759 He addressed the troops, quote, unquote, after just a landmark 424 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:50.799 settlement with attorneys generals of the 12 states. who had 425 00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:55.140 sued alongside with the WGA with each calling the merger 426 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:59.460 illegal under antitrust law. And if you watched Rob Bonta's 427 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:02.009 press conference today, he made it very clear that to 428 00:25:02.069 --> 00:25:06.509 him it wasn't about politics. It was about the antitrust situation. 429 00:25:06.589 --> 00:25:10.890 And certainly Rob Bonta had said and tweeted out in 430 00:25:10.910 --> 00:25:14.930 the past that for him looking at the situation, he 431 00:25:14.990 --> 00:25:17.150 felt that they had a very strong case on the 432 00:25:17.190 --> 00:25:19.490 antitrust side of things and they could have got the 433 00:25:19.509 --> 00:25:25.000 job done. And a lot of analysts felt like the 434 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:27.279 states had a very strong case. Even if the whole 435 00:25:27.339 --> 00:25:31.220 world was settling and approving the merger, these 12 state 436 00:25:31.339 --> 00:25:34.519 AGs had legitimate cases they could have brought here. They 437 00:25:34.539 --> 00:25:37.660 could have dragged this thing out for quite some time. 438 00:25:39.940 --> 00:25:43.940 But a five-year consent decree was reached with the states 439 00:25:44.119 --> 00:25:48.880 and largely matched in WGA talks. that will require Paramount 440 00:25:48.900 --> 00:25:53.289 to make just a few concessions. And sadly, it does 441 00:25:53.329 --> 00:26:00.470 not include any structural remedies or asset sales. The $ 111 442 00:25:59.849 --> 00:26:04.130 billion merger will now bring CBS, Nickelodeon, and Paramount Plus 443 00:26:04.150 --> 00:26:09.319 with HBO, CNN, and

HBO Max all under one roof. 444 00:26:09.420 --> 00:26:11.480 And remember, it came out over the weekend, maybe you 445 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:16.319 guys don't know about this, that the foreign money 49.5% 446 00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:21.720 of the money being used to push through this merger 447 00:26:22.019 --> 00:26:27.529 come from Middle Eastern investors and companies from the Middle East. 448 00:26:28.589 --> 00:26:31.410 And the DOJ or whoever it was, I think it 449 00:26:31.450 --> 00:26:33.609 was the DOJ, approved this. Well, of course they did 450 00:26:33.670 --> 00:26:39.579 because Ellison is Trump's boy. And so that's going through. 451 00:26:39.730 --> 00:26:41.579 And of course, Trump has made overtures to the Middle 452 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:44.799 East companies. Irregardless of what's going on with Iran, he 453 00:26:45.619 --> 00:26:51.180 received that jet, that Air Force One nonsense from Qatar, 454 00:26:51.240 --> 00:26:53.519 and then the stuff he's got going on there with 455 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:56.769 Saudi Arabia. So just a lot of stuff, a lot 456 00:26:56.789 --> 00:27:00.329 of money is behind all of this stuff, which is 457 00:27:00.369 --> 00:27:05.609 really uncomfortable. But in the end, Rob Bonta did settle. 458 00:27:06.609 --> 00:27:09.589 Some people feel he caved. We'll get into the specifics 459 00:27:09.670 --> 00:27:12.380 and talk about them in just a second. But Bonta 460 00:27:12.420 --> 00:27:15.440 did say that people should not look at this as 461 00:27:15.519 --> 00:27:20.170 a blessing of the merger at all. And so he's 462 00:27:20.210 --> 00:27:24.069 saying basically they had to do this because what they 463 00:27:24.089 --> 00:27:27.910 did here was for the workers of California. That was 464 00:27:27.990 --> 00:27:32.859 Rob Bonta's comments on all of this. Let me see here. 465 00:27:33.190 --> 00:27:35.680 I want to make sure I get his quotes on 466 00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:38.380 all of this. Yeah. He detailed a list of items 467 00:27:38.390 --> 00:27:41.579 to which Paramount is committed. And we'll look at those 468 00:27:41.700 --> 00:27:45.160 items in just a second. Repeatedly, Bonta has emphasized in 469 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:49.980 the past that only structural, not behavioral remedies would be 470 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:53.279 deemed acceptable by the AGs. But in the end, there 471 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:56.319 were no structural remedies. The closest thing he got to 472 00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:59.799 a structural remedy is a requirement in the consent decree 473 00:28:00.299 --> 00:28:04.380 that the companies negotiate pay TV deals as separate companies. 474 00:28:04.420 --> 00:28:06.900 And if they fail to adhere to that provision, During 475 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:09.059 the five-year span of the agreement, they can be forced 476 00:28:09.400 --> 00:28:14.339 to sell off cable networks as punishment for this. So 477 00:28:15.599 --> 00:28:17.700 Bonta said, quote, the settlement is not a vote of 478 00:28:17.740 --> 00:28:20.039 support for this merger. It is not a blessing for 479 00:28:20.059 --> 00:28:23.440 the broader merger, which doesn't serve the economy or consumers well. 480 00:28:24.420 --> 00:28:27.089 He said it more bluntly, I don't think these companies 481 00:28:27.490 --> 00:28:30.569 should merge. And then he mentioned how his office had 482 00:28:30.609 --> 00:28:34.470 thwarted the merger of supermarket chains Kroger and Albertsons and 483 00:28:34.609 --> 00:28:39.039 airlines Spirit and JetBlue. but he said that our way 484 00:28:39.079 --> 00:28:41.099 that conviction to go to court was that he works 485 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:43.759 for the people of California and he had an obligation 486 00:28:43.779 --> 00:28:45.839 to help their, to help their situation. He said, I'd 487 00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:49.259 rather resolve the case in the boardroom rather than the courtroom. 488 00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:54.480 And that's what happened here. And he said that this, 489 00:28:54.809 --> 00:28:59.710 these settlement talks and this merger, the arrangement here is 490 00:28:59.750 --> 00:29:03.109 the opposite of Disney Fox and a framework that quote 491 00:29:03.230 --> 00:29:07.309 locks in a massive upside and Because a lot of 492 00:29:07.329 --> 00:29:09.869 people have pointed, including me, have pointed to the Disney-Fox 493 00:29:09.930 --> 00:29:13.910 merger and how the output decreased once the merger happened. 494 00:29:14.990 --> 00:29:19.369 Because Ellison and others have been saying that they're going 495 00:29:19.410 --> 00:29:26.119 to increase their output. So let's see. The company's promised. Right, right. 496 00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:28.079 We'll look at all that stuff. Okay. So let's look 497 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:30.700 at the particulars. I've got this, as I said, as 498 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.700 a bit of a PowerPoint presentation. I'll do a setup 499 00:29:33.740 --> 00:29:35.759 and then we'll get to everything. Derek, thanks so much 500 00:29:35.849 --> 00:29:39.269 for sending in your super chats. Thanks to Tim. Sim 501 00:29:39.329 --> 00:29:43.180 is in here as well. well. WV Grad, Alan Smithy, Cartoon. 502 00:29:43.619 --> 00:29:46.460 I will get to them in a little bit, but 503 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.460 I want to lay out all of this and explain 504 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.039 it for people maybe who don't 100% understand what is happening. 505 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:55.720 Let's get to the first one. Here's the setup. Paramount Skydance, 506 00:29:55.900 --> 00:29:58.819 coalition of 12 state AGs led by California's Rob Bonta. 507 00:29:59.430 --> 00:30:02.329 and New York's Letitia James, who I love, settled the 508 00:30:02.390 --> 00:30:06.109 antitrust suit blocking the $ 110 to $ 111 billion WBD merger. 509 00:30:06.670 --> 00:30:09.150 The settlement clears the last hurdle before a scheduled March 510 00:30:09.289 --> 00:30:13.069 antitrust trial.

And not only that, Paramount had faced a 511 00:30:13.170 --> 00:30:16.549 ticking clock because of an unclosed deal after October 1st 512 00:30:17.250 --> 00:30:20.470 was essentially going to cost them $ 7 million a day. 513 00:30:20.539 --> 00:30:23.369 We're about 10 days away from August 1st or October 1st. 514 00:30:24.359 --> 00:30:30.420 And the financial pressure drove a fast marathon weekend of negotiation. Um, 515 00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:34.700 so this is only a resolution of the antitrust claims. 516 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:37.210 This is not a blessing of the merger. So Rob 517 00:30:37.230 --> 00:30:40.609 gave himself a little bit of, of like escape, escape 518 00:30:40.650 --> 00:30:44.109 hatch by saying, well, we resolved the antitrust stuff. So 519 00:30:44.250 --> 00:30:46.990 the annual film release commitment here. Now it's a five-year term. 520 00:30:47.210 --> 00:30:51.839 They are committed to release, not make release. This is 521 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:55.579 a big deal. Release 30 films a year, 20 of 522 00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:58.180 them in wide release in years, one to two, and 523 00:30:58.220 --> 00:31:03.210 then 32 films. with 21 films wide released in years 524 00:31:03.269 --> 00:31:07.140 three through five. At least four independent films will be 525 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.880 released every year. And if you watch Rob Bonta's press conference, 526 00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:13.819 he seemed to think that these independent films would be 527 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:18.400 from voices that were underrepresented in our society. There is 528 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.619 literally no guarantee that it'll be those films that are 529 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:24.569 part of the independent films that get released every year. 530 00:31:25.619 --> 00:31:28.900 If they miss the number of 30 films released or 531 00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:32.039 32 films released in years three through five, they must 532 00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:36.269 divest of Miramax and pay a $ 30 million fee per 533 00:31:36.369 --> 00:31:44.390 missed film to union funds and NAG enforcement. This is 534 00:31:44.430 --> 00:31:47.049 the most concrete checkable term in the deal. Plausible numbers, 535 00:31:47.150 --> 00:31:50.559 but quote, wide release and independent are definitions that can 536 00:31:50.579 --> 00:31:54.000 be litigated. The pitfall when you compare them on WBD 537 00:31:54.019 --> 00:31:57.390 side of things is theatrical is shaky industry-wide. It's a 538 00:31:57.490 --> 00:32:00.569 bad slate year with delays and flops, which could trigger 539 00:32:00.609 --> 00:32:05.430 the Miramax clause almost by accident. The pitfall for the 540 00:32:05.470 --> 00:32:09.450 state AGs and the unions is that the released films 541 00:32:09.490 --> 00:32:12.339 does not mean films that are made or marketed well. 542 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:18.220 And the compliance on paper versus good faith execution is 543 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:20.640 the real

gap to watch. And that's where I think 544 00:32:21.579 --> 00:32:23.519 when you look at all the terms of this deal, 545 00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:30.009 is where there's a lot of wiggle room that Bonta 546 00:32:30.069 --> 00:32:33.890 and the state AGs have and Paramount has. I think 547 00:32:33.930 --> 00:32:37.609 this deal in the end was about saving face for everybody, 548 00:32:38.329 --> 00:32:41.549 but Paramount comes out the winner in this deal. And 549 00:32:41.589 --> 00:32:43.710 to me, I look at Gavin Newsom, I look at 550 00:32:43.730 --> 00:32:48.180 Karen Bass, I look at Xavier Becerra, who's coming in, 551 00:32:48.420 --> 00:32:51.660 and I put the blame on them. Because I think 552 00:32:51.740 --> 00:32:54.200 Rob Bonta legitimately wanted to take this all the way 553 00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:58.000 to trial and fight for the people of California, fight 554 00:32:58.019 --> 00:33:00.869 for the businesses of California, fight for the below-the-line people, 555 00:33:00.900 --> 00:33:04.410 above-the-line people, and get a deal that was good for 556 00:33:04.549 --> 00:33:09.049 everybody and stop the Trump administration, through David Ellison, having 557 00:33:09.089 --> 00:33:14.980 control of CNN, which we'll get to their settlement deals 558 00:33:15.059 --> 00:33:17.680 on that. But that, to me, is what I believe here. 559 00:33:18.019 --> 00:33:22.470 So when I look at this, Gavin Newsom has lost 560 00:33:22.549 --> 00:33:25.650 my vote. Uh, I am, if I was in LA, 561 00:33:25.670 --> 00:33:32.079 I would certainly be voting against, um, Karen Bass. Uh, 562 00:33:32.130 --> 00:33:35.190 and I hope people see this, uh, because it's, uh, 563 00:33:35.390 --> 00:33:43.599 I think it's, um, what's her opponents, Maria opponents. Uh, yeah. 564 00:33:43.680 --> 00:33:47.619 Nithya Raman is again, was against the merger. So I 565 00:33:47.660 --> 00:33:49.900 encourage anyone listening to me right now who lives in 566 00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:53.380 Los Angeles to to vote for Nithya Raman over Karen 567 00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:57.849 Bass because she did not want the merger to go through. 568 00:33:58.029 --> 00:34:00.509 She wanted the merger to be looked at, analyzed, and 569 00:34:00.529 --> 00:34:04.009 she did not want to give even more power over 570 00:34:04.049 --> 00:34:09.519 the media to a Donald Trump sycophant in David Ellison. 571 00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:14.590 And we've seen with him and his DEI hire, Barry Weiss, 572 00:34:14.699 --> 00:34:19.110 and she is absolutely a DEI hire by the technical 573 00:34:19.170 --> 00:34:23.010 term that MAGA people love to use, DEI hire. She 574 00:34:23.070 --> 00:34:24.989 checks a box because she's a woman. She checks a 575 00:34:25.030 --> 00:34:27.340 box because she's a woman. Rather, she checks a box 576 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:32.840 because she's from the LGBTQ community. And she's woefully underqualified 577 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:36.119 to be in charge of CBS News. And you're seeing 578 00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:39.909 that reflected in the ratings numbers dropping significantly. for everything 579 00:34:39.929 --> 00:34:42.429 across the board, including 60 Minutes and fuck off with 580 00:34:42.449 --> 00:34:45.579 that idea of an NFL lead-in game. Shut the fuck 581 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:49.780 up as an excuse. And across the board for the 582 00:34:49.820 --> 00:34:54.800 CBS Morning News, CBS News overall seen as an absolute 583 00:34:54.880 --> 00:35:02.670 train wreck under her guidance and her stopping anti-Trump stories 584 00:35:02.710 --> 00:35:05.429 from being put out there other than the one token 585 00:35:06.110 --> 00:35:10.340 anti-Trump story they had in 60 Minutes. about the pardons 586 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:15.590 and paid-for pardons, which really doesn't affect Trump because the 587 00:35:15.610 --> 00:35:20.449 people paying for these pardons, how many Americans, everyday Americans, 588 00:35:20.670 --> 00:35:23.469 are really going to be in that position to worry 589 00:35:23.510 --> 00:35:26.349 about that? It's a safe one that only affects like 590 00:35:26.349 --> 00:35:29.610 1% of people or less than 1% of people in 591 00:35:29.780 --> 00:35:34.480 our country. The other ones, the ICE stuff, where they're 592 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:39.780 deporting people to the separate countries, That report that she quashed, 593 00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:43.340 that was something that was going to affect communities and 594 00:35:43.380 --> 00:35:47.139 people within these communities. So they're being, they're being, she's 595 00:35:47.179 --> 00:35:51.170 being very technical about what stories she puts out there 596 00:35:51.710 --> 00:35:54.710 that are quote unquote anti-Trump stories. She's putting out the 597 00:35:54.789 --> 00:35:58.610 safe ones that don't really hurt him with everyday Americans. 598 00:35:59.090 --> 00:36:01.380 And that's a reason, there's a reason for that. It 599 00:36:01.420 --> 00:36:04.880 keeps her safe and it gives the veneer of fair 600 00:36:04.940 --> 00:36:08.280 and balanced. And so now, Allison is going to come 601 00:36:08.380 --> 00:36:12.219 in and be in charge of these... God knows who's... 602 00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:14.079 I think they're going to put Bari Weiss in charge 603 00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:17.340 of CNN as well. She's going to fucking shatter that 604 00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:21.739 network as well. Now, look, we'll get to the CNN 605 00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:25.449 stuff in just a second, but domestic production spent minimal 606 00:36:25.550 --> 00:36:28.849 additional $ 1. 5 billion. Well, actually, let's go back to this 607 00:36:28.929 --> 00:36:33.070 other slide, right? Again, 30 films in a year released. 608 00:36:33.630 --> 00:36:35.670 They could pick up... Sorry, they could pick up any... 609 00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:40.119 crap off the trash heap and put it out just 610 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:42.610 to hit the numbers, hit the quotas of

these numbers. 611 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:45.710 But what's going to happen if there is a strike? 612 00:36:46.349 --> 00:36:49.530 What's going to happen if these movies start losing money 613 00:36:49.590 --> 00:36:51.949 that they're putting out there and they don't want to 614 00:36:51.969 --> 00:36:53.489 put out the money because they're going to have to 615 00:36:53.510 --> 00:36:55.739 spend money on marketing, spend money on all these other things? 616 00:36:56.239 --> 00:36:59.079 Will they hesitate to put out 30 films a year 617 00:36:59.099 --> 00:37:02.579 because they're going to lose money on the deal putting 618 00:37:02.619 --> 00:37:05.809 out 30 films a year? if those 30 films aren't 619 00:37:05.969 --> 00:37:08.570 making money and putting money back into the coffers of Paramount, 620 00:37:09.130 --> 00:37:11.210 why would you keep putting out stuff that's not going 621 00:37:11.230 --> 00:37:13.289 to make you money and then spending money to put 622 00:37:13.309 --> 00:37:15.409 it up? So in the end, this could really fuck 623 00:37:15.449 --> 00:37:18.949 Paramount financially. And I don't want Paramount to go away 624 00:37:18.969 --> 00:37:20.650 as a studio. That's the thing. All these people who 625 00:37:20.670 --> 00:37:24.199 support the merger are like, well, this is, I trust 626 00:37:24.239 --> 00:37:26.760 him to save movies and it's about saving movies and 627 00:37:26.780 --> 00:37:30.059 about bringing movies back. And yeah. And it's like, well, 628 00:37:31.090 --> 00:37:34.130 if you're forcing him to put out 30 movies a year, 629 00:37:34.150 --> 00:37:39.409 release them, then you are hitting a quota. And if 630 00:37:39.449 --> 00:37:41.730 those movies are not good and he's just forced to 631 00:37:41.769 --> 00:37:45.230 release them because there's 30 films a year and those tank, 632 00:37:46.030 --> 00:37:50.000 you're actually killing their ability to make more movies by 633 00:37:50.099 --> 00:37:53.179 making them more, putting them more in debt and making 634 00:37:53.219 --> 00:37:59.559 the company financially unviable. And that would be an issue 635 00:37:59.579 --> 00:38:03.139 for Paramount, and eventually Paramount will fold. So all the 636 00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:07.469 people banging their drums on David Ellison saving movies, by 637 00:38:07.530 --> 00:38:11.510 agreeing to this, it could be quite the opposite. Because 638 00:38:11.530 --> 00:38:13.309 people are assuming, well, they're going to put out 30 639 00:38:13.309 --> 00:38:16.090 films here, that's great. It doesn't mean that all 30 640 00:38:16.090 --> 00:38:19.250 of those films are going to be a success. Right? 641 00:38:19.369 --> 00:38:22.699 And so where is the bottom line in all of this? Eventually, 642 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:25.980 and if they go on a bad run... As we 643 00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:28.429 see WB going through 12 months without a film that's 644 00:38:28.449 --> 00:38:33.389 made its money back, that could sink the studio because 645 00:38:33.409 --> 00:38:36.469 they're forced to put out 30 films and not all 646 00:38:36.489 --> 00:38:38.809 of them are going to be good. So it's an 647 00:38:38.849 --> 00:38:44.469 interesting situation. You think the anti-woke, anti-DI MAGA crowd who 648 00:38:44.510 --> 00:38:48.079 hates quotas in affirmative action would hate the idea of 649 00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:52.630 quotas here, but they're trumpeting this now. Now, domestic production spend, 650 00:38:52.809 --> 00:38:56.829 a minimum additional $ 1. 5 billion over five years above 2025 U.S. 651 00:38:57.530 --> 00:39:00.590 spend levels with a baseline 5% of production is domestic 652 00:39:00.829 --> 00:39:04.730 currently now. So that would increase the percentage. Federal tax 653 00:39:04.769 --> 00:39:08.949 credit of 20%. If it passes, the domestic total must 654 00:39:09.010 --> 00:39:13.699 hit 20%. That's production. 20% of production should be domestic 655 00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:17.639 in years one through two and 30% in years three 656 00:39:17.659 --> 00:39:21.059 through five if that federal tax credit gets pushed through 657 00:39:21.550 --> 00:39:24.119 which is not a guarantee 100%. And Bonta has said 658 00:39:24.139 --> 00:39:29.150 he's going to work to lift that cap. State credit 659 00:39:29.650 --> 00:39:32.679 in California and New York also passes. Threshold rises to 660 00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:35.760 40% if that happens. They have to hit a 40% 661 00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:38.949 of production that is domestic, which means films made here 662 00:39:38.989 --> 00:39:41.510 in the States. Because a lot of people, including me, 663 00:39:41.590 --> 00:39:45.469 were saying that, well, they built a production studio in England. 664 00:39:46.210 --> 00:39:48.530 So the idea of putting out 30 movies does not 665 00:39:48.590 --> 00:39:50.840 necessarily mean all 30 movies are going to be made 666 00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:52.719 in the United States or that a large percentage of 667 00:39:52.739 --> 00:39:54.820 them are going to be made in the United States. 668 00:39:54.880 --> 00:40:01.659 But this settlement term is essentially guaranteeing that anywhere from 669 00:40:01.659 --> 00:40:06.829 20% to 40%, depending on these federal tax credits for 670 00:40:06.869 --> 00:40:10.789 film get passed, should be made here in the States. 671 00:40:12.340 --> 00:40:16.559 If credits never pass, they only owe a flat $ 1. 5 672 00:40:15.320 --> 00:40:18.960 billion baseline, which is kind of a soft landing, which 673 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:20.699 is what they were going to pay Warner Brothers anyway 674 00:40:20.739 --> 00:40:22.179 if the deal didn't go through, so they had already 675 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:25.719 reserved that money for something. For the AGs, the pitfalls 676 00:40:25.780 --> 00:40:28.500 are the most ambitious tier, 40% is the least likely 677 00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:31.800 to ever trigger. Critics may call the escalator a

mirage. Right. 678 00:40:31.860 --> 00:40:34.000 It's to make it seem as if, well, look, we're 679 00:40:34.019 --> 00:40:36.000 going to keep these things domestic. We're going to make 680 00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.619 these movies in the domestic way. They're going to be 681 00:40:38.659 --> 00:40:42.750 here in the States, but There's no guarantee that they're 682 00:40:42.769 --> 00:40:44.889 going to hit those numbers. And it all depends on 683 00:40:44.929 --> 00:40:48.079 this federal tax credit being passed. And who knows if 684 00:40:48.219 --> 00:40:52.179 they include, to save Ellison, if the GOP, because I 685 00:40:52.219 --> 00:40:53.739 think the Democrats are going to be in power, it 686 00:40:53.780 --> 00:40:57.420 seems pretty clear from the Senate and the House. So, well, 687 00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.079 maybe the House, but maybe not the Senate. But if 688 00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:05.949 they put qualifications on these tax credits, say, well, we're 689 00:41:05.969 --> 00:41:08.210 going to pass the tax credit, but Paramount does not 690 00:41:08.250 --> 00:41:10.610 have to hit these numbers, then what did you fucking negotiate? 691 00:41:11.889 --> 00:41:16.469 And so every term I'm bringing up is full of 692 00:41:17.849 --> 00:41:21.199 language that allows Paramount to get out of their responsibilities 693 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:25.340 and language that allows the state AGs to say, well, 694 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:28.639 we settled on this. Don't be mad at us. We 695 00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:31.889 settled on it. Rob Bonta kept saying, AG Rob Bonta 696 00:41:31.929 --> 00:41:36.230 kept saying, well, these are actionable through the courts. I 697 00:41:36.309 --> 00:41:41.360 think that's a smokescreen to make people feel good. Because 698 00:41:41.409 --> 00:41:44.889 we have seen a lot of courts, including the Supreme Court, 699 00:41:45.610 --> 00:41:49.489 siding with President Trump and his interests. And certainly he 700 00:41:49.510 --> 00:41:51.710 would want to protect David Ellison if he's going to 701 00:41:53.309 --> 00:41:57.210 muddy the waters of CNN. And so taking it to 702 00:41:57.289 --> 00:42:01.650 court doesn't necessarily mean you're going to get a positive result. 703 00:42:01.730 --> 00:42:04.929 And as we've seen from Trump and his people, they 704 00:42:05.130 --> 00:42:10.090 love to appeal a decision over and over and over 705 00:42:10.199 --> 00:42:13.980 and over again. Currently, right now, the DOJ is filing 706 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:18.570 emergency appeals to stop the judge in a case there 707 00:42:18.610 --> 00:42:22.510 that Katie Fang, used to be MSNOW reporter, and she's 708 00:42:22.530 --> 00:42:27.389 her own independent reporter now, got a judge to agree 709 00:42:27.530 --> 00:42:30.980 to get the FBI to release their notes, their interview notes, 710 00:42:31.019 --> 00:42:34.500 with a 13-year-old girl who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. 711 00:42:35.179 --> 00:42:37.880 Katie Fang, under the Freedom of Information Act, lobbied for that, 712 00:42:38.260 --> 00:42:40.570 went through court, And the judge said, yes, you should 713 00:42:40.590 --> 00:42:45.860 get the notes and decide if they can be released 714 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:47.880 to Katie Fang for her to look at and do 715 00:42:47.900 --> 00:42:51.280 a report on. So what happens? The DOJ has been 716 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:54.380 filing appeal after appeal after appeal, even though the judge 717 00:42:54.420 --> 00:42:57.099 is shooting out each of these appeals, to slow walk 718 00:42:57.139 --> 00:42:59.599 this thing. So you're going to tell me if Paramount 719 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.260 doesn't hit one of these goals, that they're just going 720 00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:05.000 to go to court real quickly, get it done, and 721 00:43:05.019 --> 00:43:09.130 then Paramount's going to have to comply? Bullshit. They're going 722 00:43:09.170 --> 00:43:12.929 to slow walk this thing up until the end. And 723 00:43:12.969 --> 00:43:14.900 if they have to do multiple cases, so be it. 724 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:19.099 Paramount has that in their coffers, in their legal coffers 725 00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:26.079 to use. So it's bullshit on that $ 1. 5 billion. The 726 00:43:26.139 --> 00:43:29.159 other element of this was an independent film fund and 727 00:43:29.280 --> 00:43:32.469 worker protections. An independent fund, $ 5 billion a year for 728 00:43:32.550 --> 00:43:36.699 five years, $ 25 million total to purchase independent films. a 729 00:43:36.739 --> 00:43:40.360 workforce fund of $ 47. 5 million over five years for displaced 730 00:43:40.420 --> 00:43:43.960 worker training career development. This is for people who lose 731 00:43:43.980 --> 00:43:47.239 their jobs because of this merger. And they must honor 732 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:50.539 the existing CBAs and bargain in good faith going forward. 733 00:43:51.539 --> 00:43:54.840 The likelihood of this, high on the dollar commitments themselves, quote, 734 00:43:55.019 --> 00:43:58.639 good faith bargaining is a standard that's historically hard to enforce. Again, 735 00:43:58.659 --> 00:44:01.599 as I said, they have included language in these settlement 736 00:44:01.619 --> 00:44:05.000 talks that allow for Paramount to have wiggle room and 737 00:44:05.019 --> 00:44:08.619 the state AGs to have an ability to say, well, 738 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:11.300 we negotiated this. They're the ones that are to kind 739 00:44:11.340 --> 00:44:14.929 of protect themselves from any bad press. Pitfall for the 740 00:44:15.050 --> 00:44:20.369 unions is that 47.5 million is split across likely thousands 741 00:44:20.469 --> 00:44:24.429 of displaced workers over five years. It isn't a huge 742 00:44:24.530 --> 00:44:27.630 per person number. So they're trying to wow you with 743 00:44:27.650 --> 00:44:31.139 that 47.5. But when you look at the amount of 744 00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:34.889

people who will be needed for that 47.5, It isn't 745 00:44:34.929 --> 00:44:38.289 that big of a number overall. And for Paramount, the 746 00:44:38.329 --> 00:44:43.340 post-merger consolidation usually means real layoffs. And this fund puts 747 00:44:43.380 --> 00:44:47.420 a price tag on paper trail on the cuts. So 748 00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:49.500 that's another thing that goes. They're going to want to 749 00:44:49.559 --> 00:44:54.599 avoid that. So there's a lot of financial penalties in 750 00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:59.179 the settlement that they've agreed to. So you know Paramount 751 00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:02.119 is going to do its damnedest to get out of 752 00:45:02.179 --> 00:45:05.500 paying any of those financial penalties. And they'll agree to 753 00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:07.780 any term, as they just did here with this stuff, 754 00:45:08.659 --> 00:45:11.030 just to get this stuff in motion. And then later on, 755 00:45:11.110 --> 00:45:14.530 they'll be able to play around with the numbers, play 756 00:45:14.550 --> 00:45:17.750 around with the good faith bargaining, and lobby for that 757 00:45:17.809 --> 00:45:20.909 in court with a mediator. And who knows, if they 758 00:45:20.949 --> 00:45:24.090 get the right judge or favorable judge, then the state 759 00:45:24.130 --> 00:45:26.510 AGs won't have a leg to stand on. Again, all 760 00:45:26.530 --> 00:45:31.219 of this stuff has very malleable terms attached to it 761 00:45:31.320 --> 00:45:34.019 that allows Paramount to get out of any of their commitments. 762 00:45:34.730 --> 00:45:37.250 The more you look at this deal, the more of 763 00:45:37.289 --> 00:45:41.170 a disappointing deal it is. And as I said, Gavin Newsom, 764 00:45:41.489 --> 00:45:45.289 Karen Bass, Xavier Becerra is coming in. They all own 765 00:45:45.329 --> 00:45:48.369 this deal. This isn't on Rob Bonta fully. This is 766 00:45:48.710 --> 00:45:54.550 on them for putting political pressure on Bonta to acquiesce 767 00:45:54.590 --> 00:45:57.690 and surrender. And because their knees started knocking about the 768 00:45:57.730 --> 00:46:01.360 bad press over losing jobs in LA or California, which 769 00:46:01.380 --> 00:46:04.789 was never going to happen, by the way, never. It 770 00:46:04.829 --> 00:46:07.389 was all a fucking bluff from Ellison. They were never 771 00:46:07.449 --> 00:46:10.090 going to move to Texas. They were never going to 772 00:46:10.150 --> 00:46:14.880 move to Tennessee. Fucking nonsense. It would have taken such 773 00:46:14.909 --> 00:46:17.079 a long time to do that. The administration would have 774 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:23.239 turned over and put a stop to it. So it's 775 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:27.679 utter nonsense. The cable negotiation restrictions now. Five years, Paramount 776 00:46:27.699 --> 00:46:31.340 Basic Cable, Warner Basic Cable channels negotiated independently, not bundled. 777 00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:33.460 This is the closest they came to a structural remedy. 778 00:46:34.469 --> 00:46:37.949 here by having them each negotiate their own terms. They 779 00:46:37.989 --> 00:46:41.269 must keep offering a free ad-supported streamer like Pluto TV 780 00:46:41.309 --> 00:46:45.880 at current quality service. Big fucking deal. And as noted here, 781 00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:48.760 this is a behavioral remedy, notably the kind Bonta originally 782 00:46:48.780 --> 00:46:52.920 said he didn't want, preferring structural divestitures. Yes, Bonta tweeted 783 00:46:52.940 --> 00:46:56.960 this out numerous times that he wanted structural remedies. The 784 00:46:56.980 --> 00:46:59.849 pitfalls here are that Bonta himself has called behavioral remedies, quote, 785 00:46:59.929 --> 00:47:02.849 weak and difficult to enforce. So the things he agreed to, 786 00:47:03.989 --> 00:47:07.190 are weak and difficult to enforce. He was saying about 787 00:47:07.230 --> 00:47:10.659 these things in the past. Bundled effective pricing could still 788 00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:15.480 happen informally. Absolutely. And the pitfall for Paramount WBD is 789 00:47:15.579 --> 00:47:18.400 running duplicate negotiating teams for five years cuts against the 790 00:47:18.460 --> 00:47:26.269 various synergies that justified the merger financially. Absolutely. Why, why, 791 00:47:26.289 --> 00:47:31.300 I mean... Under a merger, why would WB be able 792 00:47:31.320 --> 00:47:34.590 to negotiate separately and Paramount? Like, what does that get 793 00:47:34.619 --> 00:47:39.250 you except the illusion of independence? When both of them 794 00:47:39.309 --> 00:47:42.030 are negotiating terms that are supposed to be favorable to 795 00:47:42.050 --> 00:47:47.230 the Papa company, which is essentially going to be Paramount, Paramount, Skydance. 796 00:47:47.849 --> 00:47:50.949 And so you see that, and this is just, again, 797 00:47:51.929 --> 00:47:55.480 it's to fool you that all these terms and all 798 00:47:55.519 --> 00:48:01.360 these settlements are settlement deals mean massive penalties for paramount. 799 00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:03.760 And that's how Rob Bonta pitched in his press conference. 800 00:48:04.619 --> 00:48:06.760 I think he did his best to spin this as 801 00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:09.780 much as he could. I think he had political pressure 802 00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:12.320 to agree to these terms to a certain degree. Four 803 00:48:12.380 --> 00:48:15.210 States didn't want to go forward with this deal. Four States, 804 00:48:15.250 --> 00:48:18.590 including New York with Letitia James, who has gotten the 805 00:48:18.630 --> 00:48:21.969 best of Trump numerous times has not been indicted yet 806 00:48:22.309 --> 00:48:24.190 in that whole situation. They try to get her for, um, 807 00:48:26.690 --> 00:48:28.829 But in the end, they looked at the fact that 808 00:48:28.989 --> 00:48:32.989 if California was ready to settle, they didn't have the 809 00:48:33.050 --> 00:48:37.800 financial wherewithal to fight this

thing. And that also happened 810 00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:40.219 with the Writers Guild. If you saw what they settled 811 00:48:40.579 --> 00:48:47.119 with for the merger, it's really peanuts what they settled 812 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:52.519 for the WGA. And in the end, it brought them nothing. 813 00:48:52.969 --> 00:48:54.710 It really is not good. There's not much that they 814 00:48:54.730 --> 00:48:57.210 got in their settlement. But they essentially said, like, we 815 00:48:57.250 --> 00:49:00.449 couldn't keep funding this because the state of California was 816 00:49:00.489 --> 00:49:02.590 ready to settle. And we were getting some of our 817 00:49:02.630 --> 00:49:08.489 money from California to fund our lawsuit against the merger happening. 818 00:49:08.570 --> 00:49:10.449 And now we couldn't. So they had to settle in 819 00:49:10.489 --> 00:49:14.130 the end. So California carries a lot of the blame, 820 00:49:14.769 --> 00:49:17.719 in my opinion, for what happened here. And it's unfortunate. 821 00:49:17.860 --> 00:49:20.860 It's sad to fucking see it. Now let's get to 822 00:49:20.880 --> 00:49:24.440 the CNN part of thing, news editorial board and monitor. 823 00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:27.940 Apparently this is how they're going to solve the CNN 824 00:49:27.980 --> 00:49:30.429 issue and the CBS issue, which has been ridiculous to 825 00:49:30.469 --> 00:49:33.630 watch over the last few months, a new board to 826 00:49:33.690 --> 00:49:40.329 support CBS news and CNN's quote, continued editorial independence. Independent 827 00:49:40.409 --> 00:49:45.139 monitor appointed to oversee compliance with the whole agreement. Context, 828 00:49:45.159 --> 00:49:49.260 Paramount already paid Trump $ 16 million over 60 minutes edits, 829 00:49:49.340 --> 00:49:54.440 which was ridiculous. Hegseth publicly welcomed Ellison's CNN takeover. See, that's, 830 00:49:54.920 --> 00:49:56.840 and Trump even said it the other day, that CNN 831 00:49:56.909 --> 00:49:59.969 is going to be amazing and great in all of 832 00:50:00.010 --> 00:50:04.170 this stuff now that they're under new management. And editorial 833 00:50:04.210 --> 00:50:07.170 independence to me is the hardest term to enforce via 834 00:50:07.230 --> 00:50:11.079 consent decree and There's no hard number to check, unlike 835 00:50:11.159 --> 00:50:15.179 film counts or dollars, which is already difficult to check 836 00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:17.409 on both sides because we know how studios can be 837 00:50:17.909 --> 00:50:21.570 with their creative bookkeeping. To think that you will somehow 838 00:50:22.710 --> 00:50:28.389 have editorial independence, some phantom term like editorial independence is nonsense. 839 00:50:28.780 --> 00:50:31.039 The pitfall here for Paramount, if the board looks toothless 840 00:50:31.079 --> 00:50:34.679 or Ellison appointed, it becomes a talking point that undermines 841 00:50:34.719 --> 00:50:38.480 CNN and CBS's credibility further. But who fucking cares at 842 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:42.719 that point? Pitfall AGs, this is where left-leaning critics, Booker Press, 843 00:50:42.739 --> 00:50:45.480 freedom groups already say the entitlement, the settlement doesn't go 844 00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:50.820 far enough, 100%. Because, right, it looks to, what's the 845 00:50:50.900 --> 00:50:57.889 point of bitching out Paramount's control of CNN with this editorial, 846 00:50:57.929 --> 00:51:01.409 this independent supposedly editorial board that will be made up 847 00:51:01.449 --> 00:51:05.690 of journalists, by the way, and is supposedly politically equal 848 00:51:09.769 --> 00:51:12.090 if they start to veer to the right and they 849 00:51:12.110 --> 00:51:14.929 start to elect people who are just like the January 850 00:51:15.090 --> 00:51:18.489 6th commission didn't want to have MAGA nut balls like 851 00:51:18.510 --> 00:51:22.440 Jim Jordan and Matt Gates and others who were there 852 00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:26.280 to simply poison the well with no desire to find 853 00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:29.940 the truth, absolutely zero. They were there just to blacken 854 00:51:30.059 --> 00:51:33.380 the water so that what came out of it of 855 00:51:33.409 --> 00:51:37.199 those January 6th commission, if they had allowed them to 856 00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:41.739 be on it, would have been nonsense and muddled stuff 857 00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:44.000 instead of the actual truth that we got out of 858 00:51:44.039 --> 00:51:47.920 those January 6th, that commission, right? And so essentially what 859 00:51:47.940 --> 00:51:51.539 you've done here is allowed the MAGA journalists, because there's 860 00:51:51.639 --> 00:51:56.969 no way Ellison doesn't pick people from OANN or hardcore, 861 00:51:57.030 --> 00:51:59.570 Laura Ingram possibly, or Sean Hannity to sit on this 862 00:51:59.690 --> 00:52:03.239 fucking board And we know that a lot, because they know, 863 00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:08.679 and we know, that a lot of liberal journalists are 864 00:52:08.820 --> 00:52:12.679 not fighters, you know, and they are kind of wussies. 865 00:52:13.659 --> 00:52:16.119 And this is where this all comes down to, for me, 866 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:17.820 when you look at the settlement talks, all this kind 867 00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:20.829 of stuff, and I'm not calling Rob Bonta a wussy 868 00:52:20.849 --> 00:52:26.730 at all. I'm saying that overall, the settlement talks just reinforce, 869 00:52:27.050 --> 00:52:31.579 the settlement terms rather, reinforce what MAGA has felt about Democrats, 870 00:52:32.340 --> 00:52:36.219 about progressives, about liberals, is that we're a bunch of pussies. 871 00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:39.480 Excuse the term, wussies, I guess you would say, just 872 00:52:39.500 --> 00:52:43.460 to be fair, gender neutral. Wussies who can be easily 873 00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:47.039 pushed around, who don't like confrontation, who want to adhere 874 00:52:47.059 --> 00:52:49.260 to

the rules all the time and want to do 875 00:52:49.340 --> 00:52:53.030 things the right way. And I think that's amazing, right? 876 00:52:53.070 --> 00:52:56.130 That's a good thing about a lot of progressives and liberals, 877 00:52:56.170 --> 00:52:59.219 regardless of what the right says, fuck them and their bullshit. Like, 878 00:52:59.590 --> 00:53:02.329 there's a lot of liberals, progressives who want to do 879 00:53:02.349 --> 00:53:04.050 the right thing, who want to adhere to the rules, 880 00:53:04.869 --> 00:53:08.289 who want to do positive good in the world and 881 00:53:08.329 --> 00:53:11.389 help their fellow man and fellow woman or fellow however 882 00:53:11.429 --> 00:53:16.820 they identify. But we have seen over the last few years, 883 00:53:17.539 --> 00:53:21.619 the last two years, how MAGA just steamrolls all the norms, 884 00:53:21.820 --> 00:53:25.670 steamrolls all the expectations, steamrolls all the stuff, and they 885 00:53:25.690 --> 00:53:33.329 have willing people who will excuse anything through false whataboutism equivalence, 886 00:53:33.789 --> 00:53:37.170 like we saw over the weekend, Steve Scalise going on 887 00:53:37.969 --> 00:53:40.699 Kristen Welker's show, or no, the ABC show this week 888 00:53:40.719 --> 00:53:45.980 on ABC, and saying about Trump banning the MSNOW and 889 00:53:46.059 --> 00:53:50.099 CNN and Politico from being in the press conferences. Well, 890 00:53:50.239 --> 00:53:54.639 Joe Biden banned 400 news agencies, and Jonathan Karl there, 891 00:53:55.900 --> 00:53:58.099 I mean, and Scalise knows better. He's lying through his 892 00:53:58.119 --> 00:53:59.840 fucking teeth and he knows he is. And that's the thing, 893 00:53:59.880 --> 00:54:02.300 the bad faith argument from MAGA all the time when 894 00:54:02.340 --> 00:54:05.510 it comes to this stuff. And Jonathan Karl had to 895 00:54:05.530 --> 00:54:07.929 say to him, it's not true. What you're saying is 896 00:54:07.969 --> 00:54:11.829 a lie. It is an absolute lie. These 400 people 897 00:54:12.210 --> 00:54:16.909 did not reapply for credentials. Biden never banned them. They 898 00:54:16.969 --> 00:54:20.369 didn't reapply for credentials. Okay, maybe they thought because they 899 00:54:20.389 --> 00:54:22.369 knew they were going to be turned down, they didn't reapply, 900 00:54:22.969 --> 00:54:28.070 but they didn't reapply for these credentials. only one reporter 901 00:54:28.090 --> 00:54:30.570 was banned, but that was for another issue. And that 902 00:54:30.590 --> 00:54:33.110 was a completely different situation. But see, they will push 903 00:54:33.289 --> 00:54:41.300 out these false equivalency narratives to fool their base and 904 00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:45.199 give them talking points to counter the legitimate factual narratives 905 00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:48.760 that are going on. And even today, tonight, I don't 906 00:54:48.780 --> 00:54:51.860 know if you guys know this, but Donald Trump launched 907 00:54:52.059 --> 00:54:57.230 Trump TV. This is now his own television network that 908 00:54:57.269 --> 00:55:04.409 is supposed to be countering the factual reporting from CNN, MSNOW, Politico, 909 00:55:04.710 --> 00:55:07.260 the New York Times, at times the Washington Post when 910 00:55:07.300 --> 00:55:10.969 Bezos is not looking, and these other news organizations that 911 00:55:11.010 --> 00:55:14.880 have called out the corruption, the back door, the back 912 00:55:15.199 --> 00:55:19.440 behind the scenes deals, the back room deals that they've 913 00:55:19.460 --> 00:55:24.829 been making. And now he's launching his own, essentially, state-run 914 00:55:24.869 --> 00:55:29.929 TV where Donald Trump will approve all the news that 915 00:55:29.989 --> 00:55:32.449 is being put out there. And it's only positive news. 916 00:55:34.550 --> 00:55:37.719 If it walks like a dictator, quacks like a dictator, 917 00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:40.920 talks like a dictator, and then acts like a dictator, 918 00:55:41.920 --> 00:55:46.260 that's what we're seeing. And I totally believe this is 919 00:55:46.300 --> 00:55:49.030 happening because he knows that he's going to get wiped 920 00:55:49.130 --> 00:55:54.000 out in the midterms. And so they're already starting a 921 00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:59.090 two-year plan to undercut everything the Democrats do once they 922 00:55:59.130 --> 00:56:02.809 come into power in the House, hopefully, and possibly in 923 00:56:02.829 --> 00:56:10.590 the Senate, by pushing stories to destroy them. As if 924 00:56:11.150 --> 00:56:15.570 Fox News doesn't already carry Trump's water, OANN doesn't already 925 00:56:15.730 --> 00:56:20.820 carry Trump's water, Newsmax doesn't already carry Trump's water. And 926 00:56:20.889 --> 00:56:23.739 now CBS is essentially carrying Trump's water. And now CNN 927 00:56:23.760 --> 00:56:26.599 will probably be carrying Trump's water. Now we need another 928 00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:30.340 state-run TV. This is what is madness to me. This 929 00:56:30.420 --> 00:56:35.449 is essentially state-run TV across numerous networks. Numerous networks. Shout 930 00:56:35.469 --> 00:56:40.130 out to Fox News, who today, along with other news agencies, 931 00:56:40.190 --> 00:56:43.239 refuse to broadcast Trump's press conference because they don't like 932 00:56:43.260 --> 00:56:46.739 the idea that Trump wants to ban news organizations from 933 00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:48.719 being in the White House. It's a violation of the 934 00:56:48.739 --> 00:56:52.519 First Amendment. Shout out to them. I'm a fair bounce. 935 00:56:52.619 --> 00:56:54.559 I call balls and strikes. I give credit to Fox 936 00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:59.460 News for joining that boycott of Trump's press conference today 937 00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:03.070 that happened where Trump was talking into the air essentially 938 00:57:03.090 --> 00:57:06.570 because there was no microphone because none of the studios 939 00:57:06.610 -->

00:57:09.190 set up microphones for him. So it was just the 940 00:57:09.230 --> 00:57:12.369 drone of whatever the vehicle, construction vehicle was behind him 941 00:57:12.429 --> 00:57:14.210 and you couldn't hear a fucking word he was saying. 942 00:57:15.449 --> 00:57:18.130 So to me, when I look at everything that's happening here, 943 00:57:18.289 --> 00:57:20.570 I think this is a dereliction of duty when you 944 00:57:20.610 --> 00:57:23.789 look at the settlement talks. Like, yes, the antitrust stuff 945 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 947 00:57:31.309 --> 00:57:35.250 I said earlier, 49.5% of the funding of this deal 948 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 950 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, 954 00:57:58.590 --> 00:58:01.000 you know, do whatever you fucking want. I don't give 955 00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:02.519 a shit. I'm not, I don't care what you, you know, 956 00:58:02.539 --> 00:58:04.599 I'm not going to have an opinion on it. Do 957 00:58:04.639 --> 00:58:07.500 whatever your bullshit. They're absolutely going to want to push 958 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, 960 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, 963 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 965 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 967 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, 969 00:58:51.289 --> 00:58:54.050 the people who support me will go, well, yeah, that's right. 970 00:58:54.130 --> 00:58:55.739 He's got a right to do that because you did 971 00:58:55.780 --> 00:58:57.420 it first. So he's got a right to do it. 972 00:58:57.900 --> 00:59:01.679 That's the nonsense game that they're playing. And the Democrats 973 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, 975 00:59:15.909 --> 00:59:18.510 of SAG, someone's asking about SAG. I thought I had 976 00:59:18.570 --> 00:59:21.730 this in here, but let me see if I've got 977 00:59:21.769 --> 00:59:27.159 this in here. I thought I had SAG's response to this. 978 00:59:29.750 --> 00:59:31.610 I'm sorry. We're taking care of a couple of dogs 979 00:59:31.969 --> 00:59:35.090 and they're very excitable right now and barking very loudly. 980 00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:38.260 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. 982 00:59:44.639 --> 00:59:47.510 I don't know. Let me see. Let me put this. 983 00:59:48.010 --> 00:59:51.250 I thought I had this. I guess I didn't add 984 00:59:51.289 --> 00:59:55.130 it to my photos. But I want to bring up 985 00:59:55.550 --> 01:00:00.130 Sag's response to this merger because someone is asking about it. 986 01:00:01.389 --> 01:00:04.409 Let me create this photo real quick and then put 987 01:00:04.449 --> 01:00:06.449 it up on the screen for you all to read 988 01:00:06.530 --> 01:00:07.929 with me. I suppose I could have gone to the 989 01:00:07.969 --> 01:00:10.010 Twitter thing, but I kind of just don't want to 990 01:00:10.030 --> 01:00:13.929 share screens right now. As I say that, I'm about 991 01:00:13.949 --> 01:00:16.090 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 993 01:00:18.820 --> 01:00:21.760 President Sean Astin, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator Duncan 994 01:00:21.780 --> 01:00:25.429 Crabtree Ireland regarding the Paramount Warner Brothers settlement. The sentiment 995 01:00:25.449 --> 01:00:29.650 of the attorneys general antitrust lawsuit announced today addresses some 996 01:00:29.789 --> 01:00:32.719 of our deep concerns about production levels and investment in U.S. production. 997 01:00:33.400 --> 01:00:35.880 We thank California Attorney General Rob Bonta, New York Attorney 998 01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:39.559 General Letitia James, and the other attorneys general for helping 999 01:00:39.579 --> 01:00:41.760 to ensure our members' interests were part of the conversation. 1000 01:00:42.510 --> 01:00:45.630 Their advocacy is deeply appreciated. This is very sweet words 1001 01:00:47.090 --> 01:00:49.849 and very political words. Thanks for having our voice in 1002 01:00:49.889 --> 01:00:53.289 the room. We really appreciate it. We will continue to 1003 01:00:53.309 --> 01:00:55.949 approach our relationship with Paramount with professionalism and the intention 1004 01:00:55.969 --> 01:00:57.789 to work well together. We hope that the process of 1005 01:00:57.849 --> 01:01:00.880 engaging with the attorneys general has impressed upon them. The

1006 01:01:00.920 --> 01:01:03.639 fact that in addition to collective bargaining, our members rely 1007 01:01:03.679 --> 01:01:06.300 on the law to help protect our interests. These are 1008 01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:09.139 the lowest standards that our employers must meet. All of 1009 01:01:09.179 --> 01:01:11.860 the companies have the opportunity to exceed their legal obligations 1010 01:01:11.920 --> 01:01:15.039 and make additional efforts to ensure that our workplaces are 1011 01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:21.769 healthy and that employers honor our dignity. Very sweet words, 1012 01:01:22.230 --> 01:01:27.809 very democratic and liberal words, very kumbaya. Let's hold hands. 1013 01:01:27.849 --> 01:01:31.550 Let's reach across the aisle. Let's ignore the fact that 1014 01:01:31.610 --> 01:01:34.219 the aisle with their other hand, the person I'm holding 1015 01:01:34.260 --> 01:01:36.840 the eye, the hand of the person across the aisle 1016 01:01:37.300 --> 01:01:39.579 while they have a ax in their other hand to 1017 01:01:39.599 --> 01:01:42.340 cut my arm off. Let me ignore that. You know, 1018 01:01:42.420 --> 01:01:44.489 it's that nonsense. And look, they have to do it. 1019 01:01:44.519 --> 01:01:48.019 They're part of an organization. There are, conservatives and MAGA 1020 01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:50.679 actors in the SAG and they'd lose their minds if 1021 01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:55.050 they didn't issue a politically correct statement like this. But 1022 01:01:55.090 --> 01:01:58.690 you can see through this statement completely and how flaccid 1023 01:01:58.750 --> 01:02:02.170 it really is and how it says like, well, you know, 1024 01:02:02.869 --> 01:02:05.449 they can exceed things and we hope we work with 1025 01:02:05.510 --> 01:02:08.780 Paramount in good faith. It's all cover. It's all just cover. 1026 01:02:09.550 --> 01:02:12.400 So that when Paramount fucks over actors with AI, which 1027 01:02:12.440 --> 01:02:16.630 they will, Paramount WB, fucks over production staff with AI, 1028 01:02:16.769 --> 01:02:20.889 which they fucking will to hit that quota, they can say, well, 1029 01:02:21.010 --> 01:02:24.519 we entered into good faith negotiations. Paramount fucked us over. 1030 01:02:24.559 --> 01:02:27.400 It's Paramount who's the bad guy. And all of that 1031 01:02:27.599 --> 01:02:31.199 dialogue doesn't mean jack shit when you had a chance 1032 01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:34.300 to really bring them to their knees. And this is 1033 01:02:34.360 --> 01:02:36.320 what's frustrating about this whole thing in the end of 1034 01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:42.010 the day is California and these 12 state AGs had 1035 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 1037 01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:55.780 more strict structural remedies. But in the end, they gave 1038 01:02:55.940 --> 01:02:59.960 in to a loud, small minority of the public sentiment 1039 01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:06.599 that was getting attention. And they bought the bluff that 1040 01:03:06.699 --> 01:03:09.369 Paramount was going to leave California. He was never going 1041 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 1047 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. 1052 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? 1054 01:04:12.329 --> 01:04:17.250 We all watch, well, some of you watch sports. And 1055 01:04:17.289 --> 01:04:19.510 we know what it's like when someone talks a big 1056 01:04:19.550 --> 01:04:23.960 game and they get into that ring and they get destroyed. 1057 01:04:24.059 --> 01:04:28.039 Or they get onto that field and they get destroyed 1058 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. 1061 01:04:36.119 --> 01:04:39.389 I respect Rob here. I think this is all about 1062 01:04:39.409 --> 01:04:42.909 the pressure, political pressure from Democrats in the state of 1063 01:04:42.949 --> 01:04:47.880 California who essentially forced Rob Bonta's hand to make these 1064 01:04:47.940 --> 01:04:51.480 settlement deals, the settlement deal here with Paramount and David Ellison. 1065 01:04:52.199 --> 01:04:54.699 And it's sad. It's sad because in the end, it's 1066 01:04:54.760 --> 01:04:57.869 not going to lead to the things it's supposed to 1067 01:04:57.929 --> 01:05:01.130 lead to. And I think there's a lot of, there's 1068 01:05:01.170 --> 01:05:03.510 way too much wiggle room for them to get out 1069 01:05:03.550 --> 01:05:08.989 of everything. You know, wide-release... He was mentioning that they 1070 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 1074 01:05:25.219 --> 01:05:29.880 it like Star Wars? Is that an independent film? Because 1075 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 1077 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? 1084 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 1088 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 1090 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 1093 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 1095 01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:51.420 resistance and settle and this is what you'll see for 1096 01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:53.409 this kind of thing when you look at the independent 1097 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 1099 01:06:59.969 --> 01:07:02.590 is this a meaningful concession or a pr line item 1100 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 1103 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 1105 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 1108 01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:35.940 $ 5 million to buy independent films that lean left or 1109 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 1111 01:07:43.219 --> 01:07:47.050 at $ 5 million a year to make independent films that 1112 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. 1123 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 1125 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 1128 01:08:43.529 --> 01:08:46.890 five years cuts against the synergies that justified the merger. Absolutely. 1129 01:08:47.550 --> 01:08:52.390 The editorial independence board, as I mentioned already, um, A 1130 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 1137 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 1140 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 1144 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 1149 01:10:00.869 --> 01:10:03.550 the right. And so I would not be surprised that 1150 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 1153 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 1158 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 1162 01:10:42.229 --> 01:10:44.520 and live in a cave somewhere so nobody can find me. 1163 01:10:45.100 --> 01:10:47.600 And I would be willing to up the numbers and 1164 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 1168 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 1177 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. 1190 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 1199 01:13:05.050 --> 01:13:12.189 of your questions before I get into anything else. And

yeah, 1200 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 1208 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 1257 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 1273 01:17:23.829 --> 01:17:28.289 silenced because they're going to make staying at those jobs untenable. 1274 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 1276 01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:39.640 people left at CBS. Yes, because they think Bari Weiss 1277 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 1282 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 1284 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? 1299 01:18:44.810 --> 01:18:47.609 And then 32 films in a couple of years under 1300 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 1323 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 1344 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, 1371 01:22:28.279 --> 01:22:30.079 if one of you wants to give me $ 35, I'll 1372 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, 1375 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 1381 01:22:59.189 --> 01:23:02.970 Lucas Museum Gala opening? That is a great question, Smithy. 1382 01:23:03.569 --> 01:23:06.029 Her husband, Frank, was featured. She's produced Star Wars and 1383 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 1385 01:23:12.970 --> 01:23:15.989 to take attention away from George. If I show up, 1386 01:23:16.069 --> 01:23:18.250 it's going to be all about me and what happened 1387 01:23:18.390 --> 01:23:21.289 during my tenure in charge of Star Wars. And George 1388 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 1392 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 1397 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 1399 01:23:54.899 --> 01:23:56.670 going to sleep in the same bed that night. So 1400 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 1600 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 1839 01:49:21.229 --> 01:49:25.409 knows what else and massage parlors in Florida and him 1840 01:49:26.149 --> 01:49:30.270 colluding with other NFL owners to put the pressure on 1841 01:49:30.289 --> 01:49:34.649 the touring company to kick Macklemore off the tour. That's 1842 01:49:34.750 --> 01:49:38.649 absolutely true. where you should be putting the blame. But 1843 01:49:38.670 --> 01:49:41.510 there's enough blame for Ed Sheeran, too. Stop looking at 1844 01:49:41.529 --> 01:49:43.350 athletes and entertainers to be your freaking role models and 1845 01:49:43.439 --> 01:49:46.100 arbiters of morality. I agree with you on that. Stop 1846 01:49:46.140 --> 01:49:47.819 expecting them to be something more than they are if 1847 01:49:47.979 --> 01:49:50.479 all they want to do is sing or act. Let 1848 01:49:50.520 --> 01:49:55.000 them do that. Sure, but he inserted himself in the situation, bro. Like, 1849 01:49:55.119 --> 01:49:58.520 he also inserted himself in the situation. He has come 1850 01:49:58.659 --> 01:50:01.829 out in support of Ukraine. So this whole thing where 1851 01:50:01.869 --> 01:50:03.890 he said he was not a political person, he doesn't 1852 01:50:03.909 --> 01:50:07.479 choose sides, is bullshit. He fights for, as Saturday Night 1853 01:50:07.520 --> 01:50:10.760 Live called him out, he fights for the causes that 1854 01:50:10.800 --> 01:50:13.359 are safe to fight for, that everyone else supports as well. 1855 01:50:13.979 --> 01:50:16.520 He doesn't take a stand. You know, people taking a 1856 01:50:16.539 --> 01:50:19.819 stand for Gaza, they are risking themselves, just like people 1857 01:50:19.880 --> 01:50:22.659 are taking a stand for Israel. They are risking themselves. 1858 01:50:22.729 --> 01:50:26.109 It's a very complex situation. And there is a history 1859 01:50:26.149 --> 01:50:29.550 on both sides of horrible acts being done to both sides. 1860 01:50:29.609 --> 01:50:31.409 I'm not trying to both sides the argument. I'm trying 1861 01:50:31.430 --> 01:50:34.689 to put it in a historical context. Currently, yes. What's 1862 01:50:34.729 --> 01:50:38.670 happening in Gaza right now is horrific. Absolutely. But there 1863 01:50:38.750 --> 01:50:41.250 are examples of the same things happening in the past 1864

01:50:41.770 --> 01:50:45.529 to Jews in Israel. So it is a long history 1865 01:50:45.800 --> 01:50:47.819 of this stuff that's been happening for a very long time. 1866 01:50:49.600 --> 01:50:52.500 Michael McKenzie says, glad you dig Resident Evil. What's the 1867 01:50:52.520 --> 01:50:55.180 scariest game you played? I don't play scary games, bro. 1868 01:50:55.279 --> 01:50:58.000 It's not my thing. I just don't. I barely go 1869 01:50:58.039 --> 01:51:00.539 to horrors. So I would never buy a scary game. 1870 01:51:01.529 --> 01:51:04.130 video game. Maybe, maybe I'll buy, I haven't even bought 1871 01:51:04.149 --> 01:51:06.250 last of us. And I've had those two in my 1872 01:51:06.289 --> 01:51:09.510 hands multiple times and never pulled the trigger. Like for 1873 01:51:09.649 --> 01:51:12.050 black Friday, I think last year, two years ago, they 1874 01:51:12.069 --> 01:51:14.229 were like, they had dropped them down to like 25 1875 01:51:14.229 --> 01:51:16.710 or $ 30 at Best Buy, both of them. And I 1876 01:51:16.789 --> 01:51:18.409 almost bought them. And I was like, am I really 1877 01:51:18.430 --> 01:51:21.670 going to play this? But you know, I think maybe 1878 01:51:21.689 --> 01:51:23.810 it's time to break that, uh, break that Schneid. So 1879 01:51:24.649 --> 01:51:26.850 The scariest game I ever played is probably Madden because 1880 01:51:26.890 --> 01:51:29.180 I can never figure out how to be successful in Madden. 1881 01:51:29.220 --> 01:51:32.439 It's so frustrating. I played hours of Madden and whenever 1882 01:51:32.479 --> 01:51:34.760 I go to the top level, I get my ass 1883 01:51:34.979 --> 01:51:37.979 kicked and I never could be good at it. Wiley says, 1884 01:51:38.020 --> 01:51:39.520 I watched The Shining for the first time this week 1885 01:51:39.539 --> 01:51:41.239 and I've been told by everyone in my life that 1886 01:51:41.300 --> 01:51:44.239 this movie is terrifying, but I didn't get scared at all. 1887 01:51:44.310 --> 01:51:48.050 But I do hear Doctor Sleep is more scary. Well, 1888 01:51:48.109 --> 01:51:51.609 it's more mentally terrifying. That film is scary on a 1889 01:51:51.710 --> 01:51:55.289 mental level that he would You know, that there's a 1890 01:51:55.369 --> 01:51:59.850 spirit in that hotel that could drive someone crazy enough 1891 01:51:59.890 --> 01:52:03.289 to kill their family, right? That's what the film is 1892 01:52:03.310 --> 01:52:09.310 really exploring is the weakness of mind and how a 1893 01:52:09.350 --> 01:52:13.680 good person can easily be influenced to do evil in 1894 01:52:13.720 --> 01:52:18.760 the world if they allow themselves to be influenced by 1895 01:52:19.640 --> 01:52:22.460 outside forces. And you see that with him. Let me 1896 01:52:22.539 --> 01:52:26.079 recommend the documentary Room 237, which we talk about on Cinefiles. 1897 01:52:26.119 --> 01:52:28.100 While I know you've heard it, I hope you watch 1898 01:52:28.140 --> 01:52:34.130 that documentary as an interesting sidebar to The Shining. I 1899 01:52:34.149 --> 01:52:36.670 almost put it on again last night. I love that documentary, though. 1900 01:52:37.390 --> 01:52:39.390 But I have not seen Dr. Sleep. I might do 1901 01:52:39.409 --> 01:52:42.189 that as a reaction video down the road with my channel, 1902 01:52:42.229 --> 01:52:45.520 which is going to be doing more reactions very soon. 1903 01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:47.560 I can think of one entertainment journalist who is crazy 1904 01:52:47.600 --> 01:52:49.439 enough to buck the system, but he has no idea 1905 01:52:49.460 --> 01:52:52.390 how business works. And that's my opinion. Who would be 1906 01:52:52.430 --> 01:52:59.600 that entertainment journalist? Who has no idea how business works? 1907 01:53:01.039 --> 01:53:02.699 Let me know. I'd love to know who that is. 1908 01:53:02.840 --> 01:53:04.840 Because I hope you're not talking to me. I don't 1909 01:53:04.859 --> 01:53:07.579 consider myself a journalist. I don't investigate stories. I don't 1910 01:53:08.140 --> 01:53:11.020 write articles. Those are journalists. Jeff's a journalist. I am 1911 01:53:11.090 --> 01:53:14.189 not a journalist. But I do have an idea about 1912 01:53:14.210 --> 01:53:16.170 how business works. This is my business. So I hope 1913 01:53:16.189 --> 01:53:18.430 you're not talking about me. I have two black hands. 1914 01:53:18.449 --> 01:53:21.010 It says, DC owned by Magamount. I think I'll just 1915 01:53:21.029 --> 01:53:23.770 check out. Yeah, we'll see. We'll have to see. We 1916 01:53:23.789 --> 01:53:26.250 have to keep an open mind to see what happens. 1917 01:53:27.149 --> 01:53:31.210 But open mind with a very raised eyebrow and arms folded. 1918 01:53:31.630 --> 01:53:35.239 So Brian VR, Aether says, sending support. Thank you, Brian. 1919 01:53:35.260 --> 01:53:38.460 Appreciate you, man. Thank you so much. Chef Rego says, 1920 01:53:38.520 --> 01:53:41.520 in a realistic world, does Snyderverse return now? Fuck no. 1921 01:53:42.340 --> 01:53:45.539 These people still want to make money. I don't think 1922 01:53:45.579 --> 01:53:49.479 they would bring Snyder back. to do a film, take 1923 01:53:49.520 --> 01:53:52.500 over the DC universe. Maybe they bring him back to 1924 01:53:52.539 --> 01:53:55.399 do an Elseworlds live-action Kingdom Come. That could be a 1925 01:53:55.439 --> 01:53:58.829 lot of fun. Maybe you convince Cavill to come back, 1926 01:53:58.869 --> 01:54:03.229 Gal Gadot, maybe Ben, down the road. If you're going 1927 01:54:03.250 --> 01:54:05.010 to have Saudi money, you can offer them all kinds. 1928 01:54:05.430 --> 01:54:07.229 As we see with the Saudi Football League, for those 1929 01:54:07.260 --> 01:54:10.600 who watch football and soccer, they offer all kinds of 1930 01:54:10.659 --> 01:54:15.260 money that has been football players or football players past 1931 01:54:15.300 --> 01:54:18.109 their prime to come and elevate their league. So if

1932 01:54:18.130 --> 01:54:21.789 you've got that Saudi money, maybe you can buy Cavill, 1933 01:54:22.029 --> 01:54:25.130 buy Affleck, buy Gal Gadot to come back, Momoa as Aquaman, 1934 01:54:25.710 --> 01:54:28.550 and risk Ezra back as Flash, and you do a 1935 01:54:28.569 --> 01:54:31.189 Kingdom Come. It's very possible. But I don't think the 1936 01:54:31.229 --> 01:54:34.489 Snyderverse returns at all, no. They want to make money, 1937 01:54:34.520 --> 01:54:37.659 and I don't think Snyderverse makes money anymore. Kajus says, 1938 01:54:37.680 --> 01:54:39.880 I appreciate the point you made on the Harloff show 1939 01:54:39.899 --> 01:54:42.880 regarding the privilege of white heterosexual males in the political space. 1940 01:54:42.979 --> 01:54:46.760 Continue speaking. The truth. Yeah. Thank you, KJ. I appreciate that. 1941 01:54:46.840 --> 01:54:49.000 Yet I wasn't saying that white men are terrible. I 1942 01:54:49.020 --> 01:54:52.560 was saying that white straight men are born with certain 1943 01:54:52.680 --> 01:54:56.449 inherent perks in our society. Because they're not snatching white 1944 01:54:56.609 --> 01:54:58.649 straight males off the street and sending them off to 1945 01:54:58.689 --> 01:55:02.590 different countries. They're not restricting white straight males from having 1946 01:55:02.829 --> 01:55:06.229 sex and putting them in jail if their babies get aborted. 1947 01:55:06.270 --> 01:55:08.279 That's the women they're putting in jail, right? Not the 1948 01:55:08.319 --> 01:55:10.899 men who impregnated them. Even if the men might agree 1949 01:55:10.939 --> 01:55:13.390 with the abortion... The men are not being put in jail. 1950 01:55:13.409 --> 01:55:15.569 It's the women are being threatened with jail. So these 1951 01:55:15.590 --> 01:55:18.270 are these things, these perks, right? It doesn't mean that 1952 01:55:18.310 --> 01:55:23.340 white men don't suffer. White men don't have issues, financial problems, divorces, 1953 01:55:23.659 --> 01:55:27.859 don't get sexually abused as children. Of course, everybody has 1954 01:55:27.899 --> 01:55:29.939 a tough life or I kind of have a tough life. 1955 01:55:29.960 --> 01:55:34.310 Not everybody. You know, as we saw with Cindy Crawford's son, 1956 01:55:35.010 --> 01:55:39.329 if what they're suggesting happened to the poor man, He 1957 01:55:39.909 --> 01:55:42.050 had all the perks and possibilities in the world as 1958 01:55:42.090 --> 01:55:46.270 a white male kid in the world. And addiction, it 1959 01:55:46.350 --> 01:55:48.250 looks like, I don't know that they've officially said that, 1960 01:55:48.270 --> 01:55:50.810 but it looks like addiction got the better of him. 1961 01:55:50.970 --> 01:55:53.949 It just proves that, right? All I'm saying is that 1962 01:55:54.520 --> 01:55:57.479 if you're born in this world as a straight white male, 1963 01:55:58.000 --> 01:56:01.880 you have certain inherent advantages that other people don't have. 1964 01:56:02.699 --> 01:56:05.439 And it does not mean that your life is somehow easier. 1965 01:56:05.560 --> 01:56:08.140 It doesn't. It just means that there are some things 1966 01:56:08.699 --> 01:56:10.880 that you will be able to do a little easier 1967 01:56:10.920 --> 01:56:13.039 than other people. And that's all I was trying to highlight. 1968 01:56:13.520 --> 01:56:16.460 But I appreciate it, KJ. Thank you. Thank you, Derek. 1969 01:56:16.659 --> 01:56:18.560 Much love, bro. Thank you so much. What a very, 1970 01:56:18.619 --> 01:56:21.560 very kind donation, bro. Much love to you. I appreciate you, 1971 01:56:21.600 --> 01:56:23.439 my man. Thanks for all the stuff you sent tonight, dude. Derek, 1972 01:56:23.579 --> 01:56:26.229 you mean the world to me. Thank you, dude. Isaac 1973 01:56:26.270 --> 01:56:28.050 Rocky says, one of the most ridiculous defenses of this 1974 01:56:28.109 --> 01:56:30.210 merger I've heard is that David Ellison loves movies and 1975 01:56:30.229 --> 01:56:32.789 the industry. Yeah, I wonder where you heard that defense. 1976 01:56:33.550 --> 01:56:36.029 So what? I guarantee he loves money and spreading his 1977 01:56:36.069 --> 01:56:39.130 political leanings more. I guarantee that as well, Isaac Rocky. 1978 01:56:39.909 --> 01:56:42.470 I think people who say that David Ellison loves movies 1979 01:56:42.529 --> 01:56:45.949 and the industry, I think they're protecting their bottom line. 1980 01:56:46.630 --> 01:56:49.420 I think they're using that as cover for not seeing 1981 01:56:49.439 --> 01:56:52.699 the other things that David Ellison has done in the 1982 01:56:52.760 --> 01:56:56.619 industry and the political leanings of his family. I think 1983 01:56:56.640 --> 01:56:58.920 they're using that as cover. And I include Tom Cruise 1984 01:56:58.939 --> 01:57:01.729 in that, who I love to pieces. It is the 1985 01:57:02.029 --> 01:57:04.909 one actor I will not talk shit about. It is 1986 01:57:04.949 --> 01:57:08.210 the one superstar. He has just been such a valuable 1987 01:57:08.250 --> 01:57:11.510 part of my life. I know Scientology. I know all 1988 01:57:11.550 --> 01:57:13.890 the stuff behind the scenes. He is my one kryptonite 1989 01:57:13.909 --> 01:57:16.369 in the world. I just won't. I love him too much. 1990 01:57:16.390 --> 01:57:20.149 He means too much to me. I literally fought to 1991 01:57:20.189 --> 01:57:22.180 get into CinemaCon for the first time ever in my 1992 01:57:22.239 --> 01:57:25.460 life so I could see Top Gun Maverick before anyone 1993 01:57:25.500 --> 01:57:32.680 else did. And I spent $ 2, 000 that month on a hotel, food, gas, 1994 01:57:34.439 --> 01:57:40.119 and anything else that I bought there just so I 1995 01:57:40.159 --> 01:57:47.609 could see Top Gun, Maverick ahead of everybody else. I 1996 01:57:47.649 --> 01:57:52.670 can't say anything, but I agree that these defenses of 1997 01:57:52.689 --> 01:57:55.479 the merger about Love's movie, I think

that's all a cop-out. 1998 01:57:56.680 --> 01:57:59.199 None of these people have met David Ellison other than Dom, obviously. 1999 01:57:59.609 --> 01:58:01.140 But a lot of these journalists who are defending it, 2000 01:58:01.170 --> 01:58:04.979 including my brother Snyder, have never sat down and met 2001 01:58:05.060 --> 01:58:09.470 David Ellison and had a cogent conversation with him about 2002 01:58:09.510 --> 01:58:13.479 his love of movies. They're all just putting their feelings 2003 01:58:13.539 --> 01:58:18.560 about what they think David Ellison thinks about movies onto him, 2004 01:58:18.739 --> 01:58:21.899 but they have no actual knowledge of that with him. 2005 01:58:23.279 --> 01:58:25.079 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. 2007 01:58:28.340 --> 01:58:31.350 You'll love it. You know what was available today at GameStop? 2008 01:58:31.369 --> 01:58:34.289 Because GameStop was selling, like if you sign up for 2009 01:58:34.310 --> 01:58:39.460 their thing, you get like $ 10 off two games. I 2010 01:58:39.539 --> 01:58:41.439 almost did it, but I couldn't find a second game 2011 01:58:41.460 --> 01:58:44.720 because I said Onimusha was not there. But I saw 2012 01:58:44.800 --> 01:58:47.579 Death Stranding 2 was there. Is that a good game? 2013 01:58:47.760 --> 01:58:50.180 Is that a horror game? Should I get Death Stranding 2014 01:58:50.180 --> 01:58:53.640 1 and Death Stranding 2? Should I try Death Stranding 2? 2015 01:58:53.640 --> 01:58:56.100 Let me know. I want to try these games out 2016 01:58:56.119 --> 01:58:58.090 and have some fun with them because I really enjoyed 2017 01:58:59.050 --> 01:59:05.390 Getting back into games with the Ghosts of Yotei and... 2018 01:59:05.550 --> 01:59:07.170 Oh my God, why can't I remember the other one? 2019 01:59:07.850 --> 01:59:11.210 The first one, which is what got me back into games. Tsushima, 2020 01:59:11.270 --> 01:59:14.020 Ghosts of Tsushima. Those two games got me back into 2021 01:59:14.060 --> 01:59:18.420 gaming single-handedly. I've always played FIFA. I've always played Madden 2022 01:59:18.460 --> 01:59:20.960 and the new college football game. Those are fun. But 2023 01:59:21.060 --> 01:59:25.699 actual game games with storylines, the Tsushima and Yotei games 2024 01:59:25.760 --> 01:59:29.659 were just life-changing for me. I have bought... The James 2025 01:59:29.720 --> 01:59:38.090 Bond one, I have bought the French one that came 2026 01:59:38.149 --> 01:59:41.630 out as well, but I haven't played them yet. So 2027 01:59:41.649 --> 01:59:45.739 you're saying Death Stranding is a very... Wiley says it's 2028 01:59:45.779 --> 01:59:50.380 very slow and a lot of traveling. Oh, okay. Okay. 2029 01:59:50.399 --> 01:59:52.140 JK says it doesn't amount to much low value. What 2030 01:59:52.600 --> 01:59:54.789 is what gives the privilege? Everett Joshimo

is nothing special, 2031 01:59:54.810 --> 02:00:02.250 no privilege. no, you have a little bit of privilege. Okay, 2032 02:00:02.270 --> 02:00:05.909 so I think that's all the questions. Oh, Wayne. Hey, Wayne. 2033 02:00:06.130 --> 02:00:08.609 What's up, Wayne? I always love seeing you, Wayne. Thank 2034 02:00:08.630 --> 02:00:10.979 you so much. Wayne says, good evening. This is a 2035 02:00:11.020 --> 02:00:13.840 disappointing day. I agree with you, brother. Bonta wanted to 2036 02:00:13.899 --> 02:00:15.600 fight the good fight. He was stabbed in the back 2037 02:00:15.640 --> 02:00:19.899 by Newsom and other California politicians 100%. And the guilds 2038 02:00:20.119 --> 02:00:23.050 folded as well. This may all blow up in Ellison's 2039 02:00:23.090 --> 02:00:25.600 face in three years. I hope so. I hope so. 2040 02:00:25.949 --> 02:00:30.930 We'll see. I'm not holding my breath, but we'll see, man. 2041 02:00:30.949 --> 02:00:36.350 We'll see. Let me see if I've got any stream 2042 02:00:36.390 --> 02:00:40.319 labs that have come through. Thanks for the spoiler review. 2043 02:00:40.359 --> 02:00:42.720 Got to show my support. Oh, that was from a... Sorry, 2044 02:00:42.739 --> 02:00:45.300 that was yesterday. Fred sent a new one today. Hey, Outlaw, 2045 02:00:45.319 --> 02:00:46.659 I wonder how much longer the Saudis are going to 2046 02:00:46.680 --> 02:00:49.159 keep their money in the merger while they're getting pounded 2047 02:00:49.199 --> 02:00:52.060 by the Houthis. Also, fuck the gas prices and the 2048 02:00:52.100 --> 02:00:55.289 dumb fucks who were soulless and voted for it. I 2049 02:00:55.329 --> 02:00:57.489 don't disagree. I don't think these people voted for the 2050 02:00:57.550 --> 02:01:00.409 Iranian war, which is why they're turning on Trump. But 2051 02:01:00.770 --> 02:01:02.550 you had to know at some point that madman was 2052 02:01:02.569 --> 02:01:04.880 going to do something stupid, that jack prices back up. 2053 02:01:05.399 --> 02:01:08.909 Anyone who believed a rich, out of touch, spoiled little 2054 02:01:09.020 --> 02:01:12.779 shit was going to reduce prices for people he doesn't 2055 02:01:12.800 --> 02:01:16.340 give a fuck about is insane. And all these people 2056 02:01:16.359 --> 02:01:19.380 who think that he cares about America, he doesn't care 2057 02:01:19.420 --> 02:01:22.000 about us at all, bro. He doesn't. He's selling the 2058 02:01:22.039 --> 02:01:24.920 country out piece by piece. So. I agree with you 2059 02:01:24.939 --> 02:01:27.399 to an extent, bro. Lou, what's up, Lou? Good to 2060 02:01:27.439 --> 02:01:29.520 see you, brother. Thank you so much. He says, hi, John. 2061 02:01:29.539 --> 02:01:32.239 I love your analysis of the current situation. I'm equally 2062 02:01:32.279 --> 02:01:34.140 frustrated as you, and it feels like all is lost. 2063 02:01:34.260 --> 02:01:36.439 I feel bad about Paramount because I love Strange New Worlds, 2064 02:01:36.479 --> 02:01:38.909 and

I think I have to cancel the subscription once 2065 02:01:38.949 --> 02:01:43.489 the current season is done. On a different note, I 2066 02:01:43.510 --> 02:01:45.550 bought tickets to Street Fighter today. It's generally a movie 2067 02:01:45.590 --> 02:01:47.949 I'm very excited about. I hope it's going to be good. 2068 02:01:48.020 --> 02:01:49.399 What's your take on it? And are you going to 2069 02:01:49.439 --> 02:01:51.699 see it opening night? Well, I'm going to see it screener, 2070 02:01:51.760 --> 02:01:54.260 I'm sure. So I will see it ahead of opening. 2071 02:01:54.279 --> 02:01:55.920 I don't know if I'll go opening night, but I'll certainly, 2072 02:01:56.520 --> 02:01:59.300 I'm looking forward to the screening for it. I might 2073 02:01:59.340 --> 02:02:03.640 even buy that popcorn bucket, which I think is great 2074 02:02:05.300 --> 02:02:07.180 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 2076 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 2079 02:02:16.810 --> 02:02:18.829 it's going to be way better than Masters of the Universe. 2080 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, 2088 02:02:46.310 --> 02:02:48.010 I think you have every right to stick around for 2089 02:02:48.029 --> 02:02:50.930 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, 2091 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. 2095 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 2104 02:03:28.100 --> 02:03:31.060 Jasmine to not show support because it doesn't matter if 2105 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. 2111 02:03:52.899 --> 02:03:54.569 Thank you, Wayne. On a lighter note, you are killing 2112 02:03:54.609 --> 02:03:56.689 it on your live lantern show on Sunday nights. Thank you, Wayne. 2113 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, 2116 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 2125 02:04:42.090 --> 02:04:45.220 is so well acted, so well written, so well directed. 2126 02:04:45.920 --> 02:04:47.779 So once we're done with that, I'm going to turn 2127 02:04:47.840 --> 02:04:50.699 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 2131 02:04:58.229 --> 02:05:02.479 need another show to dive into for sure,

man. Thank you, Wayne. 2132 02:05:02.619 --> 02:05:04.260 Much love to you, brother. And thanks for watching my land. 2133 02:05:04.279 --> 02:05:06.159 Thanks to everybody who's watching right now, who watches my 2134 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. 2138 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. 2141 02:05:21.550 --> 02:05:23.069 And thanks to everybody who's joining me tonight as well. 2142 02:05:23.449 --> 02:05:27.369 Appreciate you guys, Matt. All right. So we're at over 2143 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 2154 02:06:01.600 --> 02:06:06.640 Boris Kitt, Rick Porter over at The Hollywood Reporter. Third 2155 02:06:06.659 --> 02:06:08.380 season of Daredevil Born Again is about to come out, 2156 02:06:08.399 --> 02:06:11.140 will be its last one, sources tell THR. The decision 2157 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 2159 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 2161 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, 2165 02:06:39.670 --> 02:06:41.909 Daredevil Morning God has had a somewhat rocky run since 2166 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. 2168 02:06:54.300 --> 02:06:56.060 And it was greenlit for an 18 episode season with 2169 02:06:56.100 --> 02:06:58.920 Matt Corman and Chris Ord as head writers. Production stopped 2170 02:06:59.119 --> 02:07:00.739 right during the strike and then Scar to Pain was 2171 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 2173 02:07:07.229 --> 02:07:08.970 an issue. I think in the end, they just couldn't 2174 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 2176 02:07:14.689 --> 02:07:18.210 Daredevil thing right. And in the end, that's why they're 2177 02:07:18.409 --> 02:07:21.630 canceling the show. And it's a shame because they brought back, 2178 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. 2184 02:07:39.439 --> 02:07:41.100 The actor plays Foggy. It was great seeing him back, 2185 02:07:41.140 --> 02:07:44.300 you know, and. But yeah, I think they see that they're, 2186 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 2191 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 2198 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 2291 02:12:58.640 --> 02:13:00.119 he'll be done in time to jump on it for. 2292 02:13:00.159 --> 02:13:02.279 We'll see. But I haven't texted him about it, so 2293 02:13:02.300 --> 02:13:06.340 we'll talk about it. Ben says, Will Smith annoyed me 2294 02:13:06.859 --> 02:13:11.260 even before the slap. Oh, that's fair. Let's see what 2295 02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:13.739 else I want to talk about that I have here. 2296 02:13:13.800 --> 02:13:15.760 Thanks for everybody who's sending in Streamlabs Super Chats. If 2297 02:13:15.779 --> 02:13:17.060 you want to send them in, keep sending them in. 2298 02:13:17.090 --> 02:13:20.050 I got two more topics to hit because I have 2299 02:13:21.949 --> 02:13:24.609 pictures for them. Let's see. We talked Resident Evil. Oh, 2300 02:13:25.130 --> 02:13:27.050 here's one that I'm sure we're going to talk about. Actually, 2301 02:13:27.069 --> 02:13:29.510 let's get to this one. The Further Adventures of Cliff Booth. 2302 02:13:29.529 --> 02:13:31.359 The trailer came out today. It's going to come out 2303 02:13:31.420 --> 02:13:35.420 on Netflix in November. My reaction is up on the channel. 2304 02:13:36.000 --> 02:13:38.119 And all I can tell you is that it was 2305 02:13:38.460 --> 02:13:42.279 a fun trailer to watch. An enjoyable trailer to watch even. 2306 02:13:43.039 --> 02:13:45.960 But I have to say, I don't feel excited for 2307 02:13:46.000 --> 02:13:48.659 this one. And I thought I was going to be like, yeah. 2308 02:13:49.479 --> 02:13:52.029 But I came out of the trailer going, okay, I'm in. 2309 02:13:52.590 --> 02:13:55.329 But I'm not 100% on board. Because I don't know 2310 02:13:55.390 --> 02:14:00.510 that the Quentin Tarantino... script mixes with the David Fincher 2311 02:14:00.569 --> 02:14:04.029 style of filmmaking. I don't know that the quippy, funny, 2312 02:14:04.890 --> 02:14:12.600 well-written back and forth dialogue works with Fincher and his style. 2313 02:14:12.619 --> 02:14:16.720 Like Fincher's not used. Fincher doesn't do comedies. And there's 2314 02:14:16.760 --> 02:14:18.739 a lot of comedy in this trailer and the way 2315 02:14:18.779 --> 02:14:20.460 he's shooting it with the quick cuts and the back 2316 02:14:20.500 --> 02:14:23.060 and forth and the moving of the camera. It's like, 2317 02:14:24.289 --> 02:14:26.229 You know, that isn't what I go to a Fincher 2318 02:14:26.270 --> 02:14:29.409 movie for. I'm all for Fincher expanding himself and being 2319 02:14:29.430 --> 02:14:31.170 a great director and challenging himself. I got no problems 2320 02:14:31.189 --> 02:14:33.090 with that. But I got to judge the end result. 2321 02:14:33.350 --> 02:14:35.909 And judging from the trailer, I don't know that it 2322 02:14:35.909 --> 02:14:38.600 100% works. You know, I don't know that any director 2323 02:14:38.619 --> 02:14:42.079 has ever directed a Tarantino script as well as Tarantino 2324 02:14:42.119 --> 02:14:45.500 can direct his own script. Like True Romance, that's a 2325 02:14:45.939 --> 02:14:49.180 great classic 90s movie, right? People love that. Some people 2326 02:14:49.199 --> 02:14:51.020 hate it. I love that movie. I bought it in 2327 02:14:51.279 --> 02:14:54.619 4K recently from Arrow Video. I think it's half all. 2328 02:14:56.739 --> 02:14:59.079 I love that movie. But do I think that's a 2329 02:14:59.100 --> 02:15:01.840 great Tarantino film? I do not. Do I think if 2330 02:15:01.880 --> 02:15:03.399 Tarantino had directed the film, it would have been a 2331 02:15:03.420 --> 02:15:06.979 great Tarantino film? I do. Same thing with Natural Born Killers. 2332 02:15:07.010 --> 02:15:11.390 I think that's a fun Oliver Stone movie. But if 2333 02:15:11.449 --> 02:15:15.350 Tarantino had directed Natural Born Killers, it would have had 2334 02:15:15.390 --> 02:15:18.920 a lot more to say. So I just never... think 2335

02:15:18.979 --> 02:15:21.779 that that works. Tarantino is so unique as a screenwriter 2336 02:15:22.260 --> 02:15:25.560 that I think only he can bring about the nuances 2337 02:15:26.130 --> 02:15:29.069 that was in his mind when he was writing the scenes. 2338 02:15:29.869 --> 02:15:31.930 And I think that shows when you're watching this trailer. 2339 02:15:32.729 --> 02:15:34.210 That being said, it looks like a lot of fun. 2340 02:15:34.569 --> 02:15:37.180 I've loved seeing Brad Pitt back. Let me put the 2341 02:15:37.260 --> 02:15:40.819 pictures back up of everybody who is in this movie. Yeah, 2342 02:15:40.859 --> 02:15:44.659 Brad Pitt looks fantastic, looks excellent back. The shot at 2343 02:15:44.720 --> 02:15:46.420 Rick Dalton at the end saying he got to be 2344 02:15:46.460 --> 02:15:48.319 too fat for him to be his double was a 2345 02:15:48.420 --> 02:15:51.470 fucking hell of a shot at DiCaprio. I hope that's 2346 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, 2348 02:15:58.890 --> 02:16:02.810 Carla Gugino, Elizabeth DeBecky. I'm supposed to buy Scott Kahn 2349 02:16:02.850 --> 02:16:07.800 as this great TV superstar, I guess. And then these 2350 02:16:07.859 --> 02:16:10.300 two brothers who are in or two henchmen who are 2351 02:16:10.340 --> 02:16:13.050 in the car. I don't know their names, but I 2352 02:16:13.090 --> 02:16:16.250 like the shots they had of them. And then Yahya 2353 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 2355 02:16:22.930 --> 02:16:26.149 I'm not 100% over the moon to see it yet. 2356 02:16:26.850 --> 02:16:32.100 So we'll see. This other story broke, and maybe we'll 2357 02:16:32.120 --> 02:16:34.860 wrap up on this story, because we've talked about other things. 2358 02:16:34.940 --> 02:16:41.809 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 2360 02:16:46.719 --> 02:16:49.379 to give credit to Caleb. He posted on X that 2361 02:16:49.500 --> 02:16:53.620 a director has been found for the new Star Wars 2362 02:16:53.680 --> 02:16:59.840 trilogy by Simon Kinberg. Kinberg wasn't even considered to direct them. 2363 02:17:00.819 --> 02:17:03.340 The scooper did not specifically say which director will helm 2364 02:17:03.379 --> 02:17:06.899 the project. Caleb did further claim that production is picking 2365 02:17:06.940 --> 02:17:10.940 up steam fast and could begin filming as early as 2366 02:17:11.120 --> 02:17:15.139 next week. year. However, there's no official confirmation of the 2367 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. 2369 02:17:27.610 --> 02:17:30.309 And so if they start shooting next year, you know, 2370 02:17:30.489 --> 02:17:33.329 they're going to be coming on the heels of Starfighter, right? 2371 02:17:33.389 --> 02:17:36.010 So will Starfighter or will it come out as they're 2372 02:17:36.069 --> 02:17:41.020 finishing up shooting the first installment in the trilogy? I 2373 02:17:41.059 --> 02:17:45.459 don't know. It'll be interesting. Someone's asking, will it include, 2374 02:17:45.559 --> 02:17:47.159 does it have to include race has been bad but 2375 02:17:47.200 --> 02:17:48.979 I hate to break to you Ben but it absolutely 2376 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 2378 02:17:56.920 --> 02:18:00.270 child and Ryan Reynolds Ryan Gosling delivering him to her 2379 02:18:03.030 --> 02:18:06.309 so we will see but now the question becomes who 2380 02:18:06.469 --> 02:18:10.450 is this director that they have found and I mean, 2381 02:18:10.750 --> 02:18:13.590 what have we seen recently? Fetty Alvarez has been removed 2382 02:18:13.790 --> 02:18:25.059 off Alien. Zach Kreger, he has said he doesn't want 2383 02:18:25.100 --> 02:18:28.319 to do any franchise films, but I mean, could that 2384 02:18:28.340 --> 02:18:32.239 be a possibility? Like, who are some directors out there 2385 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 2387 02:18:40.670 --> 02:18:43.170 about that, I'm sure. I doubt they'll bring a female 2388 02:18:43.209 --> 02:18:45.930 director in because of all the drama they've had with 2389 02:18:46.110 --> 02:18:50.840 some of the loud grifters on the anti-woke, anti-DEI side 2390 02:18:50.860 --> 02:18:52.760 of things who hate women and don't want women to 2391 02:18:52.799 --> 02:18:56.420 be part of Star Wars or lead Star Wars or 2392 02:18:56.459 --> 02:19:04.260 direct Star Wars. Who could direct? Hold on. May someone 2393 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? 2395 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? 2397 02:19:22.870 --> 02:19:27.889 No way. Alfonso Cuaron? I mean, that could be interesting. 2398 02:19:29.549 --> 02:19:35.280 I don't know that that would be the choice, but 2399 02:19:35.319 --> 02:19:44.180 that could be fun. yeah Del Toro no I mean 2400 02:19:44.219 --> 02:19:48.940 Matt Reeves if they're really not going to go forward 2401 02:19:48.979 --> 02:19:51.860 with a third Batman after this Batman and I think 2402 02:19:51.899 --> 02:19:57.340 he's almost done shooting this Batman that could be really 2403 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 2405 02:20:07.590 --> 02:20:10.680 just direct the trilogy that's very possible Maybe they just 2406 02:20:10.700 --> 02:20:15.770 like being a business with him. Let's see. Who should 2407 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. 2409 02:20:22.309 --> 02:20:24.090 This could be a fun video. These are the videos 2410 02:20:24.129 --> 02:20:26.510 I need to start making. Who should direct the next 2411 02:20:26.549 --> 02:20:30.549 Star Wars trilogy? James Mangold, of course, because he had 2412 02:20:30.569 --> 02:20:36.559 that other one. What, David Lowery, maybe? I don't know. 2413 02:20:39.600 --> 02:20:43.489 I mean, another vote for Matt Reeves. Tony Gilroy had 2414 02:20:43.510 --> 02:20:48.549 a huge budget. That could be really interesting. Nolan or 2415 02:20:48.590 --> 02:20:53.000 Gore Verbinski? I don't think so. Trevor Lowry. Oh, sorry. 2416 02:20:53.020 --> 02:20:56.520 David Lowry. Duncan Jones and Barry Jenkins. Trevorrow, no way. 2417 02:20:57.280 --> 02:20:59.659 George Lucas. I'll tell you who they should get. You 2418 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 2420 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, 2423 02:21:12.850 --> 02:21:16.229 I know this would be an exciting hire on so 2424 02:21:16.270 --> 02:21:23.110 many levels. Where is it? I want to make sure 2425 02:21:23.129 --> 02:21:28.010 I get his name right. Takashi Yamazaki, the Godzilla minus 2426 02:21:28.090 --> 02:21:32.299 one director and the Godzilla minus zero director. Takashi Yamazaki, 2427 02:21:32.340 --> 02:21:35.959 if you announced Takashi Yamazaki to direct the new Star 2428 02:21:35.979 --> 02:21:40.100 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, 2439 02:22:19.940 --> 02:22:25.000 I think that's absolutely a situation where that could be amazing. 2440 02:22:25.389 --> 02:22:26.889 That would be my choice. If I was in the 2441 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, 2461 02:23:26.290 --> 02:23:28.690 that's the choice. That would be amazing if we got that, 2462 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. 2517 02:26:17.450 --> 02:26:18.790 I did not know he said that. Or if he did, 2518 02:26:18.809 --> 02:26:21.510 I forgot that he said that, but that is absolutely 2519 02:26:21.549 --> 02:26:23.469 my choice. So if he did say that and they 2520 02:26:23.489 --> 02:26:27.170 announced it, believe me that I had no inside information. 2521 02:26:27.250 --> 02:26:29.020 I did not know. No one's like whispered this to 2522 02:26:29.059 --> 02:26:30.940 me in my ears. I just came up with it 2523 02:26:31.020 --> 02:26:32.860 on the fly. And I would think that would be 2524 02:26:32.899 --> 02:26:36.229 an amazing, amazing choice for sure. All right, let's get 2525 02:26:36.309 --> 02:26:37.920 out of here. Thank you all so much for hanging 2526 02:26:37.950 --> 02:26:40.280 out with me on this episode of The Truth. I 2527 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 2529 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 2533 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 2536 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 2538 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 2544 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 2552 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 2555 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, 2557 02:28:06.600 --> 02:28:09.750 definitely thinking about all of that stuff. So thank you guys. 2558 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 2562 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 2570 02:28:44.540 --> 02:28:47.309 you get frustrated. I get it. But you got to 2571 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 2576 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 2578 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 2581 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 2599 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 2602 02:30:33.510 --> 02:30:36.530 kind of elevate the show and myself to the next level. 2603 02:30:37.489 --> 02:30:38.950 We'll see if it works. We'll see if it doesn't. 2604 02:30:39.129 --> 02:30:41.450 But I'm trying to do things. You got to be 2605 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, 2608 02:30:49.559 --> 02:30:52.459 It's never going to happen. It really isn't. Not without 2609 02:30:52.540 --> 02:30:55.819 your help. You've got to be willing to take care 2610 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. 2626 02:31:40.180 --> 02:31:42.309 So that's what I would say to you. I encourage 2627 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, 2630 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 2641 02:32:19.690 --> 02:32:22.159 everybody for all the Streamlabs Super Chats again and the 2642 02:32:22.219 --> 02:32:24.719 lively chat that we had. And take care of yourselves. 2643 02:32:24.860 --> 02:32:27.860 All right. Have a good night tonight and wake up 2644 02:32:28.020 --> 02:32:30.950 with a little more hope. Trust me on that. And 2645 02:32:30.969 --> 02:32:32.950 I'll talk to you next time with another brand new 2646 02:32:32.989 --> 02:32:34.489 episode of The Truth. Peace, everybody.