Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 172 - Blu Ray Guys with Chris Person

Episode Date: May 19, 2026

This week we had our friend Chris Person from Aftermath and Highlight Reel on to talk about Blu Ray Guys. What happens when your awful sister damages your Paul steelbook? Why do regular people hate movie posters? Is The Proposal a chick flick? What sort of curtain should you use to hide your Blu Ray cases and finally, whats up with the True Lies 4k transfer? There are still some tickets left for our live show in Toronto on 6/5 The Guysery There is more Chris at https://www.patreon.com/notevenashow Not Even a Show is back (temporarily) https://www.youtube.com/c/notevenashow And for more Guys content, streams and SHOCKTOBER: a deep dive into shock jocks you can click patreon.com/guyspodcast, Join us on the Sunday Night Stream every Sunday night at 8:00 EST at twitch.tv/notevenashowand I am on https://bsky.app/profile/murderxbryan.bsky.social  Guys is on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/guys.pod Guys has a Post Office Box now! PO Box 10769 Columbus Ohio 43201

Welcome to guys, a podcast about guys. I am your host, Brian. Chris, Chris is here. What do you mean? Why did you say it like that? I mean, whatever. Yeah, yeah, it's true. I'm here every week. He's here. I think that we, now our guest is named Chris, not to be a spoiler here, but I think that maybe...

I was going to say that. It might make sense for you to call me Gris, which is what people do call me. Okay, we'll call you Gris. You call me Gris for this episode all. allow it for one episode. I know online people call me that almost exclusively. I'd like to call you penis. Okay. I mean, it's it's up to you. I guess. Small penis. Okay. This is getting worse for me. I don't know why you seem super hostile. I think of people who are listening must be like, did they fight right before they started the, but we didn't. I don't know where this hostility is coming from. I'm kidding. I

came up with a new character before we started to record. What's a new character? Tech had Brian. Oh, I see. I call. So what are you using over there? What's your setup? What kind of mic you work with? That's TechEd Terry's line. All right, let's get our guest.

Yeah, for those of you have no idea what we're talking about. That's a character that I do on or used to do on not even a show on my YouTube channel. Yeah. We have Chris person. Hi, Chris. Hi. How's everyone doing? Great.

I mean, I'm professional. I come in like, small penis. And then he's like, hello. Yeah, I was going to. I'm, I mean, I'm not doing that good, Chris. If I'm being honest, I have a pretty hostile work environment. I don't know if you've noticed that. Well, I love Chris person, not Chris James.

I've been following him for years. Yeah. There was this saga. It wasn't like a saga. It was an article. I don't know why I treat it like a saga. It probably was for you. It probably took you plenty of time.

But for me, it took 15 minutes about a, because I need a soda stream. I bet, oh, I bet, I bet the article said this article takes five minutes to read it. It took 15 for Brian. So anyway, I want a soda stream, but you know how I am. Woke. You're super woke when it comes to the BDS movement, correct? Yes. I am.

Actually, that is the, that is like, listen, sometimes I'm not my best person, but that is the one thing I don't. break for some reason that's the thing I've chosen to be like absolutely never you know what I mean like I talk about I'll tell you guys about this I have this thing against driving now I live downtown okay I went he loves to say that by the way I'm telling you this I'm telling you this you got here this I went to a a French restaurant the other night no you're I've heard about this actually in the group chat. I'm not going to tell you anything about the French restaurant that I went to other than it was amazing. You, okay, you were complaining a lot about it in the group chat. Well, there's one reason I complained a little bit about it. It's very expensive.

Yeah, but that's that's readily available information. But here's the thing. I was it, I would never go to this place. But my daughter went to France once. So who gives a shit? You know what I and she was like, oh, the food over there didn't give me diarrhea. Hmm. I like that that's the bar in America. It's just like, you know, it's like, oh, I went there and didn't shit my ass out. It's like, that's the floor. Yeah, no, it's, no, I don't want to say, listen, I don't live in America.

I'm one of the few people on this call that does not live in America. And I, I, I will, listen, I'll get diarrhea from food here. we don't have the best food on every front. But I will, and I was just chalked it up to being on vacation. But I will say the most diarrhea I've ever gotten is from eating food in America. 100%, yeah. No, that's what we do. I've only ever been to Canada outside of the country.

So when she was over there and then I was like, oh, fuck you, you don't know anything. You know what I mean? She's like, oh, I had a ham sandwich. And I'm like, you don't eat ham sandwich at home. And she was like, exactly. Yeah, it's different. It's like the quality. Listen, a friend of mine, Eric Mancow Mueller went to France.

And, you know, he went to a lot of the fun. Listen, France famous for having, you know, French cuisine is very famous for being quite good, obviously. Yeah. So I went and I could Google it, maps it right now. It is 0.5 miles from my apartment. Okay? That's a very short amount. You probably walk that just around your apartment in a day.

I live in New York, so I do walk that quite often, you know? Yes. And me too. She made me drive. Aw. And it ended up raining. It ended up raining. Is that why she wanted to drive?

Okay. But still, it's like we can't be, we can't be starting a car engine and driving a quarter mile. You can't be doing that. Yeah. It depends. I guess parking is probably not as big of a nation. shoe maybe. It is. It was $9 for me to park on a Sunday. Oh, so you're paying money now. Yeah, now I do kind of see it's like this is something you probably should be. Throw on the, listen,

I live in Vancouver. It's raining here all the time. If you're not going to walk somewhere because it's raining, then you're never going to walk anywhere ever. So I'm used to just throwing the rain jacket on and walking a decent amount to go out. So I agree with you on this one. Yeah, I think you should walk the dinner. If you live downtown or in a city, well, the reason I say downtown is because I could live somewhere in Columbus where I can't walk to fucking anything. You know, I mean, where there's no sidewalks and, you know, you're walking on the side of the freeway and shit. So there is that. That's where I grew up. You know, this is also like the thing that Canada and America have in common, like one of the, like one of the many reasons in which we're the same country, like,

one of the many places where we overlap is like, it just fucking sucks to walk in like, you know, like, Canada's not that much better in ways. You still have strode and shit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I suppose it depends on where you are, like, where I am in Vancouver. Brian's been here. It's very walkable.

The places I've been are all walkable Toronto and Vancouver, you know. Chris, you live in New York, which is also very walkable as well. So there are cities, but you're right. I'll like when I used to, I used to tread the boards. I don't talk about it or whatever I used to tread. Of course, of course. From time to time. And when I would go to smaller towns or smaller places,

up north and BC and stuff. And it was like, yeah, it was like, okay. So the place is very close to where I am. But how the hell am I actually going to get there? Like, this really seems dangerous to actually walk to this place. It seems like I have like a 25% chance of getting hit by a car. Brian, I think, though, that one of the beauties of walking to dinner as well as you get to do the classic line is like, ooh, I'm going to walk off some of that on the way home. I know. Yeah. I know after you have a classic line. A classic line. You're just like, oh, I guess it's good we're walking home after having that creme brulee or whatever and everybody has a good chuckle, you know.

So anyway, we're doing blue ray guys this week. Yeah. I'm going to just start with a quora post. Well, I just, I always like to ask, because I'm interested in this. By the way, I never got to say that I'm a big fan of Chris as well and always loved reading his stuff online and always found him to be hilarious and wonderful. But I'm curious, Chris, what is your relationship to the Blu-ray technology? I try, look, so here's the thing, and we're probably going to get into this.

It's like there are like, there's like so many good like niche small releases. Like vinegar syndrome, if anyone knows them, they're fucking great. They're phenomenal. And, you know, third window films like, there's like all these little tiny places that are like doing God's work in terms of like restoration and like, oh, they literally had to go to the government of Japan. You know, like all this like crazy like real preservation. And like that's one part of it. And then you have like Blu-ray Forum guys. And like they're just a lot.

Also the movies are let's get right down to it. Yeah. You'll be reading a story. Okay. And then they'll mention the movie they're talking about and you're like, unfucking believable that you're talking about this. It's like weekend at Bernie's or something. And they're talking about.

Okay, yeah, let's see what you're talking about. I will say, go ahead. No, go ahead. I have to find it real go. Okay, I got it. I got it. Here we go. Now, wait, wait, let's, Chris. Okay, go ahead, Chris.

Yeah, say, no, I will say the one thing is that's interesting about this is that the most care and love you see for these things is people who do, like, incredibly rare art films and people who do nastiest pornography you can imagine. and like I'm like Like like there's um there's a A really cool Queer coded horror film called poppers and it's like set in it's like part of a Francoist box set in Spain and it's a really cool box set you have to pay like two hundred dollars for it But like you know where that money went and then like you know you'll you'll see like crazy smut and then like art films and those are in it and like horror and those are the real deep cut stuff and but those those those people I love is what I was saying.

Those are people I like. Now, this guy here, this is off a DVD Blu-ray forum, which is, I want to say this before you get. Chris Person hooked us up very early on with a list of forums. Like, I have a doc that I refer to with a list of forums on insane, a list of active forums on different hobbies and niche stuff. So anyway, this guy, this is what made me, this made me laugh for some reason. I'm going to tell you this.

I recently got my Paul Steelebook back. So the movie Paul. Paul, the alien, this is that little alien movie. I don't know why. It just makes me laugh that it got, did he got two tiny bits of paint scratched up the ball? Yeah, Paul. Who was, was the Seth Rogen involved in Paul?

Seth Rogen was the voice of Paul. He was the voice of Paul. He was the voice of Paul. He wasn't just involved with Paul. Seth Rogen was Paul. Seth Rogen is Paul. Paul. This is that like post Simon Pegg like, you know, hot fuzz era when they were like trying to do something after I guess like the Cornetto trilogy, I guess.

Yeah. So anyway, the funny thing about Paul is I was goofing on this last night. And Katie, my wife was like, I just watched Paul recently. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking? That's really bizarre because you guys spend a lot of time together too, you know? Like when did she watch Paul? When I was at the baseball game with my brother. Okay.

Not to sidetrack this too much. My girlfriend, like, has such an idiosyncratic because, like, I'm the, like, film guy. Like, I went to film school, blah, blah, blah, blah. But, like, I'll mention, like, a movie, like, the menu or something like that. And she'll be like, I've seen that movie, like, five, ten times. And I hate it. Like, why? She's just like, I don't know.

I needed something to ambiently watch in the background. Yeah, sometimes. That's the other thing, Chris. Here's the thing. We don't have anything that streaming. stuff at all. I mean, stream, like we have net, you have to pick what you're watching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You can't just put something on. Criterion does have like a like just watch it. But like, um, and I think there's a couple of fun. I don't know. Tooby is basically that. I love

2B. Yeah, I know. I need to get on it. But she's watching Paul. But anyway, this story still, this story is funny even beyond it being about Paul. Yeah. He goes, uh, I got my Paul steel book back. two tiny bits of paint scratched off the bottom edge near the bottom and the top very faint scratch on the back trying to get a replacement what what is they're loaning it to my sister and her kids oh my god kids will always fuck up your pall movie it's crazy they don't even understand cinema is the big issue and the importance of film but what is a steel what it actually could not figure out what a steel i do i know what it is okay i think it's like it's like it's like it's just it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's like a slightly nicer like aluminum you know yes yeah it's the case oh it's the case it's just a case but it's like a steel book is like a okay i got it's like a limited edition or a collector's type thing it's not necessarily that but it looks like that like it's like okay i'm gonna look up the paul steel book and see how much it is yeah this is like something this is um the collectorness of this as somebody who is in video games media is like very like there's a lot of over

overlap between the kind of guy we're talking about now and somebody who's like, I have to get the like bloodbored limited edition. I have to get the fucking Eldon ring where it's like a little statue and stuff like that. Like the, the collectorness of it. So I mean, why would you, why would you? Why would you? Why would you? There's not a single Paul steel book. There's not a single Paul steel book. We're worth more than 32.99. You know what I'd like to see is a Peter steel book. Be too, brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a little, that was a little one for Brian. But I, I, I just wonder about if you you know why would you why would you lend out your pa your steel book why wouldn't you just get a watching version of it like a normal version of it with a normal case and lend that

out to your you know your nephew or whatever something i i do right my mom doesn't drive and she's really annoying and she lives about 15 minutes away from where i live yeah right in a car and i don't want to be in a car with her for 15 minutes by myself so when she comes up over for like easter or something like that my mom will be like so can you drive me home and i'm like i'll tell you what i'll do you one better i'll get you an uber yeah so if they asked to borrow my paul steel book i say i'll tell you what i'll do you one better i'll buy the damn movie for you i'll i'll get it for you're streaming yeah you log into my i mean paul's got to be on one of the streaming services definitely it is because my wife just watched yeah exactly so just tell them like i'll

give you my login information or whatever or like sign you up for like like a month or whatever. Yeah, instead of giving my steel book away. How much, yeah, how young are these kids? Like, are they, because they're going to get their fucking fingerprints on a, on my beautiful Paul deep Blu-ray. Chris, I think also, they are known by the forum, by the way, because he goes, in parentheses, he goes, yeah, that sister and her kids. Oh, so he's told like a hundred stories about them messing up various steel books of his. On his blue ray forum, he's like, my fucking, he's just like, the only place you won't see it. It's like he can't do it on Facebook.

Somebody borrowed Paul and dented the case. Yeah, you, you, he's going to the forums. Like if they ever, they don't even, his, they don't even realize that if they showed up on the Blu-ray forums, they would immediately be hated by everybody. They'd have no idea why. The Blu-ray disc is completely fucked. Fingerprints everywhere. The DVD has a small scratch. Is there a way to save a Blu-ray disc without damaging it further? Some all-time bad at advice in this thread. I will say this guy goes, use some water and a drop of dishwashing liquid. Put it in the dishwasher. I say, just put it in top rack. Well, I'm going to say, I will say, dishwashing liquid is surprisingly handy in ways outside of dishwashing that like,

you like constantly surprise you. Like, I figured out that's like how you fucking clean glasses. It's just like dishwashing liquid. Yeah, I believe, I believe that that could be good advice. I don't think he's good for here. This guy goes, no, I wouldn't recommend using dishwashing. liquid to claim Blu-rays because of its detergents, which cause soapy suds and residue. Blu-rays are manufactured with scratch-resistant coating, unlike DVDs. Oh, shit. That's what I like to see on the Blu-ray forum. Fuck.

Fuck you, DVD. Yeah. And they're very easy to clean. You can use any type of CD DVD cleaning solution or just plain water to clean your Blu-Rays with a smooth soft cloth, nothing rough. Fingerprints generally wipe right off, which, by the way, I've never owned a, a Blu-ray in my life, I would just wipe off the, you can wipe off. You can wipe off. You can use your shirt. I would use my shirt to wipe out. But I might use one of those like, you know, those, those wipes or

whatever that you have for your computer screen, you know, something like that. But I would just probably give it a wipe and I would imagine the fingerprints would wipe off. Yeah. They could, I'm surprised these guys are like going like straight for like Kim wipes, which are like the delicate, like, it's like the tissue paper using labs, you know what I? There are guys that are doing that. But this guy says, depending on how dirty it is, I always just running under the sink with hot water. So that also to me seems like, I don't know. When I grew up collecting CDs and DVDs, you did not get water. You didn't want water.

But we don't understand Blu-rays, I think. Blu-rays are like, it sounds to me like they're very special and very, like, resistant to basically everything. So, yeah, you, like, I would want to keep water away from my any type of disc or whatever. Well, this, he goes, uh, uh, I'm not a fan. of microfiber. So one guy says use a microfiber towel. And of course, there's another guy in the thing that's like, I'm not a fan of microfiber. As I learned from car care forms, microfiber towels tend to pick up dust and debris in their small loops and grind it against the surface. I'd rather just go with a lint-free cloth. Now, that's probably what I do. But again, I would also

probably just use my shirt. That's how I fix DVDs. That's how I fix CDs. I think you'll be fine. Yeah, Just put you really get it in there. We're spending $36 on another Paul Steele book. Yeah, buy another Paul. If you can find it. If you can find it. It's everywhere. There is,

I, I've typed a steel book, Paul. And I have, uh, nine of them right in front of me that are the most expensive one is the 4K and it's 3499 at Barnes and Note. Oh,

okay. So it's good. Good luck getting to Barnes and, or yeah, I guess it is pretty easy to, uh, I bet you could eBay offer a couple of those and just like fucking clean up though. I bet somebody's like desperate to unload that Paul 4K. Yeah, well, this guy, here's another controversial opinion, which I think is this one I like. I've been collecting for about six years now. And I've been looking at my shelves every day since I started.

That's bad. That's what, listen, respect. If you're collecting something, at least. you're like getting something out of it if you're looking at the shelves every day i wish he was getting something out of looking at the shelves oh no i've recently been starting to get a little over stimulated with all the colors of the spines on the shelves so that's a i look at it every day but it's kind of bummed me out it's kind of getting it's kind of giving me issues mentally because of all the listen sounds like to me like yeah that that could possibly happen maybe don't look at them every day

Maybe just like check. I don't know, man. Put them. Is it the colors or is it you going like, what am I doing with my life? Yeah. Is it possibly? You're not thinking clearly. Is it possibly that you're just having a realization every time you look at them that you're spending your money on this.

I would of date. It's, right? Like there's more, there's better stuff than blue is. Do not say they're out of date. Okay. Sorry. I might make some people very mad. Are they?

Because I just, listen, I, I, I, I, will just, I'm a big movie guy in that I like to watch movies. I'm not like a collector or anything like that. But I just, I don't, you don't hear, you used to hear a lot about Blu-rays. You know, they were like the thing, but they, they don't seem to be the thing anymore so much. So he goes, so I looked online for some ways to hide the spines elegantly. I found these curtains that are the perfect dimensions, by the way, not the perfect dimensions. I will show you the picture. They are not the perfect dimensions. Uh, to, to, to, uh, to, uh, to, to, uh, to, to, to, uh, to, to, to, to them without any cutting.

I just use some fabric Velcro on the top of the shelf and the top back of the curtain, steam ironed them, and voila. What do you think of the before and after? Am I crazy for wanting a more slick look for the theater room? Okay. So I'm going to bring this up on the screen. Yeah, I'm going to see this. Also make it.

It is, it is fantastic. Okay. So this is a before and after. And I'm going to tell you, the curtains don't. cover all the DVDs. No, they don't cover the top. It seems like there's some up on the top of it that are not covered out. And it looks absolutely insane.

It looks like you did a red green screen twice. Yeah, it does not look good. I feel like you could. The idea is not terrible, but I feel like you could have done a better job. You probably would have wanted to get bigger ones. And you know what? If I was, so when he said curtains, I was like, think there's a way to do it like a shower curtain situation, right?

Where like you have a bar that goes up above it and you just hang curtains loose so that you open them up like this. These are taught. Yeah. These aren't really what you think of as curtains. Like Chris said, it's like a green screen, but it's red. It's like taught? Like, which is not like the movie, I consider the classic movie like roughly.

red velvet. Yeah, yeah, that's what I was expecting too. Like a, like a fucking thing that is in front of the old movie theater screen. You know what I'm saying? It's very like, like, Turkington adjacent. You know what I mean? It's very like I tried to create something and it just ended up being kind of revealing and sad. Yeah, I, I, it looks like, I, uh, it looks like, I'll tell you what it kind of looks like to me. It looks like someone leaned at gym mat up against the DVDs in the way. This guy goes, I agree with you. Nothing should distract from the movie itself. So another guy says, listen, I can't watch the movies with all these DVD cases. I got too many movies to watch my movies. Yeah, I'm watching a movie. I find myself looking over at the DVD cases thinking maybe I can watch the proposal.

Yeah. Which is a movie everybody has. I posted this, but I'll say this. When I was a cable guy, this is from the year 2009 or 2002 to 2009. every DVD collection I saw I would say with almost 97% like had an Elektra DVD I would like

because I started paying attention to it because I started noticing Electra was in everybody's collection That's interesting that you became a cable guy right after the towers fell I don't know the significance of that It was one year after I told you when I drove over Right when I drove over the Camaro

it was 9-11 2000 too. You did it on the anniversary of 9-11? I forgot that. I forgot that part. You know what, you know what, you know what Electra feels like, Electra feels like the ultimate like gas station impulse by DVD, you know, like, you're like, I get, what is this like? And then, because there's, she's got like, like, looking like, looking cool. And then you're like, what, well, let's, let's see what, and then you're like, oh, I guess it's not that good. I've never seen it. I've never seen it. I've never seen. Jennifer Garner. Oh, okay. Jennifer Garner. And it's like a sequel sort of to Daredevil with that.

And Affleck. Yeah. I see. Okay. I think it also like what these are guys that just go out and buy movies every Tuesday when they would come out on Tuesdays. Also, Dear Devil not a good movie infamously. It's very funny.

Yeah. Exactly. Electra is known as like a terrible movie. So I've been zooming in on these people's collections. Like that's my favorite part of about prepping this episode. You get a picture of a guy's collection. I was like, I'm going to zoom in and take a look at those movies. in those shelves, you know, because I saw some all-time bad shelves, too.

Yeah. And all of them had the proposal with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, which, by the way, Ryan Reynolds, great guy. Going to bring a baseball team to Vancouver, British Columbia, plays Deadpool, love the guy. But yeah, everybody has the proposal. How many, like, IKEA lack shelves are there, like, what, do you notice commonality with, like, yeah, they, a lot of, it's all IKEA stuff. I mean, nobody's really

You know what people do too They buy the video store racks That's kind of cool That's kind of badass man So many people do it at this point Yeah, so many people do it This is the worst part of this Like this is the thing

I hate the most is like I guess I mean with Blu-ray guys It's not as bad as like VHS people Because like there's like a handful of reasons But like they're worse Because they're trying to do like The Eternal Blockbuster video thing And it's like dog just letting

Go get an Apple TV. You're fine. Go get a fucking Roku. You're being an adult. Every place I see that's like I made my basement look like a blockbuster. I'm like, man, listen, we covered nostalgia guys. We know how powerful it is as a force in somebody's life. It's just fucking Blockbuster wasn't good.

You were just 13. You know what I mean? Blockbuster fucking sucked, man. They had to drive worse. Yeah. And I had to drive like 45 minutes to a blockbuster that I didn't owe money to. Yeah. Because I read it.

I had, listen, I had the movie layer cake. Oh, yeah. For six months. Never watched it once. Yeah, I remember you talking about your layer cake situation. I've never seen layer cake. I rented it, but never took it back because I was lazy. That and Breakfast of Champions starring Bruce Willis based on a Kurt Vonnegut book.

I'm, I'm a basically not good. It nostalgic. I think I mentioned it on that. I'm nostalgic for the video store experience. I do think that it was a fun experience going out on like the weekend with your family when you were a kid and being like figuring out a movie that you could get. And of course it wasn't as I did. You sometimes couldn't get a movie. They're really popular ones or whatever. But I did enjoy it. Like I loved going to a Rogers video is called around my place. We call them Blockbuster. We have Blockbuster as well. Rogers video was just closer to my place at number one, Rodin Francis. Shout out to. And you like the Rogers family.

Well, I hate the Rogers family. You said they're good people. They have a monopoly over telecommunications in our country and their nasty individuals. But at the time, I didn't realize any of that. I was just a kid. Yeah. Well, I'm saying they provide. I mean, like I went through Rogers Arena.

Everything's called Rogers. It's pretty funny. It's like, um, yeah, we have Rogers Arena and then Edmontons is called Rogers. It's fucking arena. And the Rogers Center. Yeah. Thanks Ryan Reynolds. I will say,

I mean, guy. Before we go on, I will say, like, I understand, like, the impulse for physical media because, like, they just, like, like, these guys exist for a reason sometimes, which is that, like, you'll just not be able to find a movie sometimes.

And it will be some weird legal, great, like, loophole. I mean, like, I do in my spare time, like, a lot of really, like, high quality laser disc and VHS transfers. Not because I like those mediums. they suck. They are not good. Except Laser Disc has like really good audio for really weird specific reasons I won't get into.

But like, it's an organic reaction to like things being like, oh, you just don't own that anymore. You know what I mean? And I think that's why you're also seeing like kids get into CDs again and shit or at least like portable audio players is because you're like I don't want to fucking ads on my like album. Like they're buying like like there's a real impulse here. and then it gets perverted into like, where's my Paul Steele book? Yeah. And I'll say this too.

I doing this episode did sit for a minute and think maybe I need to have a physical media collection. You know what I mean? Now, I live in an apartment, not enough room here to have a DVD collection or Blu-ray collection. Yeah, yeah. But I did start to feel like, ah, what if something I want to see is missing? That's not going to happen. But if something that you want to see is missing, then you go out and try to see if you can get a physical copy of it. Like that's my, I've done it before where it's like I can't find this thing anywhere.

I'm struggling to think of an example. But definitely the past few years where I've like, yeah, I need to go out. But the idea of having a collection, it doesn't appeal to me at all. Like having the physical, I understand what you're saying, Chris. And I agree that it's like important to have physical media still for reasons. But for me, I don't know, I got no problem with the way that it's set up movies-wise. I wish more movies were in theaters. I do get annoyed that movies go straight to streaming and I can't see them in a theater.

But yeah. For me, it's literally also just, well, for one, I have a server that I, like, put all my rips on and stuff like that. So I don't have to, like, take a fucking DVD out and shit because I'm, like, that kind of fucking nerd. But also, like, there's this element of, like, commentaries are the hard part. It's not that you can see the movie. They took the special features out of streaming.

So like and so like If you can track down the commentary for the movie cruising It's fucking great You just he's just constantly saying shit That's like revealing and weird about like Oh yeah the cop in that who like isn't a jockstrap And like a naked cowboy like had And just punches him for no reason

He's a real cop he used to do that And it's like that's why I like commentaries Yeah yeah And it's hard to find that and like So I think these guys exist at like a failure of the market to provide like these things and to make them these little special things that you go like the master and commander 4K like sold out like like very quickly that was like a really famous one because like every guy wants master and commander on 4K Blu-ray you know like that is it I've never seen

that I've seen it's overrated in my opinion mastering commander I like I didn't hate it but I everyone talked about it like it and then I watched it like maybe like within the last couple years and I was like kind of a little bit underwhelmed by it but yeah I the commentary thing makes sense big time because I'm not a commentary guy I got no interest in the commentary I actually hate listening to like people talk about the movie and you know I like to like watch it on its own that is the thing I want to watch but yeah having the commentary stripped away from streaming it makes sense why people would be seeking that out because it's like yeah I still a lot of people are super interested in that stuff fantastic commentary on run Ronnie run just like you know on the DVD they did

It was funny. I was like testing out something and I was like, I should listen to the commentary for the second Austin Powers movie. Is that the spy who shagged me? Yeah. And he was like talking about like the logistics of the fat bastard costume. And he's like, it smelled like sulfur. And in order to in order to like pee, I had to get my wife to come and like like coordinate. And I was like, see, now I'm glad I listened to the commentary.

for the second Austin Powers movie because now I know that the fat bastard costume smelled like sulfur. Yeah. So when I was doing street fight, I got to talking about, we were talking about movies or something like that. And I mentioned a movie that I loved growing up, that I just was like,

fucking, it came out when I was like 12 or something like that. And I just, I watched it two million times. It's called Diggs Town. Yeah. I heard of it. Lewis Gossett Jr.

and the really, you know the guy the ed harris and it was like one of my favorite fucking movies and it wasn't streaming anywhere at all now tubi has it so i might actually watch it again uh but i ended up having i ended up going on a huge search for the physical copy of digstown because i wanted to watch it again so i do that's why i think i have i have a collector's impulse anyway and it's like something i fight against as best as I can. Obviously, you saw how my Lego collection got. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now it's a normal size, but then now you, you have a pretty pretty serious high two collection now. Well, I mean, knows. Oh, do you hear they got high two premium? No, of course I didn't hear that. Well, they do.

And I bought some. Wait, James Woods is in this? James Woods, not Ed Harris. James Woods. Yeah. Oh, one of your crazy guy. You more, you got into him recently. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw his politics and I was just like that. You said he's not much of an actor. Once upon a time in America, I didn't really like him very much in that, but then I'm starting to like this guy for some reason. I like him in Diggs town. Here's a guy asking a question at an R slash Blu-ray. Hey, everyone, I have around 200 Blu-ray's 4K and DVDs in my collection. I merely buy movies. I absolutely love and see myself watching over and over again, but that's the problem. I never watch them. I justified buying movies for so long because I have the rule of it.

I just love this guy who's like, he's every time he's a 200 of him. And every time he's like, well, this one I'm going to, I relate to this guy very much. Oh, yeah. No. This is the most relatable post I've maybe ever heard on guys where he's just like, yeah, like every time I'm like, well, I'm going to watch this over and over and over again. So it's definitely worth the purchase. And then he's like, I have never watched any of these fucking movies. Well, that's how I know I'll never own them because I had a DVD.

collection. And once I own the DVD, I was like, I never want to watch this movie again. I'm not a rewatcher of movies. I think I've gotten into it a little bit more recently because I'm straight edge now and I don't do a bunch of weed and mushrooms. So there was movies that I watched where I was just like super high and I know I really liked them, but I was just like really fucked up on mushrooms or really stoned watching them.

So I'm like, hey, I'll go back and watch this and I won't remember any of it. And I'm sure I'll enjoy it again. And I have been, so I've been doing some rewatches definitely of movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who's like, I'm going to sit down and watch this movie tonight. It's my comfort movie or whatever. I don't have one of those. Yeah, yeah. So he goes, but he goes, but that's the problem. I never watch them.

I justified buying movies for so long because I have the rule of watching the movie when I buy it for the first time. And so far, I've done pretty good in that regard. But to my surprise, the other day, my brother and I were about to watch a movie I have in my collection. And instead of grabbing it, we ended up watching it on prime video. I didn't even notice until the movie was finished. Oh, by the way, accidentally watched it on prime video even though he had the Blu-ray. Oh, that's got to be such a horrible feeling. It's just like, holy fuck, man.

The one chance I had to actually utilize this collection and I just didn't even do it, I missed my one opportunity. That is the worst feeling when you have like gone out of your way to prepare for a situation. and you've like gotten it as like a special interest like a niche special interest and everyone's like hey why don't we just do the easy lazy thing we're avoiding like that's the worst feeling these guys hate streaming these guys i can't tell you i don't know what they're watching because i don't see i don't think streaming looks bad they okay can i think streaming looks absolutely bad okay i i hate to admit they're kind of right um no there's no way chris come on Honestly, it doesn't look bad. It might not like I don't, I have to, it's, it is to me, it is like really nitpicking to see. I think there's probably some stuff and like some older like maybe restoration stuff or like whatever. There's some stuff that looks, but I have never ever ever.

I watch so many movies. I've never been like, holy crap. Like this is, this looks really, really bad. Unfortunately, you are talking to someone who has to like regularly do like A, B testing for like encodes and shit like that. That's, I think, where it comes down. I'm cursed with vision to be able to see it. And like, this isn't even getting into, do you know what Dolby Vision is?

Yeah. No. It's like a weirdly hyper-specific form of like licensed HDR that like does look slightly better. And if you want to get it like, like it has to be licensed and shit. And like a lot of these Blu-rays have it. And no normal person is going to fucking see that difference at all.

I will fully admit. That's thing. You're not going to sit down with your brother that doesn't collect DVDs and watch something on Amazon and be like, oh, I wish I was watching it on. He would think I wish I was watching it on Blu-ray. This looks like shit. For me, it's literally, I will say the part that does bother me is when like there, the server just starts like cashing and it's like shitty for a second and it does take you out of it.

Like local caching is important. Like whether or not you notice the difference between 1080p and 4K or HDR and like fucking Dolby Vision who gives a shit that's nerd stuff. Um, that costs still costs a shit load of. I need to get done correctly, particularly when you get home audio and stuff like that, like that's atrocious. But no normal person is going to do it. But like the streaming like, oh, you have a shitty Apple TV that's like just like it can

barely get in Wi-Fi range and it just like in the middle of a seat. That can suck. I will get that. But for the most part, no normal person on earth unless you are professionally a video person will notice this. That makes total sense. Like you said, if you do A-B testing, I, fully understand. Yeah. Now, I didn't realize you did that. That does make sense that like you are

specifically looking for that stuff. So it's like you've unfortunately, yeah, trained your eye in a way now where it's like you will be bothered by that fortunately and unfortunately because it obviously is good in a lot of ways too. But yeah, that makes sense. I, I am speaking as a normal person that I don't, yeah, I don't think there's any normal person on earth that is just like, this is unwatchable. Like I'm missing out on so much. Also, yeah. Also, like, Wi-Fi got better. You know, like fucking Wi-Fi got better, so this is not that big of an issue, isn't it? When I was at the cable company, I used to, I could, I could tell the difference between digital and analog channels, obviously.

That was pretty easy. The HD stuff. But like, there would be guys that would call and have me come to their house. And he would say, hey, I need you to hook up this $85. dollar hdeme i cable because it doesn't look as good with yeah and i'm just like dude you can't tell the difference between two hdmi cables you just can't i can't i don't know what you're looking at but yeah so anyway this guy goes so it got me thinking of how many more times i'm ever going to watch my movies and if all that money spent could be used for a better purpose now i want to say this you ain't making

your money back on those DVD on those blu-rays they're gone you are not even making 10% of your I'm not sure. I mean, if you, if you got a, if you got a Paul steel case in there, I heard there's a pretty decent market for that. So you're saying these are not a good, these are not resellable, really. Perhaps the worst investment of any of the guys that we've looked at in that like, yes, there are limited edition ones. But if you're a fan and you want to get your hands on that limited edition one, you're just going to buy it when it releases. You're to know when it releases. Also, can I say that like, you know, I transfer, like I said before, I transfer laser disks in VHS and like something that's like out of print that you can't find on streaming regularly is like $8.

And like it's just like there's like a handful of like a very of laser disc where it like reached like a hundred maybe. I've been trying to find the third Adams family movie for a while and it's like actually kind of a. annoying because there's like two guys who have it on laser disc that start um what the fuck Tim Curry I think uh it's really bad it's not a good lazy it's but like it's a weird fucking movie um I think the most expensive one is like like like sweet home which was like 500 bucks and literally is like a masterpiece into itself in weird ways but like for the most part physical media like that is not like no it's annoying but like unless it's like a really hyper-specific thing that's like out of print.

You lost money. You have lost money. You can go to any pawn shop and buy 15 DVDs for a dollar a piece or blue rays for a dollar a piece. It's not something to put in your retirement fund. I would. You know. Worse than comic books, Chris.

Like I believe this is a worse investment than comic books. Well, some comic books can be quite expensive, very rare ones. So he goes, it doesn't help the fact that I'm moving to another house soon. And that lately I also find it more. enjoyable to see YouTubers reacting to my favorite movies instead of watching them myself. Well, that kind of makes sense. I mean, honestly, you've already seen the movie so many times. You know exactly what's going to happen. Now it would make sense that you'd be interested in like, hey, how do other people react to it? How do what other people feel? Do they agree with me? Do they like,

I can see that? Yeah. So he got some advice. Sell it for what? Penny's on the dollar. Not worth it, even if you don't watch them currently. Now, one of his issues is that they don't fit. in his new house. And it's like, well, listen, it's worth what it's worth. Get a storage unit. Get a storage unit.

Just ride it out, man. Ride the wave. Okay, so this is an argument. Let's get it. Let's read a good Reddit fight. This guy goes, you watch it on Prime, sure. How long will it remain there?

Streaming's never going to be as high quality as a physical disc either. Again, the thing we talked about, normal people don't notice. the difference. Well, this guy replies and goes, how original. Okay. And then he goes, and he goes, why are you on a sub like this? And he replies, he goes, because I'm a huge physical media fan, but the hate towards digital with the same three or four comments designed to create fear mongering is fascinating. Yeah, fear mongering. Yeah, he goes, it's not fear mongering to say streaming

services remove things often. And he replies, but they don't remove them often. I mean, they do sometimes, but they usually pop up on a different streaming service. It is very rare. I think we can all admit, it's very, very rare unless you're looking for really niche, like, very, like underground kind of movies. It's very rare to not be able to find like a major motion picture on streaming. I love that you're this guy. The next comment from the guy is, it's very rare. Chris, you think that there's a lot that are hard to find? There are, uh, the devils infamously doesn't have, uh, beyond, this is very hyper-specific situation, but like, yeah, like occasionally it comes on Criterion, but it's never had beyond the DVD transfer. What movie is that?

The Devils. See, I never heard of it before. What is, what is that? It's a really, really good movie that involves a lot of sacrilege. Ken Russell, who did like altered states and shit like that. I still think it's rare, though. I still think it is rare. As somebody who is like always looking for movies to watch.

always trying to find them. Sometimes it'll be annoying. Like I'll have to go get a torrent of it. Or like I do, you know, if I'm looking for, if I'm looking for like specifically like foreign movies and stuff like that, sometimes I will have to get a torn or sometimes I'll have to rent it. I'll have to pay for it.

It's not on a streaming service. But like the idea of not being able to find it and watch it, I'm trying to think of like it has happened to me maybe like three or four times out of the like thousand films that I've tried to. I had a hard time watching Mr. Brooks. That's actually what made me get a, VPN. Yeah.

Because I wanted to watch Mr. Brooks starring Dang Cook and Kevin Costa. I'm sorry. The Devils is coming to theater. This is like one of the most important things to happen. Like this is actually a huge, huge deal. I'm sorry. This happened like 20 minutes ago apparently.

What? The Devils is coming to theaters? That's what they said. Yeah. Maybe this is bullshit. I don't know. Like this has been like a white whale of people because it's like, it's a really, really big deal.

But like the Catholic Church basically. suppressed it. It's like, because it's the most sacrilegious movie you could do because it's fun, like, none's going fucked up and insane. Um, yeah, I don't know. Um, I, go ahead, sorry. Let's, uh, let's go to Quora. Hey, is Blu-ray disc dead? That's a good question. That's something we've been getting, right? See, in my opinion, they are, but again, I don't know about this stuff. I just think as a normal citizen movie watcher, it feels like dead media to me. It feels dead. And the guy that answered it. He actually originally answered what killed Blu-ray disc.

And his name's SRM and his qualifications. Watch thousands of movies. So same as basically everyone. He goes, nothing. Real movie fans still have physical library of movies instead of being at the mercy of a streaming service. Say I want to have a movie night with or without friends and watch a 70 slasher, a Paramount movie,

an old Norwegian movie, and a Disney movie, all unrated, of course. Wait a second. You're going to do all of those in the night? Yeah. I mean, that's a nightmare scenario for me. Somebody calls me over to his house and now I have to watch five films. It's 10 hours.

I mean, I guess I'm underestimating. Like, I'm thinking of myself, I just like to watch movies. I'm not like, I'm not looking for, I'm not, like, I watch old movies sometimes and stuff. But I guess I'm not like trying to, I guess if you're talking about old stuff and, yeah, foreign movies and stuff like that, it can be difficult to watch it on streaming sometimes. Also anime is all over the place too. Anime. TV actually is the real hard one because there's, can I just admit something? So there was a guy doing a biography of Trump.

He was just like I got a call from a job. It was in between like Gawker, like getting laid off from Gawker and then starting aftermath and doing working the verge. And this guy was like, hey, so I'm going to interview Dom. Trump, I need clips from The Apprentice put together in some kind of highlight reel. So I did a highlight reel where I had to rip DVDs of The Apprentice to show, for someone to show to Donald Trump. And it was like, like, basically Donald Trump epic moments, you can't find Donald Trump's episodes of The Apprentice on streaming. Yeah. They just, they deleted them because, like, to be epic.

And like, now as a result, this big load-bearing part of history in TV doesn't this TV is really actually. actually, not even movies. TV is the part where it sucks. Yeah, because I don't think anybody's looking to buy blue, I mean, Blu-Rite guys are buying the series, but I think everybody just thinks the TV series will always be on streaming, which is not.

So, but so you've never, and I also say this, I haven't gone to somebody's house to watch a movie since I was 16. Yeah, I, I don't go for movie nights. I go to the movies to watch movies or I watch movies at home.

home definitely yeah and i don't think if i invited my friends over we'd watch an old norwegian movie when i mean personally no listen i hey i got heritage in nor my mom's side is from norway i do there's a couple norwegian films more newer ones that i like but i i would say just the fact if i called my friends over and said hey we're going to watch five movies you want to come over to my house and watch five movies i think they would mostly say like no i don't think i will be coming over to your house for 10 and a half hours to watch movie after movie after movie. I think I'm underestimating how much some people are into movies, you know? Yeah. Chris, Chris, would you, Chris, would you let you're, you're a big movie guy, obviously.

You're huge into movies more so than Brian and I. If your friend said, hey, do you want to come over and watch five movies at my house? Like, would that be like a normal thing to you? No. The most number of movies I've watched in a row is six in a theater. And that was because of a very specific event that they don't throw anymore where they would just show you six random Hong Kong movies in a row and you didn't know what they were but they took breaks and shit like you'd have to go away and like you'd have to go and eat lunch and come back you have to go eat yeah you have your whole day is there you have to go to the washroom you're getting it catered yeah it's going to be catered we're going to have actually a catering staff there uh I prefer you not stand up at all one time yeah

I could imagine like watching all of the Lord of the Rings movies with like with my partner or if some if a with a roommate maybe like if it was snowing if it was snowing outside we did this a lot COVID we did a lot of drugs and like yeah we would have small gatherings where we would like like I don't know I think I did K

and watch Beetlejuice which was a weird experience yeah that's that's definitely I feel like I'm thinking about it now like if Charlie gets sick or whatever and everybody in the house is sick then it's just like hey let's just watch like that's a different thing like watching like all the Muppet movies in a row or whatever i can see that happening but yeah it's at home taking breaks all of that

kind of stuff i think that it's like yeah it this this does not appeal to me at all the yeah i watched all the star wars on covid for the first time i had only seen attack of the clones and they returned the jettie those were the only two movies i'd seen in that whole thing so i was like i'm gonna watch them and if people are wondering i know this is a question people ask i started with the Phantom Menace and ended with the eyes of Skywalker. You didn't you went in like the actual chronological order of is that chronological order? Yeah, yeah. I started at the first movie and went to the 12th movie.

But you didn't start at the actual first movie. You started no, no, no. I didn't start with a new hope. I started with Phantom Menace. Watch those three movies. And then I watched the next three and then the crappy three that came after. I watched the I did it kind of recently and that I watched 28 days later, 28 weeks later, before going to see 28 years later.

Did you see the Bone Temple? I did. I love the Bone Temple. That was actually my favorite. Yeah, it was my favorite too. Having watched them all in a row, that was my favorite. And I think was, yeah, I mean, what's his name, Rae, Fines? Ray Fines.

He was so, so, I always call him Ralph Fines. But yeah, he was so fantastic in it. It brought so much, like, emotion to that movie. Oh, it's so cool. so insanely violent and like grounded it and I yeah I thought it was just a fan I watched in theaters opening night and thought it was fucking fantastic hey guys let me ask you this what do blue ray manufacturers have against classic cover art hmm I have noticed for a while that when some studios issue a blue where blue ray a blue of a classic he didn't say blue ray I have to use their language oh he just says a blue yeah hell yeah yeah a blue though yeah yeah of blue that's so badass man That's how you know he's like, he really knows his shit. He says, they give it the blandest cover art ever.

Bond films recently reflect this. And they do show the like Bond covers. I can't zoom on them, but they're not the ones from the theater. They want them to be the ones from the theater. Hmm. When they originally like Thunderball and. Is it, is it art that's created for the blue or is it like alternate art that already exists? Yeah, it just looks like a video game to me, you know.

Uh, so this guy answers and he goes, who knows? email MGM and find out. Good question. Yeah. Get us an ass on the Blu-ray for. Imagine the email that got him like, sir, we've just got an email from some guy. Well, Chris, let me tell you. Let me tell you about kiss guys.

Oh, yeah. They actually did send an email and say the bass track is off on a kiss song, on a DVD. It wasn't mixed properly. It wasn't mixed properly. It wasn't mixed properly. I did hear that. well one thing I will say is that like the I don't want to say the good version of these guys but in a more interesting version is is Japanese physical

media like people because like they can't like like not to make generalizations but like there's just more of a culture of like owning like albums and stuff like that partially because they're just their copyright laws are stricter and like it's just a cultural thing but also like have you ever heard of the series Torah San? No. Okay. It's um I will tell you this is the the most fucked up blue ray I know of

because it's what it's called otokua Surai yo it is the longest running movie series in history it beats Bond it's like fucking 49 movies and it's about some guy who's like a down on his luck guy

it's just 48 no it's 48 movies about like a bum and who's delightful and the Blu-ray box set for it is a suitcase that comes with a jacket that costs $1,800 That's pretty, but that's pretty cool. I got to say.

That is kind of tight. Yeah, no, it's because you're like fucking 48 movies you think about it. You're like, how much, how much, how much, how much, how much, how much torresan do I want? And but it's like, but it's also kind of delightful. You're like, they put a little coat in there. They put his coat in there. He has a little, his little, his little suitcase, his popular suitcase. That's like, that's kind of nice.

Like, you know, that's, there's, there's care to that versus like. It's interesting to think of that I would, I would feel like if they did that in like America or North America, I would kind of make fun of it, maybe. It's weird in that way. I do, but I do feel like it is like charming. It sounds, that does sound like a charming thing, but I, I, I guess they don't really do. What did they do? They had that special. What's that movie where Mark Wahlberg has, uh, has a bald head? I have no. Oh, Mark Wahlberg with a bald head. The Mel Gibson movie. Yeah, yeah. No, he has a bald head and he's in the, he's in the air, he's in the airplane. It's new. Yeah, it's a Mel Gibson movie. Oh, it is a Mel Gibson movie.

He directed it. Yeah, he directed it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a weird flight risk. You're thinking of flight risk. Thank you. Flight risk. And, but they do have, they have like the special DVD cover or something and you pull it up.

Oh, yeah. That was really funny. That was funny. Yeah. You pull the DVD up and you just see that he's bald. Yeah, you see that he's bald. It's like covered up or whatever by like whatever it is. I mean, I don't think hair.

It's like covered by his something. And then you pull it up and you can see his bald head. Yeah. Well, this guy goes, the reason they do it is easily recognizable actor. an actress to sell to the widest demographic. Old classic well-executed posters for the niche demographic, quick and easy money in a shrinking industry. So this is a favorite guy thing where he's like, they don't use the original covers because

people are too stupid to know that Sean Connery is in, you know, like they're trying to sell it. They're just trying to sell it. Well, that's all they, this guy goes, they should follow shouts lead and have the classic art reversible to the front. I did that with piranha the other day. You could do that with most of their releases. That way, you can market to the greater audience,

and those in the audience can choose to reverse the cover if they want to. So there is a thing going around with these people that they have to change the covers to something generic or people won't buy it. Like people will just walk by a James Bond movie and not buy it because it has the original cover. And they don't recognize it's because people are too stupid. People don't realize they're like James Bond. Wait a second. Is this some Sean Connery movie? Hang on. I love that guy, Sean Connery. Never heard of this Jim Bond fellow, but this Sean Connery guy is a famous actor. Yeah, I don't know that that's, I mean, it's definitely they're trying to, I'm sure they're trying to sell it. And so they'll do that

definitely like they do that with movies, modern movies or whatever. It's like a different thing, but where they're like, the guy's got, he's got three lines in the movie, some of those like shitty B movies, those comedy movies. And then they'll have him on the cover with his like,

you know, like he'll be the main guy, but he's not really the main guy. Adam Sandler going overboard. There's a good one. Danny DeVito, the van is my favorite of those because it's the worst,

one of the worst movies I've ever seen because it's just a 70s movie about how you can do sex crimes if you have a van. Okay. And Danny DeVito is like build like 12. and is like guy who owns like a car wash and isn't it for five seconds. Yeah, I love that.

Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, that's a classic marketing thing. But I do feel like the people who are buying these kind of movies like DVD, the Blu-ray guys or whatever, they're like, they know what they're buying. They know James Bond and they know these movies. Well, this guy has a good theory too. He goes, they're trying to sell to the film to as many people as possible. What? If the film looks obviously dated by old-fashioned cover art, it may turn.

off younger buyers for obvious reasons. I don't. I don't think this is a thing that's happening. I don't think the younger people are like, no. The people who are younger who but want to buy these movies are going to be intrigued by the older art. Like if they're interested in the movie to begin with.

And these guys think I don't get the older art because people are too stupid. They're too dumb to figure out what the movie is and the young people get no idea. They just, yeah, they want to see frigging hooters on the front or whatever. Oh, I would love that. You're not buying this shit. You're not buying this shit at like a best buy. You're fucking, you're fucking getting it on like a weird like on eBay or like a weird on Amazon. You're like, I don't care what it looks like give it to me.

Or like I'm the guy who like who super cares. I'm the forum guy. Yeah. I want you to give it to me because it's like burr. You know, like it's sold out. Like that's the market for these people now. This guy goes, well, I hate, hate most of the cover artwork on major studio releases. there's a clear corporate marketing rationale behind it,

and I'm afraid that they may be well right about it. The original artwork is usually too complex, too easily identified when printed at the small size of a Blu-ray case, at least by casual buyers. So people don't understand shrunken poster. They don't understand that this was a poster, and now it's smaller on the cover of the movie. I mean, one of my favorite guy things,

Like all type of guys have a thing in their mind that that people outside of their community are stupid about. Yeah. You can all fucking know anything. Everyone's dumb about this except me. And like it's just a way of feeling kind of good about yourself and feeling unique and things like that. Yeah. He goes, if you or me or mostly everybody on these boards are looking for a specific title, when we go into a store, we don't need to be attracted by the cover or to identify. And again, Chris, Griss, I think you're right.

I don't think people are like walking through a Walmart and seeing like James Bond, like seeing Moonraker and stopping and being like, wait a minute. Yeah. What is this? I have to have it. That's just not a thing that's happening now. You know, it's over. The impulse buying of DVDs, I think, is relative. over. I'm sure people by

Blu-rays that are like because I looked at review. We're going to read a review of the proposal and stuff like that. So we can probably actually go to a couple reviews I got off of Amazon. I take a look at the proposal

starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds. Brian says five stars. Great movie. Not a chick flick. Nice. Nice.

This movie's great. I hate a chick flick. I hate when my chick is like, hey, let's watch this movie. And I'm like, five minutes in, I'm like, well, I get why you want to watch this movie. Also, like, I love saying that to yourself, like, you're like, uh, it's a rom. You're like a rom-com. Not a chick flick, though. Yeah.

It's like, you're watching a rom-com. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you're telling yourself like, no, this is a rom-com, but it's got a little something in there for the boys, for the fellas. Don't worry. Well, it's got Reynolds. It's got Reynolds. he's probably fucking mugging for the camera doing his fucking stupid shit. He's so funny.

God, he's the least, he's the least funny actor that's ever been in movies in my view. Good guy too, just to really stand up. My actual, my, like, my, my, my, my take on him is I do think that if you, like, got like, like, P.T. Anderson to direct him, you could get a good performance out of him. He just, it's just impossible to do. You know what I mean? Yeah, he's not going to be accurate.

He was in that. He wasn't a movie. where he was buried in the ground. But I'm sure. I haven't, I haven't seen that movie, but I bet he's the crack and wise in that as well. He can't fucking help himself.

And even if he's not, Brian, I guarantee they had to fucking cut like a million times to be like, Ryan, can you stop trying to do your little fucking jokes and stuff like that? It's not that kind of movie, man.

Like, you can't fucking help himself. You've seen him in an interview? He thinks he's the funniest guy in the fucking world. Oh, he does. And he is. one of the funny actors. Do you ever see

Free Guy? I liked Free Guy. Fantastic. Did you like Free Guy? It's one of the only, it's because I don't know, again, I think I was on mushrooms when I watched it. That'll happen. And I found it, I loved Ready Player 1. I know you did. I don't care what anyone says. I loved Ready Player 1. And I know that these are not good movies. I know

Free Guy, it was the only time I could take him for some reason, but I think it was just because the, like, concept behind it, I found myself. I sort of fell into the world of Free guy. God. So it was the world building that got you. It was the world building of free guy that got me. And that I really enjoyed. But I do remember liking free guy. I do remember liking it definitely. Yeah. This movie's great. I first rented this movie and thought this movie was so funny that I had to buy it in Blu-ray. This is a really funny movie. People might call this a question for you. Was it funny? People might call it a chick flick. But it's not really.

No. No. No. People come over my house. house. I've seen chick flicks before. This one is an extremely masculine film, I promise. Guy that explains to everybody as soon as they come in their house. Yeah, you're going to notice I have the proposal. I know what it looks like from the cover. It's got the man and the woman. The title of it is even very sort of rom-com chick flickish. I promise you, watch about 15 minutes of this movie. It's filled with all kind of manly as shit. He goes, this is a real people, I call, oh, he goes, but it's not really. Chick-Flicks always suck.

But this movie is very different because it's for guys and girls. That's what the producer's intent was. Well, I think that's the producer's intent a lot of the time is for it for all people, possibly that any gender is going to be able to watch it and enjoy it. But you're right. I mean, we do have some classic chick flicks where it's just like, we all know. We got dragged along, you know, to the movie theater. And she said, hey, at least you.

You know, at least I got some popcorn, though, right, fellas? You know, maybe pull a... I'm just imagining someone doing this for, like, the devil wears Prada, too. I watched. I just went to that. I bet you people are doing that. Yeah, go ahead. I know, I just went.

I just was saying I just went to that movie. That was the last movie I saw in the theater with Ariel. She's a big fan of the Devil Wears Prada. And I didn't mind it either. Listen, not exactly a chick flick. Not exactly a chick flick. I'll be honest. It's got...

If The Devil Wors Prada 2 is a chick flick, how come it has NBA basketball stars in it like Carl Anthony Towns? Yeah. Something for everybody in this one. Something for all of us in that one. It's like Shrekkin that way. What were you saying though? Chris, I got really excited about the fact that I had seen that movie. No, just the idea of like one of these guys doing like a forum post like that where he's like trying to justify.

Because it's like one thing to be like, no, the devil's prodig is a chick fucking flick. But just like just having someone do the sort of like masculine justification to try. try to get like I'm trying to think of the funniest one of those like it's also funny to do it on because it's on amazon yeah this is a review on amazon oh yeah justin thoreau is in there for the ladies apparently yeah no I don't think so I mean this has got this has got some real classic male actors in it and not even some of them aren't even hot so they aren't hot but this movie's very different because it's for guys and girls that's what the producer's intent was it's a movie that both guys and girls would like I've unfortunately watched quite a few

chick flicks and they all sucked i've unfortunately watched quite a few chick flicks and they all sucked they all sucked every single one of them they're classic chick flicks and but yet i love this movie i would recommend this movie to anybody it'll give you a good laugh so brian loved it brian not not have you ever seen the proposal i have not i've not seen it either maybe we're wrong maybe it is good maybe it has something for everybody yeah might have something for all of us honestly, I mean, listen, I'll give it 30 minutes. If I start sort of sniffing out chick flick vibes to it, I'm out. Guy that says chick flick is such a funny guy to me.

I don't know why. It's just funny guy that gets mad about chick flicks. This guy goes, three stars. I just don't know. This is one of those indecisive reviews. I like Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock, but the two just don't seem to mesh like, say, a Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey movie. Failure to launch anybody?

I think is that? Are they in that one together? I don't know. This guy's saying they don't mesh as well as Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. I like the plot and the movie had some really scenic moments when the Blu-ray showed off. But it just seemed like something was missing. Reynolds is his usual funny self. But see, this guy agrees with me.

Which is a good thing when the posts we read agree with me. he goes but it just seemed like something was missing right uh Sandra Bullock sometimes she's just too serious an actress well probably watch it again so Sandra Bullock is too serious of an actor yeah you can't laugh at her she's never been funny she's literally in I think she's mostly in comedy films hmm she's in that really she's really funny in that one with Melissa McCarthy the heat yeah yeah yeah I mean she's yeah to you yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I guess you don't like the serious drama of miscongeniality. Yeah, that's true.

Well, I mean, I just got to say that he, I really kind of, I mostly like the scenes with like Bill Burr and stuff like that. You know what I mean? I was like mostly laughing at the fellas at that. It's honestly not a chick flick. There's some real comedians on there. It's a real comedian. It's about being the FBI. It's about, it's exactly.

It's copaganda. It is not a chick flick. And you know. And I like copacacac. kind of a tomboy if we're being honest with ourselves. And it's like Melissa McCarthy. Kind of hang with the fellas. She can kind of hang with the fellas most definitely.

Yeah. I love guys explained in their movies, the movies they like. Yeah. He goes, Renal, he goes, I'll probably watch it again sometimes because I just don't know.

I can't remember any really great parts. And that in itself is not a good thing. I'm glad I bought it. It was entertaining. It was entertaining. So overall, it wasn't a waste of money. Just not a great comedy.

Oh, so he enjoyed like, he's like, I didn't laugh at it at all, but I like enjoyed some of the more serious parts of it. Yeah. Well, here we go. You're going to know Chris, not Gris is going to know exactly why we're doing this. Okay. I went to R slash Blu-ray and I searched True Lies, which is famously, by the way, Blue Ray guys, they do not like James. Cameron. They actually will say sometimes he Cameroned something up.

What was the reason, Chris? So for context, like, there's like fucking five millions versions of alien and they are all slightly different in ways that are annoying. Like he'll fuck with things. I mean, so for context, I wrote about this, like, I actually was one of the best performing pieces on Aftermath. People hate this DVD. Because they, because, because.

Because, yeah, no, they basically, it was a series of them. It was like, it was true lies is the really, really egregious one. And my understanding is that the reason they did this is because they had really bad makeup on it. And so they just AI smeared a lot of it. Like, he did it with, in varying degrees with like alien and whatnot. But like, part of this is just he's like fucking friends with like, you know, Peter Jackson. And Peter Jackson loves AI shit. And so like these movies just look fucked up.

It was like a really infamously bad one. It's one of the few times where these guys are right is like, is like that is fucked up to look at. It is a weird, weird thing. And I did a whole piece on it. There's apparently a scene where you straight up see the stunt double. Like that you look at his face and you know it's not. And it has something to do with the AI lighting. And then they said that AI blur.

everybody's faces. So it looks like somebody like, because it's flattening things out. And James Cameron likes to get rid of any film grain or anything like that in his movies. I think that's why they don't like him because he just is like, he's trying to digitize these things with AI.

So it's flawless. But I mean, we all've seen AI. You know what I mean? You don't think AI is flawless? I mean, when it's, listen, you don't think when you Google something

and it gives you the AI, overview that that's absolutely flawless information that you're receiving. Listen, when AI is making a picture of Eminem, it's flawless. I sent you that one, Brian, I came across it randomly on Instagram as one of those horrible AI videos of like the younger self sitting beside the older self. It's one of the craziest photos I've ever seen. I had to take a screen shut up and send it to Brian. Yeah.

Flawless is definitely not the word I would use to describe the way AI clearly. cleans up faces and things like that. There's also the element of like audio mixes changed between versions. Like they'll go back and they'll redo all the audio. Like the only way to hear the original audio mix uncompressed for Batman, the 1989 Batman is the laser disc. And so people have ripped the laser disc audio, shoved it into the 4K and like made it so that you can hear how it actually originally sounded before they redid all the sound effects and did and then that stuff. And it's like, this is the kind of shit that makes you insane. if you love these movies because you're just like

he tweaks them there's like fucking so many versions go what there's like a couple of movies or like YouTube videos that are like made by a relatively sane person I forget who it is but like just on the various versions of Terminator 2 and you watch and you're like oh that's how you get these people you get these people they're made you know what I mean

and I think it's James Cameron I mean nobody lives in a bubble like James Cameron you know what I mean because like those avatar movies fucking suck hey come on. Listen, the last one I didn't go watch, but... Because it suck.

They suck and you're uninterested. Well, I went and watched the second to last one. I went and watched it in IMAX 3D. And you liked it? Well, I don't want to continue talking about my mushroom use, but I think I enjoyed being there. I didn't really know what was going on a lot on the screen. I think the dialogue and storyline is not always the best,

But I think it looked really good to me. I really empathized with Pia Khan's plight, to be perfectly honest. And the Tolkien generally and, you know. Yeah, yeah. And I don't know. It's very political. Yeah. I do think, I do think the Battle Angel Alita is good, though.

If you, you know, say what you will about the avatar movies, that movie rips. So you know what? This guy goes, I don't want to be. I just, I didn't like that movie. I didn't. I know. I didn't. I really wanted to.

Yeah. But again, when you're taking a bunch of, of drugs and going and watching these movies. There's all these reasons why I could not like it. You know what I mean? I could just be having a... Bad popcorn. Bad, bad situation or whatever. You know, I get bad feelings inside of me and I, but I thought it looked good. I thought it looked like I enjoyed the way that it looked, but I just like, yeah, I could knock it into it. It is crazy, crazy enough, the most loyal adaptation of an anime I've ever seen in my life. And the manga, the manga who like wrote it was like, this is like, thank you so much. You know, it's the one

time that that's ever fucking happened where they've like done a one to one adaptation of a fucking anime or manga and it's just like really loyal well this guy goes really enjoyed this and hadn't seen it since theater's great sound and picture on on reddit and then this guy goes movie's great but the transfer looks like someone smeared grease all over the picture and then a guy replies which is a cool thing to say to a guy that's actually enjoying it you know what i mean like that's that's a classic let people enjoy things moment. Yeah. It's like he doesn't know. He's blissfully ignorant about it. Just leave him. He's not one of you. He's not one of your guys. He goes, movies great. And this guy goes, it's so weird how noticeable it is in a thing. Like, I love this movie. I'll happily watch it, but something always feels off. Like, I'm watching a different version of this movie than I remember. And then a guy replies and goes, I found the 35 millimeter print on the interwebs. And that's all I need. Okay. That's another, yeah, that's another thing entirely is people who do 35 millimeter scans.

I think our friend Mike does that. Yeah. I feel like I do, I do like, I don't know much about what he's talking about with a 35 millimeter stuff. All I know is he sounds like one of my kind of guys because he, I don't know if you guys caught it, but he referred to the internet as the interwebs. Oh, yeah. Which is something that I often do when I'm with the fellas out having a beer or whatever to crack him out. Check the Google machine. Check the Google machine there. Yeah. Yeah. I was on face. Face Graham.

Yeah. Sometimes I'll mix up the different things to make the fellas laugh when we're having a beer. This guy goes, oh, Jesus. I'm avoiding this post from here on out. So should you even remotely like the transfer. Nice. And then the next guy goes, good luck with the comments about to come flooding in. Personally, I haven't seen the 4K yet and probably won't for a while.

but I have a blast with the movie itself whenever I revisit. I probably won't for a while. It's a weird thing to say. That's a weird thing to say. Like I'm putting it off, but eventually I am going to get around to it. I am going to watch this. I'm going to do it.

I heard it's really bad. I am going to do it though. This guy goes, I'm a fan of the, this guy goes, I'm a fan of the movie itself, but heard the transfer isn't great. And then he gets a reply from this guy. Don't listen to the lunatic fringe.

Oh. Yeah. But I think it is true. The transfer was bad, right? It was bad. It was bad, but also the thread about it got so out of pocket after a while that it was like, it's like fucking 200 pages long. I'm not joking. It's like fucking incredibly long.

And like after a while, everyone's like, hey, man, kind of, maybe we should just kind of calm down about this. You know what I mean? And like, but they're right. They are right. Like, this was noteworthy. It's the one time they're correct. But also they're them. They're like people who post on a Blu-Ry right.

them. So even when they're correct, the one time they're like, they have done something that is like newsworthy, they get fucking, they can't stop help but be weird about it. It kind of makes sense to me because like they're right. And you know, like they were usually wrong and they're kind of yelling into the ether. So now they've grasped at this thing where it's like people are kind of like agreeing with us. And it's like, of course they're just going to be like, oh, you agree with me? Oh, fuck. Now I'm going to like go really heavy at this and never let it go. Like that kind of does make outsiders have noticed it and they're like oh oh oh holy shit like i'm right about this fucking thing people agree with me on this like let's fucking never let this shit die well this guy goes it isn't

fringe it's objectively a terrible transfer the quality of the film's subjective but the quality of the transfer is an objective metric i don't think this guy knows what an objective metric is but that's fine he goes uh uh an i should never be used for this purpose as it just smears everything It's a fun as fuck film with a dog shit transfer that while some can look past and enjoy the film is incredibly distracting to others. I agree. I shouldn't be used for that. I agree. I shouldn't be used for anything.

Yeah. I agree. I hate AI and we hate AI. But like, yeah. I think it should be used for one thing. What's that? Putting Eminem on the view. Ooh, I would love to see Eminem on the view.

Or the spew as our friend Sully Erna says. Yeah. Did you watch that one Beatles thing that Peter Jackson did? I did not. Is that like a restoration of their performance or whatever? Yeah, what is it? Oh, God, sorry one second. It's he used a lot of AI on that.

Get back. It was like an Apple TV thing. Yeah. It came out like, I want to say, what is it? 20, 2021. Go and watch it and that's what the true lies transfer does look like. It looks fucked up. And like he's, it's his studio that did it that like was adjacent to a lot of this.

and like his his work was adjacent to it. It is so bad. And part of it is like some of the footage just didn't exist the correct way. You know what I mean? But he loves this shit so much. Yeah. I saw a clip of that like very recently, Chris, within the past like month or so, I saw a clip from that. Like just like, you know, like some thing on Instagram or YouTube or whatever.

And I was like so confused by it that it was not like just an actual AI video that this came from a real piece of. media that was made. I was so confused by how it looked and I didn't have the context that you're giving me now. And now it makes so much fucking sense. It does not look real. No, it looks fucked up. It looks like AI. And I remember like finding it. It's like, oh, it's from this actual documentary that was made and like that was like put out. And I was really, really confused by it. But yeah, that makes sense. It looks fucking horrible. It looks so horrible. Yeah. It was crazy. It made me crazy that people thought that look good. And then he recently, I want to say like, like two years ago, did a new Beatles video

where he used AI to bring the other Beatles back. And it was like, it's called now and then. And if you look that, that thing is atrocious. But like that literally is like Peter Jackson's malignant, malignant influence in this. Well, and yeah.

And, and you know, our friend Michael really liked that Beatles AI stuff. Did he? I'll get back. Well, he's not really, when he says friend, we have to, Michael Nolan. We come up at. the end of all of his videos. He's a friend of the show and that we do subscribe. We're part of the

tribal chieftains on his YouTube channel. We get all of the members only content. It's pretty fucking cool. Yeah, we see not even a show. Murder Brian comes up at the end of his videos, which I will say if you want, it's on a bonus episode. I think Brian, maybe a stream, probably a bonus episode on the Patreon. But when Brian and I first see our names on one of the videos, God, it's probably the most excited you'll ever see us on guys. Just a random guy too. We just go crazy when we see that. Transfer wasn't horrible, to be honest.

I didn't care as much as I was too busy enjoying the film. Oh, nice. Yeah. It's a romp. It's a fun romp. It is. I received a disc for Christmas and heard about the bad AI upscaling. It was definitely noticeable, but a glass or three of wine

and the quality of the content kept me engaged. Still one of my favorite movies. Yeah. If you get drunk, it's fantastic. Nothing, a little bit of a little bit of red. medicine can't fix, hey fellas? You know what I mean? Bring me a purple hooter.

I'm about to watch the 4K restoration. Somebody give me a couple of purple hooters. I got to fucking slog my way through this 4K restoration of true lines. I do think I will usually, when I'm watching a movie, I usually don't drink wine personally because it's like that's sort of more of a chick flick kind of drink. I'll usually get a couple of bruskeys. That's real chick flicks stuff. Yeah, I'll watch a couple bruskeys for sure.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah. The proposal. Some bruskees in the proposal. Oh, buddy, get me a six pack in the fucking DVD of the proposal. That's a guy's night out right there. Get me a 9% ABV. Give me one of those like stouts or those, you know, a Belgian.

I want something really thick. I want something that's going to make me feel as shit and bloated in the morning. And I'm going to watch a proposal with the boys and crack a couple of fucking cold what. Hey, guys, you can bring your wife. You can bring your wives to this one. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down. Slow down, buddy.

There's stuff in there for them, but this is for the boys. Yeah, they can have their own night where they, you know, they can play their board games. Watching a notebook. Yeah, they can watch the notebook. The boys will be watching the proposal, actually, over at the local bar. Hey, hey, bar keep, you want to throw the fucking proposal on these screens? Get the fucking sports games off the fucking screens. Let's watch a proposal like, man.

Doing jello shots at the fucking, and watching the proposal. Brother. You're speaking Ryan's language. now. Now you're speaking of my language. Does anyone have trust issues letting a friend or family member borrow one of your Blu-rays or 4K discs from your physical media collection? If it's my sister and her fucking fail son, fucking, put their fucking fingers on it. If it's fucking Paul and it's my fucking sister. It depends on the quality of the film. And Paul is a top quality. I mean, of course. The transfer is so good.

I can't wait to see. I'm going to make watch. I don't think I ever watched it when it came What if it's really good? It's pretty good. Katie liked it. My wife actually liked Paul. I mean, Paul has... I don't know what that tells you. You know, she's a chick.

I mean, listen to this cast, though. I'm not even joking. This cast is a crazy cast. Fucking Wade is in it. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, obviously, like you were talking about it. It's like, you know, they were huge. But this, we're talking, Seth Rogan,

Kristen Whig, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Hader, Jesse Plemons, Steven Spielberg, Blythe, Jane Lynch, Jeffrey Tambor, Joe LaTruclio, John Carroll Lynch, David Keckner is in it. I mean, this is one of the best casts I've seen for a movie. Now we're going to popularize Paul. I mean, listen, it has 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. Let's see, a 62% audience.

It has pretty good reviews. It doesn't measure up to Peg and Frost's best work. This is a critical consensus. But Paul is an amiably entertainment, albeit I'm. even road trip comedy with an intergalactic twist. Yeah. So you should watch that. This guy goes, I don't even let my girlfriend put the disc in the player.

Nice. Good. That guy probably has. He might be just kind of a reply. He gets a reply absolutely. Well, he has 24 up votes on that too. So he's doing well for himself. She's just going to grab by the side.

Like she's just going to grab it like a piece of paper. And you have to do, you have to tent it. That's the whole thing. You got to tent it. Oh, I thought you did like this. No, you don't do that. Don't put your thumb on the bottom and just shove it in. Give me a break, Brian. Holy shit.

I put my finger through the hole and go, whee. I will, I will absolutely not be lending you my Rango steel case after that. This guy goes, this guy goes, I, you know, it's another surprisingly common steel case that comes up a lot because it's a bad picture. It's not that it's like, but it's, uh, uh, dark shadows with Johnny Depp, the Tim Burton version of dark shadows. Like it came up so many times as people were being like, can you believe that's the case? And it's like, come on, man, it's dark shadows. Johnny Depp, this guy goes, uh, I've been burned many times loaning out books, CDs, movies over the years, even by friends and loved ones. I'm an ex that still has my the police's message

in a box and has no intention on returning it. What? So I only do swap. Take her to small claims court. My police. Buy the fucking, just buy it. You know? Yeah.

Juck it up to a lot. If an X takes something, it's probably theirs. Yeah. Or like it's actually an argument of it. Yeah. Maybe some of theirs. It's really expensive for you to care. And at that point, that's kind of on you.

Yeah, he goes, but the people that always ask never collect, so they don't do it. So they don't have anything. So this guy goes, I don't lend anymore. You have to be justice in love with physical media as I am. I lent a disc my nephew and he crushed my slip cover of Ford versus Ferrari of 4K. Luckily, the disc was a good movie, but still, I love these. I just love these random examples of, I did like Ford versus Ferrari. I thought it was really good.

too, but I hear it's pretty good, yeah. It's still also a very funny movie to be done out of shape. Totally. It's like really new. By the way, before I forget, there is a subreddit devoted to Steelbooks. Oh, I should go. R slash Steelbooks. Nice. I'll go. He goes, I stopped lending out Blu-rays

when I went to a friend's house five years after I let him borrow one. It was sitting by his TV. I remember asking for it a few times and eventually got sick of asking. Then there it was. Hmm. So he went to his friend's house. friend's house awkward saw the saw the blue ray that he won it that he loaned him and he was like oh i don't now he didn't even like the friend probably anymore either he's got like trust issues with his friend now your friend should give back the thing you know it's a how many times you

watching it it is that is weird behavior i mean maybe he doesn't maybe he doesn't remember that he borrowed it you know but if he's asking for it back you know it's just you got to give it back when someone asked for it back. By the way, before I forget, as of an hour ago on R. slash steel books, pre-order now, Dark Shadows, exclusive 4K Blu-ray. Brand new, new. And guess what? The art is original.

It's nice looking. Wow. Yeah, look at this. You got your, you got your like, there's an eye and there's like a weird little vampire cane. It's such a fucking weird movie to. Yeah, it's fucking not good. I know. I don't even remember it.

Now I'm searching for, I'll show Chris the steel book before we get out of here. Yeah, I'd love to be able to picture. I think I know, like I've seen it before. I think I do know what. You've seen Dark Shadows? No, no, no, a steel book. Like, you know, I think I've seen. Here we go.

And here's a Dark Shadow's Steelbook. Yeah. I know it's like a tin almost. Yeah. Have you seen Dark Shadow? Chris? No, of course not. Yeah, who would? It's literally, it's, it was a fucking British TV show that they don't have all of because the BBC would just like re-record over. Like, it's just, it's like a really long running

old fucking British vampire show that like, it's like saying Days of Our Lives, if you remade Days of Our Lives. That's what it was. It was a soap opera about a vampire. Well, that is Blu-ray guys. Chris, would you, would you like to plug anything? Yeah. I still do highlight Real, which is my YouTube show. But I'm doing a lot more with Aftermath. The worker-owned cooperative website I did with a lot of the people who I worked with at Kotaku. And we also have a podcast called Aftermath Hours that I'm on.

And yeah, just follow my work there. And I'm also on Blue Sky because say what you will, it's the only one of those that actually, like, if you have a blog, it's the only use case. It's the main use case. It's like it does not get buried under like 20,000 horrible videos like on X. It's like how many times can you watch kids speed run the Scientology Museum or whatever? That happened that happened in Vancouver. Yeah, they did it.

They did it in Vancouver and it was big news around here locally in Vancouver. Yeah. And I was banned off of, I was banned off of social media for running a threats account that was doing threats of people. and cigar jack small should go to cigar jack smalls on blue sky how quickly would i get banned on blues guy i mean pretty fast threatening people on blues guy i want to plug i don't usually do plugs but i'd like to plug this movie that i came across i was on the rotten demand i was looking at the proposal and different rom-coms and stuff and it gives you like the movies that are like this and i want to um i want to plug all about steve it's a 2009 comedy drama with uh bradley cooper sankey and

Sandra Bullock, Ken Jong, DJ Qualls, and it has 7%. And it is said to be one of the weirdest, they call it poisonous. One of the reviews calls it poisonous. So go check that out. Yeah. I might watch this, yeah. All right. We'll see you all next week.

Goodbye. Bye, bye, bye.