The Kristian Harloff Show - Die Hard Prequel is Dead, Thank Goodness | The Big Thing

Episode Date: August 4, 2021

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It is time to talk about the things we're going to talk about. If you looked in the YouTube video or the podcast, So we're talking about the diehard prequel, dying harder. That's a dad joke. But there's so much to talk about inside of that. Lorenzo de Bonaventura confirmed it. It's not happening. No more Die Hard 6.

Does that mean we're not going to get a movie at all? Well, Brett and I, Brett's the expert. We're going to talk to him about that for sure today. And the Blue Beetle. What superhero is that? I don't know. But I know Jolo Mandovinia. And he is.

Miguel from Cobra Kai. Apparently he got cast in that series. I'm excited to talk about it. I'm excited to talk about it with Brett. I'm excited to talk about it with you guys, and we should start getting going right now. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. It is the big thing.

It is Wednesday. It feels like Monday to me. There's a lot of crazy stuff happening. Talk about all of it. And I got this character with me. All right, buddy. Last week I was in a perpetual Tuesday. Yeah, it was just like all week it was Tuesday.

I don't know what it was. And it was weird because, It's like this, it's like, I can say this here. I've been keeping a secret from my kids for so long. You guys already know the dog is, you know, coming in on the 15th of the month. And it's like, it's right around the corner, but it feels like it's been forever to get this little bastard, you know. And we're just waiting and waiting and waiting. But it's like, it's almost here.

But last week went so fast, like, we're still waiting and still, like, you know, almost still two weeks away before we get this little rat, 87 names. been bounced around of what we're going to call this little guy but we'll figure it out soon. So that thing about diehard today though, man, I'm a big diehard fan. You're like a casual fan. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, I remember liking it. But when you mentioned that there were five, I was like, oh, they did? I watched the first one quite often. I watch it. I try to watch at least once a year. It is one of my favorite movies of all time, not just action films.

I just think it's a brilliantly made film. obviously turned Bruce Wills into a megastar. Oh, yeah. The second one I loved. I love the second one. People always say that the second one was just, uh, was okay or they think it's the worst one.

I love the second one. It's a rehashed of the first one, but I thought it had the same bones as what made the first one special. The third one is a really good movie, but seems to me more like a lethal weapon movie where it's like a buddy cop film. And I always thought it was always about, uh,

John McLean being on his own trying to figure his way out. I like the dynamic he has with Zeus. I just felt it was a, a different. And I think that it was even taken from a different script and then turned into a dire hard movie. Great movie, though. So the first three are awesome. Fourth one, it's got a PG-13 rating.

I know there's an unrated version that I've never seen. And people say, well, that one's good. Well, that's not the one I saw. I saw the average one. Len Weissman directed it, who was supposed to direct this prequel. And then the fifth one, which is just a flaming pile of shit. It's so bad. It is so, so, so bad.

Not that I want to see. No, you don't want to see it. It is bad. And it's, and it's because Bruce Willis is phoning it in just there for the paycheck. There's no doubt about it. He's not John McLean. He is Bruce Willis from start to finish. When did Bruce start phoning it in?

I mean, was this, was this pre, from what I heard, Looper was his last one that he. He's great in Looper. He's the last one where he actually did a good, and then after that. He was phoning it in way before that. And then just kind of maybe came out of his. Ryan Johnson got him out, got him pulled a performance out of him. There's no doubt about it. And I think that that's the point is that there's, and he was good in the last one,

the last the Chamelon movie. And that's the third movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It wasn't great, but yeah, he wasn't great. But he was good in it. He was good in it.

And it's like when he wants to care, he's still got it. But he just hasn't cared in a while. And I think that he's probably just would die hard, whatever. Yeah. That's just blows by, can you imagine? I mean, like, this is a dream job for people. but even people that are that fulfill their dreams will get tired or working at some point. I think he wasn't challenged on it and he just knew there was a it was a paycheck and he's idiots

we'll watch anything that John McLean does and it certainly wasn't the case because that movie is not a good movie. So I was not excited at all, even though Len Weissman had nothing to do with the fifth one. He did the fourth one and I think he directed the total recall remake. Okay. I think. I don't know. If he did, good for him.

Then I mean, that's a movie that I didn't mind that movie. No. No. Yes. Kate Beck and sell, right? Yeah. And that was his wife at the time. I don't think they're married anymore.

Well, no, they're not married anymore. But they were married at one point. What the hell do I know? But either way. So if they were married and if you directed it, good for him. Good for him. If he wasn't. If he wasn't, I don't know.

Either way, they signed him on for this prequel. And I remember hearing about, like, what are we doing here? We're going to see John McLean in the 70s because then what? The whole point was it was the 80s. He was that first time he was a normal cop that got caught in that situation. You're going to put him in the 70s and something like that happened to him also? No, no, the first time that happened to him. I was okay as it started to happen to him after the 80s.

That was the joke. How can the same thing happen to the same guy? I thought it was great. Ben Treblecook wrote a screenplay about what Diehardt. six should be. And I still, to this day, if they're going to do anything, make this dude's script. It is the anniversary of the Nakatomi building in Japan. And he goes to Japan because they want to celebrate him.

And that was the other thing that drove me nuts. And I've been having this conversation a lot lately where how, if John McLean did what he did in the first one and then the second one and in the third one and in the fourth one, The guy would be an internet celebrity. He would be, everywhere he goes, he would eat for free, right? And he's still, and it's like, let's give him his props. So he goes to Japan and he's there to celebrate. And then there's something that goes down in the, like,

basically the baby version of Nakatomi was the one in L.A. The massive, big Nakatomi is in Japan. And he's got to do it. He's got to do it again. but this time older, and he's got to be in, and he's Japan in this building with new technology and all this stuff. That, to me, is the story. To watch him do it now would be, it would be interesting.

Why do I think that was kind of part of this? Because we were discussing it yesterday, and I feel like somebody had mentioned that the new Nakatomi building and then flashbacks to, it was going to be that tied with flashbacks to him younger. I think that people probably got. They assumed it might be. We've talked about that script so much that maybe it got caught up from, like, That was not the story, at least that I heard. From what I heard they were going to do is he's on like a train and he's going back and he's flashing back and forth.

You're like a crazy person with your glasses like this. You know what I? It's the talking about. You know what's crazy about that? You know what's crazy about that? Look at this. Maybe a thousand times during the, we shot all these canteena matches. Yeah.

There are so many times that it's probably like, there's probably like, This is probably like, Hey, you're just flying all over the place. But yeah, we'll see that happen. You can check out all those matches, by the way. It was nuts to the crowd. It was awesome, dude. And then there's still, there's tickets left.

There's only like seven tickets left. There's a whole Reddit thread about a guy who was there. And how people haven't seen it yet, haven't seen the footage. People are going to be kicking themselves in the ass that they weren't, that they had an opportunity to go because it was, we were just there all day. and we were hanging out. We were taping matches. All four of the matches were phenomenal.

The bar was open and the kitchen was open. People were masked checking vaccines. It was very safe. And yeah, we just had the title match between Merlin Irwin. We had tournament matches. They were all great. Crowd loved it. Very loud.

Fun. Music booming throughout the place. It was awesome. There was like a mini version of it like doing it in a studio, but you could have an audience there. and there's like nine tickets left or something like that with chandrew and mike playing on the 14th and it's like get there if you can get there get there so shmodeon live.com but jumping back to um yeah i want to get to what the what lorenzo de bonamintura said because he he's the he's the big producer over i mean it was paramount for many years was the name too was like no time to die or something like that i mean it was a it was a good you know punny name i just don't care i just don't care about i mean When I heard it was scrapped, I didn't know it was happening, A,

and I also was like, why would you do a prequel-y kind of thing to that? Yeah, nothing about it. Where did it? I just saw, where the hell is it? It's now the story's gone. Maybe they took out, maybe they're making the prequel again because the story's gone. Everybody talked about it. Everybody talked about it.

I guess they wanted. I guess they want it. Oh, there it is. The die-hard prequel is dead. This is, and this is from Lorenzo Di Bonaventura. This is what he said. Yeah. No, that's not happening.

But what was really interesting was that we came up with an idea to do it. It was a project that wasn't die hard that then. Wasn't that? What? It was a project that wasn't die hard that then. That was, that's miswritten. It was a project that wasn't die hard then. I'll say that.

Eventually shifted over to die hard. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm not going to go, oh, that's the problem because I think that's what the third one was also. What was interesting about our idea was it allowed you the ability to meet the young John McLean and use Bruce. Oh, so they were going to deage him. Oh, fun. Everybody loves that. So it was interesting in that way. So you saw both versions of him.

No, I don't think that's interesting in all Lorenzo. Lorenzo Devon de Montevideo has done a lot of great movies and has done a lot of amazing stuff, but I'm not on board with that. I'm glad that this movie is toast. This version of this movie is toast. It is nothing that I had any interest in whatsoever. I do have an interest of going to see him one more time, redeem himself, go and do that, going, like the Matrix is doing.

Matrix is giving us one more because the second and third one were stink. And they're given us the fourth one to let us give us a shot. Yeah. I'm all for giving a shot. I didn't hate two. Two would have been better if three was, three delivered. Yeah, that's the, because it was a setup. And, yeah, I get what you're saying.

Yeah. I didn't, two isn't terrible. But still at the time, I think. I wasn't as, you know, because I still was in that, like, because it was, when the Matrix came out, that was, like, revolutionary, and you're like, oh, my God. And we were just discussing this with our friends, like, their daughter saw the Matrix, and she was, she was like, ah, that's okay.

And you're like, what? It's because they've done that again. A million times. Yeah. So now it's not the, the bullet thing and all that isn't, is this cool. It's just really clever. And it's, I watched Matrix probably a year ago, right? When the pandemic started last year, wife and I watched.

And she's like, and she didn't remember it as much. And she's like, this is such a great movie. She said, let's watch the second one. I'm like, it's not, it's not as exciting as you're making it out to be. We just did one with Blake that we didn't do. Yeah, we're like, you can tell that even with the first one, they didn't really know what they were doing with the second one. And then when they did, they went too fucking weird with it.

They went too weird with it. And the second one, like you said, I remember feeling the same exactly what you did. I don't know if you remember this, but the second and the third one came out within six months of each other. Wow. Second one came out in the summertime. time, the third one tied up at the end. And I remember going to see this with my ex-girlfriend, my buddy Mike, and I guess his girlfriend at the time.

And we were walking out. He's like, I don't know if I loved it. I said, I really dug it. I said, because it's setting up some big stuff, some clever stuff, and it didn't set up anything clever. And this stupid thing that he did with Trinity and Neo, and it keeps going, it's been going on forever. I'm like, ugh. And then what they did with Hugo weaving, he, he, he, you.

overtakes the system. I'm like, this is getting stupid. Now, the third one sucks. I don't think I've watched. I tried to rewatch the second one. I started watching. I'm like, this is fine. And I realized how bad the third one was. And I was like, I don't even want to get to the third one. But did me and I want to see a fourth one? I want to give him a chance to redeem themselves. Yeah, definitely. And that's what I, and that's how I feel about die hard. I want to see die hard. I want to see them take that script by Ben or an version of that. And one last time, he's in Japan. He's got to go through it. But he's all. older now. He's not going to, and he's, and if he's got to rely on somebody else, and if,

and if it'd be great still if Sam, if Sam, Holly's not, Holly's out of the picture at this point. He's got to go with Sam and he's got, and he's, and he's, and he's, and he's, and he's, and he's, and he's, and, and he's got to drag me out here for this. You want to get into, just a stroke your ego and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, you know, and, come on, go, go, go, go and, go, and, get your old ass out of there, and there's still buddies. That would be great. And I got to work together. inside of this building, that to me is more exciting than seeing John McLean in de-aging in the 70s. The only way I'd like to see it if they could just clip in old episodes of moonlining as the...

Perfect. Yeah. Just if you did that for the background stuff, perfect. Other than that, not on my watch. No, who need not in your watch? But there's two things with that, two things that you said there. The first reminds me a lot of what we talking about how initially we started the big thing was an Indiana Jones podcast. We can also bring it back to Indiana Jones because they're also doing

let's do one more. It's the fifth one because people didn't like the fourth one wasn't, regardless of how the the critics scored it well. But the fifth one is trying to redeem the fans' eyes what it was. So I'd like to do that again with Die Hard. The other thing is, was

there anyone sexier than a 1970s Sybil Shepard? Oh, holy shit. Get out of town. You look at old pictures of Sybil Shepard. She is like one of the sexiest women, I think, that have ever walked the planet. Yeah. Holy shit balls. Yeah.

taxi driver? Oh, I mean, come on. Come on. You see why it's in the air as well as is it? I mentioned a few things to you guys before about, you know, Shmowdown and things were doing and all that. And thank you to all of the people out there with the, well, not that one. There you go.

The collision. We finally did an in-studio and a hybrid. of digital matches and what an event it was. And we were so excited to partner with Captain Morgan and to have them on board for the collision. Captain Morgan was the original Spiced Rum and you can go back and you can watch the collision. It's on this channel.

It aired live to everybody. It was not pay-per-view. You saw Marisol McKee versus Kevin Smith. What a match. That was. Dimilanta versus Kelly in a Star Wars match. Saul versus Moses and Corruption versus Chish. Shazam in one of the, one of the all-time greatest teams matches I think we've ever had.

So if you haven't checked it out, you should. It just aired on July 31st. It is on this channel now. No matter how you choose to celebrate and watch the Shmodown, Captain Morgan is best enjoyed responsibly. That is the captain's orders. It's Captain Morgan, original spiced rum at Captain Morgan, USA. That's right. Hey, there you are.

So there was Like going back to the canteena Like we got there It's coming villainy can'tina Those matches are going to start airing soon And it was It was pretty awesome Just the first time we ever had like

A crowd there again You know just Yeah Because the collision had Competitors and managers and crew obviously But this had actual This had fans coming to see it We bought tickets there to be there

It was cool Oh I bet That feeling of just finally getting some energy in the room like that. It's just a different show, man. Yeah. It's just a different show. And I think that's what people, like,

I'm trying to tell people, you could tell from the, all the, all the competitors, all the managers, they all, like, it just, they just, everybody woke up. And it was like coming out of the Matrix. You know, it was, it's certainly how I felt. It's like when I, I,

there was a competitor that competed that day that I had had a conversation with, I don't know if I'm just, it's not as having as much fun. And I was like, wait until you play live again. Or wait until we're in students. This isn't the show. This is great competition, but this isn't the show. And then that person competed and was like, yeah, you're right.

I'm hooked again. I'm like, of course, because that's what the show is. So, you know, I'm saying. I'm just, I'm pitching myself to somehow get to the Brooklyn one because my sister lives in Brooklyn. So just putting that in there right now. That's October 9th. That's happened. The Shmodon Live.com.

And then spectacular. There was so many surprises. There was a guy that was in the crowd at, at the canteena, and he had won a ticket, and he brought his buddy. And I was walking by, and he's any, and I introduced himself, and I talked to him, he's like, it's my buddy's first time ever hearing about the Shmodan. He's a big wrestling fan. He goes, he just bought tickets to spectacular.

He loves it so much. Nice. Yeah, that's, well, that's the whole point is that you're going to get, you're not going to do that from somebody stumbling upon the, I mean, you could on some of the matches. So, like, what's this? But, like, it's not, that's the diehard trivia fan that finds the show and says, oh, I want to come see this live in person. It's the people who have seen it live or have seen footage from it live

or seen the studio matches of what it is, those are the people that are going or know this show from what it was from beforehand going, I got to be there. Like, if you are a fan of this show at any capacity and you can get to either Brooklyn or L.A., and you haven't, you're missing out. And some people are talking about the variant, but vaccination rates are up.

Yeah. Which is great. People are, A, getting smarter or getting the shit scared out of them and finally doing it, which is massive. The other thing is, so, what's this guy's name? Osterholm? You hear this character? The doctor, he's on every, he's on like every news, everywhere you go,

Osterholm, he pops up. And he's like, he just, he looks like Brian Denny. Oh, I don't know. Maybe I'm avoiding the news so much. I mean, I only get my news from Fouch, so I don't know. The Fouch. I watch the news every night after I come into, after I finish work, I watch the news because I'm, you know,

I want to know what's going on with the world, but I'm also want to catch up to be able to, to talk about it and say, like, because there are concerns on the variant from what a lot of the experts are saying is this wave, this fourth wave that we're in, which is definitely obviously a fourth wave. The way that it works is, and at every way, and even when it was going on in India, too, there's like four or seven weeks where it's really, really bad. We're like three weeks in. So we got another like four or five weeks left of this wave from what the experts are saying, right? And what it means is, should people be getting vaccinated throughout?

it when it goes down, it's going to keep going down and moving down. If you don't get vaccinated, then the next variant's going to come up. Then the next one will put us in jeopardy. So what's happening is that all these people that are in the hospitals, they're the one. I mean, there's thousands of cases now, thousands upon thousands of cases every day. They're getting vaccinated after they survive, if they're lucky enough to survive. And so that's why you see a lot of the spike.

And then there's these other people that have just been hesitant about it. I don't want to catch a shit. And then, yeah, so. Yeah, I saw a guy in the hospital. His kid couldn't see him. He refused to get vaccinated. His kid couldn't see him was sitting outside the window wave. And he goes, that little guy right there is a reason to get vaccinated.

I'm like, he wasn't before? Before him, right. But now that you're dying. No, okay. He was a real shithead before I got sick. But now. But now. He's a good kid.

But now. Everybody, they change their morals when it, when it suits them. But you still get it. If you're vaccinated. I was thinking about that today, though, with the space, with the whole thing that was going on with Bezos and, was it Branson? Yeah. It's like everyone, like the ball's on people, though.

The balls on people. Like it's, I was listening to, I can't remember what it was. You know, like, oh, these rich assholes going into space and spending their money on space. Remember being a kid going, I'm going to go to space? Yeah. If you had, if you had fucking. billion dollars falling out of your asshole in the morning you wake up you want to go to the beach now let's go to space yeah and it's like well you should have spent it on uh you should spend it on

charity granted first of all you don't even know if he has or not he probably he probably has both of them spent tons of money on charity but it's just the fact that we want to say ah you shouldn't spend it that way but they go about basos they go well you know the guy's been an asshole to and they're not and he and he basically whips his prick out at the end of it and goes this is for all the amazon on workers and he's paying them like $6. I'm with you there. I'm with you there. But here's what we shouldn't also forget.

If he paid every one of them, the guys that are making $20,000 a year, he paid them all $100,000 a year, he'd still be making enough money to go out in the space because you keep buying socks on Amazon. There's no. And again, you know, I mean, it is documented. I believe that Bezos is one of the lowest donasers of anybody.

Is it? But, yeah, I mean, like, he's like, it's like, Warren Buffett. Right. You know, like he's... He needs to donate. There's no doubt about it. I'm with you there.

But what I'm saying is, even if we had money, we'd be had, we'd have jet pass and we'd be zipping around the backyard. I would have created my own fucking lightsaber. And I would be flying around in a jetpack in my backyard. And people would like, oh, I wanted to donate. But it's like, yeah. I wanted a boy who. Right.

Right. You have it. You have it. And it's like, if you had, it's what everyone said. If you had a billion dollars, what would you do? Not everybody's going to be fucking Gandhi. And not everybody's going to be doing, like, super moral. You're going to.

I want to go to space. And what they could probably do is probably help. And I want to make this very clear. I don't give a shit about baseball. I think it looks like a penis for years. And the same thing with Brand. I don't care about either one of these guys. They're just fucking disillusioned billionaires.

They should use their money how they want to use it. You're also allowed to say, well, you should do this. You should do that. But if you want to go to space, go to space. The fuck do I care? Yeah. Go to space. And do you think that I had, you know why all this came in?

I had a dream I went to Mars last night. Really? Yeah. I dream I went to Mars. I don't know how I got there. I was in a spaceship. But that's your timeline period, right? It could have actually been in Mars last night in line jumping.

Line jumping, that's right. But I was, I was, I went to Mars and when I, it was weird because I got, I, I can take out bits and pieces of the, of the dream. I don't remember how I got there, went with my wife, get there, we landed there by accident, right? And then I remember landing there on, oh, we're wearing. in Mars and nobody has video of this shit and when we land there it was like green grass everywhere I'm like holy shit I'm like I'm gonna

just shows you that I'm consumed with trying to get people to watch content where it's like oh I'll submit the footage and we'll get millions of views and the green grass is out there and I walk out and I like oh I'll just hold my breath until I get to like a thing as opposed to my fucking eyes popping out like totally

I'm and I'm and I'm, I get there and my wife's like, put your mask on. Put your mask on. And there's like communities like set up like lost. They put tons of people there. And they have like these things kind of in their head with getting oxygen. And someone's like, what are you walking around here? You're not getting able to breathe.

Stuck one on our heads and they were like, you can't say anything. You got to stay here. And I don't remember. I remember it being a very long dream. But that's all I remember from it. So maybe that's, That's why I started thinking about going to space. I like it.

I like it's better than the one where Lonnie brought her boyfriend around. I'm like, what are you doing? You've had those? Why are you doing this to me? Yeah, no. No, I've had it. And you wake up and you just look at them. You're right, right.

They did something. They did something wrong. What? What? Bringing your boyfriend around. Yeah. It's just your dream. Yeah, but why did I dream that?

Yeah. Why did I dream that? Sometimes, though, not not circumstance, but sometimes though, that shit, that's like your six cents. telling you something. I'm not talking about with you, but I'm just saying sometimes, though, it's like if it's like,

hey, I had a dream that, you know, she did leave the house once last month. I don't know. Check her purse. She could be, she could be doing something nasty. I don't know. I mean, it's like,

but anyway, so I had that, I had that dream and I think maybe that's why I started thinking about it, but I agree. I mean, people should definitely be using the, if you have the money, you should be donating it, try to help people.

That was the one thing that I said, but I still think. It's like if I had the money to go to space, dude, if I wanted to go to space, I don't give a shit about going to space, to be honest with you. But if I had the money and I wanted to go to space, I'd go to space. They don't have that money because they were thinking about other people. That's the other thing. You don't become a billionaire because you're thinking of the betterment of, like, that's, that's, I mean, that's a, to become a billion.

You have to be a narcissist. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Or just be given a bunch of money. Well, yes, because you have to, you've got a, I'll tell you, you have to focus, nothing can stand in your way, family, any of that shit. It cannot stand in your way if you want to get to the level of what those guys did. There's just no way.

I mean, that's why a lot of these guys have like these, and women. They have like the trophy husband and wives, the ones that have done it because it's like, it's like, you just, it's, you never see the movie Family Man with, with Nicholas Cage? Yeah. I always think about that kind of shit It's where you have a guy who's just so laser focused Tia Leone. It's a great movie by it.

Oh, Tia Leone. He's great movie. That's another one. And she tells him not to leave. She tells him don't leave, don't leave, stay here, let's create a family, and he goes. And he winds up becoming the most successful businessman, but he's lonely. You know, and he's, but he's successful as hell.

They don't give a shit. And then Don Chito comes in. He's like, the angel gives him a glimpse into his into what his life would have been. He wakes up in his house in his Jersey. He's in Jersey somewhere. And yeah, and you just see that side of it. And it's like you don't, you can't, and see the sacrifices that he made of what he was going to do.

And I think that that's, you're right. You've got to be laser focus on yourself. And you got to be able to work from like nine until three in the morning every day if you want on whatever it is, but you can't put anybody else to reach that level. I just, you know. And it sucks because, you know, yeah, you would expect then somebody to go like, because we think about ourselves, we're like, man, if I had that kind of money,

I'd be given to this and a bit, because, you know, I don't, I used to like, oh, I want a big man. I don't want a big man. I want a house that I own that has the perfect amount of rooms, no more or less. I'm not lying. Maybe a pool, maybe, you know, like, nothing crazy. Nothing crazy. I'm not lying.

I told Ellis this. If I had, if someone just gave me a boatload of cash, like that I could make sure my kids could go to school and I was comfortable for the rest of my life and I could live on a beach house and Maui you would never see me again. You would never see me again. And it's just to be able to relax and chill and I would take I would take a big sledgehammer to my phone. Smashed into a million pieces. And then I would just live on a beach and just relax and and chill. I legit was shopping for flip phones yesterday. Flip phone. Yeah, just a flip phone with no apps. No, I can't do that, though

I don't know what, well, again, I can't do it. I don't use the social media, but I am somebody that sits there and scrolls through it. I don't post, but I'm constantly scrolling and looking stuff, and all it ever does, you know, is gives me anxiety and anger and like what people are saying, you know, that's what I appreciate, like, with yours, it's like, okay, yeah, that's just promotional.

That's all I do. Yeah, but and also, it's also disheartening sometimes when you're like, God, there's a lot of funny motherfuckers out there. You know, like, this guy came up with the best joke about this thing. You got to get pushed that away if I want to stand up. You would be able to, I mean, if you wanted to write, what you should do, the way you should tweet to be completely honest with you is some of your one-liners that you do, you should write them down and tweet them out.

Yeah. That's what Ellis does. And Ellis pins him to his fucking thing and gets like a lot of attention from it. I mean, I think that's the way you should be using your Twitter, to be honest. And then you can just throw, and then you throw your jokes out there and you walk away. You don't, you know, sit back out. The walk away is the thing. It'll walk away.

I think it's the going back and checking and seeing how many people did it. If I could get that blocked out of my brain, because, I mean, I did an Instagram thing, a picture recently, and I was like, wow, I got a lot of attention for that. I'm like, oh, this is cool. And then I kept checking and checking. I'm like, no, no. If I could manage the Post it, let it go out there and walk away.

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and the silver and the silver. Little boy, little man. Why the fucking boy? Start weeping. But I mentioned you guys before. They said the black beetle. I said again, blue beetle, black beetle. Blue beetle, blue beetle, thank you.

Blue beetle is, and I'm pretty sure. I just talked, sent a text to PLD, and I got to see if this is the case. But I had an opportunity a few different times to speak with Jolo Medaduina from Cobra I love this kid. Not only in the show, stand up, dude,

every time he and I speak, he's just, he's got his head on his shoulders. He's just, he's one of these kids. He came from his, his mom, keeps him in check,

and he's like, he doesn't, his head hasn't gotten big from being in this hit show and just a really good kid. And I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure, I got to go back and I got to check,

but I did an interview with him. The first time I interviewed him, was for when I was doing one-on-one with Christian Harlow on Collider. Yeah, I remember that. And I think he told me back then that he wanted to be the Blue Beetle. I'm pretty sure he did, but I'm going to double check this. But Kobrakeye, breakout actor, Solo Medo Duanez, and talks to star in the lead role of Jamie Reyes in the Blue Beetle film for HBO Max, Warner Brothers, and DC films.

The project marks the first DC superhero movie led by a Latino character, though DC has several Latino characters in its films before, while both Supergirl and Back Girl in upcoming films are being played by Latina actresses. Medellinia is of Mexican, Cuban, and Ecuadorian heritage. Story centers on the 2006 Jamie Reyes' iteration of the character, a Mexican-American teenager who discovers the Blue Beetles scarab on the way home from school with two of his best friends, Paco and Brenda, the Trinket Half buried in a disused lot. Reyes takes the Scarab home. Curious is what it might be, and that night it comes alive and grafts itself to the base of Jamie's spine, providing him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor that can be modified to

enhance his speed and strength as well as to create weapons, wings, and shields. Sounds venomish. Charm City Kings director Angel Manuel Soto is set to direct from a script by Gareth Dunette Alaccar, who did Miss Bala and Scarface, and the project is targeting a shoot to kick off early next year. I'm all for it. I'm also all for it if it turns out that this was the show, this was the movie that he really wanted to do. Yeah. It's pretty great when somebody has a passion project they've wanted to do and he winds up doing it. So I'm excited. I love ones. This again, I've said it so many times, but I love superheroes that I have no backstory. That's to me because it's just finding that

character and finding all this stuff about it and not not having any sort of like well this superman supposed to be this way you're like this is wonderful i i can't wait to see this i'm excited for it um yeah and especially him i i i root for this kid i really do i i just think he's a just a tremendous human being and i really like what he's done on on cobra kai so i'm rooting for him i'm rooting for the movie and i love that it's hbio max yeah i i really applaud the way dc has changed your entire strategy over the last three or four years they don't give a shh about trying just appease families. I mean, look, apparently the suicide squad is incredible.

I want to see that. It comes out this weekend on HBO Max. I'll be watching it. So, yeah, that's one that I can't wait to see. I hear great things about it. But with that, Joker, this, they think they have, they know what they're doing now. They have a pure definition of their brand. They're not trying to play, well, this is what Marvel doing, so we have to do that.

They said, fuck that. We're just going to do our own thing. We have these darker superheroes. We have this way that we're doing film. and they're embracing it, and I hope that this is one of those things as well. Thanks, Brett. Indeedy.

Oh, I thought I didn't know if you're done or not. Can you explain a meme to me? A meme? Yeah, one that said it was like Marvel. I thought you made the actual, a meme in general. Oh, what it is. No, it was Marvel, and it was somebody with a camera, and it said, lights, camera, action,

and then DC, camera action. What were they saying? What were they saying? I'd have to see it. in context. I don't know. I don't know. They don't light D.C. films well.

Oh, maybe. Maybe because it's dark. Yeah. Because they're darker. Is that the... A lot of the DC films are dark. Are darker. So maybe that's probably why I would assume so.

So you're saying Suicide Squad is going to be free with my subscription. Yes. It's not, it's, they don't do the Disney Plus thing. Oh, they don't. Okay. No, this is HBO Max. That was their whole, their whole system was release it in the theater, release it at the same time. I love it. Apparently they're not doing it next year, which sucks. I think that they should,

but unless they do the unlocking. Disney Plus, though, for me, I'm just waiting. I'm not, I did it for Ryan the Last Dragon. Ryan in the Last Dragon, I bought it because I really wanted to watch it with my daughter. We sat down. We had a nice dad and daughter movie night. But for Black Widow, I was like, I mean, it's a movie I want to see. I know. I miss the screener for it, but I'm not paying 30 bucks for it. I'll wait for it because it. But I keep thinking. I have thought about it. I have thought about it. But I know it's going to be on Disney Plus soon.

So I'm just going to wait. I'm going to wait for it to hit Disney Plus. And then once it does, I'll watch it probably the night that it comes out. But the same thing with Jungle Cruise. I was able to see the screener for it. I was able to watch it. But my daughter only got to see the first half of it. She's like, oh, can we watch it?

It's going to be on Disney Plus in a couple months. We'll watch it because we pay, what are we paying for every month? I think for HBO Max, the way that they've done it, like, Dune, I'm telling you, man. I'm locking my. door, I'm going to smoke a fat bowl, I'm going to turn, I'm going to block out all the light, and I'm just going to watch the movie in here, I'm going to blast the sound up, and I'm just going to kick back, grab some popcorn, and watch

Dune in here, and that's how I'm going to do it. I'm not going near the movie theater. They asked, I got a screening for the suicide squad, and I'm not going near the movie theater. Paul Patrol, I'm so bummed. Paul Patrol, no joke. My daughter wanted it was going to be the first movie that I was going to take her to see in the theater, my youngest, and,

And just not doing it right now. Yeah. It's, it's, I mean, and also I was saying this because when I go to my axe throwing league, now we have to mask up. We got to talk about that after this. Oh, dude. We got to talk about that. So cool. Finish what you're saying.

But we have to mask up the whole time now. And I was saying to somebody, I was like, I wasn't against masks. I just avoided things where I had to wear a mask for a long period time. So four hours with a mask on is a lot. Two hours is, you know, again, I'm fine with being uncomfortable. You know, I'm not saying I wouldn't do it, but I just avoided these things. So now, like, yeah, going to a theater is still like, I don't, I much rather watch it. I didn't hear.

I wore a mask the entire time at the Scumman Villany Cantina. I wore it during the matches. It's a promise I made to my wife, but it was also something that I was comfortable doing. People bitch about it when they're watching it. So be it. I would much rather wear a mask, do the thing I had to do, call the match, at least have the event, gave the competitors

the option. You want to wear masks during competition? Both Merle and Irwin chose to wear masks. There were other competitors who didn't. We gave them that option. They were spaced out from each other. But like we but yeah, it's like I'm

everywhere I go. I mean, I go shopping I'm wearing them. I don't understand the whole protest against the mask. I just don't get it. Like it's it's It's a whole big thing, and I don't want to get into it with anybody on the comments. If you want to scream and yell about masks, then please go ahead. It's like, I just don't understand it.

It's like, put a fucking mask. What do I care? I don't give a shit. It's like, I just want this shit to be over with. It's like, you tell me to fucking go into space with the two idiots. And if it was going to make this all go away, then I'll go to space. I just want this shit to be over with. That's what I don't understand.

It's like, let's not make a people going to, yeah, I got to stand up for my rights. It's like, stand up for your rights on something else. Let's just get, let's just get this done, and then we can all yell at each other. It's like, who was it that was saying about the, I can't remember who it was, talking about that. Oh, it was the Fonds, for God's sakes, talking about Henry Winkler saying that, with the smallpox and all this shit back in the day, like, that people, if, no one protested against vaccines. We'd still have it. We'd still have it if they did. We have all these chicken pox and what was the other one that, that, um, scabies.

No, whatever it was, but it was the, but all this shit that went, polio. Polio. Yeah. That's what he tweeted out of it. Polio. If they didn't get the vaccine in polio, no one was like, nah. So-and-so says not to get it. So I'm not going to get it.

Polio was a fucker too, man. Oh, shit. I mean. Vaccinated him all the most motherfuckers? I don't have any. Nobody was, yeah, yeah, that was. I don't get it. I just, I mean, it's, but, again, again,

And rates are going, things are going up. And then lots of places are saying, like, so New York for people who are wondering, we were going to do this even before New York, you won't be able to go to the New York live event if you don't show proof of vaccination. And they're requiring masks at the moment. I mean, this is October we're talking about. So, but, yeah, there's no, every place, everything that we do is going to be, you have to show proof of vaccination.

And then there's lots of places that are doing that now. So it's funny that they're like, no mandates. We're not saying mandates. It's exactly what they're doing. It's exactly what they're doing. Anyway, so there's other shit going on in the world. I just, well, let's talk about this fucking axe throwing. When did you start throwing axes?

I did that at Leif's Place. He has one in the backyard, and that was like, you know, the first kind of thing I started doing where, like, it was like, oh, well, we can hang out in the backyard. We can be masked up. And, you know, and he goes, I got this mat. And his wife actually got. got it after going to a party for the place we go to

and then bought all this stuff and then got disinterested and now we're hardcore into it. And it's so fun and it's like it's a league thing but you don't have to have teams. So I'm just playing as myself against other people. Oh, good workout for the arms. Oh, it's, well, just the one. Oh, just the one.

I mean, some people do a double, but for me it's easier to do this one. And I'm 15th right now. Tonight out of 30, I believe. Yeah. So, you would think. No, I can see you be good at this. I meet two people that were like ranked second and fifth. And they were like noticeably shook by this because they saw my first couple of weeks where I'm just shanking it off the wall.

And you got, well, you get, that's how you get though. I know you well enough that. If you're interested in it, you'll keep working on it. I'm like, this is a sport, honey. Sport. Do it sports. Isn't that funny? Yeah.

It's like it's, so where is it? How far from you house? It's a North Holiday. It's a bit of a drive. Okay. But I would say 100% this would be a fun thing to do with a group of people, you know, the crew and stuff. Or we could, you know, I mean, even the world girls should do things with it because it's just.

Just worried about Roxy. She throws one of those things. She goes up going with it. The Axis got way more than she does. Yeah. That's shame. But it's, I'm telling you what, it's, it's super fun. The people that are super supportive and like somebody, they'll give you pointers like people

that are like better than you and stuff like that but it's not in a condescending way they'll go like hey you know what if you back up like one step you'll probably hit it because you're over and you go okay and you do it and you're like flunk bullseye bullseye bulls like you know so it's a super supportive

thing it's not dangerous like that's immediately with people think there's fencing up and that like people will get on you if you like take your axe out of the area without a thing on it and stuff but it's I love it and I Tonight's a big night because I've got to keep my,

because it's the seventh week, the eighth week is the finals competition. If I don't stay within the 15th or above, I don't get to, you know, be in the finals, which I really want to be in the finals. Sounds fun. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. So do they broadcast any of these things? No, no. I mean, I think, I definitely think it would be super fun to do like,

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He's gone, he's gone, everybody. Magic, magic, make Brett come back. Yay. He's back. What you got going on today? Axon tonight. What? What time's that going?

So you have to prep on it? I have to leave it five to get there and you get an hour of practice and you kind of alternate. And I've noticed people don't come as early and I'm always there right to get my practice in ahead of time. That's probably why you beat the. number two guy. Yeah, yeah. Gotta do it. So who's the champ?

Well, the champ right now. Shitsy McGee. Shitsy McGee. Everybody's got, well, not everybody. There's a lot of nicknames, and I don't have a nickname yet, and I thought it would be a little, like, I can't just come and go,

nickname sniper. You know, because it's like, too, like, oh, you think. Why in the world have you not shown up there as a Slaughton class? Are you fucking kidding me? We have to have you. How?

Come on, man. If you've ever, you should have shown up day one, is a flirting fox. And started like firing a fucking axe across the line. I did it. I did it.

Oh my goodness. With the championship belt of FCL over your shoulder. We got to follow you in there with a camera is throwing a fucking axe around. Incredible. We got to get footage just for, just for promos for Mets. Garf is getting in the way. Yeah.

And then throw it. We should do that one day. Like just have you like my daughter, by the way. because, you know, all the new rules with MTS, she's like, you know, if Flouse comes back, he's got to get that haircut again, right? And I said, I don't know if he's able to do it, honey. So, you know, it's like it's, but the new hat and stuff works pretty well. Yeah, I, I did a top hat the last time.

I, and I try to, that's an actual tuft of my hair. Oh, I know. I know. I mean, that he. Have you seen, have you seen, have you seen, uh, cocoa melon? Have you seen the baby in cocoa melon? I think you show me. I'm going to show you.

I'm going to, I'm going to, I'll see if I can get it. I know my goddaughter loves this. Yeah, it's, where is it? It is, it's baby flouse. Look at this kid, hold on. I want to bring up, I'll put it up, I'll show everybody here. So baby, baby flouse is, is the coca melon kid. That's collision.

And then this is, that's, in case you didn't know already, that's, that's happening on August 14th. But that's, look at this kid. That's brilliant. That's that's that's that's flouse. That's flouse. Baby flouse. It's amazing. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we had a good show here today.

It was fun. There's a couple of things that you should know, by the way. If you didn't already know this, SEM Live, if you've been looking for it, it's on Twitch now. Lives on Twitch, been living on Twitch, Monday and Tuesday, they're the first two episodes. And there's a few more announcements with that. So for SEM Live, and I'll put this in the description for this video,

for where to find SETN Live on Twitch, obviously. it's the Shmodown channel. But the Patreon now, $5.00 patrons will get the, if you still want to watch it on YouTube, you can. $5.00 patrons will get the link two weeks after when it disappears off of Twitch. But the $10 and up patrons are going to get an unlisted link of the show on YouTube that will be sent to you the next day. And then I think they're doing $15 patrons and up are getting an access to the entire library of SCN in general. but they have to be re-uploaded in all this too, so hence the tier itself.

But all those new prices are going to be up there and all the new tiers, so you can check out the STN live. It's below. And then this show, if you didn't know already, is moving on Monday to the new channel. So don't forget that. Subscribe to that new channel.

That link is also in the description. Don't miss it. But for Brett Sheridan and myself, we'll see you on the flip sides. Homie. Peace out. That's a phone one, Brett. Thank you, buddy.

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