The Kristian Harloff Show - Favorite Movies/TV of 2022 so far. (Q and A ep) - The Big Thing

Episode Date: July 4, 2022

The Boys, Stranger Things, the Northman, the Batman, many great TV shows and movies have already come out so far in 2022. This, the idea of more great television, more movies, and other things or discussed on the show. The recent announcement of the cancellation of the Movie Trivia Schmoedown has been an open conversation within the community. Today Kristian Harloff addresses that and other things on this Q&A special episode. #TheBoys #StrangerThings #batman GET STORYBLOCKS: http://www.storyblocks.com/BIGTHING TIME CODES: 00:00 Intro 2:00 Thoughts on Boy Season 3 thus far 5:00 Yankees vs Dodgers? 7:23 Screenwriters of the future? 8:47 Reaction plans and future of the channel. 12:35 Favorite Schmoedown matches 15:19 The Duffer Bros doing The Old Republic for Star Wars, would it work? 18:37 STORYBLOCKS 21:10 What should James Cameron do next after Avatar? 24:35 John Campea collab? 25:25 MCU ranking? 27:00 Anthony Starr performance as Homelander. 29:30 My headspace at the moment. 35:20 What happened to the Schmoedown? 49:38 Favorite movies and TV of 2022 so far. 54:22 Plans for the channel? 56:33 What series like the Offer would you like to see? 58:20 Favorite wrestlers from attitude era 58:33 What do I do to pull myself out of bad moods? 1:09:50 Endgame for MTS? 1:10:45 OUTRO PODCAST FEED: iTunes https://apple.co/3GvtleV or Spotify https://spoti.fi/33dgsaZ Become a Patreon member and get exclusive bonus episodes! https://patreon.com/SENLive Ask Kristian questions for next time! https://facebook.com/harloff Become a Patreon of the Schmoedown: http://patreon.com/schmoedown OTHER GREAT CONTENT: REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT368qY7sfE0nKE4c04CqGvu TV REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT1LU-t2Z9AD5UJDiWW4pS_E STAR WARS SHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT0XmfpbblkF9PY7uO2qhbN6 THE BIG THING PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT3KAwbzDsv6mdR-gwUiydQg - CM Punk Interview: https://youtu.be/R8Js8uj6GfE FOLLOW KRISTIAN + FIND HIM ON CAMEO https://cameo.com/kristianharloff https://twitter.com/kristianharloff https://facebook.com/harloff https://instagram.com/kristianharloff FOLLOW THE MOVIE TRIVIA SCHMOEDOWN https://youtube.com/theschmoedown https://twitter.com/theschmoedown https://facebook.com/theschmoedown https://instagram.com/theschmoedown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's going on, everybody? Happy July 4th. It is a kind of a later episode here today on the big thing. But nonetheless, I wanted to make sure that I got an episode out for you. And I figured, and also if I did my, I did my stranger things episode yesterday and said I would talk about a couple of things here today. And even though there's a massive amount of news going on, I figured let's do a couple questions from you guys.

And that's what we're going to do. We're going to do pretty heavy. layered question episode on big thing and there's stuff about uh the schmodeown obviously there's some stuff about the boys uh that i think that the main thing is what i'm probably going to title this is my favorite movies and tv shows of 2022 thus far i'm not going to do like a ranking at all but i'll just talk about that because some people ask so we'll get into it but that and more and if you're brand new to the channel and you haven't checked it out before we're almost at 50,000 we got to get there we need you guys to help

us out. So subscribe, do that, do all of it. It is the big thing. It is July 4th. Let's get it. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back. July 4th, barbecueing. Do your thing. I hope everybody's having a good day. And if you're not checking out this show right now and you're watching on the replay, I don't know, how do you guys normally do this too? How many people do the podcast version? I hope that you do. I really hope that you do, as we'll get into in a little bit here. It's more important now than ever. If you want to help support this channel and the people that are on this channel, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, help us get those wonderful sponsors that we have.

And by the way, speaking of the sponsors, if there's stuff that we have talked about that interests you, use that link and get yourself something through our codes. And that also helps out the show. So, anyway, let's get into it. We have a lot of stuff to talk about. here today. And we're going to start right away with the first question. And this is Peter Fuller, who says, your quick thoughts of season three of the boys so far. It shows really consistent,

and I'm digging it. I love it a lot. I don't know. And I always talk about that when people binge something that it's such a different experience from when you're watching a week to week, because I think there are a lot of people that I've heard that said that two wasn't their favorite. I loved two. Love two. Thought two ended strong. And I just think that coming off a two and the way that it just had ended and everyone kind of overhyping three. I like three a lot. Don't get me wrong. And I'm sure that there's more.

And the way that this is what I love about this show is that the writing of the show is so consistent that it sets up things from the beginning and it continues to pay off. And I feel like each episode is getting better and better and better. And there's definitely outrageous shit and there's stuff that I laugh at all the time. There's something that just happened, a conversation between, I'm not going to spoil anything, between Huey and Butcher and something, they're in the middle of this conversation and something happens. And I was like, that is just the epitome of what this show is all about. So it's still very fresh to me and how they're able to spin the characters and each one going through their own arcs and throwing things through. And it just plays very well. So I'm really enjoying three.

and it's just hard for me to judge comparing to one and two because I've watched one and two in full, completed both the seasons and three is still developing for me and I haven't gotten to what everyone's talking about with heroism and all that stuff. So I haven't gotten there yet. I'm on episode, I'm starting episode four. My goal with that show is that I'm going to be able to finish the episodes

so I can do a series finale kind of reaction, immediate reaction, and then do a series review like the next day. So that's my goal on it. But I'm digging it. I'm digging it a lot. I really, it's a show that I look forward to my,

my wife and I are doing this thing right now where she's obsessed with Outlander. Like she loves the show and I haven't had a chance to watch it. So I can't tell you if I like it or not because I've never seen it. But she watches it. We've been doing this thing where we'll try to watch something and find something together. And then ultimately we do the thing that every couple does. You browse through the Netflix and then Amazon. and then the Hulu, you go through everything a thousand times over.

You find one thing. We started the Chris Pratt show. There was a lot of fighting. She was like, I don't know. And then she went up to watch Outlander and then I watched the boys. And that's what we've been doing until we both. She's going to be watching that show until my kids are in college because there's like five seasons with like 14 episodes a piece or something where the boys is just seven episodes each season. I'll be done with it pretty soon.

But anyway, I'm enjoying it thus far. So thank you for that question. Peter. Next question. loved them Bruins. How pumped would you be for a Yankees versus Dodgers World Series this season? You know, I thought I was going to get it a couple years ago, whenever it was, two years ago,

when they were so close. And I don't know if that was the Astros cheating season. I can't remember when it was. But either way, I thought we were that close in getting it. I would love it because I would be able to actually try to go to a game and check it out. My daughter is adorable, my oldest, because she's a Yankee fan and she's she goes to a Dodger heavy school.

So people give her crap sometimes for watching it for liking the Yankees. And she's like, you know, I wanted to try to like the Dodgers, but just can't do it. I like the Yankees. I'm like, as you should. That's the thing. You enjoy what you're enjoying. You were raised on it, and that's the same thing. I was raised in Queens.

Every one of my friends. Every one of my friends was a Mets fan. Every single one. My dad raised me on the Yankees because he was a New York baseball junk. Giants fan growing up. And Willie Mays Hayes. Willie Mays was his favorite player. And then the Giants left, and he was pissed off about it.

You didn't support any teams. He didn't like the Mets. He didn't like the Yankees. And then Reggie Jackson came into town, and during the 70s, he started really supporting the Yankees and watching the Yankees. And then I grew up watching Don Mattingly and Winfield and all those cats. So I've been a Yankee fan ever since. and my daughter is now falling into that as well.

So I would love to see the Dodgers versus Yankees. I think it'll be great. And I think it'd be pretty electric. Ratings need to come back for the World Series. That's the problem. That's the thing I was thinking about it when it comes to Major League Baseball where they're just, you know, they're always rooting for the two big cities to play each other because that's ratings.

And that's going to be more exciting. Unless there's some kind of massive story behind it. But we haven't had that in a while. I even think a lot of times people do like to see the smaller. The underdogs kind of make it up there. Doesn't mean everybody's going to watch it, but the sports fan is going to say, oh, but it's nice to not see the bigwigs play.

I think we're at a place now where we do want to see the bigwigs play. But maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I'd like to see it, though. I'll tell you that. All right. Next question. This is from live to be a villain.

Or live to be a villain. Live to be a villain. Live to be a villain. picking the movie producer's side of your brain. What or who do you see as the next screenwriting guru in the industry? For example, the next Sidfield of Robert McKee, Blake Snyder. I don't know, man. It's hard for me to say.

I'm not as tuned into it as I used to be. If you would ask me that question in like 2005, I could have rattled off like 70,000 screenwriters because that was my job to know who were the people out there writing. And it's funny because when I watch movies with my kids or in general, I always try to pay attention now, more so. I always bring my friend John Pinto. If I ask John Pinto who directed what, he won't know.

You guys, myself, the people I work with, will be able to pick out directors. Who directed that? Oh, so-and-so directed that. Writers and composers still get the short end of the stick for, even in our industry. And I used to be able to tell you who wrote things all the time. I can't do that anymore.

So I wouldn't have an accurate answer for you on that one, of who would be the best writer. or who is the next Sid Field or whatever, too, because I just don't know. I'm sure they're very talented screenwriters out there just kicking ass left and right all over the place, but I don't know. I don't have a great enough answer for you to give it to be accurate enough.

I'm not as tuned in as everybody else, or maybe people want me to be. Nick Piccolo. Have you ever thought of filming your reactions of shows and movies you're watching while you're watching it, like how the real rejects are Blind Wave do? And I'm sure copyright and fair use would be something to watch for but I think it would be fun to see.

I love the channel. Thank you, Nick. So the answer to that is, yes, I have thought about that. I do it, obviously, for my trailer reactions. And I've now finally stopped using Streamyard. People don't realize, and I guess I'll get into this a little bit more. So this channel, 98% of it is just me. I was talking to, I was talking to Roka yesterday.

We were on the phone for a while, and I was telling him that. And he's like, well, yeah, but you have people do your thumbnails. I do all my thumbnails. I do all my uploading. I do all my engineering. ring. I do everything on my channel, like everything. I do every, this channel, I do everything. Fad came in, Terry Lynn came in. They helped me kind of redesign the studio a little bit because I'm not, when it comes to like the lighting and stuff, I'm not great, but I'm trying to teach myself more

on like OBS and on those other things and I've been watching videos to kind of train myself a little bit more. And I was getting tired of the stream yard thing of what I would use to do is I would take the trailer and I would share the screen inside of the stream yard and then I would, um, And then I would upload him for the longest time. If you watched some of my old reactions, I'm looking over here and the screen's over there. And then finally I moved this thing over, my monitor over. So on the stream yard, it looks like I was looking at it, but it was still in that place. If I moved the wrong way, I couldn't put the damn thing.

I'd have to maneuver around the screen and I couldn't put it in the right spot. And I was like, I just got to figure out how to do the snow BS. So I watched some videos. I took some time out and I did it myself. And I was like, okay, now I know how I can do that. inside of OBS. Now, the next step is exactly what you're talking about. And that's doing those longer reactions. There's some kind of rule inside of YouTube and how it works, right, where you can watch the episode, but you can only put so much footage into it. And I don't do a lot of editing

for my stuff, right? I do a lot of live to tape stuff. It's just Mark Ellis and I trained ourselves on how to do live all the time. We were doing Shmose and we were doing our reviews and we do We never really did a lot of editing. There were some editing in the earlier reviews, but for the most part, it was like live to tape, do it, be able to knock it out, hit it in one take, and that's always been my style of, and I do that here.

And that's why I've been doing more so with the cutting around and putting the pictures in and doing that. But I think that when it comes to what you're talking about is you have to do editing. So I think that comes with things that we'll probably talk about soon, but it's kind of like what is the next phase of what I'm doing what is the next step of what I'm doing

and what else can I add in order to that what else do you want to see that's that's what it ultimately comes down to and I am very interested in doing that it's just a matter of how to do that I wouldn't I think that for that particular thing I'd have to reach out past me I'd have to find someone that can help me edit those I'd probably reach out to nerd chronic to be honest with you and and ask him to to work with me because I would love to work with Nerd Chronic again. He is, he's, he's, I love that kid. I love him dearly and I would love to work with him again. So that would be something that I would be interested in and other things along those

nature. So I don't know yet. I don't, I don't know yet. It is something that I'm absolutely, the answer to your question is, have I considered it, have I thought about it? Yes, I have. Will I do it this year? Probably not next year.

maybe. But it's something I'm very interested in doing. I just have to semantics at the moment, you know. All right. Next one. Let's see. Great questions thus far. Thank you so much. The director, Alan Smithy. Brilliant, brilliant, a really, really supportive fan, and I couldn't thank him enough for everything that you've done. The director, Alan Smith. What are your top three favorite Schmoda matches of all time? Also, who would you want see face off on one final singles match or IG match. All right. So the second part of that question,

I'm not going to answer yet because all I'll say about the final matches of spectacular is that just be, if I get the card that I want, which I think that I might get, you guys are going to be very happy. It's going to be, it's going to be very, very good card.

And so I don't want to give away anything by telling you who I'd want to see because I put the card together of not only the people, that I believe that you guys would want to see and the matches that you'd want to see and matches that I'd want to see and the matches that if I'm not calling the match while I'm there that as a fan I can stand back and go oh I've always wanted to see that match or man that match is happening again or oh that's exactly what we thought could happen if these particular competitors met up so that's that's how I would um answer that question because I don't want to give anything away just yet as far as I And I still, I don't think I'm going to rank top three.

I'm just going to go, as I saw that question come in, I was like, I'm not going to think about it yet until I read it. And now I'm going to think of the top three that come, the pop into my head immediately. And this doesn't mean that they're my top three, like, favorite of all time. It just means that the three matches that always stand out to me when I think of great matches. And the three that pop out immediately are Merle versus Roka won when Roka won the belt. Kalanowski versus Rachel Cushing at the first throwdown when Rachel won the IG belt. and then again, Shirewolves versus Who's the Boss at Spectacular 3. Those are the matches that really stand out to me.

There are so many great ones. And there's, I mean, there's Chandru and Mike Kalanowski, which I think is another match that stands out as one of the greatest matches to really show what the spectacular is. Mike's been involved in so many great ones, even his last match with Smet, Rachel and Clark have been involved in so many great ones. I mean, there's just so many.

Marisol McKee and Sam Levine was one of the best matches. It's so many. There's just so many. So I can't come up. And the Patriots, the Patriots win in their first title against top ten. It wasn't the greatest match per se, but it's still probably the match that I've watched the most, especially the ending. I think the ending is still one of the greatest endings ever. So there's so many.

There's so many. All right. Let's go to the, uh, thank you. for that question. Next one. James Smith, the Duffer brothers tackling the old republic. Look, I'd love to see it. But it's one of those things. Like, I don't, I don't stand by this particular thing that I think everybody needs to be a fan of the product or the product or the property that they're making when they come into it. But it certainly helps if someone is not just a, you know, just a, it has to be a megafan. Are you not a mega fan? You can't do this. It's like, do you get it? Do you understand it? Do you want to do the

research? Did you go back? Okay, so the old republic, we're not too familiar with it. We're not too familiar with it. Well, would you get familiar with it and let us know what you think? Sure, sure. Let's take a look. Wow, we played the game over the course of like this last month. Here's the second meeting that we had. And I really think we could do some special with it. There's a lot of different things. I'd like to explore a little bit more with them. Absolutely. Absolutely. But I would want the person, That's why I mentioned a while ago. I had mentioned that James Gunn would be great for the O' Republic. And people are like, no, I don't need knights of the O'R Republic.

Nah, his style wouldn't work and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. There's tons of directors that have changed their style for a property, right? Tim Burton has done it. Shoot, man, the Rousseau's were, if I would have told you that at the time in like 2000, whatever, 14 or 12, that, hey, these guys, it was, it was, I can't remember his community or, or, what was the other one, Parks and Rec, whatever, whatever ones that they directed, the camera, I always get the two confused, but either way,

if I told you that those guys were going to direct the last two Avengers movies ever, you would, are you, are those, if I said, I want the Russo brothers to direct, too, you're like, what? What are you talking about? The comedy sitcom directors, what are you talking about? I'm telling you that James Gunn is a, massive, massive Knights of the O'Republic fan. And he's not going to make the suicide squad and peacemaker called for that type of humor

in the way that it was portrayed in the way that they made it work. I would be disappointed if that was the style. Because I've made it like peacemaker and the suicide squad, some of my favorite stuff James Gunn has ever done. Not a big Guardians 2 fan. You guys know that. I think the jokes are funny inside of it, I'm just not a big Guardians 2 fan.

The, if he took that style, what did he do with Guardians 2 and did that with Knights or Republic, I would be upset as well. I just think he's such a massive fan that he would lend some stuff to it. But the Duffer brothers, if you put them and they did something, they were really big fans and they understood the property, I just think they're going to be tied up with stranger things for at least, um, next like two years, right?

Because season 5 is coming out in 20, 24, I think is what they said. said, which is not too bad. You got to basically wait. I just hope it's early 2024, so it's like a year and a half. Because how old these kids are going to be before you finally wrap it up? And when's it going to take place? But yeah, I'd love for them to do it. I want to see what they're going to do next past Stranger Things.

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Moving on. No, is that Milan? Now, I've worked with Noz, by the way, for a little while. He was doing my thumbnails. Before I figured out how to start doing this on my own, he was doing my thumbnails for me. So that was a, I was having somebody, and he was doing great job.

It's just the problem is he's in Spain, and, like, I'd have to, like, request certain things and do things, and he would get them back really fast for his, as, he's great. And if you need somebody to do thumbnails, by the way, You should check him out. You should check him out. There's his Twitter handle. Hit him up because he's really good. He's done some great stuff for me. But I just needed to kind of get efficient on my own. So I just didn't need to use his stuff as much. But if you're looking for somebody to do thumbnails for you and you're trying to learn, hit him up at NowSeed. He's great. His question is James Cameron has said that he may not direct Avatar 4 and 5 because he's working on another projects. If you could choose which product, project you'd like him to do next. So this is a tricky one, right? Because, so you said he's not going to do four and five.

So that means he's going to do two and three. I still think it's funny because I always say, and I stand by this, you don't doubt James Cameron, because James Cameron has proven that every single time you doubt him, he comes back and he kicks your ass with a billion, 1.7, 1.8, whatever the hell it is. And he tops his next movie every single time. for everybody saying, oh, well, Avatar, nobody wants to see Avatar.

Everyone's going to see Avatar too. The question is, is anybody going to give a shit to want to see three, four, and five? That's a lot. That's a big risk. Even for James Cameron, it's a big risk. So do I think it's going to play? And I think it's even more of a risk if he's not directing four and five. And who he hands that over to, whether it's Robert Rodriguez or anybody else, I don't know.

I think he should stick. My opinion with Avatar is, Cameron should stick with it or give it up quick. Just end with three. Find a way to end it after after three. If you're not going to do four and five, end it. Because it should be his thing. Because when he's not directing things, he's just producing them,

they don't come out as well when it's his property like Terminator. No Terminator, in my opinion, no Terminator has been great other than one and two. And that's probably my other answer. I'd like to see him do another Terminator film where he'd actually write it, do it, scale it down. I know it's harder for him to kind of scale things down nowadays, but I'd like to see what he would do. I think that if that's, because that franchise has been so beaten down into the ground that people are kind of tired of it. And I think that's the only way you bring energy back to it. If you're like, well, James Cameron's actually writing and directing it, then people might go,

okay, maybe we'll give it one more shot. But other than that, I think that franchise is pretty much dead. But I don't know. I mean, whatever he decides he wants to do, if he's going to direct some more stuff. He just took such a massive amount of time in between like Terminator 2 to Titanic and then in between like Titanic to Avatar and then between like Avatar to Avatar 2. So he takes big breaks. So who knows what the hell he's going to do? I don't know. I don't know. I don't like it. Okay. Gert. What's up Gert? Do you see any collaboration with John Campia in the near future? So I've been on John's show, went on John's show not too long ago. I was on right before Dr. Strange came out.

And John's about an hour drive from me. I will have more time to drive to him in the future, should he want me, to come out there. So yes, I'd be open for it for sure. We've talked about other things. So absolutely, 100%. We've talked about doing some more stuff. So yeah, absolutely. Well, let's see what the future holds.

Again, I don't know what the hell is going to be happening over the next couple of months. So we'll see. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. Okay, next question. Bruce Crawford, the great Bruce Crawford. What's my current MCU film ranking?

That's a tough one, man. I can't answer that right now because that's like that's, I think I think I've talked about that, Bruce, where I don't know, I've talked about it. I've thought about it, that I'm going to, I think I'll do a full video of the ranking, but I think that's an hour-long, big thing episode. I don't think that's a four-minute answer to a question, you know? Plus, I'd have to, like, map that whole thing out. What's number one? How do I shift things out?

That's going to be a process. I think that after, I was trying to think, I think maybe after Black Panther 2, I'll do that and maybe do a full episode, maybe like towards the end of the year, or maybe even starting in January because there's, I don't know what the next release is out. I think it's Ant Man in like February or something. That's, yeah, so it's hard for me to answer right now, but I do want to do that. I just think it'll take longer. And then especially if I have, I've contemplated two ways to do it.

The first is just doing something like this where I'm just ranking the episodes. And then the other thing is having Winston and Coy on to do it. And that's a four-hour video problem. So we'll see. We'll see. All right. Well, thank you very much for that question, my friend. Okay.

Where is it? Did I? Oh, shoot. I did, you know what I was going. I don't know, what I was doing here. Sorry. Silly. Cameron Boyd, how would you rate Anthony Starr's performance as Homelander?

Is it up there with any villain period? Yeah, he's great because you know what I love about Homelander? Is that he's not just a one-node villain. He's going through a lot. And again, I don't want to spoil too much for people who, haven't seen the series, but he's going through a lot. He's emotionally, like from where he came from, from his, his background in general, the things that he discovers along the way, the stuff that he goes through, this idea

of who he wants to be, the comparisons to kind of people in our culture today of who he kind of represents and what he represents. Yeah, absolutely, man, absolutely. He's an anthony starts doing a great job. And I wonder if both Anthony Starr will, and Sadie Sink from Stranger Things will be nominated. I think they both deserve it. But yeah, I think Anthony Starr is fantastic in this role. And it's, I'm so bummed.

Well, I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I can still have a chance to do this. But a friend of mine is an executive for this show. And I've told this before. She and I went to dinner right before the show came out. And she, to her credit, it was like, and obviously when you're working on a project, you're going to rave about it. But I trust in her.

She doesn't, she worked on the Walking Dead for a while. She worked on other things. And she's just, she's a very stand-up, stand-up lady. And she's got very good creative instincts. And she was like, this, she's like, you're going to love this show. This is before season one came on. She's like, you're going to love this show. The show is right up your alley.

We're very excited for it. And it's going to crush. And she was 100% right. It took me forever to watch it. But the reason I bring that up is that she had. reached out a while ago. I was like, told me she can get me some people on the show.

And we, I've been talking about getting them, but I was like, and I remember saying to myself, I don't know the show well enough that I don't, I don't want to just, I don't,

I don't want to do a discredit to my friend and start just kind of like BSing my way through it and not have watched it. And I had, I didn't have a chance to get through it. Now, it's like one of my favorite shows, and now I have to reach back out and say,

hey, I would love to take you back up on an offer. At this point, you go say, go scratch your ass. But I'm going to, I'll give it a shot and see what happens. But I would love to get Anthony Star on the show.

I guess that's where that's where that rambling went finally. Thomas Schofield, this is not a question, but I just wanted to wish you good luck. Thank you so much. Couldn't imagine what you feel like now. Hope you see that bright days are ahead. I'll keep listening to the big thing. Anything else you come up with?

How deeply this might have affected us all? I wish I know. Well, thank you. How am I feeling right now? Well, I hope we'll do that in a second. I guess this is the same thing. Justin Square follows that up by saying, not a deep question or TV movie related, but how are you doing right now? And I appreciate that as well. Two great people asking very nice questions.

And there's more questions that are coming up about it. So I'll save it for the overall idea. But yeah, of course, I'm bummed. You know, this is like this is nine years of my life. And something that I was very passionate about and I still have a very, an instinct about what it could have accomplished and done in general that it didn't. do. And talking about the Shmodown, of course. People are like, what the hell is you talking about? And so, yeah, I'm bummed about it. Very much so. And especially with, I still, I stand by the fact that for people, what I saw after, there are tons of people tweeting about it, and I think everybody,

and they're retweeting and talking about the message itself. And what I saw that was disheartening at the same time as it was flattering, was all these people that used to watch it and loved it and said, I hadn't tuned in in a couple of years. And man, I wish I would have tuned back in and checked it out. But like, I just, the digital things weren't for me. There are so many people that didn't check out Friday Night Titans and didn't see what Friday Night Titans is everything that we wanted the show to be since the beginning. I saw some ridiculous.

I blocked the guy from Twitter. Ridiculous moron is what I'll call this person. A ridiculous moron who said, we don't want the WWE style. We just want trivia. It's like, hey, fuckhead. The, the, the, the, it was always wrestling from the start from John Roker from when it was getting. 300,000 views and people going through tables during the most popular era of it. It was always wrestling.

So when it was, it's most popular. So stick your head up your ass and go run around on a playground. Because that'll get you arrested. So the point is that everything, like if Friday Night Titans would have been created during that era, I can't even imagine what it would have been because it was everything that it needed to be in one spot. And again, as I go through some more. There's more questions that are coming in, so I don't want to get into it.

But as far as how I'm feeling bummed out about it, now as far as this channel goes, yeah, it's like, that's the thing, is that what I will ask you guys, all you guys, check this show out, man. And I've said this many times over. Like, this is, this is finally the show after many, many years that I've been hunting down, trying to do because I can do a show like this, an hour show where I'm talking to you guys. I'm listening to your questions. I'm doing these things. Then I can do a show on Wednesday where it's me and Steph and Mike talking about Star Wars. And then on Thursday, Brett and Roxy come in and we goof around about everything that's going on. We can talk TV and movies, but then we can goof around on Roxy's dating life.

And then Friday, we kind of tie it in a bow with a rewatch with myself, Winston and Coy. I think that this is the best kind of iteration of everything that we've done so far because it's at such a rhythm. And I just also understand that's about you guys getting comfortable with. that schedule obviously with learning more of the personalities or not the personalities so you should but come at the show itself listening to it on podcast and then that's also why I'm making sure that there's the reactions the reviews the things that are on that that are me that I'm doing that also adds to the to the new people who come in there's probably tons of people who if maybe that found this show that you're watching right now found this channel through one of my reactions or my reviews

or instant reactions or out of the theater reactions. I'll be doing tons of those again. So that's the way, and that's why I mentioned earlier, if you want to support the show and help us build, because that's the goal is to keep building this channel and building other things. The way you can do it with no financial obligations at all, just download the podcast on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts.

If you can contribute, get one of those sponsors, man. find one of them that you like, whether it's athletic greens, whether it's story blocks, whatever it might be, something that works for you, that you like, get one of those. That helps tremendously. And the other thing is join the Patreon. We're going to be doing a bigger push on Patreon and figuring some more things that you want to see. I'm going to do a bigger, once we wind down, Smowdown and everything too, I want to have like more of a town hall type conversation with you guys that really want to listen to you.

That's the thing that Mark Ellis and I always thrived on. That's why I answer all the comments and or least try to be so interactive as community and listening to people what they are saying and what they want to see. And that's why, you know, I've been enjoying this channel so much because I listen. Like the rewatches came from, the more rewatches came from you guys wanting to do that. The more news pieces, the clipouts, and we'll be doing more of that. So there's a lot of stuff that I want to, I'm going to get through. And honestly, even in this video, if you're listening right now, tell me right now,

things that you hope to see by the end of this year and then going into 2023 on this channel, things that you want to see, see more of, that you like to see, stuff that you, the reason why you're subscribed to this channel, stuff that you'd want to see on the Patreon, if you did become, if you were interested in becoming people, what would it take for you to say, well, yeah, that that's worth it to do, so it's an exclusive show over there, is it something particular, is it a Q&A? What is it? You guys get to be the producers of it, right? Is it a particular sponsor that you want us to go after and say, look, you know what? If you guys had that sponsor, we'd definitely help you out.

I saw the sponsor on this particular show, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I love to hear your take on it. Like, you guys be kind of the producer on the side of it as well. But thank you to both Justin and to Thomas for that. All right. Jordan Wilshire. Thank you for the nine years of entertainment. Really sorry to hear the Schmode is ending,

but we'll be supporting you no matter what. Thank you, my friend. Can I ask, what would have needed to happen post-pandemic for the Schmodown not to be ending? Very tough question, man. And then this will be, I think that I'm going to wind up answering two questions. Someone asks a similar question. So I'll just kind of get to it here. All right.

So in 2019, 2019 was the conversation, well, I took it off a collider while I was still at Collider. I was an executive over a Collider. And I realized I just didn't want to do that anymore. I didn't want, it wasn't fair to me. It wasn't because I wasn't into it. I wasn't passionate about it. It wasn't fair to Mark Fernandez because he was putting all his chips and having me do this stuff and being executive over there. And I just didn't want to do it anymore.

So I had a dinner with him and I said, look, I would love to continue on hosting stuff for you and doing that kind of stuff. But like, I just want to focus and try to build out Shmodeown. It's got momentum right now and I want to try to do it and move it to, you know, its own channel and do my own thing. to which he was very supportive over. And then eventually I was like, okay, I'm going to have to be in the, and I was then starting SCN live and doing all that. And at the time, I was going out on my own. And when you're going out on your own,

you don't have any, I didn't have any financial backing. I had nothing. So I had to figure out, I had the Patreon. I had the Patreon. So, and at the time, the Patreon was thriving, like really thriving. So I was like, okay, if I look at the, and I had, speaking of Campia, I had a lunch with Campia, and I told him, like, look, I'm planning on going out on my own.

And I know that you've been doing the thing with the super chat and the idea like if I did that and I created a show like that, S.C.N. Live. And he gave me some advice of things that I could do. And I did those and I implemented those. And when I started the show on S&Live, we were doing good with views and people came over from the Collider Live era. And I then I had to also, it was going to, and I was supporting Schmodown on my own. I was, Smodown was, was supported by donations. It was promote, it was the, and then so what people do not understand is how much live events cost in general, right? You got to rent out to the, you got to rent out the actual theater itself.

You got to pay the competitors. You got to pay the crew. And I will say that at the time when I was running about myself, the crew and everybody was basically doing me a favor by taking very low rates because it's all we had. So you could do them at, still, if you guessed how much a live event costs, you would be wrong. They cost way more than you think. So, but there was also part of a plan of a business that was doing pretty well at the time. And this is, again, 2019, so we were doing pretty well. And so we, and even if we, like, I think that the New York event and Chicago were the ones that, okay, we made a little bit off of doing it.

so we could add a little bit more into the tank, and it all went back into the tank to be able to do more things. We were getting some sponsors and everything. So I had a meeting with Skybound Entertainment, and it was a great meeting, and I had met them previously about a year before, and we were talking about doing stuff together, and they were phenomenal, fantastic,

and they got the vision, they understood it, and they wanted to get into the live events business, and we had a conversation, and we did it, and I already had the New York 2020 event planned, so they kind of came on, helped, and then they fully produced, the Atlanta one. We sold it out. Things were moving. ESPN was going to do a full three-page article on us, and they had sent Tyler Finn on fire, who is the, he was big e-sports reporter, still

is, but it was with ESPN at the time. And he's like, okay, I'm going to write this whole thing up, comes out, does interviews, so I'm taking myself and the people I work with to the free-for-all, we're sold-out free-for-all in downtown Los Angeles, and then the world changed. and a pandemic kit. And we were moving. We were on a trajectory to really start, uh, start grooving,

like really start grooving. And we were, and the Sien Live at the time was doing very well with, with donations and all that. And at the time, even before Skybount came on, to which I'm very aware, as you guys know,

that the Schmobat came on, and David Michael Frank was part of, he's very successful TikToker and he's, and he was instrumental with helping me, get everything going if for Essie on live before Skybound came on board and he had told me about the donation thing the robot thing and we tried it out

and it was it was it was cooking and it was moving for us I understand what it did to the vibe and flow of the show obviously it's why I started this show because it just it it took a lot out of the rhythm of it but it paid for a lot

it paid for the competitors. It paid for independent contractors. It paid for all this stuff. It paid for a lot. And it added into the Patreon and added into all this stuff. And it helped make more live events and to signify or to justify whether or not why we were doing live events because all this stuff was kind of coming in and it was starting to make sense.

Pandemic hits. And it took a hit. And when the pandemic hit, And he said, okay, because at that time, we had, we still, and again, credit to Mark Fernandez. We were still, we had, when I joined with Skybound, we were, they, they had, we were going to get a studio. Like we finally do now, but it just took a while because of the pandemic. But we had a, we were going to do a studio. We were looking at studios, all this stuff beforehand.

And Mark Fernandez was kind enough when he still had Collider and running Collider. He said, okay. So you guys can still shoot here. And it was like, we would shoot once or two. twice a month there and we had so much in the can and it was another thing right as the pandemic we had a shoot planned like the day before they shut everything down like the day before and that was going to cover us for another like two months three months and mark called me he's like dude i i just too many safety concerns i got i got to shut i got to shut you down and that was another thing between

that and free for all of our studio matches were pretty much toast all of our um all of our live events were pulled. We had live events planned for Tampa. We had live events planned for Boston, for Houston. We had all these live events that were ready. And we were already in the process of setting up the events, setting up every. JP, who I haven't had a chance to, JP Pickerel was the lifeblood and the backbone of live events. And the whole reason live events existed in the first place. He was my former manager. And he just had such a clear vision of what Schmo Down could do for live events and just, had the magic and had all the contacts and was just able to

call all the theaters and he had everything and he was moving. It's like a computer when it comes to the live events and he was cooking. And then again, pandemic hits. We had to halt all that. So all the ticket sales and everything. Then we had to refund all the tickets for free for all. So that was a hit. So we're like, okay.

And remember, this is at a time when everybody thought that, oh, this thing's going to last for like two months and it's going to be over. So we had enough in the can, that I'm going, all right, so two months. And then it starts getting a little longer. And I'm like, we need to figure something out. So the first, and this is the middle of like the faction wars when we change everything over to factions.

And people were like, oh, it's the faction wars and changing it more into a sport that ruined it. Go back and watch the draft from the comedy store in the beginning of 2020. And look how hyped people were. And look at how it started inside of the studio stuff. And you got to stop with the nonsense. Because once it's switched to people playing in their under

in front of a potato camera, it just takes, it doesn't, it's hard to take it serious. It's not hard for the competitors and the hardcore fans that take it seriously, but for new viewers, it's very hard to take it seriously. But backtracking, as we are now getting to a place where we have all this stuff and we have sponsors that, that was another thing. We had this massive meeting with this huge sponsor for free for all that was on board, signed on, and then obviously cancel it because we didn't have a free for all. So that was something.

So, and I also remember this is the other thing to also know of when I signed on a Skybound, I became a creative or an executive over at Skybound. And that was, I took a job and now my job was Schmowdown and other things and helping out and getting a salary and doing all that. And then Shmodown became a skybound property. So that also means that any salaries, any, any, any, uh, any, you know, producers or anybody that comes on, that's Shmodown's responsible for it.

So that all goes into it when it comes to, okay, this is what, this people have said this. And this is what is what is so unfair to Skybound. When they go, well, Skybound, they have Invincible. They have Walking Dead. Why can't they just throw money at it and save it? Walking Dead has its own budget. Invincible has its own budget.

Shmodan has a budget. And in order to sustain that budget, you have to, sustain what's what's happening. Now in the the digital era, the positive on the digital era, a lot cheaper to make, right? We did more matches. Cheaper to make.

We got sponsors. We had sponsors. They were coming in. We had more people, you know, we had that type of stuff and we, and it was fine. It was able to sustain us to go,

okay, well, let's see what we can then do. What's our budget then for, for 2022? Problem is that after, like, you know, you call it what is.

The views dropped. dramatically, the Patreon dropped dramatically. And I said it. Like once the Patreon started dropping, we were dead. We were dead. We were dead. Like the Patreon, like, it just never recovered from the digital era. And once Patreon started dropping, that was like without a sponsorship.

Like, we were in bad shape. So when the patrons started dropping, and I understood it because it was like, what did we have, like we had the live events and we had the pay-per-views last year. But that's why we offered the Star Wars Division and other things. And it was so different because when the Patreon first started, in 2017 and Brian Chandler bless her she was the one who told me you have to start a patron she was the one she was absolutely 100% the one who said you have to start a patron and I pushed back at first I'm like oh maybe we don't need it wouldn't have been able to do schmodeown

had it not been for that patron because people were coming on Patreon in the beginning it wasn't for the benefits it was to support the show and it was to say okay here's you know you can we had we had some fun benefits, but people were joining to join it. And then as it progressed, people are like, well, what are you, what, what, what, what, what, what, what, and it became less about the support of it. And there's nothing wrong. There's nothing wrong with that. I understand that. I'm not telling people like, oh, because you didn't support it. It's dead. No, I get it. And we've always said that it's, we want to treat it like a like a, like a, like a, like a streaming service. So if you're not finding the value out of it, you should, you should, you should, absolutely retract your,

retract your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, your, you're, you're, um, and No one should feel bad about that. No one should feel bad about it. But it doesn't take away from the fact that once that started going down, we were in trouble. So it just never recovered from digital. It just never recovered. And then Skybound was and has been fantastic with everything, which is like, let's try to make it work.

Let's do this. Let's do that. But when you look into, again, the things that you've got to remember, studio costs, independent contractors, competitors. And that was the other thing. I've seen ridiculous amounts of stupid threads that have said, like, oh, the competitors don't get paid. Bullshit.

Bullshit, the competitors don't get paid. Bullshit, the managers don't get paid. They certainly do. And that's a cost. And everything, and flying out people. Like that became, I think we had to fly people out. Like Maris Lama Key, you know, the people who were coming in and travel, it adds up, man.

And if you don't get the sponsorship and you can't. And like, we tried. That's why did the Star Wars Division try to. Like, okay, maybe the, if we put this to me, we were going to kill the Star Wars division because we didn't have any time for it. We're like, okay, but maybe if we put it back, maybe more people will come back to the Patreon, didn't work. So, and it just like, so that was, it was just hard.

And between that and prediction, it's certainly not the only reason. Like, even if we had, if we had kept all the patrons from the first wave, like 2017 or whatever the hell it was, would have helped. But we still needed sponsorships and we still needed it. And we needed the live events. And we just end. the other thing we needed was short form content that we just, again, within the current budget, we just couldn't do.

So it's not as easy as saying, well, you guys should have done this and you should have done that. There's a number that you got to stick with. And we just, we just couldn't do it. So it was a bummer. I understood. I get it. But we, and then the way that it's working with Titans is that we have a lot that is, that's shot. And we've, and again, super credit.

to Skybound, who was just like, well, we want to make sure that this thing goes out. Like, well, and that the community feels, feels happy with the, with the last thing that we give them. So what can we do? And we all kind of came together and said, well, let's give them a really big spectacular. With everything that we have and everything that we can do, this is, this is what we're able to do. And let's do, and let's do spectacular. And it's going to be, it's going to be, it is going to be a studio event. We're going to shoot it to the studio and release it so we can give you guys the best.

kind of produce show that we can do. And they were, they were, they were great, man. They were really great and supportive on how we should do this. And, and that's kind of how it, how it all kind of went down. So, yeah, so that's, that's the, that's kind of the bottom line of it. So I know a lot of people were asking, but that's, that's it. So, okay, let's see. Let's, and there'll probably, there'll probably be some more.

I don't know. But as far as what would it needed to happen, it's just a lot, a lot. I see you probably could imagine from what I just said. All right. Darren Scalmone, what are your top five favorite movies and TV shows of the 2020s? Of all the 2020s? Oh my God.

How about 2022? Let's do that. Let's do 2022. Because I can't do, I can't do 2020s. That's going to be tough. But I'll tell you the movies, and this is not going to be like a from 10 to 1. The things that stand out to me that I've enjoyed the most watching this year.

so far that I, that I just, there have been a lot of quality things so far, and I probably leave something out, but all the ones that kind of stand out to me. Top Gun, Maverick is easily the, the best gem that I found thus far inside of 2022. I was not, I was excited for it, but I wasn't expecting it to be that good. I just love it so much. Can't wait. I'm, I'm just counting the days that it's eventually going to be available on streaming or or Blu-ray or whatever because I want to see it, want to show my wife, want to watch it again,

want to watch it with my daughter. But I also know that it's going to be a little bit because it's still crushing in the box office and that makes me happy also. So that's one. The offer was a show. I had no idea, another Miles Teller thing, no idea what it was going to be, how it was going to be. And it's just been this pleasant surprise of just wonderfulness.

I love it. Love it so much. And it was great. It was Paramount Plus and I wasn't expecting it to be so good. I had heard about it, saw a trailer about it, didn't really know enough about it. At first, I thought it was just a kind of documentary on The Godfather, and then when I found it was scripted, it was a little more intriguing, and then looking at the cast and everything that they did.

That show really surprised me, so that's up there for sure. The other thing, Stranger Things, Season 4 has been something. Another show was going to watch it because I liked the previous seasons, but I wasn't bouncing off my seat waiting for it, but I couldn't stop watching it, and I wanted it to keep going on, and I loved the two-and-a-half-hour finale and the way that it all played out,

and I think it's better than season one, not by much, by a little bit, but still up there, and the fact that they could do that years later and make it that more intriguing and tie it all together and add some new characters and add a really memorable villain and have some great performances, the acting has just gotten even better.

Sometimes acting gets worse with child stars, and this has gotten, they've gotten so much better. And it's not saying anything against their past work. They've just gotten that much better. So I've loved everything on Stranger Things Four. The Northman was a movie that I was excited about, but again, not so pumped about because I didn't, I don't love The Witch as many as a lot of other people do, or Lighthouse. And I thought they're good, but there's something about this movie that I was in, intrigued about and I was mesmerized by it for sure. So that's that's one that I think that really stood out. The Batman is another one that even though I think it's a little long, I love the idea of

this David Fincher version of what Matt Reeves did. And I was always saying how good I think Pattinson would be as Batman and I was I wasn't proven wrong. I thought he was phenomenal. Colin Farrell as the penguin is something that I want to see and how that's going to play into an HBO Max series is even more intriguing. So that was something for sure. Obi-Wan Kenobi, listen, and even Boba-Fat, right? Like I know that people like, ah, come on, I just saying that because you're Star Wars fan.

Maybe, maybe, but I just, I mean, the fact that to watch Vader and Obi-Wan go out of it again, I still think, I mean, missing the music, totally missing the music, but the fights that happened between the both of them, both fights between Obi-Wan and Vader were lived up to the hype, I thought. I still think they would have lived up even more

so they had the music but again that's neither here nor there the fight itself was fantastic i thought there was the the episodes inside of the mandolian uh mandolian exactly the mandolian episodes inside of the bobo-fat stuff was some of the prime star wars that we've gotten so far uh great stuff um what was the other one there's oh elvis elvis is a is a movie that i love the black phone is a movie that i really loved a lot the boys season three is something that i've loved a lot of quality stuff so far this year. So those are some of the ones that stand out. Oh, and everything everywhere all at once. That's another one. It took me long enough to watch the damn thing, but I finally did, and that's another one. I think that that is such a great and incredibly creative movie, and the better

multiverse movie. Just saying. All right. A couple more, and then we're going to try to move on here. It's a longer episode. But the movie trivia is Shmowedown ending. Do you have any plans for another big project moving forward, or will we see you return to your roots, so to speak? That's from Riculus. So, I mean, I think that you're seeing it now, right? I think that I'm really, I'm going to put everything I have into this channel and everything that I have. And I hope that you guys will be on board for it.

And I hope that you guys will come in here and comment more. And like, I don't think every. And a lot of times people don't realize it when you're watching a video. And it's like the support of when you're clicking that like button and leaving a comment, it helps a lot, man. Like, it really helps. a lot because what it does is that with the way that YouTube moves is that more people will start to see. And that's why I put out these short form videos. That's why I do out these instant

reactions. Because if you see one of my instant reactions, like I'm going to do one for the boys on Friday. And if you're watching that show and you see it, click on it, like it, watch it. It starts to pop into other people's feeds. And then they start to learn about the channel and they learn about the show. And then we start to do stuff. And like, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm definitely don't know what my next. step is with like my family. I got two kids. I got a wife. I got a family that I got support and I got to figure it out. And it's like there's nothing. There's no there's no there's nothing that is that is in concrete no decisions that have made at all at the moment. I don't know what the hell I'm doing next.

I have no idea. But I, I just, I know that there's certain things that I have to do. And one of those things is continuously build this channel and build it out and have you guys involved. And so when you are able to comment and do that stuff and do all the any of these things that you're able to, anything that you're able to do to support. Like I said, whether it's liking a video, commenting on a video, um, subscribing to the podcast feed, leaving a review on the podcast feed. The podcast feed can be found in the description of this video. Get, getting one of the sponsors, joining the Patreon, whatever you are able to do throwing this, there's, there's ways, I didn't even realize you could do this. People put in like the, like, people put in comments into the,

comment section after it usually be just super chats now you can put comments in there you want to throw a donation chat in there that you can or sticker whatever it's called you can do that now if you want it to and then you can and i think maybe i'm going to add new formats to next year and things that i'm going to do and like i said i want to do a q and a kind of um town hall with you guys to see exactly what what you want to see uh as as it develops all right let's do a couple more now we'll move on bus. I absolutely love the offer. Great show about the making of a classic. What other

movies would you like to see a behind the scenes drama about? Thanks for all your awesome content. Well, you know, I think that I'd like to see Paramount Plus stick with it because it's their thing because I don't think, I think it's the most realistic if they do it. I'd like to see other, I mean, back to the future would be interesting, even though I think that's universal. I think so. I'm pretty sure it's universal.

Back to the future, it'd be interesting, especially with the Eric Stoltz into the, but I don't know how much, like, what made the offer so special. And I think it's one of, like, you know, look, the reason why I think that this show will work is because of a documentary series. There's the movies that we love that's on Netflix.

Those are awesome. Those are really good. And, like, I watched the story of, like, the dirty dancing one. And I think that if you actually put, I think a lot of times the misconception is that you think that those are going to be, like, VH1 specials or some kind of, like, just low, budget especially you don't put a lot of high quality act i think the offer proved against that i think that maybe maybe it is a new kind of genre that happens so but back to the future it would be

interesting for sure thank you for that question daniel arimini what are some of the major main reasons of schpoton's ending i mean i kind of brought that up i kind of talked about that inside of it all right um Darren scumoni again who were your favorite wrestlers from the attitude era i would say the rock stone cold and curt angle probably the one's pop up the most. Movie files. And those days where it feels like life is kicking your ass in the boxing ring called Life.

Where do you go mentally to break out of those moments and what motivates you to push yourself through those times? Keep up the incredible work. You inspire a lot of us in this community. That's very nice of you. Thank you. I will not lie to you. I was in the last couple, I was in the last month or two, probably in the shittiest mental state

I've kind of ever been in. I have my kids and my wife that obviously I always lean on but when work starts the moment I don't want it to bleed over into my personal life and it was so and I felt that and to answer your question what I do is music is as you guys may or may not know

from how long you're following music is a very important thing to me and my late brother was a musician and piano and he I think he had that thing as well I know he had that thing as well. So we would talk about. But I, when I'm in a funk, I'll put on,

and sometimes I'll put on even music that puts me even deeper into that funk because it allows me to let the stuff out. Like I have playlists that I just have a certain list that I'll listen to and it'll just kick the shit out of me. But then as I kind of am letting those feelings out, it starts to inspire new thoughts and new things and new things that I have to do. And I have, like, I've got big ideas of what I want to do now and things that I want to do and ideas.

But, like, obviously, as you guys know, I mean, like anything, like, I'm going to need you guys to care about it. As I was mentioning before with, like, Patreon and stuff, if you guys don't give a shit about the stuff that I want to do or the ideas that I have, it doesn't work. I can be super passionate about it. But if you don't care, like, here's a perfect example, right? I put out a video about, I mean, I was. And even when I was starting this channel, when I was going to just do long-form content and just do stuff about whatever,

kind of came up and all that. Like, I believe that Brett Sharon, when we were doing goofball, I believe Brett Sharon and I could do a show five days a week, and it would be one of the funniest shows out there. But I also have to be realistic in the fact that, like, you guys have so much content and things that you're watching and reading

and things that you're interested in that when you're scrolling through YouTube and you see, this is the hardest I ever laughed, which is a video that I have up with, with the Santa Claus thing. I think like 4,000 people have watched it. I believe it needs like 2 million views. It's one of the funniest things I've ever been a part of.

I laugh. That's something I go back and watch all the time. But for you guys, you're not watching, like a lot of the stuff now. You're watching because you want to get my take on whether it's a Star Wars thing, whether it's a movie thing, whether it's TV. And I accepted that because I also said to myself, I can still do that and not be miserable in the fact that it's just stuff like there's, I'm not covering stuff that I don't want to.

You know, it's stuff that I want to watch. And if I, and like, here's, like, Halo, for example, was a show that everyone was talking about. And I'm like, okay, I wanted to watch Halo because Halo was a game that I loved. And one of the few games that I played religiously, I bailed it to the first episode. I never covered it ever again after it because I just didn't want to watch it anymore. And when I used to, like, work for Collider or something,

it's like, no, we got to stick around. We got to just finish the whole season. And I was just like, oh, and I understood why you had to. But I was just, I don't want to do that. I just like, if I want to bail on it, I'm bailing on it. And I'm not watching it. And nobody gave a shitty either way. But I'm just saying like, now that's why, but I do realize is that as I'm like, and I'm humbled by this.

And I had to accept this more so that you guys give a shit about what I think about things. And it's like, I think that's kind of probably what it is. Sometimes I'm like, why the fuck do I care what I think? And I have to say, well, because, you know, I've pitched myself. and see myself as someone that if I'm sitting with you at a restaurant or at a bar or anywhere and we're just talking about movies, I feel and I hope that the way that I'm talking to you about movies right now is the way you would feel if we were just sharing a pizza or something together. And I would say, ah, fuck that movie. And that performance. I didn't like that

because the person did this, this and this. And then you very well might say, oh, come on, you're being nipicky. Shut your fucking ass. And people write that shit on the comments too. But and that's the kind of vibe that I went into and that's the vibe why I think I love big things so much where if you watch and and still and I'm determined man. I'm determined. I know that like right now the big thing on an episode like where we did we did was myself, Roxy and Brett. And we did an episode on this past, it was past Thursday. I think the title was something along like what's the best TV show on on. YouTube or on YouTube on TV right now.

Is it the boys or stranger things, right? And that was the hook, and we talked about that for a while. But that was the hook to get people in. And the idea was, okay, hopefully what they do also see is the conversation when she started, when Roxy starts talking about our dating life, and then there was this whole interaction about her English friend. And it went off the rails. And it just was captured those moments of things that I always loved the most about the stuff I did like about Collider Live. And the stuff that I loved about Shmo's know.

That stuff played into that. And that stuff happened more. It was more organic inside of, it was always organic on Shamos also, but you know what I'm saying, inside of that moment. So that stuff, and right now,

I think that episode would like 10,000 views. Okay, my goal is, and right now the channel's almost at 50, and that's the good YouTube ratio at the moment. I want big thing to hit 20, 30, 40, 50,000 an episode with you guys commenting all the time and make, because I also understand, there's so much stuff for you guys to watch.

And that's not even including all the streaming shit that's out there, right? All the YouTube stuff. You have your shows. You have your routines. You have everything. I've got to make it a priority to make it that you guys make big thing and the shit I'm working on a must watch. Like I've got to get my stuff into your top thing. And I just got to work harder to do that.

I'm aware of it. I know how it works because I am not one of these people that goes, oh, that person is doing that. How come I can't do that? That person's doing that. It's like anything in my life that has not gone right. Yeah, sure, maybe it'd be bad luck or everything too. But it's clearly a decision that I've made, clearly things that I've done that I could have done better. You can't blame people.

You can't blame other things. You just got to fucking do, right? Like, you know, you see dickbags going like, who's to blame for the schmowdown and who's to blame for this? Nobody's to blame for it. Things didn't work out. The pandemic never really worked out as it kind of could have. but you just push forward and you just do the next thing. And my job now is to make sure that.

And like I said, I am blessed that we were able to do the big thing and be able to do this channel because I have found my love to finally found the rhythm and it took me a long time to do it. It took me a long time to find the rhythm of what I kind of always wanted to do. Because as I've mentioned before and people were writing it, And I'm so glad that you guys loved Collider Live. Not my favorite show. Probably ranks maybe the lowest out of all of them.

But when it started, I was very excited about it. And I felt like it had that vibe of like toad hop and everything too. But it just turned into something I just didn't love at all. But when it started, I thought it was starting to turn into what I was looking for and craving. I am, I can't. Mark Ellis is my brother. I don't know if there's anyone in the world who is more of a loyal, just great human being more than him.

I don't get too emotional right now, but like when my brother did pass, there were very, I mean, there were a lot of people who were very supportive, but not like he was. I won't go into full specifics, but like he's just always been there. through thick and thin. So when anybody always says like, oh, did you guys break up?

No, we didn't. Mark was also very supportive in the way that we were doing stuff with Schmodeown. But Mark, Mark's doing a lot of great shit, right? But like, that was the thing is we started out and we did our own thing, and we kind of fell into a lot of the stuff

that we were doing, whether it's the Schmo's, no, like, podcast and all that stuff. And Mark was always, always, always, and that's why he's so successful at stand-up. Stand-up has always been his priority. Mine has been able to find a show like this. to where I can pull a day and just talk into the microphone for an hour

and talk to you guys and bullshit with you guys and do these things and move on and talk about movies, talk about TV, talk about all that type of shit, right? Mark doesn't, he'll tell you straight up. He doesn't want to go to movies two, three times a week. He wants to watch fucking ESPN and do his thing. He'll watch. He loves movies.

And when it comes to the certain things he wants to see, Top Gun, you bet your ass, he'll be out there twice seeing it in the movie theater. But for him, you know, it's like he, there's other things he wants to concentrate on. And the flip side to that is, I want to do more stuff. This is another goal that I want to do. I want to get to this show, Big Thing and my channel, to where I get to a place, I don't think we're there yet.

Because I think someone asked me this. I don't know if it was on one of these things or in general. Like, we're not there yet, but I want to do a thing for, in 2023, where we have enough viewers and we have enough audio listeners that I can take myself and Brett, and Kate and Coy or Winston or whoever Mike and Stephanie, whatever iteration it is, and go do a live show somewhere and do three to five shows for the weekend. Do a comedy show, do a live podcast, do like five or six shows over the course of the weekend.

So, you know, like I said, it wouldn't be, and that was the other thing that live events were so expensive is because you had to fly out all the competitors, you had to fly out all the production crew, you had to get all the equipment. I wouldn't even do that for the, I don't even know if we would take. anything for the shows themselves maybe my camera my my phone but it would be more so of just doing the show and doing live and getting back into stand-up comedy and i've been working on stand-up but and i'd want to make sure that you guys it's something that you would be uh you'd be interested to see so all right this is a this is turning into a longer show i'll do i'll do this last one

and then i i got to get the hell out of here um the seventh hukch My sister told me about this net series called Sweet Tooth. No, I think Kevin Smith talked about this. I was wondering, have you ever heard or watched this series? And I'm hoping one day you and Winston can do it and I want to watch along. No, I've heard about it. I think I saw Kevin Smith talk about it. I don't know enough about it.

So I will do one more here. I'm sorry, Seventh Hawkins. I don't know. I can't answer that well enough because I don't have enough information on it. Joshua Torque would like to know how the rest of the MTS season will play out. So there are no new episodes and then you have spectacular? or are you going to do some lead-up to spectacular? Thank you for the amazing memories and matches and contributed great contact.

Thank you. So, no, there will be a few more, there will be a few more episodes of Titans. There's going to be another title match coming up. You'll see, as it plays into it, there will be another one. Then after we get to the completed matches, completed episodes of Titans, we're going to take some of the episode, because we shot a bunch. And so instead of the episodes of Titan, because there was, storylines and stuff that I had that I couldn't finish.

And I don't know if we're going to play all the storylines out because even airing some of them are not all going to make sense. But to have them, the matches that we did record, put them up there until we get to a place that when we finally, it'll be enough content that leads up to October, which will then be the spectacular. My goal is to be able to announce, I'm trying to lock down the spectacular card. and then we would and then we would air that on pay-per-view and Patreon

so that's why again, if you're able to, if you are an MTS Patreon, stick with it. It is helping, you know, paying the competitors and the, and all that. And then the goal is to then combine the patrons,

the Patreon afterwards and hopefully, like that's why I want to do that Q&A with you guys in Town Hall to see what you want, what you would be interested in seeing in a company, and with the stuff that we got going on with everything happening in both this channel and and I have other plans.

So anyway, long episode, but I'm glad that you join me here today. And once again, if you're able to make sure you check out story blocks, subscribe to the channel, do all that. I appreciate you guys so much. And for all the support and everything, thank you guys so much. It really means more than you can know. So thank you. And we'll see you next time.