The Kristian Harloff Show - Is Paramount About To Move Out Of California?!

Starting point is 00:00:00 Early show today on the Christian Arloff show. I have a screening today of Forgotten Island. So luckily enough, my co-host today loves morning shows, so it's easy to move it. So I hope you guys do too. Paramount keeps threatening. All right, you guys don't want to sit down and talk. We'll leave it.

Starting point is 00:00:21 We're leaving L.A. Is it true or a lot of stomping of feats? We will discuss. so there's some DC shows that are still being stalled at the moment I think waiting for this merger to see what's happening uh Zach Snyder talks a little bit on the DC EU I mean really talk about that on the last couple shows so we'll discuss that with Chris Carr and that's about it we'll go into a few more things

Starting point is 00:00:48 here today and we'll go dive a little deeper into the Resident Evil reviews that are now available I talked a little bit about my initial thoughts So it's myself and Chris Carr. Let's do it. Here we go. Did you shit in there? Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the show, the early show here today on the Krishnall Show on this Thursday.

Starting point is 00:01:20 Joining me on the show every Thursday and early bird and day. Hello, hello. How's it going? Chris Carr is here. Hello, Chris. How are you? Good. Excellent.

Starting point is 00:01:29 Excited to be here early in the morning. Love this. I know. That's why I actually, it's funny because when I landed on a, a Thursday and I'm like I'd have to do the show early I'm like wait a minute Chris likes early shows love so when I wrote to you and I was like you know can you earlier like I prefer it I was like in in my perfect world someone's always up at 4 a.m. to talk to me so that's when I start my day perfect we could have done we could have done even earlier um but I have well I was supposed to do

Starting point is 00:01:55 a pretty extensive day into the city today and a lot of it got cut short but the one thing they didn't was the screening today for forgotten island which I'm pretty excited about I hear good things. So I'll be doing my out of the theater for that one right after I see it. And then I was supposed to interview Paul Walter Houser today at five. But he texted me last night. Unfortunately, he just, he can't make it at that time. Wanted to go a little earlier. I could do it because of my screening. So we're going to try to meet back up in October when he's back in town. So I couldn't get that done, which is a bummer. And then I'm supposed to screen the Brad Pitt movie tonight as well. but now I have a thing that I'm doing for for the TV show that I can't I just can't I can't miss so it's a shorter day.

Starting point is 00:02:40 Busy booked me a good place to be. I went on Dan Merle show and he and I were talking a bit about the show. We talked moving. It's good to catch up with Dan. I actually announced and I can do it here too as we know that Chris Carr is in the tournament should we make it. John Roca in tournament should we make it? William Bibiani. another one, Jen Sturger doing interviews, and last night we confirmed that the former champ himself,

Starting point is 00:03:10 five-time champion, dangerous Dan Murrell, is going to be in the tournament as well. So we have some ballers in the tournament thus far. And Dan admitted, and Dan announced it last night on his show, and he will be on the live stream. We'll talk a little bit about it more. So it's going to be, so those are ready. We're stacking up. And yesterday we were just hoping by the end of the day that we got to $2,500 on the Kickstarter, like the pre-follow as we launched on Tuesday.

Starting point is 00:03:43 And I can firmly and proudly announce that we are now currently at 2,529. And if we hit $2,600 today, I will announce two more competitors. which I'm excited to do if you guys can get us to 2,600 by the end of the show. Sweet. And then Chris Carr will know some of her competition. I'm genuinely nervous. I'm sweating. Like, I need to train up because I say the wrong thing all the time.

Starting point is 00:04:15 I have such a big case of foot and mouth. It's a matter of, it's just a matter of listening to the questions and what I would strongly recommend, strongly. And so this is kind of maybe a further announcement too. I've just had taken a little bit of break on the vault, but I'm putting the episodes back up starting today. Luke just went, what? And he's making a thumbnail for it as we speak.

Starting point is 00:04:36 And I'm going to start posting things. What I would strongly recommend to you is if you can find an hour of the day or 20 minutes of the day to just watch the matches, and watch the matches, some of the high profile matches, test yourself. The questions get in the third season, and they're really, really hard. And then they started to maneuver

Starting point is 00:04:58 to more balanced within season four. But test yourself, see how you would do and watch the rules as they kind of form. And I think you're going to be great. I hope so. Okay, but yeah, I got train hard. And then we'll work on you. We'll do your promos.

Starting point is 00:05:14 We'll announce we already know who, well, we know who we want for your manager. We haven't spoken to them yet. But I think it'll be perfect if that person says yes. And I believe that they will. So there we go. So that's what we're working.

Starting point is 00:05:30 So if you can get us to $2,600 today, or by the end of this show, rather, I will announce two more competitors. Okay. We're going to move on and we're going to talk about this whole thing with Paramount on. And what's going on because I don't know, Chris, if you saw the news. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:51 Yeah. And it's like, who knows what the real story is, going to ultimately be, but we know what's being threatened. We know what is being leaked and whatnot. So let's bring this up. And Paramount has been threatening that they're going to take off if they can't get to the table and this thing can't get done. They're going to move somewhere else. So new report from, I think it's TMZ, says, let's check it out. And it says, Paramount is potentially moving out of Hollywood. That's what they're saying. Following the reported threat to move Paramount Skydance out of California if the antitrust lawsuit against the studio isn't settled.

Starting point is 00:06:30 Both TMZ and deadline are now reporting that it could well be happening. The outlets indicate that Paramount Top Brass have told key officials and stakeholders the company is deadly serious about leaving California and potentially relocating its headquarters to Texas, Tennessee, or Georgia as proposed. They indicate that they also advise L.A. Mayor Karen Bass and state attorney general Rob Bonta that a deposit has been put down on the moving trucks. It's ridiculous. The report comes a week after L.A. County released a document indicating the Los Angeles economy could see job losses of nearly 28 million. There's a lot. Full-time jobs between $2.6 billion and $21.2 billion annually in economic output. Spokesperson for Bonta says we cannot comment on a company's plans.

Starting point is 00:07:19 It's no secret that Paramount has been making this threat despite its alleged commitment to California. Hollywood. What Paramount decides to do is Paramount's choice alone, will continue to apply the law without fear or favor and continue to be open to coming to honest the table for good faith discussions. One issue that Allison faces in that order to meet his 30 films a year commitment, the company essentially needs a studio lot ready to go as opposed to spending years and a lot of money building one, so it's not clear where the studio may end up. Some industry union leaders have endorsed the merger settlement and many of their members are going to be unemployed that could well change.

Starting point is 00:07:55 This is a tricky one, right? Because it's like, I don't know how much of a leak it really was, as much of it's a, or I should say a planned leak, probably is someone saying, hey, yeah, call TMZ and let them know. This is, this is, this is for real. We're doing this. Let, let this be a story and it worked. It's a story.

Starting point is 00:08:15 I don't know how real it is because of that last thing at the end. You know how hard to build a studio? Mm-hmm. I mean, how much money you're, have, you know, yeah, plus the fact all the money you're going to lose in general, if this thing isn't done,

Starting point is 00:08:28 how much money you already have to pay, plus you're going to build a studio. And so eventually, even you're going to run out of money. Eventually, I don't know how much money you have. It's like, that's a lot of costs.

Starting point is 00:08:40 And even if you have the money, it's going to take quite a while to do it. And if they do wind up getting Warner Brothers during all of that, it's going to be catastrophic to, Los Angeles because you're going to be losing Paramount and Warner Brothers and it's going to take God knows how long to build all this stuff out. So this could be, if serious, a major, major problem, clearly a threat. So is it real, Chris? And if it is real, how likely will it happen? And if it isn't real, what does it mean if someone keeps saying, well, we're leaving?

Starting point is 00:09:22 don't even though nothing is happening. Yeah, it's one of these things where it feels so petty right now. And I think everyone is capable of everything here. I think that the Ellicins do truly believe that they could pull out and live somewhere else and do this elsewhere, right, which will cost us tens of thousands of jobs, billions of dollars. The California economy is one of the largest in the world. This would be devastating to us. I do think it's so interesting to do this kind of thing, though, if I don't get what I want, I will leave and take this somewhere else. I won't let anyone play with my toys the way that I want to play with my toys. And you can't have it both ways of saying that you care about the historic integrity of the

Starting point is 00:10:07 studio that you're purchasing and then want to demolish essentially, you know, this entire infrastructure that's been built. To your point, too, it's going to cost them so much more money to do this move, you know, to make those sound stages. All of the relocation costs are going to going to cost so much money. We already have on the table that, you know, the trial to kind of deal with all the antitrust laws are scheduled for March of 2027 if these things don't get figured out by then. And I really don't think they will. I think for a long time, we're going to keep having this. I'm going to leave if you don't do what I want situation happening. I personally think this is a tactic right now and that it was leaked to the public because this is something that is a public interest piece

Starting point is 00:10:51 for particularly Californians. We have our guilds weighing in, right? We have Ayatzi weighing in. We have all of these different groups talking about whether or not this merger should happen in addition to lawmakers weighing in. So right now I feel like it's a very, I don't think it's a clever ploy. I think it is a ploy to go see what could happen. See how we're already making these moves?

Starting point is 00:11:12 The thing I'm looking least forward to is all of my friends back in Texas going, see, I told you so, third coast. Third Coast is going to be in Austin, Texas or in Nashville, Tennessee. Well, it's going to build up Texas tremendously. If it does go to Texas, obviously, I mean, it was, Georgia seemed, if this was 2000 and like 14, 2015, I'd see like Georgia's probably the main candidate to get it because of everything they were shooting like in Atlanta and what they were doing there.

Starting point is 00:11:41 And I remember when I went to like the, I think it was Ant Man. And it was in Atlanta. They were shooting at Pine Studios. And then they started to kind of move away from Atlanta. and they're moving like everything like the UK. So maybe they're trying to build Georgia back up. They're trying to build these other places back up. And it's also no, you got to always look at the political side of this when it comes to this.

Starting point is 00:12:02 Because this is a, I don't care what people say, yes, it is about the law. I don't disagree with that. But it is also a very big political fight between the two sides. It's clear as day. So it's also no coincidence that the three states that are mentioned are all red states. you know so that's going to be um that's going to be something that i think is is is is interesting um and i think well i think well Atlanta i think goes a little bit more more but overall Georgia i think is a is a red state um so but but either way it's the politics line up a little bit more with um

Starting point is 00:12:40 with what ellisans want to do but it's just a matter of the money right and it's a matter of because there is that argument of yes it'll cost you so much as we both said But then the other side of that too is, well, if they don't get Warner Brothers and they don't have to pay that money, because they're going to be paying a shit ton of money until this thing's over. So let's say they don't get it. If they don't get it, if they don't get Warner Brothers, I do think that they'll move. I think to spite everybody, they'll move. And I think they'll move stuff and they'll get everything out of there. And they'll probably keep making it.

Starting point is 00:13:15 I think that eventually Netflix will buy Warner Brothers. pieces of it and then it'll be chopped off and sold off into other places too because Zazloff wants to he does not want to keep it he wants to sell he's he's out of plan that's why he's been here the whole time he's been here to dismantle he's been here to do a yard sale he wasn't here to be a studio head not in the traditional sense he was here to auction off pieces of it and make as much money as possible um and you know the the thing about Atlanta too just to touch on that really quickly i mean production basically is not there anymore just for everyone else's edification right um pretty much all of Marvel stuff, which was really what was helping Atlanta boom for a while, has moved to the UK.

Starting point is 00:13:55 So many productions are moving to the UK now because it's cheaper and because of the way that labor works over there. They don't have to pay health care or things like that for their employees. So so many productions are moving that way. So in general, we are seeing so much of the entertainment industry leave our country as a whole, not just California. We're seeing it leave everywhere. And just to the lovely intelligent people in the comments here who are talking about. talking about how great it is to see jobs leave California. That's such a weird thing, man. It's so weird to say you want to see people lose their jobs. I don't understand that at all. I think that, like, yes, however you are aligned politically, you are going to have your opinions on this because it is a political issue when it does come to the Ellison's in various ways. But it's never, you're never on

Starting point is 00:14:40 the right side of things if you're rooting for people to fail. I would love for this merger to happen a way that is copacetic for everyone that somehow doesn't violate antitrust laws, but also does not lay off tens of thousands of people. You know, that's a weird place to sit, especially if you're a so-called movie fan. Yeah, I mean, I think that it is unfortunately, this is why I don't dive deep into politics on this show, because I don't like the state of what it has done. Politics has always been divisive politics. That's why I always say don't talk about it at Thanksgiving with your family. but it is really just divided this country in the most dangerous of ways to where it doesn't even it does feel like two countries now it never it never felt like that um at least when

Starting point is 00:15:26 I was growing up it never felt like two countries it felt like okay I don't align with you politically I don't align with you now it now it's your team versus my team if you're on that team you're this you're either you're you're a lib tard you're a Nazi you're this you're you know it there's there's no there's it's it's it's it's it's so bad at this point even someone's going well california lose all your jobs you deserve it it's like you're saying what about you don't you don't know the people there you don't know yeah you know we all don't share the same political beliefs 100% like here's here's the things that there's there there are conversations that I've had with people and in in in in where

Starting point is 00:16:01 I live I've had conversations with people and I've had these long conversations with people on this is a really it's a conversation that's that a politician that's not apolitic. It's a really good personality. It's personal law. This is this, this, this.

Starting point is 00:16:12 And then, I don't know, through another conversation, found out they leaned real far in a particular way, right? And I said, well, I don't line up with that train of thought. Didn't change my view on the person that I had a conversation with at all because they didn't include that inside of the conversations we were having,

Starting point is 00:16:31 that morally and the other things that they were lining up to, I did agree with. But then just happened to find out, oh, well, that type of ideology, you go all the way that way, that I don't, I don't want to go to Thanksgiving and have a political organization with you because I probably won't agree with a lot of that. But it didn't change my view on them as a human being because of all the other stuff that we already had spoken about.

Starting point is 00:16:54 And that is lost now. It is lost. As long as your belief system doesn't hurt other people, if you are not pro-harming other people, I think we all can be on the same page about many things. And truly, this kind of divide you. When it comes to our entertainment issues like this, when it comes to our politics on a greater scale as well, this creates an us versus them. We're all on the same team ultimately, right? It's a us in the working class versus people who are on a much higher echelon who want us all fighting.

Starting point is 00:17:24 And that's why these mergers are really important to follow along to anyway, because of the greater economic threat that it has to so many different industries. When we look at the entertainment industry here in California, it is not just those of us who have chosen this profession. It is every other aspect of work in this state gets affected. You look at caterers. You look at real estate. You look at, gosh, down to plumbing. My neighbor's a plumber. You're like, you know, these kinds of jobs end up getting affected because everyone then ends up in economic turmoil.

Starting point is 00:17:53 And again, when it's the strongest economy in your state, in your country, it's something that you should take a look at and go, ooh, what's actually happening here? 100%. I don't think, Nike, I don't think you're listening to the last conversation. You might have been on mute. I'm not sure. but when is this country ever agreed on anything? In general, I don't know a country that has ever really agreed on anything. That's not the point that I made just now.

Starting point is 00:18:18 I will say it again. I hope that we can discuss it the right way. You're not being a dick. I'm just saying that that's not, no one said this is a recent issue, agreed on anything. I don't know a country that's ever agreed on everything. What I said is there was a time when even if you didn't agree on everything, because that's impossible, that there was a time when you could have a conversation and be on the other side and not be looked at as the enemy.

Starting point is 00:18:45 You could be, that is way more stronger today than 10, 15, 20 years ago. Now it's, if you don't line up with my point of view, you are on the other side, you are an enemy. That is what I'm saying. So fighting the same issues was, yeah, 100%. No one's disagreeing with that. but my point is it has now gotten to a place and so I always say Yankees versus Red Sox that's where we are today and that has bled into entertainment that is bled into sports that is bled into everything and it's just it's just a sad place to be overall as a as a country so that's it And going back to the issue at hand to you know attorney general abenada has been really like aggressive in trying to block this merger and everything right they are seeking. a 1.88 billion bond from the states with the Justice Department and everything. It is a very,

Starting point is 00:19:42 very nuanced legal issue. And I really, really recommend people read into the antitrust laws. Because again, yes, other politics are factoring into this. But when we look at antitrust laws, when we look into monopolies, that's kind of the only leg to stand on really here when it comes to whether or not this is something that should move forward. And if we do just need to take a look at it, If we don't want to look at the economics, if we don't want to look at the politics, you as moviegoers, you as television watchers, you as people who enjoy entertainment, how is this going to affect the diversification? And when I say that word, I mean the type of different entertainment that you are going to have access to. You are going to have less movies. You are going to have less television. You are going to have a lot less content. And I know we live in an age where we have kind of an abundance of that, maybe an oversaturation, but you are going to have a lot of things that maybe played a little bit more if we have less studios overall. And that's another thing that should be potentially concerning to you as somebody who loves this kind of stuff and eats it up.

Starting point is 00:20:42 You're here with us at 7 a.m. in the morning to talk about movie news. It's going to be a really big bummer if we can only talk about, you know, like four movies that really feel different. It's true. I do think that we'll wind up. They'll find a way in the, they won't be able to survive if they're only, if they're not making the movies that they have to make. Now, the quality of it and everything, so that's another conversation,

Starting point is 00:21:02 and where they're going to shoot it. who the hell knows if they're winding stuff from from LA anyway who knows or they wind up renting space in the UK and shoot a bunch of stuff there until they until they shoot that's also something that's possible um but either way I do think that I will say I just I do think paramed will ultimately because of politics and everything else too I do think they're going to wind up getting Warner Brothers I think they'll have to concede a bunch of things in order to do so the DOJ is behind it you know like that's going to go through it's going to go through it's just a matter of when and how much money in general and

Starting point is 00:21:33 that's why they're trying to push it because they know that they're going to get it through. They just, they need to get past certain things. And the question is, you know, do you have to bend in the, either way? Who knows? We'll, we'll see. So I'm very curious what people think about this. What are you thinking? Do you think Paramount is going to wind up leaving the state of California?

Starting point is 00:21:53 Put your thoughts in there. Please let us know. And do you think that they're ultimately going to get Warner Brothers or no? Is it going to be sold off? Put your thought in there. Please let us know. the clips channel you haven't um subscribed over there do that too okay we're gonna be back with more stories i got to tell you about our friends over at cash app and then we'll be right back thank you to

Starting point is 00:22:13 our good friends over at cash app we're excited to be working with them as always and we're excited for you guys to be here with us and we're excited that chris car is here so um chris yeah we got some other things to discuss for sure and as i said uh we're we're currently at oh we need about let's see a little less than eight right now in order to reveal those two competitors. I think we can do that. I will post the link in there because PLD, because it's a little early, PLDs, so he's right now, he's like,

Starting point is 00:22:45 I can't make it of that early. I'm like, I get it. So PLD will be back tomorrow with myself and Winston. Yes. So make sure I just posted that there. And the other thing that I did do, and this is something that was brought up to me.

Starting point is 00:23:00 And I'm going to make sure that we kind of go a little a bit more in depth than this next week. And it made clear to me, I realized it because, you know, most people, and Chris, you didn't know this when you first met me because you had, whether we never crossed paths for so long, the two of us. And so you probably just, people know me from this, YouTube or hosting or those things. That was something that I fell into. I fell into that because my, I was performing, my whole thing is, people don't realize this.

Starting point is 00:23:30 I went to Florida State Theater School. I was a theater major. I was pursuing when I was younger, pursuing acting and all of that. And that was the goal. And I fell into stand-up comedy at college and fell in love with it. I mean, I always wanted to do it. It's just, I think I've told this story before, but I was a, you know, I was, I used to watch these specials with my dad all the time, like the,

Starting point is 00:23:55 the Dangerfield specials and all these things. And I just, I loved, I loved stand-up so much, but I always had an idea that I wanted to do it. And there was this guy at Florida State, this guy, Mike Shader. And he ran this group that, and he had posted something at the theater school, posted something about interested in doing stand-up comedy, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like, yeah, you know what, give him a call. So I don't even know if I ever told this story. But so I saw the flyer.

Starting point is 00:24:24 I called Mike Shader. And he's like, yeah, he's like, you know, if you, what should you do? We'll come by and do, you know, 20 minutes and show me, show me your set or, or whatever it was and and then we'll uh and then we'll see you know if you can put you in the group and i said 20 minutes i don't know twice i haven't done stand up on my life i don't know what to do so i never called back and i'm like i'm not i'm like i don't know what to do i'm like i've never done this before i'm like i'm like this is i don't know what i'm to do so i didn't i never called them right so i remember this vividly i was i was at my um i was at this house that

Starting point is 00:25:00 was renting florida state and then the phone rang and it was mike shayette It was probably a month later. He said, hey, you never, you never, you know, I was like, you wanted me to send him a tape. That was it. You wanted me to send him a tape. He goes, you never sent me your tape. And I go, dude, I don't have a tape.

Starting point is 00:25:13 I said, I don't have a tape. I'm like, I've never done this before. He's, well, why don't we just sit down and meet? I was like, well, we can do that. So he sat down, we met and he was so generous that he gave me, that's what it was. He gave me the spot. And then my first spot ever, he's like, yeah, well, you do 15 minutes. And that's 15, 20 minutes, your first time is, you know, is like unheard of.

Starting point is 00:25:30 but I didn't know that going into it. So I started doing stand-up and I fell in love with it at Tallahassee. That transferred over into doing stand-up in New York at the Boston Comedy Club when it was there. And then I knew that I wanted to pursue it kind of hardcore when I got to Los Angeles. And that's exactly what I did. And my goal was to become a regular at the comedy store. I was fortunate enough that Brett Ernst, you guys watched Cobra Kai. He, after performing in L.A. for about,

Starting point is 00:26:00 two or three years. Brett was the one who said, hey, you know, I can get you up at the comedy store, but you got to commit. I said, of course I will. And I did. And I was there. And it took me a few months, but Mitzie finally passed me. I said, I'm getting my name on a wall. And I did it. And I got my name on the wall, which I was thrilled about. And I did it. And then what I don't talk about as much is like during that time, you know, pilot season was like during that time, Chris, as you know, it's kind of, It's different now, but it's still major. I was auditioning for things all the time. I was, people, you know, I had managers and things that were trying to get me into sitcoms

Starting point is 00:26:37 and all this. And that was the goal. There was always the goal to do a sitcom, write your own thing, do a thing. And I was performing all the damn time. And I was doing it seven, seven days a week, two shows a night. And I always had this idea of doing a show. And so, you know, and I, because the reason I'm addressing this even a little bit is that I can understand there.

Starting point is 00:26:58 Some people are like, oh, has you ever acted? before? Has he ever, you know, where this pilot idea come from? It's always been here, guys. This was the thing that was there before this. And so that's why I want people to know when they're looking at it going, oh, it's not just me going, oh, I just, I want to act today. It's like, it's just, it's always been there. So I just want people to know that kind of, that it's not just kind of, it's just, oh, I woke up one day and said, oh, I'm going to do a show today. So, anyway, just want to give people a little, little bit of that. that. Anyway, so let's, let's jump into this conversation here, which is Zach Snyder.

Starting point is 00:27:37 He's been talking a lot because of his movie that has unfortunately not done well with critics at all. But he's out to promote it. You give him credit it's different. And he was talking about the DC EU. And Snyder talks about Josh Swede and Justice League. he said, I tried the James Gunn's DCU and the 300 pre-equal. To the last photograph director, Zach Snyder, has shared his take on Justice League's.

Starting point is 00:28:06 I tried seeing why he won't watch James Gunn's DCU movies and TV shows and plans for his 300 prequel. Oh, sorry, looking for my glasses and I can't find them. Oh, well. All right, let's strain my eyes. It's fine. When John Sweden was tasked writing, directing the Justice League's research, many fans reacted positively to the news. After all, he had helmed the Avengers and Avengers

Starting point is 00:28:30 Age of Ultron for Marvel Studios and seemed like the right person to fix the struggling DC-EU. Weiden's version of Justice League was a disaster and ultimately a career killer for the filmmaker who has since been branded a bully by those who worked with him on this and other projects. Snyder eventually released his Snyder cut and it was widely hailed as a considerably better movie. His DC journey ended there. And of course, in an interview with Josh Harowitz, Snyder reiterated he has no desire to watch Weidens version. He said, I think when Debbie came back to me after watching Weedon's cut of Justice League, and she said, you are to never see that movie. I knew it was kind of, that was it. And I thought,

Starting point is 00:29:04 okay, that's going to be the legacy. I haven't seen this, but I believe that in the title, sequence of I've seen it meme, so I'm not 100% sure how it works, but where it says directed by Zach Snyder, there is a homeless person who has, I think, a sign that says I tried or something like that. And I find it really, I was like, wow, that's cool. That's a good, like, if I hadn't done my Justice League, that would have been the end of it, right? So you can imagine that's cool. Something Snyder doesn't seem to realize is that the homeless person holding the I tried sign is shown on a screen alongside Whedon's screenwriting credit. Many fans have interpreted that as the Avengers director's way of saying

Starting point is 00:29:34 he tried and failed to save it, not that it was any sort of homage to Snyder. If anything, he has been considered a dig at his fellow director. Elsewhere in the interview, Snyder confirmed that he's considered casting Jeffrey Dean Morgan as the Flashpoint Batman and mentioned that Guardians of the Galaxy star Zoe Salada was nearly man of steel's lowest lane. He also explained why he won't watch projects like Superman, Supergirl, and Landshard. So honestly, it's a personal thing for me. I want success for them and I trust James' aesthetic and his take. He's a very particular

Starting point is 00:30:02 way of making movies and looking at things. It's a difficulty. It just got a lot of baggage. Harwitz also asked Snyder about his 300 prequel TV series, which he confirmed he intends to direct episodes of. He couldn't reveal any plot details, but confirmed that it won't borrow anything from the scrap sequel. That

Starting point is 00:30:17 revolved around the love between Alexander the Great. And was it? Hepistician? Sure. you can hear more about Snyder there it is it's in the against our buddy Josh Harwich was just crushing it lately with the interviews so you know I think

Starting point is 00:30:33 it's Snyder's really vulnerable right now you know and he especially with the movie and everything that's going on it's not being reviewed I love that he took a swing and did this different thing I haven't seen a movie I don't know if I like it I might not but I like that he did something different and he's just

Starting point is 00:30:49 getting murdered for it and I think that both him and there's other celebrities that no matter what they do, unless it's like perfect, they're just going to get beat up. Some of the reactions, the movie could stink. The movie could absolutely stink.

Starting point is 00:31:03 But some of the reviews seemed personal. Yeah. Right? Did you see any of these reviews? Some of them just seemed like personal. It's like you can not like a movie and talk about what you thought was bad about it. But some of it seemed like they were just coming for him just to come for them.

Starting point is 00:31:18 Which just also seems like a very big and unfortunate trend in so many reviews these days of I have been personally affronted by your film and I'm not going to talk about the objective qualities in it. I'm going to talk about a bunch of nonsense. And I feel like for so much of Snyder's career, I think even fans of his have not allowed him to really stretch his wings and let him do different things. And I think the constant pull of the bring back the Snyder verse or your versions were always better have also really stunted. what he's been able to do moving forward. And it's so ultimately unfair to him,

Starting point is 00:31:57 especially again, if you are a really big fan of his work, you got to let the guy try to make something else, especially when this part of his life is just so intrinsically tied to so much darkness and heartbreak. And what a horrible, horrible thing to have to go through. What an awful thing to go through and then have it be cemented with one of the things people constantly want to talk about for you career-wise.

Starting point is 00:32:21 All the time. it's just really unfortunate. And I'm with you. I love that he's taking different opportunities here. You know, I think we often forget this is the same guy who did a movie about animated owls, you know, like let him do some different stuff here.

Starting point is 00:32:34 I like that movie. I love that one. Gargant's cool. It's so fun. It's underrated. I did think it was pretty wild, though, that he hasn't watched that version of Justice League just because of the Snyder cut.

Starting point is 00:32:49 And I understand there's a difference between, you know, going through and looking at things in the Edding Bay and seeing a completed film. And again, I'm so sure it goes back to just this is such a difficult time in his life. I think that's exactly what it is. But, but yeah, I was very, I was very surprised to learn that part of this, though. Yeah. And then, you know, when it comes to, I think that he handled the DC side of it.

Starting point is 00:33:09 I, the DC side of it. Well, I like the honesty, right, to where it's, he didn't shit on it. He just said, I just have no interest in watching it. I have no interest in seeing it. He was because it's something that he was replaced in, you know, he his time, he didn't feel his time was done. And he was, it's like being a head coach. And it's like, I don't want to watch their games.

Starting point is 00:33:27 I just don't watch it. He's like, nothing against the new head coach. I just don't watch their games. And that's totally fair. I think that that is, okay, it doesn't have to watch the new superman. If he, if he started shitting on it, then that's one thing, but he didn't. I do think it's going to be, because the question, I was on, I was on John's show on Monday.

Starting point is 00:33:47 And the question was like, they were asking as far as an overreaction goes, do is it going to be hard do the person said written that they thought it would be hard now because of this that studios would now want to give him a film and i said it was an overreaction because i i said unless you put the caveat that no studio is going to give him over maybe a hundred forty hundred thirty million dollars then i would say it's probably not an overreaction right i think you got to try if you're him if you're going to do movies with the studio you got to do stuff like go hole or the zombie movie the big epic huge movies now it's too much of a risk unfortunately because he just he can get back on track but if you're a studio he's too much of a risk

Starting point is 00:34:38 right now because the the the epics what was it called the rebel dawn is that what was it called rebel moon rebel moon rebel dawn is what Kevin Smith's called it rebel moon um that that didn't work you know had they worked, he'd be in a very different position right now, but they didn't work. And now no one's going to give him that kind of money or that kind of opportunity to do. So he's got to go smaller. And I think he can get himself back on track. Yeah. And, and you know, to be fair, too, he does have certain stylistic choices, right, that I personally am not a huge fan of,

Starting point is 00:35:12 that sometimes do work really, really well. I'm so glad that he's talking like 300 prequels and stuff like that. I love 300. I think that's such an excellent adaptation. and something that his style lends itself to so well. I know not a lot of people were super into his version of Watchmen. It is basically, like, he used that comic book as a storyboard, and it's one of the most difficult things to ever adapt, you know?

Starting point is 00:35:34 I think that he's got a lot of great ideas. I think a lot of his work works really well for specific things. And I hope that he gets to do something else. And trying it on that smaller scale, trying it maybe with more limitations and practicality, might be something too that reigns him in and allows him to create something really interesting. I think a lot of times when we do have those big budgets,

Starting point is 00:35:55 that's when we start making mistakes. You know, a very different option here, but like the Deadpool films, you know, Ryan Reynolds talked about having those really big budgets really made them make mistakes because it was, well, we have all this money. Let's throw it around. So maybe being corralled for a little bit

Starting point is 00:36:11 might also help him find more aspects of his own filmmaking that really, really shine. I love the, the fact that there are filmmakers who kind of challenge themselves sometimes with the lower budgets because that's usually when they're the best. Like most people, most people think that Terminator 2 is better than Terminator 1, right? Most people, I am not one of those people.

Starting point is 00:36:34 I think Terminator 1 is superior because of the way James Cameron was challenged and the budget that he had for that movie and what he did with that movie and created that world within that small budget and made it look the way that it did and maneuvered the way, and he was challenged. You know, he can make, I would love to see if you gave James Cameron $40 million and said, you can only make a movie for $40 million. He would, you know, that's his lunch breaks now, but I, but I still feel like to see what he could do now and when they're challenged, I love that.

Starting point is 00:37:09 So, well, we'll see. We'll see what happens with Snyder moving forward. but I like the honesty in these interviews. I'm curious what everybody else thinks. Put your thoughts in there and let us know. You know, speaking of the DC and DCU and what they're doing, and we had mentioned the Paramount thing beforehand, everything's up in the air.

Starting point is 00:37:30 Nobody really knows what's going on. And one of the things here now, too, is that there are multiple DC shows in development that have been stalled in the wake of Sunday's Emmys, chairman and CEO of HBO, Casey Boyes, had spoken with Deadline about their upcoming slate where he confirmed something not entirely unexpected. He seems that aside from the Superman spin-off series, The People versus Gorilla Grod, which recently entered production, all other proposed new DCU TV series are no longer in active

Starting point is 00:37:59 development. Rumors have been swirling about projects like Waller, Paradise Lost, and Booster gold not making progress for a while now. Today, Boyce confirmed it's saying that projects were only ever in development and far from green lights. It's the same thing with Game of Thrones. As people read about development, they assume they are greenlit shows. They're in development. And everybody knows that development is just that. You're trying things. You take big swings.

Starting point is 00:38:21 Not everything comes through. I would say our track record in D.C. From Watchman to Peacemaker to Penguin and Now Lanterns is pretty good. We're very selective. We're careful about what we do. Nothing has changed. You'll read about development, but focus on what we're greenlighting. Then asked if anything from the DC universe is currently active in development, he responded, no.

Starting point is 00:38:38 Not right now. Obviously, you've got Gorilla Grod, which I'm very happy about, doing something different. I think it's a fun idea. They just started shooting. The Comins Cummins has been performing strongly with the fan base. And for the network with growing episode ratings, a potential second season hasn't been given the go-ahead yet. So there's a few things here. The only thing I push back a little bit is, yes, I agree.

Starting point is 00:39:00 If someone who's worked in development, people do this all the time, just because something's in development doesn't mean it's going to happen. However, James Gunn announced this when the stuff came out. I'm doing this show. We're doing this show. We're doing a booster goal. We're doing this. That's the difference between something being in development,

Starting point is 00:39:19 as opposed to the guy who's running the shop, saying, we're doing. We're doing it means, yeah, it's in development right now, but we're pushing towards doing it, and it's eventually going to happen. What is the Star Wars? Get out of here. Right.

Starting point is 00:39:33 So it's like, so Casey Boyes is right in theory, where, yeah, things are in development. doesn't mean that they're going to happen. But most of the time in development, it's like you get a report from a reporter who says, hey, they're talking about this, they just bought the rights for this, they're developing it right now.

Starting point is 00:39:51 But no one has come out from the company to say, part of our strategy is then to do this. That's not development anymore. That's like we're working towards it with development to get to production. And that's the difference now. And now that you're not doing those, that also starts to ask the question,

Starting point is 00:40:09 well, are those no longer, part of the plan anymore because gun announced his plan so if casey boys is saying that those are no longer happening is that permanent that i mean no that is no longer part of the plan i think the other part of it is they don't know what's going to happen with the paramount stuff that they can have new bosses that say we don't want to do these shows anymore you shouldn't announce it in the first place and they really wanted to get the guerrilla grott thing done so they're shooting it it's part of the It makes sense when you look at all of it. They're going to go, okay, we can do one show before this Paramount thing.

Starting point is 00:40:45 Those what happens? Well, this one connects into the super family stuff that we're doing right now, more so than the other ones do. We got Jimmy Olson. We got these other things. We can connect it to what's going on towards manna tomorrow and all that. Let's go with that one. Go, go, go, go.

Starting point is 00:41:00 The rest of them, sure, we'll put in the back burner right now. That's ultimately what happened. It wasn't a matter of saying, oh, just because we were in development. That's too easy and I'm not buying it. How do you feel about it? Yeah, there's a difference between your development and your slate, you know? So there's that. But yeah, how do you move forward when you don't even know if your studio is going to be your studio?

Starting point is 00:41:24 You know, you don't know where it's going to end up. You don't know how much money is going to be allocated to you anymore. There's a lot of things that need to be, you know, cemented for them to actually move forward with any of these plans. So there's a whole lot of fun, we hope we do this. We're fixing to do this. You know, that's one of my favorite Texas phrases because time is nebulous. And so we're always just fixing to do something. It doesn't have an actual timeline.

Starting point is 00:41:49 And that's where D.C. is kind of stuck right now is this state of limbo where there's a lot of cool ideas being kicked around, but nothing that truly can have any, you know, forward momentum until this kind of stuff is decided. And ultimately, even if we didn't have the merger, we still also have to see how some of these other projects land in general, you know? I'm a big fan of Superman, but we can't argue with the data of it didn't perform as well as they wanted it to financially. We can't argue with the data that Supergirl did not perform well. We have Man of Tomorrow coming out, and that one really has to stick the landing. You've talked about this at nauseam. And so a lot of other moving parts are here that have to really, really determine whether we get these shows.

Starting point is 00:42:32 And I know I've poo-pooed on Gorilla Grod quite a bit, and I'm trying to be more open to it because I haven't seen anything. thing and I do like a big swing. So I'm hoping some of these weirder and different takes they have moving forward do work out for them. I do like them trying to do some weird funky stuff and taking big swings. So hopefully we get more of that. I hope it all just lands. I just want to get excited about another DC project. I'm not like, like I said, many times over.

Starting point is 00:43:01 I root for Dan Peralt. I love Dan. He's a good guy. So I'm hoping that Grilla Gras turns out to be like a hit show. but I'm not excited about it. It's not like one of these shows around like, oh, I can't wait to see what they're doing. Sure, they're doing something different,

Starting point is 00:43:15 but I'm like, but why am I excited about this? And I wasn't excited about Clayface at all? I am very curious about Clayface. Because I love the idea of the side project at the smaller budget, trying to go after the horror side of it. I think it's a smart business play

Starting point is 00:43:33 if they can make it work. It's just a matter of if it works. You know, so I am very curious and a little and optimistic about it. I just know how much interest is going to be there overall. And I don't know what it does to really push the needle for the DCU in general. They need to push the needle because, like you said, Superman made money, but it didn't do that kind of huge box office that maybe they were hoping that it would. But how did that happen?

Starting point is 00:44:03 These were not on the floor. They weren't. It was in a portal. It was in a portal somewhere. The aliens said, okay, put it back now. And they put their hands through the portal and they put it back. Because I looked on that floor 27 times and right where I am. And it literally just brushed against my foot right now.

Starting point is 00:44:21 And the aliens are doing things. I love that they're just here to fuck with you. That's it. Like that's what they decided. That's like, we're going to go to Earth and we're going to just mess with the car. They said, look, take my cousin off the wall, off the thing in the back. Otherwise, you know, we're going to. going to mess with you and that's exactly what they did.

Starting point is 00:44:42 Anyway, so I think that I want to see, I'm hoping Manna Tomorrow performs and I think that it's not a surprise and I think that they understand, I mean, they know that they understand it. By going with a little bit more mature tone, that's what I was hoping for in the first one. I didn't mind the first movie.

Starting point is 00:45:05 I just didn't love it the way. It was my number one most anticipated movie last. year and I didn't even make my top 10. And I'm hoping that this round does. Because I like Corn Sweat a lot as Superman. I do. I just, I would, when they said they're going more towards the Guardians 3 version, and that's the tone, that got me, that's the thing.

Starting point is 00:45:25 I'm looking forward to that. I want to see how they're going to make that work. And if they are indeed introducing Adrian Arona as Wonder Woman in this, looking forward to that, right? So you definitely have my interest for Amanda Tomorrow. All right. What do you guys think about it? What do you think about the shows that are getting canceled? Is it a good thing, bad thing? Put your thoughts in there and let us know. Okay. Speaking of horror movies and other things too, I did my out of the theater for Resident Evil the other day. I'll put my review up most likely today. I will have my Invincible Reaction season three episode. I think it's five and six with Ming. That'll be up today as well. But the reviews are in, for Zach Craigers' Resident Evil. We talked about some of the reactions yesterday, but now the reviews are in.

Starting point is 00:46:15 Zach Craigar has delivered his new take on Resident Evil. The result going by the review safari's delivered the best video game adaptation of all time and one of the best horror films in years. Craigar has famously ignored the pan-previous films and shows and avoided the lore of the games in favor of doing his own spin on the property, a lean, mean, gore-so, darkly humorous, 90-minute thrill-run. And doing so, he's faced massive backlash for months from fans, Heard's criticism for his way for not listening to them and their desires.

Starting point is 00:46:42 Judging by the results, maybe more filmmakers should adapt his approach. 57 reviews. The title sits at a stunning 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and a strong 80 out of 100. Easily a franchise best and it's not even close. High praise has been handed out for the film's pacing, central performance by Austin Abrams, score, visuals, and more. So here's what I want to do because I think I'll do this. And then Luke, I'll send this to Luke.

Starting point is 00:47:06 Chris, if you would bear with me for about three minutes or so, I'm just going to do my review to the audience right now, and then we'll just cut this out and post it on the channel. Perfect. Here's my review of the latest Resident Evil by Zach Craigers, director of both weapons, Barbarian, and now he is doing this adaptation of this movie starring Austin Abrams and I will say, as I said, am I out of the theater reaction? I am not a hardcore Resident Evil fan. So I have no stake in the game as far as the lore goes. And this to me, you could have told me this was all one game that had happened beforehand. And I would have believed it. I don't know enough about it. So as a hardcore gaming fan, if you're looking for that kind of review, going, oh, does this stick to the lore? I don't believe it does. I think Zach Craigers has said many times over that this is a very standard. alone venture. There are times

Starting point is 00:48:08 though when you're watching this movie, that it does feel like you're playing a game and not in a bad way, in an exciting way because of the stakes that are on and even the things that are going on you're like, oh, I found, I found a gun. Oh, this is great. Now it's time to go into the next room

Starting point is 00:48:24 pacing into it. And it felt that way, but not in a way like, oh, they're just trying to make a video game. It felt like part of the movie that just happened to be playing a game. And the meant, we mentioned Austin Abrams he is fantastic in this movie. He's absolutely fantastic.

Starting point is 00:48:41 He carries the movie from start to finish. And the movie itself did something for me that I don't know if a lot of people that are the hardcore gaming fans are going to love. And I think it's one of the reasons that maybe the critics have responded to it. There is a really good balance of horror, intense, crazy moments, gore. but with a balance of humor throughout the movie, I wouldn't necessarily call this a horror movie. I would call this a horror comedy. In the way, and I compared it to,

Starting point is 00:49:17 there's many times over when I was watching this movie that I felt I was watching an homage to the Evil Dead Part 2. And what Austin Abrams does, it was like, oh, there's an ash feel to this in the way that he's playing with certain things that he does and these horrific moments that he's in followed by a line that makes you laugh and not in a masters of the universe way of going oh oh they just ruined that whole moment by a joke you're like no no no this is this is a moment that you probably would react in the same exact way and he makes Austin Abrams does this

Starting point is 00:49:56 thing with his character like do I like this guy I do like this guy I'm rooting for this guy I'm doing and you're watching the overall venture of what he has to do. And if you don't know, a short summary of the story is essentially that here's, we're introduced into this world and Austin Abrams is his courier who is sent on this particular mission to deliver this thing somewhere. We don't know where he's going to go. And along the way, chaos ensues. And if you respond to the chaos in a way that Craigor actually starts to push the intensity and

Starting point is 00:50:28 the music and the way it swells and these. crazy things that are happening throughout it, the gore, you're going to dig it. Now, here is the caveat, and this is the thing that I think that most people, you're either going to be on my side or are you going to be against it? And this is the subjective part of it. This movie really depends on how you judge it. It depends on how you enjoy the ending. I was disappointed with the ending. Now, that only means, well, that's just, but that has nothing to do with the film itself and nothing to do with the writing. You're, you're right. I just was hoping for a different ending in general that was coming. And I was left a little unsatisfied by it. But there's

Starting point is 00:51:17 other people that could build all the way through in the way that I did. And then you get to the ending and you love the ending, then you're going to want to love in this move. I really enjoyed this movie. So I would say I'd go pretty high. I'm going to go even because of it. I'd go probably four out of five on this one overall. I think it's another solid entry to Zach's filmography. He is a superstar of directors right now.

Starting point is 00:51:42 Everybody wants to work with him. He has fun. And that's the other thing I really enjoyed about this movie. It's like an hour and 35 or an hour and 40 minutes. It doesn't take itself too seriously and it just sticks in the moment. So I'm curious what you guys think. Do you want to see this movie? Do you not want to see this movie?

Starting point is 00:51:58 Put your thoughts in there. Let me know. Are you a big Resident Evil fan? And I know some people are like, wait a minute. There's humor in this movie? That shouldn't be any humor in a Resident Evil movie. And that might deter you. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:52:09 But I'm curious to what you think. Come back here after you see the movie or tell me now what you think about it. Put your thoughts in there. Let me know. Make sure as always. Comment, like, subscribe. Do all that and more. Appreciate you.

Starting point is 00:52:23 All right. There was my overall review. for um and yeah it was a it was an entertaining it was an entertaining movie um good i don't think well i'm trying to think is there i stuff because i do like horror comedy it's it's a horror comedy that crickers so funny like white as kids you know was so funny right and so i i want to watch more of his stuff i just i'm such a baby did you watch weapons no you never watched weapons huh it's only it's only it's only that one scene that i don't think you'd be able to handle.

Starting point is 00:52:57 Yeah. There's only that one scene. And I would tell you kind of going into it, I'd like, okay, when they get to the kitchen, go like this. Okay. And that's all I would tell you. I'm supposed to do that with obsession still too. Well, my friends have been like, there's a scene in a car and you need to close your eyes.

Starting point is 00:53:14 Actually, there's two scenes in weapons. Okay. There's two scenes in weapons. Okay. There's one of the dinner table also that I think you'd be like, oh, my God, oh, my God. Would be an amazing reaction with you, though. I'll tell you that. But this one, to me, there's not a lot of that in this one.

Starting point is 00:53:29 There's a lot of like, it scares, but, you know, there's a couple of things. You're like, oh, maybe I'll turn away for a little bit. But nothing, but there's comedy throughout. And Austin Abrams is really, is really funny. And he's excellent in weapons, by the way. Loved him in weapons. I really like him. He was great in revenge and he's great in wolves.

Starting point is 00:53:48 Okay. He's so good in this movie. He is so good in this movie because I didn't even realize he was the lead character because I didn't watch any trailers. I didn't want to because I just knew I was going to see it. And I didn't know if he was just kind of, because the opening, I should have mentioned this in a review.

Starting point is 00:54:01 The opening is phenomenal, is phenomenal and how they maneuver it around. But I'm curious what people will think. Overall, what the fans are going to say. I'm not surprised by the critical reaction. I want to see what the fan reaction is going to be because it seems to me that it sways so far from the original game.

Starting point is 00:54:23 I know there's a lot of things inside of it that do pay tribute, but I don't know. I want to see what fans think. We'll see. Okay, I'm going to just tell, hopefully, Luke heard me. I would hope that he can put that out there and see if he can cut it out and post it. We'll see. All right.

Starting point is 00:54:46 Chris, it's time for some questions. And I think we can do it. You got competition right now because Kevin's numbers haven't posted yet. So Mike, not Mike, I keep saying Mike, Greg, Alba and Roxy are currently battling with Roca. And it's very close. The numbers by the end of the week could, we'll see how it pans out. But they're neck and neck. So you have to basically compete with both the Monday and Tuesday crew.

Starting point is 00:55:17 And so far, 28 questions. I think we can do it. Let's double check. going to start with a member question by the great Matt Krugman headed to Florida to meet with old high school buzz for a good weekend. Connor Mullis can't even fathom the amount of push lights that'll be ingested. I love this is one of the things when when there starts to be super chats about the other members. I it is amazing. I love the deep lore of like Connor and Ron age. It's fantastic. Yeah. And then even I saw DJ was in here as well too. So we're going to do we got we got

Starting point is 00:55:48 a lot. Geek Load Stars haven't done this since Barbara. but doing a double with Resident Evil and Transformers the movie. Hell yeah. Chris, what did you think of the 40th anniversary of LOZ? LOZ? LOZ. Is that? What is LOZ?

Starting point is 00:56:05 Legend of Zelda? Oh, is that? Oh, that's when I'm going to make the assumption that's Legend of Zelda. Because that math makes sense. I'm really excited. The new gameplay looks beautiful. I'm going to have to save up for a Nintendo Switch 2 finally. Goodbye money.

Starting point is 00:56:20 Goodbye. But it looks gorgeous. it looks really, really stunning. Crashin Coyote. You're not ready for the stuff. Christian has planned. He's talking about for the Kickstarter. We have a lot of great things coming up,

Starting point is 00:56:32 a lot of good details. We wrapped up our meeting yesterday. And by the end of it, we're really, really happy with where we landed. And I think even for the idea of like stretch goals and other things, I think people are going to be really excited. So I'm hoping that we might not be able to announce the competitors here today. But that's okay.

Starting point is 00:56:50 Right now we're currently. I'll tell you we're at. We are at 2,532. So again, we need about 68 people. If we get 68 people who decide to want to sign up today, we will announce two of the potential competitors should we make the tournament. Connor Mullis, I heard Bushlight. I'm here. Bushlight is like the force. It binds us together. I'm very strong within that force. You underestimate my power. I don't you really hope that that's actually Connor Mullis and not AI? Very much so. really hope that that's actually him. It should be him. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Bush empire. If you're not with me, then you are my enemy. It's very much. Wait, Connor Mullins, let me know if you've ever done this horrible drink

Starting point is 00:57:35 called a lunchbox where you take something like a bushlight and then you drop in, you have orange juice with it too and you drop in a shot of Amaretto. It's a very white trash party drink and I love it. Yeah, I feel like I've done that in college. And then the other thing, guys, we don't have PLD, but when we get to the end of the questions, if you do have any questions about the upcoming Kickstarter, we are all, hell man.

Starting point is 00:58:01 It's, Chris, it's getting pretty, uh, it, I don't know, is anxiety the word. I don't know what it is, but it's, uh,

Starting point is 00:58:08 it's excitement. It's all this, but we're, we're less than, I mean, shit, it's Thursday. So we're doing this whole freaking thing on Tuesday.

Starting point is 00:58:16 Um, I got to reach out to you too and try to find a spot for you on Tuesday. Um, So we got a lot to do. I'm pumped. So if anybody has questions, anything they want to know about, let me know. The other thing I wanted to know from the audience, too, and I guess we'll highlight this at the end is I have announced some people that are coming

Starting point is 00:58:32 on the Tuesday stream. Do you guys want to know? Do you want to be surprised? I'm curious about that, too. Ray, I vote Vancouver. I think Paramount should go to Vancouver. That is, if Paramount and the governor cannot come to an agreement, Texas could be good, too. I don't think they're going to do Vancouver, though, with all this stuff that's

Starting point is 00:58:49 going on in general. Yeah. And especially with the, the way the DOJ is backing this, I think they'd be furious. Yeah. If they tried to move out of the country. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:59:00 Yeah. Angel Mianfredi. Is this more an elaborate threat? It could be 100%. And DJ then says, I agree with Chris. This feels like tactic. It's definitely tactic.

Starting point is 00:59:10 Yeah. Those states listed do have a lot of tax benefits, but there's a lot of logistical challenges, whether infrastructure travel, and I'm sure the Ellicents are aware of. Yeah. I'm and you know, it's just a matter of, I guess it all comes down to money. It all comes down to money.

Starting point is 00:59:24 It's like what's going to make the most sense for them monetarily. And if they really do feel they can get Warner Brothers, that's what it's going to come down to. And then DJ also says, I would be interested to learn from both of you, how studios can't severe weather or issues with travel. Tennessee especially basically shuts down during snowstorms and tornadoes. That's an excellent point that we haven't really discussed, right? That's an excellent point. I've been stranded in Nashville's airport so many times because of that stuff.

Starting point is 00:59:51 And that's an excellent one of the reasons why so many movies were made in California because our weather, and not as much anymore, but our weather used to be, you know, impeccable, immaculate. And it made filming here much, much easier because it was very, very dependable. And we still obviously have quite a bit of that. There's a lot of stuff that still happens there. But the main thing is the tough winters. Like tough winters, you don't have.

Starting point is 01:00:17 in LA. It is not there. That aspect, you know, it might be a storm or obviously devastating like fires and things of that nature, but like in heavy winds, but um, earthquakes, you know, but like the month, three month, four month, tough weather, tough, uh, winters. I mean, I remember there had been times in LA. You don't get rain for like two or three months, if not more. So, um, to its detriment, right? So it's, I think weather is a great, a great thing to talk about bringing up. Well, if you look at the Texas, Texas winters as of late have been horrific, and especially how the power grid in Texas, because y'all remember, that's where I'm from.

Starting point is 01:01:00 So a whole bunch of my friends will go, you know, weeks on end without power during these really, really crazy snowstorms. And you need a lot of power on a film set. For real. So there's a lot of factors that come in. That's a great question, Derek. Great question. Ron H. I have an appointment with a therapist soon.

Starting point is 01:01:17 Going through stuff and using less weed, better start using pants. It sucks to be good. Resident Evil later today. We'll enjoy Resident Evil. Definitely wear pants to your therapist. Yeah. And maybe that's a good thing for you. Ron.

Starting point is 01:01:29 Ron, I like that you're working on yourself, brother. I love that. Thank you for your vulnerability by sharing that, too, Ron. That's really round of you. Therapy's awesome. Yeah. Matt Krugman.

Starting point is 01:01:38 Connor, only a Sith deals in Bushloose. Miller Light will do what it most, what it must. Christian and Chris, throw me three good songs. the ride. Oh. Let's see. I would say listen to a good score. You know what I'll do?

Starting point is 01:01:54 How about this? Matt, I'm going to give you, I'll give you three songs from the trending playlist. How about that? Play my playlist trending on shuffle. Let's say. Here's the first one. All right. The first one is start a war by the national.

Starting point is 01:02:13 The next one is Ride Loadsome from Beck. and then the third one is Ballad of the Dying Man by Father John Misty. Listen to those three. Those are three potentials. Those are songs that I have written and get the vibe of trending to. So there you go. Ron H. Crazy seeing where I am compared to where I thought I would be.

Starting point is 01:02:38 Some bad, some good. And my story isn't done. That's right, Ron H. I hope we all end up in a better place than we may be now. Thanks for listening. Thanks for telling us. And again, what Chris said, thanks for being vulnerable and sharing that with us.

Starting point is 01:02:48 Yeah. I love that Connor and Matt are like having this back and forth. He says, you will try. So good. DJ, then coming in hot. Devil's advocate here for a moment. Ellison has so much debt with this purchase moving to states with tax credits. No state income tax and tax free income on bringing my business there.

Starting point is 01:03:04 He'd be negligent if he didn't look into it. Yeah. I mean, yeah. If we have Paramount WB, Delaware, I would, I would understand that, frankly. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. That's the one thing that California does. need to do. They need to figure out how to make that place less expensive. And they need to be

Starting point is 01:03:22 I mean, even though like gas where I am, when I, when I moved, one of the things when I moved here, gas was $2.85. Right. And when I left, California, California, the gas was like almost $6. Yeah. Okay. If I was to guess, because right now, because of everything going on, you know, with war and all that stuff too. Gas here is like $4.30. So if I was going to guess, I would guess that there's probably an expensive gas station that you've driven by that you've seen in the sevens. Yeah. Right? Am I right? Well, yeah, but I usually laugh because I drive my little electric Hyundai and I'm like, ha, ha, seconds. But you see, but yeah, no, it's incredibly expensive. So, like, we have that. And, you know, I got to call spade a spade. If I'm going to talk out about

Starting point is 01:04:11 monopolies and stuff, L-D-W-P. Like, Those mothers are constantly price gouging everyone. It is so expensive. It's so expensive. It's bad. And then the housing market is like there. We were talking about yesterday. We were talking about yesterday that it was Metzen and stuff.

Starting point is 01:04:28 You can't. It's one of the things that I, when I was sitting there watching all these people talking about back home, they bought a house, they did this. I'm like, I mean, there's no world. Oh, I was talking to Dan Merle about it last thing. There's no world that I would have made. able to buy a house in the area that I was in and doing this and what I wanted to make sure my kids were going at good schools. I was like, I can't live here. And everywhere you go, and like even we went back, I've been back to visit for work and other things too. And like, even these favorite

Starting point is 01:04:58 places to eat, so expensive there. It's crazy. It's like, it's like, that's going to stadiums to buy food at regular restaurants. It's crazy. My favorite thing to do is to send my mom listings on Zillow for dilapid structures where I'm like, oh my gosh, mom. can buy this house. Look, now this was a meth den, but with a little elbow grease, and it'll be still like $300,000. Yeah. And you wouldn't have to, and you wouldn't have, and you, and you'd have to stay basically like the main character from Resident Evil with a shotgun in your hand. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. I'm like, there's no walls, but I can buy it. No. Ron H. Getting over a cold. Does weed help? Hope so. No, it doesn't unless you, well, I guess maybe edibles. I don't know. Ray. Yeah. One for Chris Carr.

Starting point is 01:05:41 We salute you. Hell yeah. Oh, thanks, Ray. Ron H. I honestly think so many problems or arguments can be smoothed over by getting together and vaping some wheat. They all got to get mellow. Yeah, boy. I don't disagree with that. Yeah. Nathan Drake, got to have JTE or Finstock involved in the match.

Starting point is 01:05:59 Like I said, currently right now, we are 200, 2,533. If we hit 2,600, by the time this stream is over, I will announce two more competitor. Hell, I'll tell you what. If we get to 2550, I'll give you one. How about that? Timanta, 1022, became a new member. Thank you. Good to have new members.

Starting point is 01:06:26 Love having those new members, especially with the unedited right now with all the stuff that we got coming up. We talked about Zach Snyder. We're really close on the Zach Snyder cut of Justice League. We're just going to watch Mando and Rogu next and then we get into that. Ron H. Zach Snyder's bluey. Thoughts, 2 billion, easy. It'd be hilarious.

Starting point is 01:06:43 I don't think it needs Zach Snyder. I think it's going to be close to $2 billion. Anyway, I joke. But that movie, that movie is going to be a massive hit. It's going to be one of the biggest movies of next year. Have you ever watched it? Oh, yeah. We make our students learning Australian dialects watch it.

Starting point is 01:07:01 Oh, great. It's, I love it. Yeah, Sherlock, 277. Things are divisive today, but there are YouTube channels that are working to create bridges. United by Nature, the Enemies Project and channels that show, pro-Israel and pro-Palestine, people, can find common ground. I mean, that's, that's solid. I hope, I mean, that's, that's great to see them that they're doing that. What do they call it? United by nature. I mean, I'd love to see if that actually, you know, comes to anything. Let people fight in that kind of fight. Thanks for letting us know,

Starting point is 01:07:27 Sherlock. That's cool. Yeah. Go, pal. If they put out the seven-hour rebel moon initially, I think it would have been decently received. I don't disagree with you. Releasing the terrible cut-down versions and waiting six months, poisoned the well. I actually, I'm 100% on the same. I thought it was the stupidest move to release a PG-13 version in two parts. Stupid. Yeah. Release the whole thing. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:07:51 Did you watch those? I forget. What do you said? I did. Unsurprisingly, part one, Logan was like, this is great. Why is everyone sitting on this movie? And then part two, he was like,

Starting point is 01:08:02 okay, this isn't good. Yeah. I haven't even seen the rated R version of it. I don't know. Me neither. Mike Joyce. Yeah. Have you seen the story about Mikey Mike plays?

Starting point is 01:08:12 No, what's that? No. I don't know what that is. I don't know what that is. No, Mike, I haven't seen it. Nathan Drake, I would still be seeing Resident Evil and hoping for a great movie. I just hope I don't ask myself, why was this called Resident Evil? I think there are, from what I remember, there are certain things inside of it that seem

Starting point is 01:08:27 with corporations, the names of things and other things and certain visuals that I think are very true to the game. I just think that this is a brand new character. This is another version of somebody who lives in this world. But Nathan, actually, I'm going to rely on. on you when you do see it to give me the breakdown of the difference in what a gamer, someone who's obviously very invested in the lure, what you thought of the movie, what the differences were, what you enjoyed what you didn't enjoy. I'm going to be, I'm definitely going to be leaning towards you on that one. Is the new Resident Evil giving Bruce Campbell evil dead one or army of darkness

Starting point is 01:09:01 humor? Evil Dead two, I said. Evil Dead two. Yeah. Yeah, way more Evil Dead two. I think Army of Darkness plays a little bit more into the overall movie as a full comedy. This is definitely a horror with a lot of comedy in it. And that's the way I felt like Evil Dead 2 was. I need to watch those. Yeah, Evil Dead. Evil Dead. I see Evil Dead.

Starting point is 01:09:25 It's so messed up. Yeah. Evil Dead 2 is pretty great. I need to see Two an Army of Darkness, though. Yeah. Oh, Army of Dark. Two is essentially, from what I remember, and the hardcore fans can tell me this. And GoPow will probably correct me on it.

Starting point is 01:09:38 I'm wrong. But what I remember is that they basically just did Evil Dead 2 again, but they changed it up because they got more money. And they just kind of almost like remade it, but they just called the Evil Dead 2. Let's see, Lil Yankee. Just woke up and forgot about the early show start today. I'll be ready for the next start next Tuesday for the Kickstarter launch of our show is trending. Thank you, Lil Yankee. Yeah, we're starting.

Starting point is 01:10:02 We're going to be starting early at 10 o'clock East Coast time. we go 10 to 11 we have Craig from the Kickstarter who's going to be helping us you know who's been running this whole thing will officially launch the campaign at 1030 a.m. that day and as we've been telling everybody that is the most that that first like hour two hours that's like really the most important that's when that's when you know kickstar is really paying attention to seeing if there's traction to the campaign everything too so it's it the first day is going to be uh it's it's going to be a stressful thing, exciting, but stressful. Brad Johnson got to attend the global premiere of the new Brad Pitt movie,

Starting point is 01:10:43 part of the Beast in Nashville last year, a great emotional movie, but tough if you're a dog lover. So I was supposed to see that tonight. That's the movie that I was supposed to see. That's the one. Okay. Yeah, that's the one. I thought originally, I got my dates all messed up. That's what people were like, oh, you end up seeing Resident Evil.

Starting point is 01:10:56 I thought you weren't going to be able to see it. I was always able to see it. I thought that my Paul Walter Houser interview, well, was scheduled a five, and then I thought I was going to miss Resident Evil at six, but it was. but it was always the screen was always a two. The Brad Pitt movie is the one that I was going to miss. But then I was going to be able to make it. And then another thing got scheduled tonight.

Starting point is 01:11:16 And I was like, uh, Derek with a big one there, Chris, this is huge. Whoa. This might, this might, this might help you. Whoa, this might help you. That's a big one. I need it, you guys. Thank you. That's a big one there too.

Starting point is 01:11:31 Wow. That's almost, that's the incredibly generous Derek Johnson has always thrown in there for Chris car. That might have got her in contention with Monday and Tuesday. We'll say, we'll see. Let's go. Dang. Ray, also support.

Starting point is 01:11:46 Thank you, Ray. Thanks, Ray. Johnny, Resident Evil is a sticker movie. An original horror comedy using the Resident Evil name for clout. Should have called it something else. Okay. We'll see. John, did you see it?

Starting point is 01:12:00 And the answer might be yes. I don't know if you saw it or not because it's definitely, like I said in my review, and I said out of the theater, I can't speak on how true it is for Resident Evil. I don't know. I just remember certain things and certain images. Like, oh, I remember that from the game. That's really it.

Starting point is 01:12:22 All right, let's see. Brad Johnson. Also, the Heart of the Beast premier nationalists, that was Paramount events. So maybe they are testing the water some. Oh, maybe. That's a good call. Maybe, yeah.

Starting point is 01:12:34 That's a good call. It's going to be some business meetings there. Great, great questions. in there. Derek Johnson. I love Ron Age. Yeah, we all do. Thank you, Derek.

Starting point is 01:12:41 Yeah. The G-Man. Some support. Thank you, G-Man. Last one for now. And if there are some other questions that people want to ask about, I'm going to look and see. Glad to see you, Chris, after the IG, you got, let's see, after the IG, you got

Starting point is 01:12:59 re put a landline. Well, I don't know. No, I think it's about me posting about losing it. Oh, after your IG post, you got, okay, regardless. putting put a lane yarn on your glasses to avoid aliens taking them christian have a safe and great okay yes yeah i didn't want to i didn't want to bring it up because i didn't want to do everything too but like christian he had posted this on instagram and we we shared some moments i don't want i don't want to get you too emotional so we'll we'll talk about i appreciate it's so cool crying

Starting point is 01:13:26 on the internet though don't people like that no i don't want to do that to you so yeah i do i do want to say though everyone was so so kind everyone was so sweet because he was everybody's dog so thank you so much you guys yeah so it was uh anyway so we yeah wanted to give chris a a week to kind of chill out and she's back in her and it's lovely as all right let's see i'm looking to see if we have anything from the any questions in general if not we're going to call it a day so i'm just double checking and then it'll be a short show here today which is cool it works for me um all right why don't we do this chris why don't we do you tell us what's going on with you oh do you know what i actually will show you before we even do that okay so the other thing that i think you'll get a kick

Starting point is 01:14:16 out let me get rid this i really need freaking uh pl d here where is it because it takes me too long to do this stuff there you go so i know you're you know uh and appreciate big balls and i say that really people like what if you don't know know that in a context it's weird but um but but i hope that's the pull quote of this episode it should be but you talk about people people someone randomly had said to me i don't know how long it says does your character eat cereal and i was but it was such a strange question because the answer was yes in the show he does there's a scene where he's eating cereal and i was like because they even told martini that someone asked you say how does he how do they know that he eats cereal i go i don't

Starting point is 01:15:03 no. It just brought that up and she was laughing. But people like you should put big balls on the cereal box. And then of course, this is that. How good is that? That is perfect. So good. So that's so that's what we got right now. Coco balls. Oh, I love it. All right. Chris, why don't as we, if the audience is sending more questions in, we'll check in a second. If not, we'll call it a day. But how about what's going on with you? What's the Oh man. Well, you can always go check out my podcast with Amy Newman. Two Fully Casuals. We are on YouTube. We're so close to being able to go live, you guys. And if you want me and Amy, you mostly want Amy to go live because she's crazy. She's so fun. Please, please go watch some stuff because we would really love to do lives with you all. That'd be so fun. What we have coming out tomorrow is an episode about dungeon crawler Carl. So good stuff there. If you're interested in voiceover, you can always check out speakfriendstudio.com. I have my advanced voiceover. I have my advanced voiceover. class coming up next. That's an eight-week course. To be clear, too, this is not if you want to be a professional voice actor, it definitely

Starting point is 01:16:08 helps, but if you were somebody who also wants to maybe make your D&D games more interesting, if you want to just kind of do this as a hobby. We teach people of all different levels. My husband teaches dialects. So come on through and see if you want to work with us. All right? SpeakFriendsidio.com. Well, you're not done yet, Chris. Just look at this. DJ's coming in hot again. Because, first of all, they said, the L Yankees is Derek Johnson. Mo Rivera this chat. He certainly is because look at this. Boom.

Starting point is 01:16:35 Another one. Derek. And then boom. Throws in 10 more memberships for people. Holy butts. Okay. Derek. Ryan S. throwing in something to there. But Derek Johnson definitely puts you in contention, if not the lead with those. Derek Johnson today supporting a potential Chris Carr win with that, with those donations there.

Starting point is 01:17:00 That was huge DJ as always. Yeah. And I said, I said to myself, because DJ and I were going back and forth on email. And I said, I'm going to be pretty convinced that at one point I'm going to be sitting in video village with DJ going, what do you think of that shot? I'm pretty sure. So it's awesome to have this kind of support. It's awesome for you guys in general. Thank you guys so very much.

Starting point is 01:17:23 Thank you to Chris Carr for being here. Make sure you are looking for the Forgotten Island out of the theater. have that up here a little later today. If Luke hasn't already posted it, he's going to be posting the review for Resident Evil. That will be up in a little bit. Make sure you, if you have not gone to the Clips channel, make sure you subscribe there. I wanted to thank Chris Carr for coming in here today. I wanted to thank Luke, PLD, Jonathan, MK, and Sam for doing the time codes, all of you guys for the amount of messages and other things. And people have been sending me like emails and stuff too and I don't want people to think that I'm not going to get back to them I will it's just

Starting point is 01:18:04 been it's been a very pleasant overwhelming experience where people are really getting behind this project and I'm you know we're all going to do it together we're all going to make it happen and I appreciate everybody's support so once again thank you guys so much and the last thing I'll tell you if you're going to be in in Belmore on Long Island in October 8th we've been posting about this but myself Jen Sturger and Mark Ellis will be performing together if you haven't got your tickets. Go ahead and do that.

Starting point is 01:18:35 We're doing, we'll do a meet and greed, all that stuff. And you know, or not, you just come and watch the show. It's going to be pretty fun. So thank you. Appreciate you. And we'll see you on the flip side. I'll be back with Winston A. Marshall tomorrow. All right, everybody. Bye.

Starting point is 01:18:52 Did you shit in there?

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