The Kristian Harloff Show - Is Superman Making MASSIVE Changes After Text Screenings?!

Episode Date: May 30, 2025

🚨 Big shakeups might be coming to James Gunn's Superman! Welcome back to The Kristian Harloff Show, where Kristian dives into the latest DCU buzz with all the insider scoop. In this episode, we're talking about the rumored massive changes to the Superman movie following early test screenings — and whether Gunn is clashing with HBO execs over the direction of the film. 🦸‍♂️ From the Superman official trailer to the latest behind-the-scenes rumors, we're breaking it all down. Could this affect the tone, story, or even major characters like Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult), Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan), and Clark Kent (David Corenswet)? Tune in for our reactions and thoughts. Topics also include: 🔥 Constantine 2 drama: Is Keanu Reeves unhappy with the current action-heavy script? 🟢 Lanterns reportedly casts an Oscar-nominated Love Actually star — is she the DCU's new Carol Ferris? 🎮 Zelda and Lanterns may bring in Hunter Schafer and Laura Linney — how will they shape these projects? 📉 Disney rumored to be unhappy with Marvel's 2026 movie slate — what can Marvel Studios do to course-correct? If you love deep dives into the DC Universe, Marvel, and everything in between — make sure to like, subscribe, and sound off in the comments! #supermanofficialtrailer #supermantrailerreaction #jamesgunn #supermanjamesgunn #dc #nicholashoult #supermannewtrailer #supermanteasertrailerreaction #supermanteasertrailer #dcu #supermantrailer #jamesgunnsuperman #jamesgunndcu #supermanteaserreaction #davidcorenswet #dccomics #superman #reactions #clarkkent #rachelbrosnahan #dcuniverse #supermanteaser #lexluthor #supermanofficialteasertrailer #loislane #warnerbros #supermanmovie #wb #supermantrailerreview #dcstudios #supermanreaction #supermanofficialteasertrailerreaction SPONSORS: FACTOR:  Get started at https://www.factormeals.com/kristian50off and use code kristian50off to get 50 percent off plus FREE shipping on your first box. That's code kristian50off at https://www.factormeals.com/kristian50off! TRADE COFFEE:  Right now, Trade is exclusively offering our listeners 50% off your one month trial at https://www.drinktrade.com/KRISTIAN, That's https://www.drinktrade.com/KRISTIAN for 50% off your one month trial. Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7BZTnHihGgs7XZmXEBirjA/join

Good morning, good afternoon to some of you. I am Winston A. Marshall. Once again, Mr. Christian Harlough cannot be here today. That's the problem with him producing as many different pieces of content and or channels that he sometimes has to take time away. That being said, obviously, that means that myself and the young genre will be in charge of making sure things are going smoothly today, including. talking about Superman has changed some things because of test screenings, and Keanu's unhappy with Constantine 2. That sounds quite crazy. We even have an Oscar-nominated actress joining the Lantern show. Kerry Condon is apparently going to play with a human version of Friday in the Vision series. And Miss Hunter Schaefer could potentially be Zelda. There's a lot going on. We're going to have to talk about it. So with that, let's just start. the show, yes, yes. Capes and cows, we are back indeed.

And with that, I must say, fair morrow to you, young genre. How are you, sir? How is life treating you? You know, I feel like we both look like it's a Friday. No, it looks like a Saturday morning. We're both like bedraggled. This week was brutal, man. It's volume.

It's been a good week, but I've just done too much. So, wow. I'm just so proud of both of us for showing up. here we're doing our best i'm really trying man i that that cough that is that is the the cough of somebody who you know i've god dude i've seen it this week like if i'll be honest with you like yesterday was christin's birthday and we had a great time and she seemed to really enjoy herself and i you know i think one of the the one things that um you know her birthday is always so close to memorial day that she really never celebrated a lot growing up so it becomes like my pride and joy to

like her enjoy her birthday. And she even said it yesterday. She goes, thank you for like getting me to the place where I genuinely enjoy the day. It like fills me so much, man. And I needed that because I don't know about you, man. Like you said,

it's been a rough week. It's a lot. It's just a high volume. It's just too much, man. I've been off more than I could chew about four months ago and I'm still chewing. And I just like too much. My jaw hurts. I'm just,

I know I was going to get you somewhere. I'm just tired. So what is definitely. I'm going to use that. You put that on some forum. But, you know, I, you know, at the beginning of that. But yeah, I'm just real tired. And when you open the screen, like, a five minutes ago for us to start, I was like,

oh, Winston looks like me. Good. At least we're on a level playing field. That's, that's the important part, right? So, all right. Well, let's get into the reason why the reason for the season while y'all are here, man. I got to share the story that we're going to look at. I should probably, you see what I'm saying?

Like, I'm doing my best, y'all. I really, I really. really am. All right. So here we go. Let me close Slack because work is going to try and DM me this whole time, and I don't need that. There's rumor right now that Superman has made a huge change. How do we?

That's really small. Hold on. There's got to be another one here. No. That's fine. You could be, you could, you could, you could, you could have your face there. Okay. So there's a rumor that Superman's made huge changes following test screenings and James Gunn is

apparently clashing with HBO execs. This is Josh Wilding in a comic book movie. It's easy to forget that test screenings aren't necessarily an indication of a movie's quality. They frequently feature unfinished effects and the feedback from test audiences is used to improve an upcoming blockbuster. Still, a lot can be gleaned from these screenings and in the case of Superman, we've been hearing mixed things for a while. That might be for clicks and social interactions, of course, but may explain recent reports about a second composer working on the movie. There's also been chatter online about big changes being made. made in the editing room.

Talking on the hot mic, insider Jeff Schneider, trying to get my best Christian impression, said that it sounded like DC Studios is playing it a little safe with Superman. Revealing that he's heard, the movie originally had the action playing out over each day of the week in an episodic structure. Other recent reports have alluded to this,

and it's not working, so scrapping the concept might be best. Still, Gunn deserves credit for attempting something different. Then again, when so much hinges on Superman, playing it safe and delivering a four-quadron blockbuster that helps redeem the DC brand is undoubtedly best for business. Other updates were few and far between, though Snyder and co-host John Roker did speculate that the Batman star Colin Farrell could be a contender for Brainiac after potentially missing out on Sergeant Rock following its delay. The most interesting tidbit came when Snyder said he'd heard that HBO is blocking guns ideas for TV. shows. The cable network is used to operating with a certain level of autonomy and seemingly hasn't responded well to having a state of DCU projects like

Landon's, Waller, and Booster Gold forced on it. This probably goes some way in explaining why Peacemaker is set to remain a Max original series heading in the season two as we'd previously heard that all DCU TV shows were HBO bound. The cable network is typically associated with prestige fair and was hands on with watchmen and to a lesser extent the penguin are they a surprise at HBO has concerns about diluting its brand with superhero fare meaning HBO max seems like the most likely the destination for the DCU stay tuned for more okay um obviously coy let you know talk about as much as you can we don't want to you know I don't know how much of this you

know or anything like that but whatever you feel comfortable but you you hear this and let let's talk about first the um the the potential switch switching up. So it sounded like there was like a days of the week sort of thing going on. And then now it is not that. It sounds like it's just going to be kind of cut and dry. Does that sound like a good thing to you? Would you have liked to see the creativity yourself? What where do you stand on all that? I mean, I think it is something I haven't heard before. So like I, the grain of salt that I have is that I can say that I don't know about anything being changed from test.

I can say. I can also say that it is something that sounds like a cool idea that I'm curious of. Like I don't know, you know, the experience of audiences and I don't know how much you weigh on, you know, broad strokes versus like specificity, like, you know, changing artistic vision for people's opinion is tricky because it is someone's vision to put something out, but it is also show business. So it is, you know, how that's received is important. But at the same time, I just, for my own sake, I do want to say, like, we've heard so much about these test screenings that has been so unsubstantiated so far that I don't know. Like, I don't know how true this could be because it is one of those things that's like, yeah, this sounds like a thing that could or could not have happened. So I will say my response to this news is I miss news.

Like, there's never been more superhero stuff. And I don't know why everything is like, let's talk about rumors. let's let's talk about like like i just like i feel like everything is like the rumor is and it's like yeah but what about the casting things that have happened what about the actual box office of thunderbolts what about the actual uh like it just i i miss um the internet was a mistake i miss news god yeah i i mean the internet was a mistake yeah i i look even though we make our money on it i agree i i a lot of times i at what cost Winston at what cost I wake up thinking that a lot.

I'm going to be really real with you. And the funny thing is, is it's just, it's from the standpoint of the internet has got to this place where people get bored if you don't give them something new. It's, it is a continuous dance monkey dance. Like, like it's,

it's those fucking high schoolers. Sorry, kids show. That I'll be the only one. That back in the day would go to Coldstone with a whole bunch of penstone. with a whole bunch of pennies and would just keep dropping a fucking that's the last one would keep dropping a penny in and make them just sing over and over and over and over and over again and a lot of times that feels like what we're doing now with with the whole internet movie sphere and not just the movies but just with like the news cycles it's it's like what's next what's next what's that go and we can't sit on anything for a while be patient for anything we got to like and so yeah I mean I still stand A month and like I feel like it's been a year of people saying that there's been test screenings and the test screenings were amazing or they were awful or it's out in a month. Like I'm a we could talk about like things that are actually provable.

Yeah. And what sucks is like I know me saying that is just going to be people like yeah, because of DC studios. But the problem is I want to be excited about something for Marvel's sake, for DC's sake, for images sake. Like I don't want to hear about test screenings for a fantastic four. either and that has nothing to do with me. And like, so it's just, it's, it's just a silly cycle of the internet was a mistake. No, I get it, man. I mean, because the funny thing is at the end of the day, this was all going to be happening

regardless, but we weren't used to watching the sausage get made like that. So there's a certain. And it ruins the movie experience. Yeah. Truthfully, because then, because then you kind of go in with a little bit of like tainted mentality. I would be so, be so interested to see. how many different changes,

sinners, for example, is like the movie of this year so far, I'd be so curious to see how many times major things change for sinners. They ran into problems on set. They ran into problems on post.

They ran into problems with the producers or the studio or whatever. And yet it came out a masterpiece. So, like, I, there's a certain level of like, just let, like, let the cooks cook, man. You know what I'm saying? Like,

Yadley Jr., not only improvised most of Iron Man 1, but then from Iron Man 1 all the way to Endgame, they added the end game snap and I Am Iron Man like weeks out from the film being released. It wasn't the original ending. Imagine if we were in the culture we are now. Five years later from Endgame going like, Avengers Endgame isn't over. Downey Jr. made something to rep for release. You'd be thinking that the whole movie. Literally, the rumor would be rumor. Robert Donnie Jr. hates previous ending. Comes up with his own.

and then it's rumor on set. Bill the weeks out, reshoot, immediate, or like trouble on set actors making up lines. Or we see the movie. Like, you know, what about that? Because now I can tell you right now, honestly, I have not seen the complete Superman movie. I've not seen Superman.

Now there's going to be a part of my brain, consciously or subconsciously it's like, I wonder if. And like, that's not fun. That's not a movie. That's a, I don't know. I don't know, man. No, and all that.

I'm too tired to be unfiltered. Yeah, no, all that being said is to that fact that, like, look, again, it's part of what we do for a living is to kind of talk about this kind of stuff. It is what it is. And it seems weird for us to be like, I hate it. I hate it so much. But, like, there's a level of, it can be hard to then enjoy the movies when we see so much of behind the scenes. But we want to know what you think. Let us know in the comments.

if you agree with that one way or the other. And then the other major part of this story that we were talking about here, so this idea that HBO is really pushing back on allowing gun to put stuff on there and keeping stuff as max content, what do you think about when you hear all of that, man? Because I'll be honest with you, I love all this stuff. I'm kind of inclined to agree, especially knowing that HBO really shot them,

or Warner shot themselves in the foot with the HBO branding. and I think that there is a level of, unless you are talking about a penguin or why, you would hope all of these shows are that level of good. But the idea of having some like six, seven, eight, nine superhero shows on HBO seems off to me personally. But what do you think, Ben? I mean, I think that it is a matter of quality of anything.

I think that no matter what a network should acquire things that they want to be part of their brand. So I'm of the mind that, you know, when it's done, then you have a process of where it goes. Like, I think there are other things, though, where like if you're developing a show for a network, that's different. So like, if, say, you know, one of these shows is being developed to be on HBO, that's the conversation. I don't know if anything is default. I don't know the lawyer side of things. I don't know the production side of things. But I would assume when you're making something, the conversation comes up

in pre, during production and in post-production. So I don't know how substantial these rumors are either. And I honestly, like speaking to what you just said about like this being part of the job, I think I think our job also being about like giving our opinion is to say that seeing how the sausage is made ruins the eating experience. So like even though our job is to discuss it, I consider the job to be discussed like discussing pre-production and casting, discussing, you know, what's happening on set that they've official release, discussing what the finished product is and the impact on the culture. Like all of those things is the discussion. If the news becomes these are the rumors, I think it's our job to say, our opinion on rumors is bollocks.

So, like, I think that we shouldn't know, in my opinion, how much is behind the scenes about Disney and Disney Plus and Miramax and, like, you know, if these details in my new show, people are interested in, they could read the traits. But, like, is the average viewer curious about negotiations between HBO and Warner Brothers, between Disney Plus and Disney? Like, is that as exciting as Jack? Costa being cast. Is that as exciting as, you know, being curious about Thunderbolts underperforming by like 100 million, what that means for the, for the culture of people attending these movies.

Like, to me, the conversation becomes like, we need to discuss whether or not it should be news. I think our job as newsmen of the internet is to decide whether or not we should discuss that as news. Newsmen of the internet, that's hilarious. That's not, that is definitely not a way that I've referred to myself, but I will start to from now on. Yes, uh, we need, we need, I'm a newsman of the internet. Newsman of the internet. Uh, but yeah, man, we want to know what y'all think. I actually thought that this was, this was kind of an interesting point. M.K. Songbird says, you know, it's insane to see that the, uh, minutia of filmmaking has become what is dominating film discussion. Also allows for bad faith grifters to set their

narrative months before movies released through rage bait. I, I kind of agree with that, too, knowing that that is the main grift is to hate, hate, hate, like to pretend like this to player haters ball and you just going off on everybody, it does unfortunately open the door. Sorry, I totally interrupt you, my bad. You're good. I just said it open, it definitely opens a door. Yeah, I was going to change it off your first sentence there.

I think the issue becomes like, these are two stories, right? One story is this theoretical edit because of fan reactions. So the second story is this theoretical HBO blocking certain things. In both of those stories, The good that can come out of the first one is they're invested in the fans' perspective, but all of the negative is way more of an active fuel for clicks. And the good that can come out of the second one is HBO wants to preserve HBO, but then all the negative is the implication that stuff isn't worthy of that.

So all of these rumors are framed in such a way, like the internet is, like conversations and clickbait is, is to frame them mostly negatively. So that becomes the discourse. So I just think that's why the minutia feels so negative, because it's framed negatively. And I think a lot of times knowing how things are done, we're not meant to see below the iceberg. We're spent to see the art.

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While it might seem impossible for Marvel to get at least one more movie in the theaters within roughly the next 18 months, there are ways that the Kevin Feigue-led subsidiary could still, lure ticket buyers between now and the release of Avengers Doomsday. Doomsday, the first big screen Avengers adventure in seven years and the fifth Avengers film overall was recently delayed from May 1st, 2026 to December 18, 2026. Just a day later, two other unnamed MCU movies were removed from their respective release dates of February 13, 2026 and November 6th, 26. This leaves just one other movie besides doomsday on Marvel Studios docket for the next year, Spider-Man Brand New Day,

currently scheduled to swing into theaters on July 31, 2026. According to the Insider, this lack of output has severely vexed Bob Eiger, the CEO of Disney, especially because Brand New Day, like all MCU Spider-Man movies, is a co-production with Sony and thus offers Disney a greatly diminished share of the box office. Even given the substantial amount of time, it takes to produce an MCU movie, Marvel Studios isn't completely bereft of options for wooing fans to, theaters next year. There are at least two ways Fygie and team could still save 2026. Anniversary screenings of beloved MCU hits with special footage. That's actually not a terrible

idea. I'd be there. Yeah, especially if there were ones you didn't get to see an IMAX or something like that. This past April, Disney discovered that audiences are willing to pay to see older franchise offerings on the big screen. The 20th anniversary re-release of Supervent of the Sith open to a staggering $42.2 million worldwide. There's no reason Marvel couldn't follow suit. They have a myriad of fan-favored films celebrating big anniversaries in 2026. Thor and Captain America, the First Avenger,

both turned 15, Captain America Civil War and Dr. Strange, both turned 10, as does the original Deadpool. Fox production now owned by Disney. Although all these movies are currently available for streaming on Disney Plus, so is Revenger the Sith. Audiences will pay premium prices for a premiere experience.

This might be especially true if Marvel Studios were to include special footage with these screenings. And that could come in several forms, such as expanded cuts into which deleted scenes have been reinserted, similar to what Sony did with Spider-Man, No Way Home. Behind the scenes, bonus material that plays before or after the movie, similar to what Marvel did with the Vendor's Endgame. I definitely went back like a second and third time to watch those, or a special

extended preview of Doomsday, similar to how Warner Brothers attached a lengthy preview of Superman to the Minecraft movie earlier this year. It's not hard to imagine that Marvel fans would be enticed by these kinds of bonuses, especially if they are otherwise starved for new superheroes, superheroics. Rethink New Disney Plus shows as theatrical MCU releases. This seems like the far less likely route given the financial logistical hurdles, but another option could be for Marvel Studios to re-conceptualize at least one of their upcoming Disney Plus shows into a theatrical movie. For example, the 2026 Punisher reboot, which will see Bernanthal return

as Frank Castle could be lengthened from an hour-long special presentation to a 90-minute feature. Conversely, Wonder Man, which stars Yaya Abdul Mateena 2 as actor-turned-superheroes Simon Williams, could potentially be partially reshot and re-edited to accommodate a more theater-friendly runtime. Program will consist of eight 30-minute-long episodes and is currently scheduled to debut in December of this year. Well, fans wait to see how Marvel Studios will choose to beef up their slate for 26, they could take comfort in knowing that the next chapter in the MCU, the heavily anticipated of Fantastic Four First Steps,

hits theaters in about a month. Okay. So yeah, Koi, what do you think, man? I find it interesting because Iger comes in and goes, oh, this is too much. It's 50 of these, it's 40 of those. I don't want any of that.

I want to trim it down. You're going to be like just a couple. I don't want anything other than that. And now he's like, what the fuck is this? Not enough. More days, more. more. I am on.

This is the problem of me being hung over. It's really hard to rein it in. That was three or four. I mean, frankly. We're not a yellow dollar sign at bet. God,

he's going to be so mad. Okay. I'm never going to be on the host again. They don't want to not swear. I apologize to all the parents that are listening to this with the kids on the way. That being said.

Swearing. It's for everyone. Yeah, I know. I know. But But that being said, man, I mean, what do you think? Like this feels like we're being kind of yanked back and forth. So what do you think about this idea now that it's like, well, now it's not enough?

I think the re-release idea is strong. I mean, I think the problem is production costs and then having to pay for marketing is two sets of costs, right? If you're trying to stop the hemorrhaging and if you're trying to find that, you know, cost offset and keep the brand and spirit alive, re-releases do that. Like, I saw all of the Spider-Man movies back in theaters again. Like that was a lovely time. I love anniversary screenings. I just saw The Matrix at Cosm.

Do you know what Cosm is? No. No, no, no. So you know the sphere in Vegas? Yeah. They built a sphere in L.A. It's not as big, but they built a sphere dome theater in downtown. It's right next to Sofi.

It's in Englewood. And they played The Matrix, but they add tons of special effects to the sides, making it a 3D immersive experience. So like when he gets arrested by the Smiths the first time and there's all the cops in the opening, There's like blue and red flashing lights and the whole city's around you. When you go into the program, it's all white and then you dive through all the guns. It's insane. But like you do specialty stuff to re-release.

You add deleted scenes. You add special features. That's going to cost you a lot less than a whole new movie. And you market it as a re-release. That's going to help keep the brand alive and keep the spirit. So I think that's a great idea. I was trying to get the basically I hosted a lot of 22 on the road to end game, the marathon that led to end game at the El Capitan, like at the,

their theater they did a full marathon i was fighting so hard for eventually there to be the the shows released in theaters because i think that is exactly an opportunity to make some money and i'd love to see loki on the big screen i'd love to see some of these so like there's stuff there i'd love to see where i'll find out of the big screen again i went to the premiere i got to see to the big screen very few people do so like these are all opportunities licensing is tricky contracts are tricky i get all that but it's probably still cheaper than making a whole movie so i think it's a good No, I agree. I think the re-release is a good way to go.

And I genuinely think that what you tipped your hat to, I think specifically start with releasing the Disney Plus shows that hit in theatrical releases. And you can do them in chunks. You can go like the first half of Wanda Vision, the second half of Wanda Vision. You know what I mean? So that people aren't like, I'm not, because they're not going to sit there for hours and hours and hours. and to that point, I understand you wanted from all angles,

then lean into doing that. You got mandolone, you know, Mando and Grogu coming out. You got with the first season as a Mando, because that's some of the best Star Wars action we've seen, too. Do that with Andor. Andor did so well you think people wouldn't turn around and want to go watch that stuff on the big screen.

Like I think those are, I get that where this is coming from is Iger is probably looking at bottom line and knowing that he came back to right the ship and then disappear. here again. I'm sure that there's a level of like, yeah, I don't know. Then let's do something else. I get this is your big cash cow. This is your biggest one. I also lean into if there was ever a time to go look for that young hot director and that money you wanted to make, make more of those $10 million, those $5 million movies and just go let that cook. You caught it. You caught it in real time.

but to that point, I think the re-release is the way to go, especially allowing those shows that did well to have their time in the sun. I think that that would be your best bet here. But then the other part of it is like, again, okay, I guess you're not happy, but you had to sign off on delaying Avengers Doomsday. And it's because you obviously want it to be the best movie it can be because that is going to be a massive cash cow. So I'm kind of like there's only a certain level of complaining. I feel like that can be done here or anger that can be done here. You are the boss. You are the reason we are in this position.

It's also like you knew what the slate was when you got back into the job. So like you being upset about it is one again. There's another rumor. Who knows? But it's also like what were the actions taken when you knew. this going forward, like, is it something that is fair to be upset about in the spot? But there is also stuff that isn't coming out when it was scheduled, like Blade. Like, that is something you probably were accounting for.

You were probably assuming certain movies that were, you know, war machines, stuff that was supposed to exist. So I think it's just going to be a rough patch in, like, there is rough patches in comics where things aren't flowing well. Then you look back and you're like, oh, we're through that, things are good again. I think we're just entering a new era where hopefully with Fantastic Four people show up again because I think Thunderbolts was the quality people have been demanding, but people didn't show up in the quantity that was required. I hope that has four is both quality and quantity for Marvel.

No, absolutely. I mean, dude, I certainly hope that. And I, I know there were rumors that the, the post credits leaked online. And apparently people are like, oh, my, like, they're actually losing their mind over it. And I was like, in a good way. Okay. They were, they were like, no, this is, this changes everything. This, this is cooking. And. And, And I was like, okay, like there, the funny thing was that got more news because there was definitely news about how the movie worked really well, but there are definitely issues. Like those are those are the three things I heard. I was like, here are the things that work, Galactus being the main one, which makes me incredibly happy. They're like, it's like he got ripped out of the page.

He is terrifying. He clearly is like a force of nature type situation. They got it right. That has been said. There was some bad stuff. I don't remember a lot of it. I think it was kind of some of the dynamics throughout the film and some of the pacing. Who knows if that gets tweaked a little bit.

But then the last thing that was talked about were the post credit scenes and how they were like, bro, we are ready. Well, let's go. Like, that is what I have heard. So I am excited for that. That should hopefully keep us going into stuff. But yeah, I think other than that, like I sell someone in the comments go, how do you, how do you even do? Okay, you split it at the season up. how do you pay for multiple tickets?

I was like, I mean, you've got to think about it the same way you would think about going to a movie. When you went to say, for example, Infinity War an Endgame, and you sat through two, three-hour movies, but like, think of it that way, those were technically shot as one film. That is one giant film that they broke up for obvious reasons. It'd be the same thing. So it literally would be, okay, cool, you're going to see, you know, Wanda Vision, what was it, like, nine episodes?

You're going to see, like, one through four and then five through nine or whatever. logically time wise that makes sense wherever that cut makes sense um yeah i think you would just do something like that and if you want to charge a little less i don't know if they charge less for revenge of the citizen they charge a full price ticket i think those full price and like reloaded in revolutions matrix two and three were shot together and released like three more three four months apart i think i think it'd be the people that want to go see it in theaters can pay for i would also do like i know sometimes special presentations are excluded from a list i think these should be included so that way they can get some box office from those clicks like i think i think

re-releases should be included i get that like ufc fights aren't included because that's pay-per-view but i think they should open up certain things like re-releases to a list i have always said that i what disney should have done a long time ago especially knowing there was a point in time where they were talking about buying some of like these movie theaters which you get into monopoly territory which is i think what stopped them but you have enough of a relationship with these theaters, they need to do something along the lines of if you were a Disney plus subscriber, and maybe it's a combo. If you're a Disney plus subscriber and you're an A-list member, then you get either all the special

presentations that you can just go to. But I was saying if you were Disney Plus subscriber, you should get a situation where, you know, depending on what tier you're paying for, you get X amount of tickets to go see the Disney movies if they're out on the big screen. because then obviously you will tie that into your they already tie a list up into the box office anyway butts in the seats concession all that kind of stuff whatever right so if you have disney plus moana too obviously will eventually come to Disney plus yeah you're just going to have more people go to that whole thing you know what I'm saying so like there's a certain level that I think would just kind of amp all of that up um and then you could also justify this ridiculousness of raising these prices because you can't justify it when there's less content coming out on these you know platforms and you're you know platforms and you yet you want me to keep paying more and more and more, offer me more. So if you're not going to give me more content on the streamer, give me another perk. And then that's an easy way to go, hey, look, we're actually going to charge you like 30 something for Disney Plus, but you get, you know, you can take your whole family to go see Lilo and Stitch now.

Like you get, whether it's once a month, once every two or three months, you have these amount of tickets now to go see this in person. And now you're getting people to go back to the theaters, which is going to get. people to buy more concessions. You're going to encourage their friends to do that stuff. All of that stuff by itself automatically kind of gets you. You know what I'm saying? 100%. Yeah, but that's just me. It'll be interesting to see what if they come up with a plan for this, for this, if Iger is really that upset, what is going to be the pivot, man? Now, I forgot to tell you all, the number we have to beat is pretty absurd. It is 222. I thought it was going to be manageable because I watched all of the show with

Roxy earlier this week. It was like 80-some. I was like, we could do that. We could do that. Yeah, it's 222. So go ahead and send a man. We're at about eight. That's just not a great starting point, but we'd appreciate any and all help to try and get to that goal. It's a lofty goal. It's lofty, but maybe we can do it, man. All right. Let's go back to the world of D.C. real quick

and let's talk about Constantine 2. Apparently Keanu Reeves is unhappy with the action-heavy Constantine 2 scripts. This is Mark Julian from a comic book movie. A news of a Constantine sequel began long before the birth of the DCU, but with the rise of the new cinematic universe, many fans assumed the project would be put out to pasture.

However, it was confirmed in February of 23 that the project was still moving forward. More recently, a script for the sequel was turned in back in September 24, reportedly developed by Keanu Reeves and director Francis Lawrence. According to the most recent reports, Akiva Goldsman was the last writer, to revise the script. Since that update, the project has gone dark, but we now have fresh info from Peter Stormair, who played Lucifer in the original film. Based on what he had to share, it doesn't sound like Constantine 2 is moving forward in a promising direction. Stormer stated a lot of back and forth because I think Keanu, which I know pretty good, is not so happy with the scripts and

usually what comes out of the studios. Because the first one wasn't that successful in the beginning, it became a sleeper and became a cult movie, and now it's one of the biggest cold movies ever. But to do a sequel, the studios want to have, you know, cars flying in the air, they want to have people doing flip-flops and fighting action scenes. He added, and I think Ganna says, I've done John Wick, this movie is spiritual. It's about demons and regular people. I wanted to keep it that way. And we talked about that. I want to do God coming down exactly the same way, but in a black suit and looking more or less like Lucifer from the first one. I'm 12 years older, so it's going to be hard to, you know, completely imitate the first movie.

But I think from Keanu, he wants to do a sequel that is very close to the first one. Finally, Stormair noted that he and Keanu Reeves are both adamant about not letting the sequel take on a Marvel-style tone. They're committed to preserving the darker, more grounded atmosphere that define the original Constantine. I think he wants to do his character again. Constantine is grounded as it was in the first one. It took a long time for you to become a cold movie. really worked and it will work on the audience again you don't have to add a lot of action and shout a shootouts you have other movies don't turn into a big marvel uh into us flying around

and harnesses all the time and shooting each other up stormnaires update on the project status is something of a gut punch for those who have been looking forward to the sequel however reeves and lawrence can find the right script writer to take the project in a new direction all right coy I am one of those people that got to Constantine late. I got to it as it was already a cult classic type suit because I didn't know that this was anything to do with DC at all. I just thought it was a random thing and it looked like a horror movie

and I don't do horror. So I just was like, I'm good. I watched it during the pandemic. It is absolutely fantastic. It is incredibly slept on. Yeah, the only things that I would have changed a little bit is just knowing how much of a womanizer and a drunk that Constantine is. like I would say let Keanu keep the character as it is

but like if you don't want to turn him into a womanizer all of a sudden I think adding maybe after all the stuff he went through in the first one adding that element of him becoming a lush I don't necessarily hate so I think you can keep it grounded maybe maybe that like the dive in is to focus on his struggles with you know alcohol abuse or something like that and let that be kind of now he's debating his responsibilities versus that going forward. I think that that could be really interesting. And that being said,

Constantine being one of those powerful magic users in all of comics, I do think they need to turn it up a little bit. But I agree, let's not turn this into where Wanda Vision was so great. And then all of a sudden that last episode, okay, here's a real crappy MCU battle to throw, you know, magic fireballs back and forth. But you hear in all this, man, where's your mind at? I think it's interesting because, I mean, Constantine is an action-packed story. like Constantine can be, but it's not Constantine physically doing a lot of action. He's manipulating and he's causing things to happen, but that's magic. Like, I don't think Keanu would have to be physically John Wicken, you know?

Like, I don't think that's necessary. So to me, Constantine is a very heady, introspective, theologically charged, but the visuals are part of the journey. It's very dialogue-based, too. Like, it doesn't need to be an action movie. It needs to be something that is rooted in intensity. But you can do that with visual effects. and with the writing and with the story.

Like the physical actor playing Constantine isn't doing flips like they're talking about. So I think there's a sweet spot. I think you can up the stakes. You can up the action, but it doesn't need to be Constantine up in his physical action. It's also tricky because I love Constantine.

It's one of my favorite characters. Hellblazer is one of my favorite comics. And Keanu Reeves is, my God, it's Keanu Reeves. One of my favorite actors. I'm so honored to have done the stuff with him with his comic. I love the dude. but the difference between Keanu Reeves, Constantine, and the comic Constantine is pretty far. So I'd be curious what they'd want to do to bridge that gap if they'd want to bring it together

or if they'd want to do the Batman thing and have there be a Dark Justice League where there is a comic accurate Constantine. And then there's a Keanu Reeves Constantine. Like I'd be cool with seeing two, like I'd be cool with calling him Hellblazer or like having an element of that in a team movie and having that be more of a Matt Ryan or someone like, you know, there's so many like Norman Reattis, gritty, dirty, like somehow still attractive while being grungy types that aren't beautiful angelic Keanu Reeves that could still have Keanu Reeves as Constantine go on

and have the one that's more comic accurate, in which case I'd want that one to stay even more removed and go over there. I think you're muted. Are you muted to me? I've turned it off so that I could use my that's my fault I was using I was using my shaker I'm drinking a liquid IV now I was using my shaker and I didn't want to make a whole bunch of noise on the thing yeah I mean I agree with you in the sense that I enjoyed what Keanu did for sure but it definitely is like looking at a Pattinson versus Nolan type Batman where they're both Batman but they are definitely different flavors and I will agree that Matt Ryan's and what we've seen in a lot of the

animated stuff and whatever. Those, to me, are the more correct, more entertaining, more interesting versions of the character, because it's a little more accurate, because it really is this man who, this weight of responsibility, and really knowing how the world works on a mystical and spiritual level, he does some awful stuff, both selfishly and because he has to. And it is to me more interesting to see somebody really fighting their demons while fighting demons. Right. And in the first Constantine, it feels more that he's more the conduit in which we solve this case.

And it's still interesting. It's still very good. But the same way everybody wants to see more detective Batman out of like Robert Pattinson's version, I would like to see more of the Matt Ryan. This is a damaged man trying to save the world. and not because he necessarily wants to, but something gets pulled out of him to do so. And again, I know there's some of that in the movie, but not to the level of like, you ass hat

in the way that we saw Downey Jr. at the beginning, because again, that Tony is very full of himself. He is a drunk at times. He is a womanizer. Like, you know, I'm not saying you have to go, but there's something interesting about this broken person finding themselves that is missing right now. from the character in my opinion now again i haven't seen this movie since 2020

maybe i need to revisit and there's more of that than i remember but it to my knowledge i just remember that big divide between what matt ryan and what we've seen in animated versions of constantine and in the books than what we got out of keanu i also think there's an opportunity to bridge the gap because it's been so long this movie's been 15 years that you could make him much more like the comic by not having it be an action movie like you could have keanu be more like the comic but again if you want to make this a sequel to the first movie, there is an opportunity because the character's so, you know, broad to do

two things. So either way, I agree with these quotes. Either way, I think Peter Stormair's right. I think he's exceptional. I love that role in that performance from Peter Stormair. But I don't want this to feel like a Marvel movie. I want it to feel like a Hellblazer movie. Yeah, I totally get that. But we want to know what you think in the comments, man. Let us know. Are you

worried hearing that Keanu's not happy with it? Do you want to see a different version of Constantine? Do you want to see Kiano, continue to pick it up. You want to see it. The Batman split. All the stuff we talked about. Let us know in the comments, man. Let's

go on to our next story. Let's see. Bo-B-B-B-Boo. Boom. This right here, Landers has reportedly added an Oscar-nominated Love Actually Star to play the DCU's Carol Ferris.

Josh Wilding is reporting. DC Studios has attracted some exciting talent for the DCU, though it could do with a few more A-listers. Fortunately, Jeff Schneider is reporting today that Laura Lenny has joined the cast of Landon's. Dude, every time a news report comes out about lanterns, I get more and more geeked out about how ridiculous this show is going to be. The Love Actually Star has been the recipient of many awards, including three Emmys and two Golden Globes.

She's also received three Academy Award nominations. Who is Lenny playing? Snyder isn't sure. However, Kyle Chandler's 59 and Lenny is 61, taking that into account. it would make sense for her to take on the role of Carol Fares, the love of How Jordan's Life, and a superhero known as Star Sapphires, and super villain, right?

Didn't she kind of, a lot of times she's usually more hero, but there's times she's been corrupted. Yeah, because I was first introduced to her in the original Justice League cartoon, and she was just straight on the Legion of Doom, man. She was just, like, pissed off all the time.

Yeah, there's an antagonism towards Hal that's real specific. But part of that, too, is because of the war. lantern because essentially she's yeah that's a different kind of corruption then I don't know how they're going to go yeah no let me interesting uh so let's see uh we wouldn't be surprised if she's powerless in the DCU unless the red orange yellow blue indigo and and violet black white and ultraviolet cores from across the emotional spectrum have existed for years well yes they they would have existed for years we may or may not have been introduced to it in our world but yes

if i'm not mistaken isn't that the whole point is that the green Lantern Corps may be the oldest, but they all were there a long time ago. They discovered the, yeah, exactly. And that's what's exciting about doing something that can grow a mythology like this. Like, we barely tapped into it in pop culture. Yeah, exactly. Now, fans have been critical of the decision to cast an older how for the Lantern show, arguing that the Green Lantern Corps member needed a younger actor to tell the hero's story over several years.

Chandler is one hell of a talent, though, and pairing him up with Lenny would not be a bad thing. John Stewart, meanwhile, is expected to be a DCU's main green lantern. Then he is known for her work across film and television on the small screen. You've likely seen her in Wild Iris, Frasier, the Big Sea, and Ozark. In theaters, she starred in the Truman Show, Kenzie and Sully. Slow Horses, James Hughes, excuse me, helmed the first two episodes of Lanterns. And in March, he dropped some hints about what fans can expect from the series. There's a very particular humor that they brought to this.

that he revealed. It's very rooted in a way that I like to think we achieve with slow horses, that I achieve with things like my black mirrors and yet there's a rich vein of humor running through it. To some extent, it's a swerve. Superheroes are not somewhere I've really played before, but it's created

in such a way and I can't tell you much that it bewitched me. It doesn't lack it's sci-fi magic, but it's done in a world where you accept that these things just are. They don't need the extra sprinkle of sci-fi fairy dust it works within a physical world that we've come to know uh dc studios lanterns

follows the new recruit john stewart john stewart he hanging with how jordan blotty bloody bloody blue and it's going to be out in 2026 okay so uh yeah i mean again you're just adding more star power lenny is incredibly talented um i have yet to hear anything about this show where i'm like i'm out if anything i'm always like i'm more in how do i get more what do i do i jump forward in time like who is going to take me into the future so I can see this and then bring me back because time's moving too fast anyway like that's bro um it's June in two days man yeah shut up shut up June 2025 oh god rent oh god um but yeah no it it is already June it's just kind of ridiculous um January took six months and then the last five months have been two days pretty much because

Jesus the fires were this year they were this year they were this year Oh my God The fires were this year That was like the longest month of my life And then everything since has been like, blick It also feels like I've been in this apartment for a minute And it's and yet I've been here just a couple months And it feels like I've been here forever.

Time sucks right now. But yeah, I honestly think this is good. I am very curious. One I like to hear if we're going to put any humor in it It's going to feel almost like a black mirror type scenario where it's the humor is either because you're like, oh, you son of a, or it's like a, oh, I don't know if I can laugh at that. But like, that's what that kind of almost reads like. And knowing that this was always pitched as a comp like true detective, but with space cops.

Yeah. That's like that you got me. So I, you know, I am curious. I do hope that we get a little bit more of these other core. And if maybe that's the bad guys that we're discovering the other cores on. earth and then all of a sudden it's like hey uh so we didn't tell you about the red lanterns there what the heck sorry this why can you hear that yep what is happening why is that why is that happening i sometimes i hate comic book movie man because they they they're these little commercials in

between for no reason that i'm clearly not looking at stop trying to get my attention um But I, but I, um, I think that that would be, we didn't tell you guys about the red lanterns because typically there's only, it's almost like the Sith. There's only like one or two of them typically because the rage is so ridiculous. They just start murking everybody, right? And there's so many opportunities to have like yellow be, uh, you know, more of an element that it even was in the, in the Ryan Reynolds movie. There's so many opportunities to have like space explored later because you're building a foundation. I think it'd be great to have, you know, Laura Lini because of her relationship with the Ozark showrunner. Like we know Chris Mundy's a

involved here. This seems likely because of their relationship, like Ozark is the below the line team here. But like having an actor of this caliber, even if she's only in, you know, a couple episodes, that adds so much weight and gravitas to Carol. And that in turn adds weight and gravitas to hell. And that in turn adds weights to the show. So I think this is fantastic. I think they can really do something special here. This is probably the best below the line team I've seen assembled between having the comic writer Tom King with, you know, Damon Lindelof being involved. Like you said, every time they add a new name. I'm more excited. So there's a, there's a whole galaxy of opportunity here, and I think it's excited. Absolutely, man. Absolutely. So let us know what you think, man,

about this whole thing. I hope that I'm very much looking forward to watching Air and Pierre. That's Mufasa. I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with John Stewart. I am also looking forward to because the problem is we have like 20 lanterns from Earth at a certain point. I'm also curious to see if we get the core four of if Hal if Hal survives just knowing again with him being with Chandler being older. I don't know what they're going to do with it. But I'd be interested to see if you get the core four of him, guy, John, and then even Kyle all in there, what could go down. I think that that could be really interesting. But yeah, I cannot wait for this show.

So let us know what you think about it as well. We're actually going to have time to get through all of our stories because we're only sitting at about 10 super chats right now. We got this. We got this. So we're going to keep it pushing. We're going to go over to Carrie Condon, who it sounds like, is confirmed to play Friday in human form in the Disney Plus Vision series. This is Mark Cassidy reporting. As Marvel Studios' Vision series, which may or may not turn out to be titled Vision Quest, continues to round out its cast, we have a very interesting update related to Tony Stark's former AI assistant.

Gordon to Daniel Rickman, Carrie Condon, will appear as Friday in human form. This isn't the first time the Academy Award nominated. The Banties of Intersherent Star has been mentioned in connection with the Vision show, but we weren't sure if she'd actually appear in live action or simply add her voice to the character. Condon voiced Tony's second AI after Jarvis, which was Paul Bettany, was transformed in division, and have also heard that James Darcy will return as Edwin Jarvis in some capacity. How of these characters will factor into the show remains to be seen.

We recently learned that Tina Miller? Yeah, she's playing Jacosta. That was with the news. No, no, no, that's fine. I just don't know how to pronounce her name. Is it Tina Miller? Oh, I think it's Tenia. Tanya Miller.

Okay, we'll play the bride of Ultron, Jacosta, who was described as cunning, powerful, and driven by revenge. Chocasta will likely be introduced as a villain, but there's a chance she will ultimately end up joining the Avengers down the line. In comics, Shokasta, later known as Chocasta Pam, was created to be Ultron's bride and was given the brainwaves of Janet Van Dine. It remains to be seen if the character will be given a similar origin for her live action debut. Vision has been described as the third part of a trilogy that started with Wanda Vision and continues in Agatha all along. We found out last year that the show has been revamped with Star Trek Picard, executive producer, Terry, uh, Matalus, uh, now on board a showrunner.

Uh, Matalus's work on Picard is said to have greatly impressed the top brass of the studio, Marvel chief Kevin Feigey about Treki, even recently appeared with Matalas on a two-hour episode of of a Star Trek podcast and glorious Trek spurts. That's hilarious. Um, and in addition to Bettney, Spader is set to repris as Ultron, though it's unclear whether Ultrambe be returning as a robot or in human form. There's been no mention of Elizabeth Olson's potential involvement. The finale revealed that Vision would be spending time over the course of the season.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, white vision, multiverse of madness, bloody blue. Okay. Yeah, I think similar thing. You're adding a very talented actress. I mean, she obviously already was involved as the voice, so it would be cool to see her do what Paul did. and kind of get the chance to bring the character fully to life outside of just the voice. I think that that's like a fun thing to do. So, you know, I'm here for it.

I would love for her to get that opportunity to do that. I mean, that's pretty much it. I don't, I don't, I don't have anything else to say about it more or less. I don't know about you. Yeah, the actress playing Jocasta is so good in one of Walt Flanagan shows. I forget which one I saw really, but as soon as they announced her to me, I got excited because she's like a scene stealer in a show of scene stealers. So her as Jacosta is exciting because that character can go very cheesy, very quickly.

So someone with that much weight, it reminded me of when they cast James Spader. Like Ultron is so important. And now that they're bringing him back, I'm excited. So having someone with that much weight and like just aura as Jacosta is really exciting. Yeah, no, absolutely, man. I am looking forward to the show, though. And I do like this idea of that being a trilogy. of shows because both both Wanda vision and Agatha were fantastic well it's cool because

it's Wanda vision so you got the Wanda sequel with Agatha and now you're getting the vision sequel with white vision and like I think that's a really cool thing of magic and technology which are two cores of Marvel and I mean AI is is topical so I think I really curious what they attack with it absolutely man I completely 100% agree so but let us know what you think are you looking forward to Vision Quest or vision series or whatever they're calling it. Would you think about these new castings? Let us know in the comments, man.

All right, we got one more story to cover. This one is going to be covering a little bit of video game news. But Zelda and Lantern, we already talked about Lenny with lanterns, but the Legend of Zelda movie that they're making the live action, Hunter Schaefer, Euphoria, Cuckoo, The Hunger Games Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, reportedly being eyed to play Princess Zelda in the live action Legend of Zelda movie at Nintendo and Sony Pictures. Scooper Daniel R.P.K. broke the scoop for the film, which will follow Young Warrior Link, who is destined to protect the magical kingdom of Hyrule from a ruthless warlord and his forces of darkness who seek an ancient relic.

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Avid Ari will produce the project, which is being directed by Wes Ball, The Maze Runner, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. It was targeted for a March 27 opening. Speaking of high profile actress roles, we already talked about Lenny. Okay, so that was, since we already did the Lenny part, that was pretty much it, just talking about Hunter. Hunter is incredibly talented. So, let her cook. I think that she definitely, like here, if I bring the photo back up, she's already giving me all of those princesses.

throw some elf ears. Yeah, like there's an ultimate vibe at the jump. And also like, you know, I haven't seen you for you. I hear she's great. So, um, yeah. I mean, it's fun. Yeah, man. So I am, I am, um, definitely here for it.

So I, she seems to be on a lot of top lists, like the mystic conversation, this conversation. Um, I think that's exciting just in general to see like a new talent emerges, like, on everyone's top list for big genre stuff. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. So, you know, I, I think, I think it'll be really good. I would I would a thousand percent be here for it.

And video games are making a big surge. I mean, Sonic really helped. And I feel like Last of Us on TV, I'm excited to see more. I love Grand Turismo. It doesn't get talked about enough. But like I feel like there's a shift in video game adaptation. Excellence. Like, I feel like we're investing more into it.

We're hiring different teams on it. Like, I'm a very casual gamer. But these classic games like Grand Charismo and Zelda and stuff, I'm all about seeing get it to Sonic is one of my favorite games. and those that trilogy great. So seeing them get reverence, I'm excited about. Yeah, absolutely, man. But let us know, are you here for it, man?

Are you looking forward to with the Legend of Zelda movie? I also find it very funny because the only way that that works, Link don't talk, bro. So how that movie going to work? He just not going to talk to all the time. He's going to be going through dungeons. That's the only thing. And the only time that he ever did talk was in the TV show,

and it was corny as hell. was an animated show um him talking did not work it was much better when he was the story stoic character he ain't say nothing so and like yeah link as a lead that like doesn't speak like she always has the the like enigmatic like the mystery element where it's all of those elements that are going to be i've seen silent film work but it's going to be interesting if it's a silent film only for the lead and everyone else speaks so like seeing her navigate that world i don't know it can be really special yeah no that is very very true so all right man before we get into this and we've only got about 14 so the show might be ending a little bit early today and by a little

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i think i have one more thing but i can't remember those are the seven jobs i got that i can think of jesus man you work entirely too much it's fine i work entirely too much myself Uh, yeah, I myself, um, am also a person that does things and you can finally have the swaggy board and all this stuff. I'll be streaming, uh, tonight. We have had the, uh, the big change up. We've had the, uh, uh, season 2.5 of Marvels is starting. Ultron is here.

So I will be testing out Ultron all this evening. I'm very much looking forward to that. Um, I will be headed to see Kendrick this weekend. Yeah. So I'm going to be on tonight and try and get a little, get a little, you know, some craps money before we go. But then next week, we've got spill the tequila on Tuesday. I am very excited about doing one of my first, it's been a while since I've done it,

but one of my first kind of video essays on the channel that should be dropping next week as well. So I've got a lot of work to do in my downtime to get that work. it needs to be. So yeah, YouTube.com slash a swaggy blurt, Twitch.tv.tv slash a swaggy blurt. And then we, oh, I almost forgot. Actually, we do have a special blurds in the hood going on this evening at 5 p.m. Pacific time. So if you want to come kick it with me and Jay, we will be doing a blurds in the hood this evening, YouTube.com slash blurtz in the hood or Twitch.tv. slash sports another. All right. So like I said, we only have about 14. So this might be ending pretty soon, but that is totally fine. You know, if you guys still want to send in support you a thousand percent can. We'd appreciate you.

So let's see. Go, pal, coming in hot, talking about still making my way home, making my way downtown from my nephew's law school graduation in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But here's some support. He's finished number two in his class. Go, pal. Dude. Why am I? I'm not surprised. You're a gem. I'm not surprised that your whole family is full of gems. Like that is awesome,

dude. Congratulations. That's fancy, man. Congratulations. That is absolutely nuts, man. GoPow follows it up with one more before takeoff. Love it, love it. Mad Sinister McCall.

Buy Sidney Soap and record your lady's reaction. I would need way more. I would need not a super chat here to Christian. I would need someone to send me a direct, like donation for me to do something like that because that's asking for a can of whoop ass to be opened up on me so i you know i i would need a little bit more than that to pull that off i don't know about you coy i'm ironically in the opposite boat uh my fiance worked on that campaign so she knows sid pretty well so she got she already has a sample bar for you yeah like i can get that so

brought to me today but uh yeah no my fiance's fancy so that's that's already like i'm safe on this one that's funny bro i i i love that for you it's so specific i was like wait a minute i i genuinely love that for you man so uh yeah good good on that man i think the reaction is just her giving me soap yeah he was like yeah okay so uh matt kroogman coy i just wrapped up all my polls from this week i love superman 26 a lot what you think winston you try ultron and rivals you had thoughts If so, that is literally, since we're, I'll be honest with you, I was going to wait to do it, um, this evening. But considering where we're at with the donations, we're probably going to be done here at about 12.15. So I might be jumping on right away.

I have to work at one, uh, for the next four hours, the day job. So I can only play for about 45 minutes, but I'm going to, I, I, I have set the Xbox in the other room to update so that it's ready to go, uh, as soon as we're done. Uh, what about you, Koy, how's, how's your? your pull's going, man. I love 26. I just read it last night. I'm about halfway through this week's pool. So likewise, with this ending a little early, I'm actually going to get a chance to read before my next shoot. I'm filming some stuff at Rejects at 3, so I'm going to have two hours to read, which I'm excited about. But yeah, I'm really digging what's going on in Superman. They had a really big issue 25, and I love this new arc. I have not played rivals, but I love that Winston's

getting chanced to or attacking different corners and nerd them here. Yeah, I think D.C. Summer Superman comics have been great. I think all the all the stuff they're hearing up and doing has been exciting. So I love that you're reading a Matt. I got to tell you, man, um, holy crap, Mr. Freeze, an absolute Batman is in, first of all, F you for that. But second of all, is insane. Is legitimately insane, bro. I don't understand how they were able to make him that cool. Like, God. Oh, oh, I did it. Damn it. Damn it. I did it myself.

With these brisk puns. I didn't mean to. You know what? We're moving on. All right. Do you guys plan on? You guys plan on reading the short prequel book for Superman before the movie. There's a prequel book? Yeah. And I plan to. I'm very excited about it. I'll be, I'll be reviewing it somewhere. but yeah, and there's a Mr. Terrific year one book about the great Mr. terrific that dropped this week on Wednesday. Oh, all right.

Nice. Damien Eve, have you guys watch Better Call Saw? I love the show and I think at times it surpasses Breaking Bad, but it never seemed to hit a white audience. Yeah, it never caught fire the way that Breaking Bad did, but I did not finish. I want to say I got maybe three seasons in, and it is fantastic, but I was watching it during the pandemic, and then I just never came back to it. So if I was going to, I feel like I'd have to start all over.

And I'm that type of person that if I know there's a whole lot I got to do before something, I really have to be in the mood to say, right, I'm going to do this. But I do need to circle back because I heard the ending was fantastic too. What about you? I am part of the problem. Breaking Bad's my favorite show of all time, but I've never watched better cold salt. I just, I fell in love with Brian Cranston and, you know, Aaron Paul. And I love, I think Odin Kirk's great.

I just didn't attach to that character enough to start it. Now that it's been some time, it's hard to, like, you rally on that many years. You would love it. I want to watch it. It's one of those shows, like, if I break a leg or get, like, you know, bedridden, I'm a watch. You know what? If we can find an editor, bro, maybe we should do a reaction, me and you.

Yeah, because I've never seen a single episode, dude. Yeah. If we can find an editor to make that happen, maybe we do that. That may not be a bad idea. Because I get a show, I hear it's great. I've heard no one complain. Yeah. All right.

Austin B. I felt the Dance Monkey. dance of comic book movie news for a while now. It's exhausting to say the least. That's why I appreciate what Christian and y'all do here. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing. We, we'll read it and we'll kind of give our musings on it and then, you know, try not to build too much into it because like I have been saying from the start with all of the screener news, screeners are literally, if you were writing your PhD thesis, you turn in the draft and the stages over and over and over again and the screenings are the okay what does this draft look like what does this draft look like they don't

they're not saying that xyz is actually a bad thing they're just saying a oh we need to make some tweaks it's once you turn in the final product that you can actually go no or yes when i see the movie i can give my opinion on it i also like i don't see a movie based on rotten tomatoes i don't see a movie based on reviews unless some reviewer is exactly like me so this this search for news um I do think we try here to do a balance, but the hunt for anything clickable is exhausting. It is. It really, really is.

That is for sure, man. That is for sure. Alan Smithy, releasing old movies in the theater. That's my job. Winding through a print of American Me right now. Had a Big Lubowski print play at a PSH retrospective recently. 35 millimeter rules.

That's cool, man. I'm a big film guy. I used to, I used to run a projectionist booth. Like, I've been the guy licensed before. Yeah. My first job was at a movie theater. theater when I was 14 until I was 20 and that was a the theater still had film so we quickly

evolved to digital but we had like two screens still with film and eventually that went away but I was at a really cool point where I transitioned from film into digital into even like big print stuff um so I remember I laced the two towers I think it was it was either two towers or return of the king and we had to get platter extenders because the actual print was so big it didn't fit on the platter it was wow that's nuts dude damn I was the last of the last of the type of job. Wow. Mr. I crappin' ships. Sending some support, have a great weekend. Thank you.

M. I.K. Speaking of M.I.K. So last night, at the end of the night, again, it was my lady's birthday. And I'm sure you're familiar with the young Caucasian gentleman known as Machine Gun Kelly. Yes. The multi-generational king, M.G.K.

So I don't know I don't know if you're aware that he's made a full genre change like hard pivot. Yep, yep, yep. And he had already started to where he was kind of doing the pop punk thing and now he's gone like full just like pop

like kind of situation. Kristen wasn't aware really like she knew he rap but she wasn't aware of like the stuff that that he was doing before. So I showed her rap devil and I was like, yeah, Nah, he was, there's a reason why he gets that culture vulture label and, and people are like, oh, oh, so now that Eminem bounced you out of hip hop, you're just going to go over here and try and be like, I'm a sad boy. Like, just, you know, I'm going to go, I'm a hot take. I think MGK is like post Malone where you find your way in and then you keep experimenting until you find what you want.

Like actors, when an actor changes genre, no one's like, oh, they switched it up. I think music should be seen more like acting where it's like I'm a try this type of movie and I like I don't I personally don't like his pop as much as I like his rap I personally see the pop punk thing as like a transition and like I listen to it but I'm not going to put it on a lot I love his hip up I think lace up I think about half of rap devil's era was great um I love m gk the rapper I've seen him live six times what I'm a huge Wilson fan I dude I ran into I ran into dude on the dude on street um i got my wisdom teeth taken out and the day i was like in the most pain like loopie on i see dude walking down the street shirt on buttoned imistakable tattoos walking down the street and i was like

fucking machine gun am i high or is that machine gun kill so like i go up and we start talking comics because he's a huge comic book guy and he had just released a comic with um oh i forget the name of the company they do records and comics as a as a as a release z2 comics so i started talking about his comic and you was so stoked to talk about like not him like to have someone come up and be like i can talk about something but me and uh we had like a 25 minute conversation about comic books and culture and evolution we talked about like christian bail and his batman versus like patents and not yet out like we had a great talk and the whole time i saw dude just so excited to be like let me be a nerd and let me like geek out i got a lot of respect for dude so this is so this is my thing and this is why i understand

and it's mainly black folks saying this but this idea of calling him a culture vulture because it's this random idea of people using black genres, especially hip hop as a stepping stone to get to what you want. It's not saying you can't go play with other genres. People do it all the time. Little Wayne had a rock phase. Obviously, Beyonce did not hip hop, but she did the house stuff. She's doing the country stuff.

She's supposedly about to do rock and roll. People play with genres all the time. But there's a specific thing where it feels like I'm not good enough to get into the country scene or I'm not good enough to get into the pop scene. So I'm going to go do hip hop for a minute. And then once I got where I, like a good stepping stone, I'm going to go hop over here. Or I get embarrassed out of the whole thing. So that's the only thing where I get it because I would remember listening to the first time.

I loved Wild Boy that he did with Waka Flok. I was, I'm a wild boy. I'm like, but I was always, that is a thousand percent, a white boy, like almost a skating white boy, which is kind of what the video was that's doing hip hop. And then all of a sudden it's just like, no, I don't need that anymore. I'm just going to go over here. I mean, I'm also say, like, the breaking news freestyle and the stuff that got him discovered on YouTube was because of where he was raised. Like, he's from Cleveland.

He was around that culture. He wasn't around pop. He wasn't around. Like, he got to evolve into what he wanted. But I think what you're raised around. Like, I moved to L.A. And I was shocked that it was still as broken with, like, cultural relations as it is. Because, like, I was raised in Lole.

And Lole is, like, not. it's a melting pot in a way that isn't my choice. Like we're all stuck in a thing together. So like me listening to hip hop and loll was not weird. Me listening to hip hop when I moved to like Chatsworth was weird. So me knowing more about Tupac than Greg is weird to me because he grew up in North Hollywood, didn't realize what South Central was until we started talking about it. So like I had more exposure to South Central's concepts from Boston than Greg did from North Hollywood because of my environment.

So I don't think it's fair because the dude being white. I get that. If you're from around away. No, no, no, I get that. I'm saying that, that being said, I guess what, what, knowing that more helps, I guess my main introduction to him, I heard Wild Boy, but I didn't think much of him. It was a one-off song or whatever,

is then him picking a fight with Eminem, and not doing it particularly well, in my opinion. Oh, I think Rap Devil is better than Eminem's comeback. I don't agree. A lot of Rap Devil is kind of bad, bro. I don't think the music video was strong enough. but I think some of the bars are stronger than Eminem's, like, retort. I think Eminem's the better rapper by a lot,

but I think those two one-to-one. I also think, like, I was with him from Lace Up through to the battle, so I'm biased, and, like, I own albums of his. But, like, I think it's really tricky because I'm a white dude. It's not my place to say it. No, no. It's what I'm even saying about all of that, though, is the fact that, like, Eminem proved multiple times.

And, like, that's what I said. If I'm not deep into the MGK lore like that, Prove multiple, no, I'm from 8 Mile. I am literally a part of this cult. Like, this is not an act. This is not an affectation. So part of what makes it feel a little bit weird is the fact that since he's gone into the genre as it is, and he always read as a white boy, clearly a white boy that's down.

If you're rolling with Waka Flaka and Kat Williams is in the Wild Boy video and all this other stuff, you clearly have some cred that where people are effing with you like that. Then all of a sudden it just feels like, were you pretending that because you made such a hard shift? That's that's kind of the vibe that gets caught up. But I'm coming from a fan perspective, not from the experience. So like that's different. Yeah, dude. Man, we went from capes and cows to nights and ones and twos.

When person's not here. What about white boys and hip-hop? All it was, all it was was sending some support. Have a great weekend. And we got deep into the appropriation or appreciation conversation. There you go. Abernathy Raw. circus for the orange lantern uh dude any circus for anything i think he'd be great because he's got

the darkness underneath the levity but like yes anything well orange isn't that the the the envy so it's it's it's the constant jealous like give me that i want that too like the smigal right like it's my precious what you have a you have a green ring i want a green ring i want that too give me that ring that's my precious dude can you imagine being fully ruled by that That's the one thing that I always found interesting is that it seems like only the green lanterns tend to be like level headed. And every other emotional spectrum is just on. A mess. Yeah, like willpower you can't have too much of.

The rest, that's problem. B. Gill Studios from a boys, Ryan's Constantine was fire. Do you know there are gray lanterns, aka sorrow lanterns? Are there? I didn't know that. I actually don't know. This is news to me in this moment. I know Lantern lore a little more than the average,

but like gray lanterns is deep cut enough, but I wouldn't have been able to say that. Yeah. There's no way that this is real. Maybe it is real, but hold on. I just did it like four comics ever. Dude, the symbol,

the symbol makes me feel like this is a joke. Because what I tell you, the minute I saw this, I had to stop myself from just busting out laughing. It is a sad boy doing like this. bro. What? Sorrow.

Oh, man. In brightest day and darkest night. What does that say? Hold on. Ads. In brightest day and darkest night, gray storms can still ignite. Where injustice is done,

my light will fight. Gray lanterns might. Huh. Interesting. I, I, very, very interesting. Okay. I did not know about this, but I guess I know now. Thanks for informing me, Begill.

I did not know. I now have some gray lantern Googling to do. I know, right? All right. What else we got here? Also, Begill. Also, my film, The Dragonfly Dark Protector came out today on here. Would be awesome if you guys checked it out.

Yeah. Throw a link in there somewhere, man. I'll definitely take a look. I would be happy to. Love supporting artists. Alan Smithy, Peter Stormair, is my buddy and it gave me money once wow i stood in line of ralphs behind stormair or someone left their change of the dispenser he grabbed the chain shoved it in my hand and said here you go buddy

true story that's cool i like that dude he's your buddy and he gave you money that's that's fire the journey of that story was delightful and i like the context and then the thesis statement at the other luke tg-11 howdy from the uk been to see a bunch of movies this past month one of the highlights was Thunderbolts. While the movie has critical praise, why do you think it hasn't translated to the box office? Quoit? I think it's a lot of things. I think it is being advertised as Thunderbolts I thought was really, really respectful and brave, but I think, you know, if it was called New Avengers, it would have done better. I think that there is a bit of fatigue that I now believe in to a scale of, like, impacting stuff. I think that people felt like these were characters

from the TV shows and one of the movies that didn't get received as well. getting a sequel because this was effectively a Falcon Winter Soldier and Black Widow sequel. And I think that there's that's an element. I also think it, I mean, I think it's one of the best ones in years. I think it's so good. I don't think it's the best in the end game, which is the buzzy thing to say. But I think it's one of the best in the end game. I unfortunately think that that's not enough to get butts in seats anymore.

So I think that the comic book built-in audience is a different size. Like it's not a default 100 million, you know, like those numbers have changed. And I think that streaming has really affected negatively the movie theater experience. I think people are like, and two months it'll be on Disney Plus. And I think that's hurting us. So I think it's a combination of Disney's own streaming service. I think it's a combination of people not going to the theater.

I think we should also, and this is not going to be taken well, but I think sometimes it's the audience's fault. Like I think that sometimes when something goes wrong enough times, we need to look at user error. And like if enough people get hurt using something, they need to realize that it's the problem of the consumer. I think when I go to the movie theater with the public, I have to deal with the public.

And I don't like the public very much anymore. So, like, I can see people not doing that. Like, I don't want to sit around a bunch of idiots that have no social skills. I don't want to be around people talking the whole time. I don't want to deal with, like, the average movie goer, if that's the community I'm in. And a lot of people that used to be like a small faction of the community and then bigger and bigger and now going to the movie might feel like a hassle.

So if you've got that on top of waiting two, months. I think we lost social skills in the pandemic and then I think the internet accelerated that and I think entitlement accelerated that. And I think, you know, open the schools. Yeah. I, I open the schools. No, I agree that it gets hard for me at times to go see movies because of, especially if the movie ends up being mid to bad, it instantly becomes bad to horrible. Yeah. Because of, the experience. Like I, you guys really, you didn't really, but you enjoyed like Venom 3 to a point, right? I ended up hating that, I ended up hating that movie like top to bottom a lot because of essentially my experience watching it in a theater because it was two kids the whole time on their

damn phones and like literally just making the experience unfun. And so I think that that is part of it, unless it is a movie that is like, you have to go see this like a sinner's, like what will eventually sounds like be Superman and Fantastic for things like that. If not because people are praising it, because people are curious, unless it is an event thing where you got to go do it,

that's part of where we're running into issues because we have lost the etiquette to be in those theaters. And then I think the other thing is that. I think that you can pull off a C or D list character or team only if you're kind of rolling. When we got introduced to the Guardians of the Galaxy, we were rolling. Like we were seeing some of the best

that we have seen out of Marvel in phase. A lot of people argue phase two is the strongest phase of the MCU. Obviously you have Infinity War and Endgame in phase three. But with Winter Soldier, what that first Ant-Man, guardians being the sleeper hit it was,

like there was a lot to be loved in that second phase. So you're not in a place of consistency right now. So even if the movie is good, you came off of like a moderately temperate, brave new world where people are like, okay, you know what I mean? That doesn't get people hyped to go then see one team they've never heard of.

So that's part of why they did the new Avengers rebranding. It was always in the cards, but I think that they did it earlier than they planned because they were like, let's see if we can drum up some more business out of it, and it didn't quite translate. And I personally think Thunderbolt was better than Gapelps. Captain America Brave New World, but at least Captain America and the title.

So I think that didn't help. And I also like someone in the chat said like it didn't keep people out of Minecraft. I see everything in the theater. I had no interest in dealing with people that were seeing Minecraft. As much as I wanted to see it to get the cultural impact, I was not gonna risk a chicken jockey terrorist attack. No, no, no. But also the people that went to see it were not anybody

but that demographic that thought chicken jockey was funny to like do all that. So like I actually skipped that. I don't usually skip stuff out of the audience. So, like, that is my point. And so I don't think that we have a cultural understanding of how to be in public anymore. Concerts are people on phones. Movie theaters are people on phones. I'm getting sick of people throwing stuff at celebrities.

Do you see there somebody who did something at Siza when she was signing autographs? And she's like, done and just walked up as they should. Stop throwing things at people. Good God. It's weird outside, man. It's weird outside. All right. on to the next Mr. I-crapping shits,

Coy, wish I could send a pick. My three cats are watching the TV as soon as your cat was on there. I'm going to give my cat so much attention if we wrap early because, yeah, he's been so needy. I've been so busy. I mean, we're moving along. We're up to 39 now, but yeah, we will be done soon here. Some support from unheard sirens incorporated, aka Remy.

Thank you so much. Brooklyn coming in saying I think the end credits of Thunderbolts takes place after the Fantastic Four movie, their world wouldn't be destroyed by the end of Fantastic Four thoughts. There is a time jump in Thunderbolts. They have that. So I think the end of F-4 is the end of Thunder. I think it ends lining the times up.

Yeah. No, I agree. I think so. Go, pal. Congratulations to the HLS class of 2025, particularly my nephew, Kieran. I hope I said that right. We're all super proud of him. You are damn right.

congratulations my guy go and make the world a better place uh simon section well excuse me princess the link cartoon yes that is very much how i remember that show i never saw it so i'm enjoying your it came up during the super mario super sad morning show and then like the cutaway would either be to the legend of Zelda, and I want to say, I can't remember what the other cutaway was, but it was typically to link, and yes, that was exactly what happened.

It was ridiculous. Unheard Tyrants Incorporated says random question. Do you guys still watch Viner's slash Vine compilations? I've been on a hard stop Lucas kick recently. I'm not playing these games. some from time to time i mean most of the most of the viner's of any sort of merit a lot have converted over into tic-tok or reels or whatever um so if they put some new stuff out but if you're talking about watching the old classics sometimes um it just kind of depends there's a lot of

content to watch already so i don't always go back to that because you got to go look for it but what about you when they come across like if i'm scrolling my my ticot output is very different than my input like i put out comic and news and stuff my inputs like happiness and puppies and like I need the joy so I try to keep my algorithm very like and a lot of vine stuff is very quick dopamine so I have a decent amount of like you know a vine compilation of the classics pop up because that's kind of my algorithm so more than I've ever searched but it's the joy I seek I can't believe I'm thinking this but I realize I probably can't say it just because even talking about particular substances would probably like demonetize this thing but it felt like the transition

that Reagan did to the black community. So from the pure stuff to the putting bacon powder is kind of what you went from. You gave them the pure stuff with Vine. And then you moved into the Reagan stuff with TikTok. And you've just broken an entire generation because of it. Yep, yep. And those ads are all of that bacon soda. Yeah, yeah.

Absolutely, bro. Mildbader comic nerd. Hey, guys. Just finished forever on Netflix. And Steph mentioned the lead character could play, miles, which she's not wrong. I don't know forever. I don't either.

I'm sorry, but I, you know, I think we're getting miles sooner than later. I think so, too. Forever. Netflix. Oh, yeah. If we're talking about, it depends on which one, because there's just the photo of this, I think

this is Michael Cooper Jr. Though I could also see this not, it looks like, either this Xavier Mills or Niles Fitch guy, all three of these cats look like they could actually do it pretty well. I just don't know how old these kids are. So, but yeah, I'll be here for it. GoPel comes back in and said got four or five issues of the Tom King Wonder Woman on the plane. And it's interesting, but not what I was expecting. I personally love it. It's really aggressive.

I really like how like it moves, but it's also like pulls no punches. It's, um, it's in DC. It's very aggressively look at the world. This is how it's failing us. And I think that's Wonder Woman. So I really love that run personally. Yeah, for sure. James Clark. Open Chris H's post is a red herring considering the rumors they were looking at directors for Thor 5. I think it's the opposite. I think they are no longer doing a Thor 5, and that was like the resignation of like,

all right, I'm done with Avengers, like Avengers Secret Wars is my last hurrah. We've decided on that. Like, I mean, it feels to me like it's not the end of the character. it's the end of Chris seeking more of the character. I think we're going to get them through the next two movies, but I think that might not mean a four or five. Yeah, I could see that, honestly. Brooklyn, rumor is end credit scene in four is

Sue finds out Doom is sitting next to Franklin's crib, just chilling. That's why I asked my previous question. Ooh, I'd be, I'd be furious. I would be popping a damn force field bubble in his brain immediately. I don't know why Sue didn't do that earlier. Just end it.

Just pop his little brain. Just do it. I know, but I know. But at one cost. And that's what one world done or doom is all about. I know. I know. Derek Johnson, top three finishers in rap beefs.

Kendrick's not like us. Nas is ether. Eminem smack you. What's on your top list? I mean, definitely not like us. That was, ironically, that wasn't even the best dish track of, of the, of the whole thing. It was definitely euphoria.

I would honestly say that not like us is kind of at the bottom. It goes, almost in order, euphoria, meet the grams, and then not like us, but not like us had that special sauce to become a pop culture phenomenon. Also, yeah,

it's a club, like there's not a lot of club hate. Which is, which is kind of what he said. He said he was like, oh, I can't do pop dance music to diss you. Watch this bitch.

That song is Kenney. showing he can be Drake, but Drake can never be Kendrick. And I love that about it. And dude, not to ruin a moment of the track list, but Euphoria Live is insane. Oh, I'm so excited. It was, it changed my DNA a little bit. Like I felt changed leaving. But I would say, uh, uh, euphoria.

I'm going to go hit him up. Uh, I'm going to, I do hit them up at karaoke as much as I can, which gets various results. Uh, you also have to be really careful while you sing it, bro. I do what is the duet with my fiance. Oh, no, you didn't do the thing that my middle school teacher did, did you? It's her favorite, and I love that it's her favorite because it gets me to be like, I'm going to do about a third of this, but I get to watch my favorite person be so angry at the world. Like, it's the best.

Only because I think you know this story. When I was in middle school, bro, it was like three of black kids in this class. I was at a private school in Texas. We were reading Huckleberry Finn. The teacher goes, all right, so there's going to be some. some language in this book that we can't. So here's what we're going to do. Every time the word comes up, I'm going to have one of the three,

I went to an all boys, but I have one of the three gentlemen here say it for us. So it would be like, Huckleberry Finn and they look at me and I'd be like, Jim, we're on the raft. And like literally, that's how we would read the book and we would just rotate. Everybody would turn and stare at one of the black kids and we would have to say that I am so glad you ask because no, that is not what I do. I give that whole verse, like we've established which rhythms we hit.

I don't just go like Walmart version. No, I'm very, no, that would be the last song. It was not great. I would also be not getting married next year. No, we duet, so there's beats and beats, and those beats are specific. That said, for me, it's Euphoria, hit them up, no Vaseline, then probably not like us. Like, that's probably my top floor. I would go, I would, well, but if, I guess it was finishers.

So like it ended the beef, not that. God, okay. So finishers, I still think Vaseline. Vaseline should be in there, and I think hit him up should be in there. Yep. Hit him up, Vaseline, not like us. I mean, Ether is fantastic, but definitely hit him up. Like, not like us fully, I think at this point, because there has never been a beef song to ever do what not like us did. Won all those Grammys.

Top of the charts for like 13, 14, 15, not just the hip-hop chart, all of Billboard for months. And that's in a world where it's Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift and all. and Beyonce are all just hold number one spots nonstop, man. Yeah, not like us has reached the top of the throne there for sure. All right. Luke, TG11, another one for Schnep. Thank you so much. Appreciate that.

Rest in peace. King of Sweets. Derek Johnson, first comic character you fell in love with. Probably Batman. Yeah, probably Batman. Spider-Man for me. I mean, Spider-Man. Derek Johnson.

As long as Superman gives me Iron Man 1 vibes, I'm satisfied. It doesn't have to be endgame, but it does have to feel like a start for me. I agree with that. Give me, let me walk out feeling like I just saw Iron Man 1 because I was hype at that Iron Man one. Yeah, that changed so much for me. Especially to end on that line. I am Iron Man. Woo!

That was crazy. Derek Johnson, can you both cook exceptionally well? I'm very good, though I have to be honest. I know that my lady, her mom wasn't as good of a cook she told me. So it became a paramount for her to do that. And I feel like we were probably on even ground when we first met. She is far surpassed me because she loves to experiment so much. And she is so good at making so many different things now.

I am very decent. I make my stuff well, but I'm not good at learning new recipes. Like I'm really good at what I do, but I'm not a creative as I wish I was. I'm very, very good at making new drinks. Just from all the years of bartending, I'm very, very good at flavor profiling stuff. And, like, I am a very good cook, and part of that is my mom told me at a young age.

Like, I would be playing video games. She's like, get your little ass thing here. You ain't going to fall in love with no woman because you know how to cook. You don't learn to cook your damn self. So, like, I very much know how to throw down, but I got to give my lady credit. She is really the master in the house now.

Oh, my God. She is the queen of cooking at this point. Let me change that real fast. Oh, my God. Okay, Derek Johnson, I'm throwing random questions at, y'all. What's your favorite candy? Either Sour Patch Kids or Sour Warheads. I love sour candy.

I like Twix a lot. I like, I'm a chocolate guy, Twix, Kit Kat, Milky Way, Snickers. Yeah, those are go-toes. Good word. Awesome. And appreciate all the random questions, Derek. Thank you. James Clark, been watching since Heroes for Schnep.

Thank you so much, James. so really appreciate you for that. Matt Krugman. Coy, I saw MGK and Ava Levine, with Ava Levine and Ian Dior in Atlanta, insanely good show, also to hear that he's a nerd too and Winston's Squirrel Stampede, baby. As someone who was assaulted by a squirrel recently,

I reject that. So you would really hate if Squirrel Girl just showed up at Disneyland. I will also respect that Squirrel Girl would defeat Doom because that sucked. But I think MGK as a nerd is something people need to give him more credit for i think him is a dude him as a father all those things i'm not saying he's a better rapper than emm i don't want that on record incorrectly i do think he's an incredible dude and i think he's a great rapper that doesn't get his flowers enough as a rapper as much as i

don't love the pop stuff em and m i consider like i think he's comfortably in the top three conversation he's my personal number one but uh i mean emm and m m gk are both titans but emm's like there's a tiered level where it's like m and it's you don't follow football like that but i would be like if If we're just talking about rappers in general, like Eminem is in the category of the Lamar Jackson, the Josh Allen, the Patrick Mahomes, the Joe Burrow, like the top of the tip top. I need some of those names, so I know they're big. Okay, there you go. Whereas like MGK is like, when he was at his peak would be like, you know, a Justin Herbert, a Dak Prescott. Like the guys that are like, I got some talent in there.

but there are definitely people that are light years ahead of you in that regard, but you're still in the mix for like some like solid bars and whatnot. So, all right, Derek Johnson coming back, movie conspiracy. Ers Mowgli from Mog, Mogg, Manga, I never saw Gremlins. Magwai? Never saw Gremlin. You should. Our baby Ewox that made it to Earth, ask yourself,

uh, you ever see a baby EWalk get wet? I have not. You have a point. You got a point. And I enjoy this throwback to 80s lower. here. Yeah. Also, damn, we, we blow it up. We have 56. Look, we technically have 20 minutes. So if you guys are able to get us to 223, I don't know if we're going to quadruple this, but we're killed. I don't know. But we do. I do. I do too. I have to get to work. The ill Yankee,

a third for the sweat king. Thank you. Long live, John Schnep. Continued, thanks and blessings to you brothers. Appreciate you, man. Thank you. Derek Johnson coming out with the support. Thank you so much. Derek Johnson coming in again. Watch out for those indigo lannins, super crazy. Yeah, you got to be careful. Derek Johnson coming in talking about mustard, which, okay, here's this. Master! I just, it's funny, but it's like, I'm like, come on. You're going to hear it soon. I'm so excited. Let me know how you had the concert goes for your Oh, absolutely. Hot dogs and relish. I came today to spread some joy and support. I appreciated

Derek Johnson, absolutely. And then Matt Krugman goes, is mayonnaise an instrument mayo on the beat. Oh. And then it's like Rambeen ba'

man man man man man man all banjo all like

tangerine the whitest instruments. It's all what is the accordion? Yeah accordions and like

cello and the bagpipes buns. Yeah everybody I love some good buns. That's real. Beagle Studios, can't share the link in the chat. Sorry about that, man. All right. We'll figure it out, man.

Tell us what to search for, Begill, and we can figure that out. Old Man Mike, Winston, thoughts on Ultron. Also, Coy. Yep, I was mentioned that before. It looks like I probably won't have time to play with it now, but I will, after Blurred this evening, I will be streaming. So if you guys want to see me check out Ultron in real time, definitely Twitch. TV slash the swaggy blurt. Derek Johnson, there's love flowing in the chat today.

Feel it, absorb it, smell it. Eagles don't fly with chickens and peacocks don't strut with turkeys, babies. I've never said that, but I might be still in that. I like where this went. Like, it started good and ended up even better. Eagles don't fly with chickens and peacocks don't struck with turkeys. That's hilarious. That sounds like an old school.

I'm in my uncle era now. My uncle era. Like, that sounds like some shit I would say to my niece is a nephew. Come on now, you know egos don't fly with no chickens. Picos don't stroke, no turkeys. Come on. Derek's always like wisdom, but now I'm seeing a different side of wisdom. It's, I mean, I've talked about this.

Some people are like, man, why he'd be acting so different? I was like, well, have you ever heard of code switching? It's something that black people do all the time. And there's a certain that, like, all people do it. If we're honest, you don't talk to your parents the same way you talk to your boss. You talk to your girlfriend that you talk to your boyfriend, that you talk to, you know what I'm saying? And that's just something that black people do more than most is because we understand. fan that there's layers to this.

Derek Johnson, support, support. Go pal. Wonder Woman, this felt particularly topical. Yep. Why? What happened with Wonder Woman this week? It's talking about, you know, edging towards fascism and

the problem they're in. And, you know, this comic's written six months to 12 months ago, depending on, you know, how things ago. And you should read the Wonder Woman run right now. Is this absolute Wonder Woman, or this is the standard title right now? The main title is hyper political. It's set in D.C. And it's something special.

Okay. I'll check it out. Support. Thank you, Derek. Finisher's Winston, Finagersers. It can't all be, it can't be all the songs. It's got to be the one that ends of beef. I know I was the one that told Koi.

And then I got my other two. Absolutely. Go, pal. Let's keep it going since I missed a couple of days. Appreciate it. Derek Johnson coming in again. Thank you so much. Marcus M.

Since James Gunn likes lesser known characters, Do you think we'll get any characters from Milestone comics? If we don't get static, we riot. I think static is so overdue. I think that'd be a good, like, if you start with static, then, you know, build that universe. I think that totally possible. I don't know anything, but that's a great opportunity. And icon is, icon and Rocket are interesting, but, you know, I don't know about going with another Superman character right now.

So I think, yeah, introduce static, and let's go with that. Calvin Calvin Severo Panjo with a very large nation I don't know exactly what that translates to but I know that pink color is a big deal coy people usually say that comic stores are a place for all but as a gay man it's rare to find an LGBTQ comic at a store I feel most of them are regulated to libraries

I never felt welcome at one you have any impression on this thanks I've always lived in pretty liberal cities. So I've always found comics, for my experience, as a mostly straight-white dude, a place for people that don't feel welcome at other places. So my experience has always been like the comic shop I shop at, like, very welcoming open. There's a lot of LGBTQ comics highlighted, and both the big two put out like specials and have characters that are like Superman's son and like who, was Superman for a while. There are issues in Pride Month that highlight those characters. So my

experience, but again, I don't know how it feels to be looking for it and not finding it. I know how it feels to be a guy going, hey, that's great. Like I don't know. And I'm also in L.A., Boston, Boston, I mean, Massachusetts is the first state to recognize gay marriage. So I moved to L.A. thinking that progress was further than it was. So I'm playing catch up with hate as we devolve. Um, so I, uh, I see the other, but I hate that you feel that way. I also, I don't know what this money is. So it might be from a country that isn't, uh, where those places are. Um, so it might be unique to your experience because of that, whatever that is, wherever that is. So I'm sorry you feel that way, but I, in my experience, I've seen a lot of the other, uh, especially in the big two really focusing on. And then independent comics have a lot of, I think it might be a, the South African symbol. Okay. The Rand. I think it's the Rand. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I was only in Cape Town for two weeks. I don't know South Africa comic stores. I only found like three. They were awesome. So I'm not sure, man, but I know

there's a lot of comics that are coming out. I just don't know if they're making it to those comic stores. Yeah. No, absolutely. I'm definitely sorry, Calvin, that you aren't always having the best experience there. But yeah, I mean, it's one of the reasons why, like I said, X-Men is one of my favorite runs ever because anybody that's a part of any sort of minority to group that has seen hate thrown their direction, they cover all of it, both with, with, the metaphor of mutants, but then also individuals, a part of those other groups also having to deal with stuff too. So my favorite moment in maybe the X-Men animated series,

the OG, is when the alternate timeline when Storm and Wolverine are dating, and they're not worried about mutants because they travel back in time. They're like, she's black. He's like, you are kidding me right now. And so I was like, all right, just throws a hurricane wind, it throws a guy out of a bar. Calvin says Brazil. It's called Rial.

So money is... Oh, okay. Oh, headache. But South Africa also had the Rand, so I... Copy, copy, copy. Go, pal. Do they still do the green bag sour skittles? That's a great question.

I'm not sure. I'm actually not sure. Derek Johnson. Coy was assaulted by a squirrel, was a big ball. That is not a squirrel served. That is... As a chip mug, right? And I've done my best to appease that beast.

We seem to get along just fine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A. Sol, Winston. If Koi was a rivals player, which role would he play, and which hero would he mean? Kudos if you think of answers for the rest of the Christian Halloff crew. Okay. Koy played, I think he would probably most likely be, I wanted to say a strategist, but he'd be a vanguard, and I think he would probably end up playing a lot of Dr. Strange. Just knowing you and your energy, I feel like you would feel the urge to want to protect everybody, but also, be on the front lines and then also using Dr. Stranger's powers, like throwing portals and throwing

up shields and using, you know, the eye of Agamoto and all that stuff. I feel like you would really enjoy that. And if not that, I think, because you can be a little squirly, though, I know you hate squirrels. I think you actually would enjoy playing Rocket, not maybe Squirrel Girl, but I think you would enjoy playing Rocket who plays his support, but has a Gatling gun and is running up walls. I'm a huge Rocket fan. That sounds nice. So I think both of both of those would fit. Christian would most definitely be the thing. Just lugging around, just, you know, that feels like him just punching everything as hard as possible. Yeah, I can do more, but let's get to the rest of these questions.

Derek Johnson, if you could grow your hair to any length or color, what is your dream hairstyle? I miss my dread fro a lot. I did that, and I always wanted to dye my hair like a blonde it a little bit on top and whatnot. But I, my agent was like, you can't do that because you're going to limit me to a few things. So no, thank you. What about you? I had a Mohawk. I loved it, but I'm getting old and I'm losing it.

So I'm just appreciative of what I got. My unct status also could be bald status in the next 10 years. So as I'm as I have it, I'm just grateful. Yeah. I trim the top a little, but I only shade down the sides because I both my dad and my brother did at some point. So I'm like, no, I'm going to keep this on top of my head as long as I can. I literally every phase of my life, I think of what my memoir would be called, and my current memoir title is The Hair I Have Left.

Oh, my God. Andrew Carnes, who would make the villain of a world's finest film? I feel like it's got to be Luthor and maybe even a Luthor joker, to be honest with you, but you could also do a Brainiac. I could see a world where maybe Swamp Thing is super pissed off, because stuff has gone wrong and maybe goes a little rogue. Like there was a time with Poison Ivy and Swamp thing kind of working together and she kind of corrupting him a little bit,

but they're really just trying to protect the Earth so I could see that too. What do you think, man? I think Luther Joker is like something we've all wanted. I feel like you also, if you're going to make something of that budget, it has to have that budget of villains. So I feel like on the finance side, Luther Joker, but I'd love to see Poison Ivy get her flowers, pun intended. And I think that would be a global scale thing.

So something like, you know, a big of, vent having multiple villains, but the core too, I think it would be them too. Yeah, that makes sense. And our last one, Beagle Studio says, just check out Beagle Studios. We'll do, my brother. We'll, y'all, it has been awesome. We still found a way to do the full two hours. We appreciate you helping us get to 60.

That was crazy. Absolutely nuts. Thank you so, so much for that. Coy, one more time. Tell them what you got going on, man. Hunt me down on YouTube at Coy, Jondro for all of my comic movie TV reviews and news stuff. Hunt me down at DC high volume over on DC's YouTube. Hunt me down at DC Studio Showcase over on HBO's YouTube.

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I'm going to start separating out my gaming streaming. I'm going to really just stick that to Twitch and then any of the talk stuff I'll keep on YouTube just because it's killing my algorithm. So tonight, again, Twitch.com TV slash a swaggy blurt out. We'll be playing some rivals this evening, so definitely come and hang out. But before that, 5 p.m. Pacific time,

YouTube.com slash Birds in the Hood, Twitch.com slash Blards in the hood. We were doing a special episode at 5 p.m. Pacific. So don't miss that. You can see you spill the tequila. on Tuesdays and I'll be back here next Friday. That is going to do it, ladies and gents. So thank you so much to everybody that, you know,

came through and let us do our thing. Y'all take care of y'all selves and we're going to get out of here, man.