The Kristian Harloff Show - Katherine Mcnamara In Studio Interview! | Arrow | Shadowhunters

Episode Date: May 12, 2023

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which unfortunately yesterday we got the news that it was not renewed. So when you see the question come up about me asking, is it going to get renewed? Don't think I was being insensitive. It was just shot earlier. But nonetheless, Catherine McNamara was just a delight to talk to. So we'll be doing that and airing that in a little bit. But I also wanted to take some questions from you guys. You usually do this on Sith Council.

We, during the community page on YouTube, we asked some questions. And you guys have usually put some great questions for the Wednesday, Sith Council. edition of big thing. But I've never really done it for the main show. So I was like, why don't we try to do that? And you guys can ask whatever you want. There's some great questions. So we'll get to that and more. Before we do, who's going to be in New York? Who's going to be close to New York? Who lives in Philadelphia? Who lives in Boston? Get to New York, man, on June 23rd. Everybody always says, hey, man, if you get to the East Coast, then I will definitely be there. Well, if you live on the East Coast and you haven't bought your tickets, then I'm going to have to

say you're full of crap. So June 23rd, you can, watch the show, myself, Winston, Coy, Kate, Brett. Looks like I might be able to get one more person working on it, but it looks like it. And then the next thing in Stanford, Connecticut, double-toasted, Mark Ellis, myself. I mean, that's when you've got to definitely see for sure. Four of us doing a podcast together. I mean, that's going to be a blast live. So make sure you check it out.

And you get tickets at the Christian Harlov.com. Okay. So with that, make sure you're also. You want to get yourself a, whether it's a big thing shirt, sit council, any of that. You go to RT Public link, which is linked in the bottom there, Spotify, check us out on a video. And let's do it, everybody.

Don't forget the interview we did yesterday with Freddie Prince Jr., also on the channel at the moment. But here we go. Here's the big thing. I'm ready. You're ready. Let's do it. Hello, everybody.

Happy Friday. Fast and a Furious or Fast X coming out. I guess it would be a week from today when it comes out. I kind of bummed the miss. I have to miss the screening, but I will be seeing it when it comes out. I just watch Fast 9. Not great. But I watched it on at home over the course of like three days,

which was easy to do. Mindless entertainment, but it's when you watch, the fifth one I really enjoyed a lot. I think from four on, four, five, six, really good. Seven starts to get. silly, eight's silly, silly, silly, and nine is just off the wall. It just loses a bit of its magic. And I hope 10 kind of gets it back.

Momoa looks like he's having a lot of fun. So I'm, the cast is pretty pumped. I always enjoy watching those movies. It's like, I don't know if it's guilty pleasure at this point, but I just dig it. And I think that a lot of people feel that way. That's why they make a billion dollars every time they put in the theater. Fast nine doesn't count. It was during the pandemic.

So I don't really fault, you know, it did the least amount. but for the time, whatever. I've been watching some random shit, guys. Random stuff, a lot of 80 stuff. And a lot of you guys might know that because on the website, the Christianharlhoff.com, I started a new podcast. It's just for the people over there. But it's a podcast I kind of always wanted to do.

And it really, it's just what I'm watching is what it's called. And I kind of explore whatever was kind of in my mind to watch at the moment. Like some of the stuff I'm going to be covering this month on the podcast is this is just what I've watched thus far. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fast 9, the last unicorn, Mystic Pizza, and Richard Dreyfuss's Let It Ride, which nobody knows what that movie is except me because I loved it so much. But those are some of the things, and it's not even the end of May yet. It's going to be a lot. So if you want to get that podcast, that's exclusive for website members. So make sure you check it out.

the Christian Harlov.com as well as the rewatches. The rewatch this month is going to actually be fast nine, which will be a rewatch for some, but for me it's a first time watch. Okay. So here's what we're going to do. I'm going to get to the Catherine McNamara interview in just a little bit. I want to get to some of these questions. I know that you had a bunch.

We'll talk about the questions, and then we'll go to the interview, and it'll be probably a shorter episode today. It is what it is. maybe not i don't know but here's the here's the first question that came in and this is from james diesel 1468 who says hey man we didn't say hey man i made that up he said what happened to the live streams well and he probably saw yesterday he wrote that question before last night the live streams for those who don't know i don't know i'm you know i'm very curious i'm going to ask people who are watching this right now to comment when i asked this question as if we're doing a live stream right now. How many

you knew that I do live streams on the Christian Harlov and Friends channel? How many were you even aware that there is a second channel? Because I don't promote it that much. It's not the channel is not meant to be this big promotion, I hope it grows and hope this whole big

thing happens with it. It really is just kind of like this exclusive club for people who are subscribed to it and that want to be part of the live streams when I do them. I usually do them when I do them at like 4 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. PST. And it's just a matter of how my workday is going. And if I have some time to do it, I pop on there. And if you've ever seen the movie with Christian Slater, pump up the volume, I've kind of taken that mentality of it. It's like, okay, I'm in the mood to do it. I can do it. I have the time to do it. Camera's on, microphone's on, let's go. And if you're around and you see the notification, that's when it's not like this scheduled things. I've gotten people who said, well, yeah, but if you do it that way, you're really not going to get a lot of views from it. You're not going to get, It's not going to grow the channel.

It's not the intention of it. The intention is really just who's around? Who wants to talk? Who wants to have some fun? And we do some things. We have some conversation. And we mess around. And to answer your question, I did one yesterday.

I was really slammed the last couple of weeks, which is a good thing. I just did every time I kept getting close to doing one and like a phone call would happen. Or I had to do an email or was editing something. And I was like, I just don't have the time to do it. But yesterday I had the time. do it. I'm going to try to do one by the time this recording is taking place. And we'll see my goal is that I had done two this week. That's my goal. Maybe I just did one. You guys will tell me because this is, this is coming, I'm shooting this in the past and you guys are watching

this in the future. So, but yeah, the live streams are, they're not going anywhere. I'm going to be doing them. I am going to be doing as many as I can, when I can. So if you're subscribed to that channel you'll see more of them just make sure you hit the notifications on and i know some people youtube kind of stinks that way anyway people who say i never get notified even when i do have the notifications on so it's a it's an algorithm thing the best i can tell you is if you want to catch those live streams check around the 3.34 pm psts area um weekdays i do some on the weekends sometimes when i find time you know when i usually do it is when my daughter my youngest daughter is watching television in the mornings.

I usually sneak out in the back and do about an hour, an hour and a half when I can do it. But that will probably want to happen this weekend. But I enjoy doing them. I have fun doing them and I enjoy the conversation. So, yeah, it's the Christian-Rloff and French Channel. Thanks for the question. They're not going in.

They're not anywhere. They're still around. But thank you, James. Okay, next question here from Ray Espinoza, 75, 680. He says, is the war with the squirrel still raging? Also, what are the worst movies that you seen. The worst movies you've seen is a tough one. If you meant this year, I haven't really seen many big stinkers this year, to be honest with you. I haven't seen any movies that have really

been like, ugh, it was terrible. I didn't love cocaine bear like everybody else. I don't know. I thought it knew what it wanted to, well, I don't know if it knew what it wanted to be. I think it was my biggest problem with that. I think the tone was kind of all over the place, but people loved the tone. So I was on the opposite with that one for a lot of people. I haven't really I think there was really bad movies this year that I've seen It's not to say there haven't been any I mean ones that I just thought were okay

Once I thought or that I was excited for That I thought were gonna be good And like, like Ant Man was fine People hated it It was fine I like Mario Really loved Guardians John Wick was incredible

Loved Air Yeah the Evil Dead was really good So I don't know yet. I mean, in general, I mean, of all time, I really have to comb through it and think. There's tons of stinkers out there. But nothing that really stands out this year that stinks. So as far as the war with the squirrels, the war with the squirrels, excuse me. No, that doesn't happen anymore because I'm telling you, my old place, the squirrels at that old place were rabid assholes.

They were dicks. They were dicks. These squirrels aren't bad. They don't bother anybody. They play in their trees. Sometimes they jump around the dog chases them, but they don't bother me. I never had beef with squirrels. I had beef with those squirrels.

Those squirrels were dicks. The ones in my old place, they were dicks. They used to come into my place. They would run around. They would terrorize my kids when I walked. They'd be staring at them looking like they were going to jump. I hated those squirrels. These squirrels aren't.

These are not bad squirrels. Until you mentioned, I didn't even, I don't even, I don't even, I don't even, I don't see him. I see the dog chase him sometimes, but that's it. He can't chase shit. By the time he starts running, and they're halfway to Detroit. So, no war with the squirrels anymore. It's officially over. But I know that might bump people out, but that's what it is. Next question here. Oh, James Diesel again. Best concert, first concert.

Best concert to me is a tie between Bruce Springsteen in Anaheim. 2010, I think, maybe 2009, but we're around that area. 10, I think it was in Anaheim. And Guns and Roses at Dodger Stadium. When was that? I think that was 2016. I think so.

That one was great because I didn't know what to expect from Guns and Roses that many years later. And I took my wife to see them. We had a blast, man. That was a really good concert. And the Bruce Springsteen one was amazing. Those are two that really stand out. The first one I ever went to was Brian Adams and Def Leopard together. Dad took me and I was really little.

So, yeah, was it Madison Square Garden? I think it was Madison Square Garden. Those are the ones that I always remember. Thank you for that question. All right, next question here. This is from Lil Goosey 8-426. Hey, Christian, I intended both in-person movie club event at Flappers. My question is, what movie potentially could be our third meaning?

Spider-verse or the Marvels? I would probably venture and say the flash if it was going to happen, but I don't know if it was going to happen. Because John and Greg are busy. I'm not sure. Plus, the fact I really want to concentrate on this one. You said you saw the movie clubs. My question to you is, did you watch the big thing?

Because the big thing is going to be available. I think that the one, the movie club one is still available to watch. with me, John, and Greg on live stream until this Sunday. This bad boy that we did, that's going to be available. And definitely, if you are on the website. And if you go to the website, thechristner-Harliffe.com, you can watch the event that we did. And that was full stand-up for the first hour.

And then the following 50 minutes after that was full podcast with myself. and the first, it was me and Mike and Steph for like 15, 20 minutes, and then it was me and Winston and Coy for another 1520, and then it was, we ended with Roxy, Brett, and Kate, which was chaotic, as you would probably imagine. And that was the show, and I thought it was amazing. I thought it was, to me, it was, I really have fun with John and Greg, and we have a good time talking, but I like the element of comedy.

You know, you guys know me. I've just been doing this thing. I always liked, and this whole reason, I wanted to do this channel because I can infuse. And the reason why I was so distant on the collider stuff, because when it's too, and again, this is not specific to the movie club, because I had a lot of fun on both those shows that I did with those guys,

and we had some laughs for sure. But I don't know. I like, I just kind of like having the whole crew and as we're building out the big thing and doing those live events there. I think that I'm going to concentrate on that. But it's not to say, I mean, if John and Greg want to do another one,

I'm open for it for sure, but I think that right now, like I said, New York, Connecticut, I want to do a show in front of an East Coast crowd. I think that's going to be a blast. And that's going to be available for streaming as well. And for people who are on those tiers, I think it's like over the, if you're the $10 tier on the website, you get every live event. So you would get both of those. If you stream them, I think there's a separate price for each one.

But if you're on the $10 tier, you get them both for like $10. So just if you're able to, Join on up. I hope you can. What would say that you had there? Oh, yeah, but I think that what we're going to do for New York, for example, Koi and Winston and myself will definitely be talking about the Flash because that'll be the week after Flash comes out. So we'll be talking about the Flash.

So if you want to be able to check that out, now did you say that you were actually, you attended both in person? Were you, a little goosey, were you at the big thing one as well? and if not, I want you to go check it out on the website and then you're going to say you wish you were because that was a rowdy show. Really, rowdy show. We had fun.

But we are going to be doing after parties also. If you guys didn't know what the after parties were, and we're 95% sure going to do one this month. And what the after parties are, we're going to have everybody from the big thing in studio and do like a massive. It's almost going to be like the old Schmo's No Show, SCN Live, where everybody is going to be in studio.

you're going to have mix and matches. At the live show, you had basically the pockets of people that you want to see that you've watched here, whether it's Sith Council. You get to see me, Mike, and Steph live. You get to see me, Coy, and Winston live. You get to see me and Brett and Kate and Roxy. But at the after-party show, you get to see mixed matches of combinations that you never really see. So you would see Brett and Winston and Coy, Mike and Winston, Mike and Coy, Mike and Coy, Mike and Roxy,

Steph and Roxy, we see them a lot on the World Goes, but you know and me on this channel. So that's kind of the idea. After Party with some drinks and some fun, and that's exclusive as well to the website. So just be aware of that. There's another thing that's included.

There's tons of stuff included in there. But as far as that, if you want to check out that in-person live show and see what you're missing, go check it out. All right. Next question. Here it is. Tom Hanks, what up, man.

5-5-8-5. Do you listen to Force Center podcast all, and would you consider having them on for an episode? I mean, look, Ken and I've been friends for a very long time. I'll be completely honest. No, I don't listen to Force Center. That has nothing to do with those guys. I think they're great at what they do.

I don't listen to Star Wars podcast, to be completely honest with you. And again, it has nothing to do with the amount, with all the people who do them. But that's one of the reasons why. There's so many people who do. And my philosophies on talking about Star Wars are very different than a lot of people. I don't really necessarily want to tune into shows that I don't want to tune into shows that hate everything.

I don't want to necessarily turn into shows that love everything. I like to have debates on my show with the things that we like, the things that we don't like. And that's why I like to talk about them more so than listen to them. And I mentioned this on the stream, I think, yesterday on the live stream. I feel like right now with the, like I'm a Yankee fan, right? It's like, just be, and this is what I never understood. If you're a Star Wars fan, you're like, Star Wars fan, were you ever really a fan? I'm done.

I'm done. I don't want to be part of this anymore. We're you a fan? You can be a Yankee fan and go, team's just not that great right now. You know, it's just not great. I mean, the Yankees are pretty great right now. You know what I'm saying? Like I was looking at like the 19.

the early 90s, late 80s. Not people like 90s, they won the title of 96, Dick. I know. Talking about the really early 90s, late 80s. They were not good. Management wasn't the best. And that's kind of what I feel right. And everybody has that if you're a sports fan.

You know, it's like, okay, this is the team I loved. They're just not great right now. They have really good players. They just don't have, they don't have, they don't have, they don't have a game plan right now. And they keep trying, but they might make the playoffs if they're lucky, but they ain't winning any titles. And when they do, I'll be there.

When they come in last place, I'll be there. I'm not a fair weather fan. I'm rooting for them. But as a fan, I want to be able to say, I don't like that game. I didn't think that lineup was good at that game. Would it like them to do that? Didn't happen. Would it been great if they won that game.

doesn't mean Screw them, I'm not going to watch that team. I'm going to watch a team anymore. Look that team. It's like that I don't understand. But I also don't want to do, oh, the team's amazing. I don't know. I don't know that they are.

This has nothing to do with the question that you asked because the question is, as far as Joseph and Ken go, I think those guys are incredible. I think they're both hilarious. Joseph is incredible talent. I was so impressed with him when he did like the schmowdowns and his knowledge, but how funny he is. I like Joseph a lot. And Joseph is a stand-up guy.

And I like Jen. I know Jen Murrow's on the show as well too sometimes. I think. I know she's really busy writing, too. Jen's always been very kind and sweet every time I see her. So I love the crew. I just, like I said, and if you, same thing would, Ken probably have the same comments too. If you ask him if you listen to Sith, he doesn't listen to Sith.

he and I have very different philosophies on Star Wars. We know that. We didn't talk about Star Wars together because I don't really agree with a lot of his points on it. He doesn't agree with a lot of mine. But we can talk about it. We can talk about it casually, but it's not what we talk about when we see each other. We talk about comedy. We've been friends for 20-some-odd years. So we talk about other things other than Star Wars, to be honest with you. So having Ken on as a guest on Big Thing, and having Joseph on a guest, as for Big Thing, 100%. I'd love to have them both on and Jan as well. But I wouldn't want to talk Star Wars with those guys, to be honest. But anything else, I'd love to have them on.

I think they're great people. Okay, next one. Here it is. Film goo zero zero. Hey, Christian, what's the main goal with the future of your YouTube channel? I mean, look, right now it's building. It's building out, and the live events are an experiment right now. That's why I haven't announced anything past New York

because we're at, right now, we're like, I think, 70, almost 77,000 subscribers on the channel. We did that in a little over a year and a half, which was very impressed. So people are like, oh, the channel says it's been up since 2019. Well, it was a Clips Channel. We started, this channel started as a S-E-N Clips Channel and then eventually turned into the Shmodown Clips Channel and then was like an S-E-N-Live channel

where we ran the S-N-Live for a little bit and they didn't really know what to do with it. and then I started running a couple shows on it and they didn't, you know, they didn't do what we kind of hoped that they would. And in, I think, August of 2021, I started running a few episodes of Big Thing on it to see how it would do. And it was, I think, September, October of 2021, where I said, well, let me start doing some reactions and reviews,

dipping my toe back in the water. And I started doing that. I started dipping my toe back in the water and people were watching them. And I was starting to see some traction on it. I was like, well, I'm having fun doing this because I think I lied to myself and told myself that it wasn't fun anymore in general. And it wasn't the case. It was the way that I was doing it in the past. That wasn't fun.

It was being mandated and dictated to do it a certain way or having to do it or this is the time to do it. I was like, let me make my own rules of when I want to do it, how I can do it, and see if that works. And it did. And I, you know, I experimented with stuff. I experimented with the, I remember learning quick that the algorithm is not the same today as it was when Mark Ellis and I were doing stuff for Schmose. And what I mean by that is we would do it, let's say we would watch an older movie. And granted, the subscriber basin was different. But like if we were like, okay, I'm going to watch a movie that I hadn't seen before and it's been out for like a couple of months, it would do pretty well.

So I was like, oh, do that again with free guy. People are maybe probably want to know what I think about it. Nobody gave a shit what I thought about that movie. There was the first review I did out the gate. It was like, free guy. It was like, nobody watched it. I was like, oh, maybe people don't care about reviews anymore. I was like, well, it's not that.

It's not that. They don't care about it four months later from you, dickhead. They care about if they're going to see the movie when it comes out. You see it early? Great. You see the day of, do it. And then I started doing those out of the theater reactions and other things. And it started to play.

And I was like, okay, this is working. And I've given credit to him many times over and I'll do it again. Greg Albin and I were on the phone many times over and he's been so his nose just in it for so long giving me tips, helping me out, help me build like, you know, little tips

and stuff that I would do and all this. And I just, and I was really kind of one man banning it for a lot and I was running the channel when I was at Skybound and anything that whether it was any monetization that the channel did during that period

from 2021 until last year in September, anything that the channel made, whether it was podcast, revenue, or anything, superchazzle, it all went to Skybound. That was part of the deal. Because that channel was the movie,

the movie trivia Shmodown clips channel, which was theirs. And I built out the channel, and they were incredible. When I left, I was able to get the channel and take the channel with me and do my own thing.

and now this is my gig. So the answer to your question is to continue to grow, but I also want to produce more things. I'm working on something that I'm producing right now. I can't announce it yet, but it's looking good. And I think you guys will be excited about it when I can officially announce it. It's got to push things through. You've got to get people to continue to watch, comment, like, do that,

let people know that we're doing these shows. You're more of an interest on it when you're watching it. make it part of your rotation, whether you're going to the gym, if you're taking a road trip, if you're enjoying what we're doing here, support it, listen to it, you know, check it out, and let me know exactly what you think. All right, let's do a couple more than I want to throw this interview. Where is it? Are we done? I don't think we're done yet.

Oh, sorry I got so much. So as far as what my main goal with is, it's to, it really is to, it really is to, continue to grow it out, get to a place where the goal is if we can get to 100,000 subscribers and then start to see, because what I don't want to do is when we started, I always take an indication of the live events, right? When the Schmodown was at its height and we did an event in New York, we sold out in like two or three days. Chicago, we sold out quick, a thousand seats.

Now, I'm very aware that the Schmodon is a different type of property and show that people want to see but when I put a show on and LA's different also but when I put a show on and and we need to sell 140 tickets or whatever it is to make sure that it's worth doing and it takes to the day of we did it but it took to the day of to do it it's like it's it's still a feat and paid people on Kate Mulligan was like you got to be so proud right it's like maybe it's the freaking perfectionist to me I don't know but I was like no I got to I have to we got to sell those out faster because it shows that there's a want for it. So right now, New York is selling.

Connecticut is selling, but it's like the same thing. It's like that slow thing until we can start selling out shows quick again that you guys want. And that's the other thing that I always tell myself, right? It's anybody who always gets upset with anybody else in your life when you're not in a place that you want to be. and you're like, well, how come that person has this? How come that person has that? I should be doing that. Don't do that.

Because it's always on you. It always is on you. Well, I don't get that. No, it's always on you. I'm not telling you that it's easy, and some people don't have it easier, and there's not paths sometimes that come in easier, but there's always a way.

There's always someone who knows somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody that can help, but we don't always do the work. And I certainly say that, like, when it comes to like stand-up, I was doing, I was doing seven shows a week, two shows a night, I was doing showcases,

I was getting great opportunities, and I gave it up because I said, all right, YouTube is a new thing that it's working for me, I'm performing, I told me, I kept telling myself, I'm performing all of the time

in front of so many people, and we built a great audience, Alice and I, and I still, I'm like, shit, how'd I stay, and I realized it, like, had I stayed doing both, probably had a very different,

for stand-up career because I'm doing, when I go back up on stage, I've been doing really well. Sets have been well, sets have been good, and I feel like I've still, they still got juice, you know, and I still got, I still got ammo in the tank. But I look around a lot of the people

that I came up with, and they're all crushing in stand-up, and I can't go, oh, man, the choices I made. The choices I made. So, and there's a lot of things that I look at, and I go, yeah, but if I had done that, then I wouldn't have this. I wouldn't have that.

So there's always positive inside of it. I'm just saying it's in it. And this is advice that I had gotten from, from Ari Sharfir years ago. And I remember being like thinking about particular things like, how why does that guy have this? And then he's like, what do you give a shit about that guy for? Concentry on you.

What you're doing. You're right. So there's always advice that he'd give me that I always stick to now. It's just, it's always on you. In a certain aspect, it's always on you. You know what I'm going to do. Let's throw to this interview. And I want you to see Catherine McNamara

because it's a great interview and she's awesome. I never met her before. Didn't know, but she's just really cool, humble. I was sitting in and I was watching her, Perry was in here interviewing first, and I was just listening to her, and you can just tell. I like going second when we do these kind of tag team interviews because I can get a gauge of who the person is,

and how I feel how comfortable I'm going to be myself and how comfortable I can make them, or how much I have to work to make them comfortable, how much I don't have to work to make them comfortable because they just are pretty damn cool. And she was pretty damn cool. Let's listen to her. So this is going to be a breeze.

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at mintmobile.com slash thing. Well, thank you, me. I just threw it to me, so I'm throwing me again. So as I told you up top, I'm very excited because once I told you guys, I know how many Arrow fans we have, I know how many Shadowhunters fan we have. Well, I got Catherine McAnamara on this. the show. And she has a new movie, Fool's Paradise. She also has Walker, Independence, and I want to

talk to her about all of those things and more. And here she is. Hello, Kathy. Here I am. You were here. Thank you so much for having me. Of course. You know, the first thing I have to bring up, because I don't know if you noticed inside the studio, a lot of Star Wars stuff here. I love it. He'll right at home. I saw your post, big celebration on May the 4th. Are you a Star Wars, like, casual fan, mega fan? What kind of Star Wars fan would you say? I was raised on Star Wars. I have loved Star Wars from the time I was probably

six or seven when I first saw it. And the original trilogy is my favorite. But it's just such an interesting world and it's all-encompassing and the mythology is so great, but it still has a sense of humor and, you know, legendary cast and crew.

And it's a world that always feels like home. There's so much nostalgia to it. But I think now, you think talking more of the filmmaking side. I have such respect for the practical effects that were used. And I think the sort of resurgence in return to that now is really interesting. So, you know. Yeah, there's so much going on with it right now. Yeah. And your world, I mean, it's hearing your story is one of the things too, because people know that Perry also shoots interviews here and I was able to kind of listen to what

you guys were talking about. And I learned so much about you just from the half an hour that Perry was talking to you where it is really nice to hear how. humble and grounded people. And it's really the way that you came off inside of that brief conversation that I heard with Perry. Thank you. Yeah.

And from what I hear inside of the theaters where you kind of started, and then television has been the thing, right? For the last part. And keeping in that Star Wars, I think Star Wars is television right now. Now, they're going to get back to TV, but with stuff like the Acolyte and, you know,

Andor. Andor. I love that you brought that up. It's so good. So good. Asoka coming up. And the reason I bring that up is because the second you made that post, there are people that started to blog right away and say,

where would Catherine McNamara fit in the Star Wars world? And people started throwing out marriage aid from the legends Luke Skywalker's girlfriend at the time. Right. So I don't know if they're going to do that or not. But if they're, I know the obvious answer is if Star Wars comes knocking, you open the door right away. How much do I have to pay you to give me on Star Wars? No, I'll give my left foot to be a star.

But make me a stormtrooper. I don't care. I just want to be a part of that world. Have you had meetings at all for Star Wars? No, never. Never. Never met with Lucasville. Never.

We got to get you to Lucasfilm. I would love that. Yeah, for sure. So I want to go back to Kansas City. Yeah. And I want to, there was something else. Come on down. We'll get you some barbecue.

I would love that. Yeah. And a couple things as I was reading about you. And my daughter, I have an 11-year-old daughter. And she's moving into middle school now. And she had some, you know, issues as she was transitioning in third, fourth grade.

You know, she's, and I love her for this. I love that she's like being kind of a geek and plays the cello and does all these and she's super smart. Such a cool kid. She's a super cool kid. But she's going through things where she didn't feel like she was the cool kid and felt like she was bullied and all this things. And I know that you had a very strong presence in

as you started to make your career to be very involved in anti-bullying. and all that is because you, when you were younger, which was shocking to me to be honest, that you were bullied pretty heavily growing up. Was that a Kansas City thing? Was that because you were a theater kid? Do you want to talk about that at all?

I mean, I can touch on it lately. I think, you know, unfortunately in this world, when people are different than whatever the norm is, that can happen. And that's one reason I was so outspoken about it is because it's the simplest thing is to just be nice to people. You have to really go out of your way to be mean to someone and to bully someone.

someone. And I just think that, you know, I don't know why that still persists or exists in our culture, but if there's anything I can do to counteract that, I will. And to, you know, show people that, hey, you can just be nice. Just, just be kind. It's smiling takes fewer muscles than frowning, you know, it's the simplest thing. And I mean, obviously we know that it often comes from something that has nothing to do with the person who's being bullied. And so then, you know, having conversations about supporting each other in other ways and being there and finding the people that are going to be supportive of you instead of tear you down. It leads into much bigger conversations.

But, you know, I was really grateful to have some good close friends and family that did support me through and kind of helped me navigate that as a kid. Well, that's the important thing. I mean, because not everybody has that, right? And not everybody, some people feel so alone because they don't have any support whatsoever, whether it's friends, family. And that's ultimately what I told my daughter. I said, you can always come and talk to us.

you have your friends that you have, but it's being able to do that to start, because that can take confidence away from you in any situation, especially as a child, right? Yeah. So finding the confidence again to do what you do, right? I mean, you have to. And is that, so does the theater, does acting,

does that become ultimately like a therapy kind of get away from it all place? Oh, goodness. We're getting deep. Yeah. Well, I mean, look, unfortunately acting does kind of become therapy sometimes, bringing up all of your, you know, deepest, darkest things that have been painful in your life to, you know, access different emotional things. No, it's not really.

But it, I like to joke that is. But, no, it's, it's, it is a lot of it for me when I first started. It's getting to go be someone else for a little while and wear a mask and tell a story and kind of explore a different world, both, both in a sense of creativity and fun and also in a sense of, it is, it can, stories can be a relief from, from life. It's what they are. They're an escape, especially so many of the stories that I've been able to tell. And that honestly is something that I love so much about having done a show like Shadowhunters

because it is such an inclusive show and it spans so many different things and has become relatable for so many different people are the shadow, we call them the Shadow Fam because the Shadowhunters fandom is the most beautiful thing. And I call them Angels because they absolutely are. It's become this incredible community of support and acceptance and love. So much of that is because that's what the show is about. No matter what you're made of, no matter whether angel, demon, or human blood runs through your veins, it's your choices that make you a hero.

And it's your choices that determine who you are. And you can build your own family, as most of the characters on the show do. And getting to watch people connect and relate to the show and to the characters in that way and find friends and find community in the fandom has been the most beautiful experience. And it's so interesting to hear you say that too because there are a lot of fandoms even speaking about Star Wars, right? Star Wars, Marvel, DC, those fandums are tough, man. They look at like sports fans. I'm not saying that there's not a lot of great positive fans because there certainly are.

But with the way that social media is and the way in general, and you have a significant following on social media from the shows that you do and do you. And it's actually very encouraging to me to hear you talk about the fandom that way, how support. port of it is because I don't think every fandom can say that. What makes the shadow hunters so different do you then? I think it all started with, I think it started with the story, a lot of it, because ultimately that's what the story is. It's about love. It's about love is more powerful than anything in this world, any force, angelic demoniac or otherwise. And, you know, the found family concept runs so strong through the show as well that I think a lot of people start by connecting to that, and then we'll find which character or characters or

relationship they connect with. But ultimately it's down to the people within the fandom. And this is why I travel all over the world still and do conventions for Shadowhunters. Every, every, I just came today. I landed from Germany. I was at a comic on. I literally landed two hours ago at LAX. But

it's because these, I call them kids. They're not kids. Many of them are lovely not kids. But I call them kids. But so many of these kids just have created this community and they are there for each other and they support each other. And there's, you know, fan artists that now have careers because of the fandom. There's people that have met their spouses,

people that have met their best friends, that they never otherwise would have and have found confidence and support and love. Even it was my favorite thing when the show would be airing and people would disagree or be unhappy with something in the story, the conversations people would have were never these kind of vicious fights. It was a very structured intellectual debate of, oh, I see how you're saying that. I differ in opinion because of these.

these reasons, but I respect that this is your opinion because of these reasons. And it was just so nice. I know it's sad that that's so foreign to me, you know, because when you see these, like, just the way that, like, Twitter, I'm a big advocate as much as I love it for social media like the promoting. Yeah. I'm a big advocate that I wanted to go away. Yeah.

I just feel like it's just, we've lost, we've lost this. I know. The conversation, you know. I know. And I see both sides of it, too, because I've met so many kids that have reconnected or connected with people that are their soulmates in so many ways that people. They would have never met if it wasn't for Twitter. Interesting.

So, you know, it goes both ways. It does. You're not wrong, but it's just, I just see so many things happen there that I'm just like, yeah, if it goes away, there'll be another app. I think the important thing we have to remember is that, you know, yes, it's important and it's a connective tissue and it can be good or bad. But ultimately, it's just ones and zeros. Yeah.

At the end of the day, it doesn't, it has no substance, truly. And if we can respect it for what it is and love it for what it is without letting it take over our lives, that's the sweet. Well, it's also kind of the tone of everything we've been talking about right now, and that's the choices you make in deciding what you want to say, right? And it's a matter of like the same thing we talked about when I was asking about the bullying stuff is that people choose to be mean. People choose to be mean on Twitter. And you can also choose to lift people up. You can choose to put out a helpful and fun meme or something as opposed to one that's going to make someone sad.

So it's like there are choices. And also to go back to what you were saying, you don't know what's going on in someone's life when they're doing these things. But you had a very positive experience. I love that with Shadow Hunters with the community in general. Was it the same with Arrow or do you see a little bit more of the other side of what we were talking about?

I was actually very lucky when it came to that. And I was a bit trepidious going in because when I auditioned, I didn't know this, but when I found out that I was playing the daughter of Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoke, that Elycity relationship is so beloved to the fandom and they're so protective over it, I just wanted

I just wanted them to like me. I wanted to do a good job and I wanted to honor all the work that Stephen and Emily had done for so many years and I was very fortunate. The writers had such an amazing idea for Mia and for her story coming in and then as it went on

it kind of developed and we'd had so many conversations about it and it was really beautiful the way it all played out but I was very grateful that the fandom welcomed me with open arms and was really willing to just jump right in and go. There was a little bit when I first came in of like, well, who is this girl? And why is she here? What's she doing?

And then when the penny dropped of who I actually was, they were like, oh my God. Right, right, right. And you were able to do, I mean, Flash, you're able to do it on. So you're able to play that character and take different aspects of her and different shows, inside the same network, obviously, but like, what do you feel, because you've done, you know, you want, I just found it recently, you want to direct,

which is awesome. How to find that out? but I the fact that you want to direct did you always want to direct is that something that came about for being on Shadowhunters a lot and kind of seeing the process is it television, is it film

where does the passion kind of come from and where do you ultimately want to land with it? I mean I knew I always wanted to explore it but I didn't think it would come for a couple of decades probably but then I was working with Michael Goy he came to do an episode of Shadowhunters who he's brilliant

cinematographer, director who's been around forever, he came to do an episode. And he'd come in and gone, great, you guys have how you shoot your show, and that's nice. We're going to get weird with it. And we're going to do things differently and have fun and be artistic. And he was really open to me, you know, asking questions. So I was having a lot of conversations with him. And one day he turned to me and he goes, you know you're asking all the questions a director would ask, not the questions an actor would ask, right? And I had no idea. And since then I've sort of looked at it a bit more. I've shadowed different directors on Arrow and the like and really studied directing read Sydney Lemat's book,

which changed my life. I do have a very directorial sensibility in the way I look at telling stories. And I think it comes from starting in theater and starting in Kansas City Theater specifically where you're working as a team to tell a good story not to further what your specific advantage might be. I get hopeful in theater

with people who start in the theater want to direct because I'm always, I guess call me, story snob and character snob. I like this. I mean, sure, I like to shove popcorn in my face and watch the big explosions, all that's something. Anybody else, like I said, I'm a big Star Wars person, but I like, even with Star Wars, I was a little bit more critical on some of the episodes recently because I want to see a more deep, like you mentioned Andor. Andor was perfect. Yeah. Andor's perfect. What a deep dive into character and story and yeah, right. So that is why I get

hopeful when I hear that like people who've been in theater so long, it's do you, obviously you take that with you when you, what do you think? If you had an ideal, tomorrow someone said, okay, you can direct anything you want, no matter what it is. Yeah. TV, movies, what do you direct? I think whatever it is, I would want to tell a story that I could apply a lot of perspective to. Yeah.

And whatever that is, but a perspective that tells a story. Because that's what I love most about directing is that as an actor, you know, you have your lane in which you can tell the story. You have the things that your character goes through, what your character looks like, how your character interacts with the other people in the world through which you can tell the story, but as a director, you can tell a story with light and with color and music and where you put the camera is literally directing the perspective of the audience. And I think finding ways to have that be meaningful and have that say something and everything be so intentional and purposeful

is exciting. Yeah. I think it absolutely isn't to see what you're going to do with it will be amazing. And speaking of someone who's directing for first time, and that's Charlie, Day. Tell me the story about how this all comes about. So you have the movie coming out May 12th. Yes, May 12th, Fool's Paradise, in theaters. Charlie Day's brilliance, writing, directing, starring in the film. He's chef's kiss.

Yeah, I mean, who doesn't love Charlie Day? I mean, come on. He's hilarious. Every interview, everything I heard about him. So I used to do a show years ago with Catherine Reitman. And she's the coolest. And Catherine was friends with Charlie. I remember he was like on her show at one point

and she just would rave about how great Charlie was and you'd just see more things and like the evolution of him directing and you go yeah of course because you just feel like if he wants to do it those sets are going to be fun and he's going to put I think similar to I was just saying like he's going to really

put an emphasis on the character and the timing and the beats is that is that accurate? Absolutely yeah no I mean so much of what Charlie does is about comedy and the sensibility of comedic timing and things like this but what I found in working with Charlie is that he's so conscious of the magic that happens on set and sort of the play that can come from it and the allowing of ideas to build on ideas and

making sure that everyone feels heard. Which is such a rare thing on set. It's true. It's such a beautiful thing. But what excited me and gave me so much confidence in, you know, I don't get to do comedy often. I love comedy. I don't get to do it very often. And getting to come in and play in a film that has some of the greats of not only entertainment, but comedy in the world, Ken Jong, everyone else. And coming in for a day, I'm going, am I going to be okay or am I going to ruin this movie? But he gave me so much confidence by being excited by ideas I was bringing to the table

and then giving me notes that built upon those. And then his ideas gave me ideas, which gave the other person in the scene ideas, which kind of really created this beautiful microcosm. Seems like a lot of freedom, too. So much. But he also had clear direction with his freedom, if that makes sense. He does make a lot of them.

He knew the story he was telling. He was decisive about what he was doing. He had his perspective and yet still allowed everyone to play. And that's the brilliant balance. And you kind of have to be with comedy, too. Look, there are definitely directors that have an idea, even inside a comedy, to say, no, we got to hit those beats, do it that way. But the comedies that you really, the ones that I love kind of growing up and just in general,

or the ones where you always hear, yeah, we got to play. That wasn't part of the script that particular moment because they knew the character well enough, they knew the director's vision, they took the shot and being funny, and they're talented, and they made the move and it made it happen. Well, that's the other thing about directing, and it's very similar with how I approach acting. You know your stuff, you make sure you're prepared,

you know everything backwards and forwards, but you're not locked into it. You still have to have a sense of an opening for that magic to happen and that sort of freedom of the moment in that collaboration. That's right. And I think, and so speaking of collaboration, I know that you were also in New Mexico for Walker Independence. And usually there's a big collaboration there with everybody too. So tell me a little bit about working on that and how you, you know, I know season two potentially, fingers crossed.

We're hoping. We're hoping. I mean, television is such a strange landscape at the moment. So we really, we truly know nothing. So many people are like, I know you can't tell us anything, but no, we truly know nothing. You know, we just launched on HBO Max. So you can actually see it now and you can stream it whenever you want. So please visit us

there, relive the story with us or watch it for the first time. It was such a magical story. We wanted to walk the Walker, Texas Ranger legacy is such a huge one to try and step into. And for them to do an origin story but led by a woman and have a woman be the first walker in Texas and kind of tell the story through that perspective. It opens a door with what we ultimately wanted to do with the show,

which was take perspectives in, in a Western that you maybe haven't seen yet and that haven't really been given the credence that they deserve. People that were there, people that are sometimes there in Westerns, but usually tangentially, or they're very pigeonholed by the stories that have been told by them or about them or involving them over the years. And getting to bring in, you know, this cast of a world that feels familiar

and characters that feel familiar. And yet as you peel back the layers, you find out there's so much more there, not only to this town, but to each of the people within it. Yeah. And just hearing you, obviously, just until, I never envy you guys what you have to go through. Even people like, you're working all the time. And for people who in this business who are looking for that next audition and looking to get the gig. And now right now, you know, obviously with the writer's strike and everything happening, it's like, it's tough. So I don't admire the, I mean, I admire the hustle. Thank you. Yeah, of course. I just, it's that. it's that feeling of like, okay, I have this show, it could get picked up. We don't know now if it's not going to get picked up because we don't know what they're seeing,

if they're liking it, or now we don't know because we want to make sure that our writers are taking care of. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, that's the important thing. But, I mean, the one thing that you're always certain of being in entertainment is uncertainty. Right. Every job's going to end eventually. Right. And, you know, unless you're on Grey's Anatomy, which is still going, you know.

That's crazy. That shows you're going to be way in the ground by the time that show is, oh. I love crazy anatomy. I do. I love it. It's, you know, my family's in science and medicine, but I put that on and it feels like home, especially now that Harry's on the show, and I'm really enjoying it. But, um, but no, it's, it's one of those things that you just roll with the punches. And you know, that, especially now, I think there's such an interesting opportunity because there's so many ways of getting things made that are unorthodox. Yeah. That even if you're not working, you can go make your own stuff or at least develop your own stuff. You know, if you have the ability and the freedom with which to do that, um, I think that's even more exciting. Because if you'd think, about it the films and television shows that changed the landscape of the industry were never the ones that people had confidence in they were never the ones that people thought were gonna succeed they were things like Star Wars and Top Gun and even in comedy look at Seinfeld exactly yeah people said yeah sure you can try and make this thing and if it doesn't work that's your career and it made

not only someone's career but an whole industry shifted well loops back into it this whole thing the whole thread of believing in yourself it believing in taking that shot, making your choices. And you have made some amazing choices, obviously. And we've got two great projects that people can check on on HBO Max, obviously, and then on May 12th, Fool's Paradise. So I wanted to thank you for coming in here for short. You're traveling from Germany and everything else.

Take a break. Rest for a second. I'll try. Please. Thank you once again. Guys, Catherine McImarry, you can find her all over the socials, and make sure you check out both of the projects. So thank you once again.

Thank you. Now back to me, me. all right so first of all thank you very much to mint mobile she saw in the beginning of the um the beginning of that segment there and how great was kathamak mara she was great man she's really really awesome i'm glad that we had her in studios bummer about the i know just sucks now seeing the walker part of it because news came out the other day that it was canceled it just sucks but such as life and she said as much too you hope but you don't know and she doesn't not like she'll be hurting for a gig she'll be working for a while she's very

very sought after, if you will. I mean, I'm going to finish up some of these questions, by the way, that came in and then we'll call it a day. Russell Maydor, 3144. Do you think Jonathan Majors will be recast? The trial takes time in the court of public opinion. Still the biggest obstacle. Well, look, this is the thing.

I do think he's going to be recast. But I think they're waiting, obviously. The writer strike is something that they're working on. the question is how many more people come out. What are the facts? I think one of the biggest obstacles is this. The thing that I want to know is what do the publicist, his old publicist and old,

which is management company they dropped them, what do they know that we don't? Because it just doesn't make sense to me that if you've been working with this client for so long and he's at the height of his powers acting wise. And is it just pressure from everybody? Like, though this is bad, we got to drop him. That certainly has happened before,

but it's also odd that nobody else would just pick him up, considering Marvel hasn't dropped them yet. And yet no one has picked them up. And maybe they have. Maybe you guys can tell me, maybe another firm and another management company has picked them up, and I'm wrong. I'm not paying enough attention to it,

but it just seems to me like, What facts do they know that we don't that they would just, because if I'm not in a business with you, and John of the majors is our biggest client, and the facts aren't there yet, we don't know them. From what we know, we know some, we know accusations are there in this too, but we don't have all the facts of the case. And we go, no, no, no, he's going to pull through the business side of this. He's going to pull through this. He's got all this Marvel stuff, and we're going to make a lot of money together. So we'll figure it out.

unless you hear like, no, Marvel's going to drop them. We have this. There's a lot of evidence coming out right now. There's more I hear this, this, this, this, and this. Maybe we drop them, and we should. Or we're getting all this pressure. All this pressure's coming in. It's not worth the stress on the company.

It's not worth trying to fight this fight. Let's drop them. Any one of those scenarios is possible. It's just what do they know that we don't? but Marvel's waiting and now with the writer strike and everything too there's a little bit more time because you've got Loki season two is coming out

he's going to be in that the other movies that he's going to be in don't shoot for quite a while so they have time to wait before they make any decisions so I shouldn't definitively say he's going to be recast because I don't know I don't know what's coming out as far as other accusations

I don't know what case his team now maybe has to say, no, these were false accusations, and we can prove that. And this is, there's going to be both sides of it. So I shouldn't definitively say that he's going to be recast. It just looks, if it was today, and you said Marvel needs to make a decision today, I would say, yeah, they're probably recast.

But who knows what's going to happen over the course of the next year? I don't know. All right. Getting back to the next one. Steven Somers, 4628. How long do you expect this writer's strike to last.

So funny. I had some, let's say ball bag, but some guy on Twitter the other day going, hey, you're going to talk about the writer strike? You're going to talk about the writer's strike? And I was like, yeah, you know, we've been talking about the writer's strike. It's like,

people should fight for what they believe in. And the studios are taking advantage. They always have, and they've been waiting for this to happen. And the writers should be fighting for what they're fighting for. I stand with the writers. And we've talked

about it before too. And you're like, you're going to keep promoting studio stuff? Like, no, I'm going to talk about the shit that I watch. And he's like, I said, but we have we have stuff that we've actually promoted inside of, I think the Krista Miller interview.

He's like, no, you said the impending Raiders straight. And LOL, what do you what do you think? And I go, what I think is I don't talk to people who still use LOL. He's like, oh, yeah, right, you're hack. And I'm like, that's the end of this conversation. I can't. It's just not the way to, like, again, presenting to you know a guy with like it just created his account yesterday just to fuck with people

and and and call some shit as opposed to just saying to someone hey do you have what are your current thoughts on it because I just haven't heard it as much too instead of being like looking for an aggressive fight because that's what people do on Twitter obviously it's why I hate that fucking app so much but instead of doing that because I would love to see an actual debate with somebody and you say like hey man listen I'm curious like I haven't I watch you show are tuned into that particular thing. I've been watching and I haven't seen you talk about the writer's strike and what are your thoughts on it?

I think that's fair. That's more than fair. And as I just told you, my thoughts are that they should be fighting for what they fight, what they're worth. And I think that I've seen it for many times over that the streaming thing, by the way, is just not well defined at all. And people

are getting taken advantage of. I mean, shit, look at the thing that happened with Scarlett Johansson with the streaming. And just now is Scarlett Johansson. Imagine what they're doing to the writers in general. It's not definitive enough. They don't have a good, there's not enough that's carved out for writers

and it's become harder for them. So they should be able to fight for what they're worth. But I think that it's going to last to at least July or August because I think that the studios wanted this to happen because they can now cut certain projects that they were spending a lot of money on.

There's other things that they can that they, this was, they, they learned from 2008 and they knew it was coming. They knew that, hey, once the contracts are up at this point, you know, they're going to strike. Yeah, we can push it to this, this amount. That's why they push certain projects back and they have stuff in the can and there's things that are coming out. So they're not, unfortunately, the writers are going to be the ones that are really, because

they need to fight and they need to get, they're doing, but from not working, they're going be the ones that are going to be hurting more so than the studio if it lasts until July or August because like I said the studio has prepared for this but I think it pushes into July and August if I was to guess which is a long time in general I hope it doesn't go into the end of the year but I would say July August right around his other side of it is the question is what's going to happen at Comic-Con right you'd assume there's going to be a lot of picket lines out there I mean one would assume All right, next one.

11th Cub fan. Any plans to do reaction videos? Either the TV or movies. So I've done a couple. I did some for House of the Dragon. You know, I did some for a few other ones. We did one for the Munsters. The problem is, and this is, again,

the same kind of answer, I guess, that I gave before. But it's a matter of, if I know that if I do them enough, and you keep getting them out there. eventually you would hope that more people are going to know your channel for that and the algorithm's going to start favoring your channel for reaction stuff. The problem is that unlike a lot of the other, I mean, I edit everything here, but I don't edit those. Nerd Chronic edits those for me and he's really great at what he does and rightfully so, he's got a fee. With what I'm doing right now and the budget that I have for myself and the way that I planned it out for the crew and all that stuff too, it gets pricey.

And if I get the editor's fee, and I pay the editor's fee, but yet the video only does 8,000 views and doesn't pay it back and add cents or it's just not worth it. It doesn't pay back in people finding it and subscribing or liking it. So it's harder to do. I'm really contemplating doing a first watch run of the Indiana Jones movies with Winston and see how those do.

And if they, but like I said, like it's going to be a financial, not financial risk, but it's going to be, it could be a loss, right? Because I got to pay Winston. I got to pay Nerd Chronic for all four of the movies to do. And then I got to cross my fingers and hope people want to watch it. If you do, then it's worth the investment to try to do some. more, which I do the first watch type stuff. But if not, then not so.

Like, I'm glad I didn't do the Mandalorian. It was going to do Mandalorian, but the way that it played, like, I did Andor. And Android didn't do very well either. So it's just not something that I think that I'm going to do as much. But maybe, I don't know. I don't know. Well, we'll see. Next one here.

Elliot Wilson, 21, 22. What would you rather? A Russo Brothers Star Wars movie or a Tony Gilroy Marvel series. Well, it's the same thing I was talking about before, right? Like, using the sports analogy, I'm a Yankee fan. So I'm always going to pick my team first. And I want to see, like, I was bummed when I heard that the Russo brothers were talking about directing Kevin Feigey's Wadlow's Star Wars movie that apparently never existed. So I was, that I wanted, I really wanted to see that.

The Russo brothers are massive Star Wars fans. So I'd love to see them do a Star Wars. I would also love to see a Tony Gilroy Marvel series, but I don't know. I think the thing is, the reason why the ironic thing about Star Wars right now is because it's not the thing that I love, they wanted to have the most is this connectivity with the team.

It's like, Flonium Favre off doing their thing, Gilroy's off doing his thing, Leslie Hylen's off doing her thing. You know, you got the Ray movie and the Flonian, everything's like all over the place. whereas in Marvel it all kind of placed together with the team going okay go this way this way this way even though maybe the last

phase hasn't felt like that but I don't think Gilroy would play in that MCU realm as well as he done Star Wars Star Wars is like okay I know I can connect to Rogue One because I pretty much directed the movie what do you want me to do? Oh I want to do the spy thing

and yeah, with Andor, let me just do my thing. It's not connected to anything else, and I'm not going to connect it to anything except Roe 1. And I think that just plays better for Gilroy. So I would pick the Rousseau's. But it's a great question. I love that question. The answer is I also wouldn't be upset if it was,

you don't get the Russo thing, but you get the Gilroy Marvel series, you know? Ronan Unchained. Any chance of the big thing, Sith Council, Capes and Council, would have a presence at ComicCon. Unlikely, but that's not to say that I'm not going to be there.

It looks like I'm going to go to do at least I'm going to try to do Mark's comedy show if he still will have me. And then, as I mentioned earlier, I'm working on something that if it happens, which my fingers are crossed that it will, that we're aiming to try to do something at Comic-Con. And if we do, that will be big. and I guarantee you that everybody that I mentioned it to here that's watching this will want to be there.

But I don't know if it's going to happen. So we have to just cross my fingers. But I will be there regardless for those days. Whether or not we're going to have, I don't think we're not going to have a presence. And I think that one of the reasons why is because of strangely enough, as I just mentioned with Shmodem, when the Shmodem was at the heights of its live events and selling out all over the place, The place we did the worst was San Diego Comic-Con. And to be fair, the venue that we, what we had at, as great as the venue was, it was like 20 minutes away, 15, 20 minutes away from Comic-Con.

So you really, you had to drive out of the gas lamp district to do it. And it definitely was, it definitely hurt us. I mean, it was like a 400-seater, and I think we got like 250 in there or something. I remember this one guy, and he said, he's a great fan. So I'm at Star Wars Celebration. I always remember him as the guy who went, how come this place isn't pack?

And I'm like, you gotta bring that up now? I'm aware of it, guy. He was a sweetheart of a guy, and he was a big fan. He was there every freaking event. He was always excited about it, but it was like, oh. And it was, and it wasn't had, the video itself crushed. It was Richard Cushing versus Mike Allenhouse.

for the IG title. It was like, it was a massive event. And like I said, we just sold out New York. We went to selling out Chicago, I think it was at a, we sold, that was the thousands to see a little while beforehand, but then we sold out Orlando like two months later. So it had nothing to do with, it wasn't the show at all. The show was Atlanta sold out, but it was for some reason the offset of San Diego

or of Comic-Con making people travel out. You got to do it right on the strip. and now everybody has those things booked and it's probably just too pricey. But I'm hoping that the other thing happens. We'll see. All right, let's see what else. The Grouch, 74. You've been fortunate to have interviewed a number of amazing celebrities throughout your career.

Do you have a personal highlight? And is there anyone in particular you'd love to sit down and talk to for personal pleasure or not work related that you haven't managed to yet? Well, I met Julia Roberts. I met her, but I never interviewed her. would love to have a one-on-one with her. That would be great. That would be one for sure.

As far as personal highlight, Stallone, Harrison Ford, all those interviews, by the way, if you ever want to see any of the interviews that I've done, whether it's on this channel or from the past, all the ones that I could find,

there's a playlist on this channel that just says Christian Harleff interviews, and they're all up there from the times I did my show with Tiffany Smith to the Comic-Con stuff, a Fandango, to Collier Live to all that. Shmoh's no, they're all on there.

So if you want to see any of those interviews, it's all in a playlist called Christian Roliffe interviews and you can sift through it. I mean, pleasantly, no, there's a ton of them. But yeah, personal highlight would be Stallone. Making Stallone laugh was awesome. I mean, there's a lot of great ones. So that was, those are some.

And I probably just to have like a full-on, one-on-one interview with Julia Roberts would be great. and Don Mattingly will be another one too. All right, let's see. Save the cow. Saved a cow's 4-714. Maybe we talked about it on Sith, but I was wondering your thoughts on Star Wars Vision 2,

or you will watch. Yeah, I've watched the whole thing, and I have talked about it, but this past Wednesday, we talked about it on Sith Council as well. And Steph raved about it, obviously, and I really, really dug it. Same story team working on that as Jedi Survivor,

on Lucasfilm, I think they should be doing more stuff for live action and other things. I think they're really good. They get Star Wars really well. So, yeah, my biggest thing with visions is that all of the stories worked for me. It's just not all the animated styles work for me, but that's a me preference more so.

I don't know people love the Wallace and Gromit thing. I just, for the Star Wars side of it, didn't work for me. The story worked. But that particularly took me out of it. But that has nothing to do with anything. That's a me thing. But yeah, I really liked Visions a lot, and we did talk about it. If you want to see a full breakdown on it, check out Steph's gushing review of it from Sith Council this past week.

Okay. This is a couple left. Damon Hawk 65-43 says, hey, what happened to this Tony Soprano painting? You mean this one? It's right there. It's just on the new set. It's a different set. It's by the couch and just fits better there than right behind me.

because Brett was right. It's like, my shot over here looks better now. It just, there's more, there's more going on. It's, the set looks good.

And then you got this for, when people, publicists come in, they sit down and they have this. And it's pretty great. I'm excited for it. I like it. I think that was the last one.

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