The Kristian Harloff Show - Netflix Officially WINS Bidding War For Warner Bros! What Does This Mean?!

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

Netflix has officially won the bidding war for Warner Bros, and this could become the biggest entertainment shake-up in modern Hollywood history. Today on The Kristian Harloff Show, we break down what Netflix buying Warner Bros means for DC Studios, HBO, Warner Bros Discovery, theatrical releases, streaming competition, and the future of iconic franchises like Batman, Superman, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, DCU, and more. This episode covers the full fallout of Netflix winning the Warner Bros acquisition, including how this could affect the DC Universe reboot, upcoming slate decisions, leadership changes, and what this merger means for the future of streaming dominance. SPONSORS: AURA FRAMES: Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/KRISTIAN. Promo Code KRISTIAN NUTRAFOL: Nutrafol is offering our listeners $10 off your first month's subscription plus free shipping when you go to https://www.Nutrafol.com and use promo code KRISTIAN.  BUTCHER BOX: As an exclusive offer, our listeners can get free steak in every box for a year PLUS $20 off your first box when you go to https://www.ButcherBox.com/KRISTIAN RIDGE: Take advantage of Ridge's Biggest Sale of the Year and GET UP TO 47% Off  by going to https://www.Ridge.com/KRISTIAN #Ridgepod

Look, I was wrong. I always say it. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I could have sworn Paramount was going to win. They did not. I could have sworn that Netflix was just doing this to up the price. I was wrong. Netflix gets Warner Brothers.

They did it. They acquire Warner Brothers and HBO Max. It's that easy. It's that simple. It's easy. it's done, it's over, right? Wrong. Lots of stuff. Going to be messy. Going to be lawsuits. Going down. And that's really what's going to happen here today. And man, I'll tell you, I was wrong about a lot of things. I was wrong about my math. I was doing a reaction today with

Sam. And I was trying to do two things at once. And I was like, okay, let me just tell Chris and Winston, we've got to push it back an hour. And I told them, hey, can you guys do 12 o'clock? Which makes no sense in general, because they usually do 12 o'clock. That's 9 a.m. Their time. What I meant to write was 1 o'clock my time. And instead, they thought it was 12 o'clock their time. So I had to send an email and say, hey, I messed up my math about four minutes ago. So it's a good part. I think I think Chris is at least going to show up. It's a good possibility. ability we only have Chris. I don't know. I had to send that email out, but my schedule is kind of moving today. So Chris will be here soon. I think Winston will be here. I don't know.

But nonetheless, we got a lot to talk about. So between that, and really going to be, as I said, this story has been moving for a bit. So the question is going to be, when does it get done? Does it get done? And what does it mean in general? If it does get done. So we're putting together what we put together. It is the absolute craziest show so far. Let's get into it, everybody. It's a Christian Harle of Show. Here we go.

Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. So what a crazy day it was in general. I woke up to a text from Winston General who said, Hey, check this out. And it was Netflix buys it. Netflix got it. And it was weird because last night at some point read that, well, no, not even last night on the show yesterday, I wrote that, hey, someone told, it said, it looks like Netflix is going to get it.

And I, I'm going to be honest. I shoot it off. I said, okay, great. There's no world. Netflix is going to get it. I'm eating crow. I'll tell you. I had no clue.

I couldn't even imagine that they were going to get it. I thought they were just, I didn't think how they were very serious about it. Wrong. So what does it mean in general? There's a lot of, there's a lot of fear in the industry that this is indeed happening

because Netflix has made a big stance on not releasing things in theaters. So does that mean that we're not getting any more, Warner Brothers movies, I don't believe that's the case. I really don't. I think that this is the way, and I've said this many times over when we're discussing the possibility in Netflix, what I think makes sense is if Netflix is okay, we keep getting these creators, it won't do our shit because we won't release it theatrically. We're putting that out of the way now. We'll give it them options. We'll give you a whole buttload of money if you made it for streaming. We can be a decent amount and put it out in theaters. And you can make it under the

Winter Brothers branch now and they get HBO Max right now that's the confusing part for me it's like why do they need HBO Max if they have Netflix already I mean they just I guess just eating the competition in the same way because it's different Paramount Plus they didn't have a lot of stuff Paramount Plus didn't have a lot they did some you know all the and they even lost him the what's his face Taylor Sheridan and that was the basis of their library So them acquiring HBO Max, it made a lot of sense. They build, they build out that network. And they're going to have UFC and other things, too.

But that would have been a massive move for them. Paramount is the biggest loser in this scenario. They are the biggest loser, for sure. And I think they're going to be fighting it. And this whole thing is going to be a, this is going to be today's show. I mean, who we bullshitting. This is one of the biggest stories. in entertainment history.

And I wrote it this morning, tweeted out and said, or last night maybe, I said, this is bigger than Netflix buying, I mean, Disney buying Fox. 100% agree with him. This is huge,

especially, and it's funny because I was doing the reaction with Sam, if you guys watched the reactions to do with my friend Sam, who's not locked into this business in the slightest as far as keeping up with the news and all that. And I told her that Netflix bought Warner Bros. And she's like, that's crazy. Remember when they were just the renting the DVDs?

Yeah, look at them. Look at them now. Nuts. So we have quite a lot to discuss here. Let's get to the story itself. Netflix officially announces the acquisition of Warner Bros. and the DC universe for 82.7 billion. Eat your heart out, Lucas film.

That makes no sense at all. Okay. It just shows you that that was a steal of $4 billion. Not that completely different Star Wars and, you know, a studio. I'm just saying, $4 billion. They still got that for a steal. Anyway, Netflix officially announces the acquisition of Warner Brothers. Here we go.

Hours after reports surfaced about Netflix winning the bidding war for Warner Brothers, the streaming giant has now made it official and touts the DC Universe as one of the many franchises it will soon own. Well, it's official. Netflix has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with Warner Brothers discovery to acquire Warner Brothers including its film and TV studios, HBO Max, and HBO. The sale, which still needs to pass through regulatory processes, is valued at 82.7,000, billion with the equity value of 72 billion.

In a press release, it said the acquisition brings together two pioneering entertainment businesses combining Netflix innovation, global reach, and best in class streaming service with Warner Brothers Century Long Legacy of World Class storytelling. It also specifically highlights franchises like the Big Bang Theory, the Sopranos, Game of Thrones, The Wizard of Oz, and the D.C. universe. All will join Netflix extensive portfolio. There's the full press release

to have some light on what means for Warner Bros. including that Netflix expects to maintain the studio's current operations and build on its strengths, including theatrical releases for films. HBO and Max titles will be added to Netflix, presumably meaning the rival streaming platform days are numbered.

Well, there you go. I answer my question. I think that's a big I think that's a problem. The streamer also touts plans to expand production in the U.S. and grow investment in original content and believes this acquisition will create a stronger entertainment industry by offering more opportunities to work with beloved intellectual property, tell new stories,

and connect with a wider audience than ever before. Ted Sarandoz co-CEO Netflix said, our mission has always been to entertain the world by combining Warner Brothers, including, excuse me, incredible library of shows and movies from timeless classics like Casa Blocke Citizen Kane to modern favorites like Harry Potter and Friends with our culture to finding titles like Stranger Things, K-pop demon hunters, and Squidgwame, We'll be able to do that even better. Okay. Together, we can give audiences more of what they love and help to find the next century of storytelling.

This acquisition will improve our offering and accelerate our business for decades to come. David Zazloff, president and CEO of Warner Bowes Discovery at it. Today's announcement combines two of the greatest storytelling companies in the world to bring to even more people, the entertainment, the love to watch the most. For more than a century, Warner Bros. has thrilled audiences capture the world's attention. has captured the world's attention, shaped our culture. By coming together with Netflix, we will ensure people everywhere will continue to enjoy the most resident stories for generations to come.

So now, Netflix will own one of Hollywood's oldest movie studios, giving the company the biggest streaming platform on the planet and the opportunity to dominate the theatrical landscape through Warner Brothers Pictures. Netflix has hemorrhage content since studios like Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Disney have launched their own streaming services, but now it has the countless new movies and TV shows to offer subscribers. What's this mean for DC Studios?

that remains to be seen. Netflix might not be as willing as Azloff when it comes to giving James Gunn and Peter Safer and the freedom they currently seem to be enjoyed. Perhaps the company will even restore the sign of as well. We'll see about that. Okay. Still on my lonesome so far,

but I got, hopefully got Winston and Chris coming in soon. But, um, wow. Chris Carr is in. So, let's bring her in real quick Chris Carr

Hi I'm sorry that I did that to you today That's okay I was just farting around So then I was like oh shoot I did end the same Because we Winston's like wait a minute You told me you told me my math was off I was out here trying to be a good future husband I went to go get my lady's oil change

That's on me that's on me I was looking like for some reason it was so stupid I said can you guys do 12 which is normally And I don't know what time that would even be for anybody because normally 12 is the time we normally do yeah for east coast time so it would be nine so it would have been 10 year time anyway uh Winston you sent me this thing last night and I went wow because it wasn't as shocking because it was shocking but it wasn't as shocking because when I was when Chris and I were on yesterday on the show Chris do you remember

there was like that one note that came in where somebody goes oh it I just read this thing that they're reporting that uh Netflix is actually in the lead and you and I kind of shoot it off Yeah, because it didn't make sense because why would you buy part of a company when somebody else is offering to get rid of the whole thing at a higher price originally? I know. So, okay, so nonetheless, it does go down. It happens. And this, I just read the, the first part of it, which is the acquisition itself and, you know, the statement. But there's more follow up things. People are going to be suing other people. There's going to be, this is going to be a mess. But you hear the news off the bat. Chris, what goes through your head? What does this mean overall? You know, overall, okay, I will say I am of two houses here. I don't like the idea of any of these companies ultimately getting these because of the idea of a monopoly or anything like that.

But it does feel a little to borrow from South Park. All of the options felt a little bit like choosing between various turd sandwiches. And this is the turd sandwich that I like the most, I think. I do have problems with Ted Sarando's closing that theatrical window even further. That is something he's talked about, the evolution of happening, because I do think we need movies to be in theaters. But I do like what he's previously said about committing to still having movies come out and have their theatrical time. I do like the kind of integrity in which WB seems to have gone about this sale.

You know, that's also maybe there's more to it, but their PR state. at least seems to be they wanted to go not only with something that made sense financially, but something that they felt aligned with them and their own values and everything as well. The Ellison stuff did make me very nervous just because I don't think anyone, regardless of political affiliation, should allow that to tie into the kind of media they create, regardless of which side of the aisle is in there, because, you know, I've said it before, we're all on the same flight. I'm not rooting against my captain. I don't want the plane to go down. but I do want us all to have fair access to equitable information and non-biased information

and not having propaganda, each type of things in our media, which it still will regardless, because that's the nature of filmmaking and such. But overall, I'm cautiously optimistic. I know a lot of people have been on my social feed at least very, very, oh, it's over. Oh, theatrical movies are done. Hope you guys like to the movie theaters. And I'm hoping that we can take a deep breath. And I'm hoping that Ted Sarandos will not try to make.

every single thing a straight to streaming Netflix, because also that won't make him money. Yeah, so to answer that Winston, I think it makes no sense in the world to buy, if you're just buying a library to stick it on your streaming platform, that doesn't make sense to me in the same way. Look, I had asked a question initially, well, what are they going to do with Max? And the answer is they're just going to take all their stuff and put it on the streaming.

I don't love that, but I get it. And I don't like it. I like the fact that HBO Max and HBO, which we grew up with years and knew it is, is going to cease to exist. That's sad to me. But I get it when it comes to a business side. I'm like, no, no, we're going to put the Sopranos on Netflix. So everybody comes in.

You want to watch the Subranos and you got to watch it on Netflix. We're going to put a house to the dragon and Game of Thrones. That's all on Netflix. I get it. The studio side of it, though, like I said many times over, in my head, what I would think would make sense is to say, okay, we're going to run a studio. And for people and for our creators that are coming in that are saying, hey, we don't want to do this movie because it's not theatrical. Well, you'll run it on the Warner Brothers side, but you're not going to get the same budget that you would have on the streaming side.

And if you're cool with that, then you can make it for a theatrical release. That's what I think they're going to do and would make sense that way. What do you think? Yeah. Well, that's me. That's a weird, swaggy blurred. Yeah, I was just like, man, cosplay and Christian Harloff. Yeah, no, I think that that would probably be the smart move is to specifically do that.

Max, HBO Max has certainly improved their interface, but if we're just being honest, Netflix, because it's been around the longest, tends to be the cleanest at all of them. If you're also talking about a way to potentially have us not have to pay for another streamer, that's all. Also not necessarily a bad thing, but I think that is the most integral part is it feels like to me you just bought distro as well as IP. I don't think it makes logical sense to say, we're done doing theatrical stuff. Well, they said they're going to do it for a little bit, but the question is we'll eventually stop. That would be incredibly stupid. And like Chris said, this was this, I remember the episode you're talking about it was, it was between a douche and a turd sandwich. which you had to vote on your options.

I definitely remember that episode. It was hilarious. That is essentially what we're looking at here when it came to all these. Every single buyer, there was a problem with this happening in the first place. And the main one being that the more you consolidate, the worst that is as far as jobs, as far as options, et cetera, et cetera. But of all the ones, this was the one that seemed based off of what they said with their pitch, we're going to keep it.

we just want access to the library more or less in the distro. If that's what they're actually doing, then that isn't necessarily a bad thing. But you're exactly spot on, Christian. They need to set that up in a way that you are not gutting, essentially what helps keep the industry. If you lose the theaters, you're in trouble. You're being told, but you could set such a new precedent if you're them,

if you're Sarandis, because you can then, one of the one what's what we talk about all the time on this damn channel is the fact that how you know the budgets are too damn high is what we all the time we talk about how they're too damn high for theatrical release movies and now you can have uh warner brothers saying hey look we've got two places you can make movies and we don't expect you to make all of your budget back if you put it on the streaming service you can have an iMac's release you can have that we just want people to care enough that it does well on the streaming service,

that it brings people in, and we'll put some hype around it in the publicity machine. If you do it theatrically, though, and you want to go old school, we're with you, but you ain't getting $250 million to make this movie. You're going to get about 140. Which makes me wonder, though, because I still don't think I understand

how a place like Netflix actually makes their money, just in the sense that, like, yes, I get it. You're paying for whatever the subscription is, And yes, the subscription price has been going up constantly over and over and over and over again. But knowing that a lot of the tech stuff has continued, like Uber and Lyft, for example, another example of a tech company that invaded a space and worked at a loss for forever. So the only thing that doesn't necessarily make sense to me, you stand to potentially make more money actually doing the theatrical releases and going out and selling this stuff,

then we're just going to throw it on our streamers. So that's the only part. But I don't know. I don't know. Someone makes the point here. They have 300 million subscribers at like $20 a pop or $25 a pop. That adds up. You know, and it's like that way you're like you're putting together like more

and more more money every time someone signs up to it. And more and more people, guess what? Somebody's turning 18 tomorrow and they got their own credit card. They're doing their own thing. And they just sign up for Netflix too. They're out on their own. They're out on their own. They're out on their own.

I got to do this. And they get Netflix. There's new generations of people getting Netflix, buying Netflix. And now with a library like this and shows and things that you have, you're going to get more subscribers. The answer of how they make their money is continuous subscribers over and over and over again. You know, like look at, I'll use the, the Schmowdown as an example. Before we went to Skybound, the way that we were able to make the show was our Patreon subscribers.

That was how we were able to do it. We made X amount of dollars monthly that, paid for the competitors. It paid for the editors. It paid for everybody. And granted, we ain't making $200 million movies. Right. But I didn't have 200 million subscribers. But I guess I guess that was my question, though. And I guess that's the whole thing, even using the Uber and Lyft example, the main disruptor element that these companies have done. And Netflix and Uber both said this out loud when they were doing it was the idea of we're coming to disrupt the industry. So if all of a sudden taking an Uber to get to the airport cost

$15 and taxi still cost $50, over time you get people to go do that. And then once they really had the foothold in the industry, they jacked the prices up. Netflix has essentially done the same thing. Netflix used to be, what, $7 a month, that $9 a month? And like you said, now 20, now they've jacked it up. So I guess that was my only thing that I was trying to figure out. I still think they there's too much in the theaters

as is and I'm curious if the one legal battle, if they really try and tank the theatrical experience, that could actually have a pretty devastating effect on the economy because that is a, that is a tent pole, one of the, one of the legs of the table of

like entertainment. You really can't lose that. Chris, you going to say? Oh, I was just saying that one of the things that Netflix has done really well, though, is continuing to try to find ways to retain their user base as well by adding in as much as they don't work those live events or taking it so that they're changing their release patterns or things. They are experimenting with their own model, and I'm excited to just see this new push for theatrical for them to now see how much that benefits them. I mean, Daniel Craig came out and was talking about how terrible this model was for all the knives out.

things and everything. So my hope is that we still have the whole experience of movies. And I think a really big hurdle that Netflix actually has is courting theater owners. So this next CinemaCon, I'm actually really interested to see how everything shakes out so that

they can make them feel good about giving them screens for their movies and everything. Because that's the big thing about CinemaCon that I don't think a lot of average moviegoers know is that it's essentially a bid. It's a bid for please give me as many screens as possible. Please let my film be featured in your theater. And when Netflix says things constantly about, no, we're so much about streaming,

ooh, we want to close that window and make that shorter, they do have an upward battle for making theater owners like them. So they are going to have to do a little dance here figuring out what works for them and also to get eyes on their screen. So they can actually make that profit and continue to grow. A hundred percent. But the thing is beforehand, before last night or this. morning was that was what Netflix was as a whole and has made it clear that we as today as

what our brand is and the way we do things do it like this but we didn't have this now we have this that's the thing and that's the thing it's like now that we have this don't worry about what I said before because I didn't have this now I have it changed right right hey right hey I look and you know I love to do my little sports analogies when I was playing basketball back in the day, bro. I wasn't getting no rebounds. I wasn't doing nothing because I was short. And then I hit my gross spurt and I was like, yo, coach, I got it. And then all of a sudden,

I'm going to getting rebounds. I think it's the same thing. You didn't have the distro. You had to find your own way to get into the party. And now that you're in the party and you have the resources, now you can start to be like, all right, cool. I want to do it the way that you also made a conscious ever to get the rebounds. The question is,

is Netflix going to try to get the rebounds? And so that is going to be the major question. is that yes, they've already said in this statement, we tend to honor those obligations. We're going to honor those obligations for now. And if it is a for now thing, that will be an industry devastating blow.

It really will be. But it is a way for Netflix to say, as you're saying, Chris, we've changed, baby, I swear, forgive us. You know what I mean? I'm different. I've been to therapy, baby. I'm going to communicate more. That's how this feels. It's every ex-boyfriend of mine.

No, no, but I can change now. Are you laughing because I went, Ike Turner? No, I'm laughing because I'm thinking about our recording yesterday. It's like, I got talent now. Oh, yeah. That's what I'm that's true. So I'm telling you, this is like, this is major. This is major.

I mean, it really is the one. And I said it in the intro that Roke had tweeted this. last night and I agree with him, this is so much more significant and bigger than when Disney bought Fox way bigger, way bigger. Because of everything that we were just talking about and how that, you know, the potential changes of what it could do. It's like, it's almost like AI, right? And what I mean by that is, AI is everybody agrees has the possibility to either maybe

cure, maybe find ways to cure cancers, maybe find ways to do things and experiment in ways that we never could even fathom or could kill us all, right? And the question is, who's using it? Who's using it? What do they intend to do with it? Netflix could say, you know what? We have this now and we're going to make the industry better, bigger. Here's what we do. Or they can go, now, it's all ours now. F you don't like it. That's the way we. We do things now. And they could destroy the industry. I mean, I think the only thing funnier about it, to be honest with you,

is the fact that the full court press that Ellison and Skydance and all that went, we're going to get one. Ain't nothing stopping us. You ain't to. And now that it didn't work out also to be like, what is the fear? They're not being fair. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that in just a second.

We might as well transition to it in a second. Yeah. Before we do, what do you guys think about the news in general? The fact that this has happened, that this is going to happen. Put your thoughts in there. Let us know what you're thinking, whether it's on the Eclipse channel here and the live chat afterwards. Please put your thoughts in there and let us know.

We have so much more to talk about with this story. We're going to talk about the letter that was sent in by, Paramount in general about why they thought it was unfair, what it means overall for them, why I believe that with this loss, they are in big trouble. So we'll get into that. Then we'll also get into the inevitable conversation about what the hell does this now mean about the DCU? What does it mean with James Gunn?

People were talking about how he wouldn't be safe if it went to Paramount. Is he safer now? Or is he still? Oh, who knows? I wish I knew. That's what we're going to try to find out. So before we even do that, it's Christmas time or then he was coming up to being Christmas, and I'm giving you guys ideas for gifts.

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You always accuse me of not watching the show. It just depends on what my day looks like. I know she won. And I was literally sitting here like, you couldn't have saved this for tomorrow. I know. I know. I know. I know. So right now you're going to do even better today, buddy. Because winning is better with your friend. You got almost 1,000 people watching right now. So you've got a good shot. So basically for people brand new coming in, we do whatever host is on, whoever winds up right now, you currently have 23 questions. Just a Chris had 156. If we beat 156, then Winston and Chris will get a bonus. If not Chris will get a bonus this week. That feels mean. Is it so mean? Then I'll tell you what, split your bonus with Winston if you win. Oh, we can go to a cantiki.

I can buy your drinks. That can be what we call. Perfect. That's sweet. All right. It's Christmas themed right now. I love it. 100%.

See, she's so damn nice. I thought she was going to hit a joke and be like, and be like, no, I'm good. And then she says, I'll take it for drinks. It's like the nicest person on the show. If anything, Chris, I realized the other day, by accident, the last audition, I have your little corn pen. So I got to get that back to you anyway. Oh.

I needed to write something. I was filling out the lot of tickets. Go get you a lot of tickets. So then you can go and re-buy Warner Brothers away from Netflix. Because it's not enough money, but it's still $850 million. That's enough for us. So get you a lot of tickets. All right.

Look, Winston mentioned this and put some flare into it. We talked about how Paramount was kind of whining about it. And rightfully so, I think, why not why they were whining, but I understand why they're whining because they were so confident. And look, I started off the show by saying I was wrong. I was convinced that they were going to get it. I was convinced. I thought there was no world where this guy was going to be told no, and he'll find a way to do it.

Plus, the other thing we haven't mentioned at all is the backing by the Saudis. I don't think Netflix has the backing by the Saudis, but they did. And everything that was lining up with this, it seemed like, well, this is inevitable. this is going to happen. Well, I think they were as shocked as we were, because they were like, wait a minute, what happened? We got, we got screwed. And now what does that mean for Paramount?

They have the UFC. It's a big deal, right? They've got, they just lost Taylor Sheridan, so that's not a good thing for them, television-wise. They don't have the strongest slate. They don't have a lot of franchises. Sonic. Right.

They got Sonic and they have Ninja Turtles, which they're trying to revamp. I think I know why. specifically they are literally going, let's read the letter. Let's read the letter first, and then we kind of get into it. So here is Paramount, CNBC, the questions Warner Brothers Discovery on the fairness and adequacy of the sale process,

and then you can read the full letter. So Paramount Skydance is questioning the fairness of Warner Bros. Discovery sale process and whether it's acting the best interest of shareholders, according to a letter reviewed by CNBC. Paramount made three offers to acquire the entirety of Warner Brothers Discovery before the company launched a formal sale process CNBC previously reported. Earlier this week, Warner Brothers Discovery received second round bids from Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast, which is what was reported by CNBC. Paramount Skydance is calling foul on how Warner Brothers has conducted its sale process. In a letter received by CNBC, Paramount attorneys told Warner Brothers Discovery that David Zaloff, that Paramount,

that Paramount was questioning the fairness and adequacy of the process, which officially, officially launched in October this week, Paramount Netflix, Comcast, submitted second round bids to acquire some or all of Warner Brothers Discovery assets, CNBC previously reported. So where is it?

Where's it? Where's the letter? No, no, no, no, no, no. There's a lot reported. It has been, it has become increasingly clear. No, no, I need, I got to see it. Where is it? It's, oh, I see it. I see it. I see it. Okay.

It has become increasingly clear through media reports. and otherwise that Warner Brothers appears to have abandoned the semblance and reality of a fair transaction process, thereby abdicating its duties to stockholders and embarked on a myopic process with a predetermined outcome that favors a single bidder. Reads a letter from attorneys at Quinn Emmanuel. We specifically request and expect this letter will be shared and discussed with the full board of directors of Warner Brothers. In particular, Paramount's letter calls out reports that Warner Brothers Management appears to favor Netflix's offer. Netflix has made an offer mostly of cash, while Paramount's latest bid was all cash, according to people close to the matter who declined

to be named speaking about confidential dealings. All three companies submitted higher bids than her initial offers that people told CNBC. As a Thursday morning, Netflix was the leading bidder based on how Warner Bros is valuing the offers people familiar told CNBC. Comcast executives for their part continue to be disciplined in the company's offer as to not anger shareholders by taking on additional debt and risking its balance sheet, according to people familiar with that company's thinking. Comcast leadership has previously said that its bar for the M&A is generally high. Winter Brothers Discovery told CNBC it confirmed to Paramount that it received the letter and would share it with members of the Warner Brothers Board. Please be assured that the board attends to

its fiduciary obligations with the utmost care and that they have fully and robustly comply with them and I will continue to do so. The company said in response to Paramount, One of Brothers requested third round bids from the potential buyers do Thursday. Sources told them the company expects to announce a winner as early as next week. While first round bids arrived in mid-November, Paramount has been vying to acquire the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery, which includes streaming services, HBO Max, films for your Warner Bros.

and a portfolio of networks, yada, yada, yada, yada. Warner Bros. Discovery rebuffed three offers made by Paramount, the last of those for 23.50, a share before launching a formal sale process to beck and other buyers. Netflix and Comcasts are interested only in the streaming and film studio. That's the baffling thing to me. Because as we see, they were kind of bitching about it before it was even announced about Netflix taking it on. But Chris, I think you mentioned it earlier, right? The baffling thing to me is why you are selling off your company into pieces when somebody wanted to buy the whole kit and caboodle.

because it seems like there was good it wasn't like for substantially more money it seemed like it was okay they want to buy this they want to buy that we still have a couple other things we didn't sell to them but is it just because they didn't want to sell to skydance and they didn't like maybe maybe is because saudi's money also in there maybe because look there was that conversation from that comedy festival and all the stuff and the money of that comedy festival of people like how can you take money from them when this net? Is that something that they didn't want to be a part of? And it was easier to go to an American-based company to say it's Netflix.

It makes us feel a little better. Like how do you feel about it? I think that's what it is. And that is me making a lot of wild assumptions. I am not in the room. I have not gotten to read every bit of press this come out since this has been breaking all day and all evening. But it does feel like, hey, look at us. We did the, oh, as I shake my entire camera.

Wow. So it feels like, look at us, we did the integrity move. Yes, we want you to, we want to sell our company, but we want to sell it to somebody who we also agree with. We believe in it. And we aren't compromising anything. And it's also a very easy way to sidestep any of those conversations. I think, too, David Delft probably wants to go out on a bit of a high here. It doesn't want to have to deal with a whole bunch of, you sold to the wrong person for these political reasons.

affiliation reasons, et cetera, et cetera. I think this is just a little bit easier, ultimately, for that PR side. It is more difficult for the continuing sale of everything. Although, I mean, Discovery, someone else will scoop that up and everything. They're still talking about that going on and people are still bidding for that. Right. It just, I mean, we kept talking about it. It makes more sense.

Why would I, if I'm having a garage sale, not go to somebody who's like, yeah, I'll take all your stuff right now. Versus me having to wheel and deal with every individual. So my assumption is that it is the kind of integrity of the sale. I think it's both the integrity of the sale. But if I also remember correctly, I believe Netflix also came in at 30 a share versus 2350. So you're also just talking about, you are correct.

Yes. You're also just talking about like, let's keep it a buck. Paramount didn't actually like come with the goods the way the Netflix did. Like they didn't. That is very true, Winston. But you were that and that's the difference between someone that comes in and say, I'll take all your shit.

I'll give you $500 for. everything versus someone going, no, no, no, I'll give you $750 just for this over here. So unless you're in a state of like, no, we have to go in the next 24 hours. Fine, I'll take the $500 deal. I think this was the idea of like, well, we can actually get a lot of money just for this piece. Right. And then we can deal with selling this one and get even more money. So that's, it's annoying that you then have to renegotiate.

But if you are actually trying to maximize your profits here, you are right. Actually that's a bad idea. And especially because like the theme parks and. other stuff too. I don't think Netflix got anything to do with that, right? I don't think so, but it would be, it would honestly, in my opinion, unless we're missing something where they're at a loss, I would take that. Disney makes most of its money from. But that's what I'm saying. But that's what maybe Netflix doesn't want to be in that business. You know, I guess, but it's so like that's one of the few businesses that once it's established, it kind of just takes care of itself, you know?

What are you going to say, Chris? I feel like the synergy of that would be great for them on honestly. You already have epic universe, having dark universe, which is classic universal monsters and stuff, but that is an easy ad for Stranger Things. Stranger Things already has a presence. Well, yeah, horror nights. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But then you make it a staple.

You know, you take a lot of that freaky IP and you put it into the theme park and that stuff sells like bananas. I mean, as a former Disney employee, they make so much money. It's kind of the idea of like concessions in a movie theater, right? We get you into. this place, you will spend so much of your money on the dumbest stuff.

So we just have to give you this tiny little taste of something to get you in here to spend more. And honestly, that's how they could really, really profit. But they already said though, but didn't it, but isn't it kind of like a moot point at this point? Because like they, it's not part of the deal. So I mean, for now. For now. But it's like they didn't buy that. So it's like they bought the, they bought HBO Max and they bought the streaming stuff. So that I guess there's where the right. those shows, then they would be able to use that IP. Yes, but the question, I think that they actually, but there's things that, I don't know,

it's complicated, right? That's, that I guess is the whole point of this. It would have been less complicated for us to talk about if Paramount would have bought it. Because you're like, oh, they own everything. It's now, they now have Warner Bowers, but now because it's broken off into different things, you're like, well, how does that actually work? And, well, they own the shows. Can they do this?

Are they able to do that? I don't know. I mean, the other thing that I was thinking about, to be honest with you, as far as like any sort of monopoly or anti-trust stuff, though, again, Netflix doesn't, like, yes, they do movies, but they don't have like a film studio traditionally the way that, like, Skydance now has by owning Paramount. So there's also that idea of part of why Disney was able to get away with the Fox sale, because that was brought up then, too, is they only took certain assets. They didn't take a lot of the TV stuff and everything else, you know what I mean? Or whatever part they kind of splintered off. and they said we just are taking this element. By Netflix also doing this,

they're not then overlapping as much as Paramount would have. Right. And that would have, even though they're saying, well, we have, you know, the government on our side to do this anyway, you are also avoiding that. And I also see that being cleaner for Warner Brothers,

who really wants to get rid of this to go, now we don't have to worry as much if this went full force this other way. I also wonder what happens to the Warner Brothers lot. you know it's like are they are they they they keeping it they keeping that product because that's that's you know that's that there's well there's a lot of questions that come with that because yeah go ahead I was going to say I have a buddy who works at Netflix who's constantly been talking about them expanding and getting more offices and doing things so my assumption would be they have it right so

keep it we put it in on it yes but here's someone who used to work on the Warner Brothers lot right so the question is then the history that comes with that lot in general one of the questions. The other side, which is the inevitable question and the unfortunate part of this, as we all know, people will be losing their jobs. Now, the question is who? Because you're also looking at, I mean, I'm thinking about my friends that are over at the one or other side that are, that are publicists, right? Now, do those people, because they're getting more properties, do they have more responsibilities now? Because Netflix has a thousand publicists when it comes to the different projects that they have. Right. Are those people just

getting assigned more things and the people who are already at Warner Brothers losing. And this is just the public society. I'm not talking about all the other things because there are production companies that exist on the lot. Now, will those production companies, will their deals? I know that they're going to on. That's what they said in the statement. Those deals will be honored again for how long, which is going to be our last big conversation is the same deal that James Gunn and Peter Saffron have, right? too. They have a deal that will be honored at least until their contracts are done and who knows what happens next.

So there's so many questions, but the first thing is going to have to be is, as they, there's going to have to be all the investigations on if this was done the right way and if it's going to pass. And then they've got to get the approval of it too. Now, here's the other question that, not to get super political on it, but it should be discussed. It was assumed. that if Paramount and Ellison got it, it would pretty much be signed off on pretty quick because of Ellison's ties to the government and the Saudis are pretty tight

with the administration as well too. So it's going to seem like it was like, okay, yeah, you guys are good, you bought it. Okay, it was great. Great, see you later. Because Paramount's making a stink about it, is there going to be a hold up? Don't make it that easy on it.

It's possible. It is certainly possible. I, just because you don't necessarily have an inroad, if again, without getting deep into the political conversation of it, all it kind of takes is a little bit of kissing the ring and then stuff tends to just go whatever. Doesn't seem like that's going to happen this time around. I mean, I guess it just depends one way or the other. But like, yes, one person is, the way this is essentially played out has just been the idea of like,

oh, yeah, we're like buddies, bro. It's like, but we go back. If somebody just comes up and he's like, hey, good to meet you. You seem like a nice thing. It's pretty cool. Wait a minute. I thought we were friends. Like it feels, it feels like if push comes to shove here, it will be okay.

I like in that regard. Maybe, but you have to wait and find out. You have to find out. I think there's this, this story is far from over. Yep. I can tell you that. This is far from one of these things I got. That's it.

It's over. Now if I's got it, I think this is going to be, there's going to be a lot, a lot of court battles. with this one to say the least, to say the least. So I'm very curious of what everybody else is thinking about this. So please put your thoughts in there. Let us know whether, again, it's on the Clips channel, whether it is the live chat, on the replay, whatever it might be. Now, I know normally we do, you know, it's usually just full on comic book movie news on Fridays.

So we didn't get to a lot of that because of the obvious on what is going down and how this is going to affect the industry in general. But I think that before we get into the question side of this thing, the biggest question for this show is what is going to happen with the DCU? What happens with James Gunn? Now, the conversation yesterday and things that have been reporting on is that if Paramount Skydance got it, that they weren't really even considering James Gun anymore and that he would have such a diminished role and that eventually maybe they just wait to his contracts out. And then he's Gonsky, right? That was the potential if Skydance and Paramount got it. Well, so what happens now? If Netflix does get approved and it is Netflix,

what happens to James Gun and Peter Safran? Well, here's a story that this is from comicbook.com. Who's just asking the same question we're asking right here, which just says Netflix will be the new owner of DC, and what does that mean for James Gunn and the DCU? So for the past several months, industry entertainment has watched a chaotic dismantling of Warner Brothers as the conglomerate looked to offload the major majority of its assets and the fire sale, United Day bidding war that drew in nearly every major player in Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Paramount Skydance, Comcast, Apple, all aggressively vying for the price. Was Apple aggressively vying for it?

I don't even think I've said their name once today. Not super aggressive. They were in the first round of bids and then they didn't care. Right. You know, someone just throws their paddle up and goes, I guess. Yeah, we're just here for the, we're just here for the shrimp and chips. Yeah. Yeah.

We just wanted to show up. I just wanted to hang out with my friends. Yeah. Well, I don't think, look, I don't think it's a friend's thing for them because them, if they wanted to, they could, they could buy, they could buy it twice. They could buy all of their videos collected. They could buy it twice. They just said, no, we're, we're just putting a bit in because we can. However, the dust has finally settled and a clear Victor has emerged.

Netflix has officially entered into exclusive negotiations with Winner Brothers, signating the end of the auction, unless a regulatory disaster or a wildly unexpected pivot occurs. Netflix will own DC Studios within the next few months a move that could completely alter the trajectory of the share universe currently being built by James Gunner, Peter Safra. Netflix secured the winning position with an aggressive offer of 30 per share, as Winston was mentioning earlier, a bid that reportedly includes an 85% cash component, the deal is structured with a massive $5 billion breakup fee, and a clear signal that both parties are committed to seeing this through despite the inevitable antitrust hurdles. The next steps involve a rigorous review by the Department of Justice. That's where you're going to have a problem. And a final shareholder vote, a process that experts estimate will take between 12 to 18 months to finalize. Paramount has a regularly voiced legal objections regarding the fairness of the bidding process.

The exclusive nature of these current talks suggests that Warner Bros. Board is fully committed to the Netflix acquisition. Okay. So what is the downside? like this article. What is the downside of Netflix owning DC? And the anxiety surrounding this acquisition is Netflix historical aversion to the actual releases for years of streaming giant. It's probably we talked about this. The strategy will clash with the current success of Superman and removing future DC blockbusters from the circuit will be a devastating blow to exhibitors and fans alike. The idea of a Justice League movie to a living room television is a difficult pill for many to swallow. However, there's evidence in Netflix is already evolving a strategy.

The stuff we discussed already. The winner acquisition gives Netflix something has never had massive pre-existing global distribution by acquiring Warner Brothers. You didn't talk about this. They get Barbie, Harry Potter. It's buying the machinery to release them properly. Netflix may use this merger to create a hybrid model keeping massive spectacles like DC films and theaters,

I was talking about before. So Netflix is about to close the deal. So they don't have the negative. They don't have the positive side. Okay. Well, they just have the negatives. It's fine. The negatives. Okay.

So I will tell you that the negatives for what they listed is what we talked about already. And I just, and we all three of us say this, I just don't see a world where they're going to just say, okay, we got all these big movies. We've got Batman now. We're on streaming. I just don't see it. I don't see. Because the other thing that we haven't really brought attention to is these movies that Netflix makes, the creators are told in general that these movies. that these movies are going to be made for the platform, right?

Batman would never be something that they would go, you know, that was just, that's made for the platform. It's always been made for the theater. It's not like, look, you do the gray man. It was made for the streaming. It's what it was made for. Batman was made for the theaters. These things, it always has.

And so that doesn't concern me. The biggest question is, what is James Gunn's relationship with Netflix? What is, what's this, what's his relationship with Sarandos? What do they think about him over there? Do they like what he's doing? We know that he doesn't politically line up with Ellison's stuff, which does play in a bit. But we've also heard that the Saudis don't like the creative approach to what he was doing. And so he was kind of forcing an uphill battle going over there.

Is it the same for Netflix? Netflix has a very good relationship with Zach Snyder. So what. Does that mean? Chris, what does it mean for James Gunn? I mean, I think we all agree he's probably in a better position going, okay, I like my chance is better here than I did over there. But is he in the clear? I don't know if he's totally in the clear, but I will say this about the Zach Snyder relationship is, I mean, even Netflix has done, hey, I know we wanted to continue Rebel Moon.

But we're not going to. You know? Right. The fact that you froze perfectly at that moment was hilarious. That was really good. That was a paid actor. Your internet is a paid actor? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, you hold that thing, garment. So I don't think that we should be cheering on, hey, the Snyder versus Back, baby. And no, there's always a possibility that they go, hey, you know, it would be fun. What if Zach Snyder does do a new DC film? What if that is something that Zach Snyder would like to do? And why don't we see how that plays in here as an else worlds or a television show or another movie that is in this new cinematic universe? Because he and James Gunn, Zach Snyder and James Gunn seem to have a great relationship. They've gone on other shows making fun of each other and poking fun with one of them.

They had the whole episode of the two of them straight up like James Gunn, they both voiced themselves. And James Gunn asking Snyder for advice on what? to do and making fun of each other's universes. Like it's, I, I think the thing that'll be interesting, for sure. Um,

I think that gun will be safe, but I also think it'll be a scenario of let's see what this year does. I think that that's more of what Netflix will do. They go, okay, you're a little bit more of a chance to, to prove himself. You've got,

they're like, okay, you got Supergirl, you got manned tomorrow, which is coming out, what in 27, but it's filming next year. You've got Clay,

and what else do they have lanterns? Well, the shooting or coming out? Coming out next year. Coming out of Supergirl, lantern and Clayface. Yeah. And then they go into production on the new Superman's

on Manor tomorrow. So I think that that will be the question. They'll probably say, okay, come in. Let us, what is it that you exactly have going on at this particular moment? We know we have these three out. So let's see what these four properties

that you're about to drop in the next 18 months look like. And once we get probably about three quarters halfway there, we'll make a decision. I think everything, like this article said, will be fine for 26. It'll just depend once we get near the end of 26 if they continue on one way or the other. That's the main thing is because their contract ends in November. Yes. So it's like, so when their contract is over, it's like this is what I thought in general would make sense for wherever he went, but it didn't seem like from if you believe all the reports that were coming out that Paramount Skydance wanted to do with them. They're just pretty much, okay, this is what we have this idea instead.

and Chris, this goes back to that conversation now where they go with with Craggers. They were having that conversation with Craigers about, hey, you want to do a movie with us? And it's like, just kidding, we don't own it. So it's like, well, that's so Hollywood anyway. Isn't it fun? It is in general.

We're going to do this. Well, right. Right. The old chicken before they hatch type thing. And so, but, you know, so he was, he was maybe in trouble over there. because it's like, okay, we're just going to let him finish out his contract and then he's toast. I think what Winston was saying is probably more true with, with them. And I was like, okay, look, you've got an opportunity here now with Netflix to say,

all right, we're going to, the beauty of Netflix, though, with them is that as Winston was talking about beforehand with the streaming, the difference of success is, so let's say Superman. Superman comes out. It does whatever. This whole conversation we had yesterday. You either think it made $150 million. It did. It didn't.

Whatever it might be. No one can dispute. It did very well when it was released on digital. It did very well. And if Netflix just says, going right to the Netflix, numbers are going up. Everything else comes out.

And so there's two levels of success now for it on a DC film. Because when it debuts on streaming for a stream, movie, you got to garner the success on that. But when it comes to those big DC huge movies, that's where the world lives. And I think you say, gun, all right, maybe Clayface gets a bigger push through streaming also once it, once it comes out, because that movie's not going to be in theaters very long. And then you get a big push 30, 40 days later on Netflix. And you can say, all right, and then we have to revisit in November. You still got to revisit the contract in November.

the awkward thing though Chris is that if he winds up not signing that contract for November if Netflix's like now we're good Landrens didn't do as good as we hoped on streaming and Clayface ate it and Supergirl ate it

we're good and then he's like yeah but I still got my shot man at tomorrow comes out and he's like well you'll be producer on it's pretty much what's going to happen right I mean potentially yeah if everything goes that way because I guess the other thing even though it's not DCU as far as like making these decisions i mean it's gonna yes they announced this at the end of this year it's one going to take a while for all of this to process right like if we're

if we're calling it a buck well i got something else yeah and i got something else to go with that go ahead once finish oh i was just going to say i mean anywhere from a year to two years to fully solidify that and then on top of that i know we didn't talk about it specifically but like you still got the batman too even though it's not um obviously DCU it's still DC you it's still DC you product that is on the the move and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, it's just it's going to take time. So I don't even think necessarily we're going to hear any news of gun and saffron are in or out until maybe mid to end of 27 at the earliest.

I think I think all things will continue as they are right now. And then we'll see what happens down the line. Well, I think it's going to be more struggle than you even think. think, and as we were talking about before, because we're already getting news here, and it says the Trump administration views the Netflix and Winter Brothers deal with heavy skepticism, says senior official. So we're already getting a pushback on this. The Trump administration has heavy skepticism about the newly announced $72 billion deal for Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery film and streaming assets. Netflix plans to acquire Warner Brothers Film, Studio,

and streaming services, HBO Max. Elizabeth Warren said this deal looks like an anti-monopon nightmare. Skydance has made multiple bids for Warner Brothers. The Trump administration views the proposed $72 billion deal for Netflix to acquire one of those films and streaming assets with heavy skepticism. A senior administration told CNBC, Netflix said Friday it would acquire the film studio and streaming services that deal is subject to regulatory approval. And Netflix, Warner Brothers would create one massive media giant with control of close to half of the streaming market threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices and fewer choices over what and how they watch by putting Americans workers at risk. Under Trump, the antitrust review process has also become a cesspool of political favoritism and corruption. The Justice Department must enforce our nation's anti-monopoly laws fairly and

transparently, not use the Warner Bros. Deal to invite influence, peddling, and bribery. Paramount Skydance has made multiple bids for the entirety of Warner Bros. As opposed to a subset of the company's assets. Paramount's final bid, which was received Thursday evening, was for $30 a share, yada, yada, yada. New York Post on Thursday said that Paramount Chief David Ellison met with Trump officials and key lawmakers in Washington on Wednesday to press his case against Warner Brothers' discovery potential selection of Netflix as its merger partner. Ellison's billionaire father, Larry Ellison, is close to Trump. On Thursday, Wall Street Journal reported that Paramount is sent in that letter, acquiring Warner Bros. Streaming and assets would entrench and extend Netflix global dominance in a matter. not allowed by domestic or foreign competition laws,

paramount lawyers wrote. Netflix purchase is expected to close if approved by regulators after Warnr Rose completes its previously planned spin-out of Discovery Global, which is currently planned to occur in the third quarter of 2026. Okay, so Trump even before taking his office for the first term of the White, as opposed to deal by AT&T to buy Tom Warner, saying it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. So like you said, guys, this isn't over, like at all.

This is going to be a big, a big fight here. Winston, do you see any world where the DOJ says, no, ain't going to happen? And so there's two questions, right? Because if you listen to Warren, who doesn't get, and you guys were saying this earlier, that doesn't think anybody should get this thing. And it shouldn't be, it shouldn't be skydance. It shouldn't be anybody. It shouldn't happen.

Do you think that it is more likely that it is, it gets nixed and nobody gets it or it gets nixed because they want the Ellisons to get it. I see, here's the thing. This administration is both incredibly predictable and completely unpredictable at the same time, which sounds counterintuitive, but it's kind of not. I definitely, I could see a world where there is a push to do that. And if there was ever a time to try and seem somewhat impartial, it would to just be none of it. I'm serious.

Like, nobody can have it. No, we're nixing it all. But I think just because, again, of that relationship, if he's already, if the administration's already being like, nah, then it does feel like ultimately this is just a move to protect his friends and say, no, you can't do it, but here you go.

Like, and then you kind of hand it off to the Ellison's afterwards. The counter to that, though, Chris, is that, you know, he did make moves in the past to say, I don't think anybody should have these types that they have so much power in their hands. Yeah. Do they stick to that? I don't know if they will.

I mean, either way, I think there's going to be a lot of red tape here, right? Because if it had gone with somebody else, the DOJ would be looking at all this and they'd be turning their heads because Trump potentially would be saying, hey, no, no, no, don't do that to my friends. So either way, we would have had the government involved in this because of the everything involved here. The best thing we can do is just try to figure out how to make so many, Jack Jackie Chan Chris Tucker projects.

And then he's going to be so happy. Right. That it won't matter. That it won't matter. So just rush hour everything. I know. That's not going to be okay. I would be okay.

I would be split because like if I'm being honest, as excited as I got when I was like, I guess I finally agree with something that Trump has to say on the flip side, I was like, Rush hour three wasn't very good though. And so then my fear kicked in of like, well, What if they bring it back and then they start tainting my favorite movies?

You never know. But I mean, look, they did that with Beverly Hills cops. So it's always going to happen. But again, this is not over yet because more and more and more articles are being written as we are speaking. The Hollywood labor now comes out swinging against Warner Brothers Netflix deal. They said this merger must be blocked. So this is not something that is going to go quietly into the night. The Hollywood Reporter says that now the most severe in its criticism was the Writers Guild of America so far.

Everybody hates this deal. Yeah. Except Netflix and Warner Brothers. And what have Ted Serrava's statements on Friday about his streamers proposed acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery, the Netflix co-CEO proclaim that the 82.7 billion deal would be a pro-worker deal. Some of the Hollywood's most powerful unions would beg to differ. Statements that stream steadily into reporters' inboxes after the news broke on Thursday night, labor organizations represented directors, writers, producers,

express deep concerns about the transaction, arguing that it could squash competition and harm Hollywood's creatives. The most severe in his criticism was the WGA, which said in a statement that this merger must be blocked. The labor group's east and west coast branches added the world's largest streaming company swalling one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsening conditions for all entertainment workers,

for consumers and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all yours. WGA Westboard member Mike Schur, who many know is the co-creator of Parks Rec weighed in as the, as well on the social platform, Blusky, uh, blue sky, whatever.

All I, I, I, I, don't know how much I use social media. All media mergers, bluesky, it should be called bluesky.

It sounds better than blue sky. I like it. It kind of does. It sounds so much better. From now on, I call it bluesky. That's it. All media mergers is.

end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. He added fewer companies, means fewer jobs. DGA was the first to respond to the news on Thursday, stating that the arrangement raises significant concerns. The union representing more than 19,500 members on the directing team on sets added, we believe that a vibrant competitive industry, one that fosters creativity, and encourages genuine competition for talent is essential to safeguarding the careers and creative rights of directors.

or teams. Union said that it would be it would be meeting with Netflix to air its worries and better understand what the streamer plans to do with the 102 year old studio. Not a union, the trade organization of the Producers Guild of America also got into the mix on Friday saying producers were rightfully concerned about Warner Bros. Changing Hands. Organization stated, our industry together with policymakers must find a way forward that protects producers' livelihoods and promotes creativity and opportunities for works and artist's choice for consumers and freedom of speech. This is the test that potential mergers

or sales of our legacy studios must pass. Now, what I will say about this, though, is I feel like I would be reading the same article of Skydance would have bought it. They already did. They already put a similar statement out when Paramount was like the clear frontrunner and things are going in that direction.

So let me be clear about this too because people think that, may think that I'm like all jumping for joy that Netflix is doing this. I'm just saying if we're, like Chris said, if we're stuck between a douche and a turd sandwich, of all of the options, this seems like the best one. However, any of this is a terrible idea. It was, in my mind, with the exception of bringing Marvel back into the fold as a collective whole, I didn't think it was a good idea for Disney and Fox to do what they did. The more you shrink this down, that's exactly what happens. There are less jobs. There are

less projects and and you are forcing people to like the the reason that you're able to see unfortunately these insane prices now go up for Disney plus ESPN and and Hulu all collectively like that is because they own all of that so they go cool you're going to pay for this bundle whether you like it or not so yeah it's so and I I hate I I I'll be the bad guy on all of it too right like I I I don't hate it as much as you guys do because I'm looking at it in the side of um like in a business owner. If nobody wants, because Zazloff has been wanted to sell this thing since he got it.

Right. So he's going to sell it to somebody. Right. Right. Someone's going to buy it. Now, there's only so many people that have the money to buy it. And in general, have,

now there could have been an outside buyer who just decided to come in and buy in the way that he bought it, right? And there's always going to be that, like, well, that person is too much money they shouldn't buy. somebody needs to buy it in order to do what you guys are talking about is to continue it. But if one of those people who are buying it just happens to be another studio, they're going to push together their products that they already have. But the other side of it is that when it comes to the streaming prices, right?

Now, it's the same thing where, okay, if I'm paying X amount of dollars for HBO Max a month, and let's say I'm paying, I don't know what the price is. say let's say it's $12 a month. It could be more. Let's say it's $12 a month. And Netflix is now 20. And Netflix goes up to $28 a month. Okay, let's say it's more, but let's say $28. I do ask myself, well, what's the difference?

I was already paying if I have HBO Max. I already have now, maybe you didn't have HBO. Maybe only only had HBO Max. You didn't have Netflix and that's your argument. And I understand that. But they're acquiring so much different IP and so many different products because as we were talking about it with ticket prices, the reason why

Ted Seranos and everybody else has an argument to make of like, well, this is why we do what we do, because if you're going to go out, you guys are subscribed to Netflix, you're subscribed to it. So if you sit down, they have a new movie that's out. You sit down, you bring the family out, and you sit down, you turn it on that movie,

and you watch that movie, and you go, this movie sucks. You are in the comfort of your home, that's part one. Part two, you can stay on Netflix and watch something else that you like. You go to the movies and spend $20, not probably the same that you're spending a month at Netflix, and you hate that movie. You feel like you just wasted $20. You just went out, you drove out, you went to the theater, you did this, and maybe you went

with a friend, with a date, with a family, whatever it might be. You might be out 60 bucks, whatever it might be, 80 bucks. And you go back, pissed off because the movie you saw sucked and you can't turn something else on. I get their reasoning. I understand it. It's just because we have this traditional idea that we can't break past the traditional idea. So I get it in that side. I'll be the bad guy on it. I get it. But I also understand the pushback. Yeah. I like you said, any business owner is going to want to do that because you have to keep your prices low and you have to keep things competitive to get the best talent, to get the best customers, and to have them consistently there. So obviously the reason for the monopoly laws and the antitrust,

because think about even just playing the game of monopoly, which is supposed to teach us all how to be good little capitalist. If I own the whole block, you don't pay for these hotels, whether you want to or not. But if I only own St. Charles Place, then I can't jack stuff up. You know what I'm saying? So it's, it is like a, again, Again, ultimately for everyone that is not a board member or a major shareholder of one of these two companies, it's not good. No, you know what is, Chris, I think it's a matter for me. It's like is the bang for the buck there? I just feel like the bang for the buck will be there, especially if Netflix gets it.

I just feel like it'll be there in general. I don't know if it would have necessarily been there all the way through if Skydance would have got it. Because the stuff they had beforehand, it's okay. The stuff Netflix already has. combining with HBO Max, combining with the new movies. I mean, they have more bang for books. I don't, if it goes up to $30 a month for me, I'd be like, I understand why.

I get it. I'm getting all the stuff that I already have. Plus, I don't have that other subscription anymore. So I'll do it. Plus, I get all these other things and live events and everything too. The bank of the buck is there. I don't know if you feel the same. I mean, in a way I do.

I'm a terrible person and I steal my friend's HBO. Hi. Hi. Thanks, Tiffany. Um, so we do try. We're poor. But I do agree, though, in that the content, I think, is there for me to want to do this. And for me to, because I do pay for Netflix.

I do have that. Netflix and Apple are the ones that I go to the most probably and then HBO, honestly. And so financially, it does make sense. But again, this is why, as consumers, it is important for everyone to know this stuff, because these deals affect your bottom line. What streamers can you afford to have? Does this make sense for you? Are we eventually just going to go back to cable?

because that's where we're leading to of just it's all under one place, under one thing that you pay for. So that's also why, because I know a couple people are like, why do we keep talking about this? This all affects you. Not only the media you consume, but the way you spend your money and the dollars you earn going to stuff. It's huge. Yeah. So you got to know about it. It also is going to destroy what it is going to do is that Netflix becomes this powerhouse as they were saying what people are scared of.

And rightfully so. if I'm like Peacock and Paramount Plus and all that I'd be scared out of my mind because I'm like if they build their price up to say $31 and you now if you're a consumer and you're going oh my God $31. Do I want to get rid of Netflix and just keep my other ones while I got peacock what do they have? Well they lost their they got shit. What about and what about Paramount? Well they have and they got caught shit. And what about HBO Max? And they're on Netflix. So Apple it's only going to be Apple versus Netflix. Yeah, because for Apple, that's just,

that's just playtime. They don't really like, they're just like, it's a type of project. We put on good shit. We put on good shit. You don't want to subscribe to us? Up to you. We're making more money, hand over fist. Anyway, we're just putting out good shit. And that's why they can put out F1, make it for $250 million. And it's like, look, we just made another great movie. And they make great shows. So Apple, it'll be Apple versus Netflix.

It, at 1,000 will be. Well, and Amazon, because same thing. Yeah, right. They have fair money to just throw stuff around. It's not their primary business. It's not. And that's literally why Apple and Amazon have been able to cut in the way they have is because it's not their primary business. They make money.

And the funny thing is, again, that's where Disney at this point, even though that is the main thing we know them. Forgot about them. They have fully done their thing. But that to me, I think, is the funny part about this full court press and almost bro tactic of Skydance buying Paramount and be like, and now we're going to use this to win. We get Warner Brothers. and the reason Paramount Paramount's been looking for a buyer for years because they have not been doing well. Like I remember tracking all of this as this was going on. They literally were using Paramount as a stepping stone to get to this thing.

So to get this far and essentially be Tom Brady with the perfect season and blow it to the Giants just feels really weird. You know what I mean? I figured you would appreciate that. I did appreciate that. So look, and the same thing. this is not, it's not over yet. It's really not over yet and it'll continue to go and we'll have more conversations about it. So very curious to what you guys are thinking overall about all the stuff that we discovered and then we're going to get so much more of your thoughts because there's so many

questions right now that are coming in. And like I said, we need, Chris is at 156 from yesterday in order to, we need just about 100 for Winston and Chris to win, 100 more for Chris and Winston to win. Right now, Chris is on the least. leaderboard. But before we even get to those questions, we're going to take a quick break. And I'm going to tell you guys, as I've been telling you, I'm trying to give you guys options for the holidays. I've been doing that. I'm going to tell you about Ridge. Ridge has been on for a bit and then Nutrafall. So I'll say about both of those and then we'll be right back. Hey, Willie! So happy to be with Nutrafall for as long as we have been because it's a holiday season.

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No, but thank you, Derek. Derek's the man. Derek's the man. Derek's the man. Derek did a big push yesterday. So, all right, here we go. First one. And it's actually, hey, Mr. CJ. Happy Friday, capes and cows roll out.

Thank you. Hey, Mr. CJ. Also hashtagging, I wish I knew. Johnny Petriza says RIP to, Mr. Carrie Takawa. What am I missing here? Hold on, Gary. I want to make sure.

Oh, no. Oh, no. Carrie, Chicago died. I didn't, oh, I did not know that. What happened?

Legendary, he died from a stroke. 75 years old. Oh, no. Oh, that's horrible. Moral combat, of course.

Oh, his soul is in heaven. Yeah, that's right. Oh, man. All right. Well,

thank you for letting us know that. Um, let's say next one after that. And that would be Justin Sodorski. Can't often join live. I wanted to say congrats on all you're doing with your show. Thank you. I independently published my own novel, so it's inspiring to see. Thank you, Justin.

Yeah, we're, we're going to have, um, we, we're really putting together some fun, crazy stuff and how it's being put together. I, I talked to the director, it's going to be kind of revolutionary, to be honest. It's kind of brand new. Um, I'm pretty excited about it. it. Christopher Bickner. Christian, remember how just yesterday he said it was guaranteed Paramount would win the WB bidding wars?

It took one day for you to be wrong. I said it. Chris, I started the show by saying I was 100% wrong. 100%. Yeah. One, two, three, four, five. I want to make sure. Okay, so there were five that weren't registered. We actually got 67.

67. It says 62. It's 67. Mike Joyce. Zoloft was two kind of a nickname for Zaz. law. I mean, I don't know. I only call him Zaz, uh, Zoloff when he's making really stupid deals. You, you don't have to like the fact that, you know, he's selling it. But as a business deal, I'm not going to call him Zoloff for this one. I feel like now he's called Forbes off.

I know. Okay, well, no Forbes. No Forbes. Uh, Frazier. God, I forgot. I forgot. No Forbes. Forbes said so. Frazier, Alex, 1993. And I'm so, speaking to that Forbes, I'm so disappointed. I'm so disappointed. Like I was, so Winston, in the same way that if you would mention Forbes and I was busting your balls about it too, and I was having fun. And I was like, oh, are we using those other thing? The fucking guy was like, oh, you can't take a criticism.

I was like, no, I was playing with you. You fuck, I was playing with you. And you can't, I'm like, you're out. That's why I feel. I can't, I can't do this. I was like, oh, they can find the fans is a choice. No, I was, it was exact opposite. You putts, I was saying, thank you for playing.

at the table and hanging out. Let's fuck around. And I hate shit like that. If you don't understand my sense of humor, there's tons of other channels. Go. Go away. I'll be honest with you. That's actually one of the funniest things a lot of times like, have you ever been to a black barbershop before?

Yeah, I actually have. So just the idea of like watching the random white dude that's ever been there and everybody's just breaking balls. Like you're roasting each other constantly and not getting it. I thought he was in on it yesterday and then he's like oh, you're making a fun of the somebody who was throw it in a super chat as a twist.

I'm like, no, I was inviting you in. I was inviting you in having fun. You even said it. You said, I don't know if you're actually whatever or like. I thought he's messing around, but then he was seriously. He wrote back on the comments. I like, just, I appreciate it. And I do appreciate that you put the comment in, but you should, you should find a different channel.

Frazier Alex, go port your, go support your local art house theater indie film. Definitely. 100%. I wouldn't even add to that. Go get a drop out TV subscription. Absolutely. There you go. I'm curious.

You know, Netflix does have an opportunity here to do something pretty special if they wanted to, too. They really could. They could change it. They could change stuff around. They wanted to and prove everybody wrong. Frazier Alex, live for the first time. Thanks for the great content. You are welcome.

Thank you for being here. Appreciate that very much. Captain Fernandez. Netflix wants that sweet, one of those IP so they can pump out AI generated content featuring Batman. Well, do they do? A lot of AI stuff, Netflix? I didn't think so, but I honestly don't know the answer to that.

I know Disney's been experimenting with it more. Yeah, I canceled my Disney Plus because of it. Oh, wow. Okay. Connor Mullis, 23. What's up, Connor? I'm back. Sorry for not being around as much as common work.

Has been busy. Hey, never apologize. We understand. Life gets in the way sometimes, my friend. Okay. And this one is Yoshimitsu 5537. Weeks ago, Jeff Snyder, guest that Ellison was just colluding, was asloff to jack out the price with fake bids and never actually intended to buy one of those

Ellison I thought it was I was the opposite I thought it was Sarandos I don't I don't I find that hard to believe I wouldn't the main reason of Skydance spent so much money on Paramount and Paramount was very much in like fourth fifth place you're not the writing letters about it I mean you know you're not wasting billions yeah just so you can yeah I don't agree with that Joe Hendo TV it's just mind boggling there some people happy about the news, do they not realize the effect it'll have on the entertainment industry? I mean, happy is, is, is, you know, I think maybe what you were saying, what Chris and Winston were saying, I think it's more so of happy that it was Netflix as opposed to Paramount,

I think is maybe where you're getting more of the happiness side of it is what I, what I've seen. That's, that's literally it. And that's why I reiterated, like, again, as somebody that works in this industry, no, I'm not happy at the idea that you have now less job. Like, imagine even the person. that like, you know, you're doing your thing. You end up in a situation where like it didn't work out for Netflix.

You're like, I'm just going to go to Warner's. So you go over to Warner, you're having a good time. And all of a sudden it's like, guess who just bought your job? Like it's right. Again, it's not a good thing as an overall. But if these were our options. Yeah, I know. I'm so, I'm definitely thinking of my friends over there at both Warner Bros and Netflix.

I wonder how that's going to work. some calls to be after this. Dennis Hoffman. Well, they don't, I don't, I just thought about that too. I'm not going to make any calls because I know what the answer is going to be. We don't know yet. Yeah. I mean, there's there's, you know what I mean? Yes, there's, there's one friend of mine that works at Warner Brothers that works pretty high up. Um, and she has been terrified. Yeah. She still doesn't know. Yeah. So, uh, yeah. So Dennis Hoffman, happy Ellison's didn't get Warner Brothers. Agree with Roker on the Ellsons placating to the current administration. this makes sense but sucks for the industry, another round of layoffs for Warner Bros.

Well, that's inevitable. That there's going to be more layoffs for sure. The question is there's going to be layoffs on the Netflix side too, you know, to bring in some of the new Warner Bros. People might be because like, like I said, look at the publicist side of things. There's so many publicists,

but there's a lot of great publicists that they're going to have at Warner Bros. Do they keep them there to say, like, well, no, we need you guys to do the film theatrical stuff. Our people really don't do that, or do they do the opposite and say, well, thank you. We have people on the, on our side that we're going to actually give to the theatrical now. And thank you for your service and see you later. I don't know. And it can go anyway. Brody Bruce, I'm neither excited or angry about the deal. I just want my comic book movies and we'll wait and see how it works out.

Totally. First of all, very, very generous super chat. Thank you so much. Will swamp things surface in the upside down and defeat Fekna? Well, this is a good question, by the way. Will Batman and Robin team up with Scooby-Doo again? that's another question. That'd be cool. Could they start to pair off some of these, you know, franchises together that they have inside of, you know, the Netflix originals, yeah.

Does Netflix still have the WWE or where is that now? Well, it's all over the place. It's got a deal. Well, so here's someone asked this and I think, well, it might be a super chat that I'm about to ruin, but I saw it come in. I don't know if it was a super chat or not, but either way. A.W. is on Max, isn't it?

Oh, yeah. So then on me on Netflix. How long is their deal? Is it going to have WB and A.W on the same on Netflix? I bring my AWD's contract about to get, you know, paid off. Yeah. The only reason why I was curious is because I was like, I mean, if we're getting another John Cena Scooby-Doo crossover, I'm here for that all day.

That was my love. Yeah. Thank you, Brody, again. It was very, very generous. Connor Mullis, 23. I would love to see a Zach Snyder Justice League dark movie set in Guns, DCU. Maybe Netflix would do something like that. maybe i mean netflix do darker shit i mean i think playface is perfect for net well justice

league dark specifically is referring to if you're not familiar christian the like essentially magical elements of the justice league so constantine zatanna swamp thing like all of them dealing with etrigan but it tends to be not just dark because of like dark magic but like actually dark as constantines you know an asshole so like it's i i could i honestly thought that that was always based off of how snider likes to do his stuff that was always that was always always the lane, in my opinion, he should have played with more than trying to make Superman Broody. I think that taking Justice League Dark and running with that would have been fire. But that's just me. We'll see. Yeah. Uh, Gerard. Winsom, sorry about your Cowboys, maybe next year.

At least they finished 500. I was going to ask you about this because I actually knew about sports. Yeah, that was, that was rough to watch yesterday while trying to work. It was not fun. It is what it is. I'll get over it. The season was already a wash as is. So yeah. Two and 11. All right. Not you, Giants. Andrew Brown.

The most interesting part of this purchase is the gaming unit, as Netflix has wanted to get into the gaming industry, and now they are in. Does Warner Brothers have a big gaming side, too? Yeah, they do. Warner has a massive gaming side. Oh, I know that. Stupid, I knew that from working there.

She said go over and test out the games with when Jason, what's his face was there? Shit. Anyway, okay, that is big. Chris, that's a great point. Yeah, no, that is a very good point. But also, I just want to remind everyone that Warner Brothers game, one of the biggest holdouts throughout all of the voice acting sag after strikes.

Oh, right. They were. So that also gives me a little bit of pause, too, of, oh, our next negotiation is going to be so rough. Which we all knew because of AI too, but it's, it's, right. There's a lot going on here. Connor, Mollis, Wilson, our Cowboys. broke my heart last. That was, that was rough, man. Dak looked like he was running

from like a pound of, a pack of wolves. It was crazy. Currently, it's, currently at 75, guys, 75. Not bad. Not bad. Matt Thomas. What's on, man? People are ignoring the threat of losing physical media stock up on WB titles.

It's true. Now, while you still can, Comcast was the best option. This is F. I don't know, Comcast was the best option in general, but maybe, maybe as far as that particular reasoning than maybe you're right. But look, it's the same thing I just said, though.

We don't know if Netflix is going to change strategy at all because it's not just Netflix anymore. It's Netflix plus Warner Bros. I think it's like I'll use, as Winston was using the sports analogy, I'll use a wrestling one too. I feel like, like I've always said this, even like work for the company when it happened. When WWE bought WCW, it was WWF at the time, I, always thought it would make the most sense to run two brands at the same time.

And they have the WWF, WCW, and then you have your big events that you would have like yearly, and then you can match up the talents. And then you finally could do it. Because we always wanted to see Rick Flair and Hogan when it was WCW, but you never could happen because they couldn't have a contract. But if you ran them two at the same time and you ran this legendary company and this other legendary company, you ran them.

But instead they did the invasion. They combined everything. and it just diluted the product and that was the end of the legacy. And Netflix could be in that same position. You've got Warner Brothers, which is this legendary thing, run it on its own. Let it be its own thing. Don't dissolve it. And again, I understand dissolving Max.

I get it. I hate it, but I understand it. But run it. Don't let it dissolve. And then that's what people are afraid. And I don't agree that Comcast would have been the best option because that's the same issue that you have with Paramount. You're taking one of the major.

actual film studios and then you're deciding to mash NBC Universal and and Warner Brothers together. That's the same problem as Paramount. And again, if I'm keeping it a buck, obviously I know I lean more towards the left on things. You're also running the risk of now you're getting CNN and everything else like that that you're going to push all of that. I think you need to have the balance of both. I do not think that that would have been the best option. Yeah, I have just seemed boring to me too. It seemed boring too. Um, draw it. Christian, would you ever consider a reaction video for the Alex Pryas movie Dark City? You don't have to, you don't have to write Alex Proyas on there because I love that movie.

It's it, it was where the Matrix got the Matrix from. Great movie. Same guy directed in 1994 The Crow. Again, you don't have to tell me. Love the movie. Saw it in the theater. My problem with doing a reaction to it is my fear a lot of things. I mean, the part it didn't do well. That was crazy.

It did okay. It did okay. But the departed did. So it's like it, no one's going to watch Dark City. Now, Sam's never seen The Matrix, so I'll probably do The Matrix. But I love that movie, Dark City. Connor, did you ever fill a bowl up with water and drink it like a puppy? I do it.

It's exhilarating. Okay, Connor. I feel you. I don't want to admit that I've done that before. Have you? There you go. You just did. Jay Morgan.

Christian Winston, you guys watching Hard Knocks, NFC. East? No, go birds. that. Shut up, Winston. And hi, Chris. Shout out. It's actually good. Shout out, Muppets, Christmas, Carol, the best. Yes, it is. That's your favorite, right? It's my favorite movie of all time. I can quote so much of it. It's amazing. I love that.

You should watch it, Kristen. There's a really great moment with, a long time ago, I think. No, no, no, I meant a hard-knoxed NFCE. Oh, oh, oh. It's like there's this awesome moment with James Winston. I don't know if you watched the game like a week or so ago where he was paid a night in. and was jumping over people and doing his touchdown. Oh, dude, it's really good. Florida State, Florida State.

All right, let's say. Okay, 80. 80, the fight is real at 80. Connor Mullis, Netflix will slowly put less one of those movies and theaters over the next few years and more to streaming. I don't trust Sarandos. I think at all the peeps, I kind of trust him the most. He seems to me the most real out of all of them to be honest.

Yeah, yeah, he still seems like a CEO. of a 4- Yeah, of course. But, but again, we could be completely wrong here. But the vibes I was just getting as a whole is that one felt like they were very clearly putting their evil master plan on the table. And the other one, at least is presenting that it'll be fine, but I'm still concerned.

Yeah, I get it. Trash Panda, where you've been? The domino effect is fascinating. For example, does HBO disappear from satellite cable providers? That's a great question. Probably. Probably answer is probably yes. For the duration of the contract,

you know, whenever that, whenever it is, does Netflix keep one of those IP involvement in Six Flags? Well, that's what we were talking about before. Well, shorter theatrical impact theater ticket, impact theater ticket costs.

These are fantastic questions by Trash Panda, all the way through. So start with, does HBO disappear from satellite cable providers? I think we all agree. Yes, until the contract runs out. Does Netflix keep the involvement in Six Flags? Now, Chris, that's what you said earlier, right? With the, they own it.

Why not capitalize on it? Yeah. Well, and I think a lot of these two, they are different divisions. But if you own the IP, my understanding is then you have access to that. Right. So that also, though, I mean, Universal for, it still has a whole bunch of, you know, Marvel superheroes in Florida. So that whole situation is very, very messy and convoluted because, you know,

you go to Universal and the X-Men come out and take. take pictures with you and you're like, what are you doing here? Right. And then I guess the final one there, Winston, is we'll shorter theatrical impact theater ticket costs. I mean, in the sense that the fear that theaters will go away, so that might affect the cost. But I think it means a matter of whether people are going to see it or not because it's like, hey, I can see this in 30 days in my house or 25 days in my house. And I don't have to see it. But I think that I just feel that the way, way that it's already set up today is that if you want to see it in the movies,

you're going to see it in the movies. I just feel like that, you know, not that it doesn't affect it, but I just feel like if you want to see it in the theater, you want to see in the theater. Yeah. Yeah. Aidan Doherty says, Ted Sarandos just said my pushback has been mostly in the fact of the longer exclusive windows, which we don't really think are that consumer friendly. That was such a nice way for him to say, I want to put stuff on Netflix sooner.

Right. Yeah, when did he say this? I'm just curious. He said just said, so I don't know. Yeah, this was a statement that I saw earlier this morning, because that's why I wanted to bring up the shorter windows. Because that is something that he's talked about with the evolution of how it's going to go. And I understand this.

I completely understand, just like you were saying, Christian, of like, if you want to see it in theaters, you will. And also, if you are a parent with kids, going to the movies is expensive if you're not all on A list. Even if you all are. It's still expensive. And so I understand the idea of it is consumer-friendly to put this on a streaming server. that you are already paying money for.

However, that is also packaged nicely to say, and aren't I the guy to do it? Right. Yeah, right. And again, I'll be the bad guy. Is it wrong for him to say it? No. I really, if it's his business.

Smart. It's smart. It's his business. And he's going to go, look, here's the deal. I don't have to like it for it to be smart. Yeah. Yeah. Here's the deal.

I am now, 100%. You're right. But it's like, if I go, look, here's the deal. Yesterday I didn't own all of this. Today I do, or I will, right? So inside of that, what I'm going to tell you is this. A lot of people didn't have the opportunity to say that, oh, well, we like the 45 or keeping the 45.

I don't like the 45. I'm going to make it 25. And then it's going to be on my platform. You want to go see it in the theater? Go see it in the theater. But because it doesn't affect me and it actually helps me that you're going to watch it when it hits on the streaming, we don't make the money we made in the theater. Fine, watch it on streaming.

And that's where I just continue to. Again, that's where these antitrust laws kick in. It's where these monopoly laws kick in. It's just one of those things that you would hope at your core that even if you were trying to do good business, like you can still do good business with the way it's set up now, that people would do what is ultimately kind of the right thing as far as options and stuff like that. But again, people are literally playing the game of monopoly and saying, no, I'm shutting all this shit down.

Right. Right. Aided. So I hope at the very least that they want to go that route. they don't take it out of theaters as soon as it goes to Netflix, but that way we still have an option. Still bleak for theaters, though, either way. That's also a great point, though.

That's also a great point. Like, there are times, like, you look at Superman, right? Superman went to digital after 30 days or whatever it was, but it stayed in theaters. So Netflix has traditionally said, all right, two weeks, now it's out. Now you can only watch it on Netflix. That's, I guess, the question of will they continue to do that? yeah uh Alex

I walk away for five minutes in the movie industry's gone to shit what the hell guys where were you Alex? Yeah where were you right and you also don't know yet people people right away will say ah this are the worst whatever happens to be good

that's the other question I always ask people though too because it seems like most people most people once they have their idea set in their mind of what it's going to be it's always going to be that but what if it turns out to be a good thing you know I know that in people's heads they go, I don't know if it could ever be good because the monopoly but what happens actually turns out to be a good thing.

Would people actually say that it was a good thing? Probably not. A few people that are honest about stuff, most people won't. They're still grumbled. Unheard sirens incorporated. I hope the Netflix deal means that they're casting a new Batman. And that, of course, would be the one and only. My motherfucking Batman!

All to Yamadi. That's hilarious that we took at the last time I had a handlebar mustache, too. It's pretty good. Okay. Thank you, unheard of. So Benzo 503 says, hey, what do you guys think?

This is, okay, I answered this one earlier. I thinks it means for AEW since Netflix has their degree. I think it means AEW would be in serious trouble. You'd probably go to Paramount. Honestly,

probably not, no, because you know what? They probably wouldn't go to Paramount because TKO has UFC over a Paramount. You're probably like, no, don't put that over.

They go to Comcast? Maybe. NBC Universal? Maybe. So, yeah, they're probably not going to, they'll probably get rid of that contract, I would assume. But because I don't know when their contract ends. Because remember, this deal is not going to go through until late next year, early 2027.

Connor Mullis, maybe if Gunn stays, this will help expand his DC faster with more money and resource allocation for series with movies being event things, trying to stay positive. That's the other thing we didn't talk about, Winston, is that by the time this deal comes through, guns contract will probably be either over or almost over. You know? I mean, that's a good point. I didn't even think because his contract was, what, five years?

Yeah, contracts up at the end of November of next year, I think. Yeah. So it's also crazy that we started talking about him getting that job. It was three years. That long ago. That's crazy that we, I remember when me, you and Koi were talking about him getting the job and what that meant that it's already almost up. That's, I don't like how fast time moves.

I know. draw it. Winston, Cowboys fans woke up back to reality. They got too high in their own supply after beating the Eagles and Chiefs at home. They forgot how bad their road record is. One, we have a cupcake schedule to end the whole thing, but we do need a lot of help. But I don't think most Cowboys fans, myself included, were like, this is it. Finally, we're going to the Super Bowl. No, we knew we were in a hole. So it was still a long shot. I think it was more of a wake-up call to both the Eagles and the Chiefs of, your shit stinks. And you need to do something about it. it. Right. Fair. Did you say you have a cupcake scheduled? A cupcake schedule. Meaning that it's soft and sweet. It's not, it's not hard. It was easy. Thank you.

That's hilarious. I'm trying to find this video because I see this next thing that was super chatted in. All right. I do have it. Hold on. I do have it. I will bring this up because this is pretty damn, pretty damn. funny. Give me a second because I want to bring it. Christian, it was a four year deal that started May of 23. So it's over in 27. Yeah. Oh, 27? It's over in May of 27. It's a four year deal. I thought it was 22. It, uh, I'm looking right now, James Gunn's contract serving his co-cee, uh, CEO of DC Studios with a four year deal starting around May of 2023. Oh, wow. Okay. So may, all right. All right. Um, let's see. I want to, I want to bring this up here because I have to. I got to bring

this up. Where is it? Where is it? Hold on. Hold on. Um, share screen. Okay. That's it. All right. Bring this up in just a second. Okay. If you haven't, if you haven't watched the latest hot mic episode, you got to react to a 21 minute mark. Something happens to Snyder's. Have you guys seen this? No. This is, this is pretty good. There is some overlap there. Genius! Ah! Oh my God! Fuck! I think his brother like tackle them in the middle of him. Okay, I saw a tweet about that, but I hadn't seen it. That's hilarious. That's pretty good. That was good. That's hilarious. His brother,

I think his brother's pretty funny. Dude, Connor Mollis, it's time to pick up in the foreglyth. Frick, yeah, gotta love them much energy. That's right.

That's right. Connor, glad your nonsense is back. Brandon, I'm enjoying the good vibes today. Thank you, Brandon. Thank you for helping me get through an anxious day.

I love hearing stuff like that. I'm glad that you're not having an anxious day anymore. Hopefully, if we brought some laughs to you. Yeah, man. Casual scroll. Who had the best monologue speech, Luthan from Andro,

what do I sacrifice or Ragnito X-Men 97? Do not make me let you down. I got to go Luton. Oh, I'm Magneto all day. Haven't seen Indor, so I got to go, Magneto. How dare you?

All right. O.G. Bobby Johnson. I'm kind of shocked that Netflix might win this bidding more. Me too. My opinion, I think it made most sense for Netflix to use WB as a theatrical arm. yeah Netflix still did DVDs till 20203 yeah if they do if they do that I'm telling you WCWWWF telling you

but run it run it is a separate thing Connor Mullis guess when I'm eating cheese cucumbers eggs nice we'll find out soon Derek just dropping his support thank you Derek's huge from from DJ

my hands are too tight for multi supports love the show and chat Since he always sends them in $2 increments, I feel like. I feel like I'll break him, God break them up. Yeah. Don't work that way. One right now at 90. So Garner-Mollis, if you guessed meatloaf, you'd be correct.

Meatloaf, so juicy, so meatloaf. I'm looking at my plate. Hell yeah, brother. So I'll tell you that. See, Connor. See, he makes a hell of a meatloat. Does she? Yeah, she makes chicken and turkey.

I do a good one where I put a brick of cheese in the middle. Oh, damn. Why am I not losing weight, you guys? I think I found it. I have an idea. John DX. Dragon. Netflix buying Winter Brothers is the best option. They understand the average viewer who struggles affording theaters.

Many artists, critics seem to not care the same way. Netflix puts the consumer first and listens. This is what I'm saying. They have made their fans. base and their subscribers happy. If you're going to ask most streamers or most people who have streaming, what are you most happy without all your things that's most consistent? Now, I know a lot of people say Apple because they're quality of their show and I don't,

but overall, most people are going to say Netflix. It has a bigger catalog. Apple has bangers. Like that is such high quality. But there's so much more on Netflix. And I can watch my trash Christmas movies. Yes. But that's my point.

from before, Chris, is that you feel like you're getting the bang, the most bang for your buck. And the minute they started branching out into this live stuff. Yeah. Like the minute they decided we're going to go and get Paul versus Tyson. Well, they're going to witness Paul's murder against Joshua.

Yeah, you got that too. The minute you decided to go get NFL on for Christmas and then did the Beyonce bowl and all that stuff. Bro, like they... It's crazy. Go pal. From Dan's take this morning. It sounded like Netflix offered $28 a share in Paramount was at $27 by a dollar.

So that's what I'm saying. So by a dollar. Well, that's what I'm, the final number was 30. So like, from what, for, because we even the article that we read said that the 30. 30. Yeah, I don't know. John D.X. Dragon.

I do wonder what this means for DC. Anything is possible. I do believe, uh, if the deal is safe proof in Q3, 2226, Netflix will in fact reboot the DC. Unlike gun, they will push the big hitters from the start. That all just depends on who they're going to get to run it. If they don't have, if they don't, if they don't continue guns contract, I think, but here's the difference. So I think if they keep gun on, they're going to let them run this thing until the contract's out

and reevaluate it once it's done. I'm also confused. Is Superman not a big hitter? Well, no, no, no. I know Superman started with, we had this conversation yesterday. So, of course, Superman's a big hitter. But that's not what he's talking about. Right after that is Clayface.

Landon's TV show, Supergirl. I got you. Where's Batman? Where's Wonder Woman? Where's the Flash? Where's Aquaman? Like, and yes, as Chris said yesterday, we just did that. Was Zach Snyder.

Let's do something different. But the problem is that you're in this position where you've got to succeed and you're leaving all this on the table. Real Shields. WGA is issuing a statement to block the sale. Yeah, yeah, we covered that one for sure. Eric Slaby, what's the earliest that this sale could be really? realized it in place, 2027 or

2028. I think it can't be done until one of those discs is fully split, which is Q3, 2026. I think early 2027, late 2026 is when this happens. I think because you're going to have Paramount raising a fuss if the Trump administration really decides that they want to weigh in and push the DOJ,

I think this ain't wrapping up till the end of 27 and it kicks off. Wow. Just because if you got the labor unions already complaining. You've got Ellison complaining. You got Trump weighing in. Right. It's probably going to be a bigger stink. It's not going to be very

easy. Yeah, you're probably right. Okay. Let's say next one. I've got a go pal. It's not clear to me when they report per share offer numbers if Netflix is giving more for half of Warner Bros. than Paramount offered for the whole thing. Yeah. I mean, I think there's more details that are coming out too. You know, there's way more details and everything too. Like I said,

this story is far from over, as Frank Stallone said. Go, pal. The hilarious part was Paramount Letters say the acquisition would be pro-competitive while Netflix is anti-competitive. Right. I mean, that is, that is, you know, silly. Eric Slaeby, in my opinion, Netflix is going to shrink the theatrical from 45, 60 days to maybe 30. I think that's probably right, at least specifically for WB-produced films. I think 30 days will probably be what happens.

You anybody disagree? I think the only exception to that rule, if it is something like major event-wise, that they are, their cleaning house like the way Barbie was doing. Yeah. You leave it alone. But if it's something on like kind of the smaller side, then yeah, it's probably 30 days. Yes and no. The difference with that is, but this is the difference with Netflix owning it.

When you're someone like even HBO Max where your business, your primary business in HBO Max is not, or Warner Bowes was not your streaming. It wasn't your primary business. The primary business with Netflix is your streaming. Sure. So if you have something like Barbie, as you're mentioning, after 30 days, you're like, put it on, let's, let's get it out of theaters. Put it on the streaming service. Now let's let's let's get more people subscribe now. I get that. I guess the only thing that would make sense like you said, keep it the WCW and the WWF. I agree. If you were with you. If you're literally watching, you could you could easily put that in the contract. If it's still delivering why mess with it? I agree. This is your. your window is either this. If it's not bringing it in, then we're moving it to this.

Well, you know what, Winston, maybe it's a mixture of both, right? Maybe it's what we were talking about before. Maybe it's like, okay, let's using the Barbie thing.

Barbie now it's, it's been out 30 days. It's got one more week, two more weeks before it hits a billion dollars, right? What do we do? I'll put it on Netflix, but leave it in the theater.

You know, maybe maybe it's something like that. Yeah, I, I think it would be smart for them if they're going to do it. I'm obviously no lawyer and I'm obviously not a CEO,

but you put it in the contract that if you meet these metrics by this time, this was your budget. If you hit this number, it will be a longer window. If it's not hitting those numbers, then we're pulling it after X amount of time and throwing it on the streamer.

Good point. Eric, gun will be under the weight and see from Netflix, my opinion. Well, not only do I think that's the case, I think that should be the case. I think that if I'm Sarandos, I go, look, let's see what you got.

Let's see how Lanterns does for us. Well, but, you know, by the way, and I say that, Landon's will still be on HBO Max next year. Yeah. Because we just said this deal's not going through for a while. So the contract will, I mean, he might not be on a wait and see with Netflix.

He might even be there. Because if you go, you know, by the time you get to win this deal is going to go through, let's say Winston's right. And let's say it's 2028. You Winston, you just said that his contract ends in 2027? So at that point, who's he negotiating with? in 2027.

Who's he negotiating with? If the deal doesn't go through, who's he negotiating one? That's a great point. So we don't know yet. Prady, Sarandos this morning on CNBC said that the plan is that HBO Max will be integrated into Netflix a la Hulu getting integrated into Disney Plus. That would be cool, though, if you go to Netflix and you just see the, you know,

the HBO Max logo on there, then you just have like a brand there. I mean, I like when they do that. Yeah, I agree. Slabie. With Netflix owning Harry Potter, how will that affect a park like Universal, which just announced that they're expanding it worldwide? Will they license Harry Potter from them?

I would assume so, right, Chris? Yeah, that's probably what will happen. Probably just another purchasing back and forth situation. Yeah, we own it and give us more money. I honestly see a scenario where, again, Universal and Netflix start talking. And as you mentioned, cool, can we throw stranger things in this book? Hell yeah, come on. 11 throwing around demagogians, let's do it.

Right. Shawnee Bear. If WW moves to Netflix, what happens to AW, which is on Netflix and TNT. It's on TNT and HBO Max. We talked about that earlier. We all agree that their contract will probably get pulled. Future Guy Zice dimension.

HBO Netflix, Netflix, A la carte services, Netflix, HBO, one of those live TV news and keep the WV infrastructure. Again, reiterating and saying the same thing, WWF, WSU, run two brands. That would give you the most people saying, oh, okay, I like what they're doing here.

You own this. So run it. Run Warner Bros. Keep the lot, run the movies, things, condense the service. Elijah Vids, 199, thank you. 95 currently, guys, 95. Okay, okay.

Putting up a fight. Putting up a fight. Still in third place, though. Broca and Kalanowski, we're at 118. um, Alex. Sorry, if you cover this already, but if this deal holds,

that means HBO is dead now. It seems like HBO would be dead now, depending on what we just said there beforehand. I, I think similar to the way you had, I know that that's a whole film studio, but the way you now have 20th century, they just took the word Foxx.

I don't think HBO is such a big brand. There is no world. I would hope not that. That you, that you asked that because what was the one thing we've been clowning Warner for, for her ever? it's Max now. Why? HBO was the name. What the hell is a Max?

Right. Yeah. Slavy, based on monopoly laws of either Paramount or Netflix bought WB, they would become a monopoly. My guess is this gets approved eventually. I think everybody kind of agrees it's going to get approved eventually. Connor, major DC characters and events in theaters. Yes. Smaller characters on streaming. Yes. That's still interconnect could be good. Yeah. It could. Or it could be kind of like what more. was initially tried with Disney Plus,

where then they did too much. Yeah. Yeah. Rovina Films confirmed Marvel is re-releasing re-releasing end game on September 26. That's cool. Look at them trying to go and out play Avatar for the number one movie at all time.

That would be my guess. It's partially. How much are they out by? Not by a lot because they already did a re-release previously, but let's take a look because I wouldn't be surprised. It's a regular is. Avengers and. game is at 2 billion

799-439 so which avatar is it avatar 1 or 2? Avatar 1. Okay so Avatar 1 is at 2-9. 2-9 you still got quite a while. What you said what was that? What was that

in game? 27. 27 to 29 that's not 2 billion I mean the 2.9 billion versus 2.7 billion? That's not that if they're doing a re-release and they're hyping it up right before you do Doomsday, I could see a world where that happens. I mean, $723 million and $923 million.

You got to make another $200 million. I don't know if you're going to do that. Oh. You think it's going to be going to get $200 million? Well, only because when Avatar was down by like 300, originally two endgame and then they re-released it before Way of Water and they overtook them by that much. But I think, I don't know.

Love to see. Love to see. HR White. Bad day if you love the theatrical experience. Not yet. Don't say that yet. You don't know. Netflix is going to do a slow contraction until theatrical experience dies from

lack of product and people only option is Netflix gross. I understand that fear, Chris, but I don't think I don't know if you can say that yet. I do think we have to wait and see a little bit. And again, I don't want to be completely reactionary to this. I want to hold out for a little bit of hope and go, hey, do right by the consumer. and a lot of us want to see things in movie theaters. And again, it also is, hey, Ted, go make some more money with the toys you just brought.

Right. Yeah. Matt Sinister, McHale, any Kickstarter updates? How long did it take you to write the pilot? How many episodes have you wrote and what's your writing between regarding time? Great questions all the way through. Part one, Kickstarter updates. Yes.

So I had a great conversation with both my right partner, my producer, a director, and a new person that we're bringing on. that's going to be helping with as without giving away too much the idea of what we're going to be doing and when to understand who the producer and director are and understanding what the the campaign is going to be it'll make a lot of sense to how we're going to roll this thing out it's the plan right now it's going to be a visually it was going to be a December release but the thing is you know with holiday season and getting everything right and making sure we put it out there But the goal is that we're just planning,

and the next thing that we're planning out is when my announcement of the, of who the director and producer are and what we'll be offering with a release date of when it's coming out. That's, that's the next thing that's going to be coming up. As far as how long it took to write the pilot, tricky question because I wrote the initial, it went through so many different things.

The initial pilot, um, uh, it was, was a long time ago. and a couple different versions of it. There was a version that Cody Hall had done something with, and it wasn't the right take.

So I did something else. And I brought Sosterpo Raver on. She's a really good writer. She did some great stuff to it. And then we just, we didn't, it didn't work out the in, because we were going to shoot it back then.

So I just scrapped the whole thing. And it sat for about nine years. And then I just gutted it. And then when I brought on, well, I wrote a version of, of myself that probably took me when I was a collider. I wrote a version for myself.

And I sent that version to my friend Martine. And she liked it a lot. And then we'd had meetings. And we decided to just blow up the whole thing and to stick with the premise. So it took us about eight months, nine months to a bunch of meetings that we took through back and forth on Skype and everything and coming up with. Because we read the character's history changed. her character tremendously and did all these things and just gutted it.

And from like seven to eight months, then changed that. And that's how long it took. So episodes, we only wrote the screenplay for one episode, but we have five seasons mapped out. Connor Mullis, how many ants would it take to eat a McChicken?

Probably a few, I bet. I haven't had a McChicken and I can't tell you how long. Definitely a few. Yeah, right? I'm like, is Connor, like, constantly just, like, microdose and trumes? He's like Robert Smeagel.

Remember Robert Smeagel? Yeah. Eric Slavey. Was there outcry like this when Disney bought Fox? There was. Yeah. There was. By allowing that deal of my precedent was set, which means this will get approved.

I agree with that as well. Yeah. It was, there was outcry, but it wasn't as big because it was the beginning of this weird domino effect. Yeah. And now that it keeps shrinking more and more, people are screaming more and more. Yeah. Are you the one of you guys watching Stranger Things? Yes.

Yes. Mad Sinister McCall says, Stranger Things predictions, who you think will die? You know, initially I thought it was 11, but I think it's going to be Hopper. I think they're finally going to do it. But the whole town's going to be like, isn't he already? Did he any? I know. I hope that he wants to. I think they're just setting things up in the way that they're setting up the relationship.

I think it'll be Will. I think I think Will's going to go. I think Will's going to fully tap into his powers. and then I think that's going to, I think he's going to sacrifice himself. Eric Sleby, you think so, sorry, Jess, what do you think? That's okay. I just worry about Joyce then of like the whole premise initially was get my boy back. That's why I don't believe he does and then he dies.

Yeah. I think it's going to be Steve, which I'm very upset about. Steve, he's Steve too many times. Yeah, they say them too many times. But the only reason real quick, I think that, that Joyce will, she's not going to be happy about it, but that conversation will just had with her. about like mom you have to let like I'm grown like whatever I don't want to give too many spoilers so I don't want to give too many so let's see next one after that and let's say oh

Eric Slaby I agree with you Christian on this deal business wise yeah as business makes sense um okay it's currently at 101 big day big day can they do it it's at 101 it's at 101 it's they got a shot here they got a shot obviously Obviously, man of tomorrow is a buster beyond. Obviously, man of tomorrow, Batman 2 will be big deciders in DC's studios of future. But at this moment, I'm feeling good as a DC fan. Guess we'll see. Yeah, I just don't know what the plan is yet to feel good about it or not feel good about it.

You know? Eric Slaby, have you guys watched Slow Horses on Apple? No, but all I've heard is how great it is. And that Gary Oldman farts a lot. Oh, does he fart a lot in it? Yeah. Great. Do you watch it, Winston?

No, but there was a bit, I think it's tied to Slow Horses where he, was on Colbert. Yeah. And so they were like, well, we realized that we need to add parting to all your stuff. Oh, now I understand. Now that makes sense. Okay. I just discovered it this week and I got a subscription to watch it. It might be the best TV show on. It's great. I have to watch a show. I love Gary Oldman, one of my favorite actors of all time. Yeah. And I hear great things. Yeah. Draw it. Winston, sorry for the cowboy trolling. I'm a Chiefs fan. The Chiefs will be joining the Cowboys in Cancun after this Sunday. I do not see, which is crazy to say, the way. I do not see them beating Houston. That defense is scary good.

I think the chiefs are just exactly what happened with the Patriots with Brady. Mahomes will still be great and Reid will still be great, but we're just at the end of that run of a dynasty. If the chiefs are meant to resurge, it's going to take a couple years to essentially rebuild old players that are about to leave. Like Kelsey's about to go become a billionaire via marriage. Like he's probably about done with football. You know, so. See, Black, Marvel, re-releasing end game. Yep. I'm curious. We'll see that's going to be a story. That's going to be a story.

Casual scroll. Chris, do you have any advice for young voice acting talent looking for work with AI taking away opportunities in the industry? Oh, okay. If you have absolutely no money to do anything for acting classes, you can go to I Want to Be a Voice Actor.com. It is curated by D. Bradley Baker. It is amazing free advice for you.

You can go get books. The business of video game voice acting is a great one. Watch TV, watch video games, actually listen to the characters, learn about plusing when people breathe, life into things and take things out of the in Can Valley and make them seem human. And that's the thing that keeps fighting AI. I also would love you to go see if you can the horrific clips that they put out of banana

fish with the AI dub versus hopeful voice actors dubbing over it. And it is so much better because AI can't do shit. Yeah. Oh, there you go. I love that. Alex, who says, when I hear Netflix being $30 a month and being the only game in town and having commercials,

I can't help but thinking they were lying about disrupting cable. That's what Chris said, yeah. It's all a lie. It's all a lie to convince you to, again, Uber and Lyft, if you ever need to figure out how people are playing these games, they specifically saw a gap. They went and they used that gap to get in. They undercut the price. And the minute that they had the taxis over a barrel, they jacked that shit. Right.

Yep. Let's see, Z-Rod. would you ever show Sam Stranger Things? I mean, I'm watching it with Sadie right now so to go back again, Sam's going to be so busy I mean, we just finished, we watched all three of the Netflix, or the Netflix of the Knives Out.

So we did one, we're going to release two, and then we'll we will release three when it is available on streaming. But we just did all three of those, and now I might show her seven next. She's never seen seven. Oh, too. Yeah, show her seven. Tough one.

Great movie. Trash Panda. Netflix also acquire Warner Music Group. It's another great question that wasn't answered. And more important, do they get this flirt and flashtosography? Yeah. Well, he lost that a long time ago. You know, I still was one of my favorite storylines we never got to do.

Is that, you know, do you remember the whole storyline what was going to happen, Winston with, was spectacular? I think I've told you this before. Maybe. So Jen Sturger finally was starting to go heal. And so everyone did, for years, I'd talked about the Jessica character and everything, too. I talked to Jen and I said during, and this is before we knew we were ending Schmo down and we're like,

well, let's turn, you want to be healed commentator with Jessica, but it turns out like, de flirt and flouse has been, you know, corrupting you. And it turns out that she was, we've shot so many scenes.

Zaflert and Flouse and Jessica were a couple. And they went to things and she was, we shot this whole scene where she like has her legs up on him and she's talking to her on it and he's like resting on him like a couch and she's having this conversation. And it was like, and she was. so good in his interviewing people as a villain and all that and then the very end she was going to take over his faction and we were going to film the final scene of that season was going to be as flirt and flouse living on the streets so this his entire empire was taken away from him because he never signed a pre-up

damn yeah i didn't know that part yeah it was it was the best but then we just never got to it she was so excited to do it too she was really leaning into it was it was a bummer um go pal who says that reminds me i got got a I got on dropout recently and caught Winston on one of the shows. I miss you. I've been on a number of um-actualies and then there was one other thing I did, I think, but I can't remember off the top of my head. But yeah, I've done like four or five um-actualies or something. I haven't in a long time. I would love to go again.

So if anybody from dropouts watching, I'm happy to come back. Man, I want to be on there so bad. Yeah. Matt's Sinister McCall. Accountants can't handle Harloff and McCall jokes. Is that, I guess, was the guy yesterday? Accountant? He kind of looked like it in that.

And that, what was that, the P coat? I was so, I was so bummed about that. I was like, oh, he gets it. And he said, no, we didn't get it. I was like, why are you watching my show if you don't understand my humor? Come on. Alex, one angle you didn't cover, this is bad news for lovers of physical media. We talked about it earlier with Matt.

If there are any HBO shows you want to collect, you need to buy them yesterday. Well, no, you still got about a year and a half, two years. Got time. You got at least two years. You got a little bit of time for sure. Dancing Dog 60. Major change happens in different decades, yes? Yeah, it does. It happens. Yeah.

Not always good, though. No, not always good. He's just a major change. The GMAT. Hey, y'all, my take. Parra wants CNN to fire reporters and merge it with CBS News. Now they must wait until after the split to buy it in 2027. Yeah. That's a big part of it. Yeah.

That is a big part. That's a good call. Dancing Dog 60. Crazy but excited about the change, new horizons. Yeah, it's, I like the idea of change. I like it. I want to see what it means. Is there any way they can sell off Lucas films and someone do that too?

Or that's, I guess not. Is it Lucas films Disney? I know. I was like, what? Just hoping Netflix could buy that too. All right. The G-man. Wilson, I'm a fellow cowboy fan last night.

Ouch. That was rough. Well, two and 11. What are you going to do for the giant? Trey Porter. Wait, does this mean that Netflix owners, Netflix owns sinners for 25 years? remake prequel, smoke and stack, prequel, stack and Mary on the way.

Yeah, I mean, they're going to own all of that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. I mean, you can get a sinners sequel on Netflix. I always said I wanted the Native American, like, vampire hunters. I want that story. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They were so fascinating.

They wanted to see more of them. That's true. Yeah, give me a whole movie about them. Yeah, they were great. Yeah, they were great. Prady, BK. One of those doesn't own. parks outright all are licensed.

They're right. Harry Potter lands at Universal. Those license deals in the global experience goes to Netflix along with the studios. Okay. That makes more sense. It makes more sense. It makes more sense. Thank you for explaining that. Yep.

103, guys. 103 right now as we move on down the line. Wade's Way. The result of this merger are going to be interesting to say the least. I don't think anybody disagrees with that. Eric Slaby. I can't imagine that Netflix will get rid of theaters for whenever those films because it essentially be turning out easy money, just operated separate.

That's what you'd hope. I mean, look, it's not. easy money, especially the theater business and the way that the theater business is now. But it is certainly an opportunity to make a lot of money if you have the right team running it. And if you do it, like, that's probably why Abdi and DeLuca will stay on running that division. So yes, run it separately. Prady, Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC report this morning that Sarandos went to the White House and met Trump recently and felt confident that this acquisition, if may, would go through. I didn't know that.

I actually feel like I remember hearing something like that, but I don't know. You would assume that would make sense. Like, it's like, look, hey, we know that if we get this, if we don't meet with this guy, it's going to be tough. Right. I'm going to go break bread with the guy because, you know, we speak each other's language because of the business. Again, I don't.

I don't like all this kissing the ring, but that's exactly what Tim Cook did to get some of the terrorists pulled off of, like, phones. Like, they were like, we don't have the infrastructure yet. We may do this trophy. Can you? Right. And so. LJ. Films 1. Hi, y'all. Chris, this is the Luke from the UK. I'll be taking a speak friend class in 2026.

What is your opinion on the Claudia Black Disney situation? I don't like it. Love the show. What is that situation? What is that? I love Claudia Black. Claudia Black is the whole person who gave me my, she gave me my planet. She made Harloff Minor a planet. And what is going on with Claudia Black and Disney?

are they don't make me hate disney more she's not coming back to season two of asoka due to pay Claudia black oh that's not who I'm thinking of oh hold on a second it's uh according to hollywood reporter second wait a second okay I'm an idiot I'm an idiot never mind okay I'm thinking of uh yeah I'm thinking of I don't even know the name of the woman who did this real nice but just real quick the headline just says Asoka actress Claudia Black details why she exited season Claudia Gray Overpay something needs to change

Yeah I saw this story actually So I do know this She's the one of the night which is Look I'm not an advocate of a lot of things A Lucas film does But for this one if Hey We have our budget

And this is what we can offer you we understand if you can't do it, we're going to stick someone else in the night which makeup. I don't think anybody's going to care. I hate to say that like that way, but I don't. I mean,

I got her and Claudia Gray, except just now. It's fair. I mean, but that speaks to why this merger is actually terrifying and kind of bad. It's going to make it worse. Like,

I feel like you're going to start to see more of this happening because once you own all the toys, you can dictate who gets to actually play with them. Yeah. All right. S.F. L12. Will Netflix get rid of Cinemax? You're all absolutely amazing and wonderful.

Thank you for everything. Since Cinemax gone, right? It still exists. Oh, it does. Barely, barely. I don't even know. Yeah, probably. I don't even know it was alive still.

What's up, Brandon? We're about to have a Batman, Harry Potter crossover, or Bruce drop kicks Voldem more before we get GTA. I can see that happening. Especially with GT6 getting delayed again. Yeah. LJ Films one So you just gave somebody a membership

Who'd you give a membership to? Thank you for that. That's very nice. Trash Panda. Netflix getting HBO standup as a comedy monopoly. That's a great point. A great point. A great point.

All of the library of everything that HBO has, now Netflix has it. That is a fan. Trash Panda is the MVP today. One thousand percent. Great point. did not even think about that. No,

104 right now, guys. 104 as we are now still moving down. We're almost on here. 25 hours a day, eight days a week. Win Sutton Marshall, Invincible fan, Luke fan based.

There you go. You're a fan. Zeus Fleming. Don't feel bad, Winston. You could be a Vikings fan like me. Well, we play next Sunday,

so we can, you know, both stress out there. Two and 11, guys. Two and 11. Alex. Alex. record now if this does in fact turn out to be a good thing i'll be the first to admit it i just feel like

ian malcolm we were going god i hate being right all the time fair enough and it's like brandon's i'm a browns fan you suffering means nothing two and eleven the browns are also i believe two and eleven so uh brandon penson right now i'm still lost confused i want to be optimistic is it possible to know what this deal means for warner brothers long term nice sweater chris i don't know if it's possible to know right now yeah what is it's oh it's a spider Spider-Man. Yeah. Because we were going to talk about some Spider-Man stuff, but too many things happened.

We didn't have a different sweater for every show I do this month, you guys. I have too many. Yeah. Luke, do me a favor. Like to save in our show notes, just make sure that none of that stuff that we didn't talk about is in the show notes. Sometimes we leave that stuff in there. And I want to make sure that people aren't confused. Um, Nam, your cookie.

Do you think this could flip the other way and we could see high budget series like Stranger Things with the short theater release. Well, they're already putting the finale in the theaters. Yeah. So maybe more underneath the Warner Brothers banner. It's possible. Let's see. So O.G. Bobby Johnson, possibility of Snyder and gunheading D.C. together, that is,

that is very unlikely. You need a Peter Serafin type. You need a business guy in there. Yeah, that's very unlikely. I mean, yeah, I don't see the point of that. I don't think Snyder would want to be doing that. I'm to run it to finish this thing and do his thing if they gave an opportunity short but I don't think he'd want to run DC.

Eric Slaby can't wait to see the Harry Potter and Squid Game crossover. There's always Harry Potter and, um, Jacey, support the dynamic duo. There you go. Yay! With 106 so far, still a battle, but Gen X kid. Hello, family of Gen X kid. Been a minute, Winston and Miss Chris Cor. Hope everyone's feast giving was fire, fabulous and forked looking good.

It was pretty, pretty yummy. You guys have yummy, yummy, yummy Thanksgiving's? Yeah, it was good, man. It was low key, but it was nice. Good. Trusting, y'all good. And rolled away from the table, satisfied. Yes, I did.

For short, I had, and good pie. I've mastered candy DMs now. I crush that shit. Yeah, 25 hours. Important question. Is a $10 donation enough for producer credit? If so, would 25 be enough for executive discredit? My people will be in touch.

I'll tell you probably not, to be honestly. because like I said, what we're doing here, we're not, like, and I say this lovingly with grasping at straws, which is one of my passion projects that I did. I'm making grasping a straws. We're making a show that would already look like it's on Netflix or HBO Max. And in order to do that, and I kept saying, like, if you're going to go, you know, if you hit here, you'll make a TV show. But if you hit here, you'll be able to do exactly what you want. But we're going to make sure, like, you're, and I always use the example, the bear, the pilot costs 1.1 million is how much that pilot costs, right?

So that's not what we're making this for, but it ain't, you know, 25,000 bucks. Yeah. We're making a real television pilot. So we're going to offer some stuff that is, you'll see the kind of things that we're offered. It's going to be very different than other campaigns. 25 hours, oh, you did that one, thank you.

So, yeah, so we don't know yet. I don't know yet what, but I don't think at that, at that level, that's what that would be. H.R. 0803. James Cameron and Netflix buying Warner Bros. would be a disaster on the town podcast to James Cameron. Unions are against it. Don't believe me. Believe them.

Bad day. We'll see. Again, it's all about we'll see. Connor Mullis, no shrooms, just high on life. And occasionally Bushlight. Bushlight is the nectar of the god, sweet, sweet nectar. He's hilarious. Oh, I hang out with Connor.

Yeah, me too. Matt, Sister McCall. Vecna ends those rascals. Jamie is the best. Jamie is the best. I want to try to reach out to him before the end of the season. See if I can get him back on. I really liked him. Nice guy. Okay. A very honest guy, too.

109. And this is Gen X Kid. Can't be hosted a banger of a VS battle. Apple TV versus HBO Max 2022 today. And who delivered. Both of them are serving premium vibes. Who wins? A versus battle. Okay.

Apple TV versus HBO Max. 2020 and was literally both of them I mean Apple TV I kind of want to say Apple which sounds weird I'd have to look at the art right I'd have to look at them all but like because like obviously you think HBO Max what penguin it welcome to dairy like those are the first two that pop into my head

immediately Apple I can go Ted Lassow the morning show shrinking Koto which won an Oscar oh god, severance, for all mankind. Like, I just can't think of as many HBO off rip. I know they exist. Right. But I don't know.

There's just more diversity on HBO Max, though, too, because then you also tap into all of the lifestyle channels as well. I mean, I'm watching the shit out of Food Network's T.O.C. Holiday edition. Oh, and then all the 90-day fiancés and the sister wives is crazy. Oh, my gosh. Eric Slaby, do you guys see that a new hope was announced as being released February 2027. According to Star Wars Web, it'll be a newly restored version of 77 OJ film.

I will go and see that. I will go see that. The non-special one. Yeah, I would love to see the original. But that would be great. That's amazing. I did not hear that. Legend.

MM 600. You all rock. Happy Friday. Favorite Marvel hero? I'm an Iron Man guy. Yeah. I mean, we're talking movies. We're talking movies.

We're talking about Hulk. Movies, then Iron Man. Yeah. Hulk Punisher. Yeah. A Wolverine. Wolverine's Marvel. Gambit. Yeah.

DX. Batman. Hello there. Hello there. Bad Sinister. Macal. Chris, you getting the terrifier Christmas sweater? Absolutely not. In what world? In what world?

I'd be so scared to even look at. at it. Yeah, no way. But funnel. Says Tally it. Thank you, but funnel. Catmom. Team Texas in the house. Cowboys suck, but Spurs going strong. Love my Texas duo with Big Apple in the middle. Love all. So very nice. I love every time you're here. Thank you. DeAndromose, with Netflix buying

maybe WB animation library will finally be consolidated on one platform. I mean, they should, I hope that that happens at least if they consolidated, that it actually has a little more structure. Netflix is a mess the structure of it, you know? Yeah. So I look to see that happen. Um, okay, guys, it was a good one. It was a good run. You did Chris Carr wins the week by herself, but you guys still had a hell of a run at 109. Pretty damn good. All right, before we get out of here, speaking of Chris Carr, Chris, where can the good people find you? And what?

Oh, go ahead on over to two, two filthy casuals wherever you get your podcast or on YouTube. We have an incredible episode out today. Honestly, it might be some recency bias, but it's my favorite thing we've ever done. It's with comedian Mimi Von Schenck, who she is incredibly funny and also incredibly insightful. It's all about the 2010 film burlesque, but we talk about so much more. And then if you liked any of the stuff I said about voice acting, how much I dislike AI or want any acting training, come on over to speakfriendstudio.com. That's where me and my husband, Logan, teach voiceover lessons and dialect coaching. We do actors demos, and I think we're just real fun and nice.

So go hang out with us. Winston. You can find me at the swaggy blur on all platforms. Here on YouTube, I actually just started my memberships on my channel. So come and check that out. The first member's only video is the full, uncut version of Blurred's going to feud. We did the Black Family Feud over there,

so you can check all of that out. That was a lot of fun. But there'll be all sorts of stuff. You'll get access to early vids over there. I'm going to be doing a members-only stream once a month as well. I do the blurt breakdown on Mondays in the evening. Then I'm over with Roka doing spill of tequila on Tuesdays. I have blurt's in the hood on Wednesdays.

And then I'm here every Friday. And we're back with Demon Slayer this weekend. We did some episodes for you. So check that out as well. Yeah, we're going to have episodes four and five on Saturday. We didn't get a chance to do any more than that. But we'll have those two. But one more from Brandon before we get out of here.

And he says, not trying to be blatantly political, but as long as Netflix went to the White House before, the deal that it'll go through. I think you're probably right. Squeaky will get soil and so does grease palms. I think you're right. Yep. Guys, what do you make of all of it? Put your thoughts in there. Let us know.

Apple Podcasts, Spotify, anywhere podcasts are found. Make sure you are checking us out, commenting, click and like. I got a lot of stuff going on. I have the Total Recall, 90, Total Recall with myself and Steph. That's going to go up a little later on today. as Winston mentioned, we're going to do the Demon Slayer. I'm probably going to have Welcome to Derry, go up this Sunday. Got a lot of stuff coming out next week.

And that's it. So I appreciate you being here. I will have more information very, very soon. Hopefully get the director and producer on this show before the end of the year. That would be nice. And that's it. Thank you to Chris Carr. Thank you to Winston A. Marshall.

And congratulations with Chris Carr for winning the week this week. So thanks, everybody. See you on the flip side. Bye.