The Kristian Harloff Show - Paramount & Warner Bros. Merger Moving FORWARD?! What Happens to DC Studios Now?

Episode Date: September 21, 2026

🚀 Our Show Is Trending is launching on Kickstarter September 22nd! We're excited to finally share what we've been working on. Head over to https://ourshowistrending.com/ and hit Notify Me on Launch so you'll be among the first to know when the Kickstarter officially goes live. 📅 Kickstarter launches September 22nd 🔔 Get notified: https://ourshowistrending.com/ The Paramount and Warner Bros. merger may have just cleared one of its biggest remaining hurdles! Paramount and state attorneys general have reportedly reached a settlement that will allow the massive Warner Bros. merger to move forward. What happens next, and what could this mean for some of the biggest franchises in Hollywood? On today's Kristian Harloff Show, we break down the latest development in the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, what the settlement means for the deal, and the enormous questions surrounding the future of Warner Bros., Paramount, HBO, DC Studios, and their respective movie and television franchises. One of the biggest questions is obviously DC Studios. What happens to James Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU once the merger is finalized? Could Paramount's leadership change the current strategy, or will Gunn and Safran continue building their DC Universe as planned? Meanwhile, Supergirl has found new life on streaming. The DC movie is reportedly the #1 movie on HBO Max, but Warner Bros. isn't revealing exactly how many people are watching. Does its streaming performance change the conversation surrounding the movie after its disappointing theatrical run? If you're a fan of Warner Bros., Paramount, DC Studios, James Gunn, Resident Evil, Supergirl, Marvel Studios, Avengers: Secret Wars, Narnia, Daniel Craig, Alan Ritchson, Helldivers, or the latest Hollywood news, this episode is for you! #WarnerBros #Paramount #DCStudios #DCU #JamesGunn #ResidentEvil #Supergirl #Marvel #MarvelStudios #MCU #AvengersSecretWars #CaptainMarvel #Narnia #DanielCraig #AlanRitchson #Helldivers #MovieNews #HollywoodNews #KristianHarloffShow SPONSOR: WARBYPARKER Our listeners can buy one pair of glasses and get 20% off any additional pairs at WarbyParker.com/KRISTIAN — and using our link helps support the show.  #warbyparker   #ad 

stream because I think that I've heard it, but I don't think that I ever fully registered that you're going to be What's going on everybody? Okay, so I just shot this podcast and when I did it, it just really got me super reflective on everything that's been leading into the journey of making this show trending. This podcast took me through a lot of the creative endeavors that I've been through, whether it was stand-up comedy, W.W.E. Schmo's no, Schmo down, grasping at straws. And so it was really everything leading up to this pilot that we're trying to do. And what I wanted to do was give you a really thorough introduction to Andrew Freed, who is the director and producer of trending. So if you don't know who Andrew Freed is, Emmy winning producer, cheer, chef's table, welcome to Rexum. uh the recent charlie sheen doc on netflix i mean he's just done so much he's just a he's the best uh so and though the goal was initially for you guys to meet andrew and understand Andrew a little bit more and we got there but in true Andrew fashion he really got me to open up and talk about myself

because that's just who he is and he's just naturally that inquisitive and that's honestly why he's like the perfect director for this project because he cares about people. He knows how to bring stories out of individuals because that's just what he does. But before I show you this interview, what I really wanted to do was to say thank you. I have to say thank you for everything already because just the journey that we have already been on with trending has been incredible. So for anybody who has supported me over the years, even before this, with all the ventures that you've supported over the years, every video that you've ever watched,

it's all led me to accomplish this goal. It's something I've always wanted to do, and I've always wanted to make a scripted show, a scripted comedy. It's been a dream. All my ventures that you've watched, they've all had characters. They've all had comedy, the live show, the Shmowdown, stand-up comedy stuff, everything that I have done. I mean, the old grasping and straw stuff,

It's all things that I've wanted to do. All my ventures have relied on those things. And I just wanted to thank you guys for being on that journey with me. So without any further ado, I want to play this for you guys. Here is the conversation with myself and Andrew. Please enjoy. All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. It is the Christian Harlov, a little special edition here for you guys.

And as you know, we are really close to the start this campaign for trending. This is that 30 minute comedy pilot that I wrote that I've been telling you guys about. Beyond excited for it. I mean, at this point, if you've been part of this channel, you know every day, I've told you that once we got into this thing, it is, it was going to consume me. And if you've been following me long enough, you know that whether it was Schmo down, Schmo's no, whatever it is, when I really get behind something, you guys know about it, and I want you to feel it, and that's what I hope I've accomplished so far with trending. And I've really been blown away by the response of what you guys have,

emails that I have gotten, tweets that I have gotten, messages, people that want to just be around it. And it has meant so much to me in general. And even the way that it started with myself in Martini Paratori, so have you guys been following for the Schmo's days? Shmo's no, that started because of Martini Paritori. And I've told that story before, but we wrote this script together off of this idea that I had years ago on the Shmo's show. I put it on the back burner for a while.

And then Martini and I just scrapped this thing from the beginning, retooled the whole thing, worked on it for about a year. And then when it was ready, we really were confident in it after we got some notes back from friends. And I said, I've got to get it to the one person that I really think would respond to this thing. and he did. And that is my good friend Andrew Freed, who we've been talking. You guys know now he is the Emmy Award producer of Welcome to Rexum, Chef's Table,

the countless amounts of shows. I've called him Midas. And I have him here with me today. The day before the launch, Roosk! Andrew Freed is here. To see you, Christian, you know, I am over, overwhelmed with excitement for what your community has rallied around and the way that they have shown up so far.

This is all obviously in anticipation of something about to kick off. And I just, I'm surprised, I'm being honest. I'm surprised not by your community, but just by how it would feel, right? like in a little bit of like a selfish way like you know i i thought i know what it's like in the build you know lead up to pitching something or taking something to market or even like what it feels like to start producing something um but i don't know i'm i'm hooked you know i've been telling you that i i check every every few minutes to just see how many followers there are and it's it's look it's a tribute to you but the people love you christian not everybody

do you feel like i keep thinking about like do you think people from our past like our shared past potentially but like just like will people like creep up and just be like wow i i can't believe that person uh made a donation like you know you and i you certainly but we together and separately, but like, you know, we've touched a lot of people. Well, yeah, listen. Over the last, however. I certainly hope so. And look, there are people who've told me because not everybody who's just following.

And this is one of the things that I'm, I told you when we were going through this, and I'd love to kind of get into this with you about just the lead up to this. Because it certainly hasn't been just a full smooth ride to get to the Kickstarter side of it. We, because you and I, as much as you have done, the Kickstarter was something that was super foreign to you and it was super foreign to me and I didn't know a lot of different things about it and thank God for Craig who we have. He's just wonderful and he gives me updates and he makes me feel good too. Like I'll be like, I don't know. We have like X amount of followers. Is that good? And he's like, dude, right now you guys are in like a really good tier and you're really and he's

like is encouraging and that's the type of thing. Has everybody met Craig? Do they get to meet Craig? during yeah he's been on he's been on and he's actually going to be the very first person on the stream to launch at 10 o'clock we go live tomorrow on the last year we're going to do about a 10 hour stream and from 10 o'clock until 11 Craig will be on but at 1030 um EST that is when the Kickstarter actually goes live so you think you're checking your phone now I can't wait honestly I I'm like a junkie for it so I'm so excited Go ahead, no, go. No, you. Me. What? What? Hey.

Oh. So, no, it's just, it's just a lot. It is, it's that moment. Do you think, do you think, do you think? Do you think? Sometimes. Sometimes no. Do you think you'll be able, I'm being serious.

You and I have known each other a long time. Do you think you'll be able to sleep tonight? Yes. Only because you're. so tired. Not just that. No, because I think the way, what I'm going to do is I will make sure that I go to the gym in the morning to get energy for that 10-hour stream. And I know it almost is like preparing for a stand-up comedy show or a Shmowdown live event. I do not want to be like this on the air. I want to be energized. So I know that mentally, even though I'm like, you got to shut it down, I'll be

to shut it down now i don't know if i'll be able to shut it down um on tuesday night just sorry i do not mean to interrupt you you know that i hate to interrupt you especially when we're on the air well yeah that that's that's the better thing to say you don't like to interrupt me on the air i don't i never like to interrupt you i'm just so excited to respond fair to you i tell me about this 10-hour stream because i think that i've heard it but i don't think that i ever fully registered that You're going to be live for 10 hours like Jerry Lewis telethon style? I mean, yes, yes, 10 hours for sure. But I also want to do a thing where it's not just going to be, you know, every second.

Like, okay, now you contribute, you contribute, you contribute. It's going to be like, we're going to play games. We're going to do interviews. We're going to have special guests. We're going to announce potential Schmodown competitors that would compete in the tournament. We're going to have, we'll make the announcement. now you're going to be on too i am going to be on but i was just about to say the next thing which is i don't feel like i'm on enough i want to be on more i would love that i just you look i just

never i and what i will say is anytime i've ever asked you it's always been like yeah when it's never been like oh let me check my schedule i don't know if i can do it you've always wanted i just also don't want to just you know um i feel like it's something i should be getting drunk for potentially. Yeah. Well, let's get the show made first. Oh, no, I can't. Now,

I see him. I understand. Yeah. But you should absolutely, you should absolutely, whenever you want to come on, you just tell me, hey, I'm available. If you want to do live, you just say, I'm available this day and I'll just make room for you. I'm available now. That's what I'm here. That's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. We're doing a special show

that's just airing just for me and you and the audience. That's it. I love that. It's like, I do like that on. Okay, so let me ask you this. So wait, did we also, and we can air this or not, but I'm just curious. Sure. We talked about collection of old headshots. Where are you on the collection of your old headshots? You know, it's a little bit more challenged for me, because they're not all readily available. Yeah, I can Google some of them. I can Google some and find some. And I also have some that's in the folder, but I actually got Ellis to send me

a picture of my name on the comedy store. Well, that I love, but it's not nearly as comical for me. I know, I know. There is this, there's this, there's one like this. Does your audience know about that? The leather jacket one. I have that somewhere. I actually have that on my phone somewhere.

So I know I actually have that somewhere. Is there a Yankees Road jersey or did I imagine that? No, there's a Yankees jersey. That, you know, I, yeah, no, you absolutely were around during this time. When, yeah, absolutely. So when did you move? because you were in LA for a while, then you moved back to New York for a little bit,

then you came back. But when did you, what year did you move back to New York? Two first and two, January of two years. Okay, so you were definitely around for the New York Jersey. Because that was my,

but I remember it like it's yesterday. Yeah, yeah, that was my battle gear. I went into, like, I had such a different road to stand up in the beginning there too. So you used the new,

that was like, it's almost like, because I treated it, you knew I treated stand up comedy very much like a wrestler when I first, started. And that was like the same way the rock would put on his, you know, his boots and everything. That was the way that I would look at it. And then it's ironically, when I got back from working from the WWE, that all stopped. Why? Did that stop? Because of Paul

I've never heard you quite articulate it like that. Because I certainly remember that he used to, I mean, and you're like understating it. Like, yes, you had a uniform. But I also feel like I could walked in on you backstage slapping yourself in the face like i andrew i have video of luna there's a place called luna park oh i just passed i swear i was just stuck sorry i was just stuck at like a light robertson yeah and i just sort of looked over yeah and it's like oh shit that is fully where luna park so luna park was like so if people don't know luna park was this place that was this big huge nightclub that I actually started working at. But they had a big restaurant when you first walked in.

And then in the back was this big, huge room was like the main room, like Allison Chains performed there. And everybody was, it was a, it was a major, major room. But downstairs was this little kind of cool basement room that they used to have like small music venues, but they had a lot of common. And I mean, everybody from Jeff Ross, Sarah Silverman, to, um, Zach Galfanakis, Chelsea Hamler. That time in, it was like 99 to whenever like 2001 or something.

Anyway, so what I was. You have to know, just so you know. Like, for my little baby attempt at a stand-up career, those are where my glory nights reside. That was like your prime. That was your prime. When I think of like, oh, I really went out there and I really tried to make a go of it. Yeah. And like there was one night I smoked a joint with Salman Rushdie and Rod Stewart. Like it was all happening. Yeah. And those are my nights. I remember them vividly and fondly. And okay, so keep going. Sorry. So, well, so that was where and to for me, that was where I started to cut my teeth. And you were just getting going. I was just starting there and learning stage, learning. Did you know, like did we did you know? Did you know. at the time, did you think you knew it and just people weren't getting it? Or did you know you were

learning? Both. I felt like I felt like I had an energy that would get people's attention and I thought that I was more seasoned than I was. And I thought that I knew more than I did. But I knew that my thing was different because I was, and it's ultimately why I had to change it. But I was at a I was at a hundred miles an hour on stage. And so as you said, like you could see me slapping myself in the face in the back. I remember being at Ludo, I had this on video somewhere, but I was talking to some woman in the front. I go, listen, you better eat that sandwich. And she bought a sandwich.

And then the next thing I know, I was like, if you eat that sandwich right now while I do this, I will do a leg drop off the top of a fucking booth. You were you doing that night? I've seen this video, I think. Trevor Angleson, our mutual friend, was there. that night thought it was the greatest thing ever and he and i began talking even more so and he started helping me would get another gigs and everything too because he's like you're just a madman and you know i'm 22 23 years or whatever it was and i'm doing that and then i started getting gigs that there was remember dublins yeah so j davis built this whole thing

so i saw i saw you at dublins yeah i was no longer in the mix at that point um But I came to see you at Dublin's on sunset. And I remember quite honestly, like those nights, and maybe I've never shared this with you, but like those nights where I had moved back to New York and now I'm coming to L.A. And I got something else going on and I'm visiting and what's Christian up to? And it's like, oh, I'm going to Sunset Boulevard to this like very cool comedy show, whether it was a Dublin's or the few times that I saw you at the comedy store. but I think really more of like these Dublin's nights where it's like, holy shit, this guy's just like in it. Like you are fully in it.

That part was. And Dublin's, Dublin's was like the really first like cool show that because Jay Davis had seen me somewhere and said, you should do my show and he was giving me spots. And I would get the early spots, which was great at the time. You know, it was great because you'd have so. That's where Dane Cook started to become a real big name there. You know, Alonza Bowden.

Like so many different people would go up there. and it was it was a major spot and I started to get more I what was more comfortable for me or or more beneficial rather for me was that I started to get more comedian respect and more people would be like and and what I mean by that also is just like oh that basically what you just said is like oh this guy's around and does stuff and he can he can hang inside of this crowd because it was no big deal honestly well, the first time I read the trending script, I immediately was in this place. And I think maybe I read something that now is in a different episode. But we, you and Martini instantly had me in this place where I was at Dublin.

I don't even know why. I even said to you, I was like, we got to shoot something. We got to find something that'll be Dublin. Even though Dublin's is not mentioned anywhere in anything that you guys have written yet. right right but it just reeks of that exact moment in time and it's like this moment of what is happening what is present but like it feels like a like a person standing on top of a high dive like you know that something's about to happen and you just can't take your eyes a hundred percent i'm glad that's exactly what we're going for and um and you know that road through that and i

dublin's actually to be honest i think that you were still in town you might have stopped doing comedy at that point because you weren't in it you were just starting to do different things yes as long as you were either no because i was done that martini lounge yes martini lounge i loved too but i was doing all those things the martini lounge was the first place that i really understood like because i was doing the thing because of that energy said it was hard for me to ever really bomb because even when i wasn't even when i didn't even when it's it last people like what the hell's going on and they would only do seven minutes and they'd be like this and they'd be like oh it it it was it was It was impossible to be bored by my thing.

But the martini lounge was the first time. I don't remember what it was. Somebody went up for a little while before me or whatever. And then I went up and I ate shit and I didn't know how to handle it. I didn't know what to do. And I remember that was the first time. And I Bob, do you remember Bob Oshack? Of course.

Bob Oshack is a great comedian. That guy was great. He was like a Bill Marrider now. Is that what he does? Yeah. And he and he's and other things, but I mean, I made a lot of. I used to talk to Bob Oshack all the time. And Bob was brilliant.

He was brilliant. And he used to take me, he took me to the size like, yeah, it happens. You do this, you do that, you do that, you learn. And he was the first guy to do that. But at the martini lounge is actually another place that I met, I mentioned earlier, Paul DeAngelo, who to me is my mentor in stand-up comedy because as I, this whole conversation started, I was on that energy kind of wrestling thing. It was like a character almost, almost kind of like.

like it wasn't the same character as what like dice did. You know, this was a character when he was going up. I thought that I had to have a character. I would do this heightened, heightened, heightened, heightened version of myself and go and do these things.

And then when I got back from WWE, and I really said, I'm just going straight back into stand-up full time, seven days a week, two shows a night, I'm just going to hit the scene as hard as I can. Polyangel I worked with him, and he said,

You can't start here when you in the first 30 seconds you can't because you don't go anywhere. You hit here and then they're exhausted and you can't hit your punchline. I'm remembering it now in a way that I didn't until you just said that. But like you did used to come on stage in like a tornado at a volume and intensity that the first three minutes of seven was like this entertaining, funny, but awkward. Yeah, because it was just like, it was like, oh my God, oh my God. It was like, and I, by the time you settle in, it was over. It was over. And I had never, and it seemed like, again, 22, 23, I never did cocaine, but it seemed like I did.

And people would be like, I remember a host used to say it say it all time, like, yeah, cocaine's hell of a drugs. It never did it. I mean, it was Red Bull or whatever, what it was, but I was. It was Red Bull, though. It was like a 1990s nostalgic. 100%. Binge. And do you know, do you want to hear something crazy?

or a red bull the first time like having vibrant vibrant like that's like a 90s binge no no but the red the first time i ever had red bull was the night that i met you at wherever we were in that yeah whatever apartment we were i didn't know what it was and they said to try this red bull thing and i was a woo um yeah that so anyway do you ever do you ever have a red bull now no i can't do it i don't do it i don't coffee is coffee's the best thing that i need to do now are you a coffee drinker oh yeah every morning really every morning have to have a coffee i'm a i'm a incredible print even your new even your new beefed up gym christian have to could you imagine if you were this physical right like you were this sort of unhinged tornado then with intensity you're you're like a

solid bit of man now i don't know about that you were just i'll say that You, you. Me? You are a solid bit of man. Our mutual friend Alex, who just continuously, every time I talk to him now. So before we keep talking, are you going to post another picture yourself on Instagram at the gym? That's what he says to me.

But I went to, I went to WWE. I got back and Paul DeAngelo and I met. And he told me that. You can't start at that level. And I really listened. I worked with him. I remember working with him a lot. And he was a brilliant comedian, a Boston guy.

And I started to pace myself. And I started to say, okay, same joke, but start the energy here. Boom, boom, boom, like a boxer, right? Go jab, jab, jab, jab, then throw a big punch, then throw a big punch, then throw a really big punch, then bring it back and start jabbing again. And that started to work for me. because I started to bring out really me and who I was. And I started to perform a lot around, you know,

whether it was Luna Park, these other places, not Luna Park, martini lounge. What was the place on LaBrea? Room 5. Room 5 is where that was a major part of my comedy experience. But I can't remember where it was. And it might have been Dublin's again. But Brett Ernst, who I performed with,

quite often a lot in 2002 came up to me and he had become like so those guys like Sam Tripoli and Brett I remember Sam Tripoli got past Tripoli that is he the guy with the horse races no no no that was Sam um oh god he passed um Sam shoot what was his name oh my god I know exactly you're talking about I love that guys act yeah so much yeah no no no he He passed, but Sam Tripoli got was, I remember. Sam Tripley, the guy who did the wheelchair stripper? Yes. That's exactly who that was.

Yes. Yes. Yes. And so Sam, who actually just tweeted out our campaign recently, by the way. He did? Yes, he did. Well, I don't know the last time he did that bit. I don't know.

Who knows? Sam's, Sam is doing, you know, he doesn't give his shit. He's always like that, right? So Sam, he, I remember him being, us being at Luna Park in like 99, 2000, and Sam got passed at the, at the comedy store. And I was happy for Sam because I like Sam, but I was also like, I want to do that. Like, how do I do that? Like, because I, I've told this story before, but I don't know if you know this. I told this to the fans recently when I, because I used to watch specials with, with my dad and all these things about.

stand up all the time and you obviously remember the e true hollywood story they did one about the comedy store and i remember being new york watching it and i when i first moved to l.a i was living with our with our mutual friend d'antoneo um and i drove to i drove to the comedy store because i think it was going to try to drop off a tape or something you know uh which thank god that's how it works yeah and Thank God the tape that no one was there because that would have been a waste of time for that. But what it really did, the OR for people don't know, the first room off of sunset is the original room. You can see the stage. And it was open.

The place was open. No one was in there. And I stood on the stage. I'm sure they like that. No one was there. No one saw it. No one saw it. And I looked at the George Carlin thing.

I looked at the Rob Mulliams thing. I said, I am going to become a regular here. you um and i did dude i walked down i remember i remember when i lived in new york and that happened yeah it was like it was the biggest deal i could think of like it was it was so huge so huge yeah and and brett ernst was the one who he was he was he was a regular and he said um he goes listen i get regulars got a recommendation he was you're going to show up you're going to do the work and I said yeah you recommend me he's like all right and it was such a different way I don't know how they do it now but back then they did showcases and you would start they'd start either three

minutes six minutes or 10 minutes or whatever it was but they did it on Sunday nights Monday nights and Tuesday nights to showcase right and they just admits he would show up and then she would watch you and she either promote you to the next level of time or she just make you're paid regular but she was she was a she was ailing you know at that time so she was in when she was in and a lot of she wasn't so there was weeks upon weeks so she wouldn't be there and i and i still i tell this story often but i just i can't believe it and i'm sure i've told you this before i was working with this you know a group of there was like a group of people that we either they were would try to showcase in front of her and i'd gotten up to six minutes or whatever it might have been and i and this guy

i remember them all like three or four of these people maybe more walked out and said we're leaving we're getting out of here tonight you don't have a drink with us and i go well no we got we're going to to a spot she's not coming up when she's not going to be here for another couple days we're not we're not performing i'm like are you kidding me you have time at the best comedy club in the world on this stage on this stage and you have it every night and you can take it and you're going you're not going to do it because you know she's not going to be here the hell with that and i was there and i talked to everybody and i did it and i was there i started in august i got made a regular in november um and i was ready to do in 10 minutes you're really funny we want you to be part in

of the cloud and it was the coolest thing ever but you you fast forward right through that like yeah i know really i mean so you're going up and i knew you then and i knew you before and i know and i know you now by the way i know how big a deal all of this is i know that you know we could tease each other about checking the kick starters but i know that that kind of support in helping this thing happen that you've been working towards for so long i know that it means the world to you and so go back to then your you're you just all of a sudden Mitzie's doing whatever it is you just said but like it's happening it's happening it was it was the coolest thing ever even starting in august just showcasing there those three nights because it was a past to be part of the club even if even if you didn't

get made a regular you were on the stage and you were meeting people there you were meeting i mean i met Do you remember how it felt in the moment? Like, did it feel surreal? Did you feel like you had imposter syndrome? No. Or did it feel like you look to your left? You look to your right and you're like, it was always let's go.

It was always let's go. Like what can I try to do tonight? How can I maneuver this? If this joke worked that way, I loved the gritty Mickey Jim feel of the OR. I loved it. I loved to be able to play with the piano player and, you know, riff off.

Yeah, the piano player. Yeah, I liked, I would, I would be able to, if I knew, if I knew she was, the difference is, if I knew Mitzie wasn't going to be in that night, for sure, I knew I could play a little bit more. I knew I could play a little bit more. And that's part of it too. Even if maybe I could see her walk in, if she did ultimately Cohen, because you never know. Maybe she did show up. I could switch it back into my act and know that I'm going to be performing and doing what I needed to do.

But I got to play. And I got and I it just became my home and like my my zone and a place that just made me strong, you know, it was my gym. So when does the signature on the wall happen? So when you get made a regular and what is one of the things, as I said, and I was the, I was the only person, Duncan Trussell called me. He was the one who called me and told me that I remember where exactly where I was when he told me I got made a regular. He, I was working at this management company, Bohemia. Is there the risk that like they'll just take you out like Pesci? like you're going to walk in to get your button but it's actually because you killed billy bats over the shine box joke they they just take you out no you don't you actually don't get it no no they're right there in the middle of the comedy store yeah and it's it's it's like it's the ghost of sam kinnison he comes in and just pops you wax yeah but uh no it was um if duncan trussle was the one who continuously called me and told me mincy liked you she wants you come back and do six she wants to do ten she's like mitsy really liked what you did last night she wants to be a

you want you to be regular at the club and i remember being in the hallway of bohemia and telling me this and just you know losing i love it was it was the greatest moment ever and then they so then what happens for and i i don't know how it works now but when it worked how it worked back then is you would go into you call in you'd give your avails you're regular now and now you have your avails and they'll tell you and they start giving you spots and i did something i've talked about this also but i did something a little different. Most people, most people there, if you're working at the comedy store and you get made a regular, they quit. And then they start putting in their veils and then they're just there. I actually started working there after I became a regular. Because you're like,

I want to be here. Where else is there to be? No, because I wanted to cheat the system. And the way that I cheated the system was because now I would get employee spots plus my paid regular spots. So I would get more time. And I kept getting more time. I got more time on the belly room. I got more time in the OR, I got more time in the main. And I had so much time there, but I was the worst employee of all time because I could be. And, you know, the manager of the club knew that as well. But to answer your question, as far as the names go, they were waiting for the guy to come back in. They had to pay him, you know.

Comedy store was not the comedy store of flourishment with the internet and everything that it is today. It was the Stinky Mickey's Gym. You know, everybody was great comedians going in there, but it was the stinky gym. So they waited for the guy to come in, and it was myself. self, Ari Sheffir, Rick Ingram, and a few other people, and they put our names all next to each other. But Ari Sharfier said to me, he goes, he's like, you know, the reason why people like you here, and he's like, because you hang out. And it's probably one of the reasons that you also got made here because we gave the recommendation also to Mitzie, too.

Told you that because I was. Because you love it. Yeah, I was the only person in that class that I think got passed. And there was a lot of them. Well, look, Christian, it leaves me exactly where I started in this journey with you on trending, which is very overwhelmingly excited to direct you portraying a comic. Right. Former comic.

Right. Yeah. But as you well know, and as this conversation proves, there's always there. There's no such thing for you. I know. It's always there. I mean, I still can't get away from it because it's like even it's really given me so much in my life. Like even I met my wife through stand-up comedy.

I've met so many friends for stand-up comedy. I've got many so many opportunities through comedy. Even like my schmose no thing, I met Ellis through comedy. You know, it's like all this stuff. I mean, martini is you and me, you and me being runoff stage in Riverside and hiding out in the Denny's is still one of the all times. Ever. Ever. Ever.

All right. Yeah, we should put that in there. What? We should fit that into the, into the script somehow. I feel like sometime in season one. Yeah. There's a Denny's and there's some people

with pickup trucks and tire irons. Yeah, some kind of fight going on. Or maybe even it's a flashback scene, who knows? I love it. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot, though, I think that we're, I mean, so I wanted people to know that in general

because this is the thing I mentioned in the beginning that I would like to bring up, because the road to get here, right, of what we've done. Because, yes, you responded to the script, and I was so happy that you did because I know how busy you are, and you got back to me fast. And it's not that you're like, I'll get back to you and I'll get back to you. You're busy.

So when you got back to me and noted that you were in Italy at the time when you read it, and you got back to me pretty quick, and I said, I knew we had something. But when you responded the way you did, because we've tried to do things together in the past, and there are things that you said, this could work, but then this, this might not work here. This could be, all right, this idea doesn't necessarily, this one was never that. It was always like, how do we do this? Yeah. And so when that happened, then the magic started to kind of play into it, and the creative side of this has never faltered. That part of it has never been a thing. It's the Kickstarter journey that we try to go on because we didn't know. what to do. And I've been honest with people about this. And, and I haven't shared too much about it because I wanted to do it with you. But you and I had a dinner together on Long Island that really kind of changed my entire perspective on my career in general. And how, and also just kind of brought me back to a place to where I've been before. And so what happened was we sat down.

And we were, so we ran, we were going to, we thought about doing a Kickstarter. And then we decided we were going to try to go a different route with it. And working with great people that it just, it just didn't, it just was becoming complicated. And we got to a place where Andrew's like, we should sit down and we should talk and try to figure out, what are we going to do here with it?

And it was never of, oh, no one's confident with the script anymore. No one's confident with you guys. That was never a thing. It was always like, how do we do? this now and do we just do it normally where we package up the script attach people to it that can probably get it made quick and go somewhere and do that um and in that moment i almost said let's do that and then something snapped in me and i said to andrew i mean i don't know if you want to tell this portion yeah yeah because i want to unwrap it a little bit right it

was it was all because the script was so good. Again, and I don't wanna over promise and under deliver, ultimately we'll make something and people will see it and they'll think they'll agree or not. But from where I was at that point, the script was so good and everybody who was exposed to it was responding to it so positively. And it started to grow into this thing

that like the temptations of mainstream Hollywood just came sort of crawling in the doors and the windows, like a horror movie, right? Like, and that's not how I saw it at the time. It was growing. It was blossoming. The seed had been planted, and the opportunity was abound, and all of those temptations of, what if we put these people in it, and what if we did it this way? And it was out of enthusiasm.

And fear. Yeah. Right? Like I think, yes, a lot of excitement around the creativity. And then, and I'll talk about myself. I won't, I won't speak to anyone else. But fear. Oh, we have this thing. There's an opportunity now. How do we get it right? Well, let's bring in all the people who know what they're doing. Right. Like, let's bring in, right? And then everybody sort of starts to overlay a pretty standard playbook to it. And then I'm sitting in a dinner with you saying, who can. could we get to play Danny? Right. And you were, you were there. You really, within that dinner, you were in the, in the most Christian way, right? In the most Christian Harlov way, just to be clear, you're like, yeah, I just want this thing to be made. And so whatever it takes, whatever it needs, whatever everybody needs, whatever it will take for this thing to be its biggest version, amen. And we finished our pasta or chicken palm or whatever we were eating that night. And I don't

know if you remember this, but it was in the parking lot. I was, this was a resolved situation for me. I had come to New York to do a couple of things, but one of them was to have dinner with Christian and have a somewhat difficult conversation. an exciting one, but a difficult one. And so I walked out of the restaurant, like, okay, I've had this conversation. I'll go back to the hotel. And in the parking lot, standing there like high school kids on Long Island, at least for me, you were like, you said something, and maybe you remember the words better,

where you said something as I remember along the lines of like, I'm just bummed that I'll never know. And I said, what do you mean? He said, I'll never know if my audience and their audience and their community and their community and the extended community, but at its core, I'll never know if my audience could have gotten this done. And that was, I remember standing there being, well, saying, well, then we should at least do that. Like, we should know. Yeah. I just said, I, what I remember in saying that, I just never. gave them a chance and I never gave myself a chance. I said I never got a chance to do it. I

never got a chance to really tell them about it, never got a chance to let them know how passionate I am about it and how passionate they could be about it if they got behind it. And I'll tell you what, even if the worst case scenario, Andrew, and it doesn't happen, I'm glad that I was able to, the amount of emails that I have gotten and the amount of texts and other things and the support through live chat, it was all worth it. It was all worth it to say exactly those words because that's what I was talking about. I was talking about the fact that, well, they didn't really even get a chance to hear about it. They didn't get a chance. And you were right. As soon as you said it, you were like, yeah, they didn't even get a single at bat. Right. Like, nor did you. And so really, if I may,

like things transitions at that point where it wasn't all of us sort of throwing up our arms because you know, number one, we all love you. We love the material. We're so excited to do this. We were all just excited. And so once you said that, though, it was like, all right, well, you're right, Christian. Right? Like, I remember sitting there in that moment thinking, you're right.

And so let's do it. And since that moment, that's when it's just been like, go. Because we've had, when we first started talking about, talking about it. It was like, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. And then we had the bumps and the bumps and the bumps and then the dinner and then since that dinner go go go go and that's what it's been like because I also said because I think the other thing and this might have been a me thing is that I and you you mentioned this at dinner too and it's I was really kind of sitting back at first and just listening in the meetings leading up before the dinner I was listening in the meetings I was like

okay well what do they want to do what do they want to do I don't want to overstep my boundaries what do they want to do and when I had that conversation well I'm just going to take the ball and I'm going to run and I'm just going to run and I'll run right into a wall. That is the temptation of Hollywood where people where the room starts to get bigger and there are more people sitting at the table because you're a good guy and you believe and you really just want it to happen that like, yeah, you start to listen to the people who are smarter. Right.

But like nobody knows anything. Right. And I think that's been the experience of this. Again, look at that. of course we look and then right after that within i think within two or three weeks maybe maybe a month afterwards that's when we got craig and it was he's the best he's the best and we just moved right towards that and you know an attack peter was was who uh introduced us to craig and um we had great conversations with with him and and so just since then it's been moving and now since we've

been doing what about greck dude having gregg elva involved like that that whole story alone because when I was when so when I came out to L.A. was I don't remember which time it was but I was there and Greg just came to meet me at the hotel to have some drinks and catch up as a friend. Yeah. And he said, hey, I heard your script's pretty good. And I was like, yeah, because Roxy had told him about it. And I was like, yeah, you know, we're excited about it and everything. He's like, I would love to read it. And I said, I didn't want to push it on you. And he's like, no, I'd love to read it. And so it was like, great. So he did. And he is another.

one got back to me pretty quick and he's like how do i get involved in it and i said that guy that guy honestly and i don't know him nearly as well as you do and probably a lot of your audience does yeah like he just he's like a machine that guy like that guy is ready to go a machine and he's brilliant and he's really he knows this world he knows not only the creative side of what smart but so smart He was so smart. And like he with numbers, analytics and so he was just, even just a perfect example of how good Greg.

It's like we, he was on the show last week. It was me, him and Roxy. And so at the end, he's like, can you send me the thumbnail? And then the link to collab and I'll, I'll promote it. And so our producer sent him the thumbnail.

And he's like, not to overstep, but do you think if you put this version of Batman here, it would pop a little bit more and do that? And he was 100% right. and we changed the thumbnail and we put it up there and he's just but he doesn't he doesn't do it in a way that's obnoxious he does it in a super helpful way that you go oh yeah that guy knows what he's talking about because he built his channel from the ground up and and so what i really loved about his interpretation of the script was that he said because you know me and this is the thing when i i'm always trying

to talk to you about it you won't you won't engage with me but i try to go into the future of the story of well then so-and-so can do this and then they can do this in the future and you're like well let's just focus on the pilot i did it tonight a little bit today tonight i did it today a little bit about going into the future yeah you did but like but but greg even martini sometimes she's like oh you know hold on hold on hold on we you know we mapped up the whole with the whole series her and i but gregg will was like this could go here this could go here you can incorporate this portion of of what you know youtube and and social media and this and i'm like yes you get it you you get it and and that portion of it made me really excited to work with him because he he really

understands it so i love having him as a producer it's it's it's perfect he's a guy that you should have because that will be a spot when we're shooting of like here's there's a thing that well i was going to say like i've learned a lot from him already right and we haven't even gotten to the like authenticity of this world that we're going to create very much is native for him and you Well, that's what, and that's the thing that I can also use him as like, because it's, when it's just me sometimes, you're like, oh, he's just fighting for the thing that he wants. But I'm, but I'm like, well, for example, like on a live stream numbers, like when someone who doesn't understand what live stream is, you go, oh, if they're doing, if it's a real big live stream, then it could be doing 200,000 views, 200,000 live viewers. That's hard to do, right? And so 32,000 is a lot, right? Like, 25,000 is a lot live viewers. And so it's just like that's something to cross reference with the, Greg, what do you think? Well, and he'll show you, he'll show you a sheet full of analytics.

I'm like, well, this is one of the bigger things. This is that when I did all my research, my data. So he's, he's a perfect person to have on for this type of show. Great. Yeah. So I'm excited, man. I'm, I'm pumped and I'm glad that we're able to do this like the night before because. As I said, I'm not going to be able to really sleep much for the next.

I'm a good sleeper. That's, that's a bit of a schick. But I, I'm just really excited to see how it occurs. Yeah, I mean, even and the other side, this is something to bring up too, because people are very excited about the Schmodeon aspect of this. And you know I love Schmode. That's, and that's what I tell people. I said, look, the other side of it is the answer is a big Schmodown guy.

I've already announced some of the competitors that would be involved and people are excited about. You have? Yeah, I've named four. Four people that could be potentially. So one is a, it would be a rookie, Chris Carr. She is on, she's on my show. People love her. Shrodown was before I knew her.

She's a perfect person to do it. The outlaw, John Roker is back. Sure, John Roker. He's got to be. John Roker's got to be back. Wow. Yeah. William the Beast Bibiani has.

Okay. And then. I don't know. I don't know as familiar. I'm not going to pretend. Okay. But I'm not going to pretend. You have to know the name.

If you don't, then this is like, the next time i'm about to tell you this is like saying that you're a basketball fan and you don't know michael jordan and that's dangerous dan merle no no no of course of course i know dangerous dan whirl so wait can you just remind me are there four are any of the horsemen involved here that's that's that's that's that's roka roka roca roca well roca and murrel roca and murl have a very story past they have a very storied past they they were they were they were roka took the championship from Dan when Dan had never lost before. Dan and took a hiatus, came back, joined John Rocha in his faction of the horsemen, then they won the team's title together. Then they split up again.

They have a really storied past. I love it. I used to love the retirement matches. Oh, yeah. Those are good. But it's like the loser, the loser doesn't get to play Schmo down. That was that was Finstock versus McCuga, your buddy. Finstock versus McCuga. Yeah, that was it. I love that. Yeah, we're going through the we're on the Schmodeown vault right now. kind of it was honestly right before you I was watching an old can we get McCougah you know McCugas my favorite I spoke to him last night I spoke to him last night he didn't the only thing with McCugas that he lives kind of far away that that that's well that's part of the like Nova Scotia where is he's closer he's

he's in he's definitely up closer than the Northern California like the Carmel area could the Cougas can stay with me for I mean look I think it was this is this is this is what I think and this is this is Andrew and I haven't really talked about this yet. But, and it also depends on what we raise and all that stuff, too. But in my mind, if we, let's say we overperform and we get to the, we just, we do the best that we could do. And we can really put some, some oomph into the Shmowdown also.

I think realistically, if you're going to do a 16 person tournament, it would probably take about three days to shoot that tournament. And then the main, the last match of the tournament. would be at a live event with an undercard with an undercard big undercard match and you do two matches at a big live event I love it right I love it yeah and I also think you know one of the things too and maybe this is just you and I brainstorming for the audience right now I think that could be a stretch gold tier for somebody I think that like if you if you're one of if you're one of the first X amount of people you're guaranteed a seat at the live event if we do it I love that again I don't know

who of our donor field gets the thrill that is the live schmodeown but it is my favorite it's so much fun just my live was the best oh so good it was the good we i can't do you remember do you remember which match you were there for you remember who who competed you weren't there for the five horseman reveal were you i don't think i can imagine i don't remember you to remember i brought a i brought a girl i I remember that. I wasn't paying attention. Yeah, no. But there were live.

There might have been a critic was there live. Oh, oh, oh, Leonard Malton was there. Leonard Malton got a standing ovation that. People were going nuts. It was like Leonard Malton con there for about three minutes. Yeah, he got a standing ovation. We introduced him like, we did it because they were actually. But it was like, I don't know that Leonard Malton's ever been anywhere where like people

are screaming his name and ripping. their shirts off. Right. But that day he was. For those three minutes. No, dude, that was, that was intentional too, because he was there and there were a few other, well, it was him. There were a couple other celebrities, but then what we did is we treated it because it was right before the main event and we would treat it like the boxing matches or the UFC fights where they would pan to the audience and do the celebrities. So what we did was like, and in the crowd tonight is the inner geekdom champion, Rachel Cushing, what? People go nuts. And then Leonard a mall and yeah you know so it was like freaking out it was like like people's heads

exploded and everything it was it was it was the best oh I love that it was the best so we I mean it would be it would be amazing to do a live event and be able to know really who we're going to be putting into that live event because we're going to be building that tournament out tournament out and then running it week to week to week it'll be exciting to run it again I don't know if I'd have the strength to run a whole season again, but to run a tournament, that would be fun. I do love, I have to just say, I've known you a long time. I love how taxing the schmodeon is on you.

Oh, you don't know. But like, I can remember back in the day where you'd just be like, I don't know. I don't think I could do it. I was running a professional wrestling league and not getting paid the millions of dollars that people do. I don't think I do it. It honestly, it honestly, I, I don't really think.

and I and God bless people who have to you know I have a lot of people in my family and other people that fight depression and that have depression I have not really been someone who has been depressed the end of the schmowdown and with other things social media related and other things was the first time in my life that I was definitely in full on depression mode, not happy, and yeah, there's just certain, there's certain social media platforms in general that I've never go on anymore because it's just, it was, it was so damaging to me. And you just, you just feel like, I don't know if the trade's the right word, but it's like I can understand where certain things happen in your lifetime where you just, you, you accomplish something

and then the next day it doesn't mean anything, you know, or you're trying to do something and you're working with people that you really, you're managing a lot of personalities, you know, and then somebody tweets something out and then everyone looks at you. It's not dumb. Not the other people. And then when you're working, and then I was, because Shmona started as an independent thing first, that was easier when it was me and Mark, right? When I was working for a company, the company was like, oh, we don't like what that person tweeted, you got to fire him. And I'm like, yeah, but they don't go to you when I have to fire him. they come after me.

And but they're like, yeah, but we can't do that because the legal thing that we can handle. Where we have to, so it was just a lot. You became the man. It, yes, but not, but, but I was the man without the benefits. Right. Well, without the, without the, is like, because by the time we got to, by the time we got to the digital side of things, live event stuff. It really does, it really does make my impersonation of you a few minutes ago, much less humorous.

that it seems that you were you know maybe dealing with some real stuff well no but that but there were there were times that i was just tired there were i do feel bad now about no no no don't characterization that i did of you when when maybe you might have been really dealing with well it depends on when it was it was there was there was only like there was only like there was only i was only i was tired a lot but i was but i was only there was it was the end of it i don't i think when you saw me during the cliter stuff that was just me being tired okay yeah But I'm excited, man. I'm, I can't wait to do this.

We're going to do this. Yeah. I'm going to be on the live stream tomorrow with you as much as I can. Maybe I'll just pop in whenever I can, just like a quick, like where we are we at. Well, you're going to be on, you're going to play some games. I know. I have a scheduled time, but. Oh, you're saying also to pop in.

Yeah, you should. Yes, I'll give you the stream link and you pop in whenever you want. Hey, I did a jump cut. Hey! Hey! And so he's got to go do his important producer things. I'm going to go and I'll be back tomorrow. I'm going to a back to school night.

Why would you say important producer things? I mean, come on. What's the deal with producing? I mean, I hear you there. Where are you? I have a back to school night. I'm going to look at whatever type of math work my 11-year-old son has done, maybe some sort of self-portrait in the art studio.

Okay. Well, have fun. Thank you. All right. Then I got to get on a plane, but this is, you know. Well, you're going to be on a plane, but you won't be on a plane when we do our stream. I'm excited for the stream. What should I wear?

Whatever you like. We're a trending t-shirt. We don't have those yet. Send me a trending t-shirt. All right, we need to get one. All right, we're going to let Andrew go. And, guys, thank you so much for being here for this special podcast. It wasn't even meant to be a podcast, but we did a podcast.

So we did a full podcast leading into tomorrow. Good thing you had that microphone. That's right. So I hope that you guys learned a little bit more about the project. I hope that if you were already not following it, you should now. Follow it because tomorrow we launch. Tomorrow is the day. It's the day.

I mean, they're going to be the most, the happiest person you've ever seen in October 22nd or the saddest. So we'll figure out real soon. Thanks for being here. And we'll see you tomorrow. Bye. Oh, look at me. I'm all. Oh, there I am.

All right. It's good to have you guys back. And it's good to be live with you. Thank you, obviously, to Warby Parker. Very excited about having them. You guys should be excited about them as well. And I'm excited that Andrew and I got to talk because, as I said in that intro, we just for a while, we're just kind of talking.

And we're just going to say, let's get a little bit more insights to people really know who Andrew is. and then we just go talking about my journey here. And it was nice to do because, as I said in the beginning, I really can be doing this without the support of all of you and the nice messages that I've been getting. And I see all your retweets and I see your tweets and I see the videos you guys are making.

And it really is something special. So I appreciate it very much so. The other thing is that we are going to be welcoming Craig. on the show at around what right normally we end around 2 p.m. EST. Craig will be coming on for the last like 10 or 15 minutes of the show. And we're going to announce and go over the tears in the Kickstarter today. So that way you guys can see it. And I'm excited about.

Now today, before we talk about any of that stuff, forgets about the movie news. And initially we're going to talk about this Resident Evil over-performed. performing for the weekend and how horror movies are just kicking ass. And then we found out that it looks like the Paramount merger is going to go through. So, well, we got to do that. But we got to talk about what the hell's going on. And speaking of what the hell's going on, where the hell's roken?

It's 12 o'clock. It's past 12 o'clock. The hell is he's sleeping? There he is. The hell happened. Bring him on. Sorry about that. Camera issues.

Hello, everybody. Happy Monday. Well, for some of us. Yeah, no, what's going on? We got to do one of these things. We're going to make sure. There we go. See, they're on it.

They're on it. So, yeah, I was saying, because we started, we did a pre-tape interview that I had with Andrew that we had for a bit and we talked about it. And I was talking to you about that and mentioned like he's a big, it's a big schmowdown guy. And he was talking about what was going on and how this is right around the corn. Tomorrow, man, tomorrow launching this thing and seeing what's going on. Oh, yeah, I heard. Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

Who's the elephant? How dare you? I've lost weight. How dare you? This is a show that airs, it's called the Hot Mike. Have you heard of it? I've heard of it. I've heard of it.

I get some tweets. I get some comments and stuff going, hey, I thought he said, Rokers in a tournament. Oh. And I said, wait a minute. He said, wait a minute. Of course he is. He was the guy that said, you got to do Shmodan.

And I said, no, no, no, no. He said, he got to do it. He said, no, no, no, no. And I said, you're going to do it? He's like, yeah, I'll do it. And then I see the clip, and you go, I'm too tired. Can't do it. What's going on what says you?

Yeah, I just, you know, the last, speaking of the show of the hot mic, the last week and a half of dealing with the four, two weeks actually, of dealing with the fallout from what went on with the show. Right. Has just kind of exhausted me and the drama of it all has exhausted me. And I just kind of sat around over the weekend and thought about like, or out of the week rather and thought about like Jesus, do I really wanna walk into this again?

I thought I had the energy to handle this kind of drama, but like thinking about 15 other people besides me and my drama combining together to go at each other and go on Twitter and go at each other and cross those lines and just all of it to me was like, oh, I don't know, I felt like I got kind of exhausted and I'm like, I don't, maybe I'm not ready to do this. So that's just kind of what was

going on for me when I was doing the show with Jeff and that's what's going on for me inside you know, I loved it. You know what I loved it. You know what I want to hear what I heard? Yeah, sure, go ahead. I'm too old for this shit. That's what I heard. It's the truth. I'm older than he is when he made that movie. So, all right, listen.

We'll, uh, yeah, look, let's see the same thing I told Riley. Go ahead. Is that and I've mentioned this many times over to the fans and the audience knows this. And they're in what regardless of what you think about Hulk Hogan, no one's going to argue with that he was one of the most instrumental figures in wrestling history, if not the most influence in what he did in building wrestling. That was the outlaw, John Roker, for the Schmodeown because he had to,

he had to show everybody, this is what you can do and it's okay to, to go this character route where everyone else is going, what is this? I don't understand this. What is he doing? Does he really hate me? He's like, no, no, no.

He's doing this because this is a character. This is it. And eventually people got it, but they didn't get it right away. And John had to take us over that line in order to get us there. And it's so funny because I saw someone comment. It wasn't mean or anything.

Just like someone wrote, like, Tronon doesn't need storylines. I was like, oh, have you only been watching since season one? because even season one had storylines. He's saying, no, I used to watch the first three seasons of Collider. I'm like, well, then every season of Collider had storylines. Yeah.

Every season. From the Finstock to the JT stuff, to the Roka stuff, to the Dan Merle stuff, to the Clark Wolf coming in to making the decision to, I mean, it all had storyline stuff. Yeah. And John helped push that over the line to make sure of like what it really was in order for us to do that. So what I told Riley is the same thing I'll tell you. The Shmonown will always be there for you. you guys if we wind up doing something you're always a part of it and so if you're if you're if you're

doing interviews from the side or if you're you're sitting there just in the in the audience you know and it's a and it's a camera that pans over and says there he is uh it's it's it's it's the outlaw you know that that that's something that maybe that that's maybe where the outlaw lives these days yeah maybe i mean like when i finish doing a hot mic show i literally lay on the couch for two hours because i'm exhausted holding on to that wild horse and i just thought to myself 15 other people who might have that wild horse and because people don't remember or people to maybe people don't talk about but like you you're so right to say I carried it to this level. I don't say next level or better level just the next level in terms of you pushed it.

Right. Pushed it. But like there was a price to pay for that for me who was like an empathetic person, a person who is sympathetic to people and emotion. But I loved doing it right. I saw the potential of it with you. But it took a lot out of me and I legitimately did have beef with people. off camera and people had beef with me off camera.

There was a lot of negative things said about me behind the scenes behind my back. And I had to carry that because other people come to me and tell me the things that some of my colleagues, some of the people that I wanted respect from in the business, because I was still starting out 10 years ago, were saying about me and the way I was doing things. And so for me, it's like, well, I want to open that can of worms again. And so the idea of doing trivia is fun, but the idea of everything else that comes with it is just giving me pause. Fair enough. But I appreciate

the kind of words you just said. Of course. Well, and so, and like I said, he's been supporting it and we'll be figuring out more in the weeks to come. But nonetheless, respect to everyone's decision. Like we said, we're doing this thing. We're going to have some fun with it. And as you guys heard, Andrew Freed's going to put

some, uh, some um, behind it. This is going to be a pretty big tournament moving forward. Yeah. And that's it. And right now, the confirmed people that we do have are dangerous Dan Merle. Chris Carr, Marisol McKee, Adam Collins, William Bibiani, and we've got a lot of spots to fill.

So we'll talk, we're going to be announcing a couple people on tomorrow's live stream. So guys, make sure if you wanted to know, we know at least two or three people will be announced tomorrow. So there you go. I knew champs on film couldn't resist. I knew champs on film couldn't. No, it wasn't even resist.

They were, they were, they were, that was, that was the easiest phone call that I actually actually it wasn't actually it wasn't there's one person that i'm gonna i can't say it yet but tomorrow i will um i asked a person going they're not i guess and i was like quick you know just just in case the person said yes immediately wow and i was like whoa whoa so that will be announced tomorrow um heard it here first kevin smith you heard it here first it maybe so all right but you know we had this thing set up today john with the um the resident evil news which we were we were definitely going to get into how that movie did and then the horror movies that it's in general. But then bigger news dropped.

Way bigger news dropped. And I said to Luke, because I said to Luke at first, I was so surprised. I said, look, oh, you got to change the topic. He was like, no, I think you're sick with the horror story. I said, are you out of your fucking mind? With Roka on the show and this news dropping, this is like one of the biggest stories in entertainment right now, obviously. Let me just bring this up. Hold on a second.

There I am. Okay. So we're going to, I got to just do, bring up the article itself. Where is it? Here we go. All right. So as I said to John, I said, I think it's going to happen. He said, I don't think so.

Well, looks like it's going to happen. I never said I don't think so. You did too. I did not say I don't think so. You said you didn't think, you know we have this stuff on video, right? I said, that's fine, pulling up on video. I never said 100% it's not going to happen. You didn't say 100%, but you said, I don't think it's going to happen.

I said, I think it's going to happen. Nonetheless, Paramount and the state EG's will settle. Lawsuit allowing Warner Brothers merger to proceed is what the reports say. Now, this is not a done deal. It just seems like it seems like it's about to be a done deal. Paramount's guidance will settle with the group of state attorneys general that sued to block its proposed merger with Warner Brothers Discovery, multiple reports said on Monday.

The antitrust laws threatened to delay the acquisition until mid-20, 27 and to cost Paramount hundreds of millions of dollars in fees. The acquisition brings together two-storied film studios, Paramount and Warner Brothers, two popular streaming services, broadcast, yada, yada, yada, let's see, Paramount's guidance is a $110 billion merger with Warner Brothers Discovery will move forward as the company plans to settle with a group of state attorneys general that sought to block the deal on antitrust grounds, multiple reports set. The lawsuit brought by a group led by California's Rob Bonta was previously said to

to trial in March and would have left the deal in limbo through mid-2020. Details of the agreement have yet to be made public. However, sources told rudders that the settlement includes the creation of independent editorial boards for CNN and CBS and also stipulates a 30 million penalty per film if Paramount fall short of its pledge to release 30 movies annually. Spokespeople for Paramount and Bontza did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The acquisition would bring together two-storied film studios. Paramount and Warner Brothers, the deal previously won approval from U.S. and other international regulators,

and Paramount told investors to expect it to close by September 30th. However, California, 11 other states filed suit in mid-July seeking to block the merger, citing anti-dress concerns in film and pay TV. A weeks of follow, Paramount agreed to delay the merger until June 2027 when the legal challenge played out. That delay would have proven costly for Paramount. As part of the merger agreement, Paramount agree to a so-called ticking fee that would have kicked in after September 30th, and meant an additional 25 cents per share per quarter to the Warner Brothers shareholders until the transaction closed. The fee would have added an additional $650 million per quarter on the deal. Okay.

All right, John, you heard this news. Is it, and we kid, but is it shocking to you that this went down? I mean, maybe not because of all the DOJ news lately over the last like couple of weeks? I don't know. How are you feeling? Yeah, I mean, I am a little shocked. Bonta seemed very determined to go after certain concessions from Paramount to make this happen. I didn't doubt that Paramount wanted to make a deal.

And certainly they sent out their little minions, their bought and paid for minions, to leak things to their bot and paid for journalists. So Rapinski to say and write certain things that were supportive of the merger, right? And so to me, I understood the pressure, it's political pressure. we know this negotiations are negotiations you're sitting sports you see it in business it's all about winning the PR war and then all about pressuring the other side to concede um and bambonta seemed very clear he was going on ms and now he was going on cnbc he was going all these places on a press tour to essentially say we're firm on this we're firm on this and then the negotiations were leaked

or you know that they were having talks uh initially wall street journal said that but then deadline said it's not true they've just kind of outlined the terms for the for the conversations in mid-October but seems like they hit some point where maybe all of these states decide and it says in the bloomberg write-up that the four states who were holding out outside of california because bata was ready to go with it were holding out but realized that without california leading the way they didn't have the money to fight this thing all the way to the end and so for me it's it's the initial concessions are just utterly bull crap like i don't want to cuss too much about this, but this idea of some independent board is nonsense. We've seen

what independent board means under this administration and other people who count out of this administration. And we've seen what happens with these mergers when they go down. It never works out well for the creatives and it never works out well for the below the line people either. Less production happens. And so to me, when I look at all of this, there's nothing positive to be gained out of this. And the people who are benefiting are the people who are the people who shouldn't be benefiting because of how they want to warp our media. And so to me, it's very, very frustrating. And I said this in my tweet,

this is my final point is like, at a time when the White House is barring news organizations, reputable news organizations, reputable news organizations for being a part of the White House because daddy doesn't like the way you talk about him, you're handing over one of these massive news organizations, one of these independent news organizations to control of someone who is leaning,

a hardcore right hardcore mag as we saw with cbs and so to me it just it just speaks volumes about how we need fighters and we don't need people who are weak need when it comes to these kinds of negotiations there's a lot that goes on with all of that because if they don't regulate the the news aspect of this right because i don't think you're wrong i think that the the independent board could be subjective as well what was i really mean yeah who's choosing Choosing that is dependent board. 100%. But, you know, the way to look at it potentially is maybe that there's something that it has to be monitored.

And if it is, because that was one of the biggest sticking points. And the fact that, as you say often, that they would potentially show their belly, you know. Yes. If they're nuts. If they did by just appointing some board. Yeah. Unless the board is reputable, right? Unless the people who choose the board are reputable.

So that's got to be a TBD type thing. But I don't think skepticism is a wrong way to look at that because you don't know. My thing was what I always thought and the reason why I just, I hate the way that the world is, but the world is full of money and corruption, which usually win. It's a horrible way to look at the world. But it's the way the world is. Money rules the world. And there was too much money that was on the side that wanted to get this thing.

And so to me, I always knew it would go down in one way or another. The question was maneuvering around the legality of it, and they seemed to do that. And they seem to have enough because they're also doing it in a way that all these deadlines and everything fell before any of the elections. and so they had enough time to make it happen. Right. So the only thing, though, as far as the creative side of it, which is part of this deal, the amount of money that they would lose if they don't now

or the penalties they'll have to pay, if they don't make the 30 movies, and this is for movies, but the 30 movies. Right. Yeah, go ahead. What they said about the 30, I'm sorry, Chris, finish your point. No, no, please.

You finish, finish. Well, just when you're looking at the terms of what they laid out here, they initially said Paramount that they were going to make 30, movies a year. Now, the adjustment is they're going to distribute 30 movies a year, which means they could buy any. They could pick it up. Yeah, they could pick it up in a Tom Dick or Harry movie. But they're still putting in the theaters, but they're still putting in theaters. Sure, but business-wise, does that make sense? Because supposedly this is all about helping the business of Paramount and WB and the shareholders. But if you're putting out crap movies just to hit that 30 quota, I mean, the last

people who are the people who are the people who are supporting this merger, there should be no quotas, essentially the 30 movies is opening the door to quotas of you having to take whatever movie and put it out there to hit that. So you don't pay the $30 million and lose Weinstein, which is apparently the company that they could lose if they don't do

this thing. So I understand that there are penalties here, but they're already massaging the terms that Paramount had come out there with their PR. You don't think that they're devastating penalties? Like, meaning that... No, no, I think they are, but I think it also means that

they'll do any kind of desperate shit to not pay the $30 million. There's ways. That's what I meant, though. There's, there's, there's easier ways to maneuver around these penalties than the penalties had they not gotten this done by October 1st. Well, sure. For Paramount and Warren. Right.

For Paramount. For Paramount. And so Paramount not able to do this, you know, by October 1st. That was the other thing. When, when you add up, I don't get how much money you have. When you add up, how much money they would have had to pay. Every day. $7 million beginning October 1st.

Every day. Every day. So, like, they were going to find a way hell or high water to make it happen and do what they needed to do. Every phone call that could have been made was made. Yeah. Yeah. Think about your overdraft fee. And I think all of us can have been in that point.

$37. $40 a day? How am I going to pay you back? You got to pay the big. You got to pay the big. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So there were, there were every, like again, every phone call that had to be made was made. And there was too much power and money involved on that side for it not to get made.

People say, like, well, it's not done yet. If we're at this place now, it's going to get done. Oh, 100%. You can hold on to hope that if you were rooting on one side of it, but it's going to get done. The question is now the other side of it is, yeah, there were these threats that, well, we're leaving. We're going. We're not going to be in California anymore. There's no world where they leave California.

No, no, not now. No, the amount of, the amount of money that it would have cost in the first place, you never leaving in the first place. This is, this is another thing where, like you said, you know, it's just a matter of, hey, listen, guys, they're going to pack up and they're going to leave. And this is going to be devastating for California. We got it. And then, you know, that maybe they did call the moving companies.

Maybe they did start to look into studio space. Maybe they did start to do these things, you know, whether or not they were going to act on or not, who knows, but maybe they put enough fire under someone's ass to go, this is going to be something that if they didn't call the bluff basically well yeah and the thing is i think they were willing to go all the way but i'm telling i'm looking at Gavin newsome right now i'm looking at xavier basser i'm looking at karen bass all of these democratic politicians put pressure on bonta to settle because these wussies it didn't have the guts to fight this thing all the way tooth and nail to the end because what do they care right you know i always push back on you when you're

like, oh, two sides, both sides, both sides, both sides. But like, the more I see these mealy-mouthed, weak-need, gutless effing Democratic politicians, the angrier I get. A, because I should have run, I should have followed my, I should have been a politician. I'd have fought tooth and nail to do these kinds of things, but it's too late for my ass now. But like when I look at people in power who acquiesce so easily, who show their belly so easy, especially on the Democrat side, you just indicate to the other side that, yeah, they can do whatever they want. These wussies won't ever step up because they're too busy hugging trees or kumbayaing around campfires and talking about their feelings instead of having the guts to confront people.

And there are too many Democrats who abhorred confrontation and every single time we get by this. They don't want to lose a fight that can lose them votes. And that's every. Oh, I think this will lose them votes though. I think this will. Maybe so. But we're also. But maybe so.

Maybe so. Maybe if the election was tomorrow, but people forget things real quick and a new thing will pop up. Sure, maybe someone in the primaries will use it again. Oh, you could have done this. You could have done that. But my point is that every politician, and this is what I try to tell everybody. And this is why I do the two sides of things and why people always wonder, you know, like, what side is on?

I'm really not on either side. I really don't because I don't like the two baseball teams. I just don't. Because what I tell you is that now, there's. There's a difference between being passionate about a subject and wanting to fight for that subject. Everyone should do that. The problem is the game of politics starts to push into where guess what. Your team does not care about you.

They'll care about you when it's, they'll care about you during an issue if it's going to help them and help you vote for them. It's politically expedient. They don't care about you. They don't. They wouldn't piss on. you if you were on fire. They don't, none of them. They don't. I wouldn't say none about you. I do think there are something to do. Because they all down the line get corrupted by the idea of, oh, well, you know what? I actually feel that way. But my team wants me to vote that way because

that's the way the team's going. But I don't believe in that, but I'm still going to vote for it. They're all corrupted by it because it's the way the system. The system's broken. It's all fucked. But nonetheless, this has nothing to do with the actual, you know, my thoughts on this whole scenario, what can happen as you've got to see in the way that when Disney took over Fox, it's a different scenario. Right, right. But it's still a lot of people will lose jobs. Yes. Things will happen for sure. Even when Disney bought Fox was a bad thing.

It was. The difference was, though, you know, they were buying pieces of it because Fox still exists as a company. Yeah. What will become of Warner Brothers? I don't know. These are great questions to ask because I saw somebody in the chat say, well, Disney, well, Paramount put out 10 movies and W put out 15.30 is totally doable as if the staffs are just going to stay the same number. The reports came out two weeks ago showing that once this merger happens, they will cut staff by almost half when you look at the numbers, right and so that'll be less that'll be less people working on supposedly making 30 movies a year it's nonsense

and so it's not going to happen look at the fox a Disney merger their numbers combined were big then when they combined the numbers went down in terms of the amount of movies they were putting out and so that happens because they want to save money as you said money makes the world go around these people want to put this merger together so they can make money and the way they do that is cutting the staff of the people who make a lot of money and then try to make movies as cheaply as possible. This also, I think, opens the door to AI being used more frequently in Paramount Warner Bros. Movies. Yeah. Do you forget that idea that it's not going to happen. That's going to happen in all movies. Exactly. So this just opens it more and more for it to be

happening. And you're right to what like what is next? Where's James Gunn and all of this? And Warner Brothers, where is Harry Potter? Like all these IPs, where do people stand? now that in essence, they're going to be working for a guy who's in the can for Trump. And I wonder how many of these creates. That's my question. That's my question what I want to see. Yeah. My question is more so of because what I, and maybe it's wrong just to give people benefit of the doubts, right? But I want to go, I want to give benefit of the doubt in saying, okay, you've got a political side of you.

Because this is the thing that I said the other day and I don't want to be hypocrite on it. Yeah. Because I mentioned this recently. I had a conversation and I became friendly with somebody and was talking to them. And I was like, this is just having a really great conversation overall. And then realized within a conversation, oh,

we don't line up at all politically there. Yeah. But then I said, but it didn't change the fact that I just had a great conversation with this person overall. I'm not going to change my opinion of this person and the other stuff that was said. Now, there's different conversations and other things with different contexts that can make you go, whoa,

that wasn't one of those conversations. But in the same. same way that this guy says he loves movies and wants to make movies, right? Yeah, I don't know what's going to happen with the CNN side of it and all that stuff, too. TBD, let's figure it out. Right. I want to see, is the political side of it going to bleed over into the movie aspect? Well, and that's a DC, DC question too, right?

So we'll see, obviously, James Gunn and Alison are very different pages. what happens with that deal overall when he starts because I think it would be really bad for business if that fear of well now he's on that side of the aisle so he's just going to start cutting everybody who feels this way that's bad business in general especially in Hollywood he's got to be able to balance it so I'm going to give benefit of the doubt and see let's see if you can balance it I think that's a, how can I say this? I think that's a respectable position to take. I am much more cynical than you are.

Which is fair. And I will say, yeah, what you were saying a couple of minutes ago, you can have those discussions where you disagree with people because you're a white straight male in this country, Christian. And it's not this, and you didn't ask to be that. You were born that. So your perspective is what it is, right? Yeah.

As a person of color who has dealt with all kinds of stuff, those when someone starts leaning in a certain way and talking a certain way, I know where that's going. And for me, that's the moment I put a stop on it because I don't have the kind of benefits, right? And a lot of people don't have the kind of benefits that white straight males have in this country. And I'm not saying in any way like it's a negative, you're negative people. Not at all. It's just that some things are baked into the culture. Sure, I get it. You have to be aware of that kind of.

So I understand that. And I wish I had that kind of possibilities. And I also think it's fair to be a little skeptical of people. But I want to address that. Starfire says with that thought or speaking Hitler would be okay if you talk about something. No. No. That's what I literally said at the end. You weren't listening. You obviously weren't listening

what I said to Roker there. But at a certain point what people believe does matter because, right, like I said. And that's kind of what I referenced at the end. If you go back and instead of start, because the second I started, here's what you did and you know you did. The second I started talking, you stopped listening to the second half and you were going like this. Oh, you're talking to Starfire. Yes. Yes. And so what you didn't hear

at the end what I literally said to Roka. Now look, it wasn't like one of those conversations because that conversation happens like, whoa, whoa, I can't be associated with this person. It wasn't that. It was a, I didn't even tell you what the conversation was. I said, in that particular conversation, oh, I don't line up with that person in that.

What I mean, there used to be a conversation where you could talk to people who weren't on the same page and it didn't mean you're on the other team. That was my point, Starfire. You're going off to fucking ridiculous. this land and that's what people do sometimes. So you're not, it's not really Starfire's fault there because that's just what people are accustomed

to do. I say I had a conversation with someone and I was talking to that person and said, oh, I'd get along with this person. And then they had one thing politically I didn't really agree with and they go, oh, what a Hitler? What are you talking about? But look, the people are doing in the chat right now. The people are doing the chat right on the other side.

They're like, oh, he's a total victim. Loser Rocha is. It's like, I'm not a victim. I have a very happy life. I have an incredible girlfriend. I work with my friends. I'm not a loser. You're the loser, not me. And so this idea of trying to destroy the other side

because they bring up a point of view to look at a perspective in our country that's systemic. That's not a negative. We're not saying all straight white males are bad. We're saying there are perks or benefits that you get being born in that situation, that people of color don't get, that women of color don't get or women don't get sometimes.

These are the things you have to look at. No one's at no one's trying to well at least I'm not trying to say you all should be eradicated It's more a matter of like can we get some conversations that are honest and I agree with you Christian I missed the days that we could have honest conversations come to understanding of people and it's too much about who's right and who's wrong and not enough about let me understand where you're coming agreed but you know we can find a compromise you know the major culprit of in that is who social media oh 100 it is the one major it's a major culprit in that because the problem that They're invested in dividing us, man. Yeah, because if you go out and you tweet something out, and you tweet something, and if it's aggressive, which you and Mike have been known to do, time to time.

Oh, oh, yes, Kalinowski, yeah, sure. And so if people then chime in, and then it becomes a fight, and then it's no longer, you're not standing in there, and you know you don't have the same conversations with someone that if you're sitting in a room with someone, and you make the same point, and you wouldn't probably make it the same way that you would on Twitter, but if you made the same point that said,

well, wait a minute, I see it this way and you go, okay, wait, this and the back and forth, and you may come up with an understanding in the room. You might not. You might leave the room screaming and yelling at each other, but it's an eye contact and it's an emotion that you treat people differently when you can see them and stare at them and understand the energy in the room, as opposed to, oh, you know what? I'm going to go tell you this, this, this, and I'm going to say this, this,

and then I'm going to go have a fucking sandwich. And that's the way that it just unfortunately has destroyed civilization in how we talk. I don't think there's a fix. I just don't think there's a fix. I think once a certain somebody is no longer in power, I think like at the end of Wonder Woman where they all kind of wake up from having been, you know, brainwashed to get into their anger by Ares, I think in a way we will seek to have discourse.

The fact that people are, people on his own side have started to leave him ahead of these midterms tells me that something is breaking, which is why this deal bothers me so much. This is the time to stand strong, not give in. And I'm hoping, because I think there is a general push that people, I think a majority of people want to have compromise. I think it's the, it's the extremists on each side that want to create the division who are causing the problems. I fight with people only when they're not honestly coming at me with a,

a legitimate desire to debate. When they come to you with condescending comments, dismissive comments, insulting comments, you get on the defensive. I get it. Yes, I do. And I've stopped responding a lot. I'm muting them. It just doesn't go anywhere mentally. No, it never does.

You're 100% right. So my question to you is this. And I want you to answer me honestly. Okay. Let's say that there's a scenario where Allison takes over and Paramount does, it goes through. Okay. And they, do what they say they're going to do and they keep politics out of it and they run the studio

in a way that there's always going to be people losing their jobs in a merger like this is that that that's you can't avoid that you can't avoid that yeah but let's say runs it in a way that's run as a movie fan and they do have a board and everything else and CNN's able to kind of run the way it is would you look back and go okay I I sure he's doing it differently yes 100 percent 100%. I don't anticipate that's going to happen, but I do, yeah, I'm open-minded to see if he actually does what he says he's going to do. If the layoffs are limited, if the CNN keeps running the way it is and independent board reviews, all these kinds of things, if they adhere to the terms of the deal that make it fair, legitimately fair and balanced, then yes, of course, because that's a positive for everybody all around. and maybe at the end of the day, Ellison did all of this,

this cozying up to Trump, just to get this deal done. Because remember, as you said, these are business guys. These are about money. They don't necessarily look at the smaller approach to things. To them, it's like, well, who do I need, who's asked, do I need to kiss in order to make this happen?

Listen, DiCaprio is about as liberal as they come, and he's hanging on on Bezos's yacht. So, you know, people have their lines in the sand. Of course. But can do what's best overall. for their business. So we'll see if down the road, Ellison is adhering to things. But the second it starts to like, he starts being mealy mouth or changing his mind,

I question that you, are you going to be able to criticize him honestly and go after him and say, you things wrong from what he promised? A hundred percent. Look, if it applies both ways. Of course it does. And if if gun isn't even given a chance to run his thing because it comes out in his report, it's because of the politics side of it. And it's this. He's not hiring people because of this. And that. and that. Yeah, of course. I just said it

before. If he does that, that's bad business. And if he does it, I'll say that's bad business. But if he runs it and it's working out and it actually starts putting more movies in the theater, I think you should say he's doing what he's doing. If people get to work and are doing more, yeah, if they're on these sets and he does bring back business because I think

that's one of the big things that was part of the agreement was that it would be like $1.8 billion being put back into California economy. And so at a time when businesses are leaving, it's legitimate. that's a good thing for the state overall. So we'll see if that actually happens. But to me, yeah, we haven't even talked about the foreign money stuff.

That's something that's also. Well, we've already, we did about 35 minutes on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I want people, I hope people will put their thoughts and I'm sure that they would. They already put it in the comments. Put it in the, obviously on the Clips channel. If you're not subscribed to the clips channels, where we piece out the show, you can go over there and you can put your thoughts over there.

If you're not subscribed over there, please do. This is, I really want to hear what you, what you think. But this is great. So how about that Resident Evil? Totally. The guy in the break room was like, so guys, how about those Resident Evil?

He's like sitting in the corner of this. Please, please move on. This chat just explodes. I love Jack. And we will move on right now, Jack, don't you worry. But the question also for,

oh yeah, for everybody knows because I didn't announce the winners last week. Last week's winner, Yeah. Was Chris Carr. She was number one. Number two was Greg and Roxy.

Ringer. Number three was Roca beating Winston by 63 cents. Winston was number four and then Smetsey in the shitter. So that's top five. And so there you go. And then tomorrow I didn't show everybody. Obviously you guys know 10 a.m. is when we start the live stream.

10 a.m. is when we we actually start the live stream itself. Um, and then 10.30 is when the Kickstarter goes line. So this is the, this is just some of the guests on. Wow. We have many guests on tomorrow. Wow. So everybody but Roka. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

Well, you're busy. You're busy. I asked you. You're busy. Um, so we have, uh, we know that Kalinowski, Greg Alba, Merle, myself, Roxy and Mark Ellis. Mark Ellis. making a triumphant return.

And then there'll be other guests for sure throughout the entire how did that happen? Oh, wait a minute. I didn't realize. What is that? Oh, I didn't. I just where's the, where's the switch? Is that, has that been up there the whole time like that? I don't know. Who's doing it? Well, I don't know. What happened there?

Luke? PLD. I don't, yeah. Was that, was that the whole, was that like that the whole show? The LD's been putting up. Our show is trending in the middle of our. It was been nearly the whole show. Well, that's not. Why would you wear that PLD instead of putting up our show is trending? I didn't. I want him to do that.

I want him to put that up there. Big Paffoon? He told me to listen to him. Come on. Why can't, he should definitely be putting that up there. But hopefully. Is he a Bears fan?

Is PLD a Bears? Yeah, he is. How about those three points, PLD? How about those three points? PLD? How about it? I could give a fuck about the three points. I'm worried about Caleb Williams.

I'm worried about Caleb Williams, like, a chile user, hamster. That little baby. How about you? How about your game when the Cowboys guys stepped on the other Cowboys guys nuts? Yeah, I know, right? That was hilarious. That was hilarious.

Poor Winston. He must have gone crazy, man. No. We don't won that game if JD hadn't gotten hurt. We were definitely going to come back and beat that team. I guess I'll be roka today until we figure out the... What's going on? Lower third.

No, just the lower third is, I don't know why it's like that. I'm always on the right hand side. I don't know what happened. Josh Rock coming in. Hey, guys, the names are in the wrong spot. Yes, Josh. That's what we're trying to figure out. Now is that, you know what?

I'm just going to take it down. You guys put it up when it's ready. I wonder if it was like that the whole time. No one even said anything. Anyway, let's jump to this. And Resident Evil. Hey, now. Crushed!

Dude. 108 million global debut for Resident Evil. Zach Craigers, Resident Evil, top the box office this weekend, pulling in a major 108.3 million worldwide, 60 million domestic, 48.3 million overseas that easily tops the 70 million worldwide start of weapons last year to be as big as debut to date. Well, that makes sense, considering it's an IP. The opening also beat Scream 7 for the second best start for a horror film worldwide this year, behind only backrooms with 118, overseas only Resident Evil topped backrooms, which debuted 36.6.

in those markets. The worldwide opening has also beaten the worldwide final growth of the original 2002 Resident Evil and the most recent 2021 failed reboot Resident Evil. welcome to Raccoon City. Resident Evil of final chapter in 2016 holds the highest total gross for the franchise with $312 million, which half of them came from China, which now is considered an anomaly. Domestically, the highest grossing film has been Resident Evil afterlife, at a $60.1 million total. The film's domestic opening weekend could beat that when the final Sunday numbers are in. So we can look at that and double check and see if the numbers in, and it looks like it got close to that. But Resident Evil hits just 60, 48, International, 108, over.

is what this has. Practical Magic 2. Still doing another $12 to $76 million so far worldwide. That movie's got to make a little bit more money, I think. I don't know how much it costs to make. I can't remember, but hopefully make a little bit more. Spider-Ram, brand-new day, crossing, oh, is approaching 2.5, getting close. The Odyssey at 1.7, which is nuts. And then Coyote versus Acme is sticking around.

Look at almost $80 million for that movie. I still think it needs a little bit more money to, to, break even or whatever to do, but still, that's a win for that movie overall. Anyway, oh, there we go. Look at that. Hey, thank you. Good job, everybody. Thank you. Thank you for the team. That was awesome. So I don't know, yeah, look, Resident Evil, you saw it, John. I did. Are you? I don't, oh, you saw it twice. So I don't know if you were where I am, because I was really digging the movie a lot. And I, I wound up liking it a lot, but I took away love off the table because I didn't like the ending. But I said it's completely subjective because if you,

I feel that if you really enjoy the ending, then you will love this movie. Are you, did you love the ending and I love the movie? Yeah. Yeah. I did. I thought it was perfectly bonkers for where we were going. And I think that entire sequence kicks off with a certain somebody coming in in the car. And they just kind of take it to the next like insane level. And so where we ended up, I thought was. great and emotional. Like I thought that was really surprising for me that I got, yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, I really, no, I'm saying at the end, like the emotions. I felt at the end, okay, because of what happened.

Yeah, sure, sure. Oh, my God. So, yeah, I like the ending. But, you know, I'm not a resident. I played the game maybe twice in my life. Yeah. So I don't have the same kind of like connotation other people might have with that game. So, yeah.

Yeah, I don't, I didn't have any. I had no connection to the lore enough for me to say, wow, they didn't do it. like that and do that because I was shocked with the amount of humor in it. Yeah. But it wasn't the way that I was taken out by like, like, like, Masters of the universe,

right? Because I don't think that the humor ever, were never ruined the moments. I always thought that it was accurate to what was going on. I thought, I was believe Austin Abrams was great. Yes. And he was great.

And I, you know what? Someone told me over the weekend and I didn't realize it. Griffin Newman is in the movie? Yes. He plays one of the characters in the film. What is he? Is he one of the doctors?

I think he's one of the doctors. Because I saw that too, and I was like, wait, where was he? Where was he? Because I was like, you know, I have to go see it again. He's one of the scientists. Is he one of the scientists? Oh, he was one of the scientists. Okay.

See, I didn't even pay attention to that. It's former number one contender Griffin Newman. Wow. The movie Tribune Shemota. I actually have to reach out. What? The last for that movie. That was a.

You love the G. And you love the anime. too? Oh, I love that. I was very apt to that kind of film. Yeah, I get it. I didn't think it was, I didn't think it was an ending that was not, I don't care. I think it was it non, like, that it wasn't

fitting for the movie. I just didn't personally like it. But it didn't take away, it didn't, it didn't like, oh, the whole movie was directed so well and that was so different. No, it was on part with everything that was going on. So that's why I give it a four out of five, I give it a big score still. Yeah.

I just really, you know, there was just, again, it was more of a personal thing than anything else too. But it goes, the guy's three for three with his movie. I think so, too. He's three for three. Yeah. And even monetarily, he's three for three. This is his most commercial popcorn mainstream commercial film. Yes.

I mean, the other ones are a little more thoughtful. And I still think weapons is the best one he's ever done. It's funny. You say that. Not sorry, I didn't me to cut you off, but it's funny to say that because the first one, Barbarian is not commercial at all. Not even a little bit. At all.

Entertaining as shit and really, really good. But way more like, oh, this is some weird. You don't expect the director of that movie to start going into commercial. Weapons is a mixture of kind of both, but I would say heavier in. It was a little more commercial. It was more commercial, I think the reason why it was more accessible than Barbarian for sure. More accessible is the right word. This one then, because I think the progression of it,

So I just want to see what he's going to do next. Like I really enjoy him as a director. Yeah, I do too. What's his face? PODD's telling us he had a movie before that. He did. He co-wrote and co-directed Miss Mark with the

X comedy thing. It's technically speaking of technically. Technically, sure. But as a single solo, solo movie, no. Fun fact. It's a fun fact. All right, all right. Is it, though? All right.

Well, you would, I mean, if, in a showdown, that would be, oh, my God. Oh, I'd be a fight. That would be a fight. That would be a fight. Yeah, it would be a fight. So don't put that question in there, please. Yeah, PLD. Yeah.

Anyway, all right, so let's, let's, the rest of the box office itself, we're getting into a spot now where, as we get into October, you'll get a couple more more things coming up. When was the, when's that Brad Pitt dog movie? That came out last weekend? That comes up this week? I missed the screening for that. Did you see it? My screenings on Wednesday, but the film comes out on Thursday. So what's the logic in that? Well, no, they had screening for, well, they had, they did it for me for it. Okay, but they did have screenings for it. Okay. But they did.

It wasn't. So it wasn't like sometimes when they screen, when they only screened on the day before then. Oh, no, right, right. I was just saying my person like the fact of only getting it before. And I'm saying to me, I might also just wait till Thursday. Why would I go on the screen? I also do that. But Jeff saw it last week. He said, he says, he says, he, he says, he, he likes it. liked it. So did a few people put up their reactions. Matt Naglia from an X-Fest picture to other people. They said like they liked it. Okay. I want, I mean, I definitely want to see it. I agree. And then is that Anne Hathaway, um, last, the last one of her like six movies this year, right? So she wanted to show her in, uh, Dakota Fannie. Dakota, Fannie. Dakota, Johnny, Dakota Johnson, sorry. Dakota, um, Dakota. Oh, Verity. Right. Verity. I don't even know what the hell that's about, but. It's based on a book. Oh, is it? Yeah, yeah. Okay. So I'm curious, I'm curious about that one. Um, I, um, um, I'm curious, um, um,

I didn't watch the booth trailer, did you? No, I haven't. I'm going to do a reaction to it after we're done with the show. I haven't watched it. I got up a little bit late today. Yeah, so I have, so I can't really talk about that trailer yet because we didn't, because I didn't see it. Oh, but what I will bring up.

Primetime comes out this week as well, the Robert Patton. Yes. Really? September 25th. Is that Amazon? I think it's 824. Shit, I didn't reach out to them about this. I got to see if they have any.

I just can't do screenings this week. the problem i have one screen i'm doing the brad bird movie on wednesday night oh nice then i then i then i interview him on thursday that's so that's so yeah so i'm so that's my that's my screening schedule this week yeah i'm because i'm gonna go i'm gonna go into the city twice and so probably just you know and then because the whole because the kickstarter is just going to be it's going to consume my life for the next month i mean i think that's legitimate to focus on that yeah right I mean, right now. You can get around to these movies.

Yeah, right now. And so I'm hoping, you know, and then I, just a reminder of people that not only are we doing our, we have our live stream that's going tomorrow, 10 a.m. Until 10 p.m. or no, 8 p.m. I guess. We were the 10 hour stretches. Probably in around like 730 or so. Then at the end of this stream, after I let John go, Craig is going to be on and we're going to go over the tiers. today. So we're going to announce the actual tiers today so people can get a first look at it before we

launch tomorrow. Because that first day, and even the first hour, it's the most important from what I heard with Kickstarter. It's like, people, you know, people, if you're thinking about backing, and you can do it tomorrow, do it tomorrow, because that's going to, that'll just push us right to the forefront of the, you know, the top.

And then more people will see it. They push it to the algorithm. All right. So, here's a report about Supergirl. It's now on it's on HBO Max. And it's number one right now in HBO Max. And people are definitely watching. I told you my dad watched it the other day.

And my wife checked it out. And it made $126 million against a reported 170 budget. And now it's number one on HBO Max. I went looking for the streaming numbers and I couldn't find them. We ran a story recently about Supergirl topping HBO Max after a rough summer in theaters. And the comments were the warmest I've seen on a DC post in a while. One of you said the word of mouth. Had you expecting to hate it?

You came out thinking the Maliaqa has a real future as Kara. In case you missed my review, I felt the same one. In my review, I stated my honest prediction. This one finds its real audience on digital. Once the critic noise dies down, and folks can finally judge it for themselves without the bandwagon screaming in their ear. I think those reviews scared a lot of you off from the theater,

and that's a shame. And based on the streaming charts, it looks like I might have been correct, but the charts don't tell the full story. I like this article so far. I have a balanced way to bring things up. Box office Mojo has Supergirl at 72,366 domestic, 54 overseas. The budget was never officially announced, but I think we can get a rough idea based on what's been reporting.

World of Real Report of 175 in June, while Wikipedia said 170 to 186 plus 120 million of marketing against a break-even variety, put it near 315. That's reported loss between 85 and 125 million. Like most studios, Warner Brothers, hasn't confirmed anything. regarding the budget. Greg Lesby's movie did about a fifth of what Superman did last year. Reviews came in at 53%. Landed on digital on July 28th and HBO Max on September 10th, and apparently things flipped. How big is a streaming audience? I can't tell you from what I gathered through my research.

Nobody can. Or at least they won't tell you. Every single streaming hit number I could find for this movie is a chart ranking. None of them include actual viewership figures. Cospect Book News has it as number one. And there to the credit, they flag the limitation themselves calling Flicks for Choles. a chart ranking system. There hasn't been anything

of one of those discovery either and nothing from James Gunn or Peter Safran about how it's done since hitting the app. Nielsen hasn't published this week. Supergo landed in. It has its reporting lab from about four weeks to two earlier this month.

So the September 7th and 13 numbers are due around September 24th. Anyway, so number one on HBO Max's the leaderboard slot from a third party tracker on a service you already paid for. For the 400,000 people watch it or 14 million did,

it would rank number one that week if nothing big dropped. That's an interesting way to put it. First of all, I really like that article. I thought it was a balanced way to talk about it in general. It wasn't too overly praising and it wasn't, it was just like, I didn't, and I think it was a way to go look. I still stand by this.

I don't think it's a good movie. But I don't think it's as horrible as everybody says it is. Oh, yeah, 100%. And I thought she was good. And I just, it's one of those movies that just, forget it. It shouldn't have cost $170 million dollars to tell you that right now. Should have cost $60 million at best. but nonetheless

it's out there people are checking it out and I say that with my with my with my I told you my dad's text watching Supergirl not good that don't think Billy Alcock is right for Supergirl

my 82 year old dad and then my my wife tried to watch and she's like hey I turned it off a little bit wasn't for me but doesn't seem to be for every a lot of other people are tuning into it digging it or whatever it might be and who knows I mean, he said it at the end.

Could be 4 million people watch it. Could be 400. The fact is, it's number one, you can at least put that on the picture. Yeah, I guess you can. You know, for me, as I've said, when this came out with Masters of the Universe and other things, like streaming means nothing in my mind.

It means nothing because it takes no effort to roll over on your couch and hit play on your remote control. Literally not. Getting people to leave their house and go to the movie theater, that's something. That's credibility. That's status.

So, you know, I'm happy that it's number one. I'm happy that people are discovering the movie because, you know, just because we didn't like it doesn't mean, uh, or didn't think it was that great, doesn't mean that people might not like it. And young girls might not like, might look at it and like it and be like, oh, what was all the anger about? Because there are all of us who grow up liking shitty films. They're all, every single person in the chat right now, you and I, there are shitty films we saw as kids that we don't find them the same way we used to. Yeah, it's true. Right, right. Yeah, exactly.

And so like that should be allowed as well. Anybody trying to drown this picture or keep it from or saying people shouldn't watch it is a moron. Like, I really don't think that we should do that. I will push back on the streaming doesn't matter, though. I'll tell you why. Because even though it wasn't streaming, like cable was another thing, you could make the argument of back in the day, well, if you movie didn't do well in,

it doesn't cost anything to just turn it into cable station and watch it from home, right? Well, then if that was the case, Shawshank Redemption would have never found that audience. Because, yeah, again, I'm not saying it should, but I'm saying the idea that that should matter in terms of showing the status of a movie. I think sometimes it does

and I think sometimes it doesn't. I think sometimes you're just flashing a badge and going oh look what we did this week. Congratulations. It's like what did that really do? As opposed to sometimes like no number one and it really found an audience

there like it was because there are certain movies as we say that should have been made for streaming because that's where the audience that's that kind of audience lived. I think Masters of Universe that movie was made and shit even if it was made better. I still don't know if it would have been made for the years because it was so far past the audience that goes out to see movies. I don't know if the audience goes out and

sees it enough to make it have a profit, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So maybe it was always meant for streaming. Um, but that's the problem with the fact that these streamers can withhold the numbers you don't really ever know because what I would say is streaming doesn't really matter if it's like, well, yeah, look at, they're number one. Yeah, but what does that, what does that mean? Like is it number one with X amount of people and like, oh shit, like a lot of people found this movie now? Or is it, yeah, a couple people checked it out and who cares was number one because like he said, there was just nothing else on. I don't know what the answer is for Supergirl. It could have been either one of those scenarios. But I just think that if we don't get to really know

the information, it's hard going, kind of going with your point. It's hard to say whether or not it's a success or not. Right. Because if we don't have numbers to, I think the better, I shouldn't say a better argument, but I think to add to your argument, that if you could, in the way that you can see in a movie theater, if it did well, if it didn't, because you see the opening box office weekend. Yeah. And you see overall, you can look at the numbers and go, well, that didn't do well. You can't do that in streaming.

So that's where it becomes tougher when you put the two things next to each other. Yeah, well, look what it did it do? Well, we don't know. We think it was number one. So it's just, it's just tough. I agree. Yeah. It gets stuff. So, yeah. All right. I think, you know what? That's good for our topics today.

Okay. We did a lot. We spent a lot of time on the Paramount stuff. So what we'll do is we'll jump into the questions. And like I said, this is the eve of the biggest day of my life, I think, career-wise. And we're going to be doing one show here with Roka. And then this is it. Starting tomorrow. The shit goes down. The fit hits the sham. as they say so we are going to see if we can get roka some numbers here lean into it hey we'll start a route once upon a Hollywood reaction with sam now certainly possible we were she's coming in today we're

going to do lanterns and then we're going to probably we didn't get a chance to do mando and grogou so we're going to do mando and grogou um and then we'll probably i got to try to find some time to get her in here for four hours to do the damn uh Snyder Cut is if I can't get her here before, I might have to just jump right into X-Men and do that. So I have to see. He says no comment. Why is it on the day that Christian's Kickstarter starts? I have to go to the dentist.

Oh, man. It sucks, literally. And I've got the jock it. Christian hates me. No, I don't. Say it in so, Joe. That's not true. The good news is we're going to be on air all damn day.

So after you take your nap from coming back from the dentist, you can turn us home, we'll still be on. We have a lot of really cool guests. And Smetze's going to jump in and play some games with people. It's going to be a lot of fun. We've got some surprise guests. We'll have some of the regular guests. Roxy and Mike will have their two-hour spot, by the way.

And I think that what I can do is I can tell you guys the way it's looking right now is that from 10 to 11 will be myself and Craig, 1030 is when the stream goes live. We'll be updating and talking about some other things. And Craig will be here answering questions about anything. you know, people are curious about the tears and everything kind of leading into it. From 11 to 12, Mark Ellis comes in. And then at the end of that hour, we have a special guest coming in as well. And then 12 to 2 is Roxy and Mike. Two to three will most likely be myself.

And I think Luke's going to come in. We're going to talk about the 40-day creator challenge thing that we've been talking about and people can ask questions about that. It'll be live so there'll be more things that we can actually go over. from three to four, Dan Murrell will be on. This is all East Coast time, by the way. Four to five will be Greg Alba. Five to six will be a very special guest.

I will announce live time. Six to six-thirty. Winston's coming in. Nice. And then six-30 to seven-thirty. We're going to end this stream with Martini and Freed. So that will be tomorrow's stream. And if Roku was available, he'd be there.

Wow. Even Winston got on. Damn, you told me you weren't available. So what you did. I don't know what you want for me. All right. Greenie from Oz. Any advice for stand-up writing? Yeah, don't do it. No, you weren't too bad. You weren't too bad.

Might do a speech at a political here in Australia and would love to try to sneak some comedy here and there throughout it. Well, I mean, that's a different thing, right? Stand-up writing and then throwing jokes in throughout it. I mean, like, I don't know the audience that you're talking to and how they're going to do it. But there's always a way to throw humor into it. If you know the people, whatever it might be, and if, you know, if you can throw a couple,

I think humor in a speech always works if you can get a laughter, hit a serious point. It's very serious. A very similar to what I was talking about with Andrew on the thing. It's like jab a little bit, jab a little bit. Throw something in there. Go back, you know, keep do, do, do, do, boom. And then, but to a speech like that, you want to make sure you're obviously hitting the major points. Now, stand-up writing is very different.

where it just depends on your style and other things. My advice to anyone ever doing stand-up for the first time, I always, if you're serious about getting into it, is just get comfortable on stage. That is the main thing. For the first year, have something that you're interested in.

Have something, have something that you feel comfortable talking about, you know, three minutes, six minutes, whatever it is, and just do that for a year and feel comfortable on stage. It'll change dramatically.

And by that next year, you'll hate everything you did that first year. But yeah, go. Soundwave was talking to Andrew. Hey, Andrew, I'm backing the Kickstarter 100%. Thank you, Soundwave. Also, curious about writing opportunities, not for the script, but other ways to contribute to the project's success. Well, I mean, look, one of the things that people have been doing, and I've been playing it over and over again was like Joey Pedrus did a great video for us and did some stuff, and people have been tagging me on Twitter and writing things and writing,

and Mark Jason Ali wrote a great article about it too. I retweet stuff like that all the time. So if you, if you have a website, if you have anything to and you write something on it, I'll retweet the shit out of it, and I'll talk about it and I'll post it. So if you're talking about in that aspect, 100%, I'm always going to retweet and do that kind of thing. Go pal. I saw a mention of independent editorial boards for CBS News and CNN.

Who gets to pick? This is what Roker was saying. Or are we in for more Barry Wice? I mean, I think that that's what Roka's concern was. Yeah. Right? Yep, 100%. That's the thing.

Because we saw, you know, because Ellison said that, in the interview that he thinks CBS now is calling it right down the middle which is about the dumbest thing you can say who said that? Because Allison himself said that about CBS saying CBS calls it right down the middle

it's now and it's like no it doesn't and it's nonsense and you see that the ratings and numbers for CBS are going down and that's the thing that bothers me about all of this I think this is an attempt by a certain political class and wealth class to diminish and destroy news organizations

because they're the only people that call these people out for the horrific shit they do behind the scenes to enrich themselves. So they're invested in buying these news organizations and driving them into the ground, destroying their credibility, so that people don't turn to them anymore and turn to them to let them push their narratives and lies and false truths so that they control the narrative around themselves.

And it's disgusting to see it. But, you know, unfortunately, as you said, people with a lot of money control the world now. Yeah. Great, great name. Cooley Nutburst. Going to eye surgery in roughly 12 hours. Oh, man.

Hopefully I have two eyes to watch tomorrow's stream. I mean, I hope you have two eyes in general. I don't worry about tomorrow's stream. Good luck, Cully. I hope, I hope everything's okay. And as we kid, I hope, yeah, I hope it's nothing too serious and everything goes okay. Guzman, 93. I get all the stress of dealing with everyone's drama.

Ah, but the outlaw, probably probably most likely get eliminated in the first round. for this shit. You might be right. Hey, listen, this isn't the outlaw from 2016. No way, man. This is like, I don't know if I remember my name day to day. Would it be like Hogan TNA? Barely can walk to the ring.

That barely doesn't work for me, brother. As soon as I get down to that ring. You see, you'll see. Have you seen the guy that does like the dead on impression of Hogan? Amazing. You know why? Commented on it. Oh, did he?

The Rock said to him, I grew up with these guys, I hung out with these guys, you nailed the particulars of these guys' voices so well. It's amazing. The reason why it's so good, and it's one of the things, like, because even when I started doing my Arnold years ago, yeah, yeah. What everybody used to do with Arnold is, ah, come on, come on, he's screaming. He's not always like that. He's not, he would talk like this and say, come on, listen to me.

You cannot just scream. And he, and Hogan, everyone when he did, Hogan, would be like, all right brother this guy was talking just like hoagie's like i can't even attempt to do it but he was not like hogan being on the titanic you see that one the the the beatles thing was amazing like the beetles thing i didn't see that one i didn't see yeah what he said like the beetles asked him to be part of the belarious is like he's even though it was like 30 years or 40 years before i was born brother i was there it was so good he's like i already had a contract with vince and i was supposed to wrestle the andre it's so good he was he was he was

He's awesome. Yeah, he's really good. Probably the best Hogan impression I've ever heard. I would agree with you. I would agree with you. Okay, let's see. Rocky McFlying. That might be a stupid question.

But after Resident Evil, which I enjoy, who do you think is a more pull with audiences and studios? Craigor or Peel? That's a great question. Yeah. Well, I think today, if you're answering me today, the answer is Craigor. Because it's today.

I mean, that's just the way that the town works. It's who's the more hot, today. Now, if you, if they both, if they both put their movies out and this is right after get out. Yeah. I'd say, I don't know. But not get out. Not get out. What was the second one? Oh, us? Yes. It was right after us. I'd like, yeah, I'd say, I don't know. No, because nope didn't really, nope kind of ate it. Right. Right. Um, uh, or didn't, and then necessarily, I don't know if it was the, it was the aliens one, right? Yeah. It was, it was too far out for some people. I liked it, but it was too far away.

Yeah, it didn't. He was on, he was on that trajectory to go basically where Craigor is going right now. I think people could still come back and do that. Yeah. But we got to see if he can maneuver it. But right now, because Craigor's three for three right now. And he, and he has a movie out in theaters right now. So to me, the answer is Craigor.

Yeah. Soundwave Chronicles. Roka may come around like end game might make three billion. Oh, man. Yeah, that doesn't vote well. That also comes out this week. Yes, it does. That's true. Ace Money, 3046.

John, I miss your political show with Dorena. Would you ever consider bringing a version of it back for the November election? Well, you know, I tried with Dorena a couple years ago, but, you know, she's kind of moved on to do her own thing. Yeah, yeah, music and everything like that. And listen, we, she's great. I love her to pieces. It was never an issue of us doing the show and continuing it. It was more a matter of like other things came up and things kind of.

to die down and so she's doing her own thing and but we'll see i mean i think there's christ and i were having a nice conversation yesterday about where i want to take things and so we'll see down the road though so pay if you want to come to my channel youtube.com as john roca says trust me there's stuff coming in october that uh you know you guys hopefully will enjoy but an element of this will be part of it for sure i'm sorry you said that john we didn't even tell people where to find you completely oh don't I mean, dude, you get your Kickstarter going on. Don't sweat it, man. Yeah, at the Roker says, on social media,

if you want to come and find my YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash John Roker says, I will be going live today. Apparently Rob Bonta is going to do a press conference detailing the details of what went on in that agreement. So I will have a lot to talk about tonight, probably four or five o'clock. Unfortunately, Snyder's got screenings all day

so you can't join me. The geek buddies, I don't think can do it. So I will be going live with my show tonight. Look for me announcing that on social media very soon. but we got hot mic geek buddies spill the tequila tomorrow night with Winston A and other stuff going on here on the channel so please head on over there and subscribe

thanks dude there I am okay uh Monica Robbs hype for the live tomorrow thank you Monica I'll try to tune in throughout the day when I can perfect timing for the Robert Parker sponsor I need some new glasses they're awesome

I don't have my sunglasses with me here too but they're really really good they're solid and I recommend everybody going and check out of here please use my code to help out tremendously and you guys will be very excited about that uh alan smithy mark baron did a hilarious bit about theo vaughan interviewing hitler and his podcast it was hilarious then ralph follows up and says mark marron still goes to digital performs comedy he's the last person to talk about theo vannes politics dudes a jealous clown um there you do there were some battles i mean back and i like so i i i used to

i mean i've talked to mark at the um at the comedy store and everything too and the only thing that i haven't And I don't get into all the drama of it, too. But I used to go to the comic store. And him and Rogan were like pretty tight. Like when I used to go there and like, and then you hear Rogan's kind of side of it, Marin just kind of just turned on him once Joe's show. Because Marin was like the top comedy podcast. And before Joe started doing this thing, John Joe's, yeah.

And then Joe's took off and overshadowed Marks. And Marks seemed to get a little pissed off about that as well, too. But there's a lot. there's a lot behind it. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I didn't like a lot of the, I don't, sometimes I don't like a lot of the shots when comedians just go after the comedians,

sometimes when it's, when, and you're not going, it's very similar we were just talking about. If you're not battling, if someone invites you on the show to go head to head, and you do it, that's another conversation when you go, like, or even directly, do you see, do you see, do you see that? No, I haven't seen that.

What? fucking hilarious. So some woman, I don't know who it was, and correct me, I could be completely naive. I don't know who it was he was talking to. But there was this clip, and they tried to beep out who they're talking about it. And it's clearly Bobcat Goldsway.

And they've had to be like the 80s. And they're just like, I didn't like him from the beginning. Back in the 80s, he's, funny's not funny. It's why he always did that stupid voice. And he was going into this whole thing about it, just going after him.

He's just like, he's just not funny. and I don't know he was he's like he's like I don't like he just thought he does not like that guy hilarious uh Noah awesome going back to Friday show I also didn't see Donald Glover as Lando oh interesting he was better than all then but I didn't see him as the character I just saw him playing the character more than the character himself well that's fair I actually thought he was pretty good as Lando I thought he yeah I thought he captured the essence but I think that's that's that's fair I would agree with you because I don't think you know Billy

people forget young Billy D got game bro and he got he got ladies attention I don't think Donald Glover has that energy within it doesn't mean Donald Glover yeah he's got you got to have that swag

that women want to sleep with you women wanted to sleep with Billy D Williams that land that's an element of Lando that has to be there and I do agree to a I do agree that Donald doesn't have that but everything else the essence was perfect

But, you know, Donald doesn't have that natural organic energy that it's like, oh, women want to fall all of themselves to sleep with him. Billy D had that. I mean, yeah. Well, what do we have here? Ray Dominguez, just popping in for some support. Cheers, everybody. Thank you, Ray. Hope you see you tomorrow, Ray.

We're going to have a good show. Starfire. I meant even if conversation is okay, if I know you are nuts. I mean, I meant even if conversation is okay. Well, yeah, 100%. But this person I was talking about Starfire wasn't nuts. That's my point. If the person's out of their mind, cuckoo,

then they're like, oh my God, they have like puppies buried in their backyard. You get the fuck out of there. Yeah, that's, uh, yeah. Jenny Lawson, six jewels, Chile. Thank you, Jenny Lawson. Ronnie, great conversation, guys. That's how you do it. Thank you, Ronnie.

She follows it up and say, hey, everyone, heading out, I'd have to share that my son and I really enjoyed Resident Evil. That's cool. Hey. So many funny moments mixed with those jump scares. Whoa, this director's got skills. I mean, there's no argument there. Great work.

He's, he's awesome. And it's funny. Yeah, go ahead. I'll say, would that dog pop through the bar? wall. I lost my shit. Lost my shit. And you know it's funny they mentioned that conversation. Maybe we didn't bring it up. But why that conversation between him and Jordan Peel is so

relevant. Both comedy guys doing horror. Yes. Yes. You know. 100%. That's funny. Sherlock 277. Thankfully, conversations are happening. Street Smart YouTube has people You know what? You brought this up. You brought this up the other day, I think Sherlock. Has people talking to random people and being able to have genuine talks about serious topics and show that we can understand each other. Now, that's great and awesome. And you told me about that and I was excited. I hope more people, what I was going to say,

and I'm glad I didn't, even though I'm going to say now, is that it's only one channel. But that's not the way to bring that up. What I will say now is that hopefully more people will follow is the conversation, right? Because I'm going to check that out. I'm going to check out street smart YouTube you mentioned that last time and i love i love that they're doing it i love it um all right motor roland luke had a game yesterday when the opposing coach didn't play out he went through his batting order which bugged everyone hey luke nuke did i tell him three triple six rb i's how'd that work out nice good he's hitting bombs my it's it's amazing how how we get so uh oh by the way so saul told me it's the comedians and cars episode getting coffee episode of bridget everett so that that's that's um

that was the Bobcat one. But Joey, that's awesome. Yeah, Joey, I had, so Masey had her first softball game. And she, she went three for three. And she, she batted twice, lefty. I told people, I told people, she, wow. And she, I said, she got up there. I said, what do you want to?

You want to start lefty? And she said, yeah. So she started a lefty and she got a hit. And then I was like, you want to switch to righty now? She's like, nah, I'm doing lefty again. So she did lefty. She got another hit. And then she switched to righty and got a hit.

But she also played, they didn't rotate the kids around, right? but she was playing pitcher and I said if you get it, because she's fast. So I was like, you get it and you step on home because it's basically loaded. So the balls hit to her. She scoops it up and ran as fast as you could and got the kid out at home. Nice.

Yeah, it was awesome. So I'm with you, Joey. It's a proud moments when that stuff happens. John Lawless, one out of two. I went to see Resident Evil with my wife and it was packed with teenagers and 20s kids. We thought it was going to be a horrible time.

But this hooked every. everybody. It was a good time. People laughed and jumped constantly. First time in a long time I've enjoyed a film of the crowd. That's cool. You know what it is because I think that that is a testament to what a video game audience can really do if you, why when it comes to movies, um, like why there's only been like maybe like, remember John for a long time, you could barely even if you got lucky could grasp one movie out and go, oh, that was a decent video game adaptation. Yeah. They're getting better now. Oh yeah. They're getting better. years. Right. So this one, I mean, you look at the first season of Last of Us, which I, so I, I think over, I mean, movie wise, this might be in contention. But I'll say all time, I think the first season of last of us is the best video game adaptation, the first season. Wow. Okay. I'm trying, like, what else? What else did you put up? Fallout? Fallout has got a lot of great positive reactions. Okay, so fallout, I don't have enough of a, A, I don't have enough of a background with the video game itself. And B, I've only seen the first three episodes of season. Gotcha, got you. So, so that. So, so that. So could be the answer. What else? What was some of them? I thought the first movie was really good.

Made over a billion dollars. Yeah, I wouldn't call that better than last of us. But I mean, no, no, no. If you're asking me for better than last of us, I don't know that there's one that is better than last of us. But the, there are a lot, the fact that you say it's getting better.

Yes. Because that used to be the punchline. Video Canada adaptations were not good. Now people are really good. But that also coincides with the fact that a few years ago, the video game industry realized they needed to make their stuff more cinematic. So they brought in writers and directors to create stories within these games that were much more cinematic. So it makes it easier to translate to film, which I think has been a part of it as well.

But I get nervous sometimes when they do that too, right? When they go to outside of the zone, that's what I liked about Last of Us. And people are saying fallout's much better. And that might be the answer to the question. Like I said, I haven't watched it. So I can't say, I could watch the season and then agree with you 100%. But what I liked about Last of Us is that I was playing along with it. the game and then I watched series and it's it's a pretty true adaptation for the most part all the way

through and I really liked what they did there in the same way that for people who read the Game of Thrones the Red Wedding stuff and knew oh I know what's coming but how are they going to translate it on the screen but sometimes we go oh they read it in the book so they know it's like not everybody read the book and even the ones who read the book want to see the want to see it come to life you know that's why they're doing the thing they are we're doing with harry potter yeah yeah they're doing that first season although what I hope happens though that this because you guys you guys the season, the last trailer, it looks just like the move.

Right, right. It doesn't look any different. But the saving grace for the show could be really adding in all this stuff that was missing from the movie because you just couldn't fit it in. Because it was just, you know, so I don't know. But I also think they don't give a crap what us older people think because they're going for the young people.

And those young people are going to watch that show and make it a massive, massive success. True, true. I am two fly cam. Really bad look by the commanders. Only Marriotta bothered to check on Jaden and if he was crunched over and pain. What a terrible franchise.

Go Seahawks. What happened? That's a lie. It's a lie from this guy. But Jaden Daniels, on the final play of the first half, fell down and dislocated his elbow. Oh, okay. But it's halftime.

You have to go into the locker room. Oh, right. So they all ran in. And so, but four, three other, like Rashid White, other players stood around him. Mariotta was the first one out there, but other players did. the coaches got them off the field

because that's their job to get them off the field. And then when Jaden came in, they all hauled those around Jason, Jaden gave him love. So it's a stupid narrative that he's pushing, you know, from the situation. Seattle K.O.

Who's ready for Avengers Endgame Encore? Are you going to see it, John? Oh, 100%. Are you kidding? I love that movie. I watch that movie. It's become my favorite MCU film to watch. I think it's mine, too.

Yeah. Yeah. And so to see it in the theater. And I know it'll be full, wherever I go to see the reaction it's going to be fun again and the footage you know yeah and I'm curious to see that footage also I don't know

I'm going to try to get there I'm going to try to get there it's got to see it's a lot this weekend yeah yeah it's a lot Enrique new Cliff Boot trailer was awesome can't wait for the once upon a time Hollywood was Sam both Leo and Brad she might not be able to focus maybe not it's funny because I watched the Tarantino

stuff with Ming so I mean switching over to Sam I mean I guess it doesn't really matter because it doesn't like link into any other his other movies right right so i guess i could um but yeah maybe ron h happy monday i'd send in more chats but him diminished cannabis makes my my mind less blurred so less weird i'm not as interesting even without pants i don't know ron pretty interesting dude you're like one of the i think you're like one of the main stars of the chat i don't doubt about it john johnny betruth it's a sad day to see outlaw turn yellow oh he's you guys

wait a minute don't even that's don't even that's don't even cater to this don't let me me answer let me answer okay go ahead because i love johnny johnny's very supportive on this channel i you this is what happens to athletes this is what happens to wrestlers so what happens the guy gave everything he could for like 10 seasons to the schmodeown won multiple championships in the singles division in the teams division cut promos did give gave some of the best promos ever gave that legendary wonder we bleed for this we so it was amazing um all of those things he's tired then let him be tired i would have rather and he knows this and i told him yesterday i would have rather him not tell me to do the tournament and then say i want to play

everybody and then decided he want to do it but he's he's earned the right he's earned the right yeah also i mean but johnny is symbolizing most fans they just want to ride you till you break and then they'll move on to the next person they don't give a shit maybe greenie from us support roka schmowdown is the final boss Can you imagine that? I know. It's true. Me whipping Dan or somebody with a belt.

That'd be hilarious. Iosci. Happy retirement to Howie Rose, 40 years with the Mets. Wow. That's cool. I didn't know that. Oh, you know what I do want to say? I don't want to get into the too much sadness here, too, and I didn't even realize it.

My heart just breaks for Cindy Crawford and her family, man. Oh, yeah. I'm terrible. I saw the gym this morning. Yeah. Poor kid. You know, just, again, it was. was he 28 years old or whatever he was yeah it's what i tell people all the time you know i talk

about mental health stuff all the time on my shows you know it's like to me everyone with mental health issues we're all on a battlefield yeah and we're all equal on that battlefield in terms of we're all struggling with something and you just never know who is going to like in a real battle you never know who's going to live who's going to survive i know and someone who has all the money in the world all the support in the world fame you know access to all the avenues to save themselves sometimes gets consumed by their demons and he was at rehab and it seems like it was maybe a drug overdose

or a suicide seems that way we don't know yet officially but it's just heartbreaking in the way for a 27 horrible. It's horrible. All the perks. I mean all the things all the benefits you could have in life and that's how debilitating these issues can be addiction and mental health to anybody which is why we need to do more to talk about it and destroy the stigma of this stuff. You know it's really well said

switching over to Nathan Drake. I still think the original PWS Anderson Resident Evil movie was a fun guilty pleasure. Alice was an original character but the movie had a good vibe. So Nathan's like a big Resident Evil guy. He tweets in about it.

I don't remember it as much, you know, because I just remember thinking like, you know, okay, fine, this is what it is. I remember playing that first game going, oh, they're going to do a movie like this and they still have never really done that movie. So that's kind of what I'm open for. Yeah, I like the first one too.

It's fun. Yeah. what they did with this. I wonder what they're going to do. They'll probably do a second one, I assume now, right? But I don't know if they can get... Oh, yeah. This is the thing, though. Yeah. I wouldn't have given a shit about a Resident Evil movie.

Well, I shouldn't say that. It depends on who they would have gotten to direct, right? If it was someone out, if it wasn't Craigor, and it was somebody else that I liked, then I probably would have cared about it. But just the Resident Evil movie, that's not, I'm not the audience. Nathan seems to be, but I, and there are a lot of people who are, but I'm not.

It was because he did it. why I want to see it. I don't, I mean, I don't know how excited I would get. Unless they're the till they look, Fetti Alvarez is going to do the next one. I'm like, oh, that's cool. Maybe. He's available. Yeah, that'd be cool. I like him a lot. So, um, anyway, Lil Yankee, happy trending week. Thank you, man. No super chat today. Roca, I got to save that money for the Kickstarter tomorrow. Of course. I'll watch as much of tomorrow's stream as possible before work at 2 p.m. EDT. Did I put EDT?

did it say EDT on the on on on on the come on who did the post did someone do a post and say let me let me double check I'm gonna I'm gonna see if it says EDT oh on the second let me double check and say I'm gonna look at the post today oh boy um looking hold on no does it I don't think it says that we're to say it doesn't say that EST right I don't know what the hell we're talking about here uh KcG funny how the monsters in Resident Evil were from the last of us The main monster is called the Rat King from The Last of Us Part 2. Is that true? I don't know.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I see what he's saying. Craigor claims to worship the IP, but confuses the two franchises. This shit is too funny. I mean, again, that's what you're going to get from the hardcore fans. And I think that's fair. If you've invested so much time in the games and everything, too, because I would be that way if I cared enough about the games, wait a minute.

That's not even from the same game. Yeah. I would feel that way, but I just don't have an investment in it, so I don't care, but I can understand writing that and saying, that sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. True.

Three more for now. Okay. But I'm going to stick around for a bit anyway because I'm going to send, I'm going to tell Craig that he can jump in a little earlier so we can go over the tears. Let me see. Let me tell him. Let me tell him. Let me just write him. Can you do six minutes from now?

Let's see. All right. Let's see. Okay. So Cassio Beard. Evening all. Resident Evil was fun. reanimator vibes too yeah for sure the last time in this fellow can s nl skit though not necessarily a bad

thing yeah i i just like i said i just didn't i wasn't it didn't work for me brother uh but um but but it seems like a lot of people loved people were telling me in the in the review and on and john obviously in pildee they they they dig the ending so and i think that a lot people did um yeah yeah that's i even liked it more a second time it's because it's so bonkers it's when you let go of what you like you you know it's coming i think it works even better when you see it a second time yeah for me yeah uh okay let's see so two more and then we're going to let john go and then craig's going to come in and we'll release those tears for you guys johnny patricea come on outlaw one more tournament please you just said you just said something shitty now you

want a tournament from me come on johnny make up your mind i think he's just i think he's a big outlook guy just doesn't want to see the outlaw yeah he doesn't want to see the outlaw put you know, there's one more battle and he puts his holsters away. Listen, gilting me or challenging my manhood is not a way to get me to do something at this age. I need to break it to you. First rate, Nate, there he is. Hey. My boy.

Just watched that's a really big one. Thank you, Nate. Thank you. Just watched Infinity War on the plane from North Carolina to California. It's been a while since not just being on in the background. It was tough not to jump and cheer in the plane. It's the, I mean, Infinity War is not one that you really, is you cheer in for that one? You mean endgame.

Yeah, yeah. I think you mean Finney War. Maybe. Because if anywhere, you're not, you're not, I guess you're cheering kind of at the end a little bit, like hoping that they're going to get Thanos. But by the end of it, it's like, woof. Yeah, unless you're cheering for Thanos. Right.

That's true. Unless you're like Roka and said Thanos is right. Thanos was right. I mean, you know. But, but yeah, it's a, it, they're both, both of them are just so great. Yeah. They're so great. I love those movies.

I watched when I was, you know, when I was coming back, I was either going to California and coming back. I watched Endgame. And I can watch the movie over and over and over again. Oh, yeah, I did. Yeah, it's really good. Johnny Bucci's just trying to fire you up, man. Johnny's a fan.

Johnny's an outlaw fan. I appreciate it, Johnny. Thank you. Okay, look. All right. So this is the last stream before the potential best or worst month of my life. We'll find out starting tomorrow. But I'm glad that the last one that we do before.

There's going to be before. This is literally, John, the before the trending or and then there's going to be the after trending show. You were on the before the trending show. The very last one before it all goes down tomorrow. But before I let you go, one more time, where can people? Oh, yeah, you can always find me at the Roker says on all my social media and head on over to my YouTube channel. Please, YouTube.com slash John Roker says, as I said, I'm going live tonight with the episode of the truth, breaking down this whole merger and what happened, being fair, but also being honest about everything that. has been revealed, it will be revealed today with all these details.

Also talking to Cliff Booth trailer and a couple other news items that have popped up over the weekend. And maybe my spoiler review for Resident Evil, which I'll clip out and put out as a video as well. But yes, thank you, everybody. Much love. Happy Monday. Thanks, Christian. Good to see everybody. Take care. And good luck tomorrow, man. Good luck tomorrow. Thank you, John. Good to have Roca on here today. And glad to have you guys on. We'll bring PLD on for now. and then Craig's going to be on here in just a bit. We're going to go over the tiers with everybody because I want to go through these.

I want you guys. And by the way, for everybody who's in the audience right now, please, please, please ask Craig as many questions that you can about the tears. Anything in general that when you see them and you're like, oh, wait a little, this, this, this will go over them together. He's jumping in here for that. It's pretty exciting people. Because you've seen some of them, but they've, they've adjusted. it a little bit. You keep,

more you announce the more, I'm like, okay, okay, all right. Yeah, let's see. E DT is correct. We're on daylight savings and something. All right, okay. I always go to E.T and PETT.

I don't bother with D at all over me. That's, that's better. Yeah, that's better. EST, E.T. Eastern. Great. So, yeah, we're,

it's going to be crazy, man. I mean, did you see, I know you, you watched some of the interview with the Andrew up top? I did. I did. He's a great. He's so personable and so funny that he just gets it. And you guys have great chemistry together. And I obviously have the history there. I love seeing some of those old time photos of you, man. Man, you were young. I know, right? Like this, this one. So you know, that one's, that one's interesting. But this one, do you know, actually that's, that's actually Duncan Trussle on my shoulders? Yeah. So, um, that was a, this short. I still, my, my friend Michael Taylor directed it. And I have it. I don't even know. Can I, I don't even know. Can I, play even like the beginning of it. I'll play like the beginning of it.

I haven't talked to him in so long. Well, a couple of weeks, a couple months ago, and I was like, I was going to release it on the channel, but I'll, let me see if I can do this. Where is it? All right. I got to find it. Have you ever seen, have you ever seen that,

that video, have ever seen that? I don't think I have. Oh, you definitely would know. I told me, I must not have then, because it doesn't think. Oh, you would know. I think you've talked about it before, but I only actually saw the Wow. I can't believe you've never seen this.

The best. ECW? It was a, it was a long, it was a movie that we did. Like, like, oops. And where'd you go? Yeah. There's a bubble back. There you go.

There you go. Anyway. So that was, there's a lot more to that. I'll go over another time. But I'm going to let you go for things because Craig just got in here. All right. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to bring in.

And Luke, I don't know if you're able to bring up Craig's, um, Lower third, but I'm going to bring in Craig. That's Roca. There he is. Perfect. Thank you. Luke. And then I'm going to do my two shot. And then we'll bring Craig in. And then we'll look at that. Look at Luke. Luke's on that shit. What's up, man? How you doing? Hey, how's it going?

Good. Can I scoot you over just a little? Yep. Perfect. Yeah. Okay. So I told the odds we had we aired that interview. There was a couple changes from the version. I have to send you the new version of the one where the Andrew. It'll be on the channel also, so we can put that up on the Kickstarter. But we aired that this morning. Audience really liked it. But I said, you know what we got to do is we got to, you brought up to last week. And we go through the tears with everybody. So. Yeah. I mean, I think it's a, I think it's a good idea. We're in the home stretch to the finish line or the starting line or someone. Yeah, whatever the line is. So do we have to do it, is it, is it live?

currently on the channel, I mean on the page? No, what I was going to do is share. So basically, what we'll do here is we'll give everybody a little preview of kind of what they can expect to see tomorrow. With the caveat that, you know, we're still making changes and updates. But this is going to be pretty close, I think. And I think the main thing we'll focus on is just kind of going through some of the tiers so people can kind of, you know, know what to expect.

Yeah. Ask some questions, all that kind of stuff. You guys should absolutely ask questions to Craig while we have them. So, you know, as we are launching tomorrow, so you guys have an idea once we launch it. So again, Craig and I will be starting off tomorrow at 10 a.m. at 10.30, he's going to, he's going to be the guy that pushes the button and makes it all go down at 10.30. And then from 1030 on, we're just going to be, we'll be tracking it from 1030 to 11. Then Ellis will be on. Yeah.

I mean, so if anybody's ever ran a Kickstarter, participated one, in one or whatever. I mean, the first day, the first 24 hours are exhilarating and stressful and exciting. Um, and, uh, no, but I'm, I'm pumped, man. I think it's going to be awesome. Yep. All right. Let's, uh, you want to share, want to share the screen? Yeah, let me do that. All right. Let's do it. All right, because it's exciting because it's the first time for anybody's checking out and seeing the tears. And like I said, PLD saw a version of this, but now even he's going to check out and see what he's going to like. Yeah. Uh, we'll see. All right, here we go. Um, Okay, so let's see here.

I just brought it up. All right. Sure. I'm going to bring it on. All right. So. There it is. Yeah.

When you guys go to the page tomorrow, we're, first of all, there's going to be a lot of information on the page. So we want everybody to take time to kind of read through everything and make sure that, you know, you know what all the tiers come with. We're going to be as explicit as possible, but it is a lot of information. So. And Craig, just to make sure that people know, too, because I know the first one you, you're showing as a 25 there is there's going to be a tier where you can just you can put anything

and you want if it's not yeah so if i'll go to the top here so what you'll see when you first log in the page there's a there's a thing right here that says make a pledge without a reward and essentially you can put in whatever you want you could put in a dollar you can put in five you can put in 10 um that's kind of the alter we could do like a 10 dollar tier but it gets a little bit confusing um so and if you want to do something like that we can talk offline but yeah basically anybody can put in whatever they want and customize it. Okay. To whatever their financial situation is.

And we'll go over this again tomorrow when we launch as well. Of course. And the whole thing is, is like, this sounds cliche, but every dollar matters on a campaign like this. And the things you'll kind of keep hearing us say tomorrow is you do not get charged for this till the end of the campaign.

So if you're going to back, do it, you know, the quicker, the better. Because if we can fund quickly, I mean, if this thing takes off.

and we fund in, you know, a day or even sooner, a couple hours or whatever, I mean, that puts a huge spotlight on us. So yeah. But anyway, so when you log onto the page tomorrow, on the right-hand side, you'll see the breakdowns of the tiers and what they come with. But what it's kind of restated throughout the middle of the page as well,

and that's what we'll focus on right now. So we got trending supporters. So this is kind of like your baseline tier. You're going to get access for 25 bucks, early to the campaign trailer before anybody else sees it. Behind the scenes photo pack, personal thank you, digital thank you credits, and a digital copy of trending upon release.

And I'll just, I'll kind of fly through, I know we're gonna go through all this tomorrow too, but I wanna make sure, there's a lot, so I just wanna make sure we get through it all here. And Christian, if you have any questions or comments as we go. Yeah, yeah, and I see, and PILD is doing this too, but you see PILD is clicking the store for all the questions. You guys light the chat up with questions, and we'll get to all of them during the question section for Craig.

So light them up with anything that you have, and I really see a bunch of questions already coming in. So make sure you do that. Insider fan, this is our $50 tier. So by the way, the way, I'm not going to read everything every time. The way it works is all the new stuff is added, and you get all the stuff from the previous tier as well. So it's like each one you get, you pay a little bit more, you get a little bit more. The $50 tier, this is what's going to include the members-only YouTube stream. And this is where a bulk of the insider behind-the-scenes videos, streams, podcasts, anything that is related to trending in the production of trending, it's going to go on this private YouTube channel that you'll get access to with this tier.

And then Insider Fan Plus is the same thing, but it is also going to include the trending T-shirt. shirt. So at a discounted rate, you can just, we'll show the t-shirts and stuff in a few. You can just add on a t-shirt. We'll talk about that as well. But this is your first chance to get your hands on some trending merch, which is awesome. Moving on from there, we've got Creative Circle. And basically, the way you want to think about this is it's just more behind-the-scenes access and more merch as well. So this one, you're going to going to get the behind the scenes casting sessions, showing you exactly how these roles get cast. You'll also get this cool director walkthrough video, which is kind of like a private walkthrough

with Andrew talking about, you know, his vision for trending, why he's excited about it, the tone, his creative approach. And this one, you'll also get an early copy of the stream, or not the stream, of the pilot, 48 hours before anybody gets to see it, which is awesome. You'll, you'll get your name featured in the Creative Circle credits. This one also has access to quarterly Zoom meetings where basically, you know, there's going to be a trending creative meeting and people get to kind of peer in and be a fly on the wall for, Christian, would you say sometimes those can be tense conversations? You might get a real, you might get a real look at something here. Especially in the back and forth, you might see, you might see a back and forth of me and

martini you'll see like oh yeah the beauty of it is just the creative conversations that the three of us have plus the rest of the team uh as well so there's always there's always something being uh whether it's Craig whether it's Greg Alba um there's tons of people involved in that you'll get to see this is what we talked about how it's going to be the inner workings of everything inside of their production yeah um what's cool about this tier is this one is also going to you'll get the t-shirt but you'll also get an 11 by 17 trending poster signed by christian and martini and possibly more people, depending. But definitely the writers and creators of the show.

So very cool there. Behind the scenes, you get all that stuff. But this one also comes with the virtual seat at the table read and chemistry reads. So again, it's just more behind the scenes access. I mean, pretty unprecedented. I mean, anytime I'm watching behind the scenes of a TV show I love when they show that first table read,

it's like, oh man, how cool is this? Like, this is the thing coming together with the performances for the first time. So you'll get access to that and a recorded version of that, along with, you know, everything else from the other tiers. Direct line. Now, this is where it gets a little bit more personal because this one actually includes a direct five to 10 minute private Zoom sit down with you Christian and possibly other people from the crew.

So Christian, I mean, listen, this is access to you in kind of an unprecedented way, chatting with anybody on a private Zoom for 10 minutes and they can ask you whatever. Does that make you nervous? No, we've done, we've been able to do this in the past, which has been great. You know, and when we were doing it for our, for our Patreon, and I really got to know people well. It was one of the things I thoroughly enjoyed, but to be able to do this during the trending production and sitting down with people. people for those those conversations and them asking questions about the like you said it could be about the project you're like what's going on next what's this and and really getting that one-on-one time with people and I know that there were a lot of people who wanted that back and this was a way to do that sure through the campaign absolutely um it's um it's really cool and then we're going to have in a little bit I'll talk we were discussing some more more options for even longer more kind of intimate zoom sessions. So from here we kind of move into what we're calling like our producer tiers. This is where you are actually getting not only all of this access, but you're kind of becoming

part of the team and more involved. So our $2,500 tiers, our associate producer tier, you do get the IMDB associate producer credit per industry standards. You get the 30 minute Zoom with the whole creative team. You get the virtual front row invite to the cast read through, but you're also going to get two tickets to the trending premiere event and after party. Now, TBD on the location of that and when it's, you know, there's, that's kind of an investment in a future experience that's going to be totally a one of a kind. I don't know if anybody, if you've never been to like a red carpet, you know, world premiere. I mean, it's, it's fun. It's exciting. Craig, you were on the email or the email the meeting the zoom meeting with Andrew when he's just like I love

oh yeah we love events yeah he loves him I mean who know and listen could there be a little gift bag I don't know you just never know what's going to happen and something like that but this is a way to really you know for your fans Christian and people have supported you for so long and are excited about trending this is a way to have their name associated with it in a very official capacity forever From there, we've got the co-producer tier, which the way that, you know, there's an associate producer, then a co-producer, which is kind of the next step up in production credits. This one is also going to include a full-day set visit for the backer and a guest, and we'll have four tickets to the premiere and after-party. And then you'll get the co-producer credit per industry standards with the IMDB listing and everything. else. So at this point, you know, it's a lot of stuff. Yeah. I mean, you're really getting a lot of

behind the scenes access. You're getting merch. You're going to get a signed poster and more surprises along the way. And, and then that co-producer credit. There's kind of a, and this one's limited to 10 backers only. The co-producer one. Because at a certain point, you really want to put the exclusivity on, on, you don't want it to be like, only one person can do it, but you, you know, we can't offer it to 100 people basically. So then we've got the co-producer walk-on, which it's the same. But in this one, you're not only getting a set visit, you're going to be in the show. You're going to be a background walk-on appearance.

And Christian, do you want to talk about that? Just, you know, what that could look like for somebody? Well, yeah, remember this, though, too, when it's, it's not one of these things where there's like 80,000 people walking around in the background. These are smaller locations. and there's things where you'll be like, oh, yeah, that's a clear shot of me right there. It's like, because there's only we were going through it. And it's like, yeah, you have a, you have a, you definitely right there, you can have some extras there that we're going to need some there.

We're going to say, but it's not like an overabundance. And I think that it's a fun way because I've had a lot of people kind of reaching out. Oh, how could I even be an extra on this show? How can I do that? And that might be a fun, we thought that would be a fun way to do it because like we said, it's such an intimate, like most of the, locations are pretty intimate and that you would, and you're going to, and not only are you going to get to be an extra thing, you're going to see the process and everything else that we were talking about where you'll be watching Martini and myself or whoever the scene might be with. And

depending on the cast that we get, it'll be pretty cool for people to be like, oh, wow, I got to see so-and-so to the scene with so-and-so. So that's great. And you might be there. I mean, listen, it's, it's, you know, anything can happen, right? Like, you might be, right there on camera I mean it's listen as somebody who who's had an interest in acting and producing and all this stuff I mean

this is like pretty unprecedented types of opportunities but the bigger thing is being a co-producer on the show that we all believe in is pretty incredible so and some I know we'll get to the question somebody asked why do we have limits on the higher

tiers there's a couple listen if we're getting an overabundance of people showing interests like we're going to create these experiences for people but we understand this is a lot of money to be putting towards anything and there should be some level of exclusivity uh that that um you know you you put in your hard-earned money to secure your spot as a as a co-producer um you know we don't want to just make that like you know anybody in the world you know hundreds of people are doing it and at that point it's like oh whatever so this is like you know you're kind of

buying in on the belief of the project but also the experience so um then we are going to have an executive producer tier which is a very big deal to be an executive producer that's going to have more perks that we're not even talking about right now limited to three spots but um that is a lot of money and that's not even going to be just available on the page right away so uh what we're anybody who's legitimately interested in backing at that level you just need to show you just need to shoot us an email now, tomorrow, whenever, sooner rather than later at trending pilot 26 at gmail.com because there's a pre-approval process that goes through Kickstarter's trust and safety team because it's just such a large amount and they just want to make sure that

everything's on the up and up and all that. Yeah. But that's the pinnacle, right? Those being the executive producer on this show, on-screen credit as executive producer, plus everything else from all the other tiers it's it's a big deal so um really excited to be able to offer that and then it doesn't stop there christian but wait this is this is more this is the stuff that people are going to like this stuff they're working oh yeah well we're going to go here okay and then when we get to the other stuff though let me let me let me prep that stuff so basically that those are that's what we're going to call like our our standard uh trending show tiers and we have all these other like experiences and things that were you know we understand people are by the way

This is a lot of information, so somebody slow me down. People are coming in from different places. There's going to be people coming in through Christian's YouTube fandom. There's going to be people coming in through boardwalk. There's going to be people who just discover this through social media or on Kickstarter. So, Christian, you've talked about the 40-day master class that you're offering. I can play the promo. Yeah, let's play it.

All right, let me play the promo. Let's play the promo. People can see it. Give me one second. Here it is. How long have you said? I want to start a YouTube. channel and then you just haven't done it. Maybe you don't know what the channel is going to be about.

Maybe you're thinking about equipment. Maybe you're thinking about thumbnails. Maybe you're thinking about titles. What is your first video even going to be about? And eventually you spent so much time trying to figure everything out that you actually never even hit that record button. And that's why I created this 40-day creator challenge. I spent years building various YouTube channels, making content, hosting shows, doing interviews, and learning what works. And most importantly, making a lot of mistakes along the way. So over the course of 40 days, I'm going to help you find you. Build your channel, figure out your equipment, get comfortable on camera, create thumbnails and titles, understand analytics, and actually publish your videos.

This isn't something where I want you sitting around to just watch hours and hours of lessons. You're going to have something to actually do. You're not going to spend 40 days learning how to become a YouTuber. You're going to spend 40 days becoming it. So if you're waiting to finally start your YouTube channel, this is it. This is the right time. Join me for the 40-day creator. challenge and let's build the channel together. Come on. We'll have a blast. So yeah. I mean,

this is amazing. Like this is, uh, for anybody who, who's ever wanted to start a channel, start a YouTube channel, start a podcast, doesn't know where to start overwhelmed by, uh, the equipment. It wants to learn from the best. Uh, this is pretty, pretty amazing access. So this tier is $295. Gives you exclusive access to this 40 day challenge that's going to have, you know, the live sessions, the real-time feedback, an exclusive Discord channel. And it's kind of like a, it's part of this, but it's like its own thing as well. But you're also going to get some of the perks. Like you're not, you'll get all of the perks of the $250 tier. So you'll still have, you know, trending access. But I'm really excited about this. And I think, I've had a lot of people reach out to me about

this one in particular, even like friends of mine who my buddy, who I went to college with. And he's like, he's like hey what's going on with that masterclass thing or that you know that campaign i was and i said well we launch on and we do we have limited spots for this one so we haven't put a cap on it um i i think we're we're going to kind of wait and see what the response is okay um because we listen we we don't want this to be you know oh there's 10 000 people to oh first of all that'd be amazing but also like we want that wouldn't be scalable right um but for now we're you know especially the day one two three backers which we know is going to primarily come from your YouTube audience.

Yeah. This is going to be available. So really, really excited about this. And the amount of it, listen, I've been doing this stuff for 10 years. The amount of mistakes you make, if I could have that time back, that's the biggest thing. Totally. So a very worthy investment. Yeah, we'll be going over.

And for that one too, so Luke, who runs Galaxy Geeks and is producer on this channel. He's going to be covering a lot of what the master class will entail on tomorrow's stream. There's going to be like a full hour. We're going to be going over the master class stuff. So we'll have people. I should call it the 40D challenge, rather. So people can check it out.

Right. Right, right. That's great. I might sign up. What if I should? I'm in there. I'm asking all the hard questions. Yeah.

Yeah. So, okay, moving on. Now we've got these special boardwalk pictures. This is the crazy. This is the crazy ones. These are ones that would, so when you and I were on the call, we couldn't believe it that Andrew even had,

was like, what about if we did this? And we're like, holy shit, if we do this. These are, these are unheard of, by the way,

unheard of. Yeah. This is, this is the, like, we can't overstate how big of a deal it is to have Andrew and boardwalk, you know,

as part of this project. This stuff makes it like kind of unreal. So, unreal. Um, first of all, we've got this picture, story tier limited to six people so essentially um anybody who's ever written a script written a screenplay

short story novel whatever uh if you want to pitch this to a studio or to a producer good luck right you need an agent you need a lawyer you need access you need networking um so for the first time ever Andrew's actually opening up uh his uh his zoom account based on It is time, which we all know is the most valuable asset we have as human beings. For a private 30-minute Zoom pitch, where you're going to be able to go in and pitch your story. And besides just scripts and stuff, too, you got to remember for people who have like, Andrew's like the king also of like the non-scripted stuff, what he did with cheer, Last Chance You, welcome to Rexum, that's freaking the Bill Cosby doc, the Charlie Sheen doc.

I mean, you'll go to the credits alone and the guy who's just pumping out hits left and right. And so besides that and getting into the scripted world and the comedy world and the people that he's worked with is that you get an opportunity to actually pitch him. It doesn't have to be a scripted idea. It can be any one of these things. You'll have an opportunity to sit down with him. You might have the best idea for a reality game show. And like, hey, an idea is an idea. And you just never know.

Like this is, and it's not even just like, look, there's hundreds and thousands of pitches all the time. But the value here is the feedback from an industry veteran who can say, this is good, this is good, this sucks. And like, you know, real honest. I don't think, I don't think he's going to say that, but the sucks part, but he'll give you, he'll give you. You know what he's like, I'd want it though. Right. Like, that's what I would want. I think what he would do in the way because of just what, how Andrew is that he was like,

Like I was talking about, I worked with him on certain things where he's like, well, we could try that. But instead of doing that, you might want to do this. Like that's like a yes and. Like I like the germ of the idea. And he's going to have insight and ideas that you or I or Christian wouldn't have because he's on the ground. And he's been doing it. And as Craig mentioned, normally, and I can tell you from going into pitch meetings and other things, too, with executives, especially an Emmy award winning producer.

Usually what you get is like, okay, you're scheduled in for your pitch. You got about five or ten minutes. This is 30 minutes. This is 30 minutes to sit down and pitch maybe a bunch of different ideas. An opportunity for people that you probably just wouldn't have. So I thought it was amazing that he offered that. Also, I'll just say this. Every time I've had a conversation with Andrew about anything,

I come out of it just feeling better about life. So, you know, it's like he's a very, it's a weird, crazy jaded industry. Andrew's very knowledgeable. And he's just the credits and the Emmys. and everything alone, to have that kind of access and to have that conversation is awesome. And he's not done though, he's offering more. But wait, there's more.

This one's really cool. So this is the director's video Village Day. So basically, this is a full day for you on set shadowing the production, learning from Andrew, learning from Christian, learning from the DP, you know, whoever's on set, sitting at video village watching the takes watching the dailies uh i don't if i've i've been fortunate enough to to go on a movie set and go on a tv show set if you're interested in the stuff

it's like going to space camp like it's you're basically spending the day video village with him and watching the things are happening and and looking at the creative process of it and seeing how everything's working and being like right there like with the director of the project for the whole time then this is what's saying giving enough access to people on a that just has not been offered before. Right. Yeah. And this is going to be like, you know, shooting the, this isn't, hey, if we get picked up and then, you know, five episodes in and we'll see like this is the pilot. So this could be, you know, this could be in the next four or five months. You out in LA or wherever, you know, on set and being really part of this in a special way. So it's amazing. So that's going to be one of them. And then this one again, this is another level. So just the one I my my favorite one of my favorite ones so this is the chef's table. Oh that one that one yes.

Yeah. This is the chef's table experience. So yep, um, I do think, uh, we're adjusting the price of this down by a couple hundred bucks to not confuse it with the other tier, but I'll fix that. Um, but this, so if, if anybody here's familiar with chef's table, big deal, uh, it's got, it's got its own community of, of, you know, fanatics and, and, um, this is all about having, a real special private dining experience at a at a upscale restaurant in Beverly Hills that was featured on the Netflix series, Chef's Table.

One of the top restaurants in Los Angeles, this is like no cameras, no crowds, no, you know, this isn't a pitch meeting. This is truly an experience that is one of a kind that you're not going to get anywhere else. I mean, it's crazy. Like, that one, when he brought that one up, like, Let me tell you that I went to one of the restaurants with him in Venice and in California. And it was extraordinary. And the idea to be there with him and the chef and this overall idea of being at one of these places,

if you're able to do this, this potential tier, hence why we're limited to eight backers here, because it would be like a big huge dinner at this major restaurant hanging out with freed and eating and eating food. It was, I couldn't believe that he was offering this. And I said, that's, that's a really, it's a really solid one. So we wanted to, as we have, we gave a lot of affordable options here up top. And then we wanted to make sure people are, what are like some of the big ones that you could do? And we want to make sure that if you're going to do a big one, you go big. And this is to me, this is, this is, it's worth everything if you, if you're able to because of what's involved here.

And, and we should say, like, it's not lost on us. This is a lot of money. Yes. And this is a very, you know, once in a lifetime kind of bucket list type of experience. So, and that's why it was really important for us to, like, we have tears. If you want to put in a dollar, you are just as valuable to this campaign as somebody who is in a position to do something like this. So this is a community. This whole thing.

Every piece of it is building towards something really special. So, yeah, that, I'm telling you. I would that we remember me and you I think we would like this when he when he mentioned in the zoom I know yes please yeah how do I want to go I know I know I know we're the servers like we'll be we'll pay to be extras for that yeah yeah yeah yeah we're like collecting scraps like like the family dog waiting let me get a piece of that um okay so uh that's kind of where we are as far as tears right now then we should also talk about obviously Obviously, the goals.

The goals. So we know if we fund in one day, we've got the 16-person tournament coming back for the Schmodeown. If it happens within two days, we have an eight-person tournament within three days, live event with two matches. I'm feeling good. We're going to know a lot tomorrow. Yeah. You know, we might just have to delete this image and say the Schmodeown is back, you know, at this time tomorrow. Which would be amazing.

Which would be amazing. Like, if we're able to fund it within day, you know, I mean, that would be incredible to do. And as I said, what it doesn't say there is that even if it doesn't fund in three days and we fund at all, I will bring a version of the Schmodeham back. Sure, sure. Yeah. I just don't know what that looks like yet because I don't know, you know, as far as like

what I can allocate to making something. But people are excited about it. I don't want to say like, oh, you know what? Because we didn't fund it, because we funded, but we didn't do it in the days. no shmoha at all that's not right right so we'll find a way to do we don't want there's no like punishment right this is just reward for something you know a reward for the community stepping up in a big way yeah so okay is that everything right now um and then we i just want to go over a couple of these add-ons yeah yeah yeah please so we do have a look at some of the shirts um now you'll

let me try to make this a little bigger if i can oh boy um we're still working out the details on this you know you'll have color and sizing options there might even be like a third design um but you know we're figuring it out but you will be able to just add on let's say you just got the $25 tier but you wanted to get a shirt as well you can like in the way Kickstarter works you'll you'll it's really self-explanatory how to add this stuff so it's all good um we're also going to do these campaign exclusive two inch enamel pins um which is uh you know just a cool way to show show you show your support high quality I work with a really great pin producer who who's done a lot of stuff for me in our podcast and I think that I love that yeah yeah um and then there are going to be opportunities

to buy premier event tickets or screening tickets um you know again we won't have all the details of the win and wear but you'll be able to secure yeah your tickets through the add-ons as well and then we um we've got a few more things we're adding Christian I was talking to you a little bit about them earlier that we we can go over in more detail tomorrow once once they're all uh once they're all there okay so I mean it's a hell of a job there dude it looks really really good the tears are awesome I mean there's a lot of opportunity there in general for people so I think I think people are going to be pretty excited about it so what I want to do is I'm going to

I'm going to bring up these questions so if there's any questions for Craig about the tears that you saw and anything in general please throw them on now. And then there's other, there's other super chats from the actual show that I'll answer as well. And which the first one was DJK. So you caught up on Dark Matter. So how are you liking? Yeah, I finished the whole season. I had an opportunity and I don't know how much I can talk about it yet. I'm going to wait to the whole thing errors. But I've seen the whole season and I do. What I've said about Dark Matter season two is that you cannot turn your head away for a second because you really have to be locked in because there's so many different characters of the same character. Um, so.

So it's really solid, though. It's really solid. GoPel EDT is correct. Yes. Yes. Thank you, sir. Princess Positive asked the first, what tier is the big balls plushy?

So they really want that big ball plush. Hey, listen, I got a guy. If you guys want to do a plush, if we, we'd probably need like a minimum, that might have to just be a separate project, but look, I'm in the toy industry.

So I got a guy. No, the question is, you know, like, yeah i mean it would have to be per thing right could you do an add on big big balls plushy and then people wanted i mean because if they bought it then they just i guess because question is the production behind it right yeah we'd probably need to commit to like a minimum of 500 of them or something but i don't think it's i don't think it's 500 people that want to buy big balls plus yeah so it's like it's really with toy for those types of collectibles it's it's definitely that's tough hard that's tough uh boomie boom when is the last day weekend back well the last day

going to, I mean, for the 30-day campaign, we'll be on October 22nd. I think it's technically the 23rd. Oh, is it? Okay. Yeah, because it'll be, we'll end it on a Friday. Right. But yeah, it'll be the 23rd, I think. Zander, just followed the Kickstarter. Can't wait to support.

Thank you so much. And this is, look, this is the thing about that guys is that currently right now, and this is something I want to address, we are at 2,668 followers. Now, when we started the thing in general, I went ambitious, and I said, I wanted to do five thousand. I mean, it was half of what the guild did, right? To where Craig was like, if you get like a thousand, you're going to be in good shape, right? And so, and then Craig sent me a very nice text in where, because at almost 2,700 pre-follows, that's outside the norm, yes? Oh, yeah, you're in the top 0.02% of Kickstarter projects right now.

So I mean, that's so for people, because I saw someone, oh, man, how do we get to 5,000? It's, we, we took a shot and we didn't get to 5,000. That's okay. We got to almost 3,000. That's pretty damn good. And I'm very happy about it. So we all, you guys all did, you all did great. And you all really supported it. And I couldn't, I couldn't thank you enough. If I could add to that. Yeah. To do that organically with no ad buying. Yeah. And really not that much promotion outside of the walls of your channels is. I would call it unheard of. Oh, man, that's kind.

So thank you. Thank you. Well, Zeeby, the faster it funds, the more likely new people are to jump in. That's exactly right. Yeah. So people who are just discovering the project are much more likely to fund if they see that it is about to fund or that it is funding. It's kind of, there's a FOMO element or it's, or not even FOMO, it's just going, man, this is really cool. And I want to get involved.

There's people that just love backing Kickstarter that will, will see this. And have no idea to exist until tomorrow. And then they're going to become big supporters. And that's why we want to push it. You know, that's why we're going to do this 10-hour stream. And plus, if we just get it done and knock it out tomorrow, if we're able to, God willing, we can knock it out. Let's just be done with it. I'm saying, knock it out on day one that.

We can say like, okay, now, because then if we hit the initial goal after day one, then it's like, all right, now we need to try to really do this because this is what this is going to allow us to do. And now we know we're making a show. we can now do this, we can now do that. You know, I'm glad you said, let me share my screen one more time. Sure. We didn't cover this. Sure. We are going to have stretch goals that we will be revealing.

And hopefully tomorrow we're already revealing stuff, right? Yeah. We just, we want it to be like fun. We want to keep them locked for now. Yep. And we don't want to confuse anybody. So, but hopefully within a very quick turnaround, we'll be talking about. And they're good.

And they're good. They're good. And like, I mean, in general, the more is raised, the better the show's going to be. The better locations are. The better, more casting opportunities. A hundred percent. And within what comes with a lot of that stuff, too, is and then you get a little bit more juice into the Shmowdown stuff too. If you needed to, when you go to a higher amount of money, you know, it's like you'd be able to say, okay, we can do a live event.

Now we know we can do that. Plus the fact that we know that we can make an offer to the right cast. We can make an offer to a really great director of photography. we can get the best costume designers. We can get the best locations. And that's where that comes from. So, all right, let's come back here. That's great, though, to show.

I'm glad we showed people that. All right. ETT Media, 3,700. I love your show. Really think you and Sam should react to attack on Titan. It is legitimately one of the greatest shows ever, about 22 minutes episode. I hear it all the time. I hear how great it is.

Is it anime, though? It is, right? Yeah, it's, yeah. I don't know if it's animation. It's animation. Is it anime, PLD? Yeah. So it has nothing to do with the fact against anime.

I happen to like anime. I really liked what the hell was I watching that I really liked? What was it called? Pielty. Demon's flair. Thank you. Demons, I liked it, but I don't,

but the companies that do anime are very harsh on YouTube channels and don't allow it to happen and I'm not messing with it. So I'm staying away from it. CALCO, is there a tier to help work on the production of the pilot? So that was covered inside of, I guess being Yeah, like part of the crew.

So, right. No, and there's pretty specific reasons for that. Obviously, the crew is, there's going to be, you know, really great opportunities to bring on the best of the best in as far as like, you know, who we're working with for all the positions. But I think there's likely, like, you know, there's guilds and unions and, you know, there's. And we just can't make any promises of a job, essentially. I think that's the major point there, right? We just can't make promises because, like, we don't know how that works overall, as Craig just mentioned with unions and other things.

So when it comes to a lot of these different things, a lot of these different jobs, and people have been reaching out about certain things, about certain parts of production. And, like, what we can say is when we get the thing funded, and then there's opportunities to say, hey, listen, now that so-and-so was brought on board, can I send a resume? That's always a possibility. Sure. Yeah.

I mean, listen, shoot your shot. You guys have direct access here. And that's why that's a great point. And that's why something along the lines of like, let's say we're doing that one-on-one thing, right? Right. And we're like, well, look, I know that we've already funded and we've got throwing a number out there, $480,000. So I already know that we're going to make a really heightened version of this show of what we wanted to do. and so let's say the production side of it was a costume design.

I don't know. Well, I'm a costume designer. I did this. I did that. I did that. Whatever it might be. Well, now that we have so-and-so-on, tell me your qualifications and I'll, I can at least get the, you know, the resume to him, you know, and then we have that conversation

about it. That's, that's the ins that can potentially be woven. Okay. Let's see. Let me go to the appeal. You're still starring these questions as they're coming up. Okay, cool. Craig, the Li Yankee says, so can we change our tier options during the campaign?

Yeah, 100%. You can always go to a different tier, go down, go up, you know, add stuff, 100%. Okay. Umich man, seven, there may be need to be an edit on the cards. Should it say custom follow-along content instead of costume, if not my mistake? I'll check the... A card? Yeah, I'll just check the...

the copy on that. Princess positive. Well, that swag bag and could have big balls plushy. They really want that plushy. They do. It sounds like it. I just don't know 500 people will do it, though. Seattle K.O. Trending tote bags.

What about tote bags? We could. I'm always like, do people really want that? Maybe they do. I don't know. Yeah, maybe it's the one. The real red five. How much is the associate producer tier?

Associate producer, Let me is 2,500. Okay. And there's a, I made like a little cheat sheet too that, uh. Okay. And that'll be in there for people to check out.

It's in there, yeah. Okay, cool. Mike Rios. I would want a cameo as a hotel clerk on the phone. Beijing, Mr. Herman. Mr. Herman, you have a telephone call at the front desk. Class of. Really good one.

Okay. Yeah. We shall see. Haskell. he is hey guys question why have limits oh the Craig answered this one I see six available 10 available why not 10 instead six why not 20 and say you never know what can happen in the duration of the of the campaign but I think right answered them yeah and we've already talked with Andrew and like with boardwalk like we're gonna be flexible like this is

not about limit like if the support is there where we can open up another experience like well you know yeah 100% it's not I mean we're gonna we're gonna be maneuvering with this thing also you know that's why that's why we're really hoping to just get this thing knock this thing out tomorrow. I love slippers, 43. I just want a shirt or a hoodie or a bumper sticker maybe. Yeah, well, the shirt's definitely out there. I mean, Aaron Wilhelm, a very close friend of mine is doing the shirts.

He could probably knock out, even if we do, we could probably potentially try to do hoodies as well too. Yeah, I think he does those also. Princess Positive, is there a tier to get some lines on screen enough to qualify for a sad card? You know, that's not, that's not something we really talked about. I don't know if it's possible. Yeah, I mean, I think.

it fell into one of those well part of it is like the script you know yeah I don't yeah I don't know if there's any other rules that justify exactly exactly yeah so not yet but that's not you just cast

was like you get the walk on part you just start throwing in your own what are we doing what it was podcasting over here yeah right right exactly I came up with a great line uh Sam I feel like a lot more perks that

people realize is listed as lower tiers Yeah, I mean, there's a lot in there. That's why I think when people start to look, and that's why the benefit of having that long stream tomorrow is that you have a chance to really dive into it and why Craig and I will be going over and essentially doing a different version of this tomorrow because we'll be prepping and everything going through that first half an hour and then we're on. And then we're going to be monitoring it. And then Craig will probably pop in throughout the stream. Yeah, yeah. We're here. We're here.

And depending on where we are, you know. Listen, if we hit half a million, maybe I'll wear a suit. There you go. Perfect. I probably won't, but you never know. You never know. It's one of them. I have something that I want to do, but I don't want to give it away yet.

Okay. Because it's going to be, I don't want to even tell you when it's going to be because people will know. But I brought it up to Luke this morning and I said, I'm going to monitor where we're at monetarily and say, okay, if we hit this by this time, I will do this. And I feel people are going to respond to it. because and I haven't even told PLD what it is yet and I think he's going to he's going to enjoy it. I love slippers 43. What was the lowest tier? Well, that was the one that you could just do you could just as far as with benefits. With benefits is 25. But with if you just want to donate just to donate, you can donate a dollar if you want. Right. Yeah. Joseph Ashley. I'll put what I can afford. I just want to see cocoa holes. So have you, have you heard about so people again, this is another big balls thing. Um, so cocoa holes, that would have to be inside of the actual, uh, there is a scene where Danny's eating cereal.

Yeah. I have to pitch to, to Andrew. You know, uh, Joe, tomorrow when Andrew's on, ask him if cocoa holes can be the official, uh, cereal. Yeah. I mean, maybe you could build that into the story. That's like the only sponsor you got and that's the ad reason. Well, no, no, no.

He's, he's, he's, he's, he's literally a scene where he's eating cereal talking to his best friend. Right. And the cereal could be cocoa holes. Maybe that's the play. Maybe we do an add-on where you can kick in an extra $10. And if we raise a certain amount, we get big balls in the show in some capacity. In some capacity.

Right. All right, let's say. Okay, we did that one. We did that one. Princess Positive. Call the next 10 minutes and we'll throw in a big ball, stress ball vigor. Yeah. I'm telling you.

Princess Positive also says, I heard Discord being mentioned. Will that be a channel in the current Harlov Discord? I can set up specific channels that are gate locked by Kickstarter member tier. I mean, possibly, like, it just depends on because we, the, there is a chance that the, that the 40-day challenge master class kind of spins off and becomes its own entity. Yeah. And we might not want to cross-pollinate, but maybe it'll make sense to do that. But yet, let's keep that in mind for when it's time to set that.

I can put you guys in touch, Princess and Craig, because she runs. He helps run the Discord stuff. Awesome. It'll be good. Sam follows up. I didn't realize that associate producer warrants an IMDB credit. I should be on IMDB already based on that. I didn't realize it.

Yeah. Yeah. I think that's probably on a per production. Yeah. But I'm pretty sure it does, though. Yeah. Soundwave Chronicles, those tiers are mega. Craig, if you're interested in the 295 MasterClock,

do you still get perks of the 250 tier? Christian, you should go into the 40-day master class with a clear idea for show or general ideas. Okay. General ideas are fine. The whole point is that we help build that throughout, and that's why we're having me and Luke kind of guiding you through it throughout the through that 40 days, you know, the goal is to make sure that by the end of that 40, you're just a full-fledged YouTuber at that point. Yeah. And yeah, that's true. You do get the the 250, the tier. Yeah, we should add that in there, right? Yeah. I mean, it's noted. Yeah, I'll add that on the car as well. Yeah, yeah. Ioshi. Is the goal still 250? So no, we dropped it down to

200 for the initial ask. With the understanding that everybody knows that in order to the boardwalk pictures and Andrew and his team really put together, between the 330 to 350 is the range of where we really want to make this show and what we think we can do with the people that we have, right? And still be a little bit, you know, having shoe stringy with 350. But that, that will get us, maybe can make some offers just some good DPs with cast and other things too.

200 if we that's all we hit was just 200 the reason why we brought it down to two is because okay if we get to 200 we're going to make a show it's going to be bare bones and maybe we shoot it on iPhones who knows what it is but we'll make a show um it just will not be the kind of version where we can go out and make an offer to so-and-so or have uh wendy o'brien look and say okay you can get this person you can get this person you can do this you can do that um it's going to be limited in what we can do and i always compare where i've been talking about the bear and hacks like both of those shows their pilots are in between the 1.5 to three million dollar range we're trying to you know get to that 350 but 200 just allows us to make something

so we dropped it to 200 yeah um okay Wade Watts will the tournament in any format be shown on YouTube for free Kickstarter backers of a certain tier first this is a great question and something that we should probably include in one of those tiers too right um We will, if the tournament happens, yes, it's going to be shown for Frey to most likely be on this channel, most likely, unless we run, because I don't know if putting it on the vault would necessarily make sense. I don't know yet, but the answer is yes, when it airs, it will air to the public. However, there is a great tier to be had of saying, okay, if you guys have contributed to this, you will see the footage first. maybe the way we used to do with the old Patreon, two weeks before it airs, three weeks before it airs, whatever it might be early is maybe what we can say inside of the tier, you'll get access to the Shmodan matches before they air.

So that's a possibility. What happened? Is it a squirrel running around there? What's going on? My bad, my bad. There's these guys, I'm getting a new ramp put in. Oh, okay.

Decks, and they text me. But they sent me an airdrop to my MacBook instead of texting me, which is pretty soon. Yeah. Soundwave Chronicles looks correct. Craig, can you briefly explain the risk and challenge in section, if any? Yeah. Hey, Christian, give me 45 seconds and I'll come back in. And I'll come back in.

No, sorry, no problem. Craig will be right back. So I'll save the questions here too. You know, I'm trying to say if there's any more. I'll go back up to that part of it. but I don't see if there's anything else. I'm going to do some of the ones that I can do without Craig. I'll do Jenny.

Wish you, Christian, Martini, Andrew, and everyone involved. Much congratulations, success, and love at trending. We'll donate some time tomorrow. Thank you, Jenny, and you've been wonderful, and I can't wait to see you tomorrow in the live stream. Thank you, very, very much. I'm trying to see if there's any more. That's more for Craig.

All of these are for Craig, which will be great. I'll have to wait. I'll wait until he gets back. But I just, oh, you're, Okay, there you go, Haskell. Current announced guest, 10 to 11 is Craig. Yep, and then 10.30, we go live. Mark Ellis, 11 to 12 and a special guest.

Yes, you are right about that. Then 12 to 2 is Roxy and Mike with us, yes. And then Christian and Luke, two to three, we'll go over the 40-day challenge. Maybe throw in a couple of me. Kevin will come in and play a couple games. Dan Merle, three to four. Greg Alba, four to five, five to six. Another special guest.

And then, no, no, no, six-thirty. That is incorrect, the last part. Six to six-30 is Winston. And then 630 to 7.30 is Martini and Andrew. So close, close, Ed. But we're almost there. It's exciting, PLD. It's exciting.

Yes. We're almost there. I mean, it's like, for your, for your, for your, for your, for your, for your, for your, for your, I guess just in general, more so than day one. But, you know, I just want to make sure that we have fun doing it tomorrow. I'm glad that people are excited. about it. I'm glad that people want to see the show and

it's been a great experience so far. Like I said, I just want to tell the story. I just want to tell the story. That will happen. That will happen. Thank you. Craig is back. Let's just do a couple more of these questions with Craig. All right, Craig. Let's do some more. So we did that one already.

Looks great. Craig, can you briefly explain the risks and challenges section of any from Soundwave? Yeah, I mean, the main thing is that you know we're making a TV show right so um you're dealing with production you're dealing with a lot of moving parts we're not going to be able to commit to timelines just yet the goal will be to make this as soon as possible nobody involved in this wants this to be you know three a three four five year you know that's not this this is going to be moving quickly moving fast the script is ready the pieces are already

aligning um but yeah there's always risk challenge when it comes to like you know casting availability um and what you were just talking to with like the the budget how much we raise will determine the answers to a lot of those questions um yeah so one of the things just to let people know um so i'm going to jump we got into about 245 for me because i'm going to i'm doing campy a show at three so i'm going to go through all these as fast as we can here cool we can rapid fire yeah let's see so we got um Oh, we did get another one unheard sirens also says, can we get a big balls plushy. Carla, who says maybe they can do big balls pins.

We definitely could do that. We could get that up. Let's try to do some big balls pins. Send me the images. I got to get, yeah, you know what I should do is it'll get, do me, hey, Joseph Ashley, who does the art for big balls. Do me a favor and just send me all the art you got for big balls on the Schmo's contact the Gmail address. I'm going to forward all those over to Craig. Go, pal, entirely because of our show, I ended up buying three pocket knives for my niece

and nephew, plus one for me. That Kickstarter recommended to me when I logged in. That's hilarious. Look at that. See, they sell ads over there. John Sticks. All right, I just turned on the stream. How much is the tier to get the extra podcast live streams? Yeah, I mean, all of that is included in the $50 tiers. We're going to start getting all the extra, all that stuff. Soundwave Chronicles. Craig, I love the idea. stretch goals. Can you tease any of them? Are they specific to the show's production element? Will there be any stretch goals that benefit backers, aka at this tier and up? Yeah. I mean, we won't tease any of it, but we will say that it'll definitely be like an

added value to the tiers, right? Like, you know, so yeah. But, and some of them will be production specific as well. Go, pal. There should 100% be an ad. on to make Christian watch Hollywood. I'll actually, I'll actually put that in there. If we do, if, if there's an, if there's an add on, but it's got to be something bigger. And it's something against Kevin. I love Kevin Smith. It's just, it's just becoming an ongoing joke.

The ongoing joke, right. Yeah, but we should do that. Zander, Bieber, 8615. You know, I'll do a reaction to it is what I'll do for Hollywood. Never done a Kickstarter before. It withdraws the funds at the end of the 30-day campaign, right? Yes. Yeah. Even if you put in your card, it will not take it until the campaign closes. Cody Erickson, I wish I could afford some of those later tiers, but unfortunately I can't.

I should be able to muster up the $100,000, though. I mean, that's, dude. That's amazing. That'd be amazing. I'm telling you, like, that'd be amazing. Like, for everybody who's able to do something, and what we've been telling everybody is that we've had 13,000 people put in, out of the, out of the 234,000 people that we have subscribed. If 20 if 13,000 people put in 25 bucks, we make the show with the capacity that we wanted. Cody Erickson, for payment, how does that work from a credit card, I assume? Yeah, credit or debit card. Haskell. Oh, we did that one.

Okay. Ryan S. How do you pay for a $10,000, $25,000 tier? Credit card? So the $10,000 tier, yes. For the $25,000, I don't know if Kickstarter opens up any kind of alternative payment method, but that's part of the discussions we'd be

having if somebody were showing interest in that tier. Yeah. Jenny Lawson. Oh, he did this one too. Thank you, Jenny. Amazing. Saul. Craig, could you please tell the chat that it's okay that Roca is too old, tired, weak and sad to play in the tournament? I would not say that. No way.

Princess positive, Discord updates should connect with me and Red Carpet Talk as Sam, who does most of Discord configuration because she's so smart. Sam's the best. Yeah, so both of them would be, okay, we'll put we'll put Craig in touch of both you guys. Cool. Saul, Craig, to be more serious, do you have any interest in the new Hot Toys Arctic Suit Batman from the Flash or the Hellbat suit?

I ordered two of the Arctic Suit Batman's from the Flash. I ordered the pre-order from Side Show and I found one in stock on eBay coming from China. So I've got very strong opinions about the Flash movie. That's hilarious. Soundwave Chronicles. Thanks for clarifying between the 250 and 295 tiers. For those of considering higher, tiers given master classes specific can greater than 295 pledges also qualify for the master

class if desire um i would say yeah uh that's an awesome question uh i would say yes yeah i think 100 percent yeah it's not you know you wouldn't be penalized for no for that so no it's like if someone if someone is like i'm i'm also wanting to get you donated a tier that's higher than right right If you want to make, 100%. And you want it. 100%. Yes. Iosci. So just so I don't miss a second of that stream tomorrow,

I'm keeping my daughter home from school that way. And I don't have to go out, go trunny. That's, I don't know. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say in that one. How old is your daughter? But I hope she's not missing any homework or anything. Yeah, that's another tier.

Christian writes a note. I know, right. I'll call the school and say, I'm sorry. That's very nice, I, Rishi. I love slippers. So I can donate and it won't come out of my bank account right away yes that's true yeah Ryan S Christian what's the best email to reach you at shmos contact at gmail.com James Wheeler 5021 hello everyone whatever I pledge tomorrow won't be

taken on my credit card until next month yes correct correct until the campaign is over Soundwave Chronicles Christian and Craig this has been a great stream and helpful to understand the the campaign I backed two others this is the first I'm excited to follow in its development Can you speak to initial pledge versus increase? Initial pledge? I think he means so like, yeah. So yeah, if he starts, let's say he's like, you know what? I'm going to start with the masterclass.

But shit, man, now I'm in a position. I want to go to dinner with Freed. You can do it. Basically, the way it'll look on the Kickstarter end is once you backs, once you have a Kickstarter account and you back something, you can go into those individual campaigns. And there'll be like a link that says, like, manage my pledge. I think is what it's called. And you can just go switch it as needed.

and then Jackson, whistle watching on delay. How about a bobble balls, big balls? That works. All right. Craig, this is it, man. This is it. So we're going to, what a mega stream it was today.

Almost four hours. I had the interview with Andrew. I kind of give like a little preview already. I've almost done four hours already. So that would be a little, just about six hours less than what I was doing. But for tomorrow, once again, for people that are curious, curious about it. Tomorrow we are going to be on the stream. This is just some of the guests that will be on tomorrow. It's myself. Mark Ellis making a return. We're happy to share the screen to Mark

for an hour tomorrow. Roxy Stryor, Mike Kalanowski doing their normal two hours. The champ! Dan Murrell will be here and Greg Alba, obviously, and a array of other guests, including Craig, Martini, Andrew, a bunch of people. So thank you guys so very much for being here. Thank you to PLD. Thank you to Luke. Thank you to Roka. Thanks to Sam and MK for doing the time codes. Thanks for Craig for being here. Jonathan for doing the editing. All of it. Guys, we're almost there.

Trending. This is a major, major thing in my lifetime and I cannot thank you guys enough for being a part of it. Thank you to Craig for being a part of it and all you guys. Let's make it happen tomorrow. Be back tomorrow and if you want to join me on Campia stream, please head on over there at 3 p.m.

But for myself and Craig, see you guys. website. Bye. Did you shit in there?