The Kristian Harloff Show - SHOCKING! Paramount Wins The Bid For Warner Bros! Netflix Is OUT!

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

Welcome back to The Kristian Harloff Show – your daily source for the biggest movie news, box office updates, and breaking Hollywood stories! Today we're diving deep into the massive industry shake-up as Netflix officially backs out of the Warner Bros. Discovery bid, leaving Paramount now set to win. What does this mean for Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO Max, DC Studios, and the future of streaming? We break down the latest reports on Paramount's plans for Warner Bros. Discovery, including potential changes to HBO Max, the integration of AI production tools, and what this could mean for DC Studios moving forward. Is this a game-changer for the DCU under James Gunn? How does this reshape the streaming wars between Netflix, Paramount, and Warner Bros.? Plus, Phil Lord & Chris Miller address the ongoing delays for the third Spider-Verse film. What's happening with Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse and when can fans realistically expect Miles Morales to return? And in box office news, Project Hail Mary is targeting a $50 million debut. Can the adaptation of Andy Weir's novel become the next big sci-fi hit? If you love movie news, DC updates, Marvel talk, box office breakdowns, and honest analysis, you're in the right place. Make sure to subscribe and join the conversation! SPONSOR: BUTCHER BOX: As an exclusive offer, new listeners can get their choice between organic ground beef, chicken breast or ground turkey in every box for a year, PLUS $20 off when you go to http://www.butcherbox.com/kristian  

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Oh, Paramount's going to get it. Everything's going to happen. It's going to be Paramount. And then I'm not taking credit for that because then I jumped real fast. And I said, because I said, there's no way Netflix is really interested in it. Not going to happen. Paramount will get it. And then Netflix got it.

And I said, well, I was wrong about that. And then I jumped right on the bandwagon. I said, Paramount's not going to get back. No chance. This is not going to happen. People are ethical, right? This isn't going to happen. No way.

I was wrong. Paramount does it. Netflix says, no thanks. We're done. We don't want to pay that outrageous amount. We're out of here. It was as if the movie news world ended. Where I was yesterday when this happened, and I'll tell the story in just a moment, I thought somebody died from the way people were reacting in the theater. I'm not even kidding you. And I'll tell the story in just a moment. but what does this mean for the business? What does it mean for D.C.? I know that normally we do capes and cows today, but we can't cover just comic book movie news when this story is going out. So my goodness, what a story.

Biggest story maybe has happened in quite a long time and people are losing their minds overall. So we'll discuss it. We'll see what the audience thinks. It's myself, Winston, a Marshall, Chris Carr. It's Christian Arnold, Shet's Friday. let's do it. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to the show. Joining me on this, this huge newsday. Winston A. Marshall is here. Chris Carr, and we are indeed back. This news shocked

the movie news world. And look, a lot of, it was all over the regular news as well, you know. So I got to tell you guys how this, well, first of all, Chris, how you doing? Oh, did it. No, you're muted. I don't know why. This is, I have to send an email. This is on me. You hear me?

Yes, I can. I have to send an email. You guys were absolutely on time today, five minutes early. 100% no shit given to you, but everybody else stinks. Today was me. Has nothing to you guys. Chris Carz always on. Chris, and I haven't given you this kind of credit yet in person.

You're the only person. Well, first of all, you're the only person to not complain about the headshots. that we continue to use. And then you're the only person actually responded with headshots immediately. We actually sent some in. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, yeah. Immediately. She said them immediately.

Yeah. I had to spend $500. I'm going to show everybody those freaking photos. Look at my face. That's a solid point. I'm getting new ones. I'm just going to wait on that. I'll send him some good ones when I have some good ones.

Yeah, but see, that's the problem. I did that before. And for whatever reason, it looked like I had the bags on my eyes because I was so tired. I looked like I was stone. I look like I'm stoned in every single video that we. too. Well, whatever. So anyway, it's good

to have both you guys here and man, I thought about it immediately. So we can't talk about movie news. It's a comic book movie news today because of what happened. So I went to see Hoppers last night and so I can only give like a, you know, a social kind of reaction to it because the embargo

hasn't dropped yet, but my initial thoughts were cute movie. I think that if the humor lands for you all the way through, you're going to love this movie? There were, there were, there were these two guys next to me. I thought they were watching George Carlin in 1978. I've never heard anybody laugh so hard. I couldn't believe it. And I think I looked over to me, like, isn't that funny? And I felt like, I felt like a, like a, like a Scrooge. I'm like, yeah, all right. And then there's another guy in front of me

losing his mind. So I think if the humor hits for you guys, it's really going to work. It's, it's a nice message about nature. There's a nice emotional moments in general. It's a good movie to take the kids to for sure. I don't know if it's that. special Pixar movie that everyone talks about, but everyone else that was in the theater seemed to love it. I liked it, but it was good. But before the thing starts,

I am sitting there checking my phone, whatever it is, and this same guy next to me, shrieks, shrieks. And I'm like, what, who died? I'm like, what happened? So I'm searching, I'm like, who died?

Like, in my phone, I'm like, who died? I'm looking, because it was that kind of, a screech. And then the guy in front of me is like, I'm trying to keep it down, not cursing because the kids, this is horrible. I'm like, what is happening? And then so

the second, the other guy starts looking and he sees like, oh, no. And I can tell who doesn't have kids because this guy who's there, one of the critics, starts cursing at the top of his lungs. There's a little girl next to me, maybe eight years old. And I'm like, come on, guy. I get whatever, whatever's going on. Bring it down. He's like, oh,

I didn't say anything, but he's like, oh, he realizes it. But it's like, you're in a kids movie. I don't care what happened. It's not that, it's not that big of a deal that you have to curse in front of this girl. Anyway, that was the bad coming out of me. But then I said to the guys, what was it what happened? He goes, Paramount got Netflix. Netflix said, we're out.

I said, what? I'm like, no way. I was talking about this today on the show because they said that the deal is becoming, you know, more realistic for Paramount. And I was like, where does it say that? I'm looking and that I'm reading the Hollywood reporter and seeing the news. And Netflix made it seem like, Well, we thought if the deal made sense to us and it was we could get over a good price,

we'll take it. But we're not going to overspend is what the message kind of went through there. I have a lot of questions about that in general. But Chris, where were you when you heard the news? And I'm sure you're thrilled about this. Oh, man. Well, I'd been coaching all day. We're producing so many demos right now over at Speak Friend, which is great.

But I didn't find out until you guys texted me. And I was in the middle of a session and that's why I just went, oh, dip. Oh, okay. I mean, you guys know, I'm not thrilled with this news. And I am trying my best to do a lot more research and read from other people. Because on a comics and Cal's Day, I am always so prepared. I am so ready to talk to y'all about issue numbers, the year something came out. But when it comes to the business side of this, the business of like mergers and acquisitions,

I have my actor opinion of it all. But I don't know as much about the brass tacks behind it. I want to shout out to IndyWire did a great piece. Brian Welk wrote one that I've been reading up on this morning, just talking about what happens next year. And I've just been trying to kind of sort through all of it because I have my own opinions, opinions on, you know, the Ellison family and and who they are connected to. And I'm trying to be objective at looking about why I don't like this. And it's honestly a lot of the same reasons why I didn't like the Netflix merger of it too. I don't think that all of these media company should be under one umbrella. You know, it's a monopoly situation. So that is what gives me pause here. I do get worried about the kinds of stories we're going to be telling because I think when we do have a diverse media conglabwe, we have a whole bunch of different companies that are creating different things. We get to hear more stories. So I'm really hoping that this doesn't limit the type of stories that get told ultimately. But again, I am trying to do my best to make sure I

can give you guys, even though I'm not an actual reporter. I am here because I'm in the entertainment industry. I'm trying my best to find out more information as it's all unfolding. So I can be a little bit more objective. Yeah, I think that's what it needs to be. I think it needs to be objective because I think everybody can, you know, do Chicken Little right away. And they don't even know what, what's happening because they see people who are involved and they automatically think they're going to run it within whatever their political views are or religious views are. And I think you can't really, it's not fair yet because they haven't they haven't taken over yet. Now, I'm not telling you can't be a fear.

It can be a fear. But you can't definitively say that's what's going to happen because it also might not be good business for them to do certain things. They might very well turn certain things into more of their dynamic. I'm very curious what's going to happen now that they own CNN. Like that would be, that's going to be an interesting thing because that's not movies. That's news and that's a politically, I hate most shows that are on Fox. I hate most shows that are on CNN. I hate the opinion pieces.

I hate them. I can't stand half of them. I saw that whole thing. I talked about the other day. I'd never seen like Abby Phillips before I saw her shows. I'm never watching this ever again because they're not, they're not balanced. Fox, not balanced.

You know, as much as I give, what's his face? Tom Yamis. Shit. I like watching Tom Yamas. He gives me the news. But the question is, are they going to be skewed more one particular way into more shows that I don't like? I don't know.

But Winston, as far as movies go, I get the fear. But is it too, is it too soon to say, hey, everything's messed up now? I can guarantee it. Not when one of the reports is that the Ellison's plan on heavily leaning into AI and letting that be a large number. Yeah, but so is Disney. So they all are doing that. Which is fair, but they're actually talking about an even higher number than what Disney was essentially saying. I think they said something along the lines of like they plan on having like 20 or 30 movies.

being involved heavily with AI already, which is going to probably cause more strikes coming down the line because of that, because that was a large part of what the previous ones were about. It's, my main concern was always this. I had said that the idea of pushing all of these studios together was always a bad idea. This is a cash grab, and it's bad for the consumer,

and it's bad for the people that actually work the industry. What makes this even worse is because it's one, thing when Netflix is doing it and Netflix is not one of the original like big five like studios by forcing together Paramount and Warner Brothers like this, the number of jobs that are going to disappear like just by the nature of a merger is always going to be a thing. But Netflix at least was saying while we didn't like the theatrical windows stuff said, we really want to leave this on its own. We're just trying to kind of have access to this.

There's no way that a Paramount and a Warner Brothers as big as they both are as studios do the same thing. This is that that's, I get it. I don't want to scream the sky is falling, but there is a reason why I kept saying that this was the worst of the two options. And it's, I, like I said,

I'll leave my political stuff at the door because I have a lot of opinions about the Ellisons and what essentially will happen to the news side of things. But just from the movie element side of it, this gives me the heby-jeebies like I've never felt. Yeah, and I think, look, I think it's fair to have heby-jeebies.

And it's fair to be nervous. I just think, I just think it's unfair to be definitive. Right? Like you said, everything you said, Winston, I think that's more than fair. Like, okay, listen, I have my reserves. Let's see. I can tell you that. I know the two options, it was the worst for me because I think it's fair to say. The question is, though, what are they going to do when they start announcing movies, right? You can have your own opinion when it comes to the news cycle and those other things and what happens. What are they going to do when it comes to the HBO Max side of it, right?

With the shows and all those other things. What are they going to do with the prices of Paramount Plus now? And how is that going to work? There's going to be a lot of things that are there are going to be some. things and this goes back to very much so when a Star Wars movie comes out and and bear with me on this. Star Wars movie comes out or Star Wars News comes out. One channel hates everything about it, hasn't seen anything, just hates it because they hate it. One channel loves it. Everything, oh man, Super Bowl commercial is the best. Everything is about it. It was so much fun. It's the best. It's the best. It's going to help the movie so much. There's both those. But you can't do that yet with this because that's what's going to happen, right?

Because no matter what, even if there's wins on that side that everybody on this table agrees with, I feel like the three of us will say it's a win. There will be people no matter what now because of the political side of it that won't give it a win. And the same goes for the others that if there's something bad that happens. And it's like, that's terrible for the business. Oh, they're just saying that because they're woke and it's so political. This is so political because of the way that this is how, actually happened and because of the relationship and because of the hey mr president like i need i need

some help here like you know they called in favors uh they called in favors and they also presented a bigger deal and so i my biggest problem with it and i said this on yesterday's show is the fact that i just hate the way business is because the fact that to me i'm always I say, okay, Winston, me and you, me, you and Chris, we are, I have this thing that I want to sell you guys. I have this thing. Chris says, well, I'm, I'll offer you $50 for it. Winston goes, well, I'm going to offer you 200. And Chris says, well, you know what, I'm going to offer you, I'll offer you 250 and I'll make sure that you can still have a little bit of ownership on it.

Great. Winston's like, I'm not ready to do that yet. Right. Chris and I have a deal. That's it. So I'm going to give it to Chris, I just got to talk to some people about it and then once we're set up. And then Winston decides after. two weeks, you know what? I'm going to give you 300 bucks and I'll let you have some ownership of it.

And like Chris, I'm just kidding. Even though we shook on it, even though we said yes. During that time, during that time period, that's when you, in my head morally and ethically, that's how it goes. But apparently that's not how it goes because shareholders and all this other stuff. But I just hate that. I hate it. I know that it's not how business works and wake up, kid, but I just hate that that's how I went down. Oh, great. Yeah. I think that's the other thing about it too is like, Like, this whole thing felt like kind of dirty. But, you know, again, it's, it's business.

It's cutthroat. This is, this is what shows like succession and everything else are built around, which are supposed to be mirrors to what actually happens in real life. Again, I think, I think the thing that I am, like I said, I'll leave how I feel on the political side of things at the door, just because that's not normally what we talk about specifically, you know, on this show. So that is what it is. but I am very, very acutely aware of putting two studios together what that means for jobs.

So that's, and again, just because of the way Netflix was structured, there was going to be job loss, but it's not at the same level because there's too much overlapping with Paramount and Warner Brothers that there's no way that that doesn't happen. But after I'll tell you one thing, though, after reading yesterday's report about, I don't know if you saw this, Winston, but like Warner Brothers was not going to survive. They were losing money. they were losing money every they had some they were one of the best years theatrically that they've had in a long time and they still lost a ton of money in there they

released their fourth quarter numbers and they were they were they were losing money every quarter they had to sell they had to sell it they had to give it and and so yeah I mean look you could say maybe somebody else with other money could have just run it but unfortunately it doesn't know it works they monopolize one another the only thing about it's like funny though is because there was a report specifically about paramount having the same issue which is why they ultimately sold the skydance again I think if if you had gone the route of finding other types of companies that want to get into that and letting that happen.

The Saudis wanted to do that. That's the Saudis that they stayed away. And that's a whole other conversation about selling them. Right. Right. There's only so many people that have the money to do it. Right. Right.

But, but you know what I'm saying? Like I think that there is also just a difference with that of bringing in a different entity to sell that to versus, again, mashing this together. So look, is there a world where maybe we get the Transformers, the Ninja Turtles and Batman all, you know,

fighting Darkseye together? Sure. Okay. Awesome. But that's not enough to especially post like Disney buying Fox. Like as excited as I was to have that happen. I look back and see kind of what that blueprint was.

And I don't love a lot of what happened again with the job loss and things like that. Like you still kept pretty close to the same clip that Fox was putting out movies-wise, but there was a massive trimming of jobs. And I think that for me, that is where, knowing that I've made my career in this industry, that's what scares me is, is that, is the idea of what does this actually mean for the people that work the industry. If I wake up a year from now and they're like, they've actually increased jobs, I will sit here, say I ate crow and go, goddamn, good for you guys,

but that is not how business works. You're not wrong in that. And I think that, But I do think Netflix would have still, you still would have seen the same thing with, with job loss and everything too. But I think, Chris, anytime you condense two into one, you're going to lose a lot of stuff. You're going to still build some things too.

So I still think there's going to be a lot of loss on both sides. They're 100% is. I mean, Winston, you just brought up Disney Fox. You know, we had, what, 4,000 layoffs when that merger happened. So, I mean, it's going to be a just absolute bloodbath, you know? And just going again, back to this IndiWire. article. Layoffs will result, according to them, in about $6 billion in savings, but they have so much other debt. So they're trying to figure out where they can cut cost in general with these two

companies. So I've read stuff of like, are they going to decide whether or not Warner Brothers Gaming Division is completely superfluous? Are we going to merge these streaming companies as well? Are we going to be losing different content and content creation, too, as a whole? So they're going to be making big cuts, not just with particular jobs by going, oh, we have people from both sides of these companies that do that. We're also going to be losing a lot of the departments and different entertainment platforms that these two companies have, too. Sure. And I think, again, same same same conversation we had also with Netflix, right? Well, the one thing on the positive side, what we will get, obviously, you're not going to lose the or even have a worry about the theatrical

side of things, right, in the same way you did with Netflix. You didn't know what Netflix's goal was. Paramount clearly. And that is a positive. That is a positive. Paramount is in the theatrical game. But there will be questions about once movies, what starts to get greenlit, who they bring in. Luke brought up a good point of conversation too. He said one thing to look at like, you know, the politics didn't affect the new Star Trek series. And Ellison's running that. So, and that's one of the things.

Now, will it continue at? Well, who knows? You know, you got to take a look and you got to see. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's going to take some time. but I mean for every Star Trek, I can turn around and point out the number of other shows like on the CW or on CBS that got the axe.

And that were, and I'm from insiders that I know, writers, showrunners that were like, we've been given a mandate that we're not doing this anymore. You can't outrun Star Trek. It's Star Trek. Like you're going to get like Star Trek has always kind of been that. You know what I mean?

So like the fact that you have Michelle Nichols, like the first interracial kiss, all that kind of stuff. Like you cannot outrun. Star Trek, that's just in its DNA. But that's that big of an IP. Like, I'm looking at some of the small. South Park, they're saying too. South Park's another one. South Park also too big to fail at that point. Like, you know what I'm saying? They gave them that money because they're like, yo, we know where our bread is buttered. But that's what I'm saying is. But you just made the point. What you just

said there right there. It's about the business side of it. Right. So if Star Trek proceeds, South Park does it, whatever it might be. And you're you're more or less saying that just it just kind of limits the chances for new things to come and do that because these already proven entities and why, you know, piss where you sleep. And I get it. But I think you need to take a look, see who they're hiring. Now, the other question is going to be, are people, we'll see who's big on social media, big mouths on social media and who's, you know, really making a stance. Who's going to go and work for Paramount? You know, hey, I got a truckload of money for you. going to make a movie for us. We're going to make a promise for you that we're going to be able to do

because that's the thing. If so-and-so makes a big stance and says, whoever says, I don't want to do Paramount because I don't like their politics. I'm not getting into it. And then they say, go have a conversation with them. Let them know they're going to be able to make the same movie that they were going to be able to make the same movie. And that person feels good. They're going to get shit, first of all, oh, you're making a movie Paramount. Well, I'm able to do what I want to do and I'm able to make the movie on. And I'm not being handcuffed. People who feel handcuffed are going to go work for Universal. Are they going to work for Disney? Are they going to work for anybody else? So I think as business people, they're going to realize that, that you're going to lose.

Some talent's going to work with you. Some talent's not going to work with you. There's something inside of this report that said there was a blacklist that was, but then it was negated really fast. So who knows? But I want to jump into the actual one of the articles that talked about this so we can talk about me because there's, I mean, literally this is going to be the whole freaking show. You guys are looking, you guys are looking at 106, by the way. You need 106 to to tie 107 to get into the lead already at 21. So pretty good. I guess I can thank the Ellison's for one thing. Well, yeah, because you guys didn't, because you guys didn't have the advantage of getting Penny Barber questions. Did you see the picture, Winston?

No. How did Roxy get him? I am so mad. Why was I not called? Roxy was the star of that interview. That's why. I am furious. She's a sort of interview and then it turned into this. How does Shannon feel about that? That's the real question. It's corruption back. Well, what I want to know is Shannon feels within the first 30 seconds of that interview or the first three minutes of that interview, Penny got Mike to call her mommy.

So we're, well, make sure you watch that next Wednesday. Yeah. Make sure you watch on Wednesday. All right. Let's get into this topic. I got to find it. Uh, yes, yes. There you go.

All right. So I'm going to skip this. Netflix. This is from, well done, Luke. He pulled it released from comic book movie news, even though we're not talking comic book movies. Netflix officially backs out of the Warner Brothers bid. Paramount is now set to win. Uh, yes.

And there's still, by the way, this is not a finalized deal for everybody. There's also another report that they're still going to be looking into how this kind of came to be. see if it's if it's going to work i mean look with the way that politics work they probably will get it but again don't listen to anything i say when it comes to this because i have been wrong all the way through hours after winter brothers discovery declared paramount skydance bid a superior proposal netflix has decided to back out of the deal paramount's going to be the owner of warner brothers just a couple of hours after david zoloff led media company board declared paramounts bid a superior

proposal netflix announced that it declined to increase its offer and had officially pulled out of the bidding war. Netflix swift response has come as quite a surprise since the streamer had four business days to come up with the new proposal to salvage the deal. Ted Sarandos, Greg Peters, released the following joint statement. The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval. However, we've always been disciplined and at the price required to match Paramount Skydance's latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive. So we are declining to match the Paramount Skydance bid. Warner Brothers is a world-class organization, and we want to thank David Zazlov, Gunner,

with Weidenfields, Bruce Campbell, Brad Singer, and WBD Board for running a fair and rigorous process. We believe we would have been strong stewards of Warner Brothers, iconic brands, and that our deal would have strengthened the entertainment industry and preserved and created more production jobs in the U.S. But this transaction was always a nice to have at the right price, not a must have at any price.

Netflix's business is healthy, strong, and growing organically powered by our slate and best-in-class streaming service. This year we'll invest approximately 2,000, 20 billion quality films and series and will expand our entertaining offering consistent with our capital allocation policy. We also resume our share repurpose program. We will continue to do what we have done for more than 20 years as a public company, delight our members, profitably grow our business, and drive long-term shareholder value. We are pleased that the board has unanimously affirmed the superior value. This is with Netflix out. Paramount's latest bid is pretty

much a short thing, which delivers WBD shareholders superior value, certainty, and speed to closing. said before the backing out of Netflix. The assets they will get are TNT, CBS, CNN, MTV, that's the other thing. TCM, Showtime, Adult Swim, DC Studios, more on that in the moment. Nickelodeon, HBO, HBO Max, more on that in the moment. Comedy Central, more on that in a moment. Cartoon Network. Here are the film rights, Star Trek, Gremlins, Beetlejuice, DC Comics, Tom and Jerry, Harry Potter,

Citizen Kane, Transformers, Quiet Place, Looney Tunes, Conjuring, Mortal Kombat, Game of Thrones, Door of the Explorer, Mission Impossible, Lord of the Rings, SpongeBob, Avatar, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The first thing I want to actually discuss is the Netflix side of this. I stand by it even more so, where I said that right now, the goat of executives, it used to be for me 10 years ago was Bob Eiger, right? He has been dethroned by Ted Sarandos. Ted Sarandos, to me, is the best of the game. The best.

It was a really good deal, and this was a baller statement in the way that he did it. This was a baller statement. First of all, I do ask the question, and I don't know if it's a tin foil hat thing. I don't know. When I read this, I wonder, because he's such a baller, I wonder if there was never a plan for them to really buy it. I wonder if there was something where, because Snyder had reported this a long time, it was to drive up the price. and maybe it was one of those things where they were like,

holy shit, we got it? We got it. Wow. Like, yeah, they're going to come back. Like, as where I said beforehand, that I can't believe that this is how business is done. Ted Sarandos probably saw this 10 steps ahead and knew that this is probably what happened. They would try to do this. He's like, look, they want to, you know, spend their entire bank on this thing.

Let them do it. I'm not going past this. We'll go here. We get it for that? Great. If not, or they were blindsided like the rest of us. I don't know. Chris, what do you think of the statement and what do you think of the idea that maybe Netflix kind of saw this comment?

I think he plays this off really, really well. I think they probably had an inkling because this merger for the whole also has been kind of treated like, we don't need to have WB, but it'd be pretty cool. Isn't that be neat if we had them? It felt like a wantless, not a need list, you know, of them trying to do this. So I feel like there probably was already, you know, a little blood in the water, so to speak, and they knew this kind of thing was happening. I don't think the rug was pulled out from under them. I think this just broke to the rest of the trades and everything, and that's how we all found out about it.

But like you, it does just feel a little, a little suss. Feels a little icky just because it doesn't seem like how, you know, proper folk do business. Well, that's maybe just because I'm old fashioned. Yeah, I think he handled the statement really, really well, though, overall. Winston, how do you think they handle it? And what do you think about as far as did they know this was coming? Did they ever really have an intent to buy this thing?

What do you think? I mean, I think that it was one of those situations where this was a win-win for Netflix no matter what because you either A, did get Warner Brothers. And then you opened up by now owning one of the majors. Not that Netflix isn't up there, but like I'm talking about the old guard majors as far as studios and all that. goes. But B, like, I'm a big, you know, Starcraft, like RPG or I'm a strategy game guy.

I'm a big poker guy, all that kind of stuff. This feels like an opportunity where you've got, like, you know, a three-way battle and you go, if I can make things a little bit, like, we know this one's going to go down. But if I can go and make things harder for this third party over here, it's only going to help me in the future. I can just forced Paramount to spend more, way more than they wanted to and you've now put them in a bind that has only made you be like all right well whatever if we got it cool but we didn't you have now to put x y z amount of money and the fact that netflix's stock price jumped up like i think 10 or 15 percent after the announcement was that they were out like this actually only gave them more of like a uh some kind of clout there and and i think that's

that they that was actually genius business for them you either won like you won the property or you forced someone to pay way more. Right. I don't think they, I'm with you. I don't think they lose any clout on this, right? Because like Paramount,

Skydance needed this. They, they didn't have really anything to compete. Netflix did, regardless, even they don't know, they still are going to compete without Warner Brothers. They're still going to compete.

Paramount really didn't have much. I mean, they have the UFC, which is another, but that's for sports. for the entertainment side they didn't really have much you have a couple franchises but nothing really nothing that that is really getting people pumped this now it would have been to go back on you guys previous things we're talking about it would have really just been Netflix versus Disney

versus universal you know and then with apple going hey we'll we'll play around a little bit and and amazon going hey we got a couple things here and paramount going hey can we play but now it's paramount versus Disney versus Netflix with the rest of the scenario that I just painted out echoing itself. So it does become competitive. And maybe the consumers, as far as the entertainment side of things with movies, depending on how they do. And if they don't let politics get in the way, it could be something that we all benefit from. It's possible. As far as entertainment goes, as far, you know, the other side of it, whatever.

You guys got to talk about that on Roker's show. So when this is now, to me, there's more to it that comes down to the D.C. side of it, and we're going to get to that. But before we do, what do you guys make of all of this, the deal in general? Where are you? And what do you think about it? Put your thoughts in there. Let us know. But what you should do when you're watching this show, any other show that we do, you should be making a nice steak.

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You guys are in a good, you guys won last week, didn't you? No, no. Who won this week? Roxy won last week? Okay, well, you guys won recently. You're at... Like two or three. Winston, let's not correct him.

We won. No. So that'll be arrested. I always feel you guys are always the scariest ones because right now you're already at 30. We're only at 30 minutes into the show. So you got a good shot here. And I think a lot of people want to talk about this topic. So good day to be on the show for sure.

Now, normally on Fridays, what we do is we just really dive deep into the comic book movie news. But obviously, this story is too big to do that. However, the question is going to be posed. What the hell happens with DC now? because James Gunn seemed to be pretty locked in in general until the rumors started that they were going to start selling and doing all this and it was like, well, what's going to happen on James Gunn? What's going to happen there?

And everyone's like, well, Paramount gets it. He's screwed. The Netflix gets it. Oh, he's good. He'll be there for a little bit. Well, the first scenario is now presented itself. So what happens to DC in general of anything? So there's other plans of what Paramount wants to do with some of the assets.

so let's get into that. Paramount's plans for Warner Brothers for Warner Brothers Discovery, HBO Max, AI production, NDC Studios revealed. This is a comic book movie. Again, go to comicbook movie.com. This one is from Josh Wilden. Paramount Skydances plans for Warner Brothers Discovery have been revealed and with Netflix no longer part of the bidding process, big changes are indeed coming to the iconic studio. Yesterday, the big news broke that Netflix will not match Paramount Skydance's offer for Warner Bros. leaving the Ellison family-owned studio to acquire the company's film, television, and cable network assets. According to Bloomberg, Paramount intends to keep much of the company intact.

With chief executive officer and controlling shareholder, David Ellison, set to keep the creative teams of both Warner Brothers pictures and HBO in place. That likely bodes well for DC Studios co-CEO, James Gunn, and Peter Safran. The biggest change would be consolidation of marketing and distribution team. Interestingly enough, Ellison plans to merge HBO Max into the existing Paramount Plus streaming platform, so HBO Max will be no more, creating one service featuring the libraries of both companies to make Paramount Plus more compelling for subscribers. The report also reveals that Ellison will leverage artificial intelligence to produce more movies and TV shows and it tends to release 30 films a year from the combined companies. He's a big supporter of theatrical experience. However, there are still some concerns about David. and his billionaire father Larry, their close ties to President Trump,

and Paramount will soon own CBS News and CNN. Interestingly enough, Netflix CEO, Ten Sarandos, visited the White House yesterday to discuss the merger. Shortly after, Warner Road's discovery, issued a statement saying Paramount's bid constitutes a company superior proposal only for Netflix to immediately pull out, rather to attempt to match it. Many believe that Sarandos got bad news from the Trump administration, as the president was always expected to back Paramount

and didn't seem to appreciate Netflix's refusal to fire one of its board members who spoke out against him. Winter Brothers Discovery Chairman David Zazoff, meanwhile, had quite the change of tune. Netflix is a great company, and throughout this process, Ted, Greg Spence, and everyone there have been extraordinary partners to us. We wish them well in the future. Once our board votes to adopt the Paramount Merger Agreement, it will create tremendous value for our shareholders. We are excited about the potential of a combined Paramount Skydance and Winter Brothers Discovery. can't wait to get started to work together telling the stories that move the world. Zasloff stint in charge of Winterbrose discovery has been controversial,

whether it's scrapping near-completed movies as tax write-offs or beliefs. He's looking to line his pockets rather than do what's best for the studio. It's not exactly a popular figure in, he's not exactly a popular figure in Hollywood. As for what the likely merger of Paramount Skyd's Skydance and Winterbrose Discovery means for the average Joe, that is TBD. Very well written article, like that. So let's start with the, you know, Winston, your concern up top when we talked about it was the jobs that were being lost and teams were being fired. And this said they're going to keep a lot of teams intact, minus, you know, some there are going to be losses in any merger, obviously.

The marketing team and other things will probably see a hit some other things, but they look like they're keeping a lot of the jobs and keeping a lot of the things. So now does that stick? Does that continue to be like that? Who knows? And that's the same for DC, right? because I always thought it would be an error, regardless of your politics and everything, too, to go, well, I don't like what James Gunn does. So you know what I'm going to do?

You're gone. When we buy this, you're out of here. That's stupid. It's childish. What you say is, hey, look, what movies do you want to make? You got Supergirl coming out. You got Lanterns coming out. You got this other Superman movie coming out.

And then you got whatever it is. With this leadership, we'd like you to. you know, do a Batman movie, do this, we'd like to see that. And let's see how those do. If in the same thing that you just said before with like South Park and the other one, if those movies deliver and the receipts come in and they're making money, I'm going to let James going to do what he's going to do. However, if Supergirl underperforms, which the three of us think it will,

or at least think that it's going to do break even, right? and then Superman does okay he's going to be you know really I guess no pun intended to be going to be under the gun so the question it's I couldn't find another statement

Winston's no no I know I know I know I was like it's both that and dad brain bro you just you just get stuck my ass all right so go into there is that's right how do you see you said how can you Did you see the Sid the Squid thing?

Yeah, no, I did. I talked about on the show. Yeah. Oh, okay, good. All right, listen. I tuned in this week to make sure that mother didn't come take our job. Exactly. All right, so Winston, tell me about it then, man.

What do you think about, hey, the fact that it doesn't look like too many, he doesn't want to get rid of too many jobs right away. And then the second part of it with the C side of it, what's going to happen? Oh, I thought you meant Sid the Squid. I was like, if he comes in here and talks, starts talking. demanding I'd be fired. I'm a fight that little kid. I don't even know where the camera is. You could be like, it's right there, you stupid bitch. And he was like, I'm, Verizon. So as far as the DC side of it goes, I think what really needs to happen is, again,

it sounds like there was still a plan at play, let enough of it play out and then make a decision. But obviously that, and this is going to take time. Just because this has now been announced, this is still going to take a decent amount of time. We're still looking at a year, maybe to, to like finalize everything. Because you also have to throw in the fact that, you know, I'm curious. I know the WGA had like filed something against the Netflix side of it. I wonder if they do the same here.

But that being said, I think you give it time and you at least let's see where stuff is going. But yeah, if Supergirl doesn't perform at least to break even or barely losing money, there is a high probability that all of a sudden you're going to see a lot of stuff get the axe, I think, is probably what will end up. I just is going to be a tighter leash. Yeah. It's going to be a tighter leash, Chris.

I think that because, you know, and to be fair, I think that no matter where you are, that should be the goal. It should have been that if Netflix got it, right? Like, you've got some time to prove that you, that this is the right plan. And I think that if they're going to do that, and the looks, again,

they're bringing the creative teams, letting them do what they're going to do, what they're going to do. Let's see. James goes pretty outspoken. If it turns out that his stint is over, whatever it might be,

and then he was pressured to do things. We'll hear about it. I think that's part one. Part two is, remember this, his deal only goes until, what is it, 2027, I think they signed it until Winston. Is it 202027? That sounds right, yeah.

There is no guarantee that this merger is going to go through anytime soon. It could, even if it happens in a year and a half or a year, right, from now, let's say it happens a year from now and 2027, March of 2027. And so he's either going to sign a new deal of Paramount right away when it starts and they're going to sign him to another two years or something or he's going to just go, okay, I'm going to, you know, I'll work until my contract's out and then I'm out of here and I want to be here.

So there's no guarantee that he's even going to be. there throughout the entire merger. So, Chris, how do you feel? How did you, you know, same question. A, the jobs seems like whether or not, it seems like a lot of them are going to be secure still, some losses, for sure. But what do you think about the D.C. side of it? And then the other thing we haven't really talked about, the merging of HBO in,

and no more HBO Max. And now it's, now it's going to just be Paramount Plus. Oh, man. And with such a legacy name like Mac. How could it have failed? I just want to be a little salty about it. You know, I tend to be a little bit more skeptical about these business practices. And so I think we will see maybe just some layoffs at first.

Because I brought up the Disney Fox merger and how we had an initial about 4,000 layoffs. But then each quarter, we continue to have more and more of those. You know, if you have friends who are working in production here in L.A. or in other major, markets, you've seen this kind of, not tidal wave, but this slow incoming stream of you guys need to look for other jobs. You need to try to find work elsewhere. It's coming for you. And so I feel like that's probably still what we'll see here is. Sure, we're only cutting this many jobs right now. I think they will continue to cut, especially since they're trying to put so much into AI right now. And that is, I know that I am the first to be very very.

anti-this. It is something that is just leaking into our industry, whether we like it or not. It just right now is not performing at the level it needs to. And then humans have to pick up the slack. Just as a example story, a QC team, a quality control team is used for publishers now, a lot of times for audiobooks. That robot makes mistakes all the time and doesn't understand like different accents or things like that or misses things. So then actual human beings have to go correct it and then ends up taking more time. I was talking to some other people in production where they were talking about they just signed on to work for an AI company. I was like, hey, if that's what you want to do, that's what you want to do. And they run into

complications all the time because the technical technology is just not there and they end up doing the hours. So I feel like they're going to be trying to outsource a lot of things to AI, have other people cover up for it, try to do stuff for a while. And that's going to ultimately use up a lot of funds too, just trying to train these new models that they want to implement. Because that's just how this works. You have to train the technology first. So that's going to take up time and eventually lead to more layoffs and more cost. And then when it comes to D.C., we've talked about this so much before, too, I just think that it is going to be a waiting game thing.

Because why do you cancel something if it is successful? Why do you cut it off at the knees if people are liking it? Because regardless, honestly, of your politics, it would be foolish to go, you know, we just don't like the same team, so I'm going to go ahead and get rid of this filmmaker. Right. Like, that's not smart business practice. regardless of your belief system. 100%.

And so I feel like they are going to wait out and go, hey, have these films been performing well? Then can we come to some kind of conclusion where we all are happy enough to continue working together? How can we make that go forward? Because we just started this new universe, really. We need to see how it can go. We need to see where it can fly. And I feel like any business owner, any person who would have bought the company wouldn't immediately tell James Gunn his business. I think it would be a, let's see what we're doing.

Like next year, not next quarter. Let's just have those little benchmarkers in place. Look, anytime anybody gets a new boss, you either are going to find you're going to have less, you know, room to work or you're going to have a little bit more room to work. I think he'll probably have a little less in this circumstance. But I don't think, like you said, Chris, it would have been stupid to just. say, hey, we didn't like a lot of the things that you did because of our politics line up differently than yours. So because of that, you're fired. That you would have, you would have gotten yourself in hot water with a lot of the fan base, but the fact, but you can say, all right,

deliver for us. Like, let's see your plan. Now deliver for us. And I think that's what's going to happen. Now, as far as the HBO Max, Paramount thing goes, I get it, Winston, I really do. I understand. Like I, I, I, from someone who grew up on the HBO comedy specials and all of that and, and that's another thing that I'm very curious about. I do. I think Paramount's, um, comedy thing is going to blow up because I think, I think there's a lot of, the one thing that you will, that, that has happened in comedy, is that, and I can say

it doesn't matter politics or not. It, people have tried to silence comedians, um, very much so. and bringing the freaking cell phones into comedy clubs to me is it was one of the worst things that ever happened. But I feel like Paramount will be a place where some people will say, okay, yeah, we'll go and we'll, we'll do some stuff there. Netflix is still going to be a big place because Netflix, Netflix is very, that's what I liked about Netflix.

Is that Netflix says they corner the market on. They're the thing that I like the best about media. and it's like, yeah, we'll put someone on that has this point of view, and then we're going to put someone on that's this point of view. That was the other reason why I like them better. I'm with you. I'm with you. But as far as the, you know, HBO watching that comedy,

watching those shows growing up, HBO was always a thing, it was like such a big name. I'm with Chris. I hate the fact they changed it over to Max and everything too. But what they're going to do now is they're going to, and I hate that I'm saying this, but on the business side, this is the right move. if you have Paramount Plus and you've been trying to build up this thing,

you're really, the name of the thing is Paramount. It's not as confusing as Max. It's Paramount Plus. And then someone goes, oh, I'm going to watch Game of Thrones on Max. Like, no, you're not. Why not? Because it's on Paramount Plus. They're going to find it now.

They'll find it. But I think the other thing, too, is if I'm just looking at the layout of the two, the HBO Max layout and like user interface is significantly better than Paramount. plus is. I don't know if it's because Paramount Plus was working on a shoestring budget, but I've always found that that app of all of them is one of the way. It's like Peacocks user interface really bites. And then Paramount Plus is any better. So I mean, maybe if you're bringing in the people that programmed Max, it'll get better and whatnot. But I feel like, again, what doesn't make sense to me is not going with the thing that is the stronger of the two. So in that case, because of HBO

Max, because of the prestige of it all, everything else, the Paramount Plus, I, I get it. Maybe part of it is because of the UFC thing you just signed. Yeah. So maybe that has something to do with it. But I don't know why you don't then use Paramount Plus put all your sports. You already have a deal with the NFL because of CBS. You have UFC. Then let that be your sports and news and whatever and let HBO Max be your movies and your shows.

And then that way you find a way to still end up charging people for two different streaming services. But you kind of keep the prestige that's over there. I mean, we made fun of Warner Brothers for getting rid of the HBO name on HBO Max. Why would you potentially do the same thing here? I don't know. That's just, I see, there's a difference there.

I think because with Warner Brothers, you already had the deal and you bought HBO Max. Like you, that was, that was the thing. There wasn't a Warner Brothers Plus. There wasn't, there wasn't that thing.

Paramount Plus and Paramount is the name. It's not HBO. They're just acquiring all this stuff. And now, Game of Thrones will no longer be an HBO show. It'll be a Paramount show. Which sounds wild. It sounds wild, but that's what it is.

And so it makes more, if I was in the board, I'd be like, look, I get it. I get what we're buying, but we're really trying to build up our streaming service. And it would be weird if we're going, okay, you know what? We're going to do Paramount Plus representing HBO Max. It's like, no, it's Paramount Plus show. That's what it is. So I'm also curious. So what do we start calling stuff now?

So like, remember, like Fox, as far as that went, Fox News still exists. because they didn't buy that. And the Fox TV network, they also couldn't have that, so they left that alone, but like it became just 20th century. So does that mean going forward, there's no more Warner Brothers movies?

Or like, how does this... Great question. Great question. I don't know. I mean, are they going to condense it into just Paramount movies?

Or are they going to do, you know, Warner Brothers movies also? Don't know, because that's the difference. See, here's a difference. Where I think that HBO Max, yes, it carries a big name.

It doesn't carry as big of a name as Warner Bros. Brothers. You know what I mean? Right. So and if you could, you're basically just going to dissolve Warner Brothers and not have the name anymore. I don't know if that's, I don't know that's smart. And it's almost, I use, I use Chris, like the example that I've used in the past with the old school WWF and WCW, which by the way, I think that once, mark my words on this one, once there's this stupid contract with ESPN is done, Paramount's going to wind up getting WWE. But that's, that's, that's, that's, that's in years from now. But the old school WF, also WCW, WF buys WCW, their competition, and then they

dissolved WCW with some stupid storyline that they had. It was horrible. And then they dissolved the company. I always thought it should have run as a separate organization within their organization. I think that would have been two brands that you could have built out. And they might, Chris, still be able to do the same thing with Warner Brothers. How do you feel? Sure. I mean, I don't want to seem like I'm a calcitent to change. I mean, not. I feel like, you know, do what works. Make sure that you can be innovative. But there are just certain qualities that are associated with these various brands that are in here. HBO. I still am one of those people who knows, you know, it's not TV. It's HBO.

And HBO show, like that has a different kind of connotation to it. That is on a whole different echelon. When we think about Paramount, you know, that is a classic studio that I love being able to walk around. Warner Brothers. has a, what, 30 Oscar nominations? So I also associate Warner Brothers with prestige as well. So when it comes to taking away the name of any of these things, there is a kind of heartbreaking quality to it. There is this kind of John Proctor-esque, you need your name.

It does mean something quality here. That I don't know how you navigate that in a way that makes one everyone happy. And you won't because that's how compromises are or how mergers are. but I don't know what you lead with because when I think Paramount Plus, I don't think about the tons and tons of shows I want to watch. When I think about HBO, I do think about these more interesting worlds that I get to escape to. And that's my own preference. That's my own kind of thing.

So I would want to keep HBO as my streamer and have that name on there. But if you're the company buying that, it feels a little weird to put yourself in the backseat. So I'm just not even sure how you would navigate that. I don't have a hard opinion either way just because I don't know what I would do. The other thing that I think we have to also make very clear is that today, in the same way that when Winston was talking about Disney and the Fox merger and when that story was going on, and it was like, oh, this is going to be the worst thing. Eventually, you just ate your broccoli.

You know what I mean? You just eat the broccoli. He said, I don't want to eat the broccoli, but you ate the broccoli. Eventually, people are going to eat the broccoli. Now you can complain. Maybe it wasn't fresh broccoli. And maybe you made me eat broccoli that has been sitting on the shelf for too long. But maybe it says broccoli is not that bad.

We don't know. But people are going to eat the broccoli. Because who do you? You're not going to see movies. You're going to see them. No, I mean, I hear what you're saying about that. But the difference is, though, there is a difference when you shrink, if you're this big and you're shrinking down to this. Sure.

Versus this down to this. Now you're getting a situation where things might upend. just a little bit because, again, the reason we have, like, you know, monopoly laws and whatnot here in the first place is because having the competition, having the diversity of stories and options and things like that ultimately lead to whatever said growth. The more that this kind of shrinks down, I don't necessarily buy that as much. I hear what you're saying. You think people are going to boycott Paramount and not see their movies? It's not, it's not necessarily that. They're not going to watch Game of Thrones.

You're not going to watch Harry Potter. They're not going to watch these things. No, no, no, no, that's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying from the standpoint of you can deal with more of those said mergers when you're this far out. The more it shrinks in, I think, it's just going to cause more issues. That's more what I'm saying. Sure, issues. There's still issues with the other stuff, too.

I agree. But like I said, when I'm talking about the, you eat the broccoli analogy, is that fact that eventually you're just going to say, all right, movies is coming out. we're going to see it. When the DC movie comes out, you can see it. We're going to talk about it. You're going to give your review on it. You're going to get out of the theater reaction. You're going to talk about it. You might see something in there. You're like, you know what? I think this would have been different. If Netflix would have gotten it, you might very well say that. You're still going to see it. You're still going to watch the movies. You're still going to see the stuff on. Now, I'm not going to say there's not going to be some people that decide they're not going to watch it anymore. Today, they say it, though. I just don't know for people who really, like, there are people who want to watch

you know the new the house of the drive or someone who's a big fan a night of the seven kingdoms and they're like oh you know what I like that show so much but now they're on Paramount I'm not watching it you full of shit you full of shit you're gonna watch some some people will but it'll be a very small

number very small number and and the only way that something really goes kind of tits up in that regard would be if you're talking about a if you really do something that like so incredibly egregious within the show or something like that,

that would be the only way that you would just see that happen, but on a mass scale. Now, the flip side to that, again, not jumping too much in the political side, but just to make a point, if CNN becomes a very different network, you're going to see tons of people drop off of that. You might see a bunch of new people come in, but you're going to see the dynamic change dramatically if that's what happens on that network. because that's a different story. That's a different thing.

That's where politics will get involved and will shift that dynamic of who you want in, who you want out. That's part of it. But the movie stuff, it depends on how it's run. So we'll see. I'll tell you what my genuine dream and hope for this happening is I do hope that this sparks some sort of kind of like counterculture revolution. And we actually see a rise in independent filmmaking.

that to me, I think, would be the biggest thing. I understand that money makes the world go around for everything. But I really, really hope as this consolidation happens, because the other thing that this consolidation will do is it means that blockbusters are the only things that are going to really get attention is because you are, we also know that like paramount is what, I think, 87 billion, something like that in debt. So they're going to have to, like we mentioned shed jobs and everything else.

You're only going to be able to do so much because you're going to have to pay this money to do this in the first place. You got to pay the out deal to Netflix now for them not getting this. So I really hope that this encourages a lot of independent filmmakers to make their visions come true on their own scale. Because I think one of the things that the industry has been hurting for for a while has been this push to here's a $400 million budget. Go bring me a billion dollars. Like I want to see more of the first five night at Freddy's of the blackening of like, here's five million dollars. shit you brought me 20 that's that i really hope we get more of that and that is what it encourages a lot of people to do as this shakeup happens i'm confused by this comment sticking your head in the

saying and acting like trump is the major person trying to who is someone in the comment saying that pushing sticking who's sticking their head in their sand about it because we literally wrote read and they're probably not talking us because we literally talked about it in the i mean they said it in that article also that he went there he talked to him and there's a possibility that because Netflix didn't reprimand the one guy that is possible that that helped it. And they didn't, they didn't, you know, kissed a ring, if you will. And that's probably heard it as well, too. But he's probably talking, you're probably talking about the chat.

It doesn't make any sense. I was talking about it. Again, we try. If you don't do politics, politics does you. It's involved in everything in your life, you guys. You said that's a much nicer way than I like to say. Yeah. And so that is why it is important to just have, have some semblance of knowledge.

it is really privileged just go, I don't need to know about that. Because then that probably just means you're a person who is not negatively affected by stuff. And it's important because if anyone is negatively affected, we should know, like the pros and cons to anything. All right. All right. 100%. So before we move on to the questions, I want to ask the audience again, what do you

think about the future of DC? When you met the future of HBO Max and Paramount Plus, all of that and more. put your thoughts in there, please let us know. Now, before we move on to the questions, one of the other things, as I said, it does seem more so that this is going to be a finalized deal more so to me now because of what we just talked about, because of the politics side of it, that it would probably get pushed through.

But it's not a done deal yet. And so one of the things here, California Attorney General plans a flag on the Paramount Warner Brothers merger. It's not a done deal yet. If the Justice Department and foreign regulators approve the deal, it'll be up to State Attorney General to challenge the merger. California's top prosecutor is stepping in on Paramount's proposed merger with Warner Bros.

Discovery, Paramount Warner Brothers is not a done deal. California Attorney General Rob Bontas said on Thursday, these two Hollywood Titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny. The California Department of Justice has opened a... an investigation and we intend to be vigorous in our review. Want to wait in on the merger hours after Netflix declined to raise its bid for Warner Brothers, which all but positioned Paramount as the winner of the bidding war. The David Ellison-led company's offer will almost surely be accepted by the board.

If the government rubber stamps the deal is largely expected, the only approval Paramount would need to complete the mergers from European regulators. Another consideration is potential lawsuits from states looking to block the acquisition. California will also surely lead any. effort on this front. In a statement last week, Bontes said his office would investigate any deal involving Warner Brothers to film and entertainment industry not only has historical importance to our state. It is also a critical sector that voiced the state's Academy of California and touches the lives of Americans daily. The proposed Warner Brothers transaction must receive a full

and robust review and California is taking a very close look. Earlier this month, the lawsuit was followed by consumers in California federal court to block the deal. case provides another path to stop the acquisition, though it's largely viewed as a long shot. Again, I do think that this also plays more so into the politics side of things, too, right? It's like it does seem like it's California versus, you know, you get Newsom versus Trump. And that seems to be a thing there too.

So that's going to be a massive thing as that goes. We'll challenge it because that's what we do. and I don't think though they're going to be, I think Netflix had more against them on the political side of things of this thing getting blocked than Paramount does. But I don't know, Winston, do you see that differently? No, not necessarily.

I mean, again, yeah, that's the thing. California is especially because that's where shifting, but that's where a lot of Hollywood is still very centrally localized. So they will push back on it. And again, I think the bigger things, thing that above all else, like looking at the, you know, the jobs element of it and everything else. Again, monopoly laws are in place for reasons. We have seen, you know, the current,

you know, federal administration, this administration essentially just this idea of they kind of do what they want in a lot of ways. And so it'll be interesting to at least trying to stop a potential monopoly to make sure every T is crossed and every I is dotted that this is actually something that is not going to be that problem. There is more conflict of interest, in my opinion, because of what Paramount already owns in a lot of these sectors. It's part of the reason why Disney left behind the TV and the news element of it for that same reason, you know, to kind of deal with those regulatory issues.

So, again, all of that will be very interesting to see how that plays out. So I think that California probably will really look at that because I don't think. that the you know trump's doj would so it'll be interesting to see what the california doj does what do you think yeah i'm in agreement with with winston here also just because um i mean one the california versus everyone else was a moment of was this written by my dad who did this uh because this is every conversation i have with jeff carr but i i think also for those who don't know gavin newsome he can be petty when it comes to this stuff so i feel like he because he and trump are usually kind of button heads too. He's going to really, really go after the, uh, the monopoly of it

all and, and try to push for for this to kind of get sussed out as well. Um, and yeah, we had the WGA talk about the Netflix deal. I am absolutely sure that they are going to make a statement about this one as well. SAG didn't have as firm as a stance as the WGA, unsurprisingly, and, uh, just said that they were monitoring this. So I'm sure we will hear similar stuff. from them. Because again, as much as people like to act like, oh, everyone who's in, you know, like the WGA or SAG, they're all liberals and they all want this kind of stuff. They want to work.

People want to work. People want to work. And I don't see at least the actors union really coming hard out against this, honestly, unless the WGA, the DGA teamsters and stuff really make a push. The actors union is usually the last to make a statement about these kinds of things. And a statement that actually means something. You got to, all you got to do is look at how those strikes in 2023 went down. And that, that's the funny thing.

WGA was playing hardball. And to that point, SAG did what they could in a lot of ways, but it got dragged along because they just, it's, they're very different unions in that regard. Yeah. All right. So what do you think? You think this is going to go through? Is it going to get blocked? Is California going to be the, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, well,

Or is it's just going to go through and it's going to be a lot of noise. Put your thoughts in there. Let us know. All right, guys, moment of truth. 46 so far. All right. Pretty good. Good start.

One hour. Need about, yeah, we've got about an hour. And you need just around 60 to tie 61 to win. So let's start. Black History, Mom. Almost. Yeah, it's still there. Yeah, that's right.

Johnny Petriza, Pokemon, Generation 10 announced. Palm Bond for the wind. Samota. Shandu Sam subumba, same subduba. I don't know anything that I just said. All right, Johnny Brees. They're so cute.

They are pretty cute. Dude, that little lion one? Damn. Watching clips of S.E.N. And I found Lil Wynn. So funny. That little win was the best. Dude, that shit was wild.

I forgot about that. So good. Where do you find? It's hilarious. I found clips. of SCN. I didn't even know that clips were there were clips of SCN. Yeah, they're still around somewhere. I don't know. I need to watch them. Because I got to send him because

so Smets is coming on the show on Wednesdays now. He's going to be he's going to be two Wednesdays out of the month. And he's also helped me out with like a bunch of shorts and stuff too. So I would love to send him. I actually sent him something about the

Barnaby Mortal Kombat story from SCN that I told. So I'd love to get some Sien clips. Michael Would you say Hoppers is dark in some parts the same that Wild Robot was? They have some Wild Robot elements for sure. Or is it more tailored to our kids only? I think it's more tailored towards kids, but there definitely is, there's a moment that feels the Wild Robot.

It's not, but Wild Robot does get a little darker. And I like Wild Robot better. But I definitely am going to take my eight-year-old to see this because I think she'll really enjoy it. And if you love nature, too, another thing too. It's a very nature heavy film. The real J. Ron became a member. What a time to be a member. Notice all the members that we have right now and with all the, and I, every time I see new members, and there's another member we just got here with Josh, Ennis, thank you, Josh.

So anytime I get a new member, I want to tell you guys, not only the benefits of the unedited, we just dropped another Game of Thrones episode today and then we'd have the unedited watch long as you can watch with those. We have a bunch of different things that we do on the Patreon and on membership. But one of the main things is the one time a month, we do an exclusive stream. Anybody who's a member should be submitting questions because you can get your question in there,

but anybody who's a $5 member or an over can join the stream via video call and say hello. So you should please, please, please, please do that. Tim Sim, probably for a super chat of the day. Thank you, Tim. Well, DC Comics, it might have been nice knowing you, you too, HBO. but what do you mean DC comedy?

HBO the name I get it. What do you mean? I think he probably meant more specifically DCU. But I don't know. If I had to guess, I think he specifically means the DCU. Yeah. Yeah, but I again, after what we just said and they have no plans of fire. That's, to me, Tim, you know I love you.

I think that's chicken little stuff. Andrew Carnes. But however, the HBO Max part of it is true. The name is gone and that sucks. Sorry to be that. guy by the Epstein file show that Epstein wired money directly to the Ellison. So yes, I'm feeling down in this maniac now control super pets. You don't have to apologize for me. Look, like I said, we don't normally talk about those things, but it pertains to this story.

I don't know enough about it. That whole thing is so messy and gross and disgusting. And the fact that human beings in general could do a portion, a portion of what's in those files makes me question what human beings are in general. Like, if you're you read any of the stuff, the possibilities and the things. I mean, it's important. It's, I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I don't want to get into it.

So I don't know what their involvement was. That is concerning. You're not wrong. But again, I don't know what the involvement was. You look at all the stuff going on with Hillary Clinton yesterday. I don't know what the involvement was those two. I don't trust any of them. I don't trust any of them.

I don't trust the Ellicons. I don't trust the Clintons. I don't trust Trump. I could trust nobody because they're all full of shit. So I don't know. I don't know. But like you said, that's, that is concerned. Matthew Garrett, it told you Paramount will win.

Pennywise? Pennywise told me. When did he tell me? I've, just so curious. When did he tell me that? It told me that Paramount will win. Shit, money talks. And this is,

the best for the future of Hollywood, but more importantly, the world. Pennywise is back. Oh, wow. Pennywise is best. The whole world? And he's a fantasy. Praying the Shia gets help. Recovery is a mofo. Also, Sam's episode six reaction should be quite entertaining to see.

All of her reactions. Dude, you've got me rewatching Game of Thrones through Sam now. Just for the Red Wedding reaction, I've now gone back and started watching y'all's reactions of all this. Yeah, I'm very, very curious what people are. going to think about her. Like, I don't want to, if there's, there's something that happens in season five, episode 10, which we have not got to yet, she is going to lose her mind. She's going to lose her mind. Is that the thing you text me about? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. She's going to lose her mind.

So as far as shy, I goes, yeah, man, it's, it's, it's, it's heartbreaking to see anybody go through that, you know, horrible. Armada. Paradise Season two is off to a good start. art. It is. Did you watch your Chris? Yeah, yeah. I liked it. Yeah. Man, Shaley Woodley, they really love to do one thing to her in shows. Yeah. I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen stuff, but it's just she, her characters are always what every sex ed teacher warned me about.

You're going to get pregnant. Just once. Oh. All right. Let's see. Next one here after this one. Shut up Ralph. Once Upon a Time, Hollywood, Ming, yes. He was supposed to come in today. I had to move it. That's our next movie that he and I are going to watch is once upon a time in Hollywood. Yes. Bobby Jacks. I know this sounds weird, but I felt like I got punched in the gut by the news. I legitimately felt sad and hurt when I heard Netflix backed out. You're not you're not the only one. I'm telling you. This guy was whaling last night.

Really, the guy that I heard the news from. Wiley O.C. Are you guys watching shrinking? The newest episode, ends with a cover of a song by Jason Segal. It's so good. SunTrack on top next to pit. Their music is really good. I still need to finish season two. I've,

I only got through the first season, not because it's a good, not a good show. I just, I've sometimes, like, I did the whole first season of, like, the morning show, and I loved it, and I just never get back.

So I need to circle back. Yeah, see, like, I know myself. And when I'm watching something, I'm like, okay, I'm really like, I really like, I watched season one when I had COVID at one point. I just barreled through it when I was still in California when I watched it. And it was one of those things got me through it.

And then I started watching season two with my wife and she just wasn't getting into it. I was like, I'll get back to it. And I didn't. But I did start watching Peaky Blinders. And I just finished episode one. And I'm like, this is the, I think I'm going to, I can find myself locking into this show. Did you either one of you guys watch peekie blinders? My husband's obsessed with it.

So have you seen it? I've seen a couple episodes. That's one of his shows. Shrinking is great though, guys. Get back into watching it. And the music's good. Well, and it's Krista Miller, who, she's the actress on the show, but she's the music supervisor. She has impeccable taste.

But like the work Harrison Ford is doing on that show is the best stuff he has done. And I don't know how long. He is incredible. He was so good in episode in season once, I can only imagine. Tim Sim. If you ask me, HBO is gone, frustrating after. The Night of the Seven Kingdom's got us back to Game of Thrones. DC Comics is gone.

John Oliver is gone and visionary plans for movies like sinners are gone. WBS the Iconic Studio is gone. Again, I love you, Tim. Today, today, that's chicken little to me. Today, the fear of saying, if you're like, my fear is that I don't think that they're going to do stuff like sinners. I don't think that DC Comics in the way that it was work, is going to do it. That's my fear. And I think that's fair.

definitively, it always makes me go, you don't know it yet. I'm going to say you wrong. I think that's why I think that's why he prefaced it with if you ask me. That's, that's a thing in my opinion. Okay. That's fair. Then that's fair. If you ask me, okay, so in my opinion, HBO is, I think HBO is going to be gone. I don't think they're going to work to us. I understand the fear in the same way that when we open this up with Winston and we said, like, I get the fear. I get it. Let's see what happens in a year or two and we could be back here Tim going you were right dude sucks like nothing would make me happier than to find out that Ellison is like no we actually we're CNN can do whatever they want and and all the movies that you guys want to do they can all

do whatever we just literally wanted to just you just wanted to be fucking rich whatever do everything can then who knows maybe maybe they're the most open minded group of all time but but what I worry about again is jobs and you're going to see a shrink yeah let's go back to But it goes back to what you just said beforehand, right, about business, Chris, right? Like, so if you look and you look at the money and the accord that Ryan Cougar got with sinners, right? And what did I read to you guys in that article about the creative? It's the same team.

They're not getting rid of DeLuca and Abdi. So, Tim, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what are you talking about. Like, we're the Luca and Abdi. I think that we can have a little bit of this concern. And this is why it's one of those, hey, this is in the back of my, my. too and I do want to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.

But, and I got checked in the chat here, Colbert. Like, there's a wildly popular late show that supposedly is being canceled because of financial reasons because of the network. That's, that's not true. Bullshish, political. But there's 100%.

That's why I understand why people are going, I didn't like that and I could see them doing this over here. So I can see why that's a concern, but totally. Let's see where the chips land. I see the concern too, but the difference is going back to what we talked about with the yes it's a comedy show but it's a political show they're going to shift for whatever you think for you know your your political views for some it's

going to be a disastrous i'm never watching that shit again and others is going to go okay it's going to see more in my way but they're going to shift that way and those types of shows that lean on the other side they're getting rid of on the political side things so the concerns there for those types of shows i mean look the same thing goes for like what's going to have like bill mars on on on HBO Max, right? So he leans left, but he sometimes has kind of conservative views too. So I don't know. Maybe he survives.

I don't know. I have no idea. But the point is when it comes to the movies, though, they got the creative team still in place. Like they still got Abdi, they still have the Luca. They still have the people who brought in Ryan Kulgar to say make those movies. They still have them. They get rid of them and bring in new people with very different, you know,

philosophies. and then that's a concern, but they're not going anywhere. Okay, let's see. So 58 right now, David Jardaya, movies will be fine. They want to make money. Money talks, especially with blockbusters. This whole exhibition is a political move for CNN, my opinion. I don't think you wrong.

I don't think it's the only reason, but I think it's a major reason, and I think it's a way to appease Trump, for sure, because he hates CNN. Sure. For sure. Bobby Jackson, I'm getting my first comic in years today, the new history of D.C., the Dakota incident. Do you think we'll ever see Milestone characters? So tell me about that because I don't know anything about it. Yeah, the Dakota incident.

I haven't read it quite yet. I'm curious if they're doing that as a means to talk about the whole Big Bang again, which is what gave Static his powers. But more or less, what you're doing with the Dakota incident is bringing the milestone stuff back into the DC Universe Fold. So icon, static, all of those characters, getting that kind of opportunity. I think the only thing that people were a little upset about is the idea that like typically there is a break between physical release and

digital release and they released them on the same day, which was going to hurt physical sales a little bit. So people weren't super happy about that. But all you're doing is potentially bringing static being probably the biggest name, I would say, out of milestone. But you're bringing that back into the fold, which I think is awesome. Okay. Let's see after that is Tim Sim. again. Also, a big question. Where does this leave Sony? Columbia? I leave Sony out of the picture every time I talk about the studios. Yesterday, yesterday I left out Universal and today I left out Sony. I forgot about them. I forgot about them. And I think they have a better, they got a better shot at doing stuff than Universal does right now. So Sony's also, where does I leave?

Comcast Universal in Disney. Also, other studios, I mean, Universal is the next one, in line to be bought is what people were saying. So that'll be, that'll be the next thing. Everybody will forget about this one. Then everybody would start talking about that. B-Miles, 75. Can I please get Winston and Chris's top 10 movies from 2025? Love the show.

Do you guys have a top 10? Putting it together is going to take too long. Winston, you had one. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on. Go to the next one. I'll go.

Make a gun, sinners, K-pop demon hunters, Hamnet, good boys. Sorry, Baby, The Ballad of Willis Island, three more movies that I can't do this right now. Did you ever see the balty morons? No, I need to. You should see. You would love it. Oh, I did finally watch Night of the Seven Kingdoms, though.

You were right. I was obsessed with it. It's such your type of show because he's such a good guy and him. And let me guess, you love egg. I love egg. I would burn the world for him. and dunk, smooch him.

Oh, what a tall drink of water. He was a nice boy. Ooh. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's really good. Winston, have you watched that? Yeah. Well, no.

Okay, it's really good. So good. Comic movie dead. Unfair to be definitive. But if the Ellison's walk and talk, the big in front of the biggest bigot, be real. Does sinners get made under Ellison's WB?

Again, did Abdi and DeLuca get fired? Did Abdi and Dulca get fired? Did Abdi and Deli and Luca get fired? So the answer is yes. As of today with that team, it probably still gets made. Now, if they get fired and if they are, if they're and the way that that would happen, or if they leave and the reason why they would leave is because of stuff like, hey, we have a really great idea. We have a Ryan Cougler or, you know, a Jordan Peel or somebody who has a great, great idea that wants to do something.

And they said no, because that's not what we're doing anymore. And the Luke and Ab are you going to leave. You're going to leave. So, yes, today I think it will, because they kept the team. So yes. In my opinion, Armada, eight. The other thing to keep in mind with a lot of this stuff, you're not going to see this immediately because one, again,

they've got to finish the deal, but two, even with, look at like when skydance bought paramount there's stuff that it's already in the fire that's already set whatever unless you really hate something you those changes come a year two years later so you're starting to the only stuff that moves that quickly is again if you want to go down that route you could look at CBS news because that moved like that and news just moves differently movies and TV shows they do not happen that fast it takes time yep um okay let's say first got a war pick looks a little bit like cosplay,

but we'll see how the show will be. Unless I'm very pumped to see what it'll be. I'm looking forward to that trailer. Because I like that game. I actually did play that. I can't remember which one it was, but I really enjoyed it. Do you guys see that picture, by the way?

No, I just saw the casting announcement like a little while ago, but I haven't seen it. It was today. It came out today. Ken Yonaki 7. Danny Phantom with the Teen Titans. Kind of cool. What's that?

I would be bad about that team up. Danny Phantom was a Nick cartoon and then Teen Titans, DC. Okay. Gleek the monkey, what's up, man? The last report about Gunn was in October and Bloomberg said Ellison plans to keep

the creative teams intact. Gun might leave like Sheridan, if anything. Let's see what happens with the contract. And again, let's see how Supergirl does. Let's see how Man of Tomorrow does. And then if he winds up leaving, it'll be, Because the movie didn't do well.

Yeah, we'll see. Confess Sorti, considering how Paramount has treated a small business. Also true. Also true. She finishes up, I'd say I'm trepidious how they will, what they will do with WBIP. Yeah, we just got to see. She's a great word for it. Yeah, 100%.

I think that's, I think it's a fair word for it. Yeah. Ray Dominguez, have faith, Mr. Marshall. Paramount wants to make movies for theaters. Netflix sees theaters as a rival. I mean, yes. I have said multiple times that that was not a good that was my beef with Netflix is what that meant

for the theatrical of it all. But I have heard more talk about AI and largely because the Ellison's own a large AI kind of conglomerate shit than I have heard over at Netflix. So like six and one half a dozen of another as far as whatever poison you want here, you know? Armada, you saw that Kat Williams is opening a film a lot

in Alabama, really? Oh, well. Not sure. Mad Dog 1-4-2-4. I think Paramount should drop CNN like Disney did with Fox News. I don't know if that's possible, but I'd like it. On the IP theater side, I like Paramount more. No, I think that that was the whole point, though. I think it was part of the play. It was part of their class. They're not going to do that. They point CNN. That was a big political move for sure. Edit the movies. Hate this merger. Once Ellison came in, I canceled Paramount Plus. Now I canceled HBO. happy for those who are excited for state. So, Ed, my question is this. And I want to check back with you in about two years.

If a lot of your shows that you like and a lot of those things, a lot of movies, are you not going to be seeing this stuff in the theater? Or is it today? Is it because of how you feel today? You might not be able to answer that until, you know, two years from now. You might change your mind. But I'm curious. Go, pal.

You do get an inkling that Sarando's new Dave, the business boy, would go, on tilt. Yeah, I think that Sarandoz knew. I feel I genuinely feel like Sarandos played him. I think I genuinely think he was like, I'm just going to make this a little tricky. He's like,

if I get Warner Brothers great, otherwise, good luck. Yeah, 100%. Jimmy Burris 7-7-67. Do you see the Jim Carrey vid? That's not him. What are we talking about? He didn't, I saw this. He did a speech. He an award and he was speaking in French and people

are saying they got cloned and it was it's not really Jim Carrey and I don't know this same thing that said like I don't there's there's tons of this stuff the cloning stuff you know the Dave Chappelle was cloned and Jamie Fox was cloned and everybody's cloned so I don't own Tyrone bro yeah so I don't know I don't know Wu Tang two three three six one no more demons there reaction so this means that you haven't been watching the show the last couple days

and that's cool not everybody watches every show, so I will say it again. I love the show. I think that the people who make the show can go sniff a big fart under the biggest ass that ever was. I hate them. I hate them. They decided that, because Winston and I, who were very positive on the show, super positive on the show, decided to put a block on a bunch of our videos, plus try to copyright and strike the channel for regular reactions that we fit the rule. So I said, not risking that ever again. I I like the show. Not enough people are watching it anyway. I'm done. I'll never watch that show ever again because of those people. And I loved the show. I thought the show was great. Everybody who, like the creators behind it, the studio who did it were real dicks, real dicks. So I decided not to do it ever again. And I'll probably never watch anime on this channel ever again because of that because I'm worried because the strikes and stuff the way that they are to people. They, they horrible. I'll never do it ever again because it was it was not worth a strike on the channel. That to me, I think was...

Good, Chris. What? I got a strike on my own voiceover reel. Right. What? Right, because it's anime. Where I was like, it's my voice. What are you talking about? It's so stupid.

It's so stupid. So I'll never, I'll never do it. I'll never do it ever again. I'm a bummer. The only thing that I will hope for you, Christian, is because, like you said, as far as the story of it all and whatnot, I hope that it doesn't turn you off to personally watch. watching anime but I also know that you I watch a

billion different things so you're probably like I'm not gonna make time but I hope at some point you do visit some other stuff because because they are good but I don't great I I too I love watching the show with you it was great but I'm not but I'm not gonna do that like for a show that was barely I mean I was doing it for Patreon at that point I was gonna do a whole super cut of our season three reactions I'm not doing that for what to lose my channel piece of that I forget to promote your show get out of here like

right it lost So no, never again. Okay, let's see. Jim, Jay Mow, J. Makowski, which co-hosts of the show would you guys trust the most

in a reality TV competition? Who are you allies with? Who will betray you? It depends on, it depends on what the show is. If it's a strategy show, the first person to betray you is going to be Roka. He'd say it himself.

He'd say it himself. He's going to be out there to win it. I was going to say Mike, but you're right. Roka is definitely that first. Roker's number one. Mike's number two. Who would I trust the most on my team? Roxy and Chris.

Because Winston could go either way. Winston could, if... Wildcar. Winston's like, if he's on your team and, and like, you could trust him. Winston's very trustworthy, but like, if you also saw, if Roka came as like, Winston, but I got a better deal.

Maybe. Maybe. It would be more... I'll give away some of my secrets. It's more of like, once I'm... see an opportunity if I if I realized in that scenario that I maybe don't have another way to beat you down the line if I can do it right that's what I'm saying strategy strategy yeah um trust Roxy I'd form an alliance with Winston I would not trust you at all I wouldn't believe it would make me up so much I'm such a trusting person I yeah I would immediately lose any reality I believe everything everyone tells me.

Oh my goodness. That's the best. Winston, who you, who you trust in Chris? Yeah. For sure. Roca, right? Yeah, it would be who else is on the, oh, Brett, if Brett still counts. I'm not trusting Brett.

I'd be able to turn Brett. True wild card. Yeah, yeah, yeah, true. I would trust Brett, but I wouldn't tell any of the rest of you to trust Brett, because he'd be working for me. Go pal. Anyone think merging to unprofitable companies and adding a ton of new debt,

a ton of new debt means Sarandos can have the whole thing in a few years for a bargain? I mean, yes, but no, because of monopolies. Right. But you could strip it for parts. If the car, if the beat, they try to put two beaters together and they also break down, you can strip it for parts at the end.

Let's see. Alex. You don't want to watch Game of Thrones on Paramount. plus. I don't even want Paramount Plus. Right, but you'll get it. That's the whole point. You don't want to, but you will. Armada, Aighty, no matter what happens, we got this news of the best merger, which is the Mike and Penny Barber interview. That's true. That's so good. Let me get rid of that. Hold on. It's hilarious. That was done by Joseph Ashley, by the way, who does the, who is the, who did

big balls. So there you go. Okay. Following it. Oh, there you go. Where the hell is that? I can't get rid of this thing now. Staying there. Get out of there. All right. So Winston is going to interview Sarah Jay now, right?

Look, it's funny because I like going along with the joke, but I'm serious. You want to break my brain, Sarah Dayn't going to do nothing for me. You bring on Ellie Clutch, it's over. I'm going to, I'm going to melt into a puddle. I love how you guys have shown all your cards because I don't know any of these people. It's fine. It's fine. I've always said that redheads are my thing, man.

Redheads break my brain. That's fair. I have to keep Googling people and this is a work computer. I'll tell you what, and I've said this and I'll say it again. I was blown away by her knowledge of film and it's not like, and she knows like foreign films and everything else too. Like her film knowledge was put me to shame when it came to like the stuff that she's like, you guys watch the mainstream stuff.

I know this and she's radden off these days. I'm like, holy shit. so much so that I wanted I wanted to do like a five minute segment of the picks because she's a film buff she's like a real real film buff I was I was yeah I was really surprised uh confessor T support for Chris's mug yay yay she is beauty she is grace she's shoving noodles

in her face I forgot about that Matt of the movies I got to say I'm not a fan of HBO being merged into Paramount Plus HBO is the better reputation for quality. I don't disagree with that at all. And also, Paramount Plus needs to update their interface to run more smoothly and not lag as much. I don't disagree with that at all. I agree with that. I agree with 100% of what you just said. I understand why they're doing it. And I'm assuming mad at this, too, but I'm not a fan that I get rid of the name. They absolutely have a better reputation

for quality. But they're still the same people that are running it, which is the good news. But they're just not going to be HBO max. It's going to be Paramount Plus. And that's a curious question, too. The people that are, like, if you get the people who are running, like for me, to go off of Madda's point here, if I have the people who are running HBO Max now and they work for me, and then I have the Paramount Plus people on the creative side too, I'm going to merge them, but who's the hierarchy? Right. If it's me, I'm demoting some of the Paramount Plus people. Yep. And I'm putting the HBO Max people higher in the Paramount Plus structure. to say like because off of Mattis point they get the better reputation for quality.

You don't want to get rid of that. Um, all right. Let's see. So next one after there is Ray, Dominguez. Wait, what's, what is, what is his name? What is his name? Ray Dominguez. No, it's just his first name.

What's his first name? Ray. Ray, who? That was a setup. I knew it was a setup. I was like, wait. You got to do that. Every time he brings, every time he has a question,

I got to do that now. So what should we call the new app? Paramount HBO, Power Warner. No, I see, that's where it gets confusing. I think you just keep it Paramount Plus. That's it. Keep it Paramount Plus. SF12, became a new member.

Thank you so much. Alexander Wilson. Paramount and Warner Brothers combined lost over 700 million in the last quarter. What is the pathway to make money and become a successful business with the merger? Don't forget, this is the difference between, Netflix buying it and we haven't we didn't really talk about this Paramount's buying everything

they're buying the stuff from the theme parks and they're buying they're buying everything they're buying the whole kit and kombudel everything so they're going to try to build up as much profit there as they can and you're going to start seeing more things happen because where does the majority of their property land

at Universal like the Looney Tunes and all that shit where does where do you see the their theme park stuff it's mostly like universal is it with a license and stuff out right yeah think so didn't we talk about this a couple weeks ago too someone in the chat helped us out with this okay about how all of that different licensing actually pants out six flags look at six flags oh six flags okay six flags so yeah they could so they could build out harry potter is universal i want i i highly doubt they pull harry potterland because the amount of money that will just keep licensing it out.

But they might re-up on some stuff for sure. Okay, let's see. Next one. Alex, Paramount's broccoli been knocked on the floor, stepped on the floor, stepped on the shelf. We'll say, we'll say. 74 guys, you guys need about 32 to tie. 32 to tie.

Last day, Black History Month, come on. Jason Fast Horse, name. Is Paramount going to lead James couldn't cook? Love to hear your take. and stop leaving your glasses. Lends down. Damn it. What do I do?

Lends down? What I mean? Leave them where? Oh, leaving them on the thing here like this? I don't care. These are shit glasses. It doesn't know. Look this.

Look at this stupid thing. Cares. Yeah, they're not expensive. My expensive glasses, I look, I think I told you this, Chris, I'm so bad with glasses. I'm so bad with things.

I bought, I don't buy expensive sunglasses anymore because of this one thing that I did. When I, when I first moved, to L.A. or at least it was like the first year. And I bought a really expensive pair that I couldn't afford, shouldn't have bought sunglasses. I went to Ralph's to shop five minutes later. I left them in the cart and I lost those sunglasses in seconds. No matter what, if I have, these will be lost today at some point, unless I leave them right here, they'll be lost. And I do that with glasses and I had my expensive reading glasses and I had them and I put them somewhere. And I was like, okay, I only had

them on me because I couldn't find these. And I was like, no, leave them in the spot that you did because I'll lose them and I just put them back there and I can't lose those. So I'm going to leave them. Anyway, this is a long way to say they're going to leave James Cone alone. It's like, how is this for me?

Yeah, relevant of Jamesville. I think they're going to, I think they're going to leave them alone for a little bit. Do you guys think they're going to leave them alone or you think that, you know, I think you leave, here's what I think happens. It takes so much time for this to happen. You actually have runway to say, let's see what his movies do because we don't actually own you yet. By the time you walk in the door, you'll actually

have enough evidence to decide whether or not you want to keep him or not, I think. Yeah. I think the worst case scenario is if he says something that, you know, the administration doesn't like, does that then have an impact of expediting anything? But that's, again, that's again, another chicken little moment. I'm very curious to see how it's going to be, everybody's to be monitoring this. King Sourafel. No wonder Netflix is pushing one piece so much.

It's literally that in Bridgeton when it comes to long running shows. Chris, thoughts on One Piece Season 2 looks. Oh my God. I'm so hyped. Tony, Tony Chopper. Looks so good. I'm going to get you jealous.

I'm going to get you jealous. Because as soon as we stop filming here today, I'm going to start watching. watching it and put it and doing reactions to it. I'm so excited. So excited. So great. It's such a wonderful adaptation.

I'm shocked. Winston doesn't watch it. I need to watch the live action. But as far as the the actual anime, it's just it's because it's been on for. It's been on for so long. But the live action is so it's so it. Dude, it's it's such a perfect show for you. Yeah.

All right. I will, I will, I've always said that I needed to. I will, I will circle back to. Great. Yeah. And that's, look, that's one. by the way, that if you're going to do reactions for anything in your channel, you should do that. Okay.

And then go straight into two. Israel Zerg, no one piece in theaters in Quebec province. Oh, man. That's a bummer. Okay. Fuzzy ball. Fuzzy ball? Is that what it says?

Where to go? Fuzzy bubbles. I'm curious what former California Governor Arnold thinks of the deal. I'd be honest with you. I don't care. I'm not there anymore. I like to sleep. And sometimes to wake up and ask whiskey and lulu

what do you want to watch? And sometimes they say, hey, Potter, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they just want to watch YouTube. So I say, okay, fine. And, you know, it depends. I do not like the way that was put down.

When you shake on a deal, you're, ah, there's a deal. And then they come back around, and they say, no, we want to do it this way. And we're going to talk to them and say, da-da, da-da, we need to get it. We did not get it. I do not like that.

I wish it to be done differently. But, yeah, I don't care. that's that's his thoughts that's at least that's what he said to me when I talked support thank you Ray

thank you who Dominguez oh okay it's perfect Galaxy Geeks if the deal does get blocked

does WB end up folding because they are not doing amazing I'm confused doesn't that mean more job loss if they fold that is a great question that's a great question I still, I think if you end up in that position, though, you're ending up in a scenario where then they are being stripped for parts.

And like, yes, there would be some, but you then would be selling off pieces. So there's less likely the idea of losing at all at once. But, I mean, you have a point. I mean, a company going under is not good either. So. Okay. But smasher, 69. Consolidation of power, be it in government, industry, or empire has always been the downfall to common people and benefit those on top.

hard to disagree with that. That is accurate. Yeah. Fuzzy bubbles coming in and become a member. Perfect time to do it. Join the Discord, by the way, everybody. For everybody who's in here, 782 people watching right now. In the description, you can join the Discord. They just hit 200 members.

How about that? So let's try to get them. Now we're pushing to 300. All right. Let's go the next one. Tom Hanks. Just finished. Welcome to Derry.

Absolutely brutal. Oh, I loved that show. It was so good. I just never watched it. I don't, I don't, so I just didn't. It's a good one to start with.

It's a good one to start with it outside because it's a prequel. So, um, the G man. The Paramount, one or other merger is the worst scenario. Chris, I hope you're right about News and blocking this deal.

It does violate monopoly laws. He's not going to block it. He's going to try. I think he's going to raise a stink. Yeah. But a big thing. Because it's also, again,

talking about politics. By doing that, he's going to, he's going to, he's going to, he's going to, he's going to show that he's fighting for, but he's making a run for, you know. He's clearly setting himself. He's making a run. So he's going to, he's trying to position himself

as anti-Maga, but not completely liberal. He is trying to kind of like, straddle the aisle, so to speak, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Um, Yoshimitsu. Support for Winston and Chris. You're all awesome. Thank you. Shimitsu. Comic movies dad. Christians, your chat will be full magotrels. That's why the conversation never go political wouldn't want Matthew Garrett getting upset. No. What it is is that So this conversation in general is bringing out everybody because it's, again, what we said, political. This is a political thing overall. It is. Regardless of whether you're going to see the movies or not, the reason the deal went through and it's become, if you're for it, then you apparently are on one side of the aisle.

If you're against it, then you're on the other side of the aisle. It's political. It's 100% political. Because if you hear from most people, if they say, well, what's your opinion on it? If they're, to me, looking at it, well, let's see where it goes. And it's a more of a in the middle type of thing. If they're staunch right away at the film portion of it, against it, they might be leaning left. Maybe so. If they are, yeah, we won, then they're right. So it's political. So I think that everybody's coming out of the talk.

Andy's a Francie. Perfect timing with Piki with the movie coming out. Yeah, I know. You know what? I'm going to try to watch it and then maybe react to the movie when it comes out too. Jared, Ellison's had to beg guitar and Saudis for help to buy WD is not America first. Are they, are they getting involved with it too? To my knowledge, I thought they still were. Yeah. They're just, they, uh, I believe it's one of those not so silent, silent backers. Like they're not going to interfere, but that, yeah, Saudi money, to my knowledge, is involved. Okay. I didn't, they didn't have that in the in the article, but that's not to say that's not true. Jared, Ellison's had to, oh, we did

that right here. So that's good. It is a concern. I agree with you on that. Stuart Blackie 6, 7, 171. Hey, just watched the movie, only the brave. Which one is that? Really powerful movie. Also watch Bologna, and I hated the ending. I hated the ending too. What are your thoughts, big fan? Thank you, Stuart. Yeah, I didn't, I, I was enjoying that movie. And I, I, I, you know what it was, Stuart? I found the ending really predictable. And I kind of knew it was coming. Did you guys see the movie? I still need to finish my screeners. Yes.

Bagonia. Oh, you love Bologna. Okay. You didn't like it. Do you listen to anything that we just said? I literally was just zoned out. Brave so I could try and understand what that was. Don't do that.

Now I'm not going to tell you. Go back and watch the replay. Only the brave. I heard that was really good. The one with, Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, because I was looking at it on. Yeah, right.

did it after the point, not during the point, when the middle of conversation. A.D. motherfucker. So, it's like, uh, it's like a cat with a string. Is begonia more poor things or more, uh, kinds of kindness leaning? Like, which, which your goes am I getting? Um, what was, I didn't see the, the, the, the last one. Kinds of kindness. You're so lucky.

Yeah. Soul stylist jukebox. You didn't see begonia? Yeah, I had a particular lending. You want me to spoil it for you? I pretty good blending. I saw the twist coming a mile away because because of the movies he makes. So yeah, it had a pretty good blending. I guess I don't know enough about the director to have known that that was what was going to happen. Right. So if you follow, like, oh, shit.

Yeah, if you follow his stuff. Yeah. I hated kinds of kindness. Okay. They said it's more of kindness. So, but it was, it was, I really was enjoying it up until the ending. But I thought Plymins was amazing. I'm actually shocked that there wasn't a higher run of him stealing some of these awards away.

I know, I know. He was so good. He was nominated, which is crazy. The G-Man 8119, Ellison pushed for this to get CNN emerge with CBS. If you ask me and I worry about Turner Classic movies going off the year. I think fair points. I think fair points for sure. Go, pal. Colbert, Barry Weiss, and the smantling of 60 minutes.

Yeah, all this stuff is absolutely 100. percent accurate to or or um understandable to feel screw face so man Chris thank you for your comment about people always try to separate or ignore politics and that's and how that's a privilege this constant escapism is pacifying people yeah I think so well and also I just have to check myself every now Ellen I'm a I'm a straight white woman my life's not been very hard you guys and so like I need to make sure that I educate myself and and understand how privileged I can be. So especially since my demographic tends to put their head in the stand a lot of the time.

And that doesn't help anybody. So he follows it up and says, as a black man, I really don't get the choice to separate politics because my skin is a political statement to some people and I get treated a certain way for it. Sure. And screwface, I don't know if you necessarily mean for me not covering this stuff. I don't know. That's what it's not what I do.

It's more than the chat. The chat today was pretty, pretty up and down. So I think that that's more what screwface was. Because this issue, this issue, the paramounting, don't be mistaken. It is political. It's very political. Hence, for people who are saying that it's not, they're wrong. And I don't know if that's where he's going for it.

But I'm not sure what necessarily is addressing. It's just in the chat. It's just me. But like, I don't cover this stuff normally. Politics. This is a political subject that happens to blend in with entertainment. So I think it's relevant to discuss. But I'm never going to talk about, I do separate politics when it comes to my stuff

because I don't, I don't, you know, it's, I can't remember who it was that was talking. Oh, yeah, shit. Penny Barber brought it up, which is, which is, which she's so right. Because we asked about, um, there are many, um, adult film actresses who tweet out political things. And I asked her about it. I said, does it affect jobs? And I'll wait until you see her answer on that, but she chooses to kind of do what I do. She doesn't, she's got her opinions. She has other things, but she doesn't make it, doesn't really do that for her. stuff. I choose not to do that. I'm not telling you know, if other people want to do it, have a blast. I just don't do that. Um, shout, I put it in the chat too, but shout out to

princess today because she has been really calling for people. Swatting flies. And yeah, and just asking everyone to bring those temperature down. Which she also says to you, I'm not talking. I'm talking about the chat, not you. I know you've been, what I know you don't normally do that. I've been watching since the Schmo's. Yeah. Yeah. I know. He's usually, I mean, look, he's one of our biggest supporters. I love that, Duke. Dude, I am loving his hip-hop as a sport kind of tournament thing he's doing right now. Like, I've been watching,

ever since you introduced me to him and all that, I've been watching just a pretty religious. Yeah, he's great. He's great. He's got a lot of great energy. He's just a good person. Erigo, 45-12, do you think it will make it harder for folks to take a movie and shop it around to other studios that may not be interested if everything is under one big umbrella?

I mean, you're only knocking out one studio, which is still, you're still knocking out, but like, to go back with Winston said, unfortunately, you know, even when he said, hopefully, like, through the big boom of independent films, the problem with that is that most independent films just wind up on Amazon or something, or Netflix. All the Amazon, that's how you get seen now. It's not, it's not like, you know, back in the day when you go to the festivals and the

Tarantinos pop out and all this stuff. It's like, now everybody sees your movies more because they pop up on streaming. Christian, Tooby about to blow up, bro. Tooby, right. Yeah, right. 100% right, right. Yeah, it's going to be, too, he's going to have a big flow. Tell me about to blow up.

Yeah, right. Go pal. Re-editorial. Kathleen Kennedy was down to make the Ben Solo project with Sonnenberg. Then Uncle Bob shot it down. Dave E. can overrule when he chooses it. Totally. Right.

But now look, Iger's been doing it longer. And I'm in the minority. I think Bob Eager made the right choice with that one. Sotomberg should be doing a Star Wars movie. I would love to see him doing. Kyle Rand's dead He's fucking dead He brought back Emperor

How'd that work out? They didn't do it right They bring back everybody Is he dead And they did he shit the bed on the story And I saw someone else Oh that means bring the hunt for Ben Solo Get rid of that movie

We don't need it Get Soderberg back We don't need that movie But Christian What if it What if we're just opening up The Star Wars multiverse baby? Oh God

You know you know it's a stupidest thing about it, and I've said this before, the only, out of all of the big franchises, Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and all the rest of them that do multiverses. Star Wars is really the only one that would make the most sense because of time and space. Because of the way you can manipulate light speed and you can manipulate all these things and you can actually visit multiverses and time travel and all that stuff, it would make the most scientific sense, but I don't want to say it. Which that's fair.

I guess the only thing that I would think I mean DC and Marvel I we see so much of the street level stuff but there's so much cosmic stuff they're all sure but I'm just saying because the nature Star Wars the actual yeah the science of it yeah light year they're flying through light speed and doing

you you would the science of it would put you into different time and different things and you know everybody can breathe on every planet you get it's the whole part of the fantasy side of Star Wars you get past that yeah um okay 86 86. That's a question. Would you feel better about the idea that Palpatine lives if all of a sudden it was like, they accidentally opened up a wormhole?

I actually thought that they should. I was, I knew they were going to bring them back. I was like, they got to bring them back. It makes sense if they actually paid attention to the story, but they didn't. The story is, if you look at it, it made sense to bring them back. Chris, you're like, wait a minute, why? Because episode three, what does he say to ask? Anakin. Darth Plagis showed us how to cheat death. How did he do it? They don't tell you, but they should have. They should have told him. How did he cheat death? How did he do it? There's a cut scene. Right, right. There's a cut scene in the duel of fates thing where, or not a cutscene, but in the script, where they, you saw this thing from Palpatine where he told Vader, if something happens to me, make sure you do this and store my shit here and do that. And it explained it. It was so sloppy. So, yeah, you could have brought him back, but I understand everyone going,

it was, it was, they, they should have never brought him back. Yeah, not the way that they did. Stupid. Anyway, Richard's art. I absolutely, I absolutely think we should follow Dalton's philosophy in original roadhouse. Then it's time for Peter Griffin's Roadhouse. Love Chris and Winston. You should bring back Ronda Rousey's Roadhouse.

Remember they were going to do that? I forgot about that. Maybe if she beats Carano, we'll see. Although I don't think that's going to happen either. Go pal. Jim Canadian. Don't they all have to learn French. Yeah, I know.

A lot of where he's from? Go down a wormhole and look at the Jim Carrey cloning. Israel's are, never mind my previous one. They were just late for the tickets. I got my tickets. Nice for the One Piece fan event. Apparently Mexico is out, unfortunately. Oh, well, there you go.

You got it. I love that. I love that you got that. Fuzzy Bubbles. Team Four Star had similar problems when, And they did Dragon Ball Zia Bridge many years ago that you had with demons there. Yeah, it's the worst. I'm like, when I saw that, I was like, I woke up as like, I'm like, what, what?

Off of a 12 second short? Trying to strike my chance. Screw that. Absolutely insane, man. No, Armada, AYT, jury duty, season two trailer job. Really? They're doing a second. How did they make that happen?

How do you pull it off? How do you pull it off twice? You got to get people who just don't, I'm, aren't aware. I guess you know what? Maybe not everybody was aware of the show. Well, and it's not jury. duty again. It's like a company retreat that this guy is helping. Is that what it is? Okay. But there's a couple people in the trailer that maybe you just need to like, if you're not

somebody who knows about improv actors or things. There's a couple actors in there where you're like, but I know them from stuff. Yeah, you got to find the right person. I'm curious to see how they're going to do it because that last show was awesome. And he's and Franksie. Do you see the beef going on between Breaking Bad and a night of the seven Kings is fam, Google it? Just tell me what it is. I don't want to Google it. Yeah, just tell me what it is. Joseph Ashley, what happened at Capes and Cowell's audiobook? Also, maybe do the book docs reaction with Winston?

Oh, Boondocks. Boondocks. I'm tweeting 20. I didn't. I've never seen it yet. I'm tweeting 20 stars, including Tara Patro, Fran. No, no, don't. Don't do that.

I saw you doing that. And I wrote to you, DM, don't do that. Until we have, until we start to look at it, don't, don't do that. I'm not doing those. That was a particular thing. Don't do that. I appreciate it. Thank you.

we don't do. As far as the audiobook, someone knock on Koi's door and tell them to get in touch of me. I'd love to do it. Lestie 266. Paramount Plus is not available in Puerto Rico. Will this mean eventually once HBO fully merges HBO content won't be available here either? That would suck. That would be awful. That sucks, dude. I'm so sorry. That is terrible. Unheard sirens incorporated. Did I miss something? Is it confirmed, is getting rid of HBO Max, you're just saying whatever. No, that's what it said in that article. It said that what they're hearing is that they want to get rid of it.

That was in that comic book article, a comic movie article that I read. Yeah. Support from Justin Bishop, thank you. Christian unpronounceable. Black History Month almost over, but never forget. How many, how many away are you? 88. Oh, Lord. You're 88. Oh, Lord. Come on.

Let's go. Ray to Mingis. Holy F. I'm watching that. I just heard that nonsense about the Demon Slayer episode. F does those eyes. Yeah, never again. Yoshimitsu. I've never seen the one piece anime, but the live action show is so much fun. I would instantly watch Winston React to. There you go, Winston.

Check it out. I guess I had my directive. Salmanilla, which Salmanilla, that's great. Which director would you want to direct a biopic of your life? I'd go with David Lean. My life? Judd Appetown. Ryan Coogler.

I mean, it would have been Jim Henson, and it would all be nice. Are you a Muppet or is everybody around you a Muppet? Everyone around me is a Muppet. I won't be a Muppet until I'm dead and that's what they're going to put in my casket. Yeah. Paul Hitchcock, Christian, was the vibe such in the barber interview that you felt comfortable asking at Schwarzenegger if eating is cheating Wednesday Q&A? I'll tell you what. PLD was on the road.

So I'm going to cut him some slack. I forgot about that one. He put together this great Google Doc with all the documents. I asked him if you get updated from the Wednesday shows. I don't think he got to it. And that wasn't in there. Because I got to a lot of the questions. The vibe was there that I could have asked her that.

100%. And I think she would answer it 100%. So I'm bummed that I didn't. But he was on the road and I thought that he updated it. And I guess it never happened. Hotel nerd. 95% of my streaming is done through the Amazon app, HBO Paramount. Yeah, they're just going to update the apps and stuff too.

They're going to have to do. Yeah, they did a thing with where they allow you to do like add-ons, I guess. So that's probably what the hotel nerd is doing. Okay, Winston and Chris, y'all are the best, is Mr. Andy Fanatic. Again, speaking to Mr. Andy Fanatic, go and join the Discord, guys. Let's get to 300. 300. Add at the movies.

Follow up to your question, of course. I'm in heat of the moment, but I have no problem in sticking to who I feel comfortable, give my money to. I can look beyond politics and day-to-day life with family and friends, billionaires who just throw money at things to get what they want. Not so much, y'all. Fair and honest that. said, I'm in the heat of the moment right now, because he might get to a place.

She's like, I want to watch that show. I hardly heard that movie was good. All right. Fine. It's probably going to happen. I will bet you this much. What will probably end up happening with most people is you'll end up in a scenario of the thing that I want.

I will give you this as a temporary thing. So it's like, Night of the Seven Kingdoms is back. I'll give this to you for the next six weeks and then I'm out. And I can see people doing that as their form of kind of still, I guess, protesting one way or the other. Right. Fair. All right, let's go next one here. Chris, this is from Andy Zafranxie. Do you go on Campia show since you left?

Fair enough. Nathan Drake, what do you guys think about majors doing the Daily Wire movie? I see the hot mic headline tonight is that he's sold out. All right, here, this is again, I'm going to get into a, well, Roka was in here too, and this is a conversation I'd love to have with them. Well, Monday, he might have to host a show alone.

I got to reach out to. And he's so good at that when he's able to do it. My issue with saying that he sold out is that who else is offering him jobs? He's an actor. Now, he might be in a very desperate place. He might not have money. He might not be able to get meetings. He might be in a very desperate place.

And if someone's offering him a lot of money to do a movie and it's all he's got and no one is opening and no doors aren't open anyway, wear. Are you in his shoes? You're not an issue. I don't know what the movie is. I don't know what the statement is. I don't know. I'm just not in his shoes. So hard for me to say that he sold out. I don't know. Winston, how do you feel about this? It's that it's the daily wire. But I, but that's the thing. I had always said that I feel like there would have been a world if he had genuinely just walked away for a while that especially knowing. that based on how what he was found guilty of and everything else and the evidence that came out, I think if he had just walked away for a while that eventually he could have tried to

mount a comeback, I mean, how many other times of people in Hollywood done as bad, if not more egregious things? And that's happened. I think the forcing of trying to get back in it right away is probably why he's reading that. So I don't love it, honestly. It does it. It does not help my thought process on him, but it is. So let me ask you.

you a question and I want you to don't just answer right away. I want you to answer and think about it. If they came to you and right now offered you a starring role as an actor who's looking and and let's say they offered you $600,000. Would you be able to turn it down right away or would you have to think about it? I would think about it for a second, but would I do it ultimately just knowing me and again knowing what's behind. What if the movie wasn't political? What if it was a movie? What if it was comedy and it was $600,000 to and starring with someone else and had no political things, anything else to. And you could have let's let's let's up it. Let's say it's say it's one point two million they're going to pay you for it. Again, this is this is hard for me to say because I'm

not actually in that position. Right. The way that I genuinely feel about Ben Shapiro and the things that he said into I can't. Okay. And what if you what if you had no other opportunities? What if you were not you, you try, you couldn't get jobs. People wouldn't let you. in the door. They weren't letting you act. You didn't have a shot to do commercials. You didn't have anything else to do, but they're going to offer you 1.2 to star in this movie. So what you're asking in that regard, because then what I would have to do is go look my family and friends in the face after the fact is that, is that, am I willing to sell my soul for $1.2 million? Right. And maybe that's a, maybe that's what the point Roca is making on his show. I don't know.

You have to watch your show. That would be the thing. I have to turn around and look my family and friends in the face when it's all said and done. So that, like, Like it's crazy because it's $1.2 million. But I also am like, yeah, I would like to be able to talk to my sister and my mom. I know. Like people I grew up with. So. Yeah.

Um, fair enough. I mean, I, I'm, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not calling you a liar. I'm saying you very well might say no. Um, I'm just saying, though, the position that the guy's in is that he was at the top of his game, doing everything. And then now he's knock on the door. Nope. Nothing.

So he's, you know, he's the guy wants to act. so I don't know I don't know if he can do theater I don't know what he can do but that's that's kind of why I was saying it's a level of just just go I really felt like it would have behooved him

to just step away for a while and maybe he doesn't have the money he doesn't have the money I don't know he just married he just married Megan good yes okay good point good point great point but boo guy like again I don't know

I don't know his scenarios but that's a great point yeah no he is he he that she supported him through the whole trial. Do we know his political views? Do we know his political views? He always seemed like he was more on the like center, if not left side of things, but he never, he's never like never really said. We also don't know his politics. Brandon Pencent, Tobe is amazing. I found movies and shows. I thought were lost forever. Hello. Hi. Salmanilla again. Did you see the new Dracula movie? It's really good. No, I didn't know. There's another Dracula movie. No. Go, pal. We know what this administration thinks of PR. of public relations

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico there you go thank you Andy Zafranxie Big Ball fans reviewed bomb Big Balls fans

reviewed bomb episode five of a night of the seven kingdom of sovereign retaliation Osmanis was review bombs why can't we just appreciate PTV that's why I don't take any these freaking ratings or reviews

serious so stupid you can do that who cares Justin Bishop Chris I'm not sure if you mentioned it but what made you leave Texas, career life, both, neither, if you're okay, if you're okay to talk about it. Oh, thank you.

That's really sweet. Yeah. Mostly career. Mostly career because I was doing anime and theater out there and some regional commercials and things like that, but I kind of had hit an echelon, I felt. So I was coming out here and it also helped that. I liked this boy named Logan who I had just had a big breakup prior to. And I was like, I'll date this guy.

He seems nice enough. He'll be my pancake. And then I married him. That's amazing. Yeah. All right. Next one. Matt, at the movies. What's up? Again.

Are you guys excited for Avatar Season 2? The Way Toast Earthbending Sense looks great. Now, I never saw the first season of it. The live action, I never said, are you guys excited for it? I mean, I didn't see the, I love the actual, the original property. I'd never watched the live action.

I heard it was good. I just, same thing. I heard it was. I don't know what it was, but I didn't see Avatar or One Piece. You know what it was? It was because Cowboy Bebop existed and it was terrible. So I've been a little scared, but you guys have talked of one piece and people have talked

about Avatar, so I need to give it a shot, I think. I don't like it, but it's not great. They make some changes that are really weird. We get introduced for you a couple of characters too early, and there's a redemption arc that happens way too early too. Suvash, this merger sucks 100% but let's hope for the best. Totally fair. I think this trio is my favorite in the business.

No respect to my man. John Campi at all Christian. Never thought of a New York meetup. So I did, I talked to someone ask me this recently. I did a live show with Sam, which is essentially, you know, a meetup slash show. And it was a fair turnout. But like, it just needs to, it just needs to make sense, right? So like, I think that maybe eventually if we do like a, I don't know, like something where we, if I'm with, I might go with Sam to see, what the hell was it?

I might take her to see shit, the Odyssey. I'm going to take her to see the Odyssey with me, and maybe I'll let people know when they can meet us afterwards or something if that counts. I don't know. Maybe not. Okay. Armada, 8YT. Since you said you didn't want Snyder on FYC when I asked Mansi if you've seen a random penny film,

should I get Snyder on the bit by asking on Hot Mike tonight? Well, I would read the room because if they're talking about this subject, you know and you see where it gets because you can see the two of them getting heated about this time read the room you know and then then maybe if in a super chat if you want to ask you can ask inside there but that would be how are we doing how close are we 97 you about you 10 away to talk 10 away to take the lead big bang is james gun and DCU cooked no not yet

mattie a new GI Joe movie is in the works max landis and danny mcbride Max Landis coming back out. Where's he been? Is another, are writing separate skips and then Paramount plan to blend the scripts into one film. Is that a normal process to blend? What? I mean,

Max Landis was, you know, he was in, he was another guy, I guess he got canceled, whatever to it. And so is he, I don't know if he's coming back to do stuff.

And maybe that's a Paramount thing. I don't know. I just also seems weird to make two separate scripts and then try and fuse them together. I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I'm hoping, look,

the only thing with G. Joe that I hope no matter who the hell does it. I wish, and then I guess you'd have to get the rights from Marvel, but the Marvel comics is where they should adapt that from or don't do it. Those are the best stories. Big Bang, O-T-4. Rip Warner Brothers Paramount looking rough right now. We'll see.

Big Bang. Hope they let the Game of Thrones team alone. Yeah, they should let all those teams alone for sure. Paul Hitchcock, no worries. We're all busy and stuff gets missed, but I'm still shitting on one of peel these hats. Hold on there. Please, please do. these two. Yoshimitsu.

Love hearing that Smets will be coming on. Yeah, he's going to be, I love, love Smetzy. Mr. N. Diffanaic support. More support for Doeyes. All right. Winston, give me a, where can they find you? Oh, wait, hold on. Christian unpronounceable. Let's give Chris and Winston the win. Mr. Empredag support. Winston, what do you got?

Yep, yep, yep. So you can find me at the Swaggy Blurred on YouTube, all over social media, all that kind of stuff. You can find me on Spill the Tequila on Tuesdays with Roka. You can find me on Blurds in the Hood. Our live show is typically Wednesdays this week. It was on Monday just because of the... We did a whole thing on the BAFTA stuff,

which was a very interesting conversation to have about racism and ableism and all that kind of stuff. So that's a really interesting conversation, obviously here every Friday. And even though Christian and I aren't doing Demon Slayer anymore, We are going to be doing some movies pretty soon. So definitely check all of that out. You can go over to two fully casuals wherever you get your podcast.

Today we have an episode out with Eric Daines about Slay the Spire, which is super, super fun. A really cool game that has some really interesting mechanics in it that I didn't know about. So go check that out either on our YouTube channel or wherever you listen to your podcasts. If you were interested in voiceover, head over to speakfriendstudio.com where I teach voiceover. lessons. My husband teaches dialect classes. And I can, I think, say this now, too. He's going to be the voice of Reddit theoretically. He booked a campaign that should be coming out in the next few days in a British dialect. So if you want to listen, learn from one of the best, in my opinion,

dialect coaches out there. He has a Cockney class happening on Monday. So hit up our website so you can sign up and learn from him. All right. Please do that. A few more. Let's give Christians. Let's give him the win. Mr. Energy Day support. Cori Emperor Christian, Roka, for a big summer movie show. Oh, oh, me and Dan and Roka on for a summer show. Maybe because we missed it, we missed it last time, the last big show that we do for a year roundup. So perhaps I'll reach out. I'd love to do and show with those guys. So maybe Yershmitsu, Kristen Winston for the win. Armada, 8.T. Are more Smurfs movies coming? I'm hard. If people want to punish me, it was terrible.

Parable. Mr. Andy Finag show support for Winston for joining the Discord. Did you join the Discord? Do you join the Discord? I have not. Oh, you have to.

It's a good, they're good people in there. And Princess runs it, by the way. Nice. One of the people who runs. Because I need to be more on my Discord anyway. So I was like, you know what? I do it.

Corn Emperor, Chris Carr for Spill the Tequila feature. Hey, she should definitely go on there. Corn Emperor Black History Month, BLM. And you know, Shemitsu support, more support for Mr. Indy Fanatic. And then Sal Manila, the new epic Elvis movie is awesome. And with that, Chris and Winston win the week with 113. Yeah, so 113.

What a last, that was it, last. Yeah, did it, 113. So you're going to get a, I guarantee you, Mike's going to get a, Mike's going to have a retort on the text when I let everybody know. Justin Bishop, Chris needs more wins. under her belt. Chris has had a fair share of her wins. Especially when we first came in, we were like, come on, come on, well, let's go. Let's go. Now she's like when I, I'd like to actually go through since we started this and see who's won the most. I don't know. I don't know, you know, we'd have to really go through the whole

thing. I wonder. I think there was a point in time. The disc was a really nice place, Chris. There was a point in time where Koi and I did go on a run, but like, Steph's pregnancy run was so huge. Yeah. When Chris first got in, all of a sudden it was like Chris wins all the time. I would say collectively with both teams, Cates probably has the most wins, I would say. But so Winston, you probably, you probably,

Winston probably one of the people who'd see it. I would say I was a shot for sure. All right, some more support there. 116. Looks like a final number there. So guys, thank you so much. Make sure you check out, Chris. Make sure you check out Winston. Thank you for joining us here today.

Make sure you're checking us out on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts, anywhere that podcasts are found. Please go to the Discord. Please go and check that. We're going to want to get to 300. Please. Please. Please, please. Please.

Please. Make sure you head on over there. Go join the Discord. Thanks again for being here. Appreciate it. And we'll see you guys on the flip side. I think I got to talk to Roka, but I think Roka's going to be hosted Monday. I himself.

I actually might be able to be. on the Tuesday show after all now. I think a call got pushed a little later. So check out of the theater reaction for Hoppers for last night. And I'll see you guys real soon. Appreciate it. And we'll see you on the flip side. Did you shit, man?

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