The Kristian Harloff Show - Spider-Man No Way Home Crosses 1 Billion at Box Office! | The Big Thing

Episode Date: December 28, 2021

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Starting point is 00:00:39 Welcome back. I'm excited to have you back. It's the first long-form show we've done in a little bit. It's going to be a couple changes. Obviously, this week was a little off because not only the holidays, but then the Batman trailer dropped yesterday. I put up a review of Cobra Kai. So I said, you know, we're going to start getting into a new schedule in 2022 anyway.
Starting point is 00:00:57 So let's just mess around a little bit this week. So that's why dropping Big Thing today. Tomorrow is going to be Sith Council, but it's going to be me. I'm a lonesome with a full-on spoiler review of BobaFet, which drops tonight, 1201 or Wednesday, if you want to be technical. Thursday will be Big Thing, solo review, a solo episode of myself, followed by Friday, Big Thing, solo by myself until we kind of kick into the new year. But today you've got a lot of talk about, man, whether it is that Batman trailer, Cobra Kai, some of the other things I've been watching, don't worry, no spoilers on Cobra Chi. I'm going to wait until everybody watches, so I want to make sure that everybody's, you know, caught up before we start doing that,
Starting point is 00:01:39 but we'll go over some of the stuff that I watched, watched Sing 2, watched Encanto with the kids, and there's going to be a lot of news. There's a lot of news in general. Obviously, you saw the title of the video. Spider-Man hit a billion. We had a full episode wondering if it was going to do it. It did it without even China. So what does that mean for the future of the box office, we're going to talk about it. And I'm excited, not only because of this. He needs some milk. I started figuring out some new sound bites.
Starting point is 00:02:09 That was a little loud for people who driving were thrown off by that. I apologize, so I'll ask you this, which is a little bit better of a, you know, volume. But that's not why you're here. You're here to listen to me, talk about some of this news. That's what we're going to do. Let's get into it. It's the big thing.
Starting point is 00:02:32 What's up, everybody? Welcome back. It is the big thing. Hey, everybody out there. Brand new to this channel, been around since we started really pushing. Thank you so much. We crossed over 30,000. We're approaching 31.
Starting point is 00:02:53 I'm thinking December 31st, 31 for 31. Can we do that? That would be great. But I got to tell you, I am humbled by the amount of support that you have given me starting this channel. And it's funny because I was talking to somebody about it recently. And the Shmoh's No Channel, which I'm grateful for, and is the whole reason we're able to do this today.
Starting point is 00:03:17 And the reason it got me any positions, whether it was on Fandango or Collider, helped me build the, have a career in the space. So I'm thankful to Mark Ellis and everybody else that was a part of that run on Shmose. But, and Mark and I, we're talking about it the other day too. It took us probably around three and a half years to get to 25K.
Starting point is 00:03:41 So to be able to hit 30K in four months because if you look at this channel, this YouTube channel was created as a as a S-E-N Clips channel originally. And then it became a movie trivia Shmodown clips channel. And then we put S-C-N live on us. It was just kind of real estate that was open. And when the idea started to come about how we just kind of get back into pop culture and me doing reviews and reactions and things of that nature, I think the first thing I really put up here when we started to move it as a channel was the CM Punk interview. But I didn't start doing trailer reactions to around three and a half months ago. So really putting a heavy push on trying to build out the audience, show people what I'm doing over here.
Starting point is 00:04:25 It's been about three and a half months. So to get to just around 30K in three and a half months, I'm proud of that accomplishment. I won't lie. And I'm happy that, and I definitely didn't do it alone, having people like Coy and Winston on to do these rewatches, Steph Sabrawn, Mike for Sith Council,
Starting point is 00:04:46 bread, any guests that I have, there's Roxy, McCougar, Riley, anybody that has come in here to help me out while we're doing these things, has been instrumental to all of it. So I thank you, but you guys are the most instrumental. It's why I've been so adamant. People have been saying, you know, you don't have to,
Starting point is 00:05:04 people have been saying that are close to me. It's good that you respond to the comments, but you don't have to respond to all of them. And I said, well, I don't know. I feel like I do. And I know that realistically, as it grows, it's going to be harder for me to do, but I'm trying.
Starting point is 00:05:15 It takes me sometimes a couple of days to do it. But I've been trying to do it. I have great conversations. And there was a question that somebody asked me on my Facebook page yesterday, about how you deal with kind of negativity. I'm happy to say at this point, there hasn't been a lot of negativity on it. I mean, and what I explained to this particular guy who was asking was,
Starting point is 00:05:35 there are negative thoughts and negative things that people can say. Like, for example, there was a guy on the Matrix, spoiler review with something like, oh, man, you think this is better than the second movie? Yikes! And I said, oh, the dreaded yikes comment. Well, I'm sorry, you felt that way, blah, blah, blah. You respond to the guy respectfully and have a conversation with the person, but you don't, and a negative side of it, he wasn't really being hateful.
Starting point is 00:05:58 He just didn't like the take. That's fair. It's hateful comments and things like that. I don't even acknowledge it anymore. He used to stupidly as a younger person, I would, whether I thought it was funny, because I was, you remember, I came from the stand-up comedy world when being at the comedy store, whatever time it was and whatever, and having like a fun rant, whether it was yelling and that kind of thing in the audience would be funny.
Starting point is 00:06:23 and sometimes I've played well on Shmows, but it's also very exhausting. And other times it doesn't play well. People who don't understand your humor and don't understand you in general can rightfully perceive that as something else. So I send to myself as, plus the fact that as I've mentioned many times on this, I don't need to go over it again, but I have been through many things emotionally over the last couple of years that mentally didn't fare well on me. and I had to acknowledge that and be able to look at that and say, well, wait a minute.
Starting point is 00:06:58 This is a me thing. And I got to be able to look at that and say, okay, what's important? What's not? And yelling at people and going back and forth to people, it's not worth it. It just isn't. It's for your own mental health. It just isn't. So it's like certain people come in and they're looking for some shit.
Starting point is 00:07:15 If you know they're just looking for some shit, you just remove them from the channel. And you say, okay, you know, they'll find somebody else. And it's like, there's no reason to insult them, get mad at them, tell them to stop being assholes. Things like, it's just not, it's exhausting. It's not worth it because sometimes they're looking for some shit. And sometimes they're having a bad day also. And you've got to be compassionate about it. So that's what I lend as far as that goes.
Starting point is 00:07:36 And that's why I think the conversation has been so important on this channel. So I've been, you will get a response for me. Again, if it's just, if it's conversation, I don't, and I haven't seen a lot of super negative crap. and even people who come in sometimes, and you still get the people who don't know that I'm doing stuff, be like, is that the Galaxy's Edge guy? Is that the guy who had a,
Starting point is 00:07:56 who had a meltdown on the thing? And I acknowledge it now. And as I've told you guys, a million times over, that I would with the, with the passing of my brother and the things that kind of went down during that time, that I was in a really, I was in a place. And again, there's no, by no means is an excuse.
Starting point is 00:08:13 It's just a matter of being able to acknowledge where you are and how you have to, take a breath sometimes. But I don't deal with that with when people come in. I'll explain it. And I've made, I made that a thing to myself that when certain people come in it, they do say certain things like that.
Starting point is 00:08:34 I'll explain it. And I'll say exactly what I've said before over, where I was at that time of my life. And if that person says, okay, then thank you for letting me know that. Moving on, I'm here to watch the show and do this. then great and that person comes on in.
Starting point is 00:08:51 If the person's just there looking for a fight, then you know, you put them to the next show. But this is also where the big thing goes. I don't know where this show goes a lot of the times. I don't know what I'm going to say. And that's kind of why I love doing it. That's another people who have been acknowledging,
Starting point is 00:09:05 saying you seem like you're having the most fun you've ever had, ever, ever. This, to be able to do this, to be able to have a conversation and outlet to where I can dictate what I want to talk about, how I want to talk about it with you guys, having these conversations, things I want to talk about. I'm very fascinated with the box office of Spider-Man and how it hit a billion dollars. What does that mean for the business?
Starting point is 00:09:28 Got to talk about that. The fact that I finally got a chance to, well, not finally, but I got a chance to watch Cobra Chi. I absolutely want to talk to you guys about that. There are certain things that people are watching and talking about right now. I haven't watched. Like the arcane and stuff. People keep asking me to watch it.
Starting point is 00:09:43 I haven't had a chance to watch it. It's not that I don't want to watch it. haven't had a chance. I'm not going to be able to watch that particular show. I'm going to watch Boba Fett, not only because everybody's talking about Boba Fett because I'm a Star Wars fan and I want to talk about Boba Fett. So it's been really enjoyable to be able to just do that.
Starting point is 00:10:01 And it's a bummer right now with everything going on in the world, with cases going up and all that shit, that hopefully it doesn't put a damper on some of the stuff that we were doing in studio, you know, because we had some really good shows going. I mean, poor coy, it's not. It's okay for me to say because it's public, but Coy got sick. And we had a whole thing on Matrix ready to go and we couldn't do it. I was talking about that today, too.
Starting point is 00:10:26 Matrix bombed. Bad, real bad. And I get it. Totally understand it. It's funny when I was, I guess we can just start with that. When I was talking about Matrix, I did the Matrix, spoiler. And that's where that comment I talked about earlier came about was when I put that review up, I still, now I'm going to watch it again.
Starting point is 00:10:44 Watching it, I go, people are going to hate this movie. people are going to hate this movie. And I think that it's one of those things I've got to go back and watching it. I don't think I'm ever going to hate this movie because it's like, people, well, what about the way you turned on Last Jedi? And I said, very different. I'm not as, I love the first Matrix. Love it.
Starting point is 00:11:03 Not as attached to it the way that I was Star Wars and watching and rewatching it. Like, there's not going to be a lot of things inside of it. Because I didn't leave the Matrix movie going, oh, that's fundamentally very different than things I've seen in the past and certain tones and it's there. I get it, but it doesn't, it doesn't bother me the same way it does for Star Wars. I'm just more emotionally attached to Star Wars. And when it came to Matrix, there's some stuff in there that, like I, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:11:31 I'm again, I'm not going to spoil it for anybody, but there's a particular line involving Warner Brothers, we'll just say that. And I remember kind of wincing on, I don't know, there's a lot of those moments. It's going to, yeah. I think Jeremy John said it, where he said it's the metrics. I agree with that. I think it's fair. I did start watching it again and said,
Starting point is 00:11:54 it's not one of those things where I'm watching it going, I don't want to watch this, but I understand. I understand how it did bad. When people come in, if you go back and you look at any of the spoiler comments or the non-spoiler comments and people say how much they hated it, I respond with, I get it. I understand. If it's, I'm not, there's, like somebody said to me,
Starting point is 00:12:11 they hate Eternal Sunshine and the Spotless Mind. I'd be like, really? What do you hate about that movie? Like, what do you hate about it? And not that they can't hate it, I would just be more confused saying, you hated that movie? How did you hate Eternal Sunshine and Spotless Mind? Like Braveheart.
Starting point is 00:12:28 Empire Strikes Back. You know, movies like that. It's like, I hated that movie. How did you hate it? I really am curious on how you hate it. Why did you hate it? And then hearing certain things, I still don't know if I'd understand it. But, man, I get it with this one.
Starting point is 00:12:45 I get it. There's a lot of stuff in there. And I think Dan Merle was talking about it, too. It seems like a big FU to the fan base. Not a fan base, but he didn't say that. The big FU more so, too, the studio that said, hey, Lana wouldn't give you this money. And she kind of did like an inside joke and made it the way she wanted to make it. So who knows?
Starting point is 00:13:08 But we got other things to talk about. We got a lot to talk about. And I want to start all, this is a kind of a sad note, a very sad note. not kind of. It's a very sad note. John Mark Valle has passed away. He was 58 years old. A lot of my sources, by the way, a lot of the stories I get are from Dark Horizons.com.
Starting point is 00:13:26 And this is the article from Dark Horizons, who state that the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee died over the weekend in Quebec City. No cause of his death has been given. He's done crazy Cafe de Flore, Dallas Buyers Club, obviously. But the ones that I really recently was watching was a big little lies where he did the whole first season of that. Yeah, it's very sad. He's very young.
Starting point is 00:13:53 Very young to pass away at 58 years old. That's young. Carrie Fisher passed away at 60, right? That was just the anniversary. I think it was five years. So to lose somebody that young, his family, you know, heart goes out to him. We don't know yet, at least at the time that I'm recording this, how he passed away. I don't know if it was heart attack or what it might be. I don't know. Very sad, very sad, especially as this always, this close to the holidays. It's just I always think about that. If people pass away near the holidays,
Starting point is 00:14:22 that it just becomes so much more painful to the families, you know, every year that passes for the memory of it. And you keep the good memories, obviously, coupled with the bad, but it's terrible to lose somebody that young at 58 years old, especially someone who was, not especially, but also the fact that he was such a, it was a very talented director. So that's horrible, absolutely horrible.
Starting point is 00:14:48 And I'm sorry, I'm sorry for, sorry for the family's loss, and I'm sorry that that happened. For people out there who are paying attention to the story, and you know a little bit more. If you want to share it in the comments, then please do so. But once again, hearts and prayers go out to the man's family.
Starting point is 00:15:05 All right, we're going to move on, though, moving on from some sad news to some big news, obviously for Sony and for Disney. and Marvel, I guess, but the news is, and Spider-Man hits a billion dollars. And we were talking about this. What was it talking about? I think when Matt Nost was on.
Starting point is 00:15:27 It's a good episode, by the way, if you missed it. A lot of people, man, haven't been checking. I know a lot of people, maybe if you're brand new to the channel, and you've been to subscribe recently, and you haven't had a chance to watch this show. A lot of times I do, it's not just me. Just this week's going to be just me, but normally I have a guest on and we talk for a bit.
Starting point is 00:15:48 You should check it out. It's a really good show. I have had a lot of fun doing it. But the Spider-Man stuff, billion dollars. We talked about it, and we weren't sure what it was going to make. I was way off because I was just so fixed on the whatever it was.
Starting point is 00:16:07 I think there was no movie during the pandemic that even hit 100 million. And this thing shattered that. It became one of the biggest openings of all time. And you can understand why. But it's also, it also hit in the spot. It was right before the variant had, or really not right before, but it wasn't, didn't burst out like it did now.
Starting point is 00:16:23 And I do think, I think I had a lot of reasons for Matrix bombing as it did, but I don't think that it helped. I mean, I, for me, I had a screening that I was supposed to see in an IMAX. And I didn't, Koya had just told me he got sick. There were other people that I, that I knew, Roxy had just gotten sick and everybody was getting sick. And I was like, I don't know if I want to go to this thing. right now and I really wanted to see it.
Starting point is 00:16:45 So Warner Brothers was gracious enough. They sent me a screening link to watch it. And I watched a screening link of it at home and on my TV with some surround sound because that's obviously how you want to watch. The Matrix was some good sound, but I didn't want to go. So I wonder if that hurt overall. But the flip side of that is you look at Sing 2,
Starting point is 00:17:06 and at Sing 2 had a massive opening. So I don't know. Maybe not. but shit man spider-man billion dollars listen to this sony and marvel spider-man no way home has gone at a worldwide total of 813 9 million through wednesday this is old this is older this is older article where is the billion there it is spidey this is it i apologize that was that was before it hit okay superhero sequel was a top grossing domestic movie on christmas eve with 19.7 million for the friday while across the three-day x-day
Starting point is 00:17:42 Christmas holiday. It's expected to rack up a further 81.5 total of 467 at the box office. The film is also past the billion dollar market. It's the first film to do so since Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker back in 2019. So the other hits of the holiday were Singh to, as I mentioned, from Universal, which is on track to pull in 23.8 over Friday and Sunday at 41 million over Wednesday Sunday audience reaction scores are impeccable, which suggests a long life in cinemas. I saw it with the kids. A lot of fun. Continuing on, I think it's a really, it's a heartwarming little story.
Starting point is 00:18:17 And I think very good for the kids at the moment because there's not a lot for the kids to watch. That's a good one. Matrix, box office, or excuse me, Dark Horizon is a lot nicer than I'm going to be here right now. They say not faring well. It ate shit is a better way to say it. The Matrix Resurrection, they had a big bag of shit, which is on track for $11.3 million over Friday and Sunday and 21.8 over Wednesday and Sunday. the latter nearly half of the 40 million figure the studio was estimating. P. Yusa.
Starting point is 00:18:46 In fact, this last of the theatrical day and date Warner Brothers event titles to simultaneously hit HBO Max performed worse on the three-day than the first of those dual. Wonder Woman 84. That film took 16.7 over the three. Yeah, this is as much as I love the day and day, they're getting rid of it. And I hate to say it, but they should. I hate it. I hate to say it, but they should.
Starting point is 00:19:09 fairing even worse was Matthew Vaughn's World War I prequel, The Kingsman. I mean, this is not a surprise to me at all, which is tracking for $63.6.35 million for the three day and $10 million for the five day. I have no idea why that movie was made. I'll tell you any reason why I say that. American Underdog opened on Saturday and pulled in 6.2. How much did that movie cost it made? Come on.
Starting point is 00:19:36 For its two days of release, a very healthy figure. for his low budget. That's what I'm saying. The A plus cinema score and so this will play in the red state for some time to come. Yeah, come on.
Starting point is 00:19:45 You knew that was going to do well for the budget that it was at. Makes sense. Inspirational story. Okay, a lot to pull in here. All right, Spider-Man, billion dollars. What does that mean?
Starting point is 00:19:56 It means that people were looking for... Okay. I got to spoil some stuff here. So if you haven't seen Spider-Man knowing my home at this point, you should probably tune in. I have the time codes.
Starting point is 00:20:07 So if you want to go to the time codes, and jump to the next story, then you can do that. So I've given you a warning if you haven't seen Spider-Man at this point. Ready? Skip or don't? Great. The word got out, man, that Toby and Andrew were in this thing, and it got more people excited about it.
Starting point is 00:20:22 That had a lot to do with it. The fact that it got really good word of mouth, the fact that people were very excited about the way that they played it, the fact that it wasn't on a streaming service, hate to say it, all of that stuff. And people wanted to get back in the theater for a big thing, and it was right before Variant blew up. and started, you know, causing some more shit.
Starting point is 00:20:42 So it was all perfect timing for Sony. I did not think, if you would ask me, and I probably said it on that episode, No. And I was wrong to say it. I thought it was going to make $115 million opening weekend. I didn't think people were that ready to get back in. Wrong. When you look at all the,
Starting point is 00:20:57 there are people that would just, you hear the words about, it was like going to a sporting event, the way people were applauding and screaming and yelling in the theater. And people were missing that. And the more that got out that people were doing that and getting excited. And any time, it's that, hey, did you see moments? And there haven't been a lot of those movies lately. Hey, did you see Spider-Man?
Starting point is 00:21:20 Hey, did you get a chance to see Spider-Man yet? Hey, I just saw Spider-Man. It was great. Really? Yeah. All right. You know what? I'm back to the movies.
Starting point is 00:21:25 I'll go check out this one. That shit helps. Especially when there's not a massive amount of competition right out, right there. Right? Matrix was the only one that was coming out that was as big of scale. And I thought Matrix was going to do better. because of the hype off the last trailer or two. And I certainly was starting to get excited.
Starting point is 00:21:44 I'll be honest, I was more excited about Matrix than I was Spider-Man. Spider-Man is the far superior film. And I think that then, and the difference is, again, word of mouth. And on a streaming platform. And that's why I'm really bummed about the fact that I can admit that day-and-day ain't going to help studio at all. It's just not. 30-45-day window I like very much.
Starting point is 00:22:08 but man it just it was it was an experiment because of I had borne out of necessity and I understand that but Sing 2 doing very well Matrix eating a bag of dicks
Starting point is 00:22:21 and that's a bummer because like I said I didn't hate the movie I thought it was fine it was fine and then they asked Lana Oachowski about whether or not
Starting point is 00:22:35 she would do it into the Matrix and she just said nope no it will not I still think, and this is a lot of questions and people, I think, I asked at the end of this episode for people on my Facebook page to ask questions that I would answer at the end of the show. And my answer for a lot of things is TV, man. And I think HBO Max doing this thing for Penguin is a smart move. And I think that the Matrix show would have been good because of Enter the Matrix, the video game. That played really well.
Starting point is 00:23:05 Nobody talks about that game that much. and the story that was on there with Nairobi and the way that that played. Could have been a great TV show. I think they're going to stay away from it now, especially the fact that once these numbers are in, the studio is going to go, nobody gives a shit about the Matrix anymore,
Starting point is 00:23:21 which I don't think necessarily would have been the fact. You know, you can chalk this up, though. You can put it in the same category as Terminator and die hard. It's not, to me, it's not that people are bored with the premise in the series anymore. We're bored with the premise and the way that people have been approaching them. The diehard movies have been, have not been approached well. The last Terminator movie was, and I was so bummed about that. I thought that movie was going to be good. I did not like that movie.
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Starting point is 00:27:03 I don't know if I am. But anyway, Um, okay, moving on. Some other stories, everybody. Some other stories that's Spitey, Spidey did good. But man, this Batman movie, are you kidding me with this movie? Holy shitballs, this trailer when it dropped yesterday. I lost my mind.
Starting point is 00:27:23 You see my, my trailer reaction? I lost my mind. This movie looks incredible. I love Matt Reeves. I love Matt Reeves. And this is, again, when I watched the first planet of the 18, of James Franco and John Lithgow, Andy Circus,
Starting point is 00:27:40 not the very first one, obviously, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, fell in love of that movie, and that was, I was Rupert Wyatt, I believe, and when he left, I was like,
Starting point is 00:27:51 man, to bring it in the let me in, whatever the movie was, to bring that guy in for the dawn, dawn is like the Empire strikes back of the Apes franchise. It's so good. It's amazing.
Starting point is 00:28:05 and then he finished stuff with war. And I had an opportunity to interview, I think it was Matt Reeves' end, Andy Circus, during the dawn of the Planet of the Apes, like Blu-ray release, whatever it was. And this guy, he's just such a passionate filmmaker. It really understands. And he's making moves, man, with this movie.
Starting point is 00:28:27 And you can tell this movie. This movie looks like seven. Someone was trying to tell me, this is what earlier I was talking about. I don't think this, I think every trailer comes out that looks less like seven. I go, what trailer where you look looking at, brother? Fair, that's what you think.
Starting point is 00:28:44 Man. Well, I got to give a shout out real quick. Just remember this. I don't know if he's watching now. I might just watch the shorter videos. But I don't want to call the guy out and give it as far as the name goes, but I guess it's going to give it away anyway with this.
Starting point is 00:28:59 So I was a man, as you guys know, a massive wrestling fan growing up. I haven't been on. on as much recently, and I know everybody tells me I got to check out AEW and how great it's been. So one of my favorite wrestlers of all time growing up as far as heels go was the honky talk man. I remember when my dad, my brothers, we used to watch wrestling kind of growing up. And when Ricky Steamboat lost to honky talk, man, everyone was so mad about it. And then he kept it and he kept and everyone was like, he's going to lose it right away.
Starting point is 00:29:31 He's not going to keep the title. It became the longest running intercontinental champion of all time. And I remember telling my brother how much I love the Hockey Talk Man because he was just such a good villain. He always made you want to, he always put the other guys over so well because you hated him so much, but he kept winning. And then when the Ultimate Warrior beat him for the title, it was like there was so much that the Hockey Talk Man did. So Hockey Talk Man's kid watches the show. And I said, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?
Starting point is 00:30:03 Unbelievable. This is a big moment for me. I love the honky talk, man. So if you are watching, my friend, thank you very much for your kind words on the comments you've been dropping. But also, give my love to your dad. What a, what a pro that guy was. Unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Great, great champion. Great champion. Anyway, all right. Speaking of great, it's a fucking Batman movie. Unbelievable with this thing. Looks like seven. Like, creepy. And yeah, there's some things in the trailer.
Starting point is 00:30:34 People are guys giving away too much. It might and may not. I don't disagree. There might be some stuff going on in this trailer. Like, again, if you haven't seen the trailer, you don't want to know anything about it. You should probably skip on to the next story. Good?
Starting point is 00:30:47 Great. Ridler seems to know Bruce Wayne's name. Shit seems to be going down with the backstory of Bruce Wayne's family. But I don't know. Don't just assume you know. But when I'm going to read about this, this is a Matt Reeves quote. it's a Matt Reeves quote
Starting point is 00:31:08 that's what he said they're talking about um no one's movie everybody loves everybody puts you know the dark night trilogy as the you have to beat that tone
Starting point is 00:31:21 because those are the best Batman movies to a lot of people to a lot of people uh I know that Keaton's Batman has a lot of love for a lot of people and the and Batman v Superman certainly has its hardcore fans but most people I think think Nolan is the gold standard. This is what Matt Reeve says.
Starting point is 00:31:41 This is what Dylan Clark says, who's the, who's the, a producer. As the first standalone Batman in 10 years, the hope is that we can lay a foundation that you can build stories upon. I've said this to Chris Nolan directly. Look, we're trying to be the best Batman ever made and we're going to try to beat you. Matt is interested in pushing this character to his emotional depths and shaking him to his core. So this is where Matt Reeves says,
Starting point is 00:32:07 I've only made each movie as a passion project. This even more so, because when you know something has been done well before and is so beloved, you can't just come in and sleepwalk through it. You have to shoot for something. We're trying to leave our mark on this. Fuck yeah. The film star Robert Pattinson has said he's already planning out where things could go with his Bruce Wing character, telling the outlet, I've made a kind of a map for where Bruce's psychology
Starting point is 00:32:33 he would grow over to more movies. I would love to do it. I love in everything that these people are talking about right now. Part of that will be explaining Bruce's relationship with his family's butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Gone is that sage father figure. The new film starts with the pair very much on the outs. This is what Reeves says.
Starting point is 00:32:50 Bruce is on this nihilistic journey and they've pulled apart. It's gotten to the point where they're almost no longer talking. If they bump into each other in the corridor, it's a very icy and painful greeting. They're almost living special words now. I like this. I like what we're doing here. In the issue, it's revealed Bruce Wayne,
Starting point is 00:33:10 built a new Batmobile himself, which is why there's a tangibility to it as compared to the leftover military tech of Nolan's trilogy or the stylized and over-manufactured look of the Burton-Schumiker and Snyder era. As Reeve says this, it has to make an appearance out of the shadows to intimidate, so I thought of it almost like a Stephen King's possessed Christine.
Starting point is 00:33:27 I like the idea of the car itself as a horror figure, making an animalistic appearance to really scare the hell out of people's Batman is pursuing. There is absolutely a horror genre aspect to this movie. No shit. You can tell. You can tell. Keeps going. Magazine also talked with the film's villains.
Starting point is 00:33:46 Zoe Kravitz confirming the film serves as an origin story for her catwoman. Paul Dano says that his Ridler character was inspired by the Zodiac Killer. Well, there you go. While Colin Farrell says his take on the penguin is very much inspired by John Kizzle's work as Fredo in the Godfather trilogy. Matt Reeves mentioned Freedo to me because Frato's crippled by the insignificance that he lives in within a family that is full of very strong, very bright, very capable, very violent men, which is why he commits the act of betrayal that he does because he's weak. He's kind of broken and he's in pain. There's a kind of fracture at the core of Oz, which fuels his desire and his ambition to rise with this criminal cabal. Where that rise goes, I would love to get to explore in the second film if that was ever to happen. Don't worry, it's going to happen. Holy shit, this movie sounds fantastic.
Starting point is 00:34:32 This movie sounds fantastic. I don't know. Here's someone was talking about how the hype with Spider-Man, it should be as big for Batman. I don't disagree with you. I don't know if it's going to happen, though, because of a couple different things. I don't think this movie's going to be for families.
Starting point is 00:34:49 Spider-Man, you can take families to. Spider-Man's a little light. You got Ned and Zanea running around cracking jokes and things of that nature. that ain't this and I am here for it. This movie is just about as dark as it gets. Batman is pissed off full of hate. And it's the beginning of it.
Starting point is 00:35:10 And even you look at this stuff that with him and Alfred, they're on the outs. All this backstory and the detail in it. Oh, man, this sounds like it could be special. Holy shit, this movie sounds like it could be special. This could be. And I love the Nolan movies, man. The Dark Knight's one of my favorite, if not my favorite.
Starting point is 00:35:26 superhero movie of all time. It's got potential. That's all I'm saying. Hard to just deem somebody the king without giving them a proper, you know, run with a full-length movie yet when you haven't seen it, but trailers are doing it right.
Starting point is 00:35:44 This is the best trailer so far. Hands down. No doubt. Holy shit. I am so excited for this movie in March. I went to wait until March. Yeah. And going through those comments yesterday, I remember Claire live
Starting point is 00:35:59 when we talked about Robert Pattinson when we wanted to be cast and people are you crazy. I'm telling you, this kid's got the goods. He's got the goods. I'm excited for it. I hope you guys are too. It's going to be a good one.
Starting point is 00:36:12 Let's move on to the next story. We've got some more. And this is just a little bit more. This is a Cobra Guy. Cobra Chi season four. It's right around the corner. Reviews are out. I saw it.
Starting point is 00:36:24 I'm not going to spoil anything. I have my full review up that if you want to check out the actual review, you can just go and check it out and watch it. It's a non-spoiler review. I did not want to give a spoiler review yet because you guys haven't seen it. That's not fair. Same thing, you know, when I go see early movies, I wait until they come out, like for both Spider-Man and Matrix. I did it the day of. Boba-Fed will be different.
Starting point is 00:36:47 Boba-Fet's coming out tonight at midnight, so I'll put my spoiler heavy review up in the morning because you guys have a chance to watch it. I don't have a chance to watch this yet, so I won't talk about it yet, as far as spoilers go. But what I will tell you is it, it delivered for me, man. I saw most people, I think out of like 12 or 13 reviews that are up there. The only one that I saw, my buddy of mine, Jermaine Luciae, who is we're not normally on the same page, I think, when it comes to taste and stuff anyway, but he didn't seem to have liked it as much as he. He's a big Kobr Kovai fan.
Starting point is 00:37:18 I just think that from his tweet from what I read is that he didn't like it as much as I did. I thought it was one of the more developed seasons thus far in Cobra Chi because people keep asking me in the comments and I'm not giving anything away to them when they ask. They say, how is this person, are they used, are they used?
Starting point is 00:37:37 Everybody is used from Dimitri to Robbie to Samantha to Daniel's son to everybody. They all have arcs. They all have things to do. It was such a balanced season. If you mentioned certain characters, Well, what about this person? Yeah, they have something to do. Everybody has something to do, whether it's Daniel's wife,
Starting point is 00:37:57 whether it is, everybody has something to do. And it all plays together, and it ends very well leading into season five, which I think they wrapped already. Remember, they were thrown back from, those guys got thrown for a loop like everybody else did, but they got thrown for a loop because they went from being on YouTube to getting this great deal, getting picked up by Netflix, and then being told they could shoot the season, but then have to go back and forth with what they could shoot because of the pandemic and all this shit. So the fact that I think that they shot five already, I think, I'm not sure,
Starting point is 00:38:30 but I'm pretty sure they wrapped it. So we should be getting that and that's all going to be locked up. So I don't know, I don't know if they announced how long that show is going to run for, but right now they're four for four. I think some people don't love the second season. I like the second season a lot. I like the second season. If I was, I mean, my rankings can change.
Starting point is 00:38:50 Because I'm as my rankings for Rocky 1 through 3 always change all the time. I just rewatch those with my daughter the other day. Right now if I was going to rank them, I would say season one is the best. Four and three are just because of, you know, recency bias. I'll put four at the two spot. I'll put three and then two. just three has such a great ending I don't know
Starting point is 00:39:22 I mentioned in my season three discussions whether it was with the creators or with when I was talking to Jolo Madaguenia that there's a lot of Star Wars in this and I even got confirmation in that that the writers
Starting point is 00:39:37 are talking about Star Wars when they're writing they're talking about Star Wars so there's a big Star Wars influence that's 100% confirmation that they talk about Star Wars. You can even tell.
Starting point is 00:39:52 But they infuse Star Wars and Air. They definitely infuse wrestling. Such a great way. It's just a different, like the way that the tone has, I've accepted what it really is. It's a certain, the way that if you look mentioning wrestling earlier, right? In the 80s, in front of a lot of you people who are watching, it's over your head, if you've ever watched,
Starting point is 00:40:11 if you're wrestling fans, to you guys, most of you, it's always been sports entertainment and acknowledged that it's a show, right? Well, not in the 80s. In the 80s, they were still keeping up the facade that it was a sport and that you didn't really know if the results were fixed or not. You didn't really know. I mean, people, they stood by the fact that it wasn't, that it wasn't a show. And then Vince McMahon just said, no, this is sports entertainment.
Starting point is 00:40:39 This is a type of, this is it. And I think Cobur guy does the same thing. They infuse sports entertainment. in this show. They infuse Star Wars. They infuse 80s movies. They infuse all these things that at first. Because the tone of the first movie,
Starting point is 00:40:55 it's based in realism. And I said this in my non-spoiler review that there's a lot of stuff that happens in the show that's not realistic. It's very realistic, as people were saying. I go, someone's like, where I lived, there were fights in high school all the time. Me too.
Starting point is 00:41:09 I went to school in Queens. And in all boys high school. It first of all, it smelled like the whole. whole school farted at the same time. And because of that, people were pissed off and there'd be fights all the time. I'm not talking about fights breaking out, but I didn't see any of me flipping off of lockers and doing like, you know, crane kicks and jumping all the way. Actually, everybody was doing crane kicks because a movie was popular.
Starting point is 00:41:31 But jumping back and forth off lockers and doing 45 minute, you know, flips and people learn and becoming masters of karate after three months of training. Yeah, it's a little unrealistic. And do I give a shit? No. I don't care anymore. At first, because I was trying to compare it to the first movie, I was like, oh, this is, now it's consistent.
Starting point is 00:41:52 It's consistent. There's one training scene that I didn't love. But I was it. It's really fun. I loved it. I loved this series. I can't wait for season five. And because of the trailer, so people know,
Starting point is 00:42:03 Terry Silver from the third movie, the villain returns, and he is just, Thomas Heath Griffith. Woo! Kills it. Kills it. All right. Before we move on, I want you guys,
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Starting point is 00:43:42 I see draftkings.com slash sportsbook for full terms and conditions. Okay. So we've got a couple more stories to go over. Yeah, I don't know about a couple. But we're going to get to your questions in just a minute. This is the other thing. John Wick, man. John Wick has been pushed back.
Starting point is 00:43:58 We're going to do a whole rewatch on John Wick. John Wick. But got pushed back. And here's the announcement. Lionsgate had made the announcement saying that the fourth entry in the John Wick film has been pushed back. back 10 months. It was slated for May 27th of 2022, which is a date that would have been tight for it to meet. The film has a comfortable amount of breathing room for completion as it will open
Starting point is 00:44:23 in cinemas on March 21st, 21st, 24th, 2023. The movie gets the new film out of the way of Top Gun, which is slated to open that May 22. As part of the news, a video announcement of the date has been released that can be viewed online, Chad Slessy Helms, the new film, which stars Gana Reeves, Donnie Yenna. Lawrence Fishburn, Lawrence Reddick, Bill Scarsguard, Rina Sawa Yamma, Shamir Anderson, and Ian McShane. Michael Finch and Shay Hatton wrote the screenplay. The previous entry pulled in a franchise high of $327 million worldwide. I think that this is smart.
Starting point is 00:45:01 Bummer, but smart for a lot of reasons. One, as they mentioned in the article for Dark Horizons, it gives you some time to breathe, get you out of that spot of top gun move it gives you time to edit two does it matter did i say a and two like like buzz from home alone um the other thing is do because of matrix does this hurt kianos star no not really i don't think it does but still putting it out within, you know, five, six months. People still talking about Matrix. Nobody will be talking about Matrix by the time this thing finally comes out.
Starting point is 00:45:45 People will be excited to see John Wick again. So it gives enough way more, a lot of breathing room. So it's fine that is coming out at this point. I think that it sucks that we have to wait by the time it does. It's not too far off that you don't care anymore. But speaking of Top Gun, by the way, someone mentioned this and I agree. Top Gun had an opportunity. If Top Gun was supposed to come out,
Starting point is 00:46:11 I remember when the trailer, we were in Comic-Con doing the Mike Kalinowski versus Rachel Cushing match in like 2019. That's like July, when that trailer dropped. They've been pushing that movie
Starting point is 00:46:25 now for two, three years, whatever it is. That's a good sign. That is a good sign. Because that means they want people to see this movie in the theaters. They could have put it on Paramount Plus or whatever, I assume it's Paramount, but they could have put it on Paramount Plus.
Starting point is 00:46:42 They could have done a streaming thing with it, but they didn't. They want to wait and they want people to see it in the theater. I dig it. I think it makes sense. Okay. I got questions. I got questions from you guys. A ton of them.
Starting point is 00:46:59 You guys, if you submitted the questions on, and I don't get it to them, I apologize. There are only so much I can get to by the end of the show. if you want to submit questions, I'm going to be doing this, by the way, for the next couple shows for Thursday and Friday. So head on over to my Facebook page. If you don't know how to find me over there, the link is in the description of this video. So please go and check that out. But let's get to some questions.
Starting point is 00:47:23 All right, first one, Matt Case. If you rank the comic book movies you saw this year, what order would they be? Okay, well, listen to me on this one. I'm not going to answer that totally right now because I think I'm going to do a video. of it. I think the only one I haven't seen so far is Venom. And I think I'm going to watch Venom tonight. And then I'm going to rank them. And I'll do that before the year is over. So I don't want to give my rankings here yet because I want to give my, I want to do it like a little video on it. I'll probably do like a seven to ten minute video with all that. And that also brings me to the fact
Starting point is 00:47:55 people like, are you going to do a top 10 best movies of the year? I don't know if I've seen enough or all the ones that I really want to see yet in order to do that. Like I'm still like halfway through power of the dog, and I want to see, I want to check that out. I started watching the Leonardo DiCaprio one, look up, don't look up. Started watching that last night. So there's tons of shit I got to watch before I can do all that. So probably not. But the comic book movies, I've seen all of them except Venom.
Starting point is 00:48:22 So I'll probably do that. So I can't answer that just yet. But I wanted to acknowledge it. All right, where's the next one? Anthony Fatski. I hope I got that right. What's a movie that you want? when you were younger, but you didn't fully appreciate it enough.
Starting point is 00:48:39 Have you gone back to rewatch it more than once? The answer to that is Blade Runner. When I saw Blade Runner as a kid, the original Blade Runner, the Ridley Scott Blade Runner. When I saw Blade Runner as a kid, I saw it as someone who just wanted to see Hans Solo and Indiana Jones in another kick-ass movie, and it was way over my head at the time I saw it. So I always took this with me as like a, eh, I don't know about that movie. It's too. It's boring.
Starting point is 00:49:02 It's this. And I watched it recently. Again, it's fantastic. It's a great movie. It's a really, really great movie. And I fully appreciate it as I got older watching it and really be able to lock into and pay attention to it. So I think that's the one. That's the one that I thought of immediately when I saw your question was Blade Runner for sure.
Starting point is 00:49:22 All right. Next one. John D. Gregorio. Aside from the Schmode, what was some of the challenging things that you had to face as someone who makes their own content in 2021? Oh, man. Great question. Well, it was making the jump to try to actually maneuver and make this channel.
Starting point is 00:49:45 And you get criticisms and people all the time who say certain things. Like when we moved to S-E-N live, like so for those people who don't know, not familiar, or don't mind hearing it again. The, when I was at Collider, I was there for Collider, and as someone, someone wrote the other day, they saw, I guess they didn't know what I was doing stuff. and they saw my on the reaction. They said, is this a clatter guy? No, the guy who started Shmo's No with Mark Ellis.
Starting point is 00:50:11 And then from there got a job at AMC and then there got a job at Fandango and then got a job at Collider. And it was one of the job that I had, you know, and grateful for the job. But it's like, and people say it and I'm pretty open about it. I didn't really enjoy my time there, to be honest. Enjoyed the people I worked with. I love the people I worked with. just didn't enjoy that, that period. I talk about all the time.
Starting point is 00:50:39 Seth counsel to me is a far superior show than Jedi Council ever was. Big thing is, to me, a far superior show than any show I've ever done. But when I moved over and it was, you got to remember that when I left Collider, I was going out on my own and I had to figure out, I have two children. I have a wife and I said, okay, what can I do in order to try to make this work? So, already the Schmodown. The Schmodown was, has had, and this is before the pandemic, obviously. So I had made these choices to do, to go out of my own, going to do live events,
Starting point is 00:51:18 really embrace Schmodown and the audience. And we were really cooking on Schmodown at that point. Remember that. That ESPN was going to do a whole thing on us and we were moving. So that was my focus with Schmodown. And then I said, well, what I could do is that I could do a similar show to what I've been doing because I pitched Clyder Live as kind of, I pitched Clyder Live as this, what I'm doing now. Like just me doing my thing with maybe people coming in a couple of guests.
Starting point is 00:51:50 But then it was Mark Fernandez and I are still very, very good friends. And he wanted something very similar to Shmo's. And I was like, well, we could do something like that. If we do it daily, but daily is going to be tough for me. And he wanted, he, you wanted me to do it daily. You wanted me to do it daily, which is totally fair for him to ask. I just didn't want to do it daily all the time. I wanted a couple days off.
Starting point is 00:52:14 And it's just not something he wanted, he wanted to do. And that was his prerogative and his right to do. But when I left, I said, oh, what if I do something similar to that? And it was SEM live. But I said, the difference is that Mark was, was paying everybody's salaries. And I said, I certainly can't, well, not salaries. The people, I was getting a salary at the time as I was an employee, but there were, but I didn't have a salary.
Starting point is 00:52:41 I couldn't, and I had to make sure that these new people that I had coming in had, were being able to get paid. And I met with Campia a bunch of times. And he was doing the super chat thing. And so he, he gave me a lot of great advice. And I started my own thing, but I was like, the, the super chat thing. were still not doing enough to where I was like, I can't,
Starting point is 00:53:04 I'm not going to be able to keep all these people coming in and making money. If I'm going to do this daily, I don't know what to do. And David Michael Frank was on the show. He said, look, stream labs is pretty prominent, and they have this option on this robot thing. So we added the robot. To some of you go to a fucking schmobot, the schmobot kept people eating for a long time
Starting point is 00:53:22 because what I wanted to do was give the audience an opportunity to really be involved in the show. We couldn't do phone calls, so it's to do it that way. And eventually, though, it did take away from shows like this. You can't do shows like this because if I'm in the middle of doing something right now, it's like a stinky ball, 37 says, blah, blah, it's, it is annoying to you. It's annoying to me. But it didn't mean that it wasn't, there wasn't a way to do that.
Starting point is 00:53:48 But by putting it on Twitch and doing all that. So anyway, the whole point of this backstory was that the other thing is that Schmowdown, S-E-N-Live, if there were, a review and interview anything. It was all on one channel. It was the channel that Ellis and I grew together. And as a subscriber, let me tell you, I understand, that's exhausting.
Starting point is 00:54:13 That's fucking exhausting because you, like, let's say you subscribe there for Schmodeown, and then you get SEM live every day. You're like, oh, I don't watch this show, or vice versa. You watch SCEN live, but you don't watch the Shmodown. It's like, boom, boom, boom, all this stuff is just hitting.
Starting point is 00:54:27 And I also have to add in the fact that during this time, And I had my partnership now with Skybound. So when I was talking to Skybound, I said, I have an idea. And my idea is that, and this was this year, I was like, we separate all the content and make it more digestible for the fan base and take the pop culture side of it and move it to a new channel, move it to that clips channel. And they were hesitant. You know, they're like, well, but you have all these subscribers over there. And why would you want to do that? And I said, because they ain't watching everything over there.
Starting point is 00:55:05 And it's not focused. It needs to be focused. They trusted me. They go, all right, if you think you can make it work. And I said, my goal was, I said, I think I can get this new channel of the 20,000 by the end of the year. And we got it to 31 or 30 right now. So that was a challenge.
Starting point is 00:55:23 It was very challenging because, and you get the stupid assholes. We're like, did you see what they were doing? They're moving SCN live over to Twitch. bad move, that whole channel is going to fail. They're not going to do anything. And you get people who are going to do that. And again, I didn't acknowledge it. I just ignore it.
Starting point is 00:55:38 And say, okay, then you just got to, if I had a dollar for every time someone told me that I wasn't going to be able to do something, you know, and there's the same people, and I guarantee you, here's a promise to those people, people watching here, not a, not a, I'll show you, but here's the thing that I want to promise new people. A, two,
Starting point is 00:55:58 promise for you guys. First of all, if you're a brand new subscriber to this channel and you never heard of the Shmowdown, I haven't really talked about it much on this channel, we're doing a full reboot of the season next year. We're going to be filming in studio. We're going to be up in production. We're going to be making a lot of changes.
Starting point is 00:56:16 Less matches, less competitors, a lot of different things that are coming. And even for those people who used to watch or never really dug it, I'm asking you this season once it's ready, because it's not ready yet. to give it a shot. Because that's where it's going to be,
Starting point is 00:56:32 there's going to be two things we're really working on. That's this channel and that's the Shmodown. The Shmodown is going to be, like I haven't really, like I said, haven't heard a lot from me on it right now because it's in these stages of wait until we get going. New studio. We have, you know,
Starting point is 00:56:49 we're going to have a new set. We're going to have everything. So anyway, the answer to that question was there was a lot of challenges of how you get. And then moving everything to Twitch. for Sien Live, you know, not being relying on on donations because that's the other thing is that during that time you had to be very reliant in those things. And I'm so grateful to everybody too.
Starting point is 00:57:08 But then that's why this show on podcasting and making that effort to build the audio. And I, that's why I beg you guys that if you listen to this show or you watch this show on YouTube, please subscribe to the podcast on, um, can I do it here? I don't know if I have it here. There is, nope, that's not it. I have all these different things. Anyway, I have the big thing and Sith Council. Please subscribe to it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Starting point is 00:58:21 tan Eugene with DC and Marvel continuing to get more movies and TV series why video game movies are still struggling to find a successful record. I thought the Sonic, the Hedgehog movie, and the Detective Pikachu movie said a very clear direction on how to do video game movies right. You know, I still haven't seen the Sonic one, but I hear great things about it. The answer from me, and this is a, we get at Harlov type of answer, but I also think that a lot of times with the really popular video games, I think The Last of Us is doing it right.
Starting point is 00:58:50 They're doing a series, right? I think Halo, I think Halo is doing a series. I think that's, that's, video games are too long to condense into one movie. Um, and I think that it's the same thing with Star Wars, honestly. Like, for me, Star Wars, like, if they were going to unite to the Republic, I don't want a movie. I want a series. Um, I've been screaming from the heavens to, for them, why they, Star Wars,
Starting point is 00:59:19 why Lucas filming, nor is their novels that they have is absolutely ludicrous. If they made a Darth Bain trilogy out of it into a TV, not trilogy, there's trilogy of books, if they made that into like six series, it would be massive. Same thing with Darth Plague's, the novel by James Lucino. And I think video games is the same thing. Uncharted, I would have liked the scene of series
Starting point is 00:59:43 with all the stuff that they have. I looked at the last trailer. I liked the first trailer, the second trailer. It just doesn't seem like uncharted to me. I'll probably have fun with it. But it doesn't seem like uncharted to me. And I love those games. And I'm not a big gamer by any stretch of the imagination.
Starting point is 00:59:59 But I loved those games. But we'll see. Tom Holland, it makes sense to cast him. Obviously, he's a massive movie star right now, especially after this movie. So their instincts were right to cast him. Will it transfer over? We'll see. The mustache gag was funny, but I don't know.
Starting point is 01:00:18 All right, next one. Keep going to the wrong one. Let me just do this. All right. Charles Edmund Nelson is the live action He-Man still coming. I always liked your vision, a Lord of the Rings meets Star Wars. Well, thank you, and that's the way it needs to be. It needs to be that.
Starting point is 01:00:34 I have not seen the second half of Kevin Smith's Masters. People who keep asking me that I have to check it out. I started watching it with my daughter, liked it. I just got to finish it. And I did hear, as Navid talked about on the show, that there is a he-man that was cast, and I hear rumors that they are filming it at the moment. How true that is, I don't know.
Starting point is 01:00:53 I would love to see it. I'm very nervous about it and skeptical of it because it just has to be like so they need someone like and hear me out before I say this someone like a Matt Reeves who is directing it and I don't mean Matt Reeves style but that quote I read earlier about Matt Reeves about how he approaches it and how he doesn't just kind of phone it in and how he gives the attention to it and is a big fan of it that's what you need for him in. Otherwise, it's going to eat shit. If it's someone who's just like, yeah, I'll direct a human movie. That can be fun. Oh, oh, I'll learn about it. It's this. No, it's got to be someone who gets it.
Starting point is 01:01:33 Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings. Cheesy shit and Marvel jokes inside of it. No thanks. No thanks. But we'll see. I'm not skeptical. I mean, I'm very skeptical about it. Okay.
Starting point is 01:01:47 I think this is the last one. Randy Evinel, with the live award show going digital, what is it looking like for a live drag? in the start of the reboot season. Can you give us a tease of some things to come? All right, well, the first part is there is no draft because we're not going down, we're not doing that road anymore.
Starting point is 01:02:03 We're not doing the sport side of it. It's going back to basics of the way they used to be. So there is no live draft. The start of the reboots will mostly, because we're probably going to push the awards to the end of January to air. There will probably start to be some scenes and announcements in the beginning of February
Starting point is 01:02:21 and then the first few matches will probably, probably air towards the end of February, which will lead into it. So there will be some new changes, some economic changes, some things that we're going to do overall, but that's it. All right, look, that was it. That was the show. I hope you enjoyed it. I enjoyed doing it.
Starting point is 01:02:38 I hope you enjoyed watching it, listen into it. Please, once again, please. If you're not already doing this, please subscribe to this channel and hit that notification button. That's the big thing. I've been looking at the stats there, everybody. They tell me, they tell me who is, which one of you have you. coming back here, are you hitting those notifications? I don't put that much content on.
Starting point is 01:02:58 I understand that when we had everything on the main channel, not hitting those notifications to get everything, but like one or two videos up a day. Come man. Get that fucking thing, will you? All right. I hope you had a good time. I had a good time. And I'll see you guys tomorrow for BobaFed on Sith Council. And then I'll be back here on Thursday and Friday for this. Let's get to 31 by December 31st. Let's try it. All right, everybody. Thank you. Peace.

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