The Kristian Harloff Show - Stranger Things Has One Episode Left?! Conformity Gate Explained!

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Is a secret 9th episode of Stranger Things Season 5 dropping on January 7th? We dive deep into the viral Conformity Gate fan theory that's blowing up everywhere – the idea that the "happy" finale was actually a Vecna-induced illusion, full of hidden Easter eggs like creepy hand poses, D&D book codes spelling lies, and forced "conformity" in the epilogue. Fans are convinced a real, darker ending is coming soon... but is it legit or just wishful thinking?Plus, more hot pop culture news:Avatar: Fire and Ash crosses $1 billion globally, while Zootopia 2 smashes records with massive hauls in China and overseas! Full breakdown of the 2026 Critics Choice Awards winners, including Best Picture for One Battle After Another, Timothée Chalamet taking Best Actor, and big sweeps in TV for shows like The Pitt and Adolescence. James Gunn shares his exciting vision for Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow as a space fantasy, plus thoughts on the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal. Rumor: Ahsoka's Eman Esfandi eyed for MJ's boyfriend in the next Spider-Man movie! Confirmed: House of the Dragon wraps up with Season 4 – showrunner Ryan Condal spills the details. What do you think about Conformity Gate – real twist or fan cope? Drop your theories in the comments!#StrangerThings #StrangerThings5 #ConformityGate #SecretEpisode #Avatar #Zootopia2 #CriticsChoiceAwards #Supergirl #SpiderMan #HouseOfTheDragon #PopCulture #MovieNews #TVNews    SPONSORS: RAYCON: Go to https://www.buyraycon.com/kristian to get 20% off sitewide. Thanks to Raycon for sponsoring!

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I am John Roker here, the outlaw sitting in for Christian Harloff, who is in Los Angeles. Yes, just two hours and 20 minutes away for me. We're breathing the same air on the same coast because he was at the Critics' Choice Awards last night. But he is not going to be host to show today. I am hosting the show today with my special guest, Winston A. Marshall coming in on that rare Monday. Usually know you see him on Fridays, but he's coming in on Monday to join me. for the Christian Harlov show. So we're going to talk about some box office stuff.

We're talking about those Critics' Choice Awards as well. And we're going to talk about some other things going on in the world of entertainment, these other subjects that are going on like Stranger Things and what have you. And we'll talk about a new year in 2026 and what can we expect and what we're looking forward to as we go. And of course, we want to hear from all of you. So let's not waste any time. Let's get into it. It's the Christian Harlov show on a Monday here in 2026.

Here we go. Yo, what's up, everybody. Welcome to the Kristen Harlov Show. John Roker here sitting in for the man, Christian Harloff, who was still recovering from last night's night's Critics Choice Awards. He was out late, and you know the old man doesn't usually to stay out late, having fun at the award shows

and at the after party there with his lovely wife. I heard they had a great time. We were texting back and forth during the whole ceremony and a bunch of my friends as well, back forth during the whole ceremony. I did not attend. I haven't a member of the Critics of Choice Awards, but I did not attend because I don't really go to big events much anymore,

because I don't, especially with the L.A. Noro virus going around. They don't want to catch anything yet nonsense. but we're going to be talking about that. We're talking about some stranger things, drama and possible extra episode that might be dropping, getting some box office stuff. Maybe we'll get some Star Wars and Marvel stuff too

before the end of the show. But I am not here alone. I cannot do it alone on a Monday morning. Well, I can, but I don't want to today. It is 2026, and we are very fortunate to bring on our special guest for this Monday show. You know him from Caves and Cows. You know him as the swaggy blurred,

and you know him as one half of the spill, the T-Kila crew on my channel. That is the great Winston A. Marshall. Happy New Year, brother. What's up? Oh, dude. Jesus. I am only, what? We're five days into the year,

and I feel like when is 2027 coming? Why am I already get my assbook so bad? What is happening right now? Spoken like a true Cowboys fan. When's the next season already? I'm not even impressed about them. them goofy ass has been out the playoffs.

Now we just got all the other idiots joined at us like the Ravens. That poor kid is going to be thinking about that kick for the rest of his life, bro. Heartbroken for that kid last night, man. But then again, for those you don't know, we're talking about the NFL playoffs. I mean, Harbaugh putting him in that position, a rookie kicker, I think was a massive mistake on his part. Let, let Lamar try and throw it. That Steeler secondary was like Swiss cheese last night. Let Lamar try and get it a little bit closer.

or you had nine, 12 seconds, why not do that? But in the end, it was not to be. And I think another time out. It was just crazy. But like, I guess part of it that there's a level of like,

there's only so much he can do, bro. Yeah, you already had like a fourth and nine and it gives you a perfect dime to, to likely. I just, I know the people that watch this show aren't always the ones that watch spill the teakilis, so they don't care about football the same way that we do.

So we can move on. But I just like, I feel. like the Ravens probably do where I just feel like I've been getting my ass whooped for five days straight. And when I finally saw some light in the horizon, I woke up today and my stomach was whipping me

and I'm happy to be on the show of a Christian was like, hey, can you do this? And then when I go to work, I was like, yo, I'm going to have to dip out for a little bit. And they were all like, hey, where the hell you think you going? I'm like, wow. Like, it's just, ah, ha. Welcome to adulthood, man.

It is constantly. I don't want to be an adult. I don't want to. I want to be a child again, Roca. Here we go again. But yeah, that's the game,

unfortunately. But yeah, all of us walking into 2026. It's a crazy world out there. It got even crazier over the last few days. We're not going to talk about it, obviously, because that's not this kind of show.

But yeah, so everybody who's hanging on or struggling through a Monday, maybe you're heading back to work. A lot of people are heading back to work for the first time in a few days. We are here to guide you through. that have some fun two hours of conversation going on to going into things in the world of entertainment so

appreciate you all joining us remember super chats are very big for the show so please send in your super chat we want to set the table on monday me and winston a marshal set the table on monday that everyone else has to kind of follow along so we'd love it if you sent in your super chats anything you want to talk about Winston and i will talk about it so send it in as we go along but wisdom we got start we're going to get into things going on here uh as i said in the world of entertainment let's let's jump into the first thing and that is stranger things now of course stranger things had their um had their season finale recently uh a series finale really recently and some people like me weren't necessarily that satisfied with what we got well apparently there is a uh a rumored secret

episode that might be coming this is coming to us from uh for the wind charles curtis there over there. Stranger Things Conformity Gate explained, secret episode coming. There are a lot of theories floating around about the Stranger Things finale from whether a certain character died to what the future of the characters is, but there's one that's taken hold of TikTok and other social media. It's called Conformity Gate.

And as someone who has dived deep into some of the weird stuff that happened in season five, I'm finding a lot of this stuff on my time limbs and for you pages. The true long didn't read. Well, fans think there are a lot of science Easter eggs and more that we saw to end season five was a total fake out that Vecna has a hold on the characters. And the

audience to give them a completely made-up vision and happy ending. The reality in fans' minds is that the mind flare wasn't defeated after all, and Vecta 1, and that there's another episode still coming. Basically, a lot of Easter eggs have seen a point to proof that everything isn't okay in Hawkins, after all. It's the way that everyone at the graduation had their hands like Henry Creels or the way the Dungeons and Dragons books lined up to say X is, or X a lie, as in what happened to dimension X was all alive.

Is there going to be a new Stranger Things episode of January 7? that's the date. This is all led to. Fans think there's going to be a hidden secret episode that pulls back the curtain and reveals that it was all a lie and they will get the real ending. Now, why January 7th?

There's a lot of numerology being thrown around about the number 7 in season 5, plus January 7th is also Orthodox Christmas Day, which would in this theory, track with release dates for the previous batch of season 5 episodes, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve. But no comment from the Duffer Brothers at all, Winston.

This is, people are creating this, maybe as a way of coping with the fact that they didn't like that season finale. What are your thoughts on this, but? I feel like 2026 has been whooping my ass, and it's only been five days because, you know, all of a sudden now we're coming up with crack theories of what the thing. Look, if this is real, yeah, okay, that's interesting, I guess. But I think that people, I don't want to sit here and say people need to get a life

because like, what do I do for a living? So let me, let me, let me, let me, like, relax on that. But I, I feel like that whole sentiment of go outside and touch grass. Oh, wow. Kind of, this seems like a lot. I don't. Right. It's sure.

It's possible. And I could eat some crow, but I just don't, I don't see it. I'm looking at some of these things. And this feels a little bit deeper than I think. No, I don't. I'm sorry, man. Like this, this feels like the same way that any conspiracy theory, this is, this is, this genuinely feels up there with like, um, Qanon.

Like that's like, it's that level of just like, bro. Then when you actually go and you examine, first of all, who is X? when did we ever call the upside down dimension X? I don't recall calling it dimension X. I was like, is this the Ninja Turtles? That's what Crang is from. Unless we're introducing Crang and the Technodrome, ain't no dimension X.

It's always been referred to as the upside down or recently with this season. They realized they were in a wormhole. So like, Oh, yeah. That's right. Either one of those, unless there's something I missed. I don't ever remember being called Dimitin X, a lie. Okay, okay.

All right. Yeah. All right. You, y'all really bored. That's what that feels like. And again, I'm not trying to yuck anybody's yum, but I just genuinely am like, yeah, this feels like you just want to find something. If anything, as a fiancee to a Swifty,

and they were known for doing something about clowning, where they literally will go and try and look at every different Easter egg, which sometimes, yeah, does put stuff out there and makes it into like a whole clue but then other time oh um but then other times it's it's just they're looking into something and they're hoping that it is a new album release or something like that and so they call it clowning because they're like you're just kind of clowning around and you're like oh am i gonna is this a real thing or is this just a fan conspiracy yeah right now that's

that's essentially i'm i'm gonna go ahead and borrow that that phrase and say that that's what this feels like. But yeah, you know, I think this is how people are coping with the fact that the series or the season finale let them down, that they're creating these conspiracy theories. And we see this. I was talking about this last night with my, my Patreon group that we hang out on Sunday nights on my Patreon. And we talked about it.

Like, I was like, are we in a post conspiracy theory world? Like the fact that the conspiracy theories are now just like accepted way of communicating possibilities, right? It seems to be now we're in this world in all arenas that conspiracy theories are now given way more credence or way more attention than they have or have been in the past. And now it's like, well, yes, now we're going to go with this situation here with Stranger Things. I didn't like that series. Oh, it must be because they have a better episode somewhere that they're holding back on us. There's an episode seven somewhere.

We've seen this. And it happened, you know, was a Sandman. They had that surprise 11th episode in the first season from Netflix, which was really cool. But it wasn't about saving the season or tricking people. I think there are moments in that series finale, like when Mike is looking at the speaker and the speaker reminds him of the noise the military was using when they were trying to get everybody to kind of like be controlled. So there are moments that you can argue, wait, is there something else going on here?

Or is it just him having like a PTSD flashback? I don't know. So, yeah, possibilities, I think, are here. I'd be really surprised if they did a seventh episode or, sorry, an extra episode that revealed all this stuff on January 7th. That being said, from what I saw from the series finale, why would I have faith that they'd even get that episode right, even if the conspiracy theories are true that they would actually get that episode right

because that two hour and eight minute finale was, the first hour was laborious as hell, the second hour was good, but then that 45 minute day new ma was like come on so i don't know even if this thing exists Winston i wouldn't trust them to get it right in the end and if it sucks that makes it even worse this season so that's the danger if this is actually true you know yeah i mean the thing that made me laugh is is uh somebody in the chat was like yeah x as in twitter as in twitter's a lie and i was like oh yeah that that actually that that That's fair. That's a bunch of pomp and circumstance.

But look, I don't have a problem with people per se getting into stuff like this. What I'm going to be annoyed by is if it becomes a situation of, I don't, do I have a few issues with the finale? Sure. But overall, I think it was actually a very well done finale. We got like a nice little full circle, happy ending of passing the adventuring on to the next generation, which, you know, some of the, like, behind the, like, behind the, scenes that I saw already, they were talking about how that was such a big deal of, you know, we started this a decade ago and being passed now to Holly and these other little kids. Like, I think that that was like a nice kind of final wrap up that was going on.

If pretending and, and, you know, believing in this is something that people want to do, I think that's fine. But if we get to a place where it's like, you know, that's not the real ending. That's not the real. and you genuinely go into full conspiracy theory. The lizard people are behind it, bro. Like if you really go that far, then we've got a problem.

But if people want to speculate, it's fine. But I agree with you. I wish we could just take the art that we were given on its face. And if you just didn't like it, you didn't like it. Yeah. But yeah, you're allowed to go off and do what you want. It is what it is. I guess.

But everyone's looking into this stuff, aren't they? everyone is like, oh, you know, because of law. I think it started with lost, you know, lost through clues in. And then from Lost, all these other shows came along and you people were adding stuff and looking at stuff and connecting stuff. And so it's no surprise that people want to do this. I just think because the season overall was a bit middling,

it's a hell of a thing to drop a surprise episode and make that all work, especially when people have been criticizing the writing all season, criticizing some of the storylines, some of the things that happened here, some of the certain characters that weren't given enough time. I mean, Erica was basically an afterthought throughout the whole season, which was really frustrating when she had been such a great character

throughout the last two seasons. Yeah, and Joyce was, Joyce was collecting, when a writer was collecting a paycheck. She just was there to have the occasional moment with Will and then move on, you know, until she got that moment. in the finale. So there are certain things that I think they just felt there was too much. And so again, I don't know what this episode would do to save the season, but it would do

all, it would need to do a lot of heavy lifting in order to save the season overall. Even if you like the finale, the season overall, I think is pretty much has been accepted as like a mixed season. So I don't know what it would necessarily lead to. I feel you. I mean, and look, I see a bunch of people saying that like I clearly wasn't paying attention and that I mentioned the wormhole that the wormhole is the upside down and yes, Vecna was in another dimension, but I never heard it referred to as dimension X. I always heard of it as the abyss. So if that was what I'm missing in that whole thing, then okay, that's, that's, that's fine. But, um, yeah, but I just, I don't know. I, again, if they, if they did it. Yeah. And it actually comes true, then that's a

fan that, that may be some of the greatest storytelling we've ever seen of like kind of burying the lead. and then you using, you know, the tool of how you decided to release this on Netflix as well. I think all of that would be fantastic. But I don't want to have happened when the Mayan apocalypse does not go down in two days. People will be like, you just don't know the truth, man. The truth. People get bent out of shit. That's more what I'm thinking.

I don't have a problem with people like trying to find something. And if they're right, awesome. I'm going to have an issue if they're going to turn. turn around and go all this bro like this is some trash like that's what i know is coming because that's how the internet works you bought that like you bought that last episode you're a sucker man there's another one come how come it didn't come out on the seventh like oh no they're still prepping it they're doing the put they got to get it right they got to get it right i've been waiting for the buying apocalypse for how long now it's like no no they got to get it right it's gonna drop

you'll see yeah exactly yeah yeah it doesn't come true, blame me. Absolutely. Absolutely blame me. Someone said this like Erica, what is it, B-Houses, Erica was a great character, but didn't need a ton of time spent with her seat. But we needed time with Maya Hawks' girlfriend. She had way more time. Everything Maya

Hawks' girlfriend did, you didn't even have to introduce that storyline. It could have been Erica taking care of Sadie Sink. It could have been Erica with Max. Why was it? I think the only reason for that was to give you a final platform for Will to be able to express himself. I'm able to have somebody to connect to that's also queer to be able to feel confident enough to

right essentially almost have like a mentor to be able to feel comfortable enough to come out because even during his his coming out he he locked eyes with with um with myahawks care I can't remember being all of a sudden just and she was like and like encouraging him so I think that was the main reason. But I feel like you could have probably still found another way. You didn't need the girlfriend. You could have had the conversations with Robin the whole time. And they could have been Erica, in my opinion.

Red Balloon's very mad at us, Winston. And there's loads more evidence than what you're referring to. Why not research it before coming on to discuss it? Well, because I have a life. And we have lives. And we're not going to sit there and dive into this shit and go deep into this shit. the talk we're just doing it as regular we're the guess what we're the ones they want watching not you we're the casuals the casuals are the ones who're supposed to make a majority of the viewership of stuff

and if you make the casuals work too hard on certain things they're not going to be that excited so red house so in two days when this thing does not come out i want to hear what your comments are then because i think that's the truth of that so research it all you want get knee deep do all your youtube videos but then when it doesn't happen what is you're going to be what is your response going to be Also, also, one, we're going off of somebody actually did an article and pulled all of these fan theories collectively and this evidence together. That's the story that we're reading off of and I'm looking at the tweets of like screenshots and all the stuff and people have been on TikTok. Yeah. And two, I'm like, did you hear any of the previous part where we said, if it's true?

If it's true. That's dope as shit and good for y'all for figuring that out. But if it's not true and you have a connipion, then I'm like, like touch some grass. That's this. I'm kind of wondering if you're upset that we didn't go and do all of this evidence research. Yeah. I should be upset that you're not listening to the words that are coming out of my mouth.

That's that's a quote the great Chris Tucker. So I just, again, for all of the people that love this to the ends of the earth, I hope it's true. I hope it's true because I think it would be a cool thing to, to, to, from a creative standpoint, point to be like, psych, fake episode, here you go. Yeah. But also, if it doesn't happen, we got, as my mama would say, we got what we got. So you can either enjoy your dinner or you can go hungry. I don't know what to tell you.

Yeah, right, right. It's like Marvel. You're like, why didn't you read these 45 comic books to understand what they were referencing or D.C. when all these people were like, you need to read all just Silver Age comp books to get what James Gunn is doing. No, I fucking don't. I need to be able to walk into it.

a theater and enjoy it exactly as it's presented to me without needing to have read the context or the style or anything like that because I'm the person with the casuals are the ones. Oh, and I'm not a casual obviously, but the people who are not deep into this shit are not the ones that they need to be alienating by going knee deep into the lore. That's usually where you lose people is when you go knee deep into the lore. Because when you start going down that path, you got to honor it. Lost didn't honor it in a lot of ways. And that's why a lot of people have negative feelings about the show.

they still love it, but there's that feeling that it didn't hit the stick the landing. So there's a feeling of wasted time at times with that kind of thing. That being said, speaking of loss, we should send our thoughts out to Evangeline Lilly, who sadly suffered a fall and has been going through some brain damage issues. She talked about it over the week on Instagram. Yeah, a very sad situation. She fainted and hit her head on a rock when she was there at her home. And unfortunately, she is suffering some brain damage issues.

So hopefully she will be, she's on the road back. to recovery and she will be fine because i'll tell you what i love her loved her on the show love trying as the wasp and i hope she has more to come acting wise down the road so we'll see just wanted to give a shout out to her as well um all right well so let's uh let's do a little uh ad work that we got to do here and then uh we'll be back to talk some more stuff like box office some asoka stuff james gun stuff possibly we'll see and send in your supertuts we'll only have three guys come on if you want come on you got to send the superchats we have 550 of you watching us right now live.

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If we get to 100, I will release the conformity gate episode of Stranger Things. I will release the epilogue. I was just fooling with y'all. I'm the one that controls it all. I have it sitting right here on this special CIA hard drive. Oh, shit. You don't know, you don't even know. I'll put it out right now.

You think Netflix won't come hunt me down? I'll take that L for you. I will go a higher than dimension X and I will play that final episode, but you have to send in these super chats, bro. Send him in, bro. Send him in. All right. We'll be right back right after this.

There you go. All right. Well, we are back at it here on the Christian Harlov show. Winston-A-Marshal and I here to talk to you all. Thanks for the people who've been sending in the super chest there over the last few seconds, the last couple of minutes, rather, as we heard from that Raycon ad, and don't forget, definitely use that Christian code there for Raycon to get some good discounts on those headphones. So, all right, Winston, let's move on to our next story here. Let's talk about box office.

That's what we do here on Mondays on the show, and let's get into it here. a big weekend for Avatar and for Zootopia 2 here. Avatar Fire and Ash. Oh, I got to make these bigger. Hold on a second. Oh, the perils of doing this show here. Hold on, bigger, bigger, bigger. There we go.

What's going on? I'm just laughing at you struggling, old man. That's how it works. Avatar Fired Ash has now become the fourth James Cameron movie to pass the billion dollar mark at the Global Box Office following the previous two Avatar films and Titanic. as of the end of Sunday, the film is expected to hit 306 million domestic and 777 million international for a worldwide gross to date of 1.08 billion that puts it as the second highest grossing film

of 2025. Second worldwide sandwich between other Disney features, Dutopia 2 and Lilo and Stitch. Third party indicators suggest the film will finish up its theatrical run around the $1.7 billion mark. That's amazing. Zootopia 2 also continues smashing records in a six weekend. It released the film's $604 million gross in China, Jaina, becoming the second highest grossing Hollywood film of all time in that country behind, only Avengers Endgame,

and it might pass it. It's only, what, 27 million away? Insane. The worldwide total for the film stands at 1.2 billion, making it the six biggest Hollywood release overseas of all time, overtaking the Force Awakens and Furia 7. Zootopia 2 has beat worldwide,

the Force Awakens and Furious 7. That is crazy. Also noticed that the Sydney Swarthens, Weenie-led thriller. I mean, come on. Amanda Seafreed is in the movie. She is also a lead of this. The Housemate has now wrecked up $133 million,

worldwide with $75 million domestically. It only dropped 3% over the weekend. It's pretty amazing. Projections are to end its run just past the $200 million mark, making it win a Lionsgate's biggest hits of the decade. And Timothy Chalemy and Marty Supreme is on track to pass 100-minute domestic box office, the first film to ever do so for A-24. All right, Winston, a lot to talk about the box office.

Where do you want to start? What are your feelings? What are you thinking there? You remember when I was talking about how 2026 is already whooping my ass? So I finally, I finally found three hours to devote to go watch a movie that I'm really not that interested in. I had rewatched Way of Water earlier instead of watching football. So I was like, all right, I'm caught up. I remember what happened and how we kind of wrap things up.

only for me to arrive at the movie theater and the Dovey projector is broken. Oh, no. And the next available showing was like this was at about 8 o'clock or 7 o'clock. And the next available showing was going to be at like 10.30. But I had to be up for work at 5. 10.30 at night. So I am not only, not only did I miss the newest Avengers trailer, because I haven't, again, I haven't seen it yet.

And I had already seen, you know, the Steve Rogers and the Thor one, supposedly the new one this week was X-Men. So, like, instead of the leaked whatever. So I didn't get to see the trailer. I didn't get to see this movie. So, poo-poo on you,

Avatar 3, I bet you're not going to make more than 1.5 because your ass can't keep the theaters running properly. I was ready for the headache. I'm just, I'm crotchety old like Winston today. I'm going to tell you right now. But to that point,

I am not surprised. I knew that they would cross a billion. I didn't think they would get to two. I still don't think they'll get to two. I think that is truly rare air. And especially in a post-pandemic post-strike era, we have had what I think Barbie was close. I think Barbie hit 1.6, 1.7.

Spider-Man did get over two. but like I just I think this is going to tuck her out I think and I think way of water hit too but I think this is going to tuck her out just because you did have some people say you know it felt like a retreading of the second movie I think just the state of the economy um people are clearly still going because when I was there and I was in line I was like genuinely upset I was like I don't know when I'm going to have time to see this movie again dude and like man this is my third time I seen it i'm x and i had seen a prom i hadn't seen it doleby yet and i was like you know what i'm not even going to say anything about that because yeah a lot of times i've seen sinners in different formats i can shut up like i'm not even going to so like people are out here in these streets yeah so it'll do well but i am not surprised that zootopia two is crushing like this i think that's the that's one that i was like i heard that first week numbers and i was like oh this movie is going to be the movie of 2025 as far as all of that goes.

Well, you look at the box office since 2020, as you mentioned, Winston, the COVID marker there. Avatar Way of the Water is number one at $2.3 billion worldwide. Then it's Naysa 2, which I think is now on HBO Max, both of them. More Netflix. I can't remember. 2.2 billion. Spider-Man No Way Home, $1.9 billion.

Inside Out to 1.7 or essentially 1.7 billion. Utopia 2 already on the list at $1.5, almost $1.6 billion already. Top Gun Maverick at $1.5, essentially. Barbie, as you said, $1.4 billion. Super Mario's $1.3 billion. Deadpool, Wolverine, $1.3 billion. And then Avatar Fire and Ash currently at just over a billion dollars is in 10th place. So those are the 10 top high, top grossing films since 2020.

Two of them are from this year, which is insane. and this year being 2025, not 2026. It's just insane to look at when you'd see this. But, you know, Avatar Fire and Ash, someone said that I missed on the prediction of the box. How did I miss? I never said it wasn't going to make a billion dollars. I said it wasn't going to make two, and it's not.

Winston's saying 1.5, some of the prognosticators are saying 1.7. I think that's about right, somewhere between 1.5, 1.7. So for all the conversation about how, oh, it's making a billion dollars a fourth movie, it's going to come in way less. $600 million less possibly than Avatar Way of Water. That's not a good sign. That is not a good sign. For those who hate Transformers movies and said,

Michael Bay needs to be removed because that last one didn't do well, well, you got to play the same logic, don't you? I've just putting it out there. I think the bigger thing to take away from it, because remember, Way of Water came out in 2022, so pre-strike, I think the bigger thing is to take away the landscape of the industry. It's just not what it was. We've seen post-pandemic, it obviously was very weird,

but then I think post-strike because you had shift in the way that streamers are kind of doing things, like the kind of budgets that they're putting into stuff, like beyond the strike, around that time, then when you get to the election, you're talking about then how the economy shifted. So again, I think it's not necessarily some sort of grand indictment on Avatar 3. I think it's more of an indictment of just where the world is at this particular moment. And hitting that two billion milestone is just not, I just don't think that that is something that's going to happen very often or at all.

I think Dune's Day hit two billion. I think that's a very real problem. I don't think it will. Really? I think we're going to sit in the same sandbox of 1.5 to 1.7 at best because you still also have to go in, avatar at the bare minimum, at the bare minimum, the people that rock, with Avatar, their faith has never been shaken. And the proof of that is that they've already hit a billion in two weeks.

I think that the bigger, the bigger kind of like eyebrow raise is the MCU, which has been on rocky ground, which like sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's not. People are in, people are out? And are we tired of superheroes? I think that there is a greater propensity for them to not do well than this did and will. You know what I mean? And that hurts my heart because like I said, I,

Avedo don't do it for me. But, you know, I obviously live, breathe, eat, sleep, all the superhero stuff. So that bums me out. But I just think we're in a different landscape nowadays. We'll see. I mean, I just have a firm belief that if they get Doomsday right, that's a $2 billion film. And you know what Winston? They're going to need it to be a $2 billion film.

Considering how much money they're spending and making both of these movies, it's going to, I guarantee. I can't want to say guarantee, but I just have a feeling it's going to be $500 billion is going to be. be the production budget for both of those movies, both at Doomsday and Secret Wars. So they're going to need to make a lot of money off this thing and make it right. But I do want to give, you know, flowers to the housemaid, because I certainly didn't have faith that that film was going to do anything at the box office. I'd never heard of this novel. Didn't think it was that big of a deal.

But it has made a lot of money, word of mouth. And going up against Avatar, going over the Zootopia, too, I thought it was going to get buried. But the fact that it's, it might even make 200, you know, million dollar worldwide. That's pretty amazing. You know, after Sydney had a few flops in a row to have her do something good here,

I think is fantastic. But I don't want to eliminate Amanda Seafreed from the conversation either. It's both of them, I think, is a two-hander getting people to come into the theater and watch the movie and the movie being good. You know, that's actually a part of it as well. People like the movie are enjoying the movie. And so it's kind of like counter to avatar,

counter-programming to Zatopia, too, that going in to see the movie and pretty much for the most part of the audience score and the critic score enjoying it. So that's a good sign for resuscitating her career at where it was at. And I think Chalomey getting that thing to getting a fucking film about a ping pong player in the 1950s

to $100 million after winning the Critics Choice Award last night for Best Actor, it just speaks volumes about the power that is growing for Chalemay and that people's interest in his stuff is still very hot. You know, and so I'm curious to see what happens next with Dune 3 and these other films that are coming from him, how much more power he has at the box office as he grows in stature there in Hollywood. So positive stuff all around. Anything else you want to say on these?

Not necessarily. I mean, I'll eventually check out the housemaid. I just, the funny thing is, is like the premise sounded fine to me. It's that kind of age old, like, the other woman is actually the devil. Like, was, ooh, like, it seemed interesting enough, but I just, as I've kind of mentioned, I'm not the biggest fan of Sidney's Sweeney's acting. Right. I agree. Because I have found personally, and I said this about Christy, I think when she's acting at a high note, so there's a high amount of emotion, whether it be fear or anger or whatever, she is actually one of the best to do it.

my problem is her mids and her lows fully take me out of it because it seems like she is constantly bored with what's going on and not really jacked in. So again, heightened emotion. I can sense the tension. I can feel how she's feeding off the other actors and vice versa. But her just having a basic conversation, I'm like, do you know where you are? Like what is going on? And it takes me out of anything she's in because of that.

I just wasn't interested. I just think you and I are of a different mentality when it comes to acting. You and I look for certain things. I think the new generation, the DGAF about anything generation, likes that Sidney seems like she's disinterested in these regular scenes when she's speaking. Like, I'm going to get a Coke. I'm going to get a Coke. You know, when she's doing this kind of like, I don't know what's, do you have an

understand, are you high right now? Like, where are you at? that appeals to the younger generation, that style, that approach, I think, and that's why you're seeing her explode. Because I agree with you. I don't think she's the strongest actress. In fact, if you read the reviews,

she's hardly getting any publicity, a positive reactions to her performance. It's Amanda Seafreed, who's getting a lot of the positive reactions in the reviews for that movie. So, yeah, it's just that she scratches whatever itch for that generation, was it alpha?

That's our new generation now. Yeah, she would technically be Gen Ziva. the next generation. The younger ones are gen alpha. But I would put it to you this way. I don't even necessarily think I have an issue with that archetype, because I can think of plenty of examples in, like, movies where it is a deadpan character.

Like the show Darya is hilarious. It's animated, but the show Darius hilarious because she's deadpan and doesn't give a, right. It's she does not actually, it's not even a level of, like, character doesn't care.

Yeah, actress does not seem in the same, world as everybody else. If we're supposed to be watching her play pretend, I do not believe when she is having normal conversations that she is in that said world. It feels like Sidney's Swedey walked in on the housemaid and was like, wow, you have a home. I'm going to my trailer.

Like it doesn't seem like she has moved into the headspace of the person that she is, unless she is screaming for her. her life or ready to box or whatever you know what i'm saying those are the only times that i'm like oh there she is right right good point from karen she's nose india 100% she is nose india uh and matt's right i think as well that's how dakota johnson axel oh i agree Dakota Dakota Dakota shut up Winston Cindy sweeties the next barrel street Yikes. But yeah, I agree. I mean, there's just, I don't know, man, because I mean, certain actors are standing out and then certain actors you can't explain why they connect

with the public, but that's the way it's always been. That's always the way it's been. Anyway, all right, let's move on to, by the way, nine super chats. Come on, people. We got to get to at least 50. Send them in. There's 600 of you joining us here in 2026. Super chats are really important to the channel here. Christian asked me to make any. even stronger push today to get a good, to get the start, the week started in a good way. So please, Winston and I are here. Send in your super chat, sending in your love. Again, you're sending in super chats to support the Christian Harlov channel,

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Oh, yeah. You know what? All right, fine. We'll talk about this. Let's talk about James Gunn. I'm making an editorial decision. Gunn talks, Supergirl Vision, Netflix, WB, deal. Even though he doesn't direct the upcoming Supergirl film,

DC Studios, co-chief James Gunn, says the comparisons being made between it and his Guardians of the Galaxy movies aren't unfair. Appearing on the Variety Award Circuit podcast, Gunn says director Craig Gillespie's new film is very much the work and vision of Gillespie himself. Well, I mean Supergirl is Craig Gillespie's vision, and it's very much, I love him so much, he's a great guy. Gunn says the film is a quote,

I love him so much, he's a great guy. Gunn says the film is a space fantasy, which naturally draws comparisons to the tone of Guardians. He says, I love Millie Alcock in the movie, and I think it's a space fantasy, which is like Guardians in a way, but it's based on the Tom King book, but it doesn't follow it religiously, but it has a lot of the core of that there, and I'm really excited for people see it, and to see Millie, it's going to be awesome. And then when asked about the impending sale of WB to Netflix to which he gives one of the more, he gives one of the more optimistic takes out there. He says, quote, do I have hopes?

No, I really don't, because everything's unknown. I think it's all really exciting, frankly. So I hope and pray for the best. And I've been through these sorts of changes so many times that I'll always be careful what you wish for because you don't really know until you know. And I hope it goes well, and I think it's exciting. You know, every direction has really exciting things for DC.

So I'm excited about where it's going to go. And of course, Subaru comes out later this year in June. So your thoughts on is a comment. that Winston about Supergirl and about Netflix purchasing WV possible. Yeah, you know, I feel like you don't necessarily have to, I've started to come around. Okay. I would be the first one to be like,

it's not having a book. It's not having a book. I think that you want to, if you're going to say something inspired by it, you need to bring a large amount of the core of it. But I don't think it necessarily does have to be religious because like my whole thought process is you're introducing Lobo. logo has nothing to do with woman of tomorrow so like you're gonna yeah gotta be doing your own thing um

the ultimate question is do they bring it in in a way that like makes sense for its own movie and is it is still entertaining and at the end of the day i think the main thing is did you get the core of what the story was about yeah i really hope as long as we're keeping the main element of you know a young woman dealing with grief two young women dealing with grief one one you know the the kind of elder mentor to the other but that elder mentor aka supergirl in this case that you know she's really starting to question her morality a spent like throughout the course of that book she questions it yeah questions it you know and then you you get to see at the end what is the conclusion she comes to

So as long as the core of it is there, I'm good. As far as the sale, you're not going to openly talk about your new overlords in a poor way. If you think otherwise, you're going to be like, yeah, man, it's just exciting, bro. Like, you know, changes. Yeah, it's excited. Like, that's a standard PR. Let me just keep my nose to the grindstone type. People outside of it, if you're not actively working for Warner Brothers or Netflix,

those are the actors that have been speaking up. Those are the writers that have been speaking up. but you want to make sure that your job don't get turned upside down. So yeah, man. Oh, exciting. Yeah, it's like the strike when Sean Gunn came out and was bashing all the other studios except Warner Brothers, which had David Zaslop and all these people doing the things they were doing. He was like, he was praised.

And I was like, you know, he's only talking about the other studios because his brother doesn't work for those studios. So he's fine to bash them all. So yeah, you're right. Actually, and Sean Levy coming out, reasoning, Stranger Things, the greatest finale of any TV show ever. And you're just saying that to hype it up. You don't actually really believe that shit.

You know, so yeah, I think his comments are fine in terms of the WB Netflix. I agree with you. I don't think he's going to tell you his real feelings. He's got to be positive because they sign his paychecks. That's the game. But on the other side, I kind of like that he said that it doesn't follow the book that religiously because it shouldn't.

The book is a book. The movie is a movie. What was the big main criticism people had about? the initial cut of watchman is that you basically just trace the book when you see the director's cut it's a way better film because there's more going on in between the lines but when you watch the regular cut it wasn't that great and the same thing with the civil war right marvel didn't follow step by step the civil war story from the comics or the infinity gauntlet story from the comics and they turned out really well but that but the part of that is is that you couldn't and yeah like you didn't have the

rights to some of the main players in those storylines. Like the the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, the Fantastic Four in particular had a massive storyline in Civil War. Like a lot of what goes wrong is because Reed can't stop meddling because he's overthinking everything. So he ends up making a Thor clone who then ends up killing Bill Foster, a.k.a. Goliath, and that became a whole thing. And then Johnny and Ben and Susan are like,

we can't even F with you anymore, Reed. and he starts going into a depression. It's like there's like a whole bunch of stuff you couldn't do so you had to kind of be inspired by and then do your thing. So I, you know, it's I am always fine with people making those changed. Well, I am now. I wasn't, I wasn't growing up. As a kid, I was really like, oh, damn you.

But there are some things that you just need to make sure you get the core of. So I think the core of what was going on with Civil War, the Socovia courts feels a lot like the Registration Act in the books. So I think that that works. Part of why I didn't F with Halo. The master chief is supposed to the idea is that you are the master chief. Right. So within the first five minutes of the show, to show his face completely throws all of that out of the window.

If you wanted to do it maybe for the series finale or even the season finale, you maybe see his face for a quick second. And then we don't see it again. I'll buy that the same way you looked at Mando. You did not see Mando's face until, that one moment in the middle of like season two or three where it was like a desperate need and you had to do it. I think that is that's the core of what's going on with the lore there. So as long as the core is there, it will work. Yeah, yeah, agreed.

Yeah. So we'll say it all plays out. It's coming out very soon. I like the trailer. I'm 100% on board with this. I'm looking forward to this one. And all these people who bash in it like, oh, it looks like Guardians of the Galaxy. That's not a bad thing.

Gardens of Galaxy was a very fun series. and those three films are a lot of fun. So why not evoke some of that? I do think James is being a little necessary, not necessarily telling the full truth when he says, this is Craig's vision, this is Craig's ideas. Come on.

You're the overseer. Of course, you had to put a little bit of influence on it. But sure, Craig directed the movie. It'll be his movie standing alone. But there's no way that James didn't offer input and make changes or whatever. So, you know, in that respect, I think he's not being 100% truthful.

but that's how it is with everything. I'm not going to bash me. Oh, I forgot about people are calling me out that he showed his face to grow good at the end of season one. It's been, first of all, it's been a long time. If I remember correctly, how long ago was that show? Did that show start? Was that 2019, bro? Was that the end of 2019?

Yeah, probably. Yeah, I think so. So it's been, you guys got to give me a break. It's been seven years. It's been seven years. Oh, God. I just, I, the episode that I, I distinctly remember taking off his helmet

as when he was doing that spy mission and they were like, you need to show us your face and he didn't have a choice. Yeah. So I remember that it was, yeah, it was season two. It was the tragedy.

He was trying to, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nope, I remember. But I did not remember the season one finale. That was 2019. Jesus. 2019, bro. Who? Feel old, people.

Feel old. All the people who criticize us for being old, how are you feeling nowadays, y'all? Y'all are old down now. All of a sudden, you got eight spots blown up on your hands. Kiss my ass, man. Now people are getting confused. No, Halo did not come out in 2019.

Mandalorian came out in 2019, but Halo came out a couple years ago. And again, to that point, him showing his face at the end of the season is what I was talking about with doing the same thing with Halo. If you would wait it and like, you needed it for some reason or some narrative,

like at the end of the first game, he says, I think we're just getting started. And he takes his helmet off and it zooms out before you can see his head. And he puts the helmet down while he's sitting in the spaceship. If we had had a moment like we did at the end of Mando, he goes, I had to do it. There's an impact there that it's like, okay, but right out the gate, I already feel alienated. You know what I'm saying? Oh, that was a twist.

It was like, this doesn't feel right. So that's kind of my difference there. Mike saying I'm 32 years old and I'm old. Yeah, that's how it happens. That's about what it starts to happen because everything is moving really fast and all of sudden you realize, man, I'm holding on by my fingernails and swinging from the rope. So there we go. So, all right, well, there we go.

That's, that's the conversation there. Let's talk about the Critics Choice Awards, Wednesday, because we got to get to that before we get to the questions. And hopefully you all send them in. We're at 13 now. Let's go. People get us. Oh, at least 50. Please.

Come on. 13. Come on, guys. We got to get more. All right. The 31st Critics Choice Awards were handed out tonight or last night in Los Angeles with one battle after another taken best film and director, no surprise in my opinion

there. Both sinners and Frankenstein provided big winners, now being four wins each while K-pop demon hunters and F-1 took two each. Single award winners include Marty Supreme Hamnet, Weapons Avatar, the Secret Agent, Mission Impossible, Train Dreams, and the Naked Gun. On the TV side, the pit,

the studio in Adolescence were the biggest winners with 3-3 and 4 wins, respectively. Other winners include Severance, Plurba, Squid Game Hacks, Aller Fault, and South Park. Chelsea Handler, host of the annual ceremony for the four consecutive years. So let's look at the winners here. Best picture, one battle after, another, beating out all these good movies to be a part of,

except for this wicked for good. I don't know what that's doing in there. But anyway, best actor, Chalomey won over to Caprio, Edgerton, Hawk, and Jordan, and Wagner War. And gave a really wonderful speech, giving love to all the people who were nominated and gave love to his lady by the end there. Best actress, no surprise. Jesse Buckley went in for Hamlet. Rose Byrne, Chase, Infinity, Renata Rinsvie, uh, Rensvie, sorry.

Amanda Seaford, Emma Stone. Best supporting actor, Jacob Lurty, that was a bit of a surprise. A lot of people thought that Benicio or Sean would have had it. But Jacob will already take it. I'm not necessarily mad about that. Amy Madigan, fuck, yes, winning for weapons. I've heard so many people try to bash her work,

try to say it wasn't awardsworthy. Critics! Who say they should go to fucking acting school and tell me if she's not a good actress in that role. It's insane. She ended up taking it. Miles Caton won for Best Young Actor, I think is a great situation there for sinners.

Best director PTA, best original screenplay, Ryan Cougar for sinners. PTA won Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cast and Ensemble Sinners, and so on. Their best stunt designed was Mission Impossible, no surprise. Visual effects was Fire and Ash of Avatar, no surprise. K-pop Demon Hunters, also no surprise winning Best Animated Feature. Secret Agent winning Best Foreign Language, not a surprise. Either Golden winning Best Song for K-pop Demon Hunter. not a surprise either. Best score. Sinners. Nice. Shout out to Louve de Gorenson. Best sound Apple

Apple film there, F1 as well. The Pitt winning for best series, no surprise. Noah Wiley, Ria Sehorn for Pleribus, Tramil Tillman, Best Supporting Actor for Severance, and Catherine Nassah for the Pitt as well in the studio winning Best Comedy series there as well. Anything anything stand out to you, Winston, anything you want to discuss or talk about with these awards. Anything surprise? loved the naked gun. I am happy that they won Best Comedy.

I think I'm really depressed that we're in such a comedy movie drought. Yeah, well, we're legitimately I was just going to say that we're legitimately in a place where not just movie, in a comedy show

drought, like now mind you, the, like if I go down here, the studio, genuinely was hilarious. The studio was, I thank God for the studio. Abbott is also hilarious. And I finally got onto hacks and hacks is great too. But I'm just looking at the rest of these. I've heard only murders in the building is good.

Is it like ha ha funny? No. It's more like amusing. It's more amusing. Okay. I've seen some of nobody wants this. I don't find that ha ha funny either. Yeah.

I've never really watched go. or Elspeth like that. And like, again, I know there is some comedy elements, but they're not, at least Elspeth is more kind of like, the, in it like illegal dromedy? Yeah, like, again, it's an amusing show, but it's a very simple show from CBS. It's more like comfort food comedy,

but it's not like laugh out loud comedy at all. Yeah. And so this is just what my concern is, is the fact that you really only have arguably the two comedies that are out there is the studio, and Abbott. Like, again, there's some other stuff, but it's just not out there quite as much.

You know, and then movies-wise, again, the naked gun was a lot of fun, but I'm looking at what it was kind of up against. And I'm like, we for real didn't have nothing. You didn't have a, you don't have a, tropic thunder, a super bad, a bridesmaids of anything. Like, and it doesn't have to be raunchy.

I know I mentioned a bunch of kind of more raunchy comedies, but like what's going on? I think that's my biggest takeaway because everything else seems pretty chalk. I don't think that there's anything that I'm surprised that I was like, ooh, I didn't see that winning that. These all make sense. I think that was my biggest takeaway is I genuinely am terrified

for the state of comedy in TV and film because it really is just being pulled back and back. And I've, you know, I don't have nearly as many sources as you and Christian and all that shit and Jeff, but like I have one enough. Like I have an exec that told me I was like, oh, I've been working on this pilot. You know, it's this and the other.

She's like, that's cool. But I hope you know that you like studios are not buying stuff like that. They're just not because they don't want to take the risk. And I was like even if I'm writing it at like a like a really low budget, like, you know, just a couple mill type stuff. They're like, yeah, no, just because they do not want to run the risk on it. They don't have the same return that they used to. People aren't sitting down the way they would for the office. or friends or fresh prints or whatever.

So like they don't take chances on that. And that really makes me sad. And it also makes me feel like that is why everybody's so goddamn angry. You don't have a relief valve. A release valve. Yeah, yeah. Maybe. No, I mean, there are comedies out there.

Like I think, I think man on the inside on Netflix is a really good comedy. I think the English teacher, which FX just recently canceled, those two seasons. That's some of the funniest stuff I've seen out there. But I think it's because the creator had a lot of controversy, and they had already been, they were already shooting season two. So I think they're like, finish it and we're done.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I guess. I don't know. With that kind of stuff, I don't know. The chair company is really funny, the one on HBO Max.

I don't watch, I love L.A. It's not really my kind of comedy, but I know it got a second season. Animal Control, if you can believe this, four seasons there have been of animal control. I didn't even know it is,

gone past the second season, which is really funny. Why isn't... I didn't know either. And they have the other show with the military. Oh, yeah, the one with Dennis Leary. Yes. Yes. Yeah.

But what about Peacemaker? Isn't Peacemaker a comedy? Wouldn't that have qualified? Technically, yes, but it's already over. Yeah, true, right, of course. But I mean, it wasn't nominated for anything, right? Or is that for next seat? Because I mean, plural of us can be nominated, and that just ended.

How is Peacemaker's season two not nominated? So I guess they just don't feel like it. it is, you know. Yeah. The paper. The paper is a comedy that's out there as well. What else? But like all of the stuff you just mentioned. Yeah. Again, which one of those, like, when I say like comedies out here, it's one of those things where like it's a universally love people go,

God damn, and it's like at the top of the lexicon. Right. The only two shows that did that in the past year would be Abbott in the studio. Yeah. And like, yeah. Hax is incredible. incredibly good and it's very funny and it's but it the number of people that i know like didn't really know or mess with the show one way or the other was pretty high and and like it's it's one of those darlings that's always around but i don't it's not nobody's like hacks dog like like you know what i'm saying so like i what what what what do we have outside of abbott in the studio that is just really holding it down like that yeah that is that is what makes me sad is like you

could you used to be able to say these are the five to ten comedic shows that run everything. Yeah. Some of them are still there. So like South Park is getting relevancy again because of what they're doing directly to clown Paramount and to clown the administration. But like it's not at the forefront of everything. You know what I'm saying? Like that's that that's what we used to be as a society.

Comedy used to like really hold shit down. So it just makes me sad that that's not what's not the case. Yeah. it's much more human interest comedy that's what we have now is like human and like the comedic nature of our lives it is not as you said the knockdown drag like some people have mentioned that it's always sunny philadelphia is still around you're right that's true that's still around very funny but as as winces said it's not it's not anywhere the top of the lexicon like when they talk about great animated series currently they don't really put the simpsons up there

even though the simpsons have been doing going strong for multiple decades right because it's like It's been around so long, you know, and the same thing with when you look at the, it's always sunny, which I just recently started. I've never seen it's always sunny. The lady outlaws, it's a big fan. She loves that show. The first seasons are only available in four by three. So, and they're not HD at all.

But they are, I don't know why it never worked for me in the past because I've tried to watch in the past, but I'm clearly in the right mindset now to enjoy that show. Because I'm, I'm, Baker's old man now, bro. Yeah, exactly. Yes. It's the most cynical. humor. I mean, the episode from the first season we just watched the one where the underage drinking episode, I was just, I was fucking on the floor. It was so funny. With a young Jamie Alexander

in that show and Greg Alba. The pilot, the pilot gang gets racist is hilarious. And the fact that like it is from from the jump like that they start bringing in like he's thinking they're being more black people. He ends up bringing it. It becomes a gay bar. He realizes so he just starts like kind of like flirting with everybody so he can make more tips. Like, dude, it is so it is so good. The show was always so funny, but I just say all that to say, and I think we're kind of on the same page here, is just the idea of, yes, you'll see little, little things poking up here and there. But that age of, again, you had your pick of the litter of comedic stuff to go from, and it felt like there was a bunch of different ways to laugh just isn't the case anymore.

Instead of having 10 or 15, like, they are running pop culture. it's like one or two you know what i mean instead of being like you know office and parks and rec and modern family and this and that and a big i don't mess a big bang theory but big bang theory yeah yeah yeah broke girls like even that the most that most recent generation of stuff were done because then you pop back to the 90s and before that like there was always something it just feels devoid and it feels like that is why so many of us again are so upset nowadays yeah yeah that's a fair Absolutely fair point for sure. All right, well, we've got 17 super chat questions,

so I'm going to go to one more news story. Please send them in, folks. We got to get to 50. We would appreciate you all doing that and sending into super chats here on the show. All right, we talked about the, what do you think of this, Winston? Let's get to do a little Star Wars news. Asoka's Star is rumored for Spider-Man.

Filming on Marvel's studio Spider-Man, brand-new day ended a while back with post-production currently in full swing. Hello. Even so, two new names have seemingly emerged in reports today. What's up? You're good? No, I'm laughing at the full swing. Oh, yeah. Daniel RPK, my brother over there, reports that Asoka star Iman Esfondi may have been cast as a boyfriend of MJ in the movie. Filming on the second season of that series was taking place to the UK at the same time the new Spider-Man movie was shooting. What role as fondie who played the adult Ezra Bridger in Assoca is playing is a big question?

Harry Osborne has been suggested as a character who will appear, but there's been no confirmation of that. That meanwhile, Scooper cryptic 4K qual, I've never heard of, but I'll take a look at this person, as reported that Billy Clements will make a very brief appearance in the film as the villain Ramrod. Hello, potentially during a montage sequence. His role in Deadpool had no speaking lines, just briefly appearing in action scenes. So it seems like he could appear as this character. So Winston, anything to say on this? Who is Ramrod fighting? Sarah, Jay, get out of here.

No. No. For those you old enough to remember who Sarah Jay is, like, hey, bro, apparently they were talking about Sarah Jay all of last week and it was fully over my head to that

because I didn't even process what was going on. Is that who Kalinowski was referencing? Is that who Kalinowski was referencing with Sarah Jay? Was that who Kalinowski is referencing? Oh, of course. Of course he likes Sarah Jay. I'll keep my comments to myself about why he does, but no surprise.

No surprise. No surprise. surprise. Yeah, no surprise. Oh, sweet Jesus. But I mean, that's, I'm more of a Penny Barber fan myself. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry. I don't remember the character Ramrod. I should know it. I don't remember. Let's see. You remember some Ramrod. He remembers you.

praising. Jesus. Yeah, I don't really know much. Oh, right. He's a cyborg. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I remember now. I mean, that's fine. That's fine. Just random little villain. Bro, I am not my time.

If I was, I wouldn't be doing this show because I'd be making more money doing what he's doing. Does he make money or does he just start shit? I mean, listen, the amount of followers he has and when he posts, of course. Did you read that article about a guy about the person, I don't know if this male or female, who put up the fireplace for 10 years, made a million dollars off one 10 minute video. of, sorry, one 10-hour video of a fireplace going, put it up on YouTube. It got so many views over last year.

It made a million dollars just off that video. I mean, you just never know what you can do when you got those kinds of situations. That's crazy. Yeah, my time to shine hello is a girl, ex of. Yeah, yeah. No, I had no. Oh, my time to shine hello is a girl.

Oh, my. Yeah, she is. Yeah, yeah. My apologies. I'm very sexes of me. I did not mean to do that at all. I did know. Yeah.

No, I was even faulted. Most of the stupers are dudes. Does, does my time to shine a low have like a YouTube channel? No, just tweeting. All just posts. All just tweets and posts.

So yeah. All right. Yeah. So, right. Yeah. Anyway, Sarah Jay. Right. Let's move on.

Why are you immediately following up with Sarah J? I personally don't buy the Ammanus Fondi situation. Maybe. it's true. I mean, it would make sense Zendaya Amundas Fondi kind of good looking couple to be a part of Spider-Man brand new day. And Daniel

usually isn't wrong. So it might be true. It's just in my mind, I thought it was going to be Scott Summers. And I don't know if they necessarily think Ammanus Fondi's going to be Scott Summers. So maybe Scott Summers doesn't even make an appearance in this movie. Because I had it in my head that he would be M.J.'s boyfriend and that he

would hit it off with Sadie Sinks, Gene Gray, a little bit better than Zendaya and him break up. And then Gene Gray gives Zendaya's memories back, or MJ's memories back to her so she can be with Peter as kind of a way of smoothing things over. But I don't know. That was just kind of in my pie in the sky type of thing. So, but, you know, Daniel's not usually wrong.

So Imana's Fondi coming in, could be interesting. But I mean, I don't think you'd come in to just play MJ's boyfriend. You know what I'm saying? That's such a nothing role. You just played Ezra Bridger and you're about to play him in a second season. Why would you take MJ's boyfriend? Like, it's going to be a character that's going to have a bigger role to play in the MCU clearly. So who is this character going to be? I'll be curious to find out. And if he is Scott Summers, what a hell of a decision. I can already see the anti-woke YouTubers losing their fucking minds if it is Scott Summers. But I

wouldn't be opposed to it necessarily. Yeah. I mean, I would be here for it. I'm just curious, you know, at this point, I'm just not, I just kind of have no expectations. until we get until we get there. That's, that's, that's, I think both from the standpoint that Marvel, especially because you got the Rousseau's back, are doing a good job of like bearing a bunch of leads and just kind of seeing it. It's like, oh, we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens.

So like I, you know, I, I'm, I'm just kind of waiting. What I'm really laughing at is there's a number of people now debating who's greater than Sarah J. Some people bring it up Angela White. Some bringing up Lisa Ann. I'm dying at people. at people out here in these streets arguing over who's who's the who's the real queen of the castle i mean uh i feel like corey chase is still the top isn't she or me you know penny

penny barbara is is one you can throw in there i mean i mean sherry sherry davill i mean i mean i mean alexis texas brats oh alexis that's for sure she was out in all these streets. She was on all these streets. So yeah, exactly. I mean, Corey Chase's head. There's this redhead, though. I can't remember her name. Redhead. Yeah, I can't remember her name, though. It's slipping my mind. Okay. It'll come back to me. I don't want to Google it because I don't, I don't want to end up in a situation where then I accidentally opened something and then like the show gets careful. I'm not. Why the fuck is this on your search history?

Oh, Lordy Jesus. Wait, is it the, oh yeah, someone said Maitland Ward. Is it the girl? No, no. I actually have a story about her. What? What? Well, a buddy of mine actually works in porn.

Oh. He started off as a PA and now he's like a producer. Wow. He was just telling me that she is apparently the worst person to work with. because she shows up all the time. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, like, it becomes, like, unsafe because, like, if you're, you know, if, if just you're drunk on set, like, you can't, you can send the shit when you effed up.

You know what I'm saying? So, like, she just, fairly, she's a big diva and all that kind of stuff. So, well, yeah, because she thinks she's above it, but she's doing it because she can't really do anything else. And she probably gets high to, like, just to deal with doing it. You know what I'm saying? So, maybe. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know if it's still the case one way or the other, but like I hope that she said, but he just like had a couple of stories working with her and just be like, nah, bro. No, thank you. No, bro. That ain't my jam, bro. Anyway, your porn star is right.

Anyway, we got to move on, man. You're going to get in trouble. We're going to get in trouble. I think you're thinking Lauren Phillips or maybe Janet Mason. Is that who you're thinking of? Is that no? Hold on. Or Sophia Locke?

Is it Sophia Locke? Hold on. That's all right. I'm just going to mute myself for a minute. So if I accidentally open up something, it's not going to be a whole thing. Just give me a stick. God damn it. I'm going to get in so much trouble.

I'm going to come out. Lady Atlas going to be, who the fuck are these women you're talking about? Just fully off the rails. Listen, here's the truth. All of these people that are commenting now, they're showing themselves. They're showing themselves. They're showing themselves. Literally, if you open the show,

a do, do do do down. The number of people are going, oh, shit, and just they would go from 596 people watching to zero because they're all at work or they're all in their house. And all of a sudden they're going to get back. I can't play. I'll do anything you want.

Dunst, yeah. Winston's about to watch a video live. Oh, you muted yourself, bro. You muted yourself, bro. I'm not, I'm not watching. I'm trying to figure out who it is. I'm just trying to figure it out.

Oh, man. Oh, God damn it. We got here. We got it so much trouble. This whole time, you know, I'm not just going on. Right? Don't put a picture on the screen. All right.

Don't put a picture on the screen. Nothing going on. let's see. Oh, no. Okay. I'm not going to figure this out. It's just going to look, watch spill the tequila tomorrow. Watch it tomorrow.

I'll have the answer by then. I can't do this right now. We'll talk about it tomorrow. This is not going to go well. I think that's fair. We can talk about it. It's still the tequila. Tomorrow night, tomorrow night, 4 p.tt on my channel,

the John Rogan channel, definitely. All right. Before we lose, Luke, let's get into these super chats. Oh, all right. Let's get into it here. C, C, see hunter nut says Saw Avatar fire on acid

I'm answering a five-pointer you see my hands I'm not cheating uh saw avatar fire and acid the Jimmy Hendrix i'm ex-ex experience yesterday have either of you fellas ever been experienced in a movie theater happy new year oh hi yeah I've been high in a movie theater before oh shoot one of yeah absolutely probably one of my favorite moments was seeing speed racer stoned as hell. Oh, shit. Wow. And I fell asleep early on to the movie, so I just woke up.

And like, they literally have pretty much taken it directly out of the anime. So the whole time I'm like, oh, like every time like something happening. Oh, man, bro. That's hilarious. I stupidly got high before a paranormal activity screening, like either the third or fourth one. And I was climbing all over the chairs. we were the only people in the theater we went at like a 10 o'clock screening it was like six of us

and i was running up and like i was hiding behind the chairs because i was so fucking messed up so yeah confessor t says uh happy new year guys did you see raven stealers this weekend we did we talked about at the top of the show crazy game the only thing is i hate that i missed the game i just saw the end yeah because i thought i was going to avatar but uh you know so but yeah no great great game ultimately And congrats in a different game to Miles Garrett for beating the record, man. Yep. Sack record, absolutely. I think tomorrow night show is going to be NFL heavy because we got a lot to talk about for the weekend plus the playoffs, which the matchups have been announced.

Playoffs. I have two-fly games. As mine, Flair likes the cold lives in an arid wasteland in the finale. L.O.L. So many massive plot holes, but I'm over at Go Seahawks. Second Super Bowl all the way. Bro. Bro.

Bro. Sam Darnold bro, Sam Darnold, bro. That's the thing, watching Sam Darnold work against the Niners. I don't know. Like, again, that defense will keep them in there. Oh, 100%. Will be the reason that they, that they're,

and in Jamba. In Jamba is a monster. Yeah. You are only going as far as Sam Darnold goes. And I'm really concerned, like again, at this point, that's the team I'm rooting for is the Seahawks both because, you know, I like them. And it's my, my fiance.

you know hometown team um i am concerned that we're looking at a jared goff to the super bowl with the rams type scenario where like this defense is the thing to look at Jared golf maybe doesn't mess it up up to a point but then you get to the super bowl and he can't score more than three points again and the most boring super bowl maybe we've ever seen um i am concerned about that with the seahawks if darnold turns back into a pumpkin because it could happen at any time that is that is that is the ultimate concern for the Seahawks. But in keeping it together for four

playoff games or three, I just don't, including a Super Bowl, if he gets there, I just don't, I just don't think it's possible. Three playoff games, I guess, because they got the buy. I think it's possible, but I wouldn't put money on it. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's, it's, don't they have the, the home field advantage?

So like, that stadium is no joke. So, yeah, that could help as well. All right, Cawton Rutter says London calling packed weekend at the movie. Song, sung blue, great. Marty Supreme, great. And Avatar 3. Wow, visuals, but a slog, basically part 2, respun.

100%. I agree with all your analysis. 100%. Seattle Chaos is support for Roka and Winston. Go see Hawks. There you go. All right. The hawks out here, boy.

They out here. They're real. Corn emperors have spilled a tequila on a Monday morning. Well, no, different topics today. We'll have different topics tomorrow for sure. But yes, this is the spilled tequila crew for sure. That's why we got into pornstorms. Matterif I4Vs is Rok. Are you Venezuelan? Sorry if it's personal. No, my parents are Bolivian. My mom was still around. Yes, Bolivian, but not Venezuelan. So, no. G.S. Arngard. Oh, yeah, Go Pal. It says support. What's up? Go, pal. Good to see you. Legend M.S600 says, I love the number one Seattle Seahawks. The Super Bowl is coming. We'll see. We'll see.

I mean, look, there is my, my, my, my, my, my, my fiance pointed out that there is, uh, the last three times that the Caha, that there was a new Pope. Ciox had 13 wins and they went to the Super Bowl. Um, the only thing that I will say in this particular moment, there's two things that throw a little bit of a monkey wrench into that, uh, you know, um, like legend is both a. he had 14 wins this year because there's an extra game now. And does that go off the magic now that it's not 13, but then also B, the Pope is Chicago, Chicagoian.

Chicago is Chicago. Chicago is a Chicago resident or Chicago origins. And the Bears are doing pretty well. I don't know if he like got, you know, Catholic God on their side. Like that's, that's,

that's who like I hope it doesn't mess up man that's all yeah yesterday the stealer they had a priest come down and blessed the field I saw it blessed the field and the kid one right so you know you never know born emperor says I don't care for wake up dead man but Glenn close killed it she's a goat I thought it was fine I you know I don't hate it as much as other people seem to hate it but I think it was second best to the first one and I think it was better than the second one in my opinion. But yeah, I thought it was fun.

Yeah, Glenn Close was great. Now Fox 1190s, prayers for me, guys. I'm going to let go. I'm going to be let go from my job at three. This is for support. Oh, dude. I'm so sorry.

Sending love and prayers and whatnot. That's rough, man. Brother, if I can say something to you, I've been there six years ago. First day back at work in January, I was fired by colliders. Let go, whatever they want to say, laid off.

by Collider. Yeah, it's been, yeah, it was 2026 when it was in 2020 when it happened. Walked in the door. My boss didn't even have the guts to do it face to face. I had to hear it from Fad and Jack, which was a terrible experience. And I had to get walked out like security with my box of stuff. There was no goodbye like we'd have with other people who were let go. We had a goodbye party for other people.

No, just unceremoniously dumped out the door, me and a few people. And I had to walk. I'd be walked out like security. Like it's some kind of high end situation. And it sucked. But guess what? I fucking bounced back. I'm doing this thing.

I'm still in this space. Much to the chagrin of some of those people who thought they were bearing me by letting me go from that job. I'm still here. So you're going to find something. You're going to find your way. Just trust in yourself. If you get too down, you get too depressed.

It's going to move you into a bad place. Feel the pain. Process it. But then start making place. and believe in yourself and you'll never know where you can end up man i mean the lady outlaw had to kick me in the ass by the end of that january being needed to shit and get off the pot and do something sometimes you need to hear that so take your time processing it but believe in yourself and find the next thing for yourself bro so and that's for anybody who might be let go this month

or got let go over christmas um including p carroll who got fired this morning uh carlo schvansky Stavansky, right. Carlos Romero LV7WF says, am I the only one that dislikes pluribus? Only six episodes in. Oh, interesting. I haven't started it yet. I loved it, but I get it.

It's a slow-moving show. It's a very contemplative show or reflective show. Not everyone's into that. So it might just not be your jam, you know? Especially in this TikTok world. To 20 Vasco says, thoughts on this bizarro NFL season. I mean, it was, interesting to have this much parody, to be honest with you.

I don't think we've seen this much parody in the NFL in a long time. And it even just looks like a different bygone era of like the teams that were that are in playoff contention. Like I mean, we're back to what, the Seahawks and the Broncos being kind of at the top of the food chain. Like that was that was a Super Bowl a while back. You know what I mean? The fact that the Patriots are at the,

you know also up there again is kind of crazy um it it just it was very interesting to have all the predictions of who was going to do what um and things went sideways the niners were supposed to have fallen off a cliff because of a lot of the players they let go and somehow they pulled together a 12 and five season and that also put them in six place like that's crazy you know what i mean that just goes to show how insane the competition was um so it'll be interesting it'll be an interesting um playoffs. It was a kind of a crazy season. And, you know, I hope that we continue to see other teams getting their shots, you know? Yeah. I think that's what fun about it. Other teams getting their shots. There's a line in the Godfather with Clemenza says to Michael when he's worried about

everything. He just says, hey, this needs to happen. Every 10 years, there needs to be some kind of war to kind of flesh out all the bad blood. And I feel like this is the same situation. Every once in all, we need an NFL year where nothing goes as planned. So we can remember why we live. love the game and there is no odds on favorite and it's a lot of fun to see what's going to happen because we may end up with the Houston Texans could win the Super Bowl. The Chicago Bears could win the Super Bowl. The freaking Seahawks could win the Super Bowl with Sam Donald. So anything's possible.

Hell, the Carolina Panthers could go on a run. You have no idea. Or Pittsburgh. I mean, Aaron Rogers could legitimately lead that team to the Super Bowl. You just have no idea, which makes it all the more exciting to watch. Wiley. OMC said, what's up Wiley? Says, support 2025.

Was an awful year in general and personally for me. You're not alone on that, brother. Roken, Winston, you the best. Hope you feel better soon, Winston. Oh, there you go. I appreciate it, man. I do. Yeah, yeah, no, I got a lot on a lot going on.

Like I said, like, I am physically getting whooped, but like there's already just five days in. Emotionally, I feel like I've been taken out behind the woodshed. So I genuinely, I genuinely hope that that things get a little. But yeah, yeah, no, real talk. 2026 is, is, you know, yeah, all of all of the, the emotional turmoil of the LA fires just to put that internally into me right now. That's kind of what's going on.

So right on, man, absolutely. Well, of course, sending you love as well, brother. Future Millionaire 26, go Steelers. We'll see, bro. We'll see. That's the thing. They're going to, they're going to very quickly get up out of hill. Like they're, what they play, the Texans.

The Texans are about to stomp a mud hole in the Steelers. It's going to be crazy. That's going to be insane. Yeah. If you're expecting the Texans to slip on a critical throw for a touchdown, keep dreaming. Keep dreaming. El Brody Bruce, 007 says L and Vecna will return in Avengers. Oh, that's good.

That's good. That's good. So just, we're at 42 superchats right now. We'd love to get to 58 more at least. Of course, we'd love to get 75 or 100. So send them in. And yes, I will say this. Even your porn star super chats.

If you want to send them in, we will answer them. Get us to the number we need to get to. We will answer them. G. G. Sarnh says, do you think sitcoms don't make the same impact? Because we don't all sit down and watch the same show at the same time anymore. that's fair but the neighborhood just wrapped up seven or eight seasons on CBS Winston George and Mandy's of marriage which I'm watching first marriage that show is like

you know 20 episodes or whatever so I still think people are sitting down to watch them but there's not just as much as much demand anymore I don't think I yes the format of everything has changed and that's going to have an effect one way or the other but I honestly think the biggest killer of it all is the kind of flood from social media. I was just talking to somebody about this the other day of how realistically like TikTok kind of killed the idea of

comedy because we've we've we've we've trained it's not it's not an end all be all answer but like yeah cause of said attention spans funny now is get it to me in in the next 15 seconds or I'm out. Yeah. And that's that sucks. It doesn't allow for slow burn. That doesn't allow for something with a little more stakes and things like that. And it's not it is not the end all be all solution. I think the other reason why this is kind of happening in the studio's quest to also kind of

make the IP a bigger deal versus the individual actor. Are you gone or I got a pee? I'll be back. Oh, you just put me solo. Okay, that's fine. but it's also just the idea of they don't want the movie star because the movie star can ask for more money and has more control. You want more of like I'm going to go see

Iron Man versus I'm going to go see Robert Donnie Jr. Like that kind of mentality. So, you know, that is where I think is at the core of it. It's both attention spans and studios wanting to make changes. But that sucks because I think having more of what we used to have is what keeps us all civil. I think laughter makes us all civil individuals. So yeah, that's, that's my TED Talk.

Thank you for coming as Roka goes pee-p-p. You know, we're going to give him that moment to, you know, make sure prostate's doing fine. If you haven't already, gentlemen, you should get your prostate checked as early as possible. You should also get colonoscopy. Those are important too. Shout out Kevin Smets. That's the homie. I'm glad to hear that he's still given positive reports. I've been following all that on social and all that kind of stuff. So that's good shit. Yeah, okay. Let me figure out, oh, you're back. Because I have colonoscopy issues. I'm paying because I drank 42 ounces of water. I know that. I'm just letting people know you should, you know, you should get checked out. You should get checked out. Yes, agree.

JSR guard says, and we don't get 22 episodes every year anymore. Well, we do with some shows, not all shows, but some shows are still 22 episodes. I mean, all those Chicago shows are pretty long, right? Like, what else you got? The rookie, Will Trent, American Idol, The Bachelorette. Like, these all do shows that are, you know, numbers, so or not a lot of episodes. By the way, are you watching Fallout, man?

I am kind of dragging through this season. I don't think it's that strong. Have you been watching it? I realized that was muted the whole time. A, Ellie Clutch. Oh, that's the redhead that you were talking about? Ellie Clutch. It took me a minute.

I finally figured it out. So Ellie Clutch. B, the 22 episode season is kind of dead. It's not really a thing much anymore. Not much. It's still there, but not much. You're right. Yeah.

It is, it is, that was how a lot of actors were able to, like, not even the mainstay stars of the shows, but that's how a lot of actors were able to, like, make a living. And writers, too. because you got you got staffed on a 22 episode show great you had work for like nine 10 months straight like you were good um yeah that's hilarious LA clutch fire yeah see people know um but but yes no I agree fallout so far I'm not as into it as I was last time um which sucks because I really like New Vegas like the the storyline of New Vegas is really really good the game um so I'm surprised yeah yeah uh Jesus are also Joe go Pal also says really looking

forward to my dogma 4k coming today. Nice. Enjoy that. Enjoy it. Enjoy. Nine horses, 9401s and support for Roker Winston, stay classy. Well, we're trying to. We're trying to. But if the porn star super chance come, start coming in, we might be risking that. Fiona George, thank you. Go pals says, how you say Remrod, not mentioned super troopers. Oh, very funny. Yes. Oh, dude, I haven't seen that movie in so long. Holy crap. He says, do you know Super Troopers 3 is coming? I do not. There is a Super Troopers 3.

They're all getting a bit old, aren't they? That's why you got to do it. I guess, yeah. I love Wendy on St. Dennis Medical. She's so funny on that show. So my lady says that that show's good. Is that good? It is good.

The first episode, a little wonky, but then the second episode, and then they hit their stride. That's a laugh-out loud comedy, for sure. That's a lot of fun. Yeah. And Allison Stedman is great, the lead actress of the show. I think that's her name. We've said that. Thank you, Fiona, for the support. Appreciate it badly. Alex says, hey, guys, super late to the game here, but just finished season two, A Peacemaker. Is it me or did that show just stop without an ending? Did I miss something?

How long have you got? The real time. I mean, I think I put that, that was a video I actually put out. about exactly that, man, for sure. Yeah. I would say it had an ending, but it was an ending that led you to something else, so not really an ending of the show, even though they said they're not bringing another season of that back.

We'll see. Gopas says, I would love to see the right kind of people's heads explode if Imanus Vandi were cast as Scott Summers. Oh, yeah. People would absolutely lose their fucking minds. They would lose their fucking minds. Because apparently, apparently we're in a post-woke world,

where it's no longer popular to be woke, which is one of the dumbest things. I actually, I watched Pierce Morgan do a thing over the weekend. He's like, woke is dead. I actually want to do a show called The Woke Show on my channel. I legitimately want to walk right into the minefield and go, fuck it, let's dance. You know, I kind of have this energy of wanting to do that in 2026, where I talk about shows from people of color,

shows from black people, shows from women, shows from LGBTQ Plus. Like, he did rivalry. Like, I'm legitimately thinking of this as a way of, like, doing a massive fuck you encounter to what i think is going on even rivalry apparently is out here in these streets bro yeah like people love that show i thought people didn't want that content anymore but looks like they do you know dancing dog 60 Vanessa del rio was the queen oh well that's a little before my time i think i don't think i know Vanessa del rio how old are you dancing dog you have to be in your 60s for Vanessa del rio oh oh oh lord yeah this is the

Like, because these are some old photos. Yeah, this is like 1970s, man. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my Lord. Not that I know. Not that I know. Okay. Well, I didn't turn this up.

Hands up. Don't shoot. Just, just, mm. Battery I-4V says, I pray for P girls. So much trauma bless them. Oh, porn girls.

Yeah. Oh, there's been a number. There's been a number of documentaries over the years about the porn industry. Yeah. If you haven't seen it, it's an older one, Hot Girls Wanted, I want to say it came on like 2013, it's on Netflix, something like that. Absolutely fantastic and kind of heartbreaking, to be honest with you.

Yeah, there's a lot of sad stories around porn, which is, you know, it's part of the game. But there's a lot of sad stories around Hollywood, right? There's a lot of people who got shoot up and spat out by the system in Hollywood, where they're supposedly doing legitimate work. So, Derek, Derek's 860 says, Diamond Jackson should have been cast as Storm. I don't, I'm in Jackson. Oh, boy, leaving us to a porn.

Jackson. Are they leading us to a porn person? I'm sure. I'm sure these are all going to be that from now on, which is, which is fine. Uh, no, she could not be storm. Nope. She definitely cannot be Storm.

No, no. Now face my hurricane. I'm making. Oof. She's making it rain all right. Danza Dog 6th. Speaking of, West Craven began as a board director.

Oh, did he? I didn't know that. Oh, okay. Not surprised. Not surprised. Fiona George. Thank you to Fiona. I'm sorry, Fiona, we're offending you.

Thank you. Michael D.A. 81 says Angela White will return an adventurous Doomsday. Yo, bro. Ella Club for Gene Great. You guys are killing me. You guys are killing us. You're killing us, man.

Lorian Arwin says, sending some support. Love seeing John and Winston together. Most anticipated movie for 2026. For me, it's a tie between Doomsday and the Odyssey. Yeah, Lori. Lori, good to see you. I would definitely, and thank you for the very kind donation. I would definitely say Odyssey is my number one. What about you, Winsie? and do you have one or he's probably

Odyssey. There's a lot of good superhero stuff coming out this year, but it's probably Odyssey for me. Yeah. Battery also says, Evil Angel or Brazzers, better studio.

Well, I don't really go by studio, so I wouldn't be able to answer that, but I would probably be able to answer that. I support independent artists. Anybody who has a good Black Friday sale, I support. Fiona George. Thank you.

No, it's Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day. That's right. That's right. Who's doing that on Valentine's Day? Whatever. Sean McApe. Thank you, Sean. Good to see you. That beautiful beard of yours, brother. See, Michael T. says Drake, MVP May is going to dominate the AMC for the next 20 years. After a long five years, I can confirm the Patriots are all the way back. A long five years? Suck a bag of D's, man. You want to talk about long? How about the fact that the Cowboys haven't been doing an NFC championships game since we won our last Super Bowl in the 90s? So miss me with Long.

That's the first thing. Second of all, stop crowning people king after one season. CJ Stroud was supposed to be the next Patrick Mahomes already. Jane Daniels. Jane Daniels was supposed to control the league this year, Jaden Daniels. A thousand percent. Brock Purdy was supposed to be the truth.

What happened with Brock Purdy? Like he's doing fine, but he ain't no truth. He ain't a top five. So like the way Drake May is playing, if he continues to play, play like this multiple seasons. Oh, then, yeah, and I'm going to be

100% being miserable. But yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see it first. Y'all want to crown king so damn fast. You want to crowd him? They are who he thought he else would thought where they were. You want to crowd him? Jordan Love.

They paid Jordan Love all that damn money. Jordan Love been. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, come on. And they might go one and done against the Eagles in Philly. Oh, no, wait. Were the, who the backers playing?

I don't remember the Eagles are playing. Eagles are playing the 49ers. Yes. Oh, Packers are playing the Bears. So Jordan Love could be won and done against the Bears. Yeah, we'll see what happens, man. Yeah, we'll see. Battery IP forces.

Should I start? OF? I'm... Should I start an only fan? Only fans. I'm 11 inches, swear to God. Sure, battery. Knock yourself out.

Look, if you got it like that, bro, do your thing. Support independent artists. If you have 11 inches, you would have passed out writing that thing as you were, as you were getting hard. Eric Anderson shot 9802. As a diehard Browns fan, mercifully, the season is over. Congrats Miles Garrett, finished with more sacks and the 49ers as a whole team. Imagine if they had at least an average offense.

To the last one, real quick, to the last one, bro, considering how heated rivalries do it right now, you can go do a parody right now. So that's probably true. You know what I'm saying? True, yeah. I will say this. I think they found something in Shador, bro. I mean, I thought he did a nice job against the Bengals last week,

sorry, this week and then last week against Steelers, that team just needs a competent quarterback. And if Shador can get coached up, I think there's possibilities now, man. Yeah. Look at Casey Grant's last message, bro. Oh, okay. That's the murder weapon.

Kickstand, tripod. Heard them all. I love it. But yeah, I think they found something in Shadur. I think he just needs more experience. and then you go find a coach and anybody that's like, oh, but you know,

so fancy, it was so good for the community. Yeah, but he was not good for winning games. Yeah. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

they've constantly been the laughing stock of that division for a while. So it was time. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know who you go get. I don't know who's out there.

We'll see. Corn Emperor says, hope the best to all, especially if 25, 26, was, it was hard. That's, yeah, that's for sure.

Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Nathan Drake says, so the military just went away. Hashtag Linda Hamilton. I know, that's my biggest thing.

Bro, what that, God, did you, I'm trying to think what game in particular, but there's some games where like you piss off the villagers. And as soon as you die, they all literally stop with their animosity. And they just like all walk away back to their like NPC spots. That's what it felt like with, with this is it was like, you attacked, you know, somebody in the village, the whole villages out to kill you. Then you died. And then they're like, all right, cool.

And then they just walked. It was just, it was, I don't know, man. It was weird. It was a weird way to just end that. Yeah, I know it was. It was weird, which may lead credence to what they're talking about with a phantom or a secret episode

because it may be the military and Vecna working together to erase the memories of what happened and whatever. So we'll see. We'll see, but I agree. The military, they literally killed members of the military. Even in the 1980s,

you would go to jail for a long time for that, you know. Go Pal says, now you're reminding me. The first Super Bowl I specifically remember was Super Bowl 20 with the Bears. This being and Chicago's book could be, but 50, was it? 50? No. 60.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Because I don't know the numbers. This is like. I don't like no room room and number of names. Super Bowl is 2026. Yeah, it's 60. This is Super Bowl 60. Right.

660 was with 60 and Chicago Pope. Could be their year. Could be their year. see. Mike Joyce, what's up, Mike? Favorite star that disappeared? Fay Reagan for me, have I... Um, ooh, another redhead.

Hold on. What was her name? Oh, no. Hold on. I need, I gotta think about it. What was her name? What do you mean? What do you mean disappeared?

Because she, she legitimately was missing. Like, wasn't she was found... Wait, what? 19 days after vanishing. Yeah, she, um, disappeared for 19 days. So I don't want to play with that, Mike. You're walking in the line there.

If you meant to disappear, like stop doing the P, stop doing P, and walked away from it, great. But like, she actually legitimately disappeared. So apparently she's a homeless, drug addict living in the, huh? Misty Dawn. Misty Dawn.

Oh, okay. Fair. Apparently, she's a homeless drug addict living in the tunnels of Vegas now quite a fall. Yeah, because that business is rough on people. It's very rough on people, man. Yeah. No, I mean, that's the thing. It's very similar.

It's a shorter lifespan, but it's very similar to football. Like the football has the average player lasts only three years, if that much. Like for most porn stars, and that's where a lot of these documentaries are interesting. Yeah, agreed. It's somewhere between six to nine months. Yeah. Because because of how intense the industry is and how ridiculous. Like, OF changed it a little bit.

Right. Put a little bit of power to the individuals, but like everything else, similar to social media, if you got in early and kind of did all that, then sure, but it's been overrun with like celebrities now. Yeah. Oh. It's just an oversaturated market as well. So it's just like, yeah.

People joke, oh, just go do only fans. But that shit ain't easy. Not easy anymore. And listen, you could be, do really well right off the bat. But consistency is where a lot of people. people fall off. The consistency is the game, you know, and it's not easy. It's very taxing. It's God's constantly come up. Like, as much as I may bash influencers, I don't envy that life at all because they are constantly having to come up with content. You are always having to shoot everything

and film everything and do everything. So, you know, at some point it becomes like you're living for the job. You literally have no life but the job. Bro, that's a lot. Yeah. Look at us going from like legit, just name important stars and joking to then having serious conversations about the poor and industry complex and how it's actually breaking people's souls. I know. We really do it all when we spill this tequila on a Monday. That's true. That's true.

Speaking of which, Eric Anderson says, speaking of Colin Osprey, thoughts on Gianna Michaels, L. well, yeah. Damn.

Yeah. We were being serious about it, but then, of course, Eric had a funny comment. Oh, you don't? I've never,

I've never heard of her before. A lot of them. Oh, interesting. Mm-hmm. Okay. It depends on the photo. Some photos, I'm like, damn. And some photos, I'm like, damn.

Oh, photos. Okay. Sure. But she's saying, he's saying colonoscopy for a reason, if you know what I mean. No, no, no. I got it. I got it. Okay.

I just want to make sure you understand with them. Go past this. One of the funniest things I've seen is a video of Pierce against a fast bowler and getting beaned over and over. I'm sure. Wait, standing in a crease against a fast bowler and getting, I haven't seen that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's meaning cricket.

I think it means cricket, the way they're behaving the cricket. Yeah, yeah, yeah. By the way, it's so cool, like where I live now, on Saturday mornings, we have a huge contingent of Indian Americans who live here, I mean, from India, and they play cricket on Saturday morning. So sometimes we drive by and just watch for like 10, 15 minutes. Really cool. My dad's from Guyana, so my dad played cricket growing up and whatnot, yeah.

Nice, yeah. Not an easy game to understand, but once you do, it's fun to watch. Once you get it, yeah, once you get it, it's good. Atomic underscore Burnett says, do you all have any good health weight loss tips? I'm trying to transform my life for good this year and really struggling. Winston, you have anything you want to say? Lift weights.

Lift weights, lift weights, lift weights, lift weights. Muscle burns more than anything else. It burns a lot of calories. And I highly suggest your biggest muscle group that you can work on is legs. People love to skip leg day. You shouldn't. That should be what you're putting the most amount of energy into. and so if you do that, you will naturally just find yourself more hungry again.

So it's it is the most important thing is your diet. Yep. But then the most important workout you could do is weightlifting and focusing on legs in particular, again, build that muscle group out. You'll burn more calories. You'll burn more fat. All that gets you. Yeah.

I think you have to set out your goals. What is your goal? Is your goal just to lose weight? Well, there's many ways you can do that. I haven't lifted a weight and I lost 50 pounds. And it's because I just changed my diet. No chips, no rice, no potatoes. The only thing I ate were meat and vegetables and eggs in the morning and then snacked on protein shakes or a protein bar in between.

That's the game, right? I was able to do that and I was strict about it. I was disciplined. And yeah, I would occasionally cheat, but then be right back on it. That's how you can do it if you don't want to lift weights or work out. But Winston's right. The healthiest way to do it is to adjust your diet so you're not eating chips, not eating all that kind of stuff at the numbers that you're eating.

You can have like a day or two where you eat a couple of things and whatever and cheat, whatever. But like if you change your diet to a strict diet and then you add in working out and you don't even need to do more than 45 minutes, like 10, 20 minutes, 10, 15, 20 minutes on the cardio, 20, 30 minutes of lifting and then like five minutes on abs or eight minutes on abs. You don't need to do a lot of work on diets. that's how you can slowly start to put yourself back together. But the number one thing is your mental approach, bro.

You say, I've tried so many things. The thing is you've got to have a really strong mental approach to it and believe you can do it because there's going to be a lot of temptation, a lot of temptation. I put on five extra pounds over Christmas because I've been eating and cheating some of the cookies, some of the snacks. The lady made peanut butter balls. And so, yeah, sometimes I wake up the last couple of days.

I'm a little heavier than I was before. But now I just go back to being strict about it next few weeks. and go down again. So it's just the way the game is. The other thing is that I would say that always gets hard. People try and do the most too quickly. Unless you that type of person that genuinely responds to a full cold turkey, here is all of this pressure.

Most people don't. And like you put yourself in that scenario and you do okay for a minute or the minute, whatever that program is that you're doing is done. That's why you saw a lot of recidivism is the wrong term, but you would see people like backslide from like the biggest loser and things like that. Yeah, if you're thrown in an environment where you're working out eight hours a day and you're eating a thousand calories, they'll drop the weight super fast, but you can't maintain that. So start off with if you don't feel like you can go work out a bajillion times a week and do heavy weightlifting,

just start off with a solid 30-minute walk every day. Just go outside and walk for 30 minutes every single day and make sure that you're eating like a good salad for lunch. every day then pick it up a notch and go okay now we're going to look into uh you know overnight oats or or like uh you know a yogurt parfait for breakfast and now i'm going to like do some basic curls and stuff like that add add level up as if you're playing mario don't try and take on bowser at the beginning like just get your first mushroom and jump on a gumba and then get to the next level and then get to the next level and just keep leveling up and the more consistent you are with it the better it'll get yep 100 percent consistency is a key

or anything in life, for sure. Or crack cocaine. Nope. Nope. Nope. Don't advocate that. Nope. Please don't do that.

Please don't do that. Karen Vondermaden says the pit and seven kingdoms this month can't wait. Yeah, the pits, I think Thursday, second season of the pit. And then Kingdoms is coming soon. I just got the screeners for Kingdom. So I'll be spending time on that this week for sure. I'm two-fly cams. Alexis Tay could easily break the sack record.

Yeah. We, we, we, we, we, we, we, we. if you mean a different kind of sack, then yes, you could. Yeah, 100%. Oh, my goodness. Yes. Close that. Yeah.

Ain't nobody blocking that from getting to you. B. Gill Studios says commanders win. Commanders win. So bears can clinch number two at Winston. Was it Ellie Clutch? Oh, yeah, there you go. Yeah, there you go. I've never even heard of Ellie.

Bro. Bro. Okay. If we're talking redheads, I'm more of a Sophia Locke person myself. Lock with an E. G, G, G, G, Gopaz is also firing Babylon

where West Indies cricket goes to a test in England beating them for five days straight. Ah, yes, very fun. Yes, very fun. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, fair point.

Cat bomb four Jedi. John Holmes will be an Avengers Doomsday. Oh, yes, he will. Yes, he will. Bojacks. Thank you, Bojacks. Corn Emperor says, I like the ending, but where were the demigorgans? Yeah, if you saw the Duffer brothers, they said that Beckna didn't need the Degregans, so he didn't call on them.

It's like, oh, God. I saw them come out today with this interview saying, oh, you know what? We never should have done post-finale interviews. I was sick and I'm tired. I had the flu. And it's like, fuck off, man. You got $400 million to do a season. You don't get to cry that you weren't feeling great during these.

post finale interview, so you shouldn't have done them. Get out of here. You got paid. As Don Draper told Peggy, that's what the money is for. And that's exactly the situation. You take the hits. If you can't take the hit, stop crying that you were injured on the play. Get out of it. In my opinion. Mike Joyce says, just suddenly retired, I meant. Oh, yeah, right, there you go. All right. He was getting back on the porn thing. Go, Jacks. Do either of you plan on watching the new scrubs? I actually audition for it. Oh, nice.

Yeah, I'm assuming I didn't get it. That was a long time ago. But anything that I audition for, I have a tendency to go and watch just so I can see who they went with or whatever and like see if there's anything that I feel like I could kind of pick up from it. Yeah.

But what's funny is most of the time that that's happened in the last like, call it like year or two years, if I didn't book it. I'm like, bro, that is so drastically different than me. Like, I'm not even upset. Like, I didn't give a bad acting job. It's just like, yeah, I auditioned for, and this movie was bad.

So I ultimately, I'm like, okay, that's probably good. I auditioned for Tyler Perry's movie last year. I think it was called Straw, where Taraji is like in a bank and they think she's robbing the bank and all that stuff. I read for one of the customers is like, you damn, y'all young and say, you ain't never, you just always want it quick and fast.

just want to quick and fast. I'm tired of y'all little much older gentleman than myself. And of course it was like a 75 year old black man who were just like, God damn kids. And I was like, yeah, that probably wasn't for me. That would not be my role. Yeah. I once had an agent who kept sending me out on these like, I was in my, I was in my late 30s, early 40s in L.A. And she kept sending me out for these like medical ones. And she was like, you just spray paint your hair gray. And I'm like, what is fucking wrong with you? I am not. right for these roles. They want people who naturally look gray and are old. Agents, man. Agents.

By the way, yeah, I will watch Scrubs. For those you don't know, I said this. I don't know if I said this on the show, another show, but like I was in the second season of Scrubs. I was a regular extra. And so you might catch me in the background in my scrubs walking by or walking around in the second season. It was a nice job, got paid sag wages,

and had a lot of fun meeting a lot of people sitting there for three months. It was nice paychecks every week getting to sit there. Sometimes I didn't even go in front of the camera for a day. You just got paid to sit there and be in the bullpen waiting for them to call you in. Those are fun days. Those are fun days, bro. Yeah, good money. Michael D.A.

81 says, best form of cricket to get into if you're new to the sport is 2020 cricket. Test cricket can go for five days, but the shorter form is three and a half hours max. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cricket can be days. That's what people have a hard time. That's crazy about it is that we thought we thought we saw the greatest baseball game of all

time. Could be doing that regularly and much more? Yeah, regularly. Oh, man, so true. Hey, Mr. CJ, I'm too old for this shit. And Foxstar 35 says, Maitland Ward is for Kings, L.O.L. I don't know about that. I don't know about Kings.

P.L.D. says Roker showed up to audition for 1883 and was able to point out everything they had gotten wrong. I love this. PLD thinks he's in his 20s. Have you seen PLD? He looks older than me. Hey, oh, wait a minute.

Do I need to go? It sounds like I'll need to work something out real quick. I'll let you and PLD. It's always been that thing. Between him and Jeff Snyder, I don't know who knows. Why do I look like Matt Thomas? What's that big? What the hell was that?

What the hell is that? You just gave Matt Thomas a free plug on the show. I guess I did. I wish I knew, bro. Oh, man, please. I mean, PLD is the last one to talk about anybody being old for God's things. The man can barely walk to his mailbox.

Anyway, all right. I think that's everything. I think that's everything, isn't it? That's all the questions. We got to 62. We didn't get to 70, but we got more than 50, which I'm really happy about. So thank you all so much for hanging out with us.

I don't, I think he's, I think, I don't know what he has planned for tomorrow. It might be Roxy and Mike. You might be just Roxie. I don't know what they got planned. but Christian will let you all know when it pops up tomorrow. So just look at that there. But thank you all so much for joining us. Mad love to win today, Marshall.

We're taking time out on this Monday morning to hang out with us, Winston. Please let them know what you got going on, brother, man. Yeah, you can find me at the Swaggy Blurred here on YouTube and on all the other platforms and all that good stuff. Because I did this show today, I was planning on doing my first blurred breakdown of the year. I had to now downshift my work shift. So I am probably going to do another early morning, um, uh, blurred breakdown tomorrow. So probably so 8 a.m. tomorrow I'll be doing the blurred breakdown on my channel. You also

have spilled the tequila with myself and John tomorrow afternoon. Um, I've got my best of 25 stuff coming out this week and next week. So keep an eye out for that. Uh, blurt's in the hood on Wednesday, myself in Jay Washington, capes and cows, myself Christian and Chris. this Friday. And then I don't know if we're going to continue with Demon Slay or not, but I will be doing more reactions with Christian coming soon. But obviously, like Roker just said, he was at the Critic Choice Awards.

He was here in L.A., so it's going to take a minute for him to get back home. So I got to, once he does that, we'll get all that popped off. So check out any of that stuff. But again, YouTube.com slash a swagip. Yeah, there you go. Thank you, Winston.

Much love to your brother. Have a good rest of your Monday. Thanks to him for hanging out with us. He's got things to handle there on the blurred side of things. Thank you, Fiona, for one more Super chat. Get us to 63. Thank you very much. And yes, as Winston said,

we do spill the tequila every Tuesday night on my channel, the John Roker channel there, 4 p.m. PT. If you enjoyed seeing what Winston and I do in our chemistry and our back and forth. So if you had fun with that, come and join us on my channel. 4 p.m. PT every Tuesday night there. Subscribe to the John Roker channel. So you can see what all that stuff is happening there as well, like GeekBuddies, Hot Mike.

Hopefully we'll be bringing back Jedi away soon. There has just hasn't been much Star Wars news. But I miss Laura. miss Kevin so hopefully we'll be lining up something very soon as well but my reviews my reactions and as Winston talked about best of 2025 but looking for in 2026 this is the week for that content they be coming out on my channel as well I don't like to do it during the holiday to relax during the holiday so this is where we're going to put my stuff out as well so please subscribe there youtube.com slash john rocas says follow me at the roca says on all social media but of course

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