The Kristian Harloff Show - THE ACOLYTE Social Reactions are in. What is the early word on the new Star Wars show?

Episode Date: June 3, 2024

The Acolyte comes out this week. There have been reactions of the first 4 episodes so far. How is the show doing with the critics that saw it already? the budget of the show has been rumored at almost 200M, will it be money well spent? Venom 3 trailer releases. Paramount and Skydance merge. One Piece will shoot seasons 2 and 3 together? Netflix hates physical media. The Box Office woes continue as Furiosa struggles once again. This and more on the live show with Kristian and John Rocha!

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and get 15% off your first order. From our family to yours. Happy celebrating. How's it going, everybody? Welcome back. Happy Monday. It's the big thing live. That's right. We got a lot to talk about today. As you saw in the title, talked about the, we're going to talk about the Acolyte. And I've seen the first two episodes. I don't know how many John has seen if you've seen him yet or not, but we'll, we'll see. But the reactions in general are out there and we'll discuss about, is it hype? Is it real? We'll talk about all that stuff. we'll talk about how we got to continue. I know that it's getting old. And trust me, I feel the same. But when it comes to the box office and what the hell is going on, Furiosa ate it again this week.

It's going to be on video demand probably next week. Not really, but close enough. There's a big thing that happened with Paramount Skydance, that merger. We'll talk about that. One Piece show I really liked. Apparently season two and three are going to be filming together. I think that's a smart move, but we'll see if anybody feels different.

There's other news out there that we'll tap into the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fight seems to be not happening right now because of Tyson's health. So who's going to step in, if anybody? Maybe we'll talk about that. I don't know. But we will get to your questions. Well, absolutely get to your questions.

If you brand new the channel, you've never been here before, subscribe to it in close to 150. We hope that we can get there soon. If you're into the UAP phenomenon, on guess what? This hit 25,000 over there. So we're hoping to keep building. A few great announcements.

I had my last L.A. comedy show, at least for a long time, the other day at the comedy store. It was a lot of fun. And I just announced, I was asked by Dan Merle. He's going to be in New York.

And he and I are going to do a show together in New York on June 21st. So I actually pinned it in the top chat here. If you're in New York and you want to come see us, they just put them on sale. And apparently doing live streaming, too. I didn't know that. So people will be able to see that live stream. So if you want to get that, check it out.

Okay. So that's it. That's between me and Roko, we're going to talk about a lot of stuff. So get your questions out there now. I already see them pouring in. It's the big thing. It's me and John. Here we go.

I'm not going to get the song right. I know it. Got it. What's up, everybody? Welcome back. It is the big thing. It's myself. John Roko.

What's up, John? How you doing? Oh, there you go, perfect. Can you hear me? I can hear you. How's it going? Good, man. How was the weekend?

The weekend was good. Recovering from the trip to Mexico was in Puerto Vallada for a week there at the Vedanta Resorts. Really highly recommend that if you get a chance to go to Puerto Vallada. That's where you want to stay. And so, but it was exhausting, dude. Like a lot of sun, it's hot down there. We did a lot of things every day.

And so I spent the last two days basically for you. Yeah. Well, it's my first one in four years since I went to England, which people are. I'm exhausted, you said, okay. I'm moving across country, two kids and a dog. Okay, fair boy, fair boy. And now you're back in L.A., so, you know. I know.

Well, we didn't, well, we haven't left. Yeah, we're leaving soon, but we're just packing up getting ready for everything. We had the show at the comedy story the other day. Yeah, I want to hear about that. And sadly, I would have totally driven up for that. You know that, but I was in Mexico. No, at school. It was good, man.

We had, I've been talking about Rick Ingram forever, and he went, he went up and just brought the house down. Rick is hilarious. My favorite comedian of all time. He really is. He's just so good. Eliza Sussinger came in and did his, he was great. It was great to catch up with Eliza. Her and I got to talk to her for a while in the green room because we, you know, we started together.

And we just, we talked for a while. And it was good to catch up with her. So she did a set. Ellis, of course, was the best. He hosted the show and he's just so good. We had a bunch of comedy store people who went up there and did some time. And Winston and my friend Martini, who essentially kind of created the Shmose, she was, she went up the show and Justine Marino.

So it was a, it was good. And I went up doing like 20, 25 minutes at the end, which was, which was awesome. And there's a lot of people there that I, that I caught up with afterwards, people that didn't make it into the show because we sold out pretty quick. They came in, they came in, we were hanging out at the bar for a while. So I knew that I was going to catch some slack from the wife from being out, but I didn't mind it. I didn't mind it. You know what I did, though?

And they're not even a sponsor on today's show, but I took Zbiotics. And it worked wonders. I'll tell you that. I knew people were going to be buying me beers and stuff. And I was like, yeah, but it was great. I was able to function the next day, help out with the move. So it worked out. Yeah, so some of the pictures, Dennis Zen took pictures with you.

I heard Janine the machine. was there. That was nice. He drove there, man. That was really, really nice. Kaiser was there. I mean, there were... Buga actually came in. He was not the show itself, but he was at the bar, and I was, I wasn't expecting to see him. So he was there. Ash,

Rosson, Germain Lucier, I'm just, there's so real rejects. There were so many people there that I, and I probably leave some people out, but it was it was great. Like, Pavel, who does the down to earth of me, came in from Mexico to some see it, so it was, it was, it was cool. It was, it was, there was a lot of great people.

I announced, yeah, I know Dan had mentioned it on his channel, but I was able to finally announce I'm doing my first show in New York. He's going to be in there in New York and they asked me to do the show with him. It's basically going to be talking about the box office, which I guess we can kind of transition from this to that. But like the just about how in general what the box office has been so far, how May was like the worst box office like in, in, I think film history or close to it. And can it come back? So we'll be talking about that stuff on the show and we need to catch up with Dan. I haven't seen him in a while. Nice, man.

Nice. Big Danny. Yeah. So let's get into, let's talk about some news here. The first, oh, you know what? We can start with this because I know we both just did our reactions here. So we just did our reactions to two of us to Venom. Venom three, the last dance came out.

And as I said, in my trailer reaction, I prefaced it with the letting people know that the first one and the second one weren't really for me. I know that the old school kind of 90s vibe and whatnot. And I just, I don't know, it got corny for me and even more corny in the second one, even though Andy Circus was directing the second one, I was excited for it. But what I will say is this tone is consistent with the other two. If you like those two movies, I feel like you're going to be excited about this one. But it looks to me, it's just like kind of, I, whatever.

Well, I feel like I've come out of this a little bit more enjoying the trailer. I liked it. I thought it had a nice vibe. I like the scope of it. I know I would never normally advocate for this, but moving Michelle Williams out of it, I think was a smart move because I never really bought the romance between them. Yeah, I feel like she was above this stuff. I don't know what she was doing there.

And Juno Temple, I like it as a nice addition. Why is Kirk Connors and why is Recyphons in the trailer? What does that mean? A lot of people speculate at the young. kid in the van with him might be Peter Parker. Stephen Graham might be turning into toxin in this one. And so there's a number of things in the trailer that I thought

were fun to look at. And look, it's the woman who wrote the second one, Kelly Marcell. She co-wrote and directed this one with Tom Hardy. So I hope it's a final send-off if it's, I mean, I hope it's a good one if it's a final send-off for Tom. Because I'm with you, man. I haven't liked those first two venom films, but I've liked him as

Eddie Brock and Benham. He's passionate about it. He clearly wants to play the role. I mean, three times? And Tom is notoriously picky about his shit. So he likes it. He came back to do it three times, does you enjoy it. Yeah, he likes it.

And I think that comes across when he's playing it for sure. And I just come, I can't really talk about it too much because they only do my social reaction for like the bike riders. What I will say with him, though, is that he, he's doing, in every movie he's doing now,

he's doing like, he's doing, he does something with his voice. Yeah. He's moving stuff with his voice. And he does that way in this trailer too. But I think that can lead us into actually, you know, because we're talking about social reactions

and we're talking about one and cannot say. Let's just get into the main topic. Sure. And it's not that one. Where is it? Oh, that's not it either. You were close. Perfect.

Perfect. So the acolyte. Yes. This is a show that has been talked about at great lengths for the positive, the negative, whatever it might be. It's also the idea that this is the first time period

that's not playing in the Skywalker era. Yeah. And we finally got that. And so did you get a chance? Did you see the first four episodes? I've recorded my reaction for the first two. Same. I'll be up on my channel later this week.

But over the first one, I guess. But no, I guess the first two because it's dropping the first two. But yeah, I did get a chance to watch them. Good. Because I saw the first two. And to me, I was, because everyone was putting their reactions out on the first four. And I didn't, I never understand when people are doing that. because the first two are the only ones that are going to be coming out,

I think on the four. So I'm waiting. I'm going to record all four of them, but record them in a time. But I guess I haven't even done my, what I will do for this season is I'm going to do, after I watch each one, I'm going to do my immediate reaction, put it up,

do the, the spoiler review, and then actually then put my full reaction of it out there. I'm just not on board with everybody else. I saw everybody else loving it. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think that it's I think that the show it's not terrible by any means and I'm and I'm interested in it. I'm interested to find out where it goes.

There's but there I don't know what it is. I think that it just I'm just I feel like there's a little bit of CW with it and I feel like there's kind of this thing where it's not as I'm just not. I don't know. I sometimes I was worried about people playing dress up. Yeah. And it feels like there's some people playing dress up. But there's also some good. What I will say is that what I was worried about.

wasn't there with the they're building on character yeah good which i like and and i am invested in the detective story side of it i see where it goes so yeah but but i'm but i wasn't but there are some characters making really stupid decisions though in some of these episodes and i'm like come on what are we doing here but for the most part i'm i'm interested i think that i'm interested and i don't think it's a bad show but i'm just i'm not i'm not everyone else was losing their minds for it i'm I'm like, yeah, I'm not losing moments. I guess because I'm a hater now. But yeah, so I don't know.

But what were your initial, your first kind of social thoughts? Well, to go on the other side of it, to be called a shill or whatever, I did like it. And I hear you, though, I do, because we're older, dude, those beats, those CW-ish-type beats are going to hit us differently, right? Because we're just not at that age. and we have to put that in context when we're looking at these things. Like is a 15 year old or a 20 year old, which is who they want to retain to be their audience for the next few decades,

are they going to like these beats? And so I kind of have to overlook that in certain moments because I want to look at the overall story. And I do like the overall story. I do think the detective stuff needs to be a bit more stronger in how it's being laid out. But again, we haven't seen three and four. Or I haven't seen three.

I haven't either. I haven't yet. So maybe that'll be a little more hammered out. But I like the characterizations. I like the focus they have, as you said, on the character. I like the costuming. I like the sets. The money, it's cost $170 million.

The money is there. The music is really good. And the sound is good. And I think the dude from Squid Game, right? Yeah, he's the best part of the whole show. 100%. He's the best part. 100%.

But why you asked a guy like that? Because you want to be like this foundational part of it. Yeah. There's some predictable stuff like right away. You kind of know what's happening. Right. But I think that you know what it is also? I was thinking about this today because I knew we were going to be talking about it.

I was like if this was a show that was like an original show that, you know, you move some things around and didn't make them Jedi and made it like something else or whatever it might be. And it maybe would have felt better. I just wonder now if like, and this is fine. And this is not a matter of, like, the ideas and the things that I kind of really fell in love with with Star Wars, I don't, it just doesn't feel like that for me, which is very well could feel like that for someone else who loves it. But I was like, it, minus like, okay, yeah, they're wearing Jedi robes and they're doing this and there's this. Even in the, you know, as you saw with fight scenes and those kind of things, it's, it doesn't, it just feels different. Yeah. So, but that's, that's, that's, that's really all we can say.

to until we can get a full on kind of review embargo on it. But like, uh, but I'm, but by no mean, I think the writing is significantly better than some of these other shows. I will get that I've been on. And,

and as I said, I'm, when I turn it off, I don't say, all right, now I'm going to watch another one. It's, oh,

no, where's this going? Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm interested out. I'm just, but I,

but I can't, I can't start being, but this is amazing. I, I don't think it's amazing. I think it's, that's fair. That's totally fair.

Yeah, I'm hoping I liked it, but I want to like it more. So if what they've laid in the first two episodes gets fleshed out a little bit more in three and four and some of these other elements and that twist gets, yeah, I know, it gets a little more hammered out than I'll be in them. Yeah, I mean, that's what it, when we can dive into like more spoilers and things like to like that, that's where, because we will be doing a spoiler heavy episode. I'm going to probably be doing it live with Steph and Mike because I'm going to see I have two screenings this week. I'm going are you seeing bad boys tonight?

Tonight bad boys. Yeah. I got invited to an to an Asoka like influencer event where I could like learn how to sword a fight with the lightsaber and stuff. But I'm skipping out on that because I want to see bad boys. It's more than more relevant to what we're doing right now. Anyway. So yeah. And then Wednesday is the screening for.

for the Watchers. Oh, nice, dude. Seeing that on, but so I'm going to see that in the morning. So because of that, normally Mike and Steph, who, um, are showing the morning. So I was like, you know what? Why don't we just do a live stream together on Wednesday? So the three of us are going to do like a live spoiler on that. And, um, and that's it.

So I do. I mean, I'm, I'm very curious to see in general how people are going to respond. Because it's going to be, there's going to be predictable responses. and then there's going to be, I'm very curious. I'll tell you the ones that I'm really curious on because here's, I'll give you the predictable responses. The predictable ones are some of the responses that have already come out through social media. People who went to the events and people who saw it, they loved it.

Of course, they're going to love it. And so I can't, you know, as much, and I believe that they love it. Sure. But I don't, but I'm not going to take merit into a lot of it because it's like, well, that's just they watch it differently. They have different expectations of what they're looking for. So, and I'm not going to buy a lot of the stuff that, I love it because of this, this and this.

And I'm like, yeah, but you're not looking at the same stuff than I am, so I'm not listening to you. And then the other predictable side is that are people who make all the hate videos and hate everything. And they haven't even seen it. They hate it. They hate it. We know, we know. You hate it. It's well.

Make you money. Make you money. We know, we know. So people that I want to see, the people who are kind of more so like myself, we're curious kind of going into it going, all right, well, let's see. Yeah. And then I want to see what they, like, and then I want to see what they, like people, I want to, like, a more. casual person was like, I see people in here that we're saying like, I don't know, I've been kind of iffy

on the shows lately. I want to see what they think. The people in this chat, I want to see what you think. You're the ones that to me are more relevant than the ultra lovers and the ultra haters. Like that to me is very more of like, okay, look, is this hitting? And if you don't care about Star Wars,

is it hitting? And I think that's the one thing though that this show might have going forward is that it might, if they can get people to tune in who aren't hardcore fans, you might like you were saying earlier you might be able to get new people on board because it doesn't this like i like i said it doesn't have to this doesn't have to be star wars like it doesn't have right right exactly and and i think that's what they realized and that's why they're doing

so many different flavors because christian you know you and i know this there are people who did not like and or and just because it was not their kind of star wars not their flavor not their taste and just as many videos could have been done being like you know what what are they doing why are they going in this direction? I don't feel the magic. And so I like that Disney is taking a chance with all these different types of flavors. Do they all work?

No, and certainly there are a number of videos that will tell you that none of them work or all of them work. But I think in the middle is where we need to be on this, which is that there's been some stuff that has not fully hit the mark. Although within that stuff, there have been some cool scenes,

some great characterization, some nice acting, but it hasn't overall delivered in the way that you were hoping it would deliver. But they're taking a chance, to try to do different flavors so they can attract as many people as possible back into the Star Wars fold. You know, so I know, it's just I think that I'm so now as I think I'm just spoiled on Andor now. I know.

I really do think I'm spoiled on Andor like there are elements of that in here. It's not as strongly laid out. It's like you said, it's better written. It's way better written in Asoka. It's way better written than Obi-Wan. It's way better written than Boba-Fed. It's better written. There's no, there's no doubt about it.

I think it's better directed too. I think Leslie does a nice job with the direction. Yeah, I just, there's, there's so much I want to say that I can't say it. You know, but there's, there's things that I, like, I think that I'm just hammering down that I really do feeling that, obviously she, she loves Star Wars and she wants to do a Star Wars show, but I just, at one point I was going,

this doesn't have to be Star Wars. This could be, this could, if they want, if this could have been, what your point is. This could have been a brand new, like, what Zach Snyder was trying to do, Rebel Moon. This could have been something like that because this doesn't have to be Star Wars.

It really doesn't. And I wonder if I'd like it more if it wasn't Star Wars. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, there's a lot of times, even from like fight sequences, things, I'm like, I don't know if I'm there's one character I will say sucks.

There's one character who sucks. And I was like screaming at the thing you'll see you in my reaction. I'm like, come on. Ersten keeps making the wrong. I'm talking. come on not not not acting just the character right anyway um but i am very curious to see how the reactions go from the people like the people in this chat room people who are you know again not the ultra lovers not the ultra haters i want to see the the people who are just want to watch good

television to go if it's good i'll like it if it sucks i'm gonna tell you it sucks yeah that's that to me is who i'm it's so funny it's like it's almost like with politics now, John. Oh, here we go. No, I'm telling you. I'm not going to go too much in politics, but I'm telling you're where I'm starting to land. It's like, you got your ultra left, you got your ultra right, and I'm just like, get out of my face. I'm like, just like, what's the issue? Okay, if you think on that side that, that that's interesting, that I'm going to side with you, but if you don't agree with that and you think that that's interesting, that's more so where I am, so I'm going to land right here. That's kind of how I feel with a lot

of this shit when it comes to entertainment now. It needs to be a rebirth of the middle. There needs to be a rebirth of the middle that takes over the And everything. Exactly. I hope to do with you. And everything would be a rebirth. Yeah. I had no problem with someone watching the show and go, I love it.

I thought it was going to be terrible. I love it. And then I have no problem with somebody going, look, I gave this a shot, but everything I was worried about this thing stinks. Like, I'm worried. I watched the first two episodes and I'm like, I call Matt Sarah. You're going to hate this. I know.

And Matt Sarah is not. And Matt Sarah is not a guy who is just like, he's not, he's not an ultra-hater. Well, he's not preconditioned to hate it already. Oh, and he will say, look, I thought it was going to say, he could call me about Madam Webb. He goes, look, it was terrible, but I enjoyed watching it. I was like, you watched it on Netflix. You don't have to pay money to see it in the theater. Exactly.

Yeah. And so, but I know, like, he's not going to like the show. And maybe I'm wrong, but I, he's not going to like it. But I want to hear someone like his thoughts, because if he does like him, look, I want it really digging it. This is what I like. This is what I didn't like. those are the people I want to hear from right now.

And I'm not and not just on Star Wars on everything. I wish. I wish that the, you know, the ultra lovers and the ultra haters, which is go away. And I wish that the people in like that would just like, just want to watch stuff and go,

I like it. I dislike it. Um, and not because like, because here's what I realized even when I was saying that's like I, was I talked about being, you know, like it using it as like a sports fan and saying that right now,

my team is the like if it's the Yankees. And if Star Wars is the Yankees right now, I'm just like, they're not, they're just not playing well right now. And I say that I'm rooting for him to get back until I can start rooting for him going, oh, yeah, they're in first place again, this winning championship. But the ultra lovers turn to the side and go, oh, well, you're a hater now. We're a hater on Star Wars. Because I asked, I was doing something with my, with my, the back wall for the New York studio.

And I was asking for a bunch of suggestions, people were like, well, how could you not want to put Star Wars back there? It's what you made your career on. I was like, because I don't want to do a whole bunch of Star Wars shit. I want to have a bunch of other things that I like back there too. And I'll have Luke and Darth Vader from Empire Strikes back to the battle. But I was like plus the fact that I don't want to my whole entire community thing to just be put put this, put Yoda taking a shit on the toilet. It's like I want it.

So other things. But it's like I don't want to be called a hater because I don't love it as much as you do now. I don't want to be called a shill because like I because because I thought that scene was good. And it's like, you know, and that's why I wish that the people in the middle would take over, but it just doesn't work that way. Yeah, unfortunately, the middle doesn't attract the same kind of attention, unfortunately. And I'm with you. I'm with you.

Like the both sides, yes, move aside, let the middle take over again. And let's have honest conversations. And this is the thing that I think is frustrating too is because like the middle is where the conversations actually happen. You know, the ones that ultra hate it, the ones that ultra like it, they're not invested in people with different opinions coming on and having a rational, logical conversation where you might concede a point or two, where you might see where they're coming from and have rational, honest, fun conversations where you may not agree, but by the end, you've at least all said your points, you've been understood from both sides or all sides, and then you move on and have fun. And unfortunately, that is not what goes

on on either side, because neither one of them are invested in having that because that affects their overall ability to keep people in a certain state of mind, to keep watching their shit and donating to them. And let me tell you, I had my own example of this this weekend. You know, I've become a big Caitlin Clark fan and everyone knows, you know, I've gone on and defended, you know, people of color, black people in certain situations, certainly where I think there might be racism or the need for representation, all of that kind of stuff. Well, I had people coming after me because I called out a couple of things where a couple of these female black ball players were going out a little harder on Caitlin Clark, sheepshotting her from behind, smacking her across the head unnecessarily.

and it crossed a few lines for me. And what I sensed here is that there's an anger here from some of the female black ball players at this white ball player who's taking all this attention away from their league and they're resentful of it. And it's coming through in these moments. And people started calling me racist. I was like, what's you're calling me?

Right. So that's why I try to tell you. That's why I tried to tell you, there is no winning in what you try to do on Twitter. There is no winning. Because no matter what you do to my honor, I mean, fight you fight for one particular side. You say one thing against one, one part of the side, and they'll come after you and say

you're not on their side. It's the, it's the basis of what Twitter is. It's just what it is. It's like, you can, a million times over, if you say, you can be like, I've done this, this and this, and this, you say one thing, and then they're using this example to come after you in the same way that, like, for years and the more simple side of it, going back to this when it comes to, like, Star Wars, for years and years and years. It's like there's been so many things I've been so positive about in this and been,

you know, whatever the name's called, but because. because I'm right now not into it. Like I've got like the balls on some of these people on the ultra lover side of it to go, oh, well, you hate Star Wars now. You don't like Star Wars now. All it is you're saying you hate it. I'm like, no, it's me saying I'm just not satisfied with what I'm watching now, but I never once.

And that's the difference between people who on the ultra love, ultra hate side. I never once tell you ever that you shouldn't like it. Yeah, right, right. Like it's like if you love you go too, yeah. Yeah, if you're in the ultra love. love mode, great. But in the same thing, like, I've had people like, oh, well, if you didn't, if you didn't like this one, it's clearly because you don't want to see people in color and in the lead.

I'm like, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? It's like, that's nothing to what I'm talking about. And I'll get that. I'm a reaction. I'm guaranteeing you don't get to my reactions. But it's like nothing to do with that. It's the fact that when I'm watching these particular shows, I'm saying, yeah, it's just

it's not, I wanted to, I wanted to love this show. In the same way, like, I can say this, you know, without getting too much of a review. way bike riders i wanted to love that movie yeah i wanted to love it and i thought if jeff nichols was taken a shot at goodfellas and it was fine it just wasn't great and like you know is am i a jeff nichols hater now because i didn't like that you know what i mean it's like nobody does that it's just like they for some silly reason both of these sides take this like take this ip and they use it like it's like someone's coming after their childhood if you don't like it Or someone's coming after their childhood if you do like it.

You know, because you're not representing it's like, what are you talking about? What are you doing? I mean, the few weeks ago when people came after me for the rant I made, it was because I was saying, relax, like we're all going to live. It's going to be fine. Like, okay, so someone does something. They went a certain direction. You know what?

Star Wars is going to survive because Star Wars has always survived. Any franchise, they're going to survive. people are down on Furiosa and I know we're going to get to the box office stuff there's no reason George Miller shouldn't do another Mad Max movie and the fact that people are like this is the end oh my god why do they do this movie now we're never going to get another bad Max film is nonsense it's absolute nonsense I know I just survive all these things man I've seen a few different you know like back in terrible Terminator films we've had for fuck's sake I know and it's like look I don't mind this is also why I just dislike Twitter because I've seen so many

people on Twitter, like friends, really good friends. Sometimes when they tweet, I'm just like, God, I disagree with the time you tweet anything. Like, like very, very good people that I really, really like will tweet something. And I go, every time you tweet something, I disagree with every word that comes out of every time. And it's like, but what I don't do is battle them on Twitter. Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean?

Anyway, so it's interesting to see, like I, you know, you know, I mean, it is the most, it is more predictable than the twist in the first episode. It is, it is so predictable that what will happen is that you will have both the ultra left and ultra hate or ultra, ultra love and ultra hate going after each other. Um, whenever this is on Wednesday. And so what I'm going to try to do is sift through it because I've been lucky enough on this freaking channel that we've got people who are just here to watch entertainment and the, like, their pure thoughts on it. That's what I'm looking forward to. So come to my, come to the episodes,

guys, when you're watching the reactions or anything and put your thoughts on it. I ain't going to judge you if you hate it. I ain't going to judge you if you love it. I just want to hear what you think. So put your comments in once we're ready to do that. What I will say is that, you know, I mentioned John my, my set that I had. And RB3 took a great picture in the other day. And I was getting a lot of compliments about you know I lost about 19 pounds yeah and so I was getting compliments on the butt I'll tell you what I did and I did this on purpose before I left I put on a Mac Weldon t-shirt I put on a Mac Mac Mac Weldon pants and I got compliments all night on that I even so much so I changed my profile

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Yeah. It's a good, good for the casual professional. So it's not fancy and it's not, it's not overdressed, but it's still. You look like, you don't want to look like you rolled out of bed. Yeah, well, there you go. All right, thank you, honey. Bye. She had no idea I was going to do that, and that's what she said.

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for any other people, tell people they ask me what I want, like Mac Weldon. I think I really do think it might be one of my favorite stores. I didn't know about it before the show. And now I think it's one of my favorite stores of all time. I'll have to try it out. It's, it's legit. Like, I don't have your physique, but maybe it'll help me look a little bit. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. They have tons of, tons of different styles and you should, you should really should go on the site to browse around because it's like, it's like, classy stuff too, man. It makes you feel, it makes you feel good. I was like, because I normally don't go on stage. I mean, like I was trying to wear I was going to wear something. Yeah. I was like this button down shirt. And my wife said, why don't you wear just one of your Mac Weldon T-shirts?

I was like, yeah, I do like wearing T-shirts, but I want it because the whole deal is that I didn't want to look, I didn't want to look bummy. Yeah. Yeah. And I was going up there. And it, and it wasn't. So what I also tell the audience, too, is that what I want to do is, especially with Mac Weldon and, um, and Tushy is that because the, you know, we have a, we have an advertised agency that gets us these things to. Nice. And if the audience doesn't get it, they'll tell you, they look, they're not seeing a performance on it and they're bailing on the show.

And it's happened before, right? But I really want one of these, if not both of these today, like, what the hell happened today? Like, everybody was buying badeas and t-shirts and everything, too. Like, what happened? Like, you got a great day today. And then we'll be doing this show for a long time. Yeah. How do I download your wife's voice to be my ways?

I'd like her to be my. She'd be like, I don't know, turn left. I love your wife's, well. It's hilarious to me the way she was like in between bites. In the middle, she's right on your physique. The middle lunch. She's like, do you call me? What do you need?

And that's, well, that's why I knew. It was great natural. I loved it. Totally natural. That's because I knew how, because that was what I wanted to show the audience also. It was that it was like, it was legit. She kept telling me how much she liked. She won't like that I say this, but it's a crime that she's not on more of your content.

Because she is a unique personality, man. She would want to be. Like a lot of different reasons I wouldn't want her to be on. I'll tell you that. But who knows when she comes into the studio in New York, we'll see what happens. Come on. All right, we got other stuff, John. We got other stuff that's going on.

Let's talk about it because, as we mentioned before, let's check this out. The freaking, no. Yeah. There it is. All right. Box office. This is box office this weekend. This weekend, May 31st to June 2nd, the Garfield movie was number one with $14 million in May.

In the summer season. Summer season, $14 million opening weekend. And then if did another 10, that's actually pretty good for that movie also because it keeps, and Garfield. I bet you, if I look at Garfield, I bet you Garfield now is about 120 World World right if not more garfield worldwide is 152 so not bad for garfield it's great if if is at 138 yeah two kids movies ferrios to 10.8 this week it just cry i mean 114 but still but still 114 considering that the movie costs like 170 yeah 168 kingdom of planet eight's like 337 yeah um and then the fall guy 4.2 million, 157.

But only drop 30%. So it's got legs for a guy. It's got legs to try to make, to try to take less of a loss, I guess. Yes, right. 100%. But I mean, look, there was so much, you mentioned it earlier, man, with Furiosa is that what I'm bummed about is that it looks

like they're not going to do a Mad Max movie now too. And I think I like Furiosa. I lead with that, right? We loved it. I really, really, I really liked it. And I thought the sound was absolutely incredible. I thought she was good in it.

And I say that, and I follow it up by saying it was a mistake to do this movie. Yes. Go ahead. So you point out. I think it would have, I think what they should have done is hired Charlie Starrley-Eron and Tom Hardy to do a continuation together. Because trying to reset with a new actress as this character that was essentially the secondary character in the Mad Max movie, even though she was her story. It's a lot to ask with the audience.

And if Tom Hardy and Mad Max isn't it, at a 170, it was a mistake. Yeah. I think you're 100% right. So I'm looking up Anya Taylor Joy right now, right? I mean, where is the big hit for Anya Taylor Joy? And it isn't here. She is an incredible actress, beautiful, like the day is long. Not a movie star.

Phenomenal talent. Possibly not a movie star. Queens Gambit, great stuff. But that's a Netflix series. Emma was a nice film, but it didn't break any box office records. Last night in Soho, the Northman, the menu, Amsterdam, of course Super Mario, but that's more Super Mario. And an uncredited small part in June part two.

So there's nothing here that says to me, box office star that you should hang your franchise on. other than her talent. So I get it. They took a chance. But I think this shows that there wasn't enough interest in seeing her play a younger version of Charlize. And that Charlize has essentially become this massive figure in the Mad Max franchise for a lot of the Mad Max fans.

And that is tough to do in something that was owned by Mad Max, the original Mel Gibson character, and then Tom Hardy coming in. Unfortunately, their issues working with each other, which George Miller talked about, and they've talked about in numerous interviews, might have stopped them, going forward and doing a film with them together, unfortunately, because I agree with you, that was the way forward. They're both badasses, both of them working together in some new adventure, some new thing.

That would have been fun to see. I love Anya Taylor joy two pieces. So what I say is not a negative against Christmas. I think you're right. I was one of the conversations I had. Yeah, I had this, Roxy. I had it with one of our patrons. She's only in half the movie, too.

Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, no. She's in a fair match. She doesn't say a lot, but she's in it. A young girl does a really great job. You're right. You're right, though. The young girl in the beginning is absolutely, does a lot. But I, and it's the same broken record conversation, John. It's that in what world does Warner Brothers say it makes sense to make a $170 million dollar Furiosa prequel when the, when the 2015 movie did good, not great? Yeah. And that was in a time when the box office was thriving all over the place.

Right. Like, it's just, it's the studio signoffs on some of this stuff. It's like they don't understand kind of. And to be fair, who really does understand how all this stuff is working right now? But I think that you're going to get as much as these failures keep happening. Yeah. It's like they can't keep greenlighting these things at 100. Some of these movies are $120 million, $150 million. I was like, fall guy.

I mean, should have cost $60 million. Yeah. And like how? Figure it out. You know what I mean? Figure it out. Figure it out. It's like 60.

You're 60 million. $60. We need $120. Go to a different studio. Nobody knows what the fall guy is. Nobody knows what I. Listen, and I don't want to be unfair and not also come after Hemsworth. Hemsworth's track record outside,

Marvel is not that strong either. So the fact that his performance of the villain wasn't enough, this good-looking, beautiful Australian hunk of a man still wasn't enough to get people into the theaters when he is like the main villain of the movie. That also speaks volume

to his drawing power that isn't a strong outside of the Marvel universe in my opinion. I mean, if you could name a hit that he led, he led that. It's not that, but I push back on that in general. Okay. Name me, name me actors nowadays that because of their name alone, gets people into the theater, it doesn't happen.

Well, I'm saying to you in a way when you look at these things, if a franchise that is built in the way that it is in Mad Max, so that's, that should have been enough. to get people into the theaters. If that isn't enough, then you look at the actors and go,

what was the combination here that didn't work? And it feels like to me, the combination of these actors with this franchise wasn't enough to get people into the theater. And so who am I going to blame? I'm going to blame the franchise that has a track record of being successful or the two actors that don't necessarily outside.

I can't blame because the same argument can be made, even though that Fury Road didn't make like a lot of money it better than this, right? Right. And then, but is it because it was Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron or was it because Mad Max was in a Mad Max movie? Well, I mean, look, it was 30 years later, right? So how do we get them into the theater and you're going in a new direction? I think the Hardy Theron combo worked in their approach. It helped. It certainly helped. There's no doubt about it. I just don't, I just think that it depends on how it's kind of placed in there that, like there are certain times when movie stars elevate it.

And then there's other times where you just, when you're trying to, you inflate your budget when you put too much star power in it. And it kills. Look at that movie Wolves is an example. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Brad Pitt and George Clooney. They probably took big huge cuts in their overall ass. They both produced a movie, so they're probably going to make money

that way. It's got John Watts directing. Then outside of that, Amy Ryan, great actress. Not going to cost a lot of money. there's no one in that movie that costs money there's no one in the movie that cost money right and so if they lose money on it and it goes to streaming i mean how much that movie really cost to make 40 million dollars 50 million dollars and i know i understand that's a much smaller movie than a mad max movie is right but in the same way that like i think that we've you and i've been beating the drum of like look yeah i think they're doing our a 24 robocop i think something

like that but like an a 24 smaller 30 million dollar terminator milton movie, $40 million Terminator movie, right? Stay away from the $200, $300 million movies. That to me, because it is too hard now, it is too hard to get people into the movie theater. Well, and I think that's

where it goes to next, right? Because Chris, you know, I look at everything as connected. I never look at anything in a vacuum. Everything is connected. Yeah. And to me, and I think you feel that way too, and the thing is, these overpriced budgets on these films, guess who those costs bleed down to? It is the

consumer. That's why the price of movie tickets are so high is because studios are spending more, making less, the ramifications of COVID and all of that. The theater owners have to stay alive, so they have to charge a certain amount just to be able to be open so they can screen these movies in those multiple formats in all those screens. And so they have to charge a certain amount of money in order to stay alive. But it's all like everything else in this world outside of the movie theater, it is always all passed down to the consumer. We're paying more for groceries or paying more for gas,

pay more for all these things. Why? Because certain people at the top need to have their seven houses and 40 cars and make their millions of dollars way past what they should be making, or they're spending too much money on all these projects, and the company has to make it the money of somewhere. Well, how do

that? Let's squeeze the little guy or the little woman. And that's how it is going nowadays, and the theaters are the same way, and it's so frustrating, man. The students have to stop this shit once and fall. And these contractors have to stop overcharging for their shit as well. Well, but dude, they're going to be forced to now, though. That's the thing is you can't keep bleed money like this and keep greenlighting these things.

Because I do think that it, you know, if you and I are making movies and someone says to you, hey, you've got to make this movie for $40 million and when you're making a $40 million movie. And in terms of a big blockbuster, it's not a lot of money. but if someone says you've got to make it for 40, then you're going to find every way to cut corners to make it work, to put together your story, to figure it out. The good directors and good producers are going to go, let's, all right,

how do we use that 40 million, the best that we can we hire? Will that person cost too much? Okay, fine. Here's the 40, here's what it is. But the same, if you give a director and you go, now you got 200, all right. Yeah. You know what I mean? And it's like, I know, I'm going to, you know what? We've got it. Throw it over there. We got it. Yeah. Throw that there.

So-and-so wants lobster on the plane? Sure, put that on there. We got it. And it's like you don't penny pinch as much. And I think penny-pinching is what really causes great filmmaking. I agree. I mean, you always bring up Godzilla minus one. Yeah.

A more domestic example is the creator. $80 million to make that film look like that. There's no excuse. Any other film should be made for more than 100. If you can make an 80 million film look like that. And if the stars don't want to be in it, fuck you. You don't get paid. go find something else go find something else i mean that needs to be true like these actors also need to

turn down their quotes a little bit right that needs to be a part of this too that's the agent's problem that's the agent's all this kind of stuff needs to stop everybody needs to stop making as much as they're making right now turn this down if you want people to come back because eventually we're not going to need you and then you'll be what are you going to be doing then you know and same thing with creator nobody in that movie was high priced no john david was high priced no john david was Washington none of those people yeah exactly Ken Waganabe yeah yeah none of them so and they're all really good actors I'll tell you

the other the other show that I really love right now that as I'm thinking about like higher price talent that I mean I wonder how much the show really cost to make but dark matter are you watching it on Apple oh no dark matters I should definitely watch that oh Joel Edgerton right is good Jennifer Collins it's awesome it's awesome I love it I love it I don't want to tell anybody what it's about

because I feel like you'll know right away after the first episode what it's about it. I saw the trailer, the dual thing going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I love it. It's it's the first show in a while that I'm actually, I'm all caught up on it. We're waiting for Wednesday for it to drop. I haven't, I haven't had that in quite a while. But yeah, so anyway, so that's kind of where we are.

I said more people putting in the super chats. We're going to get there, I think, in a second here. We're just going to go, I think we're going to do one more, we'll do one or two more stories, but then we'll get to all these questions and keep throwing them in there, we'll be here until you guys are done with them. But let's, yeah. I do want to say, people saying that Mel Gibson being in the film would have got people in the field, you're all that fucking crazy.

No one, that there's no way people would have been paying hundreds of million dollars. No, no, but the, but what I will say about that is if, if, and they wouldn't have done this, but if they would have made a $40 million dollar Mad Max movie, um, with Mel Gibson. Now that's a different conversation. That's a different conversation. I agree with you on that. Totally. A $40 or $50 million kind of more gritty raw, old school Mad Max.

That movie has way more of an opportunity to make a profit than this movie. 100%. Tell George, this is what you got. Go to Australia. Do it Australia. Putting Mel Gibson in a $170 million movie in 2004 isn't going to make a lot of money. I mean, it might make more, a little bit more money, a little bit, but it's not going to give you a profit. smaller budgets,

smaller budgets. All right, let's see. We're going to move over to another topic here. And I'll see which one, what do we go? Oh, yeah, this is a good one.

The Paramount Skydance one. You've heard about this today, right? Of course, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. So let's talk about this. There was, it was rumored for a while, and it kept,

they kept talking about it more and more and more that it was going to happen. So Paramount and Skydance have agreed to merger terms. Paramount and Skydance have reportedly agreed to terms of a merger according to CNBC. The report indicates a Paramount Special Committee and David Ellison Skydance backed by private equity firms

Red Bird Capital and KKR has agreed to the terms with the deal awaiting sign-off from Paramount's controlling shareholder, Sherry Redstone. Once again, it will likely be announced in the coming days. It follows weeks of discussion between the two companies and seemingly rejects a competing offer from Sony and Apollo

Global Management. Once closed, Skydance and Redbird will own two-thirds of Paramount with Class B shareholders owning the remaining third of the company. The cost isn't cheap with the total value of the deal said to be at $8 billion. The deal reportedly will see Redstone received $2 billion for national amusements, which owns 77% of Paramount shares. Skydance will also buy out nearly 50% of Class B Paramount shares for $4.5 billion,

and Skydance and Redbird will contribute $1.5 billion in cash to Paramount to help reduce the debt. The deal will not require a vote from the shareholders will be part of the company, annual shareholder meeting taking place on Tuesday. The number is considerably less than the $26 billion that Apollo and Sony were offering, but Redstone favored a deal that would keep Paramount together, which is why it went for Skydance. I think this is the best case scenario, I think. Do you feel the same?

Yeah, absolutely. Because, I mean, keeping them together, I think is really important. I understand why they wanted to do that. And also, if down the road you want to sell Paramount overall, It makes it to a knock another story like Warner Brothers or whatever or have them consume Warner Brothers. It makes them more either a viable product to purchase or gives them the capital to purchase Warner Brothers, which has been a lot of the rumor going around, part of the rumors going around recently as well. So to me, this makes a lot of sense for everybody involved.

There's still some sticking points that they're going to need to hammer out with the board and what have you. But this is a good thing. And I wonder what it means for these other franchises, aka the top gun. franchise, Star Trek franchise for Paramount now, does this give them a bit more capital to move forward? Does they give them more motivation to start looking at more of these things? There are rumors about a Top Gun series set at the Top Gun School with a bunch of new aviators. So now you look at all this stuff and you go, okay, now there's possibilities here where they could use the capital to look at how to expand their IP and what have you and make them a more attractive studio

for creators and possibly for purchase down the road or to buy something. like you're so yeah i think smart move i just like the fact that it's not getting chopped off and that you and are they going to keep the old lot uh i hope so because they're supposedly on sale yeah there was rumors that they were going to like they were going to get rid of it if if sony bought it and everything too so i'm i'm glad i'm i'm glad because that's just that's historic and the same to see it go away would be would be sad and you know the the ever-changing landscape i guess but yeah i mean look this this to me seems more so of a of a better deal for the peeps.

I think instead of how if Sony would have gotten in the way that Disney got Fox and it's I think more the better. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And you know, you put the content all together and we'll see what the end result. And what does it mean for Paramount Plus too, that streaming service? Which I personally like and I

hope stays around, but we'll see if this is a good boost for them too when it goes through. John, breaking news. Okay. Twitter is officially officially allowing porn on the app now. Hell, what? Yeah.

What? It really is turning into the running man. Like, it really, it really is. It's the running man. It's official now. Like, people, someone in the Twitter said, wasn't it always? It's like, it wasn't, now you can share it. Now you can do other stuff.

Who knows? Who knows? It really, it really is. It really is end of days. You know, what are you going to do? Christ, it's not a man, Gaborah shit. So, there you go. Now, the question.

is can all the can all the porn stars and everybody else start getting verified and making money off of it? Yeah, clearly. That's probably why they made the move. Yeah. Because you couldn't monetize it before. Wow. You start sharing, you start posting this stuff. Now you can monetize on it. I mean, that whole, that's all that site's going to be now.

That site's going to be porn. It's going to be porn. Oh, God. It's going to be. So, yeah. Thanks. So there you go. All right. Let's, and I think, you know, let's get little, let's start doing questions. his truck

his truck blows up and he's like all right let's let's put porn on the on on on my what truck his cyber trucks are blowing up all over the place and now is that what happened more legal to make up the profit yeah does he does he make the self-driving cars too yeah his company does the company does he he I think he still is like 15 16% interest in in in Tesla

he's not the main things are everywhere yeah no I don't know 100% they're everywhere yeah like those I mean and I don't even think AI is not even driving them yet I went and drove a test I went in Tess drove a new Kia Sorrento, top of the line. Yeah. Because we're looking at a car and I drove it,

the prestige X or whatever. It has the self-driving feature light. And by that I mean, it reads the lanes. And so you can take your hands off the wheel, hit the button, and it senses the lanes in the road. So we drove for like five minutes without putting our hands on the wheel. And it kept us in the lane, moved us around, went down and up all around.

It was incredible. And so I'm like, I like this feature in cars. I don't like it so much in the Tesla because I've heard terrible stories of that. But maybe the other manufacturers are perfecting a bit better. So yeah. But I think those self-driving cars are, are they're not, they're not crashing as much as they were. At least I didn't hear because when I, where I'm going in New York, they were, I asked my friends, I'm like, do you guys see those self-driving cars?

Like, no, what's that? It's like, oh, you guys haven't seen those yet. And like, no, no, I haven't, we, they don't have them. I drive my kid to school. I see three or four of them each the 10 minute drive. I see them. Tesla is all over San Diego. I mean, it's like Priuses in L.A.

Teslas are all, just in my neighborhood alone, there's like 40 Tesla. It's out of control. How much they let them in there? All right, going to the questions here again, you guys. We will be here until the last one is asked. So throw them in now, if you want. And here's the first one. Mustafa Aguin, thoughts on

Zach Snyder, reteaming with So what is what are they doing? They're doing 300. Are they doing it? Yeah, the animated series or the series. Is it animated? I thought it was going to be animated. Oh, it was a TV series.

Sorry about the TV series. Is it animated or a live action? No, no, it's live actions. Okay. That's, I mean, he should revisit that world. I'd like to see what he does in that world. I would, I would love to challenge him to do a movie or a TV show without slow motion. It's like, he's, it's like the thing is, like, so, there's so many.

moments he's got that I'm so invested in in right in the middle of the moment it turns into slow motion. I'm like, what, why are we doing that? Why are we doing that? Let me ask you a question. Yeah. What the fuck is Peter Jackson's problem? What's the deal, man? You can't hide away behind the Beatles forever, dude. You've got to come out and do a movie. He's doing he's producing the Gallo movie. No, but is he directing it? I'm saying he hasn't directed a film since King Kong, right? True. Maybe. Maybe is that the last one? I don't know. I think so. Yeah. I guess he did the Hobbit movie. You know he's going to be heavily involved with that with that

column movie. Come on, it's been years, man. Get it. You're going to do it kind of together. Come on. Direct something, man. That's all I'm saying. Fair enough.

All right. So next question again from Mustafa. Anticipation for Stuckman's horror movie. Can you interview him around release time? Also, any chances for future collabs with Johns or Flickinger? Listen, as far as it's, it's such an old school, old school. crew, all those guys. And we did so many things together when we were first like 2010 and like 2013, we did tons of stuff together. Um, and I give stuck in all the props in the world for

for being able to get that movie off the ground and be able to get it picked up. And if he's doing press, yeah, why not? That'd be great. Uh, if, if that's the case. And it, and it says nothing to do with whether it's him or anybody else. I never have any anticipation for horror movies. and so that's just me I have I I you know I can't wait to see what he does and I wish him success and as far as a Johns or Flickinger

anytime it's just a matter of you know schedules yeah yeah so I was running into Johns it's always a fun time last time my son was in Vegas yeah for a cinema con he's a whirlwind that guy yeah he is Mike Joyce it's kind of funny seeing all the people in the comments

still asking about why I'm moving even though he said why multiple times. Well, I mean, look, to be fair, Mike, Mike Joyce is like the ultimate supporter, right? He's here in every stream. So Mike, Mike's caught up. He knows what's going on. There's some people that sometimes you see like a headline and you tune in. And then it's the first time you're hearing about it, right? I mean, it just shows you, John, I have no freaking idea of this freaking algorithm. How can you say that when you have almost 150,000 subscribers? I'm struggling at barely breaking 35 and you're going to tell me you have no idea how the algorithm works. That can't be true. The last month.

What do I have to aspire to if you don't know? The last month, a month and a half, and I talked to Greg Alba about this. I was talking to you. I had Skype calls with a few creators. Everybody has seen their views and everything else dip by like 45, 50%, because the way, I said this, the way it used to work was you would have, like, if someone like the John Roca video, then the next time they tune into the show, your show, or turn on YouTube. And so it started to suggest John Roca material. Now, they suggest channels that are similar to yours. Yeah.

Right. So what I was like my UAP channel, we have 25,000 subscribers and the views are pretty consistent. And I think it's because of other UFO channels are recommending our channel. Right. I posted the video on Friday of me, Roxy and Brett about why New York. And I did that because we're supposed to release on Thursday. and instead we released on Friday and I did that knowing I'm like all right well this will be the one episode I just wanted to talk to everybody and it'll do five to seven thousand views and it did like 22,000

nice and I'm like yeah but I was like why what was it inside of that that had people filtering that around so it went into subscription boxes because yeah it's it's it I'm getting on a phone call with somebody soon to learn a little bit more about it but anyway next one. One here is Serge sauce. No questions. Just showing support. Thank you, Serge. Mike Joyce coming back in.

You and Roker should have a new bet about how long you'll still be getting questions about the move. I think John will probably be on the same page about that. Christian will lie about the bet again like he did with a billion dollars. You know what's so stupid about that is that the beauty of that is you can say that, but literally you can have someone send you the footage to where you can see the bet. So that doesn't work. if it was if it was if it was a you and if you and i were hammered one night at some bar and we both had an idea of what we both said then that would be fair to say no no no that was after your third shot of yager and you clearly said this and i'm like

no no no no like well i wish we would have recorded it was recorded it was literally recorded someone can show you the footage i don't know with a i i don't trust that anything is short um joey pedrus in your What's the best comedy special of all time? Hey, Murphy's Delirious. George Carlin at Carnegie. Yeah, I'd have to say Eddie Murphy Delirious is definitely in the top, top three. I love Delirious. Because that just got me into stand-up.

But I mean, Chris Rocks was it bigger and blacker. That's, that's untouchable, man. That's one of the most untouchables. And I would say, for what it's worth, Chappelle's stand-up is one of my favorites for what it's worth. So, yeah. Okay. Mad Sinister Macal. You ever going to have Johns or Stuckman?

The go-to-movie talk is. What franchises would you like cross-over on? Well, those guys, I mean, you got to remember. They cover, and especially stuck, well, stuck me not as much anymore, but he used to cover everything, right? That's when when Schmo's when was really in our peak, Ellis and I would see five to six movies a week. We covered everything. We covered everything. And now I don't cover everything.

I cover the things that I'm going to go, okay, I can get out to the theater and see that. I think my audience cares about me saying it because it again, we, here's, I'm very curious on Wednesday. I, what I'm going to predict, and we'll see, I predict that the bad boys out of the theater reaction does decent. Yeah. Right. I think the watchers one is not going to do very well.

Yeah. I still want to see the movie and I'm, and I'm curious. So I'm going to, I'm going to do it. Um, in where I know the Deadpool one will do well. Yeah. You know that, um, you know, the, and, and there's also reason to do spoiler

reviews or other reviews for them because if you feel like the audience is watching his reason to do it but Johns covers everything man John's been at this for I mean now he's been I think he started after us but he but he's been consistent since 2010 I think you know what's incredible John's

there isn't much like there's not a lot of frills or extra stuff or anything John just turns the red screen on stands in front of it does this thing whoever edits the video edits the video if it ain't broke and that's amazing That's amazing. Everyone's trying to reinvent and John's just completely doing it his way because it's personality.

It's what's selling. I always, I always broke his chops about how he never sold an awesome tacular shirt is beyond me. That's true. That's a great point. Tom Hanks. Is this poor box office a bad omen for next year's stacked lineup? Lots of exciting movies coming out that I'm worried now could suffer.

Not necessarily. I do think that there's going to be a lot of movies next year out that you think are going to do really well. that don't, but I think because there's so many movies kind of like big movies and movies that seem like people are going to be interested in, the box office is going to be pretty damn big. It's just, it's an idea of like our people are actually going to go back to the movies. Right. Right. And yeah, we have to start adjusting our expectations for movie going because we've seen the numbers. We've seen people being surveyed and whatever and it's the numbers are down. So the people are less interested and you're making them more available quickly. It just, it's not going to lead to a lot of people going to. back to the theater. But if these are great movies with well-known IPs and franchises, I think that gives them a leg up. Definitely. Marvel has like four movies coming up.

So we'll see. If Blade's probably going to be pushed. So I don't think that's going to be one of the ones. Well, he's three. Yeah. For sure. Captain America, Fantastic Four. Thunderbolts.

And then with the potential of four. Mike Joyce, idea for Star Wars show, the bear with Dexter Jetser. Yeah. You see his, you see his shop. Sure. Renée Reyes. Blue Milk, Chef. What's good about the accolade is that there are no expectations.

That's true. No characters that we know and love. Timeline is new, so it could work. We shall see. I agree with that. I agree with that. I don't know if I agree with that because people have expectations of Sith and Jedi and what they're supposed to do.

I think people are going to come in with those expectations. But other than that. Yeah, I mean, lore and things of that and ever, whether the Sith can be absolutely. There's always going to be some kind, but I think his point is valid where it comes to, you know, Obi-Wan and Vader. people wanted that show when you have expectations of it and then you give us a side character like come on

you know like asoka with rebels and ezra there are expectations for it last Jedi with luke and there are expectations for it so um yeah i think it's a good point it's a really good point uh okay let's see Darth Vader's burnt asshole the towards is it the hate or the i think the towards the accolades yeah the promise of the show was an exploration of the Sith and how they impleted the republic Kita Mundi thought extinct. Let the show explain it. They're totally aware of that line. Okay, so you hate towards it.

Yeah, I mean, that's what I was saying before, is that I do think that there are people who are just, it doesn't matter. Yeah. And in the same way that even, like, that's why I talked about the middle before, because then there's, there's no world.

There's no, and two, on both sides, there's no world that someone who was expecting to just love it, love it, is going to, if they didn't like it. Like,

I'll use my good buddy PLD, who's in the chat, right now. Is he? Hey. PLD says it. He just, he wants to love everything. He just wants to love. I don't think there is a world, even if PLD was really disappointed and didn't like it, that he would ever say, I hated that. I just don't think he has it in them to say it about Star Wars. And that's, and God bless his soul for it. But in the same way that these people who hated all the damn time, that if they loved it, there's no world where they're going to go, you guys are kind of like this one a lot. There's no world they're going to do that because they lose half their audience.

Yeah, PLD is the same way with wrestling. I mean, he's still trying to defend the Shockmaster and Rhonda Rousey. So, you know, you know, really? He doesn't like the Shockness. Who in the world is defending the Shockmaster? Oh, my God. Have you seen Haku? You've got to see the clip of Haku's seeing the Shockmaster.

He had never seen it before. Oh, really? On a recent episode of Dark Side of the Ring, they show him the video. Like, he's like Jordan looking on the iPad. He's looking on the iPad watching it. If you've never seen Haku lose it laughing, It is a joyful, joyful thing to watch. I'm going to watch it.

I got to watch it. Especially knowing how everybody talks about, he's like the toughest guy of all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I think that Darth Vader's burnt Aho's right. That there's a lot there's a lot there. And if they, if they, that's what I said about that line. If they explain that line, I'm good.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. But you have to also, that was the side where, because I saw Frank Janish, who was at the show, by the way, too the other day, on your show. talking about, ah, it's canon, they don't care, who cares? You can't have that. You can't have that mentality. You can't, you can't have the mentality.

You have to have the mentality of, okay, this is what they set up. They're going to keep to that, but they'll explain it. I don't know if they're going to explain it. They don't. I'm like, wait a minute. What happened there? They didn't even, they just kind of brushed right past that. So, well, they do it in another, in a previous, in the way that they did, just, I guess,

for people who didn't watch Bad Batch earmuffs, everyone was talking about how, like, Assage Ventress. Right. Right. Oh, they're going to explain it. They're going to explain it. They don't explain it at all. She shows up in one episode.

She's not in it at all. And they're like, oh, because Flolone doesn't give a shit about the books. He doesn't care about the books at all because he doesn't. And he's not wrong in the fact that most people didn't read all faction is going to care about it. And so he's like, let those people, bitch, who cares? It's not going to matter. Would put her in there. And that's exactly what happened.

But it does matter. Especially you're going to make people buy books and video games off of that. and then not stick to it. Like, because, and PLD, I love you, but he was the first one to defend that. He's like, no, no, no, this is what they said. I don't give your shit. What they said.

And then I watched the episode. She shows up and then she doesn't mention anything about that book. And that book was awesome. And it completely negated that whole book. What's going on? Yeah. So he follows it up. Yeah, the hate towards Akulite, Super Chans.

Thank you very much. All right. So see more of these are coming in. There's way more coming in. So here's. The next one, Mad Sinister Macau. My family keeps telling me, I talk about movies too much. How dare they? Do you get crap personally being movie fanatics?

All my family watches is crap Walton's. No, I don't, I guess because, you know, I've been doing this for so long. People know it's my, it's what I do. So no. Yeah, that's, that's lame. No, the lady outlaw is not the biggest fan of movies. So I can't really talk about movies with her that much. But, but no, she never gives me crap for liking movies.

It is. It's harder to, I mean, you do wish like your significant other say I'm the same way as they were like, I see this movie and my wife will go, she goes, L-I-C, like I care. Like I care. Sweet, thanks, honey. She goes TLW, too long didn't watch. That's what she does. Epsilon Audio. Hey, guys, finally support the show, apparently. Thank you. My question is about X-Men movies, solo movies, the MCU. What characters do you need to have a solo movie? For me, it's got to be Gamut, Rogue Storm. Well, I think the obvious is Wolverine. If you're going to set up, if you're going to set up the new Wolverine, Magneto, I'd like to see have his own movie. And then either rogue or Storm, I think it would be a good one. Yeah, I mean, please don't invoke the name of Gambit. We already did that dance for years with Channing Tatum. It's never going to happen. But certainly rogue and storm, and especially Storm.

I think because, listen, I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. I never felt Hallie Berry was that greatest storm. I always wanted Angela Bassett. She'd have been awesome. Storm we got an X-Men 97, I thought was excellent. So Storm, I think, is the perfect time. And I can't remember the actress who played her in the recent X-Men movies, the young actress.

But I think it's time to get a Storm movie with a very strong black actress in her prime to play that character and really bring it to life. And then connect it to Black Panther, which would be fun. Okay. Carlton Rutter. London Calling will watch on replay. Thank you. two pennies worth on Star Wars series as I absolutely adored and or so much I read the rogue one novel after yeah I mean I that show is to me yeah that's that is that should be the what everyone is striving for as far as writing goes yeah not as far as tone and everything you can't make everything that that's serious and that dark but but as far as serious as what you want to you want to be taken serious as a brand that's what they need to be going for and and I agree with you John there's there's certainly going for that more in this show that we're

view of shows. Yeah. Yeah. Um, okay, let's see next next one here too. And thank you for everybody who's been donating and someone said that they just got Mac Weldon. Thank you. So that also nice. Um, okay, love that the Mac Weldon is really is, are you going to you got you, promise me you'll go to that site and browse around. I'll browse around, but you know, I'm on a budget, buddy. I'm on a, I got about to, I'm about to buy a car. I'm on a budget, but we'll see. You got a nice shirt while you're driving the car. Yeah. Jason Ashloft. Thanks for all you guys do. I'm super excited for Ackleite and the Ray movie. Thanks for keeping my spirits up during

a hard breakup. I'm sorry, man. I just went through it. Do you guys matter more than you know? That's very nice and I always, you know, I do forget that, you know, and then when people will write stuff and say how much streams like this and shows that we've done in the past, meant a lot to them. I mean, so Dennis, or somebody had posted

a picture of like an old collider moment and they had all these really sweet kind of memories coming back and people responding to them and stuff too. So Pete Parker 2288 Do you think if they brought Gibson back And called it men Max would have done better Also can I get your thoughts on a Northwest

Controvers? What's the Northwest controversy? You didn't see the Lion King live on Had the Hollywood Bowl. Oh, is that the Kanye thing? Yeah, King Kardashian and Kanye because apparently Kim paid The rumor is that she paid the casting director to put Northwest in that role as young Simba

And they were terrible. So Galaxy Geeks and one of our, our Patreon streams told me about it. I would have never known about that and he told me about it, Luke. So, um, I, I, whatever. I think that someone had said at one point, do you think that it's going to hurt the Mufasa box office?

No. What? No, it's not going to hear the Pufasa box office. No, not even a little bit. But, um, but this is, um, but yeah,

it's a, it doesn't surprise me that a Kardashian would, would do that. It's almost like built into their MO that they would do that. But I, that's so I don't. The answer is, what do I think about it? I don't care.

And as far as the Man Max, we talked about it. It would have done better if it was a lower budget movie. Yes. As far as profit, yes. Yeah. Yeah. But do you care about that Northwest thing? Only that it's just further proof that I think the Kardashians are a bunch of the most vapid, unnecessary individuals on the planet.

And when they have their moments to push their agendas, they'll do that. Like Kim Kardashian is now going to be on actors on actors for a variety. Are you kidding me? You have to actually be an act. You have to actually be able to be good. She's terrible in that show. Talk about acting. Yeah, it's nonsense.

She's a horrible actress. And so to me, she's funny on SNL, but that's pre-rescripted, all the written and, you know, you only have to be somewhat good to be good on that show. The fact that they have her be asking questions, it just shows this power and that it's frustrating. And there's a bunch of young, talented people

that could have done that role at the Hollywood Bowl Live. It would have been great, but she drew her weight around. And I think that's nonsense. Fair enough. Skeleton, Strange, new roles number one. Mr. Roka, Star Trek Discovery finally ended last

week. To me, the show is enjoyable as grocery store closing people. That's fine in the absence of anything else. What's your overall take of the series? Here's my take on the series. It is absolutely, how can you say this? It's like you have an intelligent student, but they

just can't seem to grasp the thing that you tried to teach them. And you read their papers, and they get close, but they never quite grasp it. And I watching discovery has felt the same way it i mean strange new worlds is so good that it makes discovery look even worse when you look at it how it doesn't really reflect strong star trek so it's unfortunate it wasn't the best and uh i think in the end it it'll have its people who love it but it's not

going to be one of these great star trek shows that everyone looks back on it's way too uneven and way too out there i think so yeah that's my overall thoughts all right bedo power hey guys just wanted to say Haley Madrid for roca cheers. Right here right here. Right here. Right here, bro. Talking about Madrid, winning the champions league bastards. Sure. Pete Parker 2288.

What would be your dream Star Wars show, Old Republic? Yes, I would love to that. I would love to see, well, two things. I would love to see a mini series based on the Darth Bain novels. Ooh. True Garpitian. And I would love to see an adaptation for like six seasons off the, off the Knights of their Republic game.

Why don't we do Calcastas? What's wrong with that? Why don't we just open that door? I mean, people aren't. They were working on that. Yeah. Do that. They actually work.

I don't know if they still are anymore, but they're working on it. Do that. Yeah. Let's see. This is Artem Shachramanian. Just because Ikegolite is not part of episode one to nine timeline. I am on board.

No rebels, no empire. What a novel idea. Finally, I think that that's a lot of what people, but I think, not giving away too much. And again, with two episodes in, this could change.

Sure. I don't think that within the first two episodes, though, it just definitively shows this is such a different time. Minus like a bunch of Jedi running around, but that's really, that's really it. It doesn't, it doesn't feel like, it feels like it could take place in any time period, doesn't it, so far?

Yes, I would agree with that. Yeah. Well, I didn't hear this. Did you hear this? Any L. Rensha, any truth to the rumor that the Ray move, movies canceled. I have no interest in it personally. I would rather see Obi-Wan season two or Knights of Republic Armando movie. Are you hearing anything on that? I've heard a lot of rumors of the last few weeks of the Ray movie becoming many

number of things possibly being canceled that there is. Yeah. And that the that the Sean Levy one might take its spot or there are rumors that they might combine them or rumors that you know that the the the the the the backlash from the announcement of the ray movie and charm an oboeh and the comment she made may have led to people feeling a little blah blah but it's all just stuff in the air man until they make an announcement and we've seen before how some of that stuff is actually leads to a truthful announcement and some of this stuff is way overblown and is not true at all so to me i'm more like just waiting around and it would suck because i love daisy ridley as ray and i will fight to the death over that and i was excited to

her back. I thought the Horowitz interview was so great with her. And so I hope this is not true. And I hope they're just like people just want to see this so they start rumors. They want to see it fail so they start rumors. Paying her so much money though. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I haven't heard that. So it's

interesting. What's Jeff's take on that? I don't know. I haven't talked in a bit about the Ray movie. So I'm not sure what his most recent knowledge on it is. There you go. There's your topic to talk about on the hot mic. Probably. Speaking of way, before we go on any closer, why don't you give a, give a, what's going on in your channel?

What's going on with the hot mic? Let us know. Yeah, guys, please, I'd love for you all to come over to my channel and subscribe to the channel. You know, the Outlaw Nation there, just YouTube.com slash John Roka says. We really appreciate it. Really trying to get to 50,000 subscribers. We have great content there with the hot mic with me and Jeff Snyder every week, talking about the big sizzling issues in entertainment. The geek buddies and I having a lot of,

on breaking down all the geek entertainment news going on the Jedi way we're definitely going to have reviews laura kevin smetts and i on the acolyte coming up real soon and all my reactions and reviews and possibly the new show spill the tequila with winston a marshal we did a dry run for us a first episode a week and a half ago which you all can watch now and we're negotiating how we're going to make that show happen so you know there's a lot of stuff going on on the channel would love to have you come aboard there at uh on youtube the outlaw nation just type in my name or the outlaw nation or youtube dot com slash job roca says get me to 50,000 subscribers come on guys you can do it there you go all right so what's this all about Al Wrencha thought some kill switch being added to cars what's

that I don't know is that oh is that so they can't you can't carjack them I think that's what it is I don't know you hit the switch and the car can't be moved oh I don't know if about it Kiki and Luca why doesn't Disney put these shows in theaters could make tens of millions on them. I think it just depends on the marketing that goes behind it too, is how much will you do, how much money will you actually make if you don't put the marketing in it? So what I do think will eventually happen if theater chains. I don't think theaters will ever go out of business, but I think theater chains like AMC and Regal might be in trouble. And I think studios will eventually have their own theaters and their own chains and there'll be Disney theaters, there'll be Sony theaters,

of all these theaters and then if they have their own theaters then why wouldn't you screen your shows yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah al capitan right yeah oh yeah now al capitan then the netflix has their own theaters yeah yeah yeah death uh darth archie love the show thank you what's your favorite film vehicle chase for me it's raiders rats on the move thank you gonna miss you always enjoyed dumping my peep back in europe so did i saw okay good so so so darth archie was created because of my story that's amazing. I was wondering, because I was like, there's no way that's coincidental that that dog, Garth's freaking pissing on the back. Archie, his, oh, he's Archie. Is that, is that food? Why, why would it be food? Why is

Archie pissing on the food? So, Raiders is a good one. I'll tell you, the one that pops in the mind does, I don't know if it's my favorite, but the, the firstborn identity, Archase is pretty good. Oh, yeah, that was great. That's perfect, it pops to my mind. I just recently watched Fury Road again, so I would have to put that up there in the top two or three, yeah, for sure. Okay. Pete Parker,

Roka-Sangis says he's too old for this nother movie, but George Miller is 79, and he made the best action movie I've seen in a long time. I love you, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's a good point.

And how to do it the box office? So, no, come on. But the movie, but you like the movie, though. That's not,

that's not the argument, that's not the argument, though. The argument is, can he, can you said from Scorset, him being able to do it, would he be able to still get that kind of flavor behind it?

You don't think he would. Do you still feel the same way? Yeah, I do still feel the same way because he's too old to do the young Sinatra. I just think he's too old to do it. That's all. And DiCaprio is not the choice. No way. I just don't see that at all.

All right. The Dart double 05. Mabab suddenly signed for Real Madrid. Thoughts, whatever that. That's a. Killing Mbapap, former PSG strikers signing for Rial Madrid. It's not Mabap. in the works. No, he's French. So of course, it's different.

In Bapé, hello. Kenneth Colton, what's up, man? June is bringing the Peak House of the Dragon season two, the Acolyte, the Boys, season four, Mayer, King's, Season 3rd, the Bear, season 3 plus. So much others out like Dark Matter on Apple Plus, that's right. And a damn right, that show, dark matter. Is that what I said before? I said Dark Matter, right? Yeah, you said Dark Matter. That's, that's, that show is phenomenal. Dude, June is, and that's not even covering the sports. I know. A finals, Stanley Cup finals. We've got the Euro championship and we've got the Copa America happening.

So June is stacked, man, stacked with stuff. So yeah. It is. Yeah, it's a big one. Cooley, hi, what's up, man? Happy few people. The move, Roker's my guy. Love the Caitlin Clark, Park tweets, bro.

Oh, thank you. The bad boy Saturday. Heard it's dope. Good. I hope it is. The last one was pretty good. I mean, I love that Michael Bay is not directing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And these guys may be directing the new Spider-Man for the rumor came out last week that they might be looking at these guys. Interesting. Interesting. But yeah, I'm curious to see how it comes out. Jim 1, I think the Accolite 2, excuse me, I think the Accolade has two weeks to win back to the Star Wars audience. If it's not great, it could get sidelined by the Boys and House of the Dragon. That's not untrue. Yeah. Yeah.

It's excellent point. And what it is is that it not only, it's got a lot of different things to do within that time, right? It's got to get the Star Wars, releasing two episodes, Night 1 is a very smart move. And then to see how episode three is, to see, do you care enough about the story? Like I said earlier, even though I'm not like, all the show's amazing, I think it's fine. I am interested to see where it goes. I am curious to keep watching. And that's what you got to do.

Like, if it was, if I only have the first two episodes for screeners and they're like, oh, you've got to watch three to see where it goes. Would I tune in? Yes, I would. Because I'm curious to see where it goes, regardless of my criticism. But you have to not just get that Star Wars audience back to on. you got to get new people in, especially if they're going up against all these other shows. Yeah, I mean, this could be a Furiosa, the Fogai situation where, like, people overall who've seen it and our critics liked it, but the public has little to no interest or only medium-sized interest in it.

And what do you do at that point of your Star Wars if this show comes out and you're proud of it and you know it's good, but it doesn't catch on with the audience? I mean, what is your reaction? What do you take from that? How do you readjust your approach to these shows? So I think this acolyte is going to be an interesting litmus test for where Star Wars is right now in terms of the TV side of things. 100%. All right. So Blake Gilbert, have you guys seen the new Vigo Mortensen's new Western movie that he wrote and directed the Dead Dawn Hunt?

Did you see it? Not yet. I'm seeing it this week. I'm definitely going to see it this week. I've got to see a Western for God's it. I feel like this guy only shows up when you're on the show. What funnel? Quite the spectrum between Andor and Bobavet, hoping it's great.

Yeah, I mean, look, that's what I said. I'm very curious to see what the middle thinks of this of this show. Dan Reynolds. No, excuse me, not even close. Don Ronaldo, McWhiskey. I love McWith. F.U. Books. Yeah, fair enough.

So it comes down to. Let's see. As we keep going, we keep going, we got more here. And we got Jim 1 who says, will George R.R. Martin's next book come out before Blaine? Maybe so. They both could push back so much. Good Lord.

I don't I hate when he comes out and has a comment about anything the every second you spend not writing the book and commenting on something else frustrates the hell out of me so stop it George mirror domains should skeletor be cgir or makeup for new hemen i think majority makeup with a little cgai to help yeah i agree with that i think that's the way to go agreed carlton runner god damn guys i managed to catch up here's another super check great to see thank you so much carl great to see john looking refreshed from his holiday trust how john had a good time it did a good time right it was a good time it was a nice to be by the pool yeah out there by the beach it was a really good time and i needed it which one's for you john Jay West, F. Mary, kill.

Deadpool, Wolverine, Blade, beyond the Spider-verse part two. Well, I kill Blade, because there's so much drama behind it. Yeah. I would absolutely marry Beyond the Spider-Verse part two, because that's consistently great. And I would absolutely F. Deadpool-Wurban,

because I don't know what's going to happen, especially if you get that popcorn bucket involved. Same, same answer. Great answer. Great answer. Okay. Now, Bobby Jackson. What's up, Bobby?

Hey, guys, the real question is, do you trust current Lucas from the group, do a good mini series of Darth Bainer series based on the old republic games i don't trust poloni on it because i know he's not a big fan of the old republic night so no i wouldn't trust him to but i would trust them to bring in if they brought somebody in who really got it depending on who the showrunner is because remember they brought i mean like if they can get somebody in in the way that they got uh gilroy in to do it if they have the material if they had the actual writing behind it i would trust

them to do, you know, like someone who adapt group group Carpetian's novels, but yeah, it would be, it would, I would be skeptical, no doubt. I love it. Yeah. Okay, back to McWhiskey. Hey. How about that purple light whip? I thought it looked cool. What people don't understand about that though, too.

I saw people going, well, they're putting whips in Star Wars now? That's like from like old school. I think like, yeah, yeah. It's in the books, y'all. It's in the books, right? I know after books, but it's in the books. Yeah, it's, I mean, as long, It wasn't something that was just created for this.

Chris Kossin, idea for a Star Wars film, a group of Imperials trying to assassinate Palpatine, much like the Valkyrie film with Tom Cruise. What that interests you? It's the same answer. It depends on who's directing it, who's writing it. What's the trail? Like, what's the tone?

It's like, to me, this is where, like, the tone of Andor and Empire Strikes Back are like, that's like my golden tone of Star Wars, right? The tone of Ackleit kind of falls in between, of that so far in the first two episodes. It falls like under it. And as where the tone of Obi-1 is farther down,

the tone of Osoka is farther down. And I think Mandalorians right there, you know, right around hovering, hovering. So if they did something like that, it would be great. Yeah. Yeah. Let's see.

Kingsport. King's Port Cal is everything okay with Roxy now. She was tripping on Friday. Yeah, I know it was funny. He's full of it. Well, she showed up. She's going to argue to death with me on this, but like she showed up on,

and I know Rock, I've known Roxy now for 10 plus years. Roxy show up some times and she's like, and when she's just, hey, how's it going? I'll go, are you doing okay? I was like, is anything wrong? She said, no, I'm good. She was looking for some shit on, on, on, she came in ready to fight. She says no.

She's like, she blames it on me. And we talked about it on the show. And she, we're going back and forth. I'm telling you, I'm making, I wasn't mad of you. And then she showed, she was absolutely wonderful on the show on Friday when she came. Yeah, her took great pictures. Yeah, yeah. Great pictures.

She came up. She gave me a big hug. She was super supporter. We hung out, but we took pictures. She was the best. She was the best. But I was just like, you're in bad mood? She's like, no, you're projecting.

It was a really funny bit. It was very old school. And I think maybe that's one of the reasons I got people commenting on it. Maybe that's why people were turning into that episode. I don't know. Well, maybe she doesn't deal with breakups well. And now you're leaving to New York. And I don't mean breakups, obviously.

I don't mean. She's, she has said as much. Right. She has to pick the fight in order to make the thing break. She won't agree with that. part of it, but she definitely has been pretty open that she's not happy about it. Donnie, Saint-Pierre, do you think George Lucas has already been making movies for his friends like he said he would have retired? Nah, he's sitting on a better cash eating spaghetti. Don't bother me, man.

Yeah, he's, he's going to do anything. He's done enough. He's okay. Cooley High again. Hey, bring back Kate and Brett show. Love him. Nobody was watching it, man. Yeah. Oh, really? Okay. Artem Shackerman. John, next time Christian loses a bet, make him watch a soccer man. I got to see it. If I got to watch it in in person, then it's an easy bet for me. It's very exciting in person. Very exciting.

LAFC, I'll take you that. Exciting in person. I don't mind that. It's on TV that I'm going to wind up just like, falling asleep. Okay. Skeleton's changing world's number of fin. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Vader have a fantastic clash at the end of Kenobi. That clash and Kenobi's apology to Anakin somewhat redeem the series. What say you?

Eh, it may, Obi-1 is the worst. It made Obi-1, one of the worst. the worst Jedi of all time. I wouldn't say redeem the series. I enjoyed that. Actually, it's really funny. I watched this the other day while I was in Mexico because I just had a date. I just wanted to watch stuff that

I hadn't watched a while. I watched the eight-minute sequence in 4K, I think that up on YouTube. It was excellent, just excellent, the way it was choreographed. But I think Christian's right. The character beats are kind of not as strong as they should have been. And here's the truth.

And people don't want to say this. It was so happy Hayden was back. Hayden was barely in that show. And so that tells you that they don't 100% have the strongest confidence in Hayden as a performer as an actor. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I don't think

that's true. I thought it was great in As Soka though. That was a fucking awesome. Right. And I think they had a lot of confidence in there. I think that I don't think it was true about the confidence here. I think it was because they would, as I said, it has nothing to do with the actress or the character alone in

Reva. That character should have been nowhere near the Obi-Wy-Wy one. I see what you're saying. Put her in a different show. Yeah. Because by saying she was the one who knew it was Anakin, and they gave her all these beats that she, it's like, why are you giving her, you're setting this poor woman up to fail in so many different ways.

And they didn't even do enough with Anakin that they could have done a lot more. That whole show could have been about, half the show could have been about young Anakin and Obi-Wan. Now he's going to potentially do a live action Clone Wars miniseries. You should have just done that in Obi-Wan. Good point in the beginning. And then at the end of the show in this fight, he's got him dead to rights again.

And you know that you let him, you thought you killed him off last time. You were sent there to kill him. Right, right. And you didn't. You thought you burnt him up on fire. He's dead. And then you found that he's alive again,

and you got him beat again, and you walk away again. You're an idiot. You're a full idiot. Like the one, it's the same kind of Asoka moment with the force thing. Have a tie fighter come in at that moment, blows up a thing right in the middle of him.

He can't reach him. Bader escapes by the skin of his teeth. Skin of his teeth. And it's one simple moment. Sequel to Dumb Money says A Soul. Because Roaring Kitty, Keith Gill just broke their silence after three years. I'm like, God, the Cahoney's on this man. One in 180 million on GME.

I love that dumb money movie. It was such a good movie, dude. I love that movie. I saw it on recently on TV, but it was great. I was so mad that didn't do well. I thought Dana was really good in that. Really good, really good. I don't know if they'll do a sequel.

Who knows? I wonder how it did on streaming. Louis Arnetta. I've read Heat 2 and it's good. The book starts with Hannah is after Chris, but the book also has flashbacks of young McCauley and Hannah, your thoughts of casting. I think, didn't he say that is Hemsworth?

The rumor is Adam Driver and Austin Butler. That's the rumor. Yeah. Adam Butler is as De Niro? No, yeah, driver is De Niro, I think, and then Austin as the young Kilmer, which I kind of like that I could see. But a, I mean, De Niro's like, what, 510? Yeah. And I'm driving, like 6'4.

What hell's that all about? That's sadcasting. Mike Rich, what is, why is the OG trilogy tone so hard to recreate? I think because they're so set on not recreating it that they, that's what happens. They don't, we have to original. Like, even in, this is the thing. and I mentioned earlier how much I love the accolite music. Yeah, yeah.

This isn't an acolyte problem as much as it's a Star Wars problem. They try so hard to just stay away from Star Wars music. Every James Bond movie has the James Bond theme. But the Star Wars, some of the old school Jedi theme, the Force theme, those things. Let it play. You can have your own theme, but let it be familiar. Kevin Kiner does it masterfully. Oh, yeah, of course.

Masterful. Yeah. Masterful. The Osok's score was the best thing that whole damn series. and they don't do it. So they try to stay away from it and it's stupid. Chris Cawson, when do you think the Knights of the Republic video game remake will be released? I've stopped thinking about it.

I know if it's in development right now, but I hope it comes to fruition. Me too. I love you, Christian, best wishes. Thank you, Chris. I just stopped thinking about it because it's just such a tease at this moment that I don't know how realistic it is that it's ever going to happen. Okay. Kenneth Colton, was your last stand-up at the comedy store recorded and put up on Patreon? It was not. I mean, my friend recorded it for me, but I don't, I mean, I might take a couple of bits and put it up on YouTube or Patreon, whatever, too.

But no, it wasn't. And then next time Roka loses a bet, make him do a five minutes. He's already done. Roker's done. I would happily do a five minutes. Yeah, Roker's not. He never asks me. Chris never asks me.

I asked you to do it. You were in Mexico. Nerds engaged. We must have been drinking Yeager that back. We were. We were. See, that one, that one I can't find the videotape for for some reason. Well, the times changed when the movie is complete.

loving the morning shows, but maybe an earlier show. So a certain other morning show doesn't cannibalize the audience. Thanks, keep up the great work. I'm not trying to compete with anybody. Yeah. Cannibalize it. You come by and go watch the replay later. I can't, I mean, you got earlier, this, this is earlier right now.

Because what I will say is that we might, we might get it a little earlier in the future. We might, because I think, because John wakes up fairly early. Yeah. And I'll be on. Actually, it's funny, as you say this, I'm going to answer your question. We're like, that's, let me re-answer that question. Okay. Yes, it's going to be your show.

Because John's, if John's up at eight, and I'm like, hey, you, eight o'clock, your time, that'll be at 11 my time. Yeah. So it will be, it will be a little earlier. Yeah. It works out for me because I have the rest of the day to plan other videos or other content.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love it. Bobby. Love Bobby. Uh, all cut up on dark matter. Huh? Yes, I am. So what I'm hearing is you push your gun.

Yep, off a cliff for dark matter. Yep. There's not wrong. I actually just saw, I actually just saw. I actually just watched an episode of Shogun last night. Oh, finally. Well, yeah, I'm like four episodes in. Good.

I'm going to miss you. But now I have an excuse to go to New York. Take care of you. Absolutely, Bobby, you should absolutely come out. We're doing, like I said, we're going to do, as I mentioned earlier, Dan Merrill and I are doing a show on the 21st in New York. The link is, it's pinned to the top comment here. Gandalf, I like that.

Christian, how about trying out UAP Tuesday live streams after the move? I've considered it. I've considered doing a couple of live streams on the down to earth. channel so we'll see um we'll see how that plays out but it's it's it's we're thinking about it met bull star wars was loved and treated like a religion for 40 years so it's more like an ugly divorce don't think you guys will find a large middle i i don't think you're wrong i don't think you're wrong i just wish that there but you know the thing is it's not that we won't find a large middle the large middle just is just oblivious too there are people who love star wars haven't paid

attention to any of this stuff like people we grew up with and we like yeah i look the star was Hey, have you paid attention to this? No, not really. Oh, there's a new show. That's cool. You know, it's like the middle's out there. They're just not paying attention to show. The middle is the largest part of the Star Wars fandom.

I don't care what anybody says. The lovers are the haters. The middle is the largest part. It's just they don't, they don't be sitting around on YouTube all the time. So you're not going to see them being represented quite in the same way. It's the truth. I think you both kind of making the same point there, but I think you're 100% right. The Patterson cut of Obi-Wan is much better.

The reason he doesn't kill Vader is because he hears Quigon say he is the chosen one. Yeah. I mean, that would. that would be that would be a reason why at least there was a reason behind it um okay two more left then we're done yeah i gotta go piss come on we're done chris cossin did you hear that george miller said he would love to direct a justice league film to james gun i would be down for that look there is nothing what the box office is his movies are intense they are great movie wonderful yeah yeah yeah yeah um he was gonna do one a few years ago and then it never panned out so it could be fun

to see him doing it one for justly it'll be great. Who wouldn't want to do it? Artem again. Why do you think Lucasfilm keeps making scenes like Riva going after Luke? Viewers know exactly what happens. No tension, no interest. What is the point? Bad writing. Bad writing. In the same way that the Benny Hill scene with flee chasing Leah. Leah, Leah, who's Leah? Chasing Princess Leia. Yeah, it's just bad writing in the same way. All these kind of things. That's what I meant. Like getting into trying to bring in writers, bring in some writers from House of the Dragon, bring in some writers from like these really solid shows and and get them in a room. Yeah, look at the Harry Potter series.

They're bringing in writers from like succession. Like that is that's wrong. Make quality television. Yeah, yeah. And it's like they answer your question. Why they keep doing it? It's just bad writing. Like everything we just talked about with that Obi-1,

it's all these great moments in this idea. That show, that Obi-1 show could have been so damn dark. 100% agree with you. This is actually the last one. Haskell. That's cool. First met Mark, Schnepp and the crew and John. in 2017 at the

fight or meet and greet. I got Schnepp, drunk of the bar before the comedy show both them did five minutes. That's awesome. I was great. All right. So we did it here, guys. Thank you for joining us today. It was a great show, great stream. Thank you for everybody. As I mentioned earlier, well, let me let John get out of here. John, give him one more

shout of where to find you. Then I'll... Yes, please. Come on over to the Outlaw Nation channel. YouTube.com slash John Roker says, come and check us out. The Hot Mike, The Geek Buddies, the Jedi way, my reactions, my reviews, all of it living there on the channel, maybe more stuff coming on with Winston-N-Marceles and I as well. So come and subscribe there, support me there at the Roka says all on social media and my podcasts, the Cineophiles, the geek buddies and the hot mic out there for you all to subscribe to. And the Jedi Way will be its own podcast very soon as well.

Thanks, Christian. Great to see you. Have a great rest of a week, y'all. Take care. Thank you, John. Make sure you check out John's channel for sure, please. And for you guys, as I mentioned, if you're here, thank you. And I also want to give a big shout out to so many people, I got mentioned from somebody yesterday. If you're watching this stream, I didn't answer back on the comments, asked about the Amazon New York wish list.

Someone got something from the wish list yesterday. And yes, it will be received in New York, and it will be taken care of. Don't worry. I were worried that I'm not, well, you're not there. Don't worry. It's all good.

So thank you for that. I really, really, really want to see Mac Weldon and Tushy. come back if you have any interest in them please look and try that today i had some people come up to me at the at the comedy store and tell me that they got some stuff and it really does help out the show tremendously and i'm i'm giving you guys some good stuff here so please please get them today if you can thanks for joining us here today at the podcast spotify anywhere podcast or found i want think john roka here i want thank you guys and we'll see you soon all right everybody a few more LA in studio shows left and we'll see you later bye