The Kristian Harloff Show - Where Do You Stand on the First Episode of House of The Dragon? - The Big Thing

Episode Date: August 25, 2022

On today's episode of The Big Thing, we discuss House of The Dragon. The new Game of Thrones series was the most watched HBO series premiere in history, but how did the majority of people respond? Kristian Harloff, Roxy Striar and Brett Sheridan discuss this, and we also debut a new segment WATCH THIS, where Roxy lets you know what to stream this weekend. Enjoy! #gameofthrones #houseofthedragon #hbo #TV #rehearsal STORYBLOCKS: http://www.storyblocks.com/BIGTHING SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/schmoedown Ask Kristian questions for next time! https://facebook.com/harloff Become a Patreon of the Schmoedown: http://patreon.com/schmoedown OTHER GREAT CONTENT: REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT368qY7sfE0nKE4c04CqGvu TV REVIEWS https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT1LU-t2Z9AD5UJDiWW4pS_E STAR WARS SHOW https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT0XmfpbblkF9PY7uO2qhbN6 THE BIG THING PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSJdE28YyUT3KAwbzDsv6mdR-gwUiydQg - CM Punk Interview: https://youtu.be/R8Js8uj6GfE FOLLOW KRISTIAN + FIND HIM ON CAMEO https://cameo.com/kristianharloff https://twitter.com/kristianharloff https://facebook.com/harloff https://instagram.com/kristianharloff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's nice to see. It's Thursday. I got Roxy and Brett back on the show. And this crew is endorsed by Greg Alba if you didn't know. He liked Roxy and Brett. He liked those episodes the best. So hopefully he's listening. This is for him.

We got a lot of stuff to talk about today. Roxy didn't like the Game of Thrones premiere, and everybody was okay with that. So we'll talk about that. We did a reaction to the Pinocchio trailer. That'll be on the Big Things Clips Channel. And speaking of which, everybody, speaking of which,

the Big Thing Clips Channel, it's launched, it's ready to go, it's there, you can find it. It is formerly the Shmodown, formerly this remote channel, but it is going to be the big thing, Clips Channel. You can find clips from this show, from Sith Council, from Capes and Cows. It's all on that channel. And we're actually going to put the reaction of Pinocchio over there because that's the beauty of having that channel. There's too much, like I already had my She-Hulk reaction on this channel yesterday.

And then I also had Sith Council. And I didn't want it to eat up each other. So the Clips Channel has the reaction on Pinocchio, if you want to check it out. Also, if you haven't already, Big Thing Audio, head on over to Apple Podcasts. Help us out over there. Spotify, same thing. I mentioned this before, and I mentioned it on my video. I am officially going out of my own on September 1st.

And when I left Collider, I was on my own, I think, like two months. And then I got a position over at Skybound and I was there for the last two and a half years. So I'm going on my own. Scary, sure. But it's also very exciting. And it's a lot of great things that we're going to be doing on both these channels. And you can go on it for people, well, what happened to the Schmodown? Where's the Schmodown Library?

Schmodown Archive. You just type in Schmodown Archive. And the links in the description, you can find the entire library. And the spectacular on October 1st will be airing over there. So make sure you check that out. That's it, man. We've got some other things that we'll go through Dark Horizons. We'll save there's some other stories.

Roxy's TV Time is going to debut today. And my brother kind of came up with this idea. We're talking about it when I was in Florida. And he's like, you know, I really wish that there was a place where I could just have someone who's really knowledgeable in film that just telling me what the hell I should be watching over the weekend because I would listen to that and I would say, okay, I never heard about that show

because we assume too much in our space that everybody knows about all the shows and they don't. So I want to put a thing out on the clips channel that will have Roxy kind of talking about things that she's watched things that could be old, could be new, a bunch of different things so we'll get into that in a little bit. All right, that's it. That's the show. See you later. No, I'm just kidding.

All right, here we go. This is a big thing. Let's do it. What's up, everybody? Welcome back. It is the big thing. I got this character dancing around. I got this character dancing around. I got a show.

I got a show. Roxy, I'm going to do the same thing I did to... What did you do? What happened? What? What are you laughing at me? Who are you laughing at? You start laughing at it.

I don't know. Because I... What happened? What happened? What happened? I tell jokes from my head about everything you say in the intro. And then... I was singing because you said all my own stuff.

What the hell are you talking about? So every intro that you do, I have responses to everything you say. Yeah, sure. And I tell them in my head and they made me laugh. Oh, so you made yourself laugh. Well, you made me laugh. You were the lay. I'm the layup.

You're the assist. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's how the show works. You know, I'm the lay up. Cool. I want to lay up. Nice, great. Listen.

So far so good. I think that a seamless transition. back for your girl Roxy. Hello. Are you hearing her all right in your in your, very loud. Is she very loud? How's that? Is that better?

Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I'm trying. What I'm hearing from you guys is that I should shut. I have it better for me now. No, he had a turn. I had, I had Brett up to. So you want to know some of my jokes are now? Not right now.

I wanted to actually, I wanted to show it. One of the things that I actually wanted to show you was that I showed Steph this. I'm no, I've never given you crap for being in your, late 20s, early 30s. I've never, I've never given you crap. for going out, having a good time drinking, recovering.

I saw some of your pictures at Comic-Con when you were really hung over. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I will never, nor will I ever, because you know Tom Connolly, right? Brett. Oh, yeah. Tommy sent me this. I saw this and thought to myself like, yes.

Bring back 31-year-old Christian Harlow. Look at that. It's just so good. I mean, who knows what was going on there? Have you seen that trend on TikTok teenage day? I saw you. This is that, except in 30s. I mean, look at that.

Look, my, my, my, my beard was actually no gray. What do you smell like there? Weed. Yeah, and, uh, I don't know. And that booze soup, seeping through your pores, rum and coke. Yeah. Seeping through the old. That's, that's something.

That's something. All right. Oops, we'll talk about that later. So anyway, so we've got, uh, we got some talk. Let's, let's get right into Game of Thrones. Um, so you watched it? Yes. All right.

I'm going to start with. Brett. These are the reviews of Brett and Roxy, and then we'll talk about it on the side. But start with Brett. Brett, I don't want one sentence. I want an actual review. Ready, here we go. Brett, review, would you think? Would you watch? Did you watch it in subtitles? Because that's what I did. I should have. Yes. I kept saying to myself, and I think you told me to do that. And I were halfway through it and I didn't do it. But I thought it was okay. I mean, I'm not, I wasn't a big Game of Thrones fan to begin with. I thought it was, you know, of course it's the first one. It was a little

slow, I think. My favorite part was the brutality towards women. That was no. Because I know what Roxy and Steph were talking about yesterday. On Twitter. Oh, were they talking about it on S-E-N?

Yeah, yeah. No, I think it just, yeah, it just didn't, I'm going to keep watching. I'm thinking it'll get more exciting. It was an establishing kind of a show. It was a preamble. It was a, it was a, yeah, whatever. Roxy, go.

Go ahead. You loved it. Why? I actually didn't dislike the show. Okay. I think that I'm going to end up really liking the show, but I think that my, my problem is that it's a fantasy show. I've talked about this before. I understand that people disagree with me. That's okay. It's an opinion on a TV show. I lost like so many followers over this. It's insane. This is my opinion. How many would you say? How many would you say? Over 100. Wow. Over 100. I watched it happen and was like, holy, why did you guys follow me before? Yeah. I'm not, I'm not a little mouse about my opinions. But I think that they could have had more fantasy elements that I like to fantasize about. And instead, it was so brutal and not just the violence, but specifically I'm talking about, of course, the scene where the woman is having where she gets killed. I think that the whole thing could have been solved for me if you just cue her in on it.

If you just say, this is what's happening. What do you want to do? I think that's not unrealistic of the times to ask. She's going to die anyway. But just, okay, say it to her. Say, listen, this is what's happening. Why do we have to deceive her? Because she would have said no.

Why would she have said no? She said, the birthplace is our battlefield. This is what we are born to do. This is why we are here. You think she would have said no? I don't think that mother would have said no. It's not even the point, though. It's like that we deceived her, tricked her to her body.

And just in 2022, I understand we don't get that political on this show. But I don't feel like watching it. I'm not saying it's not good. It just wasn't fun for me. So I didn't enjoy it. Well, that's, and I understand your point. And like you said, it's your opinion. I disagree with it, but it's your opinion, right?

So like my- You don't even necessarily, you don't disagree that I have it. You have a different opinion. Yeah, right. I disagree with some of the points as far as the fan, like my opinion of that fantasy shouldn't have that in there. Oh, I don't think that. Oh, you don't.

I just would like what I prefer in my fantasy. Your preferred fantasy is not that. Yes, exactly. Okay. Well, that's a fair opinion to have, obviously. And I, I do think, Because this, if Game of Thrones, if you're turning into the Game of Thrones, whatever, whether it's 170, 200 years beforehand or not,

Game of Thrones set themselves up from the beginning that, yes, it's a fantasy series, but it plays the same way. It's a mixture of, if you ever watch the HBO series, Rome. Rome was based off of true history, and Rome was very brutal. And Rome was ahead of its time as far as things, but... Wasn't built in a day. No. And Roxy's point of, well, but in my fantasy, I'd rather not see that,

but Game of Thrones established itself that this is what it could. could be. And so when you got that, I loved the first episode. Absolutely loved it. I thought it was such a great return to form for Game of Thrones because it set up the policies. I always wanted to know about the Targaryians. I never knew how much I wanted to know about them and because it was always kind of put in there throughout the series, right, of Game of Thrones, of these little things. And it was, it's so involved and it feels like real history. So that's why when they do it this way and how brutal it was in, you know, the medieval times for us and all that. It's, I like that it blends into fantasy for me, right?

Now, as far as the decision, it was a very hard scene to watch. There's no doubt about it. But I thought that even though she did say, this is our battlefield and the juxtaposition between the actual battlefield of what the men are doing and then the battlefield for, for her inside of that room, the reason why I would push back on the fact that I think that she would have been like, no, let me make the decision here, save the baby. she told him in the previous scene, I don't really, I think I'm done.

I don't know what to do this. I think I'm good. She said, I can't watch another baby die. Yeah, she didn't want to be there anymore. Right. So she would have taken the death and saved the baby. And he was put in this,

and I think that what it showed though, and the reason why they did is that he was put in this position where he, it wasn't because what I really liked about it was in every Game of Thrones show that you've seen in the past, every game of Thrones episode.

And it's just a time period that it was in. meet up time period. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The time period of when it was made, though, is that everything was so, like, when it started, everybody was at each other's throats and the Lannisters were kind of in charge, and they were horrible people.

And a lot of these people, Joffrey got into it, he was horrible. It starts off with a really good king. Like, he's a good king. He's a good, he's a good man who's put in this terrible position. And he's put in this position because they don't want a woman on the throne. Yeah. So he's put there, and he has to do all this.

stuff and he's got to make this choice because in his head he's not thinking about his daughter in the in that role he's thinking i gotta get a kid on there and it's like what's she's gonna die and i can save the kid let's do it and they both died and so it's like it was a horrible choice from to make and he didn't he didn't like go you know cut the baby out and walk away like that would have been like an evil but she's saying she's talking to him and he won't just say what's happening because he yeah it's just it's so not it's so It could have been so easy to just take one line to say it and have her explain. And I like all the stuff you like to. I love the political angles.

I love who's going to be on the throne. Is it now going to be the daughter or the brother? I loved all of that stuff. I even didn't have an issue with any of the fight scenes. It was that scene. It was that scene and also the scene in which the right-hand man sends in his daughter. I was just going to say that. The king where I'm just like, listen, I don't think that this is.

the craziest thing I've ever seen on television. I don't feel like watching it. I don't feel like it. That was disgusting to me. Yeah, it was disgusting and to me unnecessary. And I understand it's not unnecessary to other people. Yeah, it's not, it's, I can understand disturbing.

I don't think it's unnecessary because I think that, again, the way that the politics were set up in the past in the world that we lived in, the world that we've been in before, whether it was made up or not, those were set like the way that, like, the crazy shit that you saw in, um,

don't you think we saw politics where the daughter could have by herself been like, you know what I want to do? This is my in to be with the king. All of that could have been. I know, but in this world, the way that it's pushed, it's been set up in the past, but what's going to happen the same way that over it, what you've also seen in Game of Thrones is certainly,

look at what happened was like Stanza, right? Like she was, Sansa. What I, Stanza? Tony Stanza. She was like such a different character from episode one to ultimately this power person. Incredible. She was my favorite character. But this, but pilot episode one gives it an opportunity to

say, okay, here's this woman who's dad sent her in to do this thing. And look at where she is by season three episode thing. It gives an evolution. And I think that the rules were already set up this way. So I didn't have an issue with it. It works. Yeah. I don't.

You still like it. Yeah. So what's crazy is that inevitably, the comments on this video and all videos are, Roxy the fucking idiot. Did she not watch Game of Thrones? I don't think it's an idiot. I know you don't think that. There are people that are going to say it's necessary.

And that's, you're saying it's unnecessary to you. And that's fine. I'm not, I'm on the fence. I just, I'm like, I didn't like, I didn't. Again, it's, it's the writing. I mean, it's something that I was, if it was inconsistent to me, I'd have a problem with him. And it was not inconsistent.

It was on brand for game of thrills. And it was even, and it was even less, think about where society was for us, 200 years ago. That's where it was. And think about that's, that's 200 years before all that stuff. And so there was, it's the evolution of where, that's why I do think it's necessary to show like where it was as far as how. things were run and how King's Landing was then, you know, as opposed to what it ultimately became. And it was, and when he was given the throne, it was in a time of peace. And he has all

this pressure to do the same and continue it on with the Targaryen name and all of that. So this is all this pressure. So I do think that you're, to your question of like, why didn't tell her? Because how many times you've been in. It's not a question. Not a question. It's just my preference. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, no, you know, but you did ask a question. Your question was why not just write that one line in there to tell her like, hey, this is what's happening. That was the question that you had proposed. I think they had an opportunity to do that. Right.

And I think that the reason why I didn't have a problem with him not doing that is because I think the character very much should have done that. But I think inside of the writing, him not doing that is him being in this place of what the fuck do I do at this point? Like, oh, yeah, yeah, no, it's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. And it's not going to be fine. He's going to lose both of them. And he doesn't know what to do. And he's not doing it.

Like you said, Brett, he's not doing it because he is, because he's evil and he wants power and he wants to have a son. He's doing because he thinks that's what he's supposed to do. And he's trying to calm his wife down. He absolutely should have said something, but he didn't. And to me, that is, that's actually a testament to the writing that he didn't. Sure, he should have, but he didn't. I like that.

I think it worked. I think that. And she could have survived. He said it's, there is, you know, it is a chance of her dying because it can lose a lot of blood. but I mean, wasn't a cesarian based off of Caesar, which was before. It was like 50-50, though. They said, did you watch the after thing where the creators talked about it? And, like, I thought it was pretty telling us that he was going to lose both of them anyways, what I said.

Oh, yeah, if he just let her continue the later. No, no, both. It looked like he was going to. Because look, he lost the boy. No, I'm going to. I know what you're saying. Yeah. If he said the doctor or whatever said that, yeah, if she continues to do it, they're both going to die.

So here's what I think that it comes down to. I understand that you think that he should have done it. I think that nobody would have batted an eye and been like, that's not realistic to the time. Had he been like, listen, this is what's happening. And she had been like, kill me, take my baby. Nobody would have been like, there's no way she would have done that. So they had an opportunity to do something different.

They didn't choose that opportunity. And you wish that they did. I mean, I don't think that's an unfair thing for you to say. It's how many times whether you look at something a lot lighter in Obi-Wan, but like, ah, I wish they would have just went that way. So I don't think it's, I don't think it's, I don't think it's, I don't think it's just, it's just the things that you would have liked to see. And I think it's fair for everyone to say what they would have liked to see.

It doesn't mean like, like, again, there are things that happen in Obi-Wan that I was like, ah, it would have been so much better if they did that. Other people would go, well, no, I like that. I like that worked fine. And it's ultimately in the creators who can say it. But I, like that we're all in the, it just shows the difference between Twitter in general, right? And friends sitting at a table, like I'm, your opinion is your opinion. I feel like the way that they presented the show,

worked really well. Completely. And people who are tweeting me like, you're calling me a horrible person. What? No one said that. I think that anybody who liked this show is completely valid. It's really well done.

It's beautifully active. It's an interesting story. They always think that you're coming after them when you're not. You're just saying it's for you. Liking it makes a lot of sense. I had an issue. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, but I will tell you though, I don't think it's going to get any softer moving forward. So you might. But I do think women will get their commons. a little bit and I'm ready for some of the and they did in the original series right absolutely yeah and I didn't love the pilot

of Game of Thrones okay see that yeah so I but I really the show yeah I didn't love that I loved this episode man I really did and I was like because it started it did start a little slow but I liked that it started slow and I like because it was a kind of had to you know this is who's who Matt Smith steals the episode so effing good so good in that episode and then Reese Hyphins is real good too and in the

episode. Also, I loved the aspect of Matt Smith where like he's mass murdering and dismembering all these people, but they're rapists. So it's like, you know, you want to be like, this guy is gruesome, but I'm like, well, that's what I loved about his character because you automatically, because you've been down the Game of Thrones route before, like, okay, here's the new Joffrey. He's no one where close to Joffrey. He's, he has a reason. He's got a way, and that conversation that he has with his brother at the end, he's just like, yeah, let me be your hand because you're weak, dude, but I'm not. Yeah. And he loves his family. Yeah. But he's, but he, he just does things in a way that you're like,

I don't know about his methods. He reminds me a Littlefinger more. Yeah, but he's not it. But not as evil. Yeah. But Little Finger did it behind your back. This guy tells you right to your face. And I love,

and I love the line where he's like, did you say that about my son? And I was like, oh, he's going to lie. He's like, no, yeah, we all grieve differently. Yeah, yeah. I love the character. The character's like so,

like, I don't necessarily agree with all these methods. And the other thing I loved. I loved that in the battle when he, and he's not like this indestructible force. He loses. And I'm like, here's a Game of Thrones moment. When the guy's turn, he's going to, you know, after the guy that beat,

and he was going to kill him. Me too. And he goes, he walks away. But I looked on IMDB very quickly and saw that that dude's in 10 episodes. So I was like, yes, the hot he lives. Let's go. Well, no, no, no, no, no. Don't, don't get fooled.

They did something very smart on IMDB. You look at the list. Every character is listed as 10 episodes. Don't mess with me, Chris. I loved that they did that. I think that is so smart. I thought the same thing because I said, wait a minute. They listed, there's the, there's the,

The girl who plays the younger version of the queen, and the other one's not in it, but she's not in it yet, and she's listed as 10 episodes. Because I know that you're going to be killing off your favorites. Because you don't want to know, because that's a very smart thing to do, because there's going to be people who are dying.

You're like, oh, they must die because, like, Roxie just did. Roxy just checked it out. And so I love that they did that. And I said, you smart bastards, I wish more people would do that. That's really, really good idea to do that. You know what I wish that we had also, which again, I'm sure we will.

will get and I can hear you guys already, but I want more dragons. Oh, we're going to get that for sure. I know. I want, we had it in the first scene and then there's that moment and I was just thinking, wow, the parts that I'm holding on to and why I'm going to continue watching the show is because I'm ready for, I want houses of a dragon, you know, give me dragons. Yes. That's in my fantasy.

Oh, there's so many dragons everywhere. Dragons fucking all over the, but, no. Mile high club on the dragons. Fucking in the sky. Yeah. Hey, welcome to another episode of Dragon fucking. I'm Carl Edwards. We didn't see the guy's wife, did we, that he keeps describing as hideous?

Oh, not yet. Not Smiths? I always feel so bad for the people. Who they cast. Unless you give him makeup. Yeah. And I'm sure, like, still, you're making so much money. You don't even care.

Like, what does it matter? But it's just, you're leading up for me to think of somebody grotesque. Unless it turns out that she's really hot and he just has a terrible eye. That would be great. Yeah, that would be great, too. See, they've got a lot of opportunities. That opportunities. But yeah, I loved the episode right now.

And I'll tell you the other thing, last time we spoke that we didn't really talk about Roxy's Sheeulk, right? Yeah. And I think I called you and told you how much I enjoyed the first episode. Then you watched it. What did you think? Of the first? First episode. Good.

Thought the first was good. I loved the second episode? I love two, three and four way better than I love it. Oh, funny. See, I loved one and two. Didn't love three and four. Oh, I love four the best, I think. And then two.

All I'll say is this, without a spoiler. It's a drunk character that pops in that was so out of place. She does a great job, but it's so, it's so Thor, love and thunder. I think that what the show, why one was just solid for me, not the best, was because it was a little slow, like I wanted to get to what we were doing. And I knew that was going to be the setup. So I was like, I already wrote all of this in my mind. You know, it wasn't like, oh, whoa, what's happening here?

But it's still amazing because Tatiana Maslani is so effing good. She's really good in it. And their chemistry is awesome. Yeah. And I always think, like, we don't see many platonic friends. friendships between men and women on camera because they're cousins obviously we get to explore that. I think that's really great. I also think it's great where so Vivian, my oldest is now we're doing an MCU watch because she's

never seen it before. So she watched first Iron Man. She loved it. That's what you started with? Yeah. Because I know, I guess in timeline you could start with Captain America or Captain Marvel. You kind of want to recreate your experience? I asked her.

I said, how do you want to do it? I said, do you want to watch this for timeline? Do you want to watch them how they came out in the theater? She said she wanted to watch out that came out in the theater. Although we're probably going to, she's really looking forward to Black Widow. So I'm after, after we get to Civil War, I'll probably have her watch Black Widow right afterwards. Because I think that movie doesn't play very well. It's like, they just kind of gay.

She deserved it, but they just kind of gave Scarlett Johansson a movie. He's like, oh, yeah, you deserve a movie. But it's like, well, we're going to make it after Civil War. It's like, yeah, but that time is gone. And it's like, it played less. But anyway. What's your speed with her? What do you mean?

Like, are you guys a couple of? movies a week or what? Oh no, no, no. It's, uh, it's, it depending now, and now the top gun maverick just came out on digital. I don't know. We're probably to take a break. But, um, but I'll tell you, we watched, we did watch, we watched that. Um, and then we watched Hulk like a day later. I love that movie, man. It's such an underrated movie. It's very good. I love it. And so, but the reason I bring that up is because I had just watched she Hulk and, and you have Blonsky in there, um, Abomination. And he is significantly, different from the Incredible Hulk 2008 film to this.

Like it's a very different character and I didn't mind that because I think of the way that they presented it and how, um, and how he was and she ultimately is the episode's up on TV at this point. So she's got to represent him, which I thought was an interesting twist and I love the idea of it. Um, is, was it episode two when she talks to Bruce about, because I've watched So I can't remember. I'm the same as you. She talks to Bruce about representing him.

I can't remember. I think so. I can't remember if it's two or three. The phone call? Yeah, the phone call's great. There's a joke that is said inside of it about. And this is, I'm going to give a spoiler real quick of, I think it's episode two. Just fast forward through this.

Is episode two not available for? It is now by the time we, the time we released this. But so because Edward Norton was cast as the Hulk. And then he was famously after he didn't get along with. them on any left, right? And Ruffalo was cast. But so Tantana Mislani has a conversation with him. It says like, I'm going to represent him. And I wanted to tell you. And he's like, look, it was a long time ago and I'm literally a different person. And I thought it was such a great joke. It was an awesome one. Such a great joke. And also I thought, you know, I think that this is

for a younger audience. Some of the people aren't going to even understand that joke, but it was for that moment for us. And I really appreciated that. I think it's, fun. A lot of people are really down on it because so much lighter than some of the things that we've seen, I'm really enjoying. So much lighter? I mean, a lighter than Thor, love and thunder? Lighter than the TV shows that we've seen so far, I mean, Hawkeye? Hawkeye is pretty. I guess this is one of the lightest, but I think light's a really nice word. It's a comedy. It's how I feel. It's stupid to be mad. No, but you know what's funny, though, is I've seen, for the most part, especially because there were a lot of people who, what I have seen, I mean, yes, there's always going to be people

screaming and yelling about things no matter why, because there's a pocket of people out there that just, it doesn't matter what it is. Like, if they have set their mind that they're going to hate it or they're going to get clicks because they hate it, they're going to keep hating it, right? But then there's other people, and I'll include myself in this, that saw the trailer and went, ooh, I don't know, I told you about this. Like, I saw the trailer. I'm like her, but, God, that trailer, the humor is not working for me and that CGI looks terrible. both of those things for me turned out to be untrue. I think she's brilliant in it,

which I was expecting, but I think it's funny. Yeah. I thought the writing, Jessica Gow wrote the first two. I thought her writing. What do I know her from? Not sure,

but I know that her writing to me was more solid than three and four, in my opinion. But that being said, I think there's a lot of people that I did see that said, I felt similar to you. I didn't like what I saw in the trailers.

And then, because what I think the show does very well is establishes exactly what it is and it doesn't fool you the way that Thor has over the last couple of years because, and again, that last movie to me, I haven't watched, I think it's coming back on for Disney, Disney Day.

I'm going to try to watch it with my wife because she hasn't seen it and she likes the Thor movies. So I'm curious if I'm, you're going to like it less. I probably will. I probably will, although I know it's coming and I'm curious to how she deals She's not invested.

I mean, she likes the movies, but she's not invested in it, like, and knows the whole lore. She's like, oh, that, oh, right, right. Right. Oh, yeah, yeah. So, when they come out, it's just kind of like, you know, it's like fast food to her. Yeah.

So. I tried to get Lonnie walked to Hulk with me. And she, like, yeah, I don't like this. She Hulk? Yeah, yeah, it's like, I don't like this he-man story. Oh. What's the Hey-Man story? No, she was calling She-Hulk, he-Mat.

Oh. I go, good, because this is the Hulk. She's like, shut. I meant cool. Why did I say? Yeah, see, that's the one. I'm not going to call her on this one. I'm going to watch the boys.

Where are you guys out with the boys? God, did we finish the second season? I think you told me you did. I think we did. Yeah, we had a break with the, I can't wait for the brother in town. So good.

It's the first episode, right? You said it's your least favorite season, though. But that's not, but that's not to say, that's not great. That's not to say it's not great. It's a great season. Who knows if I had binged it like you if it had been mine.

Yeah. But like, it just kept you on, like every episode. Like, I mean, it's, it's better than really good. It's great. Yeah. I just think one and two.

Some people, a lot of people disagree with me. A lot of people think that three is the best and then followed by one and two. Some people think one, then three, than two. I'm one of the few people that think two is just out of this world. We burn through that one faster than one. I loved to. Loved to. Really love to.

But anyway, people were talking, we're kind of transitioning and people who asked me on them about Anthony Star, about what I want to see him do in whether it's Marvel or Star Wars. I don't want to see him play a bad guy. It's not Anthony. No, when you said, what you want to see him do, I thought,

me. I mean, why can't you say that? Just moving forward from that. Keep it pushing. Keep it pushing. It's my favorite. Like, that's what people are,

well, how, is it, it's a stereotype. Somebody gets shit if a guy says that, the other day, I said, how about, I said something like sexy,

sexy ass, it was Sandra Bullock? Yeah. But then you had to, you had to. Sandra Bullock does have a sexy ass and is a sexy ass. Let me tell you.

Demolition man. Not demolition man. I'll tell you this. No. So I'm going to say one that you never expect. My awakening. Leggianity. Lakehouse.

And I'll tell you why. Really? I never saw it. Not the movie. So I just had seen the movie, but we went to the premiere. And we'd go to the after party. It was a small, it was, it wasn't, this wasn't for press. I wasn't pressed at the time.

What years is? It's got to be 2004, right? Two and three, two and four. Just Google, what time? What year did that movie come out? No one's looking at their phones. We're not supposed to do it. No, I know.

But one time I ask you to do it, you don't do it. But I want to guess it's say 2003. Okay. And so it was 2003. And so I was working at Village Road Show at the time. It was 2006. Was it really? And you were working at...

I was not working at Roachau. I was working at Silver Picture. So I got invited by Village Road Show is what happened. It was in 2006? Holy shit. Okay, well, so I was in... Is it, right? Yeah, have you never seen that movie?

Oh, wow, you love that movie. I was in my prime, we'll say it, 2006. Oh, shit. So this is after, yes. Okay, so 2006 makes more sense. Whoa. And she was, no, she was married at the time, but I, I'm going to not tell you that I didn't want to. And I walked in to that.

I mean, normally, you know, you see celebrity like, I'm not. I walked into this after party. It was a small after party, only of certain people. It wasn't like one of those big ones where everybody was loud. And so I'm standing there with a buddy. And then we're on the dance floor and look over and there's just this woman who's cutting in on the dance floor. And it's like, you know, when you see whether it's guy or girl, someone who can really dance, like, sexy, you're like, don't fucking talk to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you don't want to be a creep about it, but you're looking at your list like, and it was Sandra Bullock. And she's just dancing. And I'm like, fuck you. Right. So like, so your Anthony Star is well received. I understand. Honestly, I've got, it's been a very long time for your girl rocks. Everybody right now is well received.

It's very, I'm receiving a lot. Right. Yeah, but that's also a choice, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why was that so hard to figure out? Wait, why you figure that out? I want the audience to figure out why they're in, oh, that's not it.

Why are they not? Nope, that's not either. Why are you not using story blocks? That's what you got to figure out. Why aren't you using story blocks? Have you started to use story blocks? Have you tried to use story blocks? Why aren't you using it?

So story blocks, for those people who don't know, It is a great tool in general. For creators, if you're not using their system, they basically have a, it's, have you tried it yet? I haven't. So for people who don't know what it is, it's for video, if you're using it, it is the most effective way in general to capture an audience's attention

because you're always challenged as creators. You have to use video content. You need higher quality. It involves more voices in the process and distributing on more platforms than ever before. And you've got to meet output demands, time, budget, knowledge, creative inspiration, passion, burnout, mental health, the whole nine yards. And it's just, it ain't easy.

So what StoryBlocks is able to do is it gives creators an opportunity to do some more stuff on their platform. And they have an unlimited all-access plan that gives you unlimited downloads of over the one million assets in their library. You try out multiple options quickly and you find the perfect fit so you can create more and spend less. to help you bring all your stories to life without sacrificing your vision. They have an ever-growing library. It's demand-driven. They're constantly optimizing and adding to their

4K HD footage. So what I would suggest is go and get that unlimited all-access plan. And that is storybox.com slash big thing. One more time, storyblocks.com slash big thing. I'm waiting for Luke over the galaxy geeks to tell me that he's tried this because I feel like he's making all these great things on his channel. And if you do, Luke, put it in the comment section. I want to know what you've thought of it so far. All right. So let's move. We're going to do something new here.

And I'm going to transition over here. We're going to do it. I think it's on this. Nope, that's not that. What are we going to do with that, Christian? Who knows? Who knows? That's probably right after the Sandra Bullock night.

I'll tell you that. Where the hell did I put it? Oh, it's here. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a brand new series that we're going to do. And this is watch this. It is a television. My brother came up with this.

idea when I was in Florida and he said, hey, I just really wish there was stuff that I knew what to watch on streaming and things I had never heard of before and give things a shot and maybe the stuff I've heard of and maybe the stuff that I haven't heard. Maybe the stuff I watch, maybe it's not. But either way, Roxy Stryer is the TV expert on this crew. So when she's on the show on Thursdays, we're going to do a little bit of a TV time. It's called Watch This. So let's get to Roxy Stryor. Roxy, tell the audience, what should they be watching? why? What are some other things? Go ahead. All right. Here are things that you have to be watching right now.

If you want to keep up with the conversation, you have to watch House of the Dragon. Whether you love it, whether you don't like it, everybody's talking about it right now and you need to have that water cooler conversation. The rehearsal is on HBO. It just ended. It has had its finale. Do you guys know? Yes. Tell me, give me a little detail on it. So if you liked Nathan for you, then this is next level. Essentially what happens is this guy, Nathan Fielder, goes in and any hard conversation or life decision you want to make, he has you rehearse it before you actually do it. It is so cringeworthy if you love cringe television like I do,

those kind of shows that you're watching like this between your hands because you can't look at the TV, but you also can't look away. This is perfect. And it was just picked up for a season two. So you know it's worth your time getting into. I can't tell, I can't explain this show enough. Like there's no, there's no words I could use. Except for just go watch it. If you don't like the first episode, stop watching. Because you won't, trust me, you won't like the ending. It just finally finished so you can binge through the whole thing, which is great.

What is it on again? I'm sorry? It's on HBO. So it's got that HBO money, honey. So it's two HBO Max shows back to back. I like that. Yeah, we got some good HBO stuff. But this one's coming from Hulu.

I loved the finale of season two of Only Murders in the building. Okay. I didn't think they were going to stick the landing. We finally just got the finale. So if you were waiting to binge the entire thing, I think now is the time to do it. Plus, they just announced that season three is going to star Paul Rudd, who I love. So you have to binge season two. And this is Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.

Yeah, plus also Tina Faye, Amy Schumer. There's so many guest stars. Obviously, because we've got legendary comedians on the show, they're able to pull in whoever they want. Kara Delavine was on this last season, who is not somebody I'm usually writing home about, but she was excellent on this show. And the first half of the season, I was like, I don't know if that's, they're going to stick this. And then by the end, I was like, oh, there we go.

That's the show that I really love. Okay, so that's two HBO, Max, one Hulu. What's next? This is something I don't know that you guys have heard of, but maybe it's on, yeah, The Bachelor. Ah, that's a great show too. It's on Netflix. Did you guys watch?

I just killed my dad. Oh, boy, Christian. So I saw the, you know, the little, you see 75 things pop up with them. I saw that, but what's the show? Okay. So this is a docu series. that's three parts on Netflix about a guy who shot three times and killed his father. In the beginning of the show, you believe this is an arrogant boy who shot his dad because spoiled or whatever.

Throughout the docu series, it completely changes your mind. I won't give anything away, but my jaw was on the floor. You find out what's happened to this kid, what the dad and his situation was. And I binge through this in one night. I started at three in the morning and I stayed up until 6 a.m. to watch this entire thing, because I could not stop. It was so incredibly disturbing, but also ridiculously well done.

Netflix, this is their jam right now, these docu series that make you just like want to cry and die and can't stop watching at the same time. So definitely watch this. And then my sleeper pick that I feel like not enough people are watching right now, which is an FX show, but you can watch it on Hulu if you have Hulu.

Oh, man. Is Reservation Dogs? Oh, yeah. We're in season two. Is it Taika? No, that's the, a pirate show. Oh, okay. So what's this? Reservation dogs. It's about

indigenous people on a reservation, but it's a comedy. People, at the beginning, people were kind of saying it has similar vibes to Atlanta, which I think is an interesting way of putting it. I think it's just like an offbeat comedy about Native American people and there's like some weird creative choices about their ancestors and how they speak to their ancestors. It's very funny.

I thought season one was a bit of a slow burn, but season two, there are moments where I'm like crying. I'm laughing so hard. It's really good. It's an ensemble piece. And I think if you're looking for something a little offbeat that you haven't tried yet,

this is a really good one for you. And then shows that I'm definitely going to be watching this week that you guys have to be watching too that are coming out new. There's a show Mo coming to Netflix that I've been on the lookout for because it was, did you watch Rami? No. Okay, the Rami Yusuf show, is hysterical. You have to go watch Rami.

But one of the stars of that show, Rami and him teamed up on this. If you like Dave or any of those comedian standalone shows, this is about this guy Mo. And I guess that he is a Palestinian refugee, but it's a comedy. And it's got to be like same as Rami in a really strange tone. Also, Mike is coming to Hulu. If you ask Mike Tyson, he probably doesn't want you to watch it.

And it's a series, right? I know. The trailer look great, but yeah. It's by the same writer that did Itanya. Okay. So if you like it, Tonya, I think this is interesting. But just to let people know, so Tyson said that he did not have his approval for this. Yeah, I know.

It's on my list because in the same way that I watched Pam and Tommy, and it was hard because Pamela Anderson was so vocal about not wanting people to watch it. I am interested to see what this story is. And if Mike Tyson wants to put out some kind of rebuttal like Pamela Anderson is doing, then I'll be sure to watch that as well. So was Pamela Anderson doing an actual TV show as well? She's doing something after the depam and Tommy Pam was like, no, I'm going to be doing that. So that's going to be on Hulu.

Watch at your own risk or Mike Tyson might come and get you. And then, of course, on your list, too, is Andor. How are we not going to put it on our list? Disney Plus. It's my only Disney Plus show that I threw on here, but you guys already know what it is. Star Wars, let's go. That trailer was sick. I'm ready for Andor.

What about Cobra Kai? Oh, I love Cobra Kai. It's before that, right? I love Cobra Cic is on September 9th. No, that's after. Cobra Cic, September 9th. Yeah, but isn't Andor? They moved Andor.

Andrew is the end of September now. Oh. Cobra Kai then fine, yeah. Oh, wait, let me just, I'll do this for you. Hold on. Then I'll keep you guys posted on what else to watch next week. All right. So watch this.

So watch this with Roxy Stryor. I like that segment. What are you going to watch? Out of those? Yep. Anything? I mean, well, Game of Thrones for sure. Yeah.

You didn't try the rehearsal? They almost sold me on it last week. Oh, Christian. But I went back and I was, because Brett was talking about the other show that, that what's the other one called? Nathan for you. So I watched a couple of bits on on YouTube and there was

something like the one where you hit what is he called it? Dumb Starbucks? Yeah, dumb Starbucks. I drove past Dumb Starbucks before I even knew about this show. Amazing. And there were people lined up around.

I didn't know what this was and then I saw the show years later. It was like something. It was hilarious. Yeah. Oh, it was so funny. Yeah. Dumb Starbucks. In fact, because he's very smart.

And I remembered it being on the news. The footage of him on the news. They show the. I saw that live on the news. I think, Christian, I think you have to watch the rehearsal. Like, I can't picture you in a world that you have not seen that show. Well, I love Borat, and I loved, you know, like what Sasha Cohen did, yeah. Didn't you like Summer Height Thai or the Chris Lilly?

Is that what was the name? Chris Lilly? The Aussie guy. Oh, you didn't watch any of those? I think so. Okay, I got to make a whole list. Yeah, there's certainly. I mean, like I said, I mean, murders, murders in the buildings?

Only murders in the buildings. So I watched the same story. that I've said in this a million times over. My wife and I watched like two episodes and then she bailed on it. So that was the end of it. We bailed on it, but not purposely. We just kind of got...

It happens. Something else came up. I liked what I had seen, but then like I said, it's just like things... And plus the fact, I'm covering so much right now with stuff that I want to like,

I'm covering Shehulk right now. I'm covering Game of Thrones. I'll be covering Lord of the Rings. I'm sad you just told me and or moved. I was really looking forward to watching them at the end of this week. I like that it moved though because... Yeah, you're right. Because a lot of the...

Because as you look at what was going to happen, Shehulk and Andor were going to be both on Wednesday. And then they moved Shehulk to Thursday, which is a smart move. And that way, even when Andor comes out, even though Shehulk will still be on the air, they're not piling up on each other. Game of Thrones comes out on Sundays. Do you remember when Lord of the Rings? Is that on Fridays? Is that what Amazon's drop date is? I'm not sure.

I'm not sure what day. But anyway, but Lord of the Rings is going to come out of every day. So you have all that stuff. And then the silly Netflix model of dumping everything in one shot, and then they're going to have, Cobra Kai is just going to come out on the 9th. And I don't know, look, Cobra Kai will do well because Cobra Kai has its audience,

and I'll certainly be watching it. But it's also dropping on September 9th, which also happens to be D23, which there's going to be so much that is coming out on those both days. The animation panel and live action panel for Disney on, on, wow. And then on Friday. and then on Saturday,

you've got the Lucas film and Marvel. And Fox. Okay. Yeah. I'm ready. It's going to mean, are you going? No.

No. No. No. No. Fair enough. Well, good. Very vague. Are you going?

No, I just, I have no. Did you apply? No. Well, then that's your own fault, right? So that would you call that by choice? Yeah. I'm okay by choice. Yeah, by choice.

You didn't apply because you just didn't think about it? Yeah, like, that's not. as much my jam. Oh. Well, that's not true, though. Oh. Yeah. Because, well, let me ask you question.

I value your opinion, but you're wrong. Let me ask you question. You like Andrew? Yeah, no. You're completely right, but like, you know, I came up in a, in Warner Brothers D.C. space, so I just don't think of Disney as my jam as much, even though I watch a lot of the stuff. Yeah. Like, I don't usually cover as much Star Wars or Marvel, even though I like it.

I get it. Cool. Yeah, good for you. When is it? You just lost it. followers. Are you going? I don't know.

By choice? No, he's asking me if he's going. No, you're not going. When is it? September what? September 9th and September 10th. Oh, September. Christian.

What happened? What's wrong? Always Lola is playing at the TCL on September 10th and you're not going to come again, are you? I won't be there for that one. Right? Yeah, I'll be around. Ask them on air to force them to do.

What's the TCL? Chinese theater. Oh, okay. So I'm going to be, someone did that to me yesterday. So you could have come to Marina, which is near you or Now you can go to Hollywood. That's right. Koi did it.

Koi did it for me. Koi, he did the TCL thing again. And he's like, oh, yeah, I'm seeing, I figure what he's seeing. Or,

no, no, I don't can't remember. Somebody did it. Koi texted me back. After a month. It's not relevant to any of you guys. He's just not, he's not the best of text.

He's not the worst, though. He's not the worst. No. Kalinovsky sucks at texting. He sucks. Yep. I was out of town for the premiere in the marina. So that was at a screening.

In state. Yeah. Elvis. I was out of state. Elvis. Was I? I still haven't seen Elvis. Were you in Santa Barbara?

Oh, yeah. I'm upset, by the way, and as I look at you, this, we've missed two screenings together. First one, your fault. Second one, my fault. You missed Beast. Was that good? Nah.

Nah. You didn't miss anything. It was fine. It wasn't like horrible. It just wasn't fine. And boy, I mean, the out of the theater did find the regular review. Oh, a bag of shit. It did like maybe, not even.

3,000 views. One of the worst reviews, like, viewed that I ever had done. So that ate a bag of shit. The out of the theater did fine. But, you know, and I thought it was going to be good because I got yourself, but I thought it was going to be a kind of ghost of the dark, ghost in the darkness. You can get it. You see?

Yeah, really, you're ready. Oh, my God. You're ready. All right. Listen, he's a sexy man. I understand. Holy shit. But can he dance like Sandra Bollick?

I don't think so. I bet so. No chance. There's nothing he just can't do. Don't you dare. Oh, gosh. Sandra Bogue doesn't talk enough about her dancing. I'll tell you that much.

How should she go about talking about her dancing? She should do it more. She should do it more in movies. She should get a TikTok. Next movie. She should do a TikTok. Just do dances. It's a fucking crazy.

Hey, Sandra. You should get one of the- T-T-T-T-T-T. You should get one of T-T-T-T-T-T. Does she get one of T-T-T-T-E. No, I'm sure she doesn't. Just go up to her something. Hey, Sandra.

She get a TikTok. Get a little TikTok. For what? For me? For dancing. Yeah, so I can just do that. That's a Gucci. That's a Gucci.

Yeah, I went up to Sandra Bullock. I told her, you know, a little TikTok. I said, uh, oh, good. You do this. You know. So, Sandra Bullock. Yeah. Said she should TikTok.

What's going on with him these days? She saw me. I'll tell you the funniest thing is, he was hammered at the, at the comedy show. And in such a great way, it was hilarious. It was hilarious. His girlfriend was. not a, I was not thrilled with it,

but it was hilarious. Anyway, jumping back to the other thing that we missed was barbarian. Yeah, that looked interesting. So I hear great things about it. And then even,

yeah, a producer of the film who I used to work with at, at Warner Brothers, Roy Lee had reached out. And he's like, are you going to see it anytime? She was like,

oh, I'm actually seeing it tonight. So I'm very curious to, you know, tell you what I think. And I would tell them, honestly, if I didn't like it.

But I hear great things. But then my daughter got ill and she's okay now but she was feeling good so I was like I knew I had to make the decision because my we had we wound up taking her to um the freaking urgent care oh man and yeah all of it so she was like she was like thrown up like seven times in the day oh my god we know what the hell was going on oh there's a stomach flu going around she didn't it was weird because the youngest had a bug one day kicked it yeah done and then we're like okay well oldest got it

and then it was like she just getting her ass kicked a little bit and then she just started like throwing up and I'm like and then it was I kept happening and then I had this this screening and my wife's like please don't go yeah that's she's like please don't want to deal with that alone and sometimes my wife's just like having a you know a rough one with the kids I'm like I just this I gotta cover this thing I got to go you know it's like if it's just like one of those days I'm like no I can't leave I can't leave her like this and then I had to I went up putting the little one to bed she took the oldest one to urgent care and it was a yeah but she's good she's she's alright now she's but it was but anyway hence why i couldn't see barbarian um anyway let's get to i want to do i've heard uh good things

and they send out so many screenings for that yeah yeah i missed them all there's one more there's one more and i think it's like right before um right before it comes out what day of the week i think it's the sixth what day of the week i don't know It's the day before the 7th. Do you think it's after the 5th? I don't have an answer for you. No. After the 5th, it's after the 5th, yes.

Yes, so I do have an answer for you. All right, let's get to, I want to do some what news, some other news things. Because there's some news. So what do you want to talk? Let's talk about Pinocchio. We just talked to it, right? We just saw, we're going to have the trailer reaction.

It's probably right he has aired. So Disney is doing this thing. So for people who don't know, The Disney Plus put out a live, Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, doing a live action version of, well, I guess live action. Bibiani right now is like twitching. It's live action where a lot of the people are live action and they're putting the, you know.

That was Lion King, right, where he just lost his shit. Yeah, that whole thing, Clyde a lot. But did you get mad at me about the Clyder Live thing the other day? What did you do? I just said I hated it. You know that, though. No. Yeah.

Where did you say that? I said it was Greg. I said nothing against. Oh, no, you hated it. I, it kills me. I know, but I said, I loved it so much. I hated it so much. It's my,

the environment was not idea. Yeah, I said, I started, I started it by, and it was even a fan who said, like, he said, shaking my head. I remember when you said that you, when you started Clyder Live that you said it was the, it was as good as, you know, when you did a tote hop. I'm like, yeah, that's when I first started and I was, I thought that that vibe was going to carry over. It is, it's the one, and it's not, and I said this, and I say this with you in the room. Love working with all you guys, you and Riley.

and Josh and everybody and Cody and Alex and everybody. I love to work on all you guys. Never had a problem with any single person there that I worked with. I just, if I could remove one show in my resume, it would be that one. How come? It's a dark time in general. I just don't, I don't like it. I don't like the quality of the show that we did.

Well, the quality of the show, we were stuck in a little box and I don't like the studio that we were in. I don't like the, there were certain times when there was like, I think that we were kind of asked to talk about things when we didn't want to talk about things and we had to structure things a certain way. We weren't able to kind of do it this way, you know, the way that we wanted to. I wish that if in hindsight, in hindsight,

I probably, and again, again, nothing but respect to everyone that I worked with there. I probably would have just stayed as a freelancer on Collider Live and not taking a position there if I could do it all over again. Probably would have just stayed with Mark on doing Schmo's

because we had to stop doing Schmo's reviews because I was working there because they didn't want me to counter and do, if I had to do it. do a review for Collider. They didn't want it to cross over. And then Mark and I would have to have these weird times to do our reviews. And it brought it down. So everything was just, you know, and I was only, and I, and people, well, why did you do it?

Why did you work? I have a lot of reasons. It was a, it was health insurance for my family. Yeah. And that was, if I was on my own. But like, Cliter Live was supposed to be originally, remember when we talked about supposed to be the Christian Harlov show is what they want to do. And I was going to bring Roxy in.

We were going to give us the main room. And then I was like, you know, I don't want them to have my name. I'm like, so let's just do. and Frosty was doing a series called Collier Live. And I go, why don't we just call it Collier Live and just continue the brand? I just think that the show that we did was so, not toot our hunt, but good. Like, not always, but the interviews.

Yeah, interviews are great. That's the thing that, like, I'm missing majorly. And then also, like, at the second we were in studio on, like when camera went on, things I think were really cool. The leading up to that place and the exiting was brutal. It's of good moments for sure, but I just don't think I was in a spot. Like I didn't. No, no, it wasn't a great time of your life.

Yeah. No, but in general. Oh. No, I meant in general meaning that like it was like we would have good rapport and good moments for sure, right? But I mean, it's just like the fact that it just felt like, I don't know. It was just something about it as I look back on it going, I just think you and I could have probably done a very, a similar vibe just somewhere else. It's definitely possible.

Like I was scared all the time. Right. That's what I mean. And that did suck. But I often feel that like not here. Not here, right? No, no. But just, you know, in my 13 years of doing this,

I've probably been 50 places where I felt scared shitless. Like not scared. I don't mean dramatic, but like I got yelled at so much. Like screamed at all the time. And that was a bummer. Yeah. Because that sucks. When you're going into work and you know,

Like for me and you getting there, Christian, it would take it over an hour to get there in the mornings. You would walk in and just get annihilated. And it was like, that sucks. Like, it did, that part did suck. And I just, like, would brace for that. And then I would walk in the room and be okay. But it was like, you know, you do a good show and then you just don't feel,

it's like, you'd walk out and no one would talk to you. And you just feel like so like, like, like, like, the other side. Like, okay, we got to move the studio and get out of here. Not like, not like, what can we do to help the show? It's like, it was one of those things. I just was like compartmentalizing. And when I compartmentalizing, I think about the actual

quality of the show and I really liked the structure like I liked the two hour feel the morning time of like the interview the second half and the our rapport um I think it was cool like Ellis would pop in a lot too I miss that coogs like yeah there was Riley there was some fun stuff um and I'm so grateful to that show I don't yeah so I just look at it differently but I get where you're coming yeah I mean I get it and I and I always tell people it's like because there are a lot of people who say how much they loved the show and it's like for me when I even hear the name I'm like oh I know it like turns your stomach I've seen that yeah it's not and it's not you I mean hence of course that's why I'm here right right like I love and I said on that same episode on that same episode on that same

episode I said you were the most loyal person I've ever met in my life so it's like so it's not it's not that it's just like I and I hate I you know I just hate the show I just hate it I get that yeah and when people ask like how do you feel because I will get comments every time that's what I meant so how do you feel that Christian's I feel like that's Christian's opinion, man. Like, it's just like your opinion. Now, if I said on the air, oh, and I hated working with Roxy and Josh and Riley.

But why would I take it personal that you didn't like that show? You and I have done five shows together at this point. People don't. Oh, that's understandable. If you said that about it. Yeah, right. If I said about Brett, it makes sense. We went from Shmozno movie show and then you started DC movie news,

so you weren't on it, but you put me on that show. And then we did Collider Live together and we do this show together. we've probably done those like a bunch of shows together and shmowdown yeah and of course schmowdown yeah yeah so but that's but that's why someone was asking of why any evolution of it and you know it's a dopey idiot on red at one point was just like oh there he goes he says he this is his favorite show now and it's like evolution of a thing you especially when it's in the future when something happens it's realistic that it could be something that you like more than the previous thing you also don't know what something's going to be while you're in the middle of it. Right. Or starting it. Like I think you had high hopes and big dreams for it. Yeah.

And I was like I thought that I thought the support system would be different than it was. And I thought that considering that at the time, we were bringing in the most views and we were, we were getting a lot of. That was the craziest part. We would like how these videos are to hit a million views walk in and everyone hated us. Yeah. They hated us. And inside of the own, inside of the company. And it was like it was and it was.

And this was the one that this was the thing that. that I was just like, okay, I'm, I'm done. They did a, they did, the Collider had this presence at, I can't which con it was. And this is when our numbers were through the roof, like we were the, we were easily the, the getting the most views on any show that was coming in there at the time. And they did this thing at, at, at, at, uh, at some con. And every one of the shows had a panel and they never asked us.

We were the only, and all of our fans were like, where's the Collider Live panel? And they, we weren't even asked. Yeah. And it was like, oh, okay, well, I don't want to do this anymore. Yeah. So, but anyway, I'm just still mad that I got a passport in a day and didn't get to go to Greece. Remember that? Oh, you're supposed to go to Greece.

You're like, you want to go to get a passport by. That was the Mamma Mia one. Yeah. Yeah. Who do we send for that instead? I don't think anybody went, but the people, it was actually the people who were asking, they didn't know who I was. And they're like, oh, no, we want so on. So, you know, and if she can't do it, we don't need.

You pay for the overnight passport? Yeah, yeah, I got it rushed to me. And, yeah, I was, I was so like, like, oh, yeah, this is going to be awesome. I'm going to grace for a week. That sucks. That sucks. But Pinocchio. Pinocchio, though.

Anyway, but the Pinocchio trailer is going into it real quick. We watched that beforehand. Check it out on the clips channel. Yeah, you can see it on the clips channel. If you haven't gone, thank you. Thank you. And I think this is a very smart move to put on Disney. Click the button.

No, no, there's no buttons. Put this on Disney Plus. I like what I'm seeing so far. I probably watch this with the kids. I have not watched the animated one with the kids yet. They haven't seen this one yet. The animated one. Yeah, it's a little.

I'm excited to see it though. I haven't seen the animated one in years. This is, I feel very stupid for asking this. You guys probably know the answer. Is it musical? No. No music at all? Well, there's music in it yet.

No strings. We're not going to hear that. I'm sure we will. And, and when. You Wish Upon a Star. They'll have their songs in there. But it's not, I don't think I'd classify it as a... Like instrumental or we're going to sing it.

I guess by definition, if you would say if there's a song that someone sings, I guess you would say it's a musical, right? I would say if there's three or more songs. Yeah, but it's definitely not like a full-fledged musical, but yes, they will have... Where most of the lines are sung. Because we didn't see that in the trailer at all, right? No, but I'm just, Jimmy Cricket has to sing. He's got to.

And then even Pinotia, I've got no, that's the most famous one. So, yeah, I think there will. And I think that because the movies like the movie's like 1940 either 43, 46, something in that range. So it's it's not one of those movies that's like like Cinderella is still played in my house a lot of times too. It's like I don't feel like Pinocchio is rewatched by a lot of people. So I think that it's one of those things where it's, it's dark. It is darker. Like this is this doesn't have.

Oh, 1940. Yeah, 1940. Wow. Wow. So it was off. But I mean even like there's part where the carriage and the range. I mean, even aside from the kids turning into donkeys, like the feel of it is very dingy and, yeah, it's scary.

I thought Pinocchio, though, the way they animated him and put him in, it looked great. Yeah, this. Tom Hanks' Jepetto, great casting. For your five-point question, can you name any actors from the original Pinocchio? No, 1940? Dickey Jones. Oh, was Dickie Jones in that?

Yeah, yeah. Good old Dix. Good old Dix. Played Pinocchio. He says he played Pinocchio slash Alexander. Was that Pinocchio's name when he's a boy? Maybe. I don't remember that at all.

No, who knows? What about, uh, who? Is Alexander the-Hepto is Christian Rub? The cat. See, what I would, can you bring up the actual one from Disney Plus? Because I want to see who the voices are inside of it. Yeah, Joseph Gordon-Levett. Oh, is he played Pinocchio?

No. Um, Jimmy Cricket. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. So Pinocchio is a Benjamin Eanesworth. Okay. He's a little dude.

Okay. And he, oh, he's in the Sandman. But you and I like. Really? Wait, how many episodes are you in? Eight. I'm six. Okay.

What's the bonus? The bonus number nine or ten? Bonus is 11. Yeah. And then he's in Haunting of Hill House, which I loved too. Okay. Tom Hanks is Geppetto. Just going to love it as Jimmy Cricket.

Angus Wright as Signor Ritzie. Okay. Next. Which I don't know what that is. Cynthia Revo, who is the Blue Fairy, who I think is a star. She played Harriet and Harriet and she was in bad times to that El Roy.

Royale and in widows. Let's see if any other names. Oh, King Michael Key as Honest John. Okay. Oh, Anish John. That's the Fox. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, and Luke Evans is the coachman.

See, remember when I said that one point? Who's that? Who's that? I thought it was Luke Evans when I looked, and that's exactly who it was. Okay. Let's see. Rox's got to get the hell out of here in a second, but let's just see if there's anything else that we should cover here before we...

Shoes and beef? Nope, before you get to an actual one. Let's see. I just told my four-year-old the story of Shoes and Beef. Okay, let's see. Hellraiser, launch trailer, The Last of Us. Oh, was that? Did that just come out?

Is that the full trailer? Hmm. Wait a second, let's see. I thought I saw something when I was what. Oh, no. That's the video game. Yeah. So Disney Plus, live action King Kong series.

Wait a minute. That's. Awesome. I love that. All right, let's hear this. Disney television is reportedly in the very early stages of developing on King Kong, a Disney live action series tracking the original story of the famous A paper girl's creator, Stephanie Folsom is pending the serialized action adventure drama that updates the classic monster story over the modern age and offers a return to Skull Island at the dawn of a new Kong. The series will use IP from Marion C. Cooper's original books and the new King Kong novelizations by Joe DeVito, and this isn't connected to the Kong. two verse fills. All right. So, interesting,

though, because... Very early talks. Very early talks is part one. But the other thing is, is it too much Kong? We got too much Kong since 2005?

Come on, I mean, what's the deal with Kong? Kong fatigue. Is he alive? Is he dead? I mean, what is it? When are you team...

Are you team Godzilla or team Kong? Kong. Kong. It's funny. I used to be... I mean, Godzilla is a kid. Panic, bro. Yeah, I'm Team Kong, too.

I didn't see the Kong versus Godzilla. No, I don't mean in that. I just mean, like, in life. In life, actually, no, Kong. Yeah. I like Kong. I don't feel Kong fatigue. The more I'm saying the word Kong, it's just starting to sound like a word I'm not supposed to say.

Yep. Kong. How'd you even do that? Kong binkies. Toys you give dogs. Kong. Those little things you throw. that part I miss

about a lot wasn't you know Cody used to play the the long fart I miss Cody of course well that was Cody was

Cody was really did I say what's Cody up to I don't know he texted me um after we announced the Smodown

um was any he sent me a very nice text about about the show and everything too and um but that's I'm not sure I mean he's a

use it data obviously so I kids gotta be three or four years old now which is nuts but all right Anyway, listen, it's a good day. It's a good show. You know, a lot that we talked about.

Make sure you check out some of those suggestions that Roxy suggested for the television streaming. You're going to watch the rehearsal? I'm going to try to. I'm going to give it a shot. But I got to see. I got all this stuff I got to watch first. If I get a chance to do it. But what else?

We got to make sure, once again, everybody, if you haven't already done this, make sure that you head on over. This is not the one. Big Thing Clips. Let's do that. Go to the Big Thing Clip Out channel. Make sure you go to the All. audio podcast feed on both Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Very helpful. Make sure you get yourself some story blocks. Do the whole thing. Oh, and the other thing is for those people who don't know, come September 1st, we're going to be changing. The Patreon is going to be, right now it's patreon.com slash schmodown. That will change probably to patreon.com slash the big thing. But there's going to be a lot of things that all of us will be involved in.

SEM Live is going on. Brett and Kate's Playdate is still on the Patreon. SEM Live is going to be two times on the Patreon, on two times on the SEM live YouTube channel. They just had a show on Wednesday that was, or Tuesday, excuse me, Tuesday,

but it was really, really good and really fun. So make sure you check that out over there. And Roxy is hosting and telling people's jokes. Yeah, I'm really good at it. Well, hosting part.

A lot of people were laughing because I'm the genius. Yeah, you look, so we look at, hold on a second. I want to do this. And then where is it? Hold on,

stay right there. Far out, my dude. Wait, stay right there. Come back. Yeah, yeah. Who wore it best? Perfect. Really good.

All right. Well, thank you guys for joining us. I appreciate you very much. We'll be back tomorrow with Caps and Cals with myself, Winston, and Coy. We'll see you on the flip side. Peace out.