The Kristian Harloff Show - WOW! DCU Greenlights Clayface movie with director Mike Flanagan!

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Kraven reviews are in! And after reading them, it is no surprise that Sony cancelled the connected Spiderverse movie plans.  More news coming out of the DCU. It looks like horror king Mike Flanagan is tapped to direct a CLAYFACE film? What do we make of this news? What do YOU make of this news if true? We covered a lot of 28 Years Later yesterday and tallekd about Cillian Murphy appearing as a zombie. Well, now it has been confirmed that it is NOT him. Rouse? Jim Carrey talks about Grinch return? his and more on today's show with Kristian, Brett and Steph!  #dc #dcu #clayface #horror #kraven #reviews #christmas    OUR SPONSORS TUSHY: Over 2 Million Butts Love TUSHY. Get 10% off TUSHY with the code BIGTHING at https://hellotushy.com/BIGTHING PERFECT JEAN F*%k your khakis and get The Perfect Jean 15% off with the code BIGTHING15 at http://www.theperfectjean.nyc/BIGTHING15 #theperfectjeanpod  MANDO: As a special offer for listeners, new customers get $5 off a Starter Pack with our exclusive code. That equates to over 40% off your Starter Pack Use code KRISTIAN at http://www.ShopMando.com Support our show and tell them we sent you. Smell fresher, stay drier, and boost your confidence from head to toe with Mando!  

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We have a lot to talk about today. A lot to talk about. So Brett Sheridan did what Brett Sheridan does best. It worked as hard as he could and then forgot he was supposed to be on this show. So it's me and Steph today. Once again, can Steph come back to beat two Shmodown Legends? we will find out in just a moment. Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

any of your podcasts are found. It's a Christian Harlow show. It's me and Steph. Let's do it. Welcome back to the show, ladies and gentlemen. It is Thursday. And joining me, as always, on Thursday,

is my good friend, Steph Sabra. Hello, Steph. Hi. How you doing? Good. I want to win today. Do you want to know what the, what happened this week thus far?

Yes. Yes, what's the tea? So starting, uh rocca came out strong like he always does on monday at 62 roxy said no i will not be denied i won last week i'm going to win again so she did 65 but i had sam levine and clark wolf on yesterday oh and they did 70 70's beatable okay we can do this you can do 70 right left me hanging he did just me and christian let's go and i only say this to you because we have this kind of relationship you've got to be able to do better than you did last week. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, but what's this I

hear about you going to the dark side last night? What happened? What I do? I don't know, somebody said you went to the dark side. Was on the world girls or something? Oh, I was pretty intense last night. I was I was pretty livid. Yeah, I was pretty livid. I'm super protective of my sister. And there was some like so rare to have drama in your 30s, but it's not even drama. It's just like something I picked up on and I'm like why I ought to put him up and then something else happened oh we were just going through the comments of the for roxy the lord of the rings oh you was making you firing you up they hated her and for me the transformers oh yeah people hate hate me yeah well they're stupid that's fine yeah stupid um all right before we get into our topics today i got to ask

you how you've been paying attention to all this stuff happening and with the new jursy drones no so crazy that this is not a national story so and this has nothing to do with whether or not you think it's aliens or whatever the hell okay these are this there have been multiple sightings over the last week or so over new jersey these drones the size of cars um and they've been everywhere everyone's been citing them the mayor of new jersey came out spoke about us that he's been in touch with national security, he's been in touch with Homeland Security, has been touched with everybody,

and it's been like the whole thing. There's been multiple meetings throughout a whole bunch of people talking about it. So my thought process is one of two things. It's either the military testing out stuff to eventually send these types of drones into other foreign neighborhoods if we need to use them and testing out stuff here.

Or the worst part is if it's a foreign government that is able to, infiltrate and have these things blasting around. There was this one Republican said that there was, it was coming from an Iranian mother ship, these drones. And so the Pentagon responded to it yesterday. Their official word stuff was that it is not far, and nothing we have concluded is not foreign

and it is not US military. And they did not follow up with what it is. So they have no clue what it is. And so are they saying it's a random citizen? They're not saying anything. And then people are people have been asking, people are continuously asking what it is. And there's no answers to it. And they're everywhere.

Just type in type in right now where you are. Type in new Jersey drones and what pops up. I bet you a shit tonne articles. It is actually being covered a lot. I'm surprised like a lot of yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's everywhere.

And I'm so. It's this. What the heck? And it's the size of a car. And like what drone do you know that is the size of a car? What do you what do you think it is? As of 24 hours ago, I thought it was the US testing out military stuff. Now, I've gotten comments.

I put a video out on my on my UFO channel about it. I've gotten comments like, well, if you didn't believe, if you believe that then, why do you just believe what the government tells you? And I don't. But the thing is that's a pretty bullfaced lie to say. It's one thing to go, hey, look, there's things right now. that we're aware of what this is, and the government has a good eye on it. That's not admitting that you're working on stuff,

but it's also not definitively saying that it's not. Right. Definitively saying that it's not means that you can never prove that it is because you're a freaking liar. Now, people are going to go, well, what does that stop the government for? This is, this is different. This is different when you're straight, you've been asked about this. The thing that I feel is,

if they can definitively say it's not foreign and if they can definitively say that it's not U.S., well, then they definitively know what it is. They're just not telling us. Huh. Right? I've just, yeah, I guess. I think they know what it is. Yeah.

They have to. That makes no sense because it's not like they're hiding. They're there in plain sight. So they have had to have been able to have eyes on it from a higher view, a different view. and just I bet they have like insane well that's yeah there's there's video this one I'm probably going to cover that next is a video of this guy they they called a meeting and they had these senators and other people drive up to have this meeting about what these things are and the guy he goes they interviewed this guy on news nation and he and I don't know who he is and he comes out and he

goes I left the meeting he goes they had no answers he said there was that they called us in here and they have no answers they said that there was a they said one of the guys said there was a helicopter following it, but they stopped following it because they felt it was that the helicopter was in danger, so they stopped. He's like, what kind of answer is that? He's like, you're not following it so we don't know where it went. Nobody knows. The FBI says they don't know what it is. The FBI doesn't know what it is. That's a problem. That's a problem. How is our airspace so compromised that we don't know what it is? Are you close enough to see it? So I was on, I was was on my show on Tuesday with Attack Peter and on Sunday I went to get food for Sadie and the

girls and when I was driving on the highway I could have sworn that I saw something in like my peripheral when I was looking when I was and I couldn't really it was like hovering and it definitely wasn't a plane and it was hovering so I was like I'm like wrenching my neck as I don't want to get a car accident so yeah. Yesterday, for people who are aware of the UFO topic and aren't, there is a very prolific UFO filmmaker. And his name's James Fox. And he's made some really big documentaries before.

He's doing another document. This, he's doing it this, five days. And it's called the program. And this documentary is about a, is about the program of reverse engineering and all these different things. This guy's been following this for years. And so, asked him what he thought about it and he's the reason why he's on the fence with it being anything

except drone type technology is the same reason that i initially was and it's that it's been reported that these things are making a lot of noise when they're flying by every report of any type of UFO that has been documented from air force pilots and other thing too there's no sound coming out of these right so i don't know i don't know what what everyone can believe whether you're listening to this and not this this isn't one of those things where it's like yeah right nobody's seeing these things everyone is seeing these yeah yeah it's just the question for this one is what is it right right I would be flipped out if I lived in that city because I am so I feel like drones are the scariest use of warfare because you don't have to do anything you

could just like drop off right gases or air and imagine and imagine if a foreign government what you just said a foreign government that had one the size of a car And multiple ones. And we don't know what it is. Come on. You should just, yeah, you need to figure that out in minutes. Like what's the job? They should put me in.

I would, if you, they flew me up, I would get the answers. You would, especially if you go into how you were all riled up last night. Yeah. Just drop me off. I'm right. I'm fired up. And the drones would see you and just crash into the ocean. They wouldn't want to deal with it.

Right. And being super mixed, I feel like, no matter. if it's no matter what country it is i feel like i can find a common yeah be quiet old master commonality old mr chris be quiet it's like why are we talking about this movie show no it's the christian ral love show talk about whatever the fuck i want to talk about you can go this is a movie it's called our real life i know go somewhere else nonsense i hate that's one of my my biggest pep thieves why are we something it's a movie show no one ever said that no one ever said that i talk about movies a lot talk about tvs a lot, TV shows a lot, but that's it. And this time, I don't think that I'm going after

somebody in the comments that doesn't deserve it. Be quiet. That's what we're talking about. Oh, yeah. I remember last. I did it. I did it. I did it to a news reporter and I did it to somebody else. So yeah, just be quiet. You'll get to your Clayface story. Shut your ass for a little bit. You know what I mean? Go make a sandwich and come back or pause it. Stop making, just shush. It almost makes me want to start talking about horses. Yeah, let's talk about horses now. Right, right. You know what I mean like what's your favorite color horse? I like a brown Arabian horse perfect. I was like the black hair right. So we're yeah, this is now a horse show because that's what I want to talk about right now and I bought a sandwich. I want to talk about my favorite sandwich.

Did you get a sandwich? I did I got a sandwich. Is it the Italian one? I went to an Italian place and I got some meatballs too. It was good. Oh, nice. Treat yourself Thursday. Yep. Yep. Yep. And we should talk about about baseball to about a hundred a hundred different things I know everything about baseball so good why we talking about this stuff because I want to that's why is that's the answer why do you think christian left every network in L.A. Right right because I can talk about whatever I want to clearly doesn't want to be told what to talk about no no and not by not by some guy with a fake username in the comment section it's like give me a break so what he brand new to this this show why we talking about this i thought this the movie show no you thought wrong there's another movie show on in like an hour watch that one it's good yeah we got range here yeah no i'm talking

my campy show campy show's great but it's it's a movie based show not this show oh yeah no i'm just saying this show has we we talk about more we talk about more stuff anyway i didn't know campia was back on a show yeah oh yeah he's been doing it for well okay one of the one of the few people that actually gave me and Snyder credit for the Jeremy Allen White story that we broke about him as a road of the hut in a mandolarian and grogoo oh i didn't know you guys broke that exactly that's that's so yeah yeah because deadline variety that they're leeches that's they they take other people's stories and they run with it's what they always do that's so bizarre i don't get i i shouldn't say i shouldn't say all them some of them if you looked did put Snyder's name

none of them put mine but they put Snyder's name um it is what it is anyway so let's get um we'll get this guy happy for a second and we'll report it we'll talk about this story and that is that dc studios it looks like it's green lighting the clay face movie the clay face movie is coming out it's official dc studios has handed out a green light to a live action feature film about batman villain clayface over at warner brothers pictures reports variety News of the project first emerged in March last year, suggesting that the beloved genre filmmaker Mike Flanagan from Dr. Sleep, hunting on a hillhouse, had pitched DC bosses James Gunn and Peter Saffron a feature film about the character. At the same time, it was said to be a standalone tragedy-laced horror thriller project. More recently, it was rumored that Flanagan had completed the script and shooting was scheduled for next spring.

Those rumors have now been confirmed. As previously reported, Flanagan is committed to directing his new The Exorcist film. and developing a carry TV series for Amazon MGM Studios, so won't be directing the Clayface movie. The trade today indicates that an announcement about who is helming the project is imminent, which suggests they found someone. It's not clear at present if the character will be part of the DCU as an else roll-style project. Clayface is most known via Ron Perlman's performance in 1990s Batman the animated series, but has appeared in other works, including an appearance in the recent DCU animated series Creature Amandos,

along with being a regular character on Max's Harley Quinn series. All right. Steph, so I don't know enough about Clayface, but I will know, you know, Mike Flanagan not directing, I thought he was directing it, but the fact that writing and being part of it is a good sign. It also means that he pitched it, Gunn and Safran liked what he pitched, will it be an elseworld's thing? Will it tie in?

I mean, there's a lot of questions to be answered once we find out exactly what this movie is. But what do you think? Right, because I liked Clayface because I recently watched the Batman 89 series. So I'm a little bit more, I really liked that villain. But I am curious how they're going to make him look in live action. And I always think it's a little bit tricky. Not that it's impossible. I love Planet of the Apes to have, you know, a CGI main character.

It just, I know that that causes a lot of craze sometimes within people. And sometimes they don't look good. So that's one thing that I'm thinking about. but the story itself and Mike Flanagan writing it, I think is a really cool coming together of like random, you know, like his work is so not based in fantasy superhero. And it's supernatural. So I guess it's like a brother. But that's that's exciting. Not directing it though.

I wish he was just because he's such a great horror director, horror thriller director. But there are so many. Like I feel like Jordan Peel could be a really cool pick for this. But I am curious on the origin story they're going with because I read up a little bit about it. I forget exactly what happened in Batman 89 or if we ever knew the origin. But I know that there's one spin where I think the penguin gives him a like a magical clay. And that's what happens. So I wonder if they connect penguin with him.

And if that, so if it's not elsewhere, if maybe there's the connection there. And then, but I don't think that he would be in the Batman, Matt Reeves movie. so I'm I don't know what I think old mr. Chris was being sarcastic before no I think I can't tell Christian I went back and I saw like I saw like a little face that he made I think he was my look how red Christian is I feel so bad I did it again I think I did it again I don't know I can't tell I don't know he he's if you were joking or being facetious Christian sorry but if you're eat a dick if you're not you've got a joke today okay I know but come back tomorrow I feel like if you're if you were joking you're in the clear you're in the clear I feel

he was because I recognize that name and I always have like a register of like I always remember old old Mr. Crisp being nice guy and I'm like oh wait a little face at the end of it whatever cares damn it Christian East Coast East Coast living yeah and this is my favorite version of Christian Harlop I've got to say he is like way more spicy way spicier well it's less but I think it's less spicy and just like I've I've given I've given up the will to care about okay about so it's just like unveiling the truth I think that it's just I maybe it's it's uh you know as getting older and stuff too maybe moving out of the the the bubble of LA stuff too is like I just I can't worry about what people think uh that's one thing I love about

the East Coast. I never I mean look I didn't really ever care too much but it was always aware and now I'm I don't want I don't care even if I am aware if that makes sense. Yeah no I think it's a really beautiful thing truly because West Coast has this all like consuming Catholic guilt I feel like when we're interacting with people and we at least me I feel like I have to constantly accommodate people's comfort and East Coast people they just like they don't take offense to being people being rude to them and then they're this not rude but they're just very matter of fact yeah it's it it's that's what that's my wife the other day she called up uh it was like cvs or something and she was we were trying to get something over there and and the new york

guy was just like yeah you know hold me check in the back what do you need and he wasn't being he wasn't being rude at all he's just like okay i got a lot of people in the store i can help you out whatever you need i'm going to help you but like let's go what do you need let's move it let's do it but he wasn't he was never once because i said i said to my wife was like yeah you don't find that in l i she's like no in l-a they're just assholes she's like this guy wasn't any an asshole he just was like what do you want let's move don't keep me on the phone go go go and yeah yeah and it's like the same thing but anyway um back to clay face back to clay face yeah i was like what did i say i was funny i know and then you were bright red no i know i know it was just it was one of those i just um i just feel

bad if it was but i don't know i haven't heard oh mr chris took off again between him and uh lady Hotep they they started their own channel just making bashing videos and me rightfully so um so remember lady Hotep though i think that was the one that was that was the one that was last week was lady Hoteau that's great she's gone um okay so i like the variety in what dc is doing already though yeah i like because it's different where you know more look to be feared of marvel marvel has taken people and said we want to make like these kind of genre movies inside of our universe right but there's only so much that they can really do before they hit like that Disney that's a little too much clearly with creature

commandos that is not the case with DC it's like straight sex yeah yeah yeah so you do okay good yeah I love it it's great Harry was like what's that and I was he's like thought I was watching porn for a second I was like it's the new DC show and he's like and then when he sat down he's like this is awesome So I was like, yeah. It's a lot of fun. Between so and then, you know, you're going to, you're going to have to keep some of it PG-13, right?

And I wonder, obviously Superman's going to be PG-13. And then I wonder, like, when they do movies that are, because we don't know if this is, well, this one's connected or not. And let's say it's a rated-ar-horror film and it's an elseworlds and so be it. In the same way that clearly the penguin is a R-rated show, but it's an else-world show. So the question, will be when they do another movie that's rated r but inside of the DCU you know are they going to

do that and connect i mean marvel's doing it so why why couldn't they do that so um but getting flanagan on board is a good idea he's he's he's like the it horror guy right now you know everybody raves about the guy he's like the complete like kind of horror legend so um i think this is a good move i think it's it's interesting but i say the same thing now broken record just don't spend too much money on it yeah i'll be hard because what he looks like though don't you think like how do you avoid spending a ton of can spend money on special effects and not make and then keep the rest yeah look it's casting it's if you cast major major stars and everything your budget goes away really fast right if you're building up characters and you're building up actors rather inside of this and and and giving people a start to start

their career is getting one big star in there, you know, you can bring that budget down and still use it on the CGI. I mean, and when I'm talking about a dumb down budget, I'm talking about something, look at, look at con versus Godzilla is an example, or not con versus the last one that they did, gods and monsters, whatever that thing was called. Yeah. That movie made a lot of money, Steph, and his CGI all over the place, it barely cost $100 million to make. Oh, really? It's like one, 10 or something, something like that. It had no, I mean, it had good actors in it. But Dan Stevens and Rebecca Hall, but it didn't have like break your bank talent. And it had, you know, it was what it was.

And you can make a movie. I mean, another one is the, the one that Gareth Edwards did. Oh, I love this one, the AI movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one, the one with, shoot. John David Washington. Yes, John David Washington. That cost $80 million to make. And it looked wonderful.

It looked wonderful. Yeah, you talked about this. Has anyone in the States got in the Godzilla minus one team? I know that there was talk about them doing, or he expressed interest in Star Wars, but I don't know what they're doing. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the creator was the movie.

Yeah. Oh, yeah, the creator, yeah. Yeah. So, but who do you think, do you have any ideas of who you'd want to direct? To direct? I don't know enough about it yet. I don't know enough about it.

I mean, you know, you could say, Scott Derrickson, you could say, I mean, there's a lot of, there's people that you could, that you could get to do it and maybe, I don't know how big the budget is. I don't know what kind tone they're going for. I think that a clay face kind of horror tragedy could be a $60 million movie, you know, it's like something really creepy that they could do. And so, you know, it's, I like, I like that they're going a little outside the box. Um, and where does it tie in? Now, that's the other question, right? Does it tie into Robert Pattinson's Batman in Elseworld? or does it tie into the Brave and the Bold Batman

instead of the DCU or none of the above? Right, right. Right. So there's just more that needs to be, I think to be explained before we can find out a little bit more, but it's more about, okay, they talked about it coming to fruition and now it looks like it is. So what do you guys think?

Do you think this is the way to go? And the more important thing is, Do you think that guy was being sarcastic or not? Okay, here we go. All right, here is the question. Will Craven the Hunter make any money at all? Oh, no. Most people say, no way.

After the dismal failures of Morbius and Madame Webb, it was hoped that maybe Sony's Marvel universe of Spider-Man-adjacent films could end up at a high note with Craven the Hunter opening this week. Pedigree seemed good. our rating, which was more suitable for the material, a solid director in J.C. Chander, and a strong cast, including Aaron Taylor Johnson, Russell Crow, Ariana DeBos, Alessandro Navola, and Fred Heschinger. Unfortunately, the reviews are in stuff, and the results are disastrous.

Rotten tomatoes that sits now at 15%. Gross, which is on par with Morbius, at 15%. 3.8 out of 10 and just above Madam Webb at 11%. Here's an excerpt of some of the quotes. Craven is the lumber sexual response to 2004's catwoman. Ouch! We don't know whether Craven the Hunter is truly the final bow of the SSMU. It is undoubtedly a self-inflicted kill shot.

David Fear. First one was Joseph Robinson. Next one. The real tragedy surrounding Craven the Hunter. isn't that it promises a future that will never be, but it could have allowed itself in the universe to which it belongs to to go out with some dignity. Bill Bryant.

A clunky, crowded script, muddy visual effects, glaringly, obviously, ADR, bogging down a promising premise. It's not camp enough to become a cult classic, and it lacks the conviction to carry its most ambitious ideas to the finish line. That's from Livy Scott. Anybody we recognize here? I want to see if there's anybody who recognized.

Nope. I know that Broca hated it too. The CGI devolves from adorably cartoonish to done as cheaply as possible from a studio trying to cut its losses so fast that it comes dangerously close to Scorpion King territory by the end. Oh my Lord.

The movie is so vicious, so bereft of life in spite of many desperate and quality actors trying to quicken the cadaver with wasted energy that it eerily resembles the cobbled together emptiness of the worst 2,000 superhero time wasters. My lord, that is just that you know what it reminds me of? That's like somebody saying, hey, do me a favor, stand right there. And then 15 people just start chucking eggs at them.

Oh, no. Right? I mean, that was like, I was expecting like, hey, look, they did what they could do. This was a valiant effort, but it just doesn't work. This is like P. Yussa. Right. Right. And Roxy is telling me that before they, they said this would be the last one they were doing before the movie came out.

Yeah. Sony. So that's like not only were they getting 15 eggs thrown at them. They put on a super suit to prepare for the 15 eggs being thrown on them, which is like, damn, like, how did this? I just don't understand. I would love to be a fly in the room for Sony when they're making these movies because it can't possibly be. be that all these good filmmakers and great actors are involved in these projects and then like flop after flop after flop occurs like something's happening well they yeah well they know now they know it's like it's it's over prime um yeah so yeah uh haskell our good buddy haskell said at dan merrill in his review said that after driving five hours and sitting in traffic in a city that he doesn't live in he's

rethinking his life choices after seeing that movie oh no no and you know i was excited. I saw the trailer and I was like, okay. They clearly polished a turd. I still would have liked to have seen it because I was supposed to see it the other day, but I got sick and I couldn't get into the city and I just couldn't do it. I didn't want to be irresponsible. And I didn't, I didn't

wind up going to see it. And now what I realize is two things with that. One, obviously missed out on putting it up on the channel. Two, now I'm going to have to pay for it and go see it in the theater. So at least I'll, you know. Oh, gosh. yeah i'll add some money to the right right but i mean we were yeah i was so close to doing a double header this weekend with lord of the rings and craven but i don't know if we're gonna

do that yeah i mean that's it's that's a tough one man it's like and what also happened is that they said um niki yesterday our whole thing that we went with our main topic that myself and clark and sam talked about yesterday on the show was um that sony pretty much said okay we throw in the towel, we're done, right? That's because they knew they, they, you know what's coming. Like, right. The fact that when they're, when they put out the first eight minutes or nine minutes, whatever they, they, they know what's coming.

And then what the thing is usually what happens is when they put out the first eight or nine minutes, that means they go, hey, we got a good movie. Nobody wants to see it. Let me show you what we got. They put out probably the best eight or nine minutes of the whole thing of all that's all that they got. Right. I heard that the first part is really good. and then all of a sudden or like it's good and then all of a sudden it just just drops off a cliff

and it never rocks so roxy saw it right yeah yeah she said that and you know she's like me we're easy yeah if it's fun we're enjoying it and we like aaron most people like erin taylor johnson but she was like woof wow she said it was really that bad huh yeah like woof yeah and she thinks it's worse than all of them wow all of them morbiess wow madame watson madame watson and she's not and she and like roxy roxy said it in the show the other day roxy doesn't review movies like like looking and crunching what the shots are she she judges them off of how they make her feel and yes and she said that clearly that this made her feel not good no not good like she was like watch yeah when you're watching it and you're just thinking how bad you feel for

everyone involved but she was like wow and and then she said that an interesting thing happened where she couldn't tell because after them she felt like everyone was on her same page like people were like kind of laughing at how crazy and just wild things looked and then at the end there was like a thunderous clap and i don't know if it what when it was over you mean yes and i don't know if that was like a like hell yeah like we just watched a look or if it was just it worked for that crowd i don't know but Either way, it's, you know what I will say. It's funny though, because Aaron, I feel like Aaron Taylor Johnson has been in,

he's been in some stinkers before, right? And not, not even movies like that are stinkers in quality, just stinkers that happen. Like look at the fall, the fall guy would be classified as a stinker as far as box office goes. Because I like the movie. I like fall. Me too.

It's just, but it ate it. It just didn't do very well. It's another movie. He's in a, he's in a handful of those that have not, done well, but I feel like he's the type of actor that it won't hurt him. And he'll keep because because the flip side of that he's fan. I mean, I haven't seen him in Craven to say that he's not fantastic in it, but he's really good in Nosephiratu, which is getting good.

Oh, yeah, that's great. Yeah, he's going to be it's, it's so funny. I was watching Saturday Night Live with my daughter last night. She was becoming a major fan of that show. Oh, good. She's going to turn into an improv queen. She loves it. And so we were watching, um, the, uh, Paul Meskel episode.

Paul Meskill's like a version of Aaron Taylor Johnson meets Daniel Radcliffe. Oh, that's a good description. I'm obsessed with Paul Meskel. I loved how he was so willing to make fun of himself. He had a lot of fun. You could tell you. He did. And he was, he clearly was like a little overwhelmed in the beginning and he was having

and he was happy to be there. And you could tell, you could tell. So I enjoyed the performance. He's in, you get, what's interesting is because like it feels like the world views him as like a total smoke show that should be like such a hunk and so confident but when you watch his interviews you're like oh this is a nerdy theater kid that probably like didn't realize that he's super handsome until i don't know maybe gladiator too like i'm not sure it's so he's so humble he's so humble well and i thought he did a good job for what i i saw them a good majority of it but um but anyway

so i didn't even know where he did better in the recorded sketches yes yeah for sure the recorded sketches were my favorite for him which makes sense that's hard that's but that's also you can you could tell from his monologue that's not his comfortable spot yeah yeah it was this he's an actor so you ask you tell him to do hey here's the script is what we need you okay great and and he did some other things i thought really worked but um yeah anyway so that movie though not paul mescal is indeed erin taylor johnson and the movie i think that the saving grace is as much as i don't want to I don't want to see a movie eat crap like that. And I don't want to.

I like Aaron Taylor Johnson and I want to see him do well, but he'll survive. The saving grace, though, is that they cannot justify doing any more of these. Yeah. It's over now. It's over. They're going to focus on Spider-Man. They're going to focus on the Spider-Verse animated movies. And they're going to stop trying to do this because it ain't working.

Nobody cares. And you're doing it wrong. You're not making good movies. Right. So anyway, what do you guys think? Is anyone in this chat or anyone in the replay going to watch this movie? Or are you going to wait for it to come out? Were you even planning to see it before all of this?

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asked if there was one character from his career that he loved the opportunity to play again, his answer, The Grinch. Carrie played the title character in Ron Howard's 2000 Christmas film. Wow, the movie's 25 years, 24 years old. How the Grinch stole Christmas. The film ended up making 346 million worldwide off mixed reviews. It was the highest grossing film of 2000 domestically. Carrie famously had to endure the makeup for the Grinch 100 times a process that initially took 8.5 hours each time and which Carrie said he was akin to being buried alive.

Brian Grazer ended up hiring a man who teaches CIA operatives how to endure torture to help get Carrie through the movie. Carrie understandably says that he wouldn't mind doing it again if the makeup could be done digitally. Oh, man, gosh, you know, if we could figure out the Grinch, the thing about it is on the day, I do that with a ton of makeup and can hardly breathe. It was an extremely excruciating process.

The children were in my mind all the time. It's for the kids. It's for the kids. And now with motion capture and things like that, it could be free to do, I could be free to do other things. Anything is possible in this world. Carrie was also asked about those retirement plans, and it seemed like they're not as safe.

set in stone as expected. You can't be definite about these things. I said I'd like to retire, but I think I was talking more about power resting because as soon as a good idea comes your way or a group of people you really enjoy working with, things tend to change. Comments come as early reactions to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 went online yesterday and praised the film as the best entry so far. The film opens in cinemas on December 20th and Paramount has today released some themed Christmas film poster homages and a rank and base style short film to promote the film. Okay, so let's start with the idea. I want to start with the retirement thing.

It's one of these things that annoys me the most about directors and actors. You can't, it's not like another, like, you know, your police officer or you're, I'm retired. Are you really, though? It's like, no, you're not. Look, and Gene Hackman says he's retiring. I believe him. You know, he's late 80s, whatever he's.

Okay, he's retiring. I believe it. 55-year-old man says you're retiring. Quentin Tarantino says he's retiring. No, you're not. I think he summed it up. Well, said, you know, you know what it means? It's like, I'm just taking a power now.

And then if something big comes up, I might just sit on the sidelines for as long as I want. And then if something big comes up, then I'll do it. Don't say you're retired. And the same thing, there's no world. There is no world where Quentin Tarantino is going to retire within the next 15 years. There's no world. He's, if you cut his fingers off, blood won't come out.

Film would drop out of his hands. The guy, he wouldn't know what to do with himself. There's no world where, so stop saying that. Like, Daniel DeLewis, okay, I believe it, but even with him, I hear he's coming back too. Yeah, he's coming back for his sons. Right. So you're not retired. Yeah. Yeah. I completely agree. Like I've been over people saying they're retired since Jay-Z.

That was the first I can remember. That was a big, big thing. He should retire. He should retire. What? Yeah, yeah. I think it's time to let it go now. Too much heat, too much heat. And yeah, I think it's weird. Like as an artist, we don't like have a retirement because our is like the gift of a job where it's a passion first i mean i'm sure for some people there's parts of the industry what i like about jim carrie's quote is that of course you get wrapped up into the power

plays and like what's going to gross the most and what's the biggest movie for your career and i like that he's like being just like i'll do what i feels good who i want to work with what i want to do and sonic is the best representation of that because it was it's random i mean it's it's a huge franchise but it is like oh jim carrie's coming back for sonic and then again and again and again it's like obviously he loves the character and he loves the group working on it it's the most so i just recently rewatched i didn't really haven't hadn't seen a lot of the first one and i rewatched it we did one on the channel with my friend tina who had never seen it it's the most like classic jim carrie that we've gotten in a long time to where like to me the best jim carry is where he uses all those

talents, but he really furthers the story. And it's not just, hey, look at the spotlight. It's me, Jim Carrey. Like, clearly he's a spotlight performer. He, I mean, he is. He's a spotlight performer. And when he's on, it's like, oh, you have to watch him. But it's like, okay, are you just doing a thing here because it's just you kind of going off the map and being all wild? Or is it you actually being able to do that and move the story along? And I think he does that brilliantly in the Sonic movies. It's actually why I think that, you know, he, because if you watch his interviews, he's a very like, um, kind of a eccentric dude, right? And he's like he, it's why to this day, my two favorite performances from him are eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and, and Truman

show. Like it's okay. Like those are my two favorite performances of him. Like I, I have a lot of comedic performances that I, that I enjoy of his, but those are the two movies that I think he, his talent really shines the brightest because he's asked to just do what he has to do and further the story right yeah he has such an interesting catalog because he is so just i mean he's the most similar to robin will ever get in terms of that sort of insane comedic range but then can play very serious roles too sometimes and you're like what you know who's really good dramatically who adam stalin he is he is but he's not as character driven as those two he's more just like the in what in drama no no no in um in his comedic performances i don't know i mean he's done a lot of different uh comedies back and for i

would put i would put sandler's dramatic skills up against carrie's i don't know if i put him up against yeah williams yeah i hear i think that's like a valid argument you think of all the characters he has they are crazy and insane i just the body movement of jim carry is sure physical physical wise physical yeah if you're talking about physical comedians then robin williams jim kerry and then adam stiler was less of i mean he did physical stuff and happy gilmore with the fights and things of that nature but but no with the body movements and the gun face and all that kind of stuff sure um but yeah but your point is still super valid that all three of them are just can transfer over that way yeah but i like

I was watching Sonic because we wanted to watch the third one. And we were like both so like, oh, I missed Jim Carrey. He's carrying this movie because a lot of the parts are like fine. But when he comes on screen, you're like, oh, this is so fun. This is a really fun movie. Yeah. Well, so then that brings us to the fact of his comments about the Grinch, right? So the Grinch, he makes, again, I think valid points where at first when he was going,

oh i could just do cg i and motion capture and at first i'm like ah but i'll look horrible i'm like well not necessarily i mean you you look how great the freaking apes look you know yeah so if you did something along those lines and you actually did him in in the performance capture more so than the motion capture i would i'd be up for that and and i also don't because you hear horror stories of how he was because of the eight hours of yeah so you don't want to you don't want to put anybody through that again. I was shocked to see this statement by him because I thought we would just never because it's so well known about how grueling this experience was for him and basically everyone on set. But I don't know. I don't feel like they need to make if they find a way I'll

obviously watch it. I just feel like the story was complete and I would I would have to be like what's the story to force this forward and that way. Yeah, I mean, and it's also a matter. I think I'd like to see Ron Howard come back, but we're also talking about 24 years removed. And by the time they make it, it would be 26, 27 years removed. So would they still want to do it? I mean, clearly Jim Carrey would still be able to do it physically and everything too. When you look at the Sonic movies, he'd be able to do it. So anyway, what do you guys think? Is that something you'd want to see? Do you care? Do you not want to care? Did you like the animated movie better than live action? Do they have to make everything live action? Let's not talk about that anymore. Tangled, getting a live-action movie.

The greatest showman director, Michael Gracie, has entered negotiations to direct a live-action adaptation in 2010's animated film, Tangled at Disney. The original film was a modern retelling of the classic Rapunzel fairy tale by the Brothers Grim. Mandy Moore played Rapunzel, a spirited princess with magical golden hero, escapes from her isolated tower

from the first time to experience the world, embarking on an adventure with a charming thief by Zachary Levi. She discovers her true identity and face the dangerous truth about the woman Donna Murphy who kept her captive. The original grows to over 590 million worldwide and scored an Oscar nomination. Plot details of the live action version are under wraps. One would guess it's about long hair. No, they didn't write that. But is expected to follow along the lines of the animated version as opposed to some of the other adaptations which subvert the story.

Jennifer, Caitlin Robinson, Thor, Love, and Thunder. Uh-oh. Next year's, I know what you did last summer. Penn the most recent draft of the script. Kristen Burr and Lucy Cadeta will produce. Gracie recently co-wrote, directed and produced to Robbie Williams' biopic, Better Man, in which the British pop icon is portrayed as a chimpanzee.

Film opens on Christmas Day. Okay. Well, I don't, I mean, it's not fair to do this, but I see Thor Love and Thunder, and I already go, Oh, you know, but it makes sense that they would make a tangled live. I mean, they're doing Moana. They're doing everything else too. It would make sense.

And tangled like Moana has such a great soundtrack. And it just feels like they're going to eventually do all the princesses live action. And that's okay. So I'm curious to see how it will play out before I saw the Michael Gracie in Negoti. I just thought I can't imagine other people other than John M. Chu directing Oh musicals anymore. Yeah, right. He has completely taken over my brain in that category. But, uh, but yeah, I think it was only a matter of time. The soundtracks there. It should be decent. The stories there. I can't imagine. I would be curious to see how much they change if they change at all because most of the other live action adaptions have been

pretty much the same. I guess Snow White is the one that they're saying might be a little bit different than the original story, but all the rest follow beat by beat. So it doesn't seem like there's too much creative input involved. And that might hurt Snow White, by the way. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we'll see. Maybe it, maybe it won't. I'm so curious with that one because me too. That one's going to prove some stuff overall, right? Because the obviously the pushback on that movie, is pretty loud, and it's not just people who just want to hate stuff. It really isn't. There's also stuff of people going, okay, enough is enough.

Stop talking about stuff and just do it. And PR has been bad on it, and they haven't looked very good. The dwarves look terrible. But the question is, is it a good movie? And if it is, if you make a good movie, the loud voices will be silenced fast. Majority of time, not always, but the majority of time. if you made a stinker you're just going to elevate those voices right so i am so curious to see how that movie does it comes out in march um the reason with the other thing though is the same reason

why i said i think that like moana two is not a great movie it's it's i enjoyed it but it's not a great movie um the reason that i believe that it did very well is because there is nothing to be able to take your kids to see right now it just doesn't so you're like i want to take my kids to the movies so what are we going to see they have moana two out all right let's get everybody in the car let's go see it i feel like snow white could be that movie also for sure so there's a possibility that that it gets the families in there yeah and i don't think that those fans like the little girls and boys and all the little kids they're not paying attention to the delays the press like they don't it's no white

they want to see snow white they're not paying attention to what it is yeah so yes what if you're Disney you're hoping that the family's gonna get those people and stop it stop it but I'll make the point again I'm gonna make the point again the reason that Moana too did well the reason why it did well is because you need to go see things with your kids sometimes too doesn't mean that not anybody can enjoy it it means that those kids had something to see that's the point and that's the same thing with snow white snow white will have um will have kids in that theater and you're right they're not going to be paying attention now but it's a good movie it's a good movie yeah yeah i will be curious to see because there is so i'm really worried about what the dwarves look like

um and watching a whole movie of that it's the same thing that we've been talking about the whole show like with um with the sand with the dc villains uh clip how am i forget clay face sandman clay face and with the grinch it's like i always have that most people are pretty apprehensive but it doesn't mean it hasn't been pulled off i just think that sometimes when you have like full cg i characters they can be really not enjoyable to watch for two hours but sometimes it works yep and we'll see so do you guys think you think this is going to be something that everybody can uh check out you think that anybody's going to want to see tangled put your comments in there let us know what you think

all right before we get to the questions um the other thing that came out today staff for the critics choice awards the uh the nominations so i am part of that group i was happy to see these nominations and like i said i think that they're the only ones that really should count I really do. I think they're the only ones that should count. They get it right every year. And I'm not just saying that because I'm in the damn thing. I'm saying it because I just feel like every year they get it right.

And I think they got it right this time. Here's Best Picture. A Complete Unknown. Anora, the Brutalist, Conclave, Dune Part 2. Amelia Perez, Nickel Boys, Sing, Sing, The Substance, Wicked. Best actor, Adrian Brody for The Brutelist, Timothy Shalome, Complete Unknown,

Daniel Craig for queer Coleman Domingo Sing Sing I said this yesterday Ray Fiends for Conclave that's what I'm gonna call him from now on Hugh Grant heretic and best actress Cynthia Arevo Wicked Carla Sophia Gascona Amelia Perez Marian Jean Baptiste Hartrus Angelina Jolie for Maria Mikey Madison anora Demi Moore the substance Best Supporting actor Yorah Borsov Anora Kieran Culkin a real pain Clarence Macklin Sing, Edward Norton, complete unknown, Guy Pearce, the brutalist, Denzel Washington, Gladiator 2. That's an interesting one, though.

That's interesting. I thought he was going to get those nominations. Interesting. Best supporting actress. Daniel Deadweiler, the piano lesson. Ajawan Ellis Taylor, Nickel Boys. Ariana Grande, Wicked. Margaret Qualey, the substance.

Isabella Rossellini, Conclave. Zoe Saldana, Amelia Perez. Best Young Actor, Actress. Ayala Brown, Furiosa, Mad Max Saga, Elliot Hefferman, Blitz, Maisie Stella, My Old Ass, Isaac Wang, Diddy, Aisha Weir, Abigail, Zoe Ziegler, Janet Planet, Best Acting Ensemble,

Anora, Concave, Amelia Perez, Saturday Night, Sing, Sing, Wicked, Best Director, Jacques Adelaard, Amelia Perez, Sean Baker, Anora, Edward Berger, Conclave, Bradley Corbe, the Brutelist, John M. Chu, Wicked, who was ignored from the Golden Globes. Corley Fargier, the Substance, Ramele Ross, Nickel Boys, and Deney for Dune Part 2, who was ignored at the Golden Globes.

Best Original Screenplay, Sean Baker for Inora. You got September 5th, Brutalist, Real Pain, Substance, Challengers, Best Adapted Screenplay, Emilia Perez, Wicked, Sing, Sing, Nickel Boys, Conclave, June, Part 2. best cinematography knows for a two wicked brutalist conclave dune part two nickel boys best production design brutalist wicked conclave nose fraught to gladiator two june two's a lot of dune stuff a lot of there's a lot of there's a lot in here they got it right there's you know there's a couple people got left off here and there but that's going to always happen but overall stuff

i'm telling you this should be the most this should be the one that people pay attention to yeah and i like i love the young actor category for the critics choice awards because it's like they don't get the opportunity to really get the most of the time the best actor, best actress nominations. But there was there's always so many killer like young kid performances. And I think that they nailed all the ones that I clock this year. But especially director. I don't understand the Golden Globes at all with. Yeah.

It's crazy. And with John M. Chute. That doesn't make. Those are the two movies that people were like, wow. the direction crazy and so the reason why i also think the critics choice should be the ones because when the Oscars get the nominations everything to there's like what happens is the actors vote on the actors the directors the directors you know they they all inside their own community

they'll they'll vote on it right and so you cannot guarantee that all those people have seen all those movies all the actors haven't seen all the movies all the records they haven't seen all the movies critics see everything critics see everything they see everything they see everything they have the best knowledge of all this stuff and yeah I think that they should have the most merit in in the in the industry I really do I think the Critics choice award should be the premier one that everyone cares about the most I I know it won't change that because Oscars have that history because it has that kind of like prestige on it but I I think the Oscars are worthless

they're worthless except so what do you think would need to happen like one year where they kind of up the budget so they have performances or to get like people's eyes on it maybe put it on a streaming platform it's almost impossible it's almost impossible because if it's a it's a matter of just changing the narrative of what's the important one and everyone's always going to take the Oscars because that's the way it's always been in the same way even if a if a new football league came in you know and not like the XFL because that was garbage but if I knew it and it was really really good NFL's never going to change is never going to switch over.

It's always going to be the NFL. Right. And so right now, the Oscars are the NFL of the awards series. It's not going to change. Yeah, but it's interesting because then I feel like it's Golden Globes. Golden Globes is number two, and it shouldn't be. Yeah. Yeah.

It shouldn't be. So you know what I think could change it is that if somebody, if some of, if similar to what you were just talking about, but if like, right now they're on, I think it's like CW or whatever they're on. whatever it's on. I think that if somebody put it on there and did a lot of promotion behind it and like, I really, I mean, because Chelsea Handler hosts it every year and, or not every year, but a lot of times, the last couple times I've been there. She's, she's been the host and she's good. But I think like putting on like a really big show, putting some money behind it and doing like,

look what we're doing this year and make. And it should be the show. It should be the one. It's the one to me that's the most credible. Because these people see everything. They see everything. Yeah. They just simply see everything and they don't have to like be sent it all at once. They just they've been watching them consistently throughout the year. Yeah. No, and I'm not saying that. It's almost like let's, let's not act like critics get it right every time either.

They certainly don't. Absolutely not. They certainly don't. And I've actually talked about that. I actually disagree with the critics most of the time. Yeah. I said it the other day actually with Roxy. I'm so far removed.

I'm in the freaking CC. I'm in, I'm in that group. I'm so far removed from what. the way certain critics look at things, know they see things. I find myself on the opposite end of it. I'm not saying that, and I'm not saying that

because what critics deem is great versus everyone else can vary widely. I couldn't agree with you more. I agree with you. That's not the point though. The point is there are the ones who are seeing the things that can at least be, have a knowledge of it to say like, oh, I've seen this, I know this, I know that.

And I can also tell you from the group, the people that are in it, as I just mentioned before, The directors, you have one kind of in the Oscars. You have one group that's voting on the, or nominating directors doing this and doing it. And then everybody else in the academy votes for it, right? But with the critics, there's a lot of range. It's not just the snooty critics.

There's a lot of range. Like I mentioned, I'm in it. You know, like Dan Merle is in it. You know, there's a lot of people. I mean, Roker just got in it recently. There's Wendy Lee is in it. There's so many different people in it. And then you get like the really like the definition to me of a critic, a Bibiani,

who I think just got in recently, Alonzo Doralde, like people like that. There's a really big mix. So it's not just the critics that you're thinking of. There is, it's a, it's a variety. And they started letting in the YouTube people. And it was a thing at first where they were like, it was, you know, print critics were with end all be all. but that's not the case anymore yeah so yeah um all right step we're gonna start we got right now

you've got it you've got to try to beat clark and sam with about an hour to go you got to get 50 more because you're at 20 oh my gosh guys let's go i know you're starting out at 20 um but i think you can do it you got a shot it depends it depends maybe they can get you over there but right right now you're at 20 and we'll see if we can get you to 70. All right. Okay. I mean, to be fair, to be fair, Clark and Sam didn't hit, didn't even be, they hit like, they were behind a Roka. They were like at 57 with like five minutes left and then there was like an onslaught at the end and they went eating both. We got this. Yeah. Ian Davis, what you have done with this channel is amazing. Oh, thank you, Ian. I have a commute of 1.5 hours every day and you guys make it enjoyable. Oh,

Oh, that's awesome. That's for both of you. If you had an infinite budget, what is the movie that you would make? You know what's funny is that I was thinking about this. I would make a remake of the movie Rad, and not with an infinite budget. You wouldn't need an infinite budget for that. But I actually was thinking about that this morning. I would want to make it centered around like, you know, biking and skating and stuff today.

Today's kids that are doing it and do, I don't know why they haven't remade rad. But what about yourself? I haven't seen that. Oh yeah, it's a classic 80s movie. Probably like a really big budget fantasy movie. Because I feel like as a when you're like beginning in filmmaker as a writer, you just like, I mean you can have one of those scripts. That's your dream scripts.

But you don't really get to make those until you know, you're pretty massive. So I think like a big budget fantasy movie. Yeah, I'd want to do one of those two. EWalk. Yeah. I'm still. haunted by that 28 years later trailer yeah we didn't really discuss that but did you watch it stuff yes just did you creep you out yeah creep me out and i knew that wasn't killion murphy

and people were gaslighting me and being like you're wrong it's not it's not it's not confirmed it and said it wasn't if i am killing and murphy i'm coming for all of you because you guys thought that that looked like me so offensive uh and then he walker says any thoughts on the credit choice nominations well we just obviously just spoke about that uh roe Roman Fedorak, hey all, I hope this week is treating you well. Thank you, Roman. Thank you. Steph, if you don't mind me saying this, you were embracing the dark side last night and I'm here for it.

All we need is Christians palps egging you on. I can't even try to do it. It's like, Steph, I can't, I can't even do it right now. I was like, do it, do it, do it now. Because you were sick. I'm still kind of getting over it, but like I tried to do my mad hatter the other day. Can't hit it right now. Damn.

It's like, muttered. I can't even do it. Oh my God. It's taken it's taken me out. I can't do a lot of different voices. I'm only if I got mad hatter after smoking a pack of cigarettes. That messed me up. I'm trying to do just now. What about like Gary Busey I can try to do? Okay. I believe that I can still do boys here and there because I don't have to hire up. I believe meatballs are made out of cheese. Thank you. Gary. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. That was awesome.

Mike Joyce. Steph, how many reactions do you film in a day? The, uh, uh, Akara, Akara, Achara, Achara. Achara. Achara. Uh, Chara implied on a recent Patreon post that one duo filmed four in one day. That seems like a lot. Never. No.

They, they always try lovingly to make me do three in a day and I can't. I cap, I mean, I'll do three if I'm like leaving for three weeks. And it's like just to be like get it out there. so I don't have to, because it's an hour drive for me, so I don't have to come in twice. But two movies, I mean, like, I know it sounds super fun, but it's a lot. It's a lot. Like, we've been doing them here. Look, I wish Sam and I almost did two back to back the other day, except we were both

tapped out. And I was, I had to get back to my family to get back to hers. And like, I don't do, I don't even half of, I mean, I do like a fraction of what both Real Rejects and those guys do, too. So it's like, I can only imagine. That's a lot. It's crazy. The good news is that we are joined by Captain Penis, and he says,

What is the one movie Brett saw this year? Oh my gosh. Let me see. I'll ask. Like Inside Out, too. Let me see. In the theater, you mean? Let me ask.

Hold on. Hey, Kamau, what is the last movie that you saw? I guess in the theater and then just in general. We'll get that for you. Okay. So we'll find that out for you, Captain Pinas. Don't worry. Yeah, don't worry.

Sorry. Captain penis. Uh, 25 is what we're at right now. Good start. Good start. Okay. You dropped up five already. So people are let's go trying to get you there. So all right. Next one here. This is mad sinister Macau. Love characters that can morph like mystique and Clayface. If you had that power, who would you be for a day? I'd be Kathleen Kennedy and resigned from Disney. Oh my gosh. I didn't I didn't say that. That's what he said. That's what he said. I didn't say that. But that's a good one. Um, I would be Elon Musk and I would give all my money to various charities and programs. Brett's answer is poor things and Dune 2. So how random. So random. For me, I would be whoever the president is for the day and announce disclosure.

And now, oh my God. All the, all the UFO files. I'll release them in one day release them all release them all um okay let's see next one a deadline I guess said that it's patents in universe the Clayface that's interesting okay so maybe there is the penguin tie-in that would make sense yep say that say that name of that show again penguin penguin penguin he said penguin penguin penguin penguin uh Richard octura hey Christian hey Steph sending one in for Steph Steph Steph Steph Steph where What are your thoughts on the skeletons crew?

I fell asleep on episode three last night. I just don't feel, I don't feel the excitement for Star Wars like I used to, is what Richard said. I, man, I'm not mad at you. I'm really not mad at you. I'm really enjoying Skeleton Crew. I think the third one's my least favorite of the first three that came out. It was still enjoyable, but it is like, I don't know.

It got the, with the owl character, I was like, okay, it's a little. I didn't even watch it. Between the owl and the wolf, it's a little too. I you guys know I didn't like the wolf on site I just the the wolf pirate is too much going on for me and then then we got this like owl CGI character who it was it looked good it was cute but I think it was just a little too much a little too it was more playful kitty than the previous ones and yeah so it's still good but it is not I'm not the target audience let's yeah see you're starting to bail on it already I had um I had um It's so funny because like I said, I enjoyed watching the first two, but I still haven't even watched it there, wouldn't yet. And I've had no desire to rush and go see it. And it's like I could. Yeah, there's more Jude Law, which is surprise.

Like I thought he was really fun in it, but it is more of like, uh, it was super predictable like we thought. Is he? So let me, let me guess. There's a spoiler for anybody who hasn't seen it. I haven't seen it yet, but I'm asking stuff to he's not really a Jedi. He's kind of a goofball. Yeah. Is that exactly what?

it is he's a pirate but he's not really he's pretending as a jett he's he's like i never said that you guys just thought that but i don't know how he is using the force or if it's mat like different bordering i'm bored yeah like uh go pal the carry series has been intrigued none of the adaptations i've seen 76,200 tv not sure if i saw chloe moretz really match the book um yeah i mean look i'd like to see what what he does again flattening and he's he's making all the right moves so let's see go pal carrie's rampage through the town is such a huge part of the story but everyone leaves it out i wonder if he maybe he won't do it this time especially with the show but to show you a more time to explore the i still think larger novels and freaking um video games should be turned into series

28 28 28 28 okay simon section this is the K-8 show. If Nolan's next movie is rumored to be inspired by the Blue Thunder movie, today's helicopters are now drones, and if this UAP is neither foreign or U.S., this is the movie for Nolan or Spielberg. Could be, depending on what the ultimate end turns out to be for the series. Top Dog Rig. Dan Merle's review told me all I needed to know about Craven. Poor guy was questioning his career decisions in the review.

How does a studio screw up this bad, not once, not twice, but three times? wrong cooks in the kitchen who think that they have it right and like oh you know what we just did it wrong this time they don't have the right people they don't get it they don't get it and it's this is not much of a difference in lucas film it really isn't it just it's like they they don't get it marvel gets it yeah maybe they're making some bad decisions a couple different times but they get it overall i mean you can't you look at the first three seasons the first three phases they get it um DC so far or james gunn's gets it so i don't know i don't know i just think that they just have the wrong people in charge and yeah doesn't matter now because it's not going to be uh just not making those movies anyway um

okay next thing we have mike joyce christian got any weird salesman stories recently have a weird salesman story what was the weird salesman story the one where you answer and you do like go back and forth with them i think maybe they're was also, I mean, remember I had a really bad waiter one time. Is that I'm not sure what Mike Choice means. No, I don't have any bad salesman stories lately. As Steph said, in New York, does it seem to be, just like a lot of upfront people? I haven't had a lot of turds.

Top Dog Rig. On the topic of movies, do you really think Juan Soda decided to join the Mets for the extra $5 million? Or could it be that he thinks the project there is better? Yankees fans are a bit salty. Look, I will tell you, do I think that the Yankee fans, myself being one, do I think that most Yankee fans are being a little salty right now? Yeah, we do. Do I think it's because it's like, hey, we didn't get our guy back. I thought he was a natural, born fit Yankee. I really do.

But I'll be honest with you. That's a lot of money to pay to somebody who's getting to be in his mid-40s, and you still got a guaranteed contract to pay this guy that kind of money per year. It's like $50 million a year or something. And so let the Mets have them. It's one, I mean, he's, you know, He's made a kind of goofy, kind of a bunch of goofy plays in the outfit. He's going to hit some homers for him, and he's going to bring in some runs, and he's going to get him to win some games. But he can't pitch the ball. You know what I mean?

He can't. He's not, he's not pitching. So Yankees spend that money on some pitch and some other stuff, too. So I think he did decide. I think that he's 26 years old or whatever he is. He 100% took it for the extra money, because $5 million is $5 million, just $5 million, an extra $5 million. It'll give you the extra $5.

million it's not an extra 10 bucks it's five million dollars extra five that's that's a it's a so um so yeah i understand why people are pissed off but i don't really i don't care plus the fact it's easier for me to go to mess games and i'll probably be going to the mess games while we're probably watching the yankees on my phone um let's see fastia bruta uh i don't know what this means i'm probably reading something where they're cursing at us adoro l2 spedacolo i don't know all right like the most racist thing ever i hate your kind something really racist simon's section hopefully you didn't take that last chat the wrong way i was getting into that story before when we're interrupted any plans on having future conversations with guests like punisher on this related story

hmm do i i don't think i understand that question do you no hopefully you didn't take that last chat the wrong way which which one what was his last chat that he wrote because i don't know know what the last one was step um here do i i don't know what shoot i'm sorry simon i don't know i don't really know what you mean there buddy um yeah i'm kind of lost on that one so he said let me i'll try to read it again and see if i can get a uh and see the chat can explain it to me because i didn't get it but let me try it again hopefully you didn't take that chat the wrong way i was getting into that story before we were interrupted any plans on having future conversations with guests like punisher on oh oh oh oh oh oh hopefully you didn't take that last chat

the wrong but that wasn't but simon wasn't the one who wrote it um about the i had thomas jane on talking about uap so would i have any other yeah i just had a i just had a guest on yesterday um but it's all on the down-to-earth channel top dog rig jim andy the great beyond made me generally despised jim carrie blessed the professional that needs to put up with potentials as actors like him. Do you see that documentary? Yeah. Do you feel the same way? No, I don't, I, I, I think he was like in a, I don't know how to describe, I think he was like going through something. I mean, he said that very clearly. It was, I think he was having like an out of body experience and it was unfortunate for everyone involved, including the families that were so close.

closely tied to the story, but it was do I think that can happen with someone like Jim Kerry. I know, but it was douche. It was sunny. I just saw a clip with Timothy Olofan. He was talking about how like acting is is easy. And he goes, yeah, he's like, look. And who was he on with? I can't remember who it was. It was a talk show host. And he's like, you're saying that that acting is easy? Is that what you're saying? He's like, they give me the lines. I show up and I read my lines. And he goes, and he goes, uh, yeah, Jim Carrey is like, you know he's talking about uh he's talking i was watching that documentary where he's in character and treating everybody horribly and doing this stuff too and he goes my care he goes i watched

that movie in character and he goes and my character hated the movie and he goes my character thought it was very pretentious it was hilarious yeah i that's hysterical i it was it was i i saw it so many years ago that came out like four years ago something like that yeah i was talking yeah um and i remember being like I don't even know if I finished it because it was kind of uncomfortable but I Jim Carrey has been very open about his mental health so I I don't know it's like it's not like he's like I'm totally normal you guys should have just accepted that yeah no I mean it was very I mean you watch it's it's it's tough it's tough it's very cringe very low jelly Loller wanted to legitimately kill him uh clip champ razor clay face is sometimes just a failed actor

that is a master of disguise Hugh Grant and Paddington too, but more serious in my ideal casting. Also, Penguin's girlfriend in the series had some last name as one. Okay, I mean, look, so I think that it makes a lot more sense now, especially if we heard that particular news that it could be tied to Reeves world. I like that better and I like that tone for it. So we'll see all that and more. Yeah, I agree.

Yeah. Okay. Next one. Let's see. And we will get to, Fasia Bruda. What do you think of the Critics Choice Award nominations? Well, we kind of covered those.

They look good to me, also with the Nora. Also, congratulations, the substance and Hugh Grant. Grazie, Paziano. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I was really excited about the substance getting nominations for both the Golden Globes and. I talked about that movie yesterday. So did you love that movie?

I loved it. I liked two thirds. I loved two thirds of it. like the end oh really yeah was what i was saying with the end with with sam and clark yesterday was that i was if the whole movie felt like a like a black mirror episode right and then like by the time you get to the end it just goes so off the walls and bizarre and graphic and kind of like it's it's it's like almost like like a like a full-on kind of i don't want to say creature film but it's like it's like cron and berk yeah i guess i don't know i didn't i didn't love it i didn't love it um i loved it

It was disgusting. It was really gross, but I just thought that it fit the story. It was good. I don't disagree. Top Dog Rick, Disney thinking it's less offensive to make the dwarf CGI nightmare fuel than the higher actual people is a testament to what a joke they are. I, you know, I asked somebody. I said, why didn't they just actually hire dwarves? And everybody said, it's because of Peter Dinklage. Did you hear this? Yeah, it's, yeah, I did. You told me this. I told you this. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think that no group of people is a monolith. And it's interesting when we like turn to one person to kind of be like, this is what the Asian community thinks. And I can't be a speaker for Asian Arab community. Like there's so many differing views. So of course it's not fully right. And I am curious to hear more of his thoughts on it. That's how he feels. And I can empathize with that. But it is. like they exist right and you basically but you basically just taking a whole bunch of jobs away from people well not only that it's like representation they exist and like obviously it's like yeah you don't

want everyone to think dwarves just are in the minds mining for gold but it's like it's one story let's make more it's also to be honest with you i love peter dinklage it's a bit privileged because he gets to do those roles that he wants to do because he's a freaking very established actor he's been in a lot of movies he's been in a lot of different things so he's got the ability to do a lot of different things um you know when these opportunities pop up and they go well we don't want to peter dinklage made this point let's either do cgai or higher six foot dwarves and it's like what are you what are you doing and that's right this is not fair it's just not fair um top dog rig on the topic of the oscars step what's your thoughts on pooty tang you've ever seen that movie no

No, she's never, I didn't think so. She's a little, she's a little too young for that. John Cozad, just putting in a dollar. Thank you, John. Julius Wyatt. Chew shouldn't get best director to me, Deni does. I think he should be nominated. If you're going to ask me who I think out of the two, I would say Deni also.

But I think that John did a great job directing that movie. I'll tell you that. But this is what the argument people would have made with him being nominated for part one, if he was with June, part one. it's not a full movie yet. Wicked Part 1 is not a full movie yet. So I would say, I would say Deney over John Chu.

I would be happy with either. I just think it should be either, in my opinion, I think it should be either of those two and for them to not be nominated at least is like completely bat shit. Crazy. Joey Pedrus,

what movie do you wish you would have seen on the big screen? I'll just answer the same question. Dune 1. I was pretty adamant that it was during it was still during like COVID era and all that stuff too and I was so excited that it was a day in release so I turned off the lights of my old office and in the in the old studio stuff and I just shut the door and I watched it in the back by myself on the couch and I loved it but I still after seeing I have seen Dune 1 in on the big screen though I have seen it on the big screen it would it released on on IMAX before Dune 2 and I saw it with Winston so I guess I

I did see it. So I don't know. Maybe just kind of just took away my answer. Yeah. What are you what is there anyone that stands out that you would like to see in the theater? Um, I know that there's more than I can think of right now. But this year, I, I wish I saw Transformers one in theater, which also I don't know why Transformers one wasn't nominated for best animated. I don't think it should have won, but I think it should have been nominated. It was so good. It's Transformers. Oh my God. We can't nominate Transformers. So it. It's. It's. It's. It's. It's, And then it's like, I want to see the rest because they all look interesting. I've seen a lot of the ones that were nominated minus like the snail one and one other.

But it like they always do that for the animated category. They they refuse to acknowledge some of like more popular ones. And then they go for the super, uh, in house kind of more indie projects, which I like, but I just think it's not fair to not include Transformers one. I'm going to tell you that I think also. So the best animated feature, one of the ones that I watched it recently, Wallace and Gromit, which is very sweet. So good. But I'll tell you also, it's the power of a really good publicist. Yeah.

The Wallace and Gromit movie is, there's a publicist that is working on that that I'm, that I'm friends with, right? This is a publicist that made sure knew how good this movie was and has a lot of connections within this world and said, please watch this, check this out. consider this please never once said vote for it said please consider it watch this we we're very proud of this movie and was everywhere i'm convinced that this publicist helped this movie get nominated with the that's cool makes sense yeah which is what which is what the the job of a good publicist can do and right and you know it's got to be a good movie obviously but i think that i i really do i I saw the way that he was promoting this and, you know, getting it out there to make sure, hey, please check this out, check this out.

And, yeah, and then it got nominated. Jared Guffy, when will they remake the last Starfighter? It's going to happen, I think, soon, because they've been talking about it forever. We've been talking about it forever. So I don't know. Have you ever seen the original stuff? No. Oh, you love it.

You should watch it. You should rewatch that. Okay. Mike Joyce, you two should use letterbox. It's pretty useful. I don't have time. I know, Mike, you're such an advocate and I feel like I want to, but I feel also overwhelmed by how many movies I've missed and just starting now.

Yeah. Uh, Roman, support for Steph. I got you back. Thank you. Yeah, but you got right now, Steph, you need about 35 more to tie. Okay. Let's just keep going, guys. I don't know.

I need this. I think we're hitting the end. Al Rensha, Star Wars needs a full reset. like DC. It's hard for me to disagree with us. New leaders, yes, new stories, yes. And just make sure scripts are locked in before production. Yes, I've always wanted Knights of Republic. You will not get Knights of Republic for as long as Flonians there. I can guarantee that. Um, uh, what about you, Steph? How do you feel about that? Yeah, I agree with you. Uh, Simon section. Rad. Isn't that a BMX 80s movie? What do you think of BMX, Bandits, starring Nicole Kidman

before the deadcom i didn't know i've never seen that movie didn't even know it existed my movie would be g-force or in the uk battle of the planets or asian gotcha man it's awesome uh i didn't know there's a bmx movie with the cole kidman kidding me yeah love to watch that what has she not done she's i feel like she's in a movie every other wednesday it's crazy and she's always i don't even know how whoever scheduling her is incredible and she's always banging younger dudes Yeah, notice that? Yeah, she's owning the cougar realm right now. Every movie, she's banging a younger dude.

Mirjam, Surrending you moon. Hey, Steph, I really like your headphone. Thank you. Let's see. This is from RQMD, SND, some more support for Steph. Met Bull. What's up, James? Does it ever work out that the Mets haven't made a dumb move?

He's a Met fan, obviously. So he's not, he's not loving this decision. It, I mean, we'll see. You know, that's a lot of money to spend on a player when you don't have all the tools yet to back him up. So, and then, and they joked about this on Saturday in life. Beers now are going to be like $20 a beer for now that he's there. They're going to have to pay for it somehow and the fans are going to take it. Yeah, so, I mean, you can't call it a dumb move yet, but.

It's a lot of money for a lot of years. Top Dog, Greg. I really hope that James Gunn's ego allows him to just leave Reeves' Batman movies alone. Let him finish the trilogy. Okay, let me follow this up in a second. People have insane love for what Reeve created and it shouldn't be messed with, please. So the thing that we heard a while ago was that there is a group of executives who have talked about, you know, we've got to try to convince Gunn and Safran to not do this past this,

because people are going to be confused, yada, yada, yada, yada. For everything that we hear about Gunn, Gunn wants to complete this and wants to let Matt Reeves complete this. They're very, they're tight, and he respects everything that they're doing over there. So from what we've heard, Gunn has every opportunity, every intention, rather, of doing, of finishing it up. So I think that he will, and because even when that thing that we heard, people can talk about all day long, we want to cancel it.

But if Safran and Gunner are like, no, we want to push forward with this, I mean, would you hire them for? Tom Gunn, which sitcom family would you love to be your neighbors? Sitcom family? Hmm. Let's see. Who's the boss? Chilis and whatever the Bowers.

Are the Sopranos? You'd want to live next to the Sopranos? Yeah, I would be friends with them. And then I'd have protection. for life. Tony would be trying to get you in the house every other 10 minutes. I know. I know. Okay, maybe modern family. I love Phil. He'd also be trying to get you in the house. Top dog rig for Steph. I love the headphones. Thanks. And then top dog rig. I think that we can get Steph past the number. I don't think so. Top dog rig. And the only reason I say that is because we've

reached our last question. Oh my gosh, guys. So 37. But hey, it was a good run, Steph. It was a good run. It was better than last week. We can't do another last week. Yeah. Maybe what it is also is that, you know, because I'll be it, well, look, we had a good, we had a good, the topics were decent as far as the main topic.

But I think you need, I think you, when you and Roka shattered the record that day, the topic was on, it was like something big. It was something, I think, Star Wars article or whatever it was. So next time. next time we'll get there but um in the meantime where can the people find you stuff at step's the bra and the world girls that's it so there you go thank you guys for being here today we really appreciate you as always apple podcast Spotify any of the podcasts are found make sure today if you're not a member of this channel that you become one because we're doing a live

stream or for members only and for patrons so come check that out oh step they didn't let us go they didn't let us go Okay. Pete Parker. Maybe maybe they're going to breathe some life into it. Okay. Up to 40, up to 40. Pete Parker 2288. Does Steph like King Thaedon? Oh my gosh. I know this is such a thing. I think his character is way better in the books. But if you're just going off the movies when I first watched the movies, he's like not a big, he's like, he's fine. And he annoys me a little bit. And he ends up having. a good ending but it i was shocked to hear how many people are so defensive about him yeah do you like do you have any me i think like ride or die for king theoden i think he's a good king and i think that i think there's a little i think that roxy was a little tough on him in at first where it's like the

guy was in a trance for for you know a long time it was basically you know taken out of his element from from a one of a weasel from within so it was only so much you could do well in this coma. Right. You know, so when he got out of the coma, he was trying to get his wits together about him. Figure it out. And then he finally did. It's like, you know, it's like when you're sick, you don't make the best decisions in the world. You call people out in the chat that don't deserve it.

Yeah. So, yeah. So there you go. Fascia brute. Viamo ami. Amit. Thank you. I said that wrong.

Top talk rig. Thank you. It's not about quantity. It's about quality. That's right. Okay. They're not letting you go here, Steph. All right.

You go. AJ Bristol. First time, long time. Thank you, AJ. Serious question here. What would you say is your favorite horse and why? Such a good question. Great question.

I would say the favorite, my favorite horse. I mean, I said black beauty earlier or the black stallion probably is a good one too. Yeah, the Italian stallion. A pile of mine is a good one too. Meg the stallion. That's the best type of horse. Do you remember that? Do you remember Meg the stallion that when I,

when I didn't even know that was a real person yes hysterical that was bad Christian yeah I like thoroughbreds too yeah I like colitis dales the ones with the furry feet okay yeah I used to like horses when I was younger my parents are like we are not rich so you can have the horse like dolls but you can't you'll never get a horse and I was like all right now look for now this is the last one Mark Marcus Longoni Excuse me Any truth or is it just a rumor Or Jay Bailey for Batman

Haven't heard anything I haven't heard of that That would be interesting I love him But I don't that would be I haven't heard that oh I lied Top Dog Rig with currently the last question Steph fighting for our life here Top Dog Rig

On the topic of Lord of the Rings What is your favorite food To eat on Christmas Day. So I'm not a big turkey guy, right? Like when it comes to Thanksgiving, I like the stuffing, the mashed potatoes, all that stuff. So I really look forward to Christmas because on Christmas, my wife on Christmas Eve makes baked ziti and like this, uh, and this, uh, and this chicken that I love. Um, and then we usually have like a brisket, which I know is traditionally more of like a Jewish dinner, but it's, but this biscuit that she makes on Christmas, uh, eat, Christmas day is just wonderful.

So good. So that's my favorite is that. risk it. On Christmas Eve, we do like Middle Eastern Lebanese. So we have like do stuffed dolmas and lamb, which is so good. So mad. I never got a chance to get over. I know. And then the next one is Japanese Christmas where we do sushi and sukiaki. You would never, I would, you would never get me out of the Harry, be like, why it would love you? The family, you'd fit in perfectly. Like Italians and my family, we go well together. I would just be, you would not be able to get me to stop eating yeah it'd be wonderful there's always extra i know christian all right galaxy geeks what's up luke step who's gonna win in the box

office is he and i have this little battle going on he's laughing right now um mufasa or sonic three mufasa sorry luca uh fascia abruta what are your favorite i just like to say his name Bruta, what are your favorite performances of the year? I'll tell you, there's a lot of them, but I'm so glad that Ariana Grande got a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. I had always been aware of her, obviously. She was brilliant in that movie. She's brilliant.

She's so good. I thought she was the best thing about the movie. Cynthia Revo is the best thing for me. Everybody says that. Everybody says that. My wife went and watched it, said the same thing. My daughter said the same thing. I think that Ariana Grande stole the show for me.

well i mean that's what makes them pink and green go well together because that this is what makes the movie so spectacular i feel like everyone was so good but yeah cynthia revo had my favorite performance of the year but right under there is demi more it's pretty good too step you're now at 48 we have not okay we're ready to pull the plug on this thing and it's and that they said no clip and strong guys clip champ razor says grandma slice or neapolitan slice probably neapolitan slice but there's a really good is a good is good grandma slice over here. What's a grandma slice? It's like a really Google it up. It's a but it's like it's like there's a Sicilian element to it but like they put like there's this one that at um at this pizzer right near my house they do a great grandma slice and they would do an upside down slice but I think I like the Neapolitan slice that's for me that's that's what I like better but um but you got to come you got to come when you're in New York I'll take you to a couple good pizza places. Okay uh top dog Rick Steph what was your all time favorite movie to react maybe um fifth element oh it's a good one okay or let me there's like a big action movie that i i don't know

i loved reacting to the fast and furious to franchise because they're just so fun and stupid are you actually going to do this you're at 49 right now you're going to are you going to okay all you got to do is pull in now 22 from now from now until well we're almost at the end here but 22 and you can actually win What a comeback. That would be. Top Dog Rigg again. Steph, who's your favorite superhero and why? My favorite superhero. You know, I've never really, like, decided on this. I guess my favorite interpretation of a superhero is probably Ironman.

And then just favorite superhero. I love Superman because my mom loves Superman. So she's the one who introduced me to the nerd world, surprisingly. You never know by meeting her, but she's a massive, That's awesome. Huge. She was a massive trekkie. And now she loves, love the Superman comics.

So, yeah. I have a good comment here. Let's go, Steph. This show is just so much better without Brett. Oh, do you know who wrote that? Brett Sherry. Damn it. Brett, your self-deprecation.

Yep. Top dog. He doesn't even show up. He doesn't even pay for the Super Chat to get that red, you cheap asshole. Top dog, Rick. What is a movie soundtrack you have to listen to at least once a week? I mean, I have, you know what I have? I have, there's two things I have.

I have two playlists. I have a playlist, just that one of them is called favorite scores that just plays on a loop. It has a whole bunch of different ones in there that I listen to every week. And then there's one that's just songs from movies that I put out. So they're actually ones with words and all that stuff too. And I have, I'm listening to the warrior score right now because of, you know, that's, yeah. So yeah. I switch off all the time, but right now because it's fall winter, I have like Harry Potter lofi on just like the whole my entire writing sessions, everything. I love the Harry Potter soundtrack for

the winter vibes. Um, top dog rig. What do you want for Christmas? Actually, I, the last thing I want for Christmas, I actually put in my freaking Amazon list and I'm probably going to have to get my daughter or my daughter, my wife or somebody else to to get for me. It's the, um, I'm got, I'm going to, I'm going to redo this studio and I have a desk in there. It's like this cool podcasting table that's in there that I'm going to put in here because this is like just this table was the table that was in here before. And Brett and I were looking at it. We're like, yeah, this could work. But now I want to get rid of. I actually want to smash it with a hammer. And like I'm starting to hate it. And burn the pieces. Yeah, I actually, I think I feel I really hate it. I think I hate it. Wow.

Yeah, I hate it. I hate it. I do. I hate it. Hating an inanimate object. I hate it. I want, I want, because I want this podcast thing. What about you? What do you want for Christmas? Um, well, I, nothing really. I can't get anything, you know, because Jiffy Loops screwed up my, they broke my car. So we had to buy a new car. So I can't really ask for anything and because I got a new car. All right. Mike Joyce, Steph, remind me of your shit purse story. I forgot it. Oh my God. You didn't forget it. You know this story. I didn't ask you. This is what this is what the Super Chat asked for. I know. I'm telling him. What is it? But you I know. Okay. Yes, you do. So I was dating a guy for four years. No one ever talked about poop. Oh, yeah.

Oh, right. I remember this story. Yes. So I always had to organize when I, if I slept over, pooping around when I showered. And I just took a normal poop, nothing crazy. And the toilet didn't flush the worst and i would you go into a full panic yes i was like i was actually having a heart attack because that's like the way i was raised the way i was raised like being asian and middle eastern you do not like show people certain sides of you publicly it doesn't matter if my mom never poops in front of my dad ever they've been married for 40 years yeah no no fart not like we just don't do that so i was like i would rather die than ask this man for a plunger for him to plunge it so i luckily had my whole tote in there because i was showering and in the tote there was

randomly a god-given plastic bag so i reached in the toilet and pulled it out like like you were picking up dog food pure panic pure panic oh my god what did you say i saw the plastic Do you say have to go home immediately? No, Christian. So has I, so I had to pretend like I was going into my car to put away my shower stuff. And so I put the plastic bag, wrap it up with tons of toilet paper, put it in my bag and walk out like, I'll be right back. And I walked out. This is the first and only time I've ever littered.

And I took it out of my bag and fucking chucked. to that shit so far literally literally i would i would oh my god that is that's like one of those ones that when you die like you're going to have like the videos that that like hey are there any videos you want deleted from the main server yes it's like it's like you that story you either want that deleted from the main server or you want it featured where yeah like this is who step is this is what i'm willing to do best to preserve my memory pretty good facia bruta uh t Thank you. Top dog, Rick. Christian, have you played that indie game yet? No, I'm getting, I'm, I'm trying to find the time to sit down. I'm going to take the damn Xbox out of the kids room and just put it up in the main thing. The Indiana Jones game, Steph, it's supposed to be amazing. Oh, really? It's supposed to be amazing. I'm going to, I'm going to probably do it this weekend. I've been wanting to. Top dog, Reg. Steph, what are you looking forward to next year? Are you talking about movies or in general? Oh, I'm looking forward to getting the hell out of 2024. my last six months real i i know i look good but they were brutal i had the craziest past six

months i've ever had my life okay so i just am excited for a new year yeah that's totally fair from um and as well someone asked me here uh same person top to agree what am i looking forward to next year um the the same like look i think that it comes down to when you put in you always want to say that hard work pays off right and you always want to make sure that you're doing all that all the stuff that you can i want to make sure there's certain things i want my family to have and i'm pretty sure that next year i'm hoping that i can you know be able to provide some stuff for them um that we can uh we already did it by making the move so far so that's what i'm hoping for i'm hoping for a stronger 2025 um this is go pal i'd love grinch too if they get taylor

momson back which is that the young girl Oh, yeah, probably. What's Fasia Ruta? What's an album and song that you recommend? I would say go old school and go with with jizzah. I would go with liquid swords. Great album. New album, I think probably the best rap album of the year is Doche's Alligator Bites Never Heal.

I think she like, she sounds like outcast, honestly. It's crazy. yeah she's so good um armada question these nuts yeah sure why not nice for sure yes hilarious the comments by the way why you were telling that story are unreal oh god are they in shambles no it just says uh it's just i just read it's insane the couples make a big deal out of this where is brett when you need them no poop for you uh no it is insane it is insane it is insane and I don't like to play gender roles, but I really believe that the man should be but super like I'm going to take a shit and open and just open the conversation and you know what

I knew Harry was my guy because the first day he just ripped ass and was like literally like that and he's like that was a great release and I'm like what are you like a marketing genius to call your fart a release you're a marketing genius I don't think my wife would agree, but she, but she's still, uh, maybe just wants to hold back a little bit. Armada. Oh, yes, we did that way. So there's other one. It said, someone said, did you toss it in his garbage? Oh my God, I should have, knowing who he is now. My God, woman, what did you eat? Let nature deal with it in the neighbor's bushes. Where do you? No, I eat pretty healthy, so it was probably all biodegradable. Where did she chuck it? Um, in a bush. Some poor bastard. woke up at a surprise. And then top dog rig. Steph, have you heard the poop the poop knife Reddit story?

Oh, I think I did. I think Roxie told. I don't know. I don't know. Do you know top dog rig alone? Well, not alone, but it was you're eight away from beating salmon and Wow. Eight away from tying nine away from winning, which would be the biggest comeback in the

history of this game. Let's go. Top dog rig. Christian, do you like living in New York? I love it. I do. I love it. And Steph says she loves it too.

Yeah, I do. She thinks he's the best version of me. You see how good he looks? Oh, thank you. Armada. Okay, here's a new one. Bill Burr as Mance or Mance as Bill Burr in a movie. Also, have you listened to Frank Ocean.

Yes, I'll listen to Frank Ocean. Of course. But it's always going to be the actor playing. the person I think a lot of the times. 100% Burr as Manson. Are you kidding me? What? How is everybody?

What's going on? You guys see that latest movie? Is it any good? I can't tell. Who knows? It's great. You guys love La La La Land? Who doesn't love La La La La La La?

You can totally see him doing it. 100%. Yeah, I love Bill Burr. Yeah, as Mance. I mean, come on. So good. All right. Jim 1.

I'm still mad that Frodo didn't warn Sam that he was leaving forever. It was kind of a dick move. Well, Sam would have never let him leave. That's true. He wouldn't have. Yeah, it had to be done this way. Yeah.

All right. Top Dog Rig. What's the best thing about living in New York? Well, where I live in New York in the area, I think it's like, it's more like suburban area. I love the people here. There's like it's a lot of good places to eat. It's good stuff.

My office is not too far away from where I live. The kids have a really good environment. My wife has met a lot of people that she's friends with and very easy to me to get to the city. I love being in the city when I'm there. I can come back at any time. You know, it's like there's, it's, yeah, I think that it just seems like there's a lot more for me to do here.

Next one is another super chat. Brett is the greatest thing. to happen to this channel. That was written by Brett Sheridan, who actually paid. Love it. RQMD, SMD. Some support for Steph. Thanks.

Shout out RQMD, SMD. Jim 1. How do New Yorkers choose between Jets and Giants? You know, I think it's a thing when it comes to just how you're raised, to be completely honest with you, because I was born in Queens, in Bayside, right? So everyone that I went to school with, majority of them were all Mets fans. But my dad was a New York baseball Giants fan growing up.

And when they moved out of New York, he didn't want to root for the Mets. He didn't love the Yankees at the time. He started rooting for the Yankees in the 70s when like Dave Winfield and all these guys were playing for the team, Thurmond Munson. And then he just kind of raised me on the Yankees. So I just became a Yankee fan because I was watching them with my dad. and that's kind of how became a Yankee fan. I think it's the same thing with jets and giants and all that stuff too.

It's just it's passed down, I think, generational. Majority of time, there are people who branch off, but that's how I think it is. Mirjam, you both made me laugh so loud at that poop story. Oh my gosh, guys. It's a great story. It's a great story. Armada, what's your favorite horse movie? I already said it, Black Stallion.

Yeah. I like Sea Biscuit. and there's not a lot of great horror stories uh there's some good this gets a good one too though that's a good one um all right let's see armada new snoop and dray albums coming tomorrow is that true is that true wow i wonder if that's true i'm looking facia bruta step super sticker uh and meersam says this is a great podcast thank you top dog rig yeah i guess it's called mission Whoa, take it easy. Top dog.

Yeah. Top dog rig. Christian, do you like any non-American sports? Mm. Probably not. I don't think so. I mean, what, give me some non-American sport. I don't really watch soccer.

I respect it. I don't watch it. What's another non-American sport? Rugby. Nope. I mean, does MMA count? Cricket. Does M.M.A. count?

Yeah, I guess. It's based in America. But it's like this. I mean, the jujitsu and all that stuff doesn't come from America. Yeah. I guess Jiu-I-M-A. All right. All right, Steph, let's see.

Oh, Haskell 420 says, favorite horse movie, let it ride. That's a good one, too. It's a good one. I watched that recently, too. I'm having a great day. So this is one here. Top Dog Rig. If Steph wins, can we get a Bob Dylan cameo?

So, Steph, if you win today, then I will do a, you know, remember the old school Bob Dylan, like track I used to play with the Bob Dylan song? Yeah. I'll feature you in a single shot and do a Bob Dylan song if you win, okay? Okay. Get ready, move, walking through the door. Here's Steph. She just hit 74. Man, that ain't a lie. That ain't no kind of chive.

I was lying. She just hit 75. she's the winner again. Hey, friend. Steph's the winner again. Hey, friend. She's the winner again. That's right, my friend, Steph's the winner again. I don't know how you did that.

Wow. I don't know how. Guys, I love you. We were, we were, first of all, first of all, first of we're not done yet. Top Dog Rake says, how did, Christian, how did you win so much money betting on MMA. I'll tell you. So do you know this story stuff? No. So when I was working for silver, you know, and then I and then I quit and I wanted to go off and do my own thing and I was kind of temping at the time and I was, you know, I was single and I was doing stand up and at the time,

this is like 2007, right? So MMA or UFC rather was kind of coming up. They had had the ultimate fighter up on 2005 and they were starting to really kind of push big and get more. events and I was betting on boxing for a bit before that but boxing is tougher to bet on because boxing the underdog is usually going to lose in boxing and in boxing it's like it's the guy who's got the is the better skilled at punching in the head for the most part is going to win um as faster you know you can't get lucky but for the most part the more skilled guy in the boxing is you're just going to win and you can't really win and pay off through that but When MMA first started, and it really, in that 2007, starting it really popular in the one of the mainstream,

they wouldn't really have to know to do the odds that well. And so with the skill that was happening, and you could have the grappler going up against the guy who was the heavy underdog, and the grappler, or the underdog could win, actually, every single time. So when I was watching that GSP versus Matt Serra thing, I was like, I was watching the whole journey. and I said, GSP's not taking this guy seriously. And this guy wants to win. Like he's really, like he's, you listen to him talk. This is like a, this guy who takes like, he takes his career very seriously.

And he's, he is determined. And Matt Sarah was like a plus 800 or more underdog. And so I, I bet on him and won a lot of money. And I talked about that. You know, that's how Sarah and I are friends now because he heard me. No, I had no idea. What a friendship origin. Yeah, he heard me talking about him because he's a geek and he heard and he listened

to Collider Live and he heard me talking about that story that I just told you and then he started talking about on his show and then somehow we just connected and now I produce his show. It's so funny. So yeah, so that's it. So we're not done, Steph. Okay. If you, I swear to God, if you hit 100 after being, you were, you were ready, I was ready, I was ready to call you call you out. I was ready to do you, you were going to be the last.

I was, you're tapping out. Hey, Armada says, can Steph. do the Mad Hatter if you can't. Can you give me like a pitch? I can't try. I can't get it right now though. It's like, oh, I can't do it. I can't hit my, my voice won't allow me to do it.

Mustard. I can't do it right now. Mustard. Do you want some tea? Let's don't be silly. Lemon, that's different. That's different. Come on now, everybody.

Let's move to the next one. That's good. I was almost there, but it. That was almost there. Yeah. I'm trying to think almost as close as me, but tea time move down, move down, move down. Fokashi, I got, hold on. What's that over there?

Oh, it's shit in the purse. No! What? I can't hear. Oh, wrong thing. Sorry. It's supposed to make a fart noise. It didn't.

That's what my fart sound like. It doesn't music. Sorry about that. That what's that sound? Is that the Jabberlaki? Oh no, it's Steph hiding the shit in the bushes. Okay. That's not the sound of mine. No, wait, hold on. Hold on. Let's see. Mine sweet jazz. Wait, wait, I got you with the first with this. This is not. That's not what we heard. That's not me. No. Let's see. Hold on. No. No. No. No. No. No. Maybe. Maybe. Nope.

There's a good one coming up. Hold on. Nope. No. I think this is the one. Yeah, that's exactly it. It's like a hot air balloon. Yeah, yeah.

Top dog rig, suck at Roca. She wasn't even going after Roca. That's hilarious. No, I love Roca. Steve S. Steph, look at Ozzy rules footy. It's not rugby. Ozzie rules footy.

Okay. Jared Guffy. Watching Battlestar right now. wow it's good it's really good did you go back and watch that pilot i was telling you about yes i did the the baby happens later it's like episode four or something that's what i was like oh sorry i thought i was going crazy i was like did i not watch oh yeah i think it's like go back in flash or something are you sure or maybe i just like i don't know because i'm going to go walk the first one the first one is two hours long i thought it was an hour and like let me look on my amazon

on prime that's where i've been watching it i can look at my watch here right in what episode let's see let's see in battle star galactica we're gonna find out right now okay all right so that would be oh wow it's 18th episode of season two oh god he's like yeah i looked up what I was like, baby episode, because I was like, what the hell I probably sound like, am I going crazy? Was I drunk watching this? I don't remember anything you're talking about. Just kidding. Yeah, it's like where they're like setting up.

Yeah. Episode one's like they're setting up on a different area. Oh yeah. You made all that up. I didn't say that. Okay. Joey Pedrus. What show deserves one more rebooted season?

Oh, man. Shoot. I don't know. I'd have to think. I'd have to think about that. I don't really know. Greeks and geeks. Oh, yeah.

Sam yesterday said that he wouldn't, that they wouldn't do it. Nobody would do it. Damn. I don't know, but I'm glad that Warrior's going to get a TV show. That's what I want to say. But I'm not sure. I'm not sure.

Okay, listen. Now we have done it. Okay. It's 81. Steph went from, you started out at, when we started this damn show, or started the question section you're at i don't know i think like it's 20 questions or something yeah that's called slow four play yeah well we got to the climax sure did and there and i'll tell

you what man it's like the fact that you did that and we were we were ready to tap out at 2 30 impressive that's you you've that's impressive i love you guys you love me this is like a we got something going here so look at this. Now, Steph is in the power seat with 81 questions leading tomorrow. Now, only Coy and Winston can defeat her tomorrow. Can they do it? Every, this is one of those few weeks that Roka took the lead on Monday. Roxy took the lead from him. Clark and Sam took the lead from them, but now Steph is in the power seat with 81 questions. Unbelievable come back from Steph. So thank you guys for joining us. Thank you for Steph. Thank you to all you guys for being here today.

What a show it was. And I appreciate it. Again, Apple Podcast. Spotify anywhere podcasts are found thank you so much and we'll be back here tomorrow with Winston and Coy see you guys later bye bye