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Episode 160
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This week we have an impromptu Teach Ray Sports segment, we talk Dexter: Original Sin (Paramount), we breakdown the Saturday Night Live 50 Years of Music Special on Peacock, we give our reactions to the new Disney+ animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, we talk about the films The Devil All The Time (2020), Going The Distance (2010), Sleeping With Other People (2015) and the new comedy You’re Cordially Invited (Prime) and finally this week…it’s the year of SUPERMAN! We breakdown the origins of the character in the 1930s, we review the 1941 Max Fleischer serial cartoons that were ripped straight from the comics and debuted to mainstream movie audiences and finally we review his origin story in Smallville by reviewing the comic from 1998, Superman: For All Seasons
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Introduction and Overview
00:01:26
Speaker
what's going on? Greetings and salutations. You know, I was just thinking during that intro, I need to get something to hear from more dramatic effect when I come in, like a smoke machine, a fog was machine, and some lights, lasers, late. Oh, my background was lasers, like a second grade fucking yearbook picture. Yeah. That'd be dope. And 1992 all over again. Yes, sir. We have a jam packed show. We are beginning the super the year of Superman off right this week.
00:01:53
Speaker
with a couple of reviews, couple of things we're gonna talk about, the intro to the character, all of that. But we got some breaking news that Kevin sent me, so we're gonna start off the show with a Teach Ray Sports.
Bryce Mitchell Controversy
00:02:26
Speaker
This is a theme to teach ready sports.
00:02:31
Speaker
This is an unbelievable video that you showed me on Twitter. Do you want to give me a background on who this guy is that went on a tirade? know much about him. I haven't watched a lot of fights with him in it. For me, you have seen MMA, especially as like if somebody's at the top of the card I want to see is when I usually tune in. A lot of times during the other card, I'm either reading a comic book or fucking off doing something else. But I know his name, but I don't really know much of about him.
00:02:58
Speaker
His guy's name is Bryce Mitchell. Yes, never heard of him until today for obvious reasons ah I Guess he has a podcast from what I gather you want the first episode of this podcast first episode of his podcast Holding guns looking like a true American. Oh I'm pretty sure he did. um Oh Also, he's completely racist um And that's not all through the story, that's just the tip of the iceberg. um Give a recap of what what how this ran how you ran into this video today, what happened, and how UFC, let's just talk about everything, how i just Dana White and UFC took ah
Dana White's Press Conference
00:03:41
Speaker
took it. I heard the chatter yesterday on Twitter about it, and I don't think it was until this morning I actually saw the video. um I think UFC...
00:03:50
Speaker
Tweeted out or Dana white tweeted out basically about how the guys and fucking moron. Well, of course he got into a news press conference, but um and Dana white has said multiple times since yesterday that he's one of the dumbest people on the planet but he doesn't punish people for saying things use that be free speech he doesn't want to do that um of course he's been doing it with uh i'm liking the guy's name right now um but the other hothead that's been saying wild things um yeah um i mean the ufc has always had a lot of idiots that speak like
00:04:28
Speaker
and after like like we have the perfect example of somebody that knew how to speak eloquently wouldn't go over the line but still would say some things and that' would be channel senate we did a whole cha center right last year right all right he was just he would say things but he would do it smartly entertain hes he also he was like a wrestler he was like you yeah he took it as a wrestler yes he wouldn't say things just to get people right yeah you would not say things just to get kind arise out of people What exactly did Bryce Mitchell say in his video? We haven't actually said what he said.
00:05:01
Speaker
Um, one of the key highlights that I noticed was that Hitler was a good guy because he was just trying to get rid of je Jews and people that were trans in the 1930s. Um, he did a good thing is what he was saying. Hitler was eradicating these things. Yes. Um,
00:05:28
Speaker
I don't want to cancel, so I don't want to get into it. I think he was trying to compare... He was trying to compare it to modern times. Basically is what he's saying with the Republicans taking office. It did not go well. He went completely off the rails. And Dana White today had a press conference, like you said, denouncing everything that he said, however, did not fire him.
00:05:53
Speaker
Actually, I didn't even say he punished him or anything. Just had a conversation with him, told him he's stupid. but at the large house My favorite thing about the Dana press conference is Dana basically being like, well, now you all have something to root to get his ass peep. And my favorite part of the press conference is something I never fucking heard of before. Have you ever heard of this story that Dana told? Yeah.
00:06:20
Speaker
no I need more your info on this. dana's like that's not even the stupidest thing he's ever done he took a ja drill to his nuts and tried to strill through his nutsack And then he realized he had to reverse it to back it out. Oh my god. right What a crazy, if you've not seen that video, this is like this a crazy topic to begin with. didn't it did it's We denounced it completely here, but it is, to go from Hitler, comparing it to modern times, and a nut and and a drill through the nutsack was the craziest story. I did not have it for a bigger card for the end of January. But that's what I told you. I said it's you don't like watch it till the end. Yes. It's like you just watched the first like minute and a half, two minutes. It's like whatever it's just Dana talking about.
00:07:04
Speaker
how uh he's an idiot it but blah blah blah and then he starts taking questions and um and dano white does not hold back either he does not hold punches and he never has um he never has with any subject um i've always liked it i respect him for that Oh, man, what a crazy, crazy morning to find that video, to find that video five both videos.
Dexter Series Plot Review
00:07:26
Speaker
yeah o ah So what we watched this week, watched the I watched quite a bit this week, we're gonna talk about it, but um we watched Dexter. We've got a couple more episodes left of this this season. Only two. her number two when's gone ah This is episode eight. um Beginning of the episode, we see Miguel, who was played by, what's his name from Star Wars, who played Bill Organa.
00:07:47
Speaker
um He was in the original Dexter series. We saw a younger version of him. um He was kind of, and then briefly leaving LaGuardia's house. Just had a little rendezvous. She laughs about the fact he thinks he's going to be DA sometime. yeah And he is DA in season three of Dexter. Yep. It was a great run. I like that. I like that season too. Underrated season, honestly. I think two and three get looked over because one and four are so fantastic. So when you do it up, people forget about two and three, but they're both good seasons.
00:08:15
Speaker
There's two major plot points going on in the moment for the show. One is the captain, who was played by Patrick Dempsey, who we now know has kidnapped his own son, cut off his own son's finger, and is trying to plant evidence to make it seem like somebody else had done it. We're not sure what the motive is, other than we're not really sure. Maybe he's just maniacal and wants to do shit like this. Kind of like Dexter. I mean, Dexter knows people like this, knows how to find them, ride them out. So while we're speaking about the captain, can I just throw a theory out there? Yeah.
00:08:52
Speaker
So we've been talking about Captain Matthews and where is he on the show? He was... Dexter's father's partner, I believe, around the time he got Dexter, I want to say, because I remember Matthew was talking about, I remember when your father got you, blah, blah, blah. So my theory is that he's just in a different department and will be promoted to captain or once Patrick Dempsey gets caught or whatever. Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking too. Yeah.
00:09:23
Speaker
um The other storyline going on right now is there's a serial killer. There's another serial killer in Miami and hit Henry, Harry, whatever his name is, um and LaGuardia go to Tampa to try to hunt down who this killer was.
00:09:39
Speaker
is. um And they go through a filing cabinet, filing system, and they ended up finding a psychiatrist record or something of yes Brian Moser, who is Dexter's brother. um Which we had found, we I mean, in the whole first season all about Dexter's brother, the ice truck killer, all of that.
00:09:59
Speaker
um So Brian Moser, he took the file and hid it from LaGuardia while she was off getting coffee for them. um But towards the end of the episode, he hid he hid the hitd it in his car and LaGuardia saw the file and she's like, who the hell is Brian Moser? So they have some red flags.
00:10:16
Speaker
um They get the call to go hunt down um the pat Henry's partner Harry's partner um Who had been shot? So they they kind of left that on the back burner probably find out more about that next episode But uh, the other thing that happened in this episode is a retelling of Dexter shipping container origin Which we've known forever from the very first season um That's where Dexter kind of gets grown from blood this when you that's where his morning born in blood um And they actually show the beginning of that in this yes, and we did not know I believe we did not know there was Multiple people in there. I can't remember. They might write said that like once or twice. Yeah, I can't remember Yeah, when Dexter goes to confront the guy that killed his mother and whoever sees they basically made the kids and her watch them as they were slaughtering people with with a chainsaw Yes, and I think I think in the original show we did see
00:11:11
Speaker
the chainsaw being used. I can't remember if it was on his mother or who it was being used on in the in the original Dexter. I think it was kind of blurry. Like you could write. Right. But now we're we're seeing it from the beginning. So we're we're probably going to see more of it next week. um Yeah, this this is probably the best episode of the series so far. The boat.
00:11:31
Speaker
the boat. Yeah. The first time I saw a boat and I believe the idea is yes. The boat is named slice of pie. Yeah. So my guess is her husband will die. Might not be this season because I know they have more than one season planned. Right. But when he dies, I'm guessing Dexter's father is going to buy the boat from her.
00:11:53
Speaker
to give Dexter a way to dispose the bodies could even be this season or they might buy it this season. um She talks in this episode about her husband's the one that gets the boat ready and blah, blah, blah. um So I think that might happen because I believe it was the same boat. um Yeah, or similar.
00:12:11
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. But like I said, this is probably
SNL's Musical Legacy
00:12:13
Speaker
the best episode of this series so far. This is the last two are really hitting for me. Yeah, definitely. And that's boyfriend. That whole situation was. Yeah. There's another story. Yeah. Another story there that's kind of the own coke or whatever.
00:12:27
Speaker
We we do know that Deb is become a police officer So I kind of we're kind of getting that background to her story of where does she go from this teen? Mm-hmm to that where she becomes a police officer where she where she wants to go into law enforcement So yes a great series cannot wait to see the next couple of episodes Let's see how they see that they go into resurrection because I have a feeling the end of this is gonna lead up right to resurrection Yeah the beginning of it so um dark side of the cage episode three how are you on watching that did you watch this week i did not get to it now i'll probably get to uh like every other week watch two okay that's fine yeah because i can wait on that um something i did watch i don't know if you had a chance to watch it this week or not
00:13:09
Speaker
um The 50 years of SNL music I actually had it in the notes earlier in the week to talk about it this week and Because I didn't find out about it until the day before it aired right That's why we're talking about because I watched it immediately because everybody was talking about it online um But it was a three-hour documentary that aired on Monday night on NBC All about the 50 years of SNL music and all the people that had, not only the the artists that showed up on this show throughout the years, but the the skits and everything, the the sketches where music played a big huge part in it. um And they did a fantastic job. The first seven minutes of this was remixed um popular music throughout the whole entire history of the show, remixed
00:13:49
Speaker
From from the beginning it was like seven minutes long um And one song would go into the other song and the other song and just keep going and going for seven minutes It was really really good production wise um It also showed like like I mentioned skits and sketches it showed the blues brothers how they how they came to be showed Nirvana showing up um Adele there's a cool story about Adele where nobody knew who she was in 2008 This is before she before she got really big and famous um and she was on SNL And overnight, when she was on the show, everybody heard her voice and overnight, by the time she was on a plane from New York City back to London, she was number one. That's how the impact of this show was on her career. And she became a household name after that.
00:14:33
Speaker
Also talked about Adam Sandler and all the music and how his how his music was such a huge part of him on the show, um Lunch Lady Land of course, the whole entire first album that he did. And The Lonely Island, which I love too, adam Andy Sandberg. We talked about all that and how music is a huge part of the show, it's it's built into it. Not just the musical guests, but the that the sketches, the artists that are on here, the this the sketch performers, everybody. um And also talked about bringing up hip-hop into the mainstream.
00:15:03
Speaker
Run DMC was the first real mainstream hip-hop artist on there. Blondie brought in the Funky Four. Blondie is mostly and mostly known that she was the one that did Rapture, which was the first commercial rap song, technically because she rapped on the song. um So when she hosted, she brought the Funky Four on. They were the first rap group to ever be on the show.
00:15:27
Speaker
um And then run DMC came on like a few years later, but they were the first like mainstream hip hop artists from Def Jam to come on there and actually perform. um Also talked about the restraints of network censorship and being on network television, having that live aspect and not being able to censor pretty much last minute what was going on.
00:15:47
Speaker
especially when you have a bunch of rebellious rock stars being up in the center of everything. Rage Against the Machine is a great story about them and Steve Forbes, the author and creator of Forbes magazine, he hosted once and they just ransacked his He was running for president. They ransacked him because they were pissed off at him. I don't want to get into the whole story, but the Secret Service swarmed them and they kicked him out of the out of the SNL studios. Sinead O'Connor in the Pope picture, she went on the show and ripped up the Pope picture. They talked all about that. I remember that.
00:16:24
Speaker
Elvis Costello, um you may know a little bit about this story because he went on the show and he was about to perform a song and he stopped in the middle because he thought that the song was a little bit too somber and he ended up doing his his song Radio Radio, which is probably one of his most famous songs. The rumor was for the longest time that he had been banned from SNL, that Lorne Michaels had banned him.
00:16:49
Speaker
um And what I knew about the story is when the Beastie Boys came on around the mid 90s I think to to do sabotage or one of those songs in the mid 90s They brought out in Elvis Costello and they did the background The the music to radio radio and Elvis Costello came back I always thought it was just Elvis Costello coming back because he was banned but that wasn't the case they get into that in this show was really good and they also talked about Ashley Simpson's lip syncing, which is a huge story about 20 years ago. um When she went on there, she had a cold, she had a backing track like Millie Vanilli, which never really happens on SNL. Everybody usually performs live.
00:17:26
Speaker
But um the tapes, they they fucked up and her band members played the wrong song and fucked her up and she started doing this weird like jig dance in the middle of it. But the best part of this show is there's an epic meltdown meltdown video of of Kanye. And everybody knows the story of Kanye having the meltdown on SNL.
00:17:45
Speaker
yeah but Seeing it and hearing the people in the back, they had the production audio throughout the whole entire thing of what was going on when stuff like this, especially like when Chanel Conner is ripping up the picture of the Pope, they have the people as saying, what the hell is going on? What's going on? They actually have that audio throughout here. And they did the same thing with Kanye when he's having this epic meltdown. I think it was the end of one of the episodes. um He's performing one of the songs and he just starts going off. He's wearing a red Trump hat the whole entire time. Make America great and great again.
00:18:16
Speaker
This is a great, great documentary. The other one is good too, but I think this one may have been a little bit better for me. um I recommend it. It's on Peacock right now if you have Peacock. And it's it's very much worth the watch. And I think in a couple weeks, we only got a couple more weeks until the 50th anniversary show. We're going to talk all about that. And also announced, there's another announcement this week we'll talk about later in the show. But um another show debuted this week.
00:18:43
Speaker
friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. I thought it was really good, and I... Sorry, it's not fair. I've had a miss with the animated stuff that they've done so far in Disney, but I think I thought this is pretty good. It's retelling the story of Spider-Man, kind of adjacent to the MCU, but not. um The show was originally supposed to be an MCU origin story, telling the freshman year of Peter Parker, because it was never told in the MCU.
00:19:08
Speaker
But it pivoted. When the multiverse happened, it kind of pivoted to another multiverse where what if, it's kind of a what if story, instead of Tony Stark being the mentor, Norman Osborn is the mentor. Coming in playing Norman Osborn is Coleman Domingo. um Totally different origin story, totally totally different way of telling him and how he became Spider-Man in in and New York. um I thought it was great. It starts off with Doctor Strange coming in fighting a symbiote of all things.
00:19:37
Speaker
Coming in right in front of Peter Parker and a spider comes down and you know the rest. Mm-hmm Parallel so what if like of a dimension like I mentioned um And a lot of parallel MCU nods as well Like there's a lot of things like there's a what there's a hallway scene where in the movie in the Civil War Peter Parker's walking through the hallway and it's a shot-for-shot remake of that in animated form and but instead of meeting Tony Stark at the end of the at the video, he's meeting Norman Osborn. I thought it was really good, done well. um It's only gonna be four weeks, I think three episodes next week, three episodes a week after, and the finale is two more. So, ah yeah, it's very good. I'm i'm like i'm gonna continue watching that. um Speaking of Spider-Man, a movie I had not heard about until a couple weeks ago, and I know you had watched it way back in the day. you know And the cast is ridiculous. Way back in the COVID.
00:20:31
Speaker
way back in 2020 when this movie came out on Netflix and I had never heard of it. I don't know i think it was just taking steam because the cast in this movie are all superstars now and they were kind of superstars then too. um You have Tom Holland, you have Robert Pattinson, Bill Skarsgard, of course Pennywise in the IT movies,
00:20:52
Speaker
Jason Clark, who had just done, I believe, Planet of the Apes before this, right? Because that was 2020. I think Planet of the Apes was before this. Twenty-eight-sixteen was Planet of the Apes, I want to say. Maybe even fifteen. But yeah, he'd done that. He'd obviously been in the Terminator Genesis movie around that time, too. And one or two other projects.
00:21:12
Speaker
I like Jason Clark, he's good. Oh, I forgot he was the dley kid in um yeah Yeah, he was great in this too. They had a great ensemble cast. um Four out of five for me. Great story. and ah the thing about the The thing about the movie was in getting into like, I would say middle to three quarters for the movie, there's so many different parts going on at once. Different stories, different timelines being told. And then by the end of the movie, everything kind of bridged together, which was good. I like movies like that. Nothing was left unturned.
00:21:56
Speaker
Um, and Tom Holland's character was great. Um, and I, and I like Bill, I like health characters. It's a good movie. It's on Netflix 2020. Uh, the devil all the time is what it's called. I don't think I mentioned that, but yeah, very good movie. Um, watched a couple of other comedy movies. I don't know why I'm just in a mood for watching watching ro romantic comedies. Um, movie called going the distance. Um, this came out in 2010 starring Drew Barrymore, Justin Long.
00:22:20
Speaker
Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, and Christina Applegate. That's okay. Okay comedy. Romantic comedy. I like all of these like all of these people. Justin Long is funny. Jason Sudeikis, of course, Ted Lasso. Love him in that. This is way before that. I think he's probably still on SNL at the time. ah Yeah, good movie. and Of course, Charlie Day, we both love him from Sonny. Good movie. Another comedy that I watch. I run Livingston's in that too.
00:22:46
Speaker
Another movie I watch is Sleeping with Other People. This also has Jason Sudeikis, Alison Bray. This is right after Community. Adam Scott, Jason Manzoukis, Adam Brody, Amanda Peat. This is a good movie too. Good rated R comedy. Not a lot of good rated R comedies nowadays. I mention it all the time, but it kind of won everything with PC.
00:23:13
Speaker
politically correct everything stopped with the great comedies of our day when we were growing up and like you don't have an American Pie anymore if you all if you do it's very woke um it's it's reversed it's whatever you want to say but it's it's not like it was when we're growing up um and I wish people would take more chances on comedies but they don't um another movie came out today I did watch it you actually came out yesterday called you're cordially invited Um, this movie was okay. Starring Will Ferrell, Reese Witherspoon. This is on Amazon Prime. Um, it's about this group of people. There's a big mix up. They both book a a hotel on a
00:23:54
Speaker
on a on a island to have to have weddings and hilarity ensues kind of I mean it's it's okay it's an okay movie probably three out of five for me I don't think I'll ever watch it again um I think I'm always I like Will Ferrell I think I'm always waiting and hoping that I'll see another Step Brothers. Every time every movie since that's come out. I love Step Brothers so much. I just want to see that again. And it has not happened. Nope. It has not happened. And Step Brothers is just so so fucking funny. And maybe it's just the Unsolved. Well, no, because they had that Sherlock Holmes movie that was pretty bad, too. They may be the Unsolved of the two of them. But ah yeah, three three out of five for me. Not good. All right. Get that all out of the way.
00:24:41
Speaker
and What we came here today, we're going to be starting an intro to Superman. Want to talk about the character, how it came to be. um These two creators, their names are Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster.
00:24:56
Speaker
Um, they're from Cleveland, Ohio, which we talked about on the show. They're actually filming the new Superman movie in in Ohio. And a lot of those places are where the origin of this character came from. Um, they were high school friends in 1932. Um, and they came up and they wanted to create together. They realized that, Oh, I'm a good writer. Oh, I'm a good artist. So they took both of their talents together and tried to create new material, try to create new things that they could make money off of, put into magazines, put into newspapers at the time.
00:25:25
Speaker
um Started off in 1933 with this little article that they came out in a magazine called the reign of Superman. Superman and very different story. It was more that the Superman was more of a evil person. Drugs induced this power that he had.
00:25:46
Speaker
And the power was not superhuman strength like Superman, it was more of a Professor X type of power. Yes, mind control, right? Mind control, yep. And it did not, it's not kind of what they pictured, but it did okay for them, it got them in the door. And then they started continuing on with this character and later on, a couple years down the road, they did another version of the character, but they made them more good this time because having stories of good made more sense. It was more enticing to a younger audience, so they made him be a vigilante hero. Reminds you of somebody? Batman, maybe? And it made it more mainstream, so they were getting more attention. Come July 1933, it wasn't enough attention. They were being turned away from a lot of people, and schs and Siegel started looking for older, established artists to replace Schuster.
00:26:40
Speaker
And in protest, Siegel burns the interior of their comic prototype. I'm not sure if it's the same cover that I have here or not, but it's the Superman prototype that they had, and they have a kind of a falling out in 1933.
00:26:55
Speaker
um The next draft, ah sure um shoot ah Siegel is trying to find the story of the Superman character. The next draft ends up being he's going to be a scientific adventurer from from the far future um and has naturally evolved superpowers so that the powers keep developing on this character throughout the 1930s.
00:27:20
Speaker
um And they also have time machines in this bringing in the modern era um Kind of a man out of time is what they're starting as which is kind of Superman is in a way He's kind of man space at a time um Come to 1934 the next draft further evolution of the character on the debut of giant catalism So she ends up being what happens with Krypton um and he ends up being the last surviving manned since his three-year-old son back in time and to the year 1935, so they're still dealing with time travel for some reason. They haven't gotten to Krypton yet. um But they were discovered discovered by Sam and Molly Kent. The name Kent came around this time. um They leave the boy in the orphanage, but the staff struggle to control him because he has superhuman strength and imp impenetrable impenetrable skin. So they're already getting the superhuman part of it. um The Kent's end up adopting the boy named him Clark. So Clark Kent, and your origin was 1934.
00:28:14
Speaker
um After rejecting every artist that tried to dry draw this vision, um Siegel and Schuster end up reconciling, and continue creating the backstory, Krypton, the costume design, everything starts being developed from 1934 to 1938. After failed deals with newspaper strips, magazines, who had little faith in the idea, they fall upon a little company called Detective Comics Inc. And Superman debuts in Action Comics number one,
00:28:45
Speaker
dated on June 1938, published in April of that year, a couple months before that. They were only paid $130 for 13 pages um and ends up being about $2,800 now. And a contract that also gave up the copyright to DC Inc. going forward. We have a huge story to talk about at the end of the show about this.
00:29:06
Speaker
Surprising that that came up today when I'm talking about it now i not um But yeah, this is the first cover of Superman action comics number one very iconic this thing sells for millions and millions of dollars um If you know Superman, you know this comic covers him lifting up a car We've actually talked about it when we talked about Superman and Lois at that iconic scene was replayed in that show with the same exact costume um Also we have, I think I have an interior in here too of the comic book, there's some just showing how the character
00:29:37
Speaker
was leaping instead of flying, faster than a locomotive. All of this stuff came in this first issue, stronger. All of this stuff came in the first... Yep, all that stuff. But the character was influenced by a whole bunch of influences. First one being John Carter from Mars, which was a movie a decade ago with a guy that was in the show that you like, Taylor Hitch, right?
00:30:03
Speaker
um oh yeah i think I believe that's him. John Carter from Mars. That's the one that's picture on the left there. um The other influences were Douglas Fairbanks um for the Mark of Zuro. Of course, Zuro, he has a secret identity, so Clark Kent has a secret identity. That's where it came from. And comedian Harold Lloyd. A lot of lot of ah popular stuff from that time. The Popeye cartoons, of course, Popeye being strong, strength. um And Hugo Danner's character in the 1930s science fiction novel Gladiator,
00:30:31
Speaker
um It's pictured right there philip by Philip Wiley. ah Similar superhero strength, ah speed, bulletproof skin, so on and so forth. um The name Metropolis comes from the 1927 film of the same name. An early love of collection of comic strips before comic book Schuster self-taught is tracing ah over overcomeic ah comic strips is how he learned how to draw.
00:30:55
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Schuster's obsession with strongmen competitions of the day kind of if you're probably modern day a wrestling fan umca caution The costume was influenced by early wrestlers and boxers of the time um Also influenced by pulp action stories most heroes of swashbucklers war capes um The crest was based off of medieval crest of the ah back in the medieval times um adorned by knights and jousters His face was inspired by a mix of Olympian Johnny Westheimer, West Mueller was pictured there right in the right middle um And Dick Tracy comics. It's kind of where the the look for car Clark Kent came from um
00:31:36
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were we at in the notes. ah The first picture of Superman, as you can see there, that's kind of one of the original first drawings. His boots had more of a gladiator look to them. They were kind of laced. It was weird looking and eventually changed to the boots that we know now. but um His initial power strength, power set, he had strength, impervious skin, leaping, we talked about that before flying, um super speed, and eventually he had x-ray vision, super hearing in 1939, super human breath in 1940, vision in 1949,
00:32:12
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ah Kryptonite became a thing in 1949 Krypton Kal-El We know he's Kal-El from Krypton his father is Jor-El. He's an earth refugee orphan He ends up landing in Smallville in 1949 that became part of the comic book um And Kansas was not brought up until the 1978 movie I was kind of surprised when the research that that didn't come up until then um laura Laura and Jor-El, like I mentioned, is his father and mother from Krypton. He was found by Ma and Pa Kent, Jonathan and Martha, um and becomes Clark Kent. That's all done in the first few years of the comic. um The move to Metropolis, he used his powers for good. We're going to talk about that in a minute. um Becoming a vigilante ah to kind of benefit humanity, to use his powers for good, to to actually use them not for bad, to use them to take care of people, to to make the world a better place.
00:33:05
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Um, he ends up working for a newspaper called the daily planet and everybody knows that uh run by editor perry white, um, jimmy olesen photographer Apparently this this daily planet hires people without degrees in journalism. Nope. No, you're right. Yep. Um, and that's where smallville and smallville they go from graduating high school to working at the fucking world's most famous newspaper Yeah a g h t Yep. Uh, he ends up meeting Lois Lane, who was a reporter there. Um, they ended up working together throughout and Jimmy Olson is their photographer. Um, mild manner, secret identity, identity clumsy, trying to fit in as a human is basically what that whole entire thing is. Why is he mild and, and, and clumsy and everything? It's because.
00:33:50
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He's trying to fit in and be a human, so he's acting to be that way. um The villains start off with Lex Luthor in 1940. He's is ah obviously his arch-nemesis. Mr. McStick's a pleasant 1944. Brainiac in 1958. In 1939, the debuts in the newspaper comic strips. He was there for like 60 years. um But in the summer, he had his own comic book series, Superman No. 1. This is the comic strip. but I was talking about the newspapers.
00:34:17
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this this is the first one that ever was ever in there a little quick kind of like a page of a comic book that would be in the newspaper on Sunday morning but this is the issue this one's expensive too this is one of those ones that are always sell sold for millions of dollars but um during the war um World War two this came out right before right during World War two right when it started and um It was used more for World War two propaganda and war war efforts urging kids to war bar by war bonds We're talking about that when we get into this next thing Which is what we watched this week to talk about this is kind of where we wanted to start talking about the character oh um This show is something
00:34:57
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First time, yeah you imagine and matchest been yeah honestly not bad right imagine being a kid in and you're reading these comic books for a year or two, but you go to the movie theater, there was no TV, so you're going to the movie theater and you're watching Superman on the big screen done by Paramount Pictures, little short mini episodes, six minutes episodes each,
00:35:23
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But you're seeing this person come to life from the pages and fighting crime. And and in at the time, very strange, very very weird. But um kids could eat this shit up back then. I can imagine being a kid and loving this. And it'd be the only thing you have, too. There was no other content at that time. No TV. All you had was radio and playing with toys and shit. But um but we're talking about Max Fleischer's 1941 serial cartoons. There's 17 of them in total. um And Max Fleischer,
00:35:52
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known for creating Rotoscope, which ends up tracing images from a live action film frame by frame for animated cartoon shorts to have more of a realistic human-like character. They did that for this a little bit, um but Superman, he's always flying, so they couldn't really do it for the whole thing. But from when went when you see a human walking around, chances are it was a real um tracing of a live action film slide that they were doing frame by frame to make it look more animated.
00:36:20
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um He also brought it to ah Betty Boop and Popeyes and then went to theaters as well. But I do have some early pictures of how this was created for TV. um there' there's ah There's some pictures of Superman there. um Clark Kent facial features. I do have some ah some fighting stances and facial features of Clark and Superman here. 17 serials in total. First animated appearance of the character.
00:36:47
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It was all done, like I mentioned, for Paramount Pictures, negotiated for $50,000 an episode, which would have been about $799,000 nowadays in the current times. Which would be a lot for today. Like, nobody gets that much today on their first go-around or first shot.
00:37:04
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It was and it also, at the time, it was not protected. So this went into public domain, I think, in the 70s. So all of these episodes, like anybody can release them and get make money off of them. um The voice acting was done by both Bud Culver and Joan Alexander, who also originated the characters in radio first in 1940. And they did 2088 episodes on radio. They also did the voice acting in the serial cartoons as well. um And that is them right there.
00:37:33
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probably a publicity shot pretending they' were recording it but yeah um This is the cartoon we're talking about, very noir, the influence that this had on a lot of artists, a lot of people, um we'll talk about that in a minute, but ah the orchestral soundtrack done by an orchestra, synchronized a lot with the action, you would hear a a piece of music hit every time he would punch somebody or so on and so forth. um He would fight robots, dinosaurs, a lot of sci-fi stuff going on in this cartoon. um But the one crowning achievement that this had is giving Superman flight. The very first time he flew, um because in the comic books, like we've mentioned before, he only leaped over tall buildings. That that was his thing. um But they actually, because they they thought when they animated it, it looked weird when he was leaping.
00:38:21
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They asked DC is it okay if we make him get your permission to make him fly because it looks better on screen and they gave him permission and from that moment forward even going into the comic books he ended up flying. um Also originated the phrase faster than the spinning bullet more powerful than a note locomotive able to leap tall buildings in a single bound originated in this show. um It was also adapted into the radio serials as well um as well as the theme song ended up going into the radio serials.
00:38:48
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um And live action decades later with the Adventures of Superman was talked about months from now, a couple months from now. um Up in the sky, look, up in the sky, look, a bird to play in Superman, taken from this in in the early radio series. um The first nine episodes were produced by Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer. And in 1942, the studio was restructured as famous studios. um the bre The Fleischer brothers had a falling out.
00:39:14
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The final eight episodes produced were more like World War II propaganda, rather than the science fiction backdrop. They had some science fiction in there too, but a lot of the episodes dealt with Japanese, dealt with Germany. There's actually a picture of Hitler at one point being pissed off. Max's brother is the one that directed the first episode too, right? Yes. I wonder how many he directed, okay.
00:39:36
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Yeah, it was a family of affair. You're right. um yeah The series steampunk noir feeling influenced ah the animated series of Batman back in the early 90s, as well as the Superman animated series in 1990s. Also, the main inspiration for Alex Ross's art style of the character, which we've been talking a lot about lately.
00:39:55
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um And the character has showed up since the 40s. He was in the Crisis of of Infinite Earth Arrowverse tie-in comic. This came out right around that TV show. Big huge thing that they were doing, the Crisis on Infinite Earth. oh yeahp um And they actually showed Earth-F where this version of Metropolis is. And it was and they showed it being destroyed by the anti-monitor, which was part of that series, I believe.
00:40:19
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um And yeah um And yeah, I just want to talk about the character a little bit talk about a brief introduction because we're gonna be getting deep into a lot of the TV series and comic books in the months to come and This is a good introduction. This is the first thing I watched when I was a kid. I had owned VHS um I watched quite a few of them. I remember when I was watching through them this week. that Yeah, I remember seeing this and The first episode is the one I used to always watch. I think it's the beginning of the VHS. Yeah, I've seen the first one like four or five times. Yeah, it's very iconic. Him him him fighting the laser. But the big review this week is a comic book that we've been talking about for a while. Kevin's got it right behind him. Superman for All Seasons. This was a fantastic book.
00:41:02
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Fucking amazing, isn't it? I love the Clark Kent story, which is what this basically is. It is coming out in 1998. Now, the big part of this is this is the origin. This is the origin of not only Clark, but Superman. um But this is also the origin of where Smallville, the idea for the TV show Smallville came from, I believe. Yes.
00:41:21
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um Because if you know if you know Smallville, you've got Lana, you've got Clark, you've got Pete. All those characters are in this book. I love Pete. I did too. I like Pete in Smallville as well. um The reason why it's called For All Season is it's four books compiled into this one paperback that I had. um And they're all a season. ah first ah First book is Spring and they're also done through the The eyes of one of the characters the first episode of the first so the first book is from Jonathan Kent's perspective um The second ah that's from spring. The second one is summer done from Lois Lane's perspective third is fall done from Lex Luthor's perspective and
00:42:05
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and Fourth is winter done from Lana Lang's perspective in the whole series You're getting it. You're getting a glimpse at Clark when he was growing up when Jonathan and Martha found him um How he ended up going how how his life on the farm was how his life in smallville was how he went from there to Metropolis How he meets works at a daily planet works with ah Lois Lane meets Lex Luthor ends up having a rivalry with him all of that is explained in this book and fairly well, very good. um This is a good book. It's so good. I think I've read it. I think this is my I've read it like four times last year. um So this is probably my fifth reading. Um, yeah, I absolutely love this book, which I've been talking to you about for a long forever. Yeah. um
00:42:47
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and also I really when I was reading this I was like I really hope uh Lois Lane calls him Smallville like just once in the movie because she calls him that throughout this she called him that in the movie Smallville Smallville yeah I'm not sure if she ever called him that in the original movie I don't think she did I don't know I don't might have i doubt even originated in this I might have originated in this book I can't remember if I'd ever read where she'd called him Smallville before but I just love that she calls him that cuz it's like looking down on him and what he's just this little like nothing but But that's what he wants. he He wants to fit in as a human. So he's gonna allow that He's gonna he's gonna actually probably stoke that fire and make make that make it seem like he's more of a human than he actually is Because he I mean you look at him as Superman
00:43:33
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With glasses, he's he just look ah looks like a big, brawly guy, but he's just trying to fit in. I love the way he's drawn in this, too. He's just this massive, massive yeah alien. and I thought he looked... I thought it made him look kind of young, too. when You look at his facial features, it makes him look young. Well, I mean, um the book starts off when he's 17 or 18 years old, so... Yeah, very good. He can handle a tornado in this book. I wonder what happened there. Is tornado good?
00:44:01
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Yeah, very good book. I don't know where I think we're gonna do this about once a month. We're gonna read a comic book We're gonna watch stuff every once in a while. We're gonna talk about an aspect of the character throughout every couple weeks Probably but yes next up in a couple weeks. We're gonna talk about two documentaries um Both on YouTube, I think both of them are both of them are on my flex by the way So yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure the first one you have there was on YouTube's I think I just watched it Look up in the sky, the amazing story of Superman. This was an exclusive for a DVD box set that came out with Superman Returns in 2006. Oh, so that means it was probably produced by Brian Singer. No, but Robert Meyer Burnett, who has gotten a lot of slack. Have you seen any of these tweets lately? No, I haven't. I'll send them to you after the show.
00:44:51
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okay He's been going at the Snyder people very hard. And he did all these special features on Superman Returns. And I believe he did the Lord of the Rings trilogy too. But ah yeah's good yeah, documentary. Yeah, we're gonna talk all about that. And we're also gonna talk about the documentary, and Secret Origin, the Story of DC Comics, ah narrated by Ryan Reynolds. It's about the history of the comic book. It talks about all the characters, but I figured it's a good, and we talked a lot about the intro to the character and the Schuster she was st sternring Simons today. So I figured it'd be a good idea to get into that.
00:45:20
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um We'll talk about that in a couple weeks. But yeah, I'm very excited for Superman just We got some Superman news at the end of the show. We'll talk about yes, we do until then Let's get into the news
00:45:39
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And it's not a new sample of the trailer around it. We got a new trailer, kind of a quick trailer for Alien Earth, but we got a new poster too, which looks fucking awesome. got earth but You got Earth with the alien head there, looks really really cool. It come out comes out this summer on Hulu, very excited.
00:45:59
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Um, basically it shows the alien landing on Earth. I've been waiting for this type of thing since the 1980s. Like, since I saw the first first time I watched Aliens, and I've been waiting for them to get to Earth.
00:46:11
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What's going to happen when an alien goes to Earth? Well, now we'll find out, which is going to be awesome. um We got the first trailer for a movie called Locked, starring Bill Skarsgard and Anthony Hopkins. It comes out March 21st. It looks like Saw. It looks like Saw in a car. Yeah, it looks like a scary version of Saw, like as far as like, you don't want to see somebody getting their foot chopped off. It looks like, yeah, it's like a Saw trap, but it doesn't look like it as violent as a Saw trap would be.
00:46:36
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Bill Skarsgard playing a ah car burglar ends up going into this car very highly advanced car owned by Anthony Hopkins and gets trapped in there locked in and He's remote controlling the car and doing a whole bunch of shit fucking with him turning the heat down to very very low and freezing him out But he can't get out. It looks really really good. If you have not seen the trailers called locked It's a horror thriller movie. Sorry Bill Skarsgard who I love so ah another movie called riffraff I'm starring Pete Davidson and Bill Murray. I don't know if you had a chance to see this trailer or not. It's fucking wacky as hell. Lewis Paulman, Gabrielle Union, Ed Harris, Jennifer Coolidge. Looks funny. Looks like something you may want to watch. I don't know. But the trailer that I'm really excited for is Sinners. This fucking movie. Oh my. I avoid that trailer at all costs. I have not watched it. This is the one I'm avoiding. It looks really, really good. Ryan Coogler, of course. Black Panther Creed. ah Michael B. Jordan stars in this.
00:47:32
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um It's some sort of a vampire story, we're not really sure much. The trailer kind of gave a little bit away but done a lot. It comes out on April 18th, very excited for that. um Weekend Box Office last week, Flight Risk, the movie directed by Mel Gibson starring Mark Wahlberg, $12 million. Mufasa The Lion King, $8 million.
00:47:51
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And one of them days eight million. So yeah, not a big huge box office weekend. No, it's January January expected. Yeah. um Rest in peace to Marianne Faithful. If you're a fan of Metallica, um you know her from singing um Memory Remains. She does. Well, that's her oh yeah this week. um so Rest in peace to her.
00:48:18
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In surprising news that surprised no one, Pee Wee Herman and ah in a posthumous documentary, which I'm actually, I love documentaries, so I'm excited to see this, um has come out as being gay.
00:48:33
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Shocking. Where's that dokes surprise motherfucker sound bite we need surprise motherfucker. Have you ever seen the vine or the guy who does surprise motherfucker, supplies motherfucker, deep fries motherfucker. I gotta study that after this show. I gotta start saying that shit at work, deep fries motherfucker.
00:48:57
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um Yeah, Pee Wee Herman comes out as gay, he's gonna be in the documentary, just debuted at a film festival somewhere. um Coming into the wwe WWE Hall of Fame, Triple H, um runs this runs the show now, um has been holding out being in the in the Hall of Fame because he's running the whole show, he didn't want to be in it, but he was surprised this week by Nick Khan, who runs everything, and they told him, yeah, you're going in.
00:49:22
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It's only rightfully so, because he did so much for wrestling. i mean Everybody talks about The Rock and Austin, but Triple H was a huge heel at that time, a huge part of the show. who did Who did amazing things for the company now, but it did did amazing things back then as a performer. so Good to see ah speaking of him Stephanie McMahon has a new show coming out on yeah ESPN a travel show worries where she's Kind of traveling with WWE superstars coming in in March ah Trail looked actually pretty good. I don't know. I mean it who knows who knows of these type of productions exactly. Yeah
00:49:58
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ah Speaking of wrestling, Dark Side of the Ring announced all of the new episodes. First episode tackles Hell in a Cell, ah Big Van Vader, Tony Atlas, who... Wow. um ludwwin york i orga and looking forward to that one ah Billy Jack Hayes, I heard of him. Hot stuff, Addie Gilbert, I heard of him. Superstar Billy Graham, heard of him. Daphne, know her. She was in WCW. The original Sheik and Muhammad Hassan. Isn't Billy Jack Haynes the gentleman that went on one of Rob Feinstein's um shoot videos and talked about the reason why Chris Benoit killed his son is because he found out that k Chris Benoit's son was actually Vince McMahon's son?
00:50:42
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So that should be a great fucking episode. I'm going to look for that, uh, shooting review and hopefully I can send it to you. I have it somewhere, but, uh, it's a hell of an interview with that guy is fucking bat shit insane. Wow. That shit. Yeah. So looking forward to that comes up March 25th, uh, could be on vice online too. So we'll talk about that every week. Um, Dave Franco.
00:51:02
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fully aware that people want him to play the guy who Luigi you killed that guy. whatever yeah Yeah, yeah, fully aware of it. ah They have not made an offer. He keeps receiving texts from friends and saying it's funny for this role. I didn't think about it. And then I saw this news and I was like, Oh, you know what? Perfect. Yeah, looks just like him. Eddie Murphy is gonna be in a new movie called Blue Falcon.
00:51:25
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um Movie Falls retired super spy who heads for the desk for a destination Wedding for his son only to find himself in proximity with an arch rival um Yeah, so okay, that sounds trash. He hasn't learned his lesson from Metro and all those movies from the early 2000s one of those early day ah Metro's and whatever else he was doing around that time Um, just fucking do one more comedy show bro. Just do it. Just do it for the people. Yeah, why wouldn't he do it? Why is he afraid to do a life? He was doing it. Remember he was planning it. and Yeah, right for COVID. Yeah. And uh, then it just went away and he ended up doing axle f, which is a fine movie, but like bro, just do us, do us one more solid. We want raw. We want, we want, uh, what was it? Delirious. What was that? Delirious and raw. hilarious Yeah, we want those. Um,
00:52:14
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And in a shocking move that nobody really cares about, Little House on the Prairie is getting rebooted on Netflix. Yippee. Ever tried to watch that show? Oof. Nope. Um, coming out on max on March 27th. Um, I saw a video. Is this actually happening in this fight? No, what's coming out on. It's a reality show. 27th is a reality show. Yes. Okay. So they were hyping it up as a fight, but it's actually. Wait, is Logan Paul, the one with the tattoo on the head? Who's it? No, Jake Paul's Jake Paul. He's the one that's not in WWE. Yeah. He's the one that posted it on his Twitter jokingly was like, you guys have always wanted to see us fight, blah, blah, blah. March 27th HBO max, but it's a reality show.
00:52:55
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Yeah, that's a poster, so everybody thought they were gonna have a fight, but it's actually a reality show, dumb. And shocking news. Jesus Christ. And shocking news. Jesus Christ. What is this movie gonna be? Scott Foley joins the cast of Scream 7. That's the first part of the story. yeah Okay, so let me talk about this real quick. Let me just get this off the chest. um So Scott Foley is the bad guy slash half brother to Sidney Prescott from Scream 3.
00:53:24
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which was being written by Kevin Williamson until he got booted off the project after the second draft. And so it's odd that Kevin Williamson who wrote Scream 7 and is directing Scream 7 is bringing this fucking guy back. Also, up until this point, Scream 3 is not really being considered canon amongst most fans because they never mentioned a single goddamn thing that happens in that movie going forward. It's also fucking Dumbass movie it was terrible. It's from the twist is terrible him being a half sibling was terrible Sydney's mother being basically a whore and Hollywood was terrible. I think it's trash movie
00:54:01
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ah That's the one that's what that's the one with Jane that's all with Jane silent Bob right and Right. right Okay. Yes. Um, the other news that happened was bringing back Matthew Lillard to play student This is the post that he he put on social media um the line, of course famous from his first movie um My mom and dad are gonna kill me. Let me so my guess my guess is He's gonna be in a flashback scene. and They're gonna deage him. Um Seen that features his mom and dad which is why I'm just assuming this because he put this up and then like an hour later was announced That he's returning for scream so I could see him in a flashback of sorts kind of like what they do with ski Ulrich They just can't use smart anymore because both those girls are off the project So it's simple to be similar to her what they have been doing with skates previously What a name skates um
00:54:58
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Terrifier 4 is in the works. It's going to be the finally revealing arts origin. It's going to be a conclusion to this series is what they're saying. You got to first look at Ben Affleck and Matt Damon in a movie called R.I.P. A film follows a group of Miami cops who discovered millions in cash in a di and derelict stash house. It comes out this year on Netflix. um Yeah.
00:55:24
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, good friends. I watch anything they do. Yeah, they're great. I love air. I love good will hunting. The more they work together the happier I am. Yep, Robert Eggers talking a lot this week about Nosferatu just came out on digital, so um revealed that he got the idea from ah the inspired that inspired the look of Nosferatu from watching Batman Returns on a flight. um i was watching um one of I was watching on one of these flights, I threw on Batman Returns in like snowy, gothic atmosphere. of That movie is it's quite like shockingly similar to a lot of the stuff we were doing here.
00:55:58
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um ah Okay Robert Eckerts. Did I send you the article you did like last week talking about um going to the Fox Run mall? No, I've sent you that and we talked about it on the show. Okay, I thought so. I thought so. I can't remember if we talked about it or not. okay Yeah, we did. it Yeah, we talked about it.
00:56:15
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00:56:18
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Insidious 6, supposed to come out in August, has been delayed until 2026. Taking this place is a movie called Caught Stealing. It's coming out in August, Darian Aronofsky doing a baseball movie starring Austin Butler. um Also in the cast, Bad Bunny, Action Bronson the Rapper,
00:56:35
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Vincent Denofrio, Zo Kravitz, Liv Shriver, Griffin Dunn, Matt Smith, and Regina Hall. This cast sounds good. It's a baseball movie. Darren Aronofsky, great director, um comes out in August. Yeah, excited for that. See? Darren Aronofsky doing this movie is very interesting to me. Yeah. He's a very interesting filmmaker every time he comes out with a project. Yeah.
00:56:59
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um Jake Gyllenhaal is going to be starring in M. Night Shyamalan's next ah romantic thriller movie. The film is based on an original story he co-created with a novel novelist Nicholas Sparks. um yeah Jake Gyllenhaal has kind of been a resurgence of his career right now.
00:57:15
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He hasn't really had a break, but um especially with Roadhouse that came out, everybody loved that movie, kind of. Veramax is making the faculty again. That first movie came out in 1998, so they're rebooting it, starring Josh Hartner, right? there's just the guys Yeah, with Josh Hartner being hot right now, they'd be they'd be better off doing a sequel and having kind of like it where every 25 or whatever they want to space it out, 30 years, something like this happens.
00:57:41
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because Elijah Wood also survived that film. So you could have Elijah Wood in it too, but apparently they're just gonna remake it, which I don't know why I don't want that. From what I remember, was that aliens had infiltrated the high school and the teachers and some of the faculty and the teachers were all aliens. I watched it, I watched it again. Years ago. I watched it when I saw a trap. I rewatched this movie after I saw a trap. I haven't seen this movie since high school. It's been so long. I used to watch that and disturbing behavior back to back like that. We like a double feature for me because they were similar. Coming out today, casting for House of Dragon season three.
00:58:19
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ah Character Ormond Hightower James Norton is gonna be playing that character Anything you know about this character you can tell me what's going on Ormond Hightower? Auto Hightower's brother I want to say um As we get further away from the books my memory gets foggy on that you know I have a shit memory anyways Because I had not reread these since the show was announced but I believe he's the the younger brother of
00:58:48
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of Otto Hightower. Okay. Okay. Cause the sun's already been in the show, so I don't think it's the sun. Yeah. Okay. Uh, Netflix released a whole bunch of stuff yesterday. First thing was a picture from the new Frankenstein movie with Oscar Isaac playing a Dr. Frankenstein. Uh, second thing was and the first picture from the new Knives Out movie, uh, comes out the end of the year with, uh, with what's his name, Daniel, block and Daniel Craig and the guy from challengers is seen yeah photo. Yep.
00:59:18
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Also got a new picture of Happy Gilmore and Bad Bunny being his caddy. um Got a new poster for Squid Game season 3. Also got the date, not it was confirmed July 27th for the final part of that series and we got a picture of the lead there being handcuffed after he was caught at the end of that second season. um Got a new quick 10 second, 5 second clip of Wednesday season 2.
00:59:45
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um We got news of a new documentary called Eddie, about Eddie Murphy, the story of Eddie Murphy's life coming out sometime in 2025. I know you're excited because next week you got Cobra Kai, I think next week of the week after February 13th. I got two new posters for that, it's gonna be the end of that.
01:00:04
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um Most we got a brand new documentary about the Titans submersible That's the one that exploded last year when I went down to the Titanic They're doing a Titanic all about the not only the submersible But the guy who ran it the billionaire who ended up dying down there and all that you're gonna do a whole documentary Netflix about that i Got a brand new poster for official poster for Stranger Things the final season with a wanted poster missing teen poster for Jane who was played by Millie Bobby Brown
01:00:36
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11 and Today it was announced which I am pissed, but we knew it was coming the Sandman season 2 will be the final season We got a new poster for it and 2025 that's gonna come out sometime this year um And the showrunner basically said that ah we knew that there This was all dreams story the main character And they looked at the remaining dream material from the comics and they had enough story for one more series is what they're saying um And they're extremely grateful for Netflix blah blah blah blah blah blah but the actual story is Neil Gaiman is a fucking
01:01:16
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Menace to society not only did he should I don't have it in here, but he did get fired from Dark Horse comics this week um After multiple women came forward saying that he raped them groomed them um did a whole bunch of on on Nefarious things to them um and he's been fired from that and I'm just hanging out like in yeah prison cell on Epstein Island. Yeah, but uh, I Yeah, that sucks. I do like Sandman. I like the other show too, the boy detectives the dead boy detectives, but casualties of people acting like foolish and...
01:01:53
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Not using their celebrity the right way using it for all the wrong way, but um Saturday Night Live ah Mentioned it they're gonna be coming out with a not only the special that comes out the live special three-hour special in the 16th But on the 14th Radio City Music Hall is doing a three-hour live streamed concert um For the sketch ah sketch comedy series a whole bunch of artists that have been on the show before um And they have a huge lineup from Lady Gaga Bad Bunny Miley Cyrus Backstreet Boys Post Malone Jack White um David Byrne Robin, she's British. They're both British Eddie Vedder from from Pearl Jam ah Devo Chris Martin a lot of these people Jelly Roll a lot of these people have been on the show multiple times a few times Some of them have been hosted. So yeah, I'm excited for that whole weekend speaking of Saturday night live We got some swag not a lot but
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swag wag stuff we all get. Come on son, you know what that's for. We got some official pop figures from characters of the past. The one I want to get there is Matt Foley and Van Downton by the River. um Chris Farley figure, I want to get that. Yeah, yeahm excited for the next couple of weeks of SNL. um A lot of cool stuff coming out. um This next piece of news, I wish I had the, how would I say goodbye from boys to men.
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Rest in peace to Wado. On a comic book from ah Star Wars that came out this week they showed Vader had returned to Tatooine and killed Wado and the internet memes went nuts There's one right there with John Cena when he announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed Wado has been caught a compromised to a permanent end There's a lot of great memes up there search from on Twitter if you want But yeah, it's on the comic book series legacy of Vader um that came out this week or last week um and shocking
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Superman news, speaking of Smallville earlier. Tom Welling. Somebody save him from an Arby's parking lot because he got arrested for drunk driving in an Arby's parking lot. That's where he gets for going to fucking Arby's.
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Hey, our business is great. Depends on what you get, beef and cheddars all the way. But yeah, he got arrested this week for DUI. Has it been in the spotlight much after Smallville? A couple of things here and there. He was on Arrow, right? in The Arrowverse for a little while there, for one one or two episodes. Yep, the whole crisis stuff.
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It's funny that this next article came out today because we were talking about Superman and how that came came about for just $150. They sold the rights to that and WB has had full rights to the character with no problem. Copyright law has made it so Warner Brothers has pretty much bought the character out from the from the family in America. Copyright or laws in the rest of the world are completely different, especially in the Commonwealth of Britain.
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And today, the estate of Superman, I think it was Schuster's family, um came out and sued Warner Brothers to deny the release every time every time a new movie.
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every time yeah james gunton um They're trying to deny the release in the UK. owned my Providence territory certain Canada Australia so on so forth um United Kingdom to Ireland It was basically saying that you have a copyright law in America. That's fine But we need to get paid and they want to terminate it They want to actually have the the rights to the shoe store state wants to have the rights to Superman outside of America um
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Schuster died in 1992, Siegel died in 1996. They're saying there's a 25 year waiting period after the author's desk, vesting the estate, um copyright interest. So that's kind of what they're fighting for. um But they've got the big lawyers for WB, WB going against them. So I don't think it's going to go anywhere. Just like, like you mentioned every year. most demand This has made Twitter 10 times more insufferable today that it usually is. Yes, it has. It's been an awful.
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Speaking of insufferable Twitter, this started out the beginning of the week when they released a quick TV trailer for Superman. And they had a brand new shot of Superman flying. This picture right here of the close up picture of David Korn's Superman flying has got the internet on fucking so a storm and a tizzy.
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because they're saying what the fuck why does this look so weird well number one it's just the way it's shot um james james gun has also said the movie is inspired by top gun maverick the flying scenes got that from this clip right away i had no problem with it i don't know what your but your thoughts on the whole controversy are first time i watched it i was like ah this face looks kind of weird in that shot um because it did the first time i watched it because i think it was probably a low res grab also but i think it looks fine um and for all we know this shot might not even be in the movie all right We have no idea. um People were picking apart things. low They were like drawing charts and they were like, why wouldn't, why would bro go this way and not around that way? Why is bro barrel rolling? And I'm like, if I could fly fucking barrel roll all the time. Yeah. Oops. Yeah. Like you're kidding me. Yeah. So this is a human nature of what a flyer would be. But yeah, and I love, I love his hair moving as opposed to Henry Cavill's like completely like jelled over like. Yeah.
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Looks like they put a tube of gel every time they did his hair in fucking BVS. yeah um So I like his hair moving a little bit. That's cool. um Yeah. Yeah. Overall, overall, I don't care. It looks fine. I think it's done. Yeah. Like controversy I saw somebody post I saw somebody post to on Twitter um and they go when the Batman released, like when the first trailer for the Batman came out and Robert Pattinson had a similar shot diving off the building, he goes, I hated that shot, but I still think the movie is eight and a half out of 10. Like, yeah. um Marvel News for the week ah promoting
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Captain America, of course, coming out in a couple weeks. But Chris Evans has denied returning from Marvel for Avengers Doomsday, saying ah that's not true. I think this is just a pivot. He's lied before to the press. oh I don't think they wanted stuff like this to come out, but it came out. um but ah But yeah, we'll have to wait and see. Everybody lies. ah You can't believe anybody, especially Marvel. Speaking of Captain America, finally in news, this this fucking Anthony McEnews. I thought it was way out of proportion. It's political shit gone wrong on Twitter. It's a nothing burger. Exactly. But he said something about Captain America symbolizes, what it symbolizes to him. The exact quote, Captain America represents a lot of things that I don't think the term America should be one of those representations. It's about a man who keeps his word, has honor, dignity, and integrity. Nothing wrong with that. I think that's exactly right. It's been said before by other people, including Chris Evans. We'll get into it in a minute.
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But the internet took that as you're an anti-American, Anthony Mackie, for even saying that you're not Captain America and is not American. um And he had to clarify his remarks. Actually, he had to go online because the other side, the left side, I guess his extreme left, whatever the fuck it is, went on there and he actually had to go on and say, let me be clear about this. I'm a proud American and taking on the shield of a hero like Cap is the honor of a lifetime. He shouldn't have even had to say that. No.
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um Chris Evans similarly said the same thing in 2011 when Captain America was brought up if he was American. i'm Not trying to get list lost in all the American side of it. um he isn't a flag wave This isn't a flag waving movie. It is red, white, and blue. It just so happens that the character was created in America during world world wartime um when there was a common enemy even though it is Captain America. So he's talking the same thing 10 years ago about this this whole...
01:09:55
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The controversy was nothing. um I'm kind of excited for the movie. Not as excited as I have been in the past for a Marvel movie. i Probably lower on my totem pole as far as that's concerned, but I'm excited. It's a new Marvel movie. I'm gonna go watch it. so um That's it for the show. That's it for news a couple of things. I wanted to bring up next week um Have you heard about this show paradise on Hulu? I keep hearing everything about it um It's a sci-fi show kind of I guess I have no idea what the there's a big huge twist in the first episode. Is that us? I'm George Fuller. Is that Liam?
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not No, that's Jason Morrison. Yeah, and his hair looks night. It looks like Liam a little bit Starting Sterling K. Brown, James Marston, I believe he plays the president. I keep hearing that it has a great twist and it's good and I don't know if I should watch that or not, but I want to bring it up. I was scrolling through ah Prime this week. I found two documentaries I think we should keep an eye on.
01:10:56
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um playing with Power, the Nintendo story, a five-part documentary series. Is that on there now? Yeah, it's on there now, narrated by Sean Astin. The other documentary I think you might be excited for is a documentary called Roboduck, the creation of Robocop. Is that also on Prime right now? both of Both of them are on Prime right now. i Just scroll through and say, wow, these are new. I never even heard of these.
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but talking about the uh the uh origin story of both of those nintendo and robocop we might talk about that about that in a pod future pod definitely um coming me tomorrow on saturday as we record on the first uh royal rumble we're going to talk about that next week and i plan on watching it I will be watching as well. We'll talk about the penultimate episode of Dexter next week episode 9 We'll talk about dark side of the cage. We get to that ah Continue our talk about friendly neighborhood spider-man Invincible comes out on the 6th. I believe that's Wednesday so If you if you catch up on that you can talk about that um The only movie coming out next week is love hurts with Q Quan Looked funny. I don't know if I'm probably not people to the theaters and see that but I didn't want to bring that up Yeah ah coming out the month of February
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The 9th is the Super Bowl. Half-time. We're going to talk about the halftime show and everything. All the trailers. There's going to be a bunch of stuff to talk about. A movie coming out on IMAX on the 7th. We're probably not going to see. Coming out and streaming sometime probably next month. ah Becoming a Led Zeppelin documentary which I'm very excited for. um The 13th, Cobra Kai the final event. The final season.
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14th Captain America Brave New World, the 16th SNL 50th Special, um and the Stephen King movie The Monkey, the horror movie coming out on the 21st. Kind of looked good in that trailer. so um That's it for the show everybody and we will talk to you next week. Peace.
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