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Episode 196
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It's a Halloween Spook-Tackular! We talk Tulsa King (Paramount), Chad Powers and Only Murders in the Building finales (Hulu), we review the premiere episode of It: Welcome to Derry (HBO Max), Ray gives his reactions to Insidious (2011), Paranormal Activity (2007) and A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984), we end our Halloween month off with reactions to Children of the Corn (1984), The Birds (1963) and The Exorcist (1973) and finally this week we review the new films The Conjuring: Last Rites and Good Boy
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Halloween Spooktacular & Show Recommendations
00:01:23
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Hey, hey, what's going on? Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween. don't know if this is the first show we ever had on Halloween. It has to be. Yeah, first Halloween recording. Yeah.
00:01:35
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Welcome, everyone, to a Halloween spectacular. Lots of movies to talk about. Spooktacular. Spooktacular, as everyone likes to call it this time of year. um We'll start off with a couple of shows, couple of shows ended, but um Tulsa King.
00:01:51
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Probably haven't started it yet, I'm sure. um However, I'd just like to bring it up to remind you how awesome it is um and how the villain this year is awesome.
00:02:03
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And how you need to catch up on this show. Halfway through the season. By the way, you got me into this show three weeks ago. I know. um Halfway through this season, there is a great villain actor that I cannot wait to talk about.
00:02:19
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I love the crew that he's developed in this show. They're all like nothings and they become something, especially the black kid that kind of becomes his protege in a way.
00:02:31
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It's great show though. This is on Paramount Plus every Sunday. airs I think it comes on Sunday morning. Yeah, it's really, really good though.
TV Show Renewals & Casting News
00:02:38
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um But we did have two finales. um One could be the final finale ever, and that could be Chad Powers.
00:02:46
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um I'm not sure what the ratings are this of this are. It got renewed. It did get renewed. I wasn't sure. yeah yeah um I saw that the other day. Glenn Powell, head of this, not surprised.
00:02:58
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But there's not much more that this show can tell besides a few people finding out who he is. Like the main character found the main character you wanted to find out found out.
00:03:09
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um And that kind of leaves a big gaping hole going into a second season. What will happen? um the coaches need to find out some of the players and the world needs to find out i guess that would be the end of the series but um yeah it's mrs doubtfire wrapped into a football game that's weird there's only five no six episodes this season so it wasn't bad easy get easy to get through less than a half hour each if you want to watch their own hulu um it's uh it's a good football type of So, the other thing that ended this week and it was renewed for a sixth season was Only Murders in the Building.
00:03:42
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um This season, for me, has had a great beginning, lackluster ending. um And it's had that problem for a couple of seasons where it just wasn't catching the same heat as the first couple of seasons. But...
00:03:56
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um They are going to London next year. And, yeah, we'll see. I know ah Tina Fey is going be playing a big part of it because, spoiler alert, she was the one that was murdered for next season leading up. So, um yeah, we'll have to wait and see. um i love the show. I love the humor just of Steve Martin and Martin Short. I think that's what gives us the show of the heart that it that gets that gets it going on Hulu. But, yeah.
00:04:22
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Great show.
Stephen King's 'It': Book vs. Adaptations
00:04:24
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um But we're all here for one thing this week, and that is a Halloween Spectacular. And we're going to talk about a show debut. But before that, I want to bring up...
00:04:35
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the roots of this show. And that is Stephen King's book, it. Now I know you've read the book. I've read the book as well. Um, totally different. There's a whole sequence at the end of the book that is completely omitted from both the TV adaptation from 1990 and the Andy machete version the came out in the 2010s.
00:04:57
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Um, and that's the whole Beverly getting, railed by trained by all of the other kids in the losers club um that did not happen in the movie um that she did kiss him i wonder why ah child um the uh original director who developed the movie before andy took it on wanted to include that sequence and think that was one of the why he left um Kiri Fujio... Oh, yeah. Or he might have been the one doing The Flash. I can't remember. It was whoever Andy took over for it.
00:05:30
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um Because he also took over for somebody on The Flash, too. I can't remember that was carried there. um but Whoever the original director was that developed the movie wanted to include that. And they they said no.
00:05:41
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Because you can't have 12-year-olds being raped. No, that would not fly well with America. Or the world. um Maybe some parts of the world. ah Yeah, but it... great TV miniseries came out in 1990.
00:05:55
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um It's not R-rated, so it's very much made for television. However, the performance of Tim Curry coming out of it is why I love it so much, and I hold his Pennywise in high
'Welcome to Derry' Series Insights
00:06:07
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regards. Compared to Scars guards Bill scars guards Pennywise which I like but I just love Tim Curry um the rest of the movie is very campy because it is made for TV but it's one of the best Stephen King adaptations for what it is because the ending of this book is notorious for being strange um And they had to read it, readapt it twice, two different times for the movie as well.
00:06:31
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um For the second part of part two, um I watched these for I watched part one and part two, the Andy Machete version for the first time back to back last weekend. I watched them in the theater.
00:06:41
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um They're they're pretty good. second one's not the second one's a bit much. And it's three hours. It's about 45 minutes too long. Yeah. yeah um And it still has that problem of the ending where it's hard. Even the the thing about it is they joke about Stephen King book endings or the book of Bill, Bill, um who's the character in the movie that's kind of based off of Stephen King. He's an author. Yeah.
00:07:06
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They joke about how you can't figure out how to figure out your endings of your books. They joke about that. Even Stephen King comes up in a cameo we talked about last week and jokes about you can't figure out an ending to your book.
00:07:16
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um So that yeah that's kind of a tongue-in-cheek kind of cameo. He had two cameos we talked about last week in this, It Part 2, and then he had a cameo in um Pet Sematary we talked about last week. but um Overall, we knew that the Andy Machete was coming back to do Welcome to Dairy, and it was going to be a prequel.
00:07:35
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And we know a little bit more about that, and we're going talk about it in a minute. But Welcome to Dairy debuted last weekend, and we had an episode drop drop today on Halloween. i'm I'm guessing you probably watched it.
00:07:47
Speaker
I have not. um'm much with my I'm watching with the Discord. I watch that stuff at night. I'm not going to watch it during the day Oh, I watched it. I won't talk about much of the spoilers, but holy shit, there's a lot of horror, great horror in this show. First episode, tons of great jump scares, tons of great moments.
00:08:05
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um And you meet a whole new cast of characters. um Do I have... I don't even think I have that here yet. um We'll get into this first. First things first.
00:08:17
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um Third biggest premiere of a series ever on HBO Max. It had 5.7 million people watching it in the first three days.
00:08:29
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ah Only thing to top it was the premiere of House of Dragon. And The Last of Us. I'm not sure which episode that was. But yeah. ah And welcome to Derry. Huge numbers for HBO. So there will be more of this. And there's planned for three seasons.
Production Details & Stephen King Connections
00:08:43
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um it was every If you know the myth of of of Pennywise. He comes back every 27 years. So when they go back to the 50s. And this is 27 years before.
00:08:54
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You see them in the 80s. In It Part 1. Played by Finn Wolfhard and all those other kids. um So they're going back now to 1950 and they're going back in season two.
00:09:05
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The plan is to go back another 27 years to 1935. And then at the end, the very last of playing on three seasons, the last season will be in 1908. um and It'll be the Ironworks explosion. All of this stuff was mentioned in the movies as well.
00:09:20
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um and Pennywise has been around for 300 and something years. He landed on Earth. He's an alien. That's basically all you need to know. um So yeah. ah Intro credits. Saw them for the first time today. Don't want to get into it, but they're very awesome.
00:09:35
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um And Between the like the first two episodes, the soundtrack, the 50s soundtrack has been amazing. um And Andy Machete, who was the director of The Flash, um' included a couple of DC cameos.
00:09:50
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ah The first one we saw was the Flash cameo, which is actually if the first time you see the multiverse in the DC Universe is Flash racing against himself, Flash. um And the second one is Clayface, the very the very first issue of Detective Comics' debut of Clayface.
00:10:07
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And not sure, internet speculation saying that maybe he's going to be directing, I mean, he obviously he's directing Brave and Bold, but... maybe clayface will be a part of that um of course we know there is a clayface movie maybe that's where it's going to debut is for a uh for an introduction but maybe we'll see that as a villain in in batman so um the other thing i don't want to get into it yet um but they did mention it in the for his name in the first episode so you may already know it but this character um may be familiar to you if you know the shinings
00:10:42
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Yep. It's the same exact character. We'll get into it more next episode. ah you You actually meet him a little bit more in episode two. But Halloran. Dick Halloran, I think his name is, um who's in The Shining. He's got The Shine.
00:10:56
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He ends up taking little Danny on and teaching him about The Shine. um He shows up as an Air Force pilot, and may I think a major, um in this episode. and Maybe it's just a pilot, don't know.
00:11:07
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But they're using his powers for something. They actually do that. They they mention that in the trailers and everything. but um So it's a lot more connection to Stephen and King and Jason, which his books are like that too, but they're actually diving diving keeping deep diving into it a little bit more.
00:11:20
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um And I like this cool type of marketing. The first poster they released, the first group of loser kids, who, spoiler, in the first episode, half of them are dead.
00:11:32
Speaker
They all died at the end of the episode. They redid the poster for episode two, and we get a brand new group of kids. um Also, the viral marketing has been pretty cool on Instagram. They posted a Derry Herald from when the theater, whole theater thing happened, and everybody got massacred.
00:11:48
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um They did a Chaos at the Capitol Theater article that went on the it social media posts, so that was pretty cool. But yeah, this
Halloween Classics & Horror Reviews
00:11:56
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airs every Sunday. We're not going to get episode this Sunday. We got it today, but we'll get a new episode next Sunday.
00:12:01
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ah It's very, very good, very, ah very jumpy. um Great. I think they should have released it earlier in the month. That way it could have had the finale closer to Halloween. But we did get an episode on Halloween, which is really cool, so.
00:12:14
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um And we got a couple of movies we're going to talk about, but I decided that I wanted to get into some franchises before the end of the season that I'd never seen anything of. um So I watched the first movies of Insidious,
00:12:28
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Paranormal Activity. And for the first time, I watched A Nightmare on Elm Street. The very first one. I know you've seen, I think you've seen all of these, right? I'm pretty sure, yeah. um Insidious done by James Wan, who of course did the Conjuring movies.
00:12:43
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ah Where the contrary Conjuring is more based off of real life, real events. Insidious is a brand new story that he brought in and did a whole movie about, about a ha hunting and and a possession of this kid.
00:12:56
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um I thought it was really good. I thought the jump scares were were good. I thought the story was good about astral projection, all that. I liked that. Um, paranormal activity is another one of those live,
00:13:07
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cam found footage movies uh and of course it created a franchise it it created a movie studio which would hold whole bloom house and everything and even conjuring came out of this and and everything um and uh and uh yeah i thought it was okay it was a good movie um nightmare on elm street though um freddy k See, the only movie I've ever seen with Freddy Krueger was Freddy vs. Jason.
00:13:33
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So it's the first time I've seen him in his own movie. I haven't even watched the remake with Jackie ger Earl Haley, who I love. um But i i really I really liked this movie. and for For what it is, the first movie in the 80s, you have to kind of put yourself into place with a lot of these movies into the time period.
00:13:51
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Um, but yeah, it's very good. Um, lots of cool horror elements of dreams, uh, coming to life and killing people. I thought it was cool. Um, and a lot of horror tropes you've seen throughout the years, of course, you know, this already but come from that type of movie. Those, that whole series of movies. So yeah, and maybe, maybe every year I'll deep dive into some more, stuff like this, but I wanted to get into the first movies of these franchises in particular.
00:14:14
Speaker
Um, ah Before we dive into a couple other movies, um our Halloween movies for the week are, first off, um where are mine? There they are. First off was Children of the Corn, which I did not realize with a Stephen King. We should have been watched it last week.
00:14:31
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um I, for some reason, it passed me that it was a Stephen King novel. Yeah. But yeah, it was. Not as good as anything Stephen King I've seen. i think it was probably my least favorite of all of them.
00:14:43
Speaker
Yeah, it's not great. Yeah, not that good. um Yeah, i i know I know it has a huge cult following, though. um But I did enjoy The Birds. This is a Hitchcock movie I wanted to watch this week with... ah This came out in 1963.
00:15:00
Speaker
um For the time, if you were, I mean, at the time, there wasn't really anything like this. um It was very, very cool. Again, you had to put your plate you have to put yourself in a place of nineteen sixty s to kind of figure out what they were feeling at the time when they see a movie like this, and this is definitely...
00:15:15
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ah Definitely a very very much a thriller, very much a suspenseful story that kind of did the whole scream, queen, get up, and course this and Psycho started that. so um But the movie of the week, the one that we've been waiting for all all all year...
00:15:34
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oh all this Halloween, was The Exorcist. o Watched it last weekend. First viewing. ah Neither one of us had seen it before.
00:15:45
Speaker
Now I know why everybody loves this movie. This movie was way before its time. This was done in 1973, right? 1973. And there was nothing like this done before. The wording...
00:15:57
Speaker
and there was nothing like this done before um the visual the wording the The dialogue in this movie, the visuals, the terror the way they terrorize the audience when they watch it, there is nothing like it. And that's why it's up on the top of not only the best horror movies, but it's up on the top of a lot of best movies just because of the way it was shot. And it was shot beautifully.
00:16:22
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um It's a great movie, great cast. Max von Sydow. I've seen a lot more of the more deeper I get into older movies. um Of course, we know him from Star Wars later on. He was in Force Awakens, but um he's great in this.
00:16:37
Speaker
The whole entire cast is great in this. And what's her name? Linda Blair, who plays Regan. Yes. Amazing, amazing fucking run as a possessed little girl. um And seeing her in the beginning of the movie, just dancing just dancing around, being a little girl, and all of a sudden this demon taking over her.
00:16:54
Speaker
And goes nuts. And and the pea soups, puking up the pea soup. And you know all the background stories of how this movie was made. um Just a great movie. five four i Four and a half out of five for me. And that and this is a 1973 movie.
00:17:07
Speaker
seventy three movie And not a lot of times I see a movie that's so old that that hits me like that. um Not necessarily scary. i mean i I mentioned it last week. I was kind of worried to see this. I knew i thought I was going fuck with my head. But I've seen a lot worse stuff this week. And get into it in a minute.
00:17:24
Speaker
Um, but yeah, this was a good movie. Surprised me. Um, I knew it was, I knew it was gonna be a classic and and just I love the way it was shot, so. Um, but two brand new movies I want to talk about.
00:17:36
Speaker
Uh, The Conjuring Last Rites. Supposedly the last movie, especially with these two actors, um, Patrick Wilson and being Viera, yeah whatever her name is.
00:17:47
Speaker
um But is the story of their final case they had in the 80s, mid-80s, where a family gets possessed. The story does not delve deeper and than that in all of these movies. ah Mostly a family always gets possessed and they come in and save the day and that's exactly what happened this time.
00:18:04
Speaker
They brought their daughter into it, and who all all of a sudden it has the shine. Oh, sorry, the conjuring powers. um And, yeah, that's basically what the movie is all about. I thought it was good, fournet four out of five.
00:18:15
Speaker
um And ah we are going to get a prequel. It was announced today there's going to be a prequel series, brand-new actors playing the characters of Ed and Lorraine.
00:18:28
Speaker
um But a movie, it came out, I saw it on somewhere, and I decided to pick it up. Mm-hmm. It's called Good Boy. i've been talking about it for a little while on here when I saw the trailer of this dog.
00:18:40
Speaker
the The way they play it, the dog is haunted, but that's not it's not really a horror movie. It's just the way it's shot. It's the way it's shot. us the way It's the way it depicts this dog seeing shadows.
00:18:54
Speaker
It's just like if you have a dog, you know this. Dogs bark at random shit all the time. You're wondering what they're barking at. Um, there is a ghost kind of element to it. Um, the dog's name is Indy and the guy who did the movie, I don't think he's the main actor. Maybe he is. I didn't look into it. I wanted to, um, but, um, they got a lot of emotion out of this dog, just the way they were shooting him and,
00:19:19
Speaker
when I was watching it, I was like, wow, this dog is a really good actor for, for being a dog compared to other actors I've seen this year. Um, and I thought it was done shot very, very well for that reason.
00:19:30
Speaker
Um, at the end, there's a little ghostly element to it. His owner is very, very sick. He's following around the whole time. You see a lot of interactions with him and his owner, um, and, and, and kind of being, being a bad boy, being a good boy at the
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00:19:44
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ah hence the title of the movie but um overall even the ending I liked when something happens to the owner I liked the whole ending of how that plays out and he gets locked in the basement don't want to get in too many spoilers I would like somebody to watch this movie though it can't get me too spoiled but ah Four and a half out of five. I thought it was one of the best movies I've seen this year.
00:20:07
Speaker
one of the best movies I've seen horror related this this this Halloween. and It's not even a horror movie. um It's just a dog or getting his emotion get emotions out of a dog, which I thought was really cool.
00:20:18
Speaker
um But yeah, ah yeah you do you have it you had a chance to watch that, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's good. So yeah, that's Halloween this year. um And next year, I have no idea where we're going to leave off with, I guess, The Omen.
00:20:33
Speaker
That's the only movie I haven't seen ah with Damien. I guess if we watch The Exorcist, we've got a deep dive into a devil worshipping. So let's go into The Omen next year. Yeah. The other thing, I almost watched Frankenstein, because I know next week Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein comes out.
00:20:50
Speaker
Probably going to watch that this weekend to get prepared for next week when that comes out on Netflix, ah because I'm very, very excited to see Frankenstein. But until then, let's get into the news.
00:21:09
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And it's not a new time, let's try it around now.
00:21:13
Speaker
got a couple Halloween-related trailers. We've got the first trailer for Stranger Things, the final season. for First full trailer, get a little bit a glimpse of the story. ah Comes out Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's as the finale. Got some new posters as well. We've got a brand new look of Vecna, already all these tendrils growing out of them, all these cool-looking horror elements.
00:21:38
Speaker
um Cannot wait. Very excited for that because it's at the end of November. and we'll talk about that next month. But we did get the first poster and the first trailer for Scream 7 yesterday.
00:21:51
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um And it looks pretty good as far as Scream is concerned, but... I've been burned so many times by the Scream franchise, I don't know what what to think. But they did bring back Sidney.
00:22:05
Speaker
What's-her-name's coming back for it. I know that. a lot of the characters that have cameos. I remember hearing the casting for this. um They brought in um brought in a lot What's-his-name, Skeet Aldridge, and yeah a whole bunch of other people from the cat from the past are coming back as cameos, I guess, somehow.
00:22:22
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don't know what's no Don't know what's going on but... Trail looked really good. Sydney being chased this time. Her daughter's being chased around by Ghostface. Looked good. Weekend box office last week. Chainsaw Man.
00:22:35
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The movie. Resi Arc. Number one. $17.2 million. what anime is doing huge in this way beyond our pay grade we don't know what the hell is going on um yeah i just uh talk with people in my discord because they love anime and that's the one thing i can't get into with them no and two of them saw it and they said it's like their favorite movie of the year Crazy.
00:22:59
Speaker
Which is insane because I really trust, like, I've watched a lot of movies with these guys and we always talk about it. And that's insane. This is their favorite movie of the year. Or at least, like, top three or five. It's crazy that it's crazy the kids are going... and It's crazy that kids are actually going to the theater to see movies. I mean, it's good, I guess. movies Movie theaters getting money. But I'm afraid that that's going to be, like, how...
00:23:23
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how how things shift in studios is when the big blockbuster movies become something that's way, way out of our realm. Um, I'm afraid that we'll be, so we'll be seeing a lot more anime rather than putting the budget in anime rather than the stuff that we like.
00:23:38
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Um, don't We'll see. I mean, we still have Marvel movies and stuff like that still going on. So, um and dc um number two black phone two and another movie i never heard of regretting you number three 12.8 million um another thing i want to talk about for the first time in 40 years since 1990 the billboard charts do does not have a rap or hip-hop song in the top 40 of the billboard 200 the first time since 1990 you have eminem you have jay-z
00:24:09
Speaker
You have Tupac, you have Biggie, all those pioneers of hip-hop. um And there's no hip-hop in the top 40 anymore, so nobody's listening to it as far as mainstream media is concerned.
00:24:21
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um And I blame that on the new generation coming out with shitty hip-hop raps. um Netflix is came out today as exploring the possibility of buying Warner Brothers. little update on that.
00:24:33
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um They've hired an investment bank um to be advised of how to put an order in to the bids for a Skydance Paramount takeover. or yeah however they however you want to say um netflix is one of those that we kind of said well they don't really need it um but they're looking into it so i think everybody kind of put their ears up when when warner brothers announced that last week that they're actively accepting bids so uh we'll keep an eye on that story um also speaking of paramount
00:25:07
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um They lost Taylor Sheridan, who Tulsa King. Literally built the Paramount app. Yeah, built Paramount Plus with with Yellowstone.
00:25:19
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um But he's got a brand five-year deal starting in 2029 with NBCUniversal for their Peacock app. um And it's going to be an overall TV deal. And movie deal.
00:25:30
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And all of his stuff is, I heard, was already greenlit. He doesn't have to worry about any pilots or nothing. He writes something and airs on TV or the app immediately, which is an outstanding, never heard of kind of deal. It's usually you have to figure out a pilot, figure out what you're going to No, he's getting greenlit immediately for any project he does.
00:25:49
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ah Five-year deal starting in 2029. Um, so he's going to leaving Paramount. No idea what's to happen to Tulsa King. I know the Yellowstone has all the spinoffs. i know he's in charge of that. The other thing is, for Paramount, they announced this week there's going to be a live-action Call of Duty based off the video game movie. Um, and Sheridan is going to be writing it with, um, the the director of Deepwater Horizon.
00:26:12
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He's going directing it. Um, and they're going to be both running and doing this. as Everybody's speculating it's going to more modern-day Call of Duty rather than going back to those. Well, but... um Yeah, we'll have to wait and see more on that. He also directed ah that job Wahlberg war movie there.
00:26:29
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Lone Survivor. He you directed that, and I think he directed another war movie also. Okay. so Yeah, we know what we're getting with this then. Yeah. um Super Sentai. You talk about Power Rangers from time to time. Super Sentai was a series in Japan that inspired Power Rangers in the first few seasons. Actually, up until now, um they take older seasons of Power Rangers from Japan or from Super Sentai from Japan. They take all those superheroes there was that were shot over there and they impose it with American actors in America. So none of those Power Rangers that you saw in 1994 were filmed here. It's all filmed in Japan and they filmed the American actors in Angel Grove.
00:27:08
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um here. That's where we you get meet Tommy and all of them. But Super Sentai's been around for 50 years. Been around for a very long time, and this week they announced that um officially coming to an end in Japan, ah there will be and which was the main inspiration for Power Rangers, there will be no more after
Entertainment News Highlights
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this year. so ah Yeah, rest in peace to Super Sentai.
00:27:28
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um With one leaving, one comes back as a reboot. Scrubs reboot is going to be premiering on February 25th, 2026. I like Scrubs. Very funny show. was going to ask if you watched Scrubs. I've never seen a single episode. ah until Until COVID, I started watching it. yeah I didn't watch it during its first run at all.
00:27:47
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yeah I like that white dude there. Zach Graff? Yeah, Zach Graff. I think he was in... ah that movie about the future with done by Mike Judge. I think he was in that, but he's been in stuff before. I like him. Yeah, I can't remember. Idiocracy? Was he in Idiocracy?
00:28:04
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Yeah, i don't remember. No, Luke Wilson was. No, it was Luke. I know Luke Wilson was. Maybe I'm thinking Dax Shepard. ah Yes, Dax Shepard was the idiot in that movie. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:16
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um Also, the guy the very end, of course, is in Office Space. He's awesome, too. And Donald Faison, who I've seen in Disney World when I was very, very young. um So, yeah, coming back. That's right. The Clueless guy.
00:28:28
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Yeah, the Clueless guy. forgot about that. um Not coming back to Disney+, plus Doctor Who announced this week that Disney plus disney did ah break their deal after two seasons, so they're not going be coming back, but BBC did say they are going to come back um over in in the over in the UK.
00:28:44
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um So coming back with a Christmas festival special next year, and then a brand new series sometime later on after that, and continuing wherever the last ah last episode of Doctor Who left off a couple months back. So...
00:28:57
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Um, gonna be written by Russell T Davies, who did all the great stuff back in the day. Um, announced a movie called Hey Bear, starring, uh, Magoff, Dan Stevens, and Zach Galifianakis.
00:29:10
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Um, film follows a woman who seeks revenge on the bear that ate her husband. Um, It's going to be some sort of a dramatic comedy. So I want to bring that up. I know you like Maya Goth. um Steven Spielberg.
00:29:22
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We talk about him quite a bit on this show. We talk about John Williams just as much. um And John Williams in his, what, mid-90s now? i guess Yeah, 94, I this week that he doing the... um they did announce this week that he is doing the um score for Spielberg's next and untitled UFO movie um we thought he was retired or close to it um but no he is working on the new score and currently doing it as we speak um movie comes out in May I believe so 30th project he's done with Spielberg so he's worked very very close with him up until now so not surprisingly that he called him up and said hey can you do it and he said yeah we'll do it so yeah Spielberg and John Williams connecting again ah cannot wait to hear that score
00:30:05
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And Halo announced... I believe late last week, Halo coming to the PS5 officially. And they brought it in with Unreal 5 Engine, which looks amazing.
00:30:19
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um Upgraded the graphics, upgraded a lot of the game. The first game, Halo Combat Evolved, now called ah Campaign Evolved, coming out for Xbox Steam.
00:30:30
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um And it seems like Xbox has fallen off hard. um From what I hear, a lot of the... A lot of the...
00:30:41
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Game consoles have been back locked off of shelves. I heard Costco reduced the price significantly so he can go off the shelves.
00:30:53
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um And also the thing I'm hearing is the next Xbox is going to more like a computer. So in other words, to be a Microsoft computer. um It's going to be over $1,000 is what they're saying.
00:31:04
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And I guess it's one of the lead lead lead people over at Xbox. don't know who it is, but some woman. was talking about the future of Xbox being more of a more of a PC type of console, which I guess makes sense if you're owned by Microsoft, but I think that's kind of dividing what Bill Gates wanted this system to be in the first place to what it's going to be turning out to be.
00:31:25
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um Reminds me a lot, this reminds me a lot of Sega in 1990s, Sega Saturn, and of course Dreamcast, which is the failure of all failures. um But yeah, we've got some movies cups coming out. This came out this weekend um for Back to the Future. Movie Tavern, Marcus Theater is not around here, but a Diet Pepsi Free ah limited edition cup coming out. And also coming out, I believe, um next weekend is Predator Badlands.
00:31:55
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The helmet and cup from Predator that comes out. um And to end the show this week, we don't know DC and Marvel news. weve got some new swag.
00:32:06
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Swag. Stuff we all get. Come on, son. You know that's right. A new ah Biggie Pop figure, Notorious B.I.G. Looks really, really cool. Biggie on a throne surrounded by cash.
00:32:19
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um And Power Rangers coming out with a Lego set. um Lots of minifigures from the five original Power Rangers. We got the Megazord and all the Megazord pieces come apart um to be the dinosaurs. So that looks really, really cool.
00:32:34
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um And finally, Mondo continuing their Batman animated series with this awesome Two-Face figure. oh um I love the Mondo figures. mentioned it before. i love how they they they tackle animation specifically.
00:32:49
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oh yeah This is really cool. Lots of accessories of Two-Face. Of course, Two-Face with the double face and two guns and the coin flip. Everything was
Future Podcast Topics & Conclusion
00:32:59
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awesome. so um surprisingly short episode for Halloween but that is it for our show um next week the beginning of the month we're going to talk about show and tell ah continue it welcome to Daryway episode 3 next Friday I'm not sure if we'll talk about it on the podcast or not because it does come out on Friday um but Frankenstein comes out on Netflix Guillermo del Toro Jacob Alardi
00:33:23
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Oscar Isaac, Maya Goth. Very excited for that. Also coming out in the theaters next week, Predator Badlands. um Next month month, month of November, on Prime, brand new movie, Playdate. Talked about this with um Reacher and Paul Blart.
00:33:41
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Joint forces for a movie, comedy. Comes out on the 12th on Prime. Also on the 12th on Netflix, Being Eddie, the documentary about Eddie Murphy. going to watch that talk about it.
00:33:52
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Coming out on the 14th, the remake of The Running Man. We'll talk about The Running Man, the the old one with Schwarzenegger during that time. I'm not sure when we're going to watch this movie. plusll so I know you're probably going see it the theater, but i'm not sure there or not.
00:34:06
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Also that weekend, Now You See Me 3. I might watch the second because I haven't seen it yet. um On the 16th, not sure if I'll talk about it on the podcast, but American Revolution. This is a PBS series done by the guy who did Civil War, which is one of those documentaries on PBS that everybody talks about.
00:34:23
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I can't remember his name off the top of my head, but um ah yeah, I cannot wait to see that because I love the American Revolution because a lot of it's in our backyard over here. um On the 18th, Nevermore, The Raven Effect, all about wrestler the all about the wrestler Raven.
00:34:37
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The documentary comes out on the 18th. Try to find that. But the the movie and the TV show that we're going talking about at end of the month, the most probably the most excited I'd be about a movie this year is Wicked For Good.
00:34:48
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Wicked Part 2, Wicked 4 Good, comes out on the 21st. And on the 26th, which is Thanksgiving, we got Stranger Things Volume 1. I think three episodes dropped that day. Very exciting this to to see this final season. So, yeah, that's it.
00:35:03
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And we'll talk to everybody next week. Until then, happy Halloween. um Enjoy all the candy that you eat on this Halloween holiday. and watch more scary movies tonight because tomorrow is November 1st, which is when Wicked Mania starts.
00:35:19
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So look forward to that next month. Something has changed within me. yeah maybe we'll Maybe we'll deep dive into Wizard of Oz all month. How's that sound, Kevin?
00:35:30
Speaker
Sounds like a fucking chore. No, good. Start off with IT39 and then go to The Wiz and The Return to Oz in the 80s. You want to do that? Okay. Nope. Oh, no I was vetoed that. I was only vetoed twice for this podcast for that one.
00:35:45
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And what was the other one? Oh, on ah on Netflix, the The Autism Kids. The Autism Kids. um Love on the Spectrum. He told me I could never talk about that on the podcast.
00:35:57
Speaker
Well, the kid from York High was on that show, you know. Yeah, she was. Yeah, yeah she's on that. Yeah, she's eight yeah she's ah on the third season, I believe. She but she graduated with a bunch of kids I work with. Oh, no shit. That's cool.
00:36:08
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So we need to talk about it. Yes, I got Kevin to talk about it. Love on the spectrum. That's it, everybody. We'll talk to you next week. Peace. Bye.
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