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Adventures in Analog ft. Ryan Verrill (Disc-Connected) & Craig Rogers (Deaf Crocodile) · Beyond The Blood: A Horror Movie Commentary Podcast

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  Speaker 3: on that. Man, this is very exciting, very very excited
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  Speaker 3: accustomed to. We're joined by where Ian Verel Disconnected and
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  Speaker 3: Antenna releasing. Welcome back, man, Hi, thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 3: it's been it's been a while. We appreciate you, you know,
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  Speaker 3: coming back onto the show that you put on your network,
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  Speaker 3: that you endorse. Thank you, thank you all the time.
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  Speaker 3: But we also have another guest with us. This is
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  Speaker 3: first time coming onto the show. We are joined by
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  Speaker 3: Craig Rogers. He is the co founder and restoration expert
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  Speaker 3: over at Deaf Crocodile. Craig, how are you today?
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  Speaker 4: I'm excellent, How you fantastic?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for coming on and doing this.
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  Speaker 3: This was This was such an off the cuff thing
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  Speaker 3: because honestly, the kind of the main idea, the main
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  Speaker 3: thing we're going to talk about here, seems so sudden,
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  Speaker 3: Like I felt like this came out of nowhere, and
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  Speaker 3: it was I was kind of blind. Not that I
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  Speaker 3: expect to have like an inn on these things. I don't,
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  Speaker 3: but typically there is a little bit of a you know,
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  Speaker 3: teasing and build up to certain things.
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  Speaker 5: I was shocked.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was very shocked.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, three days before we posted our newsletter, we
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  Speaker 4: had a big, big, big news story dropping, so you
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  Speaker 4: had three days notice.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah you're right, Yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right. We
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  Speaker 6: didn't say at all what it was yeah, a little
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  Speaker 6: bit of a heads up. But listen, we all know
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  Speaker 6: Ryan around here. We know he just needed more to do.
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  Speaker 6: He's not busy enough. He doesn't have enough going on.
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  Speaker 3: This man never sleeps.
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  Speaker 5: I need to sleep.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, this is that you guys have officially announced
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  Speaker 3: a retail center part one third retail center, one third
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  Speaker 3: fulfillment center, one third microcinema called Adventures and Analog. This
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  Speaker 3: is going to be in Lee's Summit, Missouri. I'm so
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  Speaker 3: stoked for this and I'm incredibly excited. I feel like
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  Speaker 3: this is something I was already surprised Ryan when I
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  Speaker 3: met you. You weren't doing already, Like this is very
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  Speaker 3: late for you. I'm happy it's finally going.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry I'm lazy.
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  Speaker 3: Did it feel good to finally get this out into
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  Speaker 3: the world, to get this off your chest?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean there's lots of people I've been wanting
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  Speaker 5: to tell for the last ninety two, one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: twenty days that we've been working on things behind the
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  Speaker 5: scenes and finalizing plans. But the reality and I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: we're gonna get to some of the story behind it,
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  Speaker 5: but a lot of this was sudden in multiple ways.
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  Speaker 5: It was kind of born out of necessity, and also
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  Speaker 5: just general excitement and realization about real estate in the
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  Speaker 5: Midwest compared to Los Angeles. But yeah, it's it's a
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  Speaker 5: really unique opportunity, and I know that for a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people it really just looks like, Hey, a store
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  Speaker 5: that I probably don't live close to, and that's cool
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  Speaker 5: for those people, But no big deal. The reality is
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  Speaker 5: I hope that through this conversation and through all the
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  Speaker 5: conversations that we have in the near future, the story
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  Speaker 5: truly here is the up and coming necessity and drawing
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  Speaker 5: back towards physical media in a way that you and
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  Speaker 5: I have preached for years. All four of us have
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  Speaker 5: been on this train for a long time, and it's
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  Speaker 5: really a sign of hope in an industry that has
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  Speaker 5: been told that it is failing and falling for literally
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  Speaker 5: the last twenty years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Greig, what was it like for you to finally
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  Speaker 3: announce this? I know, you know you and Dennis obviously
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  Speaker 3: must have been excited to get it out. Was this
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  Speaker 3: something that you were incredibly excited to let people in on.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know this is a big step for
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  Speaker 3: Deaf Crocodile going into a full on fulfillment center as well.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was it was super exciting, you know, once
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  Speaker 4: it seemed more real because honestly, at first, like like
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  Speaker 4: Ryan was saying, at first, we weren't looking to open
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  Speaker 4: a retail location or a microcinema. We just needed to
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  Speaker 4: get our arms around full shipping and fulfillment because we've
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  Speaker 4: just had so many issues in the past like six
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  Speaker 4: months to a year, and we kind of finally realized like,
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  Speaker 4: all right, I think we just need to take this
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  Speaker 4: in house and do it ourselves. And so we were
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  Speaker 4: looking for basically a warehouse that we could just pack
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  Speaker 4: and ship out of. We were looking in southern California
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  Speaker 4: near me uh up by you know, Santa Cruz area,
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  Speaker 4: by Dennis. And then we were also looking because because
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  Speaker 4: Ryan and his wife have actually taken over packing and
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  Speaker 4: shipping for us for a couple of months now, we're like, well,
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  Speaker 4: we could look out there as well, because there were
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  Speaker 4: some advantages to that. Beyond the the real estate is cheaper,
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  Speaker 4: it would also mean not having to pack up and
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  Speaker 4: ship our entire inventory again, which we had never actually
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  Speaker 4: seen it before. You know, it was everything was shipping
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  Speaker 4: out of New Jersey and then it was shipping out
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  Speaker 4: of Illinois, you know, we'd never seen it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in person. So when when I flew out there and
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  Speaker 4: we had to pack everything up and we literally brought
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  Speaker 4: it to like Ryan's house, I think everyone involved was
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  Speaker 4: kind of like, holy shit, this is a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And Ryan was like, holy shit, this is a lot
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  Speaker 3: of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Bring in my house.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah right.
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  Speaker 5: It fills my garage, my sub basement, and my children's playroom.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm not exaggerating.
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  Speaker 4: And when he describes children's playroom for anyone that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: live in the Midwest and as like ten thousand square
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  Speaker 4: foot house, when he kept saying, I can work do
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  Speaker 4: this out of the playroom. Playroom, in my mind is
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  Speaker 4: a maybe at best ten x twelve small room. He
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  Speaker 4: sent me pictures. I'm like, no, it's like forty feet
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  Speaker 4: long and like twenty feet wide, and I was like,
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  Speaker 4: that's not a playroom, that's an indoor arena. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we filled that up quickly. So yeah, it was we
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  Speaker 4: were like, Okay, this is a lot. So then then
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  Speaker 4: it became more urgent that we need to find a
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  Speaker 4: warehouse because we can't just take over Ryan's entire house.
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  Speaker 4: This is absurd. So we really started looking like we
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  Speaker 4: need to buye a place. And then Ryan suggested, He's like, well,
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  Speaker 4: real estate's cheaper out here. Why don't we find a
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  Speaker 4: larger retail space and just use part of it for
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  Speaker 4: fulfillment and part of it to have a store.
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  Speaker 3: Like my kids are begging for their playroom back right.
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  Speaker 4: Then, and then the store aspect of it, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: have to be I mean, it'll be fantastic if and
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  Speaker 4: when it's making lots of money, but it doesn't have
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  Speaker 4: to like if it literally just covers the rent that's
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  Speaker 4: covering the rent for the warehouse that we were looking for.
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  Speaker 4: So it just kind of made sense really, so we
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  Speaker 4: started looking. When I was out there, I ended up
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  Speaker 4: extending my stay for about three extra days. I kept
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  Speaker 4: every day. I was like, hey, can I stand out
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  Speaker 4: of the day because I was I was staying with Ryan.
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  Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, sure, And it was fucking great. Like
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  Speaker 4: in the morning, his son would see me, He's like,
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  Speaker 4: why are you still here?
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  Speaker 5: Damn?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I'm like, yeah, sorry, We're a lot more
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  Speaker 4: to do than we thought. But it was it was
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  Speaker 4: a lot of fun. And so yeah, Ryan and I
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  Speaker 4: just went looking at tons of places and then this
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  Speaker 4: one place kind of almost seemed too good to be
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  Speaker 4: true just the way it's laid out. It's already laid
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  Speaker 4: out as two separate because it's in like a big
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  Speaker 4: shopping mall complex, and it's already two separate units of
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  Speaker 4: the of the mall, so it's already kind of split
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  Speaker 4: in two. So we're like, oh, this is kind of perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the actual building in the photo?
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  Speaker 5: You get? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that that picture in the in the photo
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  Speaker 4: is is the would be where the retail side will be.
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  Speaker 4: And then that wall on the left, like behind that
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  Speaker 4: wall will be the warehouse side. There's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 4: That photo doesn't really give you an idea of how
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  Speaker 4: much is going to be needed to get it ready.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, we're super excited. And and I'm sure nobody
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  Speaker 4: listening follows my personal Facebook page, but I post I
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  Speaker 4: pushed it on there a short little story that I
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  Speaker 4: have wanted to own a store, like a retail store
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  Speaker 4: literally since like Junior High. And so I'm so excited
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  Speaker 4: that we're actually opening a store. It sucks it's two
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  Speaker 4: thousand miles away from me. Yeah, so but I'm still
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  Speaker 4: I'm still super excited. Ryan's super excited.
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  Speaker 3: Did we have.
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  Speaker 4: Brand plans for it to just be a fun space
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  Speaker 4: for people to to come so we get more beyond
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  Speaker 4: just like, oh it's the store I go and buy
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  Speaker 4: a movie at, or rets a movie at. Like you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna show movies there and we'll have swap meet
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  Speaker 4: days there and like there'll be it'll be a community
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  Speaker 4: center for physical media nerds.
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  Speaker 5: So exciting.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan. I want you to remember that I have a
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  Speaker 3: nearly twenty years retail experience. I've been running retail established
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  Speaker 3: into my whole adult life. If you need a all right,
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, let me get to the point here.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to make a lot less money, you
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  Speaker 5: can come out and relocate.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure my wife will love that. Honey. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: take a big pay cut and move us to the Midwest,
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  Speaker 3: and then we're gonna work at it. I'm gonna work
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  Speaker 3: at a store.
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  Speaker 4: About that.
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  Speaker 5: I mean not to get schmalty for a moment, but
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  Speaker 5: as somebody that literally quit his day job just three
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  Speaker 5: and a half months ago, it's worth it. Like now, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I may I make less than no money and it
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  Speaker 5: is still super worth it right now? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well I worked at Imax for over a decade,
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  Speaker 4: and I after eleven years, I left and I started
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  Speaker 4: just my own little restoration company. That led to The Delicious,
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  Speaker 4: that led to Our Blows, that led to Deaf Crocodile
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  Speaker 4: And now, god, that's fifteen years later since I left Imax.
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  Speaker 4: I camp hard to fathom. It's been fifteen years. But
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  Speaker 4: I'm still making less than half that I than I
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  Speaker 4: did when I worked at Imax, and I am a
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  Speaker 4: thousand times happier.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well we have so someday, you know, we start
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  Speaker 4: actually making some money, then you can't ask for anything else.
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  Speaker 4: That's the last step. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well we all have. I mean, unfortunately, I don't
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  Speaker 3: really have like a place around me to go and
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  Speaker 3: buy physical media from. I know, Steve, you live near
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  Speaker 3: Static Tape.
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  Speaker 7: Right nearest is putting it mildly. It's about close to
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  Speaker 7: three hours away from from where I'm at, But every
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  Speaker 7: now and again I'll make the truck out there. It's
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  Speaker 7: on the west side of the state.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so you're it's the same drive as like for
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  Speaker 3: me to the archive. Yeah, yep, three hours. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we don't really have We do have a little store opening,
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  Speaker 3: so I'm right outside of Philadelphia. There was a little
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  Speaker 3: store opening called the Little Movie Store, which is kind
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  Speaker 3: of like a traditional almost like a rental store, and
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  Speaker 3: they're going to sell some stuff as well, and they're
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  Speaker 3: really trying to bring back this community. I actually just
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  Speaker 3: donated I think like two hundred and thirty discs to them,
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  Speaker 3: like I just had. I had bags of social media
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  Speaker 3: to give them. I was like, I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not doing anything else with the you know these older
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  Speaker 3: titles like please take these and what they're doing over
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  Speaker 3: there is incredible. I can't wait for them to be
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  Speaker 3: opening and get out there and support them. But this
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  Speaker 3: is something that I've told my wife about endless times
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  Speaker 3: that I wish I could take to step into. I
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  Speaker 3: even went as far as like I have a name
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  Speaker 3: and a logo for like a place I would start.
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  Speaker 3: That's how much thought I have invested into this daydream.
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  Speaker 3: But to see it come to life for you guys,
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  Speaker 3: and I can't think of better people for it to
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  Speaker 3: happen to, like especially you, Ryan. I've been friends with
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  Speaker 3: you for years. You know you've done nothing but support
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  Speaker 3: everything that we do. You've done nothing but support so
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  Speaker 3: many people in this space. I can't think of a
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  Speaker 3: person that I would trust more, you know, having a
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  Speaker 3: place like this, and aside from it being retail, there's
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  Speaker 3: also going to be a microcinema inside here. With how
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  Speaker 3: many seats are you looking to have? How many?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we we are. We are hoping to be
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  Speaker 5: able to fit max of about thirty. I'm thinking we're
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  Speaker 5: likely going to end up closer around twenty five, so
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  Speaker 5: where people are not linking elbows while they watch a film.
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  Speaker 5: But theoretically, I think there are a couple of ways
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  Speaker 5: that we can fit thirty, especially if you count like
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  Speaker 5: the employees being in there with it. But I I
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't be surprised if, you know, if we felt really
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  Speaker 5: comfortable at like twenty three, and that would be totally fine.
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  Speaker 3: I'm always down to sup on Steve's lap if.
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  Speaker 7: I was gonna say, save two seats for us, but
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  Speaker 7: I guess we only need one.
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  Speaker 3: Save save a single seat, Steve. And you know, now
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  Speaker 3: we're even if the theater is only half full, we'll
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  Speaker 3: still only take one seat.
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  Speaker 4: You know. Yeah, that's and we've we've been asked pretty
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  Speaker 4: consistently for the last like five years since we did it,
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  Speaker 4: but we restored did the four K HDR restoration of
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  Speaker 4: Assaults on Precinct thirteen, which still hasn't come out on
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  Speaker 4: disc because it's it's not we don't have the rights
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  Speaker 4: to that. We just did the restoration. But we did
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  Speaker 4: work out a deal with the producer of the film
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  Speaker 4: to screen the new four K restoration at the Microcinema. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: which is one of the one of the perks and
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  Speaker 4: the Kickstarters, to have your own little private Assault on
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  Speaker 4: Precinct thirteen screening.
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  Speaker 5: Of a four K restoration that very few people have seen.
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  Speaker 4: Almost no one has seen, so so the I would
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  Speaker 4: suggest that, you know, some folks just gather together and
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  Speaker 4: pool their money for that that gift. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 3: There was a point where I was going through the
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  Speaker 3: Kickstarter perks on day one, just going through and kind
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  Speaker 3: of seeing what was on there, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder if Steve and I can you know, muster
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  Speaker 3: up a fifty grand to get to beyond the blood
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  Speaker 3: logo in the micro Cinema.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's not it's literally only ten grand, like we're.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna buy all five spaces we want to buy all
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  Speaker 3: Oh God, I gotta got it, Like we just want
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  Speaker 3: one when you walk in. It's just just us, not
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  Speaker 3: even any.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be honest. That's a pretty rad idea.
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  Speaker 4: I'm here for it.
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  Speaker 5: It's also a pretty sick name anyway, so it works.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the Beyond the Blood Cinema. Oh see now now.
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  Speaker 5: Now he needs an investor.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Another part of this announcement that caught my attention was
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  Speaker 3: that the fulfillment center is also going to be the
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  Speaker 3: fulfillment area for Antenna releasing physical media releases. Yes, sir, yep,
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to see.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 3: There was a picture of some Blu ray cases with
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  Speaker 3: some Antenna's.
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  Speaker 4: Fine, you're very excited about that, zooming in trying to
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  Speaker 4: see title.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't go that. I was just like, what, there's
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  Speaker 3: no slip covers on these, Ryan.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I couldn't tell from the picture. Those are all
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  Speaker 4: steel books.
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  Speaker 5: Oh god, Chris, worst nightmare I feel. I just felt
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  Speaker 5: like my teeth grow hair.
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  Speaker 6: Oh there's an image, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So that was that was very exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I think you and I talked way back when you
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  Speaker 3: first announced Antenna about when you were going to do
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  Speaker 3: physical releases, and you had some ideas for you know,
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  Speaker 3: how exactly when to do them. So I guess they're
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  Speaker 3: on the horizon. They should be coming pretty soon.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're gonna get your first announcement on that. Within
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  Speaker 5: the plan right now is within ninety days from the
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  Speaker 5: moment that we are recording this, you will hear and
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: be able to purchase two different spines of antenna releases.
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  Speaker 3: Day one. That's it. You hear me Beyond the Blood,
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  Speaker 3: Day one is on these releases. I'm excited to see
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  Speaker 3: what you do with them. I'm just curious to see
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  Speaker 3: you know. I know you. I know you're gonna pull
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: out all the stops. I know you're going to do
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: the best that you can. And as somebody who you
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: know preaches that the disc is the most important part,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I also do love the good extras that come with it. Inequality,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I can't fallow anybody for
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: liking that part of it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: Well, to tease a lot on here, which I don't
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: really want to make anybody hear this and go, oh,
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna go listen to like one hundred and eighty
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: four hours or whatever. But it's been really fun this
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: whole last year on my show to highlight specific things
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: that I love about releases and know that on my
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: first handful of releases, I'm emulating some of those things.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: So all I will specifically call out, like, oh, I
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: really love when labels do this knowing that that's already
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: in the works for the first disc or knowing that
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: I've already completed that and people are going to be
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: able to see something that I've worked on for a
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: long time coming out. And so yeah, there's been at
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: least three different things that I've really hammered home on
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: my show that is happening before the end of this
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: year on a release, and I hope people are excited.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, people just.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Go full Dennis and just tell everybody what's coming up.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: I am so proud. Nobody that hasn't worked on the
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: release has been told what the first title is. I
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: don't think at all, which is kind of incredible.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we talk a lot. I don't think I know
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: what you got coming out. Nope, Dick.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Shots fired.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: But you have been You're one of only like five
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: people that have seen an incredible poster that we have done.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: But wow, like, yeah, it's jaw dropping.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: At this point. I mean, I just expect to get
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: all of the new information on the Reconnected show. You
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: know what I mean, that's it. It's just I just
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: count on that as my news, my Ryan personal news
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: outlet at this point, unless it comes into the discord
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: then you know. I told my wife the day you
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: announced this, I was like, I have to. I'm gonna
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: have to fly out literally the grand opening, Like I
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: have no it's I don't think Missouri is that far.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: It's less than a flight to Florida. So I'm gonna
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: have to. I'm gonna have to come out, man, Like Steve,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: You're gonna have to, Dude, you You're gonna have to
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: come out. Man, I'm down.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Well, if you want to bring the wife. We we
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: added a perk onto the Kickstarter and now you can
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: get a full VIP trip to Kansas City for the
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: grand opening. Flights to two to Kansas City, laid up
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: in a luxurious hotel here in the Kansas City metro area,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: and a big fancy dinner with the founders of the store.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: So that's saying at your house, well you are, it's
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: a it's for two. So Chris and the wife get
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: to fly and have the luxury stay. You get, You
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: get the like you get to sleep in the closet. Yeah, mans, right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Now for me came I thought when we showed up
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: we already got dinner and this day at Ryan's, I
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: didn't know we had to we had to purchase a
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Kickstarter again.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I'm selling, I don't know.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: There's two different tiers. There's the Ryan's couch and cold pizza.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: There's the luxury hotel in a fancy dinner.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: The couch and cold pizza.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: Although I have to say, you know, as as nice
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: as the hotel is, you don't get that that big
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: wonderful dog that you have to hang out with it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: That's true.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Sweet man.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Man, How did you guys come up with the name?
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Why? Why don't you share a process? There, Craig.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: We all wrote down like at least like ten to
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: fifteen names we liked, and then we went through and
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: everyone looked through everyone's lists and picked at least five
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: that they all liked from all the lists. And at
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: that stage we realized we were screwed because not a
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: single name was on everyone's list. So then we were like, okay, well,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: what are you know.
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: We need?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: We need we need to have something that we can
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: all agree on, and we were We thought we had
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: a name. We were like, all right, what's none of us?
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: It was none of our own picks. But we were
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: all like, yeah, we could use that. But nobody was
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: like yeah, like really excited about it.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: We were like we were kind of like, I can't remember.
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: There was something that we needed to do that we
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: needed the name for. And it was like, so, Ryan,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: like we need to fill this out. It needs a name,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: and you were like, I don't want to use that name.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: I finally spoke up a little more.
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So, so how did I even forgot? It was
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: just kind of like you and I were talking about something.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: We were like, hey, let's use that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: So oddly enough, God, this is a funny story to
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: tell in here. So we were in a meeting with
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: the director Mark Pillington, who directed Arlington Road and Mothmann Prophecies,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: and he, I don't know. It's running a distribution company
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: where you're releasing modern movies. Is weird? My life has changed.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Chris, that's weird. So we're sitting there and
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: we're trying to name this immersive experience for a documentary
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: that we're releasing of his called This is Buzz, and
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: it's this weird, like it's it's basically a three hundred
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: and sixty degree experience where you're standing around with pop
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: culture like pumped into your brain veins through this entire
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: like three hour experience. And Mark says, you know, I
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: just I don't love the digital aspect of everything. I
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: just wanted to be like analog ecstasy. We should call
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: it analog ecstasy, and so we are, and I'm like,
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: that's pretty cool. It also sounds like the name of
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: like an adult video store. And he went, wait a minute,
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: adult video store. What did he just name something like
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: like that. Yeah, let's lean into it. And so just
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: it just worked. Adventures and Analog came out, and uh,
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: here we are. Lots of uh lots of imagery comes
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: to mind when you say words like that, and it's
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: exactly everything that we both stand for. And we're just
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: excited to see people start using it as their go
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: to place for for analog adventures of the road.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Well, see, that's the thing. We didn't get an outside,
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: uh you know picture of the building, and what people
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: didn't see is that there's no windows at all.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: The door is that you need to be buzzed in.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: It's very conspicuous.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that the video that that that beaded curtain at
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: the video store. It's right at the front door.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: That's what you go. But the front door buzz is open.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: You come in, and then you pass through the beads
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: and then you're in the You're in the store. Now.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: I miss I wish so badly here in Jersey we
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: had a place, you know, at least they to me this,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: this idea transcends typical retail, and this is something that
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I hear so positively anytime people go to Orbit Video
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: to their retail location, as they talk about how well
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: the employees, how verse they are in physical media and
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: in film, and their recommendations and people you know, we
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: watch YouTubers or podcasters or people in our community go
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: there all the time, and they're surrounded by people that
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: are exactly like them, that maybe aren't as deep, meaning
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: they don't have social media, they don't attempt to put
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: themselves out there like that. But places like this are
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: places where you can form life changing friendships. You know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: you're surrounded by people who I guess what I'm trying
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: to say is you realize that you're not so alone
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: in this interest Because this feels to the mass public
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: so small. You mentioned earlier, Ryan that we're told, we've
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: been told for the last ten years of physical media
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: is dying. This is going away. Every year we see
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: it and just another retail establishment opening up up that's
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: focusing on physical media is all the proof you need
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: to show that it's not going anywhere. In fact, it's
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: growing faster than ever. You know, at this point, it's
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: actually kind of crazy to watch. And I posted a
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: real today where I made a comment to the end
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: that I was like, we have to stick through because
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: you know, we're kind of like pioneers at this point.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: The people that have been here talking about this are
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: now the kind of like the old guys in the game.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: There are people that have been doing it longer than us,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: and there's all these every day I get follows from
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: people who are just now beginning to post at their
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: physical media halls. And it's the same way that I started,
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the same way Steve, that you probably started, where I
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: was going to Goodwill and buying anything that caught my
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: interest or movies that I knew on DBD on Blu Ray,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean, and a lot of those titles
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: since since I've kind of curated the collection of kind
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: of you know, moved away from.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: But that's how it's well, yeah, you have to taste
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: everything to figure out what it is, you like, you know, yeah, yeah.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: When I started, I had the good fortune of there
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: was a very large, popular flea market near us that
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: we'd go to every weekend, and there was this one
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: room in the back where the guy sold I think
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: he sold all sorts of other stuff now I think
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: of it, but I was only obsessed on this one
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: back wall that was just thousands of VHS tapes, and
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: he would get more in every week because he would
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: buy out either video stores that had closed, or he
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: would buy out the overstock because you know, like a
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: new release comes out, they buy twenty copies of it,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: but months later they're like, yeah, we don't need twenty anymore.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: So he'd buy those all up, and I think they
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: were I want to say they were like five dollars
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: each or like five for twenty. So like every single
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: week I would get five new VHS tapes. And my
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: mother was a big movie buff and so she gave
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: me names to look for, you know, She's like, it's like,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: you know, Mark, Scorsese is supposed to be really great,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: and Francis Ford Coppola. And then she told me about
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: the old stuff like James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. So
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: any of those tapes I saw, I just grab them,
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: grab everything, like you were saying, it's just just get
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: my anything I can get my hands on. And for
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: me it wasn't. I wasn't interested in the new releases.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: I wanted the older stuff because we also went to
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: the movies all the time. So I'm like, I saw
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: that I wanted I want to, you know, find new stuff,
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: which is old stuff, you know. So yeah, it's this,
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: you know, the same thing. You know. For me, it
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: was in the eighties and I was gobbling up VHS tapes.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: But it's the same thing where just kind of I
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: have to watch and the great it's the greatest thing
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: about any sort of collecting or or this kind of
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: thing is you don't know what movie you're gonna put in,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: and it's becomes your new favorite movie.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: You know, Uh, it's a wonderful life. I had never
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: seen it I was a kid. My mom said, yeah,
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: it's a classic, and I was like, And for me,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: I was like a lot of people. I'm like, it's
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: old through the forties, it's black and white. I'm like,
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: it's not going to be interesting at all. And the
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: opening scene is like stars talking to each other, and
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I was like, what is this. I was like immediately
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: hooked because I was like, you know, it's not boring
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: and stuffy, like it's like fantastic storytelling. And then that
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: became like a favorite film. It's so good. And yeah,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: it's like that happens all the time. The more you
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: the more you expose yourself to, you're gonna find more
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: and more things that you love that you had no
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: idea even existed. Yeah, And I was talking to Ryan
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: about this, particularly with like music once it went digital
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: and streaming, pretty much everyone just creates their own little
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Spotify list or whatever, and they listen to the same
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: songs over and over again because it's the stuff they like.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: They're never going to discover the next new thing they love.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Like somebody else, he pointed out, like nobody listens to
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: an album anymore. It's like for me, I know, I'm
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: a huge Prince fan. Most of my favorite print songs
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: are not the released singles there. They were album cuts
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: that if you don't listen to an album, you're never
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: gonna hear it. So yeah, you know, in movies are
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: the same way. It's like if you're only relying on streaming,
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: they don't have that many What they have is so
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: hidden and buried. You have to know what you're looking
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: for it and hand, you know, manually search for it,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: and you're not going to find anything new that you know.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: How can you search for something you don't know exists?
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I was just telling I was just telling
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: somebody that my favorite some of my favorite musical moments
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: from John Williams score for Jurassic Park you can't even
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: find because they only exist on the expanded La La
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Land Records CD release because they're the only people who
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: went in and got all of the musical cues and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: all the stuff that's not widely available. So I can't
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: even pull that up to show somebody. I have to
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: come home, put the CD in, go to that number,
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: and then record an audio on my phone to then
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: go and show with them. But it feels like I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: love CDs and music for me was always like listening
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: to the whole album front to back. You put in
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: a CD and the album is supposed to be built
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: in an order, right, song number one.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: Most artists put a lot of time and effort and
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: thought into what order these songs appear on the album,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Like there's a reason you know they're they're on there,
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: They're not just it didn't just hit shuffle play right.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, Steve, I've never asked you. Fifty episodes of
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: this show we've done together, I've never asked you, like
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: what your collecting beginnings were, like, did your parents own
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: media that you watched? Did you go to stores? Like
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: how did you?
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: I would definitely say it was like heavily influenced by
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: the video store, So just going on weekends that was
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: kind of like a weekly tradition. So we would go
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: to the video store. I'd rent up as many movies
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: as I could. As I got a little bit older,
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: like once I got to middle school, obviously I'm able
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: to kind of, you know, pick and choose things that
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: really kind of like caught my eye, especially with like
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: the cover art or hearing about it within my friend groups.
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: And that's really what kind of put me onto collecting
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: at a certain point. Was you know, yeah, it's awesome
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: to go to the video store and pick this up,
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: but sometimes it's not available or you know, someone might
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: never bring it back, and the idea of being able
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: to build my own collection, it just popped off from
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: there and then just never looked back. So collecting you know, VHS,
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: tapes and DVDs at the time, that's where it started
• 35:39
  Speaker 7: and then went from there and then obviously as you
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: can see, it never stopped.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Well, have you guys thought about it? And maybe this
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: is a crazy question, but on my time in retail,
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: I know there's a lot of thought that goes into
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: like when I worked for drug stores and they would
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: come in and you know, measure the distance between shelves
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: and they would measure you know, the lighting and the
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: pharming season in the corner to make you walk through
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: all these sections and they coordinate what sections you walk
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: through to get to it. Like, there's a lot of
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: thought that goes into like the psychological element of shopping.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Have you guys plenty thought exactly into how can you
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: encourage people taking a chance on something new Browsing shelves,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of titles right when you have spines
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: sticking out, there's a lot for people to look at,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: and people are instantly going to grab and look at
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: something maybe they recognize or they've heard of familiar. Yeah,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: how have you guys? And I know you're still really early,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: so you know, just entertain me. How how do you
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: think you can encourage somebody grabbing something new, especially when
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: prices on a lot of stuff are not low and
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: there's so much out there. You know, taking a chance
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: on something is a is a major risk. You know
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: in a lot of times depending on what kind of
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: you know, movie watching you are. So I'm curious at
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: how you guys think you can encourage someone to grab
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: something new and say, hey, I'm going to give this
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna spend my money on this thing I knew
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: nothing about and it could possibly change my my film
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: watching life.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: Ahead.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Correct, Well, I have thoughts on this, but I'm going
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: to be two thousand miles away. So like we, you know,
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: Ryan and I talked about this the other day, and
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I've got all these thoughts and ideas, and
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: I'm just like, like, you got to do it because
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: I'm not there. But like one of the things we
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: talked about was that the the only the only way
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: that a small, little independent store can compete with the
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: behemoths is customer service, You're not going to be able
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: to compete. And you know, amount of inventory or pricing
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: or all of that is is going to be the
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: next thing impossible to compete with, you know, the marketing
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: budgets that they have. Like so when someone comes walks
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: through the door, Ah, it's gonna be you know, the
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: the shopping experience more than I'm just walking in to
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: buy you know, X, and then I'm gonna leave. So
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: that's part of the reason why I think it's important
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: that this isn't just a retail store. It's meant to
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: be a place to you know, just to come and
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: hang out and talk about movies. You know. Yeah, So yeah,
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: like it's it's it's a kind of it's I think
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: it's cliche because I'm old, but like video stores have
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: been pretty much gone for so long now that you know.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: The big key thing is someone comes in and you
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: just ask them like, well, what are your favorite movies?
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: And then you get an idea of like, oh, this
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: is the kind of thing they like. They'll probably like
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: this that they've never heard of. But yeah, that's that's
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: going to be up to Ryan or whoever's man in
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: the counter to be able to have those interactions with
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: people to find out what it is they don't know
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: they love.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, and I mean a lot of it is
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: the classic stuff. You know, at your end, you do
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: what if you've never worked in retail. This might sound
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: like a redundant word to say, but literally merchandising, there's
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: a lot of people that will front face certain items
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: to highlight them. We will have like featured releases, we
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: will have end caps, we will have a new release section.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: We will have like a label of the month kind
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: of call out where hey, if you recognize one of
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: these titles, there's a chance you might like some of
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: the others. And that's where you know, if we focus
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: on certain labels and they have good curation, it's one
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: of those things where you can start to trust them.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: And that's like Deaf Crocodile. A lot of people love
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: Deaf Crocodile because if you've watched three of their movies,
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: you get an overall like sense of will I enjoy
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: most of their stuff at that point. There are a
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: lot of other labels. I mean, this isn't necessarily a
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: negative thing. They're much larger than Antenno or Deaf Crocodile
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: likely will ord be. But somebody like Shout. If you
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: go to Shout Studios and you pick up three titles,
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: it could be the perfect made for you three titles
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: you've ever seen. It could be three titles that you've
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: never heard of. It could be the worst three titles
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: they've ever put out. It doesn't mean anything because they
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: have eight hundred and forty two other catalog titles, and
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: you might love six hundred of them, you might hate
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: six hundred of them.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: You can't.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: There is no curation. They kind of just release everything
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: they can. And with some of these smaller labels, if
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: you get that sense of community and enjoyment and sort
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: of a semblance of a personality, which is kind of
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: what Antenna and Deaf Crocodile is doing with the store here.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: This is another sense of curation and personality. And I mean,
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: other than Vinegar Syndrome and Terror Vision, what other distributors
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: out there have a public facing store like I think
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: Ocilloscope technically has a storefront in New York City and
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: you can hop in there and get just their titles.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: They don't sell anybody else's things. They don't have their
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: you know, their their desk attendant offering recommendations for hours.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: And that's that's our job is to be that personality,
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: that old hippie dude with long hair that you used
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: to stare at when your parents took you to Blockbuster
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: who knew every single film under the sun. And we
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: get to be those hippies and that's fucking exciting.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I certainly hope that we encourage the type
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: of customer that will come in and walk right past
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: the new release section. Yeah, Like that was me as
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: a kid like I and it's funny. I was like,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: I've been a cranky old man since I was like twelve,
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: but like, yeah, I'd see I'd see all like you
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: go into this the video store and there's like twenty
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: people crowded around this one little shelf that's got forty
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: copies of the same film on it, and like right
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: behind them is an entire store full of movies they've
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: never seen. I was like, all the good stuff's back there, man,
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: what do you do? Yeah?
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know why people have like I just started doing.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: And this is gonna sound crazy, but I'm on a journey.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: I started at Criterion spine number one, and I've been
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: watching every single movie the Criterion Collection has ever put out,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: just from like strictly like a film school perspective, like
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: watching stuff I have never forced myself to watch. I
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: watched just in the past three days alone. I watched
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Nichols walk About I never even heard of it. Today,
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: I watched the first of the Samurai trilogy from nineteen
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: fifty seven or nineteen fifty four. I believe that was
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I've never really been into that genre. I gave it
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: a go, loved it. I watched the nineteen forties Beauty
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: and a Beast last night with my wife, like and
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: at the same time kind of complete opposite. I've been
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: doing a tour of Stephen Thrower's Nightmare USA book and
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: watching a ton of these independent exploitation films for no
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: reason other than just I have to find a way.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: I just want to learn more about movies. And this
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: is how you learn more by clicking playing like.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: We said earlier. Like we said earlier, you just kind
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: of grab everything you can get your hands on it first,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: and then you start figuring out what you like and
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: what you don't like. And then for me and I'm
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: sure for a lot of people, that leads to you
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: start noticing I really like that movie, and I really
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: like that movie, and I really like that movie, and
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: they were all directed by the same person. I'm like, huh,
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: so then you start seeking out everything by that person,
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: you know. So yeah, it's it's just there's a million
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: different ways to get in, but it's yeah, it's the
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: the you know, the the adventure of if you don't
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: know what you're gonna find, and that's the exciting part,
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm such a nerd, Steve, you know that.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: I just bought my third copy of Wes Craven's Last
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: House on the Left because eighty eight Films absolutely just
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: crushed the new bonus features that they produce for their
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: new Blu Ray release, and I want it just for that,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: the new documentaries and the new interviews, and I could
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: watch those and you know, think like, oh, this was
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: this was a waste, but I have to see them.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you know.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: With films, there's certain films that if they're your favorite,
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: you know, they could they could release, you know, twenty times,
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna I'm probably gonna buy it every damn time. Yeah,
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know why I bought the Turbine Texas
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Chancelmasker four K. I already have that movie tenfold. I
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: don't know why I did that. Who knows. Whatever. It's okay,
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: it looks nice on the shelf, it does, right, I
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: still need to I just want to give a quick
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: personal deaf Crocodile Store Craig Ryan. I remember Ryan texted
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: me about the two five five one trilogy and was like,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: this is the most you thing f Crocodile will ever release.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: And one night I eventually did buy it. And then
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: one night I had a couple of drinks and I
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: was hanging out and it was like twelve thirty night
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: and I was like, you know what, let me watch this.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: So I was like They're like, you know, the longest
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: one is barely over an hour or whatever. Let's get
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: into this. I haven't recovered. It's been two weeks. I
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: still I don't know what's going on. I've I've reached
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: a point of like existentialism. I don't know what the well.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: It's kind of funny because I think this came through
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: I think it might have been through the discord because
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: we've We've always encouraged people from day one to send
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: us wish lists, like what what movie do you want
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: released that's never been released? And this was this was
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: one of the suggested titles, and so we reached out
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: to the people that had it and they sent us
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: a screener link, and Dennis and I both I think
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: about the same time we've we've you know, pressed play.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: I don't think I was five minutes into the first
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: one where I just hit pause and email Dennis. I'm like, yeah,
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: we need to sign these like right now. Like yeah,
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Like it's combining all of these different genres you know,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: silent cinema and and you know, techno and heavy metal
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: music and and and you know, color tinting and you
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: know and monsters. And I'm like, come on, like, we
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: need to sign it right now. So we did very
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: quickly sign all three. And it's one of the I
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: think it's one of the only times or another label
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: reached out to us and was like, damn you. I
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: think I think it was I think it was Severn
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: who had planned on you know, reaching out and and
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: and getting the trilogy, and we beat them to it.
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: Ah, Yeah, they can deal. It's all right.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: Sets.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't happen often, it but there, you know,
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: every once in a while there'll be an announcement and
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: it's just like I would have killed to put that out,
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: damn it.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: Well, I will say that that trilogy is the most
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: severing thing I could imagine them have touching anyway, So
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: I'm not shocked to hear that it was them.
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it's Those movies are a trip, and I'm
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: pretty proud of that release, with like how much extra
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: stuff we were able to get on there, including the
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: entire soundtrack for all three films, and and honestly, it
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: was it was just because everyone involved was so you know,
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: helpful and giving, Like all the people that all the
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: composers that did the music were just like here, here
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: are the files everything you need, you know, the filmmakers like, yeah,
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: I've got a ton of short films. He's like here
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: you can have those. And it's just like everyone was
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: just like here, here, here, because I think they were
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: all like I can't believe someone's putting this on a disc,
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: Like they were excited.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, how do you guys, So, Craig, I'm not
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: sure really how much you know about our show? But
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: our entire show is dedicated around audio commentaries. We discuss
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: films based on what we learned in those commentary tracks.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: And we've been lucky enough over fifty plus episodes to
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: you know, have talked about some incredible tracks and have
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: heard from numerous people who now think of commentaries as
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: you know, essential pieces of their physical media collection. And
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: we're hoping to just keep that conversation going. How do
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: you guys, like, what is the I know, obviously the
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: important part is like get the movie, get it licensed,
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: you start putting it together. How do you even begin
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: thinking of possibilities for bonus feeds? I can't even imagine
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: sitting down with a pen and paper and being like, okay,
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: how do I start?
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, the key thing is we're usually trying
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: to find someone who's kind of like, you know, that
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: that has a history with whatever it is we're releasing,
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: so they can so they've they've got the expertise and
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: knowledge to speak on it. And then I mean, and
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: Dennis knows so many people like his his rolodex.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Is, does he have an actual rolodex?
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: No?
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: But but I mean.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: Like, are we sure he might actually have?
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: That is true?
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: He might actually have one, but yeah, he's got such
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: a deep you know, well to pull from of people
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: he's he's known or met he met because he met
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: so many people while at the Cinema Tech, and he's
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: just really good at keeping in touch with everyone. So
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, he's like, oh, they would be
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: great for this, you know, and if he just reaches
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: out and usually they're like, yeah, sure, yeah, it's he's
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: He's the He's the source for most of our bonus
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: features is finding the people that fit the project. Dennis
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: is kind of a master well.
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: And Dennis Bartok's knowledge is not just as simple as
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: rolling over it with that little anecdote. For those that
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: don't know Deaf Crocodile or Dennis, this is like, oh,
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: you need an expert on East Asian cinema from the
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: years of nineteen sixty three to sixty eight. I know
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: somebody who wrote a book and his uncle actually pioneered
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: the music that was made in that era. So yeah,
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: let me call him up and they'll record with it
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: tomorrow for twelve dollars. And it's the best thing ever
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: that you've ever heard. I And that's only like slightly
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: exaggerating it's kind of insane.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I remember we had a conference call because
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: we've been wanting to put out more classic Indian cinema
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: for since we started the company. I remember we were
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: on a call one time and we were speaking to
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: like people from an archive and you know, all all
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: people over in India and Dennis is listening off all
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: of these directors in films that he's interested in, and
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: they were like, you know more about Indian cinema than
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: we do, like and we're the archive, Like I don't
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: know how he does it. And it's not just Indian cinema,
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: it's it's it's a it's amazing, like the we've got
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: some I mean a Lithuanian rock opera, Like we put
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: out a Lithuanian rock opera. Yeah, yeah, Dennis knew of
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: Like how.
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: Like my memory, Dennis can name the names of everybody
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: that starred in it, directed and it worked on it.
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: He knows all the contexts in the archive and these
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: are Lithuanian names, by the way.
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah yeah. Yeah. In contrast, I talked to Ryan all
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: the time. How many times do I just stop because
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: I can't remember what I was gonna say, Like Dennis
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: doesn't have that problem, like his mind is a steel trap.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: But it's fascinating for us because we were lucky enough
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: to talk to Guido and his son from Selly Lloyd Dreams,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: and we were talking to them about producing bonus features
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: and Geto Records his own commentary tracks for so far
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: the releases that they've put out. And I thought that
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: was fascinating because if you are you know, if you
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: consider yourself an expert and you can talk on the
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: subject and you can kind of cover your own bases
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: and do that, you know, I thought that was incredibly interesting. Ryan,
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: you and Will have been producing bonus features for what
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: five six years now?
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: It's been not even close to that, but okay, oh.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm giving you more credit.
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: He's propping you off. I okay, I'll take it.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, take it.
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: At least three decades, yeah, ten years exactly.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: And you know, you and I talk all the time
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: about essentially the sometimes the mayhem you have to go
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: through just trying to produce a release and get enough content.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: And nowadays it is kind of like you do see
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: a lot of uh you know this, the same names
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: you hear on a lot of releases, especially depending on
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: the genre. You hear a lot of the same people,
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: which is always great, but you're also seeing a lot
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: of new people come on to releases, people I've never
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: heard of before. You know, people getting more chances to
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: get out.
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: And you wonder who pioneered that a few years ago,
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: but yeah.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Three decades ago, right, I think I think it was
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: exactly when you pioneered that.
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: I think checks out that.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: I mean with a lot of the people that Dennis knows,
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: they've never done a commentary track. They're just kind of
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: experts in the field. So and commentary tracks are that's
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: a fair specific skill set. It is not easy.
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: It's not for the directors that made the damn movie.
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So I mean, so the the you know, if
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: you if you if you hear one that's that's not great,
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: like go easy, Like oh yeah, it is really really hard.
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: So that's why a lot of times you'll see a
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: lot of names pop up over and over and over
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: again because those people are really good at it. You know, like,
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: you find someone who's really good at it, you're gonna
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: use them over and over again. Because it if you
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: get someone that that that struggles, like gets it can
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: be very hard. To salvage, you know, and make it
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: a workable commentary track. And that's and that's yeah, that's
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: not it's not. I don't blame the person doing it
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: is like you know, they they probably are like, yeah,
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: I can just talk about a movie. But while it's
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: playing like it's it's a lot more than that.
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we our first episode, we wait so that Steve
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: wasn't on the show yet. When I started the show,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: I went, I did the first five episodes with a
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: different host, And when when I put the idea out
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: for the show, I was like, nobody's gonna listen to this.
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: Nobody even listens to commentary tracks. Who's going to listen
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: to a show about those commentary tracks? And then on
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: top of it, I was like, I want to cover
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: Spider Labyrinth, a movie that nobody has ever heard, and
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: Ryan and Will are on the commentary track, and we
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: did that episode and we talked on that episode, Ryan
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: about how difficult it is sometimes too. There's not a
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: lot of information out there sometimes and you're digging and
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: you're trying to find something to fill this ninety plus
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: minute you know, audio track with information that is interesting
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: and engaging to an audience. And in the fifty some
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: commentary tracks Steve we've covered, there's tracks where we never
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: we'll never talk bad about a track, will never say hey,
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: this sucks, but we're very vocal about like, you know,
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: this was a tough one for whatever reason, whether it's
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: information available, whether it's expertise from the commentator, whether it's
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: you know, there's a lot of different things that go
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: into it, and I think we've learned more than more
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: than ever, like this is a true art that goes
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: into bonus via.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: We had we had one that was that was turned
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: in and I think it was it ended up it
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: was like twenty five minutes long, but we're like, that's
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: that's not half the movie.
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: Yep. I had to save that one.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: So so we turned that into a visual essay instead.
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: It was it was great content, but it was just like,
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: this isn't gonna work as a commentary track. Yeah, yeah, good, Well,
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: I think it's real hard. And then Brian, it was
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: your idea to turn them into podcast episodes, right, yeah,
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: that was brilliant. Like, because yet, I myself, i'll watch
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: a movie. I just finished watching it. I really don't
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: have any interest in watching it again. And listen to
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: the commentary track. I just watched it, And with the
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: commentary track, even if they are talking about things that
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: are on screen you've seen, if you've already seen it,
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: I don't I don't need it to be in front
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: of me. I can still listen to the commentary track
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: and know what they're talking about because I've seen the
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: film now. So it's yeah, it's a perfect podcast. Like,
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: so I'm so glad that we've we've been releasing the
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: the older commentary tracks as podcast episodes because that's perfect
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: for you know, a film nerd driving into work, Like
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: especially if you're in LA, it's going to take you
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: at least at least an hour to get to work.
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: So so yeah, you can. You can listen to the
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: whole entire thing on your way to work and then
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: your way home.
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: Your podcast is incredible.
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: I do I do love I do love that. When
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: when I was visiting Ryan and he kept talking about
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: these places like, oh, that's that's too far, I'm like, dude,
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: it's it's fifteen minutes from here, Like I can't go
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: to the corner store here in LA in fifteen minutes.
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: You're like, oh, that's too far. That's way too far.
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: We're soft here, Craig.
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: But I get it. Before I moved to LA, you know,
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: I grew up in World, New England, and yeah, like
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: about twenty thirty minutes was about as far as you
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: would ever go for anything. So, I mean, I lived
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: just about one hour from Boston growing up my entire life.
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: I probably went my family and like two three times
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: maybe in my life. And then when I moved to
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: LA and then I come back and I'm like kicking myself.
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: I'm like, I had this cool, amazing city one hour
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: from me, and I never went because it was too
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: far away. And now I'm like, I live in LA
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: and like I can see downtown. It's that close. That's
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: easy an hour during rush hour. Like like.
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: I live five minutes, like I can see it outside
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: my window from Philadelphia, and I do everything in my
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: power to stay as far away from that place it's
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: humanly possible.
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: Well, maybe Philly is not as nice as Boston. I
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: I will drive two and a half hours down south
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: for a marketplace. Find I'm not driving five minutes into
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: Philly for a marketplace. Fine, I don't care how good
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: of a bargain it is. Okay, I'm not doing it.
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: No Wayig Craig loves the traffic in La so much.
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: You opened a video store seventeen hundred and forty miles away.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: Well, hopefully this is so successful, we'll open an Adventures
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: Analog West.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: There we go franchise oppotility.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: Yes, it would have to be super successful.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we've learned. I mean, you know, we've as
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: of the time, listening to this episode. Right before this
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: we released our episode. We covered the two thousand and
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: nine remake of Friday the Thirteenth, and I was shocked
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: from on the AARRO release when I saw Alexander Heller
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: Nicholas on a commentary track for the final unrated cut
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: of that, and I was like, I told Steve, I
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: was like, we have to cover that because I don't know,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: for some reason, this just feels like too big a
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: name to be on this release, Like it doesn't make
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: it was like one of those things were shocked. I
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: was like, Okay, we have to listen to this. And
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: what we what we learned was we weren't getting a
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: scene by scene like breakdown. We weren't getting observation of
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: anything happening on screen. Instead, We were greeted with an
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: hour and forty six minutes of an in depthscussion between
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: her and Josh Nelson about the evolution of horror remakes.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: And I was like, holy fuck, this is like gold
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: on this disc that I haven't seen a single person
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: bring up because very little people who bought this ever
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: clicked Blaye on this.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: She's incredible. She's only done a few things for us
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: so far, every time like she's. One was a written
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: essay and I just read it and I'm like, damn, yeh,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: she's good.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: That's how I felt with Will when I watched his
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: visual essay on gwen Or the Book of Sand I
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: was like, Jesus Christ, this is gold. It was incredible.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: Dennis kind of lost his mind over that one too.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: It completely reshaped my mind my thinking of the film.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: Like I think I was more emotionally punished by that
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: visual essay than I was the movie itself. I was like, God,
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: I gotta watch the movie again. Now I gotta go back.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: But yeah, this is you know, physical media is education
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: with something that I'm incredibly passionate about, and.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: I try to.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: It's it's hard because like people like myself, people like Steve,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: you know you guys as well, Like we weren't. We
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: didn't get into movies with this interest in commentaries and
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: bonus features, like we learned how to get into this.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: And I've watched and listen to hundreds of commentary tracks
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: before I even decided to start taking them serious per se,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: to the point where you know, now there's a column
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: about them in Physical Media Advocate and stuff like. It
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: took me a long time to learn how to enjoy
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: them and learn why I love them. And there are
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: people out there who will love bonus features and the
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: extra material and learning about movies as much as we do.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: They just have to begin clicking play on them and
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: diving further in and figuring out exactly what it is
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: that ape fuels to them. And I feel like it's
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: the hardest thing to get people to do. I mean, endlessly,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: I get comments of like I will never buy anything
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: for the bonus features. I've never watched a documentary in
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: my life. I don't even know what an audio commentary is.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: I'm just worried that the four K dips a little
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: bit in bitrate ten minutes and nine seconds into the movie,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: Like that's.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 4: So we'll do exist, Yeah, they do.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: And some of these people have insane collections that that
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: that trump mine back here and blow away all. They
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: have all these movies and they've never done anything more
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: than beyond push play, so constantly trying.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: To figure out information and watch that bit rate Yeah.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: After they've already pulled out their phone.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, after they've already pulled yep, yep. So I'm just
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: really excited to see, you know what this store does.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: I'm excited for the micros Cinema. You know, I'm really
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: really really just like my heart is so happy for
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: you guys. You know, this is this is incredible and
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: already already blowing away the first tier of the Kickstarter
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: That is our fault. We uh we teetered on this
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: one because it's it's one of those things like it
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: does feel a little awkward. We're in a situation where
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: these are two for profit companies essentially asking for a
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: handout to build up something that is exciting and new.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: But the reality is this wasn't budgeted. We can't just
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: sneeze and I mean, deaf crocodile as long as they've
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: been around, Craig, how much how much extra money you
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: bring home from death crocodile every.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: Months, very little.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: Over. The last Antenna was announced, we were six and
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: a half months ago. Now that's it. Antenda's around publicly
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 5: for six and a half months. I have only invested money.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: I have not made a dime from anything Antena related yet,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: and I probably will not for months to come. But
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: if that's the case, we don't just have fifty thousand
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: dollars to start a store. But because of what Craig
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: said earlier, the reality is it is literally cheaper for
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: us to take this step. Even if the store doesn't
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 5: really make much money, it is still basically going to
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: cover the cost of paying somebody else to fulfill it,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: and we get to have control over that. So we're
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: all just sort of taking a risk together. The reality is,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 5: if people want to come in and contribute because they
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: want to see something great coming out of these two
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: companies working together, this is the best way to do that.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 5: And we are eternally grateful for the people that jumped
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: in and smash that goal. We're also a little bit
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: regretful that we set it so low that it looks like, hey,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: they don't need anymore. The reality is our goal that
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 5: we asked for is literally about ten percent of what
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: we truly need to make this great. And at that point,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: if people would would step in and take us over
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: that crossroad, we would be doing much better and we
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 5: can make it great for everybody that's going to come visit,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: because if it's not amazing the first time and people
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: step into that door, what motivation is there to want
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 5: to come back.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of kind of important that it's it's
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: ready for prime time on on day one. Uh, you
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: can't have people walk into a store that's half empty.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 4: They'll be like, well, I don't need to go there again.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: Well, I want to ask I want to I want
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: to ask this, Steve, do you know who? Do you
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: know anybody by name? Over it at static tape over
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: at the store? Yeah, I mean I know the owner, Like, like,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: you've gone there, You've talked to him, he's there, he's present.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we have a we have like a group chat
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: on Instagram.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 5: Okay, me and the other guys. Okay.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: I was just curious because that's what matters.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: That I different, That's the thing, Like I get it.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: Vinegars interm is huge. I've been an archive a bunch
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: of times. I don't know anybody at the r Archive.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 3: They've always been very helpful when I go. I don't
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: really ask for much help, you know, but they've been
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: very helpful. That's the only place that I can go
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 3: to buy movies, and I have to go three and
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: a half hours away unless I'm at my Barnes and Noble,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But that's even.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 7: That's not quite the same.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: Even here.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: Even here in La We've got Amiba, which is kind
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: of amazing for what it is, but it's almost too big.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: Like mm hmm.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: It's like it's like if you go into like, you know,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: if you want to used to go into Best Buy
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: and you ask somebody there questions about TV's or you know, receivers,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: they have no idea. Yeah, so it's the same. It's
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: like you go into Amiba. They have tons of physical media,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: but if you have any questions, you're screwed, Like they're like,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: uh over there. So like I kind of like that,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: you know. It's you know, when I grew up, there
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: were there was there were two video stores near us,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: independent small ones, and we used we went to those
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: all the time, and there was a Blockbuster not too
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: far from us, but we always just we just didn't
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 4: go there because you didn't have Again, it was like
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: most of the people that worked at Blockbuster, they just
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: worked at Blockbusters. They didn't give a shit, like you know,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: write your movie, move on. Like the small stores were
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: opened by people like us that were like film nerds
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: and loved this stuff and knew every movie that was
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 4: in their store. They could tell you what it was about,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: who made it, why you should like it, why you
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: won't like it, you know. And that's the kind of
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: place where we're striving to be is a is a
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: place that is again it's it's born out of our
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: love for this, not our our goal to get rich.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: Which I think that might have some bearing on why
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: we never make any money. We're never trying to make money.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: Could be that could be a problem. I don't know sure.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 5: Remark on the.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: According to the people online, it's just a mindset thing.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: All you gotta do is, you know, think rich and
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: then you'll get rich. Yeah that's what they say.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: Okay, I'll try that.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: It hasn't worked for me. I'm broke as out to do.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: I'd love to fall prey to a think rich quick scheme?
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: You want to fall prey to one.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 5: To a think rich quick scheme? Hell yeah, if I
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 5: can think about it and accidentally get rich. Oh yeah
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: Whoops, Like what did I do?
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: Oops? All billfolds like I mean, yeah, please?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: So after all of this, what can people do? Definitively? Like,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: how can the community help as much as possible? Obviously
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 3: there's a kickstarter.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: We did, we did add We did add a few
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 4: items this week, and we're going to try and keep
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 4: that adding items each week. And this stuff most of
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: the stuff we had. We added a couple of T
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: shirts and a couple of mugs which are lower price
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: points and they're also not like limited like one of one,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: which a lot of the stuff we have there is
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: so you can add it on, like if you had
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: a pledge, you could just add on a mug or
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: a T shirt or something. And we're gonna try adding
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 4: more more I like I said, each week, the we
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: had added five subscriptions for def Crocodile for that the
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: previous subscription that just enrollment just wrapped up. All five
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 4: of those went pretty quick. So I checked inventory to
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 4: see I want to make sure I'm not offering something
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: we don't have, so I was able to add five more.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: So those those are in there. So the bonus perk
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: to that is that the Tomorrow Deluxe you know, sold
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: out immediately. So I just looked through my like my
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: personal stack here at the house, like do I have
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 4: five more? I'm like, okay, we got five more. I come,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: I'll offer those as the kickstarter perk. And then, like
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: I said, the big thing we added was the trip
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: for two. So yeah, somebody just wants to have a
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: fantastic like the trip with their best friend or significant
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: other and hopefully that's the same person. Uh yeah, come
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: out see us, stay at a really nice hotel, you know,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 4: enjoy the grand opening, and then we'll all go out
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: and have a really fantastic dinner. It'll be a hell
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: of a lot of fun.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, Brian, what do you think, man, what can
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: we keep people doing outside of just going for the Kickstarter? Like,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: what can we do?
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, the big thing you and I have pushed
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: physical media's education for a long time. And if people
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: are looking back and they follow the disconnected on social
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 5: media about two months ago, maybe a little more than that. Now,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 5: it's been a while I posted on all my social
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 5: media a question said I was working on something else,
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 5: which wasn't lying. I was where do you go to
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: buy brand new releases? And most people in the US
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: simply said the only place near me is Barnes and
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 5: Noble in a Walmart. And to me, that is a
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: depressing dystopia of physical media that we have found ourselves in.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: And so the reality is is what you can do
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 5: to help is to make sure that this culture does
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 5: not die. You can request those at your local comic bookshop.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: You can right to start a store yourself. You can
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 5: start a pop up shop and go partner with the
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 5: local independent cinema for screenings, and if enough people are
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 5: buying out all your inventory, you might have enough in
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 5: your area to go rent a super small location and
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 5: get a store going. You might have partnerships that you
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: can create in place to get filmmakers on your side,
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 5: independent cinemas, bookstores, music acts, all kinds of people that
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 5: would love to bring you along and hype up this real, tangible,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: physical world that is not just a hobby. These are
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 5: these are lives. We're all working on these things to
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 5: literally make a living. And if we all can lift
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: that up and create a culture where people are dying
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: for that again. It could change the way that the
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 5: film industry handles things. And as a pair of companies
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 5: that are dedicated literally to physical media, we want nothing
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: more than that world, for people to return to that
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: and be something that we not see as a dying
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 5: art form, but as a given. Of course, we're going
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 5: to put everything into that because that's what we always do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, well, I know we'll be there, Steve,
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  Speaker 3: You'll be there. I'll make you. I'll make you come
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  Speaker 3: out for the grand opening. I'll come pick you up.
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  Speaker 5: Hey. Have be a hell of a road trip. Then
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  Speaker 5: Michigan is a slight detour.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Chris, I gotta go. I gotta go up
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  Speaker 3: and then I gotta go right back down. It makes sense.
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  Speaker 7: I think Detroit's close enough to do this.
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  Speaker 3: I think makes perfect sense in the map.
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  Speaker 5: Now, we'll be there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we'll obviously obviously be supporting and absolutely any
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  Speaker 3: way that we can. I mean, you have the entire
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  Speaker 3: physical media community behind you, guys. A response to this
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  Speaker 3: was absolutely incredible to see just from an outside perspective.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not even involved in any way, but just watching,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the the the response to it was incredible,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a whole lot of faith and I have nothing,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, the absolute top tier faith that you
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  Speaker 3: guys are going to absolutely continue to do incredible stuff
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  Speaker 3: for our community. So I can't wait for this to open.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna have to here punch card with the
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  Speaker 4: airline or something so I can go out and visit regularly.
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  Speaker 3: Well, with all that money you're making, you could just
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  Speaker 3: buy a plane and then personal.
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  Speaker 4: Just fly right out of Santa Monica Airport.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, take you right anytime, pilot on standby. It'll just
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  Speaker 3: get you there where Ryan will come pick you up.
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  Speaker 5: That's a there's a private airport in the summit. We
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  Speaker 5: got you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's a look. I thought the last stretch goal
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  Speaker 4: was going to put a helipad up on the roof.
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  Speaker 4: It was Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I love that we're saying this about a business that
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  Speaker 5: has been kind of tough to find insurance for and
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 5: we're talking about putting in a helipad. Wow, oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: We'll stee if any last questions before we start to
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  Speaker 3: wrap up or anything.
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm just over the moon excited for you guys,
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  Speaker 7: and it couldn't be more thrilled for this huge accomplishment
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  Speaker 7: you guys have achieved.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, thank you both. It's been great to be
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  Speaker 5: able to talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we're.
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  Speaker 4: We don't see it on my face. I'm very.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I'm most excited about. The reality is is
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  Speaker 5: the community behind this is the thing that I'm looking
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  Speaker 5: forward to the most. Literally, last night, Craigs would be
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 5: embarrassed by this. Probably we talked on the phone for
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 5: ninety minutes last night, and fifteen minutes of that conversation
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 5: was literally about the show Dynasty. And the reality is,
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  Speaker 5: Craig and I we talked literally pretty much every single day,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 5: and no matter what, if we just get on the
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: phone and start talking, it's hard to hang up because
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 5: this industry is so insular and interesting in a weird
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 5: way because we all love movies. We're all working intently
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: on them, but most of us don't have people around
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  Speaker 5: us that we can just talk to that love them
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: like we do. And so if I start chatting with Craig,
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  Speaker 5: I'm on that phone for a long time. And not
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  Speaker 5: that I'm sad about that, and hopefully he's not either,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 5: but it is. It's a world where we're like, man,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: I get to nerd out on Dynasty. Let's just talk
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  Speaker 5: about people following this down the stairs. That's incredible.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's the thing with I always say that.
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  Speaker 3: I think one thing that really impacted me. What's the
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  Speaker 3: first time I came on the Reconnected show? Because I
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: was like, holy shit, I get to come on a
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  Speaker 3: four hour show where all we talk about our movies,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: we talk about different types of movies, just talk about
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  Speaker 3: new releases, we talk about this, we talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, Wow, this is like the greatest
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  Speaker 3: thing ever. And I've had the chance to go on
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  Speaker 3: two more times after that, and I love it every
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: single time. Man, So you've already amassed a community of
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: people who just want to talk about movies. That's all
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: they want. And they want to buster balls. That's all
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 3: they wanted. Those are the two things they love doing.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 5: It does happen a lot, Yeah, you.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: Know, I mean yeah, yeah, you are to target a
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: lot of times on that Reconnected chat. You know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 5: I'm a large target. I get it.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, no, no, but thank you.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 5: I'm saying French names.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah when you're saying yeah, thank you guys for the
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: time We're gonna have link down below to everything, to
• 1:18:23
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• 1:18:27
  Speaker 3: down there, so please go free check those, check out
• 1:18:29
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• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: As always, to us a favorite, go check out all
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  Speaker 3: the other shows that are partnered up with us on
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 3: someone's favorite productions we have U there's what's about physical
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: media is education. You can find all the education you need,
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: I think, right on this very podcast network. We're honored
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 3: to be a part of this. It's absolutely incredible. So
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: I hope everyone takes the time to go check out
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  Speaker 3: some of those some of our partner shows. What else,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: what else do we have going on? And Steve anything
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: else going on?
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: We've got.
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  Speaker 7: Gotta pick out our next couple of movies we're recovering
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 7: doing deep dives on.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, we're gonna have Will on the show.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah it's nice.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna be on for Texas Chane some asker too.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 5: That's perfect for him and fun one not not to
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: not to suck up to my partner too much. Will
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 5: is incredible. He just did. We just turned in his
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: first solo commentary ever for an amazing, two hour long,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 5: just incredible film and very excited for people to hopefully
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 5: get that release eventually as long as the commentary makes
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 5: the disc That is a question because of the timing.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I hope the hope I can pimp that
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 5: one out soon on the show, because God, he busted
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 5: his ass on it and it's incredible.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: Is it? Is it bad to say that, like, for
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 3: the first time, I'm actually intimidated to have somebody on
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 3: our show.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 5: Yes, but only because I've been on the show twice.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 5: I'm just kidding.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: Basically, what I'm saying is I'm more anxious to have
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: Will on than I was Ryan numerous times.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 5: No, I get it. Will Will is Will is intimidating,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 5: especially as a as a Hooper like professor. Literally, I
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 5: mean he's He's written the book on Toby Hooper and
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: to be able to get somebody to speak on Texas
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 5: Chainsaw too, like it is the probably the most Hooper
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: of Hooper films.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: So he he texted me and said, he said which
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: He said, which commentary? Which commentary do you want to cover?
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: And I said, well there's four, I said, so we
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: have to. You know, I feel like we got to
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: kind of hit all of them, and he was like,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 3: well I can, I can talk in depth about all
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: four of them. I'm like, okay, well, all right, we'll
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 3: cover the longest episode and beyond the blood history. We'll
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: just break them all down with Will.
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  Speaker 5: It's wonderful.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 4: But yes, he's not intimidating. He's a big teddy bear.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, No, yeah he does. He does give off big,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 3: big teddy bear energy. You know. I just honestly, I
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 3: think we're just gonna sit back and just let him go.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 5: Well, you might not ever get them to stop.
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 3: Well, we'll just well we'll go to bed and just
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: so I will talk and then we'll release.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 4: You'll wake up in the morning. And he's like, and
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 4: that brings us to the fourth commentary.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: Just let him go from that point, man, Just let
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 3: him go on. Yeah, we got a whole bunch of
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: stuff coming out. We got a bunch more movies to
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: pick about, to pick out and talk about. Yeah, I
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: think that I think that's just about everything. Thank you guys,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 3: Thank you Craig, Thank you Ryan for at the time.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: I thank you.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to be there. I can't wait to
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: give Ryan a hug. You know something I'm very much
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: looking forward to.
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  Speaker 5: Better not be lying to me, my friend. I'm counting
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 5: on it now.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 3: I am not lying to you. Man. I hate flying too,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: so you know getting me on a plane to come
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: out is.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: Well, you don't have to fly. Let the pilot do that.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 4: Well, you made it almost the whole time without a.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: Dead joke, So you waited that long.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 4: Restraints our twenty nine minutes that joke popped up.
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  Speaker 5: Oh gosh, it was pretty quick too. I got admit
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: that one was pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: That was really good. Yeah. On that note, oh my god, well,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: on that note, thank everybody for tuning in. Make sure
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• 1:22:27
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