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  It is vacation week for Orlando schools, so park times are up
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  there. I saw Tron at like 140 a little
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  while ago at 1:20 to 1:40, so you know.
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  Yeah, we're going to the park on Thursday for a Family Day.
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  a successful day on both sides. So that's that's the working
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  plan right now for that. So hey, we're talking movies
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  today. And as you know, it's one of my
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  favorite things to do and right up my alley.
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  Movies, music and parks, all that good stuff.
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  You know, I hate to bring this word up, but it just comes up
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  because it's just implanted in our history and our brains now.
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  But I'll the COVID word, you know, when that hit and things
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  shut down, everything I loved to do, I couldn't do, couldn't go
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  to the parks. All at once.
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  Couldn't go to the movies. Couldn't watch.
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  No, it was like this. It was like, OK, oh, oh, we
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  can't go to the parks. OK.
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  Oh, well, hey, we'll just go to the movies more.
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  All right, wait a minute. We can't go to the movies.
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  OK, well, oh, we have to stay home.
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  All right, I'll just kick back and I'll watch sports.
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  Oh, wait a minute. They're not doing that either.
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  It's everything. Yeah, yeah.
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  But movies, movies, movies, movies is a fun topic.
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  Did you watch the Oscars on Sunday night?
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  I did not watch a bit of them, did you?
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  What? I was trying to do the old I
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  can't even do it. I can't even do it.
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  Yes, yes, I had low expectations for the enjoyment piece because
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  I didn't know much about the Best picture nominees.
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  But I will say. That's.
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  The problem so but I just love watching with the family.
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  Just, you know, it was it was it was family time well spent.
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  Jacob really enjoys it. I love that he I'm enjoying
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  enjoying movies through his eyes 'cause he just love he has a
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  passion for movies like I do like he's, you know, let us know
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  and chat. Are you the person that just
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  gets up right after, right as soon as the credits hit in a
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  film, or do you sit and appreciate the soundtrack and
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  just kind of soak it all in and, and come back from, from, from
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  fantasy and back to reality? Like we need that cool down.
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  We, we, we just immerse ourselves in it so much.
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  And then we, yeah, that's us. Like we enjoy every second of a
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  film right down to the final, final words to go up the screen.
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  So yeah, he really enjoys the the Oscars too.
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  So we made sure we watched it all the way through.
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  Now just on the Oscars itself, and I would probably say it was
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  probably, it was probably like AC for me.
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  You know, there wasn't anything too funny.
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  Conan was OK couple couple of good jokes, but besides that,
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  not too much. And Disney wasn't wasn't
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  represented very much this year, but that happens.
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  You, you know, it's probably one of their lower years.
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  I don't know, maybe not because I'm sure there's, there's been
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  years of just one. The thing is though, right what
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  I'm thinking, we're talking animation, but anything live
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  action. Just I don't know it it's feels
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  like it's been a while since something live action like
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  Disney puts out many movies a year but hardly any make it up
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  for Oscars. Sure, if you really.
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  Think about it. I'm this is unfolding in my
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  brain as we talking about it right now.
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  Yeah. Interesting, right, 'cause we
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  know they make very high quality films.
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  And you know what's interesting? I had to check on that 'cause I
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  I knew there was a change coming up as we sit here broadcasting
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  on YouTube on, on four different streams, horizontal and
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  vertical, on Parkviews and living in biz and Facebook.
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  But Speaking of YouTube, the Oscars are set to be on ABC
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  through 2028, and then in 2029 they moved to YouTube.
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  How about that? They will be on YouTube, not
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  network TV. Sunday night in February, March,
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  whenever they've been on as they've been in for like 93
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  years or something like that, they will move to YouTube.
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  Shows you the power of YouTube, right?
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  Times are changing and more people, as you know, are
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  watching YouTube on televisions. I haven't said the word
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  television in probably 30 years, but they're, they're doing that
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  and it's, it's, we're slowly getting there, right?
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  We're, we're just network TV, just broadcast TV is, is losing
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  to stream streaming networks. And you know, YouTube's probably
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  the one that's leading the way on that.
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  And we have YouTube TV and I don't see myself going anywhere
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  else unless circumstances change.
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  I, I, I like what they offer. They offer what we need and it's
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  a, it's a decent price. So, OK, that's pretty cool.
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  So we'll join the Oscars in 2029.
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  Do you think they'd appreciate if I was like, live in the parks
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  on that Sunday? And then I send I, we send our,
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  we send our people. Over.
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  Send them over. That's right.
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  That's right. Yeah.
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  Redirect right to. The one after them, we can talk
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  to them and they can send people over to us.
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  We'll be OK with that there. You go, there you go.
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  Let's see if we can work on that.
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  We got, we got a couple of years.
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  We'll work on it. What are the fun, what are the
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  fun things about watching the Oscars?
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  And when they do the crowd shots is to scan real quick and see
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  who you recognize. Yeah, my buddy was in the
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  audience, and he'll probably be more visible now.
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  You know what I'm talking about. Josh.
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  Tomorrow. Oh, he was at the Oscars, all
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  right. He was there.
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  All right. He hasn't officially taken over
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  yet, so I guess he's still in, you know, cruise control mode,
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  right? I I guess it's tomorrow.
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  Yeah, right. Look out.
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  Look out. Here it comes.
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  It's. It's a new day.
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  It's a new dawn. He's gonna have a 9:00 meeting
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  with everybody, Lily. Flex Dad's gonna watch the
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  Oscars when they award Spaceballs.
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  He's holding out. He's holding out hope.
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  Yeah. Now you, you just keep keep
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  waiting, Ken. Keep waiting.
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  I want to address another thing in chat I saw earlier, Funk
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  Congress says, hey, what's the deal?
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  Why does everybody give Disney Adults so much hate?
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  You know, you know why they don't give Disney Adults so much
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  hate? Right here, these two channels,
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  you be a Disney adult all you want, part of the Disney
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  Streamer Network. You see as much Disney as you
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  want to. No hate from Disney adults right
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  here. So thanks for joining.
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  Yeah, You know the term Disney adults.
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  You know, I, I feel like the people that have a problem with
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  it are people that don't know how to be a kid in general.
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  Yeah, that's that's the problem. And I feel badly for you because
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  if you feel like you have to just be a straight up formal
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  adult, how fun is life for you? Because I can, I could be a
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  straight on adult with my professions and then I could
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  turn around and just be a kid and enjoy life to the fullest.
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  But it's all up to you. But I just think that's what
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  blocks people from, you're right from doing that.
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  Maybe they're angry that they can't be a kid.
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  And you look at pictures and or videos of Walt driving around
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  and his train in his backyard like he wasn't a kid at that
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  point. He's the biggest Disney adult.
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  Now you tell me there's something wrong with being a
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  Disney adult after watching Walt on his training.
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  I mean, come on, come on. Really.
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  That's that's right, Sharon says.
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  Disney's about fun. No one is too old to have fun.
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  Nope, not at all. Not at all.
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  Nope, I want to be a kid to the end.
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  Wilson's in the world. Hello.
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  Speaking of it, Speaking of kids and adults, go back and watch
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  Pete's clubhouse chat from I guess that was Tuesday night,
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  Wednesday night, whatever it was, Kendall tell me there was a
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  special report from I didn't even IA friend of the Easter
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  Bunny. We'll just leave it at that.
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  Go back and watch that show if you want.
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  You want to talk about adults being kids?
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  OK, loved it. So, yeah, so Disney did not have
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  a good showing, I guess you could say at this year's Oscars,
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  they weren't really up for much. They did get one win.
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  That win was for best visual effects for Avatar, Fire and
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  Ash. So they won for for the award
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  went to the film's visual effects team, which includes
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  Industrial Light and Magic ILM, which Disney owns.
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  The films that were dominated but lost.
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  They lost. Best animated feature was
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  Zootopia 2 and ILEO. They both were nominated for
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  best animated feature and they lost to K pop Demon Hunters.
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  Do do you know K pop demon hunters?
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  I have a 19 year old daughter. Good night everyone.
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  KK Pop has been her life for. Quite some.
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  Time. So that's.
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  Crazy, though. I would have bet the morgue if
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  you said, hey, what's going to win Best Picture, K Pop, Demon
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  Hunters or Zootopia or even Elio.
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  I would have been like, oh, that's easy.
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  Yeah, it's real easy. But that movie was huge.
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  Yes, it was. Yes, it was.
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  Definitely gathering that they made a lot of money shows you
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  the power of K pop these days. But I'll tell you that song is
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  infectious. That's a good song.
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  It is. I have to say it's got a good
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  hook. Yeah, I mean, remember my my 7
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  year old, you know, ran around here singing it for whoever
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  knows how long. So yeah, yeah.
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  So KK Pop Demon Hunters took home best animated feature.
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  They also won best original song.
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  So that's what happens. Yeah, K Pop 1.
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  So that that's what happens now. Doesn't it seem this hold that
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  thought for one second? Doesn't it seem like if there's
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  like a professional artist, everyone's a professional?
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  But I mean, like if you're on the pop charts, country chart,
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  whatever, like mainstream, and you write a song for a movie,
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  that usually wins, doesn't it? It just usually beats everything
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  else I feel like. Yeah.
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  I wonder if it's because you have more production value
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  behind it, because you have more money behind it, because you're
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  a bigger * you know, maybe that that has something to do with it
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  and maybe it's not necessarily that it has more appeal, maybe
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  it just has more appeal because it's more widely known.
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  I think the appeal part is, is right now one other thing I'll
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  say about the deadly if it gets to that thought yet before I go
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  on to the next thing. OK, I think that the Oscars and
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  how we decide how they win should be restructured because
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  we do end up with a lot of movies.
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  How is it that most people go into watching the Oscars and
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  say, I have no frigging idea what these movies are about and
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  I went to 20 movies this year? Like it means you didn't care
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  enough to see it. I think there's a reputation
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  about. I know there is.
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  There's a reputation of a lot of movies that win or get this
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  acclaim, but it's more on it's it's from the artistic people,
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  it's from critics, it's not from the people.
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  So I think to fairly and I don't know, you all can tell me in
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  chat. I did not see Sinners.
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  I know that it I think it did well in the theaters.
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  I only know one person that saw it, two people and they didn't
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  like it. So I can't evaluate it, but that
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  got some attention. But I think they should cut that
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  that that pie up. I think that you should, you
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  could, you should account in a certain percentage critics,
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  people in the industry, box office and then the people
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  little bit of a fan vote just a little bit or let the fans vote
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  through their pocketbooks. So give the box office a level
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  of acknowledgement because the how I say it, it's not so much
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  that it's the best movie, but it should be taken into account
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  because that many people are seeing it.
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  So those are other opinions. We're only getting opinions from
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  critics and from people in the industry are also.
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  And maybe you take a little of the politics out of it because
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  it's a lot of politics too, on the on the actor side and
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  directors, whoever votes. So that's, that's my little
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  soapbox thing about that. I think that we'd get a better
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  quality show and, and maybe better movies getting awarded or
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  recognized. You know what I mean?
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  Because you're never going to get what if Avengers is the best
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  movie of the year, right? They're not even going to get a
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  sniff. Right.
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  Yeah. Just as an example.
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  Yeah, I'm with you, but. We always have to go artsy
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  fartsy. Sinners Made 370 worldwide, it
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  opened with 48 million so certainly did well, but Zootopia
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  2 made like 3 times that you know?
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  Wow. Yeah, so, so, so give it a piece
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  25%, I don't know, 40% of of consideration.
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  Let me know if you all agree with that in comments later or
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  in the chat now. So purple Pleasure saw Sinners
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  and it wasn't for her, she says. I didn't like it, but it was
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  well made. And Michael B Jordan deserved
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  the best actor win. One thing I will say about the
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  awards this year, though, was that it was very diverse in
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  where they were going. Like it's almost like one or two
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  movies will dominate and I don't have the the count.
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  Maybe it'll turn out that way, but it didn't seem that way.
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  It was like best best actor. Wait was Michael B Jordan.
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  So that was sinners. Oh, the title of that movie is
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  so long one 11 battle after another with Leonardo DiCaprio.
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  Now, I didn't see Michael's performance, but I know that
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  Leo's was definitely worthy of a nomination.
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  At least he didn't win that. But I say that because what won
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  best picture that Right. Yeah.
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  Yeah. 1 battle after another one best Picture.
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  And I almost feel like I won Michael B Jordan 1 center is.
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  I was like, oh, it's a lock now because you know, the male lead
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  1, you know, best actor. I feel like we could Fact Check
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  it. I'm not sure, but I feel like
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  that kind of coincides with best picture and he didn't get it.
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  Best actress. Best actress with Jessica I'm
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  new to. Her Buckley.
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  Buckley, amazing actress, unbelievable.
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  Best performance I've seen this year.
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  Not for the movie she won in Hamnet, but I think we're going
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  to see Hamnet because Jacob wants to see it.
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  OK. Her performance in the Bride was
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  one of the best I've seen in a long time.
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  The Bride was really good. Her performance was better than
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  the movie made you like the movie more.
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  But man, that performance, it was like Joker level, like you
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  know how hard it. Looks to.
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  Like play the Joker. I'm putting that performance on
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  that level. I mean, it's almost split
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  personalities. One second she's talking one
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  way, next second, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  And then she's back to like normal.
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  Like that girl has a, has a, has a strong future.
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  So yeah. So that's about that.
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  Sinners did take home quite a bit.
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  Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay
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  and Original Score. But as you said they they did
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  not take home best picture that went to 1 battle after another
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  which also took supporting actor weapons got supporting actress.
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  That was a surprise and Weapons was good, but her performance
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  was great, worthy of a win, and we did see one battle after
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  another and we thought that was one of the better movies we saw
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  last year. It was good.
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  Fire and Ash for visual effects, costume design went to
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  Frankenstein, Best makeup and hair styling, Frankenstein and
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  best production design, Frankenstein.
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  So yeah, it was pretty, pretty diverse.
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  I mean, up above those, those top categories there, you know,
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  there wasn't one that swept the whole thing, which I think is is
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  good. It's better.
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  It's funny, I did not see any of those movies.
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  It's not a not a big year for movies for us, just between work
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  and Disney, the network and the shows and all that.
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  Just haven't haven't had time for it.
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  There was a time though, there was a year, well there were a
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  couple years, but there was one year in particular where we were
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  doing pre screenings, advanced screenings and man, we racked up
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  some movies. There was there was a week we
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  went to free pre screenings Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  Thursday. Wow, I love that.
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  Crazy. If you're into movies, I suggest
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  you all try that. You sign up for
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  advancedscreenings.com. There's A and you'll get a bunch
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  of different ones. The only issue I will warn you
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  is that they want a full theater for the for the pre screening.
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  So they oversell quote UN quote, they're free, but they oversell
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  the tickets. So if the theater holds, let's
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  say 100 people, they're going to get 125 people that get tickets
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  to it. So you have to be there early.
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  So normally we get there like an hour to an hour and a half
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  early, but it's a great way to see some, you know, movies in
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  advance and not have to pay for them.
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  Sometimes they'll ask you for your opinion afterwards.
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  Sometimes they don't. Sometimes they make you take
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  your phones and put them in a zip lock bag outside the
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  theater. Sometimes they just tell you,
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  you know, no phones, obviously. I mean, it's a movie.
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  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  But yeah, if you're into movies, I would really suggest you do
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  that. I think we saw 42 movies that
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  way one year. Yeah, I would probably say we're
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  averaging a little over 50 movies a year now with our A
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  list. That's pretty good.
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  Yeah. That's pretty good.
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  I think it was like 52 last year, so 52 or 54.
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  I think it was 52. So you'd say, wow, that's one
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  move. It averages one movie a week,
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  but there are very rare that we miss a week.
• 24:11
  But there's times that we double up.
• 24:12
  I guess we've missed maybe 3 or 4 weeks, but then we'll double
• 24:15
  up on a Friday and a Sunday. Sure.
• 24:17
  One thing I'd like to do one time is maybe just like if I
• 24:21
  have a few scheduled weekdays off and we're just chilling,
• 24:24
  just go and do a double feature. Like just go from one theater to
• 24:27
  the next. Yeah.
• 24:28
  You know, be fun. Be fun.
• 24:32
  Miss Mel Loved, loved sinners. I've seen a double feature.
• 24:36
  The most I've done was I saw an Indian.
• 24:39
  This is when Indiana Jones had three movies.
• 24:42
  I went to a Film Festival and we watched all three back-to-back
• 24:45
  to back. It was pretty cool.
• 24:47
  Took took all day Saturday, of course.
• 24:50
  I once did that with the Harry Potter films, no?
• 24:55
  Oh gosh, imagine that you can't even do that with.
• 24:58
  Star Wars. No.
• 24:59
  Oh goodness. I.
• 25:00
  Couldn't I just. I don't care how much I love
• 25:02
  movies, I could never stay for something that's like 45678
• 25:06
  movies. Like what do you do?
• 25:07
  Can you come back the next day? Yeah, yeah, that'd be, that'd be
• 25:10
  too much. Lawrence Kibler had to walk out
• 25:13
  of 1 battle. Only second time ever walked out
• 25:16
  of a movie. 30 minutes and I was bored and felt no desire to keep
• 25:20
  watching. Wow.
• 25:22
  Have you ever had the desire to walk out of a movie?
• 25:25
  I never. I never have.
• 25:28
  And with our scoring system, our scoring system here at LID is
• 25:33
  60%. If I tell you something 60% or
• 25:36
  higher, then we're OK with you going to watch it.
• 25:40
  We won't feel badly for saying, yeah, it's 60, it's 60, it's at
• 25:43
  the cusp. But you, you won't be mad you
• 25:45
  spent, you'll be looking for your two hours back.
• 25:48
  It was, it was decent. Anything below we only rated 2
• 25:51
  movies last year under 60% in the 50s and we stayed to watch
• 25:56
  those. Wow, OK.
• 25:58
  Lawrence Kibler, can you can you tell us more?
• 26:00
  Why? I know you said you were bored,
• 26:03
  but tell tell us a little bit more about it.
• 26:06
  And excuse me, you saw it. Do you see where Lawrence
• 26:14
  Kibler's coming from? Did it get more?
• 26:17
  Did it? Did it?
• 26:18
  If the if he would have stayed, would he have, you know, would
• 26:22
  it have redeemed itself? What do you what do you think?
• 26:26
  Wow, it could be so contrasting, huh?
• 26:28
  From what I'm thinking of, like, I think that it, it grasped me
• 26:34
  from the beginning. I was like, OK, there's, there's
• 26:37
  stuff happening right here. Why is this happening?
• 26:40
  I mean, it is, if I can remember correctly, it is.
• 26:45
  It does have a political slant to it.
• 26:47
  You know, it could be that maybe he disagreed with what was going
• 26:51
  on. I'm not going to say whether I
• 26:52
  did or I didn't. I did take notice that it had
• 26:55
  some strong political statements to make, so that could have been
• 26:59
  a turn off to him or others. I could, I could see that and
• 27:01
  understand it. But Leo was great and you could
• 27:06
  see right away that his performance was going to be
• 27:08
  great. Sean Penn won, so I mean he was
• 27:10
  outstanding. So even the the female, I can't
• 27:14
  remember any both females in that.
• 27:17
  All the main actors were really good.
• 27:19
  I thought it moved along. I thought it paced well and
• 27:23
  there's even in a very serious movie, some very funny things
• 27:25
  and there's some great scenes at the end.
• 27:27
  He missed a great ending. I think I but always love when
• 27:33
  Lawrence comes in because he's a fellow A Lister.
• 27:36
  So I use he he probably knows this.
• 27:39
  I use him on Saturdays as the kind of the ping for me to say
• 27:43
  you know, Lawrence is in. It's time for that a list
• 27:45
  review. We don't like to share with you
• 27:47
  all what we thought about the Friday night movie.
• 27:49
  So you were going to. Say that it.
• 27:52
  I think a lot of times that I get to movies like, and I feel
• 27:56
  that way, like when's it going to get moving?
• 28:00
  Like the, you know, the pace in the beginning and I had to just
• 28:04
  tell myself, OK, this is how it tells the story and then it
• 28:09
  starts to move along. But yes, there have been some
• 28:13
  movies that I thought about walking out of how to A Million
• 28:20
  Ways to Die in the West. Seth MacFarlane.
• 28:25
  We actually went to see that with some friends.
• 28:28
  It was a pre screening. Yeah.
• 28:30
  Meaning it was free and they walked out.
• 28:35
  They had had it and they walked out.
• 28:37
  I don't know how how long into the movie, but they walked out
• 28:40
  and I was like, should we leave too?
• 28:44
  Is this just too much? We recently saw a movie with the
• 28:51
  guy who was the child actor in Indiana Jones.
• 28:55
  His name is going to escape me now.
• 28:57
  Oh yes, I gosh, I forget his name, but he was in a recent
• 29:02
  film and wasn't it? I think it came.
• 29:06
  I've got a list of this year's movies.
• 29:09
  It was good. Did you like the movie?
• 29:12
  It was an action film, right? It was an action film.
• 29:17
  His name is Mutt Williams. That's not him.
• 29:20
  Who's that? No Ki kiu kwan if I'm
• 29:26
  pronouncing that right. I would roll with that.
• 29:30
  OK, I want to see what the name of this movie was.
• 29:35
  Love hurts. Love hurts.
• 29:38
  Love hurts. Yes, love hurts.
• 29:41
  I did, I enjoyed it. It makes scene when they're in.
• 29:45
  The beginning, they're cut, they're jumping over the fences
• 29:47
  in the yards. And did you know, did you know
• 29:50
  that that was Marshawn Lynch, the main hit man?
• 29:54
  The main hit man. But yeah, from the Seahawks. $17
• 29:58
  million is what it made all. Right.
• 30:01
  I mean, we could do a whole thing on movies that should have
• 30:04
  made more money. I mean it, it was, it was to me
• 30:07
  it was better than 17,000,000. I thought, I thought so.
• 30:11
  I forget why we I think we just want to go.
• 30:14
  I think Jay might have stayed home with Finley and we just
• 30:17
  want to just kind of a date to get out.
• 30:19
  Yeah, but it was, it was fun. It was fun.
• 30:24
  But you know, not every movie has to be, you know, OO winning.
• 30:31
  But it was fun. Can I say this when we're
• 30:34
  looking and we will get to the Disney stuff, everyone, can I
• 30:37
  say this about a movie like, boy, was I dead wrong on Wicked?
• 30:43
  I thought that would dominate the Oscars.
• 30:46
  It's a grand stage. The performances were
• 30:49
  unbelievable. It was magical.
• 30:52
  It took you back to a place that we were first introduced to in
• 30:55
  what, 1930? Something.
• 30:59
  Nothing. One or two.
• 31:01
  Not, not even not even, not both.
• 31:03
  Not even nominated for costumes. Best Song.
• 31:09
  I thought that Defying Gravity, the end of the first movie, was
• 31:15
  one of the most epic, spine chilling endings to a movie
• 31:19
  ever. There's a lot of movies out
• 31:21
  there, but that just really gave me all the chills at the end to
• 31:25
  come to a climax like that. Nothing.
• 31:30
  So guess who hasn't seen one or two?
• 31:35
  Am I looking at him? Wow.
• 31:38
  I, I wanted to and I don't know, we just, like I said, just this,
• 31:42
  this past year, just been so busy.
• 31:47
  Just have not had any, any time. But yeah, we, we're going to and
• 31:51
  any, anytime we want to watch a movie, you know, Finley's
• 31:55
  watching something typically Disney, but I think that she
• 31:58
  would like Wicked. She's very much into, I
• 32:02
  shouldn't say very much, but she's into musicals.
• 32:05
  She likes singing. So I think, I think she would
• 32:08
  enjoy it And it, I mean, it's the Wizard of Oz.
• 32:10
  I, we do need her to watch the, the original Wizard of Oz.
• 32:15
  I think she would enjoy that. I want to know in chat who is
• 32:19
  good and who is bad at evaluating a movie.
• 32:24
  Meaning you go see it and you go man that was terrible.
• 32:28
  Like Lawrence. Not, I'm not picking on Lawrence
• 32:30
  at all, but Lawrence went to go see one battle and he walked
• 32:35
  out. Like what was he not getting
• 32:38
  from it that he I never. That's why most of my movies are
• 32:42
  acceptable when I review them, because I'm just really good.
• 32:46
  I've been good for a long time at choosing what I think I'll
• 32:51
  like. And it's vast.
• 32:53
  I can see a musical, I can see a love story, I can see action, I
• 32:56
  can see thriller, I can see horror.
• 32:58
  I'm just really good at picking things.
• 33:01
  So much so Tammy. Tammy half the time doesn't even
• 33:04
  know what she's seeing. When the lights come, the lights
• 33:08
  go down. Just walking in blind.
• 33:10
  She just trust me, I've never steered her wrong in a movie.
• 33:14
  Maybe the two you know that we rated below that in 2025.
• 33:20
  But I will also tell her though, what I think I will say those
• 33:24
  two that we rated low. I say we didn't have the A list.
• 33:27
  We wouldn't be here. This probably isn't going to be
• 33:29
  great and I just, I just, I nail it every time.
• 33:34
  See that's what I would do with the advanced screenings too.
• 33:36
  I would see some that I would like.
• 33:38
  I was thinking let's go see it because it's free.
• 33:44
  You know, same thing like you said with the A list.
• 33:46
  I mean, it's included so you know it's free quote.
• 33:49
  UN quote you have more leniency, you can just go.
• 33:51
  Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.
• 33:53
  And maybe there's something, you know, really artistic in it that
• 33:56
  you end up liking because I mean, honestly, for the for the
• 34:00
  pre screenings, you're not going to get many of these that are,
• 34:04
  you know, wicked, even the one we saw.
• 34:09
  Because they don't need it. Or exactly the one we saw for
• 34:14
  Wish. And I think we've only done 2
• 34:20
  maybe two or three animated movies, not many.
• 34:25
  But the when we got Wish that was a pre screening, but it was
• 34:28
  paid. So it might have been 4 dollars,
• 34:31
  $5 something like that. It was it was really cheap but
• 34:34
  you still did have to pay for it.
• 34:36
  Most of the time it's 100% free. But yeah, you just go and just,
• 34:43
  you know, take a shot. Maybe it's one of those hidden
• 34:46
  gems that you're like, hey, that was pretty good.
• 34:48
  It was. It was better than I thought it
• 34:50
  was going to be. And you know, Lawrence says in
• 34:54
  the chat that he'll go see anything, and that's perfect for
• 34:56
  an A Lister. And we almost, we almost will
• 34:59
  too. Because of that, there is
• 35:01
  there's so many movies I wouldn't have taken a chance on
• 35:04
  because movies are price. They're they're they're honestly
• 35:07
  priceless. They are priceless, but movies
• 35:09
  are expensive. Yeah.
• 35:10
  So you really have to decide, you know what, you want to try
• 35:13
  to take a chance. Movies are a bet, right?
• 35:15
  We bet every time we go to the movies.
• 35:17
  You put your money down and you say, I'm betting that this I'm
• 35:20
  going to enjoy this, right. Hopefully more often than not,
• 35:23
  you enjoy it for sure. Yeah, I'll say this.
• 35:28
  We, we want to see if anyone can ever see, especially if it's a
• 35:31
  favorite movie of yours, if something comes to your town
• 35:34
  that is like, for example, we saw ET in concert, which is why
• 35:37
  we started the live stream later on Saturday.
• 35:42
  And I'm, I'm not exaggerating. You might probably heard me say
• 35:44
  this. I'm not exaggerating when I say
• 35:46
  that was one of the greatest experiences of my life for
• 35:50
  entertainment. It was really, really touching
• 35:53
  to me. I I still love soundtracks.
• 35:57
  I played the ET soundtrack to death along with Star Wars and
• 36:02
  Indiana Jones and all that stuff.
• 36:03
  I know a lot of that stuff by heart.
• 36:04
  Note for note to hear that played, watch it being played in
• 36:08
  front of us. What just it gave me chills from
• 36:11
  top to bottom and a lot of scenes of that movie just
• 36:14
  especially when they do the iconic even Tammy and I talked
• 36:19
  about it later. I was like, she was like, I'm
• 36:20
  getting chills talking about it. She's like did you see like 50
• 36:24
  violins and basses just stroke into the same the same notes and
• 36:29
  just doing that in the 1st 8 minutes, you know, whole forest
• 36:33
  scene. Yeah.
• 36:34
  I didn't even watch much of it, I probably watched 10% of it.
• 36:39
  My jaw was just open and I was in awe at how they just hit all
• 36:42
  the notes just watching. And you, you're listening,
• 36:50
  right? And, and did you feel like it
• 36:52
  was recorded right? You're like, how are they
• 37:00
  playing? It's the same that I've heard
• 37:02
  all these dozens and dozens of years and, and, and for decades
• 37:07
  I've heard this music, they're playing this.
• 37:10
  It doesn't make sense. You almost don't believe it.
• 37:13
  You almost don't believe they're really playing.
• 37:15
  Yep. Now, if you're a technical
• 37:17
  person and you know, musicians, I'm sure each and every one of
• 37:20
  them walked out of there. Like man, I really missed that E
• 37:23
  minor, you know, in scene 3, like I I hit a half a second off
• 37:27
  or something. We know that happens, but to us,
• 37:30
  you know, the common person like it, just like they nailed
• 37:33
  everything, you know, and and and the music came up and then
• 37:36
  it came down when it was supposed to.
• 37:37
  And then you pay more attention to a few things, like what
• 37:40
  instruments are you did? The harp is used a lot in that
• 37:44
  soundtrack. You know, there's one big harp
• 37:46
  on stage, and you just kind of look over and, you know, I watch
• 37:49
  the harp a lot. And just to watch her kind of
• 37:51
  pick that thing. And it it, that thing popped up
• 37:54
  way more often than than I even realized because there are some
• 37:57
  iconic scenes where it's like all harp.
• 37:59
  Yeah. You know, just just driving into
• 38:01
  the film, I said to Jacob, I said, pay attention to the harp
• 38:04
  when Elliot's talking to ET, when he thinks he's dead, you
• 38:09
  know? And sure enough, there it was
• 38:10
  all on its own. And there's moments you realize
• 38:12
  the moments that there is no music.
• 38:14
  Yeah, true. You know, you just see them all
• 38:17
  kind of. And I sometimes I was trying to
• 38:19
  nail who was doing what. Sometimes you're like, OK, who's
• 38:21
  doing that? Who's who's making that sound?
• 38:23
  You know, with the clarinet in the back, you know?
• 38:28
  And Corey's right, if you have the chance to go and see that,
• 38:32
  you know, so, so he saw ET, you've seen Star Wars God.
• 38:39
  I have. You know what?
• 38:41
  I didn't see an actual film from start to finish, but I did see
• 38:44
  Star Wars in concert before. I think Jill might have been a
• 38:48
  baby. So almost 20 years ago, I saw
• 38:52
  Star Wars in concert. So they played like montages of
• 38:55
  different things. It's been a while.
• 38:57
  I'm gonna, I'm gonna guess like maybe they did a montage of
• 39:00
  Anakin scenes and kind of did that and then they did something
• 39:04
  else battles or, you know, sad moments.
• 39:08
  So it was kind of that it was a mishmash, which was still great.
• 39:13
  But I I really missed last year, the year before they did do
• 39:17
  Empire Strikes Back here and I missed it.
• 39:20
  That would be if you say, if you said what's the ultimate for
• 39:23
  you? It would have been that.
• 39:24
  And I doubt they'll bring it back now.
• 39:25
  I will say this and maybe if you have your flight pass next year,
• 39:32
  they did announce while we were there and I believe this is the
• 39:35
  exact film. Think they're doing Raiders.
• 39:39
  So if it intrigues you guys, they always come down on a
• 39:44
  Saturdays and check out the 230 show.
• 39:48
  And they do, they do a good amount of those.
• 39:52
  So ET he just said Raiders. We have seen Star Wars Episode
• 39:57
  1, No, Episode 4 and 5, I think, I think is what they did.
• 40:06
  And then Harry Potter was 1 and 2.
• 40:09
  They were supposed to continue. And then this was in 2020.
• 40:13
  So because of the pandemic, they stopped doing them.
• 40:15
  And I don't know that they've picked them up again.
• 40:18
  But there is just something about seeing that orchestra
• 40:21
  performing your the music that you've known and loved and know
• 40:27
  every note to just amazing to to see that perform.
• 40:32
  So if you have the chance to see that, see that.
• 40:36
  Pamela wants to talk about the Michael, the Michael Jackson
• 40:42
  biopic that's coming out next month.
• 40:45
  I'm very excited about that. I'm a huge Michael Jackson fan.
• 40:47
  I just took mom to see. Yeah, you.
• 40:50
  Did MJ the Musical couple weeks ago.
• 40:52
  We had a phenomenal time and so this movie should be, should be
• 40:58
  pretty good. So we'll we'll be seeing that
• 41:02
  next month, yeah. I am, I am highly anticipating
• 41:05
  that. And I think the family is, you
• 41:08
  know, not many people can beat the the music catalog of Michael
• 41:13
  Jackson and, you know, part of that film.
• 41:19
  From what I hear, they're not going to get into all his legal
• 41:23
  stuff, which I don't know if you're OK with that or not.
• 41:28
  I think it's fair to tell people that before they make the choice
• 41:32
  because do you want the all out honesty or not honesty?
• 41:37
  But how it all played out for him.
• 41:39
  Like the Elvis movie we saw what last year, two years ago?
• 41:43
  That biopic was phenomenal. It made me an Elvis fan.
• 41:47
  So good. I would recommend it if you
• 41:49
  haven't seen it. So good.
• 41:51
  You don't even have to be an Elvis fan, but it showed his
• 41:54
  highs and lows. I came away from that feeling
• 41:57
  badly for him. Now.
• 41:58
  Nobody puts drugs in our mouths. We put them in our mouths, but
• 42:03
  that's a guy that was pretty much forced to keep going and
• 42:07
  the people around him did him wrong.
• 42:10
  But so, you know, if that's true, I've only heard it.
• 42:14
  Just know that you may not see that side of things.
• 42:16
  You're just going to see more of the musical side of it.
• 42:19
  But it looks good. And every time a new trailer
• 42:21
  comes out, it's it gets me more and more excited for it.
• 42:24
  I mean, I think I'm going to be dancing in my seat.
• 42:26
  For sure, I will say that the musical did address quite a bit
• 42:33
  more than I thought they were going to.
• 42:36
  Oh, the musical did. Really.
• 42:37
  Yeah. Oh yeah, quite a bit more.
• 42:41
  If I would have thought the film would have done it first before
• 42:44
  the musical would have done it, Yeah.
• 42:47
  Interesting. Yeah, they, they, they went,
• 42:50
  they went into it. I was, I was, you start to see
• 42:55
  why certain things happen. And so I, I, I was glad they
• 43:01
  addressed it the way they did. And the the family, the estate,
• 43:05
  bless the musical. So we saw the touring one.
• 43:09
  Obviously it's in it's on Broadway and there's also a West
• 43:13
  End version as well. So if it goes around to your
• 43:18
  city and you have the chance to see it in your big Michael
• 43:20
  Jackson fan, totally say go take a look at that.
• 43:25
  Well, there and I didn't know Miss, Miss Organized Life said
• 43:29
  it's his nephew playing him. Yes, how about this?
• 43:34
  And if I remember correctly, he did not really want to and then
• 43:40
  he just got into it and just went like they said, he just.
• 43:44
  I wonder if family had influence on it.
• 43:49
  I, you know, I think that I'm sure they, they had a lot of
• 43:53
  discussion and you know, whoever the producers or whoever went to
• 43:57
  him was like, hey, you should do this.
• 43:59
  I'm sure he was like, Nah, I'm good.
• 44:01
  That's what I'm thinking. I just playing it in my head,
• 44:03
  Nah, I'm good. And then he went to the family
• 44:06
  and they're like, you know, they really want you to do this,
• 44:08
  blah, blah. And from what I can tell, I saw
• 44:11
  one interview where they said he just totally embodied it and you
• 44:16
  will be pleasantly surprised. So.
• 44:19
  He's got the talent in his jeans right?
• 44:21
  Yeah, it's. There, it's there.
• 44:24
  So yeah, looking forward to that.
• 44:27
  So yeah, we're here to talk some Disney Oscar stuff.
• 44:32
  So yeah, it's so you know, I found, I remember we did when we
• 44:39
  did the what did we call them, the dizzies?
• 44:44
  When we did our award ceremony, I had I pulled that clip of Walt
• 44:50
  Disney winning for Seven Dwarves and he won a regular Academy
• 44:55
  Award and then they gave him seven small.
• 44:57
  Ones. You know, and that didn't even
• 45:02
  start his run of Academy Awards. So Walt Disney himself has won
• 45:11
  22 competitive Academy Awards. He has won four honorary Oscars
• 45:19
  and has 59 total nominations. That is the most nominations in
• 45:25
  the most wins of any human on the planet.
• 45:31
  And that's Walt Disney. And a lot of it started with the
• 45:36
  shorts back in the in the 30s before he went to long form.
• 45:42
  So, you know, he, we all know the magic, right?
• 45:49
  We, we see in the parks, Corey's out there twice a week and we
• 45:52
  see that, we feel it. But you know, it started folks,
• 45:57
  if you have not seen the six part series, how Disney Built
• 46:02
  America, you need to go see that because it's on.
• 46:10
  Oh gosh, I can't remember. Somebody in the chat will tell
• 46:12
  me, but going to go sit down and watch that six piece series
• 46:18
  because that was really, really well done.
• 46:20
  And it shows you how he was on the brink of no money, sold his
• 46:25
  car and had to keep, you know, barring from Peter to pay Paul
• 46:31
  in order to keep the studio going.
• 46:33
  And look at where it ended up now.
• 46:35
  So I always think of his story as just a Great American True
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  Grit. Just get it done, figure out,
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  you know, I know I have something.
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  I just have to keep going. I just have to keep going.
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  And he had his brother behind him, helping the entire way and
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  pushing, you know, because he could see the vision that his
• 46:59
  brother had. You know, we know, we know a lot
• 47:06
  of this stuff, but I'm just thinking in my head as you're
• 47:09
  explaining this, like the first thoughts about Walt and how
• 47:12
  things really get started was he would take the the family to
• 47:16
  this small amusement park and just think, why can't there be
• 47:19
  something that the whole family can can do together and
• 47:22
  everything? So I'm guessing he was a an
• 47:26
  animator first and and then taking the family to this stuff.
• 47:30
  So did was was more of his motivation to OK the animation
• 47:37
  is going to be my pathway to financial success to pay for
• 47:41
  this park. I and and I want to say that
• 47:49
  that series actually tells a good amount of it.
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  I think it was kind of that way, you know, History Channel.
• 47:58
  Thank you. Yeah, I think that if I remember
• 48:04
  correctly, I think the park was let's make a it's almost like
• 48:11
  making a mini's runaway railway, which you guys can't see.
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  But my the background of my monitor here that I'm looking at
• 48:20
  is looking down Hollywood Studios, Hollywood Blvd.
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  So I'm looking at the Chinese Theater and as I'm looking at
• 48:26
  Corey, so Mickey and Minnie's runaway Railway, you know, takes
• 48:31
  you and puts you into the cartoon.
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  And I think that was kind of what, you know, he wanted to do.
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  As you know, my, my plaque right here says, you know, you leave
• 48:41
  this this reality and you enter, you know, the world of
• 48:45
  yesterday, today, yesterday, tomorrow and, and fantasy.
• 48:51
  So I think that was kind of the idea behind the park is I can
• 48:56
  create all these things on the screen now I want to create them
• 49:02
  in real life. And I I believe you did it.
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  And I'm just going to say it. Your buddy who takes over
• 49:12
  tomorrow, I think is going to deliver that again.
• 49:17
  I think I think that he is going to put you know it that Michael
• 49:24
  Eisner time period of Disney parks.
• 49:29
  I really think that's what we're going to get again, you know,
• 49:34
  between Abu Dhabi and Villains Land and all the new rides,
• 49:39
  monsters coaster. That thing is, we don't even
• 49:44
  know much about it, but we know you're riding on a door and it's
• 49:48
  the first of its kind in Disney. And go look at how big that
• 49:52
  building is. Like, think about this.
• 49:55
  If it is, if it is a coaster, the length of Guardians, OK,
• 50:04
  because the building is massive. If it's a coaster the length of
• 50:10
  Guardians without the speed of Guardians, it's going to be a
• 50:16
  very long coaster, right? Guardians is the longest coaster
• 50:21
  in the world as far as length, but because it's going 60 miles
• 50:26
  an hour, it's over in, you know, 3 minutes that the door coaster
• 50:32
  is not going to move that fast. Just think about how long that
• 50:35
  attractions going to be. I think we're in for some good
• 50:39
  stuff. I think so.
• 50:41
  I think you nailed it when you compare him to Eisner.
• 50:44
  Eisner just seemed to have a genuine love for the parks and
• 50:48
  bringing the best possible attractions that they could come
• 50:53
  up with at that time. I think Josh, he, he seems like
• 50:56
  he's going to be a lot like him. I'm.
• 50:59
  Definitely excited now. Eisner also led to the parks
• 51:04
  with the movies, you know, so you had that Renaissance period
• 51:09
  going on right then Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King
• 51:12
  and all those good movies right then, which then led to all the
• 51:18
  entertainment in the parks, you know?
• 51:21
  Think about what the parades and nighttime shows would have been
• 51:26
  without some of those big show, a big movies then.
• 51:30
  So I think that we are going to get a really good renaissance
• 51:35
  there. I really do.
• 51:39
  I don't know if they'll call it the Renaissance period, but it's
• 51:42
  going to be something. So here's here's some quick
• 51:46
  timelines about the Disney at the Oscars.
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  So the first win was in 1932, won the first Academy Award for
• 51:53
  Flowers and Trees, which was a Silly Symphony short.
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  And it was the first full color cartoon to win in 32.
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  It was almost 100 years ago. Crazy in 39.
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  It was the most iconic Oscar ever, as I talked about.
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  Yeah, the one full statue and seven mini ones.
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  By the way, those were real statues.
• 52:17
  They weren't like props. They actually just made seven
• 52:20
  actual mini that they didn't, they didn't like, you know,
• 52:25
  they, they weren't made out of chocolate or something.
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  In the 40s, Disney won multiple Oscars for animated shorts
• 52:36
  featuring Mickey Mouse and friends.
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  And then in 69 he won his final Oscar, giving him the most or
• 52:44
  cementing his record as the most awarded individual ever.
• 52:49
  And that was in 69, and no one has done it in 8920.
• 52:58
  Years later you get The Little Mermaid which wins two Oscars,
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  which starts this new Renaissance era. 94 You get The
• 53:07
  Lion King, which wins two Oscars, including best original
• 53:11
  song. 95 Pixar starts to change the world and you get Toy Story,
• 53:19
  which earns a special achievement Oscar, the first
• 53:23
  fully computer animated film. Now you're you've talked a lot
• 53:29
  about hand drawn and yes and yet you have Toy Story in 95 which
• 53:38
  was computer animated but it still felt hand drawn.
• 53:45
  Am I wrong the the the styling was, I guess it was a fresh
• 53:52
  version of hand drawn. It didn't feel like what we're a
• 53:57
  lot of what we're seeing today. Which one?
• 54:00
  Toy Story the first one. Yeah, you're talking about Toy
• 54:03
  Story? No, that was totally digital.
• 54:05
  It just wasn't. It was new, so it doesn't look
• 54:08
  nearly as good as what we see, what we'll see with, like Toy
• 54:12
  Story 5, you know, things. But I mean like the stuff we're
• 54:15
  seeing today. Yeah.
• 54:18
  Is different. It's a whole different style of
• 54:23
  animation. Yeah.
• 54:24
  These kids don't know kids that are 5 and 10.
• 54:27
  Yeah. And maybe even 15 just don't
• 54:30
  really know when they see new movies.
• 54:31
  They don't know hand drawn. Yeah.
• 54:33
  Unless they've gone back to the classics.
• 54:35
  Yeah, I don't know. Is is that asking for us to go
• 54:40
  back to black and white? You know, when they went to
• 54:42
  color like it sounds almost like no man we need.
• 54:44
  To get back to the black and. Whites.
• 54:47
  We need the black and whites. Could be.
• 54:50
  Yes, I mean Pixar, Disney. The digital age of animation is
• 54:54
  amazing. I love it, but it would just,
• 54:57
  it'd be nice now and then to just, I'd like to see what would
• 55:00
  happen with because it, you know, listen, George Lucas and
• 55:03
  how many have said it's all about the story, no matter what
• 55:05
  it is, it's about the story. So if you put a solid story out
• 55:10
  there and and it's hand drawn, you know, is it going to flop?
• 55:16
  Maybe, maybe the young, the younger generations are like,
• 55:20
  what's that? Yeah, I'm just not going to give
• 55:23
  that a chance based on what it looks like.
• 55:25
  It's kind of like, I don't even know if it's like this, but it's
• 55:28
  something I was just thinking of.
• 55:29
  Like there are so Star Wars fans, there are people that will
• 55:34
  only watch the movies, but man, are there some amazing stories
• 55:39
  that they have just passed up because it's animation and you
• 55:42
  can see all these on Disney Plus.
• 55:44
  Clone Wars is like 6. Is it 6?
• 55:48
  Did they stop at six? They either stopped at six and
• 55:50
  then resumed and now there's nine.
• 55:52
  There's not a massive amount of seasons for Clone Wars in each
• 55:58
  each, almost all of them have about 24 episodes in them, if
• 56:02
  I'm not mistaken. So good fills that timeline of
• 56:06
  The Clone Wars. You hear the mention of The
• 56:08
  Clone Wars, you don't see too much of it, right?
• 56:10
  See an Attack of the Clones, kind of the start of it.
• 56:12
  You don't see all of that. Yeah, there's some great stuff
• 56:15
  out there, but it's the animation part of it.
• 56:18
  And I try to tell people, no, give that a chance to give it a
• 56:20
  chance. Put that aside.
• 56:22
  But yeah, I don't, I don't think we're seeing any hand drawn
• 56:25
  coming soon. Now we know Wish didn't do well
• 56:27
  in the box office. I don't think that was so close
• 56:31
  to hand drawn looking that that's why it didn't do well.
• 56:37
  Don't know why that didn't do well, but that looked really
• 56:41
  close to hand drawn. It made me kind of you have a
• 56:43
  double take. Like, wait a minute, did they
• 56:45
  hand draw this? You know?
• 56:48
  So yeah, I'm still, I'm still pumping my fist for that one.
• 56:52
  So someday maybe we'll we'll get a yeah, we'll get a hand drawn
• 56:56
  movie. Maybe if Josh still walks the
• 56:58
  parks and we happen to bump into each other.
• 57:02
  Josh, can we get a hand drawn film?
• 57:05
  He he might have a couple extra people around him now.
• 57:08
  Yeah, he might. He might.
• 57:10
  I don't know. I saw J Peck.
• 57:11
  I saw J Peck in the park. Would he have been approachable?
• 57:15
  I don't know. I'm glad.
• 57:15
  He wasn't. I'm glad I didn't approach him.
• 57:20
  Nobody wanted to be around him, so it was fine.
• 57:23
  So in 2001, they start a new category.
• 57:27
  The Academy does. They introduce best animated
• 57:30
  feature that's only been around since 2001.
• 57:33
  What movie won the first best animated feature?
• 57:38
  I'll give you I'll give you 2 guesses.
• 57:42
  Best animated. Feature very first.
• 57:46
  One see, I'm probably going to be wrong, but I thought it was
• 57:54
  Snow White. Nope, 2001. 2001 Well, it had to
• 58:04
  be frozen then. Nope, Really.
• 58:10
  Frozen was 2013. In 2001, the first winner Shrek.
• 58:19
  Oh, it wasn't even Disney. Wasn't even Disney Shrek.
• 58:23
  Wow. Yeah.
• 58:25
  Listen, Shrek is probably unless you know, I'm just thinking off
• 58:28
  the top of my head quickly. Shrek may be the best.
• 58:33
  My phone is ringing. I don't know if you heard that.
• 58:35
  The heck yeah, man. This boy's live.
• 58:40
  So what was he saying? You know, Shrek might be one of
• 58:46
  the best animated movies that's not Disney.
• 58:52
  Shrek was phenomenal. Shrek was really good.
• 58:56
  Yeah, the humor in that is on point.
• 59:00
  I don't know if that was DreamWorks.
• 59:02
  I don't think that was Illuminations.
• 59:04
  Who does Minions? No, but people shouldn't sleep
• 59:07
  on those either. Each and every minions delivers
• 59:10
  plenty of laughs. I feel like for me, they're
• 59:13
  good. I they, I didn't, I didn't think
• 59:15
  I was going to like any of the minion stuff, but a few minutes
• 59:19
  in, just watching. What's funniest to me about
• 59:22
  Minions is how they laugh at each other.
• 59:24
  You know, one might get something very hurtful done to
• 59:27
  him, and then it says a pause, and then he laughs at them like
• 59:30
  they are loony. Yeah, they are crazy.
• 59:34
  And that's what makes those fun. And you know, grew is kind of
• 59:38
  like that. He's he's played by Michael from
• 59:40
  the Office and he's kind of like what Michael would be if he was
• 59:44
  trying to be like a mad yes. I agree.
• 59:46
  Scientist, but right, he just tries so hard to be serious and
• 59:50
  he just, you know, yeah. So Despicable Me was good.
• 59:55
  I enjoyed that first one. I did see Shrek in the theaters
• 1:00:00
  in Orlando actually. Took my now 31 year old to
• 1:00:08
  Disney in 2001 in February. And we had some time to go.
• 1:00:13
  I think we had a late flight home and we had to check out of
• 1:00:16
  the hotel and we didn't have park days.
• 1:00:18
  We weren't annual pass holders. And we we went to the theater
• 1:00:24
  down there in, in Kissimmee somewhere.
• 1:00:26
  So yeah, I saw a Shrek in the theaters and thought it was
• 1:00:30
  hysterical. So yes, 2003 is when Pixar gets
• 1:00:36
  into it and they win Best Animated Feature with Finding
• 1:00:40
  Nemo 2013. As I mentioned, Frozen wins two
• 1:00:45
  Oscars and starts its global phenomena in 2018.
• 1:00:51
  Marvel gets in with Black Panther winning three Oscars
• 1:00:57
  2021 best picture win via Disney went to Nomadland and that was
• 1:01:06
  that's owned by Searchlight. Well, that's Searchlight
• 1:01:09
  Pictures, which owns which is owned by Disney.
• 1:01:12
  And then on 26, as we mentioned in the beginning, slower night
• 1:01:17
  for for Disney, they did win 1 Oscar for Avatar for visual
• 1:01:22
  effects. So here's some quick trivia
• 1:01:26
  facts. Disney holds the all time record
• 1:01:29
  for 22 Oscars, holds the record for 59 nominations.
• 1:01:36
  As I mentioned, Snow White's many Oscars are real.
• 1:01:39
  They are not props. Disney dominated the best
• 1:01:44
  animated shorts category for decades before features were
• 1:01:48
  even recognized, right? So they, you know, they've
• 1:01:51
  they've owned it for a long time.
• 1:01:57
  Pixar has won more animated feature Oscars than any other
• 1:02:00
  studio, which which you know, then means Disney has because
• 1:02:07
  Disney bought Pixar beating the beast won first animated film
• 1:02:14
  ever nominated for best picture. You know, and my my Co host
• 1:02:21
  there, that's his his favorite. No right.
• 1:02:24
  Favorite Princess favorite movie.
• 1:02:28
  Go go further. Favorite song?
• 1:02:34
  Yeah. Favorite soundtrack?
• 1:02:35
  Favorite soundtrack? OK.
• 1:02:37
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. For musicals.
• 1:02:41
  For Disney musicals, though, you know what?
• 1:02:43
  You know what is really close, though?
• 1:02:45
  And if I really sat down and tried to break it down, I almost
• 1:02:49
  could put Frozen ahead of that soundtrack wise.
• 1:02:53
  It's like almost every song is a banger.
• 1:02:57
  OK, you know, OK, I might have to.
• 1:03:00
  I might have to sit down and compare.
• 1:03:02
  That might edge that out these days.
• 1:03:04
  But for if if it's not anymore, Beauty and the Beast for me had
• 1:03:07
  a long run is the best Disney musical soundtrack.
• 1:03:11
  You know what I always wonder though?
• 1:03:12
  You know, with movies from that period or even before, right,
• 1:03:16
  Aristocats or you know some of those others that that we know
• 1:03:19
  101 Dalmatians. I wonder if they would have been
• 1:03:24
  made now or if social media had been big then or streaming had
• 1:03:30
  been big then, would the music have been have been received
• 1:03:36
  differently? Right.
• 1:03:38
  I think what happened with Frozen was I remember I I didn't
• 1:03:45
  see the movie right away, but you had all of the dads and
• 1:03:51
  daughters doing the Oh no, it just fell out of my head.
• 1:03:56
  The song. Can I say something crazy?
• 1:04:00
  You know I love. Crazy.
• 1:04:02
  Right, so you had all the dads and daughters doing that song.
• 1:04:06
  Jill and I used to do it right, karaoke style at home.
• 1:04:09
  All the time. And so I think that that created
• 1:04:12
  this buzz about it. And I just wonder if Lion King
• 1:04:17
  and Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid,
• 1:04:21
  although, you know, those were all huge and huge soundtracks.
• 1:04:24
  I wonder if it would have been how much bigger it would have
• 1:04:27
  been had there been social media like there is during this Frozen
• 1:04:32
  and and Inside Out and Zootopia type, you know?
• 1:04:36
  Yeah, great question. Yeah, great thoughts.
• 1:04:39
  You just never know. Never know.
• 1:04:42
  So Disney did know when Star Wars won.
• 1:04:44
  It first won its Oscar in 77, but now those count because
• 1:04:49
  Disney owns Star Wars. Avatar won three Oscars and
• 1:04:56
  became one of Disney's biggest technical winners after
• 1:05:00
  acquisition. And despite its dominance,
• 1:05:06
  Disney has very few acting Oscar wins compared to other studios.
• 1:05:12
  Isn't that interesting? It dominates, but it dominates
• 1:05:15
  really for the project, for animation or you know, visual
• 1:05:21
  effects or stuff like that, but not, not acting.
• 1:05:25
  I always felt when I was growing up when you saw a Disney movie,
• 1:05:31
  you could put two films side by side and I could say in a
• 1:05:34
  heartbeat if it was a Disney movie because they their
• 1:05:37
  movements and the animation was something that you couldn't even
• 1:05:42
  other studios just didn't seem to compare.
• 1:05:45
  Do you know what I mean? Like Disney has a way of, of how
• 1:05:48
  the characters moved and and all that.
• 1:05:50
  Back then in the hand drawn days, I think it wasn't till
• 1:05:55
  maybe an American Tale or something where you say, oh OK,
• 1:05:59
  that's a lot closer to Disney animation right there.
• 1:06:03
  OK, I could see that. I could see that American tale
• 1:06:08
  one through 27 or whatever many they did just.
• 1:06:14
  You know. I'm out with them.
• 1:06:16
  You didn't see it? No, I didn't see it.
• 1:06:19
  I saw the first one in the theater and then I don't think I
• 1:06:23
  saw any of the other 39 that was I.
• 1:06:26
  Think it was Diane Warren somewhere out there.
• 1:06:29
  I think she. I think, I think she, she wrote
• 1:06:33
  that right. She may have sang.
• 1:06:35
  She may have sung that one too. Yeah, so Disney and best
• 1:06:41
  original song go hand in hand. You've got songs like Let It Go,
• 1:06:46
  A Whole New World. Can you feel the love tonight?
• 1:06:52
  I mean, and some of the I just remember like the the Oscar
• 1:06:58
  performances of like a Whole New World and you know, as big as
• 1:07:06
  Can you feel the Love tonight? I mean, there were there was
• 1:07:08
  some big songs that really took took over the globe.
• 1:07:14
  And that's why I said, like, you know, how much bigger would they
• 1:07:17
  have been had social media been around?
• 1:07:20
  It's just it's just pretty, pretty interesting to think of
• 1:07:25
  some of their dominance, but then not in other categories.
• 1:07:30
  I know. Might not even.
• 1:07:32
  I wouldn't have even realized that unless we started talking
• 1:07:35
  about it earlier on, Steve and Tony said.
• 1:07:37
  How do you compare Pixar to DreamWorks?
• 1:07:45
  I feel like Pixar is more steady right?
• 1:07:52
  I think they have. Name me a DreamWorks dud or, or
• 1:07:59
  Pixar dud. You know, I like I, I think when
• 1:08:05
  they hit, they hit and I don't know that everything that
• 1:08:10
  DreamWorks puts out is at the top.
• 1:08:15
  It it comes down to like I was talking about the the hand drawn
• 1:08:20
  days. So how many companies tried to
• 1:08:25
  hit with a with a hit animated feature film and would just fall
• 1:08:32
  so flat compared to Disney? Anastasia, American Tale, just I
• 1:08:42
  mean, I, I even as a kid, I wasn't even paying for the
• 1:08:45
  ticket and I had no interest. If it wasn't Disney, I wasn't
• 1:08:47
  going, this wasn't going. Now, I might have missed out on
• 1:08:51
  some good films because of it, but I, you know, I, I think that
• 1:08:58
  in the heart of Disney, in the heart of Pixar, that they, their
• 1:09:06
  films are more heartfelt. You feel them more.
• 1:09:10
  I don't know if there's that much emotion in, in deep
• 1:09:14
  character development. It makes you think of the
• 1:09:16
  characters as much. The stories might not be as
• 1:09:19
  deep. It's kind of what I think is the
• 1:09:22
  difference between them. OK.
• 1:09:25
  And Disney's vast with what you get.
• 1:09:27
  I mean, you, you got Elio, you got Hoppers, Inside Out, all
• 1:09:32
  very different movies. Yeah, Dream Works, slash
• 1:09:37
  Illuminations, and they're good. But you know, what are they
• 1:09:40
  running with? They're running with, they ran
• 1:09:42
  with Shrek for a while, then they ran with Kung Fu Panda for
• 1:09:45
  a short run. Then it was Minions that they've
• 1:09:49
  been, you know, milking every second out of that, which I'm
• 1:09:52
  not mad at that. There's another one coming out.
• 1:09:55
  We'll go see it. And until they let us down, you
• 1:09:59
  know, I'll, I'll keep going to see them.
• 1:10:01
  So, you know, I just think that everything Disney does is just
• 1:10:06
  just really more heartfelt. Land Before Time.
• 1:10:08
  Yeah, maybe maybe that was good. I know they had a few of those
• 1:10:11
  too. But Land Before Time, I would
• 1:10:13
  say that that animation did look more like a Disney hand drawn
• 1:10:17
  film. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:10:19
  So I just pulled up a few, right?
• 1:10:22
  I pulled up, give me some DreamWorks hits and then give me
• 1:10:26
  some duds. So Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, as you
• 1:10:29
  mentioned, how to train your dragon.
• 1:10:33
  Oh, how dragon was good. Yeah, that was.
• 1:10:36
  Heartfelt. Yes, Madagascar, the Boss, baby
• 1:10:43
  Puss in Boots, but then they also had some non hits Shark
• 1:10:52
  Tale B movie monsters versus aliens turbo the croods, you
• 1:11:03
  know, so it's or the croods the new age.
• 1:11:05
  So they had some that have not done well.
• 1:11:08
  I think that you wouldn't find as many duds from Pixar as you
• 1:11:14
  did from DreamWorks. And I just, I wonder is it, you
• 1:11:20
  know, kind of what Bob Iger, you know, put it into recently where
• 1:11:25
  it was quality over quantity. And he was like, no, we're we're
• 1:11:30
  going to make good movies. Stop just going for volume.
• 1:11:37
  And maybe that maybe that was maybe that's the problem is that
• 1:11:40
  they're just going for volume. I don't know.
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  Yeah. So if we're looking at a list of
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  Pixar films, right, And how are we considering duds?
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  I'm not looking at box office here, just just overall feel,
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  right? Is that fair to say?
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  Like an overall feel Like I agree with those ones that you
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  said were were duds. I feel like Cars 2 fell flat and
• 1:12:02
  that was a dud. There is a finite group that
• 1:12:07
  loves Wally, but Wally, really, it could be controversial.
• 1:12:12
  Wally wasn't very good. I didn't.
• 1:12:16
  I didn't really get Wally. I didn't either.
• 1:12:20
  I think it might have been a statement of how, you know, lazy
• 1:12:23
  people have gotten OK, but you know, I saw it.
• 1:12:29
  Don't have interest in seeing it again.
• 1:12:31
  But love Wally. We love Wally the character in
• 1:12:33
  in in Eve or Eva, that they were the best thing about that.
• 1:12:37
  Love Wally, but not the movie so much.
• 1:12:39
  Cars 2 fell flat, I thought, but I think Pixar regained my fandom
• 1:12:47
  with Cars three. I think they really did battle
• 1:12:50
  back with that one. Brave was a one and done for me,
• 1:12:53
  and I think overall people didn't weren't super fans of
• 1:12:57
  that one. But nobody, nobody remembers the
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  Good Dinosaur unless that was like the first, unless you have
• 1:13:02
  like a childhood memory, like you know, your grandpa took you
• 1:13:05
  to that and it's sentimental. But the Good Dinosaur is was
• 1:13:11
  definitely something that fell flat for Disney or Pixar I
• 1:13:14
  should say. Onward was also another one of
• 1:13:17
  those I think. I think Seoul was better than it
• 1:13:21
  should have been recognized for, but that probably was floppy
• 1:13:24
  too. It's so it's it's listed as a
• 1:13:27
  flop. However, I mean it, it won an
• 1:13:29
  Oscar but it went straight to streaming because it was 2020.
• 1:13:35
  Yes. So.
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  And onward did too, I believe. So, yeah, so I, you know, I, I
• 1:13:40
  wonder had it been, you know, in the theaters, how would it have
• 1:13:45
  been received? Same thing for Turning red.
• 1:13:49
  Wasn't, you know, it was, it was 22, but it didn't hit as many
• 1:13:55
  theaters as it should have. So could that have been better?
• 1:14:01
  Jacob and I really thought Luca was was very good.
• 1:14:04
  I don't know if you saw Luca, but we enjoyed Luca.
• 1:14:08
  Luca was fun. It was fun turning.
• 1:14:10
  Red turning red was fun. I even like light year I I
• 1:14:16
  probably AM. One of the bigger fans.
• 1:14:18
  Of light year than the general public, but that was probably
• 1:14:21
  considered a flop as well. Elemental took it hard publicly
• 1:14:26
  I would say, but we were pleasantly surprised by element.
• 1:14:29
  Elemental Elio was better than then we then then the public
• 1:14:37
  thought I think as well as the box office.
• 1:14:39
  I don't think it it stood up to normal standards and I think I
• 1:14:43
  think Pixar hit an absolute home run with Hopper's.
• 1:14:47
  I think Hopper's is the best Pixar movie to come out since
• 1:14:54
  Inside Out too. That's not going that far back.
• 1:14:56
  But if you wanted to skip that and go further back, I'd have to
• 1:15:03
  say it's been so long since I've seen Incredibles 2.
• 1:15:08
  I would probably, for me, I think Hopper's is probably the
• 1:15:14
  best movie. If we're not counting Inside Out
• 1:15:17
  from 2024, man, I could go as far back as wow, I'm going back
• 1:15:27
  maybe Inside Out in 2015 and that's and that's bypassing
• 1:15:32
  Finding Dory Cars 3, Coco Incredibles 2, Toy Story 4, the
• 1:15:37
  other ones we mentioned. Yeah, Hopper so far is is at
• 1:15:43
  165,000,000 worldwide. Its budget was 150, so it's
• 1:15:49
  already about breaking even. Run, don't walk everyone to
• 1:15:55
  Hoppers. Hoppers was.
• 1:15:57
  I'm high on that one. I think I rated that in 93.
• 1:15:59
  And Jacob agreed. It was very heartfelt.
• 1:16:03
  Some twists and turns, big political statement, but it was
• 1:16:09
  it was so good. It's getting about a 90
• 1:16:13
  critically. OK.
• 1:16:15
  And being called 1 of Pixar's most original and fun films in
• 1:16:20
  years. See, there you go.
• 1:16:23
  And The funny thing is it's almost a, it's almost a carbon
• 1:16:27
  copy of Avatar. I'm really surprised that Disney
• 1:16:32
  went that route, like, to do something so close.
• 1:16:35
  But it wouldn't be a surprise because a lot of people say
• 1:16:37
  Force Awakens is like A New Hope, which it is.
• 1:16:41
  So it's not like it hasn't been done before.
• 1:16:43
  Hey, if it's a formula, if the formula works, yeah.
• 1:16:46
  Anne says she needs to see Hoppers for sure.
• 1:16:49
  And we love the Toy Story movies.
• 1:16:51
  I'm very excited for Toy Story 5.
• 1:16:54
  So, so does we talk about it a lot that if you continue to have
• 1:17:04
  these billion dollar hits and sequels that you're not going to
• 1:17:08
  get originals because they're going to do what makes them
• 1:17:11
  money, right? I mean, there are business
• 1:17:14
  folks, I don't know if you guys know, but Disney is, is publicly
• 1:17:17
  traded company. They're in it for the money.
• 1:17:19
  Just so you know, that's not an industry secret, but you have
• 1:17:26
  something like Hopper's. Do you say continue trying got
• 1:17:34
  to put out, you know, something new to mix in with your live
• 1:17:38
  action remakes and your sequels and stuff like that?
• 1:17:42
  I think that you said exactly what I was thinking, and I think
• 1:17:47
  that I'm all for turning out more sequels if they're going to
• 1:17:52
  be good. I have no problem with that.
• 1:17:54
  We just want to see good films. But I'm also a fan of some kind
• 1:17:59
  of ratio like, OK, we're going to put out, you know, for every
• 1:18:04
  two original, we're going to put out a sequel.
• 1:18:06
  We're going to put, you know, that kind of thing.
• 1:18:07
  I'm down for that. Give me a couple of a couple of
• 1:18:10
  originals, and then you can sprinkle in some sequels, too.
• 1:18:16
  We've talked about this before. You know, it's it, people will.
• 1:18:20
  We're going to compare this. And it's timely because Jacob
• 1:18:22
  texted me, so apparently he could hear me.
• 1:18:25
  Maybe he's walking by or something.
• 1:18:26
  But Illuminations did do a movie that was a smash hit.
• 1:18:34
  And if I would have told you this back in your GameStop days,
• 1:18:38
  you would have laughed at me, probably.
• 1:18:40
  But Mario, they own Mario. Oh yes, Mario has blue.
• 1:18:46
  Mario's blown the doors off of a lot of these very movies we're
• 1:18:50
  talking about. That's right.
• 1:18:53
  And that's Illuminations. So kudos to Illuminations for
• 1:18:56
  doing that. And I think Mario is the movie
• 1:18:59
  that made Eiger stomp his feet. And we know he did this from
• 1:19:04
  inside sources, that he he stomped his feet, he he pounded
• 1:19:09
  the door down and he told those people that Pixar or whatever
• 1:19:14
  you need to start putting out hits or heads are going to roll.
• 1:19:17
  And what have they been doing lately?
• 1:19:19
  They didn't put out hits because Mario kicked Mickey's butt.
• 1:19:23
  And there's another one coming out.
• 1:19:25
  So it's going to be interesting on April 1st to see what Mario
• 1:19:29
  does this time. And I was surprised at how good
• 1:19:31
  that movie was. I don't know if you guys saw it,
• 1:19:34
  but that's another movie that's worth seeing.
• 1:19:38
  When When is the next one? April 1st.
• 1:19:41
  Oh wow. OK.
• 1:19:43
  And Chris Pratt plays Mario. Wouldn't even think that.
• 1:19:46
  It's so random. Yeah, but.
• 1:19:48
  He was he. Was he?
• 1:19:49
  Was a good Mario. We really enjoyed, we really
• 1:19:52
  enjoyed Mario. That was really well done.
• 1:19:55
  I think it was enough nostalgia for us.
• 1:19:59
  The the little Easter egg about the original show with Captain
• 1:20:06
  Lou Albano. There was a little Easter egg in
• 1:20:09
  there about that one. Yeah, it was.
• 1:20:13
  It was really good. It was really.
• 1:20:15
  Good. And it it's fun to see it with a
• 1:20:16
  guy like Jacob because he's so he's been into Mario games since
• 1:20:20
  he's played video games. He's played a lot of the Mario
• 1:20:22
  stuff, so he, he kind of helps me out.
• 1:20:25
  He'd be like, oh, you know what that's a reference to or this or
• 1:20:27
  that. So he, he enhances the
• 1:20:29
  experience for me. So.
• 1:20:32
  You know, one of my favorite Mario games, which a lot of
• 1:20:35
  people don't don't because they didn't have a Game Cube, Super
• 1:20:40
  Mario Sunshine. You're making that up.
• 1:20:45
  I'm. Not, I'm not making it up.
• 1:20:50
  Super Mario Sunshine. It was a it was a the premise
• 1:20:54
  was so weird. He basically there was an evil
• 1:20:56
  guy going around spraying this gloop.
• 1:21:00
  It was like tar on everything. And Super Mario had a gun that
• 1:21:07
  shot like rainbow to clean everything up.
• 1:21:11
  And it would that's basically what you had to do.
• 1:21:14
  Yeah, it was, it was, it was one of the most fun games I thought
• 1:21:17
  and had it had a good music along with that.
• 1:21:21
  I just then the Mario talk for me.
• 1:21:24
  I met Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario at E3 back when I
• 1:21:30
  worked at GameStop. We went to E3 two years and I
• 1:21:35
  was talking to a friend of mine that worked with with me.
• 1:21:38
  And I was like, hey, that's, that's Charles Martinet, the
• 1:21:41
  voice of of Mario. And we're just sitting there.
• 1:21:43
  We're kind of looking at him and he finally sees us and he just
• 1:21:47
  sees us looking at him and he calls us over and he's like,
• 1:21:50
  hey, you know which name, you know, and he could see that we
• 1:21:52
  work for GameStop and everything.
• 1:21:54
  And really nice, nice guy. Took, took pictures with my.
• 1:21:58
  I have to find them. I think they're on my Facebook
• 1:22:00
  page maybe. But yeah, real nice guy.
• 1:22:03
  So that's my, that's my Mario story.
• 1:22:05
  He's now retired. Yeah, wow.
• 1:22:09
  I'm have to ask Jacob if you've ever heard of Mario Sunshine.
• 1:22:13
  Yeah, I don't know how they, I don't know how they could buy me
• 1:22:16
  for the for the GameCube. Yeah, Little whatever size that
• 1:22:20
  disc was, 3 inch CD. Yeah, fun game.
• 1:22:27
  So tomorrow, tomorrow you're at Magic.
• 1:22:31
  Tomorrow we are at Magic Kingdom.
• 1:22:33
  I have the same arrangement, but it'll probably be starting in
• 1:22:38
  the six O clock hour. Could be slightly, you know,
• 1:22:40
  1520 minutes sooner than. But I'll keep you up to dated
• 1:22:43
  update as to where I'm at and all that.
• 1:22:46
  So yeah, we're at Magic and I believe because it is a vacation
• 1:22:51
  week for Central Florida, I think Magic is open till 11 and
• 1:22:59
  my little vacation, my staycation starts tomorrow when
• 1:23:04
  I'm there. So time isn't too much of a
• 1:23:07
  factor. Definitely have to come home and
• 1:23:09
  get up early to try to rope drop Universal.
• 1:23:11
  But yeah, I'm a big boy. I'm a big boy.
• 1:23:13
  I can do it. Yeah.
• 1:23:15
  Magic is open till 11 and then extended Magic Hours from 11:00
• 1:23:20
  to 1. So yeah, we're doing that.
• 1:23:24
  And for Saturdays we're at Epcot and Pamela V has convinced us
• 1:23:32
  that we should stream ELO. Now.
• 1:23:36
  ELO is another one of those groups.
• 1:23:38
  If you're in your 40s and above and you just don't really know
• 1:23:44
  who they are, If you play like the top five songs at least on
• 1:23:51
  iTunes or Spotify, wherever you enjoy your music, you're going
• 1:23:55
  to be like, whoa, they sing that.
• 1:23:58
  Oh, they sing that. So hopefully the audience is
• 1:24:01
  what that's watching us will realize, oh, and maybe I'll have
• 1:24:04
  to pump it up a little bit. Maybe I'll have to play samples,
• 1:24:07
  quick samples, 10 second pieces while we're live so people
• 1:24:12
  actually know what we're going to see because those would be
• 1:24:16
  fun to listen to live. So we're hanging out with Pamela
• 1:24:19
  V and there is definitely a small list of foods that Jacob
• 1:24:23
  and I did not sink our teeth into yet.
• 1:24:26
  So we'll visit some food booths, we'll take down some food.
• 1:24:30
  Well, if there's some openings on some attractions that time
• 1:24:34
  wise are good, we'll hit that. And we'll just soak every inch
• 1:24:38
  of fun out of Epcot on Saturdays.
• 1:24:41
  So it'll be a lot of fun. Sounds good, sounds good.
• 1:24:45
  So Wednesday, tomorrow night living in Dieselby at Magic.
• 1:24:49
  Thursday evening at 6:30 I will have the Monitor report.
• 1:24:53
  We'll talk about the Disney news from this week.
• 1:24:56
  We'll dig into some click bait news which we haven't touched
• 1:25:01
  on. And Saturday we are at Epcot
• 1:25:07
  next Tuesday, no podcast. We will be off next week because
• 1:25:12
  I will be away for work event for a couple days.
• 1:25:17
  So no podcast next week, but will return the following week
• 1:25:22
  with Scooter Adventures. Mike from Scooter Adventures,
• 1:25:26
  he's going to join us on the podcast and talk about how to
• 1:25:30
  get around the park in an ECV and talk about mobility and can
• 1:25:35
  you do it and and tips and tricks.
• 1:25:38
  So if you wonder about that, make sure to tune into that
• 1:25:42
  episode for sure. Two other notes I want to give
• 1:25:46
  you tonight at 9:30, I believe Brandon Miraculous is doing a
• 1:25:55
  deep dive with his dad, who was one of the production assistants
• 1:26:03
  on Muppet Vision 3D. So you may want to tune in for
• 1:26:08
  that one because he's going to have a lot of behind the scenes
• 1:26:12
  behind the, the behind the curtain tips and tricks for you
• 1:26:18
  there. So make sure to, to tune into
• 1:26:21
  that. Yeah, they, they do some some
• 1:26:24
  great grand. Miraculous does some great
• 1:26:26
  stuff. Last week they did Captain EO.
• 1:26:28
  This week they're doing Muppet Vision 3D.
• 1:26:31
  So be sure to tune up with his dad who helped make the
• 1:26:35
  attraction. Folks, that's crazy.
• 1:26:38
  And his granddad helped build Epcot TuneIn.
• 1:26:45
  Tonight at 9:30 when this show ends, we will be sending you to
• 1:26:49
  Magic Kingdom for a little bit more fun.
• 1:26:51
  Murray's Adventure, who normally streams in Disneyland Paris, is
• 1:26:55
  visiting the East Coast of the US and he is streaming.
• 1:27:00
  They are. So we will drop you over there
• 1:27:03
  for a little bit more fun. Sounds good.
• 1:27:07
  I want to thank you all for watching us live.
• 1:27:09
  We do this live because we do it for you and anyone.
• 1:27:12
  We appreciate all of you who if you're, if you're watching, if
• 1:27:16
  you don't, you know, watch us live because it's the timing
• 1:27:19
  isn't right or you just prefer, prefer your podcasts on the
• 1:27:23
  other outlets. We can get your podcasts, Apple,
• 1:27:25
  iHeartRadio, Amazon and Spotify. Send us an e-mail at the
• 1:27:29
  dizpod@gmail.com and just let us know, you know, how do you
• 1:27:33
  watch? Is it in the car?
• 1:27:35
  Is it mowing the lawn? Because I know somebody does it
• 1:27:36
  while they're mowing the lawn. You know, what are you doing
• 1:27:39
  when you listen to your podcast and, you know, just give us a
• 1:27:43
  little details so we know you're out there.
• 1:27:44
  It would be great. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:27:47
  Love that. Love that.
• 1:27:49
  Yeah, and I'll make one more announcement and we'll have to
• 1:27:51
  keep hitting it up on it. So next Wednesdays, are you not
• 1:27:54
  with me in spirit, electrical spirit, electronic spirit?
• 1:28:01
  I don't think so. OK, hopefully the appropriate
• 1:28:07
  app will work fine and know it had issues before, but are we
• 1:28:11
  back on track with that? Do you know it?
• 1:28:12
  Should be good. OK, and then I will say this.
• 1:28:16
  I said this for a couple years now and the time has come.
• 1:28:20
  A week from this Saturdays. This is news to Lawrence too.
• 1:28:23
  A week from this Saturdays I will stream, but it's going to
• 1:28:28
  be like a rope drop from magic. Maybe magic.
• 1:28:33
  It's going to be a rope drop. Probably magic though, because
• 1:28:38
  it's Jacob's prom. So I, I, I need to be there for
• 1:28:41
  this one, you know, for the photo session and all that.
• 1:28:44
  Maybe we'll take him for dinner or something.
• 1:28:45
  I'm not sure. So going to be there for that.
• 1:28:48
  So I'm thinking stream from morning till we'll kind of feel
• 1:28:51
  it out. Maybe it's one, maybe it's two
• 1:28:54
  kind of thing. Just kind of feel out the crowd
• 1:28:56
  and how things are going. We'll determine how long we go,
• 1:28:59
  OK, but so it'll be a Saturday stream in two weeks rather than
• 1:29:03
  Saturday evening? All right, that's good.
• 1:29:06
  I'm off. Yeah, that's good.
• 1:29:08
  Cool. Cool, cool, cool, cool.
• 1:29:12
  All right, everyone, thank you so much for joining us.
• 1:29:15
  And it means the world to us. And we'll see you tomorrow Night
• 1:29:19
  Live from Magic Kingdom. So for now, we're just a couple
• 1:29:24
  of Bros talking Disney. Good night everyone.
• 1:29:27
  Good night everybody.