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Trekcast Supplemental A Tribute to Carl Weathers · Star Trek Podcast: Trekcast

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Tracks the Galaxy's most unpredictable Start Trek podcast. There we are. Hey,
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oh he's driving. Yeah, I had so came up. I have to
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be somewhere, okay, okay. In order to make the timeline work,
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I have to multitask. Yeah, gotcha. I am mobile though, so
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if if I cut out, I will be back. Okay, okay,
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I'll be I'll be back. You know what, he didn't say that in
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this movie. No he didn't. No, I don't think that was his
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line. Good morning Bronson, Good morning, Chaz biz. Yeah, good
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morning. Oh this Bronson. I started a new job, so today my
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last time watching it live. Wow. Oh well, then you know what
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you have to do, and you have to email, and you definitely have
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to send in a voicemail. That's rights. You have to find an even
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newer job. There you go, there you go. Yeah, come on
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track ass first, that's right, that's what I was thinking. But yeah,
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well, welcome everybody. We're going to be talking about the late great
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Carl Weathers today. Yes, yeah, it's it's kind of a sad show
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about that. But yeah, other than that, how are you guys doing
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doing fantastic? The weather's looking nice, it's getting warm, So yeah,
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that's gonna be uh here, Yeah, Michigan, this is our this is
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our fake spring. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, we get those in
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Idaho. We get like two or three of them up. Yeah, so
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this will be one of the ways that Michigan weather likes to screw with our
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emotions. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's almost fifty degrees outside. The sun
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is out, and I'm sure next week we'll probably get a nice storm.
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Nice nice all right, and I'm good. I'm good. I've been prepping
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my trip for the Long Island Trek Convention out We lost Dan. Oh no,
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he's just frozen. What is his name? Uh, Grief Cargo,
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which is based off of Carl Weather's character in The Mandalorian. Oh okay,
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okay, yeah, it's my I'm on my cell phone, so the print
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is so small I couldn't read it. Yeah, yeah, no, Grief
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Cargo. So it's it's a solid, solid Oh no, he's moving again.
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Oh, Dan's moving again. We can see the steering wheel there,
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you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. So I'm planning
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for the vacation or you know, trip s already got my plane tickets out
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here. What was that Dan, Okay, okay, it's it's not keeping
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up. But that's all right. We'll tell you what. Let's let's get
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into the to the entertainment news. We'll handle the the Carl Weather stuff in
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the main stuff, but for now we'll do some other news. Right.
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So our first news story comes to us from Variety. And I don't know
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if you guys are aware, but apparently at the top tier of podcast and
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you can make a lot of money. And Joe Rogan just re renewed his
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deal with Spotify for two hundred and fifty million dollars. On top of that,
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for two hundred and fifty million dollars, he will no longer be exclusive
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to Spotify, so he will be his show will be everywhere again. And
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yeah, for the last three years that it had been exclusive to Spotify,
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but that won't be the case anymore. So he's making a lot of money
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over there. Wow. Yeah, I actually called my agent, did you
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Yes, Yeah, And so you'll probably get a phone call as as the
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producer, you'll probably get a phone call from him. Yeah, because I'd
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like to negotiate my contract as you should. I wanted to, you know,
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I feel like I can speak on behalf of the show, and just
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announced to Spotify that we are willing to negotiate. And now, since you
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paid two hundred and fifty million dollars for one guy, right, we will
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do the show for six hundred million dollars and you get three guys. That's
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right. So it's a bargain. It's a bargain. Yeah, we're willing
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to work with you, you know, Oh sure, sure, yes.
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So I don't see what date that the show will start being the Joe Rogan
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Show will start being everywhere else, but it should be soon because the old
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deal is ending a and ending soon. So yeah, that's a lot for
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a podcast, right, Yeah, it's it's kind of crazy made. I
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don't think people like I'm just thinking of like, you know, people perennials
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like Pat say Jack for example, or or somebody who's on TV you know
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every day, you know, five days a week. You know, he's
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that kind of money, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, but
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Joe Rogan is huge. You know, he's a big, big deal.
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Yeah, he's a big guy. He's a big deal. He's a big
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deal. Yeah. Do you think he makes so much money because he's like,
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well that and like you know, he's he's a pretty strong dude and
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knows how to fight. So like you think he walks in negotiations like you're
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gonna pay me this much or you're gonna go in a headlock, so you
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think he's the Walmart of negotiators. He just locks, just intimidates them.
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Yeah, maybe maybe, all right. Our next new story comes to us
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from Indie Wire and suddenly director claims that Jake gillen Hall and him didn't quite
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work out on the set of a new film. So apparently Jake Jillanol had
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been working on a movie alongside actress Vanessa Herby. It was the remake of
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some French film. Who I Am not going to try to pronounce the name
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of the French film, but they yes, Peppi leapew Love Story. I
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don't I don't know what it was called. But they had been working on
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this film in Europe. The film was about a twenty six million dollar film
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and apparently Jake Jillen Hall is batshit crazy and was demanded all sorts of changes.
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There was one incident where they were out scouting locations, so they were
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looking like where they were going to shoot the movie, and at one point
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they were near an ocean in ice and Jake jillen Hall literally stopped and uh
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dressed down to his underwear and jumped in the ocean because he said that he
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needed to be in the water the minute he sees an ocean. There's also
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reports that he was very strict on COVID protocols because this is you know,
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a little over a year ago or so, and he demanded that all the
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set builders sleep in their cars as to prevent more possible infection spread. And
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yeah, yeah, a little bit, you know. Jake Jillenhall has also
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his people have kind of said, you know, things were overbrown and it
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wasn't quite that bad, but there were creative differences. So yeah, they've
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they've already some twenty six million dollars into this film. We'll never see it
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because it never got made. And yeah, yeah, he goes some actor
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being out of their minds. It's not hard to believe, because you know,
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here's a person where their job is to create a completely different reality and
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live in it for a period of time, right, you know, so
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hearing that they don't have a grasp of what's normal and what's reality, I'd
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buy it. Yeah, Yeah, for sure, for sure. And I
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also wonder, like the director was a French director, and he said,
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you know, in Europe, the way we handle making films is different than
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the way they do in the US. Like in Europe the director is basically
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just in charge and and nobody questions them, whereas in America it's more collaborative.
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So there's also that kind of difference. Is and you know, well,
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big egos, big money, big production, big yes, wownce,
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they'll do it, They're gonna but yeah, and then our last news story
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comes to us from Panda Daily. You know that that old chestnut. Yeah,
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and I and I thought that, you know, for this group,
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this might be a thing. So Hasbro seeks to sell Dungeons and Dragons and
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has already reached contact with a potential buyer, ten Cent, which is a
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they're kind of basically a private equity firm in China. Uh, and they
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may be purchasing Dungeons and Dragons. The ip for that Dungeons and Dragons is
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one of the biggest ips in Hasbro's quiver right now, so they would be
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losing the golden goose. Recently, D and D was the backbone of something
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called Balder's Gate three, which has won Game of the Year award in just
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last year. So it's pretty big deal that they're looking to get rid of
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this thing. But yeah, that's a lot of money involved in that,
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especially with the new movie that came out, and you know, all the
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you know, there's some new like with the movie comes new merchandising money.
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And you know, because I've seen dungeons and dragons in the store, you
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know, yeah, as you know, cups and mugs and action figures and
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stuff like that that I hadn't seen in a very long time. And merchandise,
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as we know, you know, Star Trek is is it's huge on
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this Merchandising is a very big deal. The life is the merchandising is the
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big deal. So when I hear news stories like this, my mind always
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goes to merchandising and how they capitalize on merchandise. And hold on a second,
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I got oh, oh, oh, he went away. Good,
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Yeah, finally we can talk. That's right. But yeah, no,
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dragons, I mean, did that movie do well? The movie itself did
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not do that well. I understand it did turn a profit, but not
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much of one. But apparently it has gotten a lot of like views on
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streaming and a lot of buzz. It's like become a cult classic kind of.
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So the thought is if they do another one, it probably would make
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a lot more money. Yeah, chas been saying it was funny. Yeah,
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it was. It was surprisingly good for what it was if you're into
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that stuff. So yeah, did I'm guessing you didn't watch it, Dan
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Dragons and it's one of those things where you're talking about it right now and
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I'm like, oh, yeah, oh look the moves. He's here.
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Oh the oh no, we're in trouble now the move. Yes, there
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he is. Yeah, oh he's shooting the mopsie. Okay, okay,
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I'm back. All right, sorry guy, I'm back. Nice little technical
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difficulty, uh there with Okay, yep, I'm back. Can you hear
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me? I say, I thought you had a little low role on a
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broadcast. Yeah. Yeah, you know, get all your get all your
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technical stuff worked out, that's right. By The professionalism in this broadcast on
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my part is uh is lacking, and I apologize to a certain standard.
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Indeed, indeed, quite right, ladies and gentlemen, this is Moopsie.
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Sorry to interrupt the podcast, but this was a birthday present for my wife.
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All right, Yeah, it's a moopsie and these are not I hope
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I don't have the FBI knocking on my door, but these they don't have
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these as officially licensed products, which is a surprise. Yeah, yep,
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yeah, But all right, Well that's all the news. So let's get
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to our supplemental spotlight. All right, So the big thing we are spotlighting
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this time is the passing earlier this week of Weathers. Who. Yeah,
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big deal for a lot of us in this age group. We grew up
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watching him from Predator to Rocky to a million other movies and TV appearances recently
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the Mandalorian. Yeah, the guy was big, rested development. He had
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a very noteworthy roll in. He did action, he did comedy. Uh,
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he wasn't a what was it, Happy Gilmore Adam Sandler's Yeah, he
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was chubs. So yeah, well, oh no, Dan's cutting out.
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I would like to take this out to say that I love Happy Gilmore.
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I love anything that Adam Sandler's in. I think I speak for Dan when
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I say that Adam Adam Sandler is one of the greatest actors of our generation.
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Oh. Absolutely, everything he's in is absolutely golden, and I think.
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I heard Dan Lombardo say that a couple of times that, yes,
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Adam, Adam Sandler is just he originally wanted to change the show the Sandler
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cast. Yes, he did. We had to prevent it. Yeah,
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and uh, you know, and it's not a bad idea, Dan,
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I mean, I understand your love for Adam Sandler is deep and wide.
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So I just wanted to agree with you. I mean, when when he
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pitched Jack and Jill Month, I was I was very yep, my video
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will cut out. But I heard all of that. Okay, I know,
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okay, good. We were hoping. Uh yeah, so yeah,
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what are your thoughts on Sam there? Dad, Oh he's cut out again.
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Let me let me tell it for him. Dan told me earlier that
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you know, he respects the guy as an actor, as an artist mainly.
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Well, we'll tell you what. Since we're talking about Carl Weathers,
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let me uh, we do have some reaction from those who worked with him.
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But first I want to start with reaction from probably one of the people
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best attached to him, and that is Sylvester Stallone. He released a little
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video videos about a minute long. I want to play the full thing,
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and then we'll we'll continue, So hold on everyone today. For me,
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I mean, I'm so torn up. I can't tell you. I'm just
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trying to hold it in because or weather it was such an integral part of
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my life. I success everything about it. I give him incredible credit and
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kudos because when he walked into that room and I saw him for the first
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time, I saw a greatness, but I didn't realize how great. I
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never could have accomplished what we did with Rocky without him. He was absolutely
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brilliant. His voice, his size, his power, his athletic ability,
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but more importantly, his heart, his soul. It's horrible us and I'm
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standing here in front of this painting because it was probably the last moment we
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were ever in the rain together. And I'll never forget it. He was
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magic and I was so fortunate to be part of his life. So yeah,
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yeah, that was released the day he would passed away. We do
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also have a reaction from some of his co stars, Arnold Schwarzeneger releasing on
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Twitter X whatever you call it. Carl Weathers will always be a legend,
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an extraordinary athlete, fantastic actor and a great person. We couldn't have made
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Predator without him, we certainly had such a wonderful time making it. Jesse
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Venturo also says we lost an icon and you can see the two of them
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there together. Carl's Weather was a phenomenal talent and true professional and dear friend.
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All my sympathies and love to his family. I loved working with him
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on Predator and then celebrating that film with him at various conventions in the ensuing
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years. And then Robert Rodriguez, who recently worked with him on The Mandalorian
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as one of the directors of some of the episodes, and he says,
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we'll miss the great Carl Weathers who will who I was very fortunate to work
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with on several occasions. A very kind and generous person. His performances were
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always electrifying, and he was a terrific director of both stage and screen.
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So yeah, yeah, last, yeah you're saying. Yeah, Dan just
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said he he thinks he directed a couple episodes of That's right. Yeah,
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Yeah, you're right, Yeah, that's right. Yes, yeah, the
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last big thing he did. Yeah, that is the last. Yeah,
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you know, he brought up. He had a presence even though he was
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just a side character. I'm sorry, Dan, it's it's uh, it's
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certain to go. We know if them the next season they have not no,
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yeah, yeah, okay, we heard what. Yeah yeah, they
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have not started filming right now. It's kind of in limbo. They were
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going to do a season four or if they're going to do a movie.
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I know they recently announced a movie. So no, nothing has been filmed,
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so they if they do that, they're gonna have to find a way
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to write that character out. Yeah, your volume is really load, dude,
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I don't know what that is, but yeah, let me reset.
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Okay, okay. Ty J says that Gina Carno had a great tribute to
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him on Twitter. It's a fairly long post. Oh that's why I missed
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that. I just only saw a handful of them on Twitter. Yeah.
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Sure, there's tons that he was very supportive of her after all the controversion
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everything. Oh yeah, yeah, so she had really kind words to say
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about him. Yeah. He sounds like he was just a classack everywhere he
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went. Yeah, it sounds like he was well liked, well respected,
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hard worker. Yeah so he Yeah, he's just a big, big deal.
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Uh. You know, I was surprised by it when even my dad
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text me. My dad is not into like celebrity culture at all, and
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was just like, hey, did you see that he died? You know,
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A Paulo A Paulo Creed was a big thing in our family, mainly
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because my grandpa's luchador name was also Apollo, so we always we always had
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that connection. Yeah, so that was kind of fun for us. But
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uh yeah, yeah, you know, now now you watch his movies with
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a little bit of sadness because there's no more you know. Yeah. Yeah,
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and and those you know, the Rocky movies specifically, you know,
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transcend generation. To know my uh my eighteen year old has watched all the
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Rocky movies. Yeah, so you know, I I I was a kid
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when they came out, and uh right, you know, like I said,
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I I didn't watch Predator until I was well six months ago. Yeah,
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that was my first time watched Breta was about six months ago. Yeah,
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and it was you know, it was eighties, it was late eighties,
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uh, kind of action movie. It reminded me a lot of of
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the Expendables. You know, you've got the biggest names with the biggest arms,
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you know, playing army dudes. You know. Yeah, but it
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was a lot of fun. It was, you know, I really liked
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it there is yeah, yeah, gave birth to that meme the the the
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big hand or big arms. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so that,
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you know, The Predator was a good movie. Carl Weathers. You
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know, there's a couple of things I was gonna mention about Carl Weathers that
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I saw on IMBB. The biggest thing for our fans would be interested to
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know is that he was one of the original actors that auditioned for the part
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of Captain Benjamin Lafayette Cisco on Star Trek Tuesday's nine. Yeah. Yeah,
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yeah, so you know, Daniel I were talking before the show. That
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would have been interesting to see, you know, how he would have portrayed
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that character, especially the scene where the one and only episode of d Spaces
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nine featuring Q and how Cue brought him into that boxing Russ's going to that
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boxing ring. I would have scene that match up. I Well. The
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other thing I think about is if he was the lead on that show,
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what random guest stars we would get because he was such a big deal,
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you know yeah, oh yeah, Sevester Saloon or Schwartznaker, Yeah, yeah,
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would they just yeah, I'll do. Yeah, yeah, that would
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be great. He was a professional football player. He played for the Raiders.
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Yeah yeah, yeah, obviously Apollo Creed. He also played in the
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Canadian Football League. Yeah he was, he was big. So oh.
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He was inducted into the International Mustache Hall of Fame in twenty sixteen. Amazing,
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God, that's awesome. Heck, yeah, that's great. That's great.
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Well, to kind of pay tribute to him, we decided to review
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his classic film, the nineteen eighty seven film Predator, which I realized as
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we announced that on social media, there was no way I was going to
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do hashtag predator next to his face. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
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Chris Hansen, Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah. So that did not get
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tagged on a lot of social media. People just kept saying how much they
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loved him and how great he was. So yeah. But yeah, so
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we reviewed the film. You know, I watched it last night. I
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don't know about you guys. Are Scott said he watched it a few months
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ago, but Dan, did you watch it recently? I watched I watched
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it yesterday And circling back to something we've talked about a lot lately. Yeah,
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I checked for it on all the streaming services that I have, and
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you know, it wasn't available, even though it's a Fox film and you
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should be right there on Disney Plus h it wasn't. So I went to
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the Trustee DVD rack and pulled it out, and you know what I am.
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I'm convinced at this point that I am team physical Media of one.
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I agree with you. I'm just gonna start buying discs again, look like
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from the bargain bent just to have them. Yeah, I had to rent
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it on Amazon anymore. Yeah, my Walmart, I don't see the bargain
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bins anymore. He used to go through there from time to time and see
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what treasures were there. And I don't know if they moved them out recently
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or what, but I don't see them anymore. Hmm. Yeah, It's
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been a while since I've been in my Walmart, so I don't I don't
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know. I'll let you know. Well, they stopped selling them at best
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Buy. I've seen a bargain DVD beIN at Menards. Minards is a I
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think it's a regional thing for us. It's like a loves or a home
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depot. Oh okay, yeah, we have something over here called entertainment mart
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and it's nothing but DVDs basically. Yeah, but we still have video stores
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in Idaho, so that's weird. Like you can go rent DVDs and oh
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wow, yeah, so that's what Idaho is like. Well, it's weird
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because there's a lot of areas that don't have internet because it's just too far
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out. So that's why they have them. So people can go rent their
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movies and watch them their cabins. So right, don't know, man,
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technology has ruined so many things. Yeah, it used to be a trip
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to the video store to plan out your weekend. Yeah. It was like
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such a thing in a family event and you know, all right, the
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kids get two movies, Mom and dad get two movies. Yeah, you
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know, you drive home with your four VHS tapes under your under your arm.
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It's or your Nintendo A super game. Yeah yep. Yeah. So
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yeah, thirty five, thirty eight years later, what do you What do
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you think of Predator? Do I think it still holds up? Yeah?
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Yeah, I think it's it's very action packed suppress that yeah, yeah,
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I don't know. There was just there were some things that I don't know,
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some things maybe not that they don't hold up. But that Okay,
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if this movie was made today, it would not be like this. No,
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there were some things that were different, for sure, But but as
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as far as the storyline and all that, I think it held up.
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Yeah. There's a term in Hollywood called the magic Negro. Are you familiar
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with that term? Where you know, there's an African American character who for
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whatever reason, has some sort of supernatural abilities, but their only reason for
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being there and having those abilities is to further the story for a Caucasian character.
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And oh wow, okay, I know I had never heard that.
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Yeah. The perfect example is the Green Mile. Yes, okay, that's
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the perfect example. The story is you know, it's a Tom Hanks story,
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but Michael Clark Duncan is the magic Negro in that situation. So I'm
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watching this and I can't help but feel like the character of Billy is just
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the magic Native American. Oh yeah, all he is there is you know,
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something in those trees. Major no explanation of how he would know this.
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You know, They're like, ask Billy what happened? And Billy looks
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at some twigs and some leaves, and he's like, there were twelve men.
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They were shooting in every direction they were. They were all wearing you
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know, US Army issued boots. It's like what you talking about? Yeah,
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you don't have magic. Even though the music would indicate that you have
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magic, you do not. Yeah yeah what Yeah? I think they touched
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on that. I just I just a few minutes ago before the show.
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I watched Everything Wrong with That Series on YouTube and Everything Wrong with the Predator
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and they did touch on that, like is this is this supposed to be
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a fantasy? Like does he have magical powers? Like you just? Does
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he hear stuff in the woods? What is this? Yeah? I mean
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you know there's you know, I understand that tracking is a thing, right
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right. You know people can go in the wilderness and and track animals and
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yeah, pick up different cues from from the environment around them. But you
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know, there were twelve men they left in opposite directions, and they were
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wearing these kind of shoes right right right? That that was kind of silly.
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Yeah, I thought it was. It was kind of funny that Carl
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Weather's character was clearly he had a connection to Armed Swartzenegger's character, but now
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was working for the CIA, so he had kind of pulled them into there.
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Yeah. You know, watching that movie, I kind of like,
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I love Carl Weathers, don't get me wrong, but I couldn't wondered what
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it would have been like if Billy d Williams played that role, being the
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like smooth talking agent. Yeah. So I mean you have to look,
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you have to look at this through the lens of nineteen eighty seven, right,
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And so you know, here's all these guys in the woods. So
30:00
you got these career military guys and then you got this CIA guy, and
30:04
right off the bat, they don't trust him, right. You know,
30:08
we were less than two decades out of Vietnam at this point. Yeah,
30:14
about two decades out of Vietnam. So you know, the soldier in green
30:18
doesn't doesn't trust the agent in a suit, right, And and by the
30:23
end of the movie they were right because you know, he used them.
30:30
Yeah. One one fun fact about the movie the the guy that that constantly
30:37
makes fun of his girlfriend. That character, yeah that that character is played
30:42
by Shane Black. And Shane Black is the screenwriter. You probably know him
30:48
best as the creator Lethal Weapon. Okay, he also did like the third
30:52
Iron Man film Guys prolyfic screenwriter. But it's funny to see him just walking
30:57
around in the jungle with a gun. I forgot all those jokes. Yeah,
31:02
And I had asked my son. I said, hey, you know
31:03
the guy who played Grief Cargo on Mando, Uh, he died the other
31:07
day. So I'm gonna be watching Predator for the podcast. Is that something
31:12
you want to watch with me? And he was like, uh, yeah,
31:15
I don't know. And I said, okay, no problem, and
31:18
I watched it alone, and I'm kind of glad I did. Yes.
31:22
I was telling him, Yeah, I wanted to pause it and explain that,
31:29
you know, because I tell my son Alf does that ever? Anything
31:30
you don't understand, you just tell me and I pause it and I'll explain
31:33
it. Yeah, I don't. You don't to explain the echo. No,
31:40
I don't want to explain the echo. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
31:45
it was pretty graphic, man, I don't. Yeah, skin people and
31:48
yeah, Carl Weathers deathtine in that yeah a stick yeah. Oh man.
31:57
Oh, spoiler alert. He's he's walking around the woods and you know,
32:02
everybody's looking for the predator and he hears the predator and he turns around.
32:07
He starts shooting at the predator. The predator shoots his plasma weapon at him
32:12
and he hits him in his firing arm. He's got a he's got like
32:15
an MP five kind of weapon, and he shoots through the arm and it
32:19
shoots and his arm gets blown off. Yeah. As the arm is falling
32:24
down to the ground, it's still clutching the weapon, the automatic weapon,
32:29
and it's still shooting the web because his arm knew its duty. His arm
32:37
the last breath and it was great. And then he like picks up another
32:42
weapon with his other arm and starts shooting at the predator and that's when he
32:45
gets stabbed. It was just it was fantastic. Yeah. I love it.
32:50
I think that that his arm should have gotten some kind of oscar did
32:53
well. I love that The movie is like it starts out as just like
32:57
this is going to be a generic action film about these guys in the jungle
33:00
and they've got to go on a rescue mission, and then it just turns
33:04
into and then a space monster shows up. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
33:10
tell you what. So many so many. Some of the effects look a
33:13
little look a little aged, Yeah, a little bit, some of them.
33:17
I mean the ship at the beginning looks good. Yeah. The the
33:23
predator's face. That look, that's Sam Sam Winston's man. That guy knew
33:31
what he was doing. Sam Winston Special Effects. Yeah. I was reading
33:39
about the the invisibility, the cloaking effect, yeah on I m dB.
33:45
And it was done with a red suit the size of the predator because it
33:51
was red was the most opposite of green of the Jungles blue of the sky,
33:54
and the red was removed with chroma key technology. Chroma key is basically
34:00
when you do a blue like a blue or green screen, and then you
34:02
remove the subject. Yeah yeah, and then the the take was then repeated
34:10
without the actors using a wider lens, and when you combine the two takes,
34:20
the thing that was removed is covered by the stuff from the wider lens
34:23
take, and it creates that that background, that that outline, uh sort
34:30
of shimmering effect. That was kind of cool and I thought that effect sort
34:34
of held up. It kind of reminded me of the gem Hitar. Yeah,
34:38
probably do that effect. Yeah, so yeah, that's true. Uh
34:45
ty J brings up that Johann Claude van Dam was originally the predator, which
34:49
is true. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, I did. I did
34:53
a little deep dive on that and I got a note. Yeah. Yeah,
35:00
he was originally cast to play the Predator. Uh, they wanted a
35:02
physical action star, you know, like the original idea of the Predator.
35:07
He's more of like a he could move a lot faster, kind of like
35:09
a space ninja, right right, but he ban damn couldn't move in the
35:16
suit that they made him, right uh. And he was constantly bitching about,
35:22
you know, how hot it was and he could, you know,
35:23
doing that kind of stuff. Plus Van dam is five nine right, Uh.
35:30
You know, Arnest Schwarzenegger is uh six two, between six two,
35:36
and so all the other guys were between six two and sixty five, all
35:37
these bodybuilders, and so Kevin Peter Hall uh replaced him. Yeah, he's
35:44
seven to two. So right, Yeah, I think he would have looked
35:49
weird. It's like some sort of ninja fly through the trees. Oh for
35:52
sure, for sure. It would have been a different movie. Oh absolutely,
35:57
yeah. But yeah, I love the movie. I lived all the
36:00
practical effects, all the real explosions and the squibs going off, and I
36:06
thought that was great. You know. Yeah, I'm a little disappointed that
36:10
we never I mean, I know they've done a bunch of Predator and Alien
36:15
Predator movies since then, but never revisit the character of Dutch. Yeah,
36:22
never find out. I mean he and the and the the prisoner, the
36:25
girl. You know, they they escaped, they're fine. In the end,
36:30
they're flying away in a helicopter. You know. Did they even reference
36:35
him in any of the other movies. I don't know. That's a good
36:37
point. In fact, the reason why I watched Predator six months ago is
36:42
because I wanted to watch the other films, and I watched Predator. I
36:45
haven't watched any other films, but I wanted to watch the movie Pray Yeah,
36:50
and so I wanted to get a little bit of background. So and
36:52
I also I'm a big alien fan too, and so I wanted to get
36:57
a little bit of I kind of wanted to watch Predator. It's sort of
37:00
a prequel, get some information about it before I watched the Alien Versus Predator.
37:04
I think it's in one of the Aliens Versus Predators, or maybe just
37:07
one of the Predators sequels. They all kind of blur together, but they
37:09
do mention that something went down in the eighties in the jungles. I think
37:15
they say nic yeah, but it's a it's a quick you know whatever.
37:22
I know that in some of the comic books and books there are there are
37:24
stories of what happens next with Dutch. There's there's one version where he somehow
37:31
gets on one of the ships and flies to them to go attack like a
37:36
predator colony. Oh yeah, he took the hunt to them. Yeah yeah,
37:47
yeah, yeah. Ronson's praise incredible. Yeah, it's really good,
37:52
really really good. Well, maybe maybe that'll be my next thing that I
37:55
start watching. Yeah, let me ask you guys something, Uh huh.
38:00
How often does the word helicopter come up in conversation and you just blurt out,
38:05
get to the chappa right everything time? Just making sure I would saying
38:10
that before I watched Predator. Oh yeah, that's how much of a pop
38:14
culture oh for sure. Yeah. Yeah, it's such a big thing.
38:20
So many things respawned from this movie. It's kind of nuts. You know.
38:23
It was a Joel Silver produced film. That guy back in the day
38:28
was could do no wrong. He did so many awesome movies like The Matrix
38:32
and a few others, but it produced two US state governors. Yeah that's
38:40
true too. I mean, you can't say that in any other country in
38:45
the world, not a lot of them up states. But the fact that
38:49
we had this movie where in the future two of the main actors would end
38:53
up being governors. Yeah, you know, do you think Carl Weathers God
39:00
rest his soul, spent spent the rest of his life walking around wondering why
39:05
he wasn't the governor of you know, wherever he was? Right? Yeah,
39:09
he you know what, he totally could have been. I guarantee whatever
39:13
state if he had. Yeah, yeah, Michigan would have welcomed him with
39:17
open arms. Oh for sure, for sure. Yeah. But yeah,
39:23
the movie. The movie is pretty simplistic, right they go, They're told,
39:27
originally they need to go rescue a diplomat who has accidentally gone into the
39:32
rebels side or something, just got trapped behind enemy lines, so they need
39:37
to go rescue him. It ends up that Carl Weather's character had tricked them,
39:42
and really they were there to take out some gorilla fighters and that was
39:45
it. There was no diplomat. And then in the middle of all that,
39:50
they somehow attack or attract the predator because the predator wants the best possible
39:54
prey. Yeah. One thing I thought was kind of interesting that I didn't
40:00
catch the first time I saw this movie. Is progressively throughout the film they
40:06
encounter different animals who want to attack them, and the animals get bigger and
40:10
bigger until they reach the predator. So the first one is a scorpion that
40:16
that is about to hurt Carl Weathers. Then there is a giant snake that
40:23
runs into Schwarzenegger I think it is. Then Billy takes is it Billy who
40:30
takes out the giant pig mac mac? Okay, yeah, so it right,
40:37
right, right, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. So eventually,
40:42
like each animal is bigger and more of a threat, so they get to
40:46
the apex predator exactly. Yeah. So I thought that was kind of neat,
40:52
you know, yeah, little yeah, you know, that is neat.
40:57
Yeah, I thought it was funny too. The the fact that the
41:00
predator's all fancy technology is just you know, ruined by mud. Yeah it
41:09
was. It was when he was in the water, right right, yeah,
41:14
so Clay Mud. And that's something they brought up on Everything wrong with
41:20
is that, you know, what about his eyeballs and that it might have
41:24
been a different shade of blue, but it was still a shade of blue
41:29
in the outline of a person. So you think that this master hunter would
41:35
sort of be, you know, especially in a jungle wet type environment that's
41:38
got mud and clay and stuff like that, that he would sort of you
41:43
know, And I mean, I understand that he sees he's got that instrument
41:47
that lets him see infra red, but can't he just default back to,
41:51
like, I don't know, normal vision when that's not working. I don't
41:58
think that's I think that's his vision. I think he sees he I don't
42:04
think he sees the regular It's just like a viper. That's all. That's
42:07
how he sees. Like that's one of the see Okay, no scratch what
42:10
he just said. I assumed he was more like a pit viper, and
42:15
then that was one way he can detect pray is by heat. I thought
42:21
he had regular vision because when he takes his helmet off the the POV shot
42:24
the predator, it's different changes, it changes a little bit, and it
42:30
also changes back and forth from like kind of regular vision to infrared vision heat
42:34
vision. Kind of it's a little bit inconsistent, but I don't know.
42:39
I mean, it's like, okay, we have night vision goggles. When
42:44
the sun comes up, you take him off. You don't keep wearing them
42:47
throughout, you know. So yeah, I don't know. I always assumed
42:52
that's that's just the way he sees. Yeah, but I don't know.
42:59
I mean, obviously there was some sort of heads up display in his in
43:04
his mask, because there was that strange text appearing next to what he was
43:10
seeing. Right, is it addressed in any other movies that you guys know
43:14
of Bronson, say, the second movie, all I can see is UV?
43:17
Okay, oh you can also see UV. Yeah you could also see
43:21
UV. Yeah. I am reading on on IMDb that the the clay that
43:29
they used for Arnold Swarzenegger apparently dramatically dropped his own internal body temperature and so
43:37
it became dangerous and it made him like shivering, and so it took a
43:42
while to get like clay a stuff off of him and one of them back
43:45
up. Yeah. Yeah, the funny story I read about, you know,
43:50
because this is all Jesse and Arnold, all these guys are bodybuilders,
43:53
and bodybuilders are you know, sort of famously kind of vain about their you
43:59
know, their arms, in their size. And I read that here Jesse
44:02
Ventura was delighted to find out from the wardrobe department that his arms were one
44:07
inch bigger than Arnold Schwarzenaker's. He suggested to Swarzenegger that they measure arms,
44:14
with the winner getting a bottle of champagne. Ventura lost because Schwarzenegger had told
44:19
the wardrobe department to tell Ventura that it's bicker. It turns out not only
44:27
were they not, it's bigger that Sworznaker's arms were actually three inches bigger.
44:31
Sounds like him here, Yeah, yeah, I'm sure aboutst those guys.
44:39
There was a lot of Wiener measuring, you know, oh for sure.
44:44
Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah, hmhm, So I can't I
44:52
can say though that after watching it, I do now have this desire to
45:00
watch the rest of the series. Oh yeah, yeah, I do too.
45:02
I guess. I guess it did its job. Yeah, yeah,
45:08
yeah, it's unfortunate that most of them are not that great. But no,
45:15
yeah, it's been a while. Yeah, I mean, I have
45:19
they're bad, they're still pretty good. Yeah, what's that, Scott.
45:22
Well, with films like from the eighties and early nineties that are about stuff
45:27
like that can't be filmed. Even if they're bad, they're still pretty good.
45:29
Yeah. Yeah, h what were you going to say, Dan,
45:34
No, yeah, no, there were some of them. I don't even
45:38
I'd have to look them up. I'm pretty sure there's some that I haven't
45:43
seen. Mm hmm, I've seen all of them. I haven't seen The
45:49
only one I've seen is the first one. Yeah, so you didn't watch
45:53
Pray No, I haven't watched Pretty yet. Yeah, it's really good.
45:58
It was just one of those things where like I I wanted to get on
46:00
a Predator kick and then I watched the first one and it was I liked
46:02
it. I just life happened there. There's there was one they tried to
46:08
reboot it maybe I don't know, maybe ten years ago with the guy who
46:15
was the bad guy in Logan. That one's pretty pretty bad. It's really
46:22
bad. But there's the one that Robert Rodriguez did Predators or Predator where they
46:29
where they kidnap people and they take them to another planet. Yeah, I
46:31
don't think I saw that one. That one's really good. It's got Laurence
46:35
Fishprinternet and uh and Adrian Brody like it's it's a really good one. It
46:43
ish like maybe in the last twenty years. Okay, So there's Predator Predator
46:47
too, Alien versus Predator. There's two of those, yeah, Alien versus
46:54
Predator with some other suffix. Yeah, there's Predators, the Predator, and
47:02
Pray. Is that all of them? I believe that's all of them about
47:07
right, So I think out of all those, I saw the first three
47:12
and the last one. Okay, so I think there's like four of them
47:15
in the middle. Yeah, we need to do some research then. Yeah.
47:20
And then they don't really they don't really all connect. They're all kind
47:23
of their own thing, which is interesting. Yeah. Well, no,
47:28
some of them do connect loosely. Yeah, they loosely connect and in without
47:34
ruining it for Scott, there's there's an artifact in Prey that's right that you
47:40
see the origins or that's the origins of an artifact that appears in Predator too.
47:46
Okay, Okay, yeah, I think I just might, you know,
47:52
going back to the streaming bs, I also noticed that it wasn't on
47:55
streaming Yeah, because I was just gonna go through a few scenes and then
47:59
it will an available. So I went to YouTube, but Predator Q is
48:02
available. I forgot what streaming service I have got that. I think most
48:06
of them are on on Hulu, I think. So I'll probably check Predator
48:10
to out this afternoon. Yeah, check it out. Check out Predator the
48:14
musical. That was really good. I watched that this morning. Yeah.
48:16
Yeah, I put it in our Facebook group. Yeah. If it bleeds,
48:21
we can kill it. Yeah. That song was stuck in my head.
48:29
Yeah, so last night yeah yeah, all right, Well we've got
48:37
people waiting for us, So let's do the uh, let's do listener feedback,
48:45
listener feedback. All right. So we did get a lot of messages
48:51
on social media just saying how much they loved Carl Weathers. And I did
48:54
tell people that, you know, if they wanted to come talk, they
48:57
could. And so with that in mind, we you've got Chasbs aka Chubbs.
49:01
What's up, Chubbs? Yeah? What's his arm back? Guys?
49:07
He got his arm Yeah, he got his arm back. He kept losing
49:10
arms and movies. I know, It's like I realized that. I was
49:13
like, Wow, he this guy likes to lose arms and die in movies.
49:15
I mean, I think every movie he's dying. I never even I
49:20
never even put that together. Is that a reference to Preditor in the I
49:24
mean, now that it's got to be right, it's the same arm.
49:30
Yeah, that's got to be what it is. Wow, getting a joke
49:36
twenty five years later. Yeah, that's hilarious. It's great. Yeah.
49:47
Yeah. He was a class actor. I mean, great actor. He
49:53
had a screen presence. I mean when you saw him on screen. The
49:57
first time I remember him is a Rocky War, yeah, man, because
50:01
I was that maybe came out was eighty five or so, Yes, and
50:06
that was the first movie, like one of the first movies A song in
50:10
the theater and I remember him dying, you know, I was like,
50:14
what the heck? You got punched in the head and he dies and the
50:16
Rocky has to training the rest of the movie and kick his ass. So
50:20
yeah, spoiler alert. That just came out thirty years ago, right,
50:23
probably about forty. Man, Yeah, he died in that movie. I
50:28
love only about halfway describing that one. I love describing Rocky for Oh,
50:35
that's the one where he ended the Cold War by punching it. Yes,
50:39
yes, that's exactly how I went down. That was with Dolve London,
50:47
right, yes, yes, okay, I would break you, almost break
50:52
you, because he had the best scene, like he's coming out on there
50:57
and he's gotta James Brown singing coming to America. Yeah, everything, and
51:04
it was great and he had the top hat on He's got to kick his
51:07
ass and then mm hmm yeah yeah, and then it was a whole montage
51:14
to kick Drago's ass after that. So, well you need a montage if
51:20
you rewatch that movie, Like half the movie is montages. Uh yeah,
51:27
that movie in about two weeks. There's only like two footage. Well that
51:32
that work montage is probably one of the most famous ones where they're they're showing
51:37
them back to back and they're showing them, you know, the sort of
51:39
the economy of training like out in the woods, you know, natural versus
51:44
the Russian. You know, they're all the machines hooked up and stuff like
51:47
that. They're they're trying to prove a point. You know. It's great.
51:52
Yeah, it's got like KGB agents following him into old Mercedes and they're
51:57
probably driving up in Canada or something really filming in Russia. So Rocky's running
52:06
up like like this farm area with a log out his back Jason Chickens and
52:09
all that. Jason Chickens. Yeah, and see that's what the Creed movies
52:16
are missing, is that you know, is Rocky The last two or the
52:22
last one didn't have Rocky at all? Yeah, because he's fighting with the
52:24
producer. Yeah, and I find it kind of crappy. I think they
52:29
should have him in there because the guy pretty much at least mentioned his name.
52:35
You're talking about the Creed movies. The last movie didn't mention him.
52:38
I don't even think they mentioned him that. Yeah, they didn't have Sylvester
52:42
Salon because he was okay, because he was in one yeah, yeah,
52:47
and then three and then they're making up fourth one. Right now, what
52:52
did it happened? Oh? Go ahead, Okay. Basically, Sylvester Stallone
52:58
does not own the rights to Rocky to creating one ones. He sold it
53:01
to the producer way back in the day. And so Sylvester Slone now says,
53:06
hey, I should own the rights. I created that character. But
53:09
he did make a deal. So like, yeah, that's that's the problem.
53:15
Well, if they want to, you know, we behoove them to
53:16
include him because he's a box office draw. No, they're they're willing to
53:22
pay him and do that, but he wants the rights he wants, right,
53:24
okay, Yeah, yeah, So fun fun fact that I read about
53:30
today you know, we listened to that heartfelt message from Sylvester Stallone. Yeah,
53:38
he and Carl Weathers did not speak for several years. Oh really.
53:45
Yeah, so when Stallone made was it Rocky Balboa around? Yeah, yeah,
53:57
Carl Weathers. So so he approached Carl Weathers using old footage of him
54:01
in the in the movie. And Carl Weathers wanted to be in the movie.
54:07
Yeah yeah, but your character's dead as the boxing pass I guess,
54:13
I guess you wouldn't be like you know, so you know, hired,
54:19
so Stallone hired to lookke to film new footage. Oh wow, because Carl
54:23
Weathers wouldn't give him, wouldn't give him permission, and so they didn't speak
54:28
several years. Yeah, they they later reconciled, which is nice. It's
54:34
nice to hear that, you knoweah happened. It was years later that they
54:37
years ago that they So it was nice to hear that they reconcile before you
54:42
passed, because you know, it's sad when you hear things like you know,
54:46
these you know, these two people that were so connected to each other
54:49
and then you know, they had a falling out over dumb ship and then
54:54
one of them, one of them passes. You know, it's like Bill
54:59
Murray and Harold raymis so yep, yep, you know they reconciled before rams
55:04
passed. So that's you know, yeah, all start to be learned.
55:07
And you know, larger than life characters and actors. They have larger than
55:12
life egos, larger than life bank accounts, larger than like everything. And
55:16
you know when when you have bigger everything, everything else is bigger. The
55:20
few are bigger, you know. So yeah, and they're they're not the
55:23
same people you see on screen. They're they're different, right, so you
55:28
see the good side. You don't see like the egos and everything else,
55:32
so right, right right, yeah, yeah, like so it goes the
55:38
prima donnas. People don't know that. Yeah, I am damn. Are
55:46
you going to buy that Apple Vision Pro next for your call Apple goggles?
55:53
You need to get that for your car, the VR thing. Yeah,
55:57
yeah, it costs thirty five hundred dollars. Yeah, just the koffee account,
56:01
go ahead, and yeah, wonder that's the only way that'd be so
56:08
cool you're sitting in the car with those goggles on right now. No,
56:14
podcast, No, it'd be actually it would be the same because he just
56:19
had big goggles on. He could do it, yeah, because he could
56:23
watch the channel and he could Yeah, that's one of the coolest technologies I've
56:29
seen so far. Have you seen the people driving their Tesla's, well,
56:35
make the Tesla drive itself and they're playing on the Vision Pro Oh jeez.
56:39
Yeah, driving down the road with the headset on and they're playing on the
56:45
Vision Pro because Tesla won't let you play with your phone. So Paul Chance's
56:52
Apple goggles are like Google glass, which is true. Yeah, Google did
56:57
it like ten years ago. Yeah, and a lot less invasive. It
57:00
was just like glasses. Yeah. Yeah, Well this is cool because you
57:04
put like one hundred foot screen in front of you, and then you could
57:07
have your dashboard over here, like your computer and your desktop, and then
57:10
you could have like other stuff going on over here and it's all in your
57:15
vision. And I saw see yeah, I saw a video of a guy
57:21
like it was like a test video, but like he was working on his
57:23
car, and so he had the glass the goggles on, and so the
57:28
things he was doing he could see right there immediately, Oh you need to
57:31
do this, you need to do that. Oh wow. Yeah, somebody
57:35
was playing the piano and then it showed all the keys I'm just doing like
57:39
guitar hero. Yeah yeah, hit this key, now, hit that key.
57:44
Yeah that's interesting. Yea, yes, there's it's it's gonna be.
57:49
You know, we won't be able to afford it for years, but the
57:52
next couple of years, this thing's probably gonna take off, especially with the
57:57
Apple. Yeah. And then you see idiots walking around town with these stupid
58:01
goggles on, and oh you'll have seen them soon. Yeah mm hmmm.
58:09
Turn it into predator mode see everything, yes, yes, right right,
58:15
Yeah, you'll have heads up display with everybody's name on there, because you're
58:20
right, they'll be walking around, say what their name is and their social
58:23
Security numbers. I just realized. I just realized with access to the internet,
58:28
predator mode can meet a lot of different things. Yeah, oh was
58:40
the NBC. That's a predator. Let's the guy that's christ Anson. Yeah
58:45
he's still making those videos. Yeah, they double on YouTube. He still
58:50
does them to this day. It's all of a sudden, Chris Hansen comes
58:52
into your peripheral and you're like, yeah, it's like, sit down,
58:58
you know how they have it, How they haven't put Chris Hansen and the
59:01
Predator in a Super Bowl ad together. Yeah. Oh, that is a
59:07
really terrible idea. There is there is like a robot chicken or something where
59:14
somebody did that oh oh yeah, makes him sit down in the kitchen and
59:20
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah. But anything else you want
59:29
to bring up with Carl weathers Well, if Fandam played the Predator, how
59:32
many times would the Predator do splits? Huh? Quite a bit? Quite
59:38
a bit because you can only imagine the Predator doing the splits with the whole
59:44
outfit on, and we're breaking bricks with his hand, yes, or getting
59:50
Because Ben Dam in a lot of movies versus some other action stars, he
59:53
seems to get his ass kicked a lot in the movie. Yeah he does.
59:57
Like if you watch anything by end of these other guys, who's the
1:00:05
other big eighties action star that's now a sheriff and oh oh Steven Sagall Yeah,
1:00:09
Steven Sagall In Like he never gets touched in any of his movies.
1:00:14
No, you know, he's just always just you know whatever, you know,
1:00:17
he never gets touched. Bantet Jean Claudevan. Dam gets his ass kicked
1:00:21
in every single movie. There's that one Steven Sagall recently did a film where
1:00:25
like he didn't even sit like stand up for the action scene. He's in
1:00:30
a chair doing like this because he just didn't. He's like, I'm not
1:00:34
gonna do anything. His hands are very fast, like if you see it,
1:00:37
like he's he's a big dude now, like he's a he looks like
1:00:42
he's retired and looks like he doesn't really give some devil dogs. So but
1:00:50
he's still quick. Like YouTube videos of him just like sparring in class and
1:00:53
you're like, okay, come up and try to take me down, and
1:00:55
he's just like, you know, yeah, he only wears black now because
1:01:02
yeah, because he's a master. That's why. Yeah, what's it called?
1:01:12
Uh right, I'm trying to think what what what called? But yeah,
1:01:19
yeah there's another name for it. Yeah. Well, a lot of
1:01:23
a lot of martial artists all the bullsheet though, yeah, okay can do
1:01:29
that too, like all these guys because he's a master at it. And
1:01:31
all these guys are like falling in front of him because he's throwing them down
1:01:37
and that's funny. It's such bs. Yeah, it's like okay, it's
1:01:43
like you're such a master. The best ones are when the master fights a
1:01:46
real m M A fighter and then they get their asses handed to him because
1:01:50
they're Yeah, it doesn't really work that way, so maybe too, like,
1:02:00
yeah, somebody like me coming after him. Yeah, he's gonna kick
1:02:02
my ass, but right, oh min too, yeah somebody else? All
1:02:10
right, well I can take him probably. Yeah, that'd be a good
1:02:19
podcast. I'll see if we can make that happen. All Yeah, you
1:02:22
guys never responded that little Ocho here said is grandpa was the luchador? Come
1:02:29
on, oh yeah, think about it. I think they've heard that before.
1:02:32
Yeah, no, I remember that. I don't remember that. That's
1:02:36
trick and awesome. Yeah, I think I've told him in person. I
1:02:39
don't think I mentioned it on the show A mask or No, I think
1:02:42
it was. I think it was one of our very first shows when we
1:02:45
were introducing Oh yeah, okay, I think you mentioned that. No,
1:02:50
I don't have any of his masks. He was only a Luti door for
1:02:52
a few years in Mexico in a very small company. He got to be
1:02:58
the world champion once when my dad got to go see him in person,
1:03:01
but the promoter told him, all right, you can win in front of
1:03:05
your son. But you're gonna lose it the next show, so that'd be
1:03:08
worth it. Yeah. I am nodding my head as if I have a
1:03:13
clue what any of you guys are talking about. Yeah. Nice, Yeah,
1:03:17
so he was the world champion of like six people. Yeah, okay,
1:03:23
I'm starry to get from contact. Yeah yeah, very small company.
1:03:28
Okay, cool? All right, well thanks Jess Biz, thanks for being
1:03:34
nice. Thank you. Yeah so to bring up yeah, yeah, I
1:03:43
like him too. All right. Can can we mention the Long Island thing?
1:03:50
Yeah? Well, we'll have more to mention it later in probably a
1:03:53
few weeks, but okay, I just wanted to keep make sure it's on
1:03:57
everybody's mind and everything. I cannot make it to the Long Island. Uh.
1:04:01
My wife and I are actually flying out about four weeks later. We're
1:04:05
going on a cruise, so I couldn't make you know, the time off
1:04:10
and stuff like that. But I'm very much looking forward to seeing you guys
1:04:15
there. I'm hoping we can do a maybe a live broadcast. Yeah,
1:04:23
and I also wanted to mention, uh that Kalama Zoo is going to have
1:04:28
a comic con. It's the Grand Rapids Comic Con, like the one I
1:04:30
went to a couple a few months ago. But it's their spring fling.
1:04:34
They did it last year where they're coming to Kalamazoo and doing the comic Con
1:04:39
and they just announced their star trek uh guest is going to be uh not
1:04:45
a visitor, oh, Major Kieran Reeze. So I am excited about that.
1:04:51
I have a have it around here. Oh yeah, right here a
1:04:57
good friend of mine and my wife's yeah, please address her as colonel.
1:05:02
Yeah, my god, I am so sorry, Colonel Kira. A good
1:05:10
friend of mine gave me this. Her name's Aaron and she gave me this
1:05:15
a long time ago. And it's the crew of d S's nine and arm
1:05:20
Armond Shimmerman has signed it. And I'm gonna get a visitor to sign it.
1:05:27
And so yeah, yeah, you know what, you got to ask
1:05:30
her? What do I have to ask her? So the last time you
1:05:33
were there, you asked the guests there, you know, who was the
1:05:38
best at making you know, potlock food, and they sent her. So
1:05:42
now you've got to ask her. Wouldn't she make Yes, that's the right
1:05:45
idea, that's right, that's right. Yeah, I'll have to ask food
1:05:49
related which reminds me of a topic. I was wondering if I could throw
1:05:54
out a topic we can do for a few show. Uh, Foods of
1:05:58
Star Trek. Oh, there you go. So I've got the cookbook that
1:06:03
Ethan Phillips, who played Neelix co wrote. I bought it. I bought
1:06:08
it in Vegas at the Star Trek Experience. So I've made hospro and it
1:06:13
was amazing, And I was just wondering if you guys maybe it made Maybe
1:06:16
we can talk about foods we've made, or maybe we can talk about prop
1:06:19
foods, prop foods, different klingon food stuff like that. Maybe, yeah,
1:06:24
talk about that a little bit. So, yeah, we can talk
1:06:27
about prop foods. Yeah, I've never made any of those recipes. I
1:06:30
don't have the book, but I'm sure a lot of them are online,
1:06:32
so I'm sure we could find Oh yeah, yeah, I think there's another
1:06:35
Star Trek cookbook too. So yeah, I used to frequent the restaurant at
1:06:41
Star Trek. The experience nice. So I have not made any Star Trek
1:06:45
related food, but I have eaten a whole bunch of it. Okay,
1:06:50
Okay, I'll you know, maybe before we do this, I'll maybe we
1:06:54
should all try a recipe an online red yeah but all right, but yeah,
1:06:59
so a Nana visitor and if there's anybody in the like Southern Michigan area,
1:07:05
Southwest Michigan area, the comic Con is going to be April second through
1:07:10
the fourteenth. I'm going to try to make an appearance all three days.
1:07:14
If there's anybody interested in maybe doing a meetup, it's going to be at
1:07:18
the Expo Center, which is the fairgrounds for Kalmzu County. So yeah,
1:07:26
if you're gonna if you're gonna be around, hit me up in the Facebook
1:07:30
group and let me know we can do a hangout. Yeah, it'd be
1:07:32
great. Cool. All right, Well, on that note, thanks everybody
1:07:36
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