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2025 Summer Movie Awards · Presented by Speaking Human

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  Speaker 1: I am an f I agent, Shad. This is it man,
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  Speaker 1: here we are again. Can you believe it? The final reckoning?
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  Speaker 2: Some would say that we had a dead reckoning and
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  Speaker 2: now we have the final reckoning.
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  Speaker 1: You can't tell from listening to my voice, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: you can. I'm smiling right now, and it's weird, right.
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  Speaker 2: Surprising, But you feel good? Huh.
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  Speaker 1: With all ups, there are some downs, and I've had
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  Speaker 1: a couple downs, and I know I could come back stronger,
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  Speaker 1: you know. Without giving anything away, I think anyone who
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  Speaker 1: listens to the podcast knows I am deep in the hole.
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  Speaker 2: You've had a rocky summer.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, I feel your pain from the previous
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  Speaker 1: two years. Before last year, you know you won, so
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  Speaker 1: this is your second year in a row. You're on
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  Speaker 1: a winning streak.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you're up, you're up, and when you're down,
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  Speaker 2: you are down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in the depths of despair. When I was little,
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  Speaker 1: my grandmother used to say sometimes when you're sad, you
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  Speaker 1: just have to laugh it off. You just have to smile.
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  Speaker 1: That's sort of your therapy, right, that's your way of
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  Speaker 1: making it through. So right now I'm smiling listeners, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, deep down I have a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: sadness in my heart. Anyway, let's get to that part though.
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  Speaker 2: So you're a smiling, laughing creature, much like one of
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  Speaker 2: the summer's top hits, the Smurfs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly like that.
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  Speaker 2: What a great preview. What we're talking about today is
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  Speaker 2: we just wrapped up Labor Day. That means summer has
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  Speaker 2: come to a close, and so has the Summer movie Draft.
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  Speaker 2: A staple of this podcast and our lives. This is
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  Speaker 2: our annual competition where we each draft seven movies to
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  Speaker 2: see who can make the most box office dollars. We
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  Speaker 2: did it, We drafted the teams, We went through the
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  Speaker 2: entire summer. Now it's time to see whose team delivered
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  Speaker 2: the better box office results and which movies hit and
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  Speaker 2: missed with audiences this summer. Patrick, I know you might
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  Speaker 2: not be feeling the best, but you're smiling. Are you
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  Speaker 2: ready to dive back a little bit into summer twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think we owe it to the listeners
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  Speaker 1: to reflect on a summer that actually did pretty well
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  Speaker 1: in the box office world.
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  Speaker 2: Ah moderate, I mean it was pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty good. I thought there were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: choices this summer.
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  Speaker 2: Towards the end, it kind of tapered out, But we
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  Speaker 2: talked about that kind of in the beginning, a good
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  Speaker 2: kind of diversity of product, a lot of kind of
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  Speaker 2: different movies out in the marketplace, more than it seemed
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  Speaker 2: like last summer. But let's talk about some of the
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  Speaker 2: numbers here. You want to give us the overall stats
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  Speaker 2: on the domestic box office this summer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the box office stats, we come a just
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  Speaker 1: under three point six billion, which is the cumulative domestic
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  Speaker 1: gross of twenty twenty five summer movies, according to you know,
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  Speaker 1: our friends over there at box Office Mojo. We love
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  Speaker 1: those guys, We love them that mojo. Love a little
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  Speaker 1: mojo in your life. That's just a tick under the
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  Speaker 1: total for twenty twenty four. So I say it's a
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  Speaker 1: great summer, but you know, it's a little less than
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  Speaker 1: last year. The number seven, it's the number of the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five summer movies that gross more than one
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  Speaker 1: hundred million at the domestic box office. Keep that in mind. Seven,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lucky number.
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  Speaker 2: Seven.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that many. No, it's not that many. But
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  Speaker 1: eight movies hit that total in twenty twenty four. So
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  Speaker 1: it's again just a tick under. There's a notable ninth movie, Garfield,
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  Speaker 1: that was off by just nine million.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, Garfield almost clowed its way to one hundred million
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  Speaker 2: dollars last year. Yeah, remember because it was on my
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  Speaker 2: team last year.
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  Speaker 1: And from what you said, it was terrible. It was
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  Speaker 1: a terrible movie. Awful, just just yeah. The fact that
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  Speaker 1: you gave that movie money out of your own pocket
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  Speaker 1: is disturbing.
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  Speaker 2: We still joke about that one in our family, how
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  Speaker 2: bad that movie was.
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  Speaker 1: The number three three is the number. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: Count Chocula right.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, three three, that's not Count Schocula, that's just
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  Speaker 2: the count.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the count, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, Count Choko is the series guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I like my chocolate d I don't remember
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  Speaker 1: what he used to say. Three is the number of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five summer movies that grossed more than three
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  Speaker 1: hundred million at the domestic box office. Three movies also
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  Speaker 1: hit that total in twenty twenty four, So throwing some
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  Speaker 1: numbers out, even steven, Yeah, three is a good number.
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  Speaker 1: Two you know the universal language. Yeah, you know, math
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  Speaker 1: zero is the number of movies that hit the five
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollar mark. So unlike let's say Maverick or Barbie,
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  Speaker 1: which really crushed you in those years.
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  Speaker 2: Big ones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, those were my heavy hitters back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, remember when you had those.
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  Speaker 1: Those were missing this year from my list, of course,
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  Speaker 1: But twenty twenty four had two of these, Inside Out
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  Speaker 1: two and Dead Poem Wolverine, So those were big players
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's the notable difference I think between this
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  Speaker 2: year and last year or some previous years. We just
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  Speaker 2: didn't have those big blockbusters that kind of propelled the
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  Speaker 2: summer to another level. Let me give you the top
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  Speaker 2: five movies of summer twenty twenty five, and you can
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  Speaker 2: tell me if you notice anything. A lot of these
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  Speaker 2: movies have in common. Number one, Pleelo and Stitch, which
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  Speaker 2: made four hundred and twenty three million. We have apprehended
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  Speaker 2: a dangerous experiment.
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  Speaker 1: Where is he?
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  Speaker 2: He escaped? Number two Superman Superman at three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty one million.
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  Speaker 1: Hey buddy, it's up here.
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  Speaker 2: Number three Jurassic World toll In Rebirth three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty eight million.
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  Speaker 1: All these species exist in one isolated place. Can you
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  Speaker 1: be ready tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: I can guarantee your safety, I mean or less, more
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  Speaker 2: or less. Number four Fantastic four Colon First Steps two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty six million, and number five How to
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  Speaker 2: Train Your Dragon two hundred and sixty two million. And
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  Speaker 2: these numbers are as of September third, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: just after the Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And four out of those five were on your list.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I've already teased it. Y'all know that
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  Speaker 1: I lost horribly, I mean, at least so far. Potentially
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  Speaker 1: there could be I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It could be some surprises. We don't know. But it's
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  Speaker 2: not looking great for you when you only have one
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  Speaker 2: of the top five movies.
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  Speaker 1: Though Superman did all right, It did all right, did
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 2: Way to go soups. Yeah, So let's you know, get
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  Speaker 2: onto the draft let's start by recapping the teams we
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  Speaker 2: each picked. Also start since I had the first pick
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  Speaker 2: in the draft. That first pick of mine was Lee,
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  Speaker 2: Lo and Stitch, which, as we know, number one movie
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  Speaker 2: this summer turned out well for me. Number two, I
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  Speaker 2: took Jurassic World Rebirth. That one also did alright, ended
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  Speaker 2: up being the third highest grossing movie this summer. Then
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  Speaker 2: I had Fantastic Four First Steps. I think Marvel would
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  Speaker 2: have hoped. This did a little better, but still did
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  Speaker 2: pretty good. How To Train Your Dragon another one that
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  Speaker 2: rounded out the top five there. Then I had f One.
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  Speaker 2: This movie did surprisingly well, better than I thought. When
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  Speaker 2: I took it, I was a little scared. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: did I pick another old man movie no one wants
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  Speaker 2: to see? But it ended up making almost two hundred
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  Speaker 2: million dollars, so that was pretty impressive. Then I had
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  Speaker 2: The Bad Guys Too. This movie did okay. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it ended up making a little over seventy million, which
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  Speaker 2: I hoped it would get a little further than that.
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  Speaker 2: And then the last movie on my list was kind
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  Speaker 2: of my pick, and that was Megan two point zero,
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  Speaker 2: the lowest grossing movie of all the movies we drafted.
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  Speaker 2: This one only made twenty four million. The first Megan
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  Speaker 2: made over one hundred million dollars, so this was a
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  Speaker 2: real downfall for that franchise. I don't know if we're
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  Speaker 2: going to see any more of those.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's hope not. I'm not gonna lie. That looked
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  Speaker 1: like a joke, but you know whatever, here's what I'll
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  Speaker 1: say your list. It looks strong on paper.
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  Speaker 2: On paper, yes, on steal you're.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't look great on film, but on paper it
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  Speaker 1: looks great. You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's not a lot of movies you'd want to
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  Speaker 2: see personally, but brings home the dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so my team sounds better on paper than it
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  Speaker 1: actually did on paper.
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  Speaker 2: Then paper it actually made.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. My first pick was Mission Impossible, you know,
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  Speaker 1: didn't really perform what I wanted to see. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it made a little under two hundred million, but I
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  Speaker 1: really needed it to do more than that. Didn't. Superman
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty million was it's respectable. I was
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  Speaker 1: really hoping it was going to be my Barbie of
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  Speaker 1: the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you thought it would go nuclear and I was
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  Speaker 2: worried it might.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I guess this is nuclear for a Superman movie.
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  Speaker 1: In hindsight, I wish I would have predicted that a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better. But again, okay, Ballerina, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the hell happened Ballerina. That did not do anything close.
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  Speaker 1: I think here's my problem. I reverted back to a
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  Speaker 1: primitive state when I was choosing my movies and thinking
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  Speaker 1: about things that I thought looked good, like, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: John Wick. I know John Wick movies do really pretty decent,
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  Speaker 1: and I was really hoping for John Wick money. And
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  Speaker 1: nobody went to see this who likes John Wick?
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  Speaker 2: Even though it was called from the world of John
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  Speaker 2: Wick Colin Ballerina.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe people are John wicked out. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Anyway, sadly didn't do great. Fifty eight million, yeah, Ilio,
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's a big miss. It's a big miss there,
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  Speaker 1: seventy little shy a seventy three million. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 1: made more money in my sleep than that movie. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that that analogy works. But it's sad for
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  Speaker 1: a Pixar movie, I really, I mean, usually you're guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: a couple hundred million. That's what the sad part is about.
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  Speaker 1: That pick is like I should have seen two hundred million.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see any money for that.
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  Speaker 2: They actually took money from you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty eight years later, again, another one of those
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  Speaker 1: like I hoped picks. It didn't do horrible seventy million
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  Speaker 1: like in any other given year like that would have
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  Speaker 1: been a great number seven pick or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But I picked it a a little early, hoping that
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  Speaker 1: it was going to do better whatever. Then the Naked
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  Speaker 1: Gun number six on my list. I really, I really
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  Speaker 1: hope that movie was going to do something. And again
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  Speaker 1: it's my number six pick. It's respectable.
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  Speaker 2: Did all right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little fifty one million, little bit of money there.
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  Speaker 1: If all my other picks would have done what I
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  Speaker 1: would hope they would do, this would be a much
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  Speaker 1: closer game. But they didn't. And then I had The Materialists,
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  Speaker 1: which was my number seven pick. Again, that was my
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  Speaker 1: indie pick.
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  Speaker 2: Qualified for a bonus.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, qualified me for a bonus. Materialist did thirty six million,
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  Speaker 1: which was respectable for that number seven pick.
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  Speaker 2: That's good for an indie movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So sadly my last picks, from the standpoint of
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  Speaker 1: they weren't my top picks. They did better in the
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  Speaker 1: box office than you know, most six and seven picks do.
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  Speaker 2: This is what you know his historically happened to me
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  Speaker 2: in my worst years, I'd be like, mow, my five,
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  Speaker 2: six and seven are pretty strong. Yeah, I look at
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  Speaker 2: your list. There's a lot of movies on there where
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, these are movies I want to see. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think you made the classic mistake which I've made
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  Speaker 2: many times, where I'm like, I'm gonna pick the movies
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  Speaker 2: I'm into, Yeah, because other people. If I'm into them,
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  Speaker 2: other people are gonna want to see them too.
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  Speaker 1: I did that. I faltered, you know, Like that's how
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  Speaker 1: I say. I sort of went back to a primitive state.
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  Speaker 1: There was a year where I lost horribly because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't pick any kids movies, you know, and I was
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  Speaker 1: thinking only like about superheroes and blah blah blah. You know,
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  Speaker 1: in my head, I had it worked out, the math
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  Speaker 1: made sense. And this year it was almost like I
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  Speaker 1: had forgotten the past. I didn't learn from my mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: or I had forgotten them because I, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was riding high. And then when you won last year,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a fluke. I was like, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna regret the day he's gonna rue the day that
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  Speaker 1: he ever thought he could win twice in a row.
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  Speaker 1: And look here we are. Look at you. Remember we
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  Speaker 1: were talking about this not that long ago. I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to talk it up. I said, listen, man, this
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  Speaker 1: just might be a little blip. You might come back.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't feel real great about that at the time.
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  Speaker 1: You thought I was just blowing smoke. You thought I
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  Speaker 1: was just, you know, trying to maybe even patronize you
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  Speaker 1: a little maybe. Yeah, And I wasn't. I I was
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  Speaker 1: legit trying to you know. I felt bad. I really
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  Speaker 1: felt like I wanted to give something out of my
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  Speaker 1: pocket tea at that moment, because I knew you were
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  Speaker 1: you were hurting.
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  Speaker 2: I was low.
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  Speaker 1: But look at you now, look at you now winner.
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  Speaker 2: I know again, as we said, on a long enough timeline,
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  Speaker 2: with these things, you know, everything changes.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: When you're down, You're like, I don't know how I'm
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  Speaker 2: ever gonna get out of this now. It's like gambling.
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  Speaker 2: You feel like the mojo has completely gone out of you.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, Like who am I? Why am I even here?
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  Speaker 2: How am I ever going to get back?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? A little bit like Austin Powers felt when he
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  Speaker 1: lost his mojo you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we do have some bonuses to give out,
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  Speaker 2: so there is still some more money on the table
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  Speaker 2: that you can grab, So there is still some hope.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmmmm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about those. The first one the Raiders Reward.
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  Speaker 2: This one goes to the movie with the best multiplier,
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  Speaker 2: that's the movie that has the best legs beyond its
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  Speaker 2: opening weekend. Patrick, you got this for Elio, Ilio, Ileo.
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  Speaker 2: I still don't know how to say it, Ilio, Are
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  Speaker 2: you sure about that?
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  Speaker 1: I'm positive I should know all of my losers.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Ilio had a multiplier of three point five, the
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  Speaker 2: best of any movie, partially because it opens so low. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but for that you get, you know, three point five
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  Speaker 2: times five, so you get seventeen point five million added
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  Speaker 2: to your total bounty. Some close calls on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Guys too had a multiplier of three point four and
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  Speaker 2: F one had three point three, So those ones, you
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  Speaker 2: know right there, couldn't quite get over the top. Next up,
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  Speaker 2: we have the Wick Award.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
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  Speaker 2: Named after of course, your buddy John Wick.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who did not help me out. Well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we're never going to call this the Ballerino Award.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not unless it's you know, taking away money instead
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  Speaker 2: of giving. So with this one, we each at the
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  Speaker 2: beginning of the summer guest what our team total would be.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever came closer to their guests without going over Bryce's
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  Speaker 2: right rules got a ten million dollar bonus. This one,
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  Speaker 2: good Sir, went to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was off by.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred and seventy eight million, which sounds like a lot,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, in the grand scheme, not that much.
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  Speaker 2: You Patrick were off by two hundred and six million. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you wouldn't want to anyway, but unfortunately you
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  Speaker 2: were also disqualified because your guess was over your actual total.
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  Speaker 2: Not completely surprising.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Also, ten million dollars wouldn't help me at all,
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't really matter.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'll take your ten million. This one I think
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  Speaker 2: helped you a little bit though. The indie Equalizer, so
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  Speaker 2: certain indie movies you know that didn't come from the
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  Speaker 2: major studios were eligible for a bonus of three times
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  Speaker 2: they're gross up to one hundred million dollars. You're indie
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  Speaker 2: pick Materialist maxed out this movie made thirty six million dollars,
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  Speaker 2: three times that you got that one hundred million dollar bonus.
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  Speaker 2: So that movie was actually very profitable for.
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  Speaker 1: You, which it should be. It's got some big players
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  Speaker 1: in there. It materialized, some might say, some money into
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  Speaker 1: my pocket for this draft.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good one that turned out really
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  Speaker 2: well for you. I am sad that I didn't get
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  Speaker 2: that with my last pick, and instead I got Megan
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  Speaker 2: two point zero and last we have one more bonus,
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  Speaker 2: the trade back to the Future, a real wild card
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: that we're going to get to in a minute. But first,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: of course, an annual tradition, we're going to hand out
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: some awards. You want to talk about this.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Patchrick, Yeah, we're each going to give an award to
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the other person for their picks. Two awards, Yeah, two
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: awards that we've you know, chosen for them specifically for
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: obvious reasons. Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: These are not awards you would find anywhere else. These
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: are very specific to UH movies in marketing and this
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: draft here. I think I don't think you'll see these
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: awards coming up on any other award shows you would watch.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so do you want to go first?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Sure, since you won, I mean, nobody knows that yet, right,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Since I potentially have won for the second year, and
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I will go first. The first award I have for you,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Patrick is the I thought I was pulling out a
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: high powered assault weapon, but instead it misfired and shot
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: me in the ass award. Damn, somebody sat doing the ass. Okay,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: So this award primarily goes to Ballerina, a movie Lionsgate
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: and you thought would be another John Wick, but it
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: turned out to be a Wick that didn't catch fire.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: At fifty eight million, this barely earned more than Karate
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Kid Legends, but with a budget of eighty to ninety
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: million after a lot of reported reshoots. But this award
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: also goes to Mission Impossible, the Final Reckoning, a movie
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: that did the average of Mission Impossible movies one ninety
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: seven million, but many hope would do better since it
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: was marketed as the final installment, it had a prime
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Memorial Day release slot of the usual July release, and
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it had a huge budget. But mostly this award goes
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: to you, Patrick for picking both Mission Impossible and Ballerina
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: way too early in the draft. You picked Mission Impossible
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: with the overall second pick in the draft, your first pick,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: only for Mission to be the number sixth movie. This
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: summer and you picked Ballerina with the fifth overall pick,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: only for it to be the number eleven movie of
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: the summer, a minus six from its draft position. These
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: were some major misfires that ended up costing you the game.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: That's why you received the I thought I was pulling
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: out a high power to assault weapon, but instead it
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: misfired and shot me in the ass. Award.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: That's uh, it makes me sad, you know, anytime you
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: get an award and you've lost this dramatically. Again, listeners,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you haven't heard the actual number yet, but let me
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: tell you something. It makes a lot of sense what
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: you're saying. It makes it makes it hurt a little
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: bit more. You know.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the pain is good.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the pain means you're still alive. And as they say,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: pain is just something leaving the body.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: It's all your blood is leaving the body. Broach.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a good it's a good ward a title.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: So mine are pretty obvious. I mean, you have just
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: all across the board. You've got movies to just swamp
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: swamped my picks. So my first award is the you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: leave me and Lilo and Stitches Award for obvious reasons.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Lelo and Stitch doing you know, four hundred and twenty
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: three million dollars, sad sad, sadly, we knew it was coming.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: There's no bitterness there. But this fits for your picks
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: because Lelo and Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: you know, really brought the warm and fuzzies. You know.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I knew Lelo and Stitch was gonna be a hit.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I knew that, but you had you had it, you
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: had it in the bag. The How to Train Your Dragon, though,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: is where I start to reflect on my own How
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: do I put this without sounding so like, you know,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: unbelievably depressing my own.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Oversight, miss blind spots.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Any other words you want to throw it there? Yeah, shortcomings,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: my own shortcomings. I think that's what I would use,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you know, because it was in the box office. It
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: was a shortcoming. But you brought the fire breathing chaos,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and I appreciate that about you, Shad. So the you
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: leave me and Lelo and Stitch's award goes to you.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: And here's the thing. You surprised me this year. You
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: surprised me with your tenacity. He came back strong. You
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: were like, you know, I want to go for a
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: three peat. I think you're gonna try next year, So
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. But here's my award. That's what
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you got.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that. Now you know it's not a fluke.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: You can't just sit back and you know it's all
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: gonna come to you like it did at one point
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: when you were the patriots of the Summer movie draft.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Mm hm, back at the good old.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Days, the good old days when I was riding high
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: five years in a row. Yeah, so long.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: But your award, you know, directly connects to my next award,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: which is the one eyed boy with a name no
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: one is quite sure how to pronounce who gets burned
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: alive by a dragon award. Obviously, this award goes to Ilio,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a movie that, you know, despite some quality stats, failed
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: to connect with the audience, says the way past Pixar
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: movies have, including a movie I picked a couple of
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: years ago, Elemental, which was disappointing when it made one
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million dollars. Elio made, you know, seventy three.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Ilio is both the story of your draft this year
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: and also a story of a lot of movies this summer.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: So it's the story of your draft in the sense
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you chose Ilo over How to Train Your Dragon, which
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: would go on to gross two hundred and sixty two
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: million and leave One Eyed Elio in the dust a
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: big time miss. So also the story of a lot
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: of other movies that Ilio was clumped with in the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: final standings twenty eight years later, Ballerino The Naked Gun.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: By all metrics, these were good, liked movies that just
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: could not make their way across the one hundred million mark.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: There was a point in the draft when I mentioned
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the possibility of taking Freakier Friday with my final pick,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: which you know I unfortunately used on Megan two point zero,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and you talked about how terrible freaky your Friday looked.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Freaky Your Friday ended up outperforming every movie on your
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: team except for Superman and Mission Impossible. Yeah, the movie
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: has made like eighty million dollars for that, and for
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Elio you get the one eyed boy with a name
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: no one is quite sure how to pronounce, who gets
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: burned alive by a dragon award.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I mean it's fitting, you know, it's fitting. I feel
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: like a little one eyed boy who was burned alive.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Staring up at space, praying for the aliens to come
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: save you.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that little one eyed boy is sitting there,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: he's in space, you know, the cold dead of space.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: You know, it was sort of a smile because he
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: you know, at one point thought he might have a
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: comeback somewhere in there in that list, but he didn't,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and then he just froze to death, you know, as
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: everyone would in the cold dead of space. All Right, Well,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: you know, nothing like turning the knife as it's.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Well, you don't get these opportunities often. You gotta take them.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I could tell you're enjoying it too, so that's good.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. My second award, I think it is
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: elaborately crazy with the naming conventions this year, mainly because
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I don't care enough anymore, the overwhelming sadness then overwhelming
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: despair that has washed over me. So I have the
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Popcorn Paradox Award for you.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Shad Oh nice alliteration.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this comes to you because this is a little
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: stab at the fact that you're coming back. You have
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a film lineup that defies logic, because why did the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: movie gods give it to you. I don't know. I
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: don't know why they all of a sudden thought you
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: should win this year. But somehow you know your unexpected
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: wins make perfect sense. So it's the popcorn paradox award.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Only Shad could stack Megan two point zero, Lee Low
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and Stitch and f one in the same universe and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: make it feel oddly coherent and win. Okay, this is
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the paradox right delightfully unpredictable for you, Shad as a draft,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: but it's a cinematic cocktail where crowd pleasers, chaotic sequels,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: emotionally charged franchises, they swirl together. And this is the paradox.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: How you won. I don't know. It's a luck of
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the draw, is what I'll say. Next year, be as
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: it may, I might come back and make you eat
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: some Hey, listen to what I say. You just may
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: just may well.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: I hope you do have to they, you know, agulate
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: this year. Let's see if you can bring something a
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: little little better. I remember remember being in the draft
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: and being like, is this guy is he trying?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I can see where you can think that. Here's the thing.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Your team proves that cinematic synergy doesn't have to make sense. Okay,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: it just has to make you grab another handful of popcorn,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: which it did in your Popcorn Paradox Award.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It's a great award and I accept it. I will
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: gladly watch the triple feature of Lelo and Stitch F
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: one and my Threegan two point zero Mathreegan. Well, now
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: that we've got the hardware, we've got our awards, we've
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: got most of our bonuses, let's get to the moment
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: everyone's been waiting for their dying to hear the final
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: results the domestic box office totals for each team. My
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: total team total before bonuses was one point five seven
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: eight million. Then I got a ten million dollars bonus,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: so I was at one point five eight I'm sorry,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: one point five to eight billion.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Billion, billion billion is a is a big differentiator there, Yeah,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: with a B, not an M.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, ended up with one point five eight billion, Patrick,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: how'd you do? What was your total?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Do I even have to tell people? You do?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: It's part of the uh, it's part of the healing process.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, healing. Yeah, it's emotional trauma. Yeah. Sadly, this is
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the year I didn't pass a billion dollars eight hundred
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and thirty eight million dollars is my total. I got
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen million dollar and a half million
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: dollar bonus put me at a nine hundred and fifty
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: five and some change million. I was about five hundred million,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: not five hundred million, five hundred thousand away from being
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: at a billion, which is sick sickening.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's kind of like the you know bar you
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: want to at least get to that billion mark.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Not being at a billion really hurts, you know,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: because what that tells me is a billion just doesn't
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: go as far as it used to. I don't know
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: if that actually plays out, but you know, it just
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I need to strive for more. I need to strive
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: for bigger. Maybe next year I must strive for like
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: a trillion.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I'd have to look back to see if any of
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: us have ever hit two billion. I don't know. Well,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the difference between our team totals ended up being six
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: hundred and thirty two million. That's a lot. I do
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: have some good news for you, though, looking back on history.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: That's high, but not among the highest of all times.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: It doesn't topple some of the numbers you beat me
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: with in twenty twenty two you won by a margin
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: of seven hundred and fifty million. That was the top
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Gun Maverick year. And in twenty twenty three you won
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: by six hundred and ninety five million. That was the
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Barbie year. Yes, so it's not an all timer though
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: it's up there.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I thought it should have been the greatest of all time,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: given though the difference between lineups. But you know, Superman
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: helped you out.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: And let me say, you know, at least I can
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: claim I've beat you with a lot more money and
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: star power and movie power and I mean really pretty
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: much everything in the past. So until you can come
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: back and beat me beyond seven hundred and fiftye hundred.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: And fifty million, seven hundred and fifty yep, yeah, that's right.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: That was painful pummeling maybe during your three peet Oh,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: let's not put the.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Cart before the horse. I see what you're doing there.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Than we do have one more thing though, we said
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: we get back to the trade back to the Future bonus. Now,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: this bonus, I don't know how relevant it is this year,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: but we got to play it out. This bonus allows
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: each team to trade one movie on your list for
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: a movie from a previous year that finished in the
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: domestic rankings the same number as your draft pick one
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: through fourteen. Here's the loophole. The year you get your
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: pick from will be chosen randomly. You can get any
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: year between nineteen eighty five and twenty twenty four, So
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: anytime in the past thirty years could be good, could
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: be bad depending on what year you get. So the
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: big question facing both of us right now, will you
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: be trading back to the future? Patrick, This question comes
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: to you first. Will you be trading back to the future?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And if so, what movie on your list will you
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: be trading?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: So what did we decide? If I pick, you can
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: pick and if I don't pick, you're not gonna pick obviously, right.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: I'll probably pick no matter what, I'll probably trade out, Megan.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: No matter what, You're gonna trade out, Megan. That's funny,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: all right? Well, I mean, let's let's try it. I'll
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: throw out my number two pick. See what it gives me.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Generate a random year between eighty five and twenty twenty four.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety seven, nineteen ninety seven. That doesn't sound good,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: It goes with the uh theme of the year. The
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: number two movie was The Lost World Jurassic Park, which
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: made two hundred and twenty seven million dollars. Okay, so
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty eight if we round up so
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: slightly more, you made an extra thirty million or something
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you know, so that puts me six hundred
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: and ten million behind, or so.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: It is six oh two almost almost even and change.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: All right, So that brings the discrepancy between our two
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: totals to six hundred and two million, so you know,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: slightly more respectable. But you said you're going to trade
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: out Megan.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: It's the flaw on my list. So it's the fourteenth movie.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: We'll see what we get for that. I think we
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: can get more than Megan. Now, so give me a random.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Year, okay, two thousand and nine.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Two thousand and nine, number fourteen in two thousand nine, Oh,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: this is great District nine. Oh that was a great
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: movie which made one hundred and three million dollars. Shit fuck,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: that's quite an upgrade and great movie.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he'd be at like six hundred and eighty million.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I'm gonna be a little ahead.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I was really hoping you were gonna get something that
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: was gonna be like one million.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Let's see what would have happened if I would have
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: got the year nineteen eighty five. If I would have
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: got nineteen eighty five, fourteen number fourteen made Prizzies Honor
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: made twenty six six fifty So I still made more.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Than nineteen eighty five. With inflation too, that's way higher.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's crazy, You suck, Megan, what's your problem? So
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: then I'm at one point six six seven billion even change,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: So the difference ends up being six hundred and eighty
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: one million and change. Nice District nine.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: That's a good movie too.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good back to
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: the future grab.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I never would have thought fourteenth pick would do that.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Well, this is how the box office has changed. Obviously,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: we had would we say, seven movies crossing one hundred million?
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: This year two thousand and nine had fourteen. That's insanity,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: so double the number. Things have really changed.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: So congratulations, Chad. You deserved it. And I say that
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: loosely like, well, you really needed it, and that I
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: can definitely attest to. And I'm not saying I coughed
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: it up, but I feel like I'm coughing up some
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: you know, blood with the sadness. No, but congratulations, you
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: did a great job. All right, I'm gonna go see
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: you later, not quite yet, just kidding.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: The big thing I will say is all time, we're
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: four and five. I've got a chance next year to
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: even this thing.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: After one point, it's seeming like you were going to
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: be so far away I wouldn't even be able to
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: see you in the distance.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's a good goal to have, you know,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: in life, is trying to tie it up with me.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I think about like athletes, you know, sometimes you look
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to those goats and you're like, hey man, one day
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be able to maybe tie up and you know,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: get as many awards as that guy that's kind of
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: like you. Right now, I mean, right now, you're just
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: thinking about tying it up. I mean, you can't really
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: think that far ahead. You know that you're gonna beat me.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I like that. You know, you lost a couple of
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: years and it's really taken away your cockiness. Glad you've
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: come back down to earth.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, now this is all in good fun. Listeners,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: you probably know there's not one since Seer competitive Bone
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: in either of our bodies. We're not thinking about this
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: draft in a serious way whatsoever, so on a very
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: personal level and also you know, lighthearted. What did you
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: think of the summer? Did you think it was a
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: good movie summer?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I thought it was okay, you know, it ended up
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: being kind of uninspiring. I was hoping for a little more.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: You talk to the beginning, it seemed like there was
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of different kind of movies at We had
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: action and comedy and family movies and horror and indie movies,
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: which seemed like more than we got last year. But
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know that a lot of them delivered all
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: that much, or especially we didn't get like the big movies.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: They're the movies everybody was kind of like buzzing about.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: We got one. We should mention that we both kind
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: of missed on or not a lot of people saw coming,
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: which was weapons that kind of has a lot of
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: people talking now and ended up crossing that hundred million mark. Yeah,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: you know, neither one of us drafted that one. You know,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: if you got that at number seven, that would have
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: been a good grab. But we we didn't get a
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: lot of those movies this summer. I think we had
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: more of those before the summer. We had like Minecraft
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: and Sinners, which are kind of those movies, before we
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: even got to the summer seasons. I think it was
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: you know, moderate, what about you? Where do you stand?
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: I agree with you to some degree.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: I there are a lot of movies on this list, though,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: this summer movie list that I do want to see,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: which I can say with certainty has not been the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: case in every other summer you know. Like you mentioned Weapons,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, I didn't know it was coming out,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: and we probably should have maybe we talked about it.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I don't even know. I didn't know what to expect.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: So stuff like that, and even if they're not great
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: box office straws, there's a lot of stuff I still
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: want to see because it looks interesting or it looks
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: it looks different, you know. That's the thing. Like there
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: were some of these movies like Fantastic Four, like I
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: do kind of want to see what they did with it,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: mainly because of some of the actors and stuff. And
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I was kind of interested by that. But I'm more
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: interested in some of the movie that aren't the big
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: box office draws I mentioned. Yeah, I think even in
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: the draft, like Toxic Avenger. And there's that movie Sketch,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: which I saw some trailers for and I'm like, that's weird.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: It's like a kid movie but also kind of psychological
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: in a way. I don't I don't really know how
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: to put that one. So there's like some of those
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: tinier movies that I think are a draw to me.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: What movies did you end up seeing this summer?
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I saw a lot. I actually for my summer. Normally
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I don't get to see that many. But I saw four.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I saw F one, I saw Mission Impossible, I saw Superman,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and I saw The Naked Gun. I gave you a
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: little bit of money if I see an F one,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: which was a very good movie. I liked that movie.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: Out of those, I'd say Naked Gun. It gave me
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: something I was looking for, like a dumb comedy, and
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: it also had a little bit of nostalgia there from
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the original Naked Gun. I thought that one gave me
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the most out of those, even though I liked them all.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: I got one more than you. I saw five this summer,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: which I think was less than last year. We saw
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of like movies as a family last year.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: This year I saw Lee Low and Stitch, Superman twenty
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: eight years later, The Bad Guys Too, and The Naked Gun.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: I agree with you on the Naked Gun. That was
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: great to see a comedy in the theater, and there
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: were just a lot of laughs in there. I mean,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: the laugh a minute comedy. Yeah, give me that all day.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: You know, the snowman montage in that movie is a
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: chef's kiss. But my favorite movie that I saw summer
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: it was probably twenty eight years later, which was just
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: a really odd, interesting movie. I'm glad it, you know,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: made as much money as it did because it was
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: just kind of a bizarre I could see this coming
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: out another time and like making like thirty five million
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: dollars or something like that. So I'm glad it kind
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: of got as much as it did or as many
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: people went to see it. And there's another one that's
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: supposed to be coming I think next year.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and those are the ones I missed seeing, Like
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I really wanted to see that and Ballering in the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Theater just didn't get around to it. And then, you know,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: the other one that's on my list, which I actually
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: do want to see is the Material Lists. You know, again,
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: another one of those movies that wouldn't be my typical
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: pick to go see, but I would like to see it.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I ended up watching The Phoenician Scheme at home,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: and that's what I wish I would have seen in
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the theater. Good Wes Anderson.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Flick, Yeah, that's on the peacock or something, right, yeah, pickcock. Yeah.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: So it's overall, you know, good Summer movie Draft Awards season.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Another one in the books. We'll see what we get
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: next year. Can't wait until we hit May again and
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: we get to do this all over.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I'm psyched. I'm bringing the A game next year.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: You're ready. You're gonna be ready for it, I think. Yeah,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: two years once you get kind of like trudged through
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: the mud a little bit, Yeah, I think you're gonna
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: be ready.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Make no mistake. Next year it's on like Donkey Kong.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, listeners, hopefully you played along this year
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: and let us know how you're drafted. If you played
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: along like you should have, because you know, we want
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: you guys in the trenches, you know, get a stake
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: in the game always. But if you didn't, that's cool too.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: If you just listen for entertainment value, that's fine. You
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: get to hear us raz each other a little bit. Anyway.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: That's it for this episode of Movies and Marketing until
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: next time, and until next summer. Let's fade to black.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I'll be back.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: He's not coming back.