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you know, we'll take some calls. But she liked that kind of
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showed up Stone for work because it was Megagummy here too long for me.
You woke up and forth you will up at four thirty this morning,
debated calling in I did paranoid Stone or mat Guys, I can't do it.
I'm gonna have to uber if I go at all. I can't try.
Just burn on your twenty vacation days left. Yeah, right, your
whole month off have We're gonna have a lot of stools with only two legs
in the last month of this this year. But anyway, thanks for listening.
Let's keep having fun. We got a couple of little grab bag here,
right, Kevio, we gotta show that we all watched. And you
got some other news on some uh something that was thought to be defunct but
might be making a run. I've been this very interesting? Is this article
yesterday? Do you guys own a lot of DVDs like on your shelves of
old TV shows or movies. I'm almost scared of where the story's going because
I would say seven or eight years ago, I had one of the largest
DVD collections in the Metroplex, like absurd many many, many hundred, I
don't know, maybe about a thousand, maybe a thousand, like every movie
I ever liked or wanted to ever see, or movies that I thought I
would, but they're still in the plastic, Like I had so many DVDs.
But I had a great purge in my life a few years ago,
and that would include boxes, going to uh, what's the place on jer
No? Oh, half price books, no main Street movie trading company,
movie trading company, movie trading company. But some of them have price books
too, and they block a few or whatever they actually want, and it
probably got pennies on the dollar until I'm frightened to hear what this latest news
is. Do you got story your orders ready, and you show up and
you have a check written out to you for twenty seven forty yeah, nineteen
dollars cash or thirty five in trade, right, Okay, I don't know
what about you, Danny. I do actually about maybe ten years ago when
because DVD's got super cheap, or you could get Blu rays, like really
good classic films on Blu ray for ten dollars. I ended up buying up
a bunch of those about ten years ago. I haven't done it in a
few years, but getting things that I you know, some of my favorite
movies, Rebel without a Cause, Cosa Blanca, pulp fiction, No Country
for Old Men. It was like in a lot of cool old stuff and
also some stuff from the nineties and stuff from now that I just wanted to
have on Blu ray for the sole reason that if the streaming ever became an
issue. Yeah you know, it was kind of like having some emergency cash
in your safe. Yeah, you know, you have some emergency DVDs.
But I didn't want to just DVDs. I wanted the good high def Blu
rays, so I collected it. I don't know, I probably got a
forty or fifty of those. And then I've got a ton in the garage
of just ones that I never threw away. So I have tons of some
of my favorite TV shows. And this again, this is all the last
ten to fifteen years ago, Breaking Bad Parks and rec Community, all of
those, and I was parks in recing Community. I'm watching the director's cut
of these, and I'm watching bloopers and commentary I watched all that stuff,
and tons of music DVDs and concert DVDs and things like that. Tons of
those still have them, never never watch. So at the end of September,
Netflix meld out its last DVD. The Their DVD business back in twenty
twelve was bringing in one billion dollars of revenue still in twenty twelve, un
what I said with ten a little over ten years ago. But they were
down to one hundred and forty six million in twenty twenty two, which still
seems like a lot, but from one billion ten years ago to one hundred
and forty six millions, so they got out of that game. Now.
Compounding that is Best Buy, probably still the top brick and mortar entertainment store,
said that it would stop selling DVDs and Blu Rays at the end of
this year. So this November December your last chance to yogat physical DVDs and
Blu Rays from a store like well from best Buy. Now, Amazon and
Walmart have been in discussions with studios Universal, Warner Brothers, et cetera about
lot if we partnered up on a physical media business and kind of restore some
of that. So those discussions have begun but I don't know where it's going
still. I'll have to say now by the article I was reading was basically
the when Netflix launched it streaming business. We all know these things. You
find everything you wanted, all the TV shows and movies you could ever want.
But then because Warner Brothers when they teamed up with Discovery last year,
which turned HBO Max to just Max, one thing that they did is they
started purging content, so thousands of hours of streaming goes off of that.
Then Disney and Hulu and Paramount did the same thing. They started canceling shows
and cutting old titles that they had because they didn't because of agreements and things
like that, they didn't want to pay the distribution rights. So studios have
the power to pull anything from their services, the streaming services, but they
can't take anything from your bookshelf. And the whole point of the article is
if you look at what has happened with music, and music was ahead of
TV going to streaming. If you look at what's happened with music, there
could be a DVD boom coming in the next few years. And this is
purely based on vinyl and what it's done, and CDs have seen a boost
too. I was blown away by this. So streaming still accounts for eighty
four percent of music revenues, but this is how much. Physical revenues in
music reached their highest level this year since twenty thirteen, so ten years the
highest it's ever been. People are buying physical music, and it's not just
vinyl. They're very clear. They're like they were talking about audio CDs still,
yeah, which seems crazy as cars don't have CD players anymore. No,
that's a strange thing. Like I when I had to get a newer
car a year ago, Man, it was already a year old at that
point, it didn't have a CD player, and I had to trade in
a car that did, and I loved it and I used it. But
yeah, you're right, you know. And the reason that these could be
collectors' items is because there's nowhere else to find them. Yeah, because nobody
will host them on any type of streaming platfor for because it's just not cost
effective for him. That's the thing about music. Look, there's a lot
of stuff on all of the dsls and or DSPs my bad and digital streaming
platforms. Correct, and if you go the problem is not everything's on there,
and there's stuff that you'll go to Josie Records and buy on vinyl or
CD that is just not on you know, the apples, a lot of
Spotify's, all of those streaming sites that pretty much are you know, share
all of the content anyway. But yeah, I could see this being a
thing because I mean, seriously, how many times have you want to see
that? All right? I wonder what about this movie? And you'll do
the search on your Apple or Roku. It's like it's not out there,
Like you can't even pay for it anywhere. It's not on two B or
or fart or whatever. HG. It's just not available online. Do you
guys? Use just watch? I think I do. I've heard you talk
about it. Please get it. It's free, it's a free app.
Have put anything you want. It'll tell you if it is streaming free where
it is. Because half the time you probably I mean, with all the
crap that we're subscribed to, you're probably already subscribed to something that's showing most
everything. Now, there are some I mean, any massive movies are always
going to be available, but you're talking about sort of smaller titles that aren't
prioritized. I mean that movie I brought up yesterday, Safe Men, which
is one of my favorite movies of all time. You can find it almost
nowhere. And that's one DVD I do have, Like I probably have five
DVDs because I knew that one's hard to find. But I don't know if
you can equate it to vinyl. I don't know if that makes sense,
because there's a nostalgic vibe to vinyl, which I suppose there is for that,
but is putting a DVD in the tray as communal as Hey go pick
an album and you know, there's something cool about vinyl. It looks cool.
There's you know, like there's a lot of that's there's sound quality to
vinyl that is different that I think you find nostalgic and enjoy. I don't
know if any of that really applies to movies. I after it this article,
I immediately thought that, and that was the first thing that jumped to
my head is I don't think we can compare this to vinyl, but I
am fascinated by it because they left me. The other thing I thought about
after that, I thought about cash and the collectible network and just the idea
of having something that it might be worth something. And the way the article
ended is if you like, well, these titles are disappearing from streaming services
so fast now, it might be worth it to make a run to the
store like these next couple months. And just if you see something you like
it's a DVD, maybe go ahead and pick it up just in case,
because ay, if you like it, you have it, no matter what
if a streaming service digged it. I mean, it's not like a main
Sure. One of my favorite TV shows of all time is Community, and
it's jumped around even it'll be off Netflix one day, it will go away,
and I like that. I have all seven seasons at home. Yeah.
I can't figure out the licensing on this stuff because I'm seeing so much
of HBO content just showing up on Netflix right now. Yeah. Like,
I think they've got all the other stuff, they've got six feet under,
but that stuff still on the Max. Yeah, you know, catalog.
I don't know, man, Yeah, I don't know how they there's how
many partnership being done. But I stuff that was interesting because we all have
them. We all have DVDs somewhere, you know, But are they worth
something or are they not should you keep them? Should you try to sell
them in the next couple of years. There's something to think about. Kind
of interesting, we all, I challenged you, guys. I don't like
doing this and like give the homework assignments too often. But I did know
this. I knew this was coming up. I'd seen some reviews of it,
and I thought, you guys, just give the pilot episode a chance,
because I watched it this weekend and I thought it might be something that
you guys would at least find to be interesting. The show is called The
Curse and it dropped on Showtime on Sunday. I guess We're Paramount Plus as
well would be the other place you could see it. And it stars Emma
Stone, Nathan Fielder and another guy. And it's directed by Nathan Fielder and
Safti's his last name. For his first name, I think Ben Benjamin Safty,
I believe, and he did Uncut Gems, that Adam Sandler movie with
Kevin Garnett in it. And it's essentially a show about a couple who is
trying to make this neighborhood better. They neighborhood is called Espanola and it's Emma
Stone and Nathan Filder. Basically, they have a reality show on HGTV and
it's called What a Flipanthropy? Yeah, it's called and flipping House is for
good. It's almost impossible to even discuss plot because it's hard to tell where
this is going. I think yep, but it was already being reviewed as
Hey, this is will be a very cringey show. No one guy that
that Mikey and I follow a little bit. He basically said, it's a
good thing they're releasing these episodes one episode at a time because binging it would
be too much to handle. Yep. Although I don't know if he's seen
episode two or not, because episode two is not out yet. But episode
one was a ride. What'd you guys think? I don't love I don't
like cringe comedy. It makes me uncovered, Like I don't I've seen all
the Borat movies. What I've seen like once, you know, like I
just can't do it because makes you feel weird. I don't know. Just
personality or it's just a choice whatever. The planet Earth is not ready for
whatever the hell this show is. This is going to fail, and not
because it's not great. Yeah, we can't handle it's over. You can't
describe what it is, you can't. I don't know quite what they're going
for. I love Nathan Fielder, and I love that everything he does is
something that no one's even considered hosting a meeting to talk about doing, Like,
I love that ambitious. I think he might be the radiohead of humans
where in fifty years people look back and like, what the hell was that
guy doing and how far ahead of his time? You know, maybe or
he'll maybe he'll be completely forgotten, but good, he'll God, he'll always
have a cult following though, yes, and there's a you never know how
those can blow up at any point in time in society, and that's a
great spot to be in. I don't know how to without spoiling. I
don't even know if it's spoiling, because it almost doesn't matter. Like,
I don't know what the show is about other than he gets a curse put
on him because he screws over a little kid. I guess to me it's
about him and his wife are kind of like a chip in jojo and they
want to flip houses in this community in New Mexico. As they're going through
the things that they want to do to kind of gentrify this neighborhood without using
the G word as they say. They also have a film crew following them.
This is all scripted, all of it. None of this is like
it's not like Borat where some of it is real life pranks, whether he's
trying to pull something over on somebody, maybe edited really creatively to make it
look a certain way. But this is no one's everybody's in on the gag
on this. It's a little sitcomy kind of thing. It's hour long,
but it plays out like that. But they are being followed around while they're
trying to do their house flipping stuff and they're being filmed for HGTV, so
it's showing all of that and it's it's a wild premise and the director man
is trying to get them to do wild stuff right because they're being boring.
Because them Stone, this show sucks. Sims Stone seems like her character is
committed to really looking like she is. You know, uh has a good
carbon footprint, We're keeping the world green a lot stuff. I Meanwhile,
her parents run a company that she does not want to be involved with at
all. From a publicity standpoint because of they've done bad things in the past
or whatever. But it's also I think a tale of a marriage too,
is they're in their first year of marriage and are clearly having problems, including
the fact that it is revealed that Nathan Fielder has the world's smallest penis and
you get to see it. Well, him or Corbyn Burnson are in competition.
We saw two micropens. Do you think that was really his? I
will say for the movie, for the Corbyn Burnson scene, I was thankful
that these subtitles covered up the image. Okay, I needed subtitles, okay.
And there's I suppose what you call a sex scene. Yeah, I
don't even know what to call. That involved hell, a guy named Steven
who is not a real guy. He's not there, equipment, some weird
conversation. I mean, you do have am a stone writhing, which is
you know, good entertainment. Love to the third degree is the part that
mostly we have to talk about this like nobody's seen it, which they haven't.
Right, how do you it's the producer trying to show them why their
show is not currently entertaining. Right, He's like, let me show you
what works. I'll show you what I did. This show is amazing,
this is what we need to be like. And here is the premise of
Loving the third Degree, which you don't find out the name of the show
until the end of his little trailer, but it's essentially think of the bachelor.
It's one dude. There are fifteen ladies that are wooing for his affection.
The mystery is he's wearing a mask the entire time, and the ladies
are presented that this could be a famous athlete, it could be a millionaire,
it could be anybody. You don't know who this guy is. He's
a full robe and like a golden mask. All you could see is the
pupils of his eyes and he's but apparently he's like the coolest dude in the
world, and he woos all these women and he ends up selecting his wife
to be and on their wedding day, the mask comes off only after their
wedding ceremony has been completed. Yes, do they remove the mask? Remove
the mask, and we find out that the bachelor is a man who suffered
a serious burn injury from an apartment fire. Yeah, a terrible burn victim.
His face is all Freddy Krueger, it is so terrible. And then
they have Dan Cortes as the host, say, find out what happens this
season on Love in the three and then he admits that it got it gets
it didn't get picked up. A fine, it didn't get picked up,
but still but his point is ready. He's like, you, guys,
can you give me something to work with? So I have something for the
t S. Look, I don't know if it's gonna do well or not,
but it's gonna do well thinking but if it does well critically, that's
enough because a lot of sometimes these networks just want awards and nominations and good
critical And you have Emma Stone, like you have a legit, big name,
even if you've never heard of Nathan field This separates it from any Nathan
Fielder project. He's got just him effing around with his friends. And it's
a big name director too, and Safty who's tied. I bet it will
be critically acclaimed. I bet no one will really watch it or talk all
that much about it. Cannot wait until episode two. You know what.
When it ended, I was so thank you, But now a day later,
I can't wait. I'm ready for more. I can't wait to see
the next time you have a well, crap the curse. It's on Showtime.
I watched it on Paramount Plus. I think it might be on Apple
TV. I don't know. Just watch I just did, and it's on
something that's it has Paramount Plus and Apple TV logo, both in the same
little box. So I don't know who all these bedfellows are in streaming now
you know because it's Fuboo and Paramount Plus or they are all these combination platters.
But if you like insane, random, cringe worthy humor, good lord,
it's Nathan Fielder, probably at his best and maybe even probably the most
palatable for gaining a larger audience, because didn't you think that this is kind
of a fraction of the nuttiness that he's capable of. It's dumb down,
just a tiny bit, but even a dumbed down Nathan Fielder is still beyond
most people's insanity level of want. Buckle up if you do it and let
us know if you liked it by hollering at us or tweeting at us.
Comedian TJ Miller coming up at nine o'clock, Danny, what's next? Which
Grammy nominee almost got kicked off of a flight for singing too loud.