Speaker 1: Hello ladies, and Jim and welcome back two Travis told
you the first Travis told you of twoenty twenty six.
My goodness, we're here is a new year. It is
weird seeing the two zero two six number. I'm not
sure if it's that way for any of you. It's
super weird. Also, just be like four years away from
twenty thirty. I don't know why something about twenty like
the twenties didn't seem like as bad. I don't I
really don't know why. Maybe I'm still in my thirties,
just like, okay, two twenties, let's come on. Something about
twenty thirty that's scary. I don't like that. I don't
like hearing that my hair is a fucking mess because
I put on a two when I took the dog out.
So I'll apologize the video people. I gotta figure what
I'm doing with my hair. I got a couple more
scenes that we're filming this week and hopefully all done.
But let me just let people know that we are alive. Yeah,
but thank you very much to everyone that is tuning
in now. I hope you had a good New Year's
I'll see the last time I talked to you just
any episode was the New Year's Eve Stranger Things finale review,
which we're gonna talk about. We talk about a bunch
of while stuff that the Duffers said, what deserves controversy,
what doesn't deserve controversy? This fucking conformity gate or whatever,
which I had heard about last night, which is just
I know, we'll talk about it. It's interesting. I think
there's just some things that can only happen with fan
bases and be online. And is there val validity to this?
Is it coping? I don't know. We'll see, but we're
gonna talk about it. And again, I hope everyone's had
a good couple of days. Obviously we're only five days
into the new year, but I hope everyone's having a
good new year so far. Good to twenty twenty six,
had a good days off. I had the New Year's Eve,
then four days off in a row. So now it's
back to regular life. We get same thing this week.
This month is actually one of my favorite weeks for
Geek first because we start to record all the fun drafts.
So we have the Super Or, we got the movie draft,
got the video game draft, we got the Marvel Draft.
We do the twenty twenty six previous for video games
and movies, lots of like content. We get to look
at next year and say, okay, what happens. So it's
a fun time, even though it gets a little slower
in the news in the show from but even show
friends like Game of Thrones is starting me and the
don't fall out. We're coming back to that. So and
then for Tress told you this week. Usually for people
that are watching live, thank you to everyone in the
chat right now, lots people are watching probably the conformity
great gate Crab right and we're gonna talk about it. Okay,
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We have Strange Things Channel, which we've been talking about it,
but there is the satisfy Action survey. Even if you're new,
you know, maybe listen to a couple episodes and get
back to us. But we want to hear her in.
But we do this every year. What are you liking
about geefers where you're not liking? What do you want
to see brought back? What do you want to see
changed up? What do you want to see you know
with side quest which Tras told you, other stuff that
helps us kind of you know, we plan out the
year for content, but still too there's even been some
survey responses. I'm like, you know what, that'd be a
very fun idea, So there's one we might incorporated. There's
good stuff with Tras told you, And obviously I do
this show Monday and Wednesday eleven am PST. Try to
be live every week. Obviously that changes, and originally I
did say, hey, the run was from September to January.
I was gonna play coy. I's been oh is it not.
I will thank everybody that has done survey so far.
Like I guess I could say overwhelming, but like like
we have polls, the percentages of do people like this yes,
The percentage of people wanting a third episode, which we'll
see is more on the big of the yes side.
So I appreciate it. I appreciate everyone listening, and I
appreciate everyone that listened the last Stranger Things episode or
the finale review that I did for Trest told you
second biggest episode of the year if you add in
the review feed, it is the biggest of the year
right now it's Superman, but I don't know if it's
gonna catch Superman on the main feed. But I was
shocked it took only five days to get up to
number two. The first day is like okay, but it's
one of those that the second and third days had
some really big numbers. So thank you. If you're a
first time listener, an old time listener, whatever, very much
appreciate and I've had kind words on it. Too, no
massive negative reviews, which is good. So thank you to
everyone that listened to that episode. Second biggest episode of
the year last year because we count it because the
released last year, right, so a big thank you. I
thought would still do well because the finale, but still
the fact that I got to number two in five days.
We'll see keep download if you want. There it's fifty
minutes of spoilers, full breakdown. We're gonna talk about some
more spoilers again today. But again, a big thank you
and good It was a nice way that I took
those four days off no podcasting. I said tonight, we're
kind of back in the swing of things. You know
those stats. It's like, okay, that was like a nice
warming because January can be a little bit quieter, so
that was a big nice warming, like, oh, thanks for listening.
So yeah, and that's where trast told you so far
with the downloads, with the responses in the survey already
early on oncontinu it now January. I think I'm as
of right now, plan to do Monday Wednesday. There might
be a couple weeks they take a break. My plan
was to take a break for January. Other than these
first few episodes and then maybe come back in February
with the responses of the survey, because luckily downloads are
doing good. One wait, survey, I've had enough to say.
You know, I'm not gonna say overwhelming because that sounds
like I'm arrogant, but very good percentage of people liking
what I'm doing here, so I appreciate that. So for
the next little bit you will, I think I'm going
to try and do some more evergreen stuff. That seemed
to be most response for Trast told you is they
want people want some more evergreen stuff. So whether that's
episode on the feet, and I did talk about a
third episode, I might try to do that. As far
as like a Patreon exclusive because that might be at
least I might try and do like one a month,
maybe more, but one a month for the patrio because
the two week is busy enough. But I will say
so right now this is We're gonna get into it.
Don't worry uh Later on tentative Wednesday, eleven am, I
should be back. I will do a bonus episode this
week because I'm gonna do my trast movie rankings. That's
for the patrons, might be on the live feed we'll
see if the guest falls through. But if the guest
doesn't fall through on Wednesday or Thursday, we'll see I
will have a guest with me on. Trust you, it's
it's people, you know, it's not I'm not teasing a
fucking celebrity or a fucking millie by browning, nothing like that.
Just someone the geek ferst people know, but bringing them
trestl you have a little fun and we'll see. I
think it will be a good show. So tune in
there and patroons, you'll get a you'll get a sneak
peek of who it is because they'll say, oh, send
some questions for this person. But uh, don't get too excited.
I'm just saying guess because I don't want to promote.
Casesn't happen this week as far as the person appearing
and coming back for a little bit. But here we
go stranger things. Let's get rid of that starting soon there.
So the finale came out. We haven't got like Netflix numbers,
but I imagine it did Mucho's grandiose buckles right, Like
imagine it was massive theaters. Obviously, Netflix doesn't keep much
of the money, doesn't keep any of the money I
guess because of contracts, but it's rumored to make about
twenty five to thirty one million or something like that,
which is pretty good for only being granted they expanded
the showings but still still more like unlimited showings with
just two days. Right, so did pretty well. Hopefully that's
not the smoking gun. That's not gonna be like, oh,
we have to, but hopefully Netflix will experiment and do more.
I know there's rumors of this whole seven day seventeen
day release window. Okay, for we all least, will wait
and see on that. But for Stranger Things, what I'm
gonna do here is I have three kind of ways
to go about this. I have a conformity gate, which
we'll talk about first, and then we're gonna talk about
the articles, which is all the duffers given out interviews,
and then some box office if we have time for
this weekend. But that's where in conformity gate, if you've
not seen Stranger Things finale, which I'm sure you have
if you're watching this, if you've not seen it, this
gives you a chance to bow out or listen to
my thoughts, and then you can bow out for running
into spoils, right, because obviously the Duffer interviews will feature spoilers.
But you've seen the episode, obvious, you're safe. So I
learned about this yesterday. I saw someone tweet about it,
and then a podcast I listened to talked about it.
I was like, okay, what is this thing? And I
didn't really because, like I saw a person tweet about
but it was a hashtag, and I don't really click
on hashtags nowadays. I did after the fact, once I
saw it twice and saw like found out what it was.
I was like, okay, let me look into this because
I was already talking stranger things today. But I'm like,
let me add on to this. And then it's like
a wild web. So if you want to have some
fun and you like online stuff, that way, if you
don't take it too seriously, click on the hashtag conformity
gate on X or Twitter. I'm gonna still call Twitter
with stranger things. So I not really looked into because
I don't think I, like I said, click on much hashtags.
I usually have the people I'm following. And then if
you want to get dangerous, you can go in the
four U section see like what the album is produced
for you, right, But I click on this thing, right,
I find out what it's about and the idea it is.
And I didn't even read all. Like I read some theories,
I'm not gonna read them all. Read for yourself because
I'm in the camp where I don't think this is happening.
And I'll get to why if this is something that
happens and people are right, I will go back and
click on it and be like wow, like look at
how they found this yet, Because there's stuff that happens
all the time, right, Like I saw something yesterday where
gamers found like red det Redemption two has been out
for seven years, and they found this thing where the
map made a spider and then if you went to
all the points, there's a spider web with something there
and easter egg that's been the game for almost a
decade now, right then no one found until now. People
do do this all the time. People like fans that
love this stuff can like sneak this stuff out. Right,
So I will say there's stuff like, oh, something on
the screen has a seven. Here's the seven here January seven.
Netflix is doing something big. There is stuff, but it
is very much like em We will tell me the
stuff about the Taylor Swift fans, right, where sometimes Sarah
Swift will drop things that are and little Easter eggs
and then sometimes the fans read completely into it and
it's nothing. Right. I host a wrestling podcast that's coming
back this Sunday with myself at UH and David at
Sbub's eleven pm PST. We're gonna be breaking down lots
tons of a w news, tons of w news and
then our year and awards. It's gonna be a girthy episode,
so stay tuned. But same thing all the times. There's
teases and it's like, is this actually something or just
teas for the sake of teas? Right, So you can
click on there and find all And there's multiple theories
of why it's this white step. But I guess what
I haven't said is the theory is Stranger Things or
Netflix is gonna be dropping a secret episode of Stranger Things.
I'm laughing because I've honestly that does happen, right, Samn
did that? But I feel like these bigger shows we've
never had that I think the biggest cases. And I'll
bring up Spubs to here because he brought the same
in my mind went to this immediately, right. I remember
with Wan division that I think was the biggest one,
at least I've been a part of. People think there's
a big like a secret episode. All these signs you
have to oh, they filmed this one in here, there's
room about Doctor Strangers isn't in here. We're waiting week month, nothing, right,
And then when I kind of like I didn't buy
into it, I didn't think it was gonna happen because
that was on marl Ance. I don't think I ever
said that. If I did, then offset I was wrong.
But I just thought that if there was a possibility
of it happening, it could have been because that was
Disney plus experimenting with stuff. Right. Maybe during COVID's like
hey let's give them something fun, we're saying there's only nine,
but here's a secret episode. Maybe, right. I have a
hard time believing this because of them putting in the theaters,
all these interviews they've done. Now, granted, if an episode
came out after doing the theaters, doing these all the
season's ending and all the cast interviews, they like, kudos
to them for the pulling it off, that would be spectacle. Like, man,
you guys really did something really fun here. Kudos. But
I think for me, and that's where it's tough. Is
I feel like it's mostly from what I saw people
that are upset with the finale, right, because it's definitely
more it's funny how it win. Because I feel like
with the Volume one I talked about on the review,
but Volume one it felt like people were generally positive,
had some mixed emotions somethings, but generally positive. Volume two
very mixed, right, I was underwhelmed by that. Some people
thought I was falling bad. And then the finale. It's
different because I'm seeing it with a bunch of fans,
but I saw it in the theaters. Had a great time.
You can go back to my spoilers review. Had a
great time, had like that no way home, endgame type
of five, great crowd, got in the car and when
I talked about the AMI right away, you know, I'm
happy with that fan and I was like I was too,
And obviously the theater it's big fans, but still like
I don't there are some fans that are, yes, just
blind to whatever the thing will do and that happens.
But I'm a big fan and I would always hate that.
I can't remember what Batman movie it was, but maybe
it's just the Batman. I don't know, but it was
just someone being like, oh, you're Batman fan, so you
must have loved it. It's like, no, Like I've grown
to like BVS a bit more, but I did not
love BVS. There's obviously other Batman things or properties I
don't love. I hate that as an excuse of oh,
you love said thing, So the only reason you love
is because he said you like that said thing. No,
if it's bad enough, I will critique it. I know
there are people like that out there that, no matter what,
love it. But I'm gonna take it at, you know,
face value. But still theater of big fans. So maybe
there's one to like it no matter what. Right, I
talked Emily, I need a gotta try them out there.
She liked it, and then the overall like responses in
our discord there were i'd say, very positive, positive right.
I think people even myself will say, hey, I thought
it was a great finalite loved it, but there are
issues with the writings, and then there are some things
that are underwhelling, and obviously there are some things all
the duffers that I didn't think about in the moment
they go wow, that that is a little curious of
what we're missing there, or certain storylines, or it makes
you a question of why they chose certain characters to
do what right, But I digress, and then it seems
like now, So for me, it was like the first
wave was nothing, but like it was mixed positive positive.
Right now it's definitely and most reactions are, but most
I feel like there is more negativity. There is more
stuff going on as far as not being whelmed with
this right, And that's where it comes down. It's all subjective.
I get it. I don't think for me, even with
the issues. Obviously, I love the finale, but didn't make
the whole season at like top tier. I think I
still have ranked either second last or last. I did
just rewatch the entire show, but now with season five,
i'd have to rewatch it again. In the future, I
could easily put it at last. I think above or
below too, I'll have to wait and see. I think
the highs are really high in this finale and the
final season, but there are some lows right so as
it's gone on, Definitely, the reaction is I'd say I'd
say good to mix, because I think even the people
that were not happy with the finale, people go, well,
it was safe and not bad, right, So I guess
there's a question of it depends what type of person
you are. Do you want bad and taking a swing
or do you want safe? And it's all right. For
me it's good and there's things that are safe about
but for me it's good. It's just overall good, so
it's not worry for me. I think the most people
that are still positive on it, but like our somewhat
negative are that well, was safe, right, And I've talked
about that before. I've never been like that. There's people
commenting on the YouTube thing where I didn't need a
bunch of deaths right for it to be a great thing,
and some people did. I was fine with being safe
because of all the reasons I listened in the finale, right,
So I guess I don't understand, but I understand maybe
the the insecurity of you if you were really disappointed
or dislike that finale, and there's a chance there's a
continuation or a secret episode, you might leach onto that, right.
So for me, I wouldn't need that because like sure'd
be cool to see. But as someone that overall liked
the finale, I'll say I like the finale as far
as where we end up, right, I don't think the
writing's perfect. I think, obviously, as I said in the review,
there's some CGI stuff that's really rough. I liked all
the creatures, but I'm talked about the backgrounds that's being
memed with like Lincoln Park videos and Creed videos. So
for me, I'm not itching for another episode. I do
agree with other people that I know the Deffer say
I can never see these characters ever again. Sure you know,
like all takes is for these people that have a
couple of bad career moves. All takes us for the
doffer se have of a couple bad career moves. All
takes us for Netflix throw a bunch of money at them.
If you were to pizza about me, hey, you'll never
see these characters again. No, I would even pizza bet
you you'll never see these characters again. In five years.
They could easily do a movie or another season, and
that can sometimes work, right, Like, there's two examples of
I can't remember I think I can't remember who propping
or discord, but talking about like Dexter and whatnot. The
first Dexter bad family, right, And for some I think
with Dexter everyone thought it was bad finale. But let's
say you're in that camp stranger things for you, bad finale,
bad season, you're wanting a new season to kind of
close up shop, right, you could get that, And Dexter's
a good case of They did Dexter new Blood and
for me, that was a fantastic fall up, and then
they did like another oh here's another sequel series. He's
season a couple of years later, and that was bad, right,
So like and for me, Dexter Resurrection is we're getting
back to as bad, if not worse, that that original
show had. I think it's the same quality now. So
for me, it's one of these things of lightning doesn't
strike twice. And you can want a show to come
back like I did, doesn't mean it's gonna get any better.
There can be you know, some shune, some shun shine
shining through, but it doesn't mean one hundred percent it's
gonna make you happy, right, because that's whay with new
Blood and even new Blood were ended. It's tough with
characters like a Dexter, like a Stranger Things, And that's
where I feel like with Breaking Bad, it's a little
bit different, but characters that really take on a life
for their own and people love and think about who
they should because I remember Michael C. Hall said what
they did with Dexter in the ending and then with
new Blood and he just said, they're talking about resurrection.
He said, well, that's just not what people want with Dexter, right,
And that's where you get tricky, because it's like you
do kind of want to be concerned what people want,
but you still is the creator, the writer, the showrunner,
the storyteller. It's still your story and it's for people
to react to it. And I understand because I'm somebody
that hated that Dexter original finale, right, But then when
it came back and got that ending, there's still people
that didn't like that ending. And for me, I thought
it was perfect and they thought was perfect. They thought
it was a thrilling for their characteristic but that's not
people one and I get that. But then when you
go the people wanted run, I think we've gone a
lower quality show, right. So Stranger Things, like be careful
what you wish for Even Emily was talking about like, oh,
do you think there's one. It's like, even if there is,
you like the finale, and I like the finale. I
would say, if there is a secret episode, it's going
to change a lot of those things, right, And I
would feel the way that finale ended, it wouldn't lend
itself to a secret episode. I know they've shown the ovact.
It could be doing this. It could be that I've
seen a couple of theories. For me, they just don't
really track. It feels like a lot of grass and
me at Straws, a lot of you know the word
kopias or like the meme coopium, Like, I get it,
I've been there before. But I think it's just a
case of this is the finale. I don't think anything's
happening January seventh, big wise for Stranger Things. As far
as the secret episode, they announce they're doing a documentary
on the twelfth. So granted you could say, oh, they're
dropping it on the seventh and then boom, you're gonna
get a document arl they pulled off. I just feel
like we're in fully found mode. And don't get me wrong,
I'd love January seventh. For an episode, well, I wouldn't love,
but like, if it were to come out, I would
love to talk about it and see the reaction, the reception,
how they pull off. That'd be something very cool. But
then for myself, who liked the finale, I think we're
in bad territory, right, So this is where I'm gonna
get into spoils. So if you've not seen said episode,
said finale, jump out now, right, So I'll give you
a second. I'll take another water break here, okay, and
we're back. So here's the thing though, right, the idea
would be, well, oh, something I think they've shown signs of,
like I said, someone with the seven some of that
exits signed all this stuff, and I think the working
theory is that they think they've won, but Vetna's actually
put them some sort of dream. So to me, that'd
be like a good step for a season. But for
a final episode, what that means all of them come
back to die or you changed up? Because even then
I feel like if Eleven didn't do a we don't know, right,
is she dead? Is she not dead? Up to you? Right,
I don't think she's dead. But even then, to me,
if you were to do the real ending crazis happening.
To me, it would just be the gang hanging out
together and like, oh, we all won. Then I can
kind of seep like, you know what, this is too happy.
Maybe there's something more to it, but still just like
so what in the dream Vecna also like had them win,
but it also had them lose by eleven when he
just had them all happy and fake, like that's what
he's done before. You know, it's just trying to make
them super happy. I know you might bring up the
hopper shooting eleven that being true, but that's because he's
trying to get him actively to do something when he
just has like the kids under a guys, it's all
just making them happy. It's not like doing a twist
within a twist, like I don't know, and for me
it's like what will they also put this in the
theaters like that The theater's aspect, I think is where
you would feel like a little I don't know, little
jypped a little like you're supposed to be like this
big event with people finale if you saw the theaters
right like myself, and it's like, oh, actually the real
finale is here and I I don't know. It's just
like if there's an epilogue even sure, but like a
full episode that's like, oh, the kids wake up and
they're Warner dream they gotta fight back and again like okay,
so what same thing. It's like people say, oh, well
that's why they did this and did this to this.
It's like, so you're saying, in your opinion, right, I
don't agree with this, but in your opinion, they made
a bad episode or made bad choices to do a
surprise episode. Like, to me, that's something you do within
the episode, not like another one or if you knew
a finale was coming. Like, don't get me wrong, this
concept of a surprise episode. I know Samon has done it,
but like for a bigger, bigger show to do it,
I would love to see it and love to see
how they pull it off, and that would be very fun.
And I again, I don't know if it would be
I think in a serious finale that's where you get
a little tricky in a season finale, or like if
it's like MCU where it's like a serious finale for
a show but the story's kind of continuing, then I
can see it going on and moving forward and doing
that right. So that's the thing where I just don't buy.
I don't buy the theories stuff. I've not seen anything
that would work out now, As I said on the discord,
if they do a follow up and it's five years
as ten years later, I'm somebody that was team let
the hero survive, right like our main heroes. That was me.
I was fine them not dying doesn't mean oh there's
no stakes. Oh there was, you know, there's no death.
There wasn't enough like maturity with this. No, I don't
need that with this show, Like I don't need deaths
to make good stuff. That's like what we talk about
all the time on the gimmick with the Wrestling Show
is WWE is taking this idea of like, well, instead
of story like Johnson becoming a bad guy, we're here
for the moments. You moments are only good after the fact.
If there is a story to fall up. Sure in
the moment, the moment is good, like Johnson be coming
back guy. That was huge, but now it's looked upon
as man that really sucks. I wish that didn't happen, right.
So that's the thing, like with moments, you can only
do so much. You still have to follow them up
with stuff, right, And that's where for me, Like sometimes
I think shows including Game does did death for the
sake of deaths, right, I think sometimes they hurt the story.
Sometimes they definitely helped, but sometimes they hurt the story.
But if we were to get a follow up years later,
now here's the thing, if they were if that was
the pitch, maybe for like the sequel series of Oh
Vecna actually had them dream I think for some reason
I'd be more happy with that, even though I guess
not because I'd be what these characters would be living
in a dream for like five years. That's also depressing, right,
I'm more obliged to Oh, the characters one had some
time and then they could it had a life and
then could die or be in peril and life at risk,
get injured, whatever, because it's like at least they had
some time to be, you know, have a good life. Right. Also,
I know that some people's problem with the Star Wars
squel series what they do Luke because he didn't have
a good time, so off it depends on the storyteller,
but I do think that's more likely is the sequel
series and you could pick up on some stuff. Maybe
one character is dreaming. I don't know, but yeah, I
just I don't buy it. Some I'm sorry hashtag conformity gay,
I just I don't see it. I think what I
would say if for someone that actually believes that I
would do this z daia route of you know, expect
disappointment and you're never disappointed. I think we've just seen
and there's other episodes too. I think Loss had this
for a while, Like I think there's other shows that
have had this kind of theory or this fan speculation,
nothing happened. Just expect that, because then if you expect
nothing and something does come up, and even if you're right, man,
that's gonna be a great feeling. You've got to be right.
I'm just saying, don't get too overworked on it. You
don't want to be too disappointed, because I think you
should just have the idea of if you're looking at
this as fun as it's just like, oh, what are
they putting together? Oh I could see that or that better,
or even if you're don't like the thing out like
oh I'm hoping it's true, go with that. Don't go
with the you think it's gonna happen. If you're in
that camp that's actually believing this, that's super disappointing the
finale and think there's more. Don't believe that, think about
and do whatever you want in your life. But I'm
just trying to help you with your Kobiam. Just go
at the flow and think this is the finale, and
then it'll hurt less and you'll move forward a lot faster.
You know. That's the best thing I can say. But yeah,
we'll see with the sequel series. What could happen. I
think will happen one day. I'm not gonna say will,
but I wouldn't be surprised, right for I guess if
you were to ask me, like, will happen? I think
I'm like a sixty to forty because I think it's
better the longer you wait. I think it's almost like
a Star Wars where I wait like ten years and
get like a huge like these characters are coming back
and tons of new stuff's happening, right because that's what
we talked about, or we can talk about next week.
Trans position in the Duffer Brothers situation where they're talking
about the their shows. One, I think and if someone
in the comments knows, let me know. They're talking about
the spinoffs, right and for me, okay, look at this
perfect the Duffer Let's see the Duffer brothers have beginn
developed and share your things spin off series. No Hawkins No.
Eight nineteen eighty setting, no returning characters, some serious rockin scenes.
If I will play import role. It's very different yet
very much stranger things. So you know, So here's the thing,
so the Hawkins. Yeah, that makes sense. We've done enough
there no nineteen eighty settings, what I don't know about them?
This is where for me, we'll have to see. I'm
not a big prequel guy. Since the podcast has started,
which was in twenty fifteen, we have gone some great
prequels stuff with the Apes, even House of Dragon, who
I was down on before that ended up being great.
But obviously I think we've still seen way more mediocre
to bad prequels than we have sequels. Right, I think
the idea of even if it's not a character we
know from here, the military scientists being like everything happened
to Hawkins, we tracked it back to the Stone and
we're gonna go on and find out what the deals
And there's more of it there, right, And to me,
if it's a sequel or moving forward, that's where even
like Star Wars Starfighter, right, terrible titles say back and forth,
but that's where there's all speculation. Is Ray Skywalker in
that as you connect that, right, we've heard rumors, four,
we've heard rumors. Some things have changed with it being
the sequel. That's what's great is you don't have to
do it. You could do it and the door's open.
You could do Starfighter and it's gonna be its own thing.
That's cool. Or whether it's at the end of that
movie or in a sequel, Hey, it's its own thing.
But now we could go into the main timeline connuity,
main sequel characters, introduce them, have them whatever, let's do that.
Like for me, I would prefer this show not to
be a prequel dude in the nineties and have their
have completely enough against the characters, because that's why too,
if you eventually do want to do a sequel series,
there's like other stuff's going on. These characters have heard
murmurs about it, and it's not completely out of thin air, right,
But maybe that's the idea is if they do a
sequel series, they don't want any characters. And again there's
been no rumblings. They have not say an thing. They've
said the opposite where you'll never see these characters in
live action, never say never, as John Sean Connery have
taught us, right. But for me, that's maybe what they
could do is, oh well, nothing else happened. So if
the shit in the present day happens the stranger things kids,
I can pick up on it, right. So sure, granted,
so in nineteen eighty setting, I'm not sure what that
would be. I'm assuming it is a prequel. That gets
me a little less excited. I don't mind, because they said,
like this stone thing is not exactly the mind flare,
but something to do with it. So I will watch it.
I will give it a chance. I guess that prequels
already start with an asterisk for me of okay, you
gotta you gotta earn my trust a little bit here,
because once you start to do things that happened before,
you start put yourself in a box. Now, if they
say this is like early nineteen hundred, it's like what
I want the series to do, like it welcomed to Darry. Sure,
but we even talked about this and it Welcomed to Dary,
which it's so funny. I've seen that a lot like granted,
fair enough, but so many people like could people, so
many people comparing it Welcome to Day season one to
it's Stranger Things finale season five, and like, I'm somebody
that definitely likes Stranger Things more. I think it had
great moments, but I think of people have given the
like a lot of pass for some of the iffy
writing you check out reviews. Me and Dylan had some
issues with it, and I also think that now, granted
there's some things they did that I said that could
help about the times like this doesn't really fit in
the box of the movies. They're doing some weird timeline stuff.
I'm getting away and see that to me has to
see what the other seasons do, because if it's just
teasers of like, oh, there's some changes we could do here,
but they don't really do anything, it's like, Okay, I
still have the same complaints, So that's a TVD right,
But I still think the quality show the acting Stranger
Things is better. But I would never compare them in
that sense of sure, if you ask me, I'm fine
compared thing right, I'm finally like there's so many times
I'm not trying to do that where people go, oh,
you can't compare this to this. It's that you can
compare whatever you want. If you don't feel could be compared,
then you're worried about your thing. For me, it's just
like an odd link of like, other than them being
horror and I guess with kids, it's just that comparison
is all right. When people used to be like, you
can't compare someone to BVS, it's like, why not it's
superheroes fighting? Is this and that? Sure, yes you can
compare it Welcomed Airy season one to it's Stranger Things
like season five. It just feels like an odd comparison
because it feels like they're doing something differently. And then
if you are, then to me, Stranger Things is still better.
It has a lot of issues. The people are talking
about the fucking Lincoln Park background, like there's some iffing
if it, but I'm not looking to put them against
each other. I liked if enough. I gave them if It,
I gave that seven, but it was weird. It just
felt like it came in. It just felt like that
it welcomed to dairy kraw was waiting for this and
that finale hit and then there's memes galoores, like what
is the correlation here? It's not like they're not competition
in that sense. It's not like oh, Won Duffer brother
went over there, like I understand when people are doing
like oh, Smashing Machine Mario Supreme, we know the better
brother is right just just odd? I don't know. And
before I go too far, s Pubs, you can send
your questions on Patreon, like s bubs said. You can
join the Phase one tier or higher, any of those
tiers you get to send in questions before cast as
just I didn't know what conformitigate was, so I read
the art about it and thought that explanation was pretty funny,
and Netflix this quotation. Netflix announced event on January seventh
of What's Next fans to point out the links of
the show. Yeah, with Will rolling at seven, the first
ever D and D session, and then being several other
thematic connections. The answer, almost certainly, though, is simply a
fan base struggling. They code with the ending they aren't
satisfied with. But no, and then he said, but no,
I don't think secret finale, so just like, want a
vision and yeah, I just don't think that's happening, but yeah,
a spinoff, we'll see And what was the other notes here?
Misterious rock? Okay, sure, and then it's very different. But
Verma Stranger thinks, sure, waiting to see what happens there.
But let's get into this, right. So Duffer has been
doing a lot of interviews. I will say that I
think because I think we saw this with the Game
of Thrones finale that happened when people were like what
happened to There's a scene where Denaris, if you don't know,
you know, I'm sure you know at least a little
bit of it. But if you don't know, big character
has an army for some reason, they get attacked and
they're like, well, where's that army? And then they go, well,
they just kind of forgot that army would be attacking
the right and the dufferst gave a very similar answer
to one of these questions, and I'm like, oh boy,
here we go. I just feel like I remember this.
I remember endgame when they talked about cap going back
in time or the multiverse, and I can't remember which
one or was which, but the writers like, well or
I don't know which one right, but one of the
groups you got the Russo Brothers and then you had
Marcus mcfiey, and one of them said, well, he went
back in time and he's been there the whole time.
And then the end of their group was like, well, uh, nope,
he went to the different multiverse. He's non on time
with our other heroes that somewhere completely different, right, And
that time I was fine with it because I thought, well,
if they never answered this cat thing, it's kind of funny.
Can leave ambiguous. Is old man Steve a guy from
multiverse traveling over say hi? Or is old man Steve
a guy that's been there the whole time watching stuff,
which I don't like. That's fun Now a dosday, we're
gonna get that answered, and I don't like the route
we're going. Check out. We'll do born newscasts in the
future on that so happen. I feel like they also
give other answers. They're like, ah, people didn't really love right,
and now the Duffers are doing here. I know legally
they probably have to write. I'm sure Netflix signs them
up for hey, go do some interviews promote the shows,
but at the same time, one do they really need
to Are people gonna check out the show more because
of these answers, especially if the answers are not happy. Granted,
I still think this is for the hardcore fan base,
and this is for people that really care about the show.
I think if you are a general audience matter of
the watch Stranger Things, you're watching it, enjoying it non
joint then moving on. I don't think you're reading what
the Duffer brothers said, luckily or not luckily. But now
with social media, with TikTok, and like I said, even
with ex with the for you, you will get algorithm stuff,
so you might see some of the interesting Stranger thing
like what happened to the pregnant lady and they answer
you right. So for me, I I I just it's
you can see these things, but I still think people
are actively going out for them. Sorry, I got a
notification there for scheduling from mister s Bubbs. I gotta
hang on once Secon, I gotta wait. We'll see what
David says live on Errow doing some scheduling forget for us.
But I just be like these questions for the most people.
General audiences are not gonna affect, but for the people here,
I go, is this the best thing to do? Now?
Let's see hang on one second, yes, let's do that.
It's perfect. Okay. So I the questions here that were answered,
I don't think they shoul I think creatives should steer
away from these or do two things where Spob's a
brother is up where I think for me, it's like
David Lynch where it was like, because he makes some
really trippy stuff right when Twin peaks stuff that was
very some even things that never answer some things that
are just like up to interpretation, right. So to me,
when he would say, ah, you gotta watch it again,
that was kind of a two for of watch again
because you missed something or it's like yeah, like there's
a deeper meaning there, but really there's not. But I'm
just gonna fuck with you. I don't want to answer that, right,
or the James camera out of Hey, if it happened
the show like it, it's can't like whatever I say
is canon, go with that and it happened because it happened.
To deal with it, right, I'm not saying you gotta
be rude about I'm not saying you gotta be arrogant
about or pomp bits, but I do think maybe some
of these creatives should stop doing these post things because
for me, this is where I think for most people,
but for me, like for the general audience, it is
an effect. But for me, there was something I didn't
think about. I brought up the Vicky stuff, I brought
the destined girlfriend stuff. There's I think another thing I
brought to you that we'll talk about these interviews that
I brought on the review, some stuff that bugged me,
some stuff that I think actually hurt the finale, but
nothing massive, right. But then there's stuff like I completely
forgot because obviously I saw in theaters hype crowd, and
then I did the review, as I said that I
only had an hour because I had to do New
Year's festivities. After I completely forgot about the pregnantlity subplot,
and when I learned about what happened, that was pretty
fucked up and pretty crazy and not fucked up in
like a oh that's really dark, right, and was just like, Oh,
that's how it goes, and it's weird because a few
of the answers they give here and I'll point them
out literally could have been fixed with one line of dialogue, like,
for exampleight, let's start with the pregnant lady one. That's
something that I still like the finale, but that actively
will bring down some points for me. As I've said,
I think the ending points for our characters are great.
How we get there some things along the way, lots
of turbulence. They introduced the subplot of Cali finds, Okay,
all these pregnant ladies are trying to create another eleven,
right with the blood she's the best one. They're trying
to do this with Cali's bood get to town. So, uh,
they set up at one point they talk about I'm
pretty sure I could be wrong, but I thought one
point they talked about saving these pregnant ladies or getting
the kids or something like that. Right. I know it's
tough because the kids they had the kids with Holly,
but I feel like her and CALLI talk about this, right,
So for me, I've forgot about that. So the fact
that they went, hey, the plot is we're gonna you know,
Cal's get shot. We're gonna ever out there, stop deckness
off the mind flare, and then we're gonna blow up
the upside down, which makes sense, right, blow the upside down,
blow the abyscuit that out of there. If you have
all these pregnant laies that these characters know about, that's
really fucked up for characters that are supposed to be
saving the world or saving people. It's very easy to
to lines where either when Callis tell that story, she says, oh,
I found these experiments and then explain something like but
none of them worked, and those ladies passed away, those
babies passed away, or they killed them because it didn't
work out right, or say that like it's tough to
save them, right, but or say the same thing where
or just put them not in the upside down, right,
or just say that though they didn't make it as
dark as that is, likeveckna kill them something like that,
like put the death on someone else other than Hopper
Levin in the gang. That is fucked up. And that's
a weird plot line to introduce, especially where I feel
like they did talk about saving them, so that was
somethe Wow, I didn't think about that, and that's that's
messed up. That that feels like something where again, don't
introduce that. Find a way to kill that off screen.
Like I said, if they were to say, hey, the
military did that right away, you feel better about because like, oh,
they're working on them, but the military can them off
and man doesn't. Isn't Linna Hampton a piece of shit? Yep?
There you go. Uh and then let's see here and
then even then I had this quote from there for
Matt Duffer says he regrets doing the post finale interviews
asking fans to come some slack. I'm not in a
good place, like, why the hell do we do any
of them? Yesterday is being me. I'm like fried, I
was getting over the flu. So anyone mad at any
of the answers we gave, you, just cut me some slack.
Here's one thing. And I do respect this because like
I didn't love the everything about the movie, but and
especially like the ending too right. I think it is
really weird. But look at bo as a preade, I
think I respect nothing. I respect ari Aster for people
asking them specific questions about the finale and just said
you know what for now. And again, he could be bullshitting.
He could not know, he could know. He could be like,
I'm gonna throw something in here. That's very ambiguous. I
know what it means to figure it out. But he said,
you know what, I'm not gonna talk about the ending
right now because I want people to kind of dive
in and have their own thoughts discussed before I come
down with the hammer. Right. And I think especially that's
Bo's Afraid. That's like, and that was I think his
lowest grossing I guess Edington prob was like, that wasn't
a massive movie. You go to someone and say, hey,
have you seen Bo's Afraid? They're probably gonna say no
to me. Two things I would have recommended. One the
Duffer should have not like because because when he says
a not good place, granted actually not granted right, because
I was gonna say, they're gonna pay millions, they're making movies.
But how many times do we see like fuck man? Like,
I'm not trying to be a downer, but we lost
Rob Williams. You would think that this guy's so happy,
joking legendary actor one an Oscar, his life's great, right.
No people are can be a bad place. So I'm
not trying to make this to that level. I just mean, like,
when he says it not a good place, he could
just be talking about being sick. But if people when
he's saying when he's talking about the reaction to the internet,
because it's it's it's interesting where usually you get the
reaction of the finale and people like, here's the Duffer's
reaction to the fans. This is like, here's the Duffer's
reaction to their reaction of the reaction. It's like this
chain of their reacting to the interviews that gave him.
People's reacting that I guarantee you if they've seen these
interview reactions people dragging them for that, if they, I
hope not. But for some mental health stuff. I don't
know what saying. They're in a super dark place, but
some people can be. If they put this finale out
and there's already mixed reaction, and the interviews come out
and there's more mixed reaction, that that can't be good.
You know. I can't remember which celebrity it was just
recently talked about, like the movie came out and they
just turned their phone off for a week and do
look at anything. And I don't know if they're telling
truth of line, but they like the movie came out.
I think they found out like oh, this is what
they did the box office and then left phone off,
like phone off from that cut out and if they
did that, which it sound like they did, because I
think they said like then the next week saw I
got reality. I didn't think they were lying. Can't remember
who story it was, but like feel like that's what
they should have done, maybe for a bit longer, because
that's the thing where it's like Bo's afraid, and that's
the same thing with the answer in the interviews. You
don't want to give this the fact that it was
like I think it was like Saturday or like two
days after. It's like already we're getting to like the
Duffers breakdown, everything's going on. It's like, you don't need
to do this. I don't think public you need to.
I think you can tell on Netflix like hey, let's
let's sit for a bit, let's build up, and then
it's like, oh, in a month even from now, we'll
give these interviews when it's kind of tapered off and
people are stop watching, and then people might go back
and watch with a different feeling or at least talk
about it again. Right, I would say, for one, just
like if you don't want to do the camera and
the lynch like power move if you want to that
She's explained this. It's the stuff i'd say, like, let
it sit for a little bit. Even I'd say longer evening,
like a year, but let it sit for a little bit.
And two, don't go check social media, especially with this,
Like with the phenomenon, you knew no matter what, there's
gonna be people that probably absolutely hate what you're doing. Right,
but with this, when he's in a not a good place,
I guarantee that still has to suck, right, Like we
try to do this. But like same thing anything Geef
for So there's something that is a genuine like critique.
Well even with our movie, when I get a genuine one,
I'm like, ah, yeah, like it's and no one was
super native, but it's just like, oh I wish I
could have made that better, caught that or done that.
You know, there's some sorts and there's some where it's like,
oh I did get the fixed out before film vessils,
and there's somewhere it's like, ah, that's just the way
it is, and I gotta do better the next time. Right,
every time we've made a movie I've made, I like
and we're making low like Indie, you know, just five
figure budget stuff, right, but every time it makes me go, oh,
I could do better here and do better here. So
I can't imagine on this scale where if you were
to long your social media scene an interview, it's thousands
of people shouldn't unye, and the end the day it's
like it's fictional stuff. I know people love these characters,
so that's what I recommend. But he did say that, like, sorry,
what was it about the Uh yeah, not in a
good place? What was it where I lost it? Yeah?
I read an article a whole about it and thought,
the fuck I lost it all? I deleted it. But
let's see Stranger and even then Stranger Things season five
final finale plot holes explain. Also, that's the website. But
that's way they're taking, right, So we talked about prankantly
is that's one. This is what I talked about before.
Where were the Demi Gordons Demo dogs during Victim's final battle?
And then their answer was mainly it's because Vectim is
not expecting them to sneak up on his home turf.
Never a million years, could you imagine that there are
somewhere else. We're obviously discussed having a demo bat on
top of the mind Flare, but it felt more right
for us. Why do we need demos here when the
mind Flare is this giant thing that can attack them.
So here's the thing. I'm of two minds the Game
of Thrones, Like the Game of Thrones. One that bugged
me more about the Oh why didn't they stop this army? Oh?
Because they kind of forgot about them? Right? This was
like literally, you're kind of heading onto the coclision to
have a war. This was like, Okay, I can kind
of buy maybe Vecna's like ignorance or arrogance. He would
never think that they could get there. So okay, there's
no demo dogs or demic gortans whatever, Right, Sure I can.
I can make the leap. It's a little bit, but
I can get there. I guess. For me with this one,
I'm also just like it's season five, man, Like see
that season like Games was different because it was like
two factions getting together, that's the end war and their
characters involved with this, right, and the dragons were such
a big deal where it's like, are the demo god
like demic gods or demo dogs or demo Gordons or
demo bats whatever, like, are they that important now and
what's gonna happen? You would just add another two to
three minute scene of Will just fucking them up or
them shooting them. It's like, we've seen this al ray.
So for me, that's one that I know people that
are hung up on that big time. For me, not
as much. That didn't really bug me. I was like, okay, cool,
Like sure, whatever we didn't like, it just would have
been another scene. And what happened if you add that
scene and it takes away the effect of the budget
and then you have to like, we lose even effects
on the Spider looking good? Right, So for me, I
get it if that's something that bugs you. So all
of a sudden different things. The bug us didn't really
bug me at all. What happened to Susie sus the
actress that I am, and my mind should always be
there for them any further let's see, but I can't
remember where it is. But the duffer just said, like
they think that they oh, this was the actual actressaid.
I didn't have a conversation with them about that. I
think unfortunately, what can be assumed is that Dustin's year
long unhealthy greeting process. I mean he's cutting out friends
day to day spending time with them. You imagine you
probably could have a long distance relationship. I would like
to hope, or like to think he did nicely. I
don't think he did it nicely because he wasn't very
nice at that point in his life. Again, not a
big deal for me because like it's not like, oh Susie,
but like for the people that do care, and I
did bring up like I thought she might pop up.
It was a thread. All you need is when Steve's
given him the shit is, oh you've done this. You
are like this. You broke up with Susie. Done, done,
figured out easy right. So not a big one, but
again a little software, you know, especially because like it
did like maybe they had more time. I kind of
understand these movies that unfortunately have these release dates where
you gotta hit this, you gotta be out by this date.
It feels like a stranger things they would kind of
like give them a lot of time. But I don't know. Uh,
this is one that I can I'm the same as
the demo gorns, right, this is one that I feel
more on or more so for the people that have
a problem with it. But I think it's just something
that's happened before. To explain what happened to the military
after the finale, let's see that ever said in the
eighteen month gap, I suppose there's not much else to do.
You can't explore this to mention there's no eleven in
chasing more because she's gone. So my guess is they
solely dismantled operations and left town. So for me, it's
it's a two for right of people saying that's really
easy because right, it's like Nancy, there's a montage and
like there's a quoting the Nancy killing a bunch of
the guards, right, the government obviously the government might just
say the training facility, training exercise went wrong, something happened.
I digress. I guess for me is I'm just and
maybe people have had this before. For me, that's been
a critique from the whole series. Like even I think
it's season one when Hopper like breaks into the government facility,
I don't believe for a secondly, like, well, you keep
the secret, you don't say anything, and we won't say
anything about you doing this. In my mind, the government
would kill it the same way as like I Love
twenty years Later. That's probably my favorite movie of last year.
I still have a hard time believing that there's just like,
oh yeah, that country has a zombie mind virus and
we're just going to quarantine. We're in quarantine. Do nothing
in the world we live in now. I think most
country big we're fucking bombing that place, you know, Like
that's what I feel like what happened. So for me,
I understand, I do have that problem of man, they
sure get at this really easy, right, I had that
problem to be in this season. But that's something that's
continuously happened with like stranger things that you kind of
have to like throw the side, which that's where I
said John, you know, Patron and Discord remember asked, hey, like,
where do you guys rank this as far as like
best of all time shows? Right? For me, we did
our list this year on the for the ten year.
I didn't have it on there because it wasn't finished.
I did have Interview Vampire because and that wasn't finished,
but that was still just stronger me. That's the writing
is so strong. I form my personal favorite what I
have stranger thing there. I love the journey, I love
the characters, happy ending, I thought we got some great TV.
I would have it in my personal top ten. But
that's where it comes down to would I have it
in a top ten for writing? Like would it be
up there with Breaking Bad, Sopranos, The Wire, mad Men,
Six Feet Under No, that's where the change happens. That's
where I go no for my favorite, yes for best no.
And that's where stuff like that military stuff keeps it
from being away from the best. But that's okay because
I've just gotta dealt with it and it doesn't take
away from it too much. Let's see here, Let's see
I don't really care about that. If you asked about,
like what happened to Murray, doctor k mister Clark, and Erica,
it's like, I don't know. I don't know. Like they
were there at the graduation good enough to me, right,
we talked about the pregnant lady thing that was bad
and Erica for me. That's where we get into this
the Vicki one. Right, where is what happened to Vicky?
Let's see to never said we do that flash forward
Mike's story and we bring them up to a certain point,
and then we want to leave a little bit for
the fans in terms of where these characters end. Ultimately,
do Robin Vickys together? Maybe? Maybe not. From my point
of view, from everyone I knew in high school, a
percentage of couples remain together leave after high school or
college extremely low. Max and Luca's surprise because that love
is deep, but few others do. I I get the sentiment.
For me, it's just if that character Vicky's gonna have
as much screen time as she did a little bit
last year and then more so here than to me, yeah,
you should answer it. That's one that doesn't bug me.
Bug me, but it bugs me enough to go. Eh.
I can look past the Demi gorans, I can look
past the military the Vicky one. That's a knock I'll
have on you because to me, I've said before I
would much rather rewrite a little bit and have Erica
with Max. When I said, I don't care what happened
to Erica. To me, she was just like a graduation
gonna go and have a good life. She wasn't main
a character that I need to flash forward. But she's
still a sub character. Not that I want in the
adventure more. I felt like she was very sidelined this season.
Maybe that's something to do with her career or something
else going on. But if not to me, take out
Vicky put it there, you could easily just have Robin
be hooking up with Vicky and not have to do
it a big deal and leave like, oh, it was
just a girl friend back then, right, because the reason
I wanted so for Mike to see or sorry for
will to see that, and that comes with him coming
out right, you can still get that there, but I
just feel like to give for the big role she
did and then not answer what but Stewart that feels
a little Eh, that's a knockoff for me. That's a point.
You don't get the the you know, the pass on
that one. This one, I didn't even care about people.
Why didn't Joyce and Hawk recognize vecnas Henry k Krill.
I don't know time change. I don't think like and
even then like what do we need a fine saying
we went to school to him and he acted like this, no,
like literally, I'm just finding like, oh, that's a kid
they went to school like Augie's isn't big but it's
like there's still enough people that I'm sure you don't
know everybody, right, so I didn't need that one. If
that bugs you, sure, but uh yeah, I know there's
some about to play and stuff like that, but I
doesn't matter to me and say thing of this one too.
This is where I feel like some people and I
didn't watch, but there was this TikTok going around on
Twitter where it's like the forty three unanswered questions. I
watched about minute of it, and there was ones like this,
but then there was my ones where it's like I
don't really care. There's some big ones I definitely like
the pregnant Lady, even Vicky Understond and some of these.
It's different strokes for different folks, right, If some of
these are all these are big for you, if it's
your fair show of all time, then I get it.
But for me, it's like some of these are stretching.
Even then, like when they of this question why will
buyers did not feel pain? When the mind Flare and
Vecna were attacked to me, I didn't take that as
like and they'll have an answer, I guess I'll read that, right. Well,
we weren't showing him when the mind Flare is being attacked,
when he's being decaptived, at that point, the mind Flare
is dead. So at that point the several connection between
him and Vecna and when the mind Flair is getting attacked,
we see how much pain he's in off see Henry's memories.
But I just want to focus on the fine about
and that's fine, ma, And to me, it's just like
I'm fine with him feeling everything and the memories and
everything like that, but I don't think I like, I
think it's okay if I don't think it established like
when Will gets cold, like that thing gets cool, but
like that's I'm finally that's like the other way around.
I guess it's like maybe a copped up for me.
But even their answer here, I it works for me,
Like I didn't need this, Like Will needs to feel
exactly he needs to die, he needs to feeling in
his throat when Joyce's choppings out. No, like I was
finally being cut off, like I worked enough for me,
you know. So that's where all these questions, all these
plot holes or you know, whatever, that comes down to
what you look for in the importance of this story, right,
I think some are bad. I think some are stretches.
I think some are in the middle of what you prefer, right,
So that's it for Stranger Things. I probably will talk
about Stranger Things again with the boys at some point
once they catch up on what we've been watching, and
maybe even when we do an after and I'd like
to see everyone's thoughts on that. But uh, yeah, that's
it for that. We got about ten minutes left, so
we'll go over the box office this weekend here, and
it was obviously New Year's as well, so but again,
thank you to everybody because I see another big chat.
I'm sure most people tune in for the Stranger Things
stuff appreciate the last episode and this episode just doing
big numbers for the channel, So I very much appreciate
and thank you. And yeah, hey, if there is a
secret episode, I'll be here. For the prequel, I'll probably
be here. And if you like what we did and
you want to hear my thoughts or other people, as
I've said before, I do this podcast with three other guys.
That's the preferred method. Obviously I was just the one
watching this, but that's preferred method because it's a bunch
of us like if you like the stranger things dynamic
of just people hanging out. That's what we are. We're
not critics, we're not pundits. We're just a bunch of
friends talking about this suff having a good time. We've
had a lot of people, which I think, whether it
was joining the patren or in the survey saying hey,
I got a lot of people in my life that
I used to talk to this geek stuff with they're gone,
like not ted, but just like they don't watch anymore.
We've grown apart. You know, we're don't see each other
every day, people saying oh, I get to whether it's
listening with you guys or talking in discord and sharing
these thoughts with the geek stuff. It's a good community.
That's been some of the best off And I will
say some even some of the reviews or whatnot that
people have said and just like out thoughts is like
some really just there's one message is the best message
we've ever gone from geek first and I that's where
the serves that are anonymous, so we can't say who
it is. I'll read it on air when we eventually
maybe talk about them and whatnot. And it was a
very nice review. And if we can make your day better,
make it easier when you're at work or just like
that where this geek stuff happens and you will talk
to it. Now you have nobody, you know. Obviously we're
far out, and obviously we are still providing a service,
which I get it. You guys pays for that, but
you guys pay us to create more and talk about
all this stuff more and we appreciate that and we
love you for that. And again, so yeah, if you
like this, join, I think we have a fun community.
We've not had to banning assolding, that couple bots. That's
about it. But uh yeah, that's it. So stranger things
might be the clo the book might be pretty much
closed on that. Let's see here. Avatar, Fire and Ash
was number one at forty millions. Utopia was number two
at nineteen million. We'll start there. Avatar did cross a
billion this week, so even if to me it's at
a billion and the other one's two point three offuse
that could be like a big disappointment, but like still
made a billion. Movies are rarely making a billion nowadays,
so Utopia is one point five passed. What was it
Frozen two to be Disney's biggest animated movie. It's looking
to try and get onto Inside Out too, and it could.
Right now, it keeps going up. We're like Avatar. I
think it was last week where was like, Avatar is
projected at one point five to one point seven and
Utopia is projected like one point six to one point eight.
So could beat it, could not because obviously there's a
couple bets in the discord of who's gonna wins Utopia
an Avatar ash Avatar ash. But then this weekend was like, oh,
Avatar could hit like one point seven to two billion,
and then Utopia could be like one point eight to
two point one billion. So it's just like, okay, these
things keep I didn't see this weekend. That was my bad.
I didn't see how it compared to like the third
weekend of Avatar Way of Water, So that was my
bad on that one, but still both doing well like Avatar.
People love those Blue Alians. If if I said Avatar
was going to I still think hitting a billion out
of that's big. I know the cost is there for Avatar.
I know the other ones were almost three billion, almost
two point five minute, but still hitting a billion is
still a big deal, especially now post COVID, all the streaming,
all the options, that's a big deal. So for me,
that's already a big win. If they get to the
what I said, the one point seven, that's a very
big win. If they get to two billion, so yeah,
that's a very big one because that's just like only
three hundred million less than the last one. That's big.
I think, no matter what, we're going to Avatar four
and five, but like that's still big. And then Utopia, Yeah,
I the fact that it will It could be the
fact that right now it's projected to beat Avatar three. Officusely,
that could change, but I didn't think that. I thought
the international box officer Avatar would still pull it forward.
Now granted they could be like within a few million
of each other, but still I thought Avatar would beat it,
not handily, but at least by like one hundred to
two hundred million. So both too and well, And that's
great to see for the cinemas obviously, right, like obviously
it's IP stuff, but you still want to see stuff
doing well. And the two other stories here with Housemaid
and an Econda Housemaid is at is that updated? I
thought it cross Mad's gonna cross Housemaids. It saysn't that
ninety two million, but I think it's I thought I
saw somewhere it was that one hundred million. So obviously
big hit. One line's get's biggest hits in the last decade.
So again, as we told it last episode, I think
that's more so the placement and the good counter programming
because as we've seen everything sitting Swinging it does is
a massive hit, but still very good for her. And
then the other big story is it hasn't happened yet,
but it's just about to hit sixty million. Is Marty supreme?
Like I said, just about to hit sixty million, it's
projected to hit one hundred million, which would be a
milestone for A twenty four. Again, whatever you want to
feel like the marketing. If you didn't like the rap video,
didn't like this, doesn't matter. He got out there. I
saw the movie and I'm not gonna And here's another
question too, Mike. You did ask me. You said I
saw your cape out you saw that I logged capo
op Dean Hunters letter box kind of get a quick review.
What was your favorite song? I won't review it because
this week, I will do my twenty twenty six, you know,
ultimate ranking. So what I do is for every movie
I didn't review on the feed here, i'll give like
a mini review. I got about eighty two, eighty three.
I'm just a couple movies under last year, but the
Twins kind of gone the way, so I won't give
my review. I will say is my favorite song is
find Out. I don't know what it is. I think
it's like, oh, what's it? Sound like? Great track, just
like with Frozen. For Frozen two, I can't remember what
that main song is. Ah, damn it. I can't, Oh,
show yourself whatever that one is. I like them more
like melo dramatic with those slow building, quiet melodies and
they build that. That's Travis stuff. K Pop has a
fantastic so it's one of the best soundtracks ever. I'll
say that. We'll talk about the movie when I get there,
but as far as like, it's been a while since
I've seen a musical or anything that's had like four
to five, Like, oh, these are all bangers, even like
five to six, Like it's some good stuff. So we'll
talk about that on the rankings episode later on this week.
That one probably won't be my life, but it'll be
on Patreon. But so with my supreme I won't say
what I felt about it. I won't say I'll give
you a full review, and I do my ranks. I'm
not gonna log it because I mean, that's my selling
point for the Traves two. That's my six ranks. I
have seen it, but it was myself, older gentleman who
sat in the second row. Don't know why it was
empty enough theater. Then there was a couple two in
front of me. Thank you, April. Into the Unknown, Yeah,
that shit right there. Yeah, that's I prefer Frozen two
or Frozen one. Both of them to me are very
like six six point five. I don't think they're great movies.
I think they're very overrated. But Into the Unknown that's
some good stuff right there, like a way more than
Let It Go so for me though, Then in the
audience there was this is a nine to forty showing
on a Sunday. There was generally a group of eight
i'll say young adults to teens. I think they are
teenagers either or in high school or just fresh at
high school. And they were young, and that's why I'm
not seen that at a twenty four movies, Chalamea is
working and the fact that he can as right now,
things can always change because I got desk streading and
got ellen ring. But as of right now, for not
even then, those are ips non ip for him to
get the biggest opening weekend and then the first wee
hit one hundred million, and maybe that could be the biggest.
I imagine it'd be the biggest movie right for a
twenty four I think, does that sayn right? I feel
like they've had something one Hunter, but maybe not maybe
like let me see, I don't have time for that.
We got eight insless. I don't have time to bring
all up. But the fact that all this is still
happening shows he's working. And uh yeah, I'll I'll just
say he put both the campaign and the movie on
his back and it definitely paid off. And uh A
preview for my thoughts is to me, if the Academy
doesn't knight him, there is something up going on there.
Uh there. To me, it's one of those performances where
it's like this is obvious, right, like this this kind
of has to happened to me. If it doesn't happen,
it's like, oh, you really just want to stick with
the narrative, like, well, we don't like give them the
young guys the oscars And it was like, all right,
but that's what I'll say the movie. How I feel
with that, I don't know, but performance wise, yes, and
that's huge to have those two milestones like that shows
now can he do it with every movie? I'm not
gonna say that, but it shows he's Bill and the
fan base and he again that family he's dating and
with right now, not that that doesn't help, right, Like
that's somebody that like they marketing geniuses, right, I don't
like there any stuff. I don't like a lot of
the people in their family as far as some of
the views and things they've said, but and done. But
marketing wise, can't say anything against that, right, smart people,
So let's see everything everywhere. Okay, that's why maybe it
was just the maybe I was wrong then April maybe
it was like it's the fastest to hit one hundred million.
I think that's what's gonna happen, maur super I think
that's that so still great milestone, right, and I think
if it hits one hundred million in the next little
bit and I do think with Oscars, I think it
I think he has a good shot of winning bet
the Oscar. I think it does have a shot of
winning Best Picture. I still in one bat after another
is what I'm rocking. But you never know. I think
the awards and the hype that'll give it more boosts
as well, so it could beat everything everywhere. Like, I
don't think it's out of the realm of possibility to
do that. So I think for me even then, like
all the milestones is good for him, right, that's just
stuff that he can lay out as far as Okay,
especially the next time he doesn't twenty four movie or
anything like that, super easy, be like, hey, I did this, this,
this and this and this. Give me the budget because
that's one thing. Movie looks great. It is seventy million.
Don't know where all at seventy million went. It's like,
I think it looks great. I don't know if it
looks like seventy million great, Like, don't get me wrong,
it's just like that's all money for like an a
twenty four smaller movie about ping pong. But I digress.
It does look great. So but yes, I'll talk about
that last week. So we'll see I Like I said,
I'm basing my Wednesday episode about if the guest joins me,
and that might be my movie ranking episode. If big
news drops, that might change you guys know how Trash
told you gos. It's kind of ebbs and flows when
we go where the news takes us. And that's where,
like I said, I even saw a good suggestion to
someone saying, oh, what have you do an evergreen topic
at the end of an episode? Uh, that might be
something happened. It's just like I never know, like how
many like I don't never know how long a topic's
gonna take, and then I never know who's gonna be
a live chat right, or the questions I get too
sometimes with it's just like a newscast. I'll call for
questions and maybe people out the topics and there's just
one or two right, and then some the like five
to six. So it's tough for me to judge. So
that's not a bad idea, but I might try to
do just That's why I might section is okay, maybe
once a month I make sure I do one evergreen
topic for the patrons and then you can actually try
have told you, because then I don't clog up the
feed as well. So there we go. We've done it.
Thank you very much to everybody that tuned in for
the twenty twenty six first episode. Has told you the
first episode of Geek first, I said, tomorrow side Quest
that is up the twenty twenty six game per that's
gonna be tons of fun. Me and Dylan are doing
a full fallout review from episodes two to four, and
then we get the movie preview. Patrons, you'll get that
early because they'll be trash told you on the feed.
And then yeah, what else and then the gimmick Sunday
eleven am pst our best of for the year. We're
gonna talk with W and AW what's our favorite match,
favorite gear, favorite wrestler, all that stuff Ferret Show. So
thank you very much that we're not tune in. I
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