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Speaker 2: Connected Here with an individual that you may not have
Speaker 2: seen yet unless you are browsing TikTok here with Courtney
Speaker 2: Cannon Corney. Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 3: Oh thanks for having me. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 2: We met through one of the just most random pieces
Speaker 2: of serendipitous behavior that I ever could have dreamed of.
Speaker 2: But literally, you posted a video promoting the Physical Media Advocate,
Speaker 2: and I think you are the first person that has
Speaker 2: ever done that without me knowing them. So, first off,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 4: No problem, I love it, I love the magazine.
Speaker 2: I'm stoked to hear that. We'll talk about that just
Speaker 2: a little bit. But the big thing is you, how
Speaker 2: are starting to make a name as somebody that loves
Speaker 2: movies and physical media primarily on TikTok and for a
Speaker 2: hobby that is primarily an older generations game in a
Speaker 2: lot of people's eyes. I cannot wait to dive into this.
Speaker 2: So first tell us just about yourself. For those that
Speaker 2: don't have any knowledge of who you are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So my name is Courney Cannon.
Speaker 4: I have been collecting physical media since I was about
Speaker 4: ten years old. I'll be thirty next month, so we're
Speaker 4: going on about twenty years now. So growing up in
Speaker 4: the nineties, you know, my family, we loved collecting VHS's,
Speaker 4: and then once DVD's got around, I started getting those
Speaker 4: and then just started falling in love with physical.
Speaker 3: Media and from there, you know, it's the rest is history.
Speaker 3: And then, especially once Blockbuster closed.
Speaker 4: Down when I was in high school, I really started
Speaker 4: diving into getting physical copies, and then we upgraded to
Speaker 4: Blu rays and now the four k's and the boutique labels.
Speaker 4: But I've loved the movies my whole life. They've really
Speaker 4: saved my life life in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: As cheesy as.
Speaker 4: That sounds, I've, you know, through all the dark times
Speaker 4: in my life, movies have always been there, so I've
Speaker 4: always just relied on them as a sort of medicine.
Speaker 4: And then the physical media aspect is just so fun
Speaker 4: for me, and one I've always been an advocate for,
Speaker 4: which is why I was so drawn to the magazine.
Speaker 4: And so now I live in Nashville, Tennessee. I work
Speaker 4: for FedEx headquarters and I'm also a tap dancer. Just
Speaker 4: a little background lore there, And just I love movies
Speaker 4: and I love talking about movies. So that's why I
Speaker 4: started posting on TikTok. I just wanted to find a
Speaker 4: movie community to discuss my love of films and have
Speaker 4: been able to find that on the platform.
Speaker 2: Nice. Nice, Let's dive into the movie love. Then, what
Speaker 2: is like the first movie I ever remember seen in
Speaker 2: a theater?
Speaker 4: So this is always a fun question because my memory
Speaker 4: is terrible, but I do have some fun long term memories.
Speaker 4: So I do have a very distinct memory of my
Speaker 4: dad taking me to see Lord of the Rings. And
Speaker 4: I cannot tell you which one. I do not remember
Speaker 4: which one it was, but it was when I was
Speaker 4: like maybe four or five years old, and I remember
Speaker 4: seeing it on the big screen, and just I mean
Speaker 4: it was an experience. So seeing Lord of the Rings
Speaker 4: in the movie theater was just incredible when I will
Speaker 4: never forget. So that's usually my answer, even if it
Speaker 4: may not be the right answer, just because again, my
Speaker 4: memory of a young age is not the best.
Speaker 2: I still think my first memory, I don't know if
Speaker 2: I actually remember it or if I just knew it
Speaker 2: that that was the answer twenty eight years ago and
Speaker 2: now I just talk about it like a memory. So
Speaker 2: probably similar things. I love that you are in Nashville.
Speaker 2: There are a couple pretty big theaters around there. What
Speaker 2: are some of your favorites in Nashville to go frequent?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you can usually catch me at the Bell Court,
Speaker 4: which is the local theater here and has been around
Speaker 4: for a long time, so I'm either there. Actually just
Speaker 4: saw a midnight showing of Revenge a couple weeks ago
Speaker 4: during their action series they're doing like an action midnight series,
Speaker 4: so that was super cool. I'm a Regal Unlimited member,
Speaker 4: so I'm always at the Regals, And then you have
Speaker 4: the Franklin Theater, which is actually what I've only been
Speaker 4: to once, so I have not been able to frequent
Speaker 4: that as much as I would like. And yeah, so
Speaker 4: usually the bell Court of the Regals where you're gonna
Speaker 4: going to catch me here in Nashville.
Speaker 2: The Bell Court is kind of one of the main
Speaker 2: staple theaters that people know across this country that have
Speaker 2: never even been and I am I'm insanely jealous to
Speaker 2: not be somewhere close to something like that. I mean
Speaker 2: that we've got decent theaters here in Kansas City, but
Speaker 2: none that have like an esteemed name like the Bell Court.
Speaker 2: So that's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, wean fun, fun little story about that.
Speaker 4: So they did like a one hundred years film in
Speaker 4: Nashville where they did like little series with seminars and things,
Speaker 4: and they showed Earnest Scared Stupid as part of their
Speaker 4: hick Flick series about like a month or two ago.
Speaker 4: And and that's actually the theater that the original cast
Speaker 4: and crew when they premiered it, that's where they got
Speaker 4: to watch it. So it was so cool to get
Speaker 4: to see that, like in the theater that they watched it.
Speaker 4: And they had the director's son there for like a
Speaker 4: Q and A and the guy that play Joey.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I love going there for fun events.
Speaker 2: That's incredible. I love that. So you've been collecting for
Speaker 2: a long time, different formats, all kinds of stuff like that.
Speaker 2: What are some of the some of your favorite labels
Speaker 2: at the moment.
Speaker 4: So my favorite labels would have to be Arrow Video.
Speaker 4: I think their box sets are always top tier and
Speaker 4: in as far as box sets go. Second Site films
Speaker 4: is one of my also all time. I mean, they
Speaker 4: have put out my bank account hates to see a
Speaker 4: new Second Site release coming, So definitely Second Site and Arrow,
Speaker 4: and obviously for horror you have Screen Factory, and then
Speaker 4: I think as far as quality vinegar syndrome.
Speaker 3: You really can't beat their quality.
Speaker 4: So whenever I actually their most recent sale, I got
Speaker 4: to pick up some good things, so those would be
Speaker 4: in my top But there are so many. I mean,
Speaker 4: you have Criteria in which the Criterion sale just ended.
Speaker 4: I got a nice stack from there.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so I mean there's just too many picks,
Speaker 3: so I can never say just my favorite, but you
Speaker 3: got all of them in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somewhere. Gosh, probably about a year and a half ago. Now,
Speaker 2: I was trying to just get a handle on like
Speaker 2: the industry itself behind the scenes, and I counted at
Speaker 2: that moment one hundred and fifty plus active boutique labels,
Speaker 2: and I definitely got a little intimidated at that.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there are many that don't have like
Speaker 2: a very frequent release schedule. They'll literally do maybe one
Speaker 2: or two a year, but they're still active, they're still working.
Speaker 3: They still count well.
Speaker 4: But how exciting is that that so many places are
Speaker 4: putting so much effort into physical media. So I think
Speaker 4: it's a great time for physical media and.
Speaker 2: We need more and more places like one that you
Speaker 2: just made me jealous with. Again. You just got to
Speaker 2: visit Orbit DVD. How was that?
Speaker 3: And it was awesome.
Speaker 4: It's only my second time getting to go in person,
Speaker 4: and I could have been in there all day. I
Speaker 4: told them when I walked in, I was like, you know,
Speaker 4: you guys don't know my face, but you probably know
Speaker 4: my name.
Speaker 3: You see my name all the time in.
Speaker 4: My three orders. But yeah, they I mean, it is
Speaker 4: a dream in there.
Speaker 3: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2: We on the show, we've had Mark, the owner of Orbit,
Speaker 2: on a few times to talk about the store and stuff.
Speaker 2: And the very first time, just like you and I
Speaker 2: just did behind these scenes, I went Mark nice to
Speaker 2: virtually meet you and he said, oh, I know your
Speaker 2: name very well, and i'ment, oh.
Speaker 3: God, Oh don't you love that? Oh that's great?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, they're They're my favorite place to order from
Speaker 4: as far as when I especially pre orders. They take
Speaker 4: such good care of their packaging and they always have
Speaker 4: it to you on time.
Speaker 3: I just yeah, I have will seeing the praises of
Speaker 3: orbit forever. So I'm so glad.
Speaker 2: And they're the nicest people. I mean genuinely that they
Speaker 2: look out for things. One of the stories that I
Speaker 2: like to tell people's orbit will like they'll hear that
Speaker 2: a disc is rattling in your package and email you
Speaker 2: and say, hey, would you like us to open this
Speaker 2: and reset the disk in there so that it doesn't
Speaker 2: come scratched.
Speaker 4: Yes, I've actually got that email before and I was like, yes, please,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they are watching, thank you your TikTok. Let's let's
Speaker 2: get into this because it is it is starting to
Speaker 2: become a beacon of hope for me, at least in
Speaker 2: showing a younger generation some of these because your comment section,
Speaker 2: first of all, extremely kind. Love to see that. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you delete things before I get there,
Speaker 2: but for the most part you get a lot of love.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, thankfully, you know, because it's scary when you
Speaker 4: start posting. I started posting back, i want to say,
Speaker 4: around March ish and it was a little a little
Speaker 4: like intimidating, just because the internet can be a scary place.
Speaker 4: But so far, you know, I've had so many kind
Speaker 4: people thankfully has found the right side of TikTok. And
Speaker 4: I think the movie community, I feel like movies just
Speaker 4: teach us empathy, and so I feel like as a community,
Speaker 4: we're just prone to being, you know, empathetic and kind
Speaker 4: and we all love the same thing. And I think
Speaker 4: because it's such a niche thing these days with physical media,
Speaker 4: Like in my own personal life, I'm the only one
Speaker 4: that collects movies that I know, so it's I think
Speaker 4: we all see that it's a rare thing. So we all,
Speaker 4: you know, gets to group together and it's like one
Speaker 4: little community, and it's been absolutely incredible. It's it's actually
Speaker 4: it's been it's been better than I ever thought, and
Speaker 4: it's my page has grown more than I thought it would,
Speaker 4: so which kind of can be scary to at the
Speaker 4: same time, but I'm just super grateful to have gotten
Speaker 4: to meet so many awesome people and.
Speaker 3: Talk about movies with people that love them as much
Speaker 3: as I do.
Speaker 2: I you know, it has not I've not seen your
Speaker 2: page for all that long, because gosh, it's only been
Speaker 2: a handful of weeks and somebody sent me that link.
Speaker 2: But the amount of just random ideas that you come
Speaker 2: up with to share his videos. I would love to
Speaker 2: hear what is the inspiration for these, because this is
Speaker 2: probably why I would be terrible at TikTok. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to think of the idea, here is a rainbow
Speaker 2: of my favorite movies, Like, that's just a unique way
Speaker 2: to share your favorite pickups and stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: So it's funny because my brain is always moving, and
Speaker 4: so I have a notes app So if I think
Speaker 4: of something during the day, i'll see something and it
Speaker 4: just sparks an idea, I'll throw it in my notes
Speaker 4: in that way, I don't forget it and then I'll
Speaker 4: go back and look. But or if i'm you know,
Speaker 4: on TikTok, I'll look and see. I'll get inspiration from
Speaker 4: other creators. My friend Raggle Fragle, that's who he posted
Speaker 4: a criterion of rainbow recommendations, just one movie for each color,
Speaker 4: and I messed with I said, that's a great idea.
Speaker 4: I'm going to use this and I'll give you credit,
Speaker 4: and so I kind of turned it into my own things.
Speaker 4: So it's kind of like borrowing from, you know, other creators.
Speaker 4: But also just my mind is constantly moving, and so
Speaker 4: whenever I think of something, I'll write it down because
Speaker 4: if I don't keep my notes app I'll never remember
Speaker 4: what I want to make a video on.
Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the main things too. And
Speaker 2: we'll get back to the physical media aspect of the
Speaker 2: TikTok side in just a minute. But you you keep
Speaker 2: people interested because it's not just physical media. You're going
Speaker 2: to actual events. You're showing people like local museums and stuff.
Speaker 2: Are there any of those around there that have been
Speaker 2: maybe your favorite places to visit that you got to
Speaker 2: share a video from.
Speaker 4: So my favorite place that I've been to that's in
Speaker 4: that it's in the Nashville area. It's up in the
Speaker 4: Hermitage area. It's called Full Moon Cineplex, and it is
Speaker 4: a movie theater. It's only open on Fridays and they
Speaker 4: play old movies and it's actually connected though to a
Speaker 4: tattoo shop, so you can go get a tattoo and
Speaker 4: the youn go see a movie on a Friday night.
Speaker 4: They always play older horror films typically, and they do
Speaker 4: dinner in a movie, so they make homemade dinner.
Speaker 3: So like last time I went.
Speaker 4: It was like a ganoche and I always say it wrong,
Speaker 4: and like a salad and bread.
Speaker 3: I know I didn't say it right, probably gulash, Oh my.
Speaker 2: Goodness, the top of the cake or something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's definitely gog Yeah, you're you're correct. It
Speaker 4: is goulage. I know I was wrong, but I was like,
Speaker 4: I gotta just it. So yeah, they did goulage and
Speaker 4: salad and bread and they and you get popcorn Minnesota
Speaker 4: and all that with the movie is twenty eight Bucks,
Speaker 4: which if you go to like a restaurant stuff, you
Speaker 4: know it's and they're so great. The owners are awesome people,
Speaker 4: and it's just such good vibes. Like my first time
Speaker 4: ever going, they had the room Morgue magazine. They had
Speaker 4: a whole table you know, out so they did a
Speaker 4: whole Friday the thirteenth. They showed the Seventh movie on
Speaker 4: Friday the thirteenth, so I got to go. And so
Speaker 4: they're actually doing a festival, a a convention, horror type
Speaker 4: convention in the spring. They do like a whole thing
Speaker 4: the Tattoo Parlor and the Cineplex, huge event. So they're
Speaker 4: definitely my new favorite place that I've found around here.
Speaker 4: That and I posted a couple of things and they've
Speaker 4: they've they've done really well, because I guess people are
Speaker 4: you know, just aren't used to seeing those those kinds
Speaker 4: of things anymore.
Speaker 2: So I think that is sort of the power of TikTok.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are so many I don't know, like
Speaker 2: niche communities within niche communities that people are just hungry
Speaker 2: for at the moment. And so like many people that
Speaker 2: follow me that, yeah, they love movies, they love physical media,
Speaker 2: but they don't get to see, you know, conversations with
Speaker 2: some of these filmmakers, or conversations with some of the
Speaker 2: people behind these boutique labels, and so that is like
Speaker 2: that granular desire and you get something like this where
Speaker 2: you know, somebody might be in I don't know, New
Speaker 2: Mexico where they don't have something like that and some
Speaker 2: random little town and you get to bring that to
Speaker 2: the world. And just like you're talking about movies being
Speaker 2: empty machines because I think it was an Ebert quote
Speaker 2: originally movie anyways, you're essentially doing that now is showing
Speaker 2: them a little like cross section of a community that
Speaker 2: they would probably never get a chance to see in
Speaker 2: real life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, for sure.
Speaker 4: And you know something that's fascinating is I have a
Speaker 4: lot of international followers. I have a lot of followers
Speaker 4: from like Ireland, the UK, Australia, Canada.
Speaker 3: It's and they're always will message your comment like we
Speaker 3: don't have anything on this over here. I mean, I
Speaker 3: wish we had stuff that y'all have in the States
Speaker 3: over here.
Speaker 4: And so it's just it's really fascinating that TikTok just
Speaker 4: kind of brings people together from all over in you
Speaker 4: get to see things that you never would otherwise.
Speaker 2: Well, with physical media being a big chunk of the show,
Speaker 2: we should probably spend some time on that. And with
Speaker 2: you having collected for twenty years, how how are you
Speaker 2: feeling about physical media in twenty twenty five? Just general vibes.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I think it's at a peak right now. I
Speaker 4: think the releases there have been so many incredible releases
Speaker 4: and so many announcements, you know that. I think it's
Speaker 4: it's exciting, and I think there's like kind of just
Speaker 4: it seems to be growing a little more. I think
Speaker 4: maybe see maybe the popularity of you know of it
Speaker 4: on TikTok. I've seen, you know, several people have messaged
Speaker 4: me personally saying that they've started their collections because they've seen,
Speaker 4: you know, me posting about it, or they'll see the
Speaker 4: releases that I'm posting about and and that you know,
Speaker 4: they started their collection. And I think with the things
Speaker 4: that are coming out, the quality is really good. And
Speaker 4: I think, like we were saying, how there's one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty boutique labels, that there's so many companies that
Speaker 4: are investing in physical media that it makes me really
Speaker 4: excited that it's not going anywhere, because you know, some
Speaker 4: people will tell you it's dead and stuff, but it's not.
Speaker 3: We keep it. We keep it alive around here.
Speaker 4: And I think that people there's enough people buying this
Speaker 4: stuff to where they're continuing to invest in and it's
Speaker 4: continuing to grow, and.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited.
Speaker 4: I think this is a great year for physical media.
Speaker 4: Like next month, I'm getting the Casper.
Speaker 3: It was the Steel Book.
Speaker 4: Uh, I mean, there's so many on my pre order.
Speaker 4: I stay having pre orders in so I couldn't tell
Speaker 4: you everything I've had pre ordered right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to reveal that list. Yeah, as
Speaker 2: far as that, what are what are some favorite releases
Speaker 2: from the year so far? Because I would agree it's
Speaker 2: been kind of a banner year It's a really crazy time.
Speaker 2: I feel like every week we're getting something that everybody's
Speaker 2: shocked that they never thought would get a release, and
Speaker 2: yet here we are getting another one of those every
Speaker 2: six days.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, literally in my bank accounts, like please.
Speaker 4: But one of mine for sure this year was the
Speaker 4: Nice Guys Second Site box set that was released.
Speaker 3: Oh there's my dogs.
Speaker 2: We respect all on this channel.
Speaker 4: Yes, Jenny loves to to get in the camera, but no,
Speaker 4: the Nice Guy Second Sight set was is one of
Speaker 4: my favorites. The coloring and like the artwork that they
Speaker 4: picked is incredible. I just got the Frailty box set
Speaker 4: from Lionskate Limited, which Lionskate Limited has been knocking it out.
Speaker 3: Of the park. So those are the top two that
Speaker 3: just came to my mind first.
Speaker 4: And you know, like you said, there's been so many
Speaker 4: that I could sit here and list off, like ten
Speaker 4: or twelve, like the sleep Boy Camp two and three
Speaker 4: from Screen Factory so happy they got a four K,
Speaker 4: So so many.
Speaker 2: It's a big deal. Are What are some things you
Speaker 2: don't love about the state of physical media in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five? What are some improvements you'd love to see?
Speaker 3: I have one it's the prices.
Speaker 4: I think it's I think, you know, obviously you have
Speaker 4: a lot of collectors out there who are anxious to
Speaker 4: get their hands on these things. But my most like
Speaker 4: my most recent thing is the Nightmare on Elm Street
Speaker 4: four K set that's being released, and I mean it's
Speaker 4: like I think, I want to say I saw three
Speaker 4: hundred dollars because the other one is sold out on Amazon,
Speaker 4: and it's like, it's just the prices. Sometimes it's like
Speaker 4: ad like it hurts because you know, I feel like
Speaker 4: sometimes you know, they kind of they keep them going
Speaker 4: up and up, but that I mean that honestly, that
Speaker 4: would be the only thing. And also my shelf space
Speaker 4: as a personal grievance, my shelf space is just never enough.
Speaker 4: But honestly, like as far as negatives, I really don't
Speaker 4: have have many because, like I said, I feel like
Speaker 4: a lot of boutique labels are putting in so much
Speaker 4: effort for these releases where I don't really have any
Speaker 4: complaints there. It's just sometimes the prices. I'm like, like
Speaker 4: it hurts my heart sometimes, but yeah, I think the
Speaker 4: positives are definitely outweighing the negatives for sure.
Speaker 2: Are you are you staying up to date with much
Speaker 2: modern film. Are you mostly focusing on these older films
Speaker 2: that are coming out on disc?
Speaker 4: I'm staying up to date with with the mod Are
Speaker 4: you talking about like newer releases that are coming out
Speaker 4: from theaters and stuff. Oh yeah, oh yeah, for sure,
Speaker 4: we're we're getting those. I'm trying to think of my
Speaker 4: most recent ones I've bought that we're in theaters. But
Speaker 4: I will say I bought more older ones because they're
Speaker 4: you know, getting upgrades to four K and all these things.
Speaker 4: But like the A twenty four releases, I'm always trying
Speaker 4: to get the A twenty four releases. You can't really
Speaker 4: see it, but I have a whole A twenty four.
Speaker 4: This whole shelf here is all A twenty four movies.
Speaker 4: I think their physical releases are incredible, like the Heretic
Speaker 4: and the Sing Sing releases, like the how they do it.
Speaker 3: I don't have it here, but the you know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about there, like it's.
Speaker 2: Cool work code and labeled reach.
Speaker 3: I know, I know you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I wish I could reach it and just have it
Speaker 3: right here and just yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Am like yours.
Speaker 3: H Yeah, I think right now, yeah.
Speaker 4: I'm buying more older ones, but still trying to keep
Speaker 4: up to date with new ones.
Speaker 2: What about going to theater. Are you going to the
Speaker 2: theater to see many modern movies or mostly folcus on
Speaker 2: the rep screenings.
Speaker 4: No, every week I'm at the movie theater at least once,
Speaker 4: if not twice. I usually go e through Tuesdays, but
Speaker 4: sometimes this when it's now that school's back, I'll go
Speaker 4: back to going on Tuesdays because you know, it's half
Speaker 4: off on Tuesdays, so usually in the it's always packed.
Speaker 4: So I moved it to Wednesdays, but Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Speaker 4: are our movie days. I actually am probably gonna go
Speaker 4: see a triple feature this weekend. I'm I've been so
Speaker 4: so excited for Weapons. That's one I'm so excited for.
Speaker 4: So I always seen that. But yeah, I'm always at
Speaker 4: the movie theater, so you can you can catch me there.
Speaker 4: But I do love like the Belcourt, like we were
Speaker 4: talking about, they're always you know, showing older ones, so
Speaker 4: I also, you know, love getting.
Speaker 3: To to go there.
Speaker 4: It's so it's nice being here in Nashville where there
Speaker 4: are so many options. I feel like I feel like
Speaker 4: I'm always doing something movie related, like a few weeks.
Speaker 4: But I would to see The Goonies with the Nashville
Speaker 4: Symphony playing live while the movie played, and it was like,
Speaker 4: I think every movie should be watched that way because
Speaker 4: I also love music and I love it was so
Speaker 4: cool to get to watch that live.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we a few years ago we got to see
Speaker 2: Suspiria with Fabio Fritzy doing it live or man, that
Speaker 2: is the wrong name. It is Claudio Seminetti in Goblin,
Speaker 2: that did it, not Fabio Fritzy.
Speaker 3: That was the other one that I would have when
Speaker 3: I've breagged you.
Speaker 2: Goblin They're playing with Suspiria live. Was a mind blowing
Speaker 2: experience for sure.
Speaker 3: Wow, I would love to see that in the theater,
Speaker 3: especially in that way.
Speaker 4: Man great times, such a yard when it comes to
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: He does that usually like every two or three years,
Speaker 2: and I think Nashville is always on that list, so
Speaker 2: you might want to pay attention. And that was almost
Speaker 2: two years ago, so okay, See, we only lived.
Speaker 4: Here since last October because I'm originally from Memphis. Outside
Speaker 4: of Memphis, so I just have been here for almost
Speaker 4: a year now, so I will.
Speaker 3: Be on the lookout for that.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of you leaving places, it happened to see
Speaker 2: that you did some stuff on some films down in
Speaker 2: Atlanta too.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I got to work for Marvel and their
Speaker 4: content protection department in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen. I
Speaker 4: got to work on like, in my opinion, the best
Speaker 4: Marvel movies that got Black Panther, both the Avengers Infinity
Speaker 4: Warren in Game and then Thor Ragnarok reshoots, which actually
Speaker 4: there's a really long story about what I did on
Speaker 4: the Thor Ragnarok reshoots. Actually worked in the painting department
Speaker 4: for that, so I got to paint.
Speaker 3: Some of the stuff.
Speaker 4: So that's a whole nother story and how I got
Speaker 4: into doing that. But yeah, it was so it was
Speaker 4: so cool getting to be in that scene during that time,
Speaker 4: especially for a company like that, and get to see
Speaker 4: it all, you know, take place on the sets and
Speaker 4: how what goes into all the sets and stuff.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 4: It was very surreal, got to meet awesome people and yeah,
Speaker 4: a dream come true for sure.
Speaker 2: On the title what does content protection do? Because man,
Speaker 2: I immediately picture somebody smacking somebody's hand reaching for a
Speaker 2: script or security or something yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So basically how we put it, it's, you know,
Speaker 4: keeping Marvel's secrets secret because one thing about Marvel, they
Speaker 4: do not want things getting out there, like.
Speaker 3: Tom Holland and Mark Ruffalo had my boss stressed.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we were in charge of kind of keeping
Speaker 4: the scripts, like you said, make sure none of the
Speaker 4: sensitive things on the set, like like layouts of certain
Speaker 4: scenes were laying around. I was in charge of making
Speaker 4: sure everyone that came on the set signed a DA's
Speaker 4: So that's how I got to meet a lot of
Speaker 4: actors' families, Like I remember one day I got to
Speaker 4: hang out with that Angela Bassett's family and why you know,
Speaker 4: they were on set and so things like that and
Speaker 4: just really you know, keeping keeping secret secret. But you know,
Speaker 4: I always said I had kind of a low end
Speaker 4: on the totem Pole job because I was just getting started.
Speaker 4: But to me, I had the coolest job because I
Speaker 4: got to be on the sets all day, every day,
Speaker 4: watching these incredible movies being made.
Speaker 3: And my boss just had me going from one set
Speaker 3: to the next, one movie to the next.
Speaker 4: So I'm not in any of the credits because if
Speaker 4: in order to be in the credits, you have to
Speaker 4: work on the movie for a certain amount of time,
Speaker 4: but because I was going in between because they film
Speaker 4: Black Panther Infinity War ending game all the same time.
Speaker 3: So I was just I was just jumping.
Speaker 2: Around crazy, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was surreal, fun fun times for sure.
Speaker 2: How I mean, how do you get started in that
Speaker 2: that doesn't seem like something you just stumbled into?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 3: Actually, you know it's funny you said that. I kind
Speaker 3: of was it.
Speaker 4: So I moved to Atlanta, graduated college. I went to
Speaker 4: University of Alabama, graduated in December of twenty sixteen. I
Speaker 4: moved to Atlanta in that January because my professor had
Speaker 4: told me, if if you want to work anywhere in film,
Speaker 4: you want to be in Atlanta because that's where all
Speaker 4: the big budgets with blockbusters were big made. So I
Speaker 4: moved without a job. I got a waitressing job. Before
Speaker 4: I started my waitressing job, I had met this guy
Speaker 4: because one of my friends parents had met his mom
Speaker 4: and they just got to talking and she said, my
Speaker 4: daughter's best friends in Atlanta for film, And she said, well,
Speaker 4: my son's in the film industry working on Black Panther.
Speaker 3: They exchanged numbers. She gave me his number, I text him.
Speaker 4: It and so we just got for lunch and he said,
Speaker 4: do you want to come meet one of my friends
Speaker 4: who's the security supervisor for Marvel, And I said sure,
Speaker 4: and so then I met him and I didn't realize
Speaker 4: it at the time, but it was technically an interview.
Speaker 4: He asked me to just come on the set and
Speaker 4: he showed me around, and I guess I passed the
Speaker 4: interview because about two weeks later I didn't hear anything.
Speaker 4: Then two weeks later, I get a call on a
Speaker 4: random Wednesday, right before I was about to start my
Speaker 4: waitress job. He said, can you work start work today?
Speaker 4: I said yep. So I was on the Black Panther
Speaker 4: set that day and from then on the rest was history.
Speaker 4: It was crazy how it all worked out. So sometimes
Speaker 4: it is randomly meeting the right people. And you know,
Speaker 4: I was such a yapper, so I was talking to
Speaker 4: and so that kind of helped me kind of get
Speaker 4: my feet into because I I.
Speaker 3: Was just talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, to be fair, a lot of people
Speaker 2: nowadays don't love talking to people. And if you got
Speaker 2: that skill, that is a way to break in.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so it worked out. It worked out. So
Speaker 4: it was a very very bizarre way to it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: people ask me that all the time. How'd you get in?
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, well, it's very very.
Speaker 2: It's super easy. Just have somebody you know, know somebody
Speaker 2: yet yeah and yeah.
Speaker 4: And they had just met in passing too, how of that?
Speaker 4: And so it's just crazy like they didn't really know
Speaker 4: each other and then we didn't know it was.
Speaker 3: It was wild but nice.
Speaker 2: On TikTok, there is obviously a huge number of a
Speaker 2: younger population, and obviously people are not immediately jumping to
Speaker 2: eighteen to twenty three year olds when they think of
Speaker 2: physical media. So do you feel like there is a
Speaker 2: hope in in a rising interest in the youth of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five in physical media?
Speaker 3: I do, I really do.
Speaker 4: I've I've had some people message me or will comment
Speaker 4: and they're in that age range, you know, letting me know,
Speaker 4: like you know, I saw your videos and it's really
Speaker 4: inspired me to start collecting. And actually got on TikTok
Speaker 4: because of the younger kids, because I was a tap
Speaker 4: teacher and so they got me to download TikTok years
Speaker 4: ago and finally started posting, finally startpace on movies this
Speaker 4: year and even they started kind of getting into it
Speaker 4: a little bit.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I do. I have some hope because I.
Speaker 4: Think with this younger, the younger generation, and they are
Speaker 4: always on TikTok, and I feel like with more people
Speaker 4: posting about this kind of stuff, you know, they can
Speaker 4: see like, oh wow, you know that, that looks cool.
Speaker 3: Like I want to I want to get that. Do
Speaker 3: that too, I want to get that, you know.
Speaker 4: And also with the streaming services, because that's kind of
Speaker 4: all they know right now. They you know, they didn't
Speaker 4: weren't around with Blockbuster and everything was here, but with
Speaker 4: the streaming services constantly taking stuff off or raising their prices,
Speaker 4: or censoring things and editing movies. And that's and that
Speaker 4: was in my video that I talked about where I
Speaker 4: talked about the physical Media Advocate because it's I think
Speaker 4: it's important to get out the reasons why it can
Speaker 4: be instead of just showing like, oh look at this
Speaker 4: cool stuff, here's you know, the reasons why it's also
Speaker 4: really important.
Speaker 3: And I think those the younger the younger people.
Speaker 4: See that and you know think, you know, yeah, that's right,
Speaker 4: because I do. In my analytics, I do have a
Speaker 4: lot of younger people that see my stuff. I could
Speaker 4: see that, you know, the eighteen to twenty three range.
Speaker 4: It is reaching them so hopefully, but I am. I
Speaker 4: am hopeful, I am, And that's my goal is to
Speaker 4: still keep it alive and inspire them as well and
Speaker 4: show them that physical media is superior to streaming.
Speaker 2: Something about that age range at the moment feels like
Speaker 2: they're reaching for more of the tangible. I did not
Speaker 2: have that hope for about five years ago, probably for
Speaker 2: that generation. But I almost feel like this might be
Speaker 2: kind of morbid to think about. But kind of all
Speaker 2: of the crap that happened during COVID, I feel like
Speaker 2: scared a lot of people going, oh, I could literally
Speaker 2: just lose a lot of this stuff because that happened
Speaker 2: so much more during the pandemic, and now it's oh, well,
Speaker 2: my favorite movies, I probably should have them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, no, I one hundred percent agree.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think COVID kind of changed a lot of things.
Speaker 4: It's like you see kind of the world before COVID
Speaker 4: and after COVID, and with that generation, I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think maybe they are leaning more towards the tangibles.
Speaker 3: And I think even with more than just.
Speaker 4: Movies, I see a lot of music with like vinyls
Speaker 4: and things like that. They're getting more of that as well,
Speaker 4: So I think I think there definitely is a lot
Speaker 4: to be hopeful for with the younger people, but also
Speaker 4: with us older older people.
Speaker 3: I'm a millennial, so I think the millennials are holding down.
Speaker 4: The physical media as well, because we were right when
Speaker 4: Blockbuster started going out. We were in like high school
Speaker 4: or college and so but yeah, we gotta we gotta
Speaker 4: let the younger ones know what's up. I think we're
Speaker 4: doing a good job with that thought.
Speaker 2: So I'm hopeful all of the people in my chat
Speaker 2: section are typing furiously right now because a twenty nine
Speaker 2: year old just said all of us old ones, well,
Speaker 2: technically I'll.
Speaker 3: Be thirty in next month. So no, we're all so young.
Speaker 3: We are young. I say, I'm still young.
Speaker 2: You are extremely young.
Speaker 4: Yeah, teaching kids makes you feel because I taught ages
Speaker 4: five to eighteen and they made me feel like I
Speaker 4: was ancient.
Speaker 2: So right, well, and I mean the reality is we
Speaker 2: for any hobby, and it's not just about physical media.
Speaker 2: And this is not talking up the importance of what
Speaker 2: you or I or anybody else that does this does
Speaker 2: necessarily but any hobby or art form needs its ambassadors,
Speaker 2: and that's literally what you're doing is approaching a segment
Speaker 2: that wouldn't have that and saying, look at all the
Speaker 2: benefits of this, listen, And even if five percent of
Speaker 2: those listen, you made an impact on a lot of
Speaker 2: those people.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, even just one person, Like I never forget,
Speaker 4: I'll never get my first message of someone telling me
Speaker 4: they started their collection, and it was a younger person.
Speaker 4: I was so like it just it was it was
Speaker 4: so neat. So that was like, I'll always remember that,
Speaker 4: like that first message, and it was it was cool.
Speaker 2: Well you mentioned vinyl, any other things you collect, because
Speaker 2: you've shown off a lot of like movie props and
Speaker 2: horror memorabilia. I mean, at this point, the yellow hoodies
Speaker 2: like really synonymous with your.
Speaker 3: Channel, So I know I had to wear it.
Speaker 4: That's why I wore for this interview. I was like,
Speaker 4: you know what that was the video I remember I mentioned.
Speaker 4: I said I'm gonna wear it because and it was
Speaker 4: one of my It was one of my dad's favorite movies,
Speaker 4: was The Shining And since he's passed, I like really
Speaker 4: love this movie and so I'm always I love wearing
Speaker 4: the sweatshirt. But I do collect vinyls. I I really
Speaker 4: try to get a lot of movie soundtracks. I don't
Speaker 4: have a huge vinyl collection compared to like actual vinyl collectors.
Speaker 4: I would say I have maybe thirty something, you know,
Speaker 4: which is good for me because you know, I I
Speaker 4: just actually got to pick up from Waxworks. I got
Speaker 4: four of their movie soundtracks. So I have a couple
Speaker 4: of bands, you know, of albums I love, But I
Speaker 4: really am lean into the movie soundtracks. Shockingly, I know so,
Speaker 4: but I I do get those, but really just those
Speaker 4: and then movies.
Speaker 3: I'm not like a huge reader.
Speaker 4: So not much in books, but but I do like
Speaker 4: to get some vinals every now and then as well.
Speaker 2: Not a huge reader, but a magazine brought us together.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: Hey, the iron is not lost on me, my.
Speaker 2: Friend, well Corney, this has been incredible. Everybody needs to go.
Speaker 2: Check out the link for your TikTok in the description below,
Speaker 2: I sincerely hope you get a I don't know how
Speaker 2: much of my viewers are into TikTok, but I know
Speaker 2: that I follow you on there now and I hope
Speaker 2: any more do. I'm considering making a small leap over there.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that I feel like some
Speaker 2: of this could could play over there, so we'll see.
Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely, you definitely should. I will be your first
Speaker 4: follow follower. I'll be happy to support. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: always love many new movie people, so I'll be always
Speaker 4: happy when when new people find my page.
Speaker 2: For sure, excellent have crossed to Yeah, it was a
Speaker 2: serendipitous to a point where I am shocked that it
Speaker 2: happened like that, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love it so much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was so excited, and like I said, I've
Speaker 4: had them for almost a year now, and well I
Speaker 4: was like, I need to talk about physical media. I
Speaker 4: need to post about this magazine. I don't know if
Speaker 4: anyone And I was like, and.
Speaker 3: So look how cool it comes across your page. So
Speaker 3: I yeah, I love it so much. Like I said,
Speaker 3: I try to get it every month.
Speaker 2: So I appreciate that. We'll see you on the next
Speaker 2: one hopefully, because I loved having you on. So thanks
Speaker 2: for coming on.
Speaker 4: Awesome, Thank you for having me. It's been so fun.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate having me.
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