Speaker 1: Always look forward to talking to our friend Steven at
Speaker 1: thunder Pop TV, on Instagram and on YouTube. He's back
Speaker 1: back home in Austin. After how long are we in
Speaker 1: Colorado for?
Speaker 2: Not long enough? Right it's August. Yeah, four days.
Speaker 3: That's a nice trip there. You're not like a normal
Speaker 3: text and that goes for three months?
Speaker 2: Right, No, we don't have that kind of Texas money.
Speaker 3: I wonder where how these people all have that kind
Speaker 3: of money?
Speaker 4: Right, I'm like, is there some secret that we didn't
Speaker 4: find out about? Like, how come everybody we know they're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: see in three months. But then we're like, okay, we'll
Speaker 4: be here, miek.
Speaker 3: And then they always say come see us my house
Speaker 3: here out.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: The whole thing is we never know. We can't afford
Speaker 3: the air fair to get there.
Speaker 4: I want to be the one inviting people to come
Speaker 4: see us somewhere.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Well, we're glad you're back with a lot going on,
Speaker 1: and Altricia's super excited to talk to you about Robert
Speaker 1: Downey Junior doctor Doom.
Speaker 3: It's a big deal, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a big deal.
Speaker 5: And this is I mean, last weekend was already a
Speaker 5: big enough weekend for Marvel because of the Deadpool Wolverine movie,
Speaker 5: the much anticipated release of that last weekend, breaking all
Speaker 5: these records all over the world. But the same weekend,
Speaker 5: Marvel at Comic Con drops this big nugget on us,
Speaker 5: the return of our DJ to the MCU, but this
Speaker 5: time as a super villain.
Speaker 2: As a villain, yes, our hero.
Speaker 4: Is it weird that they did it in the same
Speaker 4: weekend as the Deadpool opening seems I think it was
Speaker 4: read that out a little bit.
Speaker 5: I thought it was, you know, it's because they're competing
Speaker 5: against themselves for the you know, the attention with you know,
Speaker 5: it took kind of took the thunder away on Saturday
Speaker 5: from Deadpool because Deadpool owned the the screens and the
Speaker 5: social media. And then this drops and completely took it away.
Speaker 5: And you know, something's a big deal. When Sports Center
Speaker 5: covers it a non sports story on Sports Center, you
Speaker 5: know it's a big deal.
Speaker 3: And the way the way that they did it was
Speaker 3: pretty awesome too. Well.
Speaker 1: They they did it all. What's the the show where
Speaker 1: they wear masks and stuff? Uh, they sing the mask singer.
Speaker 1: It was very masked, okay, because there was they all
Speaker 1: came out and then he took the mask off and
Speaker 1: it was Robert Downey Junior, or as Stephen calls him.
Speaker 2: Our dj ardy J. That's what his friends called Sandy.
Speaker 3: Ar DJ and the MCU. That's what I've learned to that.
Speaker 2: Here's what I think I heard.
Speaker 4: What Rdj's paycheck was to do the Doctor Doing movie,
Speaker 4: even if he didn't want to. I don't think he
Speaker 4: had a choice. How much, Stephen, how much was it?
Speaker 5: It's reported to be one hundred million dollars step here
Speaker 5: in the two Avenger movies.
Speaker 2: Wow, one hundred million dollars just goes to shay you.
Speaker 3: How much are they making? You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: If they're paying him a hundred million, how much are
Speaker 3: they making?
Speaker 4: I heard anywhere from eighty two one hundred. But I'm
Speaker 4: I mean, like even if he's like, no, God, I
Speaker 4: hate the character, absolutely not, I'm iron man, And then
Speaker 4: they're like what about this? And push the paper across
Speaker 4: the table. What I wouldn't give to be in a
Speaker 4: situation where somebody had to write a number on a
Speaker 4: piece of paper and push it across the table.
Speaker 2: He couldn't say no to that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be nice, that'd be nice.
Speaker 2: He's like that, where's that mask? At give it to.
Speaker 1: H We've also got you know, a Deadpool Wolverine. Not
Speaker 1: done yet. They're still out promoting the movie.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a lot of you know, circulating on
Speaker 5: social media this past week because the movie is still
Speaker 5: out there. It's gonna be number one again clearly for
Speaker 5: this week. In fact, it's uh by Sunday. It's it's
Speaker 5: estimated that it will hit three hundred and eighty million
Speaker 5: mark by this weekend, which will make it the highest
Speaker 5: grossing R rated film of all time. And what movie
Speaker 5: do you think it's surpassing? Take a guess, you mean
Speaker 5: another R rated movie? Yeah, for all time R rated movie.
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I don't know. I don't even have a guess.
Speaker 4: My mind's blink.
Speaker 2: I would have never got it. Passion of the Christ.
Speaker 3: Jim could that James could be good? Easel played Jesus
Speaker 3: in that.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, huh, Wow's to.
Speaker 1: Make a sequel for that one?
Speaker 3: Success?
Speaker 1: Well, not really, because he does come back, you know,
Speaker 1: three days later.
Speaker 3: The very first part of the movie says, three.
Speaker 2: Days stop Sandy.
Speaker 5: They have a big comic con appearance where he shows
Speaker 5: up and reveals himself like our DJ did in the
Speaker 5: crowd supon.
Speaker 1: I mean that that kind I love. I think Comic
Speaker 1: Con is so cool. It's not my thing, but I
Speaker 1: love that it was cool. It was not cool when
Speaker 1: it started, and now it's become super cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's awesome. That's out in San Diego every year.
Speaker 1: It's funny. For those of you that don't know this,
Speaker 1: we do this, uh little chat with Stephen every week.
Speaker 1: You can find him on Instagram at thunder Pop TV.
Speaker 1: You can also find him on YouTube at thunder Pop TV.
Speaker 1: And we do it virtually so it's like a zoom
Speaker 1: calls basically on steroids. And I love looking into Stephen's
Speaker 1: studio and in the background.
Speaker 3: And I've mentioned this before.
Speaker 1: It's got the greatest ghetto blaster yea.
Speaker 3: And I saw it a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and now I've been rooting around on the on
Speaker 1: the internet, Yeah, looking for a jam box.
Speaker 2: You're gonna try and get one like Stevens.
Speaker 1: I think I want one, so there.
Speaker 3: It's just nostalgic for me, right.
Speaker 2: And they still make them. You can find them online.
Speaker 3: I bet they're not expensive either.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's one. I'm trying to think of the name
Speaker 2: of the brand.
Speaker 5: I see them always come up on Instagram, and they
Speaker 5: do these really cool boxes that are kind of a
Speaker 5: combination of something a little bit more modern but also
Speaker 5: have the retro retro vibe.
Speaker 2: But they do the Bluetooth and all the other gadgets.
Speaker 3: You know what I think about that.
Speaker 1: I never saw a girl with a jam box or
Speaker 1: a ghetto blaster.
Speaker 3: Never saw one thing. I saw a guy with it.
Speaker 2: Never saw a surprise if our daughter showed up with one.
Speaker 4: Because she has now managed to get a walkman, a discman,
Speaker 4: one of those recorded that you you put the cassette
Speaker 4: tape in and you have to pet press play and
Speaker 4: record at the same time. She's going all retro. So
Speaker 4: don't let her see your jam box there. She'll want
Speaker 4: one of those two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty sweet. I'm jealous. Stay with us. Stephen
Speaker 1: coming up. So Steven's got a thought on Top Gun
Speaker 1: and these are always on whenever Steven has a thought.
Speaker 3: That's always funny. Yeah, right, what it is?
Speaker 1: This one's on Top Gun and the sequel that they're making,
Speaker 1: and also is there possibly a spin off for Cobra Kai.
Speaker 1: Stick around more with Steven from at Thunder pop TV
Speaker 1: coming up. Our friend Steven from at thunder Pop TV
Speaker 1: joined us. You can find him on Instagram and on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Let's talk with Stephen before I said, Hey, you know
Speaker 1: the Top Gun sequel, it's official, it's done. I've got
Speaker 1: a thought on that, and that's always leads to something interesting.
Speaker 3: What's your thought here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I hope it didn't build it up too much.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know if it's funny. It could be,
Speaker 5: it could be turned into a meme. But here's the thing.
Speaker 5: When they made Top Gun Maverick, clearly the biggest star
Speaker 5: of that movie was Tom Cruise. Now there is an
Speaker 5: actor in that movie who we talked about recently from
Speaker 5: Austin whose star is rising. He was unknown when they
Speaker 5: when Top Gun Maverick came out a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5: But his star is steadily rising. And he had a
Speaker 5: big movie this Summer Twister, the Twister remake, big movie,
Speaker 5: this summer, huge movie. Now, Tom Cruise takes his time
Speaker 5: on these sequels. He doesn't rush it out, and it
Speaker 5: could be I mean that movie could be three or
Speaker 5: four years before we even see it. Yeah, maybe longer.
Speaker 5: He'll have to get another cosmetic surgery Taylor to be
Speaker 5: able to still look young for it. But yeah, it's
Speaker 5: coming up. A will to take a while. He doesn't
Speaker 5: rush him out like Marvel movies. So if this movie,
Speaker 5: say took four years, five years, Glenn Pale's got another
Speaker 5: five summers or three or four summers to build up
Speaker 5: his brand. Will Tom Cruise still be the biggest star
Speaker 5: in that next Top Gun movie.
Speaker 4: I feel like I, no matter how big Glenn Palell gets, no, no, no
Speaker 4: matter how big anybody gets, if Tom Cruise is in
Speaker 4: the movie, I feel like Tom Cruise is the star.
Speaker 2: That's what I think.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, It's like, yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: like if George Clooney is in a movie, he's the star,
Speaker 1: right right.
Speaker 2: No matter what his role is. Did you he's the draw? Anyway?
Speaker 3: Did you guys hear what Tom Cruise is going to
Speaker 3: do at the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Can you here about this?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 1: So apparently he's already filmed the stunt, but he's going
Speaker 1: to be part of the stunt. He is going to
Speaker 1: scale some building in France, maybe the stadium.
Speaker 3: I don't know. It's a French name. I didn't know
Speaker 3: what it was.
Speaker 1: And then he's going to take the torch and then
Speaker 1: he's going to skydive in Los Angeles with the torch
Speaker 1: and land at the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles because
Speaker 1: the next Olympics are in Los Angeles. What so he's
Speaker 1: transporting the flame, the Olympic Flame, down from Paris to
Speaker 1: la as only Tom Cruise can do.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised he wasn't like taking a rocket into space
Speaker 4: and then jumping out of the rocket in space to
Speaker 4: bring it down to la That's something Tom Cruise would do.
Speaker 3: That'd be pretty cool. Now, what's going on now?
Speaker 1: Cobra Kai A lot of I watched the first couple
Speaker 1: of seasons of it. I enjoyed it, kind of let
Speaker 1: it go, but it's good to know that it's always there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's wrapping up. There could be a spin off
Speaker 1: from it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they'll wrap up this year, the final half of
Speaker 5: their their sixth season. Then they'll have another Karate Kid
Speaker 5: movie with this time with Jackie Chan teaming up with
Speaker 5: Ralph Machio. But there's a spin off being planned, and
Speaker 5: if you're watching the current season, they're setting it up
Speaker 5: already in the season with some more backstory of mister Miyagi,
Speaker 5: and I can give this little nugget out.
Speaker 2: I think it's safe.
Speaker 5: They're starting to find out there was more to mister
Speaker 5: Mayoggie's pass than we realized.
Speaker 2: Like how he became mister Miyagi.
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, his origin story, and he wasn't always squeaky clean.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say that they find some sexist tweets
Speaker 1: or something, and that was canceled.
Speaker 3: They're going to cancel mister Miagi. Is that what it is?
Speaker 4: They're going to take him out of all the pastes?
Speaker 1: Did his class mate when he was nineteen, she claiming
Speaker 1: that he said a dirty word stopped.
Speaker 2: I think you made me nervous when you start talking
Speaker 2: like that. I think that would have been better than
Speaker 2: what they came up with. But I don't know. There's
Speaker 2: some something.
Speaker 5: He was involved in, some organized crime.
Speaker 3: Possibly.
Speaker 2: I mean, he had to get his edge from somewhere.
Speaker 1: Right, true, he was a tough washing cars, painting fence.
Speaker 2: Oh no, he's a dangerous guy.
Speaker 4: He had to have learned that from some sort of
Speaker 4: need to stay alive all.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know how Miagi got the healing power when
Speaker 1: he clapped his.
Speaker 2: Hand and rubbed them together.
Speaker 5: That's some that's some dark magic there, right, it really is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, But supposedly there's a prequel.
Speaker 5: Well that actually the producers have said we're working on
Speaker 5: a prequel and this is the setup for it, following
Speaker 5: mister Miyagi as a young.
Speaker 3: Mister Miyaki boy Miyagi.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I never got crazy about Karate Kid, but I
Speaker 4: feel like I would be more into mister Miyagi's stuff
Speaker 4: than I was into the Karate Kid stuff.
Speaker 1: I just wish I had that clip of the comic
Speaker 1: talking about the crane kick out kind of you've seen it, right,
Speaker 1: Steven when he think he goes They kind of oversell
Speaker 1: the crane kick when they say if done right, no
Speaker 1: ken defend Eh, wait a.
Speaker 2: Minute, what you're about to do?
Speaker 1: If you see the guy go up into a big
Speaker 1: crane position, don't run in their head first.
Speaker 3: That's the thing. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So speaking of Ralph Macchio, and this has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with Karate Kid, but did Ralph Maccio do really well?
Speaker 3: Was with his money?
Speaker 1: I've heard like in roast and stuff like he hasn't
Speaker 1: had to work since he was a kid because he
Speaker 1: did invested in smart things and did smart stuff.
Speaker 3: Have you heard that?
Speaker 5: I you know, I got that impression over the years.
Speaker 5: I don't know exactly, you know, nowadays because we're talking
Speaker 5: about Comic Con because of all these conventions. Yeah, people,
Speaker 5: I know, Luke Farigno has done really well for himself
Speaker 5: post Incredible Hulk just doing conventions. Yeah, and has been
Speaker 5: able to buy businesses just on that money from his
Speaker 5: convention money. So I think probably from you know, those
Speaker 5: types of things, doing the conventions and conventions and appearances.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I saw him years ago before Cobra Kai,
Speaker 5: like probably ten years before Cobra Kai, and he did
Speaker 5: a YouTube video and he was at his house and
Speaker 5: he looked like he was doing pretty well. Was a
Speaker 5: pretty nice house and in the northeast.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just looked it up and it said is his
Speaker 4: net worth in twenty twenty fours around eight million dollars?
Speaker 2: I mean, nothing crazy.
Speaker 4: Most of his fortunes is due to acting roles, especially
Speaker 4: the Karate Kid franchise you mentioned those.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Comic Con and stuff, and like guys like
Speaker 1: lu Fregno'll be able to make a good living.
Speaker 3: Steven, are you a wrestling fan at all?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, I love wrestling. Okay, is there is there
Speaker 2: anything more?
Speaker 1: Pathetic than when you see a video of some old
Speaker 1: crippled wrestler signing autographs somewhere on a fold out table,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and some gym in the
Speaker 1: middle of New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Like not super cool, like comic Con.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're signing up for like twelve dollars in autograph.
Speaker 3: It's kind of sad, isn't it. Hey.
Speaker 1: Wrestling Monday Night Ross coming to Austin. Oh, it's coming
Speaker 1: back two weeks Yeah yeah, oh yeah, y'all going. I
Speaker 1: would be out of town unfortunately, Otherwise I'd be there.
Speaker 1: Trica wants to go.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go.
Speaker 4: I don't want to go. If if The Rock was
Speaker 4: going to be there again in his little wrestling panties,
Speaker 4: then I'd go. It should be their front row exactly,
Speaker 4: my wrestling panties up there to him.
Speaker 3: We enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Make sure you follow Steven on Instagram at thunder pop TV.
Speaker 1: He's also on YouTube at thunder Pop TV. Have a
Speaker 1: great weekend. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 2: Oh y'all too. Thank you.