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Dylan, once again lost without Ryan to guide him, finds his way into a review of Thunderbolts*, the latest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The official trailer for “Superman” is finally here! Join The Watchers as we discuss this new preview of the James Gunn film that will hit theaters in July and kick off the new DC Universe. #superman #supermanfilm #supermanmovie #clarkkent #krypto #lookup Superman (2025) is a superhero movie directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Isabela Merced, Edi Gathegi, Nathan Fillion, Anthony Carrigan, Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, María Gabriela de Faría, Wendell Pierce and Frank Grillo.Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show!facebook.com/watchersbasementtwitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasementthreads.net/@watchersbasementanchor.fm/watchersbasement
On this week's episode Will, Ian & Nora will have to band together to save themselves from the void, they'll stand at the edge of it and babble on about their opinions, because why not, who cares, it's all stupid, i hate everything, i should just give up, i'm so depressed i feel like i'm in a void.... Wait a second, a void!? Call the-THUNDERBOLTS* (pg-13) 127 minutesDirected by: Jake Schreier. Starring: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, Wyatt Russell, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kaman, Olga Kurylenko, Wendell Pierce, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer and Many Other Talented People!00:02:30- First Thoughts00:11:00- Star Wars Quiz00:25:00- THUNDERBOLTS*00:29:45- Tasty Morsels0034:00- Rating/Review01:02:00- Totals01:03:00- Next Week/ByePatreon: patreon.com/THELastActionCriticsInstagram: @TheLastActionCriticsemail: Thelastactioncritics@gmail.comNext Week: Rogue One (disney+)
Thunderbolts (2025): Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Julie Louis-Dreyfus Heroes of Science Fiction and Fantasy is now a radio show. Freedom 1300 in Texas. The show is on Saturday nights at 7:00pm pst. it starts at 7:06 after nightly news. You can stream it anywhere in the world at Freedom1300.com Music: February (mumblemix) this track is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commerical 3.0 Unported License. https://blocsonic.com/releases/track/bscomp0007-disc-1-6-calendar-girl-february-mumblemix http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Podcast cover art by Rodney Holmes with Vecteezy. Michael Combs: Website Heroes of Science Fiction and Fantasy covers heroes of movies, television, comics, and books, interviews, and commentary. Sci-Fi Talk. doc@heroesofsciencefictionandfantasy.com. Text 510-610-8944. www.heroesofsciencefictionandfantasy.com
In this electrifying episode of The Marvelists, Peter and Eddie dive into Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts*, a bold, action-packed film that unites a team of misfit antiheroes for a covert, high-stakes mission. Joined by special guests TashiGeekGirl and her husband Jason, the hosts discuss the movie's gritty vibe, its key role in the MCU's Phase Five, and the standout performances that bring this unconventional superhero story to life. Expect spoiler-free insights, spirited banter, and excitement about the film's thrilling dynamics! When a dangerous global conspiracy emerges, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' Valentina Allegra de Fontaine assembles a ragtag squad of enhanced operatives—including Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova and Sebastian Stan's Bucky Barnes—for a clandestine operation that tests their skills, loyalties, and moral boundaries. Thunderbolts* is directed by Jake Schreier and stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
We present our Thunderbolts review!Thunderbolts* is a 2025 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the team Thunderbolts. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jake Schreier from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo, and stars an ensemble cast featuring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In the film, a group of antiheroes are caught in a deadly trap and forced to work together on a dangerous mission.Marvel Studios first teased the formation of a Thunderbolts team within the MCU in 2021. The film was revealed to be in development in June 2022, when Schreier and Pearson were attached. The main cast was revealed in September, with additional casting through early 2023. Lee Sung Jin joined to rewrite the script by March 2023, one of several creatives who returned to work with Schreier from the Netflix series Beef (2023–present). Production was delayed due to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, causing some cast changes in early 2024. Calo joined by then for further rewrites. Filming took place from February to June 2024 at Trilith Studios and Atlanta Metro Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and also on location in Utah and Kuala Lumpur.Thunderbolts* premiered on April 22, 2025, at the Cineworld Leicester Square in London, England, and was released in the United States on May 2, as the final film of Phase Five of the MCU. The film received positive reviews from critics, and has grossed $160.4 million, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2025. The film's ending reveals that the asterisk in the title denotes The New Avengers, with the Thunderbolts team rebranded as the "New Avengers". Following the film's opening weekend, Marvel Studios began marketing the film with that title.Disclaimer: The following may contain offensive language, adult humor, and/or content that some viewers may find offensive – The views and opinions expressed by any one speaker does not explicitly or necessarily reflect or represent those of Mark Radulich or W2M Network.Mark Radulich and his wacky podcast on all the things:https://linktr.ee/markkind76alsohttps://www.teepublic.com/user/radulich-in-broadcasting-networkFB Messenger: Mark Radulich LCSWTiktok: @markradulichtwitter: @MarkRadulichInstagram: markkind76RIBN Album Playlist: https://suno.com/playlist/91d704c9-d1ea-45a0-9ffe-5069497bad59
Castaways and perpetual B-team members Pete and Trevor take a trip to see Thunderbolts* (or is it The New Avengers maybe?). Thunderbolts is the 36th entry in the MCU and the 4th covered on this podcast, but how does it stack up? (Really, really well!) This week also marks the beginning of Project Superman, our ongoing project to watch every single live-action Superman film. We are starting right at the beginning with Kirk Allyn in the 1948 serial and its 1950 sequel Atom Man vs. Superman. We also cover the Superman and the Mole Men, the 1951 debut of George Reeves as Superman and the first feature length Superman film. Tune in next week for Richard Donner's Superman (1978). Be sure to enter our draw to win a subscription to Letterboxd Patron: https://boxd.it/Gbt3OIntro (0:00)Review of Superman (1948), Atom Man vs. Superman (1950), and Superman and the Mole Men (16:32)Spoiler-free Review of Thunderbolts* (40:09)Spoiler-talk (54:20)ABOUT THE MOVIEThunderbolts—recently rebranded as The New Avengers—is directed by Jake Schreier, known for his work on Robot & Frank and the series Beef. The screenplay was co-written by Eric Pearson (Black Widow) and Joanna Calo (The Bear). The film features an ensemble of returning and new Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) characters:The film features an ensemble of returning and new Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) characters:Florence Pugh plays Yelena Belova (Black Widow), Sebastian Stan plays Bucky Barnes (Winter Soldier), David Harbour plays Alexei Shostakov (Red Guardian), Wyatt Russell plays John Walker (U.S. Agent), Hannah John-Kamen plays Ava Starr (Ghost), Olga Kurylenko plays Antonia Dreykov (Taskmaster), Lewis Pullman plays Bob Reynolds (Sentry/Void), Geraldine Viswanathan plays Mel Gold, Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Chris Bauer plays O.X.E. Agent Holt, and Wendell Pierce plays Congressman Gary.
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CBS News has obtained an exclusive video of a man with alleged ties to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's regime during what he thought was an interview for a job at an American tech company. CBS News' Nicole Sganga has more. A study from the New England Journal of Medicine found new evidence that GLP-1 drugs used for diabetes and obesity could also help people with a type of liver disease. CBS News contributor Dr. Celine Gounder explains the findings. A Nashville mom and former TV meteorologist says she's the victim of an online sextortion scam. Bree Smith spoke to "CBS Mornings" about how she's fighting back after her image was doctored into explicit pictures and videos for money. It's a scam the FBI says targeted tens of thousands of Americans last year. CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave shares which vehicles top the list for teen driver safety, including several budget-friendly options.Wilmer Valderrama talks with "CBS Mornings" about the upcoming "NCIS" finale, his nine seasons on the hit series, and why the show continues to draw millions of viewers worldwide. In the latest "Never Too Late" feature, Nate Burleson pushes past fear once again—this time by diving into shark-infested waters to face his ocean phobia head-on.Tony winners Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce join "CBS Mornings" to announce this year's major nominees and share memories from their acclaimed stage performances. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The second MCU film of the year - Thunderbolts* - has now arrived theaters globally. To be perfectly frank, I was never super excited about this movie prior to the marketing. I was excited by the initial announcement of a Thunderbolts film and Jake Schreier's involvement as director but was quite thrown off by the initial cast announcement. While the Thunderbolts were never really Marvel Comics team that I gravitated towards, I did like a lot of the usual characters included... and seemingly almost none of them were going to be a part of the movie squad. This choice continued a very awkward trend of the MCU trying to distance itself from the very media that allowed it to exist in the first place. I have to say though, props to the marketing team. By the time I was stepping into the theater, I was PUMPED to finally be seeing Thunderbolts*. The trailers have been fantastic, with a few awesome parodies, and even the product tie-ins have been creative (not that tie-ins are exactly a good indication of quality). Did the movie live up to the marketing, or was it as bland as I initially feared?Thunderbolts*Directed by: Jake SchreierStory by: Eric PearsonScreenplay by: Eric Pearson, Joanna CaloProduced by: Kevin FeigeExecutive Producers: Louis D'Esposito, Brian Chapek, Jason TamezMusic by: Son LuxDirector of Photography: Andrew Droz PalermoEdited by: Angela M. Catanzaro, Harry YoonCasting by: Sarah FinnProduction Design by: Grace SunCostume Design by: Sanja Milkovic HaysCast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, Julia Louis-DreyfusSynopsis: After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
While Bill is on a research and writing sabbatical for the next 4 weeks we decided it's important to revisit the horrors we laid out in our Project 2025 podcast series, Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal – and have the series author, pro-democracy advocate and the author of nine books, David Pepper, tie them to what's actually happened so far. In this episode of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal, we see the real-life effects of this assault on unions and workers. In our fictional story, two legendary high school football players, Turk Foster and DeAndre McCollum, still relish their past glory. But they are struggling to navigate the rule changes proposed by Project 2025 that undercut the power of unions and tilt the playing field in favor of the employers to the detriment of employees. Turk struggles with his job as a union electrician as wages and job security diminish. He feels the weight of expectation on his son, who may soon forgo football to support the family by taking a job, previously off limits to teenagers in a plant in town. DeAndre's wife, a nurse, has had her hours cut and has to cope with last minute schedule changes that disrupt their family life.In the second half of the episode, Bruce Lipton, the fictional private equity executive, plays golf with his HR consultant Dudley Brennan. Their conversation reveals the ruthless cost-cutting measures undertaken by their firm, Bald Eagle Capital, and the broader privatized economy shaped by the election of Donald Trump and the deregulation as proposed in Project 2025. Dudley lists strategies like eliminating union protections, utilizing young workers—including hiring teenagers for hazardous jobs—and reducing overtime expenses. Despite his discomfort with these practices, Bruce feels pressured to comply with the aggressive corporate tactics that prioritize profit over worker safety and rights, reflecting an uncomfortable tension between his upbringing in a union household and the cutthroat world of private equity. The chapter concludes with Bruce's disillusionment leading him to leave the golf course, symbolizing his internal conflict over the ethical implications of his work. We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: Wendell Pierce and Fisher Stevens who read the chapters and others who contributed character voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jonathan MoserTrump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.Today's Bill Press Pod is supported by The Ironworkers Union. More information at Ironworkers.org.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
While the other geeks are off galavanting in Japan, I assembled a group of passionate geeks — Matt Rorabeck of The Untitled Movie Podcast, and Aisha Shabeese from Agents of Fandom— to dive into our spoiler-free review of Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts! We break down the film's look and feel, highlight standout performances, and explore the emotionally driven story that makes this one of the MCU's most human entries yet. Whether you're hyped or hesitant, this episode is your perfect primer before heading into Thunderbolts — no spoilers, just geeky goodness.Follow Matt Rorabeck on TwitterCheck out The Untitled Movie Podcast through their Website and on LetterboxdFollow Aisha Shabeese on Twitter & InstagramCheck out her work on Agents of FandomFollow Agents of Fandom on Twitter & Instagram Check out Geekcentric onYouTube | Instagram | Twitter | TikTokJoin the Geekcentric Discord HERE
Aja Naomi King joins us to talk all things Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC's soapy murder mystery drama. Aja shares what drew her to the role of Catherine, the joy of working with an incredible cast and crew, and reflects on what she's learned from industry icons like Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, and Wendell Pierce. Plus, she offers powerful advice for young actors stepping onto a new set.Thanks for watching! If you enjoyed the episode, please subscribe to the channel, give us a thumbs up and leave a comment!
Actor and author Wendell Pierce takes us back into his home in Pontchartrain Park, Louisiana. He shares how he got his mother's love of learning and his father's sense of adventure. Plus, we learn his mom's secret for cooking okra to avoid all that slime. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Our host Darriel Roy interviews American actor Wendell Pierce who currently stars on the CBS show Elsbeth & Snaps on the Starz series, Raising Kanan.
Vincent and Len mourn the loss of musicians Roy Ayers (“Everyone Loves The Sunshine”) and D'Wayne Wiggins (Toni Tony Toné); debate the ‘Black famousness' of Wendell Pierce, Giancarlo Esposito, and Larenz Tate; and a listener charts the Top Five Reasons The Men of Micheaux should do The Amazing Race. Then they luxuriate in the beauty that is writer-director Raven Jackson's feature film debut. Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on Instagram We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Samantha Brown talks travel tips and "Places to Love"; Congress reacts to President Trump's congressional address; Wendell Pierce, Erika Woods talk "Power Book III: Raising Kanan" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First up, Late Show writer John Thibodeaux joins Stephen Colbert to help select the perfect greeting card for Black History Month. Next, The Wire star Wendell Pierce promises Stephen Colbert he'll make his dream come true and get him a guest spot as a corpse in the next season of the CBS comedic drama "Elsbeth." Watch Wendell Pierce in "Elsbeth" Thursday nights at 10pm on CBS and stream it on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hosted by Jane Pauley. Jonathan Vigliotti and Lee Cowan report on the devastation of this week's wildfires in Los Angeles County. Also: Faith Salie sits down with actress Brooke Shields, whose new memoir is "Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old”; Martha Teichner talks with outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken; Lesley Stahl interviews JPMorganChase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon; Nancy Giles profiles actor Wendell Pierce; and Mo Rocca examines New York City's controversial new congestion pricing plan for drivers entering Manhattan.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Send us a textSuperman Official Teaser Trailer Reaction! Our Thoughts! Our Thoughts! Kathy, Mark and Ramesh react to the official teaser trailer for Superman, an upcoming American superhero film based on DC Comics featuring the eponymous character. Produced by DC Studios and to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it will be the first film in the DC Universe (DCU) and a reboot of the Superman film series. The film is written and directed by James Gunn and stars David Corenswet as Clark Kent / Superman, alongside Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, María Gabriela de Faría, Wendell Pierce, Alan Tudyk, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and Neva Howell. In the film, Superman's journey to reconcile his alien heritage with his human family is explored.#superman #supermanteaser #jamesgunn #dc #dccomics #dcuniverse Cinemondo is excited to announce that co-host, Burk Sauls, book, One Hundred Movies: Burk's Favorite Movies Volume 1, is available on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DML5K363?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520Get early access to these reviews by joining Patreon or our YouTube channel! YouTube Membershiphttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8UhKoTahIIRGIwxzUVVA/joinPatreonhttps://www.patreon.com/CinemondoPodcastJoin this channel to get access to fun perks like exclusive content and private Discord channel!:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8UhKoTahIIRGIwxzUVVA/joinOfficial Swag https://shop.spreadshirt.com/cinemondoNew videos daily!!Subscribe for the latest movie reviewshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvt8UhKoTahIIRGIwxzUVVA?sub_confirmation=1
pWotD Episode 2789: Superman (2025 film) Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 238,254 views on Friday, 20 December 2024 our article of the day is Superman (2025 film).Superman is an upcoming American superhero film based on DC Comics featuring the eponymous character. Produced by DC Studios and to be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it will be the first film in the DC Universe (DCU) and a reboot of the Superman film series. The film is written and directed by James Gunn and stars David Corenswet as Clark Kent / Superman, alongside Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, María Gabriela de Faría, Wendell Pierce, Alan Tudyk, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and Neva Howell. In the film, Superman's journey to reconcile his alien heritage with his human family is explored.Development on a sequel to the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film Man of Steel (2013) began by October 2014, with Henry Cavill set to reprise his role as Superman. Plans changed after the troubled production of Justice League (2017) and the Man of Steel sequel was no longer moving forward by May 2020. Gunn began work on a new Superman film around August 2022. In October, he became co-CEO of DC Studios with producer Peter Safran and they began work on a new DC Universe. Gunn was revealed to be writing the film in December. The title Superman: Legacy was announced the next month, Gunn was confirmed to be directing in March 2023, and Corenswet and Brosnahan were cast that June. The subtitle was dropped by the end of February 2024, when filming began in Norway. Production primarily took place at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, with location filming around Georgia and Ohio. Filming wrapped in July. The film takes inspiration from the comic book All-Star Superman (2005–2008) by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, among others.Superman is scheduled to be released theatrically in the United States on July 11, 2025. It is set to be the first film of the DCU's Chapter One: Gods and Monsters.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:12 UTC on Saturday, 21 December 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Superman (2025 film) on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Salli.
James Gunn's “Superman” is set to fly into theaters in July, but on Thursday, Dec. 19, we get our first look at the new Man of Steel played by David Corenswet. Join The Watchers at 10 a.m. CST as we break down the teaser trailer for the first film in the new DC Universe. #superman #supermanfilm #supermanmovie #clarkkent #krypto #lookup Superman (2025) is a superhero movie directed by James Gunn and starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Isabela Merced, Edi Gathegi, Nathan Fillion, Anthony Carrigan, Skyler Gisondo, Sara Sampaio, María Gabriela de Faría, Wendell Pierce and Frank Grillo. Subscribe, rate and review! Follow The Watchers in the Basement on social media! Use #WatchersBasement to comment about the show! facebook.com/watchersbasement twitter.com/WatchBasement instagram.com/watchersbasement threads.net/@watchersbasement anchor.fm/watchersbasement
For the second time this year, we discuss a Warren Beatty movie! This time for his 1998 political satire: Bulworth. Leading an all-star cast that includes some of our favorite character actors like Oliver Platt, Jack Warden, Wendell Pierce, and Laurie Metcalf, the movie was also directed by Beatty with a script that was worked on by the likes of Aaron Sorkin and James Toback. The mics kept rolling after this episode as we discussed another political satire from the year prior, Wag the Dog. That bonus episode is available, along with dozens more, exclusively on our Patreon at: www.patreon.com/almostcultclassics. You can also find us on Twitter: Joe: https://twitter.com/joeramoni Ryan: https://twitter.com/ryanlancello And don't forget to check out our website and merch store: https://www.almostcultclassics.com The views expressed on this podcast do not reflect the views of Hats Off Entertainment.
Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universes. Last week, mere minutes after our Tuesday evening recording session, we were both delighted and disheartened when Marvel Studios dropped its “Look Ahead | Disney Plus'' trailer, which not only provided release dates, but showcased our first official look at footage, for a whopping 8 streaming projects. Here's what we learned: Box office juggernaut Deadpool & Wolverine will be available to stream on the platform beginning November 12, 2024. We already knew Daredevil: Born Again is set to begin streaming March 4, 2025, but the trailer, which was intercut with footage from the other shows, gave us our first look at the villain Muse, the return of Jon Bernthal's Punisher, as well as Bullseye, and perhaps most surprisingly the inclusion of Ms. Marvel's dad, Yusuf Khan What If Season 3 will begin streaming this December 22nd, with no word as to whether that will be a weekly or daily release, like last year. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man will begin airing January 29th, 2025 Riri William's Ironheart makes her return beginning June 24th, 2025 Eyes of Wakanda, the animated anthology series is set for an August 6th, 2025 debut Marvel Zombies will premiere sometime in October 2025, with the live action Wonder Man series starring Yahya Abdul Mateen II arriving later that December. In a final marketing push ahead of its December 3 premiere, Lucasfilm released final art, a poster, and a new trailer for Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. The series, which is helmed by Spider-Man filmmaker Jon Watts, is an Amblin Entertainment-inspired coming of age tale that follows four youths who embark on a swashbuckling adventure with unexpected revelations. The trailer is in keeping with what we've seen from the series thus far, which is to say it feels tonally divergent from anything we've seen in Star Wars before, including new species, planets, and a synth-pop heavy score. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros is gearing up to bring the world of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones to the silver screen with at least one film in early development. And that's pretty much all we know – there's no creative talent attached yet, meaning no writer or director, much less any word regarding a potential time, setting, or characters that might be involved. Amazon MGM Studios is testing actors for the role of Lara Croft in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's upcoming Tomb Raider series. Sophie Turner and Lucy Boynton top Amazon's wish list, according to Deadline. Scary Movie creators Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory Wayans are reuniting after 18 years to develop a new film in the franchise for Paramount and Miramax. Kelly Macdonald, known for Boardwalk Empire and No Country for Old Men, has joined the cast of DC Studios' Lanterns. Amazon MGM Studios is developing a Jack Ryan film, continuing the series storyline with John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, and Michael Kelly. Andrew Bernstein will direct. Early box office projections show Wicked opening at over $80 million domestically and Gladiator 2 at $65 million, both debuting on November 22. Universal Pictures and LEGO have partnered to develop three live-action LEGO films, directed by Jake Kasdan, Patty Jenkins, and Joe Cornish. Toho has officially greenlit a new Godzilla movie from the director of last year's Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One. Amazon MGM Studios has acquired American Speed, starring Tom Holland and Austin Butler as the scandal-ridden Whittington Brothers, with Oscar-winning producer Charles Roven attached. Ridley Scott revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he's working on a new Alien movie for 20th Century Studios, though it's unclear if it's connected to the Alien: Romulus follow-up or a standalone project. Tom Cruise is in early talks with Paramount for a Days of Thunder sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal-Chapter 7: A Brutal Attack on Workers and Unions In this episode of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal, we see the real-life effects of this assault on unions and workers. In our fictional story, two legendary high school football players, Turk Foster and DeAndre McCollum, still relish their past glory. But they are struggling to navigate the rule changes proposed by Project 2025 that undercut the power of unions and tilt the playing field in favor of the employers to the detriment of employees. Turk struggles with his job as a union electrician as wages and job security diminish. He feels the weight of expectation on his son, who may soon forgo football to support the family by taking a job, previously off limits to teenagers in a plant in town. DeAndre's wife, a nurse, has had her hours cut and has to cope with last minute schedule changes that disrupt their family life. In the second half of the episode, Bruce Lipton, the fictional private equity executive, plays golf with his HR consultant Dudley Brennan. Their conversation reveals the ruthless cost-cutting measures undertaken by their firm, Bald Eagle Capital, and the broader privatized economy shaped by the election of Donald Trump and the deregulation as proposed in Project 2025. Dudley lists strategies like eliminating union protections, utilizing young workers—including hiring teenagers for hazardous jobs—and reducing overtime expenses. Despite his discomfort with these practices, Bruce feels pressured to comply with the aggressive corporate tactics that prioritize profit over worker safety and rights, reflecting an uncomfortable tension between his upbringing in a union household and the cutthroat world of private equity. The chapter concludes with Bruce's disillusionment leading him to leave the golf course, symbolizing his internal conflict over the ethical implications of his work. We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: Wendell Pierce and Fisher Stevens who read the chapters and others who contributed character voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Jon MoserTrump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of Trump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal, we see the real-life effects of this assault on unions and workers. In our fictional story, two legendary high school football players, Turk Foster and DeAndre McCollum, still relish their past glory. But they are struggling to navigate the rule changes proposed by Project 2025 that undercut the power of unions and tilt the playing field in favor of the employers to the detriment of employees. Turk struggles with his job as a union electrician as wages and job security diminish. He feels the weight of expectation on his son, who may soon forgo football to support the family by taking a job, previously off limits to teenagers in a plant in town. DeAndre's wife, a nurse, has had her hours cut and has to cope with last minute schedule changes that disrupt their family life. In the second half of the episode, Bruce Lipton, the fictional private equity executive, plays golf with his HR consultant Dudley Brennan. Their conversation reveals the ruthless cost-cutting measures undertaken by their firm, Bald Eagle Capital, and the broader privatized economy shaped by the election of Donald Trump and the deregulation as proposed in Project 2025. Dudley lists strategies like eliminating union protections, utilizing young workers—including hiring teenagers for hazardous jobs—and reducing overtime expenses. Despite his discomfort with these practices, Bruce feels pressured to comply with the aggressive corporate tactics that prioritize profit over worker safety and rights, reflecting an uncomfortable tension between his upbringing in a union household and the cutthroat world of private equity. The chapter concludes with Bruce's disillusionment leading him to leave the golf course, symbolizing his internal conflict over the ethical implications of his work. We'd like to thank all the artists who volunteered their time to make this episode: Wendell Pierce and Fisher Stevens who read the chapters and others who contributed character voices. Sound design by Marilys Ernst and Johnathan MoserTrump's Project 2025: Up Close and Personal is written by David Pepper and produced by Pepper, Melissa Jo Peltier and Jay Feldman and is a production of Ovington Avenue Productions and The Bill Press Pod.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
10.11.2024 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Barack Obama's Message To Black Male Voters, No Parole for Botham Jean's Killer, School Choice President Barack Obama was on the campaign trail and sparked a huge debate about Black men supporting Vice President Kamala Harris' bid for the White House. We'll dissect what he said, and actor Wendell Pierce will explain why Obama's message was way off target. A federal judge in Georgia denies request to extend voter registration for those impacted by Hurricane Helene. The Justice Department is suing the City of South Bend for discrimination against Black and female entry-level police department applicants. The parole request for the white Texas cop who killed Botham Jean gets denied. And we'll take a look at the importance of school choice. Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox http://www.blackstarnetwork.com The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platforms covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Brains addled after 'Megalopolis', I attempted and then discarded the idea to do 'Blazing Saddles' but was left wanting. So then, in a way I don't fully understand, but probably having to do with the idea of films that are said to be 'so bad they're good', I somehow arrived at the idea of doing Iain Softley's 1995 film 'Hackers' starring Angelina Jolie in her first onscreen role, Johnny Miller, and pre-fame Wendell Pierce and Felicity Huffman.
David Henry Hwang's sharp, purposeful, yet very playful “unreliable” memoir is serious satirical fun performed by a full cast. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Michele Cobb discuss this story of a white actor being cast as a lead in a play that strongly protests casting white actors in Asian American roles. David Henry Hwang, portrayed by a droll Daniel Dae Kim, has a hard decision to make: Come clean or cover it up. As this production unfolds fast-paced scenes of phone calls, monologues, memories, and kitchen-table conversations, it takes on the serious subjects of cultural appropriation, artistic freedom, and flat-out discrimination. Read our review of the audiobook at our website. Published by Audible, Inc. Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile's website. Support for our podcast comes from Hachette Audio, the publisher of CONNIE, this behind the scenes look into Connie Chung's life, read by Connie Chung herself. Find out more at Hachette Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Acclaimed actor Wendell Pierce stops by "The Goodness Factor with Shelley Wade" podcast to discuss the dedicated work that Black Theatre United is doing to educate, empower, and inspire justice and equality for Black actors and actresses within the theatrical community.
Last week, politicians and celebrities alike gathered in Chicago for the Democratic National Convention. Over four days, we heard speeches from Joe Biden, the Obamas, and the two names at the top of the ticket: vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Political consultant, author and media contributor James Carville joins us for his major takeaways from the convention and what he believes this means for the future of the Democratic Party. From House Rep. Troy Carter to New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno, to actor and New Orleans native, Wendell Pierce, there was no shortage of Louisianans at last week's DNC. One of them, Kaitlin Joshua, testified about her own experience with Louisiana's restrictions on reproductive health care, saying she was denied treatment while undergoing a miscarriage. WWNO and WRKF's reproductive health reporter Rosemary Westwood tells us more about Joshua's speech and why abortion access was a major discussion point at the convention. __Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman.You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!
The Democratic National Convention wraps up tonight, and plenty of Louisianans – from former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu to actor Wendell Pierce – have made appearances. The Times Picayune/The Advocate's editorial director and columnist Stephanie Grace joins us to break down the DNC.Last week, the Louisiana Public Service Commission gave initial approval to the Southern Spirit transmission project that would connect cleaner wind power in Texas to Mississippi . The project would also bring clean energy to the Midcontinent Independent System Operator network, which Louisiana is a part of. But, the project faces obstacles, as this past session state legislators passed a law in an attempt to stop Southern Spirit from crossing North Louisiana.Louisiana Illuminator reporter Wesley Muller explains why these property rights may be slowing Louisiana's access to clean energy. This Friday, the West Baton Rouge Museum will open an exhibition on the life of architect and sculptor Angela Gregory. Gregory contributed to the architecture of many Louisiana buildings – including the state capitol – at a time when female artists struggled to be taken seriously. Curator Elizabeth Weinstein joins us for more on the exhibit and Gregory's legacy. ___Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Adam Vos. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber; our contributing producers are Matt Bloom and Adam Vos; we receive production and technical support from Garrett Pittman and our assistant producer, Aubry Procell.You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play, and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!
Actorvist and owner of the Black talk radio station WBOK 1230 AM in NOLA, Wendell Pierce sounds off on the revisionist history he expects we will get this week from the podium at the RNC that “there is no place in America for political violence.”
In the second hour of the Greg Kelly Show, Greg started by talkin about Wendell Pierce who was denied housing in Harlem because of the color of his skin. He then continued talking about James Comey, former FBI director, who is back on the news campaigning against Donald Trump's run for the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Black superintendent is attacked during a graduation by a white father who didn't want his daughter to shake the hand of a Black man. Gov. DeSantis says Trump can still vote in FL. Wendell Pierce was denied housing due to race. Host: Dr. Rashad Richey (@IndisputableTYT) Guest Host: Jackson White *** SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/IndisputableTYT FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/IndisputableTYT TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/IndisputableTYT INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/IndisputableTYT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Actor Wendell Pierce talks about his new series, Elsbeth, and celebrates the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest, which kicks off this week.
On this week's episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle, John and special guest Laura Hudson (formerly of Wired and The Verge) watched the 1995 cyber-thriller “Hackers,” directed by Ian Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Fisher Stevens and Lorraine Bracco, with supporting roles for Matthew Lillard, Penn Jillette, Wendell Pierce, Marc Anthony and Felicity Huffman.“Hackers” centers on Dade Murphy, alias “Zero Cool,” who made hacking history 7 years before the events of the film when he crashed 1,507 computer systems and was banned from owning or operating computers and touch-tone telephones until his 18th birthday.On his 18th birthday, he finds himself living in New York with his mother and attending a new high school, where he falls into a crowd of teen hacker. There's Ramon, the Phantom Phreak. Emmanuel “Cereal Killer” Goldstein, Paul “Lord Nikon” Cook and Kate “Acid Burn” Libby, Dade's hacking rival and romantic interest.One night, one of the youngest hackers in the group, Joey, breaks into a supercomputer owned by a large energy company. He is noticed and arrested by the US Secret Service, which is working with the company's security officer. Unbeknownst to the Secret Service or anyone else for that matter, the security officer — Eugene “The Plague” Belford — has essentially orchestrated a scheme in which Joey and other hackers are to be blamed for a virus he created, whose purpose is to extort millions from the company into a private account. Thus begins a race: Belford is desperate to get the only evidence of the virus, downloaded by Joey before he was arrested, and our teen hacker heroes are trying to clear their names and get to the bottom of this conspiracy. The tagline for “Hackers” was, of course, “Hack the planet!”You can find “Hackers” to rent or buy on iTunes and Amazon. Our next film is the 1995 cyberpunk thriller, “Johnny Mnemonic.”Connor Lynch produced this episode. Artwork by Rachel Eck.Contact us!Follow us on Twitter!John GanzJamelle BouieUnclearPodAnd join the Unclear and Present Patreon! For just $5 a month, patrons get access to a bonus show on the films of the Cold War, and much, much more. Our latest episode of the patreon is on the 1964 nuclear war farce, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
The Equalizer Season 4 Episode 15: Starfire Aired on CBS: April 13, 1989 Directed by: Bradford May Written by : Robert Eisele Featuring: Michael Moriarty, George Plimpton, Wendell Pierce, Angela "you're what the french call les incompetents" Goethals Equalizer episode or early precursor to the X-Files? Another superlative episode, the most sci-fi episode to date. This one reinforces once again that audiences have no idea what to expect when they sit down to watch an Equalizer episode. EQ helps a man who calls himself Seti (nudge nudge, UFO nerds) who believes he is part of a large cosmic battle but who is for real being targeted by assassins. That would be enough but this episode just keeps giving - Bunk from The Wire as a psychologist monitoring this odd alien guy; a spacey kaleidoscope; some budget 80s special effects; and another odd inclusion of a young girl in trouble (Angela Goethals not long before Home Alone). Is the show hinting that UFOs are real? Are they in fact real? Chris and Chuck provide conclusive answers to that question and many more in this can't-miss episode. @equalizerspod equalizerspodcast at gmail dot com https://www.facebook.com/equalizerspodcast/
On this episode of DC on SCREEN – Jason and I are talking all about that very real new Superman symbol reveal, the very fake AI Superman Suit scoop, who is playing Perry White, and a possible filming location implication. Plus, news about Creature Commandos, Joker Folie a Deux, rumors of Gotham City Sirens, a weird Arrowverse resurgence – if you think that's a lot, I'm sorry because there is SO MUCH MORE...SUPERMANFirst Look at Film's New Logo!Thoughts on Dropping "Legacy"Alex Ross Art is the Inspiration Behind Gunn's Superman SuitGunn Slams Fake AI Set Photos of David Corenswet in CostumePlot Rumor KilledThe Wire's Wendell Pierce is Perry WhiteGunn Debunks New Rumor About BudgetAre We Getting the Hall of Justice?Fortress of Solitude Set Pics Hit!Two Peacemaker Stars Aren't in SupermanNicholas Hoult Hit The Gym to Play LuthorCW Boss Passes The Buck, Er, BunkWeird Dua Lipa RumorWeird Henry Cavill to Play Jor-El?CREATURE COMMANDOSJames Gunn Gives New Update on DC Animated SeriesJOKER: FOLIE à DEUXFirst Trailer Release DateNew Look at Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix for Valentine's DayWBTEAWarner Bros. Discovery CEO Teases More Plans Announced SoonIs Elizabeth Debicki Gunn's Wonder Woman?Could Margot Robbie's New Warner Bros. Deal Lead to Gotham City Sirens?Manganiello Teases Surprising New Deathstroke PlansZaslav Says Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is Being CastSuperman & Lois Final Season Gets Major Release Date UpdateArrowverse Producer Talks Sequel Series for Brandon Routh's SupermanStephen Amell and Grant Gustin Say Whether They'd Come Back for GunnJurassic League Animated Movie?DC's Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Two Trailer ReleasedJustice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part Two Home Video DetailsKevin Conroy and Mark Hamill Reunite as Batman and Joker One More Time in New DC MovieJoin Our Riotous DC Debauch!Site: https://dconscreen.comStore: https://bit.ly/DCoStorePatreon: https://patreon.com/dconscreenApple: http://bit.ly/DCoSReviewSpotify: http://bit.ly/DCSCREENSpreaker: https://bit.ly/DCoSSpreaker"Full On" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Super Power Cool Dude" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! THE Cyberpunk classic is getting much love this week in the news.Confirmation of the Villain in the Deadpool & Wolverine movieAnd so much more...Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicNew Music/VideoGodsmack - Truth https://youtu.be/d7sBkZLbQfY From their last record Lighting Up The Sky from last february. Power ballad like it's 1987. Pretty good. Sully's voice is great as always.Demon Hunter - Worlds Apart https://youtu.be/C10MArYZHPw Standalone single. More melodic death than you would usually expect from the boys.Born of Osiris - A Mind Short Circuiting https://youtu.be/a2gL4kbQb6U billed as an “old-school” single. But it really isn't. Slaughter to Prevail - Conflict https://youtu.be/-Cji_T28ybk Not to the same level as previous outings. There is a weird vocal effect in some of the bridges that is… strange?Twenty One Pilots - Overcome https://youtu.be/53tgVlXBZVg Trance Pilots?Tours/FestivalsThe Refused - Rosendal Garden Party festival Stockholm June 14-16 will be the “Final Festival Show” for the punk rockers. Also featuring performances from Massive Attack, Turnstile, The Heavy, and a ton more.https://blabbermouth.net/news/refused-announces-final-festival-show-in-sweden Korn - 30th anniversary of their self-titled album. One show Sat Oct 5 at BMO Stadium in LA. Evanescence, Gojira, Scars on Broadway, Spiritbox and Vended.https://blabbermouth.net/news/korn-announces-30th-anniversary-show-at-los-angeless-bmo-stadium-with-evanescence-gojira-scars-on-broadway https://youtu.be/uarTPKkaTw0 Halestorm / I Prevail - July 9 in Raleigh NC through Aug 17 in Las Vegas. Support from Hollywood Undead and Fit for a King.https://www.livenation.com/artist/K8vZ917GyPV/halestorm-events Aftershock - Oct 10 - 13 in Sacramento. Slayer (again), Slipknot, Maiden, Motley Crue, Pantera 5FDP, Priest, and Disturbed. And that's JUST the headliners.https://metalinjection.net/tour-dates/slayer-slipknot-iron-maiden-motley-crue-to-headline-aftershock-festival-2024 https://aftershockfestival.com/passes/ Reg ‘ol NewsJay Weinberg - The former Slipknot drummer has officially been hired by Suicidal Tendancies as their new skinsman.https://blabbermouth.net/news/ex-slipknot-drummer-jay-weinberg-officially-joins-suicidal-tendencies Avenged Sevenfold - release their VR concert experience called “Looking Inside.” Available on Apple Vision Pro and Meta App Lab. Just like all the AmazeVR concerts users can access one song for free, or pay $13 for the whole concert. VIP ticket holders for A7X's upcoming tour will be given access to the song “Mattel” as part of their VIP lounge experience.https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-avenged-sevenfold-discusses-looking-inside-vr-concert-at-los-angeles-press-conference https://youtu.be/nCKKkV-NkJk SuggestsKorn - self-titled album. the debut studio album by American nu metal band Korn. It was released on October 11, 1994, through Immortal and Epic Records. Gaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsLayoffs - EA is now releasing 5% of THEIR workforce. Estimated 670 people. https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/02/29/ea-axes-5-of-total-workforce-cancels-respawns-star-wars-fps-as-part-of-emergency-shift-away-from-licensed-ip/ Baulder's Gate 3 - Xbox physical edition will be FOUR discs. PS5 is 2 and PC is 1.TrailersDune: Awakening - https://youtu.be/8ehOeOR4Ud0 teasing a game based on a book series with tech and story elements that were never even mentioned in said book series is a bit of a bad look. But it is SUPPOSED to be an alternate universe…Reg ‘ol NewsYuzu - We have a conclusion to the saga. Nintendo has won, but not technically a legal ruling. There has been a settlement out of court. Yuzu will no longer offer their Switch emulation software and they have to pay $2.4 million to the gaming giant.SuggestsMetal Gear: Master Collection - an emulation of the original PlayStation game developed by M2, with the option to play any of the seven regional versions (Japanese, North American, European English, German, French, Italian and Spanish) of the game via additional downloads, as well as the Integral/VR Missions/Special Missions expansions. The Master Collection edition handles the Psycho Mantis' mind reading event by giving the player option to create a virtual memory card with save files from supported games in order to trigger specific lines of dialogue. There's also a new animated sequence when the player reaches the blast furnace which visually depicts the disc-swapping process.Comic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsAlan Moore - Moore is finally leaving the comic book industry behind. His final book “The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic” will go on sale this October. More than just a comic, it will be combined with some of his prose.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/alan-moores-last-comic-top-shelf-moon-serpent-bumper-book-magic-2024/ Medusa - Dark Horse is publishing an interesting book Written and Drawn by Tony Parker and (C) Tamra Bonvillain. The writer is twisting the original myth around to make the titular character a sympathetic hero. On bookshelves in October.SuggestsNeuromancer - "a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets." 1984Episodic ShowsFollow-ups/CorrectionsHouse of the Dragon - Season 2 set to premiere in Junehttps://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-premiere-date-june-2024/ One Piece - Season 2 renewal!Only Murders in the Building - Kumail Nanjiani has been cast for season 4 https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/only-murders-in-the-building-season-4-cast-kumail-nanjiani-1235929357/ TrailersInterview with the Vampire - https://youtu.be/H4tR8dYPb3A season 2 full clip. May 12Reg ‘ol NewsNeuromancer - The book that jump started a genre is getting a series on Apple TV+!! 10-episode series adaptation of Neuromancer from co-creators Graham Roland and JD Dillard. Roland is set to serve as showrunner with Dillard set to direct the series pilot. The Neuromancer series will be co-produced by Skydance Television and Anonymous Content.https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/apple-neurmancer-series-william-gibson-1235925640/ Young Sheldon - The Big Bang Theory spinoff is getting its own spinoff. This time we will be following Sheldon's older brother, and his fiancée, Mandy (Emily Osment), as they raise their young family in Texas while they navigate the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage.SuggestsThe Walking Dead The Ones Who Live ep 2MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsTron:Ares - Jared Leto gave us our first look, as well as a possible release window of 2025.https://cosmicbook.news/tron-ares-first-look-revealed-by-jared-leto The Crow - People are comparing Bill Skarsgard to Jared Leto's Joker. MULLET??https://cosmicbook.news/bill-skarsgards-the-crow-look-like-jared-letos-joker Rebel Moon - The full 6 hour cut of the whole movie (parts 1 and 2) will reportedly be released together. No official date for that yet. Part 2 out April 19.https://cosmicbook.news/rebel-moon-6-hour-cut-on-the-way-says-zack-snyder Maxxxine - July 5th release date.TrailersThe Watchers - https://youtu.be/CrhrNS0JFyg M. Night Shyamalan's new movie. International release June 5th. North American release June 7. Dakota Fanning.The Garfield Movie - https://youtu.be/S3XjsSvwSuU Reg ‘ol NewsSuperman: Legacy - James Gunn has cast Wendell Pierce as Perry White. Following Lawrence Fishbourne from the Man of Steel movies.https://cosmicbook.news/james-gunns-superman-wendell-pierce-cast-as-perry-white The Unknown - Willy Wonka horror movie… kinda. Based on the “Willy's Chocolate Experience” situation in Glasgow. Scottish film studio Kaledonia Pictures is rushing the production in hopes for a 2024 release.https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3802303/the-unknown-a-horror-movie-based-on-the-viral-wonka-experience-has-been-announced/ SuggestsDune part 2… duhRumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsMandalorian - Game does actually appear to have been lost to the EA layoffs.Deadpool - Emma Corrin will IN FACT be playing Cassandra Nova. https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/02/28/deadpool-wolverine-copyright-filing-confirms-emma-corrins-villainous-role-return-of-live-action-marvel-heroine/ New SourcesSnyderverse - Nope still not dead. Now there is speculation, being fueled by WB and Netflix supposedly, that WB could be in the market to sell IPs to third parties and Netflix has voiced interest in more Zack Snyder.New RumorsHenry Cavill - Spider-Man UK? This IS a combination of Spider-Man and Captain Britain from Earth-833 which just so happens to be where Mysterio claimed to come from in Far From Home.Wolverine - Hugh Jackman is rumored to have 2 big stipulations. He wants to work with Tobey Maguire and RDJ.Kang the Conqueror - Colman Domingo is rumored to be playing Kang as the replacement for Jonathan Majors. Played coy in a recent interview. In the Candyman reboot, directed some episodes of Fear the Walking Dead.Spider-Man 4 - Sony wants all 3 Spider-Men (Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield) in the movie. ALSO all 3 are said to be voicing their Spider-Men in the next Spiderverse movie. Tom Holland will be getting the Venom symbiote in the end.Venom 3 - Tom Hardy going out into the multiverse looking for Peter Parker by the end.Ghost of Tsushima 2 - said to be getting an official announcement during a Playstation Showcase sometime around May or JuneYou can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.
It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! THE Cyberpunk classic is getting much love this week in the news.Confirmation of the Villain in the Deadpool & Wolverine movieAnd so much more...Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicNew Music/VideoGodsmack - Truth https://youtu.be/d7sBkZLbQfY From their last record Lighting Up The Sky from last february. Power ballad like it's 1987. Pretty good. Sully's voice is great as always.Demon Hunter - Worlds Apart https://youtu.be/C10MArYZHPw Standalone single. More melodic death than you would usually expect from the boys.Born of Osiris - A Mind Short Circuiting https://youtu.be/a2gL4kbQb6U billed as an “old-school” single. But it really isn't. Slaughter to Prevail - Conflict https://youtu.be/-Cji_T28ybk Not to the same level as previous outings. There is a weird vocal effect in some of the bridges that is… strange?Twenty One Pilots - Overcome https://youtu.be/53tgVlXBZVg Trance Pilots?Tours/FestivalsThe Refused - Rosendal Garden Party festival Stockholm June 14-16 will be the “Final Festival Show” for the punk rockers. Also featuring performances from Massive Attack, Turnstile, The Heavy, and a ton more.https://blabbermouth.net/news/refused-announces-final-festival-show-in-sweden Korn - 30th anniversary of their self-titled album. One show Sat Oct 5 at BMO Stadium in LA. Evanescence, Gojira, Scars on Broadway, Spiritbox and Vended.https://blabbermouth.net/news/korn-announces-30th-anniversary-show-at-los-angeless-bmo-stadium-with-evanescence-gojira-scars-on-broadway https://youtu.be/uarTPKkaTw0 Halestorm / I Prevail - July 9 in Raleigh NC through Aug 17 in Las Vegas. Support from Hollywood Undead and Fit for a King.https://www.livenation.com/artist/K8vZ917GyPV/halestorm-events Aftershock - Oct 10 - 13 in Sacramento. Slayer (again), Slipknot, Maiden, Motley Crue, Pantera 5FDP, Priest, and Disturbed. And that's JUST the headliners.https://metalinjection.net/tour-dates/slayer-slipknot-iron-maiden-motley-crue-to-headline-aftershock-festival-2024 https://aftershockfestival.com/passes/ Reg ‘ol NewsJay Weinberg - The former Slipknot drummer has officially been hired by Suicidal Tendancies as their new skinsman.https://blabbermouth.net/news/ex-slipknot-drummer-jay-weinberg-officially-joins-suicidal-tendencies Avenged Sevenfold - release their VR concert experience called “Looking Inside.” Available on Apple Vision Pro and Meta App Lab. Just like all the AmazeVR concerts users can access one song for free, or pay $13 for the whole concert. VIP ticket holders for A7X's upcoming tour will be given access to the song “Mattel” as part of their VIP lounge experience.https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-avenged-sevenfold-discusses-looking-inside-vr-concert-at-los-angeles-press-conference https://youtu.be/nCKKkV-NkJk SuggestsKorn - self-titled album. the debut studio album by American nu metal band Korn. It was released on October 11, 1994, through Immortal and Epic Records. Gaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsLayoffs - EA is now releasing 5% of THEIR workforce. Estimated 670 people. https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/02/29/ea-axes-5-of-total-workforce-cancels-respawns-star-wars-fps-as-part-of-emergency-shift-away-from-licensed-ip/ Baulder's Gate 3 - Xbox physical edition will be FOUR discs. PS5 is 2 and PC is 1.TrailersDune: Awakening - https://youtu.be/8ehOeOR4Ud0 teasing a game based on a book series with tech and story elements that were never even mentioned in said book series is a bit of a bad look. But it is SUPPOSED to be an alternate universe…Reg ‘ol NewsYuzu - We have a conclusion to the saga. Nintendo has won, but not technically a legal ruling. There has been a settlement out of court. Yuzu will no longer offer their Switch emulation software and they have to pay $2.4 million to the gaming giant.SuggestsMetal Gear: Master Collection - an emulation of the original PlayStation game developed by M2, with the option to play any of the seven regional versions (Japanese, North American, European English, German, French, Italian and Spanish) of the game via additional downloads, as well as the Integral/VR Missions/Special Missions expansions. The Master Collection edition handles the Psycho Mantis' mind reading event by giving the player option to create a virtual memory card with save files from supported games in order to trigger specific lines of dialogue. There's also a new animated sequence when the player reaches the blast furnace which visually depicts the disc-swapping process.Comic Books/BooksReg ‘ol NewsAlan Moore - Moore is finally leaving the comic book industry behind. His final book “The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic” will go on sale this October. More than just a comic, it will be combined with some of his prose.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/alan-moores-last-comic-top-shelf-moon-serpent-bumper-book-magic-2024/ Medusa - Dark Horse is publishing an interesting book Written and Drawn by Tony Parker and (C) Tamra Bonvillain. The writer is twisting the original myth around to make the titular character a sympathetic hero. On bookshelves in October.SuggestsNeuromancer - "a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets." 1984Episodic ShowsFollow-ups/CorrectionsHouse of the Dragon - Season 2 set to premiere in Junehttps://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/house-of-the-dragon-season-2-premiere-date-june-2024/ One Piece - Season 2 renewal!Only Murders in the Building - Kumail Nanjiani has been cast for season 4 https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/only-murders-in-the-building-season-4-cast-kumail-nanjiani-1235929357/ TrailersInterview with the Vampire - https://youtu.be/H4tR8dYPb3A season 2 full clip. May 12Reg ‘ol NewsNeuromancer - The book that jump started a genre is getting a series on Apple TV+!! 10-episode series adaptation of Neuromancer from co-creators Graham Roland and JD Dillard. Roland is set to serve as showrunner with Dillard set to direct the series pilot. The Neuromancer series will be co-produced by Skydance Television and Anonymous Content.https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/apple-neurmancer-series-william-gibson-1235925640/ Young Sheldon - The Big Bang Theory spinoff is getting its own spinoff. This time we will be following Sheldon's older brother, and his fiancée, Mandy (Emily Osment), as they raise their young family in Texas while they navigate the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage.SuggestsThe Walking Dead The Ones Who Live ep 2MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsTron:Ares - Jared Leto gave us our first look, as well as a possible release window of 2025.https://cosmicbook.news/tron-ares-first-look-revealed-by-jared-leto The Crow - People are comparing Bill Skarsgard to Jared Leto's Joker. MULLET??https://cosmicbook.news/bill-skarsgards-the-crow-look-like-jared-letos-joker Rebel Moon - The full 6 hour cut of the whole movie (parts 1 and 2) will reportedly be released together. No official date for that yet. Part 2 out April 19.https://cosmicbook.news/rebel-moon-6-hour-cut-on-the-way-says-zack-snyder Maxxxine - July 5th release date.TrailersThe Watchers - https://youtu.be/CrhrNS0JFyg M. Night Shyamalan's new movie. International release June 5th. North American release June 7. Dakota Fanning.The Garfield Movie - https://youtu.be/S3XjsSvwSuU Reg ‘ol NewsSuperman: Legacy - James Gunn has cast Wendell Pierce as Perry White. Following Lawrence Fishbourne from the Man of Steel movies.https://cosmicbook.news/james-gunns-superman-wendell-pierce-cast-as-perry-white The Unknown - Willy Wonka horror movie… kinda. Based on the “Willy's Chocolate Experience” situation in Glasgow. Scottish film studio Kaledonia Pictures is rushing the production in hopes for a 2024 release.https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3802303/the-unknown-a-horror-movie-based-on-the-viral-wonka-experience-has-been-announced/ SuggestsDune part 2… duhRumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsMandalorian - Game does actually appear to have been lost to the EA layoffs.Deadpool - Emma Corrin will IN FACT be playing Cassandra Nova. https://boundingintocomics.com/2024/02/28/deadpool-wolverine-copyright-filing-confirms-emma-corrins-villainous-role-return-of-live-action-marvel-heroine/ New SourcesSnyderverse - Nope still not dead. Now there is speculation, being fueled by WB and Netflix supposedly, that WB could be in the market to sell IPs to third parties and Netflix has voiced interest in more Zack Snyder.New RumorsHenry Cavill - Spider-Man UK? This IS a combination of Spider-Man and Captain Britain from Earth-833 which just so happens to be where Mysterio claimed to come from in Far From Home.Wolverine - Hugh Jackman is rumored to have 2 big stipulations. He wants to work with Tobey Maguire and RDJ.Kang the Conqueror - Colman Domingo is rumored to be playing Kang as the replacement for Jonathan Majors. Played coy in a recent interview. In the Candyman reboot, directed some episodes of Fear the Walking Dead.Spider-Man 4 - Sony wants all 3 Spider-Men (Tom Holland, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield) in the movie. ALSO all 3 are said to be voicing their Spider-Men in the next Spiderverse movie. Tom Holland will be getting the Venom symbiote in the end.Venom 3 - Tom Hardy going out into the multiverse looking for Peter Parker by the end.Ghost of Tsushima 2 - said to be getting an official announcement during a Playstation Showcase sometime around May or JuneYou can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.
Welcome to Multiverse News, Your source for Information about all your favorite fictional universes. Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part Two garnered an impressive $81.5 million dollars during its domestic opening weekend, Bolstered by strong critic and audience reviews. The sequel's strong performance comes during a time that Hollywood has continued to grapple with changing audience dynamics and pandemic-related, streaming challenges. Dune's success suggests there's still an appetite for big-budget, visually stunning blockbusters. James Gunn broke the internet by revealing his upcoming DCU kickoff film will no longer be titled Superman: Legacy, but simply SUPERMAN. The news came via Gunn's social media post celebrating the first day of filming that also showcased our first image of the Superman logo. Later in the week, we learned that The Wire and Suits actor, Wendell Pierce has been cast in the film as Daily Planet editor-in-chief, Perry White. This falls strictly into the unsubstantiated rumor column, but Daniel Richtman AKA DanielRPK, an industry insider with a reputation for his accuracy, has suggested the members of the Thunderbolts are ranked by order of import, with Yelena and Val at the top of the list and Bucky Barnes and Red Guardian rounding out the bottom spots. EA has canceled Respawn Entertainment's upcoming first person Star Wars game, which was recently reported to feature a Mandalorian bounty hunter. Nick Offerman and Betty Gilpin have joined Michael Shannon and Matthew Mcfadyen in Netflix's Death By Lightning, a historical drama series about the assassination of US President James Garfield. Richard Lewis, the stand-up comedian who also starred alongside Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm, has passed away at 76. Director Akiva Schaffer's untitled installment in the Naked Gun comedy franchise, featuring Liam Neeson and produced by Seth MacFarlane, is set to hit theaters on July 28, 2025. Tron: Ares star Jared Leto shared a first-look image at the upcoming sci-fi sequel via Instagram. The film is eyeing a 2025 release. Emily Blunt is in talks to join Benny Safdie's solo directorial debut The Smashing Machine, an A24 feature film starring Dwayne Johnson as MMA and UFC champion Mark Kerr. HBO's The Last of Us has added four actors to its cast: Danny Ramirez, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle and Spencer Lord. Their casting comes as the show is gearing up to begin production in the spring. Lionsgate released the trailer for the upcoming horror film The Strangers: Chapter 1, which is set to release on May 17. Paramount has announced that The action film Novocaine, starring Jack Quaid and Amber Midthunder, will be released on March 14, 2025. Kumail Nanjiani has joined the cast of Only Murders in the Building season 4 in a recurring role. While promoting Dune Part Two, Rebecca Ferguson ignited an Internet whodunnit when she accused a former co-star of screaming at her to the point of reducing her to tears, prompting some of her colleagues to mark themselves safe on social media. *POTENTIAL DUNE SPOILERS* Several scenes were cut from Dune Part Two including one featuring actor Tim Blake Nelson in a 'mystery role' and scenes featuring Thufir Hawat reprising his role from the first film. Denis Villeneuve has stated that the deleted scenes will never be released to the public. Austin Stowell has been cast as the younger version of Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS: Origins, which is a prequel series to NCIS set in 1991. Andor,Obi-Wan Kenobi, Moon Knight, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will all be released individually on 4K UHD and Blu-ray in collectible packaging. The individual sets will include concept art, deleted scenes, and behind-the-scenes extras. Director Jeff Rowe's TMNT 2, an animated feature, is slated for October 9, 2026.
ICYMI: Hour Three of ‘Later, with Mo'Kelly' – Thoughts on Filmmaker, Playwright & Actor Tyler Perry putting a halt to an $800 million studio expansion due to the “constantly changing evolution of artificial intelligence” AND Actor Wendell Pierce being cast as The Daily Planet's very own Perry White in the new James Gunn ‘Superman' reboot…PLUS – Tawala has a review of ‘Dune II' - on KFI AM 640 – Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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My amazing conversation with Jay Giles about The Wire concludes with a bonus segment in which we reflect on the series as a whole. We share which season was our favorite and why. And of course I had to ask Jay about the "controversial" second season of the series and whether or not he enjoyed it. We talk about satisfying character deaths, our favorite moment of comeuppance, and other memorable character introductions beyond the pilot.Thanks so much for listening! Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a great time.Don't miss the first and second part of my discussion with Jay about the pilot episode of The Wire.Please find and follow Jay on social media at the following links: Jay's Personal Twitter, Jay's Movie Talk, the Keda N Jay show, and TVZone Podcast Network.Don't miss episodes on The Barbie Movie, Found, The Tudors, Raising Kanan, The Good Girls, and Spartacus. Support the showFollow the pod on IG, Twitter, and Tumblr.Send longer feedback to morewinepod@gmail.com.Find our full catalog of past episodes at morewinepod.buzzsprout.com.
In this episode I speak about season 6 of Black Mirror on Netflix, the final season of Jack Ryan on Amazon, the movie American Fiction and another addition to our GOATs doing GOAT $hit segment! The Spun Today Podcast is a Podcast that is anchored in Writing, but unlimited in scope. Give it a whirl. 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Welcome to the Spun Today podcast, the only podcast that is anchored in writing, but unlimited in scope. I'm your host, Tony Ortiz, and I appreciate you listening. This is episode 254 of the podcast. And in this episode, I speak about. Season six of Black Mirror on Netflix, the final season of Jack Ryan on Amazon, the movie American Fiction, and another addition to our goats doing goat shit segment. Stick around for all that good stuff. But before we get into the episode, I wanted to tell you guys about a quick way you can help support this show if you so choose. Then we'll jump right into the episode. Black Mirror season six was released in 2023. For those of you who don't know, don't follow the show. It is an amazing watch. One of my favorite shows for sure. And it has six seasons available [00:01:00] on Netflix. And if you haven't seen any episode, don't worry. It's not like one of those types of shows where you have to follow specific characters or like watch it from, you know, episode one through to the latest episode. Each season, each season is like a, it's an anthology. So it's like these individual stories, individual short stories, if you will. And each one is kind of like its own movie. Think of it that way. So you can literally go in, check out the descriptions, see which ones you might, might be interested in and like, and it just started that way. That's what I did initially years ago. When I, when I first got put onto the show. And since have watched every single episode. I think every single episode, actually. I was Well, reading up and refreshing my memory on a few of these episodes, I went back and noticed like one or two episodes that I either don't remember or [00:02:00] maybe never even saw. But yeah, and it's not a lot of episodes per season. Some seasons only have three episodes, for example. Some have six, some have five, some have four. This latest season, season six, has five episodes. All of which are really cool. I would say two to three are awesome. Two are awesome. One is really good. And a couple of them I could were my favorites. But they were worth the watch either way. Because it really is a good show. Very well done. And here's the official synopsis of the show. Black Mirror is featuring stand alone dramas, sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore techno paranoia. Black Mirror is a contemporary reworking of The Twilight Zone, with stories that tap into the collective unease about the modern world. In the synopsis for this specific season is twisted tales that span eras and terrors. Deliver a [00:03:00] myriad of surprises in this game changing anthology series. Most unpredictable season yet. And as we like to do here on the Spun Study Podcast, wanted to shout out the folks that make it all possible. The writers. Black Mirror was created and is mainly written by Charlie Brooker. And there was one episode here in season six that was written by Bisha K. Ali, shout out to the writers of this amazing series and awesome season.[00:04:00] So the very first episode of the season is called Joan is awful. And the summary is that an average woman discovers a global streaming service has adapted her daily life and her secrets into a drama starring A list actress Salma Hayek. The name of the streaming service is Streamberry. It's similar to think of like Netflix for example. And this lady is essentially, you know, going through her life. Goes to work. Has certain conversations at work. She has a husband or, or at least a fiancé or live in boyfriend or something like that. That they depict their relationship kind of as like very routine, very going through the motions. And she Gets a text from like an [00:05:00] ex boyfriend or an old flame and says that he's in town and just wants to meet to say hi for a drink or something like that and she hesitantly goes Winds up going. I think they wind up kissing or something like that. And then they she leaves and goes home then they are about to Have dinner her and her boyfriend and They put on the TV and they say, Oh, Oh, look, there's a new show called Joan is awful the hell. And her name is Joan and they start playing it and watching it. And it's going through pretty much everything that happened to her that day. So it shows her like in the show, it shows some high, which plays her character going through the motions with a boyfriend, goes to work, shows a very similar conversation that she has. Her assistant is very similar and quirky and shows like what she said behind the back of someone that she fired and almost [00:06:00] identical to like what happened to her in real life. So she's watching it like, wait, what? What the fuck? Is this a joke? Like, what are you doing? What is going on? And then the boyfriend, he's just like, well, what are you talking about? You know, just like a show. But then he even starts catching on like, wait, this is very similar to, this seems like us. And then he sees in the show that she gets a text from an old boyfriend and then she's like, wait, that didn't happen. That's not true. And then, you know, she wants to stop watching for obvious reasons. He wants to keep watching for obvious reasons and so on and so forth. In long story short, the world of this main character like falls apart. And in almost real time, it's showing this on the show, like in the next episode of Jonah's Awful, and just highlighting how she's like a bad person and she's like flipping out and going to, she goes to a lawyer, she tries to sue Streamberry, [00:07:00] she loses her job, and all of this is being depicted on the show as well, right? Like, like a beat behind what's actually happening in real life, and she's like, how the fuck is this happening? And then the lawyer winds up letting her know that in signing the terms and conditions, you know, like the, those like pages and pages worth of terms and conditions that we all just like click the checkbox on and click accept, which I believe South Park did an episode of like years ago, but the lawyer explains how in the terms and conditions, one of the things you signed off on was giving your likeness, right? Signing over your likeness to StreamBerry and it's completely legal and they could do what they're doing. And from a company perspective in StreamBerry, they're using some sort of like AI and like high level tech to enrich their algorithm such that it gives the user, like the [00:08:00] watcher, the most targeted experience possible, which I can totally see a corporation doing. Like something like that through like algorithmic optimization and just like focusing on the bottom line, you know what I mean? Like an evil corporation that just wants to increase profit quarter after quarter after quarter and losing sight of the damage that it's doing otherwise. And then there's another layer to the episode where it gets into this like quantum computing baseline reality versus fictive reality. Type of thing as like the, the Joan is awful, the main character that we see that we think is the real Joan. She starts investigating the company and, and you know, taking matters into her own hands, tries to break into the company and figure out where they have this super computer that's facilitating all this. And she finds out that there's layers and layers and layers to this Joan is awful character. Where she's seeing Salma Hayek, this famous actress, playing her life. [00:09:00] There's, she is the. Actress that somebody else in a different layer or a different level of reality is watching her in a similar way on her streaming service, watching the Joan that we think is the real Joan, they're watching her on TV and so on and so forth. So she's like, wait, she's like contemplating mine, like, not even real. Am I like CGI? Am I like AI or something like that? And then it gets into the question of what's real. What's what are people quote unquote. What if we do create like AI or like sentient AI? Do they really have feelings and thoughts and are they real? Should they have rights, et cetera? It's really, really interesting. It's like a mind bending, when you think you know what the episode is about, it winds up opening up like all these other layers and inevitable questions. And that was definitely either my favorite or tied for favorite [00:10:00] episode of this season, Joan is awful. The second episode of Lock Henry is the one that I would say is like my tied to tied as my favorite episode of the season. And the summary for it is that while filming a nature documentary in a sleepy Scottish town, a young couple catches wind of a juicy local story with ties to shocking past events. Now in this episode, what stood out to me was first of all, like the way it was shot. It's very scenic. It's very beautiful looking the acting is great Everyone in it from like the main character his girlfriend his mother his best friend like stole a show. He was like the comedic relief and It follows this couple that goes Back home to, to the guy, the guy's hometown and the mother's meeting his, his girlfriend for the first time. And this town is really beautiful, but it's like [00:11:00] dead, like almost nobody's around. It's kind of eerie and creepy in that sense, but it's so beautiful and the girlfriend's even even notices that and she's like, what's going on here? Like, you would think that, you know, especially with this weather and this time of year that. This would be like a pop in place, you know what I mean? like a vacation spot for folks and She even asked this to The guy's friend Which is running a family Restaurant slash pub and the friend tells him wait, you didn't tell her about Ian Adar And remember, they're, they're like these film school kids that are, like, home from college to do this like, nature documentary. And that's what they're into. Or to do a documentary period, and they chose to do it about nature, a nature documentary. And, the kid is like no, no, no I didn't wanna, like, speak about that or whatever. And she's like, wait, who's Ian Adar? And [00:12:00] The friend or he and the friend but mainly he, the main character, he starts telling his girlfriend the story of Ian Adar. And this is probably like the scene that, that made the episode for me was his telling of the story of Ian Adar was like perfect spot on storytelling. Like it was just enough. Detail for like listeners and like watchers of the show to like add their own color and the visuals that they showed during his telling of Who Ian the Dar was definitely helped as well But it's absolutely like what roped me into to the episode But essentially this Ian the Dar character was a local guy who's kind of like a loner creepy guy that used to like go into the the pub and drink and and get drunk and Lived in a house down the road with a farm and [00:13:00] the, the main characters father in present time had passed away, but he used to be a police officer and they tell this very suspenseful story of how there was like a one day he got really drunk to see in the dark character after a couple that was on vacation because it used to be a really popular spot, this place. Which ties to the, the girl's expectation of, you know, why isn't this like a more popular place? It used to be. And then this couple went missing. And they couldn't find them. And then one day Enidar is in the pub and got really drunk. And then winds up going home and there's a disturbance in his house. And somebody calls the cops. The father of this kid goes and winds up getting shot by Enidar. As the telling of the story not killed, but then we find out that later on from his like wounds and like stuff like that, he got sick [00:14:00] and it was never the same and then wound up dying. So the mother and, and like the family blame Inidar for the father's death, but ultimately they found like this hidden dungeon in the house and like the remains of these people that were missing. And this Inadar character was some sort of like serial killer guy. And since then, the town became like a ghost town. Hence the state that it's currently in. Now the girl, she's like, We're not doing a fucking nature documentary anymore. We have to do a documentary about this. This is the story. We have to tell the story. And you know, they're film buffs and he's reluctant to do it. Doesn't want to open up like old wounds of you know, the family and the father dying and The story and stuff like that. The friend wants to, wants them to tell the story as well to see if it brings like more popularity back to the town and more tourists and stuff like that. And the girl's [00:15:00] really pushing for it. And even the mother says that she, it's important to tell the story. So then the kid gets on board and they start, you know, investigating and going into the house that was boarded up and going into that dungeon and taking videos and pictures and all this stuff. And the mother's this very like proper, you know, buttoned up lady. And the, like the kids are walking on eggshells around her. Don't want to make so much noise. And you know, she's nice, but very like buttoned up and proper. And long story shorter as they're investigating and the girlfriend is in the house by herself for some reason, like the, The guy went to visit with his friend or something like that. I forgot where he went, but she's just like rewatching some of the footage that they shot that day. And they were recording on top of an old VHS tape of some sitcom show that the mom used to watch and the father. And she finishes watching the footage and, but [00:16:00] the leaves the tape playing while she's like writing something down or something like that. And then the, this other footage comes up. All of that same dungeon area in the house, but it's like old footage. And she pretty much sees the couple that went missing and the mother of the guy and the father, and they're into this like eyes wide shut style, sex torture thing. And the girlfriend is watching this like, what the fuck? And then realizes that the mother and the father, the cop were the ones that killed that missing couple. And they were, you know, they did it again in this like Eyes Wide Shut style, like sex play, torture, craziness. And she like stops it and then right there there's like a knock at the door or the mother opens the door and she's like, Oh, dinner's ready. And she, and she, you know, she's trying not to freak out. And she's like, Okay, I'll be right there. And then winds [00:17:00] up going upstairs and saying that she's going to get some air or something like that. And it's night time, but ultimately she goes, she winds up getting out the house. The mother realizes, you know, goes back to the room, realizes what she saw, and then tries to find the girl. She drives and catches up to her. Then the girl, like, runs into into, like, a wooded area, like, down by a river and tries to hide. Winds up, like, slipping and banging her head, and pretty much she drowns in the river and dies. Then the mother just had another added twist to everything. The mother winds up going back to the, to the apartment, taking out all the VHS tapes and footage and stuff and set and write a letter to her son, which still isn't home by the way, and explaining to him everything and what she was involved in. And what his father was involved in and that with the footage that's on that tape, he'll make [00:18:00] like an amazing documentary and then she winds up hanging herself, which is sick and unexpected. And then the story goes on to, to show the kid, you know, being the film buff that he is, but also reluctant to like the whole thing. He winds up putting out this documentary, the town blows up with like tourism and stuff like that. It like fast forwards, like a year or two later and he winds up winning like all these like awards and, you know, like Emmys, Grammys, whatever it is that you went for this, but it's like that type of event and he's like pretty much miserable. Like, he has obviously what he wanted with this, like documentary filmmaking fame, he brought back life to his hometown, but obviously lost his girlfriend and his mother and is completely mind fucked with what happened. So. Dope, dope episode. Lock Henry. Now the next three, I'll go a little quicker. We have beyond the sea, which was a really good episode. It starts my [00:19:00] guy Jesse from breaking bad. And he and he plays this astronaut, he and another character and it says in an alternative in 1969, two astronauts on a perilous high tech space mission. Grapple with the fallout of an unfathomable tragedy back on earth. And essentially they're these astronauts that are in like in deep space. But they have these only two were made state of the art, like physical bodies back on earth. And they're able through some sort of technology laid down in a pod for like in their like spaceship or wherever they are in space. And It puts them to sleep, but like beams their consciousness into this body that's back on earth and they could do it for, I don't know, five hours, eight hours a day or something like that, or every so often, you know, and while one does it, the [00:20:00] other one has to, you know, be in the spaceship, you know, man, the spaceship and, and everything and the other, you know, does that to spend time with their family, both of them are like married, they have a kid or two. So And They take turns doing this every day and then the rest of the day, you know, they're working out in space and doing the research and work that it is that they do. Then one day, one of them goes back and I forget exactly how it happened, but it was, Oh, I do remember how it happened. The somebody breaks into their house and, it's like this think of like the Sharon Tate style murders. But it's like a religious cult thing that this is like you know ungodly You know, you're like an abomination here on earth. You're not really human It's like that type of mentality that drove these folks to like break into the house. They wound up tying tying up the guy [00:21:00] and He you know his body it that's not his real body But he's you know, he he's beamed in and then they top his wife his kid And they wind up killing his wife and, and child in front of him while he's watching, and he can't do anything about it. And then they, you know, they can't kill him because it's not really his body, but they fuck up the, that machine, robot, AI, whatever, body so he can't ever, like, beam down again. Then he beams back, obviously he's in, in real life, you know, he's in outer space. Not in real life, but, you know. And he's completely distraught. It's a, you know, story blows up. It's pretty much going crazy. And then his other astronaut buddy friend is, finds out about it. And then he, you know, they, they speak back to like space command or whatever it's called. And they try to give the, the friend you know, pointers and things to speak to him about. And, you know, they try to [00:22:00] like keep tabs on him. To see what's going on, you know, don't fuck up like the mission and then, you know, he has to deal with him coming back to his family and his life, but knowing that he left this unstable person up there that just lost his entire family and they think of like he and his wife think of, you know, like once he's like a little bit more settled, you know, They offer him to use his body. So Jesse's character offers him to use his body to go down, you know, to beam down. Just so he could feel the air again and be around people. And he winds up doing this. They wind up doing it every so often. It's apparently, it's helping him. But then he and the wife kind of hit it off a little bit. And he's into painting and they get a little flirty.[00:23:00] The wife you know, pushes back on the whole thing eventually. But then Jesse's character finds out about it, gets upset, tells him that he's not going to let them, you know, beam down anymore. You know, they're not supposed to be doing that anyway. Cause it like breaks protocol. And then the guy convinces him to do it. One more time. Just so he could apologize to the wife and he reluctantly agrees. Then he comes back and then the next time Jesse beams down, he beams down and he sees blood everywhere. He's like, what the fuck? And then he realizes the guy beamed down that last time and wound up killing his wife and kid. And he has no other option but to like beam back up. You know, he beams back up and the story ends with them. Him just like flipping out, but then him telling him to like, take a seat. He's like completely calm and fucking psycho, but tells him, you know, take a seat. Now, now we're even basically, I lost my family. You lost yours. You can't tell anybody about it. Cause you know, there's [00:24:00] nothing anybody can do. We weren't even supposed to be beaming in each other's bodies or whatever the hell. That was a really good episode. Now, the last two that I'll mention Maisie day. The main character is played by Zazie Beetz from Atlanta. Great actress. It wasn't my favorite episode. It's a troubled Hollywood starlet who goes to great lengths to escape packs of invasive paparazzi as she deals with the aftermath of a hit and run. And yeah, it didn't really, it wasn't a favorite episode of mine. She plays a paparazzi that's like in the paparazzi game and wants out, wants a different life. But they're tracking this like super popular actress who's trying to like hide out in rehab because she has like a drug problem. And then there's like this, I don't know, felt like lazy twist unexpected. I don't know, not maybe not lazy, but. Because it got me like I was interested in the episode just because [00:25:00] of like the acting and the writing in general and the characters in it. And it was. Somewhat suspenseful, but like the what happened at the end. I was like, ah, come on which was pretty much the The starlet that they were tracking down Was in this like rehab place and like tied down and they they wound up trying to save her Because they pretty she pretty much went into this rehab place and they like tied her down To, you know, like fight off the, the drugs and, you know, she was going to get sick and throw up and stuff like that. And they didn't want her like breaking out and getting drugs or anything. So it would be like an easier time for her if she was just tied down. So the paparazzi, Zazie Beats, and a couple other folks, they track her down. They try to get a picture of her because it's worth a lot of money in the rehab place. But then they realize that she's tied down. And when they go, they go to free her and she winds up turning into a werewolf. So, and she winds up killing a couple of the [00:26:00] paparazzis as he beats, gets away. And then at the end, I think winds up killing her as well. But yeah, that was a little, just like a little far fetched in my opinion, but that thing was great. And the last one is called Demon 79. This is Northern England, 1979. A meek sales assistant discovers she must commit terrible acts to prevent an imminent disaster. This was another one that was good. It keeps you roped in because you want to know if it's true or not, what she's going through. And it's this Indian girl in 1979. She's a she sells shoes. She works at like a malls department store selling shoes. And the people she works with and, you know, her boss and coworker and stuff like that, they all treat her different and they say, oh, you have stinky food and, and, you know, she's treated, she's very othered, you know, her neighbors or the people treat her [00:27:00] like very differently. And then this like demon appears and that only she can see in here and tells her that she has to essentially kill three people or the entire world would end. So they're showing this and you as the, as the viewer are like, is this real or not? Is she like a schizophrenic imagining demons and shit? Or is this like really happening within this world? And she's going through those same emotions. She's like, she thinks she's going crazy, but then ultimately is convinced of this and winds up going through the motions and doing things with the, with the demon. And the demon tries to like aggro on and, and. And, you know, motivate her to, to kill people and forget what it was. If it had to be only good people, it couldn't be bad people because bad people would be too easy. It has to be like three innocent people or something like that. Or if it was the other way around, if it had to be bad people and couldn't be innocent people and she wound up killing [00:28:00] like an innocent person, I think that's what it was. It's one of the killing an innocent person. That person didn't count. So she wound up killing like an extra person. And then at the end, she winds up getting caught like in the act and is, you know, there's like a cutoff time. It's like midnight at, you know, you know, three days later or something like that. The world was going to end and she's like in the interrogation room with the cops and they're writing her off as fucking crazy. The clock strike struck 12, nothing happened. And then she's like coming to the realization, holy shit, I killed these people. I am crazy. It's 12 o'clock and nothing happened. And then like three or four minutes later, you hear sirens going off and like the towns, like fog horns and everyone in the precinct is like going to the windows and you just see like bombs and fire and plague and just like everything going to shit. And then she comes to the realization of, Oh, I'm not crazy. [00:29:00] So she's happy about that, but then at the same time, oh, but the world is ending so There is that But yeah, Black Mirror Dope series, like I said in the beginning of this little recap and review Go back to see all the seasons all the episodes Some of them are fucking amazing. A lot of them are great most of them are either great or really good and there's like a I could count on one hand, less than one hand, probably just two or three that even, even the ones that, like I mentioned in, in this season six, the last two episodes weren't my favorite, but they were, you know, it wasn't like, Oh, why'd I watch that? You know what I mean? And that is my little recap and review of black mirror season six available on Netflix testing, testing one, two, one, two. Tom Clancy's, Jack Ryan, created by Carlton Qs and Graham Roland. Based on the characters by novelist, Tom [00:30:00] Clancy had its series finale last year in 2023. Very quick aside, because I don't wanna forget Tom Clancy, I, I looked them up like when I, when I'm into like a show or a movie or, or like a book, and I may not know the author or the writer or the creators. I look them up usually like to follow them on, on Twitter or Instagram and just to see like what they're up to, what they're working on currently. And I did that with Tom Clancy being that this is a character that he developed, that he created and has like a bunch of, of novels about him. And I found out that he died in 2013. And since, since he died, he's put out more content, whether it be films, Shows like this one and books and at first I'm kind of like, yeah, that's I guess it kind of sort of makes sense if you, you know, you create certain characters and you have like a, [00:31:00] a large backlog, you know, your state or something can like license out the content and one of your older books could be adapted into a movie or TV show, et cetera. I thought it was like that type of deal. But then I found out that's not the case and that he's since he's. Past again in 2013. He's put out over a dozen new books. We're not he is like physically impossible but He built out such a well known IP in like his name tom clancy and all the characters that he's created and Like Jack Ryan, for example, but also different, like, series of, like, movies and shows, like, The Hunt for Red October, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin Patriot Games, starring Harrison Ford, etc., that his name alone is the Tom Clancy name, like, it became an entity, essentially. And The publishing house [00:32:00] has other writers that since his death have written under the Tom Clancy banner, if you will, but under the Tom Clancy name. So it'll be a new book by Tom Clancy, but it's really written by Grant Blackwood, Mark Cameron, Dick Couch, Mark Greeney. And Mike Madden probably amongst others by now. I thought that was so fascinating and interesting and just a testament to something that I like to highlight and underscore the importance of owning your content, owning your IP. At whatever level you're on from zero listenership and readership to millions and millions and millions of listeners and or readership, because ultimately, if something does pop off in the direction of being financially viable, why not have your situation set up in a way where you didn't give away the rights, you didn't sell off the [00:33:00] rights for a one time fee or, you know, the short term bag, but you've created something valuable. That can and will go on for decades after you're gone and your kids and maybe even your kids kids Could benefit from it Like why not set it up that way, you know what I mean, but to each their own. Anyway, Jack Ryan is a dope series and The official synopsis is of the show is up and coming CIA analyst Jack Ryan is thrust into dangerous field assignments and it stars John Krasinski From the office, which when I first saw the show, I was like that, like, I know him as like Jim from the office and it's a comedy. And this is like a serious, you know, CIA analyst guy, but it totally works. And it just shows like his range as an actor, in my opinion. Also starting Wendell Pierce, shout out to Wendell Pierce, shout out to the wire [00:34:00] and Michael Kelly. It was a great, like character actor. I think that's what you call a character actor. Shout out to a house of cards where he played Doug. And as we'd like to do here on the sponsored a podcast, because if we don't do it here, then who will let's shout out the writers. First and foremost, Tom Clancy, of course, based on the characters that he created Carlton Kuse, Graham Roland, Joe Griscoviak, Jeff Kempler, Jada Nation, Aaron Rabin, you name it. Vaughn Wilmot, Stephen Cain and Robert David Port. Shout out to each and every one of the writers that, and creators of the series that put together this final fourth series finale.[00:35:00] So like the synopsis says, if you're not familiar with the show, it all revolves around this genius. CIA analyst. He's kind of like a desk analyst research guy that winds up going into the field and then you start finding out that, Oh, he can, he can do the field as well. He has like a background being like a Navy seal, I think, or just like one of those like superhero type characters in, in shows, you know, they could do it all smartest guy in the room, toughest guy in the room. And I love shows like that. Cause I could finally relate to someone, you know what I mean? Let me stop. But definitely, I definitely do enjoy those shows. You kind of like vicariously live through characters like that. And this season, this final season, [00:36:00] had to do with a drug cartel teaming up with a terrorist organization. And how that type of matchup would combine unlimited resources with Like unbridled terror and hate, which is obviously a dangerous combination, especially when, and if it's aimed towards the U S for example, Michael Pena is a big part of this final season as well. Another great actor. If you don't know him by name, he's, he's the, the Spanish guy that is like in everything. When you see him, you'd be like, Oh yeah, I know that guy. And in the very first episode, actually, Ends with a really dope scene where he is in Jack Ryan's apartment. When Jack Ryan gets home with his girlfriend and they get home [00:37:00] from some event that they were at and she's going to go take a shower or something. He's going to the fridge and Michael Peña just points a gun to his head and tells him to turn Pluto back on. So at this point. The story. Basically, Jack Ryan has ascended and he's like assistant to the head of the CIA like sec second line. And they're getting a lot of pressure from, from the Senate to be more transparent and highlight programs within the CIA, like covert operations and stuff like that because there had just been a coup slash murder of a president in a country in Africa and. You know, conspiracy theorists and folks were blaming the CIA as them having something to do with it. So a way that Jack Ryan and Director Wright chose to deal with that was to turn off the funding for all these [00:38:00] programs that you couldn't trace or like where the money was going to and stuff like that. And one of these programs was Pluto, codenamed Pluto. And Michael Peña just shows up, puts a gun to Jack Ryan's head. Remember, Jack Ryan's like the badass, you know, handles everything, knows everything that's going on at all times. And here's this guy, apparently within the CIA as well, in his apartment with a gun to his head, telling him to turn the shit back on, turn the money back on for that operation. And we see Michael Pena's character in Mexico. Like they show a few scenes of him there and like being a bit like a bad ass there. And as the viewer, we're kind of like, wait, is he CIA? Is he part of this cartel? Is he like a double agent? Like what's up with him? And ultimately we find out that he is in the CIA, but he's being used by the folks that are running the Pluto program that are working with This either the drug cartel and or [00:39:00] the terrorist organization side to try to facilitate what they have going on and they're pretty much being paid off. That's essentially what this season is all about. It has great fighting scenes, very suspenseful, like scenes with a helicopter. Oh, I'm sorry, with a plane that they're finally getting away. Jack Ryan's character is and. Mike November's, which is Michael Kelly's character and Kathy Mueller, which is John Krasinski's Jack Ryan's girlfriend played by Abby Cornish and Michael Pena's character. They're all like getting away from a situation that they're in that they're flying out of to take a chow fa the head of this drug organization or not the head. He was like the higher up about to become the head, but he, he was turning against the organization. And like speaking to the CIA to be able to get his family, his wife and daughter out. So they're in this situation where [00:40:00] they are about to get out of the country on this private plane. They load everybody up, but then Jack Ryan and Michael Pena themselves have to stay behind so the plane can go, can fly off. With Jack Ryan's girlfriend, Chao Pha's wife and daughter. Cause you have like a ton of just like jeeps and jeeps and with heavy machinery machine guns and a bunch of soldiers just like coming at them. So the plane can take off. They stayed down to like, you know, give them a cover pretty much and like shooting back at them. And then Michael Kelly's character, Mike November just comes with a fucking helicopter and like mows down all the. Like at the last second when you're like, how the fuck are they gonna get out of this? They're like in this open field completely surrounded or fucked and Mike November shows up in this helicopter and with enough like weaponry to like hold them off [00:41:00] and allow Jack Ryan and Mike and Michael Peña's character to get in the helicopter and get the fuck out of there. It's like dope scenes like that. Acting director writes characters from Queens. Shout out to Queens. There's some dope scenes towards the end of the series where Jack Ryan actually gets captured and he's being tortured, you know He's like tied up. He's being electrocuted fucking whipped and just like fucked up like a sick torture scene and to John Krasinski's Credit did a phenomenal job. It was like so believable and it's like a sick scene and Michael Pena is In this like bunker place where they have Jack Ryan, he like broke into it to save Jack Ryan and there's a part where he, all he has is a spear gun because that's what he couldn't buy in terms of weaponry from like a villager that lived [00:42:00] close by and he gets into this facility and there's a, you know, there's this guy guarding a door and he's walking, you know, he hears something, he's walking around with a gun And Mike Pena fucking spear guns him in the dark, it was such a sick scene. And just wound up like fucking everybody up one by one like John Wick style to ultimately free Jack Ryan. And I like this show in particular because it's not like the bad guys in the show. They make you not relate to them, but they're written in such a way where I don't want to see you empathize with them. But they humanize them a bit, you know, they're not like over the top just like evil for evil's sake type bad guys I think the the best villains in stories there's like something about them that you could relate to or at least that you can sympathize with their Rationale whether you agree with it or not for like doing certain things and there's a few of those characters Within this season within the show in general, but within this season, especially like the ex CIA guy [00:43:00] that felt wronged and he was like a, a hitman for hire basically for, for the bad guys. Chau Fa's character, which was the head of this drug organization and was doing it to get his wife and daughter out. And he killed his brother in law who was like on to him. So on and so forth. But yeah, really good show. It's definitely a fun watch. There's four seasons available on Amazon if you're interested. It's one of those that are just like action and entertaining and well written, in my opinion. And that is Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan. Available on Amazon. American Fiction. So a few weeks back, prior to the health related issues that I mentioned that My family's going through right now. My wife and I wanted to do one of our favorite things, which is go to the movies. It's one of the things we really enjoy doing together. And We saw American Fiction. Which was [00:44:00] so, so good to me. On a few different levels. It's about a novelist who This is the official summary. It's about a novelist who's fed up with the establishment, profiting from black entertainment. And he uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of the hypocrisy and madness he claims to disdain. Before we get into my little recap, let's shout out the writers, as we do here on the Sponsored A Podcast. Because if we don't, who will? American Fiction was written by Cord Jefferson and Percival Everett. Shout out to them for putting this together. It was also directed by Cord Jefferson. Now it has a great, great all star cast starting with the main protagonist, Thelonious Monk Ellison played by Jeffrey Wright, Lisa Ellison, his sister played [00:45:00] by Tracy Ellis Ross, Arthur, who is the publisher of Thelonious character played by John Ortiz. Coraline, who plays a love interest of Thelonious, played by Erika Alexander. Issa Rae is in it, she also plays a writer. Cintara Golden, Keith David, plays Willy the Wonker. It's like a funny little like parody scene within the movie itself. I really like the Myra. Lucretia Taylor plays Lorraine. She's like that housekeeper slash caretaker for, for the mother. Agnes Ellison, played by Leslie Uggams. It's such a good film. So it follows Thelonious Monk Ellison, who's a writer, and he plays like this jaded writer that is a little snobby about his writing. You know, he's respected by his peers, but he definitely doesn't make money, or at least not a lot of it.[00:46:00] And he's snobby towards the genre of writer that seems to just be writing to the market. Issa Rae's character, Sentara Golden, is one of these writers, which makes a beautiful case for it. And like there's a scene where they have a dialogue with each other. And back and forth and makes a strong understandable case for writing to the market because there are writers like that, right? There are writers and creators like that, that literally only write to and for a specific market. There are podcasters like that as well that, you know, they'll do Google trending searches, for example, and say, Oh, X, Y, and Z is trending. Let me do a podcast episode about that. Or writers that write to, Oh, what's popular now, vampires. Made of glitter that also own a knitting factory. Okay, let me write a story about that and they'll literally write a novel, a book, a short story or whatever about that. That's called like writing to the [00:47:00] market. And then you have other folks that write for the art of it, that write what they want to write, whether it's popular or not. I think I would fall more into that camp and they speak about what they want to speak about. So on and so forth. And it's not passing judgment on either. You know, both are, you know, The creator's prerogative, but Monk's character is one that has disdain for the folks like Issa Rae's character, Centaur Golden, who is literally just writing for the market and her case was essentially, you know, if there is a market, if there are people that want to read this type of stuff that you call, you know, trash or like fast food, for example, in fast food type of writing, and I'm able to create that for them to fill that demand. And make a living while doing it. Why is that, you know, like, why are you shitting on that? What's wrong with that? And the answer to that is essentially, [00:48:00] there is nothing wrong with that. That's, you know, the choice of that creator, that writer, and also the choice of that consumer. To consume whatever the fuck they want to consume, right? But what I love for it from a this like writing, you know, This, like, shining the light on this, like, area of like writing and creating Is that the type of, like, story she's writing are Like thought to be like racist and like over the top and highlighting like stereotypes of African Americans And like she's doing a reading for example, and she's you know, speaking normally and then You know being interviewed and then she's reading an excerpt from her story and then she's like, oh, yeah. Sure I would love to read an excerpt. Let me share this passage here. And then she starts reading quote Hey, yo, Sharonda use pregnancy again and not at 19 years old What is that, your eighth baby mama? You know, like, shit like that. She's like, writing in the book. And then Thelonious Monk's character is like, has like such disdain and grossed out and [00:49:00] like, what the fuck, how is this selling? So he as like a kind of to like shit on his certain publishers that don't want to like publish him anymore. And Arthur, by the way, is not his publisher, it's his agent. The character played by John Ortiz. He decides to write this like over the top hood, like spoof almost, and submit that to the publishers that don't want to publish his, his other work. Cause again, it's not selling and the publishers are in the market of, or in the business of making money. So they're like the embodiment of creating for the market, minus the creating part, you know, they're just like peddling, but I digress. He submits it as kind of like a fuck you to them. And then, and they wind up loving it. And they wanna, and he, he submits it like under a pen name. And Arthur, his agent calls him, he's like, yo, they wanna publish it. And he's like, really? They wanna publish my book? He thinks it's his, like, other book that, that he wrote. The more, you know, like, [00:50:00] snooty writing and, you know, the shit that he's into. His literary fiction, if you will. And John Ortiz's character, Arthur, he's like, no, no, the The other book that you sent me over under the pen name and they want to give you a 250, 000 advance or something like, I forget the exact number. That might be it. But he's like, what? He's like, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not going to do that shit. What are you fucking crazy? That was supposed to be a joke. But monks characters in a situation where this is a, another layer of the story where it really resonated with me. His mother, Agnes is elderly. Her memory is starting to slip. They take her to. And they confirmed that it's like early stages of dementia. My father, as I mentioned here in the pod has dementia. So that definitely resonated and as well as him and Tracy Ellis Ross, which is his sister. And they have a third brother Clifford Ellison [00:51:00] played by Sterling K. Brown. But they're like between siblings, they're dealing with the fact of balancing the responsibilities of taking on the fact that their parents are getting older, that their parents are getting sick. And what, how are they going to balance that? And what's that going to mean moving forward? And who's taking on which responsibilities? How are they going to tackle all of the issues that need to be tackled and taken care of? And that's something that definitely hit home. And something that we all inevitably deal with to one degree or another. So he's in this situation where he, they need the money to confront you know, like the changing and added responsibilities in, in, in their lives with their mom being sick. And he's out to a lunch with his sister and, you know, they're speaking about these things, trying to iron out certain details and, you know, speaking about how money's tight.[00:52:00] All around and then his sister right then and there literally has a heart attack while they're having lunch out of the blue Tracy Ellis Ross's character which sucked that she she like died like spoiler alert so early in the story Which just threw a another curveball and an added need for him to get money because the other brother He's like going through a divorce with his family kind of like a midlife crisis coming out the closet like type of thing he's like selfish and doing drugs and more of a burden than a help, you know what I mean? So it all kind of falls on Jeffrey Wright's character. But then he, you know, he has this dilemma where he definitely really needs the money, which Arthur, his agent, is highlighting to him to take care of his mom. But also, his creative beliefs and what he feels about like his integrity, his creative integrity, is being thrust into this situation as well, right? He doesn't want to publish that. But ultimately he does. [00:53:00] Begrudgingly and at the same time, I felt that that situation does a great job of, of being like social commentary for what's wrong with the virtue signaling. And you have these two agents from the publishing company who are white and just like thrilled to speak to the writer, which again was under pen name. And he just kept playing it up and making it more absurd. He was like, yeah, I'm an ex, I'm an ex con. I don't do interviews cause I'm still running from the law. I'm running from the man and this and that or whatever. And they were just like eating it up and they're like, Oh my God, this is so authentic. This is so real. And it was like cool to see like that highlighting of that type of like hypocrisy of what happens when, you know, writing to a market or just like doing something ultimately for financial gain alone. Like when that runs amok, like. [00:54:00] Just highlighting all that is wrong with that type of mentality. And not to be mistaken with that, that is all wrong. But what could be wrong with only thinking that way. Lorraine's character, she was so sweet. Played by Myra Taylor. She is the like, home health aid caretaker of the mom. And has obviously like been with the family for like years. So to the point that she's like family. She was like such, such a sweetheart. And I felt like the ultimate, like, full circle moment for him, for Monk's character was a couple of things. Like, on a personal level, you know, being more open, being, you know, letting your guards down a bit, letting people into your life, letting them love you. He was very guarded, very cagey. Pushed people away. Which is not an uncommon trait for a writer or some types of creatives You know, you're kind of sort of always in your own head and you wind up doing[00:55:00] Things like that even without noticing at times. I know I definitely have and then from a professional level the full circle for for his character was That ultimately he always wanted he wanted And needed money, but also wanted the validation that comes with the recognition of all your peers and being thought of as this amazing writer and he kind of sort of came to the realization that these are two different worlds and it's okay you know i mean it's not like an either or type of situation it's the ideal circumstance that you can do like your artsy fartsy type of writing and everybody and their mother would love it and it would be mainstream and niche at the same time and You'd be a literary hero and a millionaire simultaneously at the same time like sure but very unlikely that Would ever be the type of situation [00:56:00] that you would be in as a creative But there is a happy medium with come again coming to terms with the fact that maybe not always but often it would be a separate different type of approach to to creating and that part of the charm if you will of being on a creative journey is a Finding that medium of the happy medium where you are able to create without compromising your artistic integrity, if you will, and also make some money while doing so, which will help facilitate you being able to do more of what it is that you love to do, which is the writing and creating. And if sometimes you wind up sliding to the left of that spectrum a little bit, and going more towards the making money side, and then sliding back to the right a little bit, and going more towards the doing what you [00:57:00] love side, then so be it. As long as you ultimately stay within that happy medium, which should be the place where you're most happy, I think is the ultimate creative. goal. At least I feel like that's what it is for me. Anyway, tons and tons and tons of that I related to in this movie. I highly recommend it. American fiction. Check it out. Goats doing goat shit. This is the spun today segment where I like to highlight extraordinary individuals that do extraordinary things. Even when, and especially when They don't have to this episode's installment of a go to doing goat shit is none other than Joe Rogan who has made the list before this is probably his third if not fourth time and the reason why as originally reported by Spotify's blog and picked up by the Wall Street [00:58:00] Journal Associated Press and others which I will link to in the episode notes is because in February of 2024 this month Joe Rogan inked yet another Multi year licensing deal with Spotify for those of you who don't know one of the other reasons actually when Rogan initially made the go to doing goat shit list was because he inked a 100 million licensing deal to take his podcast, the Joe Rogan experience exclusive with Spotify for three years. I want to highlight again, it was a licensing deal, which I love harping on and highlighting here on. The podcast, because there's a huge difference between selling something and licensing something. When you license something that you create, you can license it for X amount of dollars, sometimes, and usually less than what you would make if you just sold it outright. But what's great about a licensing deal [00:59:00] is that once that license is up, you still own everything and you can license it out all over again. So Joe Rogan did a licensing deal for 100 million, three years ago that recently expired. And because it was such a lucrative deal for Spotify and its shareholders, which saw many, many, many times that hundred million dollars in stock profits as soon as the news broke. But Rogan since again, maintained ownership of his show was now able to license it yet again. And this time the deal has a few interesting caveats. First and foremost, it's another multi year licensing deal. The number of years I'm not clear on. I'm assuming it's around 3 to 5. But I haven't found actual reporting on the number of years. But it's a 250, 000, 000 licensing deal. Shout out to the [01:00:00] podcast, The Goat. So not only did he make 100, 000, 000 over 3 years with the original deal, Now he's making another 250 million, which includes, by the way, upfront guarantee as well as revenue sharing on his ad sales. But the sickest part, in my opinion, is that it's no longer exclusive with Spotify. This deal was so lucrative with Spotify that they didn't, they didn't even hold on to that part of it. That part of the deal. It said Rogan and team negotiated that. The podcast will once again, go wide, it'll be available everywhere. So if you want to listen to it on Apple, you can, it's already actually on Apple. And there will be a video version available on YouTube as well. Which is interesting because back in the day, before the Spotify deal, Rogan's Pod was wide, you know, it was available on every podcatcher. And the video versions were [01:01:00] exclusively on YouTube just because YouTube had the that's where videos would be seen, you know what I mean? It wasn't by virtue of any deal with YouTube, but that's just where video podcasts were viewed. Part of when Rogan went to Spotify, part of the deal that was negotiated was that Spotify had to develop the capability. Of streaming video as well as audio, and they developed this entire video capability through their app because of Rogan which other podcasters and, and content creators obviously have benefited from as well. But now that the deal is going wide again, or the show rather is going wide again, we will once again be able to watch the podcast episodes on YouTube, not just the video versions on Spotify. But it does seem, for example, that Spotify is keeping, aside from YouTube, seems to be keeping, at least as of the recording of this episode, [01:02:00] the video rights with Spotify, because you can still watch the videos obviously on Spotify, but on Apple, for example, where the podcast is already on YouTube. Available it's audio only so Spotify does seem to be retaining that I would imagine that the video versions of the podcast will be available on YouTube as they stated but probably on some sort of like delayed release like maybe a week later the video will be on on YouTube or something like that but that's just my personal speculation on that shout out once again to Rogan the undisputed heavyweight champ of podcasting goats you For not only having one of the dopest and most important essential outlets on the planet Where folks from any and all walks of life? Can come and share their art and discuss their thoughts and share their [01:03:00] expertise with the world but also for doing it right always doing a show with integrity and honor and giving other podcasts everywhere including myself A template for how to do it right and not just in caring about what you do, loving what you do, pursuing your passions, striving to be a better person, wanting to help others, but in realizing that there's different ideas and thoughts out there, and that it's okay that they coexist. It's okay that they're differing opinions are shared and explored. It's essential, but also in just the integrity that comes with the whole financial aspect of things. And in doing things right and correctly where he was very much the architect of not just selling ads on his podcast back way before the Spotify deal, way before the whole thing blew up when he only had one sponsor, shout out to Fleshlight, where He, again, was very much of the architect of not just [01:04:00] selling shit to sell it, but only selling things that you believed in or that at least you tried and you liked and not, you know, just doing McDonald's ads just because they came with the bigger bag. Having that level of integrity and foresight clearly snowballed all these years later into the 250 million more than doubled up from the previous 100 million deal. So shout out again to Joe Rogan and to Spotify for inking this deal and for making yet another appearance on the Spun Today goats doing goat shit segment. And that folks was episode 254 of the Spun Today podcast. Thank you very, very much for taking the time to [01:05:00] listen. It really does mean a lot and I hope that you all are taking away gems from the episode. And, or it's just helping you pass the time and whether you're at work or at the gym or whatever it is that you do while you're listening to this driving. I hope it can help you pass the time. I hope it finds you and yours in a good, healthy place. Maybe even motivates you and inspires you to do something creative on your end, which I'm definitely a proponent for. If you have another minute or two, please stick around to listen to a few ways you can help support this show if you so choose. And I'll catch you guys next time. Peace.
My conversation with Jay about the pilot episode of The Wire continues! If you haven't listened to part 1 of our conversation, check it out here. In this final part of our discussion about the pilot, we talk about what worked well in the episode and whether we would change anything about this well executed hour of television. We examine whether The Wire is copaganda and close out the discussion with the thirst segment. I asked Jay to do some thirst-inspired casting for the show. Thank you so much for listening! There will be a new episode next Wine Wednesday and keep an eye on your feed for the bonus segment in which Jay and I share reflections about The Wire beyond the pilot.Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a great time!Please find and follow Jay on social media at the following links: Jay's Personal Twitter, Jay's Movie Talk, the Keda N Jay show, and TVZone Podcast Network.Don't miss episodes on The Barbie Movie, Found, The Tudors, Raising Kanan, The Good Girls, and Spartacus. Support the showFollow the pod on IG, Twitter, and Tumblr.Send longer feedback to morewinepod@gmail.com.Find our full catalog of past episodes at morewinepod.buzzsprout.com.
Happy Wine Wednesday! Jay Giles joined me this week for an amazing discussion about the pilot episode of one of the best series of all time - The Wire. This is hands down one of my favorite discussions on the podcast and I think that's reflected in the run time for our discussion. To spare you one very long episode, we've broken the chat down into three parts. Enjoy part 1 and keep an eye on your feed for part 2 tomorrow.Thanks so much for listening! Friendly reminder - we drink, we know things, we use adult language, and we have a great time.Please find and follow Jay on social media at the following links: Jay's Personal Twitter, Jay's Movie Talk, the Keda N Jay show, and TVZone Podcast Network.Support the showFollow the pod on IG, Twitter, and Tumblr.Send longer feedback to morewinepod@gmail.com.Find our full catalog of past episodes at morewinepod.buzzsprout.com.
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