The Gen Z Movie Focus Group

Amanda is joined by The Ringer’s very own Jomi Adeniran, Jade Whaley, and Jack Sanders to convey the first (and possibly last) Gen Z Movie Focus Group! They discuss how they watched movies growing up versus today, debate what is the most important movie to Gen Z, and assess whether movies are “so back” or “so over.”Host: Amanda Dobbins Guests: Jomi Adeniran, Jade Whaley, and Jack Sanders Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Video Producers: Jack Sanders and Cory McConnell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:52Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm Amanda Dobbins, and this is The Big Picture, a conversation show about the children and the future. Shawn is somehow still out, so we are going full no-parents mode on this special episode of The Big Picture. I've convened a panel of The Ringer's finest Young minds to answer every question that I have about how Gen Z does or does not watch movies. Welcome to the first and possibly the last edition of the Gen Z movie focus group.

• 2:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Alright, so before we begin, I'm gonna introduce our panel. And we're, you know, it's gonna be like a mingle, like, speed dating type thing. Do they still speed date?

• 2:31Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 2:32Amanda Dobbins?

  They do? Okay, good. See, we're learning so much here already. So first, we have Jade Whaley, a producer here at The Ringer, my producer on Jam Session, and an AMC Stubs member, or I actually forgot to fact check that. Are you still an AMC Stubs member?

• 2:46Speaker 06

  I am not.

• 2:47Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so a former AMC Stubs member. We'll talk about that decision-making process later on. Jade also played a crucial role in a middle school production of the musical Wicked. What role was it, Jade?

• 2:59Speaker 06

  I played a shiz student.

• 3:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, okay. So which, were you like bringing, what's the number?

• 3:05Speaker 06

  Like, the number kid I was?

• 3:07Amanda Dobbins?

  No, no, no, no, no. The number, the musical number, where the, where the Jonathan Bailey does the...

• 3:12Speaker 06

  Oh, uh...

• 3:13Amanda Dobbins?

  And they dance like this?

• 3:15Speaker 06

  Not One Short Day.

• 3:16Amanda Dobbins?

  No.

• 3:16Speaker 06

  Um...

• 3:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Come on, you were like, you were Miss Wicked Stan.

• 3:20Speaker 06

  You know, I am a Wicked Stan, but currently cannot remember the name of that song.

• 3:25Amanda Dobbins?

  That's okay.

• 3:25Speaker 06

  Um, but I was a shiz student. I was an Ozian and, uh, part of the dance ensemble.

• 3:32Amanda Dobbins?

  And you were really looking forward to at least part one of Wicked?

• 3:35Speaker 06

  Yes, absolutely.

• 3:35Amanda Dobbins?

  And part two?

• 3:36Speaker 06

  Oh, very much.

• 3:37Amanda Dobbins?

  Great, we'll come back to that. Jade, so to introduce yourself, here's our like icebreaker question. What's the last movie that you watched and how did you watch it?

• 3:46Speaker 06

  Okay, the last movie I watched was Enora.

• 3:49Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 3:50Speaker 06

  Um...

• 3:51Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm afraid to ask when that was.

• 3:53Speaker 06

  Last week?

• 3:54Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 3:55Speaker 06

  Yeah, it was recent. It was after the Academy Awards, so like, I had just gotten some inspo and some talk from people. I was like, okay, let me watch it.

• 4:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so at home, I'm guessing?

• 4:05Speaker 06

  Yes, watched it at home. Watched it through...

• 4:08Amanda Dobbins?

  PVOD?

• 4:09Speaker 06

  PVOD.

• 4:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. Premium video on demand. Did you pay money to rent or buy it?

• 4:16Speaker 06

  No.

• 4:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, interesting.

• 4:18Speaker 06

  I just watched.

• 4:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Are you about to indict yourself in some way?

• 4:21Speaker 06

  I was just gonna say I watched it through a streaming platform.

• 4:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, great. Okay. All right. Wonderful. Okay. Did you? Thumbs up, thumbs down?

• 4:28Speaker 06

  Oh, thumbs up.

• 4:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, great. Thank you so much. Jade liked Anora. Good. All right. Next, we'll just go in order down the couch here. We have the big picture's own, Jack Sanders, reluctantly making his debut in front of the camera. When I told you you had to do this in front of the camera, you were really mad, but you are in fact the person responsible for putting me on camera every twice a week. So.

• 4:49Speaker 07

  This is true.

• 4:49Amanda Dobbins?

  Here you go. Karma's a bitch.

• 4:51Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 4:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack is here in his capacity as the youngest person that I know of of working age. Anyway, I do know my children. And also as our quote unquote rep boy. The growing community of Gen Z'ers who regularly attend repertory screenings and Letterboxd events, or at least, you know, go on Letterboxd. So, Jack. What is that you, as the big picture, you know, member here, you have a lot, you probably watched a movie more recently, but what was the last movie that you watched and how?

• 5:21Speaker 07

  I went to Burbank Town Center Six yesterday to see the film Death of a Unicorn.

• 5:26Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 5:27Speaker 07

  Really, really hard watch.

• 5:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 5:29Speaker 07

  Really bad.

• 5:30Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm gonna say this something and Jomi, I'm just guessing here, like, at least someone on this podcast saw that film, because I did, I did not go yesterday.

• 5:37Speaker 07

  I would not recommend.

• 5:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, okay. Great. Thank you for your work. Thank you for repping the Burbank Theater, you know, community.

• 5:45Speaker 07

  That's my favorite theater of the AMC.

• 5:47Amanda Dobbins?

  The Town Six over the Sixteen.

• 5:49Speaker 07

  Yeah, because you get recliners. Most of the Sixteen doesn't have recliners.

• 5:52Amanda Dobbins?

  That's facts. That's true. Okay, I like it. All right. Finally. We have Jomi Adeniran, social content producer at The Ringer, our dedicated Ringerverse correspondent. The last time that I saw Jomi, he was wearing merch for the yet to be released Fantastic Four movie. And I know it was from that edition because I asked you. I was like, that's the new one, right? TikTok Shop got me. What can I say? Yes. Don't know what that means, but thank you. You don't know what that means? Oh, TikTok shop, Jomi. Yeah, no, I know what that means. Okay, I thought that that was some sort of Fantastic Four reference, but no.

• 6:22Amanda Dobbins?

  I do know what TikTok is. I've never bought anything on TikTok Shop. I do buy things on Instagram Shop. Oh. Well, listen, you are Gen Z and I am millennial, you know? We have to, we have to acknowledge our differences in order to overcome them. Okay. Jomi's also here representing the Zillennial community. Who, which is kids on the cusp who feel, I'm, excuse me, I'm sorry. Young men and women.

• 6:46Speaker 01

  No, it's okay. You called me washed. It's fine.

• 6:48Amanda Dobbins?

  Who feel anxiety about their generational designation. Jomi, welcome.

• 6:53Speaker 07

  Hello.

• 6:53Amanda Dobbins?

  And tell us the last movie that you saw and how you watched it.

• 6:57Speaker 01

  The last movie I saw was the first Mission Impossible on Paramount. I'm locking back in.

• 7:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 7:02Speaker 01

  Mission Impossible 8 is, it's, it's eight weeks away.

• 7:05Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 7:06Speaker 01

  I'm ready. I will be there no matter what. I'm locking back in.

• 7:09Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so I, I do want to be clarified. That's not the first time you've ever seen the original.

• 7:13Speaker 01

  No, no, no, no, no.

• 7:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, okay, all right. And so you're here technically according to like the, when you Google, what is Gen Z, what is millennial?

• 7:23Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 7:23Amanda Dobbins?

  You're right on the edge. You are six months younger than Bobby Wagner, who is here and whose birthday it is.

• 7:31Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 7:33Amanda Dobbins?

  I guess the birthday is you transitioning from cusp to just old washed person who can no longer be on our panel.

• 7:40Speaker 07

  That's right. My back legitimately hurts and I'm happy to be here.

• 7:43Amanda Dobbins?

  And you're also, you're a combo, almost millennial, plus rep boy, plus you do this show. So we don't, you're not that representative of the community at large, but you are out in the world. You see the people. So I do also want you to, you know, chime in if you feel that the under 30 crowd is being slandered here because this is basically what this is. And I will, I will say, I, I don't want to make you guys nervous. You don't look nervous. You're doing great so far. It's sort of like being called to the principal's office. But you're fuming me and I, and I love you all. Thank you. Like, we have a decent amount of younger listeners, which really, really confuses me.

• 8:26Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, so you are, you're representing all of them today, you know? And there are a lot of people listening who, if you don't get it right, are gonna, I don't know, like send you a TikTok comment. Is that something you can do? Can you comment on TikTok?

• 8:41Speaker 01

  You can.

• 8:42Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, you can comment, but can you DM? Yes.

• 8:44Speaker 01

  Yeah, but it's really gonna be.

• 8:46Speaker 06

  A lot of tweets.

• 8:47Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 8:48Speaker 06

  A lot of Instagram comments. YouTube comments. The YouTube comments.

• 8:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, the YouTube. You guys aren't looking at those, are you?

• 8:54Speaker 06

  Well, it's quite literally my job.

• 8:55Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, it's my job.

• 8:57Speaker 06

  I have to see the tweets and the Instagram comments.

• 8:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Right, that's okay.

• 9:00Speaker 06

  So we'll share our, we'll compare notes.

• 9:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Maybe I'll leave an Instagram comment. I love an Instagram comment. Okay. So, we're gonna start, and I'll do, I'll cue you guys as best, as best I can, so people just listening know who's talking. We're gonna start with an easy one, except for maybe Jade. So, Jomi, I'll start with you. How many movies have you seen in the last month?

• 9:23Speaker 06

  Oh, in the last month, probably like four or five. We had this like whole weekend where I went to see Black Bag, Mickey 17, uh, the Looney Tunes movie. I was, I was locked in.

• 9:34Amanda Dobbins?

  You were just, you were at the theater all weekend?

• 9:36Speaker 06

  I was at the theater. Los Feliz 3, Century City. I was everywhere.

• 9:40Amanda Dobbins?

  So that's, that's going all around the city?

• 9:44Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 9:44Amanda Dobbins?

  So it, so you're not just like hitting Century City and saying, I'm gonna be here all day. Are you going with friends? Are you like making appointments?

• 9:52Speaker 06

  Going with friends. They were like, let's go see Black Bag and Los Feliz 3 on 2 o'clock. I said, cool. Then I was like, I mean, I got this AMC stubs, might as well, you know, get the new side of it and just go pop, pop, pop. Yeah.

• 10:04Amanda Dobbins?

  No free ads, but that's, you are, you're paying that. Okay. No, it's probably a good deal. Um, okay, so that's all in theaters. What about at home?

• 10:14Speaker 06

  Uh, I mean, when I'm at home, unless it's like a new release, I usually like re-watch the goodies.

• 10:20Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, but that, that sort of counts.

• 10:22Speaker 06

  Yeah, so.

• 10:23Amanda Dobbins?

  So tell me, like, what did you re-watch? What was a memorable re-watch this month?

• 10:28Speaker 06

  Oh, man. I mean, we talked, we talked about it earlier. Every time, I'm like, yo, I'm in a funk. I need to get something that gets the juices going. That just makes me feel. Feel alive.

• 10:37Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 10:37Speaker 06

  Head to Paramount Plus. Top Gun Maverick.

• 10:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Do you want to come to my house and babysit and watch Top Gun Maverick with my three year old?

• 10:45Speaker 06

  Just say when, just say when.

• 10:47Amanda Dobbins?

  It is on almost every day in my home, but it is.

• 10:50Speaker 06

  Your three year old knows ball.

• 10:51Amanda Dobbins?

  It is cinema.

• 10:52Speaker 06

  It's fantastic, Amanda. They they have the scene during the final run. And the the the the plane goes upside down over the cascading mountains.

• 11:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 11:02Speaker 06

  And just disappears. I feel alive.

• 11:05Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure.

• 11:05Speaker 06

  There's something in my soul that just, it means something different.

• 11:09Amanda Dobbins?

  You don't have to tell me. I listen, I so you're doing one movie over and over again.

• 11:14Speaker 06

  No, I like, I mean, you know, Ring of Verse, you know, so you got to throw some, you know, some Marvel in there, some DC.

• 11:20Amanda Dobbins?

  You're allowed to say the world word Marvel on this podcast.

• 11:22Speaker 06

  Are you sure?

• 11:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes, yes.

• 11:24Speaker 06

  I don't know, man.

• 11:27Amanda Dobbins?

  If you don't want to, that's on you. But yeah, you can, yeah, so you're you're, I guess you're doing like a lot of research for Ring of Verse and everything too.

• 11:35Speaker 06

  Got to, got to.

• 11:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, but do you find that you turn on movies instead of TV shows or when you have like a, when you have a free zone?

• 11:44Speaker 06

  Yeah, if I've got like a free two hours, then it's definitely, I like to, when I like, when I'm like eating lunch, I get that coffee ball. I might put on a show. People just keep telling me to watch the pit. I'm not watching the pit. Um, I've had enough. No more pit talk. You know, I'll watch like a show, like a, like a rewatch, like a episode of Psych, whatever. But if I need to like lock in for two hours from my laptop, I'll put on an old movie that I enjoy.

• 12:07Amanda Dobbins?

  And thank you for including that. So it's on the laptop?

• 12:09Speaker 06

  No, no, no, it's on the TV. I'm working on the laptop.

• 12:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Got it. Okay.

• 12:12Speaker 06

  TV be on.

• 12:12Amanda Dobbins?

  So you're doing.

• 12:14Speaker 06

  Second screening.

• 12:15Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, well, you know, I I I hear tell of of the of the young people just watching on the laptop.

• 12:21Speaker 06

  I can't do that. I'm not built like that, Amanda.

• 12:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Listen, this is, this is your time, Jomi. So I just want the people to know.

• 12:28Speaker 06

  I don't understand, like even when, uh, this is really like inside baseball, we'll get screeners for stuff. And they'll be on the computer. You have to log in, do the whole thing. I'm like, bet, let me plug in my HMI, let me watch on the TV, how I'm supposed to watch it.

• 12:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 12:42Speaker 06

  Watching on the T on the laptop just gives.

• 12:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Me hives. I don't know how you guys do it. Are either of you laptop watchers?

• 12:50Speaker 06

  Jade, it's okay.

• 12:56Speaker 06

  Occasionally, but I would say I've grown out of it. Like, college, big laptop watcher.

• 13:04Amanda Dobbins?

  Is that what I'm picking up on that it's just like in college, you have the laptop and maybe you don't have?

• 13:09Speaker 06

  I didn't have a TV in my like dorm room, so like it was all, it had to be laptop. It had to be laptop. But I will say too, like, I do watch on my phone as well. My phone watcher.

• 13:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Are you watching movies on your phone? What are you watching? Yeah, okay.

• 13:27Speaker 06

  I'm watching TV.

• 13:27Amanda Dobbins?

  What are you, like, are you doing other things?

• 13:32Speaker 06

  Doing other things, like, or like, okay, let's say I'm going to a coffee shop and like, I just want to get out. Maybe I'll like prop it up and watch something.

• 13:40Amanda Dobbins?

  Are you wearing your headphones?

• 13:41Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 13:42Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, well, I, listen, who knows?

• 13:49Amanda Dobbins?

  My tone of voice was not approving, but, okay.

• 13:52Speaker 06

  Yes, of course, headphones on.

• 13:55Amanda Dobbins?

  So, how many, so movies?

• 13:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, how many movies have you watched in the last month?

• 14:02Speaker 06

  Last month?

• 14:04Amanda Dobbins?

  You could do twenty twenty-five if you want to.

• 14:09Speaker 06

  Twenty twenty-five, maybe like

• 14:12Speaker 06

  eight, nine.

• 14:13Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 14:13Speaker 06

  But I would say in the last month, like, maybe like two or three.

• 14:16Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, and were they at home, in theaters?

• 14:19Speaker 06

  They were all, in the last month, all at home.

• 14:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so what happened with AMC stubs?

• 14:26Speaker 06

  I wasn't going enough. It just wasn't, the money didn't, it didn't make sense. But there was a time, I would say, like, because I've, I had it for like two or three years.

• 14:38Amanda Dobbins?

  You would come in on a Monday for Jan session and like, you were seeing kind of random stuff.

• 14:44Speaker 06

  Yeah, I definitely, absolutely.

• 14:46Amanda Dobbins?

  There was a phase where we were like, I have this.

• 14:48Speaker 06

  Yes, yes. Me and my boyfriend, we both got it because we like just wanted to go to the movies all the time. We were like, might as well get this. We would go all the time, but there just became a point where like, we weren't going anymore. So it just was like, no, let's just get rid of it. But now when I do go to the movies, I'm like, how much am I paying for this?

• 15:11Amanda Dobbins?

  So you're watching movies at home? How are you deciding what to watch?

• 15:15Speaker 06

  It's usually, see, my partner is the more of the movie watcher. So it's like, we usually decide, okay, like, what are we gonna watch?

• 15:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 15:24Speaker 06

  And he usually wants to watch a movie. I usually wanna watch a show.

• 15:27Amanda Dobbins?

  Jade, I've been there.

• 15:27Speaker 06

  So.

• 15:28Amanda Dobbins?

  And I have to tell you, it gets better.

• 15:31Speaker 06

  Thank you. Thank you for that. I need that.

• 15:33Amanda Dobbins?

  I didn't realize that we were having the, you know, the twenty, early twenty something girlfriend perspective on the podcast, but it's an important one.

• 15:42Speaker 06

  No, but it is important because I do think I usually watch movies with him.

• 15:49Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 15:49Speaker 06

  Choosing to watch a movie by myself. That's a really big decision for me.

• 15:54Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. Do you remember the last one that you decided to watch by yourself? Where you were like, oh, I'd like to see that?

• 15:59Speaker 06

  By myself?

• 16:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah. Or not watching it by yourself, but like where you were like.

• 16:05Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 16:05Amanda Dobbins?

  I, I choose this.

• 16:07Speaker 06

  I can't remember what movie it was, but I will say I usually tend to watch documentaries on my, on my own.

• 16:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, wow.

• 16:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, not necessarily like fiction or like, like a feature, like, it's usually like straight documentaries, cuz I love documentaries.

• 16:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 16:22Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 16:23Amanda Dobbins?

  All right. And are you, so is it what's available on streaming always? Or you guys aren't, you guys aren't like renting or?

• 16:30Speaker 06

  No, not really renting.

• 16:31Amanda Dobbins?

  No extra charges?

• 16:32Speaker 06

  No, just streaming. Whatever we've got, we'll, we'll use that. We can find something.

• 16:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. All right, Jack Sanders. Lord of Letterboxd for, for this episode at least. Do you have a Letterboxd? Am I slandering you? Okay.

• 16:43Speaker 07

  No, you're not.

• 16:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Do you, Jade or Jomi, do you guys have Letterboxd?

• 16:47Speaker 01

  I just got a Letterboxd.

• 16:48Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 16:48Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah, brother.

• 16:49Amanda Dobbins?

  And Jade's in now. Yeah, okay. What, uh, how many movies a month?

• 16:55Speaker 07

  Well, this last month I did the math. I did thirteen.

• 16:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 16:58Speaker 07

  Five of which were in theaters.

• 17:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Great. Okay. What were the five in theaters? Do you remember?

• 17:04Speaker 07

  Uh, Mickey Seventeen, Death of a Unicorn, Black Bag, Nova Kane. And the special theater experience I had this month is when I was gone from the show and I went to Europe. I went to Copenhagen, shout out Hussetts Biograph.

• 17:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 17:18Speaker 07

  Really cool, independently owned cinema in Copenhagen that does a lot of rep screenings.

• 17:22Amanda Dobbins?

  You're making everyone so proud right now.

• 17:24Speaker 07

  Thank you. Um, on my last day in Europe, they were doing a special screening of The Room. And I was like, I need to go to this.

• 17:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, that's fun.

• 17:33Speaker 07

  This would be amazing, but it was sold out.

• 17:34Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 17:35Speaker 07

  And I sent them a message and I'm like, I'm all the way from the United States. I work on these shows called The Big Picture and they rewatched.

• 17:40Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, great. I love it.

• 17:42Speaker 07

  And they were like, come through.

• 17:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, that's so great.

• 17:45Speaker 07

  So they let me come.

• 17:46Amanda Dobbins?

  Shut up.

• 17:46Speaker 07

  And, uh.

• 17:48Amanda Dobbins?

  A good job.

• 17:48Speaker 07

  If you're ever in Copenhagen, seriously, go. It is an amazing theater. I spoke with them after, told them how grateful I wa- I was and, um, they don't receive a single dollar, any of the employees. They all do it. They're all volunteers.

• 18:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 18:01Speaker 07

  And they all do it for the love of the game and the community. So special shout out to them because that was a great theater experience.

• 18:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah. Also, I mean, very cool to do on vacation. It is a fun thing to do on vacation if you're like, if you are a movie nerd. So that, okay, five in the last month, so once a week?

• 18:16Speaker 07

  Thirteen in the last month, five in theaters.

• 18:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, yes. So once a week in the theaters and then the rest at home?

• 18:22Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 18:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Are the movies that you're watching at home for the show or are they for your own interest?

• 18:27Speaker 07

  No, they're usually for my own interest.

• 18:29Amanda Dobbins?

  And then are they streaming? Are you renting things?

• 18:32Speaker 07

  I'm not renting or rarely, rarely rent.

• 18:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Jomi, are you ever renting?

• 18:36Speaker 01

  No chance.

• 18:37Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, no. You guys don't even have the, you don't have it set up?

• 18:40Speaker 01

  If it's not on streaming, then it's a lost cause.

• 18:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Also just find a, you can find it. Okay.

• 18:46Speaker 01

  What do you mean by that, Jay? What do you mean by that?

• 18:48Amanda Dobbins?

  You can find it. That's all I said. Okay, so no one, no one is entering that passcode. Uh, no one's, no extra charges?

• 18:56Speaker 07

  If my girlfriend and I are really fixated on watching one thing and it's 99 cents, sure.

• 19:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, but 99 cents is your threshold?

• 19:04Speaker 07

  Or I guess two ninety-nine, whatever it is, but like, I'm never renting tw- a twenty-dollar movie on P V O D.

• 19:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 19:11Speaker 07

  I would never do that.

• 19:12Amanda Dobbins?

  And it's, so do you ever have the experience where you go see some, like, are you seeking out the movies? You see that it's twenty bucks and you think, I'll just wait till it's on streaming? Or is it just not even, you aren't even looking, you're just looking at what's available on the streaming apps?

• 19:26Speaker 01

  Yeah, just looking at what's, what's, what's available on the streaming app.

• 19:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 19:29Speaker 06

  I think it depends on like, the movie.

• 19:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 19:33Speaker 06

  Yeah, cuz sometimes I would wait, but like, Wicked, no, not gonna wait.

• 19:37Amanda Dobbins?

  Did you, but you went to the theater to go see it, right?

• 19:40Speaker 06

  Mm-hmm, I saw it twice.

• 19:42Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, we know.

• 19:43Speaker 06

  But now it's on streaming.

• 19:44Amanda Dobbins?

  And how many times have you watched it at home since it was on streaming?

• 19:47Speaker 06

  Oh, zero.

• 19:48Speaker 01

  Jade, you pay for Peacock?

• 19:49Speaker 06

  Yeah, I do.

• 19:50Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, but Peacock, yeah.

• 19:51Speaker 06

  But I have, like.

• 19:52Speaker 01

  What's wrong with that? No, no, I pay, I, I thought I was the only one. No, I'm a big fan of Peacock.

• 19:56Amanda Dobbins?

  A lot of people pay for Peacock, cuz the, the reality and the, yeah, the Bravo of it all.

• 20:01Speaker 01

  That makes sense, that makes sense.

• 20:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Very, very, yeah.

• 20:03Speaker 01

  You stopped wrestling too, yeah, you're right.

• 20:05Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, yeah, plus Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy.

• 20:07Speaker 07

  Hell, yeah.

• 20:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Anyone, anyone, has anyone here seen Bridget Jones Mad About the Boy?

• 20:11Speaker 07

  My girlfriend has.

• 20:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, well, that doesn't count. It's available on Peacock.

• 20:17Speaker 07

  I didn't get to it.

• 20:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. Um, I, so Jade, are you watching it TV, laptop, phone? Phone, when you're watching with your boyfriend, like, you sit down and watch a movie?

• 20:27Speaker 06

  Mm-hmm, we're usually watching, so like, if we're not together and we're watching it.

• 20:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 20:32Speaker 06

  We'll watch through laptop, but like, if we're together, TV.

• 20:36Amanda Dobbins?

  TV, okay, Jack?

• 20:37Speaker 07

  TV.

• 20:38Amanda Dobbins?

  TV, okay. And, mm, phones?

• 20:41Speaker 01

  No.

• 20:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, good. It's, it's okay, Jade, it's all right, you know what, it's a computer in your pocket, what are you supposed to do?

• 20:47Speaker 06

  Exactly.

• 20:48Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. In terms of the amount of time that you spend watching movies versus watching other stuff? And I think we can, let's start with movies versus TV.

• 21:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Jade, I feel like we know your breakdown.

• 21:04Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:04Amanda Dobbins?

  You, more TV.

• 21:05Speaker 06

  Absolutely.

• 21:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, Jack?

• 21:07Speaker 07

  More movies.

• 21:08Amanda Dobbins?

  More movies, Jomi?

• 21:09Speaker 01

  It's, it's tight.

• 21:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, but you're also, your job is like, fairly complicated because Ringer Verse now has so many shows that I can't even keep track of.

• 21:19Speaker 01

  And then, I mean, you just had like, the other.

• 21:20Speaker 06

  The stuff Abbott Elementary.

• 21:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 21:23Speaker 06

  Animal control, like things like that, just like add up. So it's it's it's close.

• 21:28Amanda Dobbins?

  So now let's put movies and TV in a bucket versus I for lack of a better word, social media, you know, people talk shit on your phone, basically. What's the, how are you spending more time? And I honestly, I like my answer might honestly be more Instagram than movies, but I'm a diseased person, so.

• 21:51Speaker 06

  I spend too much time on TikTok.

• 21:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 21:54Speaker 06

  Uh, I don't know if you guys are the same way, but they got this Laker, they got this LeBron trend.

• 22:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 22:02Speaker 06

  They're making LeBron songs.

• 22:03Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 22:03Speaker 06

  I'm talking about the man on the Lakers LeBron. I'm asking you to say it's like, it's just, I'm just like, bet. I can't more, please, more, more, more, more, more. You know, I'm like, who needs to watch a movie when I can just hear people sing about LeBron all day?

• 22:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Right. But you do watch so much stuff. Do you think actually that you watch more TikTok than you do movies and TV? I know it's your job again.

• 22:28Speaker 06

  Yeah, but at the same time, like instead of watching a movie or grinding grinding film, I'll be in bed. I'll be like, keep swiping.

• 22:35Amanda Dobbins?

  I know.

• 22:35Speaker 06

  It's it's.

• 22:37Amanda Dobbins?

  And then I can't sleep at night, guys. It's like, it's really, really bad. I I have a nine PM curfew now. It can get there. Jack.

• 22:45Amanda Dobbins?

  Movies, TV, or you know, the the siren call of the internet?

• 22:50Speaker 07

  I mean, if you're bucketing everything together, I think it has to be the internet. Even if I'm watching one movie every day, maybe that's two and a half hours.

• 22:57Amanda Dobbins?

  I know. This is really depressing when I make us all say all this out loud.

• 23:01Speaker 07

  Because it's not, if you said just TikTok versus movies or just Instagram or just YouTube, then movies would probably win, but all together.

• 23:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Also technically, those things are part of your job as well.

• 23:10Speaker 07

  Exactly.

• 23:11Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm not, I'm not, this is shame free question.

• 23:13Speaker 07

  Yeah, I think I think it would have to be the general bucket.

• 23:16Amanda Dobbins?

  Look at Instagram all day long.

• 23:17Speaker 06

  You say shame free, but if you looked at my screen time, you'd be disgusted.

• 23:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Because it's like, what am I gonna do? You know? Yeah, what what's like the amount of hours?

• 23:28Speaker 06

  Worst screen time, it was like.

• 23:32Speaker 01

  Ten, ten and a half hours.

• 23:34Speaker 07

  That's pretty, that's pretty bad.

• 23:35Speaker 01

  A week.

• 23:36Amanda Dobbins?

  That's your job.

• 23:37Speaker 07

  That's a good point, good point.

• 23:40Speaker 01

  But still, I remember people used to post it and they'd be like, you know, oh man, I was on five, five hours. That's crazy. I'm looking at myself like.

• 23:47Amanda Dobbins?

  No, it's really bad.

• 23:47Speaker 01

  Do I need to go outside?

• 23:48Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, I mean, yes, I think all of us, myself included, should go outside.

• 23:52Speaker 01

  Touching grass is necessary.

• 23:54Amanda Dobbins?

  Jade?

• 23:55Speaker 06

  Um, that is also a difficult one to answer. I'll probably say social media, but like I watch a lot of TV. So like, uh, I would say the, it's pretty close, but I don't know, maybe I am on social media a lot. I'm an Instagram girl too, so like.

• 24:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Thank you so much for letting me.

• 24:13Speaker 06

  I had a TikTok phase, kind of out of it now though, but Instagram, yeah.

• 24:18Speaker 01

  Missing the LeBron memes.

• 24:20Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah. Okay. So now I want to talk about not your grown up lives, but your childhood lives.

• 24:25Speaker 06

  This is what I can get into.

• 24:27Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, okay. So I, I broadly speaking, I, how did you watch movies growing up? Jade, you're excited about this question.

• 24:33Speaker 06

  Yeah, uh, VHS, DVD.

• 24:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 24:37Speaker 06

  Downloads.

• 24:38Amanda Dobbins?

  But did you watch a lot of movies? Were they?

• 24:40Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 24:41Amanda Dobbins?

  What kinds of movies? And what role did they play in your life? And you cannot, like, what age are we talking here also?

• 24:46Speaker 06

  I would say like age five, six to like 12.

• 24:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 24:52Speaker 06

  I was a huge Disney Channel girl, so like.

• 24:55Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 24:56Speaker 06

  Disney original movies were like huge for me.

• 24:59Amanda Dobbins?

  So we're talking.

• 25:00Speaker 06

  High School Musical, talking, The Cheetah Girls.

• 25:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Listen, hello, hello fellow kids.

• 25:12Speaker 06

  Yeah, but also like, a lot of, like, even like Pixar was huge or like, you know, like, I mean, Shrek, The Incredibles, like, I think movies definitely made, were like a bigger thing for me in terms of like entertainment.

• 25:30Amanda Dobbins?

  Right. And it was movies when they were coming out.

• 25:32Speaker 06

  When they were coming out.

• 25:33Amanda Dobbins?

  So like, you would go see Incredibles in the theater?

• 25:37Speaker 06

  Go see Monsters Inc., go see, like, yeah, that was definitely like a family thing we would do, so.

• 25:42Amanda Dobbins?

  And then would you re-watch? Like, you know, Monsters, Acre forty-five thousand times?

• 25:48Speaker 06

  Yes, absolutely. And we had them on DVD. So like, I mean, at that time, we weren't really streaming anything. So we either had the DVDs or VHSs, or we would go to like Redbox, Netflix and pick it up and Blockbuster.

• 26:01Amanda Dobbins?

  My heart that you referenced VHS. Cause we just, I mean, like, we had, you know, Robin Hood, Cinderella, all of them on VHS.

• 26:08Speaker 06

  Yes, we had all of those on VHS.

• 26:10Amanda Dobbins?

  In my time, you know, but we did the same thing. Yeah.

• 26:14Speaker 06

  Yes, yes.

• 26:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, Jack, what about you? I noticed you didn't join in on the High School Musical sing-along.

• 26:19Speaker 07

  I don't have those lyrics memorized. I thought that was great.

• 26:21Amanda Dobbins?

  I only knew the first part, uh, but that's okay.

• 26:24Speaker 07

  I vividly remember High School Musical being an event film in elementary school. I remember like twenty of us getting together.

• 26:30Speaker 06

  No, yes, same.

• 26:32Speaker 07

  Yeah, uh, but growing up, I don't really remember the kinds of movies I was watching from like ages six and up. But I watched a lot of movies on DVD players.

• 26:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 26:44Speaker 07

  Like traveling in the car, like a lot of movies. Yes, yes, DVD player was big.

• 26:51Amanda Dobbins?

  But no specific movie titles stay with you.

• 26:54Speaker 07

  The movie titles that stay with me more are like ages twelve, thirteen, fourteen.

• 26:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Speak on it, tell us.

• 27:00Speaker 07

  Uh, well, I remember the first really big formative movie experience was when Force Awakens came out. I was fourteen. And.

• 27:09Amanda Dobbins?

  God. I just, I swear not to make this about me, but I've never been more hungover than when I went to see the Force Awakens.

• 27:17Amanda Dobbins?

  I like, I have like such a sense memory of how old and hungover I was in that moment. And you're like twelve. Anyway, fourteen, I'm sorry.

• 27:25Speaker 07

  Yes, um, but it was a really big deal to my dad that we got to see it together. Because when Empire Strikes Back came out, he was thirteen. So it was like he was thirteen again with his son. And that was a very form memory.

• 27:40Amanda Dobbins?

  That's very beautiful.

• 27:41Speaker 07

  Honestly, that was the last one I really locked in for, cause that wasn't a huge thing.

• 27:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Do you remember him showing you the original Star Wars movies?

• 27:46Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah, we watched all of them.

• 27:47Amanda Dobbins?

  And like, how old were you?

• 27:49Speaker 07

  I mean, if that's before that one, I probably eight or nine.

• 27:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 27:53Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 27:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, that's nice.

• 27:54Speaker 07

  Um, and yeah, like the stuff that really I hold on to is like the event kind of stuff. Like when I snuck into my first rated R movie.

• 28:02Amanda Dobbins?

  What was it?

• 28:03Speaker 07

  A Million Ways to Die in the West.

• 28:05Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 28:05Speaker 07

  Seth MacFarlane.

• 28:05Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, sure.

• 28:06Speaker 07

  What a tour.

• 28:07Amanda Dobbins?

  What theater would you like to? It's okay, they're not gonna.

• 28:11Speaker 07

  No, that's okay. Well, it's different ownership now. Kevin Smith now owns my childhood movie theater.

• 28:15Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, that's cool.

• 28:15Speaker 07

  Cause we're from the same town.

• 28:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 28:17Speaker 07

  During COVID, when I almost got lost, he came in and saved it.

• 28:21Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 28:21Speaker 07

  But it was different ownership, ownership group. So I have no problem saying that it was the Atlantic Island Cinema.

• 28:26Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, wow, okay. Joe me.

• 28:30Speaker 01

  I've never felt older hearing you say you're in.

• 28:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, see, you're the, you're the bridge. Yeah. I mean, listen, yeah.

• 28:37Speaker 01

  I was in college, this is my, oh my God, anyway.

• 28:40Amanda Dobbins?

  I was almost thirty, guys, so just like relax.

• 28:45Amanda Dobbins?

  I know I was dating my now husband because he turned over, when the Millennium Falcon showed up, he turned to me and he was like, that's the Millennium Falcon. And I was like, I'm not that stupid, but anyway.

• 28:57Speaker 01

  No, um, I think I can vividly remember the first movie I saw in theaters and it was Monstrous Inc.

• 29:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Same.

• 29:03Speaker 01

  Because my dad was like, is this movie gonna scare you? And I was like, I'm tough. Don't worry about me. And it scared the hell out of me.

• 29:13Speaker 01

  But it was fine. No, for me, like, it was always like trying to get my parents to stay in theaters was always a challenge. So anytime they did.

• 29:21Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 29:21Speaker 01

  It was always like a thrill, you know? I remember dragging my mom to go see the first Fantastic Four movie in theaters.

• 29:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, that's nice. It was bad, right?

• 29:31Speaker 01

  No, no.

• 29:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, how old were you?

• 29:34Speaker 01

  I was two thousand five, eight, nine.

• 29:37Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so to you it was perfect.

• 29:38Speaker 01

  Cinema.

• 29:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 29:39Speaker 01

  Cinema. I mean, look, now it's fine, alright? Let's chill on the slander. But to your point, being like, watching movies as a kid was always cool. You know, we had the Nickelodeon VHSs, the orange ones.

• 29:53Amanda Dobbins?

  The orange ones, yep. What were those?

• 29:55Speaker 01

  Those were Rugrats.

• 29:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, the Rugrats movie. Take me there, I wanna go there. Yeah, listen, I was part of that.

• 30:02Speaker 01

  Yeah, we had, we had those, uh, but the movies that like really made me came out when I was like twelve, thirteen.

• 30:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 30:11Speaker 01

  And.

• 30:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Which were those? It's a

• 30:14Speaker 01

  No, no, no, you say this, you say this Amanda, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna list some movies. That by the way, all came out within a sixty-two day radius, right? So within like eight week of, yes, in two thousand and ten, all came out about eight weeks. Yes.

• 30:29Amanda Dobbins?

  And so you were just, you were there and?

• 30:32Speaker 01

  When I tell you I was locked, it was, I think it was the first time I ever locked in.

• 30:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah. This is beautiful. I had a summer like this, but it was in nineteen ninety-five before any of you were born. So, continue.

• 30:43Speaker 01

  If I was brave enough to share my litter box publicly, like my top four, this would be my top four. I need everybody to just, just relax when you hear this.

• 30:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 30:53Speaker 01

  Iron Man two.

• 30:55Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 30:57Speaker 01

  The losers.

• 30:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 30:59Speaker 01

  A team.

• 31:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, God.

• 31:01Speaker 01

  Night and day. Shaped me. Shaped me, Amanda. They made me who I am.

• 31:07Amanda Dobbins?

  Beautiful kicker. Wow. Uh, that, that's beautiful because that can really only happen when you're twelve.

• 31:14Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 31:15Amanda Dobbins?

  And you have, did you like get dropped off at the, at the mall or how were you getting to and from the movie theater?

• 31:21Speaker 01

  It was basically, so that was, that would have been with two thou- two thousand and ten. So that was the summer before high school. Right? So you graduate, you know, you're like, the Lakers are in the playoffs. Everybody's feeling good. You know what I mean?

• 31:34Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 31:35Speaker 01

  Other, you know, going to back to back chips. So I'm just like, hey, yeah, you know what I'm saying?

• 31:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Working in.

• 31:39Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah. I'm doing great in school. Can I go to the movies? And you just did that like every two, two or so weeks.

• 31:45Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 31:46Speaker 01

  And then you, you have the best, uh, may of your life, essentially.

• 31:50Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. And that, but are your parents going with you or are you old enough to go?

• 31:53Speaker 01

  I was old enough to go by that time, yeah.

• 31:55Amanda Dobbins?

  That's an amazing feeling.

• 31:56Speaker 01

  Oh, it was fantastic, yeah.

• 31:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, okay. I feel like I have a sense of what your favorite movies growing up were as a result of that incredible Litterbox four. Jack, like what Stan, what were the movies that you remember loving, that you remember being like, I want to see more? What was your, what was your summer of two thousand and ten?

• 32:16Speaker 07

  Well, I think when you're talking about like the when things went tech- technicolor moment.

• 32:21Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 32:21Speaker 07

  For me was Moonrise Kingdom. When that came out.

• 32:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Beautiful.

• 32:24Speaker 01

  It's way different than mine.

• 32:27Amanda Dobbins?

  Wait till you hear mine. Wish Sean were here. That's his favorite.

• 32:30Speaker 07

  I was 11 years old when it came out, so talk about fucking target audience. I mean, I looked at the screen and I was like-

• 32:35Amanda Dobbins?

  I actually don't know if an 11 year old is the target audience, but-

• 32:38Speaker 07

  That kid is, he's supposed to be like 12 years old.

• 32:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes, yeah, you see yourself. Yeah, no, but it's beautiful that you, that you saw it yourself.

• 32:46Speaker 07

  And, yeah, I just remember being like, I can't believe movies can be like this.

• 32:51Amanda Dobbins?

  That's so nice.

• 32:52Speaker 07

  And really loving it. Still love Wes.

• 32:54Amanda Dobbins?

  But so is, so is Night and Day. So, you know, yeah, that's beautiful.

• 32:58Speaker 06

  Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, it doesn't get any better than that.

• 33:00Speaker 07

  Exactly.

• 33:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Jane?

• 33:03Speaker 06

  Paul D'Anis?

• 33:06Speaker 06

  Alright, we're gonna take a little bit of a turn.

• 33:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 33:08Speaker 06

  Um, I don't know how we can take a turn. The movies that really made me. See, I love, I pride myself in loving those movies that are often left behind, are often,

• 33:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure.

• 33:22Speaker 06

  you know, taken a backseat from like the mainstream.

• 33:25Amanda Dobbins?

  Right, not, no one else understood it, but you, yeah, you saw it.

• 33:31Speaker 06

  My movies were, number one, Johnson's Family Vacation. Oh, okay, yeah.

• 33:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 33:41Speaker 06

  You've seen it? Yeah, of course.

• 33:45Speaker 06

  Solange Knowles, you know what I mean?

• 33:47Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow, I have not seen this, but-

• 33:50Speaker 06

  Oh, you will chuckle the whole time. Certified good classic. Yes, classic. Uh, another one, Roll Bounce. These are all like 2005, 2006.

• 34:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 34:02Speaker 06

  Um, like, I just love kind of a feel-good family movie. Um, again, The Cheetah Girls. I, like, I just, uh- There was a time- The, the soundtrack, specifically Cheetah Girls 2.

• 34:20Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 34:20Speaker 06

  That, uh, that really made me, um-

• 34:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Where and like, how were you seeking these movies out?

• 34:27Speaker 06

  DVD.

• 34:28Amanda Dobbins?

  DVD?

• 34:28Speaker 06

  They were all on DVD.

• 34:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so are you like, where are you buying your DVDs in 2005? Or are you renting them?

• 34:35Speaker 06

  Well, I would say like, my parents were like-

• 34:40Speaker 06

  I don't even know how they all got there. I was born and I'd go to the cabinets in our kitchen. There was just stacks of movies.

• 34:46Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, so your parents are?

• 34:49Speaker 06

  Well, my dad's a filmmaker.

• 34:50Amanda Dobbins?

  That I did know that.

• 34:51Speaker 06

  Yes, yes. Um, so, and you know, my parents have been in entertainment and

• 34:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 34:57Speaker 06

  film and TV. So like

• 34:58Amanda Dobbins?

  We did have two LA kids here as well.

• 35:00Speaker 06

  So film was like a very big, like, having movies, watching them, but like, I was definitely the kid who was like rewatching the same ones. Like, I found my favorites. I'm good. I'm sticking to them. Love them.

• 35:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Your favorites of your parents' collection or you're, you found your favorite at Blockbuster or at Target or like, you know, talk me through the acquisition process.

• 35:23Speaker 06

  Like when it came to like Cheetah Girls, High School Musical, Disney movies, like, I used to love Seventeen Again with Zac Efron.

• 35:30Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, of course.

• 35:30Speaker 06

  Though those kinds of movies.

• 35:32Amanda Dobbins?

  And Matthew Perry.

• 35:33Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 35:33Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 35:33Speaker 06

  Yes, absolutely. You know, I, look, I loved Zac Efron.

• 35:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 35:39Speaker 06

  But, um, I think those were like, we would probably buy them at like a Target or like a Walmart or something like that. Um, but we would also go to Blockbuster a lot.

• 35:50Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 35:50Speaker 06

  Like, that was kind of like every Friday type of thing.

• 35:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, that's nice.

• 35:54Speaker 06

  Blockbuster and South Pass.

• 35:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh.

• 35:56Speaker 06

  Right by the Vons.

• 35:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 35:57Speaker 06

  And the pavilion.

• 35:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure.

• 35:59Speaker 06

  Yeah, we'd go right there.

• 36:00Amanda Dobbins?

  I want to tell you about the South Pass Farmer's Market experience I had last week later.

• 36:04Speaker 06

  I'd love to know, because I haven't been over there in a long time.

• 36:06Amanda Dobbins?

  It's very charming. Yeah.

• 36:07Speaker 06

  Love that place. Um, but yes, we were definitely Blockbuster heavy.

• 36:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Was Blockbuster, Jomi, Jack, still in your, yeah?

• 36:16Speaker 01

  Blockbuster Friday was definitely.

• 36:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow, this is beautiful. We also, I also had that. I mean, it was VHS, but like, we had it.

• 36:24Speaker 06

  Yeah. They still had VHSs though, like, for renting when we were, well, when I would go.

• 36:30Amanda Dobbins?

  You're familiar with the technology. You're not like, what is that?

• 36:33Speaker 06

  Yeah, we still have our VHS, like, it's in the garage, but.

• 36:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure, but also you've just, you guys, it's a physical media house, which is beautiful, you know?

• 36:40Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 36:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack, Blockbuster?

• 36:42Speaker 07

  Not really.

• 36:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Not really?

• 36:43Speaker 07

  Redbox. And I'm also not like, what is VHS? Like, I've watched movies on VHS, but it was never a part of like the regular routine of movie watching.

• 36:51Speaker 01

  I'm like ninety-nine percent sure the Hitch DVD and the Spider-Man three DVD, we took from Blockbuster and just never gave back.

• 36:57Speaker 06

  And you know, sometimes that happens.

• 36:59Amanda Dobbins?

  It does.

• 37:03Amanda Dobbins?

  This question I gave you, well, I gave you, I let you guys know generally what we would be talking about because I'm not cruel. But this one, I asked you to tell me your answers in advance so I could make sure that I saw it. Jade forgot to do that, so we'll see whether I've seen it.

• 37:17Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 37:17Amanda Dobbins?

  So this is, and this is a, this is a broad and stupid question, but it will start a conversation. What is, in your opinion, the most important movie to Gen Z? Like, what is, and it doesn't have to be the only answer, you know? But something that you think represents what movies are to people your age? A movie that you have in common? I don't know, however you define important. Jack, I'm gonna let you go first.

• 37:48Speaker 07

  Hmm, okay. I told you I had two.

• 37:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 37:51Speaker 07

  I lied, there's really more, I promise I'll be quick.

• 37:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, well, I actually, I want you to start with your two because you told me and I thought they were both really funny.

• 37:59Speaker 07

  You want me to just say the two off rip?

• 38:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes, yeah.

• 38:01Speaker 07

  Avengers and Game?

• 38:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 38:02Speaker 07

  And Lady Bird. I'm 100% serious.

• 38:05Speaker 01

  So how do you, how do you bring those together?

• 38:06Speaker 07

  I'm gonna get there, I'm gonna get there.

• 38:08Speaker 01

  Because I feel like it's a, it's a, it's a Venn diagram.

• 38:11Speaker 07

  I'm gonna get there.

• 38:11Speaker 01

  But it's just two circles.

• 38:12Speaker 07

  I'm gonna get there. All right, hear me out, ready?

• 38:15Amanda Dobbins?

  Go.

• 38:16Speaker 07

  The first way I looked at the question, I spent way too much time on this question, was

• 38:20Amanda Dobbins?

  Likewise.

• 38:20Speaker 07

  the big box office movies that like take up the cultural mind share.

• 38:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 38:25Speaker 07

  The first, in chronological order, I had three. Twilight, Hunger Games, Avengers.

• 38:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 38:30Speaker 07

  Twilight, I think, is a little too old, that's closer to millennial.

• 38:34Amanda Dobbins?

  It's, it's, yeah, is that important to you?

• 38:37Speaker 06

  That was one of my answers.

• 38:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, great, okay, I look forward to talking about it because that, I was also, I was a part of that experience. I saw that opening weekend.

• 38:45Speaker 07

  But the problem is, Gen Z is 97 to 12, and I know we can only represent ourselves, but I think 08 is just a little too early for it to be the answer. Hunger Games, I think, is in real contention. But then I landed on Endgame because it's 2019, most of Gen Z is able to see it when it comes out. And I think two things. One, if you polled every single Gen Z person on planet Earth, I think this is the movie that you would get the highest percentage of people saying they have watched. And two,

• 39:13Amanda Dobbins?

  Smart.

• 39:14Speaker 07

  I think the digital age has really spawned just tremendous FOMO, and it's the biggest event film of our generation where, even if you didn't care about Avengers, even if you didn't watch it, I think when it came out, you can remember what the scene was like when that movie was in theaters. Then I was-

• 39:31Amanda Dobbins?

  Can I just tell you, great answer.

• 39:32Speaker 07

  Thank you.

• 39:33Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, that's a wonderful answer. The big picture is very proud of you.

• 39:35Speaker 07

  Thank you.

• 39:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Today and every day, but that was good. Okay. The other one you're gonna have to make a case for.

• 39:40Speaker 07

  I will. I have a case ready.

• 39:42Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 39:42Speaker 07

  So then I was like, okay, I hate thinking about movies just in a vacuum of how much money they made. What are some of the less commercially successful movies that represent Gen Z? And I'll say before Lady Bird, I think the two films that actually represent what growing up in the digital age best are, Booksmart and Eighth Grade. But those really don't take up any cultural, are very niche in whatever echo chamber you're in. I landed on Lady Bird because not only did it have more commercial success, it also had more critical acclaim. And I think it's very well remembered. And there's a couple of things. One, there's yearning for a time where phones didn't exist.

• 40:22Speaker 07

  But it's also, it's a period piece, but it's not so far gone that it feels modern and rooted, like in the world that we were growing up in.

• 40:30Amanda Dobbins?

  It's literally about someone my exact age. So thank you so much.

• 40:34Speaker 07

  But that's what I'm saying.

• 40:35Amanda Dobbins?

  I feel modern and rooted in the world that we live in.

• 40:37Speaker 07

  But like, you know, 2002, 2017, that's not too far away.

• 40:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes, as we're discovering on this podcast right now.

• 40:44Speaker 07

  And I mean, it's just probably one of the greatest coming of age movies ever made that also coincidentally came out when a large percentage of Gen Z was in the sweet spot of like ages 13 to 20.

• 40:54Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 40:54Speaker 07

  Um, usually a genre filled with cliches, you know, heavy-handed stuff, overwrought. And it was genuine and raw. And also features three key collaborators in Hollywood that really started blowing up during Gen Z. In Shalameh, Saoirse Ronan, and Greta Gerwig. Now, obviously, Greta was an actress before and she had acclaim, but this was her directorial feature. And obviously, that spawned everything we've seen over the last decade.

• 41:22Amanda Dobbins?

  Totally.

• 41:23Speaker 07

  So I think all of those things, um, both represent Gen Z and was a good sweet spot of right age, right time, right movie. Exactly.

• 41:31Amanda Dobbins?

  So thoughtful. Be honest, had you ever heard a Dave Matthews Band song before seeing Lady Bird?

• 41:37Speaker 07

  I had because my elementary school music teacher was obsessed with Dave Matthews.

• 41:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Did you have to like perform them in recitals?

• 41:43Speaker 07

  No.

• 41:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. I mean, I kind of wish that you had. So in what context is your elementary school teacher playing you Dave Matthews Band?

• 41:50Speaker 07

  Just like end of class, two minutes, you guys need to know about this band, they're awesome. Swear to God. Yes, I swear to God.

• 41:57Speaker 01

  Hey, listen to my best mixtape.

• 41:59Speaker 07

  She was obsessed with them. She loved them.

• 42:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, well, that that is a an eight twenty four movie coming soon. Okay, Jomi.

• 42:08Speaker 01

  Answer Shrek.

• 42:10Amanda Dobbins?

  Is that is that your answer, dude?

• 42:12Speaker 06

  I that I had a few answers.

• 42:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 42:14Speaker 06

  They both said.

• 42:15Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 42:16Speaker 06

  But I have.

• 42:16Speaker 01

  The answer, the answer is Shrek.

• 42:18Speaker 06

  I agree.

• 42:18Speaker 01

  I can't tell you.

• 42:19Amanda Dobbins?

  This is hilarious and very legitimate answer, but explain.

• 42:24Speaker 01

  I can't tell you how much my life, I don't want to say ruined, but has been dictated by Shrek, Shrek memes.

• 42:31Speaker 06

  Absolutely.

• 42:32Speaker 01

  Uh, I have, I have a friend, actually, her name is Abby, who collects Shrek DVDs. She goes to the Walmart, she's going to the bin, she's buying a Shrek DVD, and she's putting on her wall, she's got like hundreds.

• 42:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Green case.

• 42:44Speaker 01

  She's got tattoos, the whole thing. This is anecdotal.

• 42:48Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, sure. This is all anecdotal. No one's a data scientist here. Okay. So she's buying the same Shrek DVD? Okay.

• 42:56Speaker 01

  The same DVD.

• 42:57Speaker 07

  How many does she have?

• 42:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Just Shrek, not Shrek two?

• 42:59Speaker 01

  Hundreds.

• 42:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Not Shrek three?

• 43:00Speaker 01

  Hundreds, maybe. But as what as it was portrayed to me.

• 43:04Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 43:04Speaker 01

  The same Shrek DVD.

• 43:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 43:07Speaker 01

  Right?

• 43:07Amanda Dobbins?

  How much is a Shrek DVD going for these days?

• 43:09Speaker 01

  You can bargain, man, probably like five. You go to the Winco.

• 43:12Speaker 07

  I've straight up never wanted to be friends with someone more than this person.

• 43:17Speaker 07

  I need you to introduce me to this person so badly.

• 43:20Speaker 01

  She listens to the pod, she's gonna hear this.

• 43:21Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 43:22Speaker 01

  We can make the connect.

• 43:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 43:23Speaker 01

  Uh, no.

• 43:24Speaker 07

  That's incredible shit.

• 43:26Speaker 01

  Legendary stuff.

• 43:27Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 43:28Speaker 01

  I mean, the memes, Shrek is love, Shrek is life. I'm sure we're all familiar, like, just a generation of, I remember they announced Shrek five coming.

• 43:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Mm hmm.

• 43:39Speaker 01

  And everybody, everybody went crazy.

• 43:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Shambles.

• 43:41Speaker 01

  Everybody went nuts. I mean, the motion is is wild. We haven't had a movie come out in how many years?

• 43:46Speaker 06

  And people are still, the musical.

• 43:49Speaker 01

  You know?

• 43:49Speaker 06

  The musical. Let's talk about Universal Studios rides, like.

• 43:54Speaker 01

  Crazy motion.

• 43:55Speaker 06

  Impact.

• 43:56Speaker 01

  Crazy motion.

• 43:57Speaker 06

  Impact is there.

• 43:59Amanda Dobbins?

  This is why we did this podcast.

• 44:00Speaker 06

  We happen to both be wearing green right now.

• 44:05Speaker 07

  That's true.

• 44:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Like, uh, obviously a very successful movie, so a lot of, did you all see it in theaters? Yeah. I, the first- Well, Jack, yeah, you're, you're a baby and, and we respect you.

• 44:17Speaker 06

  Uh, the first one-

• 44:18Amanda Dobbins?

  I saw it in theaters.

• 44:19Speaker 06

  But the, the other, the second, third and fourth one, they were all DVD.

• 44:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, okay.

• 44:24Speaker 01

  Yeah. I think I saw the, I, I can't remember the first one, maybe, but the second and third one, I definitely saw in theaters and then the fourth one. Yeah, let me put, let me get that on DVD, y'all got it. Yeah, let me just watch that to crew.

• 44:36Amanda Dobbins?

  I think that's a great pick. So Jade, two of yours have been at least mentioned.

• 44:40Speaker 06

  Yes, Twilight and Shrek were both-

• 44:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 44:43Speaker 06

  Two of my, but the third one, which is funny because I, I watched the first and second, but I wasn't, I wasn't like a part of the fandom of it.

• 44:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Mm-hmm.

• 44:54Speaker 06

  But I would say Harry Potter.

• 44:55Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, I wondered whether someone was gonna bring this up.

• 44:58Speaker 01

  I feel like that's a little bit older.

• 45:01Speaker 06

  Like-

• 45:01Speaker 07

  Not older than Shrek.

• 45:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 45:03Speaker 06

  Yeah, like I think-

• 45:03Speaker 01

  I mean, with the movies, but the books.

• 45:04Speaker 06

  The movies, not the book, the movie specifically. I feel like we're very much like Gen Z coded in terms of just like the amount of people our age were like gravitating towards that.

• 45:19Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean, I, I think that's true and that they were still-

• 45:23Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 45:24Amanda Dobbins?

  They, they were trying to do this thing of being a kid's movie that also included all of adults such as like myself.

• 45:31Speaker 06

  I agree.

• 45:31Amanda Dobbins?

  But, but they were released when you were-

• 45:35Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 45:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Younger. And the first couple are, are for children, you know?

• 45:39Speaker 06

  Exactly, very, yeah.

• 45:41Speaker 01

  The only reason I, I brush up against it is because we get online, every time you see a Gen Z or trying to make fun of millennial, it's, haha, you went into, you're a Hufflepuff or you're a Gryffindor. Like, that's the joke, right?

• 45:55Speaker 06

  I, I, I could, I could see that. I could see it being like, I do think Shrek was more Gen Z than Harry Potter.

• 46:04Amanda Dobbins?

  I also want to add though-

• 46:05Amanda Dobbins?

  The first Harry Potter film is 2001 and Shrek is also 2001, so.

• 46:10Speaker 06

  I also would like to add this as maybe a secondary, it's not top.

• 46:16Speaker 06

  But SpongeBob the movie.

• 46:18Speaker 07

  I had this in my shortlist as well.

• 46:20Speaker 06

  I have to say, I have to be honest. I have to be real with everybody. To SpongeBob the movie.

• 46:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Listen, I have, I have worked at The Ringer for a long time and have interacted with people younger than me for a long time. So I'm familiar with the impact that SpongeBob had on all of you. That was originally a TV show.

• 46:40Speaker 06

  Originally, but the movie specifically.

• 46:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 46:44Speaker 06

  Is like.

• 46:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Say more.

• 46:45Speaker 06

  Very much embedded into a lot of Gen Z's brains and minds. I think.

• 46:52Amanda Dobbins?

  What have you learned? What, what did you learn from SpongeBob the movie that you're taking with you?

• 46:58Speaker 06

  What have I learned? I think one of the biggest things is, I mean, this is a different quote, but adventure is out there.

• 47:04Speaker 07

  I, yes.

• 47:04Speaker 06

  Adventure is out there.

• 47:06Amanda Dobbins?

  See, there you go.

• 47:07Speaker 01

  I have a question for you.

• 47:09Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 47:10Speaker 01

  Are you a goofy goober?

• 47:11Speaker 06

  Are you a goofy?

• 47:12Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean, I, I don't know, but so here's, here's a real question for you guys. Like, is SpongeBob over or my kid's gonna get into it?

• 47:18Speaker 06

  I.

• 47:18Speaker 01

  Ooh, so here's the thing, right?

• 47:20Amanda Dobbins?

  Listen, you don't, you don't. My sons deserve adventure that is out there too.

• 47:27Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 47:28Amanda Dobbins?

  There's other.

• 47:28Speaker 01

  No, no, no, no, no, no, they do. What you do is you, you can't, I can't co-sign anything.

• 47:34Amanda Dobbins?

  You guys were really, really, really gatekeeping the.

• 47:36Speaker 01

  No.

• 47:37Speaker 07

  No, not at all.

• 47:38Amanda Dobbins?

  No, no, no, no, it's not about not opening. It's not about.

• 47:41Speaker 01

  I can't co-sign nothing after 2010.

• 47:44Speaker 07

  Right, that's the thing.

• 47:45Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, what, what happened?

• 47:47Speaker 01

  You know, animation, different shit, you know, probably already shifted.

• 47:51Speaker 06

  Budget, money.

• 47:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Where, where is it going to?

• 47:53Speaker 07

  Recycled ideas.

• 47:54Speaker 06

  Yay.

• 47:54Speaker 01

  Okay, so what you do is you go on, I'm, I'm pretty sure it's, it's probably, I'm plugging a lot of Paramount today. Could be a check. You go on, you go Paramount Plus and you put on episode one.

• 48:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 48:06Speaker 01

  Help Wanted and let it ride until you get to about 2009, 2010 and then you, you cut it off.

• 48:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, agreed.

• 48:12Speaker 06

  All right, yeah. Cause also I would say like, that's similar with Disney Channel. Disney is not. There was a point in time between like 2003 when like That's So Raven came out and then going like up to like 2011, 2012. Like when like the last shows of like, like Phineas and Ferb.

• 48:33Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 48:33Speaker 06

  Those were the times where I feel like had the, the most impact on like kid TV.

• 48:40Speaker 01

  We used to make real TV, man.

• 48:41Speaker 06

  Real TV, you know what I'm saying?

• 48:42Amanda Dobbins?

  This is a movie podcast.

• 48:44Speaker 06

  Yes, but real Disney original movies, Smart House. Uh, The Luck of the Irish, great movie.

• 48:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 48:52Speaker 01

  Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off.

• 48:53Speaker 06

  Uh, you know what I'm saying? I think there was this time where the, the creative juices were really flowing.

• 48:58Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean.

• 48:58Speaker 06

  Between Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, R I P, Disney Channel.

• 49:02Speaker 01

  Now the kids have The Descendants.

• 49:04Speaker 06

  Which.

• 49:05Speaker 01

  You know, good for them, man. Good for the kids.

• 49:07Speaker 06

  You know, I'm so happy for this.

• 49:10Amanda Dobbins?

  But it is, it is interesting that you're talking more about like the Disney Channel originals and the, and the TV stuff as opposed to, uh, you know, whatever. I mean, I'm ruined forever because I was Disney Princess era, but I can't tell you what the 2008, like Disney Princess.

• 49:27Speaker 06

  I think the thing about it is that Disney specifically, and then I think Nickelodeon started doing it too, is they would have the shows.

• 49:34Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 49:34Speaker 06

  And then they would make movies.

• 49:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 49:36Speaker 06

  With the show Wizards of the Way of the Place had a movie.

• 49:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure.

• 49:38Speaker 06

  Even Stevens had a movie.

• 49:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Aren't they making a new show?

• 49:40Speaker 06

  Lizzie McGuire, they did. I think they started.

• 49:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 49:43Speaker 06

  It's like the.

• 49:44Amanda Dobbins?

  I know that's a big deal. Lizzie McGuire too, she goes to Rome or something?

• 49:48Speaker 01

  Oh, I think.

• 49:49Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, you and Juliette Tommy about this, sure.

• 49:51Speaker 06

  And she got her twin.

• 49:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, the only important thing that's ever happened at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and cinema, but continue.

• 49:57Speaker 06

  Exactly.

• 49:58Speaker 01

  I think what's important about it too is like, we, I mean, we talked about this earlier. It's hard to get your parents to take you to the movies. But it's easy when Disney Channel's just airing High School Musical 2 over and over and over again.

• 50:10Speaker 06

  So you got your movies and TV.

• 50:11Speaker 07

  There was an event film aspect of it too, where it would be advertised weeks before that. Mark your calendars, Friday, April 21st. We are going to have the Lizzie McGuire movie on 7, 7 P M. Eastern. And you would make plans around the release of the Disney film.

• 50:28Speaker 01

  Brother, let me tell you something. Me and my family were on a road trip. We're going to San Diego for a week vacation. And we knew that High School Musical 2 was premiering that Sunday. And so I have, like, we got there, maybe starting like 45, 30 minutes. I have never unpacked a car faster to be in front of my television.

• 50:48Amanda Dobbins?

  To watch High School Musical two, the premiere. I'm telling you, like, you're absolutely. It was a moment. But it was, it was access. Part of it, I, Jomi's point is interesting that it, that it was easier to see those at home than it was to get to the movie theater.

• 51:01Speaker 06

  But there was even like, High School Musical three.

• 51:04Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 51:04Speaker 06

  I saw El Capitan.

• 51:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow, look at you, LA, LA.

• 51:09Speaker 06

  Very, very privileged I had. So it was for my, my friend, it was her birthday that I went to school with. And she, I don't know, LA privileged, LA connect, she had to connect. So we watched the premiere there.

• 51:24Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 51:25Speaker 06

  And it was a, the whole theme was High School Musical three theme.

• 51:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 51:28Speaker 06

  Whole thing.

• 51:29Speaker 01

  High School Musical was so big that they had posters, they advertised posters in the hallways at my school. Like, they bought, they bought ad space in the hallway of the elementary school.

• 51:41Speaker 06

  I'm telling you, that might have, honestly, that might have been one of the Gen Z top, like, what it kind of defines. Because there was just so, I mean, I had High School Musical shoes.

• 51:52Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean, that's great.

• 51:53Speaker 06

  It was like, it was everywhere.

• 51:54Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm happy for you that you're, you know, were you allowed to wear those to school?

• 51:58Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 51:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, I, I don't know, some schools.

• 52:00Speaker 06

  Oh, yeah.

• 52:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, you're not allowed to wear that, great.

• 52:02Speaker 06

  Yeah, they were pretty loose on the.

• 52:03Amanda Dobbins?

  This, this was not on the list, but this just occurred to me based on this story. Did, did any of you ever have like a movie themed birthday party? Like, where your birthday party was go to the movies or watch a movie? We, oh my god. You're, Jomi, I think you're a summer birthday like me. Yes. So. If I'm, if I'm remembering correctly, I think, oh, this is so embarrassing. I think, I didn't, we, I, I went to go see Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer. Okay. On my birthday. Okay. And that sucked. Yeah. Because the movie sucked. All right. And like, did you have friends come or that was like? It was just my family. It was just my family, because, hey, well, we, wasn't made of money, man. Sure, I know, and even that. Shell out so much. When we took the five of us.

• 52:46Speaker 01

  And yeah, the movie stunk and my birthday stunk, but it was still a good time.

• 52:51Amanda Dobbins?

  All right, but that was what you wanted to do.

• 52:52Speaker 01

  I was like, I wanna go see Fantastic Four.

• 52:55Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack?

• 52:56Speaker 07

  I don't think I did.

• 52:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. I might not just have been a, Sean and I both did, but we are ancient and also summer birthdays and we're also movie nerds. So like a thing that you would do is and you know, go to the mall and everyone would like go see it. Mine was like, I went to see Elijah Wood in North, which is a completely, none of you have seen this movie and there's no reason you should have because much like you, Jomie, it turned out to be bad, but you don't know when you're picking your birthday movie.

• 53:26Speaker 07

  Right.

• 53:26Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. All right. Here's another very important Gen Z question. According to you, who is the biggest movie star in the world?

• 53:35Speaker 07

  Who's first?

• 53:36Amanda Dobbins?

  Jomie.

• 53:37Speaker 01

  I mean, so.

• 53:39Amanda Dobbins?

  It doesn't have to be a Gen Z person. I just wanna know your perspective.

• 53:43Speaker 01

  But it's so on the nose. I gotta go with my goat. I gotta go with RDJ, you know? They bring him back. So here's the thing, right? He's got all the stuff in the 90s. He becomes toxic. Nobody wants to work with him. Kevin Feige and Jon Favreau, like here, here's a lifeline. And he changed, changed their lives. He changed those broke people's lives. Now there's a whole, now, now movies are fundamentally different. Because Robert Downey Jr. is like, yeah, I'll play Iron Man. Sure, why not?

• 54:13Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 54:13Speaker 01

  Right? And then he leaves, wins an Oscar for Oppenheimer. Then it's like, you know what? I got my award. Let me go get this bag back. Comes back to do Avengers, Doomsday and Secret Wars. That's my goat. I don't know what to tell you. I'm sorry.

• 54:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. So I just wanna let you know that Robert Downey Jr. turns 60 on Friday. So which is, you know, as, as I show every, every day, age, you know, is not a limitation.

• 54:39Speaker 07

  Is that a slight towards Tom Cruise?

• 54:41Amanda Dobbins?

  What? That he's turning 60?

• 54:43Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 54:44Amanda Dobbins?

  No, I'm just kind of, this is a podcast about how you guys are young and, and what you think about the movie world. And you're picking a six, you know?

• 54:52Speaker 01

  Cause I don't respect these young, these young actors. They don't want it no more. They don't want hard enough. Timmy the only one, like, let's be like perfectly honest. Timmy the only one who got that dog in him.

• 55:00Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 55:01Speaker 01

  Right?

• 55:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 55:02Speaker 01

  What happened to, what, and maybe this, and this is also.

• 55:05Amanda Dobbins?

  Zendaya got that dog in her. Yeah.

• 55:06Speaker 01

  Zendaya do got that dog in her. This is where I, and I show my age in terms of like, I'm like, when I think about movies.

• 55:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 55:14Speaker 01

  Because I'm like, what happened to the? Rom coms, man. People used to earn, people used to earn their way into this thing.

• 55:20Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 55:21Speaker 01

  You know, I saw the, like, it's a, it's, it's really the state of the industry when I'm looking at anyone but you. With Sydney Sweeney and Glenn Powell, I'm like, wow, man, movies are back, bruh. This changed my life. It's a, it's a regular run of the mill joint. We should be getting, we should be getting two of these a week. All right, of just mid level rom com joints.

• 55:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Called television, but um, I, I, I broadly agree with you. What, what's tough is that they actually are making them again, but they're all on streaming services starring uh, women who were in those rom coms thirty years ago when they released in theaters. It's called Garbage Women. We did an episode about it on Friday, Yasi and I. Also some great hairstyling tips in that one. Um, but speaking of, have you seen the Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman? Uh, rom com Jade, A Family Affair on Netflix. That is something that happens, but as Miss High School Musical, you'll have to check it out. So besides Zac Efron, who to you is the biggest movie star in the world?

• 56:24Speaker 06

  Um.

• 56:26Speaker 06

  I was gonna say Tom Cruise. I, I just feel like as someone who's not necessarily well-knowledge or well-versed in like the depths of movies.

• 56:37Amanda Dobbins?

  No, no, no, this is, when you hear movie star, you say Tom Cruise.

• 56:40Speaker 06

  I'm thinking Tom Cruise, I'm thinking Leonardo DiCaprio.

• 56:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 56:44Speaker 06

  I'm thinking like Viola Davis too, though. I'm thinking Samuel L. Jackson.

• 56:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure, but you're not thinking anyone under thirty.

• 56:54Speaker 06

  Zendaya would be the only one.

• 56:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, I, I mean, she's, she's getting there.

• 56:58Speaker 01

  You guys did, it's Zendaya, Timothy, and Margot Robbie. After that, you could.

• 57:04Amanda Dobbins?

  Wait, I think it's telling for both of you that when, like, your answers are not.

• 57:08Speaker 06

  No.

• 57:09Amanda Dobbins?

  Peers. They are, I say movie star and, and you think of a relatively older.

• 57:14Speaker 06

  The legend, you think, you think legends, you think people who have had uh, longevity in their career.

• 57:21Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 57:22Speaker 06

  Who have been in multiple lead roles, who have been award-winning to some degree. Um, that's what I think of.

• 57:31Speaker 01

  It sucks too, cuz Tom Holland should be in this conversation. He not doing, he not doing enough.

• 57:36Speaker 06

  Oh, he's not.

• 57:37Speaker 01

  I mean, he getting, he getting.

• 57:38Speaker 07

  He's gotta be in a Christopher Nolan movie.

• 57:39Speaker 01

  He's gonna get a Christopher Nolan movie, you know what I'm saying? Spider-Man four, it might turn, but these are the conversations he. He should be in. You know, we mentioned Timothy, we mentioned Zendaya. He should be, he should, he gotta be here somewhere.

• 57:49Amanda Dobbins?

  It is hard when, and you know, Sean and I are like broken records on this, but everyone your age, and Tom Holland is a great example, became famous by playing a superhero. So he's not really Tom Holland to most people, he's Spider-Man. So then it's hard to become known on your own if you are Captain America, or Spider-Man, or Batman, or the Silver Surfer. Who, who played the Silver Surfer?

• 58:14Speaker 01

  I can't remember who did the, the mocap, but he was voiced by Lauren Fishburne.

• 58:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, okay.

• 58:18Speaker 01

  Lauren Fishburne.

• 58:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Lauren Fishburne.

• 58:20Speaker 01

  Yeah, I can speak.

• 58:21Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack, who's your movie star?

• 58:23Speaker 07

  In my heart of hearts, I think it's Chalamet or Cruise. And then I'd lean Chalamet because the upward trajectory.

• 58:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure, yeah.

• 58:30Speaker 07

  But, I just want to throw this out.

• 58:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 58:34Speaker 07

  So I did a little digging.

• 58:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Great.

• 58:36Speaker 07

  And I was looking up, how many movies since 2016 has an actor or an actress been in that have grossed 200 million at the international box office?

• 58:45Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 58:45Speaker 07

  And no disrespect, but I, I wanted to look outside of the Avengers window because that's kind of in the past.

• 58:50Speaker 01

  It sounded like an actress to me.

• 58:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 58:53Speaker 01

  It sounded like an actress to me.

• 58:55Amanda Dobbins?

  But for the same reason that we're, you know.

• 58:56Speaker 07

  Yeah, projecting towards the future.

• 58:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, and also the Avengers are the, that's the draw.

• 59:01Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 59:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 59:02Speaker 07

  So I looked at DiCaprio, he's been in one. I looked at Cruise and Chalamet have both been in three.

• 59:07Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 59:08Speaker 07

  Zendaya's been in six, but they're all mainly supporting roles.

• 59:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 59:13Speaker 07

  Can you guess?

• 59:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 59:15Speaker 07

  How many Dwayne The Rock Johnson has been in since 2016?

• 59:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, but this is a, I mean, okay, let me guess. Oh, hold on.

• 59:23Speaker 01

  I'm gonna say 12.

• 59:25Speaker 06

  I'm gonna say 13.

• 59:26Amanda Dobbins?

  I'm gonna say eight.

• 59:27Speaker 07

  It was 12.

• 59:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh my god.

• 59:29Speaker 07

  Now, some of the parts are, you know, a cameo in a fast movie, or a voice credit in Moana.

• 59:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 59:35Speaker 07

  But even if you cherry pick and take five of those off, he still has more than almost anybody else. And I'm, I'm not saying that box office success directly translates to movie stardom.

• 59:47Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 59:47Speaker 07

  But it's hard not to, that number was staggering to me.

• 59:51Amanda Dobbins?

  It's, no, it's a great point. And I think his career sort of, I think people, he realized that. People in his circle realized that. And then tried to capitalize on it, but wound up making movies like Jungle Cruise and Red Notice. And it turns out that-

• 1:00:07Speaker 01

  We don't like Red Notice over here?

• 1:00:09Speaker 07

  Are you serious?

• 1:00:12Speaker 07

  Okay.

• 1:00:12Amanda Dobbins?

  It was, I mean, I didn't know.

• 1:00:14Speaker 06

  It's not the worst thing I've ever watched.

• 1:00:16Speaker 07

  It's quite bad.

• 1:00:17Speaker 06

  But like, but it's not, it's not great. It's not great. You're absolutely right.

• 1:00:20Amanda Dobbins?

  But, you know, I guess it, it turns out that the movies have to at least be watchable in order for people to want to keep investing in the, in your career. Maybe the quality is the quality of. I'm glad you did it. I'm glad you brought it up.

• 1:00:35Speaker 07

  And like I said, my, my heart of hearts, I say it, shall may. I just wanted to present the point because I was shocked by that.

• 1:00:41Speaker 06

  No love for Zoe Zaldania?

• 1:00:43Speaker 07

  Uh, no.

• 1:00:44Speaker 06

  No?

• 1:00:44Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean, she's at two franchises where one of them, she is blue the whole time. So.

• 1:00:50Speaker 06

  I mean, I mean, I mean, Star Trek, Avatar.

• 1:00:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, sure. Three. That's right.

• 1:00:54Speaker 06

  Yeah. I mean, like, there was a joke.

• 1:00:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Your favorite movie, Amelia Perez?

• 1:00:59Speaker 06

  Yes. Wait, why would you say that to me? No, I was, I was gonna yes, and that, but I'm not letting that slide. No way. I'm not having that attached to me. No way. No, but I mean, uh, you talk about box office. I, I don't have the number off the top of my head, but literally one of the highest, like.

• 1:01:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:17Speaker 06

  I remember when, uh, Endgame passed Avatar and then Avatar passed Endgame. Again, it's just like Zoe Zaldania switching, you know, teams every time because.

• 1:01:27Amanda Dobbins?

  Right.

• 1:01:27Speaker 06

  That, she was in both those movies.

• 1:01:29Amanda Dobbins?

  But, and I think the, the answer really is that like the Avengers or Avatar, I guess not really, but you know, Guardians, all of those things are the real.

• 1:01:38Speaker 06

  The guy in, in Avatar, this is a movie podcast. Can we name the guy who plays the main dude in Avatar?

• 1:01:43Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, I can. Yes. Can the, can I, any of you?

• 1:01:46Speaker 07

  Nope.

• 1:01:47Speaker 06

  I can, but only because he's the guy from Avatar.

• 1:01:49Amanda Dobbins?

  Right. Scott Worthington?

• 1:01:51Speaker 06

  Sam Worthington.

• 1:01:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Sam Worthington. Yeah, damn it. I didn't know that was there. It's fine. He looks like a Scot.

• 1:01:59Speaker 06

  It could have been Matt Damon. Matt Damon's so good.

• 1:02:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, I know.

• 1:02:02Speaker 06

  But yeah, it's just like, it's, it's incredible how.

• 1:02:05Speaker 01

  Forget about those movies are but yet when

• 1:02:07Amanda Dobbins?

  Got another one this year.

• 1:02:08Speaker 01

  Fire and Ash comes out, I'ma be there.

• 1:02:10Speaker 07

  Gonna make a billion.

• 1:02:11Amanda Dobbins?

  So many, so many billions.

• 1:02:13Speaker 01

  Watch that three hour green screen.

• 1:02:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, I've got, I've, I've got some, some lightning roundish questions. The first is you three are, are, are I think quite representative, but you do also work at The Ringer. So you consume pop culture and sports at a, um, intense rate. So I want to talk about like movies and your friends. I mean, this will be like super anecdotal, but like, do you talk about movies with your friends? Do you go see movies with your friends? Is it, you know, is it in the group chat? Is it, I sound like a thousand years old, but I, I

• 1:02:45Speaker 06

  You don't, you actually don't.

• 1:02:46Amanda Dobbins?

  I do use group chats. Um, is like, it is, is it a shared cultural, are they a shared cultural thing? For people your age?

• 1:02:55Speaker 06

  Absolutely.

• 1:02:56Amanda Dobbins?

  What was the last movie you saw like with friends?

• 1:02:58Speaker 06

  With friends?

• 1:02:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:01Speaker 06

  Wicked, saw Wicked with friends.

• 1:03:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure.

• 1:03:03Speaker 06

  Saw Barbie with friends.

• 1:03:04Amanda Dobbins?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:03:04Speaker 06

  Um, group chat discourse all over the place.

• 1:03:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:03:08Speaker 06

  Um, I think it's very, and, and then like again with my partner, like, again, he's a movie guy. So like, we talk about movies all the time. And I think too, like after just watching a movie, it's natural to debrief and just talk and discuss about the movie.

• 1:03:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Uh, but so you mostly named like event movies.

• 1:03:26Speaker 06

  Event movies, yes.

• 1:03:27Amanda Dobbins?

  You would say that that is what really captures.

• 1:03:29Speaker 06

  Yes, cause I mean, too, again, going like, you know, not to get off movies and onto TV, but like, we kind of do the same thing with TV. It's like if we watch the same shows, you know?

• 1:03:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, of course.

• 1:03:39Speaker 06

  Talk about it, what's going on?

• 1:03:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack?

• 1:03:43Speaker 07

  Yeah, but I also think I'm like biased because I've locked myself into a comfort bubble of Ithaca College Film School graduates. So it's

• 1:03:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Right, I forgot you were at Ithaca College as well. Yeah.

• 1:03:53Speaker 07

  I mean, like we have people in our friend group that like we've met outside that are a part, but by nature, it's just.

• 1:04:00Amanda Dobbins?

  So, but

• 1:04:01Speaker 07

  I would say movies are the number one thing we talk about.

• 1:04:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Movies are a way of making friends, almost. I mean, that, that, I don't mean that in a pathetic way. I mean that in a cool way.

• 1:04:10Speaker 07

  I think we made the friendships, we, we made the friendships not directly through movies, but it's a through line of our

• 1:04:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Cultivating.

• 1:04:18Speaker 07

  Each other, yes.

• 1:04:19Amanda Dobbins?

  The relationship. I think that's great. Jomi?

• 1:04:22Speaker 01

  Definitely. I think, I mean, you mentioned working at The Ringer. I have like two. I put, if I could put my friends into two groups. It's either like friends who talk about sports.

• 1:04:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:32Speaker 01

  Or friends who talk about TV, movies and culture.

• 1:04:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Right, right, right, right.

• 1:04:35Speaker 01

  And like the overlap of those people are really like my closest friends and people that work here.

• 1:04:40Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 1:04:41Speaker 01

  Essentially. And so, yeah, I mean, I have a podcast where I talk about movies. Uh, I love to talk about movies. I love to go, the last movie I saw with folks was Black Bag. We went to go see that at Los Feliz Three. Just like a, you know, nice little time. You get there, you, you watch the movie, then you talk about it afterwards. It's a lost art. I like to see movies by myself.

• 1:05:00Amanda Dobbins?

  As do I.

• 1:05:01Speaker 01

  God forbid. Like, I like my P, I like my friends. I love y'all. But there is something about locking up to the AMC, getting my, uh, my Sour Patch Kid Watermelon, my large Diet Coke, and maybe if I'm feeling a little, little froggy, some chicken tenders. And I go to the theater and I sit in my seat, which sometimes if I got a little extra bread on me, I buy the seat next to me so I can put my jacket on there so nobody sits next to me. Yeah.

• 1:05:30Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 1:05:31Speaker 06

  Well, you're AMC.

• 1:05:33Speaker 01

  Stuff, right? Let me just toss an extra twenty-one, they gonna get that anyway. Don't sit next to me. You know what I'm saying? When I went to see Ted, when Ted, when Ted came back out, I was like, yeah, I need, I know I'm gonna need this extra seat in the IMAX. Don't, nobody bothering me. I'm locked in on this cinema. And it was, it was fantastic.

• 1:05:52Speaker 07

  That's awesome.

• 1:05:52Speaker 01

  I didn't know we were in the presence of a one percenter over here. Geez, tell me, we got second seat money, bro?

• 1:06:03Speaker 01

  What you mean, bro? I, I got it from you. You Vemo me the money. That was you. That was all you, Bobby. Come on, man, appreciate you. Hey, appreciate you letting me borrow your Lambo for the weekend too, my man. That was real nice. That was real kind of, man. Ferrari man myself, but we can roll with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know. I'm saying like, cause you, I mean, that's just a doorway, right? That was just, you know what I'm saying? That was just for us. I appreciate you, man. Thank you. Thank you.

• 1:06:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Have you noticed, like, has the place of movies in, in your world, like, changed at all? Are people paying more attention, less attention? Jack, like, is, have you always been going to rep theaters? Or is that like a new thing that's?

• 1:06:43Speaker 07

  That was a new thing, moving to LA.

• 1:06:45Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:06:45Speaker 07

  I mean, that was way harder in suburban New Jersey. Um, it's, it's tough. I'm inclined to say that it's improving and growing, but it's difficult.

• 1:06:55Amanda Dobbins?

  But you are also.

• 1:06:55Speaker 07

  I have blinders.

• 1:06:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:57Speaker 07

  I'm in an echo chamber, whether it's the algorithm I've curated on social media, the friend group, or my place of work.

• 1:07:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:07:02Speaker 07

  It's hard for me to not say that.

• 1:07:04Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:05Speaker 07

  It's growing.

• 1:07:06Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah. Jay, do you mention two fairly recent, like, event movies?

• 1:07:10Speaker 06

  Mm hmm.

• 1:07:11Amanda Dobbins?

  Like, can you think back? Or is, is that like a fairly new phenomenon of?

• 1:07:17Speaker 06

  Of like?

• 1:07:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Of your, of, like, you and your friends being like, we're gonna make a date to go see this.

• 1:07:22Speaker 06

  Um, I would say there was like, like, high school, that was a big thing. Like, we'd go to the movies all the time.

• 1:07:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:07:29Speaker 06

  Casao, we recently talked about.

• 1:07:30Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:07:31Speaker 06

  The changes, arc, arc light.

• 1:07:33Amanda Dobbins?

  That was, that was a great arc light.

• 1:07:34Speaker 06

  Yeah, it was a great arc light. Like, we would definitely go to.

• 1:07:37Amanda Dobbins?

  Recently put those, um, like, school desk things, like, like, uh, you know, the.

• 1:07:43Speaker 01

  So you can eat?

• 1:07:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, so you can eat, but it's like you're at a school desk and it, um, it folds in and out. It's, it's fairly confusing.

• 1:07:50Speaker 06

  But I would say, like, again, it's kind of phases, like, high school, that was a big thing. I went, like, to movies a little bit in college, but I was in DC, but it was, like, kind of rare.

• 1:08:01Amanda Dobbins?

  College is sort of.

• 1:08:02Speaker 06

  Yeah, college, you know?

• 1:08:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Is a black.

• 1:08:04Speaker 06

  And then, like, post-college, it, it was a lot of, like, dates with my boyfriend, but, like, friends would be here and there, parents would be here and there.

• 1:08:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:08:14Speaker 06

  So, like, it, it kind of just varies.

• 1:08:16Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:08:17Speaker 06

  Depending on, like, what's coming out.

• 1:08:19Amanda Dobbins?

  Got it. Okay.

• 1:08:19Speaker 01

  I have a question, and maybe I don't want to be any step on your toes, but talk about going to movies with people. I'm sure that you've done this. Have you guys ever had to line up for a movie? Like the movie's coming out, there's no reserved seating, so you gotta stand outside and wait for the movie.

• 1:08:37Speaker 06

  Not that I can remember.

• 1:08:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Not, not even growing up.

• 1:08:43Speaker 06

  But I also feel like I was the ki- like I wasn't the kind of person or around people who would like wait in line for a movie, like have that kind of excitement for that experience. So I might just be an outlier.

• 1:08:59Speaker 01

  I think the last time I did, what was the movie that you did it for, last movie you did it for?

• 1:09:03Speaker 07

  I don't remember the last one, but I went to the Arrow a lot last year, and if you ever had a free RSVP that didn't guarantee you a seat. So sometimes I'd go early to get in line to make sure you'd get a seat.

• 1:09:14Speaker 01

  I, I mean, I remember lining up for, the last movie I did it for was Civil War, of Captain America Civil War.

• 1:09:20Amanda Dobbins?

  I was gonna say, I was like, right.

• 1:09:24Speaker 01

  Come on, let's, let's, let's, let's be for real. But I remember going to Avengers: Age of Ultron and getting there, there was a decent line, but my buddy was in the front. And so me and my group of friends, we, you know, hey, we cut the line, hey. But, and then the line like wrapped around the theater.

• 1:09:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, wow.

• 1:09:42Speaker 01

  That doesn't happen anymore. You mentioned the arc light, and I mean, you go to a theater, you book your seat, you're in there, you don't gotta think about it. But that was a mo- that was a time where, ah, the movie starts at seven thirty, we gotta get there by, by five thirty, we gonna, you know, send the front.

• 1:09:55Amanda Dobbins?

  Right, right, right. Yeah, I do also wonder, again, now we all live in Los Angeles where the theater experience is, you can't, you really can't find a reserved seat. Though, you know, Oppenheimer was selling out here for three months afterwards. And that, that was different because you could reserve the seats, but it was, it was hard to get in for a very long time. You didn't answer whether you feel like movies are.

• 1:10:22Amanda Dobbins?

  More or less important to to like your your social group than they were.

• 1:10:26Speaker 01

  And it it depends, because again, like, some of them are sports, some of them are movies. It is is it is a thing when you're not locked in, you're not caught up.

• 1:10:34Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:34Speaker 01

  They're talking about, let's like, oh, man, Mickey Seventeen was crazy. I'm like, I I'm not locked in.

• 1:10:40Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:10:41Speaker 01

  So you do feel this kind of pressure to be like, well, let me make Tom go to a theater so I'm not missing out. When it's an event type thing, like, I mean, Barbenheimer was the whole experience, but you couldn't not be like, yeah, I'm not gonna go see Barbie. I'm not gonna go see that. That doesn't make any sense, right?

• 1:10:57Amanda Dobbins?

  I mean, I've people my age felt that way, so.

• 1:10:59Speaker 01

  Right? It's just like a completely different aura about it. When you talk about like, movies like these days, again, I I use Mickey Seventeen as an example. Because it's kind of polarizing. People have like differing opinions on it, whether, you know, it's good, Robert Pattinson, this and that, which and which. And so you want to go make your own opinion, right? Like, are these people making sense? I like Robert Pattinson. His accent, this and this, whatever it may be. And so, yeah, which you want to participate in that kind of conversation, whether it's in person, on social media. Got to go see the movie.

• 1:11:29Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:11:30Speaker 06

  Yep.

• 1:11:30Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, okay, lightning round. What's the best movie you've seen in the last year, Jade?

• 1:11:36Speaker 06

  Ooh.

• 1:11:38Amanda Dobbins?

  Do you want to think about it?

• 1:11:39Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:11:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, Jack.

• 1:11:40Speaker 07

  Dune Part Two.

• 1:11:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow, okay, you're just coming in at your, that is technically still calendar year. You know, because it was March, right?

• 1:11:49Speaker 07

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, it's close. I see what you're saying.

• 1:11:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, listen, I did, we'll we'll allow it. Okay.

• 1:11:54Speaker 07

  Sorry.

• 1:11:55Speaker 01

  If we're counting Dune Two, then the answer is Dune Two.

• 1:11:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, if we're not counting Dune Two, what is it? Just for a variety's sake.

• 1:12:03Speaker 01

  I really liked Black Bag.

• 1:12:04Amanda Dobbins?

  So did I.

• 1:12:05Speaker 01

  A lot. I love.

• 1:12:07Amanda Dobbins?

  Everyone who has seen it.

• 1:12:09Speaker 01

  I love Soderbergh. Ocean's is one of my favorite films. Uh, I, Kate Blanchett and, um.

• 1:12:16Speaker 01

  Michael Fassbender do their thing. If I had to pick one of the last year, I I'd say that.

• 1:12:21Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, great answer. Jade?

• 1:12:25Speaker 06

  I can't really remember all the movies I've watched this year, but I'll say.

• 1:12:28Speaker 01

  Only watched like six.

• 1:12:30Speaker 06

  I'll say Wicked.

• 1:12:30Amanda Dobbins?

  I was gonna, yeah, just.

• 1:12:32Speaker 06

  I mean, that.

• 1:12:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, so go ahead. Super fans review of Wicked.

• 1:12:36Speaker 06

  Oh, I loved it. I thought it was great. Um, you know, they're pretty much on point with the whole entire script, so it's like you kind of know it. Front and back. Um, singing was beautiful. I.

• 1:12:49Speaker 06

  I don't know, uh, s- some of the like. Design of it, I was a little like, okay, maybe not my personal style, but. I mean, acting, singing, dancing, all great.

• 1:13:01Speaker 01

  Quick, quick, quick wicked question. Can I hate Ariana Grande's character in that movie? Because I was mad.

• 1:13:09Amanda Dobbins?

  You were mad at her? You felt?

• 1:13:10Speaker 01

  Because she, she was doing, uh, uh, Tereva's character crazy.

• 1:13:17Speaker 06

  I think there is a point like that her character is kind of meant to. Make you feel like she is kind of.

• 1:13:27Speaker 01

  Right.

• 1:13:28Speaker 06

  Polar opposite to.

• 1:13:30Speaker 01

  Right. They're ops, right?

• 1:13:32Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 1:13:32Speaker 01

  And then they come together, but the movie opens with her burning her homie's, uh, effigy. I can't let that slide. I can't let that slide.

• 1:13:40Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, that's a, isn't that a preview of?

• 1:13:42Speaker 06

  Yeah, that's kind of, yeah, that, that's the kind of point to understand that their relationship is very complex. And the way in which they get to that point is like you have to go back and see all of how it played out. It is wild, but.

• 1:13:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Part two.

• 1:13:59Speaker 06

  Including part two, which you haven't seen yet. So.

• 1:14:01Speaker 01

  I'll be there. I'll be there.

• 1:14:02Speaker 06

  I think you're, you're not wrong or you're not, your opinion isn't invalid in. Not liking Glinda. Like there's a lot of people don't, and I think. A point. She is the kind of person like.

• 1:14:17Speaker 06

  The perspective in which Wicked is made, you're supposed to like Elphaba.

• 1:14:21Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:14:21Speaker 06

  You're like, and you're supposed to see how Glinda treats Elphaba in this way and kind of grows into understanding her more. But then, part two, which you'll find out, like, stuff happens.

• 1:14:33Speaker 01

  Apparently it's crazy.

• 1:14:33Speaker 06

  I mean, it's already happened, but like, stuff happens where their relationship kind of gets compromised. Okay.

• 1:14:38Amanda Dobbins?

  How are you Jade, super fan of Wicked and Wicked alumnus or? What's this shit shit?

• 1:14:45Speaker 06

  Shiz?

• 1:14:45Amanda Dobbins?

  Shiz, yeah.

• 1:14:46Speaker 06

  Shiz.

• 1:14:47Amanda Dobbins?

  That, that was like a real my grandma. Um, but that was more about Wicked.

• 1:14:51Speaker 06

  Shiz university.

• 1:14:52Amanda Dobbins?

  Do animals sing in part two?

• 1:14:54Speaker 06

  Uh.

• 1:14:55Amanda Dobbins?

  Be honest.

• 1:14:58Speaker 06

  Cause in part one, they're in that transition period of like, they're starting to lose their voice. They can't really, so I'm trying to remember if in part two they sing, but I would say like, maybe towards the beginning. But by the end, no.

• 1:15:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Do you, are you looking forward to part two?

• 1:15:19Speaker 06

  Very much so.

• 1:15:20Amanda Dobbins?

  Do you have any concerns that among the Wicked like people, there is, there is a belief that part two might not be as strong in terms of songs as part one?

• 1:15:32Speaker 06

  Yeah, I, I agree. I think the stronger songs are in part one, like, so I do think for people who maybe don't have that much knowledge or have like seen Wicked like that.

• 1:15:46Amanda Dobbins?

  Mm hmm.

• 1:15:46Speaker 06

  The songs might be a little more dragged out, a little more, because they're, those songs are more for like storytelling. I feel like the part one is more like, I'm just singing to belt and sing out and like.

• 1:15:59Amanda Dobbins?

  Sure.

• 1:15:59Speaker 06

  You know, evoke an emotion, whereas the songs in part two are more like, I'm telling this and I'm doing this and stuff like that. So I, I, I kind of agree with that, but I think if you like Wicked, you know the songs, so.

• 1:16:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:16:14Speaker 06

  You'll enjoy it.

• 1:16:15Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay. I'm dreading it, but I'm, I'm happy for you.

• 1:16:19Speaker 06

  Uh.

• 1:16:21Amanda Dobbins?

  It's whatever. We're all being honest here. Jack, the best movie that you've seen in the last five years. This doesn't have to be exact. I think what I'm going for is-

• 1:16:29Speaker 06

  I thought it was the last five, last year.

• 1:16:31Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, that was-

• 1:16:32Speaker 06

  Oh, that was a previous question.

• 1:16:33Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, this is a new question. Yeah, this is a new one. What I'm going for here, you know, in your adulthood.

• 1:16:39Speaker 07

  Can I give you three?

• 1:16:41Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes, you may.

• 1:16:42Speaker 07

  They'll be so fast. Worst person in the world.

• 1:16:44Amanda Dobbins?

  Great pick.

• 1:16:45Speaker 07

  West Side Story.

• 1:16:46Amanda Dobbins?

  The Steven Spielberg version. Yes, okay.

• 1:16:48Speaker 07

  I thought we were only doing it like last five years, the calendar release.

• 1:16:51Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:16:52Speaker 07

  And Tar.

• 1:16:53Amanda Dobbins?

  Love Tar. As you know, I love all of those. Have you seen the original West Side Story?

• 1:16:57Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:16:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, good. All right, just wanted to make sure. Both, both are very good. Um, Jomi.

• 1:17:03Speaker 01

  Uh, Black Widow, Eternals, uh, Spider-Man: No Way Home. No, I'm kidding.

• 1:17:09Speaker 01

  Uh, ooh, that's a good one. Am I a loser if I say everything everywhere all at once?

• 1:17:15Amanda Dobbins?

  No, you're not. It won Best Picture.

• 1:17:18Speaker 01

  Uh, I think, that was, again, one of those movies where you're like, oh, you gotta see this one. You gotta see this one. And I went to the, I went to Alamo, I think, for the first time to watch it.

• 1:17:27Amanda Dobbins?

  Wow.

• 1:17:28Speaker 01

  And I was just, I was blown away. Yeah, I think if I had to pick one movie in the last five years-

• 1:17:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Is that one that you revisit?

• 1:17:33Speaker 01

  I've seen it, uh, once or twice on streaming and it's, it's not, I mean, it's not as magical the first time because you know, you're not inhabiting the world for the first time. You get to learn the rules a little bit more. But it's still a lot of fun. It's still a lot of fun on a rewatch.

• 1:17:46Amanda Dobbins?

  No, but that, I mean, that is a great pick of like going to the movies and just having like a completely immersive, magical experience that then goes on to win Best Picture.

• 1:17:55Speaker 01

  Yeah, I mean, and then sometimes a lot of people win Best Supporting Actress that might not have deserved it, but that's fine.

• 1:18:00Speaker 07

  That is true. That was really tough.

• 1:18:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, it's, you know what?

• 1:18:03Speaker 07

  The Carrie Condon era is crazy.

• 1:18:04Speaker 01

  Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, respect my queen Angela Bassett.

• 1:18:07Speaker 07

  Oh, that's fair too. Either one would have been better.

• 1:18:08Amanda Dobbins?

  That's, that's, that's true. It's, it's all true. Um, Jade?

• 1:18:13Speaker 06

  I don't have an answer for this one.

• 1:18:14Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, so you haven't seen any movies that you're passionate about?

• 1:18:19Speaker 06

  Hmm.

• 1:18:22Speaker 06

  I don't think so.

• 1:18:23Amanda Dobbins?

  That's a valid answer.

• 1:18:24Speaker 06

  I don't think so.

• 1:18:24Amanda Dobbins?

  That certainly says something about the state of movies.

• 1:18:26Speaker 06

  Yeah, like, I, I can't, like, think of one that I, like, again, like, I really enjoyed Wicked. Um, but I can't think of one in the past five years where I was like, oh my god, like, this changed my life. Um.

• 1:18:40Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, there you go. That's your answer.

• 1:18:42Speaker 06

  That's my answer. When did Endgame come out?

• 1:18:45Speaker 01

  Twenty nineteen.

• 1:18:46Speaker 06

  I was gonna say I really liked Endgame.

• 1:18:48Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, that's, we, we can extend. That's, I think that's, it's also, you know, five years sort of corresponds to that. And I didn't intentionally do this, but it corresponds to the pandemic. That obviously changed.

• 1:18:57Speaker 06

  And I was gonna say that too, cuz it's like, I, again, I do think that, like, growing up, I was way more into movies, but like, kind of phased out of like, that kind of experience until things started opening up again and we kind of started seeing more movies, but.

• 1:19:13Amanda Dobbins?

  And it's been rolling up and down, so.

• 1:19:15Speaker 06

  Yeah, it's been, it's been interesting.

• 1:19:17Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:19:18Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:19:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, what movie, if any, Jade, you can, you can pass again, uh, are you most looking forward to?

• 1:19:27Speaker 01

  I mean, there's a whole summer full of stuff for me. I mean.

• 1:19:32Amanda Dobbins?

  Let's go. It could be two thousand ten all over again for you.

• 1:19:35Speaker 01

  Honestly.

• 1:19:35Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, it's beautiful.

• 1:19:36Speaker 01

  Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning.

• 1:19:39Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:39Speaker 01

  Fantastic Four, First Steps. You saw me in the merch.

• 1:19:42Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:42Speaker 01

  And Superman. All come out with, like, Superman and Fantastic Four come out within like, two weeks.

• 1:19:47Amanda Dobbins?

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:19:47Speaker 01

  And then, uh, beginning of May, or the end of May, uh, Mission Impossible comes out. I will be there no matter what. Like, this means something to me, you know, and so.

• 1:19:56Amanda Dobbins?

  That's great. That's beautiful.

• 1:19:57Speaker 01

  That's why I keep that A-list around.

• 1:19:58Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:19:59Speaker 01

  You know what I mean? Cuz I'm gonna be in the theaters.

• 1:20:02Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack?

• 1:20:02Speaker 07

  I can't lie, I'm really excited. We, new Wes, new PTA.

• 1:20:07Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:20:07Speaker 07

  New Safdie, new Koganata, new Trier.

• 1:20:10Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:20:11Speaker 07

  Those are five heavy hitters.

• 1:20:14Amanda Dobbins?

  You wanna share the names of those titles?

• 1:20:16Speaker 06

  Sure. I have no idea what he just said.

• 1:20:18Speaker 07

  Sorry.

• 1:20:19Speaker 01

  I know, I know.

• 1:20:20Amanda Dobbins?

  What did you do as well?

• 1:20:21Speaker 01

  Um, this is, and again, this is, this is so funny, cuz we're, I don't know if you guys seen that meme of John David Washington and his brother?

• 1:20:28Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 1:20:29Speaker 01

  At the Criterion Closet. You're, uh, John David Washington's brother, like, yeah, man, I love the, the philosophical meaning of this film, man. And I'm John David Washington. Hey, Jackie Chan boxing.

• 1:20:42Speaker 07

  You know?

• 1:20:43Amanda Dobbins?

  That's beautiful. Yeah, share the full titles.

• 1:20:45Speaker 07

  The Phoenician Scheme is Wes's new movie, which we were supposed to... Yes, Wes Anderson, sorry. Which we were supposed to have a trailer. Still no trailer.

• 1:20:54Amanda Dobbins?

  Like I said, I don't know if I need a trailer. I know it's gonna be a Wes Anderson movie that I love.

• 1:20:58Speaker 07

  I just want a little taste, you know?

• 1:20:59Amanda Dobbins?

  I know. I think we're getting too hooked on the trailers.

• 1:21:01Speaker 07

  One battle after another, Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie.

• 1:21:04Amanda Dobbins?

  Great trailer.

• 1:21:05Speaker 07

  Yes, great trailer.

• 1:21:06Amanda Dobbins?

  We've seen it.

• 1:21:07Speaker 07

  Marty Supreme.

• 1:21:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 1:21:09Speaker 07

  Josh Safdie's, right? Josh Safdie's movie about a ping pong player starring Timothy Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow. There's already been some controversy about that film.

• 1:21:18Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:21:20Speaker 07

  A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, directed by Koganata. This will be starring Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell, two of our greatest actors.

• 1:21:26Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes, and it was recently moved to September and sort of prime awards.

• 1:21:30Speaker 07

  And he directed After Yang and Columbus, those were his two first movies. And then Sentimental Value, same director of The Worst Person in the World, will also be starring Renate Rensby. Don't really know what it's about, but those two together, I'm locked in.

• 1:21:44Amanda Dobbins?

  I think that's a great list.

• 1:21:45Speaker 07

  I think we're in store for great summer.

• 1:21:46Amanda Dobbins?

  Well, you know, this is...

• 1:21:48Speaker 06

  I'm so locked in on your answers.

• 1:21:50Amanda Dobbins?

  The next generation of big pickers is really...

• 1:21:53Speaker 06

  Love that.

• 1:21:54Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, big pickers is really... Yeah, the psychos are strong. Okay, Jade, any movie? You don't have to look forward to a movie.

• 1:22:00Speaker 06

  No. If I see something that I see that sounds interesting...

• 1:22:05Amanda Dobbins?

  So my last question was gonna be, movies, are we so over or so back? And I think I know your answer.

• 1:22:11Speaker 06

  I'm in the middle, actually. Like, I don't think they're over.

• 1:22:13Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:22:14Speaker 06

  Because I do think... I don't think they're over, because I do think that there are moments when people who are not, like, movie heads like myself, can get involved.

• 1:22:25Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:22:26Speaker 06

  One of them days, I was locked in.

• 1:22:28Amanda Dobbins?

  Incredible.

• 1:22:28Speaker 06

  Barbie, Barbenheimer, locked in. Like, I do think that there are waves of when movies come out, even like challengers, like, you know, like, I think there are periods where, like, people can really get into it. But I would say, like, they're more, like, big, heavy hitters with heavy, like, big names. So, the ones...

• 1:22:51Amanda Dobbins?

  All right, so it's not... We're not so over?

• 1:22:53Speaker 06

  No.

• 1:22:54Amanda Dobbins?

  Jack, so over, so back.

• 1:22:56Speaker 07

  I think we'll never be as back as we once were, but it's definitely not over.

• 1:23:01Amanda Dobbins?

  Isn't that the way of life, Jack?

• 1:23:03Speaker 07

  It is.

• 1:23:03Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:23:03Speaker 07

  I mean, I think the pandemic fast-tracking every movie available at your fingertips at all times accelerated this whole problem we're currently facing. But I just find it hard to believe that movies will ever be entirely erased from the culture.

• 1:23:21Amanda Dobbins?

  There we go.

• 1:23:22Speaker 07

  I just don't think it's gonna happen.

• 1:23:23Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, I was actually hoping for more optimism from you, but okay, Jomi, so over, so back.

• 1:23:28Speaker 01

  Amanda, movies have never, ever been so back.

• 1:23:33Amanda Dobbins?

  Thank you so much. Thank you.

• 1:23:36Speaker 01

  I can't, I mean, between my list of movies I'm excited for, your list, we've got such a mix of things coming down the pipeline.

• 1:23:42Amanda Dobbins?

  Jade's like, you know, medium-warm anticipation of Vicky Two.

• 1:23:46Speaker 01

  Vicky Two.

• 1:23:48Speaker 06

  That's the movie I'm looking forward to.

• 1:23:49Amanda Dobbins?

  There we go.

• 1:23:49Speaker 01

  I'm on Chris Ryan Odyssey watch.

• 1:23:52Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 1:23:52Speaker 06

  Oh, I'm on it. Likewise.

• 1:23:54Speaker 01

  Like, we're getting like, you know, Tom Cruise is gonna make a Top Gun Maverick until he's 175.

• 1:24:00Speaker 06

  Yup, exactly.

• 1:24:02Speaker 01

  As long as we, the movie people, stay watching these movies, going to theaters, stay watching movies, the movie theaters will never die, and that's ultimately what matters.

• 1:24:10Speaker 06

  I actually have a question for you, Amanda.

• 1:24:12Amanda Dobbins?

  Yes.

• 1:24:13Speaker 06

  Cause you were talking about you grew up on the Disney princesses.

• 1:24:16Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:24:16Speaker 06

  How are you feeling about this Snow White?

• 1:24:19Amanda Dobbins?

  I didn't, I haven't even seen it because I grew up in the, I mean, this is the opposite of a Gen Z movie podcast, and we'll, I guess we'll do like my diseased millennial brain podcast sometime, along with Disney Princess Dad, Sean Fennessy.

• 1:24:33Speaker 06

  Yes.

• 1:24:34Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, I don't feel good about it. I don't feel good about having been raised in that generation, but I've seen all of those movies 4,000 times.

• 1:24:40Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:24:41Amanda Dobbins?

  So, and I don't really understand why they keep making those live-action movies.

• 1:24:45Speaker 06

  I was gonna ask you this because.

• 1:24:47Amanda Dobbins?

  Go ahead, Jomi.

• 1:24:48Speaker 01

  Red.

• 1:24:48Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, well, you know.

• 1:24:49Speaker 06

  Well, obviously, I think that's obvious, but like, yeah, like, I, I agree, like, I. I feel interesting, I feel weird about

• 1:24:56Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay.

• 1:24:56Speaker 06

  all these live actions.

• 1:24:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah, okay, so you would like to be on Disney Princess Hell when that happens?

• 1:25:02Speaker 06

  Yeah, like, I don't, I don't think I'm personally gonna go and see it, like,

• 1:25:05Amanda Dobbins?

  Yeah.

• 1:25:05Speaker 06

  I just don't have interest, but I was curious about your

• 1:25:08Amanda Dobbins?

  Okay, yeah.

• 1:25:09Speaker 06

  ideas with that.

• 1:25:10Amanda Dobbins?

  Um, not good.

• 1:25:11Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:25:12Amanda Dobbins?

  I would say in general, being a millennial, I just, you know, I don't feel that great about it. This is, this is, it's been way better to talk to you guys, so, um, movies are back, millennials are not. Thank you, there we go. Listen, that's what we've learned, it's what we've learned. I'm sorry Bobby, it's your birthday and you're a cusp millennial, but it's just how it happens. Um, anyway, thank you to Jade, to Jomi, to Jack, for, you guys were wonderful sports. I really appreciate you. Thank you to Bobby Wagner for his work on this episode. Later this week, Sean is back, and we will share a report from literally my first ever trip to Las Vegas. I have never, I have never been to Las Vegas. You hit on me, yeah? And I am going tomorrow for Cinemcon.

• 1:25:57Amanda Dobbins?

  Oh, we gotta, oh my gosh. All right. Oh my gosh, yo. We're gonna, listen, we will do this offline. Please, yeah, yeah, yeah. We will do the report, everyone say a prayer for me. Is this on the, the Ringer Don? Yeah. Oh my gosh. We'll see you next week. Cut the cameras. Goodbye. Cut the cameras, it's on, it's on business.