#199: Jingle All The Way Movie Review

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Welcome back to the Capes and Tights podcast right here oncapes&tights.com I'm your host, Justin Soderbergh. Once again, this episode is brought to you by our friends over at Galactic Comics and Collectibles at Galactic Comics and Collectibles dot com. This episode is our Christmas movie review episode featuring Paul Eaton from Galactic Comics and Collectibles talking jingle all the way from 1996. This movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad, Jim Belushi and Anakin Skywalker himself. Jake Lloyd came out in 1996 like I said before. So where we talked discuss this, we talked to consumerism of Christmas, Christmas gifts and so much more right here on the Capes and Tights podcast. But before you listen, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, bluesky threads in so many more places. Also rate reviews, subscribe on Spotify, Apple or wherever you find your podcasts, check our YouTube channel out. As always, visit capesandtites.com for so much more information, content, reviews, items and so much more. So this is Christmas movie review of Virginal all the Way with Paul Eaton of Galactic Comics and Collectibles right here on Capes and Tights. Enjoy everyone. Merry Christmas, Paul. Galactic Comics and Collectibles. Dude, I first of all, I want to say those people who are watching Paul's got a great setup behind him now. And it's not. The funny thing about it is it's not. No one's going to care on here. But if you go into the shop, you'll notice that it's a lot better in there. Not better, it's a. [00:01:35] Speaker B: No, I think, I think better is a good word. [00:01:38] Speaker A: Well, wait, we just improved the, we. [00:01:40] Speaker B: Improved the flow of the store and I think the product setting is better placed and use space more wisely while we're in the space we have, we took that 800 square feet and I think it feels more like 1500 now instead of being in 800 square feet and it feeling like you were in 300. [00:02:00] Speaker A: Well, I mean it's also when we just repainted at Ornament Brewing Co. We just repainted the band, the mural on the wall after six years of it being there. And it doesn't seem that long. Like six years is not long for a mural to be on a wall. Like it seems like you do that for the long term thing, but it was just one of those things. Let's spice things up. Let's change things up. [00:02:18] Speaker B: Let's. [00:02:19] Speaker A: Let's just do some Refreshing. And even that amount of doing in a store, when you've been in your store for a number of years now, it's like, okay, just. Just press the reset button and change some things around. And I think it turned out extremely well. And everybody's come in, been like, wow. Some people who don't like, change like, what the hell are you doing? [00:02:34] Speaker B: But other than that, all the one person, it's like, oh, things are moved. I'm not comfortable with this. Everyone else is like, this is so much better. And it's Garrett. Yeah, everyone else so much better. It's funny, the first day I worked in new setup, I felt like I was working in a completely different store. [00:02:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:02:52] Speaker B: I was like, this is so wacky because I like the way we reset the counter space and stuff is in an area of the store. I'd never really been like, I never stood in. Like, I was always in my little one section. So it was totally weird. Facing a different way. [00:03:07] Speaker A: Instead of facing the air conditioner, you're facing the new comics. It's like, you know, like you're looking out the window. You're actually facing the customers as they walk in instead of facing like angle. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. This makes a lot more sense. [00:03:19] Speaker A: So it's great. So if anybody check it out, 547 Hammond Street, Bangor, Maine, there's a little pitch there for you. [00:03:24] Speaker B: Whoa. [00:03:25] Speaker A: There we go, Paul, it is here. Buy your gifts for your fear for your loved ones. They want comics, I tell you that right now. Or Pokemon cards. They want those. [00:03:35] Speaker B: Or magic cards or whatever else is here. [00:03:37] Speaker A: Here's the deal. There's probably a comic book, and this is not even a joking pitch, but there's probably a comic book or a graphic novel of some sort of adaptation of something that. That is for your family member. Yeah, they may not be into comics. I'm gonna pitch one right now that is called the Road. It's by Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the Road novel, which is an award winning novel. He's a Pulitzer Prize winning author. He's also. There's also a movie of adaptation of it. This is a graphic novel adaptation that's by, I believe, Abrams. Yeah, Abrams Comic Arts. That is very. If you're a father, and this is a really good one for a father or getting for a father. I bought this for my dad for his birthday in October, the beginning of October, and sent it to him. But this book is phenomenal. It's just. It's black and white or like grayscale thing, but it's a Story, a post apocalyptic story about a father and a son trying to survive. But that's what my point is. Like, my dad doesn't read comics on the regular, but he loved this. I remember two years ago, three years ago, I bought him the Elvis novel. So there's like, there's. I feel like there's something out there that is a adaptation or something. I know they just did Dante's Inferno adaptation and all that stuff. So I think there's things out there for people that if you, you know, comic. They jokingly say comics are for everybody, but like. [00:05:01] Speaker B: But there is a friend of mine is. Is not into the comic scene comic world at all, but they have all these adaptations of famous literature, like great literature. And she loves those, you know, like, oh my God, any, like the Charles Dickens work or Jane Austen, Jane Eyre. She's read that. She has that one. Like there's all these different, like famous literary works that are now being done in a graphic novel form and she just loves them. [00:05:27] Speaker A: So I want to see more of it. I want to see the more current stuff. We talked, we've seen. We went to the Keith Rosin Joe Hill conversation at Bookspace by Briar Patch a couple weeks ago and they were talking about adaptations of movies and stuff like that. But I was like, I want to see more novel adaptations that are going into comic book form. So you get to see the visualizations of it. You know, they're always trying to get in movies or tv, but like, I just want to see the visualization of the book that you're reading. And so whether it's TV or comics, I think comics would be great for some of these. [00:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah, I think some things would be like the media would transfer easier into comics than you try to have it on a big screen and see it. Like, some things just don't work as normal when you put it on television. [00:06:10] Speaker A: I also want to see things like Jingle all the Way. I want to see the Turbo man comic. [00:06:15] Speaker B: Jingle all the Way. [00:06:16] Speaker A: No, but I don't want Jingle all the Way. I want a Turboman comic. Why wouldn't you? Do you think that. So we're going to get into Jingle all the Way here, our movie reviewing and it seems kind of weird. Even when I was making the graphics for this, I was like, why are we doing Jingle all all the Way? [00:06:30] Speaker B: But it. [00:06:31] Speaker A: It's a superhero character. [00:06:34] Speaker B: Yeah, that. [00:06:35] Speaker A: It's a meta. We're a meta thing here. We're doing Christmas movie. But it's like there's not. Honestly, it's really weird to say there's not a lot of holiday Christmas style. [00:06:46] Speaker B: Superhero movies or review the Guardians of the Galaxy one. And that's basically it, really. [00:06:51] Speaker A: And then if you think there's like, Iron Man 3 has like Christmas in it and that kind of thing. So this is actually like a. It fits all things on it, but. [00:07:01] Speaker B: There isn't a lot of stuff for it. Like we're not going to see him review Simpsons Christmas episodes. [00:07:06] Speaker A: Do you think that if. If Jingle all the Way came out in 20, 24, 25, that there would be a companion comic book? [00:07:14] Speaker B: Well, there's a possibility of it. Like, why not like, crossbreed it so way back, like, when did this movie release? [00:07:22] Speaker A: 1996. November 22, 1996. [00:07:24] Speaker B: Doom. They were saying, like, they didn't have a lot of time to like cross promote this, but there was a very small batch of Turbo man figures made back then. And as far as collectible market goes, those things are stupid rare. And like, in the toy market, it's like in the toy collectors, there's a lot of people out there that like, just want one. They want to put it out for Christmas decoration. They want to like, have it. But then they sadly in the way of toys now. Walmart re released them like a couple years ago. So it made the original ones not quite as special as they were because there were so few of them. Like, few and far between. Like, if you went to a toy show and saw one, it was like a holy grail piece of like, oh my God, a turbo ban. [00:08:05] Speaker A: You waited in line. [00:08:07] Speaker B: This is just like the actual movie hunting for them. [00:08:11] Speaker A: I mean, where does this, like, movie sit in the pantheon of Christmas movies? I don't like, it's such a weird one. I think it's like people seen it, but it's never been like, I mean, it's not highly rated. Guys just let you know. Rotten tomatoes critics is 21%. 21%. [00:08:26] Speaker B: I have watched this movie I don't know how many times. Like, every Christmas we watch Jingle all the Way. It's always in our, like, list of movies to watch. The girls always think it's fun. And it surprised me to go look through reviews of it and find out it was really not well received. And then, like, some of the critic points I do get, I totally understand. But overall, I just, I take this for what it is. It's a fun Christmas movie. Like, it gives you a little bit of something different. You'd still get the Christmas vibe. You totally had that feeling of trying to find the perfect gift that you can't find. And, you know, it takes a little knock at, like, what commercialism is now. And like the craziness, like the Tickle. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Me Elmos and the Care Bear. Because Care Bears were the. Were they like the beginning. Sorry. Cabbage basket. I'm sorry. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Yeah. Originally cash batch kids, like, were insane. And then like, I remember the Tickled Me Elmo one was like, nice. I got a Cabbage Patch Kid as a kid for Christmas and I had no idea what it was. My grandmother, like, had to get me one because it was the big rare toy, right? And she found me Paul. So I had my Paul Cabbage Patch Kid. And I was like, okay. I don't know. [00:09:31] Speaker A: And it wasn't a Furby. It was a Furby. One was two. It was. [00:09:34] Speaker B: Furby was a huge one. Yeah. And they were like. It was like that episode of the Office where Dwight was selling all the dolls. The Furbies were like getting flipped. People were meeting up and like back alleys for Furbies. [00:09:47] Speaker A: I know we've had, like waiting. [00:09:49] Speaker B: They have that great scene with the Santa Clauses. Like you're just a bunch of con men. [00:09:56] Speaker A: I know we've had a lot of waiting in line for things like video game systems and things like that over the years. But, like, do you think the most current one is the Wii? Like the Wii one. There was a wee Christmas. Like Christmas. [00:10:06] Speaker B: But like, that was like the thing that you. [00:10:08] Speaker A: That was the thing for one Christmas that it was like. It was so hard to get at the time when someone got one probably. [00:10:15] Speaker B: When did PS5s drop? Was that. That was like pre Christmas, right? That really wasn't. [00:10:19] Speaker A: It's usually like in the summer, I think it's tried. They try on purpose to get it away from possibly to get that big brush to get people to buy it. And then if they can refill stock and have it be for the second. [00:10:30] Speaker B: Rush for Christmas season. And then usually I feel like at Christmas time the big systems will come out like as a bundle package that wasn't available before. You can get the video game with it or you can get whatever or special skins on the system or whatever. So that makes sense now. Why not get a double push for the product? But yeah, we might have been like the last big, big thing. It's different now. Like, so my oldest. So all right. Growing up, I remember going Black Friday shopping with my family as a. Just a fun thing. It wasn't like this crazy. Like we're. We were never looking for something specific or whatever. It was More of a like going out and like starting Christmas. It was like the kickoff. And now that we're older, like my wife and I did it for years, Liz and I would go Black Friday shopping and we don't really bother anymore. But now Charlie wants to. Charlie's like reaching the age. She's like, oh, I want to do it. I want to see it. But it's not what it used to be. Like, the store is open and like a lot of them don't open at midnight anymore. Most from like now open like 6am and like there's no lines. No one cares. Can you just order all this stuff online? Like it's almost Cyber Monday is probably reaching a bigger one where you're sitting there waiting for the drop on Amazon than it is to like go to like Target or Walmart or whatever, your big box stores and settle there. Like, why bother freezing your ass off? [00:11:49] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. I think it is. I think it's the truth and I think there's like, it's one of those. [00:11:52] Speaker B: Things that they're still trying to hype, but it's just, it's not there anymore. [00:11:56] Speaker A: It's also. You have more information nowadays. I feel like. I feel like you can research things and see things on the Internet where it was like, it almost was like the lack of information you got made it more enticing. So like not knowing much about this. We used to go get the newspaper. [00:12:11] Speaker B: On Thanksgiving Day and that was like one of the like things Liz and I would do. [00:12:15] Speaker A: You circle it and that's all you. [00:12:16] Speaker B: Know about it and pass them. Yeah, that was. I knew. Now it's like it's all online. Hell, most of it starts like a week or two before even. There's like the stores already have the stuff out. Just like, I don't know, it's gone. And it's funny because this movie, this movie's like major piece of the plot line is that. Yes. Is that Christmas shopping rush that sort of doesn't exist. And it's pre technology. Like he has to go get the pay phone and he doesn't know about where the hell he is or what he's doing, you know. [00:12:43] Speaker A: You know, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the character Arnold Schwarz Schwarzenegger plays is not. Doesn't really know about the character in the first place. Like he is an absentee dad in that sense. Like, he's definitely a workaholic and all that stuff. But still, I think that with the modern technology of Internet and stuff like that, like most people know what the hot Things are. Because it's in their face. [00:13:01] Speaker B: Like, the whole thing of, like, his wife being like, oh, you got the doll, right? Like, he would have just ordered this at work online one day. Or even he would just had his assistant do it. He's got the assistant there holding up the sign in the beginning of the movie, like, you're going to be late and you got to go. And like, he would have just had her do it. Like, this whole thing, the whole movie would have taken place if we were in the modern Internet age. [00:13:23] Speaker A: Just ordered on ebay and got it. Yeah, Done. Done. The. So here's the. I just. I was quickly Googling this. It was a really hard thing to get because Googling hard to find Christmas gifts just, like, gives you Christmas presents that are, like, unique, but so cabbage backs, kids. Was 1983. That was the big one where it was like the tremendous demand. Then followed by 1985 was Teddy Ruxpin. [00:13:47] Speaker B: Oh, God. Teddy Roxpin. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. [00:13:49] Speaker A: And then it was in 1996, which is the same year this came out was Tickle Me Elmo. [00:13:56] Speaker B: So this should have been perfectly timed for people that were living in this world trying to find the Tickle Me Elmo, that stupid thing. [00:14:05] Speaker A: And then in 1997 was the Tamagotchi. [00:14:08] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Tamagotchi's all right. [00:14:11] Speaker A: And there were. In 2009, there was a Zuzu Pets. Never heard of it. Never. Don't even. No. No idea. [00:14:16] Speaker B: I almost think the girls have one of those, but I don't. [00:14:19] Speaker A: I don't know. The Wii in 2006. Yeah, that was. That was one we just mentioned. And then Furby in 98. Yep, I remember the Furby craze. Transformers N Plus 1984. I don't know. It just says N Plus. It's a picture. It looks like. It just looks like a picture of Optimus prime, but weird. [00:14:41] Speaker B: I mean, and here I am, the Transformer. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Yeah, I know 1992 was Talk Boy because of. [00:14:47] Speaker B: Oh, because of Home Alone. Yeah. All right. [00:14:50] Speaker A: Obviously it was Beanie Babies at one point too, but. Yeah, so. But those are like. Those all make sense. But that's the big thing about this thing is too like the. The fun. Every Christmas movie that's out there has this, like, you. You feel it resonates with you in a certain way. Like the idea that that Christmas vacation is about the family coming over and the uninvited person. Uh, you know, you have to live under one roof. Yes. You have your. All your Santa Claus. Different Santa Claus. Stories and stuff like that. Like, you have people with, like, two split homes, divorced parents. Like, I think Santa Claus. The Santa Claus has that, like, dropping parents off with Tim Allen, you know, that kind of thing. There's always movies that resonate with people, and this one resonates with people who are shopping. And I think that with Christmas shopping, that's a little different than everything else. The guy who wrote this movie, Randy Kornfield, really didn't do anything else. It's. It's a very weird thing directed by Brian Levant, who did some random, like, TV movies and like, some random things. But the producer of this movie, Paul, was Christopher Columbus. Not that one. The movie Christopher Columbus, not the one that, you know, sailed the seven seas or whatever. Right, right. He was the writer of Gremlins, the Goonies. Okay. He directed Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire, Harry Potter 1 and 2, Christmas of the Cranks. He wrote, directed and produced The Christmas Chronicles 2, which he produced the first one, but he was the original creator. Original director for Christmas Vacation, but he left the shooting due to personality conflict with Chevy Chase. Said that Chevy Chase treated Christopher Columbus like dirt, and so he left that movie. [00:16:25] Speaker B: I've heard that Chevy Chase is really hard to work with. [00:16:28] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. But so, like, he's like. Honestly, to me, he's like one of the godfathers of Christmas movies. Christopher Columbus. [00:16:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:16:32] Speaker A: Really? He has this Home Alone Christmas with the Cranks, the Christmas Chronicles again, attached to Christmas Vacation kind of thing. So this movie has this, like, thing. And then you talk about the cast, Paul. Like, the cast of this movie is like, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Jim Belushi, and then the greatest character. And this is for Zach in our book club, Jake Lloyd. Jake Lloyd. The kid plays Anakin Skywalker in the Phantom Menace. [00:17:06] Speaker B: No. [00:17:06] Speaker A: It's so funny. I remember looking that up when we were. When I reviewed the Phantom. [00:17:10] Speaker B: I didn't like this kid. [00:17:11] Speaker A: And I was like, any. What's funny about it now go back and watch it again. If anybody had didn't know that was the same character. And watch it. It's freaking Anakin Skywalker as a kid in this. Like, it's like. It's like the identical acting, the way he talks, the way he whines, all that stuff is the exact same. [00:17:26] Speaker B: My God. You know what's funny? I didn't even put those two together, and I just thought this. The kid is sort of annoying through the whole movie. Yeah. Now I know why that adds up. Like, when he gets on the phone there and he's like, carrying on and on and on. And Arnold's like, put your mother on the phone. And he's going on Turbo Bad. Just like, oh, God, kid, shut up. [00:17:45] Speaker A: Well, think about it. It's three years later. So. So someone in the Star wars pantheon, like the Legacy people, went to casting and they're like, oh, you know that kid that was in Jingle all the Way? He should play Anakin Skywalker. [00:17:56] Speaker B: I just found our Anakin Skywalker, man. [00:18:00] Speaker A: Like, I don't like. It's just the weirdest thing. [00:18:01] Speaker B: I believe that this obnoxious little snot grows up to be Darth Vader. I don't know if I buy this, but how about. [00:18:08] Speaker A: Here's a question for you. What's more crazy that the main character in this movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, becomes the governor of California or that Jake Lloyd goes on to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars? [00:18:22] Speaker B: And it's really tough. [00:18:24] Speaker A: Oh, and then show up like, that. [00:18:26] Speaker B: Would have made the movie so much more interesting. [00:18:29] Speaker A: Oh, that seems like it would have been like a Simpsons episode. [00:18:34] Speaker B: Well, he's. While he's hunting for the toy, he's also fighting the predator off. [00:18:41] Speaker A: But yeah, Sin dad was great. The dad, the next door neighbor dad who just like, is like macking on all the neighborhood. [00:18:48] Speaker B: Yeah, Every, every, like, single mom in the neighborhood. And he's like targeting Schwarzenegger's wife. [00:18:54] Speaker A: He's like, the kids, like, oh, my dad wasn't normally like this until he got divorced from my mom. [00:18:57] Speaker B: Yeah, my dad wasn't like this until he got divorced. Maybe your parents should get a divorce. My dad's so much happier. [00:19:04] Speaker A: Oh, it's great. And that's the thing about this movie. [00:19:08] Speaker B: It's so obnoxious in this movie. It's like the neighbor, like, you just want to strangle him. Like, I. Arnold Schwarzenegger, like, oh, you should put some chains around those tires. It might get ice. She's like, I'll put some chains around you. [00:19:20] Speaker A: It's like, what'd you say? And then off at the comments, the comments that were taken wrong. Like, yeah, he's out there petting. He's out there petting. What's his name? The guy's name? Yeah, he's like, what? [00:19:32] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, these cookies. I don't understand. Like, all right, so I, I agree with the critic side of it saying, like, the beginning of it is great. On having, like a standard plot, like, great. And it's like, funny. And then it gets like slapstick and stupid at the end almost like they didn't know how to finish it. And it's funny because I've always taken this movie for what it is. Like it doesn't. And I guess now looking, I'm like, yeah, okay, I see that it is really almost like two different, drastically different movies. But overall, like, I just think this is like a fun Christmas movie. I was surprised to have it had such bad reviews. [00:20:20] Speaker A: Well, you also have this problem nowadays with, with it when you have holiday themed movies. I think it's the same thing nowadays with like DC DC movies or Marvel movies or comic book themed movies related movies is that you. They relate them to everything that's in its genre. So it's like, I don't feel like comedies as a whole, when you put out a comedy film, it's not like they go. But compared to all the rest of comedies, it's this. [00:20:44] Speaker B: Right? [00:20:45] Speaker A: It's like with. When he gets. He has that Christmas moniker on it. When it's a Christmas movie, I feel like immediately like it's no Christmas vacation. It's no, you know, Rudolph the Red Nose, Rainier. [00:20:53] Speaker B: Oh, it doesn't have enough. It doesn't have enough feeling or whatever or enough depth. And I'm like, this is not really the point of this movie. [00:21:00] Speaker A: And that's my question. So I like the movie. Right. So I think it's a fun movie. And it's. Here's the deal. There's not many Christmas movies that I don't like. Like, it's not like I don't hate many Christmas movies. It's because of that thing. [00:21:12] Speaker B: It's. [00:21:12] Speaker A: It's nostalgic. It's. It's the time of the year. It's just the whole idea of like carling up. Watching a movie. Yeah. [00:21:18] Speaker B: I watch a bad Christmas movie. [00:21:20] Speaker A: Do you think this would have been better to be more serious than it was comedy? Like the idea that it's hard to find this toy in. [00:21:27] Speaker B: In. [00:21:27] Speaker A: In heartwarming. [00:21:28] Speaker B: No, I think, I think you would agree, like, if this ended in like this big, like weep fest with Arnold and little Annie here about like how dad tried his best and didn't come through and. Or like whatever, the spirit of Christmas is not the gift or whatever, like, I think this movie probably would have bombed, honestly. [00:21:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:50] Speaker B: Like, instead it just continues on in this track of being sort of lighthearted and stupid. [00:21:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:57] Speaker B: So like, it's fine. Why not? Like. Yeah, I, Yeah, I don't know that I probably, like, I don't think it'd be as enjoyable if it ended in this whole. Yeah, big deeper meaning to Christmas story than just being what it is. [00:22:13] Speaker A: And Arnold Schwarzenegger at the time was like. That was the funny part about it. Like, the whole idea that he was. But they don't think they played too hard into the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger just seemed like a normal dude. Like, they didn't use him in the joking. [00:22:27] Speaker B: I love that. Like, in the. Phil Hartman in. It was like, he says things but, like, oh, you're not going to bench press your way out of this one. Like, all this and that. Like, it points to the fact that it's Arnold Schwarzenegger and he's this, like, powerhouse, giant guy. But overall, he's like this regular, everyday kind of dad trying to do his thing. And, like, I think we all sort of can relate a little bit to that at least. [00:22:52] Speaker A: Well, yeah, that's the thing. So as dads, that's another thing I saw this year watching your. Even potentially last year when I watched it was that this year, watching it, you had that. That future. Like, obviously my son doesn't have that many things that he's like, you got to get me that for Christmas. But there's, like, there's gonna be that time. And I think that seeing that changed some viewing of it, too. Like, I think just emotionally being a father changed that. And, like, wanting to do the best for your kid. And. And the line at the end, also being married, but the line at the end, when it closes the movie. Spoiler. Everybody's gonna come out. Thirty years ago, when she's like, you did all this effort to get my son. Your son a toy. What'd you get me? [00:23:29] Speaker B: Look on his face. I think if they had gone right into the next Christmas having a sequel to that, it didn't be like, trying to figure out what he was getting his wife. [00:23:38] Speaker A: Like, it could have been that night. It could have literally been, like, trying. Like, it could have been a movie that was based around six hours, where he's just trying to get there before the morning, before people wake up. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Scrambling. Getting out of bed and trying to keep her asleep and then booking it out of the house. And you could have, like, news articles in the back about, like, the parade earlier. And, like, that would be a sequel they could do. [00:24:00] Speaker A: Now I feel like figuring, you don't have to do Ronald Schwarzenegger. You could even do a different person. Not Larry the Cable Guy, but you could do a different person and do the sequel or have it be the kid, not Jake Lloyd, because I don't think what's acting anymore. But have someone else be like a kid grown up and have it be the kid now has to do this. This thing with the modern technology. That would have been great. I honestly have not seen Jingle all the Way to with Larry the Cable Guy, but I imagine it's not good. [00:24:27] Speaker B: I would lean towards that. Yeah, I've never seen it either. And I. I sort of feel like I'm all set. Like I'm probably so. [00:24:34] Speaker A: So here's a comparison on how the the movie was made in 2014. The it's the sequel. So you're talking 20 years later, right? 18 years later. It this movie Jingle all the Way, the first one released in November 22, 1996 for 75 million dollar budget. Which honestly for a Christmas movie is pretty high in 1996. Yeah, I mean like 75 million. [00:24:58] Speaker B: It's got a pretty solid cast. And then like the special effects, especially the end. But even like the scenes of the Turbo Man TV show that they show repeatedly. Like, yeah, it makes sense. This movie was not. And I don't feel like it was cheaply done. The special effects still are. They're goofy, but they're supposed to be. So they are what they are. [00:25:21] Speaker A: According to this random website I found, which makes it 100% legit and real. You can't have it on the Internet. [00:25:26] Speaker B: If it's not real. [00:25:27] Speaker A: The $75 million budget in 1996 would actually be $150 million budget in 2024. $150 million would make a movie like this. So that's my point is that you ready for this in 19, in 2014, $5 million to make Larry the Cable Guys jingle. So that says anything. [00:25:48] Speaker B: So in today's money, that's like 40 bucks. [00:25:51] Speaker A: Well, 2014 it would have been $113 million to make the movie we saw. So $5 million in 2014 to make the sequel to this movie. And yeah, I imagine it's not good comparison wise. [00:26:04] Speaker B: It looked more like they were filming Clerks probably like, all right guys, we gotta do this cheap as we can. We never leave the one place they're just in a Walmart like recording. They have to cut out the scene. The manager trying to throw them out. [00:26:18] Speaker A: But yeah, so I imagine it's not good. Paul. I just, just saying that right now I'm. [00:26:22] Speaker B: Now I'm a little bit like, all right, I kind of want to watch this thing. [00:26:25] Speaker A: I'm just trying to think of what the. What it is. It was produced by WWE Studios, by the way. [00:26:30] Speaker B: Oh God, this has got to be killer. [00:26:32] Speaker A: Then promotion Truck driver completes. I don't know. I guess I'd have to watch it this year. [00:26:41] Speaker B: I think it's going on. It's going on the list. [00:26:44] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [00:26:46] Speaker B: This is like how you're falling asleep at night and you're like, I'll throw this on. [00:26:49] Speaker A: You're doing the dishes, you're making food. You have it on the background. But no. So the cast, I said that was phenomenal for what it was. And in 1996, a lot of those characters, a lot of those people, like, Sinbad was huge on the standup comedy in acting scene. Arnold Schwarzenegger, you talked about Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Jim Belushi. Are you kidding me? Jim Belushi is phenomenal. And so all of that, the big show. [00:27:10] Speaker B: Yeah. The WCW Heavyweight Champion. [00:27:13] Speaker A: Yeah. And then that no one cares about the other thing. You see. Did you see again, this is a comic book and pop culture podcast. Did you see the wallpaper in the kids bedroom? Captain America? [00:27:26] Speaker B: Yeah. It's sick. That kid's bedroom's awesome. [00:27:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:30] Speaker B: Coming out of the wall and stuff. There's all kinds of cool stuff. [00:27:34] Speaker A: Speaking of Sin Bad, I wrote a little note down here. How about Sinbad's like, breakdown moment where he's talking as a. As a mail carrier and he's like complaining about all the different in the world, how he's a dad and all this other stuff. And I'm just like, dude, this guy's speaking the truth. [00:27:48] Speaker B: And I. And I do the best Preach family Christmas movie. He's like, and you gotta pay alimony to a woman who slept with everybody at the post office but me. [00:28:00] Speaker A: I'm just thinking myself like. I'm like, over here. Hallelujah, man. Hallelujah. [00:28:03] Speaker B: Speak the truth. Like, we watched this review, the kids of family Chris. There's this guy talking about his wife sleeping with everyone but him. [00:28:12] Speaker A: I don't like. I've never liked Sin Bad as a character, as an actor. I just. I always thought his character is really weird. But I honestly loved him in this movie. And the fact that he just keeps on. You thought maybe at the beginning of the movie you saw Sinbad's character when he's waiting in line at the first store that Arnold Schwarzenegger goes to. [00:28:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:27] Speaker A: And you see him behind him in the male care. You're like, oh, this is kind of a cool character. And you never see him again. And honestly, if it wasn't Sinbad, I would have truthfully thought from the beginning that you never saw him again. But they're not bringing Sin Bad for three lines in a movie. And then that's it. And then he kept on coming back. Everywhere he'd go, he'd be there. [00:28:43] Speaker B: He'd be there. Yeah. Driving him nuts, which I feel like is funny. So doing the whole Black Friday shopping thing, I definitely feel like that happens. Like, you're standing in line and it's like 4am and you're waiting for Best Buy to open. These people behind you are annoying as hell, and they keep trying to talk to you. And then you get into Best Buy, you get what you came for, and you're like, all right, let's head to the next door. And then there are those people again, and you're like. And then they're always the same people that are always like, hey, it's been a long time. And it's like, I don't know. Why are you talking to me? Will you. What the hell? Tim Hortons. Who are you? Breakfast? And there they are. [00:29:18] Speaker A: Like, later on that day, you get your car tires changed and they're working there. Are you spying on me? No, The. It was just kind of funny. And I thought the characters. I mean, it was a little much having to be the. The villains. They're. They're. They're. [00:29:34] Speaker B: The bad guy. Yeah. [00:29:35] Speaker A: Bad guy versus the good guy at the very end where they fought each other as Turbo. And it's kind of weird, the. In the way that they. That's where I think that the parade is, where it fell apart, in my opinion. Like, that agreed part was just kind. [00:29:51] Speaker B: Of like, all good until the parade part. And then it gets pretty whacked. Yep. Agreed. [00:29:57] Speaker A: It would be funnier if, you know, like, we have parent brain, too. We're all over the place. We've got a ton of going on. It'd be even more funny. At the end of the movie, he realizes that he already did buy it. Like, he's like. So he's putting it under the tree. They're opening the gifts. The next morning, he's all depressed. The dad's all depressed because he didn't actually get it. And he's telling the kid after he's opening his last gift, he's trying to tell him before you're like, hey, by the way, I'm really sorry. I didn't get any opens. And he's there. He's like, oh, shit, I did buy it in November. [00:30:25] Speaker B: Christmas vacation. Where he reaches in and pulls out that one covered in dust, like, oh, crap, that's been riding around the back of the car for like three months. [00:30:33] Speaker A: That's what I got at that store that day. Why did I not remember this? Because he's an absentee. I say absentee, but he was just a busy dad and all that stuff. Stuff. And seeing that. But that story is a very common story in holiday movies and any movies where it's the dad who realizes he works too much and does this. I mean the Santa Claus we talked about. That's another thing where the. The dad's always working at the toy store. [00:30:54] Speaker B: Doesn't listen to the. Doesn't listen to the kid. Yeah. I want to do stupid. So. [00:30:59] Speaker A: Yeah. And so the same. That's a very common story. And also like, what the hell, man? Not all dads are like this. We remember. We like our kids. We don't work just like, what the hell? Arnold Schwarzenegger is giving us a bad name. No. And then the consumerism part of it, which it's hard to me to say. Like people spend money in the stores like Galactic Comics, please do that for Christmas. However, it's the meaning of the thing, the whole idea of the thought that counts. Like most kids, including how the characters J. Floyd's age in that book, that movie probably would have understood if his dad's like, I tried so hard to get it. I just couldn't get it. Like, the kid would be sad, but I think he'd understand a little bit. [00:31:37] Speaker B: We had this heart wrenching Christmas. So we always have like Santa brings the girls a present they get to open and it's like what they asked for. And then they have a big present mom and dad gets. And there's my wife recording. Liz is recording the Santa present opening. And Emma has this vanity. She rips open this huge thing, is this vanity that was all set up and she's all excited. And Katie got exactly what she wanted. She ripped it open. She's all excited. And Charlotte opens hers and is like trying not to cry so hard. She was like, probably. She must have been like seven maybe. And she's trying not to cry. And like, what'd you get? And she holds up this thing because she'd asked for this toy. [00:32:23] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:23] Speaker B: But it wasn't like exactly what she wanted. But we had struggled to find exactly what she wanted. And because she wanted like this like a real baby or an American Girl doll baby or something. And like Liz and I had hunted this thing down and like had to like buy a. I think it. We had to buy like a used one because you couldn't find a Regular one. [00:32:44] Speaker A: And. [00:32:45] Speaker B: And there was that horrible Christmas moment of like. And you can't tell her that the next package she opens has what she really wanted in it. But for her, Santa had let down and brought her this thing she asked for but wasn't exactly what you wanted. And there's. I always see it. I have it. It comes up every Facebook, like, on this day or Christmas Day. There's Charlotte, like, trying not to cry. Yeah. [00:33:08] Speaker A: She's holding it and she see a mug shot. She's like. [00:33:12] Speaker B: I'm like, oh, boy. You remember that one. [00:33:17] Speaker A: Well, that becomes a difficult thing. I mean, what. What. So I want to get. I had this discussion with Taylor. We don't. We're not really iPad parents at the moment. I mean, no. 3 and a half. He has an iPad that literally has like six movies on it that we put on it, and that's all that's on it. And that's literally just a go in the car or something like that. I honestly call it his tv. It's portable tv. There's games on it. Nothing like that on it. And that's because it's like, first of all, it's like the first iPad. Like, it's like, you have to, like. [00:33:47] Speaker B: You put too much more on. It's gonna be. It's gonna load anyway. [00:33:50] Speaker A: It's got a. One of those 30 pin connector, old school iPad I. IPod chargers to it that we have to, like, find. Like, one's falling apart because I can't find to buy them. But. And so I've. I've had this debate, like, okay, we could. Obviously, this thing sucks. And I, you know, the movies are on there. They're old, so on and so forth. And I'm like, I have the ability for, like, they can't put Disney plus on it. You can't put Netflix on it because it's too old. [00:34:11] Speaker B: Right. [00:34:12] Speaker A: So I was like, what if we old were to get a new iPad for him? Or like, not a new one, but, like, get one that's one that has stuff. [00:34:21] Speaker B: Yeah, right, right, right. [00:34:22] Speaker A: And then I can at least get it on it. We can still turn off the wifi. We still turn off all stuff. I can still go to Disney plus because you can download off of Disney plus to the iPad, put those on there and do that kind of thing. But he had more options. And Taylor's. We're back and forth on. I would like to do that. Taylor doesn't want to. Da, da da, da. And so on and so forth. And then it becomes like, someone's like, oh, get it for him for Christmas. I'm like, but I don't want that to be the, like, I don't want it to be a celebration of this thing. I honestly, what I want to do is just throw the other one away and then replace it with this one and not even say anything. [00:34:49] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:34:50] Speaker A: Just let him see what happens. Like what's going on here? Be like, oh, it's just a new case and make it to this. Not a big deal because I don't want, I want other things to be the big thing in big stuff and that the technology. Because I mean I'm. The problem is I love technology. I love movies. So it's like I want that to be something that he loves too. [00:35:07] Speaker B: You want to share that with him? [00:35:08] Speaker A: For sure. Battle of what we want to get him. He asked for clothes this year. So that's, that's interesting. I'm like, okay, three year old asking. [00:35:14] Speaker B: For what the heck, dude, can you smell underwear? And some. [00:35:19] Speaker A: Yeah, please. Some deodorant. But yeah, it's a, it's a, it's not too much. [00:35:25] Speaker B: Maybe you can get a toothbrush in there for me too. [00:35:28] Speaker A: And what's. My parents tried to. At the end there, you know, as I grew up and got older, my parents tried to have me have it be like Christmas being a few gifts and then like our birthday said go buck wild on because like that's the day for you. That's a day to celebrate you. It's. Yeah. And all that stuff. Plus it makes it easier for a parent if you're, if you're kids and stuff. [00:35:48] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:35:49] Speaker A: Like my kid, my two kids are born in March and in May, so at least that's two big months. And then December. But if it's like all of that plus your spouse, plus everybody else on. [00:35:58] Speaker B: Christmas, we have friends that have Christmas and then all three of their children were born in January. [00:36:03] Speaker A: Yeah, screw that, man. [00:36:04] Speaker B: It's just like save up all year and have enough money to buy a car and that's what you're doing for the entire spread of December. January is just. [00:36:13] Speaker A: And see the problem with it is in the industry you work in or you have is there are some people who are going to go in there and buy gifts for their loved ones from you. Like it's just your retail store, but there's also the people out there who pause on buying things from themselves at your spot to buy. [00:36:30] Speaker B: Well, normally I would grab like. But I'm only going to be able to do five because and so people are replacing things. It's hard in this, in this world too of what, what I do and like where everyone comes to because we're comic nerds, we know we love this stuff, it's what we want. But overall most families don't entirely get that. Yeah, like, yeah, some, some people, I mean you got one, you got a gift card to a different comic store because they know you like comics, but they don't even know which comic store you go to. Right. And like the more often than not people don't come in and like, oh, like I have an exact list of like trade paperbacks and comics and stuff that they're looking for. Sometimes it's usually gift cards, but it is tough. And a lot of people also don't want to just get so many gift card. You want to get somebody that gift. So last year, and we're doing it again this year has been having our regular set up Christmas wish lists. And then they're like, families can come in, their significant others, their spouses, their parents, whatever could come in and get those items specifically and we give them an extra discount for shopping with us instead of just going on Amazon or whatever. So that's been our trying to have a solution to it because most overall your significant other or your parents don't know exactly what the hell it is you want. And I hate, I hate that one too because I get asked that, they're like, oh, you know, my husband comes here all the time. What's he want? I'm like, I don't know. He buys everything he wants that I'm aware of. Somebody might say, oh, I really want this like lock and key set. Like I'd love to read lock and key and it'd be really cool, but I don't want to invest the money in buying the whole book set. So you're like, well this is a big thing they wanted or like an autograph book on the wall or something. But more often than not people are like, oh man, I want this. Mine. Pick it up. Gone. [00:38:21] Speaker A: It's very common in that sense. Like I. But I had to do that this year because I have a book, I have a list of comics obviously that are like wish list comics, big comics that I wanted that are not always available at your shop either. It's not like you can just go in there and get something with first. [00:38:32] Speaker B: I had that where a wife came in for a husband on his birthday and she's like, he gave me a list of five things he hands to me and I'M like, these are all grail items that I don't have. Like, you barely ever find. Like, he did not give you the easy things to go get you. [00:38:48] Speaker A: So I have that list, right? That's an easy one to send out. Because, again, those are ones that I'm not just going to buy randomly. But then the other one is like, I have, like, books. I have a book list, like, on Amazon. I have a wish list that's all books. And I got us. What I did this year was I separated it, and I was like, these are the books that I put in a wish list for. I have a. I would do Secret Santa. So my. I see Secret Santa. It's Secret Santa, but it's not really secret. We all know who has each other. We just pick names out of a hat kind of thing. [00:39:13] Speaker B: Right, right, right. [00:39:14] Speaker A: So my side of the family, my mom and my dad and them, and then Taylor's mom and stepdad and her sisters and all that stuff we have. Those are separate Christmas things that we just. I get one person, they get, you know, So I have two people to buy for in the extended family, plus my family. It helps with the budget. It helps with everything else and all that stuff. So I put this list together, and I, like. I put five books, like, novels on that list. They're like, just do not buy these between now and Christmas. Like, the rest. There's way more books I need. I want, like, there's hundreds of books that I want. Here's 100 books that I'll actually. I'm okay to buy. I can go to Bam tomorrow, buy it. I can go downtown Briar patch by these five. Do not buy until December 26th, just in case someone buys them for you. Because I want to make sure that, like, I'm actually getting a book on the day that I'm like, oh, shit, I have to return the other one or whatever. And so, like, I just. I thought. I told myself, I'm like, it's so stupid why I put on a wish list. This is what you. This is what I want. And then I buy off that wish list because it's inevitable someone will buy that book that you just bought, especially if it's the least expensive one, because you're like, oh, I could do that in my budget. And then they're like, well, I only have this budget. And then you buy the cheapest book that's on there. And, yep, now you both, you know, so. So I did that this year. I'm like, okay, nope. Gotta be able to, you know, whatever. The big thing to me too is like you have a number of customers in there who have books in their pull boxes that haven't been picked up yet either. That's a way to just go in there. [00:40:29] Speaker B: Yeah, you could just go and grab. [00:40:30] Speaker A: Like, honestly, you do it like December 23rd so that like it's so close to Christmas that they won't notice it. But then you go in and you buy a couple of things, you put it in a bag and you give it to them so that they, they know that their box is empty or whatever. Like it's, it's a nice feeling to have an empty box. [00:40:46] Speaker B: Yep. Go in. [00:40:47] Speaker A: So there's all the goodies. Yeah, yeah. And that. And that to me is at least something because you could just go buy a gift card and someone could buy stuff out of the box. But like, at least that's a physical something you can give them on. [00:40:57] Speaker B: Yeah, you've got that present, they open it up and hey, cool. Yeah, yeah. [00:41:00] Speaker A: But like, here's the deal. In our area, we live in the Bangor main area, right. Amazon is not two days anymore. Like, oh, it's two days. They'll take. It takes two days to get here. They ship it two days. It takes two days to get here, but it might not ship for a week. And so there's that. So getting closer to Christmas is gonna be even worse because of shipping and backlogs and all stuff. So if you're like the week before Christmas or the week of Christmas and you want to get that graphic novel trade, whatever, it's honestly stupid to buy it on a retail store or a big box store. You gotta come to a place like you. And so in the same sense, now is the time to let you know too. This is coming out December 11th, so this is too late maybe. But now is the time to let you know, to get that in stock too, if you don't have it. Because now is the time to say, you know, they want Buy the Last Man, Volume one. [00:41:48] Speaker B: We're on year five of Galactic Comics Store. Yeah, I have, I think I've learned pretty well about stocking up in this time of year of like the items I might not normally order, things like omnibus, big collections and I go through and pick the higher end hardcover books and stuff like that. And where I normally wouldn't stock that throughout the year. I stock it this time of year and I try to have them there so when someone comes in and can say different characters like, oh, I know he really wanted to start Reading Conan. Well, normally I wouldn't have Conan, but right now I've got the hardcover omnibus right here. [00:42:29] Speaker A: Paul looks at him and goes, why. [00:42:33] Speaker B: Yeah, no, that sounds thrilling. Have at it. Yeah, where there's those books like we're always going to have, you know, if they come in, they're like, oh, he. He's mentioned Something's Killing the Children a thousand times. Well, we always have that. That's, you know, I try to always have it as long as in print, but you know, this time of year I'll also order the Something's Killing the Children omnibus and have it on the shelf. Yeah, I think I've gotten better at that. Where like we had some Christmases in the past that people would come in in that last week before and they'd be like, oh, I really want to get them something specific or something like, here's a list. And I'm like, well, we have none of this left or I never would have ordered this big item in the first place. So I think we're improving on that. We're getting better at knowing and having a selection of that stuff. [00:43:18] Speaker A: Well, I also think that you're the shop that people the trades, the omnibuses, the comics, the grail comics or sign comics or unique things or artwork behind you, those kind of things. What you would like. People are going to tend to buy your Funko Pop. So let's say cheesy, but the more trinket type things at your Amazon, your targets. But you see that a lot more where people are like, oh, I'm at Target already. I'll just grab that Funko Pop. So it's hard to sell probably a lot of those stuff nowadays anyway. But here's the deal. Your prices are just as equally as good as. It's not like you're going to. This is not a premium store in the sense that a Funko Pop on your shelf, that's a Mandalorian Funko Pop, whatever, is not gonna be like, yeah. [00:44:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not charging for the fact that it's here. [00:44:03] Speaker A: And I'll guarantee you if it's 11.99 at target and Paul has it for 13.99, I almost guarantee you that Paul will do 11.99 just because it's. It makes the most sense to have you come in and do all that stuff. So not saying Paul's gonna do price matches all around, but I'm just saying, like, mention it because at least at that point we might be like, you know what, it's Christmas, let's Sell it and get it out of there, stuff like that. But yeah, so like Christmas consumerism is a thing. It's a big. It's, it's, it's. [00:44:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:44:28] Speaker A: You know, I like this season getting. [00:44:30] Speaker B: Of this movie is great for showing that like. Yeah, a little like that, that little like off putting thing where the first toy store finally opens the door. The guy's making him wait two minutes and he finally opens the door and then you see him like trampled. And then to know that that actually happened and a person died, a retail store employee died getting trampled to death by all these people. So now that's a little like that was fun. 1996. Now it's a little like. [00:44:57] Speaker A: But we also seen that like I worked, I worked Best Buy. I worked best by. During many Black Fridays. I want to say I worked at least five or six, maybe seven black Fridays. Getting up super early and being there and being the employees and funny thing about that whole like it's not time yet is true, people. We want that extra two minutes. It's only two minutes. Yeah, but it's two minutes before I have to go home at 10 o'clock at night and been here all day dealing with your bullshit. [00:45:21] Speaker B: Wake up a little bit. [00:45:23] Speaker A: I'm gonna drink my coffee, you know. Crap. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, let me open. I'm gonna open it. [00:45:27] Speaker B: Stupid display. Open that. I need to get on the sales floor. [00:45:30] Speaker A: I'm gonna open two minutes late if I need to because guess what? You're gonna wait. [00:45:35] Speaker B: This is funny. After we got. When I ran the auto parts store and we got bought out, we were, we were a privately owned, privately owned, like company owned store. And then we got bought out by this big box auto parts store and they started having Black Friday pushes for us. And I'm like, what are you, are you freaking serious? We want stores open at 5am But I'm like, who the hell is going to an auto parts store on Black Friday? And sure enough, crickets, like nothing. Nobody came in at all. And one of our biggest customers was a tire place. And they do this big Black Friday tire thing which means all day long they're assessing, installing and putting on tires. They do not have time to buy other parts. No, they're not buying like brake pads and ball joints and stuff. So they, they also had this like, we need to match their hours because they're a national place. So you ought to be open and ready to go for them. And you're sitting there like they're not calling you. They're putting tires on. And tires don't relate to anything else. So here we were in this auto parts store, sitting there. It was funny. I would message my team, like I would have the day off and I'd message the people working. I'm like, hey, do you guys have a line? And they're like, like, line, right? There's nobody. Such as. [00:46:51] Speaker A: We're already into the eggnog there, Paul. You know, it was one of those weird things and it was like everything was gone. This is not like. That's the fun part about this movie. And it's one of those things when your kid gets older. Like you said, your kids are watching this movie. It's like, this is a truthful thing. People did. [00:47:07] Speaker B: Wait, people did see look in time now, right? Like, this is like a look back in time of like, this is what it was like. Yeah, people. [00:47:15] Speaker A: I mean, yeah, now it's not much. And here's the deal. I saw a meme that was like, okay, world, we all have big screen TVs now. [00:47:27] Speaker B: Yeah, put groceries on. [00:47:28] Speaker A: You put groceries on sale. [00:47:29] Speaker B: Put groceries on sale. Give us what we want, man. [00:47:33] Speaker A: It's true. It's that. [00:47:34] Speaker B: It's the peanut butter. [00:47:36] Speaker A: And nowadays it's like, you know, like we mentioned before, are they ever. Are we ever going to have that flocking to one specific item around the holidays? It's like this because of the fact that I think most of them are strategic about it. I think most of us strategically put it out in March or April or May or June, July, August, somewhere in that time to have a second push on it. [00:47:56] Speaker B: You get that whole, like, have the craze, right? But in this day and age too, like, you know so well generally which items are going to need to be purchased, what, what's going to sell, what's wanted. Stores have such a better like, grasp of this through tracking and through sales trends and this and that. That like, if you're, if you're a market, why would you limit an item? If you can sell 5 million of them at Christmas time, you're gonna have 5 million of them. They're like the whole like, idea now that, oh, geez, we, you know, we sold out at 1 million and you know, we probably could have sold 5 million. It's just, it doesn't really happen anymore. And when it's trucking, they have it. [00:48:33] Speaker A: All ready to go with shipping, trucking, online stores, online deliveries. I mean, like, I was, I wanted a new rate or a race maker last that rice cooker and I could have ordered it from Walmart and had it brought to my house that day and it would have come from the Walmart in town. It's not like it comes from a warehouse. So with that ability now over ordering is not an issue anymore. Because the fact that like if you ordered a thousand items and I'm on the holiday season, you sold 700 of them, the corporate company is going to take 150, 200 of those things back from you and put them in their corporate warehouse so they can send them online. Because there's a way to sell. Like back when this came out, it. [00:49:09] Speaker B: Just goes straight out of store to the online. [00:49:11] Speaker A: Yep. [00:49:12] Speaker B: It doesn't matter anymore. Yeah. [00:49:13] Speaker A: All that Turbo man and all that stuff, it was not. There's not. The Internet wasn't this like massive thing. Retail stores on the Internet. I mean, ebay was founded in 1995, so this movie came out a year later. So the story is based on, let's say story. The idea it's based on is prior to that. So like it wasn't a big thing to shop online. [00:49:34] Speaker B: I say probably your biggest scarcity now you have literally is Pokemon. There's only so much of it and it comes out and you get a lot more like grandma now wants to go buy a booster box for the kids or what have you that you might not normally sell. And they're just. It's just not there. [00:49:51] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:49:51] Speaker B: Like, and that's probably one of the few items that still has that. That relative scarcity because I mean like electronics aren't going to. They're going to be there if you want them, they're there and they're not. [00:50:03] Speaker A: They're not. They're evergreen. It's not like you're going to put an item. Put an item out in December and have it not be still active in January. [00:50:12] Speaker B: Like because books are now more print to order. So that if there's a big book that happens to hit the shelves in November, there is that potential that the bookstore sell out of them and they don't get a replenishment because they didn't. They're back to print again. Those are the items that might be more likely to be scarce nowadays then your toys or your rice cooker or your whatever. [00:50:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I also try to think of like what toys are even going to be. That's. Most of the toys nowadays that I see are related around some sort of intellectual property or Paw patrol, all that stuff, I don't think. It's not like, it's not like there's a paw Patrol toy that's making it like Tickle Me Elmo was based off of intellectual property, but it's like it was a specific thing about how it did something techno. The next thing really done VR or some sort of animatronic thing. There's nothing that these things are doing that are crazily unique to the fact that they're in. And so there's that too. And the modern technology will be an iPad or an iPhone. And that just came out. So it's like they don't need to worry about like if someone wants a new iPhone for Christmas that came out in September, they're just getting it and ordering and putting it under the tree. It's not like. And so like those kind of things are different. And so that's what this movie is. It's going to be one of those things when Mike or your my kid at three and a half gets to the point where he's 10, 12, 13, 14 years old and can really digest what's going on in this movie is the fact that he's going to be like, really? [00:51:31] Speaker B: I don't get it. Yeah. [00:51:33] Speaker A: I don't understand this whole concept. [00:51:35] Speaker B: This is going to be a movie that later on is going to have to be explained. Two kids. Like, it's like watching Seinfeld and how many episodes Seinfeld don't make sense now with the cell phones. Like, you know, and that's where you're at. You have to explain to them, well that that stuff didn't exist back then. Or. Yeah. It really was like this. There really was this crazy Christmas rush. Yeah. So I guess I think this movie has some staying power for the fun of that where the nostalgia like it surprised me that it got such bad reviews. I mean it is, it's cheesy, but it's a Christmas movie. [00:52:05] Speaker A: Was also glad in the complex sense of things that it's Turbo man. This, this, this make believe fake character that was made for this movie that was made to, to, to show the whole consumerism, the waiting in line, the missing out on the object. And then they didn't just do it. Sponsored Everyone nobody wants is on the show Sesame Street. Like they didn't do this being they. [00:52:27] Speaker B: Didn'T have the real toy. It didn't have the Tickle Me Elmo missing and he couldn't find it. [00:52:31] Speaker A: And that would have been a, that would have been so, I don't know, in your face advertising. [00:52:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:37] Speaker A: To me that it was just like Ted, them trying to push this idea that they're Popular and so on and so forth. By creating this character that really doesn't exist and making it thing. And then they could have. You know, I would love to see a comic book based off of it. Let's do a Turboman Christmas Holiday special. That's an animated holiday special that shows up on Disney plus that. That you can watch. That's Turbo Man's Christmas. And it's literally just like. Like a Star wars holiday special. Or. Or. [00:53:01] Speaker B: Yeah, the flea treatment for the sidekick there. What the hell's the. Nobody likes you, Booster. Booster. No one likes you, Booster. [00:53:11] Speaker A: I love how they kick its ass anyway, too. Like, they kick off the. [00:53:17] Speaker B: We hate you, Booster. [00:53:19] Speaker A: I also love the fact that they drove to a parking lot to park and got to the. To the parade. No problem. There wasn't, like, traffic. There wasn't, like, way late. And they were there on time and they were like, yeah, there we go. We're good to go, right? [00:53:36] Speaker B: Yeah, we're fine. Yeah, really. [00:53:38] Speaker A: But no. So like I said, it's a holiday movie that's not ever gonna land in someone's top 10. I don't think. I don't think this is one of those movies that's like, I bet there's. [00:53:46] Speaker B: Some people out there. This is their favorite Christmas movie. Just because of the silliness and the whatever and the timing. You know what I mean? Like, for this movie coming out, if you were 7 years old, 8 years old, this was like the epitome of it. I'm sure. I'm sure somebody out there. This is their favorite Christmas movie. [00:54:03] Speaker A: So I was trying to see what. The longevity of it. And so what, like, what people do, like, on Wikipedia, they have, like, a little, like, critical response and box office thing. IGN said that this is one of the few holiday movies that directly deals with commercialization of Christmas, which is actually pretty. Pretty unique in that sense. [00:54:24] Speaker B: It's sort of like this and then, like, Christmas of the Cranks doesn't necessarily have that, but it has the whole, like, not doing the Christmas thing. [00:54:31] Speaker A: Same person, same producer, same producer. [00:54:33] Speaker B: But it didn't have the whole, like, shopping aspect of it necessarily. [00:54:38] Speaker A: It won Favorite Supporting Actor, Sinbad at the Blockbuster Entertainment Awards. [00:54:43] Speaker B: Really? [00:54:44] Speaker A: It won the Golden Camera Awards Best International Actor for Arnold Schwarzenegger. And it was nominated for a Razzie for Worst Director and Stinkers Bad Movies Awards. It was rated. Nominated for Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy, Worst Actor for Arnold Schwarzenegger, Worst Supporting Actress for Rita Wilson. [00:55:05] Speaker B: Wow, that is rough, man. That is rough. I don't think that's. I don't think that's fair. There's definitely. I've seen so many movies that are so much worse than this. We've watched movies that are so much. [00:55:16] Speaker A: Worse, and I haven't seen it yet, but including the sequel to this movie, it's probably worse. No, you're right, though. There's hundreds and hundreds of Christmas movies overall, if you think about it. [00:55:27] Speaker B: For movies that are, like, my wife loves them and they're awful, like, really bad. [00:55:34] Speaker A: But this isn't, to me, like I said, gonna be a regular. Like, there's the Home Alones, the Christmas Vacations, the. The miracle in 34 series. All of those movies that end up on someone's top 10 top 20 movies because they're just like the classics you go to, and it's those movies. Yeah, this one's one of those ones that's kind of like, some people watch it, some people don't watch it, some people like it, some people don't like it. It's kind of in the middle. And because of that, I gave it two and a half stars. [00:55:59] Speaker B: We watch this movie every year. I say that there's been years that, like, Christmas snuck up on us, and we were busy, and this was definitely on the cut list. Like, the ones that you must watch and the ones that. Yeah, okay. And, like, we've dropped this one from the list before because we just didn't have time. That being said, dude, I think I go three and a half on this movie. I think I go three and a half, and I almost in. In. I almost want to give it a four. Like, it's. It's a fun movie. Take it for what it is. Don't overthink it. I do think it gets pretty hokey when you get to the parade section. Yeah, like, up till the parade. The parade section is pretty hokey. The bomb scene is, like, goofy with the. The cop. But overall, man, it's really fun. [00:56:48] Speaker A: Like, yes. It's one of those ones you don't have to think much about. It's fun. It's got the family, it's got emotion, it's got comedy. It's got some good scenes. Good, Good act. Good acting is. I wouldn't say the greatest in the world, but it's got good actors in it. Like, you got names you can see. [00:57:04] Speaker B: Doesn't have to have great act. [00:57:06] Speaker A: No, no, that's. [00:57:07] Speaker B: That's. If this had had that scene, Camille, Jamie, that did the best he could, like, it would have been horrible. Like, that would have just, like, sunk, but with just the goofiness in Arnold and the Turbo man suit and all that. [00:57:23] Speaker A: It works. [00:57:24] Speaker B: It's fine. Like, yeah, if this had had a heartfelt, deep moment, it probably would have come across much worse. But because the whole thing doesn't take itself seriously ever, it works. [00:57:38] Speaker A: So here you go. Hold on. I was trying to look something up here. I think it worked. I think that. Hold on. I was trying to do this. 12.6, not 19. 13. 96. Is that what it was? [00:57:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:57:56] Speaker A: 96 to 2004. Okay. It can't be. Right. Yes. So I. I was trying to look this up and see what the thing is. So Joker fully. I can't fully do the. The sequel to. To Joker. [00:58:17] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:58:18] Speaker A: Horrible. [00:58:20] Speaker B: I have not seen. [00:58:21] Speaker A: Did $37.8 million on opening weekend domestically. [00:58:25] Speaker B: It's honestly more than I would have thought it did. [00:58:27] Speaker A: Okay, hold on. 2019 box office blockbuster, October 4th to the 6th, with $37.8 million, adjusted for inflation. This movie did $25 million opening week. So, like, it's not. Not that far off of the fact that this Joker sequel. [00:58:45] Speaker B: Like, what surprised me is that I saw. I was reading opening week or opening weekend, this came out. It finished fourth behind a Star Trek movie. [00:58:54] Speaker A: Mm. [00:58:54] Speaker B: And two other random ones. And I was like, well, so. [00:58:57] Speaker A: So, yeah. So Star Trek, First Contact, Space Jam. Okay. Huge. [00:59:04] Speaker B: Like, yeah. [00:59:05] Speaker A: And the ransom is with Mel Gibson. So, like, it opened up against a Mel Gibson movie. Space Jam and a Star Trek movie. And it finished. [00:59:14] Speaker B: I'm surprised Star Trek took first overall. Personally, that one surprised me. [00:59:18] Speaker A: But I mean, Space Jam went on to do 250 million. Yeah. First Contact went on to do 146 million, which is only $17 million more than this movie made. [00:59:27] Speaker B: And this movie came out in October. [00:59:30] Speaker A: In November, Ransom went on to 400 million. [00:59:33] Speaker B: It was the right time for this movie to come out. Yeah. [00:59:36] Speaker A: Ransom did. Sorry. Ransom did $309 million. So it's actually the most successful movie out of all of those. Wow. It did $75 million budget. It recouped its $75 million budget in the first 10 days of its release. [00:59:49] Speaker B: So, I mean, yeah, financially, it did fine. [00:59:52] Speaker A: And my guess is that released on DVD the following year, I assume. So that's how it typically used to do because obviously doesn't make sense to put a Christmas DVD out in March. [01:00:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Who cares? Yeah. [01:00:03] Speaker A: That's why I'm always sucks about these movies that are in theaters. If you don't get to see them in Christmas movies. You're like, it's like, when Fred Claus came out, I really wanted to see that movie. I had to wait till the following year to see it because streaming changes a little bit. Like, I would love for these movies that come out, like, November to have them, like, on Christmas Eve, hit streaming, even if it hit streaming for, like, the night. And they just. So people could watch it. And you have to pay for it. Even if you have to pay for it, which is like. So that you can watch it this Christmas, if you don't make it to the theaters and then take it away from streaming and then put it out next year on DVD or whatever. [01:00:32] Speaker B: But, like, you know, did you see the original casting or. Who was potentially casted as the Sinbad character? [01:00:41] Speaker A: No. [01:00:41] Speaker B: Joe Pesci. I. I love Joe Pesci. I don't know. I could have seen him in it. Like, way too goofy. You know what I mean? And, like, you already had Joe Pesci in Home Alone and Home Alone too. I feel like it would have been like a weird. Almost like it would have felt like a weird Christmas Cop out. Like, just trying to have Joe Pesci in every Christmas movie. I also don't, like. I don't know if I could see him in Arnold. [01:01:08] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't know. [01:01:10] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I was. I. I saw and I was like, nope. Like, I love Joe Pesci in movies and stuff, but, like, I don't think I could have seen him in this. [01:01:19] Speaker A: He's also 5:3, and they said 6:2, so it would have been funny. But he says that Dar Schorsenager's actually been in two movies with Danny DeVito, who's even shorter, and it was fine, so. [01:01:31] Speaker B: But that was the point of the movie. [01:01:33] Speaker A: Yeah. The other fun fact was that Simp had improvised majority of his lines, a lot of those things that he said. And then Arnold Schwarzenegger also improvised many of his responses to his conversations with him. [01:01:47] Speaker B: That's pretty good. Well, that helps you give more of a natural flow, I think. Like, that's pretty good. Yeah, I. I think Shimbad was the right choice. [01:01:55] Speaker A: I think so, too. Again, I'm not a huge fan of his acting. I just don't like Sinbag, but I think it worked in this movie. I think it was like, one of those things that, like, I don't. I don't want to fit the character, but. Yeah, so Jingle all the Way. Don't. I guess I'm gonna tell you right now, I haven't seen it. But don't watch the second one. [01:02:12] Speaker B: I think we have to watch the second one now. Even if it's just. Just to come together and be like, all right, well, that happened. [01:02:17] Speaker A: Well, that was also. That definitely them using the popularity of Layer the cable at the time. [01:02:25] Speaker B: I can't believe it's done by WWE Studios. I don't mind it. [01:02:28] Speaker A: Is that even a thing anymore? [01:02:32] Speaker B: I doubt it. I feel like they did because then they do. Like, they had the. The Marine or whatever with John Cena. I think that was theirs. And, like, they definitely had just different wrestlers in movies. [01:02:44] Speaker A: But let's finish this off with this. It's now 1996. We're two years away from the 30th anniversary of this movie. [01:02:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [01:02:52] Speaker A: Okay. [01:02:53] Speaker B: Reboot. [01:02:54] Speaker A: Think someone like John Cena the Rock as the dad, like, doing this, like. Like this big, hulky, like, different kind of person could work, I think. I think that'd be kind of fun. I'm trying to think of like. Like a Zach Galifianakis as the neighbor. [01:03:10] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good casting. [01:03:12] Speaker A: Because he'd be like, this queer, creepy, but, like, funny dude. I think that'd be a good one. And then I don't know who the. Or Ryan Reynolds is the neighbor, because he'd be super attractive. [01:03:22] Speaker B: Oh, my God, that character. And Ryan Reynolds being the guy that, like, you sort of hate because he's this good looking, hitting on all the single moms, saying, yeah, actually. [01:03:31] Speaker A: And then. And then maybe. Maybe Zach Galifianakis is Sinbad's character. That'd be kind of funny too. Like the. I don't know. I'm just trying to think of, like. [01:03:38] Speaker B: Weird guy you don't want to keep running into. [01:03:40] Speaker A: But I. Here's the deal, Paul. I would 100% watch a reboot of this. Like, it would be 100%. I don't feel like this is one of those protected ones you shouldn't do. Like, this would be funny. Instead of doing the sequel with Larry the Cable Guy. I think just rebooting the whole thing and have it be. And at this point, I don't mind it being a Tickle Me Elmo because it's so far. It's 30 years after that came out. [01:04:00] Speaker B: No, you could have. You could have the, like, retro toy. Yeah, the thing that they wanted that got big again. The Tamaguchi, The. Yeah, Tickle Me Elmo, the Furby. [01:04:09] Speaker A: It's whatever, whatever. [01:04:11] Speaker B: My daughter's a friend of Emma's, loves Furbies. And like, we had to go on, like, eBay and order her. Like, I think we were on ebay ordering her, like, retro Furby shirts and stuff for her birthday because you can't find this stuff. Like, there isn't a whole hell of a lot of Furby out there. And I'm like, how did this kid even. She had to have found it, like, in, like, her mom's and, like, grandma's attic or whatever. And then like, oh, this is cool. And then became obsessed with them. Yeah, I think we ordered her. They used to have Furby McDonald's toys. Like, you push their tail and their eyes moved or whatever, or their ears moved. And we. We got her some of those to go with it. But, like, we had to go buy Retro because what the kid wanted doesn't exist anymore in the grand scheme of things. So, like, that would actually be sort of fun. You know, they're running around going to these collectible places. They have that one store, that guy wants a million dollars for the Tickle Me Elmo in the box. You know, like, well, that's like, you. [01:05:06] Speaker A: Could do both sides. You could do the current thing. [01:05:08] Speaker B: I think we're writing Jingle all the way. 2026. [01:05:11] Speaker A: Well, here's the deal. So there was a. There was a Reddit thread. [01:05:13] Speaker B: Ryan Reynolds, Dwayne Johnson, get ready. [01:05:15] Speaker A: Ready. There's a Reddit thread I just found two people said John Cena should be. Should be the Arnold Schwarzenegger character. But here's even better. One, I saw Dwayne Johnson as the Arnold Schwarzenegger character and Kevin Hart as the sin bad character because they go so well together, and it would be so hilarious. [01:05:35] Speaker B: You would be able to, like, have a very loose script and just let the two of them. [01:05:39] Speaker A: And can you imagine him being the sin, that character doing the rant about how, like, oh, my God. Oh, God, that would be hilarious. It'd be funnier. He was, like, stepped on a couple of boxes, so he saw eye to eye, and then he's doing can you get down? But I think that would be hilarious, and I think that would be one of those things. But that's one of the things. It's like jingle all the way in the zeitgeist of Christmas movies. Enough for people to be like, is it worth it to make it? If you made it again, you'd have to do it with someone, like, those two characters or, like, big names. You couldn't just do it with nobody. The names would sell it. [01:06:15] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. 100. Yeah. You can't do this with, like, your B cast or even, like, Unknowns and nobody would care. [01:06:21] Speaker A: So I'm saying Dwayne Johnson as the, as the main character. Arnold Schwarzenegger. We got Rock. Sorry. Kevin Hart as the, as the Sinbad character. And then you got Ryan Reynolds as the neighbor. Yeah, it's perfect. And then we gotta find the kid. The kid's gotta be someone great. It's probably gonna have to be someone from like you know, Stranger Things or. [01:06:41] Speaker B: Right. [01:06:41] Speaker A: Some sort of like some sort of popular kids character that we don't have. [01:06:45] Speaker B: Older. The older kid. [01:06:47] Speaker A: Yes. [01:06:47] Speaker B: That wants this thing. Yep. [01:06:49] Speaker A: No, we're gonna have to put like some older, like some definitely older kid. Like a older kid that plays a young kid. Someone's got like facial hair. He's playing like a six year old. No, I don't know who it would be but maybe bring Jake Lloyd back and have it. Have him be. Play a teenager. No, I think it's fine. So it's two and a half, three and a half. Three stars right around there. It's a, it's a, it's a middle ground Christmas movie. It's not the greatest and it's not the worst and I think it has some, some highlighted moments that are absolutely funny and I actually laughed out loud. [01:07:21] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [01:07:21] Speaker A: Watching it. Some cringe worthy moments. You're like that's kind of weird. And it's got Anakin Skywalker in it. So like I guess you're you know. And a blues brother. [01:07:34] Speaker B: There's the important part right there. [01:07:36] Speaker A: And a former governor of California. Done. [01:07:41] Speaker B: WCW Heavyweight Champion. [01:07:43] Speaker A: Oh God. But if you're looking for last minute Christmas gifts and you live in the Bangor area. Even if you don't live in the Bangor area. Paul will get it out to your house ship fast quick if you need. [01:07:53] Speaker B: Oh yeah, absolutely. [01:07:55] Speaker A: Galactic Comics and collectibles dot com. Galactic Comics and Collectibles on Hammond street and Bangor. Social media, all that stuff and stuff like that. [01:08:02] Speaker B: All that stuff. [01:08:03] Speaker A: It's Christmas season. I do think this is the year of the comic book of the trade paperback. Please people. It's so much fun to hand someone a trade paperback or trade paperback. I'm a big single floppy issues, you know that. But like collective stories for a Christmas present. So you can read it Christmas night, whatever is great. There's a lot of good ones out there that are like. That are really good. Like I mentioned the road 1. If you want to buy some for an adult I have this. You know this Land is Our Land is a great young adult. [01:08:31] Speaker B: I think we gave like I personally gave out three copies. Four copies of 8 Billion Genies last year. [01:08:37] Speaker A: Yeah, there you go. [01:08:39] Speaker B: Great book for anyone. [01:08:41] Speaker A: Like that's all around title. You got some horror stuff out there. Something's Killing the Children. Stray Dogs is great. I just read that. Feral feral volume 1 would be great if you like animal Lovers. So there's a bunch of stuff out there and I do think that there's something for everybody if you just Google it. If someone's looking at history, historical trades. [01:08:58] Speaker B: Love Ninja Turtles, but hasn't done Turtle stuff for a long time. The Last Ronin. [01:09:02] Speaker A: Yep. [01:09:02] Speaker B: Like, I can't believe how many copies Last Ronin we still go through. Like, I'm like, I assume by now everyone in the greater Bangor area owns this book and bought it here and I'm still selling them. Oh, duck. Here we go. Highly recommended book. Yep. [01:09:16] Speaker A: You're Walking Dead fans. You got. You got your Clementine. If you're a Halloween fan, you got Long Halloween. Oh, wait, Batman fan. [01:09:26] Speaker B: Batman. Come on, Batman. Long Halloween. The greatest arc of all time. The greatest story ever told. The comics. [01:09:33] Speaker A: We'll finish with this. So it's obviously been a couple of weeks. It's been a month and a half since the announcement, technically, because when this comes out in December, we've been whatever. But Verda goes back and guess what else is coming back? Batman Hush. So you got that for you if you want. [01:09:47] Speaker B: You never read the original, man. Batman Hush is fantastic. [01:09:50] Speaker A: But Vertigo is back, people. That's good. I think it's great. So Merry Christmas, Paul. I mean, we'll be back in a couple of weeks to do some. Some comics of the year, so make sure you get that. [01:10:03] Speaker B: Of the year. [01:10:04] Speaker A: Make sure you get that. [01:10:05] Speaker B: One of the top podcasts, right? That's like one of the. [01:10:07] Speaker A: Yeah, it's the fun. [01:10:09] Speaker B: The book of the year. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. I love doing them. I think it's a great one. We go back and forth and stuff that, like, I forgot or you forgot we mentioned and. Yeah, it's great. And what? We're going to try to do a live one this year, right? [01:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Live recordings, live studio audience. [01:10:26] Speaker B: Yep. [01:10:26] Speaker A: We'll see if we can keep them at bay. We'll have to poke them back with a stick about people flashing us and having assigned things that we don't want to sign. And we have groupies. [01:10:36] Speaker B: Garrett just randomly poking his head on the side. Come back. [01:10:39] Speaker A: We have a green room, Right. We can use the back room as a green room. [01:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah, I think we're going to have to. [01:10:44] Speaker A: We have to announce us. Someone has to announce us. No one can talk to us. So after we get out there, all that stuff, we'll be very, you know, pretentious about our popularity here. [01:10:51] Speaker B: 100%. [01:10:53] Speaker A: But it's a great season. Buy comic books and graphic novels and trades and all that stuff for your friends, family members, all that stuff. It's great gift. I honestly think that people will really enjoy it. So, you know, and if you don't know, ask Paul. Paul can probably give you a little tip on what if you say, oh, I know. I like. They like born identity and they like this, that and the other thing. He might be able to help you. Or you like, you know, they might be able to give you an idea. [01:11:15] Speaker B: I haven't read every. I just told somebody this. I haven't read everything in the store, but boy, I've read most, most of it. So I can. I can help. And I read a lot of different things. [01:11:23] Speaker A: So, yes, it's a great thing. And shop local if you can. That's the big thing. So, yeah. Merry Christmas, Paul. Jingle all the Way is in the books. We'll be back in 2025 to do a movie review. We're looking forward to it. I know we're doing. In February, we're doing Daredevil because they just announced that the Daredevil TV show is coming March. So we'll do it in February. We'll do Daredevil and do the. [01:11:46] Speaker B: Or Ben Affleck in all of his bad casted movies. [01:11:49] Speaker A: So go back to actually shitting on a movie fully. Like, we haven't done that in a couple episodes here. We've done some movies that were pretty good. So we gotta go back to. [01:11:56] Speaker B: I can't wait to watch this again. Because I saw Daredevil in theaters and thought it was like the epitome of superhero movies at the time. I'm gonna be like, wow, that sucked. [01:12:07] Speaker A: But we'll see. We'll see. And I have an idea for January, but we'll have to. It's up in the air, so we'll figure that out. Paul. Peace. Merry Christmas. [01:12:17] Speaker B: Merry Christmas.