News damp May eighth, spring has sprung. Like we've said about fifteen other times, man, sure, sure, sure, shore shore shore, but it truly feels like that. We're from New England. We need the sun. Yeah, we had a nice weekend for the first time in about a month. I'm hoping we were out of like the forty and fifty degree degree days and we're into those sixties and seventies. That's really as a man larger than the average man, I like to live in those sixteen seventy degree days.
I'm cool with the eighties. Let's we hit the nineties. I'm like, we're doing too much and mac before we get into this dump, let me quickly say this. Looking for a fun afternoon with your young child and don't know what to do, look no further rock Star the Learning Express in Bedford has everything from a beautiful train table, a fake food mark, a fake restaurant to go with that food mark, a matted play area for the kids to bounce around. It's got everything that you're a kid needs. My
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Yeah. Yeah. If if you say g oo, they're gonna throw you out. So once again, Learning Express in Bedford News Dub Weekend, Box Office MAC Guardians at the Galaxy Volume three doing what it's supposed to Chris Pratt v. Chris Pratt. He dethrones Chris Pratt's Mario. You know how you fight fire with fire? You know how you fight Chris Pratt more Chris Pratt. Yeah, it's funny. We talked about it, you know, I fucking completely forgot that it was in Mario. We talked about it when
we were reviewing Guardians from twenty fourteen. Yeah, that was the same year he had the Lego movie Massive year for him two of the three or four biggest movies of the year then, and he's gonna do it again this year. It's pretty impressive, it is. And speaking of Mario mac News don't finished second in this past weekend. It has been in theaters for roughly thirty days domestic, it's made about five hundred million dollars worldwide over a billion now.
And let's compare it to another movie that's been out for thirty years, and that is the Bobby Hawks Johnny Legs Mario Brothers movie, which in its entire you know, life at the Theater, has made under forty million on a budget of about forty eight and that's not including advertising, so it probably costs about one hundred bucks, not one hundred bucks, one hundred million dollars to make that. One might call this one a bit more of a success.
You know, as I'm thinking about that original Super Mario Brothers movie, I watched it quite a bit as a kid, but I'm pretty sure the first time I saw it was like on cable TV or on like fucking upn or some shows I feel like TBS, yeah, something like that, and I remember thinking like, Wow, there's a Super Mario Brothers movie, and I didn't know anything about it. And then you watch it and you're like, oh, yeah, it's got nothing to do with the video game.
But if he asked Johnny Legs, that's the one to go with. I mean, I'll tell you that movie. There's I don't know, there's probably like eight to ten really bad movies I watch as a kid that I still really like. That's one of them. I don't know why I like it. I have no reason to like that movie. No one has a reason to like that movie. That movie's objectively terrible when I actually liked the movie back, I have news. I have horrible news. The Writers Guild of
America is on strike, and that is not good for our entertainment. YEP as a podcast that often talks about television and movies, more some movies, which is a little less affected by this, because the thing with movies is it's not as ongoing of a process writing as it is with a television show. Typically, when the script's done, it's done, and then you know, you make some edits along the way, and movies are two three years in the making, where shows are getting made every year roughly, or seasons
of shows. So TV definitely gets affected more more by this than than movies. At the beginning of the month, I am such a union guy through and through, so I'm totally on board with this same over here, we're hey, We're a union podcast. And to further like underscore how important it is to support this. The last time they let the hack writers write, they ruined, like every good show on television Lost, I think that was season three or four of Loss. That what completely often rails, same thing
of prison Break, although that wasn't as good as Lost. Heroes went from maybe the best show on TV to the worst piece of shit you've ever seen. Friday Night Lights they had that that story with um Tara and uh fucking Jesse Plemon's killing a guy that they just glossed over at the end of the season. Also, all the late night talk circuits got fucked up because they
had to write their own stuff. And if you watch some of Conan stuff during that time, it's hilarious because he's like, look, the writers write everything for me, so whatever you see here is not gonna be good. He had a full segment one time where he was spinning his wedding ring inception
style. Yeah, yeah, so I And if you're if you want to know the main the leading issues here at the forefront of this is now that streaming has become so wildly successful and really has taken over for broadcast television for the most part, other than I mean even like HBO that's not even broadcast TV. So, you know, we we have all these old school you know, contracts or ideas that are built in, and now all these shows are blowing up on streaming. But the problem with these streaming shows is they
have no royalties built in. Yeah, so there's nothing for syndication all that stuff. Right, So all these writers that were making X, Y and Z off of syndication, they don't get that with these streaming shows. So they're trying to fight and change change that. Also, you know, with inflation on yeah, it's it's a living wage with inflation, which right, that's usually eight dot. To get too far into union stuff, that's usually
what we ask for. It's like two or three bucks. It's not like give me a million dollars right now, which I would take if they wanted to offer it to me. But it's like nice now, we're just looking for a little raise because that's how the world works. It is interesting though that within you know, so the last time this strike happened was what two thousand and nine, maybe two thousand and eight, I think it was seven. Yeah, in that range, streaming like wasn't a thing then Netflix existed,
Um, but we were using Netflix by mail. We were getting discs in the mail. So it's just it's time for them to update that to current times and really fairly assess how those writers should be paid. So that makes sense. The most notable show so far that announced that they've halted production and Stranger Things five, which totally doesn't affect us because we waited what three
years or Stranger Things for anyways, so we're used to that. We'll see though, we'll see if this doesn't get settled quickly, you'll see a lot of the best shows in television halt production or stop production altogether. Movies they're moving that way to go well before you get to that movie. Also, this is a podcast that is written by union writers, so we're gonna have a real issue here. We're gonna go from unfunny to really unfunny. Can
you imagine a movie that's being halted in that is Blade once again? Yep, So that's the most notable one I saw. I'm sure that they're again. They'll be announcing these over the next couple of weeks. Movies that have stopped production. This is notable course, because it's one of the bigger MCU properties that we've been waiting on for a couple of years now, you know,
ever since they introduced mehrschela Ali as the titular character Blade. It's also notable because they just added True Detective creator Nick Pitzelatto as the lead writer, which marks the reunion between him and mahrschel Ali as well. So that really stinks. It stinks that I'm like movies that tap slight delays, you know, Okay, that's fine, but they've had such trouble getting the production off the ground for Blade in the first place, that I'm a little worried about.
Oh I forgot to mention this. During the writer stuff as well, a lot of them are having fun needling or poking at Jenna Ortega, who after Wednesday said, oh, I rewrote most of my lines, and they're all like, well, why aren't you out here picketing with us, you
know, miss writer. Uh, that's that's a case of an actor doing too much and also most likely lying, well, sure, yeah, no, she's no doubt lying also, like I feel like in her head she's read the line she's read the scene and maybe she'll change the the order of the words or change it slightly. But the idea was there from the writers, so it's not her idea on the line or the dialogue. It's still the writers that wrote. And then she's like, I created Wednesday, Adam,
this is a character that I made up just last week. There's doubt comapp to join Mortal Kombat too as Johnny Cage. You know what, I have liked Carl Urban and just about everything he's ever done, So I am here for him to get kooky, you know, that's a that's a good word for him, Kukie in Mortal Kombat too. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how much I love the casting or but also I don't I don't like love Moral Kombat as a concept. So do whatever you want.
Just have it be as fun as the first one. It's combat to mortally wounded exactly like get as cheesy and stupid, but as the first one, Yes, agreed, fatal What was the line lawless victory finish? Those are the lines that you would have gotten if there were no writers. Why did people just start making noises? Now? Also, and I thought about this because I know that Dorik has a Hall of fame. Um, at what point does Carl Urban get consideration? Good question, because he's been in a
lot of Doric properties. He's been in what free Marvel movies, now movies, he has been in uh you know the Boys. He has been in dread. Oh oh call yeah. And this is all I gonna add to it, speaking of dread, speaking of alliteration, news dump, we don't have any writers. Guy fucked, We are porked. Dune Part two, also known as Tune. The trailer has come out and it picks up right
after the first one. Yes, uh, we see Timmy Shall's riding that sandworm in this which apparently is gonna be He's got a cowboy hat on of the movie. Yeah, I uh, it's Beetlejuice. I can't say I'm worried about this movie because Denis Villeneuve is like the best director on the planet. Yeah, but I'm a little worried I'm gonna be let down by like the conclusion of this movie. Yeah, but you got Elvis in this movie though, Yeah, that's true. Austin Butler as a naked mole rat.
And I was also thinking to myself, like is he gonna have the Elvis voice because last year he kind of couldn't shake it. Yeah, that's true, he got stuck in character too long. I am looking forward to this though the honest with the trailer didn't like make it move at all for me, But I liked so much the setup in the first movie. Yes that I'm hoping that they land the plane. Also, I joked around a lot
about this during the first one. You know, Hey, I'm gonna watch it on my cell phone because it's on HBO Max and that's the way the creators wanted you to see it. I am looking forward to seeing this on a big screen. That's fair as well, yep, because I watched the other one at home. I watched it on my phone while on the Peloton News Dope. Will Farrell is creating a golf show based off the PGA Live drama. So Will Farrell has not had a big hit in a while,
so we do have to sort of recognize that. However, because there's been so much drama in the golf world the last couple of years, and you know, with the Keepka and d Shambo stuff, I think that this could end up being pretty funny and because golfers and pro golfers inherently are like pretty cunty. I think that you could get good humor out of this, and with the new otches of rules and some guys that are big rules guys over some guys that don't care, there's a chance for this to be successful.
But again, it's it's been a bit since Farrell's had a hit. Let me ask you when was his last sports comedy? Oh, because I feel like his sports comedies have a better hit rate. Question mark, he had Talladega Knights and oh six Blades of Glory what two years maybe later? Or Blades of Glory might have been just before or just after? It was after Napoleon Dynamite No. Four so huh. Kicking and Screaming I think was oh
three, Kicking and Screaming was before Talladega Knights. This Jackie Moon might be the last one, oh, which was the worst but maybe the funniest first five minutes true, and it is a decent enough character Jackie Moon. Yeah, yeah, you're right, you know what, he's gone into those farcical things. He's actually been pretty successful. So that plus you like that Eurovision movie. You were just all over that last year you stopped talking about it. Huge fan of it? Was that last year? I think it was
last year. No, I think that was like two and a half years ago. I like Abba, though I don't. You don't like Abba stinks? Whoa. They have a couple of good songs that came out thirty years ago. They haven't made good music since I'm not talking about their news fucking songs. Classic Abba al r yeah, classic abbums. Take a chance on me. He's dope. Speaking of Will Farrell, let's waste time. We have to fill out this news dont mac and the question that I have for
you. At the peak of their comedic movie run, can you please rank these actors? These comedic actors Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, Adam Sandler, Will Farrell. So Jim Carrey had the best single year. I think we can agree on this. However, his run is considerably shorter than the other three because his run roughly started when Myers just did. But Myers ended up with much more popular properties by the end of the nineties and then into the
early two thousands and Struck and whatnot. Sandler has had made the most movies, but credit quality over quality for sure. I also feel like, I don't know if I want to say that of the four when they're at their funniest, I feel like Sandler's the least funny. Okay, So I agree with you on that actually, but yeah, I also want to give him credit for writing most of his stuff, or being a writer with most of
his stuff, So I do want to look at that. So Will Farrell does a lot of improv movies, so he works a lot with those characters. Jim Carrey was a writer on ace Ventura, so credit there. But Mike Myers created two of the most popular characters of the nineties, Wayne's World and Austin Powers. Yeah, no, that's true. I basically what I'm trying to do is evaluate this because to me, it's like, clearly Will
Ferrell, Like if you okay, so Will Ferrell's number one. We're both saying Will Ferrell number two thousand and three to two thousand and ten, starting with Elf ending with the other guys. His run of comedic movies in there contain like three of my ten favorite because of all time. So I think he's number one. And then you come into like, do you want to evaluate Carrie's few years over Myers is longer run, but Myers is longer run, is pretty much just two characters, but he has sequels. Yeah,
yeah, And I feel like Carrie is funnier than mine. And then also Sandler might have more movies and more characters, but those characters are all kind of the same. Yeah, that's true, but we also now it doesn't
help him here in the comedic, Well it does a little bit. Actually, Uncut Gems was a totally differ Well, if you're gonna do that eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Jim Carrey is a great actor too, No, no, but I'm saying the comedy comedy wise and Uncut Gems was a newer comedy, and we hadn't really seen that from any of those other three, although I suppose Carrie probably could get to that level. Mike Myers was
in The pent Tabarynth. I don't think Myers and as much as of Will Ferrell, I don't think Myers and Farrell can get to a serious, if enough place to be in a movie like that Where is It? Thing Carry and Sandler Everything Must Go is pretty good, though Will Farrell is always going to be good at the self deprecating him which is a big part of that movie as well. But this is tough because currently, if one of these four make a movie, I'd rather see the Standler movie because the other three
I'm saying peak, though I'm saying peak of their run. Peak is still Ferrell for me, and then after that I'll go carry just because he had the singular best year. So if you talk in peak, that's maybe the single best and then probably a toss up between Myers and Sandler, but I would lean standing. I would have Myers fourth on the list, but you are also much higher on Wayne's world than I. I'm also I'm a huge Adam Sandler fan, but I would still have him third. Here, I'd
go Will Ferrell, and that just might be our age. We're in our mid thirties. Maybe if we were closer to forty. It's more of a Jim Carrey audience because Jim Carrey was just a fucking monster in ninety were through like ninety six. Yeah, And we also didn't get much of the sandler S and l Run when people kind of fell in love with them. We just got the movie. Well, I've seen them all on Comedy Central a million times. Yeah, but you weren't eighteen when you were watching it.
I saw a canteen boy. I know we can't watch canteen boy now, but I've seen canteen boy. I don't like. If you ask me this question twenty years ago, would have been Sandler, and then you ask me ten years ago, it's Farrell. Right now, it's still Farrell. Farrell. I go Mike Meyer's second. I love those two characters. Then I go Sandler, but it's close with Carrie. But also I would have a giant step up from Myers to Farrell. But then the next three are pretty
close. I think the I think the arguments for second for sure. And then also another actor that you could toss in there, maybe a Ben Stiller, but I would take those four de Ben Stiller Stiller, but then he can dodgeball heavyweights. But it's the same characters, dodgeball Heavyweights meet the parents. Zoolander. I mean he's also great. Yeah, there's a lot of other great comedic actors. I'm not saying there's only four in the world.
That's all I'm saying. I can agree with that there's more than four. We need writers, guys, news dumb. It's movie anniversary time. It's Morphan time. It sounded like you were gonna say, give iron Man the first one came out fifteen years ago. Yeah, and we mentioned how important Guardians is to the MCU. I think it's the single most important movie in the MCU. But that movie would not have been successful or possible even without
the success of Iron Man in two thousand and eight. I agree with you completely without iron Man in two thousand and eight, because the next four ish movies from the MCU were not very good and they didn't even make a ton of money. Iron Man two did off the back of iron Man one, but without the steady start of Iron Man and you know, bringing these characters to a pretty realistic, you know world around them. Yes, iron Man is such a huge part, maybe one of the most important cultural movies of
all time, because it kicked off fifteen years of what we've had. Yeah, like going into the Avengers GOO in twenty twelve, what would you say is the second best mc movie? Four or American which but I'm unlike, but they're not great. Yeah, So I mean that's really it's the iron Man jumped to Avengers and then from Avengers to Guardians. Those are the three really pivotal points. I was on hashtag dorc last night brag yes, and I stumbled into a great joke. So Keith is like, yeah, iron
Man. You know you do have the mirror ville And I'm like, yeah, but they don't look alike. You know, one's iron Man, one's Iron Showed. It's a big thing. It's pretty good. Yeah, we don't have writers. Guys, if you had delivered that with a Norm McDonald delivery would have hit better. I should have paused a lot more. Also, yeah, iron chowed and you stop and you look around. Also, Mac, iron Man three came out ten years ago and IGN had an article
out saying that was the best Tony Stark movie. And I understand them saying specific to you know, outside of the costume. But iron Man one is still a Tony Stark story. Yeah, and I raise you both of those with Endgame. Endgame is the best time. I would argue any of the Avengers movies. Endgame is the best Tony Stark story. I would take Tony Stark story in Avengers one, two, three, and four over iron Man three. Iron Man three I think is fine. I think it's better than
iron Man two if you want to. So say, if only iron Man two and iron Man three came out and people were super confused James about why they started it with iron Man two, iron Man two or three, and like this world only has those two movies. And you said, iron Man three, that's a better Tony Stark story. I'm saying, yeah, you fucking nailed it. So IGN is always on some bullshit. They fucking stink.
But what the trying to say is that iron Man three is the most human story of all of the Ironman movies because he's dealing with PTSD still stemming from the Avengers movie, and he's dealing with you know what lays the groundwork in Civil War and whatnot, and ultimately the disagreement between the Civil War is a better Tony Stark move. They all are, They all are. They're just idiots at AGEN and they don't know how to tell you what they're talking
about. I hope you didn't click on it, because you know what that was no clickbait, yo, that's fucking yellow journalism. That's a little newsboy out there in the afternoon trying to sell afternoon papers. Iron Man three, bass Tony Stark moobit extra extra at newsboy Berries just out here fucking slinging clickbait headlines. That's son of a bitch. Uh. Then we also have X two turns twenty Wow. What a what a year? What a year? What a week? What a year? What are you talking about? Oh
it's this week too, Yeah, that happened last week. All three of these all right, they're all from different years, you know how one of them was from fifteen years ago, one was ten years I'm saying this year. What a year? Is what I was saying. Oh for anniversary communication there. I guess X two is still pretty good movie. Go, Yeah, still pretty good movie, I would argue. I mean it's the best of the original trilogy. The opening scene. I know that we've kind of
talked about it on social media. We also I just rerelease the opening scene podcast that we did five years ago. We're old guys, by the way, but I think it's still up there with the best opening scene. I might take the Dark Night over it. The opening scene to Logan is awesome, but this one is just so good. Yeah. And X two also gives you an actual, real sacrifice at the end of the movie. We
talk about all the time how movies are afraid to kill off characters. Of course they had dark Venus in their pocket, but they actually did something substantial in that movie. And of course you get the whole you know, breaking out of that damn and as well too. The X two is still a good movie. It also sucks that Alan Cumming just didn't like having the makeup put on him and that's why he didn't want to do the movies in more, because he is so good in this movie. He's great, He's a
great Night Crawless. Maybe that's what our podcast is at the end of this week, because we need a topic. Maybe we do best one offs in superhero movies or something. I don't know, best makeup in the superhero movies. Goo yes got into the Galaxy Volume three is ninety five percent right now from the audience, So everyone assuemingly loving it. How did the dorkboys like it? Well, Davy wasn't there because Davy hates the MCU now and he
just doesn't show up to MCU podcast. That's why Goog gets called in. Keith loved it, And not to give anything away, but Goose Juicy six pass, you gave it a five and a half or five. I gave it a five. I did the math, and I think thirty four is roughly a five. But I'm steadfast on that thirty four though. I think I'm more into it now than when we talked about it. I agree, I agree with you. When I I was teeter in thirty five thirty six, I said thirty six, And now I think I'm locked in at thirty
six. I'm locked in at thirty four. I might have gone five and a half, but I think five's very reasonable as well. Yes, what did Keith give the second one? Did you guys talk about that? I forgot to ask, But where did he rank you in the MCU? Did he give you? I just kind of gave you a hint. Oh, okay, Yeah, I thought that meant the six stone. Maybe that also means that I don't know how many sixes. I guess I'll have to listen to the episode a lot of sixes. It's whichever movie just came out last
that one in the MCU. Of the thirty two movies, Keith has twenty eight sixes. Yeah, Like I said, we don't know what we're doing at the end of the week. I kind of do. We stumbled to it on Twitter of someone asking like, where does the high evolutionary rank amongst MCU villains. Do we want to do a tearing of MCU villains this week? Or do we want to take an MCU break? It doesn't really matter
to me. Maybe we do it while the MCU is still hot, because maybe it's not so hot after the marvels if we do tearing ever again, though, we realized my computer is not gonna be able to handle it, so you'll have to do that. I'll have to be at home then slash actually sitting on a chair. I don't want to do that. Okay, well, maybe we don't do that. Maybe hear me out get a new computer. Nah? Fuck that that costs money. Yeah, you're making all
that money with the sports gambling. I haven't. I haven't been on anything in two weeks. What has happened to you? I had, I had a lull. I said, you know what, I'm gonna stop the cascade here the fall, and I'll just take my money and go home, and I'll tell you why not to get too much into my gambling. But I was having a real nice weekend Friday Saturday, and then yesterday I missed on a nine leg parlay. I hit eight of them. Yeah, and I said to myself, I needed this. I had to be grounded. There.
You go take a week off and then you'll have a Oh no, I got for the dress of the day. As soon as I see those, uh those boosts, I'm in, all right, that's fair. You give me a boost. Also, I'm gonna ride with the oilman. I'm gonna ride with him. I'll tell you, Gil, I don't know if anyone will ever actually say it. Because Wayne Gretzky was so good. I think Connor McDavid is the greatest hockey player. That's also Leon dry Sidles, fucking nasty. Dry Sidle is great, but dry Sidle has only gotten to
this level because of McDavid. Connor McDavid, I think is the best. He might not have the best career because it's no one's gonna touch Gretzky's career. I think Connor McDavid is the best hockey player I've ever seen. This is good sports talk. Um, do we want to do our hockey jerseys from the nineties episode? I only have two, maybe three. I can bring a bunch. I used to have a Gretzky Rangers alternative one alternate with the oh with the big Statue of Liberty. So that's on the big pile
of ugly jersey's list. I love that jersey. And that's what we're going to talk about, is all the ugly jerseys from the nineties. I thought you met ones we owned. Well, you can talk about that obviously. The only one I think, the only one I own actually from from childhood at this point is a multise. You love the Devils and I hate the devils. The Devils. That's why I loved late nineties early two thousands hockey
NHL specific was. Yeah, I didn't love the college game, but um, what I loved about it is that you had all these teams that hated each other, and as a fan, we could all come together and hate the devils as one. Yet for some reason, you love the Devils. You love Marten bro Door, you love Scott Stevens. Oh, we all loved Scott. He didn't he almost killed Paul Korea. Yeah, well deserved what. We also all love the Avalanche. I'm not gonna I didn't love
the Avalanche, but I loved the Devils as well. Well. I didn't like Actually, yes, that fucking a honky Mike Madonno in the stars. I was gonna say, you like the stars, so I didn't love the stars, but I would take the Stars over the devils. Madonna was always Madonna. Joe New and Dyke stages and Madonna didn't show up, and Richter sucked in all those Internet number one Madonna's from America. All right, USA, that that era of USA hockey stuck. Jeremy Roenick when he's a little
bit older. This has been five of the best pennants we've ever had. We bring the sports podcast. Yeah, now we're in the writers strike. Now they're in the writers strike. The sports podcast is back. We'll do four hours on how the Broods collapsed, although now the Panthers up three to no on the on the Lease. Oh actually, before we go, are you one of those losers that roots for the team that beats your team so
you feel better about your team losing to that team? Sometimes? Yes, sometimes I am, whereas I want that team to lose as quickly as possible because I hate them. Now that gets the leafs though I don't even care about the leaves. LEAs stink. Fuck the leaves, you stink. You don't like Matt Sundean. He had an ass at the end of his name and at the beginning of his last name, so it just ran together. You're just a fucking little prissy boil here because you liked Felix the cat,
Potvin and those leaf teams. I didn't like pot Van on the maple leaves. I liked him on the kings. You've been talking about Matt's Sundean for fucking twenty five years. What a ridiculous name, right, Matt's Sundan. Come on, just remove the S and the S at the end is spelt with like the three lines three lines and then they connect them. The diamond looked a look at ass and I think there's only one T in there too.
Absolutely, and that's how we end news dump. Now it's time for girls jumping on trampolines.