That’s the Right Answer (Hour 2)

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Seth and I are going to dive in some entertainment news.

We've got some other fun stuff lined up before you get into our schedule.

We've got the most popular Marvel characters to touch on.

We'll see how wrong those are.

Yes.

We will also take a look at some great local events going on in our area and our schedule

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Take a look at some entertainment news.

If Ozzy Osborne taught us anything, it is that you can go out on your own terms.

Okay.

Yeah.

Stevie Wonder is 75 years old and he has no intention of hanging it up.

Oh my gosh.

Now, real quick note, are there any other popular or famous Stevie's?

Stevie Nicks.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's one other one.

There you go.

But that's the other one I can think of.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's it.

Like Steve, Stephen, Stefan, Stefan, I've heard of a lot of them.

Then Stevie Nicks, Stevie Wonder, I've never met just somebody in dated day life that goes

by Stevie.

Right.

I've never heard of it.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

That one.

So he says, quote, for as long as you breathe, for as long as your heart beats, there's

more for you to do.

Wow.

He adds, quote, I love playing music.

That's like my mantra.

I think I can do all the stuff I want to do.

I'm not going to stop the gift that keeps pouring through my body.

As long as you can imagine it, as long as you are going to be creative, and as, let me

get this right, as long as you can imagine, as long as you are going to be creative, and

as long as you let your mind work, you don't have to retire.

Hmm.

That's, wow.

That's great.

One of the biggest selling points to me about being an entertainer is the idea that

I don't have to retire.

I can act as long as I want, as you're able to, as long as my heart is beating, I can

go out there.

And even if I don't have a character that doesn't have any lines, I can still go out there

and act.

I can still perform.

Right.

Um, radio is something that, you know, if you take good care of yourself, you know,

you could do this to your, to your last days.

Yeah.

That's right.

I love that about industries.

I don't have any interest in retirement.

Right.

I, I, I, I mean, now I would hope to get to that point someday.

I don't know that our generation is going to get that chance.

Yeah.

Well, I, um, I, to me, part of the thing that pulled me to the industries that I

work in is that I can work as long as I want, as long as the industries will have me.

And, and that's the way I've always approached it, as long as the industries will have me.

The audience will let me know when I'm done in radio.

The audience will let me know when I'm done as an actor.

They'll lump me know when I'm done as a creative.

I can still create, but I probably wouldn't be doing it for an audience.

Right.

Nobody's tired of Stevie.

Nobody's done seeing Stevie.

And this approach is so vastly different than anybody else I've ever heard talk about

retirement.

Hmm.

I don't care if you're talking about an athlete, somebody working at a factory or anything

like that.

Listen to what he's saying here.

Hmm.

And he's being very consistent.

Yes.

This is Stevie from day one.

Yep.

Uh, for as long as you breathe, for as long as your heart beats, there's more for you

to do.

Yes.

It's not about, I've done everything my legacy set.

It's like, are you still alive?

Get to work.

Yeah.

There's still, there's still stuff out there.

I know how to tell me when I was a kid, Jimmy God gave you something.

Let me use it.

Mm hmm.

Put it to work.

Make good use of it.

Yep.

Uh, it is stayed in my head since it was like it was yesterday that you told me that.

Sure.

Um, whatever you believe in all those things and stuff is here or there.

Right.

But you, I would think that everybody, at least appreciates these skills that you were

given.

Right.

So to put them to work is part of our purpose here is part of our job.

I agree.

So the idea of retiring seems a little silly when you think of it that way.

Um, and there's, there's a guy, no problem with retirement.

Please, everybody, you know, welcome retirement to so many individuals out there.

Right.

But if you don't have to, right.

And it depends on what kind of retirement we're talking about, you know, retiring from

a job is one thing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But retiring from, like you're saying, you're, you're good at what you love to do, you

know, your passion, whatever it is.

You never have to just, you know, even if you don't get paid for it, it doesn't matter.

You can always go do that.

You can always go there as long as you are physically and mentally and emotionally able

to do it.

Yeah.

It's an interesting story, which is fantastic.

I mean, this, this is a man who's been, who's been in the public spotlights since he was

12 years old.

I mean, and now he's 75 and he still loves it.

He still loves it.

You see so many people who get famous and a year or two in and they're done, they're burnt

out.

They don't want anything to do with it.

It's a great note.

He's been doing this since he was 12 and he's still not tired of it.

I know.

It's amazing.

Still hasn't gotten enough.

No.

The TV's point still hasn't given enough.

I love that.

That's what he's saying.

Yeah, exactly.

If you got anything left in you, you got more to give.

He talked about his gift and it's been in his gift.

What he has.

Yeah.

And they got me.

I want to go do something.

I want to go do something.

Charge for a brick wall.

Yeah.

But I guess we're doing it.

We're doing it right now.

We're doing something.

I guess we are.

A famous singer is skipping his long awaited induction into the Hall of Fame.

A rock and roll Hall of Fame.

Right.

He's something Seth and I have been talking about for I would say almost a couple of years

aren't it all?

Okay.

Yeah.

The idea of people who belong in a Hall of Fame that are not in.

For many years, one of my best friends, Chris, and I know Carl here at the station talked

about Jerry Kramer this way.

He belonged in Hall of Fame and it was foolish that he wasn't in there.

It was so cool when he got it and we got to celebrate that and everything.

In that same note, you have felt that way about Chubby Checker for a very long time.

Yes.

He checked her not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before there was even a foundation

you should have had Chubby in there.

Right.

For the impact that he had on popular music cannot be measured, cannot be measured.

Well, and Chubby Checker recently was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame finally.

And I do stress finally, but Chubby won't be there.

Okay.

He is not going to be at the event.

He's busy.

He's got a concert that day.

Oh my gosh.

Chubby Checker is scheduled to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on November

8th.

He revealed he won't be attending.

Instead, he booked another concert for the same night on purpose.

Really?

Quote.

We're not coming.

We have a gig.

Checker told the crowd at a July 27th concert in Deplane, Illinois.

Quote.

I told my manager, make sure where we go to the, when we go to the Rock and Roll Hall of

Fame and the induction that I'm not doing what I, that I'm doing what I love doing the

most being in front of the audience, a live audience, not a televised audience.

Wow.

According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the Rock Hall appears to be okay with this with

Checker's decision.

The organization presented him with his induction trophy at the concert nearly four months

before all the other inductees will receive their award.

Wow.

So, I would say kind of going out of their way a little bit to make this a thing and to

do respect his wishes.

Finally.

I honestly, this feels a little bit, and you know, I get what he's doing in there and

I honestly, this feels a little bit of like, dude, now, yeah, you know, it's like, and

you know, I'm sure he knows this place in music history.

I'm sure he does.

I think he was just like, you know, I forget it, you know, I waited long, you know, this

long.

I don't care that much about it anymore.

If he even did care about, maybe he didn't, I don't know, you know, so it feels to me,

it's like, yeah, whatever, I'm doing what I want to do.

I don't need to go to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

It doesn't matter to me.

I'm still doing what I get to do for living.

And that's fantastic.

I love it.

I'm glad he's doing it.

He's not the only one refusing to attend this year's ceremony, too.

Fellow Hall of Famers inductee Carol Kay, a bassist who was part of the legendary group

with session musicians known as the wrecking crew.

We've touched on that.

She won't be there.

She's already said why.

She doesn't want to be there.

So yeah, it makes sense to me.

Checker and Kay will still be named by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which will also

include Joe Cocker, Cindy Lopper, Outcast, Bad Company, Soundgarden, and The White Stripes.

Other honorees include Salt and Peppa and Warren Ziva, who will both be receive music influence

awards.

Sarah Moni will stream live on Disney Plus and be available on Hulu the next day.

All right.

Yeah.

Quote.

Chubby goes to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He's an old guy.

He's probably retired, but he's doing, he's not doing anything.

Maybe, maybe that's what they thought.

That's one of the quotes that came out about this.

Right.

So I think that is one last piece, a note about this, that's backhanded in all this.

Yeah.

Come on now.

Yeah.

I don't blame him.

Yeah.

I do not blame him in the least.

Well, and, I mean, not to say he got what he won, and necessarily by getting it, just

getting in.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it, to me, one of the things that would be cool about this is getting to perform

in front of people.

These hits.

Well, he's already doing that.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Yeah.

It would be a lot of great adaptation if you were there, you know, for the people that

are there and all that kind of stuff.

But hey, that's up to him.

I do, I would like to see the twist done with like multiple artists and Chubby checkers.

That is one of my things.

I do get pulled into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I think that would be cool, even if he's not there to see people do that.

I would say all the inductees together doing it.

How about that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That'd be fun.

All of them doing the twist.

Yeah.

I don't, it's, there are very few songs that influenced and helped the music industry

and the radio industry would not be where they are without the twist.

Right.

Like, you don't have to do a lot of deep digging on this one.

Right.

And I know I've spoken about this before, but and this is something I didn't know until

Martin recently about Rock and Roll.

The twist saved Rock and Roll basically.

It bridged the gap between, you know, the first iteration of Rock and Roll, you know,

that first explosion in the late 50s and then the coming of the Beatles kind of thing.

And without the, without the twist, I think Rock and Roll would have been watered down

so far that it would have been indistinguishable from pop music as it was, you know, maybe put

a little more backbeat in it, that kind of thing.

But that say, I mean, they call Rock and Roll Twist music for like three years after this,

after the twist came out.

It was so big.

Yeah.

Everyone recorded twist songs, man.

Look at the, look at the record.

Look at the people.

Sam Cook had a twist album.

You know, all these, these, these acts, they all Bill Haley had a twist album.

That's how popular it was.

Looking at streaming services, something we're all going to be doing a lot of over the next

couple of years.

Apple TV plus just raised its monthly fee by 30%.

Oh dear God.

It now costs 12.99 instead of 9.99.

And that's for new customers, existing customers, we'll see the increase within the next

30 days.

Apple's annual rate of $99, $100 a month will not change.

So if you want to pay them yearly fee, that is not any different.

Oh, that's interesting.

Okay.

How nice of them.

Let's get more people to do the annual thing, I think.

But yes.

Yeah.

Apple TV is expected to lose its Friday night baseball partnership with Major League Baseball.

But on the upside, Ted Lasso is coming back for its fourth season.

They also have popular series, a lot of the more popular series out there like Severance,

Morning Show, Studio, and Shrinking.

Apple TV Plus is still the only major streaming service without an ad-supported option.

And that is their probably biggest selling point right now.

Their TV shows and movies have not hit the mark like they thought they would.

It turns out you can't just throw money at something and it works out.

I would love to see a service that can get away with it, actually do right by the people.

One of our local nonprofits that we've joined us for many, many years at a store point

boss, they have not changed their prices in a decade or so.

That's right.

They've done this specifically for the community, knowing that families cannot always have

an extra couple bucks.

But they have not inflation, it's not affected things over there.

Can they afford to do this?

Well, I ask you, did you hear me say non-profit?

Yeah.

Name me a non-profit that can afford to do that.

I'll wait.

They can't.

Non-profit is doing that.

Yeah.

So Amazon, Apple, these companies can't do it.

These companies couldn't imagine the PR boom that you would get if you know what?

We know how it is out there.

We know the prices are getting crazy.

We're not changing.

Right.

We're staying pad, everybody.

We're doing this for you.

Nope.

They don't do it.

They don't do it.

And don't tell me that there isn't a market, at least one person in that marketing room

that doesn't think of these things too.

Oh, I'm sure there are.

I'm not a marketing genius by any means or anything.

When it comes to that, in that decision, they care more about the money than us.

Yes.

120% which I know is not a thing.

But 30%.

30%.

Yeah, there you go.

But no, no, no.

You hit the mark.

We are in a time right now where the customer does not matter for large corporate, the

LKFA.

Does it matter to them?

You bet it does.

Because if there's not people there, they're going to go out of business, okay?

Local businesses, they have to be.

They have to deliver on what they do.

Otherwise, they're going to go out of business.

They don't have to.

Apple can do whatever it wants because they don't care, okay?

They don't care whether or not you can afford it or not.

They're talking what James just said.

What are the dollar signs?

They do not care about what, you know, what people want.

They don't care about getting more.

No, no, no, no.

What is the bottom line?

How can we extract?

And I'm using that word very specifically.

How can we extract value from people?

So if you feel, if you use it like a mining term, that doesn't feel good, you know?

But that's what they're doing.

They're literally extracting stuff from you.

Yeah, that's gross.

With it, there's a race that's been going on right now with every single streaming service.

They're all racing.

They're all racing each other by the finances of this alone.

Apple's not the only one.

I'm sure others are going to increase their prices.

You better believe it.

They're already having.

Right.

With that happening, they're not they're not all going to survive a year from now.

There are going to be some of these streaming services that have been gobbled up by another

service.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And so with this race going on and the idea of that, you would think that you would

be putting more and more effort into your content, into your work, into the reason people

come to your sites.

Right.

Instead, they're more focused on how can we make more money?

And with that, and the companies that are focused on that, and not to say all of them aren't,

but the ones that are more focused on that, they will be left by the wayside.

I don't know that any one of the shows I just mentioned, including the very popular Ted

Lesso coming back.

Exactly.

Is enough to get people to pay 13 bucks a month.

Right.

I don't know if that one thing is, especially when you take away the idea of the other thing

not mentioned in this article is MLS soccer and the paywall behind that.

And what that has done to the soccer in this country, which it was already struggling.

And now it's even worse.

So you limit access so people don't even know what's got me seriously.

Yeah.

You took the most popular athlete in the world, put him in one of our most populated

states, and put it behind a paywall.

What did you think was going to happen?

Like as you were trying to build up to the world cup here in North America, right?

And this is what you did with it.

Yeah.

And the numbers are, they are, they are nightmarish when you see the streaming numbers for soccer.

Yeah.

And that Apple has had.

That's.

They're desperate.

And they're doing this because they know that I think they know their days are number.

So they're going to get the money they can out of this.

And eventually these shows are going to go somewhere else.

Yeah.

They're going to sell it to Amazon or Netflix or something.

I think you're right.

Apple is not going to survive the streaming game.

No.

Not with this model and not with what they're putting out.

Right.

And again, it's not to say that they don't have some good shows.

No, but you can't make a network on some good shows.

This ain't cable, man.

This ain't the old days.

Fox, like Fox had three or four shows.

They had three or four hours of programming.

Everything else was just what they would sell for advertising and different things.

It's part of the reason why we got the infomercial rise and everything.

Exactly.

You don't have that advantage in streaming.

No.

You don't work.

Yeah.

I don't know how this business model survives.

I don't know how Apple, and I'm using Apple as a prime example, but no pun intended.

But I could throw prime in there too.

Yeah.

No, no, all of them.

Yeah.

Exactly.

You could throw all of the streaming services in there.

Yep.

Not sure how that ends.

But I'll tell you this, I do think that the people make the decisions on these things

at the end of the day.

And people are not going to be keep doing that.

I'm not going to keep doing this.

No.

They can't afford it.

Right.

Literally can't afford it anymore.

We will come back with what is new on your small screen, new on your big screen coming

up on the morning show at WFHR.

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Got a bunch of good things on the way for you.

Let's dive into what is new on your small screen, new on your big screen, everybody.

Yeah.

Looking at this weekend, football.

That's it.

It's all that matters.

Oh, no.

It's a cliche.

It is.

It is that I can't help it.

We do have some pre-season football going on this weekend tonight at seven o'clock

on CBS.

Tennessee Titans hosting your Minnesota Vikings.

All right.

We're also going on tonight on NFL Network at seven NFL pre-season football, Dallas Cowboys

versus the Atlanta Falcons.

Okay.

If that's not your thing on seven o'clock at seven o'clock on ABC, search for the truth.

The Amanda Nock story and you've got us a documentary about Jesse Smolt on Netflix.

Hulu has a new movie, a Any Meanie starring Samara Weaving and Andy Garcia.

Oh, oh, interesting.

Okay.

I like seeing Andy Garcia.

That's always a good, yeah.

And this Sunday at eight o'clock on CNN, the one hour special New Orleans, Soul of a City

Rebirth of the Super Dome.

That sounds interesting.

Interesting.

Okay.

Check that out.

All right.

What new movies going on?

Not a lot of big releases going on.

Really, this is a weekend where they're kind of leaning into the movies that are already

out.

Okay.

Not a lot of people wanted to compete with those.

There's been, there's nothing really that's a wide release.

I would say the only big movie being in wide release is Relay, Riz Ahmed and Lily

James Sam Worthington in that one rated R.

But what I think is, the industry is going to be much more curious about is how some of

the big blockbusters are going to be doing, you know, in these third, fourth weeks and

everything.

Right.

Yeah.

A lot of movie theaters still have Superman and the Fantastic Four in them.

They do.

It'd be curious to see how those numbers are looking this deep into summer.

Right.

I'm not the only one.

I know that the industry itself is looking very, very closely.

I re-watched some of the, to me, the three of the big ones as far as the superhero stuff

and all that Thunderbolts Superman Fantastic Four.

I recently kind of watched them again.

And I've got to say I still think Thunderbolts is the best of all of them.

That's interesting.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Really, really, really like that.

Very good.

Those of us very, very well done.

Very well done.

Fantastic.

It was a lot of fun.

It's a great launching pad for that.

It's cool to see DC competing again and doing good work.

Well done to James Gunn.

I will see if the market's in the right spot, though.

That's the only downside to us because we don't know what's going to happen from now

on.

Oh, yeah.

And, you know, Fantastic Four was perfect.

I wouldn't change one thing about that movie.

It was fantastic.

It was a lot of fun.

I just really liked Thunderbolts, man.

I thought it was really, really well done and really good.

I'm with you.

I'm curious to see where those numbers end up by my Monday.

What have you seen?

Yep.

Might take a look at it ourselves.

I also wanted to touch on one other thing.

So we wrapped up our second week of Angled and Pond.

We are doing some hard-in rehearsals right now, the cast and I and our team.

And in doing this, one of the things that I've been able to enjoy as a director is getting

kind of this chance to just take all this in, watch what everybody's doing.

It's been difficult for me.

I'm bad at interrupting people.

I don't like it.

I find it rude under anywhere.

Whether I'm on the air or just talking on the side, I've never been very good at it.

As a director, it's my job to do this.

Yeah.

It's my job to insert things and jump in there when my actors are talking and they're

in the middle of a big bit.

You have to direct them.

Yeah.

It's kind of in the job description, right?

It's something that I just want to think the cast working with me on because they've

been great and very encouraging on and everything.

And I hope I don't go too far the other way, though, but it's such a fun process.

And I have to tell everybody, again, two weeks and about four rehearsals, I eat rehearsals

everybody has had, including a walkthrough.

And they're already building just like skyscrapers into these characters.

Incredible work that is already happening, the timing that is already being developed

in everything.

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Even I mean, every show needs an audience, right?

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Just come and see all the fruits of the labor, yeah.

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It is a big time.

It does consume, yeah.

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So I'm going to be a part of this one.

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And I know that there's some others involved with me too.

What was James going to do?

You better submit what you're going to do in writing before you know.

Oh, everybody already knows what I'm going to do.

I've been joking about it for years.

I'm going to do my simsum.

I do it.

I know.

I'm going to finally do all of it.

No.

It's actually a halt.

It is a rendition of the Simpsons first episode, Santa's Little Helper, where I will be doing

every voice from them.

No.

Oh, no.

Sadly enough, I probably could quote that whole episode.

You probably could.

I probably would.

But I will not be doing that.

No, I will not be doing that.

No.

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Well, share this.

It's doing a spoken word thing.

I'm sure a spoken word monologue.

That's right.

Doing some poems.

I suggested Casey at the bat.

So, you know.

That's a great one.

But things like that you can do to be a part of this, or if you know magic, if you juggle,

I don't think you can.

I was going to say juggling.

Yeah.

I would like to see a juggler.

That'd be fun.

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Who is your favorite Marvel character?

And we know you have opinions on this.

We know you have opinions on this.

Yes.

Everybody's got a favorite.

Everybody's got a favorite.

Yeah.

Even if you don't want to admit it.

It's going to be a favorite.

So who is it?

Well, there is a new poll to determine the most popular Marvel characters and this was

put together by rinker.com, who does a pretty good job with these.

That's their entire job is to rank things, right?

Yeah.

Doesn't seem like a bad game.

No, not at all.

They got 20 of them here.

We're going to burn through some of these to get to, you know, the core of this.

Yeah, right.

So looking at it at number 20, Hawkeye, Clint Barton.

Yes.

Very cool.

Nick Fury comes in at number 19.

I'm surprised.

He's not a little bit higher with that.

Yeah.

I've been in so many of the movies and TV shows.

Especially with the popularity of Samuel Jackson.

That too.

Yeah.

I don't even think that'd be murdering.

And number 18, Thanos.

Okay.

Thanos was right.

You know, Disney noticed something real early on that I give them a lot of credit for in

the idea that where we were going as a meat as entertainment with our heroes.

I've mentioned many times that the Golden Eye movie is a game changer in part because

it's the first time that you see James Bond really taking a punch.

Right.

You saw him attached to a machine.

Right.

You know, the laser and all that.

Yeah.

No, Mr. Bond.

I expect you to die.

Right.

It's one of the greatest lines ever.

Never must his hair even.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You never saw that.

You know, he's apparently got messed up by the girl he was with you.

Yes.

Like, he never saw those things.

Once that happened, everybody took notice.

Mm-hmm.

And the popularity of that movie, the popularity of that character would not be the same without

that movie.

It's right.

It jumped that movie, that industry, the James Bond industry back into things.

Yes, it did.

Everybody else took note of that.

Going into the most recent movie of Superman, James Gunn faced the challenge, how do I make

Superman relatable?

Right.

How do I make him human?

Do like anything.

Right.

Yeah, that's hard to do.

There's a night spoiling anything, but Superman makes it, by the time we're getting into

the movie, he makes a decision that would not be, you know, 50% of the country would

like it, 50% of the country, or the world would like it, 50% wouldn't.

And so it puts him in this situation of kind of those things.

Right.

And so it's his him in the way of like, he feels, he thinks, and he's not always right.

He's not always, it makes the right move.

Right.

That kind of thing.

So when, all that, the rise of the, the anti hero, Disney saw, well, why not just focus

on villains?

They're one of our more popular characters.

So they start doing that, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, Philosophy

of those things, and they're still doing it.

They're still focusing on villains.

Um, Pixar, with the bad guys movies, and everything.

Yeah, yeah.

But the, the, the villain character is getting more and more, or has gotten more and more

popular.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I think it's kind of peaked at that.

I don't know what you're going to be able to, you know, hit that over and over again.

Exactly.

Exactly.

It's kind of interesting to see where that went.

Uh, at number 17, the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes.

Yes.

And it's all because of Sebastian Stan.

Yeah.

He's so charming.

Yes.

I, I would love to know how much of this is a, because of the movie and the actor playing

the character.

And how much of it has to do with the comic book and the history of the character.

Right.

Right.

Because honestly, the Winter Soldier in, in the comics is kind of a cipher in a lot of

ways.

He actually puts personality there.

So it's nice.

Uh, uh, uh, Star Lord, Peter Quill, again, very, I, I think that, you know, that's very

much on, on, on Chris Pratt.

Yeah.

Because I mean, it's very, the character is very similar in the comics, but he, he adds

a little panache to it that I think is fun.

For me, man, that's such a great, panache is a word we need to bring back.

I want to hear rappers using panache, I want to hear the rappers, you're, um, you're,

you say that set.

And I think for me, the greatest example of what you're talking about there, it is the

actor that made this character that big, uh, Ant-Man, uh, Scott Lang.

Yes.

You put Paul Rudd.

It's hard to, how am I going to sell Ant-Man?

How am I going to sell Aquaman?

How am I going to sell these guys?

Well, I'll put you in.

I'm going to face a little ridiculous.

Yeah.

Uh, uh, yeah.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Like Aquaman.

Like, okay, if it doesn't have to do with water, we're good.

Like, okay.

Yeah.

If I'm a villain, all my crimes have nothing to do with water.

Okay.

You're good.

Um, but, uh, you, you put Jason Momoa as Aquaman, and all of a sudden, you're working

with something different here and everything.

You pull, pull one of the more, uh, charming handsome actors of our generation, Paul Rudd

in that role.

And funny actors as well.

Yeah.

And then you lean into that humor and then you get a very popular character, yep?

Interesting.

One here with the Hulk at number 14, Bruce Banner.

Um, now there's a character that's been popular our whole lives.

Yes.

Going back to the TV show, one of the few successful superhero TV shows ever.

Yes.

That's, that's to be fair.

And the Hulk story is, is, is, you know, it's kind of a universal story.

It's not me.

You know, it's based kind of like on Frankenstein.

I mean, Stan Lee admitted that, that he kind of, it was his Frankenstein story, basically.

But all the iterations that the Hulk's gone through over the years, exploring this whole

man, the monster and the man and all these kinds of things, it's been more, they've made

it a lot more complex over the years.

It used to be very simplistic, but I've never heard that Stan said that because I would

have, I completely misread, or at least my interpretation of the character has always

been very different.

I agree with everything you said right up until that.

For me, it's always been Jekyll and Hyde.

Oh, right.

Okay.

That's the thing.

That's the thing.

More of that than Frankenstein to me.

Frankenstein is almost something completely different.

But I see, I see the connection soon as you said it, but I always thought of it as more

of a, you said universal, uh, relatability, and I thought, well, Jekyll and Hyde, certainly

the monster.

Exactly.

That's very, yeah.

Same thing.

So, uh, impressive that a couple of iterations that didn't work and the character was still

able to, like, stay relevant and everything.

Which is something, I mean, it's, it's a very, um, um, versatile character in that way.

At 13 and 12, Scarlett Witch and Black Widow, um, both character, you know, both that played

by incredible actresses.

Oh, people that, I mean, that have, that have worked really hard on this kind of thing.

So, yeah, absolutely.

I don't know if in the comics, the characters are that fleshed out, but I know all the

characters.

Oh, yeah.

Black Widow has had her moments over the years.

I mean, we're talking 70, 80 years of, of lore to pull on to, so they've gone through

a lot of different changes as well.

I thought this one might be a little bit higher at number 11, Black Panther, Tachala.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Um, that, now that movie, Black Panther, um, at the time kept, it didn't save the superhero

movies from dipping down like they would eventually do, but it kept it afloat a little

bit longer.

It really, I mean, you're, you're, you're right because it was a very different type

of movie the way they, the, um, the Wakanda, the whole build, the world building in it,

which was really cool.

I think they did a really good job.

Honestly, um, when I think of the comic character of Black Panther, it's a hard character

to write because, yeah, he's a superhero, but he's also a king.

And, you know, it's like, whoa, okay, how do you work that out?

When you bring Chadwick Boseman in, and he does, I mean, just an absolutely fantastic

job or remarkable job with that character, I mean, that's what makes it for me.

One of the, um, more dedicated and stronger actors I've seen in Chadwick Boseman, I couldn't

agree more.

Yeah.

You put him in that role.

You get an actor like that that wants to do that role.

That's impressive.

At number 10, Groot.

Yeah.

I could see that never that popular in the comics, but what they did with him in the, James

Gunn again, but he did with him in the Guardians movies.

Yeah, he became extremely popular.

I'm borderline shocked that this one isn't higher.

At number nine, Deadpool, not a care to give it acquired taste, absolutely, absolutely.

And, and while the movies are incredibly popular, you know, the, you know, the past

a year alone brought you the biggest superhero movie of all time, right?

It's a box office once in Deadpool, Wolverine, but yeah, I, I could see where they, he might

be a little bit lower that way.

And part of it is for, for me, personally, and this might be other, it's the, the Deadpool

of the movies isn't quite the Deadpool of the comics.

Yeah.

To me, it's not quite there.

So that's why I'm not as big a fan.

And I think that's where they've, they've had a, a bit of a divide with the fan base

on that.

I think so.

Yeah.

I love the movies.

Don't know the comic character as much.

Exactly.

At number eight, Rocky Raccoon.

Rocky Raccoon.

And boy, I got to give Bradley Cooper.

Correct.

Man, it's so unfair.

How is he good at everything?

It's just, I mean, come on, man, whether, whether it is writing and silver lining's

playbook and directing, or it is a voice acting like this, or just at the hangover and just

acting in general.

And you just got to ask your nomination first, but, you know, for, for my strobe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

It ain't fair.

It ain't fair.

Also, I root for him.

I still root for him.

I do too.

I think he's great.

I think he's really cool.

Not just because we went to the same school.

Yeah.

Not just because right up, right up.

I put Rocky in one of my top five, top 10 characters, favorite characters.

It's a touch of fun character.

Yeah.

I don't, I don't know if I would say that without him doing the voice work.

You get a chance.

There's a lot of great behind-the-scenes footage of him recording and doing this and the

way that they would get a rocket's facial recognition as his.

It's really cool to see how that was done.

That's really good.

And, boy, is it, how good did they do with a believable character with a CGI character?

Do they like rocket, and, wow, amazing.

Go through a couple of these here.

Dr. Strange, Loki and Thor bring us into the top five, number seven, six, and five respectively.

I say them all together because all three of them are played by incredibly handsome and

very talented actors.

Yeah.

And it helps.

It helps.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

You know, again, Ben of the Cumberbatch is known to me the greatest actor in the game

right now.

And you get him playing a role and buying in to some really ridiculous stuff when you

think the whole mystic thing, right?

Yeah.

And not for nothing, if you want an example of what a superhero movie looks like when

an actor doesn't buy in, you watch that second Shazam movie, man.

And you've got Helen Mirren and Lucy Lou, who are two of the better actors I've ever seen

in my life, especially Helen Mirren.

And it is the definition of, oh, my God, that you can practically see them holding the

script and just reading the lines.

I'm pretty sure there's a clip a deleted scene of Lucy Lou at the bank depositing the

check.

Oh, yeah.

That's a nice one.

Here we go.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They don't care.

Yeah.

There is no second episode of Star Trek, if the actors didn't buy in.

Right.

There's such a piece.

You need buy in.

You do.

It is such a game changer when you have that.

Yeah.

It really, and it's a big part of the selling point of all of this in the popular-

The ridiculousness of superheroes, right?

It's not enough to get a big name to sign on for a character.

It's getting the right actor for the right role and getting them to buy in.

Yep.

When you have a Robert Downey Jr. that is going to possibly throw his career away because

he believes this much in Iron Man.

Yep.

It gets lost into shuffle now, but his production company and the Marvel Universe as a company

was in flux.

They were.

They were looking at maybe selling.

They were looking at possibly being bought out, which eventually they would buy Disney

for a whole lot more and a whole lot different game changer.

Yeah.

Number four, Captain America, Steve Rogers.

Wow.

Yeah.

Again, Chris Evans.

I mean, I mean, who was, I can't imagine anyone else.

I just can't do it.

Spider-Man comes in at number three.

Wow.

Very popular considering a number of different characters, but the history of that character.

And I think the age of that character has always helped it.

Yeah.

No, absolutely.

And there's been so many successful movies with it.

Spider-Man's eternally a teenager.

Yep.

He's always, he's always in that incarnation.

He was just, he's grown up in the comic books and then being de-aged and then grown up.

Yeah.

I mean, is one of those things that I kind of liked about the Spiderverse movies where

you get different versions of him at least on stuff.

Which is always fun.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What's his name doing?

The kind of like, you know, has been Spider-Man.

His perfect casting and perfect character.

And number two, Iron Man, Tony Stark.

Whoa.

What?

Yeah.

He's number two.

Yeah, that's pretty good.

I thought he was going to be number one.

Yeah.

That is all, oh really?

I thought he was going to be number one.

There's no way I would have thought Spider-Man would be below Iron Man.

Yeah.

I'm Robert Downey Jr.

Yeah, I'm chilling, yeah.

And at number one, where he should be Stanley, that's a trick question.

That's a trick question.

That's a trick question.

That's a trick question.

A trick question, Stanley.

Of course not.

We love real Marvel character.

Yeah.

But it was, it had maybe one of the greatest cameos in the Marvel Universe is done by

Scott.

And just about every Marvel movie, even back, going back to 2000, the X-Men, yeah.

And we're not even having these fun silly conversations without Mr. Lebson.

Absolutely.

Big credit to Mr. Stanley.

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