Legendary Voice Actor Billy West on doing voices for Space Jam, Doug and Futurama + What Inspired His Voices + Double Movie Reviews: Black Widow (Disney+) and The Tomorrow War (Amazon)

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Movie mis Movie Podcast, your go to source for all things movies. I'm your host movie Mike, and boy do I have a great episode for you guys today one of my favorite interviews I've ever done with legendary voice actor Billy West. And then we have some big movies to talk about. I'll give you spoiler free reviews of Black Widow, The Tomorrow War, also get into some big box office news and Disney Plus numbers that we've never seen before. So, without any further ado, let's just get started. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking amtvite with classes from the Nashville Podcast Networking cases. Movie Movie Podcast. About to get into a conversation with Billy West. Now, he has a legendary voice actor and I've been a huge fan of his work, everything from his movies to his TV shows. He's basically the voice of my childhood, so it was really cool to get to talk to him. And if you're not familiar with Billy West, here's just a list of some of the voices he's done. He is both Wren and Stimpy on Rend and Snimpy from Nickelodeon. He's also Doug Funny and Roger on Doug Futurama, which is one of my favorite shows too. He's Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr Zoidberg's at Brannigan, and a bunch of other characters just on Futurama alone. He's also currently the voice of the Red Eminem he was the voice of the Honey Nut Cheerios b and those are all the original voices he's created, but he's also voiced iconic characters like Bugs, Bunny, Elmore Fudd, Popeye, and Woody Woodpecker. So we're gonna get into this big discussion of how he gets into the mindset to do these voices, how he comes up with his original voices, and then we'll get into talking about Space Jam and how he did Bugs Bunny in that movie, which is pretty cool. That the new Space Jam is coming out this Friday, and that the original Space Jam is now available on four K Ultra the in digital for the first time ever. So I want to ask him about that and what I hope you take from this interview is that voice acting is the real deal. It's not just a simple thing that people just sit behind a microphone do these funny voices and it's you know, it's acting just like anybody else would approach acting. So if you ever think it's easy, it is not. And especially to get to a level of that. Billy West is at let's hear all about his story. Now here's Billy West. All right on now with Billy West. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. Um, just woke up. Where do the face to day? I don't want to read the headlines because that will spoil my day. But what is the first thing you do when you wake up? Oh? Um, I don't know. I started stretching, I guess because because if I just jump out of that, I'll probably you know, bounce off the floor. What about on the day you're going into maybe do some voice work. What's the kind of first process to get your day started on something like that? Um? I did it early all the time. I mean it's just a thing. Get up at like six um. Sometimes I mean I love thirty five miles outside of l A. So um, the traffic gets to be beastly. It takes a long time. So to be at a gig at nine am in Los Angeles, I have to leave my house at like, you know, six fifty and on the way over, Like, do you have to like warm your voice up at all at this point or are you just so like fine tuned and your work that you don't really have to do that anymore. I very rarely ever did warm up. If my throat was damaged, I would do a particular little set of exercises that would revive it. But I but I never get exercises. I remember one time I was having trouble with my voice and I was talking to a vocal teacher or a speech teacher, and she gave me these tongue twisting exercise to do. I said, I don't need those things. You know, I always born doing that stuff. So I want to talk about some of your the voices you've done in your career, and I want to say it just first honored to be talking to you that I don't think I was kind of I have paramount plus now and I've been going back and watching all the shows from my childhood, and I was realizing watching these that like it's your voice and all these from rend and Stimpy to Doug, and I kind of realized like how important your voice was in creating those shows and building such an identity with those shows. I kind of want to go back to the beginning first of when it kind of became something maybe you just did as a kid, like doing these voices to something that you were actually like, hey, I could have a career at this. Um that's happened very late, realizing that you could make a career out of it. I mean I could always. I was always the same way as I am now. When I was I was just a freak. When I was a little kid, and I used to go around, you know, to retting out voices and making noises, and everybody was always like, you know, can you not do that? Can you please not do that. I was a neighbor lady up the street. She was a giant, and she called me an which means talking machine. You know. I was always chatting and talking and blabbing, and I couldn't I couldn't be contained, you know, which was very weird because I was basically kind of shy. Um I was. You know, I found out late in life that I had always been on the autism spectrum, and I always had O c D and a D h D, except that they didn't have words for that stuff back then. So I, um, you know, I was hyper and I was an m path and I didn't I never fit in. I never felt like I sit in. But I could just create worlds of things, you know, just to amuse myself. And I just thought that everybody could do that, so I didn't think it was very special. I find a lot of myself and what you're saying right now, I think for somebody like me who has done stand up who does you know? Radio? Now, I feel like I've kind of been so in my world of like I see all these things in my head where they make sense, and it's like kind of a craft that I've kind of been able to do. But when you're doing something where you're performing, I think people people find a kind of a You're like quiet, you don't really like being around people. Sometimes it's it's kind of a thing, right. I was targeted a lot, you know, I was picked on, and plus I came from an abusive home life, you know, I mean I got the tar beat out of me all the time for nothing. For no reason at home, And so you've got to cut through a lot of scar tissue later on in life trying to figure out what happened to you and I, you know, and I was a drunk and a crazy and a druggie for good twenty years. You know. I stopped everything, like everything back in and started figuring out what I was gonna do. I played music. I was in bands for years, and whenever I was on stage and an amplifier blew up or I broke a string or something, I would just start screwing around and the air would become electric. You know. I couldn't understand what was happening. Like the crowd was just stopped dead and they just looking and I thought, oh my god, I'm dying dying up here. But it wasn't that they were like they were like almost fatally fascinated. So just talking to you now, I can kind of hear I think the voices that you say you kind of pulled more from like your voice of like the red Eminem and Fry from Futurama. And how do you go about like kind of taking your voice and inviting a little bit of yourself and creating those characters voices. One of them was purely intentional, like on Futurama. When I had auditioned for fry Um, I said, you know, I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to just do my voice only when I was like twenty five years old, because I remember what I sounded like. You know, I was whiny and nasally and complaining, and you know, man, I just spoke a string. Now what amazing? Do you know that's the way I really sounded. I'm channeling myself at twenty five years old. Um. The Doug voice was just something delicate, and I imagined myself being a tweener long before they called it that eleven and a half, and I, you know, I hadn't gone through puberty, so the voice would be kind of like in the in the mid somewhere between you know, young adult and kid. So I made it like this, you know, like Port Chap is my DoD and uh, it was something realistic about it. I mean like millions of people and lots of people would say to me that, you know, they thought it was like some young person or maybe a woman or something. Didn't picture but it would be some guy, you know. And I also did Roger, and that was based on a real antagonist in my life. The kid was a bugger. He was like he would be doubl me, Like his hair came to a point, and his nose came to a point, and his pointing in my shoulder, you know, and uh and he had pointing shooting. I mean this this kid was a son of a bit and uh. And so I pictured this Roger to be like that, like, you know, he couldn't pass up the opportunity to rankle Doug Funny. You know. It was like, you know, for no reason, no reason at all. So when you're so when you're creating these voices, you have these characters in your head, Like do you have to see them first to match the voice? Um? Yeah, Well, they show you what the character looks like and then they give you an idea of what it is that they're looking for, and you have to you have to go off that. You know, you've got to try to give them exactly what they're looking for. I think one of my other two favorite voices are one that you kind of use the three stooges to kind of channel and oh yeah, very from three students. What was it about? The Three Students because for me, I think growing up, that was like the only show that I could watch with my dad and we would both laugh at because it was so kind of simple and yeah, well, but the thing is is it's a guy thing. Oh is that what it is? Yeah? It is. It's truly it's a guy thing. And old maybe recently where I'm watching women on YouTube, young women watching The Stooges and dying laughing, and that was not that was not like that years ago. Women could couldn't stand them. You know. My mother used to come in and go, how can you watch those awful men? Yeah? But mom, that's funny, you know. But I, um, I think I stopped going to church when I discovered The Three Stooges because I found my saints, you know what I mean. It's like every morning before school they showed him. So I went to school with a head full of that. And I hated school. I just hated it. And um, and I was learning how to act. I was learning how to do comedy just from watching The Three Stooges. And that's what I wound up to do in life. I should have never even bothered walking to school. Just stay home and watch the Three Stooges that would have got you so much for well, you know what it is. Back in those days, you know, there was no such thing as show business. I mean, yes, everyone knew it existed, but the bridge from like Detroit, Michigan to Hollywood doesn't exist. And and no one back in those days would encourage you. Hey, you know what, that's pretty cool. You know you want to keep practicing that? Will you know, make a table view or something of will film you You know they didn't think like that back then. They was I was just a pain in the ass. So I want to talk about Space Jam now, which is going to be available now on four K, Ultra HD and digital for the first time. Now we've kind of getting into the voices. You created the original voices, but now you're going and doing a legendary character Bugs Bunny, Like, how do you approach that of like keeping the same kind of iconic voice that everybody knows with Bugs Bunny, but also kind of giving it your own spin. Um, I just gave it everything I had. I knew that I have been right and had you hired me to do it and I and I just didn't want to let them down. I mean I wanted to, like, you know, go in like Gangbusters, and pretty much what I did. Um, the thing about imitating work that's already been done is the template was set. You gotta stick pretty much by what was done, and you have to try to be as faithful as you can be. There's other people that do the characters, and there's people who prefer like one person's version of Bugs over another's, and vice versa, you know, and same with the other characters. But I mean I did it for like ten years or so, and I was I was grateful. I was honored, you know. I mean that's what Mel blank was my idol. But the thing is is, um, you know, people are like, hey, you're the next Mel blank. Well, I don't want to be the next Mel blank. You know, I want to be the next me. You can't be the next Mel blank by doing Mel blank voices. You know, you could be the guy they hire. But but in actuality, UM, it's much better to be an originator. And that's what he prided himself on. He he claims that he never did impressions, but he did a few impressions in those cartoons. So when you're doing like Bugs, Bunny having an argument with Elmer in your brain. Is there like a gearshift that you can go between the two voices or is it just the thing you kind of automatically have been able to do to go from one character to the other. Well, there's like phrases that key you in um and you're talking about two different actors. You're not talking about the same actor doing both those voices. So you have to imagine the person doing it and try to get into their countenance and you know how much they weigh and how energetic are they? And I do I do, like really, but this happens in a split second with me, it's not like I deliberate, but almost fund was very quiet, you know, and uh and almost childlike. And then when when he got mad, he'd go from zero to eighty five in a split second into you know, mania, He's like these really quiet I'm hunting webbits. Uh. It's like and then oh I webb it say it for is come? So in your mind that's not it's not voices to you, it's literally getting into the mindset of two different characters, like just like an actor would yes, and and and I'm familiar with mel blank and what he did and uh, and that was just um the original voice was like, what's your doc? You know, but they sped it up ever so slightly. Bugs was spread up and there's a final boyd goodbye that I find that fascinating. That is amazing that you can do that just just by kind of feeling that in your head. Oh well, there's guys that can do it, though, I mean there's not a whole lot of them. There's probably about two, two or three. But but that's you know, again, that's like imitating something that's been done. The hard stuff is to try to create something classic that hasn't been done until you did it, which I think you've done with all the characters here, I think you've completely done. That kind of made I kind of associate you with one of the greatest voice actors of our lifetime. So with all the voices you've created, is it possible to like copyright like one of your characters like that? Nobody can really take that and kind of maybe spin off a character or imitate you in a way. Can you like copyright a voice? Um? No, you can't. You can't really and um, like you can't copy right a joke, you know, I don't know exactly why that is. I mean, but I don't think that they It's not on anybody's radar, you know, like who who stole a voice from somebody else? I mean, it's almost like in the in the world view, which seems pretty picky you and if he has me, well, I appreciate the time, Billy, like this has been amazing to get to talk to you and hear kind of the process behind these voices and kind of just being able to pick your brain. So I really enjoyed this. Oh me too, Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Have a good day you too. Man got to get into our first movie review now talking about Black Widow, and I am joined by my wife, Kelsey. How are you today? I'm good, I'm tired. Excited to talk about this movie though, yes, I'm hyped up. This is the most excited I've been for a movie review in a while. It was really good. I don't want to say anymore till we get into the review. So if you haven't seen the trailer by now, I don't know why you haven't. It's everywhere. But here's just a little bit just in case you don't know everything about me. I've lived a lot of lives. Friend was an aven Or before I got this family. I mean, mistakes choosing between what the world wants you to be. So Black Widow, We've waited over a year and a half for this one. By the end of this review, which will be spoiler for you will say whether or not it was worth the wait, and whether or not it's worth a thirty bucks to watch at home, which they're submit you say things. Will talk about movie masks later. But going into this one, I wasn't super excited for it. I was you were why I love Black Widow? When did you start liking Black Widow? Because I feel like she came We first introduced her in Iron Man two back in and then since then she was kind of just like a side character. They didn't give a whole lot too. And I feel like at first when this movie got announced, I thought it was a little too late, like, okay, Avengers are over, they need to kind of revamp all the Black Widow story. So I was like, Okay, we'll see what it is. When did you get excited for it somewhere along the adventures? Okay, I don't really remember. I mean, I will say there was one point in the movie where I asked you a question. You need to be like, yeah, that happened, and I was like, oh, okay, So I completely remember all of the things that happened, and all of them. I'm not like a I love them and I can't wait to see them, but I'm not like a Marvel mega fan tour. I know everything about the universe. See, I'm also like, I love Marvel too, but some people get real into like the timelines of everything to order to watch them in what's happening, and like, I don't get that hardcore into it. I don't have the time to be that hard It's a lot like to follow it along. There's so many movies, so many characters. I can't sit down and break down every relationship, but I can follow along to every movie in which and where each one occurs. But for this one, if you don't, we're trying to place in the Marble timeline when this one happens. It happens right after Captain America Civil War and then before Avengers Infinity War, so it's kind of right there in the middle, which is kind of weird that it's not a full on prequel it's not a full on origin story, and it kind of takes place in the middle of all those other movies. So if you haven't seen all the Avengers movies or even Captain in America basically versus Iron Man, you kind of have to see those to understand this one. Other than that, I think you can get into it without watching every single Marble movie. But from the first fifteen minutes of this movie, I kind of felt like it was a grittier movie. It didn't really feel like a typical Marvel movie. There was more action, the backstory is pretty dark on like what happened and to her and her sister in this movie, like why they became spies, why one became an assassin, Like that was pretty hardcore, right, it was sad. There's like one scene in particular at the very beginning where you're kind of like, man, like is this even Like it didn't even feel like I guess the Marvel movies are never really geared towards kids, but I can imagine like a kid watching that movie at that point, like, man, this is kind of dark. Yeah, I would say it's It's a pretty strong PG thirteen for like that element. And then once it got into the story. I was pretty invested into it. I thought the action was really great and I like how they, for the first time ever, really fleshed out who Black Widow is, who her family is, like where she came from, and overall like what kind of makes her awesome? Like I felt like, like this is the movie she deserved like five years ago, but I'm glad it came now. The sad part for me is that it feels like that kind of ending of that whole phase of Marvel because after her, there's I mean, there there's Doctor Strange, but other than the original Avengers, this is kind of it. So I think that part was kind of sad for me to watch. Are there more aunt Man's? Yeah, there's another aunt Man coming, But I feel like that's also kind of on like the the second tier of the original Avengers, She's like the last one. Is there another Guardians of the Galaxy? Yeah, I still feel like that's kind of the side. I'm just asking my questions. This into like me trying to figure out how many movies there are. But overall, how did you feel about this movie? I thought it was great, loved it. I got so into it that I didn't even need all my snacks. I really like the Florence Pew. She was fantastic, like really good, so good. I think. Also, what was different about this Marvel movie. I think it had the least comedy out of every single Marvel movie. There was pretty much only like one joke that they kind of kept throughout the entire movie. Other than that, I kind of felt like it was more of like a Jason Bourne type movie of like, here's this mission they're trying to go and do. If you're hearing that in the background, that is our dryer or I don't think the microphone I can hear it. Oh you can, yeah, yeah, okay, I'm sorry, that's our washer. I'm doing laundry. But other than that, I don't think there was a whole lot of comedy comedy in it. It felt kind of more just like a Spice slash assassin action movie with some superhero flares. What I felt, Yeah, it was more in the serious like not it wasn't like thora Ragnarok comedy, Yeah, not at all. That was the funny one, right, that was the funny woman. So I thought it was good, on the borderline of really good not great. I thought it was great. Not the best Marvel movie yet. I don't think it's in the top ten, but I do think now it's like probably one of my top three Scarlett Johnson movies. I would drank it amongst some of my favorite really. Yeah, it was great, like Female Power. Yeah, I think that's what Marvel has been lacking. I think they kind of interest a lot of test offs. It is a lot of tests, it's a lot of dude and really was just Black Widow. So I think they kind of took a page out of DC success with like Wonder Woman Harley Quinn, like success there, that's the best movies they have over there, I know, But I'm just saying success is a loose term, Okay, But the only thing that d C has over them is those characters. They're like, all right, we need one of those they had Captain Marvel. True, I still think Black Widows this is a way better movie than I agree. But I'm just saying they introduced Captain Marvel's movie. Yeah, I was able to come out, so we had to give it a rating. What would you rate Black Widow four and a half out of five. I'm trying to think of a and nothing just four and a half out of five, four and a half out of five. I would give it four out of five. Russian Spies, super original scale, is it incredibly or Black Widows Spiders? I was going to do four and half out of five spiders, but I wasn't gonna be that cheesy. Would have one. Okay, four and half out of five spiders. So I think it was worth the weight I was. I think it was worth the way to see it in theaters because we we we kind of had that decision of like should we watch it at home pay the thirty bucks or should we go to the theaters to watch it? And we went with going to see it in theaters. One for us, it's pretty much the same price. It's like the tickets ended up coming out under thirty bucks for both of us. So it's really more dependent for us, like what experience do we want? And I kind of like that that's happening now. The only thing I'm sad about is that we didn't go to a theater with like the leather recliners. Yeah, the seats are kind of crestrooms, like a little subpar in the seats, so I couldn't get us comfy but still I enjoyed that experience for this movie because I was totally into watching it. I wasn't distracted, was never on my phone. So I think this movie deserved that kind of treatment. But on the other hand, I feel like, if you don't want that experience, you just want to see the movie, it's worth the thirty bucks. Absolutely, like this is up there with one of the best movies to come out in a long time. So for one person, maybe not worth thirty bucks. But if you're watching it with your entire family or you just don't want to go to the movie theater, I think it's completely worth it. It does still feel a little weird to me to pay that on top of the subscription fee, but I think that's just kind of the world we live in now. I would also like to note that we just had to pause recording so you can burp incredibly loudly and then just came back to the microphone. I'm throwing you under the bus there, Okay, you're got me leave the bourbon. No. I do not want you to leave that, Okay. I just want everyone to know we had to take a quick pause there. Most of the edits we make on this podcast is me burping yeah or mispronouncing some weird word. Not even weird words nor words would credit there. So anyway, that's what we think about Black Widow. Let's get into now a double movie review and talk about The Tomorrow War with Chris Pratt, a movie with one of the greatest premises I've heard in a while. But did it follow through? If you haven't seen the trailer or watch this movie yet, here's just a little bit of that. Thirty years in the future, we are fighting a war. Our enemy is not human, and we are losing. We need you to fight. We'll be back. I love you. Check me seven days from now when you're sitting into that role and won't be fighting for your country, We'll be fighting for the world. So that Tomorrow War with Chris Pratt, Now, how do you feel about him as like a leading actor in an action movie. He's fine, ambivalent. Yeah, I feel like he's right in the middle of the line of being like, all right, anything Chris Pratt is in, I'm gonna watch it. I feel like I'm at the point like anything Chris Pratt is in, I'm curious to see what it's about. I really liked my Guardians of the Galaxy. Yes, great in that kind of feel like that was his peak. What about the Jurassic World movies not so much. I actually don't think i've seen him. I like those movies and I like him in it, but I don't think like I could see like somebody else in that role was where I see like, I don't see I don't associate him with those immediately, but I think he does pretty good in those. I don't not like him, but I'm not like, oh my gosh, Chris Pratt. Yeah, I feel that's way. So I think with this movie going into it, I was like, all right, the premise sounds really good. Let's see if Chris Pratt kind of takes that next level of being like a big action star. So the overall premise of this movie, again we'll keep it spoiler free, but it's basically people in the future come back to present time to warn us about a war that's going on between humans and aliens, and they're basically going to destroy the world. So they have to come to our time to take people back to fix the problem. Is basically what that movie is about, right without ruining anything. So I think that's a great premise, mainly because I love aliens, I love time travel, so you put all those things into one movie. I was like, how could it not be bad. We watched it, and I think within the first five minutes I laughed because it seemed kind of cheesy. I mean, yeah, it's it's cheesy it but kind of had like a little bit of like sci fi movie vibes, but a much bigger budget. Yes, a bigger budget, and which side note, I love a sci fi movie, so do I. And within that first kind of opening scene, I felt like it's said a darker tone that it never really got back to. Like I felt like these aliens were gonna be super like, highly intelligent. We were gonna have to do something a lot more like having to out with them, I guess is what I was expecting. But then it kind of just turned into like a full on monster movie. They had They were basically like big intelligent bugs like Spider's almost like spiders. They didn't really feel like aliens to me, and you kind of got scared a little bit, right because you don't like anything jumping out, you don't like anything by us. Well, it's it adds to the point that I'm trying to make here you did right, And I was like, what did I say? I was like, they're probably not going to show the aliens within the first twenty minutes of the movie, because that's usually what you do in a good monster movie. You don't reveal them right away. You let the kind of anticipation build, You let that kind of overall, like, Okay, when when we're going to see him, when's that action gonna happen? But that kind of happened pretty early on, and I was like, well, they kind of just ruined a lot of like what are the aliens gonna look like? So they ended up just fighting monsters the entire time, and that's not really what I was looking for with this premise, Like it seemed like they were going to be aliens, maybe a spaceship or something, and it was basically, I don't think we need a ship. We needed a spaceship. They had a spaceship. There was no alien spaceship. It was basically just like an investation. One of the aliens have a spaceship. Yes, that would have been cool. Okay. So that's how I was a little bit taken back by the overall premise of it, and how they kind of executed that. So I thought the Aliens were going to be a little bit more unbeatable, and I felt like they didn't pose that big of a threat in that kind of front without ruining it. I beg to differ, but okay, everyone watch Yeah. But the other thing I did like about this movie is that it felt like that big summer blockbuster. It had that feeling, and we watched it at home on Amazon, which we already have. We don't have to pay any extra. We just clicked it, were watched it, and I felt like I was at the movies, but we also just had that option to watch it at home. So it had that big kind of blockbuster popcorn movie feel, which was a nice thing to have. But what's a popcorn movie a movie you don't have to think a whole lot about and you just eat popcorn while you watch it? Interesting? Yeah, did you coin that term? No? Okay, It's a movie you can kind of just turn your brain off. Usually, like big summer blockbusters, there's not a whole, big, overall plot you have to follow. You can just kind of watch it with ease. I love a good popcorn movie. Black Widow was not that Black Widow was not that you had to get those confused. You had to pay attention to that when you had to follow not only the plot line and that, but you had to know things about other movies. With this movie, you could just kind of watch it and enjoy it. And I think overall, that's the other aspect of this one that I like. It was just overall entertaining. While it wasn't the best execution of the plot was a little bit cheesy, the acting was in I didn't think Pratt was his best in this. It was entertaining. We watched the whole movie and it I don't think at any point we're like, let's turn this off and not finish it. And even though it's over two hours, I thought the entire time I was like, all right, ready to see what's gonna happen. I'm following along. Even though it was not, you know, at the tier I was expecting, it was entertaining. That's that's how I felt about it. So if you had to rate it, what would you give it? Three out of five bugs? Yeah, I was gonna give it three out of five two. I think it's like it's right in the line of like you don't need to watch it right now, but if you're looking for something new to watch, it's worth your time. It's not a waste of time. But if you're if you want something new, watch it, but like, don't clear your calendar to watch it. Yeah, it's And I also don't want to overhype it in any way of like, no, it's really like it's not. I think it's a good movie, of like, all right, I just need something new to watch. I'm not going to get my expectations up super high, but it's a would watch. So the Tomorrow War, I'm more excited to see kind of a different side of Chris Pratt. I don't really like the leading action star him. I like them more for the comedic stuff, the Guardians of the Galaxy a little bit. I mean, I'll watch another Lost World movie, but I don't think that's really what I wanted for. I want him for like I'm gonna datem or something. He's an actor. Do you have a crush on Chris Pratt? No, not really. I would admit that I don't or do, like that's why I'm so critical of him. All Right, Well that' took a weird Let's get into some movie news now. So the biggest thing over the weekend really is how much money Black Widow made, which it's the largest opening of a movie since Star Wars. That's a very long time. And the most interesting thing I found about this not was that it made eighty million dollars in the United States, but that they made sixty million dollars on Disney Plus alone, so that whole premier access thing they have you pay the watch it, it made sixty million dollars, and they've never kind of revealed how much they make through that, which I've always been curious about because I wonder, like, you know, how many people are actually paying to watch it at home? Did we do the math on that? What is sixty million divided live math? Sixty divided by thirty two? Oh, just two million people watched it down? Yeah? Is that right? Yeah? Two million times thirty Okay, I could have done that a lot faster. I would like to admit I've only had half a cup of coffee today. It's a two million household watch it at home. Yeah, it's a pretty good number. And sixty million adding into the eighty that's a big block. Bluses a little bit. Is their tax i can't round too. But anyway, I think that's kind of how the new box office numbers are gonna go. Like it's the in theaters number, the at home numbers, and then the global numbers, and you put them all together and that's the new number. And I like the fact that you have the option now, especially coming up with this week of Space Jam two coming out. That's a movie you kind of decide do you want the theater experience and you just want to watch it at home. I think that one, we're just gonna watch it at home, couch watch that one. Yeah, that's not one I want to spend the money to go see it in theaters. I don't think there's anything more you get out of that experience for that one. So you have the option to watch it at home. So I think we're finally in the seat of being able to decide our experience, which has been the biggest debate of like, oh, well, movie theaters to go out of business, movies aren't gonna be able to make their money back. I think this is what we have now. We have the option of picking where we want to go the experience we want. The bigger movies will still make money. Disney ain't hurden, And I don't think it will take away from people seeing movies and theaters because we like that experience, like I've missed a night and I'm like dinner and then like a movie like a date night, Like I love going to the movie theater. So I don't think that takes away. I do think that like some movie theaters will have to start kind of moving to that format of being like like an alimal drafthouse. I talk about it all the time. Promise is a sponsored I just love them, but of offering like food and drink and kind of like a not an immersive experience, but being able to make it something more of just than seeing a movie. You have to offer a little more. I'd say. The only thing that was kind of sad to me is seeing that they don't have people at the front anymore. Like that was a little sad to me because I like that kind of experience of like going up and getting your ticket printed out and now like just the kiosk, can we make the concession STANDI kiosk? Oh? Yeah? People in fred of a spot a four course meal at the movie theater And I'm not even kidding they had nachos, popcorn, and Nathan's hot dog and also candy and candy. They had the full full meal. And this is no way judgment. I'm not there's no judgment there. I just held up the line a little bit and they probably bought like they're probably told her that like a grocery amount, like a grocery mill little for a hot dog alone is like eight bucks as buying a hot dog in the movie. There might there might be a little judgment. There might be something up there, but yes, I think movie theaters will have to now adapt and make it more of an immersive experience and also just make it more fun. Also bring back diet coke at Regal. Oh yeah, that's your big beef with them right now. Yeah, Because it's like nobody wants a pepsi. They don't want a pepsi. I can sneak some candy in, I can't sneak like a drink with ice in. I can sneak a bottle of something in, but then I didn't want the ice. Yeah, and I can't just ask for a cup of ice. That's really obvious when you have to go to a m C. That's where they carry coke. Okay, when are you taking me to AMC? I don't know. We'll see. All right, Well that will do it for this week. Before I hop out of here. I gotta do what I do every single week. My shout out to one of you guys listening, whether you send in a d M on Instagram, a tweet at Mike Distro, or a message or comment on my Facebook page which is Facebook dot com slash Mike Destro actually going over to the old Facebook page today. This comment is from Sherry Morris, she said. On the episode with Amy, she said, good podcast, enjoyed hearing about Amy Brown's favorite movies. If you missed that episode, you can go back one and listen to Amy, who I work with on the Bobby Bones Show. We talked a lot about her favorite movies as a kid, the first movie she went to on a date, and then she revealed like this crazy story about her next boyfriend that she never told before and the weird kind of connection that he had with Old Yeller. He basically had to live out the movie Old Yeller, which had a kind of a depressing ending. So then we kind of switched it up a bit. But if you want to hear that story it's on the last episode. Sounds sad, right, sounds really sad. And I also realized that I think that movie is one of the reasons I never had a dog as a kid. Not this conversation. Save the pot cast listeners. Okay, well, you can go back and listen to that episode and hear my whole kind of trauma with that. But I appreciate everybody for listening to all of you who are subscribed and listen every single week. That means a lot to me. I hope you come back next week and listen to that episode and until then later