Music. Hello, welcome to the Extra
credits. Today we're going to be talking
about the podcast. We're going to be talking about
our Patreon, the YouTube. What's coming out on the main
feed. We don't do a lot of episodes
updating listeners. We just stick to movies usually
but today felt like a good day because I kind of lost my mind
last night yeah, there was a big trade in the NBA.
This is a movie podcast we don't cover sports or any other form
of entertainment outside of the film industry or TV.
Sometimes maybe video games, but my mind broke last night.
I just have not recovered from trying to understand the Luca
Dodge's trade for those listeners out there who are that
strange crossover of basketball and movie fan.
So what's it been like listening to me from the past few hours
rant to you about trying to understand the significance of
this generational talent being traded randomly?
Well, that was the, the first thing that you tried to like do
when you heard the news drop right before we were going to
bed last night. You're like, how do I, how do I,
like, explain to you how big a deal this is?
Like how do I? What is the equivalent?
Without being dramatic, yeah, I was trying to say like.
What a huge, like, pop culture moment this is, Yeah.
It really is because I was really trying not to be
hyperbolic, but if you if you don't know the sports world and
basketball in particular, basically Luka Doncic is a
player for the Dallas Mavericks who was traded for Anthony Davis
of the Los Angeles Lakers, which is basically 2 generational
talents being traded for one another one out of the prime one
who's just beginning their prime.
And it is genuinely like if Timothy Chalamet was replaced by
Glenn Powell in Dune 3, Like that's essentially what
happened. And Warner Brothers and Denis
Velnav looking at Timmy being like, you got a little weird on
this press run. The Beyblade on the red carpet
was a little much. I'm not sure about this Bob
Dylan thing you're doing. We're going to replace you with
the. Buff somebody shaming.
Yes, yeah, because apparently the Dallas Mavericks were like,
Luca, you cost too much money, you're going to get the supermax
this summer. You also gained like 20 lbs this
year that we didn't ask you to gain.
And to that I say what a mistake it is one of the craziest things
I've ever seen in sports. That's why I was trying to
compare to something in movies. There's nothing to really
compare it to. It would genuinely be like
Robert Downey Junior in 2008 after the success of Iron Man
being recasted, you know, or would be like Tom Holland being
recast today as Spider Man because they're like, you're
you're too small. Like it would just doesn't, it
doesn't make any sense. I was trying to find some kind
of analog in the movie world. And it's hard to for basketball
nerds, it's kind of like if LeBron got traded at 25 years
old, you know, it's insane. I.
Don't totally know, but I I do get what you're saying.
Yeah, I was OK. So like I get that this is a big
deal. OK it.
Is a really big deal. It's like.
It's. Like the like laws of physics
were broken overnight. Like I don't understand from a
business perspective or a basketball 1.
Was trying to ask Trey this morning because like I woke up I
was like, I'm going to like, you know, get ready for this pod and
trying to see so. I've been texting with my
friends all morning. And I was like trying to
understand this, like, what's happening?
Like you, you seem like emotionally impacted.
I've listened to like 16 pods on like 2X speed trying to
understand what happened. Yeah, I mean, for a long time
listeners, you know that like I'm a a massive basketball fan.
I've written about basketball, I've talked a lot about
basketball, but this is a movie podcast.
But this you know, for basketball nerds, this is
essentially like Michael Jordan pre his first championship in 89
or 1990 being traded for Dominique Wilkins or like
Drexler. Like there is no comp and and to
tell people again who don't know basketball, like basketball
teams right now are in this like ever ever since Steph Curry, who
like basically changed the game and all games basically are all
offense now leagues are trying this league in particular right
now, this current era of basketball has been trying its
best to invest in what can can we find like a six foot 9 Steph
Curry? Can we find a point forward like
the LeBron Steph mix? You know, can we find a
character who can be both and in acting, that would be currently
the new generation of sad hot boys, sad hot girls like these
Chalamet Zendayas of the world. That's Luca.
You know what I mean? There's only like one or two of
them. It's Giannis Luca.
And that's basically it. Like those are the two immovable
forces in the league right now who are changing the game.
So it is literally as if Zendaya and Chalamet got recast in Dune.
Yeah, I I mean, I think that's crazy.
No, I think it's not. Right, like.
And it's like, it's like Xiaomi getting fired from Dune and then
he goes to be Robin next to Pattinson and Batman Part 2, you
know what I mean? Yeah, it's just that.
It doesn't make any sense to me. No attachment to this.
I'm like, yeah, sure. And he's like, this is insane.
I need something to validate the craziness I feel I'm.
Sure, there are many people, obviously, like basketball fans,
just people who understand. I have no, I have no like true
concept. Yeah, yeah, that's all I got.
You know, for anybody who's interested in basketball and
movies, I hope you appreciate where I'm at with this.
I feel like I'm stuck in some kind of Twilight Zone episode.
Trey's been in shock. Yeah, I mean, I just, I
literally just been texting people since 5:00 AM, just like
wondering what's going on and listening to so many podcasts.
I, I turned on Bill Simmons immediately when I woke up this
morning, Barely got any sleep. So our Soderbergh patron
episodes today are going to be a ton of fun and messy.
OK, so some updates on the show for the main feed.
I think in January, we covered Luca Guadnino's Queer, one of
our favorite films of the year. We covered The Brutalist on
Patreon. We had The Lighthouse with our
favorite guest, James Stack. We're also doing our other two
January episodes right now, Erin Brockovich and Ocean's 11, two
major Soderbergh episodes, also major movie star episodes.
So we're going to be talking a lot about Julia Roberts and
George Clooney, Pitt, Damon, etcetera.
Yeah, I think I want to do the a Julia Roberts ranking on Erin
Brockovich, but also want to do the Soderbergh ranking on Erin
Brockovich, right? Because I think we'll, I think
for Ocean's 11, we'll have so much to talk about with those 3.
Yes, and we were thinking about doing an episode on presents,
but because Soderbergh's black bag is coming out in March, I
think we're going to wait off until March to discuss presents
in detail. I think so too, yeah.
We could talk about presents a little bit on the Brockovich
episodes since we're going to be ranking his work, and I really
enjoyed presents, so I think it's in that top half.
You liked it more than me, but I liked it.
Yeah, I really enjoyed it. We saw a bad horror movie too.
We're going to talk about called Companion.
Yeah, I'm not objectively bad. It's just it.
It seems to be a pretty divisive movie online, but I'm not.
Objectively bad. Conversation for that, but ask
for updates. February.
Not a lot of new releases coming out that we're both going to
cover. So I think we're going to focus
on two episodes that are more like fun exercises.
We're going to do an Oscar predictions episode probably,
and we're going to do our first ever most anticipated episode.
This case, it'll be most anticipated of 2025 and maybe
talk about like 30 or 40 movies on that episode.
It's going to be a huge year. It looks to be a bigger year
than 2024. We'll see.
It depends really if that PTA movie comes out in August, which
it looks more likely now than it did a few weeks ago.
We also have the YouTube channel up and running.
Everybody can check the details of this episode to find that
this episode today is not on YouTube because we're about to
do 2 patrons back-to-back. So it's going to be a long day
of recording. But the YouTube channel has been
a ton of fun. We've had a lot of long episodes
on there. We weren't planning on doing an
hour plus episodes on there, but there's some 45 minute ones on
there as well. Yeah, we're definitely trying to
like make them a little shorter for the video for yeah.
I like long form YouTube movie reviews, but I'm not sure
everyone does. So we might do some where I
review some movies in shorter episodes like 10 to 15 minutes
and then me and Kelsey will do 30 minutes to an hour, depending
on the the movie or how complicated it is.
The Brutalist recently was so long because that that kind of
film, you have to talk about the conversation around it, the
motivations behind the film makers, the the politics of the
film. So that was a a long episode,
but I enjoy talking about it with you and on Patreon right
now. If you check the description of
this episode, we just got green lit by Patreon to start offering
annual memberships for a 10% discount, which we've never been
able to offer before. So right now if you go on
Patreon, you can become a free member.
You can become a $5.00 a month subscriber on Living Plus for
Patreon or you can now join the annual membership as a 10% off a
month subscriber, which is pretty cool.
Good deal. And on Patreon right now we have
over 50 episodes, which is really exciting and we also have
for free members. If you want to get a feel for
what our episodes are like outside of what we put on the
main feed, we have a Timothy Chalmay Deni Villeneuve Big
Project episode, which is the Dune Part 1 for our discussion.
So right now, free members on Patreon can listen to that.
So go ahead and check out that so you can see what we do over
on that feed. Right.
And we also like for free members, we try to switch it up
to like for Dune right now, that's released because of a
complete unknown and like Oscar season.
Yeah, Timmy. Was nominated for a second
Oscar. And with, you know, a different
movies coming out like we've released other, I'm like
forgetting now what we've released is a a free episode.
We've done a bunch before, like Sean Baker's Florida project
Gladiator. But right.
Now. Currently it's just Dune, I
believe, and we'll be switching it up pretty soon.
I'm really excited for the next few months of movies.
I'm really excited for the Oscars.
We never got to talk about Oscar nominations.
Queer totally snubbed. So you'll definitely be hearing
us discuss that in the predictions episode.
So hopefully people are excited to listen to that.
But that's it. We just want to check in, talk
about Luca. Join us on YouTube because I
feel like a lot of people have reached out and they're like,
oh, I was just scrolling through YouTube and saw you all there.
And we realized we like hadn't told the main feed people like,
and maybe if you're like listening, you know, and you
hear us say, you know, for people watching, but we never
did a big reveal besides our social media.
Right. Just saying like, hey, yeah,
follow us on YouTube. Yeah.
So it's a lot of fun things happening over there.
I think the substance and conclave may have been my
favorite. Of the YouTube episodes.
Just in terms of recording, they were fun.
Yeah, we had a lot of fun in the the last you at the beginning.
I just started the queer episode was fun to edit so people can
check that one out. Oh yeah, we Trey did some images
in. There, not all of them worked.
We'll see how that goes. I don't know if I want to keep
doing that. It takes a long time.
Anyways, this has been the extra credits of the extra credits.
We'll be back soon. And if you want to listen to us
on Patreon, the Steven Soderberg episodes today, don't forget to
check out the feed. See you guys.
Bye.