The commercial failure of *The Mandalorian and Grogu* reflects the inevitable entropy of a franchise that prioritized content volume over creative substance. It proves that even the most powerful IP cannot survive the long-term erosion of audience trust and brand prestige.
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Good morning. Uh, it is me and Mike here on a Friday. We're ending the week with diversity. Geeks and Gamers has gone woke. All right.
>> Diversity is our strength.
>> Oh my go Yeah. And this is super diversity. I mean, we've got DEI here.
I'm a woman. I'm a woman. I'm running the stream today. Can you believe that?
>> Yeah.
>> I don't know what's going on with Jeremy right now. I don't know what's going on with Jeremy right now.
>> Yeah. He probably doesn't know. He's just >> Look at this. No wonder they were late.
Yep. We got Epic Mike and a woman. I mean, Epic Mike and me. We were late.
Women are notoriously late. And so >> so are they. Okay.
>> She She was driving and we we all know how that goes, you know. Yeah. She's like, "I pulled up on the curb. I don't know what happened. My wheel fell off and I was >> That's true. That is what happened.
>> I was drinking some per drink. It's actually red. It's not purple." By the way, I'm still I'm still waking up. I'm still waking up. I'm still drinking my coffee. Um, and I I woke up I woke up this morning, opened up Twitter, and I can't believe how little people went to go see like The Mandalorian Grou. I was looking at everybody's tweets this morning and I was dying laughing.
>> Yeah, it's it was bad. I I saw it last night and like I saw it a little bit later than normal, but even then uh the the showings there was nobody there.
There were no kids. My me and my kids were the only like I was the only person with kids there and then everything else was like there was a couple older people. Um and then like two guys that you could tell were probably there to do a review of it because that was about it.
>> In the theater. Yeah. There was no hype for it, no excitement for it. Um yeah, it was it was bad. It was not good.
>> That's crazy. That's wild. On a on a Thursday, remember when we would like go opening day and be waiting in line?
>> Oh, yeah.
>> In like >> Star Wars costumes cuz they were like it was so hype.
>> Yeah.
>> And now it's just like I don't want to go.
>> I still remember going to see Pirates of the Caribbean uh at World's End and it was a on a Thursday. So, it was a huge deal because it was one of the first times at the theater that I go to that they had a showing like on a Thursday during the day. It was like 7:00 p.m.
cuz normally it was like midnight releases >> and there it was packed. Like we had to get our tickets in advance and it was packed out and the lines were all the way to the door. People were so excited.
Um I haven't seen you know I mean the Force Awakens was like that I guess but yeah I mean for a Star Wars film there was there was just nobody there. Such a bummer. Such a bummer.
>> Anyways, yeah, everybody is out of town.
Everyone's out of town. Like there's a Geeks of Gamers meetup >> over at Nin Line in in Georgia. Is that where they're at?
>> In Georgia. Yeah. Which is why I didn't go >> cuz like South like like >> in They're all in Georgia right now. And then and then we have some people that are over in Japan as well.
>> Oh yeah. If I really wanted to go on that Japan trip, oh man, I was like, "Dang it, dang it."
>> I have made way too many jokes about Japan. I don't think I'd be welcome there. Uh, and I'm frankly concerned that customs would uh not allow me to leave after they've heard some of the things that I've said. So, >> oh my goodness.
>> Yeah, I made a lot of jokes. Uh, I mostly blame Mario Kart for that. Um, I've become considerably more racist against specifically um the Japanese culture since playing Mario Kart. So, >> dude, I I block Mike after every Mario Kart stream.
>> Yes, this is actually not a joke. Like, there have been times where Yeah. stuff will block me and then I have to re >> friend him on the Switch and then friend him back.
>> Yeah.
>> It's a mess. Like, yeah. And then I get people that are like, "Hey, can you read stuff?" People I don't even know.
They're like, "Read stuff on like Nintendo." I'm like, "What? I didn't even know she blocked me again." You know, but I get it.
>> I'm so angry. It's like, "God damn it, Mike."
>> Yeah. It's kind of the worst. I don't I don't blame you. But yeah, so Mandalorian Grou, that was >> that was a thing.
>> Everyone's out of town. So you get me and Mike today. That That's just it. You get me and Mike. Yeah.
>> Twice, actually. So we'll talk about that later. But yeah, >> you get you get me and Mike today. Um because everyone's out of town. And now you get to see what this stream would be like.
>> Yeah.
>> If Beardo wasn't on it.
>> Yeah. I mean, well, listen, last week we did it too. Was it last week? Week before last. It ran like a top, >> a welloiled, greased up machine. Yeah, X-wing was there, but he was kind of like the white diversity. Now there's no white people there.
>> Just my my one white half, which I don't know what that accounts for, you know?
It might not even be a full like 50%. It might even be like 47%. I don't know.
>> Maybe. I like this.
>> You couldn't tell. Where is it?
>> I can't show it. Why can't I show it? Oh well, whatever.
>> Oh, yeah. G&G >> Dylan and you're banned permanently in chat.
Thank you.
>> G&G Black and Tan >> Black and Tan. G&G Mocha Edition. Yeah.
>> Yeah. The Mocha Edition. There you go.
>> What's half of three-fifths? Uh well, you see, if you take one half and then you you you cut out three-fifths of that and then you add uh one/ird of that together, then you get a a a full picture of what's happening. That's Steiner math for people that don't know.
>> Yeah, it it's a it's a wrestling reference. So, >> who the who the [ __ ] is Beardo?
>> We don't know. I don't know.
>> You know what? We do know who Beardo is.
Beardo >> Yeah, Beardo is the biggest [ __ ] geeks and gamers. That's who Beardo is.
All right. That is who You don't know who Beardo is? That is who Beardo is.
>> Oh, no.
>> That's who Beardo is.
>> If If you I I pulled that up in seconds.
In seconds.
>> That was so fast. If you if you haven't uh go back and watch Geeks and Gamers uh play. Yeah, we played Among Us and and Beardo accused Jay and Jay said, "If you vote me out, you're the biggest [ __ ] in Geeks and Gamers and Beardo was completely wrong." And Tree Bear had this up in in minutes.
>> The confidence that he had though, the confidence in calling Jack, he's like, >> "I saw Jake kill So sure I saw him kill.
>> Yeah, >> I saw him do it.
>> He >> Yeah, >> killed. I saw him do He literally did it.
>> Um it was so because I I listened to him tell the story cuz Ryan had no idea what it was. I listened to him tell the story and I was like so he did he lit he literally didn't see him kill. All he saw was Jay like standing over his body and he thought like is he going to call it in? He's going to report it. No, he didn't report it. So, he ran to the button.
He didn't even see him kill him. He just saw him standing there for a few seconds, assumed he killed him, and ran to the button. Um, >> so wild.
>> What's even funnier is that I was the one that killed Colehauser in Among Us.
>> I was the one that I did it like right away and ran off.
>> So once we was like, I saw Jay, I was like, oh, it was totally Jay. Yeah, that we should just Somebody said that uh Beardo should never get jury duty. Yeah, I saw that guy. Do it. I know he's guilty. I was right there when it happened. They're like it it was in a completely different city than where you live. Oh, well, it could have been, you know. Yeah, Cole, I didn't do anything.
Yeah, shout out to Cole Hower. But yeah, that was that was something else. But congratulations to Beardo. You know, if you're gonna be good at something, just just be good at it wholehearted. Don't halfass it. Whole ass being [ __ ] Yeah.
>> Say it with your chest, just like did >> I saw him do it.
>> That was a good >> That was so literally saw him.
>> Um, all right.
>> Do you want to knock it?
>> Well, we we can do super chats or we can talk about the thing.
>> Let's do a few super chats before we talk about it.
>> Okay. Yeah, cuz read like five if we >> read five super chats. Okay. Let me see.
>> Yeah, I don't even know if we have any.
>> We have super chats. Yeah. The planet will for 10 says the Latina and a black.
>> Wow. The Latina and a black. Makes sense why I was 8 minutes late. Hail the A++ team. Hey, >> he he almost didn't show up.
>> I'll take it. Yeah, I almost didn't show up. I forgot what was going on today. I was asleep. Um, Wild Man for 10 says, "Tell Ryan to replace the lofah in his shower." What?
>> Ew. Oh, also, yeah, that is kind of gross. Also, literally the funniest thing ever, seeing G&G diversity cast with my favorite non whites, Lmao Mike.
Hey, love you both. Shout out. Thank you. F YouTube censorship, by the way.
Gay. Yeah.
>> Yep. Yep. Yep.
>> YouTube's kind of the worst. It's a It's a real [ __ ] mess. Um, Leank for five says, "Thank God no beardo. He's uh polishing his award. It was >> very specifically shaped and he was very excited about it." So, uh, Mad Dog for 109 says, "I was about to say something mean, then saw Steph."
>> Yep. Yep. Saving the stream.
>> Saving the stream.
>> I'll read one more. And pee poop man for a dollar. Shout out to pee poo man.
>> Pee poo poo man.
>> Pee poo man.
>> Peoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo man. I You say that every single stream.
Pee poo poo man.
>> That's he's >> every single stream we say pee pee and poo poo.
>> Yeah.
>> Nice.
>> Yeah. Mandalorian and Grou. You want to talk about it?
>> I don't want to talk about it, but we should.
>> I mean, we got to talk about it.
>> All right, let's talk about it.
Mandalorian and Grou.
>> I haven't seen it. I I'm I'm seeing it later for the stream, but I have not seen it.
>> Oh, so you have no opinion on it?
>> I have no none whatsoever yet.
>> Okay. Well, I'm about to surprise you.
>> Okay. Surprise me, Mike.
>> I'm not going to surprise you. Um I saw Mandalorian.
>> Bore me is what you're about to do.
>> I am about to bore you. I saw Mandalorian Gorg yesterday and uh surprise surprise, it's not a good movie. Um I trying to treat this with like not even kid gloves. I'm just trying to be as objective as possible. Star Wars is in a horrible state right now. Um we've declared it dead. It's a dead franchise.
It's doing terrible there. There's nothing there's no hype around it.
There's no excitement for it. The marketing is terrible. They have no characters to speak of that are worth anything to anybody anymore. They've destroyed all their goodwill and they they um have completely tarnished their reputation and now Kathleen Kennedy's gone. Dave Fona has taken over and nothing looked like it's going to get any better. So, we get Mandalorian and Grou and uh I'm going to be honest, this essentially to me is what season 3 of The Mandalorian should have been. it it is a 100% a condensed uh season of the show. It like it's what 2 hours long. So, a Mandalorian season I think was like eight episodes long or whatever and they were like 20 minutes a piece. Like this is essentially just like a condensed uh uh season on in the theater and it's not good. It's very boring. Uh it's very slow. It's it's a slog to get through.
Um, even at 2 hours, which should be kind of brief or feel like it's doing something. No. Um, at at best it is them trying to uh give you a a fun enjoyable adventure with these two characters. But to be honest, it goes nowhere. It has no consequences to it. It doesn't mean anything to the Star Wars franchise. It moves nothing forward. It moves nothing anywhere. Uh, frankly, it's just kind of a waste of your time. Uh, there are some, uh, member berries in it, which are mostly just Dave Fona member berries. They they straight up copy um, there's a there's a scene that like mimics the uh, the game that Chewy and R2-D2 were playing in Star Wars, A New Hope, of course, >> where the >> Yeah, there's like the, you know, the like monsters on the board that are like fighting each other. Yeah. There's a scene where they're like in an arena and they have a monster fighting another monster and it's the same one on the board and it like picks the one uh monster up and like slams it into the ground. So they like do stuff like now that's what we're doing. We're copying board games that we saw like in a New Hope now at >> in universe board games live action.
>> Yes. Um there's a hole there's a there's a a hut in this that are like jacked. He has like a six-pack and like huge traps and like big arms, which I didn't know that like slug creatures could get muscle muscular like that. Muscular muscular like that. Um, yeah, the whole thing is a complete mess. I I I don't think that there's anything I could say or describe to you that wouldn't make it sound like a joke because that's what it really is, a big joke to everybody. Um, the one thing I will say that this is very very very common of Disney right now is it feels like there's a lot of clip farming in this. There's a lot of moments of like they'll pause on something cutesy that like Grou is doing and it's like obvious they're waiting for everybody to go a and then like there's a moment with uh a character who I liked in the the um Rise of Skywalker, Babufrick. He's like the little tiny guy who like like the little mechanic and he's like, "Hey, >> there's like a bunch of them now.
>> There's like there's like five of them now." And they have like their own spaceship that's like this big and there's they just run around and they talk and like they completely overstay their welcome. There's no reason for them to be in the movie at all. Um, Grou is even more annoying than he ever has been before because we have to watch him walk everywhere now and like it takes forever. It's like, listen, I'm not trying to take shots at short people, okay? But you know, like how you're with a short takes forever to walk places.
>> It takes you forever to get places.
You're one one of my strides is seven of yours. That's what it's like. Everybody has to walk super slow because Grou's like and he's running everywhere and they you know that they thought it was the cutest thing ever and it gets very annoying cuz it's just wasting your time. Um, so yeah, overall it it's not a good movie. The plot is Mandalorian has to go help uh Jin Jarn has to go help the New Republic do a thing that they don't really need help doing and then they find out that it was waste of time for them to go do it and you go cool. So it was a waste of my time to watch it. Uh and Grou is they try to make Grou super cute and he's just annoying more than anything. So >> I'm trying to find this clip that I saw of Babu Freak and Grou.
>> Yeah. where he like runs up on people or he runs on them. You try. He like grabs one. He's like, "No touchy. No grabby.
No grabby."
>> Oh. Oh my god.
>> At one point he gets caught by like a Yeah. At one point there's like a um who is it? Oh my gosh. I'm trying to think of his name now. He's u one of the bounty hunters from uh I actually believe he's from Rebels or something like that. Um, and he's uh he's there and he's like the kind of the main antagonist. He's kind of like um and he has like a dog and the dog just like randomly picks up one of the creatures and like runs around with him and he's like using like a chew toy and I'm like why am I watching this happen? Like I don't understand what's what the point of this is. I'm trying to see where I know somebody in the chat probably knows what his name is. It's not Bosque.
It's um Ibo. Thank you. It's Embo. Yeah, Embo is in this. Uh, and it's obvious that they're just like scraping the bottom of the barrel for these bounty hunters. It would have been way cooler to have seen like somebody of actual note like Bosque or like I don't know.
Um, maybe you get Cad Bane back. I'm pretty sure he's dead now though in this universe. But it all overall it's garbage. It's a waste of time. Um, Embo's kind of cool, I guess, if you like him and you're a fan of him. But like I said, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel with characters at this point. So, um, yeah, I I I I had no excitement for this. And then when it's over, it's over and it just ends and you're like, "Oh, okay. That's it."
Like, that's that's all you guys had to offer us. Like, that's okay, cool. I guess that's where Star Wars is now at this point. So, >> I mean, we had uh where Let me share it.
Let me share it. We had some people go watch the Mandalorian and Grou the other night. If I can [ __ ] find it because I'm I have so many things pulled up.
Where is it?
>> We have too many tabs.
>> If you've ever wanted to experience what it's like to have the entire movie theater to yourself and your f with your friends, go see The Mandalorian and Grou. Look at Look at Jay. Like Like >> that's crazy, dude.
>> It's an empty theater.
>> That's not even a big theater to fill.
>> No, >> that's wild, dude. It's a It's a small small ass empty theater. He said ready for Mando and Grou.
>> Yeah.
>> Look at that. It's one, two, three, four, five. It's there's six of them, including Jay.
>> Yeah.
>> And then here's here's X-wing.
>> Oh, hold on.
>> Are you trying to pull it up right now?
I believe in you. But yeah, this is that's kind of wild. That's so small.
Yeah. I mean, my theater was pretty big size. is I was like in the main one and there was there was nobody there.
>> The way he ended. Oh [ __ ] I wasn't even sharing it. Hold on. Look it.
>> Here we are for the premiere of Mandalorian and Grou. And you would not believe how packed this house is.
>> That's crazy, dude.
>> Opening night, baby. Star Wars is alive and well.
>> The way he ended it, Star Wars is alive and well. Yeah. I mean, that's saying something because for a Star Wars movie, a Star Wars movie, it should be a packed theater.
>> Yeah, absolutely.
>> It should be a packed theater. The first time we saw like empty theaters was Solo: A Star Wars Story. It should be a packed theater, and it's not.
>> Like, people aren't even giving it a chance. There's no hype.
>> There's no there's no interest. And frankly, and I've seen people in the chat say it too, and I think this is a good point, uh, when you have your lead uh, actor Pedro Pascal promoting this film, first of all, everybody has Pedro fatigue cuz he's in everything lately.
Uh, secondly, you know, in the middle of promoting this film, he just mouth kisses Steven Colbear on national television while sto while while Steven is nosediving his own show. Um, doesn't even have a show anymore. Like, what are we doing? Like at at some point you go, you know what? I don't think it's worth it to even have this guy promoting anything because who wants to watch this? What how is that promoting our brand? How is that promoting Star Wars?
How's that keeping anybody interested in what's going on? Like Pedro Pascal is like at at one point I remember being excited to hear his name and stuff. I liked him in Game of Thrones. Um I was excited when he took over, you know, when he became the Mandalorian when he was cast. Uh I was like, "Oh, cool. He's a he's a good actor. He's versatile."
And now they just put him in everything.
He He's a terrible Reed Richards. Still a massive miscast. Um and he's just used up He burned up all the goodwill.
>> You're saying So you're saying like bringing Pedro Pascal out and having him fly one of these Disney like this is this is who they're bringing out. Like this is it. It's Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Reaver, uh John Favro, and Dave Fona. That's who's been out there promoting this movie because the cast is so [ __ ] small and tidy.
Like there's there's nothing >> no one to bring out. It's so small, tinidy, contained, and they're bringing out Baby Grou, which has been bothering the hell out of me.
>> That bothering me hell out of me that they're bringing baby [ __ ] Yoda everywhere else. Everywhere they're bringing him out. Here's fake wizard.
>> He just says, "I want to go home. This is so boring."
That's wild, dude. It's true. It's a very boring film. I had I had trouble staying awake during it.
>> Um, the other thing, uh, surprise, Dave Fona straight up has a cameo in his own film.
>> He's he's flying one of the >> fightil.
>> Yeah, he's flying one of the X- Wings or whatever that. And then, uh, Sigourney Weaver, who I love Sigourney in a lot of things, but Disney has overused her as well. Uh she is like a fighter pilot at the end of the movie at one point. She's like flying an X-wing as well. Totally not a Kathleen Kennedy insert and she straight up like >> Yeah. Obviously not. No.
>> They show up at the very end of the film as like the calvary or the cavalry to save uh um the Mandalorian cuz he's like in trouble or whatever. She's like, "All right, let's go pick up the trash." And then, you know, Dave Fon's like, "I got him." And we're like, "What? Oh, okay.
There it is." That's what we're doing.
That's where we are in Star Wars now.
Dave Fona making cameos in his own film.
So >> this is just embarrassing, man.
>> Like this is this is th they're resting this movie on the cuteness of Baby Yoda.
Like that's it. This movie is hinging on people still falling for the novelty of the Baby Yoda. Even Pedro Pascal at the premiere of The Mandalorian is dressed up and wearing green like Baby Yoda. He could be wearing his Mandalorian colors because you know like when they go on the red carpet now now like it's the thing to dress up as kind of like the character that you're playing in a little bit. That's how it's become on the red carpet. You sort of embody that character from from start to finish of the of your premiere of of uh promoting your movies. And he dresses up like Baby Yoda. He could have worn like a silver shirt, some dark pants. No, I got to dress up as Baby Yoda because we're relying on this novelty of a creature in order to sell this film.
>> He He looks like >> worn off.
>> He looks like he grabbed a time machine and robbed MC Hammer in the 90s and just stole his outfit.
>> Like that's it's wild, dude. It at this Listen, this has nothing to do with the Mandalorian and Grou, but kind of does a little bit. Hey, Pedro, just come out already, man. Like, come on. It's It's all over the walls, man. I just I I don't want to see it anymore. I suck at hinting people hinting at it. It's weird. It's gross. Just say you're gay.
We all know. Maybe it make you feel better. Or maybe it'll do what we're all hoping it will and Hollywood will stop casting you and everything.
It's wild stuff.
>> Yeah, we do have a review on over on geeks.com.
Mandalorian Grou is Disney Plus slop content that can't justify it. its existence. Um, so go and check out that review on geeksgamers.com. Um, I I would agree with this whole title. I abs I love this title. It is Disney Plus slop content.
>> Yeah, it is it is 100% the show condensed and they're just trying to drum up hype because they have nothing else going on with Star Wars and releasing it on Disney Plus. It would have it nobody would have watched this.
They they probably have more people watching this because they released it in theaters than they would have had watching it on Disney Plus because nobody's watching anything on Disney Plus right now. Um the the numbers are terrible. Uh and um I know you you actually had some box office numbers and the box office numbers are >> atrocious. They're so bad. Um but we'll yeah, we'll do some super chats and then talk about the box office.
>> Okay. Yeah, cuz we also have some reviews up and stuff. I know some people were talking about the reviews and stuff like that, but >> yeah, it's it's all bad. So, uh, Craig in the morning for 10 says, "This is the real S tier daily.
>> Hail my favorite cast. Let's go."
>> Yeah, >> it you know what? It would be S tier if we were on time. I I'll say that.
>> No, no, no, no, no, no. We're we were we were um what is it? Fashionably late.
>> Okay. We're we're rad like that. We we we we we showed up when we needed to. Uh Young Stove for two. Okay. I can live with this team. Hi, Stephan. Mike, let's we can go. They're like, you know what?
Now we understand why they're late.
We're not even mad.
>> I know.
>> Congratulations. Yeah. You know what?
They're like, "Congratulations for being kind of early cuz it wasn't 15 minutes late." Uh oh, no.
>> I just saw that profile. Super Fran Fran demand for for 250 says Tom Hardy reportedly being dropped from Mob Land season 3. Yeah, I didn't pull that up, but I did hear >> I saw that.
>> Yeah, he's was removed. Apparently, he was fighting with producers and they got sick of him showing up late to set and he was apparently also offering like creative things and rewriting scripts and stuff for them and they were like, "You know what? We've had enough." Uh, I think that's interesting. I have it right here, but I don't >> uh this is based off of a Puck news article. Like when I try and click on it, I need to like subscribe and I don't. So, >> yeah, I saw that earlier. Uh or actually not earlier, late super late last night, like 3:00 a.m. because I'm I don't I don't sleep.
>> Tom Hardy fired from Mob Land won't return for season 3. He allegedly clashed with producers after being consistently late to set and attempting to give notes >> uh and change dialogue in the series.
>> Yeah.
>> So, replies or the replies to this are pretty funny. They're like, "Okay, so you're saying so you're saying we're not getting um a season 3 and would you just stop watching? It ends at season two because like people love Tom Hardy and that's the only reason they're watching."
>> And wasn't Taylor Sheridan one the writer for this or the main producer?
>> I I honestly don't know. I don't watch Bland.
>> I think he was. And I think this is like one of those things too. He's gone now.
So, I wonder if that had something to do with it, too, is like these new people and the new creatives in charge are like not wanting him to do things that way.
But what a mess, man. Well, shout out to Tom Hardy. He's a legend. Um, I'm going to get a couple more. This one's uh one that Yeah, we didn't have an article for this, but I think we should address it.
Yeah. Um, Sideways Stan for two says, "Rest in peace, Kyle Bush." Yeah, I don't watch NASCAR, but I know of Kyle Bush. I've heard his name many times before. I know he was a legend.
uh suddenly lost his life. I don't know exactly what happened. Um but it was sudden and I know he was relatively young for to be losing his life that early. So rest in peace to him.
>> Anybody that's a fan, that's a >> that's pretty sad. So >> chat says it was Guy Richie. Taylor's company just helped make it.
>> Gotcha. Okay. So Taylor helped produce it was Guy Richie. Interesting. That's crazy. But yeah, rest in peace to uh Kyle Bush. That's sad. That's that's a that's a huge bummer. Um, and then right after, wow. Uh, Deme Morse tapeworm for five.
Thank god no beardo. Mike, you kill me with your impersonation of Jesse Ventura. Oh, well, that'll be making an appearance later. Uh, Steph, always nice seeing a cute Latina. Yeah, I'm a simp.
Hail to diversity. Let's go.
>> Yep.
>> Thank you.
>> Pretty ladies get it done. Jesus gifted one geeks gamers membership. Thank you, Jesus. We appreciate you, bro. Much love. Uh, the skeleton king for two.
Hey, Steph. Who's the diabetic guy?
Uh, BDS and Beardo for two. I agree.
That's That profile picture is wild, dude. I Yikes. All right. Uh, I'll get a couple more. Uh, George Ramirez for 109 says, "Uh, bet G&G. Let's [ __ ] go. Be right back.
Grabbing Popeyes and Kool-Aid. Sounds like you're having your a great day today. Listen, I'm I'm living it. Uh the morning routine for a dollar. Thank you.
Appreciate you. Um got Greg Kirby for two says, uh they made Grou a [ __ ] in the movie. Yeah, Grou is very annoying. He's completely unhelpful. Um except in one moment where he almost gets himself killed. There's straight up a moment where he shows up to like save the Mandalorian who's like injured. He takes a bomb and puts it on this like wall and he just stands there looking at the bomb and and the Mandalorian is like move so he doesn't like blow himself up and die. Yeah, it's >> Oh my god, >> the show's terri the movie's terrible.
So yeah, what a what a freaking mess. Uh figs for two says, "Mike, did you ever find that again tomorrow?" Huh?
Find that again tomorrow?
I'm going to be honest. I'm kind of [ __ ] so I probably didn't for whatever you're asking, but thank you.
Little Jailover, too. Meek, you need to do the Jessie Ventura voice for Hypno for Hypnotic.
I can do that. I haven't I haven't hung out with Hypnotic in a hot minute, but yeah. Uh, Dumb Old Bear for 109 says, "G&G Daily Direct Christopher Nolan."
That's >> That's a good one.
>> Wild, bro. Yeah, we're brought to you by uh IMAX. Um, I'll get a couple more and we can get into our next thing. Defcon Prime for five. Mike, remember how the Grace Randolph uh/Davidson made me depressed? I've taken my dignity back and started a niche comic business.
Your words kept me going. Thank you.
Hey, hell yeah, bro. I appreciate you.
That's awesome. I love that you're out there doing your thing, man. Keep it going. Um, shout out, bro. Appreciate you very much. Thank you for the kind words, and I'm glad that you were able to keep it going. going out there doing your thing. That's the way you win. So, hell yeah, man. Uh Darth Gavl for two.
There are only six Star Wars movies.
That is correct. There was a weird There were some weird fan-made projects that were that were uh they had a pretty big budget, but nobody's those don't count.
So, uh Vat Law for five. Hail the tri the tribal cheeks.
See y'all in Savannah in a few hours. Uh dictated but not not real. chief of the secret police. Thank you, Vatlaw. I appreciate you, bro. And uh how dare you. Um SBZ for two says, "I am my own man. Manly the hut." Yeah, dude. Also, like the hut, some of them speak huties or whatever. Uh but Jabba's son speaks perfect English, and it's weird.
>> It's It's super weird. Oh, yeah.
Straight up. He doesn't even ever speak like at all. He's straight up just like, "Hey, what's going on? It's me. I'm I'm Jabba's son.
>> Oh, dude. Straight up. Yeah.
>> And was like, "Hey, I'm here to rescue you." And he's like, "I don't need rescuing. I'm just working out with my homies. I don't even want to go back."
>> No way.
>> It's so bad, dude. Yeah, it's bad. And he's like, I'm like, I'm not kidding, guys. He's jacked. He's like s I'm like, how do you get muscular as a slug? Like all the other like slug people, all the other huts and stuff are just slug people. It's super weird, dude. Um Yeah, it's a mess. It And he's straight up a gym, bro. And he like doesn't know what he wants to do with his life and like it's just it's a mess, dude. And we never we don't see Jabba at all.
Yeah. And and the last time you see him, so if you watch the Clone Wars, he is I think briefly in the Clone Wars, you see him, he's like really tiny or tiny relatively for a hut. They just go, "Oh, we went through a growth spurt." So then the next time you see him, he's like jacked. And you're like, "Oh, okay. I guess whatever. It's a mess, dude. It's it's it's gross. Yeah. I don't want to deal with it. Uh Steph, you got box office numbers.
>> Well, I mean, for Yes.
>> This is so bad. This is just previews.
Okay. Yeah, >> this is just previews, >> guys. This is early. Okay. Obviously, >> early box office, but still, it's not good because um Star Wars: The Mandalorian Grou targets 80 plus million. And [ __ ] I hate Hollywood Reporter. Uh, oh shoot. Okay, Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grou targets 80 million plus US box office launch amid scrutiny heavier than job the Hut, right? But then I mean, we have the Thursday previews. Look at how much it made on Thursday previews. Star Wars: The Mandalorian Grou opens with just $12 million.
>> Oh no.
>> Thursday preview box office. I don't think that it'll get to where it needs to be this weekend.
>> Yo, 12 million is >> bad.
>> Yeah, $12 million box office opening.
That's wild. A Mandalorian and Grou off to a softer than expected start at the box office, pulling in just 12 million Thursday night in previews. Uh the number might look respectable for many franchises. The reaction surrounding it has been very different because it's Star Wars. Yeah.
>> A brand that once dominated theatrical openings and generally generated genuine cultural event hype. Yeah. That's why it's like it's freaking great because 12 million in Thursday previews for a Star Wars film. It's dead. I mean it is dead.
>> Not only that, but uh The Mandalorian Grou flopping in Europe. Disney Star Wars. It's struggling overseas and I think it's going to continue to struggle overseas because this is this is crazy.
It's already flopping in Europe. We had this tweet and I'll pull it up here in a bit, but Disney and Lucasfilm were hoping the Mandalorian Grou will mark a triumphant return for Star Wars on the big scene after a seven-year theatrical absence. And you would think that after seven years people would be kind of interested, you know, in something coming out of the franchise. Like we're we're getting something new with Star Wars. We haven't gotten anything new in a while, right? We haven't gotten anything new in a while. Let's see what they're cooking. Let's see what Star Wars is cooking. see, you know, let's get some interest in there because Star Wars has had a really long time to build up their new audience, right? So, let's see it. It's all been building to this.
We're we're putting out something new for Star Wars. Let's see the audience that they built up >> and it is it's just flopping. 12 million in previews and now this. um instead of early instead early overseas numbers are raising serious concerns that a galaxy far far away may not be the box office juggernaut it once was and it is not because this article is referring to this tweet right here. Um the Mandalor let me make it bigger. Here you go. The Mandal and Grou kicked off global roll out in Europe but not like one would expect from the from first Star Wars film in seven years. In Italy for instance, this is an example. The Pedro Pascal grossed a modest $417,000 >> on Wednesday, opening day.
>> Thou not even a million dollars.
>> Not even a million.
>> $417,000.
This is just an example from Italy. But if this is any indication of how Mandalorian and Kroger are going to do this opening weekend, I mean, it's not looking good because this is on par with The Flash that grossed $414,000.
Solo, it made less than Solo, $453,000, and Captain America: Brave New World, $531,000 as one of the lowest debuts for Disney's major IP postcoid, only above the Marvels and Snow White.
It's just inching out. It's just itching out and beating >> the Marvels and Snow White.
>> That's insane.
>> Yeah.
>> By by the way, just so people know too, like the the Thursday box office preview numbers for Solo, 14 million. Solo made more money on its opening weekend than Mandalorian and Grou.
>> Wow.
The movie that lost money, the first Star Wars movie to ever lose money made more money than this did. And yeah, and I think what was it? The budget for this movie was like 200 million or something like that. So they got to clear at least four probably to break even, maybe even more than that. What a mess, dude. By the way, shout out to Gary.
>> Yeah, it's not good to start off soft.
>> No one wants to be off to a soft start.
No. No. That's very true. You don't want to be off to a soft start. No. Yeah.
What a what an absolute >> You know what I The reason I mean honestly I They're off to a soft start.
And I mean I'm You You mean to tell me that this marketing isn't working? You mean to tell me that this marketing is >> I mean, >> bro, he doesn't even You can tell he doesn't want to be there.
Like he he does like you can tell he we've been talking about him not wanting to be in this costume this whole for years like since season two. It is obvious he doesn't want to be there. And what a mess, dude. And not only that, look at that.
>> The the the You want to hear something?
This is how funny this is to me. The font that they just used, the Mandalorian Grou, that green like supposed to be like old school font that's not even in the film. It's just like standard like Star Wars font when they dropped. They were trying everything they could to make this seem like they really cared about this film.
Disney doesn't even care about it.
>> No.
>> Somebody said he's wink. He was winking at Co Bear.
>> I'm trying to find Where is it? Oh, here it is. Yeah. Yeah. They were trying so hard. I mean, >> they brought out the influencers. Like, >> look at that.
>> They were trying very hard to build the hype for this movie.
>> Don't make it too obvious to me. I don't think they're going to hear my welcome, but I'll give you my job.
>> All right, son. Travelers, come in.
>> You all know the Mandalorian.
>> Mandalorian.
>> Look at how they were. Oh, I can't I can't make move it back.
>> Do you have anything to say before we see that?
>> Look at it. They know. They know he's there.
>> They already know he's there.
>> Okay, I'm ready. I'm ready to see who it is. It's going to be Petra Pascal. They They travelers on their journey.
I like that the first thing he tells them after taking off his helmet is now you all have to die.
>> Yeah. Now you all have to die because you've seen my hair like this. Okay. And they completely must my hair. You have to die now. What's crazy to me, dude?
How? Like this you this is Disney. Like this is their like bread. This is their go-to stuff. Immersive events like this.
And this guy's like, "Welcome, weary travelers. Here's the Mandalorian." who guess maybe you want to say a couple words to them and they're like what who is this guy what are we doing and and you can all see they're all like you know like oh my god dude >> totally Disney here look at that totally authentic Mandalorian and Gro dude that it is struggling and it's not it's not I don't think it's going to do well this weekend I don't think it's going to do well this weekend tracking to have the worst global box office opening weekend for a Star Wars film It might not even hit 150 million by Sunday. Nope. It's Thursday previews and the o overseas box office has any is any indication it's not going to reach it. It's not going to reach it.
>> What a mess, bro. It's it's over.
>> It's over, bro. Yeah. You can't even make like the wine moms come out and take force their kids to go see this so they can all over Baby Yoda. Like, nope.
It's over. You're cooked.
>> Yep. And you have >> $500,000 just blew my mind. I was like, "No freaking way."
>> That's insane, dude. I I I don't even understand that number. Like, >> for a Star Wars film, first Star Wars.
That's how that's how much Lucasfilm has just run this brand into the ground.
>> Yep.
>> Because there used to be so much hype and anticipation. Like, I was there for it when with the with the prequels, dude. I was there for it with the prequels. I was, you know, I was little.
I was younger, but I was still like waiting in line and I couldn't wait to go and see this movie. Um, and nothing nothing nowadays. Nowadays, it's it's almost become a joke. Like, let's go to the movies and see how empty the Star Wars this theater is for the Star Wars movie.
>> What a mess, dude. That's Yeah, that's wild. I mean, what do you do? you know, you know, it it's just funny because on like the flip side of this, which is kind of our next topic, uh that we we can talk about briefly, but uh on the flip side of it, um The Boys just aired its finale and The Boys has kind of like has probably dropped one of the worst season finales of all time. Like it it is up there with Game of Thrones. Like they've they completely fumbled the ball, but The Boys is more relevant than anything with Star Wars. Like I I've seen more discourse around The Boys still days after the finale aired than I have around Star Wars the Mandalorian and Grou and people talking about it.
Like you'll see a couple people mentioning stuff, but like people are still talking about The Boys. People are still arguing about it. It's blowing up all over social media still. Um, and that also went to theaters, but >> look, look at this guy. 39% on critic list, by the way. Yeah.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. We can pull that up actually real quick. So, >> there he goes.
>> Over on Rotten Tomatoes. So, it came out at first to like good reviews over on Rotten Tomatoes, even though we don't listen to them.
>> Even now, the critic the critic review is at 63%.
>> It's not good.
>> It's because you know what? They can't lie. Honestly, it's it's another like Snow White thing where the movie is just so bad that they they can't lie. They can't say they can give they can say it's good or they can say give it like a mid to trash review but still give it like a tomato score like a good tomato score like a decent or whatever, but they they can't lie when it comes to this just like they couldn't do it for Snow White. Like they couldn't lie. the movie was just so terrible that if if they praised it and gave it like a a fresh score. Um they they would I mean they've already lost a lot of integrity, but they would lose even more >> even more people would know that these are like bought and paid for reviews.
Same thing with Mandalorian. Like they can't they can't um they can't give it like a fresh score or anything like that because it's just so terrible.
>> Yeah. And obviously, you know, shout out to Criticist. This is a consensus of people and fans and it's an average of those scores and yeah, we have um with 36 voters. Yeah. 39%.
>> That's crazy.
>> Nobody likes this film.
>> Nobody likes it.
>> Nobody likes it. It it's it's like even >> fell asleep during it today.
>> Well, even like you said, even like the people that are being nice to the film are like it's it's okay. It's pretty good. Like you have like a couple shows that are like Star Wars is so back, but even most of those people are like, "Yeah, it's it's serviceable. It's pretty good." you know, like we we love these characters, but I Yeah, >> I think uh the funniest things that I've read out of critic reviews where I just laughed was um just throw the lore out the door and you'll have so much fun with this movie. Um what else? What did they say? Uh go in uh I'm not even joking. One person actually said like just lower your expectations for this movie. Go in with low expectation. This was a a good rating, right? This is a good rating. Go in with low expectations for this movie and you'll have a great time. you'll have so much fun. So, you have to lower your expectations for the movie, throw the lore out the door, like forget about the Star Wars lore, and you'll have fun with the movie. These were two different people. There was another thing that someone said as well that I just can't remember off the top of my head what it was, but like that that's pretty much Oh. Oh, that's what it was. Um, it's it's an EP a very long filler episode of The Mandalorian and Grou. So, if you absolutely love, you know, watching the Mandalorian Grou TV show, uh, a filler episode of it, then you will go in loving this movie. This movie will, you know, be really good for you. So, you have to be able to toss the lore. Like, forget about the lore. Go in with really low expectations and a love for watching TV filler episodes in order to like really like this movie. That is high praise for this movie, by the way.
that those are factual. Yeah, those are those are those are good reviews of this movie. And I was just laughing reading them because I was like, there's no way.
There's no way that that's what they're telling people to do in order to have fun with this movie cuz it is that bad.
It's just that bad.
>> Yeah. What a mess. And you know, the thing is like most people it's just boring. That's what I see more than anything else. It's boring. And being bored, apathy is the worst thing you can have. It It is just a crappy movie. you can just like tear it apart for being a crappy movie. It's just boring. You just feel like you wasted your time watching it. And that like that kind of apathy is the worst thing you can have for any franchise.
>> Yeah. And we already knew that this was that Star Wars was dead, but this is just once again continuing to confirm what we already knew about it. What a mess.
What an absolute mess. Well, w you did it to yourself, you know, and this is now Dave Felon's fault because Kathleen Kennedy deuced out and was like, I ain't part of this no more. I have nothing to do with this, you know.
>> I'll make an appear I'll make an appearance and on the red carpet, but that's it.
>> Yeah, I'll just show up. Say hi to everybody. Be like, you know, it's kind of like poetry. It's supposed to rhyme, you know.
>> She's like, good luck, Dave. Here you go.
>> Yeah. Hey, congratulations.
>> You You can fix this, right? You can fix it. What a freaking mess. Um, I'm going to read a couple more super chats. We got a couple Rumble rants right now.
Marmalon for a 10 says 12 million for a new Star Wars. That is depressing. I never thought in my lifetime I'd see this brand this become this hated. Uh, great job Disney. You You did [ __ ] I never thought possible. Disney is reaching new levels of low. It's impressive.
Every time you think they've reached the bottom of the barrel, they they punch right through that barrel and find another low. And uh I didn't think they could run this franchise anymore under the ground, but you know what?
Hold Dave Fony's beer and watch him do even better.
>> Uh Derek PG for a dollar says, "Mike, uh why do you play video games? Didn't you hear Karen on X that women find it deeply unattractive? Uh don't you want your wife to be attracted to you?" Uh yeah. I mean, it's pretty wild. I've been playing video games my whole life, and I got three kids, so I must be doing something right.
>> Yeah. Every six months you'll see a a woman come out with like a brain dead take like that.
>> Yeah.
>> Like, oh, it's so unattractive.
>> She's sitting she's sitting around her her coffee her coffee maker doesn't work. So, she's upset. So, she gets on Twitter and crashes out >> and then the gaming industry that will put out like an article saying that like, oh, women make up the majority of gamers out there.
>> Yep.
>> Sure.
>> Yeah. Hey, guess what? If it's if this if the numbers are actually true and 50% of you are just as complicit, but the numbers aren't really true. And then her husband comes home and takes her phone away. And then, you know, she cries and then we don't see her for another 6 months. And then 6 months later, he's like, "I'm going to trust you with this.
Don't say anything stupid." And she's like, "Okay." And then, you know, here we are.
>> Um, Ronin for a dollar over on Rumble says, "Uh, Beardo's return on Daily will feature a lot of Chad's profile pictures changed to the biggest [ __ ] trophy."
>> Oh my god.
>> That's pretty. We got to celebrate our victories when we can. You know, it's important. Uh, Vault 95 Survivor for Five over on Rumble says, "Star Wars is completely finished. What do uh new viewers in 20 years from now have to look forward uh look for? Four great films, six real Star Wars films, and endless shitty Star Wars movie/TV shows smothering out the originals. It's over.
You are 100% correct." And as we said before, I think Disney's next play is going to be just to remake the originals. I I think they don't I don't think they have any other option. I think that they're relying on the the um Starf Fighter movie. They're they're putting this out because they need to, right? It's already made. They need to promote it. They need to put it out.
>> But they're hinging on the Starf Fighter movie, you know, bringing back the hype.
I think they know that this Mandalorian movie was bound to fail. It was going to fail. Nobody. There's no interest in it anymore. Um but I think that they're relying on that Starf Fighter movie. Um because they're going to be riding the wave of like the Ryan Gosling hype because like his popularity is like at its peak right now. Yep.
>> Um he's more popular than he's ever been and I think that they're going to really try and rely on that hype and the interest in the Starf Fighter movie. So I think that that's what they're they're waiting on that.
>> Yeah. Well, good luck with that one. um over on YouTube, uh Udite for 20 says, "Oof, I'm on my way to the Japan trip in Dallas currently, and they're offering people on my flight the chance to change your ticket to another day for a voucher because they're over booked. Started at 800, now up to $1,500.
>> Dang, I should have >> That's wild. Trip to Japan.
>> Man, I have a serious case of FOMO for that Japan trip.
>> Right. Right. Yeah, >> I've always wanted to meet Japanese people. Um, Andre CR for 5,000, whatever your currency is. Um, I was re-watching Wrestlemania last night when uh Jesse Ventura comes out and interviews Trump and asked him, "Would you give me your financial support if I run for president?"
Good times, bro. The irony. Yeah. going back and watching how much they love Trump in the in WWE is is a peak cope for these people cuz they loved him and the fans loved him being around. So, shout out to Jesse Ventura. Um, Grimley, Anko, Anko, I don't whatever. Thank you for the 10.
>> Is it Gremlin?
>> Gremlin.
>> Oh, I pulled a beard. I wouldn't doubt it. They spent double the money on marketing uh than the movie. Yeah, there's no way. They're going to have to make at least 400,000, probably five or six to break even on this film. And they're not going to make that. They're not break they're losing money on this movie. Um but they're they they don't have anything else to offer. So, um Luis Robertson for 10 says, "Oh, great. First time I catch a daily live in about a year." And I'm presented with a black and a what?
We used to be a proper country. I'm not reading that out loud. Also, shout out to my Shout out to my alcoholic ex-wife Steph.
How you doing, broki?
>> What's up, Fluid? I haven't seen you in a while. It's >> crazy work. He's like, "Oh god, I show up and these guys are here." Hey, shout out. Thank you. Appreciate you. Uh, Russian bot for five. So much better without Beardo. Shout out to Steph and Ripa.
>> Shout out.
>> Hey, shout out. Go go go support the ripover verse. Um, Jake Foreman for five. Also, Mike, did you see that the head trophies on Coins's Wall is the Beast from the Fighting Ring and Attack of the Clones?
I did not see that. There are so many little like peppered Easter eggs in there that they thought they were being really clever about and I didn't catch.
There's so many things and you can tell that they're just trying to like give something, but it's like you you've already pissed. None of no real Star Wars fan is going to watch this film. No real Star Wars fan is coming to this.
So, the nostalgia means nothing to anybody. The member berries are useless.
Like, you would have been better having major characters appear in this and make cameos than to just put stuff in the background like this. It's it's stupid.
Or or or or for two fat and bald. That's that's wild. That's a beard toy. That's that's crazy work. Um, hey Alex A carry for two says an J fry jet PC epic mic nerdy home. Hey, shout out, Alex.
Appreciate you. Thank you for the chat.
>> This is what I was talking about. Hold on. Wait. I want to show this to you really quickly. This is coming from a fan a Grou core fan account, but I couldn't find this earlier.
>> Look, it's the bad baby. Bad baby. I can't stand it. I can't stand it.
>> Bad baby.
>> Not a pet. That was queen.
>> I don't understand why this didn't make a billion dollars.
>> That's Star Wars. That is Star Wars.
>> That's our Star Wars baby. Bad baby.
>> No, no squeezy. Bad baby. And they're like, "Is that funny?" And this is exactly why they do it because they can farm out Tik Tok clips and pretend that Star Wars is more relevant than it ever has been. And it's not.
>> Oh my god. That's I I can't help but like laugh at it because if I don't laugh at it, I'm gonna cry.
>> I'm gonna cry. That's Star That's Star Wars, dude.
>> Well, Disney's definitely crying with how much money they're losing. So, uh, Tinder Rat for two. I watched Passengers passenger focuses on urban legend Tales.
Is that a show? I'm just going to take it. Thank you, Tinder Rap. Appreciate it. Um, SBZ for five. Sorry, but unfortunately I want Trapper Wolf to return and show up in every future Star Wars show just to piss off Ryan. You know, that's at this point just making Star Wars stuff to make Ryan angry would probably be more profitable than what they're trying to do right now. So Disney, there you go. That's your next marketing stint. Just make stuff that makes Ryan angry. I mean, more angry than he already is. And uh maybe you can start making some money again. Uh crack in the morning for five. Speaking of doomed movies, every day that goes by, I like my Odyssey bet more and more. Movie is toast. Uh, yeah, they're not Christopher Nolan is not doing himself any favors right now. Um, Joey Tribani.
Tribani. There we go. Tribani for five.
Hey Steph, how you doing?
>> How you doing? Oh my god. Pronounced Trib Trabani. Mike, >> you're supposed to be better than Beardo. It's Come on.
>> I'm better at reading thing. I'm not foreigner names, Italian names, just call yourself Joey. Okay. How's it going, Joey? Hey, Steph, how you doing?
>> How you doing?
>> Big Boutique Latina tax and meek tax.
Hey, shout out. Never mind. I'm sorry. I got your name wrong. Now, now I feel bad cuz you were nice to me. Uh, Tree Bear for two. Is this a beard appreciation daily? No, but we will have one of those next week coming up. Okay, I assure you guys Beardo Appreciation Day and Beardo Appreciation Daily are not gone. They will return. Uh Joe for two says, "Let's talk Lego Batman games." Also, Steph, hi Steph, did you get your Lego Batman?
>> No, I still haven't got It's supposed to get here today. Still, >> wasn't it supposed to get there yesterday?
>> So, I bought the deluxe edition. It was supposed to be here on the 19th and it hasn't gotten here. Yeah, I spent the extra money to get the deluxe edition, a physical copy, because I wanted a a physical copy of the game and it's still not here.
>> Well, jokes's on you. How dare you try to support physical media?
>> Yeah, Nick Hammershmmit for five.
Stephan, any specific Lego sets other than Minist?
I'm on the young adult side and Ninjago is hyped. Um, I don't know any sets coming out this year actually. So, the M one was rad though.
Yeah, that that's the one I was looking I'm looking forward to. Other than that, um, I'm trying to No, other than that, no.
All the all the Lego sets that I really want have already released. So, >> yeah. Yeah.
>> My my my son is really into Ninjago. Um, and like for his birthday, I got him this like huge like set that had like a giant dragon on it. And yesterday, he was like like he was like, "Dude, look at all these." And like he had his whole Ninjago set out and he has like a bunch of different dragons and ninjas and like suits and it's like kind of rad. I was like, "Dude, this is all Ninjago. This stuff is pretty awesome." So, shout out, man. I He loves Lego stuff. So, um the Ninjago stuff is actually really cool and is also super expensive. Um Little Jim's Halo for two. Hypnotic has TTS. He need voice for super chats. He has TTS.
What's that?
I have no idea.
>> Testicle tantrum syndrome. Well, shout out. Sorry. Sorry to hear that.
Hypnotic. Um, Mex Rage for two. Thoughts on the company making the new Lord of the Rings game?
Uh, I know we talked about that a little bit, but I I don't have huge hopes for this for Warhorse making this. Um, I also think it's interesting that there was a Lord of the Rings game that was just canceled, like a big open world game that was just cancelled and then they're like, "Hey, but we're making one." Um, I would love for it to because it's from the same developers as like Kingdom Come Deliverance and stuff. I would love for them to make a great Lord of the Rings game. I've always thought that uh Kingdom Come Deliverance or a game like that with like magic and and fantasy stuff involved could be a really really really cool game. But I don't know. I I the way they acted around Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 uh the way uh what is it? Varva or Vavra or whatever acted. I don't know. You know, it's kind of I think it's going to be hit or miss.
I will say the Kingdom Come games are good. They're really solid medieval fantasy games or I mean medieval uh setting games. So, adding a fantasy element, adding Lord of the Rings, hopefully they do right by it, but I don't know, man. They they could crash and burn with that one really bad, too.
You know, I I would love to be excited about it, but right now with the state of people handling Lord of the Rings and handling Tolken's work, I'm not going to hold my breath that they're going to do a good job with it. So, um, Demi Morris Tapeworm for 109 says, "Imagine doing Jessie Ventura. Imagine Jessie Ventura doing Jabba's son's voice."
Yeah, it's >> it's though.
>> Speaking of Jesse Ventura, that's that Steph, look at you setting me up for success.
>> Yep.
>> I I have a quick question for you, Steph.
How much control do you actually have over your money right now?
>> None.
>> No control over your money. What a mess.
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>> Thank you. I do.
>> You're you're so very welcome. I'm going to read the rest of these super chats. I got to get out of this voice. I got to stop. I'm so sorry, chat. Uh, Mexi Rage for two. The new Michael doc better tell the [ __ ] truth. I've heard that this Netflix doc is going to be really bad. I heard that it's going to be a scathing review and they're going to try to throw Michael under the bus. I hope that's not true, but that's what I've heard. And I bet you all the critics that hated the Michael um biopic are going to love this movie.
>> They're gonna love it.
>> They're gonna praise it for for tearing him apart um despite all of the accusations being [ __ ] So, Philip Johnson for five. I think Mel Gibson's Resurrection of the Christ will outperform everything Disney has done in the last decade in every way. Hyped for that one coming 2027. I think you are correct. Uh remember that movie made a billion dollars when it came out.
Passion of the Christ. Uh I think people are excited for this. I think faith-based films, especially well done faith-based films, are are sorely needed. The Chosen has been massively successful. Uh we know that Mel is is passionate about this, has done a lot of work on it. I do think that this movie is going to make a lot of money. Uh we got our first still from it the other day and it looks rad. Uh so I'm looking forward to it as well. I it's gonna it's gonna crush probably anything Disney's doing. I think I think he's going to make another billion easy.
>> Um so shout out to to Mel Gibson. Um Maximus BT for 199 says shiake shiake >> shiake shiake. Uh crack in the morning for five. You know, we're looking at uh looking at the internet on a woman's computer because because all the ads are for clothes and shoes. Hail stuff. That's actually pretty good. Yeah, that's wild stuff. Uh Mike Steel for five. I'm going to be that guy. Hey, that's okay.
>> There was a Jacked Hut Boku the Hut in the comics from many years ago long before Disney bought Star Wars. See, I didn't know that. I I've I know a little bit about like the Legends and Extended Universe stuff. I never knew about a jacked hut walking around, but hey, you know what? Uh maybe maybe it's not as ridiculous as Disney made it seem, but Disney makes it look pretty dumb. So, uh Jake the Movie Geek for five, my Revenge of the Sith Anniversary Theater was packed. Meanwhile, their empty theater for Mando and Grou. People only care about Georgia Star Wars. You're right.
That's 100% true. Uh whenever they do uh special events where they show the originals or the the prequels, tons of people go to see them. They're always they always do really well.
>> Uh Mike Steel for two. My bad. I meant Balorian Bellerion.
Balorian the Hut 1997. Okay. I dig it, man. I'm I'm all about the uh deep cut lore stuff. So Jason Nelson for two.
IMDb a fraud. They have it at seven uh out of 10. Go criticalist. Yeah, get off IMDb. Get off of Rotten Tomatoes. Go to criticis.
>> Get on criticis.
>> Yeah, let your voice be heard.
>> Uh, blood bucket member for 15 months says, "My expectations could not have been lower and I was still disappointed by the lack of attention to detail the storytelling." [ __ ] awful, bro. Yeah, it's bad. It's It's a [ __ ] >> I was annoyed just by the trailers. So, yeah.
>> Yeah. Well, you're going to be excited to watch it later. Uh, two penny puppet for five. Speaking of Guy Richie, after only one week, his star-studded movie, In the Gray, is already relegated to either a 9:00 a.m. or 10 p.m. showing.
What the [ __ ] This is not right. Oh, that's the one with uh Jake Gyllenhaal and Henry Caval, right?
I think that's the one where they're like they work together or something.
That's a bummer.
>> Um cuz I actually kind of uh dig those movies. But yeah, I I I saw nothing about it until recently and I was like, "This looks interesting. I didn't realize it was already out." So, um, Udite for two up to 3K now. This flight is going to be a nightmare. Holy crap, dude.
>> Wow.
>> Nobody's taking it. That's crazy.
>> That is crazy. Doge Pal for two.
Redcon/deanonize all Disney Star Wars return to EU. That's that would be the way to go. They're never going to do it, but that would be the best way to do it.
Um, take her for five. Does the movie end with Grou having explosive diarrhea all over Mando and Mando says bad baby and then Babu Frick says bad baby Star Wars. No, but it does like just it just ends with them in like space and they're just like let's go do some more adventure and Grou is like oh dude.
>> Oh my god.
>> I want to I I just want to punch baby Grou. It's it's awful. I It's bad. Um SCD for five. Uh oh. Meek, I think you bet is running the stream. Lurker tax.
Everyone pay your taxes. Ain't [ __ ] free. Protect your kneecaps from the secret police. There's no secret police.
But like if there was >> There really is. There really is. I get I get a notification on my phone every single week from Mike. Don't forget to pay your tax.
>> That doesn't sound like me.
>> Every single week. Yeah.
>> If that was real though, I would certainly pay my taxes to protect my knees.
>> I'm pretty I'm pretty sure I'm the one who started your meek tax.
>> I think probably are. And yeah, >> I would come into Mike's stream and be like, "Mike, I sent you the money.
Please don't hurt me."
>> And people would be like, "What are you doing to Steph?" And I'm like, "I didn't do anything to her." Oh my god.
>> And everybody started paying the tax.
>> I know. It's It's everywhere. It's still everywhere. There are people that still do the tax stuff everywhere. It's like a normal part of like YouTube, the the YouTube community now. People are like, "Oh, thanks for the tax." I'm like, "What? What are we doing?
>> Ski [ __ ] Skip me for two. Space Balls is more hype than Star Wars now. That's true. Yeah, that that actually is true.
Despite Josh Gad trying to destroy everything that we love. Uh yeah, Space Balls has a lot more hype behind it. Max your rage for two. I think uh Mel would have been better for Odyssey. Mel.
Who's Mel?
>> Mel.
>> Mel.
>> I don't.
>> Oh, Mel Gibson.
>> Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson.
>> Mel Gibson. Dude, Mel Gibson doing the Odyssey. That [ __ ] would have been fire, dude. And Mel Gibson is not like doesn't he's not worried or doesn't need to shy away from like the supernatural. Yeah, dude. Mel Gibson would have killed it.
Uh the planet Wilton, uh Epic Meek of the Ventura voice.
Uh would you inform me? I'd inform me.
I'd inform me so hard in the Baja.
That's shout out to to Buffalo. I know that we didn't um I know that we didn't discuss this beforehand, but speaking of the Odyssey.
>> Oh, >> yes. Speaking of the Odyssey, >> Lupita Lupita Nyongo, is that how you say her name? Nyongo.
>> Nyongo. Yeah, sure.
>> Okay. Lupita Nyongo responds to racist casting backlash. This is a mythological story. Now, this is coming from uh L magazine. So L magazine did a feature on the women of the Odyssey, right? They went over all the women. We got new images of We got new images of all of the women ina. There was Anne Hathaway.
We got a new image of Lupita Nyongo as Helen of Troy and uh Clayton Clayton. I can't say I can't say that name.
>> I can't even see it right now. Hold on.
>> Claytonestra. I can't say that name.
>> Helen Sister. Yeah, she's playing dual roles. She's playing Helen sister and Helen of Tori. Yep.
>> Yes. Uh so we have a new image of that and L even did like individual individual articles uh with each member of of the women of the Odyssey, right?
They did each member and it's it's in this one in particular where where this quote comes from because she's she responded to it. It says, "This is a mythological story. Uh, I'm very supportive of Chris's intention with it and with the version of this story that he is telling, right? The version that they are telling. Our cast is representative of the world.
>> Isn't that what you want to hear? Um, I'm not spending my time thinking of a defense. The criticism will exist whether I engage with it or not. Um, but yeah, it's their cast is representative of the world. That is the the story that Christopher Nolan wanted to tell. this is the cast that he wanted and with Lupita in particular.
>> Mhm.
>> Um Christopher Nolan wanted her.
>> Um because it says right here, where is it at? Uh Christopher Nolan, here it is.
Um her agents informed her that Nolan wanted to see her for a role. She admits that she went in quite blind. During the meeting, he gave her a script and she read it in one sitting. She was immediately allin. She says, "I was saying yes before even before even even before he told me what the role was."
She didn't even know what it was. Then she just said yes. And this is why this is like Christopher Nolan's reputation within the industry. All of these actors want to be in a Christopher Nolan movie.
They don't care what the role is. They just want to be in a Christopher Nolan movie. So she said yes regardless of what the role is. She was already all in. And Christopher Nolan specifically wanted her for the role of Helen of Troy. So >> he reached out to her. He wanted her to read for this role specifically. This was his idea to cast >> Lupita Nyongo in the in the role of Hel of Helen of Troy. Um once I signed on, she was excited to dive into the world of Homer. She performed a few monologues from Greek mythology and drama school at Yale, but was unfamiliar with the source material. Now this is this is really interesting here. Um what she says, I really had no idea what the Odyssey was.
I was like, "Oh, snap. I don't know the first thing about this." So, it was a crash course. I picked up the books and read them immediately. Um, I have this film to thank for my Greek mythological education. And by picked up the books, she really means she read the Odyssey and listened to the Iliad. And for good reason, Audra McDonald reads it. Uh, she says, and by way of explanation, in between sips of hot water, blah blah blah. This it's the best audio book I've listened to. Now, why am I focusing on Audrey McDonald? Well, the reason I'm focusing on Audrey McDonald, is because the version that she listened to >> was translated by Emily Wilson, the the feminist who translated >> The Odyssey and the Iliad.
>> So, it looks like I know that people have gotten like a few hints that Christopher Nolan has mentioned Emily Wilson's translated versions, feminist translated versions of the Odyssey. And usually, you know, he'll tell them like what to read and, you know, the the homework that they need to do for the Odyssey. And it looks like the what the versions that they're going off of are the Emily Wilson versions >> because these this is the only one.
These are the this is the only Iliad that is narrated by Audrey McDonald.
That's it. This is the only one.
>> Yep. And and this has been the the like to me this was the smoking gun. Like obviously there's a lot of people are like we don't know Christopher Nolan's a great filmmaker and he is a great filmmaker don't get me wrong but all of those things and and all of the the questions surrounding this and whether you like the casting or you don't whether you like the costumeuming or you don't blah blah blah blah blah all that stuff none all of that had the question of well Nolan as a filmmaker knows what he's doing and then we find out that and this is widely reported now that he's following Emily Wilson's translation for a lot of people that don't know she did this Emily Wilson chick. She's I think she's British in 2017 did a translation of the Odyssey and I'll read specifically one of the big controversies around it. Uh her her choice to describe Odysius as a complicated man the opening line rather than using traditional heroic uh epithets signals a shift towards moral ambiguity and modern psychological realism. Critics argue that this approach opposes a modern ideological lens or feminist perspective on the ancient text, potentially distorting Homer's original tone and intent. Um, and then supporters, however, praise the transition or the translation for its linguistic fidelity, clear pacing for highlighting the experience of marginalized characters such as enslaved women whom they believe were previously overlooked or mistreated in older translations. So, we've seen this time and time and time again. somebody gets a hold of a of a a beloved story, a beloved IP, something that stood the test of time, has been relevant in in human history, and then they want to apply a modern lens to it, and they want to point out and and talk about marginalized people and highlight the people in history that were overlooked or weren't treated correctly or weren't treated well or whatever you want to do.
That being the source that Nolan went to to adapt his his movie from should be the biggest red flag of anything else that's happened. Just like with what Greta Gerber is doing with uh Lion the Witch in the Wardrobe, the fact that I am very very convinced she is basing this off of uh Dear Susan which was real by written by Neil Gaiman. um all of this stuff, all of these people adding their own ideology and their own lens to something and then adapting that. So, they're already going to add their artistic liberties to somebody else's artistic liberties is going to create a a bigger and bigger gap between what the text is and what the story is supposed to be about. And the fact is Christopher Nolan wanted to cast a bunch of strong powerful female characters and they're going to get their they're going to get their moment in the sun. And I guarantee you Odysius is going to look less and less like a traditional uh hero, epic hero, and more like a complicated jerk.
And he's going to get criticized and scathed for not being faithful to his wife and for being a woman. This is all going to happen in this film because that's what the text is all about.
>> Yeah. Especially since this uh version by Emily Wilson. I mean, Emily Wilson called previous translators misogynistic. Um, and like the Odyssey has finally been translated by a woman.
Here's why it's so important. Emily Wilson said, um, I've always had mixed feelings about Odysius as a protagonist.
>> Then why adapt it?
>> And I think and I think this text, it too has mixed feelings about its protagonist. too has an interest in drawing out the stories of the people who aren't him and of tracing the ways that Penelope's perspective for instance is totally different from Odysius's perspective. Um, and I I believe an Hathaway in the was it the time article that came out? I can't remember. Um, but even her, she when she was reading the script, she went up to Christopher Nolan and she was like, "It's almost like they're they're equals. Her and they're equals, you know, they're equals and intellectually they're equals." So, I mean, I honestly do not know what >> this movie is going to look like.
>> It It is 100% going to be exactly what we thought it was going to be. like it is going to absolutely be what we're all concerned about is going to be heavily feminist overtones and there's going to be none of the mythological stuff in it.
I I'm I have no idea what they're going to try to do with Athena and and Zenaia as Athena. I mean, just the one shot we get of her is not inspiring. That's the face that Zenaia makes on every shot that she's ever featured in for anything ever. Um, so I I don't know what he's thinking here, but I guarantee you what we're about to see is not what everybody was hoping it was going to be. And I think more than anything, we're gonna it's going to be really controversial.
And I think they're going to try to use the controversy to like justify. See, it's so controversial because he's doing the right thing. He's he's you know, this is just angry white men again just not liking something that that should have that that everybody else loves. So, what a mess.
>> It is a mess. And now it's just become uh the Christopher Nolan's most disliked preview ever.
>> Yep.
>> Ever. Right now >> the ratio is Hold on. Let me let me look. Let's share this of the ratio. The ratio is at 71.8%.
Late last night it was at 72%. So it just it's it's continuing to fall. Now is the movie going to be successful?
Probably. Probably. Yes, it it will be successful because Christopher Nolan has a very dedicated fan base and I mean they bought that those IMAX tickets sold out so quick without even seeing anything from this movie. Those IMAX tickets sold out very very quickly. So is the movie going to make be successful? Yes. Is it going to be successful as compared to his previous films? That remains to be seen. So >> yeah, it does. and and I I really don't know, you know, but once again, Oppenheimer was about a a white a white man, but it was also about a communist.
So, um >> I wanted to share that with you.
>> Thank you. That ruined my day. I appreciate that. This is you getting me back for talking about Baby Yoda. I get it.
>> Yeah, >> I deserved it. Uh Zenaku Jedi for five.
Yeah, the next Star Wars celebration will have Triple H as a special guest, promising a new era of Star Wars. And we'll all know what that means. A new era of Star Wars today. Yeah, it's going to be a freaking mess. Shout out. Thank you. Uh Darth uh Manic for Tim. The best thing about the movie for me yesterday was that I saw it with my mom. A I took her to it yesterday just like she took me to episode one in 1999. That's true.
Member berries. Listen, if you make a good memory with somebody going to see this, that matters more than anything. I took my kids to go see this. They're not huge fans of The Mandalorian, but it was an awesome time to get out of the house and just go hang out together. They thought it was funny. They thought it was enjoyable. They thought Baby Yoda was super cute, and then they forgot about it and moved on afterwards. But what matters is that we had a good time.
That's a beautiful memory. Shout out to to Mama Darth Banick. All right. Um, I'm glad you guys got to spend time together. That's wonderful. Uh, Defcon Prime for two. No joke. I'm rewriting Roots based on my Italian family.
Listen, man. You got to, like I said, get out there and create something.
Swing for the fences, bro. I I respect it. Uh, Spike Fish Network for five. She better be down for ScarJo being a mythical African character. Then Hollywood needs an enema. Anti-buttads.
Hi, Steph. Hi, Mike. What's up, buddy?
>> Hi.
>> Hi. Welcome in, man. Appreciate you.
Thank you for the five. Yeah, I it it's a mess. And you know this whole thing, like somebody in the chat said this, like, "Aren't black people sick of getting table scraps?" Yes. Anybody that's self-aware is is sick of the table scraps. Like there are plenty of stories that can be adapted. And Hollywood rolls out the woman king. Like they don't care. They just want to feel good about themselves. And the thing the most diverse thing they can think of is a black woman. or if you're at the Met Gala, a black trans quadripolgic cuz that's a thing now. So, uh, Jay Peso for five, uh, Odysius will be a a kaku in this movie, eventually saved by the women in his journeys. Penelope uh will probably slay the suitors. I would not be surprised if it has something like that. Yeah.
>> Yeah, that's what I'm surprised.
Probably. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if she did that. Mex rage for two.
Didn't you guys uh didn't know you guys needed some overtime? Lol. Hail. Hey, shout out. Listen, we're just, you know, whi when Ryan is off gallivanting across the globe, you know, going to Japan, you know, going to maid cafes and and Beardo is is polishing his trophy and and Jeremy is wherever Jeremy goes in between Cobracasts, you know, you got to call in the heavy hitters and that's what we that's where we're here. Yep.
>> You got 23 extra minutes. Okay.
Cuz we care about you.
All right. Uh I got one over on Rumble.
Vault 95 Survivor for Two says, "Left force their way into your stories and beloved IPs. Change the stories, race, sex, tone, and story swaps. Force the loyal audience away and then call you the colonizer."
>> Yeah.
>> 100%. Yep. Performative outrage.
>> Absolutely. So, shout out. All right, that's it. We're all caught up. It >> that's it.
>> That's it. I think that's it. We're going to call it >> Mandalorian Grou sucks.
>> Yeah, >> boys sucks.
>> Everything sucks except for us.
>> Odyssey's it broke.
He broke it already. But you got the S plus team here hanging out doing our thing.
>> What do you got going on later, Mike?
>> Uh I'm going to be on a little uh stream called F&T later talking about stuff.
Probably talking about the boys.
probably talking about uh Mandalorian Grou hanging out, chilling, maxing, relaxing, all cool. Um, and yeah, then probably a stream later on tonight, maybe Mouse Pi. I've also been playing a game called Soulframe by the same people that made Warframe. I've been having a blast with it. So, I don't know. We're going to play something tonight. Just chill. Have a good night. So, >> nice. Uh, I will be helping out on F&T today. We've got a nice little special show for you host with a very special host. Go and check it out later on. Uh, as for gaming, I will not be playing the Lego Batman game because I still haven't received it. I still haven't received it. So, I will not be playing that.
>> Um, oh. Oh, my bad. My bad. I'll be on FNT tonight. I'm skipping next week.
Okay. Okay. I got it. My bad. I got the weeks mixed up. All right.
>> How dare you?
>> I got the week. Never mind. Let's just scratch what I said. Scratch what I said.
>> This is what happens, Gary, when you let women on your show.
>> I know. Just scratch what I said then. I got my weeks mixed up. Um, >> shout out. Um, oh. Oh, no. Yellow Flash for 20 says Tom loved Mandalorian and Grou.
>> You know what? That tracks. All right, that tracks because he loved Superman and he loved Lilo and Stitch. So that that >> listen >> look I've Yeah, I'm a gold I have the memory of a goldfish. I need like seven reminders a day. Okay, >> this is the guy that fought and fought and fought for Superman and didn't make any money. So listen, shout out to Tom.
We all have our different opinions, you know? We all feel differently about it.
But hey, that's fine. You want to be the fish swimming upstream, do your thing, bro. Appreciate it, you know. But, uh, >> that totally tracks the tub. All right, guys. That is it for me and and Mike this morning on a special edition of Geeks of Gamers Daily. Thank you all so much for your support. We're going to get out of here. We're going to get out of here. I'm probably going to end up watching a special edition of uh, Mandalorian and Grou to torture myself because that's >> All right, guys. We'll see y'all next week.
>> Hey, appreciate y'all. Bye, >> everyone.
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