#20. John Wick 3, Uber, and Ghost Peppers
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John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum finally knocks Endgame off the top of the box office with $57 million, and Sonny — who admits he has spent hours intellectualizing these dumb movies — makes the case for Keanu Reeves' assassin as a modern myth, pointing to the Continental's concierge Charon, Wick's dead wife Helen, an antagonist named Ares, the crucifix-shaped rosary that buys his passage to Casablanca, and a series-long meditation on Wick as God's wrath, a man denied peace because his purpose is to do terrible things. He calls the library fight and the Halle Berry dog sequence some of the best action American filmmakers have produced, praises the film's unusual respect for how guns actually work (Wick swapping a mismatched round between two pistols, shooting armored men in the back of the neck), and reads the ending as Winston understanding that his power flows from the system, so there is no exemption from it. JVL liked it fine but not more — he prefers the first film, which he argues is about duty rather than justice, since its real conflict is Michael Nyqvist's Viggo being bound to defend a degenerate son he hates — and his chief gripe is the casting: he wanted the great small-part character actors of the earlier films instead of Halle Berry and Elizabeth Debicki, though he loves Lance Reddick, the Suicide Girls switchboard room with its rotary phones and ticker tape, and the film's abundant watch porn (Wick wears a Carl F. Bucherer Autodate, a mere $2,500). Vic gives it A++, calls it the quintessential Dr. Matus movie, admires the knife-throwing craft and the Enter the Dragon hall-of-mirrors homage, and can't accept Winston shooting Wick off a roof. Sonny also notes Endgame may not actually pass Avatar worldwide, and walks through how the John Wick openings doubled twice from $14 million, plus how Sin Estate's Dallas Sonnier makes his money on premium VOD and Walmart discs, with Netflix as the end of the revenue stream. Elsewhere: JVL gleefully savors Uber's IPO flop and defends taxis as Pareto-optimal, which sends Sonny into a tirade against DC's gerrymandered zone system; a long argument about tip creep and Sonny's joke tip cup at McDonald's; Vic's new "RGP diet," in which ghost pepper beef at Peter Chang's kept him from overeating, made him sweat through his scalp, and turned him into "a human shotgun with armor-piercing shells"; and JVL closing on Flash pitching an immaculate inning — nine pitches, three strikeouts — with 33 strikeouts in 12 travel-team innings.
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#cdata-section -------------- In this latest episode, sponsored by Boosted and DoorDash, the guys discuss John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum
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Guest00:00:00- He once killed three men in a bar. - With a pencil. I know, I've heard the story, sir. - With a pencil? Who the can do that? I can assure you that the stories you hear about these men, if nothing else, has been watered down.
Vic00:00:30hello and welcome to another edition of the sub beacon sponsored by boosted and doordash i'm victor manislock with study bunch and jonathan v last i'd like to remind you the sub beacon is available on itunes and google play just look at our podcast and search for sub beacon you'll easily find us please subscribe tell your friends and leave a review gentlemen how are we jvl what is going on that was the best episode of the sub beacon we've had in months what just the what the other day of last week's last week's no the one without me the game of
JVL00:01:14thrones micro episode no boy was sensational i did not know what's happening until it had already been taped and in the can and sonny was like are you gonna be offended and i was like no are you kidding you guys talking about game of thrones because here's the thing i do not watch game of thrones but that's not really a choice i wish i could i'm like a 14 year old boy pressed up against the window at a strip club like dying to see what's going on inside it looks so cool oh my god if i could just get a peek and so any little tidbits about the game of thrones experience that i could get beginning with matt continente's seminal yeah essay about game of thrones in the claremont review of books uh i just i go nuts for it and the episode was great I was really interested in what happened to the Thrakis. The Thrakis? The Thrakis. I was a little sad Matt didn't have the Johnny Walker White Walker at 9.23 in the morning.
Vic00:02:09I don't know why. That would have been pretty awesome.
JVL00:02:10It's so unbeacon of him, you know, really. Is it okay to stick? What is Johnny Walker? Is it scotch? Is it bourbon? Johnny Walker is a blended scotch.
Vic00:02:20Is it okay to put scotch in the freezer like that?
Sonny00:02:24Well, it is the instructions for drinking it is to put it in the freezer.
JVL00:02:29If you were to put any other scotch in the freezer, would people say, oh, yeah, no, that's totally cool.
Vic00:02:33Right. What they want is the effect of it going from subzero to room temperature. And as you drink it along the way, then all these new, you know, nuances, flavors and aromas just reveal themselves.
JVL00:02:50Oh, so if you had a McAllen 50, would you put your McAllen 50 in the freezer so that you could get all the nuances revealed?
Vic00:02:57Well, the problem for me with that was, of course, it's like, you know, if you drink it over the span of, you know, 10 minutes, but usually for me, 10 seconds, it's gone. So I don't know what the nuances are.
JVL00:03:05Sonny, your thoughts on that? Scotch thoughts? No, you don't have anything.
Vic00:03:09I thought it was good. I thought it was fine. It's a good deal, too. It's like $36. So that's very decent.
JVL00:03:16I thought you were talking about the show again. The show was more than fine. It was great.
Vic00:03:19The funny thing is that it lasted, again, the scotch, it lasts longer than the White Walkers did, which was very, very brief.
JVL00:03:27Did Circe Lannister hang in? Because from my pressed up against the glass of the strip club, Circe Lannister was my favorite character simply because of the gif where she says, right, I choose violence. I just thought, that's awesome.
Sonny00:03:42In the end, she did not choose enough violence, which is one of the morals of the show.
JVL00:03:49I read the first book. I loved her in the first book. A Song of Fire and Ice. Yeah, and I thought that she really was the true hero of the first book with Cersei. Now, she gets crushed to death. Yeah, she does. Oh, she does. By who?
Vic00:04:01A giant boulder. Tyrion. The dragon. Everything comes down. She's in the crypts. Oh, Dany. Dany kills her, basically, with the dragon. That super fire that blows away rock and stone. Now, Khal Drogo, is he dead, too?
Sonny00:04:15Yes, he's been dead since the first season.
Vic00:04:17But now he, but you know what?
JVL00:04:19What about the boy king? Circe's kid. Yeah, he was poisoned. That my other favorite Game of Thrones gif is Circe saying to him, anyone who isn't us is an enemy. Because these two things, I choose violence and anyone who isn't us is an enemy, are essentially words to live by.
Sonny00:04:35It's the story of your life. It's the last.
JVL00:04:36It's your philosophy.
Vic00:04:37It's the last house words. Yes, yes. That's right. House of last. House of last.
Sonny00:04:42Good.
Vic00:04:42I'm glad you liked it. It was great.
JVL00:04:44It was great. How are you boys? I'm doing fine and sunny. Can you tell us something personal about your life? Because it's been months since any of us have heard anything that you've been doing. How is the favela?
Sonny00:04:53We had the story about the diapers. Oh, that's true. That was the best thing I've done on this show in like three years. That killed, actually.
Vic00:05:01That was your battle of the bulge.
Sonny00:05:02That was it. I actually thought about just leaving the episode after that was done. Just like George Costanza. I'm out. Drop the headphones. Yes. And leave.
JVL00:05:11Victorino, how are you?
Vic00:05:12I'm doing fine. I'm doing fine. but you know before we started taping we were talking uh about uber yes oh and and sonny your your your deep question was how is this company not making any money and and jonathan your insight
JVL00:05:25was was that they they they make a lot of money but they spend a lot of money yeah i i still don't
Sonny00:05:33quite understand what they're spending money on but i guess it's all the r&d for the self-driving
JVL00:05:36cars and well also the executives who work at uber uh do it for free oh yeah so they're not paying travis yeah travis doesn't you know get paid in is he still there uh he wanted to ring the bell and they wouldn't let him the new lady ceo was like uh-uh and you know what as it turns out would have been better for uber if they'd let travis ring the bell and then he could have hung
Vic00:05:58the big ipo flop on him too bad how does i love uber dying i love uber dying so much i can't even tell you a question though to go back about the bell is it is it a button now you just press a button or is it no i don't get to go to fancy stock market openings wait every day they pick
Sonny00:06:16somebody to do it so wait why do you why do you hate uber i know why you i know i i know you hate most things yeah that's why i just assumed why do you hate uber specifically uh uber is oppressing
JVL00:06:25the working class and is taking a perfectly functional pareto optimized system which we
Sonny00:06:33called taxis that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard but go on and it is providing a
JVL00:06:39marginal utility to consumers very marginal utility uh and then sucking away all sorts of money from the workers and concentrating in the hands of a handful of tech bros here's the problem
Sonny00:06:54how is that helpful to anyone here's the problem with this is that taxi sucked taxis in dc specifically which is where i've spent most of my time a lot of them were dirty dirty taxis taxis here sucked they they you could not get one to come when you called you could not time it right uh it was expensive the drivers were all dicks uh uh the the uh the i remember in dc the zone system oh yes i don't want i don't want to get into a whole thing about the zone system but The zone system was this ridiculous mishmash of random shapes, not like squares, just like ridiculous gerrymandered shapes that the taxi cab drivers and the taxi cab commission put together. And if you went from one zone to another zone, you had to count all of the zones. You're not paying by the minute. It was like some sort of black magic that they used to screw people. And anything that Uber can do to break the spirit and the will of the DC taxi cab drivers, I'm in favor of. Because those people were the worst, and I'm glad that they're all going out of business. New York City cab driver is a much better system, but it's still woefully inefficient. And frankly, I think the whole taxicab medallion system is vaguely evil. It's corrupt, but it is not terribly inefficient.
Vic00:08:17Let me say this also. Do you remember when they did a study in New York? I like New York taxicabs, too. They're fun. They're exciting. awful they're awful but they did smell they did they have those tvs they have the tvs that never shut up but they also have they did a test of like how dirty is the the new york cab and they did they wiped jvl you would have loved this one they wiped the residue and all the different things they found uh as they wiped handles and seats i'm sorry that is true of every literally every
JVL00:08:46single thing in new york if you step inside the borough of manhattan it really there is nothing you can touch that doesn't have that.
Vic00:08:55That's why I always stay at the St. Regis. Okay, but when they give a list of all the things they found, I just have one word for you. Juices.
Guest00:09:03Oh. Yes.
Vic00:09:05But some of them I'm like,
JVL00:09:06some of them I'm like, oh, maybe I will sit there now.
Sonny00:09:09Is it moist? Some of them I'm like, wait, let me sit on that spot. Anyway, Vic, you had a question
Vic00:09:13for me. Oh, yes, I did, which is, because when I had recently gotten, used an Uber, and the option came up for...
Sonny00:09:21Oh, you were using Uber Black. Well, yes,
Vic00:09:23It's because I was with two other colleagues, one of whom is very pregnant. Oh, you couldn't fit in a normal Uber? One of whom is very pregnant, and so I said, you know, there was an option for your air climate control. I said, yes, keep it cool for her. She's about to have a baby in a couple weeks. But then the other option is conversation, yes or no. With the driver? With the driver. I opted for no option. I said no preference.
JVL00:09:49Do you choose this after you see who the driver is? No, no, no. Or do you have to choose it before?
Vic00:09:54You can choose it in the middle of it. Like you're listening to the guy, like in Spinal Tap with Bruno Kirby, and then the window goes up because they don't want to listen to him talking about the Rat Pack. Sonny, what did you do?
Sonny00:10:05I have not used – see, here's my problem with this option, right? The option that they give you is to opt out of conversation, right? You think you should have to opt in. The default should be no conversation. You should have to opt in because if you opt out of the conversation, And then the driver's like, oh, this guy is real uppity. He thinks he's so full of himself. He doesn't want to talk to the little Uber driver. And it's not that I'm uppity. It's just that I hate people.
Vic00:10:29Yeah, that could affect your rating. Imagine if it affects your rating.
Sonny00:10:31And it could affect your rating. What if he gives me fewer stars on my user rating because I say I don't want to talk to him? And I never want to talk to any. I don't want to talk to you guys, frankly, most of the time. And I do this every week. This hour is enough. It's true.
JVL00:10:46Do you know who doesn't rate you? Who? The f***ing taxi drivers.
Sonny00:10:50Well, here's the problem.
JVL00:10:51The taxi drivers don't rate anybody. They just pick you up and drive you to your spot and drop you off. You know what they do?
Sonny00:10:56Instead of rating people, they just do a shitty, shitty job. So I'll take the rating. I'll take the rating. You know what?
Vic00:11:03I was hoping there was an option of conversation. Yes, please talk to me because I want you to be my friend. That's the option I choose. Please, let's be friends.
Sonny00:11:12Because I want you to vote for me for class president.
JVL00:11:14Victorino, I am surprised that you did not want conversation. Because you are the type of guy who talks to everybody. You get your shoes shined. You get your hair cut. You're in line with the poke bowl.
Vic00:11:26I'm friends with the shoeshine guy. And the poke bowl guy is a little intimidating. But no, it's true. But it does depend. So you don't want to do it? You just feel compelled to have conversations with people? Depends on the vibe. There was one guy. This is really funny. Uber driver. I get in. He turns to me and he says, and I'm with other people. And he goes, I know you. And I said, what are you talking about? And he goes, you used to go to the Mayflower. The Uber driver was a former bartender at the Mayflower bar. And he remembered us from back. Remember, we used to go there all the time.
JVL00:12:00Who's the we in that sentence? Sorry. Who's the we in that sentence?
Sonny00:12:04You should have been looking this way when you said that.
JVL00:12:06I'm sorry.
Vic00:12:06Remember, Sonny, we used to go to that bar all the time. When we all worked in the same office. Jack Quinn.
Sonny00:12:11They made great martinis there.
Vic00:12:12I know. Well, then we had a wonderful conversation. Fishbowl-sized martinis. Yes. While you were working, JV, I would just go across the sales street, have a quick drink. And anyway, so that was, and I had a lovely conversation with them. But other people, if they want to talk about politics or something, I don't want to talk about politics. So, you know, it depends. And sometimes I do want to.
Sonny00:12:31I don't want to talk to anybody about anything. I don't want to talk to, I'm sorry, I don't want to talk to a stranger about anything. I like, I just don't. And it's, and they, and usually, usually they're pretty good about not talking. it's they they they're good at reading vibes i think at uber uh especially since they added the tip function now that i can tip them much better much better i always thought the tip was built into the fee no well that that's how it used to be and they started they they uh there was like an underground market in cash tipping like uber drivers started expecting cash tips oh my gosh that defeats the whole purpose right and it defeats the whole purpose so uber started adding a tip function that would allow you to tip them without that being taken out of the total. You are still better off in a taxi. No, you're not. You're not better off in a taxi.
JVL00:13:22Believe me, three years from now, Uber and taxis will totally converge and the experience of Uber will be no different than the experience of a taxi. You know what? You know what? Instead of raising your hand, IRL on the street.
Sonny00:13:34And you know what that is? That is the market bringing the taxis to heal. That is the market breaking their will and making them do things the right way. Three cheers for the
JVL00:13:43market. But it won't be that the taxis get better. It's just that Uber will get worse. This is like Uber is already doing all these things you don't like. They're letting them rate you. They're now demanding cash tips. And like three years from now, the quality
Sonny00:13:55You should like the cash tips because that is that's the people. That's the people getting more money. You know, I don't like I don't like tips. You don't like tipping. You think tipping
Vic00:14:05Oh, you'd like to go European style
JVL00:14:07which is rounded up very built into i am very uncomfortable with the entire idea of tipping because once you have tipping in one sector it is not obvious to me why it doesn't apply to every sector so why is it that in a restaurant you tip your server why is it that when you get
Vic00:14:26your haircut you tip your barber that's exactly right and you know what else i saw i just yesterday i picked up clothes from the cleaners and there was a tip jar yeah but this is one thing and so
Sonny00:14:35Tip creep is real, and it's bad. When I worked at McDonald's—
JVL00:14:38But what is the logical dividing line between a sector where you tip and where you don't tip?
Sonny00:14:43Because when you worked at McDonald's— So when I worked at McDonald's, I actually put a tip cup out as a joke one time. I was like, and my manager saw it and pulled me out of the window and was like, what are you doing? That's like the worst thing you can do. So the difference between somebody who is working as a waiter in a restaurant and somebody who is working as a fast food counter, I would argue there's a big skill difference between somebody who's just putting the food together, throwing it out the window, and somebody who is there to provide a dining experience. right um there are other financial considerations which is that people who work at jobs where tipping is a part of their income earn a lower hourly wage the tipped wage is lower than the the regular wage so you know if you if you go into a diner or something the person who is serving you is is making two dollars and 13 cents an hour or whatever the tipped wage is uh at a mcdonald's they're making eight dollars an hour but what about people who employ uh cleaning services what about them so i i believe you are expected to tip i do your cleaners i do i we have cleaners who they came just today i tip them dry cleaning dry cleaning why would you tip the dry cleaner
JVL00:15:55you're dropping the clothes what i'm saying is it's not obvious to you yes but there are places where dry cleaners where they ask for tips like it's starbucks they've got all the coffee shops They now ask for tips This is everywhere I just get a coffee
Vic00:16:10If you're Oh do they do the thing Where they turn around The flat screen The little iPad And you have to press Well this is the great thing About Starbucks
Sonny00:16:16Starbucks does not do this It's one of the reasons I actually prefer Starbucks Do other coffee shops Because instead of getting Like the flipped around screen Where it's like Do you want to add 15 No I don't want to add 20% for you To put the coffee Out of the thing In fact you know
Vic00:16:29We get incensed by this But you know our friend Dan He was just talking about this And he hates that But he has the exact opposite reaction. He gets so flustered, he immediately has to go for 25%. He's like, ah! I have to say.
JVL00:16:42That's terrible pressure. My dream is that I want to eliminate all tipping and then just in every sector where tipping is economically important to the workers, just raise the prices. Because, again, it makes me uncomfortable because you wind up in places where, like, okay, I'm sorry. Three years ago, nobody tipped in this sector, and now people are expecting tips. Why isn't it everywhere? I have written a piece for commentary. Do I get readers sending? Actually, I have said readers send me tips. No, but it's a weird thing.
Sonny00:17:11When we start our Patreon after the free beacon closes down, feel free to send us tips, folks.
JVL00:17:17I literally had somebody after a casual I wrote for the Weekly Standard send me a check. And they just said, that thing was so funny. And I got so much enjoyment out of it. They gave you money? It was like $35. She was like, go buy yourself a cup of coffee or something. I just loved it so much. I was like, thank you. That's very nice. It was very sweet. Wow. And so maybe we should tip writers.
Sonny00:17:40That should be. Tipping writers.
JVL00:17:41You should write this piece for Jacobin.
Sonny00:17:44Okay. On tipping writers. Excellent.
JVL00:17:48I think I'm too far left for Jacobin.
Vic00:17:50All right. Yes, you are. Yeah, they're squishy now compared to you. So I wanted to let you guys know that I've made a few tweaks to my RG diet. Oh. Ooh. Yes. So what happened was, and this is an interesting experiment. So what happened was I had the kids the other night because Kate was working. So I took them to, they all wanted to go. And I kind of really like as well, the Chinese restaurant in Arlington, Peter Chang's. But you know how it is with Chinese restaurants. My weight immediately goes up.
Sonny00:18:20Not P.F. Chang's.
Vic00:18:21Not P.F. Chang's. Peter Fitzgerald Chang's. No, no, no, no. Different. That's a good one, though. I think the F is Fleming. I get mixed up.
Sonny00:18:29It's not related to Fleming's.
Vic00:18:31There's a whole story to this, and I forget about it. But I used to know. Good digression. I wrote about it. Thank you. Look it up. In any event, so we went to Peter Chang's, but my concern is, you know, I'm going to get something really heavy because I can't resist, like, the beef chow fun or something that's really, like, with a lot of carbs and sodium, and then I pay the price the next few days. Paul Fleming and Philip Chang. Fleming. There you go. And so what our friend.
Sonny00:18:58Who is, in fact, I'm sorry, the restaurateur behind Fleming's. Fleming's.
Vic00:19:01Fleming's Steakhouse. That's right. So our friend Dan Halper says, well, why don't you get like the most, the hottest thing on the menu? Then you'll be less inclined to eat all of it. And his favorite dish, as is mine, oh, I've had it with him rather, is the ghost pepper beef. So I said, sure, I'll get the ghost pepper beef. Now, as you know, ghost pepper is, I believe at the moment, the third hottest pepper, at least in this country.
JVL00:19:26Isn't that what they use in pepper spray?
Vic00:19:27No, it's like, it's close to. It can be used for that. I mean, it's not.
JVL00:19:30You can eat it or use it to defend yourself.
Vic00:19:33You know the Scoville scale. Yes, the Scoville scale. It scores about a million. So it's about 400 times hotter than a jalapeno.
Sonny00:19:43I had friends in college who got really into the Scoville scale and would just go to specialty stores and buy hot sauces. And then they would get toothpicks and they would put the toothpicks in it and put it on their tongue. And that's all they would do with it.
Vic00:19:56Was this a hazing thing? Was this a hazing thing?
Sonny00:19:58It's just what they – it's like instead of sitting around smoking weed, they would burn their tongues. And I did this a couple times.
Vic00:20:06It was fun, I guess. Well, the hottest one right now is the Carolina Reaper. So that is the hot. That's hot. And then there's a second one and then ghost peppers. They're ghost peppers from India. So I get this dish and it's just an appetizer dish. But sure enough, I picked at that dish. I did not scarf it down. So it actually – where I sweated. I put my hand on my head and I was sweating through my scalp. Like my hair was wet and the kids thought it was funny. They're having like wonton soup and fried dumplings and stuff. So I said, you know what? I can't believe that. It felt like somebody sprayed mace in my mouth. But you know what? It was also flavorful. I paid for this. It was $12. It was tasty. You people are crazy. The beef was tasty. It's a pleasure and pain. It's pleasure and pain. It's like, oh my gosh, it's so good.
Sonny00:20:51But oh my gosh, I'm in pain. Sunny. When are we going to go to the hibachi?
?00:20:56Oh.
Vic00:20:56People are wondering about that. What used to be the Hokkaido Seafood Buffet. Used to be the Hokkaido Seafood Buffet.
Sonny00:21:01Hokkaido Seafood. The idea of a seafood buffet on Lee Highway. You're going to have to delete that. No, that's how you pronounce it. You can't delete the way you pronounce that. You pronounce it.
Vic00:21:10You pronounce it correctly.
Sonny00:21:12Yeah, we got to do that. We got to do that. We got to go.
JVL00:21:15JVL, do you want to come to the hibachi buffet? Well, live tweet. I'm going to do a whole. I'm invited to a place where you guys go out together.
Sonny00:21:22That sounds great. But it's not the sort of place you would be comfortable. I think it's just, it's a Chinese buffet.
JVL00:21:29What's wrong with that?
Sonny00:21:30Well, what would you eat there? You want me to, I don't have to eat. I can just hang out with you. Oh no, that doesn't count. No, you can't just come in. No, no, no, that's the worst. That's the worst.
JVL00:21:37This is what I would have done at wine week.
Sonny00:21:39Yeah, exactly. Had I been invited. Exactly. This is why we did it. This is the problem with bringing you to these places is because you just sit there and you silently judge us. You don't act like you're judging us at the time.
Vic00:21:48I will judge you out loud if you like. So let me, so let me just say this, the pros and the cons of the ghost pepper diet. Okay. The pro is I was not hungry, right, until the next day also. The con side. The RGP diet. It was the next morning. How is that a con? It was twice. Yeah, well, that's true because- Clears it out. It clears it out. I could have cleared you right on out. Did you put some, chase it with kombucha? Let me say I was reminded of my German host mother who, when she- Scheisse. Scheisse.
Sonny00:22:20Oh, and my pronunciations are bad?
Vic00:22:22Thank you. You can make fun of Germans. That was very offensive. No, she told me the first time she tried Mexican food, because she and her daughter had gone to the Southwest, and she said to me in German, Es war wie Feuer, which means it was like fire. That's all she said. Es war wie Feuer. And I thought about Frau Lambert's the next morning. Ring of fire? It was something else. It was something else. You know, the Germans, she probably just had like the Stito salsa. Oh, my gosh, they can't handle it. But for me, the ghost pepper really did a number twice. And so that's just the flip side. So on the other side, I kept my weight down. And on the con side, I turned into a human shotgun. Thank you. With armor-piercing shells. But speaking of shotguns with armor-piercing shells, over the weekend, yes, thank you, John Wick Chapter 3 Parabellum took the top spot at the box office with $57 million, followed by the Avengers Endgame with $30 million, And in third place, Pokemon Detective Pikachu with $25 million. Box office thoughts, Avengers finally toppled. What's going on?
Sonny00:23:29Before we get to John Wick 3, I think it's worth noting that there's a chance. I don't know that it's a decent chance. It will depend on what happens with Aladdin, I guess. But there's a chance that Avengers Endgame is not going to top Avatar at the worldwide box office, which is something I would not have predicted after it grossed $2 billion in 10 days. The repeat viewings are not there. I expected it to be very heavily front-loaded, obviously. It grossed $350 million on its opening weekend. I did not expect it to do a multiple of three and gross $1.1 billion at home. No, that was huge. But I am a little bit surprised that it is going to limp past Avatar if it makes there at all. Question.
JVL00:24:17Yes. Am I incorrect in believing that the audience goodwill towards Avengers Endgame far outweighs the audience goodwill towards Avatar? Did anybody actually like Avatar? I mean, I enjoyed Avatar as a viewing experience. I don't know anybody who thinks it's a good movie or has watched it since. Agreed.
Sonny00:24:39Like Avatar, I will defend Avatar as a movie that is perfectly appealing to a wide swath of people. It is designed to appeal to the widest swath of people possible. And as such, it accomplished the goal of being perfectly watchable and not terribly memorable, right? Your question is, I think you're combining two different questions here. I think Avatar's cinema score was perfectly fine. I'll look it up here in a second.
JVL00:25:14No, I'm sure it was.
Sonny00:25:17And people went back to see it because it was like a thrill ride. It was an amazing visual experience. And everybody wanted to go see it at least once because it was the first real 3D movie. IMAX 3D and all that.
JVL00:25:28It got an A from cinema score. People tend to seem to really like Avengers Endgame. And I don't know that people really liked. You know, they were happy to go see Avatar because it was like a thing to do. Do you see what I'm saying?
Sonny00:25:43Avatar, I mean, I don't know that it has that much to do with Goodwill so much as other structural things, right? Like, Avatar came out in December. Avatar basically had three uncontested months as the, like, big action-adventure movie in theaters. you know it was it was the i remember it's weekend to weekend drop it's weekend to weekend drop was something like two percent from first weekend the second weekend um uh now part of there was like a weird this is one of these weird things that only i seem to remember there was a giant snowstorm on the east coast that weekend which which kept a lot of people in so like part of that drop again there was a weird structural thing to it but the point is like that movie held forever it like kept
JVL00:26:28playing and kept playing um i mentioned this because it surprises me that end game has eroded
Sonny00:26:33like this it surprises me too i i really think the three hour running time you know three and a half hours with commercials and trailers and credits and everything it's big time investment is uh is is keeping people from really wanting to go see it more than more than once i do think that that is that is the bigger problem for it than like will it have enough show times to make 300 million dollars opening weekend um but i am i'm surprised i'm surprised that it is it is not going to blow past avatar like three billion dollars out of the question okay yeah uh so
Vic00:27:06john wick three parabellum uh i saw it in theaters john wick three parabellum let can we talk about
Sonny00:27:13just for one second yeah sure what's fascinating to me is that the opening weekend on john wick has doubled for each of the two sequels, right? So the first movie made $14 million, something like that, in its opening weekend. Second movie made $28 million, or made $30 million, so like slightly more than doubled. And this one made $57 million, so slightly less than doubled. But basically, from the first film to this one, it has doubled and then doubled again.
JVL00:27:42Can I ask you a question? Yeah. How did audiences find John Wick? Because the first one did not do very well in theaters, and John Wick did not go on to Netflix or Amazon Prime. Sure. It was one of those movies where to see it on streaming, you had to purchase it. That's how I find it. But this is like the classic home video. Totally.
Sonny00:28:03It is a very, very rare thing these days. So the first John Wick had kind of an interesting story. It was independently financed. The studio that was going to distribute it, I believe, dropped it like a month or two ahead of distribution. And Lionsgate just picked it up, like paid five million bucks for it or something like that, and picked it up and put it in theaters. And it did fine. It grossed enough. It grossed enough to not be a money loser. But it was huge on home video. People loved it. It got great reviews. And the people who loved it evangelized. So once it hit Blu-ray and DVD and VOD and stuff, it did huge numbers, which made a second one feasible.
JVL00:28:52It is interesting to me that you can still do home video numbers by purchase and not by giving away to a streaming service. Because that is not the conventional wisdom. The conventional wisdom is if you want it to be seen once you go to home video, you have to give it away on either Netflix or Prime.
Sonny00:29:10So I when I when I interviewed the the guy who runs Sin Estate, which is the company that puts out that put out Bone Tomahawk and Dragged Across Concrete, Dallas Sonia is his name. He actually we talked about this, the economics of this a lot. And he was like, look, we make we make a very little bit of money in theaters. We basically four wall and we make a little bit of money there. But when we do that, we can then put the the movies on the VOD section that is in theaters now. And that with that, they can add like a two or three dollar premium to each stream. And so they make most of their money from that stream and also from DVD and Blu-ray sales at like Walmart. Apparently, like Walmart is still a huge, a huge mover of of product. So if you have a movie with a star in it, a guy like Vince Vaughn or a guy like Mel Gibson who appeals to, say, red state audiences, you can throw that movie on on on the shelves at Walmart. And it is enough to move product. Once you get to Amazon Prime or Netflix, he said, look, it does two things. It does three things, basically. One, you get one last big infusion of cash. You get a couple million bucks. Two, you get, but two, that's the end of the revenue stream, essentially, for that movie.
JVL00:30:34That's it.
Sonny00:30:35Once it's on Prime or Netflix, that's basically it. But three, what it does is it serves as an advertisement for the next movie that you're making. So when you have a movie like Dragged Across Concrete, you say, okay, starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn from the guys who made Bone Tomahawk, which people see on Amazon Prime. They watch and they're like, oh, that's pretty great. It's another one of... Yeah, it's interesting. So it is fascinating. Streaming is basically the end of the revenue stream. but it is it is also a a useful advertisement interesting thank you sonny that was all very
Vic00:31:11interesting uh so uh did you see it in a screening john wick or you went to uh i saw it at a screening okay i saw it in the theater jvl i saw it in the theater too hey did anyone else see it there's nothing there's nothing light about this one um no so you know uh there was a rumor that who let the dogs out oh my gosh no there was a rumor that was good that was good that was good yeah i was gonna say there was a rumor that gene had actually seen uh uh detective pikachu but uh there was it the time has passed i'd squirtle all over her jigglypuffs but nobody gets that anymore nobody gets that it was strictly it's you have to know your god why talk about snorlax okay so what is
Sonny00:31:54this why is this happening to us sunny how about uh a big boy review of john wick three john wick John Wick 3 is the third film in the John Wick series. It is, so if long-time viewers of the series will remember that the first John Wick had a story that was so simple you could basically explain it by a haiku. I will not recite the haiku here, but it's basically about a... What was the haiku? I wrote a haiku in my John Wick 3 review, but I'm not going to read it here. Oh, come on.
Guest00:32:23No.
Sonny00:32:23Don't make me pull it. I will pull it up, and then I will read it for you.
Vic00:32:26So literally, what is it, 575? 575.
Sonny00:32:28So John Wick was so simple you could explain it very briefly. It's about a man whose dog was killed and car was stolen. The dog was the gift of his dead wife. He wanted revenge for it. He is the greatest killer in the world. He's retired, but he's coming out of retirement for this. Second movie basically took that concept and expanded upon it, built this whole world out of, you know, you had the killers and their hotels and the high table and blah, blah, blah. And at the end of that film, John Wick breaks the rules of this world. that he lives in. He kills a man in the Continental Hotel, right? So the third one picks up right where that leaves off. Third one picks up right where that leaves off. And it is, again, kind of expansive in this world-building idea. We see the, I don't know what you would call it, the orphanage that John Wick grew up in, the Belarusian ballet theater slash assassin training ground. You see We travel to Morocco where we meet Sophia, played by Halle Berry, who has some war dogs, which is probably my favorite part of the film. And, you know, moving all around, the point is John Wick wants to get out of this life. He wants to get out of this life. He wants to save his own life. So the question is, how does he do that? And all of this is wrapped up in some of the best action sequences that have been made by American filmmakers, period. You you you get fights and all sorts of weird, fun places, like, for instance, a library fight in the library. Never thought I'd see that. Here it is. It's great. And like I said, there's a big there's a big sequence where John Wick and Sophia are fighting with these dogs against these Moroccan killers. And it just is. It's fantastic. I love these dumb movies so much that I have spent hours intellectualizing them. And why I think that they are successful films. And I think that what it comes down to is John Wick, as embodied by Keanu Reeves, is a modern myth. And you see a lot of little hints about this kind of scattered throughout the films themselves. For instance, the concierge of the Continental Hotel, his name is Sharon, which is the ferryman on the River Styx. His wife's name is Helen, obvious resonance is there. The deaf woman that he fights in John Wick 3 is named Ares. There's a lot of different little things. And there's also tons of religious iconography in these films. For instance, in John Wick 3, his passage to Casablanca is what? It's a crucifix.
JVL00:35:18it's a it's a i i was just waiting to see if you could come up with the name for what that what that object is yeah yeah well i was it's a rosary well it's a russian orthodox but i was
Sonny00:35:30gonna ask is it is it an orthodox cross because it's not technically an orthodox cross right isn't that slightly different it's it's just a highly stylized it's just a rosary rosary that they take the orthodox cross would have to take the crucifix off and they they also they burn him the cross is upside down is that right which also jumped out at me i like well and he has a cross tattoo across his back right as all of the people we see as all the ballet dancers also have and this is and this is also the the whole film series is kind of this meditation on john wick as god's wrath like vigo in the first film the the russian the russian mobster is eastern promises The guy played by Michael Nyquist He has this whole soliloquy About how John Wick is God's wrath Brought upon him And the reason he can't get out of this life Is because he has a purpose His purpose is to do terrible things to people So anyway I love these movies I think they're great Thank you
Vic00:36:35First of all I was going to say Two observations of the John Wick universe. One is, you know, it's almost always raining in this universe. It's a lot of rain. And then the other interesting thing is in the city scenes, there's a lot of traffic. So much traffic. If there's only way to beat the traffic, JVL.
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Vic00:39:00There's a lot of people in our office very, very excited to want to give this a try.
JVL00:39:05Yeah, when I took it out of home, my kids were like, they were super into it. So I can't wait. Thank you, JVL. One last thing. Sonny.
Sonny00:39:13So one of the reasons I do like these films is because they seem to be, again, escalating the moral stakes here. I mean, the first film is very much about this question of justice. Does justice exist? Is this a thing that can be achieved? And the second one kind of looks more inward, right? It's about John Wick trying to change, trying to prove he can change. And this is all spelled out very early on in the film when, what's his name, Peter Stormar says, you know, can a man like you know peace? John Wick says, why not? As if it's a simple, simple question. But the reason he can't is because of what he is. He is not just a killer. He's the best killer. Like that is what he is. It's his whole identity. And this this film is kind of this film is about whether or not you can overturn the natural order that demands a man like him has to fit in a certain peg. And I like I know that it is easy to just kind of watch these films and enjoy the action and let it all wash over you. But I do think that there is there is the reason that it sticks with people is because there is something slightly more to it that they pick up on at the very least on a kind of subconscious level. JVL, what did you think?
JVL00:40:33Why are you blinking at me? The air is dry. What's happening? The air gets dry in the studio. You're doing your Arch Campbell blinking. Next. Man's pooch slain, car pinched. He springs vengeance on culprits. Dog was dead wife's gift. No, no, Vic.
Sonny00:40:52Thank you, thank you. That was Sonny's haiku. That was my haiku. I'm now a published poet. Me and Micah Maddox.
JVL00:40:58You know, it's funny. I have a very different takeaway from the first John Wick, which I believe is, like you, a movie about ideas. But the idea I think it has is about duty, not justice. Because the central conflict of it is not John Wick avenging his wife. The central conflict is Michael Nyquist's character, who has this degenerate son who he hates and who he knows is in the wrong, who has wronged John Wick. He likes John better than he likes his son, And yet he is duty-bound to stand up for his son because his son is his son, which is a fantastic conflict, right? I mean, this is a question of what is his duty in this terrible situation? It's obvious what John has to do because John is avenging his dog and reclaiming his life and all that. But it's all about what does Viggo have to do? Because Viggo could have just turned his son over. He hates his son. It wouldn't have been hard. So I saw it that way. I liked it. I didn't love it. It's not as good as the first John Wick. Did you like the second one? Yeah. Nothing is as good as the first one because they're not doing different things, I think. I mean, it is all sort of meditations on a theme, which is fine with me. I don't dislike that.
Vic00:42:21It's funny. I don't remember the second one anymore. It sort of blurs. I mean, I remember the first one because he was a normal guy. But I love this movie a lot, even though the ending, I thought, was a bit of a stretch. But lots of shooting, lots of killing, A++. That's what I say. But I saw this movie. Swords through the head. How about through the eyeball?
Sonny00:42:42How about swords through the eye? That was a bit. I was actually kind of surprised they went there with that. I couldn't believe it. I actually stared at it. I was like, how are they going to? Well, I mean, the wonders of CGI now. Wow. The action scenes in this film are interesting because it does really feel like one of the few. Chad Stahelski, who is the director and who was a stunt guy on the Matrix movies. Like that's how he knows Keanu. It's one of the few movies that really feels like it understands how guns work. So it's not just the, you know, there's a weight to guns that a lot of people don't appreciate if you're not around them. And the way that John Wick uses them as bludgeons in certain of these fight scenes and the way he uses them to kind of surprise people is always interesting to me. There's this great shot early in John Wick 3 where he literally, he grabs a gun and tries to put a round in it and the caliber doesn't fit. So he takes apart a different gun and takes apart that gun and puts another one together. And it is like, it is total gun porn. It is the sort of thing that, like, if you don't understand what he's doing, I can't imagine it makes sense to people. But it is a very interesting insight into what they're actually doing here, which is trying to make this. They have this hyper-stylized, absurd universe in which guns actually work like they work in the real world, which is fascinating. I mean, like, also this shootout at the end with the body armor guys where John Wick has to, like, shoot each of them in the back of the neck to get them to go down before he goes and gets the armor-piercing shotgun rounds is another just, like, fascinating little point. You don't think that there's an interesting thing going on in this third one about the idea of where power comes from? I mean, like, John Wick's power comes from himself, right? He is, as I said in my review, he is like a modern exemplar of Arete, right? He is like the Greek, he is the personification of like Greek excellence and the idea that that excellence is in itself a virtue. And so he thinks it exempts him from this whole system. But what Winston understands is that there is no exemption from the system. The reason that Winston turns on him in that last minute is because he knows that his power flows from the system. The Continental Hotel only works because of the rules. And the rules only work because you have a higher authority giving them down.
Vic00:45:10Does he turn on him or is he firing like bullets, like blanks, or is he shooting at none? He shoots them off the roof. How does he survive that? That's impossible.
JVL00:45:24How did Lawrence Fishburne survive?
Vic00:45:26Well, we don't see how deep the cuts are. A lot of blood. Seven cuts.
JVL00:45:30You are cut across the abdomen with a samurai sword. Not a samurai, it's a ninja.
Vic00:45:35or something it's a ninja short sword it's a yes uh again it was i don't know intestines would be on the ground he thought and i heard that i heard you hear the sound effect of the blood splatter but with i mean maybe he shot him in places that you know they're non-lethally i don't know like
JVL00:45:51the non-vital one of my favorites great that was a great opening right here that's exactly you know
Vic00:45:56what one may not be enough right avoid the call you know it's very quick and i thought okay did he do something like that or did he really turn and again so two things he really turns on him okay but okay he got shot several times and falls off a uh a building and survives i i just no i that was too much for you so i was that was too much for you otherwise i thought you can get away so i'd like to think that he was you know he went soft on him somehow so you know what you know what
JVL00:46:20i i my my big complaint with the third movie and that again i liked it fine i actually had a great time i went out with my sister my sister and i haven't gone to a movie together in the theater forever uh the big the big complaint was the acting one of the joys of the john wick movies is getting truly great character actors in small parts like michael nyquist who was in a small part of big part like peter stormare you know you get these these great guys who show up and give you five minutes of work or 10 minutes of work and here instead of that we get halle berry who is he's not a good actress how dare you and the nullity who plays the adjudicator who just you know what I looked at that and I just thought could I please not have Elizabeth Debicki in this role yeah give me like a real actress have we seen her before somewhere I wondered if we did she was on Orange and the New Black and even actors I love like Like Larry Fishburne and Angelica Houston don't really – they're not – You didn't like the sushi chef?
Sonny00:47:33They're restrained. Mark Damascus.
Vic00:47:36Mark Damascus was great. Isn't he from Iron Chef or something? He was the host of Iron Chef. He's the host of Iron Chef, yeah. He was the host of Iron Chef, but he's also a martial arts expert, and he's part – You don't like him? I thought he was delightfully goofy. I thought he was great. I thought he was okay. He was doing a thing. Braun.
Sonny00:47:50Braun from Game of Thrones.
JVL00:47:52Morocco. I loved him.
Sonny00:47:54He was okay.
JVL00:47:55He was okay, and the Iron Chef guy was okay. At least he had, like, an idea behind what he was doing. Also, the guys in the raid.
Sonny00:48:02Have you guys seen the raid? The raid redemption? No, I have not. So those two Thai guys at the end who John Wick says, be seeing you too, at the end, those guys are from the raid, which is, like, the nay plus ultra of martial arts.
Vic00:48:19Yeah, no, they were good. They're the real deal.
JVL00:48:23I really I I was I was disappointed in Halle Berry and Larry Fishburne's term and the the adjudicator. Just you have Lance Reddick doing such great work and everything. Every scene he's in. I could have used a little bit more. I really love the hyper stylized world that they live in. So when they go to my favorite stuff was the glimpse of I don't even know what they call it. But the room where all the Suicide Girls dressed up as like 50 secretaries. The switchboard. And they have rotary phones. They're using like typewriters, IBM computers with like the green screens. And there's even one of those ticker tapes under a glass ball. Like everything about that is just interesting and cool. And I don't know.
Vic00:49:15Do the people in this world, I mean, it's supposed to be our world, right? And this is Earth. This is New York. But at the same time, there's killing in Grand Central Station and nobody's noticing it.
Sonny00:49:24Friend of the show, Andy Levy. And this is something I actually thought as I was sitting there in the theater. You remember the scene where Winston is talking to John Wick and they're in the like fancy office lounge, whatever. And Winston is basically telling John Wick what his place in this world is. I was like, this is the architect scene from Matrix Reloaded, except it doesn't suck. And I was thinking that, and I emailed our friend Andy about this, and he emails back and he tweeted this later, so I'm not stealing anything from him. I just assume all of these movies are stealth sequels to The Matrix, where the computers realize that everybody just wants to be an assassin, and they're playing a real-life video game. And that's why everybody on the street is a killer. That's why Ian McShane, who I would assume is some sort of program in this new Matrix, can get everybody to stop on a dime. Homeless vagrants. Everybody is a killer.
JVL00:50:19The Bowery. So the first movie posits that we live in the real world and there is this tiny little sub-world operating in a corner that we don't see. And by John Wick 3, it's more like Men in Black. Like actually this whole other world is the real world and we're the ones, the normies are the ones who are somehow oblivious to the real action going on. Who do these assassins in this world kill other than other assassins? I don't know. That's a good question. Like, do they ever go after—
Vic00:50:49And they seem to always be going after other assassins.
Sonny00:50:51Remember in the second one, the guy who runs the Continental is like, you're not here for the Pope, are you?
JVL00:50:57The whole, you know, with this many master assassins running around the world, people must be murdered, like, every single day. Like, you know, like, no head of state can last more than— Right. Busloads of assassins come into the hotel. I did love seeing real-life modern ninjas. Oh, did you like the images? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sonny00:51:14The guys just appearing out of the shadows.
Vic00:51:16Oh, yeah, those guys were great. The cascos, again, I like him a lot. He's part Filipino, so I felt like I can relate to him when I watched him do his moves, you know? So, but I would say, despite my little quibbles. Favorite kill. Favorite kill, go. Oh, my gosh. Horse kick. No, horse kick was great. Horse kicks were great, because that happens. And I thought what was so amazing is, and you give us so much credit for the other stunt guys, to throw the knife and having the blunt sides hit him on the back. And Keanu talks about the art of knife throwing, right? And he's talking about it in that interview. And he says, you know, more often than not, you know, it's not the sharp blade that, you know, gets you, especially if it spins. And so they're throwing it, unless it's all CGI, but they're throwing it where, you know, the blunt side. There's an art to it, and you can do it that way. And then he's throwing it. The less spin, the better it's supposed to be. I appreciated that right until the knife in the eyeball.
Sonny00:52:15But again, that was like a bit much.
Vic00:52:17That was surprising. But all I can think of was my dad is currently on vacation, but I couldn't. I can't wait for him to come back because I have to tell him he must. This is the quintessential Dr. Mattis movie. It's like when he sees it, it's going to be like Citizen Kane and Gone with the Wind rolled into one. Oh, my gosh. It's everything. It's everything. I mean, there's all sorts of weapons and things. I mean, it's amazing. So, I mean, I found myself sometimes guffawing and making noises out loud in the theater. I was so amused.
Sonny00:52:46It does feel like a big-budget, stylized, 1980s action ninja movie in places.
JVL00:52:54Was the man above the high table too young for you? I was really sort of caught off guard. I just needed, like, a super— Yeah, I needed an old dude there. I mean, a guy who's, like, younger than John Wick. Me too. I don't know what's going on there. Prince of Persia, man. How did you become?
Sonny00:53:10So, this is, I think that this scene was kind of necessary for the, again, there's a whole kind of mythical subcurrent to the film. So, this idea of John Wick going into the desert and going past the limits of human endurance to learn a secret truth, you know. it's very like monomyth yeah uh uh you know so it it felt like an unnecessary indulgence we'll see what they do with it in the next film because there's gonna be another one there's also a great
Vic00:53:42yes already greenlit uh based on the numbers uh there i would also say the uh end of the uh of john wick three it was a great homage to bruce lee and enter the dragon uh when bruce lee faces han in the hall of mirrors and so in order to find with a real one i mean you're just you know going back and forth versus the reflections and then he basically Bruce Lee has to break all the mirrors to find where he really is and something similar happens here I thought that was great well they did that better in the second
JVL00:54:06one though I've one other thing that I bet you guys did not notice you mentioned that there was gun porn there's an awful lot of watch porn in this thing oh really did you notice that up in the administrative lounge one of the giant video screens oh I did notice that
Sonny00:54:22no no I did I actually noticed that and I thought to myself I thought to myself
JVL00:54:26Will JVL know what those watches are? Carl F. Bucherer. Bucherer. Bucherer. Bucherer. It is a Swiss watch. So both the Bowery character, Sophia, and John Wick are all wearing Bucherer. And Wick keeps looking at his. You get a good look at his. And he's wearing the Bucherer Autodate.
Vic00:54:48These are very achievable watches.
JVL00:54:53Question. Yes. How much does John Wick's watch cost? You could get it for like $2,500. Oh, that's it? Totally, totally a very reachable timepiece.
Vic00:55:02JVL, can I tell you really quickly? I promise this is really quick. I actually went to the Bucherer store in Lucerne, Switzerland. You did? Yes, when I was in high school. And you know what I bought? A swatch. It was so cool. It was like black and gray.
Sonny00:55:14What an awesome choice. Thank you, Sonny. Do you still have it? I bet it still works.
Vic00:55:18This was 1988 swatch at its height. JVL, look at JVL's face. JVL is displeased.
JVL00:55:23Let me say this. So to wrap things up here, I liked... Did you take a dump on the middle of the store while you were there? Right on top of the Piaget display.
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JVL00:57:01We're good?
Vic00:57:03Wonderful. That's all the time we are giving to this episode. Questions, comments, complaints, compliments. Tweet us at VictorinoMattis, at Sonny Bunch. You can send us tips, too, if you want. Send us tips. What do you think the booze that people send you people all the time is?
JVL00:57:18It's a good point. It's a good point.
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JVL00:57:34So, everything good? I have a little something for you, boys. Oh, please. What do you got? On Sunday, in our travel team doubleheader.
Guest00:57:43Oh, yes.
JVL00:57:45Flash pitched an immaculate inning. Oh, details. Do you know what an immaculate inning is? It's like a perfect game, but in an inning. It is nine pitches, three Ks. Nine pitches, nine strikes. Nine pitches, nine strikes. What's the three Ks? Three strikeouts. Three strikeouts. Oh, okay. Is it a strikeout? Yes. Playing the second best team in the league, he just dismantled these kids. That inning was unlike—I mean, just he was owning the outside of the plate and the high part of the strike zone, and he just kept pounding them. The kids couldn't catch up to it. It was awesome. And I did a little deep dive. He has pitched now 12 innings with the Travel League. Would you care to guess how many strikeouts he's got in 12 innings, Sonny? I won't ask Vic because Vic won't. I'm not sure what's happening here.
Sonny00:58:38I'm sorry, how many innings?
JVL00:58:3912 innings. 24. 33. Wow, look at that. So only three outs have not been recorded by strikeout in his four starts now for the team. That's insane. It's really, it's pretty great. That's fantastic. So he's on the other hand, his Little League team not so good. The travel team. The travel team is doing great. His Little League team for the last two games Flash has gone two for two in both games and had the only two hits. the team and like afterwards he's a little down and i said you know buddy look you're gonna lose 100 of the games where you're the only kid on the team who gets a a hit yeah that's right like this is yeah and he's like okay it doesn't matter i'm having fun i'm having fun that's all i've got what
Vic00:59:24do you got just really quickly uh a heads up uh for sunny um i did bring leftovers for my lunch today so i'm having the ghost pepper beef uh so if you need to use the men's room are you gonna go down a floor no i'm not gonna i might not make it that that it happens so fast so sunny if you need
Sonny00:59:41to use the men's room go now that's not fine
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