Drinker's Open Bar #13 (feat. Rekeita Law, MauLer and Midnight's Edge)

Join us as we talk about Amazon slowly devouring the world of entertainment with their takeover of MGM, the Winds of Winter non-update, bisexual Captain Kirk and whatever other nonsense is going on this week.
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[@erichtomanek4739]

Didn't George Martin say he wanted to SUBVERT Tolkien's Lord of the Rings? So by NOT finishing his book series is a subversion of Tolkien's book series.

[@thehermitman822]

LOL. Cant beat his legacy so I'll beat him in side projects.

[@turtleanton6539]

No Tolkien never finished Silmarillion

[@divineotoghile2789]

@@turtleanton6539 The Silmarillion was never really meant to be published , it was just a collection of draft that was edited by his son plus the Silmarillion wasn't the main story unlike winds of winter

[@hieronymusboss7705]

Shush you. Go back to your kennel.

[@thehermitman822]

"The mini van needs a back story now," summed up so well.

[@JulianDoe]

Timestamps 0:00 Intro Song 0:42 Introducing guests 4:16 Amazon buys MGM 4:50 Remakes 13:25 Today’s Director 16:08 Black Sails 17:08 Wasting Money 21:34 Peacemaker 22:55 Reacher 25:31 Peacemaker (2) 29:25 Amazon & Hobbit 41:40 Movie Industry Monopoly 45:40 LOTR & GOT 47:14 GRR Martin 1:04:54 Batman vs NWH 1:06:40 LOTR 1:15:00 Star Trek 1:20:30 Gaming 1:25:08 Internet Connections 1:32:46 Superchats (1) 1:36:52 Lizzo & Obesity 1:41:11 John Carpenter 1:43:20 Thor & Marvel 1:49:20 Superchat (2) 1:52:50 New Media is trash 2:00:20 Superchats (3) 2:02:55 Studio Interferences 2:09:09 Law in movies 2:17:25 Unbraided 2:21:28 Political Media 2:35:58 Superchats (4) 2:37:33 Directing 2:40:00 Paul W.S. Anderson 2:44:22 Superchats (5) 2:47:05 Closing

[@younggriff9792]

Good job man

[@JulianDoe]

@@younggriff9792 Thank you

[@thegeno424]

I appreciate you for taking the time, man. Timestamps are such a timesaver, I pray for the day where every video has them auto generated.

[@JulianDoe]

@@thegeno424 Thank you. Yes it takes a little bit of time, so it's something that I can do only when I'm off work. KZbin have an auto generated thingy but it only seems to work randomly and if you have big title cards so I believe that we have to wait for an auto generated timestamper that suits a podcast.

[@blackout2846]

Thank you so much. Makes the listening experience so much better.

[@zmanjz]

Reacher, ironically, has an actual legit "Strong woman" in that she's professional and courageous, but realistic in that she makes reasonable mistakes, and she doesn't have super strength. In the other amazon series where they are focused on "the message", over plot and character, their "stronk womyn" tend to actually be weak or ludicrous.

[@jonbaxter2254]

I really gotta see that show, don't I?

[@crustybomb115]

honestly, theyve hyperfocused onto the idea of "strong women" to the point that they basicly make marie sues all over the place... its nice to see one thats ACTUALLY realistic in a sense...

[@crujones4774]

She was also great in the scream tv series. Good actress

[@TheRaviotar]

@@jonbaxter2254 It's a lot of fun and has some of the best-choreographed violence I've seen in a long time

[@Dr.Ahmed.Tah81]

And she attractive

[@lacintag5482]

Stan Lee found his first success in life at around the same age as George R. R. Martin, and he kept working on and in Marvel for decades and decades until he couldn't anymore. And even then he still tried to make more comics and get involved in the universe.

[@VanuOfMILF]

You guys need to re-read the Council of Elrond. Yes they say that Bombadil would eventually misplace or lose the ring from lack of interest, but they also say that the power to defy Mordor isn't in him unless it's also in the earth itself. He would be Last as he was First. Don't disrespect Bombadil like that. He has no worldly desire for power so the ring has no ability to exert influence over him, and it's why he can exert some small power over it.

[@JeThoreau_]

Well said @VanuOfMILF

[@darksidemachining]

Drinker, your name was brought up by attorney Robert Barnes during a live stream of Canadian KZbinr Viva Frie where he mentioned the crap writing of Zelensky’s speech being a bad parody of Orwell’s 1984. You would have laughed at Zelensky’s speech and presentation.

[@paulvorbeck7478]

50:00 Legend of Galactic Heroes author writes all his books by pen and paper. Uses computers on a limited basis. Barely has contact with the internet. He's completed almost a dozen book series. Compare that to the output of George Martin.

[@TheMaleRei]

Old school. OG...

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Nick Rekeita is a miracle man. He can turn water into scotch. Tatiana, watch out!

[@mariotrujillo8860]

the man talk about being a good clean christian man, while there's a poster of booze right behind him

[@yungpep]

@@mariotrujillo8860 alcohol is cool with Christ

[@danabnormal5988]

@@yungpep That's true. The Bible indicates *drunkeness*, not drinking in itself, is to be avoided.

[@SpiritKitten]

@@mariotrujillo8860 His wife actually gifted that painting to him! true love indeed

[@Grandmastergav86]

@@yungpep All the drunks I know have seen God...All the potheads I know....like em young...

[@michaeldavid6832]

Internet issues: the speed limit is coming from inside your house in most cases. If you're using a wireless router, it usually can't perform nearly as fast as a wire ran from your router. If you're broadcasting NEVER use the wireless on your production machine. There are too may problems which are easily solved with a wire. Speed is one of them. Security another. Wireless should only be used for non critical systems which don't need that kind of dataflow. Your phone for one. My work machines are never using wireless -- even if I'm using a temp laptop I use wired ethernet. These are the 3 weak links in your network: the modem must support the full speed of the ISPs connection. The router must be able to support it as well. Wireless can never be as fast, reliable, or secure as wired. Wireless has to heavily compete for signal bandwidth in cities.

[@SpartyCubsFan]

@1:37:26 Nick’s explanation of who/what Lizzo is to the foreigners is priceless! How I wish I was blissfully ignorant like them

[@darkdemonqueen]

🤣🤣🤣

[@kevinkorenke3569]

6:05 Exactly. The ending of that Rambo movie closed the loop of our heroes journey. All he wanted to do from the beginning was go home. As far as I am concerned the Rambo series ended there.

[@absentmindedprofessor]

Amazon wants everything: lock, stock, and barrel-rider.

[@Tahulrik]

The Girl Next Door is truly a great movie.. Probably classified as a comedy or romantic comedy.. Great characters, great jokes, a little cliche plot, but done in a way that i havent really seen before... If you have the chance.. watch it! And yes.. Elisha Cuthbert is absolutely stunning!

[@xSmilinBanditx]

Still a favourite of movie nights long time ago. You hit the nail on the head!

[@beardedbjorn5520]

I had such a crush on her in High School, loved that movie.

[@HarosOfStyx]

1:17:22 - that's Paul Wesley, one of the protagonists from The Vampire Diaries. He portrayed Stefan Salvatore. But it's odd that he looks skinny in that picture, where as in The Vampire Diaries he didn't look that skinny. I really hope they didn't ask him to lose weight on purpose for Kirk.

[@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt]

It's days like these that I'm so happy for real blokes like Lloyd Kaufman.

[@solarsailer4166]

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” There's a video of a live interview of Stephen King and GRRM from a few years ago when GRRM asks King, 'How the fuck do you write books so fast?' There's a clear difference of discipline of the two men, demonstrated by who is still publishing books and who is not. Just to be clear, publishing lots of books isn't necessarily a good thing. Got to find the intersection between quality and quantity.

[@jonbaxter2254]

King can't end a book well, Martin can't end a book...

[@themeangene]

King hasn't written a good book in 20 years

[@solarsailer4166]

@@themeangene Granted. It's a good question to pose: which is worse, to write many bad books, or to never finish books at all? Maybe they're equally bad.

[@DefendUSA1776]

I am high and drunk... and Rekieta got lawyer memory remembering shit from 20 years ago.

[@kennystephens7098]

Please PLEASEEE ALL OF U WATCH BLACK SAILS! Its incredible! 38 episodes of brilliance! And it finished up right before the woke era. Its one of my favorite shows of all time

[@kennystephens7098]

@Melvin Deeply ur insane

[@kennystephens7098]

@Melvin Deeply we dont know how blackbeard died. It actually was filmed in Nassau. Flint being gay didnt really affect the story in any way.

[@paulware4701]

I remember The Fog for Adrienne Barbeau. Definitely the two best things in it.

[@lukemanion2]

Rekeita with the BMS shout out, absolutely one of my favourite comedy shows, I have a Thad Castle Jersey

[@absentmindedprofessor]

Black Sails is a prequel series to Treasure Island. Gritty and action-packed. I really liked it.

[@maximusaralieous1728]

Too bad Mr. H couldn't make it on. He has legitimately had issues with his internet ever since he moved, his streams are a mess. Hopefully he can make it on a future episode, pour some ale in a cup and get a little loose with MauLer and Drinker.

[@NickenChuggetsX]

You need to go see Ti West's 'X'. A quality, original (with genre influences) Horror throwback with tits, practical effects, well-timed humour and absolutely no woke shite at all. Well worth your time.

[@MooncricketsInc]

Very heteroflexible and unbreaded show..

[@yetanotherspuart3993]

UNBREADED!!

[@thehermitman822]

Well bearded

[@beardedbjorn5520]

On paper?

[@TheMaleRei]

Touch-DOWN!

[@lore_shards]

Well does unbreaded come from? Like I know it's a joke I just don't get it

[@jcwoodman5285]

Mongolia loves Resident Evil... Chad's more into the big Dance number thing...

[@mayanksharma3651]

How good would it be to see dance sequence for several minutes? Le Bollywood- Hold my beer

[@EddyA1337]

you guys PLUS Rekeita Law?! What... but how? Yaaaaaaaa!

[@Cl0ckcl0ck]

Preston Jacobs shamed GRRM so much with his smart ideas that GRRM flipped into total writers block.

[@timi_ro]

Love that guy's takes on GoT!

[@JeThoreau_]

I still don’t understand why GRRM won’t just hire Preston as a co-author (at least as a “plot consultant”) at this point to help finish the series George’s ego shouldn’t feel threatened - he’s overflowing with creativity, he just needs Preston’s autistic powers/nerd enthusiasm to help tie together all of those threads

[@primafacie5029]

Unexpected treat!!!!

[@Yup712]

“Black Sails” is really good! I think Drinker and MauLer would love it! (And “Rome” is probably my all-time favorite show, I rewatch both seasons every year!)

[@icarusofthesun9306]

OMG another Rome lover. FUCKING YES!!!!!

[@thehermitman822]

"He fucked my nephew!" "But did he pay him?"

[@thehermitman822]

Rome on a GoTs budget. Man I want that.

[@spbynum]

I think George doesn’t want to piss off HBO. He probably has a vastly different ending in mind with Winds of Winter and doesn’t want to risk losing all those producer gigs. For all we know, HBO is paying him NOT to finish it this way.

[@themeangene]

George allegedly told them his main ideas. I don't know

[@j-2-532]

Great opening!

[@Br1cht]

Midnight's Edge sure can run in place without getting anywhere for a long, long, looong time;) Good stream otherwise.

[@MarkWithASilentQ]

1:30:03 -- i remember spending the lunch hour back in '97 to download the first teaser for 'tomorrow never dies' on a computer in high school. it was really short and not too good if i remember right. and really tiny.

[@Grandmastergav86]

The only thing I remember about Tango and Cash is that they ripped off Police Story with a sanitised version of a stunt. I've always liked Kurt Russell, never got the whole Stallone thing. The only epic length film I wanna see is the full 9hr cut of Taiwanese maverick Robert Tai's (RIP) Ninja:The Final Duel

[@Rickyroo1980]

Tango and Cash was dissapointingly bloodless upon rewatching it a few years back

[@ryanbyers4250]

'Anytime Midnights edge speaks' - zzzzzZZZZZZzzzzz

[@Darthvegeta8000]

For me good story and good gameplay goes hand in hand. I want both.

[@thechicagobox]

The panels have been lit lately from everyone I call the KZbin Avengers

[@NickSlaten333]

Speaking of the fog, the original John Carpenter fog is one of my favorite movies. The remake makes me physically ill just thinking about it

[@princeofruins3287]

''Everybody wants to beeeeee my enemyyyy....'' 20:35 lol

[@spartan1879]

I heard the same thing... You beat me to it... Spare the sympathy...

[@thehermitman822]

Eeee Eeee Eeee Eeee

[@daividheideardmitchell4658]

Hell yeah, Highland Park whiskey! Have you ever been to Orkney, my friend? My novel takes place there. I visited the Highland Park distillery while I was doing research. Great place!

[@iggymoondust289]

I think Orks would be angry angry lovers,

[@reduser9357]

Its called "passionate" love making.

[@Bagginsess]

There is no love, only angry angry.

[@beardedbjorn5520]

Like dolphins

[@thehermitman822]

Make war, not love

[@lookbach]

Why does rikieta know the owner of ghetto gaggers? I need to know more about this story….

[@lilyvonshtuup]

Joblo Originals does some great little reviews of 80s films.

[@InAwOrLdOfIdIoTs]

I cancelled my subscription to Amazon after what they did to Tolkien's art. people need to stop paying hand over first to the companies. I want a proper streaming service that just gives you stories and tells the message to f off.

[@JackBurtonPCE1986]

Not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but the Norwegian in The Thing that Andre was talking about was played by one of the film's producers, frequent Carpenter collaborator Larry Franco.

[@Magnificent7Seven]

@Andre, I believe you are correct. Martin has no clue how to end GOT! That's why the series ending was such a mess! The show runners had to come up with the ending on their own! I don't think he will ever be able to finish it and they will have to get an author like P Rothfus to write the end of the story!

[@thehermitman822]

Reacher just goes too Hollywood with the warehouse fight but the rest was great.

[@thehermitman822]

Not understanding the Andre hate because he gives good info. Hope he comes back if only to piss others off.

[@adamklase8547]

Was getting annoyed a bit simply because I love Drinkers and MauLers take on things and ME isn't quite on that level yet, and he was constantly leading the conversation w/ monologues that didn't quite go anywhere at times. Or interrupting them and I was like "uugghh cmon let him finish his thought real quick bruh!"

[@michaelburbidge5835]

Can still see the ships they used for black sails here in Cape Town.

[@sigmacademy]

02:44:16. The problem isn't that it's "the greatest movie of all time" overseas, it's the fact that Hollywood movies have VASTLY better production value than movies and TV series overseas at the time. That has changed to some degree in current times, because foreign countries (especially the smaller ones) have more of their own people investing in their local film industries, plus places like China, Japan and Korea have upped their film making game with continued investment in growing those industries. Indonesia and the Philippines are slowly but surely maturing as well, especially if you consider some of their earlier efforts were truly bizarre, VERY low budget and at some times, straight off rip-offs of popular franchises (in which they were not the only ones to follow this approach - the West did exactly the same). You also have to consider that the Asian countries have had a film making history that only filmmakers and film students are even AWARE of (and sometimes, not even then), and some of their films go back DECADES. :/

[@SleepingNoble]

Reikia law should be kept off creative streams. “I’ll never watch a 3 hour movie” “All video game stories suck” Bro what are you even doing here

[@adamklase8547]

I sorta thought the same. Some ppl on these panels are there simply for their numbers and similar stance on the political spectrum maybe? Shitty but seems feasible.

[@wheelzmcgee4097]

Coincidently, I just watched "Superman returns" a few hours ago... and he cut it, I may have liked it more if I knew why Superman was gone for 5 years!

[@MegaSpideyman]

I thought the film explained it through dialogue.

[@Dr.Ahmed.Tah81]

The best shows on Amazon for me: The Man I. The High Castle & Goliath

[@szofian9671]

Do you think that maybe the ending of the GoT show and the backlash is making GRRM not want to finish it for fear of backlash against his ending too…?

[@szofian9671]

Nevermind. lol. Commented before finishing the video 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@sigmacademy]

01:27:25. It's not just an issue of having "better internet", it's an issue of cost. Bigger companies can afford better internet connections, so I wouldn't be surprised if that streamer was using some kind of corporate connection to download their stuff. I've seen price lists from ISPs that offer up to x100 faster Internet, but at prices that put it beyond most working-class people's ability to afford.

[@Magnificent7Seven]

Read or watch Altered Carbon. Great series on personality transfer!

[@RetiredMillennial]

new kirk looks like Pike

[@nebojsaudovicic6337]

Black Sails is AWESOME

[@yup486]

19:15 - The original cut of This Is Spinal Tap was apparently 12 hours long.

[@josemoreira1044]

What happened to the "It's open bar dude" bit from the intro? Great show as always! Keep up the good work!

[@MegaSpideyman]

It's there towards the end, sure.

[@thehermitman822]

55:30 they missed a great opportunity to have him write about the food of Eldan

[@Goldenhawk583]

Love the norwgian:D Herlig å høre litt norsk, lol

[@DefendUSA1776]

I remember Danger Mouse... I had to check the internet to make sure, because as I said before I am high and drunk. Only too 25 attempts to write drunk without a typo

[@DefendUSA1776]

dammit... all that effort and I left the K off of took and it became too There is my anti-racist card. I am so much of a white guilt SJW that I cannot even use Ks correctly because of the kkk.

[@milkapeismilky5464]

2:02:22 James Purfoy and Thomas Jane are the same person.

[@rj595]

lol Rekeita brings it up about the actor playing reacher. I just see thad castle in anything and then just hear him saying "im thad"

[@OO7angelo]

Tango & Cash 2, I'm in. Bring Terry Hatcher back as Russell's xwife and they have to save their kidnapped kid ( young adult ). There you have a synopsis. Get it done. Lol

[@No_Zaku_Boi]

That stage suffers so that lesser stages may live.

[@thehermitman822]

1:08:00 this THIS THISSSSSSSSSSS Free money practically for the studio while rewarding the fans.

[@Tyler0789]

"We're doing OIL CHANGES!"

[@Cl0ckcl0ck]

It's just plain Norwegian vodka but we added a huge carbon footprint to it for marketing! :')

[@thehermitman822]

"I'm on a boat!"

[@MarkyMark845]

It fills about 5% of a cargo ship, containing other goods, that stops at about a dozen ports during the voyage. Wouldn't call that a "adding huge carbon footprint"

[@Goldenhawk583]

plants love carbon, we are carbon based, carbon changes historically comes AFTER a severe and lasting change in climate, not before.

[@jotun.616]

I loved rambo 4. Technically its "john rambo"

[@absentmindedprofessor]

The new Kirk looks like he would give up on the Kobayashi Maru.

[@yetanotherspuart3993]

Social Justice Facehugger!! Perfect Drinker

[@timgiraud7591]

Lawd dem Rangs!

[@silvermages2]

I'm kinda curious now that we are talking miniseries. How do you all rate "The 10th Kingdom" and other Mini series from the early 2000's. Because I'm going to be honest I think that one in particular is cheesy as hell but way more enjoyable then most of the modern stuff.

[@SuperBIGGY84]

Maulers silence says it all 😂

[@paulware4701]

On courtroom stuff; the Perry Mason TV series was one of the worst, but the books are amazing, full of lots of what is now period procedure (because the law in America is so different now to what it was in the 1950s).

[@jaredbledsoe-sams1361]

Wasn't it Urukhai we saw being made?

[@sigmacademy]

01:13:53. Funny Rekieta should say that: Horror and Hamsters (kind of an horror comedy anthology) had a spicy scene where a human guy is making out with a hairy female werewolf. (if that's your kind of thing?) XD

[@sigmacademy]

02:42:48. You're not appreciating the position they placed themselves in with the ending of that Resident Evil movie ending. The next movie would be the best part of the next movie, opening with an apocalyptic last stand battle, and you would have to explain how Alice survives a fight that NO-ONE could. PLUS if you couldn't get EVERYONE at the end of the previous movie ending to stand in their original roles, you have to explain why some people were suddenly visually different people? ;)

[@jefffan171]

Am just in @13.29 ish and James Gunn would be great as a director for Tango & Cash 2! Having done action, comedy films through Guardians and those movies star Sly and Russell he has worked with both lead actors 😀

[@ryanyvegaify]

Finnish the book George!!

[@sturmhalo]

Why does Mauler's illustration have a triskelion badge on his shirt collar?

[@thehermitman822]

Reacher is a Sigma male (loner). Unlike an Alpha, he doesn't need to show superiority. He just has it when needed.

[@franciscovalle8075]

F-ck water!

[@sigmacademy]

FUN FACT: If you have supernatural powers, you could turn water into wine, yes? :P

[@biffbenedict1603]

what is your opinion of the movie Breathless with Richard Gere haven't seen it in years and years but loved it has that great early 80's feel?

[@theglanconer6463]

I disagree. I love the numerous and intricate story lines in the GoT. The problem is he simply refuses to end the books. He has been much too busy with myriade side projects no one cares about. And of course the Rings of Power will be ultra, ultra woke.

[@Dr.Ahmed.Tah81]

Drinker, sir, would u review The Man in The high castle on Amazon 🙏🏻

[@ben_sisko2149]

Why does everyone keeps cutting Andre? 🤣

[@IWBeTheGuy]

because of how slow he talks

[@b.chaline4394]

@@IWBeTheGuy give him a break, English isn't his first language

[@Bagginsess]

testosterone and alcohol

[@beardedbjorn5520]

@@b.chaline4394 he talks just as slow in Norwegian

[@burdbrain1598]

Whiplash is amazing, you definitely need to check it out.

[@spectre9957]

I get pissed if I'm pullin less than 800Mbs up and down.

[@RMF76]

Where do these stream live? Is it on twitch or something?

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

YT Friday 5pm Et

[@RMF76]

@@JoshuaKevinPerry OK Cheers bud!

[@beardedbjorn5520]

Streams on the Main channel, gets reuploaded to After Hours 12 hours later (usually)

[@carlhess5707]

I didn’t like Peacemaker for the first two episodes. Ended up loving the show.

[@bus3957]

I get 250 mb/second in the middle of nowhere in PA, USA.

[@jonbaxter2254]

Yes, SOMA is a good game

[@bus3957]

I haven't played them all, but I know souls games are very lore rich. You just have to work a little bit to figure it all out ie reading item descriptions, repeatedly talking to npcs, maybe even killing the npcs to read more item descriptions, etc

[@Tkscz]

As a man who likes fat women Lizzo is a 3/10 easily.