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and the chat is of course jim hates it why wouldn't he i love it i don't care jim if you hate it you're gonna hate it more next week because if he does another one next week i will bring it next week i will play these on the show every week he does it he's just he's just a insane goofball he is and that's what makes him hilarious now tell me tell me honestly You wouldn't go see that for $150? Yeah,

I mean, you know, sure, why not? Again, I equate that to a Kevin Smith thing.

Yeah.

You know, because I enjoyed the Kevin Smith, you know, listening to him tell his stories.

Yeah, I would pay for that every time it came through before I will ever go see him again.

Singing, quote unquote singing.

As his speaking career has progressed, he's gotten less and less of a potty.

Well, it's kind of like the first year at Content Marketing World where we asked Kevin Smith, can you lay off the dildo jokes so much? And you know what he did? He went in.

Oh,

yeah.

No, he leaned into it.

That was the wrong thing to basically do was to tell him not to do something because he

Well, the funny thing is that we've talked about it on this show, but after he did his little comedy thing, there's a lot of people that didn't know who Kevin Smith was.

For those of you that are a great writer, director, actor, Silent Bob, the whole thing.

I'm also wearing jerseys like her now.

I look like Kevin Smith.

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It's ready to channel their inner Kevin Smith for this.

This is the Ryan Yeager episode.

Yeah.

Being a redneck is fine.

There are good rednecks and there are bad rednecks.

But white trash for me is like... every character in every Kevin Smith movie, like those people are white trash.

They're just hanging outside of gas stations, selling drugs, ripping menthol cigarettes.

Yeah.

And you've got Kevin Smith in it briefly, I think.

Okay.

It's a lot of things, but it's not the best die hard.

Listening to East Coasters talk about it is interesting.

Someone, a prominent New Jersey figure, Kevin Smith, talks about that, you know, he was still living in Jersey at the time.

It was before he moved out to L.A.

They could, you know, the smell of just like fucking bodies and rubber and all that was just across the Hudson was just...

It's people are getting mad at the idea of it.

we just went through this shit with the Odyssey it's the same thing people getting pissed off because they know two minutes of the movie and they're looking for some sort of outrage honestly to grift off of and that's what happened it happened with Kevin Smith when he made Dogma it happened with Last Temptation of the Christ the book and the movie it's a hot they knew what they were getting into when they made this for sure and like you know It's just people, you know, you either have to dive under the wave of controversy and just make your movie, or you get cold feet and you don't end up making it, which is what happened here.

They had their funding pulled like four days before going into production, and that's when, you know, our boy George Harrison rode to the rescue.

Yeah.

that came out through Marvel that I did with Joe Cassater.

And we hired guys like Kevin Smith and Steve Dillon and Garth Ennis and a whole bunch of people, Jay Lee.

And oh my God, so many people.

We put out a bunch of books that did very well.