#873 Most expensive movies - Let me bore you to sleep

Hello, hello, hello, good evening, good evening. Hello and welcome to Jason Newland. This is Let Me Bore You To Sleep, my name's Jason Newland.

Blah, blah, dum-ba-dum, blah, bum-ba-dee-bum-bum, blah. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. Hope you're well, hope you're happy, hope everything's going good for you, yes.

That's weird, why is Instagram coming up on my laptop? All the knobs were changed on my Zoom recorder. And something else is on my, I mean, it's almost like someone's been in here and been fiddling with things, but no one's been in here. No, no one's, no, if they had, I don't know how they managed to do it.

It seems a bit of a pointless reason to break into someone's house to just get Instagram on their iPad. Just seems a bit of a waste really, a bit of a pointless thing. Yeah, anyway, what I do now is I try to unplug all electrical things that are anywhere near the microphone, because sometimes I get a little bit of feedback.

I don't like that. It seems to be okay now. Can you hear that? So that's the background.

I don't know what it is, a weird noise. Feels like. So today is Tuesday.

It's Tuesday. Well, Tuesday, 26th of July, 2022, 2000. Let's see if I've got any messages on Facebook.

Let's see. Don't, don't suppose. You know what I just tried to do, just tried, just tried to film, do a live stream on YouTube, on my phone, everything connected.

And it just wouldn't do it. Refused to do it. And I'll be honest, I'm not sure why, because it's got internet, it's got, you know, the unlimited data, mobile data.

I mean, if I was using the, the broadband wireless, then yeah, I'd understand. Because it's not very good. It's all it can do really is good enough just for television and maybe using a laptop for basic streaming or not streaming basic browsing and that anything more complicated than that.

And it gets a bit of a brain fart. But the mobile data is much stronger, usually, and more powerful than the one that I've got on the broadband, but it's just not, not happening unless I haven't paid it. Yeah, I must have paid it, must have paid it, it's a direct debit, so it's just go out.

Every month, I've got Cindy Hills followed me, followed me where, it's not followed me me. Hi, Cindy, if you're listening, if you're listening. Hi.

Why is it just gone to a profile? There's pictures of trees. I've got trees where she lives in Boston, South Carolina. I don't know their trees there.

That's nice. So, I guess, yeah, I tried to do like a live stream on U2 and it wouldn't work, like, turn all the lights on, go everything ready and why is it not working? I didn't even want to do it. I didn't, I didn't even want to, I don't want to be on video anymore.

I don't like video. But I thought, okay, maybe I'll give it a go because the audio didn't work. Yesterday, when I tried to do an audio live stream on my Facebook group, that didn't work.

The Jason Newland hypnotist group. Didn't work. Wouldn't, it did work.

Okay, it did work, but it wasn't good. The sound wasn't great. And I suppose if it's going to be live, maybe the sound won't be as good as it could be.

But I've got a different microphone coming through tomorrow and it's supposed to be really good for streaming and specifically like using the phone. So I'm going to give it another chance. The other thing I could do possibly is do like a radio show.

I don't know what you think about that. Like a daily, I'll tell you what it is. There's, I'll talk this through with you.

Okay, I've got a few little issues. Nothing bad, just a few things I've been thinking about. I'm going to give me a can of Coke.

Ah, in fact, I'll drink it. I'll drink it all. So I've been thinking, I know.

I try to allow myself to think at least once every seven and a half weeks. Did anyone see that? Is it six and a half weeks, that movie? Or was it 10 and a half weeks? I remember I watched it frame by frame. I was only 16 at the time.

Frame by frame, literally frame by, okay, but yeah, I watched it on video frame by frame. And the thing I liked, the two things, well, you know, we didn't have the internet back then. You know, that was, it was a visual stimulation.

So let's just leave it at that anyway, for a young man that I was. But two things I liked, first of all, I liked, you know, the raunchiness. I was young and it got me excited.

It would do nothing for me now, but you know, back then. And the other thing was Mickey Rourke. And it was, and I'm not talking about how he like, where's he going with this? I'm not sure.

No, I just really liked the lifestyle that he led. You know, he had this like big wardrobe and loads of suits. It was like perfectly groomed.

He was, it's just, anyone that hasn't seen the movie and only knows Mickey Rourke from like The Wrestler or Sin City, things like that, have a look. You know, have a look at some of his earlier movies. You might be surprised.

He was, he was very, very, very handsome. I'm not saying he's not handsome now. I'm just saying, you know, back then he was, he was kind of like the Brad Pitt, George Clooney of his time.

He was really popular for, let's say another one, I suppose. Sonny Crockett from Miami Vice. He was another one.

They were like two of the big handsome men in Hollywood or in, you know, acting. I'm trying to think who else? Lee Majors? No, that's probably, he was, but back earlier on. What was that weird, weird noise? Remind me to edit that out.

Um, I, I feel the birth of a new catchphrase. Remind me to edit that out. That's going to be my new catchphrase.

I've never been so angry. And I, he was, yeah, I'm trying to think who else back then, who's the really saucy, handsome men. And we're talking like late eighties.

Late eighties. Can't think of someone that hasn't had huge amounts of plastic surgery since. Um, who else? Who else? Can't think of anyone else off the top of me head.

Uh, okay. People that were famous back then. So to be fair, Tom Cruise was, wasn't he? So I guess Tom Cruise, as far as, um, I mean, he was a huge, huge star already by that point.

So, but he was, he was almost more than just being like a handsome man. He was a superstar, wasn't he? Arnie Arnold. He was a huge star.

And I think he was super good looking when he was younger, when he was in his bodybuilding days. Yeah. Like pumping iron, the movie pumping iron.

He's very, very good looking. I'm not just talking about his body. It was almost pretty much perfect.

But his face, he just had a really, really, really good face. Um, I've stopped looking for a girlfriend. I seem to be moving in a different, a different direction.

No. Um, who else? What other men are super sexy? Um, I don't know. I can't, I'm trying, I'm trying to, I'm late.

I mean, now, one of the top ones would be the bloke from Vikings. I've mentioned him before. He's, I think I've got a little man crush on him.

He's so, there's something about him and he's a really good actor, but he plays, he plays crazy very well. He plays, uh, he has like crazy eyes when he does that. Um, I'm trying to think of someone else.

Not Barry Gibb, um, not Benny Hill. Who was it? It must've been some real, I mean, George Clooney, to be fair. George Clooney probably was about in the early, no, stop saying that.

It's not true. George Clooney was in the ER, wasn't he? In the nineties. And that's when he became a movie star after being in ER.

So that was the nineties. I mean, I'm sure he was around in the eighties because he is, he's got to be in his, um, late seventies now. Let's find out how old George Clooney is.

George Clooney, or if I put in George sexy beast, see if it comes up. Nope. Okay.

I'll put another one. George sexiest actor in the universe. Yeah, that's it.

George Clooney's come up. I'm actually, I Googled that. George sexiest.

No, I put sexist actor in the universe, but you know, he knew what I meant. Not George, but as it gives me is Wikipedia, George Clooney. He's 61.

Okay. Let's say that people say that. Well, if I looked like that when I was 61, when I was 61, I'll be happy.

If I look like that when I was 12, I'd be happy. Any age, three months old, 90. 22.

Either way. If I just looked like George Clooney, I'd life would have been easier because he's, he's just super handsome. Can't argue that in Brad Pitt.

But then Brad Pitt again, he was late eighties, wasn't he? Thelma and Louise. That was late eighties, wasn't it? What the man hating movie? No. Why are you saying stuff like that? Thelma and Louise.

Oh no, it's 1991. I thought it was late eighties. Shows what I know.

So that was one of Brad Pitt's first movies, wasn't it? I think that was produced by Ridley Scott. So it's 1991. That's, you know, it's really weird.

Okay, here's the thing. I remember it being huge, huge hit. But it took 45 billion, 45 million.

Did I say billion? I meant million. Muh, buh, muh, buh, muh, billion. Now, admittedly, admittedly, if I, if I stood on my hands and jumped up and down on my hands, um, the change falling on the floor would not come anywhere near that amount.

But it just seems quite a small amount for such a big hit. The budget of the movie was 16.5 million. So even then, a lot of money spending on a movie to make 45.4 million.

And I'm pretty sure, and I'm going to check this now. I'm going to check this. I'm pretty sure, because at that time, and I'm sure it was the end of the 80s, but it might have been the 90s.

Waterworld was the most expensive movie ever made at that time. Waterworld movie. There was actually a place called Waterworld, apparently.

Why are you doing this to me? Oh, this is interesting. What's come up is the most expensive movies of all time. No.

No. How? How is that possible? Blimey. Okay, at the time.

Wow. Okay, I'm sorry. I realize I'm.

Wow. I'm going to go through these for you. Okay.

First of all, I'm going to put in Waterworld. So Waterworld the movie. Okay, here we go.

It. See, this is the thing. I remember when it came out, right? 1995, July 28th.

It literally. Two days away from being its 27th anniversary. I think.

27, yeah. 1995 released. Okay.

When it came out, it was absolutely panned as being the worst movie ever made. They were slagging it off something terrible. And that was Kevin Costner's movie.

And they were going on about it's the most expensive movie of all time. Costed 175 million dollars. And they were going.

They were slagging it off during it being made. Going on about like, oh, it's. It's gone over budget.

And it's going to be the most expensive movie at 100 million. There is 115 million. There was 117 and a half million.

That was 118 million and four pence. You know, it's like it just kept moaning and being negative towards it. And I've seen a bit of it once and it was okay.

You know, it was all right. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time. It says it here.

I knew, I remember that. And it was released to mixed reviews. Well, I'd say mixed reviews.

It was slated. And maybe, I mean, I'm not everywhere in the world. Might be hard to believe, but I'm not everywhere in the world.

You know, when in 1995, is it? Yeah, 1995. I only really got the perspective of the British press and the British television and the critics. I don't know how America or Africa or India or other countries, Scandinavia were, you know, judging the movie.

But pretty much everyone that I remember was saying negative things about it. It was nominated for an Academy Award for best sound at the 68th Academy Awards. I wonder if they won anything.

Well, no, I probably would have said it was, it won, wouldn't it? It says at box office, because of the runaway costs of the production and its expensive price tag, some critics dubbed it a fish tar. Not really sure what that is. And Kevin's gate, Kevin's gate, alluding to the flops, Ishtar and Heaven's Gate.

Although the film debited at a box office at number one, with a budget of one hundred and seventy two million and a total outlay of. This is weird. They don't put this in, do they? A total outlay of two hundred and thirty five million once marketing and distribution costs are factored in.

So that's something that's missing, isn't it? The film grossed eighty eight million in North American box office, but it did better overseas. So it didn't do so great in America. And comparing like how much it cost, but it made one hundred and seventy six at the foreign box office and a worldwide total of two hundred and sixty four.

So it made a profit. However, even though it's this figure surpasses the total costs spent by the studio, it does not take into account the percentage of box office gross that theaters retain. Wow.

Which is generally up to half. OK, what about DVDs or videos? Yeah, what about all the money they made from people watching it on when they sold it to television? What about all the money that they made, you know, from being on streaming services? It must have made money, you know, over the last twenty seven years. I bet you it's made many, many, many millions of dollars accrued since then.

Don't you try and pull the wool over my feet. I know what you're doing. Award Best Sound Nominee.

Oh, it did win an award. Golden, Golden Raspberry Award. Blimey, it was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award.

Worst Picture Nominated. Worst Actor, Ken Costner Nominated. Worst Director, Kevin Reynolds Nominated.

Worst Supporting Actor, Dennis Hopper. Won. That's just a bit rude, isn't it? Stinker's Bad Movie Awards.

Worst Picture and Worst Actor Nominated. So it was released on DVD in 1998. Shall I you into a secret? Shall I? OK, here's a secret.

I didn't start watching DVDs until 2004. Seriously, I got a DVD player in 2004. And it was like an all-in-one TV and DVD player.

2004. Up to then, when in 2001, 2002, 2003, up all those times, I was getting videos out of blockbusters and buying videos. Yet DVDs had been around for a long time.

I was so behind. So behind. Oh, not just the times, I was behind.

The clock, you know, I was behind everything. I said clock. I had a friend who used to say clock, but you never hear the L, the way she spoke.

I don't know if it was a lisp or whatever, but that particular word, you could never hear the L when she said it. And I remember thinking, that's weird. I was saying to someone, that's weird, and they said, yeah, you know what's weirder? I said, I don't know, why she keeps calling you a clock.

Video games. Ah, anyway, I think it was quite a squeaky voice. That was quite a good idea, though, wasn't it? Really, if you think about it, the ice cap melts, water world.

And yeah, I just think, I mean, the film's released for a couple of years, didn't it? I don't know, just, okay. The film, listen to this, the film's release was accompanied by a novelization, video game, and four themed attractions at a Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Studios Singapore, Universal Studios Japan, and Universal Studios Beijing, called Waterworld. A live sea war spectacular.

This next sentence is going to blow your mind. All of which are still running. Now, they must surely have made a fair bit of money.

Seriously. So Kevin Reynolds made that film, he directed it, but he also directed Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves as well. So I guess that maybe they came as a bit of a package.

He's good friends with Kevin Costner. Now, Kevin Costner, I like Kevin Costner, he's been in a lot of good movies. He was Superman's dad.

So that, oh, that's a whole new thing as well, that really annoyed me. Never been so angry. Superman, if anyone's seen Superman Man of Steel, I can't, I struggle to watch it now because it was weird.

I don't know, I liked the movie. And then, you know, my nan's funeral, you're going to think, how does that come, how do the two connect? Superman didn't fly down or anything. I wasn't watching it on my phone while I was at the funeral, anything weird like that.

So we get home and my brother says, oh, let's watch a movie. And he puts Superman on. One of my favourite movies, like, of recent times, because it was a fairly new movie, a couple of years old or something, maybe a year old.

I don't want to do anything nice. I don't want to do anything that's going to remind me that's going to be connected to this feeling. And so it kind of spoiled the movie for me a bit.

There's a good film. There's a bit in it that annoyed me. And basically, he's a young Superman.

This is the bit where he's still a young man. Before he goes to become a reporter. And there's only maybe a year between that time and when you see him next.

But he looks completely different. A different actor, like, I'm not quite sure how that works. They did that in the first Superman movie as well.

In 1977 or whenever it was. Different actor. Why? You literally, you know, you don't change your entire appearance within two years or whatever.

Then you could say, yeah, but he just puts his glasses on and he changes his appearance completely. Well, kind of. But you got to remember when he's wearing his glasses, he's also got a suit on, like his normal clothes.

When he's not got his glasses on, he's got a big red and blue. It's very American, isn't it? Really? That kind of red, white. Is there white on his Superman thing? I suppose because it was made.

Maybe it was had that in mind. Superman. No, it's yellow, isn't it? Red, white and blue.

It's red, yellow and blue. Unless the fact they class him because he's white. I don't know.

Yeah. Fair enough. And there's a bit in the movie where he's with his dad.

And a tornado comes. I'm thinking. Oh, it's going to be like a different take, different type of Superman movie, like a mishmash between Superman and the Wizard of Oz.

But I was wrong. And it could have been quite a short film, wouldn't it? Let's face it. Dorothy managed to run rings around the witches.

I don't know what Superman could do. I'll get you, my pretty. His laser of his eyes.

That's it. And then he wouldn't need it. He wouldn't need.

A basket with balloons, would he? He could just fly. Back to Kansas. So there's a scene in the Superman movie, Man of Steel, and basically a tornado is coming and his dad has said to him over and over again since he was a little boy, don't ever reveal your identity, don't ever reveal your identity, not for anything.

And basically, they were all sheltering, but his dad, I think, went to save a dog from a car that was about to get sucked up by this, sucked off by this tornado. And I think he releases a dog and then the tornado comes and he does nothing. He just watches his dad get sucked off by this tornado.

Does nothing. When he could have used, he can move so quick that no one will be able to see it anyway. He didn't do it.

He could have blown the tornado. He could have sucked off the tornado before the tornado sucked off his dad. He got rid of the tornado himself by sucking that one off.

But no. So he just allowed his dad to get sucked off by the tornado, disappeared. That was Kevin Costner anyway, and he was like, you silly Billy, what the hell? You're Superman.

It was just silly. That part of the movie just didn't seem realistic, it didn't seem realistic to me. I remember saying it out loud to someone.

And they said, which part did seem realistic, Jason? The part when he came down as a baby in a spaceship and was able to, you know, lift houses up as a small child. The part when he was flying around. Which bit was realistic to you? The parts when the other three aliens come down and start fighting and smashing up buildings and things like that.

Was that, what about the oil tanker? Was that that bit when he rescues the oil tanker all by himself? Which bit was realistic really for you? It's like, okay, keep going on. I don't really know if, I like Kevin Costner. I think he's, he's kind of stuck to his guns and he's, he's done, he's done lots of good movies over the years.

So I'm not here to have a go at him and he had no choice. I mean, what could he do? It was bad enough, you know, that that was going to end. I mean, he's in that movie, had enough problems having been criticized previously for roles he took, like in Sea World and a couple of others, Ishtar and another one.

But on top of that, he was about to get sucked off by a tornado. I mean, the things that that man does for his art. I was seeing whether Kevin Reynolds was related to Ryan Reynolds, maybe it was his dad.

But it's not telling me anything. I was always interested just to see, you know, what people are related and I mean, even if he was, I think even if Ryan Reynolds was the son and daughter of, you know, multiple Oscar winners and, you know, had been just given every single part and without having to work for it or anything. It doesn't matter because he's great.

Ryan Reynolds is, to me, is one of the best comedy actors. And it's almost easy for him. You know, he doesn't.

I don't know. He's great. I think he's brilliant.

Ryan Reynolds, I'm a big fan of his. I'm one of his biggest fan boys. Yeah.

Anyway, we'll move away from Waterworld. I've got a list here of the most expensive movies ever made. Would you like me to indulge? Shall we, shall we both indulge? Let's indulge.

Come on. Now, I have one problem with this. Is... In reality, these are modern films.

You know, fairly modern. And the cost of making films is a lot more expensive than it used to be. So it's the same as when like the most... The highest grossing films.

Now, there was a time when E.T. was the highest grossing film. So highest grossing films. Highest grossing films of all time.

Okay. So... At the top, you've got Avatar. But that was 2009.

And that was 2.8 billion. Now, that's... Have I got the wrong glasses on? I'm looking at the screen with the wrong glasses. Where's my glasses then? I'm not sure.

I don't know. Okay, that's fine. I'll just carry on.

Oops, sorry. Sorry to bend the microphone. Remember, remind me to edit that out.

Told you. New catchphrase. Avatar.

Let me see if E.T.'s even on that list. No, not even on the list. You know why? Because it's an old film.

It's an old, old film. You know what? I'm gonna press year. The earliest film was 1993 on this list.

And this is out of... 50, I think. Maybe not 50. 45.

Yeah, 50. This is 50 movies. And Jurassic Park is the earliest film on this list.

At 1993. Now, if E.T. was being released now and it had the same number of people go and watch it as did back in 1982 or whatever year it was that E.T. came out. Charging the prices that they charge now.

Okay, not now. Not right now, because cinemas don't have the same numbers as they used to have. But, you know, let's say going back to two, three years ago, maybe four years ago, when things were kind of normal-ish, it would have, I'm pretty sure it would have absolutely hammered any of the other movies.

I think it'd be at the top. I can't guarantee that though. Can't guarantee.

But anyway, Avatar's number one. Which is actually surprising considering it's quite old now. It's 2009.

What's that? 13 years. So nothing's beaten Avatar. Which in itself is pretty amazing when you consider that Avengers Endgame, which is the second, number two on the list of highest grossing films of all time, was 10 years later.

So, wow. And then Titanic, number three. Avatar and Titanic, both by the same person, isn't it? Same, um, James Cameron.

And who's the Endgame? Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. What if they're related? Star Wars The Force Awakens is number four. I'll give you the numbers for this anyway.

Aven- Avatar, 2.8 billion. Avengers Endgame, 2.7. To be fair, there's very little in it. So, 2.847 billion.

But Avengers Endgame, 2.797. So it's a very small amount in it. Titanic, from 1997, again. That's 12 years, no, um, 2009.

To, to, uh, to 97. Yeah, it's 12 years, isn't it? 99, so 12 years earlier. And it's number three.

Star Wars The Force Awakens, that's 2015. 2 billion and 68 million. Avengers Affinity War.

Infinity War, sorry, not A-finity War, that was 2018, 2 billion and 48, Spider-Man No Way Home, and this is a new movie really, it was only last year, 2021, 1. 9 billion, so I think that's still got some going, isn't it, and it's only just, I think, started to be available to stream, Jurassic Park, 1.

67 billion, 2015, so Spider-Man No Way Home to be at number 6 out of the highest grossing films of all time is pretty amazing, and you know what, I used to know, now my claim to fame, no, not the court case, my claim to fame is, I used to know Spider-Man's dad, yep, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, honestly, genuinely, I did, his dad is a comedian, and I used to know him, really nice bloke, haven't seen him for a long, long time, but I used to know him, used to know him to chat to him, we

were like best buddies, we didn't go on holiday with him, I just used to know him, yeah, it's true, I can't even tell you what his name is, his name is Dominic Holland, see, yeah, Dominic Holland, in fact the film's going to his page, it says it, parents Dominic Holland, Dominic Anthony Holland, born 6 May 1967, he's only 3 years younger, 3 years older than me, is an English comedian, author, actor and broadcaster, he won the 1993 Perrier Best Newcomer Award in Edinburgh, his BBC Radio 4 series, The Small World of Dominic Holland, a reference

to his 5 foot 6 height, won a Comic Heritage Award, so he's 55, he is short, but then, you know what, what's in a couple of inches, a lot, 2 inches, 2 inches is a lot, I mean that's, I don't really need to say it, do I, but 2 inches is quite a lot, I want to go back and see most expensive productions, it does say here, oh, I've moved from most successful movies, let's go back to the most expensive productions, unadjusted for inflation, so that's the thing, number 1, I was quite surprised at this,

Pirates of the Caribbean on Stranger Tides, 2011, costing an estimated $379 million.

Number 2, Avengers Age of Ultron, $365 million, 3 Endgame Avengers, 4 Infinity War Avengers, all kind of, $356, $325, Pirates of the Caribbean, $300 million, Justice League, $300 million, now I can understand how some of the, I suppose it's the special effects, isn't it, also because the Avengers, you've got a lot of stars, you know, you've got, well there are lots, aren't you, like the Hulk, and you've got Doctor Strange, and Iron Man, and Mr America, and Thor, and Spider-Man, you know, you've got all these like individual actors who are stars in their own right,

of their own movies, so I'm guessing there's a lot of money to pay out to the actors, and then the special effects is going to be huge, but I'm not sure why Pirates of the Caribbean was so expensive, I mean, no doubt there was special effects, but it's just people dressed up as pirates on a boat, isn't it, or have I got it wrong, I've not seen it, I'm going to have to watch it, maybe it's really good, I know it's very popular, I can understand like the Star Wars movies, all very expensive, it makes

sense because there's all the special effects, I don't quite understand why anything like Tangled would be, it's a cartoon, they did well, 592 million at the box office cost 260, The Lion King, that's the new one, Spider-Man 3, wow, Spider-Man 3 from 2007 cost 258 million, and maybe there was more special effects in that one, Beauty and the Beast, how on earth, that's the cartoon, isn't it, 2017, is it a cartoon, yeah it is a cartoon, no it's not, no, but there was a lot of animation as well wasn't there, so yeah, special effects, fair

enough, they had old Mr.

Handsome Man in there, Luke Evans and Emma Watson, fair enough, so I think that's the one thing that's kind of, that's moving between all of these different things is the special effects, like No Time to Die, the James Bond movie, Furious, Fast and Furious movies, James Bond movies, Narnia movies I suppose, lots of special effects, and also kind of building, almost like building a world isn't it, like almost building another world, which Narnia technically is isn't it I guess, stop questioning me, The Hobbit, yeah makes sense, The Desolation of Smaug, Transformers, yeah that makes sense,

Men in Black 3, yeah, but then I suppose quite a lot of that money, I mean how much goes to the actors, how much did Will Smith and other bloke get for being in Men in Black 3, 20 million each, 30 million each, and I think, don't get me wrong, but I think Johnny Depp got over 100 million for the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie he got, I don't know if it's true, I remember hearing it but I might not have done, Cars 2, 200 million, I don't really rate those movies Cars, they're cartoons,

why are they so expensive to make, I can see how they take a long time, the animation is very complicated and technical, but yeah, it shows my lack of knowledge on that one, Toy Story, okay, the movie 2012, that makes sense, because it was lots of special effects in there, The Green Lantern, or Green Lantern, 200 million, that got slated, I don't think it even made a profit, no it did, it made 19 million profit, so Box Office 219, Budget 200, and we're not taking into consideration how much the Box Office take, they take 50%,

so the Box Office has got, what's his name, Ryan Reynolds in it, and Mark Strong, who I like, and Tim Robbins, and Angela Bassett, secondly, I love The Green Lantern movie, because it actually, the possibilities are almost endless, for what he can do, I think we might be getting Thunder, I've got that like little sound in the background, it sounds almost like Docs, what do you mean Docs, I don't know, if you've never lived near Docs, then you won't, I guess know what I mean, but if you live near a Docs, and I used to

when I was younger, you can hear, in the distance, it is in the distance, it's not like close up, unless you live closer I guess, makes sense, you can hear the cargo being loaded onto the ships, like the containers, and it's like just, almost like little rattles of Thunder, but small, and it sounds a bit like that, but we're nowhere near Docs, the closest Docs, there is a Docs, but it's not near here, it's a train journey, I can't imagine to hear that here, Fantastic Beasts, The Crimes of Grimwald, I've not, you know, one day,

one day I'm going to watch the Harry Potter movies, but all of them, I've watched the first one, a couple of times, I think I might have watched the second one, but I just haven't watched them, just you know, I don't know how, is it six or seven of them, so the Fantastic Beasts kind of didn't really mean anything to me, because I thought, well, I'm not going to understand what they're talking about, because I think, I might be wrong, I was wrong once before in 1995, but I think, it was Tuesday, yeah, I think,

you know, I might not be right, it might be completely separate, and I don't need that information, Hobbs and Shaw, what on earth is, oh, Fast and Furious, okay, oh dear, Jungle Cruise, Spider-Man, No Way Home, 200 million, okay, The Grey Man, that's weird, why is that so expensive, 200 million, that's available to watch, I've not bothered watching it, because I didn't think it looked very good, right, because it's on Netflix, and now it's been released on Netflix, and I've not bothered watching it, so maybe I will, or it's got, yeah, yeah, it was released

on the 22nd, so it's the 26th now, I might watch that later, I'm getting excited, I'm getting really, really excited, just at the thought of it, I'm really, really buzzing, wow, I'm going to watch that, I'm going to watch it, and if it's one of the most expensive movies, ever made, well, it's the most expensive movie Netflix has ever made, but 200 million, even in these days, is when you consider, Endgame was free for, hmm, I don't know, I'm trying to figure it out, but, who's that, I'm just going to look, oh, hello, hello, so,

I was going to say, I was saying something at the beginning of the podcast, I can't remember what it was, it was something, I think it was more to do with, and thinking about, devoting, I don't want to say it out loud, I've actually thought about, what do I enjoy doing, most, okay, I'm not, don't worry, I'm not going in a weird direction, oh, he's going to talk about bondage and bananas again, no, I'm not, I'm talking concerning, you know, podcasting, and all the different things, you know, I don't enjoy making videos, I don't really

like that stuff, I don't, I did it for a long time, and I've left my most popular video on YouTube, I just left it on there, so people can watch it, but I'm not really, I don't know why, it might change, I might get the little, I might get the bug back, but I don't think so, well, not at the moment, but I like making podcasts, or making recordings, which again is something I've done since 2006, quite a few years, and it's only really since 2018, that things have really grown for me with the podcasts,

I was getting a couple of hundred thousand downloads a year, I think, before that, maybe 150,000, something like that, but it grew, really started to grow over the last, what was that, four years, and I've noticed that the podcasts that I enjoy doing the most, you know what I'm going to say here, don't you, all you know, if you're still awake, you know I'm going to say this one, yeah, that's it, it's, I mean, so yeah, because it's easy, because it's just me being me, I haven't got to do anything, I haven't got to be

professional, or try and do anything, so I don't know, I'm kind of almost thinking, like, should I just focus on this?

I don't know, I'm talking about going forward, I'm not going to delete anything, still going to leave all my other podcasts there, and I'll still add these podcast episodes to the other podcasts as well, that I do already, but I'm thinking maybe of just making the Let Me Bore You To Sleep podcasts, I don't know, because if I'm not helping anyone, then I'm just doing this for a laugh, and you know, then it's kind of, it defeats the object of why I've been doing this stuff, but I don't know, sometimes I think, yeah, I'm going

to do this, I'm going to do that, and then I, ah, I just find it very easy, very, very easy to make these podcasts, as far as it doesn't take any motivation, does that make sense?

I mean, sometimes, I don't know, I can't be bothered, but generally, it's easy, I just, I've got everything set up, and I still got to do a few little bits in that, but you know, I've got the equipment, and I can just talk for an hour, I could talk for two hours, probably three hours if I wanted, so I'm not sure, I'm not sure, not sure, I mean, I've got this new microphone coming, and it's called, I'll tell you what it's called, the, because I'm trying to find something that I can travel with, right, so

if I, if I go away, and I don't even mean like on holiday, I mean, just, um, let's say I was going to visit, go and visit family or go for a walk and maybe I can make my podcast when I'm away does that make sense so instead of packing all this equipment which I can't because I think I kind of broke the other microphone when I went away and I took it with me and it got bashed around and I'm guessing I did drop it on the floor once and I don't know it seems

it doesn't seem how it was so I've got this other microphone now new one and I'm and this is a lot better than the other one well it's a lot more it's not a lot better but it's you know it's higher spec as it were this is proper radio presenting microphone and I mean you can you can spend a hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a microphone you can I can't so you know obviously this there's no limit I suppose if you if it's made of gold you could probably spend millions and have diamonds all

over it but the actual microphone itself this is one of the top ones and the I kind of I can't risk traveling with it and breaking it I just can't do that it's not it's not worth the risk and I know you might say well I can't it should sound better if it's a good microphone I'm still learning how to use the zoom recording studio I have to just keep using it every day and then I'll get better at what I'm doing you know it just takes a while for me to get into the groove

and as time goes by so when I get some like maybe improve the equipment maybe get a better recording equipment studio stuff I'll have already used this one for a couple of years maybe you know and then it will just it will be an easier transition does that make sense so yeah I don't want to take this stuff with me so if I can take this new microphone which is a Tula Tula mic USB C microphone and mobile recorder for podcast YouTube tick-tock streaming gaming vlogging zoom calls and musical recorders so it's got um I've

got an extension so means it will go into my well it will already go into the iPad but it will go into so I might be able to just do the recording onto the iPad or it will go into my phone now if that's the case then I can just if I'm not planning on editing anything I can just take it and it fits in my pocket it's not big but I've done a lot of research on it and it's supposed to be good really good quality and cuts out the background so if that's the

case I could perhaps take it with me do a podcast while I'm out and then then do the editing so record it onto my phone I think it's got a hard drive like a disc in it yeah it takes a disc so you can actually record onto it without connecting it into the phone so literally just have it on its own record the podcast and then get back and take a disc out and do the editing from there so it could be very handy and I'll be looking at it for a while decided to do

that because I'd like to be able to do some stuff outside now I'm not sure how well it would work with wind you know microphones and wind aren't a great combination but you don't know it may may may be alright but it definitely well it might be really good for like walking on a beach or something like that it's going for a walk and just talking doing like a walk and talk podcast one of these let me boil to sleep but just walking like hi I'm walking walk with me mmm you know just tell you

what I'm seeing and what I'm experiencing and you know things like that so that would be interesting to have a little play with that and yeah so that's that's it for me for today for today so thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy remember to be gentle with yourself lots of love bye