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"But the best. Dr. Strangelove. We talked about doing a Peter Sellers series. Dr. Strangelove is a scalpel. That is a surgeon at work with Stanley Kubrick. You know, he is. Those are precise cuts in that movie. But and this is I mean, there are the satirical aspects of this movie are interesting to watch. You know, the social cliques, the you know, the competition for crushes, all that kind of stuff. Yeah. At the end of the day, there's still high school kids. You know, it's like, man, there's a little bit of John Waters here. There's a little bit of Heathers. There's a little bit of like that sort of dark comedy of high school, which I'm here for. But yeah, for me, I would come away from this as a six. I know that probably puts me different than what other people would give it. I know people love it. I mean, I agree. It's not for everybody. Yeah. And ordinarily, again, I don't. Violence doesn't bother me. I'm not necessarily a squeamish person, but you know. But it was like watching. I mean, I never thought the kindergarten cop would affect me in that way. It's like it's like this is ugly now to watch. You know, it's like to see the cartoonishness of that and how closer we come to that every day. It's like watching dystopian future and realize we're edging in that direction. We're there. We're there right now. Yeah. It's crazy to me. But yeah, I would say this is a six begin. See it. It's to me, it's to talk about it. You know, it's like. So what was it about? Was it the overall? Because there is like some cartoonishness of it, of like some of the violence. There is some like kind of poorly done action to it. Was it that or was it the overall like story and theme? I think just the yeah, the aesthetic of it. I mean, even in the beginning of it, when they round up the kids and it's like, you know, they one of the kids gets blown up, you know, from the collar. And yeah, you know, the kids get machine gun and all that kind of stuff. I mean, it's just like, I don't know. It was just weird to see that violence and to see it encouraged from, you know, to see that kind of mass murder. Well, it's interesting. There's there's some other movies, not necessarily out of Japan, but out of Korea. They came out around this time around this sort of like era, sort of had some of the same themes. And I think culturally, there's a little bit of like a different cultural wave that was happening over there at the same time that some of the movies that were made around that time had like weird violence. Yeah. Just like over the top violence. Yeah. To the point that it was like, this is too much. Yeah. And this I would consider beyond like the the loan. But have you seen Old Boy? I have the original. OK. It's been a while and we should do that one, too. We should. We should definitely do that one. And maybe I think, you know, thinking about it now, it's like watching like the kindergarten cop thing. It's like seeing because it's like Kill Bill is as violent to me as this movie was going to be Looney Tunes violent. But in a way, it's almost like the Kevin Smith Death Star argument of like the people on the Death Star. They chose to be there, even the people that are working on it or whatever. They got blown up. If you're a contractor, you know, you're getting into. Yeah. Especially working for the Empire kind of thing. Right. The people that are, you know, in the in the gangs and stuff that the bride mows down to kill Bill. You know, they nobody made them join that gang that you can tell by their actions. They love being in the gang. You know, they're they're loyal, enthusiastic henchmen. They get mowed down, they get mowed down. One of them literally gets spanked.Yeah. Gets spanked with a samurai sword. But to me, like watching kindergarten cop, it's like that that real element of like, you know, kids who think they're in a safe place who are instantly taken out of that. Yeah. To me, it's like that in battle royale where it's like, you know, it's maybe it's the against their will kind of thing where they have no choice. That makes it ugly because it's like that's the thing about these shootings and stuff. It's like, no, they have no it's random. And it's the theft of innocence. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So maybe that's what it's too real to watch it. Maybe that's what it is. Yeah. There's definitely something within that that was uncomfortable. So I think it affected my rating of it. You know, that's fair. Yeah. Yeah. So there's that. But yeah. Vouvray, Sauvignon, Loire Valley. Good stuff. Is it pronounced Loire? Loire. Loire. Loire Valley. Loire Valley. One of the big wine regions in the world. And it was west central. Yeah. West central France. So it'll be a little bit to the north east of Bordeaux, which is where this one. Yeah. Look forward. Any good wine store should have some good vouvres for you and should be able to take a little more battle. But yeah. Next up, we have Dread. We're doing Dread. And Robocop. And Robocop. That'll be a fun twofer. Two cops that really get it done. Yeah. Too great taste. It tastes great together. That's right. So Sean Jordan. That's me. I'm T. Waff. And great movies. Only drunker. And we will see you guys next time. Bye. Be sure to listen, rate and subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Castbox or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Our website is cinemavino.net and reviews of these films can be found at ToddWoffordMovies.com .
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"royale" Discussed on Cinemavino
"But yeah, there's to me, there's some Reservoir Dogs. Ironically, it's like I get some Tarantino kind of Reservoir Dogs vibes to it, you know, kind of that same deal where in Reservoir Dogs, it's a group of criminals. Like when their code gets taken away from them, when you get cornered, how do you act? Yeah. It's like when there's nothing left, you know, to me, it's like the line of winter we watched, you know, where it's like the siblings are down in the dungeon. They're about to get killed. And then one sibling says, it doesn't matter the way you fall down at the end. And the other guy says, when it's all you have left falls, all matters. And it's like it says something when it's like death is all you have left. How people act. So in that sense, I mean, I enjoyed it. I did. I enjoyed watching it. But also there was that element to it that I don't know it. It's uncomfortable. It darkened it for me. But that's kind of that's kind of point. It is the point of satire. It is. It's like the movie network. You know, when we covered that, when the movie network came out, it was over the top cartoonish. Yeah. You know, the idea that people would, you know, basically like people would air murder and death on the onscreen for entertainment value. You know, in the 70s, that was crazy. Now it's, you know. Well, and we're recording this, what, two days after 9-11. Yeah. The anniversary. Exactly. I mean, I mean, that was a turning point in the country of, yeah, absolutely seeing people die on TV, on the news, in high school. Oh, you know, having a president take like enact his presidency on Twitter in the form of 20,000 tweets. Yeah. You know, I mean, that was a spectacle. That was a circus. So, you know, that's to me, network pointed to all of that, that people are drawn to the circus. They're drawn to the carnival atmosphere. Yeah. So we realized that in the last five or 10 years. So when we went back and watch network, there was that element of that, of like, this is now uncomfortable that we're heading towards that. You know? Well, I thought the movie Don't Look Up came out in what, 2021? Yeah. That was such just like over the top satire. It was it was so on the nose. It was like a little bit too. Yeah. Just putting it landed on real thick. I mean, yeah, I feel like some people still miss the miss the message. Yeah. But that's the point of satire is it's supposed to like it lampoon society. It holds up a mirror to like make you look at yourself and think, yeah, I like them to me. Good. Good satire is a scalpel. Bad satire is a bludgeon. Yeah. And I don't know where Don't Look Up kind of landed. A lot of that to me was a bludgeon. Yeah. That's how I thought of. I didn't love that as much as some people. To me, that was a aluminum bat to the head. It was. Yeah. Yeah. Some people needed that bat, though. Yeah. I'll say that much. Yes. We definitely live in a society where people could use good bludgeon. Live in a society.
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"Definitely, definitely inspired. Conceptually. Yeah. Okay. Just different enough that they can't get sued, but probably owe a fruit basket to the people who made this. Yeah. So this is set in an ugly dystopian near future. Japan has fallen into economic and cultural ruin. And who do they blame but the kids. No, it's the government responds by holding a contest that inspires the title. A group of, I would say, 40 to 50 kids, give or take. I think 44. 44 kids. They're rounded up and taken to a remote island. They're fitted with explosive collars and forced into a three day, it's three days, right? Three day death match. Over the course of the contest, they must kill each other and one winner must emerge. If they don't comply by the deadline, everybody will be killed. Yep. Everyone's given their own weapon, their own specific weapon. As they leave, they're given a weapon. Some people are better than others. Yeah. Some are, you know, a gun. Others are a paper fan. Or a pot lid. Yeah. I would get the pot lid. That'd be my love. Binoculars. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's like the end of three amigos and talking about what skills they have taken the battle. It's like sewing. We can sew. Yeah. Savage melee ensues with kids getting picked off, sometimes in big groups, sometimes all by the lonesome. We get to know a few of these kids through small vignettes and flashbacks, and the film throws in a few surprises as it goes along. So that's what I got for a synopsis. So I'll touch on you briefly, then we'll come to me because I've never seen it. So I'm curious why you picked this. I think, if anything, for the cultural significance of it. So this came out in 2000, not huge distribution. I probably saw it around 2010-ish. Okay. So I don't think I saw it whenever it got distributed then. I think I saw it just because it was something that was on streaming and it was being talked about. So it's a good movie that you watch and you're like, oh, well, I've seen the original Hunger Games. Well, and now Squid Games. Is that what it's called? Squid Games? Yeah. Basically kind of the same thing, right? It's kind of like you're rounding up a bunch of innocent people and forcing them to fight to the death. And before all of this, The Running Man with Schwarzenegger. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tail as old as time. Song as old as rhyme. But this movie has a lot of really good, there's a lot of good story behind it. Like you said, it kind of falls between the cracks of genres. It's not quite action. It's not quite drama. It also has a little bit of comedy to it. There's definitely some elements of ridiculousness. Social satire of high school flicks and, oh, why'd you never talk to me kind of a thing. A lot of talks about crushes and just like flirting and like weird clickiness. And yeah, I don't know. There's just something about this movie that just feels charming. And there's even a Monty Python riff about the guy who wakes up in a tower full of girls. You know, you know, he's locked into a tower full of squealing girls. So, yep. I never thought about that parallel. Now we begin the oral sex. Yes. Yes. You must punish us with oral sex. That's immediately what I thought. But I mean, of course, if you're going to get like a group of 44 high school kids, like on an island and just tell them to go for three days. Now, that's what's going to happen. You know, even if it's a death match. But, you know, the main characters, I don't I don't find the main character storylines to be very compelling. No, there's it's really kind of the secondary characters, the ancillary characters that come in that are the most compelling. We talked about how this was Quentin Tarantino's one of Quentin Tarantino's favorite movies. He got one of the actresses from this movie into Kill Bill. Yeah. To play the kind of the schoolgirl assassin. Yeah. Lucy Liu's kind of henchman. Yeah. Number one henchman. And recognize her right away. Yeah. She's got a very iconic look. Different character a little bit than this. I mean, I kind of expected her to be like kind of a crazy girl. More in control. Yeah. But she was very much like the one of the most disciplined ones. Yeah. So what would you give this? What score would you give it? I give it an eight. I feel like it kind of loses structure. It kind of gets kind of soft in the middle just in terms of like storytelling. But overall, like the what it's trying to do and the story it's trying to tell. And obviously there's a context of like what Japanese culture was like in 2000 that kind of gets lost a little bit. Yeah. You know, the social satire is kind of lost on it a bit. And it does kind of reduce down to a bit of just like a action movie. Visceral. Yeah. Yeah. I think that some of that's lost on us. But I think this movie is just it's it's good. It's fun. It kind of does a lot of things for the time that no one else was doing. I think it's just a good movie that needs to be watched. Yeah, definitely. And it's definitely something that should be, I think, watched and discussed. So here's my opinion. See what you think about this. Yeah. So recently, I know this will be a little bit tangent, but recently, for some reason, kindergarten cop popped up on YouTube of like movies, you know. And so clips from that movie came out could be because my wife and I are expecting twins. We're talking about kids. We're talking about daycares. We're talking about. You think the algorithm is listening? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Our son's going to preschool next August. So that kind of stuff, I'm sure it's like, oh, you should watch kindergarten. Who is your daddy? Come on. But we so I remember watching as a kid thinking that the finale of that movie was dark. I don't know if you've seen kindergarten cop. It's like, you know, it has a very violent at that point. It was a cartoonishly dark finale where for those who haven't seen it, I'll give it a spoiler. So if you don't want to spoil kindergarten cop. But again, my rules, it came out that long ago. So basically, you know, Schwarzenegger is like this super cop, you know, badass. And he goes undercover at a school kindergarten teacher. And because this mob kingpin crime boss guy, whatever, has a son at the school. And so, of course, they think he's going to come looking for his son. So basically, of course, news undercover waiting for the final act of the movie. Of course, the bad guy shows up and, you know, he's the in the movie. It's like he comes in, he sets the school library on fire with, you know, he lights the books on fire. Hallways pouring with smoke. He's going room to room like an Uzi. And it's like at that time, it's like this is big and outlandish and crazy. Such a ridiculous concept. Yeah. And now it's like 2023. It's like somebody going room to room in a school with an Uzi. This is on the news like monthly. Yeah. This hits this hits very differently than it did then. In 1990, this was a crazy, you know, outlandish thing to watch. Now it's uncomfortable to watch. It's like, yeah, it drains the entertainment value from it. And I think you and I were far enough apart in high school that sort of our experiences with when Columbine kind of hit were very different. Yeah. Right. Because Columbine hit after you were out of high school. The next year. Yeah. It hit about six or seven years or four or five years before I was in high school. Yeah. So, I mean, different angles, very different like experiences and just the way that America has kind of changed since then in a lot of ways. I mean, there are no metal detectors at my school. I'm going to a mass shooter or like a active shooter training at work later this week. Yeah. Like it's a thing that you just are prepared for. Yeah. That's kind of where that began. And ironically, it's what those two kids wanted. Well, and it's exactly what this movie was kind of not lampooning, but predicting? I don't know. And it's like watching it now for the first time. It hits different. Yeah. It made me uncomfortable in a way, like seeing these kids killing each other. I mean, I'm knowing that there's satire behind it, knowing that there's some of the stuff is intended for comedy and, you know, and it's meant to be satirical of things. It's like still it just it made me a little it was bloody enough that it was like this is uncomfortable to watch a little bit, especially like the idea of the adults who were either eating snacks and watching while it happens. And, you know, not actively doing anything to stop anything or like this is their solution of going straight for violence or whatever. It's like it just made it a little bit, I don't know, discomforting. Well, and it's interesting to see how the narrative has sort of progressed from when this movie came out to when Hunger Games came out to when Squid Games came out. Yeah, because it went from, OK, this is a thing that like the government has done to sort of like quell the population as like a threat to the Hunger Games. This is something the government does as like a spectacle to like quell the population a bit or like coal, you know, the population. Yeah. And then Squid Games is, OK, this is a spectacle that's put on by like billionaires to just like feed themselves in a weird like billionaire orgy satiate them. Yeah. Satiate themselves in a way that like, oh, it's the ultimate hunt. Yeah. Yes. Something uglier. So it's interesting to see how the same concept has been sort of adopted over time. And yeah, it's like now watching it from 2023, it just yeah, I don't know, it did it. It would have hit me differently then than it does now, you know. But it also has a little bit of like that Lord of the Flies element. It does. Right. Of like that book that you had to read as a kid of like what is human nature when you're when rules are taken away? There's some of that. There's the most dangerous game. Yeah. I mean, it's a blender of different movies.
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"And welcome back to Cinema Vino. It's another Two-Man episode with Sean Jordan and I. Two-Man, yep. Exactly. That's all I got. Oh man, I need to record that. That could be our thing. Our little blurb. Our little bumper. Yeah. So this will be the penultimate episode of our Summer of Chaos with Battle Royale, which is Sean's pick. This is my pick? Yeah. This is one I've wanted to get on for a while. This has been on my list to like throw in here. I'm glad we did it. I'm glad we covered it. It's the perfect format to do it too, you know, where anything goes. It doesn't fit many other places. It's a weird kind of wheel that we, you know, spin the wheel. Strangely enough, pick two whites, two French whites. Just like this podcast. Exactly. Oui. Oui. So this is Sauvignon. So S-A-U-V-I-O-N. Sauvignon Vouvray. Vouvray is going to be the name of the region where this comes from. I was going to say is Sauvignon the winery? Sauvignon is going to be the winery. Kind of pretentious to call it Sauvignon. Exactly. I know. But it's not Sauvignon like Sauvignon Blanc. It's like Sauvignon. Yeah. But again, my French just can't do that justice. No. Nor can mine. So Vouvray is going to be Chenin Blanc grapes. And these are going to be on the right bank of the Loire River. Chenin Blanc, 100% one grape? Yeah. That's a varietal. It's going to be in kind of west central France. And a lot like Riesling, these Vouvrays will cover a wide flavor palette. They can be dry. They can be sweet. They can be in between. This to me is kind of in between. Definitely. I mean, compared to the Bordeaux that we drank earlier that's dry, this is way, the sweetness is way more pronounced on this one. I think overall, I would classify this as probably off dry. If one is bone dry and 10 is super sticky sweet, I would put this at about a 5.5. This is right in the middle? Mm-hmm. Right down the middle. But yeah, most of the... What have you got going on here? If you go to your wine store now and you see a lot of Vouvrays, a lot of them are going to be bubbly. They're going to be sparkling. They're going to have the champagne method. You'll see, there'll be some still wines. Oh. But you'll see a lot more sparkling Vouvrays out there, like Champelou. That is definitely less dry than the last one. Yes. You'll get more sugar on that. It's also got... Feels like more... It's like almost a minerality of like the... It's not bubbly. It's almost just like a soft water, you know? Well, this also has kind of a floral... Like an effervescence. Yeah. Yeah. It has a real floral kick to it. And you look at the... It has more of a hay color. Like the Bordeaux that we had was a lot more light pale. This one has a little more haze and a little more of a kind of bright hay color, a little more yellow to it. Yeah. But it has a little more body. It has a little more of a creamy flavor to it, a little more creamy texture. But I mean... But not buttery. No, it's not buttery. It's not chard buttery. No. But it also has kind of a honeysuckle texture, I think, to it. There's some... Honeysuckle? You are breaking out the big guns. I'm going big. Wow. But yeah, it's definitely sweeter. But not sticky sweet. There's definitely sweeter stuff out there. Yeah. It's not like a Moscato. It sticks out more because of the Bordeaux. It's kind of like if you're in a really cold pool and you get into even a lukewarm hot tub, it's going to feel really hot because you've been in a cold pool. I was in the pool. But drinking that fairly dry Bordeaux makes this one feel that much sweeter. It does. But it's pleasant. I like it a lot. Yeah. It's a good companion with that. It's two different tastes completely. So we talked on the last episode about the white Bordeaux being paired well with fish. Yeah. I mean, same thing here? I think this is another one of those that I would do with Thanksgiving stuff. I would do... I was going to say turkey would be really good with this. It'd be a great pair. But pretty much all that stuff, cranberry. I mean, pretty much anything would go well with ham. Yeah. Any of that kind of stuff because of the honey flavor that you'd get from it. But I think it would go well with salad. It would go well with the entire holiday meal that you would do. A little cranberry sauce? Yeah. I think that would be a perfect pair. A little creaming casserole? We're about two. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it would go well with dressing, stuffing, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. I think there's a difference between dressing and stuffing. There is. Yeah. That's a different podcast. Yeah. But we're a couple of months out from Thanksgiving, but if you're looking ahead, vuvre would be a good choice. If you're looking for something to do kind of before the meal, a sparkling vuvre would be a good way. Or even after the meal when you're settling down to watch the game or whatever, a bubbly vuvre would be a good pick. What I like about this is it's not super bubbly. It's not bubbly at all. No. No. It's going to be still. It has that lightness of like almost an effervescence, but not an effervescence. Yeah. It's kind of, it's refreshing, you know, but it's unlike the Bordeaux, which was refreshing to kind of a dry, crisp way. This one has a little more bright, fun, like fruit. This is kind of more... The other one's more tart. Like you feel like that, like unripe and peach. Yeah. You know, this one's more like ripe, sweet, grassy, kind of like a ripe fruit. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, two completely different personalities between the Bordeaux and the vuvre. And I'm kind of glad we got contrasting French whites. Yeah. But yeah, so you'll see a lot of sparklings out there. So when you see these, they're on a scale. Brut's going to be the driest. Demisek's going to be sweeter. And then you'll see everything up to like Moliot, which is very sweet, the sweetest of all the vuvres. So if you're looking, then that's going to be your scale. Basically, it's like the higher the scale, the more sugary sweetness is going to be on them. So they do vuvres? Yeah, they do. Because they're made in the Champagne method, they'll have a lot of the same scale when they do bubbly. But yeah, in a bubbly section of a good wine store now, you should see a few vuvres, sparkling vuvres. They'll be cheaper than Champagne, so they're actually a good pick if you're looking for something on a budget. Champagne is only from the Champagne region of France. Exactly. And so yeah, these will be made in the same style, but not the same region. No. But anyway, yeah. So this one, the Sauvignon runs around 20 bucks. I think it's like 22. Pretty good buy. Yeah, it'd be a good holiday wine if you were looking for something that it's good, it's well made, but it's not crazy expensive. Impress your wine friends with this? Exactly. Yeah, it should. And you can impress them because it's a good wine. You can say, I didn't spend a whole lot of money on it. It's like, it's one of those deals where it really helps to know what you're looking for. Oh, this is a real, you know, it's a real hole in the wall kind of wine. Boutique. You know, it might not be a wine you really heard of. Yeah, exactly. It's like the kind of the hipster thing where it's like you impress people like you found something that they didn't know about. Yeah, it's underground. Yeah, exactly. So Battle Royale. This is a it was restricted, not released in the United States until 2010. Many countries did not release it due to its violent subject matter. This is probably, in my opinion, the most culturally touchy film that we've examined. Probably the most controversial film that we've examined for this podcast. Really? Because it was not released in quite a few countries because it was so violent, so graphic. Which after watching it, do you feel like that's this movie now would not be considered super violent? Yes, which is one of my, which altered my perception of it. Had not having seen it before, having seen it now changed my opinion of it. So we'll get to that in a minute. So this received a direct-to-video release in 2010. It's received strong reviews, 88% Rotten Tomatoes. Quentin Tarantino declared it to be his favorite film released since 2000. It set the template for The Hunger Games, which came later. A lot of people commented when they saw it. The Hunger Games came out in what, I think it came out around 2010. Yeah, somewhere in that range. A lot of people said that it had a lot of similarities to Battle Royale. Yes. I don't know when the books, the Hunger Games books came out. Definitely after the book that this was based on came out. Okay. Because I think the book that this was based on came out in 1998. I don't want to, I don't want to definitively say that The Hunger Games was based off of this, but. Definitely inspired by it. Yeah.
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"And welcome back to Cinema Vino. It's another Two -Man episode with Sean Jordan and I. Two -Man, yep. Exactly. That's all I got. Oh man, I need to record that. That could be our thing. Our little blurb. Our little bumper. Yeah. So this will be the penultimate episode of our Summer of Chaos with Battle Royale, which is Sean's pick. This is my pick? Yeah. This is one I've wanted to get on for a while. This has been on my list to like throw in here. I'm glad we did it. I'm glad we covered it. It's the perfect format to do it too, you know, where anything goes. It doesn't fit many other places. It's a weird kind of wheel that we, you know, spin the wheel. Strangely enough, pick two whites, two French whites. Just like this podcast. Exactly. Oui. Oui. So this is Sauvignon. So S -A -U -V -I -O -N. Sauvignon Vouvray. Vouvray is going to be the name of the region where this comes from. I was going to say is Sauvignon the winery? Sauvignon is going to be the winery. Kind of pretentious to call it Sauvignon. Exactly. I know. But it's not Sauvignon like Sauvignon Blanc. It's like Sauvignon. Yeah. But again, my French just can't do that justice. No. Nor can mine. So Vouvray is going to be Chenin Blanc grapes. And these are going to be on the right bank of the Loire River. Chenin Blanc, 100 % one grape? Yeah. That's a varietal. It's going to be in kind of west central France. And a lot like Riesling, these Vouvrays will cover a wide flavor palette. They can be dry. They can be sweet. They can be in between. This to me is kind of in between. Definitely. I mean, compared to the Bordeaux that we drank earlier that's dry, this is way, the sweetness is way more pronounced on this one. I think overall, I would classify this as probably off dry. If one is bone dry and 10 is super sticky sweet, I would put this at about a 5 .5. This is right in the middle? Mm -hmm. Right down the middle. But yeah, most of the... What have you got going on here? If you go to your wine store now and you see a lot of Vouvrays, a lot of them are going to be bubbly. They're going to be sparkling. They're going to have the champagne method. You'll see, there'll be some still wines. Oh. But you'll see a lot more sparkling Vouvrays out there, like Champelou. That is definitely less dry than the last one. Yes. You'll get more sugar on that. It's also got... Feels like more... It's like almost a minerality of like the... It's not bubbly. It's almost just like a soft water, you know? Well, this also has kind of a floral... Like an effervescence. Yeah. Yeah. It has a real floral kick to it. And you look at the... It has more of a hay color. Like the Bordeaux that we had was a lot more light pale. This one has a little more haze and a little more of a kind of bright hay color, a little more yellow to it. Yeah. But it has a little more body. It has a little more of a creamy flavor to it, a little more creamy texture. But I mean... But not buttery. No, it's not buttery. It's not chard buttery. No. But it also has kind of a honeysuckle texture, I think, to it. There's some... Honeysuckle? You are breaking out the big guns. I'm going big. Wow. But yeah, it's definitely sweeter. But not sticky sweet. There's definitely sweeter stuff out there. Yeah. It's not like a Moscato. It sticks out more because of the Bordeaux. It's kind of like if you're in a really cold pool and you get into even a lukewarm hot tub, it's going to feel really hot because you've been in a cold pool. I was in the pool. But drinking that fairly dry Bordeaux makes this one feel that much sweeter. It does. But it's pleasant. I like it a lot. Yeah. It's a good companion with that. It's two different tastes completely. So we talked on the last episode about the white Bordeaux being paired well with fish. Yeah. I mean, same thing here? I think this is another one of those that I would do with Thanksgiving stuff. I would do... I was going to say turkey would be really good with this. It'd be a great pair. But pretty much all that stuff, cranberry. I mean, pretty much anything would go well with ham. Yeah. Any of that kind of stuff because of the honey flavor that you'd get from it. But I think it would go well with salad. It would go well with the entire holiday meal that you would do. A little cranberry sauce? Yeah. I think that would be a perfect pair. A little creaming casserole? We're about two. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think it would go well with dressing, stuffing, whatever you want to call it. Yeah. I think there's a difference between dressing and stuffing. There is. Yeah. That's a different podcast. Yeah. But we're a couple of months out from Thanksgiving, but if you're looking ahead, vuvre would be a good choice. If you're looking for something to do kind of before the meal, a sparkling vuvre would be a good way. Or even after the meal when you're settling down to watch the game or whatever, a bubbly vuvre would be a good pick. What I like about this is it's not super bubbly. It's not bubbly at all. No. No. It's going to be still. It has that lightness of like almost an effervescence, but not an effervescence. Yeah. It's kind of, it's refreshing, you know, but it's unlike the Bordeaux, which was refreshing to kind of a dry, crisp way. This one has a little more bright, fun, like fruit. This is kind of more... The other one's more tart. Like you feel like that, like unripe and peach. Yeah. You know, this one's more like ripe, sweet, grassy, kind of like a ripe fruit. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, two completely different personalities between the Bordeaux and the vuvre. And I'm kind of glad we got contrasting French whites. Yeah. But yeah, so you'll see a lot of sparklings out there. So when you see these, they're on a scale. Brut's going to be the driest. Demisek's going to be sweeter. And then you'll see everything up to like Moliot, which is very sweet, the sweetest of all the vuvres. So if you're looking, then that's going to be your scale. Basically, it's the like higher the scale, the more sugary sweetness is going to be on them. So they do vuvres? Yeah, they do. Because they're made in the Champagne method, they'll have a lot of the same scale when they do bubbly. But yeah, in a bubbly section of a good wine store now, you should see a few vuvres, sparkling vuvres. They'll be cheaper than Champagne, so they're actually a good pick if you're looking for something on a budget. Champagne is only from the Champagne region of France. Exactly. And so yeah, these will be made in the same style, but not the same region. No. But anyway, yeah. So this one, the Sauvignon runs around 20 bucks. I think it's like 22. Pretty good buy. Yeah, it'd be a good holiday wine if you were looking for something that it's good, it's well made, but it's not crazy expensive. Impress your wine friends with this? Exactly. Yeah, it should. And you can impress them because it's a good wine. You can say, I didn't spend a whole lot of money on it. It's like, it's one of those deals where it really helps to know what you're looking for. Oh, this is a real, you know, it's a real hole in the wall kind of wine. Boutique. You know, it might not be a wine you really heard of. Yeah, exactly. It's like the kind of the hipster thing where it's like you impress people like you found something that they didn't know about. Yeah, it's underground. Yeah, exactly. So Battle Royale. This is a it was restricted, not released in the United States until 2010. Many countries did not release it due to its violent subject matter. This is probably, in my opinion, the most culturally touchy film that we've examined. Probably the most controversial film that we've examined for this podcast. Really? Because it was not released in quite a few countries because it was so violent, so graphic. Which after watching it, do you feel like that's this movie now would not be considered super violent? Yes, which is one of my, which altered my perception of it. Had not having seen it before, having seen it now changed my opinion of it. So we'll get to that in a minute. So this received a direct -to -video release in 2010. It's received strong reviews, 88 % Rotten Tomatoes. Quentin Tarantino declared it to be his favorite film released since 2000. It set the template for The Hunger Games, which came later. A lot of people commented when they saw it. The Hunger Games came out in what, I think it came out around 2010. Yeah, somewhere in that range. A lot of people said that it had a lot of similarities to Battle Royale. Yes. I don't know when the books, the Hunger Games books came out. Definitely after the book that this was based on came out. Okay. Because I think the book that this was based on came out in 1998. I don't want to, I don't want to definitively say that The Hunger Games was based off of this, but. Definitely inspired by it. Yeah.
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"I'm always thinking about the experience. I'm always thinking about Ray Royale. It's all day. Yes. It's all day. It's every day. It's like, oh, I got this idea. When you're a creative, you know that you're right. You're right. I have to I have to acknowledge that I'm on Canva a lot. It's sad. I think I've made twenty thousand designs. Something ridiculous. Number of designs I've made. And and also when you're building your own brand, you are everything right. So you have the beauty of having a manager right to sort of bounce back ideas and execute things. Let me tell you. Let me tell you one thing about her, though, right? She is one of those managers that wants you to be able to do it yourself as well. Facts. That's you know what I mean? So it's not it's not like, hey, Ray, I'm going to do everything for you. You know, she wants you to be self-sufficient. Exactly. So but so the beauty of that, though, is that you have this partner. Yeah, you're a partner in collaborating with and with my show. I literally my guest becomes my partner. Right. You know, we talk, we collaborate. But I literally sit and think about who's next. Right. Who else do I want to have on the show and have a conversation? You know, where am I taking conversations with Coach Law? What's the next thing? Right. Twenty twenty four is coming. I've done a whole year. Right. I'm at almost a thousand downloads of the podcast podcast version of this show. I've hit all this mile. These milestones. Right. Thank you. When I first started, I only wanted to do three months. Wow. Then I said six months. Then I said 50 episodes. Then I said, OK, let me see if I can do a year. So I've done those once I reached the thousand downloads. That was the next goal. So I'm like, OK, wow. I don't think I thought beyond those goals. And now I'm stretching my own vision. You know, because it was like, let me just see if I can do it. And that's so beautiful. And again, that's why I say that's probably why we get along, because we both cancers. And it's just that's how you think, right? Because the with the Ray Royale experience, like I we're coming up on one year. Congratulations in October. And it's like. I I sometimes still be like, wow. Well, I and you know, it was beautiful. I go back to the moment that you announced doing your own show at the city wide arena and. People don't notice about me, I get so excited watching my people when it was almost like I had the damn show. Right. I call Marv. I'm in the hospital with my son because he's in the emergency room. Real story. He like literally hurt himself playing basketball. I'm in the emergency room and his foot is all jacked up. He ended up in crutches in a boot. Well, anyway, I remember that I'm like, this can't be happening. I'm like, I was literally dressed. Wow. About to take a lift. And my son goes, Mom, I got I'm hurt. You got to come get me and take me to the emergency room. And I'm calling Marv like tell Ray and everybody. I hope they have a great show. I'm so proud of him. I'm so happy. I'm not going to call him. And Marv is like, how's your son? Right. Yeah, like for real. I got the text message to prove he's like, how is your son? Because I'm so worried about sending love to you. But I was just so proud of you. So proud of Talise and the whole team, because I know how much that meant to you. And I was dumb hurt when I found out you weren't performing, because that's the reason why I got tickets to that music Soul Child show. And then found out I was like, what? He's not opening. Yeah, I was like, what do you mean? And you know what's crazy about that? So that's a that's another moment that I can talk about, because after that happened. That's when I besides the time with my mom, that's another time that I contemplated hanging it up. I remember that I was so I was just done. I felt defeated at that point because it was the first time so much drama. It was for the first time that something happened to me and I didn't have control over it, you know what I mean? Like, and that's why people might think like. Like I go off of like my my favorite artist of all time is Michael Jackson. Right. And if you think about the way that Michael Jackson did everything from his image to the way that he sung his songs and how how he presented them, it was all about presentation. And that's what I'm about, too. So when this person tried to. So, yeah, try to destroy my character and make me look like I'm anything less than what I am. You know, it really it really hurt me, first of all. It really hurt me because I'm good to everybody that's in my circle. Yeah. And I feel like sometimes like as a cancer, you know, you know how we are like we are really loving, giving people and we we hate to feel misunderstood or misrepresented. That bothers me the most. You the most. Exactly. If I did it, I can eat it if I did it and I. But when you when it's something that is being constructed, that's not true. Yeah, it hurts you. That bothers me, especially given that I'm always reaching my hand out and willing to help. And to the point that people have gotten on me about how helpful I am. Right. And how willingly I share information without getting paid. Right. Without necessarily knowing if I'm going to get a thank you or gratitude. And I'm the same. So and I'm the same way. So when when people then get upset and like come for me. Yeah, that does hurt. It hurts. It hurts you because I only I will only speak up on things if I feel like there may be a different perspective that could be taken. Right. Right. Other than that, I usually, you know, don't really say much to go against what someone's saying. But it's very difficult to sit and be like, but wait a minute. Do you think maybe it could be something else or how about this? I'm a solution focus executor. Me too. Right. Like I'm always trying to fix it and make something better. But sometimes you have to look and be like. You know, you can't really save it, like I would always be like that, too, like I said about opportunity, I give opportunity to. Just people that I believe in or people around me, this like. Thank you, Lord, for for blessing me with so many opportunities. I've had so many opportunities throughout my career. Right. And the majority of them, I could say that I've opened up my platform to other people. When I when I could have just been selfish and said, hey, that's right. It's my blessing. I'm I'm good. You know what I mean? So that's why when I extend myself to somebody and they kind of not look at because there's times in the past where I've put the radar on people. Or, you know, there's always been people that if I worked with a certain set of dancers, then everybody wants to start booking them. If I work with a certain videographer, then everybody wants to start booking them. And, you know, I have that. And you sit there, you see that you've like kind of like help people. You know, they call you a super broker. Right. So so there's some people that once people get connected to you, they get their territory gets expanded. Right. Right. And sometimes people don't realize how much of an asset people like that are. Right. But you can always tell if you remove somebody and they can still do whatever they did with you somewhere else. Then you know that they they they got that, you know, in what they would say. And then again, like but those are the things that really would get to me. Because again, like I said, I've worked for every thing that I've ever gotten in the music industry. Nobody has came to me and been like, here, Ray. I kind of had to go and prove myself each time I went around proving myself that I was one of the premier vocalists in the city. You know what I mean? It wasn't just like, oh, I'm going to put you in the city winery. Oh, you're down with this person. So they call that playing paying dues. Yeah. You know, you paid your dues. I definitely paid my dues. And I and I feel like even sometimes because it's kind of like with your kids. Right. So, you know, for all the people out there, they got children. Right. You don't want your children to go through the same things that you had to go through to get somewhere. Right. Well, that's some parents, not every parent. Not every. Some parents don't think like that. But I agree with you. I think, you know, I think most most times, yes. The goal is you want your kids not to experience the things you experience and to be better than you. Right. But for me, and I feel like I treat the music like that sometimes as well. There's artists that I don't be wanting them to go through the same thing that I went through. So I try to push my platform out there to make them understand and make them see like, you know, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, because I know how it is when you first start out. When you first start out, it's hard when people don't know you. And and I say shout out to the Boston Talent Showcase, because honestly, that was going on and slayed some years back, because that's how the Ray Royale name got going in Boston. That's because I would do this showcase and you know, the name just started going. It just started going. People started knowing me and all this. And, you know, they started really getting really getting into my music and all of that. And, you know, just having platforms are so important, man. And the reason why I created, you know, again, like you said, we wear so many hats, right? We do like, you know, I'm one of the creators of the Ray Royale experience. So again, every week. I'm, you know, with my partner, with Telise and, you know, my coach, we're constructing this whole show. Right. And that comes on Tuesdays right here on the urban heat at 9 p.m. Shout out to those that have been listening. You're tuned into the urban heat. Ninety eight point one FM. We are the only black owned radio station on I heart radio. And we are radio with a purpose. So you've been listening to conversations with Coach La, your favorite around the way therapist. That's right. That's me, Coach La. And this is Ray Royale, who's been giving you the backdrop to the man behind the music. Now, a couple of shout outs. We got Bina, we got Arlene, we got Opal, we got Sharika. Thank you guys for tuning in. Shout out to personified media. You know, Telise is on the live and has shared it. Thank you to everybody who shared the show. We appreciate you sharing it. The show is visible and live on the urban media page. So, Ray, you got an event coming up. We got like two minutes left to the show. I want to make sure we promote this event that you got coming up, because it's going to be amazing. I got my ticket. Hey, the Ray Royale live experience. A tribute to the 90s, you know what I'm saying? I'm doing a tribute to the 90s. In my opinion, one of the greatest eras in music. We're going to party. We're going to have a good time. I'm going to have a couple of live performances from Simply Whitney, a new up and coming singer, Victoria Vera and also myself, Ray Royale. And it's hosted by the Ray Royale. Experience is going down at 425 Summer Street. Guys, that's Laugh Boston. That's in the Seaport District. So so for all of y'all to be like, I don't mean going to this. Listen, it's a nice, elegant place. Come on down and vibe out with the experience. Right. Go and get your tickets on. It is on Eventbrite, so you'll be able to find it. Yeah, I grabbed the link. Yeah, it's going to be super dope, man. We're going to have a wonderful time. And also just one more thing I want to plug. Like I was saying earlier, we have the one year anniversary of the Ray Royale experience that's going on down October 16th at the city winery. It's going to be a red carpet event. We are celebrating. Yes, we are celebrating one year of the Ray Royale experience. Man, I can't wait. Oh, wait a minute. So wait a minute. That is going down when? October 16th Monday. Are those tickets also available? They'll be available in about a couple of weeks. All right. So I'm about to put this link in here so people can get tickets for the upcoming event. I will be there. A lot of the radio personalities here at the Urban Heat will be there. So make sure you guys get tickets. Wear your favorites 90s gear, right? Yes. You might you might walk away with a little something, man, if you if you got the best 90s gear, man. So pull out them bamboo earrings. Yeah. Now, can you wear Reeboks? Listen, listen, that's what people want. You can wear that. Yeah, I got all my I got all my bamboos tonight. So so definitely you guys want to check out Ray Royale's tribute to the 90s as a day party going down at Laugh Boston. Hope you guys have enjoyed tonight's conversation of conversations with Coach. Yes, it's been amazing. Ray, thank you so much for coming on the show tonight. And I know we will be talking again soon and I will be having you come back. You guys are listening to the Urban Heat 98.1 FM. Make sure you keep it locked and don't forget to tune in tomorrow morning to the morning cafe because the shenanigans are always always popping. All right. We want to say good night to all you wonderful people. Make sure you keep it locked. Slow jams is up next. Yes. Good night, y'all. Good night.That I just imagine when I can't wait. It's too hot. Let it all go. Long as we know, I'm still waiting for you. You said you're ready, baby. But you ain't ready. You're now listening to the Urban Heat 98.1 FM, and this is your favorite around the way therapist, Coach La. Don't forget to tune in to Conversations with Coach LA Sundays at 10 p.m. right here on the Urban Heat. What it is you feel.
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"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"But but I get you, I'm a stickler for time. I saw my soul. I hate people. I don't know of anybody. Realize my show doesn't come on until 10 o'clock. Shout out to Mark Harris. I'm usually here eight. You know, I'm usually here eight. And part of it is I like to just decompress. And I like to be canceling you. And what I'm about to do, I don't like to rush. Right. So some people, they can do that. I don't I don't like that. I like to either, you know, I do pre calls with guests. I like to get a feel and a sense of your energy and your vibe and everything in advance. You see me on Tuesdays. I'm here. I'm here like six o'clock. Yeah. So it's not till nine. Right. Right. So so we share that in common. You know, one of the things that I that I that I that I admire about you, I think is really coming from your ability to pivot and to rebrand and recreate yourself. And that is not something everybody's able to do. Right. And because people get stagnant, they can get bored. So doing radio was like it's an extension of the music. Right. But it allows you another platform to showcase your songs, your personality and to collaborate with other artists. I think that actually saved my career, to be honest. Tell me more. The reason why I say that is because like you said, we can get stale. We can get complacent. And I feel like nowadays people fall in love with the person more than the music. And I feel. The Ray Royale experience have gotten people to see Ray Royale. Right. Like all of Ray Royale, you know, you know what I mean? From the music, because at first you were just seeing the music guy like that. You were just seeing the singer. And when I put out a video and all that. So that's all you really got. You know what I mean? You didn't really get you didn't know like. So you want to know those questions like, what does Ray like to eat? What is this Ray funny? You know, I mean, does he joke, you know, because I always have sunglasses on. You never see my face. So but it was it was like a mystique to me. And I was going off for the old school way of doing things. I was about to say that. I mean, I think social media has allowed artists to take control of their image. And I you know, as you think back to a lot of the iconic artists, there was somebody in this record label and a person that was deciding what they wanted to show the world about who they were. And I honestly think that impacted a lot of the artists. Mental health is that they weren't able to be themselves. Right. And that creates people having breakdowns or using drugs and drinking too much because they feel stifled and they feel controlled. And when people feel stifled and controlled, they find other means to feel like they're getting their control back. So based on your based on your your image, right. That's why it's so key to be yourself, because when like you were saying, when you're someone else, you're going to have those those those things are going to happen. It's like an identity crisis. Because you're like I said earlier in the show when I said, I don't feel like I'm Ronaldo. You know what I mean? And that's because when you we signed up for this life, right. You signed up for it. It is what it is. Mm hmm. But when you walk in a place, right, you'll coach law. Well, you know, you don't like to push back on that. I know some people will say like like um, shout out to Pastor D, who was I was in a meeting with Pastor D one day and Pastor D was like, you know, when I'm home, I'm Pastor D. You know, you know, you know, I'm not Pastor D, excuse me. I'm a husband and this that and the third when I am, you know, at church and I'm in front of my thing, I'm the pastor. Right. I'm saying it. And for me. That was dope that he said that because it something went off in my head. Because that's something that I struggle with, right, because at home, I'm right right now. Everywhere, I'm right right now. I don't I don't so I don't have that. I really feel like so coach coach law came out of radio. Mm hmm. Right. And it also is a spin off because most life coaches call themselves coach, whatever their first name is. Right. So Coach Lakeisha would have been my name to me. I got to have a spin on it. My personality, I was like, Coach Lakeisha just sounds kind of corny. Right. And so when I was in college, they started calling me law. Shout out to my UMass people. But they were from New York. So, you know, New Yorkers, they always make everything into a nickname. Right. So I was no longer Lakeisha. I became law. Right. And they would be like law. So that was just what they would say. Right. So Coach Law came out of me being a life coach and my nickname in college was law. So it just so happens that L.A. is also my initials, Lakeisha Austin. So it all kind of just worked. So but I feel like. I'm still trying to adapt to the. Coach Law has become it's superseding me now, like it's like it's a whole nother vibe. Now they just started calling me coach. I'm not even coach law no more. I'm just coach. So it's it's it's become this persona of its own. Right. So I at home, I'm like, silly, I'm fun. My family might push back and say I'm a coach home to like. I think maybe that is sort of the leadership in me. Right. Has always been there because I'm the oldest of six. Right. So maybe deep down, I've always been a leader, a.k.a. a coach. Right. And again, I don't see me personally. I don't see anything wrong with that. Me personally, I'm going to be honest that again. I don't want my man calling me coach. No, no, I don't want I don't want my I don't want my my significant other calling me Ray Royale either. No, no, I just want to be Keisha. But I but I mean, in a sense of like mentally like I have I'm never not working. That's OK. So if you if you put it that way, that's what I mean. You always singing. Yeah. Yes. That's the part. Right. So because you're always singing, if you come in here, this man is always riffing, harmonizing or singing. Yes. All the time. And I'm not trying to show off or like. No, it's just like you're always practicing. I am. You're always practicing. What people don't understand is practice makes perfect. Yes. You know what I mean? And it's it's the same thing as when you're trying to build a brand like it. And when I go back to the real real experience again.
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"And I feel like I feel like. That came, you know, me and my manager has been working together for a very, very long time. And the one thing that I loved about her was the and she was the first person to tell me she didn't like something. And I was like. What you mean you don't like, but that was dope because that made me go, oh. I need to check, I need to check myself, you know what I'm saying? Like, because you when it's your baby. You're very protective of your baby. You get what I'm saying? But when. You when when people I don't like, yes, man, I don't like people around me who's just like, yeah, you're great. Thank you. No. Tell me when I'm wrong. Tell me when something that can be better. So that way we can raise and we can raise the bar. And I love that about my show. You know, we meet up and and we have these conversations with each other and we talk about, you know, what could be better. You know, that's the important thing, right? Because if you have a great show, right, it's like, OK, I had a great show. Yeah, it's cool. You know what I mean? But how are we going to take it to the next level? What's what's the what's the next step to make it even greater? Right. So and that's how I feel. I'm with anything, anything I do, especially especially when it comes to the singing, because, again, that's that's my life. That's what I've been doing since a baby. You know what I mean? So it's like I like if I'm telling you, if I hear an off note or something, like you'll see my face change or, you know, or whatever, where some people will be like, I was I did a show the other night. Right. And like I kind of like when the when the music, the DJ had played like a like a and like you couldn't hear my opening line. So it was it sounded kind of slur because of the technical because of the technical issue in the back. And I and I gave the DJ like a look from hell. Like I turned around like, how dare you mess up my music, you know, it is just like, man, that's my music, man, because I'm so serious and I know how crazy I am about accuracy.
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"And and I love that those things happen to me, because if they didn't, I would have always been like I'm complacent. I would have always been cool. So I always feel like I always got my guards up. I'm always always I'm never satisfied. I remember, God rest my mother's soul when I did the Apollo and everybody was having like a watch party at my mom's house and everybody's excited. And, you know, and I literally tore that whole performance apart. And my mother's like, God, can you just enjoy this? Like, can you just enjoy this moment and let us enjoy it? And I was like, I just want to be better like no one else, no one else seen it. No, everyone else thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. But for me, it was like I could do better because I know I can do better. I could reach higher. And I've always been like that. And I will continue to be like that for as long as I go. And that's how I feel like you get better and better. Like when I stepped into radio, I knew nothing about radio. But I've always been on the other side. People is always interviewing me. Right. You know what I mean? I knew I could carry a conversation. I knew, you know, the only person again, shout out to Marv Neal. And I keep shouting out Marv because Marv seen this three, four years ago. And I was like, oh, man, you know, I love my I'm doing my music, man. I don't know. And he just kept shaking his head like Ray, you know, like, but he never pressed me. He's a visionary. He never pressed me, you know. And then finally I was like, you know what? Let me try it. And like I said, now it's like I'm addicted to it. It is it is it is the we have a similar guest exposure to radio. I got interviewed. Oh, my goodness. I'm so bad with dates. But my first experience, I was on the other side being interviewed. Right. And I had so much fun. And I had such an electric personality asked me to come back and co-host the show. And then it was the host is going to be gone for a little while. You think you could cover the show? And that's how I got in. I got into radio and then I was like, I think I like this. Where's another radio station that I can go beyond? And so my mentor at the time said, well, where do you want to go? And at that time, the biggest radio station that I knew of locally was Big City Radio. So I started, you know, and went to went there. So some people don't know this is not coach last first bout on the radio. This is my third, my third time being on the fourth time, fourth time being on. This is just what home is. But this this this. So I've been doing it a while. But the urban heat again, Marvis probably like if he's listening, you guys drop in my name so much. But Marv, you know, he like to be in the back, provided the opportunity for me to actually produce and learn how to engineer my own show. I had always been on the side with someone else doing this part. And shout out to you for that. Like, you know, I love that. Even a female doing that, too. Like, yeah, that's super dope. You know, like again, again, you you and you and to Lisa, probably the only two like females like that really took a hold of that and like ran with it. Yeah. Shout out to the least. So let's know. The least is more technical, technologically inclined than I am. She's learned even more with being an engineer. But both of you guys are doing it and I love it. Coaching, like I said, I was very excited to come on here because, again, it's good to is I love I love to educate people. And like I said, sometimes people don't know your struggles and people don't know your story. Like I know there's some people shout out to everybody that's on my on my live right now who's probably never heard me say any of these things. You know what I'm saying? Or it probably was kind of like you got some of the pieces on on a post because the times that we live in now, we post about our lives. We talk about those things. I call it an online diary. Yeah, the online diary. It's the online diary. Random thoughts go on there. Sometimes people delete the post after. But we've seen it. You just know we we did see it all right. And I and I had to be I had to be so careful with that because, again, being a public figure, we we sometimes don't understand that. Yeah. You know, and you have to tell yourself like you're a walking billboard. Yes. You're you're you're Pepsi. You got to look at yourself like that because you know why you have a hard time seeing it, because I do, too. We have such bigger dreams. Right. And we don't feel like we're we're we're not where we want to be yet. So the humbleness in us has us where we don't see. Right. That we have reached a certain level of notoriety. Right. And that people are watching everything that we do. Like literally, literally, even when you think even like I was saying earlier about you thinking that you don't have support that you have or or you know, because people are like because I think a lot of us, we put likes or the love button or whatever as people are paying attention. No, it's a whole other scene that people still seeing what you're doing, regardless if they hit the like button or not. It's very important to recognize that. And and the thing is, for those that are not public figures or doing things of the nature that we're doing, you or a business owner, you don't know about the other side, which is the impressions and just the visibility. Right. Like twenty thousand people are looking at my Instagram account on a on a monthly basis. And on my Facebook, it's like at least ten thousand people that are looking at my account. So that's thirty thousand people. If I add both accounts up, that's not including my LinkedIn and Snapchat and all the other things that I frequently use. But you have to give yourself props for that. You have to. And I know it's hard because we're cancers, right? So I don't have to say that. How you going to tell me that when you just said you want you, you you're chopping up your performance, but that's what we do. We always want to do better. I can't help it. Like, I literally do that all the time, like whenever.
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"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"I was unfortunately I didn't get a chance to do it. I was working with an individual that kind of did some shady stuff and I didn't end up being on the show to fast forward to a year later. I have I had my own show at the city winery with me as a as a headlining act with Uncle JG and we had a sold out. Exactly. He kind of then segued into my next question. So one of the things we talk about on conversations with Coach Law is what we call a bet on self moment. And it's something my dad would say to me when I felt like, you know, discouraged. He would always say, baby, you always bet on yourself. You bet on yourself. You never could lose. That's right. Right. You're either going to you're either going to learn or you're going to win. That's right. And so those are those moments in your life, those epiphanies where you stop blaming other people for your lack there of reaching a particular thing. You say, if not now, then when? If not me, then who? Those type of moments. So it sounds like the city winery was definitely a bet on self moment. I want to I want to say my whole solo career was a bet on self moment. Nobody from the time that I left my group and I left my group. A lot of people don't know that I left and I left because I wasn't going to grow. How did you know that? How did what what identifiers? Because I'm sure there's some listeners that feel stuck, right? Like you said, when you start to feel like you're not going to grow, you can get very discouraged, irritable. And we sort of touching on like some of these things impact your mental health and you have no choice but to move. But how did you know? Well, I knew from just. I was growing as an individual, I've always had like a business mind. And there were things that we were doing at that time that I was just like, I don't want to be a part of. And there were things that I was I was starting to get confident in areas that I wasn't confident before. So like like so when I was in my group, I was one of them, one of the the main singers in a group, one of them. I wasn't the main singer. And a lot of like during that time. So if we want to talk about like, you know, little traumas and stuff like that. I remember it like a weight thing was when, you know, when they was picking the lead singers and all this, you know, like, oh, now he's a little heavier. Like we might not want to go in that direction. Like so those were those were things that really like kind of traumatized me. Right. And they said they would say that out loud. Yeah, yeah. I remember I remember my old executive producer going like, yeah, the other guys, their chain can dangle and yours can't. And it was so crazy. Right. So and I remember instead of getting down on myself, right, said that's what people want to do. They want to crush you. Right. So instead of getting down on myself, what did I do? I started working harder than everybody. I got up at six a.m. I did a run. I went back, showered, went back to Bedford. Like I got back up, went and lift weights. And then by the time everybody else woke up at nine, 10 or 11 o'clock, whenever they decided to wake up and work out, I had already got two workouts in already and went from whatever. I was probably at my heaviest at that time to even skinnier than all of them. So, again, another bet on self moment. Whenever you push me against the wall, I'm going to come out swinging.
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"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"It's just, it's just so happens that a lot of people say it and they, and they may say it for whatever reason. It might be the vocals. It might be their presentation. You don't know what it could be, but I know my advice for, for artists, man, because I see a lot of times, especially here, like everybody get caught up in trying to like compete with one another. Right. And I'm the opposite of that. Like I try to bring people together when I do showcases, they could easily just be the Ray Royale experience. Right. Right. Easy. You know what I'm saying? But they say, you know, collaboration is, is, is at the top. And people need to understand that the jealousy and all of that is at the bottom. People, people at the top are collaborating and trying to figure out ways to build. Famous artists do it. If you, if you pay attention, the famous artists do it. It's the, it's the artists that are not on that, that are on that jealousy trip with each other. Or I love when I see another singer, let me tell you, let me tell you, I love when I see another singer and you're actually good. I love it. Yeah. I'm a, I'm a support you. I'm gonna put you on my shows because at the end of the day, Ray's going to go out and do him regardless. And there's a, I mean, it's just like restaurants, for instance, it really can never be oversaturated. When you think about creatives, there's, there's so much space. There's just so much music that still needs to be made for real. So we had talked about, you know, some of the things that you face as a male, um, R and B artists in the music industry and what stereotypes. It's a lot, it's a lot. What stereotypes, you know, you find yourself sort of having to combat in terms of your identity and your image. Well, I know mine was, I've struggled up and down with my weight for many years. Right. And I know a lot of people don't, a lot of men don't touch on this, you know what I'm saying? Cause the ladies traditionally, they, they like the, you know, like a Chris Brown or like a Trey Songz build, like the skinnier singers. You know what I mean? Well, we like, we like, we like Fat Luther. How many y'all like Fat Luther? Well, I might be aging, I might have aged myself, but I love Gerald Laverte and I love me some Big Luther. And again, so me, I think because of the type of songs that I sung, that I sing, I always felt like I had to be in shape. You know what I'm saying? Cause I was like, you know, I don't think girls be taking chunky dudes seriously. Like, oh, he's just, he's cute. Like he's chunky. Like what? Like girl, like I can do the same things to you, baby. Like don't get it twisted. But, um, it was, it was always, it was always, it was always a thing for me. And, um, I never, that was a couple of things that like, I remember being depressed about that too. Like, you know, until I really like locked in on it. And I feel like, uh, make a long story short, when I came with the ready EP, that's when everything just changed for me because first I was like Deacon Ray. You know what I'm saying? You was doing, you had a lot more of the, the, the soldier baritone. Right. Yeah. But not even just in the music, like just my image too. Like I was, I was more of like, everyone used to call me Gerald Laverte. Yeah. Like I was like the Gerald Laverte type dude. But then when the ready EP came out, they was like, hold on. Yeah. He tried to slim up on us. Yo, like, yo, what's good? Yo, he tried to get some muscles. Like what happened? Like I was, I was like, okay, Ray's on his grown man. But you know, those are the things that, um, that inspired me because it's all about the story for me. Right. And, um, of, of lifting other people. And I know a lot of people deal with that. And most, and most times you, you think it's females, right. That go through the whole, Oh, I think I'm fat, you know, and all this stuff, but males, we go through that too. We think about that because again, especially when you're under, when you're on camera, everyone's looking at you. Everybody's looking at something to try to tear you down or try to be like, Oh, that's not the reason why you're going to be, you, you can be successful. And you have to learn to weed that out and do what makes you happy. Um, and I, and I say, my manager, shout out to my manager, like she was the first person to be like, Ray, you got to love yourself during your journey. That is very true. And I think that, you know, one of the things, again, primarily you hear more about this with females, even with self care. It's mostly a focus on females practicing self care and knowing their worth. And, um, we don't hear enough about men's identity and feeling like they're not enough. Right. And we wonder why men will lead with money or material items. A lot of times that that's where men find their self worth is in what they can provide. Right. And not necessarily around the characteristics and who they are as a person. Right. And I feel like you, you, um, I feel like with me, I feel like people are intrigued by what I do in my, like my no nonsense attitude towards the goal. I think that's what makes a lot of people respect me because they're like, yo, this dude is like locked in because yeah, because a lot of people aren't locked in. You know what I mean? A lot of people are just like, yeah, I want to do this. I want to do that, you know, but they're not really going for it. They're not really trying to hit those goals. And goals are we're not just going, oh, I want to be famous. And then that's what happens. There's things like I literally go, OK, this is my one year goal. So I did this last year. Like I remember last year. Right. I, um, was doing I was supposed to do the music so child show that was in Boston at the city winery.
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"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"Had talked about, you know, some of the things that you face as a male, um, R and B artists in the music industry and what stereotypes. It's a lot, it's a lot. What stereotypes, you know, you find yourself sort of having to combat in terms of your identity and your image. Well, I know mine was, I've struggled up and down with my weight for many years. Right. And I know a lot of people don't, a lot of men don't touch on this, you know what I'm saying? Cause the ladies traditionally, they, they like the, you know, like a Chris Brown or like a Trey Songz build, like the skinnier singers. You know what I mean? Well, we like, we like, we like Fat Luther. How many y 'all like Fat Luther? Well, I might be aging, I might have aged myself, but I love Gerald Laverte and I love me some Big Luther. And again, so me, I think because of the type of songs that I sung, that I sing, I always felt like I had to be in shape. You know what I'm saying? Cause I was like, you know, I don't think girls be taking chunky dudes seriously. Like, oh, he's just, he's cute. Like he's chunky. Like what? Like girl, like I can do the same things to you, baby. Like don't get it twisted. But, um, it was, it was always, it was always, it was always a thing for me. And, um, I never, that was a couple of things that like, I remember being depressed about that too. Like, you know, until I really like locked in on it. And I feel like, uh, make a long story short, when I came with the ready EP, that's when everything just changed for me because first I was like Deacon Ray. You know what I'm saying? You was doing, you had a lot more of the, the, the soldier baritone. Right. Yeah. But not even just in the music, like just my image too. Like I was, I was more of like, everyone used to call me Gerald Laverte. Yeah. Like I was like the Gerald Laverte type dude. But then when the ready EP came out, they was like, hold on. Yeah. He tried to slim up on us. Yo, like, yo, what's good? Yo, he tried to get some muscles. Like what happened? Like I was, I was like, okay, Ray's on his grown man. But you know, those are the things that, um, that inspired me because it's all about the story for me. Right. And, um, of, of lifting other people. And I know a lot of people deal with that. And most, and most times you, you think it's females, right. That go through the whole, Oh, I think I'm fat, you know, and all this stuff, but males, we go through that too. We think about that because again, especially when you're under, when you're on camera, everyone's looking at you. Everybody's looking at something to try to tear you down or try to be like, Oh, that's not the reason why you're going to be, you, you can be successful. And you have to learn to weed that out and do what makes you happy. Um, and I, and I say, my manager, shout out to my manager, like she was the first person to be like, Ray, you got to love yourself during your journey. That is very true.
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Battling Male Stereotypes in the Music Industry With Rey Royale
"Had talked about, you know, some of the things that you face as a male, um, R and B artists in the music industry and what stereotypes. It's a lot, it's a lot. What stereotypes, you know, you find yourself sort of having to combat in terms of your identity and your image. Well, I know mine was, I've struggled up and down with my weight for many years. Right. And I know a lot of people don't, a lot of men don't touch on this, you know what I'm saying? Cause the ladies traditionally, they, they like the, you know, like a Chris Brown or like a Trey Songz build, like the skinnier singers. You know what I mean? Well, we like, we like, we like Fat Luther. How many y 'all like Fat Luther? Well, I might be aging, I might have aged myself, but I love Gerald Laverte and I love me some Big Luther. And again, so me, I think because of the type of songs that I sung, that I sing, I always felt like I had to be in shape. You know what I'm saying? Cause I was like, you know, I don't think girls be taking chunky dudes seriously. Like, oh, he's just, he's cute. Like he's chunky. Like what? Like girl, like I can do the same things to you, baby. Like don't get it twisted. But, um, it was, it was always, it was always, it was always a thing for me. And, um, I never, that was a couple of things that like, I remember being depressed about that too. Like, you know, until I really like locked in on it. And I feel like, uh, make a long story short, when I came with the ready EP, that's when everything just changed for me because first I was like Deacon Ray. You know what I'm saying? You was doing, you had a lot more of the, the, the soldier baritone. Right. Yeah. But not even just in the music, like just my image too. Like I was, I was more of like, everyone used to call me Gerald Laverte. Yeah. Like I was like the Gerald Laverte type dude. But then when the ready EP came out, they was like, hold on. Yeah. He tried to slim up on us. Yo, like, yo, what's good? Yo, he tried to get some muscles. Like what happened? Like I was, I was like, okay, Ray's on his grown man. But you know, those are the things that, um, that inspired me because it's all about the story for me. Right. And, um, of, of lifting other people. And I know a lot of people deal with that. And most, and most times you, you think it's females, right. That go through the whole, Oh, I think I'm fat, you know, and all this stuff, but males, we go through that too. We think about that because again, especially when you're under, when you're on camera, everyone's looking at you. Everybody's looking at something to try to tear you down or try to be like, Oh, that's not the reason why you're going to be, you, you can be successful. And you have to learn to weed that out and do what makes you happy. Um, and I, and I say, my manager, shout out to my manager, like she was the first person to be like, Ray, you got to love yourself during your journey. That is very true.
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"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"So you think when you get signed and you think like, you got all this glamorous stuff going on, right? That, um, there's, there's not, you got to learn your business because if you don't learn your business, it's going to be a hard, hard, hard road for you in there. So Ray Royale, I feel like I'm always Ray Royale and I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing. I can't, I don't have moments where I'm just Ronaldo Gilmore. I'm always Ray Royale, like, because when people are out, I can, I work still. Right. So when I'm at work and even, you know, my coworkers would be like, wow, people know you. Like they'll come in and be like, Oh my God, you're Ray. How are you Ray? You know, or you know, and like people, it's two different worlds, but again, I've, I never have those Reynaldo moments. And I feel like that kind of makes my relationships suffer because sometimes your significant other doesn't really understand the lifestyle they don't, or if they understand it, they don't really want to be a part of it. Or, you know, I know, I know for instance, where I can start, like when I first got married, right, she didn't, she didn't know about Ray Royale, all she did was hear it. So when you finally get to see it, it's a totally different thing. So, well, how do you navigate though? Like you said, you still will have a, uh, what you want to call for lack of a better word, a normal life. You still have a nine to five. And then there's this persona of shows and a nightlife. And I don't think people hear much about that because most people either know all you're all the way in where you're performing all the time and that's your primary job. But there's so many artists and Nahim shout out to Nahim Garcia came on and talked about being a working actor and being a working actor and still also being in the, being an educator. So he had like two worlds. He was navigating. He would sometimes be filming movies and while he was filming movies, he'll take time off from work. And, you know, there's, there's a whole nother. Jondra of working entertainers that people don't think about. We only talk about the iconic one. No, understand. You know what I mean? Like it's a, it's a lot, it's not easy. Like trying to be a father, trying to be a husband, a working man, a, like all these things. Uh, a radio show host, an R and B singer. Like, do you know what I mean? I don't sleep. You better sleep. I try to, but, but my life is so dedicated to what I do. And it's like, um, you know, my manager gets it the worst because I'll be texting her like, yo, I got this idea. And I know sometimes she's like, come on, right? Like, like, dude, it's like four o'clock in the morning. Go to bed. The best hours for creativity is like after three a.m. Yeah, it is like, and you know, uh, again, your significant other might look at that. Like you're, like you're, you're doing something like you're cheating or you're out, but again, they don't understand that this is your life. Like, this is my life. This isn't a game. This isn't like, like when I, when I locked in with the real real experience, I locked in like radio became my life as just like music. So people are like, oh, I thought that was like a little hobby for you, right? Like what? Like, nah, I take this series. I take anything I do serious because presentation is everything, how you present something. So, and I feel like I'm not, I don't claim to be, you know, like when people go, oh, he's the R &B king of Boston. That's their words, not mine.
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"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"Just the music, music was life for me. Right. Now, is this like your earlier years? Because there was a moment before you got married where you was talking about wanting love. Well, yeah. And like a lot of your post was around finding a mate. You always want that love. You always want that love. But for me, and sometimes, and this, and this could be a detriment to, you know, your career as a, if you're trying to, as an artist, because with me, I've always found it, found it hard to kind of separate both because I always feel like I'm Ray Royale all the time. Like, I don't never have Ronaldo moments. So that's interesting. Like, I really don't. So, so that Ronaldo and Ray Royale, two different people, two different people. And, and do you feel like you had to create Ray Royale to be more confident on stage? Because a lot of people create a persona because that's the person that can actually get out there and get on stage. And then their other persona is really shy. Well, I feel like, I don't feel like it's a persona because it's me. I feel like this is levels to me. And I know my co -host and everybody that knows me, even you, you'll see levels of that. You'll see it on shave. Sometimes I'm very serious and like, I don't, you know, like you don't see me smile. And I think the number one thing about having the Ray Royale experience is that my fans can see me laugh and joke and do all these things that they've never seen me do. Cause it's normally I just, I'm straight faced. I go, I've put on a great show and I leave. So is that Ray Royale? Is that Ray? Is Ray the? So Ray is the smooth guy. Ray is the family man. Ray is the, you know, the nice guy. Ray Royale is the confident man, the lady's choice, that's Ray Royale. So, um, and I feel like being in the, being in the spotlight and regardless of what level you're at, you know what I mean? Like, um, I've been fortunate to have a long career, you know what I'm saying? And been signed before and do other things as well. So, uh, like I said, a lot of people know me so I could be anywhere. I remember after I did the Apollo, I was on the bus. Okay. Yes. I was on the bus people. I was on the bus and they was like, and they were like, and this, there was this woman on the bus. She had, you know, this, an episode just came out, right. And the woman was like, Oh my God, it's him. Right. And everyone else on the, on the bus is like, like, who's him? Like, this dude's on the, on the bus, man. Like, what are we talking about? You know, and she's like, Oh my God, it's Ray Royale. Can I get a hug please? And like everyone on the bus is so, and it's not funny, but the way that everyone else was looking around us was like, yo, like, this is crazy. Like, why are you tripping? Like this is, this dude was just like a normal cat, but they didn't know what, you know, they, they. You don't never know. And that's why I've always been a humble man, because like I said, even in the times where I was getting highlight moments, I was still, even when I had a record deal and was signed, listen, I was living in a $1 .5 million house. Listen, people still sending stuff home at some point because we were having issues with money. So you think when you get signed and you think like, you got all this glamorous stuff going on, right? That, um, there's, there's not, you got to learn your business because if you don't learn your business, it's going to be a hard, hard, hard road for you in there. So Ray Royale, I feel like I'm always Ray Royale and I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing. I can't, I don't have moments where I'm just Ronaldo Gilmore. I'm Ray always Royale, like, because when people are out, I can, I work still. Right. So when I'm at work and even, you know, my coworkers would be like, wow, people know you. Like they'll come in and be like, Oh my God, you're Ray. How are you Ray? You know, or you know, and like people, it's two different worlds, but again, I've, I never have those Reynaldo moments. And I feel like that kind of makes my relationships suffer because sometimes your significant other doesn't really understand the lifestyle
Conversations with Coach LA
Rey Royale vs. Reynaldo Gilmore: Balancing Two Sides of One Man
"Just the music, music was life for me. Right. Now, is this like your earlier years? Because there was a moment before you got married where you was talking about wanting love. Well, yeah. And like a lot of your post was around finding a mate. You always want that love. You always want that love. But for me, and sometimes, and this, and this could be a detriment to, you know, your career as a, if you're trying to, as an artist, because with me, I've always found it, found it hard to kind of separate both because I always feel like I'm Ray Royale all the time. Like, I don't never have Ronaldo moments. So that's interesting. Like, I really don't. So, so that Ronaldo and Ray Royale, two different people, two different people. And, and do you feel like you had to create Ray Royale to be more confident on stage? Because a lot of people create a persona because that's the person that can actually get out there and get on stage. And then their other persona is really shy. Well, I feel like, I don't feel like it's a persona because it's me. I feel like this is levels to me. And I know my co -host and everybody that knows me, even you, you'll see levels of that. You'll see it on shave. Sometimes I'm very serious and like, I don't, you know, like you don't see me smile. And I think the number one thing about having the Ray Royale experience is that my fans can see me laugh and joke and do all these things that they've never seen me do. Cause it's normally I just, I'm straight faced. I go, I've put on a great show and I leave. So is that Ray Royale? Is that Ray? Is Ray the? So Ray is the smooth guy. Ray is the family man. Ray is the, you know, the nice guy. Ray Royale is the confident man, the lady's choice, that's Ray Royale. So, um, and I feel like being in the, being in the spotlight and regardless of what level you're at, you know what I mean? Like, um, I've been fortunate to have a long career, you know what I'm saying? And been signed before and do other things as well. So, uh, like I said, a lot of people know me so I could be anywhere. I remember after I did the Apollo, I was on the bus. Okay. Yes. I was on the bus people. I was on the bus and they was like, and they were like, and this, there was this woman on the bus. She had, you know, this, an episode just came out, right. And the woman was like, Oh my God, it's him. Right. And everyone else on the, on the bus is like, like, who's him? Like, this dude's on the, on the bus, man. Like, what are we talking about? You know, and she's like, Oh my God, it's Ray Royale. Can I get a hug please? And like everyone on the bus is so, and it's not funny, but the way that everyone else was looking around us was like, yo, like, this is crazy. Like, why are you tripping? Like this is, this dude was just like a normal cat, but they didn't know what, you know, they, they. You don't never know. And that's why I've always been a humble man, because like I said, even in the times where I was getting highlight moments, I was still, even when I had a record deal and was signed, listen, I was living in a $1 .5 million house. Listen, people still sending stuff home at some point because we were having issues with money. So you think when you get signed and you think like, you got all this glamorous stuff going on, right? That, um, there's, there's not, you got to learn your business because if you don't learn your business, it's going to be a hard, hard, hard road for you in there. So Ray Royale, I feel like I'm always Ray Royale and I don't know if that's a bad thing or a good thing. I can't, I don't have moments where I'm just Ronaldo Gilmore. I'm Ray always Royale, like, because when people are out, I can, I work still. Right. So when I'm at work and even, you know, my coworkers would be like, wow, people know you. Like they'll come in and be like, Oh my God, you're Ray. How are you Ray? You know, or you know, and like people, it's two different worlds, but again, I've, I never have those Reynaldo moments. And I feel like that kind of makes my relationships suffer because sometimes your significant other doesn't really understand the lifestyle
Conversations with Coach LA
"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"And this is author Vic Brady and Coach L.A. is my favorite Around the Way therapist. Make sure you tune in to Conversations with Coach L.A. on Sundays at 10 p.m. on Urban Heat, 98.1 FM. My name's Naheem Garcia, Coach Law is my favorite Around the Way therapist. Make sure you tune in every Sunday at 10 p.m. to Urban Heat, 98.1 FM, Conversations with Coach Law. You're now listening to the Urban Heat, 98.1 FM, and this is your favorite Around the Way therapist, Coach Law. Don't forget to tune in to Conversations with Coach L.A. Sundays at 10 p.m. right here on the Urban Heat. Just the music, music was life for me. Right. Now, is this like your earlier years? Because there was a moment before you got married where you was talking about wanting love. Well, yeah. And like a lot of your post was around finding a mate. You always want that love. You always want that love. But for me, and sometimes, and this, and this could be a detriment to, you know, your career as a, if you're trying to, as an artist, because with me, I've always found it, found it hard to kind of separate both because I always feel like I'm Ray Royale all the time. Like, I don't never have Ronaldo moments. So that's interesting. Like, I really don't. So, so that Ronaldo and Ray Royale, two different people, two different people. And, and do you feel like you had to create Ray Royale to be more confident on stage? Because a lot of people create a persona because that's the person that can actually get out there and get on stage. And then their other persona is really shy. Well, I feel like, I don't feel like it's a persona because it's me. I feel like this is levels to me. And I know my co-host and everybody that knows me, even you, you'll see levels of that. You'll see it on shave. Sometimes I'm very serious and like, I don't, you know, like you don't see me smile. And I think the number one thing about having the Ray Royale experience is that my fans can see me laugh and joke and do all these things that they've never seen me do. Cause it's normally I just, I'm straight faced. I go, I've put on a great show and I leave. So is that Ray Royale? Is that Ray? Is Ray the? So Ray is the smooth guy. Ray is the family man. Ray is the, you know, the nice guy. Ray Royale is the confident man, the lady's choice, that's Ray Royale. So, um, and I feel like being in the, being in the spotlight and regardless of what level you're at, you know what I mean? Like, um, I've been fortunate to have a long career, you know what I'm saying? And been signed before and do other things as well. So, uh, like I said, a lot of people know me so I could be anywhere. I remember after I did the Apollo, I was on the bus. Okay. Yes. I was on the bus people. I was on the bus and they was like, and they were like, and this, there was this woman on the bus. She had, you know, this, an episode just came out, right. And the woman was like, Oh my God, it's him. Right. And everyone else on the, on the bus is like, like, who's him? Like, this dude's on the, on the bus, man. Like, what are we talking about? You know, and she's like, Oh my God, it's Ray Royale. Can I get a hug please? And like everyone on the bus is so, and it's not funny, but the way that everyone else was looking around us was like, yo, like, this is crazy. Like, why are you tripping? Like this is, this dude was just like a normal cat, but they didn't know what, you know, they, they. You don't never know. And that's why I've always been a humble man, because like I said, even in the times where I was getting highlight moments, I was still, even when I had a record deal and was signed, listen, I was living in a $1.5 million house. Listen, people still sending stuff home at some point because we were having issues with money.
Conversations with Coach LA
"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"You're now listening to The Urban Heat, 98.1 FM, and this is your favorite around the way therapist, Coach Law. Don't forget to tune in to Conversations with Coach LA, Sunday at 10 PM, right here on The Urban Heat. It's deeper than material, there needs some relation, good conversation, give me stimulation, what's your motivation? How you gonna add to me? Yeah, yeah, how you gonna add to me? What's going on, what's going on, beautiful people? It's another amazing Sunday evening at The Urban Heat studio and you guys know that we are radio with The Purpose, this is your favorite around the way therapist, Coach Law in the building, and I have a very, very special guest with me today. He's my radio brother, he's a songwriter who's been practicing and perfecting his style, which he calls a bonafide brand of rhythm and brulus for the last 15 years. Wow. Oh my gosh, right? So what I love about Ray is that his music is the truth, right? His lyrics, everything he writes about is from lived experience and it's really to connect with his listener. He has a catalog that is out of this world, y'all need to Google him. In tonight's conversation, we're really gonna take it to a different level and get to know him on a more intimate, the intimate side of Ray, the vulnerable side of Ray. One of the things that I found that you said about your music and I'm gonna read it is everything I write and sing about is the truth, an experience in my life. I write about things that go on every day in my life and in other people's lives. People will be able to relate to my music because you're getting my true thoughts on life and not just a fairytale. He hopes that keeping it real is something that you will feel and he continues to have the tradition of creating R &B music that is sweet, sexy, serious, and soulful all at once. So please welcome to Conversations with Coach La, Mr. Ray Royale, I am R &B. Yes. Yes. Welcome to the conversation, into the virtual couch. Hey, how you doing? I'm good. They don't know that we go way back, Coach. Oh, we gonna tell, we gonna tell. So government names, because we- Oh, so you know Ronaldo. So we go back to grade school and back then he was just Ronaldo, right? So now both of us, I was just LaKisha back then, they called me Kisha. I don't know if we had the dream or knew we would be sitting here one day on a black owned radio station that's on iHeartRadio talking about the different things that we've gone through and how we've been resilient and still pushing forward to our purpose and more importantly our dreams. It's crazy because you start off having a dream as a kid, right? You want to do those things. And I remember being that young 15, 16 year old kid and I was, I had already had the dream of being a singer, but I also wanted to be in radio. I also wanted to interview people because I felt like as an artist, even coming up, people would ask people questions that really was like, who cares about your girlfriend or whatever? Artists want you to ask them personal questions, you know what I mean? The things that mean something with their music. So I practiced that stuff. I was that crazy kid who was like, I swear, if people listen to my show, I'll be like, I'm doing my Donnie Simpson voice because I swear I was Donnie Simpson back in the day. Like I would introduce myself. I was definitely Sherri Carter. I think I kind of have a Sherri Carter voice a little bit. You know, just a little bit, just a little bit, but you know, right. One of the reasons why I wanted to bring you on the show and talk to you, you guys know every second Sunday of the month, I usually dedicate a show to men's mental health and it's called, you know, Men Need Self-Care Too, right? And so I try to find individuals that have a story, a story to tell and can give some substance to debunking myths about mental health, especially as it relates to men of color. So one of my questions I always ask people is what does therapy mean to them? You know, so, yeah, yeah. So what does that mean to you in your busy life? Because you have so many hats that you wear. I do. I do. So tell me. Well, tell us. It means it means a lot in as, you know, as urban black people, we don't really take, I feel like we don't take mental health serious. I know I didn't at first for a long while I didn't until a couple of instances happened to me. And then I was like, OK, I need some help because I couldn't get through it myself. I couldn't get through it myself. And when I went and finally talked to somebody like that, I felt like just this. Everything just came off of me, all all the years of pain and suffering, you know, quietly suffering, you know, and a lot of people do that. And I want to say just to everyone, don't suffer, don't suffer. You're not. You're never alone. You got people, you got people who love you, got people who support you. And even if you don't want to bring it up to because I know sometimes we like to keep, you know, when things are going rough, we like to keep it to ourselves. But even don't you don't have to get someone that necessarily knows you to give, you know, vent and get things off your chest. You don't have to do that. So what it means to me is, man, it's very important. It's very important. Your mental health is so important, man. That's why I love coming on this show. I love I love what you I love what you talk about. And because, again, especially with men like they we hold a lot of stuff in. Right. We hold a lot. It's like we got the world on our shoulders and a lot of people, although they do sometimes be like, OK, we understand that black man, but there's a lot that we go through every single day. And peace is your number one thing as you continue to get as you get a little older. Peace becomes a lot more important. Important. I heard you mentioned certain situations happen that you realize you couldn't get through them on your own. Yes. Right. You want to tell us a little bit more about what you mean by that? Well, definitely. I will definitely say the first thing was my mother's passing. My mom passed just. Before that, my grandmother passed away, which was was a couple a couple of years before that, and my grandmother was the rock of the family. Also my grandmother was like my mother. So for me, that was a that was a hard loss. And when my grandmother passed away, luckily, at that time, I had somebody by my side who was kind of there with me. So I wasn't like you. I didn't fall into a depression, you know what I mean? But when my mom passed, it was like I kind of like shut everybody out. And I remember this is why I love my Urban Heat family, because even before we was Urban Heat family, Marvin, Uncle JG showed up at my house. Uncle JG came in. You know how Uncle JG is? Uncle JG came in my room and was like, boy, if you don't get out the bed, wow. You know, and it's like it's moments like that that you will never, ever forget. But that also let me know that there was people out there that loved me, like seriously had love and respect for me. So that was and it was genuine and it was dope, man. And you know how they say things happens in threes. So prior to my mom passing, there was a fire at the house that I was living at, and I literally lost everything. I tell you, I lost all you know, I love my music and I love you know, so I lost all my show clothes and all this. So I was taking it real hard, like because I lost everything and so I bounced back from that. Well, I felt like I bounced back from that. Right. So, you know, got help and again, shout out to Marv Neal. That man raised three thousand dollars for me. You know what I'm saying? Again, this is this is people that really got love and respect for you. You know what I mean? And I felt like I got through that. I'm like, OK, because, you know, you like you get the clothes back and get the clothes back. Right. Right. You know, you you know, you get a new apartment, all that stuff. That's cool. But then, you know, losing your mom and, you know, just my mom was my rock. So like when she left, it was like I didn't want to do anything anymore. I was at the point then and I was like, I don't even want to sing. I think I remember. I remember that. And I was there was never a time that I didn't want to sing. There's always those times where, you know, you get frustrated with where you at because you feel like you should be somewhere else. You know what I mean? And along your journey and you're like, all right, well, you know, I'm getting tired of I feel like I need to switch it up or but this time it was like I was so hurt and I was and I was just lost. I was I was I'm I was a true mama's boy. So my mother not being there was like, whoa, what am I going to do? So trying to trying to get through that was was was crazy. Like I said, I couldn't get through it alone. I couldn't. And as a friend and a fan, you know, shout out to all, you know, all of your fans. We were living those moments with you via social media, the parts that you did share with us, you know, and we talked about this when we thought when we talked about you coming on the show, just moments. Those were some of the monumental moments that I recall posts and inboxing you and like sending you messages and just of encouragement. So those were like monumental. Yeah. And so I was curious, you know, how how you pull through that, you know, because those things often are the devastation that make people crumble. Right. You lose a significant loved one, a fire. Right. We call that, you know, shout out to big greedy bounce back magic. Right. Your resiliency is how quickly you can bounce back from a major setback like that. Right. And I've seen you do that multiple times. And it was it was definitely hard, you know, and again, right after that was like COVID. So then the music industry shuts down. Then we try to find a way to. Live within our new life, right? Yeah, we were all in a bubble, you know, I was used to performing. I was a very active performer. Like I was out there, so I was performing three, four times a week to not being able to perform at all is crazy. But I love how we went through this whole transition of like now we're coming, becoming virtual now. Now we're doing now we're doing like I did a virtual concert. And it was so it was it was like I was at practice, but there was like hundreds of people watching, you know, and those are the times that you really find out who your real supporters are. And because the stigma with our city, where we live in, is that a lot of people feel like Boston doesn't get the support it's supposed to get. Right. And I was one of those people that felt that way, too, even though I was a very known individual from here. But it's those times like that, the ones that the key moments that we're talking about is like when I said I was going to give up, I had at least like 500 inboxes. Oh, yeah, it was crazy. I'm not even exaggerating like from everyone like, yo, what you talking about? Yeah. And it was you talking about Willis. It was so dope to get that because it was like, wow, there's people out here that actually care if I'm not singing like that's dope. Like how like how like you you are one of the local artists that's level of professionalism and dedication has always been just phenomenal. You know what I mean? You've always been at a level of excellence. I appreciate, you know, in terms of songwriting, vocals, presentation, you know, like you've always had that. So to hear you say that and you know, it's something that person is passionate about and it's been going hard for, like you said, 15 more years for you to post. I think I'm all set with this music was like, yo, what's going on? Something didn't happen because you're giving up life and that's what it felt like. It was a lot going on at that time. And, you know, like I said, that's why people like you are so important and other people that that do what you do, because like I said, I was in a very, very vulnerable place, like and I was in a very dark place as well, like because, again, I lost my rock.
Conversations with Coach LA
"Don't Suffer": Rey Royale Reflects on What Therapy Means to Him
"Guys know every second Sunday of the month, I usually dedicate a show to men's mental health and it's called, you know, Men Need Self -Care Too, right? And so I try to find individuals that have a story, a story to tell and can give some substance to debunking myths about mental health, especially as it relates to men of color. So one of my questions I always ask people is what does therapy mean to them? You know, so, yeah, yeah. So what does that mean to you in your busy life? Because you have so many hats that you wear. I do. I do. So tell me. Well, tell us. It means it means a lot in as, you know, as urban black people, we don't really take, I feel like we don't take mental health serious. I know I didn't at first for a long while I didn't until a couple of instances happened to me. And then I was like, OK, I need some help because I couldn't get through it myself. I couldn't get through it myself. And when I went and finally talked to somebody like that, I felt like just this. Everything just came off of me, all all the years of pain and suffering, you know, quietly suffering, you know, and a lot of people do that. And I want to say just to everyone, don't suffer, don't suffer. You're not. You're never alone. You got people, you got people who love you, got people who support you. And even if you don't want to bring it up to because I know sometimes we like to keep, you know, when things are going rough, we like to keep it to ourselves. But even don't you don't have to get someone that necessarily knows you to give, you know, vent and get things off your chest. You don't have to do that. So what it means to me is, man, it's very important. It's very important. Your mental health is so important, man. That's why I love coming on this show. I love I love what you I love what you talk about. And because, again, especially with men like they we hold a lot of stuff in. Right. We hold a lot. It's like we got the world on our shoulders and a lot of people, although they do sometimes be like, OK, we understand that black man, but there's a lot that we go through every single day. And peace is your number one thing as you continue to get as you get a little older. Peace becomes a lot more important. Important. I heard you mentioned certain situations happen that you realize you couldn't get through them on your own. Yes. Right. You want to tell us a little bit more about what you mean by that? Well, definitely. I will definitely say the first thing was my mother's passing. My mom passed just. Before that, my grandmother passed away, which was was a couple a couple of years before that, and my grandmother was the rock of the family. Also my grandmother was like my mother. So for me, that was a that was a hard loss. And when my grandmother passed away, luckily, at that time, I had somebody by my side who was kind of there with me. So I wasn't like you. I didn't fall into a depression, you know what I mean? But when my mom passed, it was like I kind of like shut everybody out. And I remember this is why I love my Urban Heat family, because even before we was Urban Heat family, Marvin, Uncle JG showed up at my house. Uncle JG came in. You know how Uncle JG is? Uncle JG came in my room and was like, boy, if you don't get out the bed, wow. You know, and it's like it's moments like that that you will never, ever forget. But that also let me know that there was people out there that loved me, like seriously had love and respect for me. So that was and it was genuine and it was dope, man. And you know how they say things happens in threes. So prior to my mom passing, there was a fire at the house that I was living at, and I literally lost everything. I tell you, I lost all you know, I love my music and I love you know, so I lost all my show clothes and all this. So I was taking it real hard, like because I lost everything and so I bounced back from that. Well, I felt like I bounced back from that. Right. So, you know, got help and again, shout out to Marv Neal. That man raised three thousand dollars for me. You know what I'm saying? Again, this is this is people that really got love and respect for you. You know what I mean? And I felt like I got through that. I'm like, OK, because, you know, you like you get the clothes back and get the clothes back. Right. Right. You know, you you know, you get a new apartment, all that stuff. That's cool. But then, you know, losing your mom and, you know, just my mom was my rock. So like when she left, it was like I didn't want to do anything anymore. I was at the point then and I was like, I don't even want to sing. I think I remember. I remember that. And I was there was never a time that I didn't want to sing.
Conversations with Coach LA
"royale" Discussed on Conversations with Coach LA
"This is your favorite around the way therapist, Coach Law in the building, and I have a very, very special guest with me today. He's my radio brother, he's a songwriter who's been practicing and perfecting his style, which he calls a bonafide brand of rhythm and brulus for the last 15 years. Wow. Oh my gosh, right? So what I love about Ray is that his music is the truth, right? His lyrics, everything he writes about is from lived experience and it's really to connect with his listener. He has a catalog that is out of this world, y 'all need to Google him. In tonight's conversation, we're really gonna take it to a different level and get to know him on a more intimate, the intimate side of Ray, the vulnerable side of Ray. One of the things that I found that you said about your music and I'm gonna read it is everything I write and sing about is the truth, an experience in my life. I write about things that go on every day in my life and in other people's lives. People will be able to relate to my music because you're getting my true thoughts on life and not just a fairytale. He hopes that keeping it real is something that you will feel and he continues to have the tradition of creating R &B music that is sweet, sexy, serious, and soulful all at once. So please welcome to Conversations with Coach La, Mr. Ray Royale, I am R &B. Yes. Yes. Welcome to the conversation, into the virtual couch. Hey, how you doing? I'm good. They don't know that we go way back, Coach. Oh, we gonna tell, we gonna tell. So names, government because we - Oh, so you know Ronaldo. So we go back to grade school and back then he was just Ronaldo, right? So now both of us, I was just LaKisha back then, they called me Kisha. I don't know if we had the dream or knew we would be sitting here one day on a black owned radio station that's on iHeartRadio talking about the different things that we've gone through and how we've been resilient and still pushing forward to our purpose and more importantly our dreams. It's crazy because you start off having a dream as a kid, right? You want to do those things. And I remember being that young 15, 16 year old kid and I was, I had already had the dream of being a singer, but I also wanted to be in radio. I also wanted to interview people because I felt like as an artist, even coming up, people would ask people questions that really was like, who cares about your girlfriend or whatever? Artists want you to ask them personal questions, you know what I mean? The things that mean something with their music. So I practiced that stuff. I was that crazy kid who was like, I swear, if people listen to my show, I'll be like, I'm doing my Donnie Simpson voice because I swear I was Donnie Simpson back in the
Conversations with Coach LA
Recording Artist Rey Royale and Coach LA Go Way Back
"This is your favorite around the way therapist, Coach Law in the building, and I have a very, very special guest with me today. He's my radio brother, he's a songwriter who's been practicing and perfecting his style, which he calls a bonafide brand of rhythm and brulus for the last 15 years. Wow. Oh my gosh, right? So what I love about Ray is that his music is the truth, right? His lyrics, everything he writes about is from lived experience and it's really to connect with his listener. He has a catalog that is out of this world, y 'all need to Google him. In tonight's conversation, we're really gonna take it to a different level and get to know him on a more intimate, the intimate side of Ray, the vulnerable side of Ray. One of the things that I found that you said about your music and I'm gonna read it is everything I write and sing about is the truth, an experience in my life. I write about things that go on every day in my life and in other people's lives. People will be able to relate to my music because you're getting my true thoughts on life and not just a fairytale. He hopes that keeping it real is something that you will feel and he continues to have the tradition of creating R &B music that is sweet, sexy, serious, and soulful all at once. So please welcome to Conversations with Coach La, Mr. Ray Royale, I am R &B. Yes. Yes. Welcome to the conversation, into the virtual couch. Hey, how you doing? I'm good. They don't know that we go way back, Coach. Oh, we gonna tell, we gonna tell. So names, government because we - Oh, so you know Ronaldo. So we go back to grade school and back then he was just Ronaldo, right? So now both of us, I was just LaKisha back then, they called me Kisha. I don't know if we had the dream or knew we would be sitting here one day on a black owned radio station that's on iHeartRadio talking about the different things that we've gone through and how we've been resilient and still pushing forward to our purpose and more importantly our dreams. It's crazy because you start off having a dream as a kid, right? You want to do those things. And I remember being that young 15, 16 year old kid and I was, I had already had the dream of being a singer, but I also wanted to be in radio. I also wanted to interview people because I felt like as an artist, even coming up, people would ask people questions that really was like, who cares about your girlfriend or whatever? Artists want you to ask them personal questions, you know what I mean? The things that mean something with their music. So I practiced that stuff. I was that crazy kid who was like, I swear, if people listen to my show, I'll be like, I'm doing my Donnie Simpson voice because I swear I was Donnie Simpson back in the
Cinemavino
A highlight from Legend
"And welcome back to cinema vino. We've got a two man game going. It's me and Sean Jordan. Just one little handshake over here. Coming at you. We're like a garage band, two members just coming at you with some hard rock. Tenacious D. Yeah, exactly. Or the black keys, the white stripes. Yeah. Yeah. Both of those. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Summer Chaos is now, this is the home stretch. Mine Meg. If this is the white stripes. Yeah. I think you're going to have to be. All right. Yeah. You're holding down, you're playing. Lying down the ones and the twos. Yeah. You're playing the quarter notes. That's about it. Yup. No fills. Which is how I like my drums anyway. She made the notes in the vamp up to the chorus. A little bit. That was one of the first songs I learned. There was a little bit of flavor. It was like a rice cake with a little bit of salt on it. Not a lot of salt, but a little bit of salt. Yup. So, this is a penultimate episode of Summer of Chaos. We're going to talk about legend. No, it's not penultimate. We've got this and then we've got Battle Royale. Oh, and then Dread. You're right. Dread. So, this is. And Robocop. This is penultimate to the penultimate. Yeah. Penultimate recording. And then I think Robocop's a gap. It's just kind of in between. Right. We just toss it in just because it sounds. Gap here. Yeah. Just a little bit of something to fill in. It's like a caulk that we used in between some tiles. Don't like that. But that's the metaphor I went for and there you go. It's a grout, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Drinking that imagery, won't you? So, we're going to talk about legend with Tom Cruise and we're drinking some white board dough. For those of you who are coming in late to this series, basically, we do a random wheel. We spin a wheel. We put a bunch of varietals on the wheel and also like beer and cocktails. Whatever the wheel picks, that's what we do for the Summer of Chaos. These movies were all picked out at random. We put random movies in the hat, drew them out. So, pretty much anything goes for this entire summer. And so, same thing with wine. Anything goes. So, for this one, we got white Bordeaux. This is Chateau La Fresnel. This is a 2022 white Bordeaux. Little bit of background for those who may not know. We were actually talking about this before the podcast that Bordeaux is now known as a red wine region. But up until about 50, 60 years ago, it was a white wine region. It was known for its white grapes. Bordeaux are going to be... White Bordeaux are primarily Sauvignon Blanc with some Simeon and some Muscadel. There's a few other grapes they mix in there, but those are the main three that you're going to see. Then they're mainly Sauvignon Blancs. Is this kind of like how like the Republican Party and the Democratic Party kind of switched identities somewhere in the like 40s, 50s? Around the New Deal? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Basically. Now, it's like five, six to one red wines to white. It used to be the opposite. You'll also see a type of wine made from these same grapes called a Sauternes, which is going to be... It's made completely differently. It's going to be a lot sweeter, a lot more sugary. Those are very fancy, high -end, expensive white wines. So, basically, just from the price tag alone, you'll never confuse a Sauternes with a white Bordeaux. These are going to be more affordable, you know, $15, $20 range. Not super sweet. It's a little more tart, a little peachy? Dry. And the first thing I think of is Sauvignon Blanc. And these will have some characteristics of the same characteristics of other Sauvignon Blancs in the world. They're going to be a little bit grassy, a little bit citrusy, grapefruity. They're going to have some of those same kind of flavors to them. The main thing that's going to distinguish these wines is going to be... I've heard it referred to as minerality. I've heard it referred to as wet concrete. I've heard it referred to as chalk. Tasty. Yeah, limestone. But kind of that dry, refreshing edge that you don't necessarily find in other parts of the world. Kind of like what brings the harshness of mineral water versus the softness of tap. Yeah, exactly. That's a good way to put that. Yeah. It's got like a bite to it. It's got kind of like a... Little edge. Yeah. And you don't find that... Like for example, New Zealand's often been known as grapefruit bombs. Big fruit bombs. And you don't see that as much. This is my favorite region for Sauvignon Blanc. They're balanced. That's why I love French wines in general. They don't go out of the way in any one direction. They're nice and balanced. And so it's great for that. This one has that nice... It's got some grassiness to it. It's got some fruit. But it's dry. And so this would be great. I mean, people say seafood. I'm not a big seafood fan, but kind of a lighter seafood meal is perfect for that. You're not a big seafood fan? Not a big seafood fan. Period? Not really. Shrimp? I mean, I don't mind shrimp. It's not my first thing I go to. Lobster. Yeah, same. Bass. Catfish. I don't mind catfish. I've had some catfish. That's garbage. Catfish is garbage. But I remember when we went to Barcelona, we took a cooking class. It was on our honeymoon. My wife and I, we did a... It was all seafood. We had some paella. We made some paella. We did octopus. We did squid. I mean, we tried the gamut of seafood stuff that they had in the Mediterranean. It was like... That was a good indication. It's like, I don't like this. This is not for me. Yeah, not my taste. It's fair. It's fair. But I will say that we did a wine kind of similar to this, a Spanish white. And yeah, this would be perfect with a wide variety of seafood. Some of the stuff that's bigger and more buttery, you might want to go for a white burgundy, like a chard. But this is a good hot weather, outdoor type of wine. It's nice and refreshing. I like it a lot. Yeah, 25 bucks, not a whole lot of money. But yeah, any good wine store, you should be able to find a nice white Bordeaux section. So look for those while the weather's still warm. But now, legend. Talk about this movie a bit. This was released in the United States April 18th, 1986. So... You say in the United States. Where did it come out before? It was released in Europe the year before. This had a very difficult production. This was a difficult movie to realize. It has a lot going on. So this grossed worldwide $23 million against a $25 million budget. In 86? That's a big budget. Huge. And for several reasons. A big reason for that is that when they started filming, a fire broke out and burned down the 007 studios where they were filming at Leaves in England. So pretty much had to build new sets. That's probably all the magic. Exactly. Yeah, some of the Sprite costumes caught fire. Or the unicorn hair. I can imagine, yeah. It's one wrong look, that unicorn horn. Yeah, it's gone. But they had to build new sets. And Ridley Scott's original cut of the movie ran for between two and a half, three hours. So... Jeez. And the final cut was like, what, hour and a half? Yeah. The version that I watched, I don't know if you saw the original 89 -minute version or if you watched the director's cut. I think I watched the 89 version. Okay, I looked around. I had trouble finding it. That's the version I know the best, so I went back to that one. The director's cut? No, the original. Oh, the original. Yeah. There's a director's cut out there. Is it like two to three hours? No. So basically, when the final cut of this print was released, Ridley Scott watched this cut and freaked out and thought that basically American audience couldn't grasp this much plot. And so he cut the film basically in half, down to 89 minutes. And when it came out, it got mediocre reviews. Obviously, he didn't do well at the box office. He just watered it down too much? Yeah. Gene Siskel put this as one of his worst movies of that year. And the international cut that came out the year before was 93 minutes. And it got a little bit better reviews, but still not great. And then in 2002, somebody found a full work print of the movie in a can somewhere. And so they took that out and restored it, remastered it, and really Scott added about 25 minutes to the cut that the director's cut. So it comes in at like 115 minutes, give or take. And he and Tom Cruise have gone on the record saying that's the version to see. I was going to say, I was reading that Tom Cruise saw the movie in theaters and was like, that's not the movie we filmed. Yeah. That's not it. I mean, you could imagine with that much cut out, it's going to be almost incoherent. It's like a whole other act. Yeah. Yeah. And so basically, the director's cut, yeah, it's a whole other fleshed out thing. And I have seen that once. I saw it when it came out. I think I've got that on DVD somewhere. And the one thing I would say is it does, it adds a few scenes. It makes the motivations a little bit deeper, especially for the character of the darkness and his relationship with the princess, Lily, and the stuff there. It's kind of just, not to cut to the chase, but it just kind of comes out of nowhere. He's just like obsessed with her. He's just like, oh, I must have her. It feels very rushed. It feels like a plot of necessity, not like a plot of, you know, any reason. They're just like, we need to stall him. How do we do it? Love interest. Yeah. And it's like, it's like I'm telling a story to my three -year -old and it's like, I got to kind of get something else in here. You got to kind of yada, yada, yada over motivations. We're coming in for a landing too quick. We got to just shoot. Pull up. Yeah. But so basically, this is a fairly straightforward fantasy story. Tom Cruise plays Jack, who is a protector of the forest. I was a little vague on what exactly he is. Is he a bard? Is he a ranger? I mean, he'd be more druid than anything. Is he a druid? Yeah, I couldn't place what he was supposed to be. It's like, this is where we need Travis. Yeah, he would be. And if Travis had an answer to that, I would be impressed. Because to me, they don't spell that out at all. I guess he would be more of a ranger. Yeah. Because he didn't really have any sort of like shape -shifting ability or had any ability to talk with trees. Really, his only thing was he had like one -on -one connection with the sprites, right? That's about it. Yeah, he had good buddies. A working relationship. And he wore a loincloth. Yes. So there was that. Dude, he was showing that thing off. He was. And that's what I, you know, in that situation, it's like, check out my hairless legs. My supine body. Yeah, check out these smooth legs. But, so Mia Sarah plays Lily. Now, this is her starring debut. Next year, she would go on to play in Ferris Bueller, amongst other things. Her hair when she transforms into a dark version. Awesome. Now, this great production value is great. Everything, costumes, hair. For 25 million, it better be. Yeah. Yeah. And those are real unicorns. Yeah, they better be. Yeah, I mean, now it's like, that'd be 100 million plus to make this thing. Easy. Easy. Easy. So yeah, Lord of Darkness, played by Tim Curry, who is unrecognizable in the mountain of makeup. Honestly, but might be one of my favorite representations of the devil. Yeah. Like, this makeup job is incredible. And in theory, we'll get to this later, that should be great casting to have Tim Curry. Yeah. I almost want to see more of Tim Curry in the face. Like, see more of him, you know. Almost, you know, Faustian devil and Daniel Webster kind of thing, where it's like, you can see like him being rascally or whatever. But yeah, so Lord of Darkness seeks to cover the world in darkness. Plot out the sun. Conveniently, yeah. Typical plot device. For that, he needs the horn of a unicorn, which is the most sacred and majestic of all fantastic creatures. Basically, he wants to take the unicorns out of the world, take the horns out of the world, and the world. The representation of purity. The horn of the unicorn. Yes. The world goes dark. Everything turns into kind of a barren, frigid tundra of darkness. He just has goblins that work for him inexplicably? Yeah, incompetent goblins. Yeah. It's nice. But they rhyme. They talk in riddles. They do. They do rhyme. But you know, he kind of has the James Bond villain of incompetent people working under him, you know. If anything, that's the thing that slows him down as much as, you know, these James Bond villains. Like, you hired a bunch of idiots. He also has, like, the Bond villain thing of, like, doing a lot of monologuing? Yes. Let me vamp for five minutes while you prepare your thing to destroy me. Yeah, let's me blather.
Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1235. Avalanche Launching First NFT Game on PS5 & Xbox | MASSIVE Catalyst!
"It'll be fun. My name is Paul Berra. Welcome back into Tech Path. Joining me today is, of course, Mr. Kyle Wilson, our co -host, and also hosting the Diamond Circle podcast. So welcome in. Yeah, thanks for having me on today and happy to get into some of the topics and a lot going on in Avax and Web3 Gaming. Yeah, for sure. So Kyle, let's go into Games Con. Of course, a lot happening out there and we'll talk about the first Web3 game that actually got, I guess, listed in a way. And if you look at Games Con and in general, just to get into this ranking, I should not say ranking, just to get into these lists and actually being releasing out there in Games Con, for a Web3 game to hit, this is pretty significant. I wanted to play the trailer real quick for Games Con. Let's jump to the trailer real quick. Three huge game developers have gotten together to create the ultimate gaming experience. The top video game players in the world, are they any good in real life battle royale type situation? Anybody can play. You just got to be brave enough to take a bullet. There's going a lot on in this game. Don't forget to smash that like and subscribe button at the bottom of the screen. Yeah, I like it. Not bad. You know, on Gunzilla's. So here you have IGN actually covering this. Holy moly, we have a Web3 game on IGN right there. Gunzilla, can you believe it? And also it's alternative, I guess, off the grid. But when you look at that and you think about the release, we're going to see within the PS5 and the Xbox. I think I've got some coverage here on this, Kyle. Yeah, here you go. Off the grid right there. So PS5, Xbox and PC. Pretty big. What do you think really or do you think this is a huge, important leap forward for something like a Gunzilla, which is kind of a Web3 game here? Yeah, I think this is big, you know, especially reaching consoles, it's a wider market, you know, aside from PC. So I think this is definitely a big win. And obviously, with Neil Bockenkamp and the movies he's created and kind of you can see a lot of his, I guess, you know, I guess a digital representation that you see in the movies, I guess, like the kind of lore is built into the game. You can kind of see that how he's crafted that he's chief visionary officer of the game. So I think this is exciting. I think, you know, people that have watched his movies are going to be pretty excited about this as well, both young and older gamers alike. So, yeah, I think this is a win. Seeing it on I .G .M. is big, too. And I think this definitely has some potential. We still need to see some how the NFTs are going to actually work in the game and to see, you know, players still react to it on YouTube and all the other social media outlets and things like that. So but overall, this is an initial win. Yeah. Do you think that this being kind of one of the first Web3 and integrated NFT games out there, do you think there's a lot riding on this in terms of success versus failure or is it just, hey, any players that come to it, at least it's going to expose the, you know, the Web3 concept? Yeah, I think it will. I think this is still going to be a victory, even if there is like backlash or people saying, you know, negative things about the game, because you still off the heels of this, you saw other games that are going to be prominent and upfront, you know, in the center in terms of gaming, especially what Dr. Disrespect is doing. And you look at his friends in the streaming space, you know, Dr. Lupo, Tim, the tap man, they've all played his game as well. Dr. Disrespect's game. And they all have almost, you know, millions of views on their content alone. So even if this game gets some backlash, I think this is still going to, you know, have a chain reaction of what gamers think in the long run in a positive way. Yeah, for sure. I was looking at Gunzilla's process on bringing, you know, artifacts that kind of into the game, but the real time scan of real battle gear. This is pretty cool in the way that they're actually bringing kind of this whole idea of reality into the game. When you look at that and then you also look at some of the clips I want to play. One is their gun promo video. So let's go to that so you can kind of see what I'm talking about. And this is one of theirs. It's an old zero favorite. The Cetas Vetovit 19 Bulldog. Bullpup. I'm sorry. Bullpup configuration. And it goes something like this.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak Unpacks the Chaos of Biden's Open Door Policy
"Trump had put in place a policy that slowed down fake refugee plane from coming to America? It said they have to remain in Mexico and make their application for asylum. The pretenses that these people are all being politically persecuted by the government of Mexico, which is a democracy with a constitution and free speech and an ally of the United States and we in no way treat it. It's not a dictatorship. It's not a country that persecutes people. So the whole idea that people can show up and claim I am being persecuted by the Mexican government is utterly absurd. It's like people coming from Belgium, okay? The only pretext they offer is that there are drug games. There are narco cartels. There is chaos prevailing over large parts of Mexico. And what the Biden administration has done is decide to simply import this chaos into the United States. We've had mass shootings several mass shootings this week in Texas, all involving immigrants, most of them illegal. We are subject the chaos that is below the border that is tragic for the people of Mexico is coming north. This does no good for anyone. It doesn't help the immigrants who came here legally, they left Mexico because they didn't like the chaos. They applied the ones who got in legally, they're playing by the rules. They want to live in an order of the country. Biden has said, no, no, we are going to make the border states Mexico north. We are going to turn everything into the same royaling pot of chaos where the only people who are safe are the people rich enough to take private private car services.
AP News Radio
Police: Louisville shooter legally bought gun a week ago
"Police in Louisville, Kentucky released details on the weapon used in yesterday's mass shooting at a local bank. Police chief jackal and Gwen Villar Royale says bank employee Connor sturgeon bought the gun last week. He purchased the weapon legally from one of the local dealerships here in Louisville. The chief also says a rookie officer who was shot in the head while responding to the scene remains in critical but stable condition. Mayor Craig Greenberg says so far this year, guns have killed 40 people in Louisville. That level of gun violence is beyond horrific. And it's beyond anything we can and will accept in our community. He wants changes in gun laws. This isn't about partisan politics. This is about life and death. The mayor says they need help from state lawmakers in Kentucky and help from Washington D.C. as well. I'm Ed Donahue
The Ben Shapiro Show
"royale" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"One today, says, and always one moon, like a silent drum Tapping every rooftop. And every window on every county country, let me start this over again. I'm getting so intimidated by being here. And always one moon, like a silent drum, Tapping on every rooftop and every window of one country accounting county, all of us, facing the stars, hope a new constellation waiting for us to map it, waiting for us to name it together. Joe Biden reads poetry is maybe the worst show on television. That is quite terrible. I rooftop in the drowning of the, of this baby seals and let me start over. I'm just saying in Tim Adam moody as a Buddha. Yeah, he's terrible at his job. Also, he is a liar. So Joe Biden was asked about the fact that his son hunter was picking up bags of cash pretty much everywhere, and that other members of his family were benefiting from hunters, bags of cash, and he's like, no, no, no, no, no. No one's ever no, I am clean as the driven nose to the man from credit card county Delaware. And irrational house your oldest member of every family feeling so any Russian to house you will be few memo about your family feeling so. Yes, you're revealing that Hunter Biden's business associates and over a $1 million or three of your family members and your reactions to that report. No, no, no, no, no, no. And he starts slowly backing away into the bush like Homer Simpson. Meanwhile, his non radical administration is getting ever more radical. Kareem Jean Pierre world's worst secretary yesterday, she was asked a question about whether the Biden administration backs slavery reparations. I'd love to see them embrace this position in a general election. Here's Korean Jean beer. Not flanked by the members of the Ted Lasso cast for significantly more serious as humans than she is. What does this administration stand
The Trish Regan Show
The Fed Is in Rate-Raising Mode
"To the Federal Reserve in a Jerome Powell was pulling a kind of Gavin Newsom move of his own there as he printed continually boatloads of money, 6 trillion plus dollars was printed between 2020, March 2020 and just about 6 months ago. I mean, they just kept this thing going. They just couldn't see they couldn't see they couldn't comprehend how inflation was not what they called transitory. I kept saying, you know, I was like a broken record here on this program I think to anybody that was listening even as far back as July and August of 2020 because my concern was you couldn't simultaneously have the Federal Reserve and the federal government printing that much money and not risk major inflation, inflation is what we have right now. Everybody's encouraged because, oh, the CPE, the consumer price expenditure index that the fed tracks. Oh, it's just 5% now. I'm sorry, it's still 5%. In other words, prices are 5% higher than they were this time last year. The fed is shooting for 2%. So how do we get to 2%? They're going to keep raising rates. They're not doing it quickly enough. They're not doing it fast enough on Wednesday of this week. The Federal Reserve is expected to announce a quarter of a point of a hike in interest rates. It'll suck more money out of the economy, but by sort of prolonging this misery. The economic misery, they're going to make it harder for the economy to turn in the future. So be on the lookout for that. It means credit card rates are going up. It means mortgage rates are going up. It means car loan rates they are all going up just as things continue to remain expensive.
The Trish Regan Show
New Proposal Calls for Wealth Tax That Follows Individuals
"Just want to highlight something that's coming out of the left coast state of California where that governor is being discussed as a possible contender in 2024 as a possible nominee from the Democrat party. Gavin Newsom absolutely absurd policies designed to only appeal to the extremists on the left, one of which is this thing I like to call full on hotel California. It's actually 90 that is not unique to California because you've had lawmakers from 7 other states, big ones, including Hawaii, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, Washington. They've all been out there introducing new ideas, new proposals for ways to tax the wealthy. And not just the wealthy. I mean, these are working working wealthy. So there's a distinction in some ways. Anyway, this particular proposal comes from an assembly member in California named Alex Lee, who wants to introduce a new tax on what he calls extreme wealth. According to mister Lee, the counter argument that says the rich will just leave. Well, they're going to fix that because they can just say, hey, look, you guys can run, but you can't hide. Direct quote, you can run, but you can't hide. And he's proud of it. I mean, forget about what that might actually mean for anybody who wanted to start a business in California or start a life in California. I don't think you would. Because these people are going to chase you down. His proposal would apply to individuals with a net worth of $50 million or more, and they would tax the well that 1% annually. Wealth beyond $1 billion would be taxed at 1.5%. So the funny thing about this is he doesn't seem to realize there actually is a real difference between 1 billion 50 million,
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dr. Robert Malone on the Pattern of Sudden Death in Healthy People
"Malone, can you add some detail or some context to this pattern that we are seeing of healthy young people, particularly young men that are in athletics or otherwise that are dropping suddenly with previously unexplained health conditions. Well, Charlie, I think in another life you must have been a pathologist because you've got a dead on. We should look for signal and once we observe signal, then we should do further investigations. That's the responsible position to take in medicine. And unfortunately, we've had an effort to block any autopsies being performed that could help us get to the bottom of this. The pattern is clear and apparent that there are these unexplained excess deaths which have all the signs and symptoms of cardiac deaths that are occurring all over the world and we have the very clear documentation of myocarditis, which has a long-term mortality rate that's nontrivial. So in this myocarditis, clinically, is at the frequency of about one in 2000 to one in 3000, multiple papers documenting this. But what's not often recognized is that clinical myocarditis that brings you to the hospital or to a doctor is just the tip of the iceberg. And that hard does not heal its scars. And when it scars, it creates this problem of electrical misconduct that sets up ventricular fibrillation, which appears to be one of the causes of these sudden deaths, the other one being stroke.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Shares His Condolences for Damar Hamlin
"A second we'll have doctor Robert Malone on the program to help unpack the tragic situation that unfolded that I happen to see live on Monday Night Football last evening of a football game that turned into a life or death situation. And so let me just read the tweet. It's been viewed over 10 million times. I was ridiculed and attacked by everybody from Adam kinzinger on down and here's the tweet. This is a tragic and all too familiar sight right now. Athletes dropping suddenly. That was my tweet. And people thought that I was being a conspiracy theorist. I was attacked. In fact, newsweek wrote an article that said, I am human garbage this morning. And that's, I guess, that's their opinion. I did not, I don't know what happened. All I know is I am thankful. Praise God that demar Hamlin looks to be in better condition and praise God that they were medics just feet away. And it is true. It is tragic and all too familiar. That athletes are dropping suddenly. And I suppose saying that and saying that there is a pattern that seems to be emerging across the planet, gets you to be attacked from every possible direction.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Dr. Robert Malone Joins Charlie to Dissect the Damar Hamlin Incident
"With us right now as doctor Robert Malone, doctor Malone, I don't know what happened. I don't think anybody knows yet, but you believe that just immediately trying to, let's just say, drop a label on that situation last evening is as irresponsible as just saying that there's no such thing as vaccine injuries. What is your take on the tragic situation that unfolded yesterday on Monday Night Football? So Charlie, I'm sorry that you've been subjected to this. My heart goes out to you as somebody who is also received these types of attacks from corporate media and from let's say these tribal reactionary forces because that's really what they are. I had not read your tweet. I'm very glad that you read it. It is completely innocuous. It actually takes as far as I'm concerned, a very responsible position. The documentation for the cause unknown sudden cardiac deaths increases is abundantly covered in Ed Doug's book called cause unknown. And of course, Ed is a friend, but I don't have any financial stakes that there's no CLI. I strongly recommend that people get a copy of cause unknown. And make their own assessment. The position that is being advocated by the press, of course, is the one that's most favorable to the vaccine campaigns and initiatives, and to the interests of the large pharmaceutical companies now Moderna and of course Pfizer. And that is that this would be a case of comedic Cordis. And Camino Cordis is a absolute valid element in the differential diagnosis for this case. Unfortunately, however, it is a very rare condition. It's typically seen in baseball players that take a strike over precisely the right place in their heart. And it is very constrained. It's very difficult to cause this experimentally and say a pig model,
Miss Information: A Trivia Podcast
Fortnite for beginners
"Fortnight is a massive multiplayer online video. Game developed by epic games released in two thousand seventeen is available in three distinct game mode versions so they otherwise share the same general game. Play in game engine But these three distinct versions are fortnight. Colon save the world. Okay fortnight no colon battle royale fortnite battle royale and fortnight creative. Oh there's three of them. So the objectives vary depending on which mode you're playing but the broad goal of fortnight is to survive against a prolonged force antagonist who will attempt to eliminate you okay so for night begin from an internal game jamat epoch game so there in american video game and software developer and publisher based out of north carolina So they did this internal game jam around twenty eleven after they published the game gears of war so a game jam which i only recently learned at work a game. Jam is a contest where participants try to a video game from scratch with a specific deadline. So it's usually like twenty four hours or you know maybe maybe seventy two hours to work to come up with this so it's kind of like a like a creativity burst. I'll shut the the bowl of that is to work with other people and create a game from scratch so depending on the format again your participants might be in teams maybe you are working independently. Who knows but epic games is also the developer of the unreal engine which is an open source in advanced real time. Three d creation tool. And you'll hear a lot of Video games and special effects and even like some film stuff runs off of this unreal engine. So the unreal engine. Original purpose was as a state of the art game engine. But it's now used across industries so it's for cutting edge content interactive experiences in immersive virtual worlds Unreal engine is a real time engine. An editor that features photo realistic rendering dynamic physics and effects robust data translation and also lifelike animation. So it's kind of a big thing whenever somebody is using the unreal engine. You know you're going to get really could effects from it so that that's all out of epic games which which founded in the savage that engine so for me was not initially one of the games that was actually developed during that game jim but the concept of merging the construction game genre so games like sim city or minecraft with shooter games came together and it led to the foundation affording. So you probably know. It sim city is if you're our age but a refresher on minecraft so in minecraft which was first released in two thousand nine actually players. Explorer blackie procedurally generated three d world with infinite terrain and they may discover an extract raw materials craft tools and items and build structures or works so game modes in minecraft include a survival mode in which players must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health and creative mode where players have unlimited resources. So players can modify or maud game to create new gameplay mechanics items and assets and minecraft has a very distinctive like visual s. That like you can recognize if somebody showing you a screenshot of minecraft. So what epic did is they prepared to release fortnight as a paid early access title in july twenty seventeen and they had plans to release it as free to play some time in twenty nine thousand nine after gaining feedback from players to improve the game so originally titled fortnight and lear renamed to fortnight colon. Save the world. This original base module is a player versus environment cooperative game. So you have four players collaborating toward a common objective on various missions. The game is set after a fluke. Storm appears across earth causing about ninety eight percent of the population to disappear and the survivors are attacked by zombie. Like husks so the player takes the role of commanders of home. Shelters collecting resources saving survivors and defending equipment. That helps to either collect date on the storm or push back the storm. In from missions players are awarded a number of in game items including hero characters. Weapons trap schematics and survivors all of which can be leveled up through gained experience to improve their attributes. Also you're working together with people against this common enemy player versus environment cooperative game. In around the same time the epic released fortnight into early access pub g had become a worldwide phenomenon selling millions of copies and drawing strong interest in the battle royale genre so a battle royale game is an online multiplayer video game that blends the survival exploration and scavenging elements of a survival game with kind of the last man standing game. Play so the name. The genre is taken from two thousand japanese film titled battle royale which was based on a novel of the same name and presents a similar theme of a last man standing competition in a shrinking play zone. So you've heard people. My brother plays this one. You've heard people's mentioned before what the heck is pub- g it's an abbreviation for player unknowns battlegrounds so that's an online multiplayer battle royale game and in this game one hundred players parachute onto an island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill others while avoiding getting killed themselves So there's an available safe area. The games map which decreases in size over time and it ends directing surviving players into tighter areas to force encounters with other players. And the last player or team standing wins the round The game's concept and design was led by brendan green. Who's better known by his online handle player known and he'd previously created mods for other battle rail type games pudgy was the top selling premium game of two thousand seventeen selling thirty million copies worldwide and grossing. About nine hundred million dollars. I have can. I tell you never heard of this game in my whole life. You know you are. You aren't really doing a lot of player games. How it's absolutely right. You know what i. It's funny i feel like there's been a couple of questions and learn a league in maybe the last five seasons or so that like the answer will be some video game or something that we that when we see the answer. We've never heard of this popular selling thing in all of the world and it sold got julian copies and everybody except you plays it. What's the so this is why we're absolutely. Yeah so you know. Epochs saw what pudgy had been doing and they were like maybe we could also do a battery. Yeah so what. Epic did was rapidly develop their own version atop their original fortnight in about two months so by september two thousand seventeen at was about to release this as a second mode from save the world in the paid for earlier access but then later decided to release this as a free game that would be supported with microtransactions. Microtransactions are the business model where users can purchase virtual goods with micro payments and make your transactions are often used in free to play games to provide a revenue source for the developers and there are a staple of the mobile app market so in game currency in fort night is called v books to them. You might see this icon happens sometimes. The you see llamas pop up and fortnight okay. So llamas also known as lama pinatas are the main loop boxes in fortnight and they are also fortnight's primary mascot so the vendor tech store is where players can purchase lama pinatas to break open for rewards in llamas can be produced using view bucks or event specific currency and they contain various helpful. Items like heroes schematics. Weapons and there are also different types of llamas in the game including basic llamas daily llamas and event llamas so For an has a very distinctive aesthetic. It's very cartoony. there's a very distinct color palette. I mean it's it's actually pretty visually pleasing see this distinctive looking lama. You know that that is for
Game Scoop!
Ubisoft says they are moving away from a reliance on AAA video games
"Let's talk about ubisoft recent financial results where they revealed they're going to be moving away more alliance on aaa releases and instead look more closely at free to play games and it's back catalogue to make money. I'm gonna read over some quotes here. plans for fiscal twenty. Twenty two. which will go from this april two april or through march twenty twenty two includes three trivia a game releases so i guess we can speculate a little bit on what we think those might be But in the future you have doesn't want aaa games to the focus of its business model quote. We said for a number of years. That are normal template is to come with either three or four aaa games. So we'll stick to that plan for fiscal twenty twenty two twenty twenty two but we see that. We are progressively continuously moving from a model. That used to be only focused on aaa releases to a model or you have a combination of strong releases from aaa and strong back catalogue dynamics but also complementing our program of new releases with three to play and other premium experiences you wanted to specify the company had a number of aaa titles in the pipeline otherwise like six ramos quarantine skull and bones. They actually mentioned skull and bones as republic. The prince of persia says the time remake and roller champions. No mention of yongan evil to on the call. There was not a single mention of their battle. Royale higher scape. Finally you besides financial indicate. The games like mario puts reds far. Cry five the crew to anno eighteen hundred older. Just dance games and assess discreet. Odyssey are still doing meaningful numbers. How rock band still makes a lot of money. Based off of new music licenses like super lucrative if it if it works why fix it.
Gamepinions
The Worst Video Game Launches In History
"Fallout seventy six. And what makes while it's seventy six so interesting is I i actually really like fought seventy-six like i really really enjoyed that game. I know that it was bare. And i know this story was kind of like i. I was kinda lean like going through and finding like all the different audio clips and stuff before they started adding in other stuff And i know that they kind of made it conveniently based around just like the story of the game like. Hey you're the first ones out like it's kind of it's kind of bullshit like i mean you kind of know that they weren't really i guess planning that from the beginning but anyway there was just there was so much that happened when that game launched and the first part of it that i find really interesting is that people were mainly upset with fall out seventy six when it came out because it was exactly what they thought it was gonna be yet and you know what the backlash on that game started even before the game came out to if you remember when the beta released there was a ton of issues with the beta because apparently it was only playable certain time i for certain periods of the day certain times i think that there is an issue where the beta would not let you uninstall it when you're done with it and i think if i remember correctly too i think didn't something crash where you had to re download it again like so people remember that and then know whatever it was. They had to rerelease the download because was corrupted. I don't know if that's exactly what it was. But something caused you to have to retaliate again. And it's not a small game. No yeah. I mean internet these days you know. Most people have pretty high speed. But this i mean this game came out three years ago. I wanna say at that point so it's kind of funny that leading up. You knew that game was just going to be a giant mess and we bought it because we like fall out and it was okay. I don't know that it was as bad as everybody made it out to be but it definitely wasn't good I didn't buy into that story at all about no. Mpc's it's ridiculous center. They tried to sell that so hard. They're like yeah but in this world there are no mpc's and it's like okay. I don't want this isn't story. I wanna i wanna follow like it's uninteresting. The robots because like that the best thing with fallout is like the different factions. And the people you meet you need that it just got boring. That's why we stopped playing is because we were doing. These quests but every quest was like go here scan if you things download things and read. That was the other thing is is because there is no embassy story was told via like notes and things you discover and i don't wanna do. That wasn't fun. So i think we just stopped because it's just really boring. Well it's funny that you mentioned that. Because i was. I was talking to kim earlier. And i was like. Why did we stop playing fall at seventy six. And she's like there is a main story mission where we had to kill somebody but they're already so we couldn't couldn't advance so i mean we just kind of shrug shoulders and that was that i had seen enough. I was like this is not doing it for me. This is not fallout. It's not it was literally felt like a gain. A totally different game with like a fallout skin. And if you remember you remember the other thing too so do you remember the collector's edition for that game. I do have this written down to think. They got sued instantly because one of the things they had was they advertised. This like this bag. It was supposedly a messenger bag. Yeah and the images that they would show it look like it would be a high quality bag. Have you got limited edition. Which i think was like three hundred dollars. Yes i think. Yeah they got this tiny like little plastic. I can't even call it a bag. You couldn't use it all and people were like what the fuck what is this. It wasn't even funny people like angry. Like what is this. Give me my money back. And yeah they got. They got sued and they had to actually recall it and they had to I had that a district preorder wound up cancelling it. But what i remember getting these emails. Is they You had a form and they had to produce the actual bag that they were gonna make any told you. Hey we'll probably have this in like six months or so. I think that's what it was. I got one ship to me like months and it was still a piece of crap back. It was awful. It was slightly better than i. Guess the one that people had gotten i ever got the original bags. Cancel the preorder. But i did get the replacement bag. I guess because they had a priori file but total mess from start to finish. What makes it even funnier. Is that when they were trying to correct that wrong. They ended up dachshund like everyone that put him a support ticket on their website. So it's like how our best as fallen and just sad todd house. We deserve better. That's the thing though it's like okay. So the game has bugs. But it's really redundant because it's a pathetic game so it's like you know what you expect when when you get it but it's just hilarious that all this other crap happened after the fact is just it blows my mind looking back at that i. It's just insane. And what's what's odd about fought seventy six is that it actually got like a redemption story arc. They added more concert and people said the games. Now so it's it's just hilarious. It's so hilarious. We've been talking about going back and playing it because we never played it after The update the major update. So yeah i mean maybe we can have a redemption You know maybe we can follow up and and Confirm or deny it actually is a good game now but yeah i've heard the same thing with the updates. It's actually pretty playable. I'm pretty enjoyable. Yeah have like a battle royale mode in there too. I think which is kind of you remember. I did want to play that. I remember when they showed the trailer for that. And that did. I was like okay
Esports Network Podcast
SportQuake CEO on Launching EsportQuake, Getting Cristiano Ronaldo into Garena Free Fire
"Fire at freeflyer is actually one of my favorite games to focus out of the Esports gaming world right now due to its massive success primarily in Brazil, which also makes it a natural choice for football partnership home considering Brazil's love of football going back decades and this partnership centered around operation quota, which debuted in December and allowed players of free fire to play em as Cristiano Ronaldo the which is pretty cool deal Matt. How did that deal come about? What was the process like to bring one of the biggest names in the world? It's Sports in other entertainment and so like Liberty into a mobile Battle Royale greater freefire. Yeah, it was it was a really exciting project to work with the guys on Thursday from the whole kind of ideation and blueprint of the idea through to the the integration and Page the final execution both in terms of the in-game integration and and the marketing around the partnership I think life to start at the beginning. I set up sport Quake fifteen years ago, and I had a background in media and Thursdays soccer or football a depending on what we're calling it today, and I'd worked at a number of large advertising agencies and then moved into sport media page. With Sky Sports is the Premier League host broadcaster and then spent four years as commercial director at Tottenham Hotspur, which is one of the big three London football franchises wage. And when I set up sport quake in that time over the. I view is very much that we're in a world where they, you know Sports Media Tech and gaming increasingly are coming more and more together and we're seeing lots of really really interesting collaborations as a result of that and primarily right. It's about bringing these two different audiences together to create more impact and awareness. And so as you and and your listeners, no doubt will be aware or if not, you know free fire, which is owned. No, Karina which is part of the C group. We've worked with the c group to some time and we've worked with an e-commerce business they have which is very strong in Southeast Asia that offers a service similar to Amazon in those markets and see is actually the best performing Chef globally over the last twelve months. I think it's kind of five EXT over the last twelve months and is within that organization as the e-commerce business Sharpie. It has to read free flight and we're done some work with with Sharpie with Ronaldo in the fall of 2018 and it performed extraordinarily well and through that and then relationships with out throughout the group the guys that Greener thoughts. It could be something here to do something with him as well. But with their own sort of twist and that was really where the kind of Genesis of the idea came from to bring his audience and IP together with With Their audience and they obviously are the the number one game. If not, the number one guy one of the the very top games in the world. I mean, I think they have something like two hundred and fifty million downloads and a hundred million daily sneezes and and Ronaldo himself in terms of his social media following putting aside what he delivers through the TV platform around baseball games. He his social media follow me is is the biggest in the world or anyone right? So he's got over for bigger than the cardassians bigger than J Lo and a dog Oh force and he's got something like four hundred and fifty million plus followers. And so the idea was to bring these two giants together in Partnership. Absolutely. I pulled up the list of the most played mobile games by player count and you said four hundred fifty billion. That's exactly what grade at last reported. According wage is article it August 2019, but they were one of the most downloaded mobile games in the world in 2019 to your point and have driven just a pretty insane bout of viewership at my favorite example of just sort of how big Great a free-fire is is the Esports organization loud gave a down in Brazil. They launched in I think mid June 2018 and have crossed their one point seven billion views on their YouTube channel for comparison the FaZe Clan account, which has been running for ten years now and has numerous viral videos is that just over what billion views so two years loud gaming which focuses almost entirely a great a free fire has completely surpassed FaZe Clan's called Dead output. Yeah, really quickly that just kind of gives you an idea of hey, this is how popular this game is. And and I think really where their their their view was listen, and as the market leader, we really want to lead and and and set the agenda and you know clearly we have as you just said large choice, you know of of of of gamers in terms of you know, everything from Hardcore to get real Gamers, but there's something really exciting here that we think we could do to Delight. Both are are cool gaming fans while also bringing in even more mainstream players to the game and also just kind of Setting the agenda for the industry in terms of you know, this is how you do these collaborations. Absolutely, that's really crucial to and let's talk a little bit about that collaboration. We you mentioned how everything is coming together and free fire it off is actually representation of just how far Tech has advanced recently. What do you think about what mobile games were even four or five years ago to the point that there now seems reals which is the most server intensive Gabe that you could a badge it with 100. I'm not sure how many people actually drop into free-fire but you know, the typical number is 100 people dropping in at the same time as to do that auto mobile photo, but will technology and something that old he became possible in the last few years. And now you also see at the same time the ability to bring Cristiano Ronaldo into the game and that's something that you know, we've seen with games like FIFA in the past where they model people they model real athletes in those situations, but there's something different to bring home. Into a battle royale, I'd have the play a character this case kro. Do what had to happen on the back end to make this a reality. Was there any hesitation for any of the parties about potential free Christian although into a game like free fire? Yeah, so so obviously we've worked with Ronaldo and his people a number of times before the great relationship with them. And as I say, he had worked with us before with their e-commerce business shopping and so there was a relationship with the group home and we obviously talked him through the the opportunity. We Karina and very much felt that the worst some things to be aware of around the table game it was but that if we executed it in in the right way that it could be really amazing. And so, you know and and back to your point about the the quality of of tech and delivery nowadays, you know and and huge shout-out to to Garena, you know, they they they pull together this amazing kind of personality and character both conceptually and also graphically off and it was developed in conjunction with Cristiano and his team as well in terms of the various things that he could do and so forth and so, you know the exit the idea Asian execution that have been phenomenal when as you say that, you know, we wouldn't be able to do that if if take wasn't where it where it is where is today off? But yes, it's it's really it's really amazing and the thing that's so you