Speaker 1: Hey everybody, and welcome to Movie Crush very Special Announcement Edition.
Speaker 1: This is an announcement that I imagine most of you
Speaker 1: will probably not be super excited about, but I am
Speaker 1: retiring the show for now at least. Um. This is
Speaker 1: a decision that I did not go into lightly. UM
Speaker 1: I'm sure, like I said, comes very much out of
Speaker 1: the blue to you, but this is something that's kind
Speaker 1: of been in the back of my mind for a
Speaker 1: little while now, and because we're all pals, I wanted
Speaker 1: to take a few moments here to kind of talk
Speaker 1: to you about it and um therapy through this thing together,
Speaker 1: because that's what friends do. Because I have mixed feelings
Speaker 1: about it, to be honest, it's it's tough to do
Speaker 1: something for three and a half years that you really
Speaker 1: love but also know that it's time to kind of
Speaker 1: put it aside for uh, for the betterment of me,
Speaker 1: um and not necessarily my mental health. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not suffering suffering a nervous breakdown or dare I say
Speaker 1: podcast fatigue, even though that's kind of true, But UM,
Speaker 1: I just I need to make some more time in
Speaker 1: my life right now, for for me, for my family.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the biggest reason behind all of it. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's just time, um, between Movie Crush and Stuff you
Speaker 1: Should Know. I put out podcast episodes on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: uh and technically Saturday if you count the the old
Speaker 1: reruns on Stuff you Should Know. But that's a lot
Speaker 1: and Movie Crush takes believe it or not, it takes
Speaker 1: about as much time some weeks, more time than Stuff
Speaker 1: you Should Know does between trying to book these interviews,
Speaker 1: which has always been a slog I know I've talked
Speaker 1: about it before a little bit. Um, it is very
Speaker 1: very hard to d I y, book your own show. Um,
Speaker 1: it is hard when someone is booking it for you. Um,
Speaker 1: still a lot of work to do, but it's it's
Speaker 1: always been something that I've done. Movie Crushes a very
Speaker 1: small little show. We don't have a lot of resource
Speaker 1: help and never really asked for much because we want
Speaker 1: to kind of just fly below the radar, do our
Speaker 1: own thing and do it our way, which is great, Um,
Speaker 1: but it is hard booking people. Things got a little
Speaker 1: bit easier, believe it or not, during COVID because I
Speaker 1: finally write my head around doing these remote interviews, which
Speaker 1: I always had refused to do previously during the before times,
Speaker 1: but it did get a little bit easier during COVID
Speaker 1: because I relaxed my rule on that there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people at home. It really just became about
Speaker 1: finding folks who had a good recording setup, so you know,
Speaker 1: the audio quality was still pretty good. That was a
Speaker 1: priority for me to make it sound good still, But
Speaker 1: that aside, it is still difficult to book. Guess it's hard.
Speaker 1: When I brought in the cast of regulars and started
Speaker 1: looking around it my awesome colleagues here at work, and
Speaker 1: Casey and Annie and Paul and Maddie and Holly coming in,
Speaker 1: and my regular guests Paul Schneider and Joe Garden and
Speaker 1: Hodgeman that have had a few times on. It was
Speaker 1: always good to count on them, and of course certainly
Speaker 1: Cole who has been there for me and has been
Speaker 1: a great, great recurring guest, and certainly a lot easier
Speaker 1: to book them, but I still wanted to do a
Speaker 1: mix of them and then people outside the network and
Speaker 1: outside my friend zone. Uh, And it was just tough.
Speaker 1: So that is a big reason as well. Um, I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed every episode I ever recorded. I you know,
Speaker 1: there was a lot of work that went in, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, to watching the movies. Doing the research
Speaker 1: and making the notes for movies usually took about a
Speaker 1: half a day just for the movie itself. And then
Speaker 1: you know, you record the show's always fun, never not fun,
Speaker 1: and then you had to go through and re listen
Speaker 1: to them and add any edit notes and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: That's not quite as fun, to be honest, But a
Speaker 1: lot goes into the show, more than you probably think,
Speaker 1: even those many crushes. I know, it seems like we're
Speaker 1: just rewheeling it, but that's a bit of the magic.
Speaker 1: That was quite a bit of work that went into
Speaker 1: those as well, and it just all got to be
Speaker 1: a little bit too much between that and stuff you
Speaker 1: should know, especially now that things are opening up a
Speaker 1: bit more. Um, Josh and I are going to start
Speaker 1: doing live shows again at some point. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if that's this year or not, but we will be
Speaker 1: traveling more for work, which we haven't been doing, and it's, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, all that's gonna take a little bit more time.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I have a wife and a
Speaker 1: daughter and a family and and stuff that I like
Speaker 1: to do with them, and it kind of got to
Speaker 1: the point at times where I found myself saying more
Speaker 1: than I was comfortable with, Oh, gosh, I gotta go
Speaker 1: watch this movie for movie crush instead of Oh, I'm
Speaker 1: so excited to get to watch this movie for movie crush.
Speaker 1: And again, just to be clear, that was literally just
Speaker 1: squeezing in these movies and doing that research. I always
Speaker 1: love sitting down in front of the microphone with every
Speaker 1: single guest, and I always loved interacting with all of
Speaker 1: you on the Facebook page and putting those mini crushes together.
Speaker 1: That was never part of the problem. Um, right up
Speaker 1: until now, I promise. UM. It really was to the
Speaker 1: point that where if you, if you love movies, you
Speaker 1: don't want it to become a chore uh, and you
Speaker 1: don't want to not look forward to sitting down and
Speaker 1: watching a movie. The whole point of this is that
Speaker 1: I love movies, and that's why I got into this
Speaker 1: show to begin with. UH. And it's just seemed like
Speaker 1: more and more, um, even just simple little things like
Speaker 1: Emily and I might, you know, have a night free
Speaker 1: where we want to watch a movie together or something,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't because I had to do a movie
Speaker 1: Crush watch that she necessarily wasn't into, and then we're
Speaker 1: in two separate rooms and that's just not a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. So that was a big reason. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think if there really were any others, And that's
Speaker 1: kind of it, you guys, it's just time, just time.
Speaker 1: Life is short, and um, I really just wanted to
Speaker 1: clear my schedule out a little bit. Housekeeping wise, I
Speaker 1: can say one thousand percent that that Movie Crush Facebook
Speaker 1: page is gonna stay very active, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: stay on it, and in fact, I'll probably be on
Speaker 1: it more than I have in lately because I have
Speaker 1: more time, and I'm gonna keep posting questions and polls
Speaker 1: and silly memes and kind of everything that we've been
Speaker 1: doing on Facebook, I'm gonna keep doing because, um, honestly,
Speaker 1: you all are the biggest treasure from this whole experience. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm more proud of the community that's been created alongside
Speaker 1: this podcast than any of those episodes, even Uh, if
Speaker 1: you want to know the truth, that's it's been the
Speaker 1: best part. Um. It's I've said it before a bunch
Speaker 1: of times, but you are all the kindest, most fun
Speaker 1: funniest endearing, engaging, open hearted, open minded, bighearted group of
Speaker 1: people that I've ever seen gathered together on the Internet.
Speaker 1: It's really remarkable in a place, you know, on Facebook
Speaker 1: that is can be assessibool of humanity. We have managed
Speaker 1: to carve out a great little corner for ourselves. And
Speaker 1: I if this show did one thing and that was it,
Speaker 1: then it was all worth it. So that's gonna keep going,
Speaker 1: not going anywhere. The movie Crushers page I did not start.
Speaker 1: That was obviously started by you guys. I really hope
Speaker 1: you'll keep that going. I imagine you will. That should
Speaker 1: not go anywhere either. I'm still going to be active
Speaker 1: over there as well. And you know, I made the
Speaker 1: Facebook announcement and I saw some people say, you know,
Speaker 1: I hope this isn't like someone said, I hope it's
Speaker 1: not like Summer Camp where we promised to keep in
Speaker 1: touch and then don't. That's up to us, you guys,
Speaker 1: That's that's up to us. Um. I pledged to stay
Speaker 1: there and stay active and to keep the fire going
Speaker 1: for all of us who love each other and who
Speaker 1: love movies and TV shows so much. UM So it's
Speaker 1: really up to you at this point to to stay
Speaker 1: there as well. Don't go anywhere. Um. Another thing I
Speaker 1: want to say is that I will be doing some
Speaker 1: shows here and there. Um, Please don't delete my podcast
Speaker 1: feed from your your player. Just kind of keep it
Speaker 1: tucked away and let it get a little dusty in
Speaker 1: the corner there, but keep it there because I know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wanna podcast again with Annie. How How can
Speaker 1: I not? I know I'm gonna want to talk to
Speaker 1: Casey about a movie every now and then. I know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna wanna this Halloween. You know, those horror movies
Speaker 1: are gonna come Colin, and I'm gonna want to get
Speaker 1: Joe Garden in there, or get our little round tables
Speaker 1: together and do some Halloween content. I know I'm gonna
Speaker 1: want to do it, so don't be surprised when you
Speaker 1: see the occasional episode pop up. There will be a
Speaker 1: super sized Mini Crush finale coming out um here in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks that will feature Emily and Addie
Speaker 1: and Annie and Paul and of course Nol and Casey.
Speaker 1: We've got some other special guests joining that have been
Speaker 1: kind to us over the years, and I'm really gonna
Speaker 1: blow it out for that last mini and let everyone
Speaker 1: say they're proper goodbyes, so that that will be coming
Speaker 1: your way soon. I hope this finds you all well.
Speaker 1: I know that this has been a source of comfort
Speaker 1: for people during the pandemic, and it was a source
Speaker 1: of comfort for me too. It was really something I needed,
Speaker 1: and so I thank you for that, and I thank
Speaker 1: you for just making this show special. Um. But again,
Speaker 1: we're not going away. It's gonna take on a little
Speaker 1: bit of a different form, and I really hope everyone
Speaker 1: sticks around and it stays really active on that Facebook page.
Speaker 1: There's still a couple of more great interview episodes coming
Speaker 1: your way. There are two in the can that I've loved,
Speaker 1: really good episodes, and then there's one i'm recording. I
Speaker 1: think this will probably come out the day after our
Speaker 1: record with my good friend Janet Varney, who kicked off
Speaker 1: movie Crush with the very first episode, and she shall
Speaker 1: also be the last, so big thanks to Janet for that.
Speaker 1: So three more interviews coming out, I think, one more
Speaker 1: regular mini and then one super size finale and then
Speaker 1: that'll be it for now. So I just want to
Speaker 1: let you know what's coming down the pike and what
Speaker 1: to expect that of me, keep crushing it in your
Speaker 1: private life. My sincerest thanks to all of you. Um,
Speaker 1: we are really one great, big, happy family and I
Speaker 1: think of you all like that. And uh, although I
Speaker 1: will miss the actual recordings of the episodes, I do
Speaker 1: look forward to many more years of hanging out on
Speaker 1: Facebook together and making fun of each other, picking on
Speaker 1: each other, supporting each other, and loving each other. They're
Speaker 1: on the Movie Crushed Facebook page. So thanks for listening
Speaker 1: and I'll see you soon. Don't go anywhere