New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast. My name is Brian Sauer, and this is a very special bonus episode of the show. We like to do these every once in a while with friends of the show to talk about

projects that they're working on and so forth. And I've got two friends of the show joining me for

this episode, Ryan Varel of The Disconnected and Mr. Billy Ray Bruton of many, many things,

many podcasts, much film discussion. and Billy Ray and I are meeting for

the first time, which is great. That's right. It's always nice putting a face with the name.

Absolutely. Thank you for joining me, gentlemen. Thank you, sir. It's a pleasure to be here.

Okay, so we are talking about a little venture you two have entered into called antenna releasing or antenna

as I've heard it referred to and the initial read some people have is that it's a blue ray

label but like it's actually sounding like it's a lot more than that and I just wanted to kind

to talk about it because it sounds really exciting I've already heard some things about it and I'm really jazz for what you guys are doing here and sort of your mission statement. Where did this, if you can, what's the story of how this came to be? Either one you can start and jump in or whatever. I think Ryan is real poised to answer this. I go around the head. So a couple of years ago, there was a film that came out called The Last Stop in

Yuma County, and I got an opportunity to interview the director, Frances Scaloupie, for my

show online.

And Fran is a voracious lover of physical media.

He is somebody that has always supported it.

He is nerdy about all of that, like literally all three of us on this call right now. And I got him on and we got talking about things like audio commentaries and favorite companies. And in the middle of the conversation, he jokingly sort of giggled and said, man, maybe you and I should start a Blu-ray company. And I was like, ha ha, yeah. And then by the end of the

interview, he jokingly said, all right, well, let's look up again to talk about that company.

And we got done. I was like, really? Do you want to talk about it? And a few months later, I was

literally went so far as to show up at his house. And from that moment on, it has been off to the races. We started

chatting about some things that he saw a real passion for that I was already passionate about. And

I had to bring a Billy Ray, Billy Ray, somebody that I've known since around the beginning of

the pandemic-ish. And we've worked on a bunch of things together already from across the country. And

I said, you know, Billy Ray has pretty much every theatrical contact in the world.

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