China Beats Pixar | (Ep. 188)

Stories Are Soul Food

Canon Press

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Brian forces Nate to watch two new kids movie trailers... one from Pixar, and one from China.

Pixar's new movie Elio flopped harder than anything that's come before.
The top-grossing animated movie this year comes from China... it's Ne Zha 2, and it's made 2.2 billion (!) dollars.
The guys talk about why Ne Zha 2's trailer is better than Elio's.
But it still kinda stinks: The last couple years for children's animation has been very poor.
Artificial Intelligence makes you dumber, but it will soon replace this level of bad production.

Find out what an AI future might look like on this episode of Stories Are Soul Food.

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0:00.0	Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell.
0:04.0	Fire burning to my knees to my knees I fell.
0:07.3	Made a ghost of a king on a row.
0:09.5	Ready?
0:10.5	Let's do this.
0:12.5	Stories are soul food.
0:14.3	Number whatever.
0:16.8	Fresh off of Nate's Batman, extravaganza from the last time.
0:21.6	An extravagance.
0:25.1	People did seem to enjoy that.
0:27.5	Okay, here we go.
0:29.0	So we're coming in today with this will be very interesting to everybody,
0:33.9	but I didn't know that the Pixar movie had even released.
0:38.3	And yet we had Elio, apparently, the name of that, coming out with a big box office.
0:46.3	Fwap.
0:47.1	Yeah.
0:47.4	Fwap.
0:48.3	Yeah, I think, was it $20 million?
0:51.0	Yeah, $21 million for a movie that cost $250.
0:55.7	Was it $250?
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:57.4	I thought it was $150, but either way.
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