Well, greetings and salutations everybody. Welcome to the Best Dan Move Relay, Sean

Planner at the John Campy Show podcast. Coming to you from right here in beautiful Southern

California. It's great to have you guys here joining us on our podcast feed as we talk

about all of our favorite things in the world. Movies, movies, TV and streaming and all

sorts of good things. Not just giving you our opinions, but also giving you information

and context so you can have your own well-informed opinions whether they're the same or completely

different than ours. I'm of course your host John Campy. I'm joined in the studio

day with Byray Aura, Jonathan Voiko is here. Chris Carr is not here today. She had a family

medical situation come up. Apparently everything's okay, but she's off taking care of that

today. The plan is for her to be back tomorrow. We'll look forward to seeing Chris back

here tomorrow. And guys, let's not waste any time and get right into it, shall we? And

we're going to start off with this. Okay, so Guardians of the Galaxy 3 comes out at

a really interesting time. Not just for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but for comic book

movies as a whole because comic book movies we've seen have been on a bit of a slump. And

if you're a Marvel fan in particular, you know, not everybody loved Thor, Love and Thunder.

Not everybody loved Doctor Strange, the Multiverse of Madness and not everybody including me didn't

really like Ant-Man and the Wasquandomania. And so Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is coming

out and kind of represented a really important film for Marvel, not just because of the slump

with their own films and the comic movie films in general, but also because, you know,

it's James Gunn's final movie that he's doing there. And it's taking this franchise that

has been a surprise hit for Marvel and bringing it to its conclusion. Now, as the first

weekend of Guardians of the Galaxy 3, it made about $118 million, I believe, on its opening

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