Warning. This podcast contains spoilers mainly for prey. We talk about I am Groot on Disney Plus. There's no way to spoil that. We also talk about Harley Quinn, which is currently in season three.

We talk about some plot stuff, but if you're catching up on Harley Quinn, you're in season one and two and or you're just want to start season three and you're worried about it. It don't worry. You can listen to this conversation, including our really, really wonderful interview with Justin Halper and you will not be spoiled.

Listen on. You have been warned.

Hello, my name is Jason. It's up to you. Welcome to X-ray Vision, the crooked podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics and pop culture.

So many favorite shows this week in today's episode on previously on we're going to be talking about more WB discovery drama in the airlock.

Oh, lots of stuff, including the delightful I am Groot and the action packed prey watch it now on Hulu in the hive mind co creative Harley Quinn, Justin Halper comes and sits down with us to tell a lot of really hilarious stories about Harley Quinn.

And it's great. And it's a great time joining me today for all of that is the number one comics historian, the number one comics reader, knowing more about comics, the characters, the plots and all the weird stuff that goes on in there than any other human alive. It's rosy diet rosy.

I'm so happy to be here to talk to you about all this stuff and to now have a career of all those things that you listed, which used to be something people would be like, please stop talking about that.

Those are like a list of like, please stop talking about it. But now it's like, hey, please talk about it.

Bye, Godzilla versus Patrick now. You can purchase it at the local comic shop near you. Let's get into the news because there's so much.

First up, more WB stuff.

So we were talking about this story last week. And of course, the earnings call that we are all expecting took place on the day after we recorded our episode.

And it was a news packed earnings call. Rosie, why don't you take us through it?

Well, so a lot of what we had talked about last week came true, which was essentially a big breakdown of what is going to happen.

So that's on the Warner Brothers Discovery Q2 earnings call. It was announced that HBO Max and Discovery Plus would merge into one streaming platform to launch in summer 2023.

We thought that would probably happen. The details are currently sparks. No name, no subscription price at this point, though the hint and implication was that it would be expensive.

So it's going to be expensive from what they were saying on the call, it seems like it will be based on the Discovery Plus app, which is a very popular, well rated app, according to David Zazlav of Warner Brothers fame.

During the very intense and I wouldn't blame you if you turned it off because it was public. You could listen to it. I listened to it.

It was very numbers heavy. It was very financial, but there were some incredible moments, including when they put a slide on the screen that listed the two audiences of HBO Max and Discovery Plus HBO Max.

And it was like, excuse mail scripted lean in appointment viewing home of fandoms. Discovery Plus female skew unscripted lean back comfort viewing home of genres.

As you can imagine internet went wild. I still don't know what a genre.

Jason, I still have no idea. Yeah, and it was basically lots of questions. There was some very interesting stuff near the end when a caller from Deutschbank asked about that girl and Zazlav spoke quite extensively about his vision for DC.

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