What's going on, I'm D-J.

And this is Matt Brackett status, a weekly podcast where we make pop culture brackets.

Woohoo!

How's going, Nando?

It's going, okay.

Besides, someone asked me today at work, because they've been away for a while, they've been like, how have you been?

And I said, I can't remember anything passed about 11 o'clock this afternoon. So I remember, like, I think I was good. But other than that, I have no way of being sure. But other than that, pretty good. I saw you post. I forget if it was Facebook or Twitter, but you're like, come on, news. I wanted to get work done today. And I felt these. I really did. I came in with a full head of steam. I was like, I got this. I wanted to get work done today. I really did.

I came in with a full head of steam. I was like, I got this. I have a lot of stuff to do, stuff on my plate. And then, like, whatever it is, 10.30 or 11 o'clock rolls around. And until, like, 3 o'clock, I'm just, like, streaming CNN. It's the worst. Don't do that, anybody. Just wait. wait a, catch up, and then wait another day and catch up. It's a waste time. I mean, it's not. It's very, very important. But I clearly do it too much. What about you, DJ? I assume you're in that similar boat. Yeah, I saw everything go down and I just, like, couldn't get off political Twitter. For those folks who don't know, political stuff happened today. And I don't want to talk about it. Not because I don't want to talk about it, but by the time this podcast release, nothing will be the same. Yep. Everything will be 100% different. The world's changing, boys. It's changing. Come for us to change with it. DJ, what Marvel movie is that from? Oh, God. The world's changing. It's time for us to change with it. Is it Spider-Man? Yes, and also Black Panther. Oh, wow. Someone pointed this out. The trailer of Black Panther has the line, like, The World is Changing. changing. And then one of the first couple lines in Spider-Man is Michael Keaton saying that. Did you see Spider-Man, by the way? I did. I saw it on Saturday, Sunday, one of those days, a weekend day. What a lovely movie. Yeah, I very much enjoyed it. Me too. Maybe we'll talk about that later in our racks.

Maybe.

But DJ, let's get down to business.

We have a list of, we're doing a bracket right now.

Very exciting bracket.

It is the ultimate movie of 1997.

A fantastic year.

Exciting.

Exciting stuff.

We have the first round of voting.

Just to kind of catch people up that haven't been listening for the last week or so.

This bracket is based off the idea that 1997 was a really interesting year for movies.

There were a lot of weird ones.

There were a lot of movies that broke careers or started franchises or ended franchises.

And we decided to take the 16 that we found the most interesting, not necessarily the highest

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