I am your host and honored announcer, Roydy Ryan.
Original introduction wording
- I am your host and honored announcer, Roydy Ryan Sansone.
NO COMMON DENOMINATOR
Movie verdicts.
“Proper thumbs up from all of us.” Sneha revises her initial horizontal thumb to thumbs up.
Original rating systems, exactly as represented in the archive. These scales are not interchangeable.
By way of introduction.
So challenging for his psychotic crown and hailing from the upside down, Curtis the Hurdest, check!
Original introduction wording
- So challenging for his psychotic crown and hailing from the upside down, Curtis the Hurdest, check!
And his opponent, my co-host, representing Texas City, Texas, he is the last from El Pas, Sneha Kogan.
Original introduction wording
- And his opponent, my co-host, representing Texas City, Texas, he is the last from El Pas, Sneha Koon-Den.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the following podcast is scheduled to cover in its entirety the ninth movie of the Rocky franchise, Creed 3. This is the moment you've all been waiting for, the return of the Summer Movie Marathon. I am your host and honored announcer, Roydy Ryan Sansone. Your reigning defending champion, Dr. Fraser Crane, has been suspended until further notice. So challenging for his psychotic crown and hailing from the upside down, Curtis the Hurdest, check! I do Hurdest the most. I have no energy to match that. That was amazing. I'm so glad that you did that. And his opponent, my co-host, representing Texas City, Texas, he is the last from El Pas, Sneha Koon-Den.
Someone brought rules.
The games, the premises, and what everyone brought to the table.
How this one works
Prompt
- So Sneha, give us a thumbs up or thumbs down and a completely concocted subtitle of your
- choosing.
Recorded activity context
So Sneha, give us a thumbs up or thumbs down and a completely concocted subtitle of your; choosing.
RESULT STATUS
This one was not a competition.
The source establishes a noncompetitive structured exchange or performance; no whole-game participant winner is inferred.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
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Remark
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- Final state summary: I mean, that's a proper thumbs up from all of us.
- Result qualification: It was a little forced, a little coerced from Sneha, but it was a proper thumbs up.
Follow the round structure (1)
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Question / challenge
give us a thumbs up or thumbs down
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- Answer qualification: But if you can set aside your own personal feelings about the content, like the quality; of the film, would you rate it as a thumbs up or a thumbs down?
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Prompt
Question / challenge
a completely concocted subtitle
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- Raw prompt: Sneha, what's our subtitle?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
You Don't Know Who's Gonna Come For You From The Past.
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- Adjudication: Very Brad-like, but you know, hey, it does describe it.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
Creed 3 Takesy Baxies
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- Answer qualification: because Dan tries to take back his life.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Invented movie subtitle
Creed 3, Donnie Does LA.
Round context
- Method: So Sneha, give us a thumbs up or thumbs down and a completely concocted subtitle of your
Game / activity
Pitch Creed 4 ↗
How this one works
How it works
- So much so that they want us to pitch C4, which is, I guess, what they call it.
- It has to star Amara Creed.
- And don't make it all long and curdy.
Prompt
- Let's do some trailers.
RESULT STATUS
A winner is actually on the record.
Winner: Curtis
See how they answered
Within the recorded rounds · 4 recorded exchanges
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RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 48:33
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Trailer pitches: the handoffs
Question / challenge
Let's do some trailers.
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- Prompt item: So much so that they want us to pitch C4, which is, I guess, what they call it.
- Submission type: Trailer pitch
- Ryan: “So much so that they want us to pitch C4, which is, I guess, what they call it. They only had two requirements. It has to star Amara Creed. And don't make it all long and curdy. Apparently, these executives have the attention span of a squirrel and want something quick they can watch while doom scrolling. They asked if a trailer would work. They said, if that's the best you can do, then sure. So, let's do it. Let's do some trailers.”
- Curtis: “Sneha, I want to know, do you have a trailer prepared?”
- Sneha: “Curt, let's hear what you got.”
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Sights vs. Sounds.
Fighting champion Amara Creed has dominated the boxing ranks.; What happens when she has to fight a richer, more nepotic opponent with a worse boxing disability?; When she takes on the blind daughter of Tom Brady.
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- Important beats: No, it is, like, a daredevil-y situation.; She's, like, she's so rich that she's got, like, amazing supersonic hearing or some crap.
- Ending or payoff: But, you know, she'll overcome it.
- Answer qualification: I don't know how we navigate some of the actual boxing elements, but.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Creed 4 Unfinished Business.
Fourth grade, Mrs. Henderson's class, you borrowed my Game Boy.; Said you'd return at Monday.; Monday never came.; Find out what happens after a 30-year rivalry over a Game Boy.
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- Response context: Discourserole: Revision history; Clauses: Stage: Earlier discussion; Text: Look, Amara comes in as a proxy to fight Adonis' middle school friend who's pissed at him because this guy never returned his Game Boy, similar to Donnie.; Stage: Later revision; Text: Amara is actually the one training in the background because, you know, she's a real fighter now.
- Important beats: Amara's probably 20.; It's a Pokemon gym where Adonis is fighting.; Amara is actually the one training in the background because, you know, she's a real fighter now.; And Adonis and Adonis' friend are, you know, gaming.
- Ending or payoff: You can run from your past, but your past has had a level 87 Charizard.
- Answer qualification: They said they wanted to star Amara, but they love that you just ignored that.
- Adjudication: I'm not sure I get it at all, but I think I'm in.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Creed kills Mad Max.
Zendaya is Amara Creed.
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- Premise: In 2036, society's collapse is complete.; Roving gangs patrol the streets of LA.; Everything we think and say is held hostage by an evil AI called the Mathematical Algorithmic Directive Maximum, a.k.a. Mad Max.
- Ending or payoff: This knockout will KO oppression once and for all.
- Answer qualification: I was envisioning a kind of a cyberpunk post-apocalyptic situation and Mad Max just kind of fit the bill.; I just used it to create an AI name.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 56:26
Trailer verdict
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- Winner statement: I think it's fair to say Curtis won this round.
- Adjudication method: Agreed spoken judgment
- Result qualification: I mean, you mentioned Zendaya.; You won, period.
- Ryan: “I think it's fair to say Curt won this round.”
- Sneha: “I think Curt won this round.”
- Sneha: “You won, period.”
Round context
- Method: Let's do some trailers.
- Winner statement: I think it's fair to say Curtis won this round.
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- Activity premise: So much so that they want us to pitch C4, which is, I guess, what they call it.
- Answer qualification: The explosion / C4 wording is a C4 joke.
- Ryan: “I think it's fair to say Curt won this round.”
- Sneha: “I think Curt won this round.”
- Sneha: “You won, period.”
The segment is recorded; individual answers are not available in this archive entry.
Comic bits and episode moments.
Conversation excerpt
Prior exposure to Rocky and Creed ↗
Do you know anything about Rocky and Creed?; Have you seen any of the movies?; I did make a list of everything I've absorbed through pop culture about the Rocky franchise.; Why have you avoided these movies?; Airplane movies are a genre of their own.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
In MCU, Marvel Cinematic Universe?; He's a foil to the Black Panther.; but we're talking about a boxing movie.
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
They are a candidate for a future summer movie marathon.; You think sad is an acronym invented by psychologists?; It's a great candidate for reverse psych, actually.
Conversation excerpt
Next movie prediction prompt ↗
What was recorded
What everyone brought to the table · 2 recorded contributions
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
After winning a big championship in his first film, Creed focuses on his personal life.; He meet cute, Bianca, and the whole film is a scene-for-scene remake of When Harry Met Sally.; There is no boxing.
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- Answer qualification: Yeah, I think that best case, she's born in this movie, but probably not.
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 56:55
Predicting Creed II
She will be there.; She doesn't die till 3.; I think Rocky dies in this one.; You know, it probably isn't what happened because I feel like if he had died in that movie,; they would have force ghosted him in this movie.
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- Answer qualification: We could have easily snuck that into the dream sequence of rounds 3 through 11.
- Sneha: “She will be there. She doesn't die till 3.”
- Curtis: “I think Rocky dies in this one.”
- Curtis: “You know, it probably isn't what happened because I feel like if he had died in that movie, they would have force ghosted him in this movie.”
Source details
- Raw prompt: Why don't you tell us what to expect next week when we cover the previous movie, Creed 2,; subtitled TBD.
- Answer qualification: Any other characters you want to say will or won't be in the next movie?
Conversation excerpt
Recorded conversation ↗
So thank you for scrapping and rapping with us.; For Curtis Sneha and myself.; He's also super into sound now for some reason.
And the award goes to…
Selections stay with their own movie part and selector. Some attributions are not confirmed.
What was recorded
Their choices, kept with the original category and movie part · 1 recorded contribution
Game / activity
Six-part movie awards
How this one works
How it works
- So instead, we've broken each movie into six parts.
- For every part, each of us will hand out one award.
- But because we're completely unhinged, each award can only be used once per movie.
- The highlight.
- For a moment or scene that was particularly good.
- The low light.
- For a moment or scene that was particularly bad.
- The punchy.
- Awarded to the person we most wanted to punch in the face in the moment that inspired it.
- The hottie.
- For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take.
- The punchy uppie.
- For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done.
- And finally, the MVP.
- He awarded the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in.
RESULT STATUS
This one was not a competition.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 43:11
Remark
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- Final state summary: Well, that was six sections and six awards to go with it from each of us.
- Result qualification: Kind of whatever Sneha did.
Follow the round structure (6)
Movie section 1
Source excerpt ↗ 08:54Curt, we're talking the first 22 minutes.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Section 1 prompt
Question / challenge
For every part, each of us will hand out one award.
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- Raw prompt: What award do you got for me?
- Prompt item: Curt, we're talking the first 22 minutes.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
I feel like we should have just seen the whole thing up front and then seen the rest of the movie rather than breaking it up and separating it up.
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- Choice: punchy uppie
- Answer qualification: I'm not saying this is the best punch-up I've ever come up with.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
Between lowlight and punchy uppie
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- Answer qualification: Sneha places her opening award between lowlight and punchy uppie.
- Sneha places this award between the two categories.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
That's the checkmate line that annoyed the piss out of me.
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- Choice: low light
- Answer qualification: A stupid, really stupid forced line that doesn't go with the theme of the rest of the movie.
Movie section 2
Source excerpt ↗ 17:11We're going up to the 42 minute block for this section.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Section 2 prompt
Question / challenge
For every part, each of us will hand out one award.
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- Prompt item: We're going up to the 42 minute block for this section.
- Raw prompt: I don't want to be a stickler, Sneha, but we do need an award.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
I'm going to give highlight to Amara as a character and to the fact that the producers,; the directors, they brought in ASL.
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- Choice: highlight
- Answer qualification: I love that they incorporated American sign language into the movie.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
My character MVP is going to Amara for exactly the reasons we've spelled out.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: I am giving it to the child who has like maybe 10 minutes total screen time.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
So I'm giving my punchy to Dame here.
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- Choice: punchy
- Answer qualification: It's like, you are sparring with the literal champ.; Absolutely wanted to punch him multiple times.
Movie section 3
Source excerpt ↗ 22:39This takes us up to about the hour mark.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Section 3 prompt
Question / challenge
For every part, each of us will hand out one award.
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- Prompt item: This takes us up to about the hour mark.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
I think he's trying to be Dana White, guys.
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- Answer qualification: It's a statement.; There's no negative.
- Important beats: But Curtis, I think, I think this is why, this is why Michael B. Jordan is the Dana White.; He owns this shit.; He can put whoever he wants.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
So I'd like to give an award for the character MVP of our poor Drago.
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- Choice: MVP
- Answer qualification: Have you, have you taken an acting class?; Oh, you're giving it to the actor.; That's right.; I feel like Drago's hammer hitting is, is a big portion of the story.
- Adjudication: Get, just for the getting hit with a hammer is a wild move, but hey, it's your award.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
Participant cited: SnehaSource excerpt ↗ 24:17
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Prompt
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- Raw prompt: Can you please, for the group, define what MVP stands for?
RECORDED ANSWER / CHOICE
Most valuable player.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
I mean, it's the visual of the spitting of the tooth.
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- Choice: low light
- Answer qualification: I do not like gore.; I do not like, uh, blood.
- Adjudication: Fair enough.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Attribution unavailableSource excerpt ↗ 25:35
Remark
Oh, I thought that was, that was a highlight for me.
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- Answer qualification: Like it was too real.
- Ryan: “Oh, I thought that was, that was a highlight for me.”
- Ryan: “That was a definite high, both the, when he pulls out the mouth guard and then when he spits it in, that's like both highlights.”
- Curtis: “Like it was too real.”
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
I gave it the, why was Felix the champ?; No one wanted to fight.; He was terrible at boxing.
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- Choice: hottie
Movie section 4
Source excerpt ↗ 28:57Creed's mom reveals that Damien is responsible for attacking Drago.; Creed beats with Damien and Bianca beats with Creed.; Then his mom dies.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Section 4 prompt
Question / challenge
For every part, each of us will hand out one award.
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- Prompt item: Then his mom dies.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
Because his mom decides to hold on to this letter from Damien for whatever, 18 years.; Just if you didn't show it to him 10 years ago, you should have just destroyed it.
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- Choice: punchy
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
And she waits till after he wins the fight to look through the letters and realize, oh, that guy is friends with Damien.
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- Choice: punchy
- Answer qualification: But mine is slightly different, Sneha.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
I wish he would have been a little more monstrous when she walked in.; Like he would have broken something or really been scary enough that like Bianca felt like she had to take Amara away from him for a while.; Really get him isolated on his own.
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- Choice: punchy-uppy
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Action
I wish one of his apartments would have had see-through floors also.
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- Answer qualification: Bonus punchy up.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
This is also where I think it would have been helpful if in the beginning of the film we had seen all of what went down that night.
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
I think Damien kidnapped either Amara or Bianca.
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- Answer qualification: I don't know if this is a hot take or just a theory.
- Adjudication: I'm not going to call it a hot take.
Movie section 5
Source excerpt ↗ 35:11Creed finally addresses his feelings and confesses to Bianca about his troubled past.; He challenges Damien to a match and montages his way to fighting shape.; This takes us up to hour 28.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Section 5 prompt
Question / challenge
For every part, each of us will hand out one award.
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- Prompt item: This takes us up to hour 28.
- Raw prompt: Curtis, what about you?
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
I think the highlight for me was the shirtless scenes of Michael B. Jordan.
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- Choice: highlight
- Answer qualification: Him looking at the mirror?; Yes.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
I think my hot take is cut out most of the actual fight and just show workout montage; nonstop for 30 full minutes.
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- Choice: hottie
- Adjudication: To cut out the final fight, the whole reason we're here, that is a hot as hell take.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
For me, this is where Creed makes his MVP bid for sure.
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- Choice: MVP
- Important beats: You know, it starts with the Leon Dame speech.; And then almost immediately he's pulling a plane for some reason.; I also like when he takes off the helmet and then Drago's just punching.
Movie section 6
Source excerpt ↗ 38:15In round 12, Creed unleashes the beast and knocks out Damien.; Afterward, he apologizes for being such a shitty friend.; And we end with Creed playboxing with his daughter in the ring.
RECORDED EXCHANGE
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Section 6 prompt
Question / challenge
For every part, each of us will hand out one award.
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- Prompt item: And we end with Creed playboxing with his daughter in the ring.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
It's a very interesting way to tell a boxing fight.; I gave it my highlight.; It was unique.
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- Choice: highlight
CLAIM & ADJUDICATION
Remark
I did have a minor low light in the middle of, they didn't block out the fact that there; was nine rounds that happened in that dream sequence.
WHAT THEY BROUGHT
Award
You gotta wonder if Creed's regretting his decision to get back in the ring.; Retirement sure seems like it would be a lot more fun.
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- Choice: highlight
- Answer qualification: But boy, oh boy, that made me laugh.
Round context
- Result qualification: Sneha gives no specific final-section award category or recipient.
- Sneha gives no specific final-section award category or recipient.
View source wording — how it was explained on the show
- Method: The highlight.; For a moment or scene that was particularly good.; The low light.; For a moment or scene that was particularly bad.; The punchy.; Awarded to the person we most wanted to punch in the face in the moment that inspired it.; The hottie.; For a moment or scene that inspired a hot take.; The punchy uppie.; For a moment or scene that made us think of something better the movie could have done.; And finally, the MVP.; He awarded the person who earned most valuable player status in the moment that locked it in.