More for Me and You: Bryan Louzil's Path in Streaming Innovation

In this episode, I sit down with Bryan Louzil, President of the free streaming platform Mometu. Bryan shares his journey from growing up on indie film sets to building a service dedicated to spotlighting overlooked filmmakers. We talk about the rise of Mometu, the Mometu College Film Festival, our mutual love for B-movies, how streaming is changing, and we even dive into some NFL talk. It’s a fun and inspiring conversation about creativity, resilience, and forging your own path. You can find his streaming platform here: mometu.com.

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Transcript

Intro Song

Rob Valincius: We are live on my favorite day of the week. Thursday. Thursday. I am your host, Rob Valincius, and I have the pleasure of having with me Bryan. And I should, I always forget to ask how to say last names, but I'm gonna just gonna give it a shot 

Bryan Louzil: Go for it. Go for it, Lou. Ill It's close. Lou, ill,

it's like Brazil with Lou in front of

Rob Valincius: I like it. I like it. Now you're the VP of business development at Memento. Uh, which 

Bryan Louzil: I'm actually the president of Mometu,

so Yeah. Since this, uh, since I think the profile was sent to you originally, I am now the president of Mometu so

Rob Valincius: Well congrats on the promotion brother. You're the president of Ma Me too, which is a free streaming service. You're a podcaster and you've also started the uh, Mai Too College Film Festival. Welcome to the show, man.

Bryan Louzil: thank you for having me. You know, I really appreciate it. Uh. Took a, took a gander at your show and it was just like, I, I gotta get on this podcast. It's such an awesome time, and you're just a good, good dude. So thanks for having me on. Uh, but yeah,

I, I, uh, I, I was kind of always like the, the Top dog at Moment too.

It just gave myself a title that at the time made sense for our growth. It was, it was enough of a title to get in the room and have conversations enough of a title that I could step down and say, I gotta check with someone on that. So, uh, that was nice for a while. Now I'm the president, so is what it is,

but, uh, no.

Yeah, we 

Rob Valincius: on your shoulders.

Bryan Louzil: now it's all on my shoulders, I guess, technically, so, but, uh, yeah, no, I, uh, we started this company, uh, we launched back to the, out to the public about two years ago, and two years ago this, uh, this past October actually. And we are mainly focused on underserved content. So that's, that's kinda why we started it.

We wanted to support filmmakers that just really didn't get served on other platforms, or were never highlighted, or never brought to the forefront. And that's what we kind of wanna make our, our, um, kind of what we wanna be known for. But then we also have a great selection of international content and, and classics as well. But yeah, I started, started that or not, I didn't start it personally. We have a whole group of people that are kind of involved in this, but, uh, I, I then started the, the Momi too college film festival that you mentioned. And, uh, that's been a, a great success. We're in, we just have finished our third season, so this, this last time it's all for college students.

We had 38 different colleges and universities represented last, uh, this, this past summer. So

Rob Valincius: Damn.

Bryan Louzil: opportunities for, uh, we had 83 filmmakers selected and seven category winners were invited to Hollywood. And one of them is actually having their film turned into a feature film that they get to direct. Uh, we're in conjunction with another company called Insurgents Financing the film, so they're literally gonna get their first feature film made at 23. And they're not in debt for it either. So great opportunity that we get to provide and, and be alongside them and to help them get their first feature out there. And like everyone, I have a podcast too. Right. So we'll mention that eventually, I'm sure.

Rob Valincius: Yeah, I mean, look at this point, everyone's got a podcast, right? We were a, a buddy of mine. We, we had a, well, I was in three podcasts and now it's down to one. But me and a, a buddy, I became his co-host and we took a break, and now we're gonna relaunch that podcast. But, uh, we've spent the past month trying to figure out, and it, we know what we wanna do, but it's the name that we're trying to do.

Because you can't, you know, a name's important, right? Because that, that kind of, once you figure out the name, you can figure out the coloring and the branding and the marketing, and it's a trickle down thing. But you have to know the name. And we've been struggling with it because you're like, oh, great idea.

And then you Google it and some famous fucking person already has that name, and it's a podcast. You're like, fuck man. You 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah. 'cause you're looking at the podcast, you're looking at the SEO for the podcast and, and how the name goes off, the description, the description goes off, the name, the colors, all that fun stuff. And then you gotta look at socials and make sure you got a, a handle that's worth worthwhile. So you can help kinda spread the word on on the social platforms nowadays.

So yeah, a lot that goes into that.

Rob Valincius: It's tough. I mean, I'm happy that we're in a, a world where it doesn't have to be.com. Um, you know, the extensions now range anywhere. I mean, look at my, my website's beer, because I thought I was hilarious when I, when I bought it. Um, so, so the, the internet world has expanded past.com quite a bit, you know?

'cause in the past if you saw that, you'd be like, oh, that's io I'm not clicking on that. 

Bryan Louzil: That's a, scam site. 

Rob Valincius: Yeah. But now everything is, we're starting to see it more. So you're not pigeonholed into buying a.com that you have to add the, or an apostrophe, or whatever the fuck you gotta add, just to just be able to buy the domain, you know?

And what bothers me is the guys that buy the domains to sit on 'em and sell 'em. That pisses me off. 'cause it's like, you're just, duh, you're cock blocking me from my fucking name, you 

Bryan Louzil: there, there were companies that were set up buying domains just to sit on them and sell them one day. Very smart,

Rob Valincius: Oh, super 

Bryan Louzil: to go about it. 'cause they saw like, Hey, the, this internet thing's gonna be big. And other people like, nah, it's just a phase. Internet's not gonna be a thing. And look at us now, we're all over the internet every single day in our, in our hands at every moment we're on the internet.

Which is wild to think about just the growth that has happened in, man, even just the last 20 years since kind of, uh, you know, smartphones became a thing.

Rob Valincius: Well, look at us. I mean, we do, we grew up in a time like, uh, you know, I don't, how old are you?

Bryan Louzil: I'm 40.

Rob Valincius: All right, so you're my age, right? We grew up, I think our generation is the last of a generation because we grew up really before the internet,

Bryan Louzil: Yes.

Rob Valincius: and then we grew into the growth of the internet, and right now we're, we're in the, some of the peak of the internet, right?

AI and I mean. We lived through it all. And I gotta tell you, man, I do miss as a kid, you know, and obviously you're, it's different when you're 40 compared to when you're a kid, but, you know, when I, when I was 10, it was like, be home by six when it's dark. And, and no, nobody could contact me. 

Bryan Louzil: no, no. There was, this was, this was like almost pre pagers, you know, at the

same time, right? So, yeah, I mean, it, it was, uh, it was be home before dark. Uh, I remember there was one night that I, I was not home before dark because I was at the local elementary school with a girl and, uh, got, I believe, which would've been my first kiss or that would've been memorable as a first kiss. And I remember hearing my mother scream, bloody murder my name. 'cause she drove up to the school.

See some headlights and you're just, she brand hell, I was just like, whoop, I'm sorry, I've gotta go. And I didn't see, uh, daylight again for a couple days, you know? That's how it worked.

Rob Valincius: Yeah. Grounding was a thing, right? You were, you were, if you were grounded, then you were fucked.

Bryan Louzil: Yes. Uh, you had no access to anything. Um, I, I believe her, uh, weapon of choice was a wooden, wooden racketball panel. That was really fun, really enjoyable until I outgrew that. And then, uh, Tabasco sauce sitting on my tongue. Used, used to be that, you know, we can't do those things anymore. So, uh, you know, mistreating our children is like. I'm gonna take away your iPhone or your iPad. No TV today,

Rob Valincius: Life shattering 

Bryan Louzil: it's like, oh my goodness, I have a 3-year-old. So yeah, when I take away the, uh, anything electronic, it is, the world is over and, uh oh, I have to go play outside. How dare you.

Rob Valincius: I have dogs, so, uh, you know, I kept, I, we, we kept it easy with air, you know, we could toss 'em in a cage if we feel like it, and it's not inhumane.

Bryan Louzil: or put him in the cone of shame.

Rob Valincius: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We haven't had to do that in a long time, which is always hilarious. Like, you know, two week ordeal. Um, but look, let's, um, I like to start my podcast and you know, if you've listened to some episodes, I like to, to kind of shed light on who, 'cause I know we're gonna talk a lot about, um, METU and, you know, everything else you got going on.

But talk to me a little bit about growing up, man. Like, you know, where'd you grow up? Uh, how was your upbringing and what brought you, did you always have that? I always like to ask if you wanna throw it in there somewhere, you know, where did that entrepreneurial spirit come from? Because I think, uh, anyone that does what we do and, and maybe creates content and does other things, it's there somewhere.

There's always a moment you're like, man, I could do this better, or I wanna do this, you know, and create something, uh, that you have or that you want.

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, no, this is great because in, in my podcast that's actually what it's framed around it, it's, it's to get people's journeys out there. 'cause so often we talk about, you know, the what's the here and now and what's their, what they're known for, you know. So I interview a bunch of guests across the entertainment spectrum and get to know their journeys, which is really fun to hear those backstories and the things that make 'em tick and all that stuff.

So,

I'll try to keep it short because I, I love talking about myself. Uh, but

no, 

Rob Valincius: mic, dude. You could tell 

Bryan Louzil: thank you. Thank you. Yeah. This is, uh, the Road Podcaster Duo. I'm a big fan because it's, it's a great setup at home. It's not too big on the desk. And if you buy the, I got the road, uh, backpack that fits the podcast or du it perfectly so I can take it on the go very easily. And, uh, we, we actually record our episodes in a, in a studio in Hollywood. So it's, it's nice I can just pack this up. I'm done using it here, you know, put it in the backpack for the next time we go record some episodes in Hollywood and it makes it very

Rob Valincius: The mixers are nice. They're really nice.

Bryan Louzil: Very nice. Uh, I'm still trying to figure out the two channel factor.

We're trying to figure that out so we can hone in, uh, utilizing some, uh, you know, audio from both mics instead of just on a, on a single channel. But we'll get there.

Rob Valincius: Yeah.

Bryan Louzil: But either way, yeah, the sound is great or really, really happy with the road caster stuff. Uh, we, we originally were gonna go with, uh, with shore mics, but I'm glad we went the, the road.

The road 

Rob Valincius: have a nice ecosystem. They have a good ecosystem. I mean, I have a fucking, I mean, my rig has been the same since I was streaming in 2020. So it's like I have a hundred dollars XLR mic, I have a pile mixer, which I bought on Amazon for a hundred bucks, and it works great. I 

Bryan Louzil: You sound phenomenal, so 

Rob Valincius: there you, I have a sound engineer friend and I'm, I brought my mixer.

I'm like, Hey, I don't know what the fuck these dials do. I need you to just, and he is like, boop. And ever since then, I just took a picture of it. So anytime 

Bryan Louzil: same 

Rob Valincius: I, need to replace it, just put the, the little bars or whatever exactly where they need to be, you know.

Bryan Louzil: Yeah. Yeah. So, no, uh, at least in my story, so I, I grew up in, uh, Northern Los Angeles, uh, town called Santa Clarita, which is a very well known town for, uh, being just on the outside of la really the outside of Hollywood to where a lot of like actors and, and entertainment adjacent folks lived. And so there's a lot of people, like a friend of mine's dad was, uh, worked for the Dodgers and the, and the entertainment booths.

And like, so he got to meet, you know, VIN Scully and, and, and those folks up there. And, and

so he kind of grew up around that. And then I, I had a friend of mine who did security, uh, her, her dad did security for the Dodgers forever. Uh, a lot of people that worked in, in the entertainment industry as far as actors and sports figures.

And, uh, we even had a house that was down the street from us that was the known as the Lasi House because it was the house that literally all the Lassie dogs lived in.

And so, spoiler alert, spoiler alert, Lassie was like 13 different dogs. And each dog knew a different trick or was specialized. They had the, they had the normal, like the regular Lassie, there was more of the camera Lassie that was up front, closeups, all that stuff, but all the tricks and stunts and all the thing go get Timmy from the wells, stuff that was all different dogs doing different tricks. So it was really fun to be able to walk by there as they're like training the dogs. And you could just,

you just had to be respectful and No, it's,

Rob Valincius: that's, that's 

Bryan Louzil: Hollywood. Its finest, right? Because

Rob Valincius: Black and white back then you could kind of get away with a lot.

Bryan Louzil: Yeah. So, uh, but yeah, so my parents, uh, they actually met in the film industry and they were both producers. I think the, the original film that they had done was called Malibu Hot Summer. And that was like kind of their, their first go or first to kind of claim to fame in a sense. If, if, if anything, it was Kevin Costner's first feature film.

And so they're, they're kind of known as discovering Kevin Costner.

'cause they, they found him at, you know, he was working as a PA or something like that on, on set and kind of discovered him in a sense, right? So, uh, they, they weren't very, uh, I would say, uh, successful filmmakers. If you wanna, if you wanna say that like a-listers or, you know, my dad is not Steven Spielberg, but you know, he didn't make Jaws or ET or many other films that obviously Steven Spielberg's known for.

He's not, that is not my dad. Uh, and so he actually did a lot of like, uh, B films. For trauma. So if you're familiar with, uh, trauma, they made like the class of Newcomb High, they did all the trauma movies with, uh, Tromaville and, and the Toxic Avenger. Like they

just 

Rob Valincius: yeah. I loved the Toxic Avenger when I was a kid. I don't know a lot of the other ones though, like Tramo, I don't know if I've heard of that, but Toxic Avenger, I love that. When I was a.

Bryan Louzil: well, so trauma is the company that, that makes all of those toxic Avenger films.

Rob Valincius: Okay.

Bryan Louzil: So trauma is Lloyd Kaufman. Lloyd Kaufman's, the, the head of that. So, uh, and that's actually a new j is it? Are they New Jersey? I think they're New Jersey. So, either way, New Jersey, like North Jersey. So, uh, either way he made some trauma films.

That's kind of what, like his most popular one was Class of Newcomb High part two. And that was, uh, again, toxic Avenger movie. So it was kind of more, uh, like a high school near a radioactive treatment plan or something. Something explodes. And the, the women end up having like a second set of lips where their belly button is.

Rob Valincius: That's so cool.

Bryan Louzil: That's just, those are just movies. That's just how it is. So

go check those out. It's really fun. Uh, when my brother and I were born, my mom took, you know, kinda stepped away from the film ministry and, and took care of us and, uh, kind of more of the housewife and then she ended up getting some jobs and all that stuff.

So kinda supporting the family and things are going, but either way, yeah, I grew up in Santa Clarita, got into the film industry that way. I was actually on movie sets all the time, so that was kind of fun growing up on sets, uh, you know, summer breaks and winter breaks were. Not spent at camps, they were spent on film sets.

So I was a, you know, assistant director or second assistant director when I was like 10 years old, you know, headset on, ordering adults around. I even got like an adult fired off a set once, 'cause they wouldn't listen to this 10-year-old child. And I said, director to blah, blah, blah room, said, Hey dad, this guy's not listening to me.

And the guy was like, dad, ooh. So he was, that was the end of his time on that set. So yeah,

I grew it, 

Rob Valincius: by the way. That's That's awesome.

Bryan Louzil: it was a different, different childhood, that's for sure. But

I, I would say that my, the main part of my childhood was definitely sports. So soccer was the number one thing. I, I did pretty much everything my, my older brother did.

So whenever he did something, I tried it out. He was playing soccer at the time and I was probably like, I was probably like three or four years old. He was already playing soccer. So of course I wanted to be on the field playing soccer too. I followed him around like I was his shadow, and so they always needed a second goalkeeper.

They threw me in the goal when I was like five years old, playing against nine year olds,

and I was learning per, yeah. Did 

Rob Valincius: I was a fat kid though, so it was more or less let's put the, the biggest guy in, in the goal, 

Bryan Louzil: Let's put the kid that doesn't wanna run in goal. Yeah.

Rob Valincius: I was not fast, but I to, kind of do one of these. You know, when I played indoor soccer, oh, nobody could score on me.

Bryan Louzil: The

goals are a little smaller. Yeah. 

Rob Valincius: It 

Bryan Louzil: Yep, yep, yep. yep. Yeah. No, I played indoor and outdoor, but I, I, I grew up in, we weren't a very well off family, so sports was always just my thing, like it was just my way. I don't know if my parents were just like big fans of it, or I just was good at it, but it ended up becoming the thing.

I was like, you know, this is gonna be my ticket out of my hometown. wasn't because I was gifted, uh, academically, even though, you know, I wasn't, wasn't a dumb kid, but I was just,

wasn't the 4.0, you know, student. But athletics were just my thing. And soccer specifically, I got pretty good at. So played club ball, played, uh, you know, on the Olympic development teams and did all that stuff and, and uh, actually a kid that I played soccer with is actually a kicker for the Jets. Nick

Rob Valincius: No way. Really, dude, he's one of the greatest kickers of all time. 

Bryan Louzil: He hasn't, 

Rob Valincius: got the best record this year, I think. He hasn't missed a 

Bryan Louzil: hasn't missed a kick. Yeah, he hasn't missed a kick or, uh, a field goal or a PAT this year.

Rob Valincius: That is wild. 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, he, he actually originally, when he went to college, 'cause he went to University of Arizona because he was a punter. He wasn't even a place kicker 'cause they had a really good place kicker there. So he was a punter until, I think like maybe his senior year. He kind of kicked a few things, but he mainly, you know, he didn't go to the NFL with really much place kicking experience. He could just kick the ball like really far.

Rob Valincius: Yeah.

Bryan Louzil: he got, yeah, he got drafted by the Cowboys and, and ended up being like a pro Bowl kicker.

His rookie season or something like that made like a, I don't know, some kind of god awful, like 64 yard field goal. Like, I think it was against the bills and overtime. And he had, you know, he hit one, but then they called timeout and then he hit it again or something like that. It was just ridiculous to have that happen, especially from a rookie.

So

made a name for himself pretty quick. I think he, he played for the Jets. He's played for the, the Buccaneers he

played, 

Rob Valincius: played for a lot of teams. 

Bryan Louzil: yeah, he stepped away and played for an A FL team I think at one point, because they got cut and he played for the Pats. I mean, he's, he's been around for a little bit, but yeah, man. To be, to, to have not missed a kick this year. That's pretty impressive. Even if you're on the, the Jets,

Rob Valincius: I mean, look, it's the same story as, uh, was Brandon Aubrey, he was a soccer player and I think he wasn't even gonna do anything. And his wife's like, you should go try out. 

Bryan Louzil: I think he was working at a store somewhere. He was like

working for a construction company or working for some kinda store and like, Hey, your window's pretty short. You should go do this.

Yeah, 

Rob Valincius: can kick the ball really hard. And now, like they had to change Madden football because of how hard he kicks to like, you can kick a 68 yard field goal now in Madden, which was unheard of, you know? Uh, and he makes it a regular thing, which is just fucking wild. But 

Bryan Louzil: everyone can make field goals until they play Philly and they have those two guys that just rush it and, and, and block both field goals from the Rams that made us lose that game this year. So

Rob Valincius: Everybody in Philadelphia though, will tell you that they're sitting on their couch going, we're gonna fucking lose this game. And, and the wifey, she's sitting behind the green screen. She'll attest to this because I'm sitting there, I'm like, we, I can't believe we fucking lost. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, they, why'd they give up this?

And she's like, have Faith? I'm like, no. This is what means to be a Philadelphia fan. And she's like, you're not a Philadelphia fan. Have faith. And of course we blocked it and we won the game. And I was like, you're right. You're 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, that was incredible. My, my, and again, my, my, uh, my family's, you know, Philly fans. My mom's from South Jersey. So

the, uh, my, my brother, uh, he was texting already and was just like, man, great game. Rams are crushing it. They're just coming outta the gate and then all of a sudden they just had our numbers.

So, hats

off to Philly. good, 

Rob Valincius: Rams are good. I mean, 

Bryan Louzil: I, mean, if it wasn't, if it, if it wasn't for, I think the snow, I would say last year, I, I think, I think that the Rams win that game in the playoffs. I, I really do. I think a lot of Philly like. Like analysts and also a lot of, some of the Philly players were like, and they had us like in that, that was really the determining factor, I think was the snow, because Philly's run game is just, you know, just so much better.

Rob Valincius: Look, ever since you guys got Stafford, I mean, I think that trade worked out for both teams. I mean, you guys were like an instant contender. For some reason golf just did not play well in your offense. But Stafford is, I mean, he is on, he's basically right now. I mean, if you look at a lot of stats, he's the MVP of the league.

So 

Bryan Louzil: They're already talking about being that, but it's potential, there's, there's the potential. He could be the MVP if he keeps it up. I, I I actually give the hats off to McVeigh and his team

because man, they've drafted really well and, and, uh, uh, gosh, the, uh, why am I forgetting his name? The owner of the, of the Rams.

Rob Valincius: Uh, I'm terrible with the 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, I'm forgetting off the top of my head. But either way, he, he, he put a lot of faith in at McVay. He is like, Hey, you want this player? You want this player? All right, let's go get 'em. I mean, look at the draft picks that they took with, with Cooper Cup and then getting Nku a and then now with the two boys from Florida State in, in Verse and Fisk.

I mean, these are some picks that were, were pretty, pretty solid. And they're changing the outlay of the, of the Rams offense and defense. I mean, they're doing

Rob Valincius: I was against the Cooper Cup. I was against the Cooper Cup thing. I'm like, they 

Bryan Louzil: a lot of people 

Rob Valincius: They gotta keep the guy, I mean, he's, he's good and he's cooked, 

Bryan Louzil: oh, you mean letting him go?

Rob Valincius: Yeah, I didn't want them to let him go. I thought he was still a great receiver. 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah. I think that was, I think it was a, he is a good receiver. I think, you know, he is just, again, getting a little older. He is not, doesn't

have that quick, quick off the, off the jump step. And if you, uh, if you have the ability to get one of the best receivers of all time on your team, you, you go for it.

You get rid of cup

and you make, and then you make Puka your number one and, and. Oh no. Devonte Adams is our number two. It's so hard.

Rob Valincius: Yeah. I 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, no, Stafford is just loving it though. He's, he's, he's got some great players around him that, that

are 

Rob Valincius: be scary. You're gonna be scary.

Bryan Louzil: but you know, it's, they gotta start looking to the future because Stafford's getting older and, uh, I don't think he's gonna be able to go much longer this year.

Maybe one more year after that he's retiring, like Kershaw and they're gonna need a new gunslinger out there. So we'll see what happens.

Rob Valincius: You never know who's gonna come up in a surprise. I mean, you got people like liquid, uh, you know, um, well, I don't know. There hasn't been anybody, I guess, uh, what's his face from the Giants, you know? Um. He just got hurt. He got a concussion. What the fuck's his name?

Bryan Louzil: Or do you mean Dart?

Rob Valincius: Dart Jackson. Dart. Right. I mean, he looks good.

You know, that was a good pick. I mean, they, I think they overdrafted. Uh, but I mean, you guys, I think you guys just need to, you know, continue to do what you did draft wise with your defense and trans and pook, nacu and shit like that and find a diamond in the rough, um, because you're not going to not be in the playoffs, right.

I mean, until Stafford's gone. So

Bryan Louzil: But who knows? I mean, Stafford leaves, you still got Jimmy G behind him who's not a terrible quarterback. So he could be a a, a dump in there. Now, is he gonna take people to the Super Bowl? Probably not.

But who do you, but then who do you get? But then who do you get, like who do you bring in? So that's what, that's what I'm saying.

They gotta start thinking about that draft wise. Uh, they, they're not gonna have a, a low draft pick, so they gotta really start thinking about who's that? Who is that down on the rough, on the quarterback side,

that's the biggest factor. Who knows? And it could be bringing someone else, it could be bringing someone from another team that maybe they just need a new system.

Right? I mean, look what they, look what they did in transforming Baker Mayfield. I mean, if it wasn't for the Rams, I don't think Baker would be Baker today.

Rob Valincius: He's scary too, man. Fucking Tampa, dude. If they get healthy, it's scary, but, uh, all right, let's, let's get back on track.

Bryan Louzil: oh yeah. So, no, I thought

Rob Valincius: I could talk about sports for fucking three hours, 

Bryan Louzil: thought this was a football podcast. Uh, so yeah, no, played soccer with some, uh, with an incredible athlete, actually a few. So, uh, a buddy of mine, Sean Franklin, played with him as well on another club team who ended up being the number four pick back in, like the 2003 MLS draft or something like that, or 2007 draft, somewhere around there, way back.

And, uh, you know, he's a, he was a phenomenal player, played with David Beckham and, and many other, you know, uh, won, won the MLS cup with them. So been fortunate to play with some pretty solid players, uh, you know, growing up, which I think led to me just, you know, being around solid players. You, you, you get better as a player yourself.

And,

uh, had some success. I, I was kind of slated to go to some pretty nice schools. And was getting kind of, uh, talked to by some teams, but then I ended up fracturing my wrist. So

as a, as a goalkeeper at the time, I actually was a goalkeeper, uh, started playing when I was like 14 officially. But, uh, I got pretty good and fractured.

My wrist was told I'd never play again, so that was really tough and I was like, man. Uh, so at, at this time, and you kind of asked about the entrepreneur entrepreneurial mindset. I didn't really have it at that time. Still, I still was like, my focus was being an athlete. I really wanted to play sports for, for my life, for my career. And I got to a kind of a crossroads. What am I gonna do? I still wanted to be around sports, but I also had this injury. I was told I'd never play again. So the common thing was like, well, let me merge the two together and help people with injuries. So I actually went to college town in, uh, San Diego to a little private Christian school called Point Loma Nazarene University. To become an athletic trainer. And so I would, I would be able to be around sports still. And they have an incredible program as an, it's an accredited program. So like even today they work with the Padres and they work with, uh, the, you know, MLSs new San Diego team down there in San Diego, and they do some stuff alongside San Diego State.

They were working with the Chargers at the time when I was going to school. So that was like the big draw to go there. And, uh, one of my roommates at the, you know, back then ended up, you know, taping lts legs or you know, his ankles

and, and working 

Rob Valincius: of my favorite running backs of all time, dude. 

Bryan Louzil: Sean Merriman and 

Rob Valincius: Whew.

Bryan Louzil: yeah. So he, uh, you know, it got to do that stuff.

So I was like, man, this would've been my path. And uh, actually my second day at school, I was walking down what's called calf Lane at our, at our college. And it was kinda a weird thing. I had this, this guy come up and he's like, you're that goalkeeper. What are you doing here? And I look. How do you know who I am?

Like, I'm just this nobody, right? And he's like, no, I'm the head coach of the soccer team. I was gonna recruit you, but you know, uh, you weren't gonna come here. I was like, well, hurt my wrist, did all this, whatever. I said, get a second opinion as long as you promised to try out. I'll give you free rehab either way.

Rob Valincius: All 

Bryan Louzil: Okay, 

Rob Valincius: That, that's a good deal.

Bryan Louzil: not gonna turn that down. And so it would, it would, it was kind of a twofold thing. I was like, Hey, get the surgery, get the rehab if it works out, and make the team and play soccer again, which was, you know, keep the dream alive. If it doesn't work out, I still get to go through the whole program. Within the athletic trainings, you know, facilities and, and meet all the head trainers and all that stuff. So I was like, man, it's a win-win.

So I was like, let's do it. Went to the doctor, got a second opinion. The doctor ended up actually being an Ivy League goalkeeper and he's like, I was a goalkeeper. I know your injury.

It's very common for goalkeepers. It's very common. It's snowboarders and skateboarders as well. He's like, I know it very well. I know I could do the surgery. He said, about an 80% chance it'll heal properly. Take bone off your femur, put it in your wrist, put a screw in there, this and that. You lose some ability, but you'll be okay as a goalkeeper. He said, sign me up, doc. So, got it all done. Uh, did the rehab healed properly, trained it, tried off with the team, played a couple spring ball games, uh, made the team ended up. Switching my major 'cause I had to, 'cause you can't be a trainer at the same time you're being an athlete. And, uh, went into kind of a managerial and organizational communications role, which is kind of like a business calm hybrid.

And uh, I think at that time I really kind of saw, you know, besides making the soccer team, which was the biggest thing from an educational standpoint, what really drew me to this major was that the, the marketing aspect was big and the PR side of things. That was, that was kind of like the draw that took me to this field.

'cause I'm like, well man, what if soccer does not work out? I've already had an injury, you know, what can I potentially get into? And my, my goal was always helping people. Like, I, I always wanted to get into some type of field where I could help people no matter what it was. And, and marketing was like, man, I could help people market their businesses. You know, that was kind of a, a potential for that. So, got into doing that. Uh, played soccer. Soccer was going really, really well. So I didn't think I was gonna have to fall back on my education. And of course, my senior season, I ended up fracturing my other wrist, same injury, felt the same,

pain, knew exactly what it was. I didn't tell a soul. I just, I said I was, man, man, I think my, I think I sprained my wrist. So started icing my wrist, taking pain pills, started wrapping both wrists with tape, because that was just kind of a, the way I could hide it, saying, oh, I'm just gonna take precautions and blah, blah, blah. I knew what I did.

I actually still played my full last season with the, with a fractured wrist.

Rob Valincius: That's 

Bryan Louzil: It was painful, but I got through it and I told the trainer the day after we lost our last game, I was like, Hey, uh. I know I was just named All American as a, as a goalkeeper, but I did it with a fractured wrist. And he's like, what? So it was a pretty, uh, pretty crazy story. But to look back, I wouldn't have changed. It wouldn't have done anything differently. 'cause it was just the last opportunity to keep the dream alive and, you know, and, and play a little bit longer. So it was fun. Got a great education though. Um, and even at that time I, I still didn't really have that necessarily, like, necessarily like entrepreneurial like kind of mindset.

Again, it was still just about how can I help people? And, but at that time I had no money to my name. I had no experience. And I ended up working for a company that was, uh, very keen on bringing athletes on in enterprise Renta car. So

Rob Valincius: Hey, I know people that work there, 

Bryan Louzil: dude so many 

Rob Valincius: company. It's a great company, especially coming outta college.

Bryan Louzil: And Will Ferrell, you know, obviously makes mention of that and uh, gosh, what's the movie? Uh. Stepbrothers.

Rob Valincius: Yep.

Bryan Louzil: He's like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna go work in enterprise rental car. 'cause they teach you how to be your own boss. And it's like, it's kind of true. I got, I got a great education from them. It's kind of more of like a, I would say like more of like a master's program, anything learning business and learning how to run a business and managing p and ls and managing employees and

dealing with other dealership, you know, uh, businesses as far as dealerships and body shops and insurance companies and all that stuff.

I mean, I did learn a lot and I worked there for 10 years and it was a great run. Uh, ended up going into sales after that. 'cause I was like, you know, I need to diversify my portfolio a little bit. So got into sales, did some out outside sales for another corporation and then, uh, the opportunity for Mo Mitu kind of came around, got tapped on the shoulder and it was, it was like, Hey, we got this opportunity to run this streaming service. We need someone to run it. And what do you think? And at the time I said no. I was like, I

don't want to get back into the entertainment industry, because that's kind of what, well, it ended up being the kind of demise of my parents in a sense where, you know, my dad was on the road all the time at movie sets and all that stuff.

My mom was back home and, you know, and, uh, you know, they ended up splitting, uh, like many, many millennial parents, uh, ended up, you know, splitting, I think over over 50% of, uh, millennial parents are divorced, which is wild.

Rob Valincius: My parents are divorced. So

Bryan Louzil: dude. Yeah, it's, I don't know what it was about, you know, the internet kicking in, but that's something happened. So,

Rob Valincius: yeah, it was definitely, uh, like the, you know, red Sea partying, you 

Bryan Louzil: dude, 

Rob Valincius: of ways, 

Bryan Louzil: crazy, crazy, crazy. Like almost all of my friends, I mean, it's like your parents are divorced. It's, it is just nuts to think about that. Like the statistic of that is insane. Countrywide. I.

Rob Valincius: Yeah, I mean, it's better than like my, you know, my wifeys mom and dad, they have quite a unique relationship. So, uh, I think I'd rather have my parents divorced and in separate houses than, than, than what they got going on, you know? Uh, but hey, to each his own, you know.

Bryan Louzil: everyone's got their own stories and, and reasons for either staying together or breaking apart and all that stuff. And uh, which also I think makes ha has made me a stronger husband and a stronger father from having the example of what not to do or, or things to change and be more present and all that stuff.

And I think, I think there is a statistic going around that millennial dads, uh, you know, are millennials that are now fathers are more present in, in their child's lives than, than the parents that they had growing up too. So, uh, and obviously technology helps with that too, you know, 'cause even if I'm away

on a business trip, I can still FaceTime with my son.

So there's definitely, uh, crazy caveats with that. But, uh, either way I. I. originally said no, and then, uh, came back to it and I said, you know, I think this would be really cool because it, I, I took the focus of what has always been important to me is helping people. And the main focus about Mo Mitu and the, the whole reason the name is Mometu it means more for me and you is because it always was centered around more opportunities for filmmakers that were, that are underserved to the audiences. And so I was like, well, if I do this, I can help filmmakers that were like, my parents have their films be seen. And when I put that spin on it, I said, okay, we can definitely do something with this company. Taking content that is very seldom promoted as the top film on any other platform you're using, whether it be free or subscription. We were able to do something that was very unique that's not been done because we hand curate all of our content as well. So any title you see on our platform, we do it all by hand. We have an incredible team that curates everything. And make sure that we're exposing people to content that they never knew existed, they never knew they loved. And if they want to go into specific genres, they can easily do that just by clicking, you know, genres go into movies and just get right into a world of horror, comedy classics, Korean dramas, whatever they wanna get into. Very easy to kind of just get immersed into a world just by a couple clicks too. So discoverability, we've, we've really taken a lot of time to make sure that happens.

So, but all that stemmed from the very beginning of like, kind of the idea behind it and helping people and helping filmmakers and, and um, even helping international filmmakers be seen by American audiences. 'cause we have a lot of international films too. So, uh, yeah, the chance that I was able to re-look at this opportunity is when kind of that entrepreneurial, um, which is a word I could really barely pronounce

Rob Valincius: I can barely say it too, bro. It's all right.

Bryan Louzil: it's like my last name.

I say it different, different ways, different times. Uh, but it, I think that's when it kind of kicked in. I was just like, you know what? The, the, the mold of, or the kind of the blending of helping people and also running a business has kind of come to, uh, fruition here. You know, very grateful for my times at, you know, enterprise rental car, balancing a a, a sheet and, and making sure I'm, you know, discussing business relationships with other entities.

Right? Like, so when I work with different distribution partners and having conversations with them and, and, working with filmmakers who are, you know, we're trying to find their goals and their aspirations. Do you you know, what kind of film is this for you? If you're making this film, is this a calling card film?

Is this a film that you need to make a certain amount of money back on? What are your distribution now? You know, do you, are you okay with this being subbed or dubbed into different languages and, and and sold internationally, or do you wanna keep it raw and, and its original form? And so there's a lot of conversations that happen, and I think that because of my background in the, in the corporate world, it really helped me, you know, it helped set me up to be very, uh, successful as far as being a communicator in this world too.

And then obviously having my background growing up in the film industry, I got to kind of see what it was firsthand being an independent creator and growing up in that world too. So it's, it's kind of blended a lot of my childhood with a lot of my passion. And, and then also just kind of then the here and now of just kind of being, you know, a, a business owner in a sense, um, of Momi too.

So it's been a lot of fun.

Rob Valincius: That's cool, man. I, and I gotta tell you, I mean, what I do now, like in my, my regular job and I'm, I don't really make any money doing this 'cause uh, it's just a passion project of mine. But, um, I help people and I, I appreciate that that is the goal of your company. 'cause when you look at America today, most companies aren't, they're not, they're not designed to help people.

They're designed to make money. And I, I deal with insurance companies a lot, which they wanna pretend like they care about people, but it's the bottom line that they really care about. Especially, um, you know, when you have a board of trustees and you have a board that, that, you know, all they care about is seeing green.

Right? So, um, you know, for you guys, that's a unique proposition because most companies, they don't give a shit about you. They just wanna be, they just wanna make money. Um, 

Bryan Louzil: look, you have to, you have to balance that too, right? Like there,

there is a balance of making, uh, filmmakers or distribution companies understand the business side of things too. It's like, Hey, I know you want us to do X, Y, and Z for you. Here's why that's not going to work, or here's why it could work.

Or, Hey, you know what, no one's ever done that before. Let's take a, let's take a chance on it, right? And see what happens. And so, you know, that, like one of our more popular films over the last year, it was a film called Stupid Games. This film was made for under $10,000, $7,800 budget. I mean, crazy low, no big names in it.

Like they had one cast member that had been done something like Major at the time, who played a smaller cameo role in the film. And I think he's like the, the, a scene in the beginning and a scene at the end. And so this film was ne definitely not a film that a bigger streamer would've ever taken and put up in the forefront, put in the limelight, you know, given a chance to shun and, and get. The hundreds of thousands or even millions of clicks to watch it. It just wasn't that film. We took a chance on it and said, Hey, we wanna put it in the forefront. We wanna really be part of its marketing strategy. We wanna be able to not just get it onto our platform, but also help those filmmakers get onto other services as well, which they are now. And a year after they released their film, we did this like beautiful premier. I mean, I think we spent more on the premier than we did than they did making the film, which is just crazy to think about that budget. But we made it really nice, really fun. And that film ended up winning a tele award. It won, it won Gold at the Tell Awards for Ultra Micro Low.

Like Micro Low Budget or Ultra, yeah, ultra Micro Low budget. Any a film under $10,000? It was. It was, it won Gold at the Tell Awards and it was a top, I think it was like a top 20 film on Tubi at one point. It's a top 10 horror film at one point for them too. So really cool to see the success of that film.

But again, it took us kind. Taken a chance on it. 'cause if they had just put it up on another service, it would've just existed. And you're hoping an algorithm takes, you know, the film off,

uh, and kind of, and, and gets to the users. But if it doesn't take off in the algorithm, no one sees it. You know, very similar.

Like if someone posts a posts content on TikTok or Instagram, you post a video up, you spend a lot of time in editing and all that stuff, and really making it really nice. And then it just doesn't go anywhere. In the first 30 minutes, the algorithm shuts it down and you get a, you know, in the 300 view jail,

Rob Valincius: Yeah, it happens to me a lot. 

Bryan Louzil: people. 

Rob Valincius: happens me a lot. Oh. Mainly because, mainly because like I, my show is designed to talk to everybody. So, you know, I've had people that talk about sex. I've had people that talk about murder. I mean, you know, you name it, right? I've had people talk about it, fucking aliens and alien ghosts and whatever.

And the algorithm. It's not kind. But you know what, uh, I learned very, I learned very early on. On that, you can't look at the numbers. Um, and I, I've talked about this on my show before. For me it's about just leaving a legacy, right? So I don't have kids, but someday I'm gonna die, but this is gonna be on the internet.

And maybe someday someone I talk to, they're having the same issue, or they think something's really cool and I'll be long gone and they'll still fucking be able to watch it. That's, that's like my goal. I, I don't think I'm gonna be a fucking Joe Rogan, you know? That's a one percenter, half a one percenter or lower, right?

But at the end of the day, if one person watches it, you know, I interview psychologists, psychiatrists, things like that, and something they say resonates and help somebody. That's all that matters, man. You know? And, um, that's the world that we live in. Um, you know, I know everything's monetized and people wanna see crazy numbers and shit, but it doesn't, doesn't always work that way.

Especially for someone, you know, I'm, I had my, I've been doing this for. Let's see, I, I started in August of 21, I think, or 22, and I had my highest downloaded month last month.

Bryan Louzil: That's

Rob Valincius: So it's like you, you ne you never know when someone's gonna be like, oh, that show's cool. Let me download it and let me share it with my friends.

And, you know, it's,

Bryan Louzil: Yeah,

there, there was a, a person that I interviewed on, on my podcast, he goes by Straw hat Goofy, and he's one of the largest TikTok movie reviewers in the industry. He's actually, he's got like 3.6 million on TikTok alone.

And he just, he just interviewed, you

know, this year he interviewed, uh, he did a, uh, an exclusive interview with Ryan Coler on, uh, about Sinners. He interviewed Leonardo DiCaprio, he interviewed Tom, uh, Tom Cruise.

Uh, he's done some pretty incredible interviews and so I had him on, on my podcast and we play a game called this or that. Every episode. 20 questions. There's no wrong answers. It's just this or that on all of them. And, And, one of them was like, okay, you're making content.

Does it have to be perfect? Or you post it and he is just like, just post it. He's like, just, you have content. Just post. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just get it up there because you never know what's gonna take off. And usually things, when you second guess them on your end about making the content and putting it up in a certain way, the algorithm doesn't favor it.

It's those things when you just put 'em up randomly and all of a sudden it just takes off. And it's, it's so true because a lot of the content creators that I know, I go back to 'em, was like, what was that first video that that took off that like, you're like, oh, I, I could do this for a living. You know? And it's always this random video that they come up with.

They're like, yeah, I just did a video about, I think Stony The Great was on, um. My podcast as well. And he's another creator. And, uh, he does, he's a, he's in the horror, horror kind of genre, uh, of TikTok. And he's got almost, I think like almost a million followers in TikTok or so. And he did a video where he's, he talks a lot about Marvel and the, and the, uh, uh, is it the Marvel DC and the MCU.

Rob Valincius: Yeah.

Bryan Louzil: And so he, he actually talked about where, uh, it was a, oh, what's the actor's name that, uh, gosh, he played, he was a Spider-Man. Is it Tom?

Rob Valincius: Tom Holland.

Bryan Louzil: Tom Holland? There you go.

So there was a, there was a part where Tom Holland was like off, he was, he was on screen and he was just like. Bubbling trying like snot rockets, all these like total method actor going into it. And then he, they, they pan forward with another character and he's in the background and he thinks he's off camera and you see him just go like totally straight faced. But the editor for like the very, very like split second, you can see Tomma Holland's face go totally normal after he was just like, you died. And it was just like this moment and he did this video and it just blew up like no one knew. Like it was just crazy. And so like, it's just those moments, you're just like, you never know when, like you make a video about something you never know when it's just gonna just take off. So

Rob Valincius: I need to get better with that. 'cause I'm a perfectionist and I have like hours upon hours of fucking shit that I could probably post, but I also have a full-time job. So sometimes for me it's like when do I have time to like take a shit and then also edit a video, you know? Uh, 

Bryan Louzil: usually while you're, Uh,

you know, on the throne, so.

Rob Valincius: e exactly right.

I need to fucking multitask 

Bryan Louzil: There you go. Stop. Stop doing scrolling. Stop doing scrolling and get to editing.

No, it's uh, usually ba batching my editing. Like that's what I usually find is like set aside a couple hours and, and batch edit like a bunch of videos. So you have 'em kind of in drafts and ready to go.

So you're not doing 'em every single day.

It's just too hard.

Rob Valincius: I need to do that. But I will tell you this, I appreciate your platform because me and the wife. We are like, we love like, be rated horror. It's like, you know, she grew up with 

Bryan Louzil: We got you. 

Rob Valincius: and, and uh, so, you know, obviously I'm dating myself and I'm sure you're going to agree with me here, but Blockbuster was fantastic.

Um, there was a blockbuster half a mile, mile down the street and uh, when we first moved into Northeast Philadelphia, it was probably like 2012. There was still a blockbuster. It is now a hibachi place, I think. Um, but there was still a blockbuster here. So we would go down and, and we had no furniture. We had just moved into this place.

And, uh, but I, I had a TV that I brought. So we would go to Blockbuster, we'd go to the horror aisle and we would just rant three or four movies. 'cause Netflix at then didn't really have anything streaming. It was mostly did, it was mostly physical DVDs. 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah. No, that's what Netflix started at was was DVDs getting delivered to people's houses.

Rob Valincius: They had some streaming, but it was like, it, it was, it wasn't anything that was 

Bryan Louzil: Not enough people had, not enough people had the internet or fast enough internet for streaming at that point.

Rob Valincius: Exactly. So, uh, we would go to Blockbuster, we'd rent two or three really just shitty horror movies and we would drink, have a drink, and just, it was a great night and we would do it all the time.

And, uh, I, I do miss that. You know, I think we're, we're a little spoiled now with the, the streaming world, but, um, I appreciate your platform because not only are you giving people that are making these films an avenue, but you've given people like us who, who like those bee movies because you can appreciate, I, I've interviewed actors who just, just do b movies.

I've interviewed producers, I've interviewed people who created b rated horror movies. And it's just so much fun to like, analyze their creative side and, and how they did some of the things they did on the budget that they had, you know, which might be 10 grand, might be 50 grand, right. Which. Is nothing in the grand scheme of things when you're looking at it.

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, I'd actually be really interested, go back and find some of the actors you've interviewed and see if they have any films on Mo Mi too.

Rob Valincius: Yeah. Uh, what's the, what's the, the what's my guy that I interviewed and he's got here, I have your Matu up, so I'm gonna look at, at the horror movies. This is cool though, so you don't even need to let, do you need to sign in to watch any of this?

Bryan Louzil: No, no. You can just go in anonymously and watch, or you can create an account that Create an account helps because you can actually save some films for later. Like you could sign up and, uh, you know, sign in on your phone and then also be signed in at home. On, on both the same account.

Right. And then be able to go and save stuff on your phone. So like, while you're maybe in the restroom or at work or whatever, going through what, what are you gonna watch this weekend? You know, you save some stuff and then you get to your television. It's already saved for you in your favorites.

Rob Valincius: Let 

Bryan Louzil: track of your watch history as well.

Yeah,

Rob Valincius: And, and may, maybe you could tell me, maybe you can't. So, you know, obviously in today's world with how things are, how do you guys make money? Do you make it off of advertising or what's, 

Bryan Louzil: do. Yeah. It's all commercials. 

Rob Valincius: Yeah. Okay.

Bryan Louzil: Yep. What, what, what, uh, what most people are cool with is commercials. But if I say, oh, we we're an ad service, we're an ad, ad based service for revenue, they'll be like, oh, I don't want any ads. But if you say, oh, I got some commercials there, they're like, Ooh, commercials are fun. 'cause everyone waits for the Super Bowl commercials, not the Super Bowl game. But if, if they were called Super Bowl ads, I don't know if people are gonna be exci as excited about it anymore. Yeah, YouTube kind of changed the connotation of, of, the word ad or advert. Really took it down a little bit.

Rob Valincius: Yeah, I mean, look, I, I think if you're offering a service that's free, I mean, something I could watch where I don't even need to sign in. I know we were talking about this before I hit record. Um, I think that's, that's pretty cool because in most cases, you know, you have to create an account, you have to sign in, um, you know, you have to like, go through that process.

But for some people, especially, you know, elderly, they don't fucking understand how the, you know, the, the fucking internet works, you know? Um, my, okay, so my buddy that, um, did a b rated horror movie, his name is Ethan Henry. It's called, uh, severance Mountain.

Bryan Louzil: Okay. Did you look his name up in Mo Mitu

and see if he's in any of the films. 

Rob Valincius: see. Lemme see.

Bryan Louzil: So if you were to just go to that Top right corner, the little, little, uh, magnifying glass.

Rob Valincius: I, no, it doesn't look like he's, uh.

Bryan Louzil: No, I mean, we don't have every actor, but

Rob Valincius: Well, no, he's the pretty, he's the guy that created it, so 

Bryan Louzil: Oh, okay. He is not the actor. He is a

producer potentially. So all good. Uh, either way. We have a ton of films. We have over 10,000 titles on our platform,

Rob Valincius: we have to get him on your 

Bryan Louzil: a lot of content. Let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah. As far as like horror films though, we have a, a great collection of horror content. Uh, we have a partnership with tariff films that we have going, which, uh, tariff films has a lot of independent horror films. So I, that's why I'm saying like, you're gonna love our platform, but we also have some stuff that is, uh, you know, classic stuff too. So if you're in B Horror, like, uh, the Slumber Party massacre,

we got, we have that film.

It's an 

Rob Valincius: remember that.

Bryan Louzil: great film shot, uh, made by women actually. Uh, so it's interesting that how it's made, when you watch it, you're like, oh, this was made by women. It's like, oh, it kind of makes sense, but it's also, man, there's a, there's a lot of boobs in here. So, so

Rob Valincius: Always the best. B rated horror there.

Bryan Louzil: eighties. Eighties horror, right?

There is, uh, yeah, solid. There's always a good, a good set of boobs. Uh, you know, Halloween, if you look at that, Halloween was an indie film and, uh, 1978, John Carpenter. And, uh, PJ Soles is known, you know, pretty well for being the, uh, the girl and the, uh, where, you know, she's hooking up with the dude and the dude goes downstairs, and so she's, she's, uh, I think the first, the first naked girl that, that Michael Meyers sees. Because he's,

Rob Valincius: Can't see his eyes, but uh,

Bryan Louzil: well, yeah. 'cause he grew up, you know, he grew up in a mental institute. So he's,

he's out and he is doing his thing. And, and so he kills the, kills the guy downstairs and then goes up and he is wearing the ghost, you know, he is wearing the sheet, so he looks like a ghost ready when he walks in and

he sees her, is like, oh, like, that's what a naked girl looks like.

It's just like one of those moments where he's just like, stone cold, like, what do I do? And then I'm gonna go strangle you with a phone cord instead. So,

Rob Valincius: Yeah. Yeah. The most intimate way to, to kill someone. yeah,

Bryan Louzil: but yeah, we have some really, really incredible stuff on the platform though. So, yeah, just, uh, you, you guys are gonna really enjoy it. And we have a lot of international horror as well, so if you're really, if you're into like Japanese horror, Korean horror, uh, we have some stuff from Malaysia and Indonesia that's just wild.

Like, just some stuff that really gets into kind of the, uh, what is it called? The taboo type stuff, like the, uh, black magic and, and uh, witchcrafty type type stuff. It's wild.

Rob Valincius: They have some crazy shit over there. Dude. We've, we've watched, uh, so, so Netflix has some really good like Korean, Chinese, uh, zombie flicks and zombie series that we love. I mean, um, obviously I think, um. You know, squid games, open the door, you know, for, 

Bryan Louzil: Even before that. Even before that parasite?

Rob Valincius: a parasite. We didn't watch it though until I think after we watched Squid Games, because a lot of times I'm like, I'm not watching D like one, I don't wanna watch dub stuff because I feel like there's a lot of lost in translation.

Like, I feel like you really do need to, to read, um, as you're wa walking through. Yeah, the subtitles are very important. We keep subtitles and everything. 'cause a wifeys like, I don't understand half, half if the shit people say anyway, so 

Bryan Louzil: yeah. No, we wa we watch Peaky Blinders, even though it's in English. We watch Peaky Blinders with subtitles because like cockney accents and everything, you just can't understand a word. Some of those people are saying sometimes.

Rob Valincius: I watched the first season, I tried to get her to watch it. Even with subtitles, Peaky Blinders is a little difficult, you know, because it's like very old English. Uh, good series. Great 

Bryan Louzil: Phenomenal. But yeah, no, it's a, there's a lot of stuff on there that I think you'd really enjoy as far as horror goes, but we have really every genre, uh, every generation and, and content from all around the world. So it's, it's worth being like, you know, Hey, don't, you don't have to make mo Mitu your number one, go-to service if you'd like to please. We'd, we'd love to have you as the first. But you know, a lot of people have subscriptions right, to something they, it's either a Netflix or an Apple, you know, if they're really into shows, it's kind of gonna Apple 'cause they've kind of taken over as like the, the best place to find really quality shows. Um, but if you're a fan of, you know, the deep cuts, if you're a fan of like B rated films and B Horror. Uh, looking at, you know, kind of being a cinephile in a sense of, right. Like, you know, seeing what people did with a certain budget and just hearing unique stories, because there's so many great stories that are out there.

They just never got the budget, they never got the funding that really they, that they could have made a film just a little bit better, but it's

still a phenomenal story, right? So, uh, yeah, Moi, two's kind of up your alley, so make us your second choice. You know, like, we'll be there when, when you're sitting there looking for something to, to watch and you spend 30 minutes and your dinner's cold and you haven't found something.

'cause you and the wife, you're still trying to figure it out. Be like, you know, let's just jump, jump over to MOTU and put on something random and see what, see what happens. A Russian roulette on Momi too.

Rob Valincius: Let me ask you this. I mean, you gotta be kind of a video guy, right? I mean, movie guy, show guy at this point, 'cause you're, you're, it's kind of your job. Have you watched Pluribus yet? From Apple Plus.

Bryan Louzil: I have not, uh, wife and I actually, since it came out, wife and I have not been home together very much. So either I've been traveling or she's been traveling. Uh, we're about to travel again tomorrow, actually. We're going down, down to Punta for a few nights.

So been away for a little bit. But usually when we're, when we're together, we are typically going through shows that like, you know, it's, it's taken us like a month or two to get through because we're just not, we don't have enough nights.

And because we have a 3-year-old, so like, you know, if he's having a rough night going to sleep, we don't get to watch something. So I think right now we've been watching, uh, the Amazing Race.

We're trying to finish up that series, but like, that just goes to show that's only on once a week. And that's like we were already two episodes behind that just shows how much we were not in the same room together. Uh, watching stuff. 'cause we like to watch stuff together. Uh, and if I'm, if

I'm home by myself, I typically will spend more time working. So I'll get back in front of the computer once the little man goes down and I don't really get too much time. And if I'm, if I'm, to be completely honest, I'll, I'll go back and rewatch some of the suits episodes.

'cause I just love suits. I'm still working my way back through the episodes. I think I'm on season six or seven right now, so almost done. That'll open up some time. But, uh, yeah, there's just some shows that I, that, that, oh, it's almost like they're off limits because we wanna watch them together. Right. So like, we went through, uh, oh gosh, it's Seth Rogan and, uh, not the

studio.

We watched the, we watched the studio, but a platonic.

Rob Valincius: Plutonic. Yeah, 

Bryan Louzil: yeah, so we watched Platonic, we watched that. We got through all the extra episodes of all the other new series that came out. Um, there was some stuff we went through and on Netflix, we, we watched some type of, uh. Like, we're really into crime thrillers.

Like, like kind of the, there was a, a show about this, uh, gosh, I think they lived in New York or, or maybe not New York, but another major city. No, it was San Francisco. San Francisco. It was like a married couple that, uh, the girl wakes, the girl like, gets in a boating accident. She wakes up and has no, she doesn't have all her memory. Not sure if you saw that one. That was a really good one. Uh, and

then she starts piecing, she starts piecing things together, like her memory starts coming back, and then she puts it all together that like, I don't know, I want to, I don't wanna spoil it. It's really good. And then they already made like a second season to it as well, so it did really well.

Rob Valincius: Dude, you gotta like, do whatever 

Bryan Louzil: Pluribus, is it really good? 

Rob Valincius: I'm, I'm big into sci-fi and obviously Breaking Bad's like a top three for me. Um, Vince Gilligan is a fucking mastermind with, with what he does. And I, the premise, I I, I'm not gonna spoil anything, but the premise is basically there's a, a, a virus and it infect everybody except the select few people.

And it's, it's, dude, it's just, it's very, very good. It's very well done. Only two episodes have been out, so obviously, you 

Bryan Louzil: Oh, okay. So I'm not too far behind. Yeah, I mean, because I, I think before my watch list is I, I really wanna see, welcome to dairy.

Rob Valincius: yeah, so we watched The Babe, what did we watch the first episode of? Welcome to Dairy. We watched like the first three, no, I think it's the first two. I think they, same thing happened with Pluribus. I think they released the first two 

Bryan Louzil: Can we get a wife, Mike? Can we get a wife? Mike? Give

Rob Valincius: I know everyone keeps asking for the wife Mike. I know, I know.

Uh, she's, she's my, you know, data center. So if I have to ask something, because I always get all the stories wrong 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have a producer, I have a producer on my, on my podcast. So like, we, everyone always asks like, Hey, can we get a Craig Cam? Like, 'cause, you know, because he is always Googling stuff and everything, so it's great.

Rob Valincius: do Pybus is really good. And honestly, the fact that I got her to watch it, because I didn't know that it was sci-fi, uh, when we started it, uh, because I just, people were releasing stuff on TikTok saying We can't talk about what the premise of the show is, but it is really good. You need to watch it. So I'm like, look, we don't have shit to watch it right now.

I mean, we do, but we don't. Let's just watch the first two episodes, see what happens. And, you know, it starts out and it's, you know, they, uh, basically a, a signal from somewhere in, in outer space comes to earth and scientists try to figure it out. And it turns out it's like a DNA MNA sequence. So then they turn it into, you know, testing it on things and that's when all the crazy shit happens.

Uh, but it's, it was cool because it's like a, it's hard to explain. I get excited when it's something that's new. It's sci-fi, but it's, you haven't seen something like it. At least I haven't in a long time. And, uh, I get excited for that stuff because you don't know where it's gonna go. You have so many tropes, right?

It's the, the murder mysteries and things like that. With a show like this, you have, I have no fucking idea. Where they're gonna go with it. And there's so many, obviously, like, you know, I watch a lot of stuff on TikTok where there's all these theories and you just, it sparks like a whole new, it's not a whole new genre, but it sparks like this just discussion about what's gonna happen.

And I love shit like that, 

Bryan Louzil: The NDAs that have to go on to keep every story a secret must be so deeply involved because to keep a story, a secret to the point where like, not even influencers know about it. Like there, there's usually someone that leaks the story to a spouse.

I mean, it has to be to a point, like if you leak this to anyone, like you will never work in this town again.

Like, you know, it's just like, I mean, I'm sure there's a lawsuits that could be filed. For like loss of revenue and all that stuff for, so it, it, it is, those NDAs are for, for shows like this where you don't know anything about it and they're only releasing one episode a week. It's impressive that no

one knows anything and it's just like, it's just people guessing that what's happening.

Rob Valincius: the crazy thing too is like I was reading some stuff. I, I saw a couple tiktoks and, uh, apparently there was a bidding war. So he, he wrote this, um, for quite some time and there was a bidding war and, uh, you know, a lot of studios really wanted it, but Apple Plus like said, you know, they kind of gave him things that no one else normally does.

They're like, you have complete control creatively and you can take as long as you need. 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah. Netflix would never do that. 

Rob Valincius: Ne never. And he is like, all right, sign me up. And so that's why it's on Apple Plus. And uh, you know, he said he didn't even know that it was gonna be, it was gonna have any alien elements to it, the way the virus was until a year and a half into him writing it.

So like, that's like pretty wild. But like, I gotta tell you, like, I respect that. Um, and I mean, just what he did with Breaking Bad, I didn't necessarily like, it's, it's tough because I really enjoyed the show. I didn't like the ending as much. Uh, but it's, when 

Bryan Louzil: And endings are, endings are 

Rob Valincius: ever like it?

Bryan Louzil: Endings are so tough when you have multiple seasons

and like when you plan to write something for like a season and maybe two and then it the season and then it goes four or five, six seasons, those are always difficult 'cause you're writing like to keep the story going and that's it.

It always makes for a very bad ending.

Uh, I mean, look back at, uh, gosh, what is it called? I always call it titties and dragons,

but, uh, Game of Thrones. There we go. So,

uh, game 

Rob Valincius: and dragons.

Bryan Louzil: everyone. Everyone says Game of Thrones was just like the worst ending of all time. And it's like, yeah, because they didn't originally plan to write the story out that far. It just kept going. People wanted more. So

that's unfor, 

Rob Valincius: cop out. It was a cop out. It was a terrible ending. It just like 

Bryan Louzil: but that's the, that's how it is though. Like that's

just, 

Rob Valincius: was a terrible ending too.

Bryan Louzil: yeah. Yep. It's just, it just happens, man. I mean, it's just when you, when you out, when you have to outright the story, like you, you, you're far beyond the even original potential of a, of a story because it just did so well.

Rob Valincius: Yeah,

Bryan Louzil: You're gonna get there. So,

Rob Valincius: yeah. I mean, look, he said that he, he has, he has the story going out three to four seasons, so as long as it hits what he wants, I'm cool. Don't drag it out. I'm cool with it ending. If it ends on a 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, I mean.

it's nice that no one knows about it either, because that's like, you know what, uh, I'm kind of bummed about like silo, like, 'cause Silo is a phenomenal show. I really enjoyed that one. But it's based off a, based off a book that anyone can read. Like you already know the ending if you've read the book.

Rob Valincius: Yeah, I heard silo's really good. I just, uh, I have not watched it yet.

Bryan Louzil: Oh, bummer. No, that's a really good one. High, highly suggest silo, uh, silo's. Really, really good. And then, uh, gosh, what was the other one that was really good on uh, uh, that's been good. Severance. Severance has been

Rob Valincius: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, 

Bryan Louzil: Apple's just apple's.

Apple's crushing it. Apple's crushing 

Rob Valincius: content is where it's at, man. I don't want some fucking cookie cutter shit. I want like, original, weird, just gimme some weird sci-fi shit, or just something that's like, not like, like we consume shit every day and it's always the same shit.

I want something new. I want something exciting. And it's like. I get people want a payday and they'll throw a-listers or AAA people into it, but it's like, gimme something new, man. I want something exciting and 

Bryan Louzil: Well, that's what we got Mo Mitu for you. So literally it's like a lot of stories that have, that are, I would say, are very unique. There's a lot of stories that have never been done. And if, again, if they had like larger budgets or just, you know, more backing of, uh, maybe a studio or, or just, you know, the means of locations or more days or whatever it may be. Uh, and certain actors potentially, you know, with the limits of SAG and

uh, with low budget films and all that

stuff, it's like, yeah, like there some of these stories could been really, really, really, really good. And some of them are, some of 'em are just like, kind of, again, diamonds in the rough that you're just like going through these indie films and you're like, man, this one's a banger.

Like how did this not do better?

And it's like, well, 'cause it took 'em 20 grand to make this film and they had no money for marketing. It's just they were hoping for word of mouth and something to go off and they just didn't do their marketing properly with their no budget. You know, no budget, uh, marketing and it's, it's difficult sometimes, but then you get some films that are like. Terrifi her that just absolutely just take off, you

know? So it's very rare when that happens. It's very rare when that happens though. So, um,

Rob Valincius: mean, when you're sawing a chicken half that's hanging up and she's like, you know, it's just spread wide and he's just like, fucking got a, uh, you know, chainsaw. You don't see that often. So yeah, I mean, those 

Bryan Louzil: not in every, it's not in every, uh, Disney film, that's for sure. So,

Rob Valincius: is quite true. Uh, well look, we're, I didn't get to 99% of the shit that I wanted to talk about because, uh, anytime I have a good, that means our conversation was an a-list conversation because most of the time, uh, I'm, you know, I, I at least get through a chunk of it, so, well, I, we'll have to do this again.

Uh, 

Bryan Louzil: I mean. Pull my arm, pull my leg, whatever you wanna do. Uh, yeah, no, I'd love to come back on and talk more. Uh, if I could take a quick moment just, just to let people know, like, you know, there's, there's, there's two other entities that we, you know, didn't talk too much about. And

if you have a chance to, uh, you know, support us next summer, I'd really love, uh, if you're a, if you're a lover of film and you'd lovers supporting the, the arts and the up and coming filmmaker, or maybe you are an up and coming filmmaker, listen to this. Make sure you check out the Bo Me Too College Film Festival. It's a phenomenal film festival. We'll be going into our fourth season and it just helps support the, the up and coming filmmakers that are in film school or maybe just recently graduated. Have some incredible prizes and educational opportunities.

But yeah, we can talk about that more in the next step, next time we have you on. And, uh, and, and also go visit the podcast. Go visit the More for Me and You podcast, which is what MOI too is a moi too Means, means more for me and you. And so go check that out. We have about 34 episodes released so far. Uh, I'm not sure if we're

gonna make any more this year or not. We have a couple extras that I'll do virtually. We like mostly do 'em in person, but I have some people that I would love to interview. They're just not in LA so, uh, we'll see how that goes. But, uh, again, check those things out. But overall, if you're gonna check out anything, definitely check out Mo Me Too. Phenomenal service. Download it on your Roku Fire tv, apple tv, Android tv, or any of your smart TVs. Free to download, free to use. And uh, you can already tell Rob loves it. So go check it out.

Rob Valincius: Well, you can tell Bryan's been doing this well, 'cause I was gonna say plug away. And he is like, fuck, I'm just gonna plug it. Fuck 

Bryan Louzil: Let's Go Yeah, no, it's, I got it down I think very quickly. I need to slow down every now and then. I think this, uh, you know, this little, this little drink here is, is getting me, getting me rocking and rolling. So I'm just

enjoying the 

Rob Valincius: got in there? Which I, I didn't ask.

Bryan Louzil: Uh, so this, this is not a cocktail like you are drinking because it's, it's a little earlier over here, so I'll be getting into that shortly.

I, I do have something nice ready? Uh, this is actually called, uh, it's made by Ghost. It's called Intra. It's a, a mixture of like, kind of a, not quite a pre-workout, but kind of a pre-workout hydration type, you know, all around, it's got some extra stuff in there to make your, you know, muscles feel good and everything.

'cause I, I did a little workout earlier today, but my go-to, which I'll be busting out later

is the TiVo Extra Anejo tequila.

It's, this is, uh, if you haven't had. Are you, are you a fan of tequila?

Rob Valincius: All right. So I'm Puerto Rican. Um, I don't look it, but I, I, I tend to stay away from tequila 'cause I don't know what it's gonna do to me.

Bryan Louzil: for

Rob Valincius: Uh, but it is delicious 

Bryan Louzil: So highly recommend you go, go to your local, uh, I'm guessing you were drinking some bourbon there or,

Rob Valincius: Yeah, that was, uh, Buffalo Trace.

Bryan Louzil: there you go. Okay. So go to your, go to your, uh, a liquor store that's, that's nicer. And, uh, go to their tequila section and look, maybe even talk to the folks there and, and ask 'em about a nicer extra anejo. And so, uh, Anejo is only a one year, uh, in, in a, in a barrel. Extra Anejo has spent seven years. So it's very more similar to a bourbon,

Rob Valincius: Okay.

Bryan Louzil: though it is tequila.

It's why it's a lot darker. Um. It's got a, you know, kind of that caramel,

caramel coloration to it. 

Rob Valincius: bottle's cool 

Bryan Louzil: tequila that you would see. Like, you know, you kind of see tequilas more like the Jose Cuervo, which is, uh, brings back very bad memories, which is more yellow. And then, uh, silver tequila is obviously clear, but uh, the extra nijo is a very dark, very similar like a bourbon 'cause it's been time, it spend seven years in a cask. Uh, really kinda get that sweetness. Kinda brings out the notes from the barrel. So yeah, highly recommend that. I'm, I'm in Southern California, so I'm very, uh, spoiled with my tequila 'cause you know, being in southern California really close to Mexico, so we get a lot

of 

Rob Valincius: get the good stuff. 

Bryan Louzil: Yeah, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be getting some nice stuff.

Uh, I think, uh, 'cause we're going to, we're gonna Punta for my wife's holiday work party. And so it's three nights. Three nights in Punta at the Conrad. Uh, cannot wait. And we're, I already know we have a private mezcal tasting while we're there.

So really looking forward to that. Last time I did a tequila tasting, like this was in Cabo. It was at a, uh, the Waldorf Astoria petal, uh, well above my budget. We just got, we just got hooked up, uh, by going there and getting treated by the, by these people because of my wife's work. And we did a private tequila tasting, and I told this guy how much I loved tequila and, uh, especially on yahoos and extra nes and he brought me back into this like private wine cellar.

And they had these little tiny casks, you know, you've seen the little, the little ones.

Rob Valincius: Yep.

Bryan Louzil: And he had his own private tequila that he had in there. He's like the, the head, uh, I don't know what they call him, the bartender there, but the head guy. And, uh, he had his own private little one back there that he was, he was making his own. Extra nijo

and he let me try some and it was just like, oh, like it was so good. It's a super small batch. Like it was delicious. But man, some incredible tequilas and mezcals in Mexico and been very fortunate to try some nice ones. So looking forward to our trip.

Rob Valincius: Jealous man. Jealous. Well, look, um, it's been a pleasure. So, uh, my podcast is Drink Clock Pot, and all socials drink clog podcasts, wherever the fuck you listen to stuff. Um, including YouTube, if you wanna watch it. And, uh, look man, this is fun and, uh, let's, let's do this again soon.

Bryan Louzil: let's run it back.

Rob Valincius: Cool. All right, man. Have a great night.

Bryan Louzil: You too. 

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