A Conversation with... John from Movie Lovers Unite
Movie Lovers Unite John and Bob discuss Movie Lovers Unite's history and its future. The future is bright; listen to find out more. Movie Lovers Unite https://youtube.com/live/tGmxzAhMxYU Bad AI Transcript Hey, everybody, and welcome to a conversation with Movie Lovers Unite, specifically, John DeGregorio. Yeah, you actually got it right, man. Thank you. Oh, wow. Well, that was a lucky shot. I could have gone anywhere with that, so. You did really good. I'm proud of you, man. Well, you know, it's kind of one of those, you have a lot of syllables in your name, so DeGregorio. Imagine trying to spell it in English. Well, imagine trying to spell this. I spelled my last name in grade school. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I could play Wheel of Fortune with it and maybe spell something different. Yeah, because you got two I's, two O's, an E. I mean, all you're missing is a U and a Y. You got them all in there. So, yeah. You got all the vowels. It's a Wheel of Fortune. There you go. Right. So…Actually, I met John on KJNA podcast one night just out of happenstance. And then we did Fright Night and Dune. Yeah. And so, yeah. But I wanted to talk to you. So basically, I just talked to folks about what they're doing. So how did you come up with Movie Lovers Unite? So it started off like as a Facebook page. And so, you know, my thing is this. I'm not big on Facebook groups. I hate Facebook groups. I hate trying to be an admin on a group. I had people try to get me to be admin. So I'm like, look, I'm not an admin. Put me on a page. I'm good to go. I'd rather go ahead and ban someone and I can just like the person and be done versus having to go through a bunch of members. But how the page came about was this. I got tired of seeing like fake movie news.and if you remember movie pilot back in the day, I got tired of seeing fake news and stuff like that when it came down to uh sites like movie pilot and we got this Covered, but we got this cover came out like later on. But I got tired of that. So I'm like, you know what? I want to go ahead and create a page where people can feel welcomed. Not only feel welcome but be able to talk about their favorite movies just as i talk about my favorite movies and they have a safe place to do it without being judged because all movies are subjective. I might like, you may not like, or there might be certain scenes that you liked and I didn't like. And you can't measure film physically or anything like that. It's just something that cannot be measured. So, you know, I always say all movies are subjective. I always root for people that love their films, even though I may not like their film. I'm like, good for you. I'm glad that you liked that movie. It didn't work for me, but I'm glad it worked for you. That's great. But…you know, I was always in that type of space where i like i want to do a movie new new movie news then after that, I was like, okay, time to make a channel. I have, and then at that time, too, I also had somebody else that was working with me on the page, and i didn't put any type of advertisements into it or anything like that because i don't pay for advertising and well we got the admin at the time that i had was like, well, let's put some money into it. Let's go on ahead and do it. so Then after he left, it just was just me. And I had a couple of other people. And it was just like, you know, basically people coming and going. But, you know, I would never take anything back. And I'm happy that even though we may have our differences, I'm actually happy that he did support the page and he made it what it is. And then, of course, I continued off of it. But, you know, after that, I've just been there.