Aunty Donna Podcast - The James Gunn Podcast (LAN Party 11 Part 2)

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

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A listener production. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the second iteration of the LAN Party podcast, where we again try to discuss the DC cinematic universe. This one, of course, headed by James Gunn. It's an intricate, detailed analysis of where that franchise is heading and if you want to see this with your peepers and not just with your ears head over to patreon.com The Aunty Donna Club or Aunty Donna Club just google Aunty Donna Patreon and, why not? Check it out. Alright, bye. Welcome to the DC James Gunn podcast where we dissect what's going on in the world of the DC

CU, whatever he's calling it these days, crack open a bottle of wine, maybe a whiskey, roll up a reefer, get high, get drunk, get crank, and talk about movies, superheroes and all the things that matter. Welcome to episode one of what I think will be probably the most impressive in-depth podcast ever on the DC Cinematic Universe. Started by James Gunn, episode one, where we discuss the current state of the DC universe. I'm joined by my two friends and I'm your host this evening and will always be. Let's jump in. Let's jump into the pod.

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I know. This isn't my first rodeo. All right. I've hosted a couple podcasts before, private ones, just for me and my friends. Is that annoying when I drink? Like that? What should I do if I need to have a drink or a coffee? I'd say that's at the level of like almost, if you took it a step further, if you escalated that, it would probably start to like get on my nerves, but at that level, that is tolerable.

Do not take it past that though. Do not, do not escalate from there. Cause I've got some two minute noodles that are ready to go, but I'll probably wait until after the podcast. You're going to have to now because we're in it. We're going to go around and introduce ourselves to the audience. Do you want to start my guy? Oh me? Yeah.

Sure. Sup, my name's Broden, I'm 12 years old. I'm a... Do you want to start my guy? Oh me? Yeah. Sure. Sup, my name's Broden, I'm 12 years old. I'm an avid DC fan, F Marvel, and I'm excited to talk the upcoming rollout of the Gunniverse. Yeah. Yeah, Marvel dropped off after Avengers, uh, Age of Ultron in my opinion. You saw the downward slope. Once Disney bought them, really just, it was a bit of a downhill from, downhill from there. Didn't they buy them after Hulk? Yeah.

But you can feel, you can feel it starting to, the quality start to dip. Why don't you introduce yourself, my guy? Hi, my name's Zach. Tell them what makes you think, what makes you tick, what you love about comics and stuff. Yeah. My name's Zach, I'm 14 years old. I love, I haven't, I've seen all of the DC movies but I can't remember them because I watch them like at just at parties and stuff and like only, and it was like ages ago. So sometimes I'm a bit shaky on like some of the plot points and stuff specifically, but I've seen them all and all the Marvel movies. Yeah. And my name's Mark, I'm your host. I'm the old dog of the group, 14 and a half.

And I think all I released the, I cut, released the David, I cut, I cut, released the cut. What's that? For the layman if that's for the layman. Suicide squad, man. They bungled it. Let's talk to that. Let's talk to that. That's the one I haven't seen. I just want to say I haven't seen that.

I haven't seen that one. Do you know what I- Because I think that's the most selfish thing you could do. What? Because you- Oh, suicide. But that's not what the movie's about, man. That's not what the movie's about, man. That's not what the movie's about. The movie is about a miscreant gang of criminals who are mercenaries.

And the theatrical cut, two stars, my only review for that is wasted potential. Okay. Because it could have been. My only review for that is wasted potential. Okay. Because it could have been. Take us through what the Suicide Squad for the layman, what it is. So Amanda Waller is just a bad ass. Amanda Waller, what does he do?

He's walling? No, no, not a man that's walling. Amanda Waller, it's the name of the character. Come on, man. Seriously, you said you were gonna do your research. Yeah, Amanda Waller. Yes. I remember she's in-

Played by a beautiful actress. She's in, yeah. Yes. You're talking about your Viola Davis. Yes, I remember. Who I love, one of the seminal work work The Help, one of my favourite films. Really? Yeah.

Yeah. I prefer the, not that I prefer but I really like the colour purple. That for me, that's right up there for me. Yeah another great film. Oprah motherfucking Winfrey. I started calling her that after I saw that movie. Hunch. Hunch sent. Hunch. Hunch sent.

Hunch. One hunch sent. When I hear Oprah Winfrey, I think sick day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think Ricky Lake. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Suicide squad is a bandit of misfits of villains of rogues who are sent on missions deemed too dangerous for the justice. It happens in the DC universe. So the Batman, it's a world of Batmans. It's a world of dead shots. It's a world of killer croc.'s a world of Deadshots, it's a world of Killer Croc. They're all in this world. They are, yeah.

And Amanda Waller puts them all together. Why do they agree to do it though? Because man, they have. See this is the thing that makes it fucking better than anything Marvel could ever dream up of because they don't have the nuts or the balls to really like To make to take this level of maturity with their characters. Okay, so step too far They like their baby stuff, you know, they like to make sure little babies can watch their their movies Whereas this is for like you've got like, have been through some fucking shit to like

get this, to understand this, right? I mean it's in the title Suicide Squad. Dark themes, right? And she puts this... How does she make them do it? She puts a bomb in their neck and says if you don't do it... Like Battle Royale. Completely different man, completely different. Completely. Don't fucking bring that up. Top five. That's really a lot like

Battle Royale. It's not. Because isn't that the one... Top five suicide squad miscreant mercenaries. That's hard to pick. Because it's a rogues gallery. And I do want to say it's a rogues gallery. It's a rogues gallery. It features some... Cara Delevingne. Cara Delevingne, yeah. She plays the witch. Yeah, she's pretty hot. Yeah, the enchantress, the enchant... enchant... enchant, enchant, the enchanter, enchantress. So you put her in top five? Well it's a hard, now what are we talking about? Are we talking about the David Ayer, Ayer, release that cut by the way, but we'll get

to that. What is the David Ayer cut? The David Ayer cut is a version of the film that is a little more soulful, a little more... Have you seen the Brad Pitt movie about the tanks? No. Fury. I mean, yes. Ah, yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's more like... He goes, he's in a tank. Yeah, he's in a tank. It has more of that sort of emotional... That movie makes me cry every time I..., that movie makes me cry every time I. Fury? It makes me cry every time I watch it, man.

I bawl my fucking eyes out. Yeah, but then they get laid is my favourite bit in the town during World War II, they get it on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that bit for me, that's just like, that's everyday stuff for me that doesn't really like, doesn't affect me that much, cause I'm like, oh yeah, that's, you know, that's peaches and oranges, mate. I love Fury. That's stuff that a that's everyday stuff for me that doesn't really like doesn't affect me that much because I'm like, oh yeah

That's you know, that's peaches and oranges might that's a lot of stuff in the pantry every day I'm fury. Here's my top five King shark. It's a black Manta Captain Boomerang count vertigo Rick flag, what can we about count vertigo? Sure. What do you like about him now? Don't look at your computer. Don't look at your computer. He's sick. He's the Clue Master.

Yeah. The Copperhead. What do you mean by that? He's a super villain. But what do you mean by Copperhead? You got a head made of copper? What do you want from me? No, I'm just asking.

What, is that right? Now you know your No, I'm just asking. Is that right? No, you know your stuff. I was just checking. I loved Fury. How come? Made you cry? Yeah, made me cry and I loved the scene where they got laid in the town. That's just the scene that he said he liked. Oh yeah, you like that scene too? Yeah, I love that.

That's my favourite scene too. Man, when he gets into that tank for the first time, I bawl my fucking eyes out every time. It breaks my heart. Why? Well, here's the thing, you haven't had the life I've had, you haven't experienced the things I've experienced. Did you fight in a war? And sometimes, not necessarily, but a war of sort of emotions.

You better hope we don't go to war because I will fuck shit up. Oh no, I believe you man. I'm sure you would. Me, I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in that stuff anymore because after what I've been through in my life. And it's just one of those things boys, because I'm a little bit older than you guys and sometimes it's hard to explain but when a man- In years, yes.

In years, yes, I can see thus. Yeah. But when a man experiences life the way I have, you see something like that. You see like, you see Brad Pitt get behind that wheel of that tank, settle in. Do they control things with the wheel? You've made your point. Yeah, and it makes me cry

because it just takes me back to a place in my life, right? That is, there's no point sitting here and explaining it to your boys. The last movie that made me cry was Awakenings. me back to a place in my life, right? There's no point sitting here and explaining it to your boys. The last movie that made me cry was Awakenings. What's that? It's a movie where Robin Williams is a doctor and Robert De Niro has a disease that means he's like can't move and then Robin Williams, he gives him like the medicine and then he can talk and move and then they become friends.

And then can I give away the end? Yeah. Then the medicine stopped working and then Robert De Niro goes and can't move again. And it's like, they have to say goodbye. And I cried. And then, but I'd also had a really hard day at grade three that day.

Yeah, right. What happened? It's just a tough day. I think Daniel at grade three that day. Yeah right. What happened? It was just a tough day. I think Daniel was mean to me. Yeah right. You should have come to me mate. I would have fucking broken his neck. Well that's alright.

He's my friend. Because I protect my brood. But you're mean to me a lot too. Yeah but that's a different man because we're friends. If World War 3 would come around tomorrow like that. Yeah. I would be on it. Where would you fight front line?

Where I'm stationed, wherever they station me, wherever they feel my skills are best. Yeah, because you're more of like a fighter, right? You're more of like a get in there. Yes and no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cause I'm like, I'm a general type. I'm like, I'm the kind that people look to me for, for answers. People look to me for leadership. And so I would need to be in a position where I am protecting my men, but giving them sort of those sort of, because I inspire that sort of courage within others. I would be like the Shogun.

So like the overseer, but also the greatest samurai. Yeah, but you're down there fighting. Well, because the greatest leaders lead from the front. Yeah. Not always, but yeah. The cowards. I think I'd be a cook. Well, yeah, nah, the boys need to be fed and the girls and everyone else.

I would be the shogun. I think I'd make like a big pot of stew for all the boys. Yeah. Yeah, I would be selected as the leader of the Australian Empire. Would you get to pick what they eat? Would not bother me as long as it's high protein. I'd mainly have protein milkshakes. Yeah.

So now... If I was the Shogun, I would mainly have protein milkshakes. So we're here to talk about James Gunn. Yeah, and why don't we start with his first ever DC film, Suicide Squad. What? I thought that was Aya. No, it was another one. There was a second.

Yes. Yes. Movie. I've seen both. Have you? Yes. Two seconds ago. I forgot.

You forgot about the James Gunn Suicide Squad. There's Suicide Squad and there's The Suicide Squad. Oh, preliminary discussions. We should not have to be describing. We are supposed to be experts. We'll cut this bit, I reckon, because that's embarrassing. I made a mistake, but I've seen the both of them. What's your favourite one?

Why? Who's your favourite character? And what do you prefer about one film compared to the other? And can I just say for starters, if you're listening to this and you want spoilers, this is the wrong one for you, fuck off. Yeah, no, we've seen all of the movies and we will discuss them ad nauseam. So don't fucking come on here.

I don't want in the comments, you ruined the movie for me. I hadn't seen it, fuck off. This is for experts. What I love about the second movie is it starts and says this is who the suicide squad is and they'll fucking die. Yeah, do you know what that's called? That's called a subversion of expectations.

No, I don't think you do. Yeah, I knew that. No, because when we were watching it, you were like, what's going on? The camera pens go, well, I guess the story's about these guys now then. And all the promo and all the trailers and photos for the movie, they all had certain ones that these are going to be the ones and then they all fucking die. Yeah. Ariana Grande's ex was in it and I was like, yeah, and I thought he was going to be the

star of it. But I remember when we watched it, you were like really confused and upset because you were like, what, what? No, this wasn't what I was promised. When we watched it, you were like really confused and upset because you were like, what? What? No, this wasn't what I was promised. I thought this was going to be a movie about them, why are they all dead? And then when it went over, you were like, what? Why is there a second team?

Whereas me, I was just like, I'll get you gun. I understand exactly what you've done. You did say that in the cinema. You said, I get you gun. You said that seven times during the movie. It felt like you came into the movie wanting to say that, like, I get you gun. You kept saying it. The first two times you whispered it and then looked around.

And then the last four or five times you were yelling it. Well, when a filmmaker does exactly what you would have done, right? Had I been handed that film, I would have made the exact same choices that he made because I've been thinking about this for fucking ages. And I've got screenplays that I've written for a whole, like for almost every DC character, every mainstay character. I've got Batman film, right? I've got a Superman film. I've got a Green Lantern corpse film. I don't know if you know about the Green Lantern Corpse. You probably know about the character but you probably don't know about the corpse.

Oh yeah, yep. I love The Suicide Squad. Which one? Which is my favourite. That was the question you asked me. Yeah and why? What do you like about it? And who's your favorite character? I think that if I was...

I think that my favorite one is probably the second one that was directed by James Gunn. But that's because I haven't seen the Ayer cut yet. And I hope to God one day we all get to. And I was in two minds about James Gunn version, because I love Snyderverse. But then when the twist happened in the film, where it wasn't about the team, you know that bit, where it wasn't about the team you thought

it was gonna be about. The bit we were discussing before. Oh yes, yeah, I believe you mentioned it too, because I've seen it. And when it was the team that was advertised and then they all died, I was like, oh wow, this is not what I was expecting, but I'm very excited to see where it goes from here. And my favourite character in the Suicide Squad is Amanda Waller. Amanda Waller.

No other character. None of the actual members of the Suicide Squad. Oh, there's a few. I can't pick which one. The one Barbie. What? The one um... Margot Robbie.

Margot Robbie plays. Yeah. Harley Quinn. Harley Quinn. The Joker's girlfriend. The Joker's girlfriend. The Joker's girlfriend? She's probably my favourite. And she's in with the one...

It feels like you're... You haven't seen any of these films but you're doing your best to bluff through them. I've seen them all but I just can't remember them very much because I was drunk when I watched them all. Oh. On what? What were you drinking? Wine. Watch this Mike. Hey Zach, did you like Captain Blade? Yeah. He's not a character. Captain Blade's not a character man. Oh I thought you just said, sorry can you say that again? Well, no, because... I misheard you. Can you say that again?

Do you like Captain Blade? I don't think that's a character. I thought you said Blade. Well, that is a Marvel character, so that's fair enough. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you one thing. I like when he said the R word in the new one. Remember how you were talking about that? What?

I like how he said the R-word in Deadpool Wolverine mmm, I Think it was good. Oh We're our word in Deadpool Wolverine. I don't see Marvel IP. Oh, okay Yeah, I don't touch it. I don't care if he's got this suit on I don't care if he's got that pretty funny But they're pretty so you have seen it were from afar What do you mean? What do you mean by from a fire? I mean from a fire I was seeing an art house film at Jam Factory and

what film Anomaly Anomaly anomaly. Yeah Jam Factory doesn't show our house films. They've got to deal with the They've got to deal with Palace Palace down the road. So there's Palace Como on the corner. It's during a festival. They don't do festivals.

It's during a festival. And um. What's Anomaly? It's a film about um. You mean Armally? Yeah, it's a claymation. Oh, Anima Lisa. Yeah, by my favourite writer.

Charlie Kaufman. Yeah. Ah, yep. I love that one too. That was what I was going to say that and I poked my head in to Deadpool Wolverine. Had a couple laughs. I went, that's pretty good. Yeah.

He's pretty funny. That's pretty good. He breaks the fourth wall. He breaks the fifth and the sixth wall. Yeah. He's, Deadpool's probably the character who... Isn't he bisexual? He can be. Or he flirts with it. I would say he's bicurious.

Okay. Yeah. Which, you know, that's cool as fuck. Yeah. Anyway, so the Suicide Squad. Good flick. Yeah, sick. I give it three blades. But what do we think about his now doing the Snyderverse? Well, he's not.

Oh, man. This is why we gotta keep him on the podcast, because it's actually good banter to have someone who like, isn't fully across at all, you know. oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm fully across at all. What do you saw? Well, he's not doing the Snyder verse. I snide of us is fucking dead, mate It's dead and we the fans Revived it brought it back for one more big outing probably one of the best three-star movies ever made Suicide Squad four hour version.

The Snyder Cut. Jason. Pardon? So he did make, oh he did make the Suicide Squad Cut. No, no. We're still, as a fan base, we're still trying to get Warner Brothers to release it. But you just said there was a four hour version of Suicide. Of Justice League.

Oh okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, from the Snyder. Oh that one, yes! I love that one. Yeah. Oh okay I'm sorry. Yeah from the Snyderverse. Oh that one yes I love that one. Yeah. Yes I love that one four hours long. Yeah. And more of it. Yeah. That's a good description of the film. Yeah. I watched the black and white 4-3 version. Can we cut this shit, man? Of course, man. I'm always about cutting shit. Can we just talk about the Dark Crusader? What's that?

The Dark Crusader? Oh yes, yes. Happy to. Who also goes by the name of? Just what's the question exactly? Let's talk about the Dark Crusader. Yes, I'd love to. What is their name?

It's my favourite character. And then we'll talk about their name. Right, shall we? Yes. Go for it. What did you, like, did you see the recent release of the Penguin series? I haven't watched it yet. I haven't had time.

I've had a lot on my plate. Name what you've been doing. I've been watching the Batman animated, the new Batman animated series. You haven't watched the largest DC vehicle. I don't know if you've seen it but they subvert expectations. I don't know, because I know you're not a fan of having your expectations subverted. I know when, I know you two boys, you have your expectations and if they're subverted you get like confused and angry. Me, I live for that shit, right?

I love, I love when an artist comes in and does an interpretation of something that I did not expect. That shit makes me cry. When the penguin was a woman in the new Batman animated series, I cried from tears of joy and... You cry quite easily and things seem to trigger your crying. It's actually quite... Girls love a man that can cry. Yeah.

Yeah. Do they? Is that why you're saying it? I don't cry from pain though. You could punch me as hard as you fucking wanted in the face and not a tear, not even a drop of blood. I've, I meditate and I can hold all that in. What about that time you punched the wall?

Pardon? What about that time you punched the wall and it was because I dropped my chicken tenders on the ground. Yeah, but you cried. And I fucking spent half an hour, you know, prepping them and cooking them. And yeah, I cried, but more because of an overwhelming sense of failure. As a shogun, preparing to be a shogun, I weep at nothing. And I am simple and solemn.

Simple is a good explanation for how you are, I agree. Well, in the terms that you put it, sure, I'll take that because I'm going to be a shogun. I take that because I'm going to be a shogun. I'm layered. I'm going to be a shogun. Yeah. What do you mean? I'm going to lead the Australian Empire into World War III.

Yeah. So my question is, do you think that he has what it takes to make the new soup? New Superman? Yeah, make the new soup. New Superman? Yeah, I call him soup. Man, he's putting... You call him soup? Yeah, it's like a nickname because I'm such a big fan. Yeah.

S-O-U-P? You don't call... They're like soup. The nickname for Superman is not soup. What? What do you mean? We don't... No one's ever, no one's ever. No calling soup. There's no nickname for Superman.

Maybe the, maybe. People don't read soup? Maybe Carle? No. Only time I'm ever talking about soup is when I'm having an entree before my main meal. Because I love to have a, I always, before every meal. Before dinner I'm like a three course guy, right?

Start with a soup, then move on to your main, your meat, your veggies. And then I have a light dessert. That's a very Italian thing, isn't it? Pardon? That's a very Italian thing. I don't know if it is, man. It's just the way I was born. Whenever I come over to your house, it's always like a little bit of like pasta and I think

that's dinner. I eat the pasta, I'm like, oh, that like pasta and I think that's dinner. I eat the pasta, I'm like, oh, that was yummy. I might even have seconds. And then your mum brings out the schnitzel and then your mum brings out that big bag of nuts, puts it in the middle of the table. Yeah, and then fresh fruit as well. My family will do bolognese with a big bowl ravioli. Yeah.

Oh. From the packet? Yeah. Yeah, using Latina? Well, that is the best one. Market agrees. Yeah. From the packet. Yeah. Yeah, using Latina. Well, that is the best one. Market agrees. Yeah, the best one that you can't, you know, if you're not making it.

I'm starting with a passata, a plain passata. That's like my blank canvas. Because for me, cooking is like painting. Homage. For me, it's like art. My mum does what she can. For me, I'm creating, I'm mixing it up. I'm the kind of guy, I'm the kind of man who will look at a recipe once,

I'll get the gist and then I just go and I play. You're a 14 year old man who's an artist chef. 14 and a half. 14 and a half artist who cooks, his artist is cooking. You know, I can see it's like, you know, I have synesthesia with food. So when I like, I'm like. Is that why you're upset that you dropped your chicken tenders? Yes, because I was like how am I going to see the colour orange?

I have a condition called acolasia. What's that? Is that a skin thing? No, I have a tiny little throat and I can't swallow my dogs. You can't swallow them whole? Unless I chew them a lot. Not a lot of people can man, just swallow a dog whole. But mine is, it's a condition that I live with day to day where I have to be careful in the meats that I swallow and whether I chew them enough.

I'm missing a bit of my kidney. Why? Because I had an extra tube. My piss was getting into my blood. So the Penguin series, I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but I've seen it. I've seen it. Well, how does it end? Ends with the Penguin doing some crazy shit. Well, I'll just say this because you clearly haven't seen it.

So I'm just going to move on from that. Yeah, assume away. I'm just going to say something. I'm excited for the next feature length, Batman. The Batman. The Batman Part 2, I think. Not specifically under James Gunn's ruling guiding hand, he's going to have his own Batman in The Brave and the Bold, which should be coming to cinemas.

My worry on this movie, we're talking this Batman, I hope they don't curtail him and make it under six hours. I hope it's the true Matt Reeves, who is the director. The Planet of the Apes. The expression of Batman. I don't want him to cut away. The Planet of the Apes. The Planet of the Apes.

The Planet of the Apes. A lot of monkeys. A lot of apes. Yeah, ap want him to cut away. The second one, the Planet of the Apes. Lot of monkeys. Lot of apes. Yeah, apes is the correct word. Chimpanzees, orangutans. The first one, the first Batman, that's like, he got the length he needed, yeah? That's what I feel. Yeah, it was good length.

It could have been longer. Because it was like, ah... Because I often feel when I watch a movie, I'll watch a movie and like the story will be done in an hour and a half to two hours and I'll go, God, I just want to see them drive around a city for 40 minutes. Yeah.

My one complaint... Does that happen in that one? I think the Batman is a pretty much perfect flick. I put it up there with the Godfather. Well, it's for the first time. I said when I saw this movie at the cinema, I went, finally, thank you. A detective story for Batman. Finally.

Yes. I remember thinking the same thing, if not more. Finally Batman is a detective. It's kind of like Godfather, the Batman Godfather part two. And I think, you know, some of the greatest pieces of cinema that we've got to experience in our time. My one complaint, if I had a complaint, and it's a pretty big one, is that I just, because if I was Batman, I would have just, I would have, I would have like made love to Selina

Kyle. I would have made love to Catwoman in that movie. And he doesn't quite close the deal there and that's not the Batman that I know or that I would wanna be. Well, he got rubber all over his dick. How's he get out? There's no fly.

He has rubber all over his dick. That's what you meant to do, isn't it? That's a protective suit that he's wearing that can come on and off. He just would take his pants off. How? What do you mean, here? You see him as Bruce Wayne in the movie.

That's what I love to see more in some of these movies is the transition from their suits and armour. You don't see that enough. Like the pulling their rubber pants off. Yeah. Because that would pull at your hairy legs. You see that quite a bit in Batman and Robin See he put his pants on. Yeah, you do you get some nice close-ups of it. Really?

Yeah, some good close-ups of him pulling up his pants. Batman putting his pants on. Yeah, there's literally There are literally shots of Batman putting his pants on. Yeah, I want that. And then and he has his ass perfectly molded is that bit Yeah, I want to see the truck the struggle though of putting these pants on I put some nice and they snap right on Yeah, I don't want that quick thing. I want I want a man struggling with rubber pants. Yeah, how about these old butler? I pulled them off. Yeah, peel them off because they'd be sweaty. Yeah, you gotta help me peel off these pants but um, yeah, but you know, so James gun what a gun. Do you think he's got it? I think he's got what it takes. He's put a super dog

in in the new Superman movie Crypto Yeah, he so he got a dog and said, now I'm putting a dog in Superman. Yeah, and you hear that and you go, you haven't seen it, it's not out. It's still in post production. That's where they put the whole film together. And it's actually where you decide what kind of film it's going to be.

But you saw, so he's not in it yet. Crypto. But I saw him talk, did he like show a trailer or a video or a picture of it? Showed one picture of Superman. That's what I saw. No, but not of the dog. Of the dog? Dude.

Yeah? You've just got to be yourself on these things, man. But you said I had to pretend. Yeah, but it's a, it's a blend. It's a blend of pretending. Cause sometimes you say shit that's so obviously a lie. Yeah. And you need to find the time.

You need to, you know, just do a little bit of research. Okay. That's all we ask. I'd like read about them and stuff, but I've seen Eternals and I've seen the first Superman. It's Marvel. One of those is Marvel and one of those is DC. I'm going to let you guess which one is which. Well it's been a great podcast, been a good podcast.

I'm sorry guys. You've got to stop apologising man. I'm sorry. I didn't I didn't want to do this save it for after the podcast Don't do it on the podcast because I don't know how to go back and delete stuff. Okay So this is gonna be in it Sorry Stop apologizing. Sorry guys. Just own it. Just own who you are Like I do. I don't know who I am.

Like Broden does. Yo. Just be yourself. I'm here. Fuck it. That's, you know Monty Python's attitude. I heard Eric Idle say this once. He said their attitude was fuck off. He said their attitude to everything, to comedy, to the world, it's fuck off.

And that's, I've taken that into my life. I can talk about my favorite movie that I've seen this year. What is it? Would you like that? Is it a DC film? No, but I could talk about it. What is it? It's a film called Dunstan checks in.

That is, you only saw that this year. 40 years old. Yeah. It's about a monkey. Yeah, I know it's about a monkey. Kiddin' his monkey. It's really funny. George from Seinfeld is in it.

Jason Alexander. I think he says shit, even though it's G. You can get away with it. You can get a couple. Film is virgin on 30 years old. I loved Dunstan Checks In. But this is the thing. I bring up Dunstan Checks In and you guys tease me for it.

We are on a superhero focus podcast and whilst the orangutan is cool, he is not a He's not a DC superhero Not to say that there aren't orangutanists that aren't DC superheroes There probably would be one. I don't know. There would be. Yeah, there would be. Look it up Some sort of super ape There would be. Yeah, there would be. Look it up. Some sort of super rape. So I'm not allowed to talk about Dunstan Checksie.

There's Gorilla Grodd. Yeah, that's a villain of the... I believe that's one of the Flash's roads. There's Detective Chimp. There you go. There's multiples. Monsieur Muller. Fuck man, what do you want?

Kongorilla. Jesus. Solovar? Too many. I think if I- They're mostly gorillas. I think if I ever made a comic book movie, I would just like write anything that popped into my head

and then give it to a comic book nerd and be like, find me the character. Yeah. There's gotta be one that's close. I've written the detective monkey. Find me the detective monkey in the hundred years of this comics history. There's a Spider-Man villain called Big Wheel. Not for this podcast.

Not for this podcast. Boys, I just want to say thank you so much for letting me be on your podcast. Mate, we love you. You're our brother. Brother in arms. Stop apologising. But you've gotta just fucking be comfortable in your own skin, man. But you've got to just fucking be comfortable in your own skin man like me and Broden. Shogun Broden. Your Shogun. General Mark. Okay. Tells the Shogun what to do. No, no you do not. Gives him the plan. That's offensive for me. He's the big thinker. I look up to you guys I know that you're

two years younger than me and you're half a year older than me. Yeah. But I look up to you guys. You're like real inspirations. The Shogun will be lost without the general laying out the plan and the big thinking. No, you're laughing. The Shogun is the small war hammer, the space marine in 40k and I'm the one making the calls. No. I just want you boys to know that you're my... I'm chief military commander. Yeah, down on the board, small, me above, looking down, making sure it's all working,

winning every battle. Thanks boys. Thanks boys. Hey, you're welcome. I'm just going to, you know, close this out with, let's get into the ring after this. Do a couple of rounds just to get your confidence up. Yeah. And I'll let you, I'll let you get a couple in. Yeah. I'll let you get a couple in, but then I will fucking, I will knock you out, Cole. But that's a lesson you've got to learn.

You boys are a real inspiration to me. Close out with a theme song. Yeah. All right. We're off. We're going to go spa for a couple of hours. And thanks for joining us on the first, the penultimate episode of DCU podcast. James Gunn, is he a gun? We will find out. See if crypto works on screen superman's dog uh oh mark he's a bro he's been zack thank you arigato

arigato gozaimasu arigato gozaimasu uh i'll see you at the nearest family mart. It's my favourite of the three, of the big three. I accept 11. Alright. Fuck, I gotta go, I've got a hinge date. You've been listening to the Aunty Donna podcast.

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