The Weekly Planet - 339 PC Has Gone Mad

Episode Date: June 15, 2020

Visit https://bigsandwich.co/ for a bonus weekly show, a monthly commentary, early stuff and an ad free podcast feed for $9 per month.PC has gone mad. But you know that. This week we talk the removal of Gone With The Wind and other programs from streaming services, the PS5 reveals including Spider-Man Miles Morales, new dates for The Matrix 4, Wonder Woman, Tenet and Godzilla VS Kong, Bill & Ted Face The Music gets a trailer, no standalone Superman movie, Dracula "BLEH" gets rebooted again and more. Thanks for listening.00:00 The start.07:35 Comic Con online.16:20 New dates for Godzilla, Matrix, Tenet and Wonder Woman.22:22 PS5 Reveal Event.29:56 Spider-Man: Miles Morales.40:07 Standalone Superman movie.44:05 Bill & Ted 3: Face the Music trailer.46:24 Blumhouse's Dracula reboot.49:52 The PC Vultures Come for Culture.01:01:01 What We Reading/What We Gonna Read01:11:00 Letters It’s Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP Itunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGjT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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That's why I threw it at you! Yeah. Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. With me as always is my co-host Nick Mason. Hello, I'm here. I'm enjoying a bit of a sun puddle over here. Are you liking the sun puddle? I'm like a lazy cat. Is it too much though?

No, I'm feeling good. Because the curtain can come down or up if you want more sun. They've thought of everything, haven't they? They really have. They go up and down. I'm here. What will happen is I'll slowly start melting. I'll be like just pools of sweat will appear under my arms. But you'll press on?

I'll press on. That's right. You won't hear it in the recording. What a professional. Thank you. We are only doing the News of the Week this week because, as people may or may not know, I have a newborn and things are hectic. We've got to make some time to get some time.

And as previously mentioned, I have these new glasses. Yes. And I need to keep them clean and polished. Obviously it takes a lot of time. You can never get them as clean as when you first get them unless you take them to get repaired and then they really clean them. Yeah, right. What's with that?

Like when I first got my first pair of glasses, they're like, just keep them polished, just do this, get the little cloth on there, blah, Yeah, right. What's with that? When I first got my first pair of glasses, they're like, just keep them polished. Just do this. Get the little cloth on there. And I'm like, that's amazing. And then every time I do it, I'm just like, I'm just smearing grease on these. Did I dunk this fabric in grease? What happened? You got the

microfiber cloth. Are they not as good as we think? Maybe. Look, I don't know. I bought like this ultrasonic cleaning thing. It's like for cleaning jewelry this ultrasonic cleaning thing it's like for cleaning jewelry and glasses or whatever and it's like glasses shaped so you'd expect it so like is it like a red light thing or how does it work it's like it's like an oblong shaped thing and you you put water in it okay and then it like you put the glass you put whatever you're trying to clean in it trying to clean you put a little spoiler for the how the end of this story works

and you you put the thing in there and you close there and you close it and then like ultrasonic waves go through. It's like a little dishwasher sort of. It's like a little dishwasher, but then you get the glasses out and you're like, these are still dirty, but now they're wet also. So there's no idea. You don't even put them. This is not. It's not like a soap or anything you put with it?

I reckon if you put them in the dishwasher and you stack them safely, that'd be all right, genuinely. Have you seen a glass, a crisp glass, wine glass come out of a dishwasher? seen a glass a crisp glass wine glass come out of a dishwasher that's where it's at yeah anyway um that's ultrasonic cleaner talk yes boy i sure hope we don't get an ultrasonic cleaner sponsor because i cannot in good conscience recommend them so so we're launching our um i was gonna say what's the word for it so it's a subscription service. I'm like, how can I not say subscription service? No, it's that. Why would you not want to say subscription service?

Because I feel like there's negative connotations with that all the time. Because I know there was a video game recently that was like, we've got a new service where you pay every year, but it's not a subscription service. It's like, well, that's essentially what it is though. You've just, yeah. But anyway, what we're doing, it's at bigsandwich.co, B-I-G-S-A-N-D-W-I-C-H.

And the idea is that it's $9 a month, which is, and all optional, by the way. Well, that's true, yeah. Which is the cost of a big sandwich, I'd imagine. Is that how we came to that number? Yeah. Yeah, good, thank God. A good sandwich.

A good sandwich, yeah. Not some of this bloody, none of this bloody thing. You get them in the plastic shell and you're like, oh, how long has this been sitting here? I mean, that might be the same with the quality of the stuff we're putting out here. That's neither here nor there. Big sell. I'm doing a big sell here.

You're doing such a big sell. What we give to you for $9 per month is the equivalent of going to a gas station and perusing the sandwiches and getting the least worst one in the plastic shell and being like, this is all right, I guess. Yeah, this has to do, yeah. So first of all, it's ad-free because I know a lot of people don't like the Acast ads, which I can understand because they interrupt the show and people hate the jingle

and all of those things. So it's going to get rid of that. Sure, that's selling you back a thing that we put in in the first place. I appreciate that. That's why we added more things. But we need those to pay for the service. Exactly, yeah, because we're paying an absolute fortune for that. There's also a new show that we're going to be doing weekly.

Do you want to explain that? Right now, you know, because Hollywood has shut down effectively for a lot of reasons, there's not a lot of news out there. We try our best. We're going to do a great news show this week, I think. But, you know, sometimes the news is a bit thin on the ground. But what it turns out is that what's not thin on the ground is clickbait articles that are just filled with rampant speculation. So we decided to capitalize on that. And we have a new podcast. It's called,

we got, we got this covered, covered. And it's, it's every week we go through some of the finest clickbait articles of the week and we make fun of them. That's right. Exactly. It's about 30 minutes or so. So the idea is that for three weeks of the month we'll do that and then in the fourth week we're going to hopefully release a commentary. The first one coming up is The Rise of Skywalker. That's right. So it's going to go there for quite a while and then eventually we'll put it out everywhere else like on the rest of the Patreon

and the other tiers and also the Bandcamp. The idea is also, look, this is just to keep the lights on for us. It's another because quite a few sponsors have disappeared as a result of the pandemic. And it's just a way that we can keep things going without having to rely extensively on sponsorship. Exactly. But, you know, again, which isn't to say that things won't keep going.

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Everything that is currently what it is is cost. Regular podcast, camera in a garbage, all the videos. That'll be, that'll be the same. I'll start putting all the early stuff up there as well, as well as on Patreon.

None of that is going to change. So yeah, it's basically, if you do want to contribute and you want something a little bit extra, you can get that. The other thing is we're probably going, we're going to start removing things probably monthly. So a month after they come on,

we'll get rid of it. So to stop people jumping on, I guess, and then going and then downloading everything and then leaving straight away, like 12 months of stuff and then leaving straight away. Yeah, right. Because, well, that's unfair on the people who have paid

and also like how dare you, how dare you, quite frankly. So, yeah, it's one of those things where, yeah, it's kind of a rotating kind of situation. We also have like ideas for other podcasts and stuff like that we're thinking about. I'm also very much open to the idea of people sending in like entire podcast ideas yeah and i'll just one week we'll just be like yep this is this is joe from new jersey's idea for a podcast where we talk about this and we'll just do that for a week yeah absolutely and then

yeah it's very much like whatever you want i mean click, clickbait will never run out. It's true. Yeah. But it's pretty much whatever kind of people want to say. We'll kind of, we'll try and go in those directions. So it's big sandwich.co. If it's not up now, we'll be very early in the week. Nine bucks a month. Again, you absolutely do not have to.

We'd appreciate it. But again, it's totally up to you. Everything else is the same. It won't take away from this podcast until it does, until we put it all on there. No, that's not, we don't have any plans. We don't want to do that ever. We're going to do it a minute a week. Yeah, that's right.

So every week you'll notice this podcast is a minute shorter, but not like we're just reducing the amount of content. We just cut off a minute and we put it into the paid feed. That's right. And if you want that last minute, and I mean initially that's not going to be that important because it's just, you know, plugs and Instagram handles or whatever, but eventually it's going to cut into what we're reading.

That's right. We're going to edge in until it's welcome back to, and then you have to pay for the rest. That's right. Yeah. There you go. So it's linked below. We'll be plugging that every week, probably forever.

James, my sun puddle disappeared. Oh, no. No, it's all right. It's a relief, actually. Okay. Oh, good. It didn't affect my plugging of that thing we just disappeared. Oh, no. No, it's all right. It's a relief, actually. Okay. Oh, good. It didn't affect my plugging of that thing we just said.

That's true. I thought you were going to keep it cool and not mention it. No, I've changed my mind. Okay, fair enough. I'm cranky now. Oh, good. Fair enough. Are you excited for the Comic-Con online?

There you go. Yes. This is how it's going to work. This is from SDCC spokesperson David Galanza. For the first time in our 50-year history. 50 years. I know, right? I feel like we do that every time. We are happy to welcome virtually anyone from around the globe.

Is this how he talks? Yes. Is he wearing like a striped blazer and a straw hat? And he's waggling a cane? And he's selling some kind of ointment from a cart. Those stay-at-home conditions make this a very difficult time. We say this is an opportunity to spread some joy and strength in our sense of community.

Speaking of strength, test your strength. What did you say? I talked over there, Dan. What did you say? I said, speaking of strength, test your strength. Test your strength. What did you say? I talked over there, Dan. What did you say? I said, speaking of strength, test your strength. So there you go. So we kind of had an idea that it was heading in this direction. We haven't had anything confirmed in terms of trailers

or what companies are coming on board for this because fewer and fewer people are kind of going to Comic-Con, it seems. Marvel missed it some years ago. That's true, yeah. Or Disney. It's all vertically integrated seems. Marvel miss it some years. That's true, yeah. Or Disney. It's all vertically integrated now. You have your own bloody. You have your own Quibi, and then you do it through that.

I didn't know. I learned this week that Quibi, one of the executives, or like the top brass of Quibi is Mae Whitman. Oh, I didn't know that. Who is egg on Arrested Development, among other things. What? You know. Why is she? What? I don't know. What? You know. Why is she?

What? I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Is she in some of the stuff yet? I don't think so. No. What's going on? I mean, she could be.

We wouldn't. We wouldn't know. We wouldn't know. That's very interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool.

I haven't got it yet. Have you got it yet? No. Why would I? It's dropped out of the top 200 apps or something, even though it's free and you get a free three months or whatever. It's still gone. Not bad.

You going to get it? No. Does it even come here? I haven't checked. I don't know. I'm going to check right now. I'm going to check right now. Yeah.

You can only check on your phone. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, yeah, because you can't do it on a actual. A television or. With the old, new, original shows. Computron. Oh, 1 million plus downloads. Really?

What are the stars on it? 3.8 out of 12,000 reviews. That's not horrible. That's not horrible, right? Download your favorites. Nice. Like? Okay.

On the screenshot where it says download your favorites, the report by NBC News, one of my favorites. So news. And also the Rachel Hollis show. I don't know. The screenshot of the Rachel Hollis show. It's a woman who i presume is rachel hollis and then the title of the episode says the two kinds of opinions oh she's a soccer player oh good for her no that's rachel hill okay right have you ever my computer's doing this thing where it auto it fills in automatically

what it thinks i'm doing and searches for that. Like I didn't type that. I typed in Rachel Hollis. She's a motivational speaker and blogger. She's got two kinds of opinions. That's right. Okay. I don't want to, look, I don't want to make fun of Quibi too much. I mean, I do.

You're allowed to. Absolutely. But one of these screenshots are just these short episodes and then there's this photo. It's just a real zoomed in one shot of someone like clearly in like a NASCAR or something like that wearing the motor racing helmet and gear, but there's no context because it's just in portrait mode on my phone.

I don't know, but then. That's not how you launch a subscription service. We know that. We know. Us of all people. You know what? We're 100% on board with you screenshotting our subscription service and sharing it on Twitter.

That's right. And various social medias. No context. But Quibi, you cannot do that, apparently. Absolutely not. Yeah. So this might, I'd imagine it would be a similar thing to the PS5 launch. I think it's also cool because similar thing to the PS5 launch.

I think it's also cool because you can kind of control the narrative completely. Are we talking about Comic-Con again? Comic-Con again, yeah. Because you can pre-record it. Because, you know, when you're on stage, it's a wild shot there. Who knows what's going to happen? Is Tom Hiddleston going to come out? Sometimes they don't ask him and he does. That's right.

They don't know what he's up to. They don't know what he's going to do. Sometimes he's dressed as Loki. Sometimes he's dressed in that series where he lives in the apartment block or whatever. Yeah, the apartment man. That's not a good poster. That could be the poster.

Shout-outs to Christoph who does Weekly Planet posters on Instagram and Twitter. You don't have to make everything a poster. Just to be clear, most of them aren't good. I won't lie to make everything in a poster. Because they're not. Let's be clear. Most of them aren't good. I won't lie to you. Most of them are bad. You can use your discretion, obviously. Use your discretion.

You're a professional. Yeah, so there you go. Is there anything in particular you're hoping to see? I'd like to see some Wonder Woman stuff again, but we've seen a lot of that. What else do I want to see? Yeah, have we seen? The Batman stuff.

But again, it's probably too early. I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. What wouldn't spoil the Batman stuff? But again, it's probably too early. I'll take it. Yeah. Yeah. What wouldn't spoil the Batman for you? See, I don't, what do you show? Robert Pattinson lurching up on stage in the Batman costume, but it's not quite done.

So it is like, you know, X's on it. Yeah. And green screen dots or whatever. I'd be happy with that. The full ping pong is on it. I think we've got to the point where, what are you showing in the trailer that we haven't seen for Batman before?

Because do you remember when the Batman Begins trailer? It's amazing. Yeah. Because the last one was Batman and Robert. And then so you're just showing like Christian Bale training in the forest or whatever. Yeah, right, right. And then there's the reveal that it's Batman at the end.

I feel like there's nothing you can kind of build up to to be like, new Batman. You know what I would like then online is surprises. Because you know what has kind of ruined trailers for me is that you click on something you already know what it is. Yeah. Like the joy of seeing a trailer in a cinema, you know, a million years ago. Yeah.

Because it would just come up and you'd go oh what's this this is intriguing yes and for me again like that batman begins was interesting that that first teaser was interesting for me because you didn't know what it was until the end yeah whereas now you get it all on twitter or wherever and you you already know yeah or it comes up on your youtube suggested you're like oh it's the batman okay well i'll click this and there's no there's no there's no scope well not even the batman but like there's no scope to be surprised with really anything because you go you you get send an article and it's or like twitter and it's like this is the new one from from christopher nolan or whatever and you go okay and it's and it's features time

travel whatever and you go well okay well i know that going in yeah i'd much rather you know i what i would like is a streaming is comic-, like maybe you get the whole H stream and they don't tell you in advance what it is. It's not like 2 p.m. we're going to do the new Christopher Nolan trailer or whatever. You just have to watch it and. See what unfolds. That's not a bad idea, yeah.

The only example I can think of that is with the Marvel and Star Wars, like I know for Endgame they kept the title secret until the trailer. Yeah. And I think the same with Rise of Skywalker maybe, or they didn't, I don't know. But often then if you see like somebody else's upload of the trailer just says the name in the title, that's the thing you're looking for. I like that idea of like you're going in blind,

you just don't know what you're going to get. But does anybody else like that idea is the question? No, no, no. I think they do. I think all this stuff gets spoiled anyway because there's people online that are like well these are the trailers that are coming and it's mostly revealed beforehand regardless yeah so but yeah anyway and it's hard to build a buzz if you don't go two o'clock it's the new whatever trailer exactly so everybody tune in everybody tune in

that's what they want they want they want to announce what it is yeah in advance and then watch like the live number go up and be like people are very excited there's 50 000 people watching whatever they love it yeah i'm all for these at home things though i'm always for at home at home things every day forever uh you never want to leave the house no and i never will except after this i have to go to a kid's party with my son i'm not going by myself okay right my brother's you're not a birthday clown no i wish dave warnock used to be brother's clown. You're not a birthday clown? No. I wish. Dave Warnock used to be a birthday clown, didn't he? Or a birthday dress-up guy.

Did you know that? This is news to me, no. Yeah, he talks about it. He's talked about it a few times. I know Claire did an episode of Just Make the Thing where she talks to him about his career. And one time he, you know, because he's a svelte human being and he looks quite young.

But when he was even younger in his early 20s, he turned up to like a really rough neighborhood dressed as Santa Claus. And the first thing he does, he walks in and one of the parents goes, you're not fucking Santa. And the kids are like, boo, boo Santa.

So that was his job. That's what he used to do. That's the worst position you're in because like regular Santa, like he's got all the presents. So you might maybe like, well, I could rob this guy, but he's pretty big. So you don't know what he's going to do. But thin Santa.

I know thin Santa. What's he up to though? Maybe he's done some time, you know? Some guys are just thin and wiry. Maybe he's got a teardrop tattoo below his eye. You know he's killed a guy. That's exactly it. Do you want some new dates for some movies that have been shifted about?

I do. Godzilla vs. King Kong has been pushed back to next year, May of 2021. That's ages away. I know. I feel like that movie's never going to come out. May. But never going to come out. The Matrix 4 has been pushed back to 2022.

That's a war further away. I know. Wonder Woman has been pushed from August of this year to October. That's going to make way for Tenet because that is- People say we pronounce that incorrectly and it's true. I'm aware of the term Tenet. No, it's Tenet. Okay, good.

Tenet. That's what it says. We've committed to this. That's what I'm doing. So we're going to continue with it. That's why everybody says Gal Gadot even though apparently that's not how you pronounce it. But even she's committed to it now. That's right.

This is what it's known as. She's like, hey, everyone, it's me. Gal Gadot, even though apparently that's not how you pronounce it. But even she's committed to it now. That's right. This is what it's known as. She's like, hey, everyone, it's me, Gal Gadot. Anyway, I'm here to sing Imagine again. The celebrities are at it again this week. They did another thing. I saw it. I didn't watch the whole thing. No, I couldn't.

I can't. I'm not going to subject myself to any more of this. You've been through enough, Mason. But this time it's all what they did with this one is they fixed the formatting they were all like now they clearly were sent they were all sent a style guide yeah they were like now all it's okay it's got to be black and white and you've got to barrel the camera you've all got to be in an empty room yeah staring forward and you gotta like these say this exact thing yeah because i think that we're going to avoid

any silliness and mockery if you don't sing and do it seriously. Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, they shouldn't have featured the line, look, we're all here in an empty room of one of the many rooms in our mansions and we're saying that we're going to be very responsible but we're not going to donate any money. Yeah, I appreciate that. That's really good.

So that's, yeah, so, I mean, people are trying and I guess that's the hardest part to kind of reconcile for me. It's like they're trying, I guess. You know what I mean? It's not malicious. No. Or is it? Or is it just like an attention grab for some people?

I don't know, man. Are we better than anybody? No. Look, all I want, and I've said this before, all I want out of all of these is like at one day, maybe soon, just from one of the celebs, just an oral history of those videos. I want to know who was asked, who flat out refused, who just didn't produce on the day. Who do you go through?

Do you go directly to people? Do you have to go through management? Exactly. Like who was asked through management, who was texted, who was strong armed by by people who were like you got to do we work together we'll cut you out of this movie if you're not if you don't appear on this i think it'd also be like if you have a relationship with somebody because you just filmed wonder woman you'd be like well i have to chris pine wasn't

it that was he no well you did mention that yeah so that's he seems like he's off the grid though doesn't he yeah a little bit, yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I can imagine him wearing a letterman's jacket standing in an empty field. Okay, sure. Just reliving past glories, you know. Oh, he may be sitting on a fence.

Yeah, he's probably sitting on an old wooden fence. Yeah, so to net is push back two weeks to late July. Only two weeks? That's interesting. Yeah, I think it's they want to make sure that they're well clear and everything is open. Yeah. Even though the pandemic is very much still happening, please wear masks if you can and be careful.

And so Wonder Woman is then being pushed back because then that would knock into Wonder Woman. Because Tenet will be the only big release. Yes. So why would Warner Brothers then two weeks later they go, and now it's Wonder Woman. Let's add some competition to our own movie. Exactly.

Anyway, we're all very excited for 10 Nets. Yes, we are. Yeah, so that's cool. Yeah, I'm glad if it's still coming out, which it is. If we get invited to the premiere, the Melbourne premiere, which sometimes we are. I don't know how these things work. Often I'm off the list because they'll send a thing like,

just fill out this form and keep us updated and you've got to fill out all your followers and all your everything. And I'm sometimes just like, fuck this. I don't care. I don't care that much. I'm just not going to go. Yeah, do you want to go to that one? I wouldn't mind, yeah.

I don't know if I would. I don't want to go in a room with like 400 people. James, let's put fancy suits on. Backwards. Backwards, right? Like where, you know, those guys, crisscross. Crisscross, yes. Just like those guys crisscross.

I saw a theory recently on Tenet that it's less a time travel movie or a time inversion movie, but it's more a slipping into an alternate reality movie. Slipping into an alternate reality movie. That makes sense. Right. So you're like, kind of like a Rick and Morty thing. They're always doing it, aren't they?

Like an alternate reality. This is a slightly different whatever. Yeah, precisely. So like something's happening and you're like, I want to do that a different way and then you slip into an alternate reality. Okay, I got you. But I don't know where the inversion part slips in.

Anyway, we'll know shortly. We will. They'll explain it. Because one of the characters will be like, what is a tenet? And then I was like, well, the thing about tenet is, and then they'll tell us. And us, the audience, will then know what a tenet is. But how do I tenet if I'm out of tenet energy?

You've got to recharge your tenet energy using a tenet force field shield. I'm really excited for this movie. It's great. Yeah. I could write movies. What if this is the one where Nolan has just given up and that's actual dialogue. And there's a lot of characters just shrugging.

You don't know if it's the character shrugging or the actor shrugging. And they're all, they're like often you'll see, you'll see like Pattinson, like he's clearly looking off screen to Nolan who's just out of frame. And Nolan's just like, just Phil, say something about Force field. It doesn't matter.

Everyone's going to see this. I'm the king of the movies. I don't care. There's no, I'm going to win. Like the facade disappears and he's just like, I'm going to be the winner of movies. Me, Christopher Nolan. I love how he's sitting in on the edit.

He's like, yeah, leave that. Absolutely leave that. Just leave it in, yeah. Great. Anyway, I'm excited. Me too. Did you watch any of the PS5 exclusive reveal event? I did watch a few of them, yeah.

I watched the whole 40 minutes or whatever it was. So there's a few things I want to talk about in particular, but they mentioned the Hitman 3, which is the second Hitman 3 maybe? It is at least the second Hitman 3, yeah. So this is the, yeah, so the most recent couple of Hitman movies have sort of been back to basics. You mean Games Mason. I said movies, didn't I?

Yeah, that's okay. I like movies. Sure. The Last of Us is just better than movies, isn't it? It's better than movies. Yeah. It's many mediums. I'll stake my life on that, having not played the first one.

And the second one isn't out yet. That's right, this week. Are you getting it? Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I mean, you should play the first one, right? Do I have to? Yeah.

You want to borrow it? I got it. Okay, I'll borrow it. Yeah, cool. Yeah. I'll be sure to play the first one, all right? Do I have to? Yeah. You want to borrow it? I got it. Okay, I'll borrow it. Yeah, cool. All right, so we're going. Okay. What were we talking about? Oh, Hitman.

Yeah, so the first two were kind of like back to back because the original one sort of got a little bogged down in storyline and here's the origin of Hitman and isn't it sad and, you know? It is a bit sad, yeah. But the most recent couple have just been like, you know, here's some assassination missions. This time you're going into the suburbs and you've got to kill a man by fumigating his house or whatever.

Yeah, right. Isn't there one where you rig like an ejector seat in a cockpit and kill a guy that way? Seems likely. So, yeah, I like how they're doing it now with their open world kind of maps and you kind of got to do it a few times to kind of work yeah there's like yeah yeah and there's sort of escalation modes where it's like you know uh you've got to just kill first first just kill this guy second you've got to kill him by pushing him off a balcony third you've got to push him off a balcony and no one can see you and you know

it's like absolutely yeah so um and also the recent ones i'm pretty sure this one isn't they released they released them in like chapters as well oh yeah but i also kind of hate that me too but i'm excited for this i'll probably get hitman 3 yeah okay would you get the other ones though the other newer ones yeah probably yeah i think the last one i played was blood money which was like ps2 maybe i can't remember the last one i played it doesn't it was no it was it was the sad storyline one and I enjoyed it. Yeah. But a lot of people.

The one where he's in a coffin? Because that's the end of Blood Money. They think he's dead and he's in a coffin. Oh, I can't remember. Yeah, cool. It's the one where you actually have to go to a nunnery and kill a bunch of people in a nunnery. Dressed as a nun?

You can dress as a nun. That's cool. Pretty cool, right? I mean, it undercuts the serious tone and the sadness if you're dressed as a nun. I think it's the coolest thing. Horizon 2 Forbidden West. Very excited for that one. Did you play the first one? No, but I...

What are you even doing? I'm just excited for new things. It looks good. It looks great. There's more... It seems to be there's more weird wildlife. Like the last one looked to be mostly just robot dinosaurs or whatever. Yeah, absolutely. This one's got a robot woolly mammoth. Yeah, a robot woolly mammoth.

Resident Evil 8, werewolves. It is, isn't it? Village. Yeah, I am immensely disturbed by all the most recent Resident Evil games. Too spooky? Too spooky. You're talking about even the remakes ones? No, actually, no.

No, the remakes seem. See, that's the thing. The remakes are kind of like traditional action horror kind of thing. Yeah, like third-person affairs. And I get a handle on them, but like Resident Evil 7, super weird. Did you play it? A little bit. I played the demo.

Didn't like it. Get your hand cut off. Oh, no. It's unpleasant. Yeah. And then stapled back on. How? I don't know.

Have you got like a new, like if you've got like a virus, like I'm healing rapidly. Not really. Just get your hand cut off. Don't like it. I don't know. Have you got like a new, like if you've got like a virus, like I'm healing rapidly. Not really. Just get your hand cut off. I don't like it. I don't like that either. Yeah. And you're facing, you sort of fight this horrible,

unkillable zombie family. Yeah, they keep coming back or whatever. I don't like it. So you bought it? No, but I did play it. Okay, cool. I bought it. I, yes, I played two.

I quite like two, the remake. But then it's a lot of like you've got to get the key, you open the lock, but the lock has like a code in it and you're going to get that code because you've got to go back to the precinct and talk to the guy. And I'm like, I hate all of this. Apparently the third one is much more straightforward, but people don't.

It's shorter. People are like, it's not as good because it's less to do. But that sounds better to me. Just like just go forward. Not stuck in the one place, just doing laps. Yeah, I guess because the problem with the remakes, I guess, is they're sort of, not entirely, but they're sort of beholden to the old, the original versions.

And Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, they were kind of still figuring out the formula, I think, which is how you get confusing backtracking and complicated locking systems. And you just then you have to look at every document to find a code and whatever. That's not your jam at all. It's not doing it. I understand.

I get people love that, but I do not. I don't have time for any of that shit. Often if I get to a locker and I'm like, I don't know where the code for this is, but if I just look up the code online, it will still open. Right. And I'm like, now I have the shotgun. Great.

Good. Very cool. I think they're probably working on Resident Evil 4 as a remake, which I recently played through again on the Switch. Which one's that again? That's the one that went to the third person shooter. And it's like the basis of like all third person shooters. You're in the weird village.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a chainsaw gun. And 5 is the one in Africa. 5 is the one in Africa. Yeah, 4 has a chainsaw job. He's got a sack on his head. Yeah, I remember that one. Yeah. So, but that one's more difficult Joe. He's got a sack on his head. Yeah, I remember that one. Yeah.

But that one's more difficult to remake because it's constantly shifting and you're constantly moving forward. So you don't just build the one place. You've got to keep building everything. Oh, I see. Right, right, right. Because it's like a 20-hour kind of narrative. Yeah.

Anyway, Ratchet & Clank, new Ratchet & Clank. Speaking of werewolves, did you see the trailer? I don't think it was part of this. Yes. But did you see the trailer for Werewolf the Apocalypse? Yes, I did. It looks cool. What is that exactly?

Well, that's a White Wolf game. So White Wolf was the role-playing game. They're still around. The role-playing game company, they came up with Vampire the Masquerade. Okay. Which is also- Masquerade!

Every vampire on parade. Masquerade. Yeah, the musical. That's exactly right. Yeah, we all love that musical. It's good, isn't it? But that's in there as well. I think think vampire the masquerade bloodlines too great which looks good but it's the same universe yes i don't know if the games are crossing over probably not

so do you reckon it might be like that wolf among us kind of similar no i think it's going to be a rip and tear kind of oh sorry i mean it's in like it's like a parrot like it's the same universe but told in a different way or do you think it's like an expansion of the universe? Am I asking the right questions? No, I don't know what you're talking about. So is it set in the universe, the existing universe? Of Vampire the Masquerade. And they're using it.

I don't know. I can't see any confirmation. Or Werewolf the Masquerade or whatever. What's it called? Vampire the Masquerade. But it's a werewolf one. Werewolf the Apocalypse, yes. Okay, yeah.

So is it set in that universe or do you think it's a fresh start? That's what I mean. It doesn't seem to that universe or do you think it's like it's a fresh start? That's what I mean. It doesn't seem to be any references to vampire in the werewolf trailer. So I don't think so. I don't even know if they're the same developer. Okay. Should have looked it up, but I didn't. Is it a third-person action adventure?

We don't really know. The werewolf one was just sort of a cutscene trailer. Oh, okay. Yeah. I did see it and I went, hmm, werewolves are back in a big way. That's right. Yeah. And it's also interesting.

I'm sort of fascinated by what the game mechanic is going to be because the player character they show is a guy and he's wearing cargo pants and a big vest with all tactical stuff or whatever. But then when you're a vampire, you're nude. You mean werewolf? Yes. When you're a vampire, you're nude. When you're a werewolf, you're a werewolf, a traditional werewolf.

So do you lose all your stuff every time you transform into a werewolf? Oh, that'd be interesting and annoying. Very annoying. Exceedingly annoying. Can't you, like, put your stuff in a little box? Maybe you do that. Yeah, that's what I would do. Maybe you carry a little satchel.

Yeah. Or a bum bag. Bum bag. Or what Americans would call a fanny pack. That's right. Ratchet and Clank, you a fan? Not really, no. There's also, this is unrelated,

but there's a Star Wars Squadrons game that's getting announced. Oh, was that leaked somehow? Yeah, it was leaked and then they confirmed it. Yeah, right. So that'll be, I think by the time this goes out, this will be pretty close to being revealed. But the big, I guess, comic book related reveal was Spider-Man Miles Morales. Yes, and we were very excited.

And we remain excited, but. Yes, it's a PS5 exclusive. It's a standalone, but it's not like a flat-out sequel. It's an expansion. It's a remaster of the original. I don't think so. I think it's its own thing. Okay.

But it's not so much a new game. It's like a, I'm guessing. Yes. That it's like how they do like Assassin's Creed 2 and then they all did Assassin's Creed Bloodlines. It's like a lot of the same stuff. It's an expansion of the universe. But it's not like a whole new.

Do you think it'll be the same New York? I think so, probably, yeah. So they don't have to rebuild New York. No, because it's only been, when did that game come out? Like last year? Yeah. So it'll be like two years and it'd be impossible to build a game like that in two years, and it'd be impossible to build a game like that in two years.

But looking at all these, I'm probably not going to get a PlayStation 5 straight up, because I generally never do. And I don't like to get the first model anyway. What do you think of the look anyway? Of the PS5? I'm indifferent to it. It's certainly a departure from previous PlayStations, right? Just make it a box. I don't understand. not, it's certainly a departure from previous PlayStations, right?

Just make it a box. I don't understand. But no, I don't think it's terrible, but it just doesn't, when you put it on your shelf, it really kind of like, it doesn't match anything else, does it? But I guess that's the point. They want it to be unique and cool. I like the controller and I like the white kind of design of it. Look, I should say I'm a big fan of getting the white version

of whatever console it is. You know why? Because I like it to slowly turn yellow. That's what you want. Like an old appliance, you know, like just an old kettle or something. That's right. Just a fridge. You ever seen one of those old Super Nintendos?

They're yellow as the day is long. That's what I want. I want to know. You can use like a lemon juice and a vinegar. There's something you can get that sheen back. Yeah, yeah i'm gonna put lemon juice and vinegar on my expensive piece of you gotta soak it in electronics just dunk your ps5 in a solution of vinegar and lemon juice it's not that but it's lemon juice and something when you buy it just to prevent it turning yellow you should do that immediately as soon as you get it just just dunk it that works for me buy buy your ps5 and be like excuse me

where's the big bucket and lemon and vinegar aisle because i also need some of those i'm going to preemptively ruin this i also the one that i i don't know if you saw but it's one called death loop oh yeah yeah sort of uh assassins yeah it's like it like an assassin shooter style game uh you're an assassin who's stuck in a time loop. Yes. Groundhog Day slash Russian doll style. And you have to kill everybody. Otherwise the time loop resets. I'm not 100%. Kill everybody, including the other person trying to kill you?

I think so, yeah. Do you think you eventually team up? Maybe. Yes, is the answer to that probably. Yeah. It's a bit spy versus spy, which I think is coming back in some form. Maybe a video game. Maybe it's back.

The Mad Magazine. Do you remember there was like an Amiga or a Commodore game? Yeah, you've got to set traps. You've got to set traps. Kill the other man. Kill the other man. Or woman, I don't know what they were. What were they?

Like rats? They seemed like rats, yes. Anyway, Deathloop looks exciting, but once again, unless it is spectacularly well-reviewed, I probably won't buy a PS5 on launch day. No, me neither, yeah. Because often I feel like the new launch games are, they're okay, but they're not like the staple of what becomes known in that generation.

What? Gran Turismo. Oh. Realistic driving. The thing is, though, what does PlayStation have that is an iconic sort of franchise that should have been a launch title? Uncharted? Uncharted, yeah.

But this time around, you may. I think Spider-Man's a good one. Yeah, right. I think that's probably a safe bet. Last time they did Killzone, which apparently wasn't super well. Yeah, I guess. Sure, okay. I really like the Killzone games. I've been playing Killzone Liberation on my PS Vita. Who's the iconic character from Killzone, which apparently wasn't super well. I guess, sure. I really like the Killzone games.

I've been playing Killzone Liberation on my PS Vita. Who's the iconic character from Killzone? John Murphy. Is it? Really? I don't know. Rico. There's one of the characters called Rico.

It's the guy and he's got like an oven door face and he's got two red eyes. That's the Killzone guy, right? Pretty much, yeah. The famous Killzone guy. Yeah, they're all just a bunch of Nazi Hitlers running around. Great. That's what it is, yeah. But I feel like at least Xbox has Master Chief,

Nintendo has Mario, whatever. Master Chief isn't, I wouldn't say, they're not, the sheen has definitely gone off the Halo games. Yeah, maybe that's probably true, yeah. So I think if they went and a new Halo, people would go, oh. There is a new Halo though, I think. Yes, yeah, exactly. And people went, oh.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. But I'm also not even, like, if this comes out and the Xbox has better games, I'll get that. Whoa. I'll get whatever's the... You're crossing the lines. I'm not loyal to any of these.

I'm loyal to whichever makes games. James, you've got to be loyal. You've got to pick a team and be mad about it. I don't want a home entertainment system that does everything and it's got all, like, I don't need any of that shit. I want to put in a disc and the game starts immediately if you just make it make a console i don't want to use you know you have i want a game system where you put in the disc and it installs for four hours and then you have to and then you have to install the system it's got a

new system it's got a new system update that's what i want i want to be like man i'm so excited to play this game i've got a day off tomorrow i'm going to play this game and then i put the disc in in the morning and i'm like oh that's right it does this day off tomorrow. I'm going to play this game. And then I put the disc in in the morning and I'm like, oh, that's right. It does this every time. Well, now I've got to find something else to do today. That's what I want, James. What I want. That's what games are now.

It's so fucking annoying. Right? And just this idea that you can just fix a game later. It's just ridiculous. Yeah. So that's video games. Destiny 2. That's an Xbox game.

Yeah, people like those, don't they? Yep. Beyond Light. I think Ratchet and Clank is a pretty big... If you look at these titles, Horizon's huge, Hitman's huge, Resident Evil's huge. Oh, yeah, Hitman, that's true. Ratchet and Clank is huge.

They're no Jak and Daxter, though, are they? They are, in many ways. They're very similar. They're very similar. It's no Sly Cooper band of themes. That's true. It's no Banjo-Kazooie, is it? People love those.

I know. But they don't make good ones of those anymore. Remember that when they made a new Banjo-Kazooie and it's like a weird vehicle building game? Oh, that's right, yeah. And people were like, why did you do this? Oh, Assassin's Creed Valhalla. There you go, yeah.

That's not exclusive, though. No, I don't think it is, no. But also, a lot of these aren't. Yeah. Resident Evil 8 is probably not going to be no. But also, a lot of these aren't. Yeah. Resident Evil 8 is probably not going to be exclusive. Is the PS5 backwards compatible or not? I think some of it is. Oh!

I don't understand the logic of not making it backwards compatible. It's harder. You've got to get old games to run on a new system. Yeah. The first PS3 was, and the one that I've got plays, it's not the first one, it's like maybe the second one. I'm pointing at it, everybody. It sure is.

Do people come here to hear us spin our wheels on video games? I don't know. We don't know that much about it. But the PS3, that plays PS1 games but not PS2, which is really annoying because PS2 is my favourite system. So every time you want to play any game on this shelf, you have to check your index cards to see what is still compatible and what you should plug in.

Okay, great. So the PS5 is also, there's a disc version and a digital version, is that right? Yes, that's correct. What are you getting? If I was going to get one, I'd get the disc version. Because of horrible internet? Yes, horrible internet.

And then all of a sudden, a couple of years later, you're like, hey, I'd really like to play that game. And then you realize the server that the game was on doesn't exist anymore. You don't own anything anymore. You don't own anything anymore, right? A lot of the games go that way now where it's, yeah, because they're like, don't worry, you own your game forever. No, I own the game for as long as you exist.

Right. Or until you decide to remove it. Games, but notoriously reliable video game studios. They're going to be around forever, aren't they? Yeah. What's the Quibi equivalent? The equivalent. Thank you.

What's that Google one there? They have a Google one that's horrible. A Google Stadia. Yeah, that's horrible and everybody hates it. And they're like, well, we've got the new Assassin's Creed. Everyone has that. Right? Everybody has that.

Uh-huh. Yeah. I'm going to use equivalent in my daily life now. Nobody's going to understand what that means. No one's going to get it. People will just think you're having a stroke. Yeah. I'm going to use equivalent in my daily life. Nobody's going to understand what that means. No one's going to get it. People would just think you're having a stroke. Yeah. FX is the veil explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the, a mission to reveal it before thousands

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Yeah, please. Heroic Hollywood have mentioned, here's an update on the standalone Superman movie. A standalone Superman movie would not be successful at this time. Perhaps once there's some more momentum after playing a supporting role in some successful DC films, there would be more of a chance for a standalone film. He's on probation is what they're saying.

That's what he is, for being a bad bloke. Yes. Yeah. That sounds insane to me, but okay. Yep. I understand their thinking because they're probably like, well, Superman doesn't make money. Superman makes money if you make good movies, idiot.

Right? Yeah. So. It'd be like saying in 2008, hey, look, we could make an Iron Man movie, but maybe we should put him in some smaller roles and see how he does there. Let's put him in some lesser known properties. Right. See how they do.

See if there's a positive audience response. See if people turn the dial to the left or the right. This is some X-Men Wolverine origins bullshit in terms of like, what are some characters we can launch off? Like, you know what I mean? We'll test the waters. We'll put Gambit

and then we'll see if people like Gambit. It's fucking Superman. Just make a good movie. Right. And other thing is and again there's no competition nope and the other thing is because if because jj abrams could very well direct that movie they're not even sure that they say that if he wanted to recast it he could because he's he's on board and he can do whatever he wants pretty much but uh i i wouldn't. I really wouldn't. But what do I know? Sure. He's famous now.

Like he's known. It's true, yeah. We're talking about this, but he's more famous than he's ever been. So now would be a good time to do it. I agree. Is all I'm saying. And you don't even need to tie it to Batman, Superman or anything. You just make it a –

But the opening scene is he – Gets killed by Doomsday. Exactly. That's right. And then it's just the funeral scene. Batman v Superman. Speaking of Justice League, the last one's out this week for Caravaggio. I think the first scene, if they do a Superman movie,

should be him shaving with heat vision in the mirror. I think that'd be a funny bit. It'd be a funny bit and then people would be like, oh, I get it now. I understand how he does it. Yeah. I mean, us comic book aficionados. We always knew that. Yeah.

Exactly. Why doesn't it melt the mirror? We don't know book aficionados. We always knew that. Yeah. Exactly. Why doesn't it melt the mirror? We don't know. We don't know. We don't know. Did you see the trailer? Also, I think it would be funny if it's like the heat vision that we see in all these movies where it's just like a torrent of laser blasts.

It just absolutely annihilates his bathroom every morning. He's like, Lois, leave the apartment. Okay, here we go. What if he did? Room of mirrors. He's like, Lois, leave the apartment. Okay, here we go. What if he did? Room of mirrors. Yeah, okay, sure. But then it would get his hair. It would get his hair and it would burn his hair.

He'd have to wear a shower cap, a lead shower cap. That's right. Would that even work, lead? No, it would melt it to his head. He'd have to wear a kryptonite shower cap and risk his own death every time he shaves. Yeah. Can't he he i'm trying to think i know there's another answer to that now yes like doesn't he use like a piece of his shiples

like people have specified like i don't know yeah probably good on him also maybe his hair is not actually that strong wow you know it doesn't have to be just say it isn't well but then if but then wouldn't his hair burn off yeah it would burn off when he goes into space yes mason yes yes yes but maybe it grows back really fast but then yeah why isn't his hair long all the time good question maybe he's got some sort of genetic evolutionary defense mechanism where his hair burns off very quickly yeah but it also grows back very quickly yes to a normal length to a normal length. And then it stops. Yes. Whatever the style is of the day. His hair is constantly growing to a certain length and then falling out. Yeah.

Which means that you would know that Superman's, the evidence that Superman has been there and saved the day is just a, it's just like a bearded man's bathroom. Yeah. Just hair everywhere. Just awful. Yeah. Just a trailer pubes everywhere Superman goes.

Oh, gross. They could just say he doesn't grow a beard. It might be the easier way to do it. Yeah, that's right. I mean, he does. And you could say that that's why he's always saving the day because he feels inadequate. Yes.

He can't grow a beard. He can't grow a beard. Yeah. That's okay. So you saw the trailer for Bill and Ted Face the Music. I did. They're sad and old, but they look good. And also they go to a future or a past where they've got muscles in jail.

That's right, they do. It's bizarre seeing Keanu Reeves without facial hair. It's so weird, isn't it? For the first time in a long time. Yeah, I don't like it. Right? I don't like it. He's like a glow worm.

I don't know. It's weird because he's like wrinkle-free. It's like something very upsetting about it. But they look terrific because they're mid-50s. Exactly. You'd think that the beard was hiding something, but it turns out what it's hiding is pristine features. Yeah.

How does he do it? I don't know. Probably surgeries. So the premise of this basically is that they – They were big. They were big and obviously in the past movies the idea was that they created an idyllic society because they created a song that essentially united the whole world.

But now they're in their 50s and they still haven't written the song. Yes, and they're not famous anymore. Yeah. And they go to the future and the future's like, boo, boo. And you killed Rufus. Did they? I don't know. Oh, my God.

Did they? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe that's what united all the know. Oh, my God. Did they? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe that's what united all the people. Yeah, that'd be cool. I like this. I'm well on board. Yeah.

I don't know whether it's going to be good. Is it the original writers or some of them? Some of them, I think. Yeah, maybe. And Solomon, I think, is involved. Okay, cool. Yeah. Who is the Bill and Ted writer and also the original Men in Black writer, I think.

The comic? No, the movie. Which Black writer, I think. The comic? No, the movie. Which one? The first one. The second one? I don't know. The third one? I don't know.

Maybe none of this is correct. I don't know. Not that one. No, I don't think so. I bloody hope not. Yeah. Yeah. We should do an episode or a Caravan of Garbage.

Also, we should look at that horrible live action TV series. I just watched a bit of it on YouTube. We did, though, didn't we? I think we've talked about it. We've talked about it. Okay, right. Have we actually watched it? I watched a bit of it on YouTube. We did though, didn't we? I think we've talked about it, but I don't know. Have we actually watched it? I have watched some of it, but I can't.

It's all on YouTube. There's like eight hours of it. Yeah. Oof. Brutal. But what's weird is there's also a cartoon and they voice themselves, the actors and like the early nineties. Yeah.

Yeah. It's strange that that happened, but yeah. But it's a recast for the show. Obvious. Don't rubber muscle suits look good these days. They sure do, yeah. Bloody hell.

I mean, because I remember the days of Vinnie Jones and it's just come a long way. So that's out in August. I think they actually set a release date now. So that's exciting. We've got a few more bits of news. I'm ready. Did someone say Dracula reboot?

Nope. No one did. No one did, James? No. Did somebody say it? Somebody must have said it. Somebody said Dracula reboot recently, but I think it was in the context of can we please stop doing Dracula reboots.

That last Dracula reboot was bad, they said. Which one? The television series? All of them. What about this? There's a bot on Twitter that just says, that last Dracula reboot was bad. It just says it every hour on the hour, and it's never wrong, is it?

No, it's not. People just see it and retweet, and they go, yes, strong agree. Correct. 50,000 retweets. Yeah, that weird TV series. Is that coming back? Probably. Blumhouse, though.

Yes. They did Invisible Man. So they've said that I think it's something that gets overlooked in the adaptations of Dracula in the past is the idea of multiple voices. I thought you were going to say cloaks in front of the face. They don't do that anymore, do they? You know what I would love if the head of Blumhouse was like, you know what often gets overlooked in these adaptations of Dracula?

It's that Dracula goes, Blair! Blair! Has Dracula ever gone Blair? Maybe, I don't know. Could somebody let us know? Not like a parody. No, just a legit one where he goes, Blair. Blair.

And not the Count from Sesame Street. Yeah. I mean like one of those 1950s ones or whatever. Does he do it? In fact, the book is filled with different points of view, and the one point of view we don't get access to, and all most adaptations give access to, is Dracula himself. They did in that series recently. I feel also in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the one from the 90s,

I think they did all perspectives. Right. It's in that. Anyway, so they say that i would say in some respect there is going to be an adaptation called dracula but it's perhaps not the same kind of romantic hero that's seen in past interpretations of dracula so more monstrous okay sure i'm guessing okay let's do it let's do it let's roll up our sleeves and do another dracula okay let's do it yeah blumhouse though i like Blumhouse, sure.

I mean, they're hit and miss, but their monster stuff is, the one that they've done has been good. That's true, yeah. And we can then extrapolate that every monster thing they do from this point will be good. Exactly. So there you go. Dracula's coming to get you.

Blair. Blair. All I'm saying is we do a modern interpretation of Dracula, set in the modern day, and it's an allegory for something else. Phones. Yep. Or, you know. Big business.

Big business. Something important, capitalism, rampant capitalism or something like that. But he's got the slicked back hair and, like, the white tie and tails with all the medals. And he's got the cloak that he puts in front of his face and he says, Blair. Yeah. It's all I want.

Who plays him? Who plays him? It's someone slick. The rock. Blah. Thank you. Yeah. All right.

He can't really do it. Blah. Blah. Can he do it? But he's trying his best. Yeah, he can do it. There's just a lot of Instagram progress shots of him just pumping iron at the gym and he's like, doing this for Draculaacula everyone gotta be an authentic dracula people

like no it's just gotta gotta be gotta be pumped like dracula was pumped you know and people like it are you just you're just in the gym anyway aren't you the rock he's like nope gotta be authentic to the spirit of dracula just pump an iron just doing leg presses. Dracula never skipped leg day. He did. He definitely did. He's undead. He doesn't even use his legs. He flies a lot. Yeah. So things are cancelled, but don't worry, they're not really cancelled because they

still exist. Oh, yep. I'm ready. This is the last bit of news. Okay. So Gone With The Wind has been removed. I think it was from HBO or a streaming service. Oh, right.

Uh-huh. The idea was that there was uproar. First of all, who's watching Gone With The Wind? I'm not denying that it's a groundbreaking classic, et cetera, but it's very old and very long. I guess school students that have to watch it. Yes, exactly. So ultimately all that's happened is there's a couple of teachers going,

we're going to have to wait a week. Sorry, everyone, let's watch it different. No, they're not. They're just going to watch it on VHS. They've got it on VHS. They're going to drag out the tray with a big square TV on it and a VHS player. I hope that's still a thing, just rattling down the corridor.

Yeah, that's right. And kids are going to be like, what is this? Yeah. Is this a bomb? Yeah. We felt that to keep this title up without explanation would be an announcement of those depictions and would feel irresponsible.

For those who don't know, there's depictions of slavery in that movie that are very inaccurate because they're just happy and just having a good old time. Yeah, right, right, right. So Wynne brought back a discussion of the historical context and denouncement of the film's racial depictions. It's not going away. It's not going away.

It's going away temporarily. And the other thing is everything that I'm about to mention here then jumped up the charts. So I also think that some of these have just been taken away because they're like we can get a boost here on itunes or yeah yeah oh exactly yeah yeah they're gonna be like we'll take it away and there'll be people like oh how dare they take it away when it comes back i'm gonna watch it a hundred times also there's a lot of stuff going on in the world i don't know if anybody's aware but i think there there is, you know, a movement that is currently happening did not demand the removal of these things. No.

That's not what any of these things are about. This is, I feel like a lot of this is like, again, it's a promotional thing. Or a distraction. It's a distraction. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, nobody actually cares, I feel, about this. Like more than what's actually going on.

Right. Yeah. People understand the historical context. Like Little Britain was removed because that's mostly blackface. Is that even a good show, though? Because I always hated Little Britain. The two people involved in it, I think, have done good things. Yes.

But that's a fucking horrible show. I think the radio show that came before it is better. I've not heard that. But there's more variety in that. It may be on Spotify. Because it's just like the same four skits. Exactly. It's like a very gay man in a village

and then there's someone on a computer and they're like, this computer. And then there's the guy in the wheelchair and they think he can't do anything but he's doing backflips in the background or whatever. Yeah, that's right. It's just like those things again and again. Yeah.

Yeah. But I feel like they got locked into that. They're like, this is what sells. Well, that's what I'm talking about. I think that the radio show had more variety, and I think that when they made the TV series, they were like, get rid of all that. We can't build catchphrases and sell stuff based on all this stuff.

So compact it down to the guy, they're going to the pool, and you think he can't go into the pool. He does a dive in the pool. Yeah, but he's back in the chair before that. Back in the chair before the guy comes back. Yeah, yeah. So Chris Lilley's stuff got removed off Netflix. Good.

Except for the stuff they funded, which is still on there. Did they? Yeah, the one that they paid for is still on there. Really? I didn't know that. They just removed the stuff that, for people who don't know, Chris Lilley is an Australian, I want to say comedian, but I don't agree with that.

He's an Australian guy on TV and he made a bunch of series through the ABC, which is like the government's tv channel yeah i think he has done good stuff i don't think he's done any i like the we can be heroes because i don't think there's no blackface in that one so the premise basically is that he he started off in a series called we can be heroes which is basically the search for the australian of the year is that it and he portrayed all the characters in it yeah like with varying degrees of, like he plays a schoolgirl and he plays a, is there an Asian character? Maybe in that one.

Maybe there is an Asian character. Ricky. Yeah, maybe it is that one, yeah. Yeah, anyway, I think he sucks. But anyway, it got weirder. Just look up Smouse video clip. Oh, yeah, that's, yeah. But also he played a character called uh jonah from tonga yeah yeah

in blackface and it's i also think what he was trying to do was not intentionally racist i don't think he's a malicious person okay right but there's a i think he's certainly a vain person which i think that's because he's like well like i could do this yeah that's what i'm and that's not and the idea like it's the idea that being the creator of this show and a cast of characters, the idea is he has to get all the attention and all the glory. Did he fire writers and stuff as well? Look, I don't know.

But the idea that he has to be Jonah from Tonga and you could hire an actual kid from Tonga because that would take away from him doing the jokes. That's the thing for me. Anyway, I've never thought he's funny. So, but again, still exists. You can buy it on DVD. Many people have.

It's probably on other streaming services. One episode of Fawlty Towers was removed, the one with Don't Mention the War. Here's the thing about that episode. The thing about it is I think a lot of people are upset because it's the Don't Mention the War episode and it's probably thing about that episode. The thing about it is I think a lot of people are upset because it's the don't mention the war episode and it's probably something about Churchill. People are probably upset about Churchill or whatever.

They think that's what it is. But what it is, and a lot of people perhaps don't know this, is there's a character in Fawlty Towers called The Major. He's a retired army general. And in that episode he says the N word a lot of times. I didn't know that. People don't know that because a long time ago most network tv and the bbc i think specifically was like we're going to take this out john cleese

who created faulty tales was like fine yeah and then so every time you've seen it on tv they've taken that bit out right okay but the versions that are on netflix or the the version the streaming version is the unedited version oh Oh, okay. I had no idea. I think every version I've seen of that then hasn't had that. Nobody knows it is, but he says it a lot. I was going to say because the other stuff, there's nothing controversial about that episode. That's why I think people are like, well,

because the whole bit about that episode is some Germans arrive at the Fawlty Towers, the hotel, and Basil Fawlty is like, don't mention the war. That's the whole bit. And I think people have taken that up as the idea of it's saying don't mention a war because you can't say anything these days. That's why. Like they've conflated these whole things.

But that's not what it is. It's the unedited version. And, again, John Cleese has come out and been like, oh, censorship something. But it's like you agreed to this a really long time ago to take it out because it's weird and offensive. Maybe he also doesn't know why. Maybe he also doesn't know why. Maybe he also doesn't know why, right?

Yeah. Doesn't he live in Spain anyway or something? Probably. But anyway, what they're going to do is they're going to take it away. They're probably going to change. Oh, it's back, by the way. Oh, it's back. It's already back.

Well, they've changed the licensing agreement and put the episode that's been edited back in, so it's fine. Yeah, great. Anyway. And they cancelled Cops, but that's definitively cancelled. Right, okay. But again, that show's been going on for like 30 years. 30 years, yeah.

So this is probably the perfect chance to. Definitely. And I think also if you're going to bring it back, you need to retool it because a lot of stuff they show on that aren't fair depictions and they've known to show people or force people to sign things so they appear in the show and it affects their life. And a lot of people also who are arrested in that didn't actually do anything wrong but you don't get

that side of it you get the bit where they get arrested yeah right so you can kind of be ruined to be like by being on that show if you make a mistake i'm not saying that of course they also arrest terrible people in that show because there are terrible people in the world but it's not entirely accurate a lot of time it actually is actively harming people so maybe fix it if you are going to bring it back which i think they will i think it'll just happen oh yeah again this is the perfect opportunity to cancel a thing but also yeah revamp a thing that maybe was not exact anyway i mean not i didn't even know it was on i like i think about cops yeah yeah what are they gonna do next cancel gray's anatomy oh it's still on wow so there you go it's pc gone mad it is pc

gone but also again these aren't the actual issues of things that are actually going on at the moment. No. Yeah, you're right, because people get caught up in it. I saw like a Herald Sun article that was like, it's a culture war, or it's culture vultures, or PC vultures come for culture, or something like that. It's like, because there's also that other thing. James, could we be the PC vultures that are coming for culture? Okay.

That's the new podcast we're going to do for big sandwich. That's the second new podcast. It's called PC vultures coming for culture. Cause there was the call to, there was the call to, the car, the car to, to,

to kill the dog from paw patrol. Cause he's a cop, right. To have him put down. And it was obviously a joke and people don't really care that there's a police dog in this show for kids. But then I also saw another article that's like, they're trying to cancel Paw Patrol.

They're not trying to cancel Paw Patrol. You're an idiot or you know this and you're still writing this article. They're just trying to take his taser away. That's right. So I don't know, man. What a time we live in. What a time to be alive. Yeah.

But I look at any of these things that have been cancelled and also still exist. They're not even, who cares? Like they don't, they're not even relevant things that are. Well, and again, if you were like, if you were so incensed that they took Fawlty Towers away or one episode of Fawlty Towers for a day, if you're such a big fan of Fawlty Towers, surely you have it on DVD already. Do you?

No. You've got it. I don't know if I do. I don't have it. All right. Yeah. It's a funny show. Yeah.

Except for that bit that you said they took out. Right? Yeah. I saw an episode recently. It was good. Yeah. It was the one where the guy dies in the hotel. That was a good episode.

Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. It's a real comedy of errors. They have to keep moving the body around. How are they going to do it? I'd just wait for the police if I were hotel. That was a good episode. Yeah. Yeah. So there you go. It's a real comedy of errors. They have to keep moving the body around. How are they going to do it? I'd just wait for the police if I were them. Just wait for the police, yeah.

Like, culture, PC vultures come from culture, don't they? Yeah, and again, like, it's... It's PC gone mad. That's what you were going to say. Exactly. It's PC gone mad. Yeah, it's not censorship if a company like Netflix is like, we don't want to put this on our streaming service anymore.

Yeah, and our private. Yeah. If the government was like, we're banning all screenings of Fawlty Towers, that would be censorship. That would be censorship. But you'd still have your DVDs. That's right.

No, no, they're taking the DVDs away. What? Yeah, that's right. Good thing we don't have any DVDs. Wooing. Nice, nice. I don't. I don't have any DVDs.

I think I've got a copy of Spider-Man 2 somewhere. That's the extent of my DVD collection. I hope they don't come for it. Do you think they would? They might. Oh, no. They might. Yeah, it's PC got mad over there, obviously.

It really is, yeah. Anyway, there are more important things in the world than Gone with the Wind. And Spider-Man 2, unlikely. That's one of the best Spider-Man movies. It is, isn't it? Have you ever seen Gone with the Wind? No. No, me neither. It's just never really.

I'm not saying, apparently it's breathtaking in many ways. I'm sure it is. But yeah, I also think it is interesting that what I think... People seem to miss the fact that it's coming back with the context around it. It's like, I know when they... Some things on Disney Plus are like, this is racist, but we're leaving it here.

This is the context around it. Yeah, right. It's an important historical arte artifact because these were the perceptions at the time, but be aware this is not cool. Sure, yeah. I think there's value in that. There's a little. Don't you think?

In the description it's like, action, fun for families, not cool. So, you know. Sometimes you can just search by not cool. That's right. But don't you think that's interesting to then have a discussion around that? Yeah, I think so too, yeah. To put things within the context of when it was created? Yes.

Yeah. Anyway, that's just my thoughts. Anyway, what are we reading? And that's just my thoughts. That's your new segment. That's just my thoughts. What are we reading? Oh, what are we going to read?

Theme song. Nice. I'm doing a theme. Don't do it,ames westworld you loved it last week yeah i've changed i've come around again i'll get you back yeah maybe maybe you will yeah look i think we both attempted to watch something this week i can tell you we both attempted to watch artemis foul yeah uh which was gonna be was gonna have a cinema release yes i think it was dumped on disney plus but perfect timing for them for the pandemic by the way to slowly kill this movie right yeah i'm gonna check the budget it looks expensive it does isn't it yeah uh

yeah and so it's been dumped to streaming and i feel like it's definitely been dumped to streaming yeah oh 125 million US dollars. That's a lot of money to put, yeah. And I don't think they're not making that back on new subscriptions. There's not people out there going like, well, I've got to get Disney Plus for Artemis Fowl. That's right. So Artemis Fowl is a boy.

Oh, yes. But he's a detective. I didn't get very far. I could have had two minutes in. Well, here's the thing. I've never read the books. But the premise, as I understand the books, is he is some sort of – he's a child evil criminal mastermind. Yes.

But in this, he's just a kid. But he's the best kid. He's smarter than the psychologist or something. Yeah. Isn't he? Yeah. The psychologist is like, you should be nice, Artemis Fowl. And Artemis Fowl is like, yeah, but your chair isn't an authentic antique, is it?

Checkmate, idiot. Yeah. You big bearded dumbass. That's what he said. He says that. Yeah. And here's the thing. It's a kid's movie.

Yep. Directed by Kenneth Branagh. Yep. Who has made a lot of good movies, including. Thor 1. Thor 1. Hamlet. Yes.

Jack Ryan's Shadow Recruit. I haven't seen it. Cinderella, I think, is the best live-action Disney adaptation. There you go. I said that before. Death on the Nile is coming up because he did the murder and the whatever. Or any express, yeah. But he's had his fair share of things that weren't well received.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was a lambast bastard at the time, wasn't it? Yes. But, yeah, what I was going to say is this is a kid's movie and in the first ten minutes nothing happens. Yeah. Because they're like there's magic. But is there? How far in?

The first ten minutes it's like here's Artemis. He's a boy and he loves Ireland. He loves going for a surf. He loves sitting in his mansion. His dad's there and every night his dad tells him about the fairies. I'm Josh Gad. I'm in this. I'm clearly, I've been brought in to narrate this

because they didn't film enough stuff for us. I'm here to fill in the gaps and explain some things that were not adequately explained in the movie. But it's also 90 minutes because I feel like they must have hacked a lot out of this, right? Yeah, maybe. Again, having watched four minutes of it. I watch maybe half an hour and it is just...

Everybody's been given the Batman voice. Josh Gad has a Batman voice. Judi Dench has a Batman voice in this. Really? You didn't get to Judi Dench, did you? No. She's like the head of the... Elves or something?

Yeah, she's head of the fairy police, essentially. Does she have a gun? She doesn't seem to have a gun, no. Okay, all right. Whatever. Is she big? She's regular duty dance sized. What makes them fairies?

They just live in a fairy world. Do they fly? Not all of them, no. What do you mean not all? They have wings? No. So they're not fairies? They're fairies because they live in a fairy land.

Come on. I wasn't entirely paying attention, but listen. But it's basically his dad gets kidnapped and he goes off to live. He goes to, he has to investigate his dad's kidnapping. And the idea in the books, the first one at least, he's a supervillain. He's the bad guy. But in this he's not. He's just a kid on an adventure.

Also, I watched half an hour of it. I don't think he leaves his mansion. Like he sends other people off. He sends his butler to investigate a thing. Who's his butler? Some guy, I don't know. Kenneth Brown?. Like he sends other people off. He sends his butler to investigate a thing. Who's his butler? Some guy, I don't know. Kenneth Branagh? No, just a guy.

Yeah. Okay. Anyway, nothing happens in it and it's boring and it sucks. I think you're alone on that. People love this movie. Do they? Yeah. Intriguing.

No, it's horrible. Everyone hates it. Yeah. So, I don't know. What do you say about this movie? It doesn't even feel like it's recognizably Kenneth Branagh in any way. It's just a Disney movie. Does he have like a particular flair?

No, he does a lot of those angles. Dutch. Yes, he does a lot of those. There's a lot of those. Is that only Thor though? Maybe. No, I think it's in other things as well. Okay, yeah.

I don't know. It feels just like your Nutcrackers and your whatever. Yeah, I feel like maybe they got him because he was in a Harry Potter, right? Yeah, he's in two, yeah. I feel like they were like- You understand magical worlds. I understand these magical worlds. Bring this guy in.

But it's just dull. And I guess I shouldn't have been surprised at the idea that Disney would take a property where the main character is the bad guy and just turn him into just a boy on an adventure yeah don't you think it would have been i mean you could build to that though couldn't you to him being a criminal mastermind yeah um no like no sorry you start him evil and then you build to a redemption yeah i think that would be but i don't think disney even wants that i think i think they missed the trick here. This was a very popular. Magic trick. Magic trick.

It seems like it's a very popular and beloved series. Yeah. And they could have built something like a Harry Potter if they had looked at this properly. Instead, this thing, isn't it? And he's the best. He's the best kid in the world. That's what I got from the start.

They're like, he's the best kid. You don't even understand him. It's nice to see Colin Farrell, though. He looks good. It's nice to have him being a bit partner in a fantasy movie potential franchise. He was in Dumbo. That's what I'm talking about. He's going to be back for Dumbo 2.

That's what I get. There's two Dumbos this time. Whoa. Yeah. One of them. Evil Dumbo. A good Dumbo and palette swap Dumbo. That's right.

Wow. It's regular Dumbo and then other Dumbo and he's a slightly darker shade of grey but smoke comes off him all the time. Oh, and he's got the clown makeup on. That's right. All the time. All the time. Yeah.

Nice. So there you go. I haven't been watching anything else except for a lot of things that I've watched. But what I did start to read was the 80th Joker anniversary 100 page super spectacular. Oh, yes. Which is a whole lot of Joker short stories. You got your Brian Azarello's, your Tony Salvador, Daniel, your Paul Dini's, a bunch of people coming together.

Jock is doing art. I like Jock. And a bunch of different people doing arts. So yes, it's, it's, you know, it's like a whole lot of different short stories coming together as, as one and it's good. I've read most of them. So they all tie in together.

Yeah. They, I know, but they, but they're all, I've read most of them. So they all tie in together. Yeah. Oh, no. But they're all. They're all about the Joker. So they tie in in that respect. One of them is a universe where Batman has been killed and what the Joker would do, which has got a bit of a twist ending. And it's a bit of a joke ending.

You're like, oh, he would do that, wouldn't he? That's classic the Joker. I haven't read it, but I already know that is classic the Joker. Yeah. So, yeah, if you like the Joker and comics, totally check it out. I like both of those things. I mean, you know, I like The Joker less these days. Why?

Because of all the Joker stuff. Oh, there's too many. Yeah. There's too many. I'll put him in a thumbnail, though, on Sunday. Because he's popular. Perfect. I'm not going to not do it, Mason.

Yeah, you're not an idiot. Yeah. I know where the money is. That's right. Yeah. Joker content. That's right. It's the to not do it, Mason. Yeah, you're not an idiot. Yeah. I know where the money is. That's right. Yeah. Joker content. That's right. It's the Jared Leto one too.

I'm rolling the dice a bit on that. But I feel like people come either way because they're like, I hate this guy. Yeah, yeah. Or I love him. But you did consider Joaquin Phoenix Joker. Well, because it's related to theories in the episode we did last week and fan theories.

Oh, yeah, right, right, right. And it was the Lazarus Pit one. So that's why I used that one. Perfect. I want it to be airtight and bulletproof. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like our Batman v Superman review, which everybody loves. Of course.

Yeah. What else have you been reading, though? Or is that everything? I think that might be just about everything. Very good. My wife is chasing my son around the garden with a rake. She's going to get him finally. Oh, my goodness.

Oh, I've been watching a lot of episodes of Always Sunny. Oh, you're back on that, aren't you? It turns out that I tapped out at like season five. So I have years to get through. But it's still good. I mean, again, you know, there's some probo stuff in there. Yeah, but it evolves. Yeah, it does.

Yeah, yeah. And they are the worst people in the world. Yes, exactly. It makes sense that you're not supposed to celebrate, nor would you want to be any of those people on any level. There's no, like, I feel like, you know, when you talk about, you know, maybe Rick and Morty or something like that, Rick is a horrible person, but you go, but he saves the world and he's cool and he has sex

with alien ladies and everybody loves him except for his family, you know, whatever. Yeah. But the characters from Always Sunny, even if they're like. Ripped. Even if they're ripped or they're like saying cool things or like you know going on crazy adventures and just doing whatever they feel like man at the end they're just like sitting in a pool eating like a like an empty pool covered in mud and eating garbage like there's no there's no there's the

the balance is way in favor of them they They never win. They're always the losers. Maybe status quo is the best case scenario. Yeah, right. But often also they'll devolve in terms of how far they get in life. You know what I mean? So they never get better. They either stay the same or get worse, which I enjoy. There's gunfire outside.

I don't know if the listeners can hear it. That's the chainsaw you bought my son. I did buy a son a chainsaw. I don't know if that's public knowledge, but I did buy him a fun chainsaw. I'm not sure if people could hear that, but yeah, my son. I'm glad he's getting some use out of it. Yeah, so Mason bought my son. He's chainsawing your wife.

Look out. Well, she came at him with a rake. That's true. So for those who don't know, Mason bought my son a toy chainsaw, which he was like really cool with. And then one of his friends came around to use it and went to cut a tree and was like, what the fuck?

It was like really upset that it didn't actually cut. Oh, he hadn't used it. He went for months. No, my son knows it's not real. But the kid, I think he was a bit younger and he was like, yes, finally, a chainsaw for me. And your son was like, you imbecile. Imagine thinking that this chainsaw would actually chainsaw anything.

So there you go. Next segment, mate. Let's do some letters. Yeah. The classic one was letters, oh letters. We love you. Some letters, they're only a take away. I know they're here right now.

We're going to do letters. Hey, it's latest time. Hashtag weekly planet pod on Twitter. Send us through some tweets. I got less tweets this week than last week, but there were still some tweets. But if you want to send more tweets, I love them. I love reading them. Is that a timing issue?

Because you would have put out the tweet. You'd have been like, hey, do you have any questions? No, I go back through the week. Oh, I see. I look through. I go hashtag and then I go latest and then I go back. Oh, my goodness. And then I go back through the week. Oh, I see. I look through. I go hashtag and then I go latest and then I go back. Oh, my goodness. And then I go that way.

But yeah, also weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com. That's right. Also, we probably will try to do next week entry point comics for like your main superhero stuff. Like your Supermans, your Batmans, your Wonder Womans, your Spider-Mans, et cetera. You're stuck inside. You want to get into comic books, but you don't know where to start because there's a million, billion characters and a million, billion, trillion different versions of all those characters.

That's right. Well, we'll start you off. But I was going to also say, if you've got suggestions, send them too. Yes, exactly. And we will read out some or none. Speaking of, this is an email from Lawrence Lobdell. He says, Watchmen the book, not the HBO series. He says, I've started reading Watchmen and now I'm depressed.

Just thought I'd share. Grab that gem, you guys, or don't, whatever. Thank you, Lawrence. Hey, look, I'm happy to read that out. Started, though, because maybe they get to the end and they're like, oh, this is a bit of a cheery read, isn't it? This ending's really cheered me up, hasn't it? Check it out, Mason.

Oh, hello. Your son, for people who can't see it, which is everyone, he's riding on a little razor scooter, but it's like a training razor scooter because it's got two front wheels. He's got his little helmet on and he's riding away like he's done a crime. He's got the face of a man. Oh, he's off. See, he packs it.

Packing it away, yeah. And then they go like 20 feet and then he'll take it off and then he's like, I'm done. I don't know what he's up to. Yeah. That's what we were saying, so yeah. He's got the look of a man who's like. Guilt.

He looks like a man who's like dinged your car door with his door and he knows you've seen it but he's like what are you gonna do about it you know you just walk it like what are you gonna be gonna do absolutely what's uh do you have another letter or i can do a tweet james i've got so many letters uh this one is uh this is from zachary so james and may so uh i've been looking for a reason to send an email to you at great mates. I've been a subscriber on YouTube for years now, but I regularly listen to the podcast on road trips. However, once the pandemic hit, I became unemployed

and had to get a job at Domino's. So that's bad, but also good. You got a job. That's good. The only thing that's got me through my six-hour driving days has been this podcast. Thank you for making the best podcast ever. That's very nice of you, Zachary.

Thank you. P.S. That's from Zach from Atlanta. P.S. Is there an official Domino's drive for the podcast? If not, can I fill that position? Absolutely.

You can. I will take, I'll take a deep dish meat lovers. I think I'll get a Hawaiian. Okay, cool. All right. We'll,

we don't tip. We don't tip. we'll see you in 30 minutes. Otherwise we get these for free. You should tip, tip your delivery people. Give them cash straight up. I do give them cash.

I got, I got a lot of fives on me to give a, give a, give a delivery. Where are you getting your fives from? You got a guy? Go to the bank. You go to the bank. I go to them cash. I get a lot of fives on me to give a delivery. Where are you getting your fives from? You got a guy? Go to the bank. You go to the bank and get fives.

And I go to the ATM and I take out some money. And then you go in. No, there's a change machine. Is there? And you put it in and then the change comes out. I don't have that. Yeah, because you can only get like 50s out of the machines. Yeah, yeah.

You put them in the change machine. Or whatever denomination they happen to have at the time. And then it's like, do you want a receipt? And you're like, no, and it gives you a receipt anyway. It's just checking to see if you want a receipt. Oh, okay. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Anyway, I'm glad.

That's good. That's very fortunate. Absolutely. Because, man, it's tough out there. Look at him go. He's back. He's back. He's smiling this time.

He's having a grand time. This is from Griff, hashtag Black Lives Matter on Twitter. Hey guys, hope you're both well with the announcement of the next, and with the announcement of the next Spider-Man game, what villain do you guys really want to fight? Seeing as most of the cynicism in the last one. Also any new skills Miles should have over Peter

for the interesting gameplay. Well, the shock, the venom strike. He can turn invisible. And invisible. Those are the things. Yeah. Does he have a different kind of spider sense?

Maybe. I couldn't say. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. They're all different. They're all. Spider-Man has different spider sense depending on the cut. Well, that's the thing.

But I also, you know, the ability to like generate a spider shock, I guess what does that do in terms of gameplay? Because otherwise it's just a big punch. But he also, in the previous game, you could get electric fists. I remember that, yeah. So they'll have to tweak it so it's different from that, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's also a smart way to do that game because-

Maybe it guarantees a heart attack. Oh. You tap somebody and they're like, ah. Wouldn't you love that? Yeah. Ah. Why did you do this? I guarantee you it would defibrillate someone in there.

Yeah, for sure. But I think it's also smart because it's making it a new game where you build up your character from the start. Do you know how often you start like God of War 2? It's like you've got all your powers and it's like we've taken all your powers and you've got to get all your powers back. So this way it's like you could do it every game. You could do a Spider-Gwen one.

You could just do them forever. Oh, and they sort of learn and evolve their powers. Yeah, yeah to get all your powers back. So this way it's like you could do it every game. You could do a Spider-Gwen one. You could just do them forever. Oh, and they sort of learn and evolve their powers. Yeah, yeah, right. That's the thought. Yeah, as a mechanic, I'm mixed on that one because there's a whole bunch of games where you start out with your godlike abilities and then they're like, surprise, no more powers.

One of the Castlevania games or whatever. Yeah. But also oftentimes there's no tutorial in that opening. Oh, yeah. There's no tutorial in the opening sequence. So it's just you mashing buttons and, like, shooting out lasers and chains and fireballs and then it's like, God's taking away your powers. And you're like, oh, come on.

Now I'm just a bum on the streets. That's right, yeah. Anyway, I'm mixed on it. Me too. What about villains do you want to see? Who are his villains? He's got his own green goblin. James, I'll mixed on it. Me too. What about villains do you want to see? Who are his villains? He's got his own green goblin. James, I'll level with you.

I have no idea what his villains are. He's got like a big demon green goblin in his universe. Oh, I see. Like the spite of it. Oh, yeah. Well, that's the thing. I guess we could do. But he's not in a different dimension.

No, he's in this dimension. So I was going to say Lady Doctor Octopus. Yes. But you could also, the green goblin hasn't been revealed yet. Yes. So you could. Well, that's that.

I think that the James debate has been raging because obviously the green goblin is it's he's arguably Spider-Man's arch nemesis. People would say it's probably Venom now or, you know, there, there, there are options, but I feel like for a long time,

he was the, he was the big bad for Peter Parker, Spider-Man. So do you introduce the green goblin in this? Would they be willing to hand over a major villain to the Peter Parker's Spider-Man. So do you introduce the Green Goblin in this? Would they be willing to hand over a major villain to the Miles Morales Spider-Man? I think Peter will also be a playable character anyway. Oh, you think so?

Because we've got Mary Jane in the last one. And Miles Morales. And then this, Jonah Jameson playable character. Oh, that'd be terrific. He's got one button. It's demand pictures of Spider-Man. It's just him walking around an office. You go to various characters and you demand pictures of the coffee machine yep that's right just shout into it

uh you could do prowler it's his uncle that's true that would be great that would probably be the way you'd do it yeah also i guess if you could do kingpin you do the spider-verse you just do spider-verse i'm sure they will yeah i get you know that's very fertile ground for like those ideas prowler would be good i think think, also because what, you know, in the original PS4 Spider-Man, Spider-Man has been fighting crime for a while. He's been fighting villains for a while. Yeah.

So it makes sense that he can come up against, you know, like the Shocker or Electro or Doctor Octopus, you know, these very powerful villains. It would make more sense if Miles Morales is just starting out to fight more street-level villains. Yeah, okay. So Prowler would work. Yep.

You can even bring villains back from the previous game. There's that Tombstone guy or whatever. Oh, yeah, that would work, yeah, yeah. The Stone Man or whatever. Yeah. I think we'll see some overlap with villains. Oh, definitely, yeah. But, no, that's, yeah, again, it's not a game that I will go out and buy a PlayStation 5 for.

I will get to it. But, yeah, I think it's great. I think it's really cool. And I like that he's a popular character because he is a good character. Miles Morales, I'm saying. Yes. And Spider-Man. I like that they're both popular.

Spider-Man also, the character Spider-Man, yeah. Here's an email from Jack Taylor. Jack Taylor, you might remember from last week, he flipped his truck. Oh, he flipped his truck? And it was a CD. We were like flipped his truck? And it was a CD. We were like, what was it? It was a CD. It was a Wicked CD.

We didn't know what kind of CD it was. Jack's emailed back. He says, a clarification for the Wicked CD dilemma. It was indeed a CD of the musical Wicked. I knew it. So it wasn't just a CD. It was in fact Wicked. It was a Wicked CD.

It was from the- Wicked the musical. Wicked the musical. You've seen that? I bet you have. Yeah, I saw it in England when I travel. What's the big what's the big song

from that gravity flying gravity yeah yeah yeah flying gravity yeah that's right yeah I'm a witch on a broom

I'm a witch on a broom can't stop me I'm surprised that hasn't been a movie yet actually they might have missed the window on that

maybe yeah because it was huge for a little bit Wizard of Oz no I mean like the musical in terms of you

I'm aware you're being disingenuous Mason I'm being disingenuous. I assume Zyara on Twitter. You can only have one streaming service for the rest of your life. No pirating or VPNs allowed. Not even ExpressVPN.

Choose wisely. What do you choose? I should have weekly planet pod. Netflix. It's good. It's got ads though. It does have ads, which I do not care for. Netflix.

It does. It's got the variety. It's got kid stuff. It for. Netflix. It's got the variety. It's got kid stuff. It's got comedy. It's got movies. It's got original content. It's got a lot of original superhero stuff, superhero guys. But it doesn't have your mainstream stuff, though, anymore, really. No, that's true.

But I'm okay with that. Yeah, it's got a lot of shows about movies about a heist. It certainly does. A bunch of colourful characters doing a heist. It's true. I don't know. I feel like if I had to have one forever, and I guess I would miss out on the big name stuff

like your Ricks and Mortys That's on Netflix That's what I'm saying if I didn't have Netflix, I'd miss out on some stuff, I'd miss out on your big budget, you know, like I think maybe a Russian doll or something like that I'd miss out on that, which is a shame

I think you should leave, that sort of stuff. So, yeah, maybe I'm torn. But something like in Australia we've got SBS On Demand, but there's less on there but it's like a more curated selection. Yes, it is, yeah. It's like – It feels very handpicked in a good way. Yeah, and it's, you know, it's rare that –

oftentimes if I'm looking for like maybe a sitcom or a show that has been very well received overseas, it'll be on SBS On Demand because it's like they only – You're really bloody pushing this SBS On Demand, Mason. I'm being sponsored by SBS On Demand. Do I get a cut of this? You can have a paid subscription to SBS On Demand. With the ads?

Yeah, with the ads. I'll take it. That is the only downside is it's, again, there's- But I also understand why it has ads because it's free. And it also, you know what it also does is it goes, let's say there's three ad breaks. First ad break is one ad. Second ad break is two ads.

Third ad break is three ads. And I'm like, do it backwards. That's clever though. I'm sick of ads. No, but you know why they're doing that? Because the people who are around but through the end they're they're committed they're committed no matter what yeah that's so you can put in three ads so it's actually that's actually quite smart which means the ads definitely get saying yeah

yeah that's quite clever uh i'm gonna say netflix for now but that could change like in a year who knows yeah maybe maybe once you're in love with sbs on demand that being said with if you pick something like apple which is far from my favourite, but you can also purchase things through it. So you can buy things from any other service, really. Yeah, you can do that with Amazon now as well. Yeah, well, there you go. So there are advantages to that, I guess, as well.

But Netflix. What have you got? This is an email from Michael McKay. Michael! Look, recently we've had a lot of people, speaking of Jack, who flipped his truck, we've had a lot of emails from people who are like, I was listening to the podcast and my ears got cut off or whatever. And it's bad because they can't listen to the podcast anymore

because they don't have any ears. Not my problem. But we said, has anything positive happened recently? So here's a couple. This is from Michael McKay. He says, the subject line says, listening for five years finally pays off. Wow. That's a good start.

As the title suggests, I've been listening to the show for about five years now. And other than the great fun, I can finally say it paid off. I just recently had an interview with a company about a summer job, during which the interviewer asked what I did for fun. I replied with the basics, movies and TV.

He then asked if I had watched Dracula on Netflix. I reply, lying, of course, yes, to which he seems excited. Thankfully, while I had not watched on Netflix. I reply, lying, of course, yes, to which he seems excited. Thankfully, while I had not watched the show, I'd listened to the podcast where you talk about how stupid the ending was. With that information stored away, I was able to rant for a couple of minutes about how the ending made no sense. The interviewer seemed to enjoy talking about it with me, so thanks for that.

I don't know for sure if I got the job, but if I did, it's thanks to you guys. Yeah. I mean, probably the interview also, but we'll take it. Yeah, you probably did a lot of that yourself that's true so that's exciting that of all the things he decided to ask you about he picked that right that's wild real shot in the dark yeah did you watch dracula from six months ago and then he's like anyway thanks we'll uh we'll keep you updated blair i must leave where i've got plenty more interviews to get through Blair uh have you ever done that once you just kind of go along with someone's seen something I more go along

with not saying something I did yeah look I I think I did it as a lot of I I did it a lot as a younger guy where people would be like you've you've heard that band and I'm like of course I've heard that band kidding me and then we just have this roundabout conversation where no none of us learned anything about anything and so like it's it's it's reached that point I think like, of course I've heard that band. Are you kidding me? And then we just have this roundabout conversation where none of us learned anything about anything. And so it's reached that point. I think a lot of people do that. And I think it's reached the point, you know, the most valuable thing I ever learned is when somebody will be like,

you hear about that band? I'll be like, no. Why do you like the band? Tell me about the band and maybe I'll listen to the band. And then I actually learn something. As opposed to being like, no, yeah, well, originally I was like, I don't know. I mean, their first album's the best.

That's a very easy one to be like. I like their first album the most. They've only got one album. Yeah. That's what I like about them. Yeah, exactly. Your hair looks good today. Thank you.

I cut it. I gave myself a trim. It looks really good. Don't look at the back, probably. No, I looked at it. I saw it before. It looks good. You never know.

It's a real... It's a real Superman in the mirror situation. That's right but obviously I don't have laser vision so I use a blowtorch you know those ones you use to heat up

a cream caramel or whatever creme brulee just blowtorch the back of my head and you put it out real quick if you just do a quick

blowtorch quick put it out crisps that's right you crisp it real good a couple more emails here you go love it

this is from Ryan Kelly hey fellas I was listening to the pod last week when you mentioned the guy who rolled his car, Jack Taylor, while listening to the podcast. I thought I should share a positive podcast listening story. Thank you. Last year when I was applying to medical schools,

I was listening to your podcast in my car when I received a phone call with a med school acceptance and scholarship offer. Having come from a financially struggling family and being a first-generation applicant, this was an incredible day all around. Not exactly a $10,000 lottery ticket, but just as good to me. I would say that's more so. That's like a career. Because winning a lottery ticket, you probably spend all that

and become destitute. I had an uncle who won in the 70s like $200,000, and it's just gone. And that was like a's a lot of money anyway he sucks that guy like straight up I've heard the story it's not a different one oh uh thanks for keeping us all sane during quarantine Ryan K and I got let's see I got I got one more one more ready that's from John Rossi he says hey Maceo and that other guy yes that's you responding to James question, he knows who you are.

Last episode, some positive things do happen while listening to the pod. I made a batch of hot buns in the oven while listening and shockingly they turned out great. Whoa. Congrats on the new offspring, James. Keep up the great stuff, both of you. Yeah, I realize after I wrote that it comes off more as an order than as encouragement, but at this point I'm going with it anyway.

That's from John. Thank you, John. I accept your order. Yeah, I wonder what sort of hot buns. Hot cross buns? I'm imagining like a sort of a dinner, like a hot bread bun, like a dinner roll, which is when you get one of those out of the oven. Oh, my God.

Yeah, I know, right. I hate it when you go to a restaurant and they give you bread. I don't eat a lot of bread. I'm eating my bread. But I only eat bread if I'm like, is this going to be good bread? Choose your words carefully here, James. You hate it when you go to a restaurant and they give you bread. I don't eat a lot of bread. I'm eating my bread. But I only eat bread if I'm like, is this going to be good bread? Choose your words carefully here, James. You hate it when you go to a restaurant and they give you bread. You're on thin ice, James.

And it's bad. Yeah. Because normally if it's good bread, it's like, well, this is well worth it. But if you eat it, you're like, fuck, this is not good bread. And now I'm just eating bad bread and filling up on bread. Even just, again, just a dinner roll they put in the oven. That's all you need. Oh, my God.

That's all you need. I'm glad. I'm glad i'm glad congratulations to all those people though congratulations on your hot buns john yeah that's right i got one more tweet here from truman says in your most recent episode you asked if there are any free library apps for comics the service yes that's right yep the service of my local library uses called hoopla and it has a big comic slash graphic novel collection so i would say look up your local library yep and just see what they got because and or use a big comic slash graphic novel collection. So I would say look up your local library and just see what they've got

and or use a VPN. You don't have to use our one. Do whatever you want. But you could find something. That's true, yeah. You'd be able to rent comics. Yeah, a few people emailed in about and tweeted in about, yeah, Hoopla. So that's very exciting.

So there you go. I think that's really cool. So you don't have to – it never even crossed my mind that something like that would exist, but of course it would. Is that the show? I think that's the whole show. It's not too bad. We're doing around an hour and a half.

That's not too bad, Mason. That's pretty good. We did some filler. We did some, you know. That's right. We're downloading Quibi. We're having a great time. We love Quibi.

Thank you, everybody, so much for listening to the show. Thank you for sending in your emails. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for telling a friend in these tough times if they need some bit of – Thank you for sending in your emails. Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for telling a friend in these tough times. Thank you for telling a friend. Going down the shops and back again. Don't meet your friend there. What's that from?

The Golden Girls. I haven't seen it. Okay. That's blasphemy, but I'd never watch it. You don't have to watch the Golden Girls. I heard it's very provo and they've cancelled it anyway, though. Wow, wow. It's PC gone mad, isn't it?

No, Mason. I'm for it cancel everything uh anyway thank you everybody for for doing those things uh thank you for leaving a nice review if you have one james do you have a nice i got two nice reviews i'm ready you can just do it in app did you know that i tell you every week but did you know that quibi app i'm doing it i'm installing it right now are. Terrific. How long is it taking? We're at 1%. We're at 93%. Oh, so you literally just clicked it. It's from Joey Schmore. Yes.

Joey Schmore. Fantastic. This is the first podcast I ever listened to, and it's still my favorite. I started listening in 2016 when I was a toddler, and it's been running so long that I'm now living off my pension. Slash five out of five. There you go. That's good stuff.

This one's from Samuel. It's this. It's just the okay symbol. Like, this is all right. Five stars. It's a podcast. my pension slash five out of five there you go it's good stuff uh this one's from samuel it's just it's this it's just the okay symbol like this is all right five stars it's a podcast so there you go terrific terrific so it's in app really helps we'd really appreciate it in context that symbol is perfectly good oh yeah i was about to say i realized as i did that that's also a white power symbol but i it's not that's not the version of that i'm not saying that bit's good we're saying it okay it's okay that's that's what we're saying yes, I believe. We're not saying that bit's good. We're saying it's okay. That's what we're saying, yes.

How dare they take the okay symbol? Right? How fucking dare they? Rude. Yeah. Anyway, what's next? Look, if you want to get in contact with the show, like many of those fine people,

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Okay, cool. But it means I'll probably try and get that bit recorded early maybe. Also, I'm going to throw it on Patreon, but I want to do Rain of Fire for Caravan of Garbage next. Do you want to do Rain of Fire? The Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey dragon movie. It's the year 2020 and I want to do it. I should put a poll up, but I'm also like, I just want to do this. So should I just put a yes or no?

Yes. I don't know. James, Quibi's right here. I'm starting my 14-day free trial. 14 days? I've got to log in. I'll do it later. Are you going to be able to – oh, you're going to have to give all your details,

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