The Weekly Planet - 492 Blue Beetle Bombs & Hollywood Urban Legends

Episode Date: August 21, 2023

Blue Beetle is finally in cinemas (except Australia) and it's bombing (except Australia). So instead of looking at that we're covering incredible and sometimes true Hollywood Urban Legends. Plus we talk news of Disney being sued but also suing someone, Hasbro launching a new entertainment division, a look at the Godzilla/Monsterverse TV series, details on Thor 5, rumors concerning an MCU reboot and more! Thanks for watching!Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, video let's plays, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.Jack Druce's 'Trying to update the rule book after Air bud' video: https://twitter.com/Jackdruce/status/1340632342503641089Please be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start04:48 Disney Gets Sued11:57 Hasbro Launches Entertainment Division19:09 New Godzilla Monsterverse Series22:42 Thor 5 Movie in the Works25:10 The MCU to Reboot with Secret Wars?27:55 Barbie Beats Batman's Box Office29:54 Blue Beetle Getting Positive Reviews32:11 Best & Worst Urban Legends in Movies01:07:40 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read (feat. Gran Turismo Review)01:15:04 Letters, It's Time For LettersJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownMaso's Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/nickmaseauThe Weekly Planet Twitter ► https://twitter.com/theweeklyplanetPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767TWP 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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Red hot comic book movie news. Defenders of the Earth. Defenders. The Weekly Planet. The Weekly Planet. 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. And with me is always my co-host Nick Mason.

Can't we get through one intro without you messing it up, James? I had all the junk food this weekend. My brain, like we just recorded a caravan of garbage before this and I'm like... Excuses, excuses, excuses, James. It's always excuses with you. It's not always excuses. Sometimes it's excuses with you.

Sometimes I make excuses. And honestly, now that I think about it, most of the time you pull off the intro flawlessly. I wouldn't say that's true either. Excuses, excuses. Anyways, Dick Mason. It's great to be here. I'm having a good time. Yeah, we're all having a good time here. I think. Mason, Dick Mason. It's great to be here. I'm having a good time.

Yeah, we're all having a good time here. I think, Mason, big week. Is it? Maybe. Yeah, nice. We didn't see Blue Beetle because it's not out here until like mid-September. We haven't seen Blue Beetle. We haven't seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

That one because we don't want to. That's true. No, that's out in a couple of weeks as well. What are they doing to us? I don't know. I don't like it. What are they? Are they deliberately trying to tank our business model where we,

a movie comes out at the same time all around the world and we watch it. And we go, it's pretty good. Pretty all right. I don't mind that. Exactly. Yeah. This is free.

We're doing this. We're doing free promo when we tell you people your movie is okay. That's right. You should be thanking us. Yeah, that's right. Jesus. Move the needle,

you know? Yep. We do. Absolutely. Well, don't worry though. I've got a topic this week. We've got one sent in.

We're going to talk about movie urban legends. Oh, my goodness. And not the movie's urban legends. Legend. Not the movie urban legend. No. Is there an urban legend franchise? Is there more than one?

I've only seen urban legend two. Ah. Yeah. And I'm watching this and I'm like like how many of these are actually urban legends all the dialogue all the dialogue is like oh my god we're gonna this is this is just like that urban legend that happened last time it's just a repeat of the previous movie or like maybe i don't know they made up god we gotta we gotta we're gonna run because the urban legend from before oh okay yeah yeah well i think also you know when Final Destination, it could be anything.

That's true. You know, you can be Final Destination in any which way. But Urban Legend, you've got to be like, oh, did we do the one with the guy in the hook hand and, like, he scratched down the car and, like, you know? Yeah. I mean, Final Destination, sure, you can do any Final Destination, but it's almost exclusively you're driving your home with a truck and there's a bunch of logs on the truck and then the logs come loose

and they go through your windshield and you... I think that happened one time, Mason. Okay. Yeah, anyway. Good movie, maybe. Well, that clip is. That's true, yeah. Yeah.

Anyways, we've got some news leading up to that, including Disney is being sued and they're also suing somebody. I love that. Are they all bad people involved? Yeah. Great. I'm on board with that. We've got news of what's going on in the Hasbro Entertainment Universe sphere.

Now, which one is that? That's not Mattel. It is Mattel. No, wait. Hasbro and Mattel are different, I think. No, you're right. I thought I got them confused. Mattel is Barbie.

Yeah, this is different. And Hasbro is G.I. Joe's slash Transformers. Yeah, wow. I didn't even realize that. But yeah, you're absolutely right. Do you think in the future we're going to have competing toy-verses coming at each other? My God, like the ending of The Flash when all the orbs were colliding?

Yeah, we recently re-watched The Flash. That's why that's top of mind. It's not out yet, but it will be. I mean, it's always top of mind. I mean, how do you top that version of the multiverse? I mean, every time I'm like, hey, James, I'm going to just pop down the shelves for a second, you're like, make sure to look up at the camera just in case

you're arrested for murder so they can see you're at the supermarket. Yeah, absolutely. I thought you were going to say, make sure you look up so our universe isn't an orb and it crashes into another orb and you see Nick Cage, you see dead Christopher Reeve. Terrible. Spoiler alert. Oh, yeah.

The Monsterverse is expanding. Oh, that's right, it is. Get into that. And casting with the Monsterverse. Oh, yeah. The Monsterverse is expanding. Oh, that's right, it is. Get into that. And casting with the Monsterverse. That's right. We got some specifics. We got some big picks. We've also got some rumors regarding Thor 5,

and in addition to Avengers Secret Wars slash Marvel reboot. Excuse me? Yeah, we'll talk about it. Then we've got Barbie. It's big still. Continues to be big. It's big still. It continues to be big. It's big. I certainly hope Warner Brothers don't sabotage their cinema release of it

at any point at the six-week mark. They wouldn't do that, would they? I think that would be a terrible idea. It seems to be still doing well. People are saying it. And then we'll talk a little bit about how Blue Beetle is doing before doing that thing that I said up top. There's time codes below because Collingsley edits this.

He's very kind and he says, can I put in time codes? Right. And I say, absolutely not. And he says, it's for the people. And I said, they're grubs. They don't deserve it. I said. That's what you say.

That's what I say. But he overrides me. That's true. You know, because ultimately I'm not going to go into the description. Yeah. Yeah. You know. And he's locked you out of the upload.

Yes. Yeah. For good reason. He was right to do it. On account of all your rants and such. That's right. So this is via THR. TSG Entertainment, they apparently over the years.

Is TSG Entertainment the one that it's got the archer in the logo? Yeah, maybe. And he shoots. Let me check. Okay. Let me Google that. Okay, great. Sometimes you see a bunch of logos and you're like,

is that even a real one or is that one a tax dodge? It's probably a tax dodge. Yeah. Yeah, man, it is. And it goes through all the axes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. God, you are on it. I'm on it.

You're on fire, Mason. Because I'm a professional. Nobody in the world could have done that, what you just did. I agree. You are basically the guy shooting the arrow through all of those axes. That's correct. You're William Tell of attaching a logo to a brand or whatever's happening here.

That's right. Set my son up next to a tree, and I put a brand logo on his head and I shoot that arrow. Then I get a fresh son. That's right. They produced Logan. Yes, they did. So apparently over the years they've invested.

They produced Jungle Cruise. Yeah, the good movie. They invested more than $3 billion in multiple 20th century studio movies. That's including the Avatar film franchise. But as a result of this, it seems, because if you recall correctly. James, I've already done one bit of flawless recalling. Okay. I don't know if I'm going to be able to recall whatever this is.

Okay, let me give you a piece of information. Okay, great. And that's that Disney bought 20th Century Fox a couple years back. For money. Perfect recall. Perfect recall. Wow. And so basically they've been distributing these movies, right?

But apparently Disney have been doing some Hollywood accounting. Oh, no. And the film financier TSG Entertainment is suing Disney and 20th Century Studios for a breach of contract. It alleges that Disney has withheld profits from certain films and has also cut deals with TSG made in an effort to boost its streaming platforms. TSG is basically saying that movies like its Best Picture winner, The Shape of Water,

they're down, for example, $40 million on that one in particular. That's a lot of money. But it's estimated that the actual number for a number of these movies is like in the hundreds of millions. The company claims to have invested around $3.3 billion into one studio. This is via CNBC, which I know you love. You know the logo. You know it. Since the deal began.

It's a globe probably, I reckon. Yes. But the money that- With some lines? Yeah. Exactly. And it cuts to a boring person telling you a boring thing about the news. That's right.

Like acquisitions in a company suing another company. You're boring. Look at this graph. But the money they've received apparently following all of this has decreased dramatically over the years. Interesting. It's not like Disney hard up for a buck, especially the Avatar franchise which has the biggest movie of all time.

Sure does. So this is probably true, I would say. That's exactly right. So, you know. I don't think we spoke about this. We mentioned this briefly a few weeks ago, I think, that Disney is pulling out of physical media distribution in Australia.

We had mentioned it, yeah. We did mention it. And so they're no longer going to be selling DVDs and Blu-rays. At a certain point, they're going to drop them all. And I think perhaps, you know, we didn't mention that, of course, they distribute everything from Fox and et cetera. Oh, yeah. So if you want a copy of Die Hard or Aliens or something,

you might be out of luck. I've already got a copy of Die Hard 4. What else do I need? Die Hard 4 and Aliens 4, yes. Do you have a copy of Die Hard 5? No. Die Hard teams up with Die Hard Son, Die Hard Junior. Do you have that one?

No, I don't. Should I get it? Who's Die Hard Junior again? Jai Courtney. I knew that. Did you? Perfect recall. You've got a great track record.

I know, right? Yeah. And another bit of news, you might have seen that Ron DeSantis went up against Disney recently because they were too woke. Disney obviously is a big part of the Floridian economy. That's right. And the thing about if you're a politician,

you're supposed to say all these things. You're supposed to be like, I'm going to tackle woke corporations. I'm going to be like, I'm going to tackle woke corporations. I'm going to do this. I'm going to clean up politics and whatever. But you don't actually do it. But then you don't do it. Because it's hard.

You fucking idiot. What are you doing? And also the other thing is people in Florida and the world, despite what you may have heard, they love Disney. They love going to Disneyland. Some people probably move to Florida so they can go to Disneyland every day. So basically he's decided that actually he's moved on. He's like, Disney need to move on from this situation.

So if Disney could stop suing me for millions of dollars. Yeah. Anyway, they're not. They're going to keep doing it. This guy, I mean, I know, look, he came into our sphere. I didn't want to talk about politics. Right. But he put his foot into our world, quite frankly. And just like, God, this guy, he came into our sphere. I didn't want to talk about politics. Right. But he put his foot into our world, quite frankly.

That's right. And just like, God, this guy, he sucks. Like what an absolute fucking charisma black hole. Yeah. Just like, come on. You're nobody's guy. What are you doing? What an absolute fucking loser.

He's another one of those guys who spent his entire life working his way to potentially becoming the president. But then he had the misfortune of existing in a media landscape where Donald Trump could just call him Meatball Ron. And then it just annihilates his chances forever. Yeah. And then he's like, because he's gotten skinnier because I think he took that to heart. And there was probably focus groups and he took a bunch of Ozempic. But now people are like, you look weird now. We don't like you skinny.

We like our politicians like regular people. He's a fucking freak, mate. What's wrong with this guy? Agreed. Go away. Speaking of royalties and so forth and so on and so forth, did you see that the woman who plays the nun is suing Warner Brothers because they sell a bunch of merchandise with the nun on it

and apparently she was owed a bunch of. She said, can I have some money? And they said, that's none of your business. Oh! And they all laughed but they meant it. Yeah, I would have laughed too in the room. Sure. Yeah, Bonnie Ahrens.

Yeah. Best of luck to her. I mean, that makes total sense. You're using her literal face. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? I haven't seen any of those movies. What's that a spin-off of? Conjuring? I don't know. Yeah, I think it's the Conjuring.

Or the other one. Or the perch. The perch, yeah. The perch. There we go. Anyway, let's talk big toy brands. I genuinely thought this was like a Mattel thing. I'm spinning out. I wish I had your perfect recall.

Go on. No, I'm creating the perfect joke. Okay. That's different from recalling things, right? It is, yeah. When you're busy having perfect recall, it's sometimes difficult to churn out the perfect joke. Yeah, because you're going through all the possibilities.

I've got a bunch of mind palaces operating all simultaneously. Oh, my God, adjoining mind palaces? Yes, that's right. Have you got like a little golf buggy where you drive in between them? Yes, a perfectly recalled golf buggy because one time as a very small child. It was recalled? No. Oh, it like works properly.

It wasn't recalled. I recalled it from my memory when I was a small child. I was on a golf buggy once for two seconds and I remember it perfectly. And that's the golf buggy in my mind that goes between mind palaces. So I can recall things and create perfect jokes. Anyway, something total recalls. Arnold Schwarzenegger's in it. Yep.

Perfect recall. Maybe that's what the movie could have been called. Sure, yeah. And he has good memory or something. He's got great memory, yeah. Yeah. He's like, oh, none of these memories are real. I remember.

That's right. No, that's okay. Yeah. Yeah. And more so my accent wasn't real. That's why I just, yeah. Yeah. He's like, oh, none of these memories are real, I remember. That's right. No, that's okay. Yeah. Yeah. And more so, my accent wasn't real. That's why I just talk like this now. Absolutely, yeah. Yeah.

Anyway, this is by Variety. Okay. Hasbro is launching a new division called Hasbro Entertainment. Oh, yeah. Which will unify the company's film, television, animation, and digital media businesses. I love that. I know. I love that. I know.

I smell synergy. Yeah. So they've got three guys together who worked in various fields whose names are important probably. But apparently they look forward to being able to push the envelope with innovative storytelling that will let fans engage with their favorite brands like never before while also building exciting new worlds

and the next wave of Hasbro franchises for a growing audience. I love all that. Now, Hasbro is currently developing and producing over two dozen projects based on major IP, and you might be like, what are you specifically referring to? Hungry, Hungry Hippos? Maybe. Is the Hasbro banned?

Dungeons and Dragons. Oh, yep. Well, they're not going to do much of that because the movie didn't do well. It was good, but it didn't do well. Transformers, again, Rise of the Beast recently finished its theatrical run and was the lowest performing Transformers movie in history, of the live action ones.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, of course, they're doing the animated reboot origin movie next year, which I think could do better. G.I. Joe, again, like a dead franchise. Nerf. James, that franchise hasn't even had a chance to be dead yet. It's been three movies and a tease at the end of the last Transformers movie. Yeah, that's right.

G.I. Joe Empty Warehouse. G.I. Joe Empty Warehouse prequel. What could be in here? Maybe by the end of the movie we'll earn ourselves a tank. Yeah, tell us. Nerf? Somebody, I don't have the tweet here, but somebody on Twitter had an incredible idea for a Nerf movie.

This is the one thing I wanted to talk about. Okay. So all of this is garbage. All the Mattel stuff is garbage. All the Hasbro stuff is garbage. Do you want me to give you the other names before you come back to work? Yes, go for it. Play-Doh.

Okay. The Play-Doh is magic and you make something with Play-Doh and it comes to life and it's magical. Yeah, and it tries to, I don't know, get in your toilet. It tries to get in your toilet, yes. Magic the Gathering. Okay. People love that.

Yeah. And that ring thing happened recently. You know, someone found the one ring card, it was worth $200 million and then Post Malone bought it or whatever. Pepper Pig. I mean, that's huge. Okay. Yeah, but.

Isn't there already Pepper Pig? Pepper Pig's a cartoon, right? Yeah, yes. Pepper Pig's everywhere. Pepper Pig's like the biggest brand in the world. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, hang on. What's the thing? Oh, Magic the Gathering. Yeah, so that's got a big. Oh, and My Little Pony. All right? Yeah, yes. Peppa Pig's everywhere. Peppa Pig's like the biggest brand in the world. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hang on, what's the thing?

Oh, Magic the Gathering. Yeah, so that's got a big. Oh, and My Little Pony. All right. Sorry, go on. Magic the Gathering has like a huge, like it's got a bunch of lore behind it. Obviously it's got many, many users, players and so forth. But yeah, that's got a big, as far as I know,

it's got a huge like, it's all about the people that crafted the, and they summoned the monsters and they created all the artifacts and blah, blah, blah. Is it? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. You mean you know so? I know so.

Yeah. Yeah, okay. Yeah, absolutely. I mean it's huge. It's very, very popular. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But is that one of those things where – how do you translate that to like a film or television medium?

Pauly. Yeah. There you go. Very badly. But you were going to say on that – Oh, okay. Actually medium. Pauly. Yeah. There you go. But you were going to say on that Oh, okay. Actually, I have it here. You mean you remember it? Yes. I found the tweet in my mind palace, James, where I will recall it perfectly. Not recall it because it's bad.

I'm recalling it from my memory because it's good. Absolutely. It's from at Van the Brand on Twitter. There we go. Who says, I pitched a nerf idea I loved a few years back that they didn't go for. Get a Rock, a Hemsworth, any big action star, hire a great action director,

and do a normal action movie, but every weapon's a nerf weapon. Yeah. Every bullet is fine. Never directly address it in the film and play it all straight. So like make an extraction with Chris Hemsworth, everybody's got a nerf gun. And there's so many

cool Nerf guns. Yeah, right? So many different things and grenades and bow and arrows. But just have people just because I mean, you know, as we know from John Wick, they don't use real guns, but everybody sells the firing and everybody sells getting shot. So you just do that and just have people

act like they're being chewed up by machine gun fire and fall off a train. I mean, also the thing about that is that's brilliant. That's how kids play. Yeah. That's how you play Nerf. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't get shot and go, it's not real.

It's not real. That's right. You know? I mean, some awful kid would. What you could also do is you could have it. You know, they've got like the minigun ones and everything. You could get, like, let's say it's a Chris Hemsworth extraction style movie. You get him right till the end and he's facing off against

the big bad guy at the top of the skyscraper or whatever and he's, like, firing the nerf and the bad guy's just like, yeah, well, I've got a nerf-proof shield. Actually, we're at a nerf-proof shield right now. Or you just get right to the end and the guy's like, you've got a nerf gun. What's happening? I have a real gun.

Yeah. Yeah, that's really good. I like that a lot. I think that's great. I mean, it would depend on, like, obviously the quality of it as an action movie. Because as an idea, like, that's good, but it would have to be also in a compelling narrative. That's true, yeah. You know, but that's the easy part.

Yeah. But again, it'd have to be one, again, it'd have to be extraction. Yeah. It'd have to be 100% played straight. Yep. And not with a nod and a wink to the camera. 100% played straight and not with a nod and a wink to the camera. And also you could do, it could be a PG-13 movie that looks like a gritty, there'd be no blood as well, I guess.

But yeah, it could look like the grittiest, most violent, you could do it like Reservoir Dogs, but no. And you know what you could do? You could add in more swearing because there's no violence. No violence, baby. Anyways, to wrap up this quote, audiences can count on Hasbro to keep creating compelling and fun entertainment that bring to life our wide array of iconic brands, including Peppa Pig, My Little Pony, and Transformers, reaching audiences through varied platforms in ways

that resonate in today's fast-paced world. Yeah. Love that. Great. Who crafted this? Mobile games, maybe? Yeah, probably. Some sort of Marvel Snap style game.

Yeah. Apparently though, like Ninja Turtles isn't doing like great and Transformers didn't do great. But the toy, the merch for that shit is like insane. Well, that's true, yeah. So that's really what matters at this point. These are all, I mean, obviously people know this, they're ads for toys.

So they can put out Ninja Turtles and it takes a hit. Yeah. And they've sold like literally a billion dollars worth of toys this year already. I mean, Ninja Turtles, you know, it's built on the back of merch. Yeah. I mean, you know, because I go to the toy aisle with my son, I drag him there and he's like, Dad, I just want to look at a calculator. I just want to get a new abacus.

Dad. Dad. You've got an old abacus. I want educational wooden toys, Father. That's what I'd like. Well, you're not getting any of them. You're going to get yourself glued to that bloody Nintendo Switch. You're going to play it all day.

I'm going to show you how to use microtransactions. You're going to make me go bloody bankrupt. That's what we're here for. I feel like branding of Ninja Turtles when I was a kid in the 90s like broke my brain because I saw like the shelf of new Ninja Turtles and they're all there and I'm like, oh, the movie's not out here. I should get all these before they disappear. Because when I was a kid, you couldn't get a Ninja Turtle for like a year.

But they'll be there forever obviously or I could order them online. But that's what this shit does to your brain. That's true, yeah. So I bought them all. No, I didn't really. But also, again, I haven't seen the new Ninja Turtles movie. What I think is really effective about seeing all the products and seeing it, that is the movie looks like how the toy line kind of was,

just like weird and gross. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. And just like grungy, and I feel like they've captured that aesthetic in this movie I haven't seen. Anyway, let's move it along. All right then. This is by Apple. Apple. Yeah. Okay. You've got too many things in your mind palace so i'd imagine you're going to different apples i'm gonna have to move some mind palace stuff to

one of my additional mind palace storage rooms which again is a perfectly yeah recalled what's that cost you like 220 a month oh my god but it's a decent amount of space and it's also imaginary money but i do have to perfectly imagine the money coming from my – And all the serial numbers? Yeah, no, because it's digital. But I have to imagine a separate bank account that is similar to my real bank account. But I have to keep track of that, the amount of money in that, which is different from my real bank account.

Because you're paying a person in your mind to storage kinks in your mind. That's right, exactly. Straight. Anyways, it's's right, exactly. Straight. Anyways, it's by Apple, the big brand. The Monsterverse is expanding. Now what we're getting here, we've got a few images this week of Monarch Legacy of Monsters. This is a new series which will span generations.

I'm happy to read the synopsis in a minute. Okay. Which is set within the current Godzilla reverse. That's right. Which started in 2014 and whatever. Apparently attracts two siblings following in their father's footsteps to uncover the family's connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch.

Clues lead them to the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army Officer Lee Shaw, played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell. There it is. That's the stuff. It's his son, if those people who don't know. Taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows. The dramatic...

Shaw knows. Shaw knows. What does he know? The dramatic saga spanning three generations revealed buried secrets and the ways that epic earth-shattering events... Three generations? So Wyatt Russell's going to have to have a kid real quick. I assume so.

But if it's set in the 50s, then the next era would have to be in like the 2000s, right? Because that would be modern Kurt Russell because that would be 50 years later. So it couldn't be the 50s and then 2023. So I'm presuming it's modern day. Maybe. Hidden up and whatever. So anyway, we saw a couple images.

One was of White Russell and Kurt Russell, and then we saw a Godzilla. That's right. It looks expensive. That's right. Apple makes some good stuff, man. Tell you what, I'd say it's probably the best streaming platform. Stan. Stan's fine, but I feel like it also borrows a lot of things from overseas.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's good. As an Australian streaming service, it's pretty good. I was thinking about that the other day. If I were to have to get rid of everything, look, I don't have Apple TV. Maybe I should get it. But Stan is quite good in that they actually make Australian programming,

like original stuff. And they put on Australian comedy. That's right. And they have stuff from like before The Matrix. Yeah. Like that was made before The Matrix. Oh, my God. Which is nice, you know.

There was movies before The Matrix? There was one movie before The Matrix. Was it good? No. Oh, no. It was the movie before The Matrix. Was it good? No. Oh, no. It was the movie that The Matrix stole all their ideas from. Well, I want to watch the best version of that. Gone with the Wind.

Okay. How do you think Neo gets around? The Wind. Yeah, he gets gone with the Wind. He goes with the Wind. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trinity, I'm going with the Wind. All right.

Oh, my God, no one's ever gone with the Wind before. He's doing it. He does, doesn't he? Yeah. It's going to be 10 episodes. So that's cool. If I knew more about the movie Gone With The Wind, I'd have some better references there.

Sure. But I've never seen it. I've seen bits and pieces of it. What's it about? I don't know. I don't know. Perfect recall. The war?

The civil war? Is it the Franklin, my dear? I Don't Give a Damn? Is that the movie? Yeah, probably. Okay, great. Yeah. That guy didn't give a damn. Frankly, perfect recall. The war? The civil war? Is it the Franklin, my dear? I don't give a damn? Yeah, probably. Okay, great. Frankly, my dear. Whoa. Then he flies off.

Yeah. Like a packet of crisps. That's exactly right. Great. Here's some Marvel news. This is my time to shine hello on Twitter. Apparently Thor 5 is in development at Marvel Studios. I see.

Unfortunately, this is their words. Uh-oh. There is a good chance Taika Waititi will return to direct, but it is not a done deal. There you go. Crocodile done deal. Yeah, thank you. That's not relating to anything.

I mean, it's good. But if I don't say it now, I'll forget it later. Yeah. You'd hate that, wouldn't you? I'm not really. I mean, you won't forget it. I'll put it in my substitute. I'll put it in one of my, you know, tertiary mind houses.

You'll come back to it. You'll open a box and you'll be like, what the fuck is this? What was this for? Yeah. But you'll remember what it's for. Yeah, yeah. But ultimately that time has passed. That's right.

This is difficult to keep track of. Not for me. No, I know. Obviously. I'd like to see someone like Sam Hargrave doing it. Who's that? He did the Extraction movies. He'll make like a badass Thor movie. Yeah, I think it definitely. I'd like to see someone like Sam Hargrave doing it. Who's that? He did the Extraction movies. He'll make like a badass Thor movie.

Yeah, I think it definitely is time to change Thor, and they've even talked about like doing so. Well, here's the thing also. I wouldn't even mind if it's like a What We Do in the Shadows. You know, it's a funny Thor movie. But don't give us this weird tonal whiplash again for the next one. Yeah, fair enough. But I think you're probably right in that.

Barbarian Thor or another version? Yeah, maybe. But I think that perhaps the feedback on the last one was so severe that perhaps the filmmakers might be like, no, this has to be a serious one. Yeah. But I wouldn't hate a funny one as long as they don't go, as long as they don't go, this character has cancer,

but also burp, you know? Yeah, but also burp. It's what Taika Waititi said about it. Unless that's a burp of sadness, like a sincere burp of sadness. Taika Waititi said about the next one, I don't think we can have a villain that's weaker than Hela. I feel like we need to step up from there and add a villain that's somehow more formidable.

I think we even had that with like the last villain was be a sword that could kill anything or whatever. That's true. That's pretty tough and cool. Yeah. What about a sword that can kill nothing? Okay. It's true. That's pretty tough and cool. Yeah. What about a sword that can kill nothing? Okay. It's the only thing more powerful.

Is it a breadstick or something? No, it's a sword. It's a sword, but it doesn't, like, do anything. You can't lift it. I think so. You can lift it, but. But why would you, you know? It saps your will to do anything.

Oh, God. It's like that kid cutting. It's a metaphor for going to work. Yeah. It's like that kid cutting film clip where he keeps trying to get up and he. It's a metaphor for going to work. Yeah. It's like that Kid Cudi film clip where he keeps trying to get up and he's back on a couch. Right? Yeah.

Yeah. You've got to kill somebody, but then you realize you're lying down. You take the sword out of the scabbard and you bring it up and then it just goes into another scabbard. Can you wait a minute? This next bit of news, though, is. And then you're just behind a desk. It's your job.

Can we get some toast on Twitter? Who says, apparently, the writing is on the wall. Avengers Secret Wars, which is the next one or the one after? The next Avengers movie or the one? I think it's Kang Dynasty. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, great recall. It's very likely setting up a soft reboot to the-

When I say I think. Yeah, I know you know. I'm just doing that for your benefit. You're being polite. Yeah, I'm being polite. It's very likely setting up a soft reboot to the... When I say I think. Yeah, I know you know. I'm just doing that for your benefit. You're being polite. Yeah, I'm being polite. It's very likely setting up a soft reboot to the entire MCU, kind of like what The Flash did for the DCU. Oh, don't say that.

Don't say that. Wow. Don't say that. Boy, if you want some box office poison, say anything and then follow up like The Flash did. Like The Flash did. It'll be a send-off for not only the entirety of the fox verse but the mcu that we've grown to love in the aftermath will

be an all-new all-different mcu that sounds like yeah i think that's they're gonna have to do it at some point right because all the actors will age out and they're gonna have to basically create the ultimate universe or some variation on the live action stuff. And also then when you do that, you know, then you can have the X-Men integrated with all the characters that they've already churned through. That's true. As opposed to be like, what would happen if Patrick Stewart met Iron Man or whatever?

I imagine it would be pretty cool. Oh, it'd be cool. What do you think of that though? A Marvel reboot. I'm all for it. I'm sure we've talked about it in passing, but speaking of Thor again, you know, Chris Hemsworth has said he doesn't want to be Thor forever,

obviously. And I've said that, you know, I've said regarding the, you know, some huge epic storylines that they've taken from the comics and just squished down into two hours because they have the stars available and Kevin Feige wants to do it and et cetera.

And they're like, well, we don't have unlimited time, so let's just do it. And I think they end up doing kind of a half-assed job. So reboot it, new cast member, and then you've got ten years to do more Thor movies or whatever. You can finally do a good Batman versus Superman movie.

Absolutely. Yeah, that'd be cool. Did you say Wolverine's going to fight Predator? Because Marvel have Predator now or whatever. So there's going to be, the story's going to, I can't remember the writers are, but it seemed like a good team. It's going to span like decades. Oh, that's fun.

These two being like, oh, you, you. Family guy chicken fight over and over again. I feel like Wolverine would kill the Predator pretty easily, pretty handily, right? Yeah. It depends on where his level of healing is at. And also, can you smell the predator? You would assume so.

Yeah. Like even if he's invisible, you'd be like, dang. You'd be like, I can smell the predator. Yeah, I mean. This is like a broken glow stick, this fuck. Jesus Christ. But maybe they do a thing and they shoot him with a mechanism and it gets in him and he's healing.

In fact, it stops working. Also, if you hit him with that blaster cannon, like, through the head, that'd probably kill him. Probably kill him, yeah. Yeah. So that's cool. That's cool. Barbie has surpassed The Dark Knight as Warner Brothers' highest grossing

domestic release. And best movie. That's right. Everyone's saying it. Everyone's saying it. We're saying it. Barbie's better than The Dark Knight. It's true.

Performances are better. Now, The Dark Knight grossed something around, no, not something, it did $536 million in its domestic run in the US. Barbie's beyond that. Obviously, taking into account inflation and whatever, Barbie would be, but it's

very good. It's doing very well despite what you may have heard. No, I've heard that. Yeah, well, that's, yeah. I guess I may have heard the opposite, but I haven't. To be clear, I haven't heard that. No. And also it's coming to streaming quite soon.

Yeah, what was the date on that? Maybe September. I think they're just being like, well, why would we want anybody to. You could leave this up for the rest of the year. Right. It is coming on September 5th. Wow, that's soon. And what I said.

Damn. Yeah. Now, we's so. And what I said. Damn. Yeah. Now, we'll just quick. Why would you want people to go and buy, spend $20 on a ticket for each person? Or you could just have, you know, get. Do Warner Brothers have another movie they want people to see or something? I don't think so.

They must have, there must be like digital distribution contracts. Oh, Blue Beetle. Yeah. They want people to not watch Barbie anymore so they can watch Blue Beetle. Yeah. In two weeks or whatever. But this must be a contract thing, right? Because you wouldn't make this decision.

Yeah, I guess it's a- But they've pushed back things before. Yeah, exactly. I mean, surely- Maybe Tom Cruise is doing this. Maybe Tom Cruise is doing this. Surely cinema chains would be like, well, we could bring in the new thing, but also we don't want to

because this will make us more money. Surely the penalties for not following through on a contract for the next movie must be so high that they're not willing to just break that contract. Because surely you'd go, well, if we can make another $200 million, we'll shove this down the line. Yeah. I don't know.

Maybe they've probably figured out how much they'll make from streaming and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great stuff. Just quickly on the topic of Blue Beetle, a movie we have not seen. That's right. People seem to think it's all right. Great.

You know? Yeah. I think we talked about it last week. Best movie since The Dark Knight, et cetera. They say it's a superhero movie with heart. Yeah. Finally, I say. It did actually take the top spot. I imagine it's a superhero, but what does his family think of it? They say it's a superhero movie with heart. Yeah, finally, I say. It did actually take the top

spot. Imagine a superhero, but what does his family think of it? They like it? I think so, yeah. Yeah, they seem to think it's cool. They took the top spot from Barbie. What about a superhero, but he's a little bit left of centre? He's a young guy. Young man? Yeah, young man with some powers. That's cool.

He doesn't want these powers. He's going to have to use the powers. I think he'll have to, ultimately, to fight Red Blue Beetle. That's cool. He doesn't want these powers. He's going to have to use the powers. I think he'll have to ultimately to fight Red Blue Beetle. That's exactly right. I have not seen this movie. No. So, yeah, 27 million. It's like we have that, isn't it? It is like that.

$27 million US opening knocked Barbie from the top spot, but also bad. Like it did slightly better than they initially thought, but it cost $120 million. And, yeah, it's the first movie in the DCU. That's right. And, again, apparently people like it. Yeah.

A lot of people like it. I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know and I don't want to know because I'm mad about it. I didn't even know it was delayed here. I just assumed it was out mid-September everywhere. We even talked about it last week. It's like what is happening in the world? Yeah.

This is like the bad old days. It is. I mean, the movie came out in the US and we'd read about it in Fangoria magazine. Yep. For example. Exactly, which was also a year late. That's right.

I'd read about it in Empire. Yeah. I'd read about it in The Herald Sun. Herald Sun. Herald Sun. Hits magazine. I'd read about it in The Green Guy. Absolutely.

The ages film and television lift out. Really good stuff. And then we'd have to wait six months. yeah great loved it the i think the first one where technology caught up to that was it was it i think it was the kevin smith movie do you remember zach and miri i do yeah yeah that movie came out it did really badly at the box office in the u.s yeah so they delayed the release everywhere else but then it just went on torrents. Yeah. And so everybody else in the world, including he just watched, if you were going to watch

it, you watched it on a torrent. Yeah, I think so. So it didn't even come to movies. I don't even remember. I don't know. It did actually. Yeah. Maybe for a week.

God damn. But yeah, that was the, that was the moment where I'm like. Look at me now. I'm the captain. That's exactly right. I'm the captain of movies. That's right. Yeah.

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Rod Stewart in The Gerbil. Rod Stewart in The Gerbil. Everybody else in The Gerbil. Various Hellblazer writers claiming to have met John Constantine in real life, et cetera. I thought this was a great idea. Now, this is something that maybe you'd think you would save for the spookiest time of the year, and I'm not just talking about tax time, I'm talking Halloween season.

Urban legends don't have to be spooky. Well, not all of these are spooky. Some of them are, certainly, Mason. We've got a couple of articles open and a bit more bits and pieces that we've done research on. I've got one from BuzzFeed. You've got one from Hollywood. Fucking whatever.

That's right. Yeah. And so, yeah, we've got a bunch that. Fucking whatever. That's right. Yeah. And so, yeah, we've got a bunch that we're just going to go through and talk about some miscellaneous bits and pieces. I know neither of these articles have talked about the John Constantine thing. Do we want to talk about that just briefly up top? Let's talk about it at the end. Okay, fine.

So I can have perfect recall. Yeah, you want to get that. Cool. All right. Well, I'm going to start with this one. This is the urban legend that in Three Men and a Baby, the movie from the 80s, it was filmed in the home. I would have called it Three Men in the 80s.

Sure. And a baby in the 80s. It was haunted by a boy who died in the house years before and his spectre is seen in the background of a scene. And I'm just going to show you the image. There's the boy. You can see him very clearly. I can't see a boy very clearly at all.

No, what do you mean? There's a boy standing there. I mean it's a person. It looks like a person standing there. It could be a salt and pepper shaker. Yeah, it could be. But I remember seeing this as a kid. It was like Hollywood mysteries as a kid.

It's like this boy died and there he is. You're watching the famous Australian TV show Hollywood Mysteries. Yeah, exactly. Mostly dead boys and so forth. Yeah. So now this has been, not all of these have been debunked, but this one certainly has been. RogerEbert.com pointed out that.

It's Roger Ebert. That's right. He was lurking. He said no boy died in this home because this wasn't actually a home it was a sound stage wow well a boy could die in a sound stage so there's that albany could die at any stage that's right until he becomes a man then it's a man dying yes and the other element of it is that it's not even a person looking it's actually a cutout of ted danson i thought it looked like a cutout of Ted Danson.

And you see it at another point in the movie. Right, yes. So it's just not anything. I'm going to look. It's not even there by accident. Like it's a thing in the movie. Yeah. Sometimes these articles, we don't know the veracity of these articles,

but sometimes these articles are written by people who haven't seen any of the movies in question. Yeah. And the article's like, did you know that in Back to the Future it's called Twin Pines Mall but then at the end they've smashed up one of the pines in the past so now it's called Lone Pine Mall. Can you believe that? Not an accident.

Yeah. We think it's intentional on behalf of the filmmakers. Is that what you think? Is that what you think happened? For people who are wondering what this accent is, it's just the dumbest guy we knew back in high school. And it's different guys for us because we went to different schools. It's true.

But they were probably brothers. Probably dumb brothers. You got one? It was the dumb brothers. I love these on account of how rude they are. Okay, here we go. From the animated movie The Rescuers, a topless woman appears in the animated film The Rescuers.

Yeah. Who put the brief image of a topless woman in Disney's 1977 animated feature The Rescuers? No one knows for sure, but the family-friendly studio admitted it was true. Yeah, that is true. Yeah. And you couldn't really see it because if you saw it at the movies,

it would flash by quickly, and then on VHS, like it would be hard to kind of pause on, right? Disney says the film had been tampered with in post-production, but I'll say no, it hadn't. Somebody would have done it when it was being made. During production. During production. So I think it's a page from a.

It was probably vandals. Probably some vandals busted in. Probably broke in. Yeah. And they probably wrote rude words everywhere. Thatandals. Probably some vandals busted in. Probably broke in. Yeah. And they probably wrote rude words everywhere. That's right. Probably carved their names into the desks. But yeah, so that, it's from a playboy or a hustler or something, isn't it?

The page, the specific page? I mean, it's very rude. Wow, that is rude. That is rude. Yeah. How does anybody find anything? Yeah. The studio wasn't aware of this.

I've only seen the rescuers down under, so I would have completely missed this. That one's even ruder. Yeah. How does anybody find anything? Yeah. The studio wasn't aware. This says the. I've only seen the rescuers down under, so I would have completely missed this. That one's even ruder. The studio wasn't aware of the flash of nudity until 1999 when they had to formally issue a recall of the 1992 home video version. Oh. Which viewers had found the naked lady. I guess the question is, look, maybe this isn't the website for it, but I wonder who the lady is. Like, does anybody know who it is? I'll have a guess. Well, it is a question as well. Yeah. And look, there simply isn't the website for it, but I wonder who the lady is. Does anybody know who it is?

I'll have a guess. Well, it is a question as well. Yeah. And look, there simply isn't time. If you watch The Rescuers on Disney+, is it still there? It's 100% not there. Okay, right. Yeah. They edit out a bus, don't they?

They do. Didn't they edit down Splash? They did. So she's got long hair instead of a bus? Long hair and a bus, yeah. Yeah. Here we bloody go. Oh, my God, that woman's a mermaid and she's got long hair instead of a butt. Long hair with a butt, yeah. Here we bloody go. Oh my God,

that woman's a mermaid and she's got long hair and no butt. They added that ADR. I can't remember the name of the person but I'm sure there was, I remember saying

that like they specifically found like what it was from. Yeah. A bit rude though. Very rude. I don't mind telling you that Mason. Speaking of rude,

you know there's an urban legend that in the movie Teen Wolf from 1985, if you don't know, it's Michael J. Fox, and he's good at basketball, but he's also a werewolf. Yes, but initially he's not good at basketball, right? No, he's okay. Okay, right. But also Michael J. Fox is three feet tall.

That's true, yes. But that's not to say you can't be good at basketball. But then it turns out there's nothing in the rule book that says a werewolf can't play basketball. I'd imagine there wouldn't be that, no. I mean, you know. Yeah. There's nothing in the rule book that says a werewolf can't play basketball. I'd imagine there wouldn't be that, no. That's right. I mean, you know. Yeah.

I mean, you could write a blanket rule that like a human, it'd have to be a human person to play or whatever. Yeah. But, you know, they obviously forgot to do that. Yeah, that's how Air Bud happened. There's a Jack Drew sketch on YouTube. Yeah. About somebody in a basketball franchise who's trying to put in all the rules of like they can't be a ghost,

they can't be whatever. Let's put a link in the episode description. Maybe. Yeah. You probably could just recall the link. I could. Just tell us the URL. I'll do that right now.

So in Teen Wolf, there is a scene where it looks like a man has his penis out in the crowd. Whoa. Right? And does he? No. But it turns out that it's his penis out in the crowd right and does he no but it turns out that it's been cut off in a number of the versions his penis has been cut off yeah in the movie yeah they had to do it the teen wolf did it but it's actually a woman and i think just that they reckon that's the front of her pants are undone because she was wearing tight jeans as a

number of members of the crowd were and they just undid them to be more comfortable and you're supposed to like do them up and then cheer in the scene and whatever and but this person didn't so it just looks like just persons a person's pants are slightly open sounds like a bunch of crowd cheering a penis an exposed penis well that's not what happened mason wow yeah well well so there you go have you got got another one? Or is that it? Yeah, that's it. Good night, Australia. This is from the, this says Wizard Oz. Wizard Oz?

It doesn't say the Wizard of Oz. This is the munchkin that hung itself one? Did a little person playing a munchkin in the Wizard of Oz hang themselves to death? To death? Not just as a goof. Yeah. From one of the trees on the set. Fans detected a disturbing image in the background as the group, Doris the Scarecrow, Toto and the Tim Tam.

The Tim Tam. The Tim Tam. Speaking of Australia. That's right. Good night, Australia. Walked the yellow brick road, which looked like a munchkin hanging from a rope, but the truth is it's actually a large bird

who stood up and flapped its wings on the set. Sick. Yeah. Wait, so it was supposed to be a person that was actively hanging. Oh, hello, Ollie. How'd you get in? It's dog time.

It's dog time, everyone. Many think Oz star Judy Garland, currently cancelled, tales of alleged little people debauchery while making the film helped spread this false legend. Yeah. I mean, they put her on meth. They did, yeah. MGM put her on like a severe contract and weight loss pills

and meth and whatever and they tortured that poor woman for years. Yeah. So, yeah. But no, it was a bird. Apparently it was a bird. Yeah. I think that's cool. It's pretty cool. Did we do an episode on just like behind the scenes drama? I think we did.

I was going to mention that. We're going to come back to that. The Richard Gere thing, because we did Hollywood Beefs. That's right, yes. We do have an episode on that if you do want to go back and hear specifically about where the rumour started of Richard Gere. I know you're going to do it, where Richard Gere got a gerbil stuck in his butt.

I was drinking a soda. I know you were. And in summary, basically, Stallone made it up. Yeah, right. That's probably what happened. Because Richard Gere ate too much meat and he ate a whole chicken. It was a chicken.

Covered in mustard and grease. In his car. And there have been enemies ever since. To me, the wildest part of that story has always been that Richard Gere ate a chicken in a car. He doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would. If anything, he feels like a knife and fork. Not in a car.

Richard Gere seems like a guy who eats a burger with a knife and fork. With a gerbil in him. Yes, in his bum. Here's one. Disney animators secretly slipped hidden sexual messages into the movie The Lion King. Who did Disney? Disney. Walt Disney. Walt Disney. Who did Disney? Walt Disney.

Walt Disney. We do have a Walt Disney one, but basically the moment where Simba slumps down into some grass, and then there's some like debris flies up into the sky and it spells out sex in the sky briefly, right?

That makes people think about it. Yeah, but apparently according to- And then all their popcorn buckets fly off their laps. And there's no sex in the air. Yeah, that's right. According to Disney animator Tony Sitto, it actually- Sitto. It actually says-

That's a guy, okay, in Australia, side note, that'd be the nickname for either a guy who sits down all the time or he never sits down. He hasn't never sat down. Yeah. Never sits down. But apparently it says, it is there, but it says SFX. Oh. And I think they might have taken that out even still

because they don't want people to whatever. Yeah. So, yeah. All of these are rude. They don't want people to masturbate in the theatre for the thought of special effects or possibly sound effects. It's true. Yeah.

Yeah. Well. Well, it's true. What have you got, Mason? Okay, this is, I think, America-specific because we don't have these ads in Australia. Isn't the Nicole Kidman AMC ads? Because we don't have those. We don't have those either.

God, they're wild. Robin is blind. You'd think Australia's own, our Nicole Kidman, would record a local one for like Hoyts or Greater Union. God, the Hoyts eggs suck, don't they? All the local ones. You get like a car dealership ad where it's a local guy going, come in, I'll rip you off.

I'll rip you off for a lot of money. There's one I think that I get at my local cinema and it's like for like a, I think it's for some sort of local accountants and they're still rapping in it. Oh, I like that. A guy rapping in it. Come in and we'll rip you off. Yeah, yeah. But I love, more than anything, I wish we could do an episode on this,

but we can't because we'd have to record. We'd have to go in the cinema and record the audio. Maybe we could. Yeah. But it's always like, there's always like a regional ad and it'll be like, nay, nay, chicken bandura. Get some fried chicken in the heart of bandura or whatever. And you're like, maybe I will get some fried chicken.

But also like, where is that even? I don't know. And also I ate earlier, so I'm not hungry. Anyway, it's the Taco Bell Chihuahua. Remember Yoki and Taco Bell? So the rumor is that the Taco Bell Chihuahua died in a freak accident. In the late 1990s, Gidget the Chihuahua became one of the most iconic TV advertising mascots of all time by promoting Taco Bell.

Would this be in a similar time to the Was Up guys? Yes. I think so, yeah. America embraced the tiny- What was his voice? Or was it just a dog? It was the voice of Carlos Alasraki. Okay, I'm going to squiggle this up.

And he declared, Yokiero Taco Bell. I want Taco Bell. But when Taco Bell stopped using the dog in commercials in 2001, fans whispered that Gidget had died run over by a train. Damn. That's cool. However, it wasn't true.

No? Gidget continued her Hollywood career appearing in Legally Blonde 2. She was euthanized in 2009. Good to know. Here we go. Following a heart attack, it said. Let's see. Oh, my God.

Yeah, right? Here we go. Everyone knows this. Hackett said. Let's see. Oh, my God. Yeah, right? Here we go. Everyone knows this. So it's a chihuahua going to see another one. God, this is loud. Oh, the dog, Mason. Yes. The chihuahua looks like the chihuahua is going to see the lady chihuahua.

Oh, yes. But actually walked past and went to a Taco Bell. Whoa. Oh, my goodness. I don't want a Taco Bell. Wow. Nice. It's got a lot of, what's the word, rhythm?

It's certainly got a lot of rhythm. It's got a beat you can dance to, James. That's true. Carlos Alarraqui is Rocco on Rocco's Modern Life. I love Rocco's Modern Life, maybe. Didn't it come back? Probably. And it was Rocco's even more modern life.

That's right. Very modern. Here's another Disney one about sex. Nice. Apparently a disgruntled Disney animator tasked with drawing the VHS cover of The Little Mermaid drew an erect penis on it. Whoa. And Disney never noticed. Wow erect penis on it. Whoa.

And Disney never noticed. Wow. Until they did. Yeah. Now if you've seen this. I should have called it The Big Boner instead of The Little Mermaid. Do you see where I've gone with that? Yeah, no, it's good. Because I've kept the.

Yeah. And then I've changed little to big. Yep. And then I've changed mermaid to boner there. You've done all of those things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think me explaining the process makes it funnier too. I liked the rhythm of it.

So if you look there. Oh, yeah, it's kind of like a boner. Sure. It could be. No? Yeah. It's boner enough. That's right. But apparently he said, I just drew it late night

and it wasn't an act of like sabotage or anything. It just happened to come out that way. But boy, does it look like a dick. I'll tell you that much, Mason. What next? What's next? Oh, here's one. We want to talk about Marilyn Manson.

That guy sucks. Fuck Marilyn Manson. Yeah, don't worry about him. He looks like the guy from the Wonder Years. That's the thing. The guy from the Wonder Years, he grew up to be a Marilyn Manson. Right. But he didn't.

They're two different people. Yeah, cool. That's right. I'm pretty sure the guy from the Wonder Years is loving that. He's loving that comparison. Are you Marilyn Manson? No, I'm not. I'm not. The guy from the Wonderanda years is loving that. He's loving that comparison. You know who that is? No, I'm not. I'm not.

The guy from the Wanda years is a lawyer now. Oh, really? Yeah. Cool. All right, here's one. Charlie Chaplin lost the Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest. Whoa. That's right.

In the wake of the Little Tramp success in silent movies, Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest popped up all over the country. Did they? No. I don't think they would have. I mean, what were people doing, though? In life, not a lot. It's also not a hard look to replicate.

That's true. And it's true Charlie Chaplin. It's just Hitler in a black suit. That's right. He ended one contest as a joke but never made it to the finals. So that's true, apparently. Oh, there you go. When he lost, the actor reportedly said he was tempted to teach the other

competitors his signature walk. But didn't. Yeah. The Hitler one. The Hitler one. The Hitler one, yeah. But ultimately didn't, right? Have you seen The Chaplain, a Robert Downey Jr. movie? No, apparently he's very good in it.

I've heard that too. Yeah, cool, cool, cool. But I have seen Oppenheimer. He's good in that too. Yeah, I agree. That's right. Apparently a man can be seen jumping off a bridge to his death in the background of a 1995 Leonardo DiCaprio movie,

The Basketball Diaries. If you look closely, it looks like something falls off the bridge. Like you can see it, whatever, whatever. It's behind Marky Mark Wahlberg is in it. But according to Snopes, no, this isn't true. And apparently like there were no, at the time where this was filmed, there was no reported deaths or anything like this. So it's just like something might have fallen off the bridge,

like a garbage bag or whatever. Do you think it inspired the real-life event where the tour bus of the Dave Matthews band showered everybody in human excrement? That's correct. When the driver or whoever was involved evacuated the contents of the portable toilet off a bridge and there was a boat of tourists. Yes, that is true. That is true.

That is not an urban legend. Wow. Yeah, Dave Matthews insisted. I think I was on the Something Awful forums when that happened. No doubt. Somebody was either like, I got showered in feces or whatever, or they were like, I was the one showering people in feces. Maybe they were both there.

Maybe they were both there. Could have been. Big forums. Maybe they were brothers. Here's one for this topic. Yeah. Mr. Rogers was a Vietnam sniper. Oh.

In the 1990s, a myth spread that the lovable TV children's show host, Fred Rogers of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, concealed a covert military pass, which included being a sniper during the Vietnam War. However, Rogers was never in the military at all. Before doing TV, he was educated to be a minister. Oh, there you go. And draft dodger. Oh, wow.

No, I don't know if that's true. Apparently very nice. Yeah. By all accounts. Oh, Mr. go. And draft dodger. Oh, wow. No, I don't know if that's true. Apparently very nice. Yeah. By all accounts. Oh, Mr. Rogers. Yeah, yeah. A nice guy. Have you seen Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?

Yes. It's great. Sam Rockwell won. Yes. Yeah, yeah. I've seen that. I think we watched that together on a DVD. You might have, might have.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. For people who don't know, it's about Chuck Barris, the TV game show host and creator of such shows as like the Newlywed Game and the Love Connection or whatever. Love Connection. One of those ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He created basically the concept of the – oh, it's the dating game.

That's what he invented. There we go. The very concept of like, you know, one person meets or, you know, learns about three suitors and chooses from whatever. One person meets another person. But he wrote a number of books, but he wrote a biography called Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in which he claimed to also have been a covert assassin for the CIA.

Yeah, that's right. Was it a joke? Did we ever figure out whether that was a – I mean he said it. He claimed it a lot. And then it was sent into a movie. So it's with – directed by George Clooney? Maybe, yeah. And Sam Rockwell's in it. Yeah. Yeah, it was sent into a movie. So it's with director by Clooney, George Clooney. Maybe, yeah.

And Sam Rockwell's in it. Yeah. Yeah. It's good. It's probably not true. Yeah. I mean, the CIA repeatedly was like, no, but they would. They would, wouldn't they?

They would, wouldn't they? Typical of them. They bloody would, wouldn't they? Yeah. I'm wondering, but here's the thing. I'm wondering if these lines. When did the book Confessions of a Dangerous Mind come out? Let's find out.

We can go on together with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind come out? Let's find out. We can go on together with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. A Dangerous Mind. That's right. I reckon probably the 80s. So I reckon. I'm caught in a trap. 84. There you go.

Okay. So that predates. I feel like that's probably like a case of telephone. Yeah. Like Chuck Barris did this and then somebody was like, well, what if Mr. Rogers was also a secret guy? Yeah. Apparently the movie says it's depicting the fictional life of a game show host,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So there you go. But, you know. Good movie. Who knows, really? Who knows what anything is true of? Don't you think? Yes.

Cool. So my turn or your turn? I can't remember. I can't remember. And I refuse to figure it out. Here we go. The Filmmakers on 2019 Cats movie, originally intended to make the cats look as lifelike as possible,

that we know. They also look horrendous. I've never seen it, though. I've never. Neither have I. Should we do a commentary? Well, it's hard because it's a musical. So you kind of want to, like we do commentary with the subtitles.

That's true. So you'd think that like we'd have to have headphones is what I'm saying. We just look at the subtitles and it'll say jazzy beat starts. Jazzy, yeah. James Corden is annoying in this scene probably. I love James Corden. I'm his biggest defender. But apparently there was, people would have heard this,

there was CGI buttholes in the movie. So this was a nightmare to work on because apparently they got to the point where they're like, we're actually doing something. We're freeing all the performers of mo-cap suits and technology. We're going to let them just dance and then we'll do the cats stuff on top of them. And then Idris Elba was like, hey, everybody, why don't we just show all our buttholes?

And it spread like wildfire in the cast and everybody's like, yeah, let's do it. And then the visual effects guys were like what do we fix this how do we freaking fix this so um apparently yeah so so then they just had to like cgi them like badly and quickly because apparently tom hooper who directed it wasn't familiar with this kind of – you can't just mocap a bunch of people when they're not mocapped. You know what I mean? It's a very difficult thing to do. It bombed horrendously. But according to a visual effects person on it who spoke to The Daily Beast,

we were looking at the playbacks and we were like, what the hell? You guys see that? And we paused it and we went to call our supervisor and we were like, there's a fucking asshole in there. There's buttholes. It wasn't prominent, but you a fucking arsehole in there. There's buttholes. It wasn't prominent but you saw it. Oh, it wasn't a prominent butthole.

So apparently it was unintentional and it was just because there were folds at the back under the tail that made it kind of look like there was a butthole. But it's all CG so, you know, those folds you have had to make yourself. Absolutely. You freak, you bunch of freaks. So there you go. Wow. That's cool.

We should watch that movie for some reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. You freak. You bunch of freaks. So there you go. Wow. That's cool. We should watch that movie for some reason. Yeah. For content. Yeah, for content. For content. Yeah. Here's one. This one's delightful. Curb Your Enthusiasm Saved a Man from Death Row. This one is great. Right? Yeah. So, a man was charged with murder. Juan Catalan

Good, by the way. They got him. Yeah, that's that's James What? Reserve your judgement Yeah And it is heavy Until you get to the end of this James did you read an article That said

Curb Your Enthusiasm Got a man executed Yeah For the murder he did Yeah Well wrong Oh is that an urban legend? Yeah

Oh no Police alleged Juan Catalan killed Martha Puebla In the San Fernando Valley in 2003, but Catalan insisted he and his daughter were at a Dodgers game at the time. Juan's lawyers found they were shooting an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm at Dodgers Stadium that night and obtained footage from the show.

The attorney said, I got to one of the scenes and there is my client sitting in a corner of the frame eating a hot dog with his daughter. I nearly jumped out of my chair and he was released. So there you go. God damn, that is insane. And then the police were like, boom, boom, boom. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da Because you reckon something. It's cool, I reckon. That's what I reckon. Yeah, that's what you reckon. Yeah.

So this is one from the James Bond movie Goldfinger. It's been rumoured that actor Shirley Eaton, who famously appeared covered in head-to-toe gold paint, do you remember? Goldfinger. She was a gold-painted woman. She's got gold fingers. And the rest of her. And little toesies.

Gold little toesies. She's got gold fingers. And the rest of her... And little toesies, gold little toesies. She suffered skin suffocation and died. But no, that woman didn't die. That's true. And also they didn't paint her back. No? Well, in the movie it looks like she's all covered in gold. It's a onesie, is it?

No, no, but they just left the back open so she could breathe. She just didn't paint the back. But I'm looking at the back here. Oh, then I'm thinking of something else. You must be thinking of the front. Maybe the front. Probably thinking of the front. Cool stuff, man.

So, yeah, no, not dead and a woman who lived and may still be alive today. So, yeah, that's pretty cool. That's right. Don't you think? Yeah. Yeah, she went to the Skyfall premiere. So unless they wheeled her corpse in. Yeah.

Her beautiful golden corpse. That's exactly right. What do you want to hear about? The Paul is dead rumour, James? Paul is dead? Paul McCartney. Oh, yeah, I like that one. Or Donald Trump.

Something about Donald Trump. We could do both. We could do both. Look, the mother of all celebrity death hoaxes began when it was alleged that Beatles legend Paul McCartney had died in a 1966 car crash. This isn't really Hollywood. Oh, no.

Well, he was in a Hollywood movie. Yeah, that's true. The car's rolling. My rib cage. Or my organs. Or my organs. Why no? He's from Liverpool.

My organs. Or my organs. According to the story, the three Beatles bandmates secretly replaced him with a double, but then planted clues in their albums to let fans know that Paul was dead. Why would you? Is this true?

No. Oh. Because, well, that'd be crazy. It would be crazy. For example, the Beatles album Abbey Road showed Paul barefoot because he was, in fact, deceased. The classic move. Yeah.

Because when, famously, you bury a loved one, you put them in their coffin with no shoes on. That's true. Although McCartney went on to a long wings and solo career, he has outlived two other Beatles and is now 71. Well, he's doubled it. That's true, yeah. Who knows how old that guy is.

Also, I recently saw a video of him, I don't know who filmed it, like probably his granddaughter or something like that, of him attempting to do the Abbey Road walk just by himself across that same, and he nearly gets run over. The car just screams through. Imagine if he died there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They'd have to get a third Paul McCartney.

Yeah, that's right. God. Well, they couldn't do it then, could they? Or what if they were like, look, I know it's tragic what happened to Paul because he got destroyed by a car on camera. And it was on TikTok. People put it on TikTok. But now it's time to clear the slate and admit that, in fact,

he was killed in 1966 and we're just going to replace him again. This is the second time. We're going to replace him with that guy from Queen. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Adam Lambert. Adam Lambert. Cool.

Yeah. You probably know this one, that NASA faked the moon landing, but not only that, director Stanley Kubrick was hired to do it. And apparently one of the hints towards this was if you watch the movie The Shining, Danny, who's the boy in The Shining, and then played by Ewan McGregor in the sequel movie, Doctor Sleep, which is actually quite good, Danny's wearing an Apollo 11 USA top.

So it's supposed to be a little hint. A little tip off there, yeah. For the wise, you know. That's right. That's right. The people who know, we're on the inside. We get it. And the reason why they might think this is because it was said

that the only filmmaker that was capable of pulling off something like this was Stanley Kubrick because of what he did on 2001 A Space Odyssey. There's even a nod to it in one of the Bond films where he runs through like a moon landing set or whatever. I mean this is something that people genuinely believe. Well, quite frankly also, I'll be real, I don't give a fuck if we went to the moon.

Who cares, right, at this point? Are we don't give a fuck if we went to the moon. Who cares? Right? At this point. Aren't we going back soon or something? Isn't that happening? Probably. Yeah, I'm sure it was a big deal at the time. And it'll be great for us, won't it? Yeah. Really good. Real benefits for the... Well, space race, if you do it, you know, it does, it has to drive

innovation. There is, you know, there is proof that that is the case. Velcro was one of the examples, apparently. Computing powers. But of course... When was the last time... I was going to say when's the last time, but you have Velcro shoes on. Yeah, exactly. And a Velcro vest. And a Velcro underwear. It's in

multiple pieces. That's right. It's a nightmare to take on and off. But of course, that's also... When a Velcro's ripping, don't come a-knockin'. That's what it says in your bedroom door. Yip, yip, yip. Yip, yip, yip. But when, of course that's also When the Velcro's ripping don't come a knock And that's what it says in your bedroom door But when of course space travel is privatized Which it often is now Then that innovation stays

You know within a particular company So that's not necessarily as good But anyway the point is Yeah sorry It was in a group chat one of the terrible group chats I'm in, and it came up, something about the moon landing, and someone was like, yeah, you know, who knows about the moon landing? We'll never know.

And I'm like. Tell me off air who that guy is. I will. But I'm like, no, it happened. Like at this point, it's too big of a thing. You've talked about this before. I think you're the one that told me this. I said the moon landing was fake.

Yes. There are too many components that someone wouldn't have just leaked this by accident. Or they had a crisis of conscience or whatever. Just went, fuck it, whatever, I'm 90. It was fake. And here's the proof. Well, actually, if they did that, then somebody would kill them.

Well, yeah, then they'd have family who were like, they were killed and, you know, and then you'd have to pay something and then blah, blah, blah, you know, it goes on forever. The web continues out forever. The internet has fucking ruined minds. Whatever algorithm you get caught in, it just fucks your brain into mush. Yeah.

Just awful. Yeah. Anyway. We do this podcast. We do. Our brains got turned to mush. We're in a good algorithm. Yeah, we awful. Yeah. Anyway. We do this podcast. We do. So, yeah, how's it fly? We're in a good algorithm. Yeah, we're in a good one. Okay, James, you'll love this one. Will I? According to this legend,

which has some variations. Is this about William H. Macy? No. There isn't one about him. Anyway, just so you know. Okay, right. I was just thinking about Mystery Man the other day. It's a good movie. Pretty good, right? Yeah. Apparently Danny DeVito was going to direct that. He didn't? He didn't.

Well, there you go. You wanted more script control or something. Well, I thought it turned out pretty well, Danny DeVito. And then Ben Stiller was going to direct it, but he was like, I don't want to do a lot of work. But I'll be in it. I'll be in it. It's true.

Anyway, according to this legend, which has some variations, a stranger stopped and helped Donald Trump after he was involved in a car crash. Oh, yeah. And the grateful mogul later paid the man's mortgage. According to what the Donald said on an episode of his show, The Apprentice, the story's true. That guy has never paid for a single fucking thing in his life.

Yep. I would be shocked if any of that is true. You know what? I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to him and he forgot. Like that would be the story if it was a story at all. Who is that guy? What do you mean? Who's the guy?

Doesn't say, just the guy. But as I said, this story has some variations, one of which would be there was no car crash and also Donald Trump didn't pay for the guy's mortgage or anyone's mortgage. Yeah. Or helped anyone. I mean, that guy is just, he's known for lying. And that I think is the appeal of him. like that thing happened recently where he went into a restaurant and was like all

the meals are on me and then he just left that's great he does this shit all the time he famously doesn't pay anybody didn't say look he didn't say the meals are on me or whatever he said something like meals for everyone which is not technically, that's technically true. If it's everybody in a restaurant, technically there is a meal for everyone. Well, yeah, he's right there. I think he's due an apology from you. Yeah, you're right. But I'm sorry, my real president.

But the thing is, right, that is the appeal of this guy, right? He's funny because he's a fucking lunatic. And, and he just lies all the time, you know? People like him because of this. He's a great showman. He's terrible, but he's a great showman. Yeah. He's no Ron DeSantis. That's so true.

Poltergeist. Yeah. Should we do one more each? Yeah. Okay. So apparently a bunch of people died who worked on this, and they say that it was, like, supernatural in nature, but no, it was just a bunch of people in that worked on this and they say that it was like supernatural in nature, but no, it was just a bunch of people in that movie just died,

which is just sad. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and you know that train thing where the train came towards the thing? Oh, the train's coming. The train's going to kill us. And they all ran out of theaters? They didn't.

Apparently they didn't really. Interesting. Yeah. What else, Mason? Okay. Look, I'm going to give you one more. Okay. The rumour child actor Ralphie from A Christmas Story

appeared in porn movies. The beloved 1983 holiday movie about an adorable boy's obsession with getting a red Ryder BB gun for Christmas I need to watch that movie. starred Peter Billingsley. A rumour spread like wildfire that he grew up to star in porn films. Peter Billingsley? But they had the wrong actor.

He's annoying, man. In reality, Scotty Schwartz, who got his tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole in the film, went on to work in the adult film industry in non-sexual roles. Cool. Yeah. Just a background dude or whatever. Yeah. In Scotty's X-rated adventure, Schwartz's character attends an orgy without having sex with anyone.

Nice. Yeah, good. Just checking it out? Yeah, just checking it out. Yeah. That's cool. So there's a few other things that I guess we could talk about. The Superman curse, you know, a number of the actors who have played Superman have met

an untimely and unfortunate demise. Yeah, some of them have died, but most of them haven't. That's true. I think all the Superboys are alive. Dean Cain is alive. Henry Cavill's alive. Brandon Routh's alive. At time of recording.

That's right. At time of recording. Yeah. James Dean's car, you know about that? No. It Cavill's alive. Brandon Routh's alive. At time of recording. That's right. At time of recording. Yeah. James Dean's car. You know about that? No. It's a cursed car. He died in it.

And then apparently anybody who bought that car died in it. That's not true. Where is it now? I don't know. Should we buy it? Yeah, we should buy it. We should buy the car. It's also like a speedy zippy car.

So if you bought James Dean's car and then you were fanging around in it, yeah, there's a good chance that you probably would be in a car accident. Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney. Paul McCartney. Whoa. I saw another one which was the Titanic PCP rumor. We're basically on the set of the Titanic. Oh, yes.

We've discussed this, I think. Yeah, a bunch of people got somebody spiked the clam chowder with PCP and everyone tripped balls and had to go to hospital. That's true. I've actually made a video on it specifically. That's right. Yeah. And was the culprit ever found?

No. They think it was. We'll talk about it in the video. Also, one of the guys who's in Titanic, I forgot to comment on it, was like, I'm in this movie and, like, I'm one of the scientist guys in it. And he's like, yeah, it's true, but I can tell you more stuff about it. So I should reach out to him. Yeah.

What's the actor's name? Let me find. I saw that comment recently. It's not Victor Garber, Mason. No. You idiot. I wouldn't say that. Well, it's not.

Nicholas Cascone. Ooh. That's cool. That is cool. Yeah. So, yeah, everybody tripped balls, including a little kid. They got a little kid with it. So that's not as cool.

No. Yeah. Well, you know, it's probably a valuable life lesson on how to trip balls. Absolutely. Oh, who's in Star Trek The Next Generation? As Ensign Tripping Balls? Yes, that's right. Yeah.

Captain Picard, my balls. Ah, the dog's back. Hello, Ollie. Come here. How'd you get back? Come here. All right, I've got a couple here which are just a fun. Oh, yeah.

I love having fun. Because as I was researching urban legends, I just got a few that are just urban legends in general. Oh, yeah. I love having fun. Because as I was researching urban legends, I just got a few that are just urban legends in general. Oh, yes. So I mentioned these. Baby Train is an urban legend which claims that a small town had an unusually high birth rate because a train would pass through the town at 5 a.m. and blow its whistle,

waking up all the residents. That's rude, by the way. Very rude. I did once live near a train crossing. It was annoying. Since it was too late to go back to sleep and too early to get up, couples would have sex and this resulted in a mini baby boom. Okay.

Too early. Too early. No, thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That doesn't factor in the reality of most people want to sleep more than anything else. Just go back to sleep. Yeah.

And this one I love because we were talking about cryptids recently. That's probably before people would just get on their phones. this one I love because we were talking about cryptids recently. And that's probably before people would just get on their phones. Yeah, exactly. Do you remember talking about cryptids the other week? Yeah, some people emailed in to say, why didn't you mention drop bears, the most Australian cryptid? And that's because nobody who tells the story of a drop bear thinks drop bears are real.

Yes. We just tell it to tourists mostly so they worry about a bear falling on them. But actually then we don't think they're real. Yeah. Yeah, so come out. Yeah, come out there. Go into the forest. So this one is apparently the Cat Man of Greenock is an urban legend

since the 1970s of a man in Greenock, Scotland, who eats rats with his hands. What the fuck else would he eat them with? Knife and fork, Richard Gere style. Just extract the rat, eat it with a knife and fork. He had the name Cat Man due to rumours that he lived with and cared for a group of wild cats. So that's a fun one to end on, isn't it?

Very fun. Wow, those are good urban legends. I think we've debunked some of them, but some are real. I think so, yeah. I reckon 50-50, though. Yeah, probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Donald Trump one's probably true.

That's probably true. Probably paid a guy's mortgage. He probably definitely did that. He probably hasn't always been in debt, and he paid that guy's mortgage. That's right. Definitely, yeah. All right, should we move on to the next segment of the show? Yeah.

What is that? It's what we're reading. What? What we're going to read. What? What we're reading, what we're going to read, for God's sake. I know you recall them, but I couldn't recall. Okay.

I'm doing the thing. I'm doing the thing. and recall. Okay. I'm doing the thing. What are we reading today? This is the segment where we talk about what we've been reading and watching and doing. That's exactly right.

What have you been doing? This week I watched a movie, but the twist, Australian movie. What do you think about that? Yeah. Can you even believe that? Which Cockadaw Dundee did you watch? One, two, and how many are there? There's three and then there's the fantastic.

Yeah, I watched all of those. I watched all of those. But I was listening to the podcast Special Features. Oh, yeah. It's about pals Cam and Alexi used to do. I've seen your podcast. They've got a new podcast where they talk about movies, if you can even believe it.

And I listened to an episode from a little while back where they talked about the best movies of 2023 so far. And so obviously Red Notice and Quantumania. Heart and Stone. Yeah, Heart and Stone. Red Notice and Quantumania and Heart and Stone. Yeah, Heart and Stone. I've got an update on Heart. Black Adam and so forth and all those. That was last year, but yeah.

Yeah, yeah. You know Heart of Stone? Yes. There was a guy in my gym and we were talking. Oh, yeah. It's not like you. No, no, it is actually, yeah. And anyway, there was a, about the soccer Because Australian was recently

Knocked out of the World Cup Boo I'm like, did you watch the soccer and whatever Girls, they didn't get up, that's okay Maybe next time He's like, I wasn't, I'm not really a big fan of soccer or whatever But I did watch this movie on Netflix And I'm like, what did you watch?

And he goes, Heart of Stone And I'm like, how was it? And he said it was incredible He literally said, next level. Those were his words. Yeah, wow. So, yeah. And then I said, you're going to love the movie Red Notice.

That's right. That's great stuff. To be frank, I haven't seen it. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, amongst all those recommendations that they thought were great, Cam and Alexei, they thought all those movies were great. Alexei also recommended a movie, an Australian movie called Limbo, directed by Ivan Sen, and it's got Simon Baker in it.

Simon Baker, the mentalist. Yeah, yeah. And it's like it premiered in a film festival earlier in the year. It was on the ABC quite recently, but I missed it. But it's – It's from Madman Films. Yeah, yeah. So it's like this neo-noir crime film.

It's in black and white. It's in black and white. I hate the Outback, which means I'd like this. And it's set in this town called Limbo, which is like a Cooper Petey style town, so like some of it's underground. Yeah, yeah. And he plays this detective with like a lot of problems. Detective Limbo.

That's exactly right. How low can you go, Detective Limbo? Very low. I've got a lot of problems. And he's been sent to this town to review this cold case about a missing girl from 20 years ago.

Yeah. But of course the townsfolk, they don't care for him. Why? He's not from around there. And he's not that good at limbo? And he's always limboing. No, he's always limboing. He just swans into town and he wins all the limbo competitions. That would be annoying. Just like that.

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, it's really good. Very atmospheric, the black and white. What's it on? ABC, did you say? No, I bought it on YouTube. Oh, YouTube. It was on the ABC once.

Once? They just screened it. Oh, okay. Like a regular movie, if you can imagine that. I can't actually. It's just on YouTube. Oh, check it out. It was $10 at the time, so I'm like, that's a good deal.

Sounds cool. Yeah, so really good actually. It's just on YouTube. It was $10 at the time, so I'm like, that's a good deal. Sounds cool. Yeah, really good performance. It's really good, really atmospheric. Simon Baker's very good in it. If you just know him as The Mentalist, I mean, you're correct. But also, he's very good in this as well. How's he looking? Good. Shaved head, beard. Shaved head, beard?

Shaved head, beard. A lot of tattoos. What? Yeah. Are you thinking of Simon Baker? I am thinking of Simon Baker, yeah. That's true. God. Okay, that sounds really cool. But yeah, like, very, and the black and white gives it this sort of surreal quality. Yes.

And also because it's in the outback and it's sort of this weird landscape. Would you say it gives it a dreamlike quality? I would say it does give it a dreamlike quality. My God. Did you just read that off the internet? I'd never read anything. Okay. I wasn't going to start now, was I?

No. Well, I actually watched a movie too at the cinemas it's called playstation commercial 2023 gran turismo that's based on a true story did you know yeah some of it's true apparently um it's all right okay great it's probably too long should we have devoted an episode to it no i took my son to it and he was like he liked it but it was probably too long. And like, it was, it's, it's way better than it should be. And everybody's like quite good in it and charismatic. David Harper in the lead, which now I can't remember. Um, it's fun.

How hard does it feel like a PlayStation ad or a Gran Turismo ad? A lot of it is like, you know, cause if you don't know, the story is that a guy gets so good at Gran Turismo that he gets to drive race cars for real. Because if you don't know, the story is that a guy gets so good at Gran Turismo that he gets to drive race cars for real. And he's so good at race car driving because he knows all the tracks. And then he gets to drive Gran Turismo again. That's right. He gets so good at real-life Formula 1 racing,

they let him play the PlayStation again. Because normally they say it's not allowed anymore. They would have normally, yeah. That's right. But, you know, it's... Great. Terrific. It's got Jumon H That's right. But, you know, it's, yeah. Great. It's terrific.

It's got Jumon Honsu, who I like. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I don't think it's doing particularly well. But, you know, if you have to see a movie and you haven't seen this one. Heart of Stone. Totally. I mean, Heart of Stone sounds like it's next. You're giving very faint praise to this,

but Heart of Stone sounds like it's next level. Well, that's what I was told. Yeah, so. Also, people might think I'm joking. That is an actual conversation that I had. Because I'm in the real world too. A lot of people don't know that. Do you think potentially that that guy you spoke to was director

of Heart of Stone some guy? I can't rule it out. You can't rule it out, can you? It might have been some guy who directed Heart of Stone. Yeah. So. Yeah, so that's fun. Yeah. So. Yeah. So that's fun.

Yeah. Anyway. Anyway, two very solid recommendations for us, I think. The independent neo-noir crime film. And Heart of Stone. And Heart of Stone and Gran Turismo commercial. Absolutely. I guess.

Because video games. Like we've talked about recently how, you know, Barbie made a billion dollars and Oppenheim is making hundreds of millions of dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the video game industry is like it's next level isn't it would you say it's next level i mean it's like don't they make a billion i don't like to throw that out yeah but yeah don't they make a billion dollars in a week yeah they all so the idea of the biggest industry is yeah yeah so the idea of just this is just like this is legitimately just an ad for great turismo. That's not outside the realm of possibility, is it?

Cost them next to nothing. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Well, the biggest media property, I don't know if this has changed, but of all time is fucking GTA. Yeah, that's true. So, you know, just looking at what Gran Turismo movie made at the box office.

Let's have a look. Oh, I can go see it at Victoria Gardens again. Maybe I will. Maybe I will go see it. Cheap tickets there Maybe I will. Maybe I will go see it. Cheap tickets there, I think, usually. Almost every day. Box office, $10 million. Like in the US?

Just, I think, in general. That can't be right. That's true. Wow. That's a... It looks expensive, too. Yeah. Yeah.

Some of those cars might be real. They seem to be. Some of those David Harbors might be real. Some of them are, definitely. There's several of them. I mean, it looks good. It's a good one. The racing is done.

Now you have to race against all of us, young man. All these David Harbors. But there's never a moment. They clone me in real life. So much money. They must have. But yeah, it's... Wow, that's crazy.

That is crazy. Yeah. Cool. All right. Anything else? I should move it along. Let's move it along. They is crazy. Yeah. Cool. All right. Anything else or should we move it along? Let's move it along. They reckon about $100 million to budget on that. So there you go.

That's fucked. Well, they should have made it better then, shouldn't they? Mate, it's as good as it could be. And that is a compliment. Great. Terrific. Put that on the poster. Next segment is called Letters.

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We're going to do letters. Feels good to be in the letters segment. If you do want to reach the show, hashtag Weekly Planet Pod on Twitter or weeklyplanetpod at gmail.com. That's right. You got a letter, Mason? I'll find one. Would you like me to letter?

You should letter. It's from Broderick. I haven't got a letter, but I can perfectly recall some letters I've had in the past. Sure, that's fine, but we don't really need that. We need new letters. So we don't need your perfect recall for once. That's a shame.

Broderick says, for the MCU's Fantastic Four movie, do you think we'll be getting another origin story or going the way of Spider-Man and the Batman and more or less skipping it? I believe in the past they've said that they're jumping over that. Okay. I don't remember whether that's 100% true. I mean, we've had it twice in recent memory. You can explain it also.

Aren't you the guys that went to space and got powers? Yeah. Yes. You can do it in five minutes. Yep. Like we've talked about which Superman movie, which Superman comic book is it where they just do his origin in like one page? All of them now. It's like Doomed Planet something, something.

All-Star maybe? Yeah, I think it might be All-Star Superman. But you can do that. You can do it in five minutes. You can have the rocket launches and they're like, oh, no, Cosmic Rays, and they come back to Earth. You can do it in two seconds. It's fine.

But you could literally just have somebody just say that. You look at an infograph and they go, yeah. I don't need to know the state of Reed Richards' finances before he goes into space or whatever happened in the previous ones. I don't want to see him at high school. As an adult man? Yeah. Interesting.

Not again. Interesting you've done that. Yeah. But no, I don't think it'll be an origin. I mean, that would be bad. But thank you for the tweet, Broderick. Mason, have you got a letter? I'm going to find one.

I'm going to find one. It's from Manda. Oh, come on. I can wait. No, no, no, that's all right. Okay. Manda says, within this past week I've learned about the mysterious and many big things of Australia as in giant sculptures

of random things all across Australia. What is the deal with this? Do you see them everywhere? Explain. Yeah. So all around Australia, if you don't know, there are just giant shrines and monuments of different things. Stuff and things.

Koalas and big prawns and prawns and pineapples. Ed Kelly. There's a big Ned Kelly who was our local hero. That's right. Yeah, I always assumed that this is just a thing that happens the world over. Is it not? Yeah, I think so. But I mean.

But it seems like now that I think about it. Big things is. There must be. Because some of them are like, oh, it's a big thing, but it's also a cafe or whatever. Some of them are just big things. He doesn't love a big thing. That's true. I think maybe it stands out more in Australia because there's

so much nothingness and then there's a big thing. Then there's a weird big thing. Yeah, a big lemon or whatever. Big lemon or whatever. Yeah, I built a big lemon or whatever. Yeah, man. But, yeah, that is true. I don't know what the deal with it is.

It just is. Yeah. And I've seen some of them but not all of them. Do you agree? I agree very confidently with that. I should do more trips around Australia, but honestly, I'm tired as hell, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm waking up for that 5 a.m. train sex, you know? That's right. Hey, here's an email from Elias. Yo. Blindsided. What? Hey, James and May. So, fellow Aussie here, after hearing about the alleged claims of the movie The Blindside,

which is a falsified story, I can't help but feel a little blindsided myself. Whoa. Just wondering if a movie or its details surrounding release and production has ever left you guys feeling blindsided. Wow. Apparently, the, oh, he says, for me, I'd have to say the Blair Witch Project, the way it was shot and marketed, left many wondering if it was actually a true story. Yeah.

It is true. The catch me if you can story. Yeah, that's all made up. That's all made up, which, look, which is pretty cool. Apparently he's not a very good guy. No, he's bad. But the guy who claimed that he was like, okay, I pretended to be a pilot and I got to fly around.

You know, you get to use the jump seat and I got to fly around the world. Yeah. You know, I used the status to get rich and all this sort of stuff. Apparently he made all of that up. So he never even did any of it. He just made up the story. Yeah. The story was so compelling that it got made into a movie

in which it actually all happened. A guy caught him if he could. That's right. Other examples are where a movie has let me down. You're under arrest. I guy caught him if he could. That's right. Other examples of where a movie has let me down. You're under arrest. I've caught you if I could. Damn. Can't believe you caught me if you could.

It's a fair cop. You caught me if you could. And you did. You're welcome. Oh, man. I'm sure there's been movies where you look into it. I'm going to give you the electric chair if I can. You could.

Well done. I think there's definitely movies. And, look, I don't watch most of these movies, but like Green Book where it's like I've solved racism by driving around America or whatever. You know what I mean? There's movies like that. There's a bunch of those that are just like Oscar bait,

like fucking dreck, you know? But, you know, they're good is what i'm saying they do sound good yeah i mean look off the top of my head i can't think of that many but i think i always feel betrayal when it's like and when it's any kind of biopic and it's like there's a big there's like a you know a big event scene or like they were inspired because of this and then it's just like well it didn't that didn't yeah it's not real yeah but they were inspired because of this and then it's just like, well, it didn't, that didn't happen. Yeah, it's not real, yeah. They were inspired to write this song by this event that happened to them

and it's like, no, they just thought of it. Yeah. The real story is like they saw a guy and they went, oh, that guy's got blue suede shoes on. Better write a song about that. Oh, my God. Right? Well, I know like there's a recent example and I haven't seen it

because it's not out here yet, but The Sound of Freedom. Like, look, I know it's super controversial. I know that. I'd hate to get into it, but a lot of that is like bullshit. But also a lot of that is also like openly bullshit. It's like, no, this has been dramatized for whatever, whatever effect. I don't mind when it's like.

American Sniper's all bullshit apparently. I've heard that, yeah. Yeah. A Beautiful Mind, apparently his mind was dog shit. It should be called a dog shit, ugly ass mind. That's right. From this bitch. That's right.

I don't know. That's just of the specifics. Hang on, I've lost my train of thought, but that's all right. Some would say I never had a train of thought in the first place. Oh, yeah, like I don't mind it if it's like, okay, well the story's about this main character who is real or something, you know, it's a biopic, and they had two friends and they combined the two friends or something like that

or like, you know, there's one person contributed one idea and one person contributed the other so they combined the two, I guess. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I mean I would feel – I would probably feel differently if I was part of the family of one of the two people that got eliminated or turned into one person or whatever. Absolutely, yeah. I'm just looking at a list here from Looper, the website.

Good Morning Vietnam, apparently a lot of that is fake. Wow, happened in the afternoon. Yeah, that movie 21, remember that one about the blackjack? Yes. Apparently because they put mostly white kids in the movie and that's not true and a bunch of other stuff. Cinderella Man. Cinderella was a woman.

The Fighter. I don't know. More of a lover. Yeah. How many more do you have? James, let's do a funny joke. The Revenant. Not actually the bear cut open the man.

Oh, really? Oh, my God. That's true, yeah. That's the reverse of what happened in the movie. The perfect storm? It wasn't that good a storm. No. It was far from perfect.

No. Imperfect storm. It was perfect recall. Oh, wow. It's about me. Wow, is it? That's correct, yes. Yeah, that one wasn't true because, like,

that boat just disappeared. Oh. So, like, anything that happened after they left Oh, was just made up. was just made up. Okay. Yeah. So there could have just been they left. Oh, it was just made up. It was just made up. Okay. Yeah. So there could have just been a slow leak.

Yeah, they didn't find a log because the boat disappeared. Yeah. There you go. There you go. Oh, the movie 300, that's fake. Oh, yeah? Some of it. Yep.

That's true. Here's an email, James. Yo. From Daryl. He says, you've all seen They Clone Tyrone. I have. I talked about it on Suggestible. Nice. Greetings from sunny St. Petersburg, Florida. Happy to say I've been listening to your podcast

for years. Always appreciate your weekly dose of banter and escapism. Speaking of which, have you seen They Clone Tyrone on Netflix yet? It's a fresh pulpy take with a sci-fi spin. Great performances by Boyega, Fox and Paris. So you've seen it. It's on my list. It's really cool. If you want a Netflix movie, this is actually seen it. It's on my list. It's really cool.

If you want a Netflix movie that is actually good, this is a really good one. It's really cool and funny. And Jamie Foxx seems to be recovering well, which is also awesome. But, no, it's a lot of fun and dark. And it is that kind of like, I know it harkens back to a certain era, you know what I mean? I love it when things harken back to a certain era. Because I couldn't quite tell.

Like it seems to be set in the 70s but also yeah but it's like it's this weird kind of is it like Sorry to Bother You I've never seen

Sorry to Bother You I should watch that no it's this weird kind of like I'll just I'll simply watch it James I'll simply watch this oh Hidalgo

you know that horse race movie yes fake apparently not a real horse race they've made up that desert horse race or whatever. Yeah.

So cool. Anything else? That's everything, James. That's every email that anyone's ever said. I've got another one here. A lot of people emailed in about the Loveland Frog. It was a big frog. Yeah, that one really caught my imagination.

Yeah, more people emailed in and they were like, what about this big frog? And I'm like, Stephen, look, quick shout out to Stephen and also Ryan, both who emailed in about the Loveland frog yeah what about it oh they love it does it walk yeah I feel like it does a big walk right yeah big lanky frog walk yeah frog walk love that and there's a little there's a little picture where they do the thing where they put a silhouette of a man next to the silhouette of a frog so you can see how big it is and the frog's smaller than a man. Yeah.

Yeah. Learn to be a bigger frog. Yeah, come on. God damn it. It's from Luca who says, I listened to my first episode of the podcast seven years ago in my first year of high school here in the UK. Today I got my A-level results.

A-A-A. Damn. I know. And I'm off to Oxford University. Oh, Oxford University. Look, A, A. Damn. I know. And I'm off to Oxford University. Oh, Oxford University. Look at me. Oh. Congratulations.

That's great. Cup of tea and so forth. Et cetera. At Oxford University. To study art. You have been with me all the way. Probably not now that we make fun of Oxford. Oh.

Throw your MP3 player in the bin as you're entering Oxford University. You won't need us. You have been with me all the way through all my many trials. Thank you. That's incredible. Well done. That's right. Really exciting.

Congrats. That seems difficult. Imagine if I applied for Oxford, they'd probably be a pretty firm no. Yeah. Yeah. No, they'd say. What?

It is. Be gone from here. I'd say you'll regret it, but they wouldn't. No. They wouldn't ever. They wouldn't think about me. Yeah. I think they could get into Oxford for podcasting.

Podsford University. Yeah, that's right. Podsford University. We could set up a shack next to Oxford University just on the side of the road. Damn. It's a scam university to be clear. Yeah, it would have to be, yeah.

Anything else? That's the whole show, James. Wow. What's a scam university to be clear. Yeah, it would have to be, yeah. Anything else? It's the whole show. Wow, what a great show we've done. I think so. Talking about the movie Blue Beetle, which came out last week. God, one day we'll talk about it. We will actually. Or maybe we'll miss it.

Maybe it'll be out on streaming before it hits here. It's very possible. Maybe, yeah. You know? Okay. Regardless, folks, thank you so much for listening. We appreciate it very very much whoa

that's right thank you for telling your friends about the podcast thank you for sharing it around thank you for leaving a five star

review on your podcast catcher of choice most of the time you can just do it in app or it's a very laborious process

absolutely yeah you're not wrong I was just looking my twitter feed opened up and that video you showed me

of the liver king. Oh, yep. You seen it? What is he doing? That man eating a weird meat cereal. Eating a raw fish in a bowl of milk. God, he looks like he's just going to die. Yeah.

Oh, God. But in a way, you know, makes you think about your own mortality and the choices you've made. Yeah. So in a way, he's doing you a favour and you should send him money. Because if he wasn't doing this, I would be doing it? Yep, that's right. Because I would be curious to what...

What eating a big cereal of meat and milk would look like, yeah. Why is he like this? I don't know. You don't have to do this, man. James, he's doing it for the money, right? He's doing it... I mean, he is rich, apparently. He was already rich.

Not already. Then he's insane. God, his skin is like the wrong color. God, his texture's all fucked. Anyway. You got any reviews there, James? Yeah. You can just do it in app.

Any app is fine. This one's from Gabriel. Not your notes app. No. No. Yeah, see? I mean, you could maybe perfect it in there. That's what I'm saying, yeah.

Two English boys take down woke culture. Five stars, by the way. That's so true. There's nothing better than listening to Two English boys take down woke culture. Five stars, by the way. That's so true. There's nothing better than listening to two English boys take down woke culture. One review of Transformers at a time. Disclaimer, they don't actually talk about, take down woke culture because they're normal and agreeable people.

They're also not English. I think they're from New Zealand or something. That is true. We could pivot to taking down woke culture. Definitely. There's money in it. Oh, the video because the MCU one about the secret invasion. Got a million.

That's right. That's why people do it. Thank you to colleagues for editing that video. It's tremendous. Yeah, see, that's why you do it. Mason, we've got to pivot. We've got to pivot. Pivot harder.

We hate stuff. We can do that. Come on. I don't have any strong feelings. Hate stuff with me. I don't have any strong feelings about anything. Hate stuff with me. Okay.

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That's right. Thank you, everybody. Bye. FX's 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 other, a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost. FX's The Veil, starring Elizabeth Moss, is now streaming on Disney+.