The Weekly Planet - 576 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Episode Date: May 26, 2025

Tom Cruise is back to do his last Mission Impossible apparently!  In this week's episode we talk The Final Reckoning, the 8th Mission Impossible installment. Plus news on Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars being delayed, why Andor’s Tony Gilroy thinks Marvel movies are failing, trailers for Jurassic World: Rebirth and IT: Welcome to Clown Town, an update on the Skibidi Toilet movie and the future of both Top Gun and Days of Thunder franchises. Thanks for listening!James & Maso on the Book Cheat podcast: https://shows.acast.com/book-cheat/episodes/115-the-day-of-the-triffids-with-nick-mason-and-mr-sunday-moNick Mason on Do Go On episode 500: https://shows.acast.com/do-go-on/episodes/500-part-1-the-fouke-monster-with-nick-mason-and-cass-paigeNew ep of our bonus podcast James & Maso's Time Crapsule is out now! Plus entire back-catalogue of let's play videos, bonus pods, movie commentaries, early access and ad-free episodes all available on https://bigsandwich.coPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift up to a few minutes due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start04:04 Avengers: Doomsday Delays08:40 Tony Gilroy vs Marvel13:17 Jurassic World: Rebirth Trailer18:24 IT: Welcome to Derry Trailer20:24 Skibidi Toilet Movie Begins Production25:30 Elden Ring Movie with Alex Garland28:23 Top Gun 3 & Days of Thunder Sequels32:10 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning Review57:03 Mission: Impossible Spoiler Segment01:15:10 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:20:42 Letters, It’s Time For LettersSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday. With me as always, it's Nick Mason's own Nick Mason. It's great to be here. Now that was a, I think a fairly weak crack of the can there, James. Let's give, here's a burly man's crack of the can. I'm a seasoned professional. Oh yeah. You know why? Because this is the Coke that does something. And you've got the Coke that does nothing. I don't know why they don't call it Coke that does nothing. That's what we call it.

This is no sugar, no caffeine Coke. Right, and mine's no sugar, some caffeine. That makes that's the one difference between us. That makes you more manly than me. Sometimes people can't tell the difference between us on the podcast because our voices are similar and our opinions are similar and bad. They're similarly bad. But I'm drinking the Superior Coke.

Or the Inferior Coke. Well, I already had a coffee, so I don drinking the superior coke or the inferior coke. Well, I already had a coffee. So I'm not, I'm not done with that. I already had a coffee. Yeah. Well, we're not all. I already had two coffees. Spoiler alert.

Two coffees. This guy. Oh yeah. Just get on ADHD medication like a normal person. All right? I won't. I shan't. Mason, it's a big week for Tom Cruise.

I mean, it always is. That's so true. But it's a particularly good week. It's a week I mean big for Tom Cruise. He's gonna have to eat his his customary two buckets of popcorn. I don't believe he eats popcorn It's too calorie dense. And is it also because cinema popcorn that is. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah He's lying unless somebody's bringing in his own which I think they are. Special popcorn. Special Tom Cruise popcorn. What would he be on? Would it be Kato. It'd be air fried Yeah, maybe just salt and no butter. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean he's ripped in this new movie

I tell you what he's a demon also know that right? So there's a there's a video recently of him He's just casually eating some popcorn in a way that nobody's ever eaten popcorn. That's what I'm telling That's right. He's doing this for two hours. He does it. It's sort of a it's sort of a flick into the mouth Yeah, but it's not even the one where you pick up a kernel and you throw it in the air Catch it like that. He's sort of he grabs he palms a piece of popcorn. Yeah, and then he sort of Violently smashes it like he raises his fist up and he smashes it into his face. Is it one piece of popcorn? I think it's one. Nobody does that. That's what I'm saying. Right? Yeah, it's a handful of nothing. He's a demon

He's a day. I agree. I agree We're talking about Mission Impossible 5. Makes a hell of a movie though, doesn't he? I agree. 100% Yeah, so yeah, we're gonna be talking about that There's time codes below if you want to jump to anything in particular But we're also gonna be talking about Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars being delayed Plus what that means for the other Disney Marvel properties. All cancelled. That's right We're gonna talk about what Tony Gilroy thinks what Marvel are doing and why they're failing.

OK. We've got trailers. Honk. For Jurassic World Rebirth. And it, welcome to this terrible clown. And town. And town. It's a terrible town.

Should be called terrible town, terrible clown. Yes, that's right. Now, you insisted on this, but we are going to be getting a skibbity toilet update. I did not insist on that. You insist on it, and I'm happy to provide. OK. And then we're going to talk about the state of both Days of Thunder 2 and Top Gun Maverick 3. Let's see who else he can kill from these universes. Combine the two. The only returning character. Same universe, two Tom Cruises. Maverick and whatever

his character's name is. Cole Trickle. Cole Trickle. You think I'm joking or what? No I don't, I remember. Patrick H Patrick H. Williams has a great video on it We are going to do a movie commentary for days of thunder coming up. Okay, so we so we can say Cole trickle It's a Cole trickle. That's right. We're gonna start with this Okay, Avengers doomsday before you go into that just a thought I had okay I had a thought when I was watching Mission Impossible final reckoning. He does go with unconventional hero names You know what I mean? Yeah. Because you know in Hollywood the only acceptable hero names are Jack and John and Joe maybe.

Yeah. But he's Ethan. Yeah. He's Cole Trickle. Is Ethan from the original series? Is that one? No, he's new. Whoa! Yeah, that's right. Yeah.

I mean Cole Trickle is based on Dick Trickle who was a... formula... NASCAR driver or whatever. Sure. Yeah. Not sure. You're saying sure like it's not. Oh, I'm sure. I. Sure. Yeah. Not sure. You're saying sure. Oh, I'm sure.

I'm sure. But it's real. Anyway, he's a demon. We're pretty confident. Yeah, we are. It's true. We simply don't have time to get into it though. There's not enough time.

So Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars, they have been delayed. So they initially had May 2026 release dates, both in, sorry, one was in May 2026. And then the following was May 2027. It's Doomsday, then Secret Wars, apparently. Now, Now we're switching them. Avengers, switching them. Backwards. That's right. They're not changing the plots or anything. They're just going to do the end. Backwards. And then at the end, the Russo brothers are going to show up and they're going to be like, I bet you wish you knew how this storyline started.

Well, you're going to have to come back. But nobody would. I wouldn't. Interesting. Well, they're trying it out, man. They're trying everything. Yeah, I mean, it's good. Mix up the formula. So now Avengers Doomsday has a release date of December 18th, 2026.

And Avengers Secret Wars has a date of December 17th, 2027. They're doing the Avatar, newer Star Wars release date. I'm going to forget those release dates. I'm going to forget them. Just December. December of next year, December of the year after. I mean, there's a hundred people, a hundred superheroes in each of these. There's probably going to be weird dimensional stuff and time travel. So I mean, obviously the internet's exploded with theories as to why this delay. What do you think it is? To write a script?

Yeah, to write a script. They need scheduling. There's also, I mean, it would also be like the timeline of what else is coming out, I think, because Spider-Man Brand New Day was originally going to be between. Yeah, right. But now it's going to be before. Okay. And I don't think that has necessarily anything to do with it, but I don't think they would have done that if it messed with this too much. That's true. Yeah. So that would suggest then that Brand New Day is a more street level, small scale movie. I would like that to be the case. I would like that too also because wasn't there a big battle between various creatives and the studio heads or whatever as to what sort of movie it was going to be?

And the studio heads wanted another multi-verse. I want a bad movie! Well, I want an even worse movie. That's right. Boys, boys, we can have both. And you can both marry me, Kevin Feige. He's going to marry all the studios. Okay, that's fine. You can do that. That's his last pitch. That's his last ditch effort to be like.

Whoever this person is. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently though, it's also been confirmed, this is via Comic Book Movie, that Untitled Marvel Movie was removed from the February 13th, 2026 release date, whatever that was. And also... Well, that's less than a year and we don't even know what it is. Exactly. It was probably Blade at some point.

Probably Blade. There was also Marvel movies slated for November 6th, 2026 and November 5th, 2027. They were bookmarked as MCU titles, but now that's been amended to Untitled Disney Films. Could be anything. But this is also interesting because next year we're getting The Mandalorian versus Grogglet and that was coming out on May 22nd. I'm gonna forget all these dates, why do we even? It's for people who care. Okay sure. It's for people who have brains like mine. Email in if you care. So that was going to be around the time of... I'll just put it in by iCal.

You have an iCal? No, I don't even know what that is really. It's a calendar, I assume. I don't have Apple phones. You don't have an Apple phone? Correct. Great. That's great, Mason.

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Give me it. Give me a fire. You can't my phone. Say hi So what the point is next year we were gonna have an Avengers and a Star Wars movie like weeks apart All right from the same company, which would have been a terrible idea. Oh cuz of Avengers versus Groglod or whatever That's actually great. What do you think? This is delayed? From the same company, which would have been a terrible idea. Oh, because of Avengers vs. Groglod or whatever. Exactly. Okay. That's actually great. Why do you think this is delayed? I know I get my reasons, but do you want to give the same or similar reasons? I just gave the same reasons.

They haven't written anything. They started filming and then they went, oh wait. I bet some- Has anybody written any of this down? Yeah. Just improv. I bet Chris Hemsworth was like, I'd like to be in a really good Marvel movie after my last effort. Like he's publicly come out and said, I think we went too far. Wouldn't it be interesting?

And I think he probably went, can I have some script pages? Or am I just going to, you know, muck about here? And they're like, you're going to muck about. You did the international sign for mucking about. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I agree. And they're like, I guess we could write some stuff. Yeah, we'll do that for you Chris Hemsworth. That's right. And the hundred other people are in this. So there you go. Look forward to those movies when they come out.

So sponsor content. That's right. We've got paid for this. So next year I know we're getting, this year, so we're getting a new Avatar movie in December. So you always need a big tent pole Disney movie. That's true. In the Decembers and that's what we're getting. Sometimes an Aquaman movie and that's Warner Brothers and that's okay. Is it? It's okay. It's okay. He's got a stealth suit. Mason, this is from slash film. Tony

Gilroy has been doing the rounds being like, I'm a great writer and I made a great show. Also it was hard. And you know what? All that is true. I agree. I think he's, yeah, he's correct. That's correct. There was a I think he's correct. That's correct. There was a moment where he's like, there's only a few people in Hollywood who are at like a really like elite writing level. And I'm like, that's, yeah. Did he name names? He said himself.

Okay. That was the implication. Okay. I'm like, yeah, I guess, yeah, you're not wrong. Number one, Tony Gilroy. Number two, everyone else. I'm the king of this town and I'll never die. So he was talking about why Marvel movies are failing. He said, this is the quote, trying

to get the, what do they call it? I can't remember the name of the box. What the fuck is the name of the box in the Avengers? What the fuck are they going for? He's talking about the tesseract. Yeah, so I'll remind him, the tesseract. He went, the tesseract. That's why all these movies are all, that's why they fail. You're just constantly, if that's's all you're doing then all you're doing is just trying to get the tesseract They're not all like that. He's a little bit out of date terminology Why it was a stone and a glove and that's true. Whatever. So yeah, it's a Yeah, I think and also you what's that?

That idea that it's either a get the thing or close the gate. It's always it's always we've got to get the all But we've got to close the gate every, every Marvel movie is one of the two. Not just Marvel movies. Oh, every movie. Every movie. So yeah, because again, we talked about this last week because Andor was initially the very early idea that it was going to be the weekly adventures of K2SO and Cassie and Andor. He's like, well, that's going to run out of steam real quick. Yeah. I mean, I've only got so many orbs to get and gates to close in these scripts. Yeah. So you make it about characters or whatever. Yeah, I mean I've only got so many orbs to get and gates to close. Exactly. In these scripts. Yeah. So you know you make it about characters or whatever. Yeah. Ah, Tony Gilwright, I think you'll find that the orb is the Death Star plans.

Oh yeah. You idiot. Yeah, that's a good point. I mean close the gate that was... Oppression. That's true. But don't get caught in the gate, it'll chop you in half. Yeah, and that's oppression. That is oppression. So what do you think? Do you think... I think there is truth to that in the sense that there's no kind of... what are the character through lines at this point? Whose adventures are we following? Because you can go from like the start of Captain America or the start of Iron Man all the way through to Endgame and you see what's kind of going on. And now they're like, new Avengers movie. But I'm like, but who's we don't even know who the Avengers are Who's what now? Well, we can guess at it. Maybe and yeah

Yeah, and it depends who wants to renew their contracts and what what they're willing what the studio is willing to pay for everybody to Come back. Yeah, and for how long for full movie a cameo one scene. We don't know I mean if they're doing secret wars as well, that's a close the gate idea, isn't it? They've got to close that gate to the Secret Wars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They probably have to get the orb in order to close the gate. Probably. It's probably something like that in that order.

Not to say that any of these movies were bad. In fact, I think all movies are good. I think every movie is good. Name a movie. Sphere. Ah, fuck. The Barry Levinson directed movie Sphere. We just watched the movie Sphere.

Based on the book by Michael Crichton, starring a bevy of Hollywood stars of yesteryear. Yeah. And today. Name one. Samuel L Jackson. He's still around. Yeah. Liev Schreiber. He's Ray Donovan. Queen Latifah. Yep, alright. Barry Levinson. No. No, he's not in it. He didn't cameo in his own. Sometimes he does, but he didn't in that one. Underwater sci-fi. Yeah. Of those people who don't know yet, the Michael Crichton thing won out and we're doing Michael Crichton adaptations. Did it for real though? No, it actually did if you look at the comments, my god. Because that's because you pitched it as we're gonna tank the algorithm. They're banking on your failure. We're doing it together. It's not just me. We're all doing it together. We're all working together to destroy my YouTube channel and our reputation.

Do you think potentially this will destroy YouTube's algorithm altogether? It'll be kind of a new era? I hope it's Mr. Beast just suddenly has twisted everything into Michael Crichton adaptations. But for real, I made a real Congo. I cut a gorilla's hand off with a laser. I made a real sphere. It reflects everything except people. How did I do it?

I'm the devil. That's how I did it. I made a timeline. What's that one about? We don't know. We haven't watched it yet. I'm pretty sure it's about a hundred people being in a room and then some of them volunteered to leave the room.

Oh man, I'm never leaving this room. You'll have to get me out of here. I'm here to win it. Do you want a thousand dollars to leave? Yeah. Yep. Ten other people would be eliminated. Yeah I'll do it. Yeah whatever. Good. Yeah. But anyway I was gonna say I hope the YouTube algorithm gets reset. Yeah. The most popular videos are like two-minute animations where people are putting on funny voices. Agreed. Because that was what it was back in the day. That's what it was. It was Swoozie and another guy and etc.

And that end of the world video. Alright Mason, trailers ahoy. Honk. Wow, enthusiastic trailer this week. Seems that way. Bit of a sing song. I think they were on their way to something else though. To what? I don't know.

They were working for someone else. It was dressed up like a party boat. So, I don't know. Probably like somebody's 40 I'm not paying the trailer the boat trailer enough. I mean if they're taking on second jobs, I guess I like this Mason I don't like this. So you want you want the party you want the boat to be exclusive pay less But not have it do other things. Okay, right. Yeah, it seems like it's hot somewhere else now good My heart's also somewhere else It's with Tom Cruise Wow, who's a daemon? Yeah, Mason go on Jurassic World rebirth. We saw that trailer I wrote great and you went fine

Okay, that's cuz you love all movies though. I do love all you wouldn't have said anything less than great Yeah, man, you would have said great or super great. Yeah, man Is it a go to the island and have to get the thing? Yes. Yes it is. Is there a kid there for no reason? Yes. Is there a T-Rex? Yes. Yes. But it's not the same T-Rex right? No it couldn't be. Couldn't be. This is an island even more dangerous than the first Jurassic Park island and even more dangerous than the second Jurassic Park island. This is the one with all the dinosaurs that have been given prison sentences for their various crimes. We don't know what they did. That's right. Well some of them stole from the concession stands on the regular Jurassic Park.

Well, that's okay. I don't mind that. Okay. Well, Jurassic Park HR does mind that. So they've been sent to the Prison Island. Is this where they sent Dennis and Edry for stealing embryos? I hope so. Yeah, me too.

He's riding that T-Rex. There's big domed dinosaurs. The one that's like an alien from Alien and it's in a big red room. Oh yeah, that's that's like an alien from Alien, and it's in a big red room. Oh yeah, that's the most evil dinosaur they've ever built. They already did that. It's in a big red room. You made a point that they should have little doors. Why, I did say that.

Because there's a moment in this trailer where the big door closes. But there shouldn't be a big door at all. I agree with you, man. Right? I agree with you. It should be, like, you should open the roof and crane it out with a helicopter or something. But I said, but there's a scene in this'd open the roof. Yeah crane it out. Yeah the copter or something But I said, but there's a scene in this trailer where it were a man in a in a hazmat suit I run the door

He's like out that the door closes on it before he can get out and now he's stuck in the room with the big Dinosaur the big evil bobblehead dinosaur. Yeah, and he's like how black will reopen the door and they're like, we're not gonna do that Yeah, you know it does. Hmm, but I've given a little you can crawl under the door. That's okay Yeah, little little doggy door. A little doggy door, crawl through it. You can go through it and it'll be fine. Absolutely. And then the dinosaur too big.

That's their downfall. They're too big. Both my kids now, they can nearly not, well, the oldest one definitely can't, can not fit through the doggy door anymore. And that's sad. So you're going to have to open the door for them now. Yeah. It's also like, it's handy if I ever lock the keys inside. You send one of them through. Send one of them through, yeah. Yeah. By the way, don't come to my house and try to open the door for them now. Yeah, it's also like, it's handy if I ever lock the keys inside. You just send one of them through. Send one of them through, yeah.

Yeah, by the way, don't come to my house and try to get through the doggy door. I'm closing it when I'm not here, man. That's right. You know? And sometimes there's a dog on the other side. That's right. An old dog. A tiny old dog.

Hey man, she's a good old dog. I agree, but she's tiny and old. She's only 13, which isn't that old for a dog. Pretty damn old. It's pretty and old. She's only 13, which isn't that old for a dog. It's pretty damn old. It's pretty dang old. So now, you know, your kids will be too big for that. So if you need to get, if you lock your keys in the house, you're going to have to get them to do a big run up.

Yeah. Smash through. Through a window. Yeah. You can kick the edges of the doggy door. Good point. You know, weaken it and then they can charge through. Just run through it.

Yeah. So it's got a T-Rex attacking a boat. That was in the original novel and was supposed to be in the original movie. The original Jurassic World Rebirth novel. No, no, the original Jurassic Park novel, which is exciting. Do you think it'll be in the official Jurassic World Rebirth novelization? I hope so. Written by Max Alan Collins. I hope so, Mason. I think so too. Yeah. There's also a big bird ones. Raptors are back. There's bird raptors.

The mosasaur is back and they have to get all the DNA for cancer or something. That's right. To make a super cancer. That's right. And then never use it. Yeah. For noble purposes. For noble reasons. We didn't do it, but that's okay. Because a bunch of people got eaten and that's good. We've got Scarlett Johansson's in this. Yep. Mahershala Ali. We've got Jonathan Bailey. Who's in stuff. Yep. We've got Rupert Friend, no friend of mine.

That's right. Because I've never met him. I don't know, look, I'm not saying it's going to be great. Okay. But it's Gareth Evans and I think he does scale really well, as we've talked about. Gareth Evans, not Gareth Edwards. Sorry, yes. He directed Rogue One, sort of.

Yes. And other things which I liked. So I don't know, man. I don't know. I think it is a stripped kind of back to basics Jurassic Park idea. Sure. But it is also like all the Jurassic Park

slash world movies it seems to a degree. Hey, wow. It's almost like my evaluation of this franchise is true. They're all about the same level of quality. Except for the first one, which is the best one by a lot of times. No one's ever said that. By a lot of times.

No one's ever said that. No one's ever said that. By a lot of times. No one's ever said that. No one's ever said that combination of words together. Okay that's interesting. But you could agree with me that it's out July 2nd. I'm not going to forget that date. You're not going to forget it? I'm going to forget it. I misspoke there.

What's the date? What is it? Come on. You can do this. July? Did you say? Yeah that's right. I'll give you a clue.

July 1st? No. Second. Yes. Really? Second guess. There you go. You're good. You're good. You're a good person. Thank you.

That's all it took. That's a big month because we've got that. We've got Superman. We've got Fantastic Four. July's going to be huge. Huge. Next we've got It. Welcome to Derry.

Is it called It? Welcome to Derry? It's called Welcome to Derry. That's a good question. I think they'd have to put It in the title. No. It wouldn't show up in the search results. No, you're right. It is just called Welcome to Derry? It's like that. I think that's a good question. I think that'd have to put it in the title. No. It wouldn't show up in the search results. No, you're right. It is just called Welcome to Derry.

No, it is. Wait, I don't know. Yeah, it is. HBO Max says It Welcome to Derry. I mean, you got to call it it. So, you know. Anyway, welcome back to this rotten town with this rotten clown in it. That's right.

But it's the past. Rotten town, rotten clown. This is like the 50s or whatever. It is. It's true. This is so the clown turns up every 30 years or something? 20 years? I can't remember. So this is the previous generation of kids.

That's right. What I do like about this, and I think it's also the strength of the first of the most recent movies, is the kid stuff is way more interesting than the adult stuff. Like an adult dealing with depression and also a clown, that's sad to me. I don't like it. Sure. But kids running amok and hitting a clown with a baseball bat, that's good. That's good and fun.

Good, clean, fun for the whole family. But not little kids. No. So it's also Bill Skarsgard is back. Okay. What's his name involved, isn't he still? Andy Machete. So he's developing it along with Barbara Machete. Now people might remember him as the director of The Flash.

Yeah, but- However, he also directed the It movies. Nobody's fault. Nobody's fault. Nobody's fault, but mine. You did this? You did The Flash? I did. You made it happen. Don't you think it's good though? I think it's good that, that, you know, as a first try, pretty impressive, pretty impressive man. You know if that was the first thing that I've done yeah that

would have been really impressive. You recommended putting the baby in the microwave in that movie. I did yeah that was based on a real-life situation that I heard about. Hmm. That I heard about. This outlaid this year it's not dated. Then you don't have to do it. It's good for you. I mean it's pretty dated. Sure but it's good for you though because you don't have to remember. No It's good for you. I mean, it's pretty dated. Sure, but it's good for you though, because you don't have to remember. No, he doesn't remember dates. That's right. But I want to look at those It movies later this year. The new ones. Just look at them on your shelf. No, we'll do them for Caravan of Garbage, then we can package them together with the old ones.

Oh, nice. And then we're all having a good time. Great. Mason. Hello. Production has begun on the Skibbidi Toilet movie. Terrific. Moving forward. There's a production, there's a promotional still or something, it's just people going like, whoa. Is there? There must be a skibbity toilet just off camera. Just anywhere around here.

Out of frame is the skibbity toilet, which I assume comes from space. They've got a, they've got the people in the still. I've got a synopsis actually. Okay, the still, well before you get into it, the stills are... Is there an actual still? Yeah. I thought you were making things up. No.

God, I'm going to go to Twitter and type in skibbity toilet. Skibbity toilet. Skibbity day. My oh my, what a wonderful toilet. What? Yeah. Skibbity toilet movie. Here we go.

Someone has searched before me. Here it is. Look. They are coming. That's fake, right? That's from discussing film That's a disgusting film disgusting Disgusting film in my view. Yeah, that's right. Who's in that? I don't know man couple of couple of young people that like you know Michael Bay doesn't pay a list a list salary

So it's gonna some young people there God Minecraft is a lot to answer for they might be AI generated. That's what I'm saying. It's got the official Bayhem to answer for. They might be AI generated. That's what I'm saying. It's got the official Bayhem registered trademark watermark here so... Kiss of death. Skibbity toilet. Okay so you have a plot synopsis. No I have the eye... this is what skibbity toilet is about. Skibbity toilet must be a flying toilet. No. Because these people are looking up. Maybe he's big. Maybe he's about to jump off a building. It says it's... Don't jump skibbity toilet! I've got nothing to live for! I'm a toilet! nothing to live for I'm a toilet and I'm a man in the toilet I'm a man in the toilet this all be a mind the toilet part of my body I don't know I'm gonna jump and find out what

happens it centers around the war this is just the general synopsis it's around the war the war between toilets coming out of their bowls and men with cameras for heads. Huh. Did you know that? No, I didn't. I thought there was one guy, but there's more than one. Are they all... I didn't know Skibbidy Toilet was a man's full legal name.

So is he part of the toilet family? So there's presumably other people who are something toilet as well. Yeah, I don't know. Cameraman looks like humans, but the heads can be CCTV, camera, loudspeaker or television. In a city, Skibbitty Toilet and the leader G-Man turn humans into toilets. The cameraman ally against the toilets. So G-Man, because the Skibbitty Toilet head is a character model from Half-Life, right? Yes, that's right.

The G-man. Yeah. Okay. I think I was aware of the cameraman character, but also that's like the most generic, like a symbol of, you know, suited man, but their head's a camera or TV or whatever. Like, that's not. Isn't it also like, it's interesting in terms of like licensing because some of them are assets from like Marth life or whatever you said, Valve and whatever.

So I guess they're kind of involved in this. Maybe. Because I might have believed the movie to be an unfathomably expensive to present an experience that somehow deluxe to its inspiration. Do you think this is going to be the Minecraft movie but worse? Because I think that. Yeah, absolutely. Coming Soon said it includes Academy Award nominated production designer Jeffrey Beecroft

who worked on 12 Monkeys Transformers and A Quiet Place and three time Academy Award winning VFX supervisor Rob Legato including Titanic, Avatar, Hugo and The Jungle Book. So it's going to look great. It is going to look great. I mean Michael Bay movies are nightmarish but a lot of the time's gonna look great. It is gonna look great Yeah, I mean Michael Bay movies are Nightmarish a great a lot of time. They do look right. He's actually making decisions Yeah, I guess he is. Yeah, so but he's is he directing this or only producing this. I think he's directing it It's probably get Andy Machete. Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay with that cut through that red tape

Mm-hmm good movies to get to the bad movies and make a bad movie. Yeah, man of good movies to get to the bad movies and make a bad movie. Yeah, man. Okay, Skibbity Toilet, that's good. Yeah, I don't know. I guess Gabe Newell from Valve is going to be there just on set all the time, making sure this is authentically Skibbity Toilet. But also making sure they don't make any actual video games at Valve. Who invented Skibbity Toilet?

Is this the same sort of... Is it a meme situation? Well, I was going to... Because you know how Slender Man was invented I think on the something awful forum Yeah, like and people just made up, you know They they invented this urban legend of this character and then they made you know fanfiction and etc So who owns that good question who gets paper? I think we've talked about that before but who who created skibbity toilet Machinima web series created by Alex Geradzimov and released on YouTube.

And so does he, is this one of these situations where he gets a fee for this, but also considering he didn't come up with any of the original assets? Yeah. Maybe, maybe Val. Maybe there'll be a story in 10 years about this guy being like, yeah, they made a movie about this thing that I put together, but Gabe Newell. Apparently I had to, we both, me and Gabe Newell both came on set and they handed me a big briefcase with cash in it and I had to hand it directly to Gabe Newell.

That was in the contract. Gerazimov, apparently he was, he's in talks with Adam Goodman and Michael Bay for the film and television adaptation. So I guess he's somewhat involved. Okay. Adam Goodman is a producer. Great! That is great.

This just in Mason. Whoa! Alex Garland is being confirmed to direct... What are you doing? Stop sending Morse code. Stop calling for help. You're stuck here. You have to do it. Oh, but I want to leave. No Mason and nobody's listening anyway. He's confirmed to direct a live action Alden Ring movie from A24 and Band Dyne Namco. Alex Garland recently, he did a war film, didn't he? He did warfare. He did warfare, but prior to that he... Civil war. He did civil war, and prior to that he did men, and prior to that he did that one where Natalie Portman went into a weird... Annihilation.

Place. Yep. And he also wrote the movie Sunshine, which is your favorite movie. It's your favorite movie. This is a good choice. Yeah. So apparently, because it's based on the story by George R. R. Martin. This has been rumored before. I'd forgotten that, of course. Yeah, that's right. So the game came out in 2022. And obviously, I've never played these because it just looks beyond my understanding of anything. Sure. But I'm glad it's out there. I'm glad people are enjoying it. And also the world is like so expansive there's so much to it. My understanding is that because I've only played Bloodborne. Yeah. And I am bad at it. My understanding is Elden Ring is initially more forgiving. Okay, initially. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and there's more magic. Sure. Sort of more elaborate, but I I do love the FromSoft or their

super weird worlds. Yeah, absolutely. You know, I and I think you know, and Annihilation was a super weird world. So I imagine he's gonna use, you know, something along that line. Super weird, something weird. I should watch Annihilation again. I don't think I got it at the time. You didn't get it. Were you looking at it or you looking on your phone, Mason? Think about it. That's a really good point. But you got it. Well, I got it now. Okay, you just got it. Just there. I just got it now. Don't worry about it. Okay, great. Yeah, but you got it. Well, I got it now. Okay You just got it just there. I just got it now. Don't worry about it. Okay, great. Yeah Video game adaptations are these gonna be the new comic book movies Mason. We're in Minecraft. We're getting skibbidy toilets It's true. We're getting this we're getting Mario Brothers the movie the game

Yeah, mate, I mean maybe maybe just you know, people screaming out references Yeah, they're just applauding when somebody's like ceaseless discharge. That's the name one of the bosses. That's incredible I think one of the Dark Souls games. Well, I'll watch this movie. And everybody's like, weeee. Oh, yeah, but I probably won't play the game ever. That's true. That's terrific. Yeah, why is that? It's just insurmountable for me. Okay. A noob, a common man. Yeah, I've forgotten George R. R. Martin was involved in this. Um, forget about it even more. Don't forget about it anymore. Yep, I hope it's weird. Me too. Because it again, it's sort of the ruined fantasy universe and everything's awful and horrific. I think that's... have we really seen that in a mainstream fantasy kind of movie? Not really. I didn't think so, yeah. Just Lord of the Rings for people who haven't seen it. Just Lord of the Rings. Maybe the movie Your Highness with James Franco.

Everybody's got extra little arms and such. Put them away. Big eyeballs. Put them away. It's sort of Lord of the Rings plus Resident Evil, I guess. Yeah. Great. It is great.

Last bit of news, Mason. Tom Cruise went on The Morning Show and he went, ha ha! And then he said. Go on. Do you have any questions about Top Gun 2 or Days of Thunder 3 or whatever? Uh huh. The other way. And they said, yeah, you're doing that?

And he said, yes! Top Gun 2, I've already done. You can see it. Days of Thunder 3, slow your roll, he said. We'll see how 2 does first. Yeah. Yes, we're thinking and talking about many different stories and what we could do and what's possible.

It took me 35 years to figure out Top Gun Maverick. So all of those things we're working on, we're discussing Days of Thunder and Top Gun Maverick. So the answer to that is yes. I think it also depends on how F1 does. F1 looks expensive and a movie for dads exclusively. Yep. But I mean, Top Gun Maverick, I think was technically moved for dads. Exactly. You get enough dads. You get enough dads on board. You got dad cinema. So yeah, do you think Nicole Kidman will return as her character in Days of Thunder 2? Mrs. Trickle. Yeah. No.

OK. Yeah. Do you think anybody could you think Robert Duvall will return? I think he's dead. Oh, but yes. No, he's alive. Is he? Good for him. He's 94. Oh, my God. Yeah. Do you think what's what's his name? Um, we'll return in it He's also is yonder. He's like a Rooker. Yeah, sure. Why not? Let's get them all back Yeah, let's get them all back But often it's Tom Cruise and maybe one other person which was what happened with Tom the top gun Maverick

Yeah, how many original mission impossible people are back? Well quite a few now actually. Yeah when you think about it That's so true. And I think we should talk about that next. Okay. What was the romantic subplot situation with Top Gun Maverick? It was Jennifer Connelly. Jennifer Connelly, but how was her character related to anybody else? He was like dated her and she was like the general's daughter. Was she in? No. Was that character in the previous movie? Well, I think they'll do a similar situation. It'll be a minor character from maybe, did you have a mentor in Days of Thunder or something?

Robbett Duvall. Mentor's daughter. Yeah. Mentor's daughter's a memory. We just got to find an actor that looks a lot like Robbett Duvall. Easy. Mrs. Duvall? Just use CGI.

Yeah, yeah. I blend it. We get Sidney Sweeney. We get Sidney Sweeney, we blend it with Robbett Duvall. I think CGI. Yeah, nice. Yeah, yeah. Blend it. We'll get Sydney Sweeney. Yeah. We'll get Sydney Sweeney and we'll blend it with Robert Duvall. I think that's perfect.

I think so too. I think Tom Cruzo is very aware that he has more age-appropriate love interests. Yeah, okay. So it has to be somebody in their early 40s. Okay. Which is still 20 years younger than he is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to find a list active female actors in their early 40s

And we are going to see which one would work combined using AI to combine them with Robert Duvall Alright, here we go. I'm doing similarly. Oh Charlize Theron. Oh, yeah combined with Robert Duvall tall as well Yeah, yeah, oh too tall then probably. Well Nicole Kidman was tall Reese with a spoon There's a list on there's a list on IMDB of beautiful actresses in their 40s. Oh my god. Yeah yeah, oh too tall then probably. Well Nicole Kidman was tall. Reese Witherspoon and still is. There's a list on IMDB of beautiful actresses in their 40s. Oh my god. Yeah. What about What's Her Name from Freaks and Geeks? Oh Linda Cardellani. Yeah. Perfect. Kate Beckinsale. Oh yes. Michelle Monahan, we already did that though. See this is a list of beautiful actresses in their 40s but it's alphabetical order. They're ranked, but it's alphabetical order. I think they should be ranked according to beauty.

What about Gwyneth Paltrow? I liked it. Do you think this is what they do in Scientology? Who can we pair Tom Cruise up with? Yeah, absolutely. I think they do that, yes. So we're just doing that, are we? We're doing that.

But for free. But for free, yeah. Kate Winslet? Yeah. She's going to touch the Duvall's about it. Amy Adams? Does Robert Duvval have a daughter? Just throw her in there.

Maybe she's not an actor. We're spending too long on this. Disagree. Okay. He's got siblings. Oh, maybe your sister. I don't know. We got to move it along.

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Acast.com. For the YouTube version of this, don't put this in. Who are you talking to? YouTube? This is going to go into a YouTube video. And I think if you open with this. Yeah sure. You can open like this. Hey everybody welcome back to YouTube. Give us a thumbs up because we're talking about Mission Impossible the final recording. Oh yes. How you liking this? I'm liking it. It's got big YouTube energy. That's what I'm going for. On a budget of 400 million dollars. Oh, that's a lot. Yeah. Well, this was filmed during COVID over a number of years.

They do everything for real. They pay people properly. Tom Cruise's back end, et cetera. Tom Cruise's backside. That's right. There's a lot of that in this. That's right. Sometimes he needs a fake one.

Yeah. You said $40 million initially. No, I didn't. Take that out, Collins. You're bloody dreaming, mate. Would you just fall off the turnip truck in a spectacular stunt? Yeah, I did do that actually. That's incredible.

So it's looking for the weekend in the US that's going to make between 75 and 85 million dollars. Did we say what movie this is? Yeah, at the top of the Mission Impossible final record. It's going to say it in the YouTube thumbnail. Okay, but some people can't see that. Well, look at it now. Look at it now. So look at it now. And around the world, it's looking to make around 210 million, which is pretty good. It's not enough though, is it? No, probably not. So this is also going to be behind Lilo and Stitch,

which is going to make 275 million worldwide. The other thing that Lilo and Stitch has going for it is that it is bolstered by merchandise. And people remember the original. And people remember the original. Well, people yeah, I guess people don't remember the previous one as much. And this movie doesn't think you do either. We'll talk about it. But yeah, Lilo and Stitch, even if it made, you know, significantly less money than it needed to, it will survive on merchandise. That's so true.

And whereas these live or die mostly in theaters. There is streaming, of course. Where's my Ethan Hunt action figure? Yeah. Where's my Ben Hunt action figure? Yeah. Where's my Benji action figure? Well, you know, he's very particular about his likeness being used for action figures. Simon Pegg.

Yes. Have you ever seen an oblivion action figure with Tom Cruise? No. Have you ever seen a Magnolia action figure? Ever seen a Dick Trickle? Yeah. Or a Dick Trickle action figure? Ha ha! Yes. Very good.

The first and best and only joke of this video. Correct. If this becomes a video. Barry and Moan also, these are early numbers, so this could change. This it's been reported. They haven't had their morning coffee. That's how early they are. You're not wrong.

It's reported that it needs to break a billion dollars to make its money back. Okay. The Mission Impossible franchise has never done that. No. And I'm not sure it will on this one. I think there is also a fondness for Tom Cruise just in the ether at the moment. You know, he's running around eating popcorn in a weird way. Is that a cytology term?

Yeah, probably. The ether? Yeah. You know, like, my friends like him, they're like, look at this guy. There's a good energy in the spheres. Yeah. In the cosmic spheres. But do you know like my friends like him like look at this guy. There's a good energy in the spheres Yeah in the cosmic spheres, but do you know what I mean people like this guy's incredible and he's saving movies He's PR is exceptional. It's out of this world second to none. It's on another because if you remember the planet Yeah, the common understanding was that everyone thought he was a daemon and he's yeah

It's kind of he slithered his way away from that by making incredible movies. Like a Daemon would. A slithery Daemon. Sure. But I think that fondness doesn't necessarily translate into results. I mean, we saw from The Last Mission Impossible that underperformed, but also it got hammered by Barbenheimer. That's true, yeah. And by COVID also. And by COVID. I mean, no one underperformed. Both of these have underperformed for production reasons, right? Like the last one underperformed because COVID.

I wouldn't say this is underperformed. It's just budgeted way too high. Right. But COVID shut down production for a long time. Yeah. And the production company paid the cast and crew to just hang around for months. Right. Exactly. And so that essentially, it blew out the budget not for reasons seen on screen but just because They just they just kept everybody in retainer and this was this also The production was stalled because of writer's strike. Yeah that happened as well. Yeah, there's a lot going on. Yeah, right

Yeah, anyways, Ethan Hunt. He's the chosen one. He's basically Jesus. It's true universe and maybe even our real universe He's back and he's got a fake foaming tooth. What do you think the story was? I forgot about the foaming tooth. Bearing in mind, what do you think the story was? Bearing in mind you have to work in the word podcover. I do, don't I? Yeah, because the podcover, it's a-

This is a Get the Thing movie. It's a Get the Orb. You've got to get the orb to close the gate. The gate being nuclear destruction of the entire world. But the podcover is a MacGuffin, obviously. There's a number of MacGuffins. There's a few. There's a podcover, there's a poisoned pill. Yep.

And there's a foamy tooth. Yep. But that's not the poison pill you'd think it would be, wouldn't you? Yeah. If I said, where might a man keep his poison pill, you might say in a foamy tooth. Yeah. But you'd be wrong. You couldn't be more wrong,. You're gonna. It's flavored

Yeah, wasn't isn't isn't isn't sign. I taste like almonds or something. Yeah, but this one wasn't cyanide. That's true It was just foam wasn't it spoiler alert right up for straight up? Okay, all right, so When we last left out hero Ethan Hunt the Jesus of this universe. Yeah, and our universe that's true the or is a demon That's true. Or he's a demon. That's true. So a virus had entered a computer on a Russian submarine, which created an entity, an artificially intelligent entity, and that's going to take over the world because it can predict everything we do.

And also manipulate what we do. That's exactly right. I mean, it can sort of predict what you do unless you go, what would it, predict everything we do. And also manipulate what we do. That's exactly right. I mean, it can sort of predict what you do, unless you go, what would it, what would we not do? That's right. And then it won't think of that. Yeah, it would never think of that. Absolutely. So we have to love each other.

It won't know that. That's right. We've got to be friends. What is friends? I would say the the entity's ability to predict what people can do is massively lessened in this movie. Yeah. For just for plot convenience. It's got the same what-will-you-do kind of powers that the leader had from that last Captain America movie. Yeah.

I was like, I thought you were going to turn around in the car. You didn't. You turned around. Well then you predicted it wrong, idiots. I mean you don't know what you're doing. You're just guessing. Like we all are. And it was 50-50. You fucking twerp. I mean you don't know what you're doing Just guessing like we all are and it's was 50 fucking twerp get it together so anyway There's a key if you get the last movie. Yes, I know this case. I still okay There's still two keys you put them together and they make a crucifix. They make a crucifix. Okay

The crucifix very nice. Thanks. You're welcome Okay, so last time everybodyiser Fix. Very nice. Thanks. You're welcome. Um, okay. So last time everybody had to get the keys. Yeah. There was, there was Tom Cruise's Impossible Mission Team Force. And then there was Gabriel, who was the, the chosen one of the entity. Yeah, man. Who was connected to Tom Cruise in a way that, um, showed his girlfriend in the eighties. Yeah, showed his girlfriend in the eighties. Um, but showed his girlfriend in the eighties. So they've got beef, obviously. And then also the government, the government's there. And they want that key as well. Yeah, government. But anyway, the end of the last one, Tom Cruise got the key. But in this one, they've got to get more stuff because you need more stuff. Yeah. So in this one, they need to get they need to get the the pod cover, which is the MacGuffin one of the MacGuffin that's in the summer. That's in the summary. So they've got to go to the summary and get the pod coverva, which is the MacGuffin, one of the MacGuffins. That's in the submarine. That's in the submarine.

So they've got to go to the submarine to get the podkova, but they also, Luther's made a poison pill. Yeah. And so what they need to do is they need to get those together. One guy's got to get them all together. It's going to need that key. He's going to need the podkova. He's going to need the poison pill.

One guy's got to get them all. Who's going to get them all who's gonna get them all cuz it's a cuz Ethan's got the key. Mm-hmm, but then Gabriel he's been kicked out of the house Yeah in the entities in the entities world cuz he failed Yeah, so but now he's gonna be like what if I got the entity if I get the pot if I got the pod cover I could take over the entity tooth, but then the government's like yeah Well, well, maybe we've got we've got a lot of stuff too actually. So maybe we'd get the pod cut Yeah, maybe we'll do that control of stuff too, actually. So maybe we'd get the pod code. Yeah. Maybe we'll do that. We'll control them.

But then Ethan's like, well, what if I got the pod cover and then I destroyed the entity and the government's like, don't do that though. Yeah. We'll be responsible for it. Hmm. You know? Also, there might be a bomb, a couple of bombs. There's so many bombs.

They've already just casually got a nuclear bomb. Yeah, man. Where's, who's working on this? What's happening? What's going on? Anyway, that's the setup. Yep. And if you don't Anyway, that's the setup. And if you don't know that's the setup... It'll tell you multiple times. I mean, this movie just opens with an opening narration.

This movie assumes that you haven't seen the last one. Which is fair, because it did get buried by Barbenheimer. But I do think it does way too much recapping of like, who's this? Look at this submarine. It does give me the sense that it doesn't trust the audience to go along because it keeps over explaining everything. I think it drags it at the start because it's so busy going like, remember this guy, remember this, got to get that, don't forget, this person fell out of a train, whatever. But realistically, all we need in this is some enough exposition to get to the big stunts. Mm-hmm. Right? Yeah. And there's a couple of big stunts.

Yeah. Or they have to go to a cabin. What would you say is the central thesis of this movie? I would say it is the organizations and the governments that are there to protect you will probably let you down. So- Do you know who won't let you down? Your team of best bros. Yeah. Get your team of best bros. You can all work together. are there to protect you will probably let you down. So do you know who won't let you down? Your team of best bros. Yeah.

Your team of best bros. You can all work together. You can make the best of it. Or one guy. And also it would help if you're the best guy at everything. If you're the main guy and you're also the best at everything, that would be handy. And you can't be anybody's boyfriend because you're in love with the world too much. That's exactly right.

Which has been a running theme of these movies for maybe five or so now. Yeah. And they're just like, Ethan, we need you back one more time. But also we don't trust you. Yeah. I mean, you were right every other time. You've been right every other time over the span of decades, but this time you're probably wrong. Yeah. We don't think. I'm Nick Offerman and we don't like that around here. That's right. We don't like that around here.

What do you think of this movie overall? I think it was weaker than the other one, but I think the stunts look better. I agree. I think it's really kind of, I don't know, I think it really does fall down because of that trust of like that you can't keep up with this. It's like no I get it. I see what you're saying. Get a thing. Okay. And I think it does get wrapped up in its own lore and mythology and this idea that this man is so special and perfect and immortal and can do anything. Well what I would say is that I had a very good time with this movie. I think it's very entertaining.

I think you're absolutely right. I think it does take a while to really get going. I felt this movie was more surreal than the previous ones. It felt to me like more of a dream-like movie. There were elements of that. There's a moment where he is rescued, but it's not really... Clear whether he's being rescued or it's just a dream. He's having a stroke. Maybe he died then. Who's to say?

To me, because when you think about the previous Mission Impossible movies, none of us have obviously ever been in these stunt-like situations, but at least you can recognise the world in which they take place Like maybe you've been in a museum or a fancy building or a racetrack or whatever podcobra submarine podcobra Submarine and you can be like, okay Well, I could see you know the the scope for like Intrigue and an action and yeah who could be hiding in the rafters and all this sort of stuff but some so much of this movie takes place in this world of like thousands of meters underwater

or like just in the sky or in like these government bunkers. This huge expansive. Huge expansive things and I'm like it doesn't... It's sort of lost touch with... But on one level I'm like, okay, but that feels like perhaps the natural evolution. It's an evolution lost touch with. Yeah. But on one level I'm like, okay, but that is, that feels like perhaps the natural evolution. It's an evolution of this universe. Oh, definitely. But I also feel like in doing that, you isolate him from everybody else. Like he is working with his team.

Yeah. But I don't know whether this is COVID related, but there's not a lot of stuff they actually do together. He's always talking about how he's relying on his team and his team's going to do this. And they are doing, he's relying on it. And it's happening, but it's like what happened to the- They're thousands of miles away sometimes. This is a much worse movie, but the last Fast and Furious movie was like all the Dom Toretto stuff is just him and whatever new cast member will tolerate him and everybody else is doing

other stuff. And it kind of felt a bit like that here where Ethan Hunt is mostly on his own and he's just like, oh, they'll probably show up or whatever. Yeah. I mean, I thought that was quite intriguing. This idea of, you know, he's got to get that pod cover. They can't go with him because they obviously can't withstand the thousands of pounds of pressure underwater or the extreme cold or whatever.

They have to make their way around the world. Yeah. It's also interesting that his age is his age because it says he was born in 64. Oh, right. Like they're not like he's 40. Yeah. They're not like, he's 40. Yeah, they're not like born 1982. Yeah. Kind of old, but not that old.

Yeah, he was 13 in the first one. But I actually thought it was quite effective. There are a number of scenes where one party is one side of the world, and the other party is the other side of the world, and they have to. Oh, totally. There's a number of scenes where action is taking place in different sequences, but they all have to meet at the common time to perform, you know. And I thought those were very effectively tense.

I think there's sometimes there are too many, there is a moment towards the end where there's diffusing a bomb, there's a server room and there's an airplane thing and it's like you could take the bomb out of this. Yeah, like it's enough. You know, there's already enough at stake if the entity escapes or whatever. But you need room, I think, for all the characters, new and old. We've got to cycle some people out. Obviously, some people died in the previous movie. You know, do we bring in some new guys?

Who from previous movies can we bring in? And maybe they're going to be the new team if we do another one of these. Jeremy Renner didn't come back. He said he was being apparent. Spoilers, he didn't come back. That is a shame. I would have liked to see more come back, I guess.

But there is some, and some of the new inclusions are like, great. One in particular. And there's also some, they've decided in this last movie to tie together some events, some recent events with past events. Like they've gone, okay, well some of this now relates to previous movies in the French.

There's a direct link to Three in this, which I like that one. I think Three is good. And there's a direct link to One also. Yes, there is, exactly. But we haven't talked about Tom Cruise's hair. It's bad. Because you've flip-flopped, James, you flip flopped. Cause you, a while back you were saying it's bad.

And then in a recent trailer, I think he was saying it's looking good. And you know why it changes during the movie. Also, this is set two months after the last, impossible. Cause he had, he had like a quite a trim cut. You had a quite a trim cut. A cruise cut. No, it wasn't quite a cruise cut. Like there's a moment where he pulls off a Mission Impossible mask and it's like all

beaterly. It's too long over the years in the back and the fringe is too short. Also, I think it looks like that it looks better now if you see, by the way, if you've never listened to these before, we talk a lot about Tom Cruise's set because I think it also reflects on the character. I agree. Yeah. Because again, you know, first movie, it is a cruise cut because he's just come out of

the military or whatever it is. We love him. But they changed it because now it's something else. Yeah, because he, you know first movie it is a cruise car because he's just come out of the military or whatever It is we love they changed it because Crime yeah, he was doing crew cut crime cruise crime and then and then he was like well now Um, and and then you know in two he was off in the wilderness Yeah, so he had the crazy rock climbers hair. Yeah, then three whatever with three normal for pretty good Good hair. I remember being pretty they feet they fit, they, no, four was, four was two again. Yeah. Because four was longer again.

But anyway, it does feel like a man in the awkward phase of growing his hair out. And I think in doing that, it ages him. Because it's this weird kind of Beatles cast on this dude who's 60. There was a moment, it was in the trailer where he's on the biplane. Yeah. And he does have the moat from the three stooges. He does, yeah. But I think when they feather it up a bit, bit of texture, it does look better.

With texture, it looks good. When it's sitting flat, not good. Somebody does, oh, it's Hayley Atwell. She does comment on how good his hair looks. I know, right? She says, oh, it's grown out a bit. Looks good. You look great. You look great.

For a man your age or any age. And you're clearly not dying your hair. I would love to cradle your head in my hands and lean close, but not too close. Yeah, that's right. Because that would imply too much. If we kiss, it would be through me not too close. Yeah that's right. Because that would imply too much. If we kiss it would be through me breathing oxygen into you. That's right.

Yeah. Anyway there's also a lot of Tom Cruise in this movie explaining to people why he should be given the chance to do a thing. You have to trust me to do this and they're like we don't want to and he's like but love and I'm always right. That's correct. And they're like he's always right. That's correct, yes. And they're like, he is always right. He is always right, yeah. Also, he's never been more shirtless

in a Mission Impossible movie. He's running around in his underpants brawling. That's true, yeah. He's brawling on submarines. He's brawling in torture chambers. He's brawling on planes, multiple, biplanes. Yeah, he was showing. He's in incredible shape.

I agree, incredible stuff. And he's incredible shape. I agree. Incredible stuff. And he's really monkeying about. He's talked about what he does to his body to maintain it. He considers it a tool like anything else. He's just doing the Tom Cruise routine, which is incredible intensity at everything. He's just focused on getting in shape and it's worked. It is, yeah.

There's never been a more intense man in Hollywood, I don't think. I think you're right. How do you feel about the action sequences in this? I know we briefly talked about it. I think there's some really good underwater stuff. It's also way better. I can't remember which one, but there's an underwater sequence in one of the previous ones.

It's the one where he also was strapped to the side of the plane. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, and even though he did a lot of that for real and how his breath it looks fake whereas this it all looks real it all looks very real and he's going through a submarine in different air pockets as it's rolling towards the cliff and it's all very well choreographed and the the air there's you know later on and again this is in the trailer there's some aerial stunts on biplanes never for, never for a moment that I think he wasn't there. No, like he's on those planes There's only a moment where cuz Gabriel is also up there. Yeah, and when you see him up close, it's kind of like he's

Simorales. Yeah. Yes. I don't think he's there for no some of that, which is fair enough. Why should he be? Tom there's no need to do any of this they can do it with graphics for some of that. Which is fair enough, why should he be? Yeah. That's totally fine. Tom, there's no need to do any of this. They can do it with graphics. Yeah. But what I would say is, because when we talked about Dead Reckoning Part 1, of one, the big stunt was of course him, was Ethan Hunt driving his motorcycle off a cliff and then opening his parachute. And when there there was a it was a feature it that ran before a bunch of other movies you probably saw it in cinemas

yeah we see the behind the scenes of that and it looked incredible and terrifying but he does it off a ramp yeah I put up a ramp on the cliff edge for that and when we actually see the movie it looked way less realistic because they had to remove the ramp. I think they should have just kept it in or made it look like a rock like or whatever. Yeah, rock like or make it look like a bridge that's broken off or something like that. But I think they've taken some of that criticism to heart. Maybe they didn't hear it publicly or what have you, but maybe they just went, you know what, we could do this better. And they've just

been way better at hiding the seams. When the movie starts, when this movie starts, we do see a montage of some clips from previous movies. And there is a moment from the last one where Haley Atwell and Tom Cruise are in a train that has fallen partially off a cliff and you see them fall down and it's got that digital fog on it. And there's no instance of that digital fog in this movie. It looks incredible.

And obviously a lot of that they did do for real most of it it seems. Though they said the same thing about Top Gun and there's a lot of CGI in Top Gun and not real playing stuff, which fine. Like you're selling a movie on it's kind of, though it does erase like the work of the visual effects artists and whatever, but yeah, whatever. That sucks. I think here, I was watching an interview with Christopher McQuarrie who returns as director.

McQ? Because it's biplanes and they have to use old school planes in this and they write a reason for that being, they barely go faster than a car. So you have to get it quite low to get that sense of speed. And I think that does add this like element of danger and him leaping from one to the other and crawling in and out and figuring out the controls and all of that. Slithering around like a demon. Yeah, finding a pair of goggles.

You've got to find those goggles. Because otherwise your eyes are just getting blasted by the wind the entire time. There's also a moment where he becomes a human Tompito where he goes through a torpedo tube. That's so transnant. And that's a pretty good man. So you know, pre-existing cast. Mr. Diarrhea is back. Oh well he's new, but he's also old.

Well he's new but old, yeah. What's that character's name? Don Lowe? Downloads. Mr. Downloads. Mr. Downloads. Yeah he's back. Without spoiling, and we'll talk about it. I think it's boilers, but we finally figure out where he's been We'll talk about the knife make a note of that. We're gonna talk about the knife I'll put a knife, but I was gonna say, you know, all the all the all the regular players are back Simon Pegg is back I think he's doing doing a good job. He's having fun. I mean, I always enjoy him in those Luther's back

Luther's back the ass well back Pom Clement TF is back. Oh, yeah, that's right. She's not dying Ali Aswell's back. Pom Clemente F is back. Oh yeah, that's right. Because she didn't die in the last one. That other guy from the previous movie is back. Oh, Sherry Wiggum. Oh him also. No, he's in the team.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's his name, bring it up. Greg Tarzan. There we go. As Davis. There we go, yeah. Lewis who was on Sherry Wiggum's team in the last movie. But now he's with Tom Cruise. What's his name?

Kittredge is back. Yep. Yeah. Rob Delaney not back. Although he's in the voice, you hear his voice in the opening. Oh, okay. Interesting. New additions include Hannah Waddington from Ted Lasso.

That's right. And Tramiel Tillman as a submarine captain. And Katie O'Brien also in the team. Oh yeah. As a Navy Diver Enjoy Tillman's work immensely just so good because he's uh, he's and he's on board. He's like great. Yeah, I love movies I mean, I love submarines. I'm also a loose cannon But it's difficult in a submarine. Yeah, I'm a nuclear

Submarine captain and I tell you this put him on the table. I don't know how get him in there Get him on the IMF next movie. I don't care how you have to do it. I got busted. He got busted down from the disobeying orders or whatever. So let's put him on the IMF. Why not? Yeah, I agree. Great. Very good. Very good. Yeah. But yeah, the I also I like I like Gabriel as a villain. I think he'd kind of does almost play second fiddle to the entity. But the entity itself isn't like a physical. That's the thing. If I would. That's a good point. You've reminded me if I had a criticism of this movie and I have many well Tom Cruise's movie but there's not written like the the enemy is time yeah it's not really a you know of all

of us you know and the in the well that's true and the enemy is the entity because the entity in this case is trying to take over the nuclear facilities and capabilities of all the nations so it can blow everything up. I mean, that's not a spoiler really. It's not going to be like, I got them. Surprise. I'm going to just get to keep them. But we never really get a sense of the entity, like we never have really. I don't think it's necessarily an effective, none of it's, I don't think it really has an effective antagonist.

Do you think maybe you need, I mean Gabriel becomes like the face of it, but even then they're not really working together like they were in the last one. Do you think it needs like a, not a robot, but maybe there's like a face to it? Yeah, I don't know. He does get in an entity sarc sarcophagus, at one point.

Yeah, but I thought it was going to be more than it was. I don't know. I thought it was going to make him do all the Mission Impossible movies in virtual reality. Yeah, that's true. I think maybe, you know, again, it's that surreal nature of it. He's just sort of pushing against a force. Ethan's just sort of fighting against the entire world to some degree, but I don't know, I guess maybe he could have gotten a new

follower or something, but then who do you? I think it's an interesting idea. Bringing in a new guy is not, like that wouldn't be effective at this point because there's no personal connection. But like when you think about previous Mission Impossibles, you get- You got your Philip Seymour Hoffman. That's the first one I thought of, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Henry Cavill, I think was great in Fallout. Bloody Jim Phelps, John Voight. I think he was good in the first one. And those are the memorable ones.

Little Jim Phelps reference in this. Dougray Scott. Dougray Scott. Mr. Denham suited the races himself. I mean also if you, the entity can like, if he's got special mission impossible glasses on the entity can appear as anybody in front of you. Yeah. So you could have used that to bring back others if you wanted to.

But also like, now that I say that, do you want to do that really? I think what, yeah, I agree with you. I think there's, there was an idea, I like the idea behind this, this algorithm, which is manipulating everybody's feeds and whatever whatever and nobody knows what's true. It's like real life. But yeah, I think it does lack that core. They didn't really do that in this one as well. Like in the previous one.

They mention it, that the world's governments don't know what's real and etc. If you remember in the last one, Gabriel could disappear off CCTV footage and stuff because the entity was erasing him in real time kind of thing. They don't really do that at all in this, no. No, you're right. I guess it doesn't need to. I don't know. I don't know either.

Yeah. Should we do some spoilers? Let's do some spoilers. I'm going to say best movie ever. I think from the action set pieces, good. I just have a good time with this crew. I think they're fun. I think it is weaker than the last except for the stunt work, which I think is pretty

exceptional. And Tom Cruise is a weird unit. He sure is. I think it is weaker than the last. Okay, except for the stunt work, which I think is pretty exceptional I and you know Tom Cruise is a weird unit. He sure is I mean, I mean really name one thing I love how they the movies are just like he's the best man in the world and he'll never let you down He could be your best and it could be your buddy. He can't he can't marry himself No, he can't he could marry himself. Sure But I think also, you know, maybe if you if you gave him the keys to the universe, maybe you should think about that. If you gave him the keys to the universe.

But like, he wouldn't take it. Yeah. But he could and he should. What if Michelle Monahan was the face of the entity? Yeah, that could work. Whatever. Yeah. Or Rebecca Ferguson. Whatever. Or Tandy Newton. Tandy Newton. Or Tandy Computers. Very good. Or Dick Smith Electronics.

Maybe Dick Smith would be the face. Let's do spoilers. Now we always talk about for all of these, does he go rogue? Yes. Now the President gives him permission to go rogue. And the President is the highest authority in the land. But the President is also going rogue. That's true.

So who's going rogue here? I've lost track. The President is going rogue? Submarine Captain going rogue. He also going rogue. That's true. So who's going rogue here? I've lost track. The president is going rogue. Submarine captain going rogue. He's going rogue. Yep. And everybody on the team. Everyone's going rogue.

Especially the guy on the submarine who tries to kill him in an eye fight. He's going rogue. He's going rogue from a different... Because he's on the internet too much. Yeah, he's going... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Tom Cruise says to him. That's true.

Yeah. Who else is going rogue? Elliot. Oh, but she's on the team. She goes rogue pretty early on. The gentleman, the new guy, he's gone rogue from Shay Wigam because he was Shay Wigam's partner. That's true. And he's gone rogue.

He's gone rogue big time. I think... Gabriel's gone rogue. Yeah, true. Everyone's gone rogue. But I don't know. I think it's because there's no one in charge. Someone's just going rogue.

They're doing their best. But I don't know against who or for what. But yeah. Anyway, you wanted to come back to the knife. Do you want to talk about the knife? Oh, well it turned, so. This is a fun callback. Also Mr. Diarrhea, whose name I've forgotten.

Mr. Diarrhea, Mr. Bob Diarrhea. Yeah, he absolutely. That's the oldest reference we've ever done I think. Even references older than like, sometimes a reference like a what is this reference mr. Dobalina? From Delta funky homo sapien come on man. Yeah, that's too old even for me Hang on final we're gonna bring these characters. Yeah back here we go his name is Rolf Saxon Okay, and he's CIA analyst will something William Donlowe. Yeah, William downloads by the way big glow up Yeah, looking great. Yeah, yeah best he's ever looked the 70 he's looking. Oh, that's good

Yeah, it's got a lot of dark. What a dark dark a lot of hair Ah, yeah, so Greg Tarzan Davis Theo Davis. He went rogue. I just want to mention. Okay, okay I gotta remember because he'll be in the next one. Okay. I hope so. Yeah, so- You're implying that Tom Cruise lives through this. We're in spoilers, so yeah. Yeah, no, I'm telling you he doesn't. Because he died, he drowned. He did drown, yeah. The rest was simply a dream.

His last remaining neurons firing. Oh, he's a criticism. It doesn't feel final at all. No, of course not. No. Why would it? Yeah. You need-

I know because you said it was. So at least leave it like he died or at least like a loop to the fact He's gonna stop doing something. He's not they give him the power of the internet and then he fucks off Yeah, he sticks it in a box. He sticks in one of his little clamshell cases and he leaves pat Yeah Would you have preferred an ending where the rest of the tit like it's assumed he died and then the rest of the team? Meet up and they're like we're here We are and we're here to want to eat and hunt and then we leave but then we're like they're like watching

Wait a simple is watching. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, um, I mean it would it would be talking about it That's true as opposed to now where I'm just like, oh, yeah. That's right. Oh, yeah. Anyway, William Donlow Yeah, so he's the he's the man that Ethan Hunt gave diarrhea to him mission impossible one Causing him to leave the room so Ethan could still... Did they ever mention the fact that he gave him diarrhea? They don't specifically say, I gave you diarrhea, I'm sorry. He does say, I'm sorry for what happened to you. Yeah. And then he's like, no, actually I went to the Arctic and I met my wife.

Yeah. Uh... But he didn't say, I knew you gave me diarrhea. And that's what they say, Arctic life, Arctic wife, you know what I mean? So true. So anyway, Ethan Hunt steals the knock. And then this guy gets sent off. But if you recall in the first mission impossible, Jean Reno drops his knife, he drops he's got a he's got a blacked out kind of kind of switchblade flippy out a knife, and it lands in the desk

ends in the table. And then in this movie, Ethan is talking to Don Loweowe and he's saying, sorry I gave you diarrhea that time, sorry I gave you diarrhea for decades, I understand you just had it on and off for decades. He's like, that's fine, actually I owe you because I met my wife in the Arctic. Anyway, thanks for that. And he hands him the knife, the blacked out tactical flippy knife.

But it can't be the knife. Why not? Because that would have been taken in evidence. What, did he get the knife back? Yeah, they said. Oh, you think he took it? Here's the knife. Why not? Because that would have been taken in evidence. What, did he get the knife back? Oh, you think he took it? Here's your knife. He was trying to cover it up. Right.

He was like, oh shit. Oh shit, I'm going to get fired. I better take this knife and hold onto it for 30 years. Yeah, I would have kept that knife also. I guess he did. I'd be like, this is my knife. Or at least return it to Jean Reno, a character who probably died in that movie, I think. I think he exploded.

I think he's one of the exploding helicopters. He might have been in the helicopter, yeah. So I thought that character was like, he's great. He's fun and he's nice. His wife's fun. They're just on the team now. And they basically put everybody in the position where they might die. Yeah.

You know what I mean? Unless they can sprint away from an explosion. Well, there were certainly a few moments in this where I'm like, who's gonna, of these characters, who's had an arc where they can sacrifice themselves? Well after Luther died, I was like, that's it. I'm not doing another one. And he's like, sorry brother, I gotta be in an explosion right now for Mission Impossible. That's right.

But we're brothers and I love you. And when you save the world, which you will, because you're Jesus, there'll be a message that tells you that you're the best. I think that message shouldn't have self-destructed. No I think it should have said yeah, you can keep this This message is gonna self-destruct in five seconds. Just kidding. You keep it. Well, so Tom Cruise if Luther has cancer Yes, and is in a bed probably from all the masks probably probably the mask make machine gives you cancer. Yeah, definitely Yeah, or he put his face in it. Just directly. Ethan, I've come up with a way to put the masks on faster. You just stick your head in and then I push the button and it forms it around your head. Luther, Luther, please. Maybe don't. It's got that atomic symbol on it, the warning symbol.

Maybe don't. Why would you like, Ethan's like, I'll get this when I come back and I'll get the poison pill later. Oh yeah, so for people. Dude, take it with you. What are you doing? He's sick. Let's spoil the plot. Okay, so Luther has cancer, but he's come up with a poison pill.

He's the smartest. It's a USB stick and it's got a bit of data on it. So when you get the- Podkova. The Podkova, thank you very much. From the submarine machine. From the submarine. be stick and it's got a bit of data on it. So when you get the pod cover, the pod cover, thank you very much from the submarine machine, the submarine, what you're going to need to do is you're going to, well, first you're going to need the crucifix key. You're going to need to open up the thing and open up the glove box of the submarine and then throw

it away. You don't need it anymore. Don't worry about it. And then you're going to get the pod cover, which is the hard drive with, with the source code of the, the entity on it. So then you're going to put the poison. We need to do is you need to put the poison pill. Put them together. Wait, no. Also, he invented a five dimensional drive or something. Oh, yeah. He invented a crystal USB stick. That's impossible. Well, he did it though, because he's Luther and he died. So you make the sacrifice. You can't say it's like a spell. Yeah. A lot of this is like a magic spell. It's like we need to sacrifice the thing for the magic spell. So I make the sacrifice, you get a thing. You can't say he didn't. It's like a spell. A lot of this is like a magic spell.

It's like we need to sacrifice a thing for the magic spell. So he's come up with a little crystal thing like a fortress of solitude crystal. And it fits any kind of thing, I guess. Including the entity. So that's the trap for the entity. That's the genie. The entity thinks it's the world, but it's merely a giant hard drive or something. That's so true.

So they need to trap the entity in that. So what they have to do is they have to, the entity, James, is he, the entity wants to be put in a secure facility that is nuclear bomb proof, and then it's going to blow up the world with nuclear bombs and wait it out and then just, I don't know, load over the, you know, the bacteria or whatever. So what the heroes need to do is they need to get the pod cover obviously. They gotta put the poison pill in the pod cover and then they're gonna put the entity then it's gonna get the entity to go into the server in the secure facility. Then you snatch it. Well then they put the the magic bottle in the secure facility. And then you snatch it. Well, then they put the magic bottle on the computer.

So they're going to need Hayley Atwell's fast fingers. Hundredth of a second order. Which are to cut a wire, and then the entity is going to go into the crystal, and then when it glows because it's trapped, then they pull the crystal out. Hundredth of a second. And they've caught it. Hundredth of a second.

And then they don't smash it for some reason. Yeah, they don't smash it. I would have smashed it. Yeah. Yeah. Also, it's never really established why, they don't smash it. I would have smashed it. Yeah. Also, it's never really established why the entity can't just do that with a copy of itself. Like, surely, it could just be like, oh, they caught the copy, but I'm still here. Yeah. I'm in the internet. I'm in the internet, actually, yeah.

I'm on the Something Awful forums. That's right. I'm the most... No, I'm not. You know, in retrospect, I'm not the most awful thing on these forums I'm just pretty awful honestly. Yeah, I think I think the villain death is really funny Yeah, oh, yeah, absolutely. He's like well. I'm gonna escape and then I'll only one parachute. Yeah, which there isn't that's right I only want parachute Ethan I'm gonna escape and then I'll be back later

And then he just just smashes wedged and smashes smashes on and dies. That is funny. That is funny. Yeah. It's funny. And he's off there. And Shay Wiggum is the son of Jim Phelps, and guess what his name is? Jim Phelps! Jim Phelps also. That's right. And Tom Cruise is like, let's be brothers, shake my hand. And he's like, I won't.

But then at the end, they do shake hands and then they do that other kind of shake hands. The special shake of the hand. And then they do the kind of the bring in for the sort of the hug. Yeah. I'm slapping you back as well. Which is basically saying to Tom Cruise, I respect that you blew my dad up with chewing gum. That's right. One of the most embarrassing ways you could possibly go.

The other callback that they've thrown in there is that when Ethan had to get the rabbit's foot in Mission Impossible 3, which we assumed was... We thought it was a biological weapon. Because it had a biohazard symbol on it, but actually it turned out that was the entity. Yeah. Or the basis of it or something. Something.

God, everyone's getting something. Everybody's getting something. Everyone's getting something for themselves. Except for Tom Cruise, who was getting something for all of us. That's right. Entertainment. Mankind and entertainment. Yeah. Yep. Iankind and entertainment. Yeah.

Yeah. I just, I... Do we really need to tie in? Did Shaywhee really need to be Jim Dutts's son? I thought you were going to say the Entity Part 3 thing. I don't mind that. I like the obscure callbacks to previous movies. But that one, I'm like, yeah, it didn't really have to be that. And he's also like, he didn't even know his dad.

Like, it didn't even matter. Because he's like, yeah, I didn't know my dad. We weren't, he didn't raise me. Yeah. I don't care. This is really just a coincidence. Yeah. I'm looking at the Wikipedia page to see if we've missed anything. Mariela Gariga is Marie, a woman from Ethan and Gabriel's past seen in a brief flashback. Yeah.

That's never resolved. No. Well, he shot her or whatever. I guess. Gabriel shot her. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. What do you think Ethan's going to do with the entity? Stick it in his bum? I'm just trying to think of anything other than sticking it in his bum.

Well, now you won't be able to. No, I won't be able to. It's like, don't think about elephants. Now you're thinking about elephants. Or you're thinking about Tom Cruise sticking a glowing crystal up his bum. That's more of a Gwyneth Paltrow thing to do. I would say so. Speaking of Gwyneth Paltrow thing to do. Speaking of Gwyneth Paltrow, we were doing it earlier on the podcast.

I just think, you know what it felt like the ending to any Mission Impossible movie where it's just kind of, they just, they meet in Times Square or whatever, it's not Times Square, and they all look at each other and they nod, and then they go their separate ways. It's like, okay, I don't know, wrap it up maybe. Yeah, right? ways. It's like, okay, I don't know, wrap it up maybe. I don't know, I think there would be a real strength to just capping this off instead of just being like, what if Tom Cruise, what if he was God? He might be. And then, okay. Yeah, because I mean, the thing is, obviously, is that as an IP, they must keep the door

open for a future. I understand that, yeah. You know, and I guess Bond at the very least incinerated Daniel Craig, so. At the very least. In real life as well. It's the least they could do. In real life too. Yeah.

But in this they're just like, yeah, everybody's alive and fine again. Because I mean, who's going to do the stunts that Tom Cruise does? Can you bring back? No. I think, I think, I think no matter. Can you bring back? No. I think... I think no matter... You re-brand or whatever. I guess you re-brand.

You make a different kind of movie. But how do you re-brand? How do you go, the last two movies didn't do that well financially, but this is going to draw in a new audience. We're not going to do any big stunts. I mean if these big stunts aren't bringing people in, then you don't need to do them. Or you can do a more scaled down version. I mean, I still think the first one is fucking incredible.

And that's pretty low key. I mean, there is big stunt work in that, but like there's a train sequence, but that's all fakes. Yeah. I also think that when you think about very memorable sequences in Mission Impossible movies, you think about the smaller scale stuff just as much as you think of the bigger stuff. Like in Fallout, you know, the bathroom fight, which is just a very well choreographed sequence. There's some good choreography in this as well.

I think of- Here's a slippery demon fight in this. Yeah, that's true. I think of the moment in, I think it's four where they where Ethan Hunt and and Benji have to go through the Kremlin and they've got that that hologram, totally umbrella situation like that's a fun thing you do more of that. You know, just masks and what's interesting as well I think in this one is that some of the stuff is just like it's just part of the course like there's a moment where this is just

a quick unmask they're like yeah that's just a part of the course. Like there's a moment where there's just, they just, just a quick unmask. They're like, yeah, that's just a part of the furniture now. Kind of thing. I guess you could, you could bring it back. I would like to see, again, I've said this about the Bond franchise. I would have really liked to see the support team from the Daniel Craig movies continue in a movie

or a TV series with new double O agents. Bring in. Cher Wiggum. No, don't... No, no, no. Well, yes, no, but... No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no.

No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no.

No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no 00s. I would be absolutely happy with no Tom Cruise. I'd be happy with Tom Cruise. No, I'd be happy with Tom Cruise again as Ethan Hunt.

But if he doesn't want to come back, I would be happy to have this team just do Mission Impossible stuff and it's the lower-key stuff. It doesn't have to be maybe one huge stunt. Yeah. I mean, you could just get a regular stunt guy to do a big stunt. You could do a big stunt. You get a guy who looks a bit like Simon Pegg, but he's good at stunts. Big stunts. Big stunts.

Yeah. You know? Other guys can run. Anyone can run. Anyone can run. Not anyone, but a lot of people can. A lot of people can run. Wow.

All in all, I think this is the last Mission Impossible for a while, but probably not ever. Absolutely not. No, it's going to continue. Yeah. Well, Mason, we've got some reviews that people have left us at the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates Facebook group. That's the only good thing on Facebook. Stay away from it otherwise.

From Scott Jerrod, who says, one of the funniest villain deaths I've seen. Movie as a whole was kind of sluggish, but I liked it enough. It's sitting as my second least favorite of the franchise, but I gave a 7 out of 10 so that tells you how good this franchise is. Ah but and leaves it ambiguous as to what his least favorite is. It's two. It could be three. No three's good. I think three is good also but a lot of people put it at the bottom I don't know why.

Remember Philip Seymour Hoffman? He's pretending to be Ethan Hunt. I think the reason these movies are what they are is because of that one. That one fixed them. That's a JJ Abrams one. Neil NH says, really dug this one. Guy gets off to a slow start but has one of my favorite third acts of the entire franchise. Noah Sargent says, I really wanted to love Final Reckoning but I thought the pacing was awful.

Gabriel was a terrible villain though he wasn't great in Dead Reckoning and the film doesn't trust its audience. But on the other hand, you have perhaps my favorite set piece of the franchise, another killer set piece with a biplane. Really after 1.5 mark it gets better. Yeah, this is pretty long as well. I forgot to mention this. It is long. It's a lot going on. Zach Gerrity says, I hated how this film treated me like I was the dumbest person alive. Way too much exposition and way too many flashbacks. The action scenes were incredible though.

And Olly Brady says, from the views of other people above I have no idea what people are hoping slash expecting this movie to be too long to self-indulgent too much cruise too much running I thought that was great hit every note I wanted and more if that's the last Tom Cruise mission impossible it goes out on a high also We're really get really great to see a small Philip Seymour Hoffman moment sadly missed. I guess the question then becomes if we do a sequel. Me and you. Yeah, me and you.

I think what they'd have to do is they have to sort of close the door on the idea that there's going to be another entity that is doing this world changing, world ending thing and just they're going to have to trim it back to be like, well, there's a list. We've got to get the list or whatever you know that that you know it is fun when they're listing the things that Ethan Hunt did yeah and they're like oh that last one happened like a month ago yeah you were there you fell for it idiot you fell for the the utmost master of tradecraft he wore an imperceptible mask and he gas bombed you

all, you dumbasses. Grow up. Get a job, get a real job. Agreed. Anyway, should we move it along? Let's move it along. To what we're reading? What we're gonna read. Now if you're on the YouTube video, you don't get that. No, you have to go to the podcast. Yeah, that's right. Podcast called The Weekly Planet. You might even be like, what is that? Figure it out. Well don't worry about it. Grow up. It's not for you. Grow up. No, no, no, no, no, James, I'm going to try reverse psychology.

You don't even, you wouldn't be able to handle it. It's to be on you. A little segment from our little podcast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm doing the thing. What are we reading today?

Whoa, this is the segment we talk about what we've been reading. So true, isn't it? And what we're going to read. Oh yes. Emphasising an interesting word there. It's the best word. What are you reading? Or going to read?

I'm up to date on Poker Face, which is a delightful show. How many are there now after the moment? There's four. What do you think so far? I think it's fun. Yeah? They've sort of, I mean, you know, spoilers for a little bit of spoilers for poker face in the previous season She was on the run getting Charlie Cale Natasha Leon was on on the run

From a from a casino boss who's you know involved with the mob because of murders and etc and whatever But and by the end of but a couple of episode in this they've sort of wrapped up that that storyline You know they're like yeah, we don't we're done with this Let's let's uh let's continue the the murder of the week theme but without that other side without the other side i didn't know they were gonna wrap that up okay i didn't know either yeah yeah but it's not you know fun i've only seen the first again it's the same it's the same uh it's the same you know colombo style vibe of like murder murder murder of the week we know how they've done it. Yeah. It's fun guest stars, you know, et cetera.

It's interesting because she knows when people are lying, but that doesn't always help you solve a crime. A crime. That's true. Yeah. So yeah, I enjoy the fact that there is that conceit. She's got that special ability, but how are we going to, how do we, how do we move, work that to its limits kind of thing? Yeah, I think it's a little fun. It's very, very stylish, very interesting. You mentioned this, the, the, I think we've got an email about this. Somebody emailed in, I think it's a little bit great. It's very stylish. Very interesting. You mentioned this the the I Think we got an email about this somebody emailed in I think it's I hope they didn't there But there's an there's a we got an email this week about things that take you out of a show or like I can't get on board with the first episode. I think you mentioned in previous weeks. It's got Cynthia Erevo from wicked as

Multiple identical siblings, which first of all is a very difficult way to start off. Yes. Like, just, just, just. There's like four or five of them. There's five of them. And just, way to throw yourself in the deep in, Rhyan Johnson. Yeah. But so they're multiple identical siblings, many of which who as children played the same

character on a, like a TV cop show kind of thing. And they've all grown up and gone their separate ways. Some of them have a French accent. Yeah, and one of them has given up everything to sort of become like a seasonal fruit picker. And that's how she meets Charlie Kail in this. But I'm watching the show and I'm like, oh, she's wearing a $500 shirt. I recognize it. I'm like, okay. It's like Ralph Lauren has like a weird Western line and it's like, oh, that's a $500 shirt. That's like- Wow. Well, not everybody would recognize Ralph Lauren shirt, Mason.

No, no. Only a bunch of weirdos would. But I think it's just funny how Hollywood wardrobe Hollywood wardrobe works it's like we need to show these characters a real down and out kind of character probably wears a flannel shirt yeah let's go to Rodeo Drive and buy the most expensive one we can find and I don't know you can even get shirts of $500 I normally spend much more Mesa yeah we read the power fantasy that's where the big sandwich comic book come let's come sometimes I show up and you have multiple holes in your shirt This is an art, you know, you don't get my best clothes my I know I know great when I go out Sometimes you're entertaining other guests. Nah, never and I'm like, wow going out shirt. Is this oh

I could turn the code. I could turn it on. Yeah, I'm very charming for like 15 minutes. Yeah, and then I'll switch off. Yeah, that's I'm also reading with the boat my son and I are reading together Super Sons the complete collection book one. It's a Damien Wayne Jonathan Kent Kent team-up book. Yeah, Robin and Superboy don't really like each other by Peter J Tomasi it's 500 plus pages this omnib. And it's just their little adventures together. And one's kind of mean, and one's nice, and whatever. Superboy doesn't have all these powers yet, so they're kind of comparable in a lot of ways. Yeah, right, right, right.

Well, that's not going to last forever, is it? No. And my son loves it. And they're pretty fun. And also, it's got a bunch of other Batman stuff and whatever, and there's Alfred and et cetera. Yeah, he's just loving the Damien Wayne, Jonathan Kent stuff at the moment so yeah that's what we've been reading. I forgot to mention we were both on that we mentioned this

last week but we're both on Dave Warnocky's podcast Bookcheat where he told us all about the day of the Triffids so that's out now. I'm also on the Do Go On 500th episode it's being released in segments and I'm on the do go on 500th episode. It's being released in segments. And I'm on the first segment with Cass Page. And then subsequent episodes have Will Anderson and Reese Nicholson and all sorts of other fun. Why'd you get in that bloody lineup, mate? Paid somebody off.

Oh. Yeah, that's right. And I appreciate it. I paid you and then you made a call. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. I said, don't let him on. Oh, made a call. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. I said don't let him on. Oh what? Yeah. What? Yeah. I want my money back. No. So you got on it didn't you? What do you want your money back for? That's a good point. Cool that's all the things we've been reading. And now it's time for letters I think. I'm trying to think if I've been

reading anything else. Probably not though. Probably not though. I've been busy. Watch Sphere. Yeah. Watch the movie Sphere. You want someone to suck the life out of you? It's the movie Sphere. That's right. An old bad movie. Yeah. It's a shame, cause some people will be like, you know.

Old movies are good. Yeah. Well, some people are like, oh, I don't want to watch any old movies. They're probably bad. And oftentimes I'm like, no, old movies can be very good. This one isn't. No, it's not. It's bad. It's a bad movie.

All right. Letters? Letters. The classic one was letters, oh letters, we love you, some letters, they're only a day away. We're going to hear right now, we're going to do letters. James did a comical nodding off, pantomime, during this. For what reason? I don't know. It was real. Let me tell you this, Mason. Yes. It's the easiest thing in the world to send a letter to the show. All you need to do is have a Facebook account and then enter the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates group.

That's right. And then have approved and don't be a dickhead. And then I'll be a... there's a thread every week and you can leave a comment under that. Or... Yes. Send Mason an incredible Gmail to weeklyplanetpod.gmail.com. It's got to be incredible. Yeah.

Don't just put this is an incredible email on the subject We know that oh, you know yeah, that's to be in things needy and brief Needy and brief all right. This one's a little longer than normal, but it results a mystery because it's incredible It's incredible all right then some Cameron heard Cameron heard what regarding thrifted weekly planets tour top interesting Hi, James and Maceau. Long time listener, first time emailer. Last episode you mentioned that a friend found a weekly planet shirt in a thrift store that was signed. That was Ruby Innes.

It was Ruby Innes. It's not concrete but I believe that could well have been my shirt. I'm unfortunately not dead but I do have a story. Alright, you better not be dead. I was studying abroad at Deakin University when you did a live show at the European Beer Cafe. It was ages ago. Having listened to the pod since I started my uni studies in 2016, I couldn't let the opportunity pass me by so I booked tickets for myself and my girlfriend at the time.

Oh no. Trouble in paradise. I bought the shirt and got you guys to sign it and had a lovely chat with both of you. Fast forward to the end of my study abroad. I'm good for 15 minutes. That's right. And in the mess of... All sorts of you. Fast forward to the end of my study of- I'm good for 15 minutes. That's right. And in the mess of- And all sorts of stuff. And in the mess-

That's a reasonable amount of time. I know. And in the mess of moving my life- I'm so defensive. That's reasonable, Mason. Some would say it's too much. And in the mess of moving my life halfway across the world, I accidentally left the show with my girlfriend and had intended to come back to Australia,

so I didn't think there was much need to have her mail it over. Alas, we broke up about a year later and fell out of contact, meaning I never got my Weekly Planet shirt back. With all that, I think there is a non-zero chance that it is my Weekly Planet shirt. I'm happy it wasn't tossed,

but it's a shame it was lost to time. Well, it was lost. Does he have a picture of which one it is? No, but it's a picture of us all together. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. We're looking good. Everybody's looking great.

That was ages ago. Yes. My face looks fatter. Now? No then. Oh then no? You look great now. Agreed. Yeah. Anyways, keep up the great work. Finally, I tried your Overnight Oats recipe, James, and it was actually pretty good. All the best Cameron. Some people often will do a teaspoon of peanut butter in that as well, if you want the extra calories. Something to think about. I'm not going to think about it. Not for you. Other people listen to this show. Good. That's a great email. That is. And I love it. I mean too long for our format of Keeping It Brave. Normally. But it's a beautiful thing. Yeah and a lot of people think they can get away with it. They go well this is an interesting

email I'll make it as long. Yeah. Don't do it. Unless you're solving a mystery. Yeah. Solving a mystery. Absolutely go for it. Definitely. We have to care also. That's true. We don't care what you're up to. Yeah. Unless it's related to us. Or the entertainment industry. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. This is from Alex Wilcox who says, what's an attempt to reboot a movie series that flopped, but you genuinely liked? Personally, I'm a fan of 2014's Robocop, even though it wasn't a big hit financially or critically. I've got a few. OK, go on.

Fright Night 2011 with Anton Yelchin. Oh yeah, that's right. I don't know if it went to be a series, but it's also got Colin Farrell. That's true. I wrote Tob Raider. The Tomb Raider, I think, was a good attempt at a Tomb Raider movie. Okay, but when was the last time you watched that? Good point.

Have you ever gone back? Wally Goggs is in it. Yeah, all right. He doesn't say Open the Tomb. But he's also in one of the Bourne movies, but we didn in it. Yeah, alright. He doesn't say open the tomb. But he's also in one of the Bourne movies, but we didn't remember that until... Oh yeah, because he says open the tomb. Open the tomb!

But only in the trailer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dread? Yeah, much way better reboot. Yeah. The original The Thing. No, The 80s The Thing, which is a reboot of The Thing. Yeah, that's true.

Again, not a franchise, I guess. What about this? I think you'll agree. Hellboy twice. Yeah. Both of them are bombed and everybody hates them except for you. I like and I like some of them. Thank you for again, whenever he puts me on the spot, I can't think of a single movie.

Yeah, you'd have been like, what's the most of movie? And I'd be like, Cornflakes. What's a movie? Yeah, great question. What is a movie? Yeah, but absolutely the hell of a movies. I think that I think both I think David Harbour one and the new one are good. Yeah. Sorry, everyone. That's OK. No need to apologize Mason. That's true between you and God Tom Cruise. What's next? This is from David Collier Whoa subject line sports. Come on, mate. Yeah, I know I'm a speech says David says I'm a Spurs fan and clearly Ange

Post a cog Lou is the greatest Australian to have ever existed. How do you feel about him? Does the average Australian even know he exists? I know sports is not your wheelhouse, but thank you. Love the show Dave. I've never heard of this guy, but he's on the Spurs. San Antonio Spurs? Is that the... Is that the...

Angposta Koglu is also an association football manager. Am I looking at different guys? Oh Spurs. Is Spurs... Is Spurs Tottenham Hotspur? Maybe it is. Maybe it is. Thatham Hotspur? Maybe it is. Maybe it is. That'd be Premier League.

Yeah, it is. Okay, all right. It is. I thought it was the Spurs, the basketball team. The Cincinnati Spurs, or whatever they're called. San Antonio Spurs. Shut up, Mason. You're always coming at me.

You was the information telling me stuff. So is this guy a coach or was he a player? Hey. How the Spurs doing? How's the Tottenham Hotspurs doing? He's an association football manager, he's a soccer manager and former player as the head coach of the Premier League team, the Hotspur. When I was a kid- Born in Greece, grew up in Melbourne. Typical. Typical. Classic. There was a lot of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is okay, I'm okay with it.

When I was a kid there was a Tottenham Hotspurs comic book I think. Was there? Yeah. Did you love it? No! Because you hate sport. Yes. Interesting. I feel indifferent to Ange. Poster Coglu. But we're better than him. I agree.

Yeah. It was in the Young Socceroos. Was he in the Young Socceroos? And the Brisbane Roar. Brisbane Roar? And the Melbourne Victory. Oh. And the Australian national team or something.

Seems like he's bounced between a lot of clubs. Do they not like him or something? It seems that way. I know some of these people's coaching and whatnot. Anyway, disregard. This one from Jason Rose who says, yes I have one for you blokes who I like until I find out what about your crimes and what you have done. And there are no consequences, sorry, are there no consequences for being in the absolute

worst anymore? Leto, Helmingtron, Spacey with his casting and speech, and all the Cannes drama, including Miller and LeBouf, et cetera, what do you make of this? Well, no, because now there's, well, for some of them, there's like an alternate economy kind of thing where it's like you can just be like, I couldn't appeal to this group of people,

but there's a second group of people who are diametrically opposed in every way, and I can just get them to give me money. I think if you have an audience or so, or money, then you don't get cancelled. Unless you've done very obvious and provable crimes, then you might go to jail for a bit, but then you might just get out. But then maybe you're Russell Brand, who's almost certainly a sex criminal and just did the pivot and still- Allegedly.

Yeah, allegedly, and still running about. But I also think for a normal person, yes, there are consequences. If you say something crook online or a perceived to or whatever, then yeah. But if you're a person of wealth, no, I don't think council culture- But also Tom Cruise, as we mentioned before. Yeah. Is he still in Scientology? Probably. Yeah, we don't know. We don't know. Yeah.

But they're doing their level best to have it never brought up ever. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of weird stuff about Tom Cruise. You know, so that's the, you know. This is a tweet from Brandon Struznik, who's a movie critic. Yeah. And he's quoting a variety article that says, Zachary Levi strikes back. The Trump voting Shazam star on feeling Hollywood's wrath over vaccine skepticism and the $100

million studio he's building in Austin. It's a variety article. And Brandon has said, you used to just bomb out of Hollywood stardom and run the convention circuit, unhappily signing overpriced 8x10s from the one time you caught success. Now when Harold and the Purple Crayon doesn't hit, it's the Deich state's fault and somehow everybody else's problem. So you know. Yeah. He did a lot of like, well, you know, people are surrounded by misinformation and

that's why they say certain things, but it's like, dude, that's you. Well, this is a quote from Zachary Levi. He says, Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks and all those OGs knew it over a hundred years ago. Hollywood was broken then and we need a better system. He says, isn't Charlie Chaplin a pedophile? I mean, he's dead. So you can, you can say that. Yeah.

You can't defame the dead. He says of the silent era legends who founded United Artists to bypass oppressive studio contracts. This industry is crumbling around us. In order for us to survive, we need to have a space for artists that will foster certified, organic, human-made content. Like Harold and the Purple Cry on Where I'm a Boy but also a Man. So I don't know.

Yeah. You know. Well, good luck to you Zachary Levi, whatever you're doing. Mm. You can always, yeah, do that pivot. That's so true. I don't know. I don't think he's got like the popularity to like, I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but like, I don't think people are like, whatever side he goes to,

people aren't clamoring and like, this is the guy. We finally got our own Ryan Reynolds or whatever. So true. Yeah. Anyway. I mean, whatever side you're on, you don't really need a Ryan Reynolds. No. It true. Yeah. Anyway. I mean, whatever side you're on you don't really need a Ryan Reynolds. No. It's fine. But he's ours. That's true. Here's an email from Nick. Nick! You've now received an email from Nottingham, England. Finally. That's right. Hey boys, very long time listener, first time emailer, have been listening to you guys for so long that one Mr Nick Mason wasn't even on it. So that was

Mr Sunny Movie. Oh, before that. The original channel maybe. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm of 42. As a right this year, still in hospital waiting for the operation. I would be forever grateful if you could give Rich a shout out as I know he'll be listening to this and I know it would mean the world to hear you guys wish him well. Also, I hope you don't mind if we appoint ourselves the podcast official Sherwood Forest band of merry nerds. We already have one of those. That's right. You can take it. You can join it.

You can join it. This might be a shout out because I don't want to give this guy further heart complications. So it's a whisper out. We hope you're doing okay. I hope you're doing all right, Rich. Yeah. Come on, you buddy. Yeah, we're glad they caught it.

Yeah. That's good. Yeah. That's a good thing. Yeah. Pace maker. Pace maker. Season two.

Coming out soon. Exactly. No, that's good. Thank you so much for listening for such a long time. It's a long time. Yeah. That means you started listening when you were also in your twenties, which is when I started. And now I'm so old. Look at me, Mason. I mean, you're... What does he want me to say? You're fatter now? You're fatter in the face now.

That's what I want. That's what you wanted, right? That's all the filler. Yeah. I'm smoothing out my face. I'm going to be smooth as an egg. I hope so. Got one more Mason from Noah Quinnett who says, have you seen the Tim Robinson movie Friendship?

Should I watch it? I haven't seen it, but you should watch it. I want to watch it. Paul Rudd. Looks really good. Apparently it's the funniest movie of the year. That's what Simon's saying. Do you watch the rehearsal?

I didn't finish the first season, but I am watching a lot of the second season because I find the whole, the concept of it really interesting as a whole. What about you? I haven't seen it yet. It's good. Maybe one day. It's a dream. It's a beautiful dream. I had a beautiful dream once. Go on. Nah, that's it. I don't really remember it. That's the show. That's the whole show folks. Thank you so much for listening. We absolutely appreciate it. Thank you for telling your friends about it even if in doing so gives them some sort of heart condition. But yeah it's worth it I, yeah, I guess it probably isn't a long run for us.

That's right. I'm dentilicious because I'll read out your reviews, by the way, if they're five stars, that's correct. Where is it? Writing a review for one reason in multiple episodes. I hear Jamil's on Mason Mason mentioned, uh, mentioned a video that we can't see them so-and-so is doing this, but I've looked everywhere and there was no video version of podcast I need to know is if there is a video version that I'm missing out on, but five stars all

around, keep up the potting. No, there's no video. Correct. And I don't want to do that. Maybe we will at some point, but it's a pain in the ass. And I don't like being seen until my face is completely smooth. It's a work in progress. You've got to become that egg.

When you finally become, send in tips for James to become more of an egg. Yeah. Because when he finally does that. I'm going to have to shave my head as well. I'm going perfectly smooth. That's right. Yeah. Eyebrows off. Oh yeah.

Ear hair pulled out. I don't have that Mason. Okay. There's some Sean the American who says the only good podcast. Thank you. I started listening to this podcast freshman year of high school. I graduated college last year. These two knuckleheads basically raised me and I turned out mostly fine

also you've still got some more time ahead of you so any mistakes that you have made which aren't our fault you can rectify that's so true isn't it and we encourage that you do and it and in doing so we can take credit for that that's right so that's great yeah mistakes you've made that's on you yep rectify them to yourself be true We appreciate your undying loyalty to us. That's so true, isn't it? Yeah. Couple of demons.

Couple of slithery demons. Nathan. Folks. What else? If you want to get in contact with us, you can go to Weekly Planet Pod at gmail.com or you can get to the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates Facebook group or the Weekly Planet Pod subreddit and Discord

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You couldn't think of a different name on a different platform. I would love to but I can't. That's great. Let's see. Stupid idiot. All right. No, it's me. That's what I'm saying.

I'm saying be kind to yourself. I won't be. Okay, great. I'm my harshest critic. And's what I'm saying. I'm saying be kind to yourself. I won't be. Okay, great. I'm my harshest critic. And I have some terrible critics. Folks, if you want to support the show, go to patreon.com, Mr. Sunday Movies, Chuck and a Barker and a man you would not miss, or you can go to bigsandwich.co for $9 per month

bonus podcast, early video game, let's plays, movie commentaries, all sorts of stuff. Yeah. It's great stuff. It is great stuff. So next week, a couple of things, I'm going to be away for some of it. The episode will be late, like definitively. So it's going to be, I don't know, maybe a day in a bit. No, maybe not a full day, but maybe half a day late. So it won't go up early at bigsandwich.co unfortunately for that week. That cannot be helped. But, and it also, it just might not happen. It'll probably happen, but it might not because being away in flights and whatever. I'm pushing for it to happen. Yeah, I agree. I'm with you, but I'm just saying because I'm coming back on the Sunday night and late so we can't do it then and then you're working all day Monday and so we're gonna have to record Monday

night. And you're getting egg surgery. And I'm getting egg surgery, so we can't do it then. And then you're working all day Monday. And so we're gonna have to record Monday night. And you're getting egg surgery. And I'm getting egg surgery. Also, you can't rob me because I've got someone else sitting me too bad. But I... But you could kill them. Yeah, I forgot. Yeah, easy, simple solution. Yeah.

But next week maybe we'll do Bring Her Back. Oh yeah, from the Wacka Wrap-Up Brothers. Yeah, apparently it's incredible. Also, I don't know whether you want to do it, but the last of us might be wrapping up. So we could maybe do that. I might have to watch 12 hours of The Last of Us. Yeah, but also I'm happy to not. I don't mind. We'll figure it out. We could catch up with it another day.

Great. So anyway, probably an episode next week. It will definitely be late, though. Just so people know. That's right. Thank you to The Brute and The Bassist and Rackham for all our musical themes. If you want a t-shirt, you go to tpublic.com. You search for The Weekly Planet or Weekly Planet Posts. I want a t-shirt. You want a t-shirt. I want to sign it and then give it away. Is that all right?

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