The Weekly Planet - 610 Crime 101 & Marvel vs Star Wars Crossover

Episode Date: February 15, 2026

It was always an enevitability but a Star Wars vs Marvel crossover is on the horizan! According to some rumours but not other rumours. We tak that plus a release date for The Mummy 4, a sad update on the cancelled Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin movie, trailers for Spider-Noir and a John Wick video game, a synopsis for Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, we review Crime 101 plus we discuss the latest AI trend, Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt over the death of a notorious monster I can't reference in the description. Thanks for listening!New Q&A bonus podcast episode out now with James & Maso! Plus entire back-catalogue including exclusive let's play videos, movie commentaries, bonus pods, older Q&As, ad-free feeds and early access on bigsandwich.coPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift up to a few minutes due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start03:58 The Mummy 4 Release Date10:27 TMNT: The Last Ronin Update13:09 Spider-Noir Trailer19:14 John Wick Video Game21:06 Brad Pitt vs Tom Cruise AI Slop26:49 LOTR: The Hunt for Gollum Synopsis30:10 Marvel & Star Wars Comic Crossover36:29 Crime 101 Movie Review51:32 Crime 101 Spoiler Segment56:09 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:10:21 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.

Welcome back everybody to another episode of the weekly planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is Jay also known as Mr. Sunday. With me as I was, you're a bit late. It's Nick Mason. I've been in for hours. We recorded something earlier. He's just walking around. He doesn't, he's at work, just wandering around my house doing nothing.

That's why I turn on the backup recorder. This guy. Do your job. You're all about, what's happened to you? You are, you are, you are, you are unexpected. and rarely you are, you are, in an, in an unprecedented movie, you're somehow jovial and full of energy. How have you done?

What have you done? What's happened? Who are you and what have you done with James, Mr. Sunday movies? Who knows, man, time times, man, you got it, you got it, you know? Bada bim, bada boon, you know. This is your new personality. This is my new personality. What do you think?

I think it's good. How long can he sustain it? Probably not long. Probably forever. I would say probably not long. Probably forever, basis. I would say the first minor inconvenience you suffer or even think about suffering, you will switch into regular or worse.

Regular or worse, James, yes. Anyway, it's great to be here, as I have been for an hour, at least. At least an hour. He's right. Crack it open this can. He freaking got me. What happened is I dashed off to use the loo and then you started off in lieu of me, if that makes sense.

It's good to have fun. We have fun here, don't we, Mason? but you were late. Sometimes we have. Also unrelated. No, actually very related. Yeah. When I showed up and then you went into your bedroom and came out dressed as me.

One of your endless pranks. Prank? By that I mean you, like I'm wearing like grey jeans and a burgundy t-shirt. Yeah, yeah. There were just, yeah, regular clothes of mine that were somewhat similar. Yeah, but we laughed. We had a good time. I mean, we did laugh.

And my son didn't acknowledge it at all. It's true. He didn't think anything. So you've been doing this all day? Yeah, I guess I have been. Yeah. When you're hot, you know? Butterbing.

Nice. Here he is, Mr. Batabing. So this week you're going to talk in Crime 101, Mason. That's right. But of course, we've got a bunch of stuff in the lead-up. We've got news on the Mummy 4, which is happening. We've got news on the cancelled Teenage Mut Ninja Turtles, the last Ronan sequel. Oh, did we know that was cancelled?

Yeah, probably. Terrific. We've got trailers of hoy for a couple of things. Spider-Man noir. Or just spider noir. Spotted noir. Sorry, you're right. Spied and noir.

And also, I don't know if you saw this, the John Wick video game because there was a PlayStation. I saw a thumbnail for it. State of play. Okay. It's also news on the hunt for gollum. It's got a set of play. They're bringing that up. I'd be back.

Incredible and good. Is Jack Reacher or Jack Ryan already back, though? Isn't he, what's his name? name, Jim Crosinski or whatever. Yeah, it's Jim Crosinski is back, yeah. Good. And then, wait a minute, Mason. Are we getting it going?

He's found Red October and the Ring is there. And now he's at all. Oh, okay, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, good. And we're in the office. How do you feel about the first official Star Wars Avengers crossover? Pretty good. Then we'll talk about that.

I mean, it's inevitable, isn't it? Or it was. Yeah, after the acquisition by Disney of all the boys stuff. Totally, totally, totally, totally. Thank you to Rob Collings who edits this because he puts time codes below. That's right. Thank you to Sarabi and Maisie and Fidel who do all the socials and all the work. If you could follow them on various platforms, they're all linked below as well.

That's right. They're doing TikToks, aren't they, Mason? They're doing clip channels. That's right. They're doing bonus content stuff. They're moderating the planet broadcasting great mates group. I think it's good to give a shout out up top. Occasionally.

Yes. We can't do it every week. No, that would be crazy. That would turn our world topsy-turvy, wouldn't it? Yes, yes, yes. But awesome people. Right, let's start with this Mason deadline. Ring, ring, hello.

Thank you. Hello, it's deadline. You're dead. Yep. You dead, you dog. You dead dog. The Mummy 4, which is the fourth movie in the Mummy franchise, but in the good one. I'm sure.

So not the Tom Cruise one. And not what of this other mummy thing they're thinking of. Oh yeah, there's a spooky mummy reboot this year. So not that either. It's called Big Spooky Mummy. And you'll be spooked. Is the tagline. You specifically.

That's right. Yeah. And then they've put a picture of it. of a panned pointing in the tagline? Really? Yeah. I've never seen any of this. So, unofficial title is the Mummy 4.

It'll be something else. It's got a release. The Mummy 4 life. The Mummy 4, yep. It's May 9th, 2028. That's a date that Universal reserved a while back. So I guess they had this planned or they were just like,

that's ours, we'll take it. You can't have it. We're going to have it. We've reused. You mean, that's actually. Well, guess what? Marvel movie. Avengers movie.

We're just putting one on. We're just going to crush you with it. I feel like it's the kind of era where... They wouldn't necessarily crush with it. I don't think that would be a good idea. Maybe an Avengers movie would do some damage, but I don't think a regular Marvel movie necessarily would. Well, at that point, then, what are they got to lose?

Yeah, true. Throw one in. Yeah. Hey, we made this for streaming. Here it is. Here we go. We packaged some old shit. We put it together.

Hey, guess what? We recut the series Cloak and Dagger into a movie, and we're throwing it into cinemas. Just to ruin your box office. That's right. We hate Brendan Fraser, actually. Yeah, that's rude. You shouldn't.

He seems really nice, actually. Well, speaking of officially, himself and Rachel Weiss will return. Now, Stephen Summers directed the first two. Correct. He's not coming to go back. It's Matt, Betanelli, Olpin, and Tyler Gilbert, who worked on. I did look this up, and now I've forgotten, so I'll quickly do a quick googs around. Oh, Mr. Bartabing, not so good on the research.

Well, my Bing, you know how it runs. Yeah, that's right, yeah. I did research, and I told you that. Here we go. He's real, James. Oh, they did the Ready Art, not movies. That's good. I like that.

Pretty good. And also Scream 2020, and also Scream 2023. Oh. And also Abigail. Oh. And also the movie Chad, Matt and Rob from 2011. I like this.

That's a good, they're good choices. If they're going to bring that Chad, Matt and Rob energy. Definitely. You know? Definitely. Bremen Fraser can be Chad. Rachel Weiss is Matt. Arnold Walsall is Rob.

Yeah. Rob the robot. Yep. Yeah. So, yeah, speaking of, there's no word on whether John Hanover. will return, Arnold Vosley will return, Maria Ballow will return, O'Ded Fair will return. Why would Maria Bello return? I don't know, maybe they come back and they're like...

Two wives? Yeah. And they're like, wait a minute. And they should figure that out, I think. We're going to figure this out and it's 90 minutes of that. Before we go on a wonderful adventure, we've got to sit in our big house and figure out why I have two wives. Now, do you want this as like the same mummy is back, etc? So forth.

What are you looking for here? for this for do you want something as good as Mad Max Fury Road in terms of security? Yes, I do want that. That'd be good, wouldn't that? I want a perfect movie. Yeah, I want a perfect movie.

Did the mummy and Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weiss ever team up? Sort of? No, no, no. I think they have to team up. I think we get Arnold Voslu back and he shows up and he's all in top hat and tails and he's like, hello, my baby, hello, yeah.

Yeah, he's got the personality of the singing frog. Yeah, I like that singing frog. I like how he sings. But he shows up and he's like, oh, now we've got to work together because there's a bigger mummy. Also, like,

With the singing frog, you just put a two-way mirror Or a one-way mirror, whatever they call But he would know No, he wouldn't, he doesn't know. Yes, he would? How does he know how to sing? What do you mean? What's that got to do with whether he knows what one-way glass? I think if he's clever enough to know how to sing

Yeah And clever enough to play psychological warfare And the guy who wants to make a profit off him I think he would also know what like a two-way glass One-way mirror situation was. Okay, fair enough. Yeah, yeah. I guess there's nowhere to really know that

because it's not real. It's real. Oh, okay, it's real, is it? Yeah, it's real, yeah. Great. That's a documentary. I don't know if you know that. I didn't know that.

Well, then that doesn't make any sense because we can see him in the documentary, which means he can't see cameras. Yeah, it's a documentary about the man. Oh, okay. Yeah. And they did it like that, you know, that Keanu Reeves movie

where they cartoon over the top. Why did they do that? Why wouldn't they show a real dancing frog? I don't know, man. Seems like a strange choice. Well, well, I mean, when you hire Banksie, that's what you get. I guess they, what? Banksy did it.

Okay. Yeah. He did the singing frog documentary. I like a scanner darkly. Yeah. I'm putting it out there. That's right. Well, clearly so did Banksy.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I guess... Is this our most niche thing we've ever done? No. We say some Australian shit often. I think this is more niche than that. Really?

Because we just recorded a video and you said Watsonia in it. I did. It's true. I think that's probably more niche than this, if I'm honest. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For the people of Watsonia, or the greater northern suburbs area of Melbourne.

But the people in Ivanhoe would know what I was talking about. I'm sure they almost certainly would. They wouldn't go there. No, they wouldn't. Of course they wouldn't. Why would they? There's no reason for them to do that. I like that it's a different creative team.

And I like the stuff that they've worked on. Looking at that also and makes me think that because the first mummy at parts, like it's a bit scary. And I think that they could potentially bring that. Is there an, the mummy, the original one, the one from the one from the, the 9-in-whatever's. Yeah. Is there sequels to that?

Because maybe you just adapt. Maybe this is just an adaptation of one of the sequels. Maybe we do that because, I mean, the first one is that, ultimately, right? Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. So maybe that's the key. Maybe that's why that one worked. Don't try and gussy this up with dragon emperors and scorpion kings and so forth.

Don't do any gussying. Yeah. Just. I won't be gussied. Exactly. Just do another one of those. Agreed. But make it cool and good.

Cool and new and fun. Mm-hmm. That's great. Yep. So again, May of 2028. Do you think we're going to give middle-aged, Brendan Frey, the big floppy hair? I think, yeah, he'll have to wig up. Yeah.

And there's nothing wrong with that. Absolutely. We all do it. Some of us do it. Even Mr. Bartabing? James Barter Bing. No, he doesn't. Interesting.

What does he do? What does he do? If you're going to build a visual, like a picture of it in people's minds of Mr. Bartabing He doesn't wig up. I think it's whatever the, I think it's whatever the perfect version of me that you think. Frost the tips. Yes. That's the version that exists.

That's right. And that is real. Yep. Collider, they spoke to Judith Hogue. You familiar with Judith Hogue? They were like, Judith Hogue on the street. We gotcha. Yeah, that's right.

This is some kind of con, some kind of comic con situation. Yeah, sounds like a bloody con. She played original... It sounds like this whole bloody media landscape's a bloody concom. That's true, Mason. She played original April O'Neill in the first Ninja Turtle's movie. Ah. And she was apparently approached, and I was hoping they would have taken this...

Say something mean about all the subsequent April O'Neils. Easy. We would like you to do it. She was apparently. approached for the cancelled Ninja Turtles movie The Last Ronan. Oh, that would make sense. Which is, we'll quickly talk about this. If you haven't read it, it's a comic book set like 20 years

after the original, the Ninja Turtles all were killed except for one of them. Which one is it we don't know? It's in the comic book. They'll tell you. You'll figure it out eventually. It's like the Dark Night Returns of like, Ninja Turtles. It's a fan favorite book. There's some spinoffs. Yeah, totally. There's a new generation

of mutant turtles in it later. They've got names I can't remember or whatever. Yeah, they're all called we've got names that are one in different languages. That's right. That's true. Like Uno. Yeah, exactly. And one. Card game.

I always thought that this, I mean, this wasn't the only one who thought this, but this is a really good approach to take. Because that's the best movie. It's the most beloved one. Absolutely. It makes the most sense in terms of doing a sequel like this. You can use the Rotter Ninja Turtle suits. Exactly.

But she said, yes, I've been approached and I'd be happy. It would be a great bookend for me. And maybe that happens. And maybe it doesn't. We'll see. She also called the comic a wonderful story saying Paramount executives who cancel the project need to go to a comic con and spend some time with the fans to fully understand the franchise. I agree.

I think, so you can have your kid friendly. I call it a franchise. Thank you very much. You're welcome. You can have your kid friendly whatever version, but like, Ninja Tilt's fans are also 40-year-old men, you know? That's right. With frosted tips. 40-year-olds at the youngest.

Yeah, exactly. The youngest one's 40. You've got to be 40 to get in. You've got to be 40 to get in. So, I mean, now he's not in the comic, but you could bring back Elias Cotier. Yeah, as Casey Jones, and the comic is not in it. But, like, there's a number of... Flashbacks.

Flashback. There's so many ways, like, you could... Yeah. You could do this. And you could do it relatively cheap, I feel like, you wouldn't have to do, like... Because it's set in this, like, Blade Runner kind of future. You don't have to do that. You could just do it modern day.

Modern day. Because it'd be, you know, just say it's the original... You know, just say the original is in like 1990 or whatever it is. So what happened to... Where are they now in the present day? Yep, exactly. Exactly, exactly. So, I don't know.

I think we will get this at some point. Wasn't there a game? Was that cancelled as well? Probably. I feel like it is. It's probably some toys. Some hot toys? Hot toys.

Some Macfarlane toys, perhaps? It's not officially cancelled. Interesting. But also, they haven't said anything about this in a long time. So, I don't know, man. I don't know. Treasasas Hoy. Pong.

Very good. Spada noir. Spada Bing. Thank you. Wait a minute. I love that. It's good, right? Yeah.

I came up with that. It's good energy. Yeah, I can tell. It's good energy. So I took a good energy. my son early this early this week. You tricked him? I tricked him big time. Because you're in your trickster. You're in your trickster era. It's true. So he's been waiting for the Spider-Man trailer for the... Spider-Man brand new home. Yeah, home, whatever it is. And he's every day. He's like,

when's his trailer? And I'm like, as soon as I know you'll know, you'll know, you know, you're school the other day and I'm like, guess what? You should pull it. You should pull it. You should pull him out of school. I will. I pull him out of schools to see movies. I don't give a shit. I know what they're doing in the afternoon at schools, Mason. I was a teacher. Do you know what they're doing? Watching movies? Fucking movies? Fucking nothing, man. It's free reading time. I'll finish some of the work you were doing earlier. You're not doing anything.

This education system is a joke. Wow. Teachers are a joke. No, it's not one. No, they're under-resourced. Someone's telling me the other day that kids' brains are- Teachers are a joke. Someone was telling me that.

Someone was telling me kids' brains don't switch on to like 10 a.m. or something. So they shouldn't really be at school? There is stuff. Yeah, I think that's more for teenagers. I can't remember. But, yeah, it is something like that. I used to know or care.

Now, I don't know or care about anything. Interesting. Yeah. Well, I care, but I don't know. And I refuse to learn. You don't need to. Yeah. So I told him there's a Spider-Man trailer.

He's like, whoo. And he's like, oh, like, for the, and then he was like, wait, for the movie that's coming out. Because he's wise to your tricks now. Yeah. And I'm like, it's a Spider-Man trailer. So I showed him this. And he did quite like it. So this is Spider-Nois, which is the version of Spider-Man set in a jazzy black and white dimension.

Jazzy black and white dimension. But it's also set in a color dimension because you can watch it in color also. I probably am not going to watch it in a color. I might, do you think you can switch in real time? Probably not, right? I wonder if it is a different, like it's a literally different program. It would be. You think? But you know, you can like flick subtitles

on and off or I don't think it works like that? They'd have to build in a whole new infrastructure, James. I don't think that'll be possible. See, what I was thinking was like, I could occasionally switch over to color. But I think, I don't know, because I... It doesn't look like a very vibrant world regardless. No, but it looks great in black and white. So... Also,

Also, this, you know, people have noted in the Spider-verse movies he is a Peter Parker and this is not he's a Ben Riley Is that going to be relevant? Oh you mean like Is he a different guy?

He's in like same universe but different guys I think he's a different guy Like he's a different guy from the animated guy But my question is Do you think he was a Peter Parker And he's changed his name?

Or like is he a clone Because Ben Riley of course Is one of Spider-Man's many clones Or is it just they're like Well we don't want to confuse the audiences So he is Ben Riley And he's always been Ben Riley Yeah maybe

Yeah Anyway I love Nicholas Yeah, same. Maybe it's like he is Peter Park and he's hiding his identity. Maybe that's it, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe at the end he'll be like, I'm going to change it. I'm going to change it.

Weird Nicholas Cage stuff in this as well, which I love clicking. Yeah, absolutely. Part of being, if you will. Yeah, yeah. I don't understand because the tagline is with no power comes no responsibility. I wonder about that. Is that because he, because does he not have powers? Well, in the original, in the original like tagline or the, you know, the promotional material

that came out before any of this. It's it as a former superhero. So does he not have any of his powers now? Maybe, yeah. Maybe that's it. But then we do see him in like... Is that a flashback? Yeah.

Or is it, maybe it's... We also see there's a point where you see some doctors put an oxygen mask on someone. Yeah. Is that them taking his powers away? Oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe, yeah. I wonder if it's a case of he had his powers back in the day.

Yeah. And he's going to do, he's lost him and now he's going to do some gum shoo. But like in Spider-Man, too, once he believes in himself again, he'll have his powers back. Absolutely. Because they can't do it. They're not going to do a non-Spiderman action finale. I don't think so. Where does Spider-Noy get his powers from? Here it looks like some kind of

old-timey-spirrementy thing. Vordville spider. Yeah. I can't see any of this. I'll figure it out later. A magician on stage sawed him in half and then put a spider in there and put him back together. For a nickel. For a nickel? Yep. I'd do that for a nickel. Well.

Yeah. I think the action looks fun. It looks like there's some... Good swinging. That's what you need. You need good swinging. And good fighting. Mm-hmm. Yeah. There's also we see glimpses of some villains we see at Sandman, maybe an electrode. Some guy with a weird freak face. Yeah, that was some kind of weird spiderish kind of...

Spider-ish man. It's spider-ish man. Maybe it's an experiment thing. Spider-ish man. Spider-ish man. Maybe it's a dream. And he's like, I'm having a dream. I'm a spider. He's in a dream and he's spiderish man. I'm having a dream. I'm a spider. There's a Moulton man maybe. There's also a frame somebody picked up.

Maybe it's a Mr. Negative. Oh. Which would be cool. Also, Brendan Gleason, he plays Silver Main. He's the big bad, but it doesn't look like he's in this trailer. Is he a robot? Silverma. Well, Silver Main's a robot.

Well, he's a cyborg anyway. That's a good question. It's a good question they say. Oh, they're going to do it old school. He's going to open his vest up and he's going to have gears and wheels and such. And pipes and so on. Six. Copper pipes in there. I would love that.

I would love that. And a local tough is going to strip the copper pipes out and sell them in a junkyard. I would love that. This is out May 27th of this year. And it said in, also in authentic black and white. So that's cool. Do you want to watch that Johnwick trailer?

Oh yeah, watch it. Johnwick game. Johnwick game. Johnwick game. Hey! Hey, welcome home. Whoa. So, Mason, you've just checked.

We're back, buttering. Batabing, butto-boom, zip, zip, zo. Whoa, all right. It's time for podcast. I think that's probably a bit too much for everybody. Tick-tang, walla-wala, bing-bang. You know what I mean? I do actually.

You know exactly what, unfortunately. What is that? It's an old song. Ui, uh-uh-a-a-h-h-hing-bang-bang. Is it related to the scouts? What do the scouts say? What do they even up to down there? I don't know.

You can just get a knife. You don't need to even learn how to use it. That's true. That's what John Wick says. Exactly. You can just get a knife. Just get a knife. The John Wick video.

game, it's from Sabre Interactive. They've got the upcoming Jurassic Park Survival coming out. They did a game called Roadcraft. There's World War Z. They did Halo, the Master Chief Collection, and the Witcher 3 Switch port. They're releasing Jurassic World Survival and a company in game, Jurassic World, you just die. You're two choices. Okay.

Yeah. They cost the same? Yeah. All right. Yeah. I'd probably get both. Oh, yeah, absolutely. They're only $149 each.

Each. Yeah. That's great. That is great. Yeah. So it's funny because I just watched a video. That is funny. That's not what was funny, though.

It's funny, man. I was going to say something else. It's funny. But a Bing, I tell you that much. There's a Raseavik video. It came out like two weeks ago called... It's funny. But this isn't the...

That bit was a funny. It was funny. The first bit was funny. Humor subjective, man. That's funny. That's funny. me. Now get to your thing that you think is funny and I'll tell you. The race of

Vick. Relation to video, they do a great video is called the John Wick game problem. They talk about the two John Wick official games. That's funny. I mean, it's leaning towards not funny. And the problem with adapting a John Wick game to the universe. Yeah, exactly. It's like...

And they talk about a game that's John Wick like, but it's not officially a Johnwick. It's good video. Oh, they're stealing it. Yeah. So in this there's a bunch of... It starts with like a bunch of pre-rended cutscene. Yes. And I'm like, I don't really...

He is moving like Joe Wick's a lot. He looks great, but I don't... Also, some of that feels like it is maybe screen capped directly from the movies. Oh, maybe, yeah, you might be right. But I feel like in looking at that, I don't... Whenever there's a trailer like

that's pre-rended video game, I'm like, this doesn't mean anything. Right, exactly. But they actually show some footage on the back out. What about, what about like an AI-generated video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise? I didn't... I didn't watch that.

I did watch it. Is it good? No. Oh, what? I mean, it's pointless. I mean, it looks fine, but like, what does it mean? Are they modern ragged Tom Cruise? I would, I think, yeah, I think so.

All right, I'm just going to look this up quickly. Is it on X, Mason? It's probably on X.com, the everything out. Do they talk in it? No. I mean, maybe they did, but I didn't watch it with any sound. Fuck, this sucks. Is this what people want?

I don't know. I don't think people do. I think it's all a trick, man. Kill Jeffrey Epstein, you animal. Okay, they did talk. Wait, who killed? So one of them is on the side of... Brad Pitt is on the side of Jeffrey Epstein,

is what the video is implying. Wow, that's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Oh, Tom Cruise killed him because he knew too much about the Russia operations. So who's the... Are they both bad guys? Well, they're both bad because Tom Cruise is saying he killed him because he knows too much. And Brad Pitt's saying... He's a good man, why did you kill him?

He's just generally sad about... Jeffrey Epstein. Wow. Mate. That is, I feel like they're two very litigious men. Yeah, absolutely. So that's interesting. Maybe they're just banking on no one

watching with a sound like. Yeah, Tom Cruise famously like has a very well crafted PR strategy and you won't even, you can't even buy like Tom Cruise action figures like he's so protective of his image. That's right. For reasons that who's to say why and what he's up to. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And similarly Brad Pitt.

Yeah, and Brad Pitt's burying his wife in like legal matters. So, you know, maybe there will be something that will come of this. I think if there is a good thing to come of this, it's that we're going to question about this late, not this specifically, it's that then if you put a big actor like

this in there might put some laws in place. Yeah, uh-huh. Or it's, you know, because that's... Or it kicks the door up and for whatever. Well, that's the thing, because that's what I thought about, you know, AI up until the point where Disney invested a billion dollars into it. I'm like, oh, well, Disney's going to sue these people and it's like, oh, no, actually Disney wants to be able to

the way I generate everything for nothing. Yeah. So that's good for them, actually, well done. Yeah. But again, I don't, you know, to me it sort of feeds into that whole dead internet theory of like, is anybody, everybody, is anybody listening? When you look at one of these and you click on it and all the comments are just people like fire emoji, fire emoji, love this, whatever. It's like, are there any of these people real? I don't know. Am I real even, you know?

I don't know. Mr. Bada Bidabing is pretty real. He's real to make. He's real to make. Bada Bada Bada Bada Bid Buc. Yeah, nice. He's real to me. That's right.

I don't know. Like, we've talked about, you know, when you go on, I showed you this the other day, like, when you go on Instagram and you look up a famous person, it doesn't just give you their, it doesn't just give you their username so you can click on it. It gives you an AI summary first and you have to click on that and then it lets you follow them. And it's like, it's so every, it's so the, you know, the Instagram, the people at the board can go, look, everybody's using this because they love it. Yeah. No, you made me. You made me look at it. It's like when you put that YouTube. album on YouTube album, YouTube album on everybody's phones or whatever. That's exactly right. And we love that. Bada Bada BING. Anyway, the John Wick video game, it's the actual gameplay. It's mostly take down. So we, I feel like, so I guess they're going to be environmental. Yeah, I mean, obviously when something like this, speaking like a Max Payne style,

Arkham Asylum. Like I always, whenever, you know, somebody's like, we're in this kind of, you know, this, this 3D environment, what are we, you know, what system we're going to use? well, is it going to be a variation of the Arkham? And I guess, to that sense, I guess, because the Arkham games are really, like, it's all pre-done animations, but it's like contextual to where the enemy is in relation to your character they're in front of you, behind it, to the side of it is. So I guess you just add the element of, and I don't know, we don't really know what they're doing with this, but you just, with John Wick, you could sort of just add the element of like,

oh, he's standing next to a desk and there's a pen. Yeah. So if you hit the attack button and move towards the desk, he grabs the pen and he stabs the guy or whatever. So I guess you just add that element. Yeah. You simply do that. You see it's easy. Simply do that and it's the best game ever made.

Yeah. I mean, you could also, like, I don't know if you've played seafood, which I actually just played today with my son. I'm on a seafood diet. Are you? And that's how that gone for you? Awful. I have to purchase copies like physical copies of the game seafood and eat them. Yeah.

Yeah. Painful and I don't think good for me. I don't know, man. I mean, if it's working for you, which it seems like. It is. I cannot stress enough that he's not working for you. I think you're on doing a good thing. Okay.

All right. I'll keep it up for two or three more weeks. See how I go. Then that's a lot of, that's environmental, like use stuff in the environment. The combat in that, though, it's pretty unforgiving. And because you age up and then you die and then it's over. So I think it'll be easier than that, I guess is what I'm saying. But anyway, anyway, cool.

This is by the one ring.net. Just ask me. how I'm doing, how I feel about the, the movie franchise C-Soo. How do you feel about the movie franchise C-Soo? Have you seen you? I've done this in the first one. No, I've seen it. Okay.

How do you feel about it, though? It wasn't whether you see them. It's how do you feel about them? I'm indifferent. So your feeling is indifference. Yes, that's right. Interesting. Also, I'm on a C-Soo diet.

What's that like? I guess I just watch the trailers for the C-Soo movie and then I'm sort of indifferent about it. I'm so hungry. I bet you want. You should eat more DVDs or whatever you're doing. I could do that, I guess. I can do that. Is there a physical release for Sisu?

Probably. Okay, great. I'll get on that. You can't live on looking for trailers, I think you know that also. I do. I do. This is by the Onering.net.

There's an official synopsis for the Lord of the Rings the hunt for Golem. Okay. Here it is. I'm skipping some. Can you do it in a Gollum voice? No. You could?

No, I couldn't. All right. With the ring lost. Could you do it in the persona of Mr. Barter being Well, that's just who I am. That's my everyday episode. I'm saying, continue.

Yeah, yeah. With the ring lost and carried away by Bilbo Baggins, Gollum finds himself compelled to leave the cage in search of it. Gandalf the Grey calls upon Aragon, who will be recast, of course, as we know. Still known as the Ranger Strider to track the elusive creature whose knowledge of its whereabouts of the ring could tip the balance towards the dark lord Sauron. And then you would say? Yeah, butterbing.

Thank you to punctuate it. Set in the shadowed time between Bilbo's. birthday disappearance in the fellowship's formation. Oh, that's shadowed time. What happened? It's a real five years after return of the Jedi area. Anything could happen. Anything could happen.

This perilous journey through Middle Earth's darkest corners reveals untold truths, tests the resolve of its future king and explores the fractured soul and backstory of Gollum, one of Tolkien's most enigmatic characters. And the big spider is there. Yes. I love this. The shadowed time between Bilbo's birthday disappearance and the fellowship form. Fuck me

Andy Circus is directing We're in the shadow time now There was a birthday And later there'll be a Do you go to a tavern or whatever That's there It's the time when you It's the day after your birthday

When you're like man I'm older now God this I'm in the shadow time Yeah All of these gifts They don't make me feel better They would make me feel better Because I'm Mr. Bada Bing That's exactly right

Other people probably wouldn't I can't eat any of this food. I'm on a seafood diet. Exactly. It's working for you, though. Yeah, thanks, man. Oh, well bad. Yeah.

Produced by Peter Jackson, who recently came out and said because he's a long time producing partner passed away, and that's why he hasn't made a movie, which is quite sad. And he has done some documentary work and written and produced by Fran Walsh

and Philip Aboyance. So all that's good. You just have no faith in any of this. Yeah, I guess if I had to... Yes, you've nailed it right there. That's true. That's the official Mr. Bada Bing's stance. Bada Bing, don't believe in anything.

Bada Bing, I don't believe in anything? That's good. That's maybe the most authentic thing you've ever said. It's true. This is out December 17th, 2027. That's a long way away. Yeah, sort of. It's been interesting to see how they recast Argonne.

We'll see. Austin Butler? Sure. Who else? Good work. No, you got it. What about, yeah, you got it. That's how a lot of these meetings go in home.

I imagine. What about, no, you got it. It's lunch time. You got it. It's fine. Don't worry. The guy, the bothering hearts guy. He's too tall.

Isn't Strad is supposed to be tall? Yeah. Vigo Mortensen is like 5'9. I guess he has to be short by comparison the elves, right? Or he doesn't? Or he doesn't. He's too sinister that Jacob Allorty. It's the private school energy, we know.

It's a private school energy. And Vigo Mortensen, he doesn't have that like at all. That's true. He's not earthy enough. You've got to be earthy, man. Earthy and girthy. Yeah. If you got it. This was by Rob Leifeld.

Okay. One of our faves? Yeah, he's done a lot of work. One of the founders of Image Comics, you can't take that away from him. No. Created cable. Yeah. He's created a lot of characters that then people... Created cable and then New Mutants became X-Force and the rest is history.

I agree. He's created a lot of characters that people have improved on. Some people say he's art stuff. got stunted in the 90s, his whole creative process. Wow. I don't say that. I think it's good. So he said, just wait until the Star Wars slash, this is on some kind of social media, just wait until the Star Wars slash Avengers next year.

Yeesh. So he's been on a bit of a tear against Marvel for a while. Because they didn't invite him to the Deadpool party. Yeah. He's having a big sook, which, look, I appreciate more than anybody. But, uh. And look, regardless of what you think of him, they can't give him one ticket to this party. No, I agree.

Yeah. That's crazy. Did they give him the wrong Oh, they give him the wrong day or something? I can't remember. No, all the wrong, like they put him in the other thing. I don't know. No, I agree.

They put him in the big sook table. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I don't know. But yeah, they absolutely should have invited him, like, for sure. Anyway, so Bleeding Cool looked into this and apparently this is happening. There is going to be a Star Wars Avengers comic crossover. Okay.

And Mark Miller is doing it. Miller, who, of course, did Civil War. Yep. He does big events in comics. Absolutely. Yeah. Miller World. Miller World, which was then bought by Netflix,

which is apparently that deal is over now. Oh, so we could get it. We could get it, exactly. I finally do my Jupiter's Legacy series. Exactly. Yeah. Jupiter's Legacy's dollar sign. Brackets even dollar.

Brackets ID to name one character from this. I do like Jupiter's Legacy. Sky Fox. There you go. I like the comic a lot. Me too. Yeah. It's my fave.

Yeah. So apparently he's been working on it, and for a while. Now, the thing about this is, you mentioned up top that, like, yeah, this was an inevitability. Yeah. Imagine.

Yes. If this was announced in 2015. Oh, crazy. Like, that would have been, people would have lost their minds. Absolutely. When's the movie?

They would have said. Yeah, when's the movie? Like, peak Star Wars, Marvel was still ramping up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. Variant covers. Peak Star Wars.

Yeah. Yeah, but, you know, you don't need to do with that. No, absolutely not. That would be, this is a break glass and a movie. emergency situation. Totally. They had just a piece of card that says Star Wars Avengers in one of those little emergency boxes

with a tiny little hammer. Yep. And Kevin Foggies cracked. He's cracked that glass. Absolutely. They should have done that method that they proposed for if you want to set off a nuclear bomb where you have to kill a man to get the code. Yes.

You should have used that. That's right. Yeah. They have to kill two of the cast of Eternals. And Dave Filoni. And Dave Filo. That's right. Now, you would remember back in the olden times, they did a number of Star Trek X-Men.

They did, yeah. So this is not without precedent. No, and they've done one Indiana Jones Star Wars crossover. I kind of feel like... There was an aliens Marvel crossover recently, which was very good. I kind of feel like they did the start... Because the Star Trek X-Men thing was just... I mean, I guess, was X-Men...

Was that the period when X-Men was pretty hot? Let me check when that was out. But I feel like they pretty much did the first one because there was like a Dr. McCoy joke to the had. And they, because there's a... Oh, this was 96, the first one. Is that that long ago? So that was pre-First X-Men movie.

Yeah. Desperate. No, that, I mean, that would have, that would have just been, that seems like a fun thing to do, and we can get the license. Crossovers are big, you know. That also feels like a more natural fit, because at least they're both Earth. This is going to involve somebody stepping through a time travel tree. Well, Star Trek and X-Men, they're both Earth, but they go to space. Exactly. Even better point. Yeah, yeah.

But I guess this is this way we'll find out if all the Star Wars character is 100 feet tall. That's true. We don't know. Yeah, I mean, Star Wars Guardians of the Galaxy. Probably a better fit. But then also it's like, if you do that, then it's like, oh, this is, well, first of all, with that, it's, the problem there is, do you use the characterization of the Guardians of the Galaxy from the comics or the one from the movies? Well, the movies, the movies are the movies pretty much. Well, they've synergized them, I guess.

Yeah, they've synergized in big time. Yeah, I mean, I'll definitely like at least start this. Sure. And, okay, I know the answer to this. And I know you know the answer to this. What era of Star Wars do you think they'll visit? Oh, yeah. Yeah, really good point.

I know you know. What, the five years after Return of the Yet? No, I was going to say it's going to be like, original Star Wars. It's going to be like Darth Vader. It's going to be just the original trilogy. They would not. They're not going to be like what if like Captain America meets Ryan Gosling character

from the upcoming Star Wars movie or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Or is this going to be because they're doing, they're doing currently there's some, aren't they doing some Marvel DC crossover stuff now? Yeah. And it's just anthology things. Yeah. So is this going to be, is they going to be?

is there going to be because also you can include really anybody in the Avengers lineup what if they do what if they do groglet meets Groot or whatever you know they're definitely going to do

groglet meets Groot yeah yeah so maybe that'll be it because there's no definitive anything here right no I guess no there's not okay I'm going to guess

anthology stuff there's going to be a Luke Skywalker meets Captain America there's also and there's going to be they're going to do the lightsaber

clashing against the shield absolutely I don't know if you or against Thor's Hammer if you read any of the latest like Marvel versus Godzilla stuff and it jumps forward every 10 years. So it's like what if the fantastic four met Godzilla in the 60s and whatever and it makes this way up.

So they could they could yeah jump around time periods. Also like, say what you will about Mark Millar. He does do big event stuff. That's true. Like that is his specialty. Yeah. Like that he literally, his comic books are often pitches for like big movie. Big movie.

You know, so how many of his comic books became movies even like within Marvel like a bunch? so, or at least one, but I can think of. Civil War by now. Civil War and also Old Man Logan and there's other, yeah, that's true, actually, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, there you go.

Wanted also one of his people. That's true. Bad movie. It's true, yeah. Maybe it's good. It's not. There you go, everybody. You've heard of it first.

Bad movie. All right, should we move to the review? Yeah, it's time for big movie. It's time for big movie. It's not that big movie. Actually, it cost a lot of money. We'll talk about it. Yeah, big movie.

Crime 101. But a Bing. Ever heard of it? Yeah. Cool. Took it at college. Did you? Yep.

And? Um, I should have taken macroeconomics. I need a show on my son. Okay. I just feel very sweaty. I can't believe you derailed my bad rift that wasn't going anywhere. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you want to keep doing your bad rift that wasn't going anywhere?

Uh, something crime 101 college. I actually said crime 101. So I was doing a different riff. Oh. Yeah. Well, like 101 crimes. Sure. Disney's 101 crimes.

Here's a question. All the bloody recent Star Wars. stuff. They're the first few of the 101 crimes. Let me ask you a question. Do I need to, if we're doing riffs, which we are? We are. It's undeniable.

Do I need to see crimes are 1 to 100 to understand this movie? Yes! We've found it the perfect riff. The perfect joke for this situation. Sometimes it takes it 1 to 101 tries. We did it in three. Nice. So what a budget of 90 million dollars.

Mate, we would never get to RIF. No, wait. We would easily get to RIF 101. Yeah, we probably. I think so. That would be our movie. Bada Bing. Bada Bing.

90 million before advertising. This is what it cost. Seems too expensive. Seems somebody shouldn't pay Chris Hemsworth's $50 million. Well, they did pay him a $50 million. No, he probably took a pay cut for this. Or he didn't? Maybe.

I don't know. It's Prime. It's Amazon. He did not take a pay cut. He probably just got $20 million. Yeah. Box office for this, it looks like it's going to have about maybe a 12 million US opening three-day weekend. But this isn't really a...

This is a streaming movie. This is a streaming movie. We saw it at the cinema. We went to the cinemas. I, yeah, because as a movie, movie, this is not very good. Deadline is saying... Do you say that? For results.

Oh, I see right. Yes. No, I didn't, I don't think it's a not... I don't not think it's a good movie. Is that right? I'd save it for the review, all right? I'm in it. I'm doing it now.

Deadline said that Amazon MGM doesn't go theatrical unless they can make back its marketing costs. That's the rule of thumb on its production. I didn't know that. So I guess... Well, they spent four rolls on a bloody sandwich on the marketing costs. Well, that's what I mean. I mean, if the marketing costs were, I don't know, not that much.

Yeah. Well, maybe this will have some legs. That's what I mean. Because this is coming out, for us at least, it's coming out the same week as Wuthering Heights. This is a little counter-programming. If you don't like kisses and swarthy men in lace cravats, then you can have different men.

Different clothes. Different clothes, doing different things. Wow. Yeah. Big men, though. Economy of choice. Big men, yeah. You got the choice of two big leading men.

Two big men. Two big Aussie men. That's right. One grew up, normal in the suburbs or whatever. The other one went to a private-mobile. We don't know that for sure, do we? Chris Hemsworth, yeah, he did. He grew up, like, with not, like, that much money and stuff.

No, but we don't know that Jacob Allorty. He went to fucking Xavier or whatever. Oh, he did. Okay, right. All right, never mind. I'm pretty sure. Look at him. You can tell by looking at him.

No, you can't. He's got the vibe. No, you absolutely can tell. He went to Xavier. I'm pretty sure he did. Let me check. All right. No, sorry.

He went to St. Kevin's. Oh, wow. She's worse. Well, it's certainly not better. All right. And Sir Joseph's nudgy. When we say worse, we mean posher and weirder.

Yeah. Take that out, colleagues. Believe that. You can leave it and just bleep it. I think that would be the appropriate thing. So yeah, you're right. That's up against sexy Wuthering Heights with sex. That's right.

Which we talked about... Or having actual sex. Well, having actual sex. Who knows? We might look at that next week. Having actual sex. Maybe we'll look into it. What was the other one you wanted to see?

Oh, send help. Send help we want to see as well. So I hope maybe we'll do that next week. We'll see. Anyways, what do you think the story was? Oh, all right. Yeah. Well, there's a cool dude.

He's a cool dude, but he also does crime. But in a cool way. Yeah. Because he doesn't hurt. No, because everybody gets hurt when he does crime. No, nobody gets her when he does crime. No? Nobody gets her when he does.

What movie did I watch? That's well, I mean... I watched hurting people with crime. 101. 101. First one. just wait till somebody walks through a door and then body him.

By the end of this movie, by the end of this movie, I expected whenever anybody walked through a door that Barry Kjogan would just come out on screen and just body them into a wall. Because it happens so many times. But anyway, under normal circumstances, Chris Hemsworth is a cool dude at all that's cool crime

and nobody gets hurt because he plans it out meticulously. Yeah. And he gets rid of all his dandruff and such. He doesn't have any. Before he does a crime, so nobody can't about find any of his dandruff. Can't find his DNA all his dandruff. That's right.

Yeah. But then, and he plans all his stuff and he's friends with Nick Nolte. Yes. Who's like, good job. Yeah. Now, I'll take some of that money for some reason. I want it. But he can also have most of it.

Yeah. But then he's like, what if I did another big crime? What if it's the biggest crime I've ever done? But then he's like, I don't, I, I, I... The risk is too much, maybe. I shan't be doing the crime, but then Nick Nalti's like, well, what if I get loose unit Barry Keogan to do it? Yeah. To barrel his way in and body everybody

And wave a gun around and go crazy I mean, in terms of like if I had to watch a crime Yeah Kogan looks like he's He's having a good time, I'm going to look like he's having a good time Chris has looked stressed He does look stressed You know?

And they both get equal amounts of not getting caught For the longest time So they're working Yeah But also other people in the movie Yeah Mark Ruffalo, he works for the FBI Or possibly the police

Or something And he's like, I got a theory about Mr. Does All the Crimes, but he doesn't hurt anybody. I think he's a serial does a bunch of crimes, doesn't hurt anybody. But everybody's like, you're crazy. I don't think, we think this identical M.O. for every crime is a bunch of different guys. Yeah, that's right. Why don't you take some time off and shave your mustache halfway through the movie?

Maybe I will. Maybe I will. Maybe I'll wear a casual blazer later. Maybe he will later. With a T-shirt. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe I'll have a real sea change. Yeah, maybe I'll go live in a lighthouse.

Maybe I'll visit Hallie Berry who's in this. He doesn't go visit a lighthouse. No, he doesn't. I wish you did. And then other people are also there. Hallie Berry. Hallie Berry's there. She's an insurance, like a big time luxury insurance salesperson.

And everybody's like, we don't respect you. Yeah. She's like, but I won an Oscar. And they're like, yeah, but you also want a Razzie. Yeah, same year probably. Yeah, probably the same year. Around the same time. Yeah, roughly the same time.

Ruffalo the same time. Ooh. Anyway, how's everybody going to get away with what they want to get away with? I don't know, man. through crime, probably. You've got to do a lot of crime. You've got to do some crime. Also, Monica Barbaro's in this for a second.

Who's that again? She's in Top Gun Maverick. She's in the... Oh, yeah, she's in the Bob Dylan. Yeah, she's great. She's in her for a second. She's a little underused, but there's a moment in this movie where she lists off all his red flags

as if she's being very charmed by them. She's like, you don't have any photos around. Yeah, you're a good looking for you're a weird, a loose guy. And you don't like anything. thing. Yeah. Your apartment's empty. You can't look me in the eye.

Can't look me in the eye. You've clearly got in like a lot of trauma. Yeah. Anyway, see you next week. Anyway, you're very handsome. So see you next week.

Yeah. Yeah. I would say, uh, this isn't as like highsty as I thought it would be. Oh yeah. Is it as fiest as you thought it would be? Maybe a little bit.

Like the heists, like it does end in a bigger heist. Yes. But not, it's more just a numbers thing than an actual. It's not, it's not a ramp up of like, we've got to bust three casinos at the same time kind of thing.

kind of thing. Yeah, it's a, it's a, you know, it's, uh, I would say it's tonally, it's somewhere between like heat and drive. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Like going on a hot drive and a hot car. You have to wind up on the windows down. That's right. Yeah. So, um, I also, like, Chris Hemsworth came out last week and I, I just wrote, I've had, I've had, I've mad respect for him saying he, emitting that he does movies for money. Absolutely. It's been like, yeah, I know, I know that because you have many black four and whatever. Uh-huh. But like, I have no problem with. that at all and just being like yeah I like looking after people and I like

having a lot of money that's right making you know sometimes not good exactly right if all you suckers will still pay to do it just to see him I enjoyed this a lot and I think it's worth seeing it in the cinema I think there's a lot of nice there's a lot of beautiful shots in this of the city whatever city it is

I think it's cool I think there's some good solid action sequences like there's a good car chase in it that's not like crazy spectacular I think it's some good solid work, you know. Totally. It's cool. Everything looks cool, doesn't it?

Nick Nalti's acting like a healthier version of RFK Jr. I feel. Yeah. Yeah. I'm loving all of that. Yeah. I'm sorry, just to interject. I found it, we were talking about this off air.

I found a note in my Google Doc that said, in a piece of news, Jason Statham cast as Jason Statham in movie. Jason Statham sold my bike. And you. And I was like, You didn't write that, apparently. And you accused me of writing, as if I had a type, which I don't. Did I leave the room? Did my brother do this?

Anyway, I wrote to colleagues and be like, hey, I just saw that. And it just like broke my braid a bit of like, have I been hacked? Was it a ghost? And he wrote, no. In a moment of weakness, I thought it would be funny. But now reading this before 6 a.m., I regret it. Please forgive me. And your brother.

Also, I was like, my brother came into my house and did this. That's so funny. Awesome. Anyway. Is if your brother knows the nuances of Jason Statham style comedy? No, he could do it. He could do it, Mason. The one that you like could. Yeah. Anyway, Mark Ruffalo in it?

He's got a great character arc. I shaved his mustache and he's always right. Oh, this is funny. He admitted to IGN that he did a big crime. He said, I drove illegally in LA for 13 years on a suspenders driver's license with a bench warrant out for my arrest. Whoa. But you want to know something?

I became the best. driver in LA, I never broke a law because I was too afraid I'd get busted. That's a long time. Mark Rofalo, just get a license, I'll pay the fine or whatever. What are you doing? You've got Hollywood money. You've got Hulk money. You've got Spotlight money. You've probably had Spotlight money. You've got Task money from the TV show Task. Task. People like that. I should watch that. I watch a couple episodes of Task. I like Task. You know who's my favorite in this? Is it Halliberry? Yeah. She's incredible. And also she plays a character who's her actual age

and what it looks like being a woman in her 50s in this horrible industry. Hollywood. Hollywood. Yeah, where she's thrown out as like bait for men to buy

billionaires to buy insurance policies but then also told that she's worthless. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that whole character arc was like really good. Because there's a sort of a bit, sort of an extended cameo by a guy, I recognize...

Tate Donovan? Tate Donovan. He's from the OC. There we go. And also he was Hercules in the animated show. Oh, yeah. Ted Donovan, yeah. As a kind of, he's one of these super, super rich people who like, you know.

Must be nice. Yeah, right. You know, he's everything. You know, everything's insured for millions and millions of dollars, but he doesn't, it's all garrish and he doesn't care about any. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And he was in the OC. Yeah.

That's right. That's fun and good stuff. It's fun and good stuff. Barry Kogan is fun. He does a, he does a fun loose. delightfully unhinged. Yeah, absolutely. And also, because he, so he plays,

he plays the son of someone that Nick Nolte used to work with. Yes. Like, like a, his father was some sort of expert thief. And so, and that guy is gone dead. We don't know. But Nick Nolte is like, well, maybe you've got some of this guy's drive. So, so he certainly got the drive. Yeah, that's right.

But so let's see, let's throw you into the deep end here. And of course, he's, you know, he's got a mania and a propensity to violence but he's not really uh yeah doesn't really know what he's doing no absolutely not he's just gonna shout and punch until he gets what he wants yeah exactly it always works yeah it's that does to a degree doesn't it yeah i think that how do you feel about the i know you talked about a birthday but like there is a love story like tangled within this where you like oh because when they interact like he's paranoid of like what's this a person who's been sent to like oh i didn't think that at all sparring me or whatever no i didn't think that initially and then right because you know he gets

rearended because everything that he does in this like he's like he's a person that like the way he plans out his crimes. You know, it seems like, oh, there's minor accidents or whatever. Or these, like, these things happen to happen. I thought, oh, is that what's happening to him here? Right. Yes, yes, yes. But yeah, I thought, yeah, it's all right, I guess.

It seems like he's got more charm with Hallie Berry. Yeah. Because I guess that's a performance. That's what I thought as well. Whereas with her, it's like, this is the real me. I'm paranoid and anxious and damage and I can't keep my contact. You know, I sort of went back and forth and I'm like, but that really worked.

But then we know a bunch of people who are performers who are very outgoing. Absolutely. When they're on. Yeah. And when you talk to them in real life, they're, they're, you know. You can't, awful. Awful. Undatable.

You want to slap them. You want to slap them. And you do. And you do. And you can't. I won't do anything. That's right. But yeah, that totally work.

Yeah, like when he's talking to Hallie Berry and he's kind of like trying to, you know, woo and schmoo. Woo and schmoo. Yeah. And manipulate her into, you know, getting the information he needs to do a big crime 101. He is outwardly quite charming, yeah. Absolutely. Should we do some big spoilers?

Let's do some big spoilers. I'm going to say best movie ever. This should definitely not be a $90 million movie. Hmm. They film it in LA? It seems like they did. It's filmed in Canada. I don't think they did.

I can check it. That's no problem. The director of this is also interesting. American animals? Yeah, American animals. Is that good? I haven't said it. Yeah, I'll learn you of the DVD.

Okay. But it's, yeah. Just get on streaming. Yeah, you can get it on streaming. Yeah, which is a sort of hard. A half-documentary, half-dramatized documentary about a big heist, incidentally. And it's also got Barry Coogan in it. Oh, that's right, because I didn't look it up.

Worth saying? Yes, I think so. Can you let me the DVD? Yeah, I can look in the DVD. And he also directed The Imposte, which is a documentary about a man who pretended to be a boy. He pretended to be a missing boy. He showed up in a family's life. Yeah, yeah, it's interesting.

How old was the man? I can't remember, but older. Old than being a boy. Yeah, but it's very... Is that guy on TikTok, everybody makes fun of who's 37 and says he looks like he's a 17-year-old? He's not that guy. Do you know who I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm aware of that. I was going to say, why do I get fed that? Because I looked at once. You lingered on it. I did, yeah. Principal photography began in this in October of 2024 in Los Angeles. So there you go. All right, well, that explains all the L.A. in this.

Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I liked it a lot. I think it, I mean, it's a... It's a crime that it doesn't have a full cinema release. Yeah, it's a nice-looking movie. definitely something if you, if this is of interest you, you should see it in cinemas. I think so too. Let's do some bigger spoilers. What a bloody, it's a real MCU a fest, isn't it? You've got two Avengers and an Eternal and a catwoman. And an, and an ex-man woman.

It's catwoman. But it is catwoman. You're right. And Monica Barbarrow. From Top Gun, Mabro. Because they're all in the same universe. Yeah, aren't they? Um, spoilers. It's time for big spoilers. Time guides below if you do want to jump ahead. I think there was one thing I was like, this seems unrealistic. At the end, Chris Hemsworth is going to do his last big heist, which is stealing diamonds from Tate Donovan. And Mark Ruffalo also, he gets himself in the heist. Yes. Because he's the, he makes himself the diamond guy. That's right.

But, like, he's so careful. And then he's just like, I'm going to do this mask off. Yeah. And for him, like, that's the most kind of smash and grab. But I guess it was his last big steal. Yeah. It's going to be his last big score. It totally is.

But like, like, I guess he would go to Mexico or somewhere he couldn't be extra guy. or whatever, but it just seems really... Yeah. And it's also interesting that he, you know, he knew he was going to be picking up a... He knew he was going to be picking up a... He was going to... He takes over the role of the chauffeur or the driver

for someone who's going to arrive with some... Diamonds. Some Diamanties. Some... Yeah, some snuck-in diamonds. Yeah. And Mark Ruffalo is the diamond. He's disguised himself as a diamond guy.

You'd think he might look up the diamond guy and know what he looks like. Well, he did for everybody else, I guess, didn't he? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. But then if he didn't, the movie wouldn't happen. Yeah, and then they're in the car together and he's like, what's your favorite heist movie, Chris Hemsworth? That was a little on the nose, I thought.

What's a favorite Hise movie? I love not participating in Hise, but I like watching Hise Movies. That's right. I'm not a police officer. None of us are police officers here. Are you? Are you going to arrest me for loving good movies? And being in a good movie?

Maybe. Are you going to arrest me for being in task? Well, you can't because I'm a cop in task. So you're under arrest. Whoa. Flip that on him. And for you crying. Flip that on him.

That's right. I'll say, I'll just quickly say, Chris Hemsworth's accent slips a bit in this. Okay. Yeah. Well, doesn't it most of the time? Yeah, I'm just saying, you hear him go, gillet fellows a couple of times. Just a couple of times. You hear him.

Gide fellow Los Angelinos. It's me, Mike. I grew up. Mike Merrick. I grew up in Phillip Island. I mean, Los Angeles. Yeah, that was a little bit of that conversation where they talk about their favorite, you know, movies and Heist and Steve McQueen and etc.

I thought it was a little bit on the nose. I think it's Steve McQueen. I liked at the, I enjoyed at the end that, you know, he gave, uh, he gave Mark Ruffalo a cool car.

He did. But I'm like, how does that work? Like, how does he transfer wise? Yeah. I think honestly, because there's a,

you know, and there's that kind of, you know, the nice moment where he drives it out of the garage and it's, the sun is shining and he's like, who he's finally, you know, free.

He's finally free from his bitch wife. His mustache. Um, that, yeah, I imagine he'd be like, this back in the garage now because like if yeah what what happened i mean i work with a bunch of cops they're going to be like eddie where'd you get this car do you reckon he just quit took a diamond and quit maybe took a diamond and quit yeah yeah diamond a day it is a little neat keep the cops away

true it is a little neat at the end so barry kogan storms in on the heist at the end that's how you pronounce his last name by the way gurgan yes we don't we don't know no we don't it's fine we don't don't we do it looks into it multiple times yeah um and in interrupting that heist he gets killed by Chris Hemsworth who saves Mark Ruffalo's character and then Ruffalo's like, fine, you can all go. Then Ruffalo actually steals the diamonds and gives them to Hallie Berry. Who kind of takes a side of role towards the end.

Like I thought maybe she was going to be worked into the heist, but she's not at all. And then everybody, except for Barry Kirkland and it gets shot, just wanders away or gets diamonds. Nice. Yeah, it felt a little... Little precise? Yeah.

All that's movies, isn't it? I think it would be... James, they wouldn't give us a movie about a heist that goes kind of okay, you know? All those stories are happening in LA because it's a land of heist and billionaires and such, but they just don't show us. That's a fair point, actually, good point. They don't show us the one where the, you know, the Chris Hemsworth equivalent trips on the carpet

on the way out and cracks his head on a wall. He has to go to hospital. That's got to hospital. At least he doesn't die. Yeah. Yeah, cool. But no, again, well worth checking out. I think so, too.

I will check it out if I were you most. Yeah, I mean, it's, again, it will be on Amazon soonish. About three days. Three days, probably, yeah. By the time you hear this, it's probably out. Yep. But we couldn't find it. So we went to the movies.

Couldn't find it. Couldn't find it. We went to the movies. All right. Let's move for the next segment of the show. Okay. Here it is. I'm doing nothing.

This is a great part of the show. Agreed. So this is the what we're reading what we're going to read segment. Agreed. We talk about this. We have a good time on the podcast. We do. But we can't just come in here like half cocked with nothing.

ready. Ba-da-bing. Yeah, it's right. So we talk about things that we've been watching, reading or doing or listening to. And what do you have this week for us? Two things, James.

Two things. Must be nice. It was nice. Good. Wonderful week I had. I bet. First of all, I watched two episodes of Star Trek Starfleet Academy.

Oh, that show that everybody hates. And I'll tell you, here's an itemized list of criticisms I have about this show. James, you ready? Number one, everybody's trousers are really narrow. They look ridiculous. Well, it's the future of narrow trousers are back.

They're so weird. Also, because they've brought in a couple of A couple of legacy characters that are kind of like Robert Picardo as the doctor, the holographic doctor. Is he aged? Yes. And how do they explain that?

Aging program. Incredible. Yeah. But he's like he's a normal width on the top. But then he's narrow at the bottom. They look stupid. He looks like a baked potato on two French fry legs, James. He's what he looks like.

What would we eat a baked potato and French fries? I'd do it. No. I've done it. The French fries would make the baked potato taste worse because the French fries would be so good. They both taste like paradise. to me.

All right, Mason. Anyway, I really liked it Starfleet Academy. What? Yeah, it's fun. I've no opinion on it. It's fun. As someone who has like, you know, intermittently enjoyed Star Trek. Like, I love Star Trek as, you know, in the, when, when Next Gen and Deep Space Nine

were coming out on TV, you know, I watched a bunch of episodes of those. Yeah. And, you know, have enjoyed, you know, lower decks and strange new worlds and discovery. Yeah. And not Enterprise, because I don't think it's very good. And, et cetera. I, and you, here's the thing. I don't love all Star Trek, but I don't think you can love all Star Trek.

Because it's an ongoing thing, and there's going to be episodes you like and episodes you don't like. But look, the level of... You know what, I'm looking at this? There is a lot of positive... There is positive stuff on it. But there's, I mean, the loudest... All I hear is like... All the loudest voices rise to the top.

And I would say there's some legitimate criticisms of it that you could probably have... The trousers, first of all. So basically, if you haven't seen it, it's set the furthest in the future that Star Trek has been. Oh, yeah. So it's set sort of... if you know Next Generation and DS9, it's set like nearly a thousand years past that. Oh, okay.

So it's like the 32nd century. And so... Who are the other legacy characters then? Wharf? Warf is not there. I think it might just be the doctor now that I think about it. Red dwarf? Red dwarf is not there, the ship Reddwarf.

Although there's a Gasparcho soup reference. That's fine. Which I think 100% is a red dwarf. I mean, I'm just quickly looking at the Star Trek Reddit and this isn't indicative of anything. There's a bunch of different Star Trek credits. The main one people seem to like. I was going to say that's the same in main Star Wars, but it's not.

So basically there is sort of a hundred-ish years prior to the events of this series, there was like a disaster called The Burn, which happens in discovery where essentially warp drives stop working. So it's like up until that point, your whole family could live in another star system because you could just get on a ship and hop over. But now they may as well be a million years away kind of thing. So everything fell out. Society falls apart. And every, you know, every, you know, Star Fleet and all the other things go to war and there's a whole thing.

But now everything's over and everything's sorted and everything's getting back to normal. So they've started Starfleet Academy again. And so they bring in Holly Hunter's character because she's hundreds of years old and she remembers life before. Why she hundreds of years old? Because she's an alien who's hundreds of years. But she looks normal. Yeah. But she wears glasses.

Oh, you can't. Why would she wear glasses in the future where you could show? William Shatner wears glasses in the movies. Oh, so I was going to, was that your complaint? Yeah, that was my complaint. But then somebody said. Yeah. William Shannon's class in the future.

Oh, she said you see weird. Well, she hasn't been in Starfleet for a long time. But anyway, she comes back and basically she's got a... Why, Collie Hunter? Yeah, I know. She's great. She's, um... She looked at that jar of piss in Batman v. You know she did.

I know she did. But basically... She knows what she did. She's the new chancellor of Starfleet Academy, and it's based in San Francisco, but essentially the academy can go into space. And it's part of a starship called Athena. Is there, so there's warp drops again, I assume? Yeah, it's back.

Great. Did they fix that in the show? Yes, I did. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. So basically they can have, they learn, you know, they learn on the ground and then they can go into space and have space adventures or whatever. But, you know, there's some, so in the, in the, in the first episode, and I think, I think I heard, which might, I feel like is probably, maybe a kind of a legitimate criticism. The first episode, there's this big disaster and there's space pirates and what have you.

and there's the bridge crew who were sort of minor characters but then the Academy cadets they helped to save the day and I think some people are like well you know maybe you save that for later in the season but I thought it all kind of worked I thought it quite worked like they're

you know because the cadets and the bridge crew were separated and they all sort of have to work together and everybody's got a part to play and kind of thing the bridge go out like we don't know we're doing exactly that yeah I assume I'm actually I'm going to give this a look in because I just assumed from the little that I'd heard that it was atrocious

And Port Jim Mattie's in the first episode. I heard that too. He's the bad guy. Is he clinging on? No, he's a different kind of guy. Kling off. He's a Klingoff. That's right.

He's a slide off. Yeah, I bet. Yeah. I thought it was fun. I like the cast. They're pretty good. Yeah. Yeah.

And then like, you know, I, there's a lot of this stuff like a couple of them that put this race, alien race, because they all got killed off. Well, they came back. Did that? They got some DNA and they cloned them now. Why do you have all these complaints if you already know the answers? I'm willing to admit that I was wrong.

Okay. I was a stupid, dumb-ass idiot. That second just then when you really believed that. Yeah. Okay, cool. All right. Great. I think it's pretty good.

Okay. Again, and, you know, there's some fun nods to... Who's the showrunner on this? It's the guy that... Kurtzman, Alex Kurtzman. Okay. Everybody, there's a... Okay.

There's a line... People like... There's a line that... Where people only like Old Trek, I guess up until including Enterprise and then people are like, but I don't like a new Trek, which is anything this guy's produced, I guess.

Okay, fair enough. But I like most of it. Okay, great. There's six episodes so far, maybe more coming. And there's some good nods to, you know, old school Star Trek stuff. All right, like a hologram man. Like a hologram man. He's fun.

I'm a hologram man every time. Well, speaking of television. Go on. I've been watching and I'm up to date on a night of the Seven Kingdoms. Oh, Game of Thrones spin-off. Yeah, which is, it's just really terrific. And there is... What do you mean by that?

Well, I mean, it's in, it's not as, it's not as dire as Game of Thrones. Well, not yet, I guess, but it is a lighter, it's a lighter storytelling. There's, like, it's, there's funnier moments in it. Is this dunk and egg? Yes. Okay. Also, the main two people. Dunk and egg.

Dunk and egg are likable, but not in like, oh, this is a rotten, this is a rotten egg kind of way. Yeah, yeah, right. But in like... Like a rotten Dunkin egg. Yeah, they're virtual. And in particular the night, like the lead knight. He has a sense of justice in a... But he's in the Game of Thrones universe, so that's bad.

Is this set... When is this set? This is set like a hundred years before original Game of Thrones. Okay, so it's set after... It's set after House of the Dragon. No, maybe 60 years before. Set after House of the Dragon, but before main Game of Thrones. Okay, interesting.

Do you feel like they're rebuilding the kind of the cachet of Game of Thrones with this? It definitely feels like that because as someone who... So it occurs approximately 77 to 78 years after the House of the Dragon and 90 years before Game of Thrones. So there you go. It definitely feels like that. And what I think I like about this as opposed to House of the Dragon, which I don't really like at all. Though there's some good casting in that and I guess moments. It's not the same.

Because House the Dragon feels to me the same as like, well, what if this family has this family? And I've talked about this, but like, I don't give a fuck. I don't like any of these people. And I don't care if they're all on fire. You only like House Butterbing. Exactly. Thank you. Butter Bing, Mason.

There it is. There's our buddy. Butter Bing. I never left. But whereas this, you know, you follow. It's a smallest scale. It will change over the seasons. It's based on a novella, so there is less source material,

which I guess he also gives it room to kind of breathe. A George R. Martin, novella or some other guy? No, he rewrote it, yeah. So you can kind of expand out. And if you do it properly, you don't kind of get lost. Because there is a simple narrative, and I guess you can kind of branch out from there. And it's just set at this like Knight's tournament, the first season is, or as of so far.

Like a Knight's Tale. Yeah, it is. Yeah, exactly. Nice. So it's set around this tawny or whatever we call it, this tawny frog mouth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, all of that is, um, I, apparently, it's also shorter episodes. It'll be like 30 or 40 minutes an episode.

Apparently that's also because a lot of the novella and I haven't read it. I read some of the comic adaptation from it, like 10 years ago. A lot of it's in a monologue So they're like, how do you have that? You don't. But I just, I love the idea of, like, just a nice guy in the worst environment. Right, uh-huh. And that's dunk or egg.

That's dunk and or egg. Yeah, so I would, I know you're not a Game of Thrones boy. Correct. Or man. Correct. But, um, but I think you, I think it is worth watching. I think you should give it a watch. What was the second thing you were going to do?

It's show and tell time, James. I said you could borrow this. Mason, that's a dead bird. Pretty cool, right? Yeah, I'll borrow it. So this is a comic book series. There's been a bunch of issues and collected editions, and I avoided it because the premise I'm like,

maybe I've seen this before, but then somebody recommended it, and I read the first volume, and then I immediately bought volumes two and three. Wow. This is good stuff. So this is called Department of Truth. It's by, if I may,

James Tinian the 4th, the Tinnyman himself, and the artist is Martin Simmons, a letterer Adetia, Did a car, designer Dylan Todd, editor Steve Fox. So the premise of this is that it's about a, and you'll see why it seems a little bit, it sounds a little bit derivative to start with. So it's about a guy who works in the FBI and he is, uh,

I like the art on this. Yeah, like his whole deal is he looks into extreme political views and conspiratorial thinking and people that organize that way. Yeah. And then he sort of gets in above over his head and he, and he discovers the real truth. about the world, which is due to... I'm just looking it up, I'm just saying it.

Due to something that happens, due to reasons, it turns out that every conspiracy theory in the world is actually true. So like every single one. So like, you know, flat earth theory, the moon landing was faked, lizard people, Bigfoot, the Mothman. So they're all real, even the ones that cannot possibly be real because they contradict each other. Right, okay.

And he is introduced to an organisation called the Department of Truth. which is like they have to keep track of all this and figure out. So it's sort of X-Files-esque, except but the truth is literally out there. Yeah, so, so that's why. That's a great idea. That's I guess why I didn't read it initially because I'm like, well, I've seen the X-Files. I've seen the X-Files reboot. Has this all been done before?

Do they explain how that is possible at all? Yes, they do. Is that soon? It's in the first volume. Okay, cool. And then it sort of moves on, you know, further from the, it is a journey? It's actually Kazam. Oh, the Genie-Kazam?

Yeah, the Gene-Zo. Jenny Kazam from the movie Kazan. Okay, that's good. But it's, yeah, it feels very current and it feels like something... Current in a way that like timeless or current is in like now, now. Now, now. Okay, got you. Like, it feels current in the sense of like, you know how the X-Files sort of treats conspiracy

theory is like, well, it's a bunch of wacky stuff. Yeah. But that's what, you know... But it was a leech or whatever. Yeah, but that, you know, but that's, that's, isn't this a funny thing to sort of delve into briefly? But this sort of feels like it is the insanity. of people who have buried themselves in this sort of stuff and believe it wholeheartedly

and like it defines their whole lives. It feels like it feels like this kind of information overload world that we kind of live in. So I thought that was very interesting. Also, art is incredible. I was going to say, yeah. So was the artist again. The artist's name is Martin Simmons, two M's.

Is he? It looks like witches. Do you ever see the read the comic witches? No. But it reminds me of a couple of things. It reminds me of, um, Bill Sinkovich, who did the new mutants back in the 80s, like back when they were fighting demon bears.

Oh, yeah. Like in that movie, we saw. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little bit of Kyle Baker as well, who did Plastic Man. Oh, he's done some Dracula, so he's done some kind of spooky stuff. But it's very kind of a little bit, kind of surreal psychedelia-esque. Yeah. And it's got that kind of, you know.

Archim Asylum. Yeah, JFK with his eyes cut out kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, there was real good stuff. You can borrow that, Jen. I would love to borrow that. Thank you. You have to give it back.

You have to give it back. You have to give it back now. Have you not read it yet? It's not a gift if I... Yes, it is. Dropped it in my toilet. Okay, then carry on. Good, good, I think.

Cool, all right. That's a good thing to recommend to me. I love a comic book. I got them at All-Star Comics in Melbourne. I like going to comic book stores also. Both me and you have that in common. I like it more than you do. I love to go there and I love to communicate with people there.

No, you don't? No, I don't. Do they know who you are? No. Are they like, is this famous podcast that Nick Mason? And then you're like guilty, you got me. That's what they say. I say guilty, but you'll never catch me alive.

And they're like, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. That's you shooting them. And then they're like, well, at least you didn't do another shit in our toilet, which he does every time he comes here. Well, now I am. Now there's finally a bit of quiet in here. Should we go to the next segment of the show? Yeah, we should.

It's called letters. Here's some letters. Yeah, just go before you leave the house, I'm all. Can't I do both? Yeah, I have to. Boom. If you don't want to reach the show, there's always a thread

in the Planet Broadcasting Greatmates Group. That's right. On Facebook, sorry. But there's also, you can send Mason to Gmail to weekly planetpot at gmail.com. That's right. And he reads email,

then he screenshots the email, and he reads those screenshots out on this podcast. And the screenshots from my phone forever. That's right. Great. Yeah. What do you got for us this week? This is an email from Chase.

Favorite reality shows. Greetings, gentlemen. One genre you don't talk about too often is reality TV. Personally, I'm a big fan of reality competition shows and have been binging seasons of Survivor in preparation for, get this, the US version's 50th season later this month. I guess if they didn't tour a year, that makes sense.

Yeah. Have you ever watched any Survivor Australia or any other reality shows you've enjoyed in the past? Not overly, no. I've never been a Survivor fan. I find reality show too drawn out. Yeah, because it's like it's always built into a big moment. And in the moment isn't really anything.

The reality moment. I did like the amazing race back in the day. I liked the amazing race. I also liked The Mole. Sure, the Mole. The first season of that. Yeah. There was one year, there was a couple years when I got just sucked into Big Brother.

Okay. 2004 and then 2012. Okay. And I saw the guy who won Big Brother in 2012. You watch it in 2004. You're like, that's enough for me for eight years. Yeah, pretty much. And that was what I was at you do, so I was just up late all the time, but it was just on.

And 2012 was when I lived. in the Kimberley and there was nothing to do. So I just got, I just watched Big Brother. And then, like, years later, I saw the guy who won at the, like, it was, I remember because it was a big deal for me at the time. Big deal. I saw him in a movie premiere. And this was like 10 years later.

Right, okay. And I nearly went up to him. So 10 years after he won. Yeah. And he's still going to movie premier. Apparently. Still hope for us then. Exactly.

And I nearly went up to him and was like, hey, man, that was, that actually meant a lot to me. That was like, that was a hard year. And I, but I, but you know what? I thought he doesn't deserve. it. Wow. Wow. All right. So I didn't say anything. But I don't know. No, it's just that I don't want to bother people. I'm sure he wouldn't care. That's right. So that, um, love is blind I got, I fell into a few seasons of that. You've been, you've been watching a lot of reality television

behind my back. No, I've talked about that. I dropped out on the season where one of the worst people in the world got on it and then at the reunion show. I thought I did it all right, James. Ah, ha ha ha ha. Or alternatively, no wonder you weren't watching it when you were on it. it. Come on, man. Yeah. Collies can take out the one he doesn't. Yeah, like what he thinks is that.

It's the most damaging to me. And he just like, everybody, including the hosts, like, going on him. Right. In the reunion. He's just awful. I can't remember his name, but it got him was funny. I know, you know, a lot of people like the real housewives shows. There is at least one local version of that or there was.

I don't know. Yeah. Do you like Gogle box? No, James. I don't like it. Do you like Farmer wants to steal a wife? from the city and make her live in the country with him. No, but that does sound manipulative, so I would be on board with that.

I've also, I think I've mentioned before that I'm, I'm, the most dystopian TV I've ever seen is the Masked Singer, I think, and the Australian version especially. Oof, because of the quality of masked singers we have out of it. No, no, it's not even that. It's just when you mention how everything's so drawn out. Yeah. And because somebody, I know some people who worked behind the scenes on it,

and they do a, you know, with all reality TV, and I think a lot of taped stuff in Australia, you, they record like four at a time or six at a time or whatever it is. You know, so there were all these, all the audiences there. And someone was telling me they don't, obviously they can't reveal who the mask singer is. Yeah. Because the people, to the audience. Yeah.

So they, because people would go out and spoil it. So they just get the audiences really hyped up and they have the mask singer go to take their mask off or whatever. Yeah. And then they just cut. And then they just do it later. And I'm like, madness. Did they actually sing in the mask or is it pre-recorded?

I think some of them sing in the mask. What a stupid show. Also, one time they brought on a, I don't know how many seasons they did at this, one time they brought on a guy who had like just awful opinions about like minorities and all sorts of stuff. And they're like, which guy was it? Oh, you know what it was. Somebody came out and sang and they did all the clues. And then all the guests were like, oh my God, is it this guy?

And like they're guessing. And it's like a guy who was noted for really bad opinions and homophobic. and racist and sexist or whatever. And it's like, why would you pretend to be excited about having the worst person in the world? And why would you even leave that in the edit? Yeah, that's crazy. Like, you shouldn't be excited for that. You should be like, I'm leaving if it turns out to be that.

Didn't you say like that there was, because I guess who it is. And one of the, I think Dave Hughes was on it is a local community? Yeah, yeah. Oh, was it Prince or someone who was dead or like who would never do it? I can't remember. One time they did, someone told me they did a reveal and it was some singer from not in not an Australian singer, maybe like from somewhere in Europe or whatever, and nobody on the panel knew who it was.

So they had to refilm it again. See, I just assume that like they just told them and it's fake. That would be easier, wouldn't it? It would make sense. It'd be easy for it to go, wow, I loved your album, name of the album. Yeah. Like that would. Nah, embarrass everybody.

Also, when we don't have the mask dancer, but one of my favorite things on the internet that exists, I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but people should track it down. It's a clip from the mask dancer. Which we don't have, but it's the spin-off. They do a dancing costume, whatever. And they reveal that the masked dancer, the losing contestant that week was Elizabeth Smart, who is a woman who is a campaigner against child kidnapping because she was kidnapped as a child and she escaped.

And it's like, what's happening? Yeah, what is happening? What's happening here? Good for her. Yeah. But like what, wow, it's a child kidnapping victim, Elizabeth Smart. This is great. This is a great television.

There was an episode of extras where the Ricky Javei's character goes on Big Brother, and one of the, a celebrity big brother, and one of the person is famous because her daughter was murdered? Yeah. And it's that, right? It's that, but actually real. Yeah. Sean Doyle, are you scared of AI?

Are you concerned it was slowly creeping to all media we consume? Yeah. As we mentioned earlier. We talked about it, yes. It's annoying. It is annoying. It is what it is. It's annoying.

It's annoying. It's a annoying. Yeah, and it's like, the most I've ever got out of it is like, huh, like that's like, I just, also, there is something inherently uninteresting about a piece of art that is not created by a person. Yeah, it's pointless. Yeah. That's, I mean, that's the...

And there is art in technology. Yeah. But this is typing in a prompt. And then it gives you Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt over who killed Jeff. And doing a series of slanders and all livals about it. I mean, I think what the answer is going to be is it's like when they people, you know, when they just movies studios just pump out sequels that aren't any good or that sort of stuff. It's like you will, I'm hoping we will just see it and go, you know,

there'll be a couple of years where Disney and whoever else just pump out AI stuff. And we go, I don't think it's very good. And we don't see it. And the viewing numbers aren't good. And maybe they are initially, but they drop right off when people go, this doesn't feel good. Isn't there that Darren Aronovsky like war reenactment civil war show? Oh yeah. Oh yeah.

I skipped it. I didn't. No, of course you skipped it. I didn't watch any of it. But geez, Louise. I guess it's not so much scary as it is like, just this sucks. Yeah. And I can't believe I have to endure this.

But also, I mean, my number. one concern is, of course, that... People on Facebook being tricked. No, not bad. It's that when this collapses, will this crash the economy? Yeah. I mean, I feel like... Because what if my superannuation company has invested heavily in AI James?

Yeah, that point. And then it collapses and it's like, oh, you can't have any money when you retire, by the way. I also think, like... Because we invested in... We invested in Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting each other and saying things about Jeffrey Epstein. Over who loves Jeffrey Epstein the most. And now we're bankrupt.

I feel like with everything... Except for on paper, for a large portion of society, the economy has crashed. Yeah, I guess. You know? Yeah. Like, you can't tell me that people are having a good time. Like, a good and stable time. You can point to, like, various stocks that are performing well in GDP of a country,

but you can't tell me that people are doing well. Like, that's just not a reality. Anyway, what's another question? Here's an email. Yeah? From Jacob. Is it something that will make me grim and try and take the butt of being from me, which can't be done?

I'm afraid it is. Oh, no. This is from Jacob, who says local movie theatre closing, and I'm absolutely devastated. Hello, gents, as the title implies, my local independent movie theatre has been running since 1975, which is our only movie theatre in town, is closing its doors as of March 31st this year.

I'm heartbroken, as I'm a massive movie nerd, and was a second home to me. I worked there for nearly a decade when I was in high school and in the summers at university, and when I graduated, I worked as manager before I took the current position of my new job, which says here, is shutting down movie theaters. I mean...

Congratulations, I guess. Yeah, I guess you did it. You finally did it. Since the news broke this week, my northern Canadian town has been in a bit of a frenzy. The closest other theatre is a six-hour drive with one screen, so needless to say, I won't be seeing any movies in theaters for a while.

My question to you boys is, do you think this is a problem we will see more often with the rise of streaming and shorter home release windows? Our theatre has not been able to survive since COVID, and just a decrease of general interest in going to the moment.

movies. I think we will be seeing a lot of it. Absolutely. But I think, I don't know, at least in Melbourne there's a bunch of independent cinemas that seem to be doing alright. But they're also like, they're not in the suburbs. Really, I would take you. Which suburb is that in? Awesome. Yeah, but that's like still in a city. I guess that's true. It's in a, it's in a There's not one in Berwick. You know what I mean? Yeah. Unless there is. There's a very nice Indian restaurant in Berwick. Yeah, great. How's that same of cinema? I would love to, Mason, but I have to cook yonocke for my kids. Oh, well.

Just your kids? I'm also going to eat some of the yoki. You can have some two if you want. Wow. You sure there's enough yonoki to go around? There's enough. Would you like to have kids not yoki for dinner? Maybe.

Is it dinosaur yonoggi? It's not. Ill dinosaur? Yeah. Okay, yes. Great. All right, moving on. I don't know.

I think maybe the, also like, I don't know. I mean, there doesn't seem to be that much slowing down, famous last words. That doesn't seem to be that much slowing down in terms of the major movie theater chains in Australia. Is that because they make a lot of that. Major ones, yeah. No, is it because they make a lot of money on concessions? Absolutely. Yeah.

Because also, like, if I go to, like, my local theaters and I'm lucky to have, like, a few around within, like, you know, 20 minutes, half an hour. Yeah, yeah. They don't even care if you've got a movie ticket. Right. They don't even check. Yeah, that's true. Like, they, the, like, everybody's at the candy bar.

So, yeah, I guess they are. Yeah, well, that's why. Everybody's the candy bar to get themselves some snacks. Absolutely. Let's all go. Let's all go. I don't know. Just.

support, yeah. I don't know. Maybe, maybe Jacob, you can, if you build it. Stop, stop closing theaters, Jacob. Stop. You shouldn't have taken this job as a, as a, you shouldn't have taken this job as the, as George Clooney and up in the air, except your job is to close local regional movie theaters. You shouldn't have done it, but it's too late. And we're proud of you. Yeah. I don't know, man. Maybe, maybe open a little projection, a little screen in your backyard or something. Absolutely. I don't know what to do. Maybe, uh, do something symbolic. Yeah. Maybe talk to a local billionaire and get them to reopen it for you. That would love that.

Yeah. Wouldn't they? Maybe. Maybe do a charity car wash. A sexy one or regular? I mean, both. You can do both. Your options are limitless here, is what I'm saying.

I agree. Sorry, if I look distracted, it's because I'm looking something up. Because the next question is from Aaron who says, are you guys planning on covering? Have fun, good luck, don't die. Just sort of a few days ago and was blown away. This is Gore Vibinsky's latest movie. That's right. It has an Australian release date of February 13th,

but it's not playing in major theaters. Oh, so it's out. Apparently. If you say so. But I don't know if this is true. James, we're recording this on the 15th. And I've seen neither hide nor hair. No, I know, because I checked this week than last week to see where it was.

Yeah, right. Maybe it might be at the palis cinemas. Might be at the palis cinemas. That's what they're saying. That's what AI is telling me. But AI is a liar, and I don't believe it. So, yeah, I know. I would love to see that, but again.

Yeah, I'm excited for that. Again, Vibinsky did the Pirates movies, but then the Lone Ranger. Yep. And then the thing you said. The one that he did literally 10 years ago about being in an asylum or whatever. Yeah, that's right. Got one more, Mason? I do.

I do. I do this from Jane. Jane. Jane. Jane, generally not a name. Jane. Despite the rhyming, Jane is not a name. Well, I think of rhymes.

It should be a name. I agree. Hi James, I'ma. So Jane from Perth here. Hi, James. I love your content. We really love making content. And we love calling you Jane. And have been listening watching for out a year after one of my besties introduced me.

Recently, I was in the cinema with the aforementioned bestie to watch New Avatar, where a trailer for the Mandalorian and Grogu who played. As it ended, I lent over to him and whispered, I thought it was called the Mandalorian and Groglut. It dawned on me, I had been made a fool, and Groglet was just a bit you guys did. I don't engage with too much Star Wars content, so I guess I just assumed it was some new character adjacent to grow goo. The whole situation was very amusing. Gave me a good excuse to write in. That friend and I actually come to Melbourne in March and we're very excited to go to the IMAX

and some comic stores. It's right. Do you two have a favourite comic shop? All-Star. All-Star Comics. Yeah. There's also that other one. Minotaur.

Minotaur. And there's comics are us, but I don't know what their deal is currently. Couldn't tell you. I don't know. Minotaur's more stuff. Yes. If you want to buy a stuff. We've talked about this.

Yeah. Like a collectible thing. A statue. A statue or a statuette, even. That's right. You might have limited room in your suitcase. You might have that or you might not. Hang on, one of my kids is here.

Which one is here? I don't know. Sneaking in. Which sneaky child is this? Which one is it? Let's have a look. Hey man, what's up? Just check if you guys were here.

We are here. Disagree. Where did you think we went? Oh, to the shops. We could have gone to the shops. We could have gone to the shops. We could go to the shops later. No, we can't.

We already went to the shops. You were with me, remember? I'm wrapping up and then I'll make Nyoki. I'll say Mason has to stay for dinner. I'm so sorry. Is that all right? Oh, he looks dead He does

Come on, stupid Sandy, you're better than this Wow Damn I've been told You have Alright, let's wrap it up Let's wrap it up Oh, just quickly

That's funny But also Stupid Santa But also the Groglet Somebody put a post in the great mates group I'm assuming he was a different person Who had a similar story Yeah, we're hoping this is going far and wide

We're hoping to take this wide This is a wide release Of embarrassing people Yeah Over the term groglet It's working I didn't have faith in you James But you made it

You made it happen You know I like stick into a stupid idea. That's that bar to being energy. True. Shamsabar says, you groglet until you moggled it. Do you get monged? By your friends.

Yep. Does the cucumber taste better pickled? I like both. I don't like cucumbers or pickles. All right then. People like, what do you like broccoli? Yeah, you like peas. Thank you.

I know, I tell people that. When people ask, they're like, what's he eating? Well, he's eating C-Soo. Yeah, that's right. But before that, he was eating broccoli and peas. Yeah, that's right. Cool, that's the show. I like how people like, what's he like?

Well, he likes peas. No, what is he like? He likes peas. What are you deaf? Yeah. What are you deaf and stupid? Oh, man. We have a good time.

We do, don't we? Sometimes. Yeah, sometimes we don't. Folks, thank you so much for listening. We absolutely appreciate it. Thank you for telling your friends about the podcast. And thank you, so that's how we get new listeners. It's the only way.

And thank you for leaving a five-star review on your podcast app of choice. You can probably do it right now. Yeah. What are you on the train? Are you on a plane? What are you on a plane? What are you busy? If you're on a plane, unless you're connected to the Wi-Fi, you probably can't.

That's true. Maybe you can hit it, maybe you can type it out. Yeah. Notes. Save it for later. Save it. Write it out of notes, then set an alarm on your phone. When you get off the plane, you get service back, then you can leave the review.

And then you can pick up your bags. That's exactly right. You'll be waiting around. Yeah, exactly. Also, if you want to stand right at the front of the baggage carousel, that'd be great. That'd be great. We'd all appreciate that. And if you do so, James will read out the review.

He'll find it. I'm doing a couple right now. from Ph.D. Kermit Frog from the USA says the only podcast I listen to. This podcast is funny, is informative and so funny. I love the relaxed feel of two bros hanging out and as I like to imagine, punch and darts.

As the title suggests, it's the only podcast I listen to. It's actually he isn't, but it kind of is. You know? No, I don't know. James, which is something I would say. Thank you, Dr. Frog. This is from Ben Henry. You don't know what it's like. I'm the one out there every day

putting my ass on the line, And I'm not out of order. You're out of order. You're out of order. You want the truth. You want the truth. You can't handle the truth. Because when you reach over and put your hand in a pile of goo that was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.

Forget it. Marge, it's Chinatown. What do you think of that? I love it. Do you think that's Jack Nicholson? Yes. He said his name was Ben Henry. He's not his real name, is he?

No, of course not. Yeah. So I was stupid to think that. Thank you, Jack Nicholson, for listening to this at the sidelines of a basketball game. Yeah. Or collecting your luggage. Probably doing that. Yeah, cool, cool, cool.

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Mr. Heights. Mr. Heights. You're not Wuthering of marrying my daughter. I think I'm... But maybe you're not worthering, sir? of marrying my daughter. I think it's fine. They should marry each other's daughters.

I think so too. Cool. And Margot Robbie's involved as well. Yes, Margot Robbie will be in that movie. Thanks, everyone. Grabed our jammy guys. We'll see you next week.