The Weekly Planet - 627 More Spider-Man leaks & Disclosure Day!

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

Oh my gosh good news everyone movies are back and we also have news of new movies being made. This week we review Steven Spielberg's latest alien sci-fi outing, Disclosure Day. Plus we talk the leak...ed Spider-Man Brand New Day trailer, 24 Jump Street, Doctor Who takes a big hiatus (is cancelled), potential trouble with the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger, trailers for The Social Reckoning, Whalefall (Whale Fail), Pixar's Gatto and more! Thanks for listeningNew bonus podcast ep for James & Maso's Time Crapsule out now! Available to listen with entire back catalogue of bonuses on bigsandwich.co and patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start04:42 Spider-Man: Brand New Day Trailer Leaked12:02 24 Jump Street Movie Announced15:28 Doctor Who Cancelled (for now maybe)19:45 Troubles for Paramount's Warner Bros Bid25:39 Social Reckoning Trailer29:40 Whalefall (Whale Fail) Trailer35:12 Pixar's Gato Trailer37:00 Toy Story 5 Next Week40:21 Disclosure Day Movie Review01:01:34 Disclosure Day Spoiler Segment01:11:39 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read01:22:04 Letters, It's Time For LettersSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:01 Welcome back everybody to another episode of the weekly planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James also known as Mr. Sunday with me as always Nick Mason. It's great to be here. It is, isn't it? It's a beautiful day. It's a bit of a beautiful day. It's a bit of a beautiful day to talk about disclosure day. Oh, we're just ending the musical bit.
Starting point is 00:00:20 We're not going to be talking about. I was never on board with that and I don't want to do it. You tricked me. I don't want you to do it. You tricked me with a slight lilt, James. This was going to be our famous musical episode. Let me tell you, it wasn't the first. time and it won't be the last.
Starting point is 00:00:32 Wow. Yeah. Disclosure. No, it's Disclosure Day. Oh! Which is good and big. I think it's good and big. And relevant and important.
Starting point is 00:00:41 Yeah. People would care. Does Steven Spielberg believe in aliens? Yeah, big time. He fucking loves aliens. He freaking, sorry, he freaking loves aliens all the time. Okay. He's not just putting it on.
Starting point is 00:00:53 For who? I don't know, man. He always loved aliens. Is there a big time showman? I mean, one was close in count as like 78 or whatever. like that. Something like that. Actually, I should double check that and I will.
Starting point is 00:01:04 I meant to, I wanted to watch it this week because I had to see it earlier to record this. I didn't get a chance. But I probably won't. And so, so disclosure today this week. 77. Next week in the gray? Guy Ritchie's in the gray. I think it's on streaming already.
Starting point is 00:01:18 I don't think it is. Really? I don't even think it's in the taint region where it's not available in cinemas anymore, but it's not on streaming yet. We're going to talk about what we're going to talk about next week a bit later. Is it something animated? It's something animated. I already know what it is. Great.
Starting point is 00:01:30 I can't wait to tell. you about that. We're going to talk about some leaked Spider-Man trailers and footage, Mason. Oh, this time goes below, you know. Isn't that illegal? To talk about it? Yes. Not yet. Not yet. We're going to talk about 24 Jump Street news. Oh, yes. Do I have to see Jump Street number 1 to 23 though, Mason? No. Okay. No, James. It's not, that's not what the number's referring to. So I don't have to see those movies. They don't, they, for the most part, they don't exist. Some of those movies exist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And most of the ones you're referring to in what I can assume as a joke do not exist.
Starting point is 00:02:03 Okay, but there is a TV show starring Jonathan Depp. That is correct. And Richard Greco. And Richard Greco's spin-off. What do you think it was called? What was it called? Greco. Greco on the roof.
Starting point is 00:02:15 Okay. What was it called? Booker. Booker. Yeah. On the roof. On the roof. We're going to talk about Doctor Who taking a really big hiatus.
Starting point is 00:02:26 Almost like it's cancelled. Almost like it is. But it's just a really big hiatus for many years. Have they used the term hiatus or have they said something else? Is it a resting period? Yeah, I think it might be a resting period. We're going to talk about some Paramount Merger updates because you know how they're buying Warner Brothers probably.
Starting point is 00:02:40 There's some things in the way, though. It is terrific. I'm also going to talk about trailers. But this week we've got the social reckoning. We've got whale fall and we've got Italian cats mucking about. I think you'll find it's called whale fail. Whalefail? Hashtake whale fail?
Starting point is 00:02:53 If we can get that going before it comes out, I think it's... But is the whale failing or are you doing a whale fail? The guy, I think, is doing a whale fail. It's a big time whale fail. Oh, okay. Sorry. I get the podcast starts and I get like nine texts. People like, do you want to come to watch the world cup at my house?
Starting point is 00:03:10 It's 5 a.m. No. Wow. What are you talking about? This sounds like you're faking that you have a lot of friendships. I don't. That's my point, Mason. I don't have a lot of friendships.
Starting point is 00:03:19 I maintain very few of them on purpose so I can maintain an online persona. That's right. You know that. I do know that. So what are these guys up to? Exactly. Yeah. I'm not even very.
Starting point is 00:03:30 charismatic what would you want to hang out with me it's stupid you always want to leave exactly as you get anywhere you want to leave but maybe that's it maybe they're like i can't i need an excuse to leave yeah and i can't be the first one to leave i need a guy by my side a guy on the inside a reliable guy who's going to leave first who doesn't care that he's breaking the social contract by leaving 43 minutes after he got there before he gets there and then then i can be the one well if he's going i actually also have to go so you know yeah then they leave in the wake of you that's a good point. So in a way, I'm a trendsetter. Yeah. And unpleasant to be around. Okay, good. I'm happy of that. There's time codes below. Rob Collings, he edits this, doesn't he? You're like some sort of
Starting point is 00:04:09 World War II. No, he doesn't, I guess. I don't know, a buoy or something. Oh, a buoy. Some sort of thing, you know? Like a canary? Yeah. No, it's not really that. I'm workshopping it. But you like that, you know, like a buoy and you make a sound like you're a ship or something? Exactly. Okay, I can do that. Yeah, yeah. I guess I am like that. Rob Collings, not Tom. Rob Collings, Not Tom Collings. Love that guy. Tom Collins is a drink. Yes.
Starting point is 00:04:33 Rob Collings, I know who that is. Rob Collings edits this podcast. He does a hell of a job and he does the time codes. He does the time code so good. You can check them out below. Let's start with this. So on X, which is still an app that you love and frequent. I call it Twitter though.
Starting point is 00:04:47 And yet you couldn't find this. Yeah. I'm not good at Twitter like your good at Twitter. I'm not even on Twitter. I used a Twitter browser function because I don't even have the app Mason. Wow. This new Spider-Man trailer, which is supposed to be out the week of the what is it, it would be the week of the 15th.
Starting point is 00:05:02 Okay, so next week? Yeah, it's leaked. Well, this week, by the time it goes out. It leaked in its entirety, it seems. With a few unfinished special effects, there are... I mean, that movie is coming out in like a month, so... No wonder some of the effects are not finished. Why would you finish them now?
Starting point is 00:05:17 You don't even need to finish special effects, it's not important. Just release the whole movie now unfinished. It's an unfinished edition. I mean, it's happened before. It happened to Wolverine X-Men Origins and also one of the expendful balls. Absolutely. So potential spoiler, I guess, for that trailer and the... movie if you don't really know anything but if you have checked that trailer out which we haven't
Starting point is 00:05:33 because it's illegal to talk about it or see it but we're going to guess we're going to guess there's a lot more Hulk happening in it a big Hulk clap what seems to be the grey Hulk unless that's just unfinished visual effects it might be unfinished visual effects but yeah they put the green in last oh kevin fogie comes in and he gets he's got his lie dropper of green and pops it in right before the movie from here i think all the merch is green but i mean we could have multiple holes maybe they're color change maybe it's color changing merch I don't care for gray Hulk. It's dull.
Starting point is 00:06:01 It's washed out. Gray, as we know, as a color, but benefits some greatly. Yeah, sure. But others, not so much. Maybe, maybe, you know, he's New York gray, you know? New York gray. He's finally fitting in. Maybe he's that dull MCU gray color they use to color grade all the movies.
Starting point is 00:06:18 Airport gray. Airport gray. I also get more of the scorpion, getting absolutely battered about by Spider-Man. Yeah, it doesn't seem like he's that much of a threat, honestly. No, because he picks him up by his tail and smashes him into a car. Head first. Which is what any one of us would do, you know? That's a handy tip for life.
Starting point is 00:06:33 If you're being attacked by the scorpion, simply use his tail against him. Yes. He thinks that's his greatest strength. No. Use it against him. It's just dangling around. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:42 Defeat him Akito style. Yes. Use his momentum. You know? Do you stick it in a bus? Yep. He gets dragged down the road. Off he goes.
Starting point is 00:06:49 That's right. And he has to pay a fine. Yeah, he's for not paying. So I'm assuming there'd be a click down helmet where he's like, remember me, Spider-Man? And then the helmet comes back down. And he'd be like, No? I've beaten up so many men.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Dude. Are you Captain America? No? Huh. All right. Well, then I don't know. He's got another group going off. It's a gang of men that I know that go for bushwalks. A gang of men. A gang of men. Hoodlems. The Kelly gang? Yeah, that's right. Wow. Okay. Nitorious Bush Rangers, the Kelly gang? They call themselves the reckless Kelly gang, but yes. Okay, so they've got bins on the end.
Starting point is 00:07:23 Yeah, that's right. So I'm in that group as well. I've never done a bushwalk with them. But, you know, I'm in the group. Hope Springs eternal for those guys. I completely agree. Is there one guy spearheading the charge to get you there? Oh, yeah. It's Ned Kelly. Because he wants you to leave. He wants to leave early so he can go to the Glen Rowan pub and get shot to death.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Or whatever happened to that guy. Yeah, something like that. Didn't he get arrested? He got arrested. He got shot in the legs. And then he got hung. And his last words were, yeah, okay. All right. If you want.
Starting point is 00:07:50 I'm just waiting for a mate, he said. That's who his famous last words. And Australians have been saying, though, that for hundreds of years now. They have. There's more kind of details on. Spider-Man's next mutation. He's got some kind of sinister persona taking over all.
Starting point is 00:08:05 Maybe, yeah, yeah. Organic web shootings. Which we knew, which we knew from the previous trailer, I guess. They were implied in the previous trailer. But in this, like, his very noticeable, mechanical web shooters are flying off. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:17 So he can use his regular web. He's an organic web. It's got the black eyes piece. There's more of whoever that Gene Gray villain is. Sure. Who's probably a Gene Gray type. She can do some Professor X in X in X-Men 2,
Starting point is 00:08:29 kind of stunning a whole crowd. No, but at one point, there's that sort of wave and she kind of stuns everybody in the city somehow. Was that in the one we just watched? Yes. Oh, wow. I thought you were good at X, the Everything app. No.
Starting point is 00:08:41 I'm not good at it. I'm only good at the browser. And we'll punish the stuff. He's not just at the start. He's going to be throughout it. Spider-Man's going to have to haul up around Frank's safe houses. God, Mason, we were doing great Frank Castle impersonations as we're watching.
Starting point is 00:08:54 But now I can't remember how we were doing them. Something about New York? Yeah. I have to hear the voice. Yeah. Let me tell you something, Spider-Man, no, I can't do it. I'm Fwank Castle. I'm Fwank Castle.
Starting point is 00:09:03 There it is. Yeah, it was better than that, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just so people know. What's interesting about this is, though, this is the non-spoiler part now. This stuff keeps happening, like these major leaks. And, you know, there's talk about, like, is this like a forced virality thing when the leaks happened for Andrew Garfield in the last Spider-Man movie or whatever.
Starting point is 00:09:25 I, having thought about it for mere minutes, I've come to a, well, you know, wise conclusion. I don't think it is because I think if they were going to leak a trailer like this, this one has a big red X over the top. Yeah. And it's actually quite difficult to discern what's going on. There's also other stuff that has leaked as well. It's not just that. I think that if Marvel were going to
Starting point is 00:09:43 leak one of these on purpose and make it look, if it's been leaked it a little bit so it doesn't look. But it is Sony. Oh, you're Sony about it everything. Yeah. Yeah. I think Marvel would remove the X so you're like, oh, it's a little bit grainy, but I can clearly see what's happening kind of thing. You could see if someone stops a crowd or
Starting point is 00:09:59 whatever. Some people can't see that. Some people can't see that. Yeah. But what I think it is is because they keep outsourcing VFX to various companies and, you know, a lot of that stuff isn't happening in house anymore because they fired a lot of the team that works on these. So I think there's just more gaps. And every, every team, every new company has somebody on board who's either like, yeah, I'll like this, I'll be famous, you know, kind of thing. What's the worst thing could happen to me? Be famous? Fired and sued and go to prison or whatever. I love being. famous. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:30 Yeah. Or they show their friend or whatever, and their friend screens it on their phone or whatever. Exactly. Let me just check if, I know you want to know if in the grey is still showing. I do want to know that. Power Bell that's still showing.
Starting point is 00:10:42 I do want to see Powerbell. I can't see it here. That's a shame. It's actually devastating. Let me check. In the grey, real movie? Fake movie, fake real movie? Your computer's crashing.
Starting point is 00:10:52 Oh, it's still happening. I can see it in Werribee at the Palis Cinemas. Okay. And are we currently near Wererabe Palace Cinemas? We're closer than we've ever been, Mason. Wow, that's brilliant. Yeah. So, yeah, also the Ringiverse podcast that were talking about,
Starting point is 00:11:06 there's been obviously test screenings and early screenings of this. And apparently people might not have liked the ending very much, but the movie is testing like fucking gangbusters right now. Gangbusters. And we'll just kind of see how far that goes. So, you know, that's something. Okay. It looks good.
Starting point is 00:11:21 Yeah, absolutely. It doesn't surprise me if it is testing well. Will it be good? Yes, 100%. I mean, Tom Holland did make them do that scene again. Did that? Yeah, and that was probably a pivotal scene. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:31 You know? Pretty good. Where we smash the Scorpion, and can't kill him. Exactly, that's right. What if I killed him even harder? I'm going to kill him so many times. Michael Mando, yeah?
Starting point is 00:11:41 Wasn't Ian Baird, causal? I'm Frank Castle. That's how you say. You say, I'm Frank Castle. I'm Frank Castle. I'm Frank Castle. That's out July something. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:54 When is it out, actually? It's late July, I feel like. I think it's a month after, um, Yeah, July 30. It's a month after Supergirl, a month and a bit. Terrific. Great. Speaking of Sony properties, Mason.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Oh, yes. Did you know there's a new Jump Street movie? I've heard rumblings and inklings. And they came out. And they said it. And squinklings. I did. I've heard some squinklings.
Starting point is 00:12:14 You've had some. He's some. I heard some. 24 Jump Street. The tagline is it took so long we had to skip one. So there were two 21 Jump Street movies, both very successful, both really funny. And then there was a, there was a gag at the end of the second one. There was going to be a bunch of funny sequels and there was long rumored there was going to be a
Starting point is 00:12:32 Jump Street men in black crossover. Apparently that was, yeah, that was legit at one point. And there was a bunch of information about it in the leaked Sony emails, right? And then I think it wasn't Jonah Hill, but it was Channing Tatum said something in the effect if there's a producer that they have to get on board in order to get these made and he's too expensive. But I guess they've gotten over that somehow. They've bought him out or they've got him on board or they've got him to reduce his rate or something. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:58 Well, they killed him. Maybe he died. Yeah. But I'm not going to look it up, so we'll never know. What's the direction of this now that it's two 45-year-old men? What do you do with it? Do you do a men-in-black-style thing? Once you do men-in-black, I like that idea.
Starting point is 00:13:11 I think it's really good, but what do you do next? Do you do them, they fight the Wolfman or whatever? Do they have to be all supernatural from there now? I think they should do their coaching a new team of, like, young cops who have to go into high schools and pretend to be high schools. And their teachers, maybe? No, I think that. I think, well, I mean, maybe, but I think you could also do. then the guys they've sent in, the young kids they've sent in,
Starting point is 00:13:31 get into trouble. So then they have to just go back anyway, even though they look fully fine. They just have to be like, okay, I guess we've got to be teenagers again. There will probably be a scene where they have to be teenagers again. Yeah. So, yeah, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum and Ice Cuba reprising their roles. It's going to be written by Rodney Rothman, Jonah Hill, and Megyn Marley. Molloy.
Starting point is 00:13:51 And Rodney Rothman is set to direct apparently. Rodney Rothman. RR.R. they probably got some of that well he got some of that War of the World's heat from Ice Cube and they finally managed to move the needle on this thing maybe they did yeah so Rodney Rothman did he direct the last ones no you sure it's not Rodney Rood
Starting point is 00:14:09 yes it is how he wrote the second one I wrote on it I guess and he also directed into the Spar Spider Manage the Spiderverse we co-directed with two other people but yeah cool all right okay all right all right okay so that goes how's Johnny Hill in terms of being cancelled on
Starting point is 00:14:26 not cancelled currently. I don't know. Who cares? Great point. Is my, I don't know. Do you think he's going to be fat again? I hope so. Yeah, me too. But he wasn't, we wasn't in those movies, but didn't he lose a bunch of weight or something? Well, I hope he's fat again. I hope he's happy and because he's happy. I hope he's fat and miserable. I hope he's happy and then what, and canceled. And he's happy and then that, that, that. I hope he's fat. Energy he brings to those around him. I hope he's fat and miserable and canceled for my enjoyment. Okay. And I'm not going to pay to see the movie. I'm going to get a media screening ticket. Just go to Twitter.com and it will be there for free. They'll leak it all there.
Starting point is 00:15:00 Producing duties will also be Phil Lord Chris Miller and also Neil H. Moritz. You know what this is? This is. I think Neil H. Maritz is the proof. Is that the guy? That's the guy. Okay. So if it's Lord and Miller, I'm going to guess they were like, you know, we did that project, Halmerin, it made a billion trillion dollars. Yeah, remember that? Everybody loved it. Well, we want to do this now. And they've just made it work somehow. So yeah, that's a So he's the guy then. That's interesting.
Starting point is 00:15:25 Cool. Hell yeah. Great and good. Great and good. Mason, as one franchise door opens, another closes. So are the days of our lives. As one opens, the other closes. I'm Fuenk Castle.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Good. Doctor Who, BBC released a statement about the upcoming future of the series, which is upcoming. As part of securing the next phase of the show for future generations, and in line with the BBC's charter and agreements, The BBC will put Doctor Who out to a competitive tender this year. After careful consideration, the BBC Russell T Davis and Bad Wolf have collectively decided not to go ahead with the previously announced Doctor Who Christmas episode. We know it will be disappointing for fans, but in order to set the show up for future
Starting point is 00:16:08 series, it was decided that rather than bridge the gap with a one-off special, we are choosing to push forward to invest in the long-term future of the show, which ensures that when the TARDIS lands months more, it will do so in all its glory. I think they didn't. get an international distributor for this after Disney. Oh, dumped it. I know people saying it's woken, whatever, blah, blah, blah. Sure, I'm sure they probably listen to all those lunatics.
Starting point is 00:16:33 But also, this has been flagging for years, regardless of whether you think it's woken. I know I haven't watched it. I was the newest stuff. I watched the first season of the reboot, which I quite liked. I think we talked about this when, I think a couple of months ago when Disney, you know, dumped it all. Yeah. We're on the verge of dumping it or whatever.
Starting point is 00:16:50 That, you know, some of the critics were right in the sense that they went. Hey, Americans, this show you've never really seen or you only know by reputation, we're starting you off with a really complicated plot involving the double regeneration. Previous doctor coming back. Who you know, right? Yeah, who you maybe you've never even seen before and a new guy, and it's overly complicated and it draws upon all the previous generations of the doctors and all their old enemies and all this sort of stuff.
Starting point is 00:17:16 It's like maybe you could have made it a little bit easier to comprehend. Absolutely. A little simpler, you know? Yeah. Russell T. Davis also. They released a statement saying that they hadn't even cast a new doctor or whatever. And again, it's what's going to happen in the future. Who knows that's up in the air?
Starting point is 00:17:29 He's definitely not coming back, though. So when they say they're putting it out to tender, so that means previously this had been produced by Baddwarf, which is Russell T. Davies. And so they're looking for another production company. I think it's production company. And they haven't mentioned this, but I think it also, they lost a lot of money in that Disney deal.
Starting point is 00:17:44 I know Disney did. Think about this, Phoebe Waller Bridge. Interesting. She can say she's going to produce it and then not. And then not do it and get $10 million. Yes. Billion pounds. Nice.
Starting point is 00:17:53 Yeah. So anyway, I think this is a right call. Uh-huh. Would you say that if you were more of a Doctor Who fan, though? I mean, I was. I was a big Doctor Who fan, but I don't, I haven't watched it in 10 years plus. Yeah. Like, I've come back here and there, but yeah, it doesn't, I think it's due for a rest and then a reinvention from somebody here. You developed a late onset allergy to that noise that goes, you'll cut up it. Oh, yeah. Very good. Why doesn't my microphone do that? I know.
Starting point is 00:18:27 I think mine's got the rubber. stop on the bottom. Yeah, that'll do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there was a big gap. There was a little gap and then there was a 90s telly movie. Yes.
Starting point is 00:18:36 It was supposed to revive it and then it died until 2005 or whatever it was. Correct. Yes. And it's been running. Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, etc. It's been running pretty much consistently ever since with some gaps here. Yeah. So, I mean, a 21 year run of a reboot is pretty impressive, honestly.
Starting point is 00:18:52 Yeah, but, you know, it'll be back in whatever form. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think this is what they should do with Star Wars, but they won't. Yeah. That's the way it goes. At least the BBC has the balls to cancel something that no one likes. True. Also,
Starting point is 00:19:05 I thought Shudy Gutwell was a really good doctor. Agreed, yeah. Yeah, but, you know. Mason? Paramount Mergini. We could get Eric Roberts back,
Starting point is 00:19:13 as I'm saying. Oh, yeah, he's Eric Roberts, isn't he? He's Eric Roberts. You can't take that away from him. It's fucking World Cup group's going off again. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:21 I don't even care. I mean, good on Australia and whatever, if they're in it, which I think they are. Are they? I don't know. Good on our boys in blue.
Starting point is 00:19:29 Our boys in blue and green and gold. There they are. They're taking it home for Australia. They certainly are. A big, whatever the shape of the cup is. Probably normal. Egg shaped. Soccer ball shaped.
Starting point is 00:19:39 No, it's probably like kidney bean shaped, like a big silver kidney bean or something. Oh, that's great. I love it. Yeah. Yeah. The Paramount merger. Oh, yes. I love it.
Starting point is 00:19:48 I love it. I know about it and I love about it. Paramount, just a very, very brief summary. Paramount have purchased Warner Brothers Discovery. Netflix got the deal initially. Paramount kept bumping up the price until they basically outbid Netflix in its entirety, at which point Netflix went,
Starting point is 00:20:06 you can have it, we don't care. We'll take $3 billion in consolation. Yeah, that's right. Which I think also Paramount ended up paying for, they end up paying $110 billion. This also happened because David Allison, who runs Paramount Skydance or whatever it's called, is backed by his billionaire father,
Starting point is 00:20:23 Larry Allison, who's also a friend of Trump, and they're also taken like something like 40% of Saudi money or whatever to make this happen. Sounds just like good business sense. It's good business sense. We all take that Saudi money, you know? It's good business. We went to the Riyadh podcast festival. It was good business.
Starting point is 00:20:40 And they wanted us to be there. They said, welcome. That's right. And we love this. We love it. You're bringing you the real truth tellers, they said, the weekly planet podcast. Exactly right. Do your Frank Castle bit.
Starting point is 00:20:52 You're allowed to do that here. You're allowed to do that here. We can't do that. anywhere else, can we? We get shut down. Anyway, there's a few hurdles in place of this that have been developing the past few weeks. How many of them are real and how many of them are fake? A lot of them are real, but I think there's a very good chance this will still happen.
Starting point is 00:21:09 But also, I think there's a very good chance also, what's the split of that? I don't know. That the people involved at Paramount will just fuck this up. Oh, of course. Yeah, but I don't think there's going to be any kind of regular, like proper regulatory boards that will do any actual. No, somebody will just rubber stamp this.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Which, I mean, I would love that to not be true, but, you know, it very rarely happened. So anyway, more recently, the UK competition watchdog has opened its own investigation into the merger, given that the deal has ramifications across multiple markets outside of the US. So it set an August 7th deadline as to whether the now... Oof, August 7th deadline. It's good.
Starting point is 00:21:49 It's the watchdog. The watchdog, yeah. will then progress to the phase two of the inquiry, which will take a further five months, which would hold up the deal. In addition to that in late May, the European Union launched its own investigation and is expected to deliver an initial...
Starting point is 00:22:04 Thank you. Initial report next month, July. And the US states of California and New York, the woke ones, by the way, are preparing a lawsuit to block the acquisition, also multiple people within the industry, signed letters, or anonymously said that we,
Starting point is 00:22:21 don't want this to happen for various reasons. It's bad for business and Hollywood and everybody, which is true. And we sign those. And we sign those. Absolutely. We're playing both sides. Yeah, that's right. Also, so that's happening. Which is bad for Paramount for reasons I've talked about. Paramount also accused Netflix of running a backroom scorched earth campaign to sabotage the deal. Oh, yes. I don't know whether that's true, but Netflix, I come out and said, we're, we're, we just hand it over to you. We're busy and we don't care about this. We're too busy trying to kill the cinema experience. We don't have time for whatever you're talking about. Exactly. though of the two that will kill the cinema experience, it will be paramount.
Starting point is 00:22:53 Terrific, I think. And they were so buddy-buddy with Tom Cruise for such a long time. Tom Cruise, he loved it. He loved it. Anyway, there is a September 30 deadline in terms of when this has to happen. Okay. Right? Which is, you think plenty of time, but then again, if you look at the way that this is going to unravel,
Starting point is 00:23:09 if any of these things kind of stick or, you know, investigations, you know, will open up over many months, this can very likely be pushed. But deadline are reporting that paramounting, that paramounties. has also agreed to a ticking fee in their acquisition agreement. So if the transaction fails to close by September 30, Paramount must pay 0.25, sorry, 25 cents per share, which is roughly $627 million for each additional quarter that the deal drags on. Which is probably not a lot of money for them, but it's not insignificant. Sure.
Starting point is 00:23:41 And if it doesn't go through, Paramount Skydance Corp has a proposed breakup fee of $5 billion. So there are consequences if this doesn't have. happened or is delayed. September, that's just enough time for one last heist. We get the crew together. We get in there, we still bat girl. I would love that. Fat girl off the servers.
Starting point is 00:23:59 Before. And we show it to people and people like, oh yeah, it's all right. Yeah, it was all right. It's all right. It's all right. I can see why they didn't release it. It was all right. It's all right.
Starting point is 00:24:07 It's all right. It's all right. Now, you might have heard also the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. They also, they looked into this because they wanted to know. They looked into it. They said, is this okay? And then in June this month, they said, yes, it is actually. Oh, that's great.
Starting point is 00:24:23 They said the deal is unlikely to have, unlikely to have an effect on the substantially lessening competition in relation to the wholesale supply of films for theatrical release in Australia. So Australia says, this is good and we don't mind. This is good. This isn't going to get in the way of any red dog sequels. Absolutely. Look, our film industry, as everybody knows, is absolute dog shit. And it's been in the toilet for many years. And this is good.
Starting point is 00:24:48 We passed it through our board, which consists of Paul Hogan, Kenny, Poeta. Gina Reinhardt. Gina Reinhardt is there. Yeah. Yeah. Other awful people. Other awful people. Other awful people, both real and fake in Australia.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Darrell Summers was there. And Aussie ostrich is also on the board. Well, there. They're a couple. They're a couple, yeah. And the ghost of agro. The ghost of agro. That's right.
Starting point is 00:25:14 I think it's fine. So that's where we're at. Will this awful thing still happen? Maybe. Probably, but you know. Yeah. Just thought that was interesting. That there might be some minor consequences for terrible men.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Okay. But probably not. Probably not in the way that they'd noticed. No, and even if this all falls through, they'll be fine and they'll be walk away. They might just be a bit sad for a second because they don't own literally everything. Anyways, Mason, trailers Ahoi. Hong tingling. We've got three big trailers.
Starting point is 00:25:44 Three big trailers. One is for the social reckoning. We had a big trailer earlier with Spider-Man, but... That wasn't real. No, no real. We didn't even watch it. We didn't even watch it. It wasn't really.
Starting point is 00:25:51 Did you watch the trailer for the social record? Yeah, so what was you? I did. On a laptop. Yeah. What did you think? So this is also, it's a quasi follow-up. Which strong is he?
Starting point is 00:26:01 He's Jeremy's strong. Yes. He looks too old to play Mark Zuckerberg. Yeah. It's crazy how old he is. It's got the haircut. And, but, and nails the boys. The impression is pretty good.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Yeah. Yeah. So it's basically the story's Facebook engineer. Francis. Hagen Hagen Hagen Hogan and the Wall Street. Hogan. Yep. Fake name.
Starting point is 00:26:16 And the Wall Street Journal reporter, Jeff Horowitz. Who is not his father, he's his own man. That's right. And that's Jeremy Allen White. Yes. Says, they say they blow the whistle on the social network's most guarded secret. It sucks. It sucks.
Starting point is 00:26:30 And it's also really bad for society. They mentioned in the trailer specifically that it's, it has a really negative impact on teen girls specifically, which we know. And also, everything else. And also your parents are on there just having their brains melted by AI. Just look at AI videos of cats. Or racism. Yeah, all racism, sure. I know my dad is big on the cat's part.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Of course he is. And I'm like, why don't you get a cat? He's like, nah. Is he given up on the racism? No, I don't think so. Good. This is directed by Aaron Salkin, who wrote the social network, but it's not directed by, who was directed by David Fincher, which is a shame.
Starting point is 00:27:05 And I look at this and like, because it's Mark Zuckerberg having to, you know, go before Congress and whatever answer question, sort of. I look at this, though, and I'm like, I don't. Who's this for is what you're saying? What's the point of this? Okay. What was the outcome of all of this? It's to make us feel good because at the end of it, he'll get a small penalty. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:23 You have to pay a fine. And he's still sad? And he's still sad. I mean, I know that already. Who's paying for this? Sony. Good question. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:27:30 Okay. Sony pictures. I suspect the whole, not to be cynical around me, Jen. Produced by Columbia, Alcon, the Gotham group and Escape Artists. I think the, not to be too cynical about this, champs, but I suspect this is one of those movies that exist in place of activism where it's like, yes, absolutely. Where it's like at the end it's going to be like, well, he's got a billion trillion dollars,
Starting point is 00:27:50 but he's still a little bit sad and he got a small fine for ruining society. So that's actually good. You should feel good about that. I mean, you feel that weird sense of anxiety all the time now. Yeah. When you're not looking at your phone and when you are looking at your phone. But Mark Zuckerberg's a bit sad, isn't he? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:12 In his New Zealand bunker or whatever. Getting off his super yacht to his New Zealand bunker. I hope we get to see him do his karate that he does and whatever. He does karate now, that's true. Or whatever the thing is that he does. I want to see his fancy watch collection. Yeah. All of that.
Starting point is 00:28:25 So that's out. I don't know. I just feel like this should be called Facebook No Consequences. You can make that into a poster if you want. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't have to. You're talking to me? Yes.
Starting point is 00:28:36 You're talking to me? No, I'm talking about the Weekl Planet Post. It's also coming up. Because I don't see nobody else here. He's coming up. I'm Fwain Castle. The week of the post... You're talking to me?
Starting point is 00:28:45 He's coming up on a thousand. You're talking to me, Spidey? In New York City, I'm going to Wain Castle. Did you see he's coming up on a thousand? Posts? A thousand posters, I did see that. I'm excited for this. You don't have to make it this one.
Starting point is 00:28:56 So that's excited. Excited. Do you think he's got a touch of the Quentin Tarantino anxiety? Oh. Is he going to quit after a thousand? No. I think he'll make another thousand. Wow, okay.
Starting point is 00:29:07 He does a beautiful work. He should follow him on all the social. Agreed. Or buy a t-shirt. buy a t-shirt. Yeah. You said buy a t-shirt, then you struck that Zach at front pose
Starting point is 00:29:15 from the stock art or whatever. But this one. That one's good also, yes. October 9th. Very good. I'll watch it because we have to. I am interested. I don't think it would be as good as the last one,
Starting point is 00:29:30 and again, no consequences. The world is bad forever now. But, you know. It could always get worse. Yes. Think of the right side. It can always get worse. At least we've got whale fail.
Starting point is 00:29:42 That's true. Now, are you calling it that because the whale is failing? You already asked me this. Because the man is failing. What would happen if this were a viral video? If this was a dirt bike fail, you wouldn't be like man fails. No, you'd be dirt bike fail. You'd be dirt bike fail, exactly.
Starting point is 00:29:56 I just don't think it's the whale's fault. He's eating a squid. No, exactly. Or she. So this is a movie about a man who gets, is it based on a true story? I was just about to check that. So it's about a man who's off scubaering. His dad's like, you can grow up to do anything.
Starting point is 00:30:11 his dad, his dad, Josh Brolin is like, you can grow up to do anything, including getting eaten by a whale. And he does, and there's a big scene, and you mentioned to me, they're putting a lot of this scene in the trailer. Yeah, the whale fail. Where he gets caught in a squid that's being eaten by a whale, then he gets eaten by a whale, and if it were a vile or a video, then go, whale fail.
Starting point is 00:30:31 Whale, fail. And if it were, if were America's funniest-time videos, or Australia's funniest-sone videos back in the 80s, it'd be like, boy, I sure hope I don't get eaten by this whale. Oh, I get eaten by a whale. I got eaten by a whale Bram. Well, they like to get
Starting point is 00:30:44 eat my whale if it was a squid Nets mouth and it dragged me into its mouth with a squid. Oh no, that happened. It's based on a book, Mason. Okay. Well, books are real in a sense. In 2013.
Starting point is 00:30:55 Okay. And it's called Whalefail, the book. That's what I thought. Yeah. It's by Daniel Krauss. The title is Whalefail the book. Brackets may be a movie though,
Starting point is 00:31:04 soon. Don't you think you could make this into a movie? Maybe you can do it. Maybe. But very not expensive. Yeah. One man in a room that is a whale. One man in a wet room.
Starting point is 00:31:12 Like buried, but in a whale. Buried whale. But anyway, he's got to survive in there, presumably, before his oxygen runs out. Yeah. Or he gets dissolved by whale stomach acids. Yeah. You know? Oh, he did.
Starting point is 00:31:24 I'd simply not get in that situation. How about you? You don't like the ocean. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I'd get in that situation. I wouldn't know. Not on purpose. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:32 I could see myself. I purposefully wouldn't get in this situation and I'd just enjoy the rest of my day. I think you'd be able to see the elements of that unfolding around you. Easily. Like, you'd, for example, someone would be like, he's a scuba diving tank. And even at that point, you'd be like, no, thank you actually. No, I can see the whale on the horizon. And he's famished.
Starting point is 00:31:51 Look at both groups going off now. You can turn the notifications off. How am I supposed to do on the notification of mid-podcast? Isn't that rude to you? Yes. Or is it rude if I keep looking at my phone? Oh, I don't know, James. Which is ruder.
Starting point is 00:32:04 Oh, no. Oh, no. The director of this Brian Duffield directed no one. will save you. Remember the Caitlin Devere movie? Oh yes. The mostly silent movie. Yeah, that was a good movie. Unless he's going to be like, how do we get out of this?
Starting point is 00:32:21 Oh, no, I've got a flare. I'll use the flare. Oh, the flare didn't work. It's like, it worked. Oh, do you use my whale repellent spray that makes a whale open its mouth when you spray it. Oh, it's... I sprayed it in my mouth. Oh, no. And it's gone off.
Starting point is 00:32:35 And now it's empty. Damn. What else is going to do? Can't you just go up through the blowhole? Probably. Isn't that how Joe? did it? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:41 Or whoever was in that cartoon? Pinocchio. Pinocchio? You watched Pinocchio, the movie, the live action one. Very good. How much of live action? How much was animated would you say? I actually don't know.
Starting point is 00:32:50 I could not tell you for the life of me. It's all gone. This is out. Do you think he's going to call his dad, Josh Brolin? We look, I love you, dad. Josh Ballard's like, I'm drunk and I've got opinions. You do, Josh Rowland. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:02 And we love you for it. October 16th. Okay. How do you feel about these slow burn movies where it's just, one guy in a room. I mean, they can be good. They can be good, can they?
Starting point is 00:33:13 I didn't see blood coffin or whatever it was called. Markiplier. Oh, In Lung, I didn't say that either. Yeah. That's a guy stuck in him. Like buried? I like Locke with Tom Hardy.
Starting point is 00:33:22 Walk in a car, yeah. You like phone booth? Like phone booth? That does venture outside the phone booth. That's true. What was the other one? There was a recent one and it's... Room 14-08?
Starting point is 00:33:30 Yeah, I vaguely remember that one. What was the one was Anthony Hopkins? In a car? It's also a car one. And his guy he doesn't like in a car. Movie said in one... Anthony Hopkins haunts a car. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:40 Hunted car haunter. Yeah. What about that one, Willem Defoe? He's a burglar. And he goes to burglarize the house and then it locks him in. Locks him, man. How's that go? I didn't see that one.
Starting point is 00:33:50 It's good question. 12 angry men, there's one for you. Breakfast Club, there's one for you. Cube, there's one for you. These are all wrong. Penny dreadful, apparently. No. Is that an episode maybe?
Starting point is 00:33:59 I guess. 127 hours, man pinned under a rock. Remember that? Yeah. Um, pinned under a rock. Exit eight. 128. 127 hours, colon,
Starting point is 00:34:07 colon man pinned under a rock is a good title. Agreed. Exit 8. It's saying late in up with the devil, but I guess so. No, that's a bunch of people in a room. That doesn't count at all. Exactly. You don't know anything, AI. Also, no, this is Wikipedia.
Starting point is 00:34:21 Also, they're saying knock at the cabin. It's set in a cabin. With a bunch of people. Come on, man. And they go outside. Bodies, bodies, bodies. Again, set in a room, a house, not bullet train, set on a train in other places.
Starting point is 00:34:34 Okay. These are just movies set in places. Yeah, exactly. they have one location, but it's also not even sometimes. James, can I ask, is that list on Wikipedia 20,000 items long? Because if it's just movies set in places, that's most movies. I've actually, no, you're right. I have looked up every movie that's ever been made it from every country.
Starting point is 00:34:52 Yeah, that'll do it, yeah. So, uh, frozen. I haven't seen that one, not the one you're thinking of. The man from Earth. That's in a room, but none of these apply. Panic room? Again, there's a panic. I agree.
Starting point is 00:35:03 I'm talking specifically about one man and it must be a moment. man. I'm a man. Okay. All right. Yep. It's all right. All right.
Starting point is 00:35:12 There's one more trailer for Italian cats. Yeah, Gatto. And is it about organized crime cats? Yes. Give us to that vibe. Mark Russell. I said in Australia there's a guy, there's a family, the organized crime family called the Gatos.
Starting point is 00:35:24 Yeah, I knew a bunch of them when I was a teenager. Do you think this is related? Ask me if they're all good. Are they all good? Yeah, they're all great people. That's great. Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 00:35:32 They're all great and cool and normal. Okay. Yeah. They gave you money to start your. Pizza and piano accordion business. Slash YouTube. Yeah. Yes, they did.
Starting point is 00:35:41 That's why I'm saying they're great and good and normal. Okay, good. Yeah. Anyway, Italian Mafia Pixar movie. Looks fun. It's good that it's not, it's a different animation style.
Starting point is 00:35:50 And by that I mean, it's doing Spider-Bus, whatever. Yeah. It's got it's got some DreamWorks vibe to it. It looks more, I was going to say Wimsycle, but that's not it.
Starting point is 00:35:59 It's more, it's more... Scratchy? Yeah, but it's got, it's more kind of just quirky and fun and kind of, you know. It doesn't look like it. There's a deep meaning, but I mean, it's only a teaser trailer. It's Pixar, so someone's dad will die and then there'll be a montage of sadness.
Starting point is 00:36:12 Yeah, great, good. Mafia cats and mucking about, I guess, you know? Sounds good. Wasn't the bad guys mafia cats and mucking around? Yeah, also. Was it? Was it? I didn't see it.
Starting point is 00:36:21 I don't know. Mark Ruffalo's in it. What's the, who's the cast, Mason? Can you tell me? Somebody in it sounded like. It's Mark Ruffalo. Okay, right. Who else?
Starting point is 00:36:29 He's Nero, which is black in Italian. Lawrence Fishburn is cat mob boss. Okay. That's interesting. He's not even Italian. Is this allowed? Or a cat. So, wait, Mark Ruffalo, he's not Italian or a cat either, maybe, or he is Italian.
Starting point is 00:36:46 Ruffalo? I hardly know it. That's Italian for Ruffles chips. So, yes, he is Italian. Remember Ruffles? No, it says he's Italian and French Canadian. Huh. Doesn't count.
Starting point is 00:36:57 No. It's all I'm saying. But I guess it's worth pointing out that there's a new Pixar movie on March 5th next year because this week coming, we've got, of course, Story 5. Reception is good and it's tracking really well. This is why they make five Toy Story movies. Correct, yes.
Starting point is 00:37:14 And I like them all, but you might be like, isn't there enough Toy Story movies? Yeah, maybe. Yeah, but we said that after the first one. Yeah, we said that after everyone and then all the, every other one's been mostly delightful. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you could have ended it at three. Yeah, you could have ended it at four.
Starting point is 00:37:28 Yeah, he could have ended it at one. But they all make a billion dollars. I make a billion dollars while you turned out a billion dollars. Isn't nostalgia good? isn't a good looking at a thing and then also what if a toy could look at an iPad? Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:37:40 What if a toy could? What do you think? I think that's correct. I'm looking for it. I'm going to take my kids this week and we're going to go and see it and then we're all going to know if it's good. Have they seen all the other toy story movies?
Starting point is 00:37:50 Bits and pieces, I don't know. Do you need to know? What are you doing with these kids? What are you doing? You're locked into like continuity and like what you need to know to see a movie. Yeah, the important things. A movie should stand on its own
Starting point is 00:38:01 even if it's the like Godfather 2. You've got to sit them down this weekend and you watch all the other Toy Story movies with them and then you quiz them. Well, I'm quite busy actually and I don't want to do that. Bad parenting. Okay. How about this?
Starting point is 00:38:13 How about I show them all the Toy Story spin-off media where Tom Hanks's brother voices Woody? Because they can't afford Tom Hanks. Sounds really good. And you show him Light Year. Yes. The sad one. Oh, I forgot. The sad, boring one.
Starting point is 00:38:23 He hated Light Year. He didn't like it. It's interesting. And it was again, it was an era where kids like everything. It was bad. Yeah. It's a bad, boring, dull movie. Why did they make it?
Starting point is 00:38:33 No fun. Interstellar, but the Buzz Light. year gets depressed because all these friends die. And you blocked it out. Good idea. So sad. Fucking good idea, man. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:42 Oh, this is the buzz light year movie that the toy's based on. No kids, it's not. What are you talking about? Awful. My phone just went off again. Excuse me. I just want to check which group chat it is. No, it's an email from my kids' primary school.
Starting point is 00:38:55 Also, when Jane, also, to be clear, for people who can't see it, which is everybody except me. He's got, he's, James has got his phone in this, like, World War II bomb show. Delta case. It's enormous. And every time he brings it out, it's like he's wielding it like a brick. But look how this works, okay? So I've got a thing on the back, a little hinge, so I keep my credit card in here, my license. Sure. Also, it's got a camera. I don't like my camera being exposed, so it's got a little slidey camera thing on the back. And you can drop it. Look. Look! It's still working. I had to check I wasn't 100% sure on it.
Starting point is 00:39:34 I'm still getting my text messages. Okay. And are we being sponsored by really big World War II Phone covers? Yes. Because that was a good test. Yeah. Really big World War II covers made of wooden stone. Great. Great.
Starting point is 00:39:47 Anyway, who was it in the group chat? Which group? No, that wasn't. That was an email for my son's called about bike repair. Okay. I'll repair my own son's bike. Thank you very much. You think I need some outsider coming in,
Starting point is 00:39:58 teaching my son how to be a man? Yes. I'm doing that. I'm telling him how to teach his bike to make his bike, to make his bed. I'm doing it all. I don't need you, Jason. I don't need anyone.
Starting point is 00:40:11 Right. Do you want to go next episode of the show? Ah, yes. I think we have to. I think we have to move on as quickly as possible. Disclosure Day. Disclosure day. Budget of $150 million with a break-even point of $300 million.
Starting point is 00:40:29 Okay. Might be possible because the US opening for this is about $35 million. Oh, yes. It's going to make $65 million worldwide. And depending on how this is... is received and whether it gets crushed by another movie made by a YouTuber. This might do okay. Another one might just surprise jump out of the gate and just crush legendary filmmaker Stephen
Starting point is 00:40:49 Spielberg. Yep, which is what he wanted. Yeah, that's right. He's all about independent filmmaking or he was or whatever. Didn't he say he saw something recently? I saw an interview where he's like, I saw that. I thought it was really good. Yeah, he did.
Starting point is 00:40:58 Some horror movie? Might have been an obsession, but it might have been something else. I think it was something prior to it. It was weapons, maybe. Weapons is old. Yeah, I know it's old, but he's old. Which YouTuber made weapons? I guess Zach Kregger did have a YouTube series, didn't he?
Starting point is 00:41:12 At some point, didn't he? No, he was in the widest kids you know. Wasn't that part of YouTube at some point? He was on, some of it was on YouTube. Yeah, okay, all right, all right. We don't need to know your technicality. There's this little thing called television. You young kids don't know about it.
Starting point is 00:41:22 Yeah. But there was two knobs on your television. One controlled the channel, the second one. Who knows? We don't actually know. It would come off when you would turn it. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:41:30 And you just click, click, click, and you'd be like, nothing's changing. Yep, that's right. Yeah. And then someone in your family would hit you over the back of the head. That's right. And it made you a better person and a man. That's right. And you grew up and you're okay.
Starting point is 00:41:41 Everything was okay. Everything is currently okay. Anyways, obsession on Monday right after Master of the Universe, maybe briefly took the number one spot, came back to number one. Okay. Masters of the Universe is struggling. It dropped to number four. You know what is surprising to me, though?
Starting point is 00:41:59 What's that? Is that apparently the biggest buyers of tickets were men in their late 40s and 50. Oh, to Masters of the Universe. That's shocking Mason to me. But here's the thing. I'm shocked. Look at me. I'm the poster for the scream or whatever.
Starting point is 00:42:14 He's doing the McCauley Culkin face. I would assume that no men of that age. I would say we were the exceptions. We're talking about Masters of the Universe, right? Yes, but what I'm saying is that I think most men in their 50s who are also dead aren't going to the movies at all. And if they are, they're not seeing a movie based on a toy they had as a child. That would be my guess.
Starting point is 00:42:36 Like, we're the exceptions and there's a few weirdos. I think that... But I guess that they... All these old dead men made an exception. They carved out of exception for this movie. Yeah, that does not surprise me at all. So you've got to remember we were watching this in the 80s on our broken TVs and someone hit us in the back of the head.
Starting point is 00:42:53 And that... That made us normal. That's a core memory. I just remember that. That it made us normal. I forgot. I mean, because honestly, like, who else would be seeing that movie? I mean, I...
Starting point is 00:43:02 Again, if they'd release this... At a time where anywhere in the world was doing school holidays, I would have thought that parents would be like, I'm desperate to take my kids to anything. I'd take them to Master's Universe. It's fun and colorful and there's sword fights and magic and whatever. Yeah. And weird vehicles.
Starting point is 00:43:17 Yeah. That would be it. But the Supergirl is probably going to benefit from that. Yeah. Depending. I mean, that's not tracking as well as Superman, but it's tracking okay at the moment. What is the release strategy of Masters of the Universe
Starting point is 00:43:30 to just release it in the middle of nowhere? Yeah, I don't understand. Well, I think Mortal Kombat 2 suffered from that as well. well because it got pushed from October last year, which would have been a really good time, I think. And now it's just on streaming or whatever it's doing. Yeah. Also, I don't understand how more to come back.
Starting point is 00:43:44 And in the grey. Don't get me started on In the Grey. Mate, we could go to Werribee right now and watch In the Grey for free. We could just walk in. Nobody would be manning that cinema. That's so true, I guarantee you. But there would be that smell. The Werribee smell.
Starting point is 00:43:56 The Werribee smell. I understand. You can order it online. You can get a jar of it if you are interested in the Werribe smell. Anyways, Disclosure Day. Yes. What do you think the story was? Well, there's a man.
Starting point is 00:44:06 What's his name? Josh O'Connor. Yes. And his real name? That is his real name. But the character's name. What's his movie name? It's like Kendall Schmendrell or something.
Starting point is 00:44:15 Bill America. Bill America. Well, guess what? He's a man with a lot of layers. Like all Spielberg protagonists, all every male Spielberg protagonist in the last 10, 15 years. He's got a lot of layers. And by that, I mean, he's got a lot of layers of clothing on. He's got five layers of clothing on.
Starting point is 00:44:29 What? T-shirt, Henley, hoodie, bomber jacket, vest over the top of the bomber jacket. Is this a normal? Is this? This is the normal thing for Daniel Kelner to wear? It might be. We don't know his life before this movie started. No, we do.
Starting point is 00:44:42 We have something about aliens or whatever. Alien and math. Yes. How much alien and math do you know, Daniel? Quite a lot, actually. Well, he's on the run because he's got to... Don't ask me about it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:44:54 All right, I'll tell you. It's all on these USBs or whatever. Yeah, my, they're proprietary. Propriotary. My ass. They fit in any USB slide. No, they didn't. They did. They had one of the petrol.
Starting point is 00:45:05 I think he brought his own little device. I think that connected to a regular USB, but I think his thing, like it's unnecessary. Okay. Yeah. But anyway, he's on the run from an evil corporation because he's got all their evil corporation datums. Yep.
Starting point is 00:45:20 And he's going to reveal some big secrets. But also... What's going on? Emily Blunt is a simple news reader. Yep. Who's in a relationship with White Russell. White Russell. And she's like, I just want to be in the news
Starting point is 00:45:33 and I want to break the big stories, even though I'm just a weather woman. She also has a, I just want to quickly say this, so she does a, shows an audition tape for a news reading at the start. Uh-huh. And I was like, is this supposed to be not very good? Yeah. I feel like the, was that, is that?
Starting point is 00:45:48 I don't know. Because I'm watching her do the news and I'm like, I don't think there's a good cadence to this. I don't know why this is supposed to be on purpose? Well, I mean, Wyatt Russell reacts to it like he's just being nice. He's just like, oh, that's pretty good. So I think it is supposed to be bad. Okay, cool, because it was. Okay, good.
Starting point is 00:46:03 Anyway, she's just a normal newsreader But then something happens And then she goes to read the weather A bird looks at her And then she goes to read the weather And all of a sudden she's on TV going And you might be like Skibada-a-da-da-bap-da-pap
Starting point is 00:46:18 And you might be like is some kind of Skie-bap-bap-da-bap Was it a racist stereotype That's why I'm saying she should have done the scouting Yeah Like it was just like a joke from the 70s You might say in the gods must be crazy Or something like that
Starting point is 00:46:31 No it's it might be an extraterrestrial math language. Could be. Could it be that? Could it be? And anyway, what's their connection? Well, we'll find out. My brother and sister?
Starting point is 00:46:40 Yeah. Is the connection that they're both British, doing American accents? Oh, that's interesting. As is a lot of people in this movie. Colin Firth is in this. He's the head of the evil corporation. What's Eve Houston?
Starting point is 00:46:50 Is she Irish? Maybe she looks Irish, doesn't she? She looks bloody Irish. Yeah, she is Irish, yeah. All right, dear. God, I'm killing this. Who else is there? Coleman Domingo.
Starting point is 00:47:00 Colman Domingo. He's the guy. Kendall Shmandal, he's... That dude's slick as. He's out there and he's calling up Coleman Domingo and Coleman Domingo's like, just keep running. Yeah. Just keep running around.
Starting point is 00:47:11 Everything's going to work out or whatever. Just believe in yourself and run around. You might see some animals, that's good. That's part of this. Yeah, yeah. Also, don't run into Donovan, the bully from the in-betweeners. That's right. He's with Colin Firth.
Starting point is 00:47:23 Yeah. And Colin Firth has a magic wand. Yeah. But maybe everybody could have a magic wand. Oh, and Coleman Domingo's building a weird thing. Yeah. You just, most of the movie he's in somewhere, in some sort of warehouse,
Starting point is 00:47:37 and everybody behind him's like wielding props from that 70s show. Yeah. Just, just, uh, just, just, uh, just set dress. Yeah, you're like, is he on set? What's he? Set dressing for that 70s show, yeah. Crazy. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:47:47 I feel like they only need to build the one room. Yeah, probably. But, uh, or nothing. A picture. A picture. A picture. A man, picture. Yeah, is this you?
Starting point is 00:47:55 Look at this photograph. Yeah. Is this you? Sometime. Yeah. Um, yeah. Um, yeah. So, this is, uh, Spielberg's return to, That was succinct and clear and everybody understands.
Starting point is 00:48:04 It's about, okay, so it's basically about revealing to the world that aliens exist. Correct. Which is not a spoiler. It's in all the trailers and it's very clear early on that that's what the movie is about. Because this is a knowledge that some people feel actually belongs to the entire earth and not just Colin Firth. But Colin Firth thinks that if people learned about this information, maybe like... They wouldn't believe in capitalism or goal or whatever. That's right.
Starting point is 00:48:24 Their jaw would fall onto the table and their tongue would roll out onto the table and then their eyes would bug out and steam would shoot out of their ears. but not in a good way. No. In a bad way. And you might be like, oh, and then is there an opportunity to do like a cartoon dance with Cameron Diaz? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:48:39 And maybe, but it wouldn't be in a good way. It wouldn't be in a good way. It'd be in a bad way, bad for society. She'd get dizzy and she'd vomit. And if everybody's doing that. Yeah, if everyone was doing it. Cameron Diaz is going to be, she's going to be out of it, you know?
Starting point is 00:48:48 When she's going to go to work or sleep or whatever or even have breakfast. Wouldn't have time. She'd be too busy vomiting and spinning. And everybody's doing a big swing dance with her to the cherry pop and daddies. Because of this information they've learned that's turned them into the Cherry Popp and Daddy's. This is Spielberg returning to aliens.
Starting point is 00:49:07 Yes, it is. He started with close encounters in 1977. Then Et? Yes. Then Et. You also did War of the Worlds. Another man with layers. And he does have a fascination with layers.
Starting point is 00:49:19 Layers in the human condition and extraterrestrials and all of that. It's been a fascination of his entire career and life. I do think this does. And once he got to show for it, he's seen an A. Stephen Spielberg. You're not even one of those guys who's like, yeah, I did see one actually. I'd love him to be one of those guys.
Starting point is 00:49:35 You know, like Alan Moore's always like, yeah, I saw John Constantine. I met him. That'd be sick. Yeah. Stubbed out a cigarette at my head. You know? Well, Spielberg's never met, Ed, has he?
Starting point is 00:49:47 Or Alan Rich, no. Does he met Alan Richon? Probably. Probably. I don't know why I was going to say Alan Cummings, but he's not anywhere near this movie, is he? Not at all. This does feel very early Spielberg.
Starting point is 00:49:58 This does feel like a sequel to Close Encounters. It's got kind of the pace of a 1970s, like contemplative sci-fi. Like there's not really a lot of... Maybe not that slow. No, not, no, because there's big car chasers and whatever. In fact, this movie is mostly big car chases. If you're in this for big alien revelations, there's some. Yeah, but if you're in this for running about in the forest and...
Starting point is 00:50:24 Yeah, looking at a CGI Fox. Looking at a CGO fox and car chases and people. remote viewing with a magic wand. Yeah. You're in for a trade. Yeah. They're doing that thing from the Last Jedi
Starting point is 00:50:35 where they can look at each other or whatever. Yes. What do you think of this? I liked it. I liked it too. It did feel... Look, when you look at what
Starting point is 00:50:43 like Spielberg has done, yes. Like his body of work, like I don't think it's... It's not his best, obviously. And I think... What is his best?
Starting point is 00:50:51 I don't know. Jurassic Park Minority Report. Catch me if you can. Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones. George. Indiana Jones 5. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:50:58 Probably close encounters. I haven't seen it in a long time. Yeah. I'm going to bring up a list of everything he's ever done that I'm made. Sure. Empire of the Sun. It's probably better than that. But I do think it's better.
Starting point is 00:51:10 Is Christian Baal in that? Yes, as a little boy. I do think it's better than more of the worlds though. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. And I think there is like a, I don't know. I think the themes and the idea behind empathy and kindness and faith being a strength. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:51:24 I think that, I don't think it's very now. Yes. I don't think it all. works and all comes together. And I think some of the revelations wouldn't be treated. Ready Player One. Good movie. I don't think that would be treated as, I don't know, as, I, well, this, we'll talk more about that in spoilers.
Starting point is 00:51:40 But I just feel the reaction to some of this stuff wouldn't be as maybe as, I think he has kind of an old man's understanding of how the internet and social media and how people's reaction works. Well, we haven't talked about the movie Glass. Yeah. In which the revere, at the end of the movie Glass, which is the M. Night Shyameline movie, it is a sequel to Unbreakable and a sequel to split. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:01 Then at the end of the movie, someone uploads to YouTube a video. Of a man doing a dog run. Yeah, a man doing a dog run and a man's sort of half-lifting a car or whatever. And they're like, we're going to reveal this whole thing to the world and people will be like, I don't care what this is. But I think there's a, there's more of an effort.
Starting point is 00:52:18 I don't know if Spielberg has seen the movie glass. Yeah. But I think there was much more of an effort to be like how this would propagate across the world. is it would be flooded on every channel and every, it would have to reach a critical mass like a movie.
Starting point is 00:52:34 Yes. And everybody would have to, it would be breaking news on every social media platform and every real TV station. And even some of the, you know, it's even on Fox News, for example.
Starting point is 00:52:45 I think maybe it would be for a day. Yeah. But then again, this is more spoilers, I guess. But, um, you know what's interesting about this? David Kep wrote this,
Starting point is 00:52:54 who also wrote the recent Jurassic Park movie, which was all. awful, but he's also written a lot of good stuff. Apparently, he did 42 drafts for this. Keposaurus Rex. Keposaurus, thanks. 42 drafts? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:53:06 Oh, that's a notable number, you know. Absolutely. So it's good that this was... The answer to the life, the universe and everything. That's true, wow. Well, speaking of, so Josh O'Connor is a math man. Yes. And Emily Blunt is an empathy woman.
Starting point is 00:53:18 Correct. And they've got alien... Those are the two things you need. I like the idea behind that, and it is like... Again, this could have just been a close-encounter sequel. This could have been an email. Sure. This movie could have been an email.
Starting point is 00:53:29 Could have been a forward from your mum. Yeah. But I was waiting for a reveal like that. I really thought, and it could still be a sequel to this. It may as well be in many ways. But it does feel like that because, you know, closing counters, you're getting these subliminal message beam into your head and you think you're going crazy and whatever,
Starting point is 00:53:47 but actually it's part of this greater thing and connection and humanity and malions and blah, blah, blah. So, yeah. Yeah. I think good strong performances all around. It's nice to see Colin Firth being a villain. That's fine. Yeah, he's good, man.
Starting point is 00:53:59 Yeah, yeah. Because he's also got a magic stick that he's using to contact people and stab people and whatever and change the color of their eyes. Yes. I, as a piece of technology, I thought that was really interesting in the fact that he could do so much, but he's just using it for this. Yeah, he's using it for a mundane kind of military, espionage kind of way, yeah. And even the idea that he's not even strictly military, he's part of a private organization,
Starting point is 00:54:22 which has just been hoarding all this information and technology for decades. Because I believe that the idea of the idea of, being that I think that, you know, the president can be the president for, you know, only eight years at maximum. And then they're just disavillion against. So they can't be trusted with, with this sort of sacred country. Some president certainly can't. Probably all of them, really.
Starting point is 00:54:41 But, yeah, I thought that was interesting. Like, I'm controlling the flow of technology. And also, there, it would, you know, if this was to be real, there would be a breaking point, you know, like where eventually you couldn't cover this up. And there is, because I went with a friend of mine who, like, He loves all the UFO conspiracy theories and the news of that and different sightings. Yeah. And different sightings and all of that.
Starting point is 00:55:05 And a lot of that stuff apparently that people research and talk about whatever is like in this. Right. You know, the different alien law and different technologies and whatever and all of that. There's a scene, I think it's in the trailer where we see it's Richard Nixon. It's archival footage. Tricky Dickie Nixon. It's like security camera footage from one of the facilities. Look at this alien.
Starting point is 00:55:27 It's Nixon and I think he's He's showing Jackie Gleason Around... Jackie Gleason. I love why you threatened to hit your wife, Jackie Gleason on television. To the moon, that's like a UFO. Isn't it?
Starting point is 00:55:43 That makes me dizzy doing that impression. Makes me feel more alive than ever. I'm now more focused than ever, yeah. Well, maybe we can spin Cameron Diaz around a bunch. Maybe it would make her feel more alive. Anyway, go on, yeah. That's all I just thought it was fun.
Starting point is 00:55:55 I think it's fun that, yeah. Because that's fine, that is something that is alleged to have happened that Nixon took Jackie Lisa. Oh, really? To a, yeah. Yeah, that's fun. Well, I guess, yeah, I guess that's why they shut that down. There's also the question of like, well, if you reveal this to the world, what is the
Starting point is 00:56:11 impact of that? Like, would religion even exist anymore if you knew that there was a life form out there, which is greater than being. And some say the fact that religion, you know, would still exist or would not exist is an important thing. I think other people would say it's probably fine It doesn't really matter I think
Starting point is 00:56:28 But I do think I ultimately think if you had faith I don't think anything like this would shake that in you I think you still believe in a higher power It's sort of the equivalent of like You know now you can get like a can of peaches And it's got the ring pull on it Yeah
Starting point is 00:56:40 That caused the elimination of that That weird metal spike thing You used to have to use to open cans I feel like it's a similar sort of allegory there Like if aliens existed Yeah Probably wouldn't mind if a religion wasn't around anymore We knew for sure.
Starting point is 00:56:56 You wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't mind at all. I think also there's some great car chases in this. A couple of really good car chases. There's one like through a house. Yes. And there's also one like to get onto a train,
Starting point is 00:57:08 which I think is pretty thrilling as well. Yeah, agreed. And there's also some really interesting camera work. Which is what I would say there is that's also comparatively speaking to a lot of movie action sequences and car chases, it's quite a small thing. Yeah. Because when you think of a fun,
Starting point is 00:57:24 in the Furious car chase, there's 20 cars, and they're driving across the city. That would be a second thing. And everything's being smashed to pieces, and there's a big bomb or whatever. But this is just, and it's in one of the trailers, it's the two main characters are in a car. They're waiting at a railway crossing,
Starting point is 00:57:42 and then one of the bad guys cars, it's Donovan from the Inbetweeners. He crashes in the back of them, and their car starts getting forced into the path of the train and they're going to die. And it's like, that's compared to that's such a small
Starting point is 00:57:56 action concept but it's... They're normal people They're normal people exactly and it's like and they're doing their best and Emily Blunt is driving but she can't
Starting point is 00:58:05 she can't just jump out because she's got her foot on the break and if she tries to jump out and she lets her foot off the break for a second they're going to go crashing into the train so it's like... And she tells the audience that. Yeah she does.
Starting point is 00:58:15 Yeah. Master filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Agreed. Yeah. So there's also there's a moment where Josh O'Connor the math man He's sneaking up on a farmhouse
Starting point is 00:58:25 I don't know if you notice the camera movement of that It kind of weaves around him And it goes through a fence at one point and back around Would you say master filmmaker, Stephen Spielberg? I would say that I think his use of camera work Yes If you could call it that
Starting point is 00:58:36 You can, you definitely could Oh yeah terrific It's excellent And even just like seeing a shot like that Of like oh this is really well planned out Oh is that that fence must be Some partially CGI Because you couldn't move it through it like that
Starting point is 00:58:48 Oh is this a drone shot or like a camera Or is it on a rig Sounds distracting. Yeah, no, it was great. Like, it was really good. I think, though, there is some imagery that's also really good. There's a moment, because they, the aliens can appear as like animals. And there's a moment where a deer, this is in one of the trailers, like, morphs, sort of, not even a morph.
Starting point is 00:59:07 It's like a switch. You zoom in online and it switches into a gray alien. A gray alien. That was amazing. But then there's other moments where, like, there's just a CGI fox. And it's like, this doesn't look very good. Yeah. And I guess the argument could be, well, it's not really a fox.
Starting point is 00:59:22 Fox. It's a hallucination or a dream or it's an alien pretending to be or whatever. But I just think, I don't know, man. I don't know about that. And there was one moment where Josh O'Connor, the math man, is. He's standing in a field and he's yelling over the phone about doing math or whatever. And then a crop circle like forms around him. And I just don't know why you would mean.
Starting point is 00:59:44 Because of vibes, man. No, no, do you know what I mean? Like, it seems unnecessary. It seemed a little like. A little on the nose? Yeah, maybe. Like, I don't think you needed it. Okay.
Starting point is 00:59:51 For example. But, you know. Well, I think it was just what I needed. Yeah. Yeah. Call me the cars, because that's just what I needed. There's a band called The Cars and had a song called. Just What I Needed.
Starting point is 01:00:01 Okay, great. If that helps with that metaphor there. It does. Could you call me the Cars? Do you want that? Not really. Is that what you need? I'm indifferent to it, honestly.
Starting point is 01:00:10 They should call the song that. Yeah. I'm indifferent. I liked it. I also think don't go in thinking this is a big bombastic. Sure. Okay. I don't know.
Starting point is 01:00:22 It's saving private Ryan. There's another really good Stephen Spielberg movie. Yeah. Jowls. Yeah. Jowels. I think, yeah, of the past 20 years, this is definitely probably the strongest of the movies that he's made. Also, I haven't seen Bridges Spires.
Starting point is 01:00:37 There's a few other ones that I haven't seen. But this one I really, really liked. And my friend who, again, who's into all to all this, he loved it. He thought it was incredible. So, yeah. Nice. I'm going to say best movie ever, but also not for everybody. I also think this is the kind of a, it's a,
Starting point is 01:00:52 very particular type of sci-fi that they don't really make anymore. Okay. Well, I would say give it a whirl, you know? Yeah, but I'm saying you just might not like it. Okay, yeah. I'm not saying don't see it because of that. Yes. I'm just saying it's not really a movie you see anymore.
Starting point is 01:01:05 It's only a movie that Steven Spielberg could be allowed to make. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. This is not, it doesn't end with a big laser battle. No. Or does it? I didn't stay for the credits. Speaking of... I didn't stay for the end, so I don't know.
Starting point is 01:01:17 I met a bunch of people after the show in the foyer. And they were very lovely. It was really nice to thank you to all those people who said hi. Didn't expect it. It shocked me to my core. Wow. Yeah. Wow.
Starting point is 01:01:29 Yeah. But that were awesome. Spoilers? Spoilers. Best movie ever. Yeah. I had a good time. What can we do in terms of spoilers?
Starting point is 01:01:38 Well, at the end, they have to broadcast all the information. Well, I mean, if we go further back to that. Sure. So, Josh O'Connor and Emily Blunt's characters, their fates are intertwined because when they were children, and they are the same age, both as actors, is that they were, they were lured from their homes, I think, by aliens and brought into kind of a, Emily Blunt's recollection of, she doesn't remember anything prior to being 10 years old. Yeah, and he's also the same sort of. And they're the same age. Yeah. But they are lured from their homes. I think she's supposed to be
Starting point is 01:02:13 slightly older, maybe. Yeah, maybe. But Emily Blunt's character is lured out of her home by an animal. Yeah. And she is. I wouldn't say. go. No. And then she's lured to kind of a Hansel and Gretel style gingerbread house, which again there's stories against doing that. Yeah. And yet she goes in there and then she... It's called three little pigs. That's right.
Starting point is 01:02:32 And her and Josh O'Connor are exposed to some sort of alien mental device. Magic sticks. Magic sticks. And it gives Josh O'Connor the ability to interpret mathematics like he can understand all mathematics instantaneously. And it ruined his life. Because nobody else
Starting point is 01:02:48 could relate to that. Also, who wants that? And she, for whatever reason, hers doesn't take initially. She just forgets it. Because that would probably, you would probably go crazy as a child. But then we learn that later in life at the beginning of this movie. A bird unlocks her. A bird unlocks her power that enables her to sort of know everybody's, be in people's minds. It's an empathy and an understanding, a mind reading.
Starting point is 01:03:11 Anytime she's in close proximity to somebody, she goes into their mind briefly and she knows everything about them and she understands things. And she can just be like, just talk. just talk to your dad whatever and we learn later that all these people she spoke to they went and did the thing
Starting point is 01:03:26 that she advised and that she's the best she's the best I like to go and have a dance with Cameron Diaz do it have a big swing dance put on a big suit she's gonna love it
Starting point is 01:03:34 yeah the widest suit you have no even wider than that go and buy an even wider suit that's not gonna be wide enough for Cameron Diaz yeah I also like that they gave them
Starting point is 01:03:43 two distinct abilities and those work in tandem I thought that was interesting that it wasn't just eye and neither of them were both lasers Disintegrator laser beams. Well, they do have a disintegrator laser stick, I guess. It probably could do that.
Starting point is 01:03:54 Probably, yeah. Because they've all got magic sticks. Yeah. They can do some things, but not anything. Because Colin Firth's company has acquired some of the... They've got three of these artifacts. They're like magic sticks, and he uses them exclusively for kind of this remote viewing ability, which he can do sort of under extreme duress.
Starting point is 01:04:14 Like, it's very painful for him, but clearly the other two are... They can just, they can use them willy-nilly. Because they've got magic math and empathy. Yeah. And at the end when they're going to, so they're going to reveal this to the world, they're going to broadcast all this information because they've got all these different files and different thumb drives. Yeah. And on the verge of a World War III, what's going to happen or whatever.
Starting point is 01:04:37 And so they released this footage to the world of everything that's happening with Emily Blunt, explaining everything and where this has come from and it shows, I really like that footage as well, like throughout the ages, I thought. Also comparing that to like the recent war of the world. worlds of like yeah that's right god i mean again the thing about that as well is we never saw if if this if there were such a worldwide release i'd still be like what's this an ad for well that that's the thing right because i don't think and this is where i think this is this is why i think spillberg's understanding okay yeah it's yeah exactly like spilberg's understanding of what media
Starting point is 01:05:11 is now yeah and that cycle and now anything can be fake yeah anything can be fake but not stake Yeah. And also... Gamble. And I know, I love the message of this, the aliens in this, they consider empathy as the greatest evolutionary strength. Not autism.
Starting point is 01:05:29 Yeah, not autism, which is... Like in the predator. Whereas you've got like ghouls like, I don't know, any tech CEO, who consider it. Humanity's a waste of time. Yeah, it's a weakness and really what's important is productivity
Starting point is 01:05:41 and building whatever the fuck. Mathematics. Yeah. And I thought that was a really interesting message, but also like after this, It's like, I don't know, everyone has to go to work. Maybe not, though. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:53 You know? Maybe not. Maybe the president will declare, maybe the prime minister of Australia would declare a national holiday. Just one day. Also, I was a little bit disappointed. There was no Australian news reader that we knew in that. Peter Oberton. Peter Overton.
Starting point is 01:06:08 You can't give us a Peter Oberyn or a Peter Hitchner. You can't give us some. Carl Stefanovic. Brian told me. What's that guy's done? Brian died in a bushfire. It doesn't matter. Not important.
Starting point is 01:06:18 It is important. It was very sad. Okay. Brian told me. Brian Naylor. Brian Naylor. There we go. They should have been Carl Stefanovic.
Starting point is 01:06:28 I said him already. He's got a podcast. Grant Dania. Grant Denia. Carl Stefanovic has a podcast where he talks to awful people. Yeah. So yeah, there's that element of it. But also they do wheel out of fucking alien.
Starting point is 01:06:40 They do. It's true. Yeah. He was more long-limbed than the other aliens. Well, what I issue, okay, this is what I was speaking to my friend about and he says they're supposed to be like different casts. And the little grey ones, they're more like, they're like piloted.
Starting point is 01:06:53 They're the A list. They're the, uh, different casts. Yeah. So they're like, they come out and, um, and they're being piloted remotely.
Starting point is 01:07:02 Okay, right. And whatever, and whereas like that guy, I'm getting this wrong. He's a leader class of some sort. Yeah, well,
Starting point is 01:07:07 he's a real one. He's a real. He's an O.J. I like to think we're real ones. And he's probably from a planet where he either lives underwater or there's, oh, he's a gungan. or there's,
Starting point is 01:07:15 yeah, or there's lower gravity. which is why he's got the big head and, like he's not built for its gravity. And he, we learn over the course of the movie, he is sort of a creature that's been captured. He's been captured and experimented on
Starting point is 01:07:29 and he's not a fan of it. But Coleman Dubingo rescued him. Yes. Or let him escape. I was like, if they unzip this thing and fucking Richard Dreyfus is in there. Or E.T. I'm going to, or E.
Starting point is 01:07:40 I genuinely thought, because there's a, there's a silhouette, he had an E.T.esque silhouette. Yeah. That would have blown people. people's minds if it was a E. This was an E.T. sequel.
Starting point is 01:07:50 Yeah. I think it would have undercut everything else. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I'm glad they didn't do that. But it would have crossed somebody's mind. Spielberg would have gone into meetings and people would have said, we've read the script and it's great and we love it.
Starting point is 01:08:00 Don't change anything, but what if it was E. What if it was E. Yeah. Phone home, Reese's pieces. Yeah. Think about it. We could all make bank. Had some Reese's pieces the other day.
Starting point is 01:08:10 They're not that good? Yeah. They're all got an oiliness about it. They could have made them worse over the years, which everybody are. Yeah. to chocolate now. They're less cocoa, more sugar and whatever. Oil. Oil. More oils. Essentially, yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:23 Essential oils. Yeah. Yeah. It's Cadbury's slogan now. More oils. To slip down your throat. Mmm. To slide around in your tum. The chocolate that's like raw oysters. Oh, yeah. Cadbury. How oily do you want your tongue to be? We'll make it oily.
Starting point is 01:08:38 We'll make it too oily for you. Yeah, so I did think it was going to be something like that. Yeah. Now let me ask you this. Did some of the did some of the alien spaceships because we've sort of got a variety of it. I think some did look like the close encounter spaceship.
Starting point is 01:08:52 Yeah, I think there was definitely nods to that. I don't know. Again, I haven't seen close encounters in years. And again, at the end of that, Richard Dreyfus gets on the ship. So I'm like, they're pedaling out Richard Dreyfus is going to happen. But it's Richard Dreyfus from Jaws.
Starting point is 01:09:06 Yeah. I got bit. We're going to need a bigger spaceship. For all this empathy, we've got drag. We're dragging around. You know? We're going to be dropping off this empathy all over the world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:09:17 Yeah, but again... I know that wasn't my line, but I learned empathy from Roy Scheider, so... Ever heard of him? Ever heard of him? He's in Sequest DSV. And they met aliens. They did meet aliens all the time in that. Mark Hamill was one of them.
Starting point is 01:09:31 Yes. Yeah. Yes. Okay. I got some reviews here from Darrell says it was all right, not Spielberg's best, but still pretty entertaining. I felt a bit like he had decided he wanted to make her remake close encounters, but a bit sad in modern times of similar world events to now.
Starting point is 01:09:45 I did enjoy Emily Blunt's performance a lot. lot and there's some unexpected but humorous slapstick comedy. What about him? Also a Spielberg movie. True. Michael says, I really like this. I've never seen it actually.
Starting point is 01:09:56 And I'm a bit of a weird alien nut, to be honest. But the conversation in this movie felt as real as you could possibly make it. And I feel like it will trigger some really fun conversations with friends. Well, that's true. Me and my major story, we had some really interesting conversations about this movie and just humanity in general. Oh, all right. Yeah. Are you eating a red rooster?
Starting point is 01:10:13 No, we weren't. Interesting. Do you think we could have been there? You could have been eating Red Rooster. I had an oily tummy from all my chocolate. Reese's oily pieces, I think I ate. That's what they call them. Which I think it's just the regular one now?
Starting point is 01:10:26 Yeah, yeah. Or you can get extra oily. Tarvo says, an alien movie is so surprisingly realistic, raw and unexpectedly, unexpectedly appreciated. That is my review of Dark Skies. Whoa. Disclosure Day is an alien movie too indeed.
Starting point is 01:10:40 Whoa, got him. And Dan says, I love this movie a lot. There are some real dumb bits like Wardex agents simply not seeing old mate. But aside from that, this is incredibly realistic for a sci-fi plot, extremely tense for a lot of the movie until the big finale becomes quietly peaceful. So much close encounters about it. But that makes sense, I guess. Loved it.
Starting point is 01:11:00 Would watch again. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, good. Good. It's, yeah, it's good and great. Again, it's nice to see a movie from someone like who's been doing it for so long who can just get something like this through as well. Absolutely.
Starting point is 01:11:13 And it's not ready player one. It's not ready player one. It's not entirely IP based. Yes, exactly. Yeah. I guess the IP is Steven Spielberg. And aliens. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:11:23 Gray's and whatever. Yeah, yeah. Cool. All right. Should we move it along? Let's move it along. What are we going to talk about now, though? We're going to talk about what we're reading.
Starting point is 01:11:30 And what we're going to read? I'm going to talk about a video game. Is that all right? That's fine, actually. All right, but their theme song has to go first. Okay. I'm doing the theme. Okay.
Starting point is 01:11:44 Okay. All right. All right. Things we've been watching. Settle down everyone. It's your own time you're wasting. Doing listening. Correct?
Starting point is 01:11:52 Doing. Doing. Went for a walk the other day. It was good. How was it? I got a bush war coming up on the weekend in my bushwalk crew. Evidently you do. I'm not going.
Starting point is 01:11:58 No. It's at 7 a.m. on a Sunday. I mean, you could. No, I couldn't. Obviously, if this is a setup to have you killed, is it? Then we've got all the evidence right here. That's true.
Starting point is 01:12:08 Right? We've got all that you've mentioned it here. And then I can kill one of them and then be like, like that was setting me up. Yes. Yes. Okay. Let's do it.
Starting point is 01:12:17 Let's do it. Both of us. Yes. Yeah. Oh, just quickly we had the, uh, at big sandwich.com or Patreon.com slash Mr. Sunday movies. The bonus thing this week is a time crapsule. Oh yes.
Starting point is 01:12:26 On the 1920. But of course, last week also we've got, we did a week of, we got this cupboard covered covered on Disney crime. That's a video that made he put together. That's episode 78. We did all that. There's a movie commentary on ET week before that. Surabi edited a Spider-Man life story video.
Starting point is 01:12:42 That's terrific. Which is cool. I love Disney crime. Me too. As long as it's whimsical and not weird. It's both. It is, isn't it? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:49 So yeah, check that out if you are interested. But also, you do not have to. Mason. Yes. I know what I'm going to talk about for what I've been reading. Well, I know what I'm going to talk about. First of all, I watched a movie that came out last year that I was wanting to track down. The Mask.
Starting point is 01:13:03 No, I've seen that numerous times. And it didn't even come out last year. It's so true. Yeah. Maybe a 4K or something like that. It'd be great. Bonus Dancers with Cameron Diaz. More dancers than ever.
Starting point is 01:13:13 It's the movie Americana? Did you see the trailers for this? Sydney, Sweetie, Paul Walter Houser, Halsie's in it, the late Eric Dane is in it, Simon Rex is in it. It's a sort of a... It's like a... 20203? Yeah, well, it was made in 20203. It didn't get a full release until 2025.
Starting point is 01:13:31 But it's sort of an interesting kind of Wild West but modern day, like a neo-Western crime film. I thought it was a lot of fun. It's got Toby Huss. I like Toby Huss. It was directed by Tony Toss, who I don't really. know anything about, but he was the showrun of the second season of poker face. Oh. Which also has Simon Rex in it, which makes sense.
Starting point is 01:13:48 But I thought it was a lot of fun. It's sort of, you know, it's a little bit, it's a little bit pulp fiction. There's like three different threads. Yeah, three different threads sort of interwoven together. I thought it was pretty good. I didn't, I should have gotten more, should have gotten more play than it did, I think. But it didn't, is what you're telling me. It did not, correct.
Starting point is 01:14:08 Yeah, good cast. Yeah, good cast. Yeah. Is it on Netflix or something? It was on something in Australia. It was definitely on something. Maybe... Let me check.
Starting point is 01:14:16 I can do that for you. If you could do that. I also started reading... I'm behind on it, but I'm reading Marvel's Immortal Thor. Oh, yes. Written by Al Ewing and various artists. And it's, you know, and it's sort of... The last few years was kind of the ongoing Thor storyline, which I've been enjoying
Starting point is 01:14:34 because there is a... I say new, but relatively new ongoing called Mortal Thor. Where Thor has... Something has happened, and I don't know what, but I jumped ahead to the first issue just to find out. But he's, he's, he's, he's still considered a myth. All of Thor's great deeds have now been attributed to Beta Ray Bill. Is there some kind of universe changing? We don't know, but, but the man, there is a man and he's, he just, he's like a, like a Norwegian immigrant to America.
Starting point is 01:15:06 And he just, he doesn't remember much of his past and he just lives in an apartment in New York. but he feels compelled to write wrongs and he doesn't know why. Has he got magic abilities? No, not so far. Is he got a hammer? Yes. Is it real or is it just like a big hammer? It's a big hammer.
Starting point is 01:15:21 All right, okay. And it's sort of he's right and wrongs. He's budding up against rocks on again because they're doing some strike breaking stuff and he's not having it. This is like when Superman wore a t-shirt recently and ran around. It is a bit like that. By recently you mean 15 years ago? Yeah, something like that. It's just like that thing that happened recently 15 years ago.
Starting point is 01:15:38 Exactly. Excellent. It is excellent. Well, I've been playing a new-ish video game. Is it 007 first line? It is Mason. I went to buy it last week, and no one had it. They're like, we don't have copies of that.
Starting point is 01:15:51 Could you consider downloading it off internet? I don't like doing that. What I like to do is buy the disc and then download it off internet anyway. And then also the internet, it takes an hour. And also, everything on your screen is an ad for an upcoming thing or a PlayStation Plus or, oh, you haven't connected properly online or why don't you look at this QR code for whatever. The whole screen is just fucking junk. It's like your TV has become a fandom wiki.
Starting point is 01:16:15 It has become a fandom wiki. Videos that automatically play probably. Yes. Things constantly downloading. Anytime you try to click on anything, you go one pixel in the wrong direction. You've clicked an ad instead. Yeah, it's good. And it closes the window and open up an ad window.
Starting point is 01:16:29 Yep, you open up a game and it's like, do you want to play online with it? Do you want this to, you know, do you want this to be connected to the internet? Not really. Well, you kind of have to. Yeah. I started it and it hadn't downloaded properly, apparently. by the time I'd started. So I'd go through the first segment of the game,
Starting point is 01:16:43 which is like, this is before you were a 007. And then it does the theme song. Yeah, it goes to the theme song. And then it would go, I doesn't finish downloading the content. And then it would stop. And then it would load back to the start of that and play the song again. And that happened like five times.
Starting point is 01:16:57 And I was like, I hate this fucking song. Oh, no. So much now. But it's a good song. It's all right. I don't know. Remember it.
Starting point is 01:17:03 Okay. How's Patrick Gibson as New Bond? He's great. Yeah. Okay. That being said, I like him as New Bond. It's a really fun game.
Starting point is 01:17:09 the gadgets are cool. You've got, it's like a hitman kind of light people have compared it to. Because you know, often at the starter level, you might go to a party or you'll be at a pirate island or whatever. And you've got to walk around and talk to people and there's different ways to get about. You can lie your way in or kill everybody or use different gadgets. Like you've got a phone that shoots a dart, which makes a person vomit. And it's a landline phone. It's a landline phone, that's right.
Starting point is 01:17:31 Yeah. It's one of those ones you set down on a table and it sort of goes, ting. Yes. Because it's all mechanical parts. There's a, um, There's like new characters. And often they'll take, like, they'll take what they look like as well. Are you Lenny James?
Starting point is 01:17:48 Lenny James is John Greenway in it. Because he's the previous, he's like a previous double-o. Who's like training the new batch of double-o's. And he's like a really great character to put it on. Maybe halfway through. There's some car stuff. I haven't done a lot of it yet. There's the one proper car segment.
Starting point is 01:18:04 There's an amazing moment where you get onto a plane and you can use your watch to like tip the plane while you're inside. And so bad guys are like just sliding back and forth in there. And 009, he's decided to dress as the BAFTA Award. That's right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So, yeah, all in all, I really like it.
Starting point is 01:18:22 I think it's in terms of like a story, it kind of changes multiple times. You think it might be like an AI nuclear arms race kind of thing. And then it becomes something else. And then it's like, oh, it's rogue agents. And then it might. And then it just kind of, because it's like 15 hours or whatever it is. It kind of pivots multiple times throughout. Interesting, okay.
Starting point is 01:18:42 But it's, it is really solid core mechanics. Do you feel like James Bond? In real life, no. What about in the game? A little bit sometimes, yeah. Oh, very exciting. And also, you can be in a fist fight, but you can be overwhelmed. Like, you can't just, it's the same with the shooting.
Starting point is 01:18:57 It's not just running gun, you've got to think about it. Let me ask you this. Who would win a fight between James Bond and Agent 47? Agent 47. I don't think he would. You don't reckon? Because who's he fighting really? Yeah, well, that's true.
Starting point is 01:19:07 He's not really, he doesn't fistify it in the same way. James Bond does. Like how many, how many, how many evil versions of himself is he fighting, is he fought over his career? He's mostly just dropping pianos
Starting point is 01:19:17 on socialites. Yeah, you know, which is fun. Whereas Bond, you know, he's leaving a trail of rogue double O's behind him,
Starting point is 01:19:24 you know what I mean? I think he's better at killing. You're probably right. Yeah. But Patrick Gibson's a really good James Bond. I think they, but the idea that they would make this independently of the movies.
Starting point is 01:19:35 And also, there's so many nods to like the movies or like he's got the scar. He does, yeah. He's got the facial scar. Which has always been absent from the movies. Yes, that's right. I think it's interesting that they've gone from, you know, people on the internet have gone
Starting point is 01:19:47 from very skeptical to a lot of people saying he should be the new bond. Which he won't be, obviously. No. Because they're, you know, it's, De Nideyvel Nia was going in a different track completely. But I think that's a testament to the work of the game that people like, yeah, he is good. I don't think he should be. Yeah. I think because then I think that would.
Starting point is 01:20:04 This is white, you were saying to me earlier. Because he's white. That's what I don't like about it. But I think also the fact that he could. can be the video game version of James Bond. Yeah. And this can exist in its own world, like the Spider-Man games or whatever they're doing with Wolverine.
Starting point is 01:20:16 That is what I like about this. I mean, there's nothing wrong with being in a really good AAA. Nothing wrong with that. You know? And like, because he will be remembered as like, as a great James Bond. Yeah. Like, because of this. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:20:30 Also, we don't necessarily know what like his physicality is in real life. He's just a fake. He's five, he's about five-10. So he's probably a little bit shorter than maybe. But Daniel Craig's not that tall. I also mean, I also mean like he's a good, he's probably a good voice actor and, you know, face actor, but we don't know, can he do stunts? Can he do, et cetera? I would say so.
Starting point is 01:20:51 I mean, he was Little Dexter, wasn't he? Oh, yeah. Yeah. But I, I, he was always doing stunts. Yeah. But this is a good, uh, this is a great game. And also, there is definitely times in it where you can kind of see the mechanics and like the way a level will start is that, oh, you got to infiltrate a party. Oh, you can talk to people.
Starting point is 01:21:09 well, here, oh, this is a sneaking room, so now you've got to use your sneaking. Oh, this is a fighting section or becomes a fighting. So you can kind of, yeah, you see the mechanics of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it's... Do you feel like you're in a movie? Sometimes, yeah, and it's... But what about in the game?
Starting point is 01:21:21 Yes, but there's also, like, at the start while you're doing your 007 training, there's a playable montage where every, like, 20 to 30 seconds, it'll cut to like a new thing you have to just... That's fun. It's like, oh, I just got to do 10 push-ups. Oh, I just got to quickly drive this car. Oh, I just got to fistfight this guy. And it would just, and it just changes every...
Starting point is 01:21:39 That's fun. Yeah, it's good. You should spend $1,500, which would have cost for a PlayStation 5 pro to play this game. I guess I'll do that. Or you can watch me play it for 10 minutes and go, oh yeah, I get it. Yeah, I can just watch it let's play on YouTube.
Starting point is 01:21:49 True. And I can do that for free. You can watch me play it. They'll be better. That'd be better for me. No commentary. It's good to have an audience. No commentary.
Starting point is 01:21:56 From you? For any of us. Okay. Should we do a next segment? It's time for letters. All right, man. Here it is. Okay.
Starting point is 01:22:05 You love letters. I love letters. Yeah. Have we got any, Um, Quicksester's questions this week? I don't think Quicksopher emailed in. What? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:22:14 That's our new segment. Quickstaffes questions. Yeah. He said he was going to, but then he didn't. He said he was going to? No, he didn't. So we assumed. No, I assume Quicksdiffer hasn't even heard last week's episode.
Starting point is 01:22:24 Maybe he's behind, yeah. If somebody knows Quicksdiffer, can you please contact him and let him know that he is lagging behind on his segment? And he has to make up for it next week by doing four questions. I cannot see Quicksdiffer here at all. Uh, here's an email from Aslan. You spelling it right? It's Q-U-I-C-K-T-O-P-H-E-R.
Starting point is 01:22:42 Do I look like a guy who's spelling it wrong? No. If you do want to reach the show just quickly, weekly PlanetPod at g-mell.com or go into the Planet Broadcasting Greatmates' groups. There is a list. There it is. Hello, my name is Aslan.
Starting point is 01:22:54 Like from Narnia. Oh, no. They're not from Narnia, though. But I said some Narnia shit last week. It sucks. I'm a long-time listener from Mississippi. I started listening to you in my freshman year in high school. Nice.
Starting point is 01:23:05 Just graduated from law school. Congratulations on being a law. The last few months I've had great shows with great theme songs. I'm thinking about Daredevil, Morning End and Spider-Noir. What are some of the best theme songs in recent years? You cannot skip. Oh, my.
Starting point is 01:23:15 I will never skip an opening sequence. A peacemaker? Yes, terrific. I mean, they're made to not skip, right? Yeah, but I don't think you should skip. I think the TV watching experience. It's part of it? It's part of it.
Starting point is 01:23:27 Skip the end title, sure. Skip to the next episode. Skip the end titles because, what, it's just a list of people who were instrumentally making the show. Get out of here. I don't care. I think sometimes they feel a little self-indulgent. And I don't need to see something slowly crumble or whatever.
Starting point is 01:23:44 You're talking about every daredevil. Every dead. Not even that specifically. But I like a short, snappy one. I'll do it. Scrubs. Bepal. Breaking bad.
Starting point is 01:23:53 Yep. Or whatever was. Yeah. Bown. Um, something like that. Famously, and you haven't seen this, but the wire every season, it was the same song. A song called Way Down in the Hole. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:04 But by a different musician every time. There's a Tom Waits version There was a blind boys of Alabama version There was other versions Didn't they get worse as they win as well Increasingly worse No they were all good I heard they were bad
Starting point is 01:24:15 All right then Yeah Yeah so I mean I'll never skip The Becker theme song Absolutely yeah Bealibet Do you ever ready to go Is that weird?
Starting point is 01:24:24 No The joke you're doing here Did you have it ready to go? Well how would I have it ready to go I mean I always do have it ready to go The one time I bring it up Yes Yeah
Starting point is 01:24:32 I think it's okay to skip Sometimes I do Sometimes I'll be like Well this is a good opportunity for me to be on my phone for 30 seconds. Absolutely. I love that about everything. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:43 What's next, though? I know. This is from Sarah, who says, I stopped watching Marvel movies after Endgame. What ones do you think are necessary to catch up before seeing Doomsday? I would say none of it. I think there'll be enough context. They're going to make this for people like you.
Starting point is 01:25:00 Yeah, I think maybe we talked about this last week or in something else recently, the first Avengers movie you could watch without any context. Yeah. And I know there's been 400 characters introduced since then, but I think there's going to be enough. Do you know who Spider-Man is? Yeah, that's enough. I think you're going to go in, or they're going to let everybody know that, like, oh, Steve Rogers is back. Captain America, what are you doing here?
Starting point is 01:25:19 I thought you were tied back in time. Well, now I'm back, baby. Yeah. Iron man, you died. Yeah, now I'm Doctor Doom, though. It's going to be like that. Yeah. So you, I think there will be like...
Starting point is 01:25:29 Black Panther. Why are you ride Gosling now? Because I'm White Panther. Because I'm White Panther. I came back as White Panther. Yeah. This is what people wanted, I think, maybe. This is what the internet was saying.
Starting point is 01:25:39 What if there was a white panther? My agent got me this. I don't know what's going on. I wasn't aware there was a Black Panther, honestly. I'm Ryan Gosling. I don't watch Marvel movies. So, yeah, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Maybe it's going to say Spider-Man, No Way Home, but not really.
Starting point is 01:25:55 Yeah. I don't know. If there's anything that interests you, I think anything that you think might be interesting, watch that. But I wouldn't say, don't do any homework on this. if you don't want to. And that's okay. Would you agree?
Starting point is 01:26:07 Yes. Because again, they're saying this is like phase zero. This isn't going to rely on things of the past. Not true it is. But it's going to rely on the things of the past that people remember. Yeah, that's right.
Starting point is 01:26:15 Even though there will be nods to like other things. Even things that suck us. Yeah, that's right. Here's an email from Nick. Nick. Norris. Norris. Please, I need you guys to cover this.
Starting point is 01:26:23 How do you think this could have possibly happened? I genuinely have no idea. And it's the official DC shop has removed a piece of Supergirl movie artwork that featured the obscure Star Wars character Lexos. So this is a piece of art from the artist who did Super Girl Woman of Tomorrow. Her name is...
Starting point is 01:26:42 Bilquist. Bilquist Everly. That's right. Thank you. But this is new art. So this is new art based on the movie stuff. What I think probably happened here is somebody did a mock up of something. Like, I don't think she is plagiarizing.
Starting point is 01:26:56 No. No, I think what happened here probably is they were like, and there's going to be aliens. Yeah. And they just put a bunch of stuff in the background. background and we're like, can you do your, here's the mock-up. Here's some of the stuff that we got, yeah. And there is a character, I believe, in one of the trailers that does look a bit similar.
Starting point is 01:27:12 Okay. So I think probably somebody went, I think the way some of these happen is somebody goes, hey, can you draw this person and they don't know, so they Google it, or the person sending in the artwork Googles it. And it's a, the first image result is from a Reddit thread that's like, hey, doesn't this character look like this character? And they just catch the first image. And they go, okay, well, this is the character we want, let's put it in.
Starting point is 01:27:36 And then they've... I feel like there was a comment about this, but maybe there hasn't been. Like an official DC comic. Or even from Bilkis. Okay, right. I'm not sure. Evela, yeah. I just know it's been removed.
Starting point is 01:27:48 Yeah. Yeah. Because she's drawn them here in the style of how they look in the movies. Yeah, it is like, without question, that is the image. It's cream in the background. The band. Yeah, I don't know, man. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:28:01 Anyway, it's fine. Star Wars steals. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. We all steal. Yeah. Great artists steal. That's right.
Starting point is 01:28:08 And that's what we are. AI. Yeah. Graham says, what fandoms do you not just not understand? Not even the law, just the idea that anyone could like it. Sure. Okay, I can do some of these. All right, I'm ready.
Starting point is 01:28:21 Whatever's left of the Snyderverse. And it's not even so much that you're a fan of that. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's just the vitriol and the idea that you tear everything else down because Henry Cavill can't be Superman. Also, yeah. And maybe they are supporting all the other projects that these creators are like Snyder and Cavill.
Starting point is 01:28:41 But again, there's not enough to move the needle there. Yeah. But I don't think they are also. No, I don't think they are. I think it's, yeah, it's also celebrity worship. I don't get. Also, like tearing down celebrities also like that. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:28:54 Anything royal watching, I fucking hate that. That's crazy. Following a band around and seeing them everywhere. Yeah. I don't get that. We've had a discussion about this, and it's like, on the, some, like, I know of, you know, some people who are like, oh, okay. I love the Grateful Dead. Yeah, or like, some people are like, okay, me and my wife every year, we go on a holiday to some nice place.
Starting point is 01:29:17 Like, we go to Italy or something like that. Must be nice. And we've coordinated it. So my favorite band also happens to be playing. Yeah. And it's like, okay. That's not what I'm talking about. Yeah, but there are people who do, like, the band is on tour and they've got 15 dates.
Starting point is 01:29:29 Yeah. And the person will see every show. And it's like, okay, good. All right, man. Yeah, all right. That's how you want to spend your money? I think it's just, and also, like, it's not so much fandoms, because I think there's good and bad within all fandoms.
Starting point is 01:29:41 We've seen that. But it's, you know, any toxic form of that or making it like your entire identity. And like any attack on that or any variation of that or any, you see it as a personal slight against you. That I don't understand. Now, you're a part of the Grey Henley fandom. That's right. So if I were to say,
Starting point is 01:29:59 don't. Just don't. Just don't say anything about it. This is my entire identity. It's true, yeah. And this one's slightly too tight. I know. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 01:30:07 This is a small. There was a mistake. I've got a medium that fits me better. How do you feel about the split in the fandom? Some people like a smooth jersey fabric and some people like a like a like a waffle. A waffle's fine. I'm doing both, Mason. Wow, okay.
Starting point is 01:30:19 Yeah. Bridging that gap there. I like to think I'm bringing people together. Yeah. I thought so too. Yeah. I like to think so. I like to think I'm mending bridges.
Starting point is 01:30:26 I like to think that I'm curing broken hearts. Absolutely. Do you like to think that I'm doing? that? Yes, I like to think you're doing that. Here's one of my emails from Callie. Callie. This is interesting to me. Best and Worst movie Tie-In-Foods. Hi, James and May, so I recently picked up a box of those Mandalorian versus Groglett Nilla Wafers on a grocery store. I don't know what that is. That's the thing. How do you spell that?
Starting point is 01:30:50 N-I-L-L-A. I'm going to list, this email is going to list a bunch of stuff we've never heard of. Yeah. They're just regular wafers colored blue. I'm guessing they're like those. Oh, yeah, the Bist. Yeah, I know what these are. Sometimes you get something elaborate in terms of movie and TV Thai and foods on theme and that actually tastes good like the ecto cooler. Again, we never had that. I don't know what that is. But they were big...
Starting point is 01:31:09 Is it a drink? It's a drink? It's a drink. Or the Rameon fries and the recent K-pop demon hunters McDonald's meal. Other times you get something that's functional but not really worth the hype like that. Wendy's Craby Patty, again, we don't have that. Well, I don't know what you're talking about. No, no, no.
Starting point is 01:31:25 Or the aforementioned Mando cookies. In your experience, what are the best and worst movie TV tie-in foods that you've ever had? they don't do it a lot in Australia. Or if it is, it's in a specialty store. Or it's just, it's almost in Hungry Jacks, which is the Australian equivalent of Burger King. We call it HJ's. That's true, we do.
Starting point is 01:31:41 Hey, let's get a HJs. Let's go down the road. Let's get all the boys together. After we've done that bushwalk, we'll go down the street and get an HJs. Absolutely. And HJs for everybody. A sweaty H.J. for all of us. That's what we say.
Starting point is 01:31:54 That's right. Extra sauce. We say, but Hungry Jacks, they would just do whoppers with different coloured sources. Or the burger will be black. The bun will be black, sorry. For the Hulk, they did the Angry Whopper, if you recall. Oh, yeah. And they've done just a bunch of other...
Starting point is 01:32:07 And it's just a different color sauce that's the same. And they've got the Angry Whopper. Now only, don't get turned into the Hulk, though, if you eat it. I won't. You know, it'll calm you down on H. That'll calm you right down. Get your mates. Get them in here.
Starting point is 01:32:23 There's room for all here. That's right. We can give you a private booth. Group rates, discount. You can pull a little curtain across. if you want. And we've got a jukebox. That's right.
Starting point is 01:32:34 Or used to? I don't really do that anymore. I was talking to this with my brother the other day, the one you do like. Yeah, nice. It's like McDonald's, less hungry jacks, but McDonald's is so awful and generic and all the restaurants are the same and you've got to talk to the computer screen and then it doesn't print off your order like the ticket number and then you're like, I don't know when my order's coming.
Starting point is 01:32:53 And there's like, they're understaffed and they're all teenagers who are getting underpaid so they don't care. And you don't even get a train. or they just throw you a bag of wet food. Uh-huh. And it's smaller than it's ever been. Uh-huh. It's that insidification thing or whatever.
Starting point is 01:33:07 Yeah. I don't know what my point is. But sometimes it just hits right. Sometimes it is right. But I would say, look, I'd barely go. But my kids don't even like it.
Starting point is 01:33:16 They're like, fuck McDonald's is terrible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is like when we're not even paying for it. They didn't even care. Yeah. Like, when I was a kid, it's like... Yeah.
Starting point is 01:33:23 It's now a roll of the dice. Like, if you get, if you get nuggets, maybe it's your lucky day, and you get good nuggets. But if you bought 20 nuggets... You talked about this the other day. You had a nugget experience. The other day I was like, I'm going to get,
Starting point is 01:33:36 I had the other, well, one time I, a while back I got six nuggets and I'm like, these are really good nuggets. This is so good. What if I had more than six? And then a couple of weeks later, I'm like, I'm going to get 20 nuggets. This dude's out of his mind. I'm going to eat 20 nuggets and they were 20 bad nuggets. You ate all 20 minutes.
Starting point is 01:33:48 I had to eat all 20 bad nuggets on a train platform. I feel like you got to 12 and from then on up. And from then on up, they could have been good and you wouldn't have known. That's probably true. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, Australia doesn't have any of these novelty. No, what I got went on the tangent.
Starting point is 01:34:01 It'll all wait, or it'll be like Doritos. I went on a tanjord. It'll be, it'll just be the bag with, but, but, but, yeah, groglets on the bag or whatever, but it's the same. Look, it's groglet. Broglet would eat these. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes, I know he would because he's a garbage gal.
Starting point is 01:34:15 He's just a little trash compact. We'd eat anything. Sometimes, yuck. Sometimes I'll put it on like fruit. Yes. They'll be like, oh, look, it's apples, but it's Trek, whatever. Okay. Trembles.
Starting point is 01:34:27 Shrek eat apples. Yeah, probably you would. He'd roll them in mud and then he'd eat them. It'd probably eat them. You'd roll them in mud and grubs and then he'd eat an apple. Yeah, great. But no. But no.
Starting point is 01:34:39 You know what? There's a lot of bluey themed food. Is there? Yeah. And every now and there... Again, is it just labelled? Sometimes, but like, because, you know, my kid's like blueie. My daughter in particular, like, can we get that bluey, whatever?
Starting point is 01:34:50 And I'm like, every time we do this, you don't like it. Right. And she's like, this one, this one. And then I get it. And she's like, I don't like these. And I'm like, I know. I know. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:34:59 And now I've wasted a bunch of money and that's coming out of your salary. That's right. When you get your first job. You're talking about me? Yeah. Or I'm taking it from the tooth fairy. This one's from Brock, who says, how far in advance is Caravan a garbage planned? Do you plan out the whole year at once?
Starting point is 01:35:15 First thing I do, I know this. I list everything that's coming out during the year and the dates and when it's coming out, which obviously change, which is like movies and TV shows and sometimes video games. And then I'll see what fits in there. but that subject of change. And there are gaps. Like, there's still gaps for the rest of the year that need to be filled out. But I have a, I would say, like a 60 to 70% of that filled out at the start of year.
Starting point is 01:35:39 But it changes a lot. Yeah. So that's probably the, yeah. Yeah. And yes, we are sometimes watching the thing, you know, the afternoon of. Yeah. I normally don't. Sometimes you do.
Starting point is 01:35:50 But I need at least probably two or three days. Okay. To kind of do it and then sort my notes and then watch behind the scenes and everything. else. Interesting how you do that. Interesting that your work ethic exists and mine does not. I thought you're going to say because it doesn't seem like it does because my output is not great. No, I would say. I would say, two or three days into something. What I would say is if the choice was two people with your work ethic or two people with my work ethic, it would be the first one. Yeah, okay. I think it, um, I don't think we both need the same work ethic, whether that be mine or
Starting point is 01:36:22 yours. I think the point is that it works. Mostly. Sometimes you're watching an episode of Smallville on the train over or whatever. That's right. And then it's fresh. It's fresh and hot. And you normally go, well, I've got one note and then you'll have it. And it's perfect. It's perfect. No notes on my notes. I think that's it for me. That's it for me also. Yeah. That's the show. Folks. Thank you so much for listening. We absolutely appreciate it. Thank you for telling your friends about the podcast because that is how we get new listeners, I think. And thank you for leaving a five-star review on your podcast app of choice. You do so. James will find it. He'll find it on the dark web and he'll read it out right now. I found these two.
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