The Weekly Planet - Best of The Weekly Planet 2024

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

It's the annual best of clips show! A big episode featuring fond memories, jam-packed full of normal segments and which is quite frankly, far too long. Hope you enjoy and we'll be back with your regular comic book movie news after the break for Jan 27th. Thanks for listeningAnd new bonus let's play video for Marvel Rivals out now on bigsandwich.co!Selected timecodes below with full episode guide available here: https://shorturl.at/kRzoN00:00 The Start04:26 Indiana Jones: Get On Yer Back06:23 The Rich Roll Vendetta with Tom Holland20:30 The Rock's Backstage Antics & Turding Out27:58 The Rookie Compilation37:32 DCU & Superman News01:14:32 MCU & SPUMM News01:43:20 Best/Worst Movie Reviews & Topics02:45:15 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read03:20:30 Letters, It's Time For Letters03:56:50 OutroJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownMaso's Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/nickmaseauThe Weekly Planet Twitter ► https://twitter.com/theweeklyplanetThe Weekly Planet TikTok ►https://www.tiktok.com/@weeklyplanetpodThe Weekly Planet Clips Channel on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/@theweeklyplanetclipsPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesTWP iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767TWP Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetTWP YouTube Channel ► https://goo.gl/1ZQFGHAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2QbmwGj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I agree. You got that drinking problem. I do. I got that gambling problem. Yep. You got that problem where you gamble on how much I drink. Yes. And then you win and then you get paid in booze and then we both drink the booze and

then we go out and we gamble on the dogs. You know what I mean? We can't solve that problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I solved this problem. What's the number one problem with our podcast? Uh, it's too radical, too popular. That is a problem.

That is a problem. But the main problem is we have to do it every week. That's true, actually. What a bloody chore. We have to watch a movie or whatever TV show, a thing we like. And then we've got a yappity yappity yap for two hours or whatever. I'm making notes. Exactly.

But we don't have to do that because I've developed an AI algorithm. Finally. And it's just what we're going to do and it's just going to make the podcast for us. Yep. So I don't have to think about it at all. All we have to do, well the one thing we need to do, we've got to plug in the best stuff that we did this year. We've got to train the algorithm.

Yeah. Then when we're finished, once that's done, that's it. Then every week we just push a button. New podcast every week. And it's only going to be the best stuff. It's not going to be all the dead air and bad jokes. That's exactly right. This is a good idea for once. This is a big, this is perfect actually.

We should celebrate by having a big drink and gambling on the big drink, don't you think? I think we should do that, yeah. Which isn't a problem, I don't think. No, not at all, no. Yeah, great. Well, who's going to edit all that together though to put it to the algorithm? Probably Collings. Yeah, he'll probably have to do it. Yeah, he's the... And then he's fired because that's the last time we'll need him, right? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we'll give him a big severance package. I don't think

we have to. Okay. Yeah. Well, the severance package I think was going to be the best of. Okay. Cool. That's good. We'll burn it to a CD for him. And he can come and get it. Well, no, he can burn the CD. Oh yeah, he could. Yeah, they go down the shops and buy a spindle of CDs by like 50. That's way easier. They still sell them. Yeah, absolutely. Officeworks. All right. So I guess if he wanted to, uh, he could just start playing it now. Yeah, no. Great. Great. Welcome back everybody to another episode of The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday and with me as always is my co-host Nick Mason. Okay, it's great to be here.

First of all, did you do that last week? Crack open a Sodi pop? Yeah. Right in the middle, right in the middle of the intro? Wow. It lets people know that I'm hydrated. They worry they worry about it. Let's people know you're currently very Dehydrated they worry about me. It's gonna make them worry more. So don't Elude to needing fluid. Yep, because then they're just gonna assume that I think you should open by going damn. I got a piss I'd have pissed so bad

Do you think I should start the show like that? Yeah, I think you should start the show. Because cracking it open means you are right on the edge of being badly dehydrated. Just like having a bevy, mate. People are gonna worry more. I don't know, man. Look, I don't think anybody worries or thinks about me outside of listening to this or during listening. Try it next week. I'll make a note of it.

Okay. So you want me to say, man, I need to piss so bad and then don't open a drink. Correct, yes. Even though I want to have a drink. Just the idea of cracking open a drink makes me want to vomit and piss, you could say. Okay, I'll say that. I'll say it all because I'll remember. No one will remember. Welcome back everybody to another episode of The Weekly Planet where we talk movies

and comics and TV shows. My name is James, also known as Mr. Sunday and with me as always my coast Nick Mason Easter Sunday. Mm-hmm What does Jar Jar Brinks? What is what? What did you say? What is Jar Jar Brinks in the room? No, huh a character I've invented Yeah, well, then maybe I don't know what he is. Is he you tell me? Yeah, he is but you have to guess what element in the room I'm not doing that. Okay. He's an alien. That looks like a very very mundane thing. That's in this a microphone Okay, yes. Yeah Yeah, it's the one sitting in the corner there for some reason that right. I'll bring terrific

Okay, welcome. Ja ja Brinks because the big week is it it's a very big way. They're talking craven the hunter That's right. The last big spum of the year. And maybe ever. Maybe ever. What do you think, Jar Jar? Oh, he doesn't talk. Oh, he doesn't talk? No.

Okay. Well, microphones don't talk, do they? So he is a microphone. No, but he's taken on the form of a microphone. Is he locked into that? Currently. It's too late for this, Mason. We are recording very late folks.

It's going to be one of those episodes I can only assume. Anyways Mason it's time for hot quick news. In new Indiana Jones game. Indiana Jones in a big circle. Anyway that was so hot. Looks good. This is machine games right? Yes.

So they did Wolfenstein. It's only coming to Xbox at the moment and PCs. But I think the shots we get of this version of Indiana Jones look really good. Yeah. Troy Baker's doing the voice. Yeah, sure. I mean, he does all the voices, doesn't he, Mason? Yes, it's him and David Hayter, right?

Who do all the voices? It was him and Nolan North. Nolan North, that's what I'm thinking of. And not that they're not talented because they obviously are. Yeah, I should think you should get Tara Strong for the voice of Harrison Ford. I agree, I agree. So, there's someone I would love to do it, but you know, I'm not going to I don't want to be like, yes, me.

I'd love to do it. Yeah, boys. I'm Indiana Jones. Get on your back. What does that mean? Get out, boys. That's good. I love that. We're going to look. There's no time because it's hot quick news, but I think we're definitely going to return to Indiana Jones, but he just has that voice for some reason. Is he Australian?

No. It's just the voice that he has. He's from where he's from. Yeah, he's from where he's from. Whatever that is. People ask you, what do we think of? G'day boys, I'll be taking that. Oh't thanks boys All right, see a lot of boys get on your back You bloody stay there. This is the perfect piece of news for hot quick news Because my jewel whip wielding anyway for people who say that first-person action in this style doesn't wouldn't work I think is a redic did it conicals a redic?

Edge games. I know they're obviously different, but yeah, it can be done I'm like I bet when you do the first whip across a gorge and you do a big swing, I bet you're like, whoa, this is cool. I bet you'll poo your pants. But you'll poo your pants. G'day boys, you got any spare pants around here? Not important why, boys. I hate this character.

It's so quick news. This one's by the Rich Roll podcast. They had Tom Holland on. They said, hello, Tom Holland. Hey, we're better known than the Rich Roll podcast. Let's find out. Let's look at their numbers. Who's Rich Roll?

Is it a guy named Rich and Roll? Rich and Roll. It's like that band Big and Rich. Who's Rich Roll? Who is this guy? What's he up to? So on Apple, they've got... Well, we'll do it in via reviews. Okay, sure. Okay. All right. Fine. They have 10,000, nearly

11,000 reviews on Apple podcasts. Okay. And we have 1,600. Well, all right. But that might just be the Australian arm of it. That may be. Because I don't think that's right, Mason. Wow. Well, I mean, they have 6,000 reviews on Spotify. This is incredibly embarrassing for me. I thought we were going to win. Right? And I wouldn't have got that. We could cut all this out but I mean that wouldn't be real would it?

I bet Rich Roll would cut it out if he were publicly embarrassed on his podcast. Okay his podcast has 1.3 million subscribers. Ours doesn't but our YouTube channel does about those numbers. Alright then. And this Tom Holland interview has 259,000 views. Okay. But if you look at a regular interview from the Rich Roll podcast, which I am, where he's talking to Alex Honnold, the croc one, who said do hard things, his interview only got 50,000. They're averaging

it out between like 20 to 50,000 views per podcast. He's saying this is sus? Yeah, we have more views for our podcast than that. Interesting. Would you say this is a scam? Yep, they got Rainn Wilson, 18,000 views. Interesting. I feel like if we got Rainn Wilson it'd probably hit a billion. I agree. Because it'd be such a good interview. And it's something that cannot be proven either way.

I agree with you. What I do like, and I don't know whether this is wrong because I haven't been through all of these, but none of these dudes are like cranks. You know, it looks like the kind of podcast where you get cranks on and be like absolutely let's listen to all opinions including to the worst man on the internet. Yeah for sure. So you know what? Us. Us. Rich Roll we salute you and respect you and we forgive you. Bless you. Bless you Rich Roll. This is probably an incredibly popular podcast that everybody knows. We're like nah we don't know it what's this? Yeah anyway

Spider-Man 4 update from Tom Holland. He said, it needs work, but the writers are doing a great job. I read it three weeks ago and it lit a fire in me. Zendaya and I sat down, read it together and we're at times bouncing around the living room. He said it does need some work. Interesting. As mentioned, but what do you think about that? Does that make you excited for Spider-Man fighting Canal or whatever? He's got a sticky knife. He's trying to get Spider-Man.

With his sticky knife. Now I've gone from the planet of the... Oh no. I'm going to jump out of the way. Well, I'll be foiled again. Off I go back to my home planet, I suppose. How you feeling, Spider-Man 4? Look, give me some ground level stuff.

If you can give me, I don't know, look I would probably prefer, if it's going to be a two hour movie, I'd prefer 90 minutes of grounded stuff and then at the end it gets a bit weird and then we go and give me a... And it turns into black and white like Thor 4. Yeah. And then fight a goob monster or whatever. Exactly, with sticky knives. Yeah! And they fight a goob monster or whatever. Exactly! With sticky knives. Yeah, that guy had a sticky knife. And just give me, you know, then maybe give me a cliffhanger and then we go into space or whatever. Okay.

I can open big. Okay. Fighting a guy with a big sticky hand or whatever. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. And then he defeats him. And I don't know, then he stops him like... Did you know Rich Roll is an ultra athlete and a wellness evangelist? Is he?

Yep. Evangelist? Evangelist. Oh. That's a great title you've given yourself, Rich Roll. an ultra athlete and a wellness evangelist. Is he? Yep. Evangelist? Evangelist. Oh, that's a great title. You've given yourself Rich Roll. That's right. I bet I could lift him over my head and dump him in a bin. And I will do that.

Wow. Do you think I should? I think he should. I mean, if you can even catch him, he'd probably run away as soon as he sees you. Nah, man. See, the thing is, I'm a good sprinter. Yeah. I'll get him like up close.

If it's over long distance, yeah, he would be able to clear some space. I mean, he does say he's an ultra athlete. Ultra athlete doesn't mean you'm a good sprinter so I'll get him like up close. If it's over long distance yeah he would be able to clear some space. I mean he does say he's an ultra athlete. Ultra athlete doesn't mean you're a good sprinter. He's specialising in long distance by the sounds of things. And wellness. And wellness. Whatever the fuck that means. That could just mean you drink fish oil all day and he's got severe diarrhoea.

We don't know what this guy's working with. All I'm saying is I could definitely pick him up over my head and dump him in a bed. I think if he was committed to realness, there'd be an episode here. Look, fine, Tom Holland, great. Rainn Wilson, that's good. But there should be a podcast that says, I'm gonna be real with you.

I drank fish all all day and now I have diarrhea. Because we know he did. We know he did. And, oh, this is a Zach Braff episode. Oh yeah? Yeah nice. God damn Rich Roll. Yeah I don't know but I mean also the, I don't know.

Damn this guy's ripped us out. Maybe he just, maybe his name isn't Rich Roll but he discovered like an SEO hack where a lot of people misspell Rick Roll. Oh okay. And they're trying to Rick Roll people and he's like well if I get in there. Get in the Rich Roll. I get a million subscribers or whatever. So this is 1.8 meters tall all right which is like a fraction taller

than me okay but that's his Google height I reckon he's like a hundred and seventy-five at max I'm lifting this dude over my head Mason it's happening okay all right now back to Tom Holland he does have 1.4 million subscribers on you on Instagram but the views don't necessarily reflect that. Very interesting. Yeah. Very interesting. God, this guy's going to look great in a bin.

Don't you think? Yeah, I think that. Yeah. Someone's going to look good in a bin. Absolutely. Or bad in a bin. Whoever ends up in the bin during this scuffle. Is Andy Serkis, he's going to be Knull?

Yeah, I think that they said that. That's been confirmed. Is he going to be roto scoped? Or is he going to be real in it? I don't know, man. Just spray him down some goo and let him go. Let him just let him loose. Just let him wing it. Just let him let him go on stage and let him just improv some some lore. Oh my god. I'm Knull and I'm from the goo planet.

I got a sticky arm. I got a knife arm. And this arm will turn you into a rat. You know? Is that a third arm? Yep. Is that what someone asked? Is that a third arm? Yep.

It's my rat arm. Okay, you said it. It's canonical now. And Tom Hardy's there with a love interest in the mood. He's like, don't let him touch you. His arm will turn you into a rat. You know? They brought Michelle Williams back. Why? Yeah, she's like, oh no. Oh, he's touched me. Eddie, am I going to turn into a rat? Yeah Definitely eventually touched ya. Oh right up. Wait, which one's my right arm? Oh My god, well, he was snook and he was a CGI man. That's so true. Isn't it? Hi, though

We got one a new trailer for Godzilla X Kong where we get Godzilla and Kong fighting again in this we did that Okay, I don't think it's okay. They already had a fight. Yeah, I know. But people, you know, they get along. Yeah. Then, you know, maybe Godzilla wrote his name on something on the fridge and then he went to the fridge for it later and Kong had eaten it.

Or it was gone. Yeah. And who else lives in the apartment? And you know it's Kong because he left his big glowing axe in there. That's exactly right. You know, sometimes you actually leave your keys in the fridge? And you know it's Kong because he left his big glowing axe in there. That's exactly right. You know sometimes you actually leave your keys in the fridge or whatever. Sure, absolutely. You know that Kong's going around and he's like, where's my big glowing axe?

I know you took it Godzilla. Godzilla's like, why would I? Why would I take the big... I don't use tools, I'm a lizard. It's just a copy of what I do, if anything. Well it is, it's technically one of its plates isn't it? I think so, yeah. That's great.

But I think Godzilla has gone mad because he's regenerating or its place isn't it? I think so. Yeah, that's great. Hmm, but I think they I think Godzilla has gone mad because he's regenerating or whatever or he's got too much power looks like a too much situation He's running around he's got too much power. Yeah, okay fine he's running around going through puberty and he's and he's got too much power because there's scenes where the Air Force for attacking him and he's he's blasting him with a big zap. Yeah his body I think he's got too much power and then he's gonna go he's fighting Godzilla. He's fighting Kong. He's gonna go and he's gonna he's gonna go into that hibernation state. He's gonna regenerate his pink Godzilla. And then he's gonna come out and he's gonna fight Kong again. And then he's gonna be like,

come on man, what about this other big speed up this big gorilla? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you like how God's it like the bad guys? It's got a bigger whip. Is that is that whip that whip appears to be part of Godzilla's glove? Isn't it part of Godzilla's club out of Kong's glove? I thought Battling he is but I think that's initially part of his car. Okay, and then the other guy whips it off Oh, I thought that was a weapon because you know that weapons. I thought that was his weapon then Kong needed a weapon. Oh Whatever or whatever seems like he must have either must have lost his axe. Tricky is going to get his axe matched. And then he's like, I need a new weapon.

I left it in the fridge. Yolner style. I left it in the fridge. Yeah. He did leave it in the fridge. Well it's handy if it's late at night. You open the fridge door, maybe the light isn't working as well as it should. And you put the big glowing axe to see what snacks Godzilla's left in the fridge so you

can eat them. Yum yum yum. Yeah yeah. I love that they live together. I do too. I'm loving this. I think the director said something along the lines of they're a real buddy cop duo in this movie Sure, I'm loving that the more I see them running together the more I'm loving it. Yeah No, I was never not loving it. Yeah. Yeah, and the more I'm loving that the Japanese Godzilla movies are like This is about the failure of the government and then then the American ones are like, this is about dudes being bros.

So that's what our movies are about. Oh my goodness. Just a bit of an Academy Award update. Oh, so it's happening as we speak. Well, it's just wrapped up. It's just wrapped up. Night of nights. Night of nights.

Let's all get in and out, burger. That's the thing celebrities do. Yeah, it's become somewhat of a Hollywood tradition. Oh yes. I love tradition. Look at them wearing their tuxedos and their gowns and they're eating a dirty burger. Can you believe it? They're getting grease on their tuxedos and so forth.

Vera Wang would be spinning in a grey. That's right. Anyway, I'm an awful number one best picture. I sure did. And some other results. Kelly Murphy won Best Actor. Yep. Was there ever any doubt? Emma Stone won for poor thing. Oh, I just want to point out our best actor should go to Bradley Cooper's Reaction face to not winning best act. I'm so happy for Killian Murphy. Good for you Bradley Cooper Yeah, you're making the most of it. Let's see. Best original song was what was Emma Stone won?

Yeah, I did you mention that already. Yeah best original song What was I made for which is Billie Eilish for the Barbie movie the Barbie movie And a bunch of other stuff so Christopher Nolan for Oppenheimer. Yes served a couple of fun Americans American American fiction one best adapted screenplay should watch that so Bobby didn't Bobby didn't come away with a lot of awards But it also made billions of dollars. So yeah, that's why that's an award in itself Don't worry about it best Best visual effects is an upset. Godzilla minus one. What did it what did it upset?

I don't know. Oh, I've got the list here. That beat the creator. Well, that was really good. I was good. God Guardians volume three Mission Impossible dead reckoning part one. I think you find that all of that was real and in camera. And Napoleon.

That's a stacked year though. I mean, if any of those one, you be like what happened in Napoleon yeah I mean there would have been a bunch of special effects but it's not as like yeah look at this alien exactly it would have been the the sequence on the ice yeah the ice sequence oh my god makeup and hairstyling poor things one over maestro oh my god Bradley Cooper he did the nose and everything. He did the nose and everything. He did the wigs and everything. Nose and the wigs. Nose and the wigs.

Damn. My goodness. Yeah, Boy in the Heron won best animated. I still haven't seen that. And Robert Downey Jr. for Oppenheimer. A supporting actor. And he also supports everything he did. Didn't he say that?

He said that, yeah. Especially the communist stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what he said. Oh my god. He said whatever. He said I'm in support of whatever will get me into the most trouble That's right. Oh and Emma Stone called Jimmy Kimmel a prick. Yeah You could have been in jest Together then they get the selfie 10 years since the famous selfie the selfie with Bradley Cooper He's in it

He's in it and he's cursed cuz. He's in it. And he's cursed because everybody else and that's one on Oscar. Ellen won an Oscar. Yeah. Liza Minnelli who's barely crouched down the back won an Oscar. Yeah. They all won an Oscar except Bradley Cooper. God. One of the biggest news in the world is somebody took a selfie. Selfies were big. Celebrities were big. They were big. We love celebrities. We love selfies. We did. Yeah taking a selfie We did hashtag selfie hashtag taking a selfie hashtag taking a selfie. So there you go. That's right Anyway, who won the Razzies who gives a shit fuck. Oh, is that the same night?

I think it was last night. It's an I'm gonna feature the boy in the hair and he said that already mason I'm saying it again best supporting actress divine divine joy Randolph for theovers. Did you see that as well? There was some controversy over... One of the writers of Paddington too said that he'd written a script, I think it was called Frisco, and that Alexander Payne who directed the Holdovers had seen, had read his script, and he'd written the Holdovers and it looks very similar. It's one of those things where oftentimes this doesn't mean anything. I don't think this does mean anything. You don't think this could...

Well, I mean, it seems like there could be. No, if you read it though, there's a sort of cover letter summary that's like, this is the same, this is the same, this is the same, and here's some scenes. And you go, oh, that's quite damning. Yeah. Then the scripts are put side by side. Yeah. And it's basically just like two people are in a room and they have a conversation.

Oh, and that's big time ripoff. I don't think it holds any water. I don't think it holdovers any water. I don't think it holdovers any water. I think it holdo maneuvers any water. That's right. Great. All right.

Should we move it along then? Yes, let's move it. Night of nights, just the stars running around and take it. Selfies gets them in and out. You're a normal person. Pretend to be a normal person. Just keep pretending to be normal. Be normal, normal. Let's all be normal. Let's all be normal.

That's it, just cause we're normal. Oh, this is our life. Normal life. Normal life. Ah, we're normal. Do you know what it's tied for? Let's kill a guy. Let's kill a guy in and out car park. Let's kill a man. Who's the guy?

Doesn't matter who. Let's kill a guy. Let's get the footage afterwards. We're in a big cult. We got a pentagram. Anyway. Oh man. I hope they do have a a pentagram. Anyway. Oh man. I hope they do have a big pentagram.

I hope so too. I hope to see it one day. We love Hollywood. Night of Nights. Hollywood. Anyways, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. God damn. Stand up guy.

Professional. Wow. Mason, you... Wait. No, no, no, no, no. The pinnacle of professionalism. Remember that time he was on set at the Fast and Furious movies and was like, I don't like Vin Diesel, he's not professional.

Unlike me, Dwayne The Rock Johnson, consummate professional. They're probably just both lunatics though, really. Absolutely. That's right. Anyways, everything I'm about to talk about here is from an article from The Wrap. An Amazon MGM said the following claims about Dwayne The Rock Johnson are false and ridiculous. Defamatory? No. Okay.

Just false and ridiculous. Okay. So we're going to get into this. People might have seen this article, but it's basically about a history of Dwayne Johnson, the opposite of the things Mason was saying. Maybe unprofessional, et cetera. What? Maybe turning up late, et cetera.

Look how big he is. Maybe pissing in bottles etc. No no no no Yes, Mason. He's gin or whatever. He's tequila bottles. Pissing in it, Mason. No no no. He's producing beautiful tequila. You're drinking some now, Mason. I am. Apparently there are a number of- Let's get into it. Let's dig in the muck then shall we? We have to. The number of production issues ranging from Johnson's chronic lateness and lack of professionalism. Chronic lateness? I don't think he's that kind of guy Mason. No. Maybe he is.

I was miming smoking steroids. Smoking a big steroid doobie. Then he was smoking a big syringe full of steroids. I want you to cast your mind and your MacBook Mason back to the year. Okay, I'm gonna cast my MacBook into this river. Good. Back to the year 2018. And the movie Rampage. Johnson was late an average of four to five hours daily with one co star. We don't know who. Probably the only other person in that movie.

The gorilla? Not gonna check. The winged wolf or whatever. probably the only other person in that movie. Who was it? I don't know. The gorilla? Not going to check. Maybe. The winged wolf or whatever it was. Actually, I think it was very unprofessional. I was here every day. On set, away from his trailer, if he needs to pee, he doesn't go to public bathrooms. One insider who knows the movie star said well

he pees in a vos water bottle and his team good product placement absolutely that's the glass ones the glass cylinder ones okay his team or a pa has to dispose of it piss assistant pa yeah yeah which is wild because surely if you're doing this if you're getting if you're getting a it's probably so hydrated or really dehydrated. It's tough to say, isn't it? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah.

It's... Well, maybe he drinks so much that he's constantly on the verge of having to pee all the time. Maybe he is. He actually got a quote and he says, I would never piss in a bottle because I piss so much that I would fill up the bottle with all my piss because I'm so powerful. I would need multiple piss bottles. That's amazing. That's a quote from him.

Wow. He says, because my balls are so full of piss. My best teeth are floating. Here's a quote from Tim Burton. He said I would never piss in a bottle but I would certainly never piss in a bottle given to me by Kevin Smith. If you're the rock and you can get an additional trailer that has your personal gym in it, surely you can get like a little toilet put somewhere in a little... A little shower curtain. Call Kenny.

Call Kenny. The piss guy. He's more of a shit guy. Okay, right. Yeah. You're not wrong, Mason. It could be even... I bet for Hollywood superstars who are like VIPs at music festivals, I bet they have really

nice portable toilets. Very important piss. Very important piss. Very important piss people. That's right. Yeah. I mean, you had a nice one. Yeah, nice one. Nice lighting, good selfie lighting. Also, it's weird that you're like, if you're four to eight hours late, but then when you're there, you piss out of the way before you get there. But then when you're there, you stay on setting piss in a bottle. Yeah. Your priorities are fucked up, man. Yeah, that's weird, isn't it, right? He's like, well, now I'm here. I've got to be absolutely

professional. I can't simply leave and go down that corridor and pee and come back in one minute. I simply must pee in a bottle right here. Yeah, that is wild. But how do you feel when there's a new The Rock movie or anything? How do you feel about it? What's your response? What if he was in Tron Aries? Would you like that? Kind of. Yeah, me too. Yeah, see? He could be Big Tron! Yeah, he could be Big Tron. That's right. You thought you defeated Tron, but now he's Big Tron. Yeah, I don't know, man.

It's because whenever you see... Think about how many lights could be on. How many light strips on the rock when he's big Tron. He'd look like a house at Christmas time. I just think, you know, whenever there's a trailer for whatever he's doing. Bench pressing daft punk. Sure, yeah. Get them and the balsa twit. Just do it at all. But just, he'll pivot. As he always does and you'll try and fix his image and... He'll squirm his way out like the little rat he is. Do you think he's got a rat's heart? No, he's got a lion's heart.

He eats it for breakfast. But a rat's brain is what you're saying. Good luck to him. I agree. And we respect him. Anyway, more DJ news or DTRJ news. That's Dewayne The Rock Johnson. I know. People call him DJ. Did you know that? Nobody calls him that.

I've seen in interviews, people go, they say DJ. They say, what are you doing? And he goes, I don't know. This is by GQ. They asked him. So we covered this a while back, but the Rock apparently was very late on a bunch of Red One shoots and other shoots prior to that. And he was so immersed in the process of filmmaking that he'd piss in bottles and hand them to people as opposed to stepping away for them. As a wrap gift. Yeah. Hand him the rocks pissed filled box.

You can wrap that though. Wrap it yourself. So they asked him about on lateness and he said, yeah, that happens. But not that amount, by the way. That was a banana's amount. That's crazy. Ridiculous. And then they said, they asked him about peeing in bottles and he said, yeah, that happens, but not that amount, by the way. That was a banana's amount. That's crazy, ridiculous. And then they said, they asked him about peeing in bottles and he said, yeah, that happens. I've said a thousand times, hey, I'm here.

Come and ask me and I'll tell you the truth. Sure. All right. The Rock, you're not a trucker on like a 24 hour journey. You have to ship some, I don't know, some gas across state lines or whatever you've got to piss in that bottle. Do you reckon he'd ever turd out in a bottle? Add it to somebody on set.

Do you think he'd ever turd out? Yeah. I don't think he would. No, I don't think he would. But if you asked him, he'd tell you the truth about it. Oh, he would. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if somebody could get that question to him.

He'd turn you now? Hey, DJ. Hey, DJ. And now brother. Big time. So, uh, yeah, just good stuff. Good stuff. Um, so, um, you don't have to confirm any of those things.

The rock, you could have just said, what is anybody talking about? Don't ask me that. Yeah. Yeah. It's a weird thing. Is there any proof of that? Yeah. You know, still these turd it out bottles.

Just go to the provided bathroom on set because you're the rock. Yes. You're a big celebrity. You're a big celebrity. And you just be like, hey, let's pause for five minutes while I turd out everyone. And then it'd be like, and the director would be like, and then all the sets and part of the director would have the loud halo and it like, the rock's turning out everybody. It's turning out.

Quite on set. Quite on set. The rock's turned out. Oh, not break for lunch? Nope. Just quiet. Listen to him turning out. Yeah, that's right.

Now, this is interesting because you were telling me this earlier. You've watched all six seasons of The Rookie starring Nathan Fillion, is that true? I haven't seen that, no. That's a lie. What is that about even? Because he's a rookie beat cop. Why have you brought this up? And he's 45.

Is it the joke that like, oh he's older? It must be. Because like, no, I'm asking you. So because he's 45 and that's old for a rookie. Yeah, 40 year old John Nolan. What are you doing here? Think about him as 40 year old John Nolan moves to Los Angeles and hope he can be becoming a police officer.

However, he's made with skepticism from all corners and must battle many challenges along the way. Yeah, because he's old. I think so. Now, does he, as it progresses, as he gets like five or six, does it like become, does he become like more of a mentor figure? Did he move up through the ranks? Does he stay a beat cop or does he move into being a detective? I think he probably becomes a mentor to Sean Ashmore. In fact, I know he does.

Probably a mentor to True Valentino as well. Okay, that's interesting. Would you recommend this though? I'd recommend it. I think you'll be hooked by the opening theme Which is Kings and Queens by Chin Chin? I think you'll be like this is this is this is gonna be you can dance Okay. Yeah, do you think it's better than like Castle? Yeah, okay. Yeah. Okay, cool It's on Netflix as well. Yeah, I guess. All right, I'll check it out. Thanks, man Are you doing what am I reading this week? Thanks for your contribution Why are you suddenly obsessed with a rookie? What are you doing? I'm not.

You are though. I haven't seen it. I know, but why did... Very strange. I've been to the Lord of the Rings and everything. We started at Caravan of Garbage. We did Fellowship of the Ring. We're taking... We're doing video games in between. So this week coming, we're doing the Two Towers video game. Oh, also BigSandwich.coco this week we did a Madam Web commentary.

And I forgot this, but last week was the podcast we did with We Got This Covered, where you bloody got me with Unlimited Dark Knight Rises ending explained content. Yes, that's right. Which really messed me up, Mason. It actually, it hurt me a lot. Yeah. I think you liked that though. I did, it was fun.

Was it as good as The Rookie, seasons one to six? It was better than that Considering I've never seen the rookie but I have experience making Fun of you. Okay experience that cool man. I mean you're making fun of me now, but I've seen the rookie I've seen many wonderful works by Nathan Fillion. Yeah, and Sean Ashmore. Yeah. Yeah, but not that Sean Ashmore He's one of the brothers. He's one of the brothers. I think he might be. Is he a rookie in it too then? He's in it. Is he a rookie?

I don't know. He's probably not a rookie. Alright Mason, this is by Deadline. Wolfs 2 has been cancelled by Apple, they said. They said we cancelled Brad Pitt and George Clooney's movie Wolfs 2. They probably drew Wolfs dollar sign on the board. And then went, no, we made Wolfs already. Sure. Wolfs. Then another additional dollar sign on the board and then went, no, we made Wolf's already. Sure.

Wolf's, then another additional dollar sign on the end, Wolf's. You didn't say this did you? I probably handed out mugs that said you don't have to be Wolf's to work here, but it helps, but it's cancelled. You think they did that? I think they did that, yeah. Yeah, it's not, I talked about this last week. It's not great.

Yeah, so I haven't seen it because it's on Apple TV Plus, which now there is an app for my TV, but I haven't seen it because it's on Apple TV Plus, which now there is an app for my TV, but I haven't. I haven't got it yet. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm waiting for a little time off and then I'm going to enjoy the bounty that is on Apple TV Plus. What are you going to start with? Severence?

Yeah, maybe Severence. What else is good? Do prophecy, maybe, if that's on that? No, that's on bonge.com. Oh. That one about in the future and its robots and humanity. No, I was going to say that one. Isaac Asimov, et cetera.

Foundation. Foundation. Foundation. Foundation. Okay. That one. Isn't there a few? What's Raised by Wolves on? What was that on?

That's on that, yeah. Okay. Wolves is good. That's a Wrigley Scott one. A Wrigley Scott? Yeah, man. Okay, yeah. That's very, that's some Blade Runner shit in it, I'll tell you that much.

There's a bunch of stuff. Asilo's good. I haven't seen season two yet. Okay, yeah. Greyhound, that Tom Hanks boat movie. Slow Horses I haven't seen yet. Slow Horses is apparently good. I should get that. I haven't seen since season two yet. Yeah. Yes Greyhound that Tom Hanks boat movie slow horses I haven't seen yet. So horses is apparently good. I've seen it. Okay. Yeah, what's the rookie on? Why are you obsessed with the rookie? No, I'm asking you. What do you think? I don't know what it's on over here. It's probably on like seven Wow or something over at your house It's on the shelf in DVD for and blu-ray I updated

DVD for. That's right. And Blu-ray I updated. Good. So anyway. It is on seven plus. What is? Yeah. I know you know that.

I do know that now. Is it also on Apple? Some of it. Three seasons. Which seasons? Doesn't say. Doesn't matter for you though. No, it doesn't because I know I'm all by the back of my hand.

I can just look at the DVD box set cover and I can just perfectly imagine every episode No, I've never seen the TV series the rookie You build you building some sort of risk. I don't know why you even care What do you care I would love some comic book recommendations from people. I'll give you one. Okay. Batman, you one? I've read it. But have you read it? I bet we've covered it on a big challenge. I was gonna say have you read it again?

I have read it multiple times. Yeah. In numerous times. You reckon you've read it enough times, have you? I could have read it one more time. There we go. Okay. Well, I'm gonna give you something to Ike that I am watching. Is it The Rookie?

No. Okay. Do you think I should watch it? We established off air that James has no plan for this. Nobody said anything. No, you said you had no plans for... I said, what's your game here? No plans.

And you said you have no plans. I've got no plans. You said you're just throwing this out there to see what happens. And I guess it's my job to spin this into some sort of coherent bit, is it? I'll give it my belt, but more work for me. This is my version of watching all the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings is picking up what you're putting down This scrap of an idea and turning into a bit. Is it? All right All right. See you next week

Bloody bloody so you're gonna come in hot with an absolutely With a Shakespeare stylestyle conclusion to, James tells people I've seen the TV series The Rookie. All of it. All the whole thing, yeah. You're welcome, folks, and you. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah.

They're all good, aren't they? Oh, this is exciting news via Deadline if we're talking spin-offs. A second The Rookie spin-off is in development. What do you mean a second The Rookie spin-off? Well there already was one because this comes after... Was there? Yeah, he pretends he doesn't know, but there was...

It's been a year since the show's first spin-off, The Rookie Fed, starring Nisi Nash Betts, was cancelled after one season. That's a shame. Do you want to explain the premise of The Rookie just quickly? I don't know what it is. Come on, man. Let's be real with each other for once. Okay, it's about a veteran cop

Rocky rookie And he has various adventures as a cop as far as I know Mason He's called the rookie and you know this because he's a 40 year old man He becomes a cop a beat cop and they're like, but you're all then he's like not old enough to cave someone's head in with His baton. That's right. It's easy when the balance of power is in your hands. That's what he says. You're given state-sponsored violence. It stars Nathan Fillion and the Untold Spin-Off series will be written by the original series

creator, Alexi Hawley. So set in Washington state, the second The Rookie spin-off follows a male cop who was stepping into a new phase of life in his second act. It keeps the major midlife crisis concept of the Los Angeles set series, original series, which started off with Nathan Fillion's John Nolan. So they're just going with second rookie. It's another rookie. What if there was another rookie? Well, he's not a rookie anymore. No.

Because he's a beat cop or something or a detective. I don't know. He's switching careers to become, yeah, so became the oldest rookie in the LAPD. Wow. This is crazy. What did, you know this, but I won't know this. What is Jonathan Nolan's job? John Nolan? What was his job before he was the rookie? He was Christopher Nolan's brother. Oh yeah. He wrote Westworld and stuff. Oh and then they went. And then he was like what if you were the youngest beat cop or something. Yeah? Let's find out. It's training and the blah, blah, blah, biography.

Here we go. I can't believe I'm telling you this. Oh, in the pilot episode, Nolan is showing, storing his divorce papers and wedding ring in a safe deposit box in his hometown of Foxburg, Pennsylvania. He tells the bank manager that his divorce had been coming for two years and that he and his ex-wife, Sarah, have agreed to stay married until the sun. This is all boring stuff, Macy's. I need a god.

What did he do? What was his job? Oh, there was a bank robbery and he went, I'm going to be a police officer now. How am I telling you this? Because I don't know anything about the rookie. I know you know about the rookie. That's true.

Yeah. Yeah, great stuff. Anyway, I don't know what his job was. Probably just a man. Yeah, just a man. What was John Nolan's job before rookie? Are you asking chat GPT? Yeah, I was a construction company He closed his construction company in Pennsylvania and moved out to West to be a police officer. Okay. God damn

Yeah, um, do you think I can go into this show having not seen any of The Rookie? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah, I do think that. Great. Are you going to is my question. Well, I think I'd like to get like, know more about this John Nolan character. No, you don't. Yes, I do.

I've heard nothing but good things from you. You've never heard anything from me about The Rookie. We should move on. Yeah. I know you could talk about this all day, but I can't. I couldn't. I've run out of things to say Yeah, this is by the happy sad confused podcast another segment of James is searching for punchline desperately

To end this bit and he hasn't found one yet. So I've done you just get a bit of news during the week It's like a bolt of lightning from God, you know, right? Yeah, keep a joke going or a bolt of lightning from the devil because again it didn't it didn't round this out did it? It's just expanded the devil doesn't shoot lightning Mason You know what the fuck you're talking about. That's not one of his powers. I bet it is I know he's got a pitchfork and a fire or whatever. Yeah, you don't know. I don't know. It's true actually This is via Collider. It's a DC you that's a DC cinematic universe Do you think they have do you think Collider have some sort of sting where they go?

movie stuff other stuff Collider have some sort of sting where they go, movie stuff, other stuff, Collider? Oh, they should. They should, they could use that. Yeah. They could use that, not for free, obviously. I think they fired most people at Collider at one point. Then I can come in as a consultant. Yeah.

You know? They can't just take that idea, can they? No, absolutely not. Yeah, movie stuff, popcorn, interviews. That's right, sticky floors. Behind the scenes. Collider. Popcorn. Yes. Interviews. That's right. Sticky floors. Behind the scenes. Collider. Collider. They're all colliding and stuff. All collider. There's a guy who explains it. He explains the sting in case you don't get it. I didn't get it. Imagine all the stuff that's colliding. Yeah, I went there. I went to the headquarters. Been in there. Nice. Significantly less people there now.

Do you open the door and then like two really big like wooden stakes? Yeah, bring out of the wall. He's got me like fucking Ewoks. Yeah, it was an Ewok trap set for me Nice. Anyways, James Gunn talked about the timeline of things and Batman entering the day. He was on some sort of I don't know what he was doing. He was out and about it was a part that he did a podcast as well I think but it was you know, yeah like a proper podcast, you know, they have cameras Oh, yeah, like a proper podcast. I don, where they have cameras. Oh wow, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a proper podcast. I don't know about that.

He said, there's no timeline, there's no set timeline for anything. The only thing that I've tried to make clear to people from the beginning in the way that I hope we're different is that everything in DC is going to be based on the writers. Until we have a screenplay that I'm totally happy with, that movie is not going to get made no matter what. I think that's- A blade model. Yeah. Isn't that interesting?

Yeah. I mean we kind of knew he was doing this but doesn't necessarily guarantee a good movie. That's true. Which is to be like this script is fairly dynamite as they say in Hollywood. And let's make this one. Yeah. That's great. They're not like locked in like we've announced nine projects and then when they announce the... Simon Kinberg this script is dynamite. Is it? That's what he says. Is it? You think is it you think so you think so based on what me this is mine You understand this is one of my scripts You okay. All right. Can I direct it? Okay

I mean, you know the movie I directed right? You know, I directed a directed Dark Phoenix, you know That I'll do it. If you're open to do it, I'll do it. I feel like I'm talking myself out of this, but I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll go now. Can I sign a thing now and then I'll go?

Yeah. So he said, this is the order of things coming out. They said this to IGN. Creature Commandos, which is animated. Oh, yeah, nice. Is that late this year? Or is it early next year? It's soon, whatever it is.

It's soon. Superman's after that. That'll be like mid next year. I've heard of it. Peacemaker, season two, which is also a reboot, which we'll talk about sort of. Then Lantens, and then Supergirl, which is middle of 2026. So it's interesting that they're going to get Lantens out, it looks like, before Supergirl. I really like this lineup.

Me too. Yeah. Well, I mean, the Superman trailer, they reckon, I think I saw 20th of December for the trailer, maybe. I don't know. It's coming soon though. Yeah, nice. And Frank Grillo talked about it this week and he was like, Goosebumps. He said he'd got Goosebumps.

I'm Goose with bumps, he said. That's what he said. Which is what we say in my hometown, where I'm from. Where are you from? Grillo land. Grillo land? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that Frank Grillo land or is this unrelated?

No, it's his, all his family's from there. Oh, you're from? It's like Munchkin land. Okay. It's all Grillo land? Is that Frank Grillo land or is this unrelated? No, it's his all his family's from there. Oh you're from? It's like Munchkin land. Okay. It's all Grillo's. And you? Yes. Okay.

All right. That's good, I guess. That must have been hard for you growing up because they're all ripped and cool and in movies and then it's you. Ripped and cool, but I'm not in any movies yet. Yeah. Oh, and then I don't even want to be in movies. Yeah, I know.

I'm sure people are upset about this or whatever that like what you're only making the things canon that you made. Well, yeah, it's his universe and he can't also piece make it good. It was good. So maybe a good thing can be. Yes, can be. Yeah. And I think it's good that they cut out the justice like, do you think it's good?

Do you think it's good? They cut out the post credits of Shazam 2 where they meet him in an abandoned gas station or something? What? The end of Shazam 2 they go to meet him in an abandoned, in the woods and he's zapping bottles or something? The Task Force X guys. Yeah. No, that should stay in. Yeah, you reckon?

I think so, yeah. And he's still out there to this day. Oh, they don't kill him? Yeah, they're like, we've got a special mission for mission for you Shazam to stay here and shoot all those bottles They're a threat to democracy and the multiverse Yeah, so you wouldn't want to you wouldn't want those bottles to take over the monster if you run out of bottles Well, don't worry about it. Yeah, just don't worry about this Don't even just sit just sit here and wait for the delivery of more bottles. There'll be bottles. Yeah

So yeah, he basically yeah, so he confirmed that yet, basically everything is canon, he said this later, except the Justice League and a couple of other things. So it's not just that. And nothing can be considered pure DC canon until Creature Commandos. Which is, again, soon. Let me just find out the release date of that. Commandos release date. You have a new version of Ciri where you have to sing everything.

You need to Google. Do you have to sing everything. Yes. You have to sing well. No. Good. This is via Deadline. Oh yeah. Deadline. Is that your one idea? I just realised that that's your one idea. I could think of a second idea. What about it's ring ring hello you're dead. Deadline. What's the animation though? Um, a man. Is it a line in it? They shoveled. There's a very old, no, there's a very old man in a hospital bed and he's clearly

not long for the world and, and, and, and a nurse very sadly brings a black phone. Oh no. And it rings and he picks it up and it goes, you're dead. And he goes, Oh oh then it goes deadline the phone says that uh somebody does or he says the ww a wrestling announcer guy comes and he says i think that that would work can he say let's get ready to deadline you could say that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah. Great.

And then the EKG meter or whatever goes beep. That's a flat line, but whatever. Yeah. I'm not here to mess up your great idea. No, I mean, you know, it's just flavor. Yeah, it is flavor. Yeah. Deadline Mason again.

You want to do it or? No, I think, I think people are going to do it in their heads. Okay, they can see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can see it. The specter of death. It's great stuff. Mason, but, they can see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They can see it. The specter of death. It's great stuff. Mason, put us in a phone.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm afraid, sir, the news is not good. Deadline. Oh, ring, ring. Oh, oh. I lost you on that one. I don't know when it was really done. Different stuff happens every time.

Okay. But it's sad and it goes for too long. That's how it works. So it's alive. Yeah. Great. Yeah, that's right. Anyways, set photo. Set photo. too long. That's how it works.

So it's alive? Yeah. Great. Yeah, that's right. Anyways, set photos of Superman. We've got some full body shots of Superman in his baggy suit. Bag in a bounce. I like it. I like it too. Yeah. How baggy will it be on the day? We don't know. How much are they tightening it up?

I hope they make it extra baggy. Extra baggy. Yeah, that's right. He's big. He is big Yeah, I mean people you know people have compared him to obviously Henry Cavill in the previous Gen Superman and they're like, oh look at this guy. He hasn't bulked up. Henry Cavill didn't bulk up that much Have you seen the under layer of that suit? I mean he did bulk up. He did bulk up But this guy also and look, every Superman is different. And if you look in the comics it's the same. Sometimes Superman is like all lean and thin and new 52. Sometimes he looks like a fucking thumb. That's right. We're leaning towards the thumb Superman in this. Look, I hope that David Curran's sweat Superman is a big success. I hope this is one of the greatest Superman

movies we've ever gotten. I hope it's one of the greatest movies actually. Me too. But I also hope that the next generation of Superman after this is the one where people go, well actually he's got an alien physiology and he's just naturally incredibly strong so you shouldn't need to work out at all. So he's just a big fat guy. Yeah awesome. That'd be great. Or one of those skinny fat guys. Yes. Oh yeah absolutely.

He's thin but it's not right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Now I suspect the biggest controversy or controversy of these set photos, it's maybe not even Superman. He's got the spit curl, he's got the look, maybe he needs to be bulked up or what have you. But we also got a little image of him in civilian mode as Clark Kent. Let me tell you, he's bussin' for real. He's got the broccoli hair, he's got the Gen Z perm. I'm exaggerating the broccoli hair. Oh, you think that's been shopped? No, I don't think it's been shopped.

I think if you looked at the back, because the broccoli hair is, it broccolis all out on all sides. And I don't think it's, I think it's just the front. Clark Kent doesn't always have super slicked back hair. No. He does often, the Chris Reeve one does it, the other versions have obviously. I think also the Henry Cavill version, his hair was wrong.

It was reversed. Oh, you think he should have made him... He should have been spit curled as Superman and then like normal hair as Clark Kent, but he's often spit curled as Clark Kent and then... Yeah, slick, slick wet Superman. Yeah, I don't know hmm well I've been into the Snyder cut um fandom never read it they're having a laugh at this Superman can you believe this downgrade can you believe it can you

believe what they've done to Henry Cavill and Zack Snyder etc yeah yeah yeah Henry Cavill wants to do this and they've said no you're not allowed I like different versions he never wants to do anything else he wants to do Warhammer or just other stuff. Some seasons of the Witcher. He doesn't want to do any of those things. He wishes he was just constantly being Superman and being berated online for getting things wrong. That's what he's always wanted. And he continues to want that. That's right. But look, yeah I like different versions of things. It doesn't mean, doing so. That's not true. You're only like one version of the Red Rooster flavor combo.

Yeah, and they changed it. That's what I'm saying. The new version... I had it today. Every time I have it, I'm like, why am I doing this? Why do I do it, Mason? I don't know. I don't know why you're doing anything. I've got a problem. Yes. It's Red Rooster.

It is, yes. I have other problems, but that's one of my problems. What are my main problems? I start a lot of sentences by going, uh, you see, my problem is, and then I'm like, I've got a lot of problems. One of my many problems is, I say it so often anyway. Yeah. And I'll tell you what, there's been a few, um,

comparison photos of this Superman suit and the Robert Pattinson Batman suit. Yeah. And they do very much look like they could exist in the same universe, which I think lends credence to maybe to your theory that they'll just go, yeah, they're the same. I said maybe, Mason.

I didn't say definitely. I said they could and they should and they will 100%. Oh, Ollie. Hello. Hello, Ollie. There she is. But it's so cold, Ollie. It is cold. When I opened the door, Ollie. That's why she wanted to come. But it's so cold Ollie. It is cold. When I opened the door Ollie.

That's the way she wanted to come in, she's cold. Yeah. No but she only wants to come in if the door's closed. Ollie you have to behave otherwise we will put you in a spaceship and we'll launch you into an alien world. That's right and you'll be much stronger than everybody there and kill everybody. By the physics and geometry of their world. Correct. Is that right? Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Also, Mason, we've seen some more Superman set photos. That's right. James is going to say anything that you see there is not like a massive story spoiler. I'm not going to get into the specifics of breaking down. But if you don't want to know anything about the new Superman

movie, then maybe skip it. Never see it. Yeah, never. If you never ever want to know, if you've taken an oath of some sort, then you will never know anything about this movie Don't see it. Don't listen to this bit. So the so we see there's a scene in which it appears that Superman and some other superheroes Entering a building and they all arrive and you say mr. Terrific. He's flying in a little jetpack kind of situation

You get Hawk girl. We've got Greenland so that's Nathan Fillion's Green Lantern and And the big kerfuffle on the internet is... It's not his haircut. It's not his haircut this time. It is busted for real. Yeah. No, I know the Green Lantern's haircut. Oh yeah, that's true. Well, that haircut is mid. Yeah, he looks blonder than red. Yeah, but I think that's said photos.

That'll fix it. That'll fix it. Well, here's the thing as well. So people are that people are up in arms, but are they really because the costumes for the other superheroes that are not Superman look, they're very uniform. Like the last week we saw or a couple of weeks ago, we saw Mr. Terrific's costume, which has a sort of an iconic jacket. We only saw the back of it. But if you look at the front, it looks exactly the same as all the other costumes Hawke girl and Green Lantern

Yeah, and mr. Terrific All have like a very similar kind of chevron look to the jacket They all have kind of they're all sort of white and there's some piping on it The Green Lantern suit is barely green at all. Yeah, and people like James Gunn's ruined everything doesn't he know Green Lantern's great I say never read a comic book He doesn't know anything about it. Does he never look like he ever made a movie with superheroes in it I don't look like he's done that but like they're all branded as well. They're all branded They all have the Lord tech logo. So in this Sean gun, well Sean a bit of an appetizer

But an appetizer just James gunn never booked his friends and family in a movie before he's always doing something or not doing something All right, how dare he do or not do anything? How dare he is ruin this? He's ruined this night I wish he's breaking free back the Snyder verse. I think you should trash this and bring back the Snyder. I agree. Yeah That's it. Yeah, then we'll use that as a clip. We'll put that on weekly plan. Oh, yeah This would be a good yeah Yeah, YouTube short. That's right YouTube short where we pretend to be mad at this video of us, and our facial expressions don't change at all. That's what you need. You need big energy on those clothes.

You need a big row of Funko pops, and you need to be going, I'm so mad at this. I'm not mad at anything. I'm not mad at anything we talk about on this show. Nope, he's never. But clearly what is happening here is it's a sort of kingdom come in reverse. They're all going to be these corporate superheroes. again. They're all wearing the the Lord tech logo So they're they're being sponsored by Maxwell Lord or something like that And they're there, you know, they're perhaps failing in their superheroic ideals and then Superman shows up

He's new on the scene perhaps new ish and then they all they're all inspired by him to to shed the corporate Sponsorship and become their own people and they're gonna get Their own uniforms by the in fact maybe not even in this movie But yeah, yeah almost certainly there's gonna be a line in it where Superman goes to guide Gardner And he says if you can dump if you can make anything with that ring you can make your own uniform And he goes oh, yeah, and then it's just the Greenland suit I guess that's what's gonna happen and then Batman's gonna punch him? Yeah. Yeah. Sucker, he'll say.

Sucked in. I got you. I tricked you. Yeah, that's right. You know, you were so busy making the uniform. You didn't build an impenetrable shield. So I'm going to kill you. That's I mean. I mean, could this movie be terrible?

And could this all look dreadful in real? It could. Maybe. Certainly could. But I mean, that's obviously what is happening. Yeah. Like people out there like getting mad, quotes fake mad. They're getting mad about this. They cannot possibly be getting really mad about this. This is all that's obviously what's happened. If you've seen a superhero movie before, that's what is happening here.

Exactly. But otherwise it looks good. I mean, you know. Superman's hugging kids at one point. Did you see that? Okay. He lands and the kids like Yeah, we like you and not those corporate stooges Yeah, yeah cool. We got a first look at crypto the super dog. That's right. We did straight from the comics. That's right I James what do you mean ripped straight from the comic? They stole this idea What from a comic book you common thief James gun? I agree

How dare you but isn't there because so the controversy or controversy depending where you're from Yeah, is that this this is not what you would think of perhaps when you think of crypto the super because crypto is often like a Labrador not exclusively, but not exclusive. Well, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, James. We'll get to that Well, this is what this is the initial of first of all, I love the image. I love it on the moon Yep, speaking of the initial. Oh, first of all, I love the image. I love it. You're on the moon. Yep. Speaking of bloody dogs. Oh, is it? Oh, he's here.

I've heard some people complain that there seems to be a lot going on in this Superman movie. You know, like they pack in this too full of comic book lore and characters. But the thing is, if they didn't, they'd be like, where's the lore and characters? Well, that and like movies, just movies in general, have a lot of people and sometimes dogs in them. Yeah that's true. And so I think it's okay that yeah there's a dog in this and it just happens to be crypto. Also James Gunn said he's gonna kill the dog early on. Good! He's gonna kill the dog. His dog at home? Yeah. Oh good. Yeah. So I honestly I don't have a problem with this. I think it's I think it'd be fun to have like a cheek cheeky crypto kind of me too cameo or appearance or whatever. Speaking of cheeky crypto here comes our ad segment.

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We'll blockchain you. And that's a guarantee. Yeah. Yeah. Not actually on the blockchain. Mason. Yep. I am. excited for a Superman movie. Me too.

I am. There's a moment, and I think I talked about this to some people I met at one of the live shows that I did. They're like, what are you looking forward to? And I'm like, Superman. I remember I saw some leaked footage or some set footage where Superman and a bunch of other superheroes land. And it's like...

Mr. Terrific's on his little jet device. Yeah, and whatever. And there's like Guy Gardner. Not whatever. No, whatever. Wow. No, there's like Guy Gardner and Hawkeye or whatever. And there's like a bunch of kids around and they all kind of just walk past.

And all these kids like run up to Superman. He like picks them up and he's like, ah. He eats them? Yeah, he eats them. Oh no. But just that idea that he's just like universally loved and takes the time to be kind and the way that like Zack Snyder. Like Zack Snyder. And I just saw that and went, I don't know, I think this is on the right track.

I don't know. That's just like a very short clip. But I like the idea of this Superman, like this impossible person, like existing. You know? I don't know whether he's going to nail it. I feel good about it though. Yeah. How do you feel about it? As long as he eats enough kids, I reckon. Yeah. You got to power your Kryptonian heart. That's right.

Yeah. And that's law and canon. It's so true, isn't it? Superman, as I've said before, it's the movie I'm most excited about next year, which means it's cursed. Because every time I say that, the movie comes out and it's not that good. Indiana Jones 5. I just wanted it to be excellent. Well, it wasn't and it never was going to be, but at least we got to see that guy do the whips.

Yeah, that was good. We saw Whippy Whipperson. I remember. Yeah, man. I fucking remember. Whip it. Whip it good. He whipped for too long.

Remember how long he whipped for? Yeah ages. Yeah. I went and got a coffee or something. I came back minutes later and he was still whipping. You missed me fist fight that guy. Wow. Yeah. Which would have been embarrassing for you because he had always the whips. Yeah he whipped me a bunch. I don't think I got a hand on it. He should have brought a chair. I know. You've got to bring a chair to a whip fight. Don't you remember the movie The Rundown? He brings a chair. That guy has two whips. I didn't bring a chair. The rock had a chair. Anyway, I'll get him at Indiana Jones 6. That's right. I'll be ready. You'd be like, and before we get started, folks, here's a little demonstration of some

fun. And you just leaping from the balcony with the wooden chair and you just flatten him yeah yeah I think I'll do it yeah we should get a more movie premiere things I don't know I do I got another tell me there though I've got the emails well it'll nine out of ten will be like I can't I'm at work yeah exactly okay if there's a notable one or you have one let me know. You want to go to fucking, you want to go to fucking, all right, first of all, language. Craig, you want to go to that? Yeah, kind of. Do you? I want to see. It's out like Wednesday night.

Like comes out like, it's premieres Wednesday and then it comes out Thursday morning or you could probably, I'll have a look now. Let me see. Let me see if I could still get you a ticket to this. This Wednesday. I think it's next Wednesday. Oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe. You fucking donkey. Let's have a ticket to this. This Wednesday? I think it's next Wednesday. Oh, okay. Yeah. Maybe. You fucking donkey. Let's have a look at this. This is live housekeeping, folks.

This is incredible. You know why I want to see, you know why I want to go to Craven? What? I want to see who else, who is desperate enough to like show up to the Craven premiere. Yeah. You know, what weird influences. Yeah. That's what I want to see for these. I think you just caught up in Cray Samba fever. Yeah. You know, what weird influences. Yeah. That's what I want to see for these.

I think you just caught up in Cray Samba fever. Yeah. Honestly. All right. Here we go. So it's on the 11th. Can you make that? I don't know.

Put me down for four tickets and we'll see. You're not bringing anybody. I don't know what you're talking about. What are you saying to me or anybody? No. There's no, oh, there's no preview screening. So you could see it a day early actually. You could go to the Wednesday.

Do you want me to just reply to this and say yes? Yeah, why not? All right, there you go. And if they, I'll just send the tickets to you and then you won't go. Yeah. And then I'll be blacklisted for lying. You'll be blacklisted again? But you don't go.

No, I don't go. I've got better things to do. I don't. I don't. I don't. You're going to, I'm going to text you on the 11th and you'll be like, I'm staring at a wall, not a television. I've turned my soul chair around to a wall.

The chair I'm going to hit that guy with? That's right. I'm marinating this chair. It says, will you be bringing a guest, zero or one? Zero. To Craven Zero. I could go with you. It's true.

I won't. Okay. Submit. There you go with you. It's true. I won't. Okay. Submit. There you go. You're going. Nice. Thanks everyone. That's the show.

I think I can't do this anymore. I don't want to. Oh my God. I just got a confirmation email. I'm back. All right. Okay. Here we go.

Who's this shadowy organization that's just saying you're back? Like you can't get out. Yeah. Are you being paid by dark money? No Mason. Like some political organization? No. It seems like you were out and then somebody was like you can't quit. I won't quit. Okay. How about that? I won't because I can't. They won't let me. All right let's start with this Mason. Go on. Let's start with this. Christopher Nolan's next film has been announced and it's not the movie Helicopse which is what we thought. What a, what thought. He's a real one of your brothers as far as I agree. A real low dog. The lowest of dogs. Yeah that's right. So it's gonna be an

adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey which I've not seen. Okay. Is it good? Yes. It's good is it? Yeah that's right. It's from the 80s that movie. Well no it's from the 80s I probably wouldn't have seen it. Yeah. Maybe it's happening. It's from the 80s, that movie. Well, no, it's from the 80s. I probably wouldn't have seen it. Maybe it's happening, but it's like a Jonathan Nolan TV show and he's producing or whatever. Oh, these two projects. He's doing Westworld. Jonathan Nolan. What if Christopher Nolan is doing The Odyssey and his brother is doing the Blue Thunder TV series, but it's the same cast. Yes, that would be cool.

And it's got parallels. Parallels. What if it is the same production? Maybe it's Home is the Odyssey slash Helicopse. Maybe it is. Set in the future or whatever or the near future or the 80s or something. Yeah, Odysseus meets the helicopter cops. It's a Scooby-Doo meets Batman situation. I did get my son a Scooby-Doo meets Batman comic for Christmas which we've been reading through. How was that back? That concept?

Yeah, it was this one from like 2020. Okay, right. There's a few volumes. So interestingly- The first story, right? The first one was like Batman got his gloves stolen from an exhibition, so he got in the Scooby gang to like work out- Did he infiltrate them as matches?

No, no, he just called them and they were there and I'm like, this is the first volume and I guess they just know each other. Well, yeah, because they know each other from the 60s or whatever that cartoon work out. Did he infiltrate them as matches? No, no, he just called them and they were there and I'm like this is the first volume I guess they just know each other. Well yeah because they know each other from the 60s. Oh that's a good point. Well this one was set in 2020 so I don't understand how any of that works but anyway. Sliding time scale. Yeah sliding time scale so anyway he's like but different because Batman doesn't age but the Scooby Gang do so they're like we're gonna go on an adventure Scooby Gang like we're so old. The dog's dead. Daphne's also dead. What? Yeah. Oh no.

She lost her glasses and then she... No, that's Velma. Well, Daphne has glasses. She would have had glasses at this point. Daphne lost her glasses, she could have hit by a bus. Yeah. So the first one, they have to figure out how, what have Batman's... He gave some of his suits to a museum.

We'll get back to Helicopter. Okay. Suits to a museum. I mean, first, that's bad practice. I agree. I mean, it's probably DNA evidence. DNA evidence, Batman! It's 2020! You've pissed in them?

You dumbass. Did you clean them out? He definitely didn't. There's no way Batman would donate his suit. Well, he did. Anyway, so he's like, this is my first suit, but the gloves are different. They're not the original gloves, which means these have been taken. But the thing is, they must have been taken from the case when I first used them because no one got into the Batcave. Like Alfred said

that they didn't. So Alfred did it. Yeah. Well, there's like, and I have no memory of this. So what I'm going to do, I know a guy who uses hypnosis and time travel and he's going to send Scooby and Velma and Shaggy back to the past. And I'm like, what? To play the games that suck ass. But did he actually send them back it yes, and in mines No, they just went back did he send their minds back in time to their past bodies No, so this guy does hypnosis on you and then you go back in time

Yeah They literally blinked out of existence and appeared in Batman's first case and they get there and they see Batman and they end up What happens is they end up swapping gloves with him? Okay And then they go back to the present day and it turns out that it was them that swapped the gloves into some kind of Ouroboros time loop situation and I'm like what the fuck mystery Yeah story is this to open with a time travel paradox, kids fucking Scooby-Doo Batman story. My son's like, what happened?

And I'm like, I don't really know. And then Batman's like, hey, hypnosis time travel guy, any chance we could go back in time and stop Joe Chill shooting my parents in that alley? And he's like, nah, I ran out of time travel juice. Sorry, I ran out of time travel juice when I did the glove swapping thing. So sorry, your parents have to remain dead.

Can you believe that's vault? That's what? That's the first comic. Can you believe that? Out of the gate. It's not like they go to a haunted fucking carnival and there's a, you know, there's a guy there and whatever. And it's probably the Joker, etc. And most of the time it's nothing supernatural happens to them. No, they time travel. It's a guy in a mask. But like it was nothing. It wasn't even like... This is the craziest it's nothing supernatural happens. No, they would take time to buy a mask. It was nothing. It wasn't even like... This is the craziest thing we've ever seen. I know this guy who does time travel hypnosis. Insanity. Helicopts. Anyway, Christopher Olenbeck from The Odyssey is a mythic action epic shot across the world using a brand new

IMAX film technology. I love that. Yeah. Carbon fiber. That's right. The film brings... It's quieter than ever. And he would like that because it'd be like quieter on set. Quieter on set. Quieter. No sitting, no pissing. Everybody.

That's right. You know he doesn't go to the bathroom or whatever? No, he said that. Robert Downey Jr. asked me, he's like, when do you go to the bathroom? And he's like, I go at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. How vulgar of you, Robert Downey Jr. I suppose you're urinating all day, are you Robert? The film brings home his foundational saga to IMAX.

I'll just add that to the schedule. My assistant, I'm going to be the director of the film. I'm going to be the director of the film. I'm going to be the director of the film. I'm going to be the director of the film. I'm going to be the director of the film. I'm going to be the director of the film. I'm going to be the director of the film. I'm going to urinating all day are you Robert? The film brings home his foundational saga to IMAX. I'll just add that to the schedule. My assistant. Robert will be pissing all day. The film brings home his foundational saga to IMAX. The film screws for the first time and opens in theaters on July 17th, 2026. So two and a bit years away.

Okay. So yeah, The Odyssey. Do you want a little update? Do you want a little synopsis? I love a little synopsis. It follows the story of the Greek hero Odysseus. Odysseus, yes. Odysseus as he journeys home after the Trojan War, presumed dead, Odysseus and his wife Penelope and son, Tumultuous, contend with various suitors who compete for Penelope's hand in Odysseus's absence.

Nice. So the first I'm hearing of any of this. It's set after Troy. Yes. The movie Troy, if you've ever seen that. No, I think this might be his go at, I reckon we might be even be seeing some sort of Clash of the Titans or Stop Motion. Like Ray Harryhausen.

Yeah, Ray Harryhausen, Clayvation situation. Because they did some of them Skeleton as I did they did stop motion today Yeah, I think this might be like his take on that. Okay. Yeah, I don't know I don't I don't know where his taste live aside. This is all a lie. This might be a lie Maybe it is helicopters again. God. Yeah How does he do it? Yeah, anyway, whatever he's doing. He's doing a modern-day interpretation of SWAT cats What's what was that like like a Ninja Turtles knockoff? Yeah, it was like an animated series from like the 90s, I think.

SWAT cats. Do I remember this one? Oh, yeah, I know this. Yeah, it is. It's one of those biker mice from Mars, etc. It's one of those ones. There's only two of them. I don't know. It's called SWAT cats the radical squadron. There's two of them. Why are there only two SWAT Cats? Because one has to be played by Matt Damon and one has to be played by Tom Holland. That's a good point. So it's perfect, isn't it? Yeah, I guess it is. It's synchronicity, isn't it?

You need at least three, man. It's syncope. Yes, it is. Which is the name of his production company. It's Cats with a K, by the way. Oh, we know. Do we? Yeah.

Also, it's pronounced Swat Cats. Swat Cats. Great. Anyway, whatever Nolan's's pronounced swat cats. Great, anyway, whatever Nolan's doing I'm interested. Same. He's always doing stuff and I like that about him. He's always doing stuff. Yeah, and he's you know, he hasn't had a movie since like last year and we need another one. It's true. Yeah. So get on it man. Has he done before he's not done anything kind of mythical beast situation. Apparently Apparently he was up, he turned down Troy for Batman. Oh right, yeah okay.

I read that in a comment so I don't know whether that's actually true. But maybe it's just been in his brain the whole time. Yeah maybe, I missed out on Troy. I would have done a better Troy. Do you think you would have done a better Troy? The Troy that came onto the screen was hot garbage. I thought it was alright. What you think is alright, good bloody filler warehouse, James.

Do you think? Yes, James. Do you like SWAT cats? Yes. Okay. I would come home from school and I would watch SWAT cats. Wait, how old are you? Cause SWAT cats came out in 1993.

Film school. I came home from film school. Great. I watched SWAT cats and I would wish that my uvra would be as good as Swat Cats and now it will be. I guess it will be. After you do this, whatever you're fucking, Christopher Nolan. That's right. I was going to say James Gunn. You're Christopher Nolan. Correct. Okay. Should we move it along?

Yes. The Joker 2 got a trailer. That's right. The biggest trailer of the week. It's actually one of brother's biggest trailers since Barbie. Now in the last Joker movie, where we left Arthur Fleck, he was imprisoned because he shot Robert De Niro. Arthur Fleck only just got that. That's good, isn't it?

I think, I am skeptical, but this could really be something, really. We're both kind of lukewarm, you more so on the first one. Absolutely, because it was bad. But there's some stuff in the trailer which I think is interesting. warm you more so on the first one. Absolutely, because it was bad. So, but there's some stuff in the trailer, which I think is interesting. Some is a little on the nose or on the lips as it were, Mason. Oh, yes. What do you think this means, James? What?

There's a moment where Arthur Fleck, I only just got that, yeah, is he's being walked through the Arkham facility outdoors and all the umbrellas are in color. Yeah. It's colorful. Is that just Joker colors? I think that maybe that's how she sees him but he's under the umbrellas and he can't see because of the darkness. Oh yeah.

And she has to bring out the Joker in him. She's like, remember who you are! Yeah yeah yeah. You're the Joker! I'm the Joker! I'm a Joker! A lot of meme stuff in here. Lady Gaga shooting herself in the head.

That's fun. That'll be a big meme in future I think. Yeah. Did you see the double stair kick? The two kicks? Yes, I saw the double stair kick. And this is very La La Land. It is, yeah.

I feel like it's your... There's some dancing on the streets where there's some disaster. He's being chased by the big Joker there. Big Joker. That's a big classic Joker as well. Yeah. Okay. He's being chased by Joker as well. Yeah. Okay. Chased by original big Joker. Yeah.

Okay. Now at the end where she's like, I want to see the real the Joker and she draws the lipstick and then he lines up and he does the big smile. That's blowing people's minds. Did that give you chills? I was well, I mean, I was already chilled to the bone with the potential of what this is and what this will turn our remaining listeners into jokers and Harley Quinn. Yeah. Did it chill like inside of your bones? I did not did the chilling no, I'm straight to my marrow remains lukewarm

I'm like a microwave pie. I'm hot on the outside inside still cold Pleasant and you bite into when you like I'll put that in for another couple of minutes. Yeah, and now it's bad Now it is too hot on the I mean it was already bad. Yeah. Yeah So people are saying that also I saw that, you know, that smile that he does. Yes. Like it only doesn't light up with how she sees him. It lines up with the camera. Okay.

Because you know, the perspective of the smile wouldn't doesn't work. Okay. Yes. But what do you get? Where are you going? I'm saying that like she wouldn't have seen that. She would have just seen a man smiling. Oh, sure.

Yeah. Next to a red smear. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. Where's the music coming from? There is the band actually in the scene. So where's the music coming from? That's you. What do you enjoy? What do you enjoy the magic of cinema, James? I got chills. Isn't that enough? Isn't that enough that I got chills? I guess it's enough you got chills. You got chills and critique of this beautiful scene with beautiful imagery. Wow. They sort of cancel each other out I think.

So you got nothing out of this. This was a big zero for you. Did you say this? Jeremy Loves All said this on Twitter. Joker 2 directed Todd, this is some CinemaCon. Joker 2 directed Todd Phillips confirms that Joker is bisexual. I did say that. The quote is he's bisexual and stuff.

I did say that. It's not real's bisexual and stuff. I did say that. It's not real. I was going to say it's not a real quote. Okay. But that would be very funny. Again, he's bisexual and stuff. Yeah. Just to get a bunch of people again to model their entire personality around the Joaquin

Phoenix Joker and then just be like, and he's bisexual. He's actually that. Yeah. Yeah. And he poos his pants on. And he poos his pants and he walks around in that. He doesn't, he doesn't even change them. It's all right.

He's got his big white briefs, wet white briefs. I got chills just thinking about the choker, pooing his pants and dancing in his pants for big wet white briefs, Mason. That's crazy. Wow. Anyway, I think this could be good. Yeah. Really. We joke like the Joker. That's right. And we're in this could be good. Yeah. Really.

We joke like the Joker. That's right. And we're in danger of turning into the Joker. Because we joke like the Joker and that's the, that's a slippery slope, isn't it? It's the first step in turning into the Joker. You start joking like the Joker. Exactly. Your jokes get a little bit dark.

Yeah. But becomes too real. Yeah. Yeah. Like sometimes you're like, sometimes, you know, I go, crime's actually good. What? And I'm like, no, that was a joke. Yeah, I hope so.

It just came out of my mouth. I don't know. I thought I'd start suddenly believing that. That's not okay, Mason, that you said that. Yeah. Did you see Bigger Joker? I did see Bigger Joker. So I had a dream this week.

It was kind of a dream was coming. Bigger James? No, no, it's not Bigger. I wish. It was a dream where I was like, what would be the perfect foil for Batman? Is Steve Coogan in this? Yes, he's played an interviewer. The perfect foil for Batman. And I've decided, and it's not a great idea, and it's an idea we say all the time,

but what if it was just bigger Batman? So it's Batman, he's exactly the same, he's slightly bigger, but he's also got all the stuff. He lives in a mansion, it's slightly bigger, he's got the whole bat family, they're all slightly bigger and he's not a villain but regular sized Batman is just like this fucking guy. Is he like, is bigger Batman just showing him up all the time? Yeah, not even, he's just around. He is Batman, he's just bigger. Do they have their origins at roughly the same time?

I don't know how it works. Maybe they try and figure it out and they're just like, we don't know. I mean DC and the comic books now are, I don't know if you saw this, but they're doing a new absolute line. I think it's maybe to capitalize on Marvel. Absolute bigger Batman. And then absolute, well I was gonna say, I mean if this isn't bigger Batman, I don't know what to tell you. Oh damn, maybe this is where my dream came from. Maybe this is where your dream came from. That's not even a logo, it's just a rectangle. It's just a rectangle. It's like a big block of off cheese. I did see that this week Yeah, so I think it's to capitalize on because Marvel now have a new ultimate universe. It's got bigger Captain America. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's right All right. So who's writing a bunch of those? Do we know they've got some names?

I can figure it out for you James. Can you figure it out? He's giving you details on absolute Batman at SDCC 2024 absolute Batman Scott Snyder is involved. Scott Snyder is involved. That's right. Black Mask is involved. Black Mask. Black Batman is in his 20s. He's seven feet tall. He weighs 250 pounds and he's a city engineer. I'm sorry he's seven feet tall. Seven feet tall. Oh so this is the version that is what if Batman was like made now, right? Kind of so it's like the origin is basically his parents are killed but everything else is different Is that the idea honestly could not tell ya but he is he's like he's not a he doesn't appear to be a billionaire He's like a city planning city planning guy. Yeah, and he's described as a thick boy

Tall he's seven feet and 250 pounds. I guess he hunches when he's a talk about this at the time But they cast for the new season of reach a guy who's bigger than reach a bigger reach a bigger reach Yeah, loving this man. It's in the site guys. Just fighting a guy who's bigger bigger Yeah, no my Batman doesn't fight bigger Batman. Okay. All right. He just sees they just exist together at the same space Yeah, well what an incredible dream you've had what a mind on you bigger Batman. Okay, all right. He just sees. They just exist together in the same space. Wow, what an incredible dream you've had. What a mind on you. All right, we should do some Marvel stuff. Let's do Marvel stuff. Madam Web News. Yes. It has come out. Don't worry. We already watched it. Don't worry. We don't have to watch it again.

Well, we probably will at some point. Yeah. This is why I bustle the magazine. I why I bustle the magazine. I know, the bustle, the magazine for women. Whatever. Yeah. So Dakota Johnson was talking about being in that movie and she said, yeah. I had the... Yeah.

Yeah. The dark time of my career, way back to three weeks ago. Yeah. I had the LA premiere for Madame Webb. They went to Mexico City. I had pneumonia and was on steroids and the nebulizer and doing all these little things. And I was really, really sick and felt horrible. I looked horrible.

I was like, ugh. And then this movie came out and it was like, I can't take any of this seriously at all. I don't know. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised that this has gone down the way it has in the reception and whatever. And I don't make sense in that world. So she was like, yeah, just I mean she's been distancing herself from this movie ever since before it came out. I can remember. Yeah. Yeah, so it's not really surprising. But apparently I think in her like when Melanie Griffith

announced the birth of her child Dakota Johnson, I think in that birth announcement, she was already distancing herself from that. Oh my god. Yeah, but you know fate distancing herself from that. Sure. Oh my God. Yeah. But you know, fate, you can't outrun it. That's true. Yeah. Which is the point of Madame. That is the point of Madame.

Was it? Or you could. And you could change it if you want. I think you could visit your mom in a day. You can kill a guy earlier than you thought you would. That's the that's the less the moral lesson you've learned. You go just to do it. Yeah, just get him.

You could go now. That's the moral lesson is don't hesitate. No. If you're thinking of killing a guy, why not? That's right. And drink Pepsi while you're doing it. Maybe kill him with a Pepsi. You could.

We endorse that. Yep. We're Pepsi. So then we have this from the Daily Mail written in brackets could be bullshit because it's the Daily Mail. Yeah. But you bullshit because it's the Daily Mail. Yeah. But you know, this wouldn't surprise me if it was, but it's fun to talk about. Dakota Johnson is reportedly accused of dragging the film and failing to take any responsibility

after admitting she hadn't seen the film herself before going to make several damning statements about the production. When they say like accused of dragging the film. She accused Dakota Johnson. Yeah, I would say that's just accurate. Yeah, she's been saying it a lot. But also I would argue that with this kind of movie of the level of quality that it is. Yeah, you get what you deserve.

You get what you deserve, certainly. But also there is a certain segment of the public who would only see it if it's being dragged by the people making it. Absolutely. She's bringing in a certain amount of ticket sales from people going, oh, this is so bad. She thinks it sucks and she's in it. So we've got to see this. It probably did account for most of the ticket sales, actually.

It was the most interesting part of this entire movie. Agreed. Yeah. So they're going to say, lots of people at Sony are questioning her star power. Oh, come on, mate. Don't do that. Don't do that to a Hollywood celebrity. She's been in things spending fifty shades of grace I have driven and how she reacted to this failure. I will likely come back to haunt her one insider Todd No doubt it. Yeah, she'll probably stay at the same level of fine. I think so as well. Yeah for a bit at least Yeah, it's okay to joke about your movie not doing well, is it?

Yes. Okay. And even lean into bad reviews like Sydney Sweeney did on SNL with her monologue. So that was fine. But producers and Sony aren't laughing over Dakota's continued dragging. Because they don't know how to laugh. They don't. They don't understand what humor is.

Exactly. Yeah. It's like chewing. That's what they think. And it is sort of, I guess. Exactly. Yeah, it's like chewing. That's what they think. And it is sort of, I guess. Yeah. So you're not laughing over Dakota's

continued dragging of how she sees the fallout of Madame Web. Now she isn't taking responsibility for its lackluster result. This is not her fault. I don't think she's particularly good in this movie, but I don't know why. I have no idea what it was even

supposed to be. She's not the draw card. No. I mean, you know, I enjoyed her dispirited performance. But the draw card of this movie is that it's Spider-Man adjacent. Yeah, but it's not Spider-Man adjacent enough that anybody cares. Because guess what?

Spider-Man is not in it. There's an evil Spider-Man and three Spider-Women in the future or something. Yeah. But I mean, the downfall of this movie was it's it's the law. It's the dregs of the Spider-Man universe and they just expected that to be a big hit. Not every movie is going to work. But a lot of hard work is put towards even bad movies.

I actually love every movie. So I would say Sony executives keep releasing Spider-Man and Jason movies. Give us the Sinister Six. Oh man, I can't wait. But a lot of hard work was put towards even bad movies, and for your start, a shit on it is a bad look. They continued. Dakota's being looked down on.

God. Get over it. Over a talk of the film because everyone in the production is thinking, what if the movie was still the same, but also a box office gem? Impossible. Yeah, impossible. By the way, what are you talking about? Yeah, yeah.

If this movie was the same... Yeah, imagine if this movie, imagine how bad it would be if this movie actually did really well and she was still doing this. Imagine if the movie, imagine if the moon was also a piece of cheese. Can you imagine that? That would be cool. We could get cheese from the moon, eat cheese from the moon. A potentially limitless supply or at least a couple hundred years worth of cheese. Yeah. What if magic was real? And similarly, what if this movie was good and a box office success? Or they didn't even say good. What if it was the same? Well if it was the same that'd be great for you executives because you could just make tripe forever. Yeah that's right. That's what they want though isn't it? Because that's their ideal scenario. Imagine if

we put no effort into this movie and we interfered with it and everybody knew it was bad and then it made a billion dollars. What if we just put this movie into AI and said make a million identical copies and they all made a billion dollars? Oh my god. I mean what if? What's a billion movies who make a billion dollars each? How much is that? A billion dollars.

That's so much. Yeah, right? Yeah, that's really cool. So anyway, that's fun. It's a fun thing that's ongoing and forever. I love that Sony are just like, what happened? Where did we go wrong here? Yeah. I don that Sony are just like, what happened? Where did we go wrong here? You should figure that out. I wonder if it's because...

Everybody knows but Sony. Have you noticed that? Everybody who pays attention knows. If you were like, why didn't you see this? I don't know, because I don't know what it is. That's a problem. That in itself is... Figure that out. But in the minds of I think these executives and a bunch of Sony shareholders, a movie, a Spider-Man movie and a Madame Web movie are the same movie. They don't understand why. Well, did you see they're re-releasing all the live action Spider-Man movies to make up for this bomb to make their money back?

100%. Yes. Yes. That's all right. Let's have banks and good ones. Yeah, some of them. Yeah, it's exciting, isn't it? Yes. Yeah. That's all right. Let's have banks and good ones. Yeah, some of them. Yeah, it's exciting, isn't it? Yes Yeah, so here we go. Let's start with this It's by a deadline Sean Levy is other top choice and is apparently having early conversations to direct the next Avengers movie

Whatever that is secret war something maybe not Kang Dynasty Deadpool 3 director Sean Levy That's right free guy director Sean Levy not at the museum Sean Levy. That's right. Free guy director, Sean Levy. Knight of the Museum, Sean Levy maybe. Brian Reynolds is a pilot, future pilot, he's his own dad at Star Wars. Is that a lightsaber? Sean Levy? Nah man, it's not a lightsaber. Did he do that one? Yeah, maybe.

In a great light saber. I think he did actually. What do you think about that? I don't mind it, I mean, let's see how his Deadpool movie is to be honest. Yeah, that's probably it. I mean, you look at some, sometimes directors work well with not

to name any names within the MCU and then maybe not out. The Russo Brothers. I said I'm not naming names. Yeah but I'm naming names. I'm naming names. Joe Russo, the other Russo. Give them a chance. Look also to be fair. Give the first definitive gay character in the MCU, Joe Russo, a chance if you wouldn't mind. Okay so I'm just looking at the Russo Brothers movie. I think the MCU Joe Russo a chance if you wouldn't mind Okay, so I'm just looking at the Russo brothers movie I think it was very son because I haven't seen any of these and I know they worked on community

But they also directed the Winter Soldier which is a good one. That's true. They did you mean deprey? They did cherry they did the gray man and there's a movie coming out called the electric state which is out this year That's based on the the Simon Stalin hag books. You know, we talked about Tales from the Loop. Oh, okay. Amazon series. It's the premises a girl is approached by a robot looking

for a missing brother and with it she sets out to find him. Yeah, that could be the good one. Give him a chance, Mason. I'm not going to. Again, I haven't seen any of their outside of the MCU movies except maybe you mean to pray,

but I don't know whether that will inform any of my current decision making. Which one is that? Is that the Matt? Matt Dillon, Owen Wilson and maybe Kate Hudson or somebody else? Okay, sure. But maybe not.

Yeah, you excited for that? No. You mean Dupree? I'm not excited. Why would I be excited for that? God, can you imagine if Dupree came to live with you? Oh my God. Oh my God.

Was he the problem? Was Dupree the problem? He was the problem, but he just tried his best Deadline here is that Levi has been given the latest script by Michael Waldron But I think he worked on Loki though sources add that he is not given an answer on whether or not he will take the job Also, apparently it's gonna have 60 plus MCU characters Reprising their roles terrific that includes Mark Ruffalo Chris Chris Hemsworth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Simu Liu, Karen Gillan, and unlike the first four films where there's a core group that consisted of Robert Downey Jr. etc. etc. This one's just whatever. Slop. Many of the characters of this film would have equal footing. Many would be more of an ensemble feature instead of a handful

of characters leading the team. That could be difficult. Sure, absolutely. But possible over a three hour extravaganza. Absolutely. Which probably would be. Yeah, I mean, my guess would be they Marvel have seen, my guess would be Marvel have seen the movie Deadfall 3. Is that your guess? I think that's probably my guess. You think they maybe have been keeping an eye on it?

I think at this point they've kept an eye on it and they've seen a version of it that is finished or close to finished. And they're like, this guy's pretty good at this. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Also, you got to think about like Ryan Reynolds's influence on that. Maybe you should get Ryan Reynolds to direct it is what you're saying.

And I don't disagree because he was in the movie Free Guy and my dad's from Star Wars and you mean to pray whatever the things that we're talking about. Absolutely. Yeah. It's apparently unknown who the central villain will be but it could include Multiple antagonists and we talked about this you can just swap out whoever forever. Yes, Dr. Doom for whatever Came for this guy that guy for whatever. Yeah, maybe the Fantastic Four defeat Galactus, but then there's bigger Galactus Bigger Galactus. I'm bigger Galactus. My skills are the same

But I'm much bigger not much bigger, I'm a little bit bigger. You probably can't tell, but believe me, if we were standing next to each other, you'd go, oh yeah? No, he is a little bit bigger. God, I can't believe it. It's a shame they defeated original Galactus and sent him into another dimension or whatever, because if we stood next to each other, I'd be bigger even with like if we had no shoes on which I would insist on actually wait a second bigger Galactus your dating profile says you're 6'1 but I think you're

5'9 nobody's 5'9 on a dating profile unless you're 5'7 in which case you're 5'9 everybody knows that and no one's 5'11 because you match with this girl who's 5'11", and she's taller than you. Bigger Galactus. It's obvious. She's wearing flats. I haven't measured myself in a while. Maybe I've shrunk over time. You think you've shrunk?

Over time. Bigger Galactus. Over time. Wow. Venom the Last Dance got its trailer. And let me say this, looks fun. It does, doesn't it? Will it be good? Yeah.

Almost certainly not. I mean, what they've done here is they have tricked us by putting the funnest and best shot right at the end. Because that's all we remember from the trailer now. Which is of course the Venom symbiote symbioting a horse to make a Venom horse. And then it's it parallels. Remember the scene in the first Venom where he's on a motorbike. Oh yeah. And he keeps he's springing off at Looney Tunes style and the Venom symbiote and this they're like what if Venom was on a horse? What if Venom was

on a horse? Yeah exactly. This is directed by Kelly Marcel. She's a screenwriter, but she's also done some directing things, including... Oh, she directed some episodes of The Bill! No, she was in The Bill. What? Wow. She was in The Bill. She was in five episodes of The Bill in various roles. Various roles.

This is her first direct... I loved Constable Various Roles. So she's written Saving Mr. Banks, Fifty Shades of Grey, Venom, Venom 2, Venom 3, but this is her first directing movie. So I don't know what that- Well this is a bit of a departure from Mr. Andy Serkis who directed the last one, which I didn't think was very good. I didn't think it was great either.

I preferred the first one. Had a young Woody Harrelson in it. Did he have a young Woody Harrelson? Well he was in both, first Venom and second Venom. Oh he was, wasn't he? He had his Sacho Bob hair. That's right, I forgot about that. Okay. Yeah, so this time, what's the story,

the venoms are coming. They were always, that's the old one. No they're coming back. Okay. They're on that asteroid or something. Oh yeah. But this is different though. There's a bigger venom coming.

There's a bigger venom in all of them. No, this one's much bigger. I guess kind was smaller. You could stand them next to each other and you could probably tell that. But this one also has, it seems to have all sorts of flora and fauna from the venom. Yes, that's right. Yeah.

So that's a bit of fun. That's a little bit different. Yeah. And they're showing them in daylight, which is nice. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, also people continuity wise.

I knew you were going with this. We have to bring it up. Continuity buffs are like, this is all over the place. This is inexplicable. I don't think they're going to explain this in the movie at all. I this is this they've lost the plot over here. You don't think that they've absolutely fucked this up by accident? Because I might have. I mean, it is Sony.

They could take it out. Yeah. So people may or may not remember. I remember. Although I can't remember what movie is this in Spider-Man? No way home. Don't do this. OK. Yes. At the end, it's a post credits, yes. Eddie Brock Venom briefly appears in the MCU. Because the Venom movies are not set in the MCU, they're set in this vague nebulous Sony No Spider-Man universe.

No Spider-Man. Tom Hardy was saying there is a Spider-Man in this universe. Oh yeah. It doesn't get up to much though, does he? Because he's not in any of this. Maybe he's a boy? Maybe he's a boy, yeah. Maybe he's a boy. Maybe he's a boy

Yeah, maybe he's maybe he not born yet. Maybe he's that baby boy that we saw in Madame Web You could that's in a separate universe. Well Morbius appears to be in the venom universe. Maybe also Anyway, you were saying You're explaining Sony content. I was explaining Sony continuity So in one of so so Eddie Brock is transported magically or scientifically from his Sony universe to the MCU universe. MCU universe. MCU universe. To a bar. Oh yeah, that happens at the end of one of his movies maybe? Maybe it's Venom 2. It might be Venom 2. But then he spends the entirety of Spider-Man No Way Home

in that bar, right? Like having the bartender explain all the people in it in the universe. And as Eddie gets increasingly drunk and then he then whatever force took him to the MCU, I assume the portals, even though there's no portal where he is, he just snapped in and out. No, no, because remember they do snap in and out. They just kind of phase in and out. Yeah. They don't use portals.

Right. Oh yeah. Okay, great. Terrific. Then the continuity checks out. Yes, it's flawless. This is bulletproof. And then he then he goes back to his own universe, but he leaves behind a little snippet of

symbiosis, venom juice, little venom juice on the on the bar. And you think that's going to get on Spider-Man. It's going to get on Spider-Man. He's going to become venom Spider-Man. Yeah. That classic character venom Spider-Man.

But then in this trailer, we see Chewatelle Ejiofor's character, who is Baron Mordo in the MCU, but he's just a different guy in this, maybe an FBI agent or something. A policeman. A policeman. He finds that in the Sony universe.

He goes, what's this? What's this? I mean, it could be different goo. Yeah, he could have been transported back to the same bar. This is the Venom goo-niverse. But he could be in goo. Yeah, he could have been transported back to the same bar. This is the Venom Gooniverse. But he could be in the same bar in the different universe with the same bartender. Because the bartender was the same. But with different haircuts.

Maybe. I think he does have different haircuts. Well, then it's the different guy then, I guess. So, GeoTail84 is a military soldier who is tracking Brock and Venom and trying to capture the symbiote. Terrific. Junotemple is a scientist tracking Brock and venom. Nice. Reese Ephens is in this.

He also played the lizard. He did play the lizard. But he's not playing the lizard in this. He's a different guy. Yeah. So terrific. So yeah, I think that they could just cut this scene. They also had like a picture of the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man in the Morbius trailer.

And now it's just gone. It's just got rid of that. Yeah, so who knows. Also, I got to tell you, at this point, we're this far in. It doesn't matter. I don't care. No, it doesn't. It's like the X-Men timeline. It's the X-Men movie timeline.

Nobody knows. They just know you have a vague recollection of what happened last time. So it doesn't really matter, does it? Also, maybe, also, if I remember correctly, in the comic book continuity, the symbiotes, they all have like a collective unconscious and it goes through dimensions. So yeah, and they've done a bit of that in the movies or hinted at a place. Because if you know, because if one of them knows who Spider-Man is, and they all know who Spider-Man is, I think that's the idea.

Yeah. God, I love that. You know, very excited for Venom Horse. That Venom Horse bit does look good. Is Michelle... On a hand. No. What the hell is that name? Obama. Yeah, is Michelle Obama in this? Michelle Obama's not in this. Michelle, she's the late... Michelle Yeoh. That's it. No, no, it's not Michelle Yeoh. I already nailed it. No. Williams. Yeah, Michelle Williams. Yeah. Is Anne Wenning? Is she returning as Anne Wenning? I don't know.

Is she returning as that character from Dawson's She's returning as the end of the returning as an hashtag winning. She's She had a bad breakup from Eddie Brock and she's returned She's renamed herself after Charlie Sheen's famous hashtag hashtag winning god remember that. Yeah, of course I do Why would I say it if I didn't remember? You think I've just came up off the top of my head, I thought, what if Charlie Sheen had a hashtag? You've got such a mind that it's very possible that you created that.

I do have a beautiful mind, which Michelle Williams might've been in. No, I think that was... I'm thinking of Dawson's Creek. Yeah. But I think that was Black Air. Michelle Monahan. Michelle Obama. Heroin movie. What the hell's her name? She's currently in Dark Matter, the TV show. Oh, Jennifer Connelly.

Jennifer Connelly. There we go. Yeah, I was thinking of that. You were. Anyway, let's move it along. Venom looks good. Let's say it here. It looks fun.

It could be fun. I never really liked them, but it could be fun. We need to start saying things that will actually get put on the posters. You know what I mean? We don't do that. This could be fun. This could be fun. There we go.

That's perfect. We'll say it in unison. You ready? Three, two, one. This could be fun. There we go. James and Mace are the Weekly Planet podcast. We want it to, because we need, we need to say, because you know,

We want people back in the cinemas. They do a bunch of trailers for stuff. Yeah. And usually by like the third trailer, there's like, ain't it cool news? This is cool. Yeah. You know, they said bleh. But we need to get on top of that, we need to start.

Even if we haven't seen it, we've got to get in there. Because that's all they need for these trailers, right? They just need somebody to say, this could be fun. Some guy said whatever. It's got to zoom in on the blur, you know? Yeah, exactly. Alright. James and Mason. This looks so much? Yeah, exactly. All right. This looks so much fun. We did a big chuck.

Right. That's got to be in the third one. You know, it's got to say Phantom 3 final trailer. This could be fun. You know? So this is via the rap. So according to an insider with knowledge, getting Black... That's the best kind of insider.

We asked an insider. They didn't know. But they said they'd guess. They'd have a crack at it. Blade, the movie Blade, announced in 2019... Not simply the concept of a blade. No, no, no. Is much more important than getting the film out.

So getting it right, sorry, is more important than just pushing the movie out. Okay. They are now on to their sixth writer The original director of course Basim Tariq he left over creative differences, but they've got a new director Well, they have a new director, but they continue to have a new director. Ah, Mason Yan demand demands. He stepped away He's gone. This doesn't have a director. What do you say? You're using some odd language there. He stepped away. He's gone. This doesn't have a director. What are you saying? You're using some odd language there. He stepped away? Well, it says... He simply stepped away from his... Did he step away from the scene to sit in his director's chair? No, no, no, Mason. I'm going to contemplate some more directing I'm going to do on this movie.

Despite having a release date of November 7th of 2025. You don't know any of these facts. I know some things. This insider doesn't know nothing. It doesn't. It's coming out in November, I think. Yeah, I'm on the set. I'm here.

November 7th of 2025, it's coming out apparently despite not having a confirmed director. Jeff Snyder said Mahershala Ali had grown frustrated with the director and apparently he's difficult to work with. I mean, who knows what that means. You know, like people can be frustrated with each other and it's the first person to say it could be the one that's the story. I mean, I do get the sense from what we've seen over the years that this is a passion project for Mahershala Ali and also Marvel and they really want to get it right. But they seem to be just be tripping over themselves to get to that point. I wonder what the stumbling block is. Do you think like if you say if someone says

all the directors difficult, is the director difficult? Or is the director facing difficulties from some of them? Is it a case of like, well, look, we're gonna have this ongoing blade story but we you need to put in the references to the Black Knight and you put in references We're gonna we're gonna bring back the eternal save but I bring them make a reference that oh, we're gonna have the sequels We're gonna have a good night son So if you could you could we're gonna put that scene in obviously, you know, yeah I'm wondering if you know, everybody might be struggling with that. Absolutely Yeah, and you know you want to kind of get it right because they're already is like a blade legacy Well, I could call this blade legacy. Blade legacy, origin zero.

And it's like it's well- Because it's got zero sugar. Yeah. It's also, it does feel like it is the birth of like the modern Marvel movie, the MCU stuff, took a lot from Blade. Yeah. Like the direction of that franchise. I mean, being difficult could be-

It was always ice skating uphill. Exactly. Well, how I imagine difficult when I think about a director on set or trying to make something happen. You're picturing he's wearing a sort of like Jodhpur style pants. He might like they sort of blooming out at the size. And he's got like a beret. Yeah, and a cigarette and a holder. Yes. And he's got like a megaphone, but it's not just cardboard. It's just a cardboard. Yeah, and he's yelling to a tube basically. Yeah, yeah. Did that even work? That's not even the difficult part. The difficult part I'm imagining is that there was a bucket of loose, like wet cement and he put his foot in it.

He didn't realize and it had dried. Oh yeah, okay, I'm sure. And now he's just clunking around with this bucket of cement on his foot. God, that would be difficult, wouldn't it? Can you imagine trying to like, trying to get to a meeting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you've got a bucket of cement on your foot? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like how would you even do that? They'd have to let you go. Well, you'd have to let you go. Well, you'd have to first, I mean, I imagine you would hope that the meeting is somewhat close by and then you could yell into your cardboard chair. It's a bit like a megaphone. It'd be like, I'm running a little bit late because I stood in a bucket of cement and it dried. Yeah. And I'm clamping and clamping about like some sort of cement legged pirates.

Could have one on each foot. That's right. We don't know. And there's just a sit like there's, you know, all your extras are there and everybody's dressed like Errol Flynn with little tweedly mustache, you know. They're yelling cut and like not happy with it. And there's alarms going ring ring ring ring ring. And the actors like, I can't bloody work like this. People are lifting up the walls of the set and moving them around.

Yeah, the actor's doing an accent but then they cut the actor, the actor slips into their normal accent. Like, I can't bloody work like this. You know? They can't do it. God, it must be crazy. They don't work with amateurs. Must be crazy on the set of Blade. And he's got that bucket of cement on his foot. Exactly. Yeah. God.

You know? Yeah. Anyway, so it's probably something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Leading ladies there, she's like, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Anyways, my first role in Hollywood. Oh, you know, yeah, exactly. That's a dog. Dog industry. Yeah. Yeah. We know that. Exactly. And Harry Styles is there as Eros. is Eros. The Eternal of Love. He's there, you know? He was in that movie. He's waiting for his cameo. Good movie. Yeah. Good movie, wasn't it? Yeah, that's right. And they have to get in the Willy Lumpkin. He's got to be there. He's there too. That's right. Excuse me, I got some letters from Blade. Bye Hunter. I'm Blade. Classic Blade. Yeah. I'm sorry, this actually says blurred. This is a... Blurred lines? Yeah. Oh no, it actually says blurred. Blurred lines? Yeah. Oh no, it's the lyrics to blurred lines?

Yes it is, yes. Okay, great. So anyway, we'll see what happens there. This could fall apart completely, right? Yeah, like those sets. The actor could leave. He's probably like, I'm finally going to get you Dracula and it's just the wall of the set falls down.

Cut! Et cetera. The thing we said happens again. I can't work like this! Yeah, that's right. It's my first role in Hollywood. Clunk, clunk. as hot, et cetera. The thing we said, yeah, that's right. Oh, it's my first role in Hollywood. Clunk, clunk, clunk. Yep. That's right.

Every day of this bloody set. I don't know how they do it. No. Anyway, Bob Iger, that's some, yeah, there's some ideas about on, on, on wokeness. People are like, what's going on with wokeness? Is Disney too woke? If you thought that, don't worry about it. I did think that, but continue.

He said, the bottom line is infusing messaging as a sort of number one priority in our films and TV shows is not what we're up to. They need to be entertaining and where the Disney company can have a positive impact on the world, whether it's fostering acceptance and understanding of people of all different types, great. But generally speaking, we need to be an entertainment company first and understanding that, look, we are trying to reach a very, very diverse audience. And I think this is 100% true. Well, yeah.

They're reaching a diverse audience because they want to get everybody. It's not about an agenda. We're going to lose. I mean, they fucked up on Indiana Jones. I don't think that's a diversity issue because of why. Sure. I'll even concede that. They can have that one. All right. You win what? Sure. I'll even concede that. They can have that one.

All right? You win. You win. That one, you're right. The wokeness worries. They're taking in the other Jones. You won. You won.

You got that one. Oh my God. But it's literally just like ones and zeros on a spreadsheet. How much money can we get if we pretend that there's a gay person in this movie or whatever? Yeah, that we can cut out for markets. Yeah, they don't care. Gools. Gools. a gay person in this movie or whatever. Yeah, that we can cut out for market. Yeah, they don't care. Yeah. Ghouls.

They are. The fact, like the first part of that statement there, the fact that they even have to say, yeah, the first thing we're about is entertaining. As if he's going to come out and be like, no, we're here to just push a message with products that people don't like. I mean, they wouldn't say that, would they, Mason? No, that's true. Not with a message.

I don't know. I mean, do people know that though? I feel like, I don't know. Am I crazy? No, it's because so many YouTubers and these commentators, they know it's not true. Do they? I don't think they all know. I think some of them do. And I think some of them do. I think the probably like the upper tier versions. I've said this before but like a lot of right-wing commentators I think they all have like one genuine Bigotry in them. Yeah, like a lot of them are like maybe a solid one. It's like a fine a foundational Yeah, like a lot of them have a foundational racist or sexist or homophobic or whatever it is and then but they're once they're there

they're like, but if I also say that There's too many trans people in Star Wars movies or whatever. Is that true? Yeah, it is. Let's make this a video. Let's chop this bit out of here. I would never put this in a video. I could not handle.

I think they all have one genuine bigotry and then they're like, well, now that I'm here, I may as well just say there's too much diversity in Star Wars or too much whatever and that because that gets them because like once they've gone past that barrier why not and then it's kind of and I think a lot of them obviously know most of it isn't true and then maybe like and then the people they they pitch to that they pitch their videos who don't know that yeah okay and I think there's probably also like a level of creators below them who are just sort of like, they're also making videos and they get all their information from the bigger YouTubers. And I mean, if you're one of the top ones, there's a lot of money in that.

If you want, if you're starting out now, you're probably like, you probably need a new angle, if I'm being honest with you. But you know, do what you can. Yeah, that's right. Do what you can. Do what you can to ruin the internet forever. So there, there you go. Bob Iger doing the Lord's work.

That's right. Who's laughing at us? Yeah, that's right. This is my THR. Olivia Wilde will helm Evangeline. If I may stop you there just for a second. Sure. If I can chew on this in, new t-shirt idea.

God is real and he's laughing at us, the weekly planet. Same? Do you think we put this in the video as well Do you think we'll put this in the video as well? Yeah, we'll put this in the video. And that's the text and above the text is God. He's on a cloud and he's pointing and laughing. And then below, can we just use the family guide God? It's just easier.

Yeah, yeah, we'll do that. And then below it's us and we're crying, I think. And it's raining, maybe it's raining on us. We're in the podcast in studio, but it's raining on us. Would it be too far if we did like a Calvin style God is pissing on us? Because I think that is too far. That is probably, but he would be laughing, wouldn't he? Yeah, that's too far though for a t-shirt in my opinion.

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Oh yeah, that's true. That's also happening. But anyway, we're going to go through the biggest movies, the most anticipated movies of the year. Some of these won't come out. Space Man. This is the Adam Sandler movie. Yeah, and Adam Sandler and Paul Dano is a...

So it's... Adam Sandler is an astronaut, he's on a deep space mission and he's lonely. But then also there's a big spider on the ship. He's an alien spider from the beginning of time. He's voiced by Paul Dano. There's also another book which I read recently. What's it called? I can't remember. I talk about it all the time on suggestible and Claire was gonna read it But it's also got a space spider in it. Oh, and that's also gonna be a movie. Pride and Prejudice? Yeah, that's I've done that already Yeah, they did already balance it twice There you go, you know boys, it's me pride and prejudice First name pride and second a prejudice. I'm a space spider. All right

Okay, yeah, cool. I'm here to teach you how to be a lady So this is about ladies spider or right now And a Victorian era lady. I'm very skilled in the art of teaching ladies how to be polite about exist a polite society Well, you are so I'm from the beginning. It's all because yeah, and you're a spider and it was spider Okay, that's interesting you got to learn how to do a fancy walk if you're a spider. And I'm a spider. OK, that's interesting. You got to learn how to do a fancy walk if you're a spider. Can I walk regular in my own personal life? I suppose. Don't let anybody see you.

Put a book on your head. Put a book on my head. That's right. What kind of book? Fancy book. A fancy book? Like a doily? Like a book about doily. Get out. Oh, was this part of it? Yeah.

Okay. This is the test. You're fired from DePauw, but school. Oh no. All right. This is exciting for you. Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. It is exciting for me.

Because it's apparently a throwback to the real Ghostbusters animated series. It's not just like he's Zool again and he's everything you've seen. They're going to try a new thing. Of everything you've seen. Yeah, they're gonna try a new thing of everything You've seen but in a different medium. Yes, but with um That's true, but it's too it's sincere now. Yeah, it's in see and it's got the characters who are alive in real life That's right. That's right. That's right. I so they're not doing only the actors who've died are returning No, they already did that. Okay, so I'm excited. No only the actors actors who've done it. Oh, only? Yeah, I guess so. Also, apparently Walter Peck is back.

That's cool. The Environmental Protection Agency guy. He might be the mayor. Might be the mayor. He's either the mayor or he's been put in a basement somewhere and he's all sad. People have talked about how he's right, right? Like he was right? Absolutely, yeah. Cool. Not a fan.

We don't have to talk about it. You're just happy that somebody's talked about it. Yeah, exactly. Not a fan, obviously, of this franchise, but isn't Patton Oswald in it? Oh yeah, he is. Kamel Nanjiani is in it, Paul Rudd is back, the kids from the first one, original cast members of Ghostbusters. You think podcast is back? The character of podcast? I mean, how could you not? How could there be a Ghostbusters movie without the character of podcast? They're gonna retroactively insert him into the first movie, I think. God, I hope so.

There will be a Ghostbusters time travel movie at some point, right, if they keep making these? It's the 80s! What do we do? We gotta make sure original Ghostbusters happens! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ghost has gone back in time and he moved a thing and it made the Ghostbusters not happen. Yeah!

They're all woke! A ghost went back in time and it stopped the library ghosts from spooking them so they didn't become the Ghostbusters. So we've got to go back and we've got to get the lady Ghostbusters to spook the Ghostbusters again. Damn. And we're woke. And we're woke?

That's right. We're getting away with too much, Mason, over there. I know, right? This studio, whoever based these. That's right. Paramount or whatever. I can't remember. God damn. Then we've got Godzilla X Kong. I'm actually, look honestly I'm really excited. I know you are.

No not that, not even this movie. I don't care about this movie anymore. I'm now excited about the movie where they have to go back in time to the 80s and they just go, this is our end game and we have to go through the scenes in the original Ghostbusters. Yeah man. Ah incredible. Such reverence. Oh there's gonna be so much reverence because we're going to see Ray and we're going to see Peter Pete and then there's going to be stirring music and we're going to see Egon and she's like, Oh, it's Egon. Is there going to be stirring music when they hide in the cupboard and watch a ghost suck the dick of Dan Aykroyd?

Yes. The thing that happened in that movie. Yes. Oh, that's what they've got to make sure happens. You got to do it. I don't really do that. I'm a ghost They put an amulet on ray and he turns invisible Right right, yeah, but isn't he already

Yeah, I hate that well, it's gonna happen He's gonna have to do it cuz otherwise the Ghostbusters won't get formed and they won't save the city. The city will be destroyed. Yeah, Marshmallow Man, etc. Yeah, that's right. I know. Yeah.

Ray, the Marshmallow Man will destroy the city unless you do this. Yep. Dad, that's right. Might. I'm saying he will. He will. As a cool ghost goof. Just explain to him the amulet and the dimensions and whatever.

He loves that sort of stuff. Do you want Egon to live or whatever? I don't know. Yeah sure. He can't. He can't really. No. We've got Bad Boys 4.

No we don't. No we don't. You don't think so? No I don't think so. Let me check that's for real coming out. No I don't believe you. Bad Boys! Couple of Bad Boys! It's Let me check. That's for real coming out. I don't believe you.

Bad boys! Couple of bad boys. It's coming out, man. June 14th. Wow, okay, sure. Great. Yeah. Great.

Love that Martin Lawrence never done anything bad in his life. It's got Vanessa Hudgens in it. Currently it's, and they can't call it Bad Boys 4 Life. Because they did that with the last reason Amazing. Yeah, December. We've got the Lord of the Rings the war of Rohirrim. No, we don't. Yeah, it's an animated It's an anime come in with the director, but he's a famous anime director has done good anime It's got Miranda Otto who's from Lord of the Rings, but it's set like 250 years before Lord of the Rings Okay, and it's about Helm Hammer man and it's got Brian Cox in it and I don't know anything about it

Nobody really knows anything about it, but I'm really looking forward to it. Okay, so Miranda and Miranda Otto and Brian Cox are doing all the voices Yes, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, because she's she's only narrating. She's like I remember time Oh, there was an ancient story of a dude. Oh, good. Hey boys. Yeah boys. What are you doing here? Lord of the Rings. Yeah, not yet 250 years before I think you'll find who's up boys pump the brakes on that Lord of the Rings? Yeah. Not yet. 250 years before I think you'll find- He's up boys. Pump the brakes on that Lord of the Rings, mate. You know Lord of the Rings is a couple hundred years, alright?

He's up. He's up and settled down. We're going to the pub. We'll have a couple of bebs. We might do a war with him on the way. Can't guarantee anything. This is Japanese also, anime. Yeah.

Remember that? It's popular, not here. Very is Japanese also anime. Yeah. Remember that? It's popular, not here. Very popular in Japan though. Mate, you're gonna love it. You're gonna love it. It's like cartoons, let me finish, but for adults. You're gonna love it.

Karate Kid. Mufasa, The Lion King, which is The Lion King live action, but they're not live action. I know prequel, it's about how does Scar get his scar, et cetera. I hate it awful. Yeah. But at least it's different. It's a different story. So just The Lion King twice.

Okay, sure. Much of it's like we've done The Lion King and it's even more realistic. Yep. G'day. Slightly more upsetting. G'day, boys. Real enough for you? Yeah.

Like what you see? Thought you wouldn't. G'day boys, I'm Scar. Don't have a scar yet. So here we go. Are we going to acknowledge that it's just us doing a poor impression of Broden Kelly? It's different. It's a different voice. It's different, it's a different voice. Okay. Yeah. I said poor impression also. Yeah.

TV shows. Some of these are dated summer night, I'm just going to rattle them off. Okay. Hot Quick TV shows. Alright, here we go. Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Oh yep. That's happening.

I got a push notification just earlier. Oh I saw that. February maybe. February. Curb your enthusiasm returns for its apparent final season. I was going to say Mr. and Mrs. Smith actually looks pretty good. Yeah it does actually. They've taken a different tack which is that they're gonna make gonna be better than the movie Probably yeah, they know they're like they're a couple and they're aware that they're both in a movie in a movie

What's going on? I don't get out of this The movie stops do we die do we do we go out do we go into it? Can we escape through the cinema? Oh streaming or not. Who's this lovely young couple? You're trapped in a movie. Hello Do we go in? Can we escape through the cinema? Oh, streaming? Oh, no! Who's this lovely young couple, you're trapped in a movie, hello. I'm just saying he doesn't own the concept of blokey voices. He does! He's perfected it, I'll grant you. But you can't make it exclusive to him, is what I'm saying. Alright, alright. You tell him that next time you see him.

Or I will, I will. The Acolyte, which is next Star Star Wars. Yeah, which could be good actually It's not gonna be about some sort of Jedi apprentice and they go bad But then they're good or something and then they're a great Jedi and they have a different colored lightsaber I technically can't be a great Jedi Mason. They made that very clear recently Did those things a great Jedi who said that the man in the cowboy hat? Yeah, that's right She's mr. Cowboy hat man make a decree get a boys. I'm just To set you straight.

The Acolyte, it's got Karrion Moss. OK, I like Karrion Moss. First movie of the year for us. Come on, mate. From the twisted mind of Matthew Vaughan, we've got Argyle. Before this, I watched The Talent of Mr. Ripley, and I thought that was great. No, no, did you go to cinemas for it? No, I saw it on my TV. The 24 movie, exactly. I watched that last year as well. What a good movie. They're doing a new series with and please yeah

That's right. It looks good. That is I believe that is a remake of this so it's not like Ripley origins or anything It's a really bad origin town that mr. Ripley. I did watch it. I because when does he fight the alien? Never what yeah, you can do it he fights alienation by killing other people and stealing their identities I think so yeah that's what he does that's great anyway did you know there's also like French versions of talented mr. Ripley the Ripley the Ripley that's right the Ripley kills the alien Royale Ripley anyways go on just a minor Matthew ball and Argyle. Well, before

we get into that, what do you think the story was? Alright, okay, so. Try not to do the several twists in this, by the way. I'll try not. Try to hold back. The endless twists, okay. Because they just keep happening. I don't know how much of this we can do non-spoilers, because there's like, there's the twist and then they just twist all the way to the end. Let me get to the plot James. Okay, so Bryce Dallas Howard plays a woman named Ellie Yep, and she is a writer and she writes about a cool spy called

Argyle agent Argyle. Yeah, man, and he's up. He's played by Handsome Henry Cavill. Yeah, he's cool and swab and he gets into all sorts of adventures and everybody loves the books and they're big sellers but then Then it turns out that some of the stuff she's written in a book. It's all very close to the truth It's real because and and but then the all the secret agencies they want to get her for reasons Mm-hmm, and then Sam Rock was there he goes. Hello. I'm charming and everything and he continues to be I'll do a little dance Sometimes no complaints. I would say sometimes I feel like I'm only doing a little dance because they've asked me to do a little dance. I think he's just doing dance. You think so?

Yeah, man. He's doing dance. Yeah. And also, I didn't like the post credits in the endings. Okay, right. It really gave us honest. Yeah, they really did. Also, there's two sequences in this movie, where she she's at some sort of book reading event and she just reads the last page of her book. Like her new book. And then Agent R goes, he escaped on a jet ski or whatever. What is she doing there? Is she sat a bunch of unsuspecting fans down and she's read them the entire book? Or has she set a bunch of unsuspecting fans down and she's just read the last page. She's like spoilers idiots. I'll be amazed if any of these sequels, I think maybe we'll get another Kingsman.

Well, here's the thing, because in the post credits that you'll admit credits, there was no post credits. I knew nobody would stick around for the credits. Well, they say they drop the mid credits on you before you can leave. Absolutely, they do. So it cuts to the Kingsman pub in the early 2000s. And there's a young boy, a bemolested boy, and he goes up and he's like, hello, I need a Kingsman gun.

And he gives him one and they go, this is Kingsman. And then it says, Argyle, the first book or something. No, it says Argyle, the book one, the movie coming soon. And everybody in my cinema was like nah. There was a written out book. There's an answer to this and there's probably even an interview because that book exists. It's like a book you can buy. It's the one we were talking about.

Or is this a series of prequel movies that are set within the universe? So that the books that Ali wrote within the universe and that's also the Kingsman universe. Or is this the actual thing that happened in Ali's past but this thing that happened but it was Henry Cavill and it's his story as a Kingsman. Because it can't be fictional because then it wouldn't say 20 years ago. That's what I'm saying yeah. Because it isn't actually 20 years ago.

But the other thing is like Sofia Batalla is in this and so is Sam Jackson and they were in the first Kingsman. They were it's true. So I don't know what this is supposed to be. Oh, Sofia Batala was the Knives Legs woman. She was the Knives Legs woman. Yeah. Knives out.

On my legs. On my legs. Yeah, that's right. What a mess. I mean, also, you know, there's nothing wrong with a filmmaker going, I love working with these people. They're my friends. Totally.

I'm not bringing you into another role. That's not what I have a problem with. No, I know. Okay. It seems like you do. Remember I said there was a Savage IGN thing upcoming? Here it is. It's an IGN article by Amelia Emberwing, which I read. So this is how it goes.

So this is an ending explained for the movie Argyle. You know, I've done a few videos like that. They're all bangers, mate. And you see them on YouTube. They're everywhere. She wrote, The ending explained article format comes in a lot of different forms. Not to pull the curtain back too far in anything, but they've become a product of our digital landscape because no matter the medium or genre, folks are Googling to find that ending. Nobody's ever really happy about it, honestly.

Commenters inevitably call the writer a shill and accuse them of being creatively bereft. Meanwhile, the writer stares dead-eyed at the cursor while they try to regurgitate what they just witnessed in a way that doesn't make us feel like soulless drones. But people keep googling it, so we have to keep writing about it. Because of that, our goal at IGN is to find a fun angle, or at least make it informative in a way that extends beyond the boilerplate synopsis that makes us want to slam our laptop shut and go find a whiskey. This ending explained? It's trying to protect you. Damn.

I care about you and I want to keep you safe and happy. So I'm telling you that I sat through over two hours of argyle so you don't have to. And then it goes on to explain the ending. But I just love how it's just like, I hate doing this and this is bullshit. Incredible. That's good stuff. Good movie. Disagree. From the minds who brought us Morbius, gods of Egypt and Dracula untold comes women Morbius. Oh yes. I think that's kind of unfair. People have been saying the writers of this, they made, they wrote those other movies.

They made some Drake. What do you think the story was? Oh come on mate, right. Of Madame Webb. Madame Webb is Cassie Webb. Yeah. And no one likes her and she doesn't like anyone. And but then. Then she has a big accident. She has a big accident. She drowns. And then when she comes back, she can sort of see the future a bit in a vague way. It's not really.

Yep. Consistent. Yeah. And then then it turns out there's a bloke out there and he wants to kill three women. And he's Spider-Man. He's evil Spider-Man. He's evil Spider-Man sort of. Yeah. And then she's got a... Really missing something about the webs, isn't it?

It really takes an element away of being Spider-Man. Not on here. What's he doing? He's got web and nobody. Yeah. Should be called Madame Web and Mr. Jump. You know, it could have been a romcom. And stick. Yep. Okay. So Madam Web and Mr. Jump and stick. I think that's too many words. You're right. Just Mr. Jump is fine. Yeah.

The idea of a Spider-Man, but he's a killer. Yeah. There is something in that. Well, I mean, we've talked in the past about how it would be nice to do. Brightburn, like for example, you take a concept. Yeah, superhero movies, but put it in and give us a horror version. Give us a, you know, an espionage. Give us a rude one. Give us a rude, a sexy, rude one, but also has to be good. Yeah. We should have said that. Caviar. Every single time we said this in the past 10 years of doing this podcast,

and we've said it a bunch of times, we should have added that caveat. It also has to be good. And in a way, this is our fault, because I feel like we didn't say that. You're right. We assumed. I kept saying anything can be good. Yeah. I should have said, but you actually have to like.

Expense some effort. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't do that, did we? So this is in a way, This is our fault that we apologize You could pick any number of super villains in the Marvel Universe and go what about a movie where craven the hunter? Yeah, or on no Like you could do a movie where some kids piss off

Electro when he's robbing a bank or something Yeah, and then he follows the city trying to kill him or whatever You know that that could work and this could have worked, but it doesn't work for a bunch of reasons. Her mum went to the Amazon to research spiders before she died. And while she was pregnant and Cassie's like, well, I guess she didn't care about me at all. And then over the course of the movie, she learns that the reason why that was is because she was looking for a cure for the disease that Madame Webb had. But then she's like, then when we see that when she goes back in time and hugs her mom, she goes, Oh, you were in the Amazon to look for a cure for me and you

loved me and that's why you did it. It's like, we saw it. You didn't have to. You could just That's what I'm talking about. You could just have a look and go, oh, Yeah. You could even have a go, oh, I get it now. And if you, the audience is smart, you'll also get it. But if you don't, Screen Rant will have an article about it. They'll say, Madam Web Ending Explained. Cassie was happy because she realized that her mother was trying to save her with a spider.

Article to recommend at the bottom. The Dark Knight Rises ending its place. Oh, you better believe it. That's right. 2024. It's a new article. I guess I wanted to ask you about the final showdown. Okay, sure. Because earlier on, there's a big fire at the explosion factory. That's right. And they have to go back to the explosion factory at the end for a big showdown. They're like, well, we'll call an emergency paramedic helicopter and we'll ask them to park on the

top of the explosion factory. And I mean, sure, technically some of them will be like, wasn't there just a huge explosion at that explosion factory that we were there? Wasn't there an ambulance driver killed at the explosion factory? Yeah, I don't think we should go to the... Volatile. I don't think we should land on the explosion. I think there's a big sign.

We probably can't land here because there's a big Pepsi Cola sign. Yeah. And because of all the explosions, the building is probably not structurally sound. And I bet like on our helicopter map, the headquarters, there's a big X over it. And it's done. And the X is just don't just don't. But anyway, so so they're there. They're escaping from evil Spider-Man. And-Man and they say, okay, we're going

to have to escape. We're going to go into the fireworks explosion building and we'll get a helicopter from there. And they're like, okay, here's some flares. Just put them in all the boxes of fireworks. When are they going to go off? Doesn't matter. Whose business is this? Doesn't matter.

Because sometimes they put a flare in there and it just sizzles for ages. And sometimes they put a flare in there and it just sizzles for ages and sometimes they put a flare in there and it just blows up immediately. Yeah, man. You're giving those to kids, are you? I mean, she knows. She can see the future. Oh, that's true. She can see the future.

Sometimes depending and sometimes she can control it. Sometimes she can't. That's true, yeah. Yeah. Just, oh God, just what are they doing? I'm going to say best movie ever because I had a wild time. I'm not going to say that. I don't see this. don't pay money for it. Don't say shouldn't encourage what you're not streaming this kind of behavior What you should do wait for it's like wait till it's on streaming and get some friends together and watch it like that

Yeah, I think what do you think Sony's like, what did they think would happen? I don't know this at what point did they know this was this movie, you know, it's a great question Like they tried to fix it, obviously, but... Yeah, maybe. But it's not... Also, like, it's obviously not said in any of the Spider-Man universes, because with the killer Spider-Man running around... Nobody goes, that's Spider-Man.

Oh, wait, he's got a knife. Yeah. And no webs? No webs. Oh, that's Mr. Jumps. Look out. Yeah, if it was, yeah, you're absolutely webs. Oh, that's Mr. Jumps. Look out. Yeah, if it was, if it was, yeah, you're absolutely right. It's not said anyway.

Because they're all, if any of those kids were native New Yorkers, when they saw a guy crawling on the roof, they'd be like, they wouldn't go, that's a crawly man. Yeah. They'd go, they call him ceiling guy. I think it'd be funny if Spider-Man was called ceiling guy by everybody, because you can't control it. No, you really can't. Unless you hold a press conference ago

Just so you know, I want a man day one Yeah If you were crawling on the ceiling people would call you ceiling guy Yeah, be that forever even if you have made a concerted effort to walk on them on the ground Yeah, it would still be like it'd be like ceiling guys on the ground now It's like if your mom ran up to the school bus in the first day of high school because you've got your lunch and she Gave you the lunch you'd be mommy lunchbox man mummy lunchbox man. For the rest of your life. That's right.

Yeah. Cool. All right. Should we move it along? Let's move it along. What a great movie. Good start to the year. Two bad movies out of the day. Oh, incredible. So Dune II is in two weeks. Yeah, we got that. What are we going to do in the meantime? We're going to talk about legacy sequels because of course we're getting Ghostbusters Frozen New York this week.

Frozen Treats it's called. Yeah. Are you excited for Ghostbusters? I am. Shut up. I am for real. Shut up. Ah, come on, mate. This is the one where they finally have an original story or it's just a remake of Ghostbusters 2.

We don't know yet. What do you think? Ah, could be both. Could be both. That's true. No, I think it's a fresh new original. It's supposed to be a hearken back. And we talked about this because we did this Caravan of Garbage last week to the real Ghostbusters. Oh, OK.

It's like an episodic new adventure moving forward new threat and demon etc. And they've got red jumpsuits. That's true They do it there. I think what they're doing there is they're attempting a rebrand of like yeah This is new with it. This is the this is the clean break This is the attempt to have a fresh new look and we do we're doing red jumpsuits. Yes Now I want to know after that we're not gonna have any old Ghostbusters anymore. We're going to try this with just Paul Rudd and the guy with the hair. The guy with the hair. Yeah. Yeah. The guy little hair man podcast. No, no. Yeah. Well, him. Yes. Also.

Oh, but I'm Wolfhard. Yes. Yeah. Well, the other thing is, because we were talking about, uh, cause we'd recently the commentary on the one from 2021, which you can find at big sandwich.co and we were like, is Celeste O'Connor in it? Who's plays one of the girl ghostbusters. And we thought, no, can find at big sandwich.co. And we were like, is Celeste O'Connor in it, who plays one of the girl ghostbusters? And we thought no, but yes, she is. No, she is.

And also is podcast in it, who sort of plays one of the ghosts? Yes, podcast is in it also. All the greats. Made the trip to New York. I love that. City, baby. They're probably on a school trip. They're probably on a school trip or whatever.

So anyway, what I've got here, it's a list of 100 legacy sequels from IMDB. All right. Now some of these we won't need to talk about because they don't exist. Sure. It's a list of 100 legacy sequels from IMDB. Some of these we won't need to talk about because they don't exist. So we're going to try and do 100 to 1. Are we? Yes. Try.

We might need to have a break and lie down. Definitely. How do you feel about that? We normally have to have a break and lie down after the news because the news is so hot and fresh. Number 7 is a TV show. The Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series. Like in hindsight, completely unnecessary. It was something I wanted to see for years.

I think it does build- Name anything that happens in that show. Half of his mask comes off and he goes, hello, remember me? Oh, wow. You fucking did this. Have a look. You low dog. I live with this.

This sucks. And then you hit me in the face with a lightsaber. Yeah, that's rude What you've done there rude Obi-Wan. It's crook what you've done. Actually, I think there's good ideas within it. Uh-huh. I disagree. I Think it's bored. I think it's dull as a rock start to finish Even the part where he throws rocks. I Don't think it's that bad. I think it's very bad. Alright.

I think it's, remember they, I mean also it borrows a bunch of stuff from Jedi Fall and Order and like the animated stuff like that Darth Vader mask and the voice modulation is from Rebels, the storming the inquisitor base is from Fall and Order. I think think it's there's no music in it from the original trilogy from the prequel trilogy Now let me ask you this James if you had never seen any Star Wars movies Yeah, and you will just like it's about a guy and he's fleeing from his past. Would it make any sense? No, no, okay Well, no because they go out of showing up and have been like he you did this and I'd be like, oh my god Wow, this guy should go to jail.

He did go to jail. He put that man in like an iron lung. It's rude of him. I don't know the full context, obviously, but you shouldn't be allowed to do that regardless. That's right. That's fucked up. Feels illegal.

I mean, I guess he technically was on the run, wasn't he? Yeah. For that thing that he did. That's right. Yeah. I mean, other things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you could base it on that.

If he did go to court, you could be like, wow, other things. Yeah. Yeah, but you could base it on that if he did go to court You could be like wow your honor. Yeah, he did This is a legacy sequel to that thing you do because it's that thing you did Anyway, I didn't like it. I thought it was bad every every conceivable thumb. I feel like you were You were pretty no more up on it when we watched it and reviewed it. Maybe. Yeah. Well, time has not been kind. I thought it was fine. It's time to continue a franchise, Mason. Yes. You know what this franchise is?

It's the Kamao Nanjiani jumps into the franchise of the Wrong Time trilogy. Oh, no. We've got Men in Black International. Oh, bad call. We've got The Eternals. Bad call. We've got this. Ghostbusters Frozen Empire.

I've written here Ghostbusters Afterlife, but that's a different Ghostbusters movie. Anyway, what do you think the story was? Ah, come on, mate. Yep. All right, Ghostbusters back in New York, baby. Yep. They're gonna have a big time ghostly New York adventure They are all they're all back all your faves who? Pull every single person everybody from the last one Even the ones that were trapped in that that that nowhere town who had no prospects and no way to get to New York Well, they're in New York, baby. That's right. And there's even more people.

And now there's a big, there's ghosts. There's all the ghosts. Even people who weren't in the last one, but they were in the original Ghostbusters. They're back as well. Who? Walter Peck. Walter Peck's back. And a thing is coming.

Yeah, spooky ghost thing. It's gonna come. It is gonna. It's gonna get to the thing. And you gotta stop it from getting to the thing on time. Is that what was happening? You gotta block it. It's coming. I don't think it had to get to the thing. You got to stop it from getting to the thing on time. Is that what was happening? You got to block it. It's coming. I don't think it had to get to the thing. You've got to get there. It was going to get to the, because the, the ghost house was the central point of energy.

Yeah, but I'm not sure they had to get there. They had to. Where was it getting? Why was it going there then? Just to have a bit of a walk around. I don't think that's why I was trying to get there. Anyway, there's a big thing and it's trying to get there. And that Ghostbusters got to stop it. They'll put their foot down. It's a big frozen thing. That's right. Okay, I just want to say this to Ghostbusters fans. I feel like I've been very cruel to you in terms of me saying that all the Ghostbusters

stuff is not great except the first Ghostbusters movie, which is pretty good. Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters. And I think like watching this. Right. James, are you going to lead up to a big funny joke? No, no, no, no, no. Some funny jokes.

This is a genuine question. I think this also applies to you because you're a big Ghostbusters fan. If you are a Ghostbusters fan. Yes. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Or like slimer was in it, but are you happy with these like muddled watered-down? recycled ideas where like the surviving Ghostbusters turn up and they stand next to each other and they shake their proton sticks for 10 seconds and they all fall over like is this what people want out of this fucking franchise great Don't you want like the and or of Ghostbusters? Yeah, right. Like I know people don't love New Star Wars. I understand that but- Folks, he's working his way to a big old rant. You can point to things-

Classic Mr. Souther movies rant. You can point to things in Star Wars and be like, that's great. Yes. Right? Mm-hmm. I'm talking about the new stuff, Ethan. I can't point to a single fucking thing from Ghostbusters outside of, are they some good comics? Yep.

That's like, this is definitively great. point to a single fucking thing from Ghostbusters outside of, are they some good comics? Yep. That's like, this is definitively great. Okay, but could you say that about, if we're talking Star Wars, in between Star Wars original trilogy and Andor, there's some stuff that is great. I agree. I agree. But I think there's also, there's some watered down stuff in there as well. But there's, again, emphasis on there's some great stuff.

Yes. Whereas this, it's the same thing. Uh-huh. And like a thing shows up. It's basically, the villain is the same villain that they've always had. It's a thing from a whatever and it's trying to get out and it needs to get to a thing. Uh-huh. And let's assemble the Ghostbusters.

Except this time you've got to assemble the team from 2021. Uh-huh. And there's 18 of them. And then you've got to assemble whoever's left and Ghostbusters. Except this time you've got to assemble the team from 2021, and there's 18 of them. And then you've got to assemble whoever's left and alive. And then I feel like there are people giving it their all, like Dan Aykroyd's coming in. And he's in this a lot. And I feel his passion for the paranormal,

and that comes through. And he's got fun little adventures. Does he know he's in a movie though? And even Ernie Hudson, they've developed that character where he's not like, there's even a scene where Dan Aykroyd's character and Ernie Hudson's character have an actual conversation. Like they had in the car in the first one. Exactly. Yeah. But then Bill Murray just rolls in and he's just kind of stumbling about I'm here too, he's equipped. What are you even doing? What do you do these? Why do you you clearly don't like them? Maybe he must be in them We've talked about this before but the the three original the three original Ghostbusters

The the actors had some sort of rule where that no sequel could go ahead without their say So even if they weren't in them But I suspect there is a further clause that they didn't know about that meant they must be in them I just I'll tell you this James I would say generally I would say your criticisms are valid I would say as a fan of especially the first the original Ghostbusters I did enjoy this. And the villains like a skeleton with horns you can freeze people sometimes but not everybody because some people survive being frozen in the trailer. Well James, well done you've

convinced me that I didn't have fun watching this movie. You're allowed to like this movie. No, no, no, no, no. I didn't now. I refuse. Great. Good. Good and great. Let's talk about something else. Maybe Rebel Moon 2? Yeah, I guess.

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Now normally Mason, I would throw it to you and say, what do you think the story was? And I'd be like, come on, man. I'm just- He's never ready. I just woke up, man. God. Well, look, the good thing is, Mason, that they actually recap the first movie at the start of this movie.

That's true, they did. So I'm just gonna read that to everybody. This is via Jimmy the Robot. Voiced by- Anthony Hopkins. Sir Anthony Hopkins. On the far edges of the mother world's reach circling the gas giant Mara was the small moon of Vel- There a village of humble farmers lived a simple life born of the earth until the shadow of the Motherworld's reach, circling the gas giant Mara was the small moon of Vel'd. There a village of humble farmers lived a simple life, born of the earth until the shadow

of a warship fell upon their fields. The ship commander, Admiral Noble, demanded more than Vel'd's people could give. So it was that a woman named Korra and a man named Gunnar set forth from the village to gather warriors to stand against the Dreadnaught. On near Woody they were joined by the mighty Tarak in the minds of Daggis, the fierce nemesis, in the Coliseum of Pollux, the wayward general Titus, and on the planet Sharam, Darian Bloodaxe and his lieutenant Milius. In the ambush on the floating docks of Gondival, Korra triumphed over the admiral noble.

No! You can pause for a moment. I think it'd be funny if Anthony Hopkins misspoke a bunch of times in the opening crawl and they just kept it in. I think that would be really funny. On the planet millis, millius, keep going. No, that was a person. Leaving Korra triumphed over admiral noble, leaving his shattered body on the rocky coastline.

Got him. Victorious warriors return to Velstur to recollect their pay. The threat of the Dreadnought is not extinguished, or so they believe. Also Charlie Hunnam was there. He betrayed him. He was Han Solo. He was Han Solo, but he was betraying Han Solo. He didn't Han Solo all the way around

I were up to 62 reviews on the tomato meter. Yep tomato meter the tomato meter. Yep still at a 10% Okay, um No Just no That's something we should never dump. What's that? Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon also true and because this is exciting news You might have seen this but the directors cuts have been announced. That's correct The The directors cuts have been announced of, what's the first one called? Child of Fire? Yeah. And then the other one, the Scargiver, but they've been renamed to Trickus.

It's now called Chapter One, Chalice of Blood. Okay. Chapter Two, Curse of Forgiveness. Okay. It is hard to forgive, isn't it? Mm-hmm. It's a curse in a way. Yeah, that's right.

At August 2nd? They should have just been called Chapter 1 Blood, Chapter 2 Boobs. Because that's what everybody wants. I think you start with boobs. Yeah, okay. Sure. Do you? Bloobs?

That would just be confusing. Yeah, it would be. Yeah. Well, I can't wait to see a longer version of this, which is worse, or a much bigger Bloobs? That would just be confusing. Yeah, it would be wouldn't it? Yeah. Well, I can't wait to see a longer version of this which is worse or a much better version which they should have released the first time. Well, I'm excited to not watch them again because I know we said we wouldn't. Yes.

I put my foot down. But what if we did? There's no, you don't even want to do it. I don't. You absolutely don't. But this is what we do. This is our job. I guess that foot down. But what if we did? There's no, you don't even want to do it. I don't. You absolutely don't. But this is what we do. This is our job.

Yeah, I guess that's true. Yeah. I know I said I didn't want to. You're not curious? No, not really. For content. For content sake. Because all it's going to be is some slightly longer scenes with some more blood.

Yep. And boobs. I don't, it's not, there's not gonna be some huge narrative change or anything, because there's no, there was no need to do that. It's just gonna be more blood, I think. What is it? I don't understand how we got here. Like it's obviously like the Snyder cut kind of like that's what they're thinking here.

Well I mean, they've gone, he's gone, this is the blueprint. Yeah. Like it worked last time. Everybody wanted to see a new version. So what if we started with a version that I'm going to say that I'm already that I'm going to disown before it comes out and people are going to watch that. But then, yeah, you know, are there any people out here, though,

like listening to this is not attack on you. Just want to frame frame that frame like this just from the get go. Yeah. Are you a fan of this? And is this right? Are you like, great, let's see this.

Because also what version is even true? Oh, that's true, isn't it? It's hard in your in your continuity. You know, what do you keep? What do you throw away? Yeah, yeah, it'd be easy to make jokes about this if I remembered anything that happens in either of these movies. What if there's a different scene where and I'm like, I can't even remembered anything that happens in either of these movies. I can be like what if there's a different scene where there's and I'm like I can't

even remember anything that happens. What if a snake made a phone call to the emperor? Did that happen? Maybe. Maybe. I remember after you watched the second one you were like you struggled to remember the first one. Yeah.

And now that's been enough time where you've just it's all gone. It's all washed away. Just slow motion wheat threshing. He's rubbing his eyes like he's trying to stave off a microwave James I got up very early today um just think about it just think about it there's not even an icon there's not even like in the first one at least somebody flew around on a dragon or whatever. Spider chair. Spider chair. I don't know. Spider assassination chairs. They're in the chairs and the chairs can walk and you put

the thing in the back. Oh, I do remember that. And there's a scene where the lead character in the past, she maybe killed a little girl, but then she didn't. Yeah, that was in the second one. Yeah, that was in the second one. She killed the emperor's daughter. Great. Anyway, that's rebel new moon news. Rebel new Moon News. Rebel New Moon News. So that's Megalopolis Week as well, that we'll be back for.

Oh wow. That's not doing well financially. No, it won't. And everybody in its crook. I know, that's fun. And the guy who directed this crook. Yeah, I know, it's fun. Some people, look, I'm going to get this out of the way right now because we've talked about this off here. Sometimes people will email in and they'll be like, hey, how come you keep saying that this guy sucks, but you

never say that this other guy sucks? And the real answer is we don't have time. We would just do it all. That would be all we would do. Sometimes we take a moment to say it and then move on. Sometimes we just, or we forget. I think it's probably safe to say that like we think the like 90% of people in Hollywood are the worst Like by what they do or the who they associate with they've done. Yeah, and all this stuff We're thinking about one at one that like what we'll do an episode one week just to prove it. We'll go crook blokes Yeah, just we'll just anytime we bring anybody up. We'll be like who who sucks by the way, look it up. Like every time, there's a new trailer and it's got this guy who sucks by the way, look it up.

And this guy who sucks by the way, look it up. Yeah, but then also you get into that, well, what specifically do they suck and whatever. And that's a whole other can of worms that you open. And then you're stuck in the suck loop. You are sucked. And I just want to talk about red hot comic books. And that's not always great to be stuck in the suck loop.

Exactly. It can be fun for a moment or two, but you don't want to be there the whole time. That's right. Speaking of, I'm incredibly jet-lagged. I feel insane. And then I watched Megalopolis today, and that did not help at all. Yeah. Now you desperately wanted to be the guy.

Yeah, who stood up in Megalopolis. But we're not really getting that in Australia, are we? No, I just kept doing it. I didn't know when it was, so I kept getting up and being like Adam Driver! Hey Caesar! Hey! Hey! Stop it! Tell me the truth about Megalopolis. Megalopolis! Megalopolis. Sorry, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis a Fable.

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So yeah, it cost 120 million dollars, this is a movie he struggled to get financed for like 40 years So yeah, it cost $120 million. This is a movie he struggled to get financed for like 40 years. He ended up selling off part of his winery to self-fund this. Yeah, the grapes bit. The grapes bit. He hasn't directed... He sold it off to Sun Raysia's son, Sultanis. Did he? They made Sultanis out of him. That's pretty good.

Sold him for like 50 cents a box. 50 cents a box? Yep. Okay, that's pretty good. So the last movie he did was The Godfather, I believe, in 1972. That's actually not true. He's done many movies between then and there. Oh yeah, he did Dracula. That was the last one he did. It's not. He did other movies.

He did. Anyway, he's a cool guy and he's normal. Don't you think? No, I don't think that at all. No, so this was Rife with Delays. Well, for many years. It was also he was going to make it around the 2000s, then 9-11 happened. And if you've seen this movie, which you haven't. I have seen it. No, you haven't. No, sorry, not you. The people listening. Most of them have not.

Okay. Then that was delayed because of the events of 9-11. Yeah. It's been recast like multiple times. The production itself when he was filming it was just, we've talked about this just riddled with problems. Kind of him kind of unsure of what he wanted saying like we'll just green screen it and fix it later. They were gonna use the volume and it didn't really kind of work the way that he wanted. It was gonna be Zendaya and Oscar Isaac.

Oh, was that at one point as well? Yeah, then they dropped out. I imagine probably for the lead roles. The lead roles, yeah, that makes sense I guess. It was also, apparently a lot of the actors were told to like improvise on set. And you can certainly feel that in some of the scenes because it's pretty fucking scattered in moments, basically.

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It's told in a way that's... Yeah. Upsetting. Yeah. No, not upsetting. Boring. Convoluted, boring. Boring and parts. Are we out of the sponsor?

Yeah. Boring. It's pretty boring. Okay. Not exclusively. Okay. So Adam Driver plays Caesar Catalina, which is an anagram of Francis Ford Coppola. And he is the world's greatest filmmaker. Sorry, I mean architect. And he wants to make the best movies, I mean buildings in the world.

Yeah. But there's all these people. They won't let him. They won't let him. They're getting in the way, meddling. Open the end. Tell him what he can't do. Open the end, he just does it.

Yeah, and then at the end he has, if they just left him alone. Back up. He'd be able to make the world's greatest filmography, I mean a place called Megalopolis. Yeah. Which looks a little bit like that goop inside a lava lamp, really big. That's right. And you can get a ball to work. Yeah.

Or something. But anyway, this movie is set in a place called New Rome, which is basically... It's New York. It's New York, because the Christ of the building is in it. Yeah, the late 21st century. There's no real explanation as to how this can. Why the cars are the same. It's just a parallel universe. It's a parallel universe. It's a fable so it doesn't matter. Yeah. It's a fable so any. We loved it. Any. We're not we're outside of the sponsored segment.

Okay. It's a fable so anything that's a little bit weird that you go I don't know if this worked it's a fable. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, there's from other people in it. Shia LaBeouf with one of the worst haircuts ever committed to film. That's correct. Definitely a front runner for worst hair of the year. Absolutely. In our awards show at the end. But anyway, everybody's trying to bring him down.

But fortunately he has some advantages. One, he's always right and he's the best and he's got the best imagination. Oh, he also invented something that can do anything. Well, yeah, he invented he invented a miracle substance called Megalon, which it can it's a great building material, you can use it to make like Harry Potter invisibility cloak clothing. Yep. It can make magic walkways. It can even do it can even turn into that first aid kit from Kingsman the Golden Circle where it Fix you completely even if you shot directly through the skull. That's right. Yep What else could it do? What can't it do? Well, there's a moment where someone's like, is it dangerous? And he's like what if we all loved each other? Yeah, and no Not dangerous at all It's the best thing ever invented. Oh, you can also maybe

It's the best thing ever invented. Oh, you can also maybe see the past with it, like visions of the past. Yeah. Unless it's also you can see your memories, but maybe you, maybe only Adam Driver can see the memories of his dead wife because maybe she's in the megalon. She might be in there. She might be in the megalon. Also, he can stop time. Yeah, he can.

But he never uses it at any point where it might be handy or practical. Yeah. He really only uses it to pause the city and look down on the city and go, wow. Lot going on. Lot going on. Not moving on, is it? Oh, but one point though, he loses the ability to do it. Yeah.

But then he can again. For a second, then he can again. Because Natalie Emanuel's like, what have you thought about believing? What if you believed in yourself? Could you do it for me? I can. Also, I'm immune to it. Yeah, she doesn't work on her.

Doesn't work on her. Yeah. I don't know. No reason. So a lot of this movie is like you said, it's like you can't make a big cool city and he's like yeah, but I want to. And then he does. Yeah.

And there's all... Maybe you should build some new living quarters for people before you blow up their apartment block. Nah, I think I'm alright. I'm gonna though. It's when it's done it'll be good. Or it'll be like, oh this terrible thing hath befallen me, Adam Driver. Oh, my accounts have been frozen! And I've got a weird eye now!

You've got a weird eye now! What ever shall I do? Or like someone will plot against him? Oh But then it's fine. That is fine. Every time it's like I'm alright. He's the best. He's the best. He's the best He's got a great haircut. No, they've all got that haircut. Why they've all got that Caesar haircut I don't know man. Even John Voight has it. Yeah. Oh my god. Shyla Buff in this just fopping around. Let me ask you this And I know we's supposed to be- Before we get started, before we chip away at everybody, what did you think of this movie? It's fucking insane.

In a good way? Oh, it's, look, it was boring. It was boring. But I did, there is something really compelling. Disagree. And this is what I hoped it would be. This was made by a lunatic. Yeah, I know.

Like 100, he's lost his mind. It's so self-indulgent. And again, I know he's going through a lot of personal things or whatever, but it's such an obvious allegory to a number of things, like the perils of capitalism and his own personal life and career, whatever. But it's told just like, just, it's f**k, it's so, it's broken. Like it doesn't fit together. So there is something I think inherently interesting about that. Like some of the choices, just me watching going, oh my real, okay. I think it is worth it for the conversation we're having now. Yes. And like if people want to watch it with friends and have a conversation about it afterwards, but I do not think it is good. I think this is a terrible movie.

I think, I haven't seen Jack, I don't think, but it's of every, and as a man who's made many movies that I would consider great movies, It's easily his worst movie. It's easily the worst movie of his that I've seen. Yeah. That, um, it's a fable though. It's a fable and a story. Any criticism we have of it is irrelevant.

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gone again. Don't worry about it. You missed it. What do you think the story was? Oh, hang on. All right. Yep. So, Craven. Yeah. Eric Craven.

Eric Craven. Thank you. Thank you. He and his brother, they're teenagers and their mum died and their dad's a criminal. And he's like, I put you in school or whatever. But then he's like, I take you out of school. And I take you on the hunt. And they're like, but dad, we don't want to hunt. He's like, yeah, you go on the hunt. Russell Crowe.

Russell, it's Russell Crowe. He's having a ball. I don't know if he is though. No, and he's dressed like John Goodman from fucking The Big Lebowski for a lot of this movie. Anyways, like I take you with the heart, you got to be big men. You must be big men. Yeah. And then- He's head of a big crime family.

Yeah. And- They don't like that. No, and Craven's like, well, I'm actually on track to be quite a big man. Now you think, now I think about it. But his other brothers like, I'm just a little man. I don't to be quite a big man. Now you think now I think about it, but his other brothers like, I'm just a little man and I want to be a big man. Yeah. Then, um, then he gets mauled by a craven, a craven.

Are you missing? There's an opening ceremony. He's big craven. He busts out of prison. Oh yeah. That's the first eight minutes that were released on the internet. We're going to work on it. But yeah, but I'm working chronologically here, James.

You are, I forgot. I've got to negotiate the Sony pictures, you know, the filming style and the editing style. Anyway, then he gets attacked by a lion and he's gonna die. This is Craven. Yeah. This is young Craven. But luckily... Dude, for real, I fell asleep during that part.

Luckily... I actually fell asleep. Oh, no Well, then I'm telling minutes. Do you remember the witch? Yeah, gave him a magic potion Okay, so they're also there in Africa or whatever it doesn't matter. Yeah, somewhere. Maybe they were in a zoo I don't know just gone to the local zoo but also Unrelated there there is a there's a there's a there's a witch and her granddaughter is visiting her. And the witch is like, you should hold onto this.

Magic. Because it's a magic serum potion. And if anybody would ever need this, they could drink it and then if they were hurt really badly, it would heal them up in an incredible, amazing way. They'd get incredible running about powers. They'd get the vaguest powers you've ever seen in your life. And as luck would have it, she, this young lady, she is out there and she sees Craven and she's like, well, I better get him to drink this potion because he's been eaten by a

lion and he's also got lion blood in him. Yeah. I hope that doesn't change anything. And if his DNA or whatever. DNA and that. I hope we don't fly through his DNA. I hope this potion doesn't fly through his DNA. Oh, do they fly through his DNA? Yeah, a little bit.

I did fall asleep. That's not a joke. I really did. Well, they did it old school. They flew through his DNA. Anyway, and then he gets the potion and then he wakes up somewhere and maybe back where he lives. Yeah. And then he's like, I've got Kraven powers.

Yeah. I've got, I can climb a wall like a lion. He's basically got- I can crawl up a wall like a lion? Yeah. He's got the Black Panther powers. He's got the Morbius powers. He does.

They're the same. Yeah. Yeah. And then- Strength, speed, grip, eyes power. He's got eyes power. Smell power, I think. Yeah, speed, grip, eyes power. He's got eyes power. Smell power, I think. Yeah, smells.

Can recognize a Turkish cigarette from a hundred yards. Power. Dreams, maybe. Dreams. Dreams and fears. But then, then, he's like, they're back at the- We're just doing spoilers, by the way. They're back, no, no, we can do this.

We can do it, we can do it. Then they're back at the mansion, the Russian mansion or whatever, and Craven's like, I'm going to get out of here. And his brother's like, I'll never forgive you if you leave, little Craven. Does Craven not take him with him? It's unclear. I guess one of them has got grip and the other one doesn't have grip. So you gotta leave you gotta leave you bro. What's he gonna take the stairs? Oh my god

Is he gonna take the stairs and then well they're already on the ground floor. True. He's walked. Yeah There was no there was no there's no escape attempt. Yeah, he doesn't have Russell Crowe doesn't have a bunch of bodyguards and like you can't leave unless you have Craven powers in which case I guess I couldn't stop you like Morbius though. He's got an evil little brother or whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, these are all the beats of all of these I'm gonna say what you do the plot of this and the the most of the beats of this movie you take Most of the Spum movies that have happened you take the relationships and the characters and the action stuff and like The power elements

and what have you, you put them in a shaker and you shake them up a little bit. Yeah. Like a paint shaker. That's too much shaking. It's too much. Maybe a cocktail shaker and give it a little wiggle. Yeah. And then you just pour it out again.

And that's, that's Craven the Hunter really. That's Craven for you baby. That's Craven baby. Yeah. And I'm Craven the movie. And Draven. Yeah. That's right.

So, and then, then, then what happened then it cuts to years later and Craven's now Aaron Draven. Yeah. That's right. So and then then then what then it cuts to years later and Craven's now Aaron Taylor Johnson and his little brother is now one of the syphilitic emperors. That's right. From gladiator 2. Big year for syphilitic emperors. Huge man. Tell you what. Yeah. They're getting quiet places. They're getting fantastic fours. Yep. They're getting gladiators. They're getting this movie. They are aren't they? I mean, you know, it's not ideal, is it? No. We should contain the spread.

Yeah. And then, but then, so it's the present day, I guess, or whatever, in all the 90s or 2003, it doesn't matter. It depends on when they're going to team these guys up. Yeah, when's that going to happen? And Craven, he's going around the world, he's hunting people, he's hunting the bad guys. But it's ambiguous, is he a good guy or a bad guy? Is he just as bad as the people, as all the murderers that he murders?

No. No, he's doing good. He's doing good, yeah. Anyway, but then... He gets kidnapped, his brother gets kidnapped. Brother gets kidnapped, thank you. By a rhinoceros man. And by a regular man in a shirt.

No, a regular man with a shirt who is a backpack that stops him from turning into a rhinoceros. Correct, yes. Probably also has snacks in it. Yeah, and his dad comes back and he goes, I'm Russell Crowe. You stop your brother from being kidnapped all the time. And he has to do that. Just to use his incredible craven abilities to track him down and climb on helicopters. God, if you love a guy just running about, jeez, you're going to love this movie. Isn't he just?

It is the worst movie ever. But it certainly cemented a legacy of That's right. Of dog shit movies. Anyway, big time spoiler time. It's big time spoiler time. Yup. My note here is damn, that dude turned into a rhino, horns and all. So he's got a skin condition which is incredibly painful when he turns it on or off. He's got a backpack that fills him with juice that stops him turning into a rhino man.

Which you got from Miles Warren, the jackal. That's right. So again, at least. There we go, there's a reference. And it kind of works. Yeah. I mean, you know. Yeah.

You can apparently do anything also, the jackal in this. Yes. And he's got a, but also when he turned into a rhino, he got a horn. That's fine. Yeah. No, I'm not saying it's not fine. I'm just like, is it rhino DNA or is it what's?

I think it's just like protrusions. I thought he was gonna snap one of the horns off of one of those buffalo and stick it to his head. Be like, now I'm a rhino. Oh yeah, okay, right. I liked how the rhino was completely indestructible until he got run over by those. Like you hit him with a truck, you shoot him, it's fine.

But then you'd be a couple of animals run over him. Well, I guess that's the power of nature. Well, at the end they manage to run all those cows or whatever in a circle and that was the backdrop of their final battle. That's so true. What was I going to say about the rhino? I mean, I guess this is... You can't join the Spum Six.

There was your sixth guy and you fucking killed him. Wildebeest trampled him to death. Unless he comes back. He could, I guess. Hang on. So, first of all, he death. Unless he comes back. He could, I guess. Hang on. So first of all, he got stabbed in the injection port. He did. That's his one vulnerable spot.

And he got run over. And what did Craven do? Did he cut his throat or kick his head off or something? No, I think he just fell into all those... the circle of animals. No, but I'm pretty sure something else happened after that. Did he? Yeah, maybe. I don't know, man.

You're probably right. I fell asleep again. I didn't go to the bathroom. I know that. But you can just bring him back. They're not going to obviously. No, they're not going to. Miles Warren can bring him back. I think this is probably the best the Rhino could look in live action. No.

I mean, he could look wider, certainly. He could be wider, he could be bigger. He never gets any bigger than a normal man. Give him the face. No, don't do that. So you show him the face, stick it out of his suit. Don't do that. Don't ever do that.

Look, I think it's a better face, stick it out of his suit. Don't do that. Don't ever do that. Look, I think it's a better design than the Amazing Spider-Man version. Yeah, but that's a different version also. Yeah. No, I don't. I see what you're saying. But I don't know. Yeah, bigger.

The face isn't great on it. It was clearly a last minute inclusion. No, I didn't. Speaking of last minute inclusions, of course, at the end, everybody's saved. Russell Crowe gets mauled by a lion. CGI bear. Yeah. He's like, Craven, I set all this up so you would kill my enemies.

Now we can be family again. That's right. It's like, what are you talking about? Yeah. Fuckin lunatic. I certainly hope you don't have dominion over all the animals and get a bear to attack. Do you have that power? I don't know.

Maybe. I'll try it. Yeah, I did. It worked. Yeah. There's a bear coming. He smokes Turkish cigarettes, this bear. So, and then he goes to see his brother and his brother says, you're no better than him, like

by far, that you're worse. No, no, I don't think he is. He doesn't run a criminal empire. All I would say also is that his criminal empire is very vague. You never see him do anything bad. There's a moment in it. He's got a lot of enemies. When the Cravens are kids, there's a moment where Cra's got a lot of enemies when they're when they say when the Cravens are kids. Yeah, there's a moment where

Cravens dad talks to little crowd a little brother Craven It's like you and you're you're weak your weak little man. You're not you're not strong Mmm, and then later Cravens like I can't believe he said that to you. Mmm Rob believe that night. Yeah, it's crook what he's done Didn't say that bad, honestly. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like if your dad was a mob boss, I imagine.

He would say some shit like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just get used to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? Can't believe they didn't leave together. But then he comes back years later, he's like, yeah, once a year I check into my brother and he's fine.

Why don't you leave? Yeah. Why don't you leave little Craven? Because he likes living in his little club and singing his little karaoke songs and whatever. Yeah, I guess that's true. Yeah. Yeah. So, but then it's revealed that he's actually, he went into that same guy and got camellia in with the powers. He should have been camellia with a K. Yeah, maybe. Yeah.

Yeah. God. And he- It looks all right. I guess. The mask, the camellia. What do you think they did to him? Is it like a holographic mask that he's wearing? Is it a nanotechnology? Well, that's the thing. Any of this could be, you know, anything. There is a moment where he turns around because he's much littler than Aaron Taylor Johnson and he's got a very skinny Steve Rogers kind of look.

But it doesn't serve the plot or anything. No, it doesn't. I think they put it in last minute. Yeah, absolutely they did. We could tease that this character might become the chameleon at some point, but we're out of time for this. So we'll just say he is. And this is our Hail Mary, hope for the best.

Throw all this stuff in here and hope. But again, it's not. There was no reveal of like, you know, what if Craven went to his dad and he's like, you set all this up and he kills him with a bear or whatever and then his dad's like, I didn't set it up. And then it turns out it's the son. That's what I thought it was gonna be. And you'd be like, all right, well, you know.

He was able all along. What a good use of the chameleon powers or something. And then you'd be like, all the clues were there. Yeah. In the ADR dialogue. Yeah. But no, he's just just like look at the powers I've got mmm and Craven's like on don't though

What are you doing with that? I can look like anybody, but I mean if you have any you know real sense of their height. I guess I can't It's just the head. Yeah, we didn't even know. Maybe he could just do the head. He could be white guys or guys that look like his brother. Madness. Yeah, Craven goes to visit his dad's apartment or whatever. His dad leaves a note for him.

Because I guess he knew he was going to be murdered by a bear. And he goes, Craven, this is your dad. Where the... Is your dad speaking? Is your dad speaking? Proud of you or whatever. Even though you murdered me. And you don't like me.

Yeah. He captured the... My ways are... I'm a Russian. My ways are mysterious. Yeah, they are. There's a... I forgot, his dad killed a lion that attacked him or something or whatever. I don't like me. Yeah. He captured the- My ways are- I'm a Russian. My ways are mysterious. Yeah, they are. There's a- I forgot. His dad killed a lion that attacked him or something earlier or whatever.

I don't know. So he's like, I want you to put on this lion costume like you do in the comic books. Except it's not though. It's not. It's just a vest and it's got a furry collar. And then sit in the chair and look at yourself in the mirror. And that was- You're not even gonna give him the half-

Like, couple lion head now. What are you doing? You don't need to tell me. Then you can always change it for the next one. Yes, which won't happen There is a moment in the trailer. I feel like where he's got a spear and he's kind of and he's got the full thing Do you know what I'm talking about? Maybe. Maybe you dreamed it. Or a stick of fire or something. Maybe you dreamed it. I think you dreamed it And then I googled it and I'm like, is there a post credits in this? There is not. No, there's not. And I left I'm like, is there a post credits in this? There is not. No, there's not.

And I left. And that was it. Like, what did he transition to? How was he different from the start? Well, he's got a new girlfriend. Just kidding. He doesn't. He's free from the influence of his father, except he was already at the start of the

movie. He's got a new vest. He did get yeah It did get a better they get a new vest But I mean he did have a vest early like what was just a diff he had the other vest But his other vest was quite it was quite slim and short and again kind of a coyote ugly vibe You know, you know a bit of it. Yeah Yeah, little apples didn't they? Yeah, that's right. Different knives that you could tuck into them and whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, but like, I didn't get the sense at all that he was like, now I'm going to be a mob boss. Oh. Because he didn't say he was ever going to do that. Oh, that's true. And his brother was like, you're crook. And he's like, well, you're a shape-shifting man. If I ever need a little version of me, I'll give you a call.

If I ever need a little version of me, I'll give you a call. If I ever need a little decoy version, from far away people won't know. It's only close up they'll be like, hey, you're a foot shorter. You got to buy that though, don't you? Yeah. Once they get close, you could have laid a trap. You could have put a line in their briefcase or whatever the chameleon only works because he's of roughly average height yeah if you get a little guy it doesn't work oh your idea it's just the head yeah just a little bobble head yeah yeah very cool anyway that's it one of the best movies I've ever seen. Maybe. Yeah no it's not even that it's not I don't know maybe you'll rewatch

you'll uh anyway guess we should move it along. Let's move it along. To what? Oh what we're reading. What? What we gonna read. What are we reading today? First things first, I'm a realist. So you're a realist. Yeah. Do you think that's the lyrics of that song? Yeah. Okay.

Do you not think that's the lyrics? Okay. This song I know better than any song in the world. You're not going to question me on this song of all songs. You're not going to question me. Iggy Z all songs. You're not going to question me. Iggy Azalea comes out on stage every night when she does a gig and she goes, first things first, I'm a realist. Get a good job, get an education and get secure. And then if you want to do some, you know, maybe do some artistic things on the side and you can,

you know. Yeah, exactly. Just be like me, be a realist. It's a beautiful lesson. That's true. Love all of that. Yeah. Look, I haven't watched a darn thing or read a darn thing Oh, yeah, but I so I'm just looking at my list of stuff that I got to get through. Yeah before okay You know the end time. For what? But Sin City 2 at the top of the list. That's true. That's true

But yeah, but I've what is the actual lyrics to that first things first. I'm the realist. I'm a realist. No No, it's different. They're different words. No, this is a segment. Oh, sorry. This is the segment where we talk about things that we've been watching, reading or listening or doing. And I'm assuming you're going to talk about the bear. I'm going to talk about the bear. So transparent. I've got a couple of things to talk about, but I'll definitely talk about. Let's do the bear. I mean, just to be clear, though, Rob Collins, who edits this podcast, he did put a message in the group chat and he said don't spoil the bear because he is looking forward to watching

the bear and he probably wasn't going to have a chance to watch it all. By the time this episode comes out. He simply couldn't bear it. He simply couldn't bear it. But I think we would be remiss in not talking about it. In the second season of the bear obviously, all the friends and family, they all get together and they help Cami achieve his dream of putting together the restaurant the bear and getting the bear out of well I was gonna say in the final in the finale of

season two of the bear the bear gets out of the kitchen and kills everybody if you recall yeah you know they don't even get it out it just kind of wanders out yeah yeah and I think they've won yeah I would just call it a display of shocking violence but then at the start of this season the bear everybody's alive again what so that's the mystery obviously but. But I mean, is this the lost universe where they're all dead? If you recall some of the clues, like if you've seen the previous seasons, there's the in season one, we see a flashback like Joel McHale plays Kami's boss. He's like a real mean chef.

And he's like, you'll never make it as a chef Kami, you're no good, you're too slow, which is why I'm going to give you this amulet that lets you reverse time. So that might be a clue. Or like there's this- Chef Winger. Yeah, exactly. You're welcome.

I like that. I don't think I made that up. Like Jeff Winger. No. And that's good. It's different. Yeah. Or like that time Marcus goes to Copenhagen and he meets Will Paltas' character.

Yeah, I remember that. And he shows him how to, you know, and he's like, well, the secret to, you know, what we're doing here, you know, you've got to leave out the pastry for a little extra time, which is why I'm going to give you this amulet that lets you reverse time. Wait, so they all have reverse time amulets, do you think? Now that I think about it, like, most of the characters' backstories are about they all got given a reverse time amulet. Do you remember when Cousin goes to work at that other restaurant?

And he's got to shine the forks, and he's like, what's going on here? And he meets Olivia Coleman's character, who's like, well, it's actually about the joy of service and helping people and you give them a beautiful experience. Yeah. They'll never forget kind of thing. And you want them to give them a moment that'll last forever. Yeah. Which is why I'm going to give you this amulet that lets you reverse time.

Now I don't remember, or Sydney, the character of Sydney as well. I think her dad just has one. Yeah. Yeah. Is that right? That, I think her dad just has one. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that right? That's exactly right. He just has it to her. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

She's like, do you have a phone charger? And he's like, no, but I have this amulet. That's your reverse time. And she's like, that'll do. So the question of course is who, is who activated their amulet? Well, is it the same, because my question though, is it the same amulet just going back in time? It might be, yeah.

Because does the amulet look the same or are there slight variations on the amulet? No, they're all, they all look the same. Interesting. Yeah, that's something to think about. Do you think it's possible that the characters of the bear, they're all operating in parallel timelines because you never actually see any of them interact? Oh, okay. You never see them talk to each other.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You never see two of the amulets combine. No, that's true. Like you put them together and they do a super time travel. Yeah, exactly. Thank God. Anyway, did you like it? I did like it.

Because a lot of people are saying that this season of The Bear, they said it's not as good. A lot of people- And it's shreds water. A lot of people are saying- Like a bear. Well, a lot of people are saying the new season of The Bear, we're doing a funny bit actually. There's no time travel.

I'll tell you this, folks. Whenever we're talking on this podcast, we mention a magic amulet that does something. It's probably not real. But a lot of people have been critical of this season of the bear. I think because the first episode of the season is a series of flashbacks through Kami's life at the various restaurants he's been working at and it's sort of maybe a little bit confusing or a little bit off-putting perhaps. But I liked that episode and I liked every subsequent episode. Or Matt, perhaps because that one's not particularly funny. Okay.

The first episode's not funny. Yeah. A lot of people are like, is this show even funny at all? Yes, it's funny. Remember that time he had a gun? Yeah. Cousin had a gun? That's funny. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. But I think it is. Also, not every episode is funny. I agree. Yeah. But I think there's some great interactions. Later, we get a lot of Matty Matheson and all his brothers and cousins. There's a lot of that in the sort of the mid period of this season who are very funny. And like just it's got a lot of the episodes have that element of chaos, like remember the Christmas party episode from a previous season. I don't know, I watched every episode.

I watched 10 episodes in a row. It feels like a setup for something else. Well they did, as I understand it, they filmed season three and four back to back. I think it's only elements of it. I think there's a lot of it they haven't filmed yet. Oh, then I don't know. I saw that just before recording this actually. I don't know. Stupid idiot. I am a stupid idiot and I don't know. But I thought it was good. I think there's a lot of it they haven't filmed yet. Oh, then I don't know. I saw that just before recording this actually. I don't know.

Stupid idiot. I am a stupid idiot and I don't know. But I thought it was good. I think it's a... I am gonna watch it. Yeah, I think it's a worthy successor to the previous two seasons. I'm excited to see where it goes. A worthy best-essor. You hit it here first. That's exactly right. What do you got Mason?

Did you know that they've just dropped on a Netflix worldwide Godzilla minus one? Oh yeah, that's right. That did just happen. June 1st or whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, that's right. That did just happen. Yeah. June 1st or whatever it was. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you know, it's interesting. Here we go. Here we bloody go. What's interesting.

Another classic Mason rant. Is what's interesting, James. I got no heads up. I got no heads up. The last the last little message I got from Netflix, the last email was like, guess what's coming up? Morbius. You want to watch Morbius? Oh, OK. But like, look, what is the Netflix front page on my phone? Yeah atlas the JLo

Robot I thought it's not that bad. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I heard. Just just a bunch of old stuff Just weird bits and pieces No clue that this this is is that at all? Yeah, but I would tell for people who didn't see it at the cinemas, which you probably didn't because I had like a weak window. Yeah. One weak window. So weak.

It was such a weak window. Yeah. We saw it. We we did an episode on it and I imagine most people like that sounds. That's amazing. Sounds good. It's a shame it's not out anyway. It hasn't been out for all you know, it's it's it's been on the cards for a while.

Yeah. I think people should absolutely check it out on Netflix Just look at the numbers on our find your friend with the biggest TV Oh people have caught up on it so on just on YouTube alone. It's got 78,000 views so that's good That's good. You believe that's what people are going there for yeah. Yeah, so yeah like Pick your friend with the biggest TV go to the house watch Godzilla minus. Yeah, it is in Japanese well It's a dubbed version. Oh even better. You can watch it subbed or delved.

I watched a couple of minutes of it and I'm like this dub is actually not bad. Oh really okay. Pretty good. All right. It's Fred Schneider. Yes. From the B-52s. He's doing all the voice-over.

And the Godzilla. Exactly that's right. Horrible human crimes. Let's kill this lizard with a weird bomb we made. Godzilla! Exactly, that's right. Horrible human crimes. Let's kill this lizard with a weird bomb we made. Like that. Oh no. Like I said, it's great.

He's invincible, we think. He's chasing us on this boat. I wish it was a love boat. Nice. Yes, absolutely. No? I'm saying no. I'm saying yes. I'm saying yes. Good work.

Good Fred Schneider. You know, you've learned well I think. It's fun to do. It's fun to do! That's what I'm saying. Imagine living his life every day. Does he talk like that? I don't know. Hello, can I just have a flat white coffee? Extra hot. I'm old as fuck. This isn't hot enough. Did you knows all the tricks they didn't really make it extra I've made I come here every day I've anyway I'm gonna watch that I haven't watched it yet but I'm gonna it's

I'm excited to do that cuz again you, you know, it's a good movie. I mean, the Godzilla content hasn't exactly been thin on the ground this year. You could get it. But this is a good one. This is a good one. I've been playing Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, which is the new Prince of Persia side scrolling Metroidvania style game. What's that on?

I'm playing it on PlayStation 5, so I thought to myself, I want to play this. I have three games it on PlayStation 5. So I thought to myself, this is the I want to play this. I don't I have three games on my PlayStation 5. Okay. Even though I could play it on the Switch. Let's get some games for the PlayStation 5. Even though this could run. You could put it inside of a donkey mason and it would run. Interesting. Yeah. You probably couldn't. But it's a I think if you just inserted most things into a donkey, the donkey would run. Just to sort things in or donkey the donkey would run Just to sort of fight or flight response, I absolutely I'm a big Prince of Persia fan That's been a new game in like 14 years or something. So I easy game to play right? Easy game to play. Yes, I put in the disk. Okay, this is this is it I understand this is an old man like situations. I acknowledge that. Uh-huh. I put in the disk

It says the disc needs to be transferred the data to the PlayStation. That's fine because these have no load times, right? Remember? Because the instant load times. That was a main selling point. It took 20 to 30 minutes to load this game. Like it's 1992, Mason. And then it says, you need to update your PlayStation. And I go, cool, that takes 10 minutes. And then it says, you need to update your PlayStation. And I go, cool. That takes 10 minutes. And then it says, hey, you know what? You need to update your controller. You know that thing that never changes?

You should update that. So I update that. Then I get in there and I go to play it and it goes, you know what? We'd love you to play this, but first you should log into your Ubisoft account, which you definitely have. So then I had to create an account.

You got to type out an email using a controller. You could have just yelled it at your TV. I could have. And then I had to confirm the email and get the code or whatever. It took me maybe an hour plus to play this game that runs on the Switch. And how long did you play the game? I'm still playing, it's amazing. It's such a good game.

I love it. It's great. Well, well, well. But like, again, I know this is like an old man thing. But how is this better than what, it's that insidification thing. It absolutely is. Just junk in the way. And I know games are different. You can't just blow on a cartridge and put it in a Nintendo anymore or whatever.

But you sort of can. There is no way that that's not possible. Why is it like this? When you buy a game on the Switch, it takes 20 seconds to download and then you just play it. Yep. Exactly. Terrible. Anyway, again, love it. It's really cool. Okay, good. You said it was a side-scroller. Yeah. Metroidvania. What's it called again? I. Okay good. Is it, you said it was a side-scroller? Yeah, Metroidvania. What's it called again? I'm gonna look up. Prince of Persia, the Lost Crown. There's also a new one where it's like from the Dead Cells

Creed there's another Prince of Persia game where it's like generated levels. I don't know. I can't remember. It's something else, Macy. Oh, this looks pretty good. It is good. Okay. Alright. I want more Prince of Persia games. What is the is there like a but you're not the Prince of Persia You're another guy what the Prince of Persia is in it. Wow, that makes me mad. Okay. Mm-hmm Oh, do you think you have to fight him at the end? No, he's just kind of there. He's just there Yeah, just a but maybe maybe he turns into a big ghoul Yeah, maybe yeah, maybe you have to pay extra to be the Prince of Persia. I have a micro-transaction I really hope so.

What is the gameplay? Is there like a reverse time thingy? Yeah, there is a bit of that. I'm still not that far into it, but it is kind of an old school kind of platforming. There's precision to it. The combat is like, it's parries and sliding under and whatever. There's a frenetic pace to it which I enjoy. Reminds me of that Bionic Commando game they made.

Yeah, I wouldn't disagree with that. I'm not really, like I haven't played a lot of Metroidvania stuff. So if you played any of that you'd be very familiar. There's also an option which I turned off at the start where it's like, this is just gonna tell you where to go. And I'm like, no, I'm gonna explore. And then I got like 20 minutes in, I'm like,

you know what, I'm gonna turn that on. I have time for this. I have time to be running around this but it was like it's the parent with kids mode yeah you go like you go to the map and they'll give you an icon but you haven't explored that so you're like okay so I have to go to the top right of this map but I don't know how to get there cuz I'm the map so you got to kind of work your way there and you hit a dead end and you got to kind of go around it I enjoy I really enjoy it I think it's really cool again though why Why do they make games this way though? Why is it it upsets me?

I'm having a beard big upset time this way. I really I've got an upset tummy also. No. Yeah Do we move it along? I'm gonna catch up. I'm gonna do my best this week to catch up on a bunch of Oscar winners and losers Right, we took about a briefly last week because the Oscar. It's just the one episode. The final, all the Oscar results were coming out last week just as we were recording. Yes. Like the final part of the episode. So we didn't really, we talked about it in passing.

I just want to say also, we tried our best. All right. So fucking get off our back. Nobody's on our back. Yeah, but just leave us alone. Everybody is leaving us alone. Tip, well then just think about it, you know? Everybody is leaving us alone. Tip, well, then just think about it, you know? Everybody is thinking about it. Everybody's spent time in quiet solitude thinking. It's

not easy. It's very easy. It's the easiest part of my week doing this podcast of all the things. And yours, I imagine. I'm sick of it, Mason. Not sick of it. It's not that hard. No, it's not hard at all. It's way easier than having a real job. Yeah, and having a family and all sorts of stuff. Yeah, man. It's the easiest. I can't believe we made it to the what are we reading, what are we going to read segment. Which is the segment, don't interrupt, which is the segment.

Well, I can't believe we're going to ever do another one because I'm out of here. I'm out of here. I'm going to finish the podcast. You got it. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'm going to storm out. But then we got to do an episode next week. Snake Eyes.

Oh yeah. Where we talk about things we've been watching, reading or listening to. That's right. Whatever. Yeah. What do you got? I've started watching Tubi. You know, the free service that's on Tubi.

Well, that's the thing about Tubi is I saw a tweet that was like, oh there's a bunch of stuff, new stuff on Tubi. Are you doing sponsored bits behind my back? No this is not a sponsored bit but I would take their money. So for people that have any, this is free. I don't know if they have any money. Tubi is a free streaming service and it's free but you've got to watch ads sometimes. What is this line up of movies and shows?

The first time I encountered Tooby I'm like this is all garbage. Okay, so it's got like Black Adam, Adam Sandler's The Waterboy, The Magic School Bus, Dateline NBC. Uh-huh. This is nonsense. Okay, but check this out. Okay, we've got, we've got, we've got Midsummer Murders. Yeah, we've got We've got we've got Midsummer murders. Yeah, we've got the movie rampage that we've got the classic Jackie Chan movie the armor of God

We've got snow dogs citizen Kane is on here Oh, yeah, the movie the lobster is on here horrible bosses to Eastern promises Jupiter It's just feeding us different things as well. It probably depends on what you're looking at. The Vavitch, you know, the Robin Hekis. Oh yeah. Malibu's Most Wanted with Jamie Kennedy. The movie The Third Man. The classic 1960s French thriller Les Samurais on here, James. Beerfest. Beerfest is on there. Major League Two.

But I'll tell you what, James. I'll tell you for what. The thing about this is, you know what you've noticed? What? There are movies on there That are pre like 2005 that is true a lot of streaming services So what I would give decision so what I watched recently I watched black cat, which is the Michael Mann Packing movie with Chris Hemsworth in it. That good. No Liam Hemsworth. Is it? Oh, is that good?

It's from 2015. Yeah, it is good I think so watch that and I also watched a movie from the 90s called Nemesis, which is... You will know it from the video shop. You'll know the cover from the video shop, James. I'm just having a look now. Oh my god, what is this? That is... It's directed by... Is it like a Terminator knockoff?

Yeah, kind of. There's cyborgs. It's like an early 90s Cyberpunk movie directed by Albert Pune and it's got it stars Olivier Gruner who is like an ex-commando who decided to become an actor He's super wooden, but it's like right. It's just non-stop ridiculous action. I've seen it in a long time To go. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, this is not sponsored content, but I will take their money if they have any. I think there's just some wild stuff on TV. I hated Cyborg. Yeah. That makes so much sense.

But Cyborg is not Universal Soldier. Yeah, yeah, that's true. These are different movies. They are. What's Cyborg about? The Van Damme movie? Yeah. I don't know if I've ever seen Cyborg.

Because there's Universal Soldier, which is also sort of about Cyborg about? The Van Damme movie. Yeah. I don't know if I've ever seen Cyborg. Because there's Universal Soldier, which is also sort of about Cyborgs. Not really. Yeah, but the soldiers in Universal Soldier, they've been brought back from the dead in a really vague way, if you remember correctly. They're like, we fixed it. We made a Universal Soldier. Like a Universal remote. Tooby is just for, it is just for the covers of VHS, as you saw in the video shop as a kid.

Yeah. You were too scared to rent. Oh my God. There's Future Kick. Oh my God. Do you remember Future Kick? Oh my God. Got Hong, he did Hong Kong 97.

Said James said in the future Future Kick is where a sinister corporation sells black market body parts. It takes an armed kickboxer to take them on and restore Laura. That's the movie that Troy and Arbed would watch. Absolutely. Yeah. Oh my god. Oh my god.

I don't know if they have Universal Soldier, but they do have Universal Soldiers, one of the sequels. Is that the one from 98? It's the one from 2007. I don't know which one that is. Yeah, neither do I. Yeah. But oh my god.

John Cena's The Marine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's got Osmosis Jones. Yeah. God. And see John Cena's the Marine. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's got osmosis Jones. Yeah And see that's the thing like most of this is bad, but it's got the raid redemption on it Yeah, there's a lot of the sequel but not the original. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but oh they got the one way Hugh Jackman thinks about his memories. Oh nice reminiscence. We can finally watch reminiscence Oh nice. Reminiscence. We can finally watch Reminiscence. All I'm saying is if you tried it when it first... Hollow Man 2?

Nice. Not Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon's not in that one. It's got, look, it's got Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury. The classic. It's got that in there. Oh boy. It's got everything. No it doesn't. No it doesn classic. It's got that in there. Boy, it's got everything. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. That's true. I honestly don't know who this is. Yeah, it's got a it's got a to be original called Deadly DILF. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Very good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's I like to think of myself as a deadly DILF. Because you smell so bad. Yeah. Yeah. My scent is very putrid. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As anyone who met me will attest to. That's right. So can you pay for it and...

Get rid of the ads, I don't think so, no. You just have to watch the ads. That's their call to action. You cannot pay for it. You have to watch the ads. It's got both The Thing from Another World, the movie that inspired the movie The Thing, and the sequel remake The Thing thing that is also a prequel But it does not have the thing. It's incredible. I love all of that

It's actually got a couple of movies that I'm looking for. It's got that movie the art is like going through an abandoned video store That's what I'm saying. Yeah on in I think you need to I think you need to go in with The idea of what you're looking crime scene kitchen. What is that? I don't know It's got farmer hates his wife It's got Lego Masters, but maybe not Got the movie that I I've seen clips of this and I'm actually the next thing I'm probably gonna watch Is a movie from 2019 called the art of self-Defense. It's got Jesse Eisenberg. Oh yeah, that's supposed to be good, isn't it?

I never saw that when it came out and I'm looking forward to that. Oh, it's got that MASH documentary from this year. I'm meaning to watch that. I love a MASH documentary. Well, well, well. Look who's turned around on two of the three streaming services. I was never against it, Mason. It's got something, I think it's a TV show called Special Forces World's Toughest Test.

Yeah, right. It's got all the Dolomite movies but not the Netflix Dolomite movies. Well that's on Netflix. Exactly, yeah that's right. There's a show apparently called Don't Forget the Lyrics. Oh. I guess that's another show called 25 Words or Less. There's a lot of Gordon Ramsay shows that aren't Kitchen Nightmares.

Right, before he hit it big. Yeah, okay. Oh my God. There's a TMZ investigate special called nine 11, the fifth plane. There's a William Shatner something and it's just called get a life. I don't know what that is. There's a Britney Spears TMZ documentary called Britney Spears, divorce and despair. Okay.

Yeah. Wow. There's who really killed Michael Jackson. Wow. This has got everything. There's a movie or documentary. It's just Bridge. Huh what do you think it's about? I don't know it's a picture of a bridge. Wow oh it's got a Grant Morrison documentary called Grant Morrison talking with gods. These shows are fake. Yeah some of them

seem fake if I'm honest with you. Look at this one it's just Jerry O'Connell and he's got his arms crossed and it just says Pictionary. And that's it. That's it. Amazing. Wow. Wow. Wow. Well, I think that's beautiful. It's a show called Miss Black USA.

Okay. Saints and Sinners. God. Fascinating, isn't it? These shows are way more fascinating than movies. Yeah. There's a show called Domino Masters. Okay Yeah, do you think it's related to Lego Master? I think it is. Yeah, okay

There is a lot of it is Tiger King, but it's not Tiger King. It's teams. He investigates Tiger King. Okay, right There's a lot of kung fu on here. Like if you like I do like 70s early 80s 60s kung fu That you know, you probably have to watch on terrible quality on YouTube now you can watch it on terrible quality on Tubi and there's ads there's a show called stars on Mars where celebrities go where no one's gone before and see what it takes to survive on Mars and it's not William Shatner there's a lot of movies on here it's a William Shatner channel almost certainly

there's a lot of movies on here that you would, that the Wu-Tang clan would have used for samples for their albums. Oh, okay, yeah. There's TMZ Presents, Arnold and Sly, Rivals, Friends, Icons and whatever and it goes for zero minutes apparently. Okay. God. Anyway, let's stop talking about 2B. I mean you're obsessed now. Let's never stop talking about 2B. You're obsessed with 2B. It's got Street Five.

This, you know what? None of these even need to be on here. This for me is enough. Yes, just to scroll through this like I would just be entertained by the idea real dirty Yeah, Street Fighter 1994 is on here. Oh the anim the movie or the anim. That's the movie one movie Yeah, the these Sylvester Stallone movie detox. Oh, yeah on here. Oh tombstones leaving soon This is regional. I assume, as well, right? Yeah. Cause I, the reason I went back to it is cause somebody was, I saw a tweet and somebody said, oh, it's got all these movies on it. Like the, and a lot of them were, but some of them also weren't.

So I assume it's a regional, like a. Yeah. Oh, idiocracy. Oh, you better believe it. You know, it's, oh, mate. It's like, yeah. So I don't know if I should put it to documentaries. It's got the movie The Man Who Laughs that inspired the Joker. That thing that the Joker's based on, yeah. It's got Rob Schneider's The Animal.

I think it might have Metropolis on here in the 1920s. It's got that Tarzan movie from 2016. God, it's got so many 80s garbage movies that I'm so excited to watch. It's got Solomon Kane, but it looks like I'm so excited to watch. It's got Solomon Cain but it looks like a Highlander movie but it isn't. Remember the movie Babylon AD? Of course I do. From 2008. Yeah it's on there. Or is it Babylon AD 2? They do have Piranha 3D but not Piranha 3 Double D. Yeah. That's interesting. We need to stop this Mason. Absolutely but it's fascinating right? Yeah oh it's got Lois and Clark, the new adventures of Superman. But how many seasons I

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Thank you for saying that but so this is a fake. Yeah, this is like weird out you were saying weird Al's Yeah, but that movie was good. Okay, right. Um, this is a fake. This is a fake History of pop tarts is what you're saying. Yes. Okay, great That's right cuz I guess the original The real history of pop tarts would have been like somebody made him in Okay, great. That's right. Cause I guess the original, the real history of pop tarts would have been like somebody made them in a kitchen

somewhere and someone went, that's pretty good idea. Let's mass produce it. Yep. And then they did. Yeah, exactly. Get them in a shop. Get them if you want them.

Yeah. I don't think I've ever had one. Yeah, not bad. I do have the quote because I've got the quote from what Jerry Seinfeld has been up to this week. Let's give us the quote. Jerry Seinfeld has been doing the

rounds this week most. That's right. And doing all sorts of social media. He's a, he's a canny lad, isn't he? It's um, and he's rich and he's rich and you can do anything when you're rich That's right. Not anything because you get canceled. Oh, that's true. I mean he's Yeah, you know It said he said it used to be you'd go home at the end of the day. Most people would go Oh Cheers is on Oh mash is on And I love mash. You know that? Yeah. Oh, Mary Tyler Moore is on. All the bangers

and mash. Yeah. All in the cartoon. The cartoon with the monkeys. Yeah. All in the family is on. You just expect it to be there'd be some funny stuff you can watch on TV tonight. This is a result of and there's not now apparently. This is the result of the extreme left and PC political correct crap and people worrying so much about offending other people and I'm speaking of boring and not saying anything unfrosted right huh and look oh yes we're talking about I'd love to have like a strong opinion because like it's not even dreadful I wasn't even like this is fucking unwatchable because it's not it's fine like it's just washes kind of over you it's based on a joke which I looked up which he talks about a Seinfeld joke

Yeah, stand up from a few years from like a decade back or so Okay, when you could still say this sort of edgy stuff Yeah, where he talks about the creation of pop tarts and what must have happened and whatever and the joke itself is like It's you know what? Okay. This show is like this movie, sorry. It's like the Seinfeld stand up bits from Seinfeld, but that's it. So it's just like, oh, what if this is this though? And I can't even think of a good example. Okay. So there's moments where like they do the origin of Tony the Tiger's, they're great. Right? Cause Hugh Grant plays Tony the Tiger and they're filming it in the

commercial and they're like, why don't you improv something? He goes, they're great. And they go, that's perfect. That's in. And it's like, wow, that's the origin of they're great. Okay. There's a moment where he gets handed a cup of like juice, like of orange drink, Jerry Sanford, or whoever he's playing.

And he drinks it and he goes, hmm, there's a tang to that. And they're like, that's a great name for a drink. It's like that. Oh, those are bad Yeah, it's not even a joke. That's right No, and it's so it's that and there's like a revolving door of like amazing cameos I know John Hammers in it John Hammers where he's doing is just don he does Don Draper in it He just does and it's and there's some like He does Don Draper in it. He just does. And it's, and there's some like, okay jokes in it.

And it's clearly like, it is a love letter to Seinfeld's love of like, 60s like kitsch products. There's like, x-ray specs and silly party and all that kind of stuff. So this is just references. Yeah, but there's a storyline because it's like a nuclear arms race between Kellogg's and fucking Post to make the first pop tart. Oh, I love that. Right?

Did it make you hungry for pop tarts? No. And that's the other thing. Like what baffles me from this? It's not even, I'm not even mad about it. It's confusing. You seem a little bit mad about it. No, it's genuinely confusing because like with the money that he has, and like his creative, amazing brain, right? He could do anything. And with that, he's done like a really tame, fictionalized, basically

like a commercial for a dog shit food substitute for nobody. So like why, you're not even saying anything. And if it was really funny, like Weird Al the movie, right? Yes. Which I think these are similar. That doesn't have like overt messaging in any which way. But it's fucking wall to wall with jokes. And the cameos, the cameos of this are just like,

pretty much a comedian walks on dressed as the fucking Kellogg's chicken or whatever, and then goes cock-a-doodle fucking whatever I'm this comedian and then they leave. Like Bill Burr plays JFK and he does like a pretty good JFK. Right? Stuff like Ronnie Chang's in it. He's pretty funny because he's funny.

Right? But it's like that. But like again, it's nothing. Kellogg's itself has a really bizarre backstory as like a Mormon anti-masturbatory cult, basically. But none of that is touched on at all, probably. Touched on. We don't want anything to be touched on. And I wasn't even sure. I don't think this is like actually a commercial I think it's like I don't think Kellogg's like paid him to

make this because like yeah right why would you know it's just confusing to be like I don't understand comedy comedies bad and not not saying anything and I can't say anything and and but like you made this yeah if you made something that was incredible I think then at least you could go well I made this incredible thing it's also fascinating to me that he's never been known for doing anything edge that's exactly like if you say to somebody what's a Seinfeld joke they'll go all what they do the airplane the airplane food exactly yeah that's right which he might not have even ever said right but that's the vibe he gives yeah nobody's ever gone oh nobody's ever I

never see anybody share a stand-up routine of Seinfeld. And it's like, wow, that really cut to the cord. No, never. No. So, I don't know. It's just the whole thing is confusing. And I know I've watched a bunch of interviews with him this week. And one of the things I saw him say in multiple interviews was,

what I'm going to really enjoy doing is like, I'm going to read the reviews and I'm going to look for the nastiest reviews and I'm gonna love that I'm gonna read them it's gonna bring me great joy and like I first of all I don't believe you like I don't think that people being like this is boring and and because it's it's reviewing terribly which doesn't necessarily mean it I think there are people who will probably like this because again it's not even dreadful right right it's a. Right. It's a guy you know. Yeah, it's a guy you know.

So Jerry Seinfeld said he wanted Unfrosted to be nothing like Barbie. Yeah, oh there's that also. But also it is kind of like Barbie, if Barbie didn't have... Any jokes. Yeah, again it has jokes. What you're describing seems quite silly and surreal. It is. And that's what Barbie was.

Yeah, it is. There is like, it is a surreal, because Barbie is also this kind of retro 1960s world. And this is, it's literally set in the 60s. So it's not dissimilar. But it's not like the anti-Barbie where you're like, oh man, this is really, it's again, it's like, I don't know.

I don't know. I don't have a strong opinion on it. This thing, yeah. But yeah, if he... Would you say it destroyed woke culture though? I mean, yeah. Yeah, that's what I figured. Single-handedly.

Yeah, it feels like something that would easily do that. Yeah. But I don't know. Can you imagine getting joy from reading your view and review? It's like I'm looking for the worst reviews and people are like, this is nothing. Does that bring you joy? I don't think it would. Because like a cutting review where someone's like, you've pushed it too far and I found this offensive and maybe you, maybe you do get a kick out of that for being like, I'm

pushing boundaries. Yeah. But if you read a view that's like, yeah, who cares? Like, what do you get out of that? I don't know. Does that make you happy? Yeah. Cause I, yeah.

Cause maybe you made a nothing thing for nobody. Yeah. Well, maybe it does. Cause you're like, at a certain point, maybe you just go, well, I'm still got a billion dollars, don't I? Yeah, good. Yeah. But like, OK, great. But that's the thing. I don't I think maybe that is what it is.

Like, it's it's it part of this is just kind of he can't push the boundaries anymore. He's never been known for that. And he's this element of comedy, you know, the world of comedy has passed him by to a certain point. Like nobody's there. The stuff he does is just a tool now. Like some comedians do observational stuff, but a lot of comedians now do like deeply personal things and what have you. And there's like layers to the jokes. Yeah.

But he's like, because he can't push the envelope, maybe he's just like, I can do whatever I want and make whatever I want and say whatever I want. And now I'm rich. If you paid for this at Netflix. Yeah. I mean, is this what you like? Are you happy about this? Like really?

You know? Because again, it's not reviewing what I don't know. Maybe it'll it'll probably do numbers or at least initially Yeah, because he said here This is the result of the extreme left and PC crap and people worrying so much about offending other people When you write a script and it goes into four or five hands committee groups. Here's our thought about this joke Well, that's the end of your comedy So maybe I guess maybe this is exactly like maybe he went to Netflix and he said, I want to make a thing and it's got to be exactly the way I want.

And I will not have any changes made by producers or anything like that. And then this is what this is. Right. Yeah. Then you did it, man. Well done. I guess also he did date a 17 year old school girl when he was 38. He did do that.

That's the thing that happened. That's actually, yeah. So, um, you know, but, and maybe in whatever state that was, it wasn't technically illegal. But if you, if you have to use the phrase, well, that's not, yeah. And maybe in whatever state that was, it wasn't technically illegal. Yeah. But if you have to use the phrase, well, that's not technically illegal. That's come up a lot this week. And I've seen people defending it.

I saw one that was like, you're just jealous. And it's like, I'm sure if you were 38 and you really wanted to date a 17-year-old, you probably could, you could find somebody to do it. Most people aren't looking at that and going, oh damn, I wish a normal person isn't like, I'm jealous of that. That's a freak. Why would you do that?

That's a normal reaction. Anyway, I can't wait to see what he does next. A boring thing for nobody. Maybe another boring thing. Maybe another season of the one where he shows you all the cars he has. Whatever. Whatever. Whatever. Should we do the letters segment? I think we should do that. Alright, let's do it. Okay. Let's do it now. Like right now. Yeah, give us a lead up though. Give us a theme song you normally play.

I can't play it now. The classic one was letters, oh letters, we love you, some letters, they're only a day away. We're gonna be here right now, we're gonna do letters. Uh, Mason, you got a letter from the bag? Oh, I've got so many. Of letters? Yep, yeah, that's right. Let's do one. I've just gotten Jar Jar Brinks to get, I'm bringing that back. Okay, he got the letters. Yeah, he got the letters, yeah. He briefly transformed in his real form and, he got the letters, yeah. He briefly transformed in his real form and then he went to the mailbag.

Which is a... I'm not going to tell. I'll never tell. Okay. You should have, you're still in your post-Craven blacking out period. I must be. Yeah. Because this doesn't make sense.

It was cool as hell, man. You really missed out. Because normally I know what's happening and I don't know what's happening now. Like if this is a running bit, I'm not following. It's just a running bit in my mind. Okay. Yeah. But I don't think I hit it enough throughout the episode, but you know, that's life sometimes.

This is your The Rookie? It could be. Should we end up the year with two wandering bits that never really go anywhere? Just circle each other? Yeah, yeah. Circle of the drain. Hey, what about the, you enjoyed the rookie? I don't know, are you enjoying Jar Jar Brinks, who's a shape-shifting microphone?

Maybe, maybe we should do that. Who gets the mail. Who gets the mail, that's right. That's right. If you do want to reach the show, hashtag Weekly Planet Pod on Twitter or weeklyplanetpodatgmail.com and coming up on the outside, We're going to blow it up. Oh, no, he's he's got racetrack announcer disease. I knew it.

Studding sunshine. Look at the one. What else do they say? That's what they say. This is covered up on the outside. There's always someone coming up on the outside, you know, I think that's beautiful. Anyway, sometimes they say, OK, a horse has fallen over and they've had to shoot it. Sometimes they say that.

When I say sometimes, I mean every year at the Melbourne Cup. Oh no, a horse has fallen over and they have to shoot it. On the outside. It's coming up on the outside. Into heaven. Or horse hell, depending. Definitely horse hell. That'll do it.

Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds were on Chicken Shop Date. They did so many interviews. They did. My YouTube feed is just... And based on the outfits they were wearing, they did like a hundred in a day. Yeah. Crazy. I haven't watched the Chicken Shop one, but I did watch the Hot Wings, Hot Ones one, and it was great.

It was just watching Hugh Jackman just lose his mind. Now, see, here's the thing as well. When watch one of those I'm always like or are they acting? But he looked like he was dying. He did I mean he was sweating and bleeding from his eyes that's true yeah. Let me ask you this James some people say because I watched a YouTube video recently and they were talking about how they apparently Hot Ones is owned by Buzzfeed and they're trying to sell it. Did you see this? Just Hot Ones or the whole thing?

Just Hot Ones. Yeah, okay. Or First We Feast, perhaps. Yeah, yeah. All right. And apparently, they're not selling it yet. And it's not because I think some people are like, well, because it's so tied to Sean Evans and so etc.

Yeah, he has to go with it. He has to go with it is the question. So one question that came up, a lot of people's low stakes conspiracy theory is that the wings on hot ones, the sauces on hot ones used to be hotter, but now they're not. Because people used to tap out and now they don't. What do you think? Well, that's a good question, Mason. That's a great, I mean, there is the theory that the last one isn't as hot as the previous

one. Oh no, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Or that people's taste buds are dead by then. Yeah, I don't know. I honestly don't know. I mean, I know DJ Khaled tapped out, like two wings in. He taps out of all sorts of stuff, as far as I know.

I've heard some stuff that he will not do. That's right. For strange reasons. But just do it, man. What are you doing? But also, I think also people now have knowledge of it. So you go in and if I did it, which I would, it would never happen. You've got a million followers. Oh, yeah, I've got a million subscribers. Yeah, and that translates to a million views a video but um,

But I I would just do it. Yeah, I would just power through. Yeah, I think I think it's two things I think I think they are exactly as hot. I think that one is absolutely right. People know what they're getting into Yeah, and also a lot of celebrities have celebrity friends have also been on and they say now remember and their family tells them about their kids tell them about it. And there's the expectation that they'll finish it. And they'll say, remember to do this and you know, drink the milk and whatever. And, you know, and they'll also I think maybe in the previous versions, the early seasons, people are like, oh, it's a YouTube show, who's going to watch it? And they'll be willing to just tap out

But now everybody knows yeah millions of people see it and they will see you embarrassed if you and I think the second thing is That the show's producers have gotten better at pacing out the questions. Okay, remember in the early seasons It would be like long elaborate questions and they would have follow-ups and sometimes somebody would tell a story and they would animate the story and all that sort of stuff. And I think what has happened in earlier seasons is they ask these long elaborate questions and the celebrities would be like, man, we've been here 30 minutes and I've only done three. How long is this going to go? And they would give up. But I think now a lot of the questions, while they're still good, a lot of them are kind

of... They're short and sharp answers. Yeah, they're gussied up yes or no questions. What's the best kind of thing you got in and sharp. Yeah, they're gussied up yes or no questions. What's the best kind of thing you got in that town you're from? Exactly, yeah. What do you think? Is it this or this?

And they can say one or the other. Yeah, absolutely. They don't have to think about it too hard. They say one or the other. You film it in half an hour. And they can go and they just go, oh, we're 10 minutes in and we've done half of them. Yeah. You know, that sort of thing.

So, yeah, I think that's it. I think you're probably right. Yeah. I mean, the format now, it's so tight. Yeah. Like it's really... And you've seen, I mean, so many people have tried to replicate it. It's like, you know Killing killing nine ducks and answering questions while eating a beach ball While leading a beach ball and throttling it a huck

It's actually hard to answer this question because I'm eating this beach ball and this duck keeps Just keep trying to kill the duck you Who are we talking about you? Yeah, you you grant no Hugh Jackman. Oh, okay Yeah, cuz he's in the movie. He's in the movie. We're talking about. Yeah, I don't actually like Well, you agree to it. Everybody kills all the ducks. Yeah, that's right. There's a dead duck a question.

Only DJ Khaled didn't kill all the ducks. But there's a lot of things he doesn't do. A lot of things he doesn't do and he should do. Anyways, this is the lettuce segment of the show. We're nine minutes into it. But if you do want to reach the show, you can hashtag weekly platypod on Twitter. Now we're going to have to pause so I can get some letters.

That's right. Well, before you do that, I just want to say, I think it was last week or maybe it was the week before where I, you asked me or came up, how old is my phone? Did that go off? Yeah, something. And I was like, I don't know. I think it's like a 13 or something. Anyway, I went to get a new case for it the other day. I don't know what it is. I'm like, do you have a case for this? And she went, ugh.

What the fuck is that? And she goes, it's an 11, apparently. Which is only, I just looked up, only five years old, by the way. And so she directs me to like three phone cases that have the bottom of the shelf. Right. I like it. She went, ugh. Are you editorializing it?

No, it was, okay, there wasn't a verbal noise, but it was like an 11. It was like that, 11. Okay. Yeah, it's an 11, apparently. Did that also carry with it an implication that you are old? You think? I don't think so. Interesting.

That's not something that I don't think you would- Because you are old. No, no one would even perceive that. Interesting. Because I'm perceiving it currently. Are you? Yeah. But I'm younger than you. Well. no one would even perceive that. Interesting. Because I'm perceiving it currently. Are you? Yeah. But I'm younger than you.

Well. I mean I look older. But you are wearing Justin Theroux's wig from- That is true. And my t-shirt that says I think obstacle. So cool. Anyway, we're going to pause it for a bit while Mason goes through the letters. Well, while we paused there, we came up with an incredible character.

It was what if Steve Urkel was Eric Cartman? Oh yes. Do you remember? No, I don't. It was like, you know, do that. See, this James is something that does not work at all on the podcast. What are you talking about? Why are we both...

It only works in real life, James. I don't know why you And I feel like I feel like what we do off the podcast is very clearly off the podcast material That only works because we've been recording for like four hours at this point of various things. Okay. Yeah, I'll agree with you I would also argue it doesn't work in the real world It only works in this room before not recording correct recording. Correct. Would you agree with that? I would agree with that. But no one else could be in here. Oh yeah, that's true.

Yeah. If we had a guest or something. Just us. Yeah. Yeah. We wouldn't be, we wouldn't sit down like Alexi Taliopoulos. And introduce our new character. And be like, he is also our new character.

You did it. You were doing the voice. I was doing the voice. Yeah. That's correct. Anyways, if you. I was doing the voice, yeah. That's correct. Anyways, if you do want to reach the show, you can hashtag Weekly Planet Pot on Twitter. I've been putting threads of The Great Mates I did this week, but I'll try and do that more or you can email Mason at weeklyplanetpotatjim.com.

Maybe with a couple, maybe if you want us to do a mashup impression. No. Well, because we could try them. No, we can't. We could try them off air. Yeah off it. Yeah, just did this find the best one and then we'll debut that one agree Okay, what are we doing? What do we got? What about robot chicken? Oh, yeah, you heard of that? I'm here coming I'm in style It's good, thank you working on that keep working on it's perfect. What's the work? What are you talking about? It's nothing to work on.

What do you mean? I don't know, man. I mean, it's good. It's real good. We both did it. I mean, did we? We both did it. What's next, Mason?

You can cut any of that out as well. Can I? Yeah. Good. I think I can. Here's some ones that I think are good. Okay. This is from Elias.

Elias? Great energy on this week's episode, mates. The energy reminded me of the early episodes where you would sometimes do dilemmas. Here's a dilemma for the pod. You either have to sacrifice one random person on earth or be sentenced to a porridge year, a year where you're only allowed to eat water-based porridge. And how many people would you sacrifice to avoid a porridge life? Where is the limit? Love the pod. Your Norwegian friend Elias.

I mean, through the butterfly effect, we've all probably killed someone. Oh, you think so? You think the podcast has killed people? Not necessarily the podcast, but just a person living. Oh, yeah. You know? But I mean, in this, we are presumably... They're basically pushing a button to kill a random person. Well, I think in this we are presumably basically pushing a button to kill around

Well, I think in this instance, they're pushing a big bowl of water-based porridge towards us. Yeah, and we're saying no Thank you. I'm gonna do a murder. Yeah, I don't I mean do you get like is it killing me like me eating porridge for a year? Well, that's sustained me. Oh, I feel like I die Yeah, that's probably true actually and look I'll roll the dice on killing somebody else who's not me. But if I can live- If this were a Twilight Zone episode, James, or possibly The Outer Limits. It would be someone I knew. Well no, the next scene would be somebody also being offered that choice.

But then they kill me. Yeah, then you die. You know what I mean? Because you're so selfish. You won't need to porridge every meal for a year. To die. To die. I mean a porridge year. I'd porridge myself to death. Porridge yourself to death. So if I could live through it, I would do the porridge year. You'd probably get lean. Probably get so lean. Or bulk. I don't know. Yeah, what does porridge do to you?

It's all carbs. It's all calories and carbs. I mean presumably you've got your milk with it. Can I choose my- No, it says water-based porridge. Fuck! So I couldn't choose my milks? No! And then I'm getting different sustenance from different types of milk? No, you're not allowed milk with it. Can I choose my... No, it says water-based porridge. Fuck! So I couldn't choose my milks? No! And then I'm getting different sustenance from different types of milk? No, you're not allowed to do that. Can I get an almond milk or an oat milk or a soy milk or a cow milk? Doesn't say, I don't think so, no. Okay.

I also... Is this a common thing, a porridge year? Or is this... Has Elias invented them? Is a porridge year a common Norwegian hypothetical, I wonder? It's a sequel to a marriage story. It's a porridge year. Okay, great. It's just Adam Driver in an empty apartment. I am sick of eating this porridge, he'd say. In this porridge year of mine.

Yeah, that's right. Smash. Smash on the wall. Yeah. I would... I don't know, I do like porridge. Can I put a drizzle of honey on it? No, Mason. It doesn't say I can't. Well, you said I couldn't put different milks. Because it says I do like porridge. Can I put a drizzle of honey on it? No Mason.

It doesn't say I can't. Well you said I couldn't put different milks. Because it says water based porridge. But it doesn't say you can put shit on it either. It doesn't say I don't. Because otherwise you'd just be like I'll have it with an apple. It's Air Bud rules. There's no rule that says I can't put a drizzle of honey on it.

So I'm going to say yes I would do a porridge here. So I can't drizzle on other milks? No. It says, you know what, it says water based porridge. So I think you can drizzle on a milk. No. Oh, it says water based porridge. So I think you can drizzle on a milk. Okay. If we could drizzle, that's a completely different scenario. Or a yoghurt.

I could put on some protein powder. I'm bulking up. I'm bulking all year, Macy's. Porridge boys. We're doing it. All right. That's right. You thought we'd agreed to murder, but we didn't.

No. We're doing a porridge year. We're doing porridge years. We're going to be better than ever. That's right, you thought we'd agreed to murder, but we didn't. No, we're doing a porridge year. We're doing a porridge year. We're going to be better than ever. That's right. If you do want to reach the show though to ask us a question, or just whatever, you can hashtag Weekly Planet Pot on Twitter. Sometimes I put a thread in the Great Mates group, today I didn't. Because you're out of sorts.

You're out of sorts. Out of about. Out of about and out of sorts. Or shoot Mason a Gmail. Bang bang. Piping hot a Gmail. Bang bang. To weeklyplanetpodatgmail.com. Here's one from Tom. Tom. Tom Moore. Tom Moore. I wonder if he's Major Tom Moore. Do you think he is? You know that guy who walked around his garden? Who'd he walk around? A garden. Is that the guy? Doesn't matter. Anyway. We've all walked around our garden. I don't know some people can't actually afford guns Mason

That's rude of you to say all right Tom more says Arkham Shadow question mark all this VR thing. Yeah, good. I they've got I their boys get over I've been a huge fan since 2014. I would love a shout out to Toronto, Canada I escaped the dystopia of the UK a few years ago. I bet you did you probably sick of walking around your garden Oh, yeah, in fact, I'm thinking of Tom Moore. Did you Google that? Yep, I expect neither James nor Maceau has a VR headset, correct? Yep, but I've been watching a long play of the Batman Arkham Shadow game I was stunned to find out the player goes into Blackgate under the alias of Matches Malone World War two veteran a hundred walks 660 miles around his garden. I knew it. Oh, that's pretty good actually. Yeah

Yeah, yeah. All right a fun Batman after Ego I learned about on the pod from Maceau So he goes in as much as mine sick What are your thoughts on the way gaming is going? Okay, all remakes studio closings existing IPs being milked are there any new releases you're actually interested in isn't astro bot doing quite well Yeah, that's right. I mean that doesn't have the most amazing graphics, but it's probably does though if it's a piece fire Yeah, but also like I think look Nintendo does a lot of shit that I do not like but at least it's making like IP that's not games that go on forever and you know when they release a Mario game it's probably going to be incredible. And they don't do it that often I know they're very spin-off some whatever. They made that alarm

clock that's incredible. Exactly that's what I'm talking about. Someone was telling me that it's got some sort of like, it can, you know, collect your biometric data or whatever. And or, you know, it can, you know, and it gives you personalized messages or something like that, but it doesn't work if there's two people in the bed. So it's only for single people. They can't collect both sets of data. I mean, they know, don't they?

They know. Because it's for children or single people is what they're saying. That's so funny. Why do you even want a fucking clock that knows what you're doing? Like, who wants that? Who is this for? I don't know. I guess people who want to believe they're married to Mario.

They could have just released a... Super Mario. Like a clock that's just got Mario on a screen and when you wake up he goes, hello. And that's it. Like that, that's like a kid would buy that. You pay 30 bucks. Hey, get up you lazy son of a bitch. Reading biometric data. Yeah, I don't know what it does.

Fucking hell, man. I don't even want my watch looking at me, Mason. With its face. You don't have a watch. With its head, I know. I don't have a watch. I had a Fitbit for a while and I'm like, I fucking hate this thing.

Telling me to get up. You get up. Yeah. I got in the shower. I'd get in the shower and it would go, calm down. And I'm like, I'm in the fucking shower. This is the best place in the world.

You calm down. It's like, no, you calm down. I hate all this shit. Wow. It's nonsense. It's nothing. Like it it's just this just all this tacked on shit I'm already I'm already in my own fucking brain. I don't need you. Yes I don't need external forces like alerting me if my fucking pulse drops slightly Shut up. Oh, I did a workout. Now you did a workout. I know I fucking did it. I was there

Hey James, what do you think about getting a real job today? Yeah, maybe I should Oh, I did a workout. Oh, you did a workout. I know. I fucking did it. I was there. Hey James, what do you think about getting a real job today? Yeah, maybe I should. That's not wrong. Wow. But I don't need a fucking clock to tell me that. Maybe you do. Maybe you do.

Yeah. Anyway. Sucks. All that shit sucks. Are you looking forward to any video games? No. Wow. No, I literally just Googled.

You know what I'm looking forward to? They're gonna remake Prince of Persia, Sands of Tom. And I know it's a remake but I love that game and I played every couple of years anyway. I'm looking forward to any little small indie game that you can get on Nintendo Switch. Yep, there you go. Anyway, go on. Here's an email from Robert, Robert Lego. Lego? L-E-G-G-O, so not Lego, the toy Lego, the pasta sauce. If he was Australian, they'd call him Robert Red Rooster. They would actually, yeah. Yeah, that's right.

Go on. And if he was Italian, they'd call him Robert Rosso Chimera. Would they? Yep. All right. Anyway, let's see what Robert has to say. OK. Gentlemen.

Yes. Today on the train to Parramatta for work up here in Sydney, or as we would call it Red Rooster, a fellow commuters phone rang and the ringtone was none other than the man crying Rodney's sample directly from Caravan of Carpage. I don't know if it was a combination of pride in the ringtone or disdain for who was calling them, but they let it ring out and ring out again when the caller tried twice more before I lighted at my destination. You didn't say anything?

That's interesting. I would have said something. Okay, yeah. That's me I would have said. Yeah, okay. Oh my god. There you go. Love what you do.

Pod on. That's from Robert. We will pod on. Yeah. Thanks, Robert. Thank you, Rodney. That's right. Rodney!

Rodney! Rodney! Rodney! Rodney! Rodney! Rodney! What a time. What a time. Got another tweet in most? Do you think he was letting it ring out so somebody might go, is that Rodney? Is that Rodney? Is that Rodney?

The guy who shouts Rodney? You could, yeah. Maybe. I've had a thought. Yeah? What if you made your ringtone an entire episode of this podcast? That's not a bad idea. And they just let it ring out?

Get on a really long train ride and just let it ring out the entire episode? Are you going to get that? No. No. No. Are you listening to a podcast? No, no, my phone's ringing. Are you gonna get it? No For reasons Go on then they'll get they'll get to the end of this episode and they'll understand why we did that They'll be coming you know, so it's this one is it? Yeah, it's this one. Okay, cool. One of the best ones I agree. Okay. This is an email from Rick Rick all of the dick Tracy talk. Okay, cool. One of the best ones. I agree. Okay, this is an email from Rick.

Rick! All of the Dick Tracy talk. Okay. Hello, I've been a long time listener to the podcast. I started probably six or seven years ago. Must be nice. I've thoroughly enjoyed your content. We enjoy our content also.

Yeah, we're the best. I do have a bone to pick with you though. You two seem to be the only people who continually bring up the character of Dick Tracy. Why two gentlemen from Australia keep discussing an old American comic strip that hasn't been culturally relevant since the 90s is beyond me. Why do I bring this up? My name is Dick Tracy and I've been teased about it mercilessly throughout my life. You should have gone with Richard Tracy, man.

Well, my name is really Dick Tracy. Legally, it's Richard and I go by Rick. I'm the third Dick Tracy in my family and my father, also Dick Tracy, was actually a police officer. I've attached a newspaper article that was written by a local journalist about the time of the movie is proof of these claims. And he has a movie, Hype is comical for real Dick Tracy. Why did you go by Richard Tracy?

I think he is. He's going with Rick Tracy. He said Rick Tracy. Just sounds like Dick Tracy. It does sound like that. Yeah. Yeah. So does he hate Dick Tracy?

You should go by Dick Tracing. Dick Tracing. When you trace your dick. Yes, exactly. What does he, does he hate Dick Tracy? You should go by Dick Tracing. Dick Tracing. When you trace your dick. Yes, exactly. What does he, does he hate Dick Tracy? Doesn't seem that way. Yeah. He says, I've been toying with the idea of writing to you for some time now.

I've realized that much of the youth today has no idea who Dick Tracy is. So that's good. That's positive. Yeah, you'll be fine. In fact, I was working a part-time job once with a coworker who was about 10 years younger than me. A patron of the store mentioned Dick Trace to me after I sang my name tag. I would never forget how happy I was when my coworker asked who the heck is Dick Tracy. We should let

him be forgotten for all us Dick Tracy's out there. I was hoping that I could be the new official Dick Tracy of the podcast. I mean, you'll have to refer to yourself as Dick Tracy. Exactly. Yeah. Keep up the good work. No hard feelings. We didn't do this to you. Sincerely, Rick Richard Dick Tracy. I mean, that's a... Well, here's the thing though, is that this isn't quite like... Initially, I'm like, well, this is a little bit like Bart Simpson. Sure. There would have been a bunch of people called Bart Simpson or Homer Simpson who were like

living completely normal lives and then the Simpsons hit and they're like, oh damn. I'm bloody Homer Simpson. But this is deliberate sabotage. It absolutely is. On behalf of your father. They know. They know, they would know who Dick Tracy was. Yeah.

Especially the cop who's Dick Tracy. It would have poured the brunt of that his entire life. Right? Maybe he loved it and leaned into it and said this is something my son can lean into. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. But I mean that's the, you know, that's. I mean you have a famous guy name.

Yeah, but not that famous. True. Like if my parents had named me Pink Floyd, that would be, that would be much worse. Do you think they should have named you Pink Floyd? Maybe, maybe. Or Twitch streamer. If my name, I mean, you know, again, the, the, the idea of Pink Floyd is sort of going by the wayside now, but if they did name me Twitch streamer. Or Kysonat.

Yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. That's all good stuff. I think it's all good stuff actually. Yeah. Nick Mason. That's all good stuff. I think it's all good stuff actually. Nick Mason. That's me. Speaking of, all my remaining letters are about Craven. Okay. This is from Nickle Craven. Nickle Craven. Hi James and Mace, my name is Nickle Craven. You'd have a nickel for every time I heard the name Nickle Craven Mason.

You'd have at this point two? Three? Yeah I would say probably three. Yeah. Hi James and Mace, my name is Nickle Craven and that's been fun this year Usually my name leads to some classic jokes. Like what are you Craven today? I still don't have a funny response for that yet when I introduce myself to people older than me I sometimes get the response like Wes Craven. Oh, yeah, but ever since this movie was announced I've been dreading the shift over to like Craven the hunter. Thankfully no one saw this movie. So I'm safe for now Yeah, you'll be all right. This is a real Bart Simpson situation Yeah, like say fears and then the show came out and you're like, oh no Hell yeah. Anyway, if you could think of a good response I could give to what are you craving?

I would appreciate it. I'd craving you getting the fuck away from me or I'll kill you don't like craven the hunter And then they go who and then you kill them and you kill them you do the viral stabbing prank You know What's a good response? I don't know. What is a good response to anything? I would just go, yeah. That's my response when I don't want to engage with somebody and somebody tells me. I go, haha, that's it, brother. Yeah. All right.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then you put them on a list of people you've got to do the viral stabbing prank to. You don't give them anything. That's what you do. Yeah Silence. Yeah, man. Nice or you could do the what do you mean by that? Yeah them explain it. Yeah That's good. Yeah, I mean I don't know that yeah, I don't know that sorry Because if they know what they're weird if they know that Yeah, that's actually true. Isn't it? Yeah, it's true. What was this movie? Yeah. So it was based on Spi- so it was Spider-Man. You like this. So Spider-Man's not in it. But you like this though. So it's just a- it's just this bad guy,

he's doing crimes? Oh, he's not even doing any crimes. What? He's- okay. Huh. Russell Crowe. Russell Crowe, that's right. Isn't he Gladiator? Yeah. What's he doing in this thing that you like? Yeah. Rusler Rock. Isn't he gladiator?

30 odd foot of grunt. Russell Crowe. He's gladiator, isn't he? Yeah. Virtuosity. Yeah. He was also, Denzel, he and Denzel Washington were both in that. Were they?

Huh. American gangster though. They're both in that one also. You're not thinking of American gangster? Yeah. Russell Crowe though. Huh. Craven? Yeah.

Yeah, just do that. The chameleon. Play this. Yeah. Hold up your phone and play this. Play this. Yep. Nice.

Great. Should be mad. Here's one more email. And I'll leave the name for the end. Alright. Hi all. Felt I need to write and warn you about how dangerous it is to listen to The Weekly Planet whilst exercising. Oh here we go. Not a problem for me.

Blaming, blaming me again for this. Tonight was the first time back in the gym since Christmas and festive flu. I almost dropped the barbell on top of myself while laughing uncontrollably at the Best Of podcast. I thought I was prepared for the best of having heard all of it before, clearly not. The gym session had to stop for me to listen and laugh. Thank you for always improving my mood. You never cease to make my week better.

That's from William B. Nuggets. Nice. Great name. Thank you, William B. Nuggets. Glad you're alive, William B. Nuggets. Yeah, that's right. What kind of exercise?

G'day boys, it's me, William B. Nuggets. Just having a good time here at the gym. Oh no. Just going to lift some big heavy weights and put my bloody ear pods in and listen to the weekly planet. Ear pods. Isn't that what they are? Ear pods.

Well that's what he says. William. Yeah. I blaze my own path. It's me William B Nuggets. I'll call them ear pods if I want. That's what we like about you William. Thanks.

Thanks boys. Thanks mate. Thanks boys. This f*****g guy. The room's. Thanks, boys. The room's really filled with traps. Yeah. I do have one more tweet and I love it from Amanda man who actually tweeted last week. She says hashtag with the planet pod. I'm having a bad time of it last week. I'm on $55 on scratchy tickets. Oh, hell yeah. This week and had to ask

what's the coolest or best things both of you have ever won. I've got mine but what's yours? Have I ever won anything? That's a great question. I'm a game of life. Oh that's true I have in a lot of ways. You won the sperm race. Yep. By default you were the only one. I'm not sure I got that joke out. No that's out. That's good. It's good stuff. You go first. I don't know. Have I ever won anything?

I won a Nintendo 64 of the radio station in 1999 with Podracer, the Star Wars game, by doing a C3PO impersonation on Triple M's The Crud Show and I beat out two other people. I've told this story a million times and they said what we're gonna do Because I was doing it one every week We're gonna bring all the people in who won and did the best impression and we're gonna do a parody Star Wars trailer I say and I never have and I was like, I don't want to do that Yeah, I was like in high school and I'm like, I don't want to do that I just want the Nintendo 64 and thank God they didn't do it. So me and my dad drove into the Triple M studios

and I picked up my Nintendo 64 and I said, see you idiots and we left. And it was incredible. A free Nintendo 64. The best feeling of, I couldn't win something now that would give me that feeling. Like if I won a car, I'd be like, I have a car. There's nothing because I couldn't have bought one. Yeah, it was I wasn't gonna get one

That's right. I've been I'm in one just fucking fell out of the sky basically change your life. It did they say I got golden Eye and I got perfect dark and I got more combat for pink eye, but that was unrelated Put in you you got poo on you know That was unrelated. No, I didn't. I didn't get poo. You put in your, you got poo on your hands. No, Mason. You put it in your eye.

I still had that 64, but no, there was no. And you still have pink eye. No, Mason. Interesting. It's a different eye. Okay. But there, seriously, I'm trying to think, is there anything that could give me that?

I mean, obviously kids, et cetera. Oh yeah, yeah, sure, sure. But I mean like a physical thing. Even if someone's like, you want a house, I would be ecstatic, like incredible. But it would not give me that feeling. No, you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, wow. And that's youth. Oh, that's youth, isn't it? How excited was I just then? So excited. More excited than you've been for most things in the last decade, probably. No, maybe. Yeah, it was a big moment for me.

So you've never won. Because also I know people who do this, just enter everything. And I don was a big moment for me. So you've never won it. Because also, I know people who do this just enter everything. Just enter everything. And I don't mean like pay to enter stuff. No. Just every, anything you come across, any comp. And obviously also not like scam websites and stuff. I'm talking like competitions in your area.

Fill out a thing at your supermarket to win or what. Just enter everything and you will eventually win something. That is so true, yeah. Because people like me, most of the time just go, this is not eventually win something. So true. Yeah. Because people like me most of the time just go, this is not worth the effort. I won't bother and then they get two entries. I fucking hate signing up for shit. I went to get some AirPods the other day because I've lost my AirPods, Mason.

I got those AirPods insured. Yeah. And I went in there. Wow. Okay. So I went in there and the guy here we go another James Rand. It's not a red. It's just what happened.

And I'm like, I can I get these AirPods or whatever? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like, cool. And you gotta, so they're behind the case, so you gotta speak to a person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I understand, but it's fucking annoying. Yeah, yeah.

And then he was like, do you wanna get the Apple Care? It's $70. And I'm like, nah, I don't want that. And he goes, ugh. That's for virgins, you see. Yeah, that's what I said. And he goes, ugh, and he rolls his eyes. Yeah, classic virgin.

I'm like, okay. All right, and then he goes, and he rolls his eyes. Classic virgin. I'm like, okay. All right. And then he goes, what carrier are you with? And I'm like, why? And he's like, well, because if you're with Telstra or whoever, that means that we can put this onto your plan or whatever. And I'm like, no. I just said no.

Yeah, right. And he got, well, I was a bit polite of that. And he again, oh, okay. Rolls his eyes. And I'm just going to be like, are you fucking right? Like, what are you doing? Yeah. And then he's like, okay, I'll fix you up at the counter then. So he walks up to the counter. This is a real clash of personalities. Definitely. I see him go to the counter, turn around and leave. And I'm just standing there, I'm like, what's happening? And I'm standing there for like five minutes and I see him a few feet back

from the counter just chatting to another guy. And they're like, are you okay? Like the other people. And I'm like, I'm waiting for this guy, I think. I don't know. And then more time passes and he's still chatting. And then I'm like, okay, I'm going to go and talk to this guy again. I don't want to, but okay. And then they're like okay I'm gonna go and talk to this guy again I don't want to but okay and then they're like oh sorry what's going on I'm like this guy here is supposed to he's bringing up my AirPods and they're like oh yeah they're here so he just walked up put him at an empty desk and left whoa this fucking guy oh you got a new nemesis I don't remember what he looks like oh that's a shame so JB hi-fi you're trying to get like a JB hi-fi it

was a JB hi-fi he's a guy with a beard and a metal t-shirt He wasn't it looks more like a dad. Whoa. Yeah, maybe it was a mirror. It wasn't a mirror I have a beard. It was more bald Interesting. Yeah, which is fine Which is fine. Wow, but um, yeah, it was really all this guy if you're a listener Wow, but um, yeah, it was really all this guy if you're a listener Email him. It's definitely not there's no way. Oh, you know what I want. He was rude. Yeah You know, okay. Sorry you can do this But every time I go to buy fucking anything it's like what's your phone number? What's your email?

Was texture the receipt if you sign up for this thing will give you X come out off guys This is turning on an all-time But it's like he is for you I would rather not be on a list But to get me here are a lot of texts for already enough spam calls Then getting fucking bed and table messaging me because I bought a blanket for fucking years ago What are you gonna bed and table to go with that? One time I might have talked about this. I went to get a fucking picnic rug because I needed one.

And the woman there, she was lovely, but she goes, if you sign up, this is half price. Oh yeah, nice. And I just went, no. Wow. And she was like, are you sure? It's like, it was like 45 or 50 bucks. And I'm like, I understand, but I would just, it is worth it to me to just not be on whatever this is for the rest of my life.

Interesting. Yeah. I'm done. I don't know if you are though. That's all my stories. Okay, that's great. All the nemeses you've built up over these. Not nemeses, just encounters. I meditate now. Just casual encounters. What did you win? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just casual encounters. I meditate now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just casual encounters. Yeah.

What did you win? Oh, because I, well, I didn't win the competition so much, but the, I mean, the winning is the, the winning is the taking place. I won the funny tongue thing in Comedy Festival in 2011. What did you, what's that? The thing where you get the chance to see every show in the Comedy Festival. You get unlimited. How did you win that?

You get unlimited tickets. Well, at the time you had to submit like a little thing about your favorite stand up comedians and all this other stuff. And I did that in 2011, I think. Damn, that was before we did this. I know, right? That was the year I started YouTube. Oh, yeah.

So you, and they still do it to this day. It's sort of a race around the comedy festival to see the most number of shows. Right. It's called the Funny Ton, because I hope you'll crack a hundred. Have you ever? Yeah, I did. Well, I only did it once, but I did like a hundred and six. So how does it work? They give you that after you get. Have you ever? Yeah, I did. Well, I only did it once, but I did like a hundred and six. So how does it work?

They give you that after you get reimbursed after? No, you just get free tickets. You just go, well, the time I just say you're going to do it and then they give you a free ticket. Is that? Yeah, you just, well, at the time you just go into the comedy festival office and go, I'm going to see all these shows and they just give you tickets. Oh my God. I didn't know that. And you can still do that.

But that's the thing. And I met a bunch of comedians and friends of this day. So that's nice. Yeah. I met a bunch of comedians and friends to this day. So that's nice. Yeah. I once won a fun run. Did you? In a small town. This is true.

Also, I talked about this. Okay. I tell this story all the time. That's a product of skill, not luck, though. So it doesn't count. Yeah. It was a product of skill, actually. I fucking blitzed it.

So this was in year eight. Sounds like you didn't have a lot of fun, though. No, I had a lot of fun. So this is in year eight. Okay. And I was football a lot of fun though. No, I had a lot of fun. So this is in year eight. Okay. And I was football unparalleling at the time, which I did not recommend. It fucking sucks and I only did it for the money. Sounds like here comes another classic James rant.

Not a rant. Anyway, my family had this house in the country. It sounds rich. I've been there. It is not. Yeah. It's a fucking, it was a shack in the woods. It's a place where a low budget horror slasher movie would take place.

That's right. Yeah. And the toilet didn't work. And the toilet didn't work. No, it was a Port-au-Loup, but it was inside. Yeah. But it probably also didn't work. Anyway, they had this frame run they did every year.

And this kid who was probably nice enough, he'd won it two years in a row. And he's going for third year in a row. Right? And you were like, I'm going to kill this guy. I didn't think I would because he'd won it so often. I just assumed that he was like the best runner in the world. But it turns out small fish in a small pond or whatever situation. Turned out, you know, he had a small disability and you were and everybody was letting him

win and you were like, nah. Not me. Yeah, that's right. So before the race, I'm like, oh yeah, you're going to go whatever. And he's like, I'm going to win. And I'm like, okay, good luck. And I thought, yeah, well he will. Because I didn't realize how fit I was because I'd been running so much.

I didn't know. I didn't know. And so I ran this race, it was like 5 or 6k or whatever. And I took off at the start and I didn't see him the entire time. And I thought that he was ahead of me. I'm like, how have I not seen this guy? He must have fucking got ahead of me. And like, but I beat him by like 10 minutes. Like it was, it wasn't just that I beat him.

Like I beat him so badly. And also I felt bad because like he looked really sad, but I think he didn't train, which he should, which I had done by accident. Clearly. Yeah. Yeah. What By accident. Clearly, yeah. What a time. Anyway, and then they never ran it again. So I won the last one that ever happened.

Feels good to be the champion. James. Yeah. Was it a child? No, we were literally the same age. We were exactly the same age. And I remember. Anyway, I hope he thinks

about that because I do. Do you think he thinks about the two that he won and that bolsters him? And the third one kind of, what is this show even now? Brings him down? Or do you think that like- If you're that guy, Emilian, if you haven't thought about that for 30 years and all of a sudden you're like, oh yeah, oh yeah, I used to do fun runs. Yeah. Did you get a medal or something? I got a medal and I got 40 bucks.

40 bucks? I know. That's weirdly specific. I know. It was in the junior division. It was like 97 or something like that. Okay, wow. Yeah.

Anyway, good to be a champion. That's right. Yeah. Anyway, so one of them I won through, well, they're both really through skill. One was an impression and one was being the fittest boy. It's true. In a small town on that one particular day. Yeah.

All right. Anything else? That's the whole show, I reckon. All righty. All right. Thanks everyone. Thank you very much. Grab that Jimmy, guys.

Jar Jar Brinks. He's still there. Yeah. He's making it happen. Is he? What did he make? I don't know, man. What's he doing?

I was hoping you could. What's he doing? I was hoping you could think of something he was doing. Oh. No. Okay. Well then they can't always be winners, can they? No. I mean all jokes are good.

All jokes aside, this was a terrible mistake. Bye everyone. Bye. Okay, James, it's done. Ready. Algorithms complete. Thank God. We just have to push this. This is the last thing we ever have to record.

Last thing we have to do. Yeah. And all we have to do, we just hit this button. New episode of the podcast. Just this, this will be the true essence of the podcast. Here we go. James. We can do that, right? We could just, that's fine.

James. That's perfect. I agree. We've done it. We really have. But it's all going to come together. We've got to fine tune it a little bit, I'd imagine. I don't really mind if we don't.

Yeah. But hypothetically, would you say if we would be back on the 27th, Monday the 27th of January? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For a new AI driven episode? Yeah, we'll just show up back on the 27th, Monday, the 27th of January for a new AI driven episode. Yeah. We just show up and push the button as a team. Yeah. We'll turn the keys. Yeah, that's right.

Push the button. Oh God. Can't wait for that, Mason. That's incredible. Also, we're still at BigSandwich.co. That's the real us. That one we have to keep doing. That is true. If they do want to listen to anything, but maybe there'll be a bonus thing next week. Who's to say? Well, this is split into two. I don't know. I don't know. James, the algorithm's demanding a subscription fee.

Okay. We have to. Yeah, we have to pay. No! Yeah, we're going to... We're paying for it. God. Once like, it's like 9.99 a week. A week? It's too many dollars.

We're going to have to do the regular part. Oh God. For the rest of our lives. Fine. Until AI gets cheaper. Collin's you've rehired? I guess. Yeah. He'll want that right? I think he probably will like that actually.

Great. Thank you so much to Collin's for putting this together. What a nightmare. Genuinely. Really is. I can't even imagine how he does it. And all the people who gave suggestions, as I said, we'll be back on the 27th. It's a real human made episode.

Yeah. We'll be here. Caravan of garbage starts again and whatever, et cetera. Alright everyone, hope you're having a good year. Yeah, me too. Bye. Bye. Do you want to watch Nathan Fillion's The Rookie?

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