The Weekly Planet - Sphere - Caravan Of Garbage
Episode Date: June 5, 2025Ever heard of Jurassic Park? Michael Crichton’s greatest adaptation! Well get ready for another adaptation that’s not Congo, Sphere. A movie about aliens and time travel and Sphere’s and nightma...res. Starring a young…ish Samuel L Jackson, Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone it sank like a bloody stone at the box office due to poor reception and general disinterest in its blend of sci-fi and horror. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review!SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNVideo Edition ► https://youtu.be/N-9HfQskrGwHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.coQm/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-movies The Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravan of garbage where God bless you if you've come back
Oh, yes in this series of movies that nobody has any interest in hey, man
We're only two in God bless you God bless you and we forgive you
Not if you haven't come back. We don't forgive you now. Look, I'll be honest though
I think this blessing you've given from the Lord himself.
Yeah.
I mean, the last one was pretty good. The last one was fun.
It was fun at least.
It was pretty fun. I think people probably would have been like,
you know, I saw this video, maybe I watched a bit of Congo, I had a bit of fun.
Now I'll watch the next one.
I think next week is the acid test. People stick around after Sphere.
After Michael Crichton's Sphere.
Please leave a like by the way. For the book Sphere, as opposed to the movie adaptation. Did you read Sphere. After Michael Crichton's Sphere. Please leave a like by the way.
For the book Sphere as opposed to the movie adaptation. Did you read Sphere?
Skimmed it. No you didn't. I skimmed it. When though? I have time. In 1990 when it came out.
No recently a few days ago. I'm like oh yeah I get it Sphere. It's the same basic
concept the spheres a different color in the book to be fair we'll talk about it.
And look people are talking about spheres in the modern era That Las Vegas sphere
Yeah
People are loving that
Yeah you go and see U2 inside it and they tell you it's a beautiful day but it's a song
Wow
Yeah I feel like though if you're here then you're a person of substance who supports us no matter what
If you're here you're a person of sphere
You know it's fun to say
It is fun to say
But is it fun to watch?
No
No
This is directed by Barry Levinson The great Barry Levinson You know, it's fun to say. It is fun to say. But is it fun to watch? No.
No.
This is directed by...
Barry Levinson.
The great Barry Levinson.
To name a few, Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, Tootsie, Woke by the way, Sleevers.
Oh no.
Yeah, Rain Man.
I mean, I'd say he's probably best known for Rain Man.
Sure.
Famously featuring Dustin Hoffman.
That's right.
So he's dusted off Dustin here.
He's given Dustin a dust and he said, do you want to come back?
Just be in this movie where you're underwater for a bit
I think we're trying to get you to stand next to Sharon Stone too much because she's a head taller than you
Dustin Hoffman. Hmm. Yeah, we have to talk about the story of this because nobody knows what these are
Mm-hmm. Do you want to break down the movie sphere? Okay, so full spoilers for sphere
full spoilers for sphere
Full spoilers for Sphere. Full spoilers for Sphere.
Okay, so the government have been doing some digging in the ocean, or should that be splashing?
Because there's no dirt. There's some dirt, but it's at the bottom.
But they've been doing some splashing in the ocean, and they've discovered that there is some sort of spacecraft that has been under the water for nearly 300 years.
So they put together a team.
That's interesting.
Because Dustin Hoffman is some kind of science guy and he's like you know the perfect
team. The perfect team needs to be me Dustin Hoffman. Needs to be Samuel L
Jackson. Is this his second Crichton adaptation? It is after Jurassic Park.
Does he do any more? Maybe he's in timeline we'll find out next week.
Maybe he's in the 13th warrior. He might be the 13th warrior. Maybe he's the 11th or 12th warrior.
We don't know
Sharon Stone needs to be there. Leif Schreiber needs to be there because they're all different kinds of scientists or something
Mathematicians. The geekiest that Leif Schreiber has ever been. Now he's Ray Donovan. He's a big strong man
He would never do this now. Is he not also an intellectual Ray Donovan?
No, I don't think so. Does he have the Warriors mindset Ray Donovan? What does he do?
He's a problem solver or something? He goes to companies and he kidnaps people or something. Is that what he does?
He kidnaps the HR guy. That's a job. Stop it
Stop it. All right
He might a fixer or something. Yeah fix. I don't know. Anyway, they're like we think that this is an alien spaceship that landed here
You know in the in the 1700s or whatever
So we're gonna send a team and they're gonna go there and if there's aliens there you're all gonna talk to them or whatever
Yeah, because we can only assume the aliens have survived to 300 years
I agree, but then they got a maiden attempt to leave or anything. That's true
Yeah, and then they go underwater and then they get in the spaceship and they're like, huh
What are this? What are the signages in English?
What of gantries a lot of gantries.
A lot of gantries that look,
that are very hospitable to humans.
They've got the nice guard rails and everything.
Is this the set of the abyss we've stumbled into?
Might be.
Well, yeah, James Cameron sank it.
He made a point to sink it after they finished filming.
But they're like, actually,
this is a spaceship from the future.
But an Earth American spaceship from the future.
From the year something 43.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they make the assumption 2043,
but I'm like, come on.
Let's be realistic.
Now that we're in this economy.
Right, now we're in 2025.
They're gonna be big time spaceships in 2043?
Unlikely.
As one Elon Musk's spaceship's gonna survive
landing in the ocean.
I mean, let alone going into a black hole. So anyway these future human beings they encounter something in space
I don't know what it is. It says it's an unknown event. And so they're like, alright, let's just fly through it
Let's see what happens. Anyway turns out to be a black hole. It flings them back to the past
Yep to play some games that suck ass
But actually it ends up, you know 300 years in the past. Yeah, like, well this is crazy. What secrets could be in the spaceship of Sphere?
Yeah. If you're wondering is the spaceship of Sphere? No it's not. The Sphere is unrelated.
It's some kind of alien entity slash piece of technology. Like they found it in space
before they got flying into the black hole. It makes your dreams come true and you might
think that's good but often... You might haul an oat style.
You make my dreams come true. I mean if your dream is being attacked by a giant squid. It is
Every night
But James that's the mystery that doesn't they don't figure that in and immediately no first of all they look at the sphere
And they're like whoa pretty good. I mean it's pretty cool. It reflects everything except us
How's it do that 90 CGI?
But then one by one they're all like, I'm gonna go into the sphere.
I mean we've touched it, we're pretty sure it's impenetrable
but what if I just waited till everybody was asleep
and then I just went in the room with it
and I looked at it for a bit and then I'm like
I'm gonna walk into the sphere.
What would happen?
And they walk into the sphere.
And then they come back out and they're like
I'm forever changed, lol.
And you think like, oh my god what's happening?
Who has walked into the sphere?
It's very obvious that all of them have walked into the sphere at some
point or another at some point or other yeah then what happens is when they go
to sleep yeah some sometimes when they go to sleep whatever they dream comes
comes true sometimes they can snake or octopus or flooding or fire or
explosions although I had a bad dream where everything exploded well
everything exploded in real life I was reading a book and while I was doing
that I was thinking about other books and now there's books everywhere I cheated on the book I was reading with another book that I dreamed about and then the books appeared whatever incredible stuff
Oh great
Uh, so you watched a very interesting formatted version of this movie
Which obviously the studio doesn't care about because nobody has checked in. Well I rented it on YouTube a reputable streaming video platform
That's Gugel.com. that is that is owned by Google.com
and it's it's it's formatted like an old box style TV, but like back in the day when you watched a
A widescreen movie on your little box TV if they just cut off the edges
Yeah, but what what YouTube's done is just squished the widescreen version into a little box
So I've got these big black borders and everybody's really squished and tall.
Even Dustin Hoffman, the littlest man in Hollywood.
That just goes to show that nobody's keeping an eye on the movie sphere.
Absolutely not, no.
If this was The Abyss or Contact or Event Horizon
or any other number of movies from the 90s where you find an alien entity.
Well see that's the thing as well, this is just Event Horizon but not as interesting, right?
Yeah, or The Abyss but not as interesting.
Yeah.
And The Abyss itself I find is not that interesting.
Sure, sure, sure.
From memory.
So it's the Event Horizon but boring.
Event Horizon's crazy.
You can't go back to this after Event Horizon?
Similar era, yeah, though you're right.
I think there's some really interesting ideas in this.
For example, the reason this crew has been assembled
to talk to this alien entity
or what could be, is because
Dustin Hoffman wrote
a paper for the Bush administration
for 35 grand
to kind of roughly outline what would happen if you make contact.
But he just made it up
and he's like, yeah I put some stuff
that was like actual research but it was some Isaac Asimov and some Rod Sterling and he's just like whatever
and the military has taken this as the bible of contacting anything and so he's down there
kind of like, I don't know.
I don't know, bring in Samuel L Jackson I guess.
He's quite charming, I don't know.
I think also there's really interesting concepts and questions that are posed and they're not explored.
Like, why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is time cyclical? Spheres.
Why doesn't the sphere reflect the humans? Never explained.
Well, I think it does reflect the humans once you go in it.
Oh, metaphorically.
Then it reflects your psyche.
Oh.
Okay, but why doesn't it do it literally?
Oh, no, I don't know.
How's it doing that?
It reflects what it wants to do. It chooses what to do or something. It's a computer of the mind. I don't know
I guess it is a computer of the mind
And that's cool and exciting. Yeah, I think there's some interesting appearances Queen Latifah is in this. She's in it to be killed
Yeah, that's true by a bunch of jellyfish. They aren't really jellyfish because they're sphere related
They figure that out. It features a rare Huey Lewis acting performance, which you might sporadically get.
That's true.
He might do a Back to the Future.
Can I bring the news in here?
To this underwater spaceship? No, you cannot Huey Lewis. You cannot bring your band of the news.
He did the movie Duets with Gwyneth Paltrow.
That's true, they were cruising together.
They were cruising together. So yeah, it's nice to see Huey Lewis show up.
But again, interesting ideas, but it's just boring.
It's suffering.
Because it's like, are we
in a time loop potentially? Because it's stated by Samuel L. Jackson very early on that if
this is a spaceship from the future that is a result of time travel, they didn't know
they were going to do time travel because it was an unknown era that happened to them,
which means that nobody must have made it out of this incident to say that time travel happened.
You've made it very confusing and I'm delighted in that right. Samuel Jackson is saying the
present day crew of explorers who've come to explore this spaceship, they know now that that
was a time travel incident. So that means that they should have gotten out of the spaceship,
told people about it and then the crew in the future would know they were going to fall into
that and not fall into that
Trap but the fact that they'd still did means that Sammy L Jackson and team died underwater
So how they're gonna get out of that Mason you've made it confusing. Let me break it down for you
So basically in the future. Yes time travel. It's a loop. Where is it? It's in the sphere
Not really this feels unrelated this fear doesn't do any time travel stuff. That's unrelated
It does shoot into space at the end, but that's unrelated that is unrelated
Yes, it shoots into space to potentially get caught in a time loop again. Oh, yeah
I mean, it's obviously the same sphere but like is
does
What happens is?
Mason the spaceship crew in the future they find the sphere in space and they bring it into the spaceship
And then what happens is they
All go into the sphere. This is separate. This is a different crew
They went in the sphere they go into the sphere and then what happens is when you go into the sphere changes something about you
So that your dreams become reality the whole of node style and making your dreams come true. Yeah, and then they all
Killed each other with their dreams. Basically. They were like, oh, what if, I don't know, meteors and what else?
What if I hit you in the head with a hammer?
What if all my astronaut ice cream killed you?
What?
You know what I mean?
Came alive.
That's the astronaut's worst nightmare.
I don't know if you know that.
I didn't know that.
Not that it comes out of its container, it's all gloopy and gritty and you don't like it,
it's actually, why even bother?
Why is it even called ice cream? Exactly. It's that it would come alive and kill you
Yeah, grotanicals or whatever so they all died and then the ship fell in a black hole crazy stuff
Where were we going with this and then the sphere?
Goes back into space and then it survives for whatever amount of time and then it happened does it again. Yeah
Yeah, till 20-23. Get a job sphere. Yeah, right. What are you doing? Yeah
God pay rent start paying rent to the sphere
Start showing stuff on the outside here like the real sphere the good sphere in Vegas
Goddamn. I think yeah again
I keep coming back to this but there's so many interesting questions posed like before they go into the ship
Samuel L. Jackson says it could be aliens and it might just kill us and Dustin Hoffman's like well
Why would it kill us? Why would it wait for us to do that?
And he's like, well, maybe it's like an infinite life form
where it has no concept of life or death.
That's meaningless.
So killing something is like so far
out of its scope of understanding.
And I'm like, that's interesting, but then-
And then they go into the spaceship
and it's just gantries, you're right.
Yeah.
Gantries and vending machines and so forth.
You know why I think it is this kind of twisty,
meandering kind of story?
Is because apparently a lot of this was also improved.
And I don't think-
Oh no, that's the-
No!
You shouldn't improv a time travel story.
We just tried to do it!
It didn't work!
I mean comedically it was gold.
Or champagne like a sphere.
That's so true.
Well speaking of, the sphere in this is a a champagne colour but in the book it's chrome.
Okay. But when they were testing it and it took them nine months to figure this out. When you have a chrome ball
reflecting a dark room the ball is basically invisible. Right. So they eventually landed on this kind of... You can't do chrome on screen.
Robo- they learned that in RoboCop in 1980 whatever. Yeah, exactly.
So I would say probably the improv stuff would have been
Because some of the characters have history with each other
Oh, yeah, like Sharon Stone's character had a drug problem
And it was mean to Dustin Hoffman back in the day, and you shouldn't have been mean
No, wasn't it also that they had a relationship, but he was married, but also she was like his patient
That's true, and then she realized she was a foot taller than it and she had to break it off
Yes, like heights not everything. I hope you get on drugs. I'm gonna put you on my spaceship list
Hope you get sucked up into a spaceship. Hope you get crushed by a bunch of box with empty pages. I hope that's what happens
I I think if you're doing a sci-fi narrative yet, it has to be tight
You kind of got to get that stuff down pat.
So the filming of this is kind of interesting.
It was shot in-
Kind of interesting.
Kind of interesting.
It was shot in the dark.
On like two stages.
Well, there was a lot of model work.
Okay.
It does remind me a little bit of Red Dwarf.
Absolutely.
But more interesting stuff happens in Red Dwarf.
That is true, every episode.
There's a one sixth scale sub.
Most of that spaceship is real.
Say that five times fast.
I won't. Okay. That spaceship is like mostly real. It's a practical model. Okay, but is it gonna go into space?
No, then it's not really a pranks. Oh, that's good, isn't it?
Yeah, I guess it's good
So they were initially thinking of filming this on the open water instead of doing it in tanks
Which is what they ended up doing but then because of water world which had come out a few years prior
They were like that was a disaster and the budget blew out.
They apparently saved $20 million not doing that.
They learned from Kevin Costner, the best.
That's true.
So we haven't really mentioned it, but this is also kind of a horror movie.
Kind of.
But it's nice.
But again, compared to Aventurizer, come on man.
Oh my god, which is horrifying, people nailing their eyes shut or whatever.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But then Dustin Hoffman's out in the water being like, ooh, a sea serpent, a little one.
Just grab it, idiot.
Yeah, grab it.
Grab it and bash it against a rock.
It's also, imagine it's not a sea serpent.
Imagine it's ice cream.
Use your imagining powers.
You should have just used
your imagining powers against it.
He didn't know he had imagining powers until the end.
Yeah, cause he didn't remember that he went into the sphere.
Yeah, but the horrors aren't that horrible.
There's a giant squid and I'm like,
oh, wouldn't that be interesting?
Well, I guess if you saw it, which you don't,
you see it on the radar and they're like,
that's the biggest squid that's ever happened.
But here's the thing, James,
they saved $20 million on not filming on open water.
They are gonna be goddamned if they're gonna spend
that $20 million on anything else.
They're gonna finish this movie at the end,
they're gonna be 20 million in the black,
you know what I mean?
Then they get to keep it. Yeah, I guess that's true
I think it's fairly well budgeted and it looks good for how much they put into it
It was 50 million dollars. We'll talk more about what it made in a bit, but I'm gonna say
For people watching James just lost his train of thought
While talking about this movie and he just sometimes a lot of the time
you get it back you know we edit out the dead space. This isn't coming back. No.
I'm going into my brain it's not there and it's like it was never there.
Right? You know like here's an interesting fact about the movie Sphere and then you
just blacked out his head cracked onto the table. I don't know man I just would
have liked to have seen a giant squid. I would have liked to see anything. I sent a text to you at one point and it said, I've got an hour left of sphere.
Boy it sure would be nice if something happens in an hour.
And honestly I'm not sure if I would have meant in the movie or just in my life.
Like maybe if the roof collapsed in my house, that'd be something wouldn't it?
You know?
I could call emergency services, they'd come around.
Yeah absolutely.
I could have a chat about you know, a busy night.
No.
Been on long?
Not at all.
Okay.
Oh, they're asking you or you're asking them?
We're both asking each other.
Yeah. Okay. You're like, stay, watch the movie Sphere with me.
They're like, oh, I don't think so, mate.
Not again.
If in fact I have watched it.
No, no, no, no.
I'd imagine there'd be a lot of call-outs, people watching the movie Sphere.
And they'd be like, I can't, I need to call somebody.
So the ending, everybody dies except the three main characters.
Even Leif Schreiber gets his head torched.
He is on fire.
Deserved, because he's a big nerd.
And Samuel L. Jackson hates him and he's cool.
That's so true, isn't it?
Yeah.
So at the end, the reason why nobody remembers the Sphere or time travel
is because they still all have the powers of the Sphere.
The wishing and the dreaming.
Yeah, so they hold hands and they wish and they dream and they hope that they don't remember the sphere.
That they forget all the walking into the sphere and then all the crimes they did to each other.
Yeah, oh my god, they killed each other and so many others.
Yeah.
And so they're like, man, we're rapidly reaching the surface.
I really hope we don't face justice for any of the things that we did.
So let's wish and dream that they didn't happen. Mm-hmm, and they just forget they still did happen leaf striper still dead
Yeah, Queen Latif is still dead. Yeah, can you bring people back from the dead using the sphere?
I don't know. I mean if you can magic a giant squid, why can't you magic a person back?
These are questions we can only ask Michael Crichton or the sphere both of which are gone. That's true
RIP the sphere both of which are gone. That's true. All right pay the sphere
And Michael Crichton. Yeah, well at least at the end very tall is a fun fact. Yeah, he's giant
Well at least at the end giant he's don't be interesting. He's pretty tall. That'd be too interesting a fact for this video
I heard he was snook sized with the hologram not the man. Wow. Yeah big. That's big. That's big. Yeah
Yeah, well at least at the end he told Sharon Stone that he fucked up. He. Yeah, that's big. That's big. That's big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well at least at the end
He told Sharon Stone that he fucked up. He's like hey man
I shouldn't have done that that was crooked me actually and you're right to break up with me when we eventually both stood up
Now let's erase this apology forever with wishing and dreaming. Yeah, but I think again, there's better
90s slash 80s movies about looking at an alien life form. There's contact event horizon
Independence Day the The Abyss, Alien,
Alien, Independence Day, Resurgence. These are all better movies about looking at a ball or something.
The Predator? No, not that one. Doesn't have a ball in it? The Shane Black one? Yeah, doesn't have a big ball in it?
In the end there's a Predator suit in the big ball or something?
I reckon that came out of a big ball. I think we're looking at those this year.
I don't want to. Well, you have to. There's at least five. the big ball. Oh, yeah, I reckon that came out of a big ball I think we're looking at those this year. I don't want to well you have to there's at least five
What if we wish and dreamed so I haven't mentioned this up until this point, but the sphere from sphere is in this room right now
It just appeared if we really want to we could wish and dream and not have to do well
Can I wish and dream that I can see myself in the sphere or can it not do that?
I can't do that. Okay, great. Well, that's all I wanted. Anyway, this time for Sphere-ia
This is the trivia section of the show where I say hey sphere the movie is some trivia fans Or can it not do that? I can't do that. Okay, great. Well, that's all I wanted. Anyway, it's time for Sphere.
This is the trivia section of the show where I say, hey Sphere, the movie, here's some
trivia about it.
Hey Sphere fans.
Yeah.
All none of you.
Hey there's fans out there.
Due to budgetary concerns, pre-production on this stopped in October of 1996 and the
script was revised, apparently.
And in the interim, Barry Levinson directed Wag the Dog also with Dustin Hoffman
Oh, there you go
There you go, better movie
It is a better movie
And Samuel L. Jackson would work on this film during the week and then work on Jackie Brown apparently on the weekends
That's a better movie
Better movie mate
It's a much better movie. It might be Tarantino's best I am H.O.
Whoa
That's right
Here's something that's gonna blow your mind
Joseph Hahn the DJ in the rock band Link Lincoln Park designed the sea snake through concept art
There you go crawling in my skin these
Snakes they again my shorts
And those are big shorts so they could that snake could be anywhere
In any number of the cargo pockets. I don't know whether this is true
I found this piece on IMDB trivia's which is mostly lies Barry Le Levinson toyed with the idea of having Queen Latifah and Huey Lewis recorded duet for the end credits
Oh my god retelling the events of the film
It's hip to be sphere
Incredible there's still time or AI could do it. Yeah, potentially sure Huey Lewis has an inner ear condition now
He can't sing anymore. Send me a tie. I didn't know that. That sucks, I like you, Lewis.
Anyways, you're not going to believe this, but reviews for this were bad.
I can believe that, actually.
Here's what some people said.
Ordinary.
Devoid of suspense.
Did someone say turgid?
I'm not 100% sure what that term means, but it seems appropriate.
We're technically reviewers.
What a turgid experience.
That's right.
An A-level cast working with B-grade material. That is probably true. Dustin Hoffman also, he was disappointed with the
film, feeling that it could have done with more time just to flesh out the ideas of Sphere.
And I don't disagree. I bet it would be longer, wouldn't it? Yeah, I guess so. But this did
lead to a better Barry Levinson film because one EW review said this and this is pretty fucking ordinary. Okay I can't wait. The empathetic Jewish psychologist. This is
about Dustin Hoffman's character. Okay so he's not officially Jewish he's only
Hoffman who arrives at the floating habitat and immediately announces
nodgy and mensch like I'd like to call my family you do the math. So that was a
criticism of this movie a character who's not named specifically to be Jewish is?
Wasn't Jewish, it is?
But not Jewish enough?
I don't think so.
I think you're saying it's some kind of cliche.
Oh.
Yeah, I mean, he does a lot of muttering,
but I don't think that's a Jewish thing.
I think that's a Dustin Hoffman thing.
That's a Dustin Hoffman thing.
But this led Barry Levinson to make Liberty Heights
as he wanted to make a movie that reflected his experiences
growing up Jewish in Baltimore which examined race, religion and segregation. It
was basically like what the fuck does Dustin Hoffman being Jewish have to do
with the movie sphere? Nothing I would argue. And so he made that movie which I
think is that's good. It's good to make a better thing when you did a bad thing.
Oh by the way sorry the budget wasn budget wasn't $50 million, the budget was $80 million.
That's too much.
And the box office return for this was $73.4.
Big bomb.
But there's a few reasons why.
One, it was bad.
Two, it opened on the same day as the Wedding Singer.
Three, Titanic opened in December of 1997.
Sphere opened February 4th,'s Day for those who observe it and
Titanic was still just still in sin and for a year. Yeah, right. Yeah, you could buy the VHS That's right. You can to pay yet VHS is probably the DVD you had to flip over
I'm like that ran out of room on one side. I'm just running out of room
Mmm. Anyways, the movie sphere. I think this is the final word on it. We've got a covered
This is the definitive word. I think they should add final word on it. We've got a covered. This is the definitive word
I think they should add this to the 4k or the blu-ray
This is an extra feature all squished up all squished up the all squished up edition. I
Also have to play it at volume 100 on my TV that is how low the volume all it was on this
Yeah, I don't disagree Mason. Why Why would you release it in this state?
I didn't. Yeah. Alright it was me. Come on man. Anyways if you like these videos
guess what you have to come back next week because they're doing the final of
the Michael Crichton adaptation movies. Oh we're only doing three. We could do
more I guess. I don't want to do more than three. I don't want to do two. I like
Kongo. Kongo was fun. Well then shut up about it. Maybe you shut up
All right, I will. What's next week? Timeline. Oh, that's a movie that might not even exist
That's another time one. It is a time one. But the clue is it's got time in the name. Correct. Unless it's about lines. Might be
Sounds boring. I agree. I'm gonna try and read that before we do it. No, come on man. Let's be realistic
Sometimes I come through sometimes I do don't I? I come through. Sometimes I do, don't I?
That's true.
Sometimes I do.
That's true.
Sometimes I'll elaborately puppet a goat for no reason.
That's true.
Was that this video?
No, that was the previous one.
Okay, right.
Here it is again.
That's right.
That cost me $9,000.
Anyways, if you do want to see that early, you can actually support us by going to BigSandwich.co.
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We do bonus podcasts.
We also have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows.
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It's a bit of fun, isn't it?
It's a bit of fun.
We talk the news of the week and then a movie, etc.
Alright.
Thank you so much to Ben for the edit.
Thank you, Ben.
Thank you so much to Lawrence for the edit.
Thank you, Lawrence.
Thank you so much to Ben and Lawrence for the edit.
Thank you, Ben and Lawrence.
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