The Weekly Planet - Starship Troopers - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

It's absolutely bizarre that the first live action adaptation of Starship Troopers from director Paul Verhoeven bombed as badly as it did. Not only that but critics also seemed to have completely missed the not very subtle social commetary in relation to the rise of facism in western society. Now, for the most part I hope, people seem to know better and this movie is recognised for both its satirical nature and incredible action sequences. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage reviewSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNHelp support the show and get early episodes ► https://bigsandwich.co/Patreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/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.

Welcome back everybody to another episode of Caravana Garbage where we're talking about classic 90s sci-fi. I love classic 90s sci-fi. Does it get more classic 90s sci-fi? No! You don't think there's a better movie from sci-fi in the 90s? The Matrix. Is The Matrix better than this, Mason?

Yes, it is. Wow! Okay! I didn't know we were going there this early in the podcast. Feel free to click off everybody. Click right off. See if I care. Do it. Click right off.

It's a very good movie. Starship Troopers 9997 Please leave a like You've had your fill of And ooh Now it's time for I'm just making eyes at you from across the room Because that's what this movie is

Just golden people make it eyes A lot of this movie You know In retrospect It's all very CW drama From this era It's just the oldest teenagers You've ever seen

Just making eyes at each other Across the room It's like Dawson's Creek If there's an episode Where Joey You know trips and accidentally shoots Pacey in their head with a high-powered rifle, which maybe happened, I don't know. Potentially. Well, most of this cast is from 90210.

Hell yeah. And it's intentionally that way because, I don't know if you've picked up on this, and we might cover it in this video. You could watch this as a straight up fun action movie. It works on that level, like Robocop, Paul Verhoeven, also. That's what I chose to do. But also, you can watch it on a second level if you, I don't know, if you pick up on any of the symbolism or anything that's happening at any point.

A second level. Ooh. Yeah. Ugh, two thinkings at once. It's like playing Mario, original Mario, and then Mario the lost levels, Mario. No, it isn't. It's just like that.

It's absolutely not like that. James, you know I'll go with you on a stupid metaphor for idiots, buy idiots, but you've gone too far. What subversive? Oh, Mario, the lost levels isn't subversive. It does because the first mushroom that comes out, you're like, oh, lovely, I'm Mario and I love a mushroom.

Guess what, it's a poisoned mushroom. That's not a subversion, that's a perversion. Is what that is. You're a perversion. Yeah. Did you know, though? Yes. Speaking of Japanese things.

Oh, yes. This is actually the second adaptation of Starship Troopers. There was a 98 six-part anime. Was there? Did they do the robot suits? They did the robot suits, yes, I believe so. Because this is based on the Robert Heinlein novel, Starship Troopers. And in that novel, everybody's in like a mech suit.

And they've got like nuclear missiles and stuff. Jump boots, etc. Mario, again. The Mario Brothers movie. Seversive. This is a subversive. It's what I'm realizing right now, and I'm telling you. Thank you.

Well, Edward Newmire, who wrote this. And Robo Cop. And he directed the third one. We'll talk about it a little bit. He originally was working on a script called Bug Hunt at Outpost 9. No, he wasn't. No, he really was. And then someone probably pointed out that, hey, isn't this just Starship Troopers?

And they went, oh, yeah, we'll just option that novel. This sounds like they did everything in reverse. This guy wrote a Starship Trooper script. And then something, something legal, something. and he went know it and it's called Bug Heart on Airpost 9 I mean aliens

is Starship Troopers you know in a way so maybe he was just doing an aliens because also if you've read the book and I have read some of it

in the lead up to this there are scenes taken straight out of it like the school scene at the start and other bits and pieces but it's very different like the aliens

they're more humanoid and they can use technology and have ships and that whereas this it's just like horrible spiders and brains and awful stuff

and blah a lot of vomiting of various gases and fluids exactly onto other creatures. Yeah, that's right.

But just what a fun and silly, captivating action movie. It is fun. It's fun. It's sad in the year 2197. Also, ridiculous-looking movie. The fact that it looks the way it does, and a lot of it is just in broad daylight. Yeah. It's exceptional.

The 90s model work is amazing. Apparently, it was 14 months of building models in total, you know, ships and giant asteroids and whatever and tearing them apart and all of that. Good gravy mason. Good gravy indeed. Yeah. And the bugs look outstanding. shiny and gooey and snappy.

Bug design, especially like the base bug. Yeah. Perfection. Absolutely. But also like the flaming snot bug and the flying bug. They were right also. Yeah, yeah. Rain bug.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Phil Tippett worked on this. He also did the stop motion input dinosaur movement from Jurassic Park and that was brought over here. So there are stop motion elements to the bugs. And I think also that's why they look so good because, yeah, they're not quite always

photorealistic, but the movement. And the weight. And the weight to them. Yeah, and the weight, and when you get hit with bullets and you see, like, bits, like, fly off them and they, like, go down on. That was not, that I was not fully convinced by. But I think the... Whoa, whoa, whoa, sorry, boy to click off if you haven't already. That's right.

Click right off. See if I even care. But I think when they're, when they're bearing down on a trooper and, you know, everything about them is sharp and pointed and heavy, you really get the sense that, you know, one strike from them will just tear someone to pieces. And it does, and it will. Exactly. And it continues to do so. We'll talk about the cast of this, if you don't mind going back to what you were talking about. Beautiful teenagers.

So this had a, yeah, so this had a largely negative reaction when it came out and it bombed. And we'll talk about how much specifically. But I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that people went, oh, this is beautiful space teenagers who aren't really teenagers. Speen ages. Yeah. And I think it makes people go, well, this is stupid. This is. And it is stupid.

It is stupid. and it's filled with stupid actors from stupid TV shows and they look stupid with their stupid golden tans. Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, who else we got there? Michael I'm sorry. A beautiful teenager. That's right. And not yet fully formed Neil Patrick Harris.

His head hasn't settled in yet. What's going on there? He's too young. Jake Busey. Of course, this is Neil Patrick Harris after Doogie House of Day, but prior to how I met your mother. That's all, yeah, I guess running around with Harold and Kumar and whatever as well. Dina Meyer.

Pre Birds of Pre-Pray, I think. Oh my God, Birds of Pray, the TV show and not the movie. That's right. Patrick Mulderner, ROP. Yeah, really good in this. Is he supposed to be a teenager? I think he's maybe slightly older. Okay, all right.

Yeah. But not by much. Okay. If he is. Good smile, though, like it. Oh, yeah. So the reason it was cast this way is because Paul Verhoeven said that I wanted this to reflect the German films,

the likes of Triumph of the Will from 1935, where there's beautiful, glossy German people. I never heard of that film. strutting around. Oh, this strutting around sounds appealing. Like sculpted faces, looking at flags. Sounds lovely. Saluting, having a good time, supporting each other and their government.

Where do I get a copy of this? Because this was on Disney Plus. Where do I got to triumph of the will? Also on Disney Plus? Maybe. So he cast more to that. He's admitted this more than like acting prowess because Matt Damon was up for the lead in this. And look, Matt Damon would have been great in this era.

But I don't think it would have worked as well if it was Matt David because he's not this kind of actor. He doesn't look like an artist. is what you're saying. He doesn't look like an ideal, you know, the idealised version of a Nazi, which many of these actors do,

quite frankly. Yeah, okay, so we've talked about this before and people said that that's not actually what this movie is about. It is. It is.

And also, everybody involved with it says that it is also. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. The opening school scene is like, you know what's good? This is Michael Ionside.

He's got one arm because it got chewed off by a bar and got slammed in a door in a prequel comic. Yeah, I mean, I guess they have, haven't always been at war with these bugs. So I guess a lot of these people...

I think that was bug-related that one. All the comic it is. But surely a lot of these guys have lost lives. Every, every, like... Everyone out of school. Yeah, every adult sort of role model has something horrifically wrong with them. Their face has been burned off

and they're missing multiple limbs or whatever. Some of these must be pre-bug, right? There were always something else anyway. Yeah. Maybe mole people. It could have been mole people, moleman. Somebody a little closer, a little closer to home.

Sure. So the opening school scene is Michael Ironside being, you know what, the thing is violence and force solves everything actually. And that's like a clear indication of what this society is. Yes. Which is basically what if Germany won World War II and it was just fascism here on out? And this is like the idealised perfect version of fascism. Well also what I think potentially has happened in this world because many of these characters are from Buenos Aires, which of course is a lot of that. That's where a lot of the Nazis went after World War II.

They went to Argentina. So it's like what I think is probably happening is there was some sort of, I don't know, popular resurgence. Well, exactly also. So Johnny Rico in the book is Filipino. In this, he is Argentinian descent. Yes. Which again is where a bunch of Nazis flew after the war to hide out. So he's probably a descendant of Nazis because of where he lives and the way that he looks.

And there's things like, you know, you have to have a license to have children. You know, you've got to be a certain type of sense. citizen and give back in a certain way. Your full voting rights are not given to you unless you've had military service. Yeah, there's a bunch of propaganda where it's like, well, the bugs, they shot an asteroid at you actually. Even though if you look at the map, they're like tens of thousands of light years away, it's impossible, right?

Well, here's the thing. So a lot of conspiracy theories have been built up over the years since this movie came out that many of, you know, based on the narrative of the movie, one of which is, is that the attack on Buenos Aires is a false flag attack. It was actually by the Earth military. This country is... Or Denise Richards nudged that. Well, yeah, so that's the thing.

So either the Earth military just dropped something heavy on Buenos Aires. Or one of the theories that I saw was that psychic Neil Patrick Harris put a psychic... Suggestion? Put a psychic suggestion into the mind of Denise Richards so that when she encountered... or so that she would perhaps miss initially this asteroid and then being surprised by it, she would hit it with the spaceship and that would nudge it to Earth.

Yeah. And so the idea being, you know, that perhaps Earth forces launched that asteroid from bug space to Earth. Because also like... It could also be an accident that they went, oh, this is a good... You know, we'll take advantage of this.

Yeah, but I think probably that one way you can frame this movie is that it is a propaganda movie made within the Starship Troopers universe. Which is why... I mean, Johnny Rico's in the advertisements. Yeah. Which makes sense when you just go, well, it doesn't really matter how the asteroid got to Earth.

It just did kind of thing. It doesn't have to make sense in the context of a propaganda film. It's just the, you know, the bugs launched this asteroid and now we've got to kill them all kind of thing. Absolutely. But yeah, if the bugs did send it, again, you see a map of the galaxy or solar system or whatever. They're on opposite sides of that.

They would have had to have sent that asteroid like tens of thousands of years before because it didn't go through warp speed to get there. Yeah, unless they knew where there was like a black hole or something. Yeah, maybe. Maybe they launched it from somewhere closer also because there are multiple bug planets. They can spawn on different worlds. Also, yeah, the thing about all of this is humans absolutely do not need to be on these bug planets.

There is no reason to be there. Not even to spread Mormonism? Come on. Maybe the bugs just need religion. Maybe, yeah. So here's a couple of quotes from Paul Verhoven. We were accused of being neo-Nazis. He also grew up under Nazism in the Netherlands.

They couldn't see that all I've done is ironically create a fascist utopia. And also, the political undercurrent of the film is that these heroes and heroines are living in a fascist utopia, but they are not even aware of it. Again, feel free to... What would he know, though? Sometimes he needs to get his wife to read the script, you know what I mean? Yeah, Robocop, etc. Well, speaking of that and also Total Recap. which we talked about a few weeks back.

This is a very funny movie in moments and not in a gags kind of way, but in the way that there's a guy who gets his head obliterated by a pulse rifle early on, and Johnny Rico's calling for a medic, and his brains are just completely outside of his skull. It's like stuff like that. Well, yeah, that's what a medic's for,

to push the brains back in. The first landing that they do on Clendathu or whatever one of the world it is, it's just a massacre. Like, it's awful. And Johnny Rico... Again, could be all. a false flag. Could be a false flag. They send in the young guys to get killed and then later they send in the better guys.

Yeah, you might be right. It's 100,000 dead young guys. And then the movie's just Joddy Rico taking the place of the person ahead of him who gets killed. It happens like five times throughout this movie. The outpost defense section though. I feel like that is the best action sequence of the movie because again, it's in broad daylight. You get all the different kinds of bugs. They're getting swooped down and beheaded and all of that. You find out that they've been sucking the brains out of people. and the whole things are set up. It's really incredible. Agreed. You wouldn't think you'd get much info out of a scooped out, sort of swizzled around brain, though, would you? I don't know.

I reckon the, I mean... Probably a subversion. Maybe that's what the bugs are doing. They're just punching a hole in the dude's brain and being like, nothing again. I don't understand it. I thought we're supposed to get secret info by doing this. Delicious, but not useful.

God, and that's also the moment, of course, where Michael Iadside gets his legs chewed off. in a crater. Now this went really bad for him because he was stuck in that hole in a 105 degree weather. Fahrenheit. Oh yes. Celsius. It's closer to like a 30 or a 40. I don't know. I don't know your Fahrenheit's quite a saying I shit my pants. I pissed and I puked. That's almost everything. That's almost all of the good ones. You sure you didn't do anything else, Michael Einstein? You sure? Yeah, he doesn't remember filming that sequence. He was completely out of it. They had to put him on an ivy after. Of course they've got like you know lights on him as well to you know to

illuminate the scene so just hot reflections hitting him he's in all of that armor all of which is good but the design of this is great like the world and the military equipment and all of that it's really really good and the bugs like you mentioned it's amazing you get like the big tank bugs you know that shoot fire and Johnny Rico blows up one swooping bugs the standard ones are great also the brain bug is just awful what an awful thing to look at all right judgey maybe it's really not It doesn't seem really nice. It is defending itself.

That's what I'm saying. For the most part. But yeah, they built the front part of that. So that's all practical and real and heaving and wet. It's horrible. But of course, this movie does have a happy ending, doesn't it? Yes. Because they capture the brain bug.

That's right. And Carmen also gets rescued. And Neil Patrick Harris shows up. And he's in a nice new uniform. God, it's crisp, isn't it? Everyone looks good in black with symbols and hats. Yeah. You know?

It really is this, yeah, like it is like this upbeat ending, but it's so sinister, like, obviously, because of the real implications and how we even got here and what's going to happen in the future. And, of course, and I thought about this, you know, at the time. And then there was a movie that speaks to this being true. Like, did the brain bug allow itself to be captured? Oh. Because it could have gotten away. False flag attack. False flag.

Reverse. Subversion. Yeah. And then I remembered, and I had to look this up, though, in the third movie, which I have seen. Okay. The brain bug plays a large part in that, and it's revealed that it's been influencing people higher up in the military. Oh, same guy?

Same brain bug? Same brain bug. Really? So that's what's... Just chilling for a whole movie and then came back in three. Okay. Yeah, well, I do want to talk about the sequels, but God, it's just, um, it's a great movie. A great.

I haven't seen any of the sequels. Well, you can. You shouldn't, but you can. And we'll get to some. But first we have to do Starship Troopvia. Love it. You're a fan of this? Yes.

This is the trivia section of the show where I tell you everything that you need to know about Starship trivia trivia. Do I need to know? Everything you need to know. Do I need to know any of this? How we going over there? Good. This is everything you need to know. I don't need to know any of this.

I'll be the judge of what you need to know, Mason. It's pushed more important things out of my brain. Like, I guess you don't know. Yeah. It's no way to know. I just feel a sense of loss. Dean Norris is in this again. Oh, Dean Norris is in this, of course.

That's right. Yeah. One of Paul Verhoeven's faves. Oh, yeah. So several scenes were filmed of Carmen, Denise Richards, coming to grips with the supposed death of Johnny Rico, while also starting a relationship with Xander. However, test audiences, they started to hate the character

for hooking up with somebody else, even though they were broken up. And he's dead. And he died. It's acceptable. I guess she's not watching the movie, though, is she? That's right. How could she not know?

He's still alive. I like him in his little Luke Skywalker tank getting his leg sewed up. That's good, isn't it? It's weird that they can do that. him. Yeah. Like the most beautiful guy, but everybody else, they're just like, nah, chop it off, put on a wood and put on a peg leg.

Well, he's still got a leg, doesn't he? I guess it's true. He's still got most of his leg. During the live action sequence where Dejana Dee shoots and kills Reckenridge accidentally, you remember that? Yeah, sure. During that scene. Like in Dawson's Creek, I remember.

They got married in real life. I'd have a child together, those two. Isn't that fun? It's nice. Show that at your wedding. I bet they did. They probably did. For the whipping scene of Casper Van Dean,

I remember that being a laser whip But it's just a regular whip Me too What movie have we seen though Where somebody gets whipped with a laser whip It must be a movie Some like of a similar era Yeah like a he-man kind of

Yeah that's probably yeah Is it he-man gets whipped with a laser whip? He probably gets whipped with a laser whip Yeah He probably gets whipped with a regular whip He wouldn't allow it That's right He'd be like

No no no no no No no no Tio Smout was trained in using a bullwhip By veteran stuntman And second unit director Vic Armstrong Oh Who you might know as the stunt double

of Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones. He was whipping all day. All right. As we talked about when we covered those movies, but he does most of the Indiana Jode stuff in Temple of Doom. That's pretty much all him when you don't see his face.

Do you think maybe he's, any time he like a assistant direct something, he tries to get a bullwhip sequence in it? Yeah. Well. Absolutely. Wow. But this is Phantom Thread, Vick Armstrong.

There's no room for a bullwhip seen in this. Well, I think maybe Daniel Daylose what I want to do some whip stuff. Also, what if he just snuck up on him and whipped him? Right. Get that on film. Yes. The combat helmets were...

Stay in method acting mode. He'd been whipped. Daniel Day Lewis. He probably could. Yeah, he probably could do it. The combat helmets in this were repainted and were used on the SWAT team at the end of the Planet of the Apes reboot from 2001. Don't remember that at all. Abraham Lincoln was there.

Yeah, I guess. And they go, hut, hot, hot, where's Mark Warburg? Hot, hot, hot. Speaking of, he was also considered for the role of Johnny Rico. It doesn't work at all. But you would argue that of most Mark Wahlberg things. I would, wouldn't I? Except for the song, Good Vibrations.

What? He's in that song. He sung that song. Good Vibrations? Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch? Oh. That's him. I thought you meant the Beach Boys.

Mason, the Beach Boys are different. And they also have a song called Good Vibrations. Also, I don't think the Mark Wahlberg song is called Good Vibrations. And that's your fault. Thanks, man. Because you push it out of my brain with all your trivia nonsense. Anyway, box office, on a budget of $110 million. Big at the time.

A lot of money. A lot of the time, yeah. It only made $121. This did not do well, and it was also critically maligned. A lot of people being like, this is fascism. Yes. But it's... This is fascism, and this is an early example of us thinking

that the author portraying that on screen is an endorsement of that. When it's clearly not, we're stupid. We're Ciskel and Aibor and we're stupid. And we're talking in unison. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a great Ciscol. and Ebert in unison impression that you've done. Thanks, man.

All right, I'll pay those guys. I hope it never gets pushed or sucked out of your brain. But there is a theory, a working theory. And Phil Tippett has spoken to this, that this actually underperformed because Mr. Bean did so well, which came out at the same time. Okay. So kids were buying...

They thought it was a Michael Bean movie. They did, yeah. Okay. So kids were buying Bean tickets and then going into this. And that could have accounted for... I mean, a not insignificant amount of money. But probably not like enough to make this profitable. Probably not.

It did become profitable enough where the studio was like, well, there should be follow-ups to this, and there is. So there's a 1999 CGI animated series called Rough Neck Starship Troopers Chronicles, which is based on both the book and the movie. You might be familiar with this, got a couple of seasons. Vaguely sure, yeah. There's also two live action movies. The second one is directed by Phil Tippett,

and he was given a really small budget. And he was like, well, if you're not, want me to make this, I kind of have to make this a haunted house kind of horror movie. This is four sequels. Yes. So there's that one. There's Starship Troopers 3, which is kind of closer to this and also sees the return of Johnny Rico.

Nice. As played by Caspar Van Deyen. And it has the mech suits. Nice. It's not very good. But it is directed by Edward Neumeyer. And then there's two animated movies, one of which Dizzy returns because Neil Patrick Harris puts a suggestion in Casper Van Dian's brain.

That she's not dead anymore. No, that he's like to give him in the movie. inspiration. She like, she like Obi-1 Canovi's him on Mars or something. I don't know. I only saw the clip and I went, I don't like this. But there's been a number of video games as well, some of which are pretty solid. There was one from a few years back as well, which people seem to enjoy and there's real-time strategy stuff. And also, you might know this, but there is a reboot in the works, which is going to be more of a direct adaptation of the book. And that's going to be directed by, and I think you'll like this, because these things are always suggested in the

Never happened. Daniel Day Lewis. Neil Blomkamp. Oh. He was of course supposed to do the aliens' sequel as well. He's been supposed to do a lot of things. Yeah. So that was announced in 2025 with him writing and directing.

Again, closer to the source material, probably set in South Africa, probably starring Matt Damon, probably starring Chateau Copely as well. Hell yeah. I'm not super against that happening, but... It won't. Well, it won't. But also, I don't know if...

a more direct adaptation of the book is just better than the 9097 version, which is exceptional. Yeah. I guess we'll find out. No, we won't. Just kidding. It's not coming out. Well, I hope it does, because why not, you know? Not because I think it'll be spectacular, because I like movies.

They call me Mr. Sunday movies. Yeah, but they call you that, but they don't, like, your name doesn't suggest whether you love movies. But I know of them. And the most important thing is just seeing and knowing as many movies as you can and having a sort of opinion on them. I mean, a noun being in your name doesn't necessarily mean you know anything about the noun, does it? I think it probably necessarily does. Henry Ford didn't know anything about Ford's. Daniel Day Lewis is always around during the daytime.

That's true, isn't it? So, you know, something to think about. And he got whipped. It's true, he did. He knows what life's like in a real movie set. Anyways, do you want to hint towards next week? It's the last of our classic 90s sci-fi trivia. Yes.

People have been debating Mason about what this is. They're seeing this kind of orangey, maybe blue poster. Well, that was every poster for a certain period, wasn't it? Yeah. Well, here's the reveal. It's actually Blue Streaks starring Martin Lawrence. You're familiar with this? No, it isn't.

It's not that. No, it's fifth element. We're finally getting there. All right, okay. Sure. I know there's one guy in particular that's going to be very excited about that. Bearing of mind, the director is a crook bloke. Also, we're not doing it for you, one guy who keeps asking for it.

We're doing it for everybody else. You don't get to watch it. That's right. We're blocking it in your region. Anyways, if you'd like to see that early... I do. Maybe you're that one guy and you want to get around it and see it early. Yeah, that's true.

This is the only way you can watch it, that one guy. That famous one guy in the comments. People know him. He is famous. I know. Ben and Lawrence know him. He was the best man at my wedding. Yeah, I remember.

Ben and Lawrence are like, what's with that one guy? Yeah. I'm like, I don't know. I didn't make him. Anyways, if you head to big sandwich.com, which is like our private Patreon, there's early videos there. Or you can just head to our Patreon.

Patreon.com slash Mr. Sunday Movies. We're in the $10 tier. There's not only early videos. We do bonus videos, including we do a comic book club. We do a clickbait podcast. We do video game. Let's play. That's right.

All sorts of stuff you'll never see on this channel. That's right. You just won't. It's right. We forbid it. I might do a, YouTube membership at some point for some of it. A slow rollout if you will.

Sure, sure, sure, sure. Also, we have a podcast called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows that comes out every Monday. If you are interested, where we talk the movie or TV show of the week and a bunch of entertainment movie hot gossip, don't we? Hot goss, salacious hot goss. Mmm. Delicious. Propaganda for the movie industry, you might say.

Very good. But they don't pay us, so why are we doing it? I don't know. For the money. We're stupid. For the money? No. Oh, because they don't pay us? Yes. I thought you said they're paying us. No, they're not. I thought they were saving up one big check

and the check gets bigger every week. And when do we get that? That's what I'm asking you. When do we get that? It's going to be a pretty big check as well. They have to keep crossing out the number and putting in a bigger number. Anyways, thank you so much to Ben for the edit.

Thank you, Ben. Thank you so much to Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Lawrence. We'll see her next week. It's Fifth Element. Clancy Brown's in this, too. Clancy Brown is there? He can do anything, this guy.

I think he can too. If it involves being a big, tall, tough man. Or the voice of Lex Luthor. Or Star Wars and then Star Wars live action. He did that. Agreed. Yeah.