The Weekly Planet - The War of the Worlds (1953) - Caravan Of Garbage

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

ALIENS ARE REAL.  I mean, statistically the chances of there being life in an ever expanding universe is pretty much a lock.  And to celebrate that and the return of Steven Spielberg to making an alien movie with Disclosure Day in 2026 we're going to take a look at three adaptations of the War of the Worlds, starting with the 1953 classic.  An absolute astounding achievement in model work, design, alien monster suits, explosions and guys being stoic then running around for a bit.  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 taking a look. Well, first of all, Mason, before I tell you what we're taking a look at, I already know. But before you figure out what we're doing. I've guessed. Okay. I think I've guessed. You might have guessed.

Every week I guess. I don't watch the thing. I just guess. And then I do jokes based on my memory of it. Which might be nothing. Potentially. You know, aliens are bigger than ever. There's UFO cover-ups.

Aliens are bigger than ever. Spielberg's making another alien movie. You know, that's a big deal. Aliens are not bigger than... Independence Day. 1990, whatever. 94, 5, when did that come out? Six, seven, seven, eight, nine.

Two? Two? Maybe. Yeah. I think aliens are bigger than that. So I thought, let's take a look at the original alien invasion story in three dimensions. No.

Well, this one was nearly a three dimensions one. This one we're looking at. I knew it based on my guess where. Over three different time periods. Oh, yes. We're going to do a War of the World's trilogy. Whoa. War of the Willergy.

That's right. Exactly. Okay. War of the Willey G. That's good too. Thank you. It's not that good. No.

Sounds weird of that, isn't it? It does. So please leave it like for The War of the Worlds from 1953. I think we're removed the The it's cleaner. Do you think so?

Yes. Well, they didn't. They've done it, haven't that? Yeah, it is too late for me to recommend that, really. Now, at this point, you'd probably know this. Yeah, what was War of the World's famous for at this point? Before this movie, let's say.

Oh, before this. It was the book, actually. The book, first base. It wasn't the book. Shut up. You've never read a book. You always say you're going to read a book for this. I'm going to read a book.

It's what you say and then you don't. Yeah, usually. Yeah. But after the book, yuck, there was the radio play. Yeah. Which told people right up top, they're like right up the top, first of all, like and subscribe. It's me, Austin Wells. Hit that bell notification on your radio so you get more of these.

But just to be clear, this is a fake thing. Yeah. This isn't a real alien invasion, but for some reason only this radio station is. is carrying that news. This is a fake. This is a play. This is a radio play. But then a lot of people, I guess, didn't tune in.

Yeah. Because they were busy. They were busy. They were down the coal mines. Playing, by the way, not even working, just mucking around. Yeah, that sounds about right, doesn't it? Yeah. Anyway, there was a bit of a kerfuffle in real life.

That's it. So, yeah, it spooked to some people for real. Though I think stories of that have been exaggerated. For sure. Most people were just like, yeah, this is a story. This is based on that book, that famous. book, even more famous than this Orson-Well's version.

Come on. That's what they were saying to each other, maybe the reports of people, you know, freaking out in the streets. Yeah. The old time the equivalent of that time that big fan of Rick and Morty stood on the counter of that fast food restaurant.

Yeah, yeah. Screaming and jumping up and down because they didn't have his Seshwan sauce. But look, like in the future, people are going to be like, everybody in the 21st century was jumping up and down because they didn't get their Setschwan sauce. Everybody was.

We should have been. We should have been. Absolutely. We should have been in the streets. But it was just that guy It was just that guy, yeah So yeah, after the success of that in 1938 There was a push to make this into a movie I think that went Austin Wells moved to the movies

They're like, you should do the War of the World And he's like, I'd rather make some of the greatest movies ever made But we'll do your War of the World's crap later, honestly And then I want to be a big robot planet That's right I want to die being a big robot planet I want my last words on screen to be Hey, yeah, sure

You know, remember that? I do remember that. God, good stuff. Great storyteller. Not just in film, but also just in interviews. Just look up old interviews of Orson Wells. God. Don't look up new interviews with Orson Welles.

They won't be any. No, they're all AI generated. I mean, they're very good and compelling, and he looks glossy. Things are too woke these days. Things are too woke. So apparently one of the people who wanted to do this was Frank Wells, who was son of H.G. Wells, who wrote the original novel, more famous. Ray Harry Housen also wanted to take it on.

And he even built a three-legged model. He did an animation test, which you might have seen, a stop motion alien coming out of the hole. He wanted to make it also a famous hole. The famous hole. The famous hole. The famous hole, yeah. He wanted to make it a period piece. Yep.

Because this one, famously, I guess, it's set in the era it came out. Now. They modernized it. Yeah. They went to Alfred Hitchcock for it. He didn't want to do it. He was Cecil Bede Mill's personal choice. So we'd end up going to Byron Haskins.

Some guy. Some guy, but he did a hell of a job. Let me tell you that. I think, so Orson Wells also, he, not awesome. Fuck, there's too many old people's fucking names in this, Mason. I got to remember all these dead men. I know, right? I'd rather we forgot all the dead men.

H.G. Wells believed that this was, it was too late to adapt this. And then you couldn't, you couldn't make a modernized version of it, that it was very much of its time. God, he's never been more wrong, this guy. HG. Wells are men famous for being wrong, wrong, wrong, over and, over again. I bet you could build a timer shit to go to the year

1 million billion trillion. Well, you can't. HG. The first time I watched this was I think it was around the time that Independence Day came out. Okay, sure. Well, that's movies obviously

heavily inspired by this. Why not watch the original, the source material, as it were? What did you get at? VHS? I was just on TV. Oh yeah, nice. And it was, look, if I'm honest, as a kid watching this,

I was like, that's pretty underwhelming. Mostly in terms of an ending, which we'll talk about but there is some spectacular stuff in this A real Channel 7 or 9 movie Definitely yeah So the opening of this is a fun little

I don't want to say animation because it's not animated is it really It's basically a justification for why the creatures of Mars Want to invade Earth So they go through each planet And be like well not that one Because of this race

And I'm not this one This one would make my porridge too cold And this one would make my porridge too hot But this one Yum yum yum Good for my porridge No, look, I have two notes from the start of the movie. One says, look at this MASH logo-ass font.

Which I don't think suits the tone of the movie at all. Terrible. Well, MASH. I know. This was pre-Mash. I know. This was Prash, Mason. I know it is, but it looks weird in a movie from the 50s.

Very strange. I didn't like it. It should be some sort of cursive font. Yeah, yeah, but they modernized it. Yeah, I don't like it. And then my second note just says, the narrator giving the game away immediately. Oh, we can't do that.

I don't like it when it's like, this movie's gonna be, I mean, we know, obviously, and I'm sure everybody in this era was aware of what War of the World's Wars. They probably all read the book because they had nothing else going on. But I don't think you should go into this being like,

there's Martians and they want to go to a different, they want to go to a different planet. Some planet's a hot. Some blood are hot, and some are cold, but they're going to invade Earth. Well, then where's the tension of the first 20 minutes of this movie?

Like, well, or what do we record to the, meteor? What do we reckon to the meteor? I didn't know what was in the meteor until the meteor opened up and a guy came out of it. I didn't know. Interesting. Even though they did mention it up top, I'd just forgotten, Mason. I'd forgotten. No, I didn't at all. Apparently

they didn't include Venus at the time because in the 50s, apparently it was still believed that it could be a hospitable planet. So they're like, well, just exclude that because the aliens would have gone there, wouldn't they? Oh, I see, right. I don't know whether that's just 1950s pseudoscience. You know, just crackpot shit.

Just from that era. Sure, yeah. But yeah. We were concerned that Venus was made of marshmallow. Martians couldn't land on it, despite the similarity in name. I love when the meteor crashes and there's just a dude being like, I'm going to slap it with a shovel. Come on, man.

What are you doing for one? And then there's a moment where they use like a radioactive detecting device. A guy encounter. I call it a HR geek counter. It's different, obviously. What is for detecting? Things that look like dicks. There it is.

There is... Nope, nothing detected. Don't point that at me. Nothing detected. Nothing detected. I love also, yeah, they're like, oh, this is highly radioactive. Should we move everyone? Nah, probably not.

Yeah, everybody's already down there anyway. Don't worry about it. You'd have to ask everybody individually. Yeah, yeah. So the meteor crash lands and the local authorities alike. There's some scientists fishing over there. Let's get them to look at it. I like this guy from the local constabulary shows up,

and his character trait is he's, He's just a moocher? Like, they're like, do you want to eat with this? And he's like, I will. You got a cigarette? I'll smoke it later. This guy? Does this come up later?

No, of course not. Why would it? You'd think his mooching would save the... See, I'm looking at this... I'm looking at this movie from the lens of a modern day. You're looking at from the perspective of a guy who's seen MASH, Mason. That's your problem. That is so true, isn't it?

Nobody has seen MASH when this came out. Nobody. Not even the movie. You would think that his mooching would save the day at the end. You'd think that the various characteristics of the characters in this movie would come together and save the day at the end, but they don't. Yeah, I guess you could think at any point that something relevant would be put in this movie that would then save the day later.

But famously, that is not the case. No. And of course, we got the, we got a main scientist guy. Oh, yeah. Gene Barry. We got a bunch of, we got a bunch of military men and police men and so on and so forth. Stand back. And you might be like, oh, not movie from the 1950s, there's no women in it.

Well, there is a woman in it. Yeah, man. And she's got a master's degree. And she doesn't do anything. Well, she does some... Which is power, what we like. She does a lot of hysterical woman work. That's true.

Which is basically screaming and then being shook. Yeah. And then being calmed down by a handsome man. Just in time to be... With a firm demeanor. Just in time to start screaming again. Exactly. Yeah, so Gene Barry and Anne Robinson are the stars of this.

Gene Barry later admitted that acting in this film was quite trying because obviously anything that he was looking at wasn't really there and you got a blindly react to like, oh no, what's that? Help. No, that's not. him. He didn't do that, did he? He was calming everybody down. That's right. Until at the end when he just runs around a bunch. Do you remember at the end when he ran around a bunch? Of course I do.

That was the highlight of the movie. That was the main action sequence of the movie. Gene Barry runs around a lot. Anne Robinson. Still alive, by the way. Yeah, 96 years old. Amazing. She's 96, you know. And she was also in, she's in the 2005 remake. Yes. But she's also in the 1988 sequel TV series to this, where the aliens weren't dead all along.

Oh, they were alive all the time, weren't they? Yeah. I mean, it's also got classic, I guess you call it Prometheus thing, you'd call it now. But, you know, the meteor opens up and like a metal snake comes out. And guys are like, what's this? I reckon we'd be famous and we'd be in a newspaper if we went and talked to this metal snake. We could cut out a clipping from the newspaper and put it on our wall. And our grandkids would be like, what did you, what did you do when you were young grandfather?

Talk to a metal snake? They put it in a paper. It didn't even vaporize me or anything. anything. That's right. Except it does. Hubris. Yeah. It's interesting choice by the priest as well to be like, I believe these beings are like us and I think gods on our side and on their side and I'm going to walk into this and just see what's going to happen. I'm going to make peace. I'm going to hold a symbol of a certain

religion from this very specific planet and they're just like fucking lazied man. Just a massacre. The guys that are like, let's wave a white flag. Everybody knows white flag means friends, vaporized. Come on, man. What are you thinking? They don't speak English, yeah, but they might do sign language. Why do you think that? What makes you think that they could do that?

There's dudes on fire. There's vehicles getting incinerated. I must admit, the Martian ship designs really good. Amazing. Incredible for this era. Yeah, they're big miniatures too. Oh, bigotches. Yeah, exactly.

Al Nuzaki made these. And originally he was going to do the, because they're tripods in the books and in other adaptations. But in this, they are technically. They are. They've got invisible magnetic legs. Exactly. And you sort of see them at one point and that was supposed to me. I saw them all the time. Okay, we saw them all the time. You're not supposed to. I'm just good at that.

Something's going on. No, I can say them. Yeah. But it was like one of the reasons I saw on IMDB was like, well, apparently the US military would have no problems if they were tripods that have no problem defeating them. So they're like, well, what if we make them ships? But really, the answer was it was cheaper because otherwise you've got to animate legs. You got to animate legs. Otherwise, you know, holding things up with wire is easy. Anyone can do it.

Do it right now in your own backyard. You know? We're both on a flying fox right now. We certainly are. We! I love the force-filled effect, which was just filming a glass dome on black and then superimposing it.

And the heat ray, the heat ray effect is really good. This is good stuff, man. It is good stuff. And like you said, just men on fire, men turning to ash. All the miniature work,

all the buildings exploding. Really good stuff. The nuke is fun. Nukes are fun. Yeah. That mushroom cloud was done with a metal drum filled with explosive and detonated, and then it blew powder like 75 feet in the air,

they filmed that and superimposed it on. I think that was a cocaine bomb. They were experimenting with those in the 50s. They were like, okay, what if we drop this on the aliens and then they get so focused on building an app that they don't. And starting a band. That they don't want to kill us anymore.

It's not the worst idea. But there is like this, you know, the futility of just, attacking them again and again and they just, there's no reaction. They just keep moving forward and just decimating the earth. And as one general says, we know now that we can't beat their machines, we've got to beat them.

Mm-hmm. All right, off you go. Give it a world. What are you going to do? You have any more specific ideas? Yeah. Well, no, I'm just, I'm the Army's ideas guy. All the doing stuff guys got blown up by the heat rate thing.

And then zapped into ash or whatever. I'm just the guy who comes up with an idea. The running in is. they're all dead. Absolutely. The alien design is pretty good too. And what I like is it's, I mean, aside from the fact it's God arms,

it's not human-like. It's also the first time you see... I think it's a step down from the ships, honestly. Yeah, probably. I mean, but also, I want you to remember this, Mason. Yes. This is the first man in a monster suit movie. Oh.

And I think the day the Earth stood still came out before this, but that's like a robot. This was, this creature. which it was a year before the creature from the Black Lagoon

Charlie Gamora Are you relation? No To Gamora? It's Gimora With the GE So no But I'm gonna be any in

I don't know what to tell you Mason It's no relation to a fictional character Okay interesting Alright Carry on then But he was I'll do some research

This is how he's described He's an all-time great makeup artist And also one of the best Guerrilla men Of course That was his work Yeah to be a good

Gorilla man back in the 50s Dude there's a YouTube video, everyone should check it out. It's called Charlie Gamora Goes Ape. Nice. It's just a retrospective about this dude who just did like great creature work. I mean, that's money in the bank in the 50s if you were a good gorilla man.

Definitely. But again, it was it was Al Nozaki and his daughter who designed the alien and then redesigned it the night before it needed to be used to make it smaller. It was too big and there was Charlie's just hanging out the back of that suit. Like it barely worked. It's got wires in it.

It's all gooey and this barely works. and there's wires all over it. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out the night before. It's fine. But all of that, I think, is, it's so terrific because it does have this kind of pulsing energy to it. Because I feel like a lot of these movies,

these alien and monster movies, they maybe didn't bother to put in this kind of effort or this level of creature design after this. These became kind of bee schlocky kind of thing. That's true. But this early one, this one of the first ones, is just really incredible. and just like you said the miniature work is amazing the replica of LA

like these are huge models that they exploded with the ships going through the riots in the streets are great there's a moment where two guys pick up a guy and throw him through a window yeah so good they've cleared out city streets yeah it's really amazing agreed and again it's just the ending is just a guy running around LA and then going to a church sure that's the ending and you forgot there's a history You forgot there's a hysterical woman. Oh, sorry, she's in the church. Even though she's a woman of science,

at the end, she's just like, I don't know, I'll go to a church, I guess. Me being a woman of science was a mistake. Everybody said it. And everybody was right. I was too willful, and I admit that I'm wrong now. But yeah, what I love about the ending of this, I get love. That's a strong word.

If they're mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses. What if they're not? What if they're not mortal? You think about that? You've seen them? Yeah. They're in a flying. thing?

You got like three limbs and that. One had blood or whatever, didn't it? Oh yeah. Through a thing out of it. It went, blah! Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, ultimately all, every counterattack, every voice of reason,

whether it would be a priest or a man with a shovel, or every nuclear weapon that they dropped. Those two men that throw that other man through a window. That's right. Maybe that was what did it. Yeah. You just wait and then they just get all sick and they fall out of their machines. It's the absolute prime example of a movie where the actions of the protagonist

antagonist don't actually do anything. We often talk about, you know, some of the Indiana Jones movies. If he just wasn't there, it wouldn't really matter. And I don't think that's strictly true. We've done videos on them. We've probably talked about it. He Temple Adombed all those guys. He did Temple Adombed the guys.

That was cool, man. But yeah, it's just germs and maybe God, I guess. Like, is that the message? I think so. Because they stop at the church, right? Yeah, but this is interesting because this has sort of been a recurring feature of a bunch of war of the world's adaptations and it takes out the agency of man

and I think one thing that Independence Day which is essentially a remake of this does better is they go we will build our own virus computer virus absolutely computer virus that's the modern type of virus you know yeah

they got to get it in there in the in the original book Goldblum and another guy God another guy's going to get it in there is Will Smith he's the other guy Will Smith is the other guy two famous guys

Two famous guys. Yeah. In the original book, aren't they already in the earth? So they've been here for a while? Which one? The original War of the World's book. I don't know. James, you're the one who always says he's going to read the book.

That's why I never read the book or know what we're going to talk about before we start these videos. Yeah, all right, fine. I didn't read the book and I don't know. Maybe in the League of Extraordinary Gentleman comic book that has the... They do a War of the Worlds in that? They do a War of the Worlds in that? Did you read that for this or you read that for your own personal pleasure? I read it for my own pleasure.

And I like that, Mason. I don't like how you do things and aren't related to this show. For pleasure. You've got to lock in, man. Stop doing things for pleasure. Yeah, I mean, we'll talk about the other movies because they each have a little twist on where the aliens come from and how you defeat them. Some of them use the internet. Hell yeah.

We'll get to that one. But, yeah, in the meantime, we have to do trivia of the worlds. Oh, yes. This is where we talk about trivia from the show. We both bought trivia. What's your trivia? you. That font at the start, man, that's a mashup logo us font.

I'll tell you that much. I believe you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lee Marvin was offered the lead role. Oh, okay. Yeah, he's a war movie guy, isn't he? And a real war veteran, actually. Yeah, he was the dirty dozen, not all of them.

Not all of them. Oh, I do have a note here. We said that Anne Robinson doesn't really do anything except run around screaming. She does also walk around with a tray of coffee and donuts. So that's... That's nice, isn't it? It's nice, isn't it? Something to do.

Something to do, really... I feel like they made her do that on set. I feel like that, doesn't it? Yeah, you can get the coffee and donuts. It's 1952, which is when we film this, probably. Australia mentioned? Yes. Sydney mentioned.

Boo. Oh, yeah, boo, sorry. Boo, fuck off. Always Sydney. Yeah, right? I can't we destroy Flinders Street Station. Right? Why can't they destroy Federation Square?

You've seen that thing? You've seen that freaking thing? Boo. God. Why can't they destroy Docklands because nobody's there and nobody's bloody notice? Don't even bother.

Why can't they destroy? Why can't they shoot all the tram drivers? That's all I'm saying. Why not? Teach them a lesson. All right. Yeah, I just think as a form of transport, we already have buses and trains.

Do we need trams? That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. It seems that's all you're saying, yeah. So filming was halted briefly for two days when Paramount discovered, I remember when Paramount was an actual company. Oh, that made film products?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, sort of. Yeah. They discovered that they only had the rights to the silent version of this, and that was resolved with the permission of H.G. Wells' estate. Silent version.

Silent version. Yeah, is that just reading the book to yourself in your mind? Is that because somebody purchased the rights to the radio play and the only other option available was silent video? The state of HG Wells was so

pleased with the final production. We're so pleased. They offered George Pell, the producer on this. Hello, George. It's us, the estate of HG Wells. His choice of other. We're very pleased. It's brought us great pleasure. Oh, no.

I don't like that. They said, what else do you want to do? Pick another property that we've done. And he went with the time machine. Not Guy Pearce's the time machine, which is an incredible movie. Agreed. We all agree. And what's really sad, this is sad, but also very of the era.

None of the original Martian war machines exist today. They were made out of copper, and after the production, they were donated to the Boy Scout Copper Drive. Unbelievable. Copper Drive. Copper's expensive. I'm aware.

I know to you, it's nothing. You have so much copper, it's ridiculous. You're wrapped in copper right now. They call me the Copper King. I live in Copper Canyon. I think maybe we've established in a previous video. Yeah, I guess. So that would have been sold off to somebody, and it's just...

Just given away, basically. It's just in people's war. walls now. Yeah, totally. Yeah. So yeah, that's a real shame because they're a beautiful design and intricate electronics and all. Probably three. A print them now, though.

Yeah, no, don't worry about it. Who cares now? They did, they recreated them for the 80s show. And you could put a drone in them so they could actually fly. Exactly. You could really shoot someone with a laser. That's right. Yeah, man.

Mm-hmm. Now, the box office for this on a budget of $2 million. Which is how much now? Let's look that up. Let's do math live. Boop, boop. Boop. Boop.

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Whoa! $24 million. That's very cheap. That's cheap. Yeah. Yeah. That's probably more expensive than the most recent one, though. Yeah.

I think. But, I mean, you know, that also, you've got to factor in Hollywood accounting and Hollywood's skimming off the top. They didn't pay anybody. It was probably not as much skimming off the top, although I imagine a lot of people took a lot of that. Donuts and coffee homes. Absolutely.

Also, I feel like some people like Jewelves. They were in the movie, but that also fetch people coffee and donuts. That's exactly right. Sometimes those scenes were in the movie. It's probably a guy who was an extra in this and he's still getting old donuts out of the fridionary hitting.

He's got that mindset. He's got that Depression era mindset. Absolutely. So 600,000 of the dollars went to the live action scenes while 1.4 million. was the special effects. So yeah, there you go. In terms of return, there's no hard numbers on this.

The only thing was like, it made $2 million in VHS rentals. And it's like, I don't know, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? What are you talking about? Yeah, but this has made its money. How much did it make off NFTs?

A lot, I hope. So, you know, it just did really well. It was a hit at the time. It's a classic for a reason. It often makes, you know, lists of the best sci-fi movies of all time, sometimes even the best movies of time. It's again, you look at it now and you go, that's a mash-ass font.

I do, and I did, and I still do. It's pretty incredible. I think it's a good movie. Yeah. I agree with you. Yeah. Could have been some stuff for the woman to do. Sure.

Could have been an additional woman. I think there is an additional woman. There's a scientist. There is another scientist lady. What? She's looking through the microscope. She's like, look at these little. Oh, yeah.

Look at these microbiomes or look at this blood or whatever. Exactly. Does she actually? Thanks for that doctor now. Go make the tea. Doesn't she like, she's like, they're kind of a, Bethlike or whatever. So she kind of hints that like,

there's a hint that they might just die for no reason. Correct. Also, they didn't die for no reason because in the sequel, they're just like, they didn't die for no reason. They just fell asleep for a while. Correct, yes. Yeah, and they woke up because of the 80s

because they heard the music, just like the vampire Lestat did if you're familiar with his work. Yes. Yes, good. Anyways, do you know these videos? I know these videos. Do you know they come out early at big sandwich.com?

I know what about those videos. Yeah, not only that. We also do video game, let's plays. We do bonus podcast. We do movie commentaries. That's right. We've been the time of our goddamn life over there. Have we done an Independence Day commentary?

We actually have, yes. Terrific. That out. Yeah. Also, we have a podcast that's called The Weekly Planet where we talk movies and comics and TV shows. We always talk the big movie of the week, don't we? Big movie.

And then the movie news. Big movie news. Yeah, and thank you so much to Ben and Lawrence for the edit. Thank you, Ben and Lawrence. We see you next week for 2005 Stephen Spielberg's War of the Worlds. I think that movie's okay. I think it's okay, too. People are getting vaporized up top, man.

I like all that. Dusty. But who's doing it? We'll have to find out. That's right. Love to watch the movie. Thanks, everyone. Grab that jammy, guys.

We'll see you next week. Bye.