The Weekly Planet - 540 Borderlands & D23 Round-Up (Marvel, Star Wars, Tron: Ares)

Episode Date: August 12, 2024

It’s D23 and also Borderlands the movie came out! So this week we’re talking all the big Disney reveals including Moana 2, Toy Story 5, Frozen 3, The Incredibles 3, Star Wars Skeleton Crew, The Mandalorian VS Grogu, Andor Season 2, Captain America: Red Hulk, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Daredevil: Born Again, Avatar: Fire & Ash, Snow White, Tron: Ares, Mufasa and more! In addition to that Warner Brothers continues it’s David Zaslav (normal man) decline, a Gambit solo movie and the end of Zach Snyder’s Army of the Dead. Thanks for listening!New movie commentary for Prometheus out now! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show including video game let's plays, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month.UK live show tickets can be found here: https://www.sanspantsradio.com/events/category/live-shows/00:00 The Start03:02 Big Losses at Warner Bros.08:35 Gambit Solo Movie Questions13:25 Zack Snyder Zombie Franchise Cancelled16:31 Nick Mason Foot Update17:26 D23 News Start17:56 Moana 2 Trailer & Dwayne Johnson’s Monster Jam22:48 New Avatar Movie Title (Avatar: Fire & Ash)24:29 Dream Productions (Inside Out Spin-Off Series)25:47 Toy Story 5 Announcement32:29 Incredibles 3 and Frozen 335:46 Star Wars: Skeleton Crew Trailer39:29 Andor S2 and Mandalorian & Grogu Movie44:02 Ironheart, Daredevil: Born Again and Agatha All Along50:25 Captain America: Brave New World & Fantastic Four: First Steps52:34 Lilo & Stitch and Snow White53:17 Tron: Ares Trailer57:20 Lion King: Mufasa Trailer01:00:58 Borderlands Movie Review (Some Spoilers)01:12:58 Borderlands Movie Spoiler Segment01:20:15 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read (House of Dragon S2 Spoilers)01:26:03 Letters, It’s Time For Letters (Paris Olympics 2024)James' 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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just walking by. You better not be lying about this. You're going to ruin this poor man's life. Listen to Heaven Bent wherever you get your podcasts. ACAST helps creators launch, grow, and monetize their podcasts everywhere. acast.com. 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. It's great to be here. It's a big week! D23. And Borderlands. Oh, what a week. What a week. Look, it's going to be maybe a long episode or a longish episode.

I don't know. Or a brief episode. Let's knock it out. Because I mean, you know, big, big, big, big D23 announcements, Disney's announcements, but maybe a lot of them we go, eh. Yeah. You know, eh. Oh yeah, Toy Story. This might be a huge episode, but this also might be like we watched a lot of grainy phone footage of trailers of things we're not interested in. Red Hulk, et cetera.

And then we watched a bad movie. Yeah, we did. Listen, let's not get ahead of ourselves, Mason. Let's not spoil the fun we're all going to have. Let's get a little bit ahead of ourselves and say that next week we're going to talk about Alien Romulus. I'm going to allow us to get like a week ahead of ourselves, but not a little bit ahead of ourselves in this particular episode.

Is that okay? That's absolutely terrific. Next week, Alien Romulus we're going to talk about. So get your tickets ready, folks, to purchase and watch Alien Romulus. The first reviews are in and very positive. Which you know, it'll probably drop a bit maybe. Yeah, sure. I don't know.

Meaningless in a lot of ways. In a lot of ways, but we'll see. Look, I'd be happy if it's the third best Alien film. I'll take that. Sure. I'll take that, Mason. What about the fourth best? No.

Okay. So you're going to be crushed if it's the fourth best. I'll be crushed because then it would have to be worse than Prometheus, Alien Covenant, Alien vs Predator or Alien vs Predator Requiem or Alien 3. No, it'll be a better Alien 3, but maybe not Alien 4. Sure. Does that make sense? It must be better than Alien 4. God, I hope so. We're talking about that this week on Carry On The Garbage though if you are interested. Anyways, the news of the week, if you do want to jump ahead, there are time codes below. One is we've got some bad news for Warner Brothers Discovery, but good news for us. Absolutely.

Normal Man. Normal Man Report. We've got news on a Gambit solo movie, but not really. We've got news of The Army of the Dead. I guarantee, but not really. Not really. Army of the Dead sequel moving forward. Is that true?

I thought it was cancelled. thought no, sorry the opposite Yeah, that's all canceled. Don't try and get don't give me hope You didn't even watch that prequel or they looked at us looked into a site or something. I didn't I didn't yeah Then d23 we got trailers for all the new Disney stuff including like Moana and to another stuff a new name for avatar Dwayne Johnson has a new project in the works, which looks dreadful Toy Story 5, Incredibles 3, Frozen 3, Skellington Crew for Star Wars. And or Season 2, The Mandalorian and Grogu, Ironheart, Daredevil, Agatha, Roll Along, Captain America, Fantastic Four, Starfleet, On Snitch, Snow White, Tron, Jared Leto,

and Mufasa. And then we'll do Borderlands. Terrific. What do you think about that? I didn't even name everything. I just kind of skimmed the stuff that I didn't even mention here. Lilo and Stitch something. No, you think you mentioned that. All right, I'll mention it then. Okay, he's 3D now.

He's 3D now. Lilo or Stitch, whichever the alien is. Whichever one is which. I think it's Stitch. Yeah, cool. All right, Mason, Let's start with this In oh, no anyways news Variety are saying that shares of Warner Brothers Discovery have slid more than 12% in early trading on Thursday to an all-time low After the after the media conglomerate

Heavily relying on his pay TV business business announced a whopping 9.1 billion right down reflecting the loss of value of its linear television networks. Oh no, that's terrible news. What is it? Water Brothers Discovery shares are now down 40%. The stock dropped wiped out more than $1.6 billion in star in market value.

Now this is of course is off the back of David Zaslav, normal man and head of water brothers, acting everything. I seems as if he's gutting the company so they can sell it, like make it lean and mean and then give it to somebody else, I presume. But it just looks like he's fucking it into the earth. Well, he's making a lot of money. So that's what he's doing. He's still getting his 50 million dollar bonuses and all of it.

They cancelled a new animated project this week. Oh, fixed. Yeah, which is the Tartakovsky... It is, yeah, it's animated. The guy who did like a bunch of great animated stuff. Now it's back at Sony, so they need to find a new distributor for that. So I guess technically they didn't make it, but they don't want to distribute it. Terrific.

So that's fun. Discovery's market capitalization is standing at about $17.2 billion as of... Bear in mind we don't know what that means. No, I do. Okay. So basically it's worth less. So it's standing now at $17.2 billion as the market. Sure.

But it was compared to more than $50 billion. When you say market, what are you imagining? Like a fish market? No, a fish market. You have $50 billion fish, but now it's less. Now it's 17.2 billion fish. But it was 50 billion when Discovery acquired Warner Brothers in April of 2022. Fake number. Exactly. It's a fake number.

50 billion, I guess. Yeah, what's the play there? This is worth 50 billion, and then it only has to go up, but it's not worth 50 billion. So what are you doing? What are you doing with all your fish? Don't look at me. I didn't do it. I didn't value it. The cratering stock, the disappoint... I've never valued anything that comes out of Warner Brothers.

Fair point. Not once. No, you like The Flash. Oh yeah, that's true. It was a good movie. I agree. The cratering stock, the disappointed Q2 earnings, the massive debt load, and the company's loss of the NBA.

Oh yeah, they're losing the NBA. We'll put pressure on CEO David Zaslav to find a strategy and fast to right the ship. Yeah, this should be fun. Yeah, it'll be sell more stuff. Yeah. And cancel more things. Last month, Warner Brothers Discovery also laid off more than a thousand employees in a bid to pare down costs. So at Allen and Co's retreat last month in Sun Valley. Who? It's at Sun retreat in Idaho. Zaslav said that he was in favor of whichever presidential candidate could cut through government red tape.

Incredible, incredible take there. Very good, very diplomatic. And here's the way for future merger and acquisition deals. We just need an opportunity for deregulation so companies could consolidate and do what we need to do even better. He's doing it. He's doing it so good already. How need to do even better. Oh, he's doing it. He's doing it so good already. How can he do it better?

This guy just firing a thousand creatives and just... When is somebody going to be like, hey man, you got to go. Like what's the... I don't think there is one. What's the point here? Like we're talking tens of billions of dollars. I mean it's all hypothetical. Yeah, look, I think it...

I mean, I think... They're also not making anything like of dollars. I mean it's all hypothetical. Yeah, look, I think it, I mean I think... They're also not making anything good really. I know. I mean, I think there's some behind closed doors meetings where he's going, yeah, it looks bad, but we're going to sell this off and you're not going to get Zazlav money obviously, but you're going to get a lot of money. And the shareholders are like, well good. Sounds good to me.

Let's destroy this corpse. Absolutely. Let's desecrate this corpse. They also wiped out the Cartoon Network website. The site used to host full episodes of Cartoon Network shows, but now when you go to it, it prompts you to sign up for Max. Nice. People love doing that.

They love Max, which was HBO Max, which was HBO, I think. I don't know. I'm not really sure what's happening. But the good news is that this company is bottoming out, which was HBO Max, which was HBO, I think. I don't know. I'm not really sure what's happening. But the good news is that this company is bottoming out, which is bad news for people that work there. Sure. But good news for this terrible man. Yeah, I mean, I reckon if-

Remember the time everybody booed him when he went in front of normal people and people were like, we fucking hate you. And he was like, I don't understand. I got a $50 million bonus. I don't understand. I wear those puffy vests. I have big fake teeth What else do you want from me? I'm doing what the people want. Mm-hmm. Look as long as Superman Legacy Superman comes out. Yeah, that's that's fine. That's a good last thing

That's a good call by him. Yeah to make that movie. Don't you think great? Sure My goodness, all we need is a Superman movie and maybe another Godzilla Kong movie. That'd be sick Yeah, a sadder one. You want to go sadder? No goofier All we need is a Superman movie and maybe another Godzilla Kong movie. That'd be sick. Yeah. A sadder one? You want to go sadder? No, goofier. Okay, even goofier. Like the bit when he picked up his son and he hit some other big gorillas with him?

Absolutely, yes. That was pretty good, wasn't it? So yeah, we'll just keep an eye on this as we always do. But it seems as if they're looking to purchase something else to bump the stock up. Because again, he's talking about future mergers and acquisition deals. Oh, perfect. Because that, you know, but again deregulation. That adds value. It does, exactly. Because that, you know, but again deregulation. That adds value.

It does, exactly. Because deregulation will allow him to do that. They should buy MySpace. Yeah. They should figure out who owns MySpace currently. Is it Justin Timberlake? Maybe, yeah. Or Microsoft?

Yeah. Just buy it off them. Maybe, yeah. But they could have MaxSpace, you know? Go ask Tom from MySpace who owns MySpace. He doesn't, but he might know who owns it. Love it. Love all of this, Mason. It's good, isn't it? Love when a guy who sucks is doing badly.

Feels good. But again, he's very rich. It doesn't matter. Yeah, it doesn't matter to him at all. Yeah. All right. Variety. They asked Channing Tatum. This is all out in the news already. They put all the pictures online about his gambit role.

And he's like, can I possibly talk about the movie that I'm, the other movie that's coming out, the Zoey Kravitz's director? Can I talk about that instead? Oh, where he's like a weird tech CEO. Yeah, yeah. Can I talk about that? No, talk about gambit. Put this sock on your head with the face cut out of it and talk about gambit. Anyway, gambit's solo movie. He said, I sure hope so. From your mouth to God's ears, write it into existence, my friend, please.

You've got a big tongue kiss in the ear for me. That was when of course he's asked, and when he asked whether he's asked the Marvel higher ups about being gambit in a gambit movie, he said, of course I've said it. I've been saying I want it for the last 10 years. It's Bob Iger and it's in Bob Iger and Kevin Feige's hands. I pray to God. They might. I mean, he's popular enough where- From Bob Iger and Kevin Feige's lips and tongues to God's ears. Oh my God. Right in God's ears there.

How do you think this would potentially affect the plans of God's ears? But also- The Marvel universe going forward? Yeah and X-Men whatever they're doing in X-Men because you know I feel like they're going to keep like Daphne Kane, Hugh Jackman for a bit. Yes. I don't know. Probably not like. I would say at absolute minimum we're going to get gambit in the Secret Wars movie probably.

If they're doing a big multiversal collision, a big multiversal car accident of sorts, I think at the very least we'll get another gambit in that. I think it's also smart to look what people like and then do that. Okay, the reverse Zaslav, that's what we're calling that. Yeah, that's right. It's a new tactic.

Take what people like and keep it. Yeah, so you know, it's just a thought, but, you know, not to say you shouldn't try new things, because you should do both really, if anything. So, you know, we'll see. Little advice to the people out there, try some new things. Yeah. It's going to be hard.

Not a new podcast, obviously. Stick around with this sputtering old jalopy of a podcast. This is basically promotion for all these companies. That's all this podcast is. That's right. It just tells you about products that are coming out. I mean it's really disappointing. It's been going 10 years and they've yet to give us any money for it. It is kind of crazy isn't it that nobody's been like do you want some money? We've done some ads but... What about that time they said you want to do DC fandom?

Oh yeah. I did say no. That's on me I guess. But it sounded like work. It was so much work Mason. This is the work, I guess. But it sounded like work. It was so much work, Mason. This is the work. I want to do this level of work. Minimum work. And they just give us money. Zaslav, peel off one of those millions. Give us that one million. Give us a million dollars. It's like 49 million. Your cheap scheme.

We will get in your corner, David Zaslav. We will be there with the bucket for you to spit in. Yep. And what else do they do in the boxing ring? What's the coach do? He dabs at your eyes? He's got a towel. Yeah.

He's got a towel, yeah. Katsya? We'll do that, yeah, I'll do that. If your eye's inflating, we'll do a little cut. Oh, that's what that's for. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, we'll do that for you, Zaslav. Yeah.

Give us that one million dollars. But you have to be in a boxing ring. You have to be fighting somebody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Maybe Jake Paul. But you have to be in a boxing ring. You have to be fighting somebody. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe Jake Paul. Maybe you could fight Jake Paul.

Yeah. Just two cool dudes. Okay. Is that the fighting one? Yeah. Okay. Well, they're both the fighting one, but I think Jake Paul is doing more of the fighting one at the moment.

He's going to fight Mike Tyson. Here's another promo for you, everybody. That's right. Free. Free. So that's probably on HBO Max something. One of your pay per views. I think it's on Netflix. All right. Free. Free. So that's probably on HBO Max, something. One of your pay per views. I think it's on Netflix. Yeah. Netflix love a live thing at the moment.

You're telling me you watch Joe Rogan's latest special and you said it blew your fricking mind. I didn't say that. You said, how did this guy even think of all these jokes? He looked at jokes people were making five to six years ago. And then he just said that, said those as well. So you did watch it. No, I didn't. I've heard things. I saw a little, a little screen cap where he's dressed as a minion. Did you say that?

I mean, he was dressed as a minion, but this is like somebody else. Somebody had made this. No, no, no, no, no. He's just, he's just, he's wearing a big boxy shirt. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a funny guy, isn't he?

He's always up to something. There he is. God, he's a canny lad, isn't he? Yeah. Did you see him walk backny lad, isn't he? Yeah. Did you see him walk back his endorsement of RFK? No, I knew he endorsed RFK. He screamed at him. OK.

Yeah, but just because you should have endorsed Trump. And I agree you should have. What are you doing? Play to your base, you fucking idiot. What's wrong with you? All right. We're endorsing RFK, by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah.

We will not walk that back. That's right. Yeah. We're endorsing RFK by the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah. We will not walk that back. That's right. Yeah. We like that time he dumped a bear in Central Park or whatever. I like, well I'm not technically endorsing him, I'm endorsing the worm that controls his body. Oh, absolutely. That's in his brain.

The Mr. Mind that's in his head, yes. Absolutely. I don't think it's a space worm, I think it's just a regular earthworm. Oh. I suspect. But again, this is my guy slash worm Hmm. All right. This is by the rap Netflix has Quietly, why are you getting political Mason? People are gonna be so mad now good you specifically as they should. Yeah, I agree

Netflix has quietly cancelled plans for an army of the dead sequel movie and animated series So what this got it was a matter after After the huge success of Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon Part 1 director's cut. Yeah. That's weird. That is weird. Little weird. They released both, right? Don't know.

Those director's cuts. Don't know. Yeah. I'll tell ya. I'll look it up and I'll tell ya. Please do. So we had Army of the Dead, which I didn't mind you didn't like it very much at all. I liked the first five minutes. And then there was the... But there was more.

There was more. There was a lot of movie after that. Five minutes. That's the twist. there was so much more movie after then there was the the prequel which was the safecracking German guy Oh, yeah, which he also directed I believe no way to know no gonna spin it off into this whole multimedia project, etc No, I'm pretty sure I don't wait the director's got his out the whole thing the whole thing. Yeah, great Okay, six and a half creating a universe the making of rebel moon of creating universe and atlas Jennifer Lopez is in a mech suit or whatever oh yeah Jennifer Lopez is Titanfall yeah Jennifer Lopez is Titanfall it is exactly what it is Simu Liu is in it oh he's like I'm also

got a Titanfall it's great it's great fam if you've never played that game time for you don't need to. Just watch that. It's the Jennifer Lawrence movie. Well, retroactively, I wish I hadn't played Titanfall 2. However, producer Deborah Snyder said that the Army of the Dead franchise isn't entirely dead. It's stronger than ever, actually. Really, it's, yeah.

As there's a themed experience coming to Six Flags theme parks for Halloween. And she said, and I quote, it's going to be a really cool experience. That is sound sound that sounds zombies Yeah Zombie some of them have masks though Sure, some of them had masks and some of them are robots or something because remember there was that yeah Like robot zombies maybe in the or glowing alien zombies Something's going on there. Yeah intriguing makes you Makes you want to watch more Army of the Dead.

Again, I didn't mind it. It's interesting that Zack Snyder has acquired, he seems to have acquired like the IP rights to Of the Dead. Yeah. You think that's odd? Do you think it's too generic? You'd think it would be not generic enough to try. I thought it was only Dawn of the Dead and you can do whatever.

That's my understanding of it. See, I would have thought that anything off the dead you like. Like House of the Dead? Sure, House of the Dead. Yeah. Mouse of the Dead. Mouse of the Dead. Sure.

That Mouse Hunt too, but the Mouse is dead. Correct. They got him. Grouse of the Dead. Grouse of the Dead. Okay, these are all good ideas that you own because you're a lad. I've said them. We've talked about this before, but like the Walking dead was going to be the dawn of the dead or whatever

Oh, and then I think somebody said to Robert Kirkman, no just make your own and then you won't it idiot nice. Oh, yeah, I would like a billion dollars It was a really cool experience If I just wanted I just want to use a funny thing you should have taken that billion dollars peel off a couple of mil give it to that person who told him Completely agree say it's off the dead. Yeah, don't do that. All right, it lets d23. Okay, but before we d23 People would want a foot update nice and oh, yeah, you said you broke your foot I didn't say I said it might be broken. It's not it's not broken. Yeah, cuz I've got the x-rays back Yeah, it's not broken could still have a tear in it I x-rays back. Yeah. It's not broken.

Could still have a tear in it. I've got to get an appointment. A tear in your foot. Wouldn't you be able to just see that? Internally. Oh, internally. You're not a doctor. I was thinking externally.

Oh yeah, no. Yeah. No, if we're external I'd show you. Are you taking... I'd be like, look at this. Look at this. Yap, yap, you make it yap. Yap, yap, yap, yap.

Yeah, I would do that. Exactly. Do you get to take more time off work though? Maybe. That's great. So that's good news. I'll get it. I gotta get an MRI. Yeah Sure feels it feels like it's on the mend. Yeah good. You've been doing your exercises. I don't know which ones Yeah, I don't know. They didn't really tell me to do any exercises. Maybe you should see a physio Sure, or an occupational therapist. Okay. Yeah Wow or chiropractor but for foot repactor a foot foot rock flat foot foot foot rock flats compactor. I agree. Maybe I should do that Maybe I will anyways d23 Mason the

Most of the stuff is here. I'm gonna mention some isn't Maybe because it didn't catch my eye maybe because I just missed it But we're doing all at least all of the big stuff and some other stuff which isn't as in case you're wondering the name D23 pays homage to the exciting journey that began in 1923 when Walt Disney opened his first studio in Hollywood. That's awesome. It is awesome. I did ask you that for the show, because I didn't know. And now I know.

Because why wouldn't you call it D24 this year? So true. That's what I'm saying. Mason, Moana 2 has a trailer, and Moana has a sister, and there's a little sister, and there's a new villain, and Maui's back. No, not Maui. No, that's good. It's good?

He's one of the main guys. Great. It's not called Maui though, it's called Moana 2 or whatever. This was going to be a series but they've, there is a, I wouldn't say they've completely de-emphasized it but there's way less Disney Plus stuff announced than they'd done in previous years. Decent amount of Marvel television. Yes.

Oh, sure. I mean, I think a lot of that stuff is left over. Like they filmed Ironheart like three years ago or whatever. She's probably bloody covered in rust. Probably by now. Yeah, it's been three years. Yeah. But so yeah, big, I think because Bob was a Bob Chapek was there was the CEO between Bob Iger leaving and coming back. And he wanted to deemphasize, like animated stuff in particular, and do more streaming stuff. And that kind of didn't go very well. So now they're going back to the model, like 2019.

of thing with some streaming stuff and but Disney Plus is basically a platform for things go to the movies and they go to streaming. Would you say they're flailing? Oh yeah. Yeah. But this is the D23, the home of flailing. This is the best strategy though. Okay. For the moment, I guess. Anyway, Marijuana 2 is out November 27th of this year. I show my daughter and she's like, I love that. Can we see that? And I'm like, yes, on November 27th. No. She's like, if you could, if you get straight A's at kindergarten. That's right. Yeah. Also she's got no concept of time and months and years so she doesn't even know what that

means. So she'll be asking you, can we go tomorrow? Yeah. And be like, no, we can't. We can see Borderlands again. Your favorite movie. You know how you loved Clap Trap. The sassy robot who poops bullets.

He pooped bullets for that scene. You know how you love Cate Blanchett. Yeah. Due to her performance in the movie Tar. She's given a good performance. Then we got... Dwayne The Rock Johnson came out. He's gonna star in Monster Jam.

What? You familiar with this? No. He said, I love motorsports. What? I love monster trucks. You don't love anything, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. No, he said he loves motorsports and he loves monster trucks. I've never seen any evidence

that he loves motorsports. If anything his performance in the Fast and the Furious movies would suggest to me he doesn't like any kind of motorized road based action. Because he's always like stop that. Stop that you kids. Stop it that's actually illegal. Yeah he is doing that. And immoral. Yeah he said I came to Allen. Um Dwayne The Stop it. That's actually illegal. Yeah, he is doing that. And immoral. Yeah. He said, I came to Alan... Um, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. It's true. He's back too.

I came to Alan and Disney to create something here that is... Alan? Yeah. Alan Horn. There's a... I assume. A Mercedin... Oh, you assume.

I don't know. Who's Alan Horn? So he's bloody... What's the... God. I gave you that fact about D23. Yeah, but you had a chance to look it up. Alan Horn is the consultant of Warner Brothers Discovery. Oh! I might be a different Alan then. I don't know.

Oh, they're bringing in the big guns. I don't know who Alan is. The Warner Brothers Discovery guy to make some good moves. I don't know. Well, see, this is a mystery now. This is exciting. I'll find it. God. You don't even care. No, I do. Is this just Dwayne The Rock Johnson's friend Alan? Is it part of his entourage? Disney co-chair Alan Bergman. There you go.

You happy now? Not really. Now we know. It seems kind of boring now. I came to Alan Bergman and Disney to create something here that is a- You think he's related to Ingmar Bergman? Yes. An immersive and fun and live action from the POV of these incredible monster trucks.

Eccentric and crazy drivers. Monster Jam is going to be a fun ride. So it's a monster truck movie, but it's from the perspective of the monster trucks, but also eccentric and crazy. Are they aligned with the monster trucks? I don't know, they did that movie already. It was called Monster Trucks.

Remember that it's, they're like alien squids in the truck. It's cost like a hundred million dollars that it sunk like a stone. It's not so bad like a stone that recently we did a when I started doing those box office bomb videos again Oh, yes It was the biggest bomb and I forgot to put it in because it disappeared so thoroughly that if no, it was this recently This is a few years ago. Alan Bergman's got some normal man vibes. I tell you that much that I Guess yeah, he could be more normal. Yeah I mean he oversees Disney's full portfolio of entertainment media and content businesses

globally including Disney's streaming business. Yeah, but I could do that. He leads Disney's world renowned filmmaking studios that produce high quality cinematic storytelling for both theatrical and streaming release. Yeah, but I could do that. I guess. Yeah. Yeah, nice.

Good for him. Is he the is his father Alan, Alan Bergman, the American lyricist? I don't think so. Don. Nice. Good for him. Is he the, is his father Alan, Alan Bergman, the, um, the American lyricist? I don't think so. Don't know. Something to think about. Well, anyway, so look forward to that. A thing that looks bad and will be bad. Next up, Mason. On his page, we can download a JPEG of him. What do you want to do with that? I don't know. I'll click it though. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, that's good.

That's a new phone background I tell you that much. A generic man. Yes. He's right though he does have normalish vibes. I'll give him that. Avatar 3 got a name as well. Is it Avatar 3? No it's Avatar Fire and Ash.

Fire and Ash. I love that. Apparently it's not what you expect but definitely what you want. Is it they go to another. They don't know what I want. Do they go to another Avatar village and it's different guys but they're fire people? Doesn't say that. But it is.

But it doesn't say it specifically. Is that not what you expect, but what you want? Yeah. Then it is that. That's incredible. Good work, James Cameron. Thank you. That's out December 19th of 2025.

I think Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington came out and went, hello, James Cameron. Thank you. That's out December 19th of 2025. I think Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington came out and went, hello, Avatar everybody. We know, we remember. Put the blue makeup on. Yeah. Or get out. Do you... I imagine if they had to put the blue makeup on.

They should have to. Do you have excitement for this? And they're on stilts. Do you have excitement for this in your heart? Not really. What about if you're on stilts? A little bit. But with your bad foot? Oh no. I'd rather not. I'd rather rest that foot. I'm definitely, I mean we've been watching, we watch aliens and we've been watching the Terminator movies for Caravana garbage. Yeah.

And I didn't mind the last Avatar so more James Cameron stuff is interesting. Yeah I am interested to see how the technology evolves. Yeah, but I'm not going to be blown away by the story as I was not for the previous two. I thought the previous story was better than the first. It was, yeah. I thought I was more swept away than I was in the first Avatar. This one's going to be only two or three years? When was the last one?

2022? Three years after the last as opposed to 17 years between Avatar movies. But it is the biggest movie of all time, Avatar 2. So true. Fire and Water, whatever it's called. And then we have Dream Productions. This is a Disney Plus series that's going to stream in 2025 and it's actually a set between Inside Out 1 and 2.

And it's in the dream part of Riley's mind where they make dreams. Okay, sure. Yeah. So how do you feel about that? Having not seen Inside Out one or two maybe? I've seen one. And? We talked about one. Did we?

On this show? Impossible to say. We don't know anything. That's right. Yeah. I'm not excited. But? But I'm not raining on anybody else's parade.

Okay, good. Cool. This is the year of not raining on anybody else's parade. Really? Except if you like Borderlands. You told me it was White Boy Summer. It's true. But I'm just supporting Except if you like Borderlands. You told me it was white boy summer. It's true. But I'm just supporting my boy Chet Hayes.

You know? That I understand. Ed could get behind. So yeah. And applaud. Thank you. This makes sense because Inside Out 2 just made a billion dollars also. I mean they'd obviously already been working on this I assume But uh, you know in the first is is it the first inside out where?

There's an imaginary friend and then he dies at the end. Yeah, is he back in the second one? No still dead Whoa, this one should be called that guy's still dead the dream world. This guy's still dead the guy His name knows Bing-bong or something. Yeah Bing-bong dead and forgotten is what it should be called. Completely agree. Let me look at Toy Story 5 announcement. Now we knew this was happening. This is going to be written and directed by Andrew Stanton, who you might know from John Carter of Mars.

I don't know. I'm from a bloody Alan Bergman, but also John Carter of Mars. Good choice. I think he directed Wally. Maybe. Did you like Wally? Maybe. John Carter of Mars, good choice. I think he directed WALL-E... Maybe? Did you like WALL-E? Maybe? It's pretty good. Yeah.

That's a more recent credit than John Carter of Mars, I think. He also directed Finding Dory. Okay, sure. WALL-E, Finding Nemo, and he co-directed a bug's life. Okay. This is all good stuff. So it's interesting you led with John Carter of Mars.

It's almost like you were trying to assassinate his character there. Why would I assassinate the character of a man who directed a movie that I haven't seen? That doesn't make any sense to me or you. No, because you're evil. I do want to watch John Carter of Mars because I heard it's actually not that bad. Isn't it just called John Carter? Oh yeah, because off Mars doesn't play or whatever. They thought it didn't play.

Yeah, that's right. To the foreign markets. But you know what would play? Just a man's name. Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Chet Hayes. Put in a box set with with a bloody Colin Hanks. Michael Clayton. Oh yeah. And Colin Hanks. Sure. And Chet Hayes. Yeah. Yeah. Now,

I showed you an image of this. You did show me an image. And you couldn't believe it. You said that's biting social commentary and says a lot about the age at which we live in now. Because the kid. Yeah. Well, first of all, the toys, you'd think the toys are being played with by the kid because kids love toys. That's Toy Story. That's my, maybe that's my old fashioned brain talking. Kids would be outside catching frogs. Doing their white boy summer.

Exactly. By the fishing hole. They're playing in the dirt. Sand pits. Absolutely Chet Hayes Chet Hayes white boy summer You get from the hose drinking from the hose Yeah, they get a paper route. They would absolutely do that. They get out. Yeah, they do that. Yeah Else would they do you know? That's all that all the real stuff. That's real

You're running around in overalls running Running around. With skinned knees. That's right. Falling over, skinning your knees. You know? But they weren't doing that. Eating peanut butter sandwiches. And nobody was allergic to peanut butter back when I was a kid. They all died.

And you didn't know why. They just died. I remember that kid died in our class. Why? Who knows? But you thought he caught the flu really quickly and died. Yeah, but actually, yeah. Anyway, you'd think they'd be playing with the toys down by the fish and all, catching

frogs. But actually, this kid's under the covers and he's looking at an iPad. I think that's the girl from three and then four. Okay then. Yeah. Great. And they're like, why don't I get played with? Where's her parents?

Maybe become an app, Woody. Yeah, Woody. You idiot. Probably is an app. You stupid idiot. Do you know Tom Hanks' brother? Chet Hayes. Yeah. He does the voice of Woody in anything that Tom Hanks can't be bothered with. Interesting. So like video games like Kingdom Hearts, any kind of home media kind of shit. But he does. He sounds exactly the same.

And he's also in an episode of Scrubs, the Turner and Hooch episode. That's Tom Hanks' brother Chet Haase. Yeah. That's fun. Better hope that, you know, that A.I. voice replacement thing doesn't come along too quickly. Well it has. Yeah. Well good luck Tom Hanks' brother Chet Haase.

Here's that something. Your white boy summer's over. The time. Put your overalls away and put on your business casual because you are going back to the office, my friend. The toys will find themselves tackling electronic play things, including 50 rogue Buzz Lightyear. Yeah, I saw that. There's a little still of that. There's 50 Buzz Lightyear, their programming's gone erratic. Perhaps there's an app that connects them It's probably an app today. I haven't seen this do they look like they look exactly like Buzz Light Years

They've got like a red dot in their chest. Oh, no, that's bad like the guy from um hell from that movie Yes, Malcolm in the middle. Yes. Oh wow, there is 50 Buzz Light Years. I want an updated design man. Well too bad I didn't get it You want a marvellous design? There's too many lines on the seat. Yeah like I want an updated design man. Well too bad. I didn't get it You want to marvel eyes design is too many lines on this. Yeah, I want it to look bad Yeah, what did you think of how do you feel about Toy Story 5 having seen 4 and 3 and 2 and I mean I'm sure people said off almost certainly they said of 3 and 4 don't do another one Yeah bad, and they turned out to be good. They're all good. So this one will be good I mean, this is sort of there even if this one is bad, they're still their strike rate is still incredible

Yeah, it's still four out of five. Yep. So I mean, this is their flagship I guess yeah, it's are like it's it's what they're known for mostly Oh unless you include light year, then they are only they're currently three for four Yeah, let's not count that cuz that's why no there if four for five currently. That's I don't think that counts Okay, sure called Toy Story light year. That's so true. So it I don't think that counts. It's not called Toy Story Lightyear. That's so true. But it's probably in the box set. Yeah, no.

If they still make physical media. It's definitely not. I bet it's in the Toy Story collection on Disney Plus. It doesn't count. I'm going into bat. Okay. They've locked it off separately. For the four Toy Story movies.

It says, you go onto Disney Plus and it says Toy Story collection and then you scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and it says sad ones. It's just light years in there. I didn't like it. Depress your kids. Could have been good and it was boring and bad and sad. But anyway, Toy Story, that's the flagship. If they're going to get one of those right, it's going to be this one.

It does make sense because they are, again, they're going back to, and this is like, I guess thing like these are as sure as you can get. Yes. You know, we'll talk about like Frozen 2 and other things and then but also they're doing some original stuff. This was one called Hoppers, which is John Hammond, Bobby Moynihan in 2026. And that's about a girl who puts a brain into a robot beaver or something. What? What I think happened there is you completely lost focus in the middle of the sentence and then you just did random word association. I don't disagree. 2026, that one's coming out. Let me check.

Now that you got right. Yeah. So you're not, so here we go. A girl's brain goes into a robot beaver for a look into the world of animals. So it's like Avatar, but you infiltrate a community. Yeah, I guess. And who's in that? Jon Hamm and Bobby Moynihan.

Bobby Moynihan. Could be all right. Could be. And then there's Elio, which is a space- Wait, is that animated? This is animated. Yeah, these are both animated, which is a space film and it'll take place to New World's Unknown.

Sounds like a- Sounds like- June 13th, 2025. Sounds like another attempt at Strange World. Strange World was bad. Was that Pixar or Disney? Dreamworks? I think it was a flat Disney one. And it was flat. It was boring.

But I did have that incredible interview with Jake Gyllenhaal where he talks about this world's pretty strange too and then there's just dead silence from everybody. That's fun. This world's pretty strange too. I won't elaborate, but think about it, you know? Yeah, he's a greasy oily man. And this is a big one. The Incredibles 3 is happening. Three Credibles. Brad Bird is returning to direct, compared to the other two, and the one where George Clooney's from the past, but also the future. And it's the 1960s, but it's now and the world's crumbling in Hilary.

Yeah, yeah. And why don't kids just go down by the fishing hole? Why don't they go and buy a bike with a nickel? Why don't you go and buy, why don't you go and build a jetpack and go down the fishing hole on your jetpack and then fish above the lake with a jetpack? With your jetpack. Your jetpack. Kids today don't do that. Then go home when the lights come on in the street with your jetpack. Your jetpack. Kids today don't do that. Then go home when the lights come on in the street. Right?

With your jetpack. That's right. Stupid kids now. They don't do anything. Catch a bug in a jar. Yeah, catch it in a jar. Jetpack. You've got your jetpack. Do that, you know? But kids won't.

They can't. They're on their phones. They're busy getting participation trophies for being gay or something. What? You know? Yes, I do know. I've seen that. It's not just a thing we've made up.

I've seen it. Or at least someone I know has seen it. Someone talking to the other guy in the pub and he saw it. For real. It's true. It is true. Yeah. A lot of people don't know that.

We're the worst. Alright Mason. Frozen 3? Oh, Incredibles 3. Oh yeah. What do you think? 2 was okay. 2 was okay.

It also came out with Spider-Man. Spider-Man came out. Oh I see. So for me I was like, oh no this is way better. This one. All I really remember from Incredibles 2 was great textures. Good textures on all those character models. Yeah. The story. I don't remember loving the villain. The villain in the

first one was incredible. Nice. Oh it was the video lady. The screen slaver. There we go. Yes. And I think most of the big action scenes were stopping something. Stopping a train or stopping a boat and whatever. Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess they... I appreciate that, that it's, you know, a lot of superhero media, even for very small kids is like, let's... Let's stop something. Let's punch.

Let's do a punch, you know? Yeah. Not every solution has to be do a big punch on the bad guy. You know what I mean? Absolutely. I mean, in real life, that's the only way you get things done. Yeah. You know, these days. These days, I mean? Absolutely. I mean in real life, that's the only way you get things done. Yeah. You know, these days.

These days, I mean, when this body of... Yeah. ...climates, etc. Yeah, exactly. All the things that we do. Yeah, look, I again, I would have faith in this one as well. Can you say it's Brad Bird again? It's Brad Bird, who also did the Iron Giant.

Yeah, exactly. Right, yeah. Let's go, why not? Yeah. Now, Frozen 3, it's directed by Jennifer Lee. Okay. In relation to Dave Lee, do you think, the YouTuber? Probably. Yeah, probably.

Coming out of Frozen 2, we still have some questions, a lot of questions actually, and now you see why we need two films to tell this story. Were there questions? I don't remember. Is somebody related to somebody else? Like, who's the secret? I never met my father. Is it the king?

Yes. It's a secret daughter. Snow has memory, or et cetera. This horse can fly. Have I seen one of them? I think I've seen one of them. You've seen one because we did it for carry-around garbage I didn't like to when I first saw it. I was like, oh this sucks But now you've seen it a hundred times. I've seen it a hundred times

I actually haven't seen it that many times, but it's it's better You've seen the first two minutes of it and then you leave the room I do set it up for the kids and then you leave pretty much. Yeah, but uh, yeah, I like it actually You go down the pub. Yeah, I do. It might even be better than the first one. Wow. IMO. Wow.

Alright, Mason. Star Wars time. Yes. Okay, sure. Yes. We've got a trailer for The Skeleton Crew. This is set five years after Return of the Jedi. Oh, in the sweet spot.

Yeah. Yeah, sure. Boy, a lot of stuff happening there. Yeah. It's Star Wars but in the suburbs. And E.T ET slash the Goonies slash Flight of the Navigator. Stranger Things. Stranger Things. Yeah. It's that era of like 80s nostalgia. But a Star Wars. And on the one hand, you know, I feel like Caravan of Courage. Oh, here we go. A classic rant from Mason. I don't have any rants. I'm not invested in any of this.

You can't stop him. Caravan of Courage, I feel like it was kind of, you know, I mean it was made in the 80s. It was made in the 80s. So it kind of, you know, this feels like a little bit of a throwback to that. But it is odd that Star Wars has suburbs at all, isn't it? It is a bit odd, yeah. But they're not in the suburbs for long because they find a spaceship and they hyper space out of there.

And they go and see Jude Law. That's right. Which I thought was interesting that the big reveal at the end of this trailer is it's like guess what kids, it's me Jude Law. Like any of the kids that are seeing this trailer are like wow, that's Dicky. That's Dicky Greenleaf from the talented Mr Ripley. That's Alfie. No it's young Dumbledore. That's Alfie, there's something wrong with his balls.

It's Yon Rock. Remember he had to go to the doctor. He went to the doctor and he said nothing's working and help. And they said it's all in your mind out for you depressed and he went Oh, yeah. Yeah, I forgot. I'm 35 and I'm depressed Good movie and it's true It's a true story We see like different aliens there's X-wings. There's a wolf man. Yes from a new hope. Yeah There's a wolf man? Yes, like from A New Hope.

Yeah. Was it in the barn? Yeah, there's a wolf man. Bring a wolf man back. And Jude Law's like, I'm a Jedi. Somebody said, I'm not sure if it was for this one specifically, I saw someone on Twitter say, Oh my god, there's a character from Captain EO in this.

What? You know, Captain EO? That Michael Jackson thing? Yeah. Was it Michael Jackson? Was it a... Oh no. I thought he died. No, he's back.

I thought he's gone forever. No, they brought him back for Skeleton Crew. Shit. Yeah. Michael Jackson. Was it a... Oh no. I thought he died. No, he's back. I thought he's gone forever. No, they brought him back for Skeleton Crew. Shit. But he's not really back, right? Elements of him are back. Like he's not going to spring out at me.

No, he is going to. They put him on a spring. Because I've been saying some shit, Mason. You know? I've been saying some shit. Okay. Yeah. Would you prefer that his lawyers got sicked on you or just the corpse of Michael Jackson

got flung at you? My goodness. No, I think that's interesting that you said, in you saying caravan of courage, I'm like, oh, maybe now's the time to do caravan of garbage, caravan of courage. Oh, finally. We might even have, nah, we're booked up, man. Okay, well, too bad. Too bad caravan of courage., Caravan of Courage. Oh finally. We might even have, nah we're booked up man. Okay well too bad. Too bad Caravan of Courage.

We're booked up, sorry everybody. I mean if we did it, if we found the space people would finally go oh I get what they're doing now. Yeah. The reason is because in the lead up to Gladiator 2 and his little hint, I put together something called the Rusty Crow History Trilogy. I love that. Which is three historical classics that Russell Crowe has made.

He's one of the master and commander of the far side of the world. Yes it is Mason. Hell yeah. So look forward to that. Three historical classics that Russell Crowe has made. He's one of the master and commander of the far side of the world. Yes, it is Mason. Hell yeah. So I look forward to that. Okay, so it's that. It's Gladiator one. Yeah. And then it's... I mean, there's so many. It should be an Australian classic. Could be Les Mis. Could be Les Mis. Could be Virtuosity. Did Rompastomper? It's not Rompastomper. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, we could change it. I put Robin Hood. Oh yeah. It's Ridley Scott as well. could change it. I put I put Robin Hood. Oh, yeah. Ridley Scott as well. We don't have to do Robin Hood. We could do a Robin Hood series because I know Hugh Jackman's making old Robin Hood movie. It's true. Yeah. So anyway, what do you think of that? The Rusty Crow history trilogy? I love it. Okay, cool. All right. So that's how you just for the third one, we could just we could just review Russell rocks. I want to be Marlon Brando I would love that video I would love that uh December 3rd 2024 Star Wars Goonies and then we got a little look at uh and or season two it's going to be set over four years and five years after Return of the Jedi not sure he got obliterated by the Death Star that's true got really badly obliterated yeah um so

badly obliterated. Yeah. So the eight episodes, I want to say, is set over four years. Okay. So, and it's also going to reintroduce K2SO, Sassy Alentutic Droid, and you've probably heard this, but Orson Krennic is returning. Ben Mendelsohn is back.

Yeah. Very good. The only Australian in space. It's correct, yes. He's also got obliterated by the Death Star, that laser shot right through it. Yeah. Yeah, that's good stuff God this is this is so exciting to me very exciting more and or even more so than skeleton crew

Even though they had the reveal of Jude Law. I did like seeing Jude Law I will watch skeleton crew with my kids in particular my aunt my aunt my eldest son Who's 45? I think he will enjoy it because he's a child of the 80s. Absolutely So, you know, it's right in the pocket for him. But no, so I actually think Skeleton's crew like visually at least it looks very good. Very Star Wars it does. I think they've nailed a lot of that. But Andor season two is sometime next year. I heard a rumor of first quarter, but I don't know.

Okay, sure. So it'll be nearly three years after the last season, which I will rewatch. I've already rewatched it, but I've never I see and I'm like Back in the day when just there was an there was an 22 episodes of something every year No, I don't remember that. Okay interesting doing that supernatural. I am or monk. Yeah, or monk. Yeah. Yeah No, they don't do that anymore. Okay, or that supernatural monk crossover. I think this guy's a vampire. No, I'm not like you I'm a monk. I think he guy's a vampire. No I'm a monk. Let's stake him. I'm a monk. I think he's a monk actually.

Yeah, now we have seven episodes and then we wait four years. And we go, oh what was, oh yeah. And then the second season is as good as it. Did I watch all the last season? I don't know. I watched streaming. I watched the recap. What platform was it?

Do I even have, does that even exist anymore? Did they fold it into another app? God. Anyway, Andor season 2 and then shut it all down. But not before we get the next Star Wars cinematic experience. What is it? Are you asking? Yeah, is it Rian Johnson?

Is it the Daisy Ridley new movie? Is it Patty Jenkins's X-Wing movie? No, it's not that. Is it the one Sean Levy's doing? Kevin Feige was going to do at one point. Are any of these ringing a bell to you? I think. Thank you for giving me options because otherwise I would have no clue. But I would suspect if anything probably the Sean Levy one.

No, it's the Mandalorian and Grogu. Oh yeah. But after that? No, they announced one. This is it. Okay. So they showed footage and we saw Grogu in Beskar armor. There were some some adhats like a little Mandalorian set. Yeah, I guess so Grogu is sticking out adorable There might be Hoth maybe yeah, this is coming out May 22nd That's a new version of Grogu that people can buy my god new armor little armor I'm a grow they can probably do they can probably do pristine beskar armor and battle damaged Beskar armor. Yeah man, that's cool.

This is out, oh you'll love this, May 22nd. Oh I do love that. 2026. I do love that. It's two years away, sort of, a bit less. Okay. And then Star Wars is back. It's Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau, I think is directing.

Dave Filoni is writing. And he does all the mid-tier Star Wars that we love. That's right. He's right down the line. He's not shocking anybody. This makes sense from like, what do people like? What's good? Mandalorian. Yeah, we likes it, I think, didn't we? Some of it. I can't wait till Grogu starts talking. Yeah. And he's just unlikable. That'd be funny. What are you doing? What are you looking at? He's looking at the camera Yeah, yeah, you at home stop looking at me Enough of this

I'm getting drunker go outside get out of the creek Catch a bug in the jaw. Bring me a frog. Bring me a frog and smush it into your TV Give me a job. Bring me a frog. Bring me a frog and smush it into your TV. I was going to say though, if any of those future projects that are almost all going to get cancelled, I would say the Sean Levy one will probably push forward. If only because, yeah, for now because Disney is like, well, I mean, the main reason Deadpool Wolverine did so well was the incredible directing by Sean Levy.

Great. And not that it's a fan favourite character, etc. And it's a team up of two characters that people have wanted to see together for years. Sean Levy also did Night in the Museum and he also did Free Guy and he also did My Dad's in Star Wars and He's from the Future and I'm My Own Dad, Ryan Reynolds. Oh, that's right. He sure did. So these are, they've all done well, actually.

Good track record. Yeah. Then we've got the Ironheart series. We did watch the leaked footage of this. So it says Riri keeping up at MIT while- And keeping up appearances with Hyacinth Bouquet. My goodness. That's right.

It's a new roommate. I hope something uncouth doesn't happen. While writing about a new super bad villain played by Anthony Ramos. You've got an oil on my settee. Oh no. Coffee at 11 Elizabeth. Very specific reference, don't worry about it everybody. It's good.

You know there was only like 18 episodes of that show or something? Only 18 episodes of Keeping Up with the Fierces. Isn't that wild? Yes it is. And only like 10 episodes of Mr Bean. Yeah that's right. You know he's an alien? I got a comment the other day, because we're talking about Michael Bean.

Yes. And we've been calling him Mr. Bean, a great joke that you do. No, you do it. I disowned it. And you. And anyway, listen, listen. And somebody said, I can't believe you didn't make the reference that like Mr. Bean is an alien.

And I'm like, Mr. Bean isn't a fucking alien. What are you talking about? You know the start he drops down from heaven? Apparently he is an alien. In the cartoon he's an alien. Oh. Yeah. So I'm an idiot. And then I can't find that comment. It's gone. So I can't be like, I was wrong. But I didn't say you're an idiot. Sure. I'm going to say it now but I thought it. And then I went, is this guy right? Oh so you were going to do a rare apology in a YouTube comment. I was.

Wow. But it's gone. Well it's too late then. So I can't do it. Probably because you banned him in a YouTube comment. I was. Wow. But it's gone. So I can't do it. Yeah. Probably because you probably banned him in a rage. I probably did. In a blind rage, you're like, delete, ban, block. I mute people. They don't even know. I've got people screaming at me for years.

I haven't seen it. What were we talking about? I forgot. Ironheart. Oh, yeah. The footage. The suit looks better. High synth bouquet.

Yes. I didn't like the Black Panther 2 suit. No, it looked... I didn't like it at all either. It's like a Teletubby or something. I mean the idea behind the Ironheart suit is it's supposed to be a little homemade. It's a little bit kind of and now it looks that way. Yes. So this is post because we get it from the trailer. We got a little some stuff from Wakanda Forever. This is a series by the way. Did I mention that? It is a series. Yes, that's right. and Anthony Ramos is the villain yeah you see the hood don't

know I don't know either neither neither of us know it was in twisters I know that that's so true he was in transformers rise of the beast that I know that too yeah yeah he got recruited by G.I. Joe that's right that we all know that's right now sit in this warehouse just sit so if you have any ideas for anything we can got room. You name a vehicle like in a car, but it's got tank treads or whatever. Sure, sure, sure. We can do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. What did you think of the footage, though? Are you looks fun? I think it had big reshoots at one point as well. OK, I don't know. Yeah, I can't say like that character was in Black Panther. Correct. But like I can't say I've been like, wow, I've been hanging out for more Ironheart. That movie just made me depressed.

Yeah. I do know. That being said, I like the suit. I think the footage is really good. Yeah, it's a real sort of the new suit. Because what happened to a suit at the end of Wakanda? They took it off her. Who did?

Wakanda? Oh, they gave this back. She had the slap-dash one at the start. That's took it off her. Who did? Wakanda? Oh, they're like, give this back. She had the slap-dash one at the start. That's right, yeah. And then she got a slick one. And they're like, no, you have to give this back. Well, I mean, Anthony Ramos is wearing like a hood. Oh.

He's wearing a sort of cloak situation. Oh, that's classic. The hood, probably. But yeah, yeah, and he's got a big box of money. Oh, wow. So he's got a little cloak on. I think he might be the hood. Villainous.

He's got a demonically infused hood. Could be moon tonight. I don't think he's moved tonight. They're making it rain. She's getting up to some crime. So she should be doing that. Do that. But yeah, the new suit gives very sort of Iron Man Mark one suit which is cool. It's got the you know, it's just the best deal. Oh, and of course, she does a truck punch. Oh, yeah. Truck flip. Yeah, that's right. It's got the, you know, it's just the bare steel. Bare steel. Oh, and of course she does a truck punch. Oh yeah, truck flip! Yeah, that's right. Truck flip!

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But again, I appreciate that they've gone, it looks way more like the Mark 1 suit and so it doesn't look nanotech-y. Yeah, absolutely. Which is... Released. I'm just looking at the release date. Okay.

Oh yeah, sometime in 2025. And then we got a leaked trailer also for Daredevil Born Again. That's right. Which has been retooled a lot also. All your faves are back. All your problematic faves. Kingpin, Punisher, Bullseye, White Tiger, Kamala Khan's dad for some reason. Deborah Ann Wall. Yeah. One of the Bash Brothers. Why didn't they take out Kamala Khan's dad? Because of all the crimes he's alleged to have done. That's what I'm saying. I don't know man. Are you sure that's him? That is him. Okay.

Daredevil is defending him. I hope not for real life reasons. But I don't know. Who knows? I don't know specifically about those allegations how far they went. But it just seems like a crazy thing to even put in the trailer. Yeah. To be honest. That's right. Yeah. Other than that it did look good. I like the look of the suit. He still doesn't have the D on his chest the D. You know I but although he does have a series of different cows of different colors over the years. He's got a yellow one, etc Okay. Yeah, you think they're relevant? No, he just has a room full of shit. Sure. He's just a hoarder. Yeah That's probably worth something and they're bulletproof, etc

Yeah, I think this again this was retooled to be initially He's no hoarder. He's no hoarder, yeah. Probably worth something in their bulletproof, etc. I think this again, this was retooled to be, initially it was going to be a different Dare Devil with some stuff that carried over. And then people are like, what about one of the Bash Brothers? What about Debra Anne Walsh? Because they were also I think going to be killed initially. Yeah. But they've retooled this entire thing.

They said, let's start on a real downer. Absolutely. You know those characters you like? Dead. Dead. There's nothing wrong with just being like, yeah, all the daredevil shit happens. Who cares? Yeah.

It doesn't matter anyway. There's a big dude sticking out of the earth. So it's fine. Yeah, it's fine. So this could be good too. Mm. Do you think they're going to reference his She-Hulk episode? The yellow cowl does that already.

That's your work done for you. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, don't have to say anything else. Easy and fixed. Okay. And another trailer for Agatha all along. I think they're going to be like, where's true. Yeah, don't have to say anything else. Easy and fixed. Okay. And another trailer for Agatha All Along. I think they're going to be like, where's your big green girlfriend? And he's going to be like, stop it.

Come on, man. Stop it. Also, she was green? I'm blind. I don't know if you're... She was green? You can't hear the color green? No, I don't think you can. When he said she's green, I know, because he could see at one point, so he wouldn't know green. He would know green. That's correct.

Yeah, cool. Agatha All Along as well. Okay, so he wouldn't know green. He would know green. That's correct. Cool. Agatha All Along as well. Okay. I didn't see this trailer. Yeah, looks good. All right then. Looking forward to it.

Great. That's out in. When's that out? When's that out? Oh, Daredevil's next year. And I think this is a follow-up season, the season after this pretty quickly. Agatha All Along is this year in September. September 18th.

Oh, that's fun. That's fun, isn't it? That's fun. That's soon. That's fun, isn't it? That's fun. That's soon. That is. And then we got footage of Captain America Brave New World. There was a new trailer. And laying it all out on the table. If you like, boy, is that is general president Ross going to become the Red Hulk? Yes, he does. And his hair gets darker. Maybe he dyes his hair behind the presidential podium.

Probably, yeah. Pops up. Yeah. How do you feel about the look at the red hole? Looks cool. I agree. It looks cool. I like how red he is. They didn't dull it down. He's red.

He's not like a dull red. Like you know that sometimes they're afraid to go like all out. He's red. I like it. Could be good. That's from the top. Feige would have pushed for that hard. Make sure he's red.

Oh, it could be good. This could be good. This is coming from me, the top, Kevin Fiege. And we got a look, more of a look at Fantastic Four First Steps. The most important thing, well there's a couple of things. We heard some of the score, and if you heard some of the score, it's very whimsical and 60s and whatever. whatever and yeah that's yes that's yeah pretty much okay and we saw the Austin Powers thing yeah we saw Johnny Storm which has a name I don't know what it is it's called yeah it doesn't matter but Johnny Storm what do you think of the costume the 60s costume it's a spandex I think it'll grow on me. I like it. Yeah. What about the hair? Because that's a wig. We know that because he shaved his head in real life. Also interesting

is that that's a set photo. We've got Evan Moss back rack in the scene. Yeah. But it's clearly post them doing, getting their powers. So he's doing on set. Yeah. Cool. I like the 60s. Oh, well, wouldn't you just, you just love to be like, just, just wandering on set. Yeah. Cool. I like the 60s. Oh, well, wouldn't you just love to be like, just wandering on set, no makeup, no nothing, just showing up two minutes before the start. You'll fix all this, yeah? Yeah, yeah. You'll fix all this. I'm going to be the thing?

You'll put a big rock man over me? Okay. I can even wave my arms like this because the thing CGI is going to like. Yeah, you take all that out. Yeah, it's fine. More work for the visual effects artist, not my problem. Not even a minute of this is my problem. I'm gonna make it harder though.

Yeah. Cool, that's coming, do you want to say July next year as well? You want to say that? I want to say that, but I can't commit to it. Then we got Lilo and Stitch, a little teaser for that, live action, summer 2025, well live action, you know, because the alien's not real. We did get a full trailer for Snow White. Okay, sure. Which actually doesn't look too bad. I'm concerned with huge fans. No white Rachel Ziegler. Oh cool She's not only that mockingbird. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean good luck beating the Daily Wise version that they're making

I mean good luck. Good luck. But uh in that version Snow White's gonna be catching bugs down by the creek. So You know, it's a bit of a tomboy. That's what I want. But not too much of a tomboy. That's exactly right. Yeah. She's going to learn to not be too much of a tomboy. Okay, cool.

Yeah. Lessons alert. Snow White's out March 21st of 2025. Tron Ares. So apparently, this is by Empire Magazine, an Epictron Aries trailer just played to reveal Jared Leto's Aries making his way into our world. Real life like light cycle battles and a cop car being split in half by a light cycle beam. Oh, and Jeff Bridges is back in a messianic mode.

I don't like Jared Leto, but everything else about this- How does he keep getting work? I don't get it. Whose children does he have in his basement? Sure, whose children doesn't he have in his basement? Is the bigger question. So that honestly sounds really cool. Like see flight cycles in the real world.

It sounds good, yeah. And coming through cars. I mean assuming, look, assuming they put as much care and attention as they did in Tron Legacy. Well you might like this then. Because you know, we can't get Daft Punk back. I know they got- Because they're in Jared Leto's basement. Well they got, yes, they got Trent Reznor and Alex Kostros as Nine Inch Nails. That's pretty good.

That is good. That's pretty much as good as you could get. Yeah, they've done a bunch of stuff. They did the social network, some of them. Sure. They did that new Ninja Turtles movie maybe, I think. They did, yeah. Yeah. I love that. I wish I could have seen the footage, some of them. They did that new Ninja Turtles movie maybe. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I love that. I wish I could have seen the footage, honestly.

Yeah, that one, that's been locked down. Nobody got their camera phone out for that, did they? No. Again, one of, it's probably linked by now. Again, aside from the main guy, I like all of that other stuff I like the sound of. And it will bomb, because it's Tron. Yes, absolutely. Yes The Trot movies are just for us. Yeah. Look we've got some we've got some not particularly interesting stills There's Jeff Bridges as Kevin Flynn in good in the Tron universe despite the fact that he exploded in the last one

But you know, he was exploded into dar exploded into data and they did the defrag program on him so he's fine exactly and this is a lady that's a lady who's that that's Big Tron it's not Big Tron I'm Big Tron and there's get I boys I'm Big Tron I think that might be the same lady again but she's got a helmet on so that's dinner? I'm hungry. Is it bits and bytes again? Bloody hell. Can we at least cook it on a barbecue? The Big Tron?

Me? Can I get, can I get a, can we at least get a bloody, bloody pixel art JPEG of a big thing of soup and there's steam coming off the soup. Can we get that? Can I have that? Anything for Big Tron. Can I get a, can I get a pixel art of a steak? The big bone coming out the end?

Yes, Big Trog. And in the, it looks like in the foyer of D23 they did a light cycle. Sick. Looks like it. Looks like the light cycle. Looks like the light cycle. Of all of that, man. And the final thing they showed was a trailer for What If the Lion King but earlier.

Yes. I've just written no thank you. I don't know man. I know the director. Oh Tron Aries preview. Two minutes. Someone said it looks freaking amazing. I'm just going to pause this for now.

So we just watched the trailer for Tron Aries. That's right. A version of the trailer from a long way away. On Twitter. Twitter compression. Weird angle. That's right. On Twitter. Twitter compression. Weird angle. Yeah. Looks pretty good though.

Yeah, we got Evan Peters as some sort of corporate stooge, if I had to guess, and he's like, I guess what gets the future of stuff? It's actually in a computer. It's actually in a computer. I already knew it was in a computer. Surprise. Surprise. Of course the future's a computer.

I know that. You thought the future was real life friendship. Well, it's not. It's in the computer. No, it's not. It's in the computer. Oh, it's a computer. Yeah. And you just told me as well that the reason they cancelled the last version of this was because of Tomorrowland?

Would Wikipedia lie to me? It says here in March 2015 Disney had greenlit the third film, the original version of the third film with Garrett Hedlund who was in the original one. Yeah. Olivia Wilde? Joe Kaczynski. Top Gun Maverick guy. And Olivia Wilde? Joe Kaczynski. Top Gun Maverick guy. And Olivia Wilde.

And then in May it was scrapped and it was stated the reason for the cancellation was the drawl to the box office value of Tomorrowland. Thanks a lot Andrew Stanton or Brad Bird, whoever directed that. Brad Bird it was. We talked about it earlier. Yeah that's right. Wow there you go. Yeah.

Anyways just to get back to the Lion King, which is where the real news is at. That's right. It's a Mufasa prequel. And why did he become the Lion King? Because he's a stray. And Scar adopted him and said, you're my brother. Oh, I thought it was the other way around. No, I think.

And then they grow up together, but then they have a falling out. Wow. It's basically the same thing that happens in that new Transformers movie. Where they're brothers, but're enemies. That's so true Yeah, enemy brothers to enemies trope. I could see why scarves. Yeah, I could see why scar would be upset though So he's the rightful. Yeah, turns out he is. You sure you sure you weren't looking at the best have done something wrong Yeah, I think that's what happened. Was that not what happened? I thought scar was the adopted kid. Let's check it out Okay, what's it called? The lion King Mufasa? Yeah, man Was that not what happened? I thought Scar was the adopted kid. Let's check it out.

What's it called? The Lion King Mufasa? Yeah man. Anyway, I would say in its favour, I think the character animation makes them look a little bit more lively than they were in the original Lion King, which was just animals. You're right, I was wrong. Thank you. Mufasa was a young prince who would go on to become the future king and

Taka who becomes Scar, a young prince and adoptive brother of Mufasa. That's right. Then he needs to get over it. I think that would have been way funnier if he was the real kid. Also Scar isn't particularly flamboyant in this trailer. No, what's going on? I wanted to see the origin of you know, ooh. Hello., boys. You know, so on. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but not too much because it's Disney. That's correct. You know, you would have walked out live.

Yeah. That's out in December of this year, which I know you're excited for. I'm not. I'm not interested. And that's D23. Huzzah. Did you enjoy it? I mean, we did see most of it through a very bad Twitter compression video.

But just some of the announcements, you know? Some of the stuff. I liked that Tron announcement. I liked some of that Marvel stuff. I liked that Tron Ares is happening. Absolutely. I liked that Ironheart is happening. Do you like Frozen 3 is happening?

I liked the fact that there was no Armour Wars mentioned at all. Oh yeah, or Blade. Oh yeah. It's only been five years. It's only been five years. Exactly. Alright, should we move it along? Let's move it along. Oh, before we get into it, I just need to mention there's more shows. I'm going overseas, Mason, to do some shows with myself and Plumbing the Death Star, two of them. It's a blend of The Weekly Planet slash Plumbing the Death Star. That sounds simply wonderful. It will be wonderful, Mason. It's the Simply Wonderful Tour.

That's what it's called. Yeah, that's right. So this is what I got from Joel Zammet, who's organizing specifically. See, in Birmingham there are tickets available at the SansPants site, even though the Glee website says it's sold out. That's good to know. Good start. Manchester on the second night, those are

50% sold out also. The first night's already sold out and Edinburgh's second show is also 50% sold out on the second night. But there are shows, there are tickets available. Also Birmingham, they came on later. So maybe they're just 50% sold in general. I don't know. So look, it'll be linked below. If you want to come the London stuff? There is a show we're doing But fuck this up. Mason's all over the place. Look you try and buy a ticket for the show You know either either will be completely packed and there'll be just just a great vibe or there'll be enough room to push some Of the chairs aside you can like play play like indoor cricket. Yeah For that you have a great time. A great time regardless.

So there's a live Plumbing the Death Star in London which is happening. That's the first show that we're doing that I think there's still tickets available. And then again, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, not necessarily in that order. If you're in any of those places or can get to, it's linked below if you do want to check it out. Mm-hmm. I used to say, I just feel stuck. Stuck where I don't want to be. Stuck trying to get to where I really need to be. But then I discovered lifelong learning. Learning that gave me the

skills to move up, move beyond, gain that edge, drive my curiosity, prepare me for what is inevitably next. The University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Lifelong learning to stay forever unstuck. Bordelands is here. First got announced in like 2011 or initial talk started happening. I'll stop you there. More like Boredomlands. Anyway, back to the thing. Okay, sorry. Thank you. Just a little preview What's the way this review is gonna go? Yes, absolutely on a budget of 120 million dollars. Let me tell you I got him

Continue it looks like it's gonna have a 15 million US opening sounds bad, which is bad This is these are bad numbers for a very expensive movie. So look people are not excited about this It started with a 0% on rotten tomatoes. That's right, but it's kids climate. It's got it's at 6% What do you think the story was? Oh, come on, mate. Come on. All right, you're a big fan of the games I'm not at all. There am I is there three of them? Yeah, there's three of them and other ones this spin-off Okay, I know there's a tiny Tina something something. There is, etc. Which is a character in this movie. Yes.

I'll tell you this. Boy, you better believe there's a planet out there. And it's a rough and tumble planet. How do you get there? I guess a spaceship. You just get a spaceship. Maybe a hyperspace or whatever. It's unclear.

But boy, it's rough and tumble. You'd be like, why would anybody live there? Well, there's a vault there. Why would anybody go to a Borderlands? Anyway, in the vault, allegedly, there's stuff beyond your wildest dreams. There might be a squid. There might be a squid or some floating boxes or whatever. You know, stuff that could change the universe.

Or not. Yeah, maybe you just don't. I don't know, maybe. But everybody wants in. But nobody can get in. There's no clue. It's been decades. There's been, there's some clues, but nobody can figure it out. It's hard to get into.

Yeah. The Tomatometer, James, is at up to 9%. Whoa! And it's a 51% audience. They flipped that six upside down. 51% audience score, so it's passed. That's not true. What do you mean?

That's, no one's doing that. No, I know. I'm just saying, I'm just giving you the raw numbers, James. Giving you the raw numbers. Do you think that's the border fans? Yes. No, here's the thing. If you're a fan of the games, you don't like this. I've heard that. If you're not a fan of the games, it's not interesting or it doesn't make any sense in terms of like a new IP or anything like that. I don't know, James, because according to audience member DJ, with a little tick next to his name, so that's a verified audience review. super awesome movie

Love the little ties to the game they threw in there would have loved to see everybody use a little of their abilities But there's always room for a part two. No, there isn't Wow I'm closing the door on that right now Also kind of sucked if you played Borderlands 2 you kind of know what's going to happen But at the same time was amazing seeing it happen in movie form, but it kind of sucked is what he said, right? I mean, I mean, that's the subtext, isn't it? Yeah. Wow.

This sucks. But not in an interesting way. In a boring way. I wish it was more compelling in a boring way, in a bad way. I was going to say it, but I mean, the only way to find the secrets of

the vault is you've got to get together a Guardians of the Galaxy style. Yes. And there's musical stings. and one of them even is little Gamora. She played Oh, yeah Gamora in endgame or whatever. But like god, just though This is the worst kind of movie for me because it's just from a production standpoint. I would say design wise it's not awful I think some of the action is fine. There's a shootout in a cave. I think in watching this I didn't give enough credit to the action sequences in Deadpool.

Completely agree. Which I thought were quite bad. In retrospect with you know the entire cast and crew of Deadpool and Wolverine releasing clips of that movie on the internet in 4k quality. I'm like oh remember actually Gambit got quite a decent action. So I was always for that I'll say that here first. Okay, but a lot of this was not yeah, right at all No, we get so we get we get Kate Blanchett as Lilith who's a bounty under who's from here She's from this is the same age as her mom or something doesn't want to come back, but she has to come back She's been she's been my spoilers No one's seeing this man I reckon we can do five minutes without spoilers five minutes yes god the

borderheads out there you know the landos borderline bloody borderline bloody bloody anyway Kevin Hart is a guy yep he's from the games I think people hate it cuz Roland's big and stoic, but he's small and kind of stoic and not interesting. What is interesting as well, I thought that it's at least- Is it something in the movie or is it something external to the movie? It's something external to the movie. Somebody has a review metric, I can't remember who it is, who said, would you rather watch

the movie or would you rather watch the people in the movie just having a conversation? And I think I would rather have that. I saw- That's correct. I don't know if that saw that's an even or a Cisco or it's somebody else. But it's somebody like, would you rather see the movie or just like hang out with the people and they have a chat or whatever? I watched a video of Kevin Hart and he was talking about his watch collection. It was like, this guy's quite interesting. Yeah. But I was going to say, Kevin Hart, this is for me, at least this is a rare Kevin Hart performance where he's not like an incompetent boob. Kind of like he's an actual, he's a competent soldier and he's kind of like interesting and nobody's like,

you're a little guy and you're no good or whatever. I feel like he's not really in it that much. No. I mean, he's in it. What I would also say is that I think everybody in this has been promised that if this becomes a bit, when this becomes a big franchise, they're going to have a big, they're going to have big expanded roles. So obviously no one can die in this has been promised that if this becomes a bit when this becomes a big franchise Yeah, they're gonna have a big they're gonna have big expanded roles. So obviously no one can die in this. No, absolutely Yeah, I mean no spoilers though. Right? Yeah, sure sure sure. Yeah, just a bit of background

So yeah, do you mind if I just do a bit of breakdown of how this how we got here? So discussions began in 2011 then nothing happened and then in 2015 Lee Warnall came on board to write and direct Okay, and then he wasn't mentioned ever again. But then it was said it's going to be R-rated. Then Eli Roth, who ended up directing it, came on board in 2020. And it was written by Craig Mazin. Who did Chernobyl and The Last of Us. And some garbage, a lot of garbage. He's also written a lot of garbage. But good stuff, exclusively recently. His work was rewritten and he was quoted as saying,

I am not a credited writer on the film, so I cannot claim any kind of authorship on Borderlands much less co-writing. Filming began in August of 2021. Randy Pitchford released a video where he held everybody hostage on set. Is he a, he's the guy from Gearbox guys. The Gearbox guys, a real ordinary bloke. Tim Miller also- In a good way. No. Like a real salt of the earth guy. Oh that's a shame.

Tim Miller then who directed Deadpool 2 and terminated Dark Fate. He did two weeks of reshoots in January of 2023. Because he lied Roth was busy or something. Yeah he was doing Thanksgiving or whatever but also I feel like they might have just pushed him out. I don't know. And that's how we got here. Okay.

And again, I knew this was not going to be any good. I mean I'd heard it wasn't but at the start it's like. Hey hey hey don't spoil it. Yeah, we'll give out Give out true thoughts at the end. It was like the start is Kate Blanchett's like long ago There was an alien race that ruled the whatever and they were pieces of this and we had to I think if you have to get somebody to do some really gotta get the vault and the most special person in the universe has To open the vault and it's probably this girl But it's not and I didn't know who the person was gonna be because vault and it's probably this girl but it's not.

And I didn't know who the person was going to be because they said it had to be someone from that planet who was special. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who's just got like special instincts and just knows stuff. Yeah, and like, yeah. Like, you know, life was kind of revolved around this planet and this vault. I didn't figure it out until they did it at the end though. Yeah, it's cast weirdly.

And I don't just mean like because they're all a hundred years old. It's not reflective of the video game counterparts apparently, but also if you take that all out, they don't mesh. Like, and there's supposed to be these like heartwarming moments even between like the little girl and Cate Blanchett, but I don't, it's just, and they're not even, they're not bad. I wouldn't even say anybody's bad. Is anybody bad in this? Because I don't think so. No, but nothing about this. There's no, there's no, there's not even one like action set piece where you go, oh wow, that was really cool.

What about the bit where that woman turned into a bird? I guess, sure. I mean, you don't see that a lot these days, do you? You don't. You really don't. There's a political correctness gone there. Yeah. And there's a robot and days. You don't. You really don't. Political correctness gone mad. Yeah.

And there's a robot and etc. Also, it's not funny. It's not funny or fun. Correct, yes. And I don't have really, I don't know why. I don't know. Because there are jokes in it. And the funniest thing is probably the robot voiced by Jack Black.

Clap trap? Yeah. The only comment I have about clap trap is I thought the 3D model is quite good. It does look quite authentic, but I did see a tweet from somebody. Funny you mentioned that, Mason. Are you going to bring that up? Is it a tweet from somebody who said they worked on the model for five months and then they didn't get any credit in the movie?

Exactly. So Robbie Reed, who goes by the helpful handle, Robbie Reed the rigger, says that he worked on rigging from the movie's clap trap for a model for five months straight, the process which essentially gave a CG model a skeleton that the animators can manipulate. It is obviously a crucial job and when it comes to Claptrap, we're talking about arguably the most, Borderlands most recognizable figure. He said, this time three years ago I was rigging the CG asset of Claptrap for the Borderlands movie.

I worked on him for five consecutive months. Neither I nor the artist who modeled him, who I worked with the entire asset of claptrap for the Borderlands movie I worked on him for five consecutive months neither I know the artist who modeled him who I worked with the entire time got a credit for the film Yeah, that's actually a thing that works in this movie. Um Aesthetically, like you said, I think like that there's some like the what the it looks it looks like the game And and sets and stuff happening. Yeah, like markets and bazaars and rocky outcroppings and whatever, big vehicles. And you know, sometimes- But some of the vehicles are just cars. At one point they're like, oh, we're all wanted criminals, but we've got to go into this bazaar.

Better put on these sort of neon masks that nobody else is wearing. And also everybody's like, aren't you that person I saw earlier? And they're like, yeah, no, I am. Bobby Lee? Is he in this? Bobby Lee's in it very briefly. Just look on the Borderlands Reddit. Here's just some titles. This one says, please, you know, watch this movie. This one says this movie is such a weird missed opportunity. This one says the CG artist, but a model, whatever, didn't get whatever. This one said

my biggest wish issue with the movie are the guns. Yeah, like the guns are a huge part of the game, right? And yeah, there's like an infinite variety of guns, different stuff. Sure, sure, sure. This one says just saw the film, please kill me. This one said that Like the guns are a huge part of the game right? Yeah there's like an infinite variety of guns, they all do different stuff. This one says just saw the film please kill me. This one said that movie was horrible. I mean I might not be talking about Borderlands. This one said they Dragon Ball evolutioned my Borderlands. These are all good things Mesa that's happening on the Borderlands website.

Just some additional notes on the cast. So we've got Edgar Ramirez as Atlas who is the Borderlands website. They are good, aren't they? Just some additional notes on the cast. So we've got Edgar Ramirez as Atlas, who is the ostensible villain. He's the head of the big corporation. Oh yeah. He's the one who hires Lilith to go back to the Borderlands planet, Pandora. She's Peter Quill, because she's special like Peter Quill. Oh, that's true. Anyway, he's not very interesting.

No. It's just fine. But he does have a hologram face at one point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we've got Florian Muntianu. He's young, he's Little Creed in Creed 2 and 3. Oh yeah, he is. Oh no, he's Little, he's Little,

Drago. Little Drago, yeah, yeah, yeah. We get Jamie Lee Curtis as she's in it also. And then as you mentioned, Ariana Greenblatt. So she's a little Gamora, and she's also, she's the little girl in 65. Oh yeah. Yeah, I cannot get a handle on child actors. I think it's because they- The wigs.

What's the wigs? But it's also like- She was green in one movie. Yeah, yeah. And she's also in something else. Something else we've seen. But yeah, she's fine. Sassy, you know? Sure. Bit of sass. Bit of sass, yeah. I can't, I don't know. It's fascinating, isn't it?

As I understand it, Kate Blanchett signed onto this because she'd worked with Eli Cuth before. Yeah. With House with the Clock and its Walls. Okay. But she signed on during COVID because apparently it was like, she was expecting to be green screen or whatever, but they're like, no, it's going to be real. So it's real.

You know, everything's going to be real. And she's like, that sounds exciting. I love it. I love real things. Um, and, uh, I can see, but you can see how there's potential here. Right? Like other stuff of the scene of the games, like it's not really my thing. Like humor wise, I think, like, I don't think I could sit through hours and hours of this, but people obviously enjoy them.

So I think there is obviously something here and people were looking to see a version of that. Oh, Ariana, Ariana Greenblatt is also America for Aria's daughter and Barbie. Oh yeah! See? Right. I don't know what kids are up to. I don't know. It's right. What are they up to? I don't know. Just being in movies, I guess.

Just being in lots of movies. Yeah. Anyway, we're going to do some spoilers. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Worst movie ever. Yeah. It's, you know. It's flat. It is flat. Yeah. Flat, it's, you know. It's flat. It is flat, yeah.

Flat. The action is not memorable. Nobody ever feels like they're in any real danger. There's no heart in it. I mean, there's Kevin Hart, but there's no heart in it. It's like, I'm a clone and my dad hates me and blah blah blah. Who cares? How busy was your cinema?

For me, it was me and another guy. And I paid $31 because I had to go to a D-box. Oh I only paid $9.70 because I had Hoyt's points. Fuck you man. Spent so much on this. It's my weekly budget. I was going to say, no groceries for the family. No? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, worst movie ever for you?

Yeah, I'm afraid so. Yeah. It's a shame isn't it? I mean at least we all know from the start that we everybody on in the world said that this was going to be bad and then it was. We all knew. And that's true. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, spoilers.

Spoilers. Okay, so anyway, the clone because. Okay, so here's the thing. Okay, here's the thing. So the only way so there's supposedly this vault. Is there lots of vaults in Borderlands? Or am I thinking of Fallout? It's not important.

I mean, Fallout, people are saying this, people are saying this Mason. Fallout is a perfect example how to adapt something where you might not have done things exactly but you get the essence of what the thing is. And I feel like this could have been that. But it's not as this. So there's a guy, Atlas, he Atlas he owns the Atlas corporation big Galactic corporation And he wants he wants to get in this he wants to find this vault And he wants to unearth the secrets of the vault which is tentacle monsters and floating cubes

Yeah, but the only way to get in is you need to find two keys, and then you also have to have there's a prophecy They just throw that in there's a prophecy that somebody from this planet is or somebody who's special is the third key. Once you have the three keys, you can unlock the vault and get access to all the cubes and whatever. But also you turn into a bird. Yeah. And so Atlas has a drop of blood. A drop of blood. Yeah, here's a drop of blood that he thinks is the correct DNA to create one of these special persons. For some reason. So he clones a little girl.

Why would it be? Ari, which is Tiny Tina. Yeah, but why would it be? I don't know, man. Could be anyone's blood. Yeah, could be, exactly. And so, but then Kevin Hart rescues her and takes her to the planet of Pandora, which is a bad call. You take her anywhere else.

Yeah. Also, you'd probably, if you don't want them to access this vault, you'd just destroy one of the two keys. Yeah. You know, great, great point. All right. Nobody could get to it. Yeah.

Um, but then it turns out that actually the, uh, the, the real child of whatever it is who can access the vault is actually Lilith. 55 year old Kate Blanchett. You can just, can just now she's also got teleport powers. At one point, they're all in a bit of a pickle and then it turns out one of them can teleport. I think it's tiny Tina. But then it's actually Lilith who did it. She turns into a bird. Well, I was going to... James, James, James, James, James, James, James. How it's supposed to work is the prophecy says that when they get the two keys and the person and they go to the vault then the everything is consumed and then the

vault is open so it's like well whoever opens the vault is they're gonna die yeah it's gonna be a big sacrifice but then it turns out to be Kate Blanchett and then that actually just doesn't happen because she turns into a big flamie bird and then she's got flamie superpowers and she fights a spaceship yep sort of Captain Marvel style, but not as interesting. And then, but then she goes into the vault with the villain, because he grabs his clone daughter and then he's like, I'm going to kill you in this vault unless you... You have any sort of powers over the vault?

Yeah, give me all the technology. But then there's a squid in the vault. There is a squid in the vault. And the squid gets him. And then she goes, well, now that we've been in the vault, The squid gets him. Yeah, that's right. And then she goes, well now that we've been in the vault, Yep. Everybody's stopped fighting. That's right, everybody have a-

Nobody's interested in the vault anymore. Everybody have a big planet wide party in fireworks and stuff. No one's gonna kidnap my friends and make me open the vault or whatever again. That's right, yeah. It's over. Yeah, I'll just leave my garden completely. No one cares about the vault anymore.

Anyway, me and Tiny Tina are sisters or mother and daughter or something. That's right, and there's swelling musics and fireworks and it really feels unearned. Would everybody be happy with that? Yeah. As an ending? I think everybody was very happy with it. I mean, that planet now is like, it's useless.

There's nothing, like there's nothing there, right? Now that if the thing is done, they'll all just leave? What about maybe in a sequel they have to save the rec center? That's a good point. Yeah, isn't it though? Yeah, I don't know man. Just, God, I don't know. Was it cut down?

It went two hours at least. It did go for two hours. Was there a mid credits? I think there was. There's a mid credits, but I can't remember what it is. It's nothing. I remember reading it was nothing. Whatever it was.

Anyway, while you're probably looking that up, this is from RC Dominion on Twitter who says, just saw Borderlands and it's nothing. I remember reading it was nothing. Whatever it was. Anyway, while you're probably looking that up, this is from RC Dominion on Twitter who says, just saw Borderlands and it was terrible. No chemistry between the characters, not even one funny joke. Worst movie ever. Russell Michaels says, Borderlands wasn't terrible. Shocker of all shockers, it kept a brisk pace. It didn't overstay its welcome. With little real knowledge of the series, it was okay. It could have been far worse. Mid. John Corner, this is from the Planet Broadcasting Great Mates group says, I just got out of Borderlands and my God is a dreadful disclaimer. I only watched you to make fun of it with friends. We sat at the back and wrote notes on our phones so we weren't talking.

And this is from Shay Fox who says, definition of just a movie. Now I said this last week, I think the idea was because Eli Roth and James Gunn, they have a similar background in kind of horror and making grubby movies. Yeah, and I thought this would be sort of grubby crossover. Yeah, I think this is his guardians, basically. But it's, it's a bad movie. I think a lot of this was tinkered with as well. And interfered with by the studio. I mean, just judging by the reshoots and how many people came and went, which isn't necessarily

uncommon on a project. But I think I feel like somebody taking their name off the writing staff. That is pretty significant, right? Yeah, that's a real Alan Smithy move. It really is. And there's another guy, I think his name was Peter Crombie and Craig Mazin had to say, no, that's not my pseudonym, that's a different guy. Yeah, that's somebody else's pseudonym or a real person.

That's right. I honestly don't know. Okay, so the mid-credits sequence, Clap Trap in the credits. And he's there and he's sort of like, hey everybody, I'm back. And then the credits roll up and he's like, no, I'm going up with the credits. That's good. It's good, isn't it? Yeah. Well, and are you looking forward to coming back to this universe? No. No. And we won't, surely. It's not doing well and everyone hated it.

Who knew? I mean everyone knew and they were right. Yeah. All right. Should we move it along to literally anything else? Yeah. Nobody even gets like just one moment each. You'd think that each can- I mean, Kevin Hart gets like a sacrifice sacrifice but then he just shows up again. It felt very much- The big guy gets his mask smashed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They kinda do but they're not- But they're not interesting hero moments. No. And we, you know, again, there's not- Tiny Tina throws bombs. There's not a vibe that anybody is gonna die ever and they don't. And they don't. So-

There's gonna be nine movies. Nine movies. Alright, next thing but what is it? It's what we read. Whoa. What we gonna be nine movies. Nine movies. Alright, next thing but what is it? It's what we read. Whoa. What we gonna read. Whoa. I'm doing the thing. What are we reading today?

What have you been reading? Oh, there's a new season of the Umbrella Academy. Have you started yet? I have, yeah. And? Good, still good. Yeah, I gotta watch that. Final season, right?

Four season, final season, six episodes. So short season. And I reckon they're probably gonna have to prevent the destruction of all reality again. Oh wow. I guess, yeah. Okay, well I look forward to that. So it's all the characters you know and love. I really enjoy the Umbrella Academy. I am shocked they finished it. Right, and again, I've said somebody at Netflix must be... I say this like the Umbrella Academy isn't a streaming success. I don't know if millions of people watch it or like, you know, there's just, you know, but there's no, in the, in the, in the world of streaming, there's no guarantee that even

if something is very popular, that it sticks around. So I think somebody in one of the Netflix higher ups is a fan of this series or a fan of Gerard Way or a fan of the people in it, or maybe they just get along really well with the people in it, or maybe they just get along really well with the people. Maybe you just need some things to continue. Yeah, maybe. Just looks better for the brand if they finish some stuff. Or I mean, maybe it's one of the rare things that, you know, maybe it is one of those things

that actually works with the algorithm where people go, oh, Umbrella Academy, I'll subscribe to watch that. They subscribe, they watch it immediately, and then it's somehow ticked over the line. But yeah, it's a good series. I enjoy the premise. I enjoy that it's not totally bound to the comic book series, so they can really do whatever they want.

All the characters are good. But if you recall the last season, they had to reset reality, and they lost all their powers by the end of it. But at the start of this season, there seems to be a sort of a conspiracy group of people who have started to cotton on to the fact that reality is being rewritten. Like it hasn't taken entirely. There's like little artifacts from the previous universe.

And so it's Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally are the head of this sort of... Oh, are they back from the previous season or is this a new... This is new. Were they not in the previous season? I think so. Cool. And they're a couple in real life. They are a couple in real life. And they're sort of the head of this group that wants to get back to the original reality. So cool. David Cross is also in this.

Oh, I didn't know that either. Good names. Well, I finished House of the Dragon season two. Oh, let me tell you. Yes. No. Why then? Why did you do it? Just no. I didn't even know it was out and finished. Production began of Bruguin's on the next season, by the way, in 2025. So at the very least, that's coming out early 2026. Okay. So that's at least two years away. Also, this season was clearly cut from 10 episodes to eight. Well, it was and you can feel that. But I just like watching this and there's some cool like dragon stuff. There's a bit where they go into a dragon pit and like the dragon just kills a bunch of people.

It's great stuff. But if you think back to like the peak of Game of Thrones, which was some of Game of Thrones, every interaction meant something. Every character was somebody's favorite. You'd cut to somebody else and you wouldn't be like, boo. But this is just cutting to different people and I'm just like, boo. But it never cuts to a person that I like. Interesting. It's just not compelling. Characters make strange decisions. You say that, but you've watched it in a tie since.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, Mason. I don't know. I also skipped the credits at the start. I never used to do that with Game of Thrones. I'd just let it wash over me and be like, wow, I'm so jazzed for Game of Thrones. It's just rambling.

It also kind of ends where the first season ended. We're just kind of back where we were. It's just not very good. Well, see, that's interesting. I mean, speaking of the Umbrella Academy, that a lot of, you know, several of the seasons have sort of ended up back where they were, but it's the difference in that the characters are very compelling and funny. You like their interactions. And the characters themselves move forward. But a lot of the things that, like, Matt Smith's character spent the entire season,

and this is not an exaggeration. Eating a soup? No, basically, yeah. He wandered around like a haunted castle having dreams. And then at the end he came back to his wife and he was like, I pledge my loyalty to you. And it's like, yeah, dude, you've married. Like we know that.

That happened last fucking season. Just, I don't know. I think also like if Game of Thrones wasn't like so good at one point, then this would be more appealing. Is it correct that House of the Dragon has exactly the same theme tune? Yes. Is that true? Lazy.

I do skip it. Right. But I think it's the same, yeah. So look, I'll probably continue watching it in 2026 or whatever when this comes out. With any luck you'll be dead by then Oh my god fingers crossed. God willing Mason But so that's what I've been watching shipping it and then Lord of the Rings starts this week and then I can watch another show that I'm not really into and

The my folks this is a call to action. Let's find James the thing that he likes that he can watch Maybe I could watch the wire for the first time watch the way I see at the moment am re-watching The Last of Us. Okay. Which is terrific. And season two is coming out soonish? Ah yeah at some point. It's a great wish Mason. Isn't it though? Let me find out for you. But while I'm finding it out, what are you doing? Watch The Wire. I will. I mean I did finish The Sopranos. It's as relevant today as it was when it came out and when I was watching it on Channel 9 at 4 in the morning. Oh my god It says season 2 will premiere sometime in 2025. God damn it. There was footage of it released recently though Yeah, so that's cool. Okay, but again, I didn't love the second game as much though

Like the first one but I feel like the first season even did some things better than the game So I think this and Nick Offerman for example. Nick free golf and that's a great episode. Love that episode. All right. Let us Yeah, let's do letters. Wow. If you don't want to reach the show you can simply hashtag Weekly Planet Pod on Twitter or you can tweet me directly at MrSundayMovies or send Nick Mason a Gmail at weeklyplanetpodatgmail.com. That's me! Would you like me to read a tweet or would you like to read a letter? I'll read a letter.

Alright then. This is from Evan. Evan? What's up James and Mace? What's up Evan? I'veace? What's up, Evan? I've been listening to the pod for a long time and a big fan. How long? It doesn't say.

I recently ran the Pittsburgh Marathon, which was my first race that long. It was really horrible. Just about the only bright spot was listening to the prequel trilogy's Caravan of Garbage compilation. It was the only thing that kept me alive. Oh, thank you. Thanks, Pod. My question is about the Olympics.

I know you two pretend to be Australian. Since the Aussies have been having a good Olympics Have you been watching do you two have a favorite event? Yes, we do. Yes. It's the break dance It's the perfect time in which Australia fielded a woman in her mid-30s named ray gun Who achieved no points? She's our Eddie the eel. Yep. Absolutely. That's right. I'm edible She's apparently a PhD in like breakdancing or something. I've seen people I know in real life breakdance better than this. Yeah, it's crazy, right?

It really is. And bearing in mind, I don't move in these circles. No. Just some people you know who get drunk and are in a car park and they're like, look at this, I'm popping a locket. And you're like, that's not bad actually. Yeah, it's pretty good. It's not Olympic level obviously, but it turns out it is. But this is like, this was like a toddler showing their parents a dance they learned. Like, look at me. I'm flipping and I'm rolling. Now remind me again, how many points did Ray Gun get?

Zero. Out of 54 or something like that. 54? 54? Anyway, so this person is apparently and allegedly like some sort of PhD in cultural studies or something like that. Right. I don't know.

I want to do a full report on it next week. I'm going to get all the details. But as I understand it, they did. They're just like an enthusiast. An enthusiast, but I don't know how they got this. Like there's some footage of her winning the qualifying heats and there are people in it who are better than her. So I don't know how they got this.

That was, because you tell me this and that was confusing because I assumed that in Australia, the Olympic judges for that, for who gets to the Olympics, because it's a new event, didn't know that this isn't good. But it turns out that that's not the way that they found... Like I think even if you just, even if you didn't know anything about break dancing, you'd look at an array of them and go, that one's the best. That one's doing more head spins. Yeah, right?

Yeah. That one's wearing a better Adidas tracksuit. Really good stuff though. Really good. Are we still third in the tally? We might be. Australia is obsessed with per capita wins. We don't win the most gold medals, but you go, well actually if...

25 million people. That's actually a percentage. We actually win the most medals. We've actually won the most. We are actually the victors of the Olympics. Yeah, but everybody does that in their own country. Sometimes they do it by how many medals in total. Everybody tweaks it.

Anyway, Australians love swimming. But We're losers in the athletics. Correct. It's not always that's true. We won some of them. And by we, I mean, I mean, recently, but yes, Kathy Freeman, who I saw once at a hot spring. Well, but yeah, I didn't watch the last one because I had a one year old. And I think it was in Covid. It would have been.

And I didn't watch the one before that because I had a one year old or I did watch was in COVID, it would have been. And I didn't watch the one before that because I had a one year old. Or I did watch it and I don't remember. Sure, absolutely. So I hadn't really watched it since like 2012 and I've been watching this one with my kids. You know, highlights and some of the live stuff. All the big main events are at like 5 a.m. so I didn't get up for that.

But other than that, yeah. You've been watching some? I mean, the break dancing obviously. Obviously just the break dancing, yeah. That's the highlight, sure. Yeah, did you watch the pole vault? With guy that failed? Cause his dong was too big. Yeah, I did say that. Yeah. Yeah. Which is the better outcome. Honestly, completely agree. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, cause you know, I mean the winner, the actual winner who's,

who's that? We don't even know. We don't know. Well, that's the thing. I mean, also like it's, it's the, you know, obviously if you, if you're an Olympian, you want to, you know, you're there to get gold and be at the pinnacle of your field. But I mean, realistically, what you actually want is you want endorsement deals and like viral success and whatever. Absolutely. Like I think that I think the is Ray Gunn, I think she's probably going to get like a like a breakfast radio gig. Absolutely. She's probably going to host Australia's Got Talent with Kyle Sanderlans. And she'll come out and do a break dance at the start of every show. Or like the guy from Turkey who won the shooting, who's just a guy who showed up hand in pocket. He's like, that guy, what's his deal?

You know he was like pulling a cigarette out. That's why he's had his hand on a packet of cigarettes. He's got his hand on his lucky pack of cigs. Yeah. That's right. God, just oddbods. That's what I like. They should have the Olympics but oddbods. Which I guess it is still.

Well isn't there a guy who is a billionaire and he's running the enhanced Olympics? Isn't that happening soon enough? Oh is that happening? Or is it like take all the drugs you want? We'll see how this goes. Yeah that's pretty much the Olympics but yeah. Wow. Anyway thank you for this goes. Yeah, that's pretty much the Olympics. But yeah.

Wow. Anyway, thank you for the email. You're welcome. This is from Gran Toriano who says, Marvel fucked, unfortunately, fucked up Kang dynasty. Every movie should have ended with a two to three minute little end cutscene showing a different badass Kang or an ultimate Kang making moves monitoring timelines. Just my thoughts. That's an odd cerebral idea.

Agreed. Yeah. Agreed. Build great build up more I mean we've really it's also kind of lucky they didn't yeah yeah yeah yeah because they'd have to be do a post credit for it's like never mind no we thought important they all got a lasered yeah I mean we've got to figure out what the secret of the ten rings is yeah and the secret of his Marvel's bangles yes that's right they're linked the. They're gonna have to go into Doctor Doom's chair or whatever or his armor or something. And another dimension. And another dimension. And another dimension. He's gonna need them to make Battleworld. He's gonna need the ten rings. Give me the rings. You know. Old Maker Battleworld. Where's Shang-Chi's dad? Give me the rings.

Exactly. Wait, he died. Where's the ring? Oh, Shang-Chi has the rings. He's got the rings. Give me the rings. Are they quantum bound? Yes. I'll need them. Well, you can't have them. We're going to have to kung fu fight. Got another letter, Mason?

This one from Ben. Yeah. In fact, his two emails, this one's from Ben and Sebastian. They're linked together, James. Wow. So Ben says, hello, Nick Mason, another man. That's you.

Hello. With the upcoming release of the highly anticipated Reagan 2024, are there any Aussie icons, political or cultural, you'd want to seek at a high budget biographical film? And so Sebastian has said, I'm very sorry to hear about the passing of Jack Carlson. He was a national treasure and I know meant so much

to you two. Hope you're staying strong this time. Trying time. Tonight I will be having a succulent Chinese meal in his honor. Yes, for those people who don't know, just Google YouTube succulent Chinese meal. You've probably seen it. It's got a million views. But it's worth looking. It's a man in the 80s who apparently made a habit of dining and dashing, which I do

not endorse. And other things. Yeah. And other, oh really? Well not that, but like, he's got a colourful history I think. But he's um... Finally the law catches up with him. That's right, and he's being bundled away into a police van. Except it turns out, he's the strongest man in Australia.

That's right. And also the funniest. Yeah, and very theatrical. Yeah. I'm not assuring anything. I'm's right. And also the funniest. Yeah. And very theatrical. Yeah. Get your hand off my penis! This is the bloke who got me on the penis before. Why did you do this to me? For what reason? What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

Oh, that's some nice headlocks up. Ah, yes. I see that you know your judo well. And you, sir, are you waiting to receive my limp penis? Now get your hands off me. I've only got one cup. Tazza and Bewer. Sorry, sorry.

One cup, look. I mean, that's all I'll say, but I would, yeah, I think they might actually be working on a succulent Chinese meal guy biography because he just passed away. Better him than Chopper, you know what I mean? Sure. Guy's not doing as crook stuff. That's exactly right.

Yeah. Stephen Bradbury, the guy who stood up. Yeah, that's true. Speaking of Olympics. Yeah. I mean, Cathy Frankel. People make fun of Stephen Bradbury, but he like... That was his technique.

His goal was to hang back a little bit and maybe get a medal because he knew some people would fall over. And it turns out they all fell over. Also he qualified for the Olympics. Exactly, he got in the Olympics. With speed skating, not break dancing. What other local legends do we have? Ooh, let me think.

Kerry Packer? Yeah, local legend, absolutely. They did a TV series about him. Yeah, Mur? Yeah, local legend, absolutely. They did a TV series about him. Yeah, Murdoch, local legend. Yeah. Aunty Jack. Aunty Jack, these are good ones. Albu Mangles.

Albu Mangles, still alive probably. Yep. Barry Humphries. Barry Humphries, sure one of the greats. Alvin Purple. Alvin Purple, fictional, sure. Con the Fruit-a-Rot. Yep, that's right.

Yeah. He apparently still does it. He goes to corporate events. Yeah, I told you that. No, I'm joking. That's... I would love to be there. I would love to see it. Yeah.

Is that all of them? That all our legends? That's all our legends, I think. Again, just a pack of oddbods. Those are my favorite legends. Zig and zag, the Moomba clowns. Well, one of them, not as much as the other one. Correct, yes.

Yeah. For reasons. Great stuff. Got this from Sebastian Alexander who says, by the way, the extended cuts of Rebel Moon are basically the same but slightly more boring. Hashtag weekly planner pod. Good to know. I mean, we did know that, but it's good to know because I don't know anybody who watched it.

So we got this message. That's terrific. So now we know. Confirmed. And what do you have, Mason? I'm going to find one more email, James. Well, I'll let you know why you're doing that. This is from Lachlan who says, please finish the Blade series for Caravan of Garbage.

Mahershal Ali will be dead by the time they decide on the script for the new one. Blade in Deadpool and Wolverine is the closest to relevancy you'll get until the game comes out in 2027. There's so much to talk about in that trilogy. You're not wrong, but I don't make the rules. When they make the Blade movie, we'll finish the videos. That's right. Do you disagree? I do not disagree. But I mean, you know, I mean, maybe Blade now would be high time. Yeah. To do Blade 3 because it's got, you know, it's Deadpool. It's got Blaine. Well, look, we do have a little bit of a gap coming up. We'll figure something else. In September so maybe. Okay. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe come back.

I'm done. That's right. Well here's one more email from Adrian. Adrian. My son's first listen. Ahoy James and Mace. So recently I was on a flight from Hobart to Melbourne with my six-year-old son. I downloaded some we got. We got this covered covered to listen to. He packed his Switch to play some games. Not long into the flight, his Switch ran out of batteries. With nothing else to do, I lent him an earbud so we could listen to the pod together. Seven minutes later, he handed the earbud back and chose to sit in silence instead. Keep up the good work, boys. That's from Adrian.

I can memeail back, sounds like fun. Yeah, no, that's probably not the podcast I would introduce Al, introduce a young listener to. I don't even know. Because you have to explain the concept of clickbait to them. You have to explain why it's paywalled. Maybe show him the Prince of Persia Caravan of Garbage. Oh yeah, that's a fun one.

That's a good one, isn't it? Sure. Yeah. Absolutely. Oh my God. That's fun. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Yeah. Because that actually helps people find the show. Sharing is caring. That's fun. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Yeah. That actually helps people find the show. Sharing is caring.

That's right. One day when he's a little older, he's gonna, he's gonna go to his friends and he's gonna be like, one day my dad played me this podcast. Yeah. And that's why I divorced my dad. I did that thing where you divorce your parents. And now I work an office job. I'm seven years old, but it was worth it.

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