The Weekly Planet - 574 Action Movie Wrap Up & MCU back on track?

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

Welcome but to the soon to be Golden Globe winning podcast The Weekly Planet. This week we catch up on some 2025 action movies we missed out on with the likes of Novocaine, The Accountant 2 and Havoc plus the news of the week. Stuff like Thunderbolts* being rebranded as The New Avengers, Bob Iger and Kevin Feige’s thoughts on the MCU, a Hawkeye Season 2 update, Donald Trump’s movie tariffs and what it means for cinema, trailers for The Long Walk, Godzilla X Kong: Supernova and Peacemaker Season 2, what’s going on with the DCU’s Clayface movie and more! Thanks for listeningThe Running Man Movie Commentary is out now for members at bigsandwich.co !!Rude Obi-Wan Kenobi Compilation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYvJEnPbNck&tPLEASE be aware timecodes may shift up to a few minutes due to inserted ads.00:00 The Start04:44 Thunderbolts Movie Rebranding07:06 New X-Men Movie Director07:25 Bob Iger Says Everything is Great09:21 Kevin Feige Says Marvel Sucks11:54 Hawkeye Season 2 Ideas13:57 Donald Trump's Movie Tariffs20:23 The Long Walk Trailer22:34 Godzilla x Kong: Supernova Teaser23:46 Peacemaker Season 2 Trailer29:07 Clayface Movie Speculation32:45 The Hunt For Gollum Release Date35:27 Novocaine Movie Review (Mild Spoilers)42:25 The Accountant 2 Movie Review47:42 The Accountant 2 Spoiler Segment50:46 Havoc Movie Review (Sort Of)54:32 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read59:50 Letters, It's Time For LettersSUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl/pQ39jNJames' Twitter ► http://twitter.com/mrsundaymoviesMaso's Twitter ► http://twitter.com/wikipediabrownPatreon ► https://patreon.com/mrsundaymoviesT-Shirts/Merch ► https://www.teepublic.com/stores/mr-sunday-moviesThe Weekly Planet iTunes ► https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-weekly-planet/id718158767?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4The Weekly Planet Direct Download ► https://play.acast.com/s/theweeklyplanetAmazon Affiliate Link ► https://amzn.to/2nc12P4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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It's great to be here. Yeah. Do you feel that? Do you feel that synchronicity? Did I feel it? That serendipity? You looked like you were, I don't know, stuttering but opening a can is the only one I could describe it. Yeah, yeah. It was like, woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo. Yum. But you did do it and I appreciate the solidarity. Thanks, I'm very brave. Yes, you are. It's good to be here. Well, Mason, it's a big week for being brave

because reporting the movie news is one of the bravest things you can do. That's true, isn't it? Yeah. I hope everybody listening is saluting right now. In their cars or in their schools. Yep. Or in their car schools. That's right. You know?

Like that magic bus. Magic bus? Was that what that was? That was a magic school bus, yeah. You go inside the human penis or whatever they did. I didn't watch it or read it. It's not really my... It's edutainment.

I don't do that. Okay. Do you think that scene in The Boys would have been better if that guy drove in a magic school bus? Yeah, I think it would have been better quite frankly. That's terrific. Demonstrably better. Edutainment. You always recognize it. Yeah, I know.

Oh look the white blood cells are battling the other blood cells. Shut up. Shut up. Crap. Wow. Yeah. Wow. If I wanted to learn something I'd open a book.

Well there goes our edutainment sponsors. They were bringing back Carmen Sandiego and we're going to have Carmen Sandiego on the podcast. Oh really? Now we've ruined that. Good. And Mavis Beacon. Good.

From Teachers Typing. Teachers Typing, not a real woman we recently turned out. Yeah that's true. Yeah. Yeah. And Weezer from the Microsoft and Carter CD. Oh really? They were going to be here. We're going to play Buddy Holly, but it's too late now.

That's a good song. Yeah. I agree. That's a shame that one. Yeah. Yeah. All right, Mason. They were going to DH Henry Winkler.

What? He's going to be there and dance in the songs. Yeah. That's cool. On this podcast. That is cool. Yeah. We're going to talk about, uh, three or four big action movies, which we've missed.

Three or four? That's going to come up a bit later. Yeah. I think it's three. No, big action movies which we've missed. Three or four? That's going to come up a bit later. I think it's three. No, it's four because we've got Novacaine, we've got the account-tunt, we've got Havoc, we're going to squeeze in Snake Eyes at the very end. Oh, okay. Then it is four. Yeah, exactly. But before that, we've got the news of the week. We're going to be talking about, there's going to be spoilers for Thunderbolts.

We're going to be talking about spoilers for Thunderbolts. The spoilers are all, the studio was spoiling it. That's right. I feel like we're okay to do spoilers for Thunderbolts. We're going to be talking about spoilers for Thunderbolts. The spoilers are all... The studio is spoiling it. That's right. I feel like we're okay to do that here at this point. Unless you've not been under a bridge or under a billboard or under a bus, which all our listeners have done one of those three things. Unless you haven't experienced any of those things, you would have seen some of this.

That's right. Some of this nonsense. This pantomime, what they're getting Sebastian Stan, one of our greatest artistes to do, to run about in public, do manual labor. How dare they? His hands are soft. Are they?

I don't know. I don't know either. Yeah. I was going to talk about the new director for the next X-Men movie. I'm going to talk about what Bob Iger said about the upcoming Disney slash Marvel slate. He said, bleh.

He did. I'm going to talk about what Bob Iger said about the upcoming Disney slash Marvel slate. He said Blair. He did. We're going to talk about Kevin Feige and some disparaging words regarding the MCU. If you can believe that. It sucks actually. What? I'm Kevin Feige and I said it sucks actually. I suck at my job. I've made bad stuff and you watched it.

You're an idiot. That's what he said. He did say that. It's actually true. Yeah. And you knew he was like he's turned a corner cuz he's wearing his hat backwards That's right boy. Yeah. Yeah He's carrying a skateboard. That's right. Yeah

He turned the hat around and on the front of the hat said marvellous on the back. It sucks. He knew all along That's his classic hat. He wore that at Comic-Con when he announced Ironman 1 in 2007. Yeah. Yeah, and he turned it around everywhere. He's turned heel. This is his heel Kevin Feige era. I like this. Me too. Also going to talk some new information regarding Hawkeye season two. The president of the United States. Oh yeah. He's announced some movie news, some tariffs, which we're going to have to break down. James, this is the first time hearing it. It's the first time hearing it. I'm just, I'm just, that's karma. It's close enough. It's close enough. It's fine.

Then we got Traylor. I'm just hearing about this now. Anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's always saying stuff. He sucks, but he says a lot of funny things. I agree.

Traitors Ahoy for the Long Walk. There's a very short teaser for Godzilla X-Kong, the next one. Supernova? Yeah. And Peacemaker Season 2. They're going to crush that fan convention in Australia. They're going to show up and destroy Supernova. Good.

An update on the DCU Clayface movie. Plus a date for the Lord of the Rings the Hunt for Gollum. They finally got him a date. Oh! It's another little gremlin woman. That's wonderful and beautiful. I agree. Let's start with this though.

Thunderbolts asterix has of course been rebranded the New Avengers. This is official. They're telling everybody that this isn't just any standard piece of shit movie. Okay, it's official though, but it's also not official. It's not official? Well, here's... I told my dad! Well, you're gonna have to call your dad now.

On podcast. Right now? Do you want me to do it? No, don't do it. I'll do it. He's getting his phone out. He's calling my bluff. He would call his dad too.

And go, hey dad, they haven't officially rebranded Thunderbolts as the New Avengers. And your dad would be like, what? I'm a man doing man things. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Wow. You're my second worst son, he'd say. That's true because of my other brother.

Yeah, the one you don't like. Correct. So I go on. So the narrative this week went, hey, surprise, this is is actually a new Avengers film and then all the various blogs were like This is the lowest box office debut for an Avengers movie ever and then the director's like just just kidding fellas It's actually the title is that we're just smacking about out of just just take it easier, right? It's doing fine as a Thunderbolts movie. Don't even it's actually the number one movie called Thunderbolts that I can think of. That might be true.

So, you know, steady on. Well, it might not be the biggest movie with a Thunderbolt in it. Oh! Because there was Thunderbolt Ross earlier this year, of course. That's true. And Thor throws around a lot of Thunderbolts. He does, doesn't he? So I think that's probably...

It's lightning, but whatever. But it is going to pass about $260 million the world over this weekend. It's got... It seems to have some legs. Yeah. It's got it is going to pass about $260 million the world over this weekend. It's got, it seems to have some legs. It's got legs. Yeah. Now how do you feel? I think it opened lower than Brave New World, but people like it better. And I think more people are going to see it.

Agreed. I think it's, it's got a lot of things working for it. One of them being that it's not, it's all right. It's not, it's all right. No, it's all right. I liked it. I think it's pretty, it's all right. What are you, the director of this movie? It's not? It's alright. No, it's alright. I like it. I think it's pretty alright. What are you, the director of this movie?

It's alright? I mean, for an Avengers movie, sure, sucks. But it's a Thunderbox movie. It's number one. It's got that zip-zap zoom. Also, last week I said Jake Trier, who directed this, was the creator of Beef. He's not the creator of Beef. I thought he was the co-creator of Beef. But he's one of the executive producers,

and he directed six of the ten episodes. I'm just telling you. Wow, that's embarrassing. For me and him. Yeah, I wouldn't have admitted to that. I would have just said, you misheard me. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, according to Deadline, Jake Schreier was actually being hired to direct the first of the new X-Men movies.

Nice. The MCU X-Men. Nice. I think that'd be a good choice. He clearly knows Team Dynamics. Mm-hmm. He did a good job on this one. I think so too. It could choice. He clearly knows Team Dynamics. He did a good job on this one. I think so too. It could have been, you know, whatever and it was all right. Yeah. And that's good enough. I liked it. But Bob Liger, he was on a conference to shareholders this week.

Oh yeah. And he went, everything's great. He said, everything's great. He said, we've all admitted to ourselves we lost a little focus by making too much. By consolidating a bit and having Marvel focus much more on their films. We believe that that will result in better quality. I think the first and best example is Thunderbolts. I feel good about that. So you know everything else they were doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Avoiding Captain America, he's a bird.

Garbage. Garbage. Yeah, absolutely. And they knew that. And if you had of asked them, they would have admitted it, but nobody did. That's right. But this one, the end of phase five, the way, is good. It's a good one and that also indicates that everything moving forward will be good. Even though everybody

seemed to like Deadpool or Wolverine and that did well and Daredevil did well and the witch TV show did well. This one, this is real. This is it. This is for real. Look at his back. He said, I have a lot of confidence in the upcoming slate and that's quite a line up. It's as strong as any slate I've seen in a long time. Quick Bogiger, name any of them. Name any of the characters in the movie Thunderbolts, Bob Iger. Can you do it? Thunderbolts. Mr. Thunder, Captain Thunderbolts. Close enough. And you paid my salary, so very good sir. Well done. So this is what's upcoming. Lilo and Stitch, remake. Zootopia, 2.

Then Fantastic Four, the first steps. Avatar, Fire and Ash, 3. The Mandalorian and Grogglet... Sorry, the Mandalorian versus Grogglet. Thank you. Avengers, Doomsday? Toy Story, 5. Doomsday? Oh. Avengers, Doomsday, Toy Story. Doomsday? Five. Potential Doomsday. Toy Story, we live forever unless a kid smashes to pieces, but also we might also still be

alive then. Yeah, it seems the only way to truly kill a Toy Story is put him in a furnace, right? Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Vampire rules. Horrifying stuff. And you can't bring him in your house unless you purchase them. Absolutely.

It is vampire rules. I think that's good. Or I guess if another kid brings them to your house. Yeah, you could bring them to your house, that's fine. This is by the Wall Street Journal though. Finally, a periodical with some prestige. None of this, no time to shine, or the bloody other stuff. That's right. This article is titled Poo,of art wheeze and bums

Good finally again finally some illustrious journalism to you know, yeah Refined agreed, you know, yeah So Kevin Feige, this is an article about the future of the MCU and what's been going on They're calling him Kevin farty? Yes, they are. So you're going to have to refer to him as Kevin Farty for the remainder of this. He said something along the lines of watching all the comic book giants, TV shows and films have started to feel more like homework than entertainment. And then he said, excuse me.

Better out than in, he said. That's right. The article goes on to say the deluge of material from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or MC. Deluge. On Disney+, overwhelmed and eventually alienated viewers. It also searched Feige and his team's resources, then diluted the quality of their output. Marvel's box office sales, streaming popularity, and formerly untouchable position in pop culture

suffered Feige, who declined to be in. Excuse me, who? Farty. Thank you, who declined to be interviewed for the story because he was on the toilet. I mean that's not stopped him before. G'day fellas, yeah now I'm on the toilet. I'm on the toots. You got any questions? You got any questions? Young Avengers, I'll talk about it, whatever. Yeah, whatever. Was so busy working on all these various MCU projects in the early 2020s that staffers resorted to chasing him in the halls to about it. Whatever. Yeah, whatever. We're so busy working on all these various MCU projects in the early 2020s that staffers resorted to chasing him in the halls to get answers. Employers said that sometimes-

He wasn't there though. Where was he? On the toilet. On the toilet. Employers said they sometimes spent weeks of work that proved irrelevant once Feige weighed in and then found themselves with little time to implement his changes before a deadline. So now they've got separate television and movie stuff, so they're run by different people now. So they're making, we talked about this. And they didn't have show runners for a long time. So they had nobody to okay major decisions.

A lot of streaming shows were just kind of narratives, like long movies that were cut up into five or six. Moon Knight didn't have any action scenes in it. I don't think it needed it. Yeah, good point. What it needed is a man putting on a funny little British, like a coal miner accent or like a chimney sweep accent. And then whatever.

Yeah, yeah, then whatever. But in regards to Hawkeye season two, we talked about this last week. How'd I get in this white room? The moon. The moon did it. When we talked about Hawkeye season two last week and apparently Jeremy Renner was offered half the money

for this same amount of work that he did for the first season. Well the Insnider was weighed in as well as Pucks Matt Bologna and they said, Original plans for season 2 would be setting one location similar to the Raid, pitting the Hawkeyes against Clint Barton's brother Barney Barton or Trickshot. Oh! Yes! Disney Marvel deliberately made Renner a lowball off of a Hawkeye season 2 and that they were ready to reject being paid half as much money giving

them reason to not have to make a second season of the show. They could just not make a second season of the show. No they've given them a reason because you need a reason you can't just not do something you need to explain it and the reason is That's then you know, that's good. You can someone could be like why just be like I don't want it. That's right. I love Why not cuz I cuz I won't that's why that's right They should just be like get me to do it. I'll do it. Why are you doing Hawkeye season 2 fuck off? Jeremy what do you think about that Jeremy? Why don't you make it? You like it so much.

Make some cardboard sets in your house. I'm sure everybody will watch it. It's not free Jeremy. Jeremy. First of all, I have to pay you more apparently. Apparently because that's in your contract. And then we've got to build everything or whatever. We've got to build, I've got to find a building. Oh, Liz is building in your contract. And then we're going to build everything or whatever? What a build, I gotta find a building.

Oh, this is filming in a building. What building? That one's got people in it. They're already full. They're doing photocopies and stuff. They've got their own jobs. And then what, you've got eyes of other people? God, Jeremy. When you shoot the arrows, who do you think goes and gets them?

Jeremy. I don't know, but somebody. can see him. I got to pay whoever it is. Yep. There's a line in this budget. We've got an arrow boy. That's right. Which reminds me he's not doing anything right now. Arrow boy. Arrow boy. Get me a cup of coffee. Let me finish with an arrow in it. So you have to do it. That's how you get him. That's how you get him. Yeah. Mason. President Trump announced last week that there would be 100% tariffs on films produced outside of the USA. How?

Now, there was a lot of questions in regards to this, so allow me to break it down. We don't know whether this is films that were shot or made outside of the US or partially made outside of the US. A lot of films are financed in the US but maybe filmed overseas or partially filmed overseas. Or if it's made in the US but the company that made it is outside the US. That's right. What if say the film's entirely made in the US but the composer scores it in the UK?

What does that mean? What if they make it in the US but like, I don't know, post-processing is done overseas, so they've got to send the files over and then send it back. Does that count? Yes. So there's questions like that, Mason. And look, I understand that there needs to be incentives for films to film in the US. Like apparently it's incredibly costly to film in LA, so much so that it barely happens. But what I think people need to realize and a lot of people know this, this is a stupid person who didn't think about it at all. There's speculation because he also announced the

Alcatraz. But he saw Escape from Alcatraz on TV. Yes. Yeah. I think that's probably true. I think what happened, yeah, because Alcatraz, he's like, we've got to reopen Alcatraz. Yeah. We've got to put the most dangerous prisons. You've already got like a million supermax prisons. They're harder to get out of than Alcatraz. Also, Alcatraz is a national park now. Yeah.

You can buy a key chain there. Here's the thing, it's not outside the realm of possibility that this is happening because Trump was bragging to someone about all the movies he's been in because famously, if you film something in Trump Towers, he requires that he gets a cameo. Yeah. And then somebody said, wait, I've seen those movies and you're not in them. Because also famously, most directors film the cameo with him and then they cut it out. Yes. And then he was like, what? And he's like, well, I've got to get revenge on Hollywood. Yeah.

Because they cut me out of these movies. So now I'm going to ruin another industry. Absolutely. And this, if this goes through, which there's a good chance that it won't, it will because who bears the brunt of the costs? Me. That's right. Me personally. Consumers, ticket prices increase. There's various knock on effects that we don't know how this will shake out

because again, it hasn't been thought about beyond. At all. At all. The White House did release an official statement that said, and I don't know if this helps Mason, no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made. Terrific. Does that help? No, but also this has already happened with like imports from China. Yep. You know people are buying, you know, small items. Like a lot of people buy like small items for their business or you know items from... It ruined the drop shipping industry.

It ruined the drop shipping industry which is every con man online's course but also like a lot of stuff you know even if it's made in the u.s or what have you there's components that come from china etc what yeah and all of a sudden everything's you know and who's going to jail for this why are you what yeah you should stop this you could have voted but you didn't i did vote i voted for b for Biden. Okay, right. Three times. Wow. Just a write-in every time. Yep.

You voted for him in the 90s as well. Correct. I like him. I like that he's dead. Is he dead? I mean, maybe. Anyway, here's a quote. This is our incisive political commentary.

We're hoping to get in on the Wall Street Journal. I think we could do it. We're hoping for a bit of quid pro quo with the Wall Street Journal. It's working. Here's a quote from Trump. This is our incisive political commentary. We're hoping to get in on the Wall Street Journal. I think we can do it. We're hoping for a bit of quid pro quo with the Wall Street Journal. It's working. Here's a quote from Trump.

As you know, I'm not going to do it. You're doing the hands though. I'm doing the hands. We're putting tariffs on film, the movie makers. And we're going to be doing some tariffs to get them. Because a lot of, when you don't do it in his voice, it's so much the clearer that he's an idiot. Yeah. Because a lot of them have left this country.

A lot of them have left this country. They live here. The money comes from here. Everything comes from here. It's easy to do it when you do the hands out. Yeah. But they make them in other countries. I've lost it. So we're going to do something to bring them back maybe to a large extent. This is my favorite part. But James Bond has nothing to worry about that I could tell you.

And you know, Sean Connery was a friend of mine. Sean Connery was responsible for my getting zoning in Aberdeen. He said, let the bloody bloke build his golf courses. Let the bloody bloke build his golf courses. Let the bloody bloke, let the bloody bloke build his golf courses. That's what he said, Sean Connery. I was like four years into the process and it was impossible at Aberdeen. He was a great guy, Sean Connery. Do you think he watched The Rock?

That was my initial thought before the escape from Alcatraz thing came out. That's what I thought. Yeah, but then somebody said that escape from Alcatraz thing came out. That's what I thought. Yeah, but then somebody said escape from Alcatraz was on TV. Yeah. I don't know if Trump knows this, but Sean Connery is no longer making James Bond movies and he died like 10 years ago. Also-

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. LXG, some call it. Not a lot of people know that. Fabulous film. Many people are saying. Dorian Gray, a beautiful man. Tom So, one of our beautiful boys. One of our beautiful boys in blue. Yeah, sure. Also, Sean Connery's family doesn't own a steak in the franchise. This just, he's

just talking. It's not anything. There's not- Is James ready for this? I talk to the broccoli family, Barbara broccoli. Again, who don't own the rights to James Bond anymore. So even if he put this through. Oh, you know why? Bezos is off the hook. I guess he is.

He spoke to Jeff Bezos and the Amazon owns James Bond now. That's how this has turned out. It's possible, but also I think he just likes Sean Connery. Or Sean Connery was nice to him once. Yeah, right. Yeah, so there we go. Or Sean Connery said something really mean to him, but his accent was so thick that Sean didn't understand it. Fucking lunatic shit, man.

It is wild, isn't it? What an era. Of nonsense. What an era. Well, at least Andor's good. Yeah, that's so true. The last piece of media we get. It's good. Trailers ahoy. Honk. Yeah, man. I got a few this week, including the Long Walk, which is a Richard

Bachman book from 1979. That's interesting because we're getting the new Running Man, which is also Richard Bachman slash Stephen King. That's right. And that's cool. Yeah. So what's this one about? It's some sort of alternate 1950s. I gotta walk.

I'm Mark Hamill. You gotta walk. That's so true. I'm Luke Skywalker. You gotta walk. Nice. Yeah. And all these young men are like, I'm going to walk.

We gotta walk. Now, if you win, if you finish the walk, you get a big prize. Yeah, well, you can't finish the walk. You just got to be the last one walking. Last man. Last man walking. If you stop you get shot. Yeah. It's like a slow swed game. It is. That's right, swed game. I said it. Swed game. I'm excited. For some people to walk slowly? Yeah man, I think it looks good. Also I'm like what is this fucking Stand By Me? Kind of. Maybe it is, maybe it's set in the Stand By Me universe. I'm just thinking who is directing the movie.

Okay. And I'll tell you right now. This is Richard Bachman. Richard Bachman. No, this is, oh, that's right, it's Francis Lawrence who did The Hunger Games and other things. Yeah, this is out in 12th September of 2025. Just a lot of, Steve, I don't know what it is.

It's because he's the quantity of output, but there was a lot of Stephen King adaptations and a lot of good ones. I don't know. It's a dizzy story Just lend himself lend themselves to I do that you are these concepts are good. That's a great question I don't know. I mean that these concepts are good. Mm-hmm I don't know, but we are probably we're almost certainly forgetting about the bad ones that being said If they're about like, you know, Philip K. Dick adaptations, which Hollywood was obsessed with for like a decade or so, a lot of those are bad. Yeah. You know, so, so

I mean, it's harder to make a robot than it is to have people walk. It's so true, isn't it? Yeah. You spend all your money on the robot and then you don't, I don't know, you have to supplement the rest of the film salaries and whatever with like converse commercials. That's true, isn't it? Yeah. I, Robot Mason. That was Asimov, but yes. Same thing.

Yeah, they are the same guy when you think about it, yes. Yeah. I said with confidence, but it could also be Arthur Zicklake. It's not important. What is important is we also got to- Who's Asimov? Yeah, it might be. Yeah. We don't know.

But we also got a very short teaser for Godzilla X-Kong Supernova. Kaitlyn Devo is joining the cast along with Sam Neill, Jurassic Park's own. Whoa. This is March 2027. He's going to stand at a big pile of poop and go, whose poop's this? Who did this? Who did this poop? Who did a big New Zealand poop? I don't like that. This is, so Adam Wingard left this franchise,

he's doing He-Man at the moment, I believe? Is that right? I think so. I think I might be wrong. Doesn't matter. I think that's wrong. Could it be Isaac Asimov? It might be actually.

I think that is wrong actually. Give me some answers, god damn it. I won't. But he did The Guest. In English, genius. Oh, I don't know if you can see, he did The Guest and Dan Stephenson and that. Yeah, that's true. Grant Spator is directing this.

He's an Australian director. He directed a movie in 2019 for Netflix. Crocodile Dundee 3. That's right. That's a good one. Wow. Called I Am Mother with Hilary Swank. Very good.

It's a Netflix original sci-fi movie. Hilary Swank was mother? No one off. Was it a sleigh? There's a rope. No. Was she serving face? She was serving face. That's true. I would suggest that. I recommend that movie to people. So let's see what's going on in this. More things probably. But the big trailer of the week Mason,

is Peacemaker Season 2. A movie it seems is firmly set within the DCU. A movie or a TV show? A TV show. Collin's editor when Mason corrected me. I don't mind if I- So it's just wrong? I don't mind if it's wrong. I just don't want it to come from you. That's good. You want it to come from emails from the listeners.

That's right. A lot to unpack in this, I think. Yeah. Now, what I would say is that the previous statements from James Gunn, director of Superman, head of this whole stinking operation. Yeah, as he the daughter? He said in the past that everything about Peacemaker season one is canon to the new DCU except for that last scene where he meets the Justice League.

Yeah. But... And now we're gonna explain or riff on it in the show. Which we might get a little bit of it off here because at the end of this track... Well, first of all, we see the return of, you know, all the various characters. Yes. Amanda Waller's daughter. Yep. John Economos. Yes. That lady. characters. Yes. Amanda Waller's daughter. Yep.

John Economos. Yes. That lady. James Gunn's wife. That's correct. Yeah. Jennifer Holland. That's the one.

Peacemaker's also there. Peacemaker's there. Vigilante. Eagle. He's there. Iggly the Eagle is there. But also at the end of the trailer, Peacemaker and some of the other crew end up in that quantum space that Peacemaker's dad built. and it seems to have doorways to other places,

potentially a doorway to another reality, and he encounters another Peacemaker. So the question then becomes, is that the new DCU's Peacemaker? Is he taking his place? Is that how they're going to explain it? Potentially. If I had to guess, I would say potentially potentially this is towards the end of the season and they or they find the way to the new DCU and they're the last they make an escape and shop into the new DCU and the

James Gunn of us crumbles to dust comes to dust yeah yeah would you ever see everybody you know cry man wet themselves. Yeah we're dying. Grow up. Yeah grow up. God. Just die quietly. Yeah we also see some DCU characters we see Maxwell Lord who's putting together the Justice Gang. That's right. Hawker Girl is there. And Green Lantern is there. So this is set pre-Superman. Yes I get, I could be after I guess. I think it's no it's got to be before, cause they, look, James, they're gonna get new uniforms at the end of just. You keep saying that. At the end of Superman, they're gonna get new uniforms.

You keep saying that. I'm right. I don't know, I think it's gonna be in the order that it comes out initially at least. I don't know, but I don't know. Also, Rick Flagg Sr. returns in this, but he doesn't have white hair like he does in the cartoon. I guess he's dying his hair now, Mason.

Yeah, Vane, would you say that's Vane It's incredibly vain. Just live your life and be cool. As cool as you can, which is very cool. And Rick Flagg Sr. of course is avenging the death of his son Rick Flagg Jr. But also maybe Rick Flagg Jr. isn't dead in the DCU or whatever. Right. I think they'll spin on that in any which way so they can bring back Rick Flagg, regular Rick Flagg. I do like Joel. I think Joel... Regular Rick Flagg's here. I think of his two performances as Rick Flagg. I think the Suicide Squad version was a lot of fun or more fun. I agree. So you know, I bring Rick Kinnaman back. That piece of bathroom tile jammed in his heart. Do you think that will affect his performance? No, I think I mean, it's going to be there, obviously. Yeah. You know, he's going to be

at most fights because it's going to be sticking out of his chest. Yeah. So most fights, I think the villains are probably going to realize that's his point of weakness. They're going to like slap it. I think that's cool. Ah, yeah, that piece of bathroom tile in my heart. Exactly. That's going to be his catchphrase. We're all going to have t-shirts with Iggy up in on it. We probably are, aren't we? I think so too, yeah. Anything else in that trailer that jumps out at you? The Eagles running around?

That's good. Yeah. Everybody's got issues. Yep. Oh, what's that comedian guy who's in this? He's naming all the SWAT members different names. Oh, it's Tumatos. Yeah. I like that, like Tumatos inclusion. Terrific. That's naming all the SWAT members different names. Oh, it's, um, Tumatos. Yeah, I like that.

Like Tumatos inclusion. Terrific. That's fun. Are we going to get a new intro is my question. Apparently we are. Well, we'd have to be because most of the characters in that original intro are dead. It killed a lot. New song then? Yeah, potentially. Could be whatever is in this. Yeah, whatever that was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But can they top it? Yes. Nice. They already have in my mind. That's great. That's great That's good enough. This is our August 21st, which is of course a month and a bit after Superman comes out Which by all its estimations is the best movie anyone's ever made. I've heard that it better be. Otherwise, I'm gonna be upset Do you want to see that? Yeah

We're that's how that episode's going to start, week off. Weeeh. And it's going to, I'm going to maintain that energy for the rest of the year. Yeah. I will be upset. Welcome to the Weekly Sook. I'm James. Boooo.

My special booboo movie came out and it's not good and I'm sad. I would be sad. I'm sad. I would be sad. And I'm going to make it everybody else's problem. Yes, I will. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, and the Pope's woke. That's true.

God, I'm having a bad week. This movie might be bad. Yeah. Which I don't think it will be. The Pope's woke. Yeah, sure, absolutely. Does it help that he's a Marxist or whatever? Does it help you?

Does it make you feel any bad? I don't know, I don't remember. Okay. I don't remember or care. Mason. You're pumped to work too. This is also DCU news. Do you remember that James Gunn said this on the Clayface movie?

Oh yes. He said, Clayface is a crazy one because we had no plans of making a Clayface movie. Mike Flanagan came in and he pitched the Clayface movie and it was so, and it was great. So we turned in the script and it's one of the best scripts that we read from the whole time. Then last week we heard that maybe he only held it. Sounds like he's riffing. Yeah.

That's what we heard the whole time. The whole time we were there. It was the only one that, I loved it. Were you asleep for this James Gunn? Were you asleep in your chair? It was the best one. Okay. Go on.

What more does he have to say? But then of course it turned, there was a rumor last week that maybe it was only the skeleton of the script. Because he went on, he's doing the Carrie TV show I believe. But the rapper reported that. That's a Stephen King. Yes. That drives Hussein Amini. He's been hired to rewrite Flanagan's Clayface script. You're saying you wrote Drive, the movie Drive?

Apparently. Okay. No, it's a good movie. What if Clayface had a cool jacket? What if he did? Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know, because we've heard from James Gunn and all the DCU projects that they need a completed script to get greenlit and this has been greenlit, but now it's being

changed. I don't greenlit. I found a loophole. Yeah. It could be, I don't know. I'm just speculating. Maybe it's a Batman thing. Cause maybe the Batman two isn't happening or being delighted.

I'm going to get brave in the bold instead. I honestly don't know. I don't know though. You're just not telling. Fine. Um, I do know. You do know though, you're just not telling. Fine, I do know. You're gonna tell us? No. God damn it. Maybe if everybody apologizes to me. Okay, starting with the Pope? Yes, it has to go from the Pope down. All right. Yeah. Okay. And it has to be in order. Okay, so the Pope, then Trump for ruining Hollywood. Yep. And then me? Yeah, then you're next.

OK. And then my parents. OK. Then James Gunn? Then James Gunn, and then everybody else. OK. All at once. Yeah.

If they don't do it in unison, it doesn't count. That's right. Anyway, I do want to see a Clayface movie, but I don't know. Me too. Here's the thing as well, though. To me, there's no expectations for this. You know, it's a character I like in things, but I'm not like, boy, I hope they get this exact character arc right or whatever. I think anything really would be a pleasant surprise, whether he's supernatural, or if

he's just a mundane serial killer with a weird mask or whatever it is, works for me. The other thing is he's if they go- Like a big mud monster, honestly. Yeah, well, if they go with the DCU one, we've seen him. He's in Creature Commandos. Oh yeah, of big mud monster, yeah, well if they go with the DC you one we've seen him is in creature Oh, yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah, so uh, that'd be cool. Yeah. Yeah, man. That'd be I mean I just think of a clay face movie and Batman's in it. I would like that Yeah, you know like you take a villain Oh, yes, and I want Sony to hear this and then you put that villains nemesis in the movie also

Okay, so Joker to pay attention. What you're saying is saying is you should put the hero and the villain in the same movie. And you change all the villain's characteristics so they're good, and then they work together. Yeah, they're actually good and they're anti-heroes. And then you know what? No, they're full heroes though, right? Okay, yeah, and maybe take the hero out then, because you don't need it. Because if your villain is an anti-hero, you don't need another hero. So you could replace the hero with some just generic guys. Yeah. Nice. And maybe if you're like, if it's, you probably

wouldn't even need to do any action. You can just make it a court case. Oh, so true. Is that an exciting court case? Yeah, no, but there's songs. Okay. Yeah. Okay. But they're in your memories or something. Okay. All right. Yeah. Okay. Let's put an explosion in. Okay. But then he gets stabbed at the end. So Craven the Hunter the musical. Yes. And there's an explosion at the end. And he gets stabbed. Great. Yeah. Cool. All right. Last bit of news. The Lord of the Rings and the Hunt for Gollum, it's got a release date. Do you want to guess when it is? Tomorrow. No. It's a good guess. Today? No, it's not. We'd have to stop this and go and see it. Yeah, no, I'm out of ideas. It's going to be December 17th of 2027.

It's too far away. For what? You don't care about this. Yeah, I think forget it. I'll forget it. But I'll remind you about that. I'm not going to listen. I said I'd shoot you a text.

Okay, that's great. The day we got to record. Hey, did you see that movie? It's supposed to talk about. All right, great. Andy Serkis directed it, etc. Okay. Philippa we got a record. Hey, did you see that movie? Okay. It's supposed to talk about. All right, great. Andy Serkis directed it, et cetera.

Okay. Philippa Boyan's friend, Walsh. We were on an episode of that podcast, Friends Per Second. Yeah, we were. With Andy Serkis. That's true. Oh yeah, we were. Not together.

But we were on that same episode as Andy Serkis. That's right. Yes, correct, yes. And it was a lot of fun. We had a lot of things to say to him. That was great. That was great fun. Hey Andy, which better movie did you direct?

Second one? All right. All right. Didn't you do a version of The Jungle fun. Yeah. Hey Andy, which better movie did you direct? Second one? Alright. Alright. Didn't you do a version of The Jungle Book? Yeah. Alright. Alright. I like that version.

I think it's better than the other one. Alright. Alright. Alright. Okay. More of the Rings? Hunt for Gollum? Yes.

Alright. Fine. If we must. Imagine you don't have to be so cynical all the time. Too bad I am. But I think, you know, sometimes I think people think, well maybe people think, maybe it's true. Sometimes people don't think and that's the bloody problem. But I'm looking here, right?

Thunderbolts, good movie, right? If the X-Men director, I'm just doing a recap. If the X-Men, if he does X-Men, I like that, right? Yeah. Disney, back on track. Back on track. Making Toy Story 5, etc. Making perfect movies.

Yep. Trump tariffs, loves James Bond, not tariffing James Bond. That's right. Good good good news Nice cheap James Bond movies. Yeah for the jet the greasy unwashed masses We can all go there watch a James Bond movie for five dollars. Yep Alcatraz opening great new terrific terrific Crimes on a ramp and put those people in Alcatraz Hawkeye season 2 not happening? Don't love that.

No. Why not? It's expensive. Jeremy ran away and paid for it. Tariffs. Tariffs. Yeah. That's right.

Kevin Feige being like there's a deluge of Marvel stuff. It's homework. Sorry, who? Kevin Farty. Thank you. That's good to recognise. I think so too. Trailers for the Long Walk, Godzilla X, Kong and Peacemaker Season 2.

Pretty good. Good. Clayface movie may be happening. Alright. Hunt for Golem? This is all thumbs up stuff. You gave a little thumbs up there. Like a half thumbs up.

Thumbs up stuff. Oh, thumbs up stuff. That's a good. I like the idea of that. See? Yeah, okay. This is all good. Okay. And now we're going to talk about movies. Would you say this is the idea of that. See? Yeah. Okay. This is all good.

Okay. And now we're going to talk about movies. Would you say this is the season for thumbs up stuff? Absolutely it is. Mark your calendars. Okay. Yeah. If you're thinking about thumbs up stuff, do it.

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Ah, Nova Cane. Do you want to say the best for last, Snake Eyes? Yeah, let's do that next. I reckon- What do Nova Cane, Snake Eyes? How about we do Nova Cane, see how that goes, and we'll see what movie we can bounce to next. Okay, cool.

And if it's not Snake Eyes. These are also snapshot reviews, by the way. They're snapshot reviews, that's right. Don't think anything, don't think about it. What do you think the story was? Oh, well this guy, he's a real nerd and a loser. Agreed. Because he's got a problem.

What's his problem? He's got a medical problem, it makes him a loser. Yep. He's got a genetic condition where he can't feel any pain. Or feel hot or cold. Sensation? Yeah. Some sensation.

We'll get briefly into that, I think, about what he has and what the filmmakers think he has. Sure, yeah. But he lives a very safe life. He can't chew food, et cetera. He might bite his tongue off. Exactly. And he works at a bank, because that's a nice, safe job.

Safe. And then there's a nice lady who works at the bank. Yeah. Well, he's Jack Quaid, and she's Amber Mithunder. That's right. And they're like, we get along and that's pretty cool. That's good. But I can't have a relationship.

Cause I'm a pain man. Exactly. Yeah. But then there's a bank robbery at the bank and she gets kidnapped. I'm just, we watched the same movie. Yes. This is what I saw. It's good for you.

Yeah. So I go home. Yeah. And he's like, oh, but he used my skills of being hit in the head a lot and not feeling it to get her back. And he does. I'm in spoilers. I'm going to bumble in John Wick this.

That's right. Yeah, because he has the advantage of he can break any part of his body and just be like, that's fine. All right. See, I think. Look, I would say, generally speaking, I thought this was a lot of fun. I like Jack Quaid in anything. God, he's a very good everyman for coming from two of Hollywood's elite.

That's true. I don't know how he's done that. Yeah, exactly. I imagine when he was growing up, every spoonful of champagne he ate. Yeah. I was going to say caviar. But every spoonful of champagne he ate, he pretended it was simply a spoonful of Wheaties. Yeah. The normal, the working man's food. You know what I mean? That's acting in the mind. I think that's acting in the mind. I think he's prepared himself his whole Wheaties. Yeah. The normal, the working man's food. You know what I mean?

That's acting in the mind. I think that's acting in the mind. I think he's prepared himself his whole life for this. Yeah. But he's good in this. I like Amid Thunder. Yeah. The villains are fairly generic, I think.

But look, I would say like overall, what I liked about it is it had, it sort of has shades of Crank, Yes. Of Jackie Chan. Yeah. Like not the absolute peak of the Jackie Chan kind of thing, but like you know this is a sort of movie that would there'd be like one a month in the 90s. Absolutely yeah. They're like maybe not

to the extent of the gore in this. Yeah, here's the premise and here's the gimmick of the man. Yeah. Here's a series of scenes where we exploit that premise and say you know how can we make this work in a fun way? But what I would say, there are moments in this where I'm like, I'm not sure the producers of this movie know the difference between this man doesn't feel any pain when he receives severe head trauma and this man is totally fine with severe head trauma. Because there are moments in this where I'm like, oh, he'd be dead now.

I would also say I'm a bit squeamish in terms of severe trauma to a person. There's quite a lot of that. I'd rather see a man get his head cut off than like... See a bone. Yeah, exactly. That's right. See an exposed bone or somebody get really badly burned or whatever. And there is a lot of that. Yeah, like I think this might be in the trailer

I think potentially but like early on he has a his first big fight with with one of the bank robbers in kitchen and the the bank robbers gun ends up in a Deep fryer and the only way for him to win out in this battle because he's overmatched This guy knows how to fight and he doesn't is to to stick his hand in the deep fry and get the gun out and shoot the guy. And I'm like, oh. And then he's got a deep fried hand for the rest of the movie. He's got a deep fried hand for the rest of the movie.

Yeah. There is definitely, there is something really horrific about a man who cannot feel pain. So then we'll have any kind of awful thing inflicted upon him. Yeah. And he'll just keep going. And even though like he doesn't feel it. He is getting worse Yeah, he's just getting more and more like fucked up. Yeah as it goes, but it also means you can push I Think you can really push the gall then as well

Yeah, and like the stuff that you can inflict on this one person because yeah, you can just take it further There's a I saw a behind-the-scenes video of it. Yeah, there's a, because this is also not a very expensive movie. I think this is $18 million or something like that, which is again, you know, very low for a current day movie. But there is a behind the scenes where they've built a kind of prosthetic hand attachment. So the actor, Jack Quaid can keep his thumb sort of in the palm of his hand and then they add the prosthetic thumb to the side of his hand and then they can snap it sort of remotely. It's very good.

It is, like, yeah, it's, you know, they're, again, I don't think it really reaches the heights of a crank. Okay, yeah, fair enough. I think he's more likeable than a crank. He's more likeable than Chevcheleos, obviously. Yeah, and there's also, because he's not, Chev Chelyos is, he's got all sorts of skills and abilities. Jack Wade does not, he's got like one friend to call and he doesn't feel pain and that's... Jacob Battle on spoiler alert. I mean you

know, you hear the voice. Sure yeah. As another man in a chair. Yes that's right yeah. But now he's an adult. He's an adult man. Yeah I was just looking at it, there's a budget of 18 million dollars and the box office had made 33.8's an adult man. Yeah, I was just looking at it. It is a budget of $18 million into the box office that made $33.8. So apparently, yeah, this isn't, well, at least the box office hasn't turned a profit. But I don't know, I thought this was very good. I enjoyed it. It's very, it was more squeamish than I thought it would. It was more squeamish than I thought I would be.

Yeah, right. I think it's because, again, like, if you get kind of deaths and kills in a movie, it's never on the one person. No, that's true, actually. Whereas all of this, for the most part, is just him having horrific injuries again and again and again. And again, like I said in that first opening, so the first big action where he's fighting in the kitchen, I'm like, he gets his head smashed into like floors and desks and whatever,

and I'm like, you'd probably be dead. Yeah, but he's not. No, he's his head smashed into like floors and desks and whatever and I'm like, you'd probably be dead. Yeah, but he's not. No, he's fine. And that's okay. That's cool and okay. Sort of a twist in this as well, I guess. Yeah, there is, but I also feel like the instant you meet Amber Midthunders' character and

she starts talking about her backstory, I'm like, I know where this is going to go. But again, a movie in the, you know, this kind of movie, you're not here for a mind-boggling twist. It's you're here to see this character kind of bumble his way through a variety of action sequences. That's right. And he does. And he does? All in all, I'm gonna say best movie ever. And he's done a full thumbs up.

I've done a full thumbs up. I'm gonna break it. No. I won't do it. Don't do it. Well, we've done it. That's one good review. It's out on video demand most places now.

So if you want to just grab it. Might be still showing some places. Maybe. Next we've got the account-tunt. Oh also, congenital insensitive insensitivity pain with anhydrosis occurs in one out of 125 million people. Congratulations. I was gonna say. Jack Quaid. Yeah. The account-tunt or Mr. Autism. Yes. What do you think the story was here? Uh, well, I didn't see accountant chapter one the account want accountant origins But Ben Affleck plays Mr. Wolf. Yeah, the accountant and he's a man who's a real he's a real account. It's Christian wolf

I think that's right wolf with two F's. Anna Kendrick's in the first one. Did you know that? Yeah, I know. Yeah. Well, okay. This is a week of weird units in movies. Oh, yeah. Jack Quaid's kind of a weird unit.

This movie, two weird units. Oh my God. Two very different weird units. If you told me that these movies are just Ben Affleck and John Bernthal being weird units for two hours in different ways. I would have been on board with the first one. I didn't see the first one. It's been a long time. 16? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a bloody weird unit Wednesday. If you're listening to this on Wednesday, which it might be. Yeah. You might be. Yeah. Anyway, he's always been the accountant. Yeah. And he's got he's good at being accounting. He's always been the accountant. Yeah. Um, and he's got, he's good at being accounting.

He's good at having, and he's good at fighting. Super autism also. Yeah. He's a super autism guy. He's the thing as well. The first one I would say is not as funny as this. Okay. Right. It's not, it's more kind of like tragic.

If you'd, yeah, well see if you'd said, if you'd said to me last week, which one are you going to like more, Novacaine or account tuned? I would have said, I'm going to love. I'm going to love them both. I'm going to say I love Novocaine and I will tolerate the Account Tuned. I thought this was a lot, maybe it's low expectations, but I thought I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would and I thought it was a lot funnier than I thought it would be. Maybe it was bro expectations.

Maybe it was bro expectations. They are a couple of bros, aren't they? Yeah. But anyway, the accountant this time, he's got to find a family. Yep. And boy, he can't do it alone. So he's got to bring in his brother, a guy who's weird in a different way. Yeah. But more social, but not really. No. Because he's also unpleasant. That's right. Well, this is also maybe a John Bernthal performance that I was not expecting from him. Yeah, he's just, this is also maybe a John Bernthal performance that I was not expecting from him. He's often, you know, an anti-social personality sort of type. But

this is in a different way. I don't know, do you see like, I don't know, like the Wolf of Wall Street or something, he's capable of other things. Oh, that's true. I mean, it's just nice to see it. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. There's a moment at the start of this where Ben Affleck's character goes on a speed date. He goes on a speed date. He goes on a speed date. And he hacks it so every woman in there is kind of forced his direction and he botches

date after date. Yeah, yeah. He does have that kind of super autism which I don't enjoy. Yeah, which is like the superpower. Yeah. And the like- Also, I'm pretty sure there are speed dating events for people with autism. No.

So maybe go to those. No. Okay, right. You think as a man with autism you find it. He does have a village of autistic people who work for him. That's true, yeah. Now you're right. Yeah, I guess we could talk about that. I think he's funny. I think it's quite funny as well. Well, that's the question I was going to say. I'm not saying there should have been or there should be or whatever,

but when the original came out, was there any discussion of whether a man who does not have autism should be playing a character who has severe autism? Yeah, I don't remember either. I don't remember being an outcry. I mean, if if Affleck does have autism, his autistic specialty is smoking outside nike and dinos. Hell yeah. I can get by on that. But yeah, I don't know, did he do extensive research on this? It feels like an accurate portrayal. There's elements of it. I mean, it's a heightened Hollywood.

It's not the worst I've seen. Well, yeah, I mean, there have been some horrific portrayals of this. Head slapping like. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Head slapping robots or whatever. I think it's because it is fairly restrained. Yeah. Also because he's really cool in other ways like that sense that he's like very

Proficient capable what I like about this because I you know I've having recently watched the Denzel Washington equalizer movies Yeah, where you know Denzel's a an excellent actor surprise unsurprisingly. Yeah, but he's finally I mean he's been enough movies. You think you want to get one right. But he's you know, he's not the youngest action star in the world. No. And so like, I'm always really impressed that those movies get the physicality right. I believe that he's a guy, he's an older guy who is as fast and capable as he is. Yeah, I also felt like this in this movie. And I know Affleck's been Batman. Yeah, it's different in a rubber suit as opposed to this. There's a moment in this where they go to a pizza distribution

warehouse, I guess it is, and he's pushed slightly too far by the guy running the operation and he just beats up everybody. And I'm like oh I like I believe this guy is this good I mean he's big also yeah yeah there's a bar sequence with live dancing which is similarly entertaining yeah there is a moment at the end where they have the big shootout which I think is like the weapons training as far as I don't know anything about this stuff but it seems really on point yeah yeah those two like working together yeah also there's an assassin with a super brain. You're thinking that you know when he when he reloads the guns by putting the gunpowder

down the front of the barrel. That's right yeah yeah yeah. Give me a minute. Give me 9.7 seconds. I'm an autism robot man. Yeah um also this actually we do a bit of spoilers on this. Yeah sure. I just want to talk about in terms of there's a group of autistic children who work for him in a control room. Yeah. Well, because he has the... I thought it was an AI. Yeah, he has the woman on the earpiece. I looked it up. She's in the previous one as well. Yeah, but I guess he has a whole team of... They're like his Yancey street gang. Yeah, that's right. And there is a- Or his Baker Street regulars. Very good. Except they're Baker Street very regulars.

I think so. There is a moment where they have to find a- There's an assassin with a super brain in this. And they have to track her down using CCTV footage. And I just think that it's a hilarious sequence. Not intentionally of like Finding her on the street and then fighting a woman who happens to be taking a selfie of nothing where she's in the background Also, they hack into her home. Yeah, like go through all their information Oh, yeah to find that they enhance pictures in ways that you couldn't possibly do it. It's quite funny

Oh, John Berenthal also kicks the guy's head really hard at one point and nearly comes off. Yeah, I like that Yeah, yeah, the third movie apparently will be a buddy film. I count to it's chapter three apparently It's called they're calling it rain man on steroids I think you should say that at all rain man on what if rain man was on steroids He was big and angry Wow. Yeah, what if Rain Man was on a different kind of medication? Yeah. You know, and he had a happier life. Like a different kind of sterile.

Like a different kind of steroid. Like HGH, yeah. Yeah. He was just a monstrous Rain Man. Yeah, I would like that also. Just crashing through the casino tables. Yeah. All the coins fall on the floor and he just propels himself through the crowd.

Just flinging old ladies away from their poker machines. I'm angry and I don't know why. I'm Rain Man. On steroids. On HGH. HGH, yeah. Best movie ever. Do you want to do Havoc next or Snake Eyes?

So you're saying that accountant chapter one origins, it's sadder. I wouldn't say it's sadder but it's more kind of like this man lives a more pitiful existence. Because he does live in a, he lives in a trailer and he doesn't care because it's got all the stuff he needs for people to perceive him as kind of. He's more isolated than whatever and he still is but like yeah. But he's got some friends, he's got the friends who are there with Speed dating and etc. Whatever. Yeah, whatever. Yeah. I don't know how to hang out with this dude. Yeah It's a shame his brother hasn't made any accommodations

Yeah, man, he's slightly different. Come on. Yeah, come on Baranthal who's two years younger than him apparently. Yeah. Yeah Havoc or snake eyes next I reckon havoc. Okay. Um, no. I have a co snake eyes next. I reckon havoc Okay. Um, no, I haven't actually I think they should get David High Pierce for a counter chapter 3. Okay, brother Oh brother. That's right. Whoa. Yeah, okay. All right, man, or Danny Devito Danny Devito. Yeah I'm the older brother I'm even older. Yeah What do you think the story was of havoc a movie by the way, I didn't have time to watch Yeah, I also didn't finish it. I also didn't finish it for a different race. I didn't finish it

Well, here's the thing. So hang on. Let me let me bring up the deets of havoc It's um, it's starring Thomas Hardy another weird unit because it's weird unit Wednesday Weird unit Wednesday, this is Gareth Evans who did the raid. Well, see that's the thing You know, I always confuse Gareth Evans and Gareth Edwards. Why? But this, I don't know. He again, he directed The Raid and The Raid 2, which are incredible Indonesian action movies, incredible fight sequences, incredible car chase sequences, and I'm like, alright

he's doing this thing for Netflix, it's got Tom Hardy famously weird unit. Yeah delightful I'm gonna excited for this Timothy oiler fenders in it as well as wittic is in this great calm and when it started I'm like oh This it's it's got an opening chase sequence, and it just looks like Need for Speed. Yeah, not the movie the video game Yeah, it's so did you watch any of this much a single second? It's just it Yeah, it at no point looks like anybody's in a real car and I'm like what do you... why have you opened your movie like this? I mean is he known for directing that kind of action? Yes. With cars? There's a bit, I can't remember, one of his movies there's a moment where you see the perspective switch from like the cameras on one car and then it suddenly switches to the camera on a nearby car. A second car? And you're like how did they do that?

Well, they got the cameraman to leap from one car to the other car. That's the kind of, like while they're moving. Like it's that kind of, you know, guerrilla kind of, you know, real directing like Hong Kong action cinema, all that sort of stuff. Yeah. And like he's known for everything being real. to real directing like Hong Kong action cinema, all that sort of stuff. Yeah. And like he's known for everything being real. So I'm like, why you open your movie like this, Gareth Evans? Yeah.

What are you doing? Did Netflix make you do this? Why didn't you start with something real, even a smaller thing that's real? Does it look like it's all CGI? Does it look like that it's shot in a white book? I can do that. The Raid. The Raid, is that right?

Bad movie you said? No, I'm saying The Raid is a good movie. Oh yeah, I got it. You got it? do that. The Raid. The Raid is that right? Bad movie you said? No, I'm saying The Raid is a good movie. Oh, yeah, I got it. You got it? Not at night? Yeah. But it looks good, right?

Yeah. Wait, what are you looking at? I'm not looking at the Raid. I'm looking at the Havoc one. Yeah, Havoc. Look how good this looks. Yeah. No, it looks bad, James. It does look bad. I just I'm gonna need to. What is this? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It looks like Need for Speed the video game. Yeah. So I'm saying sorry to everybody who wants it. The speed's off as well. Yeah, I know.

Who's, sorry to everybody who wants a full review of Havoc. Maybe we'll get to it next week. No. But it does, this is not promising. I don't understand why as someone famous for practical effects and doing everything for real Why you would open with this? Look at this. I know you've seen this but watch this. Watch this crash. Yeah. Oh hell yeah I don't know. Awful. Is this all CGI or is it sped up? I don't understand. I think it's all CGI that sequence Not the entire movie. No., I could other than that though What do you think? Ah bad? So you have I do you get past this though? Like ten more minutes. Did you get a nightclub sequence? You get to any of the real stuff? No. Mm-hmm. Okay great review What Mason you've really put a real dampener on me and this I think we should push snake eyes

So I'm in a better frame of mind. Okay. All right next week havoc and snake eyes. No, we'd know that was the havoc review Okay a better frame of mind to talk about it. Alright, next week, Havoc and Snake Eyes. No, that was the Havoc review. Okay. I'm not going to watch it. I would say email in or tweet at us, let us know if the movie Havoc gets any better. Because I wish it did. The Rotten Tomatoes score is not bad, but that doesn't mean or say anything. No.

Should we move it along though? Let's move it along. To what? What we're reading? What? What we're going to read? Yeah. I'm doing the thing. What are we reading to gauge? Now next week we are going to talk about Andor because it's wrapping up.

Oh that's true. I have a lot of thoughts, Mason. Go on. And all of them are negative. Wow. Yeah. But of the Andor I did like it. I do like it.

My negative thoughts are unrelated. Mason, this is the- Just got some negative thoughts. Big time. Mason, this is- Just got some negative thoughts. Big time. Mason, this is Seamless Joe. We talk about things we're watching, reading, doing, saying. Oh yeah. Maybe some people we know.

Oh yeah. What are you doing? Joe? We know Joe. My mate Joe. Yeah, yeah. Do you happen to know a Joe as well? Probably do.

Yeah. I can't think of one. Okay. Wait, no, I do know a guy named Joe. There you go. He's got an infinity Gauntlet tattoo. Really? But he got it pre all the movies. What a dork though. Right, what a dork. Yeah. He's got like the one that looks like a real glove or is it like the full metal one? The original one was like a...

Oh, it's close to the glove I think. Okay, there you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he made a bad decision. Yeah, so we both know Joe's and I think that's wonderful. Cool! What else do you know, aside from knowing who they're called Joe? I know that I'm going to watch the new season of Poker Face. Oh yeah, is all of that out or is it episode? No, it's the first three episodes around. Three episodes, okay, that's good. It's Natasha Lyonne, she's a human lie detector of sorts. She's back as Poker Face.

She's back as Poker Face. And? I don't know, Celebrity, it's a right, you know, it's back as Poker Face. Yeah. And? I don't know. Celebrity, it's a right, you know, it's the twisted mind of Rye Johnson. Did Rye Johnson direct every episode? He might have. Or did he just write it? I don't know, man.

I don't know anything about this. Well, it's good you brought it up then. I'm just, well, I'm just going to, you know, just going to embrace it. It's wonderful. She's on the run from various mobsters and gangsters, including Benjamin Bratt, who you like from the TV series Andor. I do actually like that, yeah. from various mobsters and gangsters, including Benjamin Bratt, who you like from the TV series Andor. I do actually like that, yeah.

But it's, you know, it's the modern day Colombo for people who don't know, you know, we already know. Columbus? Yeah. Didn't he discover America? And that's what she's doing, one little town at a time. So he directs the first episode of the new season, but Natasha Lyonne directs the second. Oh, that's fun.

And then we'll find out from there. Miguel Aterra directs the third. Interesting. What are you obsessed with the directors? There's 12 episodes in this season. Oh, maybe. That's a lot. Maybe.

Cute. Maybe. Claire Duval directs one. Oh, that's good. I like her from things. Is she related to Robert Duval? Yeah, she's Robert Duval's mom. Oh, it's actually Duvalall's mom. Nooo.

It's actually Duvall. Sure. I understand. Anyway, I'm excited for it. A lot of fun guest stars. Cynthia Irriveau is in it. John Mulaney. John John Mulaney. You're my butterfly sugar baby. Yeah, that's cool. She's not related to Stephen Duvall.

No, she is. No, never mind. Go on. Cut all this out? No. Okay, who else is in it? Just, I don't know, it's a lot of fun. I mean, you haven't seen it, so. I haven't seen it, but I've seen the billboard.

So, I'm excited for it. I really like the first season. Well, I'm gonna talk about something that I have read. Okay, go on. Not something I vaguely think I might watch. Okay, you might watch it, though. No, I will watch it. It's called Daredevil Cold Day and Hell.

It's by Charles Soule and Steve McNiven. It's said in the future of the Daredevil universe where an old daredevil, who's no longer a daredevil, he's an old Matt Murdock. And I don't know if you've seen the cover, he's very skinny and wearing a skivvy. Skinny and a skivvy? Yeah. Wow. Have you seen this cover?

No, I haven't seen it. I'm going to show you right now. So it's called Daredevil Skinny and a Skivvy. Skinny, skivvy, daredevil skinny in a skivvy skinny skivvy daredevil It looks a it looks a lot like this for Americans a skivvy is a turtle neck sweater. It looks like that Damn, he is skinny in a skivvy. Yeah, sure. That's not bullseye somehow Are you sure that you don't know what you're saying? Just let me talk and you just shut up for a second All right, you can interject but don't tell me whether or not

this thing is happening, this thing you don't know. Do you see what I'm saying? Are you all right? Is everything all right at home, where we are now? So it's a powerless Matt Murdock in the future. Oh, those are for wine though. Yeah, exactly, have worn off. Okay.

But... Just like the fortune teller told him what happened. Correct There is an event that kicks him like a remutation like kicks him back in the gear So and then it goes from there. There's only been one issue Does he get hit in the head? He gets hit in the head by a bat And a bat lays in like a flying bat and it gives him his sonar power back. Because he eats the bat. Yeah. He plucks the bat out of the air and he eats the bat.

That's right. Wow. Also he has to ride around the submarine. Interesting. Sonar. It's his new ability. That's how he uses it. This is nothing.

Mason. So he just leaps from building to building a submarine. Okay. Evil doers beware. Clang. We're recording in the middle of the day. I know, right? Why are you so loopy? I don't know. Because you've had a caffeine. I've had a caffeine. Yeah. Anyway, that's what I've been doing. I like it. I'm going to continue it. Great creative team. Good, interesting story. I like old people

in the future, Marvel stuff. Yeah, yeah, that's true. All the trade paperback of the first story arc of the comic book, The Power fantasy, which I've recommended on here before It's out. I got the trade paperback. So I'm gonna bring it over here and you can read it I would love to read it. You can read it. Then we can maybe talk about it I love to talk about delightful on our big sand. It's not delightful. It's a little bit horrifying, but you know, that's delightful in itself It's cool. It's interesting. It's a new kind of superhero world. I love superheroes and I love worlds. Mm-hmm. What's next? Next is letters. This is where we have letters. That's right and there's a theme to letters. I'm ready to hear it for the first time.

What do you think so far? I don't like it. Why not? Who made this? Rackham. Sucks. Rackham 424. Sucks. Wow. Well then you. Rackham won't mind me saying that though, right? No, not at all. I mean, you, you, you, that's a slap in the face to the 23,000 people who played this on YouTube. That doesn't mean they all like it. That's true. There's only 1.1 thousand thumbs up. Can we pump those numbers up, folks?

If you can find this, pump it up. Pump it down. Pump it up. You can't even see the downs. What a waste of time. No, you can use the thing and you can say them now. Wow. If you get it... An waste of time. No, you can use the thing and you can see them now. Wow. If you get it.

An extension. Yeah. Yeah, right, okay, I don't think you should. All right. Anyway, if you do want to reach the show, it's simple. You can simply shoot Mason a short and prompt Gmail. Short and prompt. To weekly Planet.

Don't be late. To weeklyplanetpod.gmail.com. Or I'm ready over at the Planet broadcasting great mates group where I have a thread every week and you can post a question. And some of them will get answered and spoken about. Yes. You got some good ones this week, don't you, Mason? I got some good ones. Here's an email from Lily.

Lily? Who says, I'm scared of Peter Capaldi. Why? Lads, I'll cut to the chase. My very talented musician mother is opening for Peter Capaldi very soon. Whoa. He makes music. I had no idea. Me neither. She's gonna put me on the guest list and there's a chance I might meet him.

What do I say? And do I avoid embarrassing myself in front of the doctor slash Malcolm Tucker? Thanks boys knew I could count on you. My mom's called Zan Tyler. Zan with an X. Sweet name. X music. I don't think he would introduce.

He'd just be like, Hey man, love your work. He sounds very nice. Peter Capaldi. Love your work is fine. Here's a fact that I learned about Peter Capelli. Yeah. Is that, you know, his version of the doctor wears like a hoodie and like he has sunglasses. He has the sonic sunglasses instead of the screwdriver.

It's because he insisted on that because I guess you get some input if you're the doctor, you get some input on wardrobe. He got the input there because he's like, well, there's probably families that don't have a lot of money. And so they can't buy the elaborate outfit and they can't buy the new sonic screwdriver and blah blah blah but the kids probably already have that stuff yeah you can just you can just be Doctor Who on the playground nice stuff you already have so I thought that kids cosplaying as old Doctor Who I'm so old I'm gonna tank yeah I didn't like those seasons but I like Peter Cavalli.

I like him too. I mean, I didn't, I think I probably didn't give him a fair shot. And as every year with Doctor Who, I've stopped watching them at the episodes. You know Dermot Mulroney, the actor? Yeah. Who's in Scream franchise and other things. I know Dermot Mulroney. He's also a musician, did you know that? He's on a bunch of... They all are, mate.

No, but he's on a bunch of like movie soundtracks. Oh yes, no, that is true. Yeah, he plays the cello, I think. I play the cell, that is true. Yeah. He plays the cello, I think. I play the cello I think. And other things. And other things I think. I'm doing my Mulroney. Duh.

I'm like, Dermot Mulroney. Agreed. Play a violin. Probably can. Yeah, but I'll see it. You want to see it? Oh, you want to see it, mate? Yep.

Yeah. I reckon you'll be fine meeting Peter Capaldi. All right. I will. Okay. You should. Yeah. I think live your work is fine. Yeah. Hey, big fan. Yeah. Or if you have a very meeting Peter Capaldi. All right, I will. Okay, you should. Yeah. I think love your work is fine.

Yeah. Hey, big fan. Yeah. Or if you have a very specific question, I don't think you'd mind if it's a short one. Yeah. Yeah. Alex in the Great Mac groups... You should ask him. You should say Peter Capaldi. I've heard you wore Gucci sunglasses on Doctor Who because you wanted poor kids to not be able

to afford to dress as the doctor. In fact, you insisted. That's right. Yeah. Say why you saw such a bad person? Why are you doing that to us, Peter. In fact, you insisted. That's right. Yeah. Say, why are you such a bad person? Why are you doing that to us, Peter Capaldi? Why are you doing that, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Alex Galwins, who's a rising contributor in the very nice group, wow. That's very good. Said, hello, do you think Star Wars will ever get that special feeling back? I know that's a broad term, which is subjective, but in general, I think we're mostly disillusioned with the franchise. And if it can, what will it take? For me, Andor is, does that. Right. I agree, but also in the future, I think also're mostly disillusioned with the franchise. And if it can, what will it take? For me, Andor is, does that.

Right, I agree, but also in the future, I think also, yes. It comes and goes. It comes and goes, I think some will. Like, you know. It might be 20 years. Yep, and obviously, you know, controversially, Brian Johnson's The Last Jedi,

I felt it then. Me too. I felt it with Andor, I think it's great. You felt it with Ahsoka. Exactly, so good. That sequence where you see it every once in a while. She's fighting the zombie stormtroopers or whatever and she's like doing the really lackluster lightsaber work. Just like real end of the day, real 5pm swinging these lightsabers. Obviously we know that's because of technical changes and

etc. Didn't they change the lightsaber? No I think she said I want to do it slow. I don't feel like doing it. I don't feel like it. On the day she's like nah, I didn't do it. I don't feel like it and my stunt person doesn't feel like it either. Hey Rosario Dawson did you do all the training for the big lightsaber fight at the end?

Nah I didn't feel like it. What are you going to do? What just face replaced me like you did with Luke Skywalker? fight it there? Nah, I didn't feel like it. What are you going to do? Just face replace me like you did with Luke Skywalker. Whatever. Yeah. Well don't. But I think in the future, again as much as I make fun of Star Wars for being mostly bad, which it is, I think there will be some bright sparks. You know, people who grew, I think a lot of the time it is even generational where the people who grew up on some of the

really good stuff will come up into this world and just make some really good you know but sometimes they'll put like screws in the star wars universe and that or bricks and bricks those are right out of the world yeah you know it throws me out of star wars there's people in star wars and there's people in the real world so to me it's like well you've just done the same thing haven't you okay if i may be critical of one thing in and or there should be some more muppets. Yeah, okay. There's almost no muppets. Well, you haven't seen all...

I think there's more muppet stuff, background muppet stuff, but yeah. Muppets are expensive. It's true. You gotta make them. Just get a visual effects guy to do it. Oh yeah, it's easy. You can use this goat one. I don't care.

You can borrow that. Borrow? Yeah. Yeah. Honestly. Here's an email from Shane. Shane? He says, I won't take your recommendations. What?

Yeah. Hello, mates. At the end of your podcast, each time you tell us to recommend your show to a friend. I do, but no one listens. I often recommend shows, movies, podcasts, books, et cetera to people, but rarely does anyone ever come back and say they listened. Of course, I can't blame them. Most of the time when people recommend something to me, I think that sounds nice, but I never follow through why don't people listen to each other's recommendations anymore That's from Shane from Phoenix. Did they ever I think it's too much. There is a lot of stuff Also, I think if you physically hand somebody something that's different. Yeah, this movie

Or maybe a smaller snippet of something. Yeah Or like a just read this, you know five page preview of a comic I think people will get invested that way no, but I think you're right There is too much stuff and people like man. I got a lot of stuff going on Yeah, unless you if somebody recommends a podcast to me unless I immediately go to the app Yeah, put it in and hit start on an episode and then it's ready the next time I'm ready to listen to a podcast probably won't come up. Also, I find I never listen to Recommendations ever because I don't really listen any of them. That's true. I find as well, oftentimes when, you know, maybe there's a forum post about,

hey, what's a TV show? Hey, what's a TV show? What's a TV show? I'm Frozen Caveman. What's a TV show? What's a TV show? Oftentimes the- I've figured out a computer, but what's the TV show? Yeah, I skipped that um oftentimes if it's a if it's a Somebody asking for recommendations people would just leave a recommendation and that's it. Yeah, it's like you should watch this show That's the end of the sentence the wire. I'm not the wire. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, it's a great show, but like yeah

Nobody's straight blow. Yes people everybody nobody elaborate nobody elaborates They're just like you should watch the wire. Why well, I'm not I don't have time Yeah, and then you like okay that well, that's just two words. I don't exactly you need to give dark angel. Yeah Yeah, I should my I Was very fortunate when the first the first because the the why used to be on it like 3 a.m. Yeah, like Channel 9 Yeah The first, because the Y used to be on it like 3am on like channel 9. Yeah. And I happened to be coming home from something and I happened to watch the first episode of the first season. Kyle XY!

So gone. Where's his belly button? And like the opening sequence to the, if you want to, if you're trying to recommend the Y to somebody, show them the opening sequence of the first episode. And if they don't get on board with that, probably not going to be interested. But I found that. Terra Nova. the first season Maybe because it was three in the morning. They were on a new earth earth to But I you know that I find that yeah show on the first and if it's if it's a well constructed show that

Will draw and as they're watching it. They're like oh, thank you guys in this Yeah, oh my god. Where's that guy's belly button? That's compelling That's right. I meant for the wire. I'm talking about the wire. They don't have belly buns in the wire Yeah, I'm yet to have watched the wire actually think that I recommend it to me because if you do I'll make sure I don't Mmm, I'll go out. You also don't write you also don't watch things out of spite a lot of it's true. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm Yeah, um, what else I got here got one from Jordanvey. Also, just going back to that Star Wars thing. I think that Star Wars feeling, it's different for different people depending on what you like and the age that you are. Yeah, it's true.

So, you know, different properties. Some people love Cowboy Hats Star Wars. And that gets them going. I love the Mandalorian versus Grogu. I thought the first season of that- It's good. I think the first season of that did have that feeling Yeah, I'm like all this is you say okay Here's the here's the limitless world of Star Wars and they've gone with Star Wars Western

And I thought that was fun, and it's it's that episodic hmm You know Lone Ranger kind of goes to a different town every I need a part for my ship the Mandalorian well You're gonna have to shoot me for it. Okay. No, could you get it for me? No. No, this is the episode.

Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum. The end. Agreed. Yeah. But then it got too way down. It did. It should have just been two guys. And a series of Boba Fett.

Yeah. In the middle. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Jordan A.V. who's an all-star contributor says, do you ever build any Lego sets? What are some good ones you've done? Have you done any? I have one that is currently unconstructed. It's an Adidas Superstar. It's one shoe. Cool. Is it a left or a right? You can do either. Can you fit in it? No, but it is my size. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, but I bought it. 17. Yeah, it's a size 17. It's an Ois. I bought it, but it's in a box somewhere. I haven't put it together yet.

I just thought it was a fun novelty. It's fun to have a shoe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just thought that was yeah. Yeah, cool. And you can construct as little as you like. How realistic is it? It's I'm wearing it right now. You said you didn't construct it. Well I did. You got your foot in the box. right now. You said you didn't construct it. You got your foot in the box. I couldn't afford any real shoes. That's literally a Nike shoe. That is a Nike shoe, correct? Yes. Is that how you made it into a Nike shoe? Yeah, I'm very creative. You got a lot going on. That's the thing about Lego. What's the Lego you make? Because you make a lot of Lego for your kids. I do. Do you have Lego Optimus Prime? I do. I asked for that for my 40th birthday. My mum was like, we've got some money for your birthday. What do you want? I have everything.

I don't need anything. I have more money than you, mum. Yeah, I'm rich in love and literal money. I said, mum, you idiot. That's right. There's nothing you can offer me, mum. And I was like, you know what? I would never buy this for myself,

but I would love the Lego Optimus Prime. And she's like, what? And I'm like, yeah. And she's like, you asked. Yeah, she's like, yeah. She's like, come on. And she's like, yeah. She's like, yeah. She's like, come on. And I'm like, you wanted something? This is what I want.

And I got it and I built it with my son. I love how it was a battle. Yeah. We can get you anything. Can I have this? Why would you want that? It's my birthday. We'll get something sensible.

Fine. I'll get a Lego shoe. Yeah, that's right. I got my Sad for Christmas the bumblebee, the bumblebee version, which he mostly made by himself, which is that's fun as well. My daughter loves like frozen sets and whatever.

She's kind of getting into it and all of that. Also, I did over Christmas, I made this myself. I took individual boxes and I made each of them an advent calendar and cut up the instructions so every day they'd have a new piece of instruction. A different shoe that they were making. So that was what, also as I was cutting all that up

and putting it together, I'm like, this is a pain in the ass. But it'll be great. I'll probably do it again this year. Did you take that idea from the internet? No, no, a friend of mine, Sean, who you know, he gave me the idea. So yeah, you just got to take a,

you have to do with a reasonably sized, you don't want to go all out and get, also you want to be something that's kind of, you don't know what it is. So they kind of figure it out as they go. So that's kind of how, and it's a fun, it's a fun little adventure. Did you notice speaking of Optimus Prime? You know the company that made the really complicated remote control operating Optimus Prime,prime, Transform and it did that. Did you notice they did two Bumblebees? They did a Bumblebee that doesn't transform. And they never re-bought that. And then they were like, well, that one does transform.

You dogs. Why would anybody want the Bumblebee that doesn't transform? Here's something that's, I guess this is an exclusive. I know what the next, I'm pretty sure I know what the next Lego Transformers thing is. Oh, so not this, but the Lego. Yeah, I've heard that it's Soundwave. Did you hear this from your friend, the Lego man? Yeah, I heard it from Brick Man from the Lego Brick Man TV series.

I'm not going to say who I heard it from. Okay. But... Did you hear it from Starscream? Because he's a notorious liar. I did actually hear it from Starscream. Yeah. Was he all, ew, James! Yes, he Yes he was! It's going to be Soundwave! Yeah. Also apparently something to do with, if they did Megatron they can't do a gun. They can't do a gun Megatron. And also Lego doesn't like doing

military equipment, like real-life military stuff. Like they had a problem with doing Star Wars initially because they were like, we don't do war stuff. But then Disney was like you want money? Yeah, like money. Well, this is pre Disney, but yes Yeah, looks like you like money. I love money. I love money I like money. So I was like it might not maybe that's not true. I just sound like makes sense Yeah, is a cassette is a cassette. I think it I think they did say it was a it was a take play And then you can add like yeah little stuff good whatever's going on. Anyway, I don't know whether that's true, but that's what I heard. Got another letter? I got one more letter.

I'd love to hear it. This is from Catherine. I'm open to any and all criticisms. Okay. Well, this is not a criticism. She says seven hours of pain for the pod. Hey boys, my name is Catherine. I'm from Vancouver, British Columbia, and I've done something possibly mad.

Please see a attached photo of the tattoo I got today. Now you've seen it, James. Yes. There it is. It is a very colorful, very wonderful tattoo of the not often recurring character, Jurassic Snark from the podcast, which is a velociraptor who loves gossip

and drinking wine in the daytime. And being catty. Being catty and mean. Love the- It's very good. Yeah, love the pod orange wine and dinosaurs So this just felt so right if you want to go to the planet broadcasting great mates She's also posted in there if you want to say it. It's great Yeah, I agree please shout out to birdie tattoos from port moody at black rabbit tattoo who did the stunning work She couldn't have been better to work with

She says I have a question for you both if you could pick a specifically podcast related tattoo for the other person What would it be? Oh for the other person? Yeah, that's right. I have you it was it would be rude Obi-wan and be showing his bottom Wow. Yeah, what would you have on my bottom? Yep. Wow. No on your face It's great. Okay. I'll tell let's go. I think I always think that I think I've mentioned this to you before I think the I'll ask you mentioned this to you before I think the I'll ask you which one you you want the least and you have to get that one So it's it's it's the classic love heart with the dagger through it all the and then the scroll Oh, I like that is either YouTube or podcasting And you have to get it on your bicep

You ever get I think biceps somewhere like because you got this like the short sleeve t-shirt You have to have to be sticking out there and people will be like, what's that? And I have biceps is what you're telling me. Yeah. And they'll be like YouTube. Cause I think, I think whatever profession you have, it should say, you know, the one where it often says mom or somebody's name. I think it'd be funny to get YouTube. It's just like, cause it's a brand.

Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So I would get YouTube. Yeah. Nice. And I do love YouTube. Yeah. Yeah. And meta. Can I have meta?. Yeah. Nice. Great. I do love YouTube. Yeah.

Yeah. And meta. Can I have meta? You can have meta. You can have meta AI. Okay, how about this? You have a, it's a podcast on your chest. It's a tattoo on your chest.

It looks like a shirt pocket. Loving it already. And hanging off the shirt pocket is a pair of those Ray-Ban meta AI glasses. Oh, wait a minute. Frankie Rogers got a Jurassic Snark one a few years ago as well. I forgot because I was just looking for this now. Wow, this is good too. Oh wow. These are good. People are getting tattoos. I should get a tattoo. Yeah. Yeah, if you want to be cool. Yeah, yeah. I do want to be cool. Yeah. Great. Great. What I said streaming video

That's worse, but YouTube is funny. You're right. Yeah, I love Mark Zuckerberg coming out climbing out of his hole and big like Fucking get back in your whole might Just like we hate you a go away. What's fascinating? Is all the articles that are like Zuckerberg's cool now. He's not cool now. Yeah, what are you talking about? You're saying he's cool now. No one thinks he's cool. No one thinks he's cool. No one's falling for whatever this is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's only learning elaborate martial arts because in the future people are going to try and kill him. When society collapses, people are going to be like, I think we should probably murder this billionaire. He's like, well, now I'm Jiu Jitsu or whatever. Yeah. And again, Facebook is given, as there was an article, whatever, there was some congressional hearing. Was it on Facebook? Yes, it was, but they've given up on like, basically admitted that we

don't connect people anymore. Yeah. It's just individual feeds, feeding you AI nonsense. And I don't know. You think it's great though. I mean, yeah, I like that it's crashing and burning. I mean, yeah, you made a, you made a service which had been done before, which connects people and then you lost sight of that for some reason.

Right. And, and then you're trying to get people put fucking Oculus shit on their face so they can go to work and their boss looks like a fucking tiger or whatever. It's terrible. Why do you think people don't want it? People don't want this? People don't want this. They don't want to see each other less, but also more. Do you know what I mean? It's like, I don't get to interact. I only get the work part. That's right. But I'm talking

to like a fucking baboon. And then I switch off my Oculus and it's just black. And then I take the headset off and I'm like, well, I'm just in my house alone now. And it's nighttime because I was at work all day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. At least everything's closed where I live now. So I can just stay home. That's great. Yeah.

There's real value in having friends. Mason, that's the show. That's the show. Oh no, I got one more. It's Jesse Newwell, who's a top contributor. He says, find the standoff funniest memory from your teaching days. I mean, there's a lot and a lot of which I cannot say. But the one that always-

When I was teaching, obviously, when a student said, well, you can't break 20 boards in a row with a simple karate chop. And I'm like, well, I'll prove you wrong. And I said, hi-yah. Yeah. I did. You did a punch there though.

Yeah. Yeah? Does that count? Well, you gotta, you know, they think you're gonna zig, you gotta zig. You do gotta. Yeah, you gotta. Yeah, yeah. This is, I don't know, this is one story. I probably told it before.

Sky had a kid in my class and he was like a bit of an odd duck, which is my favorite kind of kid. Oh yeah, absolutely. And I got a call, which I don't normally take, I have said this, I'm sure I've told this story, I got a call from my mum that my grandpa had died. So I picked up the phone and I'm like, oh yeah, no, thank you for telling me. I appreciate it. I hang up. I'm going to stand there for a second. This kid comes up and he's like, and he was there. He's like, what's going on?

And I'm like, oh, I don't know why I said this. I'm like, oh my God, I just found out my grandpa died. And he goes, what's his name? This is how he talks. And I go, uh, his name was Jack. And he goes, Jack McDonigal? And I go, what? No, you think you just like have a shot at this guy's name?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. you just have a shot at this guy's name? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He thought it was a cash prize. I just thought it was really funny. He was like, fuck it, I'm going to guess and see what this guy's grandpa's name is. Look, I think he would be a great guest for this podcast because a lot of this is just word association.

I completely agree. Anyway, awesome. He's out in the world. Yeah. Anyway, awesome. He's out in the world. Yeah. Probably an adult now. Probably. All right.

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Somehow they revealed it and or survive the events of rogue one if that's in the post credits I thought that in with Tony without Tony Gilroy now I like funny they're like we put you we fell into the tree of life and dimensions or whatever oh yeah I guess I use the tree of life and dimensions I forgot that I thought you're gonna be like I say like something if it breaks like serious Star Wars canon like I don't give a shit no no going to be like, say like something if it breaks like serious Star Wars canon, like I don't give a shit. No, no, absolutely. But that would be like, oof, I don't think it would ruin the rest of the series. I'd

just be like somebody had made something stupid. Yeah, I guess that's true. Yeah. Unless Tony Gilroy did it himself. Yeah, but I think if you went, if you, if you took in retrospect, if you went, oh, look at all these characters that we saw throughout both seasons who made a sacrifice for the greater good and they're never coming back and obviously, you know, because this is a battle, this is a conflict and it's got real consequences and at the end you're like, they're like, oh yeah, we, you thought he got blown up but he fell into a carbonite, whatever

and he survived. Fell into a carbonite pistol and shot him into space. Shot him into space. Safely. That's right. And Mandalorian and Drogo picked him up. Yes. God, I would love that. Now they're on a team.

Now they're on a team together. Pascale and Diego Luna? Yeah. On a team? I agree. It would be cool. With little Grogu. Little Grogu-let.

Yeah, that's right. All right, we're moving it along. We're moving it along. To the end of the show. To the end of the show. Don't you have to go to work now? I do have to go to work. Sucks for you.

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