025 - Mos Eisley Donuts

It’s Episode 25 and MJ & Nath are celebrating the only way they know how, eating donuts and talking a whole lot of pop culture. 

All your favourites are back, with The Zest, The Re-View and The Aisle packed tighter than a box of jam-filled goodness. Nath cracks open the Weird Files with the mysterious case of a Tupperware Ghost, while MJ debuts a brand new segment, the Mos Eisley Mailbag which dives into delightful letters from an ‘80s UK Star Wars magazine.

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SPEAKER_09 0:00

I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven trailers on my list. I've got two. I win.

SPEAKER_10 0:09

You're always gonna win because I my my my notes are not comprehensive this way.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Let's get the podcast started. MJ and night.

SPEAKER_09 0:33

Hey, welcome to the Pulp Culture Podcast, your weekly dose of all things pop culture, freshly squeezed for you. I'm Nate. I'm MJ. And happy 25th anniversary. We did it. And did do you know what the um do you know what the uh the gift is that you're supposed to give on 25? What for like marriages and stuff? Yeah. What is it? It's personalized silver. What does that mean? I don't know. Foil. Foil.

SPEAKER_10 1:06

I guess it means something you can like wear, like jewelry or something.

SPEAKER_09 1:09

Oh probably. Yeah, probably. But I I did the next closest thing to personalized silver and I brought donuts. Yeah, okay, I can see that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:19

Yeah, but I've got an imagination, I can see that. Yeah, absolutely. Oh well, thank you. No, I didn't bring anything. But happy 25th. Yeah, I forgot it was the 25th until we sat down and I looked at my notes.

SPEAKER_09 1:29

No, it's a it's in a it's an exciting event. We're at uh we're at a quarter of a century, so uh we're almost at half a year's worth of episodes. I know, it's amazing. So that's pretty exciting. Onwards. But uh welcome listeners, thanks for your company. Yo. Uh yes, we did have a bit of a technical issue last week. And um what was the technical issue's name, Matthew? Yeah, I don't know. It was just terrible. Um but we had a well what we did have is it it changed our voices to like chipmunks. So um And we didn't release this. And we didn't release this. We're doing that as a Christmas album. There's something to not look forward to. Yeah, Nathan MJ's Chipmunk Christmas album. Yeah now. But uh but but uh yeah, we'll uh we'll keep a close eye on what's going on this week and um make sure that uh we are um at our normal dulcet tones. Yeah, all things considered.

SPEAKER_10 2:35

Stay away, brainiac, you're not welcome here.

SPEAKER_09 2:37

No, definitely not. But uh maybe let's get into the zest. Alright, Mr. Trailers.

SPEAKER_10 2:47

Yeah, what do you got? Um I've got a couple of some trailers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 2:51

Um Godzilla Minus Zero. Oh, I didn't have that one on my list. Have you seen it? Yes, it's amazing. Yeah, it doesn't look good. Yeah, yeah, I'm excited for it. Yeah, I'm excited for that too. I want to go back and re-watch minus one. Definitely. Um just just as a refresher. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it looks great, looks fantastic. Yeah, so looking forward to seeing that one.

SPEAKER_10 3:10

Um looking forward to seeing that one on a big screen.

SPEAKER_09 3:12

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, be wild. Yeah. Imagine that on IMAX.

SPEAKER_10 3:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 3:17

That'd be cool.

SPEAKER_10 3:18

What have you you got? Because I think you've got a longer list of trailers than I.

SPEAKER_09 3:20

I do have a longer list. Uh and and then you obviously if I overlap with you, you let me know.

SPEAKER_10 3:25

Well, uh, yeah, but my notes this week are all over the place. So um you you take the lead on this one and we'll see how we go.

SPEAKER_09 3:32

All right, I'm on the apprentice trailer, Mr. Trailers. All right. Yeah. You're on notice. Masters of the Universe International trailer we got this week. Have you seen that one? Uh I haven't.

SPEAKER_10 3:45

I saw that it came out, but um, I've been a bit busy and I haven't had a chance to watch it. Yeah. Anything anything new?

SPEAKER_09 3:50

Yeah, so we just got a couple of smaller um, we got a couple of smaller things. Um just just sort of uh a little bit more of the background shots of what to expect Eternia to be like. Uh we saw a little bit more of um Adam's life on Earth.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 4:07

Um and there's a bit of comedy relief there. Feels a little bit like um that Green Lantern comedy relief that we sort of had between Ryan Reynolds and who was it? Who was these Tika Waititi. Oh, was it was it really? Yeah, it was. Oh wow. I've completely forgotten about that. Yeah, I know. Um, but it's that type of comic, you know, comic relief that you get between those two.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_09 4:30

Um, and then a little bit more of him sort of um pepping everybody up when they're in the jail.

SPEAKER_11 4:37

Yep.

SPEAKER_09 4:37

So um it yeah, look, it's it's there's nothing really new about it, but it it there was just more of a cohesive story in that trailer than we have had in the other trailers.

SPEAKER_10 4:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 4:49

We saw Skeletor, we heard him laugh a little bit. There's still no Orco. Still no Orco. I don't think he'll be I don't think he'll pop up in this one. I think he'll maybe he'll be like the teaser at the end, you know, post-credits scene. He is I believe he's gonna be in it though, isn't he? I don't know. We'll soon see. Yeah. I don't think it really matters. I think I think there's uh there's enough characters in this to um, you know, to have another one doesn't really matter at this stage. I hope he's in it. Yeah, we'll see. We'll we'll see. I'm not I'm not too worried about it.

SPEAKER_10 5:19

No, no, that's fair, but I I hope he's in it.

SPEAKER_09 5:21

Yeah. One one that's probably on your list is Clayface. Did you have Clayface down?

SPEAKER_10 5:26

Yes. Yeah, I was just talking about that with producer Kim uh before we recorded today, because horror's not our jam. Yeah. And it's definitely not her jam. Yeah. But I think she's in.

SPEAKER_09 5:36

Yeah, body horror. It's gonna be a big body horror sort of you know film. Um and yeah, really interesting. I mean, body horror's not usually my jam either. What is body body horror? It's it's it's where the where the you know like parts of the body fall off or deformed, you know, like deformed features on a big thing.

SPEAKER_10 5:55

So it's based on fear of things happening to parts of your body. Pretty much.

SPEAKER_09 5:58

Yeah, yeah, pretty much. But um, and it can be quite gory. Like if you if you think of something like The Fly, where he was like taking out his teeth and you know, his face is you know, his ears falling off and all that sort of stuff. And that's body horror. That's body horror. Um, the substance, that's another you know, film, body horror. Um, so yeah, it's usually not my jam, but I'll I'm gonna give it a crack, see what it's like.

SPEAKER_10 6:20

I'm 100% there. Yeah, yeah, like given uh the the stuff that we've had from bat other Batman villains over the last 10 years, um I'm I'm including Gotham, the TV series. Yeah, like we had some really great um interpretations of of Batman villains in Gotham. Yeah. And then of course we had, you know, the two Joker films with um Joaquin Phoenix, yeah. Um and uh the first one in particular that I thought was amazing. Um, and then of course Penguin. Um I can't wait to see what the the next um interpretation of of um a Batman villain under the spotlight is.

SPEAKER_09 6:57

Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be great. I mean I've I I did like how we saw a silhouette of the um of the classic mace that um you know that that he kind of wields.

SPEAKER_10 7:08

I saw uh look there I saw a clip on Instagram comparing shots of um the movie trailer with the animated series episodes where Clayface debuts, I can't remember what they're called.

SPEAKER_11 7:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 7:20

Um but uh it's amazing how they they seem to have borrowed from from that or it mirrors that at least. Yeah. Um yeah, I'm really excited about it.

SPEAKER_09 7:29

Yep, yep.

SPEAKER_10 7:29

So I'm sure it's gonna give me the creeps and not give me nightmares and stuff. Um but bring it on. And I'm excited that it's part of James Gunn's DCU as well. Yes. Like I'm s I'm I'm excited that they've confirmed that it is part of that. It's a uh not a prequel, but but it's takes place before anything else we've seen in the DCU, apparently. James Gunn's confirmed.

SPEAKER_09 7:51

Yeah, yeah. It's sort of an early 2000s, I think. Okay. I think that's where they were sort of timelining it. It's interesting to me. So um yeah, I will look, I mean, what that does is it opens the door for you know Clayface popping up in other properties, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_10 8:06

I wonder where he else he would pop up. I mean, maybe Creature Commandos. Yeah, it's possible. Yeah, like I wonder whether maybe he'd pop up in Creature Commandos season two. Yeah, it's possible. Um because we still don't have any idea when we're gonna get Batman in this uh DCU. Like I know that I know that they're working on Brave and the Bold and stuff, yeah. But we haven't really seen any, you know, castings.

SPEAKER_09 8:28

No, nothing. So it's quite it's very quiet at the moment.

SPEAKER_10 8:31

Um do you still have hope that perhaps um the Matt Reeves version of uh Batman might merge with the Coron Sweat version of Superman and all the other stuff that's in the James Gunn DCU?

SPEAKER_09 8:44

What what's your I I would like I look, I you know, I actually really like um Pattinson as as Batman. Yeah. Um I really enjoyed that take on it. I don't know if it sits inside the James Gunn universe. Yeah. Um I I I would see I I would see that that James Gunn's Batman's going to be more the the blue and yellow and grey than it is going to be the dark and black and uh gloomy.

SPEAKER_10 9:14

I s this this clayface trailer's got me thinking about that though, because I mean it's so dark or different. Yeah, yeah. Like it's it's so completely different to to what we've got in Superman. Like there's darkness in the Superman uh movie, but uh nothing like this. And so if if if if this can fit in the same universe, like I think it's just uh it's a different uh beast. Like what we people are comparing it to the MCU, inevitably, because the MCU is a Goliath.

SPEAKER_02 9:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 9:44

And in the MCU, you know, i it's changed a little bit with the introduction of uh both like Deadpool to the MCU and um certainly with the incorporation of the Netflix shows like Daredevil, you know, there's definitely a different tone there. Yeah, but uh on the whole, we've sort of had a a cohesive kind of uh I guess family-friendly tone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And and so this is a really different experiment that James Gunn's undertaking, and I really like it because he's right, you know, comic books they even though they do all exist in the same universe, they do have very different uh colours and tones and and voices. Yeah. Um so I I I definitely think it's possible that they could do it. They yeah, they could do it. I mean, I'm not sure I'm not sure that I I want them to do it because I kind of like I I I love the Matt Reeves universe. I really like I said I enjoy I really enjoyed Penguin. I love the first film. I'm looking forward to the second one. I like the love the prospect of some of the characters that we're gonna be getting in the second one. I don't mind it being its own universe. Um but yeah, I just I I wonder whether that's the direction they're gonna go in or whether they're going to give us a completely fresh and different, you know, James Gunn fied version of Batman.

SPEAKER_09 10:59

He does do a very good James Gunn does do a very good job of showing us day and night and what that looks like in in you know um cities and locations and people and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 11:12

So you know, is he painting he could very well be painting the picture that Gotham is the light, bright hope of you know, the world. Metropolis, you mean? I mean, sorry, metropolis, yeah. And then Gotham is is you know the place that you just don't want to be.

SPEAKER_10 11:27

Well that's the juc. I mean, that's the juxtaposition that exists in the in the comics in any form, isn't it? Like that's that's the whole point. They're they're flips of a different coin. Yeah. Um yeah, no, it's just interesting. Like I because I I'm just fascinated to see which direction they go in.

SPEAKER_09 11:44

Yeah, I I I I think we're gonna get a younger Batman. I just got it, I've just got that feeling, you know, that we're gonna have a younger sort of Batman so that they can carry it a lot longer. Pattinson's not that old though. Pattons' not that old. Um I just don't I just don't know if he sits in that James Gunn cannon. I don't know. I I look like I said, I like him. Um I just don't know if that's the direction that you know we've seen him go in, if that makes sense. But you know, like you say, with Clayface, it's open.

SPEAKER_10 12:13

Yeah, I really like Pattinson as Batman as well. Yeah. And if they decide to merge it, I'm fine. And if they decide not to, then we get another interpretation of Batman, which I'm also fine with.

SPEAKER_09 12:22

So I I'd probably just like Patton, you know, if if Pattinson's gonna be in it, I'd just like them to probably level him up a little bit and not be so emo, you know, and moody. I'd like him to be a little bit more, you know, that that Florent uh, you know, um sort of over-the-top billionaire.

SPEAKER_10 12:40

Um that's certainly something that they can easily do, though. Oh, yeah, absolutely. The character of Batman goes through like he he he I don't want to say matures because he still dresses up as a bat and beats up criminals every night. But um he he he certainly grows as a person, especially as other people come into his life. Yeah, like um, you know, we saw Selena come into his life in the first one, and if if he uh meets the likes of you know Dick Grayson or Tim Drake, Jason Todd, um that'll level him up again. Exactly. Like it it opens him up, like yeah, Batman, as solitary a figure as he often is and as a lot of people want him to be, yeah, he's someone that yearns for family. Yeah, that's true. You know, he misses his parents, and um, you know, as he meets all of these other people and sort of adopts them into his um existence, yeah. Um he grows as a person. So yeah, that makes sense. I can certainly see them doing that if they wanted to.

SPEAKER_09 13:37

Yeah, yeah, I'll look, I'm I'm all for it, looking forward to it. Um, and um let's let's let's see what what comes out of it.

SPEAKER_10 13:44

Yeah, that's just stimulates the imagination as well.

SPEAKER_09 13:47

Absolutely. Uh we also got a Street Fighter film. Uh we we got the trailer for Street Fighter. Have you seen that one?

SPEAKER_10 13:54

I have. Uh I've watched it a couple of times and I reckon it looks really fun.

SPEAKER_09 13:57

Yeah, set in '93. So when they when the game was released. Yeah. Um, and um, so yeah, we've got uh some uh some some fairly interesting names in there. We've got a couple of wrestlers, Jason Mamola's gonna be in it. Yes, it's a big year for him playing uh playing uh sort of different creatures. He's having a wonderful time with Lobo and he's gonna be Blanker in um in the Street Fighter um film.

SPEAKER_10 14:22

So um Yeah, add to that the fact that he was in the Minecraft film last year, was it?

SPEAKER_09 14:27

Uh yes, he was in Minecraft.

SPEAKER_10 14:29

He's having a good time playing playing in some fun toy boxes, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_09 14:33

Um so so yeah, so I I look again, I you know, they're really playing into they're really leaning into that that that um that game and there was a couple of you know tapes where you saw I think it was Ken who was uh beating up on the car like he did in the game, and yep, um and we we saw a lot of the signature moves from a lot of the characters. Yeah. Uh so I don't I you know they're definitely not shying away um by any means um that that this is a Street Fighter film. I think that's great.

SPEAKER_10 15:10

I I I love that um so many films are doing that now. Just like lean into what you are, yeah. You know, let let what you are be unique. It reminds me of you know the one piece live action. Yes, you know, uh that that that works because it it really leans into the madcap nature of it. Yeah, definitely. Um and I am excited about this Street Fighter film. Like I played the game back in the day, but like I've said, I'm I've never really been a huge gamer. Yeah. So I don't have heaps of affection for it. I know some of the characters and stuff, but um, I think it looks really fun.

SPEAKER_09 15:41

Yeah, yeah, from everything we see, it looks great. I just hope that the storyline is enough to carry it through, you know, that we're not not just waiting for the next fight scene to get to get to the next part. But um look, I I look, I don't think it's gonna win an Academy Award. Um, but uh look, I'm I'm looking forward to it. It'll be fun.

SPEAKER_10 15:58

Some funny stuff's won Academy Awards over last year. Well that's true.

SPEAKER_09 16:02

Um uh you've probably got this on your list, Coyote versus Acme. Uh I don't, but I should have. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_10 16:09

No, see this is this is like I said, my my notes are gappy. But um yeah, Coyote versus Acme, we've we've I almost said Coyote versus Ugly.

SPEAKER_09 16:19

Different film, yeah, very that's a that's the uh Jerry Brookheimer sequel. Yeah, I'd watch it.

SPEAKER_10 16:24

Yeah, but um no, Coyote versus Acme. We've been waiting a long time for this one.

SPEAKER_09 16:28

We have, and and they even the the funny thing about it, even in the trailer they're saying like the movie that studios didn't want you to see, and and I think that that's fantastic that they've really played into that, and that we've been waiting a long time for.

SPEAKER_10 16:42

Yeah, um well we thought we were never gonna see it, didn't we?

SPEAKER_09 16:45

Yeah, and it's um Will Forte is playing the lawyer of uh Wiley Coyote.

SPEAKER_10 16:50

Yeah, he looks like he's playing a real um straight man.

SPEAKER_09 16:53

Yeah, well, I I don't know how far that'll go in the courtroom. I think we'll probably see him back to his normal I suspect so. I I would say so too. But uh yeah, and um John Cena is the villain, which was a bit of a surprise to me. So um yeah, that'll be that'll be an interesting one.

SPEAKER_10 17:09

Yeah, no, I think it looks fun, and I'm I'm I'm definitely gonna go and see it. I want to be part of the making a statement um uh globally saying, you know, don't write these movies off tax purposes, give us more.

SPEAKER_09 17:22

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_10 17:24

Give us give us Batgirl.

SPEAKER_09 17:25

I'm all follow give us Batgirl. That maybe we'll get that one day. Free Batgirl. We'll get that one day. Uh we also had Jack Ryan Ghost uh Ghost War. Yep. Um that looks fantastic. It does. Um, this is the follow-on from the last season, which I think was season four. Um so pretty, I'm pretty sure it was season four. So uh we um and and yeah, this looks like it's a on on a big international scale with different different countries, a lot of action going on. I don't think it's gonna be one of those films that you walk out feeling energetic and refreshed. I think you're gonna be pretty exhausted after it.

SPEAKER_10 18:06

It looks um, I mean it looks like it it fits in well with the previous cinematic um Jack Ryan's that we've had. It remind reminds me of Patriot Games and Um Clear and Present Danger and that sort of thing.

SPEAKER_09 18:16

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So I'm I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. I like John Krasinski in this role. I I I think he it was great casting, I agree. Um and and he enjoys that character as well. So um, you know, you it's a it's a match made in heaven, and um looking forward to it. Yep, totally. Um another one on my list is um Man on Fire, which is uh Netflix production.

SPEAKER_10 18:39

Have you don't think I've seen this one?

SPEAKER_09 18:41

Okay, so you know the Man on Fire film, which was uh Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning. Yep. Um so this they've they've turned this into a Netflix series. Who's in this one? It's gonna be your favourite, uh Mr. Wonderman himself. Oh, a Yeah. Yeah. Oh nice. So uh so he's playing um uh I think it's John Creasy. John Creasy. Uh and uh in in this role I don't think I'm not sure I've even seen the original film. Right, okay. Definitely worth um worth checking out.

SPEAKER_10 19:15

You know my policy on Yeah is I'll watch you meant anything.

SPEAKER_09 19:18

Yeah, so um it looks pretty gritty and um and pretty raw. Following that storyline of uh he is you know pretty he's pretty damaged from from uh from his career and being in in in um in in war and uh he sort of gets a lifeline to uh just babysit essentially a um a uh uh a daughter of someone who's quite um I don't know if they're famous in this one or whether they're a senator's daughter in in South America.

SPEAKER_10 19:56

Actually, now now that you mention it, I have I have seen the original, but I think I've only seen it once.

SPEAKER_09 20:01

And then she gets kidnapped and you know he then you know sort of gears up and goes goes and rescues her.

SPEAKER_10 20:08

That's a really good um uh vehicle for yeah yeah.

SPEAKER_09 20:12

Martine II. And he's got a serious beard going on, and um yeah, he's he he he looks like he looks the goods. So uh such a talent. Yeah, um I'm I'm really looking forward to this one. I really love the film. Um, and so I'm looking to see how they're going to sort of interpret that now in a series. Yeah. Um you know, I I think we'll probably get more of seeing that that damaged side of um of of Creasy Um that we we saw a little bit of in the in the um in the film. So yeah, that's that's those are the trailers I've got. Is there anything that I I miss that you that you have?

SPEAKER_10 20:49

Uh I don't have any more trailers, I've just got bits and pieces of of news.

SPEAKER_09 20:53

Yeah, perfect. What have you got uh newswise for this?

SPEAKER_10 20:56

Oh actually I did have one. Um I did uh I wrote it in the wrong section of my notes, but um uh we get we got a teaser for s the new season of Silo. Oh yes, I've seen season three. Yes, um very interesting. Yeah, it is really interesting. Like I think we'd heard that this one's gonna go back. It's gonna be a prequel, yes, so it shows how everybody ended up in the silos. Correct. Um so it's probably not gonna feature any of the actors that um we're familiar with.

SPEAKER_09 21:25

We we get we get uh from from what everything that I've read so far, we'll get small glimpses of current characters, okay, but majority of it is going to be and and they even sort of say that in that teaser trailer that you know to understand to understand where they are and what they're going forward, we need to understand how it began.

SPEAKER_10 21:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 21:45

And I think that that really sort of set the tone, right?

SPEAKER_10 21:48

Well the teaser very strongly features Rebecca Ferguson and all of the actors that we've seen previously. So presumably gonna they're gonna be in it somehow, as you say. Yeah, but um, yeah, I'm excited. To have it back because it's such a fascinating series.

SPEAKER_09 22:02

Oh, it's it's it's fantastic. And I mean, the end of that teaser trailer when they showed the original silo area, like the that was phenomenal.

SPEAKER_10 22:11

Oh, nice and sparkly clean.

SPEAKER_09 22:13

Yeah, I was really excited about that. And I mean, we got a little bit of that at the end of the last season of Silo as well, where we saw that that prequel of the two of them meeting in the bar and and that. I don't know if you remember that part. So that's that was kind of that that lead into what we're gonna start seeing now in this in this new season. If you're not watching it, this is a highly recommended series. It's on uh Apple TV.

SPEAKER_11 22:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:41

Um, and uh it's it's essentially about amazing cast. Uh yeah, amazing amazing cast. It's essentially about a society of people who are living underground in what they call a silo, um, and it's like 100 stories high, yeah. Um, and different levels of society and uh how they function living underneath the earth, really.

SPEAKER_10 23:05

Um and they've all been there their whole lives, like yeah, none of them remember none of them have been. Anything less than like they don't remember, they've never seen the sky. No, it's um it's fascinating, and yeah, it stars Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Steve Zahn.

SPEAKER_09 23:21

Um but but but nobody's safe in this um in in this in this series, you know.

SPEAKER_10 23:26

We've had we've had leads that haven't lasted, and we've had you know supporting characters that haven't lasted, and no, well they've got I mean they've got sort of law enforcement and um uh structures of government and things in place, but it's all very tenuous.

SPEAKER_08 23:41

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_10 23:42

Um yeah, that's it's a fascinating series, and I'm really looking forward to it being back. It's back in July.

SPEAKER_09 23:48

Yeah, so this will be the this is the second last season. So, and then we'll see what happens after this one. So built to a big climax. Yeah, big climax. So yeah, looking forward to that. That's a good call, that one. Um yeah, absolutely. Um on my list, I had something really exciting. Okay. Uh we've got some cereal news. So, cereal as in the breakfast cereal. So uh yeah, uh Kellogg's is bringing back the uh cereal box toy. Um wow. So it's been a long time since they've had um I I I I believe in the US alone it's been over a decade um that they haven't had toys in cereal boxes because you know, choking hazard and whatever, whatever, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 24:31

Um, but uh they're bringing back a uh a toy for Toy Story 5 in conjunction with Toy Story 5.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 24:39

Um and it's uh Woody, Buzz, and Jesse spoons and their heads removed. So you remove the head and then there's a spoon underneath it. So you've got the body with the spoon head.

SPEAKER_10 24:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 24:51

Um and so yeah, those those three will be in boxes. Disembowel them. You just take their head off and then the spoons underneath. Okay.

SPEAKER_10 24:59

I was just trying to make it sound more exciting.

SPEAKER_09 25:02

Okay, well, I'm eager to see that. Yeah, so that'll be and that's an international release, so um, so we'll get it here in Australia. So looking really looking forward to that one. Fun. Yeah, I reckon so. Yeah, good. What else you got?

SPEAKER_10 25:14

Um, I've got a little bit of casting news. Oh, yes. Um, apparently uh Adria Arjona.

SPEAKER_09 25:20

Oh, yes, I had that on my list too.

SPEAKER_10 25:22

Yeah, this is great. We know her from um Andor. Yes. Um, she played Bix Clean in Andor. Um I thought she was magnificent in that in that series. Yeah. Um yeah, she's been cast in uh Man of Tomorrow, so the Superman sequel. Um uh I don't know whether it's been confirmed, but there's been talk that she's been cast as the character Maxima, who's a um big cosmic uh antagonist, I would say. She's not really a villain. She's got a thing for Superman, doesn't she? She does, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 25:51

Um for her, isn't he?

SPEAKER_10 25:54

Yeah, she's kind of like the Raza Ghoul of Superman. Yeah. You know, she wants to use him to uh perpetuate her own empire. Yeah. Um but um I'm really excited that uh she's uh apparently been cast in Man of Tomorrow because it just adds to a an epic list of of of the the cast members of that of that film. Um but yeah, Adria is um uh a fantastic actress um with an already long list of credits, um as I said, um most notably recently um being in the Star Wars series andor.

SPEAKER_09 26:29

Yeah, I I'm I yeah, I I I love that. That's that's um that's an exciting casting if that if she is it. Yeah. Um but I I I would much prefer I she was it there's sort of this is she Wonder Woman or is she Maxima? But I I I kind of like her steered towards more Maxima because it's because she's got that range of you know that she can play. Yeah, and I think that she would be much better suited to to Maxima.

SPEAKER_10 26:55

I I think Maxima would be uh a a great role for her. Yeah. Um I have always been able to see her as Wonder Woman. I've also always been able to see her as Zatana.

SPEAKER_09 27:05

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_10 27:06

Um so if she ends up in any of those roles, like if they surprise us and you know throw one of those into the mix, then that's fine with me too. But um, I'd just be happy to see her involved in the new DCU. I think she's gonna be great. Yep. And it's a and it's a good casting.

SPEAKER_09 27:22

So looking forward to it.

SPEAKER_10 27:24

Um the other bit of news I had was that uh they're developing uh an Ocean's 11 prequel. Oh yes. Um Margot Robbie's uh producing and starring um as uh Danny Ocean's mother. Um this is set in the 60s? It's set in the 60s, apparently around the Monaco uh well a heist uh set around the Monaco Grand Prix. Fantastic. Which I mean, uh like the stylistically that sounds like magnificent. It's gonna be wild. Yeah, and apparently Bradley Cooper's attached to Star as um Danny's dad and also to write and direct.

SPEAKER_09 28:02

Oh, really? I didn't know he was directing, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_10 28:05

Which I think would actually be probably a really good fit for him. Yeah, absolutely. And he he sort of seems to like that sort of stylish genre type thing.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 28:12

Um, and yeah, I really trust Margot Robbie's producing now. Yeah. Like she's really um made some really great decisions with with her um uh producing producing credits over the last um bunch of years. So um yeah, I think that's uh got a uh it's a real recipe for success.

SPEAKER_09 28:30

Yeah, that's that I I I look, I love the Oceans films, they're they're right up there in my favourite heist films. So um I'm looking forward to uh you know another another story to tell in in the Oceans uh series.

SPEAKER_10 28:43

Producer Kim and um 17-year-old went and saw um Ocean's 11 in a theatre this week. Oh wow, um that's cool. It was part of a uh series of you know retro screenings that um I think it's village have got on at the moment. Oh right.

SPEAKER_09 29:00

Um is there an anniversary? Is that why they were 25 years?

SPEAKER_10 29:03

Yeah, wow.

unknown 29:04

Wow.

SPEAKER_10 29:05

So um and they had a great time. So yeah, obviously.

SPEAKER_09 29:09

Sits right in the theme of uh of our um our episode 25. Completely. Happy 25th, um oceans. Didn't even mean that. Um anything else? Oh, I've got heaps. Uh Space Balls 2. Oh yes, the new one.

SPEAKER_10 29:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_09 29:27

Uh so uh Mel Brook Mel Brooks.

SPEAKER_10 29:29

Mel Brooks, the the title, yeah. Yep. I I'm a little bit disappointed that it's not called the Quest for More Money.

SPEAKER_09 29:36

Well, for that for the moment, right? You know, it might that they might bring that back.

SPEAKER_10 29:40

In my heart, it'll always be called The Quest for More Money.

SPEAKER_09 29:43

Sure. Um it came out this week that Dark Helmet uh will parody uh Kaiway Wren's helmet in the new film. That is excellent. That is excellent. I'm looking forward to seeing what that looks like.

SPEAKER_10 29:58

That is that might be the best news of the of the week. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 30:03

So um get excited about that one.

SPEAKER_10 30:06

I'm very excited about Spaceballs too.

SPEAKER_09 30:08

Uh we also uh we also got confirmation that uh Austin Butler and Michael B. Jordan are officially confirmed for Miami Vice. Yes, I saw that. So they so Michael B. Jordan got his money by the sounds of it. And um uh yes after he won the Oscar.

SPEAKER_10 30:26

Yeah, they've paid up. Yep. Um they the movie's got a new title, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09 30:30

It does, and it's uh Miami Vice 85. So they're very much leaning into that uh era now.

SPEAKER_10 30:38

Yeah, they're making it very clear that they're very clear uh part of that uh uh 80s nostalgia resurgence, and I think they're separating it from the uh the film that Michael Mann did um with um Jamie Fox Jamie Fox Colin Farrell, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 30:53

So I think that I think this that they needed to have that separation just in case people thought, oh, is this a sequel? Is this a prequel? What does this look like?

SPEAKER_10 31:01

I don't I don't hate it, but I don't think they needed to.

SPEAKER_09 31:03

I don't think it's a problem. No, I don't think it's a problem.

SPEAKER_10 31:06

You don't think there's any risk that people are gonna think it's a sequel to Wonder Woman 1984?

SPEAKER_09 31:10

Oh well I'd love to see a crossover, that'd be amazing. No, Crockett and Tubbs hanging out in the um Invisible Jet. Yep. That'd be awesome.

SPEAKER_10 31:19

Chris Pine winding in the backseat of the car.

SPEAKER_09 31:23

Feeling left out.

SPEAKER_10 31:24

Maybe it does have potential.

SPEAKER_09 31:25

Yeah, absolutely. Uh uh Shredder and Crang are going to feature in uh TMNT's uh Mutant Mayhem 2 film, um, which is fantastic.

SPEAKER_10 31:38

I love that first one.

SPEAKER_09 31:39

It's really interesting, right? Because at the moment the Turtles property is in such a state of flux because the to because the toy line is getting handed over to Hasbro. Um, they've cancelled the uh the ongoing uh series, the cartoon series, yeah. Mayhem. Um, but they're still going ahead with this second film.

SPEAKER_10 31:59

Well, it's I mean the the comics is still going strong. Yeah. And the first film was magnificent.

SPEAKER_09 32:04

Yeah, yeah. So I I mean I'm looking for it, don't get me wrong. It's just it's just that property's in a little bit of a you know, all over the place at the moment.

SPEAKER_10 32:12

At least it's still kicking.

SPEAKER_09 32:13

It is.

SPEAKER_10 32:13

Uh and sorry, Star Trek.

SPEAKER_09 32:17

Well done.

SPEAKER_10 32:18

Yeah, but I mean, at least it's still, you know, chugging along. Like um, you know, it it poor Star Trek, as we've talked about in previous weeks, you know, um, once we've had these two ser two upcoming series released, um that's it. It's done. Well, I mean, it won't be, I'm I'm sure just for a while. Yeah, I'm sure they'll announce something. I'm just nervous about what it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_09 32:39

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um uh The Phantom is getting a uh live action TV series. I did hear something about this, but not not Heaps. It's in the works. There's no Billy Zane? Uh well, you know what I you know, I I saw a fan theory this week that it would be great if Billy Zane was handing over the reins to his son. Why not? I what I thought that was great. Great opportunity. Yeah, why not? So I hope I hope they incorporate him in some way. Yeah, well the character lends itself um to that. So yeah, why not? So the Ghost Who Walks, getting a getting a uh TV series, no uh studio attached at this stage or any actors. Yeah, it was just sort of a big announcement. Um and uh yeah, let's let's wait and see. I mean, I'm sure that we'll we'll let you know once we have um more news about that.

SPEAKER_10 33:27

It'd be very interesting to see how they do that. Like uh I'm I'm not sure I can't picture what sort of a tone I would think it would have. Yeah, but um yeah, hopefully it gets in the right hands and and we get something quality out of that.

SPEAKER_09 33:40

Yeah, absolutely. We also got a poster of uh lantern's TV series this week with an interesting tagline. With an interesting tagline. What was the tagline?

SPEAKER_10 33:50

Uh the tagline was uh something like only one can wear the ring.

SPEAKER_09 33:54

Only one can wear the ring. That's correct, yes. Which is an interesting um uh concept. Do you want me to give you something even more interesting? Yes. The previous teaser trailer that we have spoken about quite in length on on a previous uh episode. Yes, it is gone, it is disappeared, it is being pulled from every single social space on the internet.

SPEAKER_10 34:18

That's interesting.

SPEAKER_09 34:19

It does not exist, it is gone. So the YouTube's gone. YouTube's gone, Instagram gone, Instagram gone, Facebook, tick the Tok Toks, uh, it's all gone. It's all being pulled. That's strange. Interesting. I don't know what that's all about. I don't know what that means. No. Um but I mean we are it it is projected that we'll get a trailer in the next coming weeks. Okay. Um, but I don't know what that means by pulling a trailer up um after releasing it, and it it got millions of views. Like it was like three million or four million views. I mean it it was high.

SPEAKER_10 34:56

Well, it was polarizing too, which uh took me by surprise.

SPEAKER_09 34:59

Yeah. So so yeah, so it's been pulled. So I don't uh yeah, it interesting. I thought the internet was forever. Right. Well, I mean, they've done a very good job of of uh wiping clean the slate. So uh look watch this space. We'll as soon as we know something, we'll we'll let you know.

SPEAKER_10 35:17

But um yeah, well well what do you make of that um uh the poster? The well and the one wear the ring? Yeah, more than more that motto that they've got on there.

SPEAKER_09 35:26

Yeah, I don't know. I mean it it I mean when I read it, it it just came straight to mind it was Highlander, you know. There can only be one, you know, and then you have to behead the other person.

SPEAKER_10 35:37

But you know, again, I was just I was talking to producer Kim just before we recorded about this, and and I mean the theory is that there's only meant to be one lantern per sector, and Earth is in sector 2814.

SPEAKER_09 35:52

But we've got like five or six of them.

SPEAKER_10 35:54

Well, I I count six off the top, like I count six off the top, and if you include Teen Lantern, that's seven.

SPEAKER_09 36:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 36:01

Um so yeah, I mean we've you know, we're rebels, we've got some issues on Earth, don't we?

SPEAKER_09 36:07

Where where we need seven lanterns just to just to cover our sector. Is that so surprising?

SPEAKER_10 36:13

Us pesky humans. Um yeah, but it's interesting to me because um James Gunn's pointed out that the Clayface series takes place in the DCU, yeah, and he's pointed out that it's the first um property of from the DCU to take place out of uh uh chronological time. So so this one, as we said before, is uh uh a prequel. Yeah. So presumably Lanterns when it comes out is gonna take place after Superman, in which we've already seen it'cause they were talking about Guy Gardner being in Lans. Because I was kind of thinking that maybe this was going to be a uh take place before Superman.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 36:57

But if that's the case, I don't understand why James wouldn't have pointed out that that that was the case in in when when he's pointed out uh Am I making any sense? The timeline is very timey liney, isn't it? Yeah, but it but it like I mean if if if this does take place after Superman, clearly there's another lantern. Because we've seen him being obnoxious and flipping the bird at tanks and stuff. Um so yeah, I I just find that that really interesting. Um Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 37:27

I look, I look regardless, I'm looking forward to the series. Yeah. Um I can't wait to, you know, have you know Big Green back on the screen. August. And um yeah, I'm just I'm just pumped for it. I don't care um about whether we see him in a suit or not, or whether he's got green around him, whether he's flying. We will. I I I don't care about any of that. I just I just want to see him on the screen.

SPEAKER_10 37:50

Well, I think we will, and uh, and whether it's at the the the end of the series or yeah, whatever, I mean this is not gonna be the end of the gr of Green Lanterns in the DCU. This isn't this is not gonna be the last that we've seen. We know this. Yeah, like John Stewart's gonna be in Man of Tomorrow. Yes, um, at the very least. Um this this is just a beginning.

SPEAKER_09 38:10

Did you see that casting um and this sort of speculation that maybe Marsha Manhunter is going to sort of pop up? No, I hadn't seen that. Yeah, there was I can't remember the actor's name off the top of my head, but um yeah, there there's sort of this um this sort of this speculation that uh maybe Martian Manhunter's gonna pop up as well. Well anything's possible now, isn't it?

SPEAKER_10 38:30

I mean it's yeah, D DC doesn't have any um sort of no boundaries, is there? No, there's like there's no there's no legal boundaries in terms of like Marvel still has a little bit with Spider-Man and you know, sort of solo Hulk films and that sort of thing. There's no um they they can throw anything in.

SPEAKER_09 38:49

So they won't sell you and sold their properties.

SPEAKER_10 38:53

Well, yeah. Different time. They had their reasons and they had their needs. Did you know Michael Jackson nearly bought Marvel? Have you ever heard that story? I think I knew something about that.

SPEAKER_09 39:03

It's amazing.

SPEAKER_10 39:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 39:04

Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_10 39:06

What a what a different time that would have been. The Michael Jackson Marvel Cinematic Universe, the MJMCU. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 39:14

That'd be that'd be wild. All kinds of wild. That'd be all kinds of wild. Uh but anyway. Yes, moving on. Just one last thing I wanted to touch on. Uh it came out in the news this week that uh a new study's found that Gen Z is the most active moviegoer at the moment. Okay. Uh, and and this is an international survey. This is what four-year-olds? So this is uh 19, so those that are born from 1995 to 2012. Right. Um I can never keep up with so that's like out that's like at like our kids, right? You know, that it sits in sort of that pocket. All right, steady on. But uh yeah, so I I I find that's a really interesting. So it's that like you know, mid-20s, you know, sort of croaching up to to uh 30s.

SPEAKER_10 40:02

It's interesting, isn't it?

SPEAKER_09 40:03

Um yeah, very interesting um uh uh statistic uh that um it's the younger generation that are really sort of coming to going to the movies, but we've seen that resurgence also in physical media with them as well. So um, but so so yeah, Gen Z keep going to the movies. We um we want to keep keep get keep that alive. All right, let's open the weird files. Yes, let's. So do you want to do dealer's choice or do you want me to choose this week? I thought we only had one left. Well we had uh we we we had um we we did have Tupperware Ghost, but I've got some extra ones now.

SPEAKER_10 40:49

Okay, excellent.

SPEAKER_09 40:51

So so I've I've put Tupperware Ghost down a little bit because I've got some extra I've got some better ones. Um so I'll give you Dealer's Choice again. You're saving the worst or last. Uh we've got unlicensed wrestling, we have Pastor Lego, and we have Kanye Concert Air.

SPEAKER_02 41:10

I don't want that one.

SPEAKER_09 41:14

I want the Tupperware one. You want Tupperware ghosts? Yeah. Alright, I'll uh I'll find your Tupperware ghosts. Yep. Florida man. Okay, good start. Busted after trying to exchange ghosts in Tupperware for a GameStop credit. Okay. Uh this wasn't a trade-in. This was a haunting. Florida man is facing charges after police say he walked into a GameStop and attempted to exchange what he claimed was a captured ghost sealed inside a Tupperware container for store credit. This wasn't the same guy as the Invisibility Cloak's. Definitely not, definitely different different guy. Oh, that was that was in California. That was in California, yep. So, yes, he's asking for store credit. He's not asking for cash, he's asking for store credit. Of course. And GameStop in the US, they they they they um obviously have a secondhand license, so they're happy to exchange for credit or money. Um so according to reports, employees were left stunned when a man allegedly placed the container on the counter and calmly explained that it contained a real spirit he had trapped and was now looking for trade. He said that it was rare. Uh one employee said, like limited edition. Uh staff say that the man insisted that the ghost had value and should qualify for trade in just like a game or console, allegibly asking for what kind uh for what kind of credit he could get for it. Um then when things took a turn I'm glad they took a turn. Uh when employees refused, explaining that they did not accept paranormal entities as part of their uh inventory, the man reportedly became frustrated and and doubled down, claiming that they were missing out on a huge opportunity.

SPEAKER_10 43:04

He didn't go out to his truck and get a frozen squirrel.

SPEAKER_09 43:07

No frozen squirrels this time around. Uh witnesses say that he even warned staff not to open the container saying that the spirit inside was active.

SPEAKER_03 43:15

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_09 43:16

Police were called shortly after. Officers arrived and removed the man from the store after the situation escalated, and he now faces charges tied uh to the uh disturbance. Customers in the store couldn't believe what that they were watching. Uh one of them said that I thought it was a joke, one witness said, and then they and then I realized that he was completely serious. GameStop employees say that this is easily uh one of the strangest trading attempts that they've ever seen because while they deal in used games, they do not deal in the supernatural.

SPEAKER_10 43:51

Well, at least now that's on the record.

SPEAKER_09 43:53

There you go. So there you go.

SPEAKER_10 43:55

Another weird files. Florida man takes the bad dress. That's just what that Line should be stay off drugs, kids. Stay off drugs. No boy.

SPEAKER_09 44:04

Well, we've got uh we've got some exciting uh ones coming up in the in the next coming weeks. We've got unlicensed wrestling, past the lego, and Kanye concert air. Strapping everybody. Get get excited. We know you love it. Uh let's open the tomb.

SPEAKER_10 44:28

What do we got?

SPEAKER_09 44:29

Oh, we've got some news actually. Uh I I I had some news, and then just before recording, I I this came uh quickly into my feed. Okay. Um so first of all, uh Brendan Fraser, Wacher uh Weiss uh said that they've signed on because that they loved the script. Um and that also that uh which is best described as a high-stakes adventure that honours the 1999 original. Okay. So that's good. That's nice to nice to hear. I mean, um so I'm I'm really excited about that. What I what I am interested in in is is that the we we announced this quite a number of weeks ago um on the tomb, uh, that the mummy had set a uh slate at a date, which was for May 19, okay, uh 2027.

SPEAKER_02 45:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 45:20

That has now moved to October 15, 2027. So it's after the summer break, which is which is really interesting now.

SPEAKER_08 45:29

Nathy, just need to make a bit of a correction on something that I got really wrong when it came to the dates. Uh, it was originally slated for May 19, 2028, um, and has now moved forwards by seven months to October 15, 2027.

SPEAKER_09 45:48

This is the pocket where there's really nothing on. Okay. Uh, and I think that they were competing against some other films around about that time. And so I think that they've moved it so that it's a completely open for them to you know gain as much box office as they possibly can.

SPEAKER_10 46:08

Okay, good. If if they're able to do that, then that's good.

SPEAKER_09 46:11

Yeah, so um interesting. I mean, we we're hearing a lot about these slates moving, you know, there's a lot of like Jamunji 3's moved, and um, you know, the speculation of Marvel moving, and you know, um, so everybody's sort of moving in juxtapositioning. It's trying to. That's not it's normal though. Yeah, but something like this, so far out and already moving it's it's it's slate. I mean, they haven't even started filming yet, and they're already making an announcement of changing their their their dates. So um it's an interesting one anyway, regardless. But um, yeah, there you go. That's the tomb.

SPEAKER_10 46:45

Can't wait for the film. So I can't wait for it either. No, very excited.

SPEAKER_09 46:49

Anything else from you from the for the zest or the tomb or uh the weird files?

SPEAKER_10 46:55

No, I think I'm I think I'm done with those.

SPEAKER_09 46:57

Alright, let's get into the aisle.

SPEAKER_07 47:00

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SPEAKER_06 47:04

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SPEAKER_01 47:40

Figures with weapon birds sold separately.

SPEAKER_10 48:00

What have you been reading? Uh absolute Batman. Yeah. 19. You've read it. Should we talk about it? Yeah. Uh I don't want to spoil it for people though. They'll die. It finishes in 20.

SPEAKER_09 48:11

Um that would be something. Oh, that would be that would be horrible. Yes. That'd be the end of comics. Uh well, steady one.

SPEAKER_10 48:23

It'd be dramatic. That'd be shocking, but um, no. Um that'd be the end of DC. They'd lose all that money, wouldn't they? Absolute Batman number 19, heck of an issue.

SPEAKER_09 48:32

Oh. Wild. So we had we can we can talk about we can talk about some of it.

SPEAKER_10 48:37

Well, we knew we knew we were getting scarecrow, and we sure did. He's interesting. Interesting take. Yeah, he is.

SPEAKER_09 48:44

Interesting, very interesting take.

SPEAKER_10 48:46

I was apprehensive about reading about him because he looks so creepy.

SPEAKER_09 48:49

He is super creepy. Yeah, yeah. He's he's coralline on on on acid. No, nobody wants that. Um but uh yeah, he's he's a really interesting sort of take on the character. But this issue had so much more. Um more than you expected.

SPEAKER_10 49:06

More than well, more than I expected. Like it had uh character development on in several areas, yes, some of it really dramatic. Yes. Um uh yeah, it was it was uh a bit of a jaw drop of of a of an issue, this one.

SPEAKER_09 49:21

Yeah, we've got the introduction of the robins, we can say that without giving anything away.

SPEAKER_10 49:25

Um and what that's I mean it it sort of sets them up for revealing more information in issue 20, which we know.

SPEAKER_09 49:32

Yep, yep. So so this is so there's a really interesting, and then obviously who is uh essentially driving the robins. Yeah, that was uh which is which which is a bit of a bit of a spin. Yeah. Um and and that some very dark stuff there, yeah, extremely dark stuff there. Um but but again, absolute, you know, universe is is doesn't disappoint. No, it's it's just when you think you've got it worked out, you really don't have it worked out.

SPEAKER_10 50:00

No, it's this issue like really reminded me of the of the expression a lot of people say about the absolute universe, it doesn't pull its punches. Yeah, and this one I felt like I got punched in the face about three or four times. 100%. Um, you know, one of them a really big punch, yeah, um, which I won't talk about. Yeah, um, I'll let people read that for themselves. But um, yeah, uh a really great issue. Like if if issue 20 is gonna be a big one, and it certainly seems like it is, it's got a whole bunch of variant covers that people have been clamoring for. I know that I've ordered one myself, um uh it's uh it's gonna be big.

SPEAKER_09 50:34

Do you uh while we're talking about variant covers, do you think that we're getting into a bit of a comic bubble with these variant covers? Or do you think I mean like we get a lot we get a lot of variant covers, and and we've talked about this, you know, about how great it is to have variant covers and they are artwork, you know. I mean, essentially we're getting a a piece of artwork from a from a really talented artist. Yes. Um but do you think that we need so many variant covers though? Um no.

SPEAKER_10 51:07

We we don't need any. Right. Um in in you know, in theory, we don't we don't need any of them, but I don't think that's why we're we're getting them. And I mean you just said it, uh for me, they're works of art. Yeah, like I don't buy there's a lot there there are speculators out there, like you know, we we run into them in the shop and in the community, and there's people that are out there that are buying them to invest.

SPEAKER_09 51:32

Yeah, they're all they're always have, yeah. There's always been there's always been traders, right?

SPEAKER_10 51:37

Exactly. But as we know, that is a very dodgy proposition, and it's a very risky thing to be getting into because you don't know what's going to appreciate in value. Yeah. Um I certainly don't have any idea, and that's never been something something that I've uh had as part of my makeup as a comic fan. Yeah. Um I buy them because I like I mean, I only buy them if I like the covers. I don't buy them because they're rare or they're likely to increase in value. I buy them because I appreciate them as works of art. And I think that a lot of people, you know, uh I've talked about it on here before, but there's a lot of people posting on say Instagram and TikTok now about their uh weekly comic reads. And you see in the background of their pictures, they've got comics mounted on the wall, which I think is wonderful. Um, I do a little bit of it myself here as well. I've got a few uh covers framed. Yeah, um, and I think that that's for me, that's what um where the benefit of the the variant cover comes in because some of them are beautiful artworks and they look nice displayed. And that's the the benefit for me. That's where the real appeal for me is. And so yeah, I'd we don't need any of them. Yeah, but then they are nice to have, and it's nice to have a range of choices so that people can buy things that suit their particular um you know tastes and sensibilities.

SPEAKER_09 52:56

Yeah, I just don't know if we need 30 of something, you know.

SPEAKER_10 52:59

No, we don't we don't need 20 of something. We absolutely do not need 30 of them. But I mean half the stuff we talk about on this podcast we don't need. And that's the whole point of it. You know, it's it's it's it's not because we need it, it's because um it's available. Well, it's because it's it's fun and because you know, and I guess to a certain extent, you know, we need it. I mean, this is stuff that gives our life meaning and it uh it gives us um something to talk about and it it it opens up a uh a community, um, you know, and that's a broader conversation, obviously. But um no, of course we don't need so many. But um if the companies are gonna put them out for us, um then why not? But doesn't mean we have to buy them all. No, no, no, no. You know, when when I talk about I'm buying you know a a variant cover here and there, I'm not buying all of them. No, I'm just you know buying the ones that I that you like, appreciate and that I like, and I could see myself you know hanging on the wall at some stage, yeah, and probably will.

SPEAKER_09 53:56

You know what I did see this week? Um that talking about hanging on on the wall uh is these new uh covers that cover uh uh acrylic covers that are UV resistant. Uh so that the comic covers. Yeah, the these these uh that you can put like clam the like clamshells that you can put your comic in, okay, hang it on the wall, yeah, and they're UV resistant so that that way the sun doesn't bleach the uh the the the cover itself. Yeah, I I which I think's great. I'm a big advocate of not hanging your comics outside. Yeah, no, but inside the house, and if the sun's coming through onto that particular wall, okay, it will bleach the the the the the cover, and so eventually it'll fade. Wouldn't you just hang it on a different wall? Well depends, right? It depends how much wall space you've got. Can you close the curtains? Well it's really dark in here. Can you open the curtains? No, I'm sorry, I've got comics on the wall.

SPEAKER_10 54:51

Aren't all comic readers like me and they're all they're all shut-ins anyway?

SPEAKER_09 54:56

Just in a corner with a pile up on beside them and like reading vampires. Little tiny little slither of light just shining through just enough for reading. But who else does it any other way? Hit us up on the socials and tell us if you're yeah, tell us if you're a hermit, a comic hermit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 55:14

Join this her join the hermit life.

SPEAKER_09 55:16

Uh I've also been reading uh Transformers 31. Yes. Um this is another great uh issue. Uh this is talking about the matrix of uh oppression. Uh this is the matrix of oppression is obviously the the opposite to the matrix of leadership, which Optimus Prime uh had. Yep. Uh and uh this is a uh solely a Megatron single issue. This is about Megatron's journey and where Megatron is uh heading towards and um they at the very end with you know I'm not spoiling anything, they're kind of insinuating that Megatron's about to go through a bit of a change. So I don't know what that means. Um I I don't know whether he's um gonna become Galvatron or whether he's gonna, you know, he's he's gonna sort of change from being a gun to a tank or you know, uh a jet or whatever. But there's kind of that sort of that insinuation that something is is happening. These big things happening for Megatron. He is like he his internal struggle is is real. Like he's having some real issues with um having possession of the matrix of oppression. Um and that is just messing with him completely and how he's functioning, and we're seeing all of that happening in his circuits, in his in his brain. Um none of this is out in the open, this is all happening in in his head.

SPEAKER_11 56:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 56:58

Um and it's a great it's a great issue. It really is a good issue. They again, you know, like the absolute universe, um, you know, Transformers is is a surprise and delight with every every every issue. That's a great title. Yeah, and and it really is. And you know, the last title, which was which was dirty, like tipped it on its head um with uh, you know, change of leadership. And um and uh but this one was uh I I really loved that they did a standalone just with Megatron.

SPEAKER_02 57:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 57:32

Um and it really gave you some insight as to why he is and what he's actually doing now and what that means for the future for the Decepticons and you know what type of formidable enemy they're going to be for the Autobots. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 57:49

So yeah. Yeah, no, I've I've still got to catch up with with Transformers, but um I'm really excited that I've got a bunch of issues to to read through because it is it's a great series.

SPEAKER_09 57:59

Yeah, yeah, lots of fun, lots of fun.

SPEAKER_10 58:01

Definitely one of the best sellers in the shop at the moment, too. Like uh the the um Transformers and the Energon universe along with um Invincible um and the absolute titles are absolutely dominating at the moment. They're just hot hot to try. Yeah, and as they should be, it's really good storytelling. Yeah, what about you? What have you been reading? Mate, lock in, because I've been reading heaps.

unknown 58:24

Lock in.

SPEAKER_09 58:25

Gonna put my seatbelt on.

SPEAKER_10 58:27

Yeah, no, I've been reading heaps and I'm gonna talk all about it.

SPEAKER_09 58:30

Alright, I'm gonna sit back in the cruise control and go and you go for it.

SPEAKER_10 58:34

Well, I might I won't take forever, but I am gonna just mention everything that I've been reading because um that's why we're here. Um, of course, yeah, I've read uh Absolute Batman number 19. We've talked about that one, so thank you. Um I've started reading the Hunger Games novels.

SPEAKER_09 58:49

Oh, because we spoke about it uh was it last it was, it was last was it last episode or the previous episode?

SPEAKER_10 58:56

It was one of the previous episodes.

SPEAKER_09 58:57

Go check it out. We had um producer Kim on the show talking about it was it was last episode.

SPEAKER_10 59:03

Yeah, it was last episode. Um yeah, so I've I've started reading those. Yeah, how are you feeling? Yeah, already blown away. Um and I mean nothing's sort of happened in the first couple of chapters that I didn't I hadn't already heard about and had not spoiled, but I'd heard about throughout the years. But um it's great writing. Yeah, um, yeah, really enjoying that so far. So um I'm excited to have started that journey. Um in comics, I've read some interesting stuff this week. Um no notables, uh one of them was um Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla. Oh um, which is the uh Godzilla, I think it's called Monster Peace Theatre. Right. Um it was really good. Is this new? It is relatively new, yeah. It's been out only a few weeks, I think. Right, okay. Um, but no, I I read that issue because I'm a Shakespeare fan, yep. Um and a sort of newer Godzilla fan. Yeah. Um and I couldn't resist the um the lure of those two things coming together. It was really well done. Yeah, um, like the the writing, I can't remember who who wrote it, um, but but the the writing was um very faithful to Shakespearean dialogue, um, which I thought was really fun. Um, you know, it's not without sort of uh educational value, yeah, but but it it certainly um does adhere to the the uh Shakespearean dialogue whilst also incorporating the oncoming threat of a giant kaiju coming out of the um the uh the ocean the ocean in off the coast of Italy.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:39

So it so it wasn't like Godzilla coming up out of the ocean, he's got like Mothra's skull head saying to be or not to be, that is the question. Right, okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:00:48

Although Mothra is also in the comics. It's it's basically it's basically the story of Romeo and Juliet um is ha is happening with the background of like a kaiju attack on you know Verona.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:02

So it's it's it's it's uh it's Romeo and Juliet meet uh at Godzilla minus one.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:08

Well, yeah, it's it's literally what it says in the title. It's Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla. It's not like versus Godzilla, it's it's sort of and they're adding Godzilla. But the art's really good. Yeah, um, yeah, the writing was really good. There's a great backup story in it, which um the the first part um was in this issue, and the next part's gonna be in the the next release, which is uh Godzilla's the Odyssey. Yeah. Um, and that's uh uh Godzilla and Robin Hood. Right. Um so they tell the first part of that story in this issue, and then the second one is gonna be in uh Godzilla Godzilla's the Odyssey. Um but I really enjoyed it. Yeah, yeah. It was great fun. Um uh I also have uh caught up with um Titans comics. Oh um I've read the first two issues of the rebranded New Titans, um, which is a new creative team. Um it's being written by Tate Brommel um uh with art by Sammy Basri. Um and that's uh sort of the making the transition into a new team which features some of the older team members like um Donna Troy and Nightwing uh and Raven. Uh but it is now including um newer characters like uh Jonathan Kent's Superman, um Terra and uh uh Stephanie Brown's Batgirl, etc. etc.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:30

Is that is these issues the ones that uh where we've got this new sort of take on Cyborg and what's gonna happen with Cyborg?

SPEAKER_10 1:02:39

Uh I'm not sure. Cyborg is in these issues, but he's not but it hasn't sort of introduced what they're planning to do with him. Coming up it now that I think about it, it has started in these two issues. That's very interesting. But I don't I I haven't heard too much about that, so I don't know what direction it's gonna go in, but there there has been some some changes for Cyborg in this.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:02

It's almost gonna be like Blue Superman, Red Superman. Yes. So which is interesting.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:07

Yeah, I don't always love when they do the split. The split. Yeah, um, but I'm interested to see where it's.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:14

Because they've done that with they did that with they've done that with Hulk for years, like over and over and over, where they've split Bruce Banner and the Hulk from each other. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:23

It's not unprecedented with Cyborg either. Like um, he's had big changes to his um you know cybernetics and makeup and all that sort of stuff. Yeah. So I'm not really sure where that's going. Yeah, now that you mentioned it, it has it has started in these issues. Right, okay. Um but I'll be interested to see where that goes. Where what what what what translates? But I really enjoyed the two issues so far. Um Sammy Basry's a uh really fun artist for Titans. Yeah. Um uh yeah, draws really uh sort of uh I don't know, attractive characters. Yeah um and for the Titans that that seems to fit really well. Um yeah, it draws draws characters like uh Stephanie Brown really well and Raven. And um and so I'm really enjoying the art, I'm really enjoying the story. Um I like the the direction. I think it was time for a refresher of the the lineup of the Titans. Yeah, right. Um needed a bit of a new roster. Yeah, like uh I never like when they go sort of a whole new roster all at once, but I like that they've sort of transitioning between um the older two types.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:27

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:28

And there's relationships, pre-existing relationships between some of the a lot of the new characters and the older ones too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:35

Um well that's that's that's sort of out of the playbook of X-Men, really, isn't it? Because the X-Men do that quite consistently as they do, but that's that that sort of play of old and new.

SPEAKER_10 1:04:45

It's sort of it's this is an interesting one for me because it's it's a different super uh person. Like we've had Superboy kind of cant before, yeah, but we've never had Jonathan Kant. Right. Um and now we've still got we've got Donna Troy who is a Wonder Girl sort of, but we've also got Yara Floor who is the new Wonder Girl. So to have two Wonder people in the team at the same time, you know, is is different. So um I'm interested by the um the dynamics that they've got in it. Oh, that's cool. Um, yeah, that's exciting. Um I've also read uh just yesterday, uh the new Spider-Man Superman crossover from Marvel and DC. Yes. Um and yeah, really enjoyed that. I won't get into too much depth about that just because people will still be um discovering that and reading it for themselves.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:37

Did you enjoy this more or did you enjoy the DC?

SPEAKER_10 1:05:41

Uh I would say the same. Same? Yeah, I think it's I think it's very consistent. Yeah, I think it's I think it's on par. Like the they had a in this one they've got they've kind of got a couple of lead stories. Yeah like the the main story is written by um Brad Meltzer and illustrated by Pepe La Raz, who's a um a uh Marvel artists usually um and it was really really good like the the first story was really um interesting there's some great dialogue between uh uh uh Peter and and Clark um when they're in a a situation where they're both under quite a lot of duress um but I really enjoyed that story. There's another um quite lengthy story later in the issue by um Jeff Johns and Gary Frank um which was also really interesting. Yeah it's not so much centered on Superman and Spider-Man but uh a whole bunch of different characters and it kind of touches on the um uh the division within the real world at the moment. Got it. Um and I thought that was a really interesting story too. Uh but some of the smaller crossovers that they've got in it as well. There's a really um uh fun conversation between Lana Lang and Gwen Stacy. Yep. Um uh young Lana Lang and Gwen Stacy um I should uh uh clarify but um uh that that was a really you know sort of uh cute vignette um and an interesting conversation but yeah no it was really good fun that's great I think people will enjoy it. Yeah great um and the other thing that I read um uh last night was um Flash issue number thirty one. Oh I haven't read any Flash for ages. Um I sort of dropped it from my pull list a few years ago when my boys uh one of my boys was reading the Flash and then sort of lost interest and and so I dropped it.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:39

Um I j I dropped it after Francis Maripol sort of stopped stopped doing it.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:44

So um no I I was reading it a few years ago and and I just haven't gotten back into it. I've been intrigued for a little while but because of the return of Wally West as a flash. But this issue was recommended to me by one of my workmates uh Steph at uh All Star Comics um she's uh mostly a Marvel reader um and she read this issue because it's uh a new creative team uh with uh writing by Ryan North who mostly writes Marvel stuff yep um I think he has done some DC stuff that would be the attraction obviously from her yeah exactly yeah she she was a fan of his uh Fantastic Four stuff I think as as am I I'm a big fan of what he's been doing on Fantastic Four um and she was sort of saying she read this on a lunch break and really really enjoyed it yeah and um in chatting further I decided to to grab a hold of this issue and the next one number 32 which I haven't read yet um and she was right. Did did didn't disappoint it's great. Yeah um Ryan North writes really good um sort of fun amusing light dialogue yeah but also writes the sciencey type stories really well which is why he's been so good with Fantastic Four writing characters like Reed Richards yeah um and the Flash um even though it's Wally West who's not a scientist Barry Allen of course is um there's a lot of science involved in the um the the way that the Flash's powers work yeah um and uh yeah it's a it's a really great issue the um the art's really great as well it's by Gavin Goodry um who I've read some of his other DC stuff recently and I really like the the clean clean art style yeah um but it's a really interesting predicament that um Ryan Scott uh Wally in in this as well it's it's kind of not a traditional sort of uh supervillain conundrum it's it's more of a um uh uh a a conundrum related to m the the the perils of modern social media right okay um interesting and I really don't know how he's gonna get out of it to be honest like it's a really tough yeah um situation that Ryan's got uh the Flash uh uh written into in this one and um but more than anything it was just a really joyful read um you know lots of uh fun usual sort of flash action um uh great dynamics great dialogue and yeah I just thought I'd give it a shout out because um yeah it it sort of lived up to the hype that well well he's gonna be in um Flash is gonna be in uh well actually is in uh issue thirty four of uh Green Lantern uh because Kyle's back now.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:27

Yes um and you've got him and Kyle in in a in a um construct car driving down LA Love it down uh down Santa Monica Boulevard so perfect which is wild so uh it was really nice to like because I I really like um I like Barry Allen but I also really like Wally West um you know through the uh Origins as a comic reader with the Titans and um Barry Allen's kind of a you know he's he he's he's a hard character because he's so sort of traumatized by his decisions you know and um whereas Wally West is sort of a little he's got sort of a better outlook on the on the on the world and the future and I mean he had he's had his obviously his struggles because he was gone for quite a while.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:13

But but yeah they're very different from each other which is kind of nice as well.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:17

So again we're talking about this in the shop yesterday and and the differences between Barry and Wally and yeah I think Barry's uh very straight laced sort of character and he works best when he's juxtaposed with uh the likes of say Hal Jordan yeah um or even Oliver Queen yeah um because the the the pushback between those two different personality types you know they're they're friends like they get along and they do anything for each other but they're very very different yeah and they kind of make fun of each other as mates do. Yeah and I think that that's where Barry works best. Wally's um uh yeah he his relationship with the speed force and his powers is he's not in it for the science and the discovery he's in it for the joy yeah um I sort of compared him he's like a surfer yeah you know he's he he's he's doing it for the fun of it he's he's Bodie from from point break. Well not quite quite yeah I mean certain iterations of Wally West of the adrenaline donkey right like he he he he loves the speed for the thing well he just he appreciates it for for the gift for the gift that it is um as opposed to for the to to the um the opportunity for for learning yeah um you know I'm sure he's interested in that as well but as he says he's he's not a scientist that's Barry's thing yeah but um yeah no it was just fun to read some five talks yeah so I'll I'll I'll stick with that for the moment.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:44

Yeah that's so cool. That's me I think part of my reading yeah well um maybe let's get into uh let's get into the review back in the five Wednesday the greatest American hero is faced in trouble trying to save a student of his from Arson Rat.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:33

What uh would you think if that's when we get into trouble the firebug takes off the pressure Bill and it's going to take more than a few crazy tricks and a wobbly leap to help old Bill nab this flamethrower it's going to take the greatest American hero.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:50

Wednesday at 87 Central and Mountain on ABC oh there's so much on the review too let's get into the review rewatch all right uh mole shadow lord yes enjoying it another another week and another another pose you know I saw I heard on one of the podcasts I listened to someone had done a a kill count for really for Mole oh really and through six episodes apparent through six episodes it is six we've watched isn't it uh six episodes yeah um seventy one seventy oh he's he's he's not up there with John Wick but no well I mean come on he's on his way no there's still two more episodes to go so anything's possible yeah it might have a like a more adult rating but it's yeah 71 kill count and and and and six and six uh silhouette stances with with lightsaber at least long may they rain yeah look I mean another another great episode um you know again we're taking the uh you know our lead characters out of their comfort zones and putting them into a whole different situation yep um you know we're seeing Maul at his best when he's you know he is in for it for himself he doesn't care about anybody or anything other than his own sort of you know devices he needs a therapist oh he's got some serious issues all right totally he he he could he should definitely get on the couch and you know have a bit of a chat at last five minutes then he then he'd kill him yeah he'd have dispatched him that'll be 72 72 but uh yeah look uh animation is really just amazing um it's beautiful you know uh the the the voice acting in it is is fantastic yeah and um the storyline is just is just awesome I'm I'm I really don't know where we're leading I mean this is what I'm really enjoying about mole is I don't know what what that end is going to look like for any of the characters.

SPEAKER_10 1:15:58

No it's it's fascinating to me as well because we know that we're getting a season two now. Yes like I don't know how far this season one's gonna go. Yeah like I don't know where that's gonna leave us like a massive cliffhanger or yeah yeah or whether it's just gonna be sort of mid-story or um you know whether we find out who that shadowy figure at the end of the last episode was. Yes. No spoilers but um you know uh whether we find that out this season or whether we have to wait till the next one. Yeah. Yeah I think it's it's really interesting and I think it's really interesting to speculate about where it fits in terms of solo as well. Yes. Like we know you know people that have watched all of the Star Wars stuff know where Maul's story ends and we know that there's that key moment at the end of Solo a Star Wars story that somehow incorporates into his his his story. Where does it fit in with this?

SPEAKER_09 1:16:54

Where does it fit in with season one where does it fit in with season two didn't he say that Crimson was it what's it what are they Crimson Dawn Crimson Dawn so didn't he say that Crimson Dawn had that all of them had had rejected him right yes yeah so if that's the case he was still wasn't he still part of Crimson Dawn in solo Well he's he's the leader of Crimson Dawn right at the end of Solo yes right so so that says to me that that would have to be after solo then that's just a guess. I mean there's there's nothing on the record but if he's saying that Crimson Dawn have rejected him then I would be guessing that that would be after solo.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:33

What this series? Yes no I I think this is before I I think it's pretty well you reckon it's before I think this is before and then he takes over Crimson yeah oh I think so it's I can't keep up I know because they haven't really given us uh uh really straight straight timeline I'm not I mean I'm not sort of fussing too much about that anyway I'm hoping that you know uh once we've seen all of it whether it's at the end of season two or season three or season five or whatever yeah um it'll all sort of f fit together at the moment I'm just enjoying the ride but yeah it's interesting.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:08

Yeah I I I I like that the that I'm forever guessing what's gonna happen. You know and um you know our our characters are complex enough that that that we can sort of they can be put in different positions and you know um they come out different from what we were expecting them to be. Yeah um but even even the droids like they're giving us some some really sort of um some context on on droids making some really interesting decisions yeah um which we haven't really seen much of before. No no um droids have always sort of made decisions for the right for the right reasons yeah to support their masters if you want to call them two boots is so frustrating. But two boots is is but but this is what I'm saying alright like having a droid that's making these decisions that have massive consequences for everybody and not seeing the the the the repercussions because of that. Yeah um and and and I really like that I really like what what that's what the what where that's coming from yeah as as frustrating as he is I do like that they've sort of thrown a character in there that's sort of creating a divide with no with no consequence. AI doesn't always get it right eh definitely not no definitely definitely not um what else have you been watching? Uh I've also been watching Dead Evil Born again of course holy cow yeah what a we've still got what one or two episodes to go uh yeah yeah so but far out what a what an exhausting episode that was the snot has hit the fan and blood yeah yeah it's um yeah I but it's a real predicament at the moment isn't it yeah yeah where is it going what's gonna happen uh you and I were talking offline about um you know sort of a fan theory of what the ending might look like yeah if it ends like what we were talking about that's gonna be phenomenal and what that means for Daredevil season three yeah um how does that tie in with you know fan theories about Spider-Man as well um but yeah we really I I mean you know now we're really seeing the Kingpin for who he is he is totally unhinged yeah you know he um and we won't spoil it just in case you haven't seen it you know obviously there's been an event which has um which has caused um you know Fisk to be this way um but we also see you know a a really great confrontation between Daredevil and and and Kingpin. Amazing and um yeah all I can say is like just come on you know Matt come on you know use these street smarts be a bit smarter in your decisions and uh yeah but we can see where's the fun in that but we can see that there's a I mean we did um without giving any spoilers because I mean they've been sort of hyping this up for for weeks now um probably even months is we we got to see Jessica Jones yeah um which is great and we've got a we've got a new Jessica Jones you know this is not the one that we knew in the original series or the defenders.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:26

It's a really interesting evolution that adheres with the Jessica Jones we know from the comics yeah um and I'm here for it. Like it was great to see Kristen Ritter again um great to see her in the boots and the jacket yeah um the torn jeans yeah yeah um yeah she's just stepped straight back into the role and with both with both boots.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:47

But but her life is very different right so she's got a different outlook on how she does things as well.

SPEAKER_10 1:21:52

So she's it gives her a um a very different motivation and reason to be fierce doesn't it? Yeah that's right that's right so yeah that was was was great and and i i every week this show seems to level up yeah um like I thought last week was magnificent yeah and it was and it was uh but but but this week it was magnificent um for the same but also different reasons yeah um like in terms of the drama and when we got to the end of the episode uh I just thought well how are you gonna fix this it was like everything was broken I didn't have after that it was exhausting it was exhausting I think we I think we might have watched an episode of Scrubs afterwards something not the movie it was um yeah definitely definitely something with a lighter tone but um yeah that was an another show I was going to talk about yeah um scrubs it was Scrubs have you have you been watching I've watched it yeah yeah we're we're not all caught up we're kind of savouring it oh okay so I think we might have an episode or two to to go yeah I've watched it all the way through and thoroughly enjoyed it. Maybe one I think we might only have one left. But anyway um loving it I I love Scrubs and my main thing that I wanted to say about this is directly to Disney and Hulu renew it. Yeah I want more it's it's it it's on the bubble at the moment there's no there hasn't been a um there hasn't been any discussion of whether it whether they're renewing it or not which is which is a real surprise because it is sitting high up in the in in the ratings for Disney Plus well is it it's Bill Lawrence I think is the guy that runs this show and shrinking Rooster which I haven't watched yet but apparently Rooster's also meant to be really good. Yeah um you know it That's why I'm with uh Steve Corral isn't it yeah like they're all really hitting home runs at the moment you know shrinking's just finished for now it's meant to be resetting and and hopefully going into another season. Ted Lasso as well that's another one there's on um Bill Lawrence I'm gonna check the name in his sock. But um yeah no renew it um give us more because um I I I people really seem to be enjoying it that I'm talking to um I'm certainly really enjoying it. I think that the tone that they've got is um really recapturing the the tone of the old series um but uh in a refreshing new way um and I think they're telling you know contemporary modern sort of stories as well but without um losing any of the charm that we know from the original show.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:29

But the humour is just gold like the the humor in this is just fantastic. I love it.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:34

Yeah it's it's it really is it's really really good fun. So yeah that's but that's my call to to Hulu in Disney is is renew it give us more scrubs.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:43

You know you you you get some of these shows and you you I I don't think I have as many laugh out loud moments in shows like I do with Scrubs.

SPEAKER_10 1:24:53

No. You know the like and that's the way it used to be as well like it that's what I mean by the re they've recaptured it. It feels watching these episodes of Scrubs feels the same way as it did before and we and we have different stories and a different and a different time in their life as well. And also there's different characters you know yes yes there's characters that we we have have lost and we miss and actors that we've we've we've lost and we miss but they've re replaced them in some areas uh uh with with new fresh characters but it still uh maintains the same tone and yeah it it makes you feel this the same way and that's that's why we always watch Scrubs is because sometimes it was going to make us feel sometimes it was going to make us cry yeah but more often than and and more often than not it was going to make us feel joy. Yeah um and this one does so I just want more of it.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:44

I'll tell you what doesn't make you feel joy is I watched the uh season finale of the Pit. So I'm up to date on the Pit. Season two uh season two episode fifteen yeah um well we're we're way behind because holy cow what a what an ending to to another season that's good um and it's great yeah it keeps that momentum um you know I know how to operate an OR theatre now you know based on you know 15 episodes that's great yeah good I know all the terms I know uh you know how to do a tracheotomy now and yeah I'm there so if you need me in the field I'm I'm there remind me not to pass that in your presence but uh yeah like um you know amazing writing amazing acting um amazing how that they actually do this this show um it's it's it's all free it's all freewheeling right so um it's it's it's one hospital that's just been built and they're essentially doing um you know the cameramen are walking around with the cameras you know so there is no really sort of um freestanding camera work yeah real gorilla type stuff it's real gorilla type stuff and I think that that's what makes that sort of brings the charm to the show is it feels a little bit real it's 360 like it it's it's it's all around you like and the same as the characters and the same as people in real healthcare they don't know where the next thing's going to be coming from probably from what direction it's gonna be coming from and um it it's somewhat overwhelming um but it it all it can do is add to the admiration that I have for the people that work in those jobs in real life because um it it takes a special type of person to thrive in that sort of an environment. I tell I'll tell you what this does though this highlights just how um you know like ER was like it's the most realistic thing it's the closest thing to an ER room and all the rest of it. Yeah I tell you what this show highlights just how far away from being a real life ER room is in in ER. Yeah and the reason I say that is is and do yourself a favor listeners go back and watch an episode of ER Like those guys need torches to walk around in the in in that place. It is so dark. The operating theatres, they are so dark. The the ER rooms are so dark. Everything's lit up in cupboards behind, like nicely presented and all the rest of it. Okay. It's it's just it's so um juxtaposition to to the pit. It's really, really interesting to see. Sounds like more of like a nice restaurant. It really is. You know, they've got I mean they they they try and sort of make their their corridors, you know, in ER, um, you know, very chaotic with stacked towel, you know, racks and stuff like that. But overall, when when when they're operating on people, it's very dark, it's extremely dark, which is not normal. Um and um yeah, and the only reason I know that is because I just happened to see an episode of ER sort of just pop up on the TV not long after I'd just seen the last episode of The Pit. And I was like, wow, this is amazing. This is so polar opposite to each other, it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:01

I'll have to put an episode of ER on and just have a look. I'll have to find a Noah Wiley heavy episode.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:09

Yeah, yeah, he yeah, yeah. I mean, look, he's he's done well, he's aged extremely well. Okay, he still looks great. So um talking about uh talking about finales. I watched uh Invincible uh season four finale. Yes, really good. Um wow, what a what a finale. Um Mark is just he is such a troubled character. Talking about someone who needs to get on the couch, he really needs to get on a couch.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:39

Um where you know if you're going by uh chronology for comics, we're sitting around about issue 75, um, if that helps anybody.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:51

Um that will help people because I've I've literally had people in in the shop looking for comics that go that that take place somewhat after what what we've seen in the show.

SPEAKER_09 1:30:03

I think we're sitting around about 4550 to about 75 of the comics. Um so yeah, so anybody that's sort of trying to work out that timeline, and I reckon the next one will probably have 75 to maybe 100. I think it might be a bit of a stretch. Okay. Um they might shorten that a little bit, but we've still got lots of story to tell. We've got characters that are sort of in different, you know, places of their lives that sort of need to come back together. Um, you know, we've separated the family unit now, and you know, um, so it did but just what a what a what an ending. It was really, really compelling. Um the one thing I really love about this this animated series is that every week I just feel like I'm on the edge of my seat, like what's gonna happen, what's happening? Even though I've read the comics, you know, I I know them back to front, left to right, but there's just something about just this little you know creative license that they've sort of taken and changed a little bit here and there um that just makes this such a compelling, you know, animated series to watch.

SPEAKER_10 1:31:08

Yeah, well I'm I'm well behind. I'm I've still got a couple of episodes of season three to finish watching, although I have reconnected with it this week and started watching again, so I'm gonna try and catch up.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:20

And and season four is is is pretty it's pretty heavy toned, right? It's very heavy toned about mental health. Um it's very it's very violent. It's probably you know, they're taking the violent meter to the next level again. Okay. Um and uh, you know, but but everybody's everybody's struggling, you know, everybody's struggling with this this real real life problem of being a hero um or making decisions that you know impact you know the greater community. And so um, you know, that that that tone also obviously brings a sense of realism to an animated series. Um and it's just fantastic, it really is. It's it's so good.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:02

I can't recommend it enough. Uh thank you for the heads up on the violence as well. I'll have to make sure I'm wearing a smock when I watch episode four.

SPEAKER_09 1:32:10

Uh sorry, series four. You'll have to wear the uh you'll have to wear a Pick Crew visor, you know, and uh and smock and maybe just like just do a whole like plastic room, you know, so that you can just pack it up afterwards. And get out the old COVID gear. Yeah, okay. All right, no two.

SPEAKER_10 1:32:27

What else have you been watching? Uh the other only other thing I wanted to mention, um we've just started watching on uh Amazon uh Deadlock season two. Did you watch Deadlock? No, no, Deadlock's um an Australian series. It is so good, it is so funny. Um the first series was set in Tasmania. Is it a crime drama? It's a crime drama, yeah. It's a um I describe it as a uh a a no, I'm I don't want to say dark, yeah, sort of a dark comedy, mad cap, queer crime drama. Right, okay. Um a lot of the characters are uh yeah uh uh uh queer characters, yeah. Um which is uh it's it's a wonderful celebration of all the different personalities that come with that. Um and uh it's got an amazing Australian cast, a lot of whom are um comedians, yeah. Um uh a lot of whom are women, um, but not just uh women as well. Um the second series is set in uh Darwin, so it's it's gone from one part of the country to the other. It's a beautifully shot series. Um it's uh amazingly written, it's uh spectacularly performed, like some of the personalities and characters in it are just uh a joy to watch. Um and yeah, we're we're just really loving jumping back into deadlock. Um couldn't recommend it more highly. Yeah, um it's uh uh yeah, it's just just just a joy to watch. It's um w really, really wild. Yeah, nice. Um but if you're a fan of um sort of the crime genre, I mean this is predominantly a comedy, but it's an excellent crime drama as well. Yeah. Um uh but if you like uh things like also the the the castle of the dish, um you'll love this. Yeah, okay. Um it's uh yeah, just a really great show. Really glad to have finally gotten on to season two. Um it took us a few weeks to get onto it just because of life stuff. Yeah. Um but now that we're in, um I imagine we're gonna whip through the the episodes of this because it is a real um yeah, yeah, real great Australian production. Yeah, um that uh from what I understand is doing really well globally as well. Yeah. Um so yeah, uh deadlock.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:55

Well that well that's that that's that's what it really means for you know, because because we're such a small market in Australia, um, unless it has that sort of international appeal and and uptake, you know, we we won't get extra seasons. Yeah. So it's great that that that you know when it when it is gets that sort of international acclaim, yeah, we we know that we're gonna get more of it, which is which is always great.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:20

Yeah, well, I mean it it it's great that we've got a season two, because the the first one was yeah, just spectacular.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:35:26

Um and and this one's um perhaps even leveled up, like it's even more wild and crazy and um uh laugh out loud than the the first one was. Oh, that's cool. Um and they've uh sort of added to the the cast, like it's it's got a a bunch of recurring characters from the first one, including the um two or three leads. Yeah. Um, but it's also uh included uh Hemsworth, um Luke Hemsworth, who was in Westworld and and other bits and pieces.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:57

The other the other Hemsworth, the other Hemsworth as he referred to.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:00

Yeah, he's he he's just come into this series and and he is hilarious. Um just so funny, you just want to punch him in the face. Yeah, right. But um yeah, no, it's it's it's it's a really good watch, and I I re I can't recommend it highly. That's cool. It's um yeah, no, people should check it out. Um no, that's about it for me. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:19

That's that's me this week. I've got one last one. Yeah. Um so uh From, which is uh a MGM uh production, it's a TV series. Um uh that uh came back this week for season four, I want to say.

SPEAKER_02 1:36:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:36

Uh from has um uh Harold, I can never pronounce his name. Uh uh Perrineau. Perrineau. So Harold Perrineau, who was in Lost.

SPEAKER_10 1:36:46

Um you he was uh uh also in uh Bas Lohmann's Romeo and Juliet.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:51

He was in Basilman's Romeo and Juliet. Um uh and he was in uh Oz and he was in he was in 28 weeks later. I didn't even know he was in that, but he's great. Um yeah, he's he's good. Uh this series um has been around for a while. I think you've talked about it before. Yeah, um and so this is season four and it's it's still as nuts as it as it always has been. Essentially, what it is is um it's a it's a a group of people living in a small living in a small town, but they can't escape. They can't they can't leave. So they'll trap they'll try and drive out one way and they'll come in the other way. Um so they're sort of in this loop where they're stuck in this in this town.

SPEAKER_02 1:37:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:34

Um and it all occurs from a tree which falls in front of this road wherever it wherever they're travelling, and then they go to a side road, and then that takes them to this town. The town's not Geelong, is it? Special. It's Carayo. Well, it's a difficult place to, and if the Geelong Road gets cut off, yeah, then you're stuffed. Um so it's not Geelong? But but the Well, with the creatures at night time, who knows? I'll Google it. But uh the um but there are there are they they can't they can't go out at night because there are uh creatures that are out at night who will kill them. Um and so this is a very still giving me real Geelong bugs. Apologies to our listeners who live in Geelong.

SPEAKER_10 1:38:22

No, no, no, they get it.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:24

Thank you. But yeah, this is a look, it's one of these shows that I'm like, this is absurd, um, this is silly, this is, you know, like it's not making a lot of sense, but for some reason I just keep going back to this season after season after season, and I think that it's fun. That I think that people just I I think the audience are doing exactly the same thing, thinking the same thing. It has that it has that sensibility and craziness that Lost had as well. Yeah. Um, but Lost made a lot more sense. This doesn't make a lot of sense. That's that's a wrap. And but uh there's some really good storylines with people sort of dealing with trauma, um, and uh and it's yeah, and and the the the the the horror level is high, you know. Um so yeah, there's something compelling about it. I don't know. I I can't put my finger on what it is, um, but it's back for another season. I'll be watching it um and you know groaning and and complaining and but still somehow enjoying it at the same time. It's a really really weird review that I've given from, but uh again, the audience feels the same, you know, so there's something about it. But anyway, uh if you haven't watched it, do yourself a favor, check out season one, it's a lot of fun. Um go to From. And go go go go to From. Um so that's pretty much it for the for the uh review. It is we have a news segment that was lost last week in the episode. Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:12

Um conspiracy theorists will say that that is why the episode was lost. Conspiracy theorists being me.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:19

Yeah, being you. Yeah. I I I I did notice your um your your wool up on the wall with lots of photos and all connecting to one point. Well, I'm not I wasn't hiding it from you. Yeah, my with a photo of me in the middle with the question mark. Yep.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:37

A couple of darts and the forehead.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:40

Scratched out eyes. Yep. Nothing to worry about. But uh, MJ, you've got a new segment for us. I do.

SPEAKER_10 1:40:48

We're gonna revisit it. Uh well, we're gonna revisit it. Listeners will be only just discovering it for the first time. Yes. Um, in brief, um basically at the uh comic book shop, um, we've got a box of old like uh 2000 AD um uh progs or co uh magazines um that uh we've got for sale and I was going through them the other day and I discovered uh a vein of Star Wars magazines. And so these are old um British uh Star Wars magazines that I think came out weekly back in the uh 70s and 80s. Yep. And I bought all of them. Um I bought every single one of them. I think there was like 25 or 26 issues. Um because these things are gold to me.

SPEAKER_09 1:41:37

Um yeah, British model back in the day, I think they were off the wall because they they just did their own thing, right?

SPEAKER_10 1:41:45

Yeah, it was great. Like they they reprint um American comics. Like when I was I've only been to the UK once, it was in 1990, yeah. And I went to a couple of news agents then and I bought some DC uh reprints of of things.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:00

I don't think I've got them anymore, but um I've got a Transformers comic that that that was done in the UK when I when I lived in the UK and um yeah, that was back in the 80s, and uh yeah, it's it's completely off the wall. But the the interesting thing about the UK print is it's not not a normal comic size either, is it? It's like it's like a magazine.

SPEAKER_10 1:42:21

Yeah, it's like a magazine and they sort of serialize it. Like they'll they'll put in a section of the story and then they'll put in you know, like a word search and you know, letter column. Something for everybody. And that's what these things are. Like um, most of these are Return of the magazine's called Return of the Jedi. Some of them are called um what's the what's the title of that one there? Star Wars Weekly. Star Wars Weekly. Yeah, so uh I I haven't been through all of these yet, but um Luke's wearing red boots and and and blue pants and a really nice uh impractical white jacket. Um come on, like you fall into a trash compactor or get singed by a lightsaber. It's not gonna last much longer. No, you're gonna have uh Kowaki and Monkey Lizard cough up on you. Anything can happen. Um, but uh I bought a whole bunch of these um old magazines just because I think they're beautiful. Um and I thought we'd go through uh some of the letter columns in these are gold. Yeah. Um so the the one that I've got in front of me, just to you know cut to the chase, um, this is sort of a random issue, but uh the cover really strikes me. And I'll post a picture of this on our socials so when this episode goes live, you can have a look. Um it's uh Return to the Jedi magazine number 28 from December 28, 1983. It costs 25p. Oh no, down shop or whatever they say. Um and it's got Darth Vader dressed in a Christmas outfit, so he's wearing a Santa hat and like a Santa cape, and he's holding Christmas presents. Um, and a hand solo standing behind him with a Christmas present that says From Uncle Darth, which I think is wild. Um, and Luke's got one that's remotely sort of lightsaber shaped that says from Dad. So it's a very cozy Star Wars scene. And that's just I mean it's turning into the dark side just really subtly through Christmas. Yeah, like I'll probably be talking about these magazines first.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:28

Thanks, Dad. I've got a lot too, but that's great. Yeah, it's red, but it's okay.

SPEAKER_10 1:44:32

I I love it. Yes, Ron trying to guard you, guide you in the right direction. Yeah, so anyway, as I said, I'll I'll I'll talk about these magazines um at length, probably for the next hundred episodes. But uh where I thought I'd start is is um one of the most charming things about these magazines for me is the the letter columns because I love um revisiting what it was like to be a fan back in the day, before the internet, before podcasts, before social media, before you're able to just jump on and you know rant and get into an argument with some nerd on the other side of the world. Um all you could do was speculate. Speculate, talk with your mates in the playground if if you were lucky enough to have mates that were into the same sort of stuff. Um or you could write to a letter column in a magazine like this. Um so yeah, the the letter column in this magazine's called Cosmic Correspondence, and what the letter that I'm gonna read is from uh where are we? Peter Aspinall, age 13. Peter Aspinall. Yeah. Um I wonder if we can track him down. I wonder where he is. Don't think that's a good idea. I mean it might be a good idea, he's probably a very lovely person. But um uh if you're out there, Peter Aspinall, if you're listening, yeah, hit us up on all socials. Yeah. Still got phone calls on your prison allocation. Um, you know, hit us up. Um But let's read his let's read his letter. Okay. Uh so uh the the letter column the the the the trope in this is that the letter column uh is run by a droid called Cyril. So C-Y-R-I-L. I can't remember what it stands for. We'll work it out. Cyril. But it's Cyril. Uh so uh the letter reads, Dear Cyril, hello. I am a D E P X unit. So Peter's pretending to be a droid as well.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:32

Oh, okay. Maybe maybe we don't want to know Peter X.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:35

Weak wink.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:36

No, he's just he's a kid, he's having fun.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:38

Uh I am a D E P X unit and used to belong to Wedge Antilles. Oh bit of a name drop. It's one of your people. Uh I have some vital information for all you avid Star Wars fans on Earth. But my circuits are in danger because that evil Darklord Darth Vader is after me. Uh Taylor's oldest time.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:58

Yeah, thanks.

SPEAKER_10 1:46:59

Uh my memory banks tell me that the next film is the first saga called Journal of the Wills.

SPEAKER_09 1:47:05

Oh, so this is after Return of the Jedi. This is after Return of the Jedi. So he's talking about the the Whatever's the next the sequels. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh he's in for a bit of disappointment.

SPEAKER_10 1:47:16

Well, let's let's see. Uh uh, my memory banks tell me that the next film is the first in the f is the first saga called Journal of the Wills, and it's all about the old republic. Oh. So he's predicting that the next film will go back. Oh, right. So he was right there. Wasn't about the old republic, it was about sure he loved it. Like we did. Um I think that either the Emperor didn't die when Vader threw him down the reactor shaft, or that in the clone wars they cloned him and Vader killed a clone.

SPEAKER_11 1:47:47

What?

SPEAKER_10 1:47:47

Wow. What when was this published? 1983. December 1983.

SPEAKER_09 1:47:54

What was his name?

SPEAKER_10 1:47:55

Peter. Peter Aspinall, uh aka D E P X unit.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:00

AKA Nostradamus. Star Wars Nostradamus.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:03

Yeah, he's doing pretty well. He's predicting now. He's predicting aspects of the the JJ Abrams stuff.

SPEAKER_11 1:48:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:09

Uh do you reckon JJ Abrams read this? Maybe. It's like I got an idea. Thanks, Peter. He strikes me as the sort of person that's got lots of time on his hands. Uh maybe even Vader survived in Jedi and the mask and body on the fire were empty. May your microchips and microfish never rust. May the force be with you always. Peter Aspinall, age 13, Firth Park Crescent, Sheffield. Oh, well, if you know Peter, let us know.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:35

There's that goal. What a what a what a prediction though.

SPEAKER_02 1:48:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:39

From the vault.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:41

So what are we calling this segment?

SPEAKER_10 1:48:43

Uh the Micely Mailbag. Oh, I love it. I'm happy to change it if someone comes up with something more interesting. But um, yeah, for now we're gonna call it the Mice Isley mailbag.

SPEAKER_09 1:48:57

I I do like that.

SPEAKER_10 1:48:58

Okay, that's fine. Yeah, so that that's the relaunch of Mice Isley Mailbag. We'll see if it makes it to air. Um if it does, then uh there might be more next week.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:07

Yeah, well I I I I enjoyed that. Thank you. That's good. Um that's a good, you know, I'm supporting your your segment. Unfortunately, you don't support mine, but that's okay. No, no, I think.

SPEAKER_10 1:49:21

I don't know where you got that impression. Hey, um, while we're talking letters, can I uh I've got a letter for the I've got a um a question for you from the bag. Oh yes. Uh question without notice, of course. Of course. Um this is from listener Craig. Yep. Uh question thanks for um thanks for writing in, listener Craig. Nice. Appreciate it. Diligent listener. Yep. Um question for the bag from Craig. Um how much material do you record for each episode? Oh how much is edited out? This is why it's a question for you. Oh, this is a good question. He says, Do you guys sit down for three to four hours? Oh, okay. Okay, good question. But yeah, I guess the crux of this is how much is how much is edited out?

SPEAKER_09 1:50:04

So 75% of what MJ says is edited out. That's fair.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:08

Yeah, fair.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:09

No, and uh 100%, no joke. We record for pretty much the time that you're listening. So from start to finish, we we we record straight.

SPEAKER_10 1:50:22

So if it's a and it's out all of my MAGA stuff.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:25

So it's very rare that we would be uh that we we we take anything out.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:32

Um occasionally there might be a topic that we we might discuss and we and we'll say, yeah, maybe maybe we we don't want to sort of go down that path. Um but it's very in it, you know, we're now at 25. It's very rare that we would take out a topic.

SPEAKER_02 1:50:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:50:49

Um you haven't missed much. We yeah, honestly, uh it's it the only things that that really get edited out is us having maybe a stop for for whatever reason. Brain fart. Um, but we still keep we still keep recording. So um it's it's it's pretty much what you're listening to is is what we're talking about. So um, but a great question. I mean, because some of these some of these shows do get edited quite heavily. Yeah. Um this is our conversation is very organic, you know. We do do some preparation, it's not just all off the top of our head. We do make notes and we but we don't converse with each other about our notes either, and I think that that's what makes a bit of the charm for our show is that w it it it is a surprise to each other about what we're talking about and what we're bringing to the table.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:39

Yeah, well that's I mean the inspiration for the podcast in the first place was our catch-ups at dinner. Yeah. Like we'd go out for dinner occasionally and we'd chat.

SPEAKER_09 1:51:47

And this is exactly this is your you're invited into our dinner conversation. Exactly.

SPEAKER_10 1:51:51

Like that we we'd just talk about what we'd been reading, what we'd been watching, what you know we'd been hearing. Um and I mean if anything, um uh yeah, you're not edit you're not from my perspective, you're not editing too much out, you're adding in things because we get the oh we get the commercials, yeah. We get the great retro commercials and um, you know, little jingles and stuff. Um so yeah, if anything, you're hearing more of the conversation than um than than what actually takes place.

SPEAKER_09 1:52:23

If you listen to episode one and then ten and now twenty five, yeah, you can see that there's been this progression of you know what what what the show was and what the show is now. And it's not really that different, it's just that we've been listening to what you know you, the audience, actually really enjoy.

SPEAKER_10 1:52:42

You can just sort of hear our cognitive decline, you know, advancing.

SPEAKER_09 1:52:46

But we're listening to what you what you like, you know, so we we we know that that you're you're really enjoying the weird files, so I'll keep bringing it. Um do we know? Yeah, we we do. Um, you know, you we we definitely know that you're enjoying like the commercial break. So um, you know, that's that's always been fun to edit in. I do like those. Um and um and and we know that you you you really like our our take on on what we've been watching, what we've been reading, you know, um what we've been hearing. So um the news is obviously always really important because not everybody gets to hear all the things or see all the things that we we see.

SPEAKER_10 1:53:26

No.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:26

Um and so you've all got real jobs and real lives. But um, but yeah, just to to answer your your question very simply, listener Craig, it's it the majority of it, I'd say 99.9% of it is is um, you know, it's it's it's pretty much that timeline that we're um that we're discussing. So yeah, some don't some weeks you'll get an hour and a half, some weeks you'll get two and a half hours. So um strap in and enjoy, because this is a long one.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:53:59

Well thanks for the question, listener Craig. Thanks, listener Craig. Um, if you want to uh ask us a question, uh definitely hit us up on the socials under pulp culture pod. Uh we've got one last segment, shout. We do. Have you got anything? I do. Yeah. I just wanted to shout out our um our uh our other segment that we our bonus segment that we that we've now started uh producing. Yes, it's chugging along nicely. Uh which is the uh pulp culture plus um uh that comes out on a weekly basis as well.

SPEAKER_02 1:54:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:54:39

Uh and that's interviewing uh a uh creative. Um we've started with uh Australian creators first. We will have some international uh guests which are lined up uh later in the series. Um but we've had uh Angie Spice, we've had Benji Bajoric, uh we've now had Lauren Marshall as our latest. And uh it's um it's it's it's a great series, um having discussions, a bit of a deep dive into you know their passions and their um and their creative uh process.

SPEAKER_10 1:55:15

Yeah, I'm finding it really inspiring. Like um, yeah, Nathan has been doing these interviews so far. Um, but uh yeah, so far a really great collection of conversations, um, some really inspiring feedback and some really great insights from from some um really talented creators.

SPEAKER_09 1:55:34

Yeah, yeah, and um and so one of the one of the things that we're now sort of doing as part of that process is we're getting uh whoever we've interviewed to nominate the the next guest. Yep. Our next guest will be uh Levi Cleman. So that'll be coming up uh after this this episode that you're listening to. Yeah. Um and uh so Levi's uh a um a new artist that you know that I'm aware of um and he's got a Kickstarter that's coming out shortly. Awesome. Um so uh look out for that episode. But uh in the meantime, by all means, if you haven't listened to any of uh the pop culture plus, yeah, uh 100% invite you to uh to go back and have a listen. Yeah. Uh especially just our latest one, which has uh got Lauren Marshall um in it. And um she's uh she's she's just got a wealth of knowledge um and wisdom to sort of uh give you an insight into what what it looks like being a comic book creator, yeah, um and artist, and uh, you know, how she started and where she is, and she's got some really, really uh interesting insights that are very inspiring for those that may be looking to, you know, uh come into the business or do their own thing or whatever it may look like. So um yeah, definitely a shout-out for that.

SPEAKER_10 1:56:53

Yeah, and also for the previous interviews with um Angie Spice and Benjamin Jorak is too. Both uh great, really great listens. Um and yeah, no, it's uh no reason to be bored uh with the uh pulp culture podcast.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:07

No, definitely not. We keep it churning. We sure do. What do you got on the shout?

SPEAKER_10 1:57:14

Um I'm gonna shout out Free Comic Book Day. Hey um yeah, free comic book day is coming out, uh coming up. It's the 2nd of May, so that it's always the first Saturday in May. Um uh globally. Um free comic book day. You can go to your local comic shop and get a selection of um free comics. Um you can choose a couple from a huge range. Um uh All-Star Comics. Uh obviously I'll be there on uh free comic book day this year. I think we're open from 10 to 11am for family hour, which is for people with uh young kids, um, and then from 11 o'clock to um everybody else um till 5 p.m. Um for free comic book day. So you can come down, um, yeah, select a couple of free comics, um, join into the um be a part of the local um comics community um uh and chat with everybody about you know what they're reading um and hopefully pick up some some stuff and support your local comic shop. Um and that's just us at Allstar, but it's uh gonna be on at well pretty much every uh local comic shop um around the world on the 2nd of May.

SPEAKER_09 1:58:31

Yeah. So we were talking offline about you know, we don't really know what the lineup is. Um and and when you get this episode, this will be before free comic books.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:40

The lineup of available free comics, you mean?

SPEAKER_09 1:58:43

Yeah, yeah. So uh so here's a couple of the ones to get excited about. Uh uh Alien Predator and Planet of the Apes, number one.

SPEAKER_10 1:58:52

Nice.

SPEAKER_09 1:58:52

Uh which is kind of cool. Amazing Spider-Man 1000. Uh we're getting uh we're getting Avatar, the last airbender, which we got last year as well. Yep, nice. Uh which is which is great. Uh I'm just sort of searching through Conan the Barbarian, yeah. Uh DCX Sonic. Um we're starting to see that that that comic's gonna be out later in the year, so this is obviously a long time. Is that a sequel to the the the first one? Uh Sonic and DC? DC, yeah. I always say so. Yeah. I think this is an ongoing series. Oh, right, right, right. So um, and this is the Sonic characters in the DC heroes. That's exciting.

SPEAKER_10 1:59:33

Um yeah, and um um the free comics that'll be available, it's great because there's um always a range of stuff that's for uh readers of all ages and and um uh genres. Um yeah, there'll be stuff for kids, there'll be stuff for adults, there'll be horror stuff, there'll be uh cartoon type stuff, there'll be superhero stuff. Um all the companies get involved. Um if you haven't been to one before, um it's really worth uh checking out. Um the the vibe on the day is is really great. Um depending on your local comic shop, they'll have you know prop possibly other stuff um in uh uh available and happening around the place. Um people dress up in cosplay. Um it's it's really really fun. But if you need any more details, just go to the socials of um yeah, either All-Star Comics Melbourne or your local comic shop. And um, yeah, we'll we'll we'll um hopefully see you there.

SPEAKER_09 2:00:31

But uh once we once we once we have the comprehensive list, we'll uh we'll post it on our socials anyway, so you you know what your uh what what you can put on your uh list to get on the day. But um we highly encourage you to get on down to uh to your to your local comic book store. Yeah, um, pick up some free comics, but also pick up a book, like you know, support your local comic book store.

SPEAKER_10 2:00:53

Yeah. Um and um and a lot of the shops will have you know some sort of special on as well, yeah. Um, you know, whether it's a discount or you know uh freebies or whatever. Um so it's a good opportunity to get down and and save a couple of dollars too, um, in many cases. Yep. Um so yeah, no, uh as Nate says, you know, do get down and and buy something as well, um, be a part of the fun. Join into the comic book community because it's really um at at a uh a peak at the moment. Yes. Um everybody's loving it, um, and yeah, it's it's a great time to be part of the fun.

SPEAKER_09 2:01:28

Yep, and we'll both be part of that day as well, so in in some way, shape, or form. Yep. And um looking forward to it and uh reporting back to you uh on uh episode 26. We will. So uh look forward to that. Cannot wait. Guess what? End of the show again goes so quickly. It does. Um but thanks for your company. It's been a it's been a pretty big one actually.

SPEAKER_10 2:01:53

Well it was always gonna be, but um that's okay.

SPEAKER_09 2:01:56

We knew that for 25 going in. Yeah. Our listeners are Bred Tough. Happy personalized silver day. Yeah. I'm gonna get you a necklace. But uh oh, really? No. Okay. Oh well, wishful thinking anyway. But uh, but but we have donuts to enjoy, so uh we uh we we we look forward to your company. Oh they're Daniels donuts, aren't they? Not sponsored, but should be. Yeah. Um Daniels. Um but uh thanks for your company. We uh we're grateful that you're part of this journey and that uh we um we we we're getting you know new new followers every week and new wisters every week and it's and it's great to to to to be uh to be in your be in your lives.

SPEAKER_10 2:02:47

We are very grateful. Very grateful.

SPEAKER_09 2:02:48

Yeah, and thank you again. Yeah. Um but uh stay tuned next week when you'll hear MJ say. I volunteer as tribute! What a great ending! Thanks very much, stay fresh. See y'all.

SPEAKER_00 2:03:01

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