The Weekly Planet Bonus Q&A January 2026

Happy new year big sandwich legend! In case you missed it, we’re introducing regular Q&A episodes after the success(?) of one last month in this very same feed. So tune in find out some behind the scenes for Caravan of Garbage, why James changed the rude theme song and will Maso be competing at the Tram World Championships this year? Plus so many more As to your Qs. Also a reminder that Big Sandwich bonuses will keep coming throughout January while the main pod is on break. There’ll also be a “best of” clip show around the middle of the month. The Weekly Planet podcast itself will return Feb 2nd and will never die. Thanks for listening!

607: The Best & Worst of 2025 Awards

Welcome everyone to the final Weekly Planet episode for the year where we celebrate the best, worst and everything in between of the year when it comes to movies, tv shows, comics and more. We also talk about the tragic passing of Peter Greene and James Ransone, box office results for Avatar: Fire & Ash, Paramount’s latest and even more desperate bid to buy Warner Brothers and trailers for Avengers: Doomsday and The Odyssey. Thanks for supporting us all year and we’ll see you on February 2nd!

You can still vote in The Weekly Planet 2025 Awards right here: https://forms.gle/4bpnyaV6sKqMUu6D7

00:00 The Start
02:38 Peter Greene & James Ransone RIP
05:42 Avatar: Fire & Ash Box Office
07:45 New Paramount Bid for Warner Bros
11:53 Avengers: Doomsday Teasers
18:43 The Odyssey Trailer
24:33 The Weekly Planet “Best & Worst” Awards
01:26:28 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read
01:30:26 Letters, It’s Time For Letters

Wrath of the Titans (Extended)

Two years after the success of the Warner Brothers Clash of the Titans reboot Sam Worthington returned to the role of Perseus for WRATH of the Titans. This time around Zeus and Hades have to content with the fact they no longer posess the power they once had in addition to Ares the God of War releasing Kronos from the underworld. And that’s pretty bad because he’s a big walking volcano. Thanks for watching our final Caravan of Garbage review for the year and all the support you’ve shown in 2025

74: Figment’s Festive Fashion Faux Pas

Merry clickbait everyone! James & Maso deep dive into a fresh Disney news website, another crazy connection from Collider plus some clickbait from the Stephen King universe. Thanks for listening and hope you have a great holiday time with no snitches.

00:00 The Start
01:28 Figment’s Festive Fashion Faux Pas
16:56 Predator Badlands vs Superhero Movies
23:36 No Weird Welcome To Derry Crossovers

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606: Avatar: Fire & Ash

Merry early podcast! Do you ever think about the Na’vi in Avatar being blue and the bad guys are always trying to harvest stuff? Interesting. Anyway, thanks for listening and happy holidays everyone!!

You can vote in The Weekly Planet 2025 Awards right here https://forms.gle/4bpnyaV6sKqMUu6D7

00:00 The Start
06:00 Rob & Michele Reiner RIP
09:08 Netflix & Warner Bros Drama Latest
15:55 Actor Officially Cast as Brainiac in DCU
21:25 Animal Farm’s Weird Movie Trailer
28:42 Disclosure Day Spielberg Movie Trailer
31:53 Spider-Man Brand New Day Trailer Leak (no spoilers)
33:42 Avengers: Doomsday Teaser (spoilers)
47:46 Avatar: Fire & Ash Movie Review
01:09:09 Avatar: Fire & Ash Spoiler Segment
01:22:50 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read
01:31:52 Letters, It’s Time For Letters

Clash of the Titans (Extended)

There’s going to be a delay on this week’s Caravan Of Garbage video version and editor Ben From Canada wants everyone to know it’s Doug Ford’s fault. Sorry mate, you need to be signed in to access this bonus:<a href="https://bigsandwich.co/wp-login.php" title="Sign In">Sign In</a>

605: Supergirl Trailer & Paramount vs Netflix for Warner Bros

Welcome back! To The Early Weekly Planet podcast! This week we talk about Paramount’s derailment of the Netflix/Warner Brothers buyout, Disney investing 1 billion dollars in AI nonsense, Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, 28 Years Later 3, Aragorn recast, Game Awards trailers for Street Fighter, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic, Star Wars Galactic (more…)

604: The Netflix Warner Bros Deal

Hello early podcast! In fantastic news for big business Netflix has officially purchased Warner Brothers Discovery for a staggering $82.7 billion. We talk that and the potential impact this will have on the cinema and streaming industry. Plus we discuss Quentin Tarantino’s bizarre outburst directed at Paul Dano, a first look at Spider-Man: Noir starring Nicholas Cage, MIB returns for another movie, trailers for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Ready or Not: Here I Come and The Boys Final Season, Star Wars 1977 returns to the big screen. Plus some Stranger Things Season 5 in What We Reading. Thanks for listening!

00:00 The Start
02:58 Spotify Wrapped & YouTube Recaps
04:29 Quentin Tarantino vs Paul Dano
10:52 Spider-Man Noir’s Unique Release
14:09 Men in Black Return Announced
18:02 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Trailer
23:10 Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Trailer
25:00 The Boys Final Season Trailer
29:45 Return of Original Star Wars to Cinemas
33:07 The Netflix Warner Bros Deal & Potential Fallout
59:05 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read (feat. Stranger Things S5)
01:08:48 Letters, It’s Time For Letters

The Lone Ranger (Extended)

In 2013 Disney were still looking for the next Pirates of the Caribbean so they thought, alright fine. Let’s again get Johnny Depp in a dumb hat and have him run about balancing on stuff to a Hans Zimmer score in a movie directed by Gore Verbinski. Oh and I guess Armie Hammer can be there also. The result was The Lone Ranger a movie with a couple of cancelled guys and some spectacular action sequences. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review

603: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (with Dave Warneke)

Hello great mate and welcome to the early podcast! This is James’ episode description: This is the episode description. I write them when Mason wraps up the show because I don’t really need to pay attention. You can really tell if you listen that I’m barely paying attention. But I was paying attention when Dave (more…)

Matrescence Festival with Claire Tonti & Lizzy Humber

Welcome to the final episode of TONTS season 5 Matrescence Festival edition. Today, we take the time to reflect on the full two days of the festival, how it came to be and what its future looks like. We encourage you to please let us know how felt listening to this series, what nobody told (more…)

Biggest Disney Bombs: John Carter (Extended)

Modern Disney is in a very precarious situation, their previously successful properties like Marvel and Star Wars aren’t landing and the newer ideas Wish and Elio aren’t making any impact. This isn’t new for Disney however, they’ve always had periods like this and massive bombs and to celebrate that over the next few weeks we’re going to look at four MASSIVE live action disasters. Starting with 2010’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Nick Cage. Magic. Uh. A big bird. I’ve already forgotten but in the video I haven’t forgotten but that was a different time to when I recorded now

The Weekly Planet Bonus Q&A 2025

Hello! This is a new bonus episode exclusively for Big Sandwich members with James and Maso doing a big questions and answers time. This show might also become a regular addition so please keep an eye out for opportunities to send in those letters. Thanks so much for listening!

Big Sandwich listeners there’s also the older exclusive Q&As you might’ve heard mentioned plus live show recordings and other one-off specials via this link bigsandwich.co/the-weekly-planet-extra

Matrescence Festival with Dr Sophie Brock

Welcome to first episode of TONTS Season 5 Matrescence Festival edition, join us as we look back through our Melbourne festival from March 2025. In this episode you’ll hear from Dr Sophie Brock, a sociologist with a focus on Motherhood. With a PhD from The University of Sydney just before becoming a mother herself, one (more…)

602: Wicked For Good & Moana But Worse

New, early and wicked podcast! James Maso covering BIG MOVIE and all the latest red hot movie news. Thank you for listening.

00:00 The Start
06:30 Black Panther 3 Update
10:54 Star Trek Movies Are Back
16:46 Live Action Zelda First Look
22:45 TMNT Reboot Plus Last Ronin Scrapped
28:27 Moana But Worse Live Action Trailer
36:58 The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Trailer
42:41 Project Hail Mary Trailer
43:42 Labubu Movie in Works at Sony
48:42 Wicked: For Good Movie Review
01:03:17 Wicked: For Good Spoiler Segment
01:15:48 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read
01:21:42 Letters, It’s Time For Letters

Biggest Disney Bombs: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Extended)

Modern Disney is in a very precarious situation, their previously successful properties like Marvel and Star Wars aren’t landing and the newer ideas Wish and Elio aren’t making any impact. This isn’t new for Disney however, they’ve always had periods like this and massive bombs and to celebrate that over the next few weeks we’re going to look at four MASSIVE live action disasters. Starting with 2010’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Nick Cage. Magic. Uh. A big bird. I’ve already forgotten but in the video I haven’t forgotten but that was a different time to when I recorded now

Matrescence Festival with Michelle Hall

Welcome to eleventh episode of TONTS Season 5 Matrescence Festival edition, join us as we look back through our Melbourne festival from March 2025. Today we have a special performance from Michelle Hall, Michelle is an independent performance maker, teaching artist, mentor, arts worker, community organiser, yoga practitioner and mother living and working on Noongar (more…)

601: The Running Man

It’s true! This is an incredibly early access release talking about new big movie The Running Man starring Glen Powell (The Running Man) and directed by Edgar Wright (That One Episode of The Weekly Planet Podcast). Thanks for listening.

00:00 The Start
06:38 Jimmy Olsen Spin-Off Series
14:40 V for Vendetta HBO Series
24:52 Miles Teller on Fan4stic Flop
27:33 Super Mario Galaxy Movie Trailer
32:02 Toy Story 5 Trailer
33:57 The Devil Wears Prada 2 Trailer
35:50 Marty Supreme Trailer
38:04 Avatar: Fire & Ash Runtime
39:38 Werewolf By Night Sequel
40:26 Avatar The Last Airbender S3
41:41 Alien: Earth Renewed for S2
42:25 Dumb AI Actor Voice Stuff
48:08 The Running Man Movie Review
01:02:48 The Running Man Spoiler Segment
01:15:48 What We Reading, What We Gonna Read
01:22:40 Letters, It’s Time For Letters

The Predator (Extended)

We’ve reached the end of the 20th Century Fox era of Predator movies, right before the Disney purchase in 2019. This particular entry had a lot going for it, the return of director Shane Black to the franchise, an R rating, solid cast, big budget and yet it’s regarded as probably the worst movie in the franchise with the inclusion of a giant nine feet tall Predator and movie Autism as a superpower. Thanks for coming with us on this particular journey and thanks for watching this particular Caravan Of Garbage review

73: Major Disney Changes & Return of Tree Bulletproof

Welcome everybody to another episode of The Weekly Planet clickbait bonus show. Thanks for listening and remember, no snitches. 00:00 The Start 02:30 You Won’t Believe What The Pope Condemned 10:32 Trump Making Superman Great Again 17:34 60 Major Walt Disney Changes 24:33 The Return of Tree Bulletproof Feel free to send the best clickbait (more…)