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Thank you, darling.

On the Empire Podcast this week, things get a little weird, a little creepy, and yet strangely beautiful,

because Tim Burton is visiting the pod booth to talk about Miss Paragrand's home for peculiar children.

And no, we are not all graduates. Thank you very much.

We got kicked out for being too peculiar.

Um, hello pod. I'm Helen O'Hara and welcome to the Empire Podcast.

Back in the studio after the live podcast last week, because the O2 insisted that we leave,

please, and thank you, and stop talking over the Monday night screening of Bridget Jones' baby.

Personally, I think people were loving it, but I guess there's no accounting for taste.

Your regular host, Chris Hewitt, is currently away on a top secret mission having to do with the essence of wetness,

so I'm covering for him in the hot seat this week.

So apologies for that.

And as ever, I'm joined by two colleagues of such lethal cunning.

First up is our Art House guru who spent this week fascinated by the debates that has everyone talking,

whether a toy story is really secretly a remake of Tokyo's story.

It's Phil DeSemlin. Hello. Hello.

Hello. So yes, that was the big debate this week.

Was it? It was actually great. Yeah, I mean, I don't think there were any other debates that anybody in the world was talking about.

Don't you think so? No, I was proxious. I shouldn't have thought so.

Probably not.

Is that true? No, I don't think so.

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