I'm the Empire podcast this week. We say talk to me and then no actor or writer responds, but we support them. We support them. We stand with them sticks of the man, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, we say talk to me to the talk to me director.

Danny Philip, who plus the usual news and nonsense on the movie podcast that went full barbenheimer this week and has barely recovered to be honest. Hello, pod. I'm Chris, you're welcome to the Empire podcast. I'm back in the chair after a couple of weeks away. Please accept my apologies for the shocking and marked increase in quality that happened over the last couple of weeks when Helen was hosting that won't happen again. It's like it's like I'm like super

man turned up at the end of Superman to and saying, good afternoon, Mr. President, let you down. It won't happen again. It's it's basically not on my watch. This podcast will not become listenable. My watch. Anyway, I'm joined by two colleagues of such lethal cunning. I feel very much likely can in this situation. My energy levels are high. But Sophie butcher is here. I can. Hi. Hi, Sophie. Hi. We did it last week. We did. Hi, I'll be

Hi. Hi, Barbara. Hi, I'm. Hi. Yeah. Hi. Yeah. Hi. Hi. Hi, I knew. Hi, I knew. Hi, I'm isn't isn't I knew what the dog brown calls his dog whenever he. He's got dog cold. And I'm pretty sure he said nobody calls him. I'm pretty sure he's the nickname is I need.

Copernicus is another dog brown name. Not his name, but his dog name. He has a dog called Copernicus,

another one called Einstein. Anyway, Helena Harrah, our geek queen is here. Hello. Hello. Hello.

How are you both? Very, very well. Good, good. I'm still kind of surfing the Barbie hide,

to be honest. Good. Really am. Serving the pink wave. Yes. No, that's on. That's on

biological and bad way. Let's not go there. Oh, God. Anyway, patriarchy. Should we talk about it?

The patriarchy has been restored, by the way. Few. Thank God. For a second there, I thought this had

been overtaken by females. Not females. No, God. Hi, Ben Shapiro. Levels of energy here.

Going on again. I love it. He's done. I love it. He's done. You know the way, because Ben Shapiro,

a friend of anybody who doesn't know, and God bless you, if you don't, he's one of these US obnoxious

right-wing commentators. And he has, in total, done, I believe an hour and 45 minutes on Barbie,

for his, I guess, YouTube, a channel or some kind of video channel. He's basically kind of

done what we do for, you know, Avengers movies for Barbie, but from a place of hate. It's like,

it's like you on a Chris Nolan film. Hey, I don't hate Chris Nolan films. I just have some

well-founded reservations. I respect his right right to exist. I'm just asking questions.

If I go down to rabbit hole every now and again, that's totally fine. Yes, yes, that's not

give too much time and attention to you. No, absolutely. That's more than enough. I saw

thumbnail. I didn't pay any attention to it. I actually clicked on it, but it said he destroys

Barbie for 43 minutes. And then I don't want to give away spoilers for Barbie, but I can see that

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