My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 14 - THE MAILBAG STRIKES BACK

Episode Date: June 24, 2019

By popular demand, the mailbag is back! Robbie answers listener questions about wrestling, MMA, nerd culture, music, and more!!!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Yo...uTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. I hate doing solo shows where the entire time I just have to sit here and sort of talk to myself, but apparently you guys don't hate it, and requested I do it again, so I will give the people what they want. I figured it was a good weekend to do so, being we had so much MMA and wrestling and everything in the world of this podcast seemed to be in the news a ton this weekend. So before we get into it, I do just want to mention you guys have been doing an awesome job rating, reviewing, subscribing to the podcast, keeping the discussion going on Twitter throughout the week, tweeting to guests that you want to see on. It's been awesome to see for me. It makes me very happy to see we got potential advertisers coming into the mix and all that. So it's cool to see on. It's been awesome to see for me. It makes me very happy to see. We got potential advertisers coming into the mix and all that. So it's cool to see the podcast growing in a very tangible way.
Starting point is 00:00:51 I see the reviews going up every week. I see the ratings going up every week. Like I said, I hear things from advertisers and I hear new guests coming on. This week, I'm interviewing two massive guests. So it's very, very, very exciting. Once again, I've broken all of the questions I've gathered up into a few categories. We have wrestling, we have MMA, we have nerd culture, music, and then miscellaneous. The timestamps for all of these categories will be below in the podcast description.
Starting point is 00:01:22 So if you just want to hear me answer wrestling questions, you could just listen to that. If you just want to hear me answer nerd questions, you could just listen to that music, whatever. You could skip around. I understand that these niche interests that I have cover a wide spectrum of nerds. So if you have to skip around, I will not be offended. But let's get right into it. With wrestling, Jack Frost, not Jack Frost, Jack Frost writes in and says, Thoughts on Stomping Grounds slash AJ Styles future.
Starting point is 00:01:51 As I'm recording this, Stomping Grounds just finished up and I did not watch a second of it. I just wasn't interested whatsoever. I actually couldn't tell you right now. I think I know the answer to this, but I couldn't tell you whether or not it was a real pay-per-view or one of those WWE Network like house show special pay-per-views, because the only thing I saw was a fan poster someone made on Squared Circle, the subreddit for wrestling, and I looked down the match list, and I said, man, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn versus The New Day seems like an awesome match, and I didn't watch it because I took a nap,
Starting point is 00:02:25 but I will probably go back, watch that one, and watch nothing else. I just wasn't interested. I saw they did something with Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch at the end where Lacey Evans was the special guest ref. I mean, Jesus fucking Christ. I hate that they're making that relationship such a focal point of the show now. I think Becky and Seth probably wouldn't have done what they did if they knew
Starting point is 00:02:47 their relationship was going to be given so much TV time because sort of like Dean Ambrose, as we discussed on the episode of this show with me and Kazim, where he let the WWE know he was good at comedy and he was stuck doing comedy
Starting point is 00:03:02 the rest of his career. Like Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch kind of opened the floodgates for their relationship being public, and now it's the focal point of WWE television, which is weird. And they said, slash, AJ Styles' future. Tell you this, maybe I'm so out of wrestling that I don't know if he's got a contract coming up.
Starting point is 00:03:18 I don't even know what that means, AJ Styles' future. So sorry I couldn't give you a great answer there, but that is an honest answer Nick writes in and says would Barstool run a small wrestling promotion even for a one-off do 500 to 1,000 seats book the most outrageous matches on the indie scene
Starting point is 00:03:35 and scrubs who want to be wrestlers settle office storylines special guest run-ins this is a great idea and I'll say something that I don't believe has ever been said publicly on Barstool Airwaves. It was optioned. This was optioned, I want to say, December of 2017, maybe December of 2018. No, it wasn't the last December. It was December beforehand, I think was the original plan. When Pat McAfee was running his series with Rip Rogers,
Starting point is 00:04:04 where he was training to become a Rip Rogers, where he was training to become a pro wrestler, and Rip was training him, and he was doing like a kind of a vlog series. I think he only did one or two episodes. But when that was going on, and I don't even know how far up the ladder this made it, I was pulled aside by the guy who eventually was responsible for canceling From the Top Rope. And he was like, listen, we're going to do a big show around Pat McAfee's debut. We would like you to basically book it. We want you to tell us who to book, what kind of office storyline should be going on. This was before we even owned Rough and Rowdy.
Starting point is 00:04:36 So it was going to be Dave and Big Cat on commentary. I think me and Jared were each going to manage someone on the indie scene. I was just going to book all of my favorite indie wrestlers and put a WWE guy in the main event with Pat. I think I was thinking about Billy Gunn at the time, having Billy Gunn help produce the entire show with me. But yeah, that was definitely something that was talked about. And like I said, I don't know if it made it to Dave. I think Erica definitely knew. I don't know if it was ever run across Dave's desk, but
Starting point is 00:05:08 there were talks and I was in meetings planning a barstool indie wrestling show, which I would still love to do. Um, but obviously without the McAfee thing, it's a tough, it's a tough connection because where's the selling point. Medium country writes in and wants to know my personal Mount Rushmore favorite wrestlers. This one's going to be real easy. Ready? Rey Mysterio, Shawn Michaels, Daniel Bryan, John Cena. Daniel Bryan being my all-time favorite, but Rey Mysterio really being my first,
Starting point is 00:05:38 and then Shawn Michaels taking over after that, Daniel Bryan taking over after him, and John Cena always being sort of the number two, which slides him into that slot. An honorable mention, you know, I guess Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan were the ones I grew up on. Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels a little bit as well, but definitely those four. And then another Mount Rushmore from Ed wants to know my Mount Rushmore of wrestling themes. I thought about this one a little bit earlier before I answered, so I didn't have a bunch of dead air. And my answers are D-Generation X, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Edge with his Alter Bridge Metal Angus theme. I don't even
Starting point is 00:06:16 know if I said that word right. I always just read it. And then CM Punk Cult of Personality. That's my Mount Rushmore. I know I don't have anything on the early, early golden age side, but hey, the wrestling I grew up on kind of breeded that answer. Frank writes in and says, if you could create the perfect wrestling faction, who would it be? Three to five members, try to make it have sense. For example, members would have to have a logical connection, not just great wrestlers from different eras.
Starting point is 00:06:43 Alternatively, has the perfect wrestling faction already existed? I think there have been a few perfect wrestling factions, like actually a few. I think the New Day is a perfect wrestling faction. I think the Shield was a perfect wrestling faction. I think Degeneration X in its original form was a perfect wrestling faction. Other than that, the Four Horsemen were a perfect wrestling faction. Evolution, I found to be a perfect wrestling faction. And my answer as far as if I could create the next perfect wrestling faction, I think we've talked about this on From the Top Rope before. This is, you know, going back a few years, but it would be a new evolution where
Starting point is 00:07:25 Triple H steps into the Ric Flair role. Kevin Owens would be one of his guys. I guess Kevin Owens would maybe be in the Triple H role. And then you bring in Samoa Joe to be in the Batista role. And you bring in Pete Dunne to be in the Randy Orton role. That would be my perfect wrestling faction. I think that would be really cool. The only one I'm kind of hung up on there is Samoa Joe, and I feel bad saying that because Joe's a friend of the program, and speaking of which, I teased a Joe interview a few weeks ago. I lost the file for that Joe interview,
Starting point is 00:07:57 so if I find that file, because trust me, I have been looking, if I find that file, I promise you I will air that Joe interview. If not, it might be the lost interview that my mom's basement has. But yeah, that's the faction. I'll stick with it. It's a new evolution. Triple H, Samoa Joe, Kevin Owens, Pete Dunne. I think that would be real cool.
Starting point is 00:08:18 Sam Lauderdale writes in, wants to know my favorite late 80s slash early 90s tag team pre-Attitude Era. This is going to be a cliche one, but it's very easy for me. It's the Rockers. It's Marty Jannetty. It's Shawn Michaels. A fun Marty Jannetty story that I've never told on the podcast, I don't believe, is I almost watched Marty Jannetty and the Sandman fight outside a Denny's in Orlando, Florida before WrestleMania 33, I believe. Yeah, it was WrestleMania 33. It was the night that I got super kicked.
Starting point is 00:08:48 If you've ever seen that video, I got super kicked by my friend Pat Buck at this indie show. He's going to be joining me and Karabas on the podcast in a few weeks. We've got something planned with him that will be very interesting, very fun, very unique from anything any wrestling podcasts are doing right now, actually. But that night, I went to Denny's with a group of people that I had never met in person before, just friends from wrestling Twitter, sort of. That's the world we live in, this online world
Starting point is 00:09:12 where I have all these friends that I've never met. But we went to Denny's together. We had a great time, and the Sandman and Marty Jannetty took their beef outside and kind of squared up but never actually fought. It was fucking crazy. It was knocking futz as they say. Rounding out the wrestling questions, Boo wants to know my top five WWE
Starting point is 00:09:31 championship belts. My number one is going to be the winged eagle belt from the Hogan Warrior era. My number two is going to be the big gold belt. My number three is the Intercontinental Championship from the Hogan Warrior era with a white strap like we have today. I guess just today's Intercontinental Championship. Number four would be the Attitude Era Intercontinental Championship. And number five would be the PWG World Championship, which I know is a bit of a weird poll, but hey, that's my pick. Moving on to the MMA questions, SirStevo writes in and says, Thoughts on bare-knuckle fighting championship with the suspect Artem victory? Referencing this weekend's fight between Artem Lobov and Pauly Malinowski, finally settling the beef between Team McGregor and Pauly Malinowski, I fucking hope.
Starting point is 00:10:26 But knowing Pauly, he's going to complain about this one for a few years, just like he's still complaining about the sparring session with McGregor and Paulie Malignaggi, I fucking hope. But knowing Paulie, he's going to complain about this one for a few years, just like he's still complaining about the sparring session with McGregor. I don't know about a suspect victory. I actually scored that one for Artem. I joked on Twitter that my final scorecard read 50-32 Artem Lobov. But I did score it for Artem. I thought he just edged out the first round, and I thought he won four and five pretty handily,
Starting point is 00:10:49 especially being Malignaggi's hands were broken. He couldn't throw punches in either. But yeah, it was pretty fucking crazy watching Artem Lobov outpoint Paulie Malinowski in a bare knuckle fight in 2019. What a world we're living in. As far as bare knuckle FC as a whole, I do not enjoy bare knuckle FC. I think it's stupid. I think it's gimmicky. I can't see anyone lasting with any longevity in that sport. And honestly, it's just decision after decision after decision after decision. I know there are a few knockouts in Saturday's card, but Jesus Christ, there's all these guys and they're afraid to throw with 100% because if they do, they're going to break their hands. So you just see guys bloodying each other up and giving each other the grossest cuts imaginable. The actual promotion itself is also very carny. The commentary is no good. The promoter kind of seems like a sleazeball. I'm out on Bare Knuckle
Starting point is 00:11:35 FC. Christian says, how do we feel about Paulie Malignaggi's credibility when it comes to the McGregor tapes now? I think Paulie Malignaggi has no credibility. Listen, with all due respect to the GOAT, Artem Lobov, Artem Lobov is no Conor McGregor. And after watching that fight, my main takeaway was that Conor beat the ever-living shit out of Paulie Malignaggi just as bad as he said he did. I'm still waiting on this Netflix documentary. I remember right after UFC 229, Jon Kavanaugh went on Joe Rogan and said that there is a documentary coming out about that sparring session. So if that's still in the docket, I can't wait for it. Big Honks says, whose grappling do you think is better, Habib or Askren?
Starting point is 00:12:13 And this is a tricky question for me to answer because I'm no analyst and I don't ever claim to be. So watching the two, I'm like, yeah, they're both fucking unbelievable grapplers. Habib, I feel like history would prove Khabib to be, but I guess we don't really have any way of saying. Gone to my head, I would say Khabib, but I would love to see that fight. And going off that question, Donnie Cunningham says, who do you think has the best chance to beat Khabib? And my answer to that would probably be George St. Pierre. Even today, I think if GSP came back and they made that fight happen at 155 at 170 at 165 catch weight, I think GSP beats Habib. I think he's as good a grappler and I think he is all around the better fighter. So I think he probably
Starting point is 00:12:58 is the best. After talking to Kavanaugh both on and off mic, I think McGregor in a rematch, like, I know it fucking sounds crazy, guys. I know I sound like a nut-hugger, but just, it's hard for me not to say McGregor after just talking to Kavanaugh and him looking me dead in the eyes and saying, yeah, a rematch would go much differently. So, I would put him in the conversation.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Tony Ferguson is obviously in the conversation. And fuck it, maybe Dustin Poirier is going to shock the world in September. Who knows? If he does, God bless his soul trying to get out of Abu Dhabi alive. Cody Larkin writes in and says, I know it's old, but I just went back to the John Jones interview on Joe Rogan this week, and I just wanted your thoughts on the whole career of Jones with a little more than what was said a couple weeks ago in your pod. Oh, buddy. Oh, Cody. Don't get me started on Jones. Jones is my least favorite fighter in the history of the UFC. I think he's the biggest black eye in the
Starting point is 00:13:51 history of the sport. I think he is the most pathetic cheater in the history of the sport, and I also think he's the greatest fighter of all time. So that's where my relationship with Jon Jones lies. Between him playing the victim every time he's ever popped for steroids, with the countless stories of him doing steroids, with the countless stories of him throwing his career, and the potential of having the greatest legacy
Starting point is 00:14:18 any mixed martial artist has ever had, throwing that away, just, I fucking hate the guy. He hit a pregnant woman with his car he fled the scene, he returned to the scene to grab his drugs, and he fled the scene once again, and he still expects everyone to be on his side and feel bad
Starting point is 00:14:34 for him, every time he pops for steroids, every time he pops for performance enhancing drugs, every time he pops for a pectogram, I fucking hate the guy, but he's the best to ever do it so that sucks. I can't wait for him to lose. I hope Diago Santos is the one to do it.
Starting point is 00:14:49 If not, throw him up in the heavyweight division. Put him against Francis Ngannou. Put him against DC at heavyweight. I don't fucking care. Put him against anyone you could put him against until he loses. I hate the guy. He's the best to ever do it. ZachB rounding out the MMA questions.
Starting point is 00:15:03 Sheesh, I got fired up. Hold on. I'm going to take a sip of my peach snapple after that one. Hold on. All right. Zach B. rounding out the MMA portion of the mailbag says, If you had to show one fight to someone who doesn't watch combat sports to try to make them a fan, what would it be? It's a very simple one.
Starting point is 00:15:22 It's Rory McDonald versus Robbie Lawler 2 at UFC 189 it is my favorite fight of all time ladies and gentlemen if you have not seen this fight go back find it however you can I think it's on UFC fight pass if not I'm sure you could find it illegally I'm not encouraging that but if you got to do it you got to do it Robbie Lawler defends his title against Rory McDonald UFC 189. It is the greatest fight in the history of mixed martial arts, in my opinion. A fight from this year, I would show him Kelvin Gastelum versus Israel Adesanya for the interim UFC middleweight championship. Another recent fight I would show him, sort of recent, is Conor McGregor versus
Starting point is 00:16:01 Nate Diaz 2 at UFC 202. These are all great fights to show somebody. Even the Conor McGregor vs. Nate Diaz 2 at UFC 202. These are all great fights to show somebody. Even the Conor McGregor vs. Chad Mendes fight is a decent one to show them, which headlined the Robbie Lawler vs. Rory McDonald card. That entire UFC 189 card in general would be a good card to show someone to get him into mixed martial arts. But go back and watch that fight if you haven't seen it. And if you're not a mixed martial arts fan after that, you'll just know. You'll know you're not a mixed martial arts fan after that you'll just know you'll know you're not a mixed martial arts fan you'll know you'll never like it because if you don't like that i can't imagine you ever enjoying the sport it is
Starting point is 00:16:32 one of the most savage one of the most gruesome one of the most bloody and one of the most electric fights in the history of combat sports so go check that out all right a couple nerd culture questions first off from maddie she wants to know a recommendation for a good starting place for combat sports. So go check that out. All right, a couple of nerd culture questions. First off, from Maddie, she wants to know a recommendation for a good starting place for someone who wants to start reading comics. Great question. Now, I'm a little bit biased because Batman is my favorite character, but I would always recommend people start with Batman because Batman is what I started with. I think Batman is the most well-written character in the history of comics. I think he is the greatest character in the history of comics. Hey, I think Batman's honestly the greatest
Starting point is 00:17:08 character in the history of, like, art. Like, Batman is my number one character in the history of anything. So, um, I would say start with Batman, start with comics like The Long Halloween, with The Killing Joke, if you're a Joker fan, with Hush, with... I don't know if I would recommend you start with The Dark Knight Returns. I probably wouldn't. I would recommend stuff more like the new 52 run, Scott Snyder's run with Greg Capullo, Batman Year One, give that a read. Start with all of these.
Starting point is 00:17:38 Mad Love is a great one. If you're a Harley Quinn fan, if you want a good female-driven story, Mad Love is a good one. Arkham Asylum is a fucking trippy one. If you smoke weed, check out Arkham Asylum. If you're not into Batman, if you want a Marvel series to start, I'm going to toot the horn of this one yet again. Spider-Gwen. Go into Spider-Gwen, the story of Gwen Stacy as Spider-Woman.
Starting point is 00:17:59 It is one of the most unique stories ever written in the history of comics. And it's the one that I'm most fascinated in right now. It's the one that I've been reading most frequently. So check that out. Thank you for the question. O writes in and says, If there was a Royal Rumble for all of the Game of Thrones characters, who would be your pick for the male and female winner?
Starting point is 00:18:18 Hmm. Female is obvious. I think Brienne of Tarth would win pretty easily. And then as far as male, you want to say the Mountain. It's the obvious pick, but if you take into account the history of Royal Rumbles, the Big Show doesn't have any wins under his belt. Yokozuna, I think, only has one. So the big guys don't always win. I'm going to say probably everyone would team up and throw the Mountain over the top rope together. I think Khal Drogo is going to be my pick. Either Khal Drogo, I think Oberyn would be the guy to get thrown over and have the Kofi spot,
Starting point is 00:18:50 but yeah, Khal Drogo, hmm, who else? Jon Snow. Jon Snow is a survivor in that Rey Mysterio 2006 way. You know, he could be in that corner for 52 minutes and still survive as the Battle of the Bastards has proven. So, yeah, I guess Dark Horse Jon Snow, but Khal Drogo is my pick. Khal Drogo, however you say it. Crow Dog writes in and says, What direction do the Christopher Nolan Batman movies go if Heath Ledger was still alive? This is a bit of a morbid question and it's a bit of a sad question.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Hmm. The Dark Knight is my favorite movie of all time. So it's hard to imagine the Joker having any other screen time other than in that movie. But maybe this is just me being a naive comic book reader and kind of having the cliche go-to answer here, but I would imagine The Dark Knight Rises would go way more into the Joker's backstory, his real backstory, if they were able to. I don't think they would have him just be a random character that Bane breaks out of prison, sort of like the Scarecrow, although that Scarecrow appearance is one of my favorite
Starting point is 00:19:54 things in the entire movie. It screams Long Halloween to me, where it's just like, oh my god, Batman's rogue gallery is showing up, you know, all together at the end of this giant conclusion, which, another thing about that movie, the Dark Knight Rises, gets a lot of shit. I don't feel 90% of it is deserved. I think The Dark Knight Rises is a fucking fantastic movie, and when people compare it to The Dark Knight, which is maybe the greatest movie ever made, sure, it doesn't hold up quite as well, but I think it's still a great movie that makes me cry every time I watch it. Just that happy ending for Batman is fantastic, but I would imagine they would go more into the Joker's backstory. I think Bane would probably still be a player. I think maybe Harley Quinn would be a
Starting point is 00:20:34 player. I think it would be awesome if she was, but it's a sad thing to think about because we never got that movie. Rounding out the nerd questions one bad ombre says if you had a choice between a small extra role on a star wars film or celebrity sex which one i assume he means like i could have sex with anyone in the world i want or i could kind of be in the background of a star wars movie i mean he says a small extra role maybe i get a line this is like are you a fucking idiot dude like of course i'm taking the star Wars movie. Like, sex is, sex is, I don't know. It's a thing that can happen. Being an extra in a Star Wars movie, that's a galaxy far, far away, brother. I'm taking that anytime I could get it. I would love to be a protocol droid, like C-3PO, because I think my arms can fit into that tiny
Starting point is 00:21:21 suit. I'll be like, yeah, sorry, I gotta fit in the suit so I can't be hitting the gym. Gotta fit in that protocol droid suit. You never know if I'm gonna get the call. So I would love to be a protocol droid in Star Wars. I have a few movie roles that I would love to be. I would love to be a boxer hitting a heavy bag in the background of a shot in a boxing movie where an actual, like the main character boxer walks in
Starting point is 00:21:42 and I turn around and I look at the boxer for a second, and then I can just go back to hitting the heavy bag. Like, I would love that. I would love, uh, I would love to be a fan in a sports movie that just gets a crowd shot cheering for the home team. I got a few ideas. I got a few ideas. Maybe I could pitch to Hollywood one day. Moving on, we got a couple music questions.
Starting point is 00:22:01 Tyler Moore writes in and says, what are the top five best pop punk bands right now? I put a little thought into this before recording. My number five is a band called Seaway. I would recommend checking them out. They're really good. I saw them open up for Neck Deep a few years ago. They have an album, I believe, called Vacation that I really like. My number two is State Champs.
Starting point is 00:22:23 I've never seen State Champs live, but they're really good, and they're kind of, they remind me a lot of All Time Low, in that they have, they have a very good grasp of what their fans want right now, and their last album was really good. Their album before that was really good. Their album before that was really good. They haven't put out a bad album in a while. Number three, this is an obvious one, but the Wonder Years have been on the top of their game for years now. Sister Cities was their last drop. It was awesome.
Starting point is 00:22:50 The Greatest Generation is one of my favorite pop punk albums of all time. So The Wonder Years, there you go. Neck Deep is my number two. Life's Not Out to Get You, in my opinion, is the greatest pop punk album of the last 10 years. And their follow-up, The Peace and the Panic, was almost as good for me, and they put on an awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome live show.
Starting point is 00:23:10 And number one, obviously, is going to be All Time Low. I know people are going to say, they've kind of moved on from pop punk, they're kind of more pop now. I promise you this, All Time Low has a fuck ton of pop punk music left in them. Their next album is going to go back to their roots. It's going to go back to that nothing personal sound, and it's going to blow everyone's doors off. I promise you that. Speaking of All Time Low, before I even move on, All Time Low's guitarist and a good friend of mine, Jack Barakat,
Starting point is 00:23:38 just put out his first ever solo project, his first ever side project. I shouldn't say solo. Who Hurt You, all one word. Check out their first single, Wish We Never Met, right now. It might be the song of the summer, folks. It's that fucking good. Derek Johnston says, from one huge Oasis fan to another, do you ever legitimately think the band could get back together someday? Yes. My answer to this for pretty much every band capable of doing so is going to be yes.
Starting point is 00:24:05 I'm one of those never say never, like all bands are going to get together. All bands are going to do reunions. If there is any band that could defy that rule, I think Oasis is the one. But I do think one day when Noah and Liam look at the money that could be made by a reunion, they will put their differences aside. They will get separate tour buses and they will figure out a way to do a tour without having to communicate with one another, and it will be fucking awesome. I cannot wait for that day to come so I could finally see Oasis. Todd says, who is the Freddie Mercury of pop punk? Tough question to answer because it's tough to compare anyone to Freddie Mercury. I will say after a weekend of watching a ton of Green Day shows, I watched Bullet in a Bible, I watched Awesome as Fuck, I watched Redding 2013, I watched Woodstock 94,
Starting point is 00:24:51 watched all the classics, my answer has to be Billy Joe Armstrong. I think he's definitely the Freddie of pop punk, of punk rock, of even this generation of rock and roll, if you don't want to look at Dave Grohl, who's another great front man, but Billy just really knows how to work a crowd. The only other option of this generation would really be Mark or Tom from Blink, but they're sort of more the John and Paul of punk rock or pop punk, and Aliens would be the Yoko Ono that split them up, so I would say Billy Joe Armstrong from Green Day. Del Bianco says, what covers are better than the original? Another really tough question, and I'm sure I'm going to leave out a thousand of my own personal favorites because there's so many directions you could go with it.
Starting point is 00:25:34 But the first ones that spring to mind are Dave Matthews' version of All Along the Watchtower, Hendrix's version as well, but Dave's is my favorite, Sara Bareilles' version of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The Prince Tom Petty version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2004. The Guns N' Roses version of Live and Let Die, obviously. I like Oasis' version of I Am the Walrus.
Starting point is 00:26:00 I like Oasis' version of Hey Hey My My. I think I've discussed both of those on the podcast before. And just recently I saw Lucas Nelson and Promise of the Real at Webster Hall, and they encored with a cover of American Girl by Tom Petty, and it was honestly one of the best covers I've ever even heard for a song that I never even really had a strong emotional attachment to, but God, it was fucking, it was so good that my brother said to me, no one should ever be able to cover that song ever again, and I agreed. If you could look up, I'm sure you could find a cover of him doing it on YouTube, Lucas Nelson doing American Girl by Tom Petty. Check it out. Sticky Boy Fresh says, what's your favorite song by the Wonder Years? It is There There, the opening track off The Greatest Generation. Check it out. JC, another Oasis question. Wow. Does pop punk do Oasis?
Starting point is 00:26:48 The answer to that question is yes. At our last show, we did a mashup of Wonderwall and Old Town Road. That was awesome. And for Mulcagees, our next show on July 27th. Tickets are available now in Long Island. We are adding another song to the mix, so it's going to be a cool melody. And finally, miscellaneous questions. PJ wrote in with a ton of them, so I'm just going to go through.
Starting point is 00:27:10 They all do kind of fall into these categories that I've answered, but he wrote in with a few lightning round questions, so let's do them lightning round style. Favorite wrestler in WCW? Rey Mysterio Jr. If you're saying just a wrestler more known for their WCW work, I would say Diamond Dallas Page. Sonic or Mario, I would say Sonic.
Starting point is 00:27:28 Most overrated Star Wars character. I hate to say this because it's going to piss a lot of people off, but it's Darth Maul. Darth Maul was awesome. He should have been the main villain for the entire prequel trilogy. But the fact is, he wasn't. He only had like two minutes of screen time in The Phantom Menace. He looked awesome. That lightsaber battle is iconic.
Starting point is 00:27:45 It's legendary. Duel of the Fates is one of the greatest scores a movie has ever had. But Darth Maul is overrated. Coming from a guy who's a hypocrite and loves Boba Fett and the rest of the bounty hunters as characters. So finally, which Marvel movie do you want to see made next? Hmm. What Marvel movie do I want to see made next? Honestly, it's Guardians 3.
Starting point is 00:28:04 I want to see Asgardians of the Galaxy. That's the one I'm most interested in. I know they're making The Eternals. I know they're making the Black Widow prequel, but give me Asgardians of the Galaxy. Thank you so much for joining me on this episode of My Mom's Basement, this mailbag edition of My Mom's Basement.
Starting point is 00:28:20 I hope it's a while until I do these again, but hey, if you want to see another one, let me know because I'm all about giving the listeners of this podcast what they want. Once again, if you could rate, review, subscribe to this show if you haven't already, and keep the conversation going on Twitter, it would mean the world. I hope you guys have a great week. I will see you on Monday.

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