My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 236 - 'ANDOR' EPISODE 5 RECAP WITH CLEM

Episode Date: October 6, 2022

Robbie and Clem break down ‘ANDOR’ Episode 5, ‘The Axe Forgets’ - one of the most tension-filled yet! 3Chi: Use code STOOL5 at checkout to receive 5% off at 3Chi.com Gametime: Download the app and use promo code BASEMENT for $20 off your first purchase! HelloFresh: Use code ROBBIE65 at HelloFresh.com/ROBBIE65 for 65% off your first order **************************************** Subscribe to My Mom's Basement on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeZ96PqdsJYQ7DFLRx6MHw My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

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. Hello and welcome back to My Mom's Basement, presented by Barstool Sports and 3G, and another Andor Recap edition of My Mom's Basement for Andor Episode 5, The Axe Forgets. I didn't know what that title meant when I clicked on the episode, but when we got to the actual quote, I was like, oh, fuck. Yeah, that's, that's a pretty bad-ass quote. Bad-ass quote.

I'm going to be using that. If my Mets do anything in the post-season, I'll be using the tree room, the ax forgets, but the tree remembers. So I'll just leave it at that. If my Mets win in my lifetime, I'll be using that because I will be the biggest motherfucker on the planet. I am.

I'm very, I'm Anakin right now, Bob. The eyes are orange right now. I'm ready for fucking war. Oh, no. So we're going to see. Well, this all depends. By the way, for people that are listening to this, my guy Bob is going to be interviewing a very special person later today that is also in this weird cross-reference.

I hopefully will be seeing him Sunday night. If I'm not watching the New York Metropolitans, I'll be watching Dragons at some point as well. Break it down for the people, Bob. John Oates is coming into Barstool HQ today. One of the most unlikely names I could ever bring up as far as Barstool guests. But I got a text yesterday from Kelly Martin, head of talent here, great talent booker.

And she was like, hey, do you want to interview John Oates in person tomorrow? And I was like, yeah, definitely you want to interview John Oates in person tomorrow? And I was like, yeah, definitely. Like who would say no to that? It'd be disrespectful to say no to that. He's a legend. He's written how many amazing songs that have reached the top of the charts over the years. And I did a lot of research into Hall and Oates last night. And I think it's going to be a good interview.

I wasn't like the biggest Hall and Oates fan by any means, but I respect the legend when I, when I know him. And as fate has it, I will be going to a Hall and Oates show on Saturday, Sunday night, if the Mets finish up their series by then. And if I, if I don't though, I will be probably streaming a game, watching the Mets on do or die with a cartoon character of a human being. And you know, the rest of my Mets brothers out there. It's just an absolute delightful... It's like, does Hall & Oates have any hits?

No. Hall & Oates has all the hits. That's the thing you learn. It's like, oh, I didn't know Hall & Oates did this. Oh, I didn't know Hall & Oates did that. I'm dying. I can't wait to hear this interview. If I could just hear Private Eyes, Rich Girl... Sarah Smile. There's just so many. They just keep coming. this interview uh we have i if i can just hear privatized rich girl you make my smile sarah smile i mean there's just so many they just keep coming nothing but bangers is what hall and oats

do and i'm starting to feel like this show we're starting to get more of the same everything's a little different but i like every single show i'm getting so far here with andor and to wrap everything up and bring it into andor with Hall and Oates and the Mets and Frank and all of that, I actually saw Frank in the office today. And I know you and Frank have had your differences over the Mets, of course, you and KFC on one side, Frank on the other side. But I said, hey, we're all Star Wars fans here. So I said to Frank, what do you think of Andor? Would you see the episode this week? And he said that he hasn't even seen one second of any of the episodes, which made me think he's calling you a fraud Mets fan for watching Thrones

during the Mets. This guy hasn't even watched the new Star Wars show, the self-proclaimed big Star Wars guy. That's not a great look. Terrible look. All he does, he wears a Darth Vader mask. He probably doesn't even know Darth Vader is really Anakin. He doesn't know any of that stuff.

He doesn't know Baby-O's real name. He's a fraud. Frank the Tank is the biggest fraud I've ever met in my life. The man had a bet with me, did not honor the bet, so I'm hashtag done with the man. That's the last time we'll ever speak to Frank on this podcast. That's a promise to you people. So now let's speak of Clem,

aka Cassian Andor, in this podcast. Also, before we even get into that, I'm going to Comic-Con tomorrow to make a video. New York Comic-Con. Another thing that came up out of nowhere. Jake was like, you to go to comic-con i said yeah what day and he was like tomorrow i was like oh shit sure yeah like let's go so me and jake bass from four player going we're gonna film a little man on the street video there and the next day i'm going down to atlantic highlands new jersey to kevin smith's new movie theater to film a little vlog style video at

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or older purchase though and you'll get five percent off that complete order go now promo code stool 5 tell them my mom's basement sent you but now let's get into andor what people know and love episode five like i said the axe forgets and we start with cereal uh the not imperial officer but the security officer from last week punchable face fuck face and he's depressed he's sitting around the table with his mom and she criticizes him for his his posture the way he's presenting himself um she pours him some delicious looking cereal as you mentioned on twitter we were talking about it with jeff it looked almost like captain crunch berries but only the berries to me but it was that blue is that blue that we see in mandalorian when baby yoda

eats the little cookies it's that teal color with the blue milk of course and she tells him uncle harlow is going to know what's best for you. This Uncle Harlow guy, we didn't see him this episode. Something tells me he's like not to be messed with. Instant Sussless. That's anybody named Uncle Harlow. Star Wars Galaxy, our galaxy, any galaxy in between. Your name is Uncle Harlow. Sussless.

Harlow by yourself, probably Sussless. The uncle, though, that is some fucking devious shit i don't trust anybody with an uncle harlow i don't trust your uncle harlow to your uncle harlow and i don't your nephew of uncle or niece of uncle harlow i'll just tell you flat out how it is and bob you said it's like the crunch berries that's actually a very good observation i was thinking reese's puffs but with different colors i'm a big reese's puffs guy. Are you thinking peanut butter? No, I don't like peanut butter, Clem. Oh, that's good.

The Bob Fox. Tell me that blue tastes like peanut butter. I'm not saying it does. I'm saying, Hey, I'm going to put you with the guy who I do not speak of. That's not even a real star Wars fan. If you,

Oh, come on. Raspberry peanut butter on me. I'm just saying it looked like the same kind of cereal, just a different color because I am personally a huge fan of Reese's Puffs. Let's just say this about our boy Fuckface there, Commander Fuckface.

It's kind of like we said the axe remembers the tree, don't forget. Another good tree analogy. The fruit don't fall far from the tree. I feel like this guy is such a dickhead because he was raised in a house without love. There's a lot of love in the Casa de Clam. There's not a lot of love in the Casa de Fuckface. I think you're right about that. Even the way that him and his mom were talking to each other, like the way she was talking to him, he clearly doesn't really like his mom.

He's like, you could have visited me at any point. I had a spare room. She's like, I only know what you tell me. Fuck off. Exactly. like his mom he's like you could have visited me at any point i had a spare room she's like i only know what you tell me fuck off exactly and then i'm sure uncle harlow isn't you know picking up all the the pieces as they fall and putting them back together uncle harlow's lighting that shit on fire he's probably a pyro too and he's probably done a lot of you know i'm not gonna say this stuff uncle harlow has probably done in my mind he's a sick fuck he's twisted demented oh fuck uncle harlow i hope he's not. I hope he's not awesome.

If Uncle Harlow ends up being awesome, it's going to crush me. He's the one guy in this family who has heart. Andor wakes up, our main character. And he's like, where's all my shit? He runs and- No, no, no. No, no, no. Clem, I'm sorry.

Clem wakes up. And he's like, where's all my shit? It's the cousin from the bear that's inspecting it. Which, again, what's his name? Did you write it down? Skeena or something? Skeena? I wrote it down.

Cousin. His name is Cousin. Just recalling him Cousin. We're calling him Cousin, okay? And he's inspecting his shit and tells Andor, listen, you're lucky to be alive. Like, the fact that you're mad at me for this, get out of here. And they talk about his tattoos. He's got one tattoo that I guess caught Clem's eye.

And he's like, you know what this means, don't you? And he says, crate head. And then he's like, what about this one? And it's meant by the hand. Sounds like they were locked up as kids. He's like, there were a lot of cages over there, right? You were there for three years or whatever. He's like, yeah, you didn't miss anything.

And then this is when they give the line, the axe forgets, but the tree remembers. And that is obviously their motivation. It's revenge towards the Imperials. The cousin kind of gives a rundown of the group. He's like, this guy, Nemec, he's real committed to the cause, loves the cause, smart guy. Cinta is the toughest one here. She's already sharing a blanket. He said she's already sharing a blanket.

What does that mean? Is she doing it with Vel? Is that what that was supposed to mean i didn't think that i was thinking when you share a blanket with someone that's a really nice thing to do i think you're definitely yeah maybe it's not romantic i just was like reading into it a little more than i was supposed to maybe which i'm prone to do with this show by the way there's so many just straight up dialogue scenes that i feel like everyone i'm like looking for a little hidden meaning like it's like game of thrones or something dude going back to fuckface i was thought for sure he was gonna kill his mom at

some point and i'm like i don't know that's thrones going in my head i thought in that episode he was gonna kill his mom and again it's poisoned my brain i've been watching uh house of the dragon which is very easy to watch at the same time as baseball as people people who don't think you can watch house of the dragon and baseball the same times those are the people that don't know there's a 50 acre star wars land right behind them as they take a picture those people don't have the brain to comprehend it all luckily i do uh but i so i'm in the same boat man thrones is definitely getting me cooking which again this is the show that is that it's exactly what we're looking for, the Politicking Star Wars show. However, as someone named Clem, cousin, if you're telling us,

don't be saying sharing blankets. If they're having sex, say they're sharing private parts. That makes a little more sense. Like sharing blankets, I'm just thinking she's a kind soul. Is Nemec the shorter guy who's like pretty smart? I love that guy.

I am big time Nemec guy. If he turns on the crew, devastated. If he dies in the big raid, devastated. I am all in my gun. Oh, God, I'm saying this. He's got the good quotes, too, in his book. He's always saying philosophical shit, too. Every time he says something, I'm like, this fucking guy, he's a rebel.

That's right. You know what I would do if I was fucking there? I'd have a joke book, and I'd just keep everyone. Did you have a joke book growing up? Oh, yeah. Oh, man. I'll tell you. Not ones that I would write in, necessarily. It was a book I got at a book book growing up oh yeah oh man i'll tell you not ones that i

would like write in necessarily it was like a book i got it like a book fair yeah yeah you get it from the book fair you know your mom gives you twenty dollars home you're gonna come back with some scholarship you come back with mad libs a joke book and like the guinness captain underpants maybe yeah underpants yeah yeah rubbish for your brain basically my nephew actually just went to a book fair i talked to him he had a half day at a book fair and we played minecraft afterwards we zoom and play minecraft together and when he came back i was like what'd you get from the book fair it was a poster of course i was like yeah nice first i haven't changed much school and i let people know i i i love telling this to people who are you know years out of school but don't have kids yet the book fair still exists and they

still have scholastic and it's still that really thin paper remember how it was like you can almost oh yeah it was so thin so i can still smell the book fair in my brain just all those pages you go in you get like a good like 20 minutes off from class and you just feel like you're just fucking like on vacation it was the best man so i could still my joke book it was like second third grade had a green cover on it and the kids sienna will just tell me jokes these days she has a joke book, it was like second, third grade, had a green cover on it. And the kids, Sienna will just tell me jokes these days. She has a joke book as well. Joke books were the best, man. Shout out Nemec for bringing that memory back for all of us.

And Cassian or Clem is a little bit doubtful that the lieutenant is leading them into like a safe mission here. He's like, what if he's just leading us into a trap? And they're like, no, no, he would kill this by now. Or we would have died by now. He drinks some dray milk, which is, like, supposed to be good for you, but it

seemed like it was disgusting based on his face. That's what I thought, um, uh, Mednog was gonna be like. I thought he was like, oh, like, whoa, this dray milk seems like shit. And he threw the rest of it out, too. He only took, like, a sip of it. And he gets this old-school nav system that's clearly just a camera, which was funny to me

because there are certain things in old school, star Wars that you could point to as well. And you're like, is that a fucking camera? I mean, a lightsaber is literally the flash of a camera. So when they, when they brought that in,

I was like, all right, cool. And clearly they don't fully trust each other still. Like there's, there's a little bit of doubt in the back of everyone's mind, which is cool. Cause it's the paranoid mindset of an early rebellion.

Yeah. It, it's the paranoid mindset of an early rebellion yeah the the technology of all this stuff always just boggles my mind with star wars you forget i i'm interested to see whenever we do jump ahead how much the tech uh jumps ahead too right i still don't know what was in the goddamn box that uh my boy clem had in episode i know that was some kind of nav system too i don't know just, they throw out these buzzwords. They're like, it's a navigational, you know, transmitter that can get us past any service. And I'm like, oh, cool.

Whatever you guys said. So if Bob Fox is kind of confused about all this, I'm happy to know that I'm in the very same boat as well. Those going back to those tattoos. I'm not supposed to know the hand. I know Krayt Dragon. I don't, you don't know anything off the bat, right? Not really, no. Like when I saw Krayt Head, I was like, is that like Krayt Dragon?

Is that like your crackhead? Like, I don't know. I could see Cousin being a little bit of a crackhead. Definitely, yeah. He definitely has some skeletons in his closet, for sure. We go back to Mon Mothma and her dickhead husband, her daughter's being a bit of a dickhead as well, if we're being honest. I put bitch.

I put bitch. You put dickhead. And I'll tell you, Bob, I'll tell you, C-word watch as well. She's on the watch. She is. Can I say that about a young kid? She's a teenager, so it's like you got to expect it at some level. My sister wasn't a saint when she's a teenager so it's like you gotta expect it at some level you know my

sister wasn't a saint when she was a teenager either i assume most people are the same way they're a little more angsty hormones running wild but she sits down and mom is like hey i know i have a busy day but i'll bring you to school or whatever and she's like stop putting on that fucking phony act mom nobody cares dad's taking me and even the dad like doesn't really give the mom much support like uh he's kind of gives a look like oh yeah i'll take you to school like i'll get approved or whatever and then the daughter says everything's always about you this was a very very mature scene for a star wars show to have and there's a lot of that in andor but just like my mom's a politician and doesn't pay enough attention to me because of this, because she's like funding the fledging rebellion.

Like all of the themes in this show just feel a little bit older. Feels like you went from the kids books to the young adult section or something. Yes. The sacrifices you're making to, you know, grow this rebellion out of nothing to taking down the evil empire. It definitely seeing the people it affects. I'd say politician of rebellion is probably the second hardest job for family members. Number one, barstool employee. This fucking job does to families is fucking unbelievable. You know, someone asked me that the other day.

They're like, you know, how does it? I'm like, my wife once had a film me at 9 a.m. I was like, I'm going to go bury a football in the backyard. And she's like, you're wearing Crocs and a blazer and shorts. I'm like, yeah. She's like, okay, that's just another day in the life, right? And it's forget about all the hours and weird kind of shit. Oh, I might not be able to go to the Hall and Oates concert we bought to get

through three months ago because the New York Mets might be playing a game. So it is very. I just had to cancel a vacation to the Dominican Republic for rough and rowdy. How about that? Just not right. It's just not right, Bob. We are the true.

It's basically us. And listen to this one. Mom, Mon Mothma. How weird is that? The Mon Mothma. I was thinking about that. I was like, we were talking about how for Star Wars, you just change one letter in this show and you change names. They were like, all right, the only mom on the show, the only real mom on the show, she'll be mom.

Which obviously they didn't name her for this show. But in the context of it, in the bubble of this show, that made me laugh. I need to hear our droid be – what's his name? B2 Emo, I think. B2 Emo, go. Ma-ma-ma-ma. Like, ma-ma-ma-ma. Ma-ma-ma-ma.

Ma-ma-ma-ma. It's like Finding Nemo. Anonymity. Anonymity, exactly. slothma it's like uh finding nemo and then an anonymity exactly it's it i i take back the c word watch because you do make a good point we all were teenagers once and i know usually girls end up really having the battles especially with their mom my my wife is already like sienna is already starting to give it to her and she's seven and the sweetest person we know i'm gonna take back the c word watch but she's definitely a bitch.

It also hurts that her dad is such a dick. Such a dick. How did mom marry him? Were they in some kind of arranged marriage? Why did they get married? Were they in love back in the day and he just turned into a dick? That's a great question. It doesn't even seem like their politics

are necessarily aligned because later on in the episode when they're on their way home, he's like, you put more money into that foundation. Like, what the hell are you doing? Like, he's criticizing her decisions. He's not respecting her power or position.

I don't know how they got together. Do you think, yeah, did she marry for the political, like, did she marry for the politics? Did one of them change? There's a whole Mothma backstory I kind of got to get to know now. Mothma, the new show from disney plus yeah it's perfect they name it just after the person without anything else oh that's great i will say this in defense of the daughter mon saying the word schedule made me hater how many times did they say that in this episode by the way i've never heard anyone in star wars say

schedule before they said it like three times in this episode have they ever said schedule in star wars i don't know the right way they probably haven't and that might so serial is canon and schedule being the only way that schedule is said is canon as well and i fucking hate it i like the serial part i liked it i there was part of me that every time they said i i did a little giggle i was like british people are so silly no offense to anyone that listens oh offense offense to everyone that listens i that's only half the podcast i wish you all the events i hate the word schedule however if it's the only way that they say the word schedule in a galaxy far far away i'll live with it it's just that's being like uh you're insisting upon yourself as Peter Griffin would say. I do not like that one bit.

The, I think it's the Lieutenant or someone in Vell. Uh, they, they bring in Cassian and they're like, we've got a question about this ship. Like when we're leaving, how do you, and he's like, wait a minute, you guys don't know how to get this ship off the ground. Like, what the hell were you going to do without me? He's like, no, no, no. Okay. When we do this, I'm going to be the one in charge because it's my ass on the line.

I'm the only one I trust. You didn't even know what you were going to do. They start making test runs of the mission. They kind of clear out a field. They have that open field in the valley and they make little makeshift stands and stuff and check points to get to. And or a scene is very observant when he's like, you should be on the outside because you're left-handed. They're like, what is he left-handed? he favors the right left-handed right-handed and then a tie fighter blast by real low like skids across the water almost and someone tweeted about this

and i couldn't agree more the tension they were able to get out of one tie fighter flying by is crazy in this scene because you hear that iconic screech of a tie fighter and you're like oh fuck like they might get caught right here because they're supposed to be hippies you know they're covering the weapons and everything really cool scene even just seeing a tie fighter blow by like that like some dickhead stormtrooper being like let me blow these people's eardrums out i loved this I I loved it too and my Know here TIE fighters are so fucking Cool and I've always thought that going

Back to especially when I play like the computer games And just when you just look at how they're built The sound they make and even like Over the water just the way it just looked Such a cool thing and That that's a great call because TIE Fighters are basically like stormtroopers where they're so Disposable they're like Thanos' army, where they

just get wiped out by the millions, and you don't even, it's like, without even trying, because I think they have really shitty, I don't think they even have shields, I think they just, you just hit them, they're dead, I'm trying to think of when I would play X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter, you know, the Rebels would have shields on their fucking things, probably because it was a bunch of idiots who don't know how to fly planes,

but the Empire, they're just cutting costs, being like, I don't worry, we have a bunch of other TIE fighters and pilots that we can just throw out there. It's such a cool fucking spaceship. And then the fact that they gave you, like, fear of it, where when you see a hundred, the only time you would fear TIE fighters is if there was just a lot of them. But if there was, like, three TIE fighters, like, oh, we're going to watch these motherfuckers. Those things are worthless. That is, it was a very cool scene to kind of give a little bitriters, like, oh, we're going to watch these motherfuckers. Those things are worthless. That is, it was a very cool scene to kind of give a little bit of like, oh, this thing

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it's in the middle of nowhere it's like in the middle of a warehouse district in brooklyn that's a cool name it's like the mirage when you're in the desert of nowhere. It's like in the middle of a warehouse district in Brooklyn. That's a cool name. It's like the Mirage when you're in the desert. You're just like, what the heck is this? I love that they named it that. Very cool venue. It's usually for EDM and DJ shows and stuff. So it's big.

There's balconies. There's these massive screens. I went for a hardcore band called Turnstile. Brought my girlfriend to her first hardcore show. And we had a blast. It was pouring rain 50 degrees freezing the whole time outdoor venue and and the band crushed clem they went up there for one hour pretty short show by like you know show length standards um but they just went balls to the wall

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So you can't go wrong with that. Absolutely. We see this guy, Captain Tigo is placed in charge of the case in the more Lana system. They're kind of building everything back up the Imperials because the guards, the security that they hired were obviously schmucks. And this guy,

Captain Tigo is like, can I have this like special title? The guy's like, you can wear a fucking ballerina skirt if you want to like it doesn't come with extra pay knock yourself out buddy and then andor gets pissed at the cousin for touching his stuff again hides the kyber crystal in the shirt obviously foreshadowing towards later soon as he put that kyber crystal you're like all right that's getting snatched your chain is getting snatched later on and or check off kyber crystal. You're like, all right, that's getting snatched. Your chain is getting snatched later on. And our checkoffs kyber crystal. Dedra, our friend at the Imperial security office is still poking around into an organized rebellion starting. And she mentions activity across a couple of planets.

She names Kessel. She names Jakku. I thought it was cool getting like Jakku named earlier on because now it's part of the Star Wars universe. It's ingrained in the galaxy. And I liked this scene as well because the way she breaks it down, she's like, it's too random to be random. Like, this is exactly how I would do it if I were starting a rebellion. She's like kind of the first one onto it. Yeah, I dig that.

And then the line about this is how I would do it if I was starting a rebellion. That got me excited. I don't know, man. The writers of this show, they have something here. I'm really loving it. And I wasn't sure. I was like, all right, I know Jakku. I'm like, am I supposed to know these planets?

Am I supposed to know everything that's going on? Sounds like we're just kind of throwing some familiar names in our ears. That's like, okay, this is a thing going on. Okay. Again, this is the casual fan watching i got my bob bob taking me through the galaxy here so all good we get a big by the way the uh i it kind of goes back to the way that they're running this i just love the whole training thing like you said throwing the this guy's left-handed you're you're righty but

you favor lefty like it showed clumsworth and like that he's just not some Bullshit guy I really really Dug that and it's Very much in the spy thriller Realm in that like James Bond is a very observant guy Like when I think of James Bond that's something He would notice he would pick up on everything

And I like that we're establishing that for Andor early like it makes the Whole Rogue One movie and mission Where he's kind of a leader at that on everything and i like that we're establishing that for andor early like it makes the whole rogue one movie and mission where he's kind of a leader at that point make a lot more sense and we don't need it to make more sense but it helps and it just makes it better i think yeah and even when you see the imperials you can tell they're kind of unorganized and they're kind of just resting on their laurels they're so big they they just crush and it's like a lot of the imperials we meet in rogue one and even to a

new hope before they blow up the death star and they're like oh these these these rebels mean business is like those guys are badass but they're basically just trying to put out the fire that has already been lit these are the reason these idiots are the reason that there is a fire that gets lit it's because they just are like who gives a a fuck? I'm cashing a check. Nobody gives a fuck. It's just become below. It becomes bloated. I love seeing the bloating of the empire.

Cause basically it's like order 66 is like the birth of the empire. And a new hope is like when they start fighting back, but like that whole gap, the empire just rises, just dickheads everywhere, basically. Right. And now to the point where it's just,

you know, no one gives a fuck. They're just out out for themselves i liked even seeing in this when the guys tell him the two like imperial privates or whatever go paint that thing all right you got to be down here on the night of the mission like the way that they cut in and showed us all of that like the entire wheels turning in this mission i thought was great awesome the rebels drinking around a campfire on the night before their mission they burn everything in the morning burn their evidence and head out on it and uncle harlow we go back to the conversation about uncle harlow never saw police work as cyril's profession or whatever and it seemed like when the mom said that like he never

pictured you as a policeman or whatever. That stung. That was a knife in him. Like, you motherfucker. Like, because clearly he wasn't really cut out for that style of it. Like when he gave the speech to them to fire them up, he wasn't really cut out for it. But my next note is just Cyril still being a bitch around the table. Got Kool-Aaid pumping through your veins that's what uncle harlow probably said

as he was like drinking some uh smoky liquor drink right uh i the the scene where they're drinking around the campfire it gave me the night before the battle of winterfell vibes right and everyone's kind of just like we're probably gonna fucking die or at least some of us are gonna die here everyone's trying to get their drink on and feel a little better about life. I still am not sure exactly what's supposed to happen here. I just know it's real. There's a lot at stake, and it's making me nervous, which, again, I went through a bunch of Star Wars content in the last few years

where I just felt nothing, and it was like with the biggest odds at stake. I appreciate how they've made me love this little ragtag group of misfits, even though I'm felt nothing. And it was like with the biggest odds at stake, I appreciate how they've made me like, love this little ragtag group of misfits, even though I'm not sure. Now, like I'm really got to know if people are fucking right now. Cause I feel like that throws a whole X factor. People are fucking. And also I have it in the back of my mind that someone is a rat on every

single, every single one of these things. There's always the rat. And who's the rat could be. Cause like, is it cousin cousin i don't think so because he's had like the back and forth with cousin where they've kind of gotten into it at the end of this episode earns his trust is it uh what are the names here sinta i think they said who is the toughest one here sharing a blanket already i don't think so is it nemic our guy with the notepad i don't think so either though

but that would hurt the most would it be the lieutenant like cassian was like he could be leading us into a trap like could could he be leading him into a trap i don't know could it be the guy that was running the training which one is he yeah yeah the the guy with the mustache yeah yeah maybe could be him as well i don't want to get into this i have a hard time they're gonna have a girl be the rat i just i feel again this is i don't want to go fucking big knucklehead woke but i don't think that's a disney move right there as crazy as it sounds i just don't think it's gonna i don't think it's vel yeah i don't think i don't think yeah i don't think vel's right i don't think it's going to be the movie. I don't think it's Vel. Yeah, I don't think Vel's a rat. Yeah, I don't think Vel's a rat. I don't think it's Cousin because that story about his brother, that hit hard, right? Like, that landed.

So, but there has to be, I feel like there's always a rat, which, again. Especially, like, where this is, like, first spy mission, truly. Like, the first three episodes, and that was another thing I noticed with this, like, these two episodes. It seems like we're getting to mission next episode for sure like they basically got the mission it seems like it is a three episode arc series where the first three episodes were like let's get cassian off his home not his home planet but this planet that he's on kick off his story then the next three episodes are the first spy mission i think we're gonna get chunks of of arc of arcs. And I like that too. It's something to look forward to,

look forward to the arc at the air, look forward to the big ending at the end of the arc, end of three episodes. Imagine if they throw like a fucking flashback at us next episode, and then we're still waiting for the mission. Like I'm not putting that out of the realm of possibilities right now. That would be some shit. They haven't done any flashbacks since the first three.

So I do appreciate no more flashbacks since the first three so i do appreciate no more flashbacks but we're probably gonna get some at some point right you gotta imagine like with the sister too we don't know what happened to the sister he's still looking for her oh that's right oh wait um could this sister no okay i was gonna say i saw it could the sister be dead draw but i don't think so i think dead is like committed to the fucking imperials yeah and i think they don't really look alike sister married uncle harlow i'm trying to get uncle harlow in the mix and all this oh i just you got you got you got thrones in your uh mind with the incest um the cousin holds a knife to andor's throat puts it right to his throat grabs his necklace and he's like, I fucking knew it.

It's a big, tense moment. A big, if you've seen Wind River, why are you flanking me moment where everyone is like, Cassian's like, I'm about to fucking shoot you. And another guy's like, don't make me, don't put me in this spot. I'm about to shoot you, Cassian. So it's a big standoff. And Andor tells him, take it or leave it. I'm being paid. Listen, I don't want to have any

more lies with this group like we're going into this mission i'm getting paid so either you're okay with that or you're not and i'm not going on the mission with you or whatever they're like all right i guess it's fucking too late now crazy that you're getting paid but you're part of the crew this was another big tense moment gets resolved Later on with that conversation between him And the cousin but Obviously you had to know that was coming With the kyra crystal on his neck I gotta be so proud of my guy Clem

For just fucking owning it And talking himself out of that because I was Like oh we are in trouble right now Clem I don't know how you're making it to Rogue One We have the Mexican standoff like in The office right Where you have We can have the Mexican standoff like in The Office, right? Yeah, yeah. We can still say Mexican standoff, right?

I feel like we're not going to cancel for that. I think so, yeah. I just, that fucking, the energy. And you know what? We're thinking this watching it. Someone's the rat. Those motherfuckers are living it and they're like, someone's definitely the rat here.

Who's the rat? That's the way all these guys. Reservoir Dogs. The end of Reservoir Dogs. Exactly. That's a movie I want to see. If the end of this mission, it just goes right into Reservoir Dogs. Like a Star Wars shot for shot recreation of starts in a speeder and like Nemec or whatever his name.

He's like screaming his head off. Didn't we just say Tarantino doing Star Wars? That was was like a dream we were talking about that on a long take yeah yeah yeah i'm down for that this is where we cut them on mothma and her dickhead husband on their way home from somewhere he's asking about all her business the new foundation how's the money going into this new foundation or whatever you have to assume that new foundation he's talking about is her little front to get money towards the rebel alliance and maybe the husband's getting on to her um and we cut back to cyril this was an interesting scene it's just a quick shot of him looking at the cassian hologram getting angry getting pissed off did you notice the shelf in the background of the scene

no it seemed like i swear to god clem it seemed like he had two action figures of stormtroopers and clone troopers oh he's one of those guys huh on a shelf and it was the first thing where i was like all right maybe this guy's not so bad hello nerd join the basement buddy right figures on a shelf too uh they were out of the packaging though so you know he's not a nerd they're worthless you fucking loser it's so funny looking back now that the first time i met jeff d low he was like looking for like hundred dollar princess leia 100 way more like hundreds oh yeah like in the hundreds i was gonna say jeff d low the first time we met him was star wars celebration orlando 2017 going on geez five years ago it's going to be there six years.

It's going to be my math. Geez, that was bad. And he was looking for it was the year that Carrie Fisher passed away. A Princess Leia Kenner action figure. And he got it. And I think it was I think it was mid four figs. Oh, my son of a bitch. And now that guy is hosting the dozen wildly successful trivia show here at Barstool Sports. What a fucking world we live in.

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pretty much what he said yeah which is a wild way to go down Is you just load your pockets With stones Doing cement shoes Is there a chance it wasn't a suicide It was a fake suicide Because that seems like an outrageous way To kill yourself right Maybe

It's an outrageous thing to like Put into Star Wars not outrageous in a bad way Just like sheesh We're talking depression and suicides and star wars now this is the war getting to people that is true and again i do appreciate how this is really the effect of decades of war is starting to weigh on people and it's star wars after dark like you called it in the last episode being a tree farmer i laughed a little bit too it's like what did he raise their They're trees. What are we talking about? Yeah.

I'm sorry. But you know what? In Star Wars, it's like Uncle Owen would have fucking killed to be a tree farmer. Oh, God. He was a fucking moisture farmer. In a desert, on a desert planet. Yeah. What a fucking moron. So maybe tree farmers are kind of like, oh, that's a good job.

That's a union guy. That's actually a good point. Do you think Obi-Wan was likewan was like where do we put luke how it's like who will definitely say not say no it's like the guy trying to get moisture out of sand that guy is just like give me the like there's no job too hard i'm already that guy is the credits to raise a kid yeah why did they why did they drop luke off there because they knew it'd be the most fucking wealthy family in the galaxy and then they dropped luke off in a shed be like just and like didn't like saying they just like put us on like

please raise like they didn't do anything yeah give him a lightsaber to like fend off any bad guys i'll tell you why because aunt brew is the baddest bitch in the galaxy like that kid ain't gonna get hurt by nobody with aunt peru. Beru coming this October. So the team goes off on their mission. It turns to night. They do a little signal with the flame. And that kind of like kicks the mission off or whatever. And then they split up, which is another thing where it's like if there's going to be a rat, splitting up is never the right.

That's how the beginning of the Dark Knight unfolds, right? All the clowns split up. And then they take each other off one by one so the joker's the only one with the cash at the end something like that get that again i don't know i'm just saying and while they split up the episode uh the episode ends with luthan trying to get in touch with them through the radio and luthan is that i don't know who that was like with his assistant his wife his girlfriend she's like tell him to go to bed she's like enough knock it off i liked that we got that scene from luthen because i think anytime you have a plan that's going on or like if say i never someone i know is going in through surgery and i'm just like oh man you just have that nervous energy right i think you're thinking like it could be go it's already started it's going on right now and look if you get lucky something distracts you to just forgetting about it and

then you get the call like oh hey everything's done luthan i i brought this up i think on uh something with kfc i think recently or maybe it was with you bob but like the breaking bad scene where he like orders those people killed in jail and then it's just done and i feel like luthans in that same kind of vibe he's freaking out which he seems so cool calm cool collected and everything's set up and in control and now it's just you know now that everything's out of his hands i kind of like seeing him freak freak out a little bit it's on him you know like if this group dies like it's a little bit his fault imagine if he's actually injecting cassian in three days before the mission yeah right out of the bat right out of the blue anding cassian in three days before the mission yeah

right out of the bat right out of the blue and if cassian ends up being the guy to fuck it all up he's like i shouldn't have done that one imagine if he had the same conversation you just had with the lady he's like i mean honey you watch the dark knight all it could just be the clown thing again all the joker clowns are just gonna kill each other then the school bus boom out of nowhere What bus driver That is Truly I think the greatest opening Scene for a superhero movie ever I Yeah I don't think I can argue with

Infinity Wars got a real good one Yep I was thinking Infinity War Endgame it always jumps to that Guardians 2 it's a much different Scene much it's very yeah very very different but guardians 2 does have a great opening scene i love that scene what about iron just the first i figured the first iron man must have a good scene is it like tony just it's tony in the desert right oh no it is no no is it is it tony in the desert and then it goes back to him

being a playboy and then it goes back to him in the desert it might be yeah it might be so yeah maybe it's not the same um but yeah that we'll just do this just turns into a dark knight uh that movie is so what okay good movie for you where does that stand in the top 10 dark knight yeah is it number one one with. All time, every movie ever. It's Dark Knight and Empire Strikes Back. They're without a shadow of a doubt so far above all the other movies. I've seen those movies more than any others. Like, yeah, those are the two. I used to work at AMC and AMC employees, you put your favorite movie on your name tag.

Mine said The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight. I like that. I like that. I think it's number five for me. It's right there. It's Die Hard, Empire, um, Dark Knight, Die Hard, Empire. Is Back to the Future top five for you? No, no, no, no. It's cause it's like now Infinity War's in the mix, right? Yeah. Uh, it's all the shit where bad stuff happens. Back to the Future is more Kevin. I think Kevin, that would be top five. Yeah. Yeah. Kevin, it might be. And Back to the Future is more Kevin. I think Kevin, that would be top. Yeah. Yeah. Kevin, it might be. And Back to the Future is a little too like funny and whatever from,

for like, I don't know. It's a lot of the dramas are there. So Dark Knight is so fucking good. So yeah, I would love it if Luton was just talking to her and just being like, and then like fucking Bale. I don't know if Bale's going to be able to take this guy down. He doesn't care about anything.

What happened to Aaron Eckhart? Uncle Harlow being a Joker character would be pretty fucking sweet too. Like there's a lot of ways. Uncle Harlow is just, yes, someone from the Dark Knight. That'd be awesome. And he smashes fucking fuck faces, stormtrooper dolls right in front of him. You were never meant to be a cop. Magic trick.

Boom. All right. We're watching Dark Knight. We never did a dark night rewatch on my mom's basement have we we never did but my brother texted me recently we did commentaries for the first two batman movies and he's like we should do when all the shows are done and or she hulk and house of dragon we don't have shows to recap we should do continue doing batman commentaries that's a good call. I actually, someone reached out to me and DM.

I won't, I won't call them out just because I can't find the DMS on the fly. And actually, no, I can old turdy bastard, old turdy bastard hit me. He goes, I'm listen,

huge fan of Robbie's brother. You guys need to shout them out and do an episode where it's just a, how awesome, uh, my Fox is. And I said, buddy, do I have a surprise for you? We have three, at least three different rewatches with Mike. We had one where we just talked about the 90s the whole time.

And I was like, so I sent him the thing. He's like, oh my God, like I feel like the worst basement boy ever. So if you guys want to get to know the man that turned this nerd into the super nerd we all know and love, check those out. And then the upcoming batman ones that breaking news we're going to be doing soon i can't wait for the dark knight one uh i'm this entire andor series now i'm going to be doing a dark knight comparison with batman brain yeah my favorite i you know what the the growing up in the 90s episode so great i think my favorite

episode we've done with my brother is still the 89 commentary because of bob the goon and the legend that grew over that commentary track so go back and check those out obviously if you're into she-hulk we'll have a recap of that tomorrow daredevil in this episode it's a big one if you're into house of the dragon we will be live maybe without queb i don't know it depends holland ocean and mets we might have to get a replacement for this week so he didn't catch as much shit as he did last first ever barstool employee to get criticized for working i was the first one dave doing a barstool live stream yeah yeah compared to manzo in the boat that was that was bad i was ready for anything he was gonna say to me he threw manzo i did not see that coming and i was like don't you fucking

dare dave you could see like my blood pressure rising when I said that. Because that is the gold standard for not giving a fuck. And I'm like, I have, the bags under these eyes are no longer from the kids. They're just from this goddamn job. Yeah. So make sure you tune in for that if you're into Thrones right after Sunday, Sunday night's episode. And what can we have them comment? Who's the rat?

Who's the rat? Yeah, that's exactly, that's exactly who I wanted to. So, um, and what should be, Oh, the hashtag for anyone that made it to the end of the podcast.

We love you guys. You guys are the, you know, the, the, the, the strongest of the strong hashtag Frank, the rat.

That's the hashtag. Just tweet us that, that little wink saying, Hey, I made it there. Frank, the rat, fuck that fucking rat.

Fuck that guy. I'm not talking about anybody in particular. Just Frank, the rat, right? that little wink saying, Hey, I made it there. Frank, the rat, fuck that fucking rat. Fuck that guy. I'm not talking about anybody in particular. Just Frank, the rat, right? A little wink. All right. We'll see you next week.