My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 238 - 'ANDOR' EPISODE 6 RECAP WITH CLEM

Episode Date: October 13, 2022

Robbie and Clem discuss the Andor episode entitled, 'The Eye', which is one of the most visually stunning pieces of Star Wars entertainment in quite a while. 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! **************************************** 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 to My Mom's Basement, presented by Barstool Sports and 3G, and another Andor recap edition of My Mom's Basement for Andor Episode 6. It is Robbie Fox, and of course, the star of Andor himself, Clem, joining me. What was the title of this episode? Did you get it down? I didn't write it down.

I did not get it down. That's a good question. Because I have the title. We're doing She-Hulk. For everyone watching the She-Hulk recaps, that'll be on YouTube. Was it just like the eye or something? I'll see here. Because the She-Hulk episode was the perfect name for it.

And it was the eye. Very good. 9.3 on IMDb. I don't know if we probably feel about imdb ratings compared to like rotten tomatoes and stuff like that but i always feel like it's in you know right around there clem i feel like that 9.3 needs to be higher because this episode of andor was fucking awesome start to finish this was what if you take the final half an hour 20 minutes of oceans 11 you put it into star. We're doing a heist

for the entire episode. And then you combine it with like some of the coolest visuals we've seen in the new Star Wars era with the actual meteor shower, the eye and everything. We talked a little bit about the episode before we started recording and said, it's going to be a weird one to recap because generally we have this happening and then we could talk about it and then this happens and then we could talk about it. This episode, just then we could talk about it this episode just one thing happens really it's just the heist that we've been building up for the last two episodes and they nailed it i loved this this was one of my favorite pieces of star wars content disney has put out i'm not afraid to say that this episode of my mom's basement is brought to you by 3g you no longer need to live in a recreational state to

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I was like oh shit he texted me said he's all In on Andor I love that the boss man's In on this too again it's a little bit of Thrones Which he's obviously been a fan of and Obviously mixed with Star Wars and It's funny because i don't feel like i am completely in the star wars universe which is good because it means we're taking we're changing it a little bit right it's not always the same old beats and the same old

things and this episode again we'll try to recap it i do have some some like just kind of notes that i think will be good talking points first of all egg on egg on our face, no rats. Not a rat to be seen. This is why I didn't bring out the sus list, because I would have felt really bad if I threw my boy Namek on the sus list. You definitely would have thrown Namek or the guy who got shot later in the episode on the sus list.

Yeah, you know what, as I think about it. Forget his name, but he's running through. That's another thing with this show. Almost Thrones-esque. I'm not great with names. I'll just admit, he was the black guy. that's what i called him the black guy he was he was the leader though we could say leader or second leader the girl was stormtrooper as well right former stormtrooper revealed that in this episode and that was another thing that made me think like do we have a rat on our hands like former stormtrooper we didn't know that they're keeping secrets from him cousin was on the sus list too just because he is big time on the sus list and then obviously like for good reason cousin the

whole time his name was like skeeter skiing something never really learned his name it was it'd be gone with like ske he was cousin he might be cousin on every show he's in if you've watched the bear and if you haven't watched the bear go watch the bear because the bear is one of the best shows of the year it'll get your claws into you by the end of the first episode i think like that and it's like a half hour it's not a lot probably 20 minutes without commercials it's on hulu yeah you get the seven day trial that's what i did flat out omit it seven day trial got it watched the bear within seven days cancel the trial and now i have it in my head i guess i'm going to figure out what i'm going to do for season two which got picked up so you know you're

getting in and you know you're getting another, another season out of it. So it's a win. I need, I need an Eddie cameo in the bear season too. Just like a subtle thing. He can go in, he could be in the background, just ordering himself a beef or something. Or maybe he's like, he, he vandalizes the store, puts gum in the locks clerk style because Graziano is his boy.

Yeah. That's a good, I forget. Eddie was like a little bit of a bad boy growing up too. Did you know that about Eddie? He had the earring, right? Yeah, he had the earring. He was a little – Yeah, makes you a little bad boy.

I don't want to say the P word, but I'm going to say I think he was a little bit of a punk as a kid, you know? I thought you were going to say he was a bit of a pussy. I was like, wait a minute. No, no, I was a pussy as a kid. Eddie was a punk as a kid, I think. I was definitely the kid in the background of fights like, come on, guys, knock it off.

And shout out to Bob Fox in the basement. He was on the dog walk basement draft. He crushed it as we thought he would. Crushed it, but I saw the poll. It's not looking good for me. I think Eddie took that one, which is tough. But you know what? You got to get that first loss out of the way someday.

Keep your chin up. I lost a snack draft to Chief, who I don't think has eaten like five snacks in his life. He went triple nut. Yeah, he's the triple nut guy himself who went for breeze in this draft listen if you haven't watched the basement draft we're making a lot of references that don't make sense to you right now but go watch the basement draft we'll get back to andor now i know when people get upset when we go on our little tangents let's talk about the episode it begins with nemek talking to clem getting a little anxious he can't sleep the night before.

And he's like, trust me, you're not going to be sleeping when we start this mission. You're going to be anxious. You're going to be feeling it. You're going to be like, you just smelled some smelling salts or whatever they do on the benches in hockey. Clem should have told him to rub one out. Just rub one out, dude. You'll be sleeping like a baby in no time. Yeah, exactly.

He does talk him down, though. He's like, you're going to be okay. And then we see this little imperial discussion About the Dannys Or the Donnais however you say it It's the name of George Harrison's son Donnai They're taking over And basically offering the Donnais

So many options That they don't even realize What they initially wanted isn't even on the table That's kind of what they were saying They're like do you think they're going to let us just come in here and build after the eye blah blah blah blah there were building up to the meteor shower and the imperials are escorting the donnie's like through to the sacred valley part of the imperial escort team are the spies and you get that sense of tension right away that really lasts throughout the entire episode. Like every single scene you're holding your breath.

Like, Oh my God, is this the scene where they're going to get caught the way they built that up? I forget the director's name, but she did a really, really good job on this one. The tension was there.

You felt it right off the bat. And I'm just going to admit it. I, I see myself as a Donnie. Like that was the most identifiable character. They're like, when, when, when someone like a contract, they'll just throw just different numbers at me and I'm like, what, what, what? And I'm like, oh, okay. Like you go to the dude,

drop in for like a couch at Bob's was like the most stressful thing in my life. You know what I mean? And they're just throwing numbers and they're talking about the production policies. And if I want to break down the numbers and then for a fucking car, I got a fucking six year. I bought my minivan. They threw six years at my ass and I was like, sure.

I just signed it. There was way too much. It, I am a Donnie. And then they're saying like, we throw, you know, halfway up,

they like put like a bar with cheap drinks and that kind of like, you know, it was like a shelter on their journey or whatever yeah like a good chunk of people right i would be in that bar i'd be blackout drunk i'd miss the eye the whole time and then i just like stumble back home so i realized the donnie's were basically that's the closest uh most identifiable group i've had in the star wars universe so far and also they said they went from like 500 to 60 crazy numbers like holy shit did their plan work the imperials know what they're doing i see how they're taking over the galaxy here yeah this is the first time

the imperials actually seem smart to me like yeah first time since order 66 give fucking tip of the cap to pat uh empty emperor who i almost said the p word the other p word i would have gotten roasted yet again for a shout out to the emperor that's the one thing like i i hate it but you gotta give the guy fucking credit for coming up with this in order like the fucking order 66 of course and we see this new imperial sergeant i don't know if he if that's his actual rank sergeant but that's kind of what i'm gonna call him this episode he was the one that we saw getting a little fat or as his wife said expanding maybe you're expanding a bit my dear that was tough i as he's putting the belt on i'm like oh no please don't tell me the wife's gonna say it please don't tell me the wife's gonna say it and she just fucking threw it right in his face oh that hurt that's a big guy it hurt a lot he has to present the donnie's with a gift on the night of the eye this this kind of like ceremony night for them and the husband or the wife and the the kid don't really want to go the kid's kind of playing sick they're like jesus christ we got to do this he's like listen we're

gonna get off this shitty planet just come here with me tonight we're gonna present them with a gift blah blah blah blah we see andor and company marching through as the false uh escort vel and sinna swim through kind of a phantom menace vibes when they're swimming underwater like that i said metal gear solid vibes when they were sneaking around does bob fox know his metal gear solid see i i know it from afar i used to go over my friend chris's house and watch him play and his older brother play metal gear solid i was always an xbox kid that's right i had a ps2 I had a PS1 kind of Missed out on this I was more into like Splinter Cell

Tom Clancy Yeah you kind of get vibes up in this Yeah I have an idea of that too it's just Again I always get worried about the Old thing but as long as you're Young enough I'm sure a bunch of people might The little exclamation point I was waiting for that to appear next to

Val's head at some point, even when they were sneaking around, they were going right behind the thing where no one from the Imperials can see them. They could kind of see their, their line of sight. So I thought that was just very cool. I love the shot of when they actually make it to the dam or whatever,

and they plant what I thought were going to be like explosive charges, but I think they were really just radio jammers when they plant the charges and then start running away and you see the shot of like the imperial like sipping his coffee in the office or something and then just blurry out of focus in the background you see bell like sprinting that's out of a video game right there yes and it it does ground this whole universe again the imperial's having families a wife and a son who are like oh we gotta do this and they're just selling out their morals To move up to the next planet and get a better job And I feel like

You're probably a pretty shitty person If you're an Imperial I don't think that's too much of a Even if you're a sergeant in the Imperial You're probably kind of a dick You gotta realize what they're doing at this point Yeah, it's not just The guys with the little lights, the little blue and red lights

on their, their thing, like the, the officers and then like the storm troopers you're getting, you're seeing the whole entire breadth of their lives. So I thought that was just, I just loved it. Speaking of blue and red lights, little tangent for the podcast, little one, just tiny one. I see a cop car behind me on the highway the other day. I'm going to the Kevin Smith event, which we could also talk that after and or talk about kevin smith a little bit i see a cop car and i go oh like i make a joke to my girlfriend like oh i better drive careful cop car right behind me looks like a big cop truck lights on the top and everything not

lights on but it had the lights pulls up alongside me to go around me i realize it's not a cop car it's a fucking decked out shield car like agents of shield what the license plate said agent of shield on the side it has a decal says shield logistics division and it has lights on the top i tweeted a video of it and everything like i fucking just drove past an agent of shield on the highway i don't know if that's legal putting lights on the top of your car and everything but it made me feel like i was in earth 616 for a second uh that would have fucked me up that i i've been like i'm pretty sleep deprived ever since the mets uh series a few days ago when i was ever since like seven years ago yeah you know but i i always say i go sienna i lost my mind in

november 11th 2014 and then it got snapped in half and destroyed on april 6 2018 but so yeah that's to where it starts but then the final straw was um was this weekend i don't even know how it handled seeing a fucking full-out decked out car and it says agency shield license plate crazy and it was the weekend of New York Comic Con so I thought like it was a New York license plate I thought like is this like a display vehicle that is going to go park outside Comic Con and they hand out

pamphlets or something like that also I did a Comic Con man on the street video so check that out kind of I tried to give it like an old school barstool vibe I think I kind of achieved it shout out to Jake Bass for doing the edit as well we need to get more man in the street stuff back i'm always saying that because i'm so bad at man in the streets there's no way i could ever do it again but it's so that's basically asking someone else to do man on the street but i love man on the street videos that's some of the

best shit we've ever done to be honest with you and robbie you absolutely crushed it if you saw a tie fighter flying that's when you know your brain is officially if you see tie fighters flying over the hudson river that means we're fucked. We see that big Imperial guy meet with the Donnie leader, and he presents them with this gift. It's like this furry saddle-looking thing. And he tells the lieutenant, why don't you do the talking? And the lieutenant rightfully makes some choice translations where they're like, tell the imperial he's a fucking fat scum and he's like he says we're here on a great night to celebrate the eye or whatever and as soon as

the imperials walk away the donnie's burn the gift they're making a big bonfire they're like fucking throw it in there we're getting that imperial scum off of us did you think that the donnies might rise up even though there's only totally i see them and i still think they may i still think we might like wrap back around to them at the end of the season and they're like wrapped into the rebellion or something oh okay i could see that because i'm again i'm on rat watch at this point i'll put you guys into my head as i'm like who's the rat who's the rat uh that the again the black the black guy uh he looked at the way he looked at the lieutenant i'm like oh wait that was a look right there so i'm i'm suslisting everyone and then i'm like oh well if there's no rat maybe

it's that like the rise up happens with the donnie's which then rings the alarms and really fucks up their entire plan so at this point i'm trying to figure out how the plan is going to get fucked up so uh as long as i know i'm not the only one also i don't i don't think it's the case if i look back at it i kept getting like heisenberg with hair vibes from the Donnie leader. He kind of looked like a Bryan Cranston. I don't know what it was. I imagine if I go back and looked at it now, but I kept thinking, why the fuck is Bryan Cranston an extra in the Star Wars universe?

I could see that, though. Some Star Wars guys, people are like, I just want to be an extra. Look at Christian Bale. He just came out and said he wants to play the stormtrooper who hits his head in episode four he's like that's the one character i would love to play during his event he was like if i'm disney i'm calling his fucking bluff and i'm like good you got a full series like we're doing it and what will they name it they'll name it character who hits his head on the ceiling um i did write down the sergeant's name jay hold that was his name jay a-hole a-hole we'll call him a-hole for now yeah basically a-hole i was gonna call him fuck face but i've called like

18 people fuck face in the basement the last like year yeah so a-hole was perfect and we have a fuck face in this show c-real is our fuck face that's true do you think and i fucking hate c-real do you think like they were gonna to name him A-Hole And they just did their like one letter over on the keyboard And they just think These guys are not very creative with their names right now And I am offended right now So they escort him like our spies

Escort him inside after he meets with the leader And then once they get inside They pull their blasters on him And we realize this is a robbery This is a mission that they are the rats on to the Imperials. J-Hole says you'll never make it out alive. I don't even know the vault code. You're going to need a separate transmission to get into that.

And they're like, we'll fucking take our chances. All right, buddy, let's keep going. They commandeer a whole room with officers that were playing cards the basement room they kind of like outside the vault room and then they get into the vault they blow the ammo charges so they don't even need his second little hand thing or whatever and unfortunately they were over they were overheard on radio this is how they were overheard on radio. This is how they were communicating on like the Imperial feed or whatever. They hear it a little bit. And,

uh, the guy is shocked to see the Lieutenant J hold. He's like, you'll hang for this. And he's like, I served you for seven years. I deserve a lot worse. What a fucking line that was.

I, I like, I was like, yeah, I was like, cheered as he said that. Listen, I don't know about,

I mean, Robbie, you've had jobs probably in like high school and stuff like that. But there is something that's a little more devastating about it when you have a really shitty manager in the real world, in corporate America, and you're kind of like, I need the benefits, I'm out of college, and you know, whatever. And just like that dude has been dreaming.

He like was probably like baiting him to say, like, say I'm going to hang, say I'm going to hang. Say I'm going to hang because I want to fucking hit you with this burn. That felt so good. That was a win for everybody who's been looking up at their manager. I had a manager at ESPN. I won't use his government. I'll just call him SVD.

He was such a shitty manager. I quit the job without another job. Not SVP. SVD. SVD. Yeah. It was funny because he worked at ESPN at the same time SVP was obviously there. And he had to call himself SVD. Yeah, it was funny because he worked at ESPN at the same time SVP was obviously there. And he had a home-style SVD.

The worst manager. The entire fucking department hated his guts. And I just fucking quit. And then he got, I think he left the company. And then my boy got hired in his old role. And I came back to ESPN. And that's like, that was, yeah, it was a little comeback for your pal Clem here. So shout out to him just fucking, like saying getting hung, getting hanged hanged i think it's hanged you have to say it the right way getting

hanged is is is uh better than seven years of serving you absolute burn and also did you get the same vibes when they're talking about the vault and he's like i don't know the codes there was a wise man bob he says i don't know what i'm telling you get on a jet to tokyo and ask the chairman i'm telling you you're just gonna have to kill me. Okay. And then Hans Gruber put a goddamn hole. RIP in peace. My guy, Joseph Takagi. But I got the same kind of vibes there. I got a couple.

I got Die Hard with the vault. And then when they had the stuff in the vault of all the gold, I got Die Hard 3 vibes when they're in the New York Treasury or whatever the hell it's called. I fucking, I don't know if that's part of the reason I love this episode so much. Cause Die Hard is my favorite movie. And the, and the trilogy is one of my favorite, like just things in life. Oh, it was absolutely incredible.

And they didn't go with the typical someone's a rat. I appreciated that as well. The, and you knew when they said, this is the airbase link. You're like, yep. Someone's going to find out about that airbase link. It was Chekhov's airbase link. Our guy Nemec. Then I thought Nemec was the rat.

Cause it was his radio. I would have been so devastated too. If Nemec was the rat. Did you think he was the rat when that happened? Like he allowed it. Me too. Like I was, I was getting very, and he was also, he had some line where he's like, Oh, like I'll be here.

Like you guys go off without, or something like that. Where I was like, Oh'll be here. Like, you guys go off without or something like that. Where I was like, oh, Nemec, no. But no, poor Nemec. He wasn't a rat. He was very much down with the cause. And also, speaking of Die Hard, saw a video recently. You know, the iconic part in Die Hard where guy comes up on the elevator dead. Ho, ho, ho.

Now I have a machine gun. Hans Gruber goes to, like, grab his face and kind of like shake it. This dead guy's face have you seen this yeah he flinches he does a little eyes close and blitches he blinks yeah I had never seen that before that's crazy it breaks my heart I don't you know it's still a perfect movie but it didn't throw a perfect game I don't know if that even makes sense but it just is a little continuity there's a couple things in die hard a couple little fun facts there that like i think they say the wrong name at one port they say like the guy's actual name instead of his character name there it might be we probably talked about it in our commentary

it's been years since the commentary so i forgot but go back and listen to that commentary around the uh holidays it's good carl's carl's dead brother with the small feet uh so they're caught they they get caught over the intercom and as someone comes down they're like uh sir like what's going on and j-hole's not not answering and then he has a heart attack he's like and he just goes down it's like oh this is bad shootout ensues the stormtrooper gets shot former stormtrooper as he's running so it's like there are big stakes like we are killing off characters people are dying tie fighters take off as the ship takes off and nemek like gets caught between two canisters of ammo they fucking paralyzed this guy i thought he was gonna die in this scene like i was like what a like dramatic real way to

kill someone off but it kind of just rolls into him i think he's basically paralyzed they give him a med spike not to be confused with med nog also in this series there's a lot of meds different meds how good how good must that med spike feel if like he was feeling himself that's pulp fiction shit that was i was gonna say it was the shot of adrenaline to mrs mia wallace's heart kind of a thing and he was like uh i got my colonoscopy i got the drug that killed michael jackson i don't remember the name of it do you know the name of it fentanyl i don't know no no no it's it's like um it like puts you out drug that killed michael jackson i've large talks about it's like the greatest drug in the

world like you just feel so propofol propofol i don't know if that's a known thing that's what he must have been feeling like man i got nemec was when he when he was going out he was going out feeling fucking yeah good yeah big time but he has to kind of guide cassian through the eye through this meteor shower storm whatever you want to call it while tie fighters are on their tail the way this was shot with the visual effects and everything was so gorgeous so cool seeing the ship go up through the meteors seeing it dive when it has to seeing the tie fighters like kind of burn up the the glass start to shatter and then they explode the wreckage kills another one like we talked about on the show tie fighters kind of just made of like balsa wood like the cheapest shit possible

and they explode and go into a trillion pieces when they do it looks amazing every time nemec does uh successfully lead the ship out and once they get him to this doctor who kind of has a maz canada look it looks like if you mixed maz with the fucking old guy who fixes woody in toy story 2 yes incredible um i don't remember the al big al's toy barn that one or oh the old guy who shines him up yes yes yes yeah good call i i would say mixed with goro for Mortal Kombat because he had four arms. He starts going to work. That is a mashup and a half right there.

Yeah, yeah. I thought it was masked the whole time when I just saw the face. And I'm like, is that fucking – I couldn't even remember her name because obviously the prequels don't mix well. I'm like, is that her? Or sequels. I'm like, is that her? Is that – and it turns out it's some crazy, crazy –

that Bob just put in my head. Maz, this is what you get in the basement. Maz, the guy who fixes Woody in Toy Story 2, and Goro, tip of the cap, sir. Which is pretty accurate, you gotta admit. Pretty fucking accurate. So he starts fixing up Nemec, and then outside,

the cousin sits down next to our guy Clem. And he's like, hey, in that ship right there, 80 million credits. How about you say 40 million apiece you and me we split town the guy's like uh what about the rebellion dude that's what our guy and or sam and he's like listen i'm with the rebellion but i'm also out for myself so i don't know what do you think before he could even finish his fucking sentence he also says the story about his brother was false which holy shit dude you're you're an evil guy if you're you're making up stories about that

our guy and or fucking shoots first takes a page out of han solo's playbook in 1977 not the special edition the 1977 and he shoots first yet again in this series. One of the most badass scenes we've seen out of Cassian Andor in Rogue One and his own show. This was awesome. I got our fucking hashtag, Bob. The hashtag for the episode. You guys listen to the podcast. You just tweet this at me and Bob just to let us know you made it to this point. Hashtag Clemshop first.

Don't get the angular shot first. Clemshop first. I don't see. Oh, just such a bad thing. Did you do a fist pump when you saw that? Like, our guy, he's not even listening to this bullshit. He's just shooting them. No, I'm shooting you and walking away.

And that's not even a dude who's like diehard rebellion, doesn't have rebel fucking posters in his locker room, doesn't have the tattoo of the rebellion on him. He's just a dude that came along for the ride and he said, fuck this shit. I'm like, I'm not splitting this 80 million dollars with you i loved men and again we said i think we said before the series started what are you hoping for i was hoping for i would care more about and or when the time the series is over part one check check mark big check mark after that i love they were like quick rename them clem in the next three episodes. We'll have the biggest critic, the first person that spoke out about The Last Jedi who works for Barstool Sports. We'll get him on our side. You guys have me.

I guess I was sold once he was named Clem. But once he did this, like you said, and had the Han Solo vibes. And we said this when he killed the guy in the first episode, just point blank range. It's like, yeah, give me some fucking like little dirties, little dirt under the fingernails, star Wars, everything. That was the coolest thing about Han Solo. And I don't,

we really didn't see it any other time other than whenever Han Solo pulled some shit. It was incredible. It also reminded me of a, we'll do a little more pop culture here. Do you know about the old Johnny bananas? Where he had a partner, him and his partner made it to the end of the challenge.

So it's MTV, the challenge. And he, he makes it all the way to the end, and he has a million dollars. And it was rivals. So it was someone that you had. Actually, I think at this point, they were just, they wasn't even rivals. And he either can take all the money for himself, the million dollar prize, or split it with his partner.

And he chose to take the million for himself over his partner, Sarah, who had like voted him off on a previous season once but took the money and you just hear go oh my god you just see this person just lose a million dollars in real time it was an all-time reality tv moment out there done years ago um and it was the same kind of thing where she's basically like we'll keep the money and we'll just leave these fucking guys behind who they don't have the money for their fucking rebellion to fight these evil goddamn people out here shout out to us for sniffing out cousin from day one it's also because we watched the critically acclaimed the bear on hulu which you guys should all be watching by now do we have to i feel like we have to do like a bear recap next fucking i know yeah really because it's such a good show the and the eye was awesome that was another thing we

we talked about going into this heist we're saying saying whenever they show the eye, I hope they did a good job. I was very satisfied with it. Flying through, I was like, shit, I didn't even see that coming. And even the colors of it, it almost looked like Star Wars fireworks in a way, right? It was green and it did not just a

regular meteor shower. Very cool. And then Andor goes in there and they talk about what kind of like they talk about what kind of just happened like where's fucking so and so he's dead he's out there he his dead body's out there if you want to bury him and she vel gives him nemix manifesto she's like nemic like wanted you to have this so take this with you he's like i don't want it she's like no no he wanted you to have it so you have to to take this. He takes the manifesto. He gets out of there. We see the Senate room.

I haven't seen the Senate room with the little floaty things, whatever, since Revenge of the Sith, I think. So we actually get to see it. Bad Batch, we got it. Live action, I'm talking. Actually got to see it. She starts giving a Senate meeting, and then people start chattering, looking at their tablets,

getting out of there a big rebel attack has happened of course we know about that we just watched the episode about it and luthan hears about it to end the episode he walks to the back and he just has this amazing reaction where he's just like laughing like holy shit it fucking worked we did it like those guys that i thought maybe i was going to get killed they made it out of it except for that you know there were some casualties on the way but the mission itself worked r.i.p my dog nemic we'll just say that first and foremost we have to r.i.p our dog for making it through i also was laughing the entire time as like his manifesto which i think perhaps like might be the thing that really turns and or like really galvanizes him towards the

cause here i was also thinking like oh galvanizes him towards the cause here. I was also thinking like, Oh, he's giving him his joke book. Cause we talked about that. Another fucking doctor joke right now. Really? Are we really doing this?

But it was cool seeing the Senate and you could even, even before the people were kind of like scurrying away, you could tell that like the Senate is like just a puppet at this point. Like the Imperials ruled this shit. It was, it was really kind of cool to see how much things have changed since, uh, the first galactic empire was born.

Uh, our, our girl Mon, I guess I'm guessing it's going to probably shift towards her now, probably in the meantime, as and, or is going to his next, like,

at least more of her yeah i saw maybe it was tony gilroy the writer someone said at the end of season one we're going to see all of our storylines start to come together in andor so our dedra our cereal our andor our luthen our mon mothma everything's going to start to come together at the end of season one, beginning of season two. Okay. That makes sense then, I guess, I suppose. Again, I don't like going to the same places over and over, but if you're just going to do a quick check-in, boom, boom, boom.

Oh, yeah. It's cool seeing the Senate. It's an important part. And it totally made sense that we're going to see Mon Mothma have to do her politics to you know one try to keep the imperials out of wherever the rebels are staying rebels are getting up and to her husband he's you know another whole fucking guy where he's gonna start to be like hey are you funding the rebellion and she's gonna be like no i love uh and that fucking MacGruber.

It was kind of like, you know what I compared it to? What's the Luthan? When Luthan finds out and they're mentioning the planet, it's like when people would talk about like Barstool, but they weren't talking to us about it. It's like, did you see that guy, Destruval, who got carried out? Yeah. Yes, we're fucking making it, baby.

The rebellion's growing. Barstool is growing right now. So that was the same kind of reaction. I was just so happy for him, too, because even when he was, you could tell he was like, oh, I don't know about the new guy. Andstool is growing right now. So that was the same kind of reaction. I was just so happy for him too. Because even when he was, you could tell he was like, oh, I don't know about the new guy. Andor, I don't really, don't know if that was a good move. And also shout out to Andor for taking off the fucking necklace and being like, yo, if it was about the money, I'm not giving you this $30 million, $1,000. That's the other thing. With credits, I have no idea.

I'm like, I'm happy they said $80 million. I'm like, all right, that feels like a lot. They're throwing the M word around. Especially especially if like the rebels have nothing at this point like that's a good start 80 mil put that in the fund yeah um amazing episode again and or more more people should be watching and talking about this i feel bad saying it i didn't even watch this episode i didn't do the 3 a.m this week i didn't watch it till like the afternoon almost into the evening, because I kind of know it's not going to get spoiled for me because nobody's talking about it on Twitter, which is unfortunate. It's like on one hand, nice. It's not going to get spoiled for me.

On the other hand, more people should be talking about this. Yeah, it's kind of what sucks about you're seeing the difference with Thrones in this where it's like, you have to watch Thrones at 9 PM on sun. I somehow avoided it after the Mets game and to that next Monday, but I stayed off social media for the most part with this. Yeah. It's still the point where I don't even do it. And I was, I have had shield stuff spoiled for me. And it's just because if you just see the hashtag, the wrong thing could be trending. If a character shows up or something like that, where this it's like, yeah,

it's, but I mean but i mean again casual fan guy hard fan portnoy whatever he is considered with all this all of us like it so far so i think loves it ken jack loves it now i will say this i i'll give it to the end of the season i still think mando is light years oh yeah entertainment value agreed agreed and and grogu adds a lot to that and everything like mando just looking as cool as he does it's also a lot slower moving than mando in terms of like mando even though it does that serial thing which sometimes gets criticized for has kind of a beginning and end every week. Whereas last week didn't totally have a beginning and end didn't and, or it was like,

uh, we left off here. Here's the middle part. And we're going to leave, you know, a lot for the next episode, a lot to be desired for the next episode. They do those three episode arcs.

So I do think Mandalorian season one and two are still light years above this, but this, this is quickly rising the ranks as possibly my second favorite just live action Star Wars show in general. Yeah, so it's Mando. It's Book of Boba Fett. It's Obi-Wan. Yeah, I'm with you on that, definitely.

And it's going in the right direction. It just feels like the production value is higher, too. There was a weird campiness that was in both Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan in the chase scene with Princess Leia and Flea in the forest. And then the spy kids scene in Book of Boba Fett. We got two like weird moments like that. Already, I feel like I would be shocked to see a moment like that in Andor. It'll stick out like a sore thumb. It just doesn't feel like that kind of show.

Please don't do it and or if you got listen to the people who did and or if you know someone who worked on android ask them be like is there one of those that you guys were kind of 50 50 whether cut it out right now before it goes live just cut it out even if it like makes nothing in the story makes sense we'll piece it together next season just don't fucking bring us down with that because we talked about those goddamn spy kids we're like yeah and i i i tried to like defend them i i still think they weren't as bad as people made them out to be because of the chase like i think the characters themselves without the chase and maybe even the weird 360 spin around shoot like they they were okay looking in terms of like all right you're gonna try different things they're like weird droid people in star wars that would probably exist somewhere like the john is that a johnny cage in yeah yeah

mortal combat who's like half cyborg someone half cyborg i can't jacks yes i could see that existing in star wars just the execution could have been better i forgot about that spin around shot that was tough that was really 60 no scopes. By the way, two mortal combat references on the pod today. Yeah, really? Yeah.

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A pilot, a race car driver, said he wanted to like build his own house. I figured he probably built it by hand. Yeah, that's what he was saying. I'm like, Jesus Christ, you're a fucking rock and roll guy. You don't have to do all this stuff. Other people can fly you and drive you places. And he did say being a father was the hardest part.

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going outside the star wars universe can i bring up one subject that's in the star wars unit before we go there sure yeah a little tweet that went out on subject that's in the Star Wars universe before we go there? Sure, yeah. A little tweet that went out on October 11th, which is two days before we recorded this. One, Ahmed Best, also known as the man that played Jar Jar Binks, and he's making a little, I guess it's like a one man show. It's called One Man Show, and I don't know

if it's like just something he's writing or if he's going to actually make a one man show of it. This is what he said. He goes, um, he said, all right, let me go back to the,

the exact thing. I'm my best at his time to share how it all went down with the prequel trilogy. He also teased that Darth Jar Jar, there was a lot more that's true than people realize. Darth Jar Jar theory. We're going to be getting on something about the Darth Jar Jar theory coming out soon.

Interesting. He should bring that one man show to wherever the next, I think it's Anaheim star Wars celebration is. Oh, that's your audience right there. That's people that love you, that want to embrace you now, especially after she came out last year and talked about like what the toxic

fandom almost drove him to and everything. People would sell out a theater to see Ahmed best talk about the prequels for. Where could they get their tickets from? Oh, game time. There you go. two and everything people would sell out a theater to see ahmed best talk about the prequels for where could they get their tickets from to watch game time there you go promo code basement it's all coming together and i saw he just like his instagram it was like one of the most hated figures in star wars he took like a screenshot of all the different places that wrote about it he's like i've heard about this cringeworthy most malign character he's like i'm here to write the ship and you know let everyone know that and i'm like yeah man darth jar Jar fucking truthers like myself we're fucking ready

to rock so uh bob what will you do if you hear that the drug like are you a believer in the darth jar jar theory this is the trust tree oh my god god no that's worse than now like peanut butter i think it's ridiculous but i i respect your love of it you know it's like i'm not the most religious guy but i'm not gonna like step out here and be like i'm an atheist like i'm like i let people believe what they want let them have their fun yeah let them have i i am at the point where it's like i feel like there's no way ge Lucas fucked it up so much. He went from fucking Darth Maul to Count Dooku. If there's a will, there's a way. I guess so.

Oh, well, what did he say when he was sitting down? He's like, maybe I went a little too. Maybe we went a bit too far in a few places. Like, yeah, George, I think you did. I think you fucking did. All right. So to all the Darth George Ruthers out there, we're going to have our time to shine in the sun,

hopefully in sunny, shiny Anaheim. We'll be going to the fucking one man show together. Thanks to Game Time. Yeah. All right. So we do have a few non-Star Wars things to talk about that are basement nerd related.

The one thing I wanted to bring up was the cool Kevin Smith event I went to. He bought his childhood movie theater, like the movie theater Kevin Smith went to growing up. He said the movie theater, his dad took him to see Blade Runner in the movie theater where he got a hand job from

his high school girlfriend when he went to see labyrinth and he bought with his a bunch of his friends and put on the first event last weekend with which was a screening of tusk his cult classic horror movie and a live podcast hollywood baby I went, it was great. It was so much fun. The podcast was so funny. My cheeks were hurting at the end of it. Very cool theater, mom and pop vibe. There's like three total theaters in it. The snack stand is so like mom and poppy, but in a good way, like they have pop tarts, ring pops, like all things you would never expect at a movie theater snack stand.

They had a Kevin Smith merch table set up and everything. I wrote a blog about how much I enjoyed the event, how fun it was. And Kevin Smith himself quote tweeted the blog was like, thanks for coming. Glad you had a good time. How about I invite you to the next two events. One of which is an evening with George RR Martin,

Jersey zone. The next is a screening of Zach and Mary make a Porno on Black Friday, which I think is pretty much around when that movie takes place. It takes place in the winter in Pittsburgh and everything. I said immediately, I'm in. I'm hoping just my luck, the way it'll

turn out, the George R.R. Martin event. I don't know the date on it yet. I'm hoping it's not the night Meatball Molly fights, but it probably fucking will be, knowing my luck and how things go at Barstool. If it's not it yet. I'm hoping it's not the night meatball Molly fights, but it probably fucking will be knowing my luck and how things go up our stool. If it's not though, I'm there. And that'd be pretty fun.

Imagine me and George RR. That would be incredible. You got to show up dressed up like one of your, uh, definitely open the wig. Yeah. Yeah. You know what?

I got to get an eye patch and do like a scar, you know? Yeah. Well, that would be a good one. We did say you look just like agon targaryen he's like oh you're the dude that wrote about beating off outside his window right there dude speaking about outside the window he bought the apartment above the or is renting the apartment

above the theater and just lives above the movie theater he said the other night he had to take a shit took a shit didn't have toilet paper so he oh, my God, it's three in the morning. Walked down to the movie theater, set off the alarms. Ten cops showed up. He was like, I'm sorry. Hey, that's a good way to, you know, test to make sure the alarms work at your brand new movie theater. So that worked out perfectly for him. Do you think it smells a little like popcorn in his apartment, too?

It probably does, right? Probably, yeah. How now? That was my that was my one question because I'm a snack guy. How was the popcorn? Was it like, did it feel like it was mom and, because that's very important, but the mom and pops, if they have a good popcorn and they, and I feel like Kevin's-

Great popcorn, and guess what? They do the best thing where they go, do you want us to put the butter on for you so we could do it layered? And you say, yes, and they do it for you. So they put a little bit in there, butter, a little bit more butter, a little bit more butter. It's good to know that even Kevin Smith abandoned us fats. So then he could live longer.

It's nice to know he's still taking care of us when it's all said and done. That is a, a plus a plus plus job. So what, what town in Jersey is that in? Cause I got to check it out. It's in Atlantic Highlands, which is where he grew up.

It's also three minutes, quite literally three minutes away from the quick stop from Clerks. So if you're going, it's a no-brainer to just go outside the quick stop, take a picture like you're Jay and Silent Bob, which I, of course, did. And there was a crackhead out there when I went out there. As soon as we pulled up and started taking pictures, she was like, just so you know, Kevin – or she didn't even say Kevin Smith. She didn't know his name. She goes, just so you know, Silent Bob is a grimy douchebag. And I was like, okay, you know, cover up my Silent Bob tattoo so I don't get shanked in Jersey. And she was like, yeah,

I'm a trusted source on the matter. That's what she said. Wow. All right, lady. Jesus Christ. She must've been the person that was written after the, uh, the girl that, what is she? She had the stroke in the pool and died in the pool. It would have been like her sister or something like that. And she's very upset about it. She wasn't happy about him. I'll have to check out this George R.R. Martin thing myself. I feel like I could get to that.

I know. That'd be fun to go to together. It'll be fucking. If it's not Meatball Molly fights, you'll be seeing his birthday. So it could be one or the other. Is your birthday in November? It is. Yep. Yep. my meatball molly fights will be seeing his birthday so it's your birthday november it is yep yeah again i've learned between all this the non-stop hall and oats dates just changing and then our interview changing when i do med stuff it's just not my time right now i'm on a losing

streak you just have to learn back on that winning streak yeah uh two things that we got to talk about in the dc world one black adam reviews are out they had the to talk about in the DC world. One, Black Adam reviews are out. They had the premiere last night in the city at Empire 25, I believe, the big AMC in the city. It's getting pretty decent word. It's kind of mixed. Some people are saying it's a typical DC movie. Other people are saying, hey, it's pretty good.

It's not great. The Rock leaves a little bit to be desired, but it's worthy of you going to see it. I think we'll see it. I'll definitely go see it. Dr. Fate or something is in it. I don't know. There's some DC characters I don't really know in it,

but I've heard the characters that aren't Black Adam steal the show. Wow. Okay. If someone steals the show from The Rock, as we can tell. I know, and I like The Rock. The Rock is actually the reason I feel like I'll go see this movie. More than it being a DC superhero movie, I'm like, all right, I like Dwayne. I feel like we'll have to, like you said, have Ose on,

get to kind of maybe he could tell us what to expect going in. That'll help make it a little more enjoyable or understandable. am not again i usually with these dc things i kind of just sit them out unless the people get me there maybe i'll just go like my local theater on like tuesdays it's like five dollar matinees i'll go for like the cheap one get out of the house for a couple hours get escape work and uh check it out so the basement boys will do something for it i i'm able to do a youtube special like two weeks maybe next week or something soon yeah and then the other thing that we texted about a little bit that sounds very interesting colin farrell's the penguin series we don't i don't know if it's called the penguin but it's going to be an hbo

max series taking place one week after the batman about his penguin kind of rising to be that mob boss status that Carmen Carmine Falcone was in the last one. And he said, Gotham still like partially underwater. I love that. I loved hearing it was underwater. I have to watch the Batman again, just to see how much I like it.

The second time watching it. How many times did you end up watching it? Whenever we are right now, Bob, I saw it twice in theaters. And then immediately, like after the second time and god bless my girlfriend for going back and seeing it in theaters with me we go to uh columbus where she's from and her friends are like come over for a movie night we're watching the batman so we watched it again and then i probably watch it again after i've probably seen it five or six times at this point i feel like

jose did say or you might have said something or i could try you guys talking about batman because i know you guys both love it like the whole water that storyline i feel like i'm very intrigued by it i want to see how it is with this fucking shitty dingy place and now you're in the water now these the new criminal element involved uh i'm very excited i said the way that the timing of it makes me even more excited for the show than I was beforehand. I saw a great comparison of the Batman's universe and their Gotham City and the Dark Knight's Gotham City and universe. And I thought it was so spot on that I wanted to say on the podcast. They said the Dark Knight universe is like, what if Batman was in the real world? And the Batman universe is like, what if Gotham city was the real world where it's like,

they just made Gotham city real in one. And then in the dark night, they were like, all right, we're going to take Gotham city and make it like Chicago. And then in the dark night rises, it's Pittsburgh. Like Gotham in this universe very much feels like the DC comics.

Gotham to me, it, you can't put a city on it. You can't say, Oh, they filmed it around New York. Like even if they did, they made it look very much its own identity. So I'm very much looking forward to Gotham being kind of a bit of a character in that show as much as it was in the

movie as well. Yeah. There are a few cities and comics and stuff like that, that are their own. And I think Gotham might be the number one.'ve talked about this on gotham gotham metropolis but i feel like metropolis is like a mix of chicago and new york yeah but gotham i feel like is the number one on that list so uh i'm yeah i'm stoked for it so uh when does it come out do you know i don't know not sure and hopefully soon though i feel like the sooner the better because the changes that they keep making at hbo max are all sounding horrible just it's like dc too like i feel like just gonna get in their own way those two together like that that is the crazy guy and the crazy girl you know are now like dating like what the fuck like the house is gonna light on fire they're just gonna light

on fire there's fire involved at some point but that was the the uh and or recap for this week we did a little bit of comic book discussion to end it off because and or like we said this week really just one thing happened it was a big heist but it was a great heist it was a great episode hope you'll be back next week for episode seven and we'll see you then hashtag clemshot first that's right