My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 240 - 'ANDOR' EPISODE 7 RECAP WITH CLEM

Episode Date: October 20, 2022

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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 3C. I am your host, Robbie Fox. Along with me is my co-host, Clem, the star of Andor. We had another great episode this week, Andor Episode 7. I was actually worried about this episode clem i gotta say going in because they said i think it was tony gilroy the writer said the first three episodes are like one big chunk the next three episodes are one big chunk and then this is just a one-off episode the next three episodes will once again return to that story arc format and then the final

two are the finale he said that's like the finale material so this is the only episode all season that kind of stands on its own and i thought are we getting a flash bach to episode are we getting a filler episode and in a way it is a filler episode but it did a lot and as far as the acting goes it might have been the best episode all season in terms of just getting to see like i think her name is genevieve o'reilly as mon mothma holy shit she ate up her scenes in this episode bob don't you say oh you know we survived this episode r.i.p my dog clem we learned of the original clem's untimely demise and how he died pretty fucked up shit uh but yeah this was um i had heard the same thing.

People had told me, listen, you're going to, it sounds like it's going to be a one-off and then we're going to have a little arc, I think for three episodes and then whatever, how it wraps up. So it's like that straggler episode, you always get worried, especially in Star Wars. I don't think Star Wars has had the success

that Marvel has in terms of bridging those gaps. And Marvel's not perfect by any means with it. But Star Wars really fucks it up usually. So I'm going to count this as a win. Again, we're going to go positive. Let's clap it up, Bob. Clap it up. We're going to clap it up for the people at Star Wars over here.

They're doing a good job right now. So yeah, awesome. Very well acted. And stories coming together. I still feel like there's so much to learn and i don't feel like it's i feel like something's going over my head do you feel like that too like there's a lot of big words they're using especially in the place where everyone's wearing the white the imperial meetings yeah yes every those are the the most dense scenes maybe ever

in star wars where i feel like every sentence is a plot point where i should like rewind and really think about it it's almost like reading a book where sometimes you like every sentence is a plot point where I should like rewind and really think about it it's almost like reading a book where sometimes you got to reread a paragraph like multiple times to really understand what the hell you're reading it is dense speaking of which I'm not the only person who will read a book and then get through the entire page but I didn't pick up one word from that entire page it's like when you're driving and you're like I couldn't tell you one thing from the last five minutes that's not a good sign and driving Is a lot worse than reading a book there's danger

Involved there so yeah that That uh those meetings can be Lumped right in and real life Corporate meetings circle back And you're talking I know maybe some Some jargon technological terms For whatever industry you're in this is That times a million because it's just a bunch of fucking

Fictional shit in a galaxy far far away it's so much but it's like thrones-esque in that way like in the imperial scenes especially when we see later in the episode like dedra and the other supervisor like kind of like lobbying for control trying to get the power trying to get the approval of their guy up top like it kind of has Thrones vibes which is stuff we've been asking for out of Star Wars to be honest yeah definitely and you know what now that you mentioned it maybe to like fix this issue that like where we just leave feeling like I feel like there's a gap every episode I'm like I don't really know what's going on in this stuff I have an idea I think it's getting a little better maybe we do the thing where like those people are

talking to give you that list that little five minute post episode where the guys are just kind of just talking you through everything i'm gonna need one just for i just call her the blonde girl i got her name this episode i don't know if i wrote it down right dead right they called her by her last name it starts with an s i believe right yes i forget what it is but yeah but like that's the kind of stuff where i was like shit shit, I am really just over my head here. The Game of Thrones where they walk you through stuff where George R.R. Martin explains how he created a whole, they say George R.R. Martin spent 25 pages

just telling you how they make bread in Westeros for no fucking reason at all. I feel like the people who make Wikipedia are watching this shit and just like, whoa, this is two Star Wars dents for even me. So happy to know I'm not alone. And I feel like a lot of our listeners are in the same boat as us. Today's and or recap is brought to you by 3C.

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They're like, let's see what he's doing with the Darksaber now. Oh my God. And then you just see the IMDB where it's like like 7.2 review 7.8 review 10 and it's like oh that was when baby yoda showed up and started wielding the dark saber out of the blue just give a little nerd fan service i'd love that if like once every star wars uh series you just get a mando thrown right at your foot just blindsided like lawrence taylor it's like the royal rumble like you don't know when it's coming out and then all of a sudden you get a Mando episode, and it's the Stone Cold gif. Like, oh my god.

Three, two, one. It hits, yeah. It'd be amazing, honestly. Let's get into this episode, because there is a lot to discuss. We start with our guy Fuckface, Seabreel, looking

out a window. learned that his uncle harlow got him an interview at the bureau of standards i definitely thought we were going to get to see uncle harlow this episode i thought uncle harlow was going to like bring him into the interview like a mobster or something no uncle harlow though not this episode what's his name the um the guy the fuck face what's his real cereal okay i thought you said that yeah and what is he always eating oh cereal what is going on with cereal making naming the people in this goddamn show might be cy real i might be mispronouncing it but i mean it it it's cereal it's cereal and you know what like if i didn't he's cereal for the rest of the show yeah he's not a cereal to me he's cereal. It's cereal. And you know what? Like, if I didn't call him Buckley's, I called him cereal. Yeah, he's cereal guy.

He's cereal to me. He's cereal guy for now on. That's unbelievable. He's cereal. Uncle Harlow is casting a bigger shadow on, like, this fucking galaxy than, like, Darth Vader at this point. I don't know who Uncle Harlow is. He fucking, his name rings out. He is the Heisenberg.

You know, my name is my name. Say my name. I'm crossing the wire with. Oh, my God. Uncle Harlow is going to be a problem whenever he shows up. And I can't wait for it. I personally like Uncle Buck. That would be awesome.

Just the drill. He's just a big, happy dude. Oh, man. John Candy. It's like John Candy's actually been alive this whole time. We were just waiting. Great. Oh, who would be the best celebrity to find out they've been alive?

I think the answer is John Candy. I think we've already answered our own question. John Candy would be pretty awesome. Chris Farley. Yep. Another one came to mind. It's the big guys. It's always the big guys,

the big happy guys, the guys that we lost too soon. I saw our boy Dante blog that they're doing like a doc, like a biopic or documentary on John Candy. And he's like, get the tissue boxes ready there's gonna be tears and john candy was my dude as a kid i fucking loved him so uh tupac i've i've i'm still convinced tupac is alive because i read a website back in like 1997 with a lot of very

convincing arguments it was it was before i was born yeah it was a long it was on geocities bob you don't even know what geocities is that's the kind of genuinely do not that's how you used to make webpages you go to geocities.com it was like the wordpress of its time oh wow yeah uh we have one of these meetings one of these big white room meetings where there's a huge tax put in putting on uh any worlds that are choosing to be partisan to the attack and blah blah blah, blah, blah, blah. Big words thrown around. But every now and then, you get a Star Wars-y word thrown in there. Yes.

Where they're like, did they just fucking say Palpatine? I think they said the Emperor. The Emperor says that ISB is going to take control of this. I think they fucking said schedule again. This show hammers home the schedules more than any show in the history of television bob we got a schedule and a reschedule in two different places in in coruscant and then uh with our girl marva so that's i mean those are different zip codes different galaxies potentially different universes i don't know what the fuck it is let's just say it's been established as canon the sea is silent in the star wars galaxy in schedule

which my uncle shout out uncle den told me is like the original way that you say that in english or whatever like that that's just like the we we as americans have changed that but respect to star wars for being like fuck it that is how they say it in the galaxy far far away they're taking it back they're gonna go with the old english way listen. That is how they say it in the galaxy far, far away. They're taking it back. They're going to go with the old English way. Do you think the Rebels say it like our way? Oh, that would be so awesome if the Rebels are like, no, that's like the thing that united them. We're not going to say schedule like

them anymore. The murdering of planets and the pillaging of our planets, that's another thing. But they say schedule so obnoxiously. They insist upon themselves. That's a good way to put it. And I will not apologize as an American. We fixed schedule, you could say.

I do think there is a case to be made that the metric system would probably be easier if everyone just used it. Maybe. Fuck the use too. Favor it and all that kind of stuff. I will never. That we don't need. You know, I found out why we

took those away do you know the answer to this because fuck the queen and the king kind of but i heard that they used to have to pay per letter on typewriter so they just started taking things out that we didn't need oh man we were just kind of like texting kind of like abbreviating things when you text the original version of that by the way i get so proud of myself when i figure out like you know tbh i figured that one out for a imho i figured that out pretty quickly i'm pretty proud of myself as an old that i was able to just like sneak in but once i can't figure that shit out we're in trouble but you know it's just like america at a time we were just a poor country just trying to make ends meet you know and now look at us now we've grown up to become very much like the rebels in the empire in a way you know we could make the comparisons there also uh cereal's mom i forgot to mention is pissed at him for

wearing this brown coat she's like it says that you don't have any power you got the collar hemmed up i saw people posting the it's a normal collar find a new slant name i thought he looked fine i didn't think i didn't think he should have been picked on for that coat Truly in a house without love That man, as much as I hate him Whenever he does He's going to do something extremely dastardly at some point I don't know if it'll be this season Maybe next season

I'm going to blame his mother just as much as I blame him Uncle Harlow may get a chunk of that blame as well Depending on how it all sorts out with him But I feel like Uncle Harlow has a big part to do about it. And the fact that he's working at the Bureau of Standards. The Bureau of Standards sounds like the most boring place you could ever work. There's a time for most of us. One of the people who does not fit into this comparison is my boy, Bob Fox, who I'm on this podcast with.

But there's a lot of us who, after we left college, were like, fuck. I guess, like, my dream job, even my industry, isn't going to be the thing for me. And you start looking at a little bit boring, a little bit more boring jobs. And then at some point, you're like, fuck it. I need a paycheck. My parents are kicking me out of the house. I need just money. I'm going to go work at the Bureau of Standards.

That's the most boring thing in the world, the Bureau. I don't know what it is. It just sounds fucking awful. And when they showed showed it it just looked like a cube farm like it looked like there's a thousand people working there making cold calls to the galaxy far far away or something even when he's accepting the job he's like all right they're gonna like get this cleared off my record kind of they're gonna forget what happened on Aldani or not Aldani. He sees, he saw the attack on Aldani on the news or whatever, but on Ferrix was it. So he's like,

they'll get that clear off my record, but like, I'm really going to sit in this desk all day. Like, that's what I'm going to do. That's the thing with the Bureau of standards. Like, listen,

we'll wipe away like misdemeanor, a couple of misdemeanors here and there you'll get, I bet you get pretty good fucking insurance. You might get like a decent paycheck, but you're in fucking basically the matrix version of when the humans are in pods in cubicle form. I worked at, when I worked at ESPN, every fucking place, every, uh, like location at ESPN in Bristol, uh, fucking Seattle, even in the city, there's all these different spots

and you always felt like you were at a cool hip place to work you'd have you know tvs with recliners and you know basketball shit like just fun stuff and i worked in the one place in the entire fucking in the entire all vspn that was just cubicles and they called us and i i found out about it a few years like after i started they referred to our office as cubicle hell, and I was like, oh, man. And I'm like, yeah, we were Cubicle Hell. And that guy, fucking fuck-faced cereal boy, works in Cubicle Hell. Poor guy, man. But in Star Wars, in classic Star Wars

fashion, they're not like cubes. They're not squares. They're like hexagons. They're like, we'll just change the shape. Just a little different. Yeah, it's kind of like Ready Player One vibes, too. Have you seen that movie? Yes, yes. I like that movie. I was a big fan of it it's a good movie yeah uh mon mothma visits luthan without warning he's like oh she's showing up without warning that's kind of strange she's under the guise of returning her gift for her husband or whatever she's like was this fucking

attack you this attack on aldani like holy shit her lip is quivering her voice is trembling she's shaking amazing acting and he's like yeah it's fucking time to force the empire's hand like they've been quietly choking us for a while it's time to force the hand and i loved when dedra said that the attack was an announcement she's like we're talking about this like it was a terrorist attack and they're like what was it she's like an announcement because that's what it was it's kind of like not the start of the rebellion but in a way it's one of the first big actions it's uh i'm trying to think of what the better like metaphor is it the seed being planted is it the flick of a lighter you know it's not a spark like like poe dameron

said yeah yeah uh god damn it bob don't bring up that kind of thing. But that's, I think, where I think that was kind of in my brain was from the Poe Dameron line. It's just funny how everyone sees the news a different way. And I like hearing the story. I wouldn't even know. Part of me is like, would that even be a news story? Is it big enough? But I guess it is. And, you know, that's probably if you were smart, if you're the Empire is smart.

You squash that thing. That thing doesn't get no news because then they get out on right. Donnie to like, you know, the people that live there, the Donnie's, they're not putting it out. They don't know what the fucking TV is. Yeah. No offense. Don't want to cancel here by the Aldani people. No, I just don't think you guys have.

If you're Aldani and you're offended by this, show me the technology you have That can broadcast something to the other Aldani people Or outside of your planet They're gonna roll up with a fucking Like uh What are the old cameras that they used They shake the Polaroid They're gonna roll up with a Polaroid camera Like Nemec or whatever rest in peace

Fucking Emperor he had it all planned out with Order 66 But he's getting a little lazy now When he doesn't know how to, like, squash the fucking, you know, media and the voice of a rebellion by not letting anything out. Propaganda up the asshole he should be doing. He should be like, yeah, we killed a bunch of people in Aldana. We didn't like them. That's exactly what happened. Come on.

Unless, like, part of the attack was, like, one of the people that survive has to make sure this gets out and i would appreciate i would appreciate that if they had put that into work into the works like we're gonna broadcast that feels like something that they would have done on like a certain thrones where it's like not only do we have to carry this out and succeed but we need other people to know that we succeeded if that happens in the fucking future episodes another fucking like hunger games even like that was a big plot point of the Hunger Games where they sent a camera crew out with Katniss to go figure everything out.

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It reminded me of an Italian name or even like Fasuli, who we love. One of the best video editors, cameraman at Barstool and everything. We had an awesome Star Destroyer shot where you just see the shadow that it casts over like a village when it goes over people looking up at it's like holy shit then we see this sneaky lady walk over and meet with vel that's what i yeah i called her sneaky lady she kind of was thrones ask sneaky lady and she basically tells vel who's all dolled up at this point we see vel like when she's not in her rebel outfit this is more of her like luthen disguise i guess yeah and she says andor's a loose end like he's not fully in on the rebellion

this guy just kind of was a mercenary who did a job for us he knows about some of the dirty deeds why don't we kill him and she i don't think vel's down for it immediately like she kind of is like uh is this what we're doing now? This is what the Rebellion's doing? They're like, yeah, that's what you got to do in war. Brutal. I kind of would have loved if it came out that they were doing the Joker way

where they were just going to kill everyone and tie up all the loose ends. Was it this episode we talked about it at length? I think it was two episodes ago. Or She-Hulk. I don't know if it was Andor or She-Hulk. Yeah, it was Andor. That was a good 10-minute tip of the cap at length for two episodes ago or she hulk i don't know if it was at andor or the she was andor yeah it was and that was like a good 10 minute uh just like uh tip of the cap to a great and i and i

swear i went to youtube after we recorded that and i watched the entire bank robbery scene it's the best it's the best me too yeah i love it so much i put it in a blog like the next day so good it gets in your head um the star destroyer we talked about tie fighters and there are certain ships that they fucking nailed in star wars back in you know the original trilogy i think i i think star destroyer and the tie fighters are my two favorite ships in terms of other than the falcon which is like its own one-off, it's like a character Tie Fighter over X-Wing? I like the practicality, like the

simpleness, simplicity of the Tie Fighter more than the X-Wing, I love X-Wings that's always what I'll choose to fly when I'm playing a game, but the Tie Fighter I don't know man, like we talked to Screech and it's like, they're just so disposable, again the Emperor is such a motherfucker, he's like, they don't need shields we got so many people, these motherfuckers don't need shields. We got so many people.

These motherfuckers don't need like 1% shield. Just give me one shot, Emperor. One fucking laser that it can take and I could maybe, you know, stave the Empire. It's like, no, they're good. No fucking shields for those guys. And I don't know.

The Star Destroyer, the Star Destroyer I don't think is even close. I think it's by far the coolest ship out of the main ships. It's the most intimidating for sure. Yeah. i just like one of the best designs ever the opening of a new hope when you see the the blockade runner come in and then you see like the biggest star destroyer of all time come on over it it's like one of the greatest ways to ever open a movie yeah and the the engine just like that whatever the is powering it just seems so fucking cool the

command towers again this is getting deep down nerdy from the guy who played X-Men vs. TIE Fighter way too much as a kid he could shoot off the little towers the little shield generators and then in Empire when you you're like oh fuck there's a Star Destroyer and then you see a Star Destroyer going over top that is like three times the size is that the

Imperial class I don't know I don't know my classes and stuff like that so I just fucking love Star Destroyers that gave me like uh fanboy goosebumps watching that thing just just come in and it's funny you said what'd you call this sneaky woman sneaky lady yeah sneaky lady i actually had a different um thronesy thing the red lady is what i was getting off of her she had the fucking red cloak on and i'm like i'm like wait it's no complete vibes like that yeah are we switching like me and bob are doing the dragon podcast on sunday right which i can't believe we only have one episode left make sure everyone uh tunes in on sunday night right after the finale that'll be a big episode for us you

never know what nick hamilton's gonna do uh next he poured out a fucking drink last episode of episode or two episodes ago last episode your little fucking puppy with a puppy for a joke yeah that guy is just gives it all the epitome of the gives it all to the company he's the best uh cassian goes home this is actually like the first time we see cassian or talking about him in this episode takes a little bit but i love i tweeted that i love that they took a character who we were all like half sold on, I would say. And I like Cassian. I liked him in Rogue One and everything, but I wasn't like a diehard Cassian stan leaving that movie.

They took him. They gave him his own series, but they said, we're also going to show you like the rise of Mon Mothma, the rise of the Rebellion. There's a lot more to the show than just its title character. He goes home and we see Marva and our guy, B2 Emo. He comes back. Ferex is under Imperial authority at this point. He learns that that motherfucker Tim turned him in. Tim with two Ms.

Yeah. And I also have a little neat tidbit from another neat tidbit from Uncle Fun, as call him uncle den about b2 emo and the stutter he texted me about it and he said he thinks it's a nod to the buck rogers 1979 tv show he has a robot named uh tweaky swiky who does a stutter type noise before most responses. And the droid was voiced by Mel Blanc, who went on to voice Bugs Bunny. Just a legend of cartoon voices. He threw that up as a, as a little nod. And I think that could totally be a possible.

Shout out Uncle Den, the motherfucking goat. Again, if you haven't listened or watched our podcast with Mike Fox, where's some all time, all time great stories from the greatest uncle on earth. I think we're, I'm an uncle and i'm even giving the crown to this guy yeah yeah no offense bob no offense to you but you're uncle better than you at uncle he is and or wants to run away with marva take b2 emo with him let's get off this planet let's you know go fight you know let's do

something let's get away from this and she she's like, first thing in the morning. And as soon as she says that, you know, like, oh man, Marva's not making it off this planet. I thought she was going to get killed before the morning. Did you? Yeah. It's, it's the, oh, we'll do it tomorrow. It's like, it's my last day on the job before retirement.

I thought Marva was absolutely cooked. Especially someone who it's like, she's already given her life in terms of the years of it, the good stuff of her life to this fight. She's going to literally give the end of her life to this fight as well. So I'm with you 100 percent on that. Then maybe my favorite. No, not maybe. I would say my favorite scene of the episode where Mon Mothma goes to a fundraiser type event. She's at a gala, if you want to call it that and she

pulls this banker aside who she's apparently known since she was a child his name was tay colma and i wrote down mon talks to banker who seems great not often you write banker seems great but this guy seemed pretty sweet the daughter comes over at one point she asked to be excused she's like dad had to make me ask you to be excused or whatever and she gives the husband a weird look the douchebag husband dickhead and mon mothma starts talking to him and she's like i have a favor to ask you he's like i think you should be maybe uh trepidatious around me or i don't even know if that's a word but he's like you should be a little shy around me because i think my politics are a little extreme for you i really hate the empire like you don't get it like he's basically saying like i'm a fucking super lip all right i

don't know if you're all in on me here or whatever and she's like no that's exactly what i needed to hear i've been putting up a front this entire time. The Mon Mothma that everyone knows is a lie. So let's get talking. And just the acting, the way that they shot this, them walking through the party, like a long take and everything. And then the way she kept saying, like, smile, smile. Like, let's act like we're talking about childhood friends. This is like true spy rebellion shit. Yeah, this is more in depth than a lot of this

Basic spy stuff you're seeing like a regular Movie like nothing crazy right and I do Appreciate that it's almost like with Luthan where he's Trying to sell the stuff a couple episodes Ago and they're just Acting like it and then going in the back room and Actually doing their dealings I do Agree this guy seems like he's good

He's well connected has the money we're going to need for this Still throwing him on the fucking sus list. He's still going somewhere on there because you're a banker. And the only way I'll ever trust a banker is if someone listening to this podcast gives me a million dollars who's a banker. Then I'll put all you guys off the sus list. But as of now, I just cannot trust him. Like the banker from Boston is such a cheat code in the Oregon Trail. And it's like it's just too fucking easy.

Their lives are too easy. So I can't trust this guy as all, as much as I want to slip in the blue martini. Did you see the blue? Oh yeah. Like we said, star Wars, you make something blue and we're like,

Oh shit. Cause what other food like blueberries, obviously, but it's not often you see a blue piece of food. It's so easy. You just buy a bunch of blue food dye. You tell a catering person to go nuts and just put blue food dye and everything yeah the only time where like blue rained more in terms of food was

the 90s i'll tell you late 90s blue raspberry and everything was blue for a little minute there blue candy yeah yep candy is like only second to cherry in my mind red or you know it doesn't have to be cherry i'm not a blue guy. This may surprise you. I'm not a huge blue guy. Yeah. Like blue raspberry icy you don't like? So, you motherfucker. Listen, peanut butter boy, I'm not

going to apologize to you of all people. No, anti-peanut butter boy you call me. Yeah. You don't even associate my name with that PB shit. Growing up, I never liked, like raspberry. People don't really associate my name with that pb shit i growing up i never liked i didn't like raspberry people don't really like raspberry what they did shout out to the people at fucking big sugar or i guess it was blow pop was the first i remember they made it blue raspberry blow pops and had two z's in raspberry that it's like they may not have been the first but they were the

biggest to do it yeah blowops were huge back in that time And they threw the two Z's on Raspberry And everyone wanted Blue Raspberry I'm like you guys do not like this more than your Strawberries, your cherries Your basic reds right But it was fucking cool because it had the Z's And the 90's

Z's were fucking everything as crazy as it sounds Just putting the Z at the end of a fucking I mean you'd see all the old old school posters and stuff from back then. Z's fucking rolled the dice. The Dudleys. Yeah, the Dudleys, exactly. I think they were a Z. Or the Hardys.

Maybe both. That's why I throw the Z at the end of the Basement Boys, because we're fucking cool. We're fucking bad boys from the 90s. So it always got me mad. I never thought raspberry was all that good of a flavor, but the way they just marketed it. So the fact that Star Wars is now taking that, they're changing it imagine if everything tastes like blue raspberry and i'm gonna but i don't picture it like that like like a blue milk i picture tasting like milk yeah until this moment now i'm gonna say that blue milk has a taste of blue raspberry and it's so

fucking weird but you know they don't know any different like that's true that's their standard yeah that's like plain to them that's vanilla and it's so funny because you cannot get two places that are more different than the 90s in america and the star wars where everything always sucks we're back in the 90s everything was awesome this is the grittiest star wars ever yeah gritty so fucking gritty so gritty um speaking of things that are not gritty game time will get you the best least gritty seats in all the land created by fans for fans. GameTime is a ticketing app that makes it easier than ever

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uh you could get tickets to see him you could get tickets to see red hot chili peppers who i saw with game time rage against the machine who just canceled the whole tour, so you can't get to see them, unfortunately. The only person you can't see, Bob just said. Yeah, Zach De La Rocha, he blew his Achilles. But yeah, the Yankees. You can see the Yankees in the playoffs. Yankees versus Astros, yep. Giants, they're doing pretty well as well.

My Commander's not doing as well, unfortunately. Let me give, and I won't rub any salt in the wound. We're not going to talk about the M team in baseball. I'll give a little one out there for the parents out there. Bluey's Big Play. Bluey, the show that I love and I'm always waxing poetic about. They're doing a live show. There's one in New York City coming up next month.

There's one in Connecticut, which I think we're going to go to because I don't know if we can make the city that weekend. And it's going all across the country. So you go, the tickets are pretty damn cheap and then you get the game time deal on top. You cannot go wrong. How did they get the deal,

Bob? You can go to the game time app. It's very easy. Go to the top right-hand corner. I think it's the account tab, create a login takes two seconds. It's so easy. Redeem the code basement,

all caps basement for $20 off your first purchase. I just got tickets to the Radio City Christmas show for this year. My girlfriend's never seen it. We're going as like a big family thing. So you know what? That is another thing you can go on Game Time. Get in the holiday spirit. There's tons of holiday shows in the city. They'll usually do a Christmas story thing, an elf thing, a Grinch thing or something at the little theater under the garden so look out for that thank you to game time for helping keep the lights on hell yeah love game time all right and or goes back to ferrix he or he is already there he goes to visit bix he wants to know more about he's like why did she why did luthan know everything about me that's kind of crazy

and he just wants to be forgotten he's like you fucking tell that guy forget my fucking name he i'm clumped to him all right he doesn't know me then we get the flashback that to clem and like you said earlier we see a brutal death for this guy it's he's hanged marvis is later on in an amazing monologue she's like i used to walk the long way to not think of you know where he was hanged in the street and everything but i'm not leaving i'm staying here i'm fighting the attack on aldani inspired me meanwhile andor's like oh fuck i inspired my mom fuck shit uh and she you know kind of weird moment in in the end of this passionate amazing amazingly delivered speech she just says stop searching for your sisters there's nothing left there to find there was no survivors on your home

planet canary it's like does she know something about the sister because obviously the sister's alive that was like the first thing in the entire series he's like goes into that bar where's my sister he's looking for his sister we're going to be reunited with the sister at some point why did she say stop looking for the sister that's a good question is she trying to you know get him to stop looking for her because he's going to get hurt or is it because he doesn't want to find out what she's become and i think that's i think you're right on that bob that's that's been a great call you've been on that take since episode one i believe right yeah that was an early that was an early uh hell you stood on there um also i hate to do this to you bob who told you that

the vix and our boy and or were once lovers back in the day no you were right about that yep yep i was wrong and you know what tim tim isn't wrong for uh being a little skeptical of them and worried about it right ex-boyfriend kind of stuff and like ex-boyfriend from home girl next door and this is like years and years forward and like a fucking rebellion that's true tim with two m's you have two m's sus list instantly sus list this show again these names are just getting all weird uh but the i i don't know if this is kind of fucked up to say i think this was my favorite um scene of the episode was just seeing stormtroopers actually being like legitimately scary having some order them where they have them marching together have them like pulling out the

guns and having them what does he say is like did he say ready is that what he says like ready something like that and they were cool like their armor was like a mix of stormtroopers and clone troopers they had like the clone trooper helmets but their bodies very much the back and everything looked like the stormtroopers we know you're seeing the the full transition it's like the little gradient from clone trooper to stormtrooper yep exactly and then uh our girl marva says she goes uh love is gonna make you want to stay that was some deep shit right there. I'm throwing out our ass. I didn't I didn't need to hear that. Maybe like miss my kids.

And you know that Marva is going to go down with the rebellion and that's going to inspire our guy and or even more like my mom died for this cause. So not literally his mom, but his adopted mom. Do you think she's going to say something like that? Like not avenge me, but with... With great power comes great possibility. Yes. Yes, let's just start. I just rewatched No Way Home. Yeah, I watched the extended edition.

A little tangent we can go on here. For anyone interested in the extended edition, if you're a diehard Spider-Man MCU fan, it's worth a watch. It's like 11 extra minutes. I texted Clem, though. There was really only like two scenes that i would have actually left in the movie you get a little extended version of the peter dialogue at the end which is fun like when they're all joking about where does the web fluid come from i think it was like a different cut of that there was one scene with daredevil where

when he tells happy you're gonna need a really good lawyer to get out of this later on they like pay that off and like matt murdoch is happy's uh lawyer later on for 15 seconds and then there's one scene where spider-man when he's found out everyone knows peter parker spider-man goes to gym class and his whole class is chanting climb it climb it climb it and he just starts climbing the wall and he's like oh geez and they cut to the climate climate and he just starts climbing the wall and he's like oh geez and they cut to the gym teacher and he goes look at that sticky bastard go it just really made me laugh but that's really like the rest of the scenes it felt like they were added on for an extended edition like they rounded up some of the teachers and background actors and gave them their own scene it was so so the fact that stars has the exclusive rights to it is the biggest stars i had to get a free trial thanks

for reminding me i'm going to cancel that free trial because i looked on their other stuff they didn't have much as you could expect no offense to stars maybe there'll be a future sponsor but nothing better than the seven day free trial again i had that with hulu for the bear which everyone has to watch the bear. That's your homework. Once Andor is done with here. I did see that. I happened to see that Matt Murdock clip today on Twitter.

So I was like, I didn't say it. So when I posted it, it's not like amazing, but it's something where I was like, Oh, like it's more Matt Murdock. I definitely would have included that.

Yep. Yep. I wonder if they're going to have anything from Andor. If there's any, if there'll be any like thing like oh we almost did this and it does tie into the other star wars lore well it was supposed to be longer initially too because they said it was going to be like three to four seasons and then i think the creator came out and said like i would drive myself fucking insane if i

tried to make four seasons of a star wars show so we shortened it to two so like what would you have what would you have expanded upon like would there have been multiple arcs that just got cut was it it would have been a much longer prepping process for the mission which i can't imagine it was a pretty long prep for the mission i don't know i'm i was gonna say i'm so happy that the mission ended when it did instead because that feels like something that could have been drawn out in other you know works the fact that it was three and again like they could have probably got it in two but it did make it a little more grabbing to it by having a three they keep getting to the point where you're like all right it better wrap up soon and then it does though and it like always delivers on that right when you're least expecting it maybe it's it's a good slow burn back to the

show uh supervisor that deadra that has she's been like feuding with the whole time i don't know his name says that she's been putting the isb at risk she's never filing or any requests for her shit very boring office talk kind of he's like he she she should be filing the request forms before she makes the searches she's abusing her power blah blah blah and ferix is assigned to her when the lead guy who was kyburn was he kyburn from thrones when he finds that out he's like sounds like she's a lot more interested in it than you are so i'm gonna give that territory to her in an all-time like fuck you moment i don't even like deader she's the bad guy but i did a little

fist pump for her because it's just like, fuck you for trying to go to the teacher and rat me out. And then he pulls her aside at the end and he's like, watch your back. People are coming after you. Yeah. I call her the heart of blonde. That's just my writer in my notes. Like she's definitely cold. By the way, what a fucking idiot. The guy with the fucked up tourniquet that you're like, Oh, fix your collar, dude. That's the guy you have, you know, to, you know, at most discretion possible.

That file she had him pulled to was like every single across the galaxy, every single like thing that had to be done or fixed. That file must be enormous. Yeah. Fucking enormous. I would totally be the guy with the fucked up thing too. Like that, that would always be like if, you know, I had to wear a dress shirt for something, I would totally be the guy with the fucked up thing too like that that would always be like if you know i had to wear a dress shirt for something i would always be caught my mom would be like oh you rolled the sleeves up to your elbows again you're wrinkling your shirt rob come

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Until we make it We're going to send you to the experts right here And there is your experts And we know there are a lot of Thrones fans That listen to the podcast Because I get tweets all the time People are like Are you guys going to do Rings of Power recaps?

No Like Clem said we're not Faking it till we make it you go over to our Friends on Amazon music Amazon Podcasts that's where you get The official rings of power podcast Bezos definitely has the best people money Can buy to get that stuff done too right so

It's like you just throw that to them now I do plan on watching it I know my guy Bob may not may not be I do plan whether or not it gets done Is guy Bob may not be. I do plan. Whether or not it gets done is another issue. But it's just tough right now. We have Andor. We have Thrones.

We have football. We had the Mets. A lot of stuff going on. It's a dense show like this, too. Like, I know it's one of those shows where a podcast would help you. Yes, exactly. So, you go, get your podcast, load it up, and then you give us a report. You tell us how it is, if that's the podcast you guys want for uh lord of the rings rings of power in fact all right the ending of the episode kind

of a shocker to end it and or is fucking under the name keith yes he is in me of keith richards i kind of like that you know people call him keith sometimes uh he's fucking he has like a little toolbox full of money and credits he puts above the shower. And he goes for a walk. He sees some people running along the beach, kind of weird. And he gets detained by a KX unit. It's not K2SO. It's a little tease. It's a little foreshadowing moment for the future.

A K2 unit, basically. KX unit, they call them. Grabs him by the throat. Starts choking him. He gets charged. It was a very cool like printing thing when they would like do the little scan over and it would tell you what what it was what the charge was and he's like what is this i think they charge him for like six days or

something at first and he's like i'm just a tourist like i wasn't even supposed to like be there he kind of gave the dante from clerks i'm not even supposed to be here today and they're like oh you're just a tourist oh sorry about that let's give you a new charge six years six years in prison on this planet which it looked like a very nice planet to begin with it looked like fucking miami or the jersey shore or something and then you just get a shot of uh cereal completely miserable and it's cubed and the episode so i didn't realize this first of all The name Keith is just like The name Keith so I'm like

This fucking show is extremely Fucking lazy with the names The girl's name did you catch The girl's name no Wendy and I don't know if they Say it but it's Which is just like Winnie right or Wendy yeah either or get out of

here now as you say this i didn't even put the two together the name of the planet you know the name of the planet i i saw it flash and i meant to write it down but i didn't get it in time niamos which is just like miami the beach plan niamos yeah so those three things all together and listen if that's their thing, that's their thing. It actually makes it easier for me because the place that gave you Lando Calrissian and the fucking Millennium Falcon and all this shit, it is sometimes easier to just be like, all right, that's Keef. Very easy. Sometimes it's like you could go self-explanatory, too. Like, you don't have to go with crazy names all the time.

Cloud City worked. Yes. It's like a fucking city in the clouds that's all you gotta know yeah you don't have to talk best pin or anything like that like no cloud city works as soon as i saw this place i was like man that is a cool fucking place and the last person was our boy and or and i am just so so goddamn bummed for him because he was living the life he's fucking he has a ton of money he's in a beautiful location he's just living that fucking life and just to have it just removed

i was excited that i thought it was ktso at first which again like you said bob it gave you it gave you kind of that like oh shit and it's like no not so fast my friend but it did let you know that there's gonna be a whole backstory i believe they call it they're edging us um our boy keith wasn't edging in that hotel room though it seemed like he took care of business yeah um a lot of sex and that's bix level star wars for adults yeah star wars for adults star wars after dark um going from beach sex to six years in jail that is a fucking bummer and are we getting a time jump where it's like i don't know if they're doing i don't think it's like a six-year time jump yet but will we get like a three-year time jump and then he breaks out like are the next three a prison break arc that'd be awesome i love a prison break

i oh that's a great call i could definitely i was trying to figure out what the arc was going to be that would meet some rebel friends in prison that also got locked up for the wrong reasons or something they all break out together yep yep that'd be pretty sweet i'm excited about that this whole thing does feel like the um with like six months to six years it's like when you went from having like the nice teacher to like the mean teacher you're like everything was so fucking good and now it's bad and the empire was never fucking good but it's really getting bad. And the Empire was never fucking good. But it's really getting bad. I mean, unfortunately for him, he's the reason why he got this. Like, he helped with the thing.

It was crazy that they detained him when they did, though. I get he was kind of dressed like the people running, or were they robbing something? Who knows? But, like, they really did just basically pull him off the street and slap him in jail for security. He was sweating. He got arrested for sweating on the beach. That's what he got arrested for. That was the most absurd thing I've ever seen.

It's great. Like you're seeing the abuse of power for sure. Yeah. And it's, it's just very, it's just indicative of how much the, like Leia says, like they keep their,

like with the fist, they're trying to close that fist and grip tight and everything's going to fall through their fingers. And it all started with that one little thing on, Danai's the name of the planet aldani aldani aldani and they were the donnie's yes exactly so uh again there was a couple they alluded to it with uh in the corporate white uh suit place where it is like we're gonna fucking just crush these people and you're gonna kind of see and i like that we saw already how how they're coming down with the fist so hard and how that's going to be the reason why the rebellion you know was able to rise so the banker is on the sus list though

yeah unfortunately i understand that he is a banker so it's like yeah he's probably on the bankers lawyers people that work for hedge funds even i don't know what hedge funds are i don't know that either but that always sounds if you're in the finance industry you're sus so i i love large i love them i wouldn't unless you could get us like season tickets to like one of our favorite sporting teams because usually the people in those industries are the ones with the season tickets that's exactly so if you're offering up rangers season tickets yankee season tickets for me nick season tickets for the both of us did you see the lynn sanity sign i posted no i didn't oh my god i'm gonna show you live on the podcast

people can't be mad at a tangent after we're done right i offered one million dollars to get the banker off the sus list by the way so i'm just looking for straight straight cash home that's all i'm looking for or get your tickets on game. If you just buy tickets on GameTime, you can get off the sauce list. I genuinely love GameTime. They're great. Shout out to GameTime. So I saw HBO Max made a Linsanity documentary. Did you see that?

A little 38 minutes. Yeah, I blogged it. 38 at the Garden. I went to a game. It wasn't truly in the Linsanity era because it was right after Carmelo came back. But I was so swept up in Linsanity, because it was right after Carmelo came back. But I was so swept up in Linsanity, Clem. It was crazy. I had just become a Knicks fan because when the

Nets left New Jersey, I said, fuck them. Fuck them. I don't want to be a fan of them. So I swapped over the Knicks. Not really a great move, to be honest. You're not jumping on a bandwagon. No bandwagon. You can't accuse me of jumping on a bandwagon. But Jeremy Lin was so soon after

that i was so fired up about jeremy lynn i had the t-shirts i had the jerseys i had the hat that said lynn 17 i had a rally towel with lynn 17 my mom was going out to modell's exactly and just buying me as much jeremy lynn shit as she could buy me because she knew i loved this guy i was like this is the savior we're winning the nba finals and I went to a game it was uh against Atlanta and the Knicks won and Lynn had a great performance with a sign that said to Linfinity and beyond if you're not watching on YouTube I have Jeremy Lynn's head pasted literally cut out and pasted onto buzz light years body so it was a great sign at the garden yeah and i wish i had the picture of me with it it would be such great content if i had the picture of me at the garden with the sun and with my 17 win hat like i was all you

know decked out it was like i i was over the moon and then mellow came back it kind of ruined it all so i'm always gonna held a grudge about meello. It was a magical time too, because the Giants had just won the Super Bowl. So I was on like cloud a million at that point. It was the absolute best. It was awesome. How old were you at that? So that was 2012. So that's 10 years ago, right?

Yeah. So I would have been 13. Jeez. That's 13 years when you're bringing a Buzz Lightyear sign to the garden with your favorite player. Yeah, it would have been right before I turned 14. Yeah. That's awesome.

That's awesome. Crazy, but it was a great time, like you said. So, yeah, if you're offering up Knicks season tickets for me and Clem, great. If not, you're sus. You're sus. That's the moral of the story. If you have money, you're sus. That's the bottom line.

That's the moral of the story. You're not sus if you're doing good. No, not at all. And, hey, that Disney trip is happening. We got a group text. That's right. That's right. Dave texted us all in a group.

He was like, let's make this Disney trip happen. So we're going to try to figure out a good time. And that's going to be an all-time video. One of the two weeks that Jeff can go is the week that I will be in Star Wars paying thousands upon thousands of dollars to go with my family. So I'm going to end up going probably at the end of the month again to fucking Disney. So fucking Disney. Yeah, not your year so far, I guess, with the Mets and everything. Yeah, not like that great 2012 year.

But make sure you like and subscribe so it can be our year, you know. And we'll see you next week for another Andor recap. If you like House of the Dragon, also tune in on Sunday for the final recap of that. And if you made it all the way to the end, thank you. Hashtag Clem's year. We're going to fucking turn this year. Clem's year. I like that.

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