My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 244 - 'ANDOR' EPISODE 9 RECAP WITH CLEM

Episode Date: November 4, 2022

Robbie and Clem discuss 'Andor' Episode 9, entitled: 'Nobody's Listening', which includes some of the darkest scenes in Star Wars history and connects a lot of the storylines in this show together! 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! Wondery: Watch The Rings of Power on Prime Video and listen to all eight episodes of The Official The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Podcast for free on Amazon Music. **************************************** 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-basement You 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/mymomsbasementYou 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 3C and Barstool Sports, and another and-or recap of My Mom's Basement for Episode 9, Nobody's Listening. Myself, Robbie Fox, and Clem are back, of course, as always, not saying Clem In the show anymore it really breaks my heart Not to be able to call you the star of the show but You know the show is still Amazing this was my favorite episode As well this was my favorite episode Of the whole series you're just going up

You're just a chart of just Nothing but rising did you say Myself and Robbie Fox and Clem Did I I don't know I think I said myself Robbie Fox okay and Clem If i i don't know i think it's in myself robbie fox okay and clem if anybody is listening it's not the three of us obviously if there was another person like wait there's a guy in here sounds just like maybe it's a moon night situation octagon bob's talking right now yeah there was some old videos of octagon bob that i saw this week and i was like oh my god like

a different world. You know, the tight haircut on Robbie Fox, different world. Now he has the long hair. I don't know if it's my favorite episode, but I'm just very happy right now. I'm happy where we are. I saw a tweet where I think it was like an audience approval rating. It's now matched the Mandalorian in terms of excitement or you know satisfaction so far i don't think i'm there yet i think it's different it's a much

different show but i'm not i look forward to watching it every single week it's you know 40 minutes or so it's not too too long but it's not too short and it just leaves you like all right what are we going to get into next week so i'm'm with you there. Hopefully people, are you guys listening? Are you guys listening on the podcast right now? Hashtag somebody is listening. Just let me know. Someone's listening here. Keep the basement lights.

That's a good hashtag for this week. Somebody's listening. I like that. And don't do the little, don't do the, the parentheses. Not the parentheses. What's the apostrophe?

Because that'll mess up the hashtag. Don't do the apostrophe. Let's get into this episode right away though, because there's so much to talk about. It's a long episode. I wrote down the most Stranger Things-y theme yet. I don't know if you noticed that. When we did the Andor theme, it changes week to week. And this week, it was a little synth-y, and I thought it sounded a little Stranger Things-y.

Good call. Not indicative of the episode. The episode didn't feel like Stranger Things. It was another Squid Game meets Prison Break meets the darkest star wars once again we could ever get like holy shit this show is not for kids bob you you said it last episode and it came through after watching it this week the the squid game vibes in that fucking prison are really fucking me up right now and again that show did some psychological damage to me and my family, and it's only doing a little bit more as we speak.

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The sirens, the announcements, the look of it, the look of it is very severancy, which I've mentioned on the show before. It's, you know, all the white sleekness. It's actually the look of the ISB offices as well. And speaking of the ISB, we opened this episode right where we left off last week with Dedra and Bix, kind of an interrogation going on. and this was from an acting point of view up there with the best scenes in the show Dedra interrogates her and does the whole fish in a net analogy says are you a fish are you a thief she reveals that through someone named Salmon Pock which his name is spelled salmon just salmon uh they bugged the radio that she's been using she's

like are you aware that you've been the only one using that radio like six phone calls six face-to-face meetings we know it all bix isn't really breaking and she's handed over to dr gorst and they're looking into this nest of relationships too that's the whole interrogation scene she's like it's so weird that all of these people with no prior rebel activity are not giving up anything and are willing to die for what is there nothing there like there's got to be something there and she's giving over dr gorse we don't know what he does at first but then we find out he puts on this torture device that plays the cries of children being slaughtered by the empire

for like not giving in the The children were Dezanites. That is brutal. That was some fucking gnarly shit, man. That was about as dark. That is metal. Metal, gnarly, dark as fuck. I hate saying this kind

of stuff as a father or as just a human being. I kind of fucking like that we've gone to this really twisted side of shit and also really painted the empire for what we always know. And it's been, but now they're really showing you the engine that's running this empire and just how fucking it's fueled on children. Murder basically,

which as we fucking the Anakin meme, right? That added for a few years ago with uh order 66 and the acting scene when the bix gets the headphones on and just like her face and the reaction and you're just like i love that we didn't hear either yeah do the like it's scarier to imagine what that is to actually like hear a sound of it because i feel like no sound can live up to the monologue that the doctor gave right before he put on that headset because we talked about it last episode it's like are we getting because

it just looked like a regular office chair from like a 1970s cubicle i was like are we going to get the han torture chair from empire no we got just like she's just it was kind of shot like the leia like you know when they're about to torture Leia and they kind of cut away from it. It was kind of shot like that. I saw a tweet that did side by side comparisons. And I think there was definitely a little nod to that. By the way, the name Dr. Gorse. I'm like, oh, this guy's bad news.

The name Gorse, that guy was meant to torture people. No offense to anyone with the last name Gorse listening right now, but you're probably a sick fuck too. And he looked like a dude. Like, good job by the casting unit. Like, that guy was a sick dude. Like, that is casting 101 right there of imperial sick fuck that tortures people with the screams of murdered children.

Just, oh, I got horror movie vibes, actually, when they zoomed in on Bix's face. And she's just freaking out. And, oh, and they casually just freaking out and oh and and they casually just mentioned we're still hanging motherfuckers too she's like can i hang the dude she's like do whatever you want yes yeah he's like let's hang what's left of them that's like what's left of oh my god what are we thinking it's awful man and i know that this is a show for adults we keep saying that this is a show for adults kids definitely would not enjoy this as much as a show like the mandalorian where you got baby yoda running around

and fun things like lightsabers and stormtroopers and stuff we have a lot of isbs and the imperials that are wearing all gray suits that as a kid i feel like are the most boring parts of star wars movies when they're sitting around at a table talking in gray suits and their british accents and everything no offense to the brits and in show, they're able to make them so interesting and they're able to make the monologues so good and so dense and so full of information. And then, you know, they'll throw out the casual like, oh, yeah, what the emperor thinks. And then you're like, oh, my God, the emperor, he's around. I forgot about that guy. Like all of the ISB scenes I have come to really love and look forward to in this show, especially with Dedra.

And I saw the actress that played her gave a great quote about the character this week where she said, like, you know, originally the characters written kind of for you to root for her because you've got the other ISB agents kind of one one upping her and maybe trying to play down the fact that she's a woman. So you can't do this. And then she's like, eventually you realize evil takes over everyone, men and women, and you just learn to hate this woman. And it's like, well, yeah, that's kind of what's happened over the course of the season. I love the guy who plays Qyburn in Game of Thrones, too. He's a pretty good bad dude, right? And he played it in Thrones very well it's like the old boss too yeah and he's still a middle manager when it's all said and done just like kyburn is kind of

he's cersei's right hand man as the as the maester but what he is here and it's like he's such a fucking he he and that guy you put kyburn whatever the fuck his name is the head of the ISB you put him in a room with Vader and Tarkin and he fits in flawlessly right like old dude just creepy vibes Gorst is probably his fucking son for all I know right just they they've done a very good job I know especially with this episode now I'm really like pointing fingers like all right who's fucking related to who because things are connecting now Kino who is Andy Ser circus character says oolof is going home soon we could tell he's not doing too well his hands hurt uh andor starts asking what happens when a new man comes in they start asking about the plan when that happens and keno is very ominous about it kind of sus about andor and he's

like you know the drill like just keep to yourself. Right away, he's kind of denying any thought of like, stop asking questions. What are you thinking here? That changes over the course of this episode in a brilliant way. The way that kind of flips. I loved it. I hate putting it on the sus list, but immediately went on the sus list.

Also, are you like me? I'm rooting for these fuckers to win the contest every time like come on table five or whatever the fuck you are let's go win this thing right now let's get some fucking flavor in our food it brings me right back to group projects in middle school when you break up into tables and everything uh cassie and another prisoner very observant i gotta ask you though you brought it up now i have to ask you what were you in the group project were you the leader were you the guy who kind of just would you know skate off of everyone else's

achievement or you kind of just the the people in the middle who just you know took care of business i was kind i always wound up being grouped with like my friends and my friends would start goofing off and i would just be the person that wound up having to do the whole project yeah it's usually me and my mom being like these kids fucking won't do it well let's hear what mama fox give us tell us what you thought about all this stuff going on rob i i think i should go to the teacher and tell him like these and i'm like mom do not go to the teacher they're my friends she's like but you listen should i call their parents should i maybe call that i know matt's mom i could call l Lisa and maybe we could have a talk. And I'm like, mom, we're not having a fuck.

Let's just do the project. And, you know, we'll have some ice cream later. That's awesome. I'm with you. I was I was always I was never like the leader of the group, like put it on my shoulders. But I would never be the slacker. I would be the person that would have to usually pick up the slack left by the slackers just to get the fucking project done on time. And the most devastating thing is when I was in college and it was the same shit.

It's like you still had slackers in college. And then when you make it to the real world and you're in the cubes and you're still fucking dealing with slackers, you're like these fucking dickheads. How the hell are these people? I didn't think those I thought those people get weeded out going to college. I thought those people get weeded out going to like the real world in a corporate job and no those fuckers just exist every hey shout out to all the slackers listening to this like you guys are you guys are probably listening to the podcast as the rest of your people in the work or in school are actually doing the work for you and we appreciate that yes we appreciate that i wish i had that in my body to

fucking do that um i feel like this group, though, doesn't really have slackers. Like, that's the thing. I think, you know, like. No. Well, there is a big threat of, you know, slack. You slack, you die, basically. Yeah. You're getting motherfucking electrocuted.

That doesn't happen in these things in our real world. At least not in the places I was. Also, one thing we forgot to mention melchi who is part of this group is actually part of the crew that invades scarif in rogue one and that's like something that i feel like he's in rogue one so briefly that it just flew right over my head and then we got a couple tweets about it i was like okay that's a pretty cool connection just a random side character you know like all right this guy is going to be they're going to be together in the end you know yeah i'm very interested to see if they stay together after

this after they break out or whatever happens and then or if they how they keep in touch or if it's just you know i i i even people say is that an easter egg did you just miss it i'm like guys i don't know man roadway up missed it my brain is a different place than where it was when rogue one came out much different place right now. So Cassian starts getting very observant over the new prisoner protocol. What happens when a new prisoner is brought in? How many guards are there? Are the wires turned on?

Are the electric shocks turned on? Olaf clearly slowing down mentally. He's not all there. And we cut to Mon Mothma giving a speech against the Emperor's New plan essentially Where she's getting heckled to shit People are turning their little pods off They're leaving Long live the Empire

She gets in her car The driver says your cousin has arrived She's like oh god you gotta be kidding me My cousin's here You gotta be thinking who's the cousin We gotta know the cousin based on the way That this scene is set up I was like it's the cousin? We got to know the cousin based on the way that this scene is set up. I was like, it's the cousin Uncle Harlow.

I'm hearing uncles and cousins. Oh, my God, Uncle Harlow, I know. And I'm still expecting Uncle Buck every time they say Uncle Harlow. But Vel is Mon Mothma's cousin. Fucking Vel. And this kind of, like, makes sense. Okay, Mon Mothma's cousin is a little more blue-collar, should we say, than her. So she joins the fight. And Mon, a little more white collar should we say than her so she joins the fight

and Mon a little more white collar literally she usually is wearing a white collar is a little more political so she goes the senator route Vel is very closed off in this conversation like Mon is even trying to ask about the rebellion obviously knows she's in the rebellion but Vel's not giving her much but this was a really cool reveal and And then the daughter runs in with like a new dress or something. And they're like, oh, nice. Yeah. I always love seeing the Senate. I always get those flashbacks.

Even though I didn't love the prequels, I always like seeing the Senate. And just seeing how it's become just basically a peanut gallery. And I'm not going to get political. I feel like we're going to start getting more like that in real life. Like if you watch C-SPAN, you could fall asleep watching it for years and years i feel like i feel like we're gonna be at the point where we go fuck yourself dude fuck you it's kind of crazy seeing what could they're gonna allow fights like hockey where it's like all right just go and we'll break it up when it's done and it may not be a bad thing like there's way too many times where you can talk shit or do

shit without getting you want to talk about people that do no fucking work and just leave it up to everyone else to get it done everybody in this this is not a political people fighting is just funny like let's be like as long as nobody gets seriously hurt usually very funny the punchers are usually very slow two miles an hour there's no danger there but it's it's fun to watch yes it's if someone breaks a hip that's the biggest issue yeah someone falls someone hurts their oh my spleen like yeah that's what old people are yeah let's get like a inflatable they can fight above like inflatables the floor be inflatable so if they do fall they won't break anything they could fight in sumo suits we put them in those sumo suits and it's just like and that's our solution to politics you guys weren't expecting

that when you turn on the basement today any political talk but we're actually fixing shit the right way the fun way to stream it all on c-span it'll be the most watched hit during the day and vel you said it perfectly i was thinking mon was always like she was the rich side of the family vel was a little more blue collar. But Vel, she started to, she went to whatever Star Wars Woodstock was. She had her time. She was smoking some dope. Sharing blankets. Yeah, sharing a lot of blankets, sharing some spice

along the way, and just having the time of her life. Mon went too, but she went to more like the Coachella one, right? Where it's like... Yeah, like Vel probably has tattoos. Mon doesn't. No way. Unless Mon... do you think she has like an ankle tattoo or something that's very small something something a little rebellious yeah like maybe like rebel written somewhere right that might be a bit of a giveaway i'm telling you

right now vel has a tattoo somewhere where a tattoo should not be in an intimate place i don't know if it's where the bra goes or the underwear goes but there is something swimsuit line as they call it yes and then there's multiple there's multiple tattoos i feel like that's the new thing now is like the um like the long ones that like it'll have like a trail of stars or like some people call them stamp tattoos where like really girls will get like a bunch of little tattoos all over an arm or something like stamp sleeves they say back in my day bob back in my college days it was a tramp stamp tramp stamp ruled the fucking world and the thought of how

many people in their 30s and 40s have a stamp i have a tattoo right above their ass and it's probably stretched a little maybe a little wrinkled now be careful which tattoos you choose children we're just gonna say that bop box i think has done it right right on the arm that's a good spot that's always gonna yeah yeah it's gonna be good uh did bop box do you have any tattoos anywhere other than the arms i have a collarbone tattoo what live forever oasis song when uh when did that go go up uh during covid i actually went to my tattoo artist's apartment to get that i bet val has a live forever it felt rock and roll go to an apartment get a tattoo i was like this is cool so how did we feel about that crossover

there oh i loved it yeah it felt like things connecting and it felt like okay like this makes sense. Like thing there aren't really like loose ends necessarily on this show. There's not a lot of like lost style question marks. But that just made everything feel more connected, but not in a million years we didn't i didn't see that coming never it's when you start bringing back like oh and there's lando calrissian coming in that would have felt bad and you know what it wasn't teased for a long time too like uncle harlow even it's almost set up to disappoint in a way because like they keep mentioning the name and it's almost a mystery at this point tongue robber he's our uncle harlow too but this one was like oh we didn't even know Mon Mothma has a cousin and two seconds Later we get the payoff it's Vel That was nice

I love Vel and Vel is a cool I wouldn't say she gets you the cool Christmas presents but she's the one who gets you Like the little She gets you like the vape pen or something like that Like sneaks in like you're gonna need this Your parents like your dad's an asshole And your mom can be kind of a bitch i'm sure like we love mom we love her she could definitely be a bitch she has a lot of stuff on her plate right now she's probably not

like the the best mom to have she because she's fucking trying to overturn a goddamn empire right now yeah and it seems like the dad is also feeding the daughter information about her too where the daughter brought up like oh your old boyfriend take coma at the dinner and she seems like the dad is also feeding the daughter information about her, too, where the daughter brought up, like, oh, your old boyfriend, Tay Colma, at the dinner. And she's like, turns to the husband, like, did you tell her that? It's like, we dated in fucking elementary school. Why would you say that? So the daughter is definitely the dad's spy. The dad is a total dickhead.

He mentions to Vel at the dinner, oh, when are you going to get a husband? And, like, Mon Mothma, like, almost spits out her drink looking at her like, are you an idiot? Like wrong team. Yeah. Well, I didn't even think of that. Yeah, that's definitely the case. But he says to her, he goes, you should get a widower because at this age, what good are you? And I was like, what the fuck?

He's like, what are you worth? I think he says. Yeah. So I don't know if I've given him a name and I might have given him this name already he's just cock boy at this point he's cock yeah that's a good that's a good one he looks like the mcgruber actor to me um but he's just straight cock boy the stuff he's saying and then uh davo skuldren is that the um is that no no no so i thought tay coma was the old boyfriend and they were a little suspicious about Tay unless I'm completely wrong about that. And I thought Davo was the guy later where take home

says, listen, there's a problem. $400,000 loan is not disappearing the way we we'd like it to disappear. I need a favor from you in a certain kind of loan. And she's like, seems like you've really thought this out. And it's, he wants her to meet with davo oh that's right yes davos goldren we don't know about but she's yeah she's very unhappy about that she's she cannot believe that this is the situation that she's in i fucked that up yeah so the the conversation she has with that dude by the way that does add an extra layer to it. When your old boyfriend and you're conversing. Totally.

Money. Well, see, it does. But if it's literally elementary school, it's like you were in third grade. That's fair. That's fair. Elementary school romance is like, that's the thing right now. I'm thinking about like when I was in third grade, Sienna's in third grade. And I'm like, there was like, Oh, this person kissed that person.

There's boyfriends and girlfriends. And I'm just like, shit. I don't know if you're in this, but your friends are at the very least in this. And she won't tell us either. And I don't like it one bit. I don't like it.

Cool. Like you're Thanos and she's Gamora. Try something. One of the more tense moments of the episode is where all of the prisoners are yet again signing to each other in the tunnels. And they're like, something happened on two. They're saying something on two.

And Andy Serkis' character, Kino, is like, stop it, stop it, nothing happened. Word takes forever to get around. You think you know something that happened on the other side of the building? Absolutely not. Get in line. then the power goes out and then he almost has a moment of like uh what's going on something is happening and then it goes right back on and then they're just marched through kind of a teaser for what's to come later on in

the episode but this was a good moment of tension where really like they were able to build tension just based on a quick power outage that shows how good the show is yeah that's actually a great point i didn't see that and i was so proud of myself that i picked up on the sign language this time like there i see it i was like robbie told me about it last time completely over my head i was very proud of myself yeah the form and he's starting to lose it right now he's starting to lose his shit and then once the lights go out it's you know the whole entire felt that was like a big moment of change for that entire scene or location, I should say. And I'm so mad because I thought our boys were starting to put together the fucking, they were starting to get a system down.

Like we're going to win some fucking meat from some flavor in our food. And now that is so into the back of everyone's minds right now. Level two. What's going on? I'm level two. God damn it. What's going on at level two? And in this moment, Cassian's so curious he can't sleep so he starts asking keno from across the hall across the cell you ever dream about escape you ever think about escape you ever think about

how many prisoners are on each floor how many guards are on each cell block whatever keno keeps telling him to stop asking but keeps answering his his questions. Kind of like he kept being, he was doing the ZA on the yak this week where he was just like, you know, he kept going and you're like, you could stop. You can turn around and go to bed. He eventually does turn around and he pretends to sleep and Cassian screams. Nobody's listening. The name of the episode to kind of prove like nobody's listening on this cell. We could have this conversation out in the open. There's way more of us than there are of them like they're totally playing the intimidation game

on us and our numbers can definitely overthrow them the way it all flips later on in the episode to kind of like you know not get ahead of ourselves but get ahead with how many guards are there and he finally answers that gave me chills it is so that's the opposite of squid game without getting too into squid game those motherfuckers were watching they were listening they had everything under control the empire they kind of do the opposite which kind of i guess is the empire's uh like sort of strategy it's like again they have a billion tie fighters but they don't have shields it's like if they just did everything the right way they had like the right amount of people and the right amount of like surveillance and technology to monitor everyone they'd be fine

but what they do is they greet you like um cassian was greeted and he's like they they fry you at first and like we could do this whatever we want that's why i'm not scared of you guys with my weapons but it turns out you know there's the the emperor's new clothes are not what they appear at first and there's you like that too you guys are getting literary fucking devices dropped on you i don't know if that's even the word for it's just okay literary devices we're fixing politics we're doing it all on the base right now i'm recapping star wars doing it all we get another isb scene deadra reports on the axis powers not not the power no she reports on the axis power singular and we are anti-axis powers who is lutheran yeah it's lutheran in this show and she is trying to sell to the whole room this is a

large network i promise you these events are, and I think a rebellion is afoot. And she connects Andor to Aldani. Qyburn is kind of like, I think that's a bit of a stretch. And then someone from, like you said earlier in the episode, I wrote down the peanut gallery, brings up this clean-shaven factor. He's kind of Dedra's assistant. And he's like, Andor was clean-shaven. The people on Aldani said that they saw clean-shaven people and kind of looked like Andor. So there might be more to that.

And he's like, all right, I'll entertain that at least. Then word gets around the prison that the Empire might have killed an entire shift. Keno tells everyone, just keep your composure. But clearly, he's not even keeping his composure. That's the Frank the Tank. We need to keep our composure right now. Everyone settle down.

When they said Andrew was clean-shaven and they start, you know, the Aldani thing, I turned into straight-up Stephen A. So it's like, oh, no, this is very bad. This is very bad. That wasn't good, man. Don't want that detail getting out. Yeah, I didn't think there was a – and listen, I know I'm watching a show, and it's all going to probably come together and whatever and whatever but i was like there's no fucking way

they're gonna pin aldani on our boy and or there's just no way it's it's such a leap of faith even the fact that i guess they're all on the same planet right now i didn't see coming i didn't think bubba bix was gonna be getting interrogated by fucking deidre and the way this is all gonna go down turns out this is all coming to a Fucking head here and our boy Luthan Is I mean Luthan's just going to Be a name that's going to come out actually I don't his name and he

Has so many like probably aliases I don't know if the L word will actually get used Yeah but just the fact that they know there is This axis guy Is fucking terrifying man And they know specific details, like how many times he's talked to Bix, how many face-to-face meetings,

how many times he's been on the planet, all of that. So very, very scary how much they know about Axis and Luthen in general. Edie, we get talking to Styril. The Edie is his mom. I don't know if we've mentioned her name before, but it reminded me of like Edie Sedgwick. Eating cereal.

That's how you fucking get the cereal. Eating fucking cereal with that goddamn blue milk. He is eating the cereal again. And he talks to his mom about snooping. He's like, I know you were in my secret box looking at my porno mags. Like I have ways of knowing. And it's like, ugh. Everything about that conversation. I was like,

you're too old to be having this conversation. His tie. Also, can we talk about how crazy his tie is, how it comes out of his shirt in the middle? Have you noticed that? I did not notice that. It sounds absolutely absurd though.

It's a cutout mid shirt. And the tie just comes through. Also speaking to my shirt, little teaser, little teaser. Christmas is coming we got a little hard for me to sit up that high black friday preview here on the pod for the people watching on the youtube little teaser trailer for you two words for you black friday

um the mom stuff was getting weird uh super weird and i was like harlow again he mentions that he got a promotion and she's like oh my god uncle harlow's gonna be So proud of you and I'm like I think like you can't like Was it a promotion or was it just you got your Record cleared He's living in this fantasy world Where he thinks he's like basically Two steps below the emperor he's like I'm gonna be

Reporting to the emperor by this time next week And she's like dude that's not the case At all But he's clearly delusional which this this guy, this actor, I have to say, I do enjoy the actor. He's really good at playing like unhinged psycho. And when she said that stuff, I thought the same thing. I'm like, is he talking about porno mags? And then are there porno mags?

Are we going to get porno mags in Star Wars? And is it going to be porno mags or is it going to be a hologram? Is it going to be a hologram? Probably. Yeah. It feels like a hologram thing But they might be like disposable holograms You know like one off holograms You throw away Something like that

Like with a Twi'lek on the cover Promise me Robbie If we ever get confirmed porno mags In Star Wars we're going to have R.A. on Just to talk about it Because hearing R.A. talk about Back in the day I had the playbook I can't even attempt to do that legendary accent

But I can just imagine Hearing his growing up with porno mags Along with Star Wars porno mags That is the R.A. confluence Everything's coming together in one beautiful thing And he also drinks the cereal milk And I gotta ask Bob Fox Do you drink cereal milk? Of course, of course, absolutely I drinks the cereal milk and i gotta ask bob fox do you drink cereal milk of

course of course absolutely i love the cereal milk the way uh our guy cereal does it is also very funny it's like while his mom's talking he's just like slurping up the bowl right in her face i laughed while he's doing that it was so dis it was like one step away from the alan iverson stepping over tyron it was absurd I was just putting it to me. AJ drinks the cereal milk already as a four-year-old. I am not a cereal milk drinker. And listen, it's just, it's something, I guess I'm just not a huge milk fan. I love milk in my cereal, but I don't like drinking milk.

Does that make sense? I guess, but like a bowl of Cocoa Puffs, the milk after that is so good. Oh my God. I used to have bowls with straws in them really yeah like that was a mama fox thing she went out to the store and got you something so you could just i i i think they were like from the 90s to be honest and i think they were just in the house like when i was born but they were like these plastic because i think they were from the 90s because they were like uh teal pink and purple it's 90s. So, you know, like. Definitely a 90s thing. And, yeah, they had straws attached to the bowls. And I'll never forget, I was drinking soup out of one once at the kitchen table with my brother and sister.

I was probably, like, three years old. One of my earliest memories. My brother made me laugh so hard the soup came out of my nose back in the bowl. Yes. Milk out of the nose is always, like, one of the great moments. But soup is, like like the cousin of that and i'm so happy that you guys are steaming hot soup in my nostrils i'm surprised you're gonna tell me like the straw melted because i feel like that's not meant to take some fucking soup

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If you've never been to a game, you'll get into it. Brandon Walker went to his first game, saw a win in the shootout for the Rangers. It's, it's absolutely incredible. And I've even gone to like army college hockey games, which you're like, all right, that's a drop off. It's still so much fucking fun. And then, you know, Rangers, you kind of get spoiled. The crowds have their different songs, their chants. It's just one of those things that's going to get you fired up.

So throw that out there. We've got literary devices. We're fixing politics. I'm going to make some hockey fans on this podcast too, Bob. We are all over the goddamn place. We're growing the game. Spitting Chiclets obviously needs our help, and we're stepping in. Yes.

So this is a crazy moment this is such a crazy serial shows up at the isb headquarters for dead and he reveals that it wasn't like he just showed up knew she was going to be there he's like yeah i've been showing up for days just hoping to catch you like he's just standing in the lobby and this this is such a creepy stalker move and she reacts as such she's's like, are you kidding me? Like, I could have you arrested on this spot. You're insane. He thanks her for the promotion.

She's like, I had nothing to do with the promotion. What are you talking about, you psychopath? He's super creepy the whole time. Being in her presence made him realize life is worth living. What? Dude, we hit a level of stalker-ish stalk stalker stalk i can't say that dude was terrifying it was always sunny levels of stuff but it was like serious we're always sunny they got serious there was no joke to it she tries to walk away he grabs her arm too and he's like

i want what you want and she's like you're. I wrote in my notes, like, ha ha, these two need to fuck. Because I'm thinking it's going to be some sort of thing at some point. They may. They may. But they're both that crazy. But he's definitely way crazier. Extremely way crazier. Like, when she says stuff like, have you been, like, following me?

He's like, yeah, for days, man. Like, I'm like, whoa, whoa. We are in a dark fucking place. That's how much I love you. Like, I want what you want. She's like, whoa, whoa. We are in a dark fucking place. That's how much I love you. Like, I want what you want. She's like, okay. But, like, there definitely was an aspect of it that's like, they're going to fuck. I think if that happens, it will be because she gets screwed over by someone in her department.

And she's like, all right, I'm going to go with the crazy guy because this guy gets it done. And that's when we're going to have some fucking problems. Maybe the Joker and fucking Harley Quinn. Yes. But gender swapped. Like, she's a joker and he's harley quinn perfect fucking cool i didn't think we were gonna get cross universe dc to star wars and then reverse reverse the genders and my bob my boy bob fox she definitely wears the pants in that relationship like no doubt about it she wears the pants she's the one choking the dude and she is like she's putting the mask on she's doing everything she is the fucking dominant the alpha of that relationship for sure and he to be honest

he's not complaining he's no no he's got his fucking clone trooper action figures in his room with his mom yeah he's cool with it oh i forgot about the mom angle of all this too yeah she's like did you drink that fucking blue milk with your cereal this morning he's like yeah i did uh deadger's assistant informs her of a rebel pilot on a star destroyer he's been uh taken there because he was using some stolen imperial equipment and she's like send the doctor up there he's like i already did so he's earning some brownie points with her this is where tay colma has that conversation with mod mothma wants to meet with davos scaldron we don't see that happen this episode don't know if it's going to happen davos scaldron also sounds like a harry potter name not to criticize them i don't mean to this is such a nitpicky thing criticizing star wars names just sounded harry

potterish to me see i didn't watch harry potter so i was like all right we're starting to get a little more into again dava was one sounds like like cauldron you know oh okay yeah it's also one letter away from dave which as you kind of and then davos who's the fucking dude he's my guy in game of thrones the onion knight or whatever they called him i fucking love d Davos. Is Davo a musical artist too? I don't know. Bob, that's your side of the basement for sure. Davos Skuldren, again, I was like, is this Uncle? I'm trying to get the

Uncle Harlow connections here. I feel like Davos Skuldren, he might be what they need though to make this rebellion fucking work. Strange bedfellows. I'm going to throw some more fucking work and that's i like strange bedfellows i'm gonna throw some more fucking old literary fucking uh words that you guys hear there is this could be a strange bedfellows thing with the rebellion as the rebellion grows i think you're

gonna have to start dealing with people you don't want to deal with as much but rebellions don't fund themselves and tay kind of fucked him on mothma here like an underrated part like she went to him looking for a loan yeah he immediately needs a 400 000 credit loan it's like well she doesn't have that money so how is she gonna get that money she gonna hit up luthen and make him put on a mission for her to steal something is that the finale like let's get mon mothma out of trouble yeah uh it's not cool when the guy you're asking for a loan for Is immediately pawing you off to someone else When we bought our house We bought it from

I don't even remember some bank or whatever And then like the next day like oh yeah by the way We sold it to this other bank Fifth Third And we're just like and this happens I guess all the time So for any people who have gotten houses Recently or thinking about it If that happens to you it's apparently like a very normal thing And I was just like what the fuck Now I'm dealing with this other goddamn bank very weird um i've

never funded a rebellion at least not yet once those politicians they keep fucking up oh i guess if you did you probably wouldn't say it on my mom's basement that's true that's right after the podcast clem goes and puts on his wig and does that little smile. I throw my rings on. So the rebel pilot is in Krieger's group, and he has revealed that there is a rebel raid on Spellhouse that they're planning. And they're like, how do we make Krieger not know that we're gonna keep this guy but also keep this guy so they decide to like trash the ship and then they say drift it out into traffic like kill the pilot and then just drift it out into into traffic which i was like holy shit that's like okay that's something that a batman villain would do and and you know matt reeves is gotham and they just really

don't want krieger to know so obviously this is someone that they hold in high esteem where they're like, all right, this guy might fuck us up. I'm here looking up Spellhouse, seeing if there's anything in Wikipedia. Nothing, nothing. New planet, another new planet. Look at that. They're expanding the universe for real in this show. Yeah. They gave us Miami.

What does Spellhouse sound like? Spellhouse was a location in the galaxy in 5 BBY, before Battle of Yavin, as we've learned, or as I've remembered. Anton Krieger probed the Imperial Power Station present there. So that's all we're getting. And then we go to the Anton Krieger, who is still, on Wikipedia, a relative unknown.

All we know is Saul Guerrera. Don't fuck with him. That's the only thing we know about Anton. Anton, Saul, sounds just like anton and saw these fucking names are cannot be like they have baked these names but listen if this show was the product like we said if this show was the product of not really going to order the names i have no problem with it at all yeah this is an amazing show all right and now the prisoners get one of those stay in place things where they all have to put their hands on their heads.

And Olaf starts having what we find out later to be a stroke right on the table. And Andor's kind of trying to keep him up. Kino in the hallway for the first moment really shows empathy. And he's like, come on, buddy. You got 41 shifts like you can make it through. Come on. He's trying to slap him wake him up and a doctor is brought in in such a dark scene where he's like listen he's had a stroke there's nothing i can do there's nothing here to save and they're like what do you mean and he's like can we get a

gurney and a body bag the guy's like it's already on the way and you're like oh shit like they they brought in that the body bag before they even called the doctor and they're like what are you talking about he fires up a shot to euthanize him and that's what he does and he's like there's there's nothing we could do he kind of sends the guard away because they're curious as to what happened on two and they say that someone was released from cell block four into cell block two after they were supposed to be freed and word got out. So they fried the entire cell block and then they realized, Oh,

nobody's getting out of this prison. What happens is when you're 41 shifts are over a year, they transfer you over to cell block three or whatever. This is what the empire is doing. And Cassian one final time says, how many guards are on each level here? And he goes, never more than 12 and credits hit, you know,

next episode we're getting the prison break with Andy circus. That's that, that was, uh, I don't know if it was goosebumps. We got me fired up. I'm like, Oh, we're having it now. And that's, this is the third episode of this entire arc. Like we've been told, uh, also RIP my dog, Olaf, man. He very sad. He had a little bit of a prisoner number one vibes in squid games too. It's just the my dog, Ulof, man. Very sad. He had a little bit of Prisoner No. 1 vibes in Squid Games, too. It's just the old head that had some health issues and whatever. You just got to love him.

You got to love him. It's always fucked up when the doctor's in a place like this where he's like, this guy is basically getting the easy way out compared to what you guys are going to be dealing with here. You're just like, oh, man. When he said,, Oh no, he already had the stroke he's cooked. And then like you said, it was chilling how they already had the fucking body bag ordered. Like everyone is just so disposable. Fuck man.

It just feels like such a hopeless place. And again, my guy was living in Miami with a beautiful girl beneath his sheets and a whole bunch of stolen credits in the shower and to go from there to here and my my fuck uh sienna walked in at one point she goes oh he's in jail she knew it was jail right away which was pretty impressive because it doesn't look like a typical prison and i'm like yeah and she goes what are you doing i'm like nothing what i'm like i'm like sienna do you want to sit down and talk about government corruption we're not ready for that talk right now so we're just gonna leave it at that what did they call it last week the like empire uh reordering credo you know it was the yeah the

acronym p-o-r-d or something like that yeah let's talk about the p-o-r-d for a second something that was brought up on reddit this week that i kind of wanted to bring up on the show was the fact that there's no aliens in this in this prison and some people were like it's not very star wars-esque there's no aliens i think it's deliberate and some people in the comments of the uh the post said this i think the empire is like segregating races alien races and everything and possibly even like doing worse things to alien races and the humans get to work in the prisons but the aliens get to be slaves or even slaughtered like we heard about the uh desamites or desonites the children that were screaming and everything um i think that's a deliberate thing that they're going to reveal and it's going to be another thing

that makes you go holy shit like we've been told for 40 fucking 50 years how horrible the empire is but this show is showing us how horrible they are i don't know i'm ready for that but as you're saying this it fits the tone of andor right yeah and yeah nat you and we said i think in episode one of these recaps like what are you looking for and how this will make you understand why he him and that group would do what they do and it's more than just luke being like i want to be a pilot i want to shoot it i'm gonna shoot the proton proton torpedoes it's like these guys have seen some shit and oh boy bob i'm not ready for this and then there's

like like kind of like with the um audio though you don't need to see or hear the stuff it's just the thought of it all it's the shark and jaws right and it's like oh my god it's so much more terrifying not seeing it that's a great call i'm not ready for that oh speaking of rogue one like this show is making me it's when i re-watch rogue one it's going to make me just want to trust cassie in the whole way and when jen is even a little like skeptical i'm just gonna be like listen to cassie and he's been through the shit he knows what he's talking about and he's the guy who's always questioning everyone else like no no no like you guys are the same people you guys are both questioning you guys are the same exactly like Rogue One is almost like a sped up version of Cassian's story in a way like someone learning to join the rebellion when they didn't

think they were going to be in on the fight it's going to make Rogue One better which is like the one new movie that was fine as it was, and they're going to just make all that better. By the way, I watched Tales of the Jedi. I forgot to tell you. I'm going to tell you live on the podcast. I watched Tales of the Jedi. Thumbs up. Let's discuss it right now. First ever cartoon series that I watched on my own. The last time

we watched Bad Batch with Ken Jack, which I liked, and this one I liked as well. And Sienna kind of went in and out. She wasn't hooked to it, but it is nice to be able to watch some cartoon short run times how nice was that too 15 minutes a piece and that's before credits too so that's why I was hooked in as an old here I am very much happy to uh I'm very happy to get something like that in so I mean did we finish we finished the episode right finished the episode yeah overall like I the episode, yeah. Overall, like I said, my favorite. I loved every scene that kept me so captivated. And there wasn't as much density in this episode.

Is that the way to say it? Where it wasn't like I was really trying to pay attention to every scene. I was just really enjoying it. Yep, yep. The ISB meetings, I love them. But like we've said a few times, it always feels so above my head. I feel like it's gotten less crazy the more recent weeks. So it's been able to, like, enjoy the entire episodes.

And I still – there's a few things here. So we have, what, three episodes left? Yes. I don't want to have egg on my face and find out that, like, Mom Mothma's husband is actually a decent guy. I just feel he's such a fucking scumbag. I hate his guts. No way. I just don't think there's a way that comment about like the widower and all that kind of stuff and your useful uselessness or whatever i feel like at this

point he's just gone and the mom cereal's mom i feel like is who she is which like whatever but there's just i don't know now that you say that, like, Mon Mothma's husband, now I'm seeing the redemption arc in my head. But the redemption only comes before death. Yes, exactly. I think it's like, you know, someone breaks into their apartment or something when they find out. And he's like, that's my fucking wife. And they kill him or something. And you're like, all right, respect.

And, you know, in the end, you were, like, standing up for it. But even that, like, I could see him ratting her out even or the the daughter which would be on the levels of uh george young's mom in blow i hate her so much and she's like george talked about her before she is the gold standard for like hated characters she's my arch nemesis but again r. RIP my dog, Olaf. He went down hard. But yeah, we'll get into some Tales of the Jedi. Tales of the Jedi. So spoilers for Tales of the Jedi, because I want to talk about it all.

If you haven't seen the new Dave Filoni Star Wars cartoon series, it's six episodes. There's three on Count Dooku. When he was a Jedi, there's three on Ahsoka. I thought the Count Dooku ones were a lot stronger, but the Ahsoka ones are also very enjoyable. Like I said, they're 10-15 minutes. Easy watch. Go watch those. Come back to the podcast if you have watched them. What's it presented by? What's our Tales of the Jedi recap presented by?

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Oh, and by the way, your new emperor, Jeff Bezos, he could be the new emperor of the Washington computers. Commanders, yeah, with Jay-Z possibly. What a combo that is. I always had Bezos as my Dolan replacement. He was like my dream owner for Dolan. I always felt like Daniel Snyder was the NFL's version of Dolan. I'm kind of like, if I can, I'll have him

at least you guys can have him. I would like it, but I also am sus about him because Lex Luthor. I don't know. Tales of the Jedi. The first episode I thought was the weakest. I thought it was okay. Baby Ahsoka, about the tiger who's fine i i think it was kind of just like oh baby yoda baby ahsoka like you know this out cute as a button how cute but how cool would it be and how cool

would it be if you're told oh your kid's a jedi must be the most unbelievable feeling cool but but not cool though because you know that kid's gonna Jedi must be the most unbelievable feeling. Cool. But, but not cool though, because you know, that kid's going to be taken away from you. Clem. Shit. I didn't think cool in the moment. You're like,

Holy shit. That's fucked up. But then you're like, Oh no, I never got to hit in. It's just like when she Hulk would carry like the waters and do all the like hard stuff. It's like,

my kid can just like up, clean your room. Everything's cleaned up. And trust me, I would give anything for my kids to have the force right are they gonna take me at the age of like seven you sure you would give anything to give aj the force no no i'm not looking to get the next vader here that might not go right looking over his bed like like luke in the last jedi like i don't know no AJ, no YouTube. I'm just getting choked out like fucking Captain Nita. And be careful not to choke on your aspirations.

AJ, he's like really smart with his words too, his vocabulary. He would have like Vaderism. A life pawn ready for you. After he killed me. But when she comes out on the tiger, I'm like, oh shit, that is sick. is pretty sick and this is also coming from someone who doesn't know anything about ahsoka other than what you guys have told me and what the limited uh times i've seen her in the mandalorian too so that was that was a pretty interesting introduction and the whole what's the name of the species do you know her name of her oh god i i should know it. So good to know.

Okay, Gruta. Okay. And then, like, that one, the one person who, like, the old lady who was kind of there and just is, like, saying prayers. I was thinking Grandma Tala from Moana. But Grandma Coco is, Grandma Coco is so fucking adorable, too. Oh, the best. Remember me? Oh, I could cry right now.

Oh, I can't bring up remember me on this podcast. Can't bring it up. Total tears. And then you go into three Dooku episodes. It was kind of interesting how they laid it out. It was like Ahsoka, three Dooku episodes, and then two final Ahsoka ones. The Dooku ones were my favorite. We've never seen Dooku as a Jedi before, and Dooku was pretty fucking badass as a Jedi.

The first one is him going to like a senator's uh son has been kidnapped and they go to figure out the situation realizing the senator is kind of a dickhead in and of himself so it's him and qui-gwan as a as a young boy and you get to see kind of the early inspiration for qui-gwan to be a great jedi i would say in count dooku where he bends the rules immediately. And he's like, okay, I understand that said the Jedi order says to do things, but we're going to do it the way that actually figures out the situation. Does it even more so in the next episode with Mace Windu, which might've been my favorite episode of them all,

where he really bends everything. And then Mace goes back and we find out he got his seat on the jedi council because of that mission and you're like okay well now i'm seeing i'm seeing the vision of where dooku's starting to turn and then finds out qui-gwan has died did not realize dooku was still a jedi in the time of the phantom menace that shocked me and that really caused a big change in his attitude his thoughts about the jedi corruption, the way that they're running things. He even had that moment with the prisoner where he was talking back and forth to him and he was like, listen, I get it. Like, trust me, I understand the Jedi aren't all there. And he fucking killed Yaddle. Yaddle makes her real like not her debut, but her real shining moment in this episode where she like chases him down

and everything voiced by Bryce Dallas Howard. That was her introduction to Star Wars animation. She's always wanted to do a voice. So they gave her a big character in Yaddle. We could see the death of Yaddle. And it broke my heart to be honest. I was like, God damn Yaddle. She was great.

I was trying to figure, I'm like, I'm like, when do we see Yaddle? Is she going to live through this? I was trying to figure out if she was in any of the other prequels after this takes place. So then when she died, I'm like, oh fuck. Slaughtered her. Did you like Jedi Dooku? So I did like Jedi Dooku. I'll tell you, Jedi Dooku raises some very good questions. And

the way he kind of comes at Mace who I think we've all had a little bit of a problem with the way like Mace is and just the Jedi in general. Everything's so rigid. And they're, they're like, I started to sound like the Emperor, like your arrogance and your friends is your like, he's kind of just like, oh, it has to be this way. It's this way or the highway. And that's why the Jedi fall. So you kind of see the seeds of the reason Order 66 is able to succeed during those episodes and yeah duke was a badass he i kind of like anyone that is a little liberal with the dark side of the force like yeah we're gonna

choke this motherfucker out he's taking down like a senator he's choking yeah that was awesome and again this is coming back to the political angles of things a lot of time politicians just don't have the people's interests at heart and there's times that I think a senator can just get choked out a little bit. So that's probably going to put me on a watch list. But nonetheless, I really – I like Dooku. It made – and then it kind of makes sense. He's like a good detective too, the way he was starting to figure things out. Like he seemed smarter than a lot of his co-Jedi.

And you didn't know that was Qui-Gon until they said, Oh yeah. You know, at the end he says like, Oh yeah. I had a, I had a thought because I think I saw some stuff like in the, in the lead up to it that they,

they had kind of said like, you're going to see, you see a young Qui-Gon. Okay. But there's no Qui-Gon in Clone Wars or anything where you see the young Qui-Gon and you'd be like, Oh, that's him.

Cause I feel like they kind of think so, but there might be a flashback but i don't think so okay because i feel like the way they reveal it there too for people like me who were just oh shit that's qui-gon as a youngster i i says like there's one line i forget that he says to qui-gon that qui-gon says to obi-wan that obi-wan says to anakin oh i like that there's a line in there where they do the full like transition that. And I even liked seeing the older Qui-Gon that we know from The Phantom Menace have a quick conversation with him back and forth where they talk about, oh yeah, he just ran into a Sith Lord and the Rule of Two and all of that.

It's crazy, yeah. It was really cool. These were great. And then the second Ahsoka episode is kind of prime Ahsoka, if you want to call it that, where she is kind of season Ahsoka, if you want to call it that, where she is kind of season seven Clone Wars-esque. They start to train her first of how to deal with a bunch of clone troopers. And this episode was like, I was like, all right, this is like a standard kind of Ahsoka

Clone Wars, a quick check-in, cool. And then the end, they drop a gut punch on you and it might not have been such a gut punch for you not having seen season seven of the clone wars but that is order 66 that is her and rex walking in to all of her friends and fellow clone troopers and all of his friends about to turn on her and about to try to kill her and this is in a in a mission where they had all taken it upon themselves to paint their clone trooper helmets to kill her and this is in a in a mission where they had all taken it upon themselves to paint their clone trooper helmets to be her face paint because that's how much they respected and cared about her and this is them turning on her so this was an episode just leading up to a gut punch that if you were a big fan of the clone wars definitely hit as a gut punch

well i'm gonna tell you bob i was like oh that seems to be a bad situation to go into. I wonder what's going to happen there. And that was all I knew. That's like the finale of the Clone Wars, the whole series. Okay. So that makes a lot more sense now. The Ahsoka stuff, seeing she's like pretty awesome. Who was the dude that she killed that had like the long, like the mask on?

Never named. People have speculated. I think they think he's like the sixth brother he's another inquisitor okay but he was fucking dope his character design his voice where he's like you're alive yeah that was the final soka one she's at a farm it's revealed some shithead fucking gives her up as a jedi because she saved someone as as she tends to do and he comes to burn the entire farm down and battle her and in fucking one quick swift move takes his lightsaber away slaughters him and he kind of like uh dies like obi-wan like almost like at the uh yeah he deflates is that the word that i'm looking

for he kind of deflates and i again as someone that doesn't know anything about i'm like what the fuck's going on right now like i'm like I didn't know what happened there okay good as long as I'm not by myself uh but all in all got it did a good job kind of you can watch the whole thing in in like an hour I think yeah that's kind of it it helps fix up the this the prequels a little bit it helps get people like me fills in some Ahsoka knowledge that I'm sure is going to be necessary. Oh, seeing her at his funeral. Oh yeah. So, so she,

I mean, obviously her and Anakin are close, but obviously she hung out with them. You see them as friends. Okay. Yeah. Cause I was, I was wondering about that as well.

And then she has to kind of get, get off the planet and, um, or Ghana helps get her away. And the way that they were talking to each other without talking to each other when he's talking to the stormtroopers, if you need anything, just let me know. And they're just like, uh, whatever, dude. He knows that left and right, isn't he?

He printed out a thousand of those USB devices or whatever that could get in contact with him. Gave one to Obi-Wan. None of them work. All of them give them away. Dumbest fucking moron in the goddamn game. Bail Morana, as we called him. Yeah, that's right, Bail Morana. That's right, Bail Morana. That was a good one by the boys here.

That was a good one. That was a good job by us. And I have to say, Dooku as a Jedi made him a little cooler than just being the last-minute replacement for Darth Jar Jar because that was the strategy they wanted. They kind of had to go to Dookuoku and it made a little bit more sense i also i want to know like what does the emperor do with his other apprentices when the rule of two is in place so it's him and it's darth maul is he just like i'm just like watering this flower here with uh dooku and i'm sure there's a few others that are you know jedi who are a little

jaded about the jedi council or the life of the force and do you just like kind of just what are those plants and just nurture them and be like all right when one of these guys gets killed i'm gonna need to you know bring another one in from the bullpen i think so we were talking about that in the office this week how that like not that it didn't make sense but that it was just kind of like huh he had like other people kind of on deck while he already had apprentices well that he was talking to so i think yeah he kind of sent out feelers and there was no official contract tampering but yeah he went as far as he could go it's the legalized tampering period or whatever they call it in the nfl i i kind of like the bullpen analogy

too it's like and it's like he has these guys, middling arms, and then he gets his Edwin Diaz. Like, yeah, I got this Vader guy. He's like, got him. Yeah, found him. Don't need you guys anymore. This poor Vader, he ends up being like, you think you're getting this stud who's going to throw 100 more miles per hour. He, like, fucking gets Tommy John surgery, loses half his limbs.

But you're like, I paid him the contract, so. Still fucking awesome when he pushed him to shove. Yeah. All right, that was it For our and or episode nine One more thing. I didn't know this I got someone actually hit me up on Twitter Let me see if I can pull up Breaking news pull up breaking

I it's breaking news to me. So I don't Know if it's just me or if if anyone Else knew about it. Oh Michael J. Fats culture crave Tweeted out a Grogu short film was being Released on Disney Plus on November 12th. Did you know this, Bob? So I saw this and I forgot to bring it up.

It was listed on, I believe, Disney Italy, their upcoming schedule. And I think that's the anniversary of the first episode of The Mandalorian and the launch of Disney Plus. It's like the three-year anniversary. I think it was listed under the zen category so i don't want too many people to get their hopes up because it may just be one of those like grogu like running around as like a fireplace you put on in the background because disney plus has a couple of those they have one called star wars uh like biomes or something like that where it's kind of just a ship flying over like Tatooine and it goes through a

bunch of galaxies. So it might just be a simple thing like that. I would love for them to do essentially what they did for. I am Groot. Yeah. That seems like a no brainer and a way to print money. Like we could have a thousand of those five minute baby Yoda stories. I am Grogu. I am Grogu. That's all I need to hear. Do a crossover too.

I want to see them meet. Oh, I want to see them meet so goddamn badly. If that's the extent of the MCU, Star Wars universe is crossing over is just them passing in the night. I would be there. There was a, I remember during the pandemic when there was nothing to blog, there was a fight video between them

and I blogged because I was like, there's nothing else to blog. And it was just so awesome. Even though I hate seeing them fight, they're just so goddamn goddamn cute so i didn't even know about those bionomes or whatever they're called i might just throw those up on the tv one called like ships i think there's two of them and they're both worth like yeah throwing on while you're blogging and just like peeking up because it's interesting and the effects are great but it might just be one of those because i think it was listed under the zen okay Okay. That would be a, okay. That would be a bummer. And God bless the people who found the listings of the releases for Disney

plus Italy to then make this a thing on Twitter. You are the people that feel this. But also listen, if it's one of those, I am group type specials, you know, my hopes are down low, but willing to be exceeded.

I would love to be surprised and, you know, happy about that. All right. That was it for our Endor, Endor episode, Endor, Endor episode nine recap and our Tales of the Jedi recap,

our little sneaky backdoor Tales of the Jedi recap. We will see you next week for hopefully Endor's escape from prison. And we're going to fix the political systems of, let's see, what should we do next? England's political system. Maybe we next? England's political system? Maybe we'll do England's political system. They have a parliament out there, I believe.

Yeah.