My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 251 - END OF THE YEAR GRADES FOR DC, MARVEL, AND STAR WARS

Episode Date: December 14, 2022

Robbie and Clem give out grades to DC, Marvel, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones regarding their 2022! 3Chi: Use code STOOL10 at checkout to receive 10% off at 3Chi.com Gametime: Download the app and use promo code BASEMENT for $20 off your first purchase! **************************************** Subscribe to My Mom's Basement on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeZ96PqdsJYQ7DFLRx6MHw My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement presented by Barstool Sports and 3C, and this edition of My Mom's Basement is going to be our year-end grades for Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Game of Thrones. We're grading everything. We're like two high school teachers here. We're just grading, grading, grading. I'm here with my co-teacher, Clem. The co-teacher. It's always good when you, it's always a little scary when you have the co-teachers, the two teachers in the class. Sienna, Sienna last year had three teachers in her class,

which was wild. Yeah. Cause I think one in each grade, there's like one classroom where there's like co-teachers just in case there are some kids that need like a little extra help. Sienna helps me. So she basically is my co-teacher in life. Shout out Mr. Fox. That's a strong ass teacher. Oh yeah. Mr. Clem and Mr. Fox. Mr. Clem and Mr. Fox. We've got news to talk about as well. It's going to be another episode like last week, kind of just a free swim as our friend Eddie calls it. Yes, exactly. this episode is brought to you by 3chi now introducing the next evolution in ultra pure cannabis products delta 9-0 delta 9-0 by 3chi delivers a similar yet smoother stronger and longer lasting euphoria compared to traditional marijuana products and this high quality and federally legal hemp derived product raises

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So before we get into news, before we get into some new trailers, mid-year grades and all that, I wanted to tell you this funny story from Army-Navy. I had a crazy weekend, as we mentioned on the podcast. That's right, you had the crazy weekend. Yeah. So we did Rough and Rowdy in Providence, which was amazing. If you watched it, you know it was one of the best cards we ever had. Amazing fights, amazing knockouts, very funny moments in the crowd with the fighters, all of that. We go right to Army-Navy, and then we wound up going right to Patty the Batty's fight, which he absolutely dominated.

It wasn't even close. I don't even think they should have even went to the cards. They should have just said, Patty, yes. They should have thrown the towel. Honestly, they should have said, throw the damn towel. But at Army-Navy, I met tons of stoolies and tons of basement listeners, and I really appreciated that. One of which came up to me right before I

was about to do my segment on the college football show which was just like take a shot at proper 12 because it's kind of the sponsor you know Conor McGregor all that and someone came up to me and they said oh my god I watched the Game of Thrones stuff every Sunday we loved it this year it was our favorite thing to do in the house I said thank you so much we took a picture I walked back to where I was doing the segment and all of the proper 12 girls went, oh my God, you were in Game of Thrones. And I had to say, no, no, no, no, no. I did the second largest podcast about Game of Thrones weekly. Yes. Bob Fox. You know, if Lady Fox wasn't in the picture right now, that's when you tell the proper 12 girls.

Yes, girls. I have been Game of Thrones. I show a picture of me with the eye patch and the wig on. I'm like, remember? It's like we have Game of Thrones at home and that's basically the picture of you, right? That's that meme in particular. I actually, it's funny you mentioned that. I had a story. I had a story at the Dozen where, you know, you go up and you meet the people afterwards who are in the crowd. And one guy was like, every morning listening to you guys on House of Stools was the best.

It got me through my day. And I was like, man, so just shout out all the basement people, all the basement boys and gals out there. Shout out Bob Fox for just keeping himself honest in front of the Papa 12. I had to. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. You kind of could pass as well because like the long hair I think that kind of throws you into like a Westerosi world because they didn't go to the barber that much right yeah no long hair could definitely get away with it so

that's incredible but like you said shout out to all the basement listeners and specifically the basement watchers this year on YouTube I shared the numbers on Twitter last year I think the channel had about 455,000 views in 2021. Nothing to scoff at. I was proud of that at the time. I said, that's great. Great start for this channel. This year we had 7.1 million and it's still going, you know, we still got half a half

a month to go in the year. So I'll, I'll, I'll keep counting as it goes up, but just a crazy rise. And one of those where I was like, no matter what, I'm happy with those numbers. The 500,000 to 7.1 million in a year, that's some awesome growth. And it's thanks to all the listeners out there, all the basement boys and girls. Shout out all the basement boys and girls and shout out Uncle Dana too. He always gives us a nice spike. You're like, oh, that's a good one.

Shout out Uncle Dana. Exactly. You could see the spikes. It's like, that's a Dana interview. That's a Dana interview. So let's get into some news this week clem because there's a lot the first item i want to bring up is one that broke i want to say immediately after we stopped recording last week we were saying you know it'd be so cool if they did a batman beyond movie imagine they brought

michael keaton in he played bruce wayne and you do the whole Terry story, you bring in Ace the Dog, all of that. And right after we hit end recording, it turns out that DC just canceled a Batman Beyond movie starring Michael Keaton. I was like, motherfucker. We got tweets about it immediately. It's a bummer, but it's one of those bittersweet things because you know James Gunn is in charge of the DC universe at this point. And it never really felt like for the past few years that they had a roadmap, that they had a timeline that we could all follow as fans. We know this is coming out and that could lead to this and that could lead to this.

So the fact that they're streamlining it in a way and making sure that everything's going to be connected, it hurts that this was canceled, but you know, it's for the best. The gun is already smoking. He's already coming out firing. And that was unfortunately one of the things know it's for the best. The gun is already smoking. He's already coming out firing, and that was, unfortunately, one of the things that got lost along the way. It's good, though. There's a process being put in place.

D.C. kind of ran their universe the way Barstool runs its universe. That's not good for someone with the size and catalog of D.C. It's kind of the charm, the barstool difference, right? The DC difference doesn't have that kind of charm. It just turns crazy fans either into angry crazy fans or like whatever you want to call the Snyderverse fans, right? We're just lunatics with hashtags weaponized, but it's good the stuff's in place. Unfortunate. Again, I was kind of of the thought of Michael Ke keaton love happened as a batman it's gonna feel weird if we're gonna have two batmans if they do it right which i think they could with

james gunn thumbs up however it just felt weird not gonna happen it sounds like at least in this iteration so uh i think i'm all right with it but i always yield to you bob fox that is your boy right there again i don't with x the x-men coming to the picture that'll kind of be my love. This is your love right here. So I yield to whatever you said. Well, it bleeds into another Batman story. We heard rumors that James Gunn and Peter Safran were considering adding Pattinson, Robert Pattinson's Batman, to the DCU, which I want to say right now. Brilliant move from James Gunn being like, throw the DCEU out the window.

There's never a reason for that unnecessary e in there it's just the dcu from here on out much easier to say i love it but james gunn came right out and he said nope this is untrue he said i respect you as a journalist you're one of my favorites you just have a bad source here because we're not considering adding batons into this universe so we will probably wind up having two batmen somewhere along the way in the dcu but i like this i i was really trying to when he didn't come out and say this was untrue when this was just out there as a rumor i was trying to picture how you could mesh the two together and i was like we know peacemaker is going to exist right like that's going to be a thing going

forward it makes sense that being the same exact universe as the dcu we saw in the batman feels weird it doesn't feel like it's necessarily connected i can't imagine those butterflies going into fucking someone's nose in that movie like so i was really trying to like sell myself on it and go maybe they could do a soft reboot type that but i don't want them to soft reboot it. I want Matt Reeves to have his own playground in that Gotham and do some dark twisted shit. Like he did in the first one. Like I enjoy the separation.

So I'm glad that James Gunn came out and debunked this rumor. I kind of want to just to have one Batman. Cause I have a simple brain and there's enough fucking, uh, universes and stuff as we're going to get into as well in some of the Marvel news. Which I guess if you think like the Marvel, there was kind of an MCEU when you kind of just had Spider-Man living on his own, right? And then Sony Island and then the fucking X-Men living in 20th Century Fox once upon a time. Oh, my God.

It is nice to thought of everything being pretty much united and you can just have characters go in and out but then it's like there is something unique that when you're the batman and i'm not talking about the batman as in the matt reese movie i'm talking about the batman and now it's gonna be the batmen it's just it feels weird and but this is coming from an outside i'll let you guys go with your thing i was very excited about the thought of this just being one. And why can't we just, like you said, it will feel weird having this dark brooding.

Battenson guy in the same universe as peacemaker. But it's like, I guess we're just going to have to live with that Batman. You don't want to kind of change Matt Reeves vision of the entire trilogy or whatever he's working on there. However, I don't know. I just like having

just one because you can't they can't have dc without batman like batman is as important as would you say who's more important in your mind them nailing batman or superman in this dc universe right now it's superman i think i think i think batman has been nailed so many times and someone just nailed batman yeah so it's like right now and i think james gunn even said he's like superman is our number one priority at this point like make sure we have a great superman because i really like man of steel i also like superman returns don't love it but we don't have a modern superman movie that we could point to like we could point to the original christopher reeve like yeah, that is like status Superman. You know what I mean?

And Henry Cavill is a great Superman, but he doesn't have a great, great, great Superman movie that everyone's united on loving. If, if it wasn't for the, you know, destroying Metropolis and snapping Zod's neck at the end of man of steel,

it'd be a much better movie. Destroying Metropolis is a tough look. Yeah. Yep. That's the whole city, you know? And you just, again, you're comparing universes i've seen marvel you know hit a home run with an iron man movie i've seen them hit home run with a captain america movie even thor found his way through time

fucking get captain superman done and i realize i'm yelling at james gunn i take back the yell i take back any kind of emotion in my voice. James, can't wait to see you nail Superman. I don't know why I keep going Captain America. Can't wait to see you nail Superman. And also, shout out James Gunn for debunking it on Twitter right before we went live, because we were proud I've had a whole entire conversation that would have instantly been like,

stop record button. Well, throw that in the fucking paper shredder. Yeah. Golden Globe nominations came out and just a few i thought i'd mention house of the dragon tons of nominations as you would expect one who didn't get a nomination is king viserys himself patty constantina i know that's the one guy you start with him and then you go to everyone work down yeah it's like oh you work at barstool it's like yeah it's like, and you're like, yeah, you know, I met Dave the other day.

It's like, wait, who's Dave Portnoy? It's like, you don't know Dave? He kind of is like the guy who this all started. How did fucking King Vizzy? He was a big snub, I thought. He's the snub. I am flabbergasted. I don't know my Golden Globe nominees.

I don't know everyone who's out there. I'm sure there's probably a lot of great choices. I just don't understand how you don't – like – I apologize. I apologize. Yeah, you broke my brain live on the pod. Angela Bassett did get nominated for Black Panther, Wakanda Forever. And Diego Luna, our boy, got nominated nominated for Endor which I was very happy

to see okay okay good uh those were kind of the the basement related nerd circus didn't make it huh he did not know ah bummer bummer unfortunately not I'm too mad about King Vizzy getting stubbed and I can't even put my anger towards that right now I was also very happy to see Daniel Craig get nominated for Glass Onion which will be hitting Netflix think, like next week or the week after 23rd. Okay, so, well, that's big news for the podcast because my wife and I were going to try to go to the movies. We just knew that wasn't going to happen with kids. Then everyone has, everyone I've known, a little quick aside here, everybody I know has gotten sick in the last month. It's like family, friends, coworkers.

If you look at the NFL, all the fucking NFL lists are filled with, like, illness. And it's not – You're like, oh, my favorite NFL players. Everybody's fucking – I said the other day, if you didn't get sick in the last month, you have the greatest – you have a 99 overall immune system. It's crazy. And it's flu. It's COVID. It's RSV.

It's stomach shit. It's just nonsense. So that's just a quick little aside there. What was I or even talk about? I apologize, but we were talking about Golden Globe nominations, but you're fired up. You got your brain broken. So let me give you a news item that's going to bring you back up and rejuvenate you. Iron Man has been added to the National Film Registry. This is being recognized as a piece of history essentially now. And also, I thought this was worth bringing up.

Jonathan Majors, our new Kang, was asked about his favorite MCU films. And he said Iron Man is his favorite, followed by Black Panther and Endgame. So when I saw that quote from Jonathan Majors, i'll start with that one first i was like fuck yeah like kang's an iron man guy we're on the same side here and i'm like it's kind of problematic considering i'm a t guy the t man t man also killed my guy the iron man so there's a lot of there's a lot of emotions so that is like and then black panther and then infinity war and then i'm like wait a minute why don't you have endgame on the list then jonathan no it is endgame it's black panther and endgame i'm sorry he said endgame and then i'm like how did you not say infinity war like come on dude that's fucking that may be the best movie out of all of these

uh but it does make sense and for all the uh joking we've had over the years between the cat versus iron man um matchup it it's crazy to think that this entire thing started with that iron man movie i still remember seeing it in the theater and uh was so jazzed up about it and never thought in a million years it would actually lead to this and i also can't believe iron man was cool iron man was like again he was just kind of whatever in the comic books maybe i was young some of his humor went over my head the playboy stuff or whatever was in there but i i feel like man that's that's a fucking huge piece of history so i'm sure james cameron's gonna cry and fucking stomp his feet and all that kind of stuff speaking of people getting sick james cameron's sick oh yeah exactly

couldn't attend the premiere of avatar good luck trying to go to fucking avatar for three hours with your fucking uh between your bladder and covid 19 so oh and that's what i was gonna say i had no idea my wife and i were gonna go see the movies but everyone got sick in the house including us i couldn't go see glass onion in the movie theater yeah i was like oh i'm just gonna go watch it on netflix probably this week good thing bob fox told me i have until i have to now wait to the 23rd perfect christmas break movie could not wait to see it and you said daniel craig got nominated so that's awesome he's awesome in it too. Do you think we get another MCU movie into the archives?

Yeah, I bet. I bet end game will go. Cause end game was at one point, the highest grossing movie of all time. That's true. So I bet that, that enough is worthy of that's history,

right? Until a little bitch boy put his fucking blue Po paul cojones movie back out there to take back the title and i you know what sucks too i know i'm gonna love that i'm talking to him seeing the reviews for it i'm like fuck i'm gonna love this movie yeah and did you see what cameron said too he's like if you go to the bathroom don't like they said uh james what do you think about the people that are gonna miss scenes when they go to the bathroom it's like it's okay they're gonna come back and they can watch it again when they come the second time. Like, oh, you're such a smug prick.

And Stu Feiner was throwing out shit about basically. If you're an Avatar fan, you're a virgin. Having Stu Feiner. It's like, it's like James Cameron's like, I have all these special effects, 3D things that'll bring me. And we have a Stu. He's just our Hulk. That just comes out of nowhere.

His quotes, just every day there's a new James Cameron quote where I'm like, this guy's coming off like a douchebag. He had one where he said the studio gave him zero notes about the script for Avatar 4. Not 3, not the sequel. 4. Their only note was, holy fuck. Which, like, dude, shut up. Just shut shut up do you think there's a chance he's just trolling us like i feel like i'm falling i'm falling this is how i when i see other people fall into dave's traps with like remember the union stuff and they were always like whoever's most

recently the justin gaethje stuff like oh my god it's all it's this you know it's a circle times a flat circle so i'm like trying to think do i do I ignore James Cameron or do I like fight this war? Well, I'll follow your lead, Bob. I think we're getting got to some level, but he's triggering me. He's, he's successfully triggering me. I'm triggered. Look at this face. This looks like a guy that gets triggered.

I know. I know. And like you said, we're going to go see it. I mean, fuck next week in the basement, we might just do like a review of it all. And we're going to be like, that shit was fucking awesome. So probably will be. God damn going to go see it. I mean, fuck next week in the basement, we might just do like a review of it all. And we're going to be like, that shit was fucking awesome. So probably will be. God damn it.

God damn it. I also just wanted to mention, cause we were talking about Iron Man, Robert Downey Jr. We get our first look at him in Oppenheimer this week. The new Christopher Nolan movie looks completely different. Just like he looks like an old man. He's bald.

Basically. He's got almost like the Dr. Phil, the hair on the sides uh but that's one of my most anticipated movies for 2023 is the new christopher nolan oppenheimer i haven't seen is that the one where he did the nuke he remade the nuke which is just a banana story nolan said yeah he recreated the first nuclear test without cgi he nuked something hubs blogged and he's like what like this guy just has yes men around him like yeah do that man like what are you what are we doing right now no i remember i think for dunker he dropped like the most expensive imax camera ever made out of a plane into the

ocean for a shot what a fucking maniac i'll again i love him though yeah i was gonna say this this podcast could go right back to the dark Knight if we don't watch ourselves. I will say this, too. I think I'm going to take Sienna to Avatar. I don't like how I have to see it. I was going to say Oppenheimer. Yeah, going to take her to see Oppenheimer. And I think I have to do it at the legit IMAX and, like, blow her brain, you know?

You can do it in 3D, too.'s going to do it in 3d too. I'm like, Oh yeah. 3d movies. But I guess if you're doing it, if you're when in Rome, that's the only way I will not watch an avatar movie unless it's 3d IMAX. And I'm not talking about LIMAX where it's on the regular size movie screen.

I'm talking about shit. That's aquarium size. Yeah. And I, that I almost went on a rant last episode about this. I fucking hate those fake imax theories when you show up and then you're like where's the imax it's like you're shitting it's like no this is a regular fucking movie don't give me the technology people like jeff

jeff d lowe has to be on our side of this oh yeah right he hates limax okay i fucking despise and if you don't know there's only like a couple of not a couple, but there's a very finite amount of real IMAX screens in the country. They're like you could Google it. There's a real list out there. But like ninety nine percent of IMAX screens out there. Fake, fake, fake, fake, the old lane, fake, fake, fake, fake, fake, fake, fake, fake. I man, I fucking and I got spoiled. I grew up with aquariums and you go and you see I you'd see IMAX, and you'd be in, like, a fucking, I feel like a stadium.

So it's going to be such a good goddamn movie. Fuck you, James Cameron, for doing this to us. Deadpool 3 starts filming in May, and there's lots of rumors about the TVA being highly involved in this one. We've heard rumors of Owen Wilson for prizing his role as Mobius, not Morbius, you know, not to be confused with Morbius.

But this could be playing off the ending of Deadpool 2 where he goes back into the timeline and he, you know, kills the original Deadpool and makes all those changes. He could be making time infractions and the TVA is going to be basically going against Deadpool as he kills the Fox universe. That's the concept that people are saying that this movie might be based on. That sounds amazing to me. That sounds like the best like concept you could have. I love this. It's kind of like a art life imitates art where it's like this timeline we're in where Deadpool is now in the middle of this multi-universe storyline of the MCU. He just happened to be coming in now.

It's fucking great. And a road trip movie, they said. Yeah, yeah. And was it Ryan Reynolds tweeted at Miss Minutes or someone like that? I think that's where this all, like, really got its footing. And there's a lot of shit that I forgot all about when I started reading all these rumors in the TVA and stuff like that. So there's a lot of fun. All right.

Has Owen Wilson ever been in a movie with Ryan Reynolds off the top of your head? Off the top of my head? I want to say no. Is there like a six degrees of Kevin Baker we can figure this out? No doubt. There absolutely is. Because I feel like that's just a good – Ryan Reynolds is such a good actor. Right? And I do feel like...

You know who else is too? Jake Gyllenhaal. That guy doesn't get enough credit for being one of the best actors of our time. I just watched Prisoners. Have you seen Prisoners? No, I've never seen it. Holy shit, Clem. This movie is unreal.

It's him, Hugh Jackman, so it's Mysterio, Wolverine. They've got fucking Amandaanda waller they've got the original roadie terrence howard they've got uh paul dano the riddler okay superheroes all over the place but oh my god if you haven't seen prisoners must watch it's on netflix all right i'm gonna check that out and by the way for the record, never been in a same. They have two is their Kevin Bacon thing. Owen Wilson was at Secret Headquarters with Michael Pena. He was Luis in Ant-Man. And they were in Turbo together with Ryan Reynolds.

So I think that would be a good combo, Owen Wilson, Ryan Reynolds on the big screen. So we'll see what they have for us. But Deadpool is going to be – I'm sure we'll do like a preview in a few weeks for 2023. That's easily in my top three. I think I said this a few weeks ago on the pod. Definitely in my top three. That's not 2023 though, unfortunately. Oh, that's right.

That's right. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That one we're going to have to wait a while for. And the final news item I had, we have our first look at Joker 2. It's a picture of Joaquin Phoenix, not in the Joker paint, just getting shaved. This could have been an outtake from Joker 1. Like, this got put out, people got excited, I get it, whatever.

This did not excite me. I was like, that looks like a picture from the first one. This will not be a Joker anything Stan podcast anytime soon. I still only basically acknowledge Heath Ledger as my Joker. Hashtag not my Joker. That's our hashtag for this episode. Hashtag not my Joker. So that's the news for this week.

But the biggest news item in the nerd world was actually a trailer that got released for Across the Spider-Verse. The sequel to Into the Spider-Verse. One of the most critically acclaimed superhero movies, maybe of all time, honestly. And I think deservedly so. I blogged it. I said it has everything you would ever want in a superhero movie. The humor, the gorgeous animation, the amazingly likable characters, the simple but very full of heart story, the villains, Kingpin and the Prowler, were both phenomenal in that

movie. And this one is going to be even bigger and badder. Six different universes they're going across, 240 characters in that movie and this one is going to be even bigger and badder six different universes they're going across 240 characters in the movie this is the largest crew ever assembled for an animated film and the trailer looks really cool it looks gorgeous like the last one tons of spider-man we saw like the ps1 spider-man the insomniac Spider-Man, the Bombastic Bagman, tons of random Spider-Man, the Ultimate Spider-Man, every Spider-Man you could imagine. And we see, most importantly, Spider-Man 2099, a.k.a. Oscar Isaac's Spider-Man. And Jessica Drew, the first black pregnant Spider-Man.

And I'm sure the internet reacted to that very rationally, you know. But I think this looks awesome. I said, I'm going to be slinging webs all over the theater in June. Yeah, this movie was a big deal at the Costa de Club because the kids liked it so much. I liked it too.

I liked the humor of it all. I liked the spider pig or whatever his name was. Peter Porker. So fucking good. And again, I appreciated the humor when they're making fun of the old Tobey Maguire stuff or the, how the fucking ice pops never looked right. They were all like,

you know, disfigured and shit like that. So this is, this has an opportunity to be awesome. Again, you're more of the sport of the Spider-Man guy at this podcast as well. So I feel like there's a lot of different Spider-Men you're going to know that are going to be you'll be very excited about with those characters are we getting a ton of the villains too do you think we're getting like oh

i didn't think about that you know what probably not if i had to guess i would say probably not because no way home did that yeah that that that's where i was gonna go to next and is it weird that we just never got six people that were sinister like the sinister six yeah we got the five yeah that's that's like still bugging me all these uh it's like a 99 loaded and you're like come on i think there's a villain called like the dot or something in this one and he might be a new villain i'm not sure but he's done something to piss off all of the spider-man in the multiverse because that one shot at the end where they're all running towards him everyone's quote tweeting and saying what the hell did this guy do to make every spider-man in the entire galaxy come after him but there are

rumors of like the toby spider-man the tom holland spider-man all of them even possibly making appearances i don't know how that would happen. You just animate characters to really look like them. Or do you do something where it's like a Roger Rabbit human drops down into an animated universe? Like, I don't know. But I'm really excited about that. And the Spider-Man that I'm actually the most excited to see in this movie was absent from the trailer. It's punk who is a british spider-man that plays guitar in a rock and roll band and he's got like a mohawk and everything he wears a denim vest badass he's from the spider-man comics i think he debuted in like 2015 and then they brought him into the ps4 spider-man video game and he's one that i play as constantly just

because it's like so up my alley so i'm very excited to see him as well he's going to be played by daniel kalua who is the star in get out he was in nope very great actor some of the uh different spider-men from video games over the years i could definitely be very happy seeing them in there as well spider pig from the simpsons trying to think of what other kind of spiders we have out there spider pig yeah that'd be really funny. Now I'm going to say this, and I'm preaching to the choir right here too, because this is coming from someone that has a little special place in my heart because my kids liked it so much,

and I really liked it. There is a part of me that's like, don't fuck up what you have right now. You crushed the first one so well. And I thought this before Infinity War too. When you're taking in a lot of new characters that have never been together before, it can be like just wash out.

And I really don't want that to happen here. So I am concerned about that. So that's kind of my one concern heading into this. But if they crush it the first time, there's no reason they can't crush it the second time. Yeah. And I do hold the first one to such a high bar that I said in the blog, I don't know how this one could possibly hit it But I'm there for them trying I'm definitely there for it

And you gotta have a good soundtrack too Because the first one had such a good soundtrack We got the Post Malone song Somehow Sunflower became like my kids go-to song For like a year and a half I don't know how it did They just fucking loved it So that just brings me right back there

It's got an all-time Biggie drop in it too Oh that's right They do have the biggie drops. There's so much fun, cool shit in there. I believe you said that's your favorite Spider-Man movie ever. Is that correct? It's really, like, it's up there. It's that, No Way Home is up there at this point, and then Spider-Man 2.

It's in the rotation. Those things can change. No doubt it's in the rotation. I think it's the most rewatchable. Like, it's the one that I've thrown on to have on the background like the most by far and the humor and it holds up so well it's a line that i've brought up multiple times on this podcast but kingpin in the beginning when he just hears miles run away and he goes kill that guy cracks me up the way he just says it's so ruthless so quick when they throw a bagel at someone leaving the facility and it hits them in the head, it just says bagel above his head.

All of that kind of stuff. It's so great. So I'm looking forward to across the spider verse. That is one that we will get in 2023 that comes out in June. I can't. And I had no idea it was coming out that quick. I did you know that the trailer was coming? No, it kind of snuck up on us. I didn't. Yeah. It hit me right in the face it was that the guardians when i didn't realize it was going to be coming so uh i guess i should learn to respect it i guess it makes sense i imagine for the christmas movies they want to have these things

running in the theaters right so i guess no to the basement boys in 2023 some cool shit's coming boys if it hasn't come out yet it's coming this week and i remember seeing the teaser for into the spider-verse the very first time. I remember it like it was yesterday. In the movie theater, seeing the teaser for it and being like, they're going to give an animated Spider-Man movie a theatrical release? Like in the year of our Lord? What are they doing?

And then going to see it and being like, all right, I'm fucking in love with all of these characters. And they're the best, most likable characters I've ever seen. Yeah, and adding the fact that Sony wasn't known for Cr for crushing the spider man as of late at that point too so uh yeah and the stan lee cameo too where he's like anyone can wear the mask because it's one size fits all and reshowing that in this trailer brilliant like reshowing all the moments from the first one reminding everyone how great the first one was good move yeah and i will say this is in terms of the kids excitement right behind guardians 3 because we watched it sienna was jazzed up

and then she goes dad i want to go watch the guardians 3 trailer again oh shit i forget every time i i watch it i forget space hog in the meantime is that i'm like oh yes this is awesome and then i start like crying inside because i know all my friends are gonna die and then another trailer that snuck up on us especially because i don't think we had even heard of this being a movie in production a movie existing it's a movie called 65 and i wanted to bring it up on the podcast because it stars adam driver our sweet prince kylo ren ben solo and it looks really fucking good it's a sci-fi movie that's getting a theatrical release. That's very unique concept from Sam Raimi, producer Sam Raimi. He didn't direct or write or anything like that.

But it looks almost like Planet of the Apes-ish in that we have an astronaut. It looks like it's the future. He crash lands on a planet. It's like some aliens around here. You realize they're not aliens. They're dinosaurs. And we're not in the future. We're 65 million years in the past, and this is Earth. And I think it looks like Turok,

if Turok was a movie. That's a reference that maybe some of the younger people that listen to this podcast won't get, but that was a game that I grew up with on my brother's hand-me-down Sega. I think this might be a movie we have to talk about on the basement when it comes out. So first of all, thank you for that Turok. I wouldn't even play Turok, but that is my generation right there. But my old soul,

Bob Fox, shout out Mike Fox for, you know, giving you the classics at that age. The first thing I thought of when I saw it. And if you rewatch it, watch it again. Cause you see the little like spine,

like go in the water. Yeah. I'm like, yo, this is Dagobah. We're the Dagobah system right here. Watch it again. And if you, if you watch it until you see the t-rex show up you're like holy shit there he just landed in yoda's house is somewhere in this fucking in this place uh i like this for

one reason it's doing one thing it's telling jurassic park hey dickheads you had a hundred swings at this fucking thing, and you couldn't fucking recreate, dude, we are almost, we are basically a year away from, I don't know, fuck, is it next year, it's 30, Jurassic Park will be 30 next year, is that right? This year, this year, 93. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, so, like, yeah, in a couple weeks, it's gonna be 30 years old, and there's been one great Jurassic Park park movie at least in my humble opinion and listen this is the one that every time i saw a jurassic park trailer i got hyped as fuck i couldn't wait i read i think i read the lost world like i read the second movie of jurassic park

before it came out because i was so excited for it but after the last jurassic park not the one that just came out the one before that jurassic world where they're like buying dinosaurs at like an auction like uh some like weird underground auction i was like i'm out i'm out on this they've lost the like the card of being the only dinosaur franchise it's now public domain i want everyone making dinosaur movies i've said this for so fucking long it was like one of the first things i would blog to arsenal i could just watch a movie where it's a jurassic park where it's a zoo of dinosaurs And nothing bad happens It's just you're going from one place to the other And the dinosaurs are just there

And you're just watching people pet them I could watch dinosaurs all day long Adam Driver happy it's like I don't have to deal with Him ruining Star Wars universes Don't see him on the big screen anymore I could not be more I can be more excited for this movie that I didn't even know was existing But I'm happy that they just fucking basically they did that old meme where they took the chain

off of fucking jurassic park you're no longer the fucking only dinosaur movie making franchise out there because i mean there might have been is there any other dinosaur franchises or movies that we know of land before time yeah i'm talking like recently though it's like the real like yeah like the animatronic the cgi kind of things no right so it's like recently though it's like the real like yeah like the animatronic the cgi kind of things no right so it's like fuck it it's public domain now and king kong fights one and the peter jackson one and that's sick and that's awesome it's like it's like the coolest scene yeah we saw savage land or whatever for like a brief second dr strange you're like oh shit that would be cool if they get dinosaurs involved. Jurassic Park, you had your fucking chance.

And I know Hubs is a – I'm pretty sure Hubs is a big Jurassic Park guy. I know RDT is a Jurassic Park guy. There's no one who wants Jurassic Park to succeed more than me, but it's just gotten – I didn't even watch the last one. I was like, I'm not doing this myself. And I even saw even like all the Jurassic Park heads on Twitter were like, man. I know. I didn't see the last one.

And I'm a big Jurassic Park guy. I still haven't seen the last one. And, like, I watched the one you were on Twitter were like, man, this is tough. I know. I didn't see the last one. And I'm a big Jurassic Park guy. I still haven't seen the last one. And like I watched the one you were talking to, the auction one, the second Jurassic World. And I was like – and I think the first Jurassic World, it's not great. But I think it's good. I think it's like a totally watchable reboot. The second one is so bad. But there's something about dinosaurs in a movie where I made it through the whole thing and I was like, it was bad, but it's fine.

It was one of those like I'm not gonna ever re-watch it but for the for the two hours i had a decent time i feel like even the new one's gonna be like that even though it's bad that it's out on peacock i think i could watch it um but yeah i you know what i think they should do i thought about this while you were talking if you're doing dinosaur movies i want to see godzilla 65 million years ago and he's the reason dinosaurs are extinct because fucking godzilla got into a nuclear atomic war with all of them i could get down with that yeah i mean you don't have to go like real life kind of shit right it's like weird shit yeah yeah do weird shit. By the way, so Jurassic World Dominion, which is the one that came out this year, 29% Rotten Tomatoes. That is fucking tough.

And audience score, 77%. Jesus, I did not see that coming. So I actually, because again, I'm more of the audience score than anything else. Fallen Kingdom, which is the one that we were talking about, 47%. Audience score, 48%. So that one was just a stinker all around.

Okay. So the audience thinks at least the new one is a rebound off that. Yes. And then Jurassic world, like you said, the reboot 71% tomato, uh, 78% audience. So I feel like there's a chance to Mingan doesn't fucking stink. Maybe it's better than two, which isn't hard to do. Yeah. That's that's really bad movie.

My daughter, she loves Starler. She has a crush on him. She says it all the time. better than two which isn't hard to do yeah that's that's really bad movie my daughter she loves star lord she has a crush on him she says it all the time and i could not care less about chris pratt being in a movie i was like no i'm chris pratt and dinosaurs you should have to like chris pratt going like that the whole time yeah it's like oh i get it he could like he trains the raptors but this is just weird can we do anything else other than this? So yeah, Adam driver, congratulations. Yeah.

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to see dinosaurs live in person. Exactly. There used to be shows that traveled. I don't know if they still exist. I went to like an arena dinosaur show where it was all animatronics and shit. I can remember as if it was this. I went up to Albany, New York,

and they had the dinosaur footprints on the floor, and you'd follow them to go from place to place and it's like i remember being pretty awesome at the time yeah it was fucking mind-blowing and i like it stuck in my head like i'll never forget that weekend the rest of my life and i was pretty young at the time so uh game time is making memories for people that's why we love them i also remember this is a another random tangent but my dad worked one of those dinosaur shows as a stage hand and that's a dinosaur and yeah well the guy in the velociraptor suit was fucking with the stage hands and he would go up to the stage hands and he would fucking scare

him my dad did not he's an irish catholic like you don't know one of those guys kind of a hard ass went up to the guy who could not see through the front of the suit he could only see through the two sides walked right up to him went bah and just fucking smacked him both sides of his head did that the last time he scared him the hot ears kind of thing but just exactly his head exactly wow that is that was some move yeah that was some move now let's get into our year-end grades we did our mid-year grades months ago. I think it was four months ago, five months ago, something like that. It was a little after the mid-year point. But looking back, I gave Marvel an overall B. We did all the projects.

You could go listen to the episode. It's just a couple episodes past. And I gave DC a C-. They had two good projects up front, but then some bad moves later on. Clem, you gave DC just a couple Question marks They were just in no man's land And you gave Marvel a B as well Now we'll do year end

We'll do not just Marvel and DC But we'll throw in Star Wars and Game of Thrones as well Yeah and so At the point of the mid year We had Moon Knight, Doctor Strange of the Multiverse of Madness Ms. Marvel, Thor 11 Thunder And then like kind of the future announcements that we knew were coming out. Based on all that, you said B, I said B. DC, Peacemaker and Batman had already come out.

But then the thing that lets you go in, because Peacemaker's an A-plus for you, Batman's an A-plus for you. I'm A-plus Peacemaker, B for Batman. Then, late all their movies canceled batgirl at the flesh became an international terrorist that plummeted down to a c minus for you and again i was like i don't know like it was just question mark question mark question mark so that's where we stood as of say june july whenever we did this september so now we have the full year to kind of figure it all out

and see how we all did when it's all said and done i believe before i remember making the nfl analogy like dc let's get like uh eight and eight season out of this if this is like the old school nfl schedule stuff like that so we'll see how it all pans out when it's all said and done here where should we start here dc marvel star wars game of thrones i think we start here? DC, Marvel, Star Wars, Game of Thrones. I think we'll start with Marvel just because if we want to stay, we'll go Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Thrones. Perfect. Yeah. So Marvel, since we did that, just put out She-Hulk and Black Panther at Wakanda Forever. Just two projects.

I graded those as well. We graded all the initial projects in the first episode. For She-Hulk, going back, I gave it a B-. It's the same thing i gave moon night um people are probably going to say i'm being too lenient or i'm giving that too high a grade because i know a lot of she hulk haters exist out there it's not a show that i can picture myself going back and re-watching but it was a show that i enjoyed at the time and especially like that last episode the first episode it had a lot of great moments and

i had a lot of great comedy uh especially so i gave that a b minus and i gave black panther wakanda forever an a wasn't quite that peacemaker batman a plus for me but i i really did think this was probably marvel's strongest showing of the year yeah uh it kind of it's kind of crazy looking back that the three movies that came out were Doctor Strange, Thor, and Black Panther. Those are some pretty heavy hitters for the characters that we have currently existing in the MCU. I don't even remember what I gave. I don't know if we actually gave letters for, or I'm trying to think of the fast food and stuff we gave for S.H.I.E.L.D. and Black Panther. But I marvel as a B beforehand with those included.

I don't think it really bumped it up to a B plus or down to a B minus. I think we're just very happily B. Again, we probably like She-Hulk more than a good chunk of people. And Black Panther was good. We were happy with it, right? I have it the same. I have them stuck at a B, which is you know it wasn't their most amazing year we didn't have projects left and right where we were like thank god kevin feige exists on this earth it was just a year

where a lot of stuff we were like all right that was really good or that was a little under our expectations maybe where we weren't the audience for that yeah i mean that was miss marvel c plus for both of us here i'm looking at the at the sheet right here um and that's also why i gave she hulk a b minus because i did think it was better than miss marvel and i gave that a c plus so just you know a little bit ahead of that miss mar again shadow she hulk just for being that half hour long or whatever it was I might even have given I might give it a B But it is not a curve It's like you're on the curve because it's like Marvel

In my eyes I always kind of like give it a glow up And I'm like I do love it But then when I'm like this next year Should be so much better than 2022 Was so it's like at the same Point it's like am I being almost too lenient But it's like whatever B It's the good kid in class Marvel's the good kid in class he doesn't fucking talk when you're trying to teach the class

he gets all his shit done on time and occasionally he blows your fucking mind i was talking to my wife the other day and she's like when did um endgame come out because everyone's brains are broken with time like that was 2019 she's like no it wasn't was i was like yeah she's like oh yeah that's right we saw in the movie theater i'm like babe if i had fucking watched endgame in like my house instead of in a theater it would have been such a different experience right like completely that example we would have been like imagine what the theater would be like there yeah that would be horrible i got goosebumps just thinking about the youtube of all the different like reactions and shit like that so uh i think we're going to get more of the same hopefully 23 24 25 in the future so there you go marvel is a b moving on to dc they released

black adam since our last podcast then they also went and hired james scone and peter saffron as co-ceos also we mentioned the flesh becoming an international terrorist last time he's been on his best behavior since our last episode. That helps. If we're bringing that up last time, let's bring it up this time. He's not a good guy. We're not praising him in any way,

but he has not gone down any, uh, at least like horrible newsworthy rabbit holes since our last one. So for black Adam, I gave that a B minus. It was a totally fine superhero movie totally enjoyable i think that was another one that we probably enjoyed maybe more than most people but maybe not because i saw a lot of people that enjoyed black adam as well the rock is going back and

forth with the studio now or whether or not that made money i don't know i don't really give a fuck to be honest did you see that line where they said people at DC think that the rock, you know, made up some stuff. I go, it doesn't matter what you think. It's a fucking rock. Who cares?

And then for hiring James gun and Peter Safran as co-CEOs, that move, if I'm grading, that is an eight plus that's everything we asked for. We might ask for the last fucking podcast. We did like, we were so behind dc doing this that you have to give them an a plus so i i had initially had given them a c minus

black adam b minus that's got to bring it up a little bit hiring james gunn and peter saffron a plus that's their third a plus of the year like peacemaker and the batman this might be a hot take i think you're better than anything marvel put out this year so i gotta be completely honest going in looking at expectations for dc and then how they outperformed them i'm giving dc a b plus on the year so i'm just trying to do like the the numbers in my head right now because again i'm going off of at least with marvel i Marvel, I had the B grade. I just have three question marks. I look at this at the piece of paper from over the summer.

And it's like, if it delayed all their movies, that was a C is what you gave it. Well, we can kind of just like cross it off. It's like, whatever I'd rather know. I guess black Adam got delayed,

but it came out. Right. And I think, I guess I'd give it a, if I'm grading on a curve is like it could be a b if i want to just say popcorn movie turn off your brain we both liked it if you go back to the reviews i guess you go as low as low as a b minus i don't think anything worse than that uh cancel batgirl as of now i don't give a fuck about that because james gunn is going to cancel

a shitload of stuff right and then you you said The Flash is on his best behavior. Let me go on Twitter real quick and see if there's any news about The Flash. Yeah, just type in his name. Type in Ezra Miller. See what comes up. Is it like giving babies bottles of bleach, or is it like has a new poster for The Flash? Oh, breaking news.

France is up 1-0 in the World Cup right now. It's the first thing I saw when I went to Twitter. Oh, uh, at milky tweets. What's Ezra Miller been up to lately? That's the first result I got. So the fact that that was a question,

21 hours ago. Yeah, that's a good sign. We've done it. Okay. So thumbs up. I don't know. It's now the flesh became an international terrorist is now the flesh is no

longer an international terrorist. now the flesh is no longer an international terrorist maybe maybe that's the best of our knowledge yeah we're not there's still things that can be done that can come out after the podcast is over yeah it's tough man all right so this is what i'm gonna do i have a plus for peacemaker i have a B for the Batman And I have James Gunn It's like a star I'm giving a star I don't even know what you're giving

A plus plus plus plus We were begging for this for basically Since I think he got suspended by Marvel Like he should just go to DC and take over that shit And become their Feige I'm gonna give DC for the 2022 Their 2022 I don't want to say it's a B plus You said B plus DC for the 2022, their 2022.

I don't want to say it's a B plus. You said B plus. I said B plus, and I don't even know if I'm grading it against Marvel or against the expectations I had for DC. So like when I said, Marvel is a good kid in class and he would show up, DC was like the asshole in class. He's like the bully.

He's basically Nelson Munson. You just expect nothing of him. And then all of a sudden it's sudden it's like wait that was like did you copy this thesis paper for someone that's what peacemaker is like where the to get that from and then the guy who wrote that paper is also the guy in charge of your old studio now the batman i said b i don't have like the same love in my heart for the batman as a lot of other people which is fine i almost okay this is what i'm gonna do i'm gonna drink great on a curve i'm gonna be nice here and i'm gonna give them an a for the Batman as a lot of other people, which is fine. I almost, okay, this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to grade on a curve. I'm going to be nicer.

And I'm going to give them an A for this year. Wow. But not only, I can't give an A plus. I can't do that. No. I think that's crazy. That's fair. I'm going to give the happy face sticker.

Okay. Okay. So I'm giving the happy face sticker. Great improvement you're writing or something. Yes. Great. Okay Okay that's what it is B plus I'm going back to B plus like you But I'm going to say Great work in red which you know you got that Great work when the teacher gave it to you

And then I'm giving the happy face sticker I could give a star but James Gunn Gets the gold star sticker I'm getting the happy face sticker And it's scratch and sniff. And it smells like. You're trying to motivate the student for the next marking period. Like, hey, you're doing some great work here.

Stay on this path. Yes, exactly. So it's like the NFL analogy. Did they finish with. I mean, I don't even know. Like, did they finish with an 8-8 record? It's like they played three games this year and they like they won every game like 42 to 10 and then they want to

but it's like but they also hired like bill bellichick didn't put out any bad movies this year that's that is an unbelievable year for dc oh my god this is and some people would say they did with black adam, but I disagree. I don't think that's a bad movie. I think that's a totally fun movie at worst. I'd say so a plus B for Batman. I'll give, if I, all right, the Batman versus black Adam, I can't say they're the same. So I'll say B minus black Adam. I think that's fair, but I'm starting to feel like I'm the whole like a Gordon Ramsey meme where it's like, Oh, that's so cute. Like I'm treating them with like kid gloves and I'm just slapping the shit out of

Everyone else uh but I think I think we're being fair here right Yeah this is this is a troubled kid Who has like you said a couple Thesis papers where we're like okay But the potential is here like We see and he just hired Albert Einstein As his tutor yeah like all right

This kid this kid knows what he's doing however 2023 you Come in and you start giving me that old garbage you were As his tutor Yeah Like alright This kid This kid knows what he's doing However 2023 You come in And you start giving me That old garbage You were giving me in 21 20, 19, 8 It's like

No The curve is gonna start going The other way Like we're on our last straw See me after class stuff Yeah yeah yeah exactly Mr. Fox and Mr. Clemson Say see me after class

Alright Star Wars We had Book of Boba Fett Which started December 29th of last year, so we're going to count it towards this year. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tales of the Jedi, and Andor. Book of Boba Fett, I'm starting off with a B-,

which some people may say is, again, maybe too nice, but there were a lot of great moments in that show I want to remind people of. The actual Sarlacc escape. The train heist with the Tuscans. Him going into Tosche Station, seeing Luke's old friends, and fucking up that gang for messing with them. Him mowing down that gang from the Slave I. There were a lot of him riding the Rancor in the end. A lot of great moments.

Cad Bane. The fucking Mandalorian stuff. I know that was its own show, but that was in Book of Boba Fett. So I'm going to give Book of Boba Fett a B. Wow! I know I said B-, but I'm going to go B. I just convinced myself B. Okay.

I'm going to give it... I'm going to give C+. Because the Mando stuff brought it up A good amount So I'm gonna say C plus for Book of Boba Fett I'm gonna say It's tough

I'm going B minus Obi-Wan Kenobi I thought it was just a little below Book of Boba in terms of the enjoyment I got out of it Every time I'm like I got out of it. Every time I'm like, or I'm going to give it this, give it that. And then I remember the spy kids.

I remember the Leia chase scenes. Yeah. All right. C plus for Book of Boba Fett. Cause the fucking Mando stuff was awesome. The Mando stuff are some of the best Mando episodes, including all the Mando, like his actual series.

I don't think I give Book of Boba Fett a B minus cause i was so bummed c plus for book of boba fett c for obi-wan i did you sent me um oh no some what did it was it you or some no i saw it on reddit there was the uh picture of when they cut his vader's face uh mask off and i was oh, that was fucking sick. The Vader stuff was so cool, but there's nothing else. They did nail Vader. And then we lost, what was the name of the guy that we lost? And they were like, they were so devastated by his name. I don't even remember his name.

Ice Cube's kid. We're going to call him Neil. Neil, I can't believe we lost Neil. Ice Cube's kid was like, nope, there's no way I can actually join the Rebellion. He's like, please. Okay, I got you. Have all my ships.

I'm ready to die for you. Yep. Oh. Yeah, no. This is going to drop to like a D. Let's rebound here. Tales of the Jedi. I went A.

For what they were going for, I was like, that was pretty perfect. 15-minute episodes. Again, it wasn't this masterpiece of a two-and-a-half-hour film or whatever, but it was just little 15-minute episodes. The Dooku ones were amazing. Would have given it an A-plus if the Ahsoka ones were as good as the Dooku ones. And then for Andor, I went A-plus. I was, like, blown away by Andor as we were every week.

We compared it to the Mandalorian. So I feel like if you're given those comparisons, Andor was the dark horse of the year. You looked at all four of these shows pre-2022, and you probably said, Andor, I'm looking forward to the least, or maybe Tales of the Jedi, but you compare those two. This was far and away the best Star Wars show of the year. Yes.

Andor, I think I had said it when we were wrapping up. I was like, oh man, this might be tough to do a recap for. And by the end, I was looking forward to every episode. I'll give it an A. I can't give it an A plus because again, I think it's like the thrones of Star Wars, but I don't think I ever had the same feeling

in my stomach for it as I do for thrones, but it was fucking awesome. I mean, I'm still mad that our boy Circus didn't get a nomination in the Golden Globes. Tales of the Jedi, I guess I'll give it an A- just because it's a cartoon, and I feel like with cartoons you can almost be, you almost get like a little advantage where you can be even better than not having to deal with some of the live action shit,

but I liked it a lot. So I don't know what that is altogether. Just like gut, I'm giving the year for Star Wars a B-. Because I do think the lows were low. I think Andor C, like Andor did. If Andor came out first and we ended the way we started, I think I'd have a much worse feeling in my stomach about it all. But Andor did a lot of stuff.

If I was writing something on the paper, I'd be like, is everything all right at home? Because I've seen so much good for me this year and i saw so much bad for me this year it's like is there something going on do i have to like call i have a i have a b overall same as i had for marvel okay i'm kind of just i had a b minus b or a b minus b a a plus i remember being like mad by the end of some of those boba fett and obi-wan things because B minus B, or B minus B, A, A plus. I remember being, like, mad by the end of some of those Boba Fett and Obi-Wan things. Because, again, I feel like we were like, all right, this is going to pay off. The fucking back to take.

God damn it, the flashback thing. We went back there so much. Oh, my God. Yeah. And then Andor teased us with the little flashback of him as a kid. And then that kind of just, like, they were like, we're like we're leaving that might have been like they filmed three flashbacks and then hookah bowl effect came out and they were like stop with the flashback stop stop stop no no no no i remember saying that i was like listen guys if you have all these flashback things like just just cut them

right now because we're going to lose our mind you guys can't do this anymore they just cut away to a still shot of baby yoda for like four. We're like, but it distracts us. We're like, that's fine. It's baby. And we are getting the Mandalorian March 1st. That's the official date for the Mandalorian season three, bad batch,

January 4th, Mandalorian March 1st. So our, well, I'll probably have a preview at some point for the 2023 season of nerd stuff. And that is going to play big in the star wars world is those two and then house of the dragon this isn't something where we have a you know a game of thrones universe where

we could judge this project this project this project and this project the game of thrones is back we talked about it mid-year where we said i think this is going to bring people back into game of thrones i think this is going to be a good show kind of nailed that one clem tell him robbie tell him tell him from the fucking rooftops because we would have gotten killed if we were on no no everyone's pretty nice in the basement they wouldn't have said anything but if we're looking at shows for the year I gave Peacemaker an A plus I gave Andor an A plus I would give House of the Dragon an A plus as well it would be these three shows and then maybe like severance as like the shows that I thought were truly the best shows of the year. Uh,

I'm going to say an a, uh, I'd lump stranger things in with it too. Cause that was this year. I forgot about that. Yeah. And wait, was the,

Oh God damn it, Bob. I can't even ask you the last, the next universe, the boys, that gets an a as well. Cause you didn't because you still haven't watched it yet, huh? I'm telling you. Bob, listen.

One of the very few perks. I shouldn't say very few. One of the nicest perks here at Barstool is that we get off a week of Christmas. Yeah. Now, off at Barstool doesn't mean anything. I'd basically be working just as hard, if not harder, because less people are working. So I'll be doing stuff with the blog and shit like that however i'm just gonna politely ask you if you can find a few hours with lady fox to watch it's like 10 episodes we're gonna do it okay thank you

we're gonna do it it's all i promise i'll give i'll give the boys an a individually i don't even remember much about season three because i binged it all at once but everything was in fuck it an a plus everything is so fucking good uh a for game of thrones we called it it feels good to be right it was good for the the basement it's gonna probably help keeps the lights on a little longer i don't know i guess it comes back in 24 which is a real bummer yeah and all this um but just i i think about just as much our podcast everyone's showing up like a goddamn asshole dressed up nick hamilton completely blowing us out of the water. I mean, I still got intro. Over here, like this wig.

Like, what is that even? I have my stuff right here. I got my George R. R. Martin beard right there. So it was awesome. It gives me hope for the future of Thrones. I go on like the Reddits and stuff. There's some good memes, some good discussion going on and stuff like that. So I'm very happy. It feels like we, we steered out of the skid whenever you get in that skid and your heart jumps, but now it's like, I feel like we are,

we're in smooth sailing the plane. There's no more turbulence right now. Everything is fine. Would you say, all right, would you say in the game of Thrones airplane right now is the seatbelt sign off? Are we good right now? Are we good? It's off. You feel good taking it off? You're not going to be like, oh shit, I'm going to like drop 20 feet, you know, or 200 feet. There's a dragon above the plane.

No, I feel good taking it off. Do you feel good about all these? And we'll go, we'll go MCU, DC, Star Wars and Thrones. Would you take your seatbelt off if they were airplanes in terms of any chance of turbulence and you're going to just get fucking molly whopped and thrown across the plane honestly i feel like even if you thought one of these had a down year i think they all have a great outlook towards the next year between mandalorian coming back between ant-man and the wasp quantumania

and kang and guardians 3 and then dc, just James Gunn taking over in general. I think everything has a good outlook right now. So yeah, I agree. I will say if Mando wasn't coming so early in the year and it was a bunch of other projects I didn't know of, I would still not take my seatbelt off for the Star Wars. I'd say, all right, I'm not going to, there might be a bit of bumpiness,

a little patch of bumpiness coming up. Nothing worse than when the pilot says that or no no i'll tell you what's worse than the pilots like all right folks there's gonna be a bumpy ride i'm talking to you just like motherfucker you start white knuckling it before you even take off star wars would have me concerned i feel very good about mando he's back with baby yo we got to see luke everything's fucking good so other than that like mando i know the first half of the fight's going to be good. But I'm just going to keep the seatbelt on just in case it gets bumpy in the second half of the year. So we'll leave it at that. For Star Wars, I know it's not Star Wars, but I kind of count Indiana Jones in there as well.

You know, it's like they've always been connected. That comes out next year. I'm like, yeah, that's Lucasfilm. Yeah, everything looks good. It's so funny how, like, they couldn't be more different in terms of where everything takes place but they are like cousins weirdly linked yeah yeah they're very weird cousins and it does kind of like play out is the vantagram of fans like i don't know any star wars fans that are like oh i don't like indiana jones like they have like similar themes or i don't know i don't know what it is about

the movies but everyone i feel like everyone that loves Star Wars loves Indiana Jones and vice versa. It's the Lucas stuff. It's the Harrison Ford common DNA throughout it all. And it just, the, the, the music, right. It all kind of does add up. Yeah. It all, it all adds up. And I think they were both in Hollywood studios, right.

Is that Star Tours and Indiana Jones. So you had those two. So I do think whatever the reason for all that, there is something there that is, again, not brother, sister, but definitely cousin. Totally. Yeah. Definitely cousin kind of stuff. I'm also going to throw this one at you. You didn't see this one coming. I have a prediction to make right now before we even get into the new year. There is going to be a new cinematic universe that I don't know if we'll cover in the basement in depth, but i do think it is going to be the next big thing at least in terms of making money wow outside of all of these yes the nintendo cu you're right about this you're so right about this super mario

on the horizon you know we've got a sonic already they've done super mario sonic go to the olympics in a video game form. Oh my god. They're just going to do all the Nintendo games, right? All the Nintendo games. There's so many characters. So many ways you can go. And again, I'm kind of looking at this as much as a father as I am a basement boy, but also someone that's going

to see these movies for both myself and my kids. They are so fucking stoked for this Mario movie. And again, they're throwing Chris Pratt in there They have all these big voices They have the money Everything looks awesome I just saw they had like a second little teaser that they dropped

And then I saw that there's a Universal Hollywood So the one in California They're getting a Mario World Just like they have in Japan Which I'm also like how do the basement boys become the resort boys And that's our first review maybe If anyone wants to give us their corporate card out there We'll film it on an iPhone I know know we can't have we can't even fucking

get a producer for this podcast i'm not asking for a producer for a fucking video we'll tape it on the iphone just give us the park passes and the the flight and the hotel we'll handle the rest there but i do think that nintendo is gonna see like holy fuck there's so much money to be made here and the thing is i don't know out of all these universes, there's a feeling of happiness as much linked to the pro to like the intellectual property as there is to Nintendo. Like I see Mario, there's nothing in my heart.

It's like, man, I hated the prequels or hated the, I hated the way they fucked up Superman. Like they never fucked up Mario. Right. And it's a clean slate. It's a clean slate. It's a clean slate.

And it's just years of happy times with Mario Kart, Mario Party, all the different Mario games and everything else. And there's so many ways you can go with. You go Yoshi, you go and there's girls and boys. Luigi's Mansion. All of it. Donkey Kong. AJ is fucking obsessed with Luigi's Mansion.

It's been two full years. He just plays this game nonstop and it's starting to piss me off. Cause I've just watched the same game for two years in a row. So that's my, that's my like big prediction is the Nintendo CU will be basically catapulted. Cause I think that movie, I'm going to put like an 89.

It'll get like, I think that movie is going to make like a billion dollars. I saw the list of the highest grossing movies of this year and minions rise of crew was like top five and that was the first thing i thought of i was like oh my god mario might be fucking number one next year how do we buy stock in movie money do we have to like work for universe because i'm trying to figure i just want to bet that they're going to make all the money and then i can make money by nintendo stock yeah i guess all right that's the fuck we just buy nintendo we'll call up large we'll have them put some money in nintendo for us because we're children who can't do that we'll give them a shitload of money and here's

one stock for you and one stock for you yeah yeah we'll get some nintendo so i think you're right about that i think that's a great prediction and i think these were great year-end grades i think they were very fair let us know your year-end grades in the comments below. What was our hashtag for this one? We had a funny one mid-show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was from something early in the pod, too. We lost it.

Nerd something, nerd something. We're a bunch of dopes. Listen, if you were listening intently in the middle of the podcast, you know it. Tweet us the hashtag so we remember. Let us know what the hashtag was because, yeah, you do enough podcasts and your brains just do get shot. They turn into mush. I hate my brain. It stinks.

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