My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 258 - THE LAST OF US EPISODE 3/DC’S PHASE 1 ANNOUNCEMENTS WITH CLEM

Episode Date: February 1, 2023

Robbie and Clem are BACK with another breaking news podcast to discuss James Gunn’s DCU Phase 1 announcements and the masterpiece that was The Last Of Us Episode 3! GoFundMe Link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/pay-for-chemo-tumor-regression-infusions?member=23934049&sharetype=teams&utm_campaign=p_na+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer 00:00 INTRO 08:26 JAMES GUNN’S DCU PLASE 1 51:59 BARSTOOL STORE AD 54:18 THE LAST OF US EPISODE 3 **************************************** 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. I am your host, Robbie Fox, along with me is my co-host, Clem, and we are here for a loaded show today. We didn't even know we were going to do a show when we woke up today, and then James Gunn went and dropped his entire dcu phase one on our heads special show special or early show the show is gonna happen no matter what but it's happening tuesday january 31st i saw someone tweet something out earlier in the day like i had a terrible sleep i was up at 4 30 but i had to wake up by 6 because i had to reserve disney restaurants bob that's what you have to do a little preview into life in Bob. That's what you have to do. A little preview into life in the Disney world is you have to book your restaurant 60 days ahead of when you're going

to go. You want to grab and go from places. You can place orders online, mobile, yada, yada. But if you want to go get your character breakfast, you go to some of the nicer places. There's even a Rainforest Cafe down there, which I was like, wow, let's go back to the future here and hit the Rainforest Cafe. You have to reserve reserve everything so i was getting a little preview of what life's gonna be like in disney where i'm just like half awake but i saw someone actually i believe it was my fellow chap over in england heavy spoilers had said something about like james gunn and phase and announcement i'm like wait that's coming out today? So I said to you, I said, dude, let's talk about this news

because it's going to be as fresh as it's going to be right now. We'll bring up The Last of Us, which will be in the second half of the pod for the people who haven't watched it. No spoilers. We'll save that for the end because it was a tremendous episode,

seemingly for most corners of the internet. And I was like, this way, we'll kind of just kill two birds with one stone and just talk about two things that are, I think, on the top of all the nerds brains right now and i'll put the time stamps in the description or if you're watching on youtube it'll be in the chapters there so if you want to skip ahead to that if you don't care about the dc stuff you can skip ahead to that um real quick the royal rumble was this weekend we did a little royal rumble pool in our comments with the

prize being i think you said it was going to be a chicken parm wedge. The next time you see whoever wins and funny enough, the person who wound up winning the number 30 spot, which was Cody Rhodes, shout out Cody Rhodes, friend of the podcast actually won the Royal Rumble. You, you know,

this person, I know this person, shout out my boy, Steve here. King conk is what his name is, which if you go back to the last thing, he has a YouTube page. I'm sure if you just Google King Conk, and it has some all-time nostalgia. It has like his logo is a Blockbuster video thing. He basically refurbishes old arcade games.

He buys them. He collects them. So he is a fellow nerd in the basement here i don't even i don't even know he watched a list i think he might have just got on for that one heard the rumble loved it he's he's an old neighbor of mine lived in my my parents neighborhood which is like a stone's throw away from here was like friends with my brother growing up and we put that in order we put the the order we shuffled it up those computers computers spit out the numbers. He got 30. I,

I, I, guys, I couldn't do this if I tried that. I will be giving a chicken parm from my go-to pizzeria, Brato Trattoria. And it's someone that lives here and knows exactly what I'm talking about and calls it a chicken parm wedge. It was so perfect.

Your boy, Cody Rhodes wins it. Everyone wins here in the basement. And actually, you know what? I'm going to, while it's in the top of my head right now, everyone, if you can,

please, thumbs up. Just comment the most random word that comes into your head. I want to see words. I want to see words in these comments. Kerfluffle is mine. I love kerfluffle. Oh, that's a good one. How about brouhaha?

Brouhaha is a good one as well. Doesn't have to be a fight where it could be whatever it wants, but just give us a nice random word that pops in your head. Let's fuck with the algorithm. Other than they're like, what the hell in the basement boy is doing right now? We just have one word comments popping up left and right. So a shout out to Steve for winning the contest basement contest. I tweeted it out. People were just coming back in ready to rock so hopefully

for the people watching on youtube we can get some more giveaways and fun stuff because there's a lot of stuff coming our way the basement boys are going to be stuck in the basement and before we get into obviously all the james gunn news speaking of the basement boys and gals we have ourselves a listener here who uh she's gotten sick. We, we know her and her boyfriend, right? And we've got loyal basement listeners. Love them. Both of diehards, diehards, awesome people. And, uh, she reached out and sounds like she's going through some serious stuff here. She has a, uh, she set up a go from me. She's going through chemo. She has some tumor aggression infusions that she's looking to get done. Her name is Megan, her and her boyfriend, which I don't know if I'll say,

but long story short, just like good natured people that we've known for years. So this isn't like someone just popped up out of nowhere and they said, Hey, listen, like they, they were like, you know, is there any way you guys could help spread the word on this? And we're like, almost like, I'm like, of course we can. And they're like, oh, I don't know. And I was like, that's the one thing, my proudest moment, my favorite thing about working for Barstool is its community. And everyone helps each other out.

We've seen it with countless things in the past. Once Peter Churden took over, even before that, when it was just Dave in a basement in a dentist's office, he was out, you know, raising money for people. Kev has done a ton of great work with the people in, you know, New York City, FDNY, and NYPD and all that stuff. Then, obviously, the Barstool Fund. And then whenever we have kind of these random stoolies, stoolies always help stoolies, man. It's honestly my favorite part of the job is just knowing that, like, people will help other people. It kind of restores your faith in humanity, which always takes a hit whenever you turn around it seems you know yeah so we're both going to tweet out the gofundme link check our twitters anything for that if you want to see it

if you missed it on our twitter tweet at us be like where's the gofundme link we'll reply and tweet it right at you but sometimes you need a hand and we're hoping to have some stoolies help give them a hand yeah it's it's called zollinger ellison syndrome and it's a one in a million lifelong disease with no current care so it's it's it's no bueno and the the treatment's 780 dollars per treatment the health care i want to get the health care podcast on the base so that'll be in a few weeks we'll deal with uh the health care system in this country by the way mr beast cur. Beast, curing 1,000 blind people? What?

Craziness. I met him, by the way. He came to a pop punk show. How was Mr. Beast? I don't know much about Mr. Beast. I know he does crazy numbers. He always does. I remember he did the Squid Games where they did a real ice cream games.

Seemed like a cool guy. Seemed very cool. We didn't know him because it was so many years ago that i mean he was huge on youtube don't get me wrong he literally got uh sub dogs to win the contest over the jones brothers bar oh he beat the joneses he yeah he was like big then but we just weren't aware of him so i think ron introduced him on stage i might have said this before as like mr monster and we were like oh no that's not his name but yeah he was very nice he came with like a camera guy obviously i think he was making a video out of it and was

just chilling chilling backstage with us so shout out mr beast cure and blind people shout out mr beast what what an awesome thing i have to check out i saw the video on my tv on one of my things for the new year get on youtube more and watch my things through youtube always give the thumbs up and all that kind of stuff and just getting undated in the culture and i saw that thing and i'm like i'm reading this wrong cures a thousand blind people like did he i i said like a thousand uh like cures blindness through a thousand surgeries i'm like did one poor person in this thumbnail have a thousand surgeries because that seems like it would honestly be about right to cure blindness it would take a thousand surgeries that's the way about this apparently it's an eight minute surgery

no like that boom no yeah what the fuck is going on here right now i know it's crazy shit dude lasik blew my mind when i found out that was a however long minute surgery it wasn't it just like made you see better being able to giving the gift of sight takes eight minutes and i'm sure it's crazy money and all that kind of stuff so anyway if you guys want to help out someone here that listens to the podcast i always love the community we have we always say the boys with boys and gals we're the not the biggest bunch but we fucking love each other uh we pin to my twitter and if you if you guys need the link uh just to help out you know robbie and i are pitching in as well so uh shout out to everyone out there and our girl

megan you guys are gonna get through this all right absolutely we're there with you may the force be with you um now let's get into the james gunn dcu projects phase one is completely announced now there's 10 or 11 projects depending on how you look at it and they are calling phase one gods and monsters which i love like titling it something it's such a simple thing but marvel usually does that after the fact like after the infinity saga they said infinity saga the next one's multiverse saga both make sense gods and monsters it's a little metal it's it's very metal i i dig it it's simple yet satisfying you know yeah it and i don't know it's like when you think superman that's a god and then we won't spoil all the announcements and whatever but the last announcement they had

that's a big old monster and it is going to be and i was always wondering i felt like marvel did it after the fact i kind of like knowing going in that they have already put it down so again i if you're someone that is kind of level-headed a little skeptical about things you had your time dc for me to be the skeptical person i'm telling you right now i drink this man's kool-aid so i'm just seeing gods and monsters i'm like oh what a smart thing to do. I'm falling over him. I know, me too.

I'm falling over him. The way I look at him is the way the two characters in The Last of Us looked at each other. That we'll discuss later. There's some things that happened in that episode that I might do to James Gunn if he hits this out of the park. Because I love it. Oh, I'm right there with you. The first two projects, he said, are kind of like an intro to the universe because the first two projects are a little bit smaller on the terms of like the massive universal scale

the first one is an animated series that he's already written it's going to be seven episodes and it's called creature commandos creature commandos is a show about classic monsters fighting nazis we've talked about it on the show here nazis are a cheat code you put nazis in your show and you're instantly going to get that animosity from us we're going to have that emotional investment be like punch that fucking nazi in the face so yeah i'm in and the interesting part about this and i think the cool part about it is they're looking to cast voice actors that are going to be able to play these characters in live action because they're bringing the animated characters in i like that so it it works actually i was gonna say it's kind of like with guardians where it's

like i could have seen vin diesel play a group i could have seen bradley cooper play a rock i'll try not to like tie everything james gunn does back to the guardians but it does it kind of feels like that uh i i love this idea because again fuck nazis anti-nazi number not only are we anti-nazi i'm in my mind we are the number one barstool anti-nazi podcast we trump all the other podcasts in terms of our anti anti-nazism so if those guys hate nazis times 10 that's how much i fucking hate nazis and x yeah tedx 10x um when you're doing this though this is this is what james is going to do in this he's like all right the creature commandos you're not going to have sky high expectations right and again go back to the gardens it's kind

of like this probably i imagine a wacky team i'm looking at this crew it is a hodgepodge of misfits it is you throw monsters fighting naz. You know what you're doing there? You're running the power eye. It's first and 10. And you're going, we're going to get three yards here no matter what happens. Maybe we hit an 80-yard run for a touchdown. But at least we're getting three yards. And then we're set up for second and seven.

And we have a drive started here. They're not running any flea flickers that's going to get a fumble or like a sack for 15 yards. This is easy. Monsters kicking the shit out of Nazisis fuck nazis let's fucking go let's go and i also think james gunn's writing style will lend itself very well to an animated series like sort of that raunchiness that uh the harley quinn series has i could see james gunn writing in that i mean james gunn actually makes an appearance as himself in that show that harley quinn series on is that hbo max yeah i sent you the uh trailer for i think they have a valentine's day special i was like this is awesome i thought it was like i thought it was a one-off the only time they've ever shown like oh i love that show i've watched season one i'm like

oh okay well i didn't know this was a thing uh I could definitely see James Gunn doing very well with this. And again, it's like you could just do whatever you want to Nazis, and it's like, yeah, I'm going to laugh and enjoy it. And I could see James Gunn, he's kind of sick and twisted when he wants to be. He's definitely going to be sick. It'll probably be gory, right? Like invincible level gory. The next thing, another smaller scale project is a series called Waller,

focused on Viola Davis's Amanda Waller. She's one of the few that have survived the DC transition here and she's made it into this phase. James Gunn promises that she's going to be teaming up with some of the Peacemaker cast in this and the two writers involved, one worked on Watchmen, the HBO show, and the other was the creator of Doom Patrol, which was a show that a lot of people really loved on HBO Max and it got canceled in either the whole DC transition or the Warner Media HBO Max transition. One of those. So it's cool that he gave that guy a job in terms of am I excited for this? Yes, because it's James gone and I know it's the Peacemaker universe, I never would have said, oh, Amanda Waller needs her own show. But before Peacemaker, I also said, I don't know if Peacemaker needs his own show. I was wrong about that.

I said, I'm pretty sure if I go back on the podcast, I'd be like, I didn't really love John Cena in the movie. I really don't think he needs his own show. But in Gunn, we trust and kind of it goes with Waller. I almost feel like waller could be she's almost i don't want to say dr strange but she's almost going to be the sense with i don't think she'll be like the lead of the show she'll be like the leader of the show but i feel like all the characters she probably bumps into along the way and all the things that happen

will take over and i think i said it during the suicide squad which i didn't love as much as you did i there was something about that actress so you're like oh man like she scares the living And I think I said it during the Suicide Squad, which I didn't love as much as you did. There was something about that actress that you're like, oh, man, she scares the living shit out of me. And she crushed in Peacemaker as well. Peacemaker, I think we said, was our favorite piece of content for 2022, if I'm not mistaken, right? I think that was number one. I liked the Batman better, but it would have been number two. Number two, and that's including Marvel. That's including, uh,

star Wars and everything. So we were both huge fans of, which came out of fucking. No, I, I still can't believe how peacemaker just completely snuck up on us. Like I was obsessed. I still listen to that.

We go. I'm song like every day, the dance number. If I'm ever feeling down, I'll just throw it on. Uh, weird that that didn't get announced in this slate, by the way,

like we know season two was ordered. So why didn't he talk about it here? I don't know. That was a little strange to me. That's actually a good point. And listen, Waller, whoever's going to be in this group, Creature Commandos as well, you can lump into it. And, you know, even the big guys that we're going to discuss in a little bit.

We're going to have to have jose on or the dc version of jose i mean jose does have oh jose yeah jose is the dc version of jose it's like the uh it's like you go to the other multiverses he's like the scarlet witch he's a nexus being he's the jose young he's waiting for all the cinematic you know in all the i was texting with him today i'll read some texts texts when we get to some of the later announcements that I really didn't know anything about. I texted him and was like, give me a little blurb on this. Jose, I like it. Yeah.

Jose's spirit will be heard on this podcast. The next one. This is the true beginning of the DCU, according to James Gunn. Superman Legacy, written by James Gunn and also likely to be directed by James Gunn, although that's not confirmed yet. This is not an origin story. They stressed that this is just a story about young Superman. And the way they described him gave me hope because they were like, you know, he's the true symbol of the American way and hope and justice. And I was like, was like okay yeah you're

you're speaking my language i want a bright joyful superman movie where he's throwing punches but he's also saving kittens from trees and he's saving a plane from going down and then at the end of the movie everyone smiles and it was a good time not snapping necks and crying and the city's burnt down you know let's give us a happy Superman movie. That is indicative of like the Christopher Reeve Superman. Yeah. I don't need to see Superman be born. I don't want to see him leave his planet. I don't need to see him die.

Don't do anything crazy. Again, this could be a fucking, I'm trying, I'm going to go with another like football analogy, analogy, like a slant over the middle, maybe take it to the house,

but just something that's going to keep the ball moving. Now, Superman is a bigger deal. This is going, like you said in the blog could set up the entire cinematic universe if you hit it and if you fucking blow it everyone's going to be like well this is going to be a problem and it's going to just like be that lingering stink it's like someone farted and just smells the whole house up and it's not leaving the name is perfect though superman legacy this is this to quote the most tired takes in the world, this is Superman's legacy movie right now. We've had such a disaster with them basically our whole, my whole life, let alone Robbie's whole life, that I feel like they're going to have to absolutely crush it.

And I feel like James Gunn, every time he opens up his MacBook and he sees Superman Legacy, like the word legacy, I'm sure gets him hyped, gets him probably a little scared. And he just goes to town, man. And it's going to be interesting to see how it goes, mixing in that humor. Like Superman, I don't find is a funny character, but I feel like he can lend himself. He's such a quack ball too, right? Like there's a lot of fun to be had with that. Definitely. And I talked to Jose about this one. himself he's such a quark ball too right like there's a lot of fun to be had with that definitely and i talked to jose about this one he really really wants it to be focused on all-star superman

which i believe james gunn has posted like a instagram story of him reading fairly recently so i think that's a pretty good chance that we're gonna get a little all-star superman what's that mean it was a comic book all-star superman it was just an arc and it's one of dc's most famous arcs of all time i thought it was like all-star superman is just him being superman like all-star version super saiyan yeah i'm motherfuckers like basically so i'm like okay yeah like i don't need to see superman showing any weakness like let's fuck some shit up here so seeing him in the midwest and all that stuff i i was thinking about this and i think about this whenever these especially the dc franchises over the years how scared would you be writing this stuff down knowing like i i i don't even know like our boy walger must god bless whatever

fucking he might be on some sort of a sponsor that might be returning to the podcast in a few months whatever it takes to make you go through the days with all that anxiety going through your head man that dude's writing secret wars like oh my god that anxiety holy shit i can't imagine but yeah superman legacy i don't know who they're gonna cast as superman but i hope he's wearing the red tighty whiteys yes i guess they wouldn't be tighty whiteys then the red the red underwear you know what i'm talking about the underoos i loved his line too uh he said uh henry cavill he goes he got dicked around by a lot of people including former teams at this company like just called it like it was even his tweet it said uh here are a few of our plans up up and away like

that's just fun and he says it right to your face it's not an interview it's not all written down it is fucking him to you it's as real as it gets online. Like Dave says, all you need is an iPhone to make a video. It just, I don't know, felt a little more real. Just hearing it from his mouth, talking to us instead of talking to someone else. Now, the next project is something we both wanted when we were putting together our slates. It's a lanterns show on HBO Max. This is something we were both like, we need a lanterns show on hbo max this is something we

were both like we need a lanterns show it'd be amazing i said it'd be great if it was game of throne style but james gunn is saying it's actually true detective style what how what does that mean it's going to be hal jordan and john stewart and they're going to be kind of like detectives watching over earth and then a mystery unravels that folds into the larger dcu sounds awesome i think when we said with the green lantern stuff i was like all right game of thrones it's like i don't want to like put those kind of expectations on it i mean throwing true detective and we're talking true detective season one obviously when we're talking true detective that ain't game of thrones level but when you're doing just single seasons of shit and you're talking cop like that is some heavy heavy

stuff and listen i don't know if this is just me but we hear it's on hbo max over the years that was like okay that's the streaming service it's the same exact thing as hbo i understand that but it always like it didn't carry the weight of hearing hbo back in the day you're like oh you're like oh you're like oh we're talking 9 p.m slot i will say this succession coming back last of us absolutely crushing house of the dragon bring the thrones back to like relevance hbo max now has a little gravitas with it right it's like here it there's only a few like uh streaming like you're netflix like oh this is gonna have a whole bunch of war chest behind it.

Disney Plus is fucking Disney. And now I feel like HBO Max is getting to that point. And I'm sure that they're hoping to God people see it like that so they can charge you whatever the hell they charge you for it. And we wanted Lantern to have a big Green Lantern, a big spot if it wasn't a movie being the first big TV show on all this shit which i mean the other two are going to be all right but i feel like this is if it goes superman than this one two i'm not even going to use a football now you guys can figure it out on your own make put it in the comments i don't know but there's a lot of ways to go very important here and bringing in two lanterns is brilliant like there was so much debate of oh when they do a green lantern which lantern do you want them to use he's like we're using two how about both how about that i was gonna say like the uh the gift why not both the little girl the authority is the next one and this is the one that i had to

text jose about because i was like i know fucking nothing about the authority the wild storm comics from the 90s i just know they had crazy vibrant artwork from my guy jim lee my favorite artist who did the batman that's on my arm over here so i texted jose about this and i said what do you know about the wild storm comics i i assumed he would know something about them of course he did he said there's not enough space in this text breakdown uh there's not enough space in this text for me to break down wild storm it was a creator-owned publishing company that did gen 13 the authority x machine storm watch wildcats etc very 90s very over the top no idea how gun is going to pull off the authority as a movie now he did say this is his passion project which made me think is this his guardians of the galaxy

of dc who knows yep that's I was trying to avoid saying that. So you said it. So technically, I said it. I took it out of your mouth. I said, I appreciate that. The authority. I I'm looking at the pictures here. It's like we have a kind of a silver surfer looking chick.

Have a guy that kind of looks like Cyclops without his glasses on like a fake Batman. I have no idea what to expect. However, looking at these guys and realizing i don't know what any of them are like what they do that also made me realize that i felt the same way about all the people that were in black adam which i think was my favorite part of the movie was that was the not the jsa the yeah exactly the jsa i liked all those characters so i'm kind of the point where i'm like i feel like they can pull off these characters i know nothing about and i'll i'll care about them immensely right off the bat so i and the way he described them in the video he said they're like

superheroes who view the world as broken and they'll do anything in in their way to fix that or something kind of made it seem like they're superheroes who break the rules a little bit i want to know how the name of the authority was. I feel like there's going to be a good origin story. Maybe a little funny. Of how it came up with. Like Guardians of the Galaxy. You find out how that's all done.

Like the authority is something. Like a group of like eight year olds. Or idiots in college. Calling their crew of guys. It's like the syndicate with Dave and Elio. I was going to say it was a wrestling faction. Like that was the Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. college calling their crew of guys it's like the syndicate with david elliot yeah i was gonna say it was a wrestling faction like that yes triple h and stephanie mcmahon like they were the authority for a while was it really that was the exact name yeah already yeah that's incredible uh the next

one i said i wanted the lantern show to be a little game of thrones focused but actually the wonder woman show is going to be game of thrones focused it's actually taking place before wonder woman was born and it's called paradise lost takes place on paradise island one of the cooler aspects of the wonder woman movies actually and yeah james gunn said this one's kind of in that game of thrones vein and it's an island with all women so i said in my blog this one is the one most likely to get review bombed before it comes out on rotten tomatoes like you they i hope rotten tomatoes has that thing a lot like locked up literally you try to hit a review your ip address gets like tracked and you're not allowed to review anything those people are getting mad just reading this this is a game of there's no girls in game of thrones

i think we knew at one point there was going to be a girl-centric project, and we didn't know if there would be a Wonder Woman movie show, whatever it may be. I always was interested about that island. I'm going to say as much as I can say without getting bonked here, but I was always going to the island to see what's

going on. So, this seems like it could work. Paradise Lost, that feels like it's like an 80 that was hulk hogan in paradise lost uh that does sound like an 80s movie yeah thunder what's it something thunder was a whole road or thunder uh no you're thinking of three ninjas no big or he was in the third Three Ninjas movie. It was like Thunder Mountain. Thunder in Paradise. Thunder in Paradise. 1993.

I would have said it came out earlier. What's the third Three Ninjas? Three Ninjas Part 3? Yeah. I don't know if I ever saw. Hulk Hogan's in it. Is he really? Yeah.

Three Ninjas Kick Back. No. Three Ninjas Kick Back. That's two, isn't it? No. Knuckle Up? No. Three Ninjas movies. ninjas kick no three ninjas kick back that's two is it no uh knuckle up no three ninjas movies didn't see this coming when we started yeah here it is three ninjas high noon at mega mountain that's part four bob come on you should know that i'm sorry it's three than just four

but yeah hulk hogan plays uh he has a funny character name dave dragon dave i kind of remember this poster of hulk hogan he's like coming through the poster and not like that he's like ripping through the poster that would be a hell of a what brother rocky loves emily that's what i think of when i uh hear three ninjas our boy uh nikki the good is obsessed with three ninjas i think he's like proposed a shirt multiple barstool shirts with like three ninjas themes i'm like nick very niche market we're marketing to you right here i love the first three ninjas same i was real into it as a kid but paradise lost that that show sounds cool all right the next one my personal favorite on the slate,

The Brave and the Bold, introducing the DCU's Batman, not played by Robert Pattinson, and Damian Wayne, a.k.a. Robin. Damian Wayne, if you're not aware, is Batman and Talia Al Ghul's son. And in the comic, in the Batman and Robin comic with Damian Wayne that this is based on, it's written by Grant Morrison. Batman was sent back in time by Darkseid to like the dawn of man, like to caveman times. Okay.

So Dick Grayson takes up the mantle. Like Alfred tells him, he's like, the world needs a Batman. We need a Batman. Dick Grayson is older and he's more established at this point. So he's like established at this point so he's like fuck it i think damian wayne this psycho assassin who talia al ghul raised needs a better moral compass here and he steps up into that batman role he's like a more relaxed batman he's a more chill batman in the movie it sounds like they're kind of axing that and it's going to be bruce wayne and damian way Wayne and more of a father-son dynamic but James Gunn teased this

is only the start of the Bat family in the DCU I first of all I saw Damian Wayne and I was like Damian Damian Wayans is in this and I'm like how does that work and everyone seems you seem so excited about it and I was I was very very confused this is all starting to make a lot more sense now now in the the picture here I saw our boys at LCB tweeted out. Batman's looking at like some blood on the floor, but like Robin has like a sword. It looks, he's about to like swing at him.

Like, are they, do they fight each other? Or is this Robin kind of an asshole bratty kid? What am I? Yes, exactly. He's an asshole bratty kid that you learn to love as he matures a little

bit. And Oh my God, his character arc is so good grant morrison is just one of the all-time greats when it comes to comics and this is one of my favorite comics ever this was a comic i read in high school and it's fairly recent too like it i think it started in 2009 his arc so it's like they're they're going back to fairly recent stories i mean we'll get to one later on. That was just a story from last year. And I love that James Gunn really highlighted that in his announcement video. Like he actually said the specific comics he was basing the movies on, and they showed images of them.

Because I think that could totally help comic sales and comic stores and whatnot. People get interested. They want to know what the movie's about. They go check out the books. Yeah, I love that stuff. And I mean, Jose had with like the donating the comics too i think that's one of those like just good clean fun good clean american fun right there i love them i have some comics in my kids room and i love when one of them just picks it up

even aj who can't read a lick which is one of the funniest things because dad i don't know how to read can you read this for me yeah you need my help, dude. You need my help. You need to listen to me. I have to say this. This has been a big sense of discussion here for a big topic of discussion for a long time. And I'm happy it's finally done. This isn't the way I wanted it. Because I did say I want one Batman in my life. I can handle one Batman mentally because now I'm thinking timelines, different cinematic universes.

I don't know what's going on. I was very happy to have all this DC stuff kind of shoved away the old stuff. We bring in the new stuff, probably going to keep some of the good new stuff, get rid of it, keep some of the good old bad stuff, get rid of the bad old bad stuff. And now we still got two goddamn Batmans. And it's just a lot to deal with. And I know there's plenty of people that can handle that. I just was very excited to have one Batman. I guess though,

this character, like Patinson not handle this character, or I guess this character is going to be much different than. I think it's a matter of the universe. I think it's, I think it's the universe. Like Patinson's universe doesn't make as much sense for a Robin and a bat family.

And if they want to do a crazier rogues gallery, you could have clay face in this universe. Whereas he might not make as much sense in the Pattinson universe or something like that. So that's interesting. So what they said was, cause I'm sure, you know,

they mapped this all out. I don't know if they use the whiteboard. I'm going to have to figure out how they did. Oh, they used a whiteboard. Yeah. Show us the goddamn whiteboard gun uh so at one point they were like all right what are we doing with batman once the superman problem is like listen i'm gonna write

it's gonna be legacy it's gonna be fucking awesome we're dealing with all-star superman right here we're doing the good shit when it comes to batman i want to know how close he was to just saying all right patsy's batman is going to be our batman and then whenever they whenever reeves is done with his movies we're bringing that batman in whether he's a sulking bitch batman whether he's a fucking whatever happens to him along the ways but it seems like they really want this batman and if they're gonna kind of they have to know it's kind of crazy to have two of the same character is that not a little crazy this is coming from someone that was i don't know in my little marvel land like i didn't have

to worry about it was the same spider-man going between movies and granted i know sony was like you have to use our spider-man but if they had figured out a way to have just some dude in a suit without showing tom holland i would have been like that kind of sucks. It's only one thing. So I'm, I have, it's a little crazy. They are trying to get ahead of that by saying the Batman universe and the Joker, the Joaquin Phoenix Joker universe are elseworlds stories. They're now classified as elseworlds. That's like an elseworlds story and it's its own thing. And those will be for the one-offs. So they're still saying they're, I think, open to more of those type one-off things. So if Peacemaker calls in the Justice League and fucking Batman shows up, it's going to be this. Brave and Bold Batman is the guy showing up.

I believe so, yes. If I show them patents of Batman, they're going to be like, what the fuck is Edward from Twilight doing here? Yes. Okay. I mean, I can get used to it and listen i know there's probably some like diehard dc guys that are mad at me i'm just talking myself through this we're in this together now we'll talk through it yeah i'm very excited my guy bob if you're excited about it i'm excited you were excited about the batman and that whole storyline

this storyline one to ten where is it in the bob fox uh you know how do you feel about it it's a good question like if the long halloween is a 10 for me if the dark knight returns is a 10 for me the killing joke is a 10 for me hush is a 10 for me this is probably like a 7.58 okay i could live with a 7.58 i wish you just said said eight, but 7.58 will round to seven. Well, I'm trying to think back to it. I haven't read the actual arc since I was in high school, but the villains it brings in are so unique. Professor Pig is one of them.

Look up Professor Pig right now. He's terrifying. He sounds silly, but he's like a fucking butcher that just wears a pig mask. He looks like something out of a horror movie. He could be in the pattinson universe to be honest either way it's pyg which i don't even know i'm seeing different i'm seeing one professor pig where he looks like a butler oh no yeah this is some crazy shit right here yeah yeah i'll throw it on the screen so that people could see it post but uh

yeah professor pig you don't want to fuck with him. That's out of the fact that that is in this universe. I would have said this universe wouldn't have a Professor Pig because it seems like it's going to be a little more comic booky. You would think a little lighter because the Brave and the Bold also represents like the lighter side of Batman. That was when they did a Batman animated series called Batman, the Brave and the Bold. It was like really light and for kids like really like fisher price level bright i don't think this will be that level but i think it's going to be colorful i think hell maybe we'll get batman in a gray suit i think you do batman in a fucking gray suit leave the black to pattinson and maybe do fucking gray and blue navy blue

bring that into the live action universe i'd love it see guys this is what you're getting in the basement now that we have this tc universe you have a guy that is like picking apart the little colors of the batman suit this is a guy who's watched the what six is it 60s show is it from the 60s yeah yeah this is the guy who was raised on the 60s and bring back the yellow symbol too like the keaton the yellow this is the basement's going through the roof. When just based on this, I have the fucking leading expert on old school, crazy Batman stuff. So we are going to be in perfect.

Portnoy loves Star Wars. We're going to go see Star Wars report. This is really the year of the basement right now. It's truly remarkable. I have to say, this is the one thing that I have to say about this that disappoints me. I always loved that, like the Batman series, at least I feel like it always happened like this. It may not be the case. I feel like the last movie of all the Batman series would always be like, and now like you would learn who Robin was.

Are you going to be enough? And like, all right, the next movie is going to be Robin's movie. And then it just never happened. So I almost love that fucking that that Robin will be on the poster poster but like we never actually meet robin until the last movie and then it's like all right this is when we're actually gonna meet him and then just never happens reboot whatever it may be it was one of like the most frustrating things the amount of fucking time you took i'm just i just want to see robin chris o'donnell was i think the only robin i can remember right he was yeah joseph gordon levitt was supposed to be a robin right so not really like the ending of the movie

spoilers for the dark knight rises if you haven't seen it it's 11 years old at this point but spoilers at the end of the movie he goes and there's a bag that bruce left for him everyone assumes bruce is dead and the woman goes to give him the duffel bag or he gives his name. He's like, my name's Tim, Tim Blake or whatever. It was like Tim Drake. It's like Tim Blake. And she's like nothing. He goes,

Oh, try my real name. He gives her a card. She goes, Oh, you should use your real name. I like that. Robin.

And it was like a little, I love Nolan. I love those movies more than anything. Don't get me, but it's a little in the words of Rocky Raccoon. It's a bit much like why didn't they go with dick grayson why didn't you say like oh hey try dick grayson if he just said that we would have all got it and been like oh shit like he's batman's successor but i don't think they ever intended on actually making anything with joseph gordon levitt after that it was just like the story was that batman

will always survive hey listen there's fucking idiots like me casual fans it was like oh shit we're getting a robin movie if not a batman and robin movie you guys can't be so yeah maybe throw that in there but i still would have thought if they used it in what if she had said like all right robin nope still don't see anything but you know what you're by yourself how about i name you han solo that would have that would have driven me into insanity that would have created the joker and me that that actually would have been a better twist than the the actual solo movie uh speaking of the batman though the batman part 2 is confirmed for october 3rd 2025 no new information about this one we've said pretty much all there is to say about the batman part 2 is confirmed for october 3rd 2025 no new information about this one we've said pretty much all there is to say about the batman part 2 but i just wanted to mention that

this is confirmed as still happening uh i kind of would love if they just named it the batman part 2 do you think they'll do that or you think they're gonna oh yeah they said that's the name oh okay i like that i like that we're gonna keep it going again gotham is flooded and it's not part two with a numeral two it's i i which makes it way more dramatic roman numerals there's a reason the super bowl goes with the roman numerals it just carries itself wrestlemania yeah godfather i think godfather is uh yes i think so shit that could be the godfather part two right now yeah i'm going i think it is roman numerals uh by the way godfather one guy this guy right here how about you uh godfather insists upon itself guy oh that's right that's right it is roman numerals it is roman

numerals i was way off i don't know why i even questioned it i am embarrassed for even questioning it uh so yeah the batman part two and i saw in the blog you said maybe get mr freeze or poison ivy in it um yeah i said if gotham's flooded maybe half the city's frozen over half the city's overgrown i don't like that matt reeves did say we're also focusing more on bruce wayne in this movie which some people criticize the first movie for not having enough bruce wayne so yeah we'll fix that and we'll have penguin right i imagine penguin has to play a much bigger role because he wasn't as big in the first one i thought he was going to be but that his series is going to tie directly into batman 2 was there anything about any of the series is that we're not sure what did didn't get greenlit? Okay. Okay.

No, unfortunately not. And not like dates for a lot of the series, which I understand. He doesn't want to put a date on everything and then have to delay. The next series that we can talk about is Booster Gold. Booster Gold is a character that I've never known a lot about. But if you grew up around comics, I feel like you always have like loose issues of Booster Gold lying around or you see them in long boxes or short boxes and comic shelves his story is that he's a loser an absolute loser from the future who uses future technology to go back to the past and become a superhero just so people will like him james gunn said this is telling the story of imposter syndrome through a superhero show sounds pretty funny and speaking of things that

sound 80s like paradise lost the plot of this sounds like an 80s movie like back to the future style type thing that's that's a good call that's a good call i always i have a long-standing theory that babe ruth actually is from the future and he basically could have went anywhere anytime he wanted and he's like if i go back to like the 1910s or whatever i could just become the best baseball player on earth and like i imagine still be eating good eating good and like i imagine babe ruth had his way with the like i think derrick jeter's life was great babe ruth didn't look like derrick jeter though so he couldn't really do some of the stuff so he's like i'm just gonna go back to like and hit more home runs in entire teams and then i'll get all the all the all the dames i want right and i'll still in a million

home runs and i'll make the yankees like a fucking dynasty so uh booster all the suitors in the world but yeah booster gold seems like a fun show and it's a show not movie which is interesting now a lot of these are these all live how what's the breakdown live action cartoons do we know is it all like the first one's a cartoon okay only the first one the rest will be a creature commando is a cartoon the rest will be live action uh the next one the next live action movie is supergirl woman of tomorrow this is the one i referred to earlier that's based on a story from last year written by tom king i asked jose if he read that story from last year he said yes it is amazing anything tom king touches turns to gold he's a top five writer in this in the genre right now what do you remember

i think it was secret it was one of the invasions oh it's a secret invasion that made him that made him just like deep oh yeah oh god oh oh i don't even know where to start yeah the fact you knew exactly what i was talking about that's how you know this is a good podcast and right here is that we have these we're on the same fucking page so what I was talking about, that's how you know, this is a good podcast. And right here is that we have these, we're on the same fucking page. So if he's talking about this and I imagine he was, he hyped it up big time. Yeah. All right.

So super girl is, you know, if the, if the wonder woman one doesn't get killed in by rotten tomatoes beforehand, this will probably be the other one. But I feel like maybe they could fill in some, I don't know how this all works in terms of timelines but they could probably fill in some of the superman backstory or just krypton stuff

through supergirl as well so then they can let superman just be awesome and then kind of set some stuff up so i don't know really much i don't really know much about supergirl at all so she's awesome she's got some supergirl comics on the shelf behind me. I got into them because of the Supergirl CW show. All the CW shows, no offense to the fans of the Berlanti CW shows, are a bit cheesy, a bit campy, corny. They're villain of the week format, changes every week, whatever. Supergirl, for whatever reason, I went on a marathon of years ago,

and I was like, this is pretty fucking enjoyable. I went through like two seasons in a weekend when I had the flu. Melissa Benoist was the reason why it was so watchable. The lead character. She was so good. I wish they could just recast her in the role. But James Gunn also noted that she grew up on a piece of Krypton that was just floating in space as opposed to Earth, which is, I think, a different story for her because in the show she grows up on Earth. They send her to Earth after Superman to kind of watch over him because he's a baby and she's a little older.

In this, she grows up on a rock of Krypton and watches everyone around her perish. So she's like jaded and hardened and a different Supergirl than we've ever seen before. She's blonde, right? hardened and a different supergirl than we've ever seen before she's she's blonde right she's a yeah okay i'm trying to think if i've seen her like in the comic books oh he's making a second appearance in barstool podcast this week what's up buddy excited for superman he he was he was a highlight of the draft yes he was climbing on my head and everything yep that's uncle robbie right there uncle robbie fox and robbie fox's middle name is calvin it's not galvin it's matthew but it's matthew buddy you remember it oh yeah i don't know if we even said that on the podcast but he randomly asked what your name was because i have another

robbie in my name but i don't know i'm gonna to see my friend, Robbie Fox in the city with, for work. And he's like, what's his middle name? I was floor. And I was like, I don't know. And Robert Matthew Robbie with a B with an IE, which by the way, on that podcast,

I talked to Eddie and he says he does not like. And he's with a Y there's an Eddie street with a Y he doesn't go on it. Yeah, no, you can't. I grew up. There was a Robbie road with a Y don't go on. Don't go on it. Yeah, no, you can't. I grew up, there was a Robbie Road with a Y. Don't go on it. Don't go on it.

Yeah. Or it might have been cheap, and they said they had their dog shit on it. That's the only thing I know on Eddie Street. And Robbie Road is no bueno either. The final project on the Gods and Monsters slate is a horror project. Gods and Monsters. God damn, that sounds good. It does. It does. This is Swamp Thing. late is a horror project god damn that sounds good it does it does this is swamp thing swamp thing in my opinion is one of the coolest looking characters in comic books his character design is

so badass so scary it lends itself to a horror origin story i wrote in my blog like i could see the opening of the movie already like a bunch of Raiders with guns, like wading into the swamp and in the water waist deep. And then one drops and then the next drops and then they all start shooting. And then you don't hear any gunfire because they all got pulled under. This movie writes itself, essentially. So Swamp Thing was a cartoon back in the 90s that I watched here and there. It would be on like, I feel like it was on like Channel, I'm just going to say the number, PIX or what is it? I guess CW11.

Oh, PIX11, yeah. PIXWB. I don't even know what it was, but it was like not on Fox, NBC, but it wasn't on cable. And I remember the song, Swamp Thing. It was basically Wild Thing, but for Swamp Thing. And I was like, oh, he seems like a pretty badass character. Now, think about Swamp Thing, and I don't like oh he seems like a pretty badass character now think about swamp thing

and i don't know how he relates and i feel like he's not a tier one two or three villain though right he's no like he's had his run-ins with he had a run-in with batman i think when poison ivy like overgrew the whole city but no not tier one but james gunn might make him you know that in this but he hasn't been that before i don't think he looks like there's a lot of different looks for him that i get he's the fucking 90s when they could bring that guy back too because it was cool as shit and it's like the other guys they almost looked like for the other 90s kids out there remember they seem like the villains from captain planet it was like the kind of pig face. And they were just like just straight scumbags.

But I. I would have liked the Luthor. I like that there is. We might get him in the Superman movie too. Yeah I think so. Is Swamp Thing a villain? Or is he kind of like. He goes back and forth.

But no not always. Okay okay. So I like that we're getting a guy that is at least gray in terms of where he's oh and they stress that they like put a statement out like i saw it in the hollywood reporter where they were like we want you to know in the dc universe this isn't monsters come down from space big beam in the sky and the heroes win in the end there's gray there's morality there's backstabbing there's drama there's politics they're like really trying to stress we're not making formulaic superhero

movies over here which i love that's obviously criticism against superhero movies at this point especially by the people that don't like them they say they're all the same well make that change make a horror movie with swamp thing make a game of thrones style wonder woman show make a true detective style green lantern show in space however the fuck that happens like i like all of the announcements that came through i could see a path to the justice league we've got batman we've got superman we've got supergirl we've got green lantern you're teasing wonder woman by telling us you know the island is out there what if she's born at the end of the first season something like that so i i see a

path to the justice league and i see a path to hope for the dc universe that's that's what you could ask for and that's it's kind of the same thing with i think marvel and even star wars like star wars always just felt so formulaic and then and Andrew came in. It's like, no, you can do it like this. And TC can do the same thing. And the fact that they have, like, there's probably a lot of things weighing Marvel down, just old characters or different arcs.

They already had started or where they plan on going on that. Goddamn whiteboard. I want to see foggy TC. They're starting with a clean slate for the most part. So it's kind of sweet. They can kind of do whatever they want and yeah, be the change you want to see in the world. Right yeah if they want to make superhero movies these like 40 things and if how great it'd be if james gunn was like i'm just trying to shut that fucker cameron up

before avatar 3 comes out he's nothing criticized he'll have to call marvel be like you know dc you're cool yeah do you think we ever get to the point where it's almost like WWE versus WCW back in the Monday Night Wars? I hope so. Where they're taking cheap shots at each other. I would love it. I mean, the fact that there is like that shared bond with Gunn and Marvel. Yeah, probably not the cheap shots, but in terms of like which one is better, fans arguing, I hope so. Oh, my God. that'd be amazing for the

basement i you blogged uh you had a blog last year it was something like dc had the best better year than marvel or something like that like just things like that worked like the best movie the best comic book movie of the year was actually dc or something that would be huge so shit superman is 25 right yeah so we got two years and avengers is 25 right yeah oh boy that's going to be a that is nine batman's 25 9 50 p.m monday night and both main events are going off and it's like who's going to have the better one oh boy i can't wait for that so this yeah this is this is exciting man i'm excited for it how would you rate the unveil in terms of the announce i mean not like the theater of it all but just like the

announcements and yeah i don't want to like i don't want to seem too greedy so i want to say like b plus a minus and i know i'm not leaving much room at the top there but like what was the one thing i wanted the most a bat family they announced that and what was the next thing i wanted like a new superman movie we knew we were getting that but they announced it what was the next thing like a lanterns tv show they announced it like i feel like i got so much of the stuff that i was asking for that i can't be greedy and tell him he had a bad announcement it was all the stuff i wanted yep because I'd say it's like a b plus there's there's going to be shows that I'll probably or movies or what projects I'm going to just forget are coming a bit oh yeah the dude from the future that I assembled compared to Babe Ruth and then the the

Waller the cartoon all that kind of stuff but yeah you got the Superman you got Batman you have some sort of like I guess Wonder Woman won't be in there first week the Lantern stuff that kind of stuff. But yeah, you got Superman, you got Batman. You have some sort of, like, I guess, Wonder Woman will be in there first week. The Lantern stuff is kind of the thing that, like, it brings it to at least a B plus because he, you know, they're there. And it's, I have high, I have high, I don't know, I have high hopes for it. Maybe aspirations.

I hope it's just good. And I'm happy that it's there, at least taking the shot. That's all you can ask. Take the fucking shot. Take the shot. You miss 100% of the shots taking the shot. That's all you can ask. Take the fucking shot. Take the shot. You miss a hundred percent of the shots. You never take.

That's what Michael Scott says. All right. Now let's get into the last of us. Episode three. The most underrated thing of that whiteboard is that it says Wayne Gretzky. And I'm pretty sure Gretzky is misspelled. I always love that. I think the Z is before the, or K. It's just before the T.

I don't remember what it is, but it always made me laugh. Before we get into The Last of Us Episode 3, actually, we're going to talk to you about the Barstool Sports Store today. That's the ad we're doing today. Oh, yeah. It's hard times in the basement, as Dusty Rhodes would say, but we're telling you about the Barstool Store. We got merch on there.

We got cool merch on there. You could actually go to the store, hit brands page drop down and click my mom's basement that's all the merch we have and that directly supports the basement you know it doesn't put money in our pocket but it basically puts like goodwill in our pocket with the company they look at that and they're like oh look that they're selling merch we got nice stuff on there too it takes dave's finger off the trigger ever so lightly with the basement. That's what it does. A lot of it's designed by our guy, Nathan Hurst.

Shout out, Nathan Hurst. We got to get something new for like maybe the spring summer. We'll have a spring summer collection or something. That's, I don't know, Ant-Man related, Kang related, Kang merch. Yeah. Kang merch. We're going to have to get into the kang man for sure because oh shout out uh our guy johnny gargano coming out at the royal rumble dressed as kang by the way oh

un-fucking-believable what a goddamn move um because i'm looking at the things here we have two house of the dragon and we have a stranger things like that's 2022 time we have to roll the nerd calendar to the new year which again we have a lot of. Like we could kind of guess what Kang is going to do. But if you go to that movie and you get a good, you know, design off of that, we can, we can rock and roll.

So Kang Fu shirt. I would buy that in the comics. He there's, there's a comic where he kicks Spider-Man in the face and he says, Kang Fu. And Jose is like really prudent for that to happen in the movie. Oh, I,

I've been asking for that ever since I heard Kang was coming. I like i need this and i put the the comic strip i like that'll probably get taken down by disney before we even hit finish the upload but i would love just to have that fucking panel up on a shirt even if for like 24 hours i did ask for and this got shot down the way we did santa riding a dragon for our christmas sweater i said can we have the lucky charms uh leprechaun riding the hulk for saint patrick's day and they were like no absolutely not that's two trademarks would you like baby yoda in the picture as well like what are you trying to do to us i did ask for baby yoda stuff too that got shot down as well all right let's get into the last of us man barcelona change man used to be the wild west out here the last of us episode three was one of the more unexpectedly

emotional pieces of media you could ever consume because at least with other things you go into movies and you know it's a sad movie going in most of the time all right this is a drama that's going to make me cry you can tell by by the trailer. This one kind of just takes a detour from the Joel and Ellie story, and it tells the story of Bill and Frank, played by Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett. And these are Emmy award-worthy performances by both of them. The romance, the friendship, the companionship, the heartbreak, all of it. It was unbelievable. I said it was one of the few times where I've seen a TV show divert from the main story and nobody's complaining. Nobody's saying, oh, my God, go back to the main story or the flashbacks.

You know, like this is one of a few shows where the flashbacks are as good as the real story. Just an unbelievable episode of television. The people that made Booker Boba Fett are like, yeah, we fucked fucked that up we could have done this a lot better these guys crushed the flashbacks that we could do thank god no one's got into a flashback there's no back to tanks in this fucking universe no back to tanks i can't i can't do this i can't do that anymore i mean robbie what the fuck are we doing to me here i mean first you have the daughter die in the first episode. Then you have Tess die. I got fucking zombies jump scaring me. I'm watching on mute with the captions on in daylight to like with like one eye open still because I'm nervous.

And then I'm like, oh, and it kind of just settles me in. And then it's like, no. And they're like, they're feeling my chest. I'm like, oh, you're feeling my heartbeat feels nice. And then I just realized you're slowly carving my goddamn heart out. That was fucking unbelievable. And they're three for three in terms of just fucking my day up, man. Two characters didn't even have the faintest idea they existed other than, you know, the radio comment.

But even then, I'm like, oh, wait a second. I might be the Bill and Frank guys. I think that's their names, right? And by the them like i love bill and frank what the fuck man now in the games and listen i the biggest piece of advice that you gave me that i can rely is to watch some youtube videos kind of summing everything up my guy heavy spoilers i think is by far the i think he's by far the best on the internet because he's fucking funny man he's legitimately lol funny he some of these other guys they're really super thorough they're knowledgeable they're energetic but i

don't know man he just cracks me up he just has funny ass shit and it could be like sometimes it could be a little wrong he hits it all so check those out heavy spoilers he's a die-hard fan of the games too and at the end he'll do like game spoilers if you've already played the games but in the beginning he'll just use people like me with no idea what's going on and i had no idea like this isn't even a storyline in the game i think not at all frank are like they're broken up but yeah they had a breakup frank writes him a him a note. That's like, fuck you. I hate you. I can't be around you anymore and all that. But like, this was such a risk to, to be like, Hey, for an entire episode, we're going to

go away from what everyone knows and loves about the game. But I think they said in the after thing, they said, if it's the same as the game, we'll stick with it. If we think we could write something better than the game, that's when we'll take a risk. And it paid off here. I said this was like Up set during the apocalypse, like the first 10 minutes of Up set during the apocalypse, apocalypse, and then you make it gay and have Ron Swanson

and the guy from the first season of The White Lotus in there, which, by the way, Frank, I know you didn't watch the white lotus but is played by this guy who played this eccentric new zealand hotel like host concierge guy in the white lotus it was crazy to see him using an american accent and have a beard and all that it was like a mind fuck but let's sort of go through the episode not you know piece by piece but a few bullet points. It starts with Joel and Ellie looking for a car, car battery. They stop at a Cumberland farms and they see a Mortal Kombat two machine right away. I wanted to ask you, and we might've talked about this on the show before. Who was your main Mortal Kombat fighter?

So when I saw that, I, I like, again, nostalgia just pouring through my, my veins. Uh, I'm a Sub-Zero guy. Oh, same. Really? Yeah. I was Sub-Zero for Halloween when I was four in pre-K. Wow. Okay.

So my favorite part about Barstool is, other than the people who we help out, again, make your donations, is just like the origin stories you find out a little thing about someone like chaps lived with cajuns for a couple years of his life when he was like in his like late teens or something i'm like that makes sense now some of the ways you think and some of the things you do pop fox being sub-zero when he was four and five years old hence the reason like you were you were reading Barstool at 12? Yeah, probably 12, 13.

So that like, and again, Bob Fox, I wouldn't say he's a sick, twisted bastard, especially in this group of misfits that we have here. But like you were sent on a path and along, your brain basically got the infection very young. So the fact that we're both Sub-Zero guys, I love. Okay, how about Street Fighter 2? Who is your Street Fighter 2 guy? See, this is going to break your heart. the infection very young. So the fact that we're both Sub-Zero guys, I love. Okay. How about Street Fighter 2?

Who was your Street Fighter 2 guy? See, this is going to break your heart. I was never a Street Fighter guy. My brother gave me like a hand-me-down Sega, Sega Genesis, and I just had all the games that he had growing up. And I don't think Street Fighter was in there. I think my brother had played Street Fighter over his friend's house or whatever. I think he knows Street Fighter.

I was never a Street Fighter guy. That's's fun usually it's one or the other and i'm personally a street fighter guy i love mortal kombat as well but it's like i will buy street fighter basically every time it comes out another goddamn system i'll buy it i'll play that way with mortal kombat yeah and then i'll never play it again right isn't that hilarious how that works there's so and i actually just saw it was on the switch for like 12 i was like i think i'm to do it again for the eighth time and never actually – I have a fucking Street Fighter machine, the actual arcade game in my house that I never play. I was a Ryu guy, Ryu, and then that's taking Ken, if not Ken, Chun-Li.

But again, this was something – this is the moment I found out how much I love Barstool is how Kevin, KFC, he's always talking about A-B, ABACABB. And they'd go, get over here. And that was the blood code for Mortal Kombat 1 where you could then get the blood and the fatalities and all that stuff. I was not allowed to play with that when I was four. Rob, what are you doing? I heard to get over here, Rob.

Don't you be playing. I'll do the Mama Fox voice for today. I love that too where she's like melina used to like she eats she eats them up and spits out their bones but it's out the bones yeah exactly what happened now i thought of you when she is looking down into that fucking crawl space when she's just looking straight down and you see just a pit of black before she even shines the flashlight i was like oh clem must be hitting the mute button right about now because i was expecting an arm to come up through there grab her whatever but you know it's a little more tame than that i was thinking about you too bob because i was saying

this fucking asshole has me watching this like i am terrified right now in a house i am the man of this house i have two children i pay the mortgage and i am just on my couch like she does jump down into that basement and she kills an infected in a creepy scene she kind of like cuts it first to see what would happen and then she just stabs it it's kind of like it reminded me of like kids playing with a magnifying glass burning ants like that's her version of this in this fucked up world that is some cold-blooded shit too and when that thing cold-blooded shit, too. Cold-blooded or nice? To kill it.

But then at the end, that's when my guy heavy spoilers, he actually takes mercy on her. Like, oh, yeah, I guess he kind of did do that. She kind of did do that. But I don't know, just something about a kid not even thinking twice when you're cutting out. That was weird, yeah. We've grown up in two very different worlds, Lady Mormont and I.

So I have to start calling her Ellie at some point. But she's going to be Lady Mormont at least for the rest of the season i'm sorry she was like my favorite character of those last that last throne season that was an absolute fucking train wreck uh oh god in the is it like green blood that was coming down from her or something like that it was yeah it was like oozing like it almost looked i thought like a mushroom was about to like yeah i'm Yeah. I'm also not looking forward to just these. I don't know how long we're going to be in nature. Cause I know by the end of it, like we're not gonna be walking,

but they're walking. And I'm like, what's to say there's not gonna be a bunch of infected, just coming out of fucking nowhere. So, and then at night walking in nature at night during a zombie apocalypse, I got the willies just thinking about it. There's even winter aspects of the game where that's even scarierier you're in the cold and now you got to worry about the infected

but then we do the flashback the big flashback that the whole episode focuses on to the outbreak yet again i saw someone tweet by the way and i agree with this i would watch a whole show that's like an anthology series about different people what they did when the outbreak actually happened in this universe because oh my, if there are anything like this story, fantastic. Bill was a doomsday prepper or as he calls himself a survivalist. And he has the whole town to himself when they're all evacuated, he hid in his basement and he's living fucking life. He goes, he gets the gas. He goes to the home depot gets the electricity cooking he's literally like making himself meals at home he's got the lights on and everything he's living the dream life

essentially he's kevin mcallister after he made his family disappear except he's an adult he's an old kevin mcallister he is he's not even everything yeah he's not watching rubbish or watching any junk food or whatever he says he's's actually making good food, but yeah, he can just do whatever he wants. He's setting traps like a son of a bitch, and he's going like just looting. I don't even – I am not a handyman at all. I am the – whatever the opposite of handyman, the hand listy man. I am so bad at this shit. But when I go to Home Depot, I just love being like,

I can just get whatever I want here. It's just so nice. I couldn't imagine being able to just not have to worry about paying for it and just taking everything right out. That was fucking – I love that. I think it still smells like a Home Depot too. Ooh, yeah. Rob did the Italian hands on that one. I love the smell of a Home Depot.

I love the smell of a Home Depot. That's like the one thing about me. I'm like maybe there is a chance I could one day become a handyman because I do enjoy the smell of a good home. Is it the sawdust? I think so. It's like the warehouse lumber or something. Yeah, it's very unique. And Lowe's does have its own smell in its own right.

But yeah, there's something odd about it. And then once you get the fertilizer, I'm going, we could have a home depot hour next week. Yeah, exactly. When I saw swanson though i was gonna say nick offerman was the perfect casting because like swan this is what ron swanson would do if he was in this universe they're like listen we're just gonna have you play ron he's like that sounds good i'm just honored to be a part of this i yelled oh fuck yeah when i saw that was him because i forgot he was in the series because i didn't think i'd be watching at any point because i'm a big pussy that's scared of zombies so i was like oh fuck it he was in um fargo and he just crushed oh was he i haven't

watched that show the movie big fan of but i haven't seen the show so he has the whole town to himself until frank shows up frank falls into one of his traps a hole in the ground and they have that tense scene at first where he pulls a gun to him and he's asking are you bit are you infected he lets him in the town even though he doesn't want to at first he's like every fucking bum will come after me if i let you in let's him shower goes downstairs they eat a meal together he's got a nice bottle of wine that he serves with him he's like oh i didn't take you as the kind of man who would pair this one. And we start getting hints of like, oh, they're getting along, aren't they? And then they really bond over the Linda Ronstadt on piano. And her Spotify streams must be going through the roof this week after she was used in this scene.

I was on. Yeah. And they start kissing. And before you know it, they're a couple. They're a thing thing they go up into the bedroom obviously nick offerman's character bill is a little more hesitant he's never done this before but something about it you're watching it and you're like i'm happy for these crazy kids yeah i was trying to figure i'm like i'm like all right i'm like how how's. I'm like, how is it? Okay. Hey, a warm body is a warm body.

You know, it's been a crazy run. It's been a long time. Yeah. Nothing. Get after it, kids. It's not the apocalypse. And who cares if it is, right? My guy, Ron, he was eating good and chopping wood, though.

He was living the life for a while there, right? I loved when he watches a zombie get shot. He's like, that never gets old. That was fun. Oh, my God. His traps. Yeah, they were fantastic. The trip wire. And at one point, when they were fighting as zombie get shot he's like that never gets old that was oh my god his traps yeah they were fantastic the tripwire and at one point when they were fighting as a couple he's like i'm gonna go walk through one of your tripwires he's not how i want to do it the fights they had as couples were great too because they showed they were like kind of just a real couple

that operated as a real couple during the apocalypse frank wanted friends he wanted to invite friends over when they have the dinner or the luncheon brunch whatever it was with tess and uh joel and that he's still got the gun that was so funny when they go inside and everything and then the government are all nazis line that was oh my god that was the funniest line of the episode they are all nazis well they weren't then that was so so good. Frank was such a guy. He would, he wouldn't ask permission to ask for forgiveness. He kind of just would do it.

And him, him and Tess are doing their little radio codes. He lent her a gun. Right. And he was like, oh, I lent, lent her a gun. And he was like, which one? He's like, it was a small one. It was small. Right.

It's like, that is something. I think the reason I enjoyed it so much, I think it did give the show a lot more humanity. Right. Cause it's just like, and I think that's probably like the flashbacks too. Cause you feel like it's actual living things instead of being this like dark, dreary world,

which by the way, fuck that flashback showing that little baby in the baby clothes after we had just seen it as a skull with its mom. I'm like, Oh, come on, man. What the fuck are we doing here?

I didn't know. That was real fucked up. I did. There's one thing i did like about the or i guess it was right before the flashback i did like when she sees the plane and she's like yeah and it kind of gives you flying one of those things it's like yeah but you would have said in the middle seat it was 12 for a shitty meal and you know you got everything about all the stuff we complained about on airplanes yeah loud the baby's crying blah blah blah and they're like you flew through the sky go anywhere in the world in like hours like that's fucking crazy i'm like we are kind of dickheads i think it was yeah i don't i don't i don't like what he's done but i'm think lewis ck had a great line

about like people who complain about like oh the wi-fi is not too fast on the airplane it's like you fucking selfish prick do you realize what you're saying right now so ellie did give me like a moment of uh i don't know if the word's brevity but i kind of just like it is like a miracle that yeah we go up in planes and survive that uh we do see bill get shot fending off some bad guys some raiders that come to his town and it's a dramatic scene like frank wakes up in the middle of the night shit's on fire there's explosions going off you hear gunshots and bill's just in the street fucking cocking his gun boom cocking his gun get shot he's like no let me stay out here call joel that's the big thing he's like call joel call joel you're

gonna be alone he thinks he's gonna die frank though saves his life beautiful moment between the couple what is bill doing out there bill like i know he didn't even have any cover he was like in the middle of the street just fucking pick these guys off you're in your house you can see them you have all your booby traps those dudes getting lit up by the bull torch was awesome too i like oh so good the zombies is one thing but like raiders who are like real scumbaggy people that are trying to like ruin someone else's life i have to admit i kind of enjoyed watching them get lit on fire i don't know if that's wrong to say or anything i'm anti-nazi and i'm anti-raiders not the oakland raiders or las vegas raiders shit i kind of like the raiders but i was i was gonna say you're a giants fan so you're kind of anti raiders oh yeah i guess but like not that they're rivals but just that they're not your team you

know what i i play with the raiders and madden i started a franchise when i wanted just to like i just switched things up and they had a fun team i always like to have a running back tight end and a couple of receivers that's all i want to kind of have those things and the raiders were kind of a team that all that's all right and i i kind of like started like brooding for the raiders this year as i was winning games so you're not the love of the raiders you you don't hate the raiders anti-nazi though anti-nazi actual raiders that try to to ruin people's houses and at all time misdirect oh thinking that he was going to die in the wheelchair and you're like oh man it was fucking paralyzed and they throw it it's frank who's all fucked up it's frank in the wheelchair and cancer is i don't know if it was cancer or if it was like a parkinson's type disease because

his hand was shaking a lot but they said there wasn't a cure for this when we were you know still operating as a society there's not a cure for it now and yeah you see it's been so many years they're both looking way older way more weathered and on one day frank gets himself out of bed he said it took him all night to get himself out of bed into the wheelchair bill's why would you do that frank says because i decided today is my last day at the end of the day we're gonna have a nice dinner and then you're gonna crush up all my pills put them in my wine and that's gonna be it i'm gonna fall asleep in your arms and at this point i'm like weeping i'm like oh my god i'm like bill you know on the on the couch when he

just can't believe what he's hearing and they they go through with it they have a nice dinner very romantic the way he presents the wine just like their first date it was i think the same meal was their first day rabbit yeah which i didn't really like to remind myself of because i used to own a rabbit i love rabbits wouldn't eat rabbit but it was rabbit if we're if we're calling a rabbit a rabbit here and when it comes down to it he swallows the wine and then bill goes right after him and swallows it the exact same way you see where it's going and he's like did you put pills in the bottle he said yeah enough to kill a horse he's going out he said you were my purpose i'm going out with you and they go into the bedroom they leave a note for someone to find them probably joel they put on it it wound up being

joel and that's it they left the window open we see joel and ellie find the house they don't go into the bedroom ellie finds the note and he says the house. They don't go into the bedroom. Ellie finds the note and he says, are they dead? And she says, yes. She reads him the note. They left the window open. And that's the final shot of the episode is out the open window. They take the car and they're off on the road.

But oh, my God, we'll never forget Bill and Frank. We'll never forget Bill and Frank. This shit really fucked me up. Good. And I, I actually, when Bill, he would never do this in terms of the survivalist thing, which by the way,

think about the survivalist that are probably still in their bunkers from COVID. Like there is, there was a time. There's gotta be someone out there underground right now. I'm not coming out. Honestly, I'm putting the old, how many?

I like 10,000. I think there's right now. Oh, coming out honestly i'm putting the old how many i like 10 000 i think there's right now oh there's still like new world order i was gonna say like 12 people maybe underground okay yeah so there's our prices right number 12 10 000 i don't know i will ever be able to figure this out i'm telling you they're a bunch of looney tunes leave it in the comments yeah exactly how many people are underground right now but when he was um like even before he met frank and he's cooking and you see it's like medium rare and he's taking the even the way he pours the bottle and i was like this is what large would do if he was in the middle of a zombie apocalypse by himself there's no way he'd be able to set up the entire house he'd have to pay someone to do set up the entire bunker for him essentially but man oh man that man would have himself a hell a hell of a zombie apocalypse all by himself which i have to tell about this i think he would really enjoy this show and by the way i

don't know i'm a big strawberry guy i don't know if i ever look at strawberries the same after this episode too right yeah it's a tough look can you imagine having a strawberry for the first time in like 20 years oh my god it must taste like like oh i thought i thought you meant you wouldn't look at them the same way because they have like they almost start to have sex on top of them oh i'm saying it's like you were saying the opposite way i'm saying it's a beautiful thing a beautiful i thought you're saying you would look like i'm trying to bone right now i'm always trying to bone when i'm eating strawberry. Those things taste fucking delicious. All right, but that was the last of us, episode three.

Do you have any final thoughts? I'm like gutted right as she's reading the letter. He's like, I never liked you, Joel. But that's so Bill. Of course he says that. A guy I didn't even know. I didn't respect you. Never liked you.

I never fucking even knew this guy existed and he fucking like broke my heart like it's it's absolutely crazy and loading up on bill stuff in the video game must have ruled like you're just getting like when you have if that i i guess this didn't happen in the video game the way i thought it did because i think bill p traps you i believe in the video game this is again my guy, my guy, Heavy Spoilers. Yeah. And you're fighting zombies and stuff with him. Yeah, you're fighting zombies upside down, he said. But then I think you do fight off raiders with him.

And I think that's a longer level. Yeah. But I'm seeing those, like the guns on the wall and getting a car. I'm like, it must have been like when you level up three levels in a fucking game. Holy shit. Did you ever playta and then get the money code and you're just like yeah i'm like oh my god i have seven checks points in a block of each other with the sickest apartments ever so i loved it and then calling it now bob we've been

saying it for a while we've been saying it with a bunch of different objects but not this object checkoff's gun finally appeared ellie finds that gun in the drawer packs it up that motherfucker is coming out it's going to be good i also learned this was something i didn't realize again my guy heavy spoilers said like the way joel puts his bag on the ground is the way they put their bag on the ground we have to go into like they they they do go line for line with some of the video game stuff which i appreciate even if i never played the game and even little actions like that. But then,

like you said, you can't really imagine doing this scene in a game. You couldn't do it. Be like, no press square to pluck strawberry circle to make love to your man. It's a completely different thing, but it's beautiful. And I loved it.

And I know there's, there's definitely a second year that hated. I don't give a fuck. You guys didn't love him. If you didn't love it like i'm not saying people have to love it either you don't have to love it like no but if it's for the reasons that you know some people would hate it oh god i have to look at the room do we do the live review of uh let's see do they have uh do they have what's it called um rotten tomatoes per episode no they just have one for like the overall show but i saw episode three here oh really 97 oh this is correct this is critics though this is critics i am three percent fuck those critics those those

those bigger critics um i wonder if imdb has a fan thing here i don't know why i'm looking for these 8.1 on imdb 8.1 there it is hey that got review bombed yeah that got reviewed that and it still got an 8.1 after a bombing that's the most impressive bombing i've ever uh bomb defense i've ever seen other than our guy fucking bill who somehow survived the, uh, he knew it was up to, he knew those fucking, this is the only problem with this episode though. There's one problem. The doomsday preppers think they're right.

Yeah. They're like, I'm built. See, I'm here. And then you're just like, Oh, you're a fucking asshole.

Yeah. All right. Listen, if there's any survivalists out there underground, listen to my mom's basement. I promise you could come back up. The world is safe or at least as safe as it's going to be. And basement i promise you could come back up the world is safe or at least as safe as it's going to be and we thank you for listening thank you for making it

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