My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 296 - JARED CARRABIS RETURNS

Episode Date: August 11, 2023

THE ROCKET IS BACK IN THE BASEMENT! After the news that Dave Portnoy purchased Barstool Sports back from PENN Gaming shocked the world, Robbie and Clem immediately called up their old pal Jared Carrabis for a reunion pod! They're talkin wrestling, boys trips, bathroom televisions, and more! 3Chi: Use code BASEMENT15 for 15% off your complete order at 3Chi.com! HelloFresh: Use code 50FOX at HelloFresh.com/50FOX for 50% off your first order! C4: C4 Ultimate Energy is the official energy drink of SummerSlam this year, and the C4 Ultimate x WWE collaboration is now available exclusively at GNC! Gametime: Download the Gametime app or go to the website, enter your email, and redeem code MMB for $20 off your first purchase (terms apply). ****************************************  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 back to My Mom's Basement, presented by 3C and Barstool Sports. That is Dave Portnoy's Barstool Sports. I am your host, Robbie Fox, along with my co-host, Clem. And Clem, we've been getting a lot of questions this week. At least I have. What does this mean for the Basement Boys? Dave Portnoy has repurchased Barstool Sports does this change anything for

Robbie and Clem people have been asking me I've been telling people probably doesn't change a ton maybe it keeps the basement lights on for longer I think that's what we're hoping for I think we're hoping you know maybe our landlord like our uncle just bought the building from our landlord so it's like all right we still have to pay rent, but maybe we won't get evicted if we start getting low on rent. Well, we'll see about that. But it does change one thing for us. One door opens for the basement boys after this sale of Barstool Sports.

A forbidden door, some may call it. It allows us to once again talk to one of our best friends, the Rocket, Jared Karabas. He's back in the basement. It allows us to once again, talk to one of our best friends, the rocket Jared Karabas. He's back in the basement. It's the third man. Acknowledge me. Gentlemen, it's good to be back.

It's good to see your faces. Welcome back Karabas. It's great to have you back. This was such a quick thing like when the sale happened immediately we were texting each other like can we just can we talk again can we just talk again and you know not like we haven't talked for a couple years but i thought maybe we have to wait a couple months maybe there's a little period then i see you on barstool radio yesterday i texted dave immediately i was like am I allowed to have Karabas on the show?

He just sent me two words, two of the sweetest words I've ever read in my life. Green light. Oh, man. Our dad said we can play with you again, Jared. Yeah. Pretty much, yeah. So, I mean, I was in the Red Sox dugout when the news broke. When Dave dropped the video, I was in the Red Sox dugout. I'm watching it.

I'm standing on the railing watching Dave's video. Not even finished with the video. And then my phone rings. It's Kirk. And I'm like, hello? He's like, you're fucking back, buddy. And I was like, what? He's like, I saw the news.

I called Dave. I asked if you could be on my show. He said yes. So like he like when I talked to Dave, he was like, yeah, within 10 minutes, the announcement, my phone rang and it was Kirk asking if you can come back on the show. So I got the green light there within 45 minutes of Dave's video. Gaz texted me like the invite to the 20-year anniversary party it was just like a full on like tearing down the berlin wall you know what's funny is when dave accidentally fired ian rapaport trying to file fire michael rapaport he was like you're fired and he's like i don't

even work here you basically got hired and you don't even work here like pretty much everyone else was like hey by the way here's your next month of work commitments and podcast appearances and you were like all right yeah which is great because like i mean i i feel like uh you know like it's a it's a good it's it's beneficial for everyone like now like i can like go on do your show i can do kevin's show i can do kirk's show that's probably like all i'll do like i'll do like barcelona Like I'm not going to do like the full car wash. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

A hundred percent. But it's like, it's great. Cause now like I have like little tiny gaps in my schedule and I didn't have a place to talk wrestling either. This episode of my mom's basement is brought to you by three Chi, the best in the biz of all the things in life. One of the best has to be getting high wherever you want, whenever you want,

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We could talk horror movies come October, get Jared back on for like a Halloween special. The possibilities are endless. We don't have to talk about you like you're Voldemort anymore. Like that's true. Yeah. I was hurtful. I got the Chrisris benoit treatment yeah i did yeah but yeah they've been watching me that was tough it was tough because uh you know there's obviously some

people that moved on uh from the barstool world that dave will talk about openly like motherfucker like said all right jared's out no one can say his name sent out a company email being like ignore him and then like three weeks later has pat mcafee on his live stream who's wearing a fan well listen you're not kicking punts in the nfl over here that's what i'm saying it's like different people play by different rules so i was like all right okay i i i get it like there's uh there's different tiers to this but yeah no that was uh that was that was a rough time to be to be blacklisted like that well now you're back i mean are you back as like the son of dave portnoy or after this are you like his stepson i'd like to think that i'm still his son um we got a good kind of

like i'd like to think you know what it's it's kind of like vince and shane where it's like you you're running the company business but i'm gonna go to japan and make money my own way you know like it's like i'm hopefully you don't get into like a helicopter crash afterwards but you know what if you're anything like shane you'll be all right yeah minor scratch yeah i mean that's kind of where i'm at is uh you know like i'm i'm not doing the family business right now. But then there's always that return where you can come back and have a cheap pop. You're in the rumble now. Like, that's kind of how I feel. I almost feel like when you guys see each other, like if it's in Boston, like we said, in a couple of weeks for that event that I still don't know if it's happening or if we are allowed to name it.

It's going to be like the end of Phil of Dreams. Like, Dad, you want to have a catch? You know, my shoulders all messed up. I'd be in the major of Phil of Dreams. Like, dad, you want to have a catch? And he's going to be like, Garrett, you know my shoulder's all messed up. I'd be in the major leagues if I had a good shoulder. It's a beautiful thing. And I do apologize. I have to say on a few different podcasts, I did say like the guy who I can't talk about who's taking food out of my kid's mouth right now

by trying to bankrupt us. Like I feel bad for it, but you know, it's show business. I know more than anybody. It is. It is. All is forgiven. I'm just, I'm glad to be able to to do content with my friends right now it's it's amazing

i loved firing a tweet off when jared threw out the first pitch at fenway where i was just like someone just threw an absolute like beam as who was this guy this unnamed man yeah um before this sale though i don't know if you even know this clem me and jared pretty much planned like a yearly boys trip just to make sure we would be able to see each other for the future so we pretty much planned every year we're gonna go to the royal rumble from here on out wherever it is we'll travel there see the sights and sounds of the city this year it's in miami is it so i the second that i said that i think i forget who i was with whoever i was with was a wrestling fan

he was like you know it's in london next right and i was like no is it really i was like what uh i don't know if i even have a path you told me tropicana yeah i don't know dude yeah i mean i i don't know i thought it when i googled it when i googled it it said tropicana field but now i'm here in london either way i mean we put it out there so we got to go yeah we have to go we're going i mean i feel like it's going to be one of those things now where people are going to hear that we're doing this and they're going to want to get in on it uh i say we keep it tight for now but i mean i'm open do you think like our friends are gonna want to get in on it yeah i'm only yeah i'm especially people like to travel and they just

need an excuse to travel so it's like oh yeah like i don't really like wrestling but like i i'll go to london it's like we should have a thing that's like you got to prove yourself it's like the citizenship set taxes to get a citizen in the united states you got a name like who's the fourth president who what is the son's name? Like, yeah, you should be able to know like Gorilla Monsoon and his son. And it's also like the like the driver's test. Like you have to like sit through hours of training. Like, did you watch that YouTube video that I sent you?

It was like the hour and a half. You didn't watch it. I didn't watch it. I forgot about it. If I'm being honest, it was like videos are a tough ask. Jared, you know, it was a 90 minute YouTube video. I mean, they've if I'm being honest. YouTube videos are a tough ask, Jared. It was a 90-minute YouTube video. I mean, they've got YouTube on television now. You can sit down and pretend it's a movie.

I'm not going to sit down and watch it. I haven't had it for 10 years. Yeah, I'm not going to sit down and watch 90 minutes on my laptop, but I'll sit down in bed or on the couch, and I can watch a 90-minute YouTube video for sure. It's worth it, I'm telling you. I've done that before. I will watch it. Hand up, I will watch a 90 minute YouTube video for sure. It's worth it. I'm telling you, I've done that before. I will watch it.

Hand up. I will watch it. I forgot about it. It's a complete story arc of Roman Reigns' character forever. And it like explains wrestling. It's, it's kind of like his story arc, but it explains it to wrestling,

like casual wrestling fans or people that are like, isn't wrestling fake? Isn't wrestling stupid? And it just explains it to them. Like, yeah, yeah, that, that video should be mandatory for anyone that even,

I'm not even saying that you get to come to the Royal rumble with us. If you watch it, but still watch it. But if you don't watch it, you definitely can't come. No chance. No. All right.

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It's America's number one meal kit for a reason. Two people that were the opposite of that for me in terms of like brought them to their first wrestling show and they were actually three people were awesome for it. Caleb Feidelberg and Glennie Balls brought them to SummerSlam two years ago. Oh, my God. What a good vibes crew that was. They were loving it.

Those are just some enthusiastic gentlemen. That's all that is. I mean, you need the vibes crew, especially for like if it's like a major for pay-per-view yeah like like if you so i have you been to a royal rumble before one only one i haven't one where i never met one yeah that must have been terrible no it was good it was a fun one ray mysterio came back to hurricane came back so we got a couple surprises you know it was unexpected though it was the first ever women's Royal Rumble followed by men's Royal Rumble. Every single time the 10 second countdown starts, the whole crowd stands up and everyone gets excited for whoever's coming out. We had two rumbles back to back.

That was 60 fucking squats, Jared. 60 times I had to stand up. And by the end, Nate was just not standing up. I'm sitting. I'm to stand up. And by the end, Nate was just not standing up. I'm sitting. I'm not saying this. That was the, the 2019 Royal rumble in Atlanta for the Superbowl where we were at the, the barstool house and Devlin ended up winning.

And he was like, I can eat this week. But I mean, that was, that was also the same year. I believe that we were watching the the previous year's royal rumble for like the first 20 minutes and we didn't figure out that it was last year's royal rumble until i was like how did baron corbin grow his hair back like that bald guy has long

hair all of a sudden this bald guy has got hair down to his ass and it's only been like two weeks this is very strange. Yeah, that was an all-time call from Big Cat and Jared from the house. They were like, who's walking out in the Royal Rumble right now? And I was like, they're playing video packages. That main event doesn't come on for another two hours. And they were like,

we're watching the wrong one. It's the wrong one. It ain't right. I loved hearing that text message that you guys were independently setting up your own bro time. And that just, it makes me just, it makes my heart sore. But also, I'm also kind of figuring this out now. I feel like me and Robbie have gotten close. And once Jared, you know, was no longer to play with us anymore.

So it's like, is Jared going to start moving in back on my guy here? Like the basement is a place where there's no animosity or anything. But, you know, if I get bumped to like like jared this is my seat on the couch that's my you're your little butt can't fit in the big butt spot here you know you you get to be in a relationship on facebook but i've been i've been the side hoe for the entire time i i never left the picture yeah unfortunately that might be a true detail there. One thing that I want to bring up publicly on this podcast and just call you out for it. Essentially, I saw on your Instagram story yesterday, you put a fucking 65 inch television in your bathroom. I responded right away.

I said, that is just fuck you money from Jared. There's 65 in the back. I don't have a 65 in my living room you put a 65 in the back it's not gonna get foggy when you shower buy another one bob this guy this this guy he started the podcast with the acknowledge me i think we actually do that for three years we couldn't acknowledge him we have to acknowledge this guy's a big baller yeah i mean uh bob fox said that you've got fuck you money and i said i have uh exact replica wwe title money but one of the first things i bought was like i know the dude that makes the titles that they use on tv and he custom made a wwe title with like the side plates that have a custom rocket logo in them and i was like give me that and we've got i it's right out there been been wearing it

you don't wear that up without wanting to get it like because this also it's not just a regular replica title you could go on wwe shop and, you know, they're pretty expensive even there. I think they're 300, 500, maybe $600. This is like Jared went to the guy that makes those, the ones that are mass produced. Not good enough for the rocket. Oh, here he comes. Here he comes with it. On the shoulder. Real diamonds, real gold, I'm sure.

Yeah. Let's see the side plates, the rocket side plates. I mean, it's even got the little like the side thing like he's broadcasting yeah i have the uh we made look at the way that thing shines on camera by the way if you're not watching on youtube right now if you're just listening on the podcast feed i'm blinded by the the gems on this they're dancing the gems are dancing right now flashy i went every time i have a pay-per-view. I also have the,

what's it called? The Ula Fala. That's what it's called. Oh, the necklace. I've got that too. It took me, it took me a month to get it from a Samoan jeweler.

Like it's actually from Samoa. Like it wasn't. And when you got that, I was like, bro, are people going to get on you for appropriation? Is it cool to wear the Ula Fala? I don't think it is.

I don't think it is. No, I think it's cool. I saw people at SummerSlam wearing their own versions of it. I don't think it was your high end version of it. They don't sell one for kids, by the way, which seems outrageous to me. My nephew, Roman Reigns fan. I can't buy him a fucking Ula Fala. I don't I don't want anyone else to have one.

I want it to be. I have one. Roman Reigns has one. That's it. That's it. That's it. Roman Reigns was on It's a Small World right before me and my family were there the other day, Jared.

It was a nice little thing. Really? He's taking time off, right? He's hurting, really. But I heard he's not going to miss any's he's he's hurting really apparently yeah but i heard he's not gonna miss any of the prior commitments that he had so like i mean he defends the title every four months exactly might be good to take some time off where it's like you could extend the program going a little longer see this is this is one of those things where uh it was a huge miss to not have a

wrestling podcast together because I would have been insufferable this entire time. Yeah. Yeah. Like I've been, so I, I wrestling is a weird thing. Clem where like,

who's your favorite wrestler of all time? Well, you know, I love the stone colds, the, the halts, but like my guy who was my guy was Mick Foley mankind. Okay. So Mick Foley for the most part for his peak was always a baby face for me like kane was my favorite wrestler of all

time that's number one uh and then it was cm punk and then it was roman reigns i look at favorite wrestlers the same way that I look at sports teams. It's like you, you ride the wave when it's a good season. If it's a shitty season, you're just like, you're a Red Sox fan. You're a Mets fan.

Like I've been a Roman Reigns fan since day one. And he was struggling for a good job. Like it was basically like, you know, we were a last place team for a long time like yeah like we had some like uh like we called up a couple of prospects and the future looked promising for a little bit but then we just we still sucked like no matter what we did so the last three years has been essentially i don't know uh it's it was like nine years of being

a very very disappointing franchise followed by three straight World Series titles. Like, think about how fucking cool that would be to live that existence as a baseball fan. That's what it's been like for me as a Roman Reigns fan. Because, I mean, even when you go back and watch that YouTube video that I told you about, Bob, those promos from the early days they're even worse like

they were bad at the moment they were bad in real time they're even worse with the context of how good he is now you're like holy shit like this is yikes so yeah man it's three straight world series titles we're fucking we're cruising right now the way you describe this and i haven't been in wrestling i think since like 2004 it sounds like if you took your entire life as a red sox fan and just condensed it where it's like i feel like they sucked probably when you were really really young right and then it just goes oh four to you know 18 or whatever and it's like the dynasty yeah yeah yeah exactly would you say this is like i don't think he's reached it's definitely not reached the level i feel but i feel like there's a few people out there who was like listen i was

like one of the three actual rocky maivia fans when everyone was chanting rocky stocks yeah and now they're going every fast movie being they're like you know this guy or you know they got to see so would you say like is roman on that trajectory he was legitimately despised by 99 of the fan base and now he is like the king of the fucking industry yeah like everyone everyone's on his dick now but yeah i remember doing like from the top rope episodes in 2017 being like i don't know bob i just still love him i don't know why uh no one else seems to feel the same way like when he won the royal rumble in philly and just got like brutally booed out of the building to the point where they had to bring out the rock

to like hold up his arm. And like the rock is still looking around. Like nobody told me people didn't like this guy. Yeah. Like he's like, what the fuck to do? It was like that. And I want to say I was atay night raw when he won the title

does that sound right when he won oh yeah in boston against seamus yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so that's right yeah like i i don't know i just uh i feel like it's it's the same thing like when i get like a white socks fan will tweet me and be like you know rocket what do i do like this is so sad and like miserable and like you gotta stick it out you gotta stick it out through the hard times because that makes the good times feel that much better like imagine if you just like isn't white socks dave boycotting the white socks like he tweeted the next day being like oh i saw the the white socks one last night like that's's fucking stupid. Like if you're, if you're a fan, you just got to eat the bad times because once you finally win it all, that's what makes it feel great is like,

look at how shitty this used to be. Look at how bad we used to have it. Now look how great we have it. A boycott. That's just a, that's an easy way out. And with Roman, there were some bad times. There were times where a boycott was on the table. You could have boycotted. There, there were definitely times like there were times where i was on the table you could have boycotted

there there were definitely times like i don't because robbie and i there's like a 10 year age gap but like clem you could probably relate a little bit more where once we got to high school like it wasn't cool to be a wrestling fan anymore so like i i stopped watching probably when i got to high school and then i came back when when Kane put his mask on, which was in 2011. But it was kind of getting to that point with Roman, where you almost couldn't say out loud that you were a Roman Reigns fan. You had to be like, yeah, no, I like Johnny Gargano. I don't know.

If there was any sports teams that I would root for that embarrassed me every single year, occasionally give me like a shred of hope and then just rip it out and cut my balls off. No, Jared, I really can't think of any. Jerk. Jerk. That is terrible.

Another fun fact. Kane was signing autographs at my mall, the same one where I saw DMX. So that really. And DMX at their legends only. legends only yeah yeah i would love to hear that conversation i mean for roman for so many years it was especially they were trying to fit like a square peg in a round hole where i think we all saw hints of like this guy might be a pretty fucking good heel like he's got that serious tone that cadence they're trying to make him do looney tunes promos where he's going on stage and going sucker and suffocate this is crazy it's like

that was not him the second they said all right we're gonna pair you with ball heyman just be yourself a little bit more i mean the second they let him do that it was like strap a rocket to his ass and he's immediately not only one of the best wrestlers in the world, one of the best promos in the world. He is one of the most over wrestlers we've had in decades to the end, the point where, like, it's not just the promos where people boo him. It continues and extends into the matches. Every single match this guy has, the crowd is booing every single move, every punch. And it's that vibe of we love to hate this guy. It crowd is booing every single move every punch and it's that vibe of we love to hate this guy it's not go away heat it's like this guy's such a fucking good heel

he's being such a bastard to his actual legitimate family like fuck this guy at summer slam people were just chanting fuck you roman and my nine-year-old nephew's just looking at me like i think i'm the only one rooting for this guy I was like you're goddamn right you are buddy let's go we're rooting with you so yeah great stuff um Clem you did mention the Mets there I did want to bring that up because it's been a couple years where you haven't been able to talk baseball with Jared either a couple contentious years between the Mets in the office that i'm sure jared has been watching from yeah it's like that squidward meme where he's looking out the window at his

friends but it's not even like they're having fun it's like they're they're in a horrible fight so what's that been like just watching from afar jared um i mean not to bring it back to roman but it's like if if i had roman's number i wouldn't have like texted him after winning the rumble it's like ah man like this is going real bad like i'm just gonna give you some time to breathe like watching the mets fall apart i didn't reach out to any like i didn't reach out to clem did not reach out to kevin it's like because i know what that's like it would be different if it were the yankees right like the yankees have won championships and like they've had their highs but you know they would have a low period but like i did barstool radio with kevin for years

so like i i was next to him every day hearing him talk about how great it's going to be when Steve Cohen finally took over the Mets and just seeing that hope in his eyes of finally we have our savior finally someone is going to save us from the will ponds we're going to be like he was like Dr. Claw like we're just going to fuck you we're going to spend all right the the average payroll in baseball is 240 million we're gonna spend 550 million like we're gonna double it up so i felt bad no part of me and i hope you know this clem no part of me wanted to rub it in your faces like i felt genuinely bad for you guys no i do think there is like a uh i mean hey you're a good friend i i went back to that when you guys are going through all your text message uh recaps on barstool radio and yeah it taught me back since basically he left you like a two-minute message

pouring his heart out i went back and i got a couple things like happy birthday i also got the time where you didn't come to the bar that was apparently like in your living room but that you said already yeah what happened that night uh we were in town for the dozen i believe and you i guess rdt texted you later at night and was like hey rocket said he's not coming even though it's basically like we're in next door to him right now but wasn't it like 15 minutes before last call or something like that that's what you said we were there for like another two hours but i also said listen i don't know if i get a picture with him i'm gonna get like murdered by dave he's gonna chop my head off and i figure i

don't know what you're doing. You're always flying across country. I see you in different ballparks and shit like that. So I had no idea you were even around. But the Mets, the Mets and the Red Sox, there's like a connection between our fan bases. Cause it's brewed in like fuck the Yankees. So I call it the Red Sox connection where like right now in August,

when we're dead, we're like, all right, I hope the Red Sox go out and win. And obviously now there's other teams in the AL East that can present a problem to the Yankees. But that was it for like during your fucking whole entire war of the two thousands was we would root for you guys. And like 2004 is like one of my best baseball memories. Cause I've never seen my team cross the finish line,

but seeing what you guys did, it was great. So I never expected any kind of like salt in the wound. I will say though, like atlanta braves lineup and i have to see it every fucking time they had a single or a home run i'm like god damn it rock i'm a damn showman i know i know where my bread gets buttered and uh i feel like the that's why doing a national baseball podcast you don't have a home base it's a national podcast but when the playoffs start we're gonna do a live show in atlanta that's probably outside boston and oakland that's probably our biggest listening contingency is in atlanta so that's the plan is i've never the only

time i've ever been there was for the super bowl when we went there but it was obviously january so i was outside the park um never been there for a game, but that's – Are you going to do the thing that you're not allowed to do? You can't do the chop? I know – They don't allow that, right? Do they not allow the chop? I don't know.

Buster only does it. You didn't hear? He does? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've even, like, talked about that. Like, we were saying, like like now that the forbidden door is open we can have all like the baseball personalities come on the podcast now and i was saying like we

probably could have had frank the tank on the entire time like i had nobody the one of the the the only barstool personality to consistently retweet my tweets during the embargo was frank the tank just he probably thought that i still worked there he had no idea yeah no he definitely did i was doing yesterday like promoting rough and rowdy and i said frank that video the other day where you didn't know any barstool people was so funny when they were just putting like faces in front of him he didn't know who they were and gia was one of them gia friend sister had a whole tweet where she was like, I say hi to Frank every day. He still doesn't know who I am.

I think Frank responded to it and everything. I said, do you know Gia yet? I took a long pause and he went, nope, don't think so. Out of nowhere. He's just, nope, I don't think so. I'm sure you could have had Frank. Now, I mean, you could have Hubs, your best friend. He's back.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we periodically would have little uh appearances from hubs we would have him drop in every now and then yeah like do you have a soundboard yeah so like i would just like there was like barstool stuff all over it like i have one from dave honey he was trying to pronounce shohei otani one time on his show it's like that was like the other thing like people be like you know like what do you hate barstool what are you talking about no dude like it's it's a different job but like i i feel like i never left in the first place it was like wwe and aew like yeah the guys in the locker place. It was like WWE and AEW.

All the guys in the locker room are friends with each other. Sure, the people at the top have to pit each other against each other for money purposes or whatever. They're actual direct competitors. But all the people in the locker room are still cool. Still visiting locker rooms. And MJF cannot cut a promo without not just mentioning... There are guys that will imply or make references to wwe mjf will just straight up say wwe like during like oh vince mcmahon's been washing my balls lately

frank the tank does whatever he wants like people go are there rules are there barstool rules and then frank the tank rules no frank the tank doesn't have rules here dave goes just do your thing frank yeah he's honestly like, like they say, he might be the most famous barstool employee at this point. It's like Rocket is like, I don't know if Frank's nipping at Rocket Seals or Rocket's nipping at Frank Seals when it comes to baseball personalities.

Dude, I saw the video where he was at Yankee Stadium and needed a police escort. I've never needed that. Crazy. I've never needed that. And like, I feel like. He does the hat to the crowd. Yeah.

2018, 2019. I mean, there were, that was as hot as the heel run went. never needed that and like i feel like that's the the hat to the crowd yeah 2018 2019 i mean there were that was as hot as the the heel run went and i didn't need a police escort no did you say the video of dave doing a he did like a almost like a tmz type interview someone came up to him on the street and we're just asking him questions with the camcorder and they were like what's next for the new york office like what what's gonna go down there and dave just goes frank the tank no further explanation no you know didn't talk further this guy i don't even know if he was a barstool fan the interview i assume he was if he caught up with dave on the street and everything but i i just want to imagine everyone that doesn't know the dynamics of barstool they're like this frank the Tank guy must be the new boss in New York yeah like it was uh uh I think the comparison would be because people would be like well you

know they didn't they didn't like bring anyone in to replace you for baseball after you left and I was like brother that that was a change it was like from Shawn Michaels to Stone Cold Steve Austin Frank the Tank Frank the Tank is the face of baseball. New era. Yeah. Frank era has begun. Yeah. It's like, you know,

drawing a Shawn Michaels comparison, nothing to shake a stick at, but no one was Stone Cold Steve Austin. And that's Frank the Tank. All right. Speaking of wrestling, going back to wrestling, let's shout out our good friends at C4.

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Did you watch SummerSlam, Jared? I assume you did. Of course I did. I did. And you mentioned Montez Ford. Did you see the video that I did a battleground? Uh, not battleground.

Wasn't no, uh, what the fuck did they call survivor series? Was it, uh, war games or games? Yeah, yeah,

yeah, yeah, yeah. So, uh, I got to go backstage for that and do a video asking WWE superstars, like, who was your favorite,

uh, baseball player growing up? and can you do their batting stance and Montez Ford was one of the superstars that participated and then after he did the batting stance we basically just like cut a promo together it was sick I have to get the video yeah I haven't seen it back but like we basically just like cut a promo it went from like talking about baseball to we immediately were just cutting a wrestling promo together he was awesome he was super nice i've met him once before and super nice guy yeah um i was at summer slam i had so much fun at summer slam i thought it was an absolute blast like i said i brought the little nephew he was

going crazy for all his guys huge roman guy but also huge cody guy cody had a great match against brock lesnar it's probably my favorite match of the night and la night everyone is all about la night right now yeah you know he won the battle royal the whole crowd is going crazy everyone is flipping out so that was great do you have though we've been doing this the past couple weeks me and clem sharing back and forth our favorite summer slam memories So one popped to mind for you. I mean, probably not that it was like, you know, what was it? SummerSlam 2000 Undertaker versus Kane.

It's what it's probably their most forgettable match of all time. But for me, it's not because the the match, I don't even think the bell rang. I don't think the match started. It was kind of just like they came through the curtain they started brawling but the entire it was the weirdest thing of all time because i don't even know that there was a payoff the undertaker just tries to rip kane's mask off the entire time he's not trying to get a pinfall submission nothing he's just like let me get that mask off your face and i i used to get wwe and raw magazine because like raw was like going with the boobs um but like the the magazine because i mean like

this was i don't want to say it was pre-internet but like probably pre me being allowed to use the internet by myself uh i was probably like in sixth grade the magazine had a picture of kane with his mask ripped off and like his hair was down in his face but he was bleeding and he had his hand like right here so you could like kind of see his face but not really so like that i mean growing up without like social media and really kind of being able to like be an internet sleuth that made Kane's character such, like it was so mysterious because you couldn't like, you know, the,

the, the, the like slipknot, they're like, Hey, we have a new band member and he's wearing a mask. It took like three days for people to be like, it's that guy,

you know, like back then, like you didn't know who Kane was, you didn't know who Glenn was. And that, that was your Glenn Jacobs. Yeah. Not, not the most know who Kane was. You didn't know who Glenn was. And that was your Glenn Jacobs. Yeah, not the most intimidating name. Yeah, no former school teacher born in Spain.

Yeah, they had no idea. But that was like the first glimpse of Kane without a mask on. And I can't even tell you how exhilarating it was just to get a little peek. That was like seeing boobies for the first time. Yeah, better. My favorite moment from Summer slam this year it's tough there was a lot of good moments probably cody winning i think cody winning was a good moment i mean the main event was great though too in that jimmy uso jay's twin brother clem came out it was jay uso versus Roman Reigns real cousins in real life and Jimmy Uso

came out to fuck his brother over came out in a hood bandana over his face and everything pulled him out of the ring when he was about to get the pinfall and then did like the Vince reveal where he takes it off it was me all along type thing are you in the camp of the storyline doesn't make sense now no I'm not I people

people called that out and they're like this is so stupid such a quick turn I love the bloodline storyline and I don't want it to end anytime soon. I want it to extend at least until WrestleMania. I think there's a good story to tell with like every member of the bloodline turning on Roman and then he eventually faces Cody at the WrestleMania with no help and Cody could beat him without help or something like that. But I think it makes sense in terms of Jimmy a couple of weeks ago saying, or Roman saying, Jimmy never thought you could be the tribal chief. Like, I think Jimmy is just aligning himself with who he thinks is going to be. It's like almost like the bloodline is like a mob story. And it's like, you want to align yourself with who isn't going to get hit. Yeah. Or isn't going to get you whacked.

We've also got 35 weeks before WrestleMania. Like they've got to really milk this before we get Jimmy versus Jay at WrestleMania. Pretty much. Yeah. Robin, when you said Jimmy was going to go in and fuck his brother, I'm like,

wow, they really went back to the attitude. Yeah. More choice of words. That was a poor choice of to the attitude. Yeah. Made it even worse. Poor choice of words. That was a poor choice of words right there. Yeah. Now what I mean.

So Rocket, now that we're like on speaking terms again, and I guess not speaking terms, but content speaking terms again. Yeah. And I really don't have any dog in the fight. I know all the controversy over the years about the guy just following Twitter and stuff. I guess I have to be a Roman Reigns guy now, right? Yeah.

And like, I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to try to be the hipster guy and be like, oh, I was there from day one. I'm there on like day 100 and whatever of his fucking title reign at this point. But I'm a Roman Reigns guy. Or you could flip the other way. You could say, fuck that. I'm a Cody guy.

Cody should have won at WrestleMania last year. He should be winning at WrestleMania this year. You could just go all in on Cody Rhodes Who would even like Cody Rhodes? Is there anyone who likes Cody Rhodes? I know Bob's a Cody Rhodes guy You could be a main event J guy That would be

Kind of You wouldn't necessarily be a day one But he's yet to take off as a singles guy That's kind of happening right now You're in the very early stages of main event. Jay being a singles competitor. Like you could kind of be like an OG now. Is that the guy who tried to fuck his brother?

He got fucked by his brother. Oh, he got fucked by his brother. I don't know which one's better, but yeah, sure. Main event. Jay,

I'm a main event. Jay guy. So my wife was watching Robbie stories, his Instagram stories. And she said, um, and AJ looks over, he goes,

mommy, why are those two men fighting are they laughing then she goes oh it's pro wrestling goes i want to watch that and i go robbie you just introduced aj to wrestling and now i'm gonna be phil margera and he's gonna be bam just kicking yeah he fucking murders my ass so that the blood is on your hands robbie but main event jay i guess we're gonna get into how do i even watch that is the wwe channel still a thing is it peacock no it's on? No, it's on the cock. It's on the cock.

Pay-per-view is on the cock. SmackDown is on Fox. Where's the old shit so I can show him like, you know, still on the cock? Okay, we're going to go on the cock then. AJ, going on the cock. No, he's like, I wouldn't say that. Not even at the new bar still, I don't think he'd say that.

Not in front of a kid. Yeah. All right, Jared, this was a blast. We're going to get you back in the basement. Hopefully frequently. I would love for you to become a recurring guest once again,

to talk grabs, talk horror movies. Like I said, big four pay-per-views, all that. We're going to make. You got to do Wembley. Yeah.

One way or another. But we don't work. You're going to earn this paycheck jared yeah about damn time all right buddy it's great catching up with you everyone uh i was gonna say follow jared and shit but he doesn't need your follow he's fucking famous and stuff yeah follow me on myspace uh myspace.com slash carabas13 yeah go enjoy your 65 inch television screen and in your bath with your i'm gonna wine, but you're not a wine guy. Probably fucking Coca-Cola.

Yeah, orange soda. I'm on a big-time orange soda kick right now. Oh, who loves orange soda? Yeah, Calvis loves orange soda. Yeah. All right, guys. We'll talk to you later. Later.

Great having you back, bud. Great having Calvis back. Just a delight. A delight. Robbie, I've seen a twinkle in Robbie's eye. I haven't seen it in a very long time. Apparently that twinkle was going on behind my back all these years. I've seen your text messages.

Robbie, who are you texting? No, no, no. I'm just looking up the score of the Yankees game. Oh, okay, Robbie. Joining the Communist Party like Oppenheimer. Yeah. We do have a couple nerdy headlines we could talk about. Not a ton because still the writer's strike and the actor's strike and all this is kind of holding everything from moving forward.

But the Fantastic Four stuff is still a rotating door of cast members, essentially. We've got no confirmation on any cast members, but it seems like Vanessa Kirby is the only one that people are pretty locked in on as Sue Storm. She's the actress from Mission Impossible. And he's not confirmed? No, he's not confirmed. We thought he was last week. But I think he's, I would put like 75% he's going to be him. But I don't think they could say anything because of the strikes and whatnot.

But they're saying Vanessa Kirby was the only one to actually sign her deal before the strikes came into effect so she's kind of locked in and i've recently heard that they went back and rewrote the script just to try to get adam driver back so i think they rewrote it to try to make read more adam driver like so you can connect with that character i don't know what's going on but it worries me i'll say that much it worries me for a movie that i don't want any worry about this should be a bona fide home run this we can't have another quantamania on our hands with fantastic four so i saw that report too and that concerned me you don't rewrite reed richards to get an actor even someone who i like like adam driver you find an actor that's

fucking going to fit that character, like a fucking big, flexible, bendy glove that he is. And you fucking go to ride on the fantastic four at this point. I don't know if there's anything Marvel's going to be able to do to kind of get the stench out of the air of the last phase or so. And obviously secret invasion is kind of like the ground zero for that all but let's be honest like i think quantum mania is when we were just like oh fuck and then there was a couple shows around the way that kind of were uneven in terms of response you fuck up fantastic four i was talking to someone about this on twitter and they're like are they gonna fuck up x-men and i'm like well buddy we got to worry about fantastic four if

they fuck up fantastic four at this point it's, don't even bother with X-Men. Just wait until... I should get off the trust of Feige fucking chair. I know. I'd love to be able to just sit on that one and just say, it's all right, it's all right. At some point, you have to say shit. There's a reason why even Bill Belichick right now,

he's kind of having his seats getting hotter in New England, and I feel like that's almost with Feige right now. There's no way they rewrote Iron Man for Robert Downey Jr. They're like, you're Robert Downey Jr. You're perfect for Iron Man. Let's fucking cook. And I'd say this is like the next most important role is Reed Richards. It might be.

Yeah. At this point, especially without a Captain America in the Marvel, you have Sam Wilson. But without a without a Chris Evans in the the marvel universe you need to establish someone as like your top guys we right now it doesn't feel like other than maybe benedict cumberbatch like who's our top guy that's been around for a long time and and has that gravitas about him now that's exactly the problem and i do think a chunk of this of the issues with this phase is that t'challa was going to be that guy and he passed away obviously so that really fucked them and now cumberbatch probably could have been that guy but they took thor in a very comedic route and like i'm a love and thunder guy i'm one of those few

that's still sticking up for that movie but i could admit it probably removed him from that top guy role a little bit in my mind yeah he kind of and i rewatched did you rewatch it and have the same thoughts i did where it was like oh this is a little goofier than i thought going in once i not completely i i actually i think i enjoyed it a little more on the second watch which i know most people didn't and that's that's a pretty hot take i think yeah but again i'm a little bit of a sappy guy second watch was the first time i got to take the nephew to see a movie and he was loving it so i was kind of like just watching him laugh at all the silly stuff and i was just like this is great i was watching it with the kids and they were laughing i'm like

oh you guys are laughing because this is ridiculous so you're like oh this is made for these people that haven't had their brains fully developed yet exactly i mean rob there's no disrespect has your brain fully developed yet like is it i think it did i think it's 25 and i'm 25 so i think i'm done pal you're good it's the cutoff is here this is as good as you're gonna get if you were hoping for more tune out they were like that's what eric is like we gotta give this guy a contract his brain is fully developed now we have to lock this guy up i i also picture my brain fully developing like when vader's helmet goes on him it's just like this is on it my hat goes on me this this champion hat i love that sound it makes that's

a pretty good effect that's pretty good right you'd be a sound effects guy yeah that was good i got my yoda voice i could do my darth vader i have an idea for the thing too we haven't we haven't casted the thing either right is there anyone even rumored for the thing? There were people rumored for the thing. First was Daveed Diggs, who I really like. He was an actor that kind of got his like made his name in Hamilton. And he's been doing movies and TV since. And then it got rumored that Richie, cousin from the bear, was going to be the thing. And then someone came out and said he's not going to be the thing, but he likely going to be in the movie so people think he might be the silver surfer which is a little weird to think

about that actor in particular he's great i love that actor but is he gonna be like swooshing through space and beyond chef yeah could he be doom could you get could he be a doom oh he had like like we we he's got pretty piercing blue eyes that could like look through that mask i don't know maybe he could be doom and he has kind of that sour disposition right we talked about in andor we talked about it in the bear but like doom that's like you talk about ones you can't miss on i feel like the the villains are gonna be the thing that might carry the mcu going forward and obviously that fucking got blown up with this one with kang so it's like doom is i think the next guy and it's almost to the point where in the future future i think they we have had so much we've been magneto overload in fox that i don't think

they're gonna like lead with magneto i think it's gonna be a mr sinister potentially i don't think they're going to lead with Magneto. I think it's going to be a Mr. Sinister, potentially. I don't even know. Apocalypse is such a crazy villain. Would they go back on Striker? Like, Striker isn't the most exciting villain? I like the idea of Sentinels being involved off the jump, because the Sentinels really... Anything from the cartoon, basically, which they were a big part of. Yeah, make them purple and pink.

Yeah, exactly. I'll go all the way. My idea for Thing. Guy. Muscle guy. kind of a little bit of a hard-o, if you want to say about his muscles, just add him on the show, Jared Karabi. Throw him in the mix. Oh, he'd be great. He'd be great is the thing.

It's clobbering time. Tell me you can't hear this guy saying that. He actually says that because that's one of CM Punk's pick quotes. So Jared actually drops it's clobbering time on the reg. Oh, no oh so that's perfect now i assume based on you saying maybe richie from the boys could be doom assume you haven't seen this rumor it's a rumor that it was offered to killian murphy now that could be interesting now we are cooking my friend now we are cooking especially because

it's also a like yes he played scarecrow but it's been a while since then and i think doom would be a very different role for him yes and i have there's there's a few actors that i have total utter faith that they are going to crush it and he is one and um i loved him in batman but yeah i think he could take this role obviously oppenheimer everyone's sucking his dick i'm not gonna go back and do that again but i i didn't i've never even watched peaky blinders you have to understand that so there's so many people who are like oh my god he's the bestest and that i'm in love with him without even seeing like his signature work it sounds like

so all right i gotta watch peaky blonders. I think I would really like that show. Shows are such a goddamn – it's such like an overbearing – not an overbearing. What's the word I'm looking for? It's a commitment. I forgot to tell you I started a show because of you this weekend. I completely forgot that – or this week. I'm saying weekend because my girlfriend was on a work trip, so it felt like I was just like – I didn't know what day was which. I watched the first five episodes of Eastbound and Down.

Oh! Thoughts? Very funny. Like, loving it. Absolutely loving it. It's kind of like when you, if you got into wrestling, and you watched wrestling from like 10 years ago,

because there's jokes that would certainly not fly today. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. In the first, I don't know, minute of the episode of the pilot, and then it just gets crazier from there on out. Yeah, season one of Eastbound and Down, I said, should be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. And after I rewatched it, I've only grown firmer in that stance.

Oh, man. And, yeah, that's probably a show that, like, the babes don't have to watch. I mean, if they can, God bless. If they want to, God bless. It's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah, that's probably a show that, like, the babes don't have to watch. I mean, if they can, God bless. If they want to, God bless. It's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah, it's a dude show. It's a dude show. Yeah, I mean, it's White Sox Dave's favorite show, as he always says.

You've got to know what kind of brand you're dealing with there, which I have to tell them. Dude, choose that as your niche for the dozen. If you love the show, that has to be your niche for the dozen. You're right. But, see, you shouldn't be giving other people those good ideas about their strategy. your niche for the dozen if you love the show yeah to be your niche for the you're right but see that you shouldn't be giving other people those good ideas about their exactly now that they have now that they have keegs back in the mix like yeah i that's a well-rounded team and same with smocking which i have to ask you return uh the ghost of honkers pass comes back

we're allowed to say that again we're allowed to say what are the thoughts in honkers hq seeing a ghost return and join a rival team that has kind of made smock in a well rounded machine ken jack's an entertainment monster titus has his niches and corners and then mince he's kind of just filling in the rest and bringing the entertainment factor yeah a lot of people are happy about this a lot of people are like, Mincy's back. Yeah, smock in. They're going to be such a fun team. Fuck them.

That's what I say. The big screaming honkers are taking them down next season, and we're going to prove that he didn't carry his weight on this team. If anything, you can say Mincy was actively sabotaging your team because he gave the other guys in North Carolina in the tournament.

In hockey, you get a plus minus for when you're out there on the ice he had a minus that he had an own goal it's very hard to get an own goal and like in soccer on the dozen he definitely had one of those I feel like if you guys could really build up this rivalry you guys might be like the Christmas day game you know how like in the NBA it's always like the teams that got in fights they always play on the NBA we get to wear the fun shoes that day. Yeah. Yeah. Put our nicknames on the jerseys. Smokin. Smokin had that rivalry with the Yak because Ken Jack hit him with the, what was the, get fucked.

Go fuck yourself. Get fucked. Yeah. Get fucked in the mic drop. And now Smokin is back in the crosshairs with, you almost need the wanton Don to be your manager leading you down to the ring because they kicked him off. He got pissed about that. Yeah.

Wanton Don you're welcome on the, uh, honkers manager managerial staff. I almost sent him a tweet and was going to say, Hey, if you want to be a consigliere to ZD, you're more than welcome. But again,

I didn't want to do that without my teams. Like I'm not the captain. You are the captain. You're more than welcome to, uh, that the wanton Don it's, it's all about mind games in this fucking trivia contest we play yeah um two other these are kind of quick ones to be honest news items um because there's not a lot of info that we could really go get into on them wonder woman

three is very back and forth it's up in the air i think gal gadot came out and said we're gonna work on wonder woman three with james gunn and peter Peter Safran at DC, and I'm going to be in it. My Wonder Woman will be part of the new universe. Then I think maybe Variety or Hollywood Reporter came out with an article that said, that ain't true. Whatever Gal Gadot was talking about, she's on crack. Gal Gadot is not going to be part of James Gunn and Peter Safran's DCU. They're going to recast wonder woman then james gunn came out and responded to somebody that said like wonder woman isn't even going to be in the first three years of the dcu someone said

james can you please debunk this and he said i will debunk it because it's not true so i don't think james gunn confirmed whether or not gal gadot is going to be wonder woman but he did confirm that wonder woman will be present in the first three years of the dc this is making my brain hurt a little bit if we're being honest i need some of this c4 like smart energy stuff because just confirm it just come out and say what does it hurt or help if you you know just come out and say who is it going to be gal gadot or we recast in the park she seems She seems confused. This is what I would say to Gal Gadot. Imagine there's no heaven. It's easy if you try not. I saw that thing. I feel like Gal Gadot is like, I'm a big enough star.

I'll just say I'm going to do Wonder Woman. What are they going to say? Trying to do the rock thing, like strong arm him? Yeah, exactly. And then James Bond's like, no. That's what I'm guessing might be going going on there i have to say i like i think she kind of she fits the wonder woman like persona like the look well the persona well and i don't think a lot of the issues with it were her i think we have to just do a full reboot you

can't just have there's just you can't have that taste of the old dcu let's just go because then if you just bring back one, even like the same, the same stunt grip or something like that, all the Snyder verse people are like, well, he's back. Why can't we just bring back?

You have to eliminate it to wipe those people off of the fucking internet forever. Yeah. And listen, I like Gal Gadot. I do. I do agree with the lights, camera barstool boys.

When they say, I think she's gotten worse as wonder woman in every performance. Like literally every time I've seen her on screen as wonder woman, I've liked her a little bit less than the time before. And I don't know if that's her fault. I don't know if it's just a reshoots and, you know, bad scripts and a problem after problem after problem.

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Go see the Red Sox in Fenway. Do whatever you need to do. Game time will make it very, very easy for you. So, yeah, that one i'm worried about i would also prefer a full reboot especially if you're you're redoing superman and batman you can't keep one of the old trinity that seems like so strange are you gonna excuse that is momoa new is momoa out or is he staying i don't know i don't think that's yeah i think it's the same kind of thing where it seemed like

they maybe confirmed him as Aquaman in the post credits of the Flash but we don't even know if the Flash is going to matter anymore because nobody fucking saw that movie if a tree falls in the forest nobody's around to see it whatever it doesn't make a sound is he going to be Lobo we've been hearing rumors about that all the leakers are saying Lobo is still on for Momo so I don't know I don't know what's going to go on i hope and i i trust james gunn to give us this i hope we get an explanation for those that are staying around i hope we get an explanation for why is harley quinn the same but everyone else is different you know stuff like that even if it's just a quick we're in the universe now

you can make a joke about it you could do an iron man two type thing i'm here now you know let's just deal with it give us something let's not just sweep it under the rug and act like it never happened that's weird i'm i'm with you on that for sure definitely and then the final news item i might just be bringing this up so i could clip it make a tiktok out of it sydney sweeney is officially cast as spider woman aka julia carpenter not jessica drew julia carpenter the second spider woman has more of a venom looking suit in madame webb so that is makes you a little less excited when you hear it's in madame webb and not an mcu project madame webb Madam Web is a Sony project in Sony's Spider-Man villain verse.

If you're not familiar, Madam Web is a character. Usually she's like an old woman in kind of like a wheelchair made of webs, blind. She has almost like the Liberty band over her eyes and whatnot. And she's a clairvoyant. She could see the future. She helps Spider-Man out. And I think this movie is set in the 90s and the rumors are that her and julia carpenter's spider woman are somehow going to

have to like hold a multiverse together to make sure that toby mcguire's peter parker can become spider-man i think i think they're just trying to make sure from afar it's like obi-wan making sure luke becomes a jedi they're like let's just make sure from afar it's like obi-wan making sure luke becomes a jedi they're like let's just make sure he gets bit by that radioactive spider that's not confirmed but that's the again just rumors i think that's a decent concept for something like this especially in the villain verse where we know we're not going to get like big payoffs with mcu shit sure lean into toby mcguire and nostalgia i guess i'm not super excited for this i don't even think we're gonna see sydney sweeney in a spider woman suit at any point

i think this is gonna be one of those like grounded serious type movies but we'll see um so my response to this is actually i want you to take this uh response and just put it in the beginning your tiktok clip okay bob i'm i'm a little bit of older guy what is who's sweet Actually, I want you to take this response and just put it in the beginning of your TikTok clip. Okay. Bob, I'm a little bit of an older guy. What is – who's – Bob, I'm a little bit of an older guy. Who's Sidney Sweeney? Is there anything, like any pictures you could throw on here?

Oh, okay. That's Sidney Sweeney. Okay. That's Sidney Sweeney. That's Sidney Sweeney. Okay. Now we're going to get the views. And this is how you get the TikTok views.

So at the next company meeting when they're talking about how important TikTok is, Sidney sweeney sydney sweeney is going to carry the basic voice of the moon her and jared i hope she does because when i when i saw i saw you blogged it and i was like i had no idea sydney sweeney was in conversations to be in any kind of a spider-man project i'm mad at the mcu for not bringing her into the into the marvel universe because i'll tell you this about sydney sweeney i know she's in euphoria i know her grandparents said she had like the greatest boobs in the world or something like that and i know she gets motherfucking clicks and she gets one easy way to you know make your audience forget that you completely botched an entire phase because you just throw a little bit of a tna click burglar clem We're getting tens of thousands of views on our videos by just tricking

people by saying this is Jennifer Lawrence's topless scene. Same kind of thing with Sidney Sweeney, except that's like napalm on gasoline on fire. Great move by Sony. I'm pretty upset Marvel didn't. There's your, she could be the thing. She'd be Reed Richards. Do whatever you want with

Sidney Sweeney. That's how you get people into the theater. I feel a little bad because i read a little bit of her interview with variety where she confirms that she's playing julia carpenter and she seems like a legit marvel comic fan she said she grew up she said she grew up just watching the mcu with her family i think she has a little brother so like she's like i've watched all of these movies and the second i got cast in this i went to the comic store and i bought every single comic that even mentions my character and part of me was like i think she's a big fan but not big enough to realize you should have held out for the mcu like i feel bad that she's like she's like i'm in a comic book movie and everyone else is like kind of yeah kind of maybe you're

like in that comic. It's like me being like, I wrote a comic book, but it's not Marvel or DC. It's like I wrote one for image or something, which I would, Hey image, you want to reach out, but yeah, it's, it's hard to get excited for a Sony verse movie. I want to be in a Marvel movie. We have a Marvel movie at home, honey. And then that's like the Walmart version of it basically. Yeah. That's it's also i forgot

to mention this it's dakota johnson is playing madame webb she's the girl from uh 50 shades so okay they're trying to capture a horny market with this movie hey morbius you can only like go on the meme so long in terms of like making such bad movies they're like fuck it the memes didn't work let's cast some hotties so and then the other option is like make everything animated which i i heard uh what's the final spider verse one beyond beyond that's getting pushed back that ain't coming anytime soon agent definitely by the time they didn't even give a date on that one they didn't even give us one of those like avatar six comes out in 2027 dates they're like, we'll see if it even comes out. So that's a bummer.

So like, let those people handle this, the, the Sydney tweet. Cause like them in the video game, people should have to handle all the Spider-Man stuff at Sony until I don't know what the MCU is at. It's like Dave getting back bar.

So it's like, well, will the MCU ever get back, you know, Spider-Man? I hope so. Maybe one day. So I guess we'll see,

but good start by stanley could could go buy it back like dave or something yeah it's tough it's tough but we'll see i mean sony's got craven the hunter coming out before this so maybe if craven the hunter is promising which i don't think it looks promising but if it is maybe we'll have higher hopes for this craven and the killer moon us and eddie are gonna go see the double feature and really really learn to hate it hate this whole yeah we're not doing saw patrol but we might do craven and the killer moon all right this was a very fun episode of my mom's basement i hope everyone was as happy as we were to have jared garabis back in the basement um and we'll have him back in the future you know maybe for saw oh that'd be fun saw 10 have jared garrabis back on to talk about it that'd be really

fun because that might be it might be i don't know if you'll be able to watch saw no no i'm looking out for you yeah i saw one of the early uh trailers showed someone with like light tubes attached to their eyes and they said you have to either break all of your fingers individually, or the light tubes are going to suck your eyeballs out of your skull, like vacuum tubes. And I was like, that sounds gnarly. I don't think Clem wants to see it though.

No, this will be you and Jared just having coffee and I'll be like, Oh, it's okay. I'm not going to get jealous guys, even though I know it's going to lead to more. So yeah, you guys, even though in the horror horror movie i'll be snuggling up to him exactly i am not even watching the trailer for that shit even hearing that made me want to throw up you know the lights

and the broken fingers what's wrong with you guys out of out of all the horror movie franchises saw might be mine like halloween is up there for me as well halloween would definitely be that for jared but saw was the one that was coming out as my sister was in high school so it was always the ones that like i was like oh you're going to see that movie like it was always built up as like a traumatic experience in my mind and then when i was introduced to horror movies that's where she started me she said let's let's watch saw one and we went from there. We'll hopefully get him back. We'll be back next week with another Free Swim podcast. It'll be our last one before Ahsoka comes out.

We'll see you then.