My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 299 - AHSOKA EPISODE 3

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

Robbie and Clem react to Ahsoka Episode 3, which featured some awesome action sequences, Sabine Wren's continued training with Huyang, space lightsaber combat, and even more mystery around Marrok! 3Chi: Use code BASEMENT15 for 15% off your complete order at 3Chi.com! 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)! #StarWars #Ahsoka #StarWarsRebels **************************************** Subscribe to My Mom's Basement on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeZ96PqdsJYQ7DFLRx6MHw My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement presented by Barstool Sports and 3Chi. I am your host, Robbie Fox, along with my co-pilot, Clem. And we are here for an Ahsoka Episode 3 recap. Ahsoka Episode 3 just came out last night as we're recording this at 9pm EST. Thank you Disney for that. But I'm not letting that distract

me from the fact that Bob Iger just came out and said all this crazy shit about the writer's strike. I tweeted Clem. I said I think I might have to kick Bob Iger's ass if he doesn't settle this writer's strike. But I'm doing good. How are you doing? Are you excited about Ahsoka? I kind of like that bob

eiger is responsible for the entire writer's right and getting itself however like disney just buys every fucking giant property anyway that most of this money is moving around so challenge him to the octagon bob fuck it let's get uh i said i'm gonna kick his i would kick his ass me and bob eiger we could do five rounds in rough and rowdy now come on down i know you watch the pizza reviews so we know you watch this as well listen you want to catch these hands you'll catch these hands now i understand this is bob he's he's lashing out a little bit right now because bob is not happy that we had a 37 minute run time for an episode three of an eight episode season here. And he's not happy about it. Old man right here.

Old man right here. Very happy. Cause listen, nine o'clock. Great time. Great time at 10 o'clock. These eyes are starting to fade at nine 30, to be honest, they're starting to fade. So I was like, all right, baby, let's just, let's just trim the fat off. I've seen enough bad Disney plus shows over the last few years to be like, even if there's the good ones, let's just keep it lean. My favorite cut is the filet mignon, right? Just no fat in there, just the good stuff.

And, I mean, if you add in commercials and stuff, it would be an hour-long show. So I personally, I start fading a little bit. I forget what happens in the episode. These breakdowns become two- a half hour recaps. I'm fine with the half hour, but I understand Bob and I understand. I imagine most of the people that know rebels are fiending. There are so it's been years.

They're ready to rock and roll. The guys like me who are still being like, the fuck is a space whale. We need a little more time to kind of digest everything well i feel like we do literally need more time to digest some stuff where this episode just started getting rolling and then it ended for me where i was like what the hell well like i was really getting into it it seemed like we were about to go into a big battle or something especially when we have a lot of backstory to catch people up on a lot of rebel stuff, a lot of Thrawn stuff, Ezra stuff, Pergil stuff, the space whales.

So I was a little bit like, and, and the fact that the first one's like 56 minutes, then the second one's 44 minutes. Then the third one's like 36 minutes or whatever it is. It is a little bit worrying. I said, you might be able to fit the finale in a Tik TOK way. It's going to be a two minute finale. What's happening at this pace? Could you imagine if they did that?

If Bob Auger's like, we're looking at the data, I think we're going to throw the finale on TikTok as well at the same time. It'll be two minutes tight, a tight two minutes. Would it surprise you they put the fucking Palpatine return on Fortnite? No, it wouldn't surprise me. Bob, you're joining the dark side, aren't you? I hear it in your voice. This is where I was at one point.

I remember it was like a third of the way through Last Jedi where I was like, oh, shit, I think I hate this right now. And Bob is starting to change. I literally went to my brother. I tapped him on the shoulder during that movie. And I go, I don't like this movie. Am I alone? He's like, what? Huh?

And then after the movie, he's like, yeah, yeah, I hated it too. I was like, all right, good. Not just me. So he's going to the dark side folks he's getting a fucking he's getting these animated characters brought to real life story good action and he's still turning dark our newer our boy bob because you know what you're our anakin at barstool you're our anakin and we know he is the fucking he is the uh signature dark side character in the entire franchise. Well, that's the thing is Anakin loves Padme so much that he's like, I'll do anything to save her. I really like this show. I think it's great. I just want more of it.

I don't want it to go away after 35 minutes. Even my girlfriend was next to me on the couch watching it. She was like, wait, that's it. It's over. Like we literally just started it. So listen, I understand liking the 35 minute runtime. watching it she was like wait that's it it's over like we literally just started it so listen i understand liking the 35 minute runtime i'm also of the thought i don't want you to just extend it for the sake of extending it go fucking zach snyder and show us everything in slow motion or something but i thought i don't know i i like you said eight episodes i wanted a little more of all the things in life one of the best has to be getting high wherever you want, whenever you want, without the paranoia of consuming some sketchy black market stuff.

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And My Mom's Basement listeners will get an exclusive 15% off discount on all of 3Chi's premium THC products by going to 3Chi.com and using the promo code BASEMENT15. That's BASEMENT15 to take 15% off your order. Must be 21 or older to purchase. Please use responsibly. I will say this i can definitely see me getting upset after the finale and being like i wish we had more time with thrawn right because i think i'm gonna like throw on based on what everything everything you guys have told me i'm already like almost halfway through my first season with chopper and he's been on screen for

like eight seconds which kind of pisses me off i I get so aggressive when Chopper's on screen. Like, let's go fucking burn some houses, Chopper. Let's smoke some cigarettes, dude. He just brings out the bad boy in me. I didn't even know I had a bad boy side until I saw this little droid. And I could definitely see. I would love to be able to make a Chopper in a leather jacket shirt. Can we do that now that we're kind of in the Wild West again with Dave?

If there's one guy who appreciates uh pushing the cease and desist boundaries and star wars it happens to be the guy who just bought the company and says he doesn't mind taking a million dollar loss along the way so i think that might be uh it's worth at least the conversation i'd say how about i read some of dave's ahsoka thoughts live on air i think he'd be fine with that can we uh can we put this as dave portnoy discusses star wars as like a reel or a tiktok or something like that dave portnoy's asoka thoughts yes yes he's not in the video but i'll read his asoka thoughts so he put his put his work uh his name in all capital letters like everyone else does even on our own blog

on our own fucking site it's crazy dave portnoy yeah that one threads was a thing for two seconds and we were all using that for two weeks i was just being a dave portnoy reporter i was just reporting on everything he was doing um so i got a text from dave monday night uh nine nine nine 19 p.m he said just watch ashoki that's how he spelled it since when can you take a lightsaber to the gut and be okay two days later which is something that we brought up on this show we both had an issue with that as well so i thought it would be funny to send him the tiktok of the physician who went viral uh stitching our tiktok saying like no no missed all the vital organs so i sent him that tiktok and i said i said

the same thing and i got goddamn physicians coming at me. And he said, that physician is wrong. You get stabbed by a lightsaber. That means you lost and you die. It looked like she just put her stomach on an oven for a minute. So then he came into the office yesterday and we started talking about it. He said he liked the first two episodes of Sokka. He did not love them specifically because he thinks Ahssoka's tail tagruta headdress headpiece looks too rubber um as a non-rebels watcher i'm in the same boat it's always been very distracting

to me i think it's something you guys have grown numb to and i think you see the transition from animation to real life and it's like oh's just, it's like when you meet someone and they have like, you know, like a birthmark on their face or something, you learn to like forget it over times. It's still like fresh for us. So we're just keep, it just, the eyes wander. We're like, what the fuck?

What the fuck? What the fuck? So that's where Dave is. And I'm right there with him. So I completely understand. Our Dave Porto update of the week. You're in the office today. So if he's in, we got to get him for next week. I know. And I almost did this podcast from his office because

it was empty. And I don't know if he's coming in today, but I don't think he is. But then I thought in my head, I'm not going to do that to everyone else in the office because I'm here pretty early where they come in and they see Dave's office door closed with the light on. I was like, I'm not going to make everyone afraid like that. that's that's some vicious shit that's that's something someone that's like something rowan would do he is the yes barstools i've said so all right let's get into this episode breakdown and uh before we started recording we both said this might be a shorter recap so i do feel like a bit of a hypocrite if this is a shorter recap and i just complained about short run times but you know we're doing what we can with what they give us so we kick things off with sabine wren going through jedi training that looks a lot like samurai training and i love this shit

i like samurai movies i love kill bill i love that matrix training sequence where it's all samurai ish so i really enjoyed this stuff she's being trained by hu yang who are one of our favorite listeners frank tweeted us and said i'm shocked you didn't tell clem more about hu yang me and carl were actually telling you a little bit about him at the barstool awards hu yang is this awesome droid and as i said last week if he were in any other era he would be the number one droid in this universe show but he's's with Chopper. So it's a bit, you know, thrown off here. He makes lightsabers for Jedi. He helps craft them, helped make Yoda's lightsaber.

And he's like a thousand years old, maybe thousands of years old. So he's a real one. Yeah. I'm also appreciating that he kind of has the, hey, I've been in this game long enough. I'm not here to, you know, uh, make people feel good.

I don't care if I hurt feelings along the way. He has a little portnoy in him. I think in that, in that, uh, a little portnoy. And in this episode, I even felt a little Alfred,

even in the last episode where like, Alfred will tell Bruce when his shit is, you know, going off the tracks, he'll get them straight. So I feel a little bit of that with who yang maybe maybe it's just the british accent though i that that makes sense also a little general grievous just because he has the four arms and he's four arms yeah that was kind

of weird and speaking of general grievous there was like a lightsaber collection in the back and as i'm watching it i see all those lightsabers and i I stand up and put my face this close to the screen. My girlfriend's like, you make a better door than window over here. What's going on? I was like, I just want to see if there's any Easter eggs in that closet. I must look like a lunatic. The basement boys are just trying to get into the algorithms of

all the different video sites here. We're thinking Easter eggs, theories, predictions. We're trying to get all the buzzwords. Brandon Clancy is trying to help us out. We got the super producer on the case. So we're trying to do it again. Robbie's looking like he's looking at a magic eye painting, just like he's putting his face through the screen.

I love it. This is what we do in the basement. We do it for you guys. And I guess we do it for us so then we can keep the basement lights on to then talk to you guys. So we're doing what we can right now. Hey, let's throw it out there right now.

Is Hugh Yang General Grievous? Maybe. Predictions. Oh, reconstructed. Yes. Reconstructed. Boom, boom, boom. Look, here's Hugh Yang.

Here's General Grievous. Sorry for all the podcast listeners. That was just us making a TikTok. That was a lot of TikTok. He's his dad. He's General Grievous' dad, even though General Grievous is like a lizard or something. All right.

General Grievous is also before him. Well, no, he's not because he's a thousand years old, but we saw a journal. Yeah. This is. It's his dad. The timelines are confusing me. And speaking of confusing timelines and numberings, by the way, I would just want to shout out. This is the 299th episode of My Mom's's basement. Now, is it officially that? No. Just like George Lucas, we decided to make our numberings confusing. So I uploaded a bunch of Friday bonus episodes and unnumbered interviews during the pandemic. We have like three hundred and fifty episodes on the podcast feed. But next week will be the official 300th episode so we're going to try to

do something a little special for that just wanted to give everyone notice like look out for that i like that i'm exciting and shout out to everyone that's been with us at any point during it and helping us make this 300 here here's to another 300 uh lord portnoy right yeah absolutely i would love another 300 that'd be great so ahsoka at one point puts the visor on sabine classic jedi training shit here we saw luke go through this we've seen donnie yen and rogue one be one with the force even though he's got no eyes you learn to reach out with your other senses and she's struggling with it for sure she's not picking up to it well who yang's kind of roasting her for it he told her i think was it

last week or this week where he's like you're the worst person i've ever seen with this like you're just not picking it up at all tough to hear but she's she's trying again yeah so two things one i just love how we're doing they always have the uh they have like the mask the helmet that's just it's like the default jedi um training kit that comes with everything no matter what and with sabine i have to admit it i feel like i like sabine i feel like she would be one of my favorite characters if i had watched rebels i feel like she could still be one of my favorite characters she's just not doing it for me right now the whole like i i want to be a jedi don't have the power i even like the whole mandalorian uh kind of twist to it all it's just it's not resonating it's kind of it's

going in the head and it's just not sticking right now it's just i'm people watching in i'm hitting myself in the head for no reason just to make this point i think that's part of the with dave i like it don't love it i need get my, I think once the Sabine story starts cooking, I think we're going to roll. But as of now, just not clicking with me. But I see it. I can feel it. I feel it in the force right now.

That's the exact, right, Bob? You know me enough. Yeah. She's not your, you know, pure, clean, white hero. It's like has a little grime in her, a little bit of, you know, doesn't play by the rules and all that kind of stuff. Yeah i scoundrel is she a little scoundrel in her tomorrow absolutely absolutely i love sabine from rebels as you said if you know the backstory you're obviously going to like her more i really like the actress that they cast to play her but i'm ready for her to

snap back into being sabine a little bit like she was more bubbly and more friendly and more just more upbeat, I guess, in Rebels. And I understand you start the characters off at a low point and you bring them out of that through three episodes. She's starting to come out of that for sure. This episode, I felt like she was way more friendly with ahsoka and stuff i feel like halfway through the season when they're fully locked back in and the gang's back together maybe that's when it'll fully click hopefully because i do think it was good casting they definitely just have to make her feel a little bit more like the animated character felt yeah okay so i'm i'm not going crazy there And for the people saying you have to watch Rebels, why are you not watching Rebels? It's a disgrace you haven't watched Rebels. Guys, I get like this episode in whenever I can. Like stuff for work, I get in.

I just started watching like stuff for fun again. It's just really tough. It's kids. I get these goddamn, I'm the assistant editor-in-chief. I just have regular making content. And then I'm just old and I'm tired all the goddamn time. So there's a lot of shit going on. I'll try to get to it at some point.

Just send me like an hour long YouTube where they just cut it all together. I can pick up all the important shit because I'm telling you, I don't know if we have anything crazier than Space Whale's coming, but I just know I'm going to need to have like an appetizer for all that shit before we're ready to roll. But I'm in on Sabine. I'm like buying low on her for the just the tv the tv show watchers i'm buying low on her even though i'm sure rebels fans already love her yeah and speaking of watching things for fun remind me at the end of this podcast we got to talk telemarketers because

i've been catching up on telemarketers and i have something i gotta bring up something i would say is shocking so stay tuned to the end of the podcast um harrah goes to ask for support and funding to go search for ezra essentially and she tells everyone about the eye of scion and them using the superstar destroy hyperdrive one of the senators she's asking for support from is mon mothma our girl from Andor and obviously from many other things as well. Genevieve O'Reilly is the actress who plays her. Once again, we talked about this when we did Andor. If you don't know her story in Star Wars, she was cast back in 2004 to play Mon Mothma in Revenge of the Sith, which came out in 05. Her scenes got cut.

It was a deleted scene and years later when they decided they wanted to bring that character back they gave her a call again they were like hey i think we nailed that casting even though we cut your scene you want to come back and here she is connecting the whole friggin star wars universe she's in rebels she's in andor she's in you know the original trilogy obviously and now she is in the mandalorian universe and more of mandalorian universe a really cool way to make the universe feel connected make everything kind of feel connected also nice to see her in a good mood or a semi-good mood after and or she was very much on the brink of war literally so i that was the note i had mothma all caps exclamation points that that note goes to

show you how good of a show and or was because the old uh like before and or if i saw my mouth like oh it's my mouth i like i think we all like my mouth but she's like a it's a name that's easy to remember uh very memorable scene and the actress is awesome i think and or just absolutely crushed so i see her on screen and i know all the shit that's going on i know how she is that shitty husband and that kid who's kind of a prick that i was hoping was going to get what were we hoping for rose i i think i was just hoping i don't know if i was using there was an m word involved i don't know if I was using... There was an M word involved. I don't know if it was murdered or married to that.

Or mutilated? Maybe mutilated. I don't know. You want a limb to get chopped off, maybe? Yes. Or no. Something even that would hurt her a little less. Maybe just a lightsaber through the gut. It would hurt her for five seconds and then she'd be fine again.

It was nice to see mom, mom, mom. But it hurts as well because you're just seeing this fucking New Republic just falling apart before it's even put together here. They're just a bunch of bozos. And I'm sure we should probably have Ken Jack on and be like,

Ken Jack, I feel like a lot of times when you have these dictator fascist regimes. They get toppled and then the new government comes in. They just fucking fail like 99% of the time. And then you have to fucking whatever you fix from that collapsed government is how it's all going to go. But it just makes you feel it kind of hurts that like at the end when everyone's dancing in Return of the Jedi and Yub Yub is playing in the background. And then it's just going to just a shitty government that can't you know government their way out of a

wet paper bag yeah and by the way you you said we should have ken jack on because he's a bit of a history buff not because he's a fascist we just make that note um is that that's you're taking that was how you interpreted my i was like i i know the guy who was in last season and or and was a real problem. Yeah, I mean, that was him. He's not a history buff. He was a history major in college, which is one of my favorite things in all of bar school. I don't know if I knew that about him. I think I think I think he was.

I'm 90 percent sure the fact you didn't know kind of is giving me some pause but i'm pretty sure as a history major and it's like everyone has these different routes they got to get the barstool and you know robbie you were in college you dropped out you had this internship you started at the golf podcast as a intern jerk off didn't jerk off for for for a couple weeks i went through working different sports jobs different sports companies and a lot of weeks. I went through working different sports jobs, different sports companies, and a lot of the tech side. Ken Jack was a history major, a history major, and so I'm a major here. So everyone gets here all the same.

When she asked for funding, a Senator shuts her down. And it's like, you're just trying to fund your own shit to find your friend, Ezra, who's obviously dead. Like you said, it's tough to see Mon Mothma is dealing with the exact same people she was dealing with pre-war and she's just kind of in the same position stuck hopefully by then

she's divorced and whatnot we see jason harrah's son and jason is spelled in a very star wars way you think normally jason j-a-s-o-n right this jason is j-a-c-e-N. So you make it a little Star Wars. He is the son of both Hera and Kanan Jarrus from Rebels. Kanan Jarrus. He is Freddie Prinze Jr. So that's who voices him. Kanan is a Jedi. So Jason probably a future Jedi.

We once again see Sabine does not have patience for training but she tries to make a cup move which is something that every star wars fan ever has done yep yep that was a bit of a i thought that was going to be like a almost a captain america in age of ultron thing where like she nudged it or something or when she walked away the water rippled or something we would see maybe she's got a little bit of the force in her i liked the conversation though that they have where she's like frustrated and ahsoka's like you don't understand the forces in everybody you got to find it but it's in everybody i like that better than the metachlorians yeah i i did have a little bit of a Was it Return of Skywalker Rise of Skywalker

Return of Skywalker You just made up a Star Wars movie I made it better Let's call it what it was I don't remember any parts of like Episodes 8 and 9 at this point But it wasn't that I thought that was the exact thing

The horses and everybody And then the fucking kids sweeping out on the porch and the broom. Exactly. So what a great narrative choice by Ryan Johnson, a great director. I'm sorry. I love broom kid. Broom kid is great.

Broom kid is a great final shot for that movie. Great, great. Just message to put out there. I wish broom. He grabs it with the force. People were like, Holy fuck.

I wish Broom Kid was who they replaced Iron Man 3 Kid with at 20 Stars Funeral just to really confuse everyone. He has a broom in his hand, obviously as well. The cup, I'm going to call it now. The cup is sus. I don't like that cup at all. What do you think about that? It could be a Sith cup. I mean, I didn't even consider that possibility but i'll support it hey

listen we're trying to hack the algorithm is the cup that sabine couldn't move we'll do a video where we circle the cup in a thumbnail like question mark i love the fucking youtube i have grown to love the youtube thumbnails and how ridiculous they are. And yeah, let's get that done on there for a YouTube short. Also, speaking of Sus, that, he's kind of like an Asian guy. He has like the goatee and like the long hair. He was next to

Mom Mothma. Sus, if not Sus, just a dickhead. Just an absolute dickhead. He's just like every politician. And she's like, oh, I'm sorry. Did you fight in the wars? And he's like, no. And she's like, oh, I'm sorry. Did you fight in the wars? And he's like, no. And she's like, yeah, I thought so. Dickhead. Sus, Senator Dickhead.

It was so funny when she hit that line on him. And he was just like, yeah, he really did kind of like shrink as he said, no, I didn't fight in the war. She turtled his ass. He basically fucking went into his shell. He was like, no. And Mothma's like, God damn it. I have this dickhead next to me in the war. She turtled his ass. He basically fucking went into his shell. He was like noon. And Mothma's like, God damn it.

I have this dickhead next to me in the hologram order. Like move this guy away from me. Speaking of turtles, I've been on a huge bacon, egg and cheese kick. And I think it's just from watching that movie where they're all going bacon, egg and cheese, bacon,

egg and cheese. The kids are on a bacon, egg and cheese run. You know, we went away for a couple of days and you're kind of living on the road and breakfast is like, all right, got to go to Dunkin', got to go to the Italian. Bacon, egg, and cheese. Bacon, egg, and cheese.

Man, if you haven't seen Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem, go change that. I saw it's at like 98 or 99 million budget. Send that over 100 million. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. over 100 million hell yeah hell yeah uh so ahsoka sabine and who yang are going to the eye of scion and the planet that it surrounded uh that it surrounds and as they approach who yang is like you got to get closer closer and as they get closer transmissions jam who yang powers down my uncle texted me uncle uncle fun from legend of the podcast he thinks that was a little

reference to silence of the lambs actually he said that's what um anthony hopkins says to clarice or is that a name where he's like uh he's like closer with the id says closer please and he says he thinks that was maybe a little shout out to that which would be a very cool like you know out of the box reference um but then they have a complete ambush dog fight in the in the sky or in space first where they're ambushed by shin maric and a bunch of fighters the ship powers down and ahsoka at one point goes out onto the wing of it there's a lady on the the wing of the plane churning butter that's what i always think from bridesmaids one point goes out onto the wing of it. There's a lady on the wing of the plane churning butter. That's what I always think from bridesmaids. But she goes out in this awesome spacesuit, this cool blue spacesuit.

Looks awesome. She ignites her two lightsabers in space. And I'm like, oh, it's about to go down. And she, very much like Rey in Rise of Skywalker, has this cool flip where she slices an entire fighter down it is the coolest scene in this episode it's something out of a star wars video game similar to how i thought the puzzles were similar to jedi fallen order survivor um puzzles this was like i think you called it like one of the more creative things like this is the creativity you wanted to see out of this correct yes this is the creative creativity i've wanted to see out of like all the new star wars

projects um that are like live action because this is something you could have seen in a cartoon it would look awesome and it's like how the fuck do you do that in like live action though and they did it and it's not like oh my hyperspace is destroyed we have to fix the hyperspace and then the person goes in fix the hyperspace or it's up we're gonna fight in a starship we're gonna get chased by the 17 imperial uh you know tie fighters or the bad guys whatever it may be it's like no she's fucking floating in space as the lightsaber is going on and is facing starships you know one on one that was so awesome creative and that's that's the kind of stuff i think i've been waiting for since the sequel trilogy came out right so and then you

know a bunch and i think i think mando has had some good stuff along the way as well i'm not gonna say it's just you know it hasn't been done at all but that's this that was exactly what i was looking for because i'm telling you about when their ship got like lit up and you see these little particles floating through space i had carrie poppins flashbacks i had floating through space and i'm like oh no here we go here we go i think that's why i've been so hard on the sequel trilogy today because i had those flashbacks last night and i was not very happy but i love that scene and just that ship is so sweet man it fucking it just like spins and spinning ship and everything yeah i can get down with that for sure because i think that is one of the cool

things about the millennium falcon is how it is able to like just swerve through places and this kind of has the same aerodynamics but it has like a whole bunch of other shit it has to move but it somehow always fits the puzzle so i'm a big fan it's like having the tetris l block that's basically what the ship is like i like it but i really love the ghost and they're holding out the ghost on us i'm like where's the ghost that's the ship from rebels everyone wants to see that again so right now i'm just kind of like i'm waiting to get the ghost back in our lives they're edging you that's what they call it i believe in the industry they really are they're gonna do that thing like what's that it's a hunk of junk and then you look over it's the the ghost it's the millennium falcon that was a great scene in force awakens by the way maybe maybe the biggest pop in the theater for the force

awakens opening night when you see the falcon for the first time that theater i i swear people were standing up going nuts i i would agree i would say that's the that's the number one like even it might have even trumped han and chewy because like you kind of thought they were coming because we got that too and in the trailer we saw the chewier home already so like that was like holy shit there's and it was unexpected too it's just like in the middle of an action scene where are we gonna great great great scene you wonder how good abrams you wonder how good the millennium falcon is i got my millennium falcon toy and aj was playing with it and i've since hidden it from him because he was slowly breaking it so now he

can't he doesn't even know what it is i hid my millennium falcon toy from my five-year-old child because i don't want him ruining the falcon any more than it's already been ruined even though it's kind of like its signature thing i was gonna say yeah that's like you're basically being han solo right now where like you're not gonna let lando take it out because he might knock the satellite off come on every single time i would see that toy sitting in his room i'd give that look and it's like i feel like it's the last time i'm gonna see it right there so they journey down to the atmosphere of the planet once they get that ship working. And we finally get the space whales.

It only took three episodes. They didn't really edge us too long on the space whales. We got the Pergal. That's their official name. It's Pergal. And they looked really great in live action in a time where we're getting a lot of weird looking CGI in some Marvel shows and some lackluster looking CGI in these television shows. I felt all of the CG in Ahsoka,

at least episode three was fantastic. Like seeing them come out of the smoke or the gas or the clouds. I think it might be gas because that's how they're, that's how they're fueled. Basically they eat gas. That's the only thing they eat. And that's how they go that's what how they're fueled basically they eat gas that's the only thing they eat and that's how they go into hyperspace and shit but i thought they looked really cool and the whole you know fight through them and like you said like the falcon kind of the ship is so thin that it could go through like the tentacles of two of them really really cool

sequence um maric once again is just an unnamed faceless person um no voice indicator really to say who he is we'll get into theories later um but then they escape they go down into this little red forest and they hide out and we know that next week we're probably going to get a pretty big battle i assume like a big lightsaber battle balon versus soka something like that yeah i i think the reason they cut it when they did was because they couldn't really do that because then where it goes from there it would then be too long of an episode so that's what i'm hoping for at least uh sienna said that the forest reminded her of the forest from frozen 2 i wasn't a big frozen 2 fan so I don't really remember what she's talking about. But that's for anyone out there. I don't know if we agree, disagree.

Again, I like going in relatively clueless when I'm watching a show that has the source material. Like House of the Dragon, I'm like, don't really tell me whatever I need to know from before it goes. You know, the show starts, so I have the backstory. But I don't really want to know anything else because that's we get into the spoilers. I kind of like being surprised. Boy, am I happy that you guys told me about Space Whales, though. And what are the purgles? The purgle, the purgle, because that's a lot to chew on. And it's still a lot to chew on. You just told me they eat gas, which doesn't really make sense on face value there. They would map hyperspace routes out by following them and

stuff like that there there's gonna have to be more now oh actually you did a um a video right explaining the space whales i did a little youtube short it's on our youtube channel on our tiktok um i could throw it on instagram too uh but yeah i did a little a little explainer like a 60 second here's what you need to know about pergol so i'm gonna have to crush on that before the next episode because i don't think they just threw him in for fun this is clearly gonna mean something especially hyperspace is the hottest fucking form of transportation in the series right now yeah but they were cool they were very cool they were very cool and i i got a new tv uh earlier this year and i'm watching oh money bags

yeah big big time over here i hadn't seen one we moved into the house 12 years ago and i realized i've had the same tv the whole time like man i'm slipping you know my brain wasn't just looking for new tv and i was like i went from like the stone age to fucking the modern age and it looks so nice on the tv right now it looks so much better so i it. Maybe I should go back and watch all the shows everyone hated the CGI from and be like, oh, that's why everyone hated the shit out of this. I was watching like behind a Vaseline screen, basically, this whole time.

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Let's get into some theories. So you said Sienna thought this planet reminded her of Frozen 2, correct? Mm-hmm. I think this planet reminds me a little bit too much of Dathomir, where the Nightsisters are from. And it's all the red. And the red is what's doing it for me right now do i think that this is a death amir related planet maybe not do i think it's a night sister related planet yes i do think there's going to be some witch ties that are going to come

untethered here and i think it could maybe even dip into some like horror elements if you wanted to um i'm bringing up the stephen a smith voice with this no oh no bob this is bad this is very bad dathomir jason planets that's what we're doing we are now looking at her red as our signs of bad bad stuff right that's what we're dealing with here it does seem they did it they did it to us they harped and harped and harped on witches in the first two episodes completely didn't mention them this episode and i was like oh we don't have a witch problem if you hear about witches existing you have a witch problem buddy and i forgot all about it bob thank you for reminding me let's just say it now this is a witch planet we basically landed in a cauldron there's smoking

there's bubbles and there's fucking a green bitch with a pointy hat on watching we are in trouble shit we're in trouble we're in trouble we're in trouble now next theory we talked last week about maric possibly being ezra is someone under that mask that we know. Could it be a brainwashed Ezra that he somehow get back without Thrawn getting back? And this could be Ezra. Could it also be Kanan, who is at this point dead? I don't know. Witches, they could reanimate a body. I don't know.

Could it also be Luke Skywalker? Did you hear the way I said that? Luke Skywalker with two U's. This is a clone of Luke Skywalker that they made using his severed hand in the extended universe, actually in one of the Thrawn books and one of the legendary Thrawn books. Now, this is kind of a jump the shark moment for the extended universe. It's referenced in usually in jest when they talk about Luke, but they're reanimating him

for Book of Boba Fett. Maybe it could be Luke. Now I have one more theory and Clem, this isn't even a theory I like, but it's a theory that I'm going to throw out there because of friendship,

because I'm your friend. Could it be Darth Jar Jar? Yes! I was hoping you were going to say that. darth jar jar confirmed put it on the headline make the youtube graphic bob darth jar jar confirmed he must have just like i don't know i fit he's getting old he could probably fit his whole head in that mask at this point it's a little small right he's getting old he's probably ties his ears up like like a ponytail or something i don't know that would be so badass he has like ears like dreadlocked ears now so he can fit it in the mask all right i can see hey like there was a little bit of like usually you just have the guy who's

just like in his ship he kind of was looking at the whales he was kind of like getting the scenery there's a little bit of wonder in that character which tells me he's not just some heartless you know dark side villain there's a there's something in there there's good in him still if you may so hey could it be darth jar jar even though darth jar jar was clearly sith dating back to episode one it's all out there folks you could watch the movie again if you'd like and our guy heavy spoilers brought up the fact that sam witwer's name was in the credits although we didn't see him and he does a lot of voices for the star wars galaxy but one character that is like based on his look is the main character of the force unleashed star killer who was like vader's apprentice at one point now if this wound up being star killer i think that would be awesome

i was a huge fan of those video games they They were two of my favorite Star Wars games ever. The original, mainly. But I think that would be a long shot, I gotta admit. I think that would be... You're asking a lot of people to not know, if you don't know the characters from Rebels, I think the Force Unleashed video

game from 2008 is a lot. Yeah, you're asking a lot there. The final thing, and this isn't even really a theory it's more of a rumor is there's a lot of rumors about anakin skywalker involvement there has been since the beginning um hayden christians and voices heard in the trailers so i don't think that's the the biggest secret even that they're keeping close to their chest i would just love to see a clone wars era flashback whether it be a nightmare ahsoka's having just a regular flashback flashback the tank maybe she gets hurt she has to go on the flashback the tank or something that's my wish

i think it would be really cool as well this is my little prediction if they've hidden the fact that they filmed something with ewan mcgregor while he was in there with obi-wan so if you get the original like clone wars trilogy together not trilogy but the trinity if you will together of obi-wan ahsoka and anakin i like that one a lot uh i it feels like we have so much more vader that we could deal with here, right? And every time you're going to play Vader, again, all the Obi-Wan stuff, those I think were the highlights of that series for us, was whenever Vader was on screen. So sign me the hell up for that.

If you want to throw some Obi-Wan in the mix too, God bless. Let's confirm. We're going to confirm that one as well. Rubber stamp it. All right. That was the end of my theories. Now, I have to talk about telemarketers for a sec sec because I watched episode two last night. Clem, I fucking got got by these guys. No, I swear to you, I got got by this.

I think these two guys in particular. So if you have been watching telemarketers, it's this documentary we talked about. It's absolutely wild where they are exposing a telemarketing scam where these people were calling on behalf of, quote unquote, the police. And, you know, you donate money for the soldiers that got killed on the side of the road. They say like this kind of stuff to you. Do you want to donate? I've donated like two or three times and they call every year and they're like, hey, it's that time of year again. We're funding raising funding. Now, the scam is they give like 10 percent of it to the police, if that. And they take 90 percent of it and put it in their own pocket. And they send you these little decals that make you think you're like friends with the police.

I have a cousin who was a state trooper and is a police officer i have multiple family members who are police officers so when these people call and they say would you like to donate for a fallen police officer it hits my heartstrings a little bit and i'm like you know what i would like to donate for for them clem my heart fucking sank watching the second episode of telemarketers because the first episode i was like in the back of my head i was like that kind of sounds like this like thing that i donated to when they show this lunatic in his in his uh like room basically making these calls and he's freaking out on people and they say that he like took too many drugs 30 years ago and accidentally killed somebody clem i recognized his voice like

that because i've talked to him like three times over the past three years and it's the exact cadence it's the exact way he's like would you like to make a donation yes he's like god bless you i'm gonna send out the decals and every year i'm like bro you like you don't need to send me the decals like i'm just um i'll make the donation you know i got family in the in the police force or whatever he's like no no i will send you the decals just stay on the lawns and like it i got got by this fucking lunatic and i think i got got by the the next guy that they showed to who like he his phone dies mid call and he gets upset about it yeah yeah the junkie I

fucking think I got got by him too oh my god so the thing is the first episode and throughout the series Pat Pespas Pat Pespas he's kind of the main caller guy obviously Sam I think it's Sam he's the guy with the video camera lovable guy I love him I want to take him to a the main caller guy, obviously Sam, or I think it's Sam. He's the guy with the video camera. Lovable guy.

I, I love him. I, I want to take him to a giants game. I know he has the giant starter jacket over the years. I want to take him. He just seems like a good dude. I want Dave to hire him as a salesman at the new barstool. I think it would be great. Wouldn't you love,

would you feel that that guy could get good ads on my mom's basement for us? Do you think that would be the case? Absolutely. Do you think he would chop it up with us and talk about space? Where I've actually seen a space belt. Well, like the guy is just a good fucking time. You've seen,

if you've lived in Jersey, you've lived in the tri-state area, you know, multiple pat spots. And you're like that fucking mean guy though, that killed the vibes i was like oh there are like this is a predatory um like scam at first but like when you have a guy who's just evil like that it's like i hope you fucking die i hope your house burns out and

you know he's literally murdered a person that's what i was just like holy shit and i was like man i'm so happy i've never had to deal with this guy and my guy bob you you probably was always nice to him so he never like but i i literally said to my girlfriend last night it's like do we still have those decals and she's like yeah i saw him the other day so i'm gonna i'm gonna find him and i'll send you a picture or something the fpo right the fpo yeah i think that's it's gotta be yeah so i felt sick to my stomach watching that because i was just like oh my god like this guy's gonna fucking call me in a few months and ask for my and I've donated over the years. I probably like 200 bucks overall.

Oh, my God. That's the it's funny because when you first hear the scam, you think it's from years ago. But then you learn that it's still like going on today, basically. And there's really no way to regulate it. So my guy, Bob, is like if he had called a week ago before this show went on you probably would have donated right yeah i mean probably yeah and like maybe i would have i have no idea but like i remember it being so annoying like you call every year and i'd be like oh this guy's nice but like friggin he always catches me like in the worst times. I don't want to do this.

My girlfriend would always laugh and stuff. And now like, I ain't laughing. That was scary. You can't do anything back because he's a murderer. He's murdered. He's got my money. Now I just know, you know, I ain't picking up the phone for him anymore. Now, do you think since you donated instead of being like, I hope your house burns down,

I hope your family leaves you. Do you think he was like, oh oh i hope you get your dream job you start low as an intern for a golf podcast one day you get to talk about star wars on this trajectory somehow yeah i don't i don't think that's that's that's that's the case at all i i used to get a phone call from a guy they'd be like hello how are you doing and it almost sounded like it was a human voice but it sounded almost robotic and then once you'd be like hello then he'd pick up and start talking and i'm telling you bob and it's always at the worst times and i said to my wife i was like this guy called and i need to have him call back because i want to donate to these police

officers you don't want to help people because they're you know they're not just saying you're helping the police who you want to make sure is helping you. But you're also like they're saying, you know, officers who have fallen and yada, yada, yada. And you're like, oh, shit, I got to answer the bell. So you're helping the families like they may like they're truly evil when you think about like what they're saying to get your money. If karma is a thing, holy shit. Yeah, that dude is going to be roasting and he's going's gonna be he's gonna be in the witch planet that's where he's gonna spend the rest of his days oh so bob fox has got god he got duped if you may i got god and like i it does not it does not make me happy to admit that on the podcast that i got

god it makes me feel like a true idiot but i had to admit it because i was truly like shocked to my core watching episode two of tell i didn't couldn't even watch episode three because i was like it's gonna reveal that every charity i've ever donated to is uh i will say it goes m night shaman style one was the best two goes down and three is like it's still entertaining really our guy pat our guy pat is the star of the show no matter what so you have to watch three just to see patty dresses and all these different outfits it's incredible but there is a difference between losing your money to someone sweet like pat and losing your money to a psycho murderer that wishes death upon you if you do not you do not pay him

which i guess i did like do you feel seen right now? I feel like you feel seen. Feel seen? Yeah. Because it's getting exposed? Yeah. Oh, I'm seen. No, I don't feel seen. You don't feel seen. Bob, not seen.

I don't feel seen. I just feel scared. Like this murderer has my number, I think. Yeah, it's weird when a murderer has your number. Let's see. Do any murderers have my number? I don't think so. I hope not.

That you know of. That I know of. Do you have my number? I don't think so. I hope not. That you know of. And I know. Do you have my number? Are you a murderer Bob? Oh, I mean, John Rich texts you about the rundown all the time. He said the last time we did one of those,

uh, who is a serial killer in an office? Nobody answered him and he was offended. John does have the face of a serial killer in that one picture. So we love you though, John. All right. This was episode 299 of My Mom's Basement.

Come back next week for episode 300, where I'll say, this is basement. This is Sparta 300. A little Zack Snyder joke for the boys and girls at home. What's a hashtag we could have for this episode? If you've made it to the end, hashtag which planet? Hashtag edging wars.

I don't want to know what is in that hashtag. Let's go which planet? Okay. Hashtag which planet if you want to go with Bob. Hashtag edging wars if you want to go with me. And include a gift with edging wars if you want to. I'm going to do the gift as well. So we'll see which one gets, we'll see if any of them get any love.

If any of them. And if they do, we'll count it up for episode 300 starring Dave Portnoy.