My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 343 - X-MEN 97 S1E4/SILVER SURFER CASTING NEWS WITH CLEM

Episode Date: April 5, 2024

Robbie and Clem get back into the Basement to discuss Episode 4 of X-Men 97 - which is a super fun nostalgia trip for ANYONE who played the old X-Men arcade game back in the day - as well as talk Silver Surfer casting news, Punisher/Daredevil/Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow rumors, WrestleMania weekend, and more! ****************************************   My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike!   Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/MyMomsBasementWithRobbieFox Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool 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, it is Robbie Fox and I am back with Clem for another X-Men 97 recap edition of My Mom's Basement. But it's also WrestleMania season, so I wanted to kick off by saying, the road warrior hawk to my animal how you doing hawk was my dude too i know animal was kind of i guess the leader of them but hawk was always my guy maybe i liked his face paint more i don't know what it is dude i gotta be honest hawk was my guy too because animal put the spider on the face paint and i couldn't really fuck with someone that like embraced spiders like that except i guess spider-man himself but his spider always just like freaked me out a little bit i think hawk also was obviously the high flyer hence the name hawk right so he would go off the

top rope um but i think animal was the one who was i think they were both involved with zubaz and they really um they were big in terms of getting it on the map so shout out to both of the road warriors shout out hawk for the uh one of the only reverse mohawks of all time yeah that's true um both dead both dead animal was alive as a very recently hawk died a long time ago yeah yeah no animal died in 2020 i felt like that was pretty fresh i feel like i knew that and Hawk. I feel like so. RIP. I met Animal once. He's really nice to me. Shout out Animal.

Shout out Animal. Shout out Hawk. Didn't mean to put a damper on the WrestleMania weekend though. So Bob's heading down to Philly, right? Yep. As we record this, it's 10 a.m. on Thursday. I have a 12 p.m. train to Philly and then at 4 p.m thursday so

this episode won't be out yet i'm doing this celebrity video game tournament that i teased last week me and brandon walker now what i didn't realize about the tournament last week is that it's a tag team tournament this makes it 10 times better for me i'm more excited about it because they paired us all up with wwe superstars i am with Kofi Kingston, who I've been a legitimate master fan of since he debuted with his like old school gimmick, everything about him. I've been a fan of interviewed him once. So I don't know if he'll remember me, but Xavier Woods is hosting it. Kofi's tag team partner and Xavier is such a big rough and rowdy fan.

He came to West Virginia for one. That's awesome. We sat him in the front row and everything. So I think he'll remember me. I'm so for it brandon walker's partnered with the ms they knew exactly what they were doing when they put those two heels together our truth is going to be there making it all crazy so if you're listening to this on thursday night friday whenever it releases you should be able to go back and actually watch the celebrity tournament or whatever um i feel so

douchey calling it a celebrity tournament um but there are like real celebrities wale is in it lane johnson is in it um gabriel iglesias fluffy he's in it so they've got some actual like people names that people will know me and brendan are gonna walk out there and we'll just have to cut promos to get the crowd on our side but we'll do it hey you're gonna have a few stoolies there they're gonna rep like they our people will always rep our yeah you know our talent so uh shout out to mr celebrity over here bob fox yeah and if if you are if you happen to be in philly for wrestlemania you're going to wwe world on friday i'll be there with brendan walker pretty much all day i think i think we're going to be there in the 2k booth specifically at 2 p.m swing by play

some 2k with us we'll play against each other we'll talk wrestlemania wwe world if you don't know what that is they used to call it wwe access it's like they do their own comic-con a couple days before wrestlemania everyone comes convention center they have booths old school gear you could look at macho man's fucking gear from wrestlemania 5 and sean michaels uh zip line from wrestlemania 12 all this historical stuff so i'm really excited about i can't wait for wrestlemania this year that's awesome yeah it's gonna be fun i can't wait to see it now we are here to talk about x-men 97 we had another great episode this week i thought um but a very different episode this week it's the first one where they're like, all right, we're back in the swing of things.

We gave you the X-Men. Now we're going to do a side episode. We're just going to give the episode to like two of the X-Men and we'll sprinkle in a couple others here and there. But what did you think of this very video game centric episode of X-Men 97? Yeah, it was cool.

I don't remember if they did this on the old, like the ones that actually aired in the 90s where you get kind of like a half an episode and then another half an episode that are completely unrelated. But I liked it where they're not trying to make you go back and forth and jar you because it's two very different settings, right? So if they did that, my brain would not have been able to handle it. So I dug it for, I think, a lot of the reasons most.

So I dug it for most of the reasons that i think kids of the 90s dug it it's very nostalgic a fucking they just tear legitimate like parts of the x-men arcade game out there's a lot of like just nintendo super nintendo nintendo vibes with it all and then obviously you're getting the X-Men stuff on top of it. So I personally loved it. But I always like to see or hear what you think of it as someone that, you know, wasn't alive then, but is, you know, obviously it's, it's hard not to enjoy some of the old stuff from the nineties if you were around for it. So what was your thoughts on it as the young'un? I loved it. I love things with this concept as well. Like this is such a crazy reference for me to make, but it was very spy kids, 3d to me,

the third spy kids movie. Um, and kids, my age, I think we'll appreciate that reference and get it. If you watch both, they get put in a video game. It's very Tron,

like, you know, going back to Tron or running man, even a little hunger gamesy, the way Mojo was like running the game and they would cut back to him it felt like they were cutting back to the game makers oh damn it you know they they doomed me again whatever i got some some wreck it ralph vibes too right where you have the glitch of it all who's helping you out jubilee yes and i loved it too from someone that like i know jubilee but

i'm not like i know her from the cartoon you know know, I'm not like a huge Jubilee comic fan or anything like that. It was nice for me to get a full episode of her and they handled her so well. Again, like more from like, oh, my God, my favorite X-Men in this cartoon are the ones that aren't, you know, the Wolverines and the beasts and the Cyclops. I love them. Don't get me wrong, but they are showing the kind of lesser X-Men. I don't want to call Jubilee a lesser X-Men. Call her a lesser X-Men. She's pretty vital to the team, but I've never been a Jubilee guy.

She's not the S-tier of X-Men, obviously. Yes. I was never really a huge Jubilee fan growing up. The first cartoon, the first episode is when you meet Jubilee. She gets in the group. I don't remember ever seeing her in the comic books, at least the ones I had read up to that point. So I was never just a huge jubilee fan but despite that like i was like this is an episode where she can just kind of be on her own even you see like the selected characters

it's kind of like jubilee colossus is there but it's like not your not the s-tier x-men like you said so hey give her her own 15 minutes you didn't have to carry a whole episode 25 and then the other half you're getting like some serious again. It's like legitimate soap opera shit, right? So grounded. Yeah. Like very real talks. And I actually listened to fat man beyond this last week, Kevin Smith and Mark Bernard

and his podcast. And Mark Bernard and started talking in depth about how much X-Men is like a soap opera and how this feels like a soap opera. And I was like, look at my guy, Clem. He was on top of it. He was early on the soap opera and how this feels like a soap opera and i was like look at my guy clem he was on top of it he was early on the soap opera talk not that that was the first time it's ever been mentioned but you were on it right away when this cartoon came back you were like feels like days of our lives with superpowers hey the the basement boys are on a heater right now someone

tweeted out the other day i saw that viral tweet about how x-men the opening of x-men 2 is like this like great scene we were breaking that shit down months ago catch up to the basement boys the lights are somehow still on down here ford has to keep the lights on forever else the whole fucking industry is going to collapse just taking our takes they're taking my stick at my style bar for bar word for word this has been a good year for the basement boys in that way though i feel like we have been actually like kind of on top of things kind of like ahead of the curve. Cause it's actual shit we know about now. It's like, we don't need Jose to come in and be like,

no, this is Wolverine. This is Cyclops. He loves Jean Grey. It's all making a lot more sense now that we know we have like good characters for lack of a better term, good big comic characters that are coming back into our lives. Shout out for the 13 billion or 25 billion or where they spent on Fox back

in the day to get these guys back. But the Storm one, what was that one line he said? He was like, you were a god to me even without your powers. I'm like, look at this forge over here, Mr. Rico Suave. I was fucking amazed by that. And this storyline, the Storm one specifically, Life Death is what they're calling it, is from the comics directly pulled and apparently like very, um, acclaimed in the comics. People love this storyline for storm because it is her learning how to kind of like be herself without just like relying on her powers, her whole identity, her whole personality is based around. I can change the weather now. It's like,

all right, but like, who are you if you can't do that and it's a risk to do i think so early into the x-men cartoon like you would think they want to like get us fully back into the swing then pull the dramatic stuff on it but i kind of love it like forge and the way that he broke the news to her spoilers you know obviously the whole episode the way that he at the end skipping ahead breaks the news that he was kind of responsible in a Galen Erso Death Star type way for the anti-mutant technology. She fucking smacks him. She gets so pissed off at him. She leaves.

And then his fucking demon comes out. What is it called? I wrote it down. The adversary. Oh, my God. That thing was scary. I know that this is the original was a kid's show that adults could enjoy. And this one is an adult show that kids could enjoy.

But that was like, I was thinking of you immediately. Like, you're trying to watch this with AJ. He might be scared of the X-Men all over again. AJ's out on the X-Men. He is too scared. He's never coming back either. And I'll tell you, I didn't appreciate it. I won't even show my, I won't even show Sienna or my wife.

It's anti-bird propaganda is what it is. I didn't like this. You're a even show my, I won't even show Sienna or my wife. It's anti-bird propaganda is what it is. I didn't like this. You're a big bird guy. Yeah, that's right. Adversary. We just got the bird fly outside. We have a wire,

a wifi bird feeder, and it can, I do the AI to tell you what birds are there. It's a beautiful thing. And then I got this fucking birds, friending, fucking chomping on people. I'm like,

birds don't attack humans like that. Granted, it's just one evil mutant bird or whatever the fuck it is but i i did not appreciate that i appreciate forge telling that stuff to storm when he knew she couldn't fucking lightning bolt his ass out of the fucking totally all right now that i took your gun away like yeah i want to see this adversary and conchu in the same room. Yes.

Imagine that. A couple crazy birds. A couple crazy birds going at it. The thing about Storm, and I'm with you. The timing is like a little weird, but I think you really can't have Storm at the mansion with Magneto taking over for Xavier. Because then she's kind of the leader. She pushed back on a lot of shit. He's kind of the fucking big dog now, right? So Cyclops and Jean, they were in Washington. I think they said

Storm is obviously figuring this shit out. My boy Magneto what that guy is doing to Gambit is fucking it's breaking my heart. He's fucking given Gambit's girl some fucking sugar right in front of her eyes and just, like, basically mock him. He's like, oh, there wasn't much sleeping last night.

Yeah, I wouldn't say he was sleeping. I'm like, oh, God, he's fucking ruining Jubilee's goddamn birthday. And he's, like, straight up just, like, evil old man. And it's, like, he kind of is, like, the fucking big dog in the room. So what are they going to do? Nothing. They're not going to do a goddamn thing. I love the vibe with him and the x-men too when they suggest and jubilee is like it's her 18th birthday we want to do something for you she's like i want to go to the arcade that would be the most fun thing in the world immediately i part of me was like all right me and jubilee were kind of the same person that's kind of what i

would want to do for my birthday party anyway and then when they're like we can't fucking take magneto to the arcade what are you talking about like magneto we're gonna take him and he's kind of what I would want to do for my birthday party anyway. And then when they're like, we can't fucking take Magneto to the arcade. What are you talking about? Like Magneto, we're going to take him and he's going to be running around playing pinball or whatever. I was like, oh my God, they're afraid of Magneto. Like we're afraid of Dave. Like when we pitch ideas, we're like, we can't take Dave.

So, you know, it's such a great dynamic between him and the rest of the team. But then when Dave's the one who's like, guys, let's go to Disney and go on the star wars runs oh my god i'm waiting i need magneto to have his his disney boys moment with the x-men that's gonna that's what this is all building towards and i cannot fucking wait for it someone for this episode can you photoshop magneto from x-men 97 with just the mouse ears on like he's at disney maybe put a balloon in his hand and kind of just like topping off you know and we've loved the cartoon i'd say uh this is probably my least favorite of the four so far or five or whatever it's been but i still i would probably agree watching it but that being said this show already has more thought put into it despite being a reboot of a cartoon from the 90s than like all

secret invasion had the fact that the intro is a living object like the game of thrones map where it'd be like up this this city's out of it or this city like something broke so we're gonna break it in the map and then we're gonna have a new character here and it would pop up you're like holy shit it's a living breathing intro same thing with the x-men uh bishop no longer in the intro storm no longer in the intro gene gray fake gene gray didn't have the ponytail and now the real gene gray is back she has the ponytail mine exploded i saw it i like obviously magneto was there but that was like from the jumps was like oh that's just how it's gonna be you know his ass is gonna be taken out whenever he you know turns on the x-men luckily after a disney boys moment

and it was just like oh like this thing is and there's i think a lot of little stuff in the episode again like they're doing the music but they're doing it in like the 16-bit format it's just like people that care who would have thought and it really sucks it turns out this goddamn b-e-a-u bow him just being an only fan you know kind of sucks for us now because like now that we see it and i'm like fuck he's gone he's not going to be back for season two and that's when you worry about like how well it's going to continue i don't believe that's true as far as i know he finished season two oh okay they're just animating his work the the report was kind of like we will not be bringing him back for season three so i don't

know you know they could always go back and rewrite some of his shit if they want to take his name off of it or whatever but as far as i know season two is done that's beautiful to hear season three by that point we're talking x-men movies we're so into like live action and like he probably would have moved on by season this is is me like coping. I'm like, it probably, this is going to be a hit and he'd be too big for it anyway. So another, another one for the ex-hope opera. Like you already mentioned, my like biggest note of the episode was just Magneto getting rogue her coffee

first and getting the order right was that was the dagger in the relationship to me. If I were gambit, I think I would like take my pride and go home i'd be like you know what i'm gonna go leave the x-men maybe try out for the avengers if they're kicking around in the 90s like i'm not interested in this dynamic anymore he's when gambit leaves i feel like this is we're on the fast path there like we're like just get ready for it on gambit fucking in his cabin like red from shawshank he's like from the bathroom

no dishes exactly no dishes nothing that's what they're sending gambit into it's tough man and like magneto there's a thing magneto is kind of a cool-ass villain and he's fucking smart he's stronger than all of them but but wolverine what are you gonna do i will literally rip your skeleton out of your body which is probably gonna might even happen next episode the way we're going like they nothing's off limits and they're just crushing all these different comics i saw that there is a gap between so next week i don't think we're gonna get storm storm they're gonna follow up in two weeks it looks like based on the episode oh interesting yeah interesting because yeah this was a part one this was like the first part one of the season i believe i think

yes and also dealing with some of the older stuff i i meant to mention this i saw it yesterday and i started it screen crush they did a um every episode of the X-Men, all 75, recapped in 35 minutes. And I'm remembering a lot of stuff I forgot all about. I'm about 10 minutes in, the algorithm got it to me. And it's, Ryan Air, I think his name is, really good. He's like kind of like heavy spoilers. Has a little bit of fun.

He's more barstool-y than you're kind of like super nerdy people i really i really liked it so check it out if you want to if you're like me and either are old and don't remember this stuff or like robin you weren't alive during the stuff or you didn't see it or you just want to geek out on some x-men in the weeks between um episodes it's a good fucking refresher it's again like 35 minutes i loved uh logan calling beast a blue rogaine ad yeah blue rogaine ad is such a good and that is like again like a lot of this shit like would have played even bigger in the 90s because rogaine was such a big thing when it first came out so i i love that and i'll tell you man morph is a good like he's always sticking up for people he's he's a good zinger he's he is a good, like, he's always sticking up for people. He's a good zinger. He's a good dude to have around, man.

I'm happy we have Morph in our life, like you said. The quote-unquote lesser characters are definitely holding their own. Again, Gambit getting fucking neutered is something I did not see coming. No. They took the coolest, like, the one who, like we said, he was kind of the Boba Fett of the X-Men. You just see the action figure and you're like that's my fucking guy right there and he's the cuck now i was gonna say there is a chance a non-zero chance because we know the show is a little more dull that gambit just gets like legitimately cucked in an episode and it's like watching magneto it's like you sit there and he's like i'm gonna show you how to touch this beautiful Southern woman. Yeah, it's it's I was going to say subtly implied, but I would say it's not so subtly implied.

The X-Men are fucking like Olympians. Like they just fuck each other constantly. Bang, bang, bang in a bang. And, you know, Magneto sling a dick the way he carries himself even before all the rogue stuff. Just the way he walks into the U.N. and shit. It's like, oh, my God. Yeah, this guy's a silver fox. So the X--men they'd be fucking for sure they'd be fucking and again the hair is going along old magneto was slinging some evil dick this magneto slinging some some

good big dick energy that was a thing once upon a time right like yep he's fucking he got it man he got the riz um then we get the whole video game storyline we've been talking about mojo appears mojo a great underrated x-men villain yeah i didn't remember till he came back and then i looked him up and was like i kind of do remember him now um one random note that when they're in genosha for the first time and they you know they see like the mutants as slaves the guards that chase them they look exactly like boba fett they're green they have like a red visor i was i was stunned by that i loved how many yeah i loved how many callbacks there were to not only the video game but also the old show when mojo's like

my greatest hit was when i and then they literally like remind you who he is, where he came from. Like you said, the music, the video game music is so fucking good. And it's so 16 bit Sega, Nintendo, Motendo. This episode is called brings you back. And they even changed the art style a little bit, like back and forth. When she puts on the sunglasses, you know, they do a couple different versions of it where I thought the art in this was awesome. It felt like even though it was probably our least favorite so far i would imagine this might have been the animators favorite just based on how crazy it gets in that video game world how many different styles they get to blend and the 16-bit making references to days of future past with the poster making

references you know to the arcade cabinet you see the x-men arcade cabinet at one point um really cool stuff though even spiral um didn't expect to see her she was like mojo's assistant she kind of betrays them at the end i think they didn't really like dig into that too much but when they defeat mojo she's like standing behind him i think she like unplugged him somehow she's smiling so yeah i was like friend or foe i didn't know what to make of her. I forgot. I don't remember from the comics at all. And Morph turned into her and I'm like, I don't know what the fuck's going on with Spiderman. Yeah.

Very cool. And then the only other note I wanted to make, the digital replica of Jubilee, the glitch. You know, she found a glitch. She found a way to stay alive, voiced by the original voice of Jubilee. i thought that was a really cool way to bring her back in um very jeff bridges and trump legacy very leonard nimoy and uh star trek 2009 um super cool though the the magneto boss battle was good too yeah he comes down he looks like he does in the video game and shit i don't know if i said this last week the video game the aesthetics of it are a little different than the 90s cartoon because apparently the video game is based on a pilot from 1989 and that's where all the designs were based oh shit

as again that video game that was one of the like four that took countless quarters for me back in the day and i think i said on previous episode I joined one time they were on the last level and I was just like, holy shit, I'm going to see the end of it. So seeing the Magneto boss fight and all that definitely brought all the memories rushing back. And at some point, I guess at some point I could say, oh, they're going to run out of stuff to get us all giddy and happy and nostalgic.

No, I don't think they really can. They're going to gonna do they have x amount of episodes a season then they'll have another year at some point i'm just gonna get old and like die basically but there's enough x-men content that we can just keep pumping out fucking just fun stories so i mean all around win for marvel here again this is a guy who was like do i cut ties with disney plus you guys have me hooked at at least for the X-Men, I'll tell you that much. And they've got enough nostalgia to go through, too. Not just the X-Men comics, but like this episode,

they were like, let's hit that X-Men video game nostalgia bone. Maybe next episode, Dr. Sinister turns him into a couple fucking action figures. Oh, Bob. I even saw one of the promos that they had on twitter is they had the

old it was an x-men card of someone and i said oh i saw that yeah yeah yeah and i was a diehard x-men card guy i know on the old kfc radio i think brendan and kev talked about how they were both like big into the cards you know brendan was for sure i even bought a book that's literally the cards not even cards like printed out they They are just pictures of the cards. But those things made me like, it took my fandom to another level. These fucking guys, they have us hook, line, and sinker. The only thing I'm going to say

in terms of like merchandising and nostalgia, those fucking X-Men mugs are every episode. And I'm like, just sell those mugs. There's nothing that has to be hard or copyright infringement about it. You can just make a mug with a stupid X. And the only thing I'm going to say has to be dishwasher safe. I have like three mugs that are not dishwasher safe.

And I'm like, I'm done with this shit. I do not hand wash anymore. I have a dishwasher. I paid good money for it. Just make a dishwasher safe and do the exact mug that those fucking guys drink out of. And you have my business and probably countless people who are listening to this podcast right now mugs that aren't dishwasher safe are pencil holders yes that's a good point that's a little philosophy from me right there yeah if you can't just like i agree with you you're like i'm not

dealing with this i like the mug i like the design on it whatever but you're putting it on a shelf you're not drinking out of that if you can't dishwash it straight a pencil um all right so that was x-men uh 97 episode 4 obviously a quicker recap of the episode today because it there's not as much to go through there's not as much plot and crazy twists and turns and goblin queens and whatnot but we do have a little bit of news to talk about um and it will be a bit of a shorter episode too because as i mentioned i gotta go catch a train to wrestlemania the first news item is a big one and it's one that my initial tweet was i was like oh boy i'm sure the response to this will be normal

and i don't know if it has been normal you know i haven't been like in the weeds of twitter the last 24 hours i would imagine it's probably crazy but personally i haven't seen too much backlash julia garner will be playing a version a variant of the silver surfer in the fantastic four movie now i wanted to make that very clear she is playing a variant of the silver surfer that exists in the comics i forget the actual name is like Shala lob or something like that. Our boy, Justin Kroll was the one who broke this story. Shout out to Justin Kroll.

He even did our favorite thing when he hits us with a little preview before it goes out, he'll tweet like this one's for Clem, you know, sorry about the Mets. Hopefully this makes you happy. And it's Julia Garner from Ozark. So you just finished Ozark.

I'll kind of let you take it because my initial reaction was like, I'll wait and see. Would I prefer it to be the normal silver server? Yeah, probably just because I like him from the comics. I don't know anyone, anything about this one, but I'm totally okay with them taking a chance on this.

What do you think? So, yeah. So I just happened to finish Ozark. My wife and I watched it for the first time. Like, and we finished like a month ago, I'd say, let me just tell you about Julia Garner plays a character in Ozark. My wife and I watched it for the first time and we finished a month ago, I'd say.

Let me just tell you, Bob. Julia Garner plays a character in Ozark named Ruth Lightmore and she is fucking awesome and she plays this redneck fucking just pissed off girl from just a bunch of

a family full of dickheads, essentially. She's not Bateman's wife in it, right that's a different actress yeah yes yeah who's awesome as as well uh the bateman and the wife the whole family is pretty is very well cast but bateman and his wife are crushing but ruth langmore is kind of the one that when i think i think of her first because she has so many just like oh fuck scenes and then I like was like I basically like unplugged myself from learning much about her because I didn't want to like get something spoiled about what happens to the character in the show and all that then when I'm done I find out that she is from grew up in New York City and she doesn't have

this accent that is I honestly thought like one of those things like in The Wire that casts a lot of people from Baltimore so they have the the legitimate Baltimore accent and kind of the whole persona of someone who's grown up in Baltimore. This is just some awesome actress from New York. So when I first heard this, I was like, well, Silver Surfer as a girl. Remember that had been floated out a couple of months ago. I think that's when we had the core of the like, oh, my God, MCU. Let me just tell everyone out there who doesn't know anything about this woman. She's fucking awesome.

And I'm happy she's in the MCU. And at first, so I tried to, like, figure it out. I blogged it. And I'm like, basically, just putting my thoughts. I'm like, is it going to be like, because Silver Surfer could be like a cosmic being that is so gone, you know, human wise by this point that he doesn't even have like a gender. Right. Or I'm like thinking they're going to do this and that.

And then I'm just like, I read up on it and it's like shallow ball is a female Baron and the silver surfer. He was, she was the original silver, silver surfer, Norton rads first love in the comics as well. So it's kind of like,

and someone made the point, it's kind of like and someone made the point it's kind of like when stacy with uh you know in the spider totally where she's you know spider girl or whatever the fuck it is so it's like yeah uh fucking the other thing too the fact that it's a character that exists in the comics makes me think like the the backlash is silly because the backlash is from my point of view comes from a point of from like a rooted place of why are you replacing the silver surfer with a girl and it's like i don't think this is in place of like i know that men were up for the role like keith stanfield who i fucking love he's an amazing actor i fan casted him in a million things he said like damn i thought

i was gonna get that so obviously they could have gone either way but i think if she crushes it as shalad lob whatever she and al gaib um if she crushes it i think there's a chance they bring in the silver surfer and they make the fucking they make a silver baby i i would 100 i almost i expect a Silver Surfer to come You know what, I'm going to break it here first Breaking news, April 4th, 2024 Silver Surfer, he's going to be in Secret Wars This whole thing is going to be a thing They're going to bump into each other

They're going to have a Silver Surfer fight That's exactly what's going to happen, Bob I just told you, before they even cast the fucking movie I'm telling you what's going to happen And they have it in a different direction Where they have the girl first I don't know what universe this Fantastic four is gonna be in so it's like whatever i can't i can't get upset about anything if i know nothing about the fucking movie and

again remember we had the question um we're like who's your favorite uh what character or what animal would you cast as a silver surfer yeah Yeah. Yeah. So I forgot about that. Yeah. So it was like, I, it was like make poking fun at the outrage. So going into this now, I will say this.

I really didn't see much outrage. I don't, I'm kind of, I've been weaning off Twitter for years now. And I'm at the point where I don't go, definitely do not go deep in the weeds. But I haven't seen like a lot of outrage or whatever. I'm interested to see it.

I'm happy. We have her in the MCU. I was trying to think like which character if for this actress would i want to play other than this character she's cast as and i'm sure there's a million i'm not thinking about i'm like this is a big enough character that's a little different i'm just happy she's there man i'm telling you for anyone that hasn't watched ozark i say it's like the midwestern version of breaking bad and i'm not saying it's like the Midwestern version of Breaking Bad. And I'm not saying it's Breaking Bad in terms of quality,

but it's like the silver medalist of Breaking Bad. It is very fucking good. It's a very good Breaking Bad. It's silver. And it's, you like that, right? You like that, right? And you know what? It's the diet Dr. Pepper version.

I'm not saying Diet Coke. Diet Coke and Coke don't really taste like Dr. Pepper. Two different things, yeah. Diet Dr. Pepper do taste alike. So that's what I'm saying you're Coke. Diet Coke and Coke don't really taste like Dr. Pepper. Two different things, yeah. Do taste alike. So that's what I'm saying you're getting with Ozark. It's a fucking awesome show, and I couldn't be happier that Ruth Langmore is joining the MCU. And she's Ruth Langmore, by the way. Julia Garner is not who we're talking.

This is Ruth Langmore. She is Littlefinger. She is the 17 different people. We call Pedro Pascal, and now he's fucking Reed Richards This chick rules And I put a whole like In my blog about it I put a whole like

Her best moments from the show You can't watch that though Because they probably give away stuff from the show No I can't watch that I won't watch that You're going to enjoy that I just watch it with a big shit eating grin on my face I'm so happy

I will be interested to see how they handle it CGI wise they did silver surfer in a fantastic four movie before the rise of the silver surfer he he himself he looked okay the movie itself was bad um but that's the other thing you hire supposedly from what you're telling me an amazing actress and she's going to be like a silver blob like is she going to have much expression emotion we'll see how they handle that also just the fact that it's someone in space riding a silver surfboard is ridiculous like they have to i guess they got to set it in a different 60s universe to make that work part of me was a little worried too that like maybe because of the way the last

silver surfer movie was they're like all right let's just completely disconnect from him and we'll meet him back yeah um another new story one that i was pretty excited about when i read i tanya slash caruela slash dumb money director craig gillespie is in talks to direct supergirl woman of tomorrow not signed on yet but apparently this is coming pretty close i love all three of those movies i thought itania was fucking awesome one of my favorite movie soundtracks of the last 20 years i could say um lily like i say 20 years like i got like a list of fucking 80 soundtracks that are better um cruella i thought was the best live action disney movie they ever did and not ever but in terms of taking a cartoon putting it into live action and dumb money i think i talked about on the podcast recently because Dave was in it and it just went to streaming and everything.

Three great movies, three very funny movies that move along and tell very different stories. I'm in on Craig Gillespie directing Woman of Tomorrow. Yeah, so the only thing I don't like about it is the Cuh Gillespie reminds me of Connor Gillespie, who broke our heart, especially KFC, live on stream during the first electric chair uh but other than that like so cruella i like have heard about her you know people sing its praise italia i enjoyed i had a lot of fun during dumb money just fun fucking movies which is like supergirl if you're gonna tell me supergirl is it gonna be this like epic to be fun exactly what i need so this is the kind of these are the kind of hires i feel like james gunn because probably gonna be good at because i think that's kind of his flavor a lot of that stuff

so uh sign me up bob and if i can get bob excited for this for the soups we got the soups here baby soup family this is oh there he is yeah nebraska's own stop Stop it. Also, he's got, he got I, Tanya and Cruella, two very different movies about like kind of empowering women in a way, you know, in a weird way. Cause they're both very flawed women.

But he doesn't beat you over the head with that shit. It's not like, oh yeah, we, it's the America for error speech from the ending of Barbie. It's kind of just like, this is the story. This is the woman. I think he's, he's not like, Oh yeah, we, it's the America for error speech from the ending of Barbie. It's kind of just like, this is the story. This is the woman.

I think he's, he's a very, very good pick for the, for the job. Yeah. Um, another story, another story coming right out of New York city,

the punisher, John Berthinal has been spotted on the daredevil born again set. Now he was spotted a little while ago ago i didn't want to make that a new story because it was kind of like a blurry picture from far away it was kind of spoilery i know a lot of people are very much looking forward to this i didn't want to spoil it but at this point i think they filmed scenes that they couldn't cover up people took so many pictures of them together in their fucking suits the punisher and the daredevil suits next to each other they look amazing and john berth and all himself made a post kind of like hey i'm back like we can't hide this

anymore posted him charlie cox next to each other just really cool and also the rumored storyline sounds awesome it sounds like uh mayor fisk is going to be a thing kingpin is going to become new york mayor and um corrupt cops in new york city are going to be using the punisher skull as like hey yeah we love the punisher he's our guy and they're going to be going and doing fucked up shit and the punisher is going to have to come in and rebuke he's not the rebuker yeah he's the punisher you're right you're the rebuker is very much i'm not the same come from the same cloth as the punisher i love it i love people like oh could someone with like fisks you know background become mayor yeah it's fucking new

york man we're a bunch of i think there's some examples yeah yeah i can think of a few so uh i was when i when i when i saw this i saw like a couple days ago and i was like man fuck like i didn't want to know and i'm like there's no way this was just gonna miss my radar for the next however now it is what it is so now i'm bringing back all the netflix people too kristin ritter jessica jones she's on set they're posting about that like they're very much and now you gotta wonder how much of this are you gonna have to know going in they got a x-men 97 it almost they're rebooting my screen crush we've promised uh we've promised the listeners we will watch daredevil before

born again comes out we got to get on top of that but seeing this it's like all right fuck add punisher to the list and maybe jessica jones too damn it god damn it hey yeah i've seen the success of eskimo 97 like sometimes to go forward you have to go back just give the shit that works because again we know a lot of the new shit did not work i'm fine doing with the stuff that worked now not everything from the past is going to be good in the future or the present but like that's cool getting more putting more characters onto the map is fun as well like we said now that like oh punisher's now unlocked in the lego marvel game you know like we're

unlocking more people it makes it a lot more fun and they can get like the cross uh what's the word i'm looking for cross pollination whatever yeah a little pollination there get punisher showing up in like an x-men fucking episode out of the blue yeah so down awesome actor too jubilee or something hey if that's who happens to be i'd be much more okay with it than some of the other um and then our final news story this one i don't know if i should call it like a bummer or like a down story but it's a wait and see we'll have to see what happens alamo draft house all 41 locations the company is for sale which you know it's like i hope amc doesn't buy it and just turn it into amc dine-ins or something because i do think there's a different experience having gone to

see guardians 3 with you at alamo draft house it's like more of a mom and pop vibe even though it is a 41 you know it's a big chain but the trailers they play beforehand the throwback videos the you know the way you write down your order and you put it on the thing and the people come and take it there is something about it that just feels like a fun alternative maybe a theater like i know marquee cinemas is still around like maybe another one of those chains could partner with them and they could figure something out. Or maybe we could pitch this to Dave. Why don't you make an investment in Alamo and let the basement boys run the franchise?

There we go. We said, if we ever did like a basin boy meetup where we would do it at an Alamo, that would be the way to go. Yeah. Possible. So, yeah,

I think, I think it got bought and like, I think it was the last thing that would have been bought by like a hedge fund or something like that. And I think they already have taken a little bit of the charm out of it from the first time I went years ago. I think it's already gone that way. Plus, let's be honest, COVID fucked everything up. Like the movie theater industry and the food industry were both ravaged by COVID.

This is a movie theater that serves food. They got fucking double-edged somehow, right? And then you're dealing with getting a purchase and then all the shit that comes out of that so uh i'm like hoping for the best expecting the worst and like the worst i guess would be alamo closing uh but i'm i'm hoping for i don't think that'll happen though i'd be shocked if they just like closed all locations all right now is this bob saying this as the friend like you're like oh no honey it's all right everything's gonna be all right or do you want us to feel that in your heart because that makes me feel better no i don't think they're gonna close like i feel like that it has enough of a thing well i say that but like movie pass

had a pretty big fucking people knew that close but that was fucking fake life though that was yeah in the moment we were all like we feel like we're robbing movie pass and i guess we were is the answer. But yeah, no, I don't, I don't think they're going to close. Maybe, maybe a couple locations close, but I feel like Alamo draft house will be around for at least hopefully. Yeah. All right. That was my mom's basement for April 4th.

We're recording this April 5th. It might come out. Depends on how good hotel wifi is in Philly tonight. I don't know where we're going to be sitting for wrestlemania nate's coming with us too it's me brandon and nate at wrestlemania cody our social guys coming as well um i'll try to tweet it out though and do some kind of meet up if some stoolies are going to be there we'll try to come say hey so uh if you're in philly this weekend say what's up. I got my green thing. I also sneaky.

I packed my Bret Hart jacket because I saw Brandon just got one. And if he shows up in it, I'm just going to have to cuck him. I'm going to have to warn up him in the Bret Hart jacket. I like that. I like that a lot. The good thing is you'll be next to Brandon too. So he's so tall. He's easy to find in like a crowd.

You know what I mean? So if you see Brandon, you go for Bobby. Let me run this by you. I was talking to the office yesterday about this tournament this video game tournament and lane johnson is one of the like people playing in it i said if there's a chance i play against lane johnson can you give me some shit talk and they were like one thing about lane johnson he don't like fun i said all right that's good and they said the second thing is he false starts every play. That's crazy.

I think if I play against him, I'm going to say, Lane, just be careful. Don't start the match until the bell rings. If that lands with a black eye, we have a story for the pot. We have content, baby. If you don't get punched by Lane Johnson, this entire trip

is a failure. You're a Commander's fan too so it's perfect yeah it works as much as i do it works dude i meant to pack my commander's hat and i forgot at home but at the same point like it might be like i put my commander's hat on and he's like all right buddy that's not much of a shit talk like i'm like those guys don't start the season until it's over. Yeah. Might as well put a paper bag on my head. Like it's bad. There's like articles of clothing that when you get your ass kicked in Philly, you're like, well, at least I gave a zing before. Like the commanders, you're like almost dissing yourself and then getting

your ass kicked. So I have our hashtag for the week for everyone who made it to the Oh yeah. Let's get a hashtag. Hashtag Bob Tendo. We got a little video game going on here. Bob Tendo. Bob Tendo. Raise that belt, Bob. Bring on here. Bob Tendo. Bob Tendo.

Raise that belt, Bob. Bring it back to the basement. Bring the belt back to the basement. Let's go. I'll certainly try. We'll talk to you next week.