My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 348 - X-MEN 97 S1E7 RECAP WITH CLEM

Episode Date: April 26, 2024

Robbie and Clem recap and discuss Episode 7 of #XMen97, which includes Gambit's funeral, Bastian's reveal, Rogue going HAM (and launching Captain America's shield into bolivian) and more! #XMen #MarvelStudios ****************************************   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 to My Mom's Basement, presented by Barstool Sports. I am your host, Robbie Fox, along with my co-host, as always, Clem, for another X-Men 97 recap edition of My Mom's Basement. Very excited to talk about this episode, as I am every week, because this show just continues to deliver. X-Men 97, I would say for me, this episode as I am every week, because this show just continues to deliver X-Men 97. I would say for me, I think I said it last week.

It's just beyond my expectations every single week. I'm like, yep, this show continues to be frigging awesome. At this point, I expect, I don't want to say expect greatness. That sounds like such a hard old thing to say,

but I just expect good TV every single week. And I think we even got with the Motendo one an all right episode it was fun had it's like quirks to it and there was like a lot of little fun easter eggy things and it's like yeah we're just gonna get quality every single week which is all you can really ask for in this crazy world we live in i do want to apologize to the listeners this week because we were supposed to have an in-person episode our first in-person episode in a long time clem was coming into the office for the nfl draft we did the nfl draft show at barstool every year and stuff unfortunately i i have a fever like it's like i'm four years old again i've had a fever all week which is like the weirdest thing we were just

talking about it you texted me today you were like listen you're young but you're not like young to the point of getting fevers like this. But yeah, it's finally breaking. It's finally coming down. But it's been a weird week. As a dad and for all my other fellow basement boys and girls who have kids out there, you know the struggles of the fever when you have kids. And then if you then get sick from your kids, then you get an adult fever. It fucking wears you out. You forget

how much fevers suck in the time between elementary school, essentially, and your 20s, in Robbie's case, or your 30s, 40s, whatever it may be. And man, it wears you down. And I said, Bob, take your time. Don't rush. That was the other thing. I think COVID, I know whenever I got COVID, I usually ended up with a fever. And I think COVID kind of reminded everyone how much fevers fucking suck. So my guy, Bob, I said, take your time. We'll get to another live episode at some point, you know, in the next year, I'll try to get to HQ again.

And I'm just happy you're, you're, you're feeling a little bit better. My guy goes to, you know, most people go to Cancun, they get like Montezuma's Revenge, or they have like alcohol poisoning. Robbie thinks he got an ear infection. Yeah, I got water in my ear while I was down there. It could have been that. I don't know what it was, but I got the Mexico flu apparently.

That's like what I'm calling it now because, yeah, I came back from Mexico and just fever up the ass. It's crazy. Well, not up the ass. I shouldn't say that. I mean, that's the other Mexican flu is it usually comes comes up the ass and we talked about it before we went live the one like it wasn't even a perk but it was like one of the things that didn't really suck

about fears is at least you got the bubblegum medicine the bubblegum medicine was it was diamond tap was one of my power rankings as a kid for because it was like great flavored um actually no you know what that was two on the list bubble gum medicine was three and number one on the list was luden's cough drops which weren't even they were candy that was such bullshit that i like if i'm like rikola i'm like these guys get to market as cough drops it was just straight sugar you can't i mean yeah i have like the real ones here and like, they don't taste very good. The Luden's ones. I mean, like you said, they're kind of, I'll buy those and just have them. They're lifesavers.

I don't even need a cough. Exactly. And that's the thing, you know, it doesn't work because it's like everything in life. If it tastes good, it's not good for you. It tastes like shit. It's good for you. And that kind of goes in the cough drops as well. But I will say like uh the bubble gum

medicine was for like antibiotics a pretty good thing my kids had ear infections so often as kids they had to go to like the next level up and the next level it was like a white medicine it tasted gross they hated it so i shout out to the fucking people that made the bubble gum medicine amoxicillin i love that shit and our boy bob is back and we're we're very happy to be back in the basement i was gonna say shout out to us the basement boys because i saw yesterday as we're recording this we're recording it on april 26th yesterday was five years to the day since avengers endgame came out which means it's about five years since we did our first episode together. First episode of My Mom's Basement together was an Avengers Endgame preview. And then, of course, the next week we did our recap show.

Go back and listen to those. If you go on Spotify, you could sort oldest to newest. I'm not going to listen to them because I feel like listening to ourselves five years ago would make me cringe. But I saw that and I was like, oh, shit, five years ago, Avengers Endgame. There you go. I'm going to go do that. I'm going to go see what we sounded like five years ago. I mean, we were always pals so it's like i think we we would have some good chemistry but the hype i just want to hear the hype in my voice being like oh my god this is coming i believe

that was in hq2 right we did in that like little conference room downstairs yeah we couldn't even find like a podcast studio open because we didn't have a lot of those in hq2 so yeah we found like a random business conference room and we did it there oh man so yeah check that out i mean but watching him again listen to the recap shout out triggs i remember he that was we had the us cap me as thanos it was the sickest fucking artwork i've ever seen so uh yeah man shout out the basement five year thanks to everyone who's uh who's hopped who have hopped in along the way and how many times do you think you've watched the portal scene in the five years since it came out i tweeted maybe 500 times like i think that may be lowballing it i i'm gonna venture to say i've seen that i've watched that scene more than any other scene in any other movie in my entire life is that crazy to say because i've

watched die hard a billion times so it's like i guess i've watched the portal scene a billion and one times because i've probably watched a certain scene from die hard that many times what would you say is your most watched scene in the history of movies do you have one it could be that like other than, I'm trying to think like there, there's not scenes you go back to and rewatch like that portal scene. I was listening to son of a boy dad the other day, little sass said he used to watch that before he went to work out. He's like, I'm not even a Marvel fan, not even like a comic book guy.

He's like, I would just watch that take pre-workout and go to the gym because that is what the portal scene is. So it would either be that or cap lifting the hammer for the first time. I would, I would have to imagine. And that's end game has both of those moments. It happened within 10 minutes of each other. It's crazy.

Like, it's like that to get, get dark. But we talked about it really quick. It's like, I remember during like the pandemic and shit, it was kind of like a bummer. You were just sitting at home board.

And whenever I would just go like down or just bored, I would just was like, fuck it. Let's throw on the portal scene. And it just like raised, got me amped up for like a good 20 minutes there. So, and then obviously the battle scene was incredible.

So man, it's crazy looking back 2019 and game came out. I mean, Thrones came out around the same time, which is very much the yin and the yang of franchises you know landing or not landing the plane correctly and uh shoot i can't believe it's been that long already i know it kind of feels like yesterday like the fact that it has been five years of a post-endgame marvel is like what i feel like far from home just came

out and we were like oh yeah tony stark the graffiti see his face everywhere like it's crazy i can imagine uh i want to think of 2019 robbie and clem talking to us 2024 robbie and clem and be like man what's the mcu looking like now five years later you get to have all that you probably had so much crazy fallout from the snap bless you you probably had all this like really cool stuff that they did. And then you introduce all these new characters and be like, I'll tell you, man, X-Men's back. It's awesome.

That's really all I'm going to tell you. And you know what else I think would shock us is to be like, oh, and by the way, the best post-Endgame stuff was from Loki. Yeah. That guy's dead. What are you talking about? No resurrections. talking about no resurrections no resurrections that was the one thing we were promised oh my god so funny um also since we last

did a podcast we got a new trailer for deadpool and wolverine a very good trailer where we actually see hugh jackman as logan for the time in this movie, because of course the last trailer, you kind of saw glimpses or shadows of him. We get them full on in this. He's failed his universe. There are shots of him, maybe at like X-Men grave sites or something, what he's standing next to the pillars and stuff. He looks amazing in the yellow suit with sleeves,

without sleeves. It feels like they're still holding back on the wolverine cowl for the movie which i think is cool i hope this was the last trailer it probably won't be because we still have months until it comes out it's july 26th so it's actually um however many months from now four months is that right the brain's not working we don't do time we don't do again going back to 2020 that's when time yeah weeks months that cease to exist in my world personally. So it's never coming back, ever. We got Cassandra Nova.

She's living in like, or I don't know if she's living, but operating out of like this giant Ant-Man carcass in the void. Pretty awesome. Some cameos, Azazel, Lady Deathstrike, Toad. Some cameos that we didn't expect to see, especially going back through the X-Men movies and watching them. I feel like we watched First Class and we were like, yeah, Azazel kind of stunk. No chance he's in Deadpool and Wolverine, but anything's on the table apparently.

And of course it ends with that portal scene that everyone is speculating about because it's very Doctor Strange-like portal. It looks like it came from a sling ring. It's like, where are they jumping? I love the theory that they're jumping into the final battle in Endgame, and they're immediately going to jump right back through the portal, and they're going to go, nope, we don't want any part of that. That shit is crazy.

The thought of them also being there for Endgame, being in the background and us not knowing, I think that would be funny as well. But maybe it's the battle world, and this is leading into Secret Wars wars maybe it's to the toby mcguire spider-man universe or the the x-men 97 universe there's so many possibilities on the table the way they teased it in the trailer makes me think it is a big moment i'm hoping so because i'm getting really gassed up by all these theories and i hadn't even thought about some of the ones that you just mentioned and then if they're just like going to dr strange's wine cellar and be like well god damn it man you know like even if they're going like hang out with wong for a bit that

would be cool but madison yeah exactly watching sopranos i like if if it is the end game battle scene i need dr Strange to do this spell that he used on Peter Parker to make him forget everything. I need to forget that that would be the case because I will geek the fuck out in the movie theater because I geeked out at my computer seeing it on a Twitter thread or something.

I need that moment to happen on the big screen and then whatever happens during the scene. It would be so Deadpool-y if they're like, nope, fuck this, and they did just jump right out. You said that. Or they did a wink and nod to some other stuff that people picked. Deadpool's like, quick,

we've got to get all the girls together. And that would explain why all the girls just happen to be together. That would be really funny. She has help or whatever. Also, you mentioned it quickly. Metal Watch. The giant Ant-Man corpse skull that they come out of. What the fuck kind of stuff was that?

People are like, is it Hank Pym? Is it fucking, what's his name? Paul Rudd? You know, another Ant-Man. No matter what it is, it is gnarly and metal metal i've seen people speculating that they're going to use the skull for cerebro because ant-man knows all the ant-mans and you could do there's going to be some weird stuff although i saw the director of this movie came out and said like you don't have to see any marvel stuff prior to this movie and i'm like

how is that going to work? Because you're doing cameos and Easter eggs and all this from however many people. But he's swearing that, like, you don't really need to see a lot to see this, which I guess is good. Like, we're fans. So it's like we've seen everything. It doesn't really matter for us. But we want this to be the big movie that turns everything around for Marvel. Probably for the best that they're not, like, referencing Secret referencing secret invasion she-hulk and shit like that in there yeah and i

our boy heavy spoilers did say like so we got in game then they said the spider-man no way home was the uh uh or no epilogue or something it was the end game for spider-man oh yeah yeah yeah we said this could be the endgame for the Fox Franchises the X-Men franchises And all that stuff and Deadpool obviously I'm like that would be pretty sweet And you kind of have those old characters Coming back and then you know obviously

They're going to go with new actors at some point So I would love to see that if it happens You mentioned Toad If Ryan Reynolds truly Is the Ryan Reynolds that I know and love, and he has his pulse on all the Marvel fans' thoughts on everything, he will have Toad killed by lightning, just like in the first one, and he's going to do the wink and nod about how awful the line it was,

how awful of a character it was. And listen, Darth Maul, Shmarth Maul, I don't care. That character stunkunk there's no nice way to say it had nothing to do with the actor it was the character i hope he gets just destroyed instantly like uh what do they call it in wrestling uh when you get just crushed squashed we need a squash toad we need to squash electrocute him light him on fire azazel sucks uh lady lady lady death strike i had no problem with her i actually was kind of bummed that she like died Light him on fire. Azazel sucks. Lady Deathstrike. I had no problem with her.

I actually was kind of bummed that she died the way she did. I would have liked to have her just in the background of the X-Men stuff. But in the end, they didn't really do that kind of... They didn't go too deep into that. And you left out the most important part of the trailer. What's that? In my humble opinion. The two most important parts.

One, let's fucking go. It's going to be the rallying cry. And if that's going to be the rallying cry for the movie you're getting your rated r hardcore deadpool and then they end with like the cocaine jokes that aren't cocaine jokes but it's kind of the wink and nod and it's like all right we're getting fucking we're not going to have this thing uh censored by the mouse because that's i think my biggest concern worry going into this before we started getting trailers that tell me that told me ryan reynolds is going to do ryan reynolds shit i thought you were going to say the most important part was when wolverine low blows deadpool with the spikes out that shot is crazy just takes him right in the dick yeah

that's that's wild i you know and i guess actually the third thing is you alluded to it before the thought of like i always love the when you go to the different universes and you find out what's different that was one of my favorite parts of multiverse of man it's like oh this is the one where thanos failed or this is the one where you know blah blah blah and the one where wolverine lets everyone down it's like i kind of want to see that universe maybe a couple corpses gonna make me feel really bad about things in my life so i i am stoked for that and i hope we get like i hope we do some good time or universe jumping where we get to see different universes i think that's a very cool uh like thing with the multiverse and we haven't done too much in the mcu agreed i would like to

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I'm Italian. I'm, uh, you know, very, uh, emotional, I should say.

And you're watching the Sopranos right now, which adds to it. Oh, halfway through season two, man. And it just hits all those high peaks as much as uh as much as i remember that show is so good yeah shout out shout out papa della bella shout out papa della bella of course um speaking of good shows x-men 97 we got episode seven this

week um it's called bright eyes right bright eyes yep bright eyes because that's something that rogue says to cable in the original series. She calls him Bright Eyes. Hey, Bright Eyes. You like my Rogue? Hey, Bright Eyes. Pretty good. You know what?

It's good that it doesn't sound like you're Miss Minutes. Very fine line. You got to walk, but I can tell the difference. I wish we had. Do we have anyone that, like, so I'm thinking Mincy is like our Louisiana rep. Does Megan make him money? She doesn't really have a Louisiana accent, does she? I think she does a little bit. Does she? we had do we have anyone that like so i'm thinking mincy is like our louisiana rep does megan making money she doesn't really have a louisiana accent does she i think she does a little bit does she i have to not like a thick harsh one but i'm pretty sure she's harsh we need to hire someone

it's kind of crazy dave had to somehow hire a girl with a thick southern accent i love the southern accent so it is you would think dave would hire like a big bertha with a crazy southern accent or something you know and he would just like fall in love with her that i i'd say like over under two and a half years until that happens and i'm probably taking the other on that um so x-men 97 opens with the funeral for gambit some of the fallen mutants this week very sad nightcrawler giving the eulogy was cool though made sense him being the more religious x-man character x-men character um my boy was spinning like one thing is to just do the whole our father our son yada yada get the eucharist out whatever it may be my guy was fucking dropping gambling lines that would have made gambit shed a tear

he's like when you know the house sometimes you hold them sometimes you pull them i don't know what he was saying gambit would have loved it it was all the kind of silly shit what do you say like he basically saying how gambit was like a good dude but he always acted like he was like a sinner that could be saved that he's like you're uh like he he's he held his hand tight but he's like you know he was such a good person but he never really showed and that was his like way he like held his cards tight to his chest or something i was like listen to fucking night crawler making me emotional about another cartoon character it was incredible he's so good night crawler is one of the best x-men he always has been one of my favorites and x-men 97 has just

made that more clear they got the swords in the intro like youmen he always has been one of my favorites and x-men 97 has just made that more clear they got the swords in the intro like you said he's a fucking sword guy everything about it even i like the fact that he wasn't in it right away it took a couple episodes he brought him in brought him back in loved that and actually without getting weird about this and i understand this is a very weird thing to say he strikes he's one of those church folk that's allowed to like he's a freak of the sheets just like professor oh you can't tell he's not and he's not like you hear that voice that's a man of the cloth who also is a man of the sheets it's it's too what do i say like he's using that tail for more things than just you know

you said it bob not me you know yeah you said it bob not me but he definitely did not take like the vow of whatever like uh the soprano's father did right he's not just looking for big z he's looking for more than that yeah um rogue meanwhile is on the hunt for answers she's still pissed off every scene with rogue she's basically like tears in her eyes just like white knuckling fucking give me answers um and heavy spoilers one of our favorite youtubers reminded us that she has absorbed captain marvel's powers at this point which i had completely forgotten about i don't even know if i remembered that in the first place um so she like for people saying rogue is overpowered yeah she kind of is like that she has

absorbed captain marvel's power so she could do whatever the fuck she wants at this point we also saw a quick uh thunderbolt ross and got like a quick hulk mention they're like oh yeah like this place has been built to hold a hulk i was like oh we're gonna get red hulk and x-men 97 that'd be sick a little wink and nod there, right? I put in the notes, Rogue went rogue. She just was like, I'm going crazy. She's off the map fucking people up. Did you get, I wrote in the notes, I got Invincible vibes from her.

The tears, the anger, anguish, and then just the beating the absolute piss out of anyone that got her angry. And it's like, this thing's built for a Hulk. A Hulk ain't got shit on a Southern Belle that's pissed off. Let me tell you that. So no offense to my dog, Bruce Banner, but Rogue was fucking shit up more than he ever could. That shit ain't Rogue proof. And another thing Heavy Spoilers mentioned in his breakdown, the kick that she does is her kick from like marvel versus capcom which i thought was a very cool like such a nerdy easter egg in reference to even spot that and be like that's the one from marvel versus capcom like you earn your nerd card with that one

but i thought that was really cool the first not the first person who saw it every person who saw that and noticed it and then got it reaffirmed that's what it was, shout out to you guys. I mean, I have that with like a very if the Endgame portals moment happens, I will geek out like that. That's pretty obvious. If you got that something, that niche, and it's like, oh, no, we meant to do that again. It's just another example of this show. Like you can watch it with no history of the X-Men or or you can know what Rhodes' kick is like in Marvel vs. Capcom, and they're going to make everyone walk away from the show unhappy. It's crazy.

Dude, it's like in the Deadpool trailer. There's the sequence where Wolverine swings out on one, two, uppercut or something. And people have put it side by side with Flash fighting peter parker and the first sam ramey toby mcguire spider-man in the hallway and they're like it's the exact same sequence what are they referencing here it's like how do you how do you remember the punches flat i don't know how people spot this stuff that being said when i saw that i was like maybe that's just like stunts 101 is that's like a good sequence to throw i was like what that's just like stunts 101 is that like a good sequence to throw i was like what could they pot why would they reference that you know it's like when the

people find out that this song and that song sound the same they have the same chords again it's a good chord it's like yeah that's a good one two three or it's like and to be honest like comic book few of them might be on the spectrum and they kind of could just see things the matrix the way i can't see it. So, hey, shout out to them. And when it hits, it's more likely to hit the knot with X-Men in 97. It's like there's always a nod. Ever since that ponytail with Jean Grey, who, by the way, doesn't have the ponytail again.

They flipped us this week. That was crazy. Because I was meeting like, oh, I know that's Madeline. And then I was like, oh, wait a minute. No, it's not and is she like with psychos like hey remember your dead fake wife that wasn't me it was me you had baby with her and it wasn't mine like jean gray just played an old-fashioned mind game she doesn't have to jump in your head to with your mind i kind of dig that about her redheads spicy spicy you think scott do you think part of him is trying to figure out how to approach Gene about being the Goblin Queen for Halloween?

Oh. It would be cool if you were like, if you dyed your hair black and wore like black and, you know, maybe had like a goblin or something. No, he says gremlin. It's like a goblin. Gargoyle, maybe says Gremlin. He's like, oh, yeah, yeah. Gremlin. And then. Dargoyle, maybe. Something like that. Yeah. And he's like, no, no, no.

Like, I want you to be like Elvira from those Halloween movies. That's just a coincidence that it was the girl that, you know, I had a child with and almost destroyed us and all of our, like, closest friends and family here in the X-Men mansion. I wouldn't blame him either for as much shit as cyclops take it's worth a shot it's worth a shot but yeah they jean gray she's got long hair not ponytailed again and in this scene the united nations are basically telling scott they're on their own they're like we can't like do the mutant cleanup on genosha anymore. So you guys got to figure it out.

Classic comic books, the government just being like pushovers. Not pushovers, actually. The opposite. They're not doing anything. And he's calling it like, I am playing politics. I'm basically doing this. He's like, you either have me who will try to help out a little and say the right things, or you just have the guys who are like mutants he's like i'm not that guy so you should be happy and my guy's cyclops and he's like fuck you he hits like a big red hang-up button if i remember clearly

is that what they had back in the 90s i don't remember that that was an easy button that he hits yeah i wish he used his fucking cyclops laser. Like, oh, that would be good. And then someone like Morph walks in. He's like, oh, I was I needed that. I'm about to call third time this month. You broke the fucking easy button hang up button. And is it because your wife is the Goblin Queen and things in the bedroom aren't as fun as they used to be, Scott? I think we know the answer. He's frustrated, as they say.

Yeah. And then Rogue goes and meets captain america my guy cap i was very excited about this scene very excited to see him and very excited to see they they kind of fixed his design from the original 97 cartoon because i went back i vaguely vaguely remembered him being in an episode went back and looked they give captain america like tighty whities like they give him the superman red underwear in the original with like a yellow belt and it's very bizarre but in this they did away with that they made him just look like normal captain america and it was a very like winter soldier-esque sequence where him and ro go down to this basement on the screens there's like the operation zero tolerance stuff look like that scene where him and then natasha go in the basement of the shield

headquarters like the jersey shield headquarters um really really cool scene cap though and he's basically like i could tell you where guy rick is but i i can't like help much i can't go with you so rogue just gets mad and she grabs his shield and yeets it into bolivian this shield captain america might as well go get a new shield because there's no way he's finding that now robbie trust tree we're in the basement i know you you know taking a few days to record this episode have you been faking your sickness because you didn't want to have to address the fact that your boy cap is clearly at best team human and at worst anti-mutant he's not anti-mutant he's not anti-mutant he's not pro-mutant he's not he's also he's definitely team human like no doubt no doubt he's still human but i i have

i take umbridge with one thing you put there you said my cap this isn't my cap chris evans is my cap okay and that guy would be so pro mutant that guy'd be the most pro mutant guy in the world he'd be so pro mutant people would be calling him a lib like this cat i like this cat i but he's not my cap you know i was excited to see captain america but yeah steve rogers played by chris evans that's my guy i would try to split hairs here but i do love the word umbridge and he used it very well there so i'm not gonna get on you anymore i did slip that one and slipped in some sap vocab for those and i can still hear hear the sickness in your voice, so you would have probably stopped playing it off

after you went through the Cap soliloquy. Tough look for Cap, too. It's like, what did she call him? Like the number one cop or something like that? She calls him a narc. Yeah, she's like a fucking narc loser. America's number one narc. When she ge gets that shield.

And the funniest thing is Cap doesn't have any powers to help him get that shield. He has to walk. Hop on the motorcycle and try to find it in the middle of the snowy forest. You won't find it, brother. That thing is gone. It's like ropes. You better have one of those air tags. No, it's 97.

He doesn't have an apple air tag does he use does he do the little wings on his mask work can he fly with the wings because that's the only other way i can think of getting that shield like within a week of of after it gets thrown how great would it be if they like really need help like we know we're about to approach on a three episode finale like part three it's like who's gonna save him in the end and like cap finally rolls up he's like i was looking for my shield this whole time he could have had me if james gunn was in charge of that episode that is how that is how cap would have showed up to it 100 like wet still because it's like yeah so long yeah 100 he's got he's got like five o'clock shadow under

the mask he's just like i've been looking for this year i haven't slept it was a gift from a dead man um there's some stuff about roberto not coming out to his parents yet he eventually does come out to his parents and his parents are like we we knew all along. Very Bobby X2. Like we're playing this as it's coming out as gay, but he's coming out as a mutant. I'm just going to say it. I alluded to it a little bit in like past episodes. I do not care for sunspot and his entire storyline.

I just do not care about Roberto. I don't. He's definitely like one of the weaker parts of the season which is unfortunate and maybe if i hadn't seen this play out in like every other x-men piece of content especially like the ice man thing but it's like yeah we know we get it this part has been hammered home again maybe first time for people watching the show the first time they have to do this to show like hey this goes to the house the home where the whole you said coming out with the powers is tough for me personally i'm like it's like all right let's just get this this is the vegetables we gotta eat them the you know get to the good stuff i've also never been a big jubilee fan either so if it was maybe colossus or storm

was with them it would be different i'm just like my brain is, I realized this about myself. Are you like me? We're like during a commercial break, I can tell you one commercial that just played. Oh yeah. You know, you can watch it. Yeah.

But it just goes in one ear out the other. It's like when you drive and you're like, wait, I just don't know. The last five minutes of driving. Yeah, exactly. That's the same way with me.

And every time these two were on screen together, I'm like, I couldn't have told you one thing that just happened. They could have told me like the spoilers for the end of the season. And I wouldn't have even known. They're like, and Magneto comes alive. And then he,

um, yeah, I feel like you got to do it. Like you said, either with better characters present, like a cyclone or a storm or someone like that, or you have to outdo the X two scene, which I don't think they did here.

Like really well done. And like, especially knowing it was 2004 or something like that. It have to outdo the x2 scene which i don't think they did here like really well done and like especially knowing it was 2004 or something like that it's like oh shit they were kind of ahead of the times with this but yeah have them speak portuguese and then you have subtitles and i have to read if i want to know what the fuck's going on that's what they quick quick quick side tangent here last night I watched the beginning of the draft. I just wanted to see up to the commander's pick, right? And Jaden, he's our guy, Super Bowl inbound. And I immediately said, all right, I'm going to treat myself. I'm feeling horrible.

I'm sick. But I haven't watched the equalizer three yet. And you know how much I love the first equalizer. I even love the second equalizer. It's nowhere near the first one, but it's very good. I was so disappointed by the third one clem i couldn't believe it there's barely any equalizing denzel barely equalizes for a second in the beginning he equalizes and then it takes an hour and 10 minutes for any equalizing to happen

again and half the movie is in italian which was a new choice you're saying the subtitles i was like what the fuck is going on the whole movie's in italian did you sit on the remote maybe and like fuck it up like that could have happened bob like the whole movie it's like maybe 40 of it's in english it was crazy now did they name this one three three equalizer or was that like an internet thing that was an internet thing that's where they made their first mistake because it should have been called the three and you should have included three times the amount of equalizing like the first two equalizer movies they end with like a kevin mcallister-esque he rigs the first one he rigs like home depot to be like traps and whatever

the second one he basically rigs like nantucket island or something to be like that like during a storm so everyone's vacant it's awesome this one it was like i watched it last night i could barely tell you what happened not equalizing that's the one thing that you could tell me just and when when he was equalizing it was pretty good like anytime he was on screen equalizing he grabbed someone's nerve he's like i'm gonna make you shit yourself i'm gonna make you shit yourself right now i was like oh my god he says robert mccall but yeah it was very bizarre and i texted feidelberg about it and i was like you might be the only person that like i could text about this because i know he's into all the same kind of weird like not great action movies that i am and he was like dude i couldn't agree more he's like i left

the movie and i thought they didn't see the first two they didn't know what people loved about the first two so sorry side tangent but you mentioned subtitles and i just had to get it out there had to be said people have to know about equalizer 3 before they just hop in expecting a lot of equalizing it's not the equalizer for a reason yeah like on its own it's not a bad movie like there's nothing like bad about it but like coming off the heels of the first two and this being like the conclusion yeah it was weird um all right back back to X-Men 97. Rogue goes and confronts Gyrick. He tells her he's got like an anti-mutant psychic power, or he was like injected with, I don't know how he got it, but he's basically, he has like an anti-psychic thing.

Is that right? Am I remembering this right? I have anti-psychic like skin or gel on or something like he did some weird shit yeah he's got some weird shit on he's he's a bit of a pervert um and she confronts trask it's a perv move let's be honest he's a bit of a pervert yeah she also confronts trask and it's like a badass batman moment when they're like uh you know when Batman's got the guy's like, fall from this height wouldn't kill me. And he's like, I'm counting on it. He fucking drops.

Rogue just drops Trask. She's a Ben. She I think she kills him. Basically, she's like, I don't care. I'll fucking kill her. Ears in her eyes, you know, but he comes back and he comes back as this like creepy ass human Sentinel. And it was in this moment where I kind of like. I was like, this is an awesome moment

but you would never be able to do this in live action i don't think at least you know the speed and the way that which they did it here it made me appreciate them using the cartoon medium for something like this you could do in comics obviously you could do it in a cartoon and it didn't it didn't come off as silly i don't think in this episode i was just like oh shit he's a human sentinel but imagine this in a live action movie where it's just like now i am big robot look at my glowy eyes and you know i can shoot stuff out of my mouth or something it would have been very tough i can in my head i can see how they would make it work between that and actually getting on screen are two very different things but yeah the cartoon

does it perfect rogue dropping him off there was gangster him coming back as a sentinel zombie was gangster gangster yeah wolverine being like yeah rogue go rogue everyone else is like oh my god professor rux will be so upset he's like i would have done it myself if i could have gotten him bub like i kind of appreciate that side of the thing the emotions of how everything went and it's like yeah we're dealing we're not dealing with you hey sugar and she's gonna drop some like you know you got the tears of a newborn duck man on a louisiana river like weird rogues she's dropping motherfuckers out of buildings right up to the ground it's awesome it just makes me like rogue way more like seeing that she has this side to her like she's i feel like in a lot of the x-men stuff at least the stuff that i've seen she's usually

portrayed as like a little innocent at least like when she first joins the team especially like live action movies she's very much like yeah i feel like she's like timid and like very afraid of everything in this not at all also did you notice the stark industries um is the stark industries billboard? Yep. Maybe a tease for hopefully the finale. I would love to see Iron Man join the fray. We got Captain America. Like, why not?

I wouldn't hate it. We have to make sure it doesn't look like Robert Downey Jr. It has to be whatever the original Iron Man was because we need to like separate the live action. Look who's trying to separate the live action from the cartoon. I have to do it. the live action. Look, look, who's trying to separate the live action from the cartoon. I have to do it. I mean, if you want to say they're the same,

we could say that that was Chris Evans, Captain America. That is anti-mutant. I think he called her the M word when she turned her back. It's like stupid mutant throwing my shield. Oh, that would have been, I would love a director's cut where it's just that scene slightly extend. And she walks away and goes fucking mutant.

And Cap is kind of like on an Island. because I guarantee there's humans who are like, he's immune. He injected himself with the super serum. And the mutants are like, we do not claim him. He's kind of in no man's land for that. Because he's a narc and no one wants to have the narc. Oh, all right. You didn't have to go there. You had me.

It was like decent point. Also, let's just shout out Nightcrawler for being so goddamn smooth. I was like, you had the lover. You had Tool. And it's like, whoa. He saw the sparks that were flying when they were fucking dancing. That dancing was so weird. I'm sorry.

Yeah, it was very long. Yeah. Also, Morph in this moment, I want to shout out because he turns into Quicksilver. Now, I don't know if i fully realized are you in the same boat as me morph can just turn into another superhero and use their powers i thought it was a mystique thing it's gonna look like anyone it doesn't make any sense like he hasn't done this before has he i could have sworn back in the day like the first episode i mean before he dies i think he was like wolverine and he had claws and

they're like and the claw and like why is he is adamantium all the time he could just feel like you know like can he just turn into like danos with the infinity go and turn into the sentinel a bigger sentinel and kill the little sentinels right it's like what are we doing here i having fun i think he's like i think it'd be fun to kill his sentinels Quicksilver. He's basically like Dr. Manhattan. He is the most powerful mutant in the entire galaxy, and he just does stuff for fun. He's like, I'm going to try to be Quicksilver. I could end every threat

we've ever known by, again, turning into Thanos or something else, but I'm just going to slowly... He can turn into Super Sinister and just fuck a Mr. Sinister. He's like, nah, I'm good. I'm good. He's like the fucking superstar you just fuck him he's like nah i'm good i'm good he's he's like the fucking like superstar you draft and it's like if he just applied himself he could have been better than michael jordan that's more if he just like nah i feel like being quick

it's the weirdest thing bob and i've never gotten the answer since 1992 or whatever and honestly i'm getting more questions the longer this series runs because now i i just do not know and now you're you're right there with me it's one of the great unknowns although i'm still a big morph guy like my maybe my like number one takeaway from x-men 97 is like morph is one of my favorite x-men apparently all push comes to shove there's no one i'd want to like had like a bro night out with more than more when he brought the beer the cigars and was like turning the saber tooth and wolverine i'm like that's just a dude that's a bro right there he's always has your back he knows the little

things that make you happy we can poke holes in cyclops being kind of like a hardo wolverine being like let's be honest a hothead for hardo yeah uh nightcrawler being kind of like a pervert in his own right uh and he kind of just goes gambit would just be talking to gambling buns the whole time the girls jubilee and and sunspot you're like all right you guys you gotta have you have fun over there yeah rogue i'm like scared of now because she just will murder people. You know, the Bat of Eilish. Storm, Storm would be pretty cool, I guess. Jean Grey, she's living in your head.

I don't want to have someone who can read my face. No. Hell no. No. No, no, no. Robbie's like, fuck no. I can't let that out. No.

Not with Jean Grey. Not with Jean Grey. robbie's like fuck though i can't let that out not with gene gray not with gene gray um so bastion is finally revealed the the big bad behind it all is revealed in this scene as bastion voiced by theo james great actor who's in the white lotus he's been in a bunch of stuff here there he's in the gentleman right now um on netflix um and sinister has been working for him all along he actually mentions you just mentioned x-men started in 92 they say that here which i thought was a nice kind of like oh if you know that's that's cool he's like i've been trying to get these guys since 92 or whatever and bastion revealed by bo de mayo on twitter the the creator of the show and everything has been in every episode of x-men 97 so in just a little

corner of the screen in the shadows in a disguise he is in every episode because he's been there all along he's been there since the beginning he is coming after the x-men he's like kind of like a anti-mutant machine that was like put together he's got i think he's like part nimrod or something which is another character we've seen in the intro you know inside master mold and stuff nimrod i just think a green day album to be honest whenever i hear that but yeah bastion uh he's watching the shiar as well that's like he's got him on the screen the shiar empire so he knows about xavier being over there and shit he's not an x-men villain i'm very familiar with

but um i'm here for him i have no idea about bastion and i'm not looking up any of his stuff i'm gonna kind of just like find out along with the show i don't know who the fuck nimrod is either and people keep talking about nimrod i keep hearing nimrod i'm like i think he's just that guy they're showing inside the sentinel i don't know though nimrod is like like an old school like hey nimrod it's something like biff would call uh you know when they were young i don't understand why that guy's like give yourself taser face you're just making yourself look like an asshole so i don't get it but he like this guy bastion he he's fucking shit up and dude he had magneto and he's just fucking playing games with magneto he's shaving wings off a fly he's shaving him yeah

a hard boy magneto you know what i hate to say it he kind of deserves this because what he was doing with gambit crossed a line that's crossing like workplace whatever we probably have to do some sort of training on that for barstools like you can't if you're dating your co-worker dating a co-worker you also can't be like zinging your co-worker who used to date your girl like that's just fucked up and so we got all the training sessions and yeah yeah exactly just straight up shaving one thing i want to point out though that um jose young's actually our boy, Jose Young's tweeted us today. He said, this is Joseph.

OK, right. He is character shown here. Joseph. He's a clone of Magneto, who was originally created to destroy the master of magnetism. He had a spell leading the X-Men while believing he was the original Magneto who had de-aged while suffering amnesia, he also grew rather close to Rogue. So Jose is seemingly saying they might be doing another bait and switch like they did it with Jean Grey. I don't think they could do it twice in one season because of that. But he's saying just keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Maybe Magneto's still out there and this is some clone named joseph i mean this is soap opera 101 right here it's the the twin brother the identical twins so i feel like this is gonna happen i think at this point we're gonna have to go through every character the show and be like twin or actual real character and we're gonna be like 50 50 it's gonna be like nope that was nightcrawler's twin but that was the real wolverine and this was potentially magneto's like clone i guess clone twin same kind of thing i don't know what the fuck to make out of all this that blew my mind the whole joseph i never knew that was a thing um and heavy spoilers again shouting him

out a lot this episode because cause he had a great breakdown. Thinks that bastion may be trying to create something called onslaught with Magneto onslaught is, um, a Sentinel made using the consciousness of professor X and Magneto. And if you look up what this guy looks like, oh my God, it's bad-ass. He's basically just a Magneto Sentinel. So he's got like the Magneto helmet and shit. I would just like to see him at this point because the character design is so cool so i i hope that heavy spoilers is right in that i did like a little fist bump being like oh let's fucking go what does this guy have in store for us so i'm with you and i want to see it i hope it happens um and that's that's it for the x-men uh 97 episode 7 i've seen some theories and rumors about this leading into

deadpool and wolverine because bo de mayo tweeted he's handing it off to ryan reynolds he's like handing it off to ryan reynolds he says something like cheeky like don't don't fuck it up or something and people are saying what if because we've seen beasts because we've seen Beast, because we've seen Professor X in the yellow chair, Beast in the lab coat, and obviously this Wolverine kind of looks like X-Men 97 Wolverine. He's got the yellow spandex. What if the finale is all the X-Men except Wolverine dying and it leads directly into Deadpool and Wolverine? It does feel like, at the very least, we could enter that universe at some point, whether or not it actually is that. And this show has such amazing response from critics and fans alike. I think they're going to do a lot more with this universe, even beyond just the show.

I could see an animated movie coming along. I could see them visiting this universe, live action, like you're saying. I could see a new video game taking place in x-men 97 like i think this is truly only the start we need more just like side scroller easy to play video games i get them on the playstation plus here comes like free with my subscription we had the ninja turtles when we talked about we have rayman which was like placed in old playstation game the kids love it. I love it. Easy to play. Video games

were just fun. That's all they were. And we get an X-Men 97. It doesn't have to be like a clone of the original arcade game. It could be. Or just, I think there was like X-Men Genesis games and stuff that were fun. Let's do that. Yeah, there definitely were. Fucking Nightcrawler was awesome in that game. It was everywhere. So we can

get it done we can get it done just get it done waldron you're the only guy i know that occasionally elicits pockets i told you get it the fuck done man get it done um tolerance is extinction parts one two and three are the final three episodes so we're dealing with a big old fat arc to end the season out here so pretty exciting stuff. Definitely. Just a few quick things before we get out of here for the week. I wanted to remind everybody that one week from today on May 3rd, tales of the empire will drop.

We got tales of the Jedi last year, a couple of 15 minute shorts and, you know, random characters focused on and stuff. They're doing that for a surprise. They didn't do tales of the Sith, but they're doing tales of the empire. They released a clip with general Grievous and stuff. They're doing that for, I was surprised they didn't do tales of the Sith, but they're doing tales of the empire. They released a clip with general Grievous and stuff. Looks good. It looks very good. The trailer looks great. So I'm excited for that. I'm currently planning on May 4th, going to see phantom medicine theaters. Cause

I want to see that new acolyte trailer at the end. Also, I've never seen phantom medicine theaters. I was too young for it when it first came out. And then I didn't go to the 3d release because I don't like 3d. So I was just like, ah, I, if they put it when it first came out. And then I didn't go to the 3D release because I don't like 3D. So I was just like, if they put it back in theaters normal, I would have. And then the only other two things. Happy birthday, Giancarlo Esposito. Love that guy. He's great in so many things.

So many things that we love at this point. The Boys, Breaking Bad, The Mandalorian. The list goes on and on. And you're wearing a Simpsons hoodie, so I wanted to shout out Larry, a character that's been in The Simpsons since episode one. He was sitting at Moe's bar. They killed him off. RIP my dog, Larry the Barfly, as they call him.

I read the article, and at first I saw, like, Bar, and then I saw Bar enough times. I was like, they killed Barney on the Simpsons. I got like, man, I was like, I got to write like a RIP blog on this. And then I realized it was Larry. Be honest with you. I think Larry probably could have died like 30 years ago at this point. I don't think people said he like barely ever had any lines.

Yeah. He just sat there and everyone you'd recognize him. If you watch the Simpsons, you know, know even a little bit you would recognize the guy moses a tavern that like it's not made for long lifespans and the fact that bar that larry lasted this long is is truly amazing so i'm sure he didn't have a family if he did i'm sure they really didn't like him hence why he was always at the bar but uh my my thoughts and prayers do go to them nonetheless so yeah i didn't watch the episode obviously but people were saying they it was like kind of like they were saying they tried to make it emotional about how like he was just sitting there silently his whole life and like nobody talked to him. And they like actually like made that a point to bring up in the episode.

Kind of funny. I love to hear the pitching of that when the writers are like, let's just kill Larry. I think Larry. Yeah, it almost feels I hate to say it, but it feels like when, spoiler, Donnie dies in Big Lebowski and it's just someone who doesn't really have all that much, but he goes away and is, you know, reminisced

by a couple of Mama Luke's just like the dude and Walter. So that's that said, I am thinking about taking my kids to The Phantom Menace. Oh, really? So they can experience just how awful that movie was on the pitch for the first time.

Just like I did. And you'd be like, oh, now the thing is, I waited for years for that. They wouldn't be waiting. But man, that was spectacular. It was the biggest letdown I've ever had in my life in terms of. It was your Equalizer 3. Yes, it was my Equalizer 3. It was my Equalizer 3.

But luckily, that will all be washed away. Because when I watch Tales of the Empire. Yep. Let's see. Darth Jar Jar and everything he was doing behind the scenes that George Lucas was too much of a pussy to put in episode two himself. So Darth Jar Jar, get it done. God damn it. One time. One time. That's going to be a hashtag for this week.

Hashtag get it done. Hashtag get it done. Let's just do a quick look on Twitter here. I feel like that might be a big another big oh it has to be larry the cable guy yeah right a lot of female athletes here it seems to be a big um we're feminists yeah we support the ladies we support the ladies here i may just be a lot of people who like are just athletes in general so get it done it makes sense here nonetheless get it done hashtag get it done if you made it to the end of this episode thank you to everyone for tuning in and thank you for uh putting up with my sick

voice today hopefully next week it'll be gone hashtag hashtag hashtag hashtag feel better bob i appreciate that and we'll be back next week to break down the first part of the x-men 97 season one finale um uh tolerance is extinction part one is that a magneto one i think it is i think it is awesome