My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 35 - DEMETRIOUS "MIGHTY MOUSE" JOHNSON/THE MANDALORIAN DISCUSSION WITH CLEM!

Episode Date: November 18, 2019

***SKIP TO 35:15 TO AVOID SPOILERS FOR 'THE MANDALORIAN'/GET STRAIGHT INTO THE MIGHTY MOUSE INTERVIEW*** Former UFC Flyweight Champion and current ONE Championship/Esports superstar Demetrious "Mighty Mouse' Johnson joins Robbie in the Basement this week ahead of the PUBG Global Championships to break down his life as a gamer, what makes him geek out, how the now infamous "trade" - Mighty Mouse for Ben Askren - came about, and why he's happier now than ever in his career. Plus, Clem makes his triumphant return to the pod to discuss 'The Mandalorian' Chapters 1&2 right off the top, and MAAAAANY theories are discussed! Hope you enjoy!!! #ProtectBabyYoYou 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. We're here to talk about The Mandalorian on Disney+. We're two chapters in now, two episodes in, and the people have been asking for it. They keep tweeting me, Clem. They're like, we need the duo reunited, the dynamic duo, if you will. Han and Chewie, Jabba and Slave Leia, or Jabba Slayer Leia, as she's now known. I've been doing some of these day of video reviews of The Mandalorian. If you're interested, those are on the Lights, Camera, Barstool YouTube and the BarstoolSports.com page. The Barstool Sports app, all that with Jeff D. Lowe and Ken Jack. But, Clem, getting down to it on my mom's basement in my mom's basement.

Obviously, your disappointment in a lot of the recent Star Wars properties is out there. I don't think you've enjoyed anything Star Wars very much since Rogue One maybe. So what were your thoughts on chapters one and two of The Mandalorian? Did Favreau do it for you? Did he bring it back in? Okay. First of all – and this is spoiler-free for people right now. Yeah.

We'll do like a few minutes spoiler-free and then we'll really get into it yep um first of all you saying chapters the Mandalorian has been on its like own little like peak right now like it's the first show on Disney plus it's like the biggest thing they have going on right now all this stuff you saying chapters out there makes it seem like such a fancy thing. I love it. Well, when I saw it on like the chapter two, you know, it's this chapter two, the child. And I was like, oh, that's so badass because the movies are episodes and these are chapters because it's a TV show. I'm marked out, dude. I loved it. No, it's cool. Yeah. And I think that's a very fair point to make is that you are obviously on one side of the Last Jedi ledger. I'm on the other.

And I love that we have that dynamic because obviously the fandom has split. So I think we have good representation for both sides. Yes, and I've had a few people ask me too because in all honesty, like when I heard – I know you had liked it and Jeff had liked it and a couple of the people in the office who were Star Wars fans liked it. But I also knew that you guys, the two of you had liked Last Jedi and I was like at this point, I kind of just have to see all Star Wars stuff on myself because it is the dress, the Yanni versus whatever it is. However, Mandalorian, we're back on the right track. We're back on the right track. You said it best the last jedi i think was i mean i hated it and solo was just i mean i a solo was was so meh that it caused them to reboot i don't think it's like me speaking out of line here they like changed their entire plan of releases and stuff

just because solo i think underperformed either in the public side or the people who watched it side that um i think they kind of had to hit the reset button. And the Mandalorian was a huge moment for, it's pretty under the radar that like with Disney, Disney plus, like I know the way those corporate meetings work and like at the lowest level possible buying you, but like they needed this to hit.

And I think it's a hit. I think all Star Wars fans have to be pretty happy right now. I mean, with everything in the world with content, there's people who hate it, but, and there's going to be people who love it blindly. But I have to say, I think the happy middle, I think we're pretty happy right now. I'll be honest. I've been really tuned into the feedback. I've been checking, you know, the Star Wars Reddit. Obviously I've been getting a ton of tweets and DMs about it. I appreciate that. Keep them coming. And I haven't seen anyone upset about the show.

I've seen some people have said it's not, you know, the most amazing thing in the world, whereas people like myself, I would consider myself probably at this point in that camp of blindly loving things. Although I don't know, I didn't love Solo. I enjoyed it night of and then the more I watch it now, the more I'm like, oh, yeah, that was that was very, very mad. But I've seen nothing but positive things about The Mandalorian. The biggest gripe everyone has with it is everyone's like, I just wish the episodes were longer, which is a very good problem to have. Like you're leaving the people wanting more every week. I'm in that camp of like when I saw episode two or chapter two was 30 minutes.

I was like, God damn it. I wish it was 60. But even when I watched it, it felt long in a good way. It felt like a journey. I love that the episodes, like, each episode had its own self-contained story, but you could tell they're adding up to something, and they're still introducing things. I mean, I want to talk

about the specifics of the plot here, bring up a few of these Easter eggs, so if you haven't seen The Mandalorian yet, and you don't want anything spoiled, skip forward to the timestamp specified in the description below or in the podcast app. Wherever you're listening to this, you should be able to see a timestamp in the description. We'll give you a second to do that, and we'll come back. All right.

Now that we're into spoiler territory, Clem, how fucking cute is Baby Yo? I love this motherfucker so much. It's – OK. So first off, is he cuter than Baby Groot? That was the first thing that went through my head when I saw him because I was like, oh, Baby Yoda. You're the cutest thing ever. Then I was like he's – I don't know if he's cuter than Baby Groot though. Bob, what do you say here?

Man, I need that fan art right away. If Trigg could get on that just like Baby Yoda and Baby Groot with their arms around each other like they're pals. Maybe one of them giving a thumbs up. I would love that. But I'm going to have to – oh, jeez. Baby Groot has so many great moments. We've obviously seen a lot more of him from that whole Guardians 2 movie. Baby Yo, when Baby Yo walks up to the Mandalorian in Chapter 2 and he tries to heal that cut with the force, which first of all, that's a force power we've never seen before.

That's kind of dope. It's like a Wolverine thing. You could like just heal people. Love that. When he tried to do that, he put his little three-fingered hand up. I mean my heart melted, Clem. And at that moment, I was like I'll dedicate my entire life to protecting this baby. I'll do it right now.

So I'm going to have to give the edge to Baby Yoda, Baby Yo, and I'm calling him Baby Yo. Shout out to Hank, Henry Lockwood, who has been watching The Mandalorian. He's been enjoying it. He called Yoda Big Yo on Twitter. It made me laugh, and I don't know what the fuck to call this thing because obviously we don't have a name for it. We don't know if it's related to Yoda or if it's just the same species.

I'm going with Baby Yo. I think it's a cute name for a we don't know if it's related to yoda or if it's just the same species i'm going with baby yo i think it's a cute name for a cute thing and i'm gonna say baby yo is cuter than groot just because i've always had that star wars connection too you know it's like yeah he is a baby version of one of the most beloved characters i think it's fair to say in the history of cinema i i think you're right i have to say the like if like this is such a like baby yo is so new in our lives right now this is almost like guardians one baby group who's not nearly as cute as guardians two group I have to say, Baby Yo is so new in our lives right now. This is almost like Guardians 1 Baby Groot, who's not nearly as cute as Guardians 2 Groot. Yeah. I would argue Guardians 2 Groot is the cutest character in the history of the world.

It's the cutest thing in history. Cuter than real life babies, cuter than anything else in movies. He's cute. I love him more than my two kids. I love my two kids. I mean that scene where he's trying to – Rocket Raccoon is trying to get him to press the button, the detonator, and he keeps going back and forth on the button. Oh, just – man. Except he didn't say freaking. I mean he got to love Baby Groove. But I will say this.

Like Baby Yo, which by the way, I don't know – like what do we – we're going to say it's Yoda's species, right? We're not going to say Yoda was out slinging dick and dropping and fucking chicks all over the universe. I've seen some people saying maybe him and Yaddle got along into something. Yaddle was on the Jedi Council in episode one. She wasn't in the other. So it's like did she have to take a leave because of some kind of pregnancy? What's going on here? I don't know what it is.

I think I would like it better, to be completely honest with you, if it was just Yoda's species. And he wasn't actually related to Yoda. And you didn't have to connect everything, but you just created this thing in the Star Wars lore where that species is incredibly rare and they're incredibly force sensitive. I think that would be super cool. And I think obviously what we saw it do in chapter two lifting up the rhinoceros or the uh the mudhorn whatever they called it that was awesome that was like a moment that was a star wars moment and i was shocked that we got it this early i thought maybe we would get something like that in the finale but now i like i talked about this in the video i like the struggle that we're now dealing with where the mandalorian is like sort of looking out for this baby because it looks like we – in his flashbacks, he was abandoned at one time. But he's sort of not looking out for the baby, and now he knows it's so force-sensitive.

So it's like, man, is this a risk to even have on board my ship if he's just lifting up this mudhorn? I really like the entire storyline with this, and I didn't see it coming at all. Like in every trailer for The Mandalorian, never did I think it was going to be a beautiful story about fatherhood yeah you said it's today this is like the podfather's time you know i said i had to get you on here too because i mean episode two i had some issues with the way the mandalorian was protecting this baby the mandalorian and listen he's a killing machine he's great at his craft obviously. We kind of learned that in episode one. The Mandalorian needs to do that thing where he has to take care of an egg for a week and like not – Yes.

Do you do that at home after whatever? Of course, yeah. Or at least like – yo, Mando. Are we calling him Mando? Yeah, I've been calling him Mando. I like that. Mando. Mando.

You got to get a Tamagotchi. You got to do something here just to prove you are fucking able to take care of a baby that could basically kill you. And that is another cool thing is that we're starting this series where we have one dude who's like badass as fucking just kill everything. And then even his sidekick is like stopping rhinoceroses and like fucking them up. It's like – this is an interesting question, Bob. Are you an RPG guy? I'm not a huge RPG guy. rhinoceroses and like fucking them up it's it's like uh this is an interesting question bob are you an rpg guy i'm not a huge rpg guy i'm i'm vaguely aware of like some of the stuff but i was never like a hardcore player of any gotcha so in final fantasy 7 which is like my favorite one

my favorite game ever there's this dude sephiroth who you start as and this guy cloud and they're both like strong as shit and it's always fun to play a game where you're not like just getting your ass kick you're dying every time just like these guys are just starting out leveled up as shit mandalorian's blowing up jawas lil yo's throwing shit around like it's no big deal i kind of like that we're kind of going into that and it's a completely like you said different show than we were expecting because i was hearing a lot of the western talk i was hearing a lot of the uh to be honest with you that was the thing that was kind of souring me on mandalorian before it started was everyone being like oh my god mandalorian's coming out you know in a week 10 days seven hours it's like guys it could be a good show like let's not go

crazy here we don't know if it's gonna be good you've been burned before yes exactly exactly and it's i think i'm kind of that way with everything because i feel like the internet is so anytime i love trailers but like guys they like name me the first bad trailer that's never been done before I like the way they've kind of remixed this now I have no idea what to expect with the show I have no idea the child was such a cool cause they knew

that reveal at the end was going to cause Star Wars heads fans to explode oh yeah dude when they screened it for press they screened the first episode for press but they only screened it for press they screened the first episode for press but they only screened like the first 27 minutes because they were like there's no way we're letting this get out beforehand because it's gonna make brains explode and like you said it fucking did i could not but when i saw the little hand peek over and you see the ears the top of the

head you put it together in your mind in that moment usual suspect style drop your coffee mug in the in the kitchen. And you're like, oh, my God, he's 50 years old because Yoda ages so fucking slow. Oh, my God. Like this is Yoda's species. That was a moment. We got a moment in episode two. We got the fucking callback of no disintegrations.

The first thing Darth Vader says to Boba Fett. The fact that in episode two he's shooting Trandoshians and Jawas and they're disintegrating. And like that one fight he had with the Jawas where he's just murking them left and right. It was like – that was like fan fiction porn. It was amazing. It was awesome, man. I didn't even think about the disintegration thing, but I didn't like seeing my Jawas. I love those little floating eyes.

Aren't you supposed to feel bad for them? But I feel like everyone. They're kind of shitheads the way they were stealing the droids, the way they shot R2. Come on. R2 is kind of your boy. No, I know. They're scavengers, man. Yeah, they are.

They play the game. Now, this is the thing, though. I got Baby Yoda spoiled for me. I kind of dragged my feet. And I saw something. I saw the word Baby Yoda come up on Twitter once or twice and it's 100% my fault. I'm not blaming anyone. I think I watched it the day

because I was in the city. I saw you at HQ and you're like, have you seen it? Have you seen it yet? And then I get home, life happens and by that day, 10am the next day on Wednesday, it had been spoiled but I don't think you can get mad at this point. I think spoiler etiquette is something we have to kind of talk about now that these shows are being released on a weekly basis in the morning.

But they're not coming out like all at once, like a stranger things. I think if you don't watch, I think there's a day worth of waiting time. If it comes out on Friday, all Friday, no spoilers. By Saturday morning, you know what's fucked up? Baby Yo should be a meme. He should be a meme he should be me I know getting memed left and right I'm scared even say it on Twitter because I don't want to spoil for anyone else and it's been like if you haven't watched episode one by now like so I feel like

this is like we always have to like move the goalposts with spoilers by the way the releases are and I think it's almost like Game of Thrones like once Game of Thrones airs on the east coast everything's fair game I think once the workday over, everyone can get home and watch it by like nine o'clock. We have to like almost like we need George Lucas, even though I know he's not involved or whoever. We need Favreau to be like, all right, guys, 10 p.m. Eastern is the official spoiler cap. Kind of like the Russo brothers did. Dude, I would love for Favreau to do that because I sort of I don't know if you saw I got into it with people on Twitter this week about spoilers and not maliciously. But I said, hey, let's talk about it. Let's open the discussion and let's create like a date. Like when can we talk about this? Like you just said,

we need to move the goalposts. I said, it should be like you said, Saturday morning. If you have a full day to watch it, these episodes are, the first one is, you know, 40 minutes. The second one's 30 minutes. So they're not a crazy time commitment. You have it on your phone, on the Disney Plus app. You have it on your computer. You have it on your TV. You have it wherever you need it. I feel like you have to find, if you're that committed and that hardcore where you're like, I don't want anything spoiled, I feel like you can find 30 minutes in a 24-hour window.

Like you could wake up 30 minutes early. You could go to bed 30 minutes later. But a ton of people said I was very wrong on that. They said, no way. You have to wait until Monday. I put up a poll Monday morning in a landslide. So I'm kind of conflicted myself. I don't know what to do.

I think that – I personally think that's weak. I understand why people feel that way. Man, I'm a dad. I barely have any fucking time. If you said if you can't carve out 30 minutes or either wake up early, go to sleep late on your lunch break at work, you can't get in like 10 minutes. And then if you have like a public commute, you could get in the other 20. Like, I don't know. Maybe those aren't the conditions you want to watch it under.

But, man, I don't know. It's tough, like for especially for us where our job is to talk about this shit, to not talk about this shit. Yeah, and I mean, how many of us are on the Verizon Wireless free unlimited? And that's my month of my year at Disney+. If I have unlimited data, I can watch an episode of Mandalorian, even if I'm not in a Wi-Fi area, because I have unlimited data. And again, maybe it's not the ideal, but that's just, again, you'll just piss off people no matter what. I'll hold on to my tongue. Let me just tell you.

I could have fired off some fiery Baby Yoda memes this weekend. I didn't do it, and it hurt – I lost some internet points on it, and I just want everyone to know that it hurts swallowing that. By the way, what's the timeline here, Bob? Are we talking – I heard this is after Jedi or – We're talking five years after Jedi. So we're really dealing with the fallout of the war and the empire is really getting into, you know, the gritty corners of the galaxy. The empire is really scattered at this point. And we saw that in episode one in that Werner Herzog scene, which Werner Herzog, by the way, have you seen all the interviews with this guy this week?

This guy's becoming like the internet's most beloved human being and it's completely deserved. I knew you were going to be a Werner Herzog guy. I knew it. There was not a doubt. I mean, he was great in the show. He came off, you know, classic empire Nazi-esque. He wants this baby. He's got the doctor with him. It's been discovered recently he's wearing some kind of Kamino shield, which makes us think maybe the Empire is trying to clone Baby-O. Kamino works with cloning, and obviously Dave Filoni is heavily involved in the show. He was heavily involved in the Clone Wars. He would be interested in bringing those aspects in, I'm sure. But afterwards, he was asked if he ever saw any of the Star Wars movies or any of the movies that Jon Favreau had worked on,

and he said, nope, absolutely not. He said he just reads literature. And he doesn't mean that with any disrespect, but he's not really interested in film. And if he wants to know what the American culture likes, he watches WrestleMania. And then if I wasn't sold on him enough there, he was interviewed on the red carpet. And I'll put the clip in here. He was asked about Baby Yo, and he hadn't seen the Mandalorian yet, so he hadn't seen the episode, but

apparently Baby Yo is a physical puppet on set. And I re-watched some of the chapter too, and I think most of it is physical, so he starts talking about seeing it on set and he says it's heartbreakingly beautiful. I saw it and it just

breaks your heart. It's such a funny way to describe it, and it just breaks your heart. It's such a funny way to describe it. I'm all in on Werner Herzog. But to get back to a point I was bringing up before, the Podfather's aspect of Episode 2, and the Mandalorian doing a horrible job with protecting Baby-O, we need to keep this baby protected at all costs. And Clem, we launched a campaign a while ago that helped terminate cameron once upon a time and i've been thinking it's time for a new campaign

we need to keep baby yo safe at all costs it's time we hashtag protect baby yo yes i'm 100 in a billion percent and i talked to jeff d low and jeff d low started bringing up you know this baby how is he not around in time for the force Awakens, The Last Jedi, all this? What if the baby dies? And I was like, Jeff, you do not put that fucking devil energy in the sky right now. Bob, I don't want to tell you what I'm thinking then because I'm not thinking dead baby, which dead baby, yo, don't you dare. None of you listeners put hashtag dead baby yo don't do that we will not the hashtag is protect baby yo not dead baby yo but i feel like there's

a chance here that work that little baby yo is going to end up on the wrong side of the forest ledger and he ends up being a part of because this so the mand Mandalorian goes like straight into basically The Rise of Skywalker, right? The way they're staggering the release is it's going to come out with a double dip right before Rise of Skywalker is going to be the finale, right? No. So I think Mandalorian is actually going to be like – the finale is like two weeks after The Rise of Skywalker comes out. Oh, OK. I thought they were staggering it different. OK.

So in that case, maybe not. But I was saying it would be – they could still do it in a sense where they make a reveal and then Skywalker comes out. Oh, okay. I thought they were staggering it different. Okay, so in that case, maybe not. But I was saying it would be – they could still do it in a sense where they make a reveal and then Skywalker comes out. If, like, you find out that Baby-O has some sort of ties to Snoke or to, you know, the Emperor, whatever. To Snoke? I'm telling you, man. Yo, I made this point the other day and I'm starting to fucking believe it the more I think about it. Baby-O is cute when he's young. You know who else is cute when he's young? Little Gizmo and all the other day and i'm starting to fucking believe it the more i think about it baby yo is cute when he's young you know who else is cute when he's young little gizmo and all the other little gremlins they're little fuzzy little guys and they're cute as shit and then if you feed

them after night if you let baby yo eat that if you let him eat fucking frogs which was an awesome thing when he just ate that was amazing amazing you have you have to imagine yoda was eating those on dagobah oh man. Yoda was a fucking – Slurping them down. Yeah. Like we had Yoda who was just eating straight up porridge by the end of his days because he probably just needed someone to help pass everything through. He couldn't do frog eating anymore. But that fucker was eating frogs.

He was probably like – he had that little thing in Jabba's palace with like the little like frogs in it. He was just feeding himself. So – but I'm telling you, there's a chance Baby Yo might go to the other side. And I kind of would be here for it just to see. Again, Bob, this is a guy who's like Star Wars soul. It's just empty right now. So I wouldn't pain right now. But I kind of like I want to see a good twist here because I think the other side of it with with Star Wars stuff is that I kind of want to get out.

That's why I don't want him to be related to. Yeah, let's expand from the Skywalkers let's expand from everything we know like we're not going to the same planets we're not just starting in tatooine as always right this isn't tatooine where we are oh i oh it is i think it is oh god i'm pretty sure it is like just like we started a nice planet that looked like hoth i don't think it was off then we go to this play Hoth is like way too desolate for For the where the blue guy was The Horatio Sands Exactly but like

Give me a planet that just has four seasons Like oh we're here You want Earth? Yeah Give me Earth give me extreme Earth though Where it's like it's fucking North It's you know Nor'easter blizzards In the winter but in the summer it's fucking you know tornadoes all the time give me like super crazy methed out earth basically like i'll take

that give me something other than like the same old shit they're all related to the characters from the original trilogy let's just get out of that that that space right here even i mean i love mando he looks just like bubba fett to start expanding our horizons here and that i think is problem the problem with star wars like even even uh solo it was like that was about han solo the one thing i will give last jedi is it was so much not star wars i didn't even feel like it was a star wars movie so like i am kind of being a hypocrite here but i feel like there is a happy medium we can we can find so god damn it is Is it really Tatooine? It is Tatooine, yeah. I mean, as far as we know, that is the planet that this is all taking place on.

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sauce man and that's a gangster right there with that security system like tony montana had like the sickest security system of all time in like the 80s job better than that fuck out of here simply safe for life yeah so another thing that i loved about episode two one of the like main things the scene where he first gets attacked by the trend oceans and like disintegrates him or whatever he throws the carriage it's like not like a force push because he doesn't have the force obviously and it doesn't seem like he knows what the force is from the

episode which is another interesting thing but he like pushes it away he was keeping it open the entire time which I guess for the show is so we could see Baby-O the whole time because the viewers want to see him but I was like what the fuck I mean it's literally the most dangerous bounty in the entire galaxy. And he's like just keeping the shades open, letting Baby-Yo get some sun.

And when he threw it back, it looked like he got whiplash all over the place. I don't understand what was going on with that. That was like – and I hate being the guy who's grading a fictional show based in a galaxy far, far away a long time ago. Oh, yada, yada, yada. But like I was just like that's a fucking – you're getting a whole bunch of those weird metal shit that I have no idea. But it seems pretty important to me. And he's just all hilly-nilly with Baby Yo. And I guess it seems like he has something in his arm with a control panel for Yo's flying egg.

Which is pretty fucking cool. And the carriage is awesome. Yeah. Oh, incredible. It's incredible and speaking of eggs how about him going through all that effort to get that mudhorn egg and the jaw is just cracking it open and like slurping down the yolk like it was some kind of drug it was almost like uh it was like uh high school kids just needed beer and they're like we'll give you like jungle juice when you when you go to your first party and they got a big vat full of jungle juice disgusting but i loved

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I like the possibility that he's not related to Yoda, but Yoda did know that he existed because before Yoda died, you know, we know that this baby's 50 years old. That would make him alive during Yoda's lifetime in the canon timeline. Yep. Baby Yo goes into hiding somewhere. I don't't know where it could be dagobah i suppose but i mean he's got to get into hiding if he's not around you know if this very powerful force user is not around for for the sequel trilogy but if he goes into hiding something like that and maybe yoda meant more when he said there is another i've been seeing some of that and i was like all right listen i i love the you know there is another for leia

but it would also be kind of fucking cool if it was for baby yo i don't know i'm open to the possibility i'm open to seeing how they play this out that's all i'm saying oh yeah like there is another i fucked this chick this one night and she said it was mine and now i will say like i would have said the time has passed for for for leia to be the other however she turned into mary poppins doesn't die so we she could be the other as well i kind of like that rob i liked it the way that they they plan this all out is perfect where we the baby yo can play a part in in the rise of skywalker and that we i liked it the way that they they plan this all out is perfect where we the baby yo can play a part in the rise of skywalker and that we see how it all kind of plays out in the end yeah and if ray somehow builds the jedi order up again after you know the conclusion of whatever the big climax of the rise of skywalker is and we see a new jedi academy or jedi order of some sort

and baby yo is just in the background it doesn't even need to be a big thing. Just you see Baby Yo in the background training some students, and he looks like Teenage Yo or something, like Teenage Groot. That would be amazing. Oh, that. Yeah, now we're talking. Now we're getting the life of Baby Yo,

and he's now Teenager Yo. I'm in. I'm all in on him. I love that little fucker. I'm all in on him. I love him. Don't forget, hashtag ProtectBabyYo. Join the conversation with me and Clem.

Check out our recap videos on the Lights, Camera, Barstool, Instagram, and YouTube and wherever they upload it. Ask Jeff D'Lo for that. And subscribe to this podcast if you haven't already. Clem, I'd love to have you return throughout the season if you'll join us and we'll tag team this shit like Mando and IG-11, who we didn't even talk about. Taika, amazing as IG-11. if you'll join us and we'll tag team this shit like mando and ig11 who we didn't even talk about taika amazing is ig11 i'm r.i.p and p i hope you said you think there's a chance he comes i think he's coming back yeah i've seen some promo art of like him caradune which is gina carano who we haven't even met yet and the mandalorian together so i was like all right i think i think it's pretty safe to say that he'll be back or maybe it'll just be another ig droid and maybe

they all have that automated like taika waititi voice yes yes i have we talked gina carano lip bite gif on this pod before i don't know if we brother i don't know if we've talked about on this podcast but it might be the pound for pound greatest gif of all time i had that saved on my hard drive back in the day because it was like before you like if you just wanted like like charlie bit me i used to have like on my hard drive it wasn the day because it was like before you – if you just wanted like – like Charlie bit me. I used to have like on my hard drive. It wasn't really like big enough or it was like – it was so slow. I used to just watch like Charlie bit me and then I'd watch the Gina Carano gift. If you haven't seen that, Gina Carano gift, Lip Bite.

You got to watch it. Yeah, you do. She's coming there. We got a little Carl Weathers there. Make a nice – what is it? Make a nice stew. Make a nice soup. I'm so happy Carl Weathers is in the universe now.

We're in a good place, Rob. We're in a good place. Star Wars fans, I think the Warriors are coming back together. The Star Warriors are slowly but surely. Can I get one last fan idea, fan fiction idea my brother came up with? Oh, absolutely. He would love it. And I know you'll agree. If The Mandalorian, at the end of this season maybe, kills Rose's parents and that's who killed Rose's parents is the Mandalorian.

I think it's a great idea. Ray's parents you mean? No, Rose's parents. Don't Rose's parents – isn't she an orphan? Oh, yeah. But I think – didn't she say the Empire? The Empire did something to her parents? Maybe they hired –

I don't hate that. I don't hate that. Just because that's kind of because you hate Rose. You just want to see the Tico family suffer more agony. Tell me you don't get all of us last Jedi haters all the way back in on Star Wars if I see Mom and Papa Rose just get fucking Aunt Maru and Uncle Owen just straight up wiped out skeleton style. Listen, I don't hate that, but I also sort of have my own theory that the end of this season will reveal that Boba Fett is still out there, and that's the reason why we're on Tatooine. And season two is the Mandalorian versus Boba Fett is still out there, and that's the reason why we're on Tatooine, and Season 2 is The Mandalorian versus Boba Fett. I don't hate that either. Don't hate that.

The people that have been asking me when the YouTube channel is coming, it's coming soon, and I will be doing a Jedi Fallen Order Let's Play series where I'm going to play through the entire campaign, and we'll have it on YouTube. It's going to be fun. Stay tuned to my Twitter this week as well for a shocking announcement regarding the guest on this Friday's bonus episode. And for now, we'll get into my sit down with one of the greatest fighters of all time, Demetrius Mighty Mouse Johnson. All right, welcome back to the show. I am joined now in studio

by one of the greatest fighters of all time, Demetrius Mighty Mouse Johnson from One Championship. Do you remember your last Barstool Sports interaction back Mayweather-McGregor in Vegas? Oh, man. I felt like I did, but not off the top of my head. I don't, but I remember you. So that's why I'm like, I thought we worked together recently in, what was that? Was it East Coast somewhere, Tennessee or something like that. But obviously it wasn't you because you were in a show.

Yeah. No, your last Barstool Sports interaction, I just think it's funny to bring up because my boss was talking all week. I was basically talking about you to my boss, and I was like, we're going to be interviewing Mighty Mouse on Radio Row. It's awesome. He's not a big MMA guy. He's a big boxing guy. And he said, the 125-pound UFC champion. He goes, I'm going to see this guy and say I could beat him up right away, right?

Yeah. And then he saw you and he cowered. Yeah. It was very funny. Do you get that reaction a lot? No. A lot of people don't know. The people who know what I do, they respect me.

And the people who don't know what I do, they'll never find out. Maybe they see the cauliflower here in their eyes. Maybe they do see that and they're like, that's one mean wrestler. I've said it all the time. I wish I had it. I'll go to the match and just rub my ear on it. You just stay on the phone all damn day. Just go like this.

Pop, pop, pop. Oh, yeah? Because people who are on the phone get it too. Because it's basically just friction on your ear. And it gets a lot of blood in there. And then if you let it calcify, then it tastes hard like this there you go ladies call me up we'll stay on the phone for a while and i'll get something out of it in the end there you go um so you're promoting the pub g global championship yes sir tell me a little bit about pub g i know

it is a battle royale style game the best one realistic right i don't know a ton about it though you're going to teach us how to play later. Yeah. Talk about the PUBG Championship, how you got involved as well. Yeah, so I got involved with PUBG. Me and Josh go way back to my previous organization, and I had been playing PUBG since the infancy stage of the game when it was still named Bluehole before it became PUBG Corporation. Loved the game, and PUBG is basically a battle royale game. 100 people drop in. One person emerges. It has

four maps. First, my favorite, Erangel, Myanmar, Sandhook, and Viking. All four maps bring something totally different. Different texture, different environment, different buildings. It's basically a loot game. You drop down with no loot.

You get to pick your loot. And it ranges from pistols, shotguns, AR-15s, AK-47s, to sniper rifles, to Tommy guns. I mean, to the whole nine yards. And you can put attachments on the gun with a force grip. And when you put something on the gun, it totally changes the way it feels and shoots. So it's a pretty complex game. That rundown was intimidating itself. Are you nasty at this game?

Are you sick? I mean, there was a time where I was dropping seven bomb kills with a victory. But now with my children, the wife, I'm not as good as I like to be. It seems like you're being humble. I'll say that right now. No, no, no. I bet we get you beyond the sticks and you're a savage. Well, I prefer to play on pc uh it's on pc console uh xbox i didn't realize you were a pc player we don't have that here oh yeah i'm a pc guy but you know i will have some good games on

um xbox i'm looking forward to it what did you start gaming on what was like your first gaming system virginia no okay and my first gaming and what were your favorite games as a kid like growing up did you ever lose gaming and come back to it later in life or was gaming like oh yeah absolutely i'll lose game come back and beat it as an adult when i can actually beat the damn game um zelda link to past two um super contra i mean all the virgin return games were all my favorite i mean it was just the first time It was the first of its own kind. I have appreciation for it. You worked your way up through all the systems growing up through PlayStation.

Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, went to Nintendo 64, PlayStation. When did you get to the PC? I feel like that's way more of a hardcore gamer thing. I just got to the PC, but I played PC back in the day with Diablo 1, 2, Starcraft 1, Starcraft 2, Blood Wars 2 starcraft 1 starcraft 2 brood war starcraft diablo 2 lord of destruction world of warcraft and then i kind of fell out of it

um and then when i became adult i realized how strong you can make a pc and i was like okay this is ready to be you build one yeah if you build one did you build yours yourself i did i built mine i reached out to a company my sponsor sponsor, Origin PC. They built mine. So I'm sitting pretty. What else makes you geek out? Because on this show, it's called My Mom's Basement. We talk about a lot of mixed martial arts, a lot of pro wrestling, but also a lot of nerdy shit. So what would you say, other than gaming, because we know that's definitely something for you. We're super passionate about it.

But what else? I mean, if it's nerd stuff, I'll say movies, superheroes. Big into comic book movies? Comic book movies, yeah. Marvel Cinematic Universe? Cinematic Universe. Me and you were just talking about The Mandalorian. Oh, yeah.

I got Disney Plus. I got it downloaded on my phone. I'm watching it on the way to – I was actually joking with everyone in the office. I was like, Mighty Mouse is coming in. All I want to talk about is The Mandalorian. I hope he watched it. I haven't watched it.

Sadly, you have. I have not watched it. I'm looking forward to it because I hope – I mean, it's the first episode. I hope – that's the biggest thing I always think about Star Wars is that they have a mass universe. And I'm really glad they're starting to take a step in the right direction, right? Yeah. They've always surrounded the whole Star Wars series and saga around the Skywalker, right? Yep.

But there's so much more depth into the Star Wars universe where Knights of the Republic. Like, let's get back to when Jedis were fucking badass and there was actually more than just two Sith excuse me, I'm a genius, two Sith like I want to see more bad guys like that's what I love about Knights of the Republic where it's like, you know, they're actually gangsters

is that a game you fucked with as well? those games are incredible I would love to see, I mean they're still adding on mods and updates and stuff to this day but I would love to see. I mean they're still adding on mods and updates and stuff to this day. But I would love to see a remastered version of that or even like you said, like do that as a movie. Do that as a TV show. Do it as – That's what they're supposed to do next.

I heard after this last Star Wars where they do Star Wars Far, Far Galaxy or whatever. And I just feel like that's the thing that they're missing. Like I'm glad they're doing The Mandalorian because I think bounty hunters are a huge thing in Star Wars. And I hope we see a Jedi in The Mandalorian because I haven't watched that first episode. I don't know when the time is set. Is it in – So it's directly after Return of the Jedi, like very, very soon after Return of the Jedi. Oh, gotcha.

So then you won't see any other Sith. Yeah, probably not. So that's unfortunate. You have this big library. It's just like Marvel, right? Yeah. We're waiting for them to bring out who's going to be next biggest bad guy. Is it going to be Galactus?

Is it going to be Doctor Doom? How do you one-up Thanos after you do that? Exactly. So that's what I think they should be doing in Star Wars. I hope they do it. I think you'll enjoy The Mandalorian. It's really cool. The first episode, I've been describing it as like a Western. It feels more like Clint Eastwood-y than anything. It's very cool.

Let's transition a little to mixed martial arts. You were with the UFC for a very long time, for like seven years, and just recently, you made the move to one championship. Now, the way this happened was very unique in the sport because it was called a trade, quote-unquote. You for Ben Askren. How did that work out?

How were you first notified that this was even a possibility? Well, when I got the call that it could be an opportunity, I was like, yeah, I'm down for that. Let's make it happen. So someone just called you and told you? I kind of initiated it with my management. I was like, hey, I would love to see if I get on my contract to go explore other options, other opportunities. And then my manager, Maki Kawa, and Abe Kawa, first-round manager, they're like, okay, we'll see what we can do. And they went back and forth.

And next thing you know, they called me and said, okay, this is what we're going to try to do. And we'll see if we can make it happen. Boom, it happened. When you were looking for other opportunities like that, were you in your mind already kind of closing the door on the UFC, or were you still open to re-signing? I was looking to close the door. I was ready to move on.

Why is that? Just because there's nothing else for me to achieve. I was the longest reigning defending champion there. Why is that? Just because there's nothing else for me to achieve. I was the longest reigning defending champion there. The flyweights weren't really taking off like they should have. I think everyone would agree with that. Yeah, and I think I wanted to go to a place where the flyweights would be more appreciative. So I went to one championship at the home of martial arts, not just catered to mixed martial arts,

but also kickboxing, Muay Thai, and submission wrestling matches, and even boxing matches. So that's why I wanted to go over there, and it worked out. Are you happier now? Oh, 100%. I'm sitting here talking about video games. Before I fought and competed for the final round of the world grand prix i faced boat chant and i played him in shooter out of five oh really yeah it was awesome like

four days before i was about to fight i was like that's fucking awesome yeah i'll be doing this do you want to describe a little bit the the weight cutting and and testing for this kind of stuff is a little different and i've described it in the past i don't know much about it but it seems like it's a better alternative to what a lot of people are doing in mixed martial arts it's hydration testing hydration so basically and even wrestling wrestling in high school are doing it now too so everybody fights with their natural weight so i walk around i mean 138 137 138 and i fight. Now, I have to make that weight two times. So let's say the bout's on Sunday, right? Okay.

So I make it Friday and Saturday. And I also have to be hydrated as I make weight. So I test my hydration. If I pass hydration, then I can jump on the scale. They test your hydration about the gravity of your urine. They see how much, how clear it has, right? Because if your urine's super, super, super, super dark, like bright-ass orange or yellow, and you're drinking Mountain Dew all goddamn day, to see how much, how clear it has, right? Because if your urine is super, super, super, super dark,

like bright-ass orange or yellow, and you're drinking Mountain Dew all goddamn day, then you're going to be dehydrated. But if you're drinking lots of water during the day, it's going to be very clear, which is you're hydrated. And once you test your hydration, you jump on a scale, you pass. Then you got to do it again the next day. Because a lot of people, they can do it one day, right? They'll cut all the weight, drink a little water, make sure they're hydrated, and boom, do it again the next day because a lot of people though they can do it one day right they'll cut all the weight yeah drink a little water make sure they're hydrated and boom do it it passed then they go and eat up and gain all their weight back but they have to

do it again a second day and that's pretty much the hydration cut and it's way better for the body my body is having to go through the hard cut to 125 and i'm able to recover a lot faster too so you enjoy it more having experienced both. Yeah. Do you think this could be potentially the future of the sport? More people can hop on board? I think so, but I think at the end of the day, I think North America, they love to have that.

People making weight and cutting weight shouldn't be part of the show. And it feels that way. It's kind of a drama show. It is like that. It's like a drama show. It's like, who's going to make weight today? Who's going to do that? Yeah, especially the fighters we know that have difficult cuts it's always the will they

won't they exactly so i think that's a big thing too that i'm glad that's not part of our uh whichever show oh uh sorry damn east coast time yeah are you doing media all day i have been doing media all day yeah um but you know i think at the end of the day we'll see what the future holds for people doing a weight cutting when you leave the ufc your last fight was against henry cejudo really hard fought battle maybe the best flyweight fight in ufc history it was a fight that i thought you won i thought a lot of people thought you won and then when you did make the move and you left the company afterwards it was took a lot of people by surprise now i know you had the issues with management and the flyweights maybe not being treated as good as they were supposed to but

what was it for you that you didn't you didn't want to get that win back over him i guess because i'm not a person who goes for a tip for tad i've never been that type of person right um you know when i lost domino cruz i was like okay once move on to the next thing does it do you think it bothers you less taking losses than other fighters? Or what do you think that is about you? No, I think I learn from other people when they lose. They make this sport their life. And when they lose, they lose their identity.

This isn't my identity. Yes, I might go down as one of the best to ever do it. But I have other passions and I'd rather explore other opportunities because I look at the coin. I'm like, hey, if I go back and fight and I win, I'm right back where I was for six years. And if I go back and lose, I'm right back where I was. And I'm like, okay, why not just take a leap of faith, go to a totally different organization, fight new blood. And it's not like the landscape of the flyweight division has ever changed. It's still the same people there fighting.

Joseph's the number one contender right now um uh juicer formiga is probably second you know so satellite's nothing's changed for me a lot of things change i'm traveling over to asia now i'm part of one esports um i'm helping here helping out pub ggc so i think it was a smart move best best thing best thing i ever could do in my career that's another thing you just mentioned one Esports. Yep. Talk about that a little bit. Yeah.

Because this is connected to One Championship. Like, they're getting into the game early on Esports. Yep, absolutely. So, One Esports just launched. We had our first event, Tokyo Fan Festival. It was the very first event, like I said. We did Tekken, and we also did Street Fighter V. And we also did some Street Fighter II Turbo.

Are you good at fighting games like that? I am. I am. I am. said we did tekken and we also did street fighter 5 and we also did some street fighter 2 uh fighting games like that i am i am yeah uh for as a professional athlete in the fighting game absolutely you know when i thought when i faced against bojan he goes you're really good he goes i can tell you you seem to play the game more but obviously you're you know uh athlete so you don't have much much time um but do you play on the big board type thing? No, no, no. I used to do that when I was in arcade, but it's hard for me to do it.

I'm a controller on that. Okay. So those two days were fantastic. We have Dota 2 Invitational coming up here in December in Singapore. Best teams in Dota 2 will be competing in Singapore. And then we also have some more stuff down the line of the pipe in 2020. When do you think video gaming became as synonymous, maybe not as synonymous, but very synonymous with you as much as fighting? When was it that people started talking about Demetrius Johnson, the streamer?

When I started streaming on Twitch about four years ago. We just had our four-year anniversary last month. I built Batten and didn't do any type of special streaming like that just because I'm so busy. But I've been streaming on Twitch for type of special streaming like that just getting so busy um but i'm assuming i'm twitch for four years seems like that's early maybe i'm maybe i'm naive to it i'm i'm very new to the twitch game and all that four years ago seems like you were the ground floor no what do you grab for of twitch streaming and and all of that kind of stuff were you new to the game were you early to it no i was i was doing the game but i was early to it to everybody else right i just heard the interview that israel adesano wants to get in the stream in yeah whittaker's in the stream sean o'malley's into it now yeah streaming and a lot of things

these guys don't know i think uh israel adesano would do very well um i think all those guys do very well but the biggest thing is that you have to be more than put the hours in and when you look at the numbers right like you you make money, but you have to grind. It is literally a grind. I mean when I got to like 1,200 subscribers, I was killing it. And I would come home from the gym, kiss the wife, have dinner, shower, go downstairs on a stream and play until 11 o'clock and do it again every single day. It's like a full-time job. It was like a full-time job.

But when you calculate the hours and the money you make, it's not – for me, it wasn't worth it. I was like I'd rather get a good sleep, have an amazing marriage, be in my children's life, go outside and get sun, go to the gym and work out. I'd rather do those things than sit in front of a computer and like try to make money. Yeah. So are you streaming as much anymore or no i still stream yeah now i have a it's just not affecting you in that way not affecting my way because i'm gonna play when i want to play that's how it should always be right like true yeah you're playing for fun yeah i'm playing for fun and i do have a community where i i try to get back to my

subscribers um you know when i was fighting keeping over here in north america more i was giving them opportunities to go experience certain things like being able to go to my after party, get VIP line, free great views, all that stuff. Which I think that's how it should be, right? I feel when people subscribe to me, they're paying for a service. But I try to get as much in as I can. And right now I'm going like two to three days a week. And that community feel, it feels like best for Twitch and all that.'s amazing that's what it's more about i do i do it more for the community did you see like a rise in your fandom as a fighter because of twitch like

more people paying attention to your fights and the people that maybe discovered you through twitch um i think more people are i think a little bit of both i think people are discovering through twitch i think it helped my uh gaming career yeah as in helping uh you know helping people helping companies uh promote their content um obviously obviously promote uh what they have coming down the pipeline like pub ggc i mean if i was never on twitch um this would probably never happen yeah uh so i'm very grateful for me taking that step in towards a streaming that's awesome man i always think it's cool when a fighter has another passion like that where like you said fighting isn't their entire life where they have something outside of it now going back to fighting a little

bit though you have a title match coming up because you just won the flyweight grand prix over in one got a couple wins your first one i mean you squeezed that guy's head i think my headline when you squeeze that guy's head off was like, I think his head was going to pop off if that wasn't over any sooner. How do you feel about this title match coming up? Are you – I saw your opponent just said that he's not impressed with you and all this. He said that? Yeah.

Let me see it. Here you go. October 20th, not impressed by Demetrius Johnson's tournament win. Here you go. Look it. I'm just talking crap. He dominated his last two fights, but didn't impress me that much.

Ah. The fight with me will be way better, and we'll put on a show. Here you go. Instead of winning by points, okay, it will last five rounds. He says he's going to finish it. Yeah, yeah.

You know what? He's a dangerous athlete. I mean, that's one thing. He's very dangerous. He's more of a grappling expert. And that's why I think he finished lots of his opponents by that. But I'm looking forward to the match. I fought a lot of great jiu-jitsu guys.

He's a big 135. I think he walks about like 5'9", 5'10". So he's very tall. Yeah, man. 5'10"? As a 135-pounder? I think he's 5'9". Yeah,'10", so he's very tall. Yeah, man. 5'10"? As a 135-pounder? I think he's 5'9". Yeah, he's tall.

He's very tall. That's crazy. I saw him. I met him back when I fought against Wolfman Hayes. He was there, and I met him. And yeah, nice guy. Nothing against him at all. We go out there and do our thing.

What's it like fighting such a taller fighter? How much could that play in effect, I'm all. We go out there and do our thing. What's it like fighting such a taller fighter? It's just – How much does that – could that play an effect, I guess? It's just you have to go about fighting differently, right? Because when you're fighting somebody who's longer, they're longer. So they have more reach on you. So you have to play more distance. You got to play a little more head movement, which I do all the time. And then go out there and just give it hell.

You see it sometimes in like the Daniel Cormier-Stipe Miocic matchup. Like Stipe's so much taller. more head movement which i do all the time and then go out there and just give it hell i you see it sometimes in like the daniel cormier steep ameo chick matchup like steep a so much taller and it seemed like cormier kept trying to get in on the pocket for that do you like see one style versus the other in like you said keeping your distance and making sure that they can't get away but also like if you want to get in on a taller fighter and get through their jab yep is that so much harder it is a lot harder especially to have good footwork and they move good it's it's a lot it's very very very hard it's it comes with my structure you know what i mean yeah but i don't put a lot of

stress on myself you know you i think you you ask this and you're saying you don't seem to be affected when you lose anything like that because i have a bigger picture on my mind right yeah winning world titles i've done that did it for six years seven years yeah you got one on your lap right now so for me there's a bigger picture that i want to uh get to and that's be able to have financial freedom so whatever i'm going to do whatever i have to do to get to that point once i get to that point nothing will stop like i'm not worried about um wins or losses as long as i get to that the end game, that's what's more important to me. Have you found it's different preparing for opponents in UFC and Warner?

No. MMA is MMA. MMA is MMA. It's all the same. When you're walking out for a fight, what's going through your mind? Is there any nerves for you at this point? Or are you calm, cool, collected? I was calm, cool, collected.

And I say it's time to go out there and get paid. Did you ever have nerves when you were beginning to fight or no? Yeah, I think I had nerves when I began to fight, but you've been doing it for so long. I've been doing it since I was 18 and wrestling since I was 16. 16.