My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 398 - SKELETON CREW/CREATURE COMMANDOS PREMIERE

Episode Date: December 6, 2024

Robbie and Clem break down the premiere episodes of #SkeletonCrew and #CreatureCommandos, provide reviews for Wicked/Gladiator II/Moana 2, discuss Surviving Barstool, and more! 00:00 INTRO 05:54 SKELETON CREW 23:55 GAMETIME AD 26:15 CREATURE COMMANDOS 36:59 JOE BURROW BUYS BATMOBILE 43:18 CELEBRITY MINT AD 44:40 WICKED/GLADIATOR/MOANA REVIEWS 01:01:15 TURTLE BEACH AD 01:02:58 SURVIVING BARSTOOL (SPOILERS) Gametime: Download the Gametime app today and use code MMB to easily score great deals with the new Gametime Picks! Celebrity Mint: Visit https://CelebrityMint.com to sign up and be the first to know when the newest products drop. Turtle Beach: Level up your game and get 10% off @TurtleBeach with code BASEMENT at https://turtlebeach.com/BASEMENT! #turtlebeachpod **************************************** 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 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. It is a very special Skeleton Crew edition of My Mom's Basement today. Of course, I am your host, Robbie Fox, with my co-host, Clem, straight from the dentist. He's all Nova Caned up right now. Yeah, we said we were going to give this one a shot for the people.

I doubt I'm the first person to have Nova Kane on a podcast. And as I'm saying it and feel like I'm slowing my speech a little bit, I apologize, but we want to do something a little different for you guys right now. Right. Like give me a suffering suck a dash. Suffering suck a dash. Is that pretty good? You said somehow my like Oz Cobb will really flow if I have a little Oz Cobb oh the broad white meat you white meat real good there's a great impractical joker's punishment where they Novakane Mers

mouth up like crazy and they have them give a cooking class and say things like now I'm going to teach you to make Susan Sarandon's shrimp scampi. So listen any any criticisms of it if you're if you don't like it I apologize but we wanted to give it a shot see what it's like. It's not that bad. This is the thing the people on YouTube don't use screenshot because I do look like I am like a mouth breather for a while because like I just start, the mouth starts sagging. So this is not a, I prefer if you guys consume this in audio form this week, be a pal. So just to give everyone the rundown of what we're going to talk about this week, we'll be breaking down Skeleton Crew, the newest Star Wars show on Disney Plus. Going to talk a little bit about Creature Commandos, the official start of James Gunn's

DCU animated series on Max. There's two episodes out now. We're going to give some movie reviews. I Saw Wicked, Clem Has Seen Gladiator 2, and Moana 2. So we're going to talk about our thoughts on those. And then at the end of the episode, we'll talk about the week's worth of surviving Barstool, which I was featured on. So there was the three episodes, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. We'll break those down in you know spoiler detail so

we'll give you a warning before we get there but there's a lot on the docket today. It's jam-packed. I think that's the word I would use to describe this now. Obviously for Skeleton Crew spoilers. Yes. For Creature Commandos spoilers. Yeah, although for both I'll be honest. I don't think there's anything that I'm going to say about either that you would be like, oh, I wish I didn't find that out. Yes. And we're not going to go in depth scene by scene blow by blow like we know and stuff like that. I don't think either of these shows are going to lend themselves to that. Maybe they do down the road and we'll get to it when it comes to that point. We will go spoiler free with the movie reviews. All right

Yeah, of course if people want to see and listen if you don't if you if you want to see them You don't have to worry about a spoiling it for you. You kind of get a should I go? There's a lot of different movies out there. Where should I spend my what is let's see a full movie trip right now to typical Theater is like 45 bucks. You're getting sex movie trip right now at a typical theater is like 45 bucks if you're getting sets. Brother, I went to Wicked with my fiance and my future brother-in-law and I bought the tickets, three tickets, my local movie theater, 76 bucks just for the tickets, just for the tickets. That's before concessions. And you know, we ran it up at concessions. So that's it.

You're not even going to the concessions where they really make the money. Bob, let me tell you about my little theater over here, little mom pop joint $5 Tuesdays $5 Tuesdays I got to move to the burbs, Glenn, I'm telling you, when my next lease is up, we're moving to the burbs and this in the suburbs. And this is the best part, Bob, you always go popcorn at the movie theater, I personally, my theater, like, you have to support it too, because like they

close on Monday, they're closed on Wednesday and Thursday, they open for the weekend and then Tuesday. So it's like, I almost am like, well, I have to buy the popcorn and I have to get I'll even treat myself to some candy. That's like $4 a pop popcorns, you know, $7, $8. But it's like, I got to keep them alive. So it's like, I don't mind giving you guys some money, but I feel like we're both winning in the end and the popcorn is fresh because they're closed on Monday. So the popcorn is. So I, I, I love my movie, Jeff D Lowe. You're going to love this podcast about I am like, I want to see more movies. I'm dying to see more movies, but I don't really think there's anything good coming out of it. We've already talked about Mufasa.

I hope I'm proven wrong by that. So this should be good. I'm excited to talk about it all. We're in the time of year where I feel like I start catching up on all of the movies that were like limited release that are going to get nominated for Oscars. You start hearing about all the awards season movies now and like I start catching up on those. I just watched a movie called kneecap. I talked about kneecap on this podcast. I don't think so. It's about an Irish rap trio and their name is kneecap.

And they're real. This is a biopic where they play themselves. And it's weird cause they just blew up. Their first album was in 2018, but they already have a biopic made about them. Michael Fassbender plays one of their dads. Kind of reminded me of like a Guy Ritchie movie, like snatch or something,

but they're rapping in Irish, like in Gic. Oh so half the movie is in Irish it was messed up but it was great and I'm starting to catch up on movies like that where I honestly just go on Jeff D Lowe's list of best movies of the year and I'm like which one sounds interesting to me because dude I went he is list I I thought I watched a lot of movies that came out this year I think my list is up to like 40 movies that came out in 2024 and I was like I think that's I think that's pretty good FD low is like 300 movies on his list, bro. That's what I mean Dave push back the dozen to next year So Jeff D. Low is a little

Just pulling it at the theater and then I was mr. LA now, right? So, you know He and he's probably going to a different movie theater every fucking day just to like try all the different theaters that you know the way the gypsy low brain works This I think the Nova canes going into my brain cuz I don't know if I even said that correctly, but I'm telling you this is this is not fun. This is I'm never doing this. I'll do it again, but I'm not doing All right, let's get into skeleton crew because this was a show I would say highly anticipated even just from an intrigue point of view. We talked about it from different standpoints kind of different points of view.

I used the Star Wars thing. I was very excited for it. You were more trepidatious about it, I would say from the trailers. I think I was looking forward to it because it feels like the Goonies or it feels like a Spielberg you know people were saying that is it Amblin the entertainment like that old whole thing and You were a little more scared because of the kid actors, which is fair We talked about it with Ken Jack We had Ken Jack on last episode and he kind of set some worries aside said it's cool has some pirate vibes

last episode and he kind of set some worries aside said it's cool has some pirate vibes after the first two episodes I gotta say it's exactly what was promised to us in the trailers it is very much Star Wars goonies Star Wars stranger things and I'm in I thought it was really good I don't know about you like I wasn't blown away it didn't hook me like the first couple episodes of the Mandalorian hooked me per se but I do think they laid a foundation better than some of the other Star Wars shows. Yeah, I think our big our, what's the word I'm looking for? Our duty here is to let people know go or no go. Should people watch this show if they were kind of on the fence like I was, and I'd say go, I'd say give it a

shot. I don't think you're going to have your **** blown off but I don't think you're going to be like, oh, I don't think you're going to get acolyted, right? I think there is some winning here. Again, I think everyone was

saying Goonies and we're talking whimsical music. So, we're thinking that the whimsical music was a big talk about a big selling point for this guy right here. You're thinking John Williams getting some Home Alone tunes in and shit like that. And like, this is the thing. You throw Goonies and you're throwing John Williams around.

You're going like ceiling of ceilings for a kids show. Stranger things even. I would say it's not there, but it it's aiming for there, which is all I can ask for. And they it you said it, think after the first episode you go Oh, yeah, like first five minutes in you're like this has such a better production value than the acolyte did right? It's crazy and like again, I say it every time we harp on the acolyte I say I don't need to harp on the acolyte but watching skeleton crew

almost just makes me think what went wrong with the acolyte because The production value is back to the quality of like the Mandalorian or Soka. Like it feels like one of those shows is going to Obi-Wan or even the book of Boba Fett wasn't amazing with the scooter episode, but like it felt like a higher level than the acolyte and even this show, which oddly we talked about the acolyte being like a young adult show. This show feels like it could be aimed for an even younger audience than that, but it works better as an adult

You know, it's weird. It works. This show works for like adults and kids were the acolyte. Yes It worked for adults. We had things about it that we liked this just feels like more of a complete show in every sense Yeah, I just think the quality is gonna be better. And I'm hoping that continues to be the case. The characters are already like pretty likable. This friggin' Neil guy who everyone is up in arms about. Is he a Max Rebo species? Is he not? I love Neil. Neil's fucking great.

I love the elephant family. That's one of my things, my notes. I just love the whole fucking crew. Max Rebo. I'm happier, boy. Heavy spoilers pointed it out though. What did I say about Max Rebo? So heavy spoilers to the same thing. Said he's an angel of death.

Such as a motherfucker. Two mass casualty events. Obviously Jabba's barged. And then I forgot the canteen or whatever. It was Book of Oba Fett, yeah. Yeah, so I, but hey, not just cause he looks like an elephant doesn't mean all elephants are bad. That family, the whole thing where he's like knocking on the window and talking

to the brother about where his brother is. I like that kind of shit. Like it makes you feel like, like, contract said it perfectly. Star Wars suburbs. There's, there's suburbs in Star Wars. They prize $5 movies. It's a beautiful thing to see. It almost feels more like just a random like fantasy space movie than it does a Star Wars project right now and I'm sure that'll change because obviously at the end of episode two you get force sensitive Jude Locke come into the picture but I like that it feels more inspired by outside

projects than it does Star Wars. That was another thing that we've been talking about a lot where it's like the original Star Wars was inspired by samurai movies and World War II movies and Flash Gordon. You take that melting pot and it creates this awesome thing. Star Wars got trapped in a little cycle where it was, we're just going to be inspired by Star Wars. And when you get trapped in that cycle, new ideas and new environments like this don't arise. Now it's like, what if we just straight up do the suburbs and set it in Star Wars? And they still did little references for the hardcore Star Wars fans. When they have him looking into the window and you see the guy

watching the holographic acrobatic show on the table. It's a holiday special reference. And you know, I went crazy for it. I paused the episode I made a tick tock mid episode I didn't even finish the episode before I made a tick tock trying to be the first one because i'm trying to you know Keep the basement lights on but I was just so fired up to see something little like that That doesn't take away from the show at all. It's not like a you know, pause the show and look It's c3po. It's like such a subtle thing that really worked in the context of the show. We saw some new Star Wars food. We saw some dark blue milk.

Did you notice that? It was like a different shade of blue. I don't know if that's their version of almond milk or something. But just seeing new things like that, seeing the school bus basically was cool. I saw someone say that the show kind of has the vibe of the baby Yoda scenes in the Mandalorian and I think that's an accurate assessment like when they cut to baby Yoda eating the macaroons in school that's kind of what this show feels like that's yeah it's like as if they if they stayed in the school after maybe Yoda left that's the kind of vibes you're getting we also see like let's

call a spade a spade New Republic or whatever. What are we in? Are we in New Republic? New Republic, yeah. Kind of a bunch of woke fucking babies. Let's just clearly, yeah, see why they fell after the Empire fell, right? And there's theories about this like MT from Heavy Spoilers has this theory that at Atten, this planet that they're on, that there's a bunch of mystery surrounding clearly already. He has a theory that at Atten, this planet that they're on, that there's a bunch of mystery surrounding clearly already. He has a theory that this is disconnected from the rest of the galaxy because it's like the first order training kids to have that to want the most boring jobs ever. Like in that scene where they send the New Republic into the classroom, she's like, Oh, no, you should want to be an accountant.

And it's like, wait, what? Like you're discouraging kids from chasing these ambitious dreams. It's strange. He thinks maybe this is a first order planet. She doesn't even work for the New Republic. That's just all a scheme. And it's like, they're kind of like just preconditioning minds.

There is something weird going on with this planet. And I like that as well. It's not just, it's not like a one dimensional show. They have this extra mystery brought in where it's like, what is going on with this planet? Why does nobody know where this planet is? Why does nobody know what it is? Some people know what it is, but they think it's a myth.

They're like, it's the planet of treasure. Again, pirate vibes. And even the pirate intro that Ken Jack teased last week was sick. Got fucking hands sliced off by an axe. I was like, all right, they're not afraid to get violent in this show. And yeah, the pirates all have their separate personalities. It is a little, I actually make this point about in the second episode, but it has a little of the ravagers in Guardians, right?

Yes, little ravagers. I even said a little bit of hook in the Spielberg vibes, like bringing that in. Yep, definitely. Now for the kids, I'm gonna just say this, and I don't think it's a problematic thing to say, because it's not really, whatever. I'm just gonna say it, and I don't mean to offend anyone out there.

If you are one, if your mom is one, your sister, whatever. A kid? Fern, Fern is a bitch name. As soon as I heard Fern, I'm like, you're the bitch in the group. And I do not like Fern. I've been against Fern since the minute I found out her name was Fern. I apologize. I hope you've proven wrong. It's just a bitch name. You'll be proven wrong by the end. By the end, they're gonna have it's like the it crew, the loser crew or whatever, they're all gonna band together. And do we trust Jude Law? Cause it seems like Jude Law was the guy from the beginning that they turned on, right?

And they threw him in prison. He was a pirate probably to begin with. That's why I called him force sensitive and not a Jedi. Cause I don't think he is a Jedi. I mean, we're getting fake force music. So I feel like he's not a Jedi. Like you noticed that? I'm like, are they trying to stay away from him?

It was a little bit of the real one, a little bit not. It was cool. I actually liked how they did that and like looped it in a little bit. The music I thought was pretty good. Clearly John Williams homages all over the place, but it never, the music never took me out or anything. No, no. And I think that's on purpose.

I think it's supposed to be a separate universe and I also think it's supposed to be like fake force or whatever the f- I don't know what's going on all these mysteries and I'm not gonna say the show because we were shit out enough today and throughout because this is just what we're gonna come back in for years apparently with a Star Wars content but remember all those mysteries you had in that show and then we wrapped it but it's like oh it was the same thing from a different camera angle I don't think that's gonna happen here I think we're you know I'm hoping we get some really cool reveals when it's all said and done

And it's a very unique storyline for Star Wars 2. It doesn't feel like a retread this show Nothing about it so far feels like a retread agreed agreed the dad whiny nerd I was gonna say I was gonna say if we're calling out Fern for being a bitch the dad with the police study and do this And he thought about the dad leaving money and at the beginning being like I'm not gonna be around much this week Here's your money for the week, right? You're not gonna be around at all They like give them five dollars a day or something. I don't know I get the kid a fucking I mean unless the dad has it tough to single dad working is yeah Kind of has it both ways, but it's just I'm sure I was like once they left the planet

I'm like, thank God that means less than the dad in this fucking show It's a cool scene too. I liked the discovery of the ship You know in the in the dirt and everything brushing that away And then when the ship actually takes off and you realize how fucking massive this ship is them grabbing him on the side Everything about it felt like a Spielberg homage to me like And that's what we thought it looked like coming in. It is. Last week I was talking about how much I love Super 8 for just being that.

It's cool. It's like the vibe that I wanted it to be. I think this is gonna be a hit. I think John Watts knows what he's doing as far as John Hughes inspired Spider-Man trilogy, Steven Spielberg inspired Star Wars show. He knows how to pay tribute to his favorites and he wears his heart on a sleeve with that.

Yep, even the toy that the kid had, it was almost like a good finder, but that's something you would see in the 80s where the kid's obsessed with, in this case, Jedi Knights or something, and that toy, he just lives vicariously through it. And I feel like that's happened a lot in those 80s where the kid is just obsessed with something.

I mean, Adventures of Babysitting, she's a Thor diehard, right? And that becomes part of the storyline, which by the way, I found out that was, I just found out that it was Kingpin who plays the role of the Thor guy. And it blew my fucking mind. Oh really, Vincent D'Onofrio?

I can never say his last name correctly, thank you for saying it. Yeah, and I was like, it's a young stud Lee Yeah, go from Thor to Kingpin. That is quite a fucking range you have so I just thought that was That was really good But that toy and again as someone that grew up with the little view find us a little red thing you put on your face Yeah, you click at their pictures This is almost like a 3d version of it that I could tell you man in my mind

That toy existed in real life in some form or another and the fact that this kid has it I'm like that it just felt like I was watching an 80s movie set in a galaxy far far away It's a complete mind fuck but it somehow works and then it also has the star wars stuff seeing hypers I mean bob how many times have we been trying to get the good guys into hyperspace and it doesn't work? And these motherfuckers are getting into hyperspace by mistake. By accident. I'm like, Bob, you fucked the fucking script on us.

But there was a broken power converter reference in like the first like minute of the show. They were like, ah, power converter. I was like, okay, these power converters, the technology is still not there. Yup. And then that star point where they go and you get kind of all the ships, like you get in their Star Wars. Okay, these power converters, the technology is still not there. Yep. And then that star point where they go, you get kind of all the ships, like you get in their Star Wars. I see different aliens for the first time. They're like, aliens?

Weird. Like, they're so inexperienced. It was good. And that felt like nowhere to me in Guardians because it's like, it's kind of broken apart. Industrial. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of viewfinders, just another reason why I'm marrying Lady Fox you feel. Yeah.

move she pulled? Yes, I don't know what you're referencing. Yes, I got a holiday card from Oh yeah, Robbie and the stamp on the back the rubber stamp address says from the future from the future Robbie. It's like from I think it says from the future Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fox. That's what it is. And I'm like, that stamp is only good for like a year or two because then But that is such a girl thing to just like when you get the right on you get to kind of do that kind of stuff And then you have all the marriage stuff down the road. I was like I was so fucking awesome I love the shadow shadow lady. You can always shout out lady Fox. She's the best the absolute best So closing thoughts on skeleton crew. I'm in after two episodes. Big thumbs up and I'm actually like looking forward to episode three. I don't know if they're doing

the 9 p.m. release for the entire season. They did it for the premiere. I hope they do it for episode three. There's no reason not to. I what it's Tuesday, right? Tuesday at nine? Yeah. Like there's no reason at this point. There's no reason not to like there's I'm probably not going to watch it at nine o'clock most nights. If there's like the Knicks are on or some other sports, I'm probably going to watch that first and I'll watch it in the morning or something. But if I want to watch it,

it's nice to have the option because then you never know what happens on Wednesday and then like you're getting spoiled online. Also this, mind blowing shit. And I don't know if you've heard about this. I only heard about it this morning. My guy, uh, Mario hit me up on hit me up on DM the guy who crushes the this day in Barstool history Do you know that the theory is that that skeleton crew is? Basically like a I don't it's a prequel or a continuation of Captain EO No Yes, so I'm gonna send you live on the show right now. I'm to text you the uh there's a reddit thread about

it and there is many reddit threads about it here and I don't know what my copy and paste is like and there's like pictures of what the fuck is going on with this um there are all these pictures of and of the people at home google

captain eo skeleton crew yada yada yada I'm googling it right now I want this. There are all these pictures of the people at home. Google, Captain EO, Skeleton Crew, yada yada yada. I'm Googling it right now. Yeah. I just, I finally got it. Like the Michael Jackson thing we're talking about? I think my keyboard is dead. Yeah, so Michael Jackson, it was a,

I don't know if it was a ride or, I think it was a show in Hollywood Studios, maybe Epcot? It was one or the other. And it was like kind of this futuristic space thing was a show in Hollywood studios, maybe Epcot. It was one or the other. And it was like kind of this futuristic space thing with Michael Jackson. And then Michael Jackson obviously kind of got, canceled the word or everyone felt kind of creeped out. So they removed it.

But it was this like weird futuristic Star Wars kind of thing back when, you know, it was a 17 minute film made for Disneyland by Lucasfilm on 1986 starring Michael Jackson there was speculation before Skeleton crew came out that the connection could exist and then someone says I don't think we need to call it speculation anymore and You just see like whim looks exactly like Captain Neil Neil looks like the guy who's called Hooter Aged alien is like crazy Right. It looks just like I mean looks like the guy who's called Hooter. This caged alien is like crazy. Right? It looks just like, I mean, it might not be a prequel,

but it definitely feels like from these images that there's some homages. And then it says, the first comment on Reddit, it's even more fitting that the Skeleton Crew from here was held in the Tomorrowland Theater, which hosted Captain EO. So I do. Oh, shit. So, and which hosted Captain EO. So I do. Oh, shit.

So, and listen, Captain EO was, I remember, I liked that kind of shit. I liked Michael Jackson. I liked the Star Wars. I liked that whole kind of thing. It was also kind of fucking weird back in the day. And I don't know if you could do that now. You don't think you could reveal

our fucking main character to be Michael Jackson. I don't think that could be the ending twist where it's like, oh, he's Plagueis. It's like, oh, he's gonna turn into Michael Jackson. I don't think that could be the ending twists where it's like, oh, he's Plagueis. It's like, oh, he's going to turn into Michael Jackson. I don't think you could do that in 2024. Somehow. This is crazy to look at. Yeah. I also have to say, I forgot to mention this. I dig the fuck out of the robot.

I like the robot a lot. I like the robot a lot. Right. He's he's going to know. No, no, no. Right. No way. He's dead. Also, we forgot to mention Urkel is in the show. Is he? Bro, to mention Urkel is in the show is he bro. This is Urkel oh Shit I didn't know crazy is that He's one of the bad guys one of the bad guys in the crew with the little eye thing fucking Steve Urkel Good for him man. Good for Urkel get in the head

I'm not sure he doesn't he probably has money saved for days after family matters, but I'll always support something Do you think he could have retired right after family matters and been set? I feel I feel like by the end there his contract negotiations like he became the show It was just the Oracle show with they try to make a spin-off of him after that as well I don't think so because it just became his show anyway, and I think they probably like I definitely pride no interest He's you know doesn't want to just be the nerdy guy anymore You're like probably kidding puberty and get becoming like a man You don't want to just be the nerdy fucking guy can't get it because he just became Stefan all the time

He was like dude. Let me fucking live a little I don't think he was looking for another X amount of years as the Urkel Alright, let's tell everyone about game time before we move on to our thoughts on creature commandos. And there's even a little bit of DC news we could get into there. You know, we love getting out to live events, whether it's a concert, a football game, a comedy show, a fight, whatever it is. We always use game time, the official ticketing partner of Barstool Sports. And now with their brand new game time picks feature, they're making it even easier to get out to a game. Game Time Picks filters out the fluff to show you only

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Also, I bought my kids the guardians vinyl and I can't wait to listen. I've I've just shot my shot still haven't heard yet busy man sure he has a lot of mentions right now. Maybe it bubbles up at some point. So yeah, I watched it now 23 minutes. You know, that's my number. That's nice that when I logged on to Max last night and I saw that I was like oh this is gonna be easy and it was easy What did you think?

I liked it. I liked it a lot. I I do think for me and i'm not saying this is the right stance, but for me cartoons have have a ceiling for me in terms of like superhero cartoons and I I don't know if it's fair to say or unfair to say, I feel like this is very similar to Invincible, right? Yes. Adults, I mean, same even kind of fighting, like, you know, you're actually getting the superheroes, having the superpowers,

you don't have the restrictions that real life does, also feels like that mixed with the Suicide Squad, because it seems like we're essentially getting the same. That was my exact take, Clem. I was like, this is the Suicide Squad mixed with Invincible. It's exactly that. You get the James Gunn feel from his writing, but like you said, there is a bit of a ceiling on it as a cartoon. Yep. And you're also getting the James Gunn music. Even the stuff that isn't. You're not just getting the fun whimsical, not whimsical, that words are. You're not just getting the fun James Gunn music that's in Guardians,

but you're getting like these like songs that are fitting the scene, but it has like, it's just making a rock out inside. Like he's been way, he's like Tarantino. The foreign music he uses in this is great, yeah. Like he's the guy, it's a song I've never heard of, but he wants you to know that this song fucking rocks and he's gonna put it in the perfect scene to make it like clicking your head.

So I appreciated that. I also like the idea, as we mentioned last week, that all of these characters, if they appear in live-action, will be played by their voice actors. We know Frank Grillo, who plays Rick Flagg's father, will be in the next season of Peacemaker. So that's like a cool connection to already know, all right, there are gonna be some consequences. And we saw in the like season long trailer, they show Superman, they show Peacemaker, they show them like dead in another universe, Starfire.

And they have the current DCU suits on, like the Superman looks like the upcoming Superman and Peacemaker looks like John Cena. So I like that they're kind of telling us right up front, hey, this actually does matter. This actually is in-universe. There's the line. I think Waller says something or someone says something about Rick Flag.

Like, oh, they weasel made it out of whatever the Suicide Squad shows. Operation Starfish and Carrots and whatever the name of the island is. And it's like, I didn't mean to bring that up about your son. So they're acknowledging events that have happened. I like the Bride of Frankenstein stuff. It seems like that's like one of the main storylines through the first two episodes. I thought all of that was cool. Like Frankenstein chasing her through the eras was a cool montage.

Frankenstein played by Hopper as well. Good voice actor to play Frankenstein chasing her through the eras was a cool montage Frankenstein played by Hopper as well good voice actor to play Frankenstein good voice actors across the board like Alan Tudyk is one of the best he's dr. Phosphorus or mr. Phosphorus Sean guns James guns brother obviously does weasel and he does the robot There's a lot of good ones the bride has a good voice. There's one pet peeve I have with cartoons. And I don't know if a lot of people share this pet peeve. In a lot of cartoons, when they cut to like cars driving away, the cars will be 3d animated, even though the show is 2d animated. And it takes me out of the show every time I could watch the most ridiculous shit in cartoons But when you break that like medium it messes with me a little bit and creature commandos does it a lot

Okay, I could see I'm getting used to it, but And that is that a thing that's a old Bob Fox like trope that yeah like in any cartoon like that there's been Batman cartoons that have done in the past like even in like a cartoon I love like Family Guy where like stuff like that doesn't really matter if a car takes off in 3d I'm always kind of like you could have just done that in 2d. They did it in the Simpsons for how many years? Yeah, that's true This I swear to God. This is not a horny take. What is the gods on the truth? I'm just happy that we're banging in these shows like it's not like oh, yeah, they're banging like there's gonna be blood

There's gonna be guts. There's gonna be sex and the product gonna show anything which is fine, but it was a funny sex scene, too Yeah, and it's that way not side the door like one more minute He's like 11 seconds 30 seconds or something. He's like actually he's a little old That was funny and that's James Gunn James Gunn is also like I can cook now. I don't have you know, the mouse as my boss anymore and these guys at DC They don't give a fuck again people at max. They don't know what the fuck's going on So I feel like he's in his own little corner, you know, it's the fucking DC Empire He's gay he's able to cook and this is a take and I don't know this I could be completely wrong the

And this is a take and I don't know if this, I could be completely wrong. The, like before the show starts and you get the little Superman logo and he breaks out of the chain. Is that new? Is that new? Yes, brand new. God, I was hoping it wasn't a thing, you know,

years ago when he kept it going. That is, it's a metaphor, I believe. It's a metaphor for two things. One, Superman and the DCU has been in chains by all the bozos who have fucked up the projects. And this is James Gunn and his team breaking out and we're about to have Superman. DC is about to come to Superman of the comic. That's what I'm hoping. And it's also like James Gunn being like, the mouse has me fucking there. They're looking at tweets a hundred years previous and I can't, you know, know, he couldn't do in guardians boom breaking out

We're gonna have fucking time I read somewhere recently he was originally tabbed to expand the cosmic side of the MCU before those tweets that come out and Think about how much better the Eternals would have been all the setup we would have had for Fantastic Four and Galactus and Silver Surfer They did as good a job with the Guardians, a brand I did not care about at all. And I've told you, I never liked the cosmic side of Marvel and they brought Thanos into it and they did such a good job with it.

I mean, that just, again, it just feels like a big loss for Marvel. So I'm hoping that that fucking little image is exactly what we're gonna get. Superman, my guy, Superman that is, breaking out of those chains, gonna be the DCU becoming a force. image is exactly what we're going to get. Superman, my guy, Superman, that is breaking out of those chains, ECU becoming a force. And I mean, again, go or no go, go for the people that are kind of on the fence, 23 minutes a year time. And I'm also doing this now,

since we're not doing these heavy impacts, I could throw the show on and I'm watching it, but it's like, I have my computer open. If I got to do something, I'm not going to get every little detail. and I think that's the perfect way to watch these shows we don't have to like treat every single episode of every single show on all these different nerd platforms as like have to watch every single second and soak it all up so it has to be hooked one of my least favorite things about invincible sometimes I'm just like I can't get through the whole episode right now.

And the fact that this makes it so much easier, I appreciate it. You could watch this on a commute on your phone. You know, it's one of those shows where it's like such an easy, great intro as well. Another James Gunn show with an awesome intro, good music, the character screens and ending it with like James Gunn writing it at a laptop.

Like I like animating him and stuff. Him putting himself in there is great. So yeah, two ghosts on Skeleton Crew and Creature Commandos, both shows that debuted this week with double episodes. I got one question for you now. Who is your favorite character so far in the Creature Commandos? I'll go through the list here because I got a picture. The fish girl, the Nazi killing robot, Bride of Frankenstein, the flag guy, the phosphorus skeleton guy or weasel. I think it's the bride. Really? She's number one.

I think it's the bride after her backstory. And after watching that montage and stuff, I think it's the, but also the Nazi killing robots. Funny when he's just like, I killed 14 Nazis he's just like I killed 14 Nazis at this battle I killed 49 Nazis at this battle when am I gonna be able to kill Nazis again like you know we're a Nazi we Love on this podcast. We're a Nazi killing podcast not a not a podcast And we love anything where it's like Indiana Jones punching Nazis in the face We love it fucking Nazi zombies killin's face. We love it. Fucking Nazi zombies, killin' Nazi zombies.

We love it. Anything where you do that, we call it a cheat code basically, where it's like, oh yeah, Captain America punching Red Skull in the face. We love it. That's my, that was my answer. It's the Nazi killing robot as well.

He's just so funny. And I mean, I think James Gunn is good enough with his jokes. He won't make it get stale. It'll always be funny or he just will keep it in his pocket I wonder if we're gonna get like each character will get kind of a little flashback like the bride just had and we get to learn her story and we kind of go by with with everyone and again yeah it's a little things like at the end of

that second episode when the fish girl is like go and you're thinking oh she's telling her go and she's like, just fuck yourself. I was, no. Who goes? Yeah, the fish girl I like to, like a cool character design too, where it's like, they also did a great job in the first two episodes of making the team just like, I feel like I know them already.

These were a bunch of characters, other than Frankenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein that I've never heard of really, Weasel, I guess, as well. But like instantly I'm like oh like no I know them I get their dynamic I get their powers I get each of them to a degree now like I like that about that James Gunn is very good at that. Star Wars I feel like you guys Star Wars shows where it takes the first three episodes they launch the same day that are an hour and even by the end you're like I really don't have

a grip on anyone's name or what they're supposed to do How crazy is I think I think the bride is actually Tala from Obi-Wan. Oh Okay. Okay. Do you remember Tala? She was like the not at all Also the only other like news item I had a DC thing I was was on hard knocks this week, Clem. I was like Rick Rude on Surviving Barstool and hard knocks at the exact same time because Joe Burrow bought a Batmobile. And I blogged about this last month, where it was like Warner Brothers is putting 10 Batmobiles for sale. It's the Tumblr from the Dark Knight trilogy. They're not street legal, but they're quote unquote fully functional. I don't think they're fully functional because they can't turn into a bat pod, you know, like come on.

Don't try to pull the curtain over my head with that. But Joe Burrow bought one. He talked about it on Hard Knocks, which is just the most badass thing. Him and his boys just hanging around. He's throwing football. He's like, did I tell you I bought the Batmobile? The coolest thing I've ever heard. And yeah, they included my blog in

it. Now, you had a different take though. I thought this is the coolest thing I've ever heard. When you're five years old, you're probably telling your mom, I'm going to be a quarterback in the NFL who drives the Batmobile. And she pats you on the head and says, you sure you are sweetie, sends you on your merry way. I said that that is living a lifelong dream. You said this is everything wrong with the Bengals, correct? Yeah, the Joe Burrow buying the Batmobile is everything that's wrong with the 2024 Cincinnati bangles. That was the title of the blog. And I basically laid it out. As listen, I love Joe burrow. I love Batman. I love the batmobile,

but what's Batman's one rule. He has one rule in the entire universe. And what is it? Don't kill. He doesn't kill. And Joe burrow doesn't kill. He's having an MVP season if you're just looking at numbers, but he doesn't kill. He hasn't doesn't score every drive and that defense that he has in there Cincinnati and whatever else is going wrong with the Bengals and watch every single week, they're just not getting the wins. I think they're like four and six words. I don't know. I've lost some bets to the Bengals along the way. That hurts me.

And I'm just like, if Joe Barrow had that killer's mentality, then maybe they would win. And he's buying the Batmobile. He said he should have maybe bought the Joker's truck, the slaughter truck. Because that guy motherfucking kills. Or I said, Patrick Mahomes, he buys Wolverine's motorcycle because you can't kill Patrick Mahomes,

but he will end up killing you. And I basically, at the end of the blog, I say, this is just me doing a stupid take, like someone at ESPN would do, if they actually knew anything about nerdy stuff which I saw Disney Plus is trying to get into like the Disney plus ESPN they're trying to like blur the lines between nerd and sports and I'm like you guys are gonna fuck that up completely I'll give you what you would do and this would be some blowhard on first take giving this take I don't believe it I

love your world I think it's an awesome purchase But I just had I bangle fan so better like shut the fuck up you stupid giant stick to stacks It's like hey, man. We're just trying to have fun here. I didn't have Rob I think I was like Robbie writes his blog I know it's gonna be so over the top how awesome it is and I was like I can kind of just come from the other Angle just to have some fucking shits and giggles I did say though as over-the-top and positive as I was I said you got to pick your batmobile games very carefully and some people were saying glen he was saying it's not street legal he can't drive it listen joe burrow can drive his fucking batmobile to the game if he wants to with a police escort or he can just have it parked in the parking lot

and he pulls up in it you know he turns around the corner of the batmobile it looks like he pulled up in it he needs to pick the games very carefully you cannot pull up in the Batmobile, it looks like he pulled up in it. He needs to pick the games very carefully. You cannot pull up in the Batmobile and loose. No, you cannot pull that. That is a great point because then you have to drive home in the Batmobile after it's like, no, then you can't then then it gets repo'd mid get fourth quarter repo'd. There's certain like I think it was Willie Cologne once said like in Pittsburgh. You could get away with whatever if you're a skill.

Yeah, because it's like it's almost like a college town with like the athletes since you had- Joe can rise his cameo Willie Cologne by the way. Yes. Loots it all in. Joe broke or probably like blow up the stadium like Bane did. And they're like, yeah, that's just Joe B, Joe cool.

You know, like he can do whatever he wants. Also a police escort of the Batmobile to the game would be so sick. So I mean, AFC championship game, Atmo, Chiefs coming in, and Joe V coming in. Now, if he wears the full bat suit, it's like, holy shit, this guy has almost like the big control him, but it's like, fuck.

I don't think you could wear the full bat suit. It's like Joe Namath wearing the pink coat on the sideline. Like there, you would become a legend if it all works, but if it doesn't, like you said, Bob, that's a tough look. Which Batmobile would you buy if you had the choice as a diehard Batfan? Easily the Adam West Batmobile. I knew you were gonna say that.

It's the one that you like actually can drive on the street because it's mostly just a normal car as well. But it's easily my favorite. I go Adam West Batmobile, Michael Keaton Batmobile, very close second. And then the Tumblr is probably number three, but it's a situation where the movie made the Batmobile. If we were just talking aesthetically, I don't love the way the Batmobile is just like a tank in it, but it's so good in the Dark Knight trilogy and there's so many great scenes with it, it turns into the Batpod that it's risen there. I think if there's another scene in the Batman 2 as good as that car chase

scene in the Batman 1, Pattinson's Batmobile may slide into number three. Really? Okay, I'm flipped from you. I'm Dark Knight 1, Keaton 2, Adam West 3, but I'm also not like a die-hard Adam West Batman, but I think those are the three Batmobiles you think of when you see them the key That's like if I hit the lottery I would buy the dad in West Batmobile. Yep. Yeah, like a replica I actually just said it the other day cuz on Thanksgiving they had the Madden Cruiser pull up and I was like The first thing I thought I was like I need that I need to be rich so I could buy The or a Madden Cruiser. I think there were multiple think that was the first one I was like an old Greyhound bus they fucking use. I actually learned about it in a doc. Great doc by the way. I'm

going to shout it out of this one since we're doing movie reviews. It's in the game on Amazon Prime. It's a four-part docu-series about the Madden game and they admit how it kind of fell off, but it's from the time they made it as a computer game to Genesis when I got it in 1990 through the 90s games, the Vic game, the Louis game fighting against um, NFL two K and how they made their rise. I forgot about, I think it's called NFL game day was the PlayStation game that like kicked the shit out of them. The first and even launched game the first year it is a top notch. Fuck. If you're a Madden fan, it's a must watch. It's so sounds like a basement documentary right there. That's like the basement boys are going to be in on that big time

basement document. I believe the Madden cruiser when he first started taking it, I believe it was Dolly Parton's and she had just. Oh, shit. So I'm like two of the most beloved things in American history, right? Dolly Parton and John Madden. So if that bus could talk, man. Unreal.

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Now movie reviews, we've got wicked. We've got gladiator two. We've got Moana too. You haven't seen wicked. Have you? Have you seen also seen wicked? I have not seen wicked yet. Uh, I am currently on the fence about just seeing the show show which is the same length as just part one of the movie

Yes, and then I was thinking about reading the book instead and saying the book No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that. Stephen Che had no idea, but it is a musical. Did it have to be two hours and 40 minutes? Absolutely not. They could have probably cut out a half an hour and it would have been fine. I mean, they could have cut out more and they would have been fine because act one of the play is so much shorter than this, of the musical on Broadway and stuff If you were saying to me Robbie should I see the wicked movie or should I go see the musical a? Hundred times out of a hundred. I would say you should go see the musical like really yeah. Yeah Yeah, it's it's so much better to be there live. I think

but as far as musicals made into movies go as far as musicals made into movies go, Wicked did as good a job as I could have hoped for. I thought it was gonna be a train wreck from the trailers, from the casting, from the weird press tours, and whatever the interviews. Everything about it seemed like a train wreck to me. And I left being like, yeah, no, they nailed it.

That's pretty much the show, other than them dragging it out and making it a little bit longer. But it's never like, it's not long in a horrible way. It's just it it felt long to me. And some people have said the complete opposite as well. Some people have been like it breezed by but I would say overall, they did a very good job with Wicked and I'm looking forward to part two. I think part two will be very good as well.

Okay, yeah, I think at some point, I think it was on the rundown and there was someone had told me that there was an intermission in the movie. I'm like, wait, I'm not going to. I think it's like, I kind of want to go back to the movies and get a nice one of their Kleiner seats and just like hang, but it's like, I don't want to then have to wait a year

to then see how it ends. I also, I don't know if I'll actually get to the play either. Now this is the thing, I was all in to see it. I also I don't know if I'll actually get to the play either. Now this is the thing, I was all in to see it. I like a good musical. I don't hide from them. I also like the Wizard of Oz. I do not know a lot about Wicked. I just know it's from a different point of view, changes the way you think about the characters, whatever it may be. The thing is Sienna for her birthday, she's going to go with my sister and her cousin, my niece, to the show. So it's like, I don't ever really see it with my daughter now. And I don't know if my wife is really dying to

see it either. So if she doesn't want to see it, I'm probably not going to see it. In that case, I would like to see. Now the thing is, I also don't want to go to the city because I don't like going to the city. I'm definitely not taking my fucking kids to the city. I saw an off-road, there was an off-road when I think in Hartford that I wouldn't mind driving to it's not too bad for me but I Like now did you have family that worked on wicked? Yeah, so my uncle uncle fun who we refer to all the time on this show has worked on wicked for 25 years I think it's been around as long as there are 20 years. I think they just celebrated

I think 2004 was the 20 year anniversary I could be wrong are 20 years. I think they just celebrated. I think 2004 was the 20 year anniversary I could be wrong about that, but I believe they just celebrated 20 years. He's been with it pretty much since the beginning I think I think he loaded it in I think he's you know, hopefully he'll load it out Oh, well, hopefully he won't load it out Hopefully it's there, you know for so many years and he doesn't have to load it out This movie will probably help that I would hold And my brother worked on it for 10, 12, I don't even know how many years,

but he also worked on it for a very long time. My brother would fly the monkeys. He would literally be on the other side of the rope, like making sure the monkeys would fly. So like I've seen the show from the audience twice, I think, and I've seen the show, you know, in pieces from backstage and the fly floor so many times from you know going in over the years and seeing how

that works and like of course to them I asked my uncle I said are you gonna see wicked and he was like I've seen the show I've heard the show eight eight thousand times he's like literally over eight thousand times I've heard it but he's never seen the show. So he said, he said, no, I think it's bad luck to see the show. All right. That's very fair. But I think like obviously having that connection made me I think a little more jaded to it and skeptical going in, but also gave me more of an appreciation for seeing how they pulled it off and what they changed and stuff leaving.

And that's why I why that's why I asked, because I think you have more of a connection than like a typical person would. Yes. The fact that you're saying all this nice stuff about it, despite all that history, I think is a rousing endorsement. And again, like Wicked's literally in the Fox family. If you go see Wicked, you're supporting the Fox family. Yes.

Now, could they have made the movie say three hours but included the entire show yes oh my god yes this is me off about this because they did it in the show there's not enough like like it can't be that much of a translation from Broadway to the movie that you have to add like hours upon hours because we have all these musicals I sort of see why they did I mean money is why they did it but another reason act one of Wicked is basically a prequel to the Wizard of Oz. Act two of Wicked is basically the Wizard of Oz from Gotcha. Okay. Kind of like it's like it gets into that territory. So it's like a it is a decent stopping point. Also, it of course ends with like Defying Gravity Act 1 where that that's the fucking song everyone even knows from the show.

Okay, okay. So for good, I think the other one. Yeah. So there's reasons that what's happened. Bob Fox, this is another go. We're having nothing but cozy. It's a go. It's a yeah, I would recommend if you're into musicals at all, you'd probably like this. So what do you want to talk about first, Gladiator 2 or Moana 2 of the sequels that you saw? I don't know. It's going to have more of an appeal to the pod right now. I mean, you know, Moana would be the pod father side of things, but Gladiator, we'll go Gladiator. Why not?

We'll go Gladiator. I think that came out first, right? Yeah, Glickit came out on the same day as Wicked. That's right. I was, I was, I thought I was like, why, why didn't they release Moana the same day as Gladiator? That would have been sick. We could have had like Moator, Glette, Moana. And this whole time Glickit was a thing. I wish it got a little more. I would have done that. I thought when I saw the previews when I just heard it was a thing I thought this was just gonna be hey, we're gonna throw some gladiators in a coliseum It's not really it might be loosely tied to gladiator 1 without giving away spoilers. It is very

Entrenched with gladiator 1 and yeah, you know So I didn't realize it was gonna be like that. So much so that would you say you have to see the first to see the second? Yes, very much. To like, you can probably watch the movie and be like, I like it, didn't like it, no matter what. You will appreciate it or just everything makes

a lot more sense when they're talking about stuff. And without giving away anything, the first like 10 minutes, five minutes, and like the opening credits is just the old maxima scenes in like art form, where it's like straight out of the movie. I'm like, oh, shit, like, I did previously on. Yes, I didn't think they were acknowledged gladiator one at all. And it really just like you're you feel like it's like still part of the same universe and same story.

So I did appreciate that. I'm like I wish it came out like 20 years ago when it was the biggest fucking movie in the world. Ken Jack, I was trying to think of all these different ways I could like sum it up and I can't do better than I think Ken Jack said it he's like it's like someone like found this script on reddit and just was like boom

Ripped it put it in there. It's definitely sloppy. It definitely could have been much better I hate to say it but the who's the guy the the lead that everyone's shooting on Oh Paul mezcal He just does not fit the role now This is the thing You could actually make a case without giving spoilers that he actually fits the role perfectly if you think about it, but I'm not going to talk, can't really talk about it here the way I want to. If you want DM me and I can discuss my thoughts on that. But it's like, if that had a different actor, I think the entire movie really could get much better.

Damn. As it sounds. He's going to be playing Paul McCartney in the next four Beatles movies now That's the thing his role in this movie is not a British pop star. So you're all right. It's nothing against his acting ability it's just his demeanor and the role they wrote for him or gave him it I'm just I was never like that dude like when I saw Maxis. I'm like when I saw those girls like yeah that fucking guy I will follow in the battle and fight barbarians against this guy. I'm just like I don't really

It was and it's like a it's a weekend. It's not even a straw Were you telling me Ralph Sifredo wouldn't like this movie? Listen I'm happy. He's not here to see it. Oh man Chance though that that sick fuck Denzel was Denzel was cool. Like it's not just being Denzel like yeah, it's like you trailer exactly. It's like I don't know

It's just it's not Denzel's fault. But like it's always like that like, that's Denzel, you know, that's Denzel in the ancient times. It only happens to a few guys. I've said, Matt Damon is one of those guys that was always Matt Damon. Um, and then the guy, I think our boys in it, right? Uh, from stranger things. Is that, is that Joseph Quinn? Yes. Plays one of the twins. He's going to be playing Johnny storm as well. Yes. Um, I didn't care for that character, but I think people like them So it's like I feel like a cool concept the Twin Emperors and they had that weird like powdery makeup on and stuff It seemed like a cool concept, but everyone even Devlin was like, yeah, he's like they didn't really like do a ton in the movie Yeah. Yeah, so it's like I

Just think there was There was a lot more they could have done better. However, it's not like with Napoleon when I left that theater, I was like, I fucking hated that movie. And all it made me do was want to watch another Napoleon. I'm like, you know what, I got the sequel to gladiator. It's all right. You know, it's not I didn't like go or no go though. If you like the first one, just go see it, you know, yeah I listen see it in the theater support the father. What are you gonna do? Wait, this screen possible. Yes

Possible without they keep saying right? Get some biggest screen bar. This is how you see gladiator biggest screen possible biggest popcorn possible biggest soda possible impossible, biggest soda possible. Boom. Boom. And by the way, after we talked about theater etiquette last week, a guy in my theater of wicked in the front row took two fucking front facing selfies with the flash on mid movie, took one. We were all like, what the fuck? And then put his phone back up.

I guess he didn't like the first picture. Took another one. I heard, I heard some of the wicked fans are like die hard, crazy. Oh, yeah. So so you better watch out. He called out you. But I in front of me was clapping after every song. Like it was like a Broadway show. He was the only one clapping. I was annoying after like the fifth song. All right, guy. I also didn't say this. I think you said was it the gladiator

take I had that got a lot of heat in the comments Yeah, dad. Yeah people didn't love that. You said the first one like didn't hold up that well I said it there are some parts that really like it draw it drew on too long I talked to my brother about this and he goes. Yeah, I think the copy you were watching was the extended version. So And it's like probably all the shit that was like rightfully cut from the film And I was yeah, I don't remember being this poor. You watched the three and a half hour cut of Gladiator. Exactly. I think I watched the longer take.

So I watched the original cut. You put some fat on this thing. Yeah, exactly. So in my defense, I'm 90% sure that I watched the extended version. And if you want to watch the extended version, we're like, oh, that's the perfect masterpiece. God bless you. I will simply disagree.

When I saw the original movie, it was like my top ten favorite movie at the time So yeah, I love gladiator gladiator 2 does not match gladiator 1 unfortunately It makes me this made me want to rewatch gladiator 1 at some point though. Okay I was gonna say speaking of sequels that seemingly don't live up to the original Moana 2 of sequels that seemingly don't live up to the original Moana 2? Yeah. So listen, I went into Moana 2 basically expecting the absolute worst. When I heard that they were making it, I was like, you motherfuckers, like Disney has no shame at this point. They will just equalize everything.

And the fact that it was made is originally going to be a TV show. And then I think they were so impressed with the TV shows. Fuck it. Let's make it a movie and cash the fuck in on it. I Understand why they did it I'm at the point now. I'm getting older a little like less angry at life or whatever We just kind of just relax. Don't give a fuck about anything. It is what it is Like my kids liked it. They didn't love it. They were like, yeah, that was okay They're like the music wasn't as good as the

first one, which as I learned in the previews, your boy, Lin-Manuel Miranda is doing the music for Mufasa, which I imagine is the reason part of the reason he didn't want to to I imagine they pride the music from Moana to if they were I don't know if they would have put music in the show. If there was a show, but they pride in having you're making it as a movie. They probably would have put music in the show if there was a show but they probably if they were making it As a movie, they probably would have put more like oh, that's like actually get Lin-Manuel They're like half not gonna race Lin-Manuel on streaming. Yes, exactly

That if in my opinion you should if you doom from one and you're gonna make a series You should have him until he can't do it anymore Yeah, that's on Disney for having a Mufasa. Now this race is the floor Mufasa in my mind though. Right? Yeah. It does. It's a Lin-Manuel fucking production. The music should at least be banging. You said it to me, like people were saying it kind of felt like a straight to VHS version. I could see that. I also just love being in the Moana verse. I just love Moana as a character. She's my goat. It's my number one Disney movie.

She's my number one Disney character. I fucking love her. Maui's probably top five, top 10. There was a point where at the end of one of her songs, she's like, I am Moana and Bob, God's honest truth. I'm in the theater with my wife. The kids are sitting with their friends and I go, damn right you are. I was like, when I heard Moana, I was like,

yeah, you're fucking Moana. Yeah, I was like, fuck yeah. So, you know, it's kind of like the first one, you get some wacky characters, the monsters, all that stuff. And I'll see it out of respect. I'm treating this like it's like, I'm friends with your older sister. So, you know, one of those, it's like, I'll treat you the respect of that.

You want to go to the theater, stay warm, eat some popcorn on a weekend. If it made it, it's making, cash hand over fist. Oh yeah. It'll probably be on- It's like the biggest opening weekend for an animated movie ever, I think. Yeah, it'll probably be out through Christmas.

Like if you're looking for something to do during Christmas break, go see Moana You know if you I don't know about spending you know $150 worth to see it, but it's it's like I Think there's a chance they make a third and then if they do a three oh They're doing great Yeah, they're doing right they need a little And I need the writer I need the whole fucking crew, all hands on deck. This is the thing, like I'm trying to think of like Inside Out 2, I'd say was not Inside Out 1, but it was higher than Moana 2 in my opinion.

Toy Story 2 and 3 are kind of the like blueprint of this is how you make a trilogy for animated stuff. They got a, they owe it to the Moana fans to bring the same gusto of one that they bring in three. And two will kind of just be like the ugly stepchild of it all. But still going. Knowing Disney, we're gonna ask for three and they're gonna be like, all right, we'll give you three and Maui is gonna die the saddest death of all time.

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Hopefully you're not driving and trying to like configure everything right now to get it off. We're done. We're done for the week, by the way. After this, it's over. You're not gonna have to fast forward and catch anything else. This is the last segment of the show.

Exactly. This is the last segment of the show. They got me, Clem. They got me. Look how they massacred my boy. My, they got me. My sweet wife was like, I just like from episode one.

It's like I just so feel so scared for Robbie. I feel so bad for him. And she knows Robbie not only like is a great guy that we all love, but he also was like battling anxiety I'm like your typical like workday, let alone a fucking pressure cooker reality show game show Against his fucking big wig fucking media conglomerate teammates and you know co-workers now I will say I Didn't have a lot of anxiety at surviving Barstool.

Really? And it shocked me. I thought I didn't have anxiety leading up to it. And I thought, oh, it'll kick in when the game starts. And I never got to that point. I almost think it was a blessing in disguise that they got me out as quickly as they did. Yeah, that's true. I was at the second morning.

So I was able to go through two challenges, appear in three episodes. And I woke up the next morning knowing my ass was probably in the jackpot. I found the key that Eventually, I thought oh, I'm safe I thought I'm safe through one more tribal council because I'll play the immunity idol and I'm good. I texted Rachel I was like, oh my god, I've got the immunity idol. Here we go And I used the key and I lost a vote and I knew then my ass was in the jackpot real bad And I didn't know I was gonna be voted out in that specific Tribal and I kind of did believe that mince was gonna be next you see in my final confession

I'm like a sorry mince. I don't have a vote, but we're getting you on this one I went and sat back down, but the second I saw the second vote for me I knew it was me because here's a little behind the scenes pull the second vote for me, I knew it was me. Because here's a little behind the scenes, pull the curtain back for everybody. My edit I thought was great in terms of everything that happened for the most part, like they showed. There wasn't anything crucial to my game, especially in the first three episodes that I felt like,

oh, they didn't include that, they did me dirty. But there was a lot more between me and Big Cat. I was kind of like clinging on to Big Cat at every turn, trying to show him loyalty because I knew I caught Big Cat Will and Whitney talking in a private room the night before I got voted out. I walked in and saw them and I was like, Oh, fuck. So I went and confronted Big Cat about that was like, What were you guys talking about? He tried to play it off.

I knew he was lying to me. And I said that to the camera. I said as much. It was like, I don't trust this guy anymore. I think he's lying to me. I know I'm not in a real alliance. We'll see how far this goes. So that was one thing where I understand

why they didn't include that because it makes it a little more surprising when I get voted out. But there were some interesting like conversations. So many people were like, how could you not see it coming? He did a very good job of making me believe it was Mint's Next, where he was like, listen, it's going to be Mint's Next. We need to win challenges and stuff like that. And I was like, it's you and me, right? We're like in this and he was like, yeah so he did get me over on that but like I said my

Uh, like post interview or whatever. I didn't have any hard feelings Like I thought it was funny that jerry's like fuck those people never gonna work with them ever again And I very much was like listen, I got added to the cast last minute. I got was a replacement for Pat Bev, which is crazy I mean and I knew going into the game That I was like at a target on my back Everyone was talking about me like I was the favorite to win like I was gonna easily like coast through this game and win it And then when we got split up into tribes, I didn't really have any Like main alliances like a lot of my friends are on the other two tribes. The only

like people I talked to coming into the game about maybe we could have alliances and I didn't really do that. We're on the other tribes. That was another mistake I made. I didn't realize how many people were talking to each other before the game. I didn't talk to anyone before the game really. I talked to like my friends of like, yeah, if we get put on tribes, we'll be friends, right? But that was it. And to be fair to you, like you also were late. So it's like people were day one people were sitting Jerry seems like Jerry had the lines with everyone. Like, Jerry talked to everyone years at that point, the amount of text message he probably sent was like making his phone smoke. You're not gonna do it? I'll say it. Fuck Big Cat. Fuck. He's

not allowed in the basement. Big Cat is banned from the basement. One year banned. And not only that, it goes the other way. I will not go on part of my take. Oh, you know what? Until he apologizes. I'll stand with you on that one. You're standing with me, I'll stand with you on that one. You're standing with me. I'll stand with you. I won't go and pardon my take either I will not accept any take ease any awards. Give it to me to butter me up No, fuck that you come at the base We could my favorite part of the show was when Dave was like, I can't wait to stab Jerry like wipe his blood for my sword That's the kind of fucking like pettiness you need in these shows to survive That's the kind of fucking like pettiness you need in these shows to survive

Like I didn't have that do like it's funny that everyone called me the favorite and stuff going in because I Realized within like 12 hours of being in that office like oh, I'm not good at this like oh fuck I'm noticing side conversations happening and I'm like oh fuck. I don't even have the brain for this like It's funny that people just thought, oh, he's likeable, he'll win. I didn't have any of the other tools. I wasn't very good in the challenges. I was huffing, that second challenge was gonna kill me. I was huffing above and thought I was gonna die.

The third challenge, I was falling off the beam more than anyone else on my team, I think. So it was like, I had a blast though. Like, I wish, obviously I wish I was around longer just because it was fun hanging out with everybody. Like the first night hanging out with everybody, we were ordering blizzards. Dave was getting blizzards for everyone.

We were like sitting there eating. And then I didn't get to experience that for the rest of the time, but it was fun. It was like a fun sleepover. See, this is the thing about me, people are clam, you gotta be in the next one, I'm gonna root for you. I wouldn't last for the opening credits. I just don't have I would it would be me Aryan, you know would probably talk about you in the same way they talked about me

They would be like no to Clem has too many like friends at Barstool too many people like Clem We got to get them the fuck out of here, which I was also like if that's the worst thing you say about me Fine. Yeah, it's like I don't win at surviving bar.. So I win like the game of like friendship and I don't know Yeah, but like I'm pretty happy with my life the way it is the way I am So it's like I'm not gonna win that game, but I can pretty much sleep at night knowing I wasn't really involved in much drama, you know, like my two vote-offs I mean Smitty was back stabbed for sure that hurt that I felt bad for my guys Yeah I mean, Smitty was backstabbed for sure. That hurt. That felt bad for my guy, Smitty. That was tough.

But Wallow, it's not like me and Wallow are gonna see each other every day and it's awkward between us. I got to get out before any of the drama really got crazy. And it does get crazy. Stay tuned for everything we've heard about this season. It's nuts. But now I get to watch the rest of it as a fan

with everyone else. And I'm excited, because honestly, I'm loving the show. Like my sister's watching it, my mom's watching it, my mom sent me the sweetest text. She, I had to film my mom and let her know that I didn't win going in. I had to give her that spoiler. And I texted her last night, couple of us had like a farewell party for me,

and we watched it together. And I texted her, so I'm at my farewell party, we're watching it together. And she wrote back like, I know it's coming, but I just don't want to see it. It was like the sweetest, like most heartbreaking thing. It was very funny. My sister texted me fuck big cat really. I said it was like, when I rewatched the pranos and it was the long term parking. And my wife has no idea what's about to come when she was watching for the first time. And I'm like, oh, and that's kind of how you fell versus your fell versus your mom fell or it's like oh yeah but overall I was I

was happy with my edit because you always hear like you don't know what kind of edit you're gonna get and I was like listen I I was sort of aware sort of blindside not blindsided I was sort of surprised sort of aware that my ass was on the chopping block, but I knew there was the chance they could probably edit it where I was like more shocked, but I felt like it was clear from almost episode one, everyone was like Rico comes to my team and he's like, you gotta get Robbie out. And then the next episode they're like, we, how do we scheme to get Robbie out and make Megan one of the four and all of that. So it was, it was actually funny seeing my team scheme against me because it was like, Oh, this is the stuff I missed out on.

Yeah, exactly. And this is the thing, like in modern wrestling, like the, the super clean baby face doesn't win the title and like how it goes. And then reality shows the baby face isn't going to win. The biggest heel isn't going to win either. Cause everyone ends up hating that person. It's the will confidence of the world that like a likable guys, but also could play the game incredibly, right? And put on a master class. Yeah, last year class absolute master class and also Tommy Is putting a master class Eddie put on a likeability master class That was Eddie being the pure meat pure white meat baby face as they call him and he kind of went

But even Eddie had those tricks where he was, you know, putting the camera the recording device I tried that like first day I left the room and left my phone But I did the dumb thing I put my phone under a pillowcase and the pillowcase muffled everything Well, I didn't think about any I love that. That's my snack brother. I fucking love the guy He also has like he's not the cleanest baby face like you can't host a day port no show Yeah, you're the cleanest like I would never even ask to host the day border show a I'm not qualified but B I couldn't like say the thing that's then gonna let Rico get dunked on and like on podcast form any kind of fake notes oh my god Rico's fake clues were so funny the first three

episodes he leads mince to a note last night and he's like what do you think that is and even that you mince didn't even fall for it yeah like which we have to talk about this we talked about on the rundown yesterday but that man that man ben mince i mean it's like and it's crazy that comes after yet another controversy where he shoots himself in the foot but he comes out i'm like i can't and like uh kirk said it today on the Nameshow It's like fat and dumb is like that's Dave's type and he could not quit Ben Mince. You just can't quit him Where Whitney and David there Whitney and Dan are talking together and Whitney goes you don't think he's scheming something do you Dan's like no and they cut To Mince and he's just it looks like he's looking at butterflies or something above his bed. So funny. I have to know too, like, did you actually see his name on the shoes? Cause I got to know if he had his name on the shoes. I'm pretty sure it was on

there. The pockets, the shoes, the size, the there size is too small Whether it was brianna shirt or not. I don't know because that's who we replace but it's all mincy. It's all fucking mincy This is I don't mean to like dunk on mincy more, but we didn't get this on camera But he broke his bed day one like he went to lay down in it and it did like the doodoo Like he was lying there feet up in in the air, head on the ground. And Caitlin Walker, I know Caitlin Walker was the first one to get in there and be like, Mince, did you just break your bed with a phone? He's like, yeah.

It was, yeah. It was my one night of rooming with the Moon Tribe was a very fun night. No hard feelings, Moon Tribe, other than, you know, Big Cat's banned from the podcast. We're not coming on Pardon My Take for a year. Other than that, no hard cases. No, no, no. He's banned from our podcast for a year.

Pardon My Take forever. Or which one was it? I don't know. You might be right. Yeah. We'll figure. If we get invited on Pardon My Take, we'll renegotiate the terms of the contract.

He needs to come to us though. We're not going in. Yes, exactly. All right. I hope everyone enjoyed this Creature Commando, crew surviving barstool and movie review jam-packed episode of my mom's basement We will be back next week to talk about more Skeleton crew and I don't know if will we do creature commando should we do Friday episodes so we could include both of them? I so this is my thoughts on it. Do you wanna do, we can do both, do the Friday,

and then we can even talk some surviving bars at the end. Since you're on the outside. Because like we obviously on Named Show, I feel like they're doing that to, you know, recap everything. Because the last show every week is Thursday. And like I have no clue what happens. I don't have any spoilers or anything like that. So I'm going in and watching just when everyone what happens. I don't have any spoilers or anything like that So I'm going in and watching just when everyone else is I don't want to know so I yeah I only know to a degree I know from little Whispers and stuff that I've heard a lot of the stuff even in the first three episodes that I was there for was surprising To me, so exactly it'll be fun to do so yeah Friday episodes for the time being for the time

You know Going forward this way we can do the old YouTube clips. Surviving Barswell cast member. Tells all. Yeah. It's the number one to number one and two trending video. I know. Might as well fucking suck the teeth on that. And it deserves to be that that way as well. Shout out to the editors.

Shout out to everyone behind the scenes, the cameramen, the amount of footage that they had to sift through. I can't even imagine. Every conversation I had for the 24 hours I was there was on camera, on multiple cameras. Someone filming on their phone, someone filming on a camera, another camera angle. The amount of mics hooked up, you know, 24 to begin and everything with the boom mics, with the mics in the different rooms. It's crazy the amount of work that went into it. And they did an amazing job. It feels like the kind of reality show that could be on TV or could be on Netflix, like

in a heartbeat. Awesome. So see you guys next week. See you next week.