My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 399 - SKELETON CREW/CREATURE COMMANDOS EPISODE 3

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

Robbie and Clem recap and review Episode 3 of both Skeleton Crew and Creature Commandos! They discuss what they liked/didn't like about each series installment, then break down the nerd news and this week of Surviving Barstool! 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. #StarWars #SkeletonCrew #CreatureCommandos **************************************** 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, a very special Friday the 13th edition of My Mom's Basement presented by Barstool Sports. We're not going to be breaking down the Friday the 13th movies. We're not going to be getting spooky either. We're just going to be talking Skeleton creature commandos. I guess a little bit spooky creatures in that and a little bit of the news. Clem,

how we feeling on this Friday the 13th? Don't like Friday the 13th. Just uh not a good day. It scares me. It's it's spooky. I do feel like the Christmas spirit can offset the Friday of the 13th energy. Today was I said my daughter goes, oh, it's like Friday the 13th. I'm whoa, whoa, today's Friday the 13th. She's like, yeah, I'm like, oh boy, like this ain't good. Yeah, but I feel like it doesn't have the same hold. I guess the movies haven't come out forever.

That's probably part of it. But growing up, if it was Friday the 13th, you were looking over both shoulders. But again, I do feel like the Christmas spirit kind of cancels that out all the joy and goodwill is that's a decent idea for like a nightmare before Christmas sequel is like it takes place on Friday the 13th before Christmas or something. I had one really bad Friday the 13th in my life. I want to say I was in maybe seventh or eighth grade all day at school. I was just, you know, here in the Friday the 13th chatter, kids joking about it, kids teasing each other about it.

And I'm thinking, I don't believe in this stuff. I get home from school and the bird that my sister had just purchased maybe five, 10 days prior had killed itself Clem The bird committed suicide in its cage on Friday the 13th It was named Sebastian my sister got it out of angst because she was told she couldn't get another dog We already had two dogs. She wanted another dog She's told you can't get another dog So she went out and bought herself a bird and didn't realize the bird was like paired with another

bird. The PetSmart didn't tell her that. So it went on hunger strike when it got separated from its the love of its life, I guess killed itself on Friday the 13th. I was like traumatized just hearing this. My mom tells me this whole thing when I get home from school. I say, All right, the only thing I want to do now is go play Call of Duty. I go down to the basement, Red Ring of Death on the Xbox. Oh, no. Oh, my God. First, I thought you're going to say the bird's head fell off or something like that. I thought that was going to be and it was I was so recent that we actually returned

the bird and got our money back That is I mean that's a terrible I first of all I had no clue Strike because was it a lovebird? I know there are Parakeet or some shit. I don't know. I don't remember what it was. It was like gray and had a little little yellow in it I think That's tough, man. That is a hey, I hate to say it though It is kind of a good Friday the 13th story to have. Yeah, I had one really bad one. Like, you know, not everyone could say that.

And the Red Ring of Death, that is, I mean, any gamer can feel it to the heart. Even if you're not, like, I was never an Xbox guy, but there were other kinds of things that can happen, a PlayStation or different systems that, or, you know, even a blue screen if you're a computer guy. It's not Friday the 13th but I have a cursed day in my life. I don't know if I've ever told you this on this podcast I did delve into it on Podfathers a few times because it's a

family day of doom. It's September. Is it a holiday? No it's September 16th. Okay. September 16th, 20 I had to look it up. I remember the Giants were playing the Cowboys. September 16th, 2018, AJ was about, let's see, what is that? He's like five months old at that point and my wife and Sienna were going out to a playground to meet like another mom and their like kid or whatever to play for a bit and AJ was gonna go and I was just gonna stay home. It was Sunday. So I was gonna watch football and AJ was like sleeping and we didn't want to wake him up So I was like, he'll just stay there there lumps at that point five months old

So she goes out drive Sienna boom get a call car accident. They got into him Car was totaled. Thank god. They got into a car was totaled. Thank God they were pretty much fine. Sienna had some seatbelt burns. Wifey's knee was a little messed up, but ER, whole thing obviously traumatizing. Sienna was saying her leg wasn't was hurting. I thought it was a broken leg. Oh, everything was fine. But September 16th, boom. Exactly one year later, at this point, we're not even thinking this is the anniversary of the car accident. AJ runs in our room as a one-year-old at this point, one and a half year old, and there was an iron, takes the iron, puts it on his foot. This is when we realized AJ is a wild person that cannot be tamed no matter what.

And at this point he's sleeping usually at that time, so it was like ER visit. The whole thing has like a little scar still to this day. And at that point it's like, you know, my wife's time hop comes up, she's a little scar still to this day. And at that point it's like, you know, my wife's time hop comes up. She's like, oh, this is the day. So this is 20 at this point, 2020. She's like September 16th, 2020, 2020 is not a good year to begin with. So we're like, how the hell are we going to get screwed this year? And I said, you know what I'm doing? I'm driving the kids stop driving. AJ to daycare.

Sienna is going to go to school and then I'm not leaving the house for the rest of the day, right? Boom, Sienna's at school, AJ's at daycare on the way home from daycare. God's honest truth. I'm driving down the road, quiet little suburban thing. I look up and there's a guy in my lane coming straight at me flying. I think he's passing a car and I'm telling you three seconds I'm done September 16th takes down the big guy Luckily guy went back in his lane, but like I was like, holy fucking shit like a life flash before your eyes So September 16 knocked on all the wood in the world. Sorry for anyone driving the car as I'm banging on the desk Haven't had anything since but that is our personal Friday the 13th.

Yeah that's like put the Clemenza family in like a bubble wrap. Yeah exactly, exactly and I have to, I should look back at the time hop whenever it comes up again to see if anything else like minor happened along those uh that day but yeah bad day, bad day in the Fox household Friday the 13th, September the 16th. If anyone else has any days that are haunted in their life let them yeah let it be known because those stories fascinate me final destination shit haunted days yeah um this is not a haunted episode though as i mentioned we've got a lot of fun stuff to talk about starting with skeleton crew we have episode three premiered on disney plus earlier this week It was the first one that really featured Jude Law, like he got to be in the entire episode.

I felt like he was a perfect fit for the Star Wars universe. The ad at mystery is continuing to grow, continuing to get more interesting. It's only gotten more interesting so far. I loved the escape scene where they blast off out of the dock and they send the fuel lines, you know, whipping back and it's destroying a bunch of shit. Even that behind the back shot of the wolf of like looking out and shit. Great stuff.

And we got a Star Wars owl, which I never expected to see in that capacity. I know Ahsoka's got her owl and stuff. There's been like owls, but this was like almost a Harry Potter esque So, you know not in that they have the owls that come bring in the messages But just the fantasy aspect of it and the owl did you see who was voiced by it was maybe from Arrested Development Oh shit. I had no clue. I was trying to figure out if I knew the voice I would have never gotten that in a billion years. I did feel like a fantasy owl and I Seen the first Harry Potter. I don't know if there's an owl in that one, but I was like, this feels like a Harry Potter owl.

So I don't know who he is. Okay, so there we go. And I was wondering if Star Wars had owls in canon to begin with, so we do, all right. I think I might've heard of Ahsoka's owl, you know, at one point, as I was learning my Ahsoka history. But all in all, another good, great-looking episode. We can say that. Yeah, really good.

Jude Law is kind of made to play this role as like the Fugezi Jedi, maybe not a Jedi. I mean, there's something up, though. He's not just a straight-up fucking, excuse me, not a magician, illusionist. you know, I don't think... I feel like there's something... like he has some sort of force, right? He has to. He's got the force and I don't know if he was like a trainee that went off and instead of becoming, you know, a Sith, like so many stories wind up going down that path, he became a pirate or like something like that or something must have

happened early on in his training or maybe he was never able to get the training that he needed as a young Padawan because he was on a planet that Jedi never came to or something. There's something more to his story. I said to you there's no doubt in my mind that by the end of this season he's abandoning the kids for treasure. They're gonna get in trouble and he's gonna come back and be the heart of gold you know they're gonna redo the Han Solo thing with him and I'm totally fine with it yep see it from a mile away and if we're wrong we're wrong but I'm expecting to be right and I'm fine with that that that plays out a million times in Star Wars or in all kinds of movies. So I've liked everything about

You know I have a couple notes from the episode I like the opening scene of the parents all sitting there worried about their kids reminds me of like school of rock or movies Like this where the kids go off and do some kind of crazy adventure the parents gang up together little stuff lists Right. I get a snus list addition for you. Absolutely. Very Stranger Things. The security droids on Ad Aten. Big time Suss List. I don't like how their heads are legitimately just security cameras like we would see on Earth. That is too on the nose where I think the security of the planet, there's something evil about them.

There's something a little sinister about them. It's almost like their names would be like B-I-G-B-R-L, like Big Brother, right? It feels very on the nose about 1984 kind of shit, some dystopian, you know, in paradise, it's a paradise because the government has you under their thumb kind of thing. Yeah.

Jude Law's character name Jod, nah nah wood It doesn't roll right off the tongue it could get there It's one of those Star Wars names that's gonna have to sit with us for a little bit But Jude Jod Jude Jod that's easy the the way they were saying it too went a little smoother But I don't think yeah fan can say it nearly as much. I'm gonna have to watch like a couple more episodes and then it'll like kind of the cadence will start clicking with me.

Agreed, agreed. Then when they were escaping and they were going through and they were kind of like, this feels too easy, they're going to the ship. There's a quick star tours pod in the bay, which I thought was a really cool Easter egg. Yeah, someone posted the little thing on Twitter. People are going nuts for it.

When Jod is going back for SM33, which that was one of those things where it's like, you gotta just believe that this pirate would listen to the kids and go back for their robot. Really funny scene where SM33's talking to him and he's like, I. And then he comes back and he hits him with one more, I. I really like this pirate droid that has a worm

in his eye and shit. Really like this character. When he runs into one of his old pals, who's like, I'm gonna have to report you to security. This guy's name was Benjar Pranik and he was voiced by Alfred Molina. So I believe this marks Alfred Molina's first return to a Lucasfilm project since Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1980. I don't know if he ever voiced someone in Clone Wars

or something, but I don't think he did. That character I liked. The pirate characters are all just interesting and I'm sure if you really... Some of them wouldn't be really... I deep... deep... but there's a few that I'm like... I just... it's the Ravagers. It's the fucking Ravagers in my mind. I just dig them. I dig the Ravagers. And then the only other thing I had was the kids were shooting at X-Wings like they were ready to commit murders and homicides at the end. Like it was kind of crazy the X-wings at the end they were like yeah We weren't gonna shoot at the ship like they've had kids on board and I was kind of like oh shit like alright

Yeah, the New Republic they're doing the right thing there The kids were having a blast giggling in the gunner seat is like you know, there's humans in there You know, you're about to shoot people like that. Yeah, but everything about it I'm still in on I love the mystery I hope the mystery continues to expand and get as interesting as it feels right now But yeah, I'm way in on skeleton crew after three episodes. Yeah, I think I I'm trying to think like we had andor which we loved like I do feel like Star Wars is having a nice little run here we're not gonna talk about the

other one we didn't like but I'm pretty fucking I'm very happy it's it's essentially hitting the floor and then some of what we were hoping it would be and yeah as long as they just keep that rolling now, do we know how many episodes it is? I think it's eight. I wanna say it's eight total. And I know, as I mentioned last week, Bryce Dallas Howard's doing episode six. That's the one I feel like we could all really look forward

to. They probably like at this point when they're offering, episode, yeah, it is eight episodes. When they're offering episodes to directors, they probably sort of wanna save the best episodes for their best directors like Bryce Dallas Howard. So that's the one where, you know, stay tuned. I feel like it's going to get crazy there. Maybe you bring Hondo in there, maybe do something crazy. You could, if you wanted to, you could bring the Mandalorian in. It's very unnecessary in this show. It feels disconnected enough

where it's its own thing, but who knows? It's very unnecessary in this show. It feels disconnected enough where it's its own thing. But who knows? It's the same timeline. Yeah, and all the little references, like you said, the star tours, the Captain Eo thing, I'm honestly like, it's either one of the biggest tips in the cap to, you know, franchise in history, or it's just a flat out prequel. I don't know which one to believe. I kind of would like to see how it all plays out first. My other thing that I like about this show is it's been three episodes, and I feel like we have, like, it's not stale at all.

It's just we keep moving and jumping, which is great, because I do think some of the Star Wars stuff, we end up, we start at a planet, we end up in a planet, we're in that planet for four episodes, we're in another planet for two episodes, end of series. This, I feel like we are just kind of keeping you on your toes. And I honestly, the next five episodes or whatever, I do feel like could be in five different settings with five completely different stories that somehow all tie together. So

absolutely. You can't say we hate fucking Star Wars. You can't say we hate Star Wars. We're giving them their due. When they're bad, we're gonna say it. When we're good, we're gonna say it. Bob, you know what I actually, what was I, I was watching, it was something about Game of Thrones and they were talking about the final season. And people were like, yeah, that just really got bad. And I'm thinking, we got fucking roasted on Game of Stools

for hating that from the fucking jump. And I just get so mad that people were hating on us for disliking something I think we're very fair here at barstool about whatever we may like Some people are going to be skewed in what they think of stuff And I just feel like we've been fair to star wars and I gotta give him credit cath Kathleen kennedy getting a w here You have to kill her with a w Couple w's I did see we just passed the anniversary of when she announced like 10 projects and like only five of them got Past the you know pre-production stage even so it was like oh really I didn't see that

Still it's like I don't know what to give her credit for what to not give her credit for it That's such a back and forth in my mind But yeah, the projects need to get off the ground just as this ship got out of that starport nice The projects need to get off the ground just as this ship got out of that starport. Nice. Um, we got another good episode this week of creature commandos, another easy episode to watch and one that we were texting about last night. We were like, Oh, we got to watch creature commandos for the episode. Yeah.

Said I'm going to throw it on right now. And it took me about five minutes to text you and be like, Oh my God, this is awesome because we have an awesome cold open. The whole episode focuses on the Tin Man GI robot killing Nazis. It's what we said we wanted out of them last week. We just wanted to see him kill Nazis. We got the flashback. We got to see him with Sergeant Rock and the gang. And it was a bunch of Nazi kill in the entire episode.

It was beautiful. I truly, sincerely hope it can't be the end of our boy, right? They got it wrong hope it can't be the end of our boy, right? They got it. It can't be because I do understand with these suicide squad ish teams, you can just kind of make them not replaceable, but you can kill a few off just so you are always on your toes that they're not going to survive every episode like with like a Superman or a Batman. But then like if you're gonna kill one, don't kill the fucking Nazi killing robot like let him be the last man standing. I fucking loved it. And I

also, I feel like this won't be the last time. I think Creature Commandos will especially be James Gunn's canvas that he can do whatever the fuck he wants on. Superman, they're gonna have some notes. Or potentially if he goes a little off the deep end with some stuff, they're gonna have to pull him back because it's Superman. It's a huge franchise. The stuff when he goes to the guy with the cats and he's like, you know, these people are what really want to just bring the country back. That was James Gunn's, you know, certain types of people that, I mean, let's be honest, they have the Nazi symbol, they're Nazis. And I was like, all right, this is James Gunn's gonna have a couple political takes or just takes in

general on this show. I think that was a glimpse into it and it was beautiful. It reminded me of when he just lights that room up the car and breaking bad when the fucking machine gun just mowed out. I saw your tweet. That was good. I might just go watch that scene again. Nothing's better than just watching Nazis just fucking get taken off the earth. So shout out. I was thinking today I was going to watch an Indiana Jones movie. I think I'm going to do Last Crusade later on today. So we're on the same wavelength there. I did say in my tweet, it's so similar in the ragtag creature monster team in Guardians and the Suicide Squad that I almost wonder what made him want to do this. What gave him the itch to be like, I want to write a 10 episode animated series to kick off my universe that isn't Suicide Squad, but kind of feels like Suicide Squad.

It's more fantastical kind of it's instead of Rick Flag taking this group of creatures through it's Rick Flag's dad. Like it's so similar that I don't know what made him be like, we have to do a creature commando thing, but it is a good platform to introduce characters like Sergeant Rock in the way that they did where you don't really get to see him, but it's just GI Robot was part of his crew and stuff. And I mean, they're bringing in Frank Grillo. He's gonna be in Superman, Rick Flag's dad,

and he's gonna be in Peacemaker season two. So I guess it's like just a way to branch off, but that intrigues me a little bit. Like I would love to get James Gunn in the basement and say, what made you really want to do Creature Commandos? Do you love those comics? Like I'm sure he's answered it in an interview

before I could dig up, but yeah. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I feel like he was like, DC was like, all right, James, like, what do you want to do? How do you want to map this all out? And it's like honestly- But who's DC? He's DC.

That's true, all right. Whoever like owns DC, the fucking higher ups, the dazzle off the moron who lost the NBA for TNT, whoever it may be. And he's like, I want to do suicide squad. And like, well, we brought you in for suicide squad. You have the job. We can't do another suicide squad. We had to reboot it for you. It's like, all right, I'm just gonna do creature commandos. I'm gonna do Suicide Squad. Just slap a new label on it.

Yeah. I think that's all it is. Like the fact, like you said, the fact it's the same fucking family leading the group, like there has to be something there. And he's like, honestly, I'm gonna just, I'm gonna cook James Gunn style, and you're just gonna let me do what you want. It's gonna be animated and honestly no one gives a fuck about this stuff It's just something about when a movie comes out That's when people get upset about certain things you might say or do but a series probably not as much an animated series It's only the sickos watching that shit usually Yeah, all right Let's tell everyone about game time and then we can get into some nerd news and of course we'll end the episode with Surviving barstool.

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All right. We've got some news, some bizarre news this week. And some stuff that we broke down on the rundown actually with large yesterday. We had a fun trio of us on the rundown and we talked about Jeremy Allen White being cast in the Mandalorian and Grogu movie. Cast is who you ask Rod of the hut job of the Hut's son one of the strangest things you could ever imagine But apparently it's a true story I had to check multiple times I said on the rundown I actually had to check multiple times and make sure it was real I mean, that's what any good journalists would do you you find your source you double source triple source if need be

And that's what you're getting with barstoolsports.com when Robbie Fox writes it probably not but in this case it's one of those you have to do it because just cuz some random Twitter account that has a bunch of followers post one of those little you know image news things with the big word fired hired whatever they be ass I love how we have the ass pictures now. It honestly, again, I said it on the rundown, it just feels like this is Jeremy, his agent, and himself being like,

to get the check off the boxes when you hit a certain size of celebrity, and it's like just get a big fat check for kind of a side role, by no means an important starring role in a Disney project. So that could be the MCU, that could be Star Wars, that could be whatever it may be. In this case, it's Star Wars, it's a side character. It feels very weird because that dude, the last thing I think of when I see Jeremy Allen

White with his shirt off is that's a Hutt. That's the first thing. He's rumored to look buff. That was part of the report. What does that even mean a buff hot a buff? What is a buff hot that could be the name of a band where the buff huts? Wow you guys just heard the real Robbie laugh right there that one was from the soul So, yeah, that's that's gonna be strange I said in my blog and I said on the rundown It's weird to imagine him as a hut But it's also weird to imagine Bradley Cooper as a space raccoon And when you listen to Rocky raccoon, you don't really think of Bradley Cooper

So maybe this is just gonna work out for the best Maybe he's gonna have a line where he like demands a chef make him something, you know It makes give a little nudge nudge to the bear. Maybe he calls the Wookie the bear. He's like, get the bear over here. And then Black Cursanton comes in or some shit. We'll see. I'm excited for that movie.

Still, we talked about this as well. It's like it's the first movie since the rise of Skywalker. They know they need to nail this. They have to land one with this. They have to bring us back to Star Wars and theaters and make us feel enthusiastic about it again. If anyone could do it, it's probably Fabio and Filoni. They did that with the first season, second season, The Mandalorian in general.

Yeah, I'll be very, because I forget that that's the last movie that was out there. And again, Last Jedi, extremely divisive movie. In a weird way, The Rise of Skywalker brought everyone together and everyone's like, fuck that movie. a weird way the rise of Skywalker brought everyone together and I was like fuck that No matter what you thought of episode 8 everyone hated episode 9 to bring in the Breaking Bad Reference like you did before they kind of went half measures on Yeah, I was a Skywalker and we were like, no just whole ass one thing Yeah make half of us happy and make the other half of us furious instead of just making us all like a mix of furious and almost like indifferent by the end. It's like, all right, whatever. Like

this shit, that shit was cooking back in the seventies and eighties. That was a very long time ago. You know? Yeah. Again, this is, this is after the prequels, which my generation, I feel like despises, but the new, the younger generation, your generation's like, we fucking love them. They were awesome. It's like, well well I guess they were kind of kids movies didn't make a lick of sense for like the first two and a half episodes but hey like the the prequels are known as like the absolute dog water the Silver's universe for a while and it's kind of had a Renaissance and now these sequels are kind of known as the dog water which by the way for the record I still liked Force Awakens I really really like I

love the Force Awakens obviously in The Last really, really like I love the force awakens. Obviously, I'm a last Jedi stand. And honestly, I like the rise of Skywalker. There's just so many decisions in it that I have to, I have to do mental like hurdles to jump over in my brain. And I really hate the Ray Lo kiss at the end that like, gives me shivers on my spine. It's like when I blog, when I used to blog the Mets from the Wilpon zone, the team, this is the sports analogy of the week. And it's like, all right, we got Dylan Bat blog, when I used to blog the Mets when the Wilpons owned the team, this is the sports analogy of the week. And it's like, all right, we got Dylan Batances. And I'm writing a blog on Chris to see about how Dylan Batances was our special gift.

And I'm so excited and I could see how this will make us a great team. And I know I'm just kind of trying to make chicken salad and a chicken shake kind of a thing. So now it's like, now that I have Juan Soto, it's like, this is easy to convince myself he's good. All the other stuff. He's good He's no good

Chris evans is back for avengers doomsday Possibly as nomad and people are making a big deal out of this. He might be playing nomad He's he was basically nomad in infinity war to my understanding nomad is just the persona that Captain America takes when he's like Not officially working for the Avengers because of you know, whatever the Sokovia Accords or what like whatever it may be So I think they just mean as the Infinity War version of his character Maybe with the fucking double shields and the beard. I don't know but this was a story that broke know. But this was a story that broke. The fact that it broke makes me think it's more than a cameo that he's going to be like part of the marketing because this got out so early. I mean, it didn't even get out that he was going to be in Deadpool and

Wolverine. So I think that not that they wanted to put this out there, but they weren't keeping it super close to the chest. It's something that I figured would happen. And some people are saying it's desperate Marvel bringing him back, just like they're bringing Robert Downey Jr. Back. I vividly remember leaving end game and people going, Oh, you think we'll ever see them again?

Like, was that really the last time we'll ever see them? And a bunch of us said, I think we'll see him for maybe secret wars. That's the only thing I could bring him back. We're in the secret war saga. I know that doomsday isn't secret wars, but it might as well be with infinity war and endgame being part of the same thing. This is exciting to me. Like if we're bringing back Robert Downey Jr.

If you're going there again, no half measures go all the way. If we're ending the variant multiverse saga with this, let's go all the way and make it WrestleMania. I want to see Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. face off on screen one more time. You know, it's funny you bring up WrestleMania because as soon as you said that I thought of the Rock vs. Hogan where I'm like, yeah, they brought back the one of them is just like, all right, we have to just stop with this, but it's gonna tickle your fucking fancy year. They brought back the Undertaker to choke slam the rock. It was like that was in the main event of roman reigns versus cody rood so yeah you could hand off the baton to

shang chi and whoever the new villain may be but in the time being give us some fan service the stuff that we love also like let's be honest here like marvel has to hit a home run with secret wars right yes there's not a lot of players on the bench that are going to be able to hit a home run with Secret Wars, right? Yes. There's not a lot of players on the bench that are going to be able to hit that home run, because all the like they've just ruined so many characters and movie franchises in the last, what has it been, five years since End Game? Like there's like Chang-Chi is an example.

He had his movie, people are like, all right, this guy could be cool. I want to see like where he goes from here. Haven't heard from him since. And it's been that way with so many people where it's like, either their franchises were despised, like they can't be like, all right, we're gonna have She-Hulk really run the show here

because they know they're just gonna get review bombed. Right? It's like, there's so many things that I just feel like they kind of got to go back to the well. If like, once you had Robert Downey Jr as Dr. Doom, that kind of like made it like, all right, everything can go now. Like who gives a flying fuck?

Like you said, if he's Nomad, if he's Cap, I always like something with a moon base I wouldn't mind that just cuz I what show were they talking about him on the moon base at this point I think it was Falcon and Winter Soldier, right? Yeah, I think yeah With Danny Ramirez and they could even tease that in the new one the new Captain America, you know I'm like tease another where is old Steve Rogers and in endgame they introduce a tool that could send time through people. You just put old Steve Rogers in that machine, send time through him and we've got prime cat back.

Yeah, I mean Nick Fury just throws him through there gets young cat back in his prime shield or no shield. It fucking works. And again, maybe Sam has to have the shield to be capped. So that's why we get Nomad. right? Yes. Yeah. That's yeah. That's probably what they're doing there. Like Captain America is we have Captain America. Then you have, you know, he's not going to call himself that we have Steve Rogers. And let's call it. Again, let's call a spade a spade here with, with secret wars. They made a fucking masterpiece with infinity war and then end game.

That's like when you have your paint colors and everything is still like fresh. At this point, the paint, like all the brushes have gone, everything's just turning brown, gross. We're just trying to make the best, like the Russos are trying to make the best out of what they have. They don't really have a lot.

And it's like, there's not enough time from the Fantastic Four, the X-Men won't be introduced by that point. There's just so much shit that like is gonna, I think, make the MCU, God willing, better that-Men won't be introduced by that point. There's just so much shit that like is going to, I think, make the MC, God willing, better that they just don't have right now. So they kind of just bring it back. I mean, the only person they obviously can't do is the original Black Panther,

because he fucking passed away. Unfortunately, everyone else, I feel like is it is an open like is it open possibility? I think they do some cool shit with the Hulk. That could be because we haven't seen Hulk do cool shit And maybe not the Hulk's son because when they brought him and he just looked very strange Definitely not the whole yeah, I want to kill the Hulk son I think that would probably go over just pretend the Hulk son never existed pretending never brought him to that weird family barbecue Things that are not bad the invincible Invincible Season Three trailer.

I'm gonna pull it up right here as we're talking about it. Looks pretty good. It does do that one thing that I talked about Creature Command was doing last week where there's like 3D elements in the 2D cartoon that threw me off almost immediately. But I thought the trailer overall looked pretty good. Obviously violent, gruesome,

more of the same from the first two seasons. And we got my guy Alan the alien, some of him. Also, they said, I believe that they're not doing a mid season break for season three. Yeah, thank and we know that was probably a good move because I think everyone was pretty good. I don't know what the hell out of all of us. I appreciate how we're like invincible. It looks like he's changing because the thing is in every other universe, I like how he's like a bad guy and maybe he does end up becoming a bad guy down the road here but then with his brother or half brother Omni, what do you call him? Omni Man 2 or something like that? Yeah. The guy who made the? Omni Man 2 or something like that? The guy who made the costume was like,

oh, you told me that was for Oliver. Like, they remixed that. I mean, the thing about Invincible, I do feel like it's the same. We get evolutions to the story, but we kind of just, it goes to the same, just brutal, just beating up. Maybe it's because I don't have as much invested

in that universe, but I love it can watch the show it's kind of like a creatures commando for me yeah agreed and it's like we talked with large about the length the runtime of creature commandos and he wanted to be longer I prefer it to be nice and short invincible is a little longer and I'm fine with that for great episodes But it sometimes can feel like a drag to me. Yeah I'm with that's why I still would put it we've talked about it with the boys the two Amazon superhero Parody type shows I still put it below the boys. Yep me as well me as well. It's great in its own, right? But yeah, I think it's a it's 100%. And the gratuitous just violence at some point,

I'm like seeing this like seven guys. There were some crazy violence and creature commandos this week. Yeah. It was like some saving private Ryan stuff with them putting the guts back in them and faces blown off, eyes going every which direction. I feel like James Gunn's like,

I'm going to get the super violent stuff for when I kill the Nazis which again Oh, yes plays in my it's well. Oh, yeah Speaking of that the new Indiana Jones. This isn't really a news topic, but the new Indiana Jones game is supposedly amazing It's getting like game of the year buzz It's like first person and like that seemed weird to me, but people are saying the animatics are great I've seen some of them the like the sequences in between you playing the game, it is really good.

Troy Baker does the voice who does a bunch of iconic video game voices. He did the voice of Joel in the last of us and Harrison Ford came out at the video game awards last night to like give him praise on his performance. He was like, if I knew you were going to do that good a job, maybe I would have done that myself. It's like, bro, if Harrison Ford is praising your performances, Indiana Jones, he was like saying over my dead body, anyone else would portray him, you know, and I'm sure that's on screen and he's fine doing voices, but pretty impressive stuff.

And it's not out for PlayStation yet. People, everyone keeps asking me because I'm such a big indie. I have you played the game. It's only out for Xbox till like April. So I got to wait till then. So how come it came out first? It was like supposed to just be like an Xbox exclusive for a little bit, supposed to entice you

to buy an Xbox, I think. That's fair. Like you said, Harrison Ford giving any kind of like, acknowledgement of one of his characters, let alone a compliment is just a huge win all around. I think that would be like their table. Harrison Ford actually acknowledged our existence. I didn't even know about it until I saw you were talking about it.

So I'm not an indie guy like you, but I think that there is definitely a huge market for that game. I think it's going to crush me. I saw adventure puzzle games like people. There was an article that basically said like dead franchises, which I didn't like them call an indie dead franchise, but they said dead franchises should live on like this through video games and animation and stuff like that. Yeah, no that I think that's awesome the way and if you're if you make it good people will watch people will buy whatever maybe I sent you the Game of Thrones game which I thought yeah. game which I thought yeah but then it sounds great potentially a mobile only game which I mean looks better than something you put on like a PlayStation

or an Xbox so I don't know that's possible the Kingsguard I believe it's called yeah the way they were good and then people were saying it's a mobile game yeah I'm like what the fuck so I don't know how that's possible if that's true but like it seems like your deal you deal with like the Thrones character you see Jon Snow you see Varys yeah I think you're like a northern bastard which I mean everyone I feel like the Northerners are the most commonly beloved characters in the show, right? Like everyone fucks with their wife.

So because of that, like I'm very interested. If it's mobile, not nearly as interested. I just can't. Not interested at all if it's mobile. Yeah. Fuck that. You could, I'm happy you said it, Bob. I was trying to be nice, but I'm with you. I am so fucking, I have actually a newish iPad

that I got I think last year year that if it's really good Maybe I fire it up on there and try to become a iPad gamer I don't see that happening though, and you said game of the year with the Indiana Jones buzz I will just do a little close a little turtle beach recommendation corner. I haven't played it yet I got it for the kids for Christmas. They're gonna find out in a couple weeks I heard this game astro Bot for PS5 is absolutely fucking incredible and I bought it and then last night I saw like 100 tweets they won like every award. Oh wow yeah I haven't even heard of it. There is a game it's called Astro

something that like was came out I think when the PS5 came out and it's this fun little robot guy he's like a white robot he's kind of like I think PlayStation's newish mascot. Oh yeah. He yeah, fresh bandicoot. Like I think they're trying to make him the guy the game is fun as fuck It's very basic very simple. You could play a million different things you do You can use your controller a million different. It's very cool so when I heard this game came out I was like, you know what the other game was awesome and I've heard my brother bought a PlayStation just to play this game Wow, that is your recommendation for Christmas if you wanna buy yourself a nice little gift. I still gotta play Star Wars Outlaws.

The reason I bought a PlayStation 5, I still haven't even played it, but I've been waiting to play it because I'm gonna play it on stream one day. I just haven't gotten the stream set up. That's definitely a goal for the new year, 2025 video game streams. I've said that forever,

but I swear I'm gonna make it happen. Hold me accountable, people. Just cross off the four for your goal, the 2024 goal with that and you'll put the five. I think that's how you go back to 23 as well. Yeah. We might get a Superman trailer next week as well. I know we were talking about it being attached

to Mufasa or something, but I did wanna alert everybody that it could be next week. And James Gunn also said it's not a very long teaser so I would he didn't say don't expect much but I would say don't expect much and then maybe it'll exceed our expectations but go in with like we might get like 20 seconds I don't want just nothingness so I want something I don't want just a logo and a couple voices in the background and then a date I you got to give me something I'm not not saying you can use the Williams score for the first teaser. I would. I would do it. Even if you transition to the new score, I would give us a tease of it because I feel like it just like triggers something in your

brain that evokes like positive thoughts. You're just like, oh, this is a good teaser just because it's John Williams music. It's like making the whole plane out of black box. What if you just make a whole movie out of John Williams? And it's like the biggest bullshit script ever. But you're just like, oh, my God, I feel so many great emotions inside. I think that might work. Let's tell everyone about celebrity mint before we get into the final segment of the episode, surviving Barstool talk.

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But this week Mincy and Clemmer went home. They were they were the two in the last two nights Who was the first night did we have two eliminations on Tuesday because they still hadn't merged yet? Was it Did you go was that Wallo or Wallo? Gilly? Gilly was after me and White Sox Dave, right? Gilly and White Sox Dave, correct. Who had an incredible quote, White Sox Dave, when he said, Francis, you're dead to me. Rhea, you were never even alive to me.

I was like, what? What does that even mean, White Sox Dave? That really made me laugh. Um, there was a lot of great moments this week, a lot of great challenges. Last night's challenge was fucking WrestleMania. These boys were walloping each other in the face with the gladiator pulls, the little Q-tip type things.

But they weren't like soft little Q-tips. I mean, some of those shots, like, I wouldn't be surprised if they had concussions. Francis is like, I have a concussion, I don't feel good. I'm like, oh man, it sucks, Francis. But it's kind of like with football. It's so fucked up. You're like, he'll be alright though. It's like, yeah, if I puke you guys have to, you know, get me because last time I woke up in an ambulance, I'm like, oh, that's kind of scary. And then he said he was like paralyzed or something. He was having a seizure, he said.

A seizure. Seizure. That's what it was. And I was like, oh fuck. Like at that point, I'd be shook. Big Cat went up against Biz, the guy who just took on fucking 17 Irish travelers in a parking lot and he said oh I'm gonna be a horde Oh and not wear a helmet The first shot that piss out of it. He was like, whoa, like you actually physically went. Whoa Crazy watching these guys get hit the early shots from wit were so fucking funny him hitting Kirk early He spun Kirk's helmet around his head and Kirk, you know rightfully get hit. The early shots from wit were so fucking funny. Him hitting Kirk early, he spun Kirk's helmet around his head and Kirk, you know, rightfully he was like, what the fuck, dude, you just laid me out before we was way before the whistle. So yeah, great

stuff for surviving. Barst a lot of drama. Obviously we're now in the part of the game where people are crying. People are feeling real hurt, backstabbed, betrayed. After Clemmer got eliminated, I texted him, I said,bed, betrayed. After Clemmer got eliminated, I texted him. I said, great dramatic exit. Rest in peace. I said, that was great. And he said it was not planned. I just legitimately felt that hurt. And he's giving Dave that like he's hitting his heart. He's like, I would have worked with you. I didn't notice the heart thing until Dave said it. And then when he did that, I just started cracking up a Dave of all people is is just gonna laugh at that in the end.

But like, I do like, that hurts when a guy like Clemmer, like truly didn't see it coming and truly had your back. And like, again, when the jury comes. The pizza four, he was calling them the pizza four. You know, San Francisco's like, he's like, he's not Pete Best, but he could be the fifth Beatle. Yeah. Clemmer just cracks me up. And I

truly, I don't know if I've laughed at anything as hard as early Ryan Whitney, just continuing to hit people before the go or the fight. I just was dying fucking laughing between that performance, the slingshot where he looked like a week old

man, and then the fucking goal performance where he was just rifling fucking handballs into the goal. 200 miles an hour. Yeah. And I mean, I think most people at Barstool, if you've met with I think he's like one of my favorite people here. He's just such a good dude. And he's just fucking funny in his own special way. I don't know what it is just as the personality and I just I look forward to stuff like up, we're going to hang out with with tonight. And Kirk, I think Kirk think Kirk obviously you know habs things up when he's losing his mind he knows there's not gonna be a fight he knows he has to fight he's a literal

offensive lineman who will block him from getting into a fight with anybody and I was thinking watching that I was like if you don't know these people which so many people watching survivor bar surviving Barstool actually don't it's so like perfect you're like oh my god that guy actually wants to go out into the parking lot and fight him it's like I don't think It's so like perfect. You're like, Oh my God, that guy actually wants to go out into the parking lot and fight him. It's like, I don't think Kirk actually wants to fist fight Ryan Whitney, that like they're two of the best friends that Barstool and it's like so funny to watch through the different lenses as well. My family's still watching it because they were watching for me, but now they're just hooked and now they're invested

and they're asking me questions. My mom wants to know Gilly's whole history and she's like, tell me how Gilly got to Barstool. But I give the whole rundown of Lil Wayne was stealing his hooks back in the day. You know, he really is a case to say that it's crazy, but it really is when Dave pitched it as one of the best things that Barstool has ever put together as a full complete production. I truly believe that. I think you don't have to be a Barstool fan at all. You could watch it and enjoy it as amazing juicy drama filled reality TV. But if you are a Barstool

fan and you know the history of Dave and Rico through 10 years and you watch them face off last night and they give that little I said it was like WrestleMania you're watching the promo beforehand and then they face off and Rico throws the thing and flexes on him. It's like that's **** Barstool history right there. Like you got to appreciate that if you're a long time stoolie. Yeah. The story is just so much thicker. It's like if you've watched some of the Star Wars shows before the movie, if you saw Batman before Penguin, right? Same kind of thing. It just, it just brings so much more into it and uh technicality I

call it I was calling it technicality joust because it was like it was there was really no jousting it was like he hit him too early. He hit him too late. It's a foul yeah. Yeah he touched his he touched his uh you know joust uh platform before the other guy hit the floor. I also I didn't almost notice this I'm pretty sure unless the editing was like, changed the sound, Will Compton went early on one of his rounds. Clearly, it was like-

Oh, did he? One fight, it was between the one and the fight. I feel like Will Compton clearly went early, and I rewound it, and again, I don't know if there's anything with the way they edited and just voiced that lining up, but it was clear as day, and I'm surprised, you know, Portnoy will try to find every little inch he can to gripe about. I'm shocked no gripe about I'm shocked. Maybe they were just so far down

He was like when you save the team the CTE That's the thing. I think everyone's heads were ringing by that point so I think everyone just wanted to be done with it because again the thing about barstool is like Even our athletes have usually been retired for a little while Yeah, you know, they're not the most athletic people compared to the rest of the people in their field, maybe. So it's like huffing and puffing. Uh, and that Rome to Rome got lit up too.

Who, who was that by will by biz? It was one of the big guys that he faced off with. And I was saying, I was like watching it with lady Fox, of course. And I was like, Oh no poor Rome. Look at him. And yeah, he got hit with like the one, two was like, boom, boom. I thought Rowan was going to have, cause he's a smart guy. He'd find a way to kind of, you know, weasel his way into a win.

So that's, that's kind of what I was looking at. No, him putting the, him putting the helmet on, I could tell the look on his face was just like, he's like a gladiator being sent out to be killed. Yes, that's, that's probably true. The game where they had to roll the balls, that was one of my favorite games from the first season or second season last season. And this one, I think the Chicago office was too big. Because I do think there was a lot of fun about getting the balls from point A to point B. And then this season, it just became who's going to follow up

the platform. And I think it was the Ghillie team right and it was and mincy was all of a sudden great at that one lights out kaiser mincy like he looked like he was just unbelievable he was playing the long game on everybody and I I did come to plan I'm like holy shit like mincy is a good poker player or you know all the shit he takes and like you can't just be a straight up dumb dumb and win poker and I'm like is this how he wins poker is he just Thinking that That much during like playing with mincy being on his drive I wasn't really thinking like maybe he could read our lives because he could read faces in poker. But yeah But yeah, it's also mincy at the same point which watching his

His reaction in the hotel room or the airbnb. Yeah, like he's probably talking to the tv right now And he was just laughing. He was. Yeah. And aiming their tribe after Mince. Yeah. Also, Billy Wonka. What a great tribe name. Great tribe name. They said, uh, he's like, are you rooting for team Mincey? Cause you know, we named it tribe F and I, if someone named their tribe, Clem, even if it was mocking me and like other team voted me out, I would a thousand percent. We rooting for, Clem, even if it was mocking me and my other team voted me out, I would a thousand percent be ready for team Clem. A thousand percent. Yeah, you got to.

And it's one of these things where I watch a decent amount of like Barstool content. I love it still. But a lot of people at Barstool will kind of avoid it because I feel like it's like you're around it all the time. You're jaded to it. Nobody at Barstool is avoiding surviving Barstool. Like everyone is locked in. There was people involved in the game

that were talking about it in the office the other day and people not involved in the game were getting mad about spoilers. They were like, I don't care that we work here. We don't even wanna know. Like there's a lot of just good vibes around the entire show right now. It sucks that they're gonna take this two week break

and we're all gonna be fiending for it. Because even right now, Friday night, I'm like, I wish we had another episode tonight. I didn't realize there was a two week break. I know we're doing the invincible thing to people. Oh, that's- We just broke my heart live on the pod, Bob. You broke my heart live on the pod.

I mean, it makes sense. So we have next week, right? We have- We do have next week. And then we have, right now I'll be busy that those two weeks so that that'll help I wanted to be home for a week. So, oh, man, everyone keeps typing it up. Everyone just keeps saying it only gets crazier from here. Yeah. And I truly have no

idea. I don't want to know spoilers. So I have no idea who wins it. And like, again, I talked to you at one point, and you said you had it once. I was like, fuck, my guy's gonna, you said you were off pretty early. Other than that, I have no clue. And you said this after they wrapped, you go, this thing is so well done. We could just become a reality TV company. We are kind of a reality company. That's kind of the difference between Barstool and everyone else is you have

these weird looks in the people's personal lives. And we are just like normal dudes and ladies, but it's, it's to the next level and they do such a good job editing and I'm the one let's be honest egg on their face the editing team not having that Francis thing I know you have to like figure out a story and if the person's not there I just would love to know who went through the bag how it all happened um and I have no clue I have no clue but it was like very weird I'm like Francis is a smart dude And I know sometimes yeah own head about stuff So maybe that's why he said something and then it's oh no, I'm happy

He wrote the blog again I think if shit happens on the show and someone feels some sort of way about either the way their character was portrayed or the Way something happened will just come in you don't get that with the other reality shows They're not writing blogs and doing podcasts as the stuff is going on a lot of the time So I exactly a very unique thing about surviving barstool that we have And even Dave like Dave put that out Dave is putting out the extra stuff and getting behind it as well It's not even like that would be like frowned upon because it goes against the narrative Like it is a nice place where you could just go write that blog and we get the footage like that

But I get it. They had so much footage that they had to sift through it's like and we gaffed the footage like that. But I get it, they had so much footage that they had to sift through. It's like everyone has, Dave said even today on the Unnamed Show, everyone has probably 10 conversations that they wish could have been in there, but weren't ultimately super vital to the narrative. So it is what it is, but they're doing a great job with it.

It's back on Tuesday at 8 p.m. And then we've got Skeleton Crew Tuesday at 9 p.m. It's like a nice, I went one right into the other this Tuesday, so I like that. We will be back next week to break down some more Skeleton Crew and Creature Commandos and we'll see you then.