My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 400 - RISE OF THE BASEMENT (SKELETON CREW/CREATURE COMMANDOS EPISODE 4)

Episode Date: December 21, 2024

Robbie and Clem are BACK for what is Episode 400 of My Moms Basement on the podcast feed! They discuss the #Superman teaser as well as Episode 4 of both #SkeletonCrew and #CreatureCommandos! Plus they finish the show with some Surviving Barstool talk as always. CelebrityMint: Visit https://CelebrityMint.com to sign up and be the first to know when the newest products drop. **************************************** 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 and a very special episode 400 edition of My Mom's Basement. It's Robbie Fox and Clem, as always, here to break down the Superman trailer, Creature Commandos, and skeleton crew. It's a packed episode right before Christmas. Hopefully everyone's starting to get off and join the holidays with their friends and family.

But as I mentioned, Clem, if you're listening to this on the podcast feed, it's episode 400, even though it's like the 450th episode of the show. Maybe a little bit of fudging of the numbers along the way, a couple of.5s added to some shows. I'm sure, you know, I don't think we have any sickos on this show, like maybe a part of my Take Super fan that would like count every YouTube and podcast upload. We might, we might. You don't go to the basement boys and girls. Don't you do it guys. Don't you do it. I want you guys to spend your time doing better stuff than that. But yeah, it's great to be here and

shout out to all of them who have made this possible. Them, Dave Portnoy, and let's be honest, Dana White. Those are the forefathers of our show. The host, the listeners, the guy who owns the company, and the guy who gives us like 20 million views every year whenever he joins. Yes, exactly. Apologies for the day delay we have here.

I'll be honest, we had the Barstool Christmas party. Got away from me a little bit. I was a little bit, uh, hungover. I was feeling a little groggy. I'm not used to that, Clem. I'm not used to the hungover sensation. I've been hungover maybe twice in my life. I thought I was gonna die yesterday. Our boy, Robbie Fox, to all the listeners, to all the people watching, most importantly on YouTube, are watching a young man grow up right in front of their eyes. Our boy, Bob Fox was over served. He over served himself. I was over there. I said, I'll maybe, I'll maybe never touch alcohol ever again. After that, it was just,

it was one of those nights where you get home and it was just like, Oh man, what happened tonight? What got away from me tonight? And what are you? But it was a fun night, I'll be honest. We were just dancing the whole time. Yeah. Are you 26? See, this is the thing. A lot of people, because A, they usually like,

you had your quick college run, then you went to bar school and you're not a drinker. A lot of people are drinkers younger in their life or they go to college and become drinkers. They said the, like you're saying this, never touch alcohol again. You said it to me with a straight face. They said the, like you're saying this, never touch alcohol again. You said it to me, this rephrase. They said that at like the age of 18,

you're saying it at 26. And I just want, you're like, should we, I was like, should we mention this in the podcast? You're like, I don't know. I was like, I need them to hear you say that because that could be such a pure place where we've all had that moment. And this is coming 48 hours, you know,

24 hours after you woke up with that. I know, I'm embarrassed. I apologize to everybody. I was saying sorry to everybody. I was like, I'm so sorry, I'm like this time. Oh no, you did that too? I hope you've been pushing the podcast for a hangover. I was just like, for a hangover, it's embarrassing.

I was like, this is, but you know what? Everyone said the same thing to me. Everyone was like, buddy, we've all been there. We all get it. We all know when you're on death's door, you're puking every two seconds. You feel like you can't even stand up. You're so nauseous.

It happened to me, never again. Hey, that's why I'm a puff puff fast guy, not so much of a drink drink fast. That's the good thing too, is that you're not gonna. The thing is, sometimes you have to get on that horse, go back at it. And after like the first drink is just battery acid, second drink, you're feeling good again. You're not even gonna get there, you're just gonna go with the puff puff. So that's, that's fine. My favorite part was when you said I had 11 drinks. I'm like my guy Bob was counting which is such another teenage dude. It wasn't just me. It was everyone around me was counting because they couldn't believe I was drinking that much. Like I was just like you know what holiday party I'm not gonna get

crazy. I knew I wasn't gonna get like blackout drunk but I was like I'm gonna get drunk with my friends. This is gonna be a fun time year end party. I can't remember the last time I was like drunk. So I was like, all right, fuck it. And I just kept getting drinks passed to me and everyone Tommy and Glennie were like, Oh my god, he's going for the dozen. You know, you could say bad influences, you could say good influences. At the end of the day, it was a fun night. It was a great night and never again. Fair enough. And like you said, shout out to Lady Fox for taking care of me when I got home as well. Oh man, that's that's barreled in. She did not know the storm that was coming through these those doors because you've never seen the person you are.

She sure as hell hasn't seen that person you become. She's never saw an alien like that. No, you thought a my tie was called a mahi mahi. That is your alcohol knowledge. People know this by now that so my guy so I came home real drunk. Yeah, barrel in and there she like, I like barreled in and I was just like, I need to take a shower and like went in the shower immediately. It just went right to bed.

And yeah, it is what it is. Again, I'm sorry for the day delay. I hope you got some joy out of picturing me all friggin next to meek Phil singing hot to go. Because that's a great. The third, the third, the third, what is it? The third man, the third man has arrived. Yeah, it was Bob.

Man, just out of frame. I love that. I personally love the thought of that. That's incredible. And hey, Bob, that was Bob Pockers. Just out of frame. I love the, I personally love the thought of that. That's incredible. And hey Bob, we're happy to have you. We love you. And again, the thought of that is just going to power me throughout this holiday season. And nobody has to worry about another hangover delay ever again. Cause as I said, never again, it'll never happen ever again. It probably never will. This is the, this might be the first time. And honestly may never. Probably never will. This might be the first time. And honestly may never.

Yeah. I'm way okay with the weed. That, no hangover the next morning. I was just like, I don't know how people do this. It is the holiday edition in a way. We're gonna have an episode next week, but we're leading up to the holidays and Barstool just put out our Secret Santa video

from New York. And I kind of wanted to show off my gift, Clem. You already know what it is. But Secret Santa, it's but Secret Santa. It's a beautiful thing. It's a very wholesome thing that we do now at Barstool. It's a good tradition we're forming here. There's no winners. There's no losers, but I won this year. Rhone was the guy who got me in Secret Santa and I think there

was like a $50 limit on it this year and I think he went way beyond that. I got my first ever hot toys. Not only is it Kweel. Look at the detail on that Clem. It's Nick Nolte's face right there. Not only is it Kweel, I have spoken, right? Legendary guy, RIP my dog Kweel. That was like the meme before all the other memes came out of Mando. That was our first Mando meme. Everyone forgets that now because RIP. Clem, look at this. The noise of the blurge comes on.

Look at that thing. Look at that. That is life size. Oh my God. It doesn't fit on any of my shelves. Yeah. This is not nerd friendly because it's too big for shelves. It's almost too big.

I think I'm going to have to bring it in and put it on my desk or something. You can make Queel ride the Blurg as well. That's how it is on the box. And he comes with a bunch of accessories and stuff. I have wanted a Hot Toys forever, but it's one of those things when you're an engaged guy with a wedding coming up. It's like, I can't buy myself a $300 action figure to put on the shelf. But when Rowan does it for you, it's the best it's just a cheat code it's almost like going to disney with dave he got carolina gold mike the year before everyone remembers so he did it's he's a great becoming that guy you want to get ron and secret santa well ron is like the grinch go ahead ron's like the grinch he's trying to make up for

all his naughtiness by one good night of gift-giving. So I respect that. Yeah. And he said he knows nothing about Star Wars. He's never seen a Star Wars. I think he's seen maybe a movie, but he's certainly never seen The Mandalorian. He went into a comic book shop in New York, looked at all of the figures behind the glass and said, I want the most fucked up looking one. I said everyone else is just standing there in armor with a gun or in a robe with a lightsaber. He's like, everyone's standing there. He's like, this guy's got a big sperm monster. That's what he said about the word. He's the guy with the sperm monster.

That little dinosaur sperm. He's like a piranha, but I guess sperm like it's the tail. The tail definitely screams sperm. But shout out Ron and watch that video. First ofstool New York. Here's some fun stuff. I got Dana Beers. I got him to break his 17 days sobriety streak by giving him a wrapped beer. Great stuff. I was the bad influence. They got me back for that. You're gonna be the reason that his wedding diet goes to shit because once he starts drinking, he starts eating Well no no no Clem no no no because I also got him nutrition for dummies. That's true that's true right between that and Francis explaining how carbs work he might have a chance. Yeah yeah all

right let's get into the meat and potatoes of the show what the people want to hear us talk about the Superman trailer will kick us off today because it's now about a week past. We've had a lot of time to digest it. There he is. He's your guy. I want to start with you. What was your take on the James Gunn Superman teaser trailer? So you said it best. We got the teaser to the teaser trailer to the day before, which was a little bright. Didn't really do anything. It was like, is this really necessary? And then it was basically all of us spin zoning in text messages with all the other nerds at part of the

school being like, I said, maybe James Gunn is just trying to do this the old fashioned way. He's going to make the trailer look terrible tomorrow and then he's going to, it's just word of mouth and reviews and everyone's going to have to see it based off that. I saw you and The LCB guys were just talking to yourself in circles about it We get the trailer or I guess the teaser trailer whatever the hell you want to call it and It's more it's not about like every trailer is gonna make the movie look good

Or you can definitely play the highlights you can run highlights of any basketball player make him look like an all-star play the highlights. You can run highlights of any basketball player and make him look like an all-star. What it's this told me it was basically the trailer was a Superman sampler platter. We didn't just get like all right, this is him landing from Krypton. He's found by the Clarks in the back the Kent's in the backyard. I gotta get my Clarks and Kent's in the right order. Here's a big time for us super fans and you're just like up or another origin story. This told you the origin story has happened. And James gonna alluded to that. But it's like, oh no, like we've been introduced to a whole lot of people. And up, I thought a lot of those people were villains because they're kind of weird looking

kind of evil. You said they're all our friends. So I'm like, all right, well, those are our friends or there's other heroes at the very least, you know, we're getting our lowest lands or get Jimmy we're getting the you know, so I feel the crypto crypto crypto crypto crypto. I will say, cute dog, it was a little goofy seeing the dog run that fast. I thought it was goofy. You can't go wrong with it. I loved it. I didn't know what it was at first as I get looks like a train barreling towards him or something. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. So I thought that there was going to be people who get upset about that. I'm not going to get too high or low on everything. This is James Gunn gets to prove himself completely blank slate until the opening shots are there in the theater. But this one just kind of told me, hey, we're jumping in two feet into the pool. We're not walking into the pool. And then you get to your balls.

You're like, oh, it's a little cold. And you have to get, oh, no. We're going pencil. We're doing the pencil into the pool. And we're going all the way to the floor and then bouncing back up. And we're going to be like, we're in super land by the time the end of the credits roll.

And hopefully we get a post-credit scene or two. I think we are. James Gunn said that there's going to be post-credit scenes. But he said it's going to be a little different than the Marvel post-credit scenes, and that he's like, I'm not necessarily using them to set up the next generation or next movie or whatever like that or tease things. He's like, I'm just doing fun things for the audience. So I think we might get like a little comedic post-credit scene from him or something. But I loved it as well. Like you said, we were a little worried about the teaser for the teaser trailer.

The color grading or something, and I'm not an expert on movie color grading, but it looked a little weird. Yeah. It looked like a CW man on the street style interview. It's a bunch of shots of people looking up. And that was part of our justification. We're like, maybe it's just for a lookup marketing campaign and they don't have any shots from the movie in there or anything, but we didn't get any of those shots in the teaser trailer. The shots in the teaser trailer did look better. There are still clearly like creative choices

they're making with the color and the brightness of the movie. Specifically like that shot of him as Clark Kent, like fumbling through the street. People said it looked like a shot from Pursuit of Happiness. It's like that one, you could tell it's a style choice and I'm okay with it. And I think my prediction is that it will be toned down a little bit before the movie comes out because people are a little opposed to it and I feel

like they make those trailer corrections pretty often. But everything we got from the sampler platter you said, from the Kaiju attacking Met metropolis from Superman shielding that little girl and that shot is incredible That's like an instantly iconic shot to Lex Luthor one of my favorite shots from the trailer watching Superman fly past Luther Corp, which I will assume will become Lex Corp and He just turns around he's so fucking angry And there's there's like a scene like that Superman for all seasons where it's just like he watches Superman whiz past his tower And he's just so angry that he's basically like he feels like he's the same guy. He's like I'm the smartest man on earth I have all of the money in the world

I should be the most powerful guy in the world, but Superman's got this power that you can't beat So it's like he hates Superman for the world loving him. Like you said, we're in the middle of the action He knows Lois. He works at the Daily Planet already. We don't have to redo any origin story stuff Pa Kent looks like a Midwest dad if I've ever seen one. He doesn't look like yes, you know Hollywood Pa Kent he looks like a real Midwest dad. It looks like a real Midwest farm the Kent farm I really liked the look of that. Obviously, I love crypto the super dog so much I wonder if they're gonna do the Crypto origin story, if they're gonna tell us,

because I like the Crypto origin stories. Basically on Krypton, when the planet's about to explode and they're putting babies in fucking rocket ships and sending them to Earth, they needed a test subject. So they sent the dog to Earth first. And then Superman landed and he had the dog already from Krypton and he walks the dog on the moon and shit There's like he's such a great character if you like dogs

And if you like the way James Gunn handles animals Which I said I always have from even before Guardians 3 from the first Guardians to Cosmo the dog and the holiday special I loved all of that Speaking of dogs. I think Zack Snyder should call the dogs off. And I know we've been kind of angry about Zack Snyder, mostly because of his fans. It's more the Snyder fan base that gets so angry about this stuff. Like, there are Snyder fans just trying to pull this down at every turn. They're comparing Cavill shots to this shot. Oh my God, he doesn't look as good as Superman.

It would mean the world if Zack Snyder would come out and say hey congrats James Gunn I think the trailer looks great because then it's like what are the what is his fans supposed to say they're supposed to disagree with their Fucking one true. God Zack Snyder It's just weird that he hasn't my opinion because James Gunn keeps coming out at every turn and being like I loved what Zack Snyder Did he's definitely an inspiration for me. It's just like he pisses me off There's just like he pisses me off. There is just it's there's just a virus in that world and I don't know if the only there's two ways yeah the two ways that can get rid of it is either a just keep making awesome movies to the point where the critics will just be like there's

just no point in fighting this fight anymore at some point you just have to lay down the sword or b he comes out and it's just like yeah these are great and then that'll quell most of the armies there's still gonna be some some lone wolves out there that I'm sure gonna go on rogue yeah exactly it's just they're the worst the absolute pits man there's a lot of bad there was like that or fan internet but oh there was terrible parts of the teaser trailer that kind of felt like they were like a response to Zack Snyder's Superman. Like the first shot of the teaser trailer being Superman like crash landing into probably Antarctica fortress of solitude.

And he's bloody already. People pointed that out of like in Batman versus Superman, Batman beats the fuck out of Superman. And it's basically all of that for a drop of blood. Like it's like, do you bleed you will that's the line he has. And right off the bat, James Gunn is like, Oh, no, this is a relatable Superman. He's not just God. He's getting fucked up. And he calls his dog over. And he's just like, I want to go home. Like, all right, I can relate to

this guy. That was me on friggin Friday night, Thursday night. on friggin' Friday night, Thursday night. It's in the middle of Manhattan going, whoo, faith. Overall, loved the trailer though. Like you said, we got some other heroes that people thought were villains. I think at least for the time being, they're gonna be the Justice Society, Mr. Terrific,

the Guy Gardner Green Lantern, which looks ridiculous that Nathan Fillion wig he's wearing. But he's kind of like a Guy Gardner Green Lantern, which looks ridiculous, that Nathan Fillion wig he's wearing. But he's kind of like a douchey Green Lantern. He's like a lovable douche. And I believe the ring is supposed to go to him, but then it chooses Hal Jordan, who we know is one of the main Green Lanterns, him and Jon Stewart,

the ones that I grew up with at least. Mr. Terrific, like the smartest man on earth, really cool mask on him, the T-mask, the way they made that look. I love the look at that. And Hawk Girl, who's a member of the Justice League in the cartoon that I also grew up with. So I'm excited to see her.

I'm excited to see the giant Kaiju fight. People were joking about that as well. Like Gotham deals with all these insane, murderous villains. And then Metropolis is kind of boring, but every now and then a monster will show up, like a 40 foot monster, and Superman's gotta figure that out out so I like all of that overall I would say it it set aside all of the worries that the teaser for the teaser had for me and

just made me more hype for this movie I have all my faith in this movie I have all my faith in James Gunn trust the gun trust the Superman I'm all for it look up July 25th trust the gun light is on right now in the basement and it is it's getting some some runway too. I mean based on I'm sure we'll have to talk about the creature commandos and all the other stuff. It is passed to the point where I set it on the rundown. I planted my flag Bob in this time of takes. I am saying it right now December 30 21st, 2025 will be known as the launch of the next golden age of comic book movies for both. This is starting the Monday Night Wars.

This is when DC has their foundational hit with Superman, which will change everything because you get Superman back in the mix again and he's not just kind of underwhelming or you have these super fans that once had to love it and everyone else hates it followed by the Batman and all the success with the penguin they get to then ride for another year and all the other projects coming. Then in the MCU you have Fantastic Four, the first family of Marvel, the crazy the MCU made it as far as they did without the Fantastic Four. It's going to be a sick movie, going to grow that entire cosmic world, it's going to be huge in secret worlds Wars, it's gonna be huge in the multiverse. Them and the X-Men are then, are gonna then get to MCU, please got back to where we were,

you know, where we thought it was gonna go post-end game at the very least. So please God. So 2025, the year of the rebirth of the comic book movie, a lot of angry old men, Martin Scorsese puking his guts out and leaking in his defense. James Cameron's gonna be trying to put another two billion dollars into Avatar 7 where it's gonna be a wind land or something. Who gives a fuck? This is the time, Bob. This is our time!

The basement, rise of the basement! That's our hashtag for this, the rise of the basement. The rise of the basement, oh that's good, I like that. Hephaestus 400, rise of the basement. Yes. That's our hashtag for this. Rise of the basement. The rise of the basement? Oh, that's good. I like that. Episode 400, Rise of the basement. That's good. Good stuff. Someone make a poster for that, please. There we go.

Make an episode 400 post of the rise of the basement. I like that. Me and you as like the Star Wars guys and we got like Jose in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Tommy Smokes like emerging from the bottom. We did like emerging from the bottom that was teased on the rundown yes um also I didn't even have this on the news slate before we started but it's worth mentioning apparently James Gunn has approved a Mike Flanagan written and directed clay face movie it's going into development at DC which he also clarified he's like when movies go development at DC, I don't want you to think they're getting made. He's

like, I want to be very clear until they like go into production. Like they're just still in development. And he's like, I'm okay with confirming that these things are in development, but don't like put all your faith in, oh, this is definitely happening, which a lot of people were like, Hmm, what does that mean? Are there things on the slate that maybe aren't going to happen now? Who knows? But the clay face movie from Flanagan is an interesting interesting move i really like mike Flanagan he makes a lot of horror series for netflix he did doctor sleep the sequel to the shining he's a great writer really good monologue writer he had a apparently great script that really impressed james gunn to the point where he's like I never thought I would want to make a clay face movie

But we're doing it It's a little weird that it comes out a month before the Batman 2 I think something has to change there because I feel like the clay face movie should maybe introduce the DCU Batman I said it would be cool to introduce him at the end of this thing and he shows up like Vader at the end of Rogue one and it's like oh fuck Batman's here and it gives you that big feel we can't do that a month before the Batman part, too So I don't know I'm excited for it because I like the people involved. I like clay face I also don't know like Alan Tudyk who does the voice of dr. phosphorus in creature commandos is

Allegedly supposed to do the voice of clay face in that show as well because I think he does the voice of clay face in Harley Quinn. If that's the case, is he playing Clayface in live action? Cause that's also what James Gunn kind of teased that the voices would do. I don't know. I think the biggest thing to take away from this, at least for someone like me, and I learned this recently, the D word development, that just means they're saying, let's think about doing this. Not like we're gonna do this. Let's just talk about it.

And we're gonna have discussions. They said the Game of Thrones movies in development. And then there's like, there's no script, no story, no cast, no director, no nothing. It's just literally a bunch of suits in a room priced at the soul with some creative talent. Hey, let's think about doing a Game of Thrones movie. And then, they probably use a lot of corporate words like runway and, you know,

box open and all the nonsense. And then they're going to circle back and then maybe one day they'll get some actual pen to paper and get some stuff done. So DC is going to be a big one with this. This is the Kathleen Kennedy, right? This is in development. That's in development. And then none of it comes out.

I think I've learned that was my that was my big lesson of 2024, what the words in development mean. So everyone just pump the brakes with the in development stuff. Temper your expectations. Whereas Marvel, like if they said something was in development, it almost always got made, back in the day, not, now it's just been a shit show. But back in the day it was like that.

I think it's going a lot more. If it's on the timeline, they announce, Yeah. Yeah. And I think the way that like just the finances work too, I think they realized we can't just keep making everything throw it against the wall and see what sticks because there's just too many flops lately. James Gunn said everything's riding on Superman. He's like, we're actually gonna keep making movies. Superman is a failure. It's like if Superman bombs, DC just might like that might be the James Gunn DC universe. We got it. That was it was like man that was crazy. Remember that remember James Gunn? Yeah. We thought he was going to be the guy and we had the whole sign

in the basement. It was on it said trust trust the gun. I kind of love that though. Like let's be honest that's huge because you have to hit Superman. That's what we were saying as soon as he was announced and once he announced Superman was number one. And I will say as someone that has never like I didn't live in the world. I believe or not I'm too young to even have been alive for the first Christopher Reed movie. I feel like it would just feel right if Superman is a big franchise in the movies once again. It would be so fucking awesome. I just think it would be good for the movies. I think it would be good for comic movies movies. Jeff D. Lowe, the theaters, Jeff, the theaters are gonna take a boost,

a big boost if the Superman could get there. My guy, Clark Kent, saving the day yet again. So I'm hoping to God it happens. And hey, if it doesn't, I guess we trust the gun with TV shows and I don't know what else they would do. Teasmaker, yeah. Yeah, true, true. I mean, like they're gonna have us supporting this movie

like it's a mom and pop shop again, like we did for Avengers Endgame trying to, you know, destroy the camera. We basically are gonna be rallying people like, go see it again, go see it a third time. We gotta make sure James Gunn's DCU survives. Buy tickets, don't even go to watch it though. Just stay at home, it'll be okay.

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Can't Say I Remember, No Ad Aten. That's the name of the episode and properly aptly so. It's the episode where the crew lands on a planet, they very much think is Ad Aten. It winds up not being Ad Aten. Can't Say I Remember, No Ad Aten. Can't Say You Remember it. We get into the mystery way more. And I thought it was a really good episode it. We get into the mystery way more and I

thought it was a really good episode. I thought it made the mystery way more intriguing. I really like Jude Law in this universe. Again, I think the kids are fantastic. What were your thoughts on episode four of Skeleton Crew? First off, I loved the alright, we're leaving the ship. Oh no, it's you know, there's clearly a war torn land with smoke And we're gonna show the merry-go-round just to let you know that now the kids are safe in this world That's like damn they just brought merry-go-round as cannon into the snow horse universe just to show you true how war torn This planet was I loved it. I loved it Take a little detour in the basement

Merry-go-rounds are fucking awesome as a kid, weren't they? They were, but you wait too long in the merry-go-round. You start feeling like me yesterday. I was going to say Bob actually starts. He was a guy that couldn't handle the merry-go-round after a few. You let me off. I'm nauseous. Yeah. Sad go round.

More of a swing guy. You know, I liked the swings. Bob couldn't handle star tours. He couldn't handle the merry-go-round. It all makes a lot of sense. So I take that back. I'm a lightweight. But yeah, the mystery keeps expanding,

but it does it in a way you couldn't see coming. And it does it in a cool way. It's like all these planets are kind of the same, but they're not. And they- Yeah, like the kids recognizing the buildings and landmarks and being like, oh, like we are here. Like I remember where this is, like that stuff was all cool.

It's like, oh, who the fuck is building these planets to be exact replicas and why? When they even get into the planet, like the autopilot sequence engages. It's like, who engaged that? Who is doing that? And then when you get into the little, like almost felt like a Mando episode or Clone Wars episode in that you get into the inner politics of the planet. And it was, I wrote them down as the Hatton

army versus the Trowik army. And it's like talking over stolen EOPs and stuff like that. And when you're bringing all that stuff in, it makes it feel like a lived in universe in a pretty cool way, in a way that not all Star Wars shows have succeeded. And it's all new planets, you know, we're not on Tatooine, we're not on a fucking Jakku, but it looks like Tatooine. It's just completely new. Haven't seen a vibe like this before, the war torn vibe. The SM-33 and Jod stuff was good too.

When Jod gets off the ship and they they immediately the hat and like put their guns on they draw their guns and he's like ah just just kill me like he really cracks me up in that stuff. Our guy Neil good episode for him. He got a kiss on the cheek kind of a Sandlot moment it felt like when like Wendy peppercorn gives them the little oh look. You got a Wendy peppercorn? How about that for a Sandlot moment? Wow, you have a Wendy Pepper corn? And I was gonna say small squints. I can't, I am amazed. Well, I say it's kinda like me and Lady Fox kinda looks like us.

That's why I got it. Very similar. That's good, Bob. That's a good combo. But yeah, another great episode for Neil because he made the big save in the end too when we learned that sm 33 was told to like destroy the coordinates for ad ad attin and he can't say remembers an at all level

Can't say remembers it and then Neil comes in with the big save and Neil is just becoming one of my favorite guys And I knew he would be because I'm a max rebo guy and I know he's not the same species But come on, he's basically the same species with the comb over on the top. I love the little hair He's got on the top. I love the little hair he's got on the top. But we talked about this as well. It's a good Star Wars show. Like we're at the point now where I'm comfortable being like, oh, this is a good show. It's still not cracking the top 10 of streaming. And that is fucked up that we are watching

like a show that Star Wars fans are pretty in agreement. Like, even though there's kid actors and this that the next thing, I haven't seen any backlash towards skeleton crew. But unfortunately unfortunately I also haven't seen much buzz around skeleton crew yeah it's tough this one's going to be very interesting depending on where they leave the story if they do renew it or have it in any future plans because I do feel like the buzz on this one is much different than the buzz on the last one on the acolyte where I think a lot of people who maybe who liked it or maybe were kind of whatever once it got cancelled they're like we gotta like we

gotta like stand firm against the Star Wars people for canceling it. This one I feel like it's the approval rating is so through the roof that people will then legitimately get upset about it. I also do feel like there's been enough of a Star Wars buzz about it where when you talk to your Star Wars buddy who just hasn't had time to check it out, you'll be like, no, no, you're going to like this one. And this is again, something you can watch with the kids that then opens up a whole new audience. So I do think the numbers will rise by the end.

Remember Penguin every week. It was highest episode numbers ever. So I think it'll- Andor rose a lot by the end. Yes. I think it- I remember the first three Andorrs, they felt like nobody watched them. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully. Because they deserve it. And we got two more episodes till that Bryce Dallas Howard one. I was going to say that could be the big one that really tides the, turns the tides on everything here. So we'll see how it goes.

And again, I think this is also like the lack of excitement around in the beginning is kind of because of the flops they've had in the past that I think a lot of people just were like, I'm done. I mean, hell, I canceled Disney Plus being like, I'm gonna get Disney Plus when I need to now. I pay $4 a month now for Disney Plus, which is crazy. I can't believe how cheap it is. But the ads are unbelievable.

It's like 12 minutes before you start the episode. I just go, all right, we're going on the phone now. And then my you've lost a lot of my attention right off the jump. It's crazy. Dude, speaking of Disney, speaking of Star Wars, I assume this guy is okay with me showing this on the podcast. I got a great text last night from our old pal, Coley. Oh, he texts me at 9pm last night. He He goes I'm at Disney. It's a bit of a chill night So I use it as an excuse to get a sith tunic I chose my side and I immediately said oh Coley I need to see a picture of this. Look at this guy in his sith tunic Wow

He looks amazing he said he's gonna start walking his dog like that The fuck the thing is that he has the sad hat on to Santa ain ain't no Sith. He does. You can't you can't. So festive. He's a festive Sith. Yeah. That that hopefully we get some festive Sith guys in Canada in the next few years. That could be a band name. We are festive let's get into creature commandos. Shockingly devastating episode this week I would say. Like I didn't know what I was getting into especially the first like three quarters of the episode aren't so devastating it's a good episode but holy so look Clem by the end it was like welling up. So I I sniffed out the twist pretty quickly

Did you sniff out the twist on the unweasel? I sniffed out that yes weasel was probably Framed and you know, he probably didn't kill 27 kids and I felt like When they showed the one of him where he looks evil in the in the from the point of view the guy's shooting at him And he pushes up. Oh, no, he going to be, uh, he's going to be these kids' friends. I didn't realize they were going to really like show you how deep those friendships started. And then I honestly, trust tree here in the basement always just started fast forward, fast forward till 30 seconds. I didn't want to watch that last scene.

I knew what was happening. It was hard to, it was actually hard to watch. Yeah. James gun. We didn't need that shit. We didn't need that shit. You can go with the fucking Anakin and the younglings We get the fucking gist of it. We don't yeah the blow by blow frame by frame literal shot by shot of how it all went down I I have to say though Her the lawyer calling him john maybe laugh every single time because he's john doe

her the lawyer calling him John maybe laugh every single time because he's John Doe and she had such affection in her voice for a fake name of a goddamn animal creature like little things like that I did find amusing but I the Ralph Wiggum where it's like they this is a Simpsons reference I think you know you're pretty well up on your Simpsons right? There's the one where it's uh they have the the panel of kids and it's like do you like it or not like it and either turn it to the green light or the red light and Ralph at the end he just keeps going no no no and he's like crying because the guy the advertiser was yelling at them. That was me during that last scene just no no no I don't even know if any plot advancement happened during those like,

I think it was like five minutes of pure carnage. Dude, it was. I don't care. It was. And that's why it was so hard to watch because it's like the final five minutes, like you said, were all carnage. It was like he fires the shot, things start exploding. All right, that kid's dead. All right, he's trying to save this kid, but the cops are seeing him and they're start exploding. All right, that kid's dead. All right, he's trying to save this kid, but the cops are seeing him and they're shooting him. All right, but he goes back and he saves this girl

and he went down every hallway he could've. It almost fucked with you to the point where you're like, is he gonna rescue this one? Is this one kid gonna get away? But no, in the end, it's just like, no, we're gonna make this as devastating as possible. We're gonna have him eat as many bullets as possible. And then we're gonna

basically show you the cops don't even care about saving the girl. They just care about killing the weasel. So that was fucked and it went on for so long, but it was it got all the emotions out of me that I think James Gunn wanted to get out of me. Now I feel differently about weasel than I ever have. I didn't think I would like love this fucking weasel cat. But again, James Gunn, when he deals with animals, he knows how to pull on these heartstrings that you don't even know were there. Look at Guardians 3, it's hard to rewatch sometimes some of those rocket scenes with his whole crew

of animals and everything. But there was some good stuff before that. We got some die beard in this episode and he referenced the alien invasion from Peacemaker, which I thought was funny. Then she's like, what happened to your leg? He's like, I was fighting off an invasion. Don't worry about it.

We got a lot of Amanda Waller. Cersei showed Amanda Waller the future, this like alternate, you know, heroes dead. It looked like David Cornflake Superman dead. It may not be alternate, maybe the real thing. Yeah, true. Had Batman in there, Peacemakerman in there peacemakers in there Saur fire a bunch of these heroes that we've seen and someone asked james gunn they said does that mean

Like the outfits we see are those the dcu outfits that what like dcu batman's gonna look like And he said some of them are the outfits. He's like other educated guesses He's like come on. You guys know what fucking batman looks like essentially. He's like I loved that that was a thing. It's like james gunn hints guys know what fucking Batman looks like, essentially. He's like, I love that. That was a thing. It's like James Gunn hints at what they might be from that scene. Preacher Commandos. I'm like, oh man, the nerds, they're at it right now. They got some excitement.

They're at it. That's how I, that was a this whole, it's kind of another thing where we have the mystery about the princess and yeah, she's got gorilla Grodd with her, that giant gorilla, like helping her take over the world he's like a major dc villain and her army is like oh yeah i can see these guys definitely being bad guys so i between this and skeleton crew there are two big murder or two big mysteries playing out i don't know which one it's basically murder mysteries because with with at least the first or the second one. So yeah, very

I'm very happy with where we're going with creature commandos. What would you say you enjoy more? When you turn it on and then turn it off. What are you like more satisfied with by the end of the episode? Skeleton crew of creature commandos you're saying? Mm-hmm Probably still skeleton crew for me But creature commandos is getting really close. I think the cartoon thing brings it down a little bit and also just because it's Star Wars, the live action Star Wars thing,

I'm always gonna feel like a little more drawn to that. But Creature Commandos this week, it's such an easy watch. It's so funny. I was laughing out loud multiple times when Frankenstein goes to Rick Flagg Sr. and he's like, you're with her and he's like, who the princess? He's like, Oh my God, you're calling her the princess now you have pet names. And then when they eventually like become best friends by the end, he's like best friends,

like everything about that I thought was really funny. I thought it was funny stuff with die beard at the beginning. I thought all that stuff was good. Yeah, there was a lot of good stuff. The Brides cafeteria kill was insane with the fucking tray in the mouth going up and down like that. That was outrageous. And then, yeah, my final note, I wrote legitimately devastating scene with Weasel and the kids. Yeah, you know, if that scene doesn't happen, I think I could put Creature Commandos higher because I get the James Gunn music stuff and there's just a couple but like you said the cartoon brings it down its ceiling and for me personally but there's just the James Gunnism of everything plus like they obviously they're not going to do some skeleton for some of the more like adult jokes killing Nazis just little things or killing Nazis. Maybe getting the bangs versus blonde that was funny.

Yes, yes killing Nazis good killing kids bad. Killing kids, bad. We're gonna say this to James Gunn for future reference to Pertj Manos and the entire DCU. Killing Nazis, good. Killing kids, bad, James. Also, harming animals, bad. I don't want to see crypto get harmed in that movie. I don't want to see it. I don't want to see Lex Luthor like fucking hold crypto and you know threaten him like he's a cat or something. I don't want to see it. I don't want to see Lex Luther like fucking hold crypto and you know threaten them like he's a cat or something. I don't want to see any of that. I just want to know this dog is okay at all times. Also we did a dog screening for Deadpool and Wolverine. Maybe they'll do a dog screening for Superman. I could bring my dog to meet crypto because when I did the video this was funny and I got a lot of comments about it. When crypto joins the trailer I did a

live trailer reaction. Faith ran into the room. I thought the door was closed, burst into the room, so I picked her up. And as I picked her up, I missed the coolest shot in the trailer, the one where he's shielding the little girl. They were like, you missed the two coolest things, picking her up and putting her down. I was like, ah, whatever. I rewatched it in editing. I saw it. You know, guys, it is what it is. Even when the dog runs into the room, the dog is the queen. You gotta listen to what she says. If you're a, you know, pet parent, regular parent, that's just what the parenting life is.

You miss so much cool stuff because you have your little thing in your life that you're help keeping alive. I didn't go to the bar. I didn't get to see Bob Fox drink 11 whole drinks because I had kids at home. We had sicknesses going around the house. It's a whole thing. So sometimes, like just lay off a bot. He'll get there.

He'll get there. I'll get there. We'll get there. That's it for me this week though. We did Skeleton Crew. We did Creature Commandos. We talked Superman. We talked a little bit of Clayface.

I don't think there was any major news other than that, any major stories. If there are, we could always get them next week as well we'll be back for a holiday episode Christmas episode where we'll talk next week's creature commandos and skeleton crew as well I guess we could give give three takes on this week's surviving barstool because that was something we oh that's right of course we break down surviving I almost forgot this week I thought was pretty good. And spoiler, spoiler, spoilers, if you didn't see this week of surviving Barstool, we'll talk about the last three episodes.

I got a sad text. I was gonna say an angry text. It was really a sad text from my mom when Rhone got eliminated. She just wrote Rhone with crying face emojis. And shout out Rhone. He really didn't go down without a fight. He was fighting his ass off,

trying to not get eliminated. The whole fake idol plan. I thought that was a great plan. But in the end, yeah, it didn't work out for him. And his team was probably right in calling him the biggest threat. I think if Rhone makes it to the end, like he's such a likable guy, he's got so many friends.

So they did what they had to do, but sad to see a friend go. Francis went this week as well. Another friend, Ryan Whitney, someone that was on My Tribe to start with. And oh my God, that elimination was so funny. The point. Him just giving them the point in the screenshot of Big Cat looking up at him so scared. He's just like, oh my God.

Dave in the next episode giving him the point back and Biz getting so mad over it. It's been a great week of surviving Barstool. I'm going to be fiending for it the next two weeks. Yeah, it's gonna be a tough wait here. I'm really bummed about that. Also, the unnamed shows that now come out of this where they're calling him Soft Dave, Marshmallow Dave, and then Marshmallow Dave put you, buried you,

and stuck you with a knife and put the bloody knife in a frame back in his house. And I was like, Dave, during the show, she's like, Dave started using his Boston accent. I go, yeah, when he talks to wit or people from Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Portland, it comes, it's the weirdest thing. It just comes out. And I think that happens with like a lot of people. If you see someone from your home, your like home accent comes out. It's just so funny. So, uh, hilarious. Maybe the funniest moment of the week was them saying Francis went home

because he came out as gay like Kelly Keeks and Megan making money and Will Compton. They're like, what took so long in that tribal? They're like, Francis came out as gay, said he wanted to go home, said I'm gay and I don't want to be here anymore. I'm getting Dan in on it. That was hysterical. That's how you know they're good. Cause when you have a buddy, you know, I have buddies like this too. It's like, you know, right? He's getting right and then damn just picks it right up. Takes the ball keeps bouncing it. You know, he kept it going and Just he was it Francis is like this is the funniest thing. I've seen all week our boy, France. I'm sure I'm sure he was going through it rewatching it all then getting I'm sure a billion different, you know tweets DMs

You should have done this. You should have played the idol yeah everyone was telling them Ria's throwing like if it's not a perfect game it is a no hitter right now she is just absolutely dealing cold blooded once he said don't waste it right beforehand the way she don't waste it i was just like that was like a hit man that was marty's like Jesus Christ i sleep with the same bed as this woman. It's terrifying. That was chilling. This is what it was. That was a show is happening. We have someone who like is a legit diehard reality TV fan and wants to win the game. You get what he is putting the display. She's putting on even though her team team Ben Mitz is like

the worst team of all time when it comes to just challenges. They got swept in the challenges. Yeah, they've gotten swept. It's like every single end. Like the last one, the half the team was trying to lose. Yeah. It's crazy. So, that was a fun challenge to watch though. That was one way I was like, fuck, I was still in survivor. I would have had fun doing this. I liked that one a lot. The watching Dave and listen, the poor in my brain is the reason we can do this to get paid for it and live our dream jobs. There are a few parts of Dave's brains

that are either broken or backwards and whatever part of the brain is with that puzzle is just one of those desolate deserts. Oh, yeah. Right. Like he was like, he's like you guys like I gotta go back and look at that puzzle. I gotta figure out what I was doing wrong. That was really funny. That challenge looked tough. The polling is in and out and you had like so little space to work with. Yeah, that one looked really tough. All of the ones that involve any running whatsoever seem tough. The one with the bottle throwing with the slimy bottles, that one seemed fun to me. I think I would have fun with

that one. But yeah, there's a lot of challenges where I watch it. Oh the one weeks ago now But when they couldn't drop the sticks was like drop your stick and then the next person runs up and catches it and they went On for like an hour that one would have killed me like I would have been on the floor wheeze and medics hit me with CPR I I didn't have the gas tank for a lot of these challenges I didn't realize how physical it would be especially when it's like you're physically playing against professional athletes. No. So yeah, like you said, rowne, that would have been one of the great reality TV saves of a self save I would have ever seen in my life.

I would have nothing but respect for him forever. If he was able to get out of the fact that was even an outside chance of it happening. I give him credit for at least trying to cobble stuff together. The Francis stuff. I mean, I'm sure your mentions get filled with it. If Jeff D'Alo makes a decision on like the dozen or something you're involved in,

you just see the angry wave. I, as someone that's watched a fair amount of reality TV through my life, I never for one minute was like, oh, if he gives Dave the idol, the idol's dead. I never thought that. And when he handed him the idol, I'm like, you just signed your death warrant, which all the people still mad at me.

I feel bad for that. Yeah. Breaking news, Dan already had voted for Francis in the second vote and Rhea was voting for him no matter what, because you have to get mad at the game. So he was cooked no matter what. Dave having an idol, if you're mad at that, you can be mad at that, I don't know to tell you,

but Dave won that battle of the wits. So it's like, Dave deserves that in my mind. So that kind of stuff I thought was a little overblown by all the haters whatever um i felt bad for jeff and francis in that moment i was just like clearly it was a miscommunication and that happens and i know it's a shame because it's a miscommunication playing for 250 000 but it wasn't a malicious i'm gonna fuck francis over in this moment from Jeff D. Low like clearly there was just a miscommunication there And I think if Jeff had kept being like now if you give it to him here It's a lifestyle. You can't be that heavy-handed as a whole and you're meddling. Yeah, you're just asking questions

It's like 20 questions You can't really expand on other than what you're asked and I think anything else would have been personally a little a little more And then I mean we say it every week But like I need footage of the house Everyone's eliminated more than house mints mints by himself need a day of that I need climber mints and the fucking conversations then we're adding Whitney to the mix and now Francis which I'm like I don't even know how Francis would react to the house

And then I saw I think it was on Kirk tweeted a clip that he was like ready to kill Clember because Clember was just talking non-stop about the game until Francis exploded on him so I well there was that and he also walked in on Minty uh you know doing some stuff not great bad bad couple days for Francis bad couple days for Francis. Bad couple days for Francis. Gets eliminated, walks in on that. Yeah. No surviving. It's tough. No survivor for two weeks, but it'll be back and I'm sure it'll be as crazy as ever. The little like trailer they put out for the future of the season looked awesome. The cliffhanger of Kirk getting the idol was awesome. The way they edited that with like dramatic music and just going, let's fucking fucking go and then it cuts off the black

Like shout again shout out to the editors and stuff. They've been crushing it That felt like Thanos getting the gauntlet, right? That was the yeah No, he's got it now. Yeah Yeah, so that was episode 400 rise Rise of the Basement. I hope everyone enjoyed it. Again, thank you to not only the listeners, but Dave Portnoy and everyone in the basement, everyone who has joined us in the basement,

everyone who will join us in the basement, little future basement boys and girls. I even thank the people who haven't listened yet, who will listen in 50 episodes. We will see you next week. Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy life day. We'll talk to you next week.