My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 401 - SKELETON CREW/CREATURE COMMANDOS EPISODE 5

Episode Date: December 26, 2024

Robbie and Clem are back for a post-Christmas edition of My Mom's Basement, recapping the holiday and Episode 5 of both #SkeletonCrew and #CreatureCommandos! Find out what they thought of the Indiana Jones inspired Star Wars episode and bromance-filled DC Studios project! 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 the Christmas edition My Mom's Basement, post-Christmas edition I should say. It's December 26th as we're recording this, presented by My Mom's Basement as always. It's Robbie and Clem. We're in the Christmas pajamas still. There's probably dog hair all over it because we've been hanging with the dog. I've been hanging with my dog at least, and my sister's dogs.

We had a great time with the family yesterday. Clem, Merry Christmas. How were your holidays with the family? Merry Christmas, Bob, Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to all the listeners and watchers out there. It was a good Christmas. It was, at this point, I think AJ says every Christmas is the best Christmas because at that point, I think little kids actually do feel that

at the time. Sienna said it was like perfectly great Christmas. I think at this point, she doesn't rank one tire than the other. And it was it was solid. Santa came at 10 15pm. So that means Santa's little helpers got to go to bed early, which was very nice. Kids didn't wake up too early. Asia woke up at six. Sienna, we had to wake up at seven because we have a lot to do today, girl.

So that for the parents is the biggest win of all. We had some energy and everything's going good. So yeah. And so two things. The big gift of the year, like Sienna got a Polaroid camera. That's always fun. I want to ask you right away. I was like, what was the bomb gift? We always called it the bomb gift in my family. Like I love to hear what that was for kids. So

each kid kind of had their own big gift. Sienna got a Polaroid camera, which is back out out again which is pretty cool. And AJ got a new iPad because he was just using my wife's old iPad which had I think enough memory for exactly two games and he couldn't upgrade OS's so he is on like iOS like five probably so he can't get anything decent so it's been an absolute disaster so now he can download a million games. So those are like their personal big gifts. But the bomb gift for the family is something that I think my basement people will probably help me out with this. I have no clue what I'm going to do, Bob. I've been asked for like two or three years from Sienna to get this and I finally just

said, screw it. We're buying it. I don't even, it's not too crazy of a price, but it's just something I don't want to hear them ask for anymore. And I know Aiden is going to start asking for one. We got ourselves a 3D printer, Bob. And I don't know. Oh wow.

3D printer. I am terrified, but I am intrigued. I'm curious. I don't even want to try to figure out how these things work because my brain will melt. Yeah. But I went to like one of Sienna's friends, they have a printer, their family, and he and the dad was showing me stuff and he's like a handy guy, he's a car guy, so he's using it for all these other things. And I'm like, can I make like Marvel figures with this thing? I want

to make Squirtle playing the saxophone. That's all I want in my life. So that was a big gift here, but we were going to be busy for the next few days, so I can't even look at it I'm like I'm not looking at this thing till 2025 at the early so that was the bomb gift for the family that seems to be a hit but is also not being touched however I wanted to tell you this and the people in the pod because this was the thing that made me so happy as a nerd AJ had a ton of gifts, ton of awesome gifts, video game stuff, the iPad stuff, whatever, toys. His, by far, biggest responses, like in terms of like getting hype, was every single Star Wars action figure he opened. I bought him, I bought him Darth Vader with his, and his helmet comes off, so you see like the scarred up Vader at the end, because he had just watched Return of the Jedi

and he asked a thousand questions about it. So I'm going to buy you that. I bought him Luke because he didn't have a Luke. He has some of the old figures that Sienna had growing up, but he didn't have Luke. We didn't have Vader, Yoda, C-3PO. And the kid just loves Stormtroopers. I think Stormtroopers are like his favorite thing.

So I got him the Stormtrooper and he was going nuts. And then I, my one gift that I got for myself and all he has played with since he opened it. He has a couple video games he hasn't even fired up yet because he's just playing these games. And I had to tell you this, and I've been just constantly asked questions. Who would win in a fight between this guy and that guy? This kid goes, who would win in a fight? Darth Vader or the Stormtrooper? I'm like, buddy, it's Vader.

All right, two Stormtroopers, buddy, Vader. Five Stormtroopers, right? These Stormtroopers, imagine that they are good at Shooting because I tell them they're bad. They're bad at like they're hitting their target. He's I'm like buddy 500 stormtroopers, I think I'm still taking Vader. But Vader has the force. He has the lightsaber I was like you've seen him like the rogue one scene Like he just hits those lasers back and is crushing all those dudes. So it's like I it's like hard I don't know how I'm gonna get him to put some respect on Darth Vader's name here maybe I have to show the guy who helped

build the Death Star that blew up a planet I'm like this guy is the baddest dude in the galaxy I feel like Vader his name doesn't ring out in the streets anymore you know no no you need to show him that rogue one scene a few more times, really hammer that home. And in my mind, as you're saying all this, I'm going to like, how do I insect AJ into becoming a last Jedi super fan? How do I make sure that he is raised loving that last Jedi and then you have a little dark side AJ and it's like you're looking over him at night like Luke looking over Kylo

Ren. I have a cute Star Wars story as well. Cute Star Wars toy story. You may notice something new on the shelf behind me. You may not because they're the smallest things ever but check this out. At Christmas Eve my cousin's kid gave me these two little Star Wars things. I've never seen anything so tiny in my life but apparently this is a new thing that the kids like where they're making toys and the packaging Like the size of a quarter a nickel. It's the smallest thing I've ever seen in my life I was able to like put both of these in my front pocket and take them home But yeah, I said I would put them on the shelf behind me when I made my videos. So shout out Coco. There you go

It's cool. I don't understand the way toys have evolved and the collector's stuff, but little tiny things are very cool. I was watching a video the other day on Instagram where these guys used to have old NFL jerseys that they had like that size before NFL jerseys. Yeah. And then they put them on little hangers and they put them on the tree. I'm like, what did that, what was that a thing? I would have loved. And I love that the box even has it in like little tiny letters. It's just like they use the hiding and shrunk it on, that's very cool. That's very cool Yeah, but it was a great Christmas overall for the Foxes. It was fun went over my sisters We did presents the girls were talking the babies are at the age where they're starting to understand it

They're like getting excited for Santa when you ask the babies who's coming tonight. They're like understand it. They're like getting excited for Santa when you ask the babies who's coming tonight they're like Santa. One of the kids, my sister's baby was like, I'm a little scared. She said I'm a little scared about Santa. And we were like, no, no, it's all good. He's a fat jolly guy. It's like we had the Nickelodeon Rugrats thing going for him and Chuckie scared of Santa. So that was perfect. It all worked out, but it was a great great Christmas My niece and more so my niece and my nephew But I think he's kind of in the same boat my niece is petrified of Santa entering her house when she's sleeping So he leaves the gifts outside. That's the thing

So, you know the Santa has to leave him out front of like they had like a door and then they can Inside spot between the front door smell like you leave him out front of like they had like a door and then they can inside spot between the front door so like you leave him there you just leave him on a stoop you know for any anyone walking by to take him so like Easter bunny same thing has to leave the eggs or whatever the gifts out front and then they go from there and because she was like losing like you're welcome on the porch but you are not welcome in the house. Appreciate the gifts, but no thanks. Yeah, that's funny. All right, let's get into skeleton crew and creature commandos both Episode five they had this week. Luckily, we had them continuing through the holidays. Apologies to

everyone who's been fiending for surviving barstool. I guess someone made the decision to do the two week break. I actually think it was a smart decision because it's gonna get everyone talking about it again when people are doing podcasts again. Not everyone is like the basement boys doing Christmas week podcasts. You know what I'm saying? But Skeleton Crew did put out a new episode

that was, I thought, very good. And it's no surprise that I liked this one because it was the one with the most Indiana Jones vibes, I would say, overall. The temple stuff, going down to the lair. I love all that kind of stuff. What did you think of Skeleton Crew episode 5? This one was one of the more fun ones because I mean we've talked about this with other Star Wars shows in the past. I was like show us some planets that are different and cool and

have this completely unique vibe and like a place that was called what was Skull Ridge Mountain? That's what it was. Yes, Skull Ridge Mountain. It was yeah. And now it's a vacation resort and it does feel like they've sold out or you know. Lanupa. Yeah, they're like, oh my God, you took us to Lanupa. They get so excited. Yeah, John. So very I just like the whole just vibe of the place. The giant monster that like lets them go or whatever

at the end is like, hey, you know, that did have like an Indiana Jones or like a Goonies, that kind of the adventure genre where it's even a, what is it called? I don't know if it's the Odyssey or the Iliad I'm we can talk a little Christopher Nolan if you want as well. Christopher Nolan yeah right like I don't know if this I think the Cyclops he just gets like they fight the Cyclops but like the Cyclops is in the Odyssey for sure yeah in the in like these some of these Greek

things it's like it's the bad guy but then he wishes you well along your way once you defeat them I got a little vibe of that which I'm telling you now fellow basement boys and that to my history teacher tell that story. So I cannot, we were excited for that movie before we knew what it was just based on the cast, right Bob? Yeah, we had no idea. Now I feel like, are you all in now that you know it's the Odyssey? The biggest epic in the history of, yes, cinema. Like, this is gonna be incredible. I remember, I believe it was seventh grade

is when we did the Iliad and the Odyssey. I remember struggling through it. It was just like, I understood maybe 50% of it. But the 50% that I did understand was the cyclops shit. It was the fucking fights. It was the stuff that reminded me of like, almost superhero stuff. Obviously, it's the stuff that superheroes were based on, the Greek mythology and all of that. So everything that I did know, Icarus and all of that, I thought was pretty awesome, but it was one of those books that I just struggled throughout the time. Now you're

telling me I'm having my favorite director basically attack this thing with the greatest cast ever assembled. Yeah, I think it's going to be pretty fucking incredible. I also read a story that he was originally supposed to do Troy, Christopher Nolan, and something happened where it got like wrestled out of his hand, and then he wound up doing Batman Begins as like a consolation prize. So it's a weird full circle thing where now he's doing obviously the journey back after the Trojan War,

and it's Christopher Nolan. Again, it's full circle in a crazy way for him. So yeah, I'm all in on it. I'm excited. I'm all in on it I'm excited I'm excited to see it like digested through the Christopher Nolan lens how is he gonna make it more of a mind fuck than it already was in literature um and I think it'll be great yeah that I didn't know that that was the case with Troy but this is one of those things that once everything's panned out or you know played out the way it's going to you always hear

everything happens for a reason and I'm sure someone said it to him when he lost Troy and he was down in the dumps and then it's like well if you did Troy you don't potentially do any of the Batman which I you know was the thing that you know Dark Knight is still the gold standard credit to us for mentioning Dark Knight yet again on this podcast I didn't see that coming and then I think if he had his choice, he probably would rather do the Odyssey than Troy, you know, I'm sure I watched some of Troy. I couldn't really, I didn't really love it. I love that kind of. You don't love Troy. I actually do really like Troy.

It's all right. I just think that this is good. This will be better than that ended up. Yeah. You know, so it will be incredible that that ended up working out. You've always been a Homer guy too, right? And that ended up being, you know? So, that's incredible that that ended up working out. You've always been a Homer guy too, right? No. I actually have a Homer. That was the one thing I added to my shelf.

I ended up getting a little Homer figure for myself. So, that was the one thing I ended up getting as well. But yeah, we are, all right, so I apologize. But nonetheless, that little monster, I kind of let a little bit of oddity vibes in my head. And it was very cool. And it was Cthulhups too, which was funny. It was they basically said it's Cathalu but Cyclops. Yeah. So yeah, overall, we learned a lot

about a tack Renard, the pirate who captains the onyx cinder the ship. And there's a lot of like, almost the way they talk about the Jedi and the Force Awakens where they're like, oh my God, you don't know the legends of Tak Renod. He had this ship, his crew went mutinous, and then he crash landed on that. There's a lot of mystery about him when they get to the end as well.

When they get to the lair, we never get to see him on the hologram. I don't think the voice actors in the credits. So they're clearly saving the reveal for something next week Is that Bryce Dallas Howard episode that we've been really excited for the entire season? So maybe they're saving it for the episode that she's directing There's a lot of speculation is he the supervisor for Matt Atten is he? Hondo the Hondo Anaka the pirate that we discussed with Ken jacket a few weeks ago

I could see that as well people are saying is he a relative of Neil even because they focus on a lot of elephant looking statues in his lair? Could this be a deep descendant of Neil and that will come back to help them in some way? I'm not sure. All of that mystery, again, is just adding and building on to what Ad Aten is. We learned the banking clan was on the spa planet is there stuff to do with is ad and the centralized bank for all of the galaxy is that were all of the money in the galaxy flows through and are they sort of funding the war we tease that earlier on. Like there's a lot of interesting stuff still that's building on towards the final three episodes, which

should culminate in a pretty great finale. Yeah, this kid's lunch money is funding every like bribe and you know, treacherous thing he does and that was just lunch money. I would love to know how yeah, at at and it's just this fucking rich planet. Should the parents be sus to her put in the parents on the sus list here? Potentially, Neil's parents or grandparents? A little bit because in the beginning, when they're trying to send out the signal to the kids

and they're trying to just get past the barrier, they clearly know a little more than, they're not just oblivious. They know they're doing something they're not supposed to be doing. Still the supervisor droids though, they're the most sus with the camera eyes. That scene in the beginning too when he's like, show me your hands and he's doing it one at a time. And they're like, all right, both at the same time,

dude. That's a straight up my kids probably have done that to me within the last like six days. Just like we're morons. And I was like, I actually respect that the robot wasn't dumb enough to fall for that I like that that it's at least yeah in advance even though it's big brother just straight-up spying on us All the spa shit I thought was really funny him drinking a drink with like a tahini rim I thought it was great and the white coach by that pocket girl delay. Yeah, like they're in Hawaii I said they got to be drinking mahi mahis Yeah, like they're in Hawaii. I said they got to be drinking Mahi Mahis

The girl pocket who approaches him and calls him dash Stanton at the check-in counter kind of like fucks things up for him for a little bit Sends him a skew in the kids eyes. I thought that scene was good and him just constantly putting more credits on the counter being like All right. How about this? All right, how about this and then putting them all on there at the end? cool goonies vibes when the one girl uses the Like, all right, how about this? All right, how about this? And then putting them all on there at the end. Cool Goonies vibes when the one girl uses the wrench to just like send mud towards the guys and send them over the edge after they laughed at her and stuff.

And in the end, I was a little surprised that Jod went as heel as he did. I thought maybe he would like abandon the kids, but like taking him prisoner, doing the whole challenge, being like, make sure I don't have to hurt like abandon the kids but like taking him prisoner doing the whole challenge being like make sure I don't Have to hurt you with the kids. He went pretty fucking heel there. I Actually do appreciate that. He was like, please don't make me do this though Like when he's like, I don't want to kill your ass just yield to all that stuff It is kind of nice getting the little pirate rules back in that was one of your things about yeah Caribbean

Yield a Muslim parlay. I want to have a parlay here. So you think we're going to get a parlay? I'm calling it now actually. We're definitely getting a parlay. We're throwing a parlay. We're probably getting a parlay. Yeah. They're all Disney franchises. You got to kind of harken back. If we get a parlay, we should get to throw a skeleton crew parlay in the DraftKings sportsbook. Yes. I agree. I agree. Find a team that has a Neil on their team. I also liked how they were the robot was talking about the captain's concubine, and then they're like, what's a concubine and then it was like, that's enough story time for today. So I'm like, I was like, I know concubine has to be a little risque. I wasn't sure what it was. Do you know the definition of concubine? Is it like the captain's quarters?

So it's a woman who lives with, this is historical, a woman who lives with a man, but has a lower status than his wife or wives. Or the arcade version is just- Mr. Goumar. A mistress, yes, exactly. so he had himself a mistress there and that's why john didn't want to you know i thought it was like you you bring a girl back to the concubine that i thought it could be a place as well maybe it is maybe it's like a bachelor pad

or something like that but um according to this it is a noun and it is a person. Interesting interesting. I thought again um really good job by Jude Law throughout this episode. Even he turns he on the end but even in the scene earlier where Wim is just scared I thought it was kind of refreshing where it's like there was part of me as a little kid watching the first Star Wars and being like, wouldn't Luke be scared though? Like he just goes on this journey and he's kind of just there for the ride the whole time. Yes, he's trepidatious at times, but Wim is just crying and he's just like, I miss my parents. And like, that's probably the kid that I would be on this big journey. So I thought Jude Law did a good job in that scene. Wim was funny later on too when he finds the lightsaber and he steps up. And there was part of me being like, man, are they going to do this kid stepping up with a lightsaber right now?

That's a little like he is a child after all. I know he's got this dangerous weapon, but it's not like a blaster. Lightsaber is hard to use. And then him just like knighting it upside down is very funny. It reminded me of every time I watch A New Hope and Luke turns it on and I almost expect him to wipe his face with the lightsaber because it looks like someone wiped his eye with it. And that's probably what an idiot like me would do if I had a lightsaber for them. I've always dreamed of this, zoom, and it goes through my leg. Be like, ah! How many videos online are there of people getting lightsabers for Christmas, the extendo lightsaber,

where you gotta whip them out, and the first time they do it, they hit like a kid walking past the camera. It's like, there's so many of those online. It's like, yeah, lightsabers probably wouldn't be that easy to wield if they were real. It would be like the Wiimotes when they used to break the TV screens, and we had those every day of the week when a new video came out. It would be like they'd probably just be going through people's TVs like oh look at the lights here,

or going through like the person's phone that is recording them turning on the lightsaber. Yes the new version of that is the VR goggles when people get those for Christmas and they like get scared and they just run straight forward into a TV or into the oven There's videos of those by the way the 3d printer thing hit up Jeff D low He got one recently and he's been printing he sends me you know He printed a baby Yoda, and he printed the fucking Squirtle, and he's your guy That's not a surprise. I heard there's like um it's like a Like a community well you join a community and they share all the different...

People upload the files. Yeah. And I was told that it's one of those things where you come to this community, everything is free. You get caught selling stuff that's in this community. You are out of the community. I'm like, this is my kind of place right there. It sounds like the concubine almost, or what I thought a concubine was.

Now I've learned that it's not what a concubine is. No, it doesn't sound like the concubine. It sounds like the actual definition a concubine was Doesn't sound like the concubine However, I feel like a concubine will probably welcome in this community sounds like everyone's welcome in this community So I can't wait to join. Yeah seems like it Yeah, my brother-in-law does 3d printing too He like teaches it in school and he has a class I took a class when I was in high school as well. It was like when I was a junior and senior, I was able to take like a CAD engineering class, I printed myself a little New York

Rangers keychain and shit like, it's very fun to start whipping up crazy designs and stuff with the 3d printer. It's gonna just be a lot of Thanos. I'm just looking around in Thanos, Magneto. YeahMen stuff. I follow Instagram accounts of people that make 3D printed dioramas for Star Wars the Black Series figures. So it's like, we'll print the hallway from Rogue One. So if you want to have Vader and a couple of rebels, you can make the scene on your shelf and they put up the files and stuff.

I think they have like Patreon since it's the whole world. I'll definitely, when I get a basement one day, I'll definitely dive deep into that world as well. It's a very basement friendly activity and it's also thrown to the basement because you're not putting that, the wife is not gonna let you put that thing anywhere else but it is a basement thing. And when I get upset, like it's gonna get cold,

there's gonna be no football on in a couple months, we'll have basketball basketball dog days of basketball Baseball hasn't started yet. I'm just gonna be printing my dick off. I cannot wait literally I don't know what's gonna happen, but I'm gonna have a lot of time to burn It's not gonna take up a lot of time from what I can Exactly, yeah, it's perfect All right, let's tell everyone about Celebrity Mint. What a transition there, huh?

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The Iron Pot. And fun episode this week. We said last week we enjoyed the kind of bromance that was forming between Rick Flagg Sr. and Eric Frankenstein. We got a lot more of it this week. We got some Batman villains, which of course I enjoyed seeing what did you think of episode 5 of Creature Commandos? Hit the spot yet again I didn't have had again had another fucking moment that made me feel pretty awful about myself but it wasn't like five

minutes of kids dying it was yeah one very quick moment that I felt like, oh shit, is this going where? Oh no, it definitely happened like that. But yeah, another W, this really is, and this is just me speaking here. If this is, I'd even give Invincible the other seven minutes to get to a half hour. If this is how Invincibles broke up every week,

I think I would enjoy that more because I enjoy everything about the way this is set up along with obviously Gunn's humor and his music and all that stuff. The biggest thing though that I took away from this is there is an animated comic book series out and I didn't even know it until yesterday. I didn't realize what if season three is debuting. Oh, I know. I started seeing tweets this week as well.

Even when I pulled up Disney Plus to watch Home Alone or whatever, the home page is like Darcy with Howard the Duck. I guess there's an episode where she marries Howard the Duck. I wasn't aware of that. I saw a tweet last night that said they were supposed to do an episode where Captain America met the Rocketeer and that got scrapped so they could do, you know, the 10th Captain Carter episode or whatever. Like, it's disappointing.

What if, you know, we were so excited for what it could be. Season one was okay. Season two, I did not like season three. It was like a tree in the forest. And that just we didn't even hear. Yep. Then like it's like you have the Star Wars project, I guess going on now that's crushing creature commandos for DC crushing. And at Marvel's it's like and I this is for the people to know I love the what if comics when a good when I find a good one of comic and I go's it's like and I this is for the people to know I love the what-if comics when a good when I find a good What if comic and I go through especially the old ones too? You're like, oh shit, I gotta read this story, but that but what if what if was actually a good series? That should be its own episode for season four, I mean they got the real voice actors and everything

It's like what went wrong. You know what else I? Said it season one, I said, I gotta get used to this animation style. I don't think I ever got used to that animation style. I don't think I like that animation style. I'll be completely honest with you. And I think that's the other thing. I prefer a 2D thing like creature commandos for sure.

Yep, yep. So that was just my little aside about what if. Yeah. Creature commandos. No, but that's a good thing to bring up, yeah. Yeah. Um, I'm very, and like now that we know that it was Clayface or whatever and shape-shifting with the professor, so it's definitely keeping you in the dark about the princess. It's like, I think she's good, but I don't know. There is a chance this bitch is still fucking clairvoyant and is gonna find this stuff, you know,

is figuring this stuff out. Her bodyguards seem good, but it's very easy that everything can just change here. And I'm definitely, the radar's up. Now is Rick Flag dead, is my next question. I don't think so. I had that in my notes as well. I have Rick Flag dies in his arms,

and I put that in quotes. Like, I don't think so because I think Superman takes place after creature commandos in the timeline. And he's in that movie. So I would think no. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. And he's in Peacemaker season two. I don't know how the James Gunn timeline's working

because he has clarified. He's like, hey, the DCU isn't like every project takes place right after the last one It's like we're gonna jump around and do weird things like that. I'm also a little confused of What becomes of clay face like obviously clay face isn't like dead dead because they're doing a DCU movie of clay face is That a prequel leading up to the events of this is that after this is it a different clay face? There's like kind of two clay faces in the comics, one that's more of a fantastical clay monster, one that's more of a murderous, wears the skin of his victims. So I don't know where we stand with that. Again,

I'm curious, is Alan Tudyk going to actually play him? The voice of Clayface, is he going to play the live action version just like Frank Grilloillo voice of Rick Flagg will play that version. I don't know There was a lot of funny stuff in this episode too like the before the ending of course with the the gypsy shit lady I thought she was very funny. I said she's DC's version of blind Al from this I liked the I like the Rick Flagg Frankenstein back and forth about walking a cat like there's some dry humor there with Frankenstein where he's just like do people do that do people walk cats like I don't understand why you would do that and then when he goes in the house he's like is that a leash for the cat because there's a cat it is one of those things I've seen it before and it is

like a wait a minute here and I still look at it a little sideways at first, but I support it. You know, I'm not a cat guy. I'm a dog guy, but there's nothing better than taking your pet for a nice walk around the around the block. So I support it. If you're a basement boy or girl that takes their cats for walks with leashes, send us a picture that imagine that. Imagine we have a list that has a cat with a leash send us a picture of you take your cat walks and does that and if you do it just say why you do it like did you want to take them for a walk? Yeah, you can't and I exercise. Yeah, if you want to get the cat out of the house, I wouldn't trust a cat to like just

come back in the house. I'm sure then you just the cat disappears for three weeks at a time. You think your cat ran away and then it comes back, you know, food and shelter so I am very interested good call on all right send us a picture of that I did like the intercut fight scene of um like when they kill Alexi in the in the car which is phosphorus just punching a hole through his head was crazy when they intercut it with Frankenstein and Rick Flag versus Clayface in the house, and then all of them in that giant battle. I thought that was really cool.

Everything that Frankenstein says to Ric Flagg as he's dying too, when he's like, any last words, did the bride say anything about me? Did she have any inclination that she was still interested in me? Like all of that was really funny. And then the end, I guess, he get the full story with our DC version of blind out here.

And he's like, I would never let you be alone. Oh, hits her in the back of the head with was it a big rock or something is a big giant blunt object. Kills it. Maybe it was a pot. Could have been. Yeah. I didn't know if the shotgun was going to get used, you know, a little check off. I know. Yeah. Checkouts. Yeah. The dog outside too leaving the dog

outside him but then the dog comes with him yeah he's happy don't and I said don't you fucking dare don't you dare that's all I said I'm not gonna say what I said don't you dare about yeah I know don't you dare don't even say it don't put that evil into the world I know James Gunn likes to do stuff like this to let you know just how bad this dude is. It's like he may be have this funny little dialogue, but he's a literal monster. He's the literal monster. Yeah, he's Frank. It's mine. Yeah, we don't need to go the extra couple of not even mile couple of feet.

Just don't do it. Don't do it. Not after last week to you can't like hit us with that one two punch Yeah, you can't do that James. Come on Give us a breather. It's Christmas James. It's Christmas I was also like when we were really locked in on the last of us. I was like shit I want to quit this show cuz it just rips my guts out every week, but it's too fucking good and creature criminals Is very good. I will bail if they fucking go there they the college kids for a semester to then you have to like be a normal you're a normal human James don't like start breaking down walls here that were put up for a very specific reason it's all masking

it's all masking by the way speaking of James Gunn obviously the Superman trailer is still like kind of the talk of the nerd world people are still spotting things he posted the Lego version of it which I thought was awesome I don't know if you saw that someone animated like the Lego version of it, which I thought was awesome. I don't know if you saw that someone animated like the Lego verse It's so cool. People are doing old-school art to make scenes from the trailer look like old moments in the comics There's a lot of like cool shit good buzz about your guys Superman going around I want 25 I think the year of Superman for sure but something we didn't spot in the trailer that's worth bringing up this week for sure. But something we didn't spot in the trailer that's worth bringing up this week, Gorilla Grodd I think was in the newspaper. And Gorilla Grodd was also featured in the flash forward of creature commandos with the princess. He's overruling the world with all

the dead superheroes there. Is Gorilla Grodd going to be one of the first big bads of the DCU? I don't know. I think it would be very interesting. He's this giant friggin gorilla that can speak to you through like telekinesis. And on CW's Legends of Tomorrow, he once went after a college-aged Barack Obama, which is the funniest thing of all time. I sent you the clip. He like breaks into this door. You would think it's fake if I didn't tell you right now it is 100% real. And you just threw telekinesis like Barack Obama, I have come to destroy you and like a college Barack is like what he's sitting at his desk. He's like, what the fuck is going on? I don't know if they'll

repeat that scene in the DCU. I would think probably not. But it's certainly a funny YouTube rabbit hole to fall down. When you told me about that storyline, I was like, that must've been a wild comic book. You're like, brother, that was on the CW. I'm like, like we got video footage of it, dude. I thought it was like a one-off of a one-off one run comic book arc. That was two pages of a very weird issue. No, no, no, no, no. That was on network television. That made television. Yeah, that made prime time. Yeah,

great stuff. But Gorilla Grodd traditionally is a pretty awesome Justice League villain. Like, I really, I said to you, I loved to hate him as a kid. He was like one of my favorites. Like, oh, and Superman punches Gorilla Grodd in the face. So if we get a little gorilla grout that'd be nice and according to David Cornsweat and James Gunn we've seen nothing from the Superman trailer. He's like yeah most of it's from the very beginning of the movie which is like what dude? That's all in the beginning and James Gunn has kind of done that like Guardians 3 didn't really show us a ton in the trailer. I don't think. Sure. I, my biggest thing with these, the DCU starting is I'm going to just learn so much. I have no clue about anything.

Gorilla Grodd not even close to knowing that guy was any part of this universe. I think it's just crazy to me. Clayface I've heard of. How big is, like what tier would you say he is in terms of villain in the in DC uh mostly he's mostly just a Batman traditionally sticks with Batman but I would say three tier four here see yeah tier c okay because like four yeah like if obviously Joker and two-faced Riddler penguin tier one for Batman He might even be tier two under that to be honest. There's a really good Batman the anime

Yeah, yeah, it's like he's not mixing up with Superman He's not mixing up a Green Lantern all that kind of stuff. We're like a Thanos is someone that I knew of with Marvel I didn't know how big I knew he was a Thanos is someone that I knew of with Marvel I didn't know how big I knew he was a big deal, but I didn't yeah, really touch a lot of shit He was in but it's like oh no if you were Fantastic for it's silver surfer all that kind of shit and they were they introduced him in Guardians. I thought was awesome So it's like Gorilla Grodd no clue what the fuck but I feel like Chloe face. Yeah another guy like is he dead? I feel like he can't be dead. I feel like he is. I don't think he's dead, he's clay, you know?

So it's like you could electrocute him, but if there's this much clay, I feel like Clayface should be alive. True, that was my thoughts. It all checks out in comic book nerd brain, right? Yeah. But yeah, that was Creature Commandos, that was Skeleton Crew for the week,

that was a little Superman recap. The one quote that I said I wanted to bring up with you was we had the Sony CEO this week come out and talk a little bit about Madame Webb, talk a little bit about Craven the Hunter. Craven the Hunter is flopping really hard. It's the worst launch they've had, Sony that is, since the Sony CEO Tony Vince Quera became CEO in 2017.

He said, I still don't understand because the film is not a bad film. To be fair, I have heard from some people that saw Craven and said, it's passable. A lot of people were like, it's not the most laughably horrible movie. There's a lot of bad stuff in it. There's some good stuff in it. A lot of people say Aaron Taylor Johnson is completely fine. But obviously the script and the editing and the stuff that happens to the Sony movies got in the way of it

being a good movie. And then he says the press is to blame for Madame Web underperforming insists it's not a bad film. Says Madame Web under performed in the theaters, just because the press just crucified it. It was not a bad film. It says Madame Web under it performed in the theaters just because the press just crucified it. It was not a bad film and it did great on Netflix, which I don't know, like the Hallmark Christmas movies they throw on there do amazing on Netflix as well. So I don't know if that's a sign of quality per se, but I said it's worth bringing up on the podcast just to dunk on this dopey Sony CEO like bro you're doing the same thing over and over again you've conditioned fans to know you don't make good movies you don't

make movies worthwhile this universe is a sham it's a house of cards why are they going to see Craven the hunter now I need like the emails to leak between the people in charge of the Spider-Man, non-Spider-Man Marvel properties. So it's basically anything that doesn't, you know, Madame Web, creating... A lot of those emails leaked like 10 years ago. We need an update. Yeah, we need an update. Because I know there's one that says, listen, we just have to make these movies to keep the properties in Sony, and they're, like, make them bad on purpose, essentially, you know, they said that in the Madden franchise which blew my mind when Madden came out, the original Madden, they reverse engineered the

Genesis, then they were able to make Madden they went to Sega was like, we want to sell Madden on the Genesis, and we're not going to pay you all your fees. And they were like, no, fuck you. They're like, we're making Joe Montana football for Genesis. Then they saw Madden, they're like, this is pretty good. We want to, we'll let you sell Madden, but we want you to make Joe Montana football because we're not going to have it ready by the holiday season.

So then EA is like, and we can make it wherever we want. And they're like, yeah. So EA is like, what we did is we literally like copied our game and just tore out a bunch of good shit and made it much worse And I feel like that's exactly what they're doing for these spider-man non spider-man movies to then be like alright. It's out We don't have to worry about promoting it all that much or you know having too much money I guess I don't see why they can't just make something good I feel like Marvel would help out if it was like a story or a character

They cared about they would give the like we're gonna send fabro over we'll send feige over and they'll help you out because let's be honest anything that doesn't have marvel holding their hand is garbage yeah or like pull people up from the animation department which they allegedly did like lord and mill Miller from Spider-Verse department. But like you have hands on deck, like you said, why not make a $10 million good origin movie instead of friggin 30 million? I don't even know how much it costs probably way more than that. Crazy CGI slot fest that looks exactly the same as Madame Web did. It's not like the movie has looked like

totally different. They also made decisions like bringing in Michael Keaton's vulture for a post-credit scene in Morbius with no plans to follow up, no plans to like, allegedly they were gonna do this sinister six movie. We never even knew if that was gonna involve Spider-Man. We just heard the story this week too, that they could have used Spider-Man at any point. They could use Spider-Man in all of these movies. They just thought the audience wouldn't want to see that, which is so silly.

I appreciate it on the hand of these movies suck and don't ruin Tom Holland's Spider-Man by putting him in these movies. On the other hand, why not end every one of these movies? I think I saw this suggested on Twitter with like the battle against Spider-Man, but you watched the whole movie from the villain's point of view. So maybe that final battle you see differently. And it's like, yeah, what if every finale of one of these Sony movies was a battle with Andrew Garfield, Spider-Man, that would be a reason to see it. At least it'd be like, all right, the movie might suck, but at the end,

the third act is going to be wrestlemania all over again we'll get to see andrew garfield spider-man versus maybe chameleon or one of these villains we scorpion that we haven't seen before they just like floundered on all of these opportunities they took craven the hunter cool character and they were like what if he was bitten by a radioactive lion and it's like every fucking character doesn't have to be bitten by a radioactive whatever it's silly stuff even Madame Web they Teased the entire all the marketing was around like her in the suit and Sydney Sweeney Climbing up a wall and so and so in this silk spider suit or whatever they were They were in those costumes for 30 seconds of the movie. Like maybe a combined minute.

And apparently Sydney Sweeney had to like fight the studio to even get in the suit. It's like, why are you casting all of these people as comic book characters? If you don't want to put them in the comic book suits. When I saw in that trailer for matter of web, and I'm like, Sydney Sweeney should be everywhere in that trailer and not in a full suit or anything Just being Sidney Sweeney and then you're gonna have all The thirsty motherfuckers getting tickets at opening night and they just think it's what I did so well on Netflix people We're like, I'm not gonna pay for but let's see what this is all about

Yeah, it's gonna hit fast forward until I see Sidney Sweeney on screen. Yeah I'm gonna fast forward again the rest of the way. It's it's crazy I mean every city sweetie blog we do does a billion fucking views for the screen, right? And then we fast forward again the rest of the way. It's, it's crazy. I mean, every Sydney Sweeney blog we do does a billion fucking views for a reason, right? Like it's, it's a no brainer, but those people have no brains over there. So I, I don't know what to say for the, I honestly think they're trolling us at this point. Like they're doing it on purpose. They probably are. Maybe they're like, allegedly they like shut down plans after this though. This was like the straw that broke the camel's back. They're like, yeah, the sinister six movie ain't happening it's like no shit it ain't happening

dude you think you're calling Jared Leto's Morbius backup to reunite with Madame Webb and fucking like you think anyone wants to see these movies you thought you were gonna do an avenger style team up movie with all these people come on it's like the sinister sick words like sinister towards like the Marvel MCU properties like stop ruining our shit that you happen to own a bad business deal 30 years ago. This is not fucking right,

guys. It's crazy. It's a these villains. They're they're not hateable. They have go away heat. What we call it in the wrestling business. They have that go away. It's not that we're booing you because you're good at your job, we're booing you because we, you're wasting our time.

We don't wanna see you here. It's get out of here. We only have two hours of Raw and you're taking up 10 minutes that too. Yes. Which is completely too much. And he's taking up too much of this pocket. Every like few months,

we have to just bury these motherfuckers. And then they just come back with another movie that is somehow worse than the last. It's honestly. It's the SpongeBob meme. How many times do we gotta tell you old man? Yeah, that's that's Sony being Sony. Like you said, I liked that quote. You said it's a no brainer, but they got no brains. That's Sony. That's a good way to sum it up for him. That was the post Christmas. Yeah, hashtag no brains.

That was the post Christmas. My mom hashtag no brains. That was the post Christmas, my mom's basement. Hope everyone had a great holiday with their family. Hope everyone has a happy new year. And guess what, Clem? We'll talk to the people next year. See you next year. Ha ha ha ha.