My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 405 - SKELETON CREW FINALE

Episode Date: January 17, 2025

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Hey, My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement, presented by Barstool Sports and a very special Skeleton Crew finale edition of My Mom's Basement. The Star Wars show we've been recapping for eight weeks now, or maybe seven weeks, I think it was a double premiere, is finally over. It's a bit bittersweet because we were really enjoying it. We wanted to see the conclusion, how they would wrap the whole story up. We finally got that.

Clem, what were our thoughts? Did we enjoy how they wrapped up Skeleton Crew? Bob, we're happy, we're excited. We're happy about the way they wrapped it up. We're more happy with just the whole series as a whole and we're excited about the future. I feel like there is there is some good in him. There is some good in the Star Wars galaxy. There's a chance that they could make a bunch of good stuff again in the future because trying to think like Andor is obviously potentially a smash in its own, right? Season one was awesome, but man,

I was still a little worried there after the accolade and we walked away very, very happy. How about you? How did you feel about everything? I loved it. I truly, I probably thought we were gonna get more like answers to the mystery that was set up and they didn't necessarily go in that direction.

It was more in the kids saved the day direction. But I don't say that in a derogatory way. That's not a knock on the series. It just had a different vibe than I was expecting almost. But I truly love the finale. I thought it was great. There's so many aspects about it that I'm excited to break down. Little homages, little things that I thought they did so well.

We have a little bit of housekeeping to do first I wanted to tell everyone I finally did a Marvel Rivals video game live stream this week I did it on Tuesday and I wanted to tell everyone I'm gonna do it again This upcoming Tuesday Tuesday at 4 the my mom's basement channel the Barstool sports twitch or anywhere where you follow me Twitter Wherever it will be live. I'll be playing Marvel rivals with the help of the chat. It was a little difficult at first. I'll be honest.

I was getting kind of destroyed at first. It took me a little bit of time to find out which characters I wanted to play as, who I wanted to main. If you want a video game, speak it, you know. And once I found my characters, which are like the Hulk, Doctor Strange, even I was I was doing decent with Captain America. I didn't hate Captain America Once I started getting the hang of it. I started having a lot of fun. I posted a clip on my Twitter I like a 10 kill streak 10 ko streak if you want to call it that I was doing decent

So everyone tune in Thursday or Tuesdays at 4. I'm gonna try to make that a regular thing. My mom's basement video game streams. Yeah, it was fun. I watched, I was in the chat for a little bit, mixing it up. AJ Klem watched and he kept saying, he said the F word again. Up, up, he said the F word again.

He calls out every F word he hears. I mean, I'll be honest, his dad is known to say it from time to time as well. But he loved seeing you. So like watching you getting to gaming is like watching a little baby deer like walk for the first time like a little shaky. But and like, there's some characters that just straight up I could tell stick. Like, if you're like the Hulk, you'll get him the Hulk and then you become Bruce Banner. Like, well, this fucking sucks. Right? So yeah, I didn't hate Bruce Banner. I was i was okay with the nerd i was like oh i'm

okay with being the nerd because he's got a little gamma gun so you shoot people you piss them off and then they turn around they see you they think we're gonna kill this nerd and then you hulk out it's pretty fun i gotta admit it's pretty fun i was you know am i gonna love this game as much as everyone else tells me i'm gonna love it i was going back and forth with that in my mind i think it is gonna get to a dangerous level where I'm going to be like a Marvel Rivals super fan. But also, everything's free about it. They're releasing like a new free character

every month and a half. It's great. But there's paid costumes. And I'm like, oh, that's where I got to be careful. Because I'll be that kid who's the worst Marvel Rivals player in the world that has all the costumes just because I want to look cool. I mean, it's taken a lot for me not to buy like the X-Men popped up on Forno and we're

playing. I'm like, don't do it, man. Don't because then if I buy stuff, then the kids are going to want to buy stuff and my kids don't realize just how easy it is to buy stuff. My kids are probably the only kids in their age range who do not have have never had one roebucks in their account the entire time. So they're definitely there's kids who were like the fucking at Atten There's just credits just robux making your rain. My poor kids don't even know how easily I can give it to them. But so I Constraint is the big word here Bob for you. Absolutely. We got some nerd news to talk about as well little stuff

Superman will debut a new look on February 9th during the Puppy Bowl. I thought that was kind of funny because Krypto's in the movie and made me laugh. Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow, started filming this week. They started shooting. So that'll come out next summer, I believe. Summer 2026, I think we got Supergirl. There was this clip that I blogged of Craven the Hunter, which really came and went without making a noise at all. It was in theaters in October, I think around the same time that Joker 2

is in theaters, Venom 3. Nobody really talked about it. Apparently it wasn't even like so bad, it's good. It was just kinda meh, not worth watching for anybody. Until it came out on digital and someone posted this clip. I don't even know if you could call it a clip because it's a still image. They took a still image of this actress who won,

I think she's won an Oscar last year for West Side Story, best supporting actress, this amazing actress. They take a still image of her and they CGI blinking eyes onto her and her mouth moves. So I don't know how they even did it. If it was AI, if it was CGI, she blinks like they made the Ewoks blink in the special features. It was just so strange and so Sony. It was the perfect nail in its coffin where it's just like, yeah, that's why you're done.

I could not have loved it more. And it has honestly changed my entire thinking of the Sony verse. I love the Sony verse and wanted to continue because the stuff that we have gotten from Craven the hunter you included the Madame web stuff with like the voiceover where the lips are matching up with the words This is stuff like I think I have just you know catastrophe box office opens. That's fun You know, it's like the middles is when you don't care. It's I kind of like I compare it to blogging your team at barstool. If your team is a contender, or at least in the playoffs, it's fucking juice. You're flowing. Everyone's excited. When your team is an absolute calamity, like, like the first six years I covered the next,

that's fun. You're getting content. It's when you're just like a little under 500 and you're not really in the mix. That's when you get a little like tired of it all. So Sony is literally just there. They are the old Knicks. It's just nonsense after nonsense. So I personally love it. It's that the the video like keep giving us bloggable material. We appreciate it.

So yeah, it is bloggable material and I put it with the blade clip as well Because that's what it really reminded me of right away the clip from blade 3 where wesley snipes like refused to open his eyes So they just had to cgi eyes opening on through his eyelids. It's so funny If you haven't seen it, we've talked about it before but it's just so goddamn funny Um, and then the last thing nerd news was kind of a big thing Daredevil born again. The first look the first trailer is out. We're very excited. We are we're gonna watch this But as we've prefaced in the past Neither me or Clem watched air that well, it's tough. It came out in 2014 Clem was having kids

I was in high school. I've wanted to go back to it a few times. I've actually started it I've watched like the first two episodes. And I was getting into it, really enjoying it. And then I would fall off for one reason or another. Nothing due to the show. I wasn't not enjoying it. It was just like, maybe another show would start. And then we would start talking about it on my mom's basement.

We would have to recap whatever shows. I've gotten pulled away from it so many times. I will catch up before March 4th I'll watch all three seasons of Daredevil. I'll watch the two seasons of Punisher This trailer looked amazing Probably didn't hit as hard for me as it hit for Daredevil fans who had the series and loved it But yeah, it was just one of those things. Everyone's gonna say how have you not seen it? How have you not seen it? It was in a weird time where it was it it started and ended before My Mom's Basement even began. So it wasn't like we were, you know, mandatory

watching every nerd show. Let me also say this, the How Have You Not Seen Us is what we like to call the vocal minority because most people in the world have not seen the Daredevil and Punisher shows. Just I'm talking overall world, right? The whole world. Even the nerd world. It's not. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world.

The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. The whole world. I imagine well edited YouTube clip of all the highlights and I will learn everything I need to know because I'm just being realistic with my schedule and just my

What do you want to say like my? Attention span I know if I watch everyone by the first 10 minutes of the first episode I'll be on my phone. I'll be watching but I'll be I will not pay attention I will be locked in for that entire YouTube. Also wanted to make this announcement on the pod. I imagine there's a few people in this boat. I know, I don't know if you are actually, I know Jeff D. Love.

I went ahead and got myself a free fare. It's a free trial right now, but I subscribed to YouTube premium. What do you think of that, Bob? Ooh, so Lady Fox has YouTube premium, and there's something weird about you can share it with people in your household and stuff So they also have it she's trying to share it with me a bunch

I think cuz my YouTube is like when my bar still email something about it doesn't work But I use hers all the time and I've basically taken over her algorithm at this point just for their like no ads It takes all that stuff away. It's quicker so now her algorithm is just full of like Lego videos, Timothy Chalamet videos, fucking Batman breakdowns. Yeah, but I am a fan. I think it's good. It's like, congratulations, Lady Fox, your algorithm is now a 16 year old. And like, she goes on YouTube looking for like, you know, the video she likes, and it's

all My Mom's Basement related shit. why Tim Burton's Batman trilogy went wrong? Like shit like that. And it's like, yeah, it's all mine now. But shout out Lady Fox. She's the best. She also agreed to watch Daredevil with me. So I'll have a partner in that. So Lady Fox has taken my place in terms of watching the whole thing,

but I will be there in terms of life. We are, we do have a Valentine's Day, you know, date plan for... February 14th, Captain America Brave New World. I said, tell your wife you got a date with me. But I am serious about this. I am only going if we can sneak a giant heart-shaped box of chocolates into the movie theater. Yeah. We obviously didn't get popcorn because who doesn't get popcorn?

What about a shield-shaped box? They should make those. Instead of like a popcorn bucket Imagine if they made Valentine's Day chocolates, but it was the Captain America shield. Oh Kevin Feige hit me up. I got the ideas here I'm gonna give lady Fox an anonymous tip for a future Valentine for maybe this Valentine's Day to be honest with you So yes, but anyway my thing about YouTube premium. I'll go on a little tangent here. I Don't even like I watch YouTube a little and I do hate the ads

It drives me nuts and a video like that I'm gonna catch up to be a 30 minute video be 30 fucking ads gonna drive me nuts and It might have but however YouTube premium seems to have the highest Approval rating of any service in the world because every single person who has is like listen I know people think it's weird paying for YouTube but it's fucking worth it when you get it so I've said so far I've had it for about a week and I do enjoy not having the ads and you're like looking at all those little dots you're like this is gonna be a beast of a watch right here. I also didn't

realize that I could share I thought I had to have the family plan to share with other people in the house because I was like because the kids have taken over I have to now go to like my third gmail address because my algorithm is a bunch of stupid You know for tonight videos and idiot kid streamers whose voices I mean every parents are shaking their head because they've been through that So I'm like this I found one algorithm that it's pure It's all my nonsense kind of like Robbie's so it's like all right you guys guys cannot go on this. Now that I know I can maybe give them stuff and I then I don't watch ads when they're watching YouTube this is very good to know. So daredevil we're back we're gonna be all caught up by March 4th is that

right? March 4th it's out we've got Muse in the series, White Tiger in the series obviously Kingpin is the mayor of New York based on this trailer and based on the post credit scene of Echo. Very cool. The Punisher, John Bernthal's Frank Castle is in prison. I'm excited to see why he's in prison when I catch up on their shows and stuff. But just the thought of the Punisher in prison, Kingpin as the mayor, we're in Hell's Kitchen grounded, gritty superhero vigilante shit. I love the idea of that. I love Daredevil himself too. I like the Daredevil comics.

I like the Daredevil movie with Ben Affleck, even. I loved that as a kid, I would literally like destroyed my VHS tape of that because I would fast forward through the credits to see the Evanescence music video, Daredevil in it and stuff. I'm excited. I know I should have watched it before. I'll watch it now. Better late than never on Daredevil. And the only other piece of news I had,

more of a personal, some personal news, like I could put this out like a tweet, I finally finished that MCU book. I've been working on that MCU book for like a year, and people are like, how do you read that slowly, blah, blah, blah, and still say it's a great book. Listen, I forget to read, I don't read a lot unless it's a comic book and there's fucking pictures

inside the book. I would't read a lot unless it's a comic book and there's fucking pictures inside the book. I would read a few pages before bed, not even every night. Sometimes I would remember, sometimes I wouldn't. Finally finished. It's amazing. I would recommend audiobooks. I'm getting in on audiobooks. I finished three audiobooks this month already.

I'm like diving deep in. That's one of my 2025 goals. But I would recommend the MCU, the reign of Marvel Studios, to anybody. And if you're skeptical, go on Spotify. All the audiobooks are free there if you have Spotify Premium. Just scroll down.

Listen to the chapter about Endgame. It's like 30 or 40 minutes. Listen to just that. You'll want to go back and read the entire book because it's so awesome, the behind the scenes information. Even I texted Clem. I was like, did you know that Pepper's armor as rescue and end game is blue because of the blue dress she wore in the first Iron Man?

Like stuff like that that you wouldn't even know in a million years. This book has it all. So highly recommend on the MCU book. I have it in audiobook form and I can't get on it, Bob. I got like chapter in, loved it. I'm also a podcast guy so it's like I have podcasts coming in now. Yeah. I'm big football like obviously football takes a lot of time, podcasts, watching all that kind of stuff. Once football season is over that's when my time opens up a bunch. So I'm hoping I can

finish the audiobook that my brain can't even find time for during this. Is there any Daredevil stuff in that audiobook? Probably not, right? No, not really. It's more like very MCU because now Daredevil was in an interesting spot for so many years because it wasn't connected to the MCU and the other stuff wasn't, but they were always, I think, hoping it would be, because in the first episode of Daredevil, they referenced the Avengers and how New York is still destroyed from the battle. So it's like, the Avengers was canon to Daredevil,

but Daredevil wasn't canon to the Avengers. It was an interesting world like that, kind of like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. I think was kind of in a similar spot. Now, about Daredevil too, just on the trailer, I have to say everything that I hoped Daredevil as show is going to be I got in the trailer like a lot of violence What it's pretty fucking violent and that's just the trailer which they're allowed to show right? So I'm feeling pretty good about that

I'm trying to think we had we haven't had really a violent obviously I'm thinking creature commandos was pretty gruesome, even though it was just a cartoon. But as there was there a Marvel show recently that had some violence in it or a movie that was more violent than Echo a little bit. There was the Daredevil scene in Echo that got it, but it wasn't like it wasn't even like this trailer.

This trailer had the knee snap scene. It had the arm snap and you see the blood like rush through the sleeve crazy shit like that really cool stuff So yeah, I'm with you. Charlie Cox is also great. I love Charlie Cox I'm excited to see him as Matt Murdoch more, you know, that's the role that he's most known for at this point but Really excited about that before we move on to skeleton crew and get into the finale there Let's tell everyone about one of our favorite sponsors game time

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Download the Game Time app today. What time is it? Game Time. All right, let's get into Skeleton crew. The finale, I think it was called like, the good guys. These are the real good guys. Real good guys. Yep. The real good guys, which was a reference back to when they saw the X-wings. And they were like, oh, those are the good guys. So you immediately end with the previously on have that in your mind of maybe we'll get those X-wings back this episode. And it was a cool, it felt like the third act of a movie

almost. Like the third act of the entire episode felt like that in particular, but everything about it, we were almost like thrust into it. It felt like a two-part finale with last week. Do you agree with that? I think that's a fair point. I thought this episode in terms of the pacing is the word, but it's like everything happened so fast where the first X amount of seven episodes, everything was a slow burn, which makes sense. And I was going to be like, am I going to like criticize this? I was like, you know what? This is a kid's movie. So who gives a fuck? I'm sure Goonies, if you rewatch Goonies, you'd be like, oh, that all just kind of goes really quick. Again, not going to criticize and put the fucking snarky Star Wars voice on for that. That's what it was. This show fucking delivered. And wait, return on the sign

on. Oh, the sign is on. Click that sign on. Cause this, it truly like, we'll go through a little bit of it. Not quite seen for scene for scene, But there's so many little things that John waltz did because he actually directed this episode as well there's so many little things that he did in this where I was just like this motherfucker gets Star Wars and he gets what it Should be and the feelings that should evoke out of you and the way that they play the hope thing Let's go through it a little bit and dive in a little bit It begins with job taking Fern and her mother hostage And then he sends the rest of the crew off, but has the supervisor droids watch them. Which immediately I was

like, I know this guy's saying he's the embassy or whatever. He was able to make it onto the planet. So that gives you a little bit of a, all right, if he was able to make it onto the planet, he's got to be who he says he is, because people aren't just coming into Add Atten. At the same time, you had to run a better check before you just like listened to this guy like he's the king of Ad Aten. It was like, hey, watch those people. And the supervisor droids like stand in there watching women as dad at lunch or dinner,

whatever they were having, kind of crazy. I have to say, so yes, I'm with you on all that. You said the emissary stuff felt like there wasn't passing a smell check and we'll get to how it all kind of like worked out in the end. I'm with you on all that. You said the emissary stuff felt like there wasn't passing a smell check and we'll get to how it all kind of like worked out in the end. Um, just cause you mentioned her and we're going to talk about her obviously at the end. It's a crazy that I expected more out of Fern's mom. I'm like, listen,

lady, I kinda need to fucking something here. Cause like, if you're raising someone like Fern, I feel like you have a little bit of, but she had a little more fucking little pirate in her for lack of a better term Yeah, I just didn't I'm like come on lady do something. I hate your daughter and I hate you now I think they almost set the parents up for us to ask the question We were asking last week of is there more to these parents? Are they gonna do something more do they have to force or something and then they In this episode tell you, and that's okay.

Like he's a level seven system coordinator or whatever he said. And that's why he's gonna be the hero of this story. And that was a cool twist as well. It's a cool suburban, this episode is almost like an alien invasion in Star Wars. Like it's the first time we've gotten like aliens invading quote unquote Earth,

even though we have some aliens like Neil and stuff. Huge Return of the Jedi vibes too, when John is taking them up the elevator to meet the supervisor, anytime we get something, oh, we're going to meet the emperor, the supervisor, and they get on the elevator, it's such an obvious homage

that I really appreciate stuff like that. Yeah, and just like, you know, maybe it's more, I, you know, maybe it's more obvious, clearly more developed because it's like the suburbs, but it's like foresty planet. I did have a little bit. Yeah. And it's like these people who are just completely overmatched in terms of the technology of the people and speeder bikes hover bikes, you know, like it wasn't a speeder bike chase, but we got a chase scene that was fucking great by the way this is one of those chase scenes as well that it makes me wonder how things went wrong in other series we had like the speeder bike chase in book of Boba Fett that was two miles an hour it looked like they were on like rides at

the carnival or something and then this time they're not even on like speeders they're on bicycle the Star Wars equivalent of bicycles. They were going fast, they're going over cliffs, pirates are shooting at them. It doesn't feel slow, even like the Leia chase, I know that was on foot. But there are so many little things that you're like, how did everything else get green lit? Where they're like, yeah, that's ready to go out to the public. When this looks as good as it looked, the whole episode looked great. It's almost like I feel, I don't know if this is going gonna make sense as I say it, but in my brain it makes sense.

I feel like the first, like the original trilogy of Star Wars was filmed just, like, riding a bike, just two-wheeler, figure it out. And they fucking did, and obviously it took a ton of work and whatever, creativity. But then, like you said, like these more recent things, it felt like they had training wheels on. And like you said, it was like they're almost on a track and they had like a, what is, what do they call it? If you have, um, there's like a thing that it limits, uh, a governor, like it limits how fast you can go. Right. And then this one, they took it back off like, all right, just figure it out. And it's like, oh yeah. And there's no better way to the best thing you could say about this series and the reason that John Watts has the sauce is on is like the feelings it gave

you that felt like Star Wars and there's no way to describe how the difference between this and some of the other stuff we didn't like other than like, it just felt like Star Wars and for all of these people are crying. These people are that I think this is the crux of a lot of people's arguments who have had issues with the projects over the years. So also I love that there's Star Wars microwaves confirmed. Yeah, it's like they like they kind of do it from the bottom. It seemed like they did from the bottom. Yeah, that was cool.

A cool alternative. That's going to be a fun job for like the prop designer or whatever to be like, all right, let me come up with what does a microwave look like in the Star Wars universe? That's all like cool shit. Like you said, it just gives you good feelings. Like this whole season, I don't know if it's just because it's like, yes, it's a kid's show and it revolves around these kids saving the galaxy, but it almost feels like a comfort show right away. Like if I went back and watched the whole season, it gives those wholesome feelings the whole time. It gives you like a, this is going to be okay feeling, which the Goonies gives you as well and ET gives you as well. And it hit everything it was trying to evoke. I think it did. Jod destroys the supervisor. I thought that was a cool scene where he destroys

it and then it powers down all the supervision droids and you see from the center of that, at like all of the lights start going out. And when realizes it turns off the droids as well, which allows him to get out. Yeah. My favorite part was just like, it was so refreshing to have a droid have some logic to it. He's like, wait a sec. Which one are you lying about being a Jedi? I love that. And they're like our last Transmission was that all the Jedi readers? So tell me what's up, and I was like, oh fuck We're going order 66 level and then John also being like, ah fuck

I guess I got to destroy this thing now stabs the thing. I was sort of expecting an Oz type thing Right, yeah Now did you have the same thought I did? Did you think the captain was behind there? What's the captain's name? Sort of, yeah, Takrened, right? Takrened, Takrened. I sort of thought the same thing.

I thought, is, or is it gonna be someone we know? Is it gonna be Hondo? Is it gonna be Takrened? Is it gonna be a descendant of Niels? Remember, because we talked about how they had elephant looking statues and stuff. So all of these things are going through my mind. But yeah, wound up being nobody and I'm okay with that. I think it's kind of cool that

a droid was running this planet and this is the supervisor they talk about as this big fucking weird Roomba looking droid. Hand up. A lot of elephant slander by me on last episode turned out to be wrong. Elephant slander and fern slander early on in the show fern wound up being okay. I think I Why not like I I do not like the name fern and I don't like the name for no offense to our friend listeners They're the only friends I like and like I don't Furn was kind of being like come on mommy kid by the end. I'm gonna have a fern I want a fern who's fucking taking charge Aggressive little bit of prickers on that fern, you know what I mean? Yeah, and I just there I

Wanted more out of her but just the kids in general the way they were designed the way like you looked at them That was something that I don't know. They just didn't have the same breath as other star wars shows I used the word breath here on the body. Yeah, I guarantee same breadth as other star wars shows. I use the word breadth here on the body. Yeah, I guarantee no podcast at Mars. We'll have seven, no podcasts. Maybe the anus boys, they surprise you sometimes, you know, but no other podcasts other than my mom's basement. So the kids have to save the day here. And Wim goes off and rides a bike with his friends. His dad's yelling at him at first, but then the dad joins and they

have that nice moment where he's like, can you turn it off? He's like, son, can I turn it off? I'm a level seven system coordinator. Anytime you have a job that kind of just feels like grinding away in the cubes and that you can apply that job as a quality assurance analyst for years at ESPN, whatever like a app would come up and in general, the buddy QA analysts right here, I even say the new apps, like you guys use Jared to log your bugs or what? Like I'm here talking to industry. I was so happy for that fucking guy.

And I kind of hated that guy the whole time because he's such a fucking, I know I'm going to square little shade vibes on him. Would you say that's fair? Che vibes. Yeah. Would you say that's fair? Che vibes? Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, Che could be, if you told me Che went out into the Star Wars galaxy, he became a level seven system core. No doubt.

For sure. Good for Che. Like he's the man. Yeah. Yeah, I could definitely see that. And then while they're up there kind of distracting Jod, Fern and her mom are up there with Wim and his dad. Neil got blown away earlier on in the episode.

And he's like, just go without me. And I thought they would be like, we can't. But they were like, OK. And they just keep going. And then KB has to go in the ship, get outside the barrier because it was like they shut it down but didn't totally destroy it. Then she goes outside to try to send the message to the rebel owl, which was Kim, spelled

funny. And now she sends this message to Kim, talks to her on the hologram. She's like, hey, can you send those X-wings? And she has a line like X-wings, I'll send the whole frigging New Republic after you. And here's where my mind again went to cameos. And I know it shouldn't, but I'm like, all right, well at the end of the last Mandalorian season, he kind of made a deal with the New Republic, right? Where he's like, I kind of work for you now. So I was like, are we

getting the Mandalorian showing up to take down the pirates again? Because he was good at it. But again, they kind of went the opposite direction and it was just X-wings, it was B-wings as well, but it's the New Republic. They are the ones who get to save the day here it's kind of nice because it's like yeah we hear a ton about the New Republic being good for the galaxy and the X-Wings saving the day but we don't get to see it at all it's usually our heroes with the help of the X-Wings it's nice to be like all right the X-Wings are a fucking a force they can come down and start chopping these pirate ships up,

sending pirates to the clink. I liked all of that. Yeah, because usually the New Republic, they're going up against whatever that iteration of the empire is at that point. And those motherfuckers are ruthless and they win. But pirates are lower on the food chain. They're a much smaller fish.

So it's like, they're just like, oh fuck, X-wings, this is gonna be a problem. So I did appreciate that as well. This whole thing where it was like getting the ship, taking off, getting to the bird, then the bird getting the X wings. I'm speaking in dumb clumbering. The whole barrier. And then killing all the, getting rid of all the pirates. That was a lot in a little time

So that was when I say it was talking about that's fine I'm not gonna complain you're right about that and even mixed into that as KB ship going down and then thinking she crashed and There's a lot in a little yes It was an hour long I'm not complaining at all. It's just that was like shit Like I feel like it was so deliberate all the other stuff to get to where they did it like how the fuck are the x-wing is going to get here that was like three episodes worth of shit to get to that point and granted the kids didn't know what they were doing on the ship anyway uh but yeah like

you said you said it perfectly enough the new republic is always just getting their dicks handed to them kind of see them be bad asses for. Yeah. And then we kind of have a Vader spinning out ending for Jod. It reminded me of that, where he's watching everything go down. And he has that moment where he, looking at the window, realizes he has failed in this moment. And Wim, getting in the elevator, almost reached out. Wim feels the light in him still.

Wim has that hope that every main Star Wars character should have. But they just leave it there. And I have a feeling we'll see Jod again, whether it's a season two of Skeleton Crew, I don't know. The viewership was down. I don't know if they'll get a second season. But I think he could show up in a Mandalorian movie. He could show up in the eventual Dave Filoni movie,

as can these kids. And I think it would mesh well. I think it would be cool if they crossed universes. It is the same timeline. But as far as the ending of the show itself, I thought that gave 80s vibes as well. There was an article I read a while ago, I think it was on Uproxx or something,

but it was by Mike Ryan, a writer I like. And he wrote, in the 80s, movies would just end. Like, as soon as the story was over, movies are over. And now, you usually get a conclusion then like the fallout a little bit. You would get if this were a 2025 story, you would get them eating cereal the next day and talking about the test they still have to take and we sent John to prison, but they don't give you any of that. The story is kind of just over when they save the day.

And I appreciated that because it makes your mind go in places of what happened next. Did you feel the same way about that? No, you're right. I didn't think about that at the time, but that is the way you would get your brain to start chewing and being like, what else happened here? And that's where I think a lot of people would then write books or some sort of expanded universe shit. Cause yeah, the goonies kind of just ends like that, like on the beach shit. Yeah, he's kind of just ends like that like on the beach You know, it's kind of just like oh, it's over just immediately as they get back. It's over. Yep Jodh and like these characters if they pass by they don't need to be main characters But like you said no good being John's entire story and the stuff with the force and how he was raised by a Jedi

Who then was hung? That was good. I thought that was very cool and subtle. We didn't get flashbacks to a kid with a lightsaber scared. Like we saw that so many times already now in Order 66 flashbacks. We love Order 66. It's the snap of the Star Wars universe, but I thought it was very tasteful how they did it. Yes, and you realize why he was like, I don't want to fucking kill these kids. But I also don't want to I was also poor my whole life. And I want to have more money than I can. Like his greed made a lot more sense when you hear about that words like I was basically nothing. I was a sandworm essentially for years getting absolutely nothing. I hate to admit this. I'm going to admit this on the pod and no one can hold this against

me. Is that fair to say? Yeah, go a go a lot of different ways. I realize, but you know, there was a moment when John had his gun pointed at women and I thought it would be funny if he shot them. I just thought it would have been funny. No doubt. It would have been funny. If it was just like, boom, it's just like, Oh my God, shot him also had a lightsaber moment. That was like good for him. He got his lightsaber. I was happy. I was happy for that. But I like, oh my God, like shot him also had a lightsaber moment. That was like good for him. He got his lightsaber. I was happy. I was happy for that.

But I like there's times where I'm like, I just would jog what had like a little bit of heal in him where he's like, shoots him in the kneecap or something. So that that would have been good. But Jod, I don't know, man, like he did play that gray area very well. You know, I didn't SM 33 lives, by the way, that was another thing we didn't mention. Love that. SM33Lives, that was great. Nice ending with the Scrooge McDuck almost,

like all the coins falling into New Republic credits. And I liked Wim's look out, almost like, I don't need to bring up bad feelings, but The Last Jedi reminded me of the ending of The Last Jedi with the broom kid, looking up at the ships in the sky and stuff. That reminded me, Wim looking up at the X-Wings, it was like, Oh, he's thinking his head, I'm going to do that one day.

Some Luke Skywalker shit, right? Yeah. I liked that. And you could even like whims, the kind of character that you could have a show and you're like, Hey, this is when when he's 30 and he's an X-Wing pilot now. And I would kind of think that's sick. Maybe they could now, where are we in terms of timeline compared to the sequel trilogy? We're way before still.

It's the same timeline as the Mandalorian. So we're just five years after Return of the Jedi. And we've still got like, I think, like 15, 20, 25 maybe years. Be trying to think if there's any character that they say is when they can be like, hey, look, the sequels aren't that bad. They can make it right. When was Finn! The pirate ship was badass when the pirate ship was badass because this is the thing about pirates

when you see them and they're just a bunch of odd misfits it's basically like you're looking at the surviving bar stool cast at any point. It is like look at these fucking clowns and they're just motherfucking each other. But then like if you're a town being invaded by pirates, that's horrifying. They are. The way it came through the clouds. Yeah. Yeah. They're pillaging your shit. You know what I mean? Yeah. Take it over. So like I love that the pirates became like the pirate ship was legitimately scary and badass until the X-Wing came and fucked it up. So I did appreciate that as well. And we never got the, we never found out who the captain was, the tech red, right? I guess it didn't matter. And that's fine. Like that's something that doesn't have to be wrapped up. I was really hoping we're

at some sort of cool, it doesn't have to be an existing character, but if there's some like, he basically is in it and he's just living the fucking high life He has all the money you could ever want but that's that's such a non-traditional way for a pirate to land a score I'd love it. I got my score and I basically made it so no one will ever know where this place is I thought that was pretty cool. Hey, it might come in at season two I do think that the viewership numbers by the end will go up enough along with the critical claim that I do think they will either a come with the season two, which again, like Goonies to go on. He's really like, do you want a bunch of you don't need it? You don't need it.

But I'd welcome it because I really liked it. And John Watts does have the sauce, but you don't need it. I also like just hope it tells you like, hey, we can do a bunch of different. It doesn't have like, I don't want now like 10 kids shows to come out of this either. Yeah. I want them to know you can go different genres. It's just, you have to just make good shit. And or was great for different reasons.

And skeleton crew was great, but they were both great in their own special ways. Right? Yeah, absolutely. All right. That was skeleton crew. That's all I had to say on it, at least overall. Really, really happy with how many balls especially. Well, when we look at what it could have been to it could have been real bad on the ball scale.

I'm going to give skeleton crew like a 4.2 balls enjoyable the entire way through. It wasn't, you know, life changing. It wasn't the Mandalorian season two for me. That's like pretty close to five balls season two Mandalorian. It's tremendous season one too. But yeah, 4. like pretty close to five balls. Season two, man, already it's tremendous. Season one too. But yeah, 4.2, enjoyable all the way through. I told you, even Lady Fox was like looking forward to it every week.

And I feel like that even speaks to, she enjoys all the Star Wars shows and she watches all the superhero shows, me too. But the fact that someone that's more of a casual fan was getting excited and interested and really into the story every week shows, hey, if people were watching it, maybe they would have enjoyed it Yeah, I'm gonna grade it. I'm grading it on a curve obviously because as an adult I would try great it lower But I'm thinking if I was a kid watching this yeah, Star Wars show yada yada. It's like four to five balls. Yeah

I'm kind of ranking it on like what they were going for, you know, more than like exactly It's it is a kids show. I don't think I'm gonna rewatch it like immediately. Maybe one day. I'll rewatch it But it's not one where i'm like, oh I gotta go rewatch episode five again. That was amazing, you know or anything like that This is the biggest so the biggest wins of star wars I'd say mando is the biggest win because that was like oh shit. This is is Star Wars They're gonna be awesome at TV now didn't turn out to be the case and baby Yoda was absolute Grand slam walk-off. Yes, there is all that. Oh, the Freddie Freeman star didn't bring it up up Number two, it's so nice to have the upper hand and I feel that just occasionally jab a Yankee fan even though Number two, I think and or still is a bigger

even though I know. Number two, I think Andor still is a bigger, nice success for Disney. Yes, it is. And a better show. I mean, overall, I thought it was a better show. Better show, for sure. But this is like a solid number three. I think if you look back,

I don't even know what else is even close. Like Ahsoka, a lot of fans liked, but also I know a lot of fans didn't love Ahsoka. This one, I know a lot of fans didn't watch, but those that did, I didn't get anything on Twitter really or Instagram that was negative about SkeletiGru. A lot of positive stuff. A lot of people saying the same stuff we're saying of, I'm surprised more people aren't into this.

And you know, this is kind of the Star Wars that we wanted. This is the Star Wars that makes you feel like a kid again, brings you back to your youth. And yeah, good show. Good stuff by John Watts. This is the Star Wars that makes you feel like a kid again brings you back to your youth and yeah Good show good stuff by John Watts good stuff by Dave Filoni and John Favreau. I know they were slightly involved as well and Good stuff Kathleen Kennedy. I don't know how much she was involved But if I'm gonna pull her down where everything gets delayed, I got a good credit where it's due

But she's gonna point to that be like I was a part of this goddamn I'm fair. Yeah. So what did we say? Is the philony is that the pull in case of emergency? Are they getting their sign? They're getting out of sign. They got a sign. They got a sign. They got they have to have a sign. They have to have a sign. Yeah. And philony has a cowboy hat over philony because I just love it. Yeah. And john Favreau has like a halo because he's just the best. He's an angel. Let's tell everyone about DraftKings before we move on and talk about the finale of Surviving Barstool.

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because we're like, could this be construed as a spoiler? I don't even know. Now it's over, spoiler, spoiler, spoilers. Congrats to Rhea, the winner of season four of Surviving Barstool. I was very happy to see it. I'm obviously very close with Rhea, we've been friends. We came in in the same intern class.

We went into Surviving Barstool saying, hey, if we're on the same tribe, we'll be in alliance. Never wound up making it there. I was out in a cup of coffee, but I was thrilled to see it. It was a crazy episode. It was very uncomfortable for big portions of the episode. I almost texted you like, all right, we're done recapping surviving barstool now. We ain't doing this. But yeah, even mama Fox texted me and was just like, these speeches are very uncomfortable. And I was like, I know, I told you it's going to get real contentious in the end.

I was wondering if it was just me because I am not a confrontation person. It's again, one of the reasons why I will always, I think if you, if anyone said no to Dave asking you to be in surviving bar stool, you're not basically leaving the company, but you're basically putting yourself in like the Smitty tier and his like enemy list, right? And it's like, why would you do that?

I just know if I'm on it, I will stink at it. If I try, I will stink even worse at it. So I'd have to basically go in with the bid strategy and just be, and then when it's all said and done, I would just hate to be in that room as all these things are being said. just to hate to be in that room as all these I know are being said. That was when I was grateful I was out. I was like, thank God these guys fucking kicked my ass to the curb in two seconds because everyone just the fact that they all had to sit there while Kirk is yelling at Dan and Ria is obviously giving this like powerful speech about all she's gone through and Dan's yelling back.

And it's just Will and Rico went at it yesterday. Union, too. And that was funny when Will was like, here's some prize money from last year Rico turn around like he said go Get your fucking shine box. Everything is just so contentious Again, I have to say why did people think being nice would be like the key to winning this game? Yeah, they worked for like biz and stuff But this is also a professional athlete who could win these games and stuff like looking back People said it would you do Survivor again? Jeff Jeff acts the whole cast and everyone, you know, it's raising their hands if you would do it again I would do it again because I had a lot of fun

But there's no chance I would be even slightly decent at it Like I hope we run it back but do a different game show format because there's no chance in a million years I would ever be good at Survivor. Yeah, it's it's tricky because there's no chance in a million years I would ever be good at Survivor. Yeah, it's tricky. And like I said, a guy like Biz, he's also a good athlete and he had alliances too. Totally, yeah. Alliances coming into the game, the pro-athlete connection. Megan making money, she made it to the finals without alliances, but again, it was hard for her to get votes at that point because she didn't have alliances. I was trying to think what speech would I have made if I was Megan?

And it's a really tough spot, especially when you have these, you know, a lot of people are killers in that room. And that's why they're mad because they weren't able to kill other people and make it. And I'm like, the only way you can do is and she kind of did this in a sense, but be like, I'm trying because that's Megan's route to the finals is basically the only way I get there. It's like you play the you're nice. You kind of just let everyone else kill each other. Hopefully you're like standing like Don Cheadle in Boogie Nights. It's Don't.

And I would have been like, listen, guys, you can give the prize to whoever win, you know, had the best game or to Dave because, you know's Dave and Rhea they did the thing or you could just say fuck the game fuck these backstabbers I'm gonna give money someone who needs it has two kids and is a good fucking person and listen is that the survivor way to vote who gives a fuck this is all game it's orange there's no rules saying you have to vote for the person that played the best game no it's whatever you want to and that's what people convince themselves because that's what usually happens to a survivor, I completely understand.

But if like, if she could have, I don't know if there is a way to make that argument that specific. I don't know. She would have had to make it so anti-David Ria's alliance to get the house almost because Ronan Kirk, I think talked about that right before they went off to vote. They showed a quick clip of them talking in the house, right?

As everyone was getting in a car to go back to the house. And I think they were kind of like, yeah, what if we just say, fuck their alliance? Like, I know you guys rigged it or whatever they were saying, like, why don't we just give it to her to say, fuck you to them. And that was almost like, it wasn't how the house was feeling, but it was a thought that was brought up. But I don't know if there was at that point for her, unfortunately, I don't know if there was at that point for her. Unfortunately, I don't know if there was any speech she could have made to turn the jury. Seemed like the jury was pretty locked, although the jury seemed like

they were going to vote for Dave going into that as well. I thought the way it was edited again, shout out to all the editors and the behind the scenes people that worked on it. I felt like I knew who was winning that. And going into the final edit I was even like oh fuck I don't know who's winning this that two votes to two votes to two votes and then oh, yeah, but yeah Congrats to Ria again. She played a great game she's getting shit on online right now, which is tough to see because

It's such an over-the-top extreme level where I want to remind everyone This is a reality show where it was a game and the point of the game is to backstab and manipulate and lie this isn't like who these people truly are at their core you know what I mean like I think there's a disconnect also because our life to a point is a reality show not in this sense we're not getting voted off islands and stuff Well, so much of us is on camera at all times I think a lot of people feel like they know us which is a great thing and a benefit of Barstool because

for the most part you do but when you're in the context of survivor and in the context of sleeping in that office for seven days and Literally having to backstab as your main objective and goal to the game That's not like a reason to judge someone's character. That's, and that's not just Ria either. Other people are getting on in the game as well, but it's, it's one of those things that as their friend and coworker, it kind of sucks to see. Yeah. I mean, that's, I was really getting a product of, I think, uh, Dave said it on the unnamed. So if you go to Twitter, you're going to have like,

Twitter is usually a much more evil place for lack of a better term, where you just have people just spewing just vitriol and hate. And then Reddit could sometimes be like that too. Whereas maybe Instagram, you have more like girl boss and all that kind of shit. And there's, I mean, I mean, it was normal, it's just more positive people, you know, and a lot of times it's look up to your Facebook So your name and you're like actual instead of just you know, fucking Texans fan 69 420 guys just It's a little different you actually have to put a little more. There's a little more real in the world Um, I also have to think like so it's also really catches a lot of shit. Also, I thought really played from day one I was like she played the best game for sure. Yeah, she was

controlling the whole thing in the palm of her hand and I do think it was like Dave said 6040 Dave definitely played his role as well and the pink wedding cannot be understanding. It's also like the emotion stuff which I

think girls are going to get emotional. It happened a lot in this with the crime guys are going to get like angry which it's like the guys are just crying in a different way. It, it's also she, but then to go from she's crying to then she's like, you know, taunting people to then crying again. That's like back and forth.

But I also do think playing a game where there's 20 something eliminations in seven days causes an absolute fucking brain pretzel. Now if you do that over three weeks, it's a different kind. It's a marathon. You're so worn down from it, but doing it all in condensed time, it's like binging a show versus watching a show throughout the season. Because it fucks with your brain. It changes your brain in two different ways. So I think that's a big part of it. And then the other thing everyone's talking about is, is the game rigged?

Is it better towards Dave? And I used to say it is kind of crazy that like Dave could scare certain people, probably two people in this podcast included, to not want to devote them because it is a real life thing. And then I thought about this and I'm like you know in Survivor you don't see these people, they're gone out of your life and you can do whatever you want. Surviving Barstool is not the same. And I said, well, half of the title of Surviving Barstool is Barstool.

You work at Barstool, that's just the reality of the show. So if Dave's there, Dave's not there, if you're worried about what Big Cat could do to your career or if you're worried about having Kirk send his minions at you, that's part of Barstool. So you work at Barstool, that's part of Barstool. So part of the game that's part of the game you just have to realize that if you're a fan of the show or a viewer of the show and people who don't follow Barstool may not know as much but that is just as much of a part of season three. Yes that cast recognized that and that cast got Dave and Dan out pretty early. Dan he was the first one out and Dave a little later like yes when Dan came to me day one and said,

hey, Smitty's the move. Maybe in hindsight, I should have said, oh fuck, let me go to Smitty and say, Smitty, your ass is on the chopping block and let's get wallow and let's try to get mince. We could have tried to scramble something there, but it's just like, we didn't. We chose to listen to Big Cat in that moment.

Maybe part of it was due to, yeah, he has like big stature here. Maybe he would be a good person to listen to. That's all stuff that was on us to realize going into the game. That's not like hindsight's 20-20, oh, it was rigged. Like, I think that was all we should have been on that better in the game. This cast should have been better. It's not, it's a little like sour grapes, I feel like, to be like the game's rigged. Yeah, that's just like what it does. The dozens rig doesn't this just trying to get

these wins reigning champion that doesn't man if Dave had won the dozen and surviving bars, he would have never stopped talking about it. Yeah, by the way, basically is considering it a win just because he got will come out. Him coming out in the jersey was hysterical. Even will couldn't hide his laughter on that one. You know this, I know this, any OG Sully knows this. Dave's face and his voice after hearing about Will's text message, that was better than $250,000 in his bank account will ever do to him. Seeing Whit and- He said that to Rhea. Yeah, he's like, you just gave me a gift. That's the truest thing, man. And he loves this kind of shit. He's sick. He's twisted.

That's just who Dave. Dave has been like that since the Milton days, right? And like I said, on the Unnamed Show, like he gets off on like torturing his employees, watching his employees like go for each other's throats. And this show has allowed that to like become like an angle thing. Now, I do think kind of going back to the surviving bar stool thing and how it's uniquely bar stool. Dave also said like, you can only do this show so many times so you're not gonna have a company anymore. Cause like, there's definitely, there was wounds that were, you know, open during the show

and a lot of them will heal, but there's gonna be scars. And I do think that there's probably people from season three for all I know seasons one and two as well. And then definitely this season that people may have like professional relationships, friendships, whatever it may be with each other, but there's times where it's never going to be the same thing. Hey, there's a bunch of people back in the day. My Rico Bosco used to fucking you'd be dead to him for the rest of your life.

If you didn't talk to him long enough in a Mets game, right? So it is kind of, Rico's dead to me from the game. We haven't talked since the game when he went up to my tribe and said, you got to get Robbie out. He's very likable. I swore him off for life and we haven't talked since Rico actually texted me last night. He said, um, and this is a he's first. He said, you got to do this next year. And I said, uh, I said, I will do whatever, but I know I am going to be absolutely terrible. He goes, it's not for

the week and the, um, what did he say? It's not for the week. It's something else. And I go, that is me. And I'm also happy to go lucky. Like I am, but he said on his own, he goes, looking back, I shouldn't have said Robbie is the guy to get out there. Cause it's like, you gotta get the killers out. You gotta get the killers out of the room. No, I don't actually, I don't actually care. Rico's like apologized to me. But I was gonna say, I truly, Big Cat is still not welcome in the basement and never will

be. In fact, I might. Yeah, no, no. Oh, you know what? There is a sign. No Big Cat's allowed. Yeah. And it's not even a light sign. It's on the door. Like, you know, if you're like a street sign allowed. Yeah. No big cats allowed. Yeah, that's right. We got it. We got his ass back. All right. That was surviving Barstool, the finale. That was Skeleton Crew, the finale. Interesting how it lined up.

We had finale week in my mom's basement this week. And we'll be back next week. Talk about, I don't know, nerd news and whatever the hell else we talk about. Maybe I'll get some daredevil crushed by then. We'll recap it there. But remember, I'll do a video game stream live on the channel, Marvel Rivals, Tuesday at 4 p.m. Join the chat. We can talk. We could chop it up.

You can give me some advice. We'll talk to you then. We're going to have to get a whole episode one of these days too, for sure. Yes.