My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 425 - ANDOR SEASON 2 PREMIERE (EPISODES 1-3)

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

Robbie and Clem recap the #Andor Season 2 premiere (Episodes 1-3) as well as discuss the Star Wars Celebration Japan news, the new looks at Fantastic Four/Superman, and even the new Predator trailer! #AndorSeason2 #StarWars **************************************** 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-basement GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, [phone] or visit gamblinghelplinema.org (MA). Call 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT), or visit www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD). 21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT/OR/NH. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). 1 per new customer. $5+ first-time bet req. Max. $200 issued as non-withdrawable Bonus Bets that expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout. Terms: sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 5/18/25 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK.You 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 Moms 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 another episode of My Moms basement presented by Barstool Sports. It is Robbie and Clem in person for the first time in a while. Clem is in to film some snack boys content today and NFL draft is going on tonight. So we said let's hop in the basement, let's talk, and or finally, the three episode premiere, as well as a ton of nerd news. And a lot of stuff to talk about,

the basement is heating up. It is heating up, and it's a good time for the basement. I just showed you some of the trailers and some of the videos we're gonna talk about today. It's all good stuff today. All good, look, who would've thought, us, right? I know, nothing that we're upset about. I'm sure we'll get the secret invasion at some point. Well, we always get there. Check it off on the bingo already. But for now it's all positive stuff.

Look at us. We've done it, Bob. We, and not only that, the basement is hot this week because content is being pumped out. If you're not watching, if you, if you are wondering where the last of us recap is, there's an episode for that. Yes. There's an episode for WrestleMania with the rocket. There's a lot of stuff coming out these days and then we get to kind of chop it up with Andor and then some basement keeping as well, which kind of touches on a lot of different

stuff we get as well with all the different trailers that are coming out, which is going to be a wild summer. Yeah. And potentially we're going to talk about a little bit, a wild spring, but a better than expected spring potentially coming up here in the movies. Absolutely. I mean, the first thing being Thunderbolts reactions. Thunderbolts had an overseas premiere, I think a European premiere. Pedro Pascal was on the red carpet. Florence Pugh, obviously making waves. Everyone was talking about the red carpet. And then after the movie,

everyone was talking about how good it was. It was post credit scenes are amazing. The movie's amazing. Back to the original Marvel feel best movie since endgame. I feel like that's almost for Star Wars. Everything is the best project since Empire. Now that's become the Marvel bar best project since endgame. But everything we've heard is pretty fucking great We're going to see it on Monday So we will have a podcast ready to go like as soon as you guys see Thunderbolts when you leave the theater

You'll have our podcast already out. I'm really excited I'm excited and then hopefully everyone else is excited because I know if it was like the other way around where I was listening When I watch some of these movies, I'm like, I'm not gonna listen to the boys today Like I don't need to hear about this. Yeah more so I'm hoping we can get back to the point and things, but I was like, there is a chance it can be good. Oddball, suicide squad, maybe a little guardians kind of vibe to it, but on a much lesser version, but it sounds like raise the floor up a little, a good amount on that. And then also like, what did you say about one of the post credit scenes? One of the best, maybe the best post credit scene ever.

People are tweeting one of the first tweets I saw the main kind of feeling on the post credit scene is yes, that it's super important and super awesome. People are saying one of the best the MCU has ever had. I assume it leads into Avengers in some way, considering how close we are, and knowing that Thunderbolts are gonna be in that movie. But yeah, that, I mean, at the very least, Marvel fans are like, Oh my God,

that post credit scene rocked. That's going to be what we walk out of the theater feeling. This is what I'm not expecting. But this is I'm thinking it's going to mirror Thanos put in the glove on fire with myself because I think we're going to get like, I think it's going to be a reveal. I think it'll probably be a villain and it'll be some sort of whether it's a gauntlet kind of Artifact or something where it's a new mask. Oh shit Yeah, picking up a doom mask or something. You see a hand pick it up time to go to work So like that, I mean you could literally just mirror it You could have doom say I'll do it myself and I'd be like, well, they're referencing the post guys

Kang Fu maybe maybe the return of a little Kang Fu. Just maybe can get obliterated. So you see the top side of the head. Yeah. Very excited for that, though, obviously comes out next week. So we're very close to Thunderbolts hitting and hopefully it does well. Box office wise. I can't tell if like maybe word of mouth is going to carry it, but obviously doesn't have the drawing power that even like a Captain America has

where they had the Red Hulk and Harrison Ford and everything. Credit to me for not mentioning this, the post credit scene from that movie. Credit to you. We also saw like this week what the leader was originally supposed to look like, and he looked a lot more comy and bigger head. I do. I think I liked the original version better, which is unfortunate. I didn't hate the one they put in brave new world, but the original concept art

and what it looked like more comic. Yeah. I did think, I think it could have worked. I could, it's such a, the character in general and then how it's going to turn the screen is kind of tricky. So that, that is the leader was by far not the only rough point of the movie. There was plenty of other things he could nitpick,

so I could live with it. Also, real quick, basement keeping. I kinda skipped over that because we went right into Thunderbolts, but May 4th stream is just over a week away. It's a week from Sunday. It'll be 11 a.m. on Sunday to 11 a.m. on Monday. I have a ton of stuff planned, a ton of guests planned.

It's going to be a fun time. Hopefully people tune in. I don't know if they are going to tune in. I almost think the prospect of me doing a 24 hour Star Wars stream that gets 12 concurrence is as funny as, you know, having a successful stream. It's like the shirt you sold exactly one. Yeah. Return to the J.J. What a different world. Barso. Yeah. Yeah. Return of the JJ. What a different world.

Barso. Yeah. Yeah. Shirts like that. And then I've still been doing Tuesday streams. Marvel rivals this Tuesday will be the last one of season one. I know we're in Marvel rival season two already with Emma Frost and everything but my mom's basement season one will conclude on this Tuesday. So Tuesday at 4 PM. Tune in, check that out. And before we get into the rest of the news, let's also remind everyone about Game Time.

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for $20 off your first purchase, terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code MMB. What time is it? Game time. All right, now the rest of the news and fun stuff we have to talk about, continuing along the Marvel path. We got a new Fantastic Four trailer that is pun intended fantastic.

It is fucking awesome. I am, I'm gonna say this, I'm gonna go out on a limb. I think I'm as excited for Fantastic Four as I am Superman. I think my hype levels are genuinely the same for each of these movies because I think they're gonna kinda do the same thing for their respective universes where

Superman is gonna bring people back and we're gonna have this feeling of James Gunn in James Gunn We trust they said in the little behind-the-scenes thing. We'll talk about that too, but for Fantastic Four Yes, Thunderbolts is hopefully gonna get people back on board a little bit But I think Fantastic Four is gonna be the movie where people go. Oh, we're fully back and we're fully ready for Avengers. Yeah. And this was the official trailer. Yeah. And I'm like, what the fuck was the one you people watching like a two hour Q&A teaser trailer, the official teaser one. Oh, is that not the official trailer? What the fuck?

But I blogged, I said that joke like this officially got me excited for the movie because now we got more of a direction of where it's going. But I blogged, I said that joke like this officially got me excited for the movie because now we got more of a direction of where it's going. Yes. You got a vibe of the world that they're living in, the characters themselves. Silver Surfer showed up. So the surfer as a girl makes you feel things. But I was feeling some weird feelings. That's Ruth Langmore. I do not feel that way towards Ruth, but I good thing large isn't here because I'm sure he goes our guy I know he's a silver surfer guy though oh the girl silver surfer yeah read the books so uh this silver surfer though and Galactus uh like you said it just gets you like okay this is coming let's fucking go and I've seen some

theories about the silver surfer and Galactus already that I kind of like. So there's a theory that there's only one Galactus. He's a Nexus being in every multiverse. There's one. It doesn't make complete sense to me because in Rise of the Silver Surfer, if they want to acknowledge that, the second Fantastic Four movie,

he was kind of just a cloud. Like Galactus existed as a cloud. He's obviously comic Galactus in this. He looks like Galactus should look. If they were to make that all somehow comic Galactus in this. He looks like Galactus should look. If they were to make that all somehow one Galactus, you could tell a pretty interesting story about Galactus punishing the Silver Surfer from that movie for betraying him

by using his love interest as his herald. It's like she has no choice. She's trapped being obviously every Silver Surfer Galactus story at some point ends with silver surfer betraying him I think that would be a cool way to tell that story and then bring the Silver surfer we know in as an antihero at some point. Are you saying Dave Portnoy is Galactus and Rico is You could make a case

Yeah Similarity yeah You could make a case. Yeah. Some similarities. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to see Rico as the silver surfer just going after me or something on the surfboard. I could see silver surfer also giving Galactus the immunity. Yeah. Oh, totally. And it's like silver surfer.

You're better than that. But then silver surfer bets against his team and tries to make money off Galactus. Yes. Galactus is like, you're trying to extort me Silver Surfer. Very complicated relationship, both here at Barstool and in the fucking Cosmos or whatever. Yeah. That whole thing is kind of, I think where the movie rights for me is they could just dumb it down or make it make sense for me. I'll be happy. And again, they're trying to do this for kids, people who don't really know much about Marvel.

They were going to price explain the same thing 10 different times and all these different upcoming movies that deal with cosmos and whatever they're going to do in the coming battle worlds and stuff like that. Uh, so I'm, I'm interested in seeing how it goes, but I felt good. I also, this was my take and I don't think I'm alone in this. I think there's a chance they lose here too. Yes. I think at the very my take. I don't think I'm alone in this. I think there's a chance they lose here too. Yes. I think at the very least they lose their universe or get separated from their universe,

which seems to be its own corner right now. They're saying there's no other heroes right now in this retro futuristic universe. You have to separate them from that before doomsday to get them to the MCU. Obviously I'm wondering when Secret Wars is said and done, are we in one streamlined timeline, or will the Fantastic Four be like, all right, we're going back to the 60s, and that'll kind of be their corner, where the Guardians had this interesting

realm of the MCU where it felt completely different, it looked completely different. Can the Fantastic Four keep that? I think they can, even if they don't go back to their universe, but I'll be interested to see what happens there Okay, how do I say I'm not gonna okay, I'm not gonna mention the show I do think there is potential When it's all said and done for them to be a lot of scroll stuff, right? Yeah, you could get into scroll stuff But it's like are the scrolls like

radioactive right now where you don't want to get into scroll stuff, right? And the next two Avengers, Jose would like smack somebody. We got to close the door on it at the very least. Close the door, but then like open a new door. I like, I don't know how. Are you saying we have to like wrap it up and like make, put a bow on it basically? Yeah. Because what we just going to have like the lines like daredevil where every

criminal is going to be like, Oh, maybe he's a scroll like forever. They're going to be like, who knows? We all might be scrolls. Like we need to, I mean, even just Don Cheadle himself, roadie, like let's figure out what was going on there. Was he a scrolls and civil war? I can't believe we're going into it. I don't want you.

Let's get off it. Let's get off it. But I do think the fantastic four, I hope we're going into it. I don't want you. Let's get off it. Let's get off it. But I think the fantastic four, I hope we're streamlined and everything's together. Yeah. And the scrolls are a part of it. And in the next two years we are able to, I mean, that's one of those, that's the one where the plane was upside down. That's what I think we can do. Listen, planes already upside down. It's already on the runway. Sparks are going off,

but just like get everyone off alive and we can progress from there. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping whether it's between the Fantastic Four or the two years with the two Avengers as the temples get us there. I love the whole look of it too. It was the first time we saw Mr. Fantastic Stretch. Yep. We saw a few different shots of the thing that were all cool him carrying that boat in the water. Him in the, I called it the Avengers disguise where he just has a baseball hat on. Oh, that was so funny. So good. And he did the old juggernaut bitch. He was not columns or whatever. Yeah.

I'm so excited for this movie. I can't wait. And then baby. Oh, confirm pregnancy. We got the, yes, they're not trying to hide that anymore. Nathaniel Richards is who we're thinking that's, and he's like the key to it all, which I don't know what the fuck that means. Yeah. The thing of Richards and fucking we got to get Jose and to explain that one like you get him and cable together and my brain melts trying to figure out how time and all that works. Imagine Josh Brolin shows up at the end of this one.

Just just here to break Clem's brain. Put him as fucking thing. Oh, Richards, too. So you have him as cable. But they were all three guys. I like that. and then Superman the behind-the-scenes look I mentioned that also dropped this weekend quick two minute video for Superman day happy Superman day to everyone out there happy belated Superman day and Rachel Brosnahan says in James Gunn we trust you couldn't believe it you you you shouted as you said it, you were like, she stole our line. That was a fucking good will hunt. Yeah. It took my line.

And James Gunn, we trust them. I think we can do it. It's our fucking line. Uh huh. That was our that's our do we have a sign? I think we have. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got a sign. Yeah. So she just read the sign.

I don't know. I didn't like that, but I do like that That's the thought going into yes, right now. I think everyone on that set is gonna say only the nicest things for a video for DC But you can kind of see there's a belief in that feels genuine it like I know I'm silly They're the best actors in the world They can convince me anything But it really seems genuine seeing all the sets that they built seeing that they went out to Norway or the Arctic wherever the fuck they were to film that stuff and they weren't on a volume or a blue screen. Not opposed to that, but I like the physical stuff that much more.

So I'm so stoked for this. And I think we're going to need to do maybe for Fantastic Four and Superman, but definitely for Superman, like an office outing because Tommy smokes wants to be in Clemmer wants to be in. We've got a squad that is really in on Superman. Uncle Tony came up in our snack. Boy, yeah, Uncle Tony is not going to this movie, as we know very well. A basement legend already, an instant legend in the basement.

Uncle Tony. Oh man. I mean, I hope that we get to the point where the next Superman people are showing up with the outfit on because it's such an iconic look the s all that's right again bright colors logos back on the cape now what if it gives us like a 6.6 of the movie oh it'll be so it'll be like the wrestlemania main event probably where we'll be like listen what james gunn has done is great but that really put a sour taste in. Yeah. It's hard to walk away from that feeling. Cause it's like, Hey guys, remember the penguin

and Hey peacemakers come out. Yeah. It was really good. And there are some other things, but as it's getting closer, I am coming to the makers also right after this peacemakers a month after this, are they trying to get ahead of it and being like, I don't want to put that thought out. Oh, I've got faith. I've got faith in James Gunn. He was tweeting James Gunn is tweeting all support for John Cena. He tweeted like there was a Cody Rhodes clip where he was like, I don't need what Hollywood has. And James Gunn was like, well, now it's personal. I appreciated that. And then I just showed you the trailer for the Mandalorian and Grogu that was shown at Star Wars Celebration Japan this weekend. It's very hard to find online.

I tried to find it. Thank God I had it saved on my phone to show Clem because it's been taken down everywhere. I found a link that I had to decode, put in a decoder I never heard of to get a Google Drive link and they took the Google Drive down. So the mouse is out, the mouse is out. But why are they trying to take this video down, Clem? Because it's so fucking awesome. It's ready. Show the people. It'll only generate hype. I got I was so happy watching that. Yeah. And I actually got a real lot early on to describe it.

I think we could describe it. Yeah. It's Mando going, we hear the woo, and he get the Darth Vader flashbacks from Row 1, and he's in a hallway, but it ends up being an AT-AT, and he's just ripping shit up. It's like a one-shot, him killing people, blaster, flamethrower, knives. Flamethrower completely kind of works,

like it lays the guy on fire, it really doesn't do anything. Still has to shoot the guy to kill him. Like it was, it was, I'm starting to think that's a running joke that they're out there. The amount of like baby Yoda just fucking using the force. Getting after. He's evolving a little bit. I thought we were.

Swimming? Yep. So would you say, I mean, I know it's technically the celebration trailer. This feels like the official trailer. It feels like they'll probably put the teaser trailer on. That's a lot for a t two and a half minutes. Sigourney Weaver. Yes, we get the first look at buff hut.

The hut that Jeremy Allen White's gonna play. He's like a gladiator. He's got fucking jacked arms and he's cheering. I'll be interested to see who he's fighting. Are we gonna see like him fight a rancor him fight like a character or a species? We know from Star Wars something like that or even yeah um the episode two creatures from the gladiator calcium there I don't want to see the fucking good morning guards I'm done with it

fucking done um looks really fucking good though I again I don't know why they didn't put this out publicly when they dropped it for Celebration, because Celebration did get a lot of buzz and people were talking about it during the weekend. It was tricky for me to be in Las Vegas, different time zone, trying to follow WrestleMania, also trying to follow Star Wars Celebration. I would get home for the day and be like,

all right, I'm about done for the day, and then Star Wars Celebration would be starting. That's fun. Yeah. Cause yeah, your time zones are all the way in Vegas, but then it's even more over. Um, my favorite thing of the celebration trailer was all the nerdy laughs. Cause it's like, yeah, so much love in their heart for the franchise. Like about everything, a wheel rolls past Grogu and it gets a raucous laugh. People go nuts. The best. And listen, I mean, we went to Celebration. Being around those people is so, it's like such a unique experience, which LA 27 is a 27. And I texted Jeff D. Lowe right away. It's not even, they usually do Anaheim. It's right in Jeff D. Lowe's backyard. It's LA LA.

And we got, you know, Big Papa himself, the boss man. He said it might have to be Disneyland Disney Boys trip. Imagine getting Dave to Star Wars Celebration. Now, when does the Coco thing come out? Because that's when he wants to get out there. They start construction. We have time. We might all link up to. Yeah. Where he because he wants to dress up. He wants to go out. He wanted to do that for the Disney Boys video. Once they Jeff said, listen, you're not going to get it. They don't fuck around like that in Disney. You can't cosplay there. That is encouraged. We could, we could do it at Star Wars celebration and make its own video there. I will say celebration takes place after my wedding, which Dave keeps

saying he's in for the bachelor party. So he might be, that might be concluding the trilogy of the Disney. Hopefully we make it the next one. We do will have to be the Disney Boy strike back. We'll have to be and then the big news to come out of celebration. We got a couple little things a couple things to be excited about a mall animated series. That's going to be cool. I got to go down and find all the artwork they had because I

love when they blend Japanese artwork. Yes, so cool. A match made in America. Samurai shit they make them light sabers look like swords. They had in Fortnite they had a samurai Vader and a samurai stormtrooper. Oh shit. AJ hounded me to get him the stormtrooper every single time he turned on. Which is twice a day at the very least. And when it's on it's five every time he hey dad he goes to the store look at this stormtroopers out there but I mean this might be breaking to you I'm sure for tonight people definitely know new battle pass comes out May 2nd and I'm pretty sure it's gonna be Star Wars because it says there's a second May 4th that would make sense

and they've been making with weekend Yeah, I could found his way into the store again. So I'm thinking we're gonna be getting a little more star dude, even this this was a hot toys they put out exclusive for the The Star Wars celebration. It's a stormtrooper that just cherry blossoms printed on it and something as simple as that is so badass I love all the merch I think it was the best Theme they've ever had for Star Wars celebration. As far as the artwork goes, it looked as cool as I've ever seen anything look. Yeah, I mean,

LA could have some cool stuff. You'd be like a vintage Cali Hollywood kind of look. That could be cool. And I think that's a big anniversary too. 2027 will be 50 years of a new hope. So that's got to be a big celebration. A big celebration. Ryan Gosling confirmed. Look at it! We finally got to confirm Star Wars. I mean they're not in production yet. There is still plenty of tunnel. But listen, they're flying the GOS god as they call them on lights, camera, bar stool out to Japan. This has to be happening. It has to be for real. It has to be legit. Now I don't know how I feel about the title because just saying this sentence out loud, Ryan Gosling will star in Star Wars Starfighter. We're hammering that star word a lot, but it's from Sean Levy who made Deadpool

and Wolverine and Free Guy and the Night of the Museum movies. A guy we really sung his praises of leading into and coming out of Deadpool and Wolverine. The internet already has done revisionist history on that movie and Sean Levy's whole career. Yeah, it's already all it's schlock and Sean Levy can't make a good movie to save his life. It's all spectacle shit. It's all stuff to get fans to cheer. Guess what? I've got my faith in Sean Levy too.

I like all this guy's movies. I don't want to say a hundred percent. I haven't seen a hundred percent of his movies. I like the vast majority of the movies I've seen from him. I also trust the hell out of Ryan Gosling's judgment. Ryan Gosling hasn't been in a bad movie in a long time. So I think if he signed it up, we heard Mikey Madison turn this down. Doesn't worry me too much. Mikey Madison, I think could be going in a different path for her career. Did she turn it down before the award or after the award? After. So this is post Oscar. You just won an Oscar.

You probably don't want to take a chance. Pre award. I'm feel I'm like, oh, no, that's post award. I understand. And I also, yeah, it's like, yeah, Star Wars. Star Wars is also so unreliable right now that I could imagine there's some trepidation for the best actress winner to choose her next project. Definitely. Now, are we saying leave your left? I don't know. I've been saying Levi Levi Sean levy regardless. Don't leave the Sean levy We're not putting a sign up for him in the basement

Not yet You know what he does because just cuz all the fucking haters out there and listen There might be people who are watching listening hate and they may have valid reason. I don't know I'm gonna ride with this guy because I enjoyed fucking Deadpool in the moment and I watched it a couple more times. And yeah, it does kind of like every fucking Deadpool movie, every comedy movie. Yeah. It loses appeal. But then like, if you don't watch it for years, you watch, you're like, man, I just had a good ass.

I had a good time in that movie and I'm not apologizing for it. And the MCU feels like it brought the MCU back a G and a mountain. Hopefully, a fantastic four can canal. This is what I'm doing for Sean. I'm not going to say his last name because I don't like it brought the MC back a G and a mountain, hopefully, uh, fantastic for can, can now this is what I'm doing for Sean. I'm not going to say his last name because I don't like it. Yeah, Sean. I'm giving him, he's going to have his own little mug in the basement. And it's engraved. Yeah. Oh, and his mug. And whenever he comes, we fill it up, drinks, whatever he wants to drink in it. Then when he's gone, we wash it. Maybe we can frost it.

We keep it in the little free. Yeah. I used to have one. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So Sean, you're welcome in the base whenever you want and fuck all the haters out there And if you make a bad movie though, we will break down. We will be the haters but Welcome in the basement you've got a seat you've got your mug you you get in the basement with us We'll give you a fair shake and listen. Yeah exactly. Hey buddy me and ryan johnson. It was fucking awesome. And yes I love this guy. That relationship ended in two and a half hours. And we started our relationship. Well, no, I guess I was a Ryan Johnson guy before that. Because I love you. You took out the suit, drew the swords from it. I did. Yeah.

And I got to see him in person when I went to see Mark Hamill star. He was like leaving. And I just chased him down. I was like, Ryan, I love the movie. I swear. He was like leaving and I just chased him down. I was like, Ryan, I love the movie. I swear. I was an eye. And then this wasn't even like a big topic I needed to talk about or bring. I just wanted to bring up. We got a new Predator trailer.

Oh, and the last Predator prey, which went straight to Hulu and crushed, right? It was fucking great. It was all same director, Dan Trachtenberg, who also made 10 Cloverfield Lane, one of my favorite movies. There's a definite connection to alien in this movie, which L fanning is the lead. And this movie asked the question like, what if Predator was a good guy? It's already I'm like, I'm in that you could sell me on a concept that quickly. Predator is a good

guy in my mind. And she is playing L fanning is playing like a Wayland Otani robot. And she is playing, Elle Fanning is playing like a Weyland Otani robot. Like she's one of those like AI robots or whatever. In the trailer, there's a skull of what looks like an alien from Independence Day as well. Oh. So are they doing a fucking Avengers alien type movie where you're taking all the biggest aliens from pop culture fucking throw the crystal skull motherfuckers from Indiana Jones in there and let's see who comes out on top.

I mean, at some point you can kind of do the, you can mortal combat it, right? Mortal combat just started like Tom McLean, you know? Yeah. Like you could sell me on that predator. You've, you have enough fucking throw your weight around and listen, like some of these franchises are pregnant a little older They're probably worried They're gonna get like swept under the rug and new franchises take over like sinners is crushing at the box office

Yeah, you don't want to get passed by by the new kids on the block So yeah, like if predator I would be kind of fun if predator kind of became like a world where oh, it's Smash Brothers I would love that like ready player one where it's just everything is there. We're watching everyone fight. I think that would be awesome, especially for franchises that make kind of sense together like that. Like you tell me Predator Alien Independence Day. I could see them all being in the same universe. I mean Predator and Alien.

Obviously they've made two movies already. Now, did you see speaking of this that who's the dude the main guy from Jurassic Park? The the oh what's his name Sam? Yeah he is cast in the new Godzilla movie. I know. And people were like this is you know Johnny Daym. Sam Neal.

Johnny Daym going to the Yankees or LeBron going to the Heat. That is fucked but I would I know he won't, but I would love to be him playing his own character from direct part. But that's the thing. I'm actually an expert on this like Pawn Stars. We've got to call on an expert. They just think, oh, we bring in Pratt. We bring in Scar Joe. We're bringing in all these big Hollywood types.

You guys had the guy. Yeah. And you know what? He was he's not again. We don't know his name. He's not fucking like right off the top of our head. A Lister. But that was the guy. Yeah. And you know, Goldblum was kind of the guy as well. But he's not fucking like right off the top of our head A-lister. But that was the guy. Yeah. And you know, Goblem was kind of the guy as well. But he's his own quirky little thing. You had the guy that you could have.

You're not going to build the franchise on him because that would have just been too much. But to let him go to Godzilla. I know. And then what if Godzilla goes to Predator and then he's part of this fucking Predator? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, maybe Godzilla is the reason they're doing this. When they did Godzilla and Kong. Yeah people loved it when crazy They've made two movies now that was super successful an alien verse predator works, right? Yeah, it's like it all kind of adds up. So Okay, so I'm again. I I didn't know about the last alien movie rocks to so

Yeah, as well. We're in a good spot for like sci-fi monster movies all of a sudden. I think at some point like They had to start making good stuff or else it was going to be dead. Yeah. Well, it's, it's other than Jurassic park. Yeah. The soft reboot era, like James Cameron's tried to make Terminator dark fate and resurrection and this, that, and they've made like 10 Terminator movies that have flopped, you need something, you need someone at the helm that's like young and

going to take it in a different direction, like they did with Romulus or like they did with prey. Like you got to change it up, I guess, and not just do a normal reboot, which a lot of the franchises that we cover have been struggling with that dilemma. There's another way to go with it with a franchise. And I mean, we're about to get into that as well, where you just completely change everything you ever knew about it. Oh my God.

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of season two. And before we even get into that, I wanna talk about the release schedule. I think both of us were in the same spot where we didn't really know how to feel about how they were doing this. Is this gonna be too much for us to watch in one sitting? Is this gonna be too much for the general public

to watch in one sitting? Are people going to keep up with this like they have a one episode weekly show? One weekend, one premiere in, I think they did the right thing, actually. Not only narratively, but watching three episodes in one sitting on Tuesday, I said to you, felt like I had a new Star Wars movie to watch.

Like sitting down 9 PM knowing three episodes were about to drop, I was about to get to over two hours worth of Star Wars content. I was fired up. I was like, I think this is the right move. Yeah. I put a big green check mark next to week one. Yeah, they did it. It worked.

It worked for me. And I think also for us recapping. So then I guess in terms of like people watching and just like collecting all the data in their brains and just processing it. I think at some point with these weekly shows, it's like you do lose a lot of stuff going week to week, especially when you're meeting new characters or characters are dying, which we know is very disposable. Yeah, based on how this all is going to end up. Um, so I was very happy with this first one. And again, it's

one of those things where you see the 55 minute runtime, like, Oh my God, there's like 10 minutes worth of credits in there though, too. And we have all the recaps. So it's really not as crazy. And I think with the time jumps, they're going to probably do and just so much story they have to cover. I think it would have been tough to do week to week to keep the stickiness in your brain and then also like just make it feel like it's still woven together. And by the end, they were able to, I think, do more stuff because of the way they released it, at least that was my call. And I personally was very happy with it.

And it's very deliberately the word I feel almost douchey using this word but methodical and not storytelling like it's a slow show and and it's slow on Purpose to a degree, you know, I don't feel it's boring I know there is a contingency of people that are like on board by and or too slow. I get that it's so In the weeds like inside baseball Star Wars that every little look and stare, I'm like, oh shit, that and that, what could that mean? I saw tweets before about how half the shop, the rebels in the first three episodes, they're all under doorways or through doorways,

which is a new beginning for them, or them feeling trapped. People are digging it apart to this level, and I love that. But when you put out, if you were to put out just the episode one, I think my reaction would be like, oh, it was good, we're back in the universe, like the Thai heist was awesome,

but leaving three episodes, I feel like holy fuck, what an arc. I feel like, oh my God, like you got the complete story and you push forward, even though not like, when you look at the Mon Mothma stuff that happened in all three episodes, if you laid it all out, there wasn't like a ton of movement, not a ton happened there. But when you give it to us in one, one sitting, it feels like there was a ton that happened.

Yeah. It feels like there was a lot of movement and it feels like you pushed the chains and, and you worked for it. A hundred percent. This is, I mean, when you watch star wars and you can consume a movie or whatever and you have your fun your Beginning middle and climax in the middle of all that whatever This is what I compare earned or and or two and especially last season as well But this season I think is gonna be especially the case with these three episodes

This version of Star Wars, this is one of those Star Wars. It's a brown liquor. That's in one of those glass This is one of those Star Wars. It's a brown liquor. That's in one of those glass Crystal it's like something in fucking Don Draper's office, right and you're pouring yourself it Maybe no ice just straight up in the glass and you're like you're sipping it you're enjoying it. It's not for everybody Yeah, but you know what if it's for you, there's nothing better in the world. Yeah nice fun. There was an energy finery It was a very big Liquor guy, right? Yeah, you probably enjoy drinking some of that stuff. I was that. Oh, it's not always such a good comparison. Right. Yeah. You nailed that. This is like the old fashions. Yeah. Star Wars where it's like, it's an acquired taste, but the real ones. No.

If it's not for you, that's fine. If you want to drink the Capri sons or you want to, I'm not going to be like, I'm not sure. And that's me. I'm not an old fashioned guy typically, but when it comes to star wars, that's when I can have it. And it's nice to have something like this for Star Wars fans, where we've mentioned in the past, oh, this feels a little more mature for Star Wars, this feels a little more mature for Star Wars. This is the only Star Wars, as far as I can tell,

that is not only explicitly for adults, but feels explicitly not for kids. Not for kids. You know, where it's everything else at least has this for kids or that for kids. I'm not sure there's anything for kids in this Star Wars. Yeah. I mean, if I, so the, the kids saw that, um, this came out and they said, Oh, this is a

new Star Wars. And I was like, yeah. And they're not like, we're going to watch every Star Wars anyway. And they even ask. And I'm like, good, cause you ain't watching this. Yeah. Gonna have nothing for you. You're gonna to be out of the room in three minutes max. Like we're getting into the politics and what it takes to fundraiser rebellion

and that stuff and everything between Lutheran and Mon Mothman, her marrying her daughter off and all of that, I would imagine isn't very interesting to a kid. Maybe the like opening of episode one, I was going to say that they might watch that through the first 20 minutes and fall off. That was such a badass way to open the season. I even love when it's just like, I think the first shot is like the tie interceptor,

where you're like, all right, what's going on here? They put out the clip, so we kinda knew what was going on. And the clip, I was like, why did they spoil for us? Well, don't worry, dude, it's coming right away. Yeah, right away, and the sequence was so much longer, I didn't realize how long that sequence was gonna last, where the conversation he with that girl or she can't even make eye contact with him and he's like you're risking everything Like you could ask questions that was awesome Just also made me be like Diego Luna so fucking cool in that jumpsuit everything about him looks so cool

and then when he takes off or tries to take off, I thought it was so refreshing and unique for him to be so bad at it. Like it looked like someone trying to fly a TIE Interceptor in a video game that doesn't know the controls at all, where he's skidding off the wall, he's hitting, you know, the wrong buttons that are blowing things up and the way the stormtroopers come out and they're just like, what the fuck is going on,

start shooting at him. It was kind of like, I defend Ray a lot from the Mary Sue allegations when people are like, she just flew the Millennium Falcon right away. I'm like, well, she fucking didn't she she was banging it off a few things on liftoff. But I think this is what those people wanted that scene to be. Like you have no idea what you're doing. And even the chase afterwards was cool. The storyline that would continue with Cassian going forward where he's drifted off in space

and then he winds up on this planet that we don't know what the planet is for a long time. And then it was revealed to be Yavin 4. Awesome reveal. When they pan up and you see it, I was like, was that fucking Yavin 4 the whole time? I couldn't believe it. Such a good fan or fan service thing too, where it's not cheap It fell earned Your voice just did like three different things. I couldn't believe it

It was yeah before I was so talking to you having four. That's the rebellion planet I don't even know what until I was reading like something on reddit and then I was like I gotta tell bob that's because you're like you're like dude I didn't even realize like when I was watching i'm like wait a minute He said you did the dalton and when they pan up and you see those, like the temple buildings, the pyramid type buildings, then I knew and I was like, oh my God. But that whole storyline, I really liked, I've seen some criticism that it didn't like move the story forward that much, but you needed Cassian separated from his friends

for what was happening to them, especially. And it served like this TV show narratively, it served this lost purpose for me. Where quite literally it felt like they're in a jungle and visually it looked like lost and there's a creature that comes out of nowhere at one point. But everything about it and the dynamic of like, who do we trust?

We're on the same team, you idiots. Like we're all part of the rebellion and they're fighting over that and they're fighting over that and they're fighting over Cassian, where he's gonna be kept and when he escapes at the end, it all felt a lot like the show lost to me, which at points is methodical and slow

and they wanna have that pace. So I loved all of that. And then the Mon Mothma stuff, Mon Mothma might still be the most interesting part of the show to me. Yes. Her and Lut Luther and her constant dread of you know her ass is in the jackpot

and she's risking everything for this. Marrying off her own daughter who's got emotional things going on because of the wedding and everything like that. Who's her guy? Mon Mothma's guy that came to her and is like, I'm putting my neck out, Cal or something. The guy, tal, tal. Yes. Like everything about him. Bob, what tal leaves the wedding and he's like,

where's my usual driver? It's like a weekend a row. They've done the same thing in two different shows. True. Like I'm not even trying. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm telling you, it ain't any good for Tao. No, no, it definitely is. Should we console him? Yeah. He's as dead as he could be. He's dead. Who's going to kill him? It's going to be a car accident or something. I think they frame it like an accident. Yeah. Yeah. You're probably right about that. That. And then when you get the, um, is it, uh, Bix and Brasso, right? Brasso is this friend,

their storyline. Holy fuck. Like it, first reminded me of inglorious bastards a little bit. That open scene where they show up and they're starting to ask questions. And when the Imperial officer starts asking about the husband here, you know, have you ever come into town? I'd love to bring you into town. She's like, I don't know if my husband would approve of that. Starts asking questions about the husband.

And then like skipping forward to episode three, we get that scene on a whole different level where he shows up and is asking, Oh, the husband's not here. And he starts forcing himself on Bix. I sat on KFC radio, sitting there in my X-wing helmet with fucking Grogu in my lap like oh my god Are they going where I think they're going and she says he tried to rape me Drops the R word and Star Wars and there's been some people that have taken major issue with this and says this stuff has no Place in Star Wars. It doesn't belong in Star Wars. I don't want it my Star Wars

I would agree with that in like the Skywalker saga. When Andor has already established itself as the mature Star Wars show for adults, we're talking about the Empire, I was okay with it. I actually liked the scene in that I thought it was emotional. I thought it was terrifying actually. Like I felt as scared as I've ever felt watching Star Wars, watching that scene and even the dread of like,

all right, he's not gonna R word me, we got him out of the fray, but now the rest of them are coming for us and it's like panic and everything about that. I saw, there was one tweet that went viral, Jeff D. Lowe quote tweeted it, I don't know if you saw. I didn't see it. It's this guy, Star Wars Theory,

who is, I would say one of the more toxic parts of the Star Wars fandom. But he's a popular figure. People like this guy. And he tweeted, I hate this, has no place in Star Wars. Vader would never tolerate such a thing. And Jeff is like, Darth Vader? Or the same Darth Vader we're talking about?

You're saying he would kill kids, murdering kids, planets, genocide. He's basically Space Hitler in that like he's created as the worst guy you could ever imagine in the galaxy. You know, I don't think Vader would tell her. I think Vader would tolerate anything. You want to say the Emperor is Hitler, then he's gobbles or like the monster was. That was his right hand.

I don't think there's anything we should be like. Vader's a good guy. He wouldn't do that. Let's see. I think he would do anything. Killed your kids, killed children. guy. He wouldn't do that. Let's see. I think he would do anything killed Yeah kids killed children. Yeah planets killed his wife who was pregnant choked or pregnant Yeah granted. He doesn't actually go for the kill shot, but he killed her. Yeah It was a young lady kills a planet a full fucking planet. Yeah And I don't want to get into the weeds of what Darth Vader do this or whatever. I would say no character wise.

Maybe not. He's probably fucking asexual after all that shit goes down. But I think this is a crazy thing to be like the Empire wouldn't do that. That's where they draw the line. I don't think they draw lines. So okay. So this was my thoughts on all that. And I do think that was like the biggest like, oh shit.

And that's when I came up with like the, this is like hard liquor right here. Cause this shit is, yeah, it ain't nice. It ain't easy to swallow. Yeah. Not easy to swallow. Very well said. Like when she, when he's doing the thing where you have strong hands and massage, you could take that one way and we kind of know where it's going, but it's never said. And then when she said that, I said, all right, we've gone to the other side. That changed, that was like two Star Wars

that we went to another part of Star Wars. And maybe this is kind of what they said where the first season, they didn't take those chances because they were unable to, or they didn't think they were able to. And then they said, no, go full bore. That R word might've gone through them in the script. And after they tried the F word last year,

and they said, no, no, I've got to be fight the empire. I would much rather hear on the F word than the R word, but both it's real life at this point. And I think what this show is doing that part included, but also the stuff we're getting with, you know, the, the middle managers, as I call them is you're learning, you're like, you're seeing like, are you destroyed planet equals some cutie walks? You are a horrible thing.

You're learning the planning of how you're going to just ruin a planet and destroy and genocide and destroy countless lives. And it's just being done for, you know, money or whatever political mineral. Or they were talking about that. What I don't know the name of that. But that Gorman Gorman. That planet, it's known the Gorman Massacre, whatever it's called, is like a big part of the lore and I think like the

cannon. A huge part. Yes. Of the actual like formation of the Empire. That was a pivotal moment. And the rebellion where it's like now we're standing up to these motherfuckers. Yes. Which again, and this was the other thing. These people And the rebellion where it's like, yeah, now we're standing up to these motherfuckers Yes Which again and this was the other thing these people are calculating how they're gonna destroy this planet how they're gonna destroy these people

The Emperor clearly the Empire clearly on the farm planet has their thing of how they're gonna get rid of all those people And meanwhile the rebels that we see are fighting each other and they can't even agree on like the first thing So it does show just complete mismatch right now as we're five BBY before the battle of four BBY I think. Right. And, but every, every installment moves forward one year. So this was one year after Endor season one next week will all be one year after this and then so on and so forth.

Yeah. I didn't even mention the middle managers, as you mentioned them. Director Krennic is back, Ben Mendelson, who I fucking love every scene with him. The fact that he's got scenes on screen with Dejra right away was great, too, because the actress that plays Dejra still has that cold, her donut, the look.

Like, one of the most perfect castings, because you see her and you're like, empire. Same thing with her fucking boy toy cereal cereal. We call the cereal last year. Right. Yeah. When I saw that's all right. Cereal.

And then they said the name was like, oh, shit. Same thing with him where he's also got more confidence this year when he's bringing on that new trainee. And he's like, I discovered this. You probably thought it would be nothing, right? Well, it turned out to be this, this and this. And he fucking brings his mom in for the dinner and Deirdre has to

Put her foot down with the mom. No, he reminds me of is it Gabe in the office. Yeah Absolutely. He's kind of got the same eyes dead dead eyes. I like but whole eyes. Yeah, but whole eyes Like starlac eyes and Star Wars And and the whole mom scene I thought was awesome really I forgot how much her voice sounds like a munchkin from the land of munchkins or something, you know what I'm saying? Like it sounds like an Oompa Loompa or something. That's perfectly said.

Perfectly. My son, serial. Yeah. She's always talking about high pitch like that nasally. And when he's on the bed, confrontation and like they, it's perfect that they live in this little like this nice apartment Like some yuppies in fucking new york city and they're just ruining countless lives just for their nice paycheck And their fucking fancy chorus on apartment. I thought it was again. It's giving breadth

Breath to the empire. So I have a couple of fucking nerd words. You had the one earlier Was your one earlier? Oh, what a method of fucking nerd words. You had the one earlier. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Was there one earlier? Oh, what a methodical. Methodical, Brett. Yeah. And then something that I thought was really well done and the fact it was in the third episode, the final episode, the end, the juxtaposition.

Oh yeah. Between the wedding scene as everyone's dancing around, my mouth was throwing shots back like a fucking college girl. Like a thing in Namos or something. Yeah. Namos most something like that. And then this these poor farmers are getting their lives ripped apart. And just the way that like the rich are kind of doing this to the poor and with the empire involved and all this kind of stuff.

I was like, wow, this is fucking it's potentially a television masterpiece. And even the the like audio visual dichotomy. How about that for us? Dichotomy is a good one too, Bob. Of the loud music like ending the episode. And then it's fucking RIP. My dog, Brasso, a great guy, an absolutely great guy who used the the brick of of Marvel last year to fight the empire.

Badass moment when he passes away and it was shot almost reminded me of a cool when we saw he was dead and it kind of just zoomed in on like his grave it was the loud music and then the cutout for the credits on episode three you like felt that yeah it was so well done even when Mon Mothma is raving and everyone's singing the techno song, which was weird. We don't usually get techno in Star Wars, but it worked, I thought, for what that wedding was supposed to be. The look on her face, Genevieve O'Reilly was crushing it because you could see she's doomed.

She just everything, she has a million thoughts going on at once where she's like, oh fuck, is this gonna work? You see that look on her face pretty much every episode. Is this all gonna work? Is this for nothing? Is this for everything? I thought the wedding was so interesting and well done. And the fact that they dragged it out

and there's like the ceremonies and people asking, oh, as far as all the weddings you've been to on this planet, how does this compare? And it felt like there's a culture. Even the opening shot of, I think it's the opening shot of Mon Moffitt where she's walking through and there's all the like archways and when she meets up with Luther, it feels more lived in than a world like the acolyte or a world like even Obi-Wan or like worlds that

we are more familiar with this feels more real. And that was something that was good about the world in the Skeleton Crew. Right. Yes. That felt great. Yes. And it was different to like the suburbs. Like you said, it was different planets, pirate vibes, Indiana Jones vibes.

At times this does the same thing where it takes different vibes, puts them in star Wars and it's like, oh yeah, that fits all of that statue in your room. All right. Now breaking, you could break it to the audience right now, Bob, are you throwing a traditional chandelier in wedding? Yeah. You mean, no, it will not be traditional,

but maybe I'll throw that fucking song into the mix. Just throw that song into the most neamos, whatever. When they're just in that circle and he cuts the hair. And I was like, I boy, this is so cool. And that was cool too, like I could see that being Star Wars, like the Padawan braid almost. And even like the hike and then there's children at the top singing, it would be such like an old dated thing

that it's like, oh, no one wants to, but we have to, it's tradition. Yeah, you know what scene I liked too, completely off topic from the wedding, but it just came up because the, uh, forget her name. Lutheran's like assistant in the shop. That's like, I gotta go back. Shit's going down now. The scene where she pulls out the draw and starts communicating back and forth

with Andor and Cassian's like, Hey, did you know this wasn't the fucking ship that I knew how to fly? I have been upside down for three fucking days and he's yelling at her and it's chopping up. That was another scene where you feel like the urgency of the rebellion, where it's like, all right, we know and or is not going to go fucking die in space. Like Tony started the beginning of end game. We know he's not going to float off.

Eventually he's going to find, you know, something, but you feel the panic that everyone has, everyone's on edge, everyone's mad at each other. And it's like kind of vital. You need that energy. If you want the rebellion to be sparked in the first place. Yep, because if you're caught, you're dead. If you get killed in the line of duty, you're dead. There's so many, it's death or you might be able

to make a little bit of a mark in this rebellion that isn't even really fully formed yet. And tell you what, they did a farming planet and they didn't go back to sand and moisture farming. It was a little more interstellary. It had some kind of cornfield looking things. I thought that was another like big bonus. You did a Yavin 4 forest planet

and it felt like a jungle that I hadn't been in before. You got to even see the creatures that they were scared of. Bob, I just loved planet hopping and everyone was different. I would like to see maybe some more planets where maybe the North pole and the South pole are lava and the rest of it's an ice planet. Like I don't need the whole planet to just be one. And I'm sure there's plenty that aren't like that, but it feels like it's like, all right, this is the water planet. This is the jungle planet. We can mix it up a little, but it was

just so nice. Cienar was that was, and I love when they put that on. That's like such a Star Wars thing that I love that I feel like you could carry over to every project. I would never have an issue with you telling me where we are. Yeah, and I'm not gonna remember any of their names. No, I forgot all right. I'd not even go with the characters. I'm not shocking.

I'll probably learn them by the end of the season. There was a couple of characters where I had to like almost be reminded of who they were. I wish they did a better recap. Maybe I should have done one of those, everything you need to know before and or season two. Cause even when like Mon Mothma's her cousin and stuff, like I forget about stuff like that.

Yeah. They are important. Can I take a few looks or a few lines, but oh yeah, you're on this side for this reason, this person, her husband's right. Husband's. Oh, where's your boyfriend? He had to be carried out last night, by the way. Oh, oh, so what's he?

I don't know why he reminds you the guy that plays McGroober. He's like an older version of that guy. I like I like that. Will Forte. Yeah, you're like an older Jedi version looking will Forte. He's got that stupid man bun. One thing I did not remember is just how much I love B2Wemo. Oh, so good.

We didn't get enough of him in the first few episodes. Yeah, he is really, I mean, I don't know, cause IG was good. And then the one from Rogue One is awesome as well. We might be living in the golden era of droids. The droid and fucking skeleton crew is one of the best parts of that show too. I didn't remember no I don't know. I thought you're gonna say how much you forgot you love the bigs because wow, I'm happily engaged. I'm happy and happily engaged. But well, we're bonking up today. Yeah,

do you see her at the premiere of the bigs? I did not see the I'll send you some pictures. All right. Well, I showing off. She should be in more things. Her name is Adriana or Jonah. And she was also in, uh, she was in true detective. She was in hit man. She was really good in that Glenn Powell movie hit man. Um, she looks a lot like Isaac and Salas.

I confused them for a couple of years. It's good that that's going to be the death that sends me over the top. Oh, she's also in a hit show Morbius or hit movie Morbius. Um, weird picture of her and James gun on the red carpet here from years ago. I wonder if they were a thing back then. Oh no, she was in the belt. That's young James going to color in his hair. He does.

Yeah. He didn't have the white out yet. Um, was there anything else on and, or that we didn't touch on that? Seeing the star Wars rock paper, scissor. Oh shit. That's right. They brought that in. Yeah. What is people going to be playing that at star Wars? Celebration. Have you ever seen that before? No, they're definitely good. The dead nerds playing that for sure. Same way they play like sabacc now and say, you guys could just play poker, you know, but they're like, no, no, sabacc. Um, and luthen just getting sassy with it. I love seeing yeah

I mean we haven't even really talked about luthen, but he's back and as good as ever as good as I yeah I saw I don't know if it was one of the um Previously on or what but I somewhat caught a clip of like that speech It might have I might have been watching a recap of this episode and they cut that in and I was just like, man, I gotta go back and rewatch that. So good. Lutheran, Lutheran might be my favorite character of the show other than me too. And I gotta say that speech has changed me forever in that I could be doing the most simple thing. I could be taking the garbage out.

I'm like the sacrifices I make, I share my dreams with ghosts. I plant a tree that I know I'll never live to see a sun, a sunrise. I'll never live to see or whatever. He says, Oh, I should learn that whole monologue. Just use it. Maybe that should be part of the May 4th stream at one point during the May 4th. There you go. I'm promising now I'm just going to hit that monologue.

Well, like that's like when it's the darkest moment of the stream. Yeah. The sacrifice I make building a Lego set at three in the morning. Chad starts getting a little fire back with the loot and they won't even see it coming. And honestly, I thought the premiere, the three episode arc was great. I would be surprised if it wasn't my least favorite of this season, based on the structure of last season.

Last season only got better really, as it kept going on. I feel like we had three episodes where we were like, alright, that was good, got us back into the Rogue One type feeling universe. Then they did like the first heist, and it was like, holy fuck, the fireworks over the sky and the shooting stars. Then they do the prison arc. Then they do the ending. Like all of that was so good. And I think it's going to ramp up in this more Krennic. We're getting K2SO in this, which is going to be awesome.

Maybe some more cameos. They mentioned the Emperor a lot. We're getting Forest, right? We are getting Forest back. And I think maybe another scene between him and Stellan you got him and Stellan on screen together last year and I think someone mentioned they're going to be together again this year getting the big V would be nice. I don't think it's going to happen, but just out of the picture though. I thought the same thing out of the realm. I don't think this is the show where they go for the fan service. He cameos if we get if we get anyone though, I feel like it could be like a Palpatine, uh, hologram or something like that.

Yeah. I was cause they may, it would, it would almost, but I do think there's a chance where it's like the thought of Vader and more so they don't think really even, I don't think they might even mention Vader, but the emperor, the emperor wants unlimited power. How about that? You know, what's interesting was they almost like gave the Empire like purpose in this where they were like we want like unlimited energy and power and all of that and it was kind of like

Oh, all right. So that's why they like in the movies the original trilogy They're just kind of like evil for the sake of being we want to take over the universe It's like a very vague goal. But in this it's like, all right, there's a planet. We need this from the planet So here's how we're going to do a bunch of evil shit to take them over. It like added more context made them seem smarter. Really? Yes. Yeah. I like that fucking guy from Thrones to the old guy with the slick back hair. Yep. Yep. He's a very good empire factor and all

of the stuff with Deirdre. Yeah, all of that is really interesting. And even that stuff when they're in the meeting room and stuff, really unique look to all of it. Unique look to that planet and the rock kind of formations they had around them. And when they're at the meeting and then they're eating, that is straight up corporate lunch. I've been at meetings like that in the past. Now, granted, I'm not the middle manager. I'm like lower on the rung. Somehow get invited to one of those meetings. Those are the people and those people don't know what they're doing. They don't know what they're talking about. The scene where Deirdre goes up to Krennic and essentially tells him like, this ain't

going to work because of this, this and this. Yes. Just find someone that you have to find soldiers there that good people that will do the wrong thing or something. Yeah. That's a fucking good line. I'm like, the writing is great. Tony Gilroy knows how to how to write fucking I was gonna say a Star Wars project, but I just watched Michael Clayton He knows how to write it's as simple as that. You could stop the sentence there. What does he have? He has the sauce, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is Tony Gilroy who has the sauce He's got that Sunday sauce. He's got that fucking Italian gravy. I don't know if tony gilbert is italian but i'll give him that okay he's an honor he's an honor he's an honorary paysan when he comes in the base we go tony um i think that's all i had on the first three of andor in here i'm looking uh like it will be a

looking forward to this now this is it old man. I got like one episode and then I'm like, I got to do two on on Wednesday morning because I just can't nine to 12. And I'm also starting later because the Mets are going to probably playing on Tuesday most of the time. So I got to watch that live. So I, I like it that I can also break it up a little bit. Yeah. And I like that I could watch it in one sitting and feel like I watched a new star. What I am you're getting a Rob Robbie. Yeah. And I waited to like I thought about am I going to put out my thoughts after every episode? I said, fuck no. I'm watching three in a row. I'm making it like a movie. I turned the lights down. I made myself some snacks. I got some goldfish, some bunch of crunch. I was living it up.

I like that. And this is the thing, man. We're getting a little Star Wars movie. And if you're not a fan, just don't watch. It's very easy not to watch. And I do think with these three episodes, sometimes a franchise like Star Wars needs to be like, all right, this is the kind of Star Wars we're getting with this series. Yes, it's different than you're gonna get with another series. Especially if you didn't like these three episodes at all, you might not like the series. Yeah, you know, it might just be one of those things where it's not for you. It's different strokes for different folks. And maybe the Mandalorian and Grogu is more your vaude next summer. That's exactly it.

And that one is a perfect, like general stuff. That one feels like it's for everyone. That one is not hard liquor. That is a nice soda. That's a fucking exactly club soda. Well, no club soda. Bob, what's your number one soda? Pepsi. So you're like Pepsi. I'm dealing it out of the fountain in like a glass with ice. You know,

my friend, maybe that chilled glass, you pulled it out of the fridge. John, we're using your cup. My friend used to call that, um, fancy Coke when he would be a friendlies when they had it in like the glasses, we'll yeah, it's in it and it'd be like bubbling. I love that shit. Yeah, so that's what you're going to get with Mando and Grogu here. Again, some of the little more mature, but it's the basement approved

basement approved and I'll tell you what I know. And or isn't going to be the most happy go lucky show. But after the episode of the last of us that we got, I was happy that this wasn't like the most depressing trio of episodes. Yeah, there is a chance we're going to get it might go down a dark path. Yeah, I am not. The basement is going to get sad and emo. And that's not to say I wasn't said about Brasso either.

This episode is dedicated to Brasso. We really did like it. I repeat my dog, Brasso for sure. All right. Should that be the hashtag this week? RIP my dog, Brasso. 100%. There we go.

for sure. All right, should that be the hashtag this week? RIPmydogbrosso? 100%. There we go. Hashtag RIPmydogbrosso, and we'll see you next week for more Basement. I don't even know what it's gonna be. I was gonna say more Last of Us,

more Ando, for more Basement.