My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 433 - NERD NEWS (STRANGER THINGS, BATMAN SPINOFFS, AND MORE)

Episode Date: June 6, 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 free swim slash nerd news edition of My Mom's Basement. No shows to recap this week, but Clem, people have been telling me they like this segment. I got a few DMs last week when we said we were going to go back to this and they were saying I'm glad because I don't always watch the shows you guys are watching. We like the nerd news. I was happy to hear that.

That's good to know that like we do just disappear from people's radars for like a time and you can still come on and listen to the first half of those episodes but it's like if you have you know we all have our little list of podcasts or whatever we have to listen to and it's like, yeah, it's not going to hit you. If it says last of us, you know, penultimate, that's not going to sell you on it. Even if the first half of the show might have stuff for you. So, welcome back. If you just come back to the basement and thanks for staying for the other people that are, have been in the whole time.

We love all of you exactly the same. Like I always say about my kids, I love them all the same. I just like some more than others based on what they've done most recently. Which for the record, like I feel like AJ has had a run these days of just being he's my guy. He's my fucking Star Wars guy. He's my basketball guy. He asked me, dude, he asked me about the nipa I'm like nipa what are you talking nipa nipa he's on the nba he calls it the nipa he goes to my friend nipa socks and I'm like what are you talking about it was the cutest fucking thing in the world and he asks me so many questions about so many things especially the sport stuff he asked me he goes dad where did the thunder play Oklahoma City

where was Oklahoma who's Oklahoma named after? I have no idea. Do they speak English in Oklahoma? Yes, they do. And then he goes, and I realized it threw him off as I told him in Boston, he goes, they speak English in Boston when they play the Celtics. I go, yeah.

He goes, I go, but sometimes they go, you know, Pacta Khan, Harvard Yard, they sound a little different. Then he goes, do they sound different in Oklahoma? I'm like, I guess they probably have a Southern accent. So, uh, oh my God, that's funny. We love all our basement boys and girls just the same. We do. When I started this podcast, I said, I know for a fact that it's going to be eclectic and not every episode is going to be for every listener, but every listener will find at least one episode that is for them. That was always the goal where, especially when I started

it. Yeah, we didn't have spinning, especially when I started it. Yeah. We didn't have Spinning Backfist when I started it. So it was like a lot of MMA stuff in the early days of my mom's basement. It wasn't only the nerd stuff. Now we've kind of branched off. If you want to listen to MMA stuff, we actually went to the UFC hotel this week

because they're going to be in Newark on Saturday. We did a ton of interviews, got Sean O'Malley, got Marab, the main event. We've got Kayla Harrison, we got Patchy Mix. so go check all that out on the spin and back this channel But we'll talk about nerd news here And we've got a very nerdy interview on the channel this week as well Kevin Smith came back to the bar stool office and he did an interview with me It was my first one-on-one in person interview with him

So I've sat in on lights camera bar stool interviews, and I did a zoom interview with him earlier. I was gonna say earlier this year, but it was actually last September, I want to say, first time ever where it was him coming in, sitting down talking dogma because it's the 25th anniversary. It's back in theaters tonight. Clem, I was supposed to have 30 minutes with Kevin Smith. And we know Kevin Smith is a long winded person. And he's very gracious with his time. We went over an hour and it was basically

the interview of my dreams. It was just like chopping it up with Kevin Smith. Even him telling some stories I've heard a million times before from listening to decades of his podcasts. The way he tells these stories, they're so captivating that I'm like, what's gonna happen next? And in my mind, I know what's gonna happen next.

But definitely go check that out. I'm pretty proud of that interview. I love the interviews I did with All Time Low because they're also like an hour long and I feel like that's like a really cool like hour long block. This one I would put right up there with those. This is like one of my favorite interviews I've ever done. So go check that out. Are we allowed to say what he said to you after it was done? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I shook his hand, like I went to shake his hand and as he was leaving, he pulled me in for a hug and he was like, I really appreciate all the support over the years. And he said, anytime I'm in the city, I'll stop by for you anytime you're

West Coast, make sure to hit me up and we could do media out there as well. And I was just, I texted you, I was like, I couldn't be more on cloud nine right now. And I said, Bob Fox lives on cloud nine. now. I said Bob Fox lives on cloud 90 Luke Skywalker hold his arm Conor McGregor you're basically like his enforcer and his mouthpiece for a while but this one was special and I'm doing it Bob new addition to the basement. Oh so we have the does Tony Gilroy have his own frosted mug that's Tony Gilroy right? Yeah yeah Kevin Smith has his own frosted bomb in the basement. Oh, I like that. But it's got to be like made of platinum, you know, like the record stuff. Yes, exactly. And it's engraved Kevin Smith, basement boy for life. And whenever he comes,

he can tell you, man, I don't know how much you know, I'm not going to say I'm not looking for school podcasts are falling in flies these days. If you say or do the wrong thing, I'm not gonna say I'm not looking at our school podcasts are falling and flies these days if you say or do the wrong thing. I'm just gonna hold that condom. Stay under the radar. We want the lights on for as long as possible so Kevin can join us and have his mon. Yeah, shout out Kevin Smith. Go check out that interview and go check out dogma. If you've never seen dogma and I feel like there's decent odds you haven't because it's been so hard to watch for the last 10 20 years because it's been locked up in the Weinstein bullshit. It's going to become available very soon. It's going to be streaming and I think people are going to go back to it and be like, Holy shit, the buddy Christ isn't

just a meme like it's from a movie like we're going to get a ton of tweets like that and stuff. Also, I mentioned last week we were going to try to get Jose and T Bob on I hit both of them up. They're both available next week. So next week they'll both join the pod. I'm very excited to talk Jose. I saw him in person at the UFC event and he's excited to talk comics. T-Bob is excited to chop it up in the basement. I'm excited to have him.

Does double guest mean we get the very, very special episode of My Mom's Baster at the Double Berry? Yeah, it's like a guest extravaganza. And also I wanted to shout out the trailer for Less Mascots, which is the new show from Barstool which is, I say show, it's not like a podcast show, it is a scripted, basically TV show, it's an internet show, it's not going to be on TV, but it's Fights and Tommy are playing Mascots in Times Square, the Elmo and Cookie Monster Mascots in Times Square, the Elmo and Cookie Monster mascots in Times Square. And Sass is playing, I believe, fights his nephew who's in like film school. So he's

making a mockumentary about them. I've seen some stuff. It's amazing. It's so, so funny. It's so impressive that they were able to get it done the way they were. Like there's, as they said on ron.com, there's no real budget. There's no real like structure. It's just Owen, Pavz, Tommy, Fights, Sass. They're putting together a full fledged TV show and very excited. Go check out the trailer now because Pavz did a hell of a job. Lights Camera Barstool tweeted it

as if it was just any other TV show trailer and I think it got some people. That's awesome. They're filming a show based on vibes. I feel like that's how they do. And I think anyone that's watching out over to Sketch knows just how good you have all these comedic minds. You know, the guys in New York, who you just mentioned,

and then the guys in Chicago with all their kind of stuff. So it's like, I cannot wait. The trailer looked awesome. I haven't seen, have you seen any, you've seen any of the episodes? I have not seen any full episodes. I've seen some clips that are like pretty fully edited together.

It's really, really funny. Yeah, Pabbs is that are like pretty fully edited together. It's really really funny Yeah, pabs is a fucking he's awesome, too He's you know, he does him in all winter friggin movie makers They're gonna be at the oscars like fucking ben and matt except in goodwill hunting one of these days and it's gonna be like Oh shit, we saw it coming. I'm gonna be old man. I'm gonna be an old man being like I work with that He was just a kid Um, also, I just wanted to shout out, I put this in the basement keeping,

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because I really just wanted to like not even just watch the whole thing. I want to watch with my wife who hasn't seen it, never got to see it, but I just want to just have it on in the background. It's like that the first half of the movie. No spoilers. So don't worry. Yeah, like I could just kind of chill and watch the first half of the movie. And it's just that Ludwig score. The guitar done.

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I know he told me he's one of the best concerts he's ever seen. And I believe it. Post Malone, what a performer and jelly roll opening up. Awesome. Big F doesn't tell lies. Big F is a straight shooter. I love Big F. All right. Let's get into some nerd news clam. We've got a lot to talk about this week. I didn't know how much we would have to talk about until I started going through and compiling everything, but there was so much on my notes app that I was pulling things. I was like, we don't need to talk about that. We have a lot. The first thing I think worth bringing up is the Stranger Things trailer and release schedule drop. This dropped pretty much right after we finished last week's episode. They

did the big Netflix to dumb event. So we've got volume one coming out Thanksgiving weekend. It's four episodes. Volume two coming out Christmas. It's three episodes. And then volume three is just the final episode coming out on New Year's Eve. It's a weird, weird release schedule, especially when like we're talking about

recapping the shows and getting things out quick. It's like, we're gonna be saying goodbye to the families on the holidays and going watching Stranger Things. I will say, and I said this in my tweet, so many people are kinda shitting on Stranger Things. As soon as this came out, so many quote tweets, it took them fucking 10 years to do five seasons. The kids are adults by now.

The kids are on fucking Medicaid by now. There's so many just anti-Stranger Things tweets that I think people forgot how good Stranger Things 4 was. Like last season, and I know the second half was a little weaker than the first half, but like the Vecna stuff we got in Stranger Things 4 was among the best Stranger Things we've ever seen in our lives. And I feel like maybe people forgot that. I don't know. I'm still excited for Stranger Things 5, even though the release schedule, ridiculous. Yeah. I remember when I saw the release schedule, I think it was during a Knicks game,

and I just checked my phone for something, and I saw it, and I just tweeted, these fucking guys, right? Because it could never be easy. However, we just saw this with Andor. Sometimes it's nice to have a little, and you digest it, and you kind of let it go and I think it was bird box like three years ago But was it was the name of the bird box? Yep, like that went super crazy viral and everyone was talking about it and I I never saw it But I don't think was very good. I just think there was nothing else that was on during that time I think did squigging come out during the

Holiday season once I think this last last holiday season I think it did actually I think strange squid game 2 did. I think there is something to be said about releasing new stuff during the holidays when listen oh it's during holidays everyone has a few hours to just watch movies I feel like every year we get movies released I think a complete unknown was a Christmas movie last year so I at first I was like, these fucking guys. But then I'm like, you know what? And someone that has said all the things about how crazy it is, 10 years for 5 seasons, the kids are grown ass men and women now,

at the same point, let's just not act like that was just a regular 10 years. We had Covid, we had strikes, we had everything. So shit was just fucked in general. And maybe there was a couple things that you know Was in their control whatever it's done. I think there's gonna be a time jump to make everything make sense It's not the show we loved in season one and two anymore. It just can't be it's not a kid show It's totally evolved is it still gonna be in the eight fuck. I'll take some 90s nostalgia. I'll take any of that I'm wearing an NBA and NBC right right now. That's what I love about that.

It's a Nibba shirt. It's a Nibba shirt. Nibba, Nibba, Nibba. Um, so I am more than fine with it. And when I think of all that little, you want to be negative Nancy, whatever, and then you're like, man, I don't know if I was as excited to talk about anything on this show than I was the, that Vecna story that in the Yeah, yeah, and That was so fucking well done

And I was just like blown and blown away by it and the way that they leave it in two and I'm we're gonna have to do that so that's the other thing that Season four ends in the summer of 22. Let me tell you about the summer 22. The New York Mets were fucking dominating teams at that point. They were so a million games above the Braves. We know all know how that ended. Not very well. I missed a hole in Ocho because of it. They've since broken up in our house suing each other. A lot of things have changed since then. However, we also got the series premiere and the series finale of Andor. That's pretty fucking incredible.

And all of Andor came between season four and five of Stranger Things. That's crazy. That's crazy because there's a million different parts of it and Star Wars has never been known to be like the quickest developing series in general, right? So I understand all the negative things to say about it. Just go rewatch season four or just watch our reaction to it or watch a clip on YouTube about everything that's happened because I'm sure there's a lot of stuff I've forgotten. Yeah, that this show I'd say it's probably a tier a I think S tier can it can dabble in that range, but I don't see

your a for me. I think it's not dabble in that range. It's tier A for me, I think. It's not S tier for me, but yeah. Yeah, I'd say A tier is a fair spot for it, which again, the holiday season, I think that raises the floor of the holiday season for content and shit like that that we're gonna be able to watch. Is there anything coming out in December

that is big nerd stuff? I think a lot of the stuff is either July, obviously, is big for us, and then next year is big with the Avengers and the Mandalorian stuff there's something in December I know next December is the one where it's like all the movie of the fucking Avengers and Dune and all like all of those movies are next December yeah I don't know I don't know about this year I'm sure something has to be coming out in December this year something are we

gonna do a Dune's day if Dune and Avengers launches on the same day on Dune's Day? Launch on the same day? Yeah, but I don't even want to get excited for that yet because I don't think there's anything. There's no chance. There's no chance. Oh, this year's Avatar. That's the December movie this year.

Avatar 3, maybe Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Knives Out three, which we also got like a small teaser trailer for. They didn't really reveal anything but looks cool. Benoit Blanc's got longer hair. It's Josh O'Connor. Um yeah, that's December of this year. Benoit Blanc got longer hair. It's like before and after and they're breaking it down. That was the other thing. The Stranger Things, we got, I guess it's a teaser, I would consider it. We have, we had the event, the Fantastic Four teaser, the trailer, the official trailer. We just got another one somewhat recent. This one was a teaser. We just got a teaser again. They went back to teaser for a second.

I didn't know you could go back to teaser after you got the trailer. I didn't know you could crank it back. Yeah, no, I didn't know you could go back. I thought you could only go to like TV spots. What happened to TV spots? You don't see those as much anyway. You still do, but like, I remember like when the Dark Knight was coming out, check that off your fucking bingo card. It was like there was seven TV spots

and I would like watch every one and try to like, I remember I downloaded them. I did like YouTube to MP4 back in the day and then tried to put them into iMovie and like make a short film out of the TV spots. I was obsessed. It was complete, you know, dark night summer. We were much more aware of the titles of everything

back when we like pirated a lot of our audio and video. Oh yeah. We had to download it, right? So. And then you go back and retitle some of this stuff. If you want to like remember what it is, yeah. I have a call me maybe it's been on my phone misspelled Carly Rae Jepsen. Her name is misspelled. I mean for like 15 years now, whatever it's been,

it's crazy. It's survived different phones, different parts of my life. I downloaded it before I even was married and now I'm married two kids in a house and it's the same MP3 file somehow through all these devices all these years later. That's the strange of things. You don't really get a lot which I don't need a lot. Yeah, I know it's We know what it is I think and listen this isn't a spoiler But i'm pretty sure that they the director the duffer brothers had said like a while ago like this is gonna be a time jump I think it's basically like hawkins has been in this it's like the fight has come to the world Yeah, it's with jurassic park. We we were promised when Jurassic Park just went a little bit we're not even getting into a

dinosaur we might get into a dinosaur debate again I don't know that was pretty fun yeah people liked that one actually people were like into the dinosaur debate last week although the T at T Rex I will say hand up when we did the poll on Twitter it was it was dominant it was 70 to 30 but that's why I like the velociraptor so much this crappy underdog. I root for the scrappy underdogs I don't root for the evil Empire root for the rebels The Raptors entire brand has just been not being the known dinosaur that you that you guys knew growing up. I'm telling you Again, you might have been actually taught Raptors were like a big deal growing up. They weren't even on our radar It was T. Rex

Brontosaurus those were the big indoctrinated by my school We're gonna get into this is we were dinosaur show at some point, you know what I'm fucking all for Don they were Also stranger things related have we talked at all about the the Stranger Things Broadway show that's on Broadway right now? I don't think so, but it like got nominated for a comedy and shit, right? People are loving it. It's a play. It's not a musical. So there's no like, it's Stranger Things and I'm Hopper.

I think Winona and David Harbour's characters, I think, are kids in the Broadway show. And I think the Broadway show is about Vecna. So they kind of do the wicked thing. They're like, we'll give you the origin for the villain. Maybe make you look at it differently. I've heard it's amazing. Maybe that'll be a game time hit up. We'll be like, let's get out to Stranger Things on Broadway for very, very good things.

See the tree. We go to Stranger Things on Broadway. Follow it up by watching it during things. See the trees? We go to Stranger Things on Broadway and we follow it up by watching it during Christmas time. It's perfect. Yeah, that'd be awesome. I'm sure tickets are going to get crazy when season five starts to come out too. Another thing, another trailer to talk about, Gen V season two. We got the trailer.

Was this a teaser trailer? Was this an official trailer? I don't even know. I think it was more of a teaser. I think it was teaser. I teaser. I think it was teaser. I've, you know, I just watched it for the first time. Teaser trailer. Okay.

According to Prime Video. So this ain't even the big deal, Bob. This is just the appetizer. This is the motstix. I thought it was good. I texted you. I was like, this was a good trailer because like Stranger Things,

we didn't get a ton revealed. There's a little bit like Chance, Rest In Peace, died in real life. Obviously they're including that in the storyline They're not recasting. They're kind of they're kind of making the father what happened to my son, you know stuff like that Comes out September 17th. We see the deep for a quick second in the trailer I liked how the first season of Gen V I almost feel similarly about Gen V and stranger things where I feel like people almost people aren't shitting on it by any means

But people almost forgot how good the first season was. We loved it. And the way that they incorporated the world of the boys, it really all made it feel like the same universe. I got the vibe of like, oh yeah, I totally pictured the deep showing up or A-Train showing up or Homelander at the end, obviously. I'm really excited for Gen V season two. Lady Fox likes Gen V season one, she likes the boys.

My sister likes this stuff. Like it's such a universal, I know it's crazy and gross and raunchy and gory, but like it kind of hits for everybody. Yeah, I think, and I think, cause the finale season series finale for the boys is coming up in 26. So I feel like this is gonna lay the groundwork for that. We'll also be able to operate independently on its own, which I think is important.

And yeah, we like season one. Someone recently really didn't like season one. I'm like, I was pretty cool with that. I didn't like love it. I don't think it was better than the boys, right? Yeah, no, it was a step below the boys, but close. Yeah, and I was in that world. I like being in that world.

This world, I'm sorry, this teaser trailer, we'll call it, feels like we're going a little X-Men-y here. We're going humans versus the, I don't know what they, what do they call them again? They're like the enhanced, is that the word that they, I don't, Something like that, yeah. I have to get my nomenclature down.

We'll have to go back and yeah, hit a recap. Yeah, so I'm excited for it. It looked good. I'm also praying, like I think with this show, I hit a level with the gore more than anything. The Grosette stuff as well, but the gore. We don't just need gore. We, you guys have chopped in on us enough.

I think even Invincible, they had a lot of the gore and they're like All right, we're gonna save those cards from when we need them I hope they save them or even though you feel like shit pride does get crazier when they're college kids and they're just learning their abilities and What's too far? So yeah, but your point I completely agree with there was a time in WWE around 2004 or five where everyone is blading for every match. Every match you watched, they were cutting them, blood was coming down. There's a famous match people bring up where they were like Triple H face Shelton Benjamin

on a random raw and was fucking Crimson Mask bloody. And it was like, save it for the pay-per-view, man. Like, we don't need that right now. It lessens it the more you put in. So yes, use it sparingly, use it where it's necessary. And then when a head pops, we're like, holy shit. It's not just heads popping every week. And we're like, yeah, that's what this show is.

If everyone bleeds, no one bleeds, right? Yeah. Because there's nothing special about it. It's just, oh, this guy made it through the match without getting cut. He must be fucking incredible. Also a trailer we got this week was the trailer for Alien Earth, the new FX Hulu show about

the Alien universe. I wanted to bring this up because it looks, production quality-wise, like a movie. The CG in the trailer, the visuals in the trailer look amazing. I think the trailer looks really good. It's getting a lot of good buzz. I saw our guy Justin Kroll said it was his most anticipated show of the year. Heavy spoilers, really excited for it as well. I wanted to bring up Alien Earth also because there's a new Predator movie out today. It's animated. It's the one that they made in secret. They

were like, we made a Predator movie in secret. It's also made by Dan Trachtenberg who did Prey. He did 10 Cloverfield Lane. We love Dan Trachtenberg here. It's got 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. The animation looks really unique. It looks cool, almost paint strokey, but at times realistic. I'm really excited for it. I'm excited for both of these things. I'll watch the animated Predator movie and I'm absolutely there for Alien Earth. Clem, I think Alien Earth looks a little bit too scary for the Cremenza household. It looks terrifying. Well, you can call it what it is. It's fine. I'm confident enough in my manner you could very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,

very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, I appreciate that. I feel like Predator and Alien are both franchises that are in a pretty healthy place and a place that I want... I don't want to say it's... It's not Star Wars in terms of those, but it's the next level down. I'm not going to get all this shit for the whole episode, but it's like...

I think where that is, this should be where some franchises that maybe want to come back or whatever should strive to get to have good people take care of the good Take care of your stuff in your good hands. I think for Dan Trachtenberg He doesn't get anything in the basement because I don't fucking know any of the stuff he's done But we just call him Trachtenberg down here. Oh Trachtenberg yeah Big guy No, no, no Trachtenberg. Yeah He's not he's not scrawny though, I don't know

He's just normal guy. He might be short though. He might be a short king. I can't really tell We can't call him yeah Let's hope we get him in the basement one day I would love to talk talk to him. Ten Cloverfield Lane, I recommend to everyone as well. I think it's like I love the original Cloverfield. Don't get me wrong. Shout out Matt Reeves. I'm wearing the Batman hoodie right now. But Ten Cloverfield Lane is like it's the Cloverfield movie for me, where I'm like, that's the fucking that's what the franchise should be.

It should be this weird alien anthology thing. And our boy, James Gunn, I think we you might have like mentioned something in passing last week. He shut down the whole Matt Reeves is not listed as the director and then Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's like, no, like, that's still happening. We don't know what's happening. Best wishes to Matt Reeves.

Some people are saying it might be health issues with him. Totally best wishes if that's the case. We just want some Batman, obviously. Harry's don't make us do a full Dark Knight rewatch because we will. We will. I won't be a threat. Must be a good time. Let's tell everyone about another one of our sponsors here in the basement.

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I'm excited about this. I think more spin-offs should be planned that being said Eventually, we got to get Batman, right? like I hope these these spin-offs are planned after Batman comes back or is it a situation where it's like Listen, it might be another two years before we get a Robert Pattinson Batman movie. Give him a cameo and a spin-off give him that Rogue one Darth Vader hallway scene at the end of one of these shows like we thought maybe we could have gotten the penguin I think they made the right call with just like the bat signal you left it all about the penguin. We loved that I think they made the right call with just like the bat signal you left it all about the penguin. We loved that But maybe I don't know is this a is this a backdoor way if we could get Robert Pattinson in before he's fucking 40 He made that joke. He's like I he might be 40 already to be honest. He made the joke

He's like I was supposed to be year two Batman in the first one I'm gonna be retired Batman in the second one. It's older than the stranger things kids at this point Do so The spin-off stuff, that's cool, that's fine. They are gonna be fighting the expectations of the Penguin now for every Batman series going forward. The fucking movie is gonna be facing it too, right? Because we all love the Penguin series so much. Which like looking back now, we were like, remember where DC was

when we first got announced to Penguin? And even though we had like the Batman, it was like, man, I hope they don't fuck this up, especially cause they were taking HBO out of HBO Max. There was a lot of it. They're pushing all the Discovery Weirdo shows on us instead of the quality. James Gunn has been making funny jokes about that HBO Max

thing on the Superman press tour too. He's being like, and watch Peacemaker the next month on HBO Max. Not Max. Max stinks. HBO Max is the best. So that's why I feel confident because that's the dude that is ultimately at the top of the orchard and it's kind of like with Barstool where I'm like, if he's running it, things are gonna work out. Funny shit's gonna bubble up the fucking shore house that's coming up, like I can't even imagine. Oh my God, yeah. But yes, it's gonna come out like that.

Maybe we gotta make a cameo on that, Clem. We were talking about a midway day, maybe we plan it around. And we don't wanna be at the shore house. We wanna be like the characters in Jersey Shore where it's like you meet up with them and we get a little, oh, Robbie and Clem from My Mom's Basement on the screen.

And then we're like, all right, see you later, guys. And we go sleep in our own beds. I joke that I said, David invited me, my wife and my kids to be like on the show as members of the show. Maybe I do just like drop the kids off there just to see what they do. And we just have a challenge for the day. Yeah. Take kids to the beach. Lady Clem, Lady Fox and the boys here can just have themselves like a good day We'll have a couple. What did you call my he my he's so my Have some drinks among us. We got some salt water taffy from Lucky Leo's are the best

They got a new flavor this year cream sickle. It might be the best piece of taffy. I've ever had in my life Creamsicle I've had creams for taffy before creamsicle candies. Oh, he's fucking play Good, it's lights out the creamsicle candies. Oh, he's fucking play. It's so good It's lights out the orange and vanilla. Oh so good. You a fudge guy. You're a fudge guy, right? Not real. I'm not an anti fudge guy But if I go to Lucky Leo's they got all the fudge in the cabinet a more of a taffy guy But just a little too heavy for me. I think okay I always thought fudge was like the premier dessert you bring back from the shore

But then some people are taffy people the baked baked goods. I mean, elephant ears, all that kind of stuff. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. Funnel cakes and zeppoles and I'm a big waffles and ice cream guy. When I, when I want to dessert on the boardwalk, I love waffles and ice cream. I did that once with my family, probably somewhere on the Jersey shore. And I was like, so this is the peak of like eating basically, a hot waffle and a cold piece of vanilla ice cream a scoop of ice cream was out of this world and to this day I don't know if like the dopamine in my brain has ever reached the levels as it was as I was eating that that fucking waffle ice cream so good also in the Batman world, not this Batman world, Mike Flanagan, who is

currently developing the clay face script. Um, it was apparently done. And now someone's maybe rewriting some of it. He's still involved. He says it's inspired by the feet of clay episodes in Batman, the animated series. His quote was that two-parter knocked me out. The short answer is that is absolutely what inspired my script. Now the feet of clay episodes are so good.

It goes into Clayface's history as an actor and how he became Clayface. And there was a lot of questions because there's like two famous Clayface origins they could have went down and now we have the answer. So it will be the Batman the animated series Feet of Clay one. It's all available on HBO Max. I don't know if it's HBO Max yet, but it's Max HBO Max. Go check out those episodes. They're great and it just makes me more excited for the Clayface movie,

which again, I was like, initially, it was like, it's gonna be weird to have a Clayface movie and then like the next week, there's a Batman movie. It'll probably be the Clayface movie in the next year. There's a Batman movie, so it'll be fun. Clayface. You could tell me this more than I mean anyone else basically I feel like there is layers to clayface. Oh big time He's the kind of guy that when Jose found out there's talks of a clayface movie

He's like, oh my god, like this could be it. We got it He's way and I think also way into the feet of clay Batman the animated series stuff Jose's a huge Batman the M.A. Series guy. You think we way into the feet of clay Batman, the animated series stuff. Jose's a huge Batman. The series guy you think we got the heavy breathing Jose was oh, we'll see next week. We'll have to like we'll have to get it out of him next week. Definitely made note that that and this is why I think it's good to have the head of DC be a ball no we're like James Gunn. Yes.

Where it's like I'm sure that the whole's of the world, which James Gunn I imagine is, is like we need to have a Clayface movie. I mean, it's gonna be this, this and this and it's gonna be good because of it. So I am going in like you guys, we're gonna watch it. Obviously. I think there's a probably a good floor for it. I'm excited to see how it goes. I have. I'm a Mike Flanagan guy too. I know you don't- you probably don't know his stuff. He's done a lot of Netflix like series, The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly House, Midnight Mass. He did Doctor Sleep, the Shining sequel with Ewan McGregor. He's really, really good at like writing monologues especially. That's like kind of one of his big things is he's a monologue guy. I think you cast the right people and this could be fucking like more than just a superhero movie.

It could be almost like a Joker type thing and I'm not a huge Joker fan but maybe that vibe. Yep, I'm gonna say I'm just looking at the posters of the movies he's done. Those are the movies that like I like didn't look at when I was in the movie theater. I looked in the upper left hand side of the screen because I'm so scared of them. They're all scary names and they all look terrifying. He's a horror guy for sure. I don't know about Mike Flanagan very much. Hand up.

And then again, speaking of James Gunn, James Gunn says, Godzilla minus one ended up being a major influence on Superman. He said, my goal was to make a film like Godzilla minus one, which depicted Godzilla, but also had great human drama. We were just talking about this in the office this week with hubs, of course, Godzilla super fan. And we were talking about how it was the first Godzilla

movie. I think we were recommending it to Owen where when they cut to Godzilla, there's part of you where you're like, where are the people? What are the people doing right now? And every other Godzilla movie, when they cut to the people, you're like, what's Godzilla doing right now? Where's Godzilla? And they flip it where they actually made you care about the human story and that really like Kind of captured my imagination for Superman where I'm like who are those like human characters that we're gonna Really case it though. Like are we gonna be like, where's Lois Lane right now? Where's Jimmy Olsen? Like are we gonna care as much about those characters as we do Superman? I welcome that with open arms because of course the original Christopher Reeve like you care about Lois Lane and all of that, but there's not

a superhero movie where it's really about the full group as much, at least in my opinion. Yeah. And I think with Superman, he is such the ace that you holding your hand. And if it's just you're playing the ace all the time, the it it doesn't if nothing else is going to make him special. It's like you're saying with the gore almost like treat Superman not like Jaws, not quite that sparingly. But yeah, make him make him special, make it special to see the suit up where it's like, holy shit, he's in the fucking suit, not just him walking around in the suit all the time. as him walking around in the suit all the time. Yeah. Now, I think this is one of the things people are, because I'm hearing the criticisms,

and I'm watching the trailers, and I'm not just like, holy shit, 10 out of 10, light up, that's going to be the greatest movie of all time. I think a lot of people are the Jimmy, the Lois's, the Lex Luthor's. I think Lex is where you cook, and I hope hope yeah what happens, but I don't know. I think it's like the off shot looking. Like heroes and super whatever you want to call him because I in those trail I thought we had villains and heroes and lemons There's some bad DC heroes. They just look like they're just fucking they're telling you wrestlers from the fucking, you know?

Now I will say, I think Guy Gardner, I think the way comic fans would describe him is like, yeah, he's like if a fucking WCW, like I think he is that guy where it's like if he's supposed to look a little cheesy, like what the fuck is that? And I think he's going to probably die in this movie. And that's why the lantern show is like no we're using the real lanterns We're using fucking Kyle Chandler and that dude that was in what was it Ridge something really? Ridge Road Ridge

What was that movie cuz that movie rocked and he was awesome at it I thought it the other day said that movie rock and I saw another name His name Aaron Pierre am I getting that right? Rebel Ridge. Rebel Ridge. Rebel Ridge. What a fucking good movie. That was Don Johnson playing an absolute dickhead. That movie ruled. Aaron Pierre. That's right. That is his name. Yeah. Yeah. And that dude's handsome as fuck. He's awesome. Yeah. Piercing eyes.

And then, well, there's also like a, there's like a, I think he's like a black superhero that has like- Oh, Mr. Terrific. He's got the weird like face thing. Yeah. And the name Mr. Terrific, I'm telling you, that is 1994 WCW. Get this.

What was the name of the guy- Oh, you might get hate for that. We gotta get Jose. We gotta get his take on these characters really. Cause I think Mr. Terrific is beloved. But in the trailer, he does not look cool. That's what I'm saying. I don't like I'm like now that now there's a thing. I trust the gun. The gun is trusted. So I'm what a trailer looks like in a two second snippet. Yeah, it does on the screen. That is where I think

some of the translation could be lost. That when the movie's great, it's because if it's that much better than the trailer, it's because if it's that much better than the trailer, it's because guys like that, I'm like, I don't really like it. You look kind of cool with the motorcycle jacket and the T mask. Okay. Just. Right? Such a dad.

Okay, we're gonna disagree. I have been told by my kids like today is not June 6. I'm like today is like, and it's like, okay, I don't even know. It's not June 6. Yeah. Other day is in a week. No, it's not. Okay. The sky is not blue. But I but there's a thing like with with trailers, especially like, why are we eating each other alive with these? I know color grading and posting. Here's how it looks on online.

Here's how it looks in the theater. It looks way better in the theater. It's like, I don't fucking know colored we're doing color grading talk like this. Like, I just I mean, I've been weaning myself off of social media for like the last year as much as I can, because it still is a big part of the job. And it's like, you just can't fight. You know, we watch the movies and we disagree on the movies like it's the stupid threat. You feel like you watch two different things.

It just is what it is at this point. The sailboat is a schooner. You know, I don't know if it's a... And some Marvel news. Fantastic Four marketing is going crazy. Sue Storm is pregnant. Vanessa Kirby showed up on a red carpet she's pregnant promoting a movie where she will be pregnant in it. And it's not much

to like break down. You're gonna get fucking pregnant. You're gonna I don't give a shit. Did you know who her boyfriend is? Oh, I just found that out. Who is it again? Paul Rabel from the lacrosse shit that he goes on, pardon my take, all the time. He's like Big Cat and PFT. Someone tweeted me and they said, did you know this?

And I didn't know that. And they said, why don't you get like a connection through Big Cat or PFT? And my response was, they do not have the best reputation with actresses in the MCU going through their husbands. Shout out Rebecca Romain, shout out Mr. Bing Bong Jerry O'Connell. I was like, I don't know if they're the guys

to reach out to about getting Sue Storman. I feel like if I hit up Big Cat and was like, yo, can you hit up Paul Raybal and see if his wife would do an interview in my mom's basement? He'd be like, no, Robbie. Come on, Robbie. Actually, I just thought of this now, Bob. I don't know where Rebecca is with her big cat. I know

it was it was hot and cold and back and forth. Yeah. Depending on where it goes as doomsday approaches, we could tell Rebecca Romain big cats been banned from the basement. Remember after he voted you all on the base. He was paying them and had them on the live show. Let's talk shop about Marvel and the X-Men and Mystique and all that kind of stuff. Plug it and Big Cat is not allowed here. Oh, we could say, you know, it's the perfect way to make Big Cat and PFT jealous. Yeah. You come on the basement. And we won't Bing-Bong one time.

Even though you're Big Bob. No, no. We'll be very appropriate. Yeah. Well, when is, when's Doomsday is not coming out during the playoffs? Because that's when Big Bob comes out. No, it'll be very appropriate. Yeah When is when doomsday is not coming out during the playoffs because that's when big Bob comes out. It'll be December. It'll be perfect Yeah Marvel also skipping Hall H at Comic-Con this year Sort of makes sense with the delays

I think like it's crazy that they're skipping Hall H any year But I guess they're not gonna have something to promote for a long time It's gonna be until doomsday and the next December. So that bummed me out. I have to admit because I was, you know, there's times where you get hit with a couple of things and then the bomb drops. All right. Yeah. At the same point, I'm not chasing the Hall H reactions anymore. I'm chasing the reactions in the movie theater and the TV shows. And if they're, I'm telling you, there's a chance in like 2020, 2021, they'd be like, we got to make some of our holiday,

just make this show $500 million budget, right? I think they did that a few years ago when they brought out frigging Mahershala Ali. And it was like, they brought out so many people who was like someone posted recently, like this panel has aged poorly. And it was just a bunch of things that got canceled or wound up not being great. It was Natalie Portman holding Yolnir above her head and people going nuts. Right.

That was all on the same panel. Oof, yeah. So I did love all the people who were like, just got back from King Dynasty and they had like the picture of it. Yeah. Really came out a couple of weeks ago or whatever, or should have come out.

That might've been the same one too. I think that was the same one. It was like Kang Dynasty, Thor Love and Thunder and Blade. And it was like, not the best showing. I still defend Thor Love and Thunder though. I'll still shout out the way they use November rain in that movie. And the black and white shit, black and white shit was great. There's a lot of bad though.

Let's just say that. Let's say that because when actual his head is floating, that CGI was so bad. I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it? I'm trying to say how many times have you watched it?

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So I'm still on the, whoa, that was bad. Because then I think, man, they just wasted a whole Christian bail and gore as a character and like a God butcher. I want to see God's gift All right One of those movies where Like Obi-Wan the series as I was watching it and or as I go back if I go back and rewatch the Obi-Wan verse Vader Fight as I'm watching it. I'm like, this is cool I like this and then the more you think about it after the movie the one you're like, maybe I don't like that You know, it's like you almost like the more you think about it after the movie, the more you're like, maybe I don't like that. You know, it's like, you almost like,

the more you think about it, the more it falls apart. Yes, I think, I don't know if it's in the podcast or through text, but I have officially, in my head, it never happened. The Obi-Wan- You said on the podcast. And I have now decided, this is, I hope this doesn't offend you. I have the sequels are gone. Oh

Does that offend me I As a fan base or at least as friends here that like Because AJ AJ is like obsessed with Kylo Ren cause he's playing with him and he sees him in Fortnite, he plays with him in Battle Pass or Battlefront. And he's like, oh, who's Kylo Ren? I'm like, dude, you have no idea that's Han Solo's kid. And he killed Han Solo.

And then I'm like, I don't know if Han Solo should have went down like that. And I really liked Force Awakens. And I'm like, you know what? I didn't like the way Last Jedi and then no one liked the way Ryza. I said, fuck it. They're gone. They're out of here forever. And this whole, cause then you're fucking with Obi-Wan and then it's the first time

I've since my master and the aging has never made sense. Gone. Taken care of. I told you this the other day and I think Sienna had said the same thing to me years earlier when she was in this phase of Star Wars fandom. They both I think asked me how did Han Solo get his name which is a weird thing to ask and I said I can't believe you asked that and I said I don't know his parents named him that because I am that guy.

I said that's not head canon that's family canon in the Clemenza household Han Solo's parents named him that. Choose your own adventure right like oh you're gonna this is my religion you're gonna set my religion it's the closest thing I have to religion for sure yeah exactly um and the only other Marvel news I had and this goes right into what we were talking about with Thor it's kind of very fitting Chris Hemsworth put out this weird post and I don't know how to feel about this Chris Hemsworth released a statement thanking Marvel fans for supporting him as Thor over the last 15 years as he goes into film Doomsday. What's going on there Chris Hemsworth?

Are you spoiling something? Are you telling us Thor is not gonna be around afterwards? Are you trying to do the Guardians of the Galaxy 3 thing where we go in being like oh he's definitely done and you know it's it's worthy that time and then he has a happy ending or something like that? Is it gonna be the reason why Thor was crying over Deadpool's body? We're gonna get that scene in doomsday or something. I don't know everyone. I think had the same reaction to this Like the fuck does that mean Chris? Susslist that's what Yes

He's on the Susslist What was up with that it if listen if he dies in doomsday, it's like a what the fuck, you spoiled it. And if he doesn't, it's like alright, I guess it was just a weird post. But why? Because it was the 15 year anniversary, he felt like he had to do that? I don't know, repost like a Thor 1 thing, be like I can't believe it's been 15 years. Not like, thanks for all the support guys see ya because I mean we're all thinking the Deadpool that's we're all thinking the

Deadpool and it's also like all right Mark Ruffalo might be done Hemsworth might be done the Avengers that they kept around when they said all right Evans Downey Scar Joe you guys can move on until they were like actually you can't move on. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It was weird. And then there was a funny Tom Hiddleston quote to where he was like, Yeah, I didn't even know about the chair announcement thing till I saw my chair. It was like, I guess I'm in the movie. And then he was like, to be fair, I knew I was in the movie.

He's playing Loki in real life now. You know, he's playing the lines between fiction and reality. So many people quote, tweet him. Poor Tom Hiddleston, he didn't know he would have to be Loki in all life now. He doesn't even know the lines between fiction and reality. So many people quote tweet him, poor Tom Hiddleston. He didn't know he would have to be Loki in all these movies. He signed on for Thor 1. He didn't know he would have to be in the Avengers. Poor Tom Hiddleston. He established himself as one of the greatest superhero

comic book actors of all time, one of the most perfect castings, one of the most beloved by fans. I would imagine one of the richest based on how much he's been in and how many projects he's been in the screen time alone. I don't think we have to feel bad for Tom Hiddleston at all. I've always been a big fan of like the winners and losers of, you know, the trade deadline, the winners and losers, winners and losers of the MCU. Hiddleston is, I mean, top three. I'd say Downey is the number one winner. I'd say. Yeah, obviously downy number one. You could, you could make the argument. Hiddleston is number two.

I don't think he's number two personally. I think he's probably top five for sure. But the before I make the argument, it's downy Hiddleston. Yeah, that's crazy. People. I, I mean, this is the thing when you're dealing with online cakes and all, you're dealing with people with different look outlooks on the world, maybe different problems in their brain like you're just dealing with people who have a lot of different things that they've been through. So they're going to see things a different

way. Tom Eddleston. I mean, Taylor Swift was a Taylor Swift fucking yeah. Yeah, this guy's and he's one of the good ones according to G and he's married to the he's married to the girl from the Marvels, the girl from the Marvels, the villain from the Marvels, which we didn't like here in that movie, but it's good for him. So somebody, I saw a thing about the Marvels the other day and someone was like, I just didn't like the villain.

And then someone was like, who is the villain? And someone's like, yeah, I thought, who is the, and I'm trying to figure the villain of the Marvels and I actually don't remember. I remember the ending of that movie being like, oh, they could have just like hit a button. Then everything would have been, yeah. There was a good movie in there though I will yeah yeah another one where it's like there's great scenes the scene where they're doing the the power swap when they're like oh we could fucking swap

with each other they're playing jump rope they're doing tricks like that was like the shit I want out of a superhero show or movie like that was that that was our boy Tika too, wasn't it? No, that wasn't. Now, did he have something to do with the musical? I thought he had something to do with something. Maybe he commented on something about the movie. I don't remember.

We just put that bad on him. We're like, yeah, probably Tyka. We've already brought Love and Thunder, and he kind of made Thor this kind of weird character. Thor has been through some shit as a character. Think about where he started with the fucking blonde eyebrows to where he is now with like the happy face. Let's shout out end game Thor

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Amsterdam vodka You pull a little blue carousel curacao in there, which is delicious little liqueur I've had a lot. You're in the same as February and the same as February rain. We're gonna we're gonna put a little Blue sugar on the rim. Oh, I like that It's a good it's a good aesthetic. Yeah, that's all really all I care about when it comes to a drink a good aesthetic You know Amsterdam that that bottle that look oh, it's the best aesthetic in the game But you know what? There's no umbrella in this drink a because it's not a tropical drink Yeah, you can't have an umbrella. We're letting the rain come down. Yeah. All right. So I just have a few quick things to mention here. This isn't even really

like something I don't want to discuss, but I wanted to make everyone aware. There's a 50th anniversary Jaws documentary coming out next month on Disney Plus. July 11th, it drops new footage from, like new interviews from Spielberg, Lucas, Jordan Peele I think is a big part of like the talking head interviews and stuff. I'm just excited for it. I love Jaws, I love Spielberg things,

50th anniversary, I love any doc where it's like, let's look back at this classic movie 50 years later. So I want to like make people aware that that's coming. I want The Boss Man people aware that that's coming. I want the boss man. So this okay. This is a get back in the boss man's good graces. You watch it. Yeah, it's good. And oh, that's right. If it's good, you report to him because that might not hit the rain. We're gonna need to have like a conference together. Like for for my own reassurance. I feel like I need you to watch it as well.

And then we'll get together and we'll be like, should this be a recommendation? Yes, because we got to get back on. I mean, I need like Jeff, too. I might need like a council. I might need like five people to watch it. And we vote. I mean, we make an anonymous vote. Should this get recommended to Dave?

We all go into Jedi Council. All we're like survivor. We're like, we're like, sorry, man. Like somebody like doesn't give the vote. Has to be unanimous. Has to be unanimous. Yeah. What is it on?

What's the, is it Max? Disney Plus, I think in Hulu. I think it's like, they're all kind of wanting the same at this point. Also the alien show that looks terrifying is on Disney Plus. And it's still every time there's like a rated R adult show on Disney Plus, Lady Fox is like, and they wouldn't let him make Lizzie McGuire the sequel or whatever. The island doc is so fucking good. And I know if Dave got into the guts of it, he'd love it. But it's just too much for him to peel back the fact that it's a series

and not like a movie is to like, it's nice for us because they get into everything but I think for people that aren't as into the weeds they'd probably rather watch like a two-hour doc. I think he and I think Draws is by far his favorite movie right? Yeah it is. So I had another Star Wars related news story because Mark Hamill was doing press for the Life of Chuck Tom Hiddleston movie that comes out this week it's got both of minute Stephen King story supposedly like the feel-good movie of the year people are saying life of Chuck is gonna be like one of the best movies here I'm very excited Mark Hamill said he will not be returning as Luke Skywalker again he said I really think they should focus on the future and all of the new

characters which was funny because that's the entire narrative of The Last Jedi, the movie he didn't completely agree with. But people made a big thing out of this and they said, Mark Hamill says he's not gonna return as Luke Skywalker again. He must be disgruntled. He must not want to come back. I think it's like no duh, he's not gonna come back as Luke in terms of like, there's no project where that would

necessarily make sense other than maybe the Rey movie. He could be a force ghost. And in that, I don't think there's even a script like I don't think he would know whether or not they want them to come back at this point. I don't think this means he will not help out when it comes to bringing the deep fake Luke into Mandalorian or whatever comes forward. Like I think that's like gonna still happen. That Luke has to be around. When you eventually make Air to the Empire as a movie and you do the Avengers of this current Mandoverse,

like Luke has to be in it at some point. And I don't see Mark Hamill as the kind of guy saying, no, I'm not gonna help out the actor playing him. We are at this interesting time technologically where like the news is gonna be whether he lends out his image and likeness right yeah that's next you're right it came with James Earl Jones if James Earl Jones can sign his voiceover Mark Hamill can do that

you know while still alive and I wonder if he would think about doing that even for like Joker and I don't know I know some people like it's morally wrong never do that but like I don't know, I know some people are like, it's morally wrong, never do that. But like, I don't know, like James Earl Jones and his estate were apparently like totally cool with it. Yeah. Would you want, what would you rather, if the family's cool with it, do it.

It's the fucking, it's a human's fucking thing. And also, especially if the family can get money from it. Like, if I know, all right, it's AI and people say that's scummy because you're taking the job away from an artist, I understand that argument. What if the other side of the argument is that James Earl Jones' estate is still gonna get paid and his family's

gonna get paid and they're gonna be able to make money off of his legacy and his work? I think that's kind of right as well. Like I'm happy for them. That's a good thing, I think. Yeah, is the other option then like, you know, Mike Smith comes in and does his best James Earl Jones impression. Exactly. And that's like I would also like be OK with that as well.

I know it's happened in other Star Wars projects. James Earl Jones isn't the voice of Darth Vader and everything. Sometimes it's someone doing an impression of him. But it's certainly not something that I'm super up in arms about. People still up in arms about like deep fake Luke. And I'm like, in 10 years, you know, good deep fake Luke is gonna look like right now, I think in 10 years, we're not gonna be able to tell. And that's, I guess some people are still like, see, that's the issue, you're not gonna be able to tell it, it's gonna be

AI taking your job. And it's gonna be AI mom, mom's basement in 10 years. Maybe it will be, I don't know. But it's one of those things where I feel you can't completely resist it. You gotta use it as a tool and you gotta, you gotta figure out how to use it. I don't, I don't know. It's, it's a crazy, like large scale debate that we're just dipping our toes in here. So I just looked it up. He does have a son named Flynn Earl Jones, which I didn't know that Earl Jones traveled. I thought, yeah, that's it. That's a good Flynn Earl Jones is a good name. Unless is Earl Jones the last name or did they just both get the Earl middle name? I guess is the question. I don't know. I don't know. I always thought that was his middle name to be honest. I thought it was

like. So, Flynn Earl Jones has one credit to his name on IMDB because I didn't know he even got into the family business. Okay. Oh, he's in the Darth Vader. The name of the movie or it's a short, he who walks in darkness, right? What's his character? Is it a character? I don't know, but this is what it says. It says he's listed as the voice. I couldn't make that up.

If I tried, cause like if you were told James Earl Jones, the future Darth Vader will be voiced by Flynn Earl Jones, James' son. Now if he doesn't sound like James Earl Jones, that's a difficult conversation. But if he just comes in and like breathes in the mic and the guy does the rest, does that make it more acceptable? Right? Maybe? For me, sure. I don't care. But for people, maybe. Yeah. does the rest does that make it more acceptable right maybe for like it for me like sure like I don't care but for people maybe yeah and again you're gonna

have people who are gonna hate it no matter what they're gonna like it no matter what right and then more camel with the image and like this thing it's the same kind of thing at some point to his kids come into like but I won't be shocked if he already signed that over did he sign that over for the book of Boba Fett and Mandalorian like Luke did he have to do that then I don't be shocked if he already signed that over. Did he sign that over for the Book of Boba Fett and Mandalorian like Luke? Did he have to do that then? I don't know, maybe.

Because we are in this weird world where it's like you do need to have the characters from like the 70s are still in these newer shows. And I would also be okay with casting them too. After and or after we got the whole bail discussion over with if they said, listen, we are gonna move on and we're gonna cast, I mean, the guy that played Luke in Booga Booba Fett before they put Mark Hamill's face

on him looked exactly like Mark Hamill at that time. Like I would have been okay with that guy playing him and no Mark Hamill face over it. I would have been fine with that. I know we said it was weird with Han Solo and Alden back in the day, but that broke the seal and we're now in a zone where it's like, like you said, we're going to need these characters for the next 50 years.

It's like they're going to be around Luke Skywalker is not going anywhere. So figure it out, figure out how to bring them in naturally. Speaking of Solo, I goes without saying the Han Solo name thing that is also headcanon gone. Yeah. Honestly, in my headcanon, the Ray Lo kiss at the end of Rise of Skywalker is gone as well. It's like, all right, he could redeem himself, he could fucking save her.

I'm okay with that. I don't need the kiss. And listen, the prequels are still alive in my mind. It's just they are the, it's the Topher Grace, like, hour long movie that I've never seen before. But it's like, the idea of the story works. It was just the intuition that I did not like. It's interesting because it's like almost the opposite of like what I was saying before

where as I'm watching Thor Love and Thunder, I'm like, this is good. And then the more you think about it, you're like, that wasn't so good. Sometimes as I'm watching Attack of the Clones or something, I'm like, oh, this isn't so good. And then you'll read someone write about what the war was like at that time. And you're like, no, no, the story's good though. They just didn't execute it right.

The only other news item I had for this week was that true detective creator, Nick Pizzolato, says that he has a new idea for a story featuring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson's characters. He says he thinks that they're open to coming back and maybe doing it. How do we feel about this? We both love True Detective season one. We both didn't love the last True Detective season. Obviously, everything that's come after season one has been a bit disappointing for everyone. I kind of feel like leave it alone. Maybe don't go back to that well.

Like True Detective, another show where I feel like they got the anthology theme right. They're just not nailing it every time. I like the idea of two detective partners being different, different location, different vibe every season. I'm sure it would be surreal. And it's like, holy shit, they're back together. I don't know. My gut says leave it alone. Trying to do this with something on my desk. It's like this. It's like the old Matthew McConaughey gif, right? Time is a flat circle. We're right back here again.

We're doing Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, what, like 10 years after the original give or take? Probably a little more. I think it's 2014. I want to say the original. Maybe, maybe a little more than 10 years. Yeah. And they do the same thing they did in season one. Is it like a back-and-forth narrative? You probably can't based on Like we would have known if something crazy happened early. I don't know. It's kind of like in command to my song command, too I really didn't like it and I again that's just it never happened out of the head. Yeah So like they can do it and if it's good, I'm gonna fucking love it and it just lives in there. It's all part of it I mean the other thing is like the true detective brand which I think there was a good season or two scattered after one

I didn't watch two and three so I can't really think I remember watched two and I stopped like halfway through I think people like three and I do think people like that. Our boy Mahershal. I can it was Mahershal Ali. Yeah I And I do think people like that. My boy Mahershala, I can understand. It was Mahershala Ali, yeah. I really, really disliked the end of this last one. And I am done, hashtag done with your detective. That is all I'm saying. Unless they bring these guys back. I think we're not alone in that thinking, right? Yeah, yeah.

I think they kind of know they have to do that. I also am like, at some points like, it's like the Sopranos, they kind of know they have to do that I also like at some points like it's like sopranos. It's over you have to move on so I Wouldn't mind that as well. I guess season stung more too because there's a good setup You know it was like oh, this is intriguing like what's going on here? There's a little connection to season one It's in a new night country setting like all of it reminds me of check this bingo box secret invasion a little bit where it was like, all right, we got fucking Ben Mendelsohn and Samuel L. Jackson and this is fucking espionage. We don't know who's a scroll. Oh my God, they fucking killed Maria Hill. This is going to be crazy. And then episode two,

you're like, there better be a reason for why they killed Maria Hill. Right. And then after three, you're like, I don't think a reason's common. I remember at some point during like the watches of this, I was like pulling the parachute in my brain being like, dude, it's it's there's no direction. It's not going to happen. And I watched the finale being like, man, they're gonna have to wrap up. So I think we probably said on the pilot, they have to wrap up so so much in the finale and they just didn't wrap up was Yeah, it was just like we're janitors and we did it cuz we're janitors Jodie Foster beat Kristen Milioti for the enemy for the goal

They took it from Sophia Falcone the first and Milioti for the Emmy for the gold. I think it took it from our girl. They took it from Sophia Falcone taking a character that was like nobody gave a **** about her in the comics ever and made her one of the best on screen Batman characters we've ever

seen since **** 1966 and the yeah. Oh that that I can get fired up talking about that. I always just go back to the Emmys and I just think like the wire was nominated for nothing essentially its entire run. I think I like the last season when people actually and I'm like this is how you know the do these people even fucking watch what they're voting on and I honestly think the answer is no. The answer is probably no. Yeah more and more I feel like the answer is no. As the years go on more and more people are like oh I'll fucking check the one that was the biggest on streaming. Amelia. I looked at the numbers. Yeah.

Um, AJ has been asking nonstop. He goes, does Rob know that the next fortnight update is going to be about aliens and it's going to be, it looks like a DC one cause Superman's there. So he's been asking us, does Robbie like to see, I go, buddy, let me tell you about Robbie and DC right now. He is a guy. Oh yeah. I'll be in on that.

I'll, I'll, I'll do another stream with AJ for DC Fortnite for sure. I don't think the bat is gonna be involved, but there was rumors of Robin, which I don't... I'm okay with that though. I saw the pictures like Superman, Robin, and one other, I think. Yeah, there's like a couple others who I don't know involved in there. Superman looks great too. Looks like David Cornsweat. I was like, oh, that's fucking cool. That even in Fortnite, it really looks like him in the face. And I mean, for nights had very much been they do a good job of mixing. Like we're going to shitload of money for everyone about this very capitalistic

venture here, but through it well, so no one really cares that much. So I mean, it's like ready player one, like ready player one, how it's like every character of a universe. Like you see that and you dream of the Oasis, like being able to play that game one day. And then you realize like the game kind of exists already. It's a little different and it's all battle royale formatted, but now they've got the Lego shit.

They've got the Star Wars. They've got the no build versions. There's so many different versions of Fortnite you could play already. It's kind of near and ready player one territory in a good way. Before the Star Wars one, there was a couple of seasons ago, they had a Marvel one that was great.

And that was the one that got them into this game big time. I played that one. I remember when they put Thanos in the game. They had Dr. Doom in this one, some other things. Magneto, I remember seeing him walking down like the glider he had was sick. But I do think Marvel might've was Marvel might have been like hey Let's do something fantastic for right running into July and they said sorry we're already locked in with DC right? You're right. You're right. Yeah, and they gave him that and they also got their Star Wars, which is-

And that's probably Marvel being like alright. We'll let them fucking do the fortnight thing Let's put the new fantastic Four costumes in Marvel Rivals. And I think like they're ramping up Fantastic Four shit in Marvel Rivals. And have you seen, I've seen this because I follow the snack accounts for our snack boys. There's a lot of like, all the cereals are going retro looking, have you seen that?

So it's pretty- I did see some of that. Marketing, both marketing is fantastic. We're in Superman, really good job to the marketing team. And I gotta say really, this is total side note tangent, really bad job to the wicked marketing team. I'm not even a huge wicked guy. Obviously, like I have a history with the show family worked on the show. I liked the movie. That was really good. Like really impressed with how they translated it. Every trailer, every piece of TV spots or marketing posters, they make it look like a horrible,

straight to peacock low budget version of Wicked. It's like the lighting is weird, the green screen is horrible. Every time I see it, I'm like, I can't believe how bad they're making this look because I know it's going to be good. I felt the same way about the first one to be honest. I thought the trailers made Wicked look horrible and then it was great. It was like, oh shit. And then the runtime is like, man, you're just not going to get too many people to do this. They have to watch two movies. I feel like they've just shot themselves in the foot in some other way,

but they're going to be fine because I mean, yeah, that's a billion dollars. Yeah. I asked you, I said, should I go see the movie? You're like, honestly, I just go see the show whenever you can. I was like, worth maybe watching it. It's worth watching at home now that it's like easy to watch Because it is like the CGI is like really fucking good the way they made everything look like costumes like it's good It really is But like it's not the Broadway show

Not to be like the books better than the movie guy because I'm not that guy but just yeah, it's different Yeah, hashtag. What do we got? We had Marvel, we had some Gen V, we had some Stranger Things, we had some Mike Flanagan. Oh, Trachtenberg? Trachtenberg, yes.

Or Tractor, you want to hashtag Tractor? Because Trachtenberg's a little hard to spell. Yeah, we're gonna say it to the Tractor. Hashtag Tractor for the week. Hashtag Tractor for the week. Thanks for making it to the end of the podcast. Tractor boys, that's good little hard to spell. Yeah, we're gonna say to the track, tractor, hashtag tractor. Hashtag tractor for the week. Thanks for making it to the end of the podcast. Tractor boys, that's good, tractor boys. Thanks for making it to the end of the podcast.

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