My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 441 - NERD NEWS (SUPERMAN FALLOUT, EMMY NOMINATIONS, AND MORE)

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

Robbie and Clem discuss the #Superman fallout, the #Supergirl teaser poster, the #EMMY nominations (mostly focused around 'Andor' and 'The Penguin'), tickets for #TheOdyssey already going on sale a year out, #StrangerThings Season 5, #FantasticFour, and more! Gametime: Download the Gametime app today and use code MMB for $20 off your first purchase. New Amsterdam Vodka: Find your wins with New Amsterdam Vodka. Ready Or Not: Ready or Not is THE must-PLAY tac shooter this summer! Available NOW on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC! **************************************** My Mom's Basement is a weekly podcast hosted by Robbie Fox, started in March 2019, to discuss movies, music, comic books, wrestling, mixed martial arts, and more with his friends and idols alike! Subscribe on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-moms-basement/id1457255205 Follow Robbie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatrobbiefox Follow Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobbieBarstool My Mom's Basement Merchandise: https://store.barstoolsports.com/collections/my-moms-basementYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey, My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Hello and welcome to My Mom's Basement, presented by Barstool Sports. It is Robbie Fox and Clem for another nerd news, free swim edition of the show. We don't have any show or movie to recap this week, but we've got a ton of fallout from Superman. We've got a ton of news to talk about. I'm excited to be here, Clem, and I wanted to kick off the show with some anniversaries. Happy seventeenth anniversary to the Dark Knight tomorrow. Happy twenty-fifth anniversary to the first X-Men movie, the live action X-Men. That was this

week. Happy tenth anniversary to Ant Man also this week and happy eighty-third birthday to Harrison Ford. Wow, it's a nerd's heaven. I feel like this is, you're gonna get a lot of anniversaries, different weeks and stuff in the summer. A lot of summer blockbusters. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense and Harrison Ford is a summer blockbuster in himself, some would say. An American blockbuster. Yeah, and just got nominated for his first Emmy and we'll get into the Emmys on this show as well

We'll talk about the nominations what we're gonna riot over if it doesn't happen If we got a riot already, we've got you know riot watch. We're making riot plans. That's gonna be our Hashtag riot plans like like we're learning how we're gonna ride. And quick basement keeping right off the top. Big interview with CM Punk and Rhea Ripley recorded this week. I accidentally uploaded it for like seconds

to the My Mom's Basement channel, not seconds. It was up for a little bit, enough for news sites to like pull it and take big quotes from it. But then I had to pull it because it was for this Netflix show that they're promoting WWE Unreal. And I agreed to put it out on Monday for the embargo like bar soul agree it was my fault. So I felt so awful about it, especially

now that like, all over wrestling Twitter, there's quotes from my interview that I'm getting no credit for because there's no video to send people. So that'll be up officially on Monday. And I really need the Basement Boys and Girls to like help us out because the algorithm is going to fuck it being uploaded, privatized, re-uploaded. Just go to that. Even if you're not a wrestling fan, give it a thumbs up. It's a great interview. I promise it's really good. I felt awful yesterday. I was like such big names, such a good interview, and I ruined it. But again, the Basement Boys and girls, if you come in like the portal scene and support it, I think it still has potential.

I mean, when you tweeted out the picture hand up, like I didn't realize it's a CM Punk look like these days and I didn't know the girl, but I was just looking at the replies and people were losing their shit. So it's like instant retweet. I'm I'm I'm plugging my boy here. And then like, I know, know like especially someone like you you were probably losing sleep sick over the fact that went up and people are ripping quotes losing all those views that is the karmic way where everything is fine now Bob you you had that's your that's your penance you had to take live with it but in the end you're going to have a good interview and it's already uh sounds like it's already crushing in its own special way yeah it's kind of the quotes from it are

crushing on Twitter for sure I had a question what is so I saw Triple H tweeted like unreal and it's about Netflix I'm like is this their NFL are their Netflix quarterback version for exactly exactly that's the best way I could put I got to watch some screeners I don't think I'm technically allowed to talk about it. I don't think they'll be watching my last baseman. Listen, it's awesome. It's like, clearly, they're trying to do the quarterbacks f1 thing. The first episode is about like the premiere on Netflix, how they got that going. wrestling fans will some wrestling fans will be upset that it's pulling back KFabe in a way that really hasn't been pulled back before like you're seeing wrestlers go over moves in their head right before matches. Producers being like you gotta cut the **** anaconda vice. We got two minutes left on air. Like cut this move, cut that move. It's fascinating though. Like for wrestling fans that dig and wanna get every behind the scenes detail. Like it's cool. I think people are gonna love it. Like even non-wrestling fans, I could see this kind of bringing them in in a similar way that like F1

Drive to Survive brought people into that sport. And people like me who once loved it aren't in it right now, but like I do love the business and I love the whole thoughts of it and when you see how someone's planning out a match and if you're one of that it's real to me damn it just don't watch it and like avoid the post on Twitter when people share them avoid the my mom's basement interviews that ruin it for you. But other than that, I think that's definitely cool. Like Lady Fox liked it. That's a good testament to it.

She doesn't even really like wrestling. She really likes UFC, loves watching that with me. Wrestling is more of a like, hey, I'm gonna throw on Raw, is that all right? You know, one of those. But she was kind of engaged asking questions about it. So I think people are gonna dig it. And I also did an interview with Dana White this week.

Check that out on the Spinning Backfist channel. Usually I upload them on my mom's basement. I think there should be some separation at some point. We put all of our MMA stuff on Spinning Backfist, all of our nerdy stuff here. I feel like that kind of fits. Also dropped interviews with Brody King and the TNA president, Carlos Silva this week.

Check those out. And I've got an interview with Kenny from the starting line coming out tomorrow. So it'll be Friday the 18th as you listen to this. Next week, I've got an interview with that band Winona Fighter that I mentioned. That was a great interview. So yeah, big interview month, I guess, in the basement.

I was gonna say week, but there's been a lot all month. And check those out. If you only listen to my Own Space for the weekly show, I appreciate that. Love that you're listening to the show, but we do random bonus episode things here and there and interviews. So make sure you really look over the whole channel. Maybe you'll find something you like. Yeah, you could have a random flavor or like the Siam Punk thing, obviously, is a big example of that. Of something you might love and be like, holy shit So so I actually had a question TNA

AEW and then yes WWE is AEW the clear two and then yeah three TNA is the three TNA was the two for you know, the 20 years basically before that AEW became a thing for the 20 years basically before that AEW became a thing. TNA is now the three, but in an interesting turn of events, WWE has partnered with TNA. So now there's crossover between WWE and they try to take AEW down and AEW countering with good programming. And like, I love all three.

I'm not one of these like tribalism people in wrestling. So I kinda like to see like TNA has got UBS Arena this weekend. For a long time, they were not in arenas and they're still, they're roping stuff off and it's not the full arena. But I like seeing wrestling just thrive, like having three companies in the WW, or in the United States where it's like WWE, AEW, TNA. People are making full time livings in all three. And I think that's great for the business overall.

Yeah, like we said, competition kind of spurs everyone else to step their game up. Like, hopefully we're gonna see now that TC has launched the plane officially. So hopefully we get more of it there. Like you said, like I remember back in the day we had WWF WCW and then it was like, holy shit, this ECW thing is a complete wild card

and all this. And then when they teamed up with WWF, it felt like, oh, this is probably not good for WCW thing is a complete wild card and all this and then when they teamed up with WWF it felt like oh this is probably not good for WCW. Yeah. We're gonna get into a ton of Superman news, DC news, but first let's tell everyone about Game Time, one of our absolute favorite sponsors here. There's great UFC fights in New Orleans this weekend or Lafayette or it's in Louisiana. If you want to go to that you can get them on Game Time and if it's just summer day you're looking for something to do there's nothing like getting to a baseball game especially last minute. It's fun to just make the decision hey we're going to Yankee Stadium today. Lucky for me I always use Game Time the official ticketing partner of Barstool Sports. Game Time makes getting tickets faster and easier. Prices on the app

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Game Time. All right. So, I figured let's start with Superman. A ton of Superman fallout. We won't spoil Superman for anyone that's listening to this that hasn't watched it yet. We'll stay away from talking about the details. I mean, if you're on Twitter, it's hard to stay away from.

I'm seeing screenshots and videos from bootlegs. People are tweeting it willy nilly, it's crazy. But it's doing very well at the box office. And that's great for DC. We wanted it to do well. It's outperforming expectations and projections. It's not like Top Gun Maverick, it's not gonna make a billion dollars

and it's blowing everyone away. But it seems like DC and Warner Brothers are very happy with how it's doing so far. So it just did the biggest Wednesday of the year, it just did the biggest Tuesday of the year, it's the biggest global opening for any solo Superman movie, not counting the, I guess, Justice League, Batman v Superman. I think it's doing really good in America, not so well

overseas, and I've seen some people saying that's kind of how the history has been for Superman, which is interesting, but I kind of get it very like Americana Superman, like truth, justice, and the American way. I don't know if he was the new Superman's all woke, it's not that whatever, but like I think there's still, he's America's woke. It's not that whatever but like I think there's still there is still he's America's hero. He's not Captain America, but close and like the campy stuff, you know, the old stuff that would definitely play more here than than other places. I do we do

we ever come up with like what our guest was the number was going to be do we ever throw that out there? I don't think we did. Now they're saying it's probably gonna be between four and six hundred million, which I know that's a giant window I'm leaving there. I think if it made it to six hundred, that would be great. I don't know if it'll make it that high. Maybe it will. I'm not really sure, but it's doing well now. We'll see when Fantastic Four heads theaters, I think that's gonna hurt hurt it a lot, because it's going to be like people aren't seeing Superman as much if that's in the news, and Pedro's on Jimmy Fallon, and whatever.

Yeah, that's the thing of the competing superhero movies, which is good they gave this extra week buffer. You have the premiere last week, everyone's going to go, and then you have the extra week buffer, and then at some point people then have to choose between Fantastic Four and Superman. So some people will have to choose between Fantastic Four and Superman. So some people think Marvel's just a safer bet. Yeah, you know, some people in their minds are just like, oh, we'll go see the Marvel

movie instead. I don't know about that new Superman. So make your money now. Jimmy Gunn, I think has success all around. You have the people who are upset. We're not going to get into it. I do have to say, no matter what you thought of Superman, Mike Francis's eight minute rant was one of the funniest rants I've ever heard in my life. And honestly, like out of the top 10 funniest rants, like

he probably has like seven of them. And a lot of them doesn't even unintentionally hilarious. But my God, when he's going crazy, Superman's, you know what? I'm not gonna dip into spoilers. He does dip into the spoilers heavily. But he doesn't like the dog. You could say that, you know, he doesn't like that. Yeah. Yeah. I've been watching Superman since I was a kid. I've never seen a dog with a cape. Who thought of a dog with a cape? He's been around since like the 30s. But I talked to Harrison about it in the office. I was like, you got to take him to see Fantastic Four now. Right. And he's like, Oh, I'll drag him to see Fantastic Four. That was doing numbers that tweet. And I know, like, I hope Mike doesn't get, you know, Mike has definitely become more self

aware over the years and there's times where he is more self aware than others. But like, I need to just hear that true his gut feeling and then on the other side of the coin you have Stu Finer who unleashed like positive rant about anything I've ever heard in my life and then he's going at Mike in their plastic bike I don't know what's wrong with you and it's all caps and Stu talks he told Stephen Che he shouldn't be allowed to like father his children because he didn't like sir he's like you should have your kids taken away from you because You didn't think this was the most

You know two hours of all time the the competing reviews the one thing that hurt me a little bit was Dave said he wasn't gonna See Superman after watching Mike Francis review, and I was like no Dave, and then he was on Fallon with Lois Lane last night He said Lois Lane's pet miss peaches. I wonder if that turned him I wonder if now he's like alright I met Lois Lane. She was nice. She's pet miss peaches. Maybe he'll go after that I don't know but I'm like Dave you love shit like this. He would probably love this movie I don't know but maybe not maybe he would agree with Francesca. It's very interesting Dave's opinion on all this I think Dave would obviously see past all the non-stop, you know people who are bullshitting Regardless when you think about the movie like just I feel like this has given a lot of

Energy online. I feel like we're in a good place. Oh, yeah a lot of stuff, you know coming out obviously fantastic words Only going to add fuel to the fire So I am uh, I'd love to have dave's opinion on the thing is though dave can be like I fucking Despised it and then he could yes. Yeah, so uh all in all Miss Peaches is basically the the the the the the the creature that can bridge all things in life. Oh yeah. Is what we're learning. Yes, and I saw people were talking to you mentioned like the energy that this is giving online. People were talking about how much buzz there is behind Superman right now. James Gunn immediately, pretty much days after Superman comes out, says, all right, time to start promoting the next thing.

And they dropped the first teaser poster for Supergirl and it's look up, spray painted over, look out, she's got blood on her hands still. Maybe it's red paint, but I took it as blood. And I was like, okay, maybe we're going to get, you know, crazy, brutal, more violent Supergirl in the comics. She is a lot more violent because Krypton exploded when she was like 13. So she actually like got to know this great life and she had her family take it away from her

and they all died these brutal deaths and stuff. But this tweet of the poster got more likes in like three hours than the initial Superman poster last year when James Gunn tweeted that out. So people were saying that just speaks to how fired up people are about the franchise in DC in general, where it's like, I know he's got probably more followers than he had a year ago or whatever, but it was quick,

where it was like it had 200,000 favorites or something. Yeah, I'm feeling good about it. I'm excited about this one and I feel like this is the one where we get a little more James Gunn edge to him, right? Like probably, but it's also like universe not yeah, so him but just like I think that character is gonna go a very fun way. Whereas Superman is gonna go on a sci-fi way to like Superman is still like not typical comic book movie, but kind of what you would expect from a Superman movie. It gets a little James

Gunny and weird with universes and stuff. But this is just a straight up like intergalactic road trip in the comics. And it's really cool in the comics. Like I would recommend Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow to anyone. It's a Tom King book. Tom King's one of the best writers. I think they're going to follow it pretty faithfully. Lobo's not in it.

And we know Lobo is going gonna be in this in some capacity So they'll divert here and there but go check out that comic. It's really good stuff and also Just David Cornsweat has been on a generational press tour. I said, it's not quite chalamet level, but it's pretty damn close He had that casino Royale clip going viral that people loved He had a clip talking about how bolt the animated movie like makes him tear up every time he watched it that people loved. He's a machete order guy when it comes to Star Wars. There were a ton of Star Wars quotes coming from he's talking about Qui-Gon how he was supposed to train the child. He's like a ball knower a book knower and not Star Wars books but he's he's a knower of the wars for sure. I also watched Pearl this week, which is a horror movie that he was in. He doesn't have a huge role, but he's very good in the small role that he has, which was apparently like why James Gunn

chose to bring him in for so many. He like saw the potential in him. And when I read that, I was like, I gotta watch this movie. It was pretty great. Have you been following the Corn Sweat Press Tour? Anything I see on the timeline, usually you can Jack. You're the that's the kind of crew that I'm getting on my feet.

I just feel like we're in good hands with a Superman, which is all you can ask for. Yeah. You know, I'm like, oh, what was the dude who played the Flash? Ezra Miller. Oh, it's the opposite. Yeah, that's a great comparison. Polar opposites. Yeah. Although this Superman might like Star Wars way more than anything else in the world because they did the lie detector test.

He said he would rather play a Jedi Knight than return as Superman. Although he had a twist at the end that people weren't including. He was like, yeah, I chose that because I'm already contracted to play Superman again and I would get another paycheck to be in the Star Wars universe.

But he said opening weekend, they were like, what are you gonna do to celebrate? He's like, my wife got me the ultimate collector series Millennium Falcon. I'm going to turn my phone off for two days, and I'm going to build that. Although he did appear at a screening in Groucho Marx glasses, which was also a good bit.

He threw on the fake glasses disguised to go to a screening. I like that. He's a war knower. He's definitely a war knower. Yeah. How do you? I'll ask you now? How do you feel knowing that Superman not Batman might be the biggest?

Like a pence it might not even be a Star Wars guy. He might be like fuck. He might not be yeah I'm I'd be a trekking. I'm okay with it It almost feels like he's trying to bring me to the dark side But you know like the Superman side where he's like listen I'll extend an olive branch maybe I'm not Batman but I fucking I know how to make an R2-D2 scream and sad noises in mid interview when you're sitting at and Rachel Brosnan is looking at him like what the fuck you talking about he's like oh it's the sad beep you know the sad beep we need him in the basement one of these I know it's hard and he's fucking

Superman but he was doing it's names fucking Superman, but he was doing It's gonna be harder and harder He was doing smaller podcasts on this press door like not small But I saw he was on a podcast that had like 2,000 views. It was like, oh, that's my ass basement range Yeah But watching that pearl movie also made me realize like he's got a little more to him than just, you know, it's not just Superman in his bag. Like he's got some juice where he's playing this like projectionist old timey and he's like, it's like a creepy movie where he shows this girl like porn

and he's like pointing it's very anti Superman, you know, performance that he has to give. Yeah. So I thought that was cool. Also the Wall Street Journal says James Gunn is considering two possible TV spin-offs coming from Superman. One on Mr. Terrific, who I'm seeing fan art of across the board, everyone's favorite, and one on Jimmy Olsen. So maybe we can get our daily planet show

based around Jimmy Olsen. I could see him being the star of it. And people always bring up Jimmy Olsen in the comics and the cartoons like they're like typical Jimmy Olsen subplot and he's like strapped to a nuclear bomb being sent into space or you know he gets into the most ridiculous hijinks. I'd be down for either one of those. I think Mr. Terrifics is another one of this James Gunn characters where if you spin off into a peacemaker type show he could crush. characters where if you spin off into a peacemaker type show, he could crush. The Jimmy Olsen stuff, and we talked about it in the review, like we talked about how much we liked the character and the direction they took him on all that.

But the thing we didn't discuss, which obviously holds up, is that actor did a great job with him, right? Oh yeah. And if he gets himself into these kinds of things that you're talking about, he's probably getting into stuff into crazy, you know situations. I can see this guy being really **** good. You know what I mean? I don't know anything about him. Skyler. He's been in so much. Yeah. He's like I looked if you look at the franchises he's been in

when he was a kid, he did like an Air Bud 4. He did the voice of one of the Air Bud dogs and was also in the movie. He was in the Amazing Spider-Man. I think as a little kid. He was in one of the Jurassic World movies as a little kid. He's been in like some of the biggest franchises ever. And he's like, I don't know my age, maybe a couple years older. Yeah, that's a that's an absolute I'm looking for 1996. He was born. So when were you born? Okay, two years older than me. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like rich uh, yeah licorice pizza Uh, and then the other guy mr. Terrific. I didn't realize this he was darwin in x-men first class

And I was gonna bring that up next It's a perfect transition because he had a quote about that He was told darwin would be resurrected in a future film after x-men first class when he voiced concerns about Them just killing off the black character again. He said, I was like, killing the black guy first is so played out guys, I can't do this. We held on to hope that they would honor their word that he would be brought back. But when I didn't come back for X-Men apocalypse,

he says he knew it was done then. So this was kind of like a redemption thing for him in the superhero universe. It gets brought up all the time that they introduced the one indestructible, unkillable X-Men and then they kill him in his superhero universe. It gets brought up all the time that they introduce the one indestructible, unkillable X-Men, and then they kill him in his first scene. And I know they're trying to make a point of like,

this is the power of fucking, but like, it's so stupid. I'm happy for him that he has this now, where it's like, not only is he in a Superman movie, much bigger than X-Men First Class, he's like everyone's favorite part. It's almost like an Andrew Garfield in No Way Home style of redemption, where he's brought back to play a small role and everyone left the movie being like we want more of that guy. He's goddamn Mr. Terrific. I that was my number one

you know like well I walked away saying like Mr. Terrific was my favorite and is that good for Superman movie bad that's up to you for even Francesca was like, everyone's loving Mr. Terrific. It's a Superman movie. So like Mr. Terrific's like being such a good character was like a downside to the movie in his

mind and you know other people's minds, I guess I love the guy. I you know, I I don't know if I said this on the review and there's a even a scene of his it's he's rocket raccoon. He's human rocket. Yeah, it's the most guardians Scene in the movie probably yes, and just like this is a showcase scene He's very guardiansy and I guess a couple other guys are guardiansy as well

But he's straight up a one-to-one for rock raccoon in my mind and it's so funny because I'd love to give Marvel shit for killing him and x-men, but first class was one of the good ones, so I can't really know I'm not gonna give Marvel **** I hope he's in Peacemaker season two. I have no idea if he is or not. I know Hawk Girl will be in Peacemaker season two and I think maybe some Maxwell Lord stuff. James Gunn is also teasing a lot. He teased like someone said, when does Superman two come out? He said define Superman two, which everyone's taking as you're gonna make

a world's finest movie next and bring Batman in, maybe introduce him there and then spin him off into the brave and bold or maybe they do a Superman Supergirl team up if Supergirl is super well-liked. No pun intended, super well-liked. I'm not quite sure there, but James Gunn does keep teasing like you're gonna see the future of the DCU

and maybe the direction we're aiming in Peacemaker Season Two. He said he does know who's overall story the DC universe is going to be based around but he's not saying quite yet like rocket raccoon was the false story of Guardians people are saying is it Rick Flagg senior because he was in like he's been in all the projects so far something weird like that yeah Superman has also led to a 513% increase in adopted dog near me searches. I don't know how that's possible like our

How do you judge that is it just like searches this weekend the weekend it came out went up 500 which that's insane If you're five hundred thirteen percent people saw Superman and they were like I need a dog right now I'm telling you who didn't get a dog. Mike Francis. He could not stand that dog one bit. Can I can I be in the trustee here? No judgment. I ordered uh faith at Crypto Cape. You know what? Not only with no judgment, I

think that's a great move. That is a I said, I said how and I didn't tell Lady Fox. I said, how cute would it be if she comes home one day and faith is wearing a red cape? Oh, that's just that's a beautiful thing right there and let's's be honest, seems like faith and crypto have similar behavioral issues sometimes, right? We'll just call she used

to now she's good. Now she's but when we first got her some crypto like behavior for sure. Speaking of which, you know, what the it's the way she jumps on me is very crypto like like she jumps on me with absolute love, but no concern for how it might hurt. crypto like like she jumps on me with absolute love but no concern for how it might hurt. We have a little human here that has crypto tendencies that he's had since he was born. And he had a Superman outfit, we gave

it away because he grown out of it. It was like, for was like four years old. And he goes, I want a new Superman outfit. And we made him use his own Amazon money. He got it wore it for like five hours straight. And before we went live today, he took my Superman action figure that I would always wave in your face. He goes, can I go use this for the rest of the day

and then I'll give it to you and I'm done? And I go, buddy, it's all yours. So we have a new generation falling in love with the best man right now. So I'm very happy to see him and faith together one day for a picture. Yeah. I also ordered myself a crypto funko pop. I think it's the first funko pop I've bought since a Pattinson Batman. So that kind of goes to show. And today I bought myself this shirt. How about that? The Metropolis Meteors. And I said, this is my way of, you know, Lady Fox is an Ohio girl.

She supports the Yankees for me. I can't wear a Guardian shirt or a hat. I just can't do it. I'm a fan of the Minneapolis Meteors and I said this is my way of you know Lady Fox is an Ohio girl. She supports the Yankees for me. I can't wear a Guardian shirt or I just can't do it. So I said this is my way of supporting but not supporting it's a Cleveland you know you could tell it's inspired by

their logo, but it just I assume most people think it's some kind of like minor league team the Meteors. I'm sure the people in the greater Ohio area will be very like alright all right, like you're one of us, even though if you're not wearing a Guardians thing, which I feel like they have kind of lost their minds with the Guardians,

because they're one of those teams that doesn't spend enough for what they should. So almost being a Meteors makes you more of a Clevelander. You might be a bigger fan than Jeff D'Lo, some are saying. Some are saying that, yeah. Cleveland has been kind of like real prideful about the fact that Superman was you know, concepted there in a Cleveland basement and then he was obviously

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It's not easy to go. Crisp, sleek, yeah. Emmy nominations are out. Label like you said it fits on the carts to it's not crisp sleek. Yeah Emmy nominations are out the penguin is cleaning up like we thought it would it's got 24 nominations I want to say severance might be the only show that's been nominated more Pretty much everyone you would want from the penguin to be nominated is Nominated a lot of writing noms a lot of acting noms a lot of directing noms Production design all that stuff, makeup, I think. And or, on the other hand, did not get all of the nominations we would hope for. It did get a lot got I think 14 nominations across the

board, a lot of writing a lot of directing, I think they could get nominations for specific episodes as well if a director directed this episode, but not one. It's just like that's their nomination Not a lot of acting noms. In fact only two one for Alan Tudyk best voiceover for K2SO Which I'm not mad at I loved his K2SO and and Forrest Whitaker for best guest star Very bizarre to me that one. He was good. Don't get me wrong, but I didn't leave Andor season 2 like Forrest Whitaker for best guest star, very bizarre to me that one. He was good, don't get me wrong, but I didn't leave Andor season two like

Forrest Whitaker better get nominated. He's got that great rant, or he has the guy take off the fucking mask and breathe in the fumes or whatever. But in a show with amazing performances across the board for no Mon Mothman nomination, for no Andor nomination, for no Luthen nomination, for no Cyril nomination, for no Dedra nomination.

Craziness. I mean, Diego Luna getting no nomination for this? Criminal. Absolutely criminal. And Stellan Skarsgard as well, and Mon Mothman as well, I got, you know, tons and tons and tons of names where I'm like even fucking Benjamin Bratt who came in and we were like, I don't know how to feel about this He's not Jimmy Smith's like by the end. I was like he could have got a guest star nomination mix

Oh P2 didn't get a fucking nomination either. I didn't hear you say anything about p2 Nothing about p2 Although I will say Tony Gilroy had a great quote when people came to him and I think they kind of were trying to set him up for like a how do you feel about nobody getting nominations. And he says these are epic long term character studies. The ultimate victory is that these performances will be celebrated and discussed for years

to come. I feel confident about that. There was a great quote tweet that was like, he said, I'm timeless, bitch. Yeah, you ain't looking me up. I'm you know, the 2025 Emmys on Wikipedia. This shit is gonna just be one of those things you know about motherfuckers. I will do a little we'll do it. We'll steal a part of my take segment here. Little hot seat cool throne, hot seat, the agents of the people and the publicist and the whole team of everyone who didn't get nominated, Cool Throne, uh, Forest Whitaker's agent and team. Yeah, really.

Yeah, and I'm not trying to take him down. Yeah, like, like, I hope he wins. I hope Andor gets, you know, every nomination or win that they could get from this. It's just a shame. It's like so many, I could go on and on the fucking guy that played a what was his name part of grow or whatever part of God in that. Yeah, I was the empire. He was fucking great. Yeah, he just got cast in something else. I saw he was cast in the Harry Potter series, I think. It was like, oh, they got a good one.

We also texted there's a guy that was a writer on and or that is apparently a writer on the new James Mangold. New James Mangold Star Wars movie. We don't know if we could trust that yet. But he said, like, I'm down to stay around the Star Wars galaxy for as long as they'll have me. And I think anyone that worked on Andor, especially like the last half of season two,

that should just be lifetime contract status, where it's like, all right, you're just going to get a salary from Lucasfilm every year and just help us develop everything we develop. Yeah, so like Marvel, you feel like the Russo brothers, like they're just gonna keep on our Tanner now. I feel like they're gonna try to keep Coogler as close as they can, even though he's kind of,

can go whatever direction he wants. And then I'm thinking like, and there's other people obviously, I'm trying to think for Star Wars, obviously you have your Filoni, right? And it's like- Favreau now kind of feels like he might be in that zone. It feels like he had a hand in maybe Skeleton Crew and like different shows like that.

And now this guy should definitely be very much a part of that core moving forward with maybe a few other people because... And or, I mean, it's basically the best thing we have, we've had in years and it fucking got battlefront to selling again Yeah, that's okay. Yeah And then there was also a quote in the Star Wars universe from Ryan Johnson who just did some interviews for I think this for poker face and to promote knives out the new knives out movie coming out in December He said his announced Star Wars trilogy was all very conceptual There was never any outline or treatment or anything.

He said, nothing really happened with it. We had a great time working together. And they said, let's keep working together. The short version is Knives Out happened. And now I'm busy making murder mysteries. He still is very interested. He's like, I would love to one day get back to the Star Wars universe.

Love to everyone I worked with there. I would love to tell more stories and stories in that galaxy. This whole quote and this whole story around it has me pulled in different directions though because I would love a ryan johnson trilogy you know I love the last Jedi I love ryan johnson as a director I would love to see it. I also appreciate the fact that they're giving like a bold filmmaker an opportunity here where they're like we'll give you a trilogy blank slate. I don't think that trilogies, not even a single movie, a trilogy should get approved just based on we liked the last movie you made.

I think it should have to be. We have an amazing idea. We have an outline. We have it planned, especially after what we went through with the sequel trilogy. It's more like I feel like now as a fan, I would prefer a studio head like James Gunn. Who says, we will not announce anything or go into like major production on anything until the script is complete and we're happy with it. He's like, once we're happy with the script, we'll go into production.

They were talking about Wonder Woman and Batman this week. He's like, as soon as those scripts are done and we're happy with them, we'll go into production the second they're done, the second they're approved. I want that in Star Wars. Stop announcing all these fucking projects and concepts and whatever. And I'm bringing people out on stage at Celebration

when it's like, he's out here years later being like, oh yeah, I didn't even make an outline. What? I thought he had an outline. It's, I, then I, you can't even blame him, right? It's not his fault. No. It's the Yeah. What is he gonna say? No. When they're like, we'll give you a trilogy. He's I'm sure he was like, great, like, sure. Like, when we get around to it, I'd love to do that. And it's just so funny. It's like, yeah, they liked his movie that he made in Star Wars, half the fan base hated it and it ripped the goddamn turn into a goddamn civil war among the fans. So it's still and we're about to be like it's going to be 10 years later and the civil war has the guns have not fallen silent. You know like it's still we're in the midst of it. It's not even like on Christmas we get to do that thing they did in World War II where they're like all

right it's Christmas 24 hours let's take a break. On Christmas they're like I hate the last Jedi. Even if they offer Gilroy, who, I mean, has as high approval ratings as you're gonna have, right? If you gave him a trilogy, people would be like, do we really need to throw a trilogy on this guy's plate right now? Let's start with one. Can we just do one movie?

Yes. Yeah, exactly. Let's nail it, like, A New Hope could have been one movie. If people didn't like it, it's one complete story. Darth Vader spins off, we beat the bad guys, but he's still around. You know, like, let's start every trilogy going forward with that thought. Not, we're gonna do three movies,

let's do one movie, and best case scenario, we'll make this into a trilogy. You know, but let's focus on telling one good story. And hey, like- Is that too much to ask? Do I sound crazy? Do I sound like I'm taking crazy pills? I think we're like, that's the thing. I think Star Wars fans are all thinking alike now where it's like yeah Hey, if there's a really good idea You don't know of movie and trilogy and whatever it's gonna be that TV shows can work as we just learned with and or it just

Have to get the right people tell the right story and do it the right way. Oh the right story and do it the year and then every year after that, everyone's like, well, the Giants are on two, but they won the Super Bowl that year, and then they won the other year against the Patriots, and everyone's like, never kick up, and then we were basically edged by the Giants every season. It's like, well, we're five and ten right now, but hey, we win these next two games. It's hot in the playoffs, and it's not a healthy mindset to have, and this is now translated over into Star Wars, so yeah, I don't know how we're gonna do it, but it reminds me of how I say The Dark Knight also ruined the next, not ruined, but ruined a lot of superhero movies going forward because everyone says, okay,

we gotta make it gritty and dark and realistic. And it's like, no, no, no, it made it so great cause we didn't have anything like that before. And then Christopher Nolan kicked our doors in. And then with this stuff, no, we don't need everything to be dark and gritty. Sometimes a Superman movie full of hope is the most punk rock thing you could do.

Dark Knight is more unlike every comic book movie before and after than it is like. And there's a few others that are in that realm, but it's all the ones that are spoken with in hushed tone, right? So yeah, let's just try to think of it like that with Andor and same stuff with Star Wars projects. That's the biggest problem with Star Wars too, is that the original trilogy was so great and it's such a and also was at a different time in the world where now everything's going to get picked apart and all these different things can go wrong with it. So I don't know like out of the three

franchises right now, would you say even with the end or bump, do you say they have the least amount of I don't know the words momentum right now? Yeah. Um, yeah, I just don't know where they're gonna go next. Let's feel like it. Yeah. I would say next is Mando and Grogu, which I think could be a huge, huge kickstart. You know, that's the fucking pulp fiction adrenaline hitting them in the chest. But right now this is the summer of comic book movies, even just because of Superman and Fantastic Four. But people really liked Thunderbolts. People are really optimistic about Peacemaker. They're going to have a big Peacemaker panel at Comic Con this year. George going to Comic-Con for the first time ever this year, which is kind of nuts. Really? Someone said, I think it might have been Kevin Smith on his podcast this week or maybe his

co-host said, do you think George Lucas is gonna look out at the Comic-Con crowd and have like an Oppenheimer moment of like, look what I ha ha. Comic Con is tough too, man. Yeah, he's going there to talk about the museum that's opening, like the George Lucas Arts Museum. I think the panel's hosted by Queen Latifah as well. Weird panel host, Queen Latifah up there with George Lucas. That sounds like something like Frank the Tank said during a rant once, like,

oh, Comic Con stinks, and now Queen Latifah hosting the paddles like, it's actually he brought it. He spoke it to life. I don't even but I have to say this and I never texted you about this because I forgot. I remember we tried to get credentialed to the Comic Con way back. Yeah. And they just straight ignored us. And now as I find that every studio is bailing on Comic Con, I am fucking doing little fits

You turned on him I turned on Well, I will say San Diego is never credentialed us. That's what I'm talking about San Diego Yeah, I got nothing but love for New York comic-con San Diego comic-con can go fuck itself respect I gotta be honest. That's still in the bucket list for me because I love San Diego, too I went there and I was like, God damn San Diego is awesome. It'd be fun to spend a week with the nerds taking over that city. Go to the zoo, Bob. Go to see world. You don't need to go to fucking comic on the air conditioning. God damn it. You're such a softy. You're too soft, too soft Bob. Listen, I saw

Oasis. I need new bucket list stuff. Back to Comic-Con we go. I need your bucket list to line up with my bucket list because everything you want to do in life you end up doing. So I need to be like, oh man, I can tag along with Bob when it's like, hey, can I go be David Wright? Bob, I need David Wright to be on your bucket list. You got to meet David Wright. Is he a Star Wars fan? I don't know. Can he bridge the gap like corn sweat? Hey, we've been talking a lot about Christopher Nolan. I made an Oppenheimer reference. We were talking about the Dark Knight How about the fact that this motherfucker has enough juice has enough sauce to put tickets for the Odyssey on sale almost a full Year away from its release date. I saw people were saying oh my god It crashed this it crashed this site. It crashed that site. It crashed the Indianapolis Science Museum.

Of course it did. You think the Indianapolis Science Museum is ready for Christopher Nolan fan volume. Tickets sold out like that across IMAX screens for the Odyssey again next year. I think it's like June 26th of 2026. Tickets go on sale. I got a text from Jeff D. Lowe at like midnight He's like hey, I got tickets for Lincoln Square, but 99% chance I won't even be in the state at that time so like maybe I could pass him off onto you very nice text from Jeff

I just can't wrap my head around buying tickets to a movie that comes out a year from now And I'm the biggest Nolan guy love Nolan. I loved doppenheimer way more than I thought I would I've watched I'm like eight times. I bought the friggin disc so I could put it in any time I want I don't have to go to a fucking peacock to watch it or whatever I just I can't get around I can't get my head around the fact that like eBay has tickets on sale for a hundred bucks right now movie tickets We're not talking about concert tickets show tickets just movie tickets and I'm like I love the big screen experience. I love the IMAX at Lincoln Square. I'm completely fine going to see it in IMAX opening weekend. And then maybe a week or

two later, seeing a Lincoln Square afternoon showing or something to see how it was intended or whatever. But it's crazy. So this is my thing with the artists or with Christopher Nolan I feel like I got to see him on IMAX like I don't do that yeah yeah no I agree especially this whole movie shot on IMAX is the first movie ever only shot on IMAX I just don't know if I need the Lincoln squid literally I don't know if I need the biggest IMAX screen in the world to see it like I think I'd be happy with seeing it on a normal iMac.

The one we saw Oppenheimer on is pretty fucking big. It's, yeah. And that's kind of where I'll go. And the most, most Jeff D'Lo ever is to get a ticket to a movie the entire country away from where he is living. Yeah. Knowing there's a 99% chance he will not be there, just in case and just because, like,

I've always was like, man, Lincoln Square is just the best movie theater. And I didn't realize until Twitter recently just how fucking beloved it is. And it's just known as the GOAT, basically, to like movie heads and all that kind of stuff. And by the way, the fact that it flooded and already they fixed it.

It reopened in a day. That was incredible. Which like people were saying, I do understand like if you're not from New York, the layout of the theater is you walk in and go up like a couple big escalators. So like the big theaters are on like maybe the fourth story, the IMAX is even higher. And there's like two kind of crappy theaters in the basement. Those were the only ones that flooded. But if you saw these videos, the flood, it wasn't like they had a couple inches of water. It was like ceiling is falling fucking chaos. It was like the Donald Glover give him walking in and everything's on fire.

It was as bad as you could imagine. And we were like, fuck, that's going to screw up their whole showtimes. They're going to have to figure it out. The theaters in the surrounding area are probably going to get packed. Yeah, no, they were open two hours later. They were like, come on in, the popcorn's wet, but don't mind it. And that's the thing, like I would probably go

in the theater if it was like literally underwater to watch Christopher Nolan. He's like, this is all right to be seen underneath. It's the Odyssey in 4D yeah exactly you're getting the full Odysseus experience if you're coming to New York too I would recommend that like if you're if you love going to the movies and you're coming to New York for a vacation or something I know it's like go sit in two hours in a movie theater instead of seeing something but the Lincoln Square IMAX is crazy like walking in there for the first time you're

like I didn't know they made movie theaters this big. If something's happening on one side of the screen, you're like moving your head. You're looking at people like that. I am still convinced that like, 4% of my love of Dark Knight is because I saw it there for the first time. I'd like, it's a movie I would have loved

no matter where I saw it. If I saw it on my phone, probably I would have loved it. But I still like that opening scene and it just like took me by the fucking throat. I was like, oh So I would love to get that experience with the Odyssey The thing is they did it off of what like a minute and a half teaser that really shows you Yeah, yeah A couple guys at a table and a dude doing the fucking Dead Man's Float. It's incredible. That just shows

I mean what is Nolan? Yeah, what's better than the sauce Bob? He has more than the sauce He has the fucking cheese. He has the fucking he has Yeah, what's better than the sauce Bob? He has more than the sauce He has the fucking cheese. He has the fucking his the whole pizza. You got the meat and potatoes. Yeah Like how many directors could do this? Is it him and Tarantino like I think even at this point like if Spielberg for his next movie on sale a year in advance I don't think it's like this. I don't think people are buying tickets on eBay I don't think anyone even I don't think even Tarantino matches don't think it's like this. I don't think people are buying tickets on eBay. I don't think anyone even I don't think even Tarantino matches. Don't believe it or not. And I listen, this comes from I think he's the only one that comes close.

That comes close. Yes. 100% comes through. Three might be able to be in a similar territory, but I don't think it's franchise. So, yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think it's any movie. Denny Villeneuve does next, although I feel that way. I don't know if like the world feels that way. Yeah. And granted, like you're doing it with fucking humongous names of a story that is so great. It's lasted the test of time at the same point, man. Like when I saw those people tweeting out the pictures of the theaters and there's

that one seat in the corner and this is like, yeah, as soon as they went live, it's like, holy shit. Did you see Gucci's tweet? He was like, I couldn't get tickets. Jeff D'Lo right under him should have used Fandango? He was like I couldn't get tickets Jeff D. Lo right at under him Should have used Fandango. I was like, oh, he's rubbing it Day one stuff for the popcorn heads I can I can even see the little smirk on Jess. It's not even a smirk, it's a full blown smile. He's like, I gotta use this game. Shaking says it, he says it. Oh that motherfuckin'

So yeah, I cannot wait. That movie, I'm, I, it, that is my biggest fear is how hyped I'm gonna be for that movie. And all the reviews that come out beforehand, like even if they're all great, I'm just scared I'm gonna build it. It's too much. It's Christmas morning for me. I'm so excited for it. Yeah, I'm gonna have to see. I'm gonna probably have to just see it in like a regular theater though. I'm not a guy who buys his tickets ahead of time.

The nearest IMAX to me is a little bit of a hike. That's where we saw Oppenheimer. Yeah. And their priority sold out. So it's like, I'm gonna have to see it over the weekend. So I'm fucked. We'll go back. It's Nolan.

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we were talking about IMAX cameras and IMAX formats and whatnot. This quote fired me up about Fantastic Four. Apparently all of the Galactus scenes will expand to IMAX format, IMAX aspect ratio in Fantastic Four, which is really cool, because there's a lot of movies. Sinners was the most recent to do it, where you see the aspect ratio expand,

and it's almost like, it gets me bumped up. I'm almost like, oh, some shit's about to go down here. No one does it so well, obviously. I think the first time he did it was with The Dark Knight. I think that was the first movie ever shot in IMAX cameras, because there's me and my brother were just talking about the fact that if you watch the trilogy now, you could tell because Batman Begins doesn't have any scenes like that.

But then when you go to like Hong Kong in the dark night and that big shop pans around him standing on the edge of the building, it's awesome. So I read that that made me excited. One quote about Fantastic Four this week that made my ears perk up in a way where I was like, that's weird. John Malkovich cut from the movie entirely. Like he was in the trailer. He was supposed to play red ghost a villain. He will not be in the movie anymore. And I'm like, I hope this thing isn't a mess. Like how do you cut an entire character like that? Let alone one by John fucking Malkovich, right? Yeah.

Legitimate character. I was trying to figure out how I felt about that. And I'm like, hey, can we then reuse John Malkovich as someone else in the MCU? Maybe. Can they use this footage in a different show or something? Like how prominent was it? Was he in the beginning of the MCU? Maybe. Can they use this footage in a different show or something? Like, how prominent was it? Was he in the beginning of the movie? Was he just this another side villain where they were like, ah, we got to get rid of that. But yeah, I don't recall hearing a lot about like reshoots like we did for for Captain America. So I don't know, I'm not worried,

but that I thought that was strange. Again, like you said, like John Malkovich, it's not like, ah, we're cutting this unknown actor. Like they cut Seth Rollins, the WWE wrestler from Brave New World. And then I was like, all right, maybe he sucked. I don't like maybe he wasn't a great actor. This is like, what part of the movie did you just shop out entirely and will it all add up without that piece? Yeah, and it's like how much did you have to fix up for whatever reasons you cut it?

Yeah, the Galactus stuff though, I am a little bumped up about right now because that's cool. The whole Galactus thought of him and how he's just doesn't pay mind to anybody. Like you can really do some cool shit. Like, Oh, this is a Galactus moment right here and kind of get the audience and fucking hit them with an exclamation point. So I'm interested to see how all that's gonna look man. I'm this one I'm Do you think you're gonna have a higher ball scale for this or Superman I

Mean I would hope it's the if it's higher for this. I'd just like be thrilled I think it'll be similar if I had to guess I think it'll be pretty close like um anticipate if I had to guess my score Superman I said was like a 4.5 for me. I would guess this is like a 4.25 Okay, yeah, I know I'm kind of with you. I think it's gonna be about the same the Galactus But I think I like it more than Thunderbolts like I think more than Thunderbolts Maybe not as much as Superman it better clear Thunderbolts in my mind, and I like Thunderbolts it better clear Yeah, this was the blockbuster. That was kind of the ramp up.

That plus Daredevil. What was another show that we liked on Marvel this year? I mean, we didn't really watch Ironheart. Was there another one? Or Agatha? Was there another show along with Daredevil? I mean, we really like Daredevil. Are you going back to X-Men 97?

You thinking back to that maybe? I don't think so. So I think I'm just getting Daredevil, I mean, we really like Daredevil. Are you going back to X-Men 97? Are you thinking back to that maybe? I don't think so. I think I'm just getting Daredevil, that was a long show that everyone really liked. Plus Thunderbolts, this I feel like you gotta keep ascending here. I think this is the hammer, because I don't know, this and then Avengers

and a couple other unnamed movies. So it's like, they gotta hit on this. The Punisher special, which started filming today. I saw that, they're that in New York so maybe I'll you know run into Bernthal or something like I ran into the Daredevil set last year. I'll tell you for considering I've already seen him play the role it's crazy how much you're seeing like the the picture of him for the thing it's like oh man it fires you up like he's back. Yeah I am ready to rock. I just like the actor a lot so that's the biggest thing with that. The Galactus Popcorn Bucket, I still don't know how to feel about it. I know. $80. It's this fucking big. Did you see the Freaky Friday popcorn buckets? I thought those were clever.

No, I didn't see that. They released a popcorn bucket and a drink where the drink looks like a popcorn bucket with a fake popcorn lid. And then the only issue is the popcorn bucket is just the size of a cup. So you can't fit a lot of popcorn in there. But it's still a good idea for the Freaky Friday thing. Galactus would be so fucking pissed if he found out he was a popcorn bucket too. Yeah, if people eat him out of his head like that. Yeah, he's like, what is a popcorn bucket? And we also got our first picture of Paul Walter Hauser, which confirms him as Mole Man. Yeah, he's like, what is a popcorn bucket?

And we also got our first picture of Paul Walter Hauser, which confirms him as mole man. And I got to admit, the first picture did not look stylized to like the 60s, like I thought the rest of the movie looked. So I'm kind of wondering, is he a villain in our universe? Maybe it's just the picture. Maybe it's just the way it looked. It wasn't under the 60s filters or that aspect ratio or whatever.

I'm not really sure. I'm excited to see him though because I'll take him in anything. Everything in this movie, I'm not going in with like, my God, what does this mean for the future MC? Because I do think there's gonna be some weird universe shit that's gonna happen in this movie. And then obviously with Secret Wars coming up. So because of that, I'm gonna just like, hold my criticisms until after the movie,

after the credits roll, which we will be seeing it. So we'll have it ready on the feed for you guys. As soon as you come out of the theater, the boys will have re-chopped it up, given our fast food review, ball scale, everything you need to know. And look out for like our spoiler free review on Monday. We'll put up, like we'll do one of those videos

outside the theater again. And we won't say anything until Thursday or whatever when it comes out. But yeah, like Monday night, you'll hear from us about it. I love I love that we get to do that. That is so awesome. Shout out Marvel. Hey other other other studios. Yeah, please. Pants are away. We don't we don't hate it. The free popcorn is nice too when it's awesome. It's not turned down. I promise you that much. Did we ever get confirmation on the rumor that people were saying Mr. Fantastic

is the leader of the Avengers in James Day? No, but that's weird to me if it's true. Very weird. This new guy, what about Sam Wilson? What's happening to him? Uh, oh. Uh. Are they just like, hey Sam, your movie wasn't that great we're putting Reed up there

But like doctor strange to doctors people don't dislike doctor. That's fair. That's a fair affair There there there is like as an X-Men guy right there Captain Marvel There's just so many people that like in the context of the universe should be the leader of the Avengers You're just saying people that were on the Avengers, Bob. That's all you're doing. I listen, I'm with you. I found it interesting and like, hmm, I don't know if that's going to make sense. And again, all of this could just be when we see it on the screen.

Oh, okay. This isn't what we thought it was. I just did maybe it's a historic rookie season from Reed. I mean, there was like, we promised Pedro, I was the only one who was gonna sign up and we needed him because everyone needs Pedro. Imagine he's got this crazy ego. He's like, I ain't signing on the dotted lines

unless I'm the leader of the Avengers. Leading the Avengers. He had a clip this week that was going viral, him crying because the thing our guy cousin Richie Ebon Ross back rack was like talking about how much being part of the cast meant to him. It just made Pedro cry. It was very nice but like crazy. Our boy Pedro's emotional.

Yeah, yeah. I don't know what's coming from him after this movie comes out. I think he could have a generational run in a whole different way than corn sweat and fuck Timothy I don't know what to expect from these of he's a wild card and in the best way possible Yeah, he's a little bit like you Bob. Actually you're Emotional you can get a boy. Yeah true true And speaking of things that might get us emotional, last topic of the day we got our trailer for the first like real trailer for Stranger Things 5, the final season. And it looks really fucking good. And I feel like more people were coming around on this one.

Last time when they put out the teaser trailer and like the release date we talked about how a lot of people were like, Jesus Christ, this company, this studio, they don't know what the fuck they're doing. I at least saw a lot of tweets this time around of people just being excited. People being like, Jeff D'Lo, I think, just rewatched season four. He's like, I forgot how good it was. I wish we could see season five in a theater. Like, and it would be cool to get like the finale in a theater or something,

especially considering it's like movie length. All these things are two hours now. I think it looks great. I think it looks really fucking good. Like, cinematically, CGI wise, the way everything is just building to this massive culmination. A quick look at Vecna that maybe looks a little different than he looked last season. Everyone's tweeting a new look at Vecna. We talked about having to do a death pool before the season comes out. You

brought that up. You mentioned it. It's a great idea. We did it last time, so we got to do it this time. What were your thoughts on the trailer? It looks fucking, looks action packed, looks scary, looks intense. It feels like it's the crescendo of everything building up for four seasons, plus the three years that just passed in real life. And it's all coming to a head.

And I think Netflix was like, and the Duffer Brothers, like you guys cook, Do this the right way. And they did it the right way. And I think we've seen it with House of the Dragon with HBO Max, and we saw it with I think we're going to see it with The Last of Us, especially in season 3, as we talked about on Superman, about the creative struggles and people quitting, and how George R. R. Martin was upset

about House of the Dragon and some of the Game of Thrones stuff. I think Netflix just lets their people take their time, do their shit. And I think all the criticisms, which some are fair, about how long it took and this and that and the kids are older. I think the other side of it is I think we're going to get a fucking awesome season. And that that that trailer left me no, I felt like I was fucking live in the 80s again. And I'm like, Holy shit god. Uh that trailer left me. I felt like I was **** live in the 80s again and I'm like, holy **** right and it's not often you

get like the part five of something and it's just as good as the original or all the other stuff. I think it could be the best one yet. So, uh this is this is the thing though, Bobby. You mentioned on Twitter. People who either

rewatched or watched or just remember season four remembers how **** good it was. I think we're going up still, you know? And even like when that season four dropped, people were like, every episode's 90 minutes, who do they think they are? Jesus, who is the time for this? And it's like, but if you just watch it, you're like, yeah, I don't know

what I would have cut from that. Like it was fucking great. Every episode felt like a movie. Like I remember 4th of July that summer, watching it with my family. And it felt like we're all sitting around watching like the new movie, the new movie we rented from Blockbuster. It gives you those like nostalgic feelings and stuff.

I'm excited. I have been, I mean, I'm excited for everything. Let's be honest. You're our golden retriever, Bob. That's why we love you. That's why we love you. I'm getting better though. I'm getting better with some criticisms.

I'm getting, although it's like, I don don't know I'm not really working to criticize movies. He's still he's going through prudity purity folks So we're growing along with them We're watching girl right in front of our eyes The death pool is gonna be the most interesting thing because there's so many people you may Want to pick because it's the smart pick but you don't want them to die and where I know I almost want it to be guardians Three esque where we feel the stakes and think there's gonna be a lot of deaths but you don't want them to die. And where I almost want it to be Guardians 3 ask where we feel the stakes and think there's gonna be a lot of deaths, but like, I want it to have a happy ending.

I love these characters. We've loved them for almost 10 years now. So it's like, you want them to ride off into the sunset, but I also don't think it's the kind of show where they are all gonna ride off into the sunset. I think we're getting some death. I was, and if anyone has any ideas, drop them in the comments, tweet us.

But if we do a death pool, again, I think KFC radio had done some pools back in the day. I mean, we can even just get our hands on something, a barstool prize or something around the office, whatever it may be. But just like a way where like maybe people pick three characters, five characters, or it's like a percentage of how much you get right. If anyone has any idea the best way to do it with five characters or it's like a percentage how much you get right. If anyone has any

idea the best way to do it, maybe someone did it in season four. The thing is with season five is we have a part one on Thanksgiving, a part two Christmas, part three on uh New Year's but this would have to entail basically it would have

to we'd have to cut it off on Thanksgiving. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, god knows what that last fucking movie last fucking movie is gonna tell I am not ready for that Yeah, I think it could be fun I think we could figure out a way to like make it work Even if it's like there's three winners or something like that and they each get a shirt a prize something like that I think it'd be a fun way to loop everyone in and have people like locked in for oh my god the death

It's like a fantasy moment like ah fuck I had him Like, ah, fuck, I had him. Come on, Lucas. It's Lucas breathing. Come on, bro. Get up. Get up, Lucas. It's like scenes in movies where it's like someone gets knocked out. And it's like, are they dead?

Are they unconscious? Uh-uh. And then they twitch. And you're like, ah, he's still alive. All right. That was My Mom's Basement for July 17th week. July 18th, I'm going to have to celebrate the anniversary of the Dark Knight. We're going to have to friggingin give that a rewatch. So, expect

some references next week when we do our Fantastic Four episode. Shout out to us for bringing it up organically, get on the pot in addition to the anniversary. It was fucking IMAX theater. So, yeah, I'm sure we'll be bringing up Dark Night next week as well. So, can't wait. And next week, four four four, Fantastic Four. Look out for it. And next week, 444, fantastic four. Look out for all the interviews I'm dropping before then, and we'll talk to you then.