My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 45 - YOUNG PAGEVIEWS

Episode Date: January 27, 2020

Robbie is joined by Young Pageviews this week, who just got back from the NHL All Star Weekend in St Louis with stories to share! Plus, questions are answered from the mailbag!!!You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/mymomsbasement

Hey My 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. Came in today, I had some technical difficulties last night, so I apologize for the delay on this episode. I came in today and I said, this episode would be a lot better if I had someone to talk to, particularly my pal Young Pageviews. What a compliment, and honestly, the fact that I've been on twice in such short time, I'm starting to think we got a little thing building here. Well, I actually got some great feedback on your last time. Really? Yeah, a lot of people said YP's really good on a podcast. You should have him back.

That's very good. I appreciate that. Now, a little bit more pressure. I wish you would have told me that after the show, so I would have just been natural and done what I did last time. I also thought you maybe came with some good stories to tell because you're just coming off the NHL All-Star Weekend in your home city of St.is missouri kind of sick i have a ton of stories actually and a lot of

thoughts about the entire weekend so where do you want to start i want to start with uh something that i actually had some invested interest in and that was green day's performance at the skills competition was it at the skills competition of the game it was at the all-star game so that was at the game i only saw the the video because I think it was a Saturday night. Saturday night, yeah. So UFC and Bellator are both on. I was watching those, and I see Green Day is trending worldwide, and I'm like, what the fuck happened? Right.

Billy Joe dropping F-bombs all over national television. Kind of hysterical. I texted you. This was like my number one thing I wanted to hear about. I was like, how sick was Green Day? And you said they were not very sick. Well, I don't know. Maybe I'm biased and maybe I just was not going to like anything ever. But anytime I've seen like they do this before the Winter Classic or before a lot of things where it's like so-and-so is performing.

I've never once understood kind of the attraction. It's usually bad. And I feel like the NHL is at this point infamous for picking horrible musical performers. performing i've never once understood kind of the attraction or it's always usually bad and i feel like the nhl is at this point infamous for picking horrible musical performers i thought green day was a decent pick because they're at least a rock and roll band they got energy they're gonna play songs that people know the past few years it's been weezer doing their like song about driving ubers it's been celo green was at the stadium series when i went got booed off the stage it was jersey boys i think they've had, what, the Goo Goo Dolls.

They have, like, Nickelback non-ironically and things like that. Yeah, the NHL doesn't pick musical talent well. Robbie, I'm fascinated by some of the NHL's decisions and so many things where, as someone who's in this world of Barstool and kind of like we're hyper in tune with, like, NBA stuff and kind of like all these different storylines and even part of my take of like the way they look at NFL things. And there's so many like underlying stories that would make fans fascinated

or ways. So this isn't even just about Green Day, but it's like the NHL has so many archaic ways of doing things that like it's just so fascinating to me to try to decipher, A, why they're happening. Like why is the NHL doing it on purpose? Are they just that inept? that like it's just so fascinating to me to try to decide for a why they're happening like why is the nhl doing it on purpose are they just that inept like you have to think if we if me and you know that they've had kind of some crazy weird random picks for bands and other stuff that hat

i mean if that's your job and you're hyper in tune to what are people saying but they have to be aware of it maybe they're just doing it because it's safe i don't know it's a lot of i think it's a lot of PR things. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Like we're doing so-and-so a favor because I like their PR firm and whatever. I think it's like honestly a lot of that. There was – did you watch the game at all? No.

There was another one. I still don't know who it was. Oh, it was AWOL Nation. Oh, yeah. AWOL Nation performed? During the – I wouldn't even call it performing. Don't they do like, aren't they, Sirl?

I don't know. Yes, but it wasn't that song. And Rob, they came out. So while they are doing the intros to all the players, like skating out, it was like they were playing soft rock, like there's something on the ice and no one in the stands could hear it,

but there's this weird, awkward thing, and this guy's like, they wheel this entire stage out. It's all for TV. It is so insanely weird being there and so insanely doesn't hit home. Being at the All-Star Game is the first. I went to the MLB one when it was in St. Louis, Home Run Derby, all that. Which is nice.

It has more festivities, I feel like, that are generally accepted as real and not gimmicky. Exactly. And also, the Home Run Derby was very fun to go to. Yeah, Home Run Derby seems sick. I mean, people actually try in that. It seems like the skills competition people are just like... Yeah, it was the year Prince Fielder went nuts, and it was insanely

entertaining. Skills competition... I mean, I... Here's the thing. I get it's not smart to just shit on stuff and like be mean because the other day i love the nhl the nhl's product in the season and playoffs is my favorite sporting thing by one trillion light years so i don't want to be on here and like you never know like are they listening to my mom's basement i don't know probably had a great weekend right overall in st louis but so it's like i don't want to you don't want to be negative just for the sake of being negative to burn bridges.

But I, I mean, I legitimately was, we probably watched a minute of the skills competition. It's just so disjointed and weird. I could see it being fun on TV, just being there. And then there's the weird breaks in between. There's all these like getting the ice ready for the next event. Being there is like, it's almost like being at a high school play or something where you're sitting in the back. Like you can't really hear what's going on. You don't really know.

It was very weird. And also, like maybe even like fastest skater. The 15 seconds that while they're doing it, maybe you pay attention to a few. But it's like. It really is just a guy skating around an ice rink. There's just a lot of weird things going on. And then I'll say this. They don't do head-to-head races at any point do they they used to and now they don't i feel like that would be fun that would be more fun even if it's not the exact time

or it's like bro we don't care like does anyone really remember the exact times of stuff like no maybe a few people are like 15.19 whatever like i would love to see like in uh and and this is another thing we can get into in a second getting the players to actually do it and care but like the way that we used to like growing up when we have to skate mountains at the end of the practice and like get in trouble and it's like if you were last year coasted yeli i'd love to see them line up like 10 players and make them skate mountains like you know it's the thing where you go goal line blue line back our blue line back red line back far blue back all the way down back like it's all those mountains yeah i mean there's different things suicides aren't those i think that's

in basketball suicides but either way i would like let's it's just funny there then it then you can see who's winning there's kind of a competition yeah this is just maybe someone falls and it's oh look who fell yeah it just it was very anticlimactic, and I don't mean to be disrespectful because I'm, you know what I mean. No, yeah, let's flip it because you're not a guy that's generally a negative guy. What were the best parts of All-Star Weekend? What were the fun parts? You were down there with the spit and chiclets guys. Obviously, they're massive at this point.

You and St. Louis, it's like a homecoming after the last Stanley Cup run. Yeah, I mean, the thing is for random fans, I don't know what the coolest things for me was like. It was more of a social event. But if you didn't have the access that I had with like chiclets and that, it's like that was just lucky. You know, like I'm there with Biz and Whitney who know everyone. So clearly you get like even after we were at. Did you meet any players where you kind of like were like, whoa, fuck, I met so-and-so? Who's taking your breath away at this point?

Well, this is the problem, too. I'm old now, unfortunately. I texted you this the other day, and you didn't respond. No offense. But first of all, I'm 27. But if the All-Star game was in St. Louis when I was 12, it would have been the coolest thing in human history. It's a tough age to be at because, A, the guys who are older than you. There's not that many players that are older than me there.

It's a young man's game right now. And a lot of the older guys, like Ovechkin, Crosby. If Crosby was there and Ovechkin was there, that would have been really cool to see. But no one wants to go, and they skip it every year. I didn't realize that they weren't there. Right's like it's one of those things where it's like most of the guys are my age or younger or like i played against it like i'm not gonna be fanning out that's what i mean you've been in also you've like played hockey at a pretty high level so you've

seen a lot of these guys coming up is it the legends that you're like oh shit like i watched this guy growing up like if you if you were to meet someone that you watched when you were a kid, do they have a different significance value? Not even a question, of course. Seeing Ovechkin play or Crosby play live, the entire time Crosby and Malkin come to St. Louis or anywhere, it's like I'm just studying. It's like, what do they do?

How does he cross over? They're so cool and interesting. It's some of these dudes when they're three years younger than you it's like you just can't fan out over be like it's like i don't know and i had the same thing for the little league world series i went every year for years and i would always be a little kid looking up to these right they were like big kids i was watching and now if i put on the little league world series it's 12 year old children and i'm like oh fuck i could probably like clean up if i if i League World Series, it's 12-year-old children. And I'm like, oh, fuck. I could probably clean up if I hid in this thing. It's just not the same.

The coolest thing by far was, and I'm not trying to sound douchey, but I'm just being honest. And this isn't every day for us anyways. It was a cool thing. Wheelhouse, the place that we had the event on Saturday and a place I go to all the time in St. Louis. The thing about St. Louis, there's not a ton of crazy places to go out. It's a smaller city. It's not New York. So it's a place that we go almost every time, you know, whatever.

It's a good bar. I absolutely love it. And, like, the entire All-Star teams were, like, up there. And it was like we're sitting in a section. It's like, I mean, I'm not going to be a name drop. Whatever. You can picture it. That was cool just for on the straight up like sense of being like

oh my god that's this and i wasn't and i was acting normal we're just standing there drinking but it was a sense of like i've been to this place a thousand times in my life and here's the nhl all-star team sitting next to me at this place and we were like in the set like i'm just like oh can you pass me a mixer like it's like and it's surreal in the sense of like it's not even just that they're cool because like once again these are guys that are younger than me or whatever but it's also more just the fact of like if you know the nhl storylines and all these things you're like yo this guy's sitting next to this like it's it's overwhelming how much information's coming in your

brain it'd be like if you were at the ultimate Fighter house or whatever. What was that show they did? Yeah, Ultimate Fighter. And like you're sitting there and it's like McGregor sitting next to this guy on the couch and you're just like, whoa, this is like,

I read- There's too many fighters here. It's like, what do they call it? Sensory overload in your brain. Every single person in the section. It was like me

and a few of my friends and like every other human. that's cool that your friends got to come and shit and like see that kind of stuff. A couple, yeah. But it was like, and Robert Thomas, shout out to my boy Thurman who wasn't in the All-Star Game but he will be soon. Was Jon Hamm there this time? and like every other human. Oh, that's cool that your friends got to come and shit. A couple, yeah. But it was like, and Robert Thomas,

shout out to my boy Thurman, who wasn't in the All-Star game. Was John Hamm there this time? No, he was not. It was a young man's game this time. But it's one of those things where it's like... Hamm shows up for the championships, not for the All-Star game. No, he was at the games,

not he wasn't drinking with us. Last time he was drinking with us. This time he wasn't. But my point is, with how much NHL I consume and watch the games and the playoffs and all this to see all of that in one place in real life and they're just like people sitting there it's very surreal and weird because these same guys now they're all going back

to their teams the all-star breaks over when all of these playoffs start and everything and you're like watching the scoring races day of peace it's weird everyone it's like uh you ever hear like in world war ii and all these wars on christmas day they would suspend fighting and like sometimes the german soldiers would be talking to the allies and we we just be like all right tomorrow we're gonna kill each other but it for today it's all right and it's so weird it's something that like a i mean i didn't take my phone out the entire time obviously but you're like if fans would see like it's like in your mind you're like yo if anyone saw this happening yeah they'd go crazy like this guy's drinking with this guy and hey and you're just like what the hell is going on it's very like and but that's one of those things where it's like that was just a lucky thing and if it was two years ago i wouldn't have

been able to go up there was just a lucky bounce but like that was the cool thing the social aspect of like here's it's like the super bowl week at Barstool where there's all celebrities. But other than that, dude, I legitimately fell asleep for a brief second in the first game of the All-Star. I literally dozed off and was like, what the fuck? It's incredibly hard to get into because the other thing I want to say. Is it something that last year when you're not at the All-Star game, do you watch it on TV and get excited for it?

Or even then are you still kind of like, eh? No, it's insanely lame now, and here's why. There's two reasons. Number one, walking into the skills competition the first night, that was my first taste of what's the crowd going to be like, everything. It was ten times less crazy than a normal Blues game. Yeah, because the crowd doesn't know who to cheer for, right? It's corporate.

It's like everyone there had lanyards and suits on on it's almost like how they talk about superbowl crowds yeah it was a weird vibe where you're like everyone is here from like someone else giving them tickets supposedly my dad told me that the tickets for the game to buy them were like 330 bucks or something oh so it's like price fans out normal average blues fans who are going to like you know blues versus wild on a tuesday in november they're not there so it's a different crowd also the first game was atlantic versus uh metropolitan east coast all-stars it's like no one cares it's like yeah goals are scored just do one game rob like goals are scored and it's like everyone's like wait what like you you see them lining up no one says the final score of the game it's super high right nine

to six or so yeah which why can't you just play a hockey game it's but here's why here's why yeah no there's no hitting there's kind of a culture of and this happens in summer skates too and we'd go back to like school and everything no one's no one wants to be a try hard the kind of whole culture is like like think about this if you had an mma all-star game how would you do that you can't do you can't do ufc unless someone's getting their brains bashed in and the best medically you do you do like kick pads head gear and fair yeah and and it's a weird thing that it's like do you even want you're gonna watch guys spar right and then so then So then it's kind of the same thing. So what's the best hockey in your opinion? The best like overtime three on three?

No, no, no. Like the best. What's the peak of the sport of hockey? Stanley Cup. The NHL playoffs. Yeah, the playoffs. Guys literally willing to. And why?

Because they're hitting harder. They're trying every shift. They're like emptying the gas tank. The crowd's better. They're blocking shots with their nutsack because they're like, I the gas tank the crowd's better they're blocking shots with their nutsack because they're like i will do anything to win so when you take out all of that no one's trying no one's hitting no one's it just becomes it's like a weird scrimmage where no one wants to be embarrassed by being the guy who tried too hard i'd rather see him do a three-on-three tournament

that's what it is oh it is that's the point like you don't even it's like it's so i don't even know yeah i'm so out of there it is but no one cared because? That's the point. Like, you don't even, it's like, it's so. See, I don't even know. Yeah, I'm so out of there. It is, but no one cared because they're not even trying. Like, if a guy gets a breakaway, it's like taboo. They just like kind of let them go. It's like in the NBA where they do like cool dunks when a guy gets it. Yeah. Very, very like anticlimactic and weird.

All right. So I got a question. This is a mailbag episode after all. Cody Larkin wrote in, and this applies for both of us. So he started just with me. He said, outside of UFC events, what is the coolest thing working for Barstool has allowed you to do? But obviously you can answer as well. For me, the two things that come to mind right away, and I've mentioned this before, they're both similar in that they're both events.

But it's pup punk, and it's rough and rowdy. For me, nothing's cooler than that because it all feels like the culmination of a bunch of, every day here at Barstool isn't crazy, isn't out of the blue. Most days here are fun. We get to play video games in the game time room. We get to play other games. We get to make videos. We get to talk to our friends. That's all fun and dandy. But the actual events where you're like, holy shit, out of nowhere, we're in an office every day, and then thousands of people show up to see something we're doing. We got rough and rowdy this week on Friday, and I think that'll be the most surreal experience

of my life. It's down in Miami at the Super Bowl. I'm going to be on the call with Dave and Big Cat, and at one point, Dana White is going to join the call and just call a few fights with us. That's a fake sentence you just said. How can that not be the most surreal thing in my life? Like, Dana White is going gonna come call fights with us and it's like our thing that we've built up it's that's crazy for you what would that be it's got

we've built up as in a relationship i would say from an unbiased thing you've had a ton to do with i think yeah i'm you don't have to be humble for i'll say it for you like i said on the radio today that doesn't happen without what you've done and everything so like congrats to you separately we're not just gonna sit here and tug each other off but like i'm just saying that's pretty cool like you have a ton to do with it that's really sick i would say yeah i would say that's accurate and and also the fact that like even where you're just doing what you're doing like trying to go announce stuff even if it even without saying the way yeah the fact that it's like with dave and big cat guys that i grew up watching every day reading their blogs and stuff like not a ton of people make content with dave and big cat they're not

like lucky enough to do that so the fact that rough and rowdy falls into what i cover and i i have like a decent understanding of fighting enough to call bum fights yeah that is like i'm very grateful for that i i treat every rough and rowdy like it's my last it sounds morbid to say but it's true because i'm like if this goes away this is like the most fun thing i get to do damn that was dark but so what would it be for you the i mean i had a fun thing that you get got to do through i don't know because i what's fun like i don't i don't know if this is gonna be in the moment thing but right now my answer is probably just on top of my brain just got back from st louis everything like you said live events where we get to turn internet stuff into people actually coming to see something like yeah go in a wheelhouse and like we like

it's crazy so i went down with my parents my girlfriend we get out of the car and legitimately they had a person come out they're like we're gonna escort you guys through up to this thing and there is a line and this is shout out to chicklets like i'm not trying to yeah but and i will say it was fun too like every person that came up it's like oh what's up yp like shout out to boris like it's cool it was like it was a very co co whatever that'd be called co-opted yeah i mean obviously i don't even know if that's the right word i'm using there obviously i'm very like you know i'm aware of how much people love them but it was cool that the people still were like saying what's it's not like they like had no idea yeah i think after the after the cup after everything you did with boris you're definitely a figure in saint louis

especially when it's like the nhl all-star it's your audience right there and that that was fun like so but my point is i'm saying it's not like i'm like oh yeah they all came to see me i know the chicklets was there and that's why people are freaking out but either way there was a line down the entire block and i was like that's crazy then we pull around the corner that was the half of the line and that was to get into the meet and greet thing inside was already completely packed wall to wall and it's like holy fuck like so we pulled up the guy comes out front unreal dude from my house and like i'm trying to explain my parents on the way down they're like oh we'll park and then we'll meet inside i'm like no you have to come with me like i don't think you understand they didn't get it we get out of

the car we're walking up and this guy comes and gets us and it's like the security like we literally got like escorted through the crowd feel like you're like drake or something you feel like it's in the middle of beetle mania and and it's something that i've experienced a few times just with certain barstool things or like uh during the cup last year like going in with pat and all them when they had the cup and everyone outside but this was the first time like i've told my parents about it and getting to take like my girlfriend and my parents through a crowd and they were right behind me and them to get to experience people screaming and like the like there was a video of ra and all them walk or uh biz and all them walking in i don't know if you saw that on chicklets pretty but that was the same setup like i was right after them and like it's i i try to

tell them like it's like it's really overwhelming it's crazy you don't understand you like walk this crowd and everyone screams at you and it's like this is the same bar i used to wait outside and like me and my friends would be freezing cold being like hopefully we can get in in 30 minutes like and now you're getting escorted in walking up to a thing like an alternate reality it feels like fake life and it's hard to even describe how cool it is and that's why getting to show them like when my parents like they're from you know chesterfield missouri grew up there they're whole they don't even know they're like what is this and and it wasn't like i get to tell them about a show of videos like no walk in with me it was so fucking cool moment it's insane and it's like does that matter no you don't want to be a douche it's like yeah it was so sick to have people yell

but it's like but it is that's because you never would have imagined that's happening and the the like circumstance with which it is happening is crazy because it doesn't feel like you're necessarily like doing a ton to make it happen it's just like we have this job and it happens and it doesn't mean you're not humble i put out music videos with 50 views a million times that no one gave a fuck about i get how crazy it is it's just it i would be lying if i didn't tell you it's the coolest thing in the entire world like and it feels like when you know when mcgregor's walking out and like everyone's like got their hands yeah it was like that on a smaller level but it's like you're closest you'll

ever get to that feeling you never know i could get back in the gym you never know but it's just it's one of those things rob we're like it can't be shown on video or told about like getting to walk through and do that it's i had that when we were leaving rough and rowdy in providence which is right outside boston and i was leaving with dave and big cat and we got a police escort to go through the crowd and the way people were people were like running sprinting right get a picture up close of dave and big cat like leaving the arena it was crazy i turned around and I was like that was like what they say Beatlemania is like and the thing that's so crazy

is I think we're in a perfect position to like acknowledge and be self aware of how insane that is where like if you're Bieber or someone where that happens every day I think you get jaded to it like it's fun probably becomes very annoying and I was telling my friends

this I'm like the next day like I was just walking in the woods by myself like we were like going out hiking and doing funny shit i'm like it's i get to be a normal person and me and you are normal people 99.9 of the time and walk down the street and no one knows who you are and we also get to be like we i think we understand how crazy it is more than people who get to do it all the time. Definitely. And it's like, we get to go have that emotion where we're like, what the fuck? This is insane. And then if we went three weeks later or one, if I was in any city, but St. Louis, I'd be waiting in the line outside the thing. So it's like, that's why it's so fun.

You get to really be like, I understand how insane this is. Yeah. And it's so special. Where else? What other place do you get to do that? No other place. There's no, and not to start fucking firing shots, but like there's no Bleacher Report blogger

that's getting that reaction. There's no whatever fan sided. I'm not, whatever these other, the comparisons that people will be like, Barstool's like this, Barstool's like that. We're not like any of those because none of those places will have anything like that dude i have friends that are in the nhl that don't get that and i would have murdered my like

own like anything you were in the nhl to be able to do that logger like is getting that reaction you would want to kill that guy no no they're not that mad they'll chirp me and be like oh you're so like they're joking but my point is i spent my whole life playing hockey trying to get to that. And then somehow by this website and Instagram and Twitter. By watching hockey. Yeah. Somehow we get to do something that like even some of my friends, like they could walk and people be like, who is that? And this guy's in the NHL.

And it's like, it's just such an alternate reality that Barstool's created where we're like, what the fuck is going on? This is so like, I just want to say to anyone listening, it's like, a douche it's like i'm just telling you it's the coolest thing that's ever i don't think people are listening and thinking you're a douche like i think it's very abundantly clear you and i are not jaded to any of this at all that's all i was talking to someone about it yesterday and i was like no no like i've been here for three years that is not enough time to become jaded to any of this shit because it's still fucking insane and our point is when you walk out on stage of pop punk oh it's crazy you get that you're like this i appreciate this more than anything that's ever happened in my life and that's how i feel

about that i'm like i just want to say like the only reason i'm talking about on this podcast not bragging i'm not i just genuinely can't believe that that happens in real life and it is the coolest thing it's it's so fucking cool and i appreciate the shit out of it that's all that's no that's why i wanted you on we got fun stories from nhl and i feel like it's not every day that someone from bar still gets to do something like that and bob i feel like and and obviously a lot of this is luck with like the boris stuff was lucky the way it took off everything the fact that the blues won the cup i had almost 0.000 chance of affecting us maybe like i you know cheered them on or i don't know maybe there was you you you

had 0.0001 effect on that fair but my point is even if i had like i really was just hoping like that's pretty it's almost like you're rolling a dice and being like hopefully this lands on a certain number but if that doesn't happen none of this would be the same way and that's fair like i'm i acknowledge that but the entire thing that's crazy to me is that it's just like we are now in this world where you just like i feel like i was a you know all that raheem mostar guy from the san francisco 49ers had four touchdowns in the nfc championship they like, he's been cut from seven teams, all this stuff.

Those guys appreciate that more. I would think, and not, not by rule. Cause I'm sure there are first round picks that appreciate stuff. I'm not like, but there's no way to appreciate something the same way. If you were like,

like music, right? I made four mixtapes, 60 songs, all these things, and no one gave a single fuck ever. So when I get to do this shit now, and there's a crowd or there's people,

I'm like, I appreciate it because, dude, I've put out a million songs that were not, my family didn't even watch the videos, and I'm like texting it to them, please watch. So to have this now, you're like, oh my God. It's the same way a guy who's been cut from 100 teams and thought they weren't going to make it, when they score a touchdown or score a goal,

it means more than a guy who's a first-round pick and never really worried about. I feel like me and you are very genuinely appreciative of what's going on. I would agree. I would agree. It's crazy. We got some more questions we could rip through here.

Casually Cosplaying wrote in and said, do you think it was a disservice to not have a tribute to neil pert at the grammys but to do a whole tribute performance uh for prince it feels like there should have at least been both i saw that it was interesting can i ask a question why was there a prince one i'm not quite sure did you see any of it no i was on a plane but didn't didn't he legitimately die like three years ago yeah there's been like three grammys been like over three years and bruno mars did an awesome tribute to prince the year after he died he did uh he i think he did let's go crazy and it was awesome last night usher did it and it was very like if you're gonna

cover prince and have it be a tribute performance to prince i think you gotta like blow me away otherwise don't do it don't even otherwise it's self-indulgent totally yeah and i felt like usher last night maybe it's not his fault maybe he got put in that position and of course you're not going to turn down the offer if they were like usher do you want to do a tribute performance to prince did not blow me away the thing about neil pert's interesting they put him in the memoriam the tough thing is like what are you going to do you're going to have a drummer go out on stage and play tom sawyer yeah it would be it would be super cool i don't know how much like the public would enjoy that and i don't know who you would bring out to do it there's not big name drummers would you bring out like jason bonham to do it because he's a legendary respected drummer do you bring out dave grohl because people know him as a drummer

i think he would i mean that would be sick you just said that like that sounds really cool to me and it's also i would obviously love to see it. I understand why they didn't have, like, a massive tribute to a drummer at the Grammys when there were no rock and roll performances. I guess, well, Aerosmith and Run DMC did a song, which was cool. Robbie, I don't think the problem is with the Grammys. I think the problem is people's expectations for award shows and all these things. It's a self-indulgent, like, stroke fest of people who are going to.

Like, I don't give a fuck about them so i'm not let would i expect them to actually honor the enormously talented musical person at the music awards i i don't there that's not what it's for that's kind of how i feel that's why i'm not like super up in arms about it because i'm like i don't know like did you expect the grammys to give neil pert some shine no they're gonna go they're just jerk themselves out like i just think that it's such a lame i haven't been interested in them in a while because it's like i enjoy them for the performances but i think everything else i'm out on i think a lot of times it's it's not like if you're talking about true music and recording artists things like duh they're not like it's all for social media and for people to you know look at so-and-so's

crazy outfit and hat it's like i don't think they really i don't think the grammys or at least the grammys tv show what it really cares about neil pert which is the most dumb thing me and you know how wrong that is but the truth is they're about getting views and like people that like that's not about like let's put camila cabello and uh lizzo and billy eish. They're about let's pump Lizzo out there as much as we can. And I like all three of the people I just named. I'm not, you know, dumping on them. But my point is it's knowing the expectations of what their intentions are. And it's not to be like, oh, this is one of the best drummers and musicians of all time.

This is a music show. It would only be right. They don't give a fuck. No, they give them two seconds in the little memorial that's what i'm saying so it's like don't expect stuff from these reward shows it's a jerk it's all for them to just like look at each other and you know what i mean like yeah i don't know i i just it's not right i would agree but anyone that thought they were going to do what's right that's not their prerogative i'm with you tom tatra said thoughts on the royalumble. What were your favorite spots?

So I'll say very briefly here, my favorite moment of the Royal Rumble was Edge's return. I don't know if you saw that. I saw your tweets about it. Edge returned for the first time since 2009. He was forced to retire, had triple neck fusion surgery. Jesus. And we don't know how he got cleared to wrestle. He's apparently going to be on the main roster going forward.

He's going to come back and be a part of the WWE through WrestleMania at least. He was one of my favorites of all time. I think a lot of people consider him an all-time great who got his career cut short by this horrible injury. He never got to retire the way he wanted to. So him coming back, it's a very Daniel Bryan-esque scenario. People went fucking insane for it. Biggest moment of the night. That was awesome.

It was a complete surprise? Well, people knew that there were rumors that he had got cleared by doctors and everyone was like, this is fucking crazy. Why would Edge be even consulting doctors 10 years after his retirement? So there were some rumors leading into the Rumble that, hey, maybe he'll come out. But it didn't get leaked to the point

where people were like, oh yeah, Edge is back tonight. So when his music hit, obviously in the middle of the rumble too it's like a movie like even if you get a movie spoiled for you but then you watch it usually you lose yourself in the movie and then when the spoiler happens you're like oh fuck i forgot i even knew that was it confusing were you almost like wait a second what or did you know once his music hit because it has like this perfect his intro starts with a girl saying, you think you know me. So as soon as you hear that, everything clicked and it was like, oh fuck, he really is back. And he didn't even wait for his usual, he usually waits a few seconds to come out for dramatic effect.

He just ran right out the second his music hit because he wanted to feel the roar of the crowd and he was so emotional, like crying. It was fucking awesome. And he didn't show any like ring rust in the it felt like he didn't go a second without wrestling because he started hitting spears he started hitting fucking taking bumps taking slams that's crazy had a great performance so that was my favorite moment of the rumble we did record a pre-royal rumble from the top rope special myself jared karabas and brandon walker and we're going to be recording a post- rumble special and they're going to go together as a big from the top return from the top rope return pod so look out for that that'll be i believe next week as long as we could record

in miami on friday uh we'll we'll be doing that so i'll save my full thoughts on the quick question what what number was he edge i think i think he was in the middle i think he was middle 17 18 something like that so a good kind of time yeah wasn't like he was the last one he made it to the final four so we got to see like a ton of him in the ring we got to see him you know they did callbacks of him and randy orton had a face-off and like they used to be a tag team in 2006 so that was like a big like oh shit they haven't seen each other in this long it was really really good the way they handled it so i'm excited for him in the in the wwe going forward because he's like an all-around talent him on the mic he's one of the best he was like one of as a as a kid maybe the bad guy that i loved to hate the most like i fucking he was like my rival so i'm excited

about that what are your honest thoughts on the Fiend's custom Universal Championship belt? I think it's the ugliest thing in the entire world. Have you seen this? I tweeted a picture of it last night. I don't think you have seen it. So the Fiend is Bray Wyatt, and he's got this character where he wears a mask and he looks gross. This is the WWE Championship right now that he's carrying around. That's disgusting.

Yeah, that looks like something I'd see in a halloween store that's like back in the mass section that no one really buys yeah it's not even like it's not even cool i i hate i don't even want to talk about it we got an mma question from ian coleman he said in your eyes does dominic reyes have the skill set to beat john jones in two weeks i need that guy to finally get out in his place and i'm hoping Reyes is the one to finally do it. Unfortunately, Ian, for you and me, I do not believe Dominic Reyes has the skill set to beat John Jones. I actually talked to a few fighters after Jones' last fight, which I was at, the Tiago Santos fight. Pretty decent fight, I thought, but we didn't see the John Jones that we know no we didn't see the greatest of all time

john jones in that fight and i feel like we haven't seen him in a few fights and talked to a few fighters about that and i was like why do you think that is apparently jones is just like bored with all these opponents he doesn't feel like any of them were worthy enough to challenge for his title so he's like not trying in the octagon that's the conclusion that they're they're coming to they're like obviously he's trying enough to win but he's not trying to get like that connor he didn't have that conor mcgregor fire where connor went into the fight with cowboy and was like i'm gonna fucking finish this guy as quickly as possible i'm gonna try to run madhouse the first left hand that connor through i look like he was going for masvidal's fastest ko record john jones is just

like i'll coast to an easy decision, and maybe one day I'll go to heavyweight and challenge Francis or Stipe or something, and that'll be the big fight. I'm not even looking forward to that Dominic Reyes fight for that reason. I think it's going to go very similarly to the Anthony Smith fight.

But our girl Kaitlyn Chukagian's got a title match in the co-main event, so that's what I'm looking forward to. And it's something where you can never completely discount that, because it's like, anytime he's fighting, if he in the co-main event, so that's what I'm looking forward to. And it's something where you can never completely discount that because it's like any time he's fighting, if he could lose or get knocked out, it's like you always have to pay attention. I'm going to watch it.

I'll be interested enough to be like maybe it's the puncher's chance like you said. But you're not going to be like studying it all week like what's going to happen. Yeah, I feel that. No, I'm hoping that eventually Israel Adesanya gets a few wins, runs rampant over his division, over the middleweight division. Jon Jones continues along that path, and maybe you do it at Allegiant Stadium. You do Jones-Adesanya, or as Conor McGregor called it, All-A-Giant Stadium.

All-Giant. All-Giant. Yeah, and also, that's how I felt about the Patriots, where it's like, even in the morning of the game this year, it's the same exact thing as that, where it's like, man, I don the game this year it's like it's the same exact thing as that where it's like man I don't think they're actually going to lose in the divisional round or anything but you have to be aware because if something starts happening you're like this could be history it's the same way I feel about that where it's like and and look what happened

as soon as I saw halftime it was like 14 13 I was like oh fuck what is going on here and that's kind of how it is with Jones or someone like that where you're like you can never completely discount it even if you think it's going to go a certain way because I remember this year being like this could be Tom Brady's last game ever or last game as a Patriot you just have to even if you don't think it's actually going to be there's still that one percent chance where you're like I'm going to watch either way you know yeah yeah definitely and I always manage to convince myself, probably through my pure hatred of Jon Jones, that like, well, maybe this is the one.

Right, exactly. Maybe we get Dominic Reyes in here before that. That'll always fire me up. If I actually get to stare the person face to face and be like, are you going to fucking knock Jon Jones out? And if they're like, yes, that's what Anthony Smith said to me. He's like, yes. And I was like, all right, fucking, he's going to knock Jon Jones out

and it's going to be because of me of me right we got one more from stool animated and this one uh i'm sorry you won't be much uh you won't be of much service in this question he said how much of season seven of the clone wars will interfere with episode three of star wars and how much of the mandalorian info that we know will play a part in it. We don't know how much of this, so to explain this to you in layman's terms, The Clone Wars is a cartoon that takes place in between episodes two and three of Star Wars, and they just announced that the final season of The Clone Wars is actually going to take place, some of it, in the midst of episode three. So this has always been believed to happen between two and three, and they're like, we're just going to bleed into episode three and kind of show you what was going on in the

background of that episode from characters that maybe you didn't see in the movie. Is that dangerous to you? Mixing different kind of... Not really, because the Clone Wars is so beloved by Star Wars fans. And it's run by this guy, Dave Filoni, who also runs the Mandalorianorian and he cares more about like Star Wars lore and Episode 3 than anyone in the world cares probably 10 times more than I do so I know it's going to be handled with care and I I wouldn't be worried because of that

I'm excited about it I need to catch up on the rest of the Clone Wars I've seen most of the episodes I've seen like some things here and there from the later seasons that I need to watch in its entirety but I think you intertwine as much as you can with episode three, because everyone loves episode three. So if you just give us that nostalgic reminder,

and it'll feel like a big fucking conclusion. Episode three came out in 2005. So it's not like it's fresh on our brains. If you go back, give us that. I think we'll all be happy about it. Agreed. All right. That's about it for My Mom's Basement this week.

Look out for Rough and Rowdy this Friday. You could buy it on Barstool Sports or buy R&R.com. Like I said, Dana White's going to be on the call with us, which is fucking crazy. Super Bowl on Sunday. Best of luck to George Kittle, our guy on the 49ers. That's who I'm pulling for. And that's about it for me. That's about it for Young Page Views.

Yeah, thanks for having me. I'd love to be back on again. You'll be back on soon. Yes. I like these podcasts. They're chill podcasts. They're chill conversations. Yeah, it's a little kickback, if you will. It's a little kickback, yeah.

Maybe we could even add in Trent. Maybe we could add in Rhea. We could get the old gang back together. You, me, Trent, and Rhea, the four of us. I'd love to add in Big Daddy Trent and Rhea as well. That would be fun. But I just fuck with Big Daddy Trent. I think he's just a good human being all right we'll have to do it again in the future look out on monday for our from the top rope special