My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 477 - CM PUNK STRIKES BACK

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

CM Punk returns to the Basement to discuss his new movie, 'Night Patrol' (advance tickets on sale now and opens in theaters January 16th!), working with Justin Long, whether or not he has a future in horror directing-wise, and more! Plus he gets into the ending of #StrangerThings, favorite vampire movies, and favorite movies of 2025! #CMPunk #WWE **************************************** 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. All right, welcome back to My Mom's Basement, ladies and gentlemen. It is Robbie Fox, and I am back with CM Punk. Should I go Phil Brooks today? Oh. It feels weird.

That feels like I can't call you that, to be quite honest. But, yeah, we are here not talking about wrestling this time, but talking about Night Patrol, the new movie that you're in, which I watched last night. Oh, what did you think? That was really cool. I want a 100% unadulterated, non-biased opinion. Non-biased opinion.

Have you seen Attack of the Block? Yes. It kind of reminded me of like a vampire version of Attack of the Block in the coolest way, where it has a very stylized feel. I know the director has been compared to like Tarantino. He takes a lot of Tarantino inspiration. It was fun to see who popped up in it. There's some legit, like great actors in it.

There's some really fun. This is a wildest cast. It's a wild because there's actors, there's wrestlers, there's rappers, Yeah. It's all over the map. There's bloods, there's crips. Yeah. What a trip.

Yeah, it's so like, I don't want to spoil too much of it, but it's a vampire-inspired movie. You're a vampire racist cop. Yeah. Fair to say. Sure. What draws you to a movie like this? How does this come across your radar in the first place? So this is a movie that I would have gleefully not been allowed to watch and would have watched anyway when I was a little kid.

You know, you see the, that's a pretty awesome poster. just based on the poster that's a movie i would rent you know oh yeah like uh very 80s inspired there's also like a nice graininess that the the film has there's a realness to it you know shot on location in los angeles 16 days i saw quick shoot yeah very quick how much of that were you there for um maybe half of that you know i was shooting uh around the same time i was doing all the hell and cell or leading up to the hell in the cell stuff with Drew McIntyre. Wow.

So yeah. A busy time. Killed it in this and then, you know, killing it doing the wrestling thing. Like that was that was great. I've been trying to run that hard ever since. Like, I'm trying to try to do quality stuff like that. But yeah, the movie's a real kind of

throwback. Like I said, I'm a horror movie fan. I'm a genre movie fan and I feel like horror movies have always you can get drawn into them because of oh I'm in the gore and I'm in this splatter and suspense thrillers like whatever but I think horror movies have always had more of like a something to say more of a social commentary I mean George Romero making Night of the Living Dead that was very much

social commentary in this movie to me is no different very much so so I know Colin Young is in this movie and even a lot of scenes with you Was that your connection to the movie? Is that how you got involved? No. No, no, no. No, that was a happy accident that he was also contacted to do it. I think he was contacted for like soundtrack.

Okay. And then they were like, you want to actually be in this? Yeah, there's some full metal in this movie. Yeah, yeah. It's rad. No, I just got it. It just kind of fell into my lap. I got offered to read for the director.

And I was excited to do so. And I agreed to read for him. And they said, oh, he agreed to read. All right, just give them the job. Oh, nice. So I just got it. Yeah. And this is literally like, are you going straight from raw, straight to L.A.,

and then to a next date, like, away from home? Just back and forth, yeah. Is there any movies that you were told to watch from the director or anything for inspiration for your character in particular, your performance? Because it's much more than a cameo. This isn't like a movie where CM Punk makes a quick cameo. Yeah, I'm the big bad. I'm not like the number one big bad, but I'm definitely.

the number two. I'm the deputy. The muscle. I'm the number two and I do most of the hard work. I'm on screen more than the number one bad guy. There's some twist and turns and stuff like that, yeah. But yeah, I don't think there's anything recommended

to me specifically. I just think directors, producers, they're like wrestling bookers, at least they should be. They see something and somebody and they're like, okay, that is the person I need for this and I think that's kind of how this this came to be yeah I think he obviously knew who I was um I did you ever see his movie low life no but I've heard really great stuff about I saw VHS 94

which he did a piece of same same yeah but you should watch low life because low life is is a good movie and I know the co-writers of that also co-wrote this with yes yes him and him and shame and there's like two others and I apologize guys my brain isn't working right now I'll shot him out I got him here uh Shay Tim Cairo and Jake Gibson. Yeah, Tim, Tim and Jay. Yeah. And Shay just worked on the Penguin as well.

This is like such a great cast. I mean, it's produced by David S. Goyer. Yeah. It's not only a great cast, it's great crew as well assembled around this time. 100%. Speaking of the great cast, though, Justin Long is great in this. And you get a lot to do with him as well. Was it the first time you met him?

Yeah. Originally, his role was played by somebody else. Okay. And then I think there was a scheduling conflict. with that actor, and then, you know, I'm not saying it was an upgrade, you know, but, man, Justin Long, like, what a treat. Awesome, especially for the genre. He's done so many fun horror movies. I love Tusk.

I feel like he's, he, there's scream queens. Yeah. Obviously, I think we're now calling Justin Long scream king. Yeah. You guys have great chemistry, too. There's a great scene, an early on scene where you guys are driving together. Yeah. And you're kind of letting him know what you know about him.

And I feel like there's a very palpable tension of like a, like, I felt it as the viewer of like, oh, fuck, what are we going to do right now? Like what is, what is he getting himself into? What was it like actually working with him? Did you feel like a chemistry click on set with him? A blast. Yeah. And watching him and Dermann, because we, the three of us have a pretty pivotal scene. Mm-hmm.

And watching those two work. I had that note. I said, you had a front row seat. to an unbelievable scene. It's no different than watching two great workers get in the ring and just call it on the fly. Like they had a script, obviously, but they, like, you, you're watching them work stuff out when the camera's not rolling, you know, and it's just like, you can learn so much. You don't have to ask questions.

You just shut in your mouth and observe. And I learned so much just in that scene on that set, watching those guys. Yeah. Like, so good. Just two absolute pros. Do you feel similarities? I don't know if this is a stupid question between like a wrestling locker room

the day of a show and a movie set in terms of everyone doing their job to make one collective production get off. Are there similarities in that or no? Yes and no. I still think on the movie set it's a little bit more collaborative

for a wrestling show and a wrestling locker room you still have the individual matches. People are still, okay, this is my match, this is your match, this is Ria Ripley's. match um and there's less of an over art sometimes there's a there's a overarching story that goes throughout the whole entire television show but not like in a movie or uh on a television set true is

being on set does that make you want to direct ever do you ever think like oh one of these days i could pull a rob zombie so it's been so it's been offered yeah and it's one of those things a lot like writing comic books or fighting in the UFC that it was offered to me and it's kind of unknown and scary so now I have to do it so we're yeah I mean

and I think the VHS series is a pretty good way to get my feet wet definitely in that regard so yeah take a piece of something like that it's definitely something that is more than likely going to happen within that the next year that's sick yeah that's awesome i i got to it got offered to me i love and i and i just went what why why me why not okay yeah all right oh i think it makes total sense so now i got to do

this dude in a world where like rob zombie 20 years ago they said we're giving you Halloween and he's doing you know a thousand corpses pass we're not talking about that all right not talking about it not talking about it um i have opinions but you know i'm gonna keep my mouth shut is everyone asking you about the cigar that you smoke in this movie is that a big topic no you're the first one really yeah real cigar i mean what does that mean no they make fake ones yeah yeah it's like a herbal thing but no i figured it wasn't you're a drug free guy no but i didn't know if you were like i can just put it in my mouth and take it out and i'm not you know doing it i i really don't know i'm sure somebody on the fucking internet is gonna have a field day about it but no i'm i'm acting

okay i just i was curious i snort cocaine off a bowie knife yeah spoiler alert you know like i'm here I'm here to tell you, some dip shit on the internet is going to be like, he's not straight edge. He's a sellout. I didn't mean it in that way. Acting, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not really a vampire. Are you able to watch, like, do you enjoy watching your own acting back more than you enjoy watching your own wrestling back? I know some wrestlers are like, I don't even like to watch my own. Oh, I hate watching anything I do.

But I was such a fan of this movie. I was excited to see a lot of the stuff. and you know when you're when you're filming stuff like you know like oh this is this feels really cool I can't wait to see what this looks like plus post production they add the the the VFX and everything uh I was excited to sit down and and when this premiered at Beyond Fest I was there and I got lost in it I'm watching this movie that's I think really good and really fun and then I pop up and I'm like oh god yeah I'm in this you know like my wife's elbowing me like You know, she said, oh, you look so handsome.

Like, stop it. Stop it. Stop it. I'm a vampire. Stop it. Yeah, I don't watch any of my matches back. I just, on to the next. Yeah, you know you got that in the bag.

Yeah. Wow. So as far as the movie, do you know the script? Do you have the entire script when you're shooting it? Or are you just filming your scenes and kind of like you know where the story is going around it? Was anything like a surprise seeing it at the premiere? No. I think the responsible thing you do as an actor is, yeah, you 100% read the entire script.

You will get a better grasp on even if you got one line and one scene. You know, like I figure, I think it's easy to just kind of drop in and stay disconnected and just do your job and come out. But like you gain so much more knowledge about like who you are because you're learning who everybody is and you're learning the landscape and the story. You got to do due diligence and read the script. I read the script like multiple times. Yeah. And like each time, you know, you're learning new things and just even by like osmosis. You're just absorbing more and you can better, it can help you better understand your character by understanding everybody's character.

Yeah. I remember we did an interview a couple years ago. I think it was around COVID time, maybe even probably. to COVID where we talked a lot about midnight mass when that came out such a good series and I remember how much you like that I just rewatched it so I feel like it would be the service not to ask you about your favorite vampire movies as well because I know you like the genre as is but do you have favorites that come to mind right away are you a old school bella what go see guy are we talking vampire movies vampires yeah fright night fright night you're

number one it might be lost boys is up there but yeah there there's there's something about fright night i think it was just one of those movies that i discovered when i was a kid you know but like i said i would go into the video store in chicago and i would rent stuff based on box art so like that fright night poster with the house and like the clouds that form the vampire face and the fangs and it's just like yeah you rent that you know you watch it it's cool um lost boys is obviously uh a classic uh love universal horror But, you know, Dracula can be kind of tedious to watch, you know. I like when it pops up in like Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein.

A real classic. Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to think of any other newer vampire movies. I spectacularly one time took a girl to see Dracula 2000 in the movie theaters. Well, I haven't seen this movie. Because I was like, oh, I have to see it. It's a Dracula movie. we have to go and she was like this is going to stink and i was like bite your tongue woman we're going and we still joke about it to this day did it stink oh it's horrible it's not

great oh man it's not great you should watch it though i'll check it out dracula 2000 dracula 2000 okay i'll watch it and report back yeah you've given me a lot of good recommendations over the years i don't know if this will join me i'm pre-facing this with it's is it like so bad it's good it's not heat okay all right it's it's draculate 2000. Yeah. Did you see sinners this year? Of course.

You liked that one? Loved it. Yeah. Another great one. Yeah. Yeah. The throwback feel to that one too. Like, yeah, classic.

Very much like a slow burn. I loved it. It felt to me like a very much improved from dusk till dawn, which I love. Sure. Sinners felt like it built on that idea of like a movie of two halves, vampires, crazy shit going on in the second half. I really dug that. Did you have any just in general favorite movies or shows of 2025?

Hmm, you know, a couple of us were just talking about this. They asked me, like, what my favorite movie was in 2025. I don't know if I saw a whole lot, and then people were naming stuff. And I was like, oh, yeah, I did see that. But obviously, if it didn't stick with me that I couldn't remember it and I didn't name it. Hey, selfishly, I was a big fan of Zootopia, too. Hell yeah, zebrose. It was a good movie.

I saw it. It really was. Yeah. What a fun. And that thing's a monster. Oh, my God. I know. It's like making, it made like a billion dollars in a week.

weekend. What a trip. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just going to move to China and work at the Zootopia, too. Like, there's like a park there. I'm just going to go there, walk around in a zebra costume. Do you think there's an opportunity for you to appear in more movies alongside fellow wrestlers? We had John Cena just retire, but I'm not going to lie, in the back of my mind. It was like, it'd be cool if I saw them on screen in a movie together someday. I think so. Yeah, I've had a couple meetings, and that topic has come up. I can only imagine. what John Slate looks like. It's probably super, super busy. I'd imagine sometime in the future we'll be working together. That'd be awesome. You know, like, I got like bucket list names that I want to work with. Like, and selfishly, a lot of them are my friends. Dave and John are probably like the top two.

That'd be so cool. Yeah. And I feel like in a lot of movies, in Fast and Furious movies, I've seen The Rock do the Rock bottom. I think in Hobbs and Shaw, John's scene. a hits an attitude adjustment i'm not going to lie there were moments in this movies where i was like see hitting a vampire gt s here no vampire i might have talked i might have talked them out of that was that suggested yeah just because i was like do we really want to take them out of the moment

like we really want to you know yeah and they're like they're vampires i was like good point i dug the fang choice too and yeah the putting on it's interesting yeah it's cool little twist yeah um you also rocked some sweet Halloween three and inspired trunks in the ring recently? I did, yeah. I noticed that right away, and I thought that was so cool. My brother texted me, like, holy shit, he's doing Halloween three. I feel like not enough people were talking about this.

I agree. Is that, first of all, where did that idea come from for you? Is that like just, you watched Halloween three again? And you said, that's work as gear? No, I watch, so around, like, September, I start watching horror movies. And I mean, I watch everything over and over and over again. Halloween 3 probably gets watched like at least a dozen times. Like I'll watch one, two, three, and four.

I kind of stop there. Yeah. What was it? Saturday night's main event was November 1st. And I was like, close enough to Halloween, I need Halloween-inspired gear. So I commissioned the Halloween three gear for November 1st. And then, unfortunately, Duke Rufus passed away. and I was like, put those on hold, make me some yellow and black with the Spartan Rufus Port logo to honor Duke for the first.

And so I just was like, well, it's late September. I'm still going to wear these. I don't care. They're awesome. And, yeah, the jacket with the skull. Yeah, really cool. Yeah. I like the Duke of Rufus gear a lot, too.

I got to spend a day with Duke and Anthony Caddus. And it was so cool. He was as nice as, you know, all the stories said. Oh, Duke was so sweet. Well, Duke is beyond nice. Yeah. So excited to tell me about his stories. Yeah, people, people didn't know that Duke was like kind of like a, like a Grateful Dead,

like hippie kind of guy, you know? Like, yeah, it could head kick you. Yeah. So, you know, don't cross him. But what a, what a sweetheart. Just amazing that I got to spend so much time with him and train with him. Yeah. Shout out, Duke.

Rest in peace. Awesome, dude. Do you have any more ideas for, for movie franchise themed gear? Does that come to mind often? I mean, you did a cool fantastic four theme for SummerSlam this year. I like when it, you know, gets a little, it feels like a comic variant. Yeah, I think I just kind of, it's weird now. Back in the day, I wrestle a lot more.

So I would just get like a pair of gear made and I would wear it out, essentially. Now we don't wrestle as many shows. So I feel like every day is like every show is almost like prom. Like, oh, you got to make special gear. Like last night I had. the Michigan State Wolverine gear. Awesome. You know,

so I'm always doing cute things like that. But I feel like this day and age, like it used to be just WrestleMania was like the big, that was our prom. So everyone's showing out, you know. And now I feel like everybody almost every month is doing this crazy extravagant gear. Like Ria's always got like a different vest or jacket

with crazy spikes on it. And like, you know, it's really cool. Nothing wrong with it. Everybody looks really cool. spending a lot of money on that stuff. Thankfully, I just wear trunks, so it's, you know, it's not... People probably don't realize that wrestlers are spending their own money on gear. Yeah.

Happens all the time, yeah. Somebody in the car wash interviews I was doing earlier were like, oh, so it's not like a sports team where they provide you with the uniforms? I'm like, well, no, we're all individuals. So we're not wearing the same thing with just a different name on the back of the jersey. And that's the kind of stuff. A little different. I know how many little details like that go into the week-to-week of being a wrestler,

And it impresses me even more that you found the time to be. Because how bland is it when I'm watching UFC and everybody's wearing the same fight kick? Yeah. It's just like. I mean even to be in this movie. Like you're dealing with, oh, I got to remember what gear I'm wearing a Monday. And then you got to remember your lines for a scene with Dermott Mulroney in the next day. Like that's impressive.

Do you, do you ever have trouble remembering lines or does that come naturally to you at this point? No, I think it comes naturally me at this point. And it also depends on how much I sleep. Yeah. That helps a lot. Yeah. I've come to find out in my seasoned age that like, oh, wow, yeah, rest is a weapon. Yeah.

Yeah. So I did a rapid fire segment with you and Ria, the last thing we were here. I've rewritten that to be a little more horror movie inspired. Okay. So all of these questions will be horror movie inspired. Number one, a really easy one. Who's the best horror villain of all time? Horror villain?

Yep. I mean, like, is Michael Myers a villain? 100%. Do you not think he's a villain? I think he's a good guy? Listen, man. Freddie Kruger molested children. Bad guy.

And people are stoked on him. It's true. They laugh at his jokes. I guess that makes him a Republican. Yeah, it's got to be Michael Myers. Just, I mean, nobody did it better than John Carpenter. He spawned the entire genre. There is no Friday to 13th without John Carpenter.

there's, I mean, possibly no Freddie Krueger. It's a little bit different, but like the, the slasher movie didn't really exist, and he made it an entire genre. Everybody needs to write checks to John Carpenter. I'm doing the score as well, not only making one of the most iconic movies and villains in the same movie, but the score, one of the most iconic of all time. Insane. How do you feel about the recent trilogy?

I know you don't want you, you're pleading the fifth on Rob Zombie. do you want to plead the fifth on the recent trilogy as well yeah okay but Halloween two you're in on even though Carpenter doesn't like it I like Halloween too because it's to me it's it's just a continuation of one it's the same movie it feels so epic to me like back to back this is the continuation of the night I can't watch one without just continuing and watching two it's it's it's you know continues all the way through I love the lore behind the fact that Carpenter was just like drunk and wrote it yeah real quick it was just like here let's somebody else direct it yeah uh you know but i think the music was the only part he was really

interested in right for two he was like i'll still do the music i like that i just what a legend yeah he's awesome uh favorite final girl i might be biased because uh i've done a movie with her but barbara crampton i think and and you know like do we classify barbara as a final girl or she more a scream queen you know yeah that that's a blurry technicality now yeah we're really getting into the yeah we're really nerding out now but i shout out to barbara crampton love her to death she uh she asked me to play santa claus recently in uh a video for like another screen like i i did i played santa i'm gonna blank on everybody's name now for all these it was just me and like four

scream queens and they were dressed up for christmas and i was santa claus and it was a like a bizarre dreamtrak true that's been a dream casting for years i have said seampunk is santa claus yeah um time in my life one franchise that you think needs a reboot friday 13th tv series movie are you are you into the idea of rebooting things as like a series there is a television show that's coming out like uh i don't know if it's called Crystal Lake or whatever. Is it 24, too? I think so.

So interesting, but I don't understand what it is exactly going to be about because it's supposed to be like prequel-esque. So that means we're not getting hockey mask Jason Voorhees. Or maybe we are. And they're just rewriting everything. Could be interesting. I'm probably going to watch it. But yeah, I think we've been starved for any kind of Jason Vorhe's content for years and

years and years. And it's not fair. You were a huge player of the game, right? Friday and 13th video game? I think it's the greatest video game ever made. And they abandoned us. I know. It's great.

And a really dedicated player base. I'm still very, very angry about it. Yeah. They're going to have to reboot those servers for you one day. One franchise that you never got. It was never for you. Hmm. I got it, but it wasn't my favorite.

and it's it's uh nightmare in elm streets gotcha but recently recently went back and and rewatched him and like i have an appreciation for him and and freddie is a horror icon uh but it just it wasn't my it wasn't my lane so to speak i was more michael meyer's jason vorhees like slasher kind of i kind of felt the same way i watched the first nightmare elm street for the first time two or three years ago, I want to say. I love doing October binges of all classics and whatnot. And I think the moment that the tongue comes out of the phone, the liquor, I was like, yeah, this isn't the movie I thought it was.

Like I built it up to be something a little different in my mind. I love West Craven. Brilliant, genius. Scream one of my favorite franchises. I love Scream. Yeah. That's a little more up my alley than Nightmare in Elm Street, personally. Same.

And then one horror director that you'd most like to work with, we could go alive or dead here. It's Carpenter, without a doubt. Yeah. You know, I mean, look what he's done. The fog, the thing, Halloween, you know, big trouble in a little China. Not a horror movie, but damn, is that an excellent film? They live. What a genius.

I know people talk about it. They live reboot with you, right? Do they? I feel like online people have remade the poster with you because you pay tribute to Roddy a lot. I feel like it would be absolute sacrilege, but also, like, how could I turn that down? Yeah, I mean, as someone that grew up with Roddy, Potty Piper is your hero. There's rumors, talk of like a Blumhouse Carpenter collab for a Thing 2.

Oh. And I don't know if I'm making that up. You plead the fifth on the Thing remake reboot as well? Yes. Do you like any horror reboots? Are there any big reboots that you're like, they nailed it? I, I, you know, did you watch Stranger Things? Yes, I was a big fan of Stranger Things.

You were a big fan. You were a big fan. Okay. Did you like the finale? I actually did. I did. I was very satisfied. Interesting.

I don't know if this is just like a Stan culture thing or if I've just like aged out of under, I certainly don't understand. I see it in wrestling. I see it with fandoms with like stranger things and all that stuff. Like people just seem to want to be angry about everything because it didn't happen the way they fantasy booked it in their head. And I don't know, to me, that's, that's, that's a slight mental illness. Oh, brother, you're preaching to the choir on this. Like, you know, like, hey, I bought tickets to go to this wrestling show and then I look on Twitter and wrestling journalist three, four, five, six, six,

7, 8, 9, 10 reports that there's going to be a big surprise guest. And I go to this show and there's no big surprise guest. And I spend an unhealthy amount of time complaining about that online. And it's just like, well, you weren't promised a big surprise guest. Somebody that probably knows less about what they're talking about than you do. And it's just a fan just like you made some shit up on the internet and passed it as a journalism and you're getting mad at that like I see the same thing with the Stranger Things fandom it's crazy right now people just straight up mad about the way it

ended and I thought the 45 minute epilogue I was like now mind you I'm not a feverish Stranger Things fan I've watched the entire show hard to remember what has happened because they spend way too much time in between seasons, which I feel is a valid criticism. Yeah, it is. But I thought it was so poetic the way they wrapped it up. Like at the heart of the movie, it's a nostalgia bomb, but it's about these kids that are bonding overplaying Dungeons and Dragons.

They're the outcasts, so they find each other, and there's a sci-fi element to it. And the way they wrapped it up was just like a dungeon master would wrap something up, you know, almost like choose your own adventure. Do you, like, and spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the end of the show, like maybe stop watching this interview, but did 11 die? Like the, did you live? Yeah. Yeah. It's really, it's kind of up to you, just like Dungeons and Dragons.

And I think that was a bold choice for them too. For a show they know families are watching and kids are watching. thought it was so beautiful. Really beautiful. And it really depends on you because you can be like, yeah, she sacrificed herself to save her friends, to make sure this never happens again. She's a hero. She's dead.

Or, yeah, man, you know what? She's still alive. And that's a beautiful thing. Like, I thought that was great. I was super happy about it, but people have their opinions. It's just like the John Sina, Gunther finish. I feel like it's the same thing. Whereas some people, maybe I don't think you understand what you're watching.

Oh, yeah. But if you didn't like it, I can also understand that. But to overnight make it your entire personality and spend an unhealthy amount of time talking about it. Put it this way. If John won, they'd be mad about that too, but we wouldn't be talking about it anymore. And we're still talking about that finish. The smile, the tap. oh my god the guy who said don't give up just gave up i was i was one of those guys yeah yeah

you know there's a lot of everybody's everybody's an expert yeah i thought it was beautiful i thought it was okay it wasn't the way i would have like done it but again like you said i wasn't um it wasn't like they ruined my childhood could you imagine could you imagine for a second if Twitter was around when Empire Strikes Back came out. It would be The Last Jedi. I remember watching that movie when I was a kid and I was just like, this movie is amazing. BobaFat is super cool. But they cut Luke's hand off.

They freeze Han and Carbonite. Vader's his father. The rebels are getting their asses handed to him. And I never once in my fandom was like, Fuck you, George Lucas. How could you do this? Luke wouldn't do that. Jesus Christ, just sometimes you just, it's okay to be a fan.

Yeah. And it's okay to enjoy things. And it's okay to not enjoy things too. But the way people just grandstand about it is, it's, it's a little mental to me. So no reboots you like. I don't know. Name a, name a, name a good one, you know? Like I just don't think some things need to.

I didn't think the thing reboot was that bad. I thought like at least they did. did a different take on it. They didn't just try to do it, you know. They tried to do a little prequel type thing. I hated that they all spoke English. Yeah. That's a valid, valid criticism.

There's not many guys. I liked, I really liked the first Halloween reboot. 2018, C. and Laurie Strode. Yeah, like kind of just really. No, not zombie. No, no, no, not zombie. I'm talking the first in the new trilogy. Oh, the first in the Blumhouse once.

Yeah, yeah. Bring back. That was a good movie. I thought that was really cool. And then the next one, Evil dies tonight. Oh, I love Ryan Turrick, and I want to work with you. So, you know, I had a meeting with him.

He straight up just asked me, so what do you think? And I was just like, I had that once for Venom 2. I don't know if you saw Venom 2, let there be carnage. I sure didn't. So I saw that, and it wasn't my favorite movie. Yeah. But Andy Circus came out, the director of the movie. And he was like, oh, you know.

giving a big speech for Venom 2. And as we left, we saw him. He said, hey, what'd you think? It was great. We loved it. And you got to leave him with that, I think. You lied to him. Yeah, I did.

He's anti-circus, man. He's a legend. He doesn't want to hear from fucking Robbie Fox. Oh, I would have done this differently in the third act. You know what I mean? Sure, sure. All right. So I'm going to end the interview here, but I'm also going to want to ask you one spoiler question

that we'll put out after the movie comes out. But I do recommend Night Patrol in theaters January 16th. See where it's playing around you. Super fun, especially like. I think tickets are on sale now, too. So you can, you can search, look up what theaters it's playing at. And it's playing in a lot of theaters. A lot of theaters.

We were talking about Stranger Things before. It's not, I wouldn't say, I wouldn't compare it to stranger things. But it nails like an 80s throwback vibe. There's cool music in it. Some awesome. Like, there's sunset shots in this movie where I'm like, the cinematography is unreal. Again, a very fun cast. A lot of CM Punk.

So go check it out. Night Patrol out now.