My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 50 - CLEM RETURNS!

Episode Date: March 2, 2020

No need to adjust your podcast listening devices - you read that title correctly! The LEGEND Clem has RETURNED to the Basement after much too long spent outside of it, to discuss all of the happenings in the nerd world over the past few months. We’re talking Star Wars, DC, Marvel, Indiana Jones, and more.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. You're back! I'm back, Bobby! I just threw in a whole bunch of laundry, we got a load of laundry going right now, and we're talking nerdy. So the laundry is dirty, we're talking nerdy, it's good to be back in the basement right now. It feels great. I'm glad to have you back, it's been way too long you haven't been on the show since the mandalorian wrapped up we used to do these episodes every sunday after the 4 p.m nfl games and we were joking before like it feels weird doing this on a sunday now with no nfl games maybe the xfl was on are they doing sundays now or is it just saturday they actually have a night game tonight i know there's uh my team the vipers i've i've i dove into the Viper pit as a Viper fan what made you turn away

from the Guardians in New York did you see what they had fucking Rovel on the first game he came out and not only did he come out and he did his whole Rovel just kill the joke thing but they had him as a punter it was obviously shade at PFT and at that point I was

honestly dude the Guardians I had so many different like memes of guardians of the galaxy stuff i was gonna be tweeting out all the gifts and they fucking like they made their line in the sand i asked for an apology never got an apology and then i went to the vipers who are winless they've scored i think one offensive touchdown the entire season it's a night so we're not in a good place right now bobby so yeah the one thing i realized doing my mom's base is the patriots basically if they're not playing a good place right now, Bobby. So, yeah, the one thing I realized doing my mom's basement is the Patriots. Basically, if they're not playing a primetime game, they're playing four o'clock.

It's always like, all right, we got to wait to the end of this Patriots game here. And that was and then it went right into Mandalorian talk. So it's kind of like a Pavlov's dog thing with that with the two. Are people liking the XFL so far or no? I mean, I like it. And there's a couple of fun things here. I just like having football somewhere in the background noise, you know? But I think everyone kind of jumps in week one.

Week two, you're like, all right, football's still here. And then by week three, there's enough bad quarterback play where you're like, eh. And then, I mean, I know the ratings have started to go down. I hope it makes it, though. I mean, to be honest with you, I think Vinny Mac needs to get more of that WWF personality back in here. I mean, I guess based on what I was reading after the Saudi show, he should not touch anything. with you i think vinnie mack needs to get more of that wwf personality back yeah i mean i guess based on what i was reading after the saudi show oh no you should not touch yeah vinnie mack probably isn't the guy you need for creative direction after goldberg is now the wwe champion at 53

years old and clem oh my god he uh beat bray wyatt for the title and obviously goldberg's finishing maneuvers to jackhammer one of the best finishers of all time. He really struggled, and it was basically just a vertical suplex. He got him up, but only for a second, so he couldn't do the sideways turn, and it was a sad sight. So now Goldberg's our champion on one end, and Brock Lesnar is our champion on the other end. Oh my god, how old's Brock Lesnar too? He's no fucking spring chicken. I know, yeah, he's in his 40s and he's been champ fucking forever. He's been champ for

basically the better half of eight years now and everyone's just so tired of it. Does he even show up? Once every few months. He has a few matches a year, so the title's not on TV every week. You don't get to see the title on Monday Night Raw. Vince really doesn't know what he's doing anymore, and it's sad.

We're going to do some From the Top Rope episodes because we are still following it into WrestleMania season. There's little sparks and highlights here and there, like Edge is back now, and everything Edge is doing is awesome. Rey Mysterio, everything he does is awesome. Kevin Owens. There's the few things that you're like, okay, this is why we watch for the most part it's watch aew and watch nxt damn i i'm telling you man i couldn't believe my twitter feed was just people like pissed off about wrestling i'm like what the fuck's going on like is this from monday like there was like a delay in tweets that everything got sent on like thursday afternoon i saw your tweet about that yeah vince like

basically so vince not only like sold his soul to the Saudis by letting them, the pay-per-view go on there, but then he sold this. The Saudis are probably, listen, you're doing it. And Goldberg's winning the world wrestling, the championship.

Cause like, they probably love them there. Like, he's probably a little on the time. Like, Oh, Goldberg, Goldberg,

we would love to see him win a championship. And is Bray Wyatt. That's the fiend, I saw some people, is that the dude that comes out with the fucking face paint and all that shit?

That's my guy. Like, five years ago, I was like, that guy is awesome. I don't know who he is, but that's my guy. You're thinking of Finn Balor, actually.

Oh, okay. He's the one with the face paint. The fiend is a guy with a mask and dreadlocks and he's, like, heavy. Oh, okay. It doesn't have, the face paint. The Fiend is a guy with a mask and dreadlocks, and he's, like, heavy. Oh, okay. It doesn't have, like, a wrestler's physique. Okay, okay.

A prototypical wrestler's physique. He's got, like, that earthquake physique, you know? I kind of dig a big guy, though, so I guess that'll be my— Now I'm upset. Now I'm upset. Put the belt back on the Fiend. I wasn't even a Fiend guy, but just the way they built him up and they made him this fucking unbeatable monster. He went through everybody.

You couldn't do anything to put him down. People were hitting him with a dozen finishers in a match and he would kick out at one. It was breaking the laws of wrestling, truly. And they built him up to this level just for Goldberg to beat him in literally like, I don't know, two minutes, I think. Oh, it was a wipeout. Oh my. What did they do? I mean, I guess now this makes perfect sense. Because now I'm upset. I haven't watched wrestling. Vince is off his rocker.

He's off his fucking... Goldberg's going to kill two different, like, the two big titans of the wrestling business. And now Goldberg is set up for a match at WrestleMania. It's already booked with Roman Reigns, who people still, you know, don't really want to see much. So they came out and they made a big thing of it on SmackDown.

And they were like, oh, my God. On commentary, they're saying, look at this. Icon versus icon. The past versus the future. And the fans were chanting, you both suck. You both suck. So they're doing The Fiend versus John Cena. Goldberg versus reigns wrestlemania

this year is is looking so so so i don't know look out for more from the top rope episodes i'm not here to complain this week the top rope has never been stronger because now you guys have brandon fucking walker in the mix who's you know obviously he's more my generation too which i kind of like and he's i mean everyone knows brandon walker Walker. Brandon Walker was made to work for Barstool, and he got his Barstool gig by like the most crazy fucking coincidence, weird lining of the stars ever. It's amazing how this shit all goes down. So I can't wait for the From the Top ropes to come out. So we're here to talk some nerdy stuff. We haven't talked about nerdy stuff in months.

I would be remiss not to mention this past weekend I was out in in Virginia, Norfolk, Virginia, for my guy Joseph Benavidez's fight, and it did not go our way. Really tough way to end the trip. Got knocked out in the second round against Divas and Figueredo. It was for the UFC Flyweight Championship, but Figueredo missed weight, so he was not eligible to win the title in the case of a win which he obviously got the title still remains vacant if joe would have gotten the win he would have been champion really tough uh joe and megan as i've talked about on the podcast before they were on the podcast last week they've been on a few times now best people i've ever met in mma and it was heartbreaking to see me Megan come you know basically cage side and

consoling him afterwards I hated that he got interviewed afterwards by Bisping I don't know if that was a call that Bisping made or if that was someone in Bisping's ear being like go get Benavidez but I hate when they interview fighters that just got knocked out and especially hearing Joe just say that it was like a nightmare and that he it didn't feel like real life that was oh such a bummer I'm still bummed out about it honestly um but yeah gotta mention it it was it was a good trip overall we had a we had a really nice dinner the night before the fight we we had a good time as a team the whole family was there but tough ending that's the fight game though you win some you lose some i can't believe you went out there for bar i thought you went out there for barstool as a

whole thing this is just bob going out for the love of the game yeah no that this wasn't a barstool trip this was just being being joe b's corner because he's the man and i thought it was also vegas i didn't realize it was norfolk virginia so you weren't doing a zillion beers thought it was also Vegas. I didn't realize it was Norfolk, Virginia. So you weren't doing the zillion beers. It was fucking freezing. I was staying in like an area where nothing was going on. No offense to the Uber drivers out there who were absolutely lovely. But none of you have any idea where you're going. You all got lost going routine 10-minute trips.

And at my hotel, there was actually a Catholic women's retreat going on. I swear to you, it was all 60, 50 to 60 year old African American women and me in that hotel. It was there was some kind of vibe going on every time I would go out to smoke, I would be so paranoid that I was coming into the hotel smelling like weed in front of these people, you know, praising the Lord. It was a weird trip, Glenn. It was a weird trip. I wish it had a better ending. Oh, no, Bob.

They're like throwing holy water on you. Like, get the devil out of this young boy. I think we had a similar entourage of people at our – we went to celebration. I remember at our hotel. Oh, yeah. There was this huge congregation. I was like, this could be fun. We could have some fun. entourage of people at our we went to celebration i remember at our hotel oh yeah there's a huge congregation i was like this could be fun we could have some fun when we went we got like breakfast one morning in that awesome little area the the rosen shingle creek in orlando if you want

to stay at a great hotel the rosen shingle creek is next level you go in there you go to turn the tv on it says hello welcome robbie hello welcome clem it's unbelievable the market downstairs the birds they got in the lobby it's it's my's my favorite hotel. You look out onto a golf course. The best thing office manager Brett might've ever done was getting us that hotel. I guess it was like a great rate too. He's like, he's a guys. It just was like perfect. We're like, don't ever send us anywhere else. We're going to Orlando, Florida, Brett. It looks like a frigging resort, but yeah, I don't even know how we got on this topic we can move on to the nerdy stuff there's a lot to talk about we'll start with star wars that's kind of our wheelhouse

and the most recent big star wars news that just came out a few days ago from the novelization of the rise of skywalker is confirmation that the emperor palpatine that we saw in episode 9 was a clone not the actual body of Emperor that we saw get thrown off the ledge in Return of the Jedi. It makes it more believable. We obviously heard the tease of it in the movie, I guess, when he was like, the dark side cloning.

For me, I almost wish they didn't confirm it in the book, because I'm like, why didn't you just say it in the movie then? You know? I'm just gonna try to let you talk yourself through this. And you know how I feel about The Rise of Skywalker. I truly do, and I've watched it.

I have a, well, should I even say it? Yeah, fuck it. Iger's out of Disney, so he's not listening to the pod anymore. He doesn't have any control. I have a bootleg of it that I've watched many times now and I really do enjoy it but there's just something to them revealing certain things like this in the novelization and the

the cry he made to the galaxy in Fortnite and something else in a commercial and all that where it's like the expanded universe is cool but for the actual story tell that in the movies I think that's a Jeff D. Lowe quote he actual story, tell that in the movies. I think that's a Jeff D. Lowe quote.

He's like, tell your story in the movies. I agree with Jeff D. Lowe. Yeah, I agree with Jeff D. Lowe on that one too. The clone is just bad. It's also kind of just sticky. It's like it makes you feel a little better if you're telling me – again, you're Star Wars. You make the rules, right, of the Star Wars galaxy. Tell me this guy was such a pure, evil whatever.

It brought him back. It's like now you're not even dealing with Palpatine's body, which I mean I guess we kind of knew it wasn't. Why do you always say his name like that? As I said it, I was like, oh, sorry. You're not allowed to say this word because you can't say it. You say Palpatine. Like he's like – it's probably Papelbaum. Isn't that a baseball player?

Yeah, Jonathan Palpatine. That's probably where it came from. God, Emperor. Someone needs to Photoshop the Emperor in his jersey, like, in a stance at the plate. You know, with that weird, like, the weird way he holds his lightsaber, too, when he says,

I am the Senate. He's like, it's treason, then. I think Papelbaum did have a little bit of a weird thing. Or he could have him, the Emperor, like, fighting, like, Yoda, and it's Papelbon and Bryce Harper when they fought each other. Oh, that was the guy that fought Bryce. Okay, that makes sense. Bryce is my guy, by the way.

Bryce has DM'd me on Instagram. No big deal. Whoa! Breaking news at the base. DM me on Instagram after Ruff and Rowdy. One of the most bizarrest, as Liam Gallagher would say, one of the most bizarrest things I've ever seen in my message requests. Bryce Harper mentioned you in his story. I was like, what the fuck?

All right. So the Emperor, because as I say it, Papelbon, it's the same. The Emperor, Sidious, even Sheev. Yeah, even Sheev. The Emperor, it just doesn't feel the same. Like that wasn't his body. And again, it didn't seem like his body. It's just so sticky. And like these things getting brought back up like i know kfc tweeted

it and that's where i initially got it and i just got that sticky feeling like it by the way you didn't like that huh i gotta tell you didn't like that i didn't like that i don't i feel like kevin kevin isn't like i don't know he's not like the voice on star wars you know what i mean he tweeted that and i was like i was, did he tweet that to piss me off? It's funny when like one of our beats gets tweeted by someone else. And you're thinking like, are they doing this to like beat me into like getting back? I was like, he doesn't know what he's talking about. Revenge of the Sith is good.

Three of nine. And then I'm thinking like, I'm like, do I go into it too? But then it's like Revenge of the Sith. And then even even like force awakens and you're kind of going back and forth i mean we talked about on this podcast i think i said three and nine are a b plus or hot or a b or higher so that kind of and but then i don't think three of nine is a hall of famer it's not a hall of fame franchise in my opinion the i just think the original trilogy is like first ballot unanimous hall of fame in the movie hall of fame or whatever you want to call it i still think even though even though the prequels are what they are and this sequel trilogy for some people isn't what

they wanted it to be at least in the prequels just speaking on the prequels alone the world building and the the overall like story and the downfall of the arc makes that worth it makes at least the one through six saga worth it in a hall of fame franchise in my eyes you know how i feel about the sequel trilogy love it you could take it or leave it i guess um many people feel the same way as you so i won't even continue to argue that but for the prequels at least i do think one through six would be the hall of fame franchise's fine. And then getting back to kind of this stuff with Rise of Skywalker. Did you see that tweet? It was like some Star Wars account.

It was like, did you know that the people of, what's the name of the planet? Exegol? Yeah, Exegol. Yeah, I did. Those Star Destroyers were manned by people that, do you know what was the fun fact that they said? I think it was like Wookieepedia and they were was the fun fact that they said i think it was like wikipedia and they were like fun fact of the day did you know that all citizens of exegol were brainwashed by like uh darth sidious and his followers to build the star destroyers and man the ships and become you know a new fleet the final order and someone quote tweeted and they

were like no how would we you didn't tell us in the fucking movie and that's it's like i think there's like 10 different examples of that with like massive parts of the movie that are like no you didn't fucking tell us and that's stuff that i completely see i'm not blind to the fact that that's like fucking crazy that's one of my main things is like the people in exegol how did the people man the star destroyers how did they get like exact star destroyer equipment but i just overlooked that because i'm like yeah it's fucking star wars i don't know magic i don't know the force yeah they're like lando how did lando get all those people's like hey he's fucking nice like yo hey i'm lando and it's like all right we're gonna fucking go and fight a billion star destroyers with people that we don't even know who are

manning them because we don't know the snoke stuff doesn't make sense the more you think about it the more it doesn't make sense with like why would he lure kylo ren in the way he did why would he do this why would he do that it's another thing where i'm like yeah these movies probably weren't meant to be thought about as much as we think about them i do think that the um it's basically it's a product i don't think forrest wiggins has anything to do with this i think it's literally the last jedi the last jedi the movie the fans like me who hated it, and then I think the reaction to the fans of us that hate it. Plus then JJ having to hit the landing because they weren't going to make a number 10 kind of have – like the reaction to The Last Jedi plus like knowing they had to wrap everything up, it kind of killed two movies, right? Ryan Johnson kind of killed two movies as fucked up as it is. And whether you think The Last Jedi was great or terrible yeah yeah um i think it definitely changed both movies because i don't think this is where they intended to go i sure

hope this isn't where they intended to go um and i do think the emperor being a clone like whatever dude i i kind of like i said after the movie i didn't hate it i didn't love it and i'm fine with it it is what it is and it's it's not great thing, but it's not a terrible thing at the end. The fucking original trilogy is that much better in my mind. Totally, totally. And the original trilogy hasn't changed at all in my mind. It actually, like you said, it's maybe made me like it even more, the original trilogy. And that's where Star Wars lives and breathes for me still.

With the sequels, my love of that. With the sequel trilogy, that's where Star Wars lives and breathes for me still with the prequels my love of that with the sequel trilogy my love of that the originals are fucking where it's at those are three of the greatest movies ever made and don't change them anymore no more special editions no more McClunky release the original theatrical versions I'm down for that if you want to do a new release

but no speaking of new releases and another nice, new, fresh take on things in Star Wars, we could finally talk about what Project Luminous is. Project Luminous was teased by the Lucasfilm Story Group and the Writers Group in the

Literature Department at Star Wars Celebration. They said it's one of the biggest Star Wars projects in years, one of the biggest Star Wars projects in years. One of the biggest Star Wars projects since the Disney acquisition. Is that the way you say that? Acquisition. Acquisition. Acquisition, yes. Boom. I almost said accusation.

The Disney accusation. What did they accuse Star Wars of? I don't know. That might be what happened to Bob Iger. I don't know. Star Wars The High Republic is what Project Luminous is and they revealed this this week. And basically, to put it in layman's terms, they're going to release a bunch of books and reading material, comics, and just all in the literature department. It's not expanding outside of that.

It's not toys. It's not games. It's not movies. It's not TV shows yet, of the time in the Star Wars universe 200 years before The Phantom Menace, a time that we've never seen before when apparently what they're describing it as is when the Jedi were who we always wanted to see them be, when the Jedi were ruling the galaxy, discovering the Outer Rim, exploring the Outer Rim. There's a bunch of great Star Wars writers attached. Claudia Gray is one that comes to mind immediately.

She's written some really great books. One that I've read is Lost Stars. This sounds awesome. There's a lot of cool concept art online. That's kind of the coolest stuff for me so far because obviously I don't know what the books hold. They have good reviews, but who knows? And I'm also not the biggest reader.

The concept art looks awesome. And my hope is for this to expand into something more Shadows of the Empire-esque where you could give us a Star Wars The High Republic video game, Star Wars The High Republic toys, maybe in the future a TV show, a movie. The art looks already a little more medieval. They have broadswords, the jedi and whatnot like the kylo ren type saber so i think it could be you know a little game of thronesy some of the videos showed concept art on the wall where people the writers had said something they wanted to see was

house rivalries in star wars like game of thrones so i think this could be really cool. It's really early to see what it is so far, especially being that it's just books for now. But I think this could be a new Knights of the Old Republic type thing, potentially. I see. I don't know how they're going to go with this. I kind of was hoping it would the Rise of Skywalker was going to dabble in this. But again, I think the way everything kind of went off the rails, it couldn't address it. I want to see, I I'm so sick of the Jedi being this perfect,

you know, everything they did was right. Obviously the way they handled Anakin was wrong. And I think there's a lot of flaws to the Jedi, which just like with the Sith are in their own way. They're so wrong, but they do have things that you're like, I can kind of see where they're coming from here.

I want to see like things like rivalries between jedis and houses or whatever i think that would be kind of cool to kind of dig into it uh two other thoughts the high republic there's gonna be like a strand of weed i feel like it's just i already saw the memes i saw a meme of yoda lighting a bong with his lightsaber should have done with the lightsaber and devlin our guy devlin huge star wars fan in the office he does the barstool instagram stories and all that if you see that i told him that and he was like brother i've been in the high republic for a long time um and then i when you were telling this i just kind of went to the wikipedia uh um entry of it and it says how it spans both comic and books to tell one cohesive story set in the

High Republic era. So this is going to be a cohesive story. So unlike the sequels, I like that we have a plan to have one cohesive story. That is what they're pushing, though, for real. That's like the main narrative they're pushing is that this has been in development for, I think, well over a year, maybe two years years and this team of writers like that's basically their main selling point is like we swear all of this lines up we've put a lot of thought into everything there's a lot of planning into all of this like we're not making the same mistakes with this that they made with the sequel trilogy so again i'm hopeful for it i was a little disappointed with the initial loadout being just books and stuff, just reading material.

I didn't realize that. I thought at the very least we would get, like, toys. Because that's, like, such a tiny thing, but it's also such a huge thing. Boba Fett was a toy before he was anything, and that propelled him into becoming one of the most, you know, beloved Star Wars characters ever. One of the biggest fan favorites in the Star Wars galaxy. So, in the future, I assume it won't take long for merchandising to get on this. Yeah. But the Disney will find a way to make a couple of bucks off of toys.

They're known to do that from time to time. I mean, that's the one thing about the toys that made us, which again, a plus, plus, plus, plus Netflix series.

If you like this pod, if you like this podcast, you will like that show. Yeah. And that's what I learned is you don't even like need a, know half these shows were made after the were for the toys the toys were made and then they're like all right and we'll make a show for the toys to help sell them that's the same kind of thing like make the books followed by the toys if the toys sell and they're cool then you're going to be able to push your books and then the inevitable disney plus show and movies

and all that other nonsense so i i can't wait to see it myself. So speaking of merchandising, great news. Even better news than the High Republic. Baby Yoda merch is pretty much upon us. They've unveiled a lot of it on GMA and all these other shows. And in the coming months, I think April and May particularly, the loadout pretty much begins. And all Baby Yoda merch is available to the world. They got Funko Pops,

they got Baby Yoda plush dolls, they got Baby Yoda in the carriage, they got Baby Yoda with the iced out chain, they got Baby Yoda, the realistic life-size Baby Yoda from Sideshow Collectibles, which Jeff D. Lowe already purchased for the office. Oh my god. I can't

wait. I feel like my life is going to be consumed by Baby Yoda things. I feel like my life is going to be consumed by Baby Yoda things. I feel like it's probably going to be another scenario where it's like when What Does the Fox Say came out. Everyone I knew was like, oh, we're going to buy you a What Does the Fox Say shirt. So I hope so. I love Baby Yoda stuff. Is there any truth that this podcast was originally called What Does the Fox Say? Is there any truth to that rumor going around that was a name that hank actually suggested like before that when i was thinking of this podcast

i think it was like i think one of my names was like all the shit i love or something which was stupid um and then i had my mom's basement which was a name my brother came up with and hank came up to me had no idea i had the idea for this podcast at all it was like you should do a podcast about all the shit you're interested in and call it what does the fox say and i was like that's actually not bad wow i said it as a complete joke but that guy hank i'll tell you for the guy who showed up at the office because a weird haircut seth and basically just became dave's like torture chamber guy and guy person he would just torture hank is i mean obviously we know this now like if it's a part of my take he's the producer but like the kid's brain is just fascinating it's

always fucking pumping man it's pumping great ideas out um i so this is my problem i blogged about the hasbro doll that talks that melts your heart oh i know yeah so yeah cuckoos and uh bellows and all the different words i went so i was like aj's birthday's coming up i'm like oh this is the perfect like buy it for the kid and it's just gonna be me playing with it february 2021 is when it tells me it's gonna be so did i that's gotta be wrong that i don't know if i missed the first set of pre-orders or or what but it told me you know you know get it now for february 2021 imagine the the how much this is going to be a hot ticket item near christmas when season two is going on oh my goodness i i i almost feel like the history like the history

books have to teach how disney actually had a scenario where they because i mean again we just said how disney's known to sell their merch. They didn't – I know there was a reason it was kept under wraps and everything. But the fact they didn't have Baby Yoda ready for Christmas season is still like mind-boggling to me. And I actually saw a Baby Yoda. Shout out to wifey. I had to go get another shower liner, adult shit at Bed Bath & Beyond. And I saw a little Baby Yoda.

It was like a car sticker or whatever. And i did the hmm and i realized every time i see him i do the but just saying hmm and that's basically the sound everyone makes when they see baby yoda so yeah that's like a license to print money when they start pumping these fucking things out so are they coming out like now are we are i believe i believe very soon baby yoda stuff some people do have it i know some people on star wars twitter that are like here's my baby yoda fucking toy here's my baby yoda plush so i know like some stuff exists it's very close to coming out and my hope this is fingers crossed rob just in a perfect world baby yoda sells enough merchandise to bring toys r us

back from the dead oh that would matter you just see baby yoda and he's like raising the x-wing that would be the will of the force jeffrey jeffrey in in red five with the helmet on um bob eiger out at disney step down he's no longer the ceo i think you wrote the blog um maybe ken jack did actually i don't know i wrote one i i guess jeff was writing one i didn't see i just went in and i just banged it out and then jeff said he started writing one and he was like it was all you but yeah i got i got no idea what this really means they elected a new guy he was the head of parks before but i have no idea how much Bob Iger,

how much influence he had over Star Wars or Marvel or any of that stuff. So I don't know how much this is going to affect anything that we like, if it will. Again, I said it jokingly at the end of the blog. I was like, I'm going to treat this like every fan boy and say, this is going to ruin everything.

And the sky is falling and everything. Again, it almost is like, Bob Iger, a lot of this stuff, it's like he did an awesome job awesome job buying the properties, getting them all under the Disney umbrella. But there's probably people who are like, I wish Disney ever bought Star Wars and they never made these sequels because it fucked them up. So I mean I don't think there's anyone who can complain about Marvel right now. So that's the other side of it.

So there's kind of two sides. It's like some people like Star Wars, love the new Star Wars. Some side of it. So there's kind of two sides. It's like, you know, some people like star Wars, love the new star Wars. Some people hated it. I don't think there's anyone who's like, man, they really fucking dropped the ball on those Marvel movies. If you did,

I want to interview you. I want to hear how your brain works. But I, I just found it very odd. I think that was the thing is Jeff had told me he's like, Hey, I was writing the blog as well. But just so you know,

for your blog, like I think they said originally Bob was 2021 it was the the um plan i didn't realize that the plan was 2020 he was going to step down last year actually he was like hey i'm ready to step down i'm ready to retire and they they were like no you have to stay on to extend the the fox or the 20th century deal whatever that was yeah so he stayed on to the extension of that and then said all right 2021 i guess i'll stay until then and then this kind of came out of the blue i don't think anyone like this didn't leak i think he just stepped down yeah no and that's the thing is like the guy the guy replaced him i said he doesn't even he didn't have a wikipedia page judge had a wikipedia page when the giants got him i'm like who the fuck is joe judge and he's a special team

to go to the page he had a wik coach on the page. He had a Wikipedia page. But the head of Disney Parks that just became the CEO of Disney did not have a Wikipedia page. So this was completely out of left field. I don't think anyone could have seen it coming. And I don't know. The other thing is I also – I said this in the blog too. Disney loves sucking their own dick. 2021 is the 50th anniversary of Disney World.

They are going to go absolutely bananas for that shit obviously the Star Wars hotel opens there's a lot of new rides opening up and they're gonna have all the anniversary shit I didn't realize that yeah I so I am I'm I'm shocked I also think though it's kind of like with every um you know like Heisenberg or all these different people that are caught are caught in the life you like he probably was like looking it's like all right I have to stay on for 20th Century Fox. I have to stay in to get Disney Plus on for the 50th anniversary and all this shit.

And then by 2020, it's like, all right, Marvel is having their next phase start. And he's probably just like, I got to get the fuck out. You don't know what's going on at home. You don't know what's going on in the lawsuits. That's what other people were raising speculation. Not me. Not me. But I know Bob's a loyal listener.

So we won't go that way. Bob, if you want to tell your side of the story, my mom's basically my kid. Yeah, you could come on the show. Totally. We'll have you on. I know you probably – if he came on the show, he probably wouldn't talk much. He would be like, I feel like I'm listening to you guys like it's every week. This one, this is not even really like a news topic.

It kind of was, and there's not much to say about it, but I just thought it was so friggin funny that i had to put it on here harrison ford was questioned about whether or not he was a force ghost in the rise of skywalker or whether or not he was a vision that kylo ren had and he said i don't know what the fuck a force ghost is and i don't care because harrison ford doesn't care about star wars really and he hasn't since like return of the jedi he's been trying to get them to kill off han solo since return of the jedi and my favorite thing about this story was so many people like tagged me in it that I think probably were sort of maybe fringe Star Wars fans like not the biggest Star Wars fans saying like does this like upset you that Han like he's talking shit on Star Wars and I'm like no it's the complete opposite like that's what makes Harrison Ford Harrison Ford he's a weird, grumpy old man with an earring in that's like, Star Wars is stupid.

Like when one of my favorite Harrison Ford moments or quote stories, whatever, is from Oscar Isaac when he first got the role as Poe Dameron in The Force Awakens. And he said he went up to Harrison Ford and said, listen, you've been flying the Millennium Falcon on screen for how many fucking years? You're a real pilot. Do you have any tips for me making it look real and flipping the switches and really making it look like I'm flying that X-Wing? And he was like, it's fake. I just flip any switch I see.

He doesn't care. He gives no fucks. And that's what we love about him. Yeah, I mean, that's how you get Han Solo who doesn't give a shit about anything because the actor truly does not give a fuck. He was when like he was just like george when's my paycheck coming in all right cool all right i'll go give i'll go shoot grito for you this fucking weird and even i guarantee he doesn't know who the fuck grito is he's like who the hell are these is grito everyone keeps talking about shooting first i don't like he he does not i don't give

a damn shot first like if mark hamill said that, like, that would gut you. You'd be like, wow, he just doesn't care anymore. You know what I mean? Yeah. But Mark Hamill was the opposite. We're like, anytime he spoke out against, like, The Last Jedi, people were going, It was like, it was a passion, yeah. Yeah.

And it was also for his love of Star Wars. Like, Mark Hamill has such a deep connection to Star Wars and obviously the character of Luke that when he spoke out, even though I disagreed with what he said, I was like, fucking has the right he's Luke Skywalker man it's like when people get upset about Barstool and it's like if someone from Barstool speaks out as upset about something at Barstool it's like all right that guy kind of like deals with it but it's like you know the fans are the fans too so it's like and everyone loves this shit so the fact that Han Solo could not give less of a fuck about what's going on in Star Wars. Perfectly par for the course. And again, I like to imagine in Return of the Jedi where they're like – you know like in comedy movies.

They're like, all right, you guys want to ad-lib now? Do the ad-lib scene. And it's just Han Solo dying. He's shooting himself, jumping off a cliff. He's like, all right, Han's dead now. He just falls in there like, what was that? He's like, you're CGI-ing a laser and it hits me. We can move on. There's some other stuff but the clone wars has returned there's not much to say about that if you want to hear my takes on

the clone wars we've been doing lights camera barstool videos on them on the site it's been pretty good but there's only been two episodes so far and there's you know you haven't been watching right so no i have to catch up we wouldn't be able to talk plot lines. But I think you would like them. You could even pretty much dive in at Season 7 if you want to hear what people are talking about. And you would get a general feel for what's going on. They're in the middle of an arc right now with the Bad Batch, which is a batch of clones that were deformed in ways that gives each of them a heightened advantage in some way. And there's four of them. They're kind of like the Ninja Turtles.

There's, like, one huge guy that is like a hothead rafael type there's one guy that looks like luke kang almost from mortal combat hunter he's cool one guy tech that's like donatello and then like a sharpshooter it's really cool they just added in last episode had a scene that like shook fucking star wars fans to our core where Obi-Wan basically says to Anakin, like, I know about you and Padme. And in the Star Wars universe, it would be the first time he blatantly called him out on it. And the way he did it was cool.

It was basically Anakin went into a room and FaceTimed Padme and had Commander Rex watch out, watch, you know, command guard. So Obi-Wan is questioning Rex. He's like, who's behind that door? What's going on? And they're knocking on the door. And Anakin comes out.

He's like, I was just cleaning his helmet. It's fine. And Obi-Wan's like, at least I hope you said hi to Padme for me. And they're like, oh, shit. I thought you were going to say he was having phone sex with Padme. And I was like, oh, wow. They do like it's a hologram of Padme. Obviously, it's Star Wars.

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We've got our first look at the Battinson suit. So Matt Reeves put out this sort of screen test where it looked like it was filmed i wrote the blog where i said it looked like it was filmed in one of those photo developing rooms it was like really dark and red and you couldn't see it very clearly and i it didn't really excite me i'll be honest upon first viewing and i'm the biggest batman guy in the world fucking got him on my arm he's my guy my favorite character ever it was so dark that i was just like i don't know i can't fucking see the suit i couldn't see the ears on the cowl i couldn't really see the cowl at all it's dark the chest looked a little strange it looked arkham knight plated what did you think

of it when you first saw it um so is this before we knew it was made out of an all that shit yes okay so at first i didn't like it just like you. However, like it's – I don't want to say I didn't like it but I just didn't like – it didn't move the needle for me because I was like I feel like I'm not seeing it. Yeah, and that's exactly – and the way Twitter works is like you're going to hear people get their jokes off and all that kind of stuff. And then you're going to be like your dislike of something will increase. However, I saw one person who was like if it's his first year, right? It's like his first – Yeah, it's his first year, right? It's like his first- Yeah, it's his second year.

So yeah. So it's early Batman. So it's very early Batman. It's like, think of the Spider-Man suit, the first, you know, the first- I do dig that too, because in the current comics, or at least like New 52 style or new era,

whatever the thing after the New 52 is, a rebirth, I think it is. He has like that same feel. He kind of has a cowl, but he's wearing like a short sleeve shirt for some of it. He's on that motorcycle, that same feel. He kind of has a cowl, but he's wearing, like, a short-sleeved shirt for some of it. He's on that motorcycle, which we've seen pictures of Batman on a motorcycle. I think they're taking influence from there, and I think that's cool. And we can get into, like, what the chest is made out of.

If this is the case, I think it's fucking metal, and I think it's cool, and I think it's awesome that they're potentially taking a Kevin Smith idea from a comic and bringing it to the big screen. People are speculating that the bat symbol on Robert Pattinson's chest in this movie is made out of the gun that Joe Chill used to kill his parents. It's been, you know, deconstructed in a way that fits it into that bat symbol logo. That is originally done by Kevin Smith in his short story in Detective Comics 1000, illustrated by Jim Lee, who is my favorite comic book artist of all time. So if that's all true,

I think that's cool. I think the cowl is my big concern right now, because we've seen some other pictures from the set of a stuntman wearing most of the Batsuit on a motorcycle. And the whole suit, I think, looks cool now. I saw his wrists have three straps attached to it that are just regular, like, tightening straps, but they appear to be the Batman wrist spikes. And there's, like, subtle things about the costume. The armor plating reminds me of Arkham Knight, the video game. There's certain things about the costume I really like.

The cowl looks so bad in this picture. He looks like Megamind. His head has exploded. The ears are weird. The eyes are weird. Generally, stuntmen costumes don't fit great because, like I said, they're stuntmen costumes. But it worries me that we didn't see much of the costume in the screen test

and what we have seen of the costume didn't look great. I feel like they need to put out a better version of that screen test or at least a picture of pattinson in the suit it was made for him it probably fits better to his body to his head and just show us what it looks like throw it out to the internet and see what the internet says this was the very important thing for sonic the headshot yeah i saw sonic oh you saw sonic this weekend yeah it was uh sienna had a birthday party. And what they do is they rent the theater out. You go.

We had bagels. It was lovely. Watch Sonic, which is like as bad as good movies you're going to have if you do your kid's birthday. Yeah, I heard pretty good things actually. And I – it was very good. I enjoyed it. It was like it had enough for adults and it had some – I was a big Sonic kid growing

up and it had some references to the game that like were even deeper cuts that i don't think even casual sonic fans remember but if he looked like that fucking freak that came out the first you know trailer it would have been a real problem oh my god with the human teeth oh yep oh god so just like bend the knee to the internet and be like all right like roast me basically and then like make your adjustments based off of there don't try to go in blind and you know just try to like you know recreate that like he's fucking batman we know like the the fucking bat as the gun it like it haunts me like i love it it fucks me up and someone posted a tweet they were like it's his reminder why not to kill and i was like oh yes he always wears it so yeah it's it's metal that's the

perfect way to put it it is some and again that's the that kind of batman like that when batman is like that and you know again i think that dark knight did a great job of bringing that side of you know bruce wayne and batman out that is when you really like that character is fucking awesome that's what makes him better than superman right? Superman is this clean cut, so mad, awesome, but like Batman's just a badass dude with a shitload of awesome toys. Embrace that Batman. And you know, if that means the suit

is a little rough around the edges, it's fine. Like don't make it too rough where it's the only thing we can think of. But like, oh man, I got excited for it when I saw the gun thing. And the cowl, there's a little detail about the nose of the cowl that kind of looks like stitched leather. And people have suggested that it might be a nod to Adam West's cowl, there's a little detail about the nose of the cowl that kind of looks like stitched leather.

And people have suggested that it might be a nod to Adam West's cowl, actually. The way it goes over the nose is similar in there. It could be an updated... I think this movie is supposed to take place in the early 90s, an early 90s version of it. I'm so excited for The Batman. It's a Matt Reeves movie. Matt Reeves did War of the Planet of the Apes. I actually just re-watched it with Trent the other day because he had never seen any of those movies. And it's an awesome movie. I think he's a Matt Reeves movie. Matt Reeves did War of the Planet of the Apes. I actually just rewatched it with Trent the other day because he had never seen any of those movies.

And it's an awesome movie. I think he's a great director. I love Robert Pattinson, as I've said on the pod before. I think the cast is great. I just watched Casino Royale as well. And the dude from Westworld that's playing Commissioner Gordon now is in that. And it just made me more excited. So I don't want to misconstrue anything.

The Batsuit I'm worried about, I'm very excited about the movie though i have high hopes i think it's going to be very good when does it come out uh i think it's june 2021 okay oh wow that's like somewhat closer than i would have imagined but i guess they are shooting so it is what it is yeah june 25th 2021 i believe is the release date another thing in the dc world unfortunate news uh but i contributed to this and i think you did too clem um birds of prey came out and it absolutely bombed to the point where like catastrophic bomb they changed the title of it it was called birds of prey and the fantabulous emancipcipation of One Harley Quinn, I think was the full title. That was off the dome, by the way.

Wow. Shout the fuck out to me for remembering that. Marijuana in the memory. It's a hoax. That was the original title of the movie. A week later, they've renamed it Harley Quinn, Birds of Prey, which I hate. I think they should have called it Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey or like Harley Quinn's Birds of Prey. Whatever

they've done. It bombed. It didn't make any money and it got pretty fucking good reviews actually. Most of the people that have seen it have liked it and I've gotten so many tweets from people that are like, I'm waiting to hear your take on this because I went to the theater and was really pleasantly surprised. Jeff D. Lowe said, eh, so

so. He's like, it was what you expect. He's like, it was what you expect. He's like, it was a serviceable DC movie, but it was a DC movie. Everyone is singing Margot Robbie's praises, which we shouldn't be surprised by, but yeah, I didn't see it. Yeah, to be honest with you, when people were talking about how it was, I think Jeff blogged it and it was talking about how it kind of came up empty at the movie theater. I was like, oh, it's out? Shit. I honestly didn't even know it was somehow kind of came up empty at the movie theater. I was like, oh, it's out? Shit. I didn't even know.

I honestly didn't even know it was out. Now, maybe it's not showing on like the Bubble Guppies. That's basically what I'm watching. I don't watch TV anymore. I'm basically Bubble Guppies and then I'm on my phone and I'll get a Netflix show in here or there. HBO McMillions, shout out. That's the kind of thing that's keeping me going right now. So I had no idea it was even out.

I do think if like – again, again this is it's fucked up but it's true like when margot robbie like the suicide squad trailer came out like that's something i'll never forget i think i would have known if they had recreated that trailer again with margot robbie i would have known i don't think i would have saw the movie though so it probably would have done nothing in the long run um it's just dc it's like don't get cute with it and i don't think the title anything to do with it but you're dc don't get cute with anything right now just go ain't small miss small like the patriot says you know like let's just fucking just try to get like a decent premiere make your money back do all right and like make you advance the character so you can one day be a universe because basically at this point

it's you know the batman and well the suicide squad yeah james gone only two things that i think can save the DC universe right now James Gunn is putting the fucking team on his back like Greg Jennings and Matt he's gonna try to bring this thing to the finish line and it's so weird how does it man that one you know that whole controversy with that tweet or whatever is like it's like fucking butterfly effect like that might be the thing that saves DC's universe and he still may come back and then it fucks over guardians because the whole thor angle prize is gonna work as it should have and it's just crazy how it's all like happening because of this so i i do but again i think we've said this before i mean i'm not even a dc guy i was very much pro marvel i

like the batman movies superman i thought could be. I respect he was like a legend in the comic book game. I want DC to be good. I want WCW to be good so that WWF has to step up their product even though Marvel is nowhere near I mean, Marvel is basically Hulkamania versus Ultimate Warrior. We gotta do a wrestling pod one day. It'd be fun to bring you in and we could do like, it could be a Podfather's

crossover where Brandon Walker could be on too with Jared. We make too many old school WWF references. Not continue on to your point. I just had to note that hold us accountable listeners. We want Clem on a wrestling episode. Brandon Walker, his wrestling shirts make me swoon all the time.

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marvel want to be better and to like match each other so and again it's like and because dc is so good in the comics dc's they have so many great characters they have so many great stories to tell they have so many great people associated with their content like the the joker i didn't love joker i've you know talked about on the podcast i loved certain things in it but like do more shit like that take those chances look how beloved joker was look how grounded it was look how tiny it was it made fucking a billion dollars it like holy fuck keep doing shit like that keep doing grounded things even like stick to the formula even if you want to do nigma you do the riddler movie you do a fucking heart of ice mr freeze movie you do

like if you if you want to do it stick to what works that worked people loved that keep doing that and like uh watchman And like Watchmen, right? Yes. I know the Watchmen movie. I know it's hit or miss. I personally like it. I should mention if we're talking DC and people saving it, not to cut you off again, but the HBO might be their other route like you mentioned with Watchmen because they're doing that Justice League dark thing. It's apparently in the works with J.J. Abrams involved and they're going to do Lantern Corps, Green Lantern, the TV show.

Which Lantern Corps could very much be another Game of Thrones houses battling each other, the Yellow Lanterns, the Green Lanterns, the Blue Lanterns. It's very much the same type of dynamic. So maybe we watch out for DC pulling a a fucking disney star wars and hitting us with mandalorian type shit instead of the movies i could dig that too because i mean like these companies and that's the thing is like hbo or like even if it's a netflix one of those like disney plus is now a problem for all these people right because at some point you're going to be like do i want to spend my ten dollars or whatever a month on hbo or disney plus and like no one fucking you watch hbo for the original shit.

You don't watch to watch whatever nonsense movie they have on right now, 8 PM on a Sunday. If DC has all these characters we know of and they've already said like, listen, Watchmen was like – people loved the thing. But like I didn't know about it growing up and that thing was – I mean that was my favorite TV show of 2019 by far. And that includes Game of fucking Thrones season – fucking the series finale. And it's like I wish I could just forget that ever happened and just act like Watchmen is the only thing from that season. Did you hear Trent binged the entire series in like a weekend? What? Watchmen.

Oh, I thought you meant Game of Thrones. No, no, no, no, no. I did like – I was – Your eyes, yeah. I was like what the – oh, I got to talk. Which I didn't meant Game of Thrones. No, no, no, no, no. I did like I was Jack Galifianakis. I was like, what the fuck? Oh, I got a tie. Which I didn't expect out of Trent. Trent watched like an entire recap of the comic video.

He watched our Me, Jeff D. Lowe, and Ken Jack's videos. And between them, he really got into it. I think it was the weekend I went out to the Conor McGregor fight. I came back and he was like, dude, do you have the Watchmen graphic novel? I want to read it. I was like, what the fuck? I was like fuck i'm rubbing off on you this is amazing fucking luggage guy is full of surprise i don't even i can't even put my finger on that guy anymore he's a fucking lovable happy iowa guy with one outfit no he's a world traveler that's on fucking network tv in prime time and

a game changer the game changer for the bachelor game changer yes all game changer for The Bachelor. Game changer, yes. All right, so we have two pieces of news here that are similar. Two directors have dropped out of potential projects, and we have two rumored directors stepping in. So Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, the original director, I forget his name. It's slipping my mind right now. He did the first Dr. Strange, though. I know that. He's Scott Derrickson, I think his name is. He has now dropped out due to creative differences. A little weird. You don't see this happening often with Marvel. We saw it happen a little

early on with the Thor series, but usually that's more of like a Disney Star Wars thing. And the rumored step in is Sam Raimi of Spider-Man Tobey Maguire fame. This is super intriguing to me. And the other one is Indiana Jones 5, which I think starts shooting next year with him when Harrison Ford is 80 years old. And he's like, I hope you just kill off Indiana Jones next. Steven Spielberg has fucking dropped out of that one,

which is shocking. Shocking that Steven Spielberg has dropped out. Once again, due to creative differences and the rumored step in for that is James Mangold, who did Ford vs. Ferrari. He did Logan. I think he did 310 to Yuma, if I'm not mistaken, as well. Which one of these intrigues you more?

So, I think I mentioned in the basement in the past, I didn't grow up as an Indiana Jones guy. I watched them much more recently. And I feel like the Crystal – it was the Crystal Skull was the last one. I feel like that – I mean it wasn't nearly what Last Jedi was. But it's kind of like, all right, you guys did that like at this point, whatever. And listen, like it's just – it's going to happen. One day, Harris – if Indiana – since they won't kill Indiana Jones, Harrison just it's going to happen one day harris if india says

they won't kill indiana jones harrison we're just going to kill himself one day so he doesn't have to be in these things anymore and like actually harrison i think indy is actually his like beloved one where he's like nobody else will ever play him but me oh it's like a mclean thing with uh it is oh i don't i bet at the same point like do you think this is going to be better than like i Oh, it's like a McClane thing with – It is. Oh. I don't – but at the same point, like do you think this is going to be better than – like I feel like – kind of going back to Die Hard. I feel like once Die Hard 4 happened, I know we have different opinions, but like we can all agree. Like Die Hard The Vengeance I think was very good and then I think – It's a slippery slope and I think there's no real coming – I don't think there's a rebound coming for that franchise.

Just like I don't think there's going to be a rebound for indiana jones whether it's spielberg or anyone else i actually think almost fresh blood and it might be good it's just when it's fucking spielberg involved it's like you're not gonna take like these guys are all getting older they've been out of the game it's like i feel like sometimes it is like rappers who are out of the game as much and they don't really – you just don't feel the hunger or whatever it is. I don't know if that's what it's going to be with Spielberg. But when I saw it come through, I was just like, eh. But again, I'm also not an indie guy. I'm sure indie people probably feel a much different way about this than I do.

I'm a pretty big indie guy and there's a few different things about this. The one thing I will say, James Mangold, I'm a big fan of. I think he's great. I actually just watched Ford vs. Ferrari before my trip i think on thursday night have you seen that i have not it's on the list must watch it is awesome christian bale you know how much i love christian bale he might be my favorite actor in the world he is awesome in this movie me and trent were like cheering in the living room fucking awesome he. He did an amazing thing with Logan. Did you see Logan?

I did see Logan, yeah. So he gave Wolverine an amazing send-off after movies as bad as, like, X-Men Origins Wolverine, as bad as The Wolverine. So he's got some experience in taking things and being like, all right, we can give a good send-off. But there's really, like, two routes he could take it, right? I think no matter what, it has to be somewhat of a send-off for Indy. Harrison Ford's fucking 80, and he can't be running around like he used to, basically.

He barely could in Crystal Skull. I can't imagine how he could now, almost 10 years later, if maybe more than 10 years later. God, I don't even know. You either make it like the Indiana Jones Dies movie, which would be super sad and like, Oh my God, do you go there? Disney property. Or you make it the Indiana Jones passes the torch movie,

which is like kind of what they tried to do in the last one with the Shia LaBeouf. And then you're just retreading it. And it's like, did Indy just pick a wrong person to pass the torch to? Is he still going to be married in this movie? He gets married at the end of crystal skull. So I, I don't know. that's kind of weird this dr strange sam raimi thing intrigues me because i'm just really holding out hope that marvel is gonna like fucking give toby mcguire the bag

and because this movie involves the multiverse we're gonna see toby mcguire old peter b parker style spider-man that would be saucy ah wow i didn't even think of that i mean how does that sound if we just saw that i mean that would be kind of fucking cool to me that'd be fucking really cool ralph that'd be really especially because audiences would i don't know crazy they're like the anytime i see like a spider-man 3 meme too it's like it instantly makes you smile it's almost like a golf the badge is good a Spider-Man three meme too, it's like, it instantly makes you smile. It's almost like the badge. Yeah. Like that would be at this point it's, it's turned around.

It's like the prequels. You give us an unlimited power and we fucking go nuts. I, this is the thing though. Like when I watched Dr. Strange, I went into that, like, all right, like you basically, it's like eating your vegetables. Like, all right, I just got to do this. I'm going to have to watch this. It's going to be important for all the different avengers shit and then i liked it and i was like oh wow like i really enjoyed this movie so i always get scared when

you have someone who pulled off something you pulled off a movie that i didn't think i was gonna like and then you're changing it you know from the core especially shit that is as weird as doctor strange now luckily that there is already been a roadmap and we already know enough about them that the whole backstory and all stuff is is done. It's just like, I feel like this movie, I already thought this movie was going to get weird as fuck. So I don't know, like changing directors, if this new director has the chops to kind of take it where the first director obviously knew what he was doing with it. I hope he does too. Cause this is rumored to be like one of the most important movies in the next phase of Marvel because it

has huge consequence over the TV shows which we could get into now because we got a first look at three of the TV shows WandaVision, Loki, and Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Super brief looks for all three of them like literally only seconds. I don't think we got any dialogue for any of them. WandaVision has a very unique aesthetic where we saw different versions of Wanda and Vision through sitcoms in every different era. That was kind of cool. Falcon and Winter Soldier, we saw

a little bit of Baron Zemo, my guy from Civil War coming back. Pretty fucking cool to me. Seeing Sam take the shield out of the tree in the Super Bowl commercial was boner inducing awesome and just seeing like the bromance between them i love once again i wish they let bucky keep his fucking cool rock star long hair and beard but i guess they couldn't do that and loki was like a

real short one which one are you looking forward to the most right now uh it's it's between wandavision and loki actually i i just don't get i'm not i'm not i was never into sam or the winter soldier i mean i don't know it's because i'm not a cap guy yeah it's weird because i'm so into them and i'm so i'm so into the cap really so by you know association i'm into them but i am more excited for wandavision and loki than i am for falcon and winter soldier i just feel like there's so many more possibilities to get fucking weird. Yeah, I think Loki is my favorite. I mean, Loki was one of my favorite characters out of everyone in Marvel. I just, I loved it.

I loved the character. I loved, obviously, Tom Hiddleston. How do you say Hiddleston? Hiddleston. Hiddleston. I love the way he played the character. And I just think there's, you know, again, it's going to be going back to like historic time, like historic moments and shit. As a buff i love that they cast owen wilson yeah

i was hoping you were going to get one out there thank you um the wandavision one i feel like that is probably has like the lowest floor where if it flops it's going to be terrible but i do think it could have like the highest highs and it's the one i think i'm most excited for because of that because i think i mean i just love elizabeth olsen and i know she's your girl yeah yeah she's my girl and vision i'm kind of whatever i actually kind of like i skipped through infinity war the other day and i just come on vision be. Just one time for me. I agree. And then – all right.

I'm going to pump the brakes. Vision stinks. Because then it comes back to your fucking guy cap. Just blow the – Oh, crap. Just crush the goddamn rock out of his head. We're at the end of this episode. It was so nice.

I know. We made it 56 minutes in without bringing up – and all of a sudden you throw shots at my guy cap. You're lucky I didn't send the text message I was going to send you. I deleted it. I was like fuck Captain Steve blah blah blah I had this whole thing. I was like you know what? It's fucking unbelievable. We made it this far to make it this far. What's your top three for that

trio? I would say probably the same as you. I think Loki the most because of what you said loki going back and changing history just seems like such a cool concept to me and seeing more of tom hiddleston um down with even though i think we praised them for killing him off in infinity war and saying no resurrection yeah we were like yes there's finally consequences and they brought him back and we're like that's fine fucking we like him he's really good at the same time the way they brought him back in endgame was smart ah, it's fine. Fucking we like him. He's really good. But at the same time, the way they brought him back in Endgame was smart because, like, the Avengers got rid of him.

There were no resurrections. And then they brought him back by fucking up. So I really – that doesn't bother me. Again, we're talking about fucking comic book movies. They're superheroes. Loki's a god. Comic books, everyone lives. I mean that's the thing about comic books, right?

So it's comic books. Oh, and by the way, I don't know if I have it i have it is it up there yeah so i bought this comic book recently it is thor uh the complete collection volume one by jason aaron and i want to recommend it to everyone listening to this podcast this is not an ad um but it is the best comic i've read in a while it follows thor through three different timelines like Like a young Thor, a regular normal-aged Thor, and an old, like Odinson-aged Thor.

And through all three timelines, he's like recalling moments where he's seen gods butchered. And he sees literally gods' heads wash up on shore, and they're frightened, and they're like, who's killing all these gods? Turns out to be this guy named Gore the God Butcher,

and he kind of looks like a mix between fucking, I don't know, Voldemort and the Red Skull, but if Red Skull was, or actually like a mix between Voldemort and Ebony Maw, almost. Oh, okay. He kills a bunch of gods because his home planet was wiped out because no gods answered their prayers.

So once he found out that gods are real, he went around the galaxy for ages, just killing gods. This is the rumored partial basis for Thor Love and Thunder, and Christian Bale is rumored to be playing Thor the God Butcher.

So if you're looking to get a little ahead of the game on your Marvel stuff before that movie comes out, I believe they'll be pulling a little bit from this. So there's my comic recommendation for the week. How fucking sick is the name The God Butcher?

I know. Not The God Killer, The God Butcher. I want the greatest nickname I've ever heard in my life. Not the God Killer, the God Butcher. I want the rumors to be true that this is partial. And of course, they're going to be doing the Mighty Thor, which is where Jane gets the hammer. That's a no-brainer. They've already told us that. But this could be the partial basis, even if it isn't.

It's such a good comic book, and I won't spoil it, but let's just say some time travel's involved and maybe the Thors have to come together. And it's fucking dope. That's about it for My Mom's Basement this week, though. We'll have to have you back on for Black Widow, which is on the horizon. I think it comes out very soon. We'll definitely do a review of that.

And, of course, I mean, the Marvel shows. We'll do basically our Mandalorian episodes for those if you're down for it. Hell yeah, man. I love it down in the basement. It's a fucking happy place right here. Man, it was good to have you back. We will talk to you next week. We will be doing a deep dive into Chinese democracy.