My Mom's Basement - EPISODE 91 - THE MANDALORIAN SEASON 2 EPISODE 4 RECAP WITH CLEM!

Episode Date: November 23, 2020

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Hey My Mom's Basement listeners, you can find our episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube, and Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Let's talk about The Mandalorian this week, Clem. We had an episode directed by Carl Weathers, as we teased last week, and what was your viewing conditions this week? I feel like we always start off on, like, how did Clem watch the episode this week? So I put it in my notes. It's the first thing in my notes. I have made sure to dive around around and i kind of like being able to do that now because i made i messed up last week i thought i watched at 9 a.m i watched it at 6 a.m before the kids got up it was again that 35 minute sweet spot for me so i was like all right i can get it in so that's why i was so triggered with

some of the shit that was going on baby yo this week it went off the rails bob i woke up at 2 a.m thursday night into friday morning and it was like i was like pretty much wide awake and i'm like i don't know what i'm gonna do you know you go on the phone the blue light goes in your face you're kind of scrolling to nowhere and i'm looking at clock and i was like fucking 2 30 let's just let's roll let's see what it's like we'll do the bob fox experience i'm sure there are plenty of you listening at home or on the road or wherever you are right now who do this probably fucking weekly because you're fucking crazy, and I love you. I decided to go with it. I'm too old for that, man. I was in no man's land.

Listen, fun episode, good episode. I got to make sure I don't say every episode is great. I don't want KFC to come at me next. Oh, my God. I know that guy. We're going to have to put a bounty on that guy. But yeah, so I did watch it at 3 a.m. I don't know how you guys do that every week.

Again, I was nodding off by the end. It's also because I'm old. It wasn't anything to do with the episode, obviously. But I'm happy I did get it done by like Friday night. It felt like Mando was like four years ago. Oh, I know. It was such a distant memory. It feels like you have a year in between every episode when you do it like that.

But man, if people could have seen the smile on my face when you told me you did the old Bob Fox stay up till three in the morning, that is tremendous. At least you did it once. You get the experience. It's like when we went to see Endgame in 4D and the chairs just beat the shit out of us. We're like, all right, we're not going to go back, but we got the experience once. Exactly. Exactly. So I but we got the experience once. Exactly, exactly. So I'm all over the place now.

I've done 3 a.m., 6 a.m., 9 a.m., Saturday at 10 p.m. Out of all those things, I will say, I think the 9 a.m. experience, if you can work it around your work schedule. So for me personally, if you're in your mid, late 30s with kids, that is the sweet spot for me personally. I don't think Bob Fox will ever be able to like, it's like Christmas morning.

I feel like every Thursday night for Bob. So he's ready to wake up and unwrap his little baby Yoda present under the tree every single morning. But for me, I think 9am was my sweet spot, but it's also like, that's when the coffee's working. The kids are all at school,

hopefully and all that kind of shit. And the three seat Chio is, is really being able to, to, you know, get its claws in the man. Yeah, I was going to say, it does really feel like Christmas Eve every week. And every Friday morning, I wake up, it feels like Christmas morning. We get Baby Yoda, 6 a.m.

That's what I did this week. And we get right into it. This episode starts off with a little Baby Yoda scene. And we mentioned this in the Lights, Camera, Barstool recap, which you can check out on their YouTube page. But this was a scene straight out of guardians of the galaxy 2 this was groot little baby groot with his uh you know do not press button the detonator and mando is trying to get baby yoda to connect these wires it's not really working out blows a fuse and then they share some coffee we also get

in the cold open a little car dune action sequence she's been living in the covert tunnels and we now know that she's a marshal because we see the little guys from the cantina and they're like oh shit the marshal as they're trying to kill her ferret so cool cold open a lot of action in the car dune sequence that really set the tone for the episode right away yeah so i had the same exact thing in my notes the baby it was big time baby group vibes um a little bit of r2d2 r2 would always be in there trying to fix the hyperdrive or the fuck is going on and this goes i have my sports analogies every week and then also with baby yo i have kind of the parental side of things i basically did the same thing that

mando was doing because again i got very triggered that he's letting baby yo working with wires and he's fucking getting like electrocuted i'm it's's 3am. I'm in no place to watch baby yo fucking turn into a little omelet or something like that. However, I was telling AJ like, AJ, this is we hit this button on the TV and then hit that button. And I'm just like trying to get my two year old to basically do shit he shouldn't be doing. And like the TV could fall off the wall or something like that. But sometimes when you're just lazy, or you just like, once you teach your kids how to do certain things, like this is how you open the refrigerator. This is how you open a can of beer.

This is how you bring it to the attic. You realize like, that's the reason you change all those diapers. Everything works out in the end. So I kind of understood where Mando was there. Someone actually, I saw someone asked this last week, does Mando change the diapers?

Ooh, good question. I mean, he probably does because at the end of this episode, when Baby yo has a little spit up he immediately starts to like clean it up and he's very parental in that sense i bet yeah like you'd be like damn dude you can use the force like can't you just sit into the air or something like that um when they when they said navarro as the planet i i was pretty sure we were going back to obviously the planet where we had met them the first time.

I was hoping for that MILF. And what was my line? They were going to knock the loose or something like that? Hit skins, yeah. I was thinking of, like, late 90s lingo there. Hit skins with the MILF on the forest planet, not to be. Shout out to Pussyface people. I don't know what they're called.

You know, Pig Nose and Pussyface are two of my favorite guys from the old Mos Eisley Cantina. Happy to see them back in the life. Kara fucked everyone up. I thought we were going to get that little ferret, which was chittering, by the way. That was the closed caption to describe that little sound he was making. I thought that ferret was going to be a badass little species that was going to kind of like rear its head later on. But I guess that was kind of just their way to say, hey, there's a fucking new sheriff down

and she's one bad ass motherfucker. Yeah, I thought the ferret would meet baby yo at some point. I thought they would come face to face. They wound up not coming face to face. But like you said, they go to Navarro and the planet looks a lot different from when we last saw it. It's a lot more colorful.

Even Greef Karget and Cara Dune are wearing more colors and he lands the razor crest is in bad condition this thing it looks like kfc's car and they tell him oh here fix the ship whatever hire an alien crew to do it and then you get the shot of the one singular alien looking mischievous and you're like oh okay this is the spy that's the star wars spy shot we've seen it in so many movies you know the the penis face in a new hope there's, oh, BB-8 is here with the resistance at Force Awakens. It's in so many different Star Wars movies. But we had that.

They take the Mandalorian into town now. Jeff D. Lowe mentioned that there was an IG-11 statue somewhere in town, but I didn't spot it. Even on my rewatch, I wasn't able to see it. So it might be a little background detail. And they drop Baby Yoda off at school because they were like hey we got to tell you about a mission let's drop baby yoda off here and he's like the bar i'm surprised this place is still standing they say you should see it now and we got a full-on classroom kind of look like the prequels when they're like teaching the little uh jedi padawans you got a protocol droid

in the front again john favara dave filoni these arms are tiny enough to fit into one of those suits i would love to have that as a role and I was worried when baby Yoda went into that classroom that he was going to use the force in a big way he's going to fuck some kid up if he got bullied and everyone is going to be on to him we didn't get that he just stole some cookies yeah I uh I was screaming at the TV guy like just feed the kid you gotta feed him a meal so he doesn't snack you can't have him just loading up on snacks it's not good for baby. He's not the healthy way to live. I feel like baby yo species, they're big on like, like basically the Hakuna Matata diet, right?

A lot of grubs and then some granola bars, like he was eating from Luke's. Actually, he didn't really like the granola bar in Dagobah now that I think about it, right? Did he kind of like throw it to the side after he took a little nibble of it? Yeah. So maybe granola bars aren't up the baby yo.

But anyway, the town thriving, like what is our timeline here here do we really have like an idea of how long it's been since we left because it was thriving it was really doing well i was again very upset where he's just leaving him behind and he's like oh no this this place is good i understand that they have to kind of do they don't want you know they could lay a whole story it'll be another five ten minutes not worth it whatever it still does bother me to this uh every single time um my buddy pally said there was a girl who had the same hair as ray yeah i noticed that you noticed that too i don't know if that that seems like it would be a little extreme if it was right i feel like it's probably just a very popular hair style in the in the spot but that would be interesting if if she was kind of in the background um and yeah i mean just uh pretty pretty crazy to see how

things can change and get to the you know better in in this series you know we're throwing progressions from one season to the next even baby yoda in the beginning i felt like they were showing like he's learning some things like he's starting to become a little more aware he's he was starting to put the wires together right at first and then he screwed it up so i feel like they're showing a little progression with him progression in the town like you said and that was kind of the basis of the episode they're like look how great the town is doing now there's one imperial base left on this planet if you can help us destroy it the black market people won't come here they won't be able to get the weapons they won't be able to build that up we will be completely free this is your side quest for the mission can

you help us out and he's like listen i don't have an option not to because this is the television show i accept side quests my friend and someone that i completely didn't expect to see in this episode was the mithril from episode one played by horatio sands he is present at grief cargas i don't even know what you call it, his office, his little police station type area in Navarro. And when he sees Mando, he releases like, I don't even know, a mist out of his gills, which you could tell is he's intimidated.

He's, you know, obviously scared shitless of Mando. Hysterical scene. Yeah, fish guy sprays when he's nervous. That was my two cents on it. I do kind of like that. I would love if everything that um every emotion that was extreme he would do something like if he saw like a hot chick just like fucking it's coming out of the fucking gate you just spray it everywhere that was like his like nervous you know tick or whatever i i obviously will get into what happened i didn't trust him from the jump. I just was like, this guy is fucking no good. Obviously, it goes back to the first episode. Fucking Carl Weathers is just like, oh, yeah, I'll take off another 20 fucking years or whatever.

I would have just been like, go fuck yourself or I'll kill you or I'll leave you stranded. And I don't have to listen to anybody's thing. But again, another Girl Scout badge. Nando's like, all right, time to get another Girl Scout badge on the armor. So it felt like we're going back into the same old thing but that's trying to just have this this one's good this this show's gonna go i remember in season one john favreau and dave filoni describing the show as them playing around with all of the action figures nobody else wanted in star wars and i thought that was such a neat description and that's what him coming back the

mithril coming back reminded me of like you always have that one action figure as a kid that never really gets played with much but you always bring it back and it's like oh he's the same character i don't know he's just i don't know he's the mithril and that's what he is to this series it's like he's the i don't know he's the shady mithril guy and he's got a bunch of he's comedic relief character he's got a bunch of life debt to pay off and he was pretty funny in this i felt like carl weathers throughout the entire episode with his directing like had pretty good sense for comedic timing yeah he it felt star warsy it had its funny stuff like he kind of hit all those like notes you have to hit for a star wars show movie whatever it may be um thumbs up and kind of getting back to your thing about the

toys like that is one of the things i never thought of obviously you had your big gun toys who were like the main characters of the show or the wrestlers if you're the wrestler and then you had like the mid-card guys but what you did with those crappy toys and i like you saying this triggered i mean these are memories cobwebs i'm i'm pulling this out of my brain right now like i fucking made those shitty toys characters i didn't even know who they were like i didn't they weren't even like on the episode of the show i saw i would make those fucking guys more fun than anyone else which i guess kind of just what you have to do when you're a kid and you're creative just having fun and it's funny watching my kids like kind of do the same thing with their toys um i like that's a really cool way to describe uh

the series and stuff like that that's really cool i like that and when you look at all the characters it fits too like look uh quill is a little guy from empire strikes back the little ugnaught. Like, nobody wanted that. And then it's IG-11, the thing that was bolted to the ground and couldn't move. Then you've got the Mandalorian, which is the cool one. It's the Boba Fett, of course. But, like, all of the little characters, the Jawas,

the Sand People are a big factor in the show. It's a perfect description of the Mandalorian. So Mando accepts this. They go over to the Imperial base via speeder, driven by Horatio Sands. And the kind of concept is it's surrounded by lava and it's got a cooling station. And if they just shut down this cooling station does look pretty abandoned. He kills a couple stormtroopers on the way. But they wind up just going down to the, I don't know what you call it, the tractor beam, like the thing that Obi-Wan shuts off in A New Hope. And they made

a joke that I think was pulled from Blue Harvest. Our guy, Alex Sulkin, they were like, there's no guardrails on this. They make that, you know, obviously reference in Blue Harvest where they're like, why does the Empire never install guardrails for us? If that's for real, shout out alex sulkin for slipping a joke into star wars canon i mean that's an all-time rick dalton like point of the tv and i mean if anyone didn't watch i i know we did a few things with with lights camera barstool and the rewatches and podcasts

and all stuff he's done stuff with you as well but i mean i joined what was that what did we rewatch with him was it fancy was it empire shit we did yeah that would make sense empire was kind of the big one and we did uh raiders of the lost ark with him and david goodman too there you go he he was awesome i mean he's hilarious he's just just a cool guy barstool fan all that kind of shit and um i mean that's that's so fucking cool just to see your work about star wars get into a piece of star wars work and i mean who doesn't love mandalore all right like mandalore and excuse me like love whatever it's fucking good i mean i love it every single week i know i'm gonna have entertainment it's gonna look cool it's gonna be star wars and it's gonna

like advance the the universe of everything it's fucking good. We love it. We look forward to it every week. But yeah, that was awesome. I like, those are the little things like the nods. And that's like kind of a deep cut because not everyone knows all those little, you know, family guy references and stuff like that. But that is one of those things. Like I would hope there's a Kevin Smith joke from like a clerk's line or something like, you know, my dad was on the Death Star and, you you know we lost our dental insurance because he did like that um it did feel kind of like a battlefront level where you're just

running around killing random stormtroopers there's like three in this room four in this room i felt like that i mean we could get to it later but when caradoon steals the speeder and they start like driving it off the cliff and the way they like spin it around i was like this seems like she's just playing a video game this is is like battlefront, the speeder chase, all that stuff. Exactly. This also, I wrote this down. We've had our, so like, you know, the MVP voting, it's the Russell Wilson. Armor is the MVP.

Jetpack said, not so fast, my friends. The Jetpack showed up big time today. That's a good call. He started putting it together where he saved Baby Yo in the beginning. And you're like, all right, maybe Jetpack can get the MVP here. Fucking, I'll tell you right now, flhrower heavy under every underdog heavy underdog that thing is getting relegated shout out to our new soccer fan troops uh he's getting relegated for sure i also did i anytime you throw lava in the mix you have my attention it's one of those things

it looks it looks like it'd be delicious to eat you always don't know what the fuck it's going to do whenever like it's a video or whatever that kind of stuff hot lava is one of those things that i just simply cannot understand how you could grow up anywhere in the world with this completely different upbringing all this kind of stuff yet everyone plays hot lava in their house it's not like someone else taught it to you you just like learn it on your own it's the ground is hot lava i always find it just incredible that everyone fucking is terrified of hot lava even though i probably live within like a hundred thousand billion miles right volcano and would it have killed carl weathers we're in the middle of a fucking or right outside of a star base or whatever it is

with hot lava if he could have just said put a little bone in that you got yourself a stew just give it to me carl give me a fucking arrest the velvet reference we have fucking we're shouting out family guy let's shout out the rest of the velvet another fucking great show you're the one doing the episode give it to us carl god damn it he did a good job and we'll get into like some of the questions someone sent us he was even tweeting about the episode afterwards being like great observation so and so and saying some things that were like whoa are you giving some stuff away carl so i'm i'm loving the carl weathers dynamic because he accidentally might let some stuff leak and us the star wars fans we love that kind of shit so before we even move on with the episode on the kevin front the kevin and john like love how about john henry feidelberg mr hey you can't like this show because it's procedural

mr olympus has fallen angel has fallen london has fallen like show because it's procedural. Mr. Olympus has fallen. Angel has fallen. London has fallen. Like, no shit, it's procedural. It's why you like the Fast and the Furious movies. That's why you like The Mandalorian. The Fast and the Furious. There's like a hundred of them. It's the same fucking movie every single time. That's why we love it.

Ah, it hurt me. And the thing is like, but this is the thing. Like, I also don't disagree with their take. It's like, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know enough about it then became their take seems like you're not allowed to love the show because they're like it's not good enough for our taste for other people to love it yeah and it's like this is a

perfectly good show it's it's like perfectly great it's not i don't i don't think i'm it's not fucking like game of thrones now like i'm like oh my God, this is next level fucking like treachery. It's not like, it's not like we're watching an episode of Empire Strikes Back every single week, but it's perfectly good. It's, it's, and this is the thing, like we're coming in scarred from the last couple movies or last movie or just the way the whole sequels went, whether you loved them, hated them. It's just as a fan base, we're a fucking battered family right now. We're rebuilding. To make a fan base, we're a fucking battered family right now. We're rebuilding. To make a sports analogy, we're rebuilding. This is what I want America to look like in 2021.

We're going to come back together no matter what it is. We're not even talking politics. We're just talking about once this virus is over, we're all going to fucking pick ourselves up by our bootstraps or whatever that goddamn phrase is, and we're going to move forward together. That's what I want. I feel like the Star Wars fan base. So that's the thing.

If you come at the Star Wars fan base and we're having fun like we could talk bad about our movies but if we see you as an outsider like don't you fucking talk bad about my quarterback i those are only i can make fun of my quarterback only i can make fun of my brother snoring all that kind of shit you motherfuckers so go challenge him you want to challenge him for rowdy can we do yeah yeah yeah i got fucking octagon bob on my side, baby. That would be tremendous. We'd be like Kane and Xbox, the big guy and the little guy. All right, so right after they power down the cooling station,

they start to escape, and they come across two Imperials trying to scramble this data. They're like, shut it down, delete all the footage, delete whatever. And they see the Mandalorian, and they start just shooting it. They're like, fuck it, get rid of it, which I thought was interesting because I was like, this place is about to blow up. Why are you making sure that gets destroyed? And then we find out right after they die that there's a little more to this place.

It's not necessarily a military operation. It is a lab. And this was discovered when they saw the doctor from season one who operated on Mando show up via hologram. And he's like, like listen the tests have not gone well i'm off gideon the bodies have rejected the blood once again maybe due to their high m count like we're gonna need to find the child again because i was only able to extract a small amount of blood from the first time the episode might have felt like a side quest until now and

then this is when they string in the plot and this is what we asked for last season when everyone is saying what do you want out of the mandalorian season two this is exactly it just throw in little things to thread the episodes together thread the season together you bring back the doctor you make all that shit feel important when you do that so i i thought this was cool mando immediately he's like oh fuck he's like i gotta go get baby yoda they're on to us so he jet packs off like he said jet pack big mvp they all turned around and before mando even took off they see like back to tanks almost there were clones in them you couldn't really tell who the clones were i even paused it like zoomed in to me

it looked like snoke it looked like he had the little like head thing and then if that's the case it's like okay is the empire working to somehow get force energy from Baby Yoda, the M-Count, the Metachlorians, obviously, and then convert it into a clone of the Emperor that would one day become Snoke? Are they trying to tie this together? Like, Dave Filoni, think about what he did with the prequels, where they were what they were, people shit on them all the time, then he made the Clone Wars. And by all accounts, everyone's like, he kind of made the prequels better because he threaded everything together. Is he trying to do that with the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy here being like hey here's how Snoke was created like Moff Gideon was the emperor's guy to do that this was a contingency plan I don't know but it excites me I'm excited as well someone who didn't love those

movies at least the last two that will um like again I'm not gonna go back and be like well they were fucking perfect now that like they explained everything it's like no these guys are basically trying to like untangle the cords so then it's kind of makes sense to you know everybody i heard m count and i saw midichlorians and i got like the fucking shiver down my spine like oh no not this again like it's just one of those things that we've been scarred the prequel and you know they didn't say midichlorian for that reason they're like we gotta think of a new phrase like this is a pr thing now uh it being a lab i was just like oh fuck we're in trouble now i had like a sinking feeling about that too some cool sci-fi vibes there like we don't get to see that a ton out of star wars it's usually more like fantasy adventure in space but this was straight

up kind of alien sci-fi-esque yes that's a good way to put it and i i do like that we're like we have an idea what the end game is and all that but we don't know how it's going to get there and if it somehow does tie back to the sequels i will say this as one of the more vocal critics of the sequels the last two especially i would i would welcome it with open arms because like those we can't ignore them if we're not going to just completely redo them, which obviously Disney wouldn't do. That's what happens next on this timeline. We can't ignore it.

So let's just fucking embrace it and steer into it. And I hope that everyone who's in the same line of thinking as me is thinking the same way. I haven't heard anyone being like, oh, I can't believe we're going down this road again again make this shit make it better through like like you said through clone wars then made the prequels better i'm 100 down for that i also would like to say that i was the first person that took that stand against star wars and i stood by it and i look better now not that you have to agree with me just like with game of thrones the final season everyone hated on game of stools and we were fucking ripping it apart and we ended up being right about that so i was right two times depending

on how from a certain point of view from a certain point of view so i threw obi-wan in there i threw by the way obi-toppin nix number one yeah it was the first thing i thought of that yeah huge win we're gonna have to get some obi-wan jerseys made i mean when jeremy lynn was on the next i brought a sign to a lynanity game that said, to Linfinity and beyond, and it had his face on Buzz Lightyear. I might become an Obi Toppin stand now. You have to. Ain't no stopping Obi Toppin.

I've talked to Wilkes about it. I have to hear back. So I wanted an Obi-Wan shirt with a little lightsaber as the one. It does get tricky about Disneyney you know we don't want to get on the fucking season that is the death star coming at barstool we want no parts so that that's coming down the road that's a little teaser for the future in terms of the store and the merch oh and another tease for merch we can make now we have the black friday my mom's basement designs they're in this shirt gonna be releasing on black friday it's a shirt and a hoodie

designed by nathan hurst it's awesome this is like i'm so jacked up about i even texted dave i texted him a picture of it and i was like this is coming out black friday do you want this and he said big fire yes all right that's the the big man says that and the boss man says that you know that shit's legit he because dave will just leave you on red he doesn't give a fuck exactly text back it's for real so black friday everyone look out for it's going to be on store.barstoolsports.com i think we'll have a sale like we always do probably throughout the weekend cyber monday we'll do stuff for that but get it quick because it does look like two characters that we really love from a television show made by mickey

mouse and they might come for our asses very quickly for it so exactly look out for it follow us on twitter we'll tweet about it of course, but it's awesome. And that will be the tagline. This shirt is so good that Dave acknowledged Bob's existence. Exactly. Exactly. Gave me a text back. Crazy.

I mean, it was great. My heart was racing even sending him a text like, should I be doing this? I don't know. But it wound up going okay. Baby Yoda is what unites the world. That's really what it is. Yeah, that's true. You're you're right all right so as mando goes to get baby yoda from the school caradune grief carget and the mithril steal this troop transport like i said they

spin this thing around they drive it off this cliff it lands directly on the guy's speed poor guy totaled this car like i did to my mom's and they get into a big speeder bike chase with a bunch of scout troopers as a huge scout trooper fan myself they're my favorite variant of stormtrooper i love the speeder bike scene in return of the jedi this was like extremely my shit it was the coolest i think scout troopers have ever looked in live action because obviously the cgi back then wasn't great and we haven't really gotten them since so this was really cool and it was just kind of the whole ending of the episode was this chase scene it goes from the speeder bikes chasing them to the tie fighter chasing them eventually mando comes in with the razor crest very han solo style

to save the day um awesome awesome awesome action sequence to end this one yeah i always like the what do they consider what are the the scout troopers the scout troopers yeah i always like the scout troopers and i did feel like i wish i got more of them in the i guess all the trilogies or whatever the fuck you want to call the movies and stuff like that um the one the thing about them that oh i can never get out of my head though like i always think they're kind of soft is when that one guy gets thrown into the tree and he fucking like squeaks like a dog and i'm like oh these guys are soft like they have their little speed they're like finesse guys they're like a fucking wing basketball player that just has no muscle on

them you can do like they're not a and like the stormtroopers are just straight fucking target practice oh my and this episode especially they were like fucking panther fodder for real exactly so um yeah i i and i know i saw jeff had said he was a big fan of them as well. And I feel like that's just – the speeders are just cool as shit. I've always liked the speeders as well. And I love that the targeting – we got, like, the old Millennium Falcon targeting computer. And, like, I never know. I thought it, like, has, like, a database where it'll be like, oh, you're shooting at a TIE fighter. But, no, like, it just straight up has, like, a human on there.

I know. I thought the exact same thing as you. When they showed the guy throwing the grenade, he was about're shooting at a TIE fighter. But no, like it just straight up has like a human on there. I'm like, wait, what the fuck does this thing do right now? I know. I thought the exact same thing as you. When they showed the guy throwing the grenade, he was about to throw the grenade down the hatch. I was like, oh shit, it's like for real. It's cool. Look at it. You can see him. No trooper. I geeked out about that.

That's like a true nerd geek out, you know? Yeah, I'm telling you, man. Like again, I think as fucking weird as that, like the Millennium Falcon is one of my top three favorite Star Wars characters. And, like, just seeing that targeting computer, like, made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. And when that dude gets shot point blank by the laser, I love when someone gets hit by the hard artillery and just fucking blown. It's like Kim Jong-il shit when he used to, like, light up his fucking – I didn't like that.

I'm anti – my mom's basically anti-Kim Jong-il. Let me pump the brakes on this. Let's make that very clear. We don't like that guys i i don't think actually shooting your your family members with like aircraft guns or whatever the fuck he does is right but i do think it was fucking pretty gnarly in this episode when they did it it was metal to borrow a phrase from my co-host here um the dog fight and dog fights in canyons that's fucking star wars bread and butter right there the razor crest and

one tie fighter eventually like go face to face they play like a game of chicken almost razor crest starts spinning that was cool and then they eventually get back to town everything's okay the razor crest wins i also liked they showed them watching the dog fight with binoculars and they started and no end reminded me there's a deleted scene in a new hope of luke skywalker looking up at the star destroyers wanting to join the war and that was like immediately snapped into my head I was like oh shit that's kind of what that looked like so I geeked out about that and then they go back to the town Mando takes off right after Baby Yoda pukes on himself a little bit he says I got somewhere to go he wants to go to Corvus I believe that's the name of the planet I think I called it Crouton last week to find

Ahsoka and now an x-wing pilot who we've seen before he's kind of like a cop is filing a police report on what happened and he's like so tell me about the razor crest grief card covers for our guys like there was no razor crest they don't know what they're talking about we're our own system you know leave us alone basically he's like all right whatever walks out talks to caradune and he says we could use it in our military you know there's a lot of incidents going on out here that the Republic doesn't believe, which is another nice thing to connect the sequel trilogy and the original trilogy. It's like, how'd the Empire just reform? All of a sudden, they were the First Order. It's like they were

reforming in the Outer Rim, and we're getting a line right here. Nobody believed them. So that was cool just in a world-building aspect. and then we get what was honestly like the most bizarre jarring unexpected worst question in star wars history this x-wing pilot looks cardoon in the face and says i see her from alderaan did you lose anyone buddy did you lose anyone she's from the planet it's no it have you seen anyone from alderaan recently like what the fuck kind of question of course she lost somebody i'm sorry this sounds really bad after the kim jong-il stuff earlier i'm laughing it was the most preposterous thing i'm like shut up dude my jaw dropped yeah it's one of those like awkward things where someone like you know if someone's like

family member had passion like oh how's your blah blah, and then you're just like, oh, like, stop it. It was just like that, except, like, you wiped off the you know off the map by fucking the most unbelievable weapon we've ever seen in our lives i guess that's i'm sorry like oh you grew up in hiroshima like did you lose anyone's like yeah i lost every goddamn thing man it was a fucking atomic bomb you assholes dropped on us god man that was that was tough that was really tough to watch um it's like the first thing me, Ken Jack, and Jeff texted about after the episode. It was like 7 a.m. We were like, did you lose anyone?

Ken Jack was like, he said it like he just went to New York, and I was asking about 9-11. Like, it was like an isolated incident. Like, you might have known someone that was in the building. No, everyone on the planet died, sir. Well, like, what do you not understand about that? The fucking Obi-Wan waswan was having like heart attacks from fucking the force just for like the feeling of it all of course you lost someone you got this

socially awkward x-wing pilot don't know what's going on you just if you say oh i see you're from alderaan i'm sorry for your loss that's what you say that's how that goes i now a family guy ever did like a mandalorian episode or even they do like a little flesh act i want this guy to be like the guy that always says the wrong thing at the wrong time. Like this guy, we can build on this character here. We can just always ask the wrong thing to the wrong people. And it's like, he's like, Oh Lou, can you give me a hand? There we go. That was a little bit of a dad joking about Fox.

I like that. But yeah, that, that was, I mean, honestly, I think that was maybe my highlight of the episode. Cause it was so goddamn preposterous, but again, these are these, those little breadcrumbs from the past, or even the little breadcrumbs to the future that like, you don't beat it over our heads, but it is like, yeah. Oh yeah. Like no one ever talked about Alderaan just getting fucking blown up. Like that has never really been discussed in all the different movies i've seen i don't know if any of the shows did it

any other canon shit but it's like yeah uh they blew a planet up it was a big deal i know the fucking space station then blew up as well but fucking alderaan blew up and everyone like you had to know somebody on alderaan you would think let alone if you grew up there so yeah man shout out a caridoon that's a fucking that was a tough one to swallow also speaking of someone to swallow um our boy baby yo just pumping that dude from his cookie for his cookies loved it loved i kind of hope baby yo has a little bit of bully in him now like the kid was holding his pocket like he was his bitch in jail like uh don't fuck with the he's cute he also eats like frog he's also like a genocidal maniac that will eat frogs whole so i kind of like

maybe yo having a little bit of an edge to him kind of like baby group you know baby groups just carrying fingers around and shit like that i like a little bit of an edge with him yeah i like it because john favaro said like they don't want to make him too cute he's still an alien he's still a species from another planet yeah exactly and oh that was the other thing fucking carl weathers your best guy your best guy's a trader like like the fourth best guy could be a trader not your best guy carl you gotta do gotta have a gotta have a better vetting process if only we had like a um any of our job hiring sites right now we could through that as an ad you know like you gotta have a better fucking guy than

straight up trader that fucking slaps a a tracking device on the fucking razor crest, which sucks. I hate knowing that there's tracking devices on our stuff. It's never good. It just feels like you're always – it's like in fantasy. We feel like you start the week like negative 10. It's like, well, we're starting in the hole because the Empire knows exactly where we're going. Here we fucking go. Thanks a lot, Carl.

Fucking shitty interviewer. Shitty interviewer. That's the perfect way to put it. We feel like we're in the hole right now because as soon as that's the episode's ending we see the alien is like hey i've planted the tracker and then uh sergeant goes to moff gideon who's in this like super soldier hall we don't even know about what that's going to be people think dark troopers i barely even know about what those guys are but he goes in and he tells him hey the tracking device has been planted and i immediately just went oh fuck they're going to ahsoka they're gonna lead him to the jedi like ahsoka's just like now she this mandalorian's

gonna show up and give away her position to everybody she's gonna be like jesus fucking christ buddy she's like she's like oh hi mando nice to meet you ahsoka and there's like 17 star destroyers like right by like oh my fault i didn't realize they had the fucking older that was the other thing you know that that fucking base is active there was stormtroopers in it there was people destroying shit like a kid when his mom walks in the room as fucking beating up like imagine that you just started like shooting your computer so your mom can't see what you're fucking looking at on your monitor that's what i was thinking of when they were doing all that so it's like of course there's a chance they could have fucking planted something on you use your brain man don't like do a fucking sweep be like all right Carl who are your best guys that guy's probably a fucking traitor you moron I know

I think Dave said Gaz his hiring track record has been sketchy where he does the people who you know will fuck up something tweet the wrong thing out and whatever and I he's also hired awesome people too and I'm just like I feel like it's Carl Webathers. Like, Carl, you got to get your act together. You're doing a good job. You've turned this whole town around, but you can't have that one. We're only as good as our weakest link right now, Carl. And guess what? That weakest link has the fucking Empire coming at Baby Yo, Ahsoka, fucking Mando, the whole goddamn crew.

I'm not happy about this. Fucking Empire all over again. We just can't catch a break. Hyperdrive is going to stop working. It's a grind, working it's it's a grind man empire is such a grind of a movie it's just every time it looks like something good's about to happen three bad things happen on solo ends up in carbonite we're all fucked i'm actually i'm talking myself through this bob i apologize for the rant don't apologize i was just about

to say i'm loving this clem we got today going on rants left and right go off my king we're this season is not ending on a good note i'm just gonna putm we got today going on rants left and right go off my king we're this season is not ending on a good note i'm just gonna put it out there now this season's ending on a bad note i am not as i'm just like thinking of it this is gonna be our empires i mean how many seasons are there is there a number there's it's probably i imagine open-ended right open-ended i just feel like this is gonna we're gonna be sad at the end of the season too because this just isn't like when there's a tracking fucking device, it always ends in pain. It's like, when I hear my kids laughing and running,

I'm like, someone's going to end up crying within the next 10 minutes. And every single time without fail, that's exactly what happens. A fucking tracking device on a ship. Someone's getting in fucking big doo-doo, whether they're frozen, dead, missing a fucking limb, something bad is happening to one of our favorites. God damn it. God damn it. Unfortunate, but the more you say that, the more I think it's going to happen. Yeah, I'm sorry, guys. I didn't even think about this going into it. I didn't write the notes down, but fucking tracking devices are the goddamn pits, man. It's

just when you have cooties. How do you get rid of cooties? You just had to hit circle, circle, dot, dot. We didn't do it, and now we have cooties. Great do you get rid of cooties you just had to hit circle circle dot dot we didn't do it and now we have cooties right thanks carl all right let's get into questions our first one is from our guy nathan hurst this is a great question he said what is one minor character animal or star wars nod you guys want to see example i would love to see some tauntauns i think tauntauns are a good guess um i would like to see some more prequel stuff, to be honest. The way they've incorporated the prequel stuff so far with the super battle droids and the flashback sequence, everything that they showed us from that has been pretty cool and they've like

made it look cool in live action. So the more prequel stuff that you let Dave Filoni be in charge of, the better, I think. Okay. I could, again, if you're fixing prequel, sequel stuff, all that, all those little smaller things that can kind of make everything better. Actually, I almost went into a thing about the, I watched the Christmas special,

the Holiday Light Lego special. I'll watch that. I'll watch that so we can talk about it next week on the podcast. Cool, awesome, yeah. And there were some things there that they kind of made some, they poked some fun at,

but definitely like some prequel-y stuff and whatever that makes it good. That's a great question. Let's see. I would like to see – You know those droidekas, like the ball droids? Like show us like an updated version of those fuckers. Yeah, yeah. My brain always goes back to this,

and it would be a cheap way to go about bringing this place back because it would be so out of the way. I don't like going to the same place. Bespin's my spot. I left my heart in Bespin. It's my favorite movie. I love – I want Lobot. All right, I want Lobot.

I want Lobot just in the show. Name – rename fucking season – end of season two, our guy Mandalorian dies, like I'm saying, because of his tracking device. Then it just becomes the Lobot, and Lobot's going around with Baby-O, and they're just having the time of their lives he has his little fucking wraparound headset and he's talking to fucking lando um so yeah every episode opens with him just opening his eyes dramatically like it's just he just like his eyes are closed and then the bum bum bum bum and he just fucking oh that would be hysterical so i think those are two good answers i think bespin is also a

possibility with it being the origin of like where we see boba fett pretty much in the original trilogy i could see them wanting to throw a little nod to that all right james mcdougall this is a great question as well what if the mandalorian is just a backdoor pilot for the ahsoka show and baby yoda goes with her needs some reason why neither of them are around in the sequels, and they also need an eventual separation of Baby Yoda and Mando. You're already seeing that Mando has to leave the kid whenever big action is happening. Can we continue that for a whole series? I think this is a great question, and there was some discussion about that early on.

When we heard that Rosario Dawson was probably cast as Ahsoka, we learned that she may not just be a Mandalorian character. She may have her own show. The idea of giving Baby Yoda to her, that gets fishy because then it's like, well, he's such a major part of the Mandalorian. If you give him off to Ahsoka, will that steal some of the appeal from the Mandalorian?

Will it make it better? Will people want to watch the Ahsoka show more? I don't know. My heart breaks already thinking about the big daddy scene where baby Yoda and the Mandalorian are going to be separated and he's going to go visit, but it's, you know, it's a little bittersweet. Little baby Yoda saying, I wipe my own ass. I wipe my own ass. He's getting taken away with Rosario Dawson. Man,

I haven't even thought about that as a thing. I mean, I, I feel like this is going to open doors. And, again, no matter what doors it opens, I need the people at Disney, Filoni, whoever it may be, like triple, like let's pump the brakes and make sure this is the right move and everything is being done the right way because you guys are doing good with this. No matter what those fucking goons at KFC Radio says, you guys are doing a good job with this. Aim small, miss small, though, and let's not, like, greenlight another solo off of all this kind of stuff.

Or have, I should say, have another solo experience off of all this, which I think we're in good hands right now. But, damn, I don't, like, Baby Yo and Mando, that's peanut butter and jelly. We don't mess with that, you know what I mean? Which, by the way, did you see that thing that there was a crew member wearing jeans? Did you see it, though? I didn't see it on the first watch i didn't i didn't see it on my three watches so that's one of those things that i don't know how you see that's like the starbucks cup and game of thrones yeah exactly and that's the thing like the starbucks

cup like once you saw it you could see it this is like i'm like guys are we really gonna be busting balls here i feel like the game of thrones has now fucked everyone over where it's like you are going to have some sort of an issue and if i'm disney i'm just like uh oh yeah pandemic we would have caught that but it was like as the entire like world was going to shit so yeah the guy who was editing that day me missed it because of the pandemic you know what i would do if i were disney i'd be like fuck all you star wars fans he's fucking canon now that's what the empire wears. That's like his role on this lab. That's what they wear, you fuckers.

In the lab, it's business casual, guys. We've talked about this a thousand times. If you read the books, Shadows of the Empire, they mention him Star Wars fan once in a while. Actually, while I'm talking about the episode, I had to ask.

Those Darth Vader clone-looking fucking things, they're just like super stormtroopers potentially? while i'm talking about the episode uh i had to ask so those what those darth vader clone looking fucking things they're just like super stormtroopers potentially is that with maybe a with what they would like to have some sort of force sensitive blood going through them is that worth i don't know if they want the force sensitivity for them or if they want it for moff gideon himself or if they're trying to make clones of the emperor because that was the tweet that carl weathers was like oh interesting observation somebody said are they going to make a clone of the Emperor and he said interesting observation that seems like the sort of thing that I don't even know if Carl Weathers knows where the show is going like that far in advance that seems like a

massive grand scale thing that I don't even know if Jon Favreau knows but it would it would certainly be crazy if that's what they were going with. The Dark Troopers, which is what they're being called, Jeff told me that they're from Dark Forces, I believe, and they started as genetically altered clones or Stormtroopers in some way that were like super soldier Stormtroopers, and the modifications went so wrong that some of them killed themselves,

and it was a dark, dark storyline. He said eventually they transitioned them to droidsids and that actually transitions us to our next question from teddy houston he says which is more useless a stormtrooper or a first series battle droid because honestly i'm taking the droid if i had to it is a good question i think i might take a stormtrooper just because there were a few times in this episode maybe the prior episodes they were able to hit Mando, but because of the Beskar armor, it just didn't do anything. So maybe their aim has improved a little bit.

I'm going fucking, I'll give you like a super version answer. It's Captain Phasma. That's what I want to see. I want to see Phasma, and she's just the bumbling fool. And she, I mean, this is the thing. This is why I don't even get upset about Phasma. Everyone who's ever worked a corporate job, you just see the guy who, like,

bumbles his way into promotion and promotion. He fails upwards. That's just what Captain Phasma did. So I love to see her as, like, this little stormtrooper or whatever. She stinks. She's, like, somehow even worse than the regular stormtroopers,

but somehow, someway, she gets all the way up to that point where she has the shiniest armor, has a cool name, played by an awesome actress, and she just stinks every time she enters the screen and just like bumbles over herself. So I guess that's my answer.

Maybe she inherited- Wait, was that even the question? I feel like I just went off the script there on that one. It was close enough. I feel like maybe she inherited that Beskar. She's like born with a silver spoon in her mouth, born with a Beskar spoon in her mouth. And that's why she worked her way up the ladder.

Even if she got shot, like it wouldn't do anything to her. I like that. I like that Beskar spoon in her mouth. That's a good one. That's a good one. All right. And finally, StephenBearX, do you think the end game for the series will be Mando wielding the Darksaber

and uniting all Mandalorians? This is, I mean, such a grand scale question that it's tough to answer, but it's fun to speculate about. I definitely think the end game of the series is, like I've mentioned in the past, a Game of Thrones style. Who will be on the throne? But it will be who will wield the dark saber. I think it'll be between Moff Gideon, the Mandalorian, Bo-Katan, maybe even someone else, maybe someone we haven't met yet, maybe a character yet to be introduced. I think that would just be an interesting way to take the show, especially seeing how well that formula worked for Game of Thrones,

even though they screwed it up. Yeah. I, so I kind of have Thrones in my head now too. I mean, he hits end game. We have Star Wars and you have Game of Thrones. Those are three massive, massive things, which 2019 underrated year for content, right? It was a lot of wrap-ups or new beginnings. I feel like it's going to be – Star Wars usually ends happy. Everyone's celebrating.

There's fireworks going off. I feel like this one's going to be a Game of Thrones bittersweet kind of thing where it's like it's not going to be the person we want. And maybe that person't die but it's going to be just because of the way the power vacuum goes or whatever it may not be the best person but it won't be the worst person maybe the most quote-unquote deserving person or the best the way i can't ever say this batman line right not the hero we need but the one we have right now whatever the fuck it is that's going to be the person that wields the dark saber in a really roundabout way so i i i feel like that's going to end up being that wields the dark saber in a really roundabout way so i i i feel like that's going to end up being like if not the end of the series probably like the maybe the climax of like season three which may be like the biggest part of the entire show will

be the way that all goes down and i mean once we gus fring is barely fucking in this shit right now but the fact he's still lingering you're like oh we're about to get some shit's about to go down here sooner or later i feel like once we get to mandalore the way bo katan described it in the earlier episode that might be like a whole season we might spend an entire season just on the lore and it might be hey this is where we are now like we're going into the guts we're going into the seedy underworld of it we're going to the skyscrapers show us all the different aspects of it that might be kind of cool that would be fucking awesome that would be awesome and i got a question for you this one this was uh this was uh it wasn't the exact question our boy frank the tank said uh are we gonna get some sort of a cookie first of

all we have to like a uh we have to do one yeah gotta get one and what flavor are we saying here it has to be oreo right you think i figure it has to be a big enough brand that Disney will like, unless Disney just like does their own. Let's say Oreo. And it's kind of like, have you ever had those fudge Oreos, the white ones that come around Christmas time? I love those. I think they are tremendous.

It's like tier one of holiday food to me. That, Little Debbie's Christmas cakes, Santa Cokes, the Christmas cookies with the peanut butter and the hershey kiss on top those are all tier one we go down a whole fucking rabbit hole if we talk about that but i feel like there needs to be some sort of baby yo um i don't know what that light blue would be though it's like what do you think is that like i don't know like maybe a nilla wafer but like i have no idea jeff was describing them as like macaroons or macarons, whatever you call it. I've never had one of those.

I, I have, they are pretty good. Um, and shout out to Jeff too, because I had no idea there was a difference between a macaroon and a macaroon. One just had like, you know, coloring over or whatever. And even though I've had them both and they do taste completely different, I just never really thought of it that way. Um, it's crazy that no one, whoever invented the second cookie couldn't have just named it something completely different than

a cookie that is basically the same thing um you gotta have that kind of i will buy that baby yoda cookie the minute it comes out and i will eat it and i will i will try to make it move with the force i'll do all the shit that baby yoda does um so yeah i was thinking a little minty it's like that that light blue is kind of like i could see that yeah absolutely yeah we'll speak or mint or something all right folks this has been a great episode a great recap don't forget on black friday we've got some limited edition exclusive my mom's basement merch little mando inspired there's a little mando inspired mmb on the sleeve it's awesome you're gonna want to get this stuff if you are a fan of the mandalorian if you're a fan of the show if you want to get three

chi once again the promo code is robbie r-o-b-b-i-e use that at checkout and you'll receive five percent off your total order if you're 21 or older and that's about it clem i'll talk to you next week when we will recap not only the star wars holiday special but the first ever Ahsoka live action appearance in Star Wars. This is a big one for you guys too. Like, you know, I'm going to enjoy it. But for people that, you know, had her in the cartoons and stuff like that, and I'm a Rosario fan as well,

this is going to be a big one. Black Friday. It's going to be a lot of stuff cooking post Thanksgiving. We'll all be in our leftovers. I don't know when the fuck I'm going to be watching this episode too. I cannot wait to see when I'm watching. I'll probably be doing 3 a.m. again. I'm going to be in a weird place on Tuesday night, I can tell you.

I think so. Yeah, our boy Joey Molinaro texted me and he said this is the most anticipated Star Wars content for him since The Force Awakens. So that just shows you where the hardcores are at with the addition of Ahsoka to this show. We will talk to you next week, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for tuning in.