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You got knuckles with you. We couldn't even get through the fucking first five seconds. I like this. I like when you have a mascot. You kind of like our knuckles. That's what I was saying. Oh, man, Jomey is not knuckles. I feel like you're more tails.

No, he's tails. I'm definitely tails. I'm definitely tails. He's definitely true. receding research. Wait, I'm shadowed that. He's sonic. He's sonic.

Exactly. I'm probably James Marsden. All right. Coke baby Chuck. 24-carric closer, aka a. The brunch hotty. We got the Mid-Ligh Collective back there. Who's back there?

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And Corey and K-C. K-C and Jojo. Casey and Jojo. There you go. Casey and Jojo. Oh, you know what it is? It's a black and white cookie. Ooh.

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Are you out? I didn't watch it. We need to stop with the teaser for the teaser. No, I'm dumb with that. Out of here, rough as enough. No, we need to stop. Just drop the shit. Now, here's the thing.

You got to say that and I agree. Right. But I continue to say over and over again on the other pod that we did, this movie will be engaged to how cook we are. They are treating this movie like it is the second coming of Jesus Christ. Yeah. They are. It's very high leverage. They definitely are.

Because they know. Did you guys watch a little teaser? No. I did. I did. I did not. I already saw some people being like, they used in the Zach Snyder filter. They cooked.

I'm like, all right. It's the teaser of the teaser. Relax, bro. They should have shot it on film, though. All right. All right. Oh, right. Oh, my goodness.

On Friday, the men boys are chasing rings with their instant reactions to Sonic 3. Now, this has Keanu reads a shadow. Yes. Uh, Idges Elba is back as knuckles. Correct. Do they off the little white girl? I cannot say. Who is Tails again?

Colleen O'Sonnessy. She plays Tales in all the media. So she's tails in all of them. But who is she in real life? I don't know what I did. She's a voice. Oh, shout out to her. Yeah.

She gets to, but she, so they bring everybody else, they, that is kind of fucked up for tails, though. Why? Why? Because they brought in the heavy hitters for the rest of them. And for tails, they brought in a veteran voice actors. No offense to you, voice is Sonic. He's not necessarily.

No, Ben Schwartz is great. He's been locked in. No, he's an OG. Like, he's like one of my favorite parts of Parks and Rec. But it's not like he, I don't know. Yeah, but they continue to. up the ante is what I'm saying. But it's also a continuation of a thing where I'm like,

no, we have incredible voice actors to be in animated things that are not only in video games and animated shows, but they deserve to be in animated films. I'm sorry, that's why I get it. I can't fucking knuckles. Like, I love Idris, but every single time Knuckles talks, I'm like, that's Aegis out.

But it's funny. You guys want justice for the voice actors now? We got to have the, we got to have a, strike right now. We have to have Midnight Boys and just make a list of people who we want, justice for. Because it's a long list. I was about to say, you know how everybody's like, it's the unwokening?

Should we have an unwokening midnight? We should because we're going to know. Right after the inauguration having an unwokenous podcast. That's all of the voice actors out there. But y'all need the people to go out and see the movie. So they put in the show in that bitch. It's a third one. They've seen it.

There's no kid. It's like, it's like, Giano Reeves his shadow. Daddy, we got to go to the theater. We got to see John Witton's shadow. No kids. but see you guys are such young grasshoppers I know the parents buy the tickets

No no no no no no no no But in the the promotion of this movie In the promotion of the movie It helps to have a big star Promote the movie Y'all don't learn To y'all gonna make y'all first film And that bitch gonna flop

And then all of a sudden Yes we're looking to make our It's gonna be It's gonna be Chris Evans is returning as he will return I told y'all they bring them back as no man as soon as they bring him back

Chris Evans was like fuck that red one shit also House of R keeps cooking with their skeleton crew and Doom prophecy Deep Divers Doom prophecy is a good show Yeah

I'll take any word for it I like it I'm glad that you're enjoying it That weird ass Have y'all watched it? No Have you watched it? Yeah it's a little dry

Have you watched it No, you haven't watched it. So you guys don't know. I like it. I like this show. I like it. I was real quick before we get to it, speaking of Doom, I want to know in Doom, I want to know how far Dune is going to go.

Because I'm learning all about Lido Atreides the 2nd. And gigantic Worm Man. And I think I want to see gigantic Worm Man on. Doomside is going to be crazy if they're. And then Timmy become the mule worm. Well, that's not, he doesn't become it. It's his son. Yeah, the son.

Wait, I thought that Timmy's, well alerts for June, I thought he gets blinded. Nah, fuck it. The shit came out in the 70. Read the Wikipedia. Like, I thought he goes, it's an old book. I thought he goes into the, he gets blinded. He goes into the desert. Oh, so it's his son who becomes a mutant.

Yeah. Here's a thing. If you have some fun, go to Google images, type in that, nigger. It's just this. I like, it's like, it's like, it's like, Trade proposition. I like all the different iterations of him. Yes.

Some of them have him with like arms as a big worm. Some of them have just a worm with a face. Some of them are they like a bad. They try to make a worm a bad fish. How are you going to make that? How is Denny going to do that if he dares try? Well, look, I haven't read Dune Messiah. Right.

So it's weird. So I haven't read Dune Messiah. But if he is to become the worm, now does he become the worm in Dune Messiah? Or there's a subsequent book where he becomes the worm. Children of Dune is. is like when that is really when that kicks off. But I'm guessing that that's going to probably incorporate. Like, because Messiah is like, compared to Doom,

Messiah is like this big. It's very, it's quite short. I don't think Denny going to do. Hold on for a second. On today's show, we're giving you our instant reactions to skeleton crew. And boy, could I not be happier. I'm so, I'm so happy. I'm glad, y'all. I'm glad.

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Skeleton crew now. We're getting ready to talk about Skeleton Crew. You're listening to a reaction podcast. The spoilers are coming. All right, this is three and four. We've got to put you in the, in the, in the know. Got to get you all inside.

Oh, yeah. The only person that can do that is Chuck Wagon. Chuck taking away. This is a kid show. Can we be serious? No, that's a kid show. Safe for the kids. This show right here is for more.

motherfucking men. And this show is for men. Yeah, we are, I would say right now. Okay. That we are probably the standard bearer for mature and earnest discussion of superhero slash nerd content. Tune into Midnight Mulligans to see what Charles says about X-Men 97. Well, that was a, that was a man take.

That was a, that was a man to. You can't say, you know, it was a man-sake. Okay, so Charles almost fucked me up because I had something to do later on and I had a little bit of a cough. And the timing on Charles' which you guys are going to be incensed. But the, you guys are going to be incensed. It's over.

The timing on Charles' delivery couldn't have been better. No, it's incredible. To me, Charles should be a standard. I promise you, we're not hyping it up. It's the most insane thing that's right. Guys, I'm being so serious. I believe you. I really do.

All right. Nobody believes you're not serious. Because there's the thing. I was about to walk up in this bitch and be like, you know what? I got some positive things to say today. about our about Skeleton Crew, but y'all fucked, y'all fucked it, go for it. Go for it.

No, please. Yeah, please. All right, well, we were ready for the Midnight Manifest? Yes. Here. All right. All right, this is your Midnight Manifest for Skeleton Crew, episodes three and four.

On at, and the kids' parents freak out because the droids aren't helping them find them kids. Jude Law keeps faking the funk about being a Jedi, but manages to escape the pirate planet with the kids in SM 33. Jude Law visits its alien cat friend Kim, who calls him Crimson Jack. Kim is a little bit of a computer, nerd helps the kids locate a cluster of hidden planets where at at it should be jude law and the

homies escape before the ex-win fighters can come and interrogate them the team the team then ends up on at acrin a war-torn planet next to at att in full of little child soldiers neil gets his future hendricks on and falls for hana eventually the crew finds out that the coordinates for ad aton were destroyed by ms ms m three three goes kid killer on the young homies and neil saves his friends before fainting. That has been for Midnight Manifesto for Scalton Crew 3 and 4.

All right. Then. We didn't speak about episode 3, but before we get there, we got a Neil heavy episode. Yeah. Honestly, might be the MVP of Star Wars

this year. Neil? Neil. I think easily. I love that kid. How are you feeling halfway through the season? He's talking to me, and I'll got to get my Neil takes off, okay?

Let's do it. So fucking just... Are you a real hater? No. He's not a Neil Hater. Okay. Neil's the only thing keeping me on. I'm like, I'm rocking with my nigga.

I argue that the show should be completely oriented around you. I agree, I would agree. Like, Neil. Episode four is like, Let me talk. Jesus Christ. So, so just I'm not going to be hyper-verbose because we got to get this shit off. But Neil is kind of what Star Wars is missing a little bit.

And let me tell you what I mean. Neil is a character that is like discovering his own power, discovering how the things that have made him, make him uniquely qualified to navigate this world. Everybody else in this story is actually Star Wars Pilled, except for Neil. Everybody else is Star Wars Pilled. One kid wants to be a Jedi.

One kid kind of wants to be Han Solo. One kid kind of wants to be C-3PO. And, see, all right, don't do it. A little bit. Like, Neil is kind of the one that encapsulates the wonder that, like, Star Wars is really known for in a character that we haven't had for a long time, right? Now, I'll say this real quick. And then I'll turn it over.

I discovered something. There's a pluck formula that works. Pluck plus danger, I don't like it. Okay. Pluck plus wonder, it works. Pluck Plus danger is like, hey, we got to go up here and cross the bridge. I don't want to cross the bridge. I want to talk about boys.

Shut up. Cross the bridge. But pluck plus wonder when you put kids together and they're plucky, but they're learning how small their world really is. It's like it reminds me of ride my bike to a new neighborhood in Baton Rouge when I was a kid. And we're like, yo, you know, are these niggas going to kill us? Like that. God, damn.

I mean, that's how it was. Wow. But then you meet new friends and all of that stuff. So I'm really enjoying Skeleton crew, and I couldn't agree with you more about it. All right, guys, Mint Boys. How are we feeling episode three, four, halfway through? I think there's only eight. Yeah, yeah.

Jomi? I mean, I thought these episodes were really fun. To your point, I think Neil is the MVP of the season so far. Episode four, particular, because you mentioned, him discovering himself and not knowing his own power. I'm watching him in episode four. And I see that, bro, ain't a following for you, bro.

He don't even know what he's doing. Neil the Riz, God. I know you felt that. He was in his bag. Milk merchant. He was going crazy. But he didn't even know he was just like having a conversation. He was just being kind.

My man tried to invite Shorty home on the first link. He's like, I was like. And she wanted to go. I was like, hey, man. I was like, Neil. She was like. Keep it pee. She was like.

Let me go back to him out of here. Once she was like, hey, Neil, I want to show you something. And then she brought out the big gun. I'm like, oh, man. Come on, man. She loved this, man. You thought Neil was about to, you thought it was about to happen for Neil? You got, she gave him a kiss on it.

She gave him a kiss. She gave a kiss. Neil be trunking the hell out of her, man. Well, I will, wait. Stop. Can I say, who's a little girl homie from the first episode that he had the crush on? I can't remember. Oh, yeah.

He's working up the nerve to talk to her. Do you think she going to be, like, get home? Oh, no, no, no. When Neil come back, Neil going to have his shit slip back like Pat Riley. It's going to be different. When Neil going to get back, she's going to come to Neil, and Neil going to be like, oh, no. No, no. That's how it always happens.

Like, when you go there, you get your little shit up. Yeah. Because, have y'all ever had that? It was, like, one summer you was whatever, whatever. Then summer passes, you grow a couple inches. You come back to school. Hey, man, it's like, I'm shooting basketball. I was saying high school, I don't know what it is.

Once that junior senior year hits, something like, you just stop caring. You come back for something like, I got money in my pocket. It's a little bit of a post-middle school glow up like you've never seen. Oh, man. The hole's going to be on. Real quick, I haven't told a dad's story in a while. But my dad noticed when this happened. Uh-oh.

Ever ever told you out a condo story? I don't think so. I haven't heard a condo story. So my dad noticed when this happened, right? My dad noticed when I started to feel myself a little bit. Okay. When I was, and he could tell that it was going down, that I had finally achieved the sticking.

And so the dad calls me over, he goes, now look, he go, take some money. He's like, what? He's like, I want you to go get some condos now. He's like, what? I want you to get some condos. I want no babies coming around here. go to the store and get some condos. And I'm like, are you,

are you saying, you mean condoms? My daddy was country and shit. He's like, yeah, whatever they call. Put it on your dick. Because I don't try and have no, like, coming in this house. And we had like a serious moment. And then I just burst into laughter.

And then continued to hit my high school girlfriend Raw for the rest of the time. Oh, my gosh. We're going to. All right. Bro. Actually, no, this is sex-sponsor-a-bossack. I will say, my uncle took me shopping for, like, college. We went to Costco.

We roll up. All I see that, man, he just picks up a huge box of condoms and puts it. I'm like, I feel like the man, but I'm not going to even get through all these. Don't bring this. Don't bring the baby. You can hand them out to your homies and stuff like that. Don't bring no babies back up in here. Well, I think about that by the time I went to college, he was just giving out free on.

Oh, no, they were still giving them free out. I didn't, I wasn't really trusting them sheds because sometimes I'm like, these are the cheap joints. They really are. They're the worst ones. But also something happened during college that made me, so there was one time that they had the condoms in the student center at Southern and one was a kiss of mint condom. And it was a flavored condom for oral sex.

Did that shit have your shit, Bernie? So I didn't realize that it was for oral sex. So I took it is a mint flavored condom. This is the start of the day. Hello Ringiverse fans. I regret to inform you that due to the initiation of Deep Shaddle Protocol, this bit had to be edited out of the pod. I know.

I'm just as disappointed as you are. Thanks as always for listening. And the Midnight Boys, PooPew, we'll get back to you shortly. Well, I didn't know about, to me, I'm not knowing what's going on. I'm not knowing what she's trying to say. But I heard burning. And all I thought about was that. So I'm like, it was my fault.

And we were cool. We still were cool for a long time. We were cool. We never circled the block ever. Never circled the block. And it was definitely the kiss of mint theme. But it was like, we stopped. We had a great night.

We watched BET T uncut. A lost consciousness. The whole nine. I get him back. Getting back to Scalaltern crew. Please, God. Please. Christ.

I like what you said, Van, about. Neil being what Star Wars is missing because I still think all of my feelings about the show and how I'm feeling about it are same from the pilot. But Neil felt like a beating heart that I could like kind of latch on to and be like, even if I don't give a fuck about the rest of these kids, there's something about his storyline.

It's not just him being cute. That I was just like, okay. Like, I can vibe with this. It's working. Like, I can get down. To me, I'll be honest with you. And like, Skeleton Crew is just a good show. to me. Like, it, I'm watching the show. It's just a, it's just a good show. Like, I think before,

first of all, it looks good. And that's very important. Oh, it looks incredible. There's what I will give it that. It's like legitimately awesome. It looks incredible. And I'm, I'm watching the show. And so much of, to me, I'm not going to get super, super deep like the show is like changing, breaking new ground. Right. For whatever. But so much of like what was wrong with past Star Wars shows to me, where, they were trying to tell us stuff that we already knew. They're trying to show us things that had already been rumored about and just render them in a compelling enough way on screen

to satisfy curiosity that other properties had already put in like showing us a live action version of the poster from rebels or all of that stuff. This show just doesn't feel like that. It feels fresh and interesting in a way that some other properties haven't. And that is really anchoring my interest in the show. Watching this show feels like so nutritious. What?

When it comes to, like, just good storytelling that, like, I genuinely didn't realize how much I missed it in Star Wars until now, because there's so many great storytelling interactions, particularly between Jude Law's character, Jod,

and Smey, S-N-33, that is so well-corrigraphed, that it's just immediately intriguing to where I didn't think that we've had this in quite a long time. Between episodes three and four, we've had him kind of coming into his own with these kids, pretending that he's a Jedi, going along with this lie, and while us as an audience not fully knowing that, like, clearly he knows this ship, clearly he knows who SM33 is,

there's this interesting, like, acknowledgement slash not acknowledgement between SM33. and Jod that they're not speaking about something, but clearly there's a known history between the two of them. That he's both keeping from the kids and while also knowing that he could, that Smee can physically best him, that while like it's keeping the kids safe

from anything that he can do to them. Like he stops them from getting on the ship and is like the actual leverage that the kids have over him physically while still trying to like coerce both him and the kids to come to their side, while kind of gaining trust. Some of that trust is gained in episode four, but Jude Law is actually doing an incredibly good balancing act

of making this kind of, like, frustrated, desperate, scoundrel-type character become endearing to not only kids, but clearly being devious and duplicant enough to his own ends. I absolutely love this. It's a lot of fun. I laughed like this show is I'm gonna say really funny but like Star Wars isn't like laugh out loud

for the most part funny right this episode got me a couple of times Which episode we're doing too? Oh episode four Oh freaking motherfucker all right Episode four got me when he when they've got them surrounded with all the guns he's like Yeah just shoot me

Just shoot me. I was I laughed my ass off I was like that's that's really funny I think going back to even episode three the relationship between the kids and and Jod has has really grown like you've mentioned like when they've

when they visit Kim voiced by Eli Shokat by the way I was fucking with Kim Kim's fucking Kim was great like the owl I was kind of like

freaked out a little bit because you know oh but that's such a great character for like kids to like immediately trust and like feel whimsical and cool

I mean owls are kind of scary you know what I'm saying because they look soft and clearly but they will murder the shit out of you but what is that about

who owls owls Owls are vicious. You're scared of owls? I'm not scared of owls. They can be vicious. It's like why you're not afraid of hippos, but like, don't fuck with hippos.

I am afraid of hippos. Hippos are man killers. I'm definitely afraid of it. Owls, I always look at it as wild. It's an owl. I always feel lucky to see an owl. I'm not afraid. Is there something I don't know about ours?

If an owl is attacking me, though, I'll punch the shit out of that owl. I don't know, man. They got the three, the, not three. They're fast to shit, too. I could beat, I could beat at least two or three hours. If an owl's coming at you at 80 miles an hour. Huh? Oh, you're not familiar with their game.

No, owls. Wait, how many owls do you think that you can be hand-to-hand? Hand-to-hand? Why am I punching an owl? Owl coming at me, bro. It's not really going to be hand-to-hand, right? The owl's going to swoop. Exactly.

No, no, no, but it'll be using its talent. You just need to get one hook in or just get a, like, a wing. That's like trying to punch a fastball from a pitcher in the MLB. I don't know if the owl's moving at 90 miles an hour. It's not. Look at it up. How fast is it out? Dan, how many hours are you think you could beat up?

before they get you. Well, I don't think I would ever engage in single combat with an aisle. They can hit up to 60 miles an hour. Okay, cool. That was actually, okay. That's pretty fast. So it's a Little League World Series fastball.

What kid do you know? Okay, whatever. They can throw 60? They can throw 60? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. No, I'm sure. I don't know what the fuck I'm talking. But I do feel like I could swipe at an owl,

but then I'm going to get out of it. I'm not going to go. I'm not going to. No, you can't run. Like, this is an owl like following you. Like, it's trying to what time. It's trying to, all right, it's trying to. All right, it's trying to attack Bozeman.

Oh, no, we got to get busy. Well, you got the shot. Yeah, you got the gun. Yeah, but I don't, if I don't had a gun, I'm, I'm, but one thing is I'll use the hat. So I'll take the hat off and use the hat as, you know, as defense. But look, when I saw this, when I saw the owl in the show, I'm thinking to myself, what a great character. Oh, so, yeah, I love Kim. Kim is an owl.

There's, you know, there's some wisdom there. it's not like a Star Wars character that it feels like they're trying to hard with you know what I mean and you trusted it you trusted it more than you trusted the Jude's Law character what's his name again?

John, no. You trusted it more than you trusted them at the same time but then at the end something really interesting happens they've done this thing to where the kids are sort of and Adadness sort of removed from the

I guess orthodoxy of the New Republic. Yeah. So you don't know if the New Republic, if the X-Wings, which normally are the cavalry in any Star Wars movie, you don't know if they mean harm or if they mean good. I mean, they're running, the kids are running away like they're the enemy.

Right. They don't have what we have. Whatever, whatever stops our adventure here is the bad guy. Yeah. So if the X-Wings are going to take these kids and put them somewhere and get them back, that's like kind of bad because that stops our adventure.

And I thought that, like, that scene at the end of episode three was really fun where, like, they basically do smugglers run. They're like, you man, you pilot the ship. You do the lower guns. What crazy thing, by the way, to put those kids on those guns? All right, that was the one moment where I was like, what if those kids killed somebody? They might have. They could have. Whim, Wim was shooting that thing where I was just like, Whip, you about to kill?

He was doing a 360. He was in and the ship. He was in that thing, man. They got to get Wim out of here. Here's the man. And I, this is tough for me because, you know, I love Pluck. You know what I'm saying? Like, it means something to me to see a kid go, I live his best life,

he was a best adventure. When you got to stay on track, bro. Yeah, man. You got to stay focused. Everybody trying to get home. Literally. And he's like, man, they were like, we, they thought they found out of that. And episode 40's like, man, I want to keep this thing going.

No, bro, you nine years old. You got to be with your family at the crib, but can't be out of her running around the universe like that. The only person that's on his side. I'm not going to lie there is a Jackson 5 component to this show where sometimes I'm just like, Like, whim, stay in the fucking background. It's your marks. Let Neil.

Yeah, dog. They need a Joe Jackson here. Well, I'm just like, when you're not the star, niggins. Hold on. Back the fuck up. They do. They need like a Phil Jackson. Like, hey, man, you really not.

You think, to your point, you think Michael. You're some yoga. You know what I mean? Yeah. Calm down, bro. So I can't tell if the thing that is like keeping me away from this show is just I'm too old and washed because I will be real. I didn't hate these last two episodes,

but I did fall asleep multiple times. Like, not even in, like, legit, like uncle, like, and then I woke up, I'm like, whoa, where's Neil? So, where's Neil? Is there just a point where it's just like, this show might be too much for kids? Where I'm just, like, some of the intrigue,

some of the mystery, I'm like, oh, there's a kid show. Like, I don't really give fuck what I add. No. So here's the thing. What? Thank you. So I disagree.

So, at Adden, Charles, what do you think it is? I don't get fuck. I don't care, bro. Really? No. I genuinely, I don't, bro. I think this actually has a cool mystery at the center of it. I think it's a cool mystery too.

At the end of this episode where they're like, there are multiple of these planets, right? That were sanctioned off from the rest of the galaxy. Like, when we got to this planet and we saw that it was the ruins of an Ad ad ad and like planet, you wonder why these plans have been destroyed. But more importantly, why Charles? they've been protected. Exactly.

And then they go to the center and they see like at an accord, whatever, they all have coordinates, but not at Aden. Yeah. That's been distracted off. That's what Schall getting up to in the morning. That's what is putting the fire in your belly.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, at this point, that's the, yeah, if you look. And it's all predicated about him getting those kids home. Like if you don't get a shit about what. Those kids who don't belong there.

Let's be real. Well, that's be real. I see, there was a point where I did get excited in episode four where I was just like, oh, these little homies about to get radicalized. Like I thought when everybody got the blickies, I'm like, oh, they're going to learn how tough war is. Women's going to knock somebody off and be like, damn, I killed someone. And then they just had plot armor like, no, don't worry about it. And I was like, oh.

Yeah, but it's not like those kids should know what war is. Let's not re-centered the entire pot around what's not working for Charles. Charles doesn't like at adage. Very true. He doesn't like... Whoa, whoa, I told you I'm that. I like him. I like him.

I like Neil. Neil. Neil. Let's stay Neil peeled. Man, he would do that rock at the S.m. 33. I was locked in. I was like, bro. Courage!

Look at him. He's bringing it. He's carrying it. Neal. And then I thought, I don't know what I thought was going to happen. You know what I like? I like when the little girl flipped off the rock for no reason. Yeah.

That's the type of shit you do when you were a kid. Yeah. Well, yeah. she was like man you know you Mama look at this Mama look at this Go ahead baby When she was

In episode 3 When they were when like The X-Wing's were like trying to look for them And like she was stopping Jude Law from getting on the ship She was like no you're gonna tell me what's happening now And like Smee's gonna fuck you up And if you don't and like he looks up at him And he like gives that laugh that adults do

Where you're like He laughs like he's on his last nerve Like this fucking kid like All right These kids are annoying Like you work for us now, like, do this and that. Like, that's such a great dynamic

to have. Like, to keep those kids... Because now he becomes a part of their eventual. On equal footing to him. Because he's just as desperate and just as destitute as them. And he's not actually respecting where they're coming from. It's so fun. I love it. The thing that differentiates the show

from a lot of, like, other plucky shows, like you mentioned, so these kids kind of suck at everything. They're not, like, good. No. At, like, so, when you think about, like, shows like Avatar where they're like all 12 but like Qatar's and waterbending prodigy and Ang is the last airbender and like Teen Titans

where they're all like superheroes in their own right. Yeah. Right. These kids kind of just, they kind of just stare bro. They're just kind of along for the ride. You know, KB is probably like the most proficient at something.

But even like Fern at the end of this episode, I'm not a captain. We've talked about whim ad nauseum at how much he stinks. Neil is finding himself, right? But for the most part, these kids aren't really they don't really have anything to do to like get home. But that's what makes it better. You got to trade Fern and Wim.

I think KB and Neal, you can build a really solid team around them. They're bringing a lot. Like KB is just like, I don't trust you. You're not a Jedi. She's running the numbers. Neil is the heart. Fern and Wim, they just not adding enough to the team. A lot of vibes.

A lot of vibes there. They're just, but the vibes are rancid when they come through. I'm like, well, I think, I think Wim is, the story is, Wim is, to your point, adding nothing. Like, Wim is there for the pluck at this point. However, something happens in this last episode that was interesting. So if I look at the entire series, what I see is a bunch of kids who are part of their society is having people tell them what they're going to be.

Yeah. Right? So you're looking at a situation on Adden where you don't get to decide what it is that you want to do. You look at a bunch of different things and you essentially pick from all of these different occupations, but you don't really know what they're for, right? They talk about it on the show. They don't really know what the adults are analyzing. They don't really know what's happening. They just know that they have to be cogs in the wheel.

when you go to like a class like a career class they don't bring out like accountants they bring out astronauts because kids have big dreams they look at the sky and they want to they have big dreams

these kids actually was the opposite they have like small dreams I want to be an analyst I want to be a bean counter I want to be this the show is a coming of age show where they understand how big their galaxy actually is

and what their actually good at. When you see Fern actually become a leader, when you see KB actually have like real utility and being able to figure things out, when you see Neil in this episode, really his humanity actually changed somebody's outlook in the way that their war-torn life is. And then Wim? And then Wim is still the one that we don't know because Wim is obsessed with. with the Jedi. Whim is obsessed with this big, huge adventure,

but his utility might actually just be keeping everybody together. Yeah. His utility, because when she starts to doubt herself, he goes to talk to her. He actually sees a little power and goes to talk to her.

And while she completely fucking disses him, it does, and that made me mad. I was like, all right. I was like, sis. Like, she was mad on the whim. Yeah. While she completely fucking disses him, it does.

He sparks her. He sparks her what's inside of her, which is to be a natural leader and a problem solver. I do think something, though. Let me ask you got something. Does Wim's dad know something? Because while the rest of the parents are freaking the fuck out, I need my kid, I need my kid, I need my kid. He's obviously very concerned. But his reaction to the fact that they're out there in the galaxy and what it seems like more.

that he doesn't want them to figure out the secret of whatever is happening there, then, like, whatever, does he know something that we don't know? I feel that the adults have some idea of what's going on, right? Like, you don't work on this planet for how long and just be like, oh, we're just here. He might know exactly what's going on to your point. I suppose, but when their reaction to those droids coming back and being like, they illegally cross the barrier and the administrator can't really do anything,

they're like, what? No, you have to. to do something. But that seems antithetical to how that dad is reacting because he seems to know that that's not going to be the case. To me it seems like he is motivated to action of some kind that's going to be coming up in the next few episodes.

Well, I mean, when you're kids. Like, he might be taking things into his own hands when it comes to like this administrator or what can be done on this planet. Because we don't really know what could happen to these other, like what happened to those other ad ad adans that caused them all. to be post-apocalyptic

Hellscapes. Is this a giver situation? You know the book? You didn't read the giver school? Did I read the giver? Yes, if my teachers are listening, I did read The Giver. You did not read the Giver. Is this like a situation where it's like, oh,

A-A-N is essentially a totalitarian state, and they basically fucked over all the other planets, and they're trying to hide the fact that all these analysts are essentially like... See, Charles, just let yourself fall into the story. That's a great thing. No, I'm not saying that that would be. But that actually would be, like, like, it could be that all of those planets. See, just let yourself feel, Chuck.

It could be that all those actual planets were actually in competition with each other. Yeah. Because when they landed, I was like, wait, so this is the same planet at, or at least it looks like at, at, and it's like bomb the fuck out. I was just like, did add, et, et, and fucking mark all these other planets? Like, that's where I was just like. Well, that's what if there is no administrator? What if it's just some big computer that's just keeping them there and everybody's just falling in line?

And look at the small clues in here. Yeah. The kids learned about Alderon. Alderon is fucking toast. Like, and she goes, oh, you didn't hear much about the war. How could it possibly have been? What is the reason that this huge galactic civil war would have happened? Alderon is toast.

They don't even know about these aliens. They keep looking at these aliens, like, Wasn't there a moment in the show where who was the one was just like, I've never seen what are you all y'all for? Yet they know of the Jedi. They know of the Jedi. They know certain things about what exists beyond their planet. But they don't know the big story of how the universe gained its freedom from the oppressive and totalitarian empire.

Let me ask this. now that they kind of dispatched of the like of the Jedi or at least Jude Lobbying a Jedi does a Jedi need to show up in this? No, probably not. You don't think so. Or do you think a Jedi will show up? I don't know if a Jedi will show up,

but I think the show is doing a good job of being in the Star Wars universe, but taking us away enough of the meat and potatoes things that we think that we need to be fed in order for the show to be here. And that's, we need a Jedi. And this is, here's the thing. We need a Jedi.

Here's what I'll say. I don't actually mind whether or not a Jedi shows up in this story because what I've seen so far, I have full confidence that if they do deploy one in this story, it will be incredibly well-ext. That's like, motherfuckers being like, I hate watching dunks. I'm like, no, it's dope. Bring me a fucking lightsaber.

Who hates watching dunks? Like, it's just like, that's what he's like, it needs Jedi. Star Wars needs a Jedi. I need somebody. Neil needs to pick up a fucking light star Wars needs a Jedi. So you're right about the dunks, right? Like, you love dunks.

But you love them when they matter. Yeah. So if a team is down, because I, bro, I've seen this. If a team is down, like, 25 and a nigga get his windmill off. Cool. It's like, all right. You had a fast break. We used to be, like, we used to be playing games.

And a nigga would do like, oh, shit. And run down the court going, yeah, we'd be like, hey, bro, we have 25. Scoreboard. We have 25. So the dunks, they have to matter. So if the Jedi, so in a game where it's a close game or a team is down 10 or 15 and a dunk gets a team energized, that's a big deal, right? So if the Jedi comes into this story, it has to matter in some way. And that would be the thing.

Like if a Jedi comes into this story to prove that Jew law has no force powers or in some way, if it's, that way. Which, by the way, I'm not entirely convinced that he doesn't. I don't know. Has four feet powers? Because, like, he turned the lights off. Like, he's able to do that stuff. Like, I want to know his tricks. That shit could have been a timer.

I know, no, no, no. We got to get to this. We got to get to this. I wanted to know the tricks. I want to see the tricks. This is aiding corner because I love KB. She was the only one. I was like, guys, if I'm a kid, I don't care how young I am.

And I'm just, how you did that. I'm like, all right, we're running you through some trials. I'm like, you know, you put him up to wait here. You'd be like, I need you to lift this up right now. You know what I'm saying? And he's doing all this shit where I'm just like, there's trickery of foot. Wim, that should be Wim's role. He's just like, I've studied up on the Jedi, bro.

He's just like, Jedi mind trick, Neil right now. You know what I'm saying? Like, throw, do some tests. A kid would do that. You guys are, you guys are lying. If a Jedi was here, you would be like, I want to do a foot. Yeah, make that shit move, bro. Right now.

Jedi mind trick. 100%. Yeah, if you're just going to sit there and not do nothing. He, but he don't be doing nothing except like, They're kids, though. So, like, I remember kids used to, it was, it's so easy to impress kids. Yeah, that's true. It's like you're, you'll, you're, all you need to do.

Your nephews will be around. You shoot wide open for 18. Uncle Van and then the NBA, he made it from way far back. And my, you know, you always got a hating-ass cousin. Man, that's a free throw. You're just a little nigger. Like, you're supposed to be able to do that. So right now, like, but like, for,

us, our expectations of the Jedi is different now. Like, Darth Vader, like, crashed the whole shit. Like, we want to see the Jedi. I'm sicker than making shit move. If a Jedi walked into this room right now, I'll be like, hey, bro, lift us off the ground, all four of us at the same time, make us fly. Right. Because I'm, the Jedi, even the Jedi mind trick, that shit don't last long enough for me

no more. Whoa, sometimes it do, though. Tell me. Like, I mean, like, sometimes in Clone Wars, Ossook would be doing, like, some shit. And I'm just like, this seems like. this seems a little bit too easy. Like in A New Hope, they'd be doing it and it'd be really, really quick.

Sometimes at Clone Wars, I'm just like, Jedi Mind Tricks almost seems like it's a little Professor Xavier type shit. I think that, but then, yeah, it's true, but like, then it didn't work on Jabba. Because Jabba was too horny, bro. Jabba was locked in on Princess Leia. And so he was locked in on Princess Leia

and you couldn't mind. It's not the horniness. What is it? So I always thought that Jedi Mind Tricks was like, if you have a weak, that is, minor spirit, right? So I don't know if horniness comes into it. It's just you gotta be around the block.

If you focused, like if you focus on some shit, Jabba was focused. You don't think Java's battle tested? Yeah, sure, yeah. Runs a whole mob. Sure, yeah, he runs a whole mob. And what I'm saying is that, like, to me, if you can focus on any one thing good, the Jedi mind trick won't work on you. Right.

You know what I'm saying? If it's anything. It's distraction. It's illusion. It's, yeah. Seen over 400 porn movies. You can't Jedi mind trick me. Over 400.

No, no, no, that's trying to, that's trying to Jedi Mindtrick van while he's watching a porn. True. Oh, you could probably do that. See, that's what I'm saying. No, here's a thing. Like, if I'm at the strip club

and there's like ass cheeks gyrating my face, a Jedi could do it really easily. Because I'm like, I'm like not, I'm focusing on something. And then a Jedi is just like, oh, he's weak. He's not. Nah, you're not. You not agree.

It can't be that because you're locked in, right to your point. Yeah. If you're just like weak-minded in general, yeah, it's going to work on you. But if you're focused on cinema... If you're focused on the ass, you can't be Jedi-M-M-Try. You can't get Jedi-Minds.

Right, you can't get Jedi-Minds because honestly, the dancers try to Jedi mind-trick you. They try to walk over and they try to go, hi, would you? Nah, it's not about you. It's about her right now. So you're saying if there was a bunch of Jedi strippers, their Jedi mind-tricks would not work on you in the strip club.

Oh, so let me ask you, but see... Wait, did you have a Jedi mind-tricks? But see, here's the thing, though, this is why Star Wars is not working, I'll tell you what. Plato, Aristotle, this is more interesting. Right. A whole Jedi nightclub, right? A whole nightclub of force-sensitive dancers,

that's a good show. Like, that's a good, like, if you want to do some shit set in the Star Wars, mix the genres, a whole force-sensitive, like, group of dancers working in, and it's like any other show, all the girls have different dreams. One girl wants to actually go to the Jedi Academy, right? Yeah.

She's too old to start the training. You know, they're fighting against all of the guys in there, the pimps, the spice dealers. Get us in the underworld of Corrassant or wherever. Cold Trooper generals come in promising them dreams. Like, I'm going to take you out the club. Right. You know what I'm saying?

You know, like give us something. We can go back to Naboo. Yeah. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Give us something. Give us a hustlers, the Jennifer Lopez movie. Hell yeah. Mixed with the force.

Jay Locke can come in here, like, she could actually be the league. And we being real, if Quigon had taken Anakin, you know, to the club, I don't think he would have been freaking out on Obi-Wan when he walked out of the ship like that. He would have kept it Pete. Yeah. I'm just thinking, I'm just thinking of that. O'B. Anakin was like eight years old.

No, no, no, I'm not saying that eight years old. When Quigon lived, I'm like, you know, for like 16th birthday. You meant, you met Obi-Wan because he was a little nigger when Quigong was around. Yeah, he meant Obi-Wan. You met Obi-Wan. You meant Obi-Wan. No, no, I met if Quigon still lived. Oh, okay, okay.

If Gui-Gon lived, he should have taken Anikin. Here's the thing. Obi-Wan's a hater, and honestly, he don't got motion like that. So he's, he's, Obi-Wan has never been in the show club. Obie-Wan absolutely has motion. Yes, he does. Obi-Wan absolutely has motion. This is a lie.

Bray, come on, man, don't do this, man. Him and Sabine. He couldn't lock it. I'm sorry. Him and Satine. He couldn't lock it down. Because he wanted to be a Jedi. He's his, his, he wanted to be a cop. Yes.

He's dead? Yes. He's a company man. That's motion. So this is the only thing I'm saying about Obi-Wan that, to me, may Obi-Wan look like a little bit of a square. So when the dude was trying to sell Obi-Wan the spice in the club, remember that, right?

Obi-Wan said, you don't want to sell spice, go home and think. That's not what I would have said. I'd have said, hey, you're going to become the Franklin Saint of Spice. This shit right here is too small time for you. Selling Spice in the club. Live your dreams. You're going to go out there and build a Spice Empire. You're going to become a man.

You're going to take nothing. If you want to sell Spice, go, don't try to sell me Spice at the bar in the club. Set up a spice infrastructure. Don't work for nobody else. You're going to be the man of Spice. Get out of here. Who is the Empire is flooding the Star Wars Hood with Spice? Spice.

Jaba. Yeah, Jaba. No, Java wouldn't it? Jaba probably got some spice dealings, though. Yeah. You don't think the Empire had their hands in the spice? They were trying to, like, destabilize everybody? It's always the government.

The question is, who's the teddy? Who's the teddy of the spice trade from the empire that's working with the spice? Oh, who's the government? Another, another great show. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Time out. Star Wars Outlaws does kind of does this. Ah, okay.

There's, like, literally, they have, um, somebody infiltrate the underground and that works for the Republic or the Imperials, right? But play, cosplays as a dealer, spice, weapons, the whole thing on the outer rim. I just thought about something.

This is what Wim turns into. Check me out. No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, this is what Wem turns out. Neil wouldn't allow this. Like, Wim is going to learn, Neil is the perfect number two for some shit. Yeah, Neil is the perfect number two, right?

Neil is the perfect number two. Because he'd be crying. He's like, this not you, Whim. Yeah, Neil is the perfect number two for some shit like this. Whim, Wim is going to be, this is my prediction. Wim is going to become the outlaw. Of all of these people,

whim is the one that has the most wide eyes. Whim is the one that believes in goodness the most. So when the cracks in the foundation come about, it's going to be Wim that loses faith, goes off world and starts, he's going to become a pirate. It's going to be so well played when I like in my head, I see Jude Law's character like playing him like a fiddle of like the last possible

deception that he could possibly give these kids in like the final hour of like either being turned in or something and that will break Wim's heart and that could lead him down a path of like, you know, bitterness or something like that. But again, I don't think it's like that though. I think what's more likely is to be like they finally, finally went home and all the kids are like Neil, KB, and Ferna, like, yo, I'm excited to be home. Let's do it.

And then John's like, yo, I can't really stay here. I gotta go. Yeah. And Williams was like, bet, let's go. Where we're going? He's scatming these kids in the back. Here's the thing.

It takes a certain type of man to be stealing money from kids. I was like, this nigga no good. But he used it to help him, though. I know. You can't. Invertently. Invertently. He kept that shit to himself.

But he didn't happen. Okay, but here's, you know, right? He could have been like, oh, you. Oh, y'all got the kids over there, bad. Cool, kill them. I don't care. To be fair, though, it is just his lunch money. Right?

Like, it's cool. Like, hey, it worked, it all worked out. What is at Adden? What is it? Charles, what is it? I know your interest is piqued. Charles, you want to know so bad. You're not like a government program.

Yeah, Charles said me last night, like, it was maybe like 1.30 in the morning. Oh? And I can hear like a lady in the background. She's like, Chuck, Chuck, come back to bed. Come back to bed. And Chuck, Chuck is like, I'm like, yo, Charles, what's going on, man? You're okay?

You need me to come out there? He goes, Van. Brough, I'm sitting up here right now. He goes, how's your hair? You're in the shedding stage right now? I'm like, good. He's like, bro, I just, I need to, I got to know what Adadden is, bro. I got to know.

And all I hear the background, I actually heard two voices. Oh, right, right. Chill. Come back to bad. What is Ad Ad Adi? But Chuck wants to know so badly what Ad Adadad means. He called me last night at 1.302 o'clock in the morning. Between sounds.

I think... Stop. Can we not? It's treasure planet. It's treasure planet. It's the, it's where, you know, the, the mythical treasure is. Now, what that treasure actually might be, is it some Jedi stuff? Is it just actual Republic credits?

We don't know for sure. But there's a reason why it got scratched off, right? Yeah. They found it. SM3's former captain found it. There's got to be something there of use of power that we just, we just don't know what it is yet, but it's something for sure. Yeah.

All right. Look, guys, we're all in on skeleton crew right now. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, three-fourths. No, we're all in. I have one foot in, one foot out. Mostly out. He likes it. We're all in on skeleton crew right now.

But that's enough. That's enough of the crew for today. Look, I have to be honest with you. Yeah. This is a show that I didn't have high expectations for it. It's true. Yes. But that's not why I'm enjoying it.

I'm legitimately enjoying the show. I legitimately enjoy it's fun. It's a lot of fun. I keep catching myself being like, I'm having a great, like I keep being shocked at how good of a time I'm having. Bro, when they saw the statue with no head,

it was like, King No Head. King No Head. That's what you dig his name is King Nohead. Yes. It's so funny. They're laying out their clues really well. They're laying out the states really well.

They're taking us to new and different worlds, new and different things we haven't seen before. It's all you can ask for from Star Wars. And the most important thing is, and this is something I was worried about, the performances in the show are very good. Incredibly good. The performances in the show are very good.

Yeah. They're very good. Okay. That's a wrap. That's a wrap, Charles. It's a rap. From all the Midnight Boys are giving you their instant reactions

to the first Superman trailer from James Gunn, the teaser was out today. All right, bro. All right, man. Save it for the fucking tomorrow. When is the trailer dropping? Like, what time? That's probably, like, 6 a.m.

6 a.m. p.t? I believe. Six AM p. Okay. So 6 AMPT, the trailer drops, and then after the trailer drops, we're going to watch it and we're going to react to it and we're going to give you guys our thoughts. The future of superhero cinema depends on this movie. And so we'll make sure that we give you guys a robust breakdown of it. On Friday, the Mitt boys are chasing rings with their instant reactions to Sonic 3.

And they're also going to do a special episode of Min Edition on Star Wars Spice. and Star Wars Club 713. Yeah, we'll get right on that. Those are our two pitches. We're going to pitch those two shows. Star Wars Spice. John Favreau, Kathleen Kennedy. Is about the spice trade in the galaxy.

Star Wars Club 713 is about Club 713 on Corrassant, about a group of dancers, some of which are force-sensitive and how they make their way in the galaxy. Can you imagine if a Jedi slapped a struck his ass with the force? That should be so... Smack. You know what? You know what I mean?

He's didn't move. Okay. Also, Hazavar keeps cooking with their skeleton crew and Dune Prophecy Deep Dives. Our producers are Steve, the architect Alman, Alia, S-O-B-Zanaris. With editing by Cameron Dinwiddie, Jonathan Kerma's back there. And our big doll, Corey. Big dog Corey is back there, or black-and-white cookie. Hashtack Jomi Pistol Adirondon on social.

We know what happened to Pistol, too. I could tell the whole story. Please do not. Let's not. Chuck, take us out. Skeleton crew is definitely a show. I got to keep it real. It might be fuck these kids, but I'm riding for new.