Ep 5 - Run it Back

In this episode of Gentleman's Agreement Run It Back, the hosts discuss various topics including the Detroit Tigers, their recent win streak, and base running errors. They also talk about their golf outing and their plans for future games. The hosts share their frustrations with their golf performance and their determination to improve. The episode concludes with a discussion of upcoming golf plans and a surprise visit from a friend. Welcome back to episode 5 of Gentleman's Agreement Run It Back. You might be asking yourselves at home, why the title Run It Back? Well if any of you guys noticed, we did not have an episode last week. We did run into some technical difficulties, but if that's expected, you know, newer podcasts, we, you know, we were bound to hit something. So here we are, new episode, we're excited for you, it's a good one. We got our favorite guest in, recurring guest, Grach. Let's go. Dee, you want to tell the listeners what they're in store for? Yeah, so we got Tigers baseball to start. Some may say it's slow to start, but hey, we're excited, we're on a three game win streak, so we got to talk about them first. Then we talked about a golf outing, the boys did go golfing last week, so, and we're going golfing this Sunday, so tune into that, hear how we did. Then we talked a little bit about the NFL, shout out Jalen Hurts becoming the highest paid NFL player ever. Then we had a nice, Jake brought a beautiful fight club, but we're not going to talk about it. We won't talk about it, but you'll just have to hear it. And then we close out the episode on CDL, and then the Mandalorian, and man, it is ... The Mandalorian is so exciting, because it's got us talking. We are confused, we're thinking about it, we're just ... There's a lot to talk about, so with that said, sit back, grab a bite to eat, maybe a drink, and enjoy the episode. Alright, first order of business, we're going to discuss the lovely Tigers, and I say lovely because gentlemen, as of April 17th, Monday night, we are on a three game win streak, because we have not played the last two days, but a win streak is a win streak nonetheless. It's actually the second longest win streak in baseball, besides the Braves. So today we were supposed to play the Giants, it was postponed. We were supposed to play the Guardians today. The Giants got made up for July or something. Oh, okay, so I got ... Okay, that got bumped. Well, let's say this, we swept them in our two game series. That is the first sweep of the season. We swept them. Oh, golly. Yeah, Mother Nature is creating our win streak, but that's okay, it's a win streak nonetheless. And we've got to talk about those last two games in particular against the Giants. Those were crazy games in terms of baseball. For Tigers, that's about as peak excitement as it gets. You got a veteran with the walk-off, Miggy. Yeah, the funny part is, we were all at the driving range, which we'll get into later, but afterwards, Jake and I went out to eat, and the Tigers were out at the bar, casually down six to one. We didn't think anything of it, and then they scored two runs. We thought, oh, well, it's only two. Not much going on here. Then I get home from lunch, and we tie it up six-six. I'm like, okay, this is doable. And then, yeah, like you said, the veteran, Miggy, comes in for a pinch hit. I think if we didn't have a guy in third, he would have been out because I was a slow chopper up the middle. Yeah. Because the infield was in. Yeah, it was hilarious because the pitch of two before was a wild pitch. They start with a guy on second and overtime or an extra inning. The wild pitch moved Tork, who's not a speedster, over to third. And then so they have to draw the infield in, and then Miggy just pokes one. It's solid, but usually would have been a hit. He would have been. It's enough to score Tork. Yeah, it would have. Yeah. And it wound up in the middle. So, yeah. If the runner would have been on second, I think he doesn't advance because it was shortstop. Our luck, you know what it would have done? It would have chopped, hit Tork right in the thigh. Got him all. Well, you say our luck, but you of all of us think our luck has turned maybe. I don't know. I feel a little more optimistic. This team is super weird. They've won. They've been to extra innings four times already this year. How many games have we won? Five and nine? Fourteen. Fourteen. So, a little less than a third of our games are going to extra innings, which is pretty crazy. And we've won three out of our four that once we've gotten into extras, we've won three or four, which is, you know. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. You've got five percent. You've got to be clutching overtime. Hey, man, they're trying to give their fans bang for the buck. I'm actually going to a game on the, I think it's the 4th of May. Star Wars? Star Wars Day. That's where we're going. So, me and the girlfriend are going to be going out. Are you dressing up? Are we seeing Darth Vader? Maybe. Maybe. I'll make a bet with somebody, and if I lose it, I'll go out full Darth Vader out into the stadium. Do they allow costumes? I'm sure they do. It's Star Wars Day. I mean, like, are the Tigers really going to turn down anybody from walking into their stadium after paying for a ticket? You're willing to pay money for that? I was about to say. So, that brings me to another point. They have, several stadiums have moved the beer shutoff time to the 8th inning instead of the 7th inning now because games are shorter. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of shutting down beer? Because you're supposed to do it at a certain point so they have time to sober up before the end of the game. And now they're just, you might as well just let it be through nine innings. Yeah, honestly. Just promote it. This is one of those things where, like, it boggles my mind that, like, they even have to have a rule like that. Yeah. Like, I mean, obviously you're going to have, like, the one dude that shows up, like, you know, in shorts and a wife beater and has just, like, got, like, his three kids. I had that guy at the Tigers. And that is what the rule is made for, but it just boggles my mind that we even have to have a rule like that. Like, common sense has just completely left the building. We, when I went two Saturdays ago, we, quote, had 20,000 people there. I don't think it was 20,000. That's what it was listed at, but a ton of empty seats, right? So I'm sitting there in the outfield. This guy, every time a vendor was on my side, he is all the way behind the other team's bullpen. Under the wood. Yeah. And he is screaming across the stadium, because you can hear everybody, because there's not many fans, asking for another couple beers. I'm like, buddy. That's just a Chad right there. Did he get the huge vat full of beer? A couple guys. I don't know. He just wanted two millers or whatever. Yeah. Speaking of Tigers Stadium, so I think I was talking with UD earlier. Maybe it was crazy. The Tigers actually moved their wall in center field closer. But instead of actually renovating and actually changing the stadium, adding some more seats, making it look nice, like a professional organization, they basically just threw up a chain-link fence on the warning track and put a pad over it. And we're like, there we go. Problem fixed. And weren't you saying the people at Valley Sports were like, oh, these guys are having a tough time kind of acclimating to these changes? Yeah. You are a professional athlete. Heaven forbid the fence is three feet closer to you. Yeah. They were saying like Ryder Green's struggling to, you know, feel out the stadium, like the new dimensions. But that can't even be valid because they go to so many away stadiums and have to accommodate to those. Yeah. They're all different. That's the one thing about baseball that makes it unique is all stadiums are unique and different. So I think that's an invalid argument and they were just looking for something to talk about. How did it look when you were there? It looks pretty dumb. Really? It looks really dumb. There's just a big gap in between the old wall and the new wall. Millions and millions of dollars and that's the best they can do. Is it Boston that's got the green monster? Yeah. We should call ours the green digit because it's like a chain link fence. That's what we're calling ours. We do need to talk, before we get off the tiger train here, we do need to talk about the incident that happened with Javi Baez and A.J. Hinch. D, would you like to talk about that? Sure. This is, Crateer swears by it, that this will be the turning point of our Tigers' luck. And what happened was, we'll do a little backstory. We'll say four games ago, just for measure, the Tigers got a double, a leadoff double, which we rarely get, and proceeded to run into an out. Someone hit the ball then to shortstop, and our guy who was staying on second tried to run to third. And the shortstop just fielded it, threw it to third, he got in a pickle, he got out. Waste of a runner in scoring position. So then, that same game, Matt Vierling gets a single. Then Matt Vierling wants to steal second. Gets a great jump, would have been safe by a mile, doesn't slide, gets tagged out. A.J. Hinch, after the game, is heated. I sent a video to you and Cliff, and he is just like, they're like, well, what about Vierling not sliding second? He goes, well, you're going to have to ask him, because I've never seen someone not sliding second. And I'm like, ah, Hinch is triggered. So then, what happens the next day? Javi hits a double, doesn't even walk out of the batter's box, because he thinks it's a home run. So starts a home run shot, hits the wall, then has to get to second base. Then the very next batter hits a sacrifice. We have one out. The very next batter hits a fly to center field, and Javi just runs to third. And forgets to tag up or forgets how many outs there are. And he gets thrown out in second because he didn't tag up. The most elementary part of baseball, right? And then Hinch, the next inning, benched him, which sent a sign, like, we're not going to be a baseball team that everybody makes fun of and just forgets how to run the bases. Like, Javi knows better. And that's saying a lot, because Javi is our second highest paid player on the team. So he's saying, I will bench any one of you. Yeah. Nobody's untouchable, and I thought that was a really good move by Hinch to send a message to the team, because it was getting out of hand. They were looking like a T-ball team with the base running errors. Like, you just don't see that in the major leagues. Like, getting doubled up on a pop fly to end an inning. Like, what are we doing? And especially, it's one thing to do that in high school, but to do that in a major league stadium where the number of outs is slapped, like, 360. You know, like, you can look anywhere and find how many outs there are. So don't give me the excuse of, oh, I didn't know how many outs there were. Like, come on, man. So I thought that was a really good move by Hinch. Yeah. That was good. Also, I will give credit, after Hinch's benching, Javi has been playing much better. A couple doubles, I think, his on-base percentage is up. It's been a couple games. But will that trend continue? We'll see. But what is important is he only has 10 strikeouts on the season. Yes, and he recently had a 12-pitch at-bat against the Giants, which ended in a double, which should have been labeled an error. But regardless, he had a 12-pitch at-bat. This man, this is the same guy that swings up sliders in the left-hand batter's box. I think to start the game, he swung at a slider that was, like, way outside the box. Because people were, you know, obviously putting it on Twitter right away, like, Javi Baez still can't swing, you know? And then he gets a 12-pitch at-bat that is a line drive, which, you know, speaking from experience, we've all played outfield before. It's hard to read a line drive right at you. But I'm also not a major-league left fielder who can run and has, you know. Anyway. Exactly. But back to the strikeouts. He only has 10. What is concerning is our boy, Riley Green, leads the team in strikeouts with 21. That is seven more than the next two guys, which Maton and Tork have 14, which obviously, the younger guys, you expect to have a lot of strikeouts. But Riley Green, having seven more than anybody else and already at 21, after 14 games, 21 strikeouts after 14 games. What does that tell you? That's a lot. Several a game. It's not a discipline. Yeah. Exactly. Seven more than the next person, and it's fine if you're, like, in the 50s and 60s. But that one, disproportionate at 21, that's crazy. And also concerning, Tork is the next highest tied with Maton, as you said, at 14. So the two young guys that you want to see, like, growing and getting better every game. Striking out a lot. Yeah. And Tork, I think I saw, only has one based on balls this year. Really? So that needs to be better from him. Let's see. He's done well. I'll say this to Tork, though. He has done well driving in runs. Yes. I don't have his stats. Maton has nine RBIs. Tork has the second most with eight. So that is good. But what is important, I will give Maton credit. He has also earned seven walks himself. So for every two strikeouts, he gets a walk, which is, you know, pretty good. And he's hitting bombs. He was the one that hit the three-run home run. Yeah. Also, we talked about how on our team, we only had two guys bending over that 300 kind of threshold. Yeah. Guess how many we have at that 300 now. Two. One. Zero. Zero. We don't have a single person bending over 300. It's because the beer went down. Yeah. So I just kind of highlighted this. We need to at least split tomorrow with the Guardians. Who are looking pretty good this season. Pretty good is broad. Good for our division. Yeah. That's what I'll say, yeah. Yeah, and the Guardians typically give us lots of trouble, so. I hate that name. I know. The Guardians. Yeah. Bring back the Guardians. Okay. That's a whole conversation. Anyway. Golf. I think it's time for golf. That's a different. Take it away, Jake. What happened in golf this week? Not professionally. Okay. Okay. This is professional. So Thursday, it was Thursday, we went out, correct, to the Genesee Valley golf course. And we decided to play a round of nine. Brought out my cousin. It's been a few years since he's been out. I was ready. I was ready. I had a golf glove and everything. I stunk so bad. By, like, the last hole, I think I was putting, I missed three putts. And I chucked my putter on the green. I was like, why the heck do I even play this? I kid you not, as soon as I got back in the car with Bryce, my cousin, besides Craig, he's my other cousin, I was like, I'm going to the driving range tomorrow. And I pretty much went to the driving range every single day this past weekend. But, I mean, I'll tell you what, the weather was absolutely phenomenal for golf this past weekend. And now it's 37 and raining and snowing. But, I mean, what did you guys think? Did you guys? The thing is, you did so good on the first two holes, too. You were excited, you were into it, and you were doing really well on the first two holes. And it just went south. I think I know why it went south. Well, I have a reason why. Your car broke down. That's exactly what I was saying. My car broke down. I had to call. I was like, yeah, we're stranded on the second hole. It's a mental thing. And if it's like what in the world happened, now I've got to have this guy come and drive all the way from, you know, the clubhouse. It was just a hassle. The new cart had a different feel to it, three off your swing. Yeah, but I'll tell you what. After a couple rounds of the driving range, I feel much better. I feel much more. I feel like I can actually hit woods 50% of the time, maybe on target. I actually can hit a drive relatively straight now. And slight bend. I have slight bend to the left, no longer a slight bend to the right. Much better. I've reached Chad status, alpha status. But we're also going golfing this weekend, probably. Yes, we are. We'll be able to have an update for that. True. I was checking the weather for that. It's supposed to be... Yeah, your mom said it was going to be 55 and sunny. It was supposed to be. And it has gone downhill since. What is it supposed to be now? I see snow in the forecast. Oh, gee. Hey, that'll be good. I've been golfing in the fall. If anything, we'll just go to the simulator. No, I'm still allowed to go. No, we're going to Oregon, 100%. We've got our car hard jackets on. But we're going to the bar, of course. Right now it says Sunday, high of 45, low of 32, and some flurries. That's all right. We can cancel the tee time, if anything. We'll figure it out. No, no, we're doing it. We'll have the car lady come around and bring us coffee. For crying out loud, it's Jay's birthday golf outing. We will make this happen. Yeah, for the boys. I'm excited. I'm, like, fully into golf now. I never understood why, but, like, now it's, like, I was sore after, like, three full days of golfing. I'll tell you what. It was, like, I had to, like, fix up my swing, and I was, like, man. I mean, you did go through what you said was three large buckets of balls at the Byron Driving Range, which is insane. Yeah. I think my hands would be tore up, too. That's a lot of balls to hit. You've got to put in the time. That's right. That's some onions right there. Major. How did you feel you did at the golf place Thursday, Creech? I was overall happy with my performance, being the first time out. My drives were doing pretty good, and that was about it. Once I picked up a wedge in my hands, I just went sicko mode, and couldn't hit a ball. The funniest part about watching Creech is he was in his own cart, and he was in his own world, like, the entire time. Every time he hit a ball, it was the complete opposite of where we were. Not that he was bad. He was just alone. And so, you know, Ben and I are waiting to hit our balls. We're looking over at Creech, and he'll go to hit that wedge, or whatever, you know, his iron. He gets out there, and he'll swing, and it'll either duff or it doesn't go as far as he wants, and he always fakes like he's going to smack his club on the ground. He, like, takes it down and lightly taps the ground with it, brings it over his head, and you can tell he's just so triggered. Got to have the respect. Yeah, well, I'm the same with irons. Thankfully, I didn't pull my irons out too much. That's probably because the rough was so short, because it's so early in the year. So the rough wasn't bad. I took out a couple of woods on the rough. There you go. I'll tell you what, though. Bryce, for having not played in, like, five years, he was kind of lacing the drives a little bit right down the center. You could tell he was having a good time. He was definitely having a good time. He's going to be back. He's definitely going to be back. I think he's going to be there Sunday. He will be there Sunday. Right on. Same thing with Caroline's dad. We're going to have tons of people out there. Also, a little surprise. You don't know this. Clifford's coming home this weekend. Oh, let's go. We'll have to see if we can work out him. Yeah, absolutely. Find him out. Yeah, he's been playing golf himself. Yeah, he was telling me that when we were playing Rocket League the other day. So, yeah. I'm excited. Golf season's in full swing for us. See what I did there. But. We also got to talk real quick. You and Ben had an instant clash. We did. We did. We both hit 54s on 9, which I know isn't great for all of you listening. But it's good for us on the first outing. So, actually, very good for us. I probably won't hit that again this year. I hope to. We did end up tying. I was down by one on the last hole. Got a better drive than him. And then I hit a nice, a decent putt to tie the game up. Then we had a putt-off. Whoever could put it closest to the hole. And I beat him by, like, three inches. So, you know, story of my life. It's a respectable distance. Exactly. It's a pretty average amount of distance. It was. I did. I did come away as the winner. Because Krejci was not letting us go home until we discovered a winner. You guys were talking about settling it next time. Like, no, it's not going to have the same feel. You got to take care of business right now. Right now. But, yeah. It was definitely good to get out there. We're going to be doing this all summer. So you lucky listeners will get reviews almost every time. We should do, like, some golf content on the channel. Something like that. How many balls did we actually put in the water hazard this summer? Well, that one water hole, we all put it in. I think every one of us put it in the water. I didn't put it in the water on that hole. I put it in the water on the very first hole. Oh, you did? I saw you looking because we were behind you. And then I saw you walking the ditch. Yeah, I used the wood. And I was like, I got a decent contact. It's going. And I was like, oh, it's tailing right. And then it starts, like, traveling perfectly along the riverbank. And it's, like, curving to the right. And I'm like, gosh darn it, it's going to go in the river. And I never found it. And I was just. I had one where I was, again, had a good drive. It was like, oh, this is going to be a good hole. And then I whip out my iron and launch it into the pond. Splash. So I walk up there and drop it next to a new ball next to the water. And there was still a little water in front of me, but I was like, I'll be fine. I'll get it up and over. I nailed this thing so poorly to the wedge. It was supposed to get loft on these balls. I scream it. It is going at it such a straight line with no loft. It skips off the water like a skipping stone. And somehow it doesn't sink in. It goes and lands. I think it actually went over the green. And you were celebrating. Because I was confused. I was on my own at that part. And I looked over, and he's, like, actively cheering that he just nuked it over the green. And I am like, what? And Ben walked up to me later. He goes, did you see Jared skip his ball off the water? And I was like, what? No wonder he was celebrating. And Jake missed that because you were on the complete opposite side of the water on a whole different hole. Hey, when you slice it like I did that day, it helps. Because now you don't have to cross any water. I remember seeing you guys over there. It looked like you were, like, two holes away from us. Yeah, I was on the other fairway. Oh, last part about golf we got to talk about is about hole 4-5. You tee off next to the highway. And our boy, Ben, put a drive on the highway. I didn't hear of any crashes. I didn't hear no suicide going down that night. But he put, he literally, like, turned around and said, imagine if I put this on the highway. And Ben is not one of the boys that would just purposely be an idiot. He just is an idiot sometimes. And that was one of his moments. He's not one of the boys that usually struggles to hit the ball straight. So he's probably the best of us. And he's not one to purposely, like, you know, hit it into the highway. Yeah, like guys watch the... He 100% put that thing in the highway. And the funny thing is, when he hit it, I was like, that was a beautiful shot. And it was funny because I don't know who it was, but somebody pointed, as he's getting into his stance, somebody points at his feet as to where they're lined up. And he's angled to his left, facing the highway. And I was like, I haven't seen Ben golf. It's not my first time out with him this year. Maybe he's fixed his stance in a certain way to combat the slice that he said he had last year. Just absolute dart out into the highway. I was like, oh, no. Yeah, we were just waiting to hear, like, crashing sounds. Yeah, yeah. He'll redeem himself there. He still has to find the driver because he keeps using Krejcian. Yeah, because his driver had just flew off last year, didn't it? I mean, we're making it sound like he's not any good at golf. No, that's on the highway, too. He's infinitely better than I am. Oh, man. It'll be a good summer, though. You guys want to hit the NFL before our game? Yeah, absolutely. NFL news today, breaking news. Jalen Hurts. Getting paid. I think I did the math. Do they get paid per game, or do they get paid year-round? I think, like, throughout the year. They get a check every week, I think. But you have to play the games, don't you? Otherwise, it's a guaranteed thing. Yeah, I don't know how that all works, to be honest. Either way, go over what the... Yeah, just the details of the contract. The contract, five years, $255 million, and $179 million of that $255 is guaranteed. Which is about the fourth-highest guaranteed ever. But overall, if he plays those five years, he will become the highest-paid NFL player ever. Now, that'll get passed when Burrow gets to his and all that. But as of now, that's a new milestone for quarterbacks, huge for Jalen Hurts. Lamar is, like, sitting at his house without an agent to talk to because he's doing it all himself. He's not liking his chops right now. That's because he was looking for, like, $250 million guaranteed, wasn't he? Yeah. He's sitting there talking to his mom, who's his agent, I'm pretty sure, and he's like, Mom, can you get me that? Can I get more than Jalen Hurts? Did you hear there was a guy that was just some random guy who was calling NFL teams, just some dude from Florida, picking up phones and calling just because if you look up a stadium, it has a phone number. So he would just call a stadium and just be like, Hey, I'm Lamar's agent. Can I get him this much money? And they were, like, actually, like, a few teams, like, I won't name the teams, but a few teams were, like, almost kind of taking him serious. Then somebody fact-checked the guy, and they contacted all the other owners, and they were like, Yeah, don't listen to this guy. Jake is not lying. I just Googled Ford Field, and there isn't another team that would even make a call to Dan Campbell. Motor City. No. MCDC has a lot to worry about, and one of those things is 10 days away. Right? The draft. The draft. Coming up. And now, a lot of rumors going around, but I will say, guess who was in town today? Your boy Jalen Carter. That's right. Now, I understand he has a maybe bad work ethic, showed up to his pro day for Georgia, overweight, and couldn't finish the drill, which is kind of scary. But how do we feel if the Lions ended up drafting him? I think he's an elite talent. You can look over. And it's not like he's got, like, yellow flags, in my opinion. He doesn't have red flags that are, like. Yeah, driving past isn't a red flag. Yeah. Like, red flags is like Henry Grove. Jalen Carter's just got some precautionary flags. You pair that with his talent, you can overlook those yellow flags. Who showed up with a gas? Wasn't there a guy a few years back that got drafted? And, like, it was during, I thought, like, the COVID years, where they did, like, virtual, where they would show people that got drafted up on the board. And they showed this dude, like, in, like, a gas mask. Oh, yeah. That was Larry Tunsell, I think. He just became the highest-paid O-line man or something. George Pickens did something stupid last year. He had, like, a ski mask on, right? He was, like, two feet from the TV, standing up. There's some – I actually looked up on Twitter today a couple – I just looked up the NFL Twitter, and one of the posts they had was, who has the most legendary draft day outfit? There is a picture of Zeke Elliott. Do you remember what Zeke Elliott looked like on his draft day? Probably a lot different than he does now. Probably a lot skinnier. Let's see if I can't find it. He – yeah, he was a lot skinnier. That is a good point. He wasn't playing center for the Devs. Did he have that nasty-looking nose ring? No, he had a crop top, where he just folded his dress shirt in to itself. It looks like the person they're trying to get on the Bud Light cam. Yeah, show – look at this. What? Not much has changed since his – because he's always the guy that tucks up his jersey. And they have the Go-Gardener. It literally has the chain soft on it. DK, just looking spiffy. Isn't that Jefferson? That is Jefferson. Have you seen the – Makes me even wonder. Have you seen the video or the picture of DK Metcalf in a workout? And, I mean, homeboy is just shredded. And then a picture of Mac Jones after he won the Natty at Alabama, and he's got, like, a beer gut, and he's smoking a cigar. And they're like, would you believe me if I told you both of these guys were in the same line of work and paid millions of dollars to do this job? I have. There's also one of Chris Collinsworth when he was a wide receiver. And they put him next to DK. Now here's the guy. Chris Collinsworth. Chris Collinsworth is just a skinny little white guy. And then the wide receiver back then was so different. DK is just massive. Other news today that's noteworthy, talking about the draft. CJ – not CJ Stroud. Bryce Young has canceled all of his other interviews. The odds in Vegas have dropped to, like, minus 1,000 for him to be the number one overall pick. So, it's a done deal, boys. Bryce Young is going to be a Carolina Panther. Hmm. Interesting. Done deal, eh? Vegas at minus 1,000 odds? That's about guaranteed as it gets. He wouldn't even try to accept any other visits. Well, there'd be no point. Who else does he visit? Do we know? I don't know. If the Panthers have told him, hey, we're taking you, I'm canceling all my other visits. I got better things to do with my time. I would still have a backup plan at least. I mean, he's – if they don't pick him next season. I mean, if I'm being 100% honest, like, I'm networking because if I know the Panthers, I would be like, maybe I should have a backup plan if this Panthers job doesn't pan out. I've always asked. You're allowed to not sign with the team that drafts you, are you not? Yeah, didn't Eli Manning do that? Yeah. Did he choose to play for whoever was going to pick him? Really? I did not know that. I can't remember who the team was, but I'm pretty sure Eli Manning did that. Speaking of our favorite teams. The Chargers? Yes. The Chargers. Wow. How happy are you, Jake, that the Patriots signed a free agent, Trace McSorley? Dude, I don't know. It's like they just don't understand what the heck they're doing with, like, just quarterbacks right now. They don't get it. It's like you've got Mac Jones, Bailey's happy, and they're like, you know what this organization needs? A third mediocre quarterback. And maybe, just maybe, we can piece something together. But, hey, Bill Belichick, there's a reason why he's one of the greatest coaches. Maybe he saw something. Who knows? There was a rumor that was going around that, like, possibly, this was early on, that, like, Lamar Jackson could go to the Patriots. He wouldn't last with Bill. And I was so excited. Obviously, the show lives. Aww. I just love the Trace McSorley video. He just blew up in popularity. He's so dumb. Michigan was still mediocre in the days Trace McSorley was at Penn State. And that home run celebration still gets me heated. I hate it. Oh, yeah. Well, it was funny because we occasionally beat Penn State at home. They cannot beat Michigan in an armor. So, I think BPJ scored, and he did the Saquon celebration back, which was awesome. But, yeah, I mean, I know I can't stand Penn State. Yeah. Anything else from the NFL, gentlemen, before our lovely, we'll call it a game. We'll see. What was that? Take it away there, teacher. All right. So, teacher here, Teacher J, this is a fun segment I would like to call Fight Night. Okay? So, in the past, we've done trivia. But this is a game in which we pit one-v-one style your favorite heroes, just characters that you know and love, whether that be books, whether that be people from the news, whatever it may be. We pit them up one-v-one style in a game of what if, and you have to determine who would win. Okay? So, I have a list of probably five or six one-v-one scenarios. And it's your job, as I'll announce the fight, you have to pick a winner. And you kind of got to back up your claim as to why. If you both agree, you got to be like, oh, this fight would last 30 seconds, six minutes, and this is why. Okay. Okay? I follow. Are we ready? Give us the first one. All right. Our first match-up of the night, Count Dooku from the Star Wars universe versus Saruman from the Lord of the Rings. Are they not the same person? They are. He's a man of many halves. He's fighting himself. Oh, I just have to. See, the problem with this one is, I don't know enough. Like, I know Lord of the Rings pretty darn well, but I haven't read all the books and everything. Like, the movie doesn't give you enough on Saruman's part. Hey, this isn't meant to be clinical or analytical. This is just to be YouTubing. This is a paper universe. What we do know is he smoked Gandalf the Grey and took his staff. Now, would he have that same force power against Count Dooku? Because he kind of did use a little bit of the force when he had the staff. He also smoked an entire mountain on top of the fellowship. That is true. From afar. So he can move a mountain by, like, summoning clouds, but Count Dooku has electricity glowing from his fingers. But can Saruman eat electricity? Can he block electricity? Well, think of what Gandalf can do. Think of what you've seen Gandalf do. Defeated literally a demon itself, a.k.a. the Balrog. And then died. And then just, like, overcame death to be the G. Yep, they sent him back because his work wasn't finished, and then he beat Saruman. I'm going to have to go with Dooku. The lightsaber is what gets me. That's the winner winner. Yeah. You would think in a battle like this, though, that they wouldn't even come in contact with each other. Saruman would make sure of that. So you think Saruman. I think Saruman. He is a wizard. Yeah. I'm going to go with Saruman. I think we're split on this. It's an even 50-50 split. You can still place bets on it. It doesn't matter. Isn't there a computer app at this point that does random battle generators? What? There was, like, a show that was, like, Deadliest Warrior or something like that. They would do, like, A.I.-simulated. I mean, you could probably ask just a chat G.D.P. to give you an answer. Sure. Whoever is listening in chat, I know some of my high schoolers are going to be listening, and I know they probably use it to write some of my papers. Send me in an essay that the A.I. writes I'll do away with it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's a good match-up, though. That's a good start. What do you got for us? All right. The next one. This is a 1v1 in which I have talked about with my students and also a 1v1 that we have also talked about and discussed in our friend group. A silverback gorilla versus a grizzly bear. Grizzly bear all day. All day, every day. So... Real answer, not your mean answer. Okay. I mean, the gorilla is definitely going to win. No! You're a troll. You're a troll. How? I'm never going to say a bear is going to win, man. Monkeys are so cool. They would just find a way. Where are we fighting? We're fighting in the jungle, by chance. A cage. Fight to the death. Cage. Fight to the death. That just doesn't... That just favors the bear. That doesn't allow the monkey to use his... Okay, we did not put Saruman and Dooku in a cage, so just picture wherever you want bears to lay. In an open... In a... No, no. In a jungle. In a jungle with trees and stuff. He's way more athletic than a bear. Bears are gumpy. Very gumpy. Bears are faster than gorillas. Maybe in a straight line. We're not in an open field. They can climb trees. Can you see a bear climb a tree? The gorilla would be swinging from the tree. I don't know. Are you saying the gorilla is going to go Mortal Kombat style? Yes. Yes. Uh-huh. This is a tough one to defend, but I will die doing it. That paw would just ruin the gorilla in like two seconds. Are we saying it's another split? Yep. I will not... Okay, you don't want to die on this, though. For your students, at least, you know. This is a Goodrich education as opposed to this Byron education. So, I actually did many a research on this in terms of weight comparison, size comparison, fighting styles. People always bring up, they're like, People always bring up, they're like, Oh, a gorilla can bite a bowling ball in half. Well, if you're comparing fighting styles, gorillas don't use their teeth and their bite force and their bite strength in attack. If you've ever watched Tarzan... They eat their plants, bro. That's all they eat. Bears eat other flesh. We didn't have to assume you got an itch for... Harambe lost a child, to be realistic. Harambe lost a child. I love how Jake asked us and then totally defended me. You probably tainted your students. You told them you'd get extra credit if you say the bear thing. I teach at an accredited school that is recognized by the state of Michigan. What I say is the gospel truth in my classroom. Oh my goodness. Alright, moving on. Number three. I like this. We need to get on the same page. Listen, I think you might be able to get on the same page. I'll just warm up. Alright, from my audience, this is a relatively long one. But I want you to close your eyes. I want you to take... I want to take you on a journey with me. Picture this is your match-up. Pay-per-view. Fight night. Top G. Andrew Tate. Fresh out of prison. Okay? Versus six midget Hazbulim. Armed with a Swiss Army pocket knife. Shut up. Shut up. So this is post... We've been trained in Romania. So this is post-Romanian prison. Andrew Tate. I think we can agree it's Andrew Tate. Versus six Hazbulim armed with a Swiss Army pocket knife. I will agree with you on this one. As fun as it would be to send a Hazbulim. Because Hazbulim doesn't have his 800 people following him around. It's just him against Andrew Tate. Well, him and his six other clones. I was going to say, on the Russian news, it looked kind of exactly the same. Yeah, I think this one's hands-down our easiest one. Andrew Tate's got a lot of pent-up anger. He's going to take it out on us. How many Hazbulims do you need to add to make it fair? You need about 152 Hazbulims. It's a funny... It's a funny... It's a Swiss Army knife. It's like 150 Hazbulims. That's a... That's a... Possibly one. You really think 100's going to be enough? I mean, it takes a while. How old is Hazbulim? He's like 19 years old. It's so funny. Oh, my God. Homeboy is like a devout Muslim. You never see him out, never cusses, never goes out to parties. It's like even the sight of a woman scares Hazbulim into oblivion. It's so funny. That'd scare Andrew Tate. That'd scare Andrew Tate. Greta Thunberg, bring it on. That'd be a clash of styles. How many, realistically, does it take? I think 30. 30? 30 Hazbulims? What are they, a team of 50? You are underestimating. How tall is him? How tall is him? How tall is Hazbulim? Let's see. How tall is Hazbulim? Well, if we're being honest, Andrew Tate was also a boxer. He was a kickboxer, was he not? He was a kickboxer, and like, Hazbulim's head at 3'1 is right about that height. That is not good for Hazbulim. Like, I just picture... He's 3'1? He's 3'1? Yeah. Have you ever seen the... Like, I just picture the Stepbrothers scene, where Dale and Brendan go out to the playground and just start walloping the kids on the playground. That's what I picture that as. Yeah, six are probably going to get done. I think we agree, Andrew Tate. I chose the wrong number. All right, moving on. The Avengers versus the Justice League. The Avengers. The Avengers. We just don't know. I'm not huge into the comics, so I just don't know enough in our lifetime what I've seen of the DC characters. I got it. The Avengers have Drax. The Justice League doesn't. Are you talking about the original six Avengers, or what are you referring to? We're talking about 2012 Hulk, Thor... Why did I change my answer? There's no Drax. 2012 Thor? Mantis, though. Are you talking 2012 characters, or are you talking now characters, like Thor now? Let's say that. Because his power has grown. Let's say the very original six Avengers. Okay. However, they've come to their full potential. Okay. We'll say that. Against the full potential Justice League, which is... Help me out here. Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman... Aqualash. Aquaman. This might tip the scales for me. But what about the Flash? Hawkeye doesn't miss. We haven't seen anything from the Flash. They've kind of fumbled it over. Who was the last guy, that dumb robot character? Oh, yeah, I don't remember. Cyborg? Cyborg. He was in the Justice League, I don't think. Is he? Is he in the Justice League? I don't know. Okay, so let's match them up. Black Widow versus Cyborg. I got Black Widow. She's electrocuted. Cyborg's done. I think Aquaman is one of the most powerful ones of any of them, to be honest. So take Thor and... You gotta take Thor and Superman. Right. And then you gotta do Captain America against Aquaman? Who's gonna hang with Wonder Woman, though? Wonder Woman versus Iron Man. I don't know. I'm gonna be honest. The Justice League might take it. They might be more OP. Aquaman got annihilated by the chick that did a dump in Johnny Depp's bed. So, for being honest... No, but this is full potential, Aquaman. Oh. We gotta remember this. So he beat the Terminator. He beat the Black Manta. Wow. That's an accomplishment. No, I think we don't know... We don't want it to be the Justice League. Because what if... The answer is the Justice League. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Listen. We haven't even brought Hulk into the equation yet. But Superman, though... Yeah, Thor's fighting Superman. Okay. Thor's in trouble. Who's winning that battle? Is that on your 1v1? Yeah. Thor versus Superman? Thor versus Superman? No. No, that's just part of our Justice League. So Hulk... Hulk could, you know... Hulk got away with the ladies. I think he could... Him and Wonder Woman can go at it. Iron Man? Go at it. I'm getting real, real deep, though. This is actually very interesting. And we don't have enough time to discuss all this. Yeah, we got a couple minutes. We're totally... We're nerding out. But I like it. We got to nerd out about Star Wars at the end of the episode. That's true. So we're going to say we don't know. We need to think on this. My answer is Justice League. I hate it, but it is. I love the Hulk, though. The problem is Hawkeye and Widow don't really fit in with these. But we'll say Hawkeye one-taps Flash. Flash is dead right away. He did an instant kill on Hawkeye. And then Black Widow and him can fight Cyborg. And then everybody... All the gods go at it. Hawkeye lost a snow plow over the winter. That's what I'm saying. Oh, no, bro. You know, he's got a show called Renervation. I didn't see that. Renner gets wrecked. Okay, let me run the last three. John Wick versus Jason Bourne. I feel like we all know the answer to this one. John Wick can literally do anything and doesn't break a bone ever. He gets hit by cars. Yeah, he gets hit by cars, jumps out of four-story buildings. It doesn't matter. He gets right back up, rolls down an entire flight of stairs, which... We'll avoid that right now, but that was so fake, too. He just kept throwing his body. He's, like, 200 stairs. But he... John Wick wins. Okay. Yourselves against 15 10-year-olds armed with plastic sporks. I thought you were just going to say us. No. I don't want to be a part of that. Kraytch and you. Kraytch and me against 15 10-year-olds with plastic sporks. So it's you and you separately are facing 15... Oh, I'm at 100% smoke-on. Yeah, there's no way I would... Yeah, I think they would get clapped. I just want to ask your wife who's sitting on the couch, does she think the same thing? I think she could beat up 15 10-year-olds with plastic sporks. You have to put a lot of stuff in the nursing field. No, I'm just kidding. And then last but not least, this is kind of a slight tip of the cap to Mando episode 5? Or no, it was episode 6. A slight nod to Mando episode 6. 1v1 Lizzo versus Diabetes. Oh, that was episode 5. Wasn't it? That was 6. That was 6. We'll see. Probably at about 5 years old. Diabetes. Diabetes. Diabetes on the planet. Okay. You got to earn the edgy rating somehow, someway. Sorry, Mom. Have a good game, DJ. Well, that's a laugh. CDL, gentlemen. In CDL, we just finished up our Major 4 qualifiers. I can't believe the season is already almost over. I know. We just finished up our Major 4 qualifiers, which means Major 4 actually starts Thursday, this Thursday. Yep. Three days the Major is going to start. But let's quickly recap, Jake, what happened last weekend of the qualifiers. Well, I was pretty busy last weekend. So if I'm being honest, I was really only able to catch part of the thieves and then kind of rewatch it back as I was falling asleep a little bit and just kind of catching some highlights from over the weekend. The big one, I remember, well, last week's episode that did not air, I talked about thieves really struggling on Search and Destroy, specifically against OpTic. But in their latest kind of matchup against The Rocker, they 6-1'd them. So they absolutely dominated them. And if I'm not mistaken, I believe that was on Fortress. They then picked it back up. They've been pretty solid on control pretty consistently. They 3-0'd them on Expo. Still hate that map. Can't stand it from a personal standpoint. Has it grown in a week or two for you? No, not at all. We had one solid game, and I still can't stand it. It's just a thorn in my side. I hate it. But overall, thieves, it was a close. They had a good close mark, probably like 250 to 245. But thieves 3-0'd Rocker. And they closed out the Qualls at 4-1. I think they have the two-seater. Yep, so they've secured a spot in the winner's bracket going into the finals. Yeah, to me they look like the second-best team in the game right now. You can even say 1A, 1B with OpTic and Thieves. OpTic did beat Thieves 3-1 in the qualifiers, which I would put them above them, obviously, because of that. But Thieves are looking splicey. So I wouldn't count them out on a LAN major. But OpTic did finish the major 5-0. They were the first team to do it this season. So a big accomplishment for them. Obviously, they're the one seed going into the major. The only concern I have for them is they still haven't found a foothold in control. They constantly lose on Expo. They just split, I think, LSE low this weekend. And they just don't ever look confident on it, which is crazy. Because they are on like a nine-game hard point winning streak. They haven't lost a hard point in the qualifiers. But here they are. They can't figure out control, which is another respawn load on the same maps at times. It's time for Expo. But that would be my only concern. If they end up dropping a match early in the major, it's going to be because they lost the control. But they also have a very nice draw in the bracket for the major. They are playing the Breach because they just beat 3-1 because they lost control. They got Breach. If they win that game, they play the winner of Legion versus Subliners. And Subliners they just beat as well. So it's very doable before they beat Winners Finals, which we'll explain that later. But Optic is in a good spot. The only thing that concerns me is if they somehow drop a game to Breach, right? They lose to Breach. Guess who they would play in Losers Round 1? The Ultra, who just won the last major. So it is imperative that we do not drop match number 1 against the Breach. I think one of the teams that I scratch my head at the entirety of this past major, past two majors or something like that, Atlanta Phase started off so incredibly strong at the beginning of the year. And they come out this past weekend and they have a tight matchup against the Minnesota Rockers. It goes with game 5. Round 11? And if I'm not mistaken, let me see. Round 11, I think. Yeah, Round 11 on Hotel. Okay, so you have a game 5, you know, 3-2. They just edge out Minnesota Rocker, who is by no means a solid team. And then they go and they get absolutely walloped by the Seattle Surge. They get 3-0'd by them. And they're supposed to be considered one of the top teams in the league right now. In CBL points, they're still the number one team. I know. And I just scratch my head because it's like this has been one of the most polarizing teams to just understand. I think the biggest factor is Slasher. I think Slasher is highly overrated. And everybody says because he looks older and he's been in the league longer that he's a veteran. But he's actually super immature and not a good teammate because after every game, he's hopping on Twitter and complaining about something else that happened in the game or that the other team did, which is not how I would want a leader to be on my team. I mean, it's kind of hard to be a leader when you go 33-46 and you have the lowest KD on your team. Exactly. So he's not even good. And on top of that, he's not a leader outside of his statistics. I don't care if you're going 33-46. Like Ghosty sometimes does that for Optic. But they call him the human radar. He just always knows where the enemies are. When you do listen-ins, he's commenting it all out. They know exactly what's happening. He's kind of like the leader, which is crazy because he's a rookie. And he's what Slasher should be. And Slasher's just not that. Yep. Lastly, exciting race going into the last major, or this major and then the last. Right now, Rocker and Legion are tied in CDL points at 130 for the last spot in Chance. There's 12 teams. The top eight make it to Chance, which is the Super Bowl of Call of Duty. Legion hold the tiebreaker off of map count that they've won in series. So this is awesome. Legion just made their first-ever winner's bracket by going 4-1. CDL has been around for four years now. They just made their first-ever winner's bracket. Better late than never. And now they have a chance, a slight chance to make it to Chance. It'll be an exciting major coming up, important for both of them. They both are starting in winner's bracket, so they both have a chance to make a run. And if they lose a game, they have a chance to play another one. If I'm being honest, this might be one of the most interesting year and a half, two years of CDL to come. Because if Call of Duty stays true to what they're saying as to when Modern Warfare 2 is going to be their choice game, over the next two years, CDL might be pretty interesting as pros are going to come up with just new ways to handle Modern Warfare 2. Yeah, I don't know how they're going to handle that yet, but I wonder if they're going to change the maps. It'll be interesting, to say the least. Because I would get bored of watching them play on Hotels. If I had to watch Fortress too much longer, I'm going to lose my mind. Or Expo. I don't mind watching it on Expo, as long as I'm not having to play that hot dog water on the map, then I'll be fine. Shall we wrap this episode up with our possibly favorite part? Yes. You guys aren't going to need to cut me short on this, because I have so many thoughts. That's alright. Let's start with episode six. Yes, due to our technical difficulty last week, we're going to quickly recap what happened in episode six, and then, thankfully, the turnaround that happened in episode seven. Jake just fake-puked. So, break down episode six there, Creech. Yeah, we go from episode six, the worst episode this season, to episode seven, which was undoubtedly the best episode. Very rollercoaster of a ride the last couple episodes, but to hit on six a little bit more... Did you just write that note? Jack, Black, and Lizzo, aka Jabba's niece. I had a long day at school. I just feel a little irritated. Take it out on Lizzo. But it just felt like it could not have come at a worse time. Episode six, there's only eight episodes in this season, so episode six needs to be one where important stuff is happening. And they go on a side mission, and they do a side mission within a side mission, with Jack, Black, and Lizzo, and trying to chase down the droids. It was just pointless. It was just a filler and a waste of time, and none of the plot was developed, and it just wasn't good. It was funny because when they enter the tube in which they get in off the launch pad, it is so perfectly like when they take off in their conversation, you could cut the entire 50 minutes that was in between and basically butt them up to the very end conversation they have going out to the tunnels, out to the field. It's like the conversation never stops. We need to get time stamps so we can tell the people to just watch it until here, and then skip to 52 minutes and 30 seconds. You don't even need to watch that atrocity of like a Romeo and Juliet copycat at the beginning, which I don't even know. I watched that with Caroline, and she like, even somebody that doesn't watch Star Wars, she was like, is this Star Wars? I was like, unfortunately, yeah. Now you did pose a question here in our comments, I see. Does Mando feel like he's becoming a side character in his own show? And I want to answer that by saying yes, because that's the style they've kind of taken up in past shows. So, for instance, Obi-Wan wasn't really the main character in Obi-Wan, which is stupid. Same thing with Boba Fett. Mando and Grogu were very much side characters, along with other missions in Boba Fett. So I think the same thing is happening in Mandalorian Season 3 with Bo-Katan and Mando. However, so I put this on the notes, thoughts on Bo-Katan getting the Darksaber, and it had an epiphany a little bit. Because as I was sitting at home wallowing in my anger, I was thinking, why in the world is somebody who was on the cover of the freaking show itself, why in the world is he becoming a side character to this? Why in the world is he just handing this Darksaber away on a technicality? Well, I was like, I've got to think about the future of this show. If Mando becomes the ruler of Mandalore, at that point, where does this show really go on? If Mando becomes the ruler of Mandalore and he's having to stay on Mandalore and be the ruler. It would kind of be boring, you can't live this bounty hunter lifestyle. So I understand, do I agree with how Bo-Katan got the Darksaber? No. But I understand while they're making a precedent to raise Bo-Katan and give her this floor, she's going to be like, this is going to be the ruler of Mandalore. She's going to play an important role in the retaking and the reclamation of Mandalore, which will have huge implications down the line in future seasons. So she's having her moment, and we're going to see Mando in the future, I think. So that's what I have to say. That's fair. But yeah, her getting it on that technicality felt like a cop-out move. And it was just really weak. She killed back what they're referring to as Bo-Katan saving him from that little General Grievous kind of thing. It's like the old version of General Grievous. Yeah. The thing just has one eye, and that's it. The snail looking thing. That thing was never going to kill Bo-Katan. It just felt weak. But all bad things have to turn to good in Star Wars, and we were given a nice seventh episode in which IG-12 returns. Now, why do I say IG-12? Because IG-11 was remade, and you can now drive him. For Grogu. So Grogu sits in the middle of him. No longer that little weird bulb-looking thing he has to sit in anymore. No. He can't fly, though. I like his little floating carrier. But IG-12 is going to be good. I like that he has a yes and a no button. Oh, that was hilarious. Now all he is is, give the kid a gun. Yeah. Make this Texas-style. Give the kid a gun. But about this episode, it was gritty. It was darker. There was a true Star Wars feel to it. Who returned? Ross Gideon. Ross Gideon. That's the thing we've been missing all season, is we haven't had a true villain. He's a good bad guy. But they did sprinkle in, you know, Moff Gideon has escaped. Beskar armor, you know, would help in the escape. So we were given a few sprinklings, but you're right, we haven't had the villain all season. At the beginning of episode seven, Thrawn was mentioned. Yes. And we got to see Hux from... Now he is the father of Hux. Yes. He is the father of General Hux from episode seven. That's crazy. And the two people that play him are actually brothers. Yes. So one plays the dad, one plays the son, even though they're brothers. That's funny. Yes, but Hux is mentioned. They have Thrawn, and the Ahsoka trailer did just release, and Thrawn is in that trailer as well. So maybe we might see Thrawn down the line with Ahsoka and Mando. I'm so excited for the mixture. Because Ahsoka has already been in Mando. So you know that they're going to tie him back together at some point. Are we going to see Mando and the Rebels? Choppa? Choppa? Mena? Harrison? Those war criminals? Anyway, so the name of this episode, though, was titled The Spies or Spies, I don't remember. Who do you guys think they're referring to? I have a wild theory, which you guys probably already read. But I think the Armorer is one of the spies for Moff Gideon. She has the spiky spikies on her helmet. Moff Gideon showed up with spiky spikies on his helmet. Now, in very nerdy Star Wars lore, those people are referred to sometimes as Maul DeLoreans. Because Maul had spiky spikies on his head. So, why did she try to keep Mando away from Mandalore, saying it was poisoned? Because she was trying to hide the facility. Then, she was the first one to volunteer to leave the place when they were getting trapped or ambushed and take the injured people up. Somebody else could have totally taken them up. An important character like her does not need to be the one taking those injured pirates or whatever they were. Do you think maybe she was hoping with an intention of like... She almost kind of banked on the idea that both of these sides of the Mandalorians are not going to get along. Maybe they fight, yes. And she's hoping that they fight and it further tears them apart. Because it's the Children of the Watch and... Bo-Katan... They're the Death Watch, aren't they? No, Bo-Katan is the... Night Owl. The Children of the Watch and the Night Owl is going at it, which is... I know we're getting nerdy, but this is good stuff. But I think you're spot on with the armor. I think she's going to get revealed as the other spy. The one spy is obviously the chick who talks to Moff Gideon on the hologram at the beginning. We knew that all along. But there's someone else on the inside. Because those Imperials with the jetpacks, they flew directly to them. Knew exactly where they were and forced them down that tunnel, which was the trap. So someone in the Mandalorian ranks had to be given them away. Which, I have a problem with how dumbly they followed them. Like, why would you follow them? There's obviously more. There are upgraded clone troops with Mandalorian armor. Maybe we should regain our horses and not attack them. But at the same time, they're in this decrepit city that hasn't been inhabited in a lot of years. Yeah, in a lot of years. The last thing you're expecting is a giant Imperial facility on the inside. Uh-oh. Wait a second. Uh-oh. Lights are going off. Let them cook. The armorer. If she's the spy, is she the one that's, like, telling Gideon? Yes. And supplying them the armor she's making? Yes. She's the armorer. That's true. I didn't think about that. That's wild. He probably made his suit that he can't fly in and out of. I will say that I forget her name. The Imperial spy. I can't remember her name either. They do so well making her a hated character. Every time my wife and I are watching The Mandalorian and they show her, I just cringe. I can't stand her. Is it Harry? No, it's just she's so bad. And the way she did the Doctor dirty and now is here. It's just like, someone, Coruscant, open your eyes and kill her. But no one will. And she's doing so well. It's just like the prequels when you know Sidious is bad. Anyway. I guess what I'm struggling with. The two really big things. Those Praetorian guards. Holy smoke. That's awesome. That slow motion. I don't know what camera angle that is. But as Vizsla is just got done massacring these armored dudes. And it's like just one of the coolest dudes on the planet. He's tired. And these three Praetorian guards come out in like this slow motion style cut of a shot. What were they wielding? That's what I wanted to talk about. Because their weapons. They looked like they were the, like the shocky stick. Shock whips. Shock whips. From the, um. The episode. The sequel. The sequel. From episode three that, from the guards that protected General Grievous. They had like that purplish kind of look to it. The Magna Guards. The Magna Guards. Yeah. But they didn't look anything at all like the weapons that the Praetorian guards that were protecting Kylo Ren were using. Probably a version of an electro stick. It just looked different because they almost looked like they were impaling him. Like they were like daggers. But they just didn't look like it. So they definitely can pierce Bas-Kar. So they look like mini. I think they were. I think they hit him in the areas he didn't have Bas-Kar. Maybe. Yeah, they got him in the neck. The back of the neck. Yeah, you're right. But still. Those were the three guards that Moff Gideon referred to. Yeah. When he went into that meeting. But. So when Moff Gideon finishes his, you know, his meet up with the spy on Coruscant. He turns around and there's like a small nod to the Phantom Menace where he's walking through and the laser gates are coming on and off. That was cool. There's like sets of, are there, are they robotic? I was just so confused because like there's the sets of Bas-Kar armor that are standing there and almost like human like. But they're just like. They're clones. Yeah, but are they just standing there? Like it was super weird and like are they actually clones? Because it sounded like his research failed. Not yet. Because there was the Bacta tanks that he also walked past. Those might be the robots still. Like different versions of the robots. But why would they need to be in Bacta tanks though? Those ones weren't in Bacta tanks. When he walked through the things, weren't they just standing there? He's saying the droids. But there were also, so he walked past the sets of armor. Yeah. But then he also walked past the Bacta tanks. The Bacta tanks I think are a nod to the sequels with. He's still trying to continue the research. Yes. Kind of deal. To get Sidious back. Yeah. I think, and that's why Grogu is so important. Also. To have a force sensitive clone. Yeah. You mentioned the Phantom Menace with those laser screens. Same vibes when they trapped, they shut the door and made all the other Mandalorians watch while Din gets captured and Vizsla obviously sacrifices him. So very reminiscent like you said of Obi-Wan watching Qui-Gon die. So does Viz die? There's no way he dies, right? No. That would end the show. But would it? I think it would. I feel like people would be way too angry. Because you spend two whole seasons building up a character and people are already going like, ah, and then just to kill him and now Grogu has no papa. Grogu got IG-12. Like, yes, he has IG-12 at the same exact time. If you're following a company that does really, really good, like it's focused on story, and then there's Disney who is focused on making money and also a decent story, I'm going with Disney and being like, yeah, we're not going to take one of our hottest money makers right now. Okay. Does he lose a limb? That would be so cool to see him lose like an arm and have it be like all metal-like. That's a Vader arm. Quick shout out, Breaking Bad was very involved in this episode. You had the return of Moff Gideon, Gus, and you had the night owl on the pirate ship. Did you guys notice? Skinny Pete. Yes. Skinny Pete. Yes. Skinny Pete. Yes. Yeah, I did see that. Which is also, oh, that brings me to another point. It might not just be the armor. It might be those pirates that are the spies too. Oh, actually, yeah. Skinny Pete being a spy. That's like the obvious one is, oh, how did they survive? Because they've been on the planet. Yeah. And how do you not know that there's these massive imperial things? I just want it to be the armor because that's such a good plot twist. Yeah. But it seems too obvious as well. What a plot twist that it's the armor, but then the armor also takes off the helmet, and it's actually Walter White. What an even bigger plot twist to combine the two universes. All right, with that, we appreciate you listening to the episode. 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