Double Trouble LIVE! w/ Rory Scovel & Jessica St. Clair

Summary

How Did This Get Made? - Episode: Double Trouble LIVE! w/ Rory Scovel & Jessica St. Clair

Release Date: May 2, 2025

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Introduction

In this lively episode of How Did This Get Made?, hosts Paul Scheer, Jason Mantzoukas, and Jessica St. Clair dive deep into the 1992 B-movie Double Trouble. Joined by special guest Rory Scovel, the panel dissects every facet of this cult classic, celebrating its unabashed quirks and unintentional hilarity.

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Guest Introductions

• Rory Scovel: A seasoned comedian known for his sharp wit and engaging performances, Rory brings fresh perspectives to the discussion.
• Jessica St. Clair: Renowned for her roles in Grace and Frankie and Movie Night, Jessica adds her comedic flair and insightful commentary.

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Overview of Double Trouble

Double Trouble centers around the Barbarian Brothers, Peter and David Paul, fraternal twins navigating a convoluted plot involving a jewelry smuggling ring. The film juxtaposes their muscular physiques with a storyline riddled with missteps and baffling decisions.

Notable Quote:

• Paul Scheer [01:39]: "In the immortal words of the late great Shah of Iran, no way. Yes way. We saw Double Trouble."

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In-Depth Analysis

1. Direction and Acting

   • John B. From Pee Wee's Playhouse directed the film, infusing it with unconventional stylistic choices that border on cartoonish logic.
   • The acting, particularly by the Barbarian Brothers, oscillates between earnest attempts and over-the-top performances, leading to moments that are unintentionally comedic.

   Notable Quote:

   • Jason Mantzoukas [05:36]: "I will pass out. I have to be cool."

2. Plot and Continuity Flaws

   • The movie's narrative is plagued with inconsistencies, such as the sudden reveal of one twin being an assassin and the other a cat burglar without adequate buildup.
   • Rory Scovel [06:37]: "Would it surprise you that this is one of four of their films done Boy."

3. Character Development

   • The twins exhibit minimal growth, maintaining identical personalities throughout, which hinders the audience's ability to differentiate or empathize with them.
   • Jessica St. Clair [07:00]: "They are, they're very into like cat and mouse games."

4. Memorable Scenes

   • The subway rescue scene and the absurdly prolonged handcuff grinding highlight the film's commitment to over-the-top action.
   • Paul Scheer [15:29]: "The one character in this movie does not change his wardrobe for one scene. But it's like, oh, now, but multiple days."

   Notable Quote:

   • Jason Mantzoukas [51:22]: "When they press stop, not only does the security footage stop, but the score stops."

5. Humor and Unintentional Comedy

   • The panel appreciates the film's unintentional humor, likening certain scenes to classic slapstick and cartoon antics.
   • Rory Scovel [57:54]: "Bring back the belly shirt."

6. Special Effects and Production Quality

   • The low-budget effects, such as the use of outdated props and improbable stunt sequences, add to the film's charm.
   • Jason Mantzoukas [60:13]: "He throws it on the car, and then the guy whose car falls on, he just kind of pushes it off."

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Audience Interaction

Listeners submitted questions regarding plot inconsistencies and character motivations, which the hosts addressed with humorous skepticism and critical analysis.

Notable Questions:

• Why does an FBI agent have jurisdiction over a limo driver? - Asked by a listener named Liz.

  Response:

  • Jason Mantzoukas [62:15]: "I believe he is the first rappeller. They all were like, we're in a penthouse. We have to be ready to rappel down the side."

• Is there any character arc in the movie? - Raised by Big Mike.

  Response:

  • Rory Scovel [78:05]: "That was his first take on the film. And they were like, you're genius, dude."

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Conclusion and Recommendations

Despite its numerous flaws, Double Trouble is celebrated by the panel for its earnestness and the sheer dedication of its actors. The hosts recommend embracing the film's imperfections as part of its unique charm.

Final Thoughts:

• Paul Scheer [82:41]: "If you're mad at this movie, like, what the hell is wrong with you? It's about beefy twins. Five stars."
• Jason Mantzoukas [83:19]: "All right, so we all recommend it."

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Where to Find the Hosts and Guests

• Rory Scovel: Catch his shows at the Skylark Lounge on April 15 and at the Bug Theater on April 29.
• Jessica St. Clair: Join her and other comedians for Movie Night at the Bug Theater.
• Paul Scheer & Jason Mantzoukas: Support their live shows in Toronto and Chicago, and check out their other projects such as The Dark Web.

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Final Words

How Did This Get Made? wraps up the episode by acknowledging the enduring appeal of Double Trouble despite—or perhaps because of—its myriad shortcomings. The hosts invite listeners to join their live performances and continue the conversation about beloved bad movies.

Notable Quote:

• Jason Mantzoukas [84:24]: "Eat shit, Colorado."

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Transcript

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[Paul Scheer]

In the immortal words of the late great Shah of Iran, no way. Yes way. We saw Double Trouble.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So.

[Paul Scheer]

So you know what that means.

[Jessica St. Clair]

What's up jerks?

[Paul Scheer]

Hey people of Earth.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I'm trying to figure out if this movie's worth the time it takes to watch. It could be much better spent on doing literally anything else. It's true. But you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna watch it anyway. Cause that's just how I feel today. And it'll be fun to listen to Jason, Paul and June rant as they try to figure out that thing that I can't. And that's this. How did this get made? Geostar.

[Paul Scheer]

Hello people of Earth. And hello people of Denver. You just heard the one and only Jon Hand, a Denver one man band doing our opening theme song. Laying down the gauntlet to every other city. We've been doing this show for 15 years. No one had the balls to say let me come up there and sing the song. He did a great job. We're excited to be back in Denver. It's been over seven years. And you know what? We had to bring something special. A movie that. That came out in 1992 starring Peter Paul and David Paul as Peter Jade and David Jade in a little movie called double trouble. The IMDb logline is muscle bound twins try to smash a jewelry smuggling ring. That's about it. Yeah. That's all you need to know. That's all you need to know that these are two giant men who are identical not only in looks, but in personality. Honestly, can't tell them apart. Tagline of the movie, twin brothers. One's a good cop, the other is bad news. One thing that I think is great about this movie that I want to bring up very early on is the writer of Double Trouble is also the writer of the Beekeeper, the Jason Statham movie the Beekeeper. And this was directed by John B. From Pee Wee's Playhouse. The Head in the Box. That's not a bit. This was directed by Jambi. He also played the pterodactyl. Worked a bunch with Pee Wee and Elvira. And I gotta say, in watching it, I was like, this movie's not badly directed at all. I was into it. So that was John Paragon. Now to break down everything we need, my co host, please welcome to the stage, Mr. Jason Mantzoukas.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's up, jerks? Let's go, Denver, let's go. I have to be cool. We're at altitude. I will pass out.

[Paul Scheer]

I really have been suffering already.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just the walking out and a little jumping around and I'm like, cooked. I'm like, should I get my inhaler?

[Paul Scheer]

Jason Ball, how familiar are you with the Barbarian Brothers?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm a full zero for this. I started this movie up thinking I was about to watch a Jean Claude Van Damme movie.

[Unknown]

Oh, wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I had it in my mind. That's what Double Trouble was. Was. I was like, oh, I think that's what. And I was like, whoa, whoa. What is happening? This. This was a fever dream. This made me uncomfortable. I felt turned on.

[Paul Scheer]

There are so many things happening in this movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow. And there is a so few things happening in this movie. Well, it's like the perfect movie of. Of so much, so little. Which is kind of. The Barbarian Brothers.

[Paul Scheer]

Would it surprise you that this is one of four of their films done Boy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And we're rolling on the other three right now. We're not doing the show. We're just watching the rest. Do they ever. Do they ever do a movie where there's only one of them, but they keep sw. Or they keep swapping places. I would like that if that's.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, how would you know? Here's what I'll say. The one that really piqued my interest is a film called Twin Sitters where they are babysitters for a bunch of rich kids.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why is it a thing that there's a movie that has to happen for every big jacked action star that they have to contractually do a movie where they're a babysitter or a nanny? Why is that a thing? I think because Vin Diesel, I think.

[Paul Scheer]

It'S just because kids are like, whoa.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It'S not a tumor. I mean, it's not a baby sitter, but it's close.

[Paul Scheer]

But even. Even Dave Bautista did one with a little girl. I think he's done two. So, yeah, I don't know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why do we want that?

[Paul Scheer]

Kids want big people.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why? To protect them.

[Paul Scheer]

Just to be like, whoa.

[Rory Scovel]

I.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know what? No, no.

[Paul Scheer]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Don't give your kids to these big people. Right? Give them to me. Give me those babies. Let me hold them. I'll protect the babies.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, you know, in our last episode, our next co host, she said, well, this movie went down easy for me because I like looking at abs. Well, guess what? You got a double. The abs. In this movie. She is the co host of the Deep Dive. She is a. How did this get made all star? Please welcome Jessica St. Clair.

[Rory Scovel]

Wow, wow, wow. Thank you so much for having me, boys.

[Paul Scheer]

Jessica.

[Rory Scovel]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Barbarian brothers. Does this register to you at all?

[Rory Scovel]

Ugh. You know, I really thought that you guys were going to do a lot of, like, futuristic trash can fires on me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're welcome. You're welcome. I believe there's not one trash can fire in the whole tour. You're welcome.

[Rory Scovel]

And during this movie, I thought, I've never been hornier.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank God I'm in a hotel room alone that I don't have to get out of.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, the fantasies you would have with.

[Rory Scovel]

I thought, I wish a trash can would set on fire because it would be more interesting than watching this piece of shit. Now here's the deal. I said during Craven that I. That. That his abs saved that entire movie for me. I think it did for you too, Paul.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, absolutely.

[Rory Scovel]

I think it did for you. And you love that hair. But.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

St. Clair is, let me be clear, sexually obsessed with Craven and also keeps telling me that I wish I was Craven. Therapists in the audience now. Any therapists in the audience who want to pipe up When Paul's out there, I'd love to hear from you.

[Rory Scovel]

All I know is I see Jason in the airport today and he's all just like, like craven style.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I also bring my own throne wherever I go.

[Rory Scovel]

No, but I'll just say this. I like a hairless man. I like a man with abs. I do not like a man with a tiny waist and then a big old butt. I want it big all over or not big at all.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, you see, I like that little tiny waist and then you got that round thing in your face.

[Rory Scovel]

You do get sprung, Paul. You do get sprung.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, we will break it all down, but we have a very special guest. This is somebody who I think is one of the funniest stand ups working. He is currently a Denver resident doing amazing comedy shows all around Denver. His special Religion, Sex and a Few Other Things in Between is hilarious. Check it out. If you have not seen it yet, please welcome to the stage Rory Scoville.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Thank you. Thank you for that.

[Paul Scheer]

Welcome, Rory. Well, well, well. I was excited to have you on the show, but more excited to have you for this film because it's a real like when we find these pockets of movies that you don't know anybody in, but clearly this was a thing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, it is again that we've gotten 15 years into this podcast and have never touched a Barbarian brothers movie. That I didn't know such a thing existed until today. How did I get so lucky?

[Paul Scheer]

Did you. Did you know of the Barbarian brothers?

[Jessica St. Clair]

I've seen their faces. In your dreams? In my dream, if I have the right dinner, they show up. I don't know them and I will.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

None of us know them.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Ever look into them again. This was it for me.

[Paul Scheer]

Peter and David Paul, by the way. That's the other thing that gets me about the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Whoa. Fuck. Are these the Paul brothers Dads? Are these Jake and Logan, Paul's dad.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Whoa. Are these the prime daddies?

[Paul Scheer]

These are. These are the dads that changed the world with cool sons.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

These are my Paul brothers right here. OG These are Paul brothers as straight Gen X. These are my Paul brothers.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I really didn't know where to even begin with this movie because it starts with like a limo driver who's late who's picking up this guy. Now we're led to believe he's an actor who's bad at his job. Little do we know. Big twist coming. This guy's a stone cold assassin. He kills more people than anyone.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But he straight up looks like he's like Jimmy Olsen. He looks like he's Superman. Superman's pretty children.

[Rory Scovel]

I'm wondering, you guys would be the experts, but has a mild man ninja ever been an assassin? So when I see a red headed gentleman, I don't think stone cold killer.

[Paul Scheer]

Right.

[Jessica St. Clair]

A little too fresh faced, too.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah, A little too fresh faced. And he has a little pony.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Everybody in the movie Ponytail everybody.

[Rory Scovel]

Even when the rest of the hair is short pony.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah. Well, that's my favorite guy. The guy that has like really short hair and then a ponytail in the back who fights one of the Paul brothers in the factory afterwards.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I was like, this is a. Gabriel's part right now, 100%.

[Paul Scheer]

It kind of reminded me of John Candy's stuff. Stunt double. It's like he had like a little bit of a mustache. But I was wondering about this assassin because we meet him, he gets out of the car, he forgets his hat, and he's. And he's just running around on the street. Rose Hill. Rose Hill. I was like, this. This is lucky that this guy happens to be on the street. But then I was like, when I found out he was an assassin, I was like, is he that method of an assassin? Because he's like, I'm an actor. And I like, is he really going.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why was being late part of it?

[Paul Scheer]

That's what I'm saying.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's like, why was before was he late? Like, like, I was like, whoa, is this a choice or what?

[Paul Scheer]

That's what I'm saying. I'm saying, yeah. Is a stone cold killer who's also like, I like to get into my parts. I am a. I am a limo driver who is trying to be an actor. I got to leave my kids to do this audition and I have to pick up this guy. He's got a full backstory.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And the actual actor pitched that he was supposed to be on time. And he goes, what if I'm late? And they were like, oh, my God.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would love it if they hit. The hitman pitched it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

When they're hiring him to take the hit, he's like, if it's cool with you, I'd like to be late.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Wait, we gotta.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

As long as you kill him, man.

[Jessica St. Clair]

We gotta time it out with the funeral. He goes, I know, but what if I'm late?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I'm thinking. I think, I'm thinking. And I've got an excuse. Like my kid was hurt or. No, no, I had an audition. All right, go.

[Paul Scheer]

And then he's always like, he's always like, boss, can I talk to you for a second? So I'm thinking for this, you know, I've been trying to go vegan, right. So I'm hungry and so like, so I'm going to definitely have a thing where I'm like, oh, is that, is that steak? Are you eating steak? And he's like, yeah, we don't need all the backstory money. Just, just kill him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would have loved the movie if it went into that much detail about the mild mannered ginger. The mmg.

[Rory Scovel]

The mmg.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I'd also like to point out he could have turned around and shot the guy before they even started the car.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Instantly.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Really, you didn't have to do all that.

[Rory Scovel]

Now can we just talk that this actually is, is a, is a real bugaboo for me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you cut out, add it to the list.

[Rory Scovel]

There are so many driving shots. If you cut out the B roll of driving, you would have a 15 minute film.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, but now hear me out, hear me out. How would you know how people got from one place to the other?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah. Cuz it's another story. That's another story.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, what? I, I just saw this fucking guy in jail. Now he's at Diamond Town.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah. And also if you know the streets, you're like, is that the best route?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, they definitely weren't going to lax. The best route. I know that.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah. When they got near the LA river, that guy should have been like, is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This the way not the right way? And the guy.

[Paul Scheer]

Are you going to kill me?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The guy should be nervous. He's got one of those metal suitcases handcuffed to his wrist. He should be on guard when they, they come out with a grinder. Roddy McDowell. Give it up for Roddy McDowell. Roddy McDowell, champ in this movie when they come out and they've like, they kill him and the guys come out and his beautiful aluminum zero Halliburton briefcase. This is. There will be a Zoox Cubes episode in this because there's backpacks. Please. Diamond backpacks. Anyway, they've got a grinder and instead of grinding the, the just one link on the handcuffs and walking away with it, they grind the whole case in half.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

And it takes 15 minutes.

[Paul Scheer]

Why, by the way? I mean, I'm probably the more sadistic person. Like just cut that hand off.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's what I thought they were going to do. Wouldn't that have been so much better?

[Rory Scovel]

Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

This was the driving shot of chopping off the thing. Yes. That guy pitched that, by the way. Yeah, he Wasn't supposed to cut the hand off. He goes, hold up, hold on a minute.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What if instead. Instead I take three times as long to make a horizontal cut all the way across?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I didn't even know you could get into a briefcase that way. I guess it does make sense. There is so much that goes on right away. I will say this. My grandma, who has since passed, a lovely woman, 97 years old, incredibly racist. She worked in the Hamptons, and occasionally in the Hamptons, she'd have these run ins with famous people. And one of the famous people that she worked that she bumped into was Roddy McDowell. And it was this picture of my grandma was up in her house. Because Roddy took the picture of my grandma and then signed it. So it's a Polaroid of my grandma signed by Roddy McDowell.

[Rory Scovel]

Not of him.

[Paul Scheer]

Not of him and not of her with him. And my grandma would tell a story about how when he took that picture, he cradled her face.

[Rory Scovel]

What?

[Paul Scheer]

And said, kay, I created 15 distinct.

[Unknown]

Personalities in Planet of the Apes.

[Rory Scovel]

That is so fucked up, Paul.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, that's why I wouldn't want him in the picture either.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Whoa.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Talking to me like that. Were you touching my face? My face.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why are you using my face?

[Paul Scheer]

My grandma was like. And he grabbed my face, and he looked me right in the eyes and he said, Okay, I created 15 different personalities.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Imagine if someone. You had this incredible moment with, someone that you had some sort of an experience. They shared a picture, a moment, they caressed your face, they came in close, and the thing they had to say was, I created 15 distinct personalities for Planet of the Apes. I created.

[Paul Scheer]

And just what a weird thing to put a time on it. This is late 90s, so to put.

[Jessica St. Clair]

A timestamp on it, this is pre Planet of the Apes. To make it even weirder. No one knows what he's talking about.

[Paul Scheer]

You'll know one day.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You'll see.

[Rory Scovel]

You'll see disappears into a cloud of dust.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, I created 15 different twin personalities for the Barbarian brothers in Double Trouble.

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[Paul Scheer]

Now this is all before we meet the Barbarian brothers. One of the barbarian brothers, obviously a thief, but not a thief. A cat burglar.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Who is obsessed with cat. Like, like, like very much like Catwoman. Like he's drawing pictures of cats and.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He'S, he's very into like cat and mouse games. He's doing a heist while calling the police on himself so they'll chase him.

[Rory Scovel]

This was my favorite move when he did the. Oh, I'm rolling. You're rolling. Wait.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh yeah, he rolled up.

[Rory Scovel]

I thought he was making like a.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like a whisker move.

[Rory Scovel]

No, no, like, like a camera.

[Paul Scheer]

Old camera.

[Jessica St. Clair]

To the camera.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, you thought he was trying to insinuate movies in a game of charades to a camera. So every time you thought he was like me, so.

[Rory Scovel]

Well, the quality of the film is so bad. I have to say though.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, were you. I wish you were in your room and he did that and you were like, okay, movie double trouble.

[Rory Scovel]

No, but I have to say I do think they had some good burns back and forth to each other.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, that was. I agree, cuz that was they. What's interesting. Interesting. In the movie, obviously one of them is a cat burglar. One of them is a policeman who's after the cat burglar. But what's so strange is they hate each other. Yeah, just actually just. The cop hates the cat burglar. The cat burglar seems to like giving it to his brother.

[Rory Scovel]

No. But then it all comes out because he was straight A student and he had no choice but to be bad.

[Paul Scheer]

So you did like it. You loved it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Which one was your favorite?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, which one?

[Rory Scovel]

Which one do you think was my favorite?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The bad boy.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah, I thought he was fun.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He was fun.

[Rory Scovel]

I did think he was fun.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, that was less abs though. You have to factor in. You're getting more abs from the cops.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He was the one that wardrobe did not give a crop top to.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh my God, how?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And he was like, it's cool if I wear this in every scene. Right?

[Rory Scovel]

For the entire month he's wearing that outfit every day.

[Paul Scheer]

The fact that one character in this movie does not change his wardrobe for one scene. But it's like, oh, now, but multiple days.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My guess is they did that for us to tell them apart.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yes, right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, yeah, he's always in that. Yeah, because if they change much, we're gonna have to do exposition to be like, yeah, I'm the one that was in the Raiders.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah, that's right.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, I mean, in one sense scene, he's just dressed as a police officer. We needed it that much to know. Oh, he must be the cop.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, oh, that's the one. Okay.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh, that's the cop. Cuz of the uniform.

[Paul Scheer]

The literally. Beth, can we play scene four? This scene me up because I was like, I'm confused. Scene four, this is when they are dressed the same. Oh, wait, maybe. Oh, wait, maybe this is not.

[Unknown]

Sorry.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Either way. Either way. If you ever have to shoot a gun down at someone, it's, you know, you know, chop, chop.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The casual nature of gunfire.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, my God.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Making no effort to aim. Nothing. I would love it if they cut now to an overhead and there were just like six dead civilians.

[Jessica St. Clair]

This is what. This actually started the phrase friendly fire.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, this is an active shooter right here. Also.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Also not a cop.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Nope.

[Paul Scheer]

Not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No. In fact, a prolific criminal.

[Paul Scheer]

Criminal, by the way, I've noticed even like the. The nerdy cop that's partnered with them, they all carry their guns very high.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

Poor win.

[Jessica St. Clair]

More like a baseball bat.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, it's up. It's like upper cheekbone and higher. Like, how are they going to get that gun down? They are not good at guns. Well, you know, I thought I had the scene where they're at the restaurant where they're dressed the same.

[Rory Scovel]

Oh, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they're in suits. Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

And then suits. I was like, I don't know who's.

[Rory Scovel]

Well, the way you knew was that the one who's the crop top walked for some reason in a suit like this. Like, suit made him unable to bend his limbs, but yet he is a.

[Paul Scheer]

Guy who was wearing tight jeans.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

And a crop top, which is not like loose.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I don't know how.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

How great would it have been if he got fed up with the suit and then just cut it. Cut it at the waist, you know, just was like, okay, now I feel better because I just need this 2 inches peeking right through.

[Rory Scovel]

Well, did you guys watch wrestling when you were little?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, now I don't know.

[Rory Scovel]

Are they.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Are these guys.

[Rory Scovel]

I was too busy talking to Rory.

[Paul Scheer]

They're not. They're not wrestlers.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They're not.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Did they ever do porn?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You look at this and you're like, this is this. This is my preferred White Lotus scenario.

[Rory Scovel]

Big time. A big time.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Honestly, you can tell I'd love it if the Barbarian brothers were in the next season of White Lotus.

[Paul Scheer]

Where.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Where are they now?

[Rory Scovel]

Huh?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, we'll see. We'll get to.

[Jessica St. Clair]

We'll. They're here tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, the Barbarian.

[Paul Scheer]

Bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom. When they ran. When they both ran into the subway tunnel, I laughed. I laughed so hard. The Barbarian brothers, Peter and David, are fraternal twins who had a small bit part following in the careers of Arnold and Lou Ferrigno. But then they made their first film, Barbarians.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, sorry, sorry. So they are bodybuilders. Well, like Lou Ferrigno and Arnold, you mean?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes, because they actually, where they got their start was in Rhode island because they had their own gym called Local Porn, P and D's House of Iron. So that's.

[Rory Scovel]

That's the porn I wanted to see. How is that P and D's House of Iron?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

How is that not an 80s era MTV show?

[Rory Scovel]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

By the way, that might be a good shirt for tonight. P and D's House of Iron. Rhode Island. Before this movie, their biggest claim to fame was that when they were nominated for worst newcomer at the Raspberry Awards, the Golden Raspberry Awards, they were the first actors to ever attend the ceremony.

[Rory Scovel]

That's cute. That is great.

[Paul Scheer]

Halle Berry has done it now. Francis Ford Coppola has done it. But they lost. They actually lost to a arm wrestler from the. From the Stallone movie Over the Top.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Really?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Does that feel good? Like, when you lose that night?

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Thank you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But do you think they only lost because they split the vote? Probably. By the way, I loved them.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, me too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I found them. They were charming, watchable.

[Rory Scovel]

They were charming.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I found them infinitely watchable because I was like, what's up?

[Rory Scovel]

What's up with these brothers?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I felt like they would block the scene and they'd just be standing off being like, blah, blah, blah, and someone would just push them in. They'd be like, what? Okay. It felt like they were improvising. It felt like maybe the movie was a prank being pulled on them.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They felt so organic and in the moment that I was like, these guys are either geniuses or they have no idea.

[Paul Scheer]

That's what I'm saying. This movie was not badly directed and finally acted. I mean, like, everyone's, like, knows what they're doing. And it's fun. Like, even that guy who is like, their nerdy.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Whitney.

[Unknown]

Whitney.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Whitney.

[Rory Scovel]

Justice. Justice for Whitney. Justice for Whitney. Because that guy, he. All he does is try to.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, wait, there's a guy dressed as Whitney.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. Yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

I love him so much.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Can we get. Can we get house lights? Can we get house.

[Rory Scovel]

I want to marry this guy.

[Paul Scheer]

Stand up again.

[Rory Scovel]

Stand up again.

[Paul Scheer]

I got to get a picture of Whitney.

[Rory Scovel]

Come on. I salute you, sir. I salute you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Are there any other Whitneys in the room?

[Rory Scovel]

I salute you, sir.

[Paul Scheer]

I want to just give justice to Whitney because Whitney is paired with him. He does kill the method actor. Murderer. Assassin. Murderer. And at one point, he's like, should I go call for help? And he's like, yeah. And he runs away. And the barbarian brothers are like, dick.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah. What a dude.

[Paul Scheer]

Why?

[Rory Scovel]

All he does is save their life over and over and over again.

[Paul Scheer]

It was a nice moment.

[Jessica St. Clair]

He literally just saved them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, they've got, like, big bully energy. Like, they're bullying each other. They've got, like, a real. So to me, they felt like they were just going to be, like, hazing Whitney the whole time.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, I got to. I got to say, that's true to the book. The book that. That's. He was. Whitney was that. And they were that to Whitney. And so to see that on screen. Screen and go. That's hard to translate. But they did it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Me and you. You read it in the original French.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. There's so many iterations of it. It's biblical, really.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's a ca. It's a Cane and Abel fable.

[Paul Scheer]

It's a.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's a Cane and Abel right here.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, honestly, even trying to tackle a subject matter, it's like, we all know it, you know? So what's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know, what's funny is I just remembered in the scene where they're in the apartment and they trap the guy under the weights. When they come back and find his throat is slit, they go take Whitney's pulse. And when upon discovering that he is alive, they're like, ah, yeah, he's alive. I was rooting for this other police.

[Rory Scovel]

Officer to be dead who's done nothing but help them.

[Paul Scheer]

Nothing but help. Although I do think he went to a bad doctor because he just got bonked on the head, and they wrap him up like a. Too much. Like, I don't even know why you would even need to wrap a concussion. It doesn't feel like that's an answer.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, I don't think that's how you do it.

[Paul Scheer]

Bugs Bunny wraps a concussion. The beginning of the movie when the cat burglar is cat burglaring, they call in the cop brother who seems to be working some sort of vice because they're not in a police uniform. He's with a woman and I his partner. His partner who I believe.

[Rory Scovel]

Careful.

[Paul Scheer]

I was going to say.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I feel the temperature of the water shifting.

[Rory Scovel]

Careful.

[Paul Scheer]

I thought that she was undercover as a.

[Rory Scovel]

Careful.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Okay.

[Rory Scovel]

Just because a woman wears a pair of platform heels that don't fit her.

[Jessica St. Clair]

As a police officer and caused her.

[Rory Scovel]

A lot of problem walking does not mean she is a street walker.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, I just thought that they were. They look like they both were not on duty. And they look like they were in deep under. Like, it wouldn't have been like, let's call them the vice squad for this. It's like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, I couldn't make heads or tails. They never appear in. In any kind of police wear. In any kind of nobody.

[Rory Scovel]

Are they undercover cops?

[Paul Scheer]

I think that's what I think.

[Rory Scovel]

Undercover cops dress in street clothes or when is it only when they're on the beach, when they're in the office.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What do you think the beat is.

[Rory Scovel]

Out on the streets being undercover.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Have you ever, like, seen under no cops?

[Rory Scovel]

Nope. Because they're so undercover, you know, you wouldn't know.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, you know, they always look so slobbish. And I feel like that is such a tell of what they think of us.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That cops are like, we gotta blend in with them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Here's what should I wear?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Dress like.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But now this is maybe the one area with which I agree with the police. We're slobs.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The world they are living in is full of slobs.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They're right. Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

But here's the thing. We find out he is not undercover because he wears that outfit all the time.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

That is his normal. That's his normal clothes. So I guess he just shows up to work. I guess maybe that's his normal as himself.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. He doesn't appear to be a police officer at all.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, it surprised me that he was. And it surprised me consistently that the police continued to keep him in their employ.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because in no way, shape or form does he do any good police work at all.

[Paul Scheer]

Let me.

[Jessica St. Clair]

When you say that, are you saying, like, when he was typing and kind of couldn't and he was like, that's your whole statement because I fucking quit. Or do you mean when he just sacrificed his Kitchen sink to be where a cat.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Or do you mean when he goes home alone and decides it's time to work out?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And then put those clothes back on.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. All of. All of the above.

[Paul Scheer]

I. I need to break down the cat moment because he is gifted a cat because he was called in on a cat. Like it wasn't like he hasn't been like hunting a cat burglar. It was like, hey, can you get down to this building? He did, he didn't catch him. And then they gave him a cat. And then that made me go.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

When they delivered it, they, they really lean into it. They're like, we heard you were chasing after a cat. Long burglar. And I was like, honest to God, kill yourselves.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Every. Everybody. This is awful.

[Jessica St. Clair]

But that crushed. You watched. I mean, watch that scene again. That line crushed.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh. When they were testing this movie, dials went up and.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Weird to believe the captain later. The captain later played by Scotty from Star Trek, Jimmy Doohan.

[Paul Scheer]

Excuse my voice. I'm sorry. I was screaming at assholes all day.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm giving her all I can.

[Paul Scheer]

My first sip of beer with James Doohan.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Really?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

How old were you?

[Paul Scheer]

Not of drinking age. I was at a Star Trek convention with my dad and my dad's like, oh, look, there's Scotty. And we were in the Penta Hotel in New York City and he was drinking a beer and we waved and he's like, come on over. And we sat down at the table and he's like, you ever have one of these? And I said, no, not right.

[Rory Scovel]

Not right.

[Paul Scheer]

And then I took a sip of beer from, from Scotty. It was the best.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

I think he might have been grooming you, Paul.

[Paul Scheer]

And then he me you were getting smart face groom.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Do you know how many book, how.

[Rory Scovel]

Many chapters of Paul's book could not be published Cuz they were too sad.

[Paul Scheer]

No, I think now to make.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no.

[Paul Scheer]

I think to make the transporter work, I just have to put this in your ass.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think the only, the only reason that story didn't make it into the book is you don't think it's dramatic.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, that's it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah. That was just run of the mill me.

[Rory Scovel]

That's just a Tuesday round here.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's in the, that's in the Good stuff book.

[Jessica St. Clair]

What was your dad. Your dad was like, do what he says, boy. He says, drink it. You drink it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Beam it up.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I have space beer.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Beam that beer up to your lips.

[Paul Scheer]

If an original member of Star Trek Gives you a drink, you gotta take it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I agree with that, actually.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

To that end, Denver, I will be in bars for the rest of the night and tomorrow offering beers to children. Only beers for babies.

[Paul Scheer]

So they give him this cat. He takes this cat home, and immediately his. Like, he stops to get kitty litter.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, yeah, but not food.

[Paul Scheer]

Not food.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That baby food or baby food.

[Rory Scovel]

Or mayonnaise. I couldn't tell.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's Gerber baby food.

[Rory Scovel]

Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

It's Gerber babies for babies.

[Rory Scovel]

Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

They love it. They love it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

92 was different.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's. Man, it's mayonnaise.

[Paul Scheer]

They always said most babies first meals are BLTs. You had to always.

[Rory Scovel]

But.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

You think the store you go to for kitty litter would also sell cat food?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, sorry. All we got is baby also.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My guess is they have litter boxes. My guess is if they've got the litter, they might have a litter box.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It was 10 bucks. And he was just like, nice try, bud. I'm not buying that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Nice try. The cat can in the sink just like I do.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Did you notice the sink didn't have a faucet?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, it was this. All right, Talk about detective work.

[Rory Scovel]

Rory, Good for you.

[Paul Scheer]

So this movie has one of my favorite moments in it, and I apologize to Denver because it's going to be very specific to the four of us.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, so you guys all can leave for a minute.

[Paul Scheer]

Leave for one second.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Quick timeout.

[Paul Scheer]

When. When his partner is murdered at the train station the next morning, they cut to, like, the investigation, and they are at Travel Town, which is at Griffith park, which is a kids train park where they have abandoned trains and kids can run around. And I was like, they're just shooting this at a kid's park. And they shoot it in a way where it's like. It doesn't look super weird that there's, like, an old 1910 train right off to the side. Like, they couldn't even afford to be in the train yards.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Nope.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Scotty from Star Trek was like, how are we on location? I might know a place.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I got. I know we shot a ton of Star Trek all over this city. You need trains. There's a museum back there.

[Paul Scheer]

I was laughing. I was like, there are way too many trains to be there. And they were, like, trying to desperately show it's not a no.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She is meeting her CI, who is dead, at a train that is legitimately from the 1800s.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, that's right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And by the way, that literally, like, made its way play across America, and.

[Paul Scheer]

She'S meeting this Guy in the middle of night. In the middle of night. He's wearing sunglasses. Like, what did he say? Meet me. I'll be sitting on a train in the middle of the train track. Like, hey, I'm totally clean. I'm clean now. I got a regular job. Just meet me in the. At the middle of the night. Like, he's. No.

[Rory Scovel]

And lot of red flags.

[Paul Scheer]

It's a lot of red flags.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Let the street lights illuminate our interaction.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, and she's like, oh, you're on the stuff again. Like, she's upset with him at first.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's rooting for him.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, well, she's gonna date him. I mean, I think that they did a good job of saying, like, she's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Not trying to date him.

[Rory Scovel]

No, she's.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's married. She was married.

[Paul Scheer]

She's married.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's married.

[Rory Scovel]

Wait a second.

[Paul Scheer]

I thought that.

[Rory Scovel]

Wait, wait, I thought that she and Barbarian were. Were in love.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, they are. Oh, no, they are.

[Rory Scovel]

Turn on me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I believe they are cop partners. Because doesn't the person who reports that she's dead say her husband will be. Will be inconsolable?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Don't you. Don't you remember when the. The. The partner leans in, he's like, I'll get him. I'll get whoever did this. And then the other guy is like, the other shitty cop is like, let me see that toxicology. She was you literally two feet away from the husband. The grieving husband. I bet she wasn't junkie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, that's why the Barbarian brother punches her.

[Rory Scovel]

That makes sense.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Punches the guy from Son of the beach.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Which also, I think maybe is when you then see a swing set.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, yes, you very much do. Yes.

[Rory Scovel]

He gets thrown into a tw.

[Paul Scheer]

You.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's an insert. It's the shot of just a swing set and he flies into it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

They try so hard to make it a train station, but they're like, but we need this punch scene. I mean, we got.

[Jessica St. Clair]

We gotta do it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We'll do it in front of the swings. But we're supposed to be the train. Nobody cares.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh, there's a nobody cares Swing sets near train stations?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, we used to play all the time on train swings.

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[Rory Scovel]

The other thing is there's a lot of crazy shots. Like when he's talking to the police chief, it's that close up of his face, and then it fades into his face, and then it's back to his face. Like, who was it that directed it again?

[Paul Scheer]

Jambi from Pee Wee's Playhouse.

[Rory Scovel]

Okay. I feel like he was like, you know what? This is a stupid movie, but I'm going to do some artistic things.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, I'm going to have a good time.

[Rory Scovel]

I'm going to have a good time. And I'm a push myself.

[Paul Scheer]

I felt like the only time that he made a mistake was when he cuts from one brother to the other brother. That I found confusing because it's like, you can't cut.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This coverage is strange.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You can't quite make sense of it.

[Paul Scheer]

Right. Because it does feel like you're that guy who works at the gym. Like, where did I just go, by the way? That's a bit that they do love it, you know? That's a bit that they've done their whole life.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Give me six more of that. Yeah, give me six more. Which way did I just go? Like, incredible. I loved it.

[Paul Scheer]

Twins are fun.

[Rory Scovel]

Twins are fun.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't want to put you on the spot, but have you ever, late at night, put your ear to the wall to hear a man working out and get super horny?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She did not need to put her ear to the wall.

[Rory Scovel]

First of all, he sounds like he's taking the biggest shit of his life.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Rory Scovel]

Over and over again. No, that was.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So does she think he's jerking off?

[Rory Scovel]

I don't.

[Paul Scheer]

I think that she just finds it hot that he's working out.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

And also, that's where I was like, oh, these guys must be like famous bodybuilders that it was such a sensually shot scene.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, it's so much more.

[Rory Scovel]

Give the people what they want.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But the what they want.

[Rory Scovel]

Who wants that?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes. What they want is, like, him pumping iron and graphic insert Shots of his vascularity.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I was like, who is this for?

[Rory Scovel]

Who is it for? Yeah, it's not for me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I don't. I don't think so at all.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, there was a debate. Do we have him work out on this set, or do we have all of the actors take training on how to handle guns? Oh, they made their choice.

[Rory Scovel]

And that's.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They made their choice there.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, the other thing is the other brother had just gotten out of jail after being in jail for a long time and lives in a very nice house where he has a Warhol of himself.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, well, he's a thief.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's perfect.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's a thief.

[Paul Scheer]

He broke into a place where he had the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh. If you don't think that the Barbarian brothers who exist in this world, Andy Warhol is an abandoned. Obsessed with them, like, in this world, I'm. I would be shocked if someone, when you go out there, isn't like, here's a picture of the Barbarian brothers with actual Andy Warhol at the Factory. I would believe it.

[Rory Scovel]

What was up, though? When we cut to him in his apartment and he's balancing that woman who we all wanted to look like. That woman was like it, right? You want it to be in A. In a 1B.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The high. The high cut leotard, but with bike shorts under it.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah, bike shorts under. And then your hair is so flipped over that you have to hold your head like this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The scene where the Barbarian brothers fight.

[Rory Scovel]

Each other, it's great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm not kidding. This is a Marx Brothers level masterpiece. A fight that begins in an apartment, rolls out of the apartment, down the stairs, into the street, into the back seat of a car populated by two people out of that car. Wait.

[Paul Scheer]

But then they're like, honey, there's two big men fighting on our backseat. Shut up.

[Rory Scovel]

Shut up.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I was like, this movie gets it.

[Rory Scovel]

Into a China shop.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank God. I was like, thank God that they weren't like, no, we want to be like serious action guys. No, they get it. It's absurd.

[Paul Scheer]

They go into a china shop.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are bulls in a china shop. Literally, it just says China. It's just as.

[Paul Scheer]

But yet they have no money because they don't show a single plate break. Yeah, it's all just sound effects. Smash cut to parking lot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Did you notice? One of my favorite genuine moments in this film is one of my favorite moments that I can't believe I've never seen, which is at a certain point, Roddy McDowell is watching the security footage of the robbery. Okay. And it's the scene you were referencing earlier where the brother does that. And when the whole thing plays out, Roddy McDowell hits stop. @ which point, not only does the security footage stop, but the score stops.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

As if. As if the score of the movie has been scoring the security footage. And when he clicks it off, it stops. It was. I had a panic attack because I was like, am I losing my mind?

[Paul Scheer]

Because the score was also not like. Score was like. I was like, that's a fun way to watch security footage.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I stole the milk.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The electric guitar stuff in this movie is insane.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's fucking.

[Rory Scovel]

They should have won an award for that soundtrack. I want that soundtrack.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you told me they hired the guy that roller skates up and down Venice Boulevard playing electric guitar, I would believe you.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, you know that song that the. The driver plays? Bob the Assassin is his own band.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Great.

[Paul Scheer]

He got that in the movie. Yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

Bob's the ginger's own band.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

Wow. See, this was a fun set. And actually when I was on YouTube, I was watching it on YouTube because I don't want to pay for this piece of shit. And the first comment on YouTube is somebody who worked, I think, craft services on the film and just said it was a ball and the brothers couldn't have been nicer. And I think that comes off on the screen.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I agree.

[Rory Scovel]

They're all having a laugh in this movie. Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They clearly don't take themselves too seriously. And that's both in the movie. And it's got to be real because they seem like they are just a couple of goofballs.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, they're a couple of.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Even on, like, those late night shoots, you could tell they were probably like, hey, should we do another take? And everybody was like, I don't care. Let's not do it. Who fucking even care?

[Rory Scovel]

We got it. We got it.

[Paul Scheer]

I do think. I do think that this is like, the fact that he wears the same outfit is like the director going, we could pick up any scene at any point, any moment. Right.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Like that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know what I feel like the movie is, and. Or maybe it was the inspiration. And it's interesting you say that John B. Directed it. It almost obeys cartoon logic.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know, they do stuff that I feel like mostly happens in cartoons. Like when Whitney takes the criminal brother to the bathroom and the brother climbs out the window, climbs all the way down. His brother puts a gun in his. A cocked gun in his face.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And says, go back. And he has to climb back up Climb back in. Whitney's still talking about his sister. I was like, this is cartoon. This is a Bugs Bunny routine.

[Paul Scheer]

But by the way, Whitney's improv and that was killing me. He's like, my sister, she likes tennis, but one of her feet is different than the other. She's wearing a shoe. I was like, I was like this. I'm in, like, he is doing a full riff about her leg being shorter.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

When they go. When they leave that scene and they go to the criminal brother's apartment and they realize it's been trashed, they tear in and Whitney goes to go up the stairs and stumbles, stumbles and falls. They keep it poor.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They kept it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The only tear.

[Rory Scovel]

I think that was part of Whitney's character. He's always stumbling. Oh, you think, oh, well, he fell over that barrel.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, you're right. Okay, so maybe that was purpose.

[Rory Scovel]

I.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In my mind, I was like, this was the only usable take.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It did look. It did look like he heard it.

[Paul Scheer]

And by the way. But I could see them going, keep it. That's part of your character building that. Yes. And they go, now at the end, you're gonna fucking flip over a barrel.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That was his first take on the film.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, right.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That was the first thing he shot. And they were like, you're genius, dude.

[Rory Scovel]

That's what I'm talking about. Everybody's being encouraged to bring something to their.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He also in that scene has quite a bit of trouble putting his gun back in his holster.

[Rory Scovel]

He's like, oh, yeah, oh, Whitney.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I'm like, what, is this a choice? Is this a new prop that he's like, oh, the thing that this gun doesn't fit in.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It's funny too, cuz it's also a little out of frame. So you only know that he can't get in there because you can see enough.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like just to here. And he's not even center frame. He's off to the side.

[Paul Scheer]

I bet you they didn't have the proper holster for his gun. Like they was like, yeah, yeah, you got a fucking holster. And he's like trying to jam it in there. I like when they do characters and I was trying to figure out what you think the characters are. I thought they were doing robots. When they get the man in the tanning bed, like, you are bad.

[Jessica St. Clair]

We will. I was like, yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

And the weird thing was is they put towels on themselves as if to hide themselves, but their faces are fully visible.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are. They don't just put on. They. They. So, okay, so they follow A guy to a spa, like a health club. They go into that health club. They, the guy is in a tanning bed. They, they cover themselves. They don't put towels on like, we belong here. They put towels all over.

[Rory Scovel]

They're a mummy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, not even just mummy. Like, they are big, like grimace.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

Like, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are like white grimaces rolling around in their acting like, yeah, we belong here. I was like, what the fuck is happening?

[Rory Scovel]

It was nice to see a tanning bed, though.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It was, yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

Just to know that people used to treat themselves to a midday tan.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah.

[Rory Scovel]

You know, kind of maybe nostalgic also.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Deciding to go like, imagine in their reality, like, he's in there tanning. What should we do? And they were like, I think we cover ourselves in towels and talk like evil robots over him. And they both are like, that's what we do. Don't you wish the idea, don't you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wish they had included that scene? Yes, I wish they'd included the scene where they came up with this plan, because it is. They are. And I guess maybe because I thought they were wrestlers or something like that, they feel like they are. Their whole thing is aimed at kids like that. Kids would like, like 13 year olds would be like, oh, my God, this is crazy.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's like, Honestly, there are 13 year old boys in the year 1992 watching that scene in the candle lit living room and they're like, that's what you do if you get a girl back in your place. That's what you do.

[Rory Scovel]

That is what you do.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You make the, you do Cirque du Soleil. That's what you do.

[Paul Scheer]

And I, I. To get a loop. Where can I get a loop? Mom, dad, can I get a loop? What? Whatever you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I need a, I need loose diamonds, loose coal, and a jeweler's loop. That's how you get laid. This is why we have a masculinity crisis in this world.

[Rory Scovel]

That's right. Bring it back.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Bring back.

[Rory Scovel]

Bring back the belly shirt.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We, I wish we had the Barbarian brothers. We have the Tate brothers now. No, thank you.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

If you want to talk about masculine, I want to talk about the guy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Who'S ever on board for the Tate Brothers.

[Paul Scheer]

Talking about masculine. I want to talk about the guy whose job it is to lock down the Diamond Exchange. Who has a cup of coffee that says, damn, I'm good.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah. Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Hey, yeah. Lock this place down then. The casualness of that operation too was very bizarre. Like, that was the only day that they had a lot of extras And.

[Rory Scovel]

And that they just put outside a regular office building. Ice or whatever it was.

[Paul Scheer]

By the way, that's where they shot Children's Hospital for the last two years.

[Rory Scovel]

Did they really? That's.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, that's the old. That's the old Sunkiss Building.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Wait. At the International Diamond Exchange.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, every. I literally have shot in every location that the Barbarian brothers have shot. I'm like, it's all the career ball. You gotta look whenever I'm watching one of these things, like, oh, they had no money for this. I've shot in all of these places.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I remember that one time we were shooting the league, and once somebody had, like. Somebody had shown us.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Shut up.

[Paul Scheer]

We were on a couch. We were on a couch and someone showed us this picture, and it was a full porn on.

[Rory Scovel]

I shot BFF there.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, yeah. It's like, yeah, These places are just used.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Every set you've been on is covered in cum.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah. And that's. Honestly, that's the charm of doing this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I've been. I've been in so many disgusting hot tubs in the Valley that I'm like, absolutely not. This is. I'm for sure getting hep A through F in this.

[Paul Scheer]

Let me go out to the audience. Let me see what the audience has to say.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Careful out there, Paul. These are barbarians.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, I want to go to any. I want to go to any. Anybody in a costume.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, if you're in a costume and you have your hand raised, make sure we know you're in a costume.

[Paul Scheer]

All right? Hey, how you doing? What's your name?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Chris.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, Chris, what do you got?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Can we talk about this satellite dish that gets.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What the fuck is.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes, thank you.

[Paul Scheer]

Pushed off. Yes. He does take a satellite dish as if it's, like, thousands of pounds, and we're like, oh, my God. And he throws it on the car, and then the guy whose car falls on, he just kind of pushes it off.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I loved it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Are the barbarians not that strong?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I assume they're strong, but you're right, because what we don't see is him dislodge it from a mounting. We don't see him do the.

[Rory Scovel]

He just comes in his frame like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, oh, I'm. I'm having to. I'm having to use so much strength to lift and detach this satellite dish. It really is just like, oh, I got one of these wing.

[Rory Scovel]

But he flips a plane at the end.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, they flip a plane.

[Rory Scovel]

That's fucking crazy, by the way.

[Paul Scheer]

You know, this is a bit that the two of them do flip. Oh, flip.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They flip.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, they have done this.

[Rory Scovel]

They have fun. That's fine.

[Paul Scheer]

They have mentored so many people.

[Rory Scovel]

Twins are so fun.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Every Miata that lives near them.

[Paul Scheer]

Let's do it.

[Rory Scovel]

Boom.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We used to. We used to. When I was in high school band, we used to. We'd have to get a whole bunch of people, but our band director had a very small light car, and we would all go out and pick it up and put it into positions that were impossible to get out of. That's fun. It was very fun.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Teachers suck.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Hell, yeah. Get them.

[Rory Scovel]

Get.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We showed him.

[Rory Scovel]

Get those.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Try and teach us music. You just. You just try and show us the beauty of music.

[Paul Scheer]

Just like the barbarian brother said, be cool. Don't go to school.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, so we're with our barbarian sister. All right, what's your question? Your name.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Your question.

[Rory Scovel]

My name's Liz. You know how the police chief fires Whitney at some point? Okay. But also when Whitney's introduced, he's in the FBI, so. Yeah. Right. Why does he have jurisdiction over him? You're right. How can he fire him?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's kind of how dumb Whitney is.

[Rory Scovel]

Justice for Whitney.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know what? I guess that makes sense for why Whitney keeps showing up. Because he's like, no. No one fired me. I work for you.

[Rory Scovel]

I hired you guys.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I work for. For the federal government.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah. I like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The only way that this can. That someone can fire me is in some number of years when a teenager takes control of the department in which I am in and gets rid of me for efficiency sake.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I think that's foreshadowing. Doge.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's what the movie is about.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Big balls is going to fire Whitney.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, I'm looking at somebody who's actively writing a note right now about the movie. All right, what's her name? Andy. Okay, Andy, what do you got?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So this movie came out in 1992. 1994. Quentin Tarantino came out with Pulp Fiction. Did Tito the Bodyguard look a lot like Vincent Vega to anybody else with the long. Just the hair. Just the hair. Just the hair, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Do you think that.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You think.

[Paul Scheer]

Think that this is like, Quentin Tarantino going, I need to write a movie about that guy?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, I would leave.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would honestly not be even remotely surprised if they did this movie on video archives. And Quentin was like, you know what? I love this movie, and I based Vincent's hair on Tito. I would absolutely believe you if you told me that because this movie is so strange that I'm certain it was constantly playing at video archives.

[Paul Scheer]

Sir, what's your name? Your question?

[Jessica St. Clair]

My name is Andy.

[Paul Scheer]

I've got two quick tidbits about the movie. Oh, great.

[Jessica St. Clair]

The actress who eavesdrops on Peter working out husband number three of five was none other than John Claude Van Damme. Wow.

[Paul Scheer]

All right.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Wow. And not that I looked for it.

[Paul Scheer]

And couldn't find it, but apparently these guys did a spread for Playgirl in 1986.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Beth, hang on. If you can hear that, I feel like one of these nerds is gonna have the magazine. You do? Yeah, do you have the magazine? You have the magazine, ma'am? No. Do you have the magazine? Okay. No.

[Paul Scheer]

Where's inexplicably raising her hand. All right, here we are. Now, if you want to ask it in your robot voice, you can, but you don't have to. All right, what's her name?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Alex.

[Paul Scheer]

Great. That was awesome. You don't have to do more than that. I enjoyed that. And you committed to it. All right, so, yes, your question. Why did they have to rappel down the side of that building when they told someone else, like, go get the car? So that guy who went to get the car had a different way to get down. Okay, that.

[Jessica St. Clair]

No, we don't know. That guy might have rappelled also.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. I think that guy. I think he's the first rappeller. They all were like, we're in a penthouse. We have to be ready to rappel down the side. By the way, I haven't been to many penthouses, but that is not a fancy penthouse at all.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You've been to many?

[Rory Scovel]

Jesus, Paul.

[Paul Scheer]

No, I said I haven't been to many.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, you haven't.

[Paul Scheer]

But I can tell you that that is not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, there isn't a penthouse that's on the fourth floor. They were not high up.

[Rory Scovel]

They just call that the fourth floor.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, they were not high up at.

[Rory Scovel]

No. But is this the. Again, you guys watch shitty movies like this all the time. Have you ever seen an action movie where people repel to get away? Because it seems like that.

[Paul Scheer]

Not that slowly.

[Rory Scovel]

It's easy to shoot somebody.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, also, it would be impossible to set up and repel that quickly.

[Rory Scovel]

Right. You have to find a base.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes. You have to. Yes, exactly. You have to be on belay. You have to have your. You have to have your. Your. Your climbing shoes, your harness, your chalk bag.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, Guys, guys, read the book. It's in the fucking book.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's what they did.

[Jessica St. Clair]

This movie stayed true to the original Vision.

[Paul Scheer]

I got two final comments here, one from a personal trainer. All right, so what do you have from a personal training point of view?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I just wanted to warn people that if you are lifting weights and you're.

[Rory Scovel]

Doing chest presses, please do not rest the bar on your actual chest. That's a hot tip. You can crush your rib cage.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But what if I'm not a pussy?

[Paul Scheer]

And again.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I have a question, too. And feel free to weigh in or not, if you have an opinion. Do you think these guys are juiced to the gills?

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah. Can you achieve this naturally?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes. And. Or how quickly can I look like this? Remember, I'm 52.

[Rory Scovel]

Well, you know, RFK Junior's juiced and he totally jacked in his 60s.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The healthiest guy in the world.

[Rory Scovel]

I swear to God, every time he.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Opens his mouth, it's like the Tasmanian devil is trying to tell me something. Every press conference it's like, what do you think about vaccines?

[Paul Scheer]

All right, well, clearly there's a lot of opinions about this movie. There are some people who even love this film. It is now time for second opinions.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hi, I'm Fern. I'm Steve.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And we're both librarians. And this is a story time classic.

[Rory Scovel]

Adorable.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Peter and David lifted lots of weights. Grew awesome all its. And flip some cars and planes. I can't remember the rest of the plot. So I'll give this rad movie 5 stars on Amazon.

[Rory Scovel]

Adorable.

[Paul Scheer]

Amazing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes. Support your library.

[Paul Scheer]

I love our library.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Support your library. Any other librarians here? Where are other librarians? Stand up, quick. Stand up, librarians. Boom, boom, boom, boom.

[Paul Scheer]

Thank you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Librarians. That's right. They're even in the balcony. We got librarians in the balcony.

[Rory Scovel]

Whoa.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Everybody here is the librarian.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Everybody's a librarian. There's too many librarians. This was a trap. This is all a Doge.

[Jessica St. Clair]

This.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's a Doge trap. Too many librarians.

[Paul Scheer]

All right. There are 144 reviews on Amazon. 77% are 5 star. This one was written in 2016. The author is BC and it looks like this person is responding to someone.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Do we think it's David Carradine?

[Paul Scheer]

Somebody else I met my first trip to LA. Mr. C. Mr. David carried.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Made him drink. Made him drink.

[Paul Scheer]

He signed my autograph with a. Well, the crazy thing was, is like he was shooting a movie that in the future sex is outlawed and he's trying to get it back on track.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, wow. And you as a child heard about this?

[Paul Scheer]

Well, they asked me to be an extra at night. All right. BC writes, first off, it's David and Peter, not John. And it was released in 1992 and it's a B movie. This movie is full of puns and jokes that make this cop crook movie a bit better than the others. The Barbarians were a fun duo to watch on film. However, a director's nightmare by playing tricks by pulling cars in the parking lot around with a chain and not taking acting very seriously. The few films they made are full of fun and enjoyment for the viewer. This movie is at the top of my list. Five stars. Now, I don't know who he's yelling at before, but it seems like he's angry. This is from Dupe for Life. Dupe for Life writes, this only had a few beer emoji. Beer emoji. Beer emoji. Okay. These guys are built like brick shithouses.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Lol.

[Paul Scheer]

The arms on them had me wanna go and run through a wall. Go watch it. Good movie. Jackson packed. Enough said. Five stars.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, did you just say jacked and packed?

[Paul Scheer]

Jackson packed.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Jackson packed.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't know, but that guy is.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Certain that we all do.

[Paul Scheer]

That guy's okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Jacked and packed would make sense. Jacked and. And like six pack.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah, right.

[Paul Scheer]

Maybe the beers may be.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, wait a minute. Physical trainer, Personal trainer. Is that the common term? Thank you.

[Rory Scovel]

Okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We don't know she gets it.

[Paul Scheer]

You know, look, people love this movie because Sadhyra writes, if you're mad at this movie, like, what the hell is wrong with you? It's about beefy twins. Five stars.

[Rory Scovel]

It's about.

[Paul Scheer]

And then finally Alex writes, this has everything I could possibly want. Great cat movie. Five stars.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You know that what's never pointed out is that that cat is like, just dead and never seen it. Just dead.

[Rory Scovel]

He doesn't go home again.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He doesn't appear to leave more. Baby.

[Jessica St. Clair]

The cat was so thrilled, thirsty, and it like, turned the water on. But there's no faucet.

[Paul Scheer]

Faucet. Nothing occurred.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The water kept following into the sink, but then just getting soaked up by the litter.

[Rory Scovel]

Oh, God.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, so let me just give you a couple fun facts. The Barbarian's father, in 1993, proposed a barbarian's theme park, but it was never built. What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Proposed to who? Honestly, Our loss.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Proposed to who is a great question. Did he just go up to someone like, hey, you should make a theme park.

[Paul Scheer]

You make a whole theme park of that?

[Jessica St. Clair]

These guys, I just. I just work the register. I don't know what you want me to do. I would love some of the money out of it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Go make my boys a ride to ride on.

[Paul Scheer]

It's like Tilty World, but it's them underneath it. I'll get them to actually run all the rides. They'll do it. Okay. So this is how they kind of broke into the thing. They were popular at Gold's Gym in Venice for their silly antics like sticking smelly boots in each other's faces to kickstart their next feat of strength. And then they created their own workout tape that was sold at Muscle and Fitness called the Barbarian Psyche Tape. Their diet was 36 eggs, a dozens of amino acid capsules and chocolate milk daily.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Can we get. Can we go to.

[Paul Scheer]

They're like Gaston, personal trainer.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

How is that?

[Paul Scheer]

Okay? That is very bad.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I don't know. 36 eggs doesn't sound bad.

[Paul Scheer]

36 eggs and chocolate.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know how expensive that would be now?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Seriously, Every day.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's like an Erewhon smoothie. Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

They. They retired from acting, but then they tried to break into the music industry when they started rapping. They've released multiple songs and they found their biggest success on the islands of Hawaii.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You know what I. One lesson I did learn in this movie, as an actor myself, is that if you aren't a great actor and you have to deliver a line with sarcasm, the audience will not know if you were being sarcastic or if you were just continuing to act poorly as a character. There was so much sarcasm in this. And I was like, was he being a dick or was he just saying.

[Rory Scovel]

His line, doing it bad?

[Paul Scheer]

Now, we did talk about the Playgirl magazine shoot. Beth was able to find the COVID All right, so that is the COVID They didn't even make the COVID There it is. The Barbarian Brothers text bad boys pose.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The COVID is Christy McNichol.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. So that's their Playgirl magazine.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I can't. I can't.

[Unknown]

Tasteful.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I can't tell you how much as a. As a solid gen Xer, a 52 year old. Everybody in my high school looked like these guys.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah. Cause you were close to Rhode Island. I think Rhode island is something that's very important to the barbarians background.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A bunch of suburban Massachusetts kids decided in my high school to take steroids, thinking it was going to get them into the NFL or something. And they all had this exact same look. And all the, the vascularity and the crop top, all of it was giving me such high school bully vibes.

[Rory Scovel]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It was incredible triggering for you. It was. All they needed was like shaved lines in their head.

[Jessica St. Clair]

What a lot of people don't know is Jason looked exactly like this in high school.

[Paul Scheer]

Yep.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Not far.

[Rory Scovel]

Pretty much not far.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Minus the beard, just minus the gray.

[Paul Scheer]

Final thoughts on the movie. Anything? We, I mean, we didn't even get into.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Who cares?

[Paul Scheer]

Okay. David Carradine was a great cameo. The master thief. They got him for one day. They got a lot of people for one day on this movie. But any. I mean, I loved it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I loved it. Yeah, I loved it. And I will very briefly mention that at the end. The big diamond heist. Yes. They're all. I love the idea of it's backpack based vacuum cleaners and we're just vacuuming up diamonds. What a great idea. Loved it. But then they've got a clear out. They've installed clear windows so you can.

[Rory Scovel]

See how many diamonds so that it's obvious.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like it's just full of diamonds.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You can't then go walk out on the street and be like, we're just workers. We just vacuumed up the diamonds.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, we cleaned it real good.

[Rory Scovel]

That vacuum looks like when you go to the car wash, what they use. It wasn't like a high tech vacuum. It was just something you do.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, these are shitty.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Just like Ghostbusters with no budget. Yeah, like, we'll get them.

[Paul Scheer]

My question was, I don't know what a diamond exchange is, but do they lay them out individually for like, these are all of our diamonds and they're all the same size.

[Unknown]

Tiny.

[Paul Scheer]

They're very tiny.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They were.

[Paul Scheer]

That diamond exchange was sad. And it seemed like. I guess what it seemed like was that he was getting a way better haul robbing the diamond places in the beginning of the movie than they did at the end of the movie. And you know what was a bit.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's a great point.

[Rory Scovel]

What was a bit unsatisfying about the ending of the film is that I really felt like the brothers came together to fight the thing and then at the end of the day, the bad brother just like threw it all up in the air and stole the diamonds. Or was that just a bit.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's gotta be him. He's got it.

[Rory Scovel]

I guess. But doesn't that undo the entire movie?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, so sorry. Do you think there is an arc in this movie?

[Jessica St. Clair]

What did you force in there?

[Rory Scovel]

I thought these characters had made some changes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So you were let down by the end that there wasn't enough barbarian brother growth. There is. It's just growth hormone.

[Rory Scovel]

Also, are we meant to believe that they have been building this subway for the express intent to get these diamonds? Cause that's a long way out.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And also way more expensive than the.

[Rory Scovel]

Tape than the diamonds. Yeah, I would think anyway.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, how much money Kent Construction stands to make building a subway.

[Rory Scovel]

That's what I mean.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Grossly dwarfs the hall that he's splitting with Roddy McDowell and. Oh my God, we didn't talk about my favorite scene. I'm so sorry. My favorite scene is when the. When the Barbarian brothers are in the spa. They torture the guy in the tanning bed, they shred his clothes.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh yeah, right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then they basically make it such they. As they burn him in the bed, they shred his clothes. So they're really trying to get under his skin. Right. Then he walks out and they're watching him from the Cop Brothers Absolutely demolished Camaro. Camaro. He's driving like a. An absolute wreck. Anyway, they're watching him and they're like, haha, we got him. And he comes out and he's walking around. Then they watch. They're going to follow him and do whatever. They watch as he is run over the most brutal multiple times. That by the Wild Man.

[Paul Scheer]

Violent the way his legs are.

[Rory Scovel]

That was some Quinton. Tarantino. Like I was like, I have to look away. At one point the little tiny legs were just. Oh yeah, like the wicked witch's curled up legs.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

By the way, we did mention Quentin Tarantino a bunch. But you know who actually did cast them?

[Unknown]

Oliver Stone.

[Paul Scheer]

They were in Natural Born Killers. They were deleted out of the film. Robert Downey Jr. Interviews them and Oliver Stone said, yeah, they were overacting. It's my fault. That was the, like that he took the hit. He took that for them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would, I would. There's a world in which I guess maybe if they were more directable or if they were a little bit better actors that they would have had like character bits in movies and TV for the last 30 to four.

[Troy Baker]

Sure.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We would all be like, this is incredible.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, a staple.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This was an absolute delight.

[Rory Scovel]

It was.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I watched this on the plane today.

[Rory Scovel]

It was fun.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I felt the woman next to me being like, what the fuck? Because I was like, rewind, rewind, rewind. Why would I be rewinding and taking notes? Taking notes. And honestly sometimes taking notes like this. Why are they driving in the car, like dictating notes into the phone, saying it out loud like a crazy person, Like a lunatic.

[Jessica St. Clair]

When you guys said it was this movie, I thought it was going to be Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.

[Rory Scovel]

I was hoping.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And I was like, what? What's happened to their show.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, I'll be honest. For me, it meant only one thing, and it was that maybe this was going to be a movie starring the Double Trouble twins who were my first crush in child. And it did not. But when I searched for this movie, that did come up. So it does exist online. And I will now be watching all of the Double Trouble show probably tonight in my hotel.

[Rory Scovel]

Great.

[Paul Scheer]

Good show.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right.

[Paul Scheer]

So we all recommend it. Rory, tell people where they can find you here in Denver or wherever. Where, wherever. Whatever you want to tell them.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Tell them you can find me all over. I do a show. I'm doing a show at the Skylark Lounge on April 15, running my newest hour. Those tickets are on sale soon. And then myself and two other comedians, Adam, Kate and Holland, had been Roy do a show. If you enjoy this. We do a show called Movie Night where we watch a movie and we basically do Mystery Science Theater 3000 live. And we do that at the Bug Theater. And the next one is April 29th.

[Paul Scheer]

Come on down.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you don't mind, may I recommend Everybody? I believe it's all on YouTube. Rory made an incredible TV show called Robbie oh yeah. For Comedy Central that never aired on Comedy Central, but the entirety of it is on YouTube. If you like things like Detroiters or Southside or anything that's funny, this show is absolutely fantastic. I can't recommend it enough.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I love that. Thank you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

As well as your standup special that is improvised, which is also dynamite.

[Paul Scheer]

Thank you, Jess. Anything you want to tell people to check out?

[Rory Scovel]

Well, love for you guys to listen to the Deep dive. Any deep divers in the house, Significant women. Everybody's welcome. Woo. And you can join our academy if you want to earn your degree in significance.

[Paul Scheer]

I love it.

[Rory Scovel]

Our accreditation is pending.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And also, you know what? I'll promote your local library.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, baby.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A lot of the movies we do on this show are hard to find find. Some of them are available at the library.

[Paul Scheer]

Canopy hoopla. We know it all. Libraries are amazing. They've been incredible support for me and that my book. It's been awesome.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

What do you want to plug? Anything.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'll plug Invincible Season 3 just finished on Amazon Prime. I will plug upcoming season 19 of Taskmaster UK. If you don't think I give these brilliant British fuck the what for. I do. And the final season of Big Mouth is coming out at the end of May.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Let's do it. Let's fuck some pillows.

[Paul Scheer]

I will say that if you just want to watch a free show Every week Rob Huebel and I do a show called the Dark Web where we are finding things from old Sizzler commercials to karate experts. It's all there. It's all for free to site the Dark Web every week. Check it out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Are you, are you guys Anonymous? Are you guys Anonymous? The hacking group?

[Paul Scheer]

We're bringing down a lot of shit. Who leaked the signal chat? It was us. Thank you so much for coming. We will be back sooner than seven years. Bye everybody. Good night.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Eat shit, Colorado.

[Paul Scheer]

Give it up for Jason, Jessica Sinclair, Rory Scoville. Paul, good night.

[Unknown]

That's a wrap on Double Trouble.

[Paul Scheer]

And you know what? The movie might have ended, but the.

[Unknown]

Barbarian Brothers will live on in my mind. I love doing these live shows.

[Paul Scheer]

They are so much fun.

[Unknown]

If you want to come see how did this get made live, we're going to be in Toronto on May 9. I want to give a big shout.

[Paul Scheer]

Out to Rory Scoville. He is one of the greats.

[Unknown]

Currently he is living in Denver and doing amazing comedy shows there.

[Paul Scheer]

So if you are in Denver and.

[Unknown]

You want to see great comedy and movie based comedy because he has his own like kind of Mystery Science 3000 Night in Denver, check out what Rory's doing, follow him on all social media platforms and then if you want to see him in the rest of the country, you can.

[Paul Scheer]

It's just going to be a little.

[Unknown]

Bit more scattershot because you know, he doesn't live in everybody's place that you live in. Anyway, you get how it works. Another big thank you to Jessica St. Clair. It's been a blast having her on tour with us. Dinosaur Improv is actually bringing one of Jessica St. Clair's partners out with us in our shows in Toronto and Chicago. I believe most shows are sold out except for the matinee on May 11. So if you want to see some early comedy 4:30pm on May 11, come out and see Dinosaur at the Den Theater. I also want to thank the Paramount Theater where we performed in Denver. Checked out Meow Wolf for the first time in Denver. Awesome. Went to an amazing mini golf place called Holy Moly. No relation to the Steph Curry show and it was great. Thank you Denver for taking such good care of us. And you know who also takes good care of us? Our manager, Beth Thomas.

[Paul Scheer]

That's right.

[Unknown]

She makes sure every show goes so smoothly and that you can hear it now. If you are a part of the show, you can get yourself the T shirt that we designed live with the Denver audience. It says P and D House of Iron Narragansett, RI Snag that shirt and a ton of other HDTGM merch at Howd this get made.dashery.com that's right, we have a new place to get your merch. How did this get made.dashery.com as always, if you have a correction or omission from this episode, leave me a voicemail at 619-Paul- ask or write a comment on our discord at discord gg hdtgm and I will respond to your messages on next week's Last Looks episode. Plus, Jason and I are going to chat with Krist and Tony Hale. Don't miss it. Dinosaur Improv will return to Largo on May 31, so come see me and Jason and people like Jack McBrayer. You never know who's going to pop in. Rob Hubel, Lisa Gilroy, Nicole Byer, Phil Augusta Jackson, Carl Tardawa. The list is amazing. Come see Dinosaur every single month in la and make sure you come check us out in Chicago for that 4:30 matinee. Remember, if you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please make sure you are subscribed to our feed and have automatic downloads turned on in the show settings. It helps us and we appreciate it a lot. And last but not least, I have to thank our entire team because without them, there's no show. I'm talking about our producer Scott Sonny, Molly Reynolds and our movie picking producer Avril Halley, our engineer Casey Holford and Justice Neros who makes our social media videos. That's all I got people. I'll see you next week on Last Looks. Bye for now.

[Paul Scheer]

Hero citizens. Since we each upgraded to Xfinity in our homes, the WI Fi has been booming. It's fair to say our town has officially become a boom town Mayor, Will.

[Rory Scovel]

I be able to drop into multiplayer gaming battles with low lag?

[Paul Scheer]

The lag won't be an issue, but your questionable skills may be.

[Rory Scovel]

And what if I have hundreds of devices on the WI Fi? Purely hypothetical.

[Paul Scheer]

Seems like a lot, but sure, hundreds of devices all booming together with the Xfinity Gateway. Yes, friends and neighbors, with Xfinity, the WI fi is booming.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Restrictions apply.

[Troy Baker]

Your mom loves to talk on the phone with her friends. If she ate bunches of oats instead of just oats, she wouldn't do it on speakerphone in public. Not only are honey bunches of oats delicious and nutritious, but they'll help keep her from recounting the plot of her steamy romance novel while in the grocery store.

[Unknown]

Don't just eat oats.

[Troy Baker]

Eat bunches of oats, honey. Bunches of oats.