Expend4bles LIVE! w/ Jessica St. Clair

Summary

Podcast Summary: How Did This Get Made? – "Expend4bles LIVE! w/ Jessica St. Clair"

Release Date: July 25, 2025

In this lively episode of the award-winning comedy podcast How Did This Get Made?, hosts Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas dive deep into the chaotic spectacle that is "Expend4bles LIVE! w/ Jessica St. Clair." Joined by special guest Jessica St. Clair, the trio dissect every aspect of this action-packed, yet critically panned installment of the Expendables franchise.

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1. Introduction to "Expend4bles LIVE!"

The episode kicks off with Paul Scheer humorously referencing the retirement age of the franchise's aging action stars, setting the tone for a critique filled with both nostalgia and satire.

Paul Scheer (00:00):
"You ever wonder how far an EV can take you on one charge? Well, most people drive about 40 miles a day..."

Note: Skipping the advertisement segments for T-Mobile and other sponsors to focus on the content.

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2. Plot Overview and Initial Reactions

The hosts express their bafflement and disappointment with "Expend4bles LIVE!", highlighting its departure from the original trilogy's charm and coherence.

Paul Scheer (07:02):
"Hello, people of Earth. Hel. People of San Francisco. Well, well, it's not often we get a chance to talk about the fourth entry in a series. And it's because most movies that are this bad don't make four entries."

Jason Mantzoukas (05:09):
"What's up, jerks?"

The playful banter underscores their skepticism about the film's existence and quality.

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3. Character and Casting Critique

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around the film's cast, particularly the performances of Jason Statham and the controversial inclusion of Megan Fox.

Jessica St. Clair (09:35):
"I loved it."

While Jessica initially praises her enjoyment of the film, her perspective shifts as the conversation unfolds, reflecting the hosts' growing disillusionment.

Paul Scheer (10:30):
"I do love Jason Statham in this movie. Like, I think, amazing, great."

Jason echoes this sentiment, commending Statham's consistency and humor amidst the film's flaws.

Jason Mantzoukas (07:55):
"I'll be honest, I didn't see many of these dudes stand up. No, this is a mostly sitting movie."

The hosts lament the underutilization of established action stars, leading to repetitive and uninspired performances.

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4. Technical Flaws and Production Quality

The episode delves into the movie's technical shortcomings, particularly its reliance on green screen and poor CGI.

Jessica St. Clair (33:56):
"I feel like the shittiest green screen I've ever seen."

Jason Mantzoukas (34:01):
"Like, if I went to, like, the Harry Potter exhibit and I'm like, I'm flying."

These critiques highlight the film's low production values, detracting from the overall viewing experience.

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5. Plot Incoherence and Pacing Issues

The hosts criticize the movie's convoluted plot and inconsistent pacing, which undermine the narrative's effectiveness.

Jason Mantzoukas (76:00):
"So his plan is to start World War 3 so it will be profitable for him and the other Musk type villains."

Paul Scheer (77:27):
"But the movie can't quite cut the things together in the right way because they're cutting tonally between scenes in which like Stallone's doing a infanticide."

The abrupt transitions and lack of logical progression render the story confusing and disengaging.

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6. Humor and Satirical Elements

Despite the overall negative reception, the hosts find humor in the film's absurdities and over-the-top moments.

Paul Scheer (52:34):
"Which, you guys don't know. You could say it. You could put Seal in the movie."

Jessica St. Clair (89:50):
"But Aperol Alma, I'd say that stuffing is so hot."

Their witty remarks and playful mocking add a comedic layer to the critique, keeping the discussion entertaining.

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7. Audience Interaction and Final Thoughts

In the latter part of the episode, the hosts engage with the audience, addressing questions and sharing final opinions on the film's legacy.

Jessica St. Clair (86:36):
"I really wanna question me saying I loved it in the very beginning. I think it is a piece of shit."

Paul Scheer (83:13):
"Heavily unfinished. It was a big deal that they kind of, like, get him out of the drunk tank a little bit."

Their candid reflections underscore the film's failure to resonate, despite a star-studded cast.

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8. Conclusion

Wrapping up the episode, the hosts reaffirm their initial skepticism while acknowledging the passionate fanbase that might still find enjoyment in "Expend4bles LIVE!". Their blend of humor, sarcasm, and genuine critique offers listeners a comprehensive look into why this installment stands out—as one of the worst movies ever made.

Jason Mantzoukas (82:19):
"This was a great gift idea for my husband."

Paul Scheer (86:06):
"Megan Fox appears because she appears as if, oh, the team's back together. Like in some way."

Note: Conclusion drawn from the overall discussion, omitting promotional and advertisement segments.

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Notable Quotes:

• Paul Scheer (07:02):
  "Hello, people of Earth. Hel. People of San Francisco."

• Jessica St. Clair (33:56):
  "I feel like the shittiest green screen I've ever seen."

• Jason Mantzoukas (76:00):
  "So his plan is to start World War 3 so it will be profitable for him and the other Musk type villains."

• Jessica St. Clair (86:36):
  "I really wanna question me saying I loved it in the very beginning. I think it is a piece of shit."

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Final Thoughts:

How Did This Get Made? delivers its signature blend of humor and critique, effectively highlighting the myriad flaws of "Expend4bles LIVE! w/ Jessica St. Clair." Whether you're a fan of action franchises or simply enjoy comedic dissections of cinema's missteps, this episode provides ample laughs and insights, reaffirming why the podcast remains a beloved staple for celebrating the worst films ever made.

Transcript

[Paul Scheer]

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[Paul Scheer]

They're too old for this shit. I mean, actually I think they really are too old for this shit. Well, I mean technically they were too old for this shit, but now they actually have a lot of young people in it too. So I guess maybe some are too old, but then some are young. But then it's also like. Well, I mean some are not even action stars anymore. I don't know. We saw Expendables 4 so you know what that means. You're hitting cruise control. J Man Big Paul in the beautiful Jewel gonna take you from the groove all the way to the Ro Ran.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The game's a street pot and hope.

[Paul Scheer]

To blow off steam Just a sucker punch the odd life of Timothy Green sharp nails the spurred Demic how we staying alive they calling him a badass and he's on the line cranking 88 minutes cause they cool as ice cause the bad gym Barney looking kind and nice. Calling June getting literal.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Jason is getting lame.

[Paul Scheer]

June is making sure all the monkey shots getting paid. They just a bunch of movies while they making the grave. Here's a real question for you. How did this get paid? Hello, people of Earth. Hel. People of San Francisco. Well, well, it's not often we get a chance to talk about the fourth entry in a series. And it's because most movies that are this bad don't make four entries. They're done in two. But this one came out September 21, 2020. 23. Tagline to Expendables 4. They'll die when they're dead. Now again I will say works for Stallone. Everybody else seems pretty young, I guess. Dolph Lundgren, maybe he'll die when he's dead. But it's getting younger and younger. One of the cool things about this franchise was they were old action stars. But now they're all young. IMDb calls this film or they describe this film as Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on, the Expendables are the world's last line of defense and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table. Budget $100 million opening weekend $8 million domestic gross $16 million. Woof. All right, Expendables 4 apparently is the end of the franchise, but we'll reveal in just a little bit all the ways it went due to get to this film because. Well, you know what? I'll save it. I'll save it. Because we have so much to unpack, let me introduce our co host for tonight. Please welcome to the stage, Mr. Jason Mantzoukas.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's up, jerks?

[Paul Scheer]

Go.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Come on, San Francisco. Here we go.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes. Let's tear Salesforce Tower to the ground. I don't know what they do, but I know I don't trust it.

[Paul Scheer]

Jason. Expendables 4. Have you seen any Expendables?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, here's what I realized when I started this movie. I've never seen an Expendable in my life. And I'll be honest, after watching four, I'm still not sure I've seen one because I don't know what this was. Here's the thing, this seemed like a longish episode of the A Team.

[Paul Scheer]

This is. Well, that's not far from what the Expendables do.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

The difference is, and I've seen the first two, dropped out for three, came back for four, is that you would have a lineup of Every star imaginable.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like the Love Boat, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wasn't that. It was a cavalcade of stars.

[Paul Scheer]

Chuck Norris. It's action stars. Some of them who can barely still walk. They just put a gun on them.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, who's that?

[Paul Scheer]

Chuck Norris.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, that's Chuck Norris.

[Paul Scheer]

Chuck Norris. When he came on, face didn't move. Looks like you guys needed some help. Never saw him again. That was it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, Walker.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. So they pull everybody out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Has Seal ever been in one of these? No.

[Paul Scheer]

No, he doesn't get along with these.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would like it if he was the villain in one of these.

[Paul Scheer]

Would be great, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wouldn't that be good?

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, edit this out. Well, no, we don't have to edit this out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, he's a notorious piece of shit, right?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, that's why I said we don't edit this out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Let me be clear. I'm not saying that because I love Seagal.

[Paul Scheer]

I like his politics. But here's the thing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, Paul, I will not agree with that. His politics are reprehensible. His blues guitar is transcendent.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes, I like Steven Seagal with his Cajun voice and accent dropping hits, my friend.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And his Native American ancestry.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, boy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And his Russian citizenship. I mean, a true villain. I heard he just got put in charge of Doge.

[Paul Scheer]

My friend was the AD who worked with Steven Seagal. And he said that they would choreograph these elaborate fight scenes. And then Seagal would come on set and he would listen and, you know, touch his goatee. Look and look and. All right. Yeah. So I'm gonna throw him on this table, and then I'm gonna walk over here. I'm gonna use that pool cue. I'm gonna hit him in the head. All right? And I'm gonna go over here and I'm gonna flip that guy over the pool table. Yeah. What if I was sitting and one guy came up to me on the left side, Another guy came up to me on the right side when I was sitting. I just do one of these and I knock him out. They go, well, Stephen, that. Yeah, you don't want to get up.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, I love it.

[Paul Scheer]

He just wanted to sit in his seat and punch people. Yeah, that's left arm's hitting the right guy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Do yourself a favor and watch the videos of him doing, like, martial arts demonstrations in which, like, fit men run at him and he's just like. And they throw themselves to the ground. The other best Steven Seagal story is him saying to someone in A meeting. I just read the greatest script ever written. And the person goes, whoa, that's incredible. Who wrote it? He goes, I did.

[Paul Scheer]

Gotta give it up. Gotta give it up.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A true, true monster, a prolific villain.

[Paul Scheer]

And there's only one name that's synonymous with villain, and that is our other co host for tonight. Please welcome to the stage Jessica Sinc. Welcome, Jessica. We have Jessica on loan from the deep dive to join us for a tour that has been full of beefcake. But in this film, no one takes their shirts off.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Who cares? I loved it.

[Paul Scheer]

I love this movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Whoa. You're. Wow. You've gotten Expendables pilled.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I. You had me at Stallone and Statham. They've got sexual chemistry.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, are they actually brothers?

[Jessica St. Clair]

No, no, they're more than brother. Well, they're friends.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They are soul brothers.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They're brothers. They're brothers in arms. I know that, but they. Twice they were referred to as brothers and I was like, what do they mean, brothers?

[Jessica St. Clair]

They're brothers.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay. Very cool way to do that.

[Jessica St. Clair]

The brothers.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Very cool. Very normal.

[Jessica St. Clair]

But if you took all of the fighting out of this movie, you've got Thelma and Louise, you've got Beaches, you've got Terms of Endearment, You've got my favorite movie, the Expendables.

[Paul Scheer]

I will say this. I do love Jason Statham in this movie. Like, I think, amazing, great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm willing to say I love Jason Statham in everything.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. He gets it. He understands like what he's in, what he's doing. He's funny, he's fit. He is in no way Stallone's contemporary at all.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Not at all. Not at all.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Such a good actor. He's believe they are.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's making everybody else look better. Statham's making everybody else look better. And he's also selling his fight scenes better than anybody else.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, because he is actually an action star. That was.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, except for Tony Jaa, who is like next level amazing and. And Aiko. That guy also incred. Those scenes are nuts. But Statham, I mean, just hang a whole movie on the guy, by the way.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Hang a lot on him. Hang on whatever we can get of his. That can be hard. Hang it. Hang a towel on it.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Hang whatever you can.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, okay.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Hang me on it.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow. I love Jason Statham, but I will say I found his relationship with Megan Fox to be very fulfilling.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I like that.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I love it. When they were tossing around. Yeah, I like that tattoo. So did your brother. That's fun.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah. Well, okay.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Did he fuck his brother?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, maybe. Who's his brother?

[Jessica St. Clair]

It's not Stallone. Let go of that fantasy of yours. Let it go.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My questions are these because I think. My guess is a substantial amount of plot mechanics in this movie, and maybe I'm just way off base, are predicated on having seen the first three movies.

[Paul Scheer]

I think. Again, I think a few because there's a lot of new. This is a very new team, I believe. Any expendable experts out there that Megan Fox came in in three? Really? No, she came in in four.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's new.

[Jessica St. Clair]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We need. We. We need a Morgan for expendables. Is there one person who has an encyclopedic knowledge of expendables? Someone is very cockily raising this, by the way. Can we get house lights please?

[Paul Scheer]

All right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm super curious about this too because we start in their relationship so heavily. Oh boy, this guy's coming. This. Hey, this guy's approaching.

[Paul Scheer]

First of all, I looked at this guy. I've been up in the balconies, I've been in the high balconies, I've been in the low. But I look at this guy and I go, I trust him.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's a stand up guy.

[Paul Scheer]

And he's got a guy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He looks like he works at Salesforce.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, he does.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He does.

[Paul Scheer]

He does.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Salesforce.

[Paul Scheer]

Salesforce. So what is it?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What is Salesforce?

[Paul Scheer]

So it's really about enterprise software and you gotta understand about.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow.

[Paul Scheer]

This is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Do not boo these jokes. We can boo Salesforce, but we do not boo our fellow audience members. We support each other. Okay, we don't support you. No, you support us and each other.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Right.

[Paul Scheer]

What's your name? Chris. Chris, okay. So Chris is going to be our resident expendables expert. Unless you let us down. So this is it. So get us up to date on. Just walk us forward. Are they brothers? No. Okay, great. Is Megan Fox their first appearance?

[Jessica St. Clair]

First appearance.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay, great. We know that Stallone and Statham, they've done a lot of missions together.

[Jessica St. Clair]

We know Dolphin, Sloan and Statham from.

[Paul Scheer]

And Dolph Lundgren too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And Dolph. So they are the.

[Paul Scheer]

And. And Toll Road. Which is Couture. Which one? Yeah, yeah, that's the guy with the ear.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, okay.

[Paul Scheer]

Randy Kocher.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Randy Couture. Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

Anything else that we need to know?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, they're group of mercenaries.

[Paul Scheer]

They do a bunch of odd jobs. They've done odd jobs for the CIA in the first one. Then the CIA got Mad at them because they saved people. And then in the third one, you didn't miss much. On the third one, Andy Garcia also did.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It seems to me that I'm correct. They kind of operate like old. Like senior citizen Fast and Furious. Right. Except with. Obviously with military training. Not. They're not street racers, but they operate outside of the government. But the government sometimes contracts them to do stuff.

[Paul Scheer]

Right. So in the first three, it was like, we're not a part of this. We're just going to give you money in the background.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're going to go do your thing.

[Paul Scheer]

This was the only one where like the government was much more intimately involved with it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Was there ever mention in the previous movies of the Ocelot character?

[Paul Scheer]

Never.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No.

[Paul Scheer]

That's. That is. Whoa.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's what I felt like. This must be the culmination of four movies. And I was like, oh, and it's revealed. It's Andy Garcia. Oh, shit.

[Paul Scheer]

I am just blown away that Megan Fox appears because she appears as if, oh, the team's back together. Like in some way.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She's team leader. Yes, she's team leader. And there's. Have there ever been multiple women on the team? Or is this the first instance of Woke Expendables? Not my Expendables.

[Paul Scheer]

So the weirdest thing is there is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

A increase in feminism through the course of the series. You're doing real high pitched voice, but that's okay. I'm getting my vibe in.

[Paul Scheer]

So in the first movie, the only woman that exists is Charisma Carpenter and she is a girlfriend of Statham. Right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In the second movie, they allow Cordelia from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

[Paul Scheer]

Love Cordelia.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, a true legend.

[Paul Scheer]

Does some of her best work on Angel. I would say.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Love.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Love her on Angel.

[Paul Scheer]

Love Angel. Worked out at the same gym as her. Had to restrain myself from striking up casual conversation to then eventually be like, so Buffy. I know, I did want it. Well, not to say I wasn't call.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Her, but I wanted to know, can I. Can I work in here? And so like, what's going on with the Hellmouth? What do you think?

[Paul Scheer]

So here's the thing. You and Spike had a really interesting relationship. I honestly found it to be actually more compelling than. All right, well, anyway. All right, so when.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

When Anya came into the picture, did you feel like.

[Paul Scheer]

Anything else we need to know? Nah, you all got it. All right, give it up.

[Jessica St. Clair]

We got it. I mean, I feel like the thing that I like the most about Expendables is that you don't have to pay attention. No, like I was, you know, I had my earbuds in. I was putting on, you know, false eyelashes while things were. Plot points were going by me. It doesn't matter. Well, they also, it's gonna be okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Cause they also do that thing that all bad movies for, for old people do, which is that they recap the movie every seven minutes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And I so appreciate that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So you don't have to. It's like an episode of Law and Order or anything else. You don't, don't worry.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It's like white noise of people getting flit. But that's your white noise while you're like flipping through a Better Homes and Gardens.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know, I think that this movie is what Trump thinks our military is.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes. I think if you documentary, if you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Watch a documentary, you go into the signal chat. It's just Pete Hegseth sending memes from this movie to people. And that's what they think is getting done. They think a bunch of old fucks are running in in random old planes, in berets, in berets, beret and Ed Hardy rings. Just. I don't fucking. I don't even know what. But this is a Trump wet dream.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, this. I also, I go one step further. This is like an older man's dream of like what society is. He's like, I get, I get YouTube. This is YouTube. This is a streamer. I get it. They walk around talking about how they're gonna fuck all these chicks. It's like, I don't think that's Twitch, but okay. You know, they'd be so upset if they realize what streaming actually is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Jason Mantzoukas]

Did Sylvester Stallone I didn't look right this movie?

[Paul Scheer]

No.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

In any way, shape or form the original?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because there's a bunch of jokes in here that are very Sylvester Stallone. Cody.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Like what?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The golden showers stuff. Not only that, I feel felt like I felt like very vividly that Stallone had written that. Only because I was like, I feel like he just heard what a golden shower is. And then not only does it get brought up in dialogue, it's called back later as a plot point to be.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Like, told you he's into golden showers.

[Paul Scheer]

And they make the young guy talk about it because the young guy knows about golden showers.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Here, let's play clip four and watch that very animated performance. Hey, you know what is a golden shark? She squats down on top of you and releases her bladder. It's very liberating.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow, a world class pervert. You know what?

[Paul Scheer]

He's a gold shark. You look like the type who has had one before. I'm cutting these losers. I had too much ass too.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Time. Time for music.

[Paul Scheer]

So that is those guys. I bet you they were like improvised about golden showers.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And then he had to humiliate himself like that. It's like everybody knows what it is. My age, I'm gonna have to force myself to do this scene Nobody's giving.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Him anything because they don't want to.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Be a part of it. They don't want to do this scene. They're trying to disappear into the scenery, trying not to be there with him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, and he is just hung out to dry.

[Jessica St. Clair]

He's selling it. God bless him. He has kind of a Puss in Boots type of Antonio Banderas.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He has a Puss in Boots.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, he does have a. He has a Puss in Boots vibe. He does. And by the way, I would have loved to have seen Puss in Boots as part of the Expendables team.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Thank you.

[Paul Scheer]

With his sword, I would.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would love it if animated characters made their way into the expensive Expendables. Yeah, like, if it's. But it. Puss in Boots is almost too young and cute.

[Paul Scheer]

It would have to meet this guy, my friend Roger. Roger Rabbit.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We got a. We got a new big guy, and it's just like, Foghorn Leghorn. I say, I say, I say.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You've been sitting on that impression the entire tour.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I all tour. The whole time, I've been like, when do I get to break out my. Foghorn Leghorn, new member of the team.

[Paul Scheer]

Now, don't freak out, guys. I know you used to be a bad guy. Skeletor.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

God damn it.

[Paul Scheer]

Who tried to kill you before? Hey, buddy. I was drinking back then. All right, Skeletor, you're part of the team.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'd like to hear what Dolph Lundgren has to say about Skeleton. Right? Wasn't he he man?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. Dolph Lundgren continues to be the shining light in this franchise as well. He ages perfectly. His character has an arc. He goes from not drinking and being shitty to drinking again and being great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, a movie that makes you cheer for someone to break their sobriety so that they can commit wanton acts of murder.

[Paul Scheer]

His eyesight gets better when drinking.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You know, I feel like. You know how colleges in the beginning of feminism had, like, women's studies classes where we would look at, you know, different texts and everything. I feel like maybe there should be a man studies where this would be a text.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love this.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That we would start biting down.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I agree with St. Clair. Men are important and need to be studied.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They need to be studied.

[Paul Scheer]

Men studies need to happen.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Mandatory to understand why.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I agree with Jessica. Men.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But here.

[Paul Scheer]

But you know what? I think you're right about the idea of, like, a certain brain is going to. Because, like, when they go, how's it hanging? Gravity hit.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Or like.

[Paul Scheer]

Or like, gravity has always been at play with balls.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Here's an entire semester is on Stallone's ring. Like, why do men like skull rings? What's up with.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, why is his finger that thick? Because we see it. Well, I mean, look, it's on the double dildo. Photo 1.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It's on a dick.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You can't have thin fingers.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's a thick you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, that's. That's why. The reason is because at the very least, your fingers need to be dick sized now.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Now who.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because that's a man.

[Jessica St. Clair]

But who was the genius who did just the tip? Right here. Yeah, that guy's an unsung hero.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, the whole apartment.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I love that they're like, we gotta spin that bottle around because we can't show that label.

[Jessica St. Clair]

We can't show that label.

[Paul Scheer]

The double sided dildo is next to a tip jar that says just the tip. But then we see it again. This is in picture three. This is again. All right, so there it is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So this is a bar where they have a desiccated. A desiccated human hand.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Is that a mummy? Like an Egyptian?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That is. That is meant to be. I mean, we now know because of the end of the movie whose hand it is. We thought for most of the movie it was Stallone's hand, but in fact.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's not the hand, though.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's the hand.

[Paul Scheer]

He found it. Yeah. Picture two.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Because when we saw it, it was all gelatinous.

[Paul Scheer]

No, here it is. Well, he dried out on the. The trip home.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, they dried it out.

[Paul Scheer]

Picture two, Beth.

[Jessica St. Clair]

No, that was like a puddle.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

There it is. It's that hand. It's that hand.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They hacked it off, dried it like jerky.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And fashioned it like this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And then put a ring on it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't think that I know that.

[Paul Scheer]

That's what brothers do. Brothers will cut off your hand and bring it home to the bar.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

To the bar.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Somebody strip off, like, the excess.

[Paul Scheer]

No, it dried off. It's dry.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, it burned off. It burned off when he was a gelatinous girl goo monster there.

[Paul Scheer]

He's got.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love it.

[Paul Scheer]

I love it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's got the. I love. What's the guy's name? Who it is?

[Paul Scheer]

Jumbo Shrimp.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Jumbo Shrimp. I love when he picks Jumbo Shrimp out of the extra room, throws him in the thing and stolen. Jumps out. And then Jumbo Shrimp wakes up. I was like, I thought for sure he was dead.

[Paul Scheer]

And what was Jumbo Shrimp's crime?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, for being small.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, Jumbo Shrimp One justice for Jumbo Shrimp.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, justice for Jumbo Shrimp.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I want to do a whole semester shrimp. I mean, how men treat small.

[Paul Scheer]

We know. All we know about Jumbo Shrimp is that Stallone had a thumb war with Jumbo Shrimp, which Jumbo Shrimp won legitimately. And then he was gonna go back there to beat the out of him to get it back. And then they beat the shit out of him and then he kills him. Jumbo Shrimp. Not a mercenary, just a guy that likes to drink at the tainted spot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And it's not. It's not bad enough that Statham Brass knuckles. Jumbo Shrimp's whole crew, like, just demolishing every jaw in the house.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I had a question about brass knuckles, if I may.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Is it cool to use them without telling the person? Like, I felt like there must be. It's like, it seems like kind of a dick.

[Paul Scheer]

You gotta tell people you have to declare brass knuckles before you have.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You think. You think in a bar fight you need to give a heads up as to what you might have.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, like, is that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, that's gentlemanly?

[Jessica St. Clair]

I mean, is it fair?

[Paul Scheer]

I used to fight with rolls of quarters in my hand.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Is that true, Paul? That is true.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, because here comes another chapter of sadness because you.

[Paul Scheer]

You.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What the.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Paul, you had rolls of quarters.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. You get like a. You get a ten dollar roll of quarters and you put it in your palms, then punch somebody in the face.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Paul, that's so up.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And pennies are cheaper.

[Paul Scheer]

Someone said thank you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Also, not only that, you can do your laundry.

[Paul Scheer]

Exactly.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Boom. But no, I didn't. I wondered because I thought to myself, huh, is it cooler to see Jason Statham actually kick the shit out of them with sans brass knuckles?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. Well, I. The question.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It's moments like this for the street fighters out there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I know there are some street fighters in San Francisco. I don't think so.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, we've got a lot of librarians and a lot of street fighters in the audience.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We got a lot of Salesforce executives here.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't know that they're fighting in the streets.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, the way that they fight is with Enterprising solutions. No, I've seen a lot of faces out here. A lot of you have been at the Excel Championship. It's pretty cool. Here's the thing I want to say about Statham. He seemingly gets younger with every movie. Like, he looks better in four than he looked in one. But you're right. Like, he does feel fight unfairly. Jumbo Shrimp is killed. But here's the thing that when we landed on the way to the mini golf place today, I did Google and did research to back it up on the plane that they are flying. That propeller cargo plane.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

From New Orleans to Libya. That is a 30 plus hour flight with multiple stops for gas.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Sure.

[Paul Scheer]

At least seven stops for gas.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yep.

[Paul Scheer]

So that means that Jumbo Shrimp was in the. For 30 hours and no one else in that crew took a piss.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

And on top of that he's. They all geared up. They all geared up and then they stayed in that gear for 30 hours.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are going to put on my.

[Paul Scheer]

Flat jacket, wear some PJs, some soft shoes, like get comfy in there.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Skims, baby. Cuz that's a long flight.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. So he was in the bathroom the entire time?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, I mean like none of it makes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

But again, I didn't think about Jumbo Shrimp once we're done with him. I'm on to something else.

[Paul Scheer]

Not a character in the movie.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Not worried about him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Honestly though, Jumbo Shrimp, somehow inexpensive, inexplicably for someone who is in two brief scenes has more of a footprint in this movie than 50 Cent. Which is devastating because 50 Cent is so good and so. And so fantastic, I think. So fantastic that I was like, oh, nice, 50 Cent is here. And then he got. Does nothing.

[Paul Scheer]

The Coolest thing about 50 Cent is a scene that he's not in. But you think it would be funny if he is in it, which is when they just put his song on a truck on this boat to attack.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would have loved it if. Because that's. I mean, come on. That it's so nuts to play his song in diegetically in the movie.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's crazy.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So that he can hear it. I would have loved it if he was in that scene and somebody had been like, hey, this is your song.

[Paul Scheer]

I want it to be like, this is 50 cents. Do you remember that video?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Or if he's behind the thing spinning his beats or whatever.

[Paul Scheer]

Look, sure, anything's possible.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

50 doesn't spin his own.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Jess, you sound like an idiot in San Francisco.

[Paul Scheer]

I agreed with her. But do you remember that video game? I love this video game. I think it was called like Def Jam. It was like Def Jam meets Mortal Kombat. So it was like all the Def Jam characters would fight like that. You could have just said, oh yeah. We took that version of 50 Cent and we put him in the Expendables. Like we don't need reasoning. Oh, he's a seal. Who gives a. You could put Seal in the movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, I would have loved it. I would have loved it if Seal had been in this movie. Or for you guys, E40.

[Paul Scheer]

Right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just ghost riding the whip.

[Paul Scheer]

I will say the biggest villain in this movie is green screen. Because this entire movie is shot in warehouses, parking lots and windowless rooms.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yep.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, a boat.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All outdoor scenes are green screen, all driving.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Well, the worst green screen moment, and this is going way to the end. And I also think would be great for the men's studies class I'm gonna teach, is when Megan Fox, you know, says something like, what? And he just goes, nevermind. And nevermind equals I love you.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And that. That kind of reading in between the lines, I love that is the subtle kind of dialogue that we're meant to unpack.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And instead of doing that, I'm thinking, is this the. This is the shittiest green screen I've ever seen.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, it is.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It's like if I went to, like, the Harry Potter exhibit and I'm like, I'm flying.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

There is like.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And I buy it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

There is a bunch of. There's a bunch of flying stuff that looks like a flight simulator from 1994.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Like, they're.

[Paul Scheer]

They're.

[Jessica St. Clair]

The moment the NASA shuttle in Houston, you're like, we're landing it. Like that says, and that's a hundred million dollars. You should be ashamed of yourself.

[Paul Scheer]

Here's the moment that I was most offended by with the green screen is they cut to Dolph Lundgren, six sniping. Clearly, he's not in a field. They just put some plants in front of him. He's on a green screen. Like, this is the easiest shot to get. It's a tight on his face.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Put him inside the studio in a bunch of grass. No, buy it.

[Paul Scheer]

Fucking put him on a green screen. This is. Fuck you, movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, this is nothing. Everything feels so cheap. All the visual effects are cheap. All the sets look like something that HGTV just made. You know what I mean?

[Paul Scheer]

And it's like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's everything somehow seems to. The only unlimited budget on this movie was, I think, for neon. Because every set has so much neon going on.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, this movie takes place in two locations. A parking lot in the beginning where the bad guy lives. It looks like, oh, we found this set in Bulgaria. Because if you look off to the side of the screen, it's like a main street. And I was like, shit, did they just shoot this on the back lot? And they go, that's the villains, Laird. And then the other one is. It's the boat. And then the other time, it's in the airplane hangar. Like, there really aren't in many locations.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They do in this movie the same number of missions. Like, each component of the mission to find out the thing that would normally take place in act one of another movie. Yeah, this movie. That's the whole movie. So by the end of it, I was like, whoa, shouldn't the movie start now?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Well, by the way, speaking about the movie starting, one of the things that. And this is a Stallone thing, and I know it, and I have some facts to give you in a second, but the movie opens with this scene where this bad guy's lair is getting compromised. Right. Whatever. Fuck that. Then that ends. And then all of a sudden, we cut to Stallone putting on his fucking ring, getting on his hog and leaving.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Close up of those jeans. He's cuffing them just like you're cuffing. Just like Stallone, baby.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's my. He's my. My style hero who go cuff those pants.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, he cuffs those pants. I'm telling you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All of Stallone's jokes, too, are like, oh, it looks like he's got a dead cat on his head. It's fun. That's funny, right? That's funny, right? He's got a dead. Dead cat on his head.

[Paul Scheer]

Hey, take a Xanax. Take a Xanax and then pretend you're okay. Analyze this. The.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But he.

[Paul Scheer]

But then he drives off and you're like, huh? Where the opening scene should have been. State. They should have been hard. Cut to Statham in that fight. Knock, knock, knock. Right? Because it's like. But we have to establish Stallone.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Imagine if the cold open had been the mission where Stallone dies. Yeah. That's how the movie should start. That's the inciting incident. We don't need all this gibberish. And that's where I was like. That's where I felt like the beginning of the movie was. Servicing somehow what had happened at the end of the last. So that it's. Oh, it makes sense. He's trying to collect everybody and get them back together. Nope. Who cares? Apparently, I'm being told none of this is related to the past movies. So I feel burned by this.

[Paul Scheer]

But then we get this scene, this scene that is like. It's like Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. You know, there's two power, and I'm just not unspooled. Clip one here. This is clip one. This is the Fox and Megan Fox.

[Jessica St. Clair]

This is tough as a woman to watch. These are some tough themes coming out.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Of how men see women.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I know that. I know that. I think it has something to do with comms, but doesn't it look like Stallone is some sort of Frankenstein with two bolts in it?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, it does. It does.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm alive. Can we play clip one? Beth? Whatever is, by the way, worst shot. Terrible shot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Terrible.

[Paul Scheer]

They don't even shoot on a spot because when they open up the door.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That'S like, hey, can you pause for a second? Ernest goes to camp.

[Paul Scheer]

Now.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Think about it. Think of how long he's been alive. He knows you can't see in.

[Paul Scheer]

You can't job.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You can't. You can't do that. Why would you look in like that? If anything, go to the side and look in a window. Look in the peephole.

[Jessica St. Clair]

First of all, I would say that you can't see in.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, I would say that most people know you can't see in. But he should definitely know because his job is recon and surveillance. They are his.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are dog. And let me be clear, the Expendables are bad.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I know. They're so cute, but they are so cute.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Except for Statham, every single one of them gets captured immediately on every mission.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's true.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

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[Paul Scheer]

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[Jessica St. Clair]

That we spend so much of the movie with the Expendables locked in a room going.

[Paul Scheer]

Expendables are trapped in a room and someone's like, piss on it. And they're all right, that's a plot point. Yeah, piss on something to make it open.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, wait a second. And now I'm turning on this movie. Wait a second. Then Megan Fox is like, I knew along that you were going to track me with your knife. That was my big. Your big plan was to get caught, compromise the entire mission, and wait for one man to come and save you?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's so embarrassing about that is if the bad guys in the movie, Andy Garcia, Ocelot, and the rest of the Salesforce team knew what they were doing, they would just kill the Expendables the minute they get there. Oh, here are the Expendables. We trapped them. Done.

[Paul Scheer]

Why?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why?

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, by the way, I do love the second brief. The first briefing. Andy Garcia comes in, all right, guys, here's the mission. Peace. And I was like, wow, if that's a cameo, I'm down.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And it also seemed as if he was reading off of QQ cars. He was phoning that in.

[Paul Scheer]

He was like, how do I say this? Russian town K. Got it. One take. I'm out. Sorry, guys.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Out. Garcia out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

By the way, I mean, thank God he's here.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, I love God he's here.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Adding some sort of gravitas to this.

[Paul Scheer]

But then the second time we see Andy Garcia before he puts on his beret is this moment where he's like, all right, now here's the other mission. Now I'm going to give it to team leader. Megan Fox goes, well, now I'm going to tell you what's up. And then they throw it to this woman who we've never met, and she looks like she came out of Salesforce. And you're like, who is she? And why is she in the secret lair? And why does she even need to be there? Why did three people need to say, go here, get this guy. Steal the nuke? That was it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Now, is she. Was that woman who looked like my Spanish teacher in seventh grade? Was she in all the other movies? No, the gray haired lady, Whoever that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, the gray haired lady. Okay. That looked to me like a Kate McKinnon character.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I was like, what is this person up to do? And again, I. In my notes, I'm like, this person must be baked in. Since the first movie.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Like when you go to Judi Dench in the. In the Bond movies or whatever, but she's not. This is a new character.

[Paul Scheer]

I mean, but by the way, it's like, why do you need three people, though? Even, like, even the writing is fat. It's like, yeah. Oh, and throw it to this next person. Are they, like, too, like, worried that people will get confused or, like, lose interest? Like, ah, we can't have them talk for more than half a page. We'll lose the audience.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I mean, in a lot of ways, I am the audience. I am their target audience in that I'm still.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Well, you're the. You're the audience in the sense that you watched the movie.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, that is true.

[Jessica St. Clair]

No, but, like, I'm as dumb as the people. They're. They're. In terms of plot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm listening.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I really am. I'm simple when it comes to this stuff. I don't really pay attention.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Dumb.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I'm not paying attention, you know, really. So. And I'm still confused.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You know what I mean? I still.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, we're all still confused.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You are.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, I'm confused. I mean, I'm confused. And then I do love. This is clip 10, Andy Garcia going, all right, just in case you didn't know, here's the entire plot. I'll scream. Act it. One take. Yeah, this is. This monologue is worthy of something. Not an Academy award, though. Clip 10. We're eating that anymore at Christmas. You're not. Genital. Watch. Oh, showing up. I want. You're not wanting and refusing to go away. You got something I need.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Can you pause it for a second, Beth?

[Jessica St. Clair]

I can't understand.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And we're going to scream. I want to. I want to go back and I want to go back and start it for a second because I really want you to notice how much Andy Garcia is projecting. Screaming, yelling. And then when it cuts to Statham, how he is talking as if the person who needs to hear him is next to him.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Okay.

[Paul Scheer]

We started again. All right, Christmas, you're like genital warts who's showing up where you're not wanted and refusing to go away. You got something I need, Marsh?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Come down and get it.

[Paul Scheer]

I guess you figured out that this device right here is the only thing preventing World War Three, a conflict that, while devastating for many, it'll be insanely, insanely, insanely profitable for somebody. And not somebody. This is crazy to me. And the Expendables will take all the blood. Join the show.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Great.

[Paul Scheer]

We don't need any more that the amount of. He yelled the entire plot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, poor. I mean, poor Andy Garcia. I feel like they were like, we just need one that's bigger. Bigger. And he was like, I'll do it, but don't use it. But I've given you. I've given you so many that are. That are easier to understand. And this guy, he's supposed to be the big villain. And he's like.

[Paul Scheer]

And he grabs his dick. And here's the thing. He's obsessed with it because at a certain point, he goes like this. He goes, we talked about, like, how's it hanging? Gravity? And then he goes, keep them tucked, Keep them tough.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Is that something men say to other men?

[Paul Scheer]

Never heard anyone say keep, keep, keep.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Them tucked is what he says to state them, I think.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't remember that. And I don't care for it.

[Paul Scheer]

Keep them tucked, keep them tucked.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I don't know. I believe is the Salesforce motto. Salesforce, keep them tucked. Exceptt. Except we all know it's Salesforce. Keep them.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, baby. Now, I was confused. I don't know what they do when he throws that. He says, like, this is the device that could stop the bomb. The bomb. And then throws it over. I thought he was saying, like, having this is good. Like is valuable.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, I think that he want.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's basically okay.

[Paul Scheer]

I can.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I can tell. Oh, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay.

[Jessica St. Clair]

All right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Do you want me to tell you what it is?

[Jessica St. Clair]

So.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So his plan is to start World War 3 so it will be profitable for him and the other Musk type villains. Right?

[Paul Scheer]

Why?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Why will they make money off.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's him. It's Salesforce. It's Musk. It's all the billionaires. It's all the billionaires. Defund the billionaires.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So he wants. So he's saying this, this device is the only thing that can stop the bomb from blowing up. So I'm throwing that overboard to make sure the bomb blows up. So.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And when it blows up, we're meant to believe that who did it? Who. Why is this.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are. They have falsely are flying an American flag on this thing so that it looks like. And they're going to be bomb Russia. I think they're going to hit Russia. White noise with an American. An American ship.

[Paul Scheer]

This is right.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Couldn't care less, right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, to be clear, it does not matter one inch.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I missed all of it. I'm worried about my copies. I am worried.

[Paul Scheer]

No, no, no. All you need to know is like they. What I. When I watch a movie like this, I'm like, stop the nuclear warhead from going off. Like there's a great. There's this podcast like the Fuse, which I love. They've been doing these like back like these, these like histories of Mission Impossible. And they were trying to create this really elaborate like backstory for like a Mission Impossible the Ghost Protocol. And they've been working for months. And Tom Cruise goes, what if he's just stealing nukes? And they're like, what? He's like, easy to understand around the world. They all get it. Nukes, bad. That's what they should do. Like, all right. And that was the plot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

And by the way, it's great. Yeah, you get it by the way, Bad.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is. These movies are very Mission Impossible coded.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know, with like Andy Garcia as the. Alec Baldwin as the ba ba ba ba ba.

[Paul Scheer]

All you need to know is like, bad guys have nukes. Good guys stop bad guys. Like they like the intricacies. They're not getting into global politics.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But the movie can't quite cut the things together in the right way because they're cutting tonally between scenes in which like Stallone and Statham are joking around in the plane about golden showers and all this stuff. But they're cutting to the scene in Libya. Where is his name? Eco ways. Right? Yes, the guy from the raid and those movies. Slot Master. He is murdering children, women and children in order to get the detonators.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's tough.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I was like, this is hard to cut back and forth between these jokes that Stallone's doing an infanticide.

[Paul Scheer]

We just a double headed dildo and then we watch a child get shot off screen.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's tough.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The child who's just seen his mother get killed who's just like, that's tough.

[Paul Scheer]

Now I will say where I was so upset at the end was Garcia gives that very impassioned monologue like, come down here, we'll fight. And you're like, all right, we're going to get like a Garcia. Stay the fight. Nope, Just killed.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, he's shot by Stallone. But I'm like, but here's the thing. Like, still. Okay. Will you stand up for a minute? Right there, Stallone. I'm Statham, you're Andy Garcia.

[Jessica St. Clair]

This is the kind of thing I'll have in my studies class. People acting things out.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, Stallone is out there.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

He shoots.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He shoots. He cuts Andy Garcia in half with like a.50 50 cal gun.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Sure.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And Statham is right here. Every bullet would be like, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Statham should have died so many times in this movie.

[Jessica St. Clair]

He seemed shocked, actually, that he wasn't dead right after. He's like, what the fuck was that?

[Paul Scheer]

I wish he was covered with, like, blood and viscera, though. It would have been like, you got Garcia on me.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I mean, honestly, I think the worst thing that happened in this movie is that Stallone died. Because once he died, fake died. I was so sad because what I was loving about it was the repartee, the jaunty.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

The chemistry. You know, the he said, she said of it all. Will they or won't they.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Of Statham and Stallone.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They are the brothers. They're brothers. But it could be a white lotus.

[Paul Scheer]

Would you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It could be a white lotus where they jerk each other off. Maybe. Maybe this movie could have been better if they all jerked each other off.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes, Agreed.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm just saying.

[Paul Scheer]

Grab the shaft.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just saying.

[Paul Scheer]

And Stallone famously said, tickle the balls, grab the shift.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

Which, you guys don't know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Google that when you get home.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, so here's some things that might hurt your vision of the brothers. This was originally supposed to be a spin off film for Jason Statham. Okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It was going to be Hobbs and Shaw scenario.

[Paul Scheer]

It was supposed to be called A Christmas Story.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love it. I love it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I love this movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, and let me guess. Let me just hazard a guess. Would Sly let him get away with it?

[Paul Scheer]

Nope. And I'll tell you how that went down in one second. So there were three spin offs. A Christmas Story, the Expendables. All female expendables woke.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Expendables is too woke.

[Paul Scheer]

So it was supposed to feature an all female cast, but it was shelved because they just decided to add more women. Two Expendables for.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Right?

[Paul Scheer]

So, like, whoa. If we just can put a couple.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Don't let them actually say or do anything.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And every time they do say something, be like, that is stupid. That dumb.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So I did. I. I loved the martial arts fight where.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh, that was hot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Where the. The. I don't know what. I don't know what her weapon is called, but that thing was incredible. Her and Tony Jaa teaming up. Nice work. Loved it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Loved that.

[Paul Scheer]

So this is the timeline of this film. 2014, Expendables 3 comes out. It is a failure. All right. But producers go, we will return the series to its greatness. We're gonna bring it back to an R rating because Expendables 3 went to PG13. Oh, so then Stallone goes, In 2016, this is going to be the final film of the series. It's going to come out in 2018. Then in 2017, Stallone leaves the franchise due to creative differences over the script and the direction of the franchise. Then a year later, Schwarzenegger calls up Stallone and goes, buddy, you gotta go back to the Expendables.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Wow.

[Paul Scheer]

So then Stallone's like, all right, I will. So they hire a new screenwriter and then they get back the original director and everything now comes along, but they edge out. Or they take the script of Christmas Story and they put Stallone in it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I see.

[Paul Scheer]

Bookend him in it. Now, this movie has been plagued with terrible casting problems. Pierce Brosnan stated that he agreed to be the villain and no one called him back.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Wait, what?

[Paul Scheer]

He.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait.

[Paul Scheer]

Met with the. Met with. The producers agreed to it, and then no one called him.

[Laci Mosley]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This. The Expendables movie ghosted Pierce Brosnan.

[Paul Scheer]

What?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And I just got a thing that's a visual and it's Stallone's phone, and it's just Pierce Brosnan text that just says, you up? No reply.

[Paul Scheer]

Now, I guess the reason why they didn't call him back is because Stallone had his sights on pulling a person out of retirement. And that person, Jack Nicholson. This movie came out in 2023.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Is this for the Andy Garcia role? Yes. Okay, okay, okay.

[Paul Scheer]

So I guess Stallone's like, we're going to get Jack back.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Jax. At this point, I haven't seen Jax stand up.

[Paul Scheer]

No.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Like, he would end up looking like that. That gelatinous dude, just, like, put a bunch of, like, sunglasses on.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'll be honest, I Didn't see many of these dudes stand up. No, this is a mostly sitting movie. Let's be clear. The team of expendables is two hot young women and a bunch of over.

[Paul Scheer]

80 year old men that don't take off their shirts. Thank God. I know. Except for Jason Statham who does and looks great. So when they couldn't.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I think that Jason Statham isn't jacked.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I love it.

[Paul Scheer]

He's got the body.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Also, can I. I know everyone's waiting for me to weigh in on the amount of chest hair that Statham has. And I'm gonna say something. I know I said all the hair or none of the hair, but Jason, perfect amount.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, I noticed that too.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Perfect amount. And I even thought to myself, I bet hair and makeup was in there. And they just did a light trim, just a light dusting. They took a little bit off the top.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, you like something?

[Paul Scheer]

No, no.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is with clippers.

[Paul Scheer]

He looked great. He's a swimmer. He has a hairless body.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You want to clipper him down?

[Jessica St. Clair]

No, I think they did just. Just a little bit.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

They did that like a number two.

[Jessica St. Clair]

No, they didn't. No, they're going in with hand shears. They're.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, they're going in with what, like cuticle scissors?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes, yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You think they're hitting with cuticles? Absolutely not.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes, they are. Because it was a perfect amount. You're not going to get lost in it.

[Paul Scheer]

No.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You know, but there's not nothing. Because nothing on him would have not been right. That's not the guy in the streets.

[Paul Scheer]

He actually looks more muscular with a little hair there because covers up.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Agreed.

[Paul Scheer]

So now I just want to. I just want to go down as a bald man. I love listing a bald man out there. The little hairy chest. I like the whole thing.

[Jessica St. Clair]

A little bit of something.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We gotta let. We gotta let men be hairy, everybody. What are we doing?

[Jessica St. Clair]

I love to take a.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

When I'm teaching. When I'm teaching my masculinity class for the men's study program that Jessica St. Clair specifically started. Not my idea, hers. A feminist idea if ever I've heard one. For there to be a men's studies course. I want that I will be teaching here at Stanford.

[Paul Scheer]

I am going to sign up for this class. The two of you on either side of the class are teaching simultaneously. All right. So I just want to go through this list because this list is insane.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

So he wants Jack Nicholson, who. And by the way, God bless, he's an older Gentleman. He seemed like he had a hard enough time just saying. Ladies and gentlemen, Paul McCartney in the SNL 50. I'm glad that he was there is awesome. But he's.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I don't want him in a night shoot.

[Paul Scheer]

I don't want to put a heavy gun on this man. We don't do you know what I'm doing?

[Jessica St. Clair]

That'd be it for him. That'd be a wrap on Jack.

[Paul Scheer]

So when he said no, Stallone's like, all right, I got my number two. Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood said no. Then he's like, I got my number three. Kurt Russell.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Kurt Russell said, no, I'm busy doing Santa Claus three.

[Paul Scheer]

Then he goes, I got my fourth. Carl Weathers. Carl Weathers says no.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, that's a bummer.

[Paul Scheer]

Then he goes to Jackie Chan. Jackie Chan says, no. Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow.

[Paul Scheer]

Then the Rock says, I'll play the.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Villain because he says yes to everything Rock.

[Paul Scheer]

And then Ron Pearlman's like, I'll be the villain in this. But instead, Stallone goes to his friend Hulk Hogan.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hulk Hogan.

[Paul Scheer]

Hulk Hogan.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hulk Hogan.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Hulk Hogan.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Who's Hulk Hogan?

[Paul Scheer]

Hulk Hogan. So then he's in, talks to play the villain.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, the owner of Gawker.

[Paul Scheer]

And then he falls out. But then Jean Claude Van Damme says, well, I'll come back and play.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Has he already been in it?

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. Oh, I'll come back and play my twin brother.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Fuck, yeah. The only answer should have been yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

A thousand times, yes.

[Paul Scheer]

And the first movie, I believe his name is Claude Villain. And he pitched a character called Gene Villain.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He gets it. He gets it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's cute.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, to be clear, he doesn't get it.

[Paul Scheer]

And then, of course, Andy Garcia.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They must have backed up a truck of money to Andy Garcia. I'm serious. For him to say yes to this, I'm surprised.

[Paul Scheer]

We weren't asking to be villains by this point, but all the people that they said no to. But it also is odd because Pierce Brosnan wouldn't make sense. I guess you would be like, well, he's British. Like, he could. Could he be in, like. It seems very much like Americans want to start World War iii. So that would also make Jackie Chan a little suspect. Like, it would. You'd have to rejigger the entire plot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My guess is that they didn't even have a script at this point. Yeah, they were just trying to lock in as many old people as they could.

[Paul Scheer]

With all Expendables, what they do is they find an old script and they just slap Expendables. On it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So I heard the. I heard Hume Cronin was in for a while.

[Paul Scheer]

This script was originally titled High Value Target. And I mean, it's so crazy. It was a script that Millennium Films found. They go, this is a movie for Jason Statham called High Value Target. Then it becomes. No, we'll make it a spin off of Expendables with Jason Statham. Then they're like, no, actually, we'll just make it Expendables 4 with the entire team and. But yet none of the plot or story changed from High Value Target, the first.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's crazy.

[Paul Scheer]

So it's like. It is. It is bargain bin filmmaking.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, it is. And it's so cheap. So did you earlier, before we came out, did I hear you say the budget was $100 million? Yeah, that's just. That's. That's all the stars, all actors. That's all actors fees.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Do you think? Or maybe it's all the explosion.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, it's all actors fees because it's not on the screen.

[Paul Scheer]

Definitely getting 20 plus. Easy, easy.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Putting himself in the movie because he needs that payday.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, I do want to. Before we go out to the audience. We'll go out there in a second. I do want to see when Statham, I think, does a nod to his own character in the Transporter when he plays a private security guard for a streamer. This is.

[Jessica St. Clair]

This is a crazy.

[Paul Scheer]

This is insane. Clip six. What's up? I'm here and my NOLA pad. Live streaming to you at home. This is the party 1. Summing into your pathetic little lives. Look at these, Nolan. Which one. No, which two am I gonna.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

After? I have some respect for the ladies. I am live streaming here. You guys believe this?

[Paul Scheer]

Look at this guy. Who does this think he is? Pause it for one second. What I got obsessed with was watching the comments. Someone goes hot, and then someone looks. I bet he has a big dick. I mean, they put an eggplant emoji there.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, do you know, there was a moment where they were like, holy shit. You know what we can do? We can put the chat. We can just put stuff. We can put jokes in here.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It still sounds like.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What are you talking about? How about golden showers? More golden showers.

[Paul Scheer]

Diego Silva wrote who? Dad? All right, continue this if we can get off my ball. Do you know how much money I make up? I think I'm pregnant. God damn, he's hot.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My favorite part, though, is later in the movie when Statham gets onto the pirate boat that is across the world. From this scene, the pirates are watching this video.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What a missed opportunity for him to go kick their asses. And they'd be like, whoa, whoa, that's the guy.

[Paul Scheer]

I also like that the logic there is that, well, you know, it was in America, it was lies. But, you know, and where they are at, it's different times. Streaming is different. You know, it doesn't do the whole thing. And I would. I did love that. That boat seemingly was filled with, what, 100,000 people?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

That all hid perfectly. Yeah. I mean, they. They have a motorcycle chase on a.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Boat, and I had, you know, in a way that's like cat and mouse.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But they're hiding.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Why would a boat like that have so many motorcycles?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Also, why? Why? In order to get through a boat, you have to go through doors that, like, have a. Like, are sealable.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, yeah. Like a porthole. But when I. Like when he goes up to the row of motorcycles, it literally looked like a city bike. Like, when you would, like, put your credit card in, I was like, why? Why a city? Motorcycles in the ocean.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Just a bunch of bird scooters. Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

But you know what? Again, for my men's studies, men love motorcycles. I guess that's something.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Motorcycles and guns.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They have to have the cycle where.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Motorcycles and guns. Yeah, they just have to. And imagine if they'd had those motorcycles on the Titanic.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Imagine Jack.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Jack and Rose could have been like.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, I'm in the audience. I'm here to take questions. I am going to go. Oh, wait a second. I forgot my most important thing. Hold on. This is going to be worth it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, this is totally worth it.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, the other night, I was gifted Gerard Butler's shirt from den of Thieves 2.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It's so hot on you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's the real shirt from the real.

[Paul Scheer]

Real shirt from the movie.

[Jessica St. Clair]

So hot on you. Paul.

[Paul Scheer]

And I only enter the audience in my Gerard Butler Big Nick shirt.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Still. Still smells like him. Right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Den of thieves 2. Pantera.

[Paul Scheer]

I'm not gonna make it. I mean, if you. Only if you want. Smell it. How good it smells.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, smell it. I'll give it a smell. Ah, that's vintage Gerard. Vintage Jerry.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It smells like Scotland.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, the Pete.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, I'm putting you on the spot. What is your name?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Megan.

[Paul Scheer]

Megan, do you have a question?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So my question is, after Stallone dies, I thought it was so weird that Statham's first activity was to delete him out of his phone.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh, my God. Yeah, you're right. Most people don't ever Delete that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Here's what I'll say. This will be covered in one of my men's classes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Because you got to be. You got to be ruthless.

[Jessica St. Clair]

It's going to be about grief. Men in grief.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Men in grief. And how we can't handle our friends. Deaths. How we can't handle our emotions.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes.

[Paul Scheer]

I have. I have a person that I know who passed. I was not very close with them. And every time I've gone and seen their name, I think, oh, I should delete that. But I'm like, no, I can't. It's disrespectful. That's exactly right, brother. He's like, nink. Gotta save those files.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I mean, like, you wouldn't ever want to go. Go and look at that chat you had or look at the pictures that have been shared in there. Nothing done. Goodbye.

[Paul Scheer]

Stallone is just sending him gifts of, like, golden showers.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, just, just, just piss. Piss.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Eggplant emojis. When they find. When Stallone finally figured out how he could do a gif.

[Paul Scheer]

Wait a minute.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Egg. Wait a minute. Eggplant means what? Egg. Eggplant means what? You heard about this eggplant thing? Whoa, whoa. The cat.

[Paul Scheer]

The cat birthday is today and the cat's very excited about this cake. All right. Yes. You have a question? What's your name?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thomas.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, Thomas, what's your. What's your question? Can Jason Statham see satellites? All right.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm inclined to think he can. Like, I would let him. I would let him.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

I think because he is a drinker. We've seen that drinking does improve your eyesight. So maybe he could see. Yeah, he has, like, bionic sight. Yeah. What's her name? What's her question?

[Jessica St. Clair]

My name is Soraya.

[Paul Scheer]

I just have a comment.

[Jessica St. Clair]

But the guy who was related who was talking about the golden shower that you guys were talking about was like Puss in Boots. Yeah. Was supposed to be Antonio Banderas son from the third movie.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So he's literally. It's purposeful.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

It's purposeful that he has that vibe. Okay, great call.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Great.

[Paul Scheer]

See?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

See? Excellent work. That's how it's done.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's how it's done, everybody. Simple Google. We could have done, but we didn't.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, I saw you from across the way. What do you got? I see the paper's up. Hi, how are you?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hi, I'm Jenny.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Hi.

[Paul Scheer]

Hi, Jenny. What Seal Team unit were you in? Seal Team 6. Seal Team 8. All right, so what's your question?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Two things, if I may. If not, it's cool.

[Paul Scheer]

Go for it. Let's say let's agree to one, and then we'll see where we are at. Okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

So in the beginning, when Megan Fox and Statham are going to bone, she's fully dressed, and then he's going to go down on her. And then they look over at the negligee. So then she gets fully naked. And then when they go to the bed scene, now she's in the negligee. So to have sex, she got fully naked and then took the time to put the negligee on.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, because he's like. He's like, do me a favor. And she's like, go down on me first, and then I'll get dressed up for you.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He. He requests the negligee.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He stops. What's happening? To be like, hang on.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Do an old soldier a favor.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

She says, eat me out first. Then they must have like, what, made a sandwich while she wills and puts the negligee on.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Also, here's my. I mean, this is just me. My personal. I'm not trying to yuck anybody's yums. I don't need a negligee.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I know.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'm not interested in a negligee.

[Paul Scheer]

I thought she looked great.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, she looks great. I'm not. I'm just saying at that point, I'm like, let's get you out of all clothes.

[Paul Scheer]

But can I tell you why? It's Christmas. He likes his presence gift wrapped.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's right. Oh, good one, Paul.

[Paul Scheer]

And I also want to say, Jess, your recall for certain lines in this movie is really blowing me away.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I know. I feel like this movie is part of me now and not in a good way.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This tour has changed you.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh, for sure. I'm straight up losing my fucking mind.

[Paul Scheer]

All right. I think you did good enough to get a second question. What do you got?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Thank you. Second is. I don't know his name, but the Thailand boat captain guy, they went to the effort to ADR all of his lines, but you still can't understand a single one.

[Paul Scheer]

This is kind of the issue. I've noticed sometimes that happens. I don't know why. Did you guys check that out?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah. I feel like Tony Ja and Iko, right? They had. They had lines to deliver that they just couldn't get through. And the movie should have helped them with that. Like, I feel like the movie hung them out to dry.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. It's like, do this monologue.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I was also curious as to why, when we see Daisha that's his character's name. Right? When he comes back to help. I know. I don't.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

She has it. She has it in her notes. She has it in her notes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I do have some.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's Tony.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I don't know why that guy. I don't know why that guy's name is Toll Road. But. But Daisha.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Toll Road or Toblerone. My Expendables name. If I can get in one of these movies. Toblerone.

[Jessica St. Clair]

No, they would call you, like. Like falafel or, like, you know, some.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow, wow, wow.

[Jessica St. Clair]

They'd be like, what's up, hummus? What's up, shawarma?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's up, Shwerva?

[Paul Scheer]

She has.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

None of these are Greek dishes.

[Paul Scheer]

Souvlaki.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's up, spanakopada? This is racism.

[Paul Scheer]

What's up, spanakopada?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is racism.

[Paul Scheer]

Welcome to New America, Jason.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wow. This is. This is. Wait, I just got a text. You're in the cabinet. You. You. You're replacing Stefanik.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Stuff it set up.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, okay. Yes. Your name, Your question.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, hey, my name is Lauren. Hi.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Hi. I was wanting to go back to the Andy Garcia monologue of Nonsense where.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He is yelling at Jason Statham and he accuses them of having genital warts.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And no one ever brought that up.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Did you hear that?

[Jessica St. Clair]

He's like, genitals?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

He's saying, you're like, you keep coming.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Back and I can't. I can't get rid of you. Basically.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah. He's like, it. Yeah. He doesn't have.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's not saying. He's not. Andy Garcia's not saying. You gave me Jetted awards. You gave me Jedit awards. You have them, and now I have them. Genital warts. Please don't film this.

[Paul Scheer]

What do you got? What happened to Daisha?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He.

[Paul Scheer]

He explained that he couldn't fight because.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He would not be able to stop again.

[Paul Scheer]

And then we don't see what happens to him at the end.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He doesn't stop.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Is he still there fighting? Right?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

He's still fucking going.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Why does he show up looking like Captain Jack Sparrow? He's got full, like, eye makeup. He's done a whole makeover on himself.

[Paul Scheer]

Well, it seemed like he was getting ready to fight in the jungle, not on a military ship.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Like, he would blend into, like, the. The weeds and the grass.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I'll be honest, though, because when Tony Ja showed up, I was like, fuck, yes, Tony Jaw's here. And then he was like, I don't fight anymore. And I was like, oh, because you've got, like, the best guy for fighting in the movie now, and you're telling me he doesn't fight? So when he comes in, when he Han. Solos himself back in, I was like, fuck, yes. And then is just taking dudes out. I was like, give me this all day, every day. The only bummer was that I felt like he didn't get enough time. He didn't get enough fights. I wanted. I felt like this. This movie needed more.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Less slicing. Less slicing and stabbing and more of what?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And more heightening. More heightening. It wasn't just enough to be like, great, we're fighting this guy, then scale it up. Uhoh. Now Tony Ja's got to fight six guys right then. Oh, okay. Him and Lash got to go back to back and kill a bunch of people. Give me that. All the time.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's why it felt like the fighting stayed on one.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Very, very lateral moves. Very lateral, very lateral moves. I agree. Except for when they killed that kid.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Or the kid's mom and the kid just had to look at it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We don't. She gets killed off camera.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I know, but then she's just laying there, and they're like, look at the dead mom.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, sir, your name? Your. What SEAL team were you in?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

My name is Keith and SEAL Team six.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay. Wow. SEAL Team Six. This is great. Okay.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

All right, so here's my curiosity. There's a nuclear bomb in the hull of the ship. It's got, like, three minutes left. It is the longest three minutes in all of the world. It's like, there's a time stop. Andy Garcia's helicopter gets blown up. He throws the kill switch over, and then they try to take a little rubber boat and try to escape. There's no way, even if you had the helicopter that they would be able to escape. The explosion in the blast radius there is literally impossible. There's not enough time.

[Paul Scheer]

First, let me ask you a question. Did you see how many rings he had on? Maybe for. If somebody doesn't wear a fuckload of rings. It's not enough time. There's always enough time.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I agree with you, because it would have made more sense if Andy Garcia was like, I'm tossing the thing overboard. Me and my men are going to die. But the event that I've put into motion is still going to happen, and that's all I care about. But the fact that he thought he could escape means he's a moron. And if he is, in fact, that big of a moron, Then the moron that is Sylvester Stallone should have caught him by now.

[Paul Scheer]

But by the way, he could have just gotten in that helicopter. He didn't even. There's so many things. He could have just left with that switch and been gone. It wouldn't have been fine.

[Jessica St. Clair]

He didn't need to throw it over. I feel like that was a big mistake.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And even more so. So Sylvester Stallone shoots the boat to sink it. There's 30 seconds left on the timer. There is no way that it sinks. That. It's literally. The physics do not add up. There's no way. Hey, hey, my guy, my guy.

[Jessica St. Clair]

You getting as upset as Andy Garcia.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Take a breath, take a breath. Take a breath.

[Paul Scheer]

This.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This guy's going to have a stroke.

[Paul Scheer]

This is.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We're talking about expendables for always getting such a cute hug. Look at the hug he's getting from his wife.

[Jessica St. Clair]

This is cute.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is cute as hell. Oh, my God, I love them.

[Paul Scheer]

This is why they kicked that fucking nerd Albert Einstein off the team.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

But I mean, you're right in the sense too, that, like, the nuclear bomb was so big, it would have caused so much destruction. They just got so lucky that Jason Statham was able to drift the aircraft carrier like he's in Tokyo drift. He drifts an aircraft carrier until it turns all the way around and then. And then hits it. Like. Like there's a. There's a phrase like you can't turn an aircraft carrier around fast, right?

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, that famous phrase.

[Jessica St. Clair]

What, that old fettled chestnut.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What is the first phrase?

[Paul Scheer]

I think it's just a theory. I think it's a theory that you can't. Like the Titanic couldn't turn that.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, one degree. Yeah.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay. All right, wait a second.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hang on, hang on. Paul.

[Paul Scheer]

What.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What did you have to say?

[Jessica St. Clair]

One degree.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You know, I just hear you behind me going, one degree. Yeah, yeah, like you're just cooked.

[Paul Scheer]

You're just.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

You're just doing free jazz.

[Paul Scheer]

We broke Jess.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is like a Ken. This is like a Ken Nordine album. Like, what's up, man?

[Paul Scheer]

Jess is so broken by this tour that she went to the airport in Los Angeles today without a ticket because she forgot to buy one.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

No, no, you're wrong. She bought one for May, guys. She'll be here in May. May 1st. Jessica St. Clair. Right here. Your one man show. Men matter.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I bought a ticket for a flight that was leaving 25 minutes later and they wouldn't let me on. And the woman goes, well, mostly the people who do that Are, you know, people who want to blow up planes?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Me. They say me. It's me. You can say it. I know what you're thinking. It's falafel next to you.

[Paul Scheer]

I want Jess. And the expenditure.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Good old baba ganoush.

[Paul Scheer]

Hey.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Baba ganoush. Hey. At least it's got the eggplant.

[Paul Scheer]

All right. Oh, my goodness. All right. Well, clearly we had opinions about this movie, but there are people out there with a different opinion. It is now time for second opinions.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hi, I'm Shawna. Dead man roasted in a burning plain. Megan Fox in sexy clothes, machine guns on bikes, and some crazy knife fights. Jason Statham, five star.

[Paul Scheer]

Yes. Great job.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

That's how it's done. That's how it's done. Frisco.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Beautiful.

[Paul Scheer]

Expendables 4 on Amazon. 12,000 reviews.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Okay, that's depressing.

[Paul Scheer]

I will tell you that we've done this show multiple times. I could get 1,000. Get 112,000. 66% are five star reviews.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

What's so crazy is that that doesn't jibe with what it made at all.

[Paul Scheer]

No, because people are waiting to watch it at home. Like Mr. Ammo. Mr. Ammo writes well. Sylvester Stallone is getting pretty old, but in this movie he carries a pretty heavy gun. Or at least in part of the movie. I don't want to be the spoiler, so I'm not going to tell you, but I was really impressed with this one. I think this is the best out of all of them, having that cast around him. Especially Jason Statham. Man. Of course, 50 Cent plays a bad, bad man. So get the popcorn, sit down and have a drink. Ready? It's action from beginning to end. Five stars. Wow. Title. Five stars on the Expendables.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Why?

[Paul Scheer]

Seems like he's questioning himself now. This one is odd from Harold Gertzinger. I enjoyed it, but I'm a big Denzel Washington fan.

[Jessica St. Clair]

What?

[Paul Scheer]

He went a little John Wick on this one. LOL. 5 stars.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, this person thinks they're reviewing the equipment. Equalizer. Yes, that's it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Poor thing.

[Paul Scheer]

By the way.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And they're right. The Equalizer movies are incredible.

[Paul Scheer]

They're so good.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Incredible.

[Paul Scheer]

But he does go a little John Wick. Sherry Cooper, Right?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Female voice.

[Paul Scheer]

Once again. This was a great gift idea for my husband. Oh, five stars once again.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Once again. How many agree expendables? Four DVDs does he have four years.

[Paul Scheer]

In a row now? Every now and then we look at the one star reviews. There's only 4% that are one star. And I wanted to read this one here because I'll just read the the middle of it from Scott A. I can't take women seriously as badass chicks if they're dressing like they're going to go out on a date to impress a whole restauran. I can dress my wife up like that whenever I want. I'm here for the guns. Now, I'm a little gun shy, no pun intended, but I would gladly chuck more money at a number five. No questions asked. One star.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes, this. Basically, this guy is saying it's too woke.

[Jessica St. Clair]

My heart weeps for us.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And that's.

[Paul Scheer]

I also like, he says I can dress my wife up like that too.

[Jessica St. Clair]

To impress a whole restaurant. That's what I think when I'm putting on my clothes, I go, restaurant, get a load of me.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

The whole restaurant drive.

[Paul Scheer]

Everyone in Olive Garden's going to be like, who is that? Piece of tush.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yeah, piece of tush.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I'll get those twice baked, loaded tater skins with the side of my ass.

[Paul Scheer]

Jason.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Get a load of those twice baked tato skins. Jason.

[Paul Scheer]

Jessica, anything you want to add? Anything we might have missed any, do you want?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I was thrilled when Jason, since Daytham found a tactical hatchet that was hot. I was like, are you fucking kidding?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And then he has it on his back for like three different fights and doesn't use it even when he gets disarmed. He gets disarmed and doesn't just go, bam. And then he finally does and it's just one move. And I was like, boring. He could have used the tactical hatchet the whole time. And in fact, he should have had two, you know, Right.

[Paul Scheer]

That would have been awesome. Like the raid. Yes.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I would have loved that. Let's see.

[Paul Scheer]

I'll give you one thing here, Jason, because we've brought this up a couple times. This was shot on location in Greece. Members of the Greek armed forces were used as extras and allegedly not paid.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh, paid in hummus, I bet.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Hummus.

[Paul Scheer]

They were not.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

This is. This slander will not get ready. When this episode comes out, you're going to hear from Greeks.

[Paul Scheer]

It says, not compensated for their month long official deployment and they worked overtime.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Oh, no, this does not reflect well.

[Paul Scheer]

This movie was also released in mainland China before the United States.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, interesting.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Where do we have how much it made there? Because I bet. I bet internationally this movie made a lot of money.

[Paul Scheer]

All right, so in the United states it made 16 million worldwide, 51 million.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, okay. So still not great.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah, still not make it back.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Interesting.

[Paul Scheer]

Okay. So, Jess, anything you want to bring up?

[Jessica St. Clair]

You know, I've taken a ride tonight. I started out saying I loved it, and then I realized most of the time I was watching it. I think I was doing my hair. And this is not a bit. I really was doing my hair and applying fake eyelashes for y'. All.

[Paul Scheer]

Trying to impress the entire restaurant, I bet.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Trying to impress the entire restaurant. So now that I've heard this discussion of the film, I'm really gonna question me saying I loved it in the very beginning. I think it is a piece of shit. And I. And I think women are treated terribly in this film. I would still, though, fuck Statham, and I think we all would give it to Stallone.

[Paul Scheer]

Wow.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Wait, you would fuck Tulsa King?

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yep.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I bet they. I bet they would cast you on Tulsa King as his loving interest.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Thanks. I appreciate that.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

I believe in you. My favorite line, which we haven't talked about, is when Dolph Lundgren does, in fact, succumb to the. To the. To the booze again so that he can become a good sniper. And he says, it's good to be back.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That's nice.

[Paul Scheer]

As an alcoholic. Great message for any older person watching this movie who is struggling with their. Their urigist to be like, maybe. Maybe I should go back to the sauce. Like, it really is a terrible moral for anyone wrestling it.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah. And it's not until we played the clip that I saw he's reading a book called, like, Sober Living.

[Paul Scheer]

Yeah.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Yeah.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Like, his whole character seems to be.

[Paul Scheer]

Being sober in the first movie. It's a big deal that they kind of, like, get him out of the drunk tank a little bit. I. I enjoyed it. It's not a good movie.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, it's legit bad.

[Paul Scheer]

And it's. The CGI is awful. The. It feels so cramped. It feels like. It feels like they shot in escape rooms. Like, that's everything.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Yes.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Been in escape rooms now in almost every city on this tour.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, yes. I'm solo with my kids, and I'm. I've been. I can tell you. Boise, Idaho. I was at their escape room. It looked better than most sets in this.

[Jessica St. Clair]

And probably the plot you were given. I've never been in one was better than this. Had more twists and turns.

[Paul Scheer]

Oh, absolutely. Last night, we were in escape room. We were trapped in there. It was in the dark. We didn't know why. We had to find out who did it.

[Jessica St. Clair]

Worst nightmare. Truly.

[Paul Scheer]

Truly. It's fun.

[Jessica St. Clair]

I'd be stuck in there Forever.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, you would be.

[Paul Scheer]

They were.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

And only because you wouldn't try to get. You would give up immediately. The lights would go out and you'd be like, oh, well my. I guess I'll just die here.

[Paul Scheer]

My youngest son did say in the middle of the one yesterday, I'm tired. Can I lay down?

[Jessica St. Clair]

I was like, they've been on the road.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Please do not let your children lay down on escape room floors. I gotta be telling you, don't do it. Hepatitis, the movie again. Going back.

[Jessica St. Clair]

That'd be a great name for one of the expendables. Hepatitis. Get it? Get him.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Oh, yeah. I mean, this cast is riddled with hepatitis.

[Paul Scheer]

Through STDs. And ex wives abound on this movie big time. Well, that's our show. But before we go, Jason, want to plug anything?

[Jason Mantzoukas]

If you haven't seen it already, Invincible season three just wrapped up. Bow, bow, bow, bow. One of the best shows on television. Don't sleep on it. Coming up in early May. It's called Taskmaster. Get the fuck ready, America. I flew on a plane to tell these fucking assholes what's up. Also, it's coming to an end, guys. They won't let me fuck pillows anymore. Big mouth. Season eight, May 20. May 20. May 20. Something. Get ready. It's all done and it's a great season. So those are my plugs. And. Oh, I'll also plug. Local band Deaf Heaven has a new record. Oh, why not support them? And also while we're at it, let's support the Aquarius music documentary. I found it at Aquarius Records. It's about an incredible San Francisco record store. Aquarius Records. RIP A legend.

[Jessica St. Clair]

If you haven't already, please check out the Deep Dive that I host with our queen, June Diane Rayfiel. And if you would like to join us at the Deep Dive Academy of Significance, we would love to have you. Our accreditation is pending, but the doors of enrollment are open. Go to thedeepdiveacademy.com oh, and if you'd like to become a better small talker, I wrote an audiobook that's great. Called the Art of Small Talk with Casey Wilson. And it has great interviews with Amy Poehler, Tony Hale.

[Paul Scheer]

It's great.

[Jessica St. Clair]

My dad.

[Paul Scheer]

Dad is fantastic. Every week on YouTube I have a new show with Rob Huebel called the Dark Web. We are finding the weirdest shit online. We are ordering things from temu. It's weird, it's fun, and they are bite sized episodes. They're only 20 minutes long. We found out yesterday 60% of our viewers are watching on TVs. I thought they would be watching on phones or computers. What's it on YouTube? Yeah, yeah, my book, Joyful Recognition Trauma, I talked about that. That's available. You go to the website. I can personalize it for you. Big thanks to our tour manager, Beth, who's been amazing.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

Give it up for Beth.

[Paul Scheer]

So great. Give it up for Jason Mansukas. Jessica St. Clair, I am Paul Scheer. Thank you San Francisco.

[Jason Mantzoukas]

We will be back. Eat shit, San Francisco.

[Paul Scheer]

Thank you, San Francisco. Wow, what a fun show. I love having Sinclair in the June seat. We had such a great time at the Masonic. I want to give a big shout out to their entire staff and our tour manager, Beth. If you want to own the shirt that we designed for this show, and it's a good one, it is the Salesforce Tower with Stallone skull ring around it. Just head on over to hdtgm.com and click on the merch button. You can get this shirt as a sticker, as a mug. And San Francisco, you need to represent your city with our special Expendables 4 shirt. Also want to remind you that how did this get made has hats now. That's right. And you know what? You go right to the same spot, hdtgm.com and just click on the link that says hats. Pretty easy. That's right. You can wear your own what's up jerks or Geostorm hat. And we have a sale right now. 25% off all Geostorm what's up jerks and classic how did this get made hats? If you go over to hgtgm.com hit hats and put in jerks at checkout. As always, if you have a correction or omission from this episode, leave me a voicemail at 619-Paul-Ask. And if you're maybe a little shy for that, well, you can write a comment on our discord at Discord GG hdtgm. Then tune in next week to our Last Looks episode to hear me respond to your messages and announce our next new movie. Plus, we'll be playing more highlights from my lost Sylvester Stallone podcast. But if you just need more content, then I urge you to check out the Dark Web. That's right, every Monday, Rob Huebel and I dive deep into the Dark Web. It's free, it's on YouTube, and I think you will love it. Now, people, I have some very exciting news. For those of you who don't know, our movie picking producer, Avril Halley has been struggling in a battle with cancer. She has been kicking its ass and we got an amazing update. She got great MRI results that showed no more tumors or growth. So I just wanted to say thank you so, so much to everybody who reached out to her, sent her positive vibes. We have reached out here many times on the show and you have all just shown up and it's meant the absolute world to her and her family. You can keep on sending her whatever you want. We've been sending her songs and fan art. You can do the same at andrewoviebitches XYZ, or you can send it via snail mail at Averilhalli, P.O. box 641, Agora Hills, CA 91376. Nothing perishable or scented, please. And 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. It really, really does. And last but not least, tell your friends about how did this get made? Yeah, we didn't make the Times 100 greatest podcasts of All Time. For shame. There's a couple on there that was a little questionable, some that just came out. But you know what? It won't stop us. Fifteen years in and we're still going to take your recommendations over damn time magazines. Anyway, a big thank you to everybody who works on this show. There's so many people, but let me talk about the ones that matter the most. Scott Sahni, Molly Reynolds, our movie picking producer, Avery Highley, and our engineer Casey Holford. They bring the show to you every single week. That's all I got, people. Hope you're having a stellar Stallone summer and we'll see you next week on Last Looks. Bye for now.

[Laci Mosley]

What's poppin listeners? I'm Laci Mosley, host of the podcast Scam Goddess, the show that's an ode to fraud and all those who practice it. Each week I talk with very special guests about the spirit scammiest scammers of all time. Wanna know about the fake eras? We got em. What about a career con man? We've got them too. Guys that will wine and dine you and then steal all your coins. Oh, you know, they are represented because representation matters. I'm joined by guests like Nicole Byer, Ira Madison iii, Conan o', Brien and more. Join the congregation and listen to Scam Goddess wherever you get your podcast.

[Paul Scheer]

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