No Holds Barred LIVE! w/ Thomas Lennon (HDTGM Matinee)

Summary

How Did This Get Made? – No Holds Barred LIVE! w/ Thomas Lennon (HDTGM Matinee)

Date: August 19, 2025
Hosts: Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, Jason Mantzoukas
Special Guest: Thomas Lennon
Recorded Live at Largo, Los Angeles

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Episode Overview

In this riotous live episode, the HDTGM crew (with guest Thomas Lennon) dive headfirst into the 1989 Hulk Hogan extravaganza "No Holds Barred." They gleefully unpack the bonkers world of 80s wrestling-cinema crossover, complete with villainous TV execs, check-mark eyebrows, crime-filled soul food restaurants, and a parade of truly questionable choices—both on- and off-screen. The panel's irreverent, insightful, and often delightfully R-rated banter makes for a rollicking breakdown of one of wrestling's most infamous film vehicles.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Hulk Hogan Cinematic Experience

• Opening Reactions: The panel’s stunned confusion and joy set the tone: “This movie boggled my mind, like, straight out of the gate. I did not know what was happening. And at the end of the movie, I did not care.” (John Gabrus, 03:41)
• Purchasing Regret: June bemoans owning it—”I had to buy this movie to watch it... I used my Amazon Prime membership to own this forever.” (June Diane Raphael, 03:59)

2. The Veiny, Growling World of No Holds Barred

• Physicality Over Dialogue: June and John riff on the film’s rampant growling: “There is no line that is not growled.” (June, 04:39)
  • “The lead actor in a film, his first sounds for the first five minutes are all just grunts and growl.” (Adam, 04:41)
• Zeus’ Minimalist Prose:
  • “‘Zeus’... And then the next thing he says, like in Act 3, when they need... He says ‘Zeus, don’t guess.’” (June, 04:44–04:56)
  • “Those are his only lines.” (John, 05:56)

3. Eyebrow Mysteries and 80s Visuals

• Tiny Lister’s Eyebrows:
  • “Did anyone understand the eyebrows were drawn on with pencil?” (Tom Lennon, 06:14)
  • “His eyebrows are legitimately a check mark.” (John, 06:26)

4. The Meta-Absurdity of the World

• Why Isn’t Hulk Playing ‘Hulk’?:
  • “For a million dollars, why did they not call his character Hulk Hogan?” (June, 09:12)
  • “His name Rip is very different than Hulk...He wanted to act.” (Tom Lennon/John, 09:59–10:01)
• Plot as Network TV Satire:
  • The crew notes the movie’s big theme: rival TV networks fighting over wrestling supremacy, with “World Television Network” as the rival everybody “wants to be number one.”

5. Highlight Performances & Setpieces

• Kurt Fuller’s Villainy:
  • “Unbelievable. Hats off.” (Tom Lennon, 16:39)
  • Sample of over-the-top lines and boardroom rants: “What’s his price? That’s what I want to know. What’s his price?” (John, 17:21)
  • “Take a leak.” (Kurt tells female exec, running joke, 18:10–18:23)
• Casual Murder as Plan B:
  • “The other thing is plan B in this movie is always murder.” (June, 28:49)
• Death Limo Scene: The panel marvels at the infamous “dookie” pants scene:
  • “What’s that smell?...It’s dookie!” (30:45)
• Hillbilly Bar/‘No Holds Barred’ Meaning Explored: Tom admits: “I had not heard the expression before...I now know what it means after watching the movie.” (45:16)

6. Hulk’s Hair, Body, and Sex Appeal

• The Hair Debate:
  • “He is a bald man. Why not just cut that...For a giant behemoth of a man, he has like, fine doll’s hair.” (Adam/John, 42:26–42:46)
• Joan Severance and "Panties":
  • “Her panties...just a really short mini skirt.” (June/Adam, 63:00–63:05)
  • “I think Hulkster saw her in regular panties and said it’s a family affair.” (June, 63:09)
• Sex Scene Awkwardness:
  • “Their first kiss is very anti-climatic. I was like, did I miss when they became a couple at four years?” (Adam, 71:17)

7. Critiquing (and Adoring) the Film’s Logic

• Casual Violence and Morality:
  • “So he kills Zeus, it seems like. Throws him through the stage...This whole movie is like a lynching, as far as I can tell.” (June, 80:11)
• Kurt Fuller's Evil for Ratings:
  • “Kurt Fuller, basically, everything he does in this movie to get a wrestling TV is a hundred times more fucked up than anything the Joker would do.” (June, 72:10)
• Philosophizing on Sports for Kids:
  • “Let’s take children out to a cornfield and make them wrestle against each other. Today you would go to prison for 50 years.” (June, 91:29)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Film’s Visual Aura:
  “This movie, just to give you guys an idea, if you have not seen it, Hulk Hogan is...Everyone is veiny and throbby in this movie.” — Adam, 04:36
• On Tiny Lister’s Eyebrows:
  “One is half an eyebrow, it connects to the other one. Full eyebrow. There is a check mark on this gentleman’s head.” — John, 06:26
• On Joan Severance:
  “She’s the kind of hot in a Playboy that when we were kids, you hoped you would find in the woods.” — John, 15:02
• On the Famously Bad “Dookie” Line: “What’s that smell?...It’s dookie!” — Hulk Hogan scene, 30:45 (panel loses it laughing)
• On Boardroom Toxicity:
  “Take a leak!” — Kurt Fuller, (running joke; 18:12 and many more)
• On ‘No Holds Barred’ Meaning:
  “I now know what it means after watching the movie. I had not heard the expression before.” — Tom Lennon, 45:16
• On the Final Fight’s Logic:
  “Why do you have to check the turnbuckles? They have no rules!” — Adam, 76:32

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Audience Q&A Highlights

• Racial Representation in ‘Soul Food’ Scene:
  “I believe that scene in that place was to show, no, I am a defender of black people...It bummed me out so bad.” (June, 57:31–57:42)
• On the Sheet Scene in the Hotel:
  “They are separated by a sheet when they share a hotel room, and they provide an uplifting example for proper premarital behavior.” — Five-star Amazon review (Adam reading, 89:49)
• On Randy’s Actor:
  “Randy is played by Mark Pellegrino in this movie, who grows up to be Jacob from Lost.” — Audience member Kara, 86:19
• On Hulk and Joan Severance’s Sex Life:
  “Do we think they actually filmed a sex scene that was so terrible it had to be cut from the movie?” — Audience (86:22)

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Fun Facts Revealed

• Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon rewrote the script themselves over 72 hours (and much cocaine, presumably). (12:22)
• Joan Severance appeared in Playboy, influencing the panel’s adolescent crushes. (14:41)
• The movie cost $8 million to make, grossed $16 million—but only $5 million on opening against ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’. (81:54)
• The “Battle of the Tough Guys” was reportedly so absurd, real-life wrestler Tiny Lister (Zeus) tried and failed to parlay it into his actual WWF career. (79:42)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [03:41] – Initial reactions, movie buy-in regrets
• [04:39]–[06:42] – Growling, veiny physiques, and Zeus' dialogue
• [09:12] – Why ‘Rip,’ not ‘Hulk Hogan’?
• [13:00]–[19:00] – Kurt Fuller's show-stealing villainy, "Take a leak"
• [30:45]–[32:00] – Infamous “dookie” limo scene
• [45:16]–[46:15] – Explaining what “No Holds Barred” means
• [63:00]–[65:28] – The hotel room “panties and push-ups” scene
• [71:06] – The anti-climatic first (and only) rip/severance kiss
• [79:53]–[81:26] – Zeus/Kurt Fuller deaths and casual murder
• [91:03] – “Sports for Kids” charity absurdities
• [92:29] – Wrestling universe logic: does Rip exist alongside Hulk Hogan?

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Podcast Tone & Style

The episode maintains HDTGM’s signature blend of affectionate mockery, wild digressions, and encyclopedic sidebars about 1980s and 90s pop culture. The live audience and Thomas Lennon’s riffing elevate the chaos. Expect R-rated language, nostalgia-laced tangents, and uproarious laughter throughout.

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Final Thoughts

• Essentiality of Watching? “Definitely watch this movie. 100% watch it again and again.” – John Gabrus/Adam Pally (93:57)
• Would Tom show it to his kid? “Not in a hundred million years.” – Tom Lennon (94:07)

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Summary:
The HDTGM team, with Tom Lennon, tears apart and celebrates "No Holds Barred," holding nothing back in a discussion as muscular, unhinged, and entertainingly messy as the movie itself. If you love epicly bad cinema and the joy of friends riffing live, this is a peak episode.

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(Skip to timestamps above for favorite scenes or recurring gags; whole-group riffing and live audience energy make this a particularly lively listen!)

Transcript

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[John Gabrus]

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[Tom Lennon]

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[June Diane Raphael]

Passion opens the door to all possibilities.

[Tom Lennon]

When I feel like anything's possible, I feel kind of giddy. I want to be an astronaut, an artist, an actress to visit another country.

[June Diane Raphael]

All I need is a backpack and.

[Adam Pally]

A pair of shoes and I'll find a way.

[Tom Lennon]

I'm able to do anything I set my mind to.

[June Diane Raphael]

I've never felt like more things are.

[John Gabrus]

Possible than right now. In the right shoes, anything is possible.

[Adam Pally]

Dsw.

[Tom Lennon]

Countless shoes at bragworthy prices.

[Adam Pally]

Imagine the possibilities. It's a story of1Network TV President's desire to be the number one network in television and a shocking indictment of the glorification of violence in televised sports. We saw the thought provoking no holds barred. So you know what that means. Now it's time for how did this remain?

[John Gabrus]

Let's wallow in the mediocrity of subpar art. Perhaps we'll find the answer to the.

[Adam Pally]

Question, how did this get made? Hello, people of Earth and hello, people of Los Angeles. We are live at Largo, our home in Los Angeles, to do a very important live show. It is a night of Hulkamania here as we get into one of the classics of the Hulkulgan canon. But before we go any further, let me introduce my two co hosts. Please welcome Jason Mantzoukas and June Diane Rayfield.

[John Gabrus]

Wow.

[Adam Pally]

We have a very special guest here tonight, the amazingly talented, very funny Tom Lennon.

[John Gabrus]

Ooh, I like that you get I like that. Get an office chair.

[Adam Pally]

No, I don't like this. We are stepping up.

[John Gabrus]

I don't like the status of this.

[Adam Pally]

Tom is 4ft higher than everyone else.

[John Gabrus]

Why did we give Tom a high status joke?

[June Diane Raphael]

He's doing visual jokes on an audio podcast. Joke for the podcast.

[Adam Pally]

Guys. The year was 1989 and Hulk Hogan was the star of a feature big budget movie. This is an amazing movie.

[John Gabrus]

This movie boggled my mind, like, straight out of the gate. I did not know what was happening. And at the end of the movie, I did not care. I could talk about this movie all night long.

[June Diane Raphael]

I watched it. Thank you so much. And I had to buy this movie to watch it.

[Adam Pally]

Sorry about that.

[June Diane Raphael]

You're welcome. So I used my Amazon prime membership to own this forever.

[Tom Lennon]

And just so you know, Tom, we bought it twice.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Tom Lennon]

Spent quite a bit of money.

[June Diane Raphael]

Have you guys ever seen some of those Mapplethorpe pictures where it's two, like, glistening cocks that hang? And you walk up and you're like, is this just two giant glistening cocks that are hanging an inch away from each other? That's exactly what this movie is. I felt like, veiny and throbbing.

[John Gabrus]

I felt like veiny and throbbing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Everybody's.

[Adam Pally]

Everyone is veiny and throbby in this mo.

[June Diane Raphael]

There is no line that is not growled.

[Adam Pally]

I will. I was saying that for this, this must be a first that the lead actor in a film, his first sounds for the first five minutes are all just grunts and growl.

[John Gabrus]

No, not just the lead actor. I would say, like most of the actors in this movie have nothing to do. But.

[June Diane Raphael]

Not to shoot my load. Ladies and gentlemen, Tiny Tom. Tiny Lister. Yeah. Says two things.

[Adam Pally]

This blew my mind. You just told me this.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's on the box doing this. But he says the things he says in the entire. What is it? The movie's like four and a half, five hours.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabrus]

By the way, I genuinely wish it was.

[Adam Pally]

I never wanted it to end because it kept on getting crazy.

[John Gabrus]

Yep. Yep.

[June Diane Raphael]

Tiny Lister as the main villains. This is everything he says in the entire film.

[John Gabrus]

First. First line is first.

[Adam Pally]

Opening line. Right?

[Tom Lennon]

I did. I don't know what you just said.

[John Gabrus]

Yep. He said his own name. Zeus.

[June Diane Raphael]

Zeus. And then the next thing he says, like in Act 3, when they need. They're like, hey, should. Should the main villain say anything? He says, Zeus, don't guess.

[John Gabrus]

Yep, I know. Yeah. Those are his only. Only lines.

[Adam Pally]

But here is the thing. I didn't realize that until Tom said it. That's how good of an Actor.

[John Gabrus]

He is.

[Adam Pally]

I didn't carry the movie on grunts and grounds. I'd like to see Brad Pitt do that.

[Tom Lennon]

Did anyone understand the eyebrows were drawn on with pencil?

[Adam Pally]

Okay, I have a question.

[John Gabrus]

Where are those eyebrows?

[June Diane Raphael]

Tiny Lister's right eyebrow is drawn on just to make things a million times crazier.

[John Gabrus]

One of them is like, you know what his eyebrows are? His eyebrows are legitimately a check mark. Because one is half an eyebrow, it connects to the other one. Full eyebrow. There is a check mark on this gentleman's head.

[Tom Lennon]

But here's the thing. It would have been. Okay, it would have been a choice if they had taken half of his eyebrows and shaved them off. Like, if they shaved off a half an eyebrow. Okay, that's a choice.

[John Gabrus]

Yep.

[Tom Lennon]

But the choice you wouldn't expect at all.

[John Gabrus]

No, no, no.

[Tom Lennon]

Is to draw on half an eyebrow.

[John Gabrus]

Sure.

[Tom Lennon]

To pencil it in.

[John Gabrus]

Y. And that is a creative hair and makeup artist. There is somebody who's willing to say, let's make a statement with this.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's cause Joan Severance was hogging the makeup chair.

[Adam Pally]

This movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Are you guys done with Joan? We got it. We gotta get Tiny in here, guys. Come on, you guys.

[Adam Pally]

This movie, just to give you guys an idea, if you have not seen.

[Avril Haley]

It, Hulk Hogan is.

[John Gabrus]

If you haven't seen it, go fuck yourself.

[Adam Pally]

Stop what you're doing. If you're listening to the stuff, stop what you're doing. Your life will only get better.

[John Gabrus]

There are a lot of movies we do on the podcast that it's like, you know what? You don't have to have watched this, you know, or we took the bullet for you. Stop everything. Leave the theater right now.

[Adam Pally]

I feel like it is like the room in the sense that I could watch this again and be thoroughly entertained. Oh, yes.

[Tom Lennon]

Oh.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, please. It makes the room look like the Magnificent Ambersons.

[John Gabrus]

Yes. The much better Orson Welles movie than Citizen K Y.

[June Diane Raphael]

I didn't go crazy.

[John Gabrus]

No, no, I get it.

[June Diane Raphael]

I didn't say so.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Well, let's just say that the movie opens up with this image which is just Jesse Ventura wearing a Cleopatra wig. Go. Here, just take that. That's where we're starting.

[John Gabrus]

Jesse Ventura and Jean and Mean Gene.

[Adam Pally]

With Mean Gene.

[John Gabrus]

And they are Jesse and Mean Gene.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[John Gabrus]

This is where it gets. It starts off real confusing.

[June Diane Raphael]

It starts with the Cleopatra thing and I' like, oh, wait, isn't that Hulk Hogan?

[Tom Lennon]

Oh.

[John Gabrus]

Oh.

[Adam Pally]

But they are elected this man governor. That's the other thing. I. When I saw this, I was like, wow, we elected we elected this man governor.

[John Gabrus]

We.

[June Diane Raphael]

But no, no, Minnesota.

[John Gabrus]

We all moved to Minnesota for that.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, but that is crazy. That is a crazy thing. The Hulk Hogan just made sex tapes. This guy.

[John Gabrus]

At this point, whenever I see Jesse Ventura or whenever I hear him on Howard Stern or anything, all I picture is James Adomian. It is. It is only Adomian, Jesse Ventura that comes through.

[Adam Pally]

So basically, the Hulk is.

[June Diane Raphael]

He plays the carrot. Is. Can anyone for a million dollars, why did they not call his character Hulk Hogan?

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, why the fuck they give him.

[June Diane Raphael]

This fucking made up name?

[Adam Pally]

The reason is why is because his name is owned by the ww, who produced the film.

[John Gabrus]

But this was produced by the wwf.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's produced by them. It also made. Right, but you could tell he's having trouble remembering his name.

[John Gabrus]

I couldn't figure that out. It made no sense.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, that's me.

[John Gabrus]

Well, because Jesse is Jet. Jesse.

[June Diane Raphael]

Say Hulk and then say Rip and then we'll cut out the Hulk part.

[John Gabrus]

Mean, Genius mean.

[June Diane Raphael]

We just won't use that part.

[John Gabrus]

A lot of the wrestlers are their own name.

[Adam Pally]

Well, I think that Hulk was trying to branch out. He was like, rip is very different than Hulk.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah, that's probably what I love.

[Tom Lennon]

Character. He wanted to act.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah, that's probably what I love about.

[Adam Pally]

Hulk Hogan in this movie is like, he. He's like, when rap stars do like comedy, they can't not look cool. Like, they always have to look cool. And Hulk has to. Hulk has never shown up by anything like.

[John Gabrus]

Except his hair.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, but. But it's also clear, like they're. They're dangling something to get him to look in the right place. Like. Like it's exactly if you were shooting a cat food comm. Like there's a feeling of. Let me tell you something, Jimmy. And there's just this. Like it's an entire film.

[John Gabrus]

He's some sort of wrestling magpie, is what you're saying.

[June Diane Raphael]

There's literally not a user.

[Tom Lennon]

There's actually a scene. I don't know if anybody else picked up on this, but there's a scene in the conference room at the network.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hulk is on at the World Television Network.

[Adam Pally]

The World.

[John Gabrus]

Wait, which one? The other one starts off on.

[Adam Pally]

Wait. Oh, he's on another.

[John Gabrus]

Well, this. This. Okay, this is a. This is a movie that is about a battle between television networks.

[Tom Lennon]

Yes. So Hulk Hogan starts. Rip. Starts off at a network called I.

[John Gabrus]

Can't Remember, but not the other One.

[Tom Lennon]

Not the one News television is trying to lure him away. And on tv, right.

[Adam Pally]

Because in this World wrestling is so big that networks are in the toilet because wrestling is so like. Wrestling is. Everyone's watching wrestling.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, by the way, if you had.

[Adam Pally]

The Cosby show or Cheers, it was doing nothing without it.

[June Diane Raphael]

You do get the number one wrestling show. They're willing to perpetrate rapes and murders.

[John Gabrus]

Yes. Yeah, that's correct. And also over and over. Also, wrestling in this universe is real.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

It doesn't care how many rapes you have to perpetrate. It's horrifying.

[Adam Pally]

Well.

[Tom Lennon]

And also they end up. And I'm sorry to jump around, but the World Television Network.

[John Gabrus]

How dare you. It's going to be so confusing.

[Tom Lennon]

The World Television Network plucks what's her face. I don't remember. Samantha.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[Tom Lennon]

From an agency. To become the.

[June Diane Raphael]

She's a turncoat.

[John Gabrus]

She was a mole at the other television guys.

[Adam Pally]

We're talking about it. We are going.

[June Diane Raphael]

Let's go. Let's go back a second. Because we're getting way far ahead of ourselves.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, we are.

[June Diane Raphael]

Joan Severance will be a turncoat.

[Adam Pally]

Don't. Spoiler alert.

[June Diane Raphael]

Let's.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, I do want to. Just before we even get into the movie, I want to just picture one thing in your mind and say this. Apparently, Hulk Hogan and what's his name, Vince McMahon got the script. They did not like it, spent 72 hours in a hotel together and rewrote it from scratch. I would kill to be anywhere near that room. The amount of cocaine and the story ideas. That would have been an amazing room, by the way.

[June Diane Raphael]

Who's typing?

[John Gabrus]

And how many. How many types writers did they break every time they.

[Adam Pally]

Every time they make a spelling mistake? Slow motion.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

They're also doing this on an apple Iie.

[Adam Pally]

So just so you guys know, wrestling is the biggest thing. This World Television Network is in the toilet because they don't have a compelling wrestling star. So they want to get rip, AKA Hulk.

[John Gabrus]

Rip him up. That's his catchphrase, which is like the sh.

[Adam Pally]

And he does like a Shaka. Like Hawaiian flying, kind of like hand signal.

[John Gabrus]

If this finger is a little. I looked at it.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's almost a fishbone.

[John Gabrus]

This is a little stretch. And this is up.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's Shaka. It's half shaka, half fishbone.

[John Gabrus]

And he does it all. He's done exiting rooms. Yeah. He comes looks back and he's like.

[Adam Pally]

Also. So you know this. This movie took place in the part of the 80s where everyone looked like pedophiles.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Joan Severance looks exactly like the COVID of Rio.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

She does in every moment.

[Adam Pally]

Joan Severance. We have a lot to get into.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, there is so much to talk about. Her line deliveries are unfathomable.

[June Diane Raphael]

She's by far the best thing in the movie.

[John Gabrus]

The story about Christopher Walken is that when he reads a script, the first thing he does is he goes through his script and he takes out all of the punctuation. Joan Severance puts it all back in. Her entire analysis is like, I'm gonna put periods after. Just a bunch of words.

[Adam Pally]

I looked up what she's done since, and I was surprised that she wasn't.

[Avril Haley]

In a lot more.

[Adam Pally]

Oh.

[June Diane Raphael]

What I will say it's unfair. Joan Severance was in a Playboy in the early 80s at some point. So it was kind of unfair. Cause as soon as she came in, I had a soft spot for her or I had a hard spot for her.

[John Gabrus]

She's the kind of. She's the kind of like. Like hot in a Playboy that when we were kids, you hoped you would find in the woods.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[John Gabrus]

You know what I mean?

[Adam Pally]

Like, it was very well done.

[John Gabrus]

We're talking sexy Joan Collins now.

[Tom Lennon]

Did you go to the woods?

[John Gabrus]

You always. You always found out you went to the woods looking for pornos.

[Adam Pally]

That's where I found.

[John Gabrus]

And by the way, they were there.

[Adam Pally]

That was the unspoken rule. I had a. A Penthouse. A Penthouse air freshener that I found in the woods.

[Tom Lennon]

I'm trying to imagine the person, though, who felt they had to hide that in the woods.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, you know what? I don't want my mom to see this. I'll put it in the woods.

[Adam Pally]

And I took that shit and put it in a safe.

[June Diane Raphael]

Before. Before the Internet, we all had a little bit of Jeff Dahmer in us.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah. But that was the thing when you had to be.

[June Diane Raphael]

Had to be wily.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah. When you were traipsing around in the woods, you would look in, like, old stumps or under things. Because we were boys. Fucking weirdos would put pornos. And as a kid, it's your job to find that shit.

[Adam Pally]

We were. We were boys with boners on a mission.

[John Gabrus]

Because, by the way, there was no fucking Internet. There wasn't an Internet to jerk off to. Could you have it?

[June Diane Raphael]

There was a crinkly black and white of Joan Severance.

[John Gabrus]

That someone else had used. That's what I want you to really think about. These aren't hours. These are communal pornos.

[Adam Pally]

Communal porno. All right, well, look, the performance of the movie, in my opinion.

[June Diane Raphael]

Kurt Fuller.

[Adam Pally]

Kurt Fuller.

[John Gabrus]

Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

[Tom Lennon]

Hats off.

[Adam Pally]

I tweeted at him today to see if I could get him to come here. It was too little, too late. But here is a scene just so you get an idea of the level of bringing it that Kurt Fuller is doing.

[June Diane Raphael]

Cells.

[John Gabrus]

This is what people want. This is what I want. Now, which one of you is going to go out and get it for me?

[June Diane Raphael]

The grip is already under contract to another network.

[John Gabrus]

Mr. Prowl, tell me something I don't already know. Johnston contracts are nothing but words.

[Avril Haley]

But.

[June Diane Raphael]

Mr. Brella, I'm told that Rip's word is his bond.

[Avril Haley]

Bond.

[John Gabrus]

Then we get him to break his bond. What's his price? That's what I want to know. What's his price? With all due respect, Mr. Brell, this.

[Tom Lennon]

Guy'S always asking me tough questions.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, God, please be wise, eyes and every last one of you, spare me your mealy mouth.

[Adam Pally]

With all due respect crap.

[John Gabrus]

What this network needs, this network gets.

[Adam Pally]

I promise you that.

[John Gabrus]

Even Rip has his price.

[Tom Lennon]

He's amazing. Here's what I'm sad about, though. What I'm sad about is that you didn't. Didn't play the entire clip of when he walks around the table and tells one of the female executives.

[John Gabrus]

Yes, yes, go take a leak.

[June Diane Raphael]

Take up.

[John Gabrus]

He goes, can I do this, please?

[Adam Pally]

Take a leak.

[John Gabrus]

Wait, this is. He goes, take a leak.

[Adam Pally]

He doesn't push her. No. Right. He only pushes later.

[Tom Lennon]

Pushes someone later. But that.

[June Diane Raphael]

The bummer is that he's one of.

[Tom Lennon]

The funniest things I've ever heard. It's war is.

[Adam Pally]

He is now the best.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's the me of then.

[Adam Pally]

By the.

[June Diane Raphael]

Way, kind of a bummer.

[Adam Pally]

He is sitting in front of a bust of himself in that scene. I froze it a few times. That is definitely a bust of himself. He is at a boardroom table that is like a V that he is at the head of. So his desk almost has two jutting out legs where people are on either side, which I thought was a great idea.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, it's called the World Television Network.

[Adam Pally]

He's like Bill Murray's character from Scrooge without the redemption.

[Tom Lennon]

So.

[June Diane Raphael]

And the irony.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, yeah.

[Tom Lennon]

Are we to understand that on this network, there's news channel, like there's news.

[Adam Pally]

There's sitcoms because people are pitching sitcoms.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like people say, what about a game show? People like those.

[Adam Pally]

Take a leak.

[June Diane Raphael]

What about a sitcom? Those are the pitches of his highest level executives.

[John Gabrus]

Okay. My favorite thing. My favorite thing he says to his guys is. He goes, they're watching, by the way, the first. The first scene is Hulk and Rip in like a but in a match. And then it cuts to these douches in a conference room watching it.

[Tom Lennon]

Okay, the best thing about the conference too is I want that. Yes, I want.

[John Gabrus]

I want that jock ass. He keeps calling Jockass. He keeps calling Hulk. I want that jock ass on this network. Ten o' clock tomorrow, boardroom. Period.

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[Adam Pally]

But now my question is when Kurt Fuller brings him to the office, his tactic to woo Hulk is not very good.

[June Diane Raphael]

He basically, the scene unfolds like, look here, Rip. Everyone's got their price. And the Hulkster's response is, I guess you haven't heard about. Maybe you haven't heard about my charity work.

[Adam Pally]

Word for word.

[June Diane Raphael]

That was the most usable take, by the way.

[Adam Pally]

Also such a shoehorn thing. Rip cares about the kids. He does charity never stop.

[June Diane Raphael]

They never stop saying about how he cares about the kids.

[Tom Lennon]

We find out later on, because we do see him do his charity work, that the name of his charity is simply Sports for Kids.

[Adam Pally]

Well, okay, the titling in this movie is pretty bad because Just fucking finished.

[June Diane Raphael]

Gets Sports for Kids.

[Tom Lennon]

Sports for Kids.

[June Diane Raphael]

And the TV network is called the World Television Network.

[Adam Pally]

Go, go. We only have 71 more hours to finish this screenplay.

[John Gabrus]

Keep going. Keep writing, Vince. Keep writing, brother.

[June Diane Raphael]

You're right, it is Vince typing.

[Adam Pally]

So Kurt. Kurt Fuller essentially is like, you have a price.

[June Diane Raphael]

Everyone Has a price.

[Adam Pally]

Hulk says no. At which point, Kurt Fuller, his next move is.

[John Gabrus]

What are you telling me my money.

[Adam Pally]

Is ain't good enough for you? Like, immediately. That is next. Hey, Kurt.

[June Diane Raphael]

One more with some energy, because this is a movie now, Kurt, how are.

[John Gabrus]

People gonna know if you're mad? Brother.

[Adam Pally]

Hey, brother.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hey, brother.

[Adam Pally]

Get as close to their face as you can, brother.

[June Diane Raphael]

I want you in this thing, man. When we met that day at the Earth Cafe, I thought we were in this together.

[John Gabrus]

When we smoked that devil weed, brother. When we shared that jazz cigarette, brother.

[June Diane Raphael]

I didn't know you were gonna phone it in.

[Adam Pally]

Hulk then proceeds to rip up the check, beat up everyone in his office. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[June Diane Raphael]

So he rips up the check. He shoves it into Kurt Fuller's mouth.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

And he says, Can I say it, please?

[John Gabrus]

Oh, it's so good.

[June Diane Raphael]

I won't be there when that clears.

[John Gabrus]

And then I think that's when he gives this. When he's exiting the room, exits the.

[Adam Pally]

Room, he gives the shocker. Like, that was fun. Like, it was. It was sort of like it was his. It wasn't like, yeah, did it. It was kind of like, yeah, that's my thing. It's.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's a film of casual attempted murder at 20 different points.

[Tom Lennon]

But here's the weird thing about Rip's character. I. You know, why doesn't he want to go to the other network? Why is this.

[John Gabrus]

It's not like he did really dig into this.

[June Diane Raphael]

He doesn't work at, like, he doesn't live in On a mountain with, like, monks. He's on a different TV network.

[Tom Lennon]

That's what I'm saying.

[June Diane Raphael]

And the other TV network. And his word is.

[John Gabrus]

Kurt Fuller does. Said contracts are just words.

[Adam Pally]

And I. I believe they. They did say that his word is his bond. Like, he's a faithful.

[June Diane Raphael]

That his word is his bond.

[Adam Pally]

Take a leak.

[June Diane Raphael]

Why does he tell the lady to take a leak? It is the weirdest.

[Tom Lennon]

It's the best thing I've ever.

[John Gabrus]

Well, it's the weirdest thing. He tells her to take a leak. And not too much. Not too soon thereafter, A man does his own pants.

[Adam Pally]

Whoa. We can't get into that. Just wait, wait.

[John Gabrus]

Do you have this?

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Oh, I got that.

[John Gabrus]

So. So what's.

[June Diane Raphael]

What's the craziest performance of anything I've ever seen?

[John Gabrus]

Yes. This is. This is truly, truly, truly erotic. So the life.

[Adam Pally]

I have so many things to say about. About this. I guess we should just set up the scene because they have a little bit of the limo scene.

[June Diane Raphael]

So he leaves. He shoves the check into Kurt fuller's mouth. He says, I won't be there when that clears. Was that. Do we get that?

[Adam Pally]

Got it. Moving on.

[June Diane Raphael]

Check it, Hulk.

[Adam Pally]

It's perfect.

[John Gabrus]

Check the game.

[Adam Pally]

Check it, Print it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Then they put him in a death limo.

[Adam Pally]

Yes. A limo with all steel windows that have the steel window function.

[Tom Lennon]

And by the way, the world television network. Network seems to be located in a very rural area.

[John Gabrus]

Yes.

[Adam Pally]

It's like the wwf. It's like in Fairfield, Connecticut.

[John Gabrus]

Also. Their resources. Their resources are that of Bond villains.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabrus]

Why does, like, I mean, maybe. I mean, I guess I, I was gonna ask this question, and I was like, of course he does. Does Rupert Murdoch have a limousine with steel gates? And then I was like, yep, probably does.

[Tom Lennon]

Oh, probably does.

[John Gabrus]

No, no, straight up.

[June Diane Raphael]

I work for news corp a lot. He does. He does.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, this is the other thing is plan B in this movie is always murder.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

The first plan is go talk to him four seconds after that.

[Tom Lennon]

Murder.

[Adam Pally]

Well, you're forgetting the second step. Talk to him, yell at him.

[John Gabrus]

Murder.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, they do have a middle step.

[John Gabrus]

Well, that's what's going to be my question. Because Hulk gets in the limo, the steal windows, et cetera. And then he fights the limousine.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

And by the way, when he kicks.

[John Gabrus]

But why is the guy taking himself.

[June Diane Raphael]

When he kicks the door from the inside, it makes the limousine careen off the road.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm not you at all.

[Adam Pally]

You will see it in this scene. Yeah. His physical force in the back seat of a limousine moves it off the ground like you're driving, like, left, as.

[John Gabrus]

If every, as if every, Every punch and kick Hulk does is a punch to someone's face they need to react to. Only the reaction is coming from the driver of the car that he's in.

[June Diane Raphael]

In a totally safe steel box on the other side of him.

[John Gabrus]

Yes. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

I would like to see mythbusters on this. Could this happen? You could get Hulk in a car. All right, so here. Here we go. So, guys.

[John Gabrus]

So mythbusters guys, Adam, Jamie, if you're listening, please come and do the this episode.

[Adam Pally]

By the way, they need to do a whole no holds barred episode. How long does it take for a check to clear? Here we go. What's that smell?

[John Gabrus]

It's a spooky that happened in this movie.

[Tom Lennon]

I, I, I think I had this feeling when I was watching it, but I couldn't articulate it until now. I think the actor who says that line is wearing Like a disguise.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's got a hairpiece on for sure.

[Tom Lennon]

Yeah, he has a hairpiece on. But it almost seems like he knew what he had to do. They had a hard time casting it and he was like, I'll do it. I'll absolutely do it if I can wear a disguise.

[Adam Pally]

But.

[June Diane Raphael]

But by the way. So he's. He's literally.

[John Gabrus]

I don't think his name is probably.

[June Diane Raphael]

Go back to what his pants look like, cuz they're actually just soaked with water.

[Adam Pally]

Well, that's what I wanted to talk about.

[John Gabrus]

And then he says on the outside.

[Adam Pally]

Of his suit, Jackie the dookie. Yeah, the dook is really vile looking.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's. It's just wet.

[Adam Pally]

It's.

[Tom Lennon]

Go to the wide shot.

[John Gabrus]

Look how high up it goes.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's.

[John Gabrus]

Look how high up it is, guys.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's not doy.

[Adam Pally]

But I, I felt like it was a liquidy diarrhea, like, right? Or he pissed himself and he.

[June Diane Raphael]

Himself.

[Adam Pally]

But if you pissed there, Paul, it.

[June Diane Raphael]

Goes to his fucking shoulder blades.

[John Gabrus]

It's up here.

[June Diane Raphael]

His shoulder blades. I feel like, period.

[Adam Pally]

I feel like they were like they weren't confident in the line. What's that smell? It's dookie. Like we need to show the audience. We need to show.

[Tom Lennon]

Say, why not put him in a lighter suit?

[Adam Pally]

Like a white suit, Like a white linen suit.

[June Diane Raphael]

Everybody's. Everybody's a critic. Fucking Monday morning quarterback. They're looking, they're looking at the dailies doing cocaine. Can you guys tell it's dookie? It looks like he just. His shoulder blades pissed.

[Adam Pally]

So anyway, we want to have this scene. It's a great fight scene. Hulk literally busts through a steel grate, lands on the top of a car, beats up all these guys. At the end, this guy shits his pants. And it's gonna be great scene. It's gonna be a really great scene.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's interesting because it is when they introduce, without any discussion of it, that Hulk Hogan has superpowers.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's literally not from Earth.

[Adam Pally]

He comes out like the Incredible Hulk in that way. Like. Like he pops out.

[John Gabrus]

Well, how about like all of his like facial craziness? And then he's like. He's like a feral animal at the end.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like at the end of every day. They're like, hulk, there's two pages we didn't get. So we're just gonna roll just a ton of B roll and just. You're mad. Your neck, your eyes are big, your neck. You're growling, you're mad. Neck Growl eyes, guttural neck.

[Adam Pally]

I, I do imagine that this was a control apple save moment when, when, when him and Vince McMahon came up with Dookie and they're like, we did enough work for tonight. Let's go, let's go.

[June Diane Raphael]

Let's go down to the bar and meet some honeys.

[John Gabrus]

In the next scene, I think we meet Joan Severance, right?

[June Diane Raphael]

Don't we go to the hillbilly bar pretty soon?

[Tom Lennon]

That's next scene.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, the next one is he's at.

[Tom Lennon]

His home network after the next scene.

[John Gabrus]

I believe now, where he meets Joan Severance. She's come in, she's like the new gal in town.

[June Diane Raphael]

She's his new. I believe she's his new, like, boss. Touring agent.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, touring agent.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like Rip, which is your. And he's like, oh, that's my character's name.

[Adam Pally]

Really?

[John Gabrus]

I'm Hulk Hogan. Wink, wink.

[June Diane Raphael]

Meet your new tour agent.

[John Gabrus]

You probably know this. She knows who you are. Sorry she called me Rip. She's pretty. I just want to make sure she knows it's me, Hulk. Hulkamania brother.

[Adam Pally]

I mean, I'm the star of the movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

You might recognize her from the COVID of the Rio album. It's Joan Severance. And she comes in and she's no nonsense.

[John Gabrus]

She's no nonsense. But he talks back to her and he gives her the. He gives her this. He gives. He says, this year. He goes, maybe we can talk about this later. And she goes, five, eight o'. Clock, I'll pick you up dinner. Dressy.

[Adam Pally]

But everyone talks like this.

[John Gabrus]

Everyone talks like there's an abundance of periods.

[June Diane Raphael]

But I believe at one point he also mentions, why not ask me about my charity work?

[Adam Pally]

Me does indeed.

[June Diane Raphael]

Again, fucking nailing it home.

[Tom Lennon]

And I do understand why she had to clarify. Dressy. Because he wears.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, oh, do we have. Do you have a still?

[Adam Pally]

I have, I have. He wears the.

[June Diane Raphael]

He wears the Saturday Night Fever suit, minus the black shirt, nude with a white on white thing. There's no headgear. So it's just like the beautiful. His locks and the pate.

[Tom Lennon]

It's an interesting meeting with the network because she just seems to want to talk about his character and sort of, you know, make sure they're branding him the right way. And he doesn't want to talk about his character.

[Adam Pally]

Well, he doesn't seem to be there's any problem. He's the number one wrestler in the world. Like, why would they need to rebrand?

[Tom Lennon]

Now I'm wondering, like, why did he even take the meeting at World News.

[Adam Pally]

Because he's a polite guy.

[Tom Lennon]

No, he's a nice guy.

[Adam Pally]

If you invite Hulk for dinner because.

[June Diane Raphael]

His word is his bond. What the fuck's wrong with you people? And he accidentally said, okay. Oh, crap, I forgot my words.

[John Gabrus]

I also think. I also think. Think the two networks have only one letter difference. So maybe he just.

[Tom Lennon]

He just got confused.

[June Diane Raphael]

He put it down.

[Tom Lennon]

Because here's the weird.

[Adam Pally]

Send a limo for a Hulk. He'll get in it and go wherever you take him.

[Tom Lennon]

He did say thank you for the ride.

[June Diane Raphael]

He did until you try to kill him.

[Adam Pally]

It was the early. It was the late 80s. People got in limos. It was fun.

[Tom Lennon]

It's just odd because the stakes of this movie are really his allegiance to a huge corporation.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, yeah.

[Tom Lennon]

Well, those are the emotional stakes, which. Well, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, no, no. Then it's later. It's going to be about.

[Tom Lennon]

It's going to be about his brother, of course. And.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, and true love.

[Tom Lennon]

I'm. True love.

[Adam Pally]

They. They go out for. They go out to dinner in one of those cool abandoned churches.

[June Diane Raphael]

Actually, it's. It's actually my. It's my favorite scene in the entire movie. But it's very clear from the abandoned church that they're like, Hulkster. Look, we got the wrestling place here. There's an abandoned church. We could put a bunch of tables in. We just go. Everybody sound good with that? It good.

[Adam Pally]

Go.

[June Diane Raphael]

Shut up.

[Adam Pally]

They start off on a stained glass window like an organ player, right?

[John Gabrus]

Or.

[Adam Pally]

And then down into a beautiful restaurant.

[John Gabrus]

Beautiful, beautiful.

[Tom Lennon]

Jason.

[John Gabrus]

Beautiful in quotes, right? Now, the.

[June Diane Raphael]

The snooty maitre d. Then there's like. It's literally 12 minutes.

[Tom Lennon]

Oh, my God.

[June Diane Raphael]

Of him humiliating the Hulkster.

[Adam Pally]

Well, this is. And this is what I was talking about. He goes to his French dress, and you're like. As an audience, you're like, oh, this guy is so out of place. I mean, he doesn't know.

[Tom Lennon]

Oh, boy, oh, boy.

[Adam Pally]

He does not act a French.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's a fucking restless guy. Comes in and says, all we have is poisson and coca la vin and. Oh, you would never understand in a million years.

[Adam Pally]

Maybe you want a hamburger American or hot dog foot long.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hot dog de foot. He just offers hot dog to foot.

[Adam Pally]

Long and then offers it. And then goes, we don't have that. That.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then the bus boys come out.

[John Gabrus]

The bus boy has been waving to him the whole time.

[Adam Pally]

And standing not even a foot apart. They are.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah, they're right there.

[Adam Pally]

And then.

[John Gabrus]

And that is the part I would have auditioned for.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then of course the chef comes. This is. It's a great. It was my favorite scene in the whole entire movie. The chef comes out and says, why.

[Adam Pally]

Poir you not tell us that our.

[June Diane Raphael]

Friend Rip is here? Rip is magnifique to see you.

[Adam Pally]

He is such a loyal customer that they even say, do you want the regular?

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

And he says, decord. Or.

[Adam Pally]

That was.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's something like decord. That's what it is.

[Adam Pally]

Bonjourno.

[June Diane Raphael]

But that was the great. Think the Hulkster doesn't know French you.

[John Gabrus]

But. But, like, if we look at this for a second, if everybody on staff recognizes Rip, why doesn't the maitre d know?

[Tom Lennon]

Well, because they do say the maitre d is new.

[Adam Pally]

Ah, right. He said the major D hadn't been there because he. If they was, he would know that Rip comes into that French restaurant every night.

[Tom Lennon]

Apparently, you know, that's a good diet for a wrestler.

[Adam Pally]

French food.

[John Gabrus]

Yep.

[Tom Lennon]

The maitre d is, like, really taking some liberties. It's, I guess, his first day on the job.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

He's assuming.

[John Gabrus]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

He's a horrible thing.

[Adam Pally]

Hulk is dressed up like. Hulk doesn't cut me me. In this movie. He's wearing a lot of headbands and a lot of, like, onesies. But in this, he does.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, you can see the outline and veins of his cock every single scene. And it's. What's the one scene where you cannot see actual veinage and, like, the pulsing of his heart from his dick, like an ET where it's just like. You're like, wow, the Hulk's pulse rate's gone up. Cause his veins are throbbing in his dick.

[Adam Pally]

Have you ever. If you haven't, you must. But if anyone ever seen the whole Colgan sex tape.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

I'm going to fill up my wine while we talk about that.

[Adam Pally]

Yes. It is amazing. And one part where he is fucking. He goes, ooh, shouldn't have that sushi.

[John Gabrus]

Come on, guys.

[Tom Lennon]

It just looks like. Honestly, when I. When I look at him in this movie, it looks like it's uncomfortable to be him.

[John Gabrus]

Yes.

[Adam Pally]

Let me ask.

[John Gabrus]

It looks like his body is going to explode and a smaller man is going to come out of it and be like, oh, thank God.

[Tom Lennon]

Yeah.

[John Gabrus]

I've been trapped in here for years. It's been a horrible nightmare.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like quattro. Yeah. June has quattro in there. Trying to.

[Adam Pally]

As a woman roughly of Hulk's age, at that point, what were you attracted?

[John Gabrus]

Wait, what are you asking?

[Adam Pally]

Why am I saying not of now? I'm saying, like, Like, I'm saying, like, Hulk was probably about our age.

[Tom Lennon]

So you're saying that in 89, I was Hulk's age?

[Adam Pally]

No, now, like.

[June Diane Raphael]

But you're a young lady exploring your body and learning about it.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Tom Lennon]

Hulk Hogan looks terrible in this movie. And I know we're not talking about. We have another Hulk movie to discuss in a little bit, but I'm really upset about his hair. I'm really upset.

[Adam Pally]

What would you.

[John Gabrus]

What do you mean?

[June Diane Raphael]

Why not stop asking about his hair and ask about his charity work?

[Adam Pally]

I feel like the other finger was supposed to come out, but steroids.

[June Diane Raphael]

This one's going squirrely on me, little boy.

[John Gabrus]

I broke it too many times, brother.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, that little. That little won't fall in line anymore.

[John Gabrus]

It's my trick finger. Trick finger, brother.

[Adam Pally]

So, June, when you were talking about his hair.

[Tom Lennon]

Well, it's such a shocking color, and it's such a shock of blonde hair.

[John Gabrus]

Totally natural.

[June Diane Raphael]

He basically looks like nude clown.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah, he has like.

[June Diane Raphael]

You're like.

[John Gabrus]

Is that like.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, that guy was supposed to be a rodeo clown, but someone streaked off all the color. Yeah. There's no color left, and now it's just nude clown.

[Tom Lennon]

That's exactly right.

[John Gabrus]

But I wouldn't not be surprised if someone smudged him if there was paint underneath. Do you know what I mean?

[Adam Pally]

Like, he has a white base, and then they put tan on top of the white base.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah, yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Like, foundation. My issue is he is a bald man. Why not just cut that?

[John Gabrus]

Party in the back. He's like, brother, that's my power, brother. I'm like, Samson. His. He has, like. For a giant behemoth of a man, he has, like, fine doll's hair.

[Tom Lennon]

That's what's upsetting about it. Like, Barbie hair.

[John Gabrus]

Like, honestly. Yeah. Like, my nieces have dolls that have thicker, more lustrous hair than him. He had extra maneuver mustache.

[Adam Pally]

He doesn't have, like, a powerful mane. So just like. Like, I thought, like, for a while, like, I was like, oh, he's wearing those bandanas to hide it. He's not ever hiding it. It's always out and about.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's a choice, brother.

[John Gabrus]

It's me and Vince Neil in this to the end, brother. Bandana brothers.

[Adam Pally]

Well, obviously. So, you know, look, Kurt Fuller needs to find somebody else, and he goes to the local bar.

[Tom Lennon]

I'm getting so nervous. We're gonna run out of time.

[Adam Pally]

We are going pretty slow. We are going.

[John Gabrus]

There's so much. I mean. I mean, dwarf in a cage, dog in a cage.

[Tom Lennon]

There's so Much to talk about. And I'm.

[John Gabrus]

I mean, these are just headlines. These are just headlines.

[Adam Pally]

I mean, mean, there's so much. I mean, when they gor.

[June Diane Raphael]

Cage really bugged me a lot.

[John Gabrus]

Oh.

[Adam Pally]

Dwarf in a cage. Never gets excited.

[John Gabrus]

Cage is in it throughout. Never gets explained.

[Adam Pally]

But it's like a dwarf.

[June Diane Raphael]

They go to this disgusting hillbilly bar. Disgusting place where everyone's disgusting. There's a 25 minute scene where David Pamer and the other guy who's kind of like me, go to the bathroom.

[Adam Pally]

I was going to say. Yeah, I was going to say I could play the David Pamer part if you were playing the Kurt F. On the other. Oh, yeah, yeah. You'd be the head guy. Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

If they make this today, bro, we're set.

[Adam Pally]

I'm so psyched.

[John Gabrus]

Can I say this for real? I will write a sequel to this movie starring you guys and Hulk Hogan.

[Adam Pally]

By the way, the WWE just launched an app. This could go right to them immediately.

[June Diane Raphael]

Done and done.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, my God. No, they didn't take us up on Sharknado 2, which is a huge mistake.

[John Gabrus]

Huge mistake.

[Adam Pally]

We offered it.

[June Diane Raphael]

They go. So they go to this hillbilly bar where there's no rules about fighting. They keep a dwarf in a cage.

[Adam Pally]

Never explain why, but the dwarf seems happy there. And also there's a prankster up there.

[June Diane Raphael]

He'll throw.

[John Gabrus]

He's a real trick.

[June Diane Raphael]

Throw money in your drink.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

For some reason, which Irish people. I think that's lucky. But in this place, they go. It's. There's no rules. No, this is the first. The concept.

[John Gabrus]

There are holds barred.

[Adam Pally]

There are no here. There are no are being barred. Oh, this. Actually. Actually, I want to talk about this June, if you will indulge me. This. June and I were in the car one time, I was like, hey, we're doing no holds barred. She said, that doesn't mean anything. You thought I had the title wrong. I told you to not explain yourself.

[Tom Lennon]

Well, I now know what it means after watching the movie. I had not heard the expression before.

[John Gabrus]

No holds barred.

[Tom Lennon]

I had never heard that expression.

[Adam Pally]

But you never heard the word barred, right? That was the issue.

[Tom Lennon]

Well, I still may not know what it means. I'm gonna be totally honest.

[June Diane Raphael]

Well, that's okay.

[John Gabrus]

Let's un. Unpack this. What do you think it means?

[Tom Lennon]

Okay, what I think it means in the context of this movie is there are certain wrestling holds.

[June Diane Raphael]

Sometimes. Sometimes they're barred. And that's bard.

[Tom Lennon]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah.

[John Gabrus]

Bar meaning bar.

[Tom Lennon]

That move like, that's not going to fly here. Those holds.

[John Gabrus]

Those holds aren't going to fly here. Yeah.

[Tom Lennon]

Those holds will get you disqualify.

[Adam Pally]

Like sleeper hold is a, is a, a non barred rule.

[June Diane Raphael]

Non barred.

[Tom Lennon]

Right. But in the bar there are no holds that are barred.

[John Gabrus]

Oh yeah, Is that so?

[Tom Lennon]

Is that right? Okay, thank you. I never heard of it before.

[Adam Pally]

So they go to this. There's wrestling going on. And it doesn't even seem to be the main event of this bar.

[June Diane Raphael]

It just seems to be a second one's literally monsters.

[John Gabrus]

Yes, yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's. It's basically like a world created by Frank Miller that Frank Miller didn't know about.

[Tom Lennon]

Okay. So the waitress at one point says, I'm here or tonight I want to get laid. Relayed and parlayed.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's the waitress and she's the best performance in the film.

[Tom Lennon]

She's amazing. She delivers that line.

[June Diane Raphael]

So laid, relayed and parlayed.

[Adam Pally]

I don't know if you guys have watched True Detective. I won't give you any spoilers, but when in the final episode when they go to that guy's house and he's all the videotapes, that's what this bar looks like. But like as a bar, like that house and those things as a bar.

[John Gabrus]

It'S the kind of place where the David Pamer underling guy says to Kurt Fuller, these people would cheer at a hanging. And Kurt Fuller goes, exactly. That's the beauty.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's exactly what I want.

[Adam Pally]

The bathroom is called the VD room.

[June Diane Raphael]

And there's a. There's a loose pitbull in it.

[Adam Pally]

There's a pit bull. The bathroom.

[June Diane Raphael]

My favorite thing that happens in the bathroom. David Pamer and David Pamer light the other guy. They go to the bathroom for 20 minutes. They're like, I really, really need to.

[John Gabrus]

Take a. I should have gone about it before we came.

[Adam Pally]

By the way, they're journey to that bathroom is. It is epic.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then here it becomes like a Dogma movie where they cut nothing out. Out. They're just like, follow them for natural lighting. Natural lighting.

[John Gabrus]

It's a real dog.

[Adam Pally]

They walk by a guy pissing in the hallway.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. And then the hillbilly dude, they're like, these are the stupidest people in the world. Hillbilly busts out of the stall.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

They're both peeing in troughs. And he.

[John Gabrus]

Hold on, hold on.

[Adam Pally]

Paul.

[June Diane Raphael]

Do it, do it.

[Adam Pally]

It's amazing, you guys.

[June Diane Raphael]

You're David Pamer. You're the other guy.

[John Gabrus]

These tail bellies. This is the worst. These people are Trash.

[Adam Pally]

And they're so.

[John Gabrus]

That was stupid, too.

[June Diane Raphael]

What did he say?

[Adam Pally]

What? Pulls them away, puts his head up to their dicks, examines them for a long time.

[John Gabrus]

Yep.

[June Diane Raphael]

Y' all ain't worth it.

[Adam Pally]

Wait, he also.

[John Gabrus]

He also says they have little dick.

[June Diane Raphael]

Tiny dick, teeny weeny.

[John Gabrus]

Teeny weeny.

[June Diane Raphael]

I believe he actually says teeny weenies. And then y' all ain't worth it. But his face is, like, in there.

[Adam Pally]

What makes that scene even better?

[John Gabrus]

Because here's the thing. You don't need to get that close to a dick to know how big it is.

[Adam Pally]

Here is the thing.

[June Diane Raphael]

I've ever seen in a film.

[Adam Pally]

He is needed. Nearsighted. And he. That's part of his character.

[Tom Lennon]

He can't afford glasses. You guys, what.

[Adam Pally]

What I love about that scene, though, is he also just came from taking a massive. Because he.

[June Diane Raphael]

Right next to a pit bull.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. He busts down that door.

[John Gabrus]

So first. First, there's a huge sound.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah.

[John Gabrus]

That's what interrupts them. They're talking trash. And then they hear like, guys, by.

[June Diane Raphael]

The way, we're about 10 minutes into this movie.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, this is no joke. I'm looking at it.

[John Gabrus]

No joke.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, this is literally scene nine.

[John Gabrus]

Be the whole night.

[Tom Lennon]

We don't have enough time.

[John Gabrus]

We gotta speed through this, guys. All right.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay.

[Adam Pally]

We haven't even got the Zeus. So basically, as we said. So Kurt Fuller. Kurt Fuller gets the idea. And this is where another great name comes in. Just like, World Television Network Sports for Kids.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, oh.

[Adam Pally]

Battle of the Tough Guys. Battle of the Tough Guys.

[June Diane Raphael]

We'll do a show. We'll call it Battle of the Tough Guys.

[John Gabrus]

And they're all like, Lug Nut Johnson. They all have, like, terrible wrestling names. And they all look like completely circular men in, like, overalls. They all look like they're from the arm wrestling.

[Adam Pally]

I was gonna say they're all the people who didn't make the over the top auditions.

[John Gabrus]

Exactly. And.

[Adam Pally]

And then, like, there's one guy who's just spraying hairspray all over his face and. But that's tough.

[John Gabrus]

And all of them, when they cut to all of them, they're like. They're all like the Tasmanian Devil.

[June Diane Raphael]

While I was watching this in my house twice, I had to go get a Ricola for my own throat for the growl.

[John Gabrus]

Now, the first broadcast of this, because I can only assume this is going out on television live. The host of it is the head of the network, Kurt Fuller. He is.

[June Diane Raphael]

Welcome to that Battle of the Tough Guy.

[Tom Lennon]

And it's also Just set in the bar.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah. Because that's what it would be like if, like, if like Les Moonves, it was hosted Big Brother. He was like, tonight on Big Brother.

[Adam Pally]

That's Super Bowl.

[Tom Lennon]

I don't know if you noticed though, the extras did change for Battle of the Temple.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, no, the snorty waitress, like put in a sparkly. Right.

[Tom Lennon]

And also, I mean, that bar was filled with just vagrants and they. Once they were shooting a television show, they did bring in sort of a fairly normal looking audience, but it also.

[Adam Pally]

Seemed like it was very. I mean. Well, yeah, so they're doing this battle. It's very kind of poorly choreographed. But this is my question I really want to get to. Which is.

[John Gabrus]

This is it. This is before. The only one before this. You've had no questions.

[Adam Pally]

None. Everything was made very clear to me because the plot was very simple.

[June Diane Raphael]

So now we're on minute 11, they're having.

[Adam Pally]

They're doing a live television broadcast. People are fighting. I get it. All right. It's like. And then all of a sudden in this bar, it's not a set and.

[John Gabrus]

There are no cameras that I see.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, no, no, no.

[Adam Pally]

They're very small. They're very small.

[June Diane Raphael]

They don't. They're not in evidence as much as they should be.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yeah. So like, if Christopher Nolan had made it, you would see them more.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah. I wish Christopher Nolan would remake this movie.

[Adam Pally]

It would be a challenge. Tiny Zeus Lester in that Batman movie too.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, Christian Bale.

[Adam Pally]

Amazing. But he was so. They worked with both.

[John Gabrus]

Oh. Oh, my God.

[Adam Pally]

Cuz he was on the boat. Tiny Zeus Lester is on the boat in Batman with the Joker.

[June Diane Raphael]

Holy.

[Adam Pally]

So.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, I wish we had him here.

[Adam Pally]

I worked with him on NTSF and he was tiny. Amazing. Tiny was amazing. Yeah. Got the set, said, I need Taco Bell. Now we got him. Taco Bell.

[June Diane Raphael]

I feel that every second of my life. I just don't say it.

[Adam Pally]

If you look like tiny, you can request it and people will go running. Oh, yeah. Two PAs going to the quickest.

[Avril Haley]

Taco Bells.

[Adam Pally]

All right, so this is the part I don't understand. So it's in a ball and it seems to me like Zeus cuts an entire wall out.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. Because he also has superpowers that have never been explained.

[Adam Pally]

Kicks down a wall, like a structural wall. It wasn't like an entrance. I don't understand like what that was. And if it was planned. I don't think it was planned because Kurt Fuller was like, oh, who's this guy?

[June Diane Raphael]

He has all the powers he has the powers of magneto.

[Tom Lennon]

No, that's because I did wonder, where did he come from?

[John Gabrus]

Yes, yes.

[Adam Pally]

Well, from jail.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's a great question. And what was he. Was he told, like, go cut down the wall and there's guys fighting on the other side. What the fuck happened?

[Adam Pally]

Well, I guess he heard about the hundred thousand dollars and he wanted it tax free.

[Tom Lennon]

Tax free. Tax free.

[Adam Pally]

He burst down the wall. He burst down that wall. He's like.

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[Adam Pally]

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[Adam Pally]

WWF nerds, I might be getting my facts wrong, but I pretty sure this is the truth.

[Avril Haley]

There's a certain point in Hulk's career.

[Adam Pally]

Where he was accused of being racist.

[June Diane Raphael]

And it's called this movie.

[Adam Pally]

And I believe that scene in that that place was to show no, I am a defender of black people.

[June Diane Raphael]

Have to be black. It bummed me out so bad. I was like, come on, make man. They could be skeevy white tweakers. No, it was just like the class. He's like, I'm going to throw pies at these black guys.

[Adam Pally]

He throws there, by the way, too many pies in that restaurant for him to throw. They were like, it's like someone lined up 40 pies. Somebody must like all the pieces.

[June Diane Raphael]

The robbery would not have cost them as much as the pie loss.

[John Gabrus]

This scene felt to me as if it was written written for a Dukes of Hazzard episode. And then the writer was like, it's not gonna work so I'll save it. And then later was like, wait, I'll put it in this movie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hulk, I just want to say there was $30 in the register and those pies were worth 110. Not to be a dick, but hey.

[Adam Pally]

Did I tell you about my charity.

[John Gabrus]

Shaka There's a song that's playing and you hear the lyrics for a brief second we. Which is I got ketchup on my blue jeans. That's the soundtrack to the soul food restaurant scene. And then the robbers come in and then it's pie fight.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, my God. I just remember, just so. Just as we're barreling through this movie.

[John Gabrus]

We are not barreling through this movie.

[Tom Lennon]

We're not at all.

[June Diane Raphael]

Push the 10 o' clock show till 11 a couple. It's most of the same people, right? Yeah, we'll just add an hour. It'll be fine.

[Tom Lennon]

The scene before this, that's at the conference room when they're discussing how Battle of the Tough Guys went and what the numbers are.

[June Diane Raphael]

I don't care what. I don't care what people said. We got the biggest numbers ever.

[Tom Lennon]

One of Kurt Fuller's underlings gets a video camera.

[Adam Pally]

This is my favorite part. This is my favorite part.

[Tom Lennon]

Okay, so that's a birthday present.

[Adam Pally]

Well, yeah. The most sloppy exposition comes from.

[June Diane Raphael]

It is amazing.

[John Gabrus]

Do you have this?

[Adam Pally]

I don't. I wish I had. This scene should have. Okay, so it's coming.

[June Diane Raphael]

Push ups is coming, bro. Push ups where you can see into Hulk.

[John Gabrus]

We're not going to talk about jerking off. Push ups.

[Adam Pally]

You've lost your coming.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hulk Hogan watched the dailies. He said, you can see up my butthole. I love it. Print it. Check it.

[Tom Lennon]

But now, in that scene, that guy is filming a television.

[John Gabrus]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's a present I got for my birthday.

[Adam Pally]

Literally, David Paper's like, hey, are you enjoying the birthday gift that you just got? And the guy says, do you know, do I have the line? I have the line if you don't.

[June Diane Raphael]

The guy wrote the word.

[Adam Pally]

Video is my life. Video is my life.

[John Gabrus]

Then what does Kurt Fuller says?

[June Diane Raphael]

Kurt Fuller says.

[John Gabrus]

He gave me an idea, despite all.

[June Diane Raphael]

Of your shortcomings, Mr. Micklepants. But I don't know, the idea is unrelated in any way to him standing there with a video.

[Adam Pally]

Well, the idea is that the rapist. No, the brainwashed.

[June Diane Raphael]

The idea is let's make a Manchurian Candidate.

[Adam Pally]

Yes, exactly. They they.

[June Diane Raphael]

This movie basically now becomes a. A remake of the Manchurian Candidate where you can see throbbing dick pulses at every point.

[Adam Pally]

Well, this becomes my thing. Like, Zeus is a big fighter and they go. The battle of Tough guys takes place in like a steel mill at one point with a guy having a giant wrench and Zeus just destroys him. As a sport, as the commentator says, this line, which I wrote down as well, it's just an all out brawl. And the guy goes, never in the history of sport have I seen such incredible competition. There's a man wielding a giant like tire iron and another. Another man shoving his head into like steel vats.

[Tom Lennon]

But here's the crazy thing about him getting the idea that way. He's. What's happening in the scene that spurs this idea is that guy's filming a television.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes. Of a show that he produces.

[Tom Lennon]

Of a show that he produces.

[June Diane Raphael]

Like I just, I'm becoming kind of shutterbug.

[Tom Lennon]

You would think that Kurt Fuller would have just gotten the idea by being a network television. Television executive staring at.

[Adam Pally]

Exactly.

[John Gabrus]

You're looking all day. Because he's also in his mind, he's like, oh, I can use this camera to make tapes for Zeus. Or I could use all of the cameras at my disposal as the head of a television network to do the same. Like, why does it take this little camera.

[Adam Pally]

Despite all your shortcomings, this now we got. This is where we're gonna have to unpack the majority of this. The love scene, the hotel scene. Okay, so hands down amazing.

[John Gabrus]

Joan Severance and Rip go on an overnight.

[June Diane Raphael]

But it's basically like it happened one night sort of. They put up the.

[John Gabrus]

Yep.

[June Diane Raphael]

They close off the room a little bit. They're like, well, blame your management for booking us one room. And then she's in the bathroom. Here's what drives me crazy. She's brushing. She's stripped down her bra. And for some reason the sexiest grandma panties in the.

[Tom Lennon]

I love that outfit.

[John Gabrus]

It was like I. I said literally fatten bloomers.

[June Diane Raphael]

I have, I have pulled up to her rib cage.

[Tom Lennon]

They look great.

[Adam Pally]

Wait, you have to call them panties. It's like they're just a really short mini skirt.

[June Diane Raphael]

Cuz I think, I think Hulster saw her in regular panties and said it's a family affair.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Hey, this is supposed to be a family affair. Oh, you have the whole scene.

[Adam Pally]

I have the whole scene.

[John Gabrus]

Let's watch it. Let's all shut up.

[June Diane Raphael]

Everybody shut up for a second.

[John Gabrus]

All of your dreams are coming true. Audience.

[Adam Pally]

It is amazing. Here we go.

[John Gabrus]

I want to wear tie dye in this.

[June Diane Raphael]

Brother.

[Adam Pally]

Here she comes.

[Tom Lennon]

Can you get the lights?

[Adam Pally]

You got it. Like you're to trying accommodations.

[John Gabrus]

Do I have a choice?

[June Diane Raphael]

It gets brighter. It gets brighter, brighter. Why does it get brighter?

[John Gabrus]

What is she wearing?

[Adam Pally]

Look at that outfit.

[Tom Lennon]

And as long as you stay on your side of the bed, everything will be fine.

[Adam Pally]

And that it. And then we have another sequence.

[June Diane Raphael]

I have another sequence coming Right away, cuz. Is this the. Is this the.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabrus]

Okay. Why don't you go straight into what's next?

[Adam Pally]

I'm going to. So they. They're getting into bed and she starts to hear a noise. And here we go. Your eye. This is amazing.

[John Gabrus]

I like that. She tries to listen more.

[June Diane Raphael]

What is with those panties?

[Adam Pally]

Don't wait up for me.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah. Sexy saxophone playing on this song.

[Adam Pally]

I didn't know what she was looking at when she first.

[John Gabrus]

I don't know.

[Adam Pally]

It's his heels.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's both his heels. But are they supposed to be a butt?

[John Gabrus]

I genuinely was confused by what part of his body that was. I.

[June Diane Raphael]

It was very hard straight up for me.

[Tom Lennon]

Now I wondering. By the way, everything.

[June Diane Raphael]

Everything you hear someone say is the best take.

[Adam Pally]

I just.

[Tom Lennon]

Oh, no.

[Adam Pally]

Pull up a quick pick for the audience. Just. That was going to be the original poster. Just a shock in his ass.

[Tom Lennon]

Did she book them in in one hotel room on purpose?

[Adam Pally]

No, no. That's what revealed that her office messed up. The. The bad guy was like. She's like. And I. You booked us in one hotel room?

[John Gabrus]

Wait, can I ask a question? Lucy legit.

[June Diane Raphael]

How.

[John Gabrus]

What is the relationship between her and Kurt Fuller?

[Tom Lennon]

That's what I. He says at one point.

[John Gabrus]

Put her in place at this other network.

[Tom Lennon]

Yes, he has, Jason.

[June Diane Raphael]

She says she's basically. It's basically the story of Matahari Agency.

[John Gabrus]

What agent? What do you mean? Got it from an agency.

[Tom Lennon]

I don't know.

[John Gabrus]

To be an. A TV executive.

[Tom Lennon]

That's correct.

[John Gabrus]

What are you talking about? Oh, hey, I got this. You're. You're. You're going to be a model. You're a model. You're beautiful. Okay, I need you to go in and seduce Rip, okay? You're going to be a network executive.

[Adam Pally]

Because she's already a touring agent.

[June Diane Raphael]

June, everybody, quick question. They fly on a jet to go to that soul food restaurant to stay in that one hotel room. Then they. That's it.

[Tom Lennon]

That's a.

[June Diane Raphael]

There is no explanation. They're literally like.

[Adam Pally]

Like.

[June Diane Raphael]

They're literally like want, right? They get on a jet.

[John Gabrus]

A jet.

[June Diane Raphael]

Go to a soul food restaurant with a PI.

[John Gabrus]

Prop plane. Oh, hey, airplane guy, shut the up.

[Adam Pally]

Most of our live audience are aviation experts, but I think at the end he's going to explain.

[June Diane Raphael]

Okay, so it's a prop plane. They take a prop plane.

[John Gabrus]

Where is Malaysian Flight 320?

[June Diane Raphael]

But by the way, there's literally. There's never any. Any explanation of why they're going to this far away, terrible restaurant. The End.

[John Gabrus]

He slaps her as well. This is another. This is another scene where Joan Severance is confronted by Kurt Fuller. He's pissed at her that she didn't bone rip. And he slaps her across the face in front of Pamer and Pamer Jr. And they do nothing. Everybody's like, we're cool with this.

[Adam Pally]

Well, they saw him break that globe in the beginning.

[Tom Lennon]

I should have brought this up when we were talking about her panties. I don't think that upon reflection that. I just want you guys to understand those weren't underwear that she was wearing underneath her clothes.

[John Gabrus]

They must be.

[June Diane Raphael]

Don't be an apologist.

[Tom Lennon]

No, they're not.

[June Diane Raphael]

Severance, underpants, apologist.

[Tom Lennon]

No, they're not.

[Adam Pally]

Wait a second.

[John Gabrus]

What do you mean?

[Adam Pally]

That's underpants?

[June Diane Raphael]

They were dress ups.

[Tom Lennon]

They were nighttime attire.

[John Gabrus]

You don't wear a bra to bed like that sometimes. Do you think Joan Severance knew she was supposed to seduce Hulk? Or do you think Kurt Fuller was just.

[Tom Lennon]

Ooh, that's a toughie.

[June Diane Raphael]

Can I ask a question that I thought was really insane? We intercut. They're in a motel room and the Hulkster is out putting on the cheesecake shorts. And Joan's Severance is in her bra and they're listening to each other. And she starts brushing her teeth in the bathroom. And he starts brushing his teeth in the hotel room where there is no source of water for a long time in the inner cut. And she's by a sink, and he's not by any source of water brushing his teeth.

[Adam Pally]

And his plan was to hold it, like, because he's like. Who's holding it in his mouth waiting for her to leave the bathroom, and then he has to go like he swallows it. Yeah.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, wait. I think the reason they did this trip. Oh, no, forget it. Disregard. No, I'm wrong.

[June Diane Raphael]

But why did. There's no reason they go.

[Tom Lennon]

There's no reason why they did the.

[June Diane Raphael]

Trick except to throw pies at some.

[John Gabrus]

I thought the trip was for the charity event, but it wasn't.

[Tom Lennon]

No, no, it wasn't for the charity event.

[Adam Pally]

Long story short, Zeus paralyzes Hulk's brother.

[June Diane Raphael]

Whose. Whose name is Randy. And in any other movie, Randy would be the villain. Yes, like, as soon as you see Randy, he's like the sweep the leg guy.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, but in this movie, he's the.

[June Diane Raphael]

Guy you love so much.

[Adam Pally]

And Hulk does some serious acting and breaks out in full on tears when he sees his brother paralyzed. At which point I go, you know what would be great? If they remade this exact script with Ryan Gosling. I think that it's like. Like, you see this guy, like he's fighting. He doesn't want to get involved in this, and then he gets pulled in. It would be great. I would love to see him.

[John Gabrus]

We have so many good ideas for how to redo this movie.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. So his brother is paralyzed.

[John Gabrus]

This is. We have skipped over the rapist, but I think we've covered it pretty much.

[June Diane Raphael]

No, no, no, no, no. Let's. We can't skip over that.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

So Joan Severance fails them. The Hulkster shows up on a motorcycle that's never been introduced before. Scoops up the guy. The guy's about to like, pulls her off. So we see her bra again, which feels like it was a note, and then scoops him up on the front of the motorcycle and drives him into like a fucking garbage dumper. Basically kills the guy.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

Casual murder happening everywhere.

[Tom Lennon]

Everywhere.

[Adam Pally]

And then he runs over to Joan Severance and goes, God, I hate it when you're hurt.

[John Gabrus]

Wait, wait, He. He says, you're right. God, I hate it when you're hurt, period. Or scared, period. And she says, I know.

[Adam Pally]

This is the first time he ever saw her hurt and. Or scared, by the way.

[Tom Lennon]

A lot of their serious conversations are blocked and staged on the ground.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[Tom Lennon]

So this one and then before this one before, when she comes out of that conference with what's his face, they have a full conversation where she reveals herself and what she's done on the floor of Hulk's oh yeah, mansion.

[Adam Pally]

And they just start kissing. And they've never kissed before. And it's not even that romantic. They kiss like a couple that's been going out for a couple years. It's very anti climatic.

[John Gabrus]

Their first kiss. Their first kiss is very anti climatic.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's a family affair.

[Adam Pally]

I was like, did I miss when they became a couple at four years.

[Tom Lennon]

Have passed, and I'm really sorry to.

[John Gabrus]

Go back to this apathy of they don't care about each other anymore. Almost.

[Tom Lennon]

Now I'm thinking that Kurt Fuller's character must have owned the other network.

[John Gabrus]

What now?

[June Diane Raphael]

Wow.

[Tom Lennon]

Guys, in what world could he.

[June Diane Raphael]

This is turning into.

[Tom Lennon]

How could he place this?

[June Diane Raphael]

We're on the other side of the looking glass now.

[Tom Lennon]

How could he place this random woman in that position?

[John Gabrus]

That's what I'm asking. That's what I'm asking. But if he owned the other neighborhood network, he wouldn't need.

[Adam Pally]

He.

[June Diane Raphael]

He has rape and murder so many.

[John Gabrus]

People be on the network. He doesn't need to hire for a TV show. He doesn't need Battle of the Toughest.

[Tom Lennon]

I don't have all the answers, but how else would he have gotten her in that post?

[John Gabrus]

I have no idea. Especially if she was like, a model from a service.

[Adam Pally]

But.

[June Diane Raphael]

But Kurt. Kurt Fuller, basically, everything he does in this movie to get a wrestling TV is a hundred times more fucked up than anything the Joker would do.

[John Gabrus]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

And a hundred times like, the Joker would never do that.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's too fucking crazy.

[Adam Pally]

He has no moral compass. No, it is because he got his fucking.

[June Diane Raphael]

Just want to watch the world burn.

[Tom Lennon]

I know, I know. I'm jumping ahead now, but I do think we have to at this point.

[Adam Pally]

We do.

[June Diane Raphael]

We do.

[Adam Pally]

We do.

[Tom Lennon]

The crazy thing about Kurt Fuller's character is that when that fight is happening at the very end between Zeus and Rip.

[Adam Pally]

Can I just add one thing?

[Tom Lennon]

Go ahead, go ahead.

[Adam Pally]

So Hulk Hogan finally says, right, I'll fight Zeus. My brother's paralyzed.

[June Diane Raphael]

Puts. What is it? Randy? Randy in a traction. He's basically dead.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, he can't. He can't get up.

[John Gabrus]

Randy is the kid brother of Hulk. Hulk.

[Adam Pally]

So Zeus then goes on a tear of training with the Manchurian tape. Can the matur candidate tape. He's like, training really hard. Hulk is just helping rehabilitate his brother. No training in the training montage.

[June Diane Raphael]

And by the way, Zeus is like any good fighting trainer will tell you the best thing to do is punch and blow up cinder blocks.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because it gets you. It gets you just your whole body ready. You just want to hit the cinder blocks as hard as you can.

[Adam Pally]

Zeus has been shown great for the bones in your hands to be the most powerful man of all time. Like, there is no rhyme or reason. The only backstory we get on Zeus is I used to train him. He went to prison because he killed somebody. Now he's out. Like, we don't know what happened to that. But he is all powerful. The Hulk doesn't train. It's like a Rocky movie with no training.

[John Gabrus]

Hulk, I will say this, and this is what I couldn't figure out is.

[June Diane Raphael]

His training is stopping rapes with a motorcycle.

[Tom Lennon]

Yeah. And what I actually thought that that was an interesting choice because he doesn't train at all. The fact that he doesn't train and that it's. It's sort of mental training of him helping his brother, which will come back later on when he sees him and has to really call on. On those emotions.

[June Diane Raphael]

I think it's unfair how kind you just were to this film.

[Tom Lennon]

I thought it was an interesting choice.

[June Diane Raphael]

You just actually made this sound like a noble work of art.

[John Gabrus]

Don't you feel like. Yes, Zeus paralyzed Randy, but traction. Yes. Zeus tractioned Randy, but. And Hulk wants revenge. Yes. But by going on Battle of the Tough Guys to fight Zeus isn't Hulk and a breaking his contract with his network.

[Tom Lennon]

That's a good point.

[June Diane Raphael]

His word is not his bond.

[John Gabrus]

Exactly what he wants.

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[John Gabrus]

The number one show and higher ratings than ever before. This gets me crazy right into his hand.

[June Diane Raphael]

Because when. Spoiler alert, when Rip starts to beat the out of Zeus, Kurt Fuller rushes over to the transmission and starts smashing the reel to reel that's broadcasting.

[Tom Lennon]

This is. This is what makes no sense. Because from the beginning, all Kurt Fuller wanted was for Rip to be on the network.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

The second he is, he smashes up the reel to reel.

[Adam Pally]

Because his thought is if he beats Zeus, then no one will tune in next week for Battle of the Tough Guys. So he needs to keep the ambiguity going.

[June Diane Raphael]

I felt bad because you can see Kurt Fuller's on the other side of the glass while Tiny Lister and the Hulkster are fighting for obviously four or five days of coverage. And have you ever been in the background of a scene where they're just like. Just keep screaming, brother. Kurt Fuller's screaming for what must have been five days straight.

[Adam Pally]

I will also say about this fight. The whole movie is like wrestling is. Even though it's real in this movie, it's two staged.

[Avril Haley]

We wanna go and get the real.

[Adam Pally]

Tough guys in the bars in the steel mills. In all these. Like in the aircraft carrier factory, whatever it is. But then the final fight is the most. It was like the shittiest version of the WWF.

[John Gabrus]

All of it.

[Adam Pally]

Like it's on the Morton Downey Jr talk show set.

[John Gabrus]

It's worse than the first fight. Like the first fight. Rip's home network. Yeah. Wrestling broadcast is still far and away the most glossy, classiest fight. It's still a piece of garbage for some reason.

[June Diane Raphael]

All of the turnbuckles are Jiffy Pop things. It's the most up looking.

[Adam Pally]

And this is what I wanted to talk about this part. So at the beginning of the match, it's no holds bar, Jun. No holds bar.

[June Diane Raphael]

Any hold you want to make, you can do it.

[Adam Pally]

And at the beginning they go. The ref is now checking the turnbuckles. Why they let people in with lug wrenches. They fought in steel mills. They have no rules. Why do you have to check the turnbuckles?

[June Diane Raphael]

It is weird they make that announcement.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. They make the announcement. This is the only. No rules. We got to make sure everything's up to par.

[Tom Lennon]

I, I kind of. It felt like that this last, this last fight though was not a part of Battle of the Tough Guys.

[John Gabrus]

What now?

[June Diane Raphael]

No, no. They introduced it as Battle of Tough Guys. Not only that, there's like the, the st. The dumb announcer who would be me if they made it now comes out and is like, welcome to the Battle of the Tough Guys. Zeus punches him out of the ring for no reason whatsoever.

[Tom Lennon]

That's true.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's what we call friendly fire, by the way.

[Adam Pally]

How do they even. Like, that was my, my whole thought was how do they even communicate with Zeus throughout this whole movie? So the fight tomorrow is that you.

[June Diane Raphael]

Gotta show up like a half hour early. Do you want to put oil all over or do you want to just go? Or do you want to eat something or you want to just be ready to go?

[Adam Pally]

And then also if I was this trainer, and I know he doesn't have trainers, but I'd say, Zeus, stop celebrating and just make sure the guy that you just knocked down is. Because Zeus's Achilles heel is that is just celebrating with his back turned to the person he has just knocked down. The whole movie is just based on Hulk is going, ripping his leg. Oh.

[John Gabrus]

It's also this fight takes place in a venue that over the course of the fight is completely demolished. Like everything. The ring is demolished, the seat, some reason.

[June Diane Raphael]

All of the extras are in prom dresses.

[John Gabrus]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

They're just like whatever you are to prom. I swear to God, we're on day 40. Just wear your prom dress and be here at 5:45.

[Adam Pally]

Pretty in Pink was shooting across the hall. Just come on over. Just. By the way, this is my last words on earth.

[June Diane Raphael]

Show up at 5:45.

[John Gabrus]

I would not be surprised if all of this movie was shot like in and around like WWF headquarters in Connecticut.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, of course.

[John Gabrus]

You know what I mean. Like, if it was all just like random spaces that they owned. Because it looks terrible.

[Tom Lennon]

Yeah. Did anyone else notice that Joan Severance is reading a book in the montage where Randy's getting rehabilitated? She's sitting in the hospital right when he first flutters his eyes open. And I believe she's sort of covering it, but I believe the book title is Men who Can Love. Did anyone else see it?

[John Gabrus]

I so hope that's true. It's just a list of men's names.

[Tom Lennon]

It's definitely a self help book. It's not a novel.

[John Gabrus]

Steve Johansson, Peter Wagner, Michael Richards. Michael Richards. Kramer from Seinfeld.

[Adam Pally]

Apparently, a really funny thing that happened was to promote this movie, they decided to bring Tiny Lister into the wwf. But he was never a wrestler and not very good. And he only did three matches. And then they just said, no, no, you can't fight anymore. Because Zeus was very upset because, spoiler alert, he loses. Loses at the end of this movie. He does not.

[Tom Lennon]

Well, he. He dies.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, no, no.

[Adam Pally]

That was casual murder, by the way.

[June Diane Raphael]

That's the other great thing. So he kills Zeus, it seems like. Throws him through the stage. Everybody's pretty excited about that because this is basically. This whole movie is like a lynching, as far as I can tell. Then everyone. Women, children, children. Kurt Fuller's in the booth. He's ripped up the fucking reel to reel that broadcasts television.

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[June Diane Raphael]

And the wires explode and, like, the Hulkster throws a chair through the window and. And everything explodes. Kurt Fuller, like, is electrocuted violently. To a huge crowd of children and women, they watch an adult man burned alive by electricity.

[John Gabrus]

They're must be one of horror, right?

[June Diane Raphael]

Nope. Hulkster turns around and goes.

[Adam Pally]

He shoots.

[John Gabrus]

Why do we care?

[June Diane Raphael]

Remember how we all just watched that? Adult man burned alive by electricity. What happened was it cooks our system, which is basically electrical.

[Adam Pally]

But what I love about it, too, is, like, it's just a cheat because they can't make Hulk kill a good guy. Like, I feel like it was like he couldn't do it. Like, but he.

[June Diane Raphael]

He kills him.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, he kills him.

[John Gabrus]

No, that man dead. Straight up. Oh, dead. At the end of this movie, by the way.

[June Diane Raphael]

So is Zeus.

[Tom Lennon]

Thank you.

[John Gabrus]

I don't know what Zeus is.

[June Diane Raphael]

Zeus is dead. He throws him 30ft into a hole.

[Tom Lennon]

In the ground, and he doesn't move. There's no shot of Zeus, like, twitching. He is dead.

[Adam Pally]

You guys. You guys want to take a guess on how much money this movie cost to make? Make?

[June Diane Raphael]

Yes.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

$4 million.

[Adam Pally]

Anything?

[John Gabrus]

What? Did you say four?

[June Diane Raphael]

I said four.

[Tom Lennon]

I say, like, seven.

[John Gabrus]

25.

[Adam Pally]

It was $8 million on opening weekend. It made $5 million. Came in number two to Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade.

[John Gabrus]

Wow. And.

[Adam Pally]

And total growth, 16 million. So it was. Wow.

[June Diane Raphael]

Way better than many of mine. I've got 15 under that.

[Adam Pally]

That's not bad. And the lot line was no ring, no ref, no rules. However, there are True.

[June Diane Raphael]

Not true. Not true.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

There's every one of those things in every battle.

[Adam Pally]

But okay, yeah, I want to run out. I want to run out to the audience. There are. There are no Real Amazon five star reviews. They're all snarky. So I'd rather go to you guys and get from you guys some questions while we have a little bit. Let's set the house lights up. What are your questions about? No holds barred. Oh, my gosh. We have somebody that has something. Oh, my gosh. We got baby onesies over here. This is amazing. Look at this. Oh, this is hilarious. This is. How'd this get made? Baby onesie. And then Jason, give me your baby baby onesie. These are amazing. Thank you guys so much. Our baby will wear Jason Manduka's fat at all points. All right, I went down the wrong side. Thank you guys so much. All right, here we go. Okay, your question. I'm gonna go to you right here. Your name and your question.

[Tom Lennon]

My name is Marianne, and my question is at the restaurant scene, there's this whole interaction between the waitress.

[June Diane Raphael]

The waitress and Rip, and it's like.

[Tom Lennon]

She'S this really broad, black, sassy woman stereotype. And she's like, telling the woman, samantha, whatever. Oh, you better keep him. He's a keeper.

[June Diane Raphael]

If I wasn't married, I'd get on.

[Tom Lennon]

That again or something. And, like, it's just the weirdest interaction. It's probably because.

[John Gabrus]

No, Rip totally fucked that waitress. Yeah, 100%.

[Tom Lennon]

And I think. I think, you know, they fucked for days. There's a question about why the point of that trip. All right, this is Ex girlfriend.

[Adam Pally]

All right, this is amazing. We have a question that has a very big. It's a lot. This is like a. Like a school project going here. Okay.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's like a chart. It's like a flowchart.

[Adam Pally]

Okay, here we go. Explain your flowchart. What's your name?

[June Diane Raphael]

And what's your. I feel like Ferrigno.

[John Gabrus]

My name is Kyle, and I want to be the first visual presenter for a question.

[Adam Pally]

Great. So it's good for the audio medium of podcasting in keeping with your.

[John Gabrus]

So Rocky in Rocky iii, fights Thunder.

[Adam Pally]

Lips, who is essentially Hulk Hogan, who is Rip.

[John Gabrus]

And it comes to a draw.

[June Diane Raphael]

Let's pick this up a little bit.

[Adam Pally]

Okay?

[John Gabrus]

Rocky then fights Drago, and Rocky ends the Cold War. That way, if Rip can beat Tiny Lister and Ice Cube can beat Tiny Lister, can Ice Cube then end the Cold War, or more importantly, end the crisis in Crimea?

[Adam Pally]

It's amazing. It was a very well thought out story, by the way.

[June Diane Raphael]

It's also. It's also provably true. Yes.

[Adam Pally]

Well, just. Just. Can someone just unravel that as a.

[June Diane Raphael]

President follows me on Twitter. Let's pitch this.

[Adam Pally]

That's a. Everyone can take a look at. Look at that. All right, let's see. What's your question?

[June Diane Raphael]

Can you guys talk about the scene when.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, Jesse. Hi.

[June Diane Raphael]

Can you guys talk about the scene when he first meets Sam and while she's pitching ideas. Sorry, one more time. I. I missed it There a was big laugh in the middle of your thing. So when he first meets Sam and he.

[Adam Pally]

She's pitching all these things to him.

[June Diane Raphael]

Why don't you do this? What about more of this? What if my tour dates are lined up more with my craziest me eyes and he starts biting his thumb and.

[Adam Pally]

He'S going crazy and she's just talking.

[June Diane Raphael]

About whatever, and that's all the scene is.

[Tom Lennon]

But then this is the weird thing about the scene because he's staring at her very lustfully for a while, but then when she gets really close to him, he just stares off at the table like, it's so weird.

[John Gabrus]

I'm gonna fuck you. I'm shy. And then.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

And then she says, dinner tonight, Dressy. Ask me about my charity.

[Adam Pally]

Here we go. Come here. Your name, Your wrestling name and your question. Here we go.

[Tom Lennon]

Oh, my name is Kara. My wrestling name would be Margaret Throttle.

[Adam Pally]

And.

[Tom Lennon]

There'S a point, I think, that is vital to make that Randy is played by Mark Pellegrino in this movie, who grows up to be Jacob from Lost.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, wow.

[June Diane Raphael]

Good point.

[Adam Pally]

I noticed that too. Yeah.

[Tom Lennon]

So important. But I also had a question about the banging of Hulk and Joan Severance. Do we think that they actually filmed a sex scene that was so terrible it had to be cut from the movie? And that's why they go automatically to, like, the making out. Like they've always.

[Adam Pally]

I feel like it might be so clean. Right.

[June Diane Raphael]

I think the Hulkster was like, it's a family of affair.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabrus]

Well, I.

[June Diane Raphael]

As much as I would love to be four and a half inches into, you.

[Adam Pally]

Shouldn'T eat that.

[John Gabrus]

All of something semi, semi hard.

[June Diane Raphael]

Due to a combination of a strange cocktail that's pulsing through my body right now. I'm not sure if you can see my heartbeat. I am through my penis. But you can.

[Tom Lennon]

I am curious about Hulk's, well, RIP sleeping habits. Because in that scene, it seems like she's been asleep for a while.

[June Diane Raphael]

And he does push ups at the rate of 1000aminute.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, yeah.

[June Diane Raphael]

But also, that's a thousand a minute.

[Adam Pally]

It's a little rude to be doing that in a shared bed. Right? Are we. We all agree to that.

[Tom Lennon]

Yeah.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, yeah. Very rude. Very rude.

[June Diane Raphael]

Your feet could also be on the, on the desk, Rip. Or any chair. Any. Anything.

[Adam Pally]

All right, your question, your name, your wrestler name. Here you go.

[Tom Lennon]

My name is Danielle. My wrestling name will be Hell on Wheels.

[John Gabrus]

And okay, so when that's a roller derby name.

[Tom Lennon]

So Zeus beats up. I mean, essentially puts his brother in a coma. Like why don't they call Traction Traction? Like why, why isn't Zeus being arrested for that?

[Adam Pally]

Well, I guess as long as I think that as long as you're around Zeus, you, You're gonna get hurt.

[John Gabrus]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Everyone is proven. If you get within arm's reach, he will hurt you, face plant you or break your back. Obviously we had an opinion about this movie, but now it is time for a second opinion.

[John Gabrus]

Second opinions from top to bottom. Crazy movies are fun.

[Tom Lennon]

Then I not your first. But they're gonna be a second.

[Adam Pally]

From the depths of Amazon they come. Second opinions for everyone. Second opinions. These are five star reviews on Amazon. And now like I said, I think a lot of them are facetious. But these are the least facetious or the best facetious I could find. This one is. What's that smell? This Hulk Hogan classic tells. This hulking classic tells the story of Jesus Christ's fight against the Romans in a modern day battle. Instead of the battlefield taking place in the days of old, our hero is getting crucified. The battle is in a bar and Hulk gets Zeusified. The creator may have rested on the seventh day, but on the eighth day he. He made no holds barred. Five stars by the way.

[June Diane Raphael]

What if Zeus is Zeus?

[Adam Pally]

That actually would be. I would actually.

[John Gabrus]

That whole movie would open up down.

[June Diane Raphael]

From Mount Olympus and Athena bursts out of his forehead.

[Adam Pally]

This is a good one. And this is the one that I think could be real. I found the relationship between Rip and Joan Severance. I love that Joan Severance. Rip and Joan Severance.

[June Diane Raphael]

She has known it lady person who.

[Adam Pally]

Called her Sam to be morally satisfying. They are separated by a sheet when they share a hotel room. And they provide an uplifting example for proper premarital behavior.

[June Diane Raphael]

Especially in panty size.

[Adam Pally]

The moral choices Rip faces mirrors our own struggles. The ending will leave you cheering if not weeping at the heroism of Hulk Hogan. I initially hated the use of violence to drive home the moral message of good triumphing over corporate evil. But since this is a wrestling and the violence in the movie is a good example of why wrestling is not fake. It fits into the story. What? It fits into the story. As long as you can explain to Your children that Rip was only using violence to beat the bad guys because they backed him into a corner and he had no other choice. Unless it's for God or country, that kind of violence should not be tried by anyone. I recommend this movie for kids and parents alike. You will be entertained and uplifted, especially.

[June Diane Raphael]

When Kurt Fuller gets electrocuted in front of your eyes.

[Adam Pally]

Is there anything that you guys that we missed we can hit on in these last minutes here?

[John Gabrus]

This.

[Adam Pally]

Gary.

[June Diane Raphael]

What June? Talk more about kids sports for kids, because what happens is there's two children. Greco Roman wrestling in a field.

[Tom Lennon]

Well, I'm gonna. I'm gonna wager that sports for kids serves inner city kids or.

[John Gabrus]

It seemed pretty rural.

[Tom Lennon]

It actually did seem pretty rural.

[Adam Pally]

It's like fresh air, fun. They take the inner city, fresh air.

[June Diane Raphael]

Let's take children out to a cornfield and make them wrestle against each other. Today you would go to prison for 50 years.

[Adam Pally]

Now, can I. Can I just pitch one version of this?

[June Diane Raphael]

He would never be free of again. You took these children to a field, and then they wrestled each other in.

[Adam Pally]

Swimsuits, and then they're picked up by their instructor, one in each arm. The. The thing about this that I'll just say to keep in our head, Hulk is at the height of his career. He probably does have a charity for kids. Why not just use the actual name and charity? Because getting that word out there about that.

[John Gabrus]

Why not use his name?

[June Diane Raphael]

Brother. Brother. That's a kettle of fish.

[Tom Lennon]

This is the weird thing about him not using his name, too, is if he's trying to. You would think they would want to promote this idea that the wrestling is real. So if they called him Hulk Hogan and we were able to see him actually fighting these matches, we might buy into that a bit more.

[John Gabrus]

Absolutely.

[June Diane Raphael]

100%.

[John Gabrus]

So it would be a big commercial.

[Tom Lennon]

Absolutely.

[John Gabrus]

For wrestling.

[Adam Pally]

Guys, I just had a thought. Vince McMahon. Or not Vince McMahon, but. But Jesse Body is in this. And. And. And who the other guy. Mean Gene. Is this a world in which Hulk Hogan exists and is not as popular as Rip?

[John Gabrus]

Wow.

[June Diane Raphael]

Oh, we're starting to peel the onion. Yeah, we're peeling the onion now.

[Adam Pally]

So Rip may be like. Yeah, Rip is like, where Hulk wants to go. That's achieved.

[John Gabrus]

I wonder if.

[Adam Pally]

Think about it and write the prequel there.

[John Gabrus]

Is it possible that this movie came out when Hulk Hogan, the character, was a bad guy? Because there was a period in wrestling when Hulk Hogan was very early on.

[June Diane Raphael]

Very early.

[John Gabrus]

Oh, that was early. Well, early in the career.

[June Diane Raphael]

You always come out like that. And then you.

[John Gabrus]

Because I was thinking, oh, maybe people wouldn't have wanted that if he was a bad guy. They wouldn't have wanted to see Hulk Hogan as the hero.

[Adam Pally]

I don't know. No, no. He was always the hero. Eat your vitamins. Kiss your mother. Hulk Hogan.

[John Gabrus]

I know, but there was a period where he went through being a bad, bad guy, too.

[Adam Pally]

All right, that's hol. That's Hollywood.

[John Gabrus]

There's got to be a wrestling nerd here, right? Speak up. Tell me. Yeah, too many of you. Shut up now.

[Adam Pally]

We heard it was later.

[June Diane Raphael]

Later on, he's like, any rape I see, I'm going to stop with a motorcycle.

[Adam Pally]

This movie was amazing. Thank you guys all for being here.

[John Gabrus]

Everybody watch it.

[Adam Pally]

Definitely watch, right? Definitely watch this movie.

[John Gabrus]

100% movie.

[Adam Pally]

Watch it again and again. Tom, you have a child. Would you show this to your child?

[June Diane Raphael]

Not in a hundred million years.

[Adam Pally]

That was no holds barred. What an amazing show. Give it up for Tom Lennon. And a big thanks to Earwolf for all the help that they give us for this show and all of our interns.

[Avril Haley]

For the longest time, I've been giving thanks to Avril Haley.

[Adam Pally]

That person does not exist. It's actually Avril Haley. I've mispronounced her name so long. I am so sorry to you, but she pulls all of our clips. Thank you to her. Thank you to Nate Kiley, who does all of our research. Thank you to Liana Waldron, who does all of our amazing designs on our Facebook page.

[Avril Haley]

And Katie Dyer, who runs our social media presence. And of course, Cody Scully, who is.

[Adam Pally]

The engineer for that Night Live at Largo. Thank you guys all.

[Avril Haley]

We'll see you next time.

[Adam Pally]

Bye.

[John Gabrus]

By.

[Adam Pally]

Adam Pally here and I'm John Gabris.

[John Gabrus]

We're a couple actors and best friends who you may know as the host of the TV show 101 Places to Party before you die.

[Adam Pally]

Now we're bringing you a comedic look at health and wellness with our new show, Staying Alive.

[John Gabrus]

We'll have guests like our friend, actor.

[Adam Pally]

Jerry O', Connell, ketamine therapist Dr. Stephen Radowitz, Paul Shear, Ego Wodom, Jillian Bell, Dr. Doolittle, stainless steel. Staying Alive with Jon Gabrison. Adam Pali is out right now.

[John Gabrus]

Get them a week early and ad free with SiriusXM podcast plus on Apple Podcasts.

[Tom Lennon]

What does possibility mean to you?

[June Diane Raphael]

That's a hard question.

[John Gabrus]

Something that you can strive for.

[Tom Lennon]

I'm able to do anything I set my mind to. You're confident in yourself and you believe in yourself. Stuff that you could achieve. I feel at Sarah at evening is possible when you're more confident.

[John Gabrus]

Just shoes are a huge part of that.

[June Diane Raphael]

They are the most important part of my style.

[Tom Lennon]

You can like express yourself in the right shoes. Anything is possible. Dsw countless shoes at bragworthy prices.

[Adam Pally]

Imagine the possibilities.